LIVE From Camp Karma

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We controlling transmission.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Here yep, here.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We go, we controls.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
No.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Welcome to the full On four podcast. We're at Camp
Karmen tonight. I don't understand we have pool leagues tonight. It's
is it the last week of Polly. It's horrible feedback.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
We're gonna figure it out.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
We got it might be from Pete. It might be
from Pete. He's got a lot of metal in him.
He's got pierce nipples. I think he's got a pierce penis.
I don't know for sure, but I don't know. I'm
just saying he's got a lot of metal in his body,
and a lot of times when he gets close to
the equipment, we get some feedback.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
And that's just how it is.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
He I asked him not to wear all his piercings,
and he said, okay, I'll wear half five and I'll
leave five at home. We are from Camp Karma and
we have the owner, Reb Hagman. No relation to Larry Hagman,
although Reb, I understand you had an uncle named Larry.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yes, he was a.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Priest, and I have his golf clubs, but not the
same one that was on idriam Agini.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Or Dallas correct, Yes, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Des Marple no relation to Marilla Maples or Marbles or
it's just Marple's Marpole, Marpole, Paul des Marple and Reb
is the owner of Camp Karma and her journey just
to be a bar owner and to be here and
to have just about instant instant success with just her

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personality and she's a great cal We got a funny
story of how we sort of first met, which I
am going to because I feel horrible about it and
I'll talk about it later. And as you're the manager,
slash troubleshooter, slash anything, anybody screws up here at Camp Karma,
They're going to deal with you definitely, definitely, And that's

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how it is.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
So we have.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Camp Karma has been here since December seventh of twenty
twenty two.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is that is that right? Reb?

Speaker 6 (02:51):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
And let's see what when you put in for license
and you had to jump through all the hoops to
be a bar owner because you were at Studs for
many years.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
I was there for thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
That's still my home, thirteen years at Studs.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
And then when you when you got this going and stuff,
I know, there was a really short window where you
had to occupy by a certain date. What was what's
the deal with the rules and red tape and regulations
being a bar owner?

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh, all sorts of them, I can imagine, all.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Sorts of just repairs and restocking.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
It was quite the day and a.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Half that you literally had two days or less, and
about a day and.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
A half that we went through, all things to very
good friends like Tricksy from Jock Stop, Josh, I'd Carrie Night,
all sorts of friends that came and helped me set up.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
And so you did it though, you got going. And
so December seventh was the day that you opened, Yes, the.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Not so soft opening as it were.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
And I was here shortly after that just to see
how it was, and you know what was going on here.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
It was hectic, but it worked.

Speaker 7 (04:07):
It worked out quite nicely.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Now, History of Camp Karma. Years and years ago. I
was telling somebody at the bar when I came here
that one of the first weeks you were open, just say,
late December of twenty two. And I was telling one
of the guys that our neighborhood staple here, I don't
know who it was, and I said, I bowled here
when I was a young fella, and.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
He said, oh, bullshit.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Those lanes have been closed down since the fifties.

Speaker 7 (04:34):
And then that is bullshit. The last thing that we've found.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
They've been closed up since nineteen sixty eight, when the
last time it.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Was Beacher Bowl, And.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
So that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
It was Beacher Bowl and it's still sixty eight. That's
when that closed down. It then became it was the
JTS TJ's through the nineties when Mary's on the Corner
had it, and then Happy Dave took over.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Happy Dave's was here for quite some time, thirteen years.
And so I remember the history. But what I when
I was telling someone I was young. I was born
in fifty nine. When I was young, my dad my
uncle lived right down the road, literally right down a
half a block north right on seventy first, and my
dad my uncle would come in here and made bowl

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and I remember it, and they're going, you don't remember
that was closed and it was. It was the late sixties,
so I would have bet it. It was eight or
nine years old. That was Beacher Bowl then, and dad
Dad took the kids, his uncle took my cousins and
we were running around, you know how kids running around
in the bar. Here's quarters for pinball, here's quarters for chips,

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in for soda, and my dad and my uncle would
get liquored up and bowl and so walk you home.
That's that's how it was. And it was right down
the road, so everybody was safe.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
There's the ceo.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Oh, by the way of Camp Karma. That's Zero, who's
always looking for a treat and a handshake.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Zero. How old is Zero?

Speaker 5 (06:08):
About six and a half.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Now six and a half with the neon necklace. Zero
is a staple here as well. I think almost every
time Zero's been here that I've been here, Not every time,
but almost every time.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Let's see what else do we have here? You took
over from that.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Reb What was your journey from being a bartender slash?
What was your career before bartending or during bartending?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
I started out, I went to school for welding, robotic programming.
Then I got laid off once many times in the
very early two thousands, and accidentally, may they all rest
in beace and that the person met the person met
the person sent me in this direction.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Here we are now Camp Karma. The name Camp Karma.
I know the story, but tell us the background of
that name and how it came to be the name.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Camp Karma despite well, Karma really comes from my favorite
place on earth. That was my uncle Yasha's property on
Lake Superior, I think early Ironwood, Best mayor whatever, thirty
forty minutes west slightly north way off of Highway to.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
I grew up.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Riding horses there, teaching people how to ride horses. It
all comes from my favorite place, Camp Karma.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
So it has nothing to do with karma's gonna get
y'all and you got fucked over by a couple of people,
and you're like, I'm naming the bar Camp Karma so
it will get them sooner or later.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Exactly. It's after my uncle Yasha. Has nothing to do
with any history around the city.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, his name was Yasha.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
It was what nationality or what uh, Well, he was adopted.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
It was normally Russian. He was, I mean his parents Polish, German.

Speaker 7 (08:13):
He was adopted.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
But yes, uncle Yasha started out some of some people
might know him. I mean he was a teacher on
the news forever in wasaw Yasha Dalheimer.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Hey Stezel is the is the speaker on on the
computer because it sounds the soundback here. It's just it's
it's more than it. She feels like with nobody being
this close.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
So I didn't know if that was anything, all right, Sorry,
sorry to interrupt. And then how and then he started
the camp.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
It was his personal property.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
So he didn't have like no rental cabins or anything.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
It was just it was his personal property.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
The most iconic on Lake Superior on the west side,
it really was.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Now show you that's up there. Well, the Camp Karma
sign behind.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Us, the sun set in the back was one of
the pictures. That's the sunset the day we spread as ashes.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
Who would have ever thought that whoever took that photo
that that.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Would be the.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
The logo or the brand of Camp Karma, because you
at that time, whoever took that picture never thought that
it was going to be up here. Guaranteed.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
That was my knee on Eliza, my other niece Air
and I think is actually still floating around there, she's
somewhere down there. But yes, that is the actual sunset
the day that we spread the ashes ashes.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
That's more than what time of year on Lake Superior
was that October?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
So what was it?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Actually my birthday? I believe it was.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
So that was that was it's starting to get windy
and chili up in Superior, Right it was during that time, right, Yes,
it was.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Man, what a journey.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
And I would like to say congratulations, honestly, do you
have both of you? Because just about the moment that
you open the door here, people were interested, they were coming.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's a true neighborhood bar.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
People say neighborhood bars, and that's cool. There's a lot
of them around. This is the definition of a neighborhood bar.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
And I couldn't do without. Wait, my fine prints. She
came in the fine prints of my contract. I finally
have her. Everybody else Maria's behind the bar right now,
all my dedicated bartenders that it's a team effort.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yes, it's a team effort.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
But I think the love, the loyalty, dedication and love, honestly,
and I'm not just blowing smoke because I think that
together when everyone works as a team and everybody puts
their mind to something to achieve it, whether it's organizing
pool leagues, dartley karaoke, all the stuff we'll talk about later.
And we have Pete Siren absolutely, uh, he's booking music

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here and stuff. He's a friend of mine musician, bass player,
but just the just the the way everything comes together
and when you put effort and you put a little sprinkle,
a little bit of love on there. It shows, doesn't
it to have people come, whether they're from miles around
or just from the neighborhood. But people show their respect
and they like it, they dig the place.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
It's it is all about teamwork, and it's team work
and love.

Speaker 6 (11:33):
We've all made her work.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
So Daz being being the manager slash kind of everything, right,
you wear a lot of hats, you're you're sort of
like the radar O'Reilly of Camp Carbar.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
All right, I'll go with that reference and that that's
for real.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Right.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
He knew a little bit about everything, and then you
have to keep learning every day you learn on the fly. Yeah,
tell me what what your what your role? How many
hours you put in? People have no idea, People honestly
don't have an idea.

Speaker 8 (11:59):
I tend to be behind the scenes. I don't need
to be face forward. This is kind of making me nervous, honestly,
But just the history between me and reb first met her.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
She didn't want anything to.

Speaker 8 (12:12):
Do with darts at first, and she'll deny that right now.
But I told her one time. I just said, let's
have a tournament. Let's see what happens. And she was like,
all right, go for it.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
And I made her some money and.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
We had a crowd in here, and she was like,
I want it every Friday.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Every Friday, We're having a dart tournament.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
It's so I think it's a big enough joint too,
Like from the outside, you don't know where it starts,
where it ends when you're on the Beecher Street side,
but when you come in here, there's plenty of room.
And I would say that this is a very very
popular dart location where people shoot darts. You got tournaments,
you got leagues. So Reb was not interested in the

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darts at all at first.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
She still says that I disagreed.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
Well, different memories.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
But it's okay, well, okay, good, because we might have
a different memory about this. I'll I'll say how I
met Reb, and then we're gonna get because there's always
two sides to it, right, and the truth is somewhere
right in the middle. Okay, here we go. Now, Reb,
you know what I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna do, right.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
We shall see you do. So I was at the
ek Bar. It used to be what was it?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
And before that it was there No, and then after Corbelly's.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
It was before that Eric had had it.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
What was it called? I can't think of it. Well,
we'll think of it. Well, we'll think of it. It's
not important whatever.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
Corbell's was like twenty years ago and.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
So and then Eric Millard had it.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
For a bit.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
I'm at ek Bar and there is a fundraiser, a giveaway.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
So they had like charity bat.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Raffle baskets, they had a bunch of stuff they and
it was a big deal.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
There was a lot.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I don't know if it was a cancer benefit or
make a Wish Foundation benefit.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I don't recall, but Mike.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
I don't remember which one that was either.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
But there was a lot of stuff in there.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
People donated gift cards and baskets and there was monetary.
Someone came in and gave five hundred bucks, just walked
in and said, I come here. I know I think
it was I feel like it was a cancer benefit anyway,
it was.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
An idea, it was something important to cancer benefit something
or another, which, by the way, we have to get
back to my Alzheimer's Association.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Okay, so I'll write that down. So we definitely. So
I am there and Mike and mel at Ekbar said,
we're going to go live with some Facebook stuff. So
just do a couple of little auctions. Just do a
live auction, do something. So me, I'm thinking, I gotta
be oh, real, real funny. Mister Milwaukee has to always

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be so funny all the time. So I'm giving stuff
away and I'm doing auctions. And somebody bit on this basket.
Someone put raffle tickets in this one, I said, all whoever,
And there were some real nice, big baskets, Like I said, money, donations,
give cards, everything, just it was. It was a big,
big deal. And so I take these two baskets. Somebody

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bid whatever it was, just say these were two of
the bigger baskets. And there was other trinkets in there.
So we're not going to give them away. We're gonna
auction them off. Let's start at fifty bucks. Let's start
at and then I'm looking at the donor card, which
would be like if you give flowers to someone and
you write a little card like happy Happy Valentine's Day
or happy anniversary, honey in your name. So the names

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on this were with love, Trixie, and reb and so
I have to I'm thinking, I gotta be funny and
I gotta okay, so.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know, yep, So we'll see, we'll see if her.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Story lines up with mine or if it's right in
the middle. So I'm thinking I have to be super funny.
I have to just carry the load with this Facebook
live thing that we're doing for like ten minutes, it's
a fifteen minutes. So I'm doing this, I'm doing that,
I'm cracking jokes, I'm trying to get people involved.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Why'd you come here?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (16:06):
You know the person we're doing the raff of the
benefit for. And then I said, well, these two baskets
are the biggest, and they were the biggest baskets with
booze and gift cards and all this shit was in there.
And I said, well, who's the the uh donor of
this is Trixie and Rab.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I go, the focks are Trixie?

Speaker 4 (16:24):
What the fuck's Arab? I said, if they're strippers, I
want to party with these two gals. And that was
that was really Although although I knew who you were
and I think you're cool.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
I'm not just saying this so you won't rip me,
but you uh, but you are a cool person.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
You ride, You're just a cool your owner, your fun,
your your personality is great. Your sense of humor is fun.
You're fucking great. When I when I said that, and
I said something about what the fuck's a tricksy? What
what's But I was trying to be funny because I.

Speaker 9 (16:55):
Was on And then tell me you're That was the
Oh no, that was That was the first benefit that
we put together because she was.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Still gearing up on buying Jockstop and she was the
one that helped me, like in those couple of.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
Days start this place, play Cardcore. We were running on that.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
CEO zero is back for another treat.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
And so that was our big one. Yeah, I know
we gave you a shit about that one.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
And then but because we didn't actually really know each
other on a first name, you know, we we I
saw you, you saw me. I saw it a few.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Events and then Studs.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
We were at Studs and I seen you there many times,
but we never we really didn't. So when I said that,
you guys, your reaction is I gave these fucking baskets.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I put a ton of money in this shit.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
I put gift cards and money and and now this
fucking clown.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Is saying, what's a tricksy? What's arab h? If these
are strippers?

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Boy, I want to hang with these gals and I
and then you thought, you know what, whoever said that?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
What's his name?

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Minch?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Fuck him? That punk?

Speaker 4 (18:03):
So it was kind of because we did have a
little bit of all start it did, But is that
is that about right? The story was just about right?
It was so dees, did you hear about that one?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
You haven't heard? Okay?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Because it was I didn't mean any disrespect. I was
having fun. The camera was rolling.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
But that really is how we broke the ice.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
It was And then I came in a couple of
times and I remember you being nice but also thinking
why couldn't you just say thanks tricksy? And instead of.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Going I got to be funny.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
I wanted to tell a joke I got and I said,
you know what, I apologize and does that That's how
we That's how we started our relationship. Sometimes people can't
recover from that start. I know there's times where but
us being cool people, we got over it, all right?
Does your your role here and the hours you put

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in and the schedule and ordering and just a team effort.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
You put in way more hours, and people think, yeah,
I do.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
I mean, but this is my job. I'm going to
dedicate myself to it like I do any other job.
And this is probably one of my favorite jobs ever, honestly.
And I just took a risk, that's all it was.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
I lost my.

Speaker 8 (19:16):
Job and I came with the fine Printice. She says,
I always joke with her when Dave owned the bar,
I was here all thirteen years. I was down the
street with Dave that entire time. And I told her,
I said.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Was happy Dave's when you were here, but you weren't
here one hundred percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Did you have another gig?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
No?

Speaker 6 (19:34):
I just did his tournaments.

Speaker 8 (19:36):
That's how I started, Okay, I just did his tournaments
and shot league for him, Dart leak so. And then
I told her, I said, I just came with the bar.
I just kept telling her, and then I became her
cleaner for a little while. I still I still clean,
but and then I just said, I lost my job unexpectedly,
and I said, do you want a bar manager?

Speaker 6 (19:54):
And she's like absolutely, my dream came.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
True and it was. It was that easy of a transition,
that easy.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
And I just look how probably she is about this
bar and it's her baby, and I'm going to treat
it exactly the same way. And I think she trusts
me enough to do that.

Speaker 7 (20:10):
You do a wonderful job.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Thank you again, congratulations, thank you, and honestly a fairly
you know under three years you've been running. You're open
less than three years ago and half years ago.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Four months ago I became bar.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Manager, and so that to have that. There's a lot
of bars that come and go. Yes, and you just
by the feel of this.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
And how the customers are and how people talk about
the place, I think it's going to be around for.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
A hell of a long time.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Cheers too. Are you drinking Ecto cooler?

Speaker 6 (20:41):
I'm drinking ectopet cooler.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
And that is good in the morning with eggs. Oh
that's good. I have to try that real good. Cheers though,
Cheers to both ya.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Cheers.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
We have pool leagues coming in tonight. Last week before
I let you go, because I want to have Pete
take that spot if you if you don't mind, perfect
is that okay?

Speaker 7 (21:02):
I mean, I sound so great.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
What was what was your before you open? So you
bartended and you were around because people know you. You're around, right,
you're at studs for a long time.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
People dig. Yeah, you're just your personalities, fond your when
you moment when everybody does. But when you when you
become a.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Bar owner and this is yours, now this is yours,
you have to really, really really change up to be
what's I don't know, I don't know. I don't want
to say nicer, but it's a there's a there's a
balancing act when you're a bar owner rather than a bartender.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
There's certain things you obviously have to be more demanding
in me that make me an.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
Asshole or not.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, guess what, that's the way it is.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
The one that pays you do what I say.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
But customer wise, making decisions about things that are going
on here, some of it you trust does with, but
some of it you have to make decisions on.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Well, of course, I mean there's certain things. I mean
a lot of it's.

Speaker 8 (22:06):
For the most part, I defer to her, so I
make a decision and I say, this is what we're
gonna do, and she's kind of like all right, fine,
And it's the most is.

Speaker 5 (22:15):
I mean, in order and keeping track of machines. What's happening,
What's what you're doing with.

Speaker 7 (22:22):
People trying I know that's a big deal right now.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Is the scammers around with the gambling machine.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
I know I was going to ask you about that.
I didn't know if we should talk about it on air,
But that happens, right There's always there's there's always a
scammer that's going to try to get you in some way,
whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Will did you did you ever come across any of those?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Because I've been seeing on Facebook a few years ago
and then it went away and now it's up again.
What's what's the how do you how do you watch
for things like that?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know, being a bar owner, having cameras, or people.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
That win too often and spend too little. Okay, that's
a there's cameras.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Around fucking stumble roll.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
It's I've actually made an executive order and put a
note with din ours. Let's say no cell phones near machines.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Okay, so that that is something to do with the
cell phone and they can program something to fuch with the.

Speaker 8 (23:19):
Understand that there's something that they can mechanism inside the
cell phone that can give you extra credits or money
on a machine.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
So and I'm naive to the situation, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
I am too to. People are assholes, aren't they?

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Just you're trying, you're trying to run a business and
you're trying to have a great fun bar and you
got to worry about ship like that.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yes, the kaboys have graduated some machines. It's just thank you,
It's just but it's just ridiculous. Who come who.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Just think of the people that think of some kind
of app or something where they put something in a
phone and they they futs with some numbers, and.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
Because nobody wants to work anymore, it's get rich quick
and what what are you going.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
To give me?

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah? Thanks a lot, Biden.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's really, it's really, it's ridiculous, man, It's just it's
just it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Calm.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
Everything happens for a.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Reason, and it'll come back to you. It'll come back
to you.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
Steal from me.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
You're gonna get through.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Exactly right on, all right, rep thank you, honestly, thanks
for having us off and continued success.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I've been here on open Jam nights.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
I've been there on karaoke nights, just hanging out with
and I really really enjoy your bar. That's from my heart.
All right, if you take your headphones off, Pete's gonna
take your spot.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
And then the CEO zero is she's still over there
and he walk away. No, he's down there to get
other treats.

Speaker 10 (24:50):
I just want to say, I shoot darts League Darts
and we shot here probably two months ago or whatever. Uh,
this place is absolutely fucking crazy of it on dark
night here too.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, it's a big dart bar.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yes, so I would I would say that again be
in a neighborhood bar, because it really is truly a
neighborhood bar. You have, you have a vibe here, you
have a there's a there's almost like mutual respect you
walk in. There's a lot of regulars that have your back,
right does. And that's part of it too, right, being

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a neighborhood bar. A lot of clubs and a lot
of cane places and whatever, they don't really have that
what neighborhood bars have.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
We are a Karma family. That's what I've always said.
We're family.

Speaker 8 (25:36):
So we do a lot of fundraisers for family we
just get together to come together. It's the same thing
with the dark community.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
So right on, Pete, good to see my brother, awesome
to be here. Is your last name pronounced siren? It
is with a y, siren with a y. H. Do
you know what a siren is in Greek mythology?

Speaker 1 (25:58):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
I learned this years ago. Do you really know? Okay,
let me let me see.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
How do you know? Do you have any idea uh
something with vocals?

Speaker 10 (26:08):
I'm gonna say, Okay, I know what I know what
it is on a cop car.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I know I know what a siren is on a
cop car.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Uh des Let me go first, because did you did
you just look this up or because of.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
His last name or you just remember it? I'm Nicorn,
So okay, so you have you have some Greek mythology knowledge.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
From what I remember, a siren is a half woman
and half.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Bird of flight or some kind of a it's not okay,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
I thought it was a bird, but I so it's
a It's an aquatic creature, all right, creature. Now, these sirens,
they would as sailors and people would be going to this.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Is back in the like pirate days.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Correct, so you're sailing to get to this country or
this land or whatever. The sirens would sing in their
beautiful voice and lure the sailors to their death. Correct,
they would, the sailors would follow these sexy sirens.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Correct, honest to God? Is that right? Am I close
to that?

Speaker 6 (27:16):
That is correct?

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Greek mythology one o one here on the four one
four podcast. But that's what And every time I say
your name or I see your name, I know it's
with a y instead of eye. But I always think
the siren with this screeching, beautiful vocals and some some
I'm gonna go off the road. I'm gonna follow this
girl down an alley. I'm gonna get mugged. She's gonna
take my shoes, and I'm gonna I'm gonna go huh,

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I'm gonna get Yeah.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
I just want to chime in here and say that, Mitch,
you are correct. It is half bird, half woman, Oh Bird,
half bird, half woman, known for their enchanting voices that
lured sailors to their doom with irresistible songs, often leading
to shipwrecks.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Irresistible.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
I guess I got false information. I apologize.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
I would think since its tests to do with sailors.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
I would think it would be a an aquatic creature,
but it was. It was a bird, a flying half woman,
half bird or feathered creature.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Son of a bit direct. I didn't even know that.
I thought you were right when you said that's my
whole life today.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I've been right about four or five times in the
last thirty years.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's number six right on the counterar we're going to
write on a candard.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Pete, tell us about camp Karma. Now you've been a regular,
You've known rab Right, you've known Daz.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Absolutely yeah, So how did how did.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
The music thing?

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Because I don't want to keep taking airtime. This place
is a good music lane, music hall.

Speaker 11 (28:47):
I'll tell you a lot of it's got awesome acoustics.
A lot of bands that are coming are extremely happy
with that. I met Rebbed many many years ago when
I was at Smoking Joe's and Me bar. She used
to come in regular love karaoke and UH chatted and
played mega mega dice games. I always say she's my

(29:13):
my uh ultimate competition that does.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
She does a great job. I absorb what she does
to try to be here.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Who do you figure when more dice games over the
years if just say you and Rab and others sit
in or it's just you and Rab, or it's.

Speaker 11 (29:26):
I think between us, it's like a you know, like
a Tyson holy Field thing or that that whole battle.
So I've always absorbed what she's doing, like like a
a mega chess game.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
So it's like Second Bears rivalry.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, but there's so much.

Speaker 11 (29:43):
Yeah, there's so much, and there's so much we expect,
you know, respect each other when.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
We do that.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
So but it's all in fun. Oh, but you want
to win.

Speaker 11 (29:53):
And I always remind her, like this week, I'm like
just saying it was you know, I'm not keeping tracked,
but that's or a really lost But I know by
saying that, I'm just setting my step up, you know,
for the next time.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, then you're gonna have a go and then you're
gonna go h and five.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Right, yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
Get us, get us back to the music. So you
you just said bands love it. It's a great music
hall and it's from the outside it does. You don't
know where the bar starts and ends on the Beecher Street.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's a it's a big bar. It's a good sized bar.

Speaker 11 (30:24):
Yep, the acoustics carry well. If you're up close, you're
not overpowered. You still can have good conversation and you
hear decent you know, like over the weekend, all the way.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
In the back. So uh, that says the thing.

Speaker 11 (30:37):
And just sat down and chatted with Rep and she's like,
do what you gotta do and we communicate tremendously together
and uh and and it just happens every every Saturday,
never recover for live music. And then Sundays, every other
week we we do the open jam nets building up

(30:59):
some amazing momentum.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
You know what I saw Marcel on an open jam.
Marcel Geiden came in here. This was in the fall
last year and he came in and people are going,
that's Marcel, right, Yeah, he came in here and he
loved it.

Speaker 11 (31:15):
It starts at three thirty and it goes for four
hours and it was like sixty some musicians. I'm not
exaggering deep this past Sunday.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Does everybody get to play?

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Yeah, and everybody does. Curt and Paul they both play
in Doc Martin. They host every other week. They do
whatever they can to get people up and it's a
lot upun and great networking opportunities. The next one is
Easter Sunday, so when you're you're scramble in the yard
for those eggs pop up after that.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Well, three.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Eggs.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
We're chasing. Painted potatoes this year.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Buddy painted potato. That's what I heard.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
I heard something about potatoes you can you can paint
and actually, like the.

Speaker 10 (32:00):
Churches are buying those little small like red potatoes and
just painting those or dying them.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
But it's cheaper than eggs.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's cheaper than eggs, I suppose what.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
They.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I think. If you don't find an egg in the yards.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Sometimes like we've done it when the kids were little
and my nieces and nephews, you found an egg, like
three days later, you go, oh, look at A week
later you see one under the bush. If you find
a potato a week later, it's still good, I think.
I think it would be.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
You would get more potatoes.

Speaker 10 (32:30):
Yeah, if you left it alone for the entire summer.
By fall, you'd have new potatoes.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Could be.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Plastic eggs are always popular and you can put coins
or candy in there too, and that's always We really
never did chicken eggs other than in the house, in
the house with a basket and you put one for
each kid somewhere and they find it. But we always
put plastic ones outside for Easter is people are talking
about potatoes. Put the plastic eggs out there, a couple

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of quarters in there, some chocolate, candy, whatever they want.

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Five bucks in an egg, that's what it goes.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
Now, Yeah, I guess, I guess with the inflation. That's
the same with the tooth fairy.

Speaker 10 (33:13):
Remember getting pennies, finding those eggs and getting pennies in
that egg?

Speaker 1 (33:16):
You're like, what am I going to do with a
fucking penny? Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
I think nickels and dimes and quarters we had, we
had coins. I don't know if, yeah, you guys are
rich pennies, I just don't. If you're a kid, you
don't know what a if you're three, you don't know
what a penny is. But it's a coin. I know
it's shit.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
I know. I don't want it.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I know, I know.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I know I throw them on the ground or I
tell the clerk.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
To keep them, but I don't. I don't know, Pete.
So the music, what do we got this Saturday?

Speaker 11 (33:48):
What's the date? Twelve twelfth? Matt phenomenal sex player. He
does this amazing spin playing the hits where the vocals
are right on his saxophone, with some awesome backup music.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
Uh, Saxy Sensation, Sax Saxy, Maddie Saxy Sensations.

Speaker 11 (34:09):
He's here this Saturday, This Saturday, No. Cover seven to eleven,
Good times, good.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't know that. I actually talked
to you earlier.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
I reached out to Maddie and he was unable to
attend the podcast. He's got Frank Zappa band practice tonight.
He's in a Zappa band and they travel around and
he was in he went to Germany with that band
last year. Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah? He I talked to him. I heard that.

Speaker 11 (34:37):
And he also does some cool stuff like Costa Rica
for months.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I don't know if he still does that.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
But does it have to do with the Zappa band
or just himself.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Just him, you know, being a beach bumber.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
I could see him on the beach with that saxophone,
people filling people, filling up his saxophone case with dollars,
and he's got that beard.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
He's got an appeal.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
I bet you he can get that saxophone case filled
with money, have fun playing on the beach, and later
that night get his bean snap from one of the
gals on the beach. That's just how That's how I
picture Saxy Maddie with that, with that full beard and
that look. He's intriguing.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
He's a good guy.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I want to use that for my next band, Bean Snap.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Bean Snapper Excellent.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Matt will be here April twelfth, and that is from
seven to eleven and that's this Saturday.

Speaker 11 (35:27):
Ye and then Sunday first time. This week, we're gonna
do some fun different things. We're gonna do music bingo
and it's gonna be a little bit different. I know,
happen to know the host personally. He's kind of a douchebag.
That would be me.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
And you're gonna get, You're gonna get. Have you ever
done this before?

Speaker 11 (35:44):
Yeah, I dabbled a little bit with UH at a
beer garden for a few years. That'll be fun and yeah,
we're gonna do that and do some spin. We're gonna
bring some guest singers in to do UH sing a
song instead of just hearing like we're a recorded song,
We're gonna have the mystery song. I'm going to play
a second every week until somebody gets.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Uh and what is it?

Speaker 11 (36:05):
Just a blurb like and each week we'll do another
second for like a cash prize and the prize will
build up.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
So it's a it's a form of name that tune
yes with a very short blurb until that and that's
a whole different pot.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
That is a different.

Speaker 11 (36:19):
That's a different I spent along with the Bengo cards on.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
I have a question, is it is it are you
adding another second after the second, so the second time
it's two seconds?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Or is it a new, brand new one second.

Speaker 11 (36:32):
Everybody will get one chance to guess each week, and
nobody guesses it the first week, we'll add another second
the following.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
What I'm saying when you add are you adding another
second to the second you already played?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Are you playing completely use as well? Okay, I definitely.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
Have a question. Is it a team effort or individually?

Speaker 11 (36:50):
You could do teams, but everybody will be able to
have their own Bengo card and lost couples want to
just join in together. And we're going to have some
some prizes like drinks of course, uh, pull tabs, rapenas
is going to kick in for the first week, so
we're gonna have some sort of mystery meat for the
first week.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Nice I'll pick it up fresh that it happens to
be Mitch's favorite miss mystery Meat, and there is mystery Meat.
I'll be here for that by gad yep.

Speaker 11 (37:18):
And we're gonna do a cover section where I'll play
two versions of like the original artists that did it
and another person that covered it for for points for
prizes and stuff.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
So so you'll.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Do you'll do a couple of good spins on regular
old music bingo.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yes, you're gonna have it with your music knowledge.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
And I'm just saying I'm not trying to be you know,
getting on your good side seriously, because I you could
go deep on that one second blurb and you could
pick a song where nobody will get it for five
or six weeks because it could be something so deep
in a band that is semi.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Well known, you could get them on that.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
It's kind of you know, to get the water cooler talk,
to get people in and and get like start talking
and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Where they can't figure it out. They're like, look, I
think I know that song. I recognize that guitar. Is
it a Stone's tune.

Speaker 11 (38:11):
Is it a The thing I missed the most with
you bring up a cool topic is before cell phones,
people would call me and say, like, remember this song
from it, and then they did it this way and
they'd help me something, you know. And then now that
the cell phones, which zam, it's like out the door.
So I'm gonna add another spin. People cannot utilize their phone.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
That's how it should be.

Speaker 11 (38:36):
And if you get caught, if you want back in,
you're gonna have to do some real gin.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
That that'll get you back in for the rest of you.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Maybe rail gin with something, even some.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Alert that's that's a good taste of it.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, yeah, nasty.

Speaker 10 (38:53):
But anyway, the music bingo should be fought. It'll be
I have four my questions. Are you playing music that's
been recorded, like from a computer. Are you actually playing
the music?

Speaker 11 (39:04):
No, I will have recorded and first spin, we'll probably
bring some guests vocalists in to you know, like somebody
sing a cheesy learn from the love blow and you
gotta guess it that way, and you know, different fun
spins to get everybody involved.

Speaker 10 (39:17):
So cool, that'll be fun. Now I gotta quit my
bartending job. On Sunday, so I can come here Mistizo.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
You know what, I'll be honest with you. You have
a pretty good knowledge of music. I'm a junkie dude.
I know you are so and you like you like rap,
you like country, like a little bit of everything.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
I'm more of a rock classic rock and abbita Zappa
baby abbita Zappa. So I know. But if me and
you were teamed, oh we fucked up, we could win.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
I'm serious. Okay, that's a challenge to see you guys.
What time is music bingo?

Speaker 2 (39:49):
We're gonna start.

Speaker 11 (39:49):
At three thirty similar to the week before. We're alternate
open jam three thirty, So is.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Open jam one week music bingo, and you're gonna go
every other week with both those. Okay, makes sense.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
I can be here at three thirty. I don't start
bartend until six.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
Well, I don't know what time. What do you make?
Music can go two hours?

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Three hours?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
We'll do like a couple hours.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Absolutely, yep, all right, we'll let you do this whyt
to just give it a try and if we win.
If we win, people are gonna go, oh those podcasts,
this is rigged.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Those were the.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Guys on the podcast. I hate those guys.

Speaker 4 (40:23):
I'm never I'm never gonna listen to the podcast You'll
get No, We're just that good.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
I'm pretty good with with rock music.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
With with all my dart members.

Speaker 10 (40:34):
We always play, whether we go on the on the
road for darts or whatever, we always listen. And as
soon as you can name the tune, if you name it, boom,
everyone else drinks. That's that's how we play. That's just
what we do.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Are you on any bar leagues?

Speaker 4 (40:48):
I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give the CEO Zero, the
CEO of Camp Karma. Oh, he takes it so nice.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
This one's gonna stay here for a little bit. Can
you sit shit? Shit, He's like, fuck you, you're not
my real dad. Shake my boy.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
He listens even though I'm not his real dad, and
he listens. De Are you on dart leagues?

Speaker 6 (41:19):
I am. I've been on dart leaks over twenty years.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
So when you told Red, but when you told Red
two to start that you knew about darts.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
You knew how popular.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Especially with a galley style bar, You've got all the
room in the world to have exact dart leagues.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
And I fought to.

Speaker 8 (41:35):
Get ten boards in here, so I mean we only
had eight at one point.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
So yeah, you got it going on.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (41:41):
And we host every Friday night to starting at seven
and sign up eight fifteen. Start every Friday night. It's
open to all. I don't care your skill level.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
How can you shoot with us?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Can we can?

Speaker 4 (41:52):
We not to get off the camp karmas stuff, but
can we talk about a couple of things that you
got coming up this summer?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah, because I know you got a couple of big things.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yes.

Speaker 11 (42:02):
A dear friend of mine I met many years I'd
say fifteen years ago, Della Cooma is going to be
and he's gonna kick off his the World tour party
here on July sixteenth, which is a Wednesday, So.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
It's right after the Harley Rally and Milwaukee Rally that
next week.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
And I heard a rumor that you're going to be
here on that Wednesday? Is that true? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I'm gonna be here Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
And I although I saw Delacoma, god I don't remember where,
but last year or the year before, and one of
the times I missed him. But what a great artist.
He's a what an interesting cat.

Speaker 11 (42:39):
I've been friends with him and a year and a
half Ago, I got the chance to be a Zero manager.
I went on the road with him. It was amazing
my first time in New York with him and humble, approachable.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
And really nice guy.

Speaker 11 (42:53):
He was here last time he came in. He got
to meet Zero, who's here right now again, and he
loved the bar. He's like, we got to do something
next time him in town, met Reb and the staff.
So we're gonna kick things off. He's gonna do some
stuff acoustically.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
And that is July sixteenth, yep, Wednesday, Wednesday. That's perfect.
What I'd like to do is set the podcast up here, get.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Him on him and you on Rabin whoever can mix
and match out, but get him on, have him do
an acoustic song on you know, for the podcast, and
then we break down the podcast and he starts to
show here.

Speaker 11 (43:26):
Perfect and then the next night right down the road,
a bunch of people helped out, mister Grassman, Michael Grassman, Zoi,
Eric from Shotski's too. He's gonna do his full show
there the next night, which is the Thursday.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
So he's gonna do sixteen, seventeenth Wednesday and Thursday back
to back.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
In the area.

Speaker 11 (43:47):
He'll do advanced tickets, hit me up, dm me or
it's posted on Dela Cooma's site, and that's gonna be
a free event on the sixteenth here.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
And I want to be free, but shots is a
paid events, ticketed and if you've never it's worth it
to google Della Cooma listen to some.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Of or anything off YouTube. It is great.

Speaker 11 (44:12):
Yeah, he puts his heart and soul and everything, and
I'm very fortunate to be a part of his team.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
And then quickly, how about I was at a gig
that you were. You're in a band called hair Nation Chicago.
We did a show at Tipsy Turtle, say about three
weeks ago ish three four weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Yes, at Tipsy Turtle, Todd was there.

Speaker 11 (44:31):
You helped out shot some great video that was awesome,
and we're looking forward to doing some more stuff. I'm
the only person from the Wisconsin areas, but so I'm
playing with these awesome new friends of mine from Chicago
here Nation. And actually we're going to do a show
on the border with Dell Dea Friday on the seventeenth

(44:54):
of July.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
We're going to do a dual.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Global can't are you going to Delacolma is going to
be at Chatzi's.

Speaker 11 (45:02):
Yes, but we're going to do something close to the
Illinois border on that Friday.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
The eighteenth, sixteen seventeen.

Speaker 11 (45:09):
And then in the nineteenth of courk Barga, he's in
Kadat at Rockfest.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Man, that's a big week. Yes, that'll be a big
week for you. Yeah, don't drink too much, don't shake
too much, Dice. I tell you, I had to pace
myself last time.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
But you made it. Yes, you did it through.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
That's just a great honestly a great artist. The guy
is really interesting, interesting. The music gets you out. It's
something again, Dela coma. Just how it sounds right, you
spell it, just how it sounds Yep. Google that and
you'll be very, very surprised, pleasantly surprised. That music is great.

Speaker 11 (45:44):
And I want we'll talk on the side, but I
want you to come up with some cool questions. I
always try to ask him questions like things that are
in Australian stuff that.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
To see if I can like stumpilp him.

Speaker 11 (45:58):
But it's usually like I didn't know this, and he
actually I asked him one time and he just kind
of snickered at me and he was cordial. I was like,
I said, are there out back restaurants in Australia? He said,
and he goes, no, Pete, there's not outback, you know,
no rules just well and he's like, I'll ask him
just to try to get on his nerves and he

(46:19):
never will break.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Like, have you ever seen a kangaroo?

Speaker 11 (46:23):
And he goes, yeah, there's like one in my backyard,
and then he tells me a whole story about a kangaroo.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
So, but there are kangaroos that are all over right
right in Australia, way more than we think as Americans.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Right.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
I have a funny story about Australians for the Harley
hundredth so that what was the last one one twenty
or one twenty five, Well, let's figure it out. Nineteen
oh three yep, so twenty two thousand and three was
the hundred and So we were running around going to
different dealerships, and we ran into some guys from Australia

(46:57):
and they told us that we just go pull over
on the way here.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
They took Highway.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
One hundred from Milwaukee Harley Highway one hundred, and they
went all the way to Thansville and they went to
the suburban dealership and it says one hundred on the sign,
and so they were ripping, they were speeding. The cop
pulls them over and he goes, all right, there's four

(47:23):
or five guys that they had their bikes shipped in.
They flew their bikes in and cost them thousands of
fucking dollars. But they did it for the hundred, swear
to God. And one of the guys that's more just
more humorous and a little more outgoing, he said, oh,
go to stay here, let me handle this. And he
went and told the cop that he thought that hundred
meant one hundred miles an hour, and since there wasn't

(47:45):
a lot of traffic, he thought it was like an
audubon here in Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
He didn't know the cop let them go bortus. Now
that was but that's the Harley. They they give bikers
breaks during those events.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
But they were going He said, we weren't going a hundred,
but were I bet you we were bouncing on knowing
four and ninety five.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
That's a great story that they can take back to the.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Cops actually believed it, like he really said, no, no, no,
it'll say speed limit.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
It won't just have a sign of the highway like Highway.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
One hundred or Highway seventy or you know, and they
acted like they didn't know. They said, sorry, we just came.
We just got off the plane and we But that's
fucking funny shit, right because the cops cops.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Trying to be nice.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
But he also can't have these guys going ninety five
miles an hour, right, Well, so that that's an Australian story.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
They believed it. Okay, let's wrap this up. Pete Dez.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
When Pete comes in the bar, do you fear his
dice shaking ability at all?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Because I don't.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
I don't feel like he's I don't think I don't
think he's he's as good as he thinks he is.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
No, I'm not taking a challenge after this will shake
around all right?

Speaker 4 (48:57):
All right, but we'll get Marie in and I just
us three.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Oh yeah, thank you for.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Reminding me.

Speaker 11 (49:10):
Labor Day Sunday. A good friend of ours, I was
in a band with Mickey Mickey Be.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Did you want to say something about it? Do it?
We we started here as no signal.

Speaker 11 (49:24):
That was I think we were one of like the
first bands to play and uh, Mickey Be, he's been
around forever Megaton Blonde and he passed away recently and
uh I left the band over the summer.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Budges to see him in here quite a bit.

Speaker 11 (49:39):
Yeah, uh and we uh I got the chance to
talk to him before his passing and uh rest in peace.
And uh we ended up doing a celebration last month
here and it was a tremendous turnout and uh we
got back together and played and we're gonna carry it
on and play again. So that Sunday Labor Day a

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Memorial Days so sorry Memorial.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
That well, that's why she's bringing up because it's not
Labor Day is six months away, Memorial Days.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Labor Day, and I should be better.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
At that Memorial Day.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
We're bringing the Memorial Memorial thank you.

Speaker 11 (50:16):
Yes, So we owned a really cool banner that everybody
signed during the celebration of life, the no Signal banner.
And we're going to play again for Ships and Giggles
and Rongo, the legendary Romo is going to play also
with his band called the Convince.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
No the Convicts, yes, the convent, not the convents.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
That's nuns there you go. Nuns are convicts.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
You might have messed around and I'm back in the day.
I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I know Rongo pretty good.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Did you know that Wrongo years and years ago his
roommate was Spencer, that owns Zoe's Vicious Circle, the tattoo shop. Really,
and you talk about pulling up to a house immediately,
you're going, fuck, every time I come here, I stay
too late. It's one of those things where those two guys,

(51:08):
Oh my god, it was. It was a match made
in trouble.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
I mean it was. It was trouble every time he
went over there.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
It was.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
But those two guys lived together, Rongo and Spencer.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
So the word it's a small city, it's a small world.
And that's that's Milwaukee. Cool cool, definitely.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
That'll be a Sunday of Memorial Day.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Weekend, Memorial seven o'clock Rongo and the Convicts. Rongo played
at his band played at Irish Cottage over Saint Patrick's Day,
all right, and Rongo was coming back from the West Coast.
You know, he's a trucker, yes, okay, and he had

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a breakdown and he couldn't make his own gig, so
he was like two states away on Saint Patrick's Day.
Called one of his buddies and said, hey, can you
fill him for me? Fuck yeah, we're buddies. Rongo didn't
make his own gig me in a trucker he got
he got caught up on. Everybody's got a great Rongo story.

Speaker 11 (52:04):
I remember when he used to do open jam at
Whammy Bar and he had to vaan uh and he
would show up and he would drive backwards to the
open jam to get all this gear.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
There, and I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 11 (52:17):
It's like I'm like, I'm only down the road, like
on eighty fourth Street. And he made it like eight
weeks driving backwards to do.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
What happened before the cops or yeah.

Speaker 11 (52:26):
And then he goes, yeah, I finally got nailed after
eight weeks. So you would drive every Thursday to open
jam backwards?

Speaker 4 (52:34):
What what's his problem?

Speaker 2 (52:37):
He goes, I want to see how long are you
gonna do this for?

Speaker 11 (52:39):
I'm just coming like off eighty fourth and and bloit
you know that, And so he shot down blight.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
He goes, yeah, Pete, I finally got pinched. You know
it is Rongo. Rono's great. I'll be looking forward to that.
That is the Sunday before the Memorial Monday. Holiday, absolutely, okay,
Rongo and the convicts, yes, and.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Signal getting back together to do.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
It and that look that is that is going to
be on that Sunday as well. Yes, okay, that's cool.
That's a great day.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
That is a great Sunday, fun day.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yep, all right, no work for a lot of people
the next day.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
I want to thank you for being here, Dez. Honestly,
it's good to meet you. We know each other.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
We we didn't we were on the first name basis
on the radios. Well, thanks, I was the best on
the Hawk by far.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
You were the best.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Pete. Good to see you, my brother.

Speaker 11 (53:27):
Awesome to see you. Thank you for doing this here
and being part of it.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Great thanks, see your future. I see poo Legs are
starting up, so ready to go. I want to say Kevin.
Hi to Kevin the sound guy. He works at Pauli's.
His wife brought in some food that Come on, keV,
just for a moment, come on in.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
He's he's in pool Legs here. Just get in here,
just get right on that microphone.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Hey, how's it going, keV?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Great sound guy.

Speaker 11 (53:53):
On a side note, he's gonna be he's going to
be doing sound for Dela Coma at Shotsky's.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Too, get on that mic.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Anything you want to say to your wife, your girlfriend,
your whoever.

Speaker 6 (54:04):
I talk to my wife every day, so no, not
at this time.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Okay, it's it's good to see you, my brother.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
Really good to see you, man, great sound man, Kevin,
Stephen Housen fuss and fucking well.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
I know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
What is your name, Stephen Hagen, Stephen Hagen and hag
Men we got It's a it's a hagg mixture here,
Stephan Hagen.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
It is.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
I know that I always when I see it sometimes
is it's Stephen housen Hagen's Sisian mission.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
But good to see you, my brother.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Man.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Say bye to the people, come on in.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
I love you people, Thank you for making this success.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
I'm sure glad.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
I'm sure glad our first meeting that was a little
bit rocky.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
I'm glad we worked it out.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Love you, rapping, great place, camp Karma, stop down.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
See what all the buzz hubbubs about pool leagues dart.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Leagus when that season is in season, but otherwise for
the summer.

Speaker 8 (55:00):
Summer we got we can take summer sign ups until
me first.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Okay, so you got that going on? But music, right, Pete,
that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (55:07):
You got music on Saturday Sunday, fun day music, bingo,
you got karaoke on? Did you mention that, he says
with Jonathan Christie, the legend Jonathan Christie from Almighty Vinyl.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Yes, yes, great, great karaoke night camp.

Speaker 4 (55:24):
Karma is a really really cool neighborhood bar. I am
happy to be all your friends, and it's an honor. Honestly,
we're happy to your friends too. Does appreciate the carrent work?
Can I get a shout at jim Bean when the
show's over? I guess all right, Thanks Pete, good to
see your brother.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Great to see you, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
We'll see you next week.

Speaker 6 (55:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Well, Pally, it looks like our girls have dumped.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
This looks like this, Dean.

Speaker 12 (55:56):
Is there anything you'd like to say to woman Pelly there?

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Baby?

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Blow me?

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Oh kiss as your lead even blow.

Speaker 12 (56:06):
Me oooh, I kiss right now, because if.

Speaker 8 (56:11):
You're gonna leave me, honey, I will surely miss the
way you blow me.

Speaker 12 (56:16):
Blow me, okay, come on, blow me, I kiss like yummy,
blow me, I kiss goodbye.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
I really can't remember And if thing as hard as this,
So blow me, blow me.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
I kiss.

Speaker 12 (56:40):
There's some things in life just sw I guess.