West Bend Harley Day 1 Of Rally Weekend

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Controlling transmission, controlling transmission.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here we here we.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Go, we controlling, trying, trying, one day, no.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Back.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome to the four one four podcast. We are live
from West Ben Harley Davidson.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
We couldn't have better weather for the kickoff of the
Milwaukee Rally. We could not super good Milwaukee Rally twenty
twenty five. The dealerships are all happening and we're at
West Bend today.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Oh man.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Every year when it gets to be this time, because
years ago, a handful of years ago less than that,
it was always around Labor Day and when they switched,
when they switched it to July, it's right in midsummer,
so you know the weather's going to be right if
it's hot.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's the way it is, right.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
And people are coming out of Summer Fest as well.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, and we got yeah, we got we got a
lot of stuff going on out here with me. Is
Adam go ahead, Jail Venis No, you almost had it,
Joe Venus hard G.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
So like gil Venis.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Zenus gal Zennis, you wrote and then you changed it
to the Z and now you're okay.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now Gal hard G, I'm just going to write hard
hard right here. So gl Zennis, he's my Lithuanian friend. Yes, yeah,
your father is Lithuanian.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Obviously, my grandfather was Lithuanian right off the boat. Yes,
Actually him and my grandmother both came in. She was Italian,
he was Lithuania. So they both came in off the boat.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
How is that mix Italian and Lithuania. Is it like
oil and water or is it like brandy and coke?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think, I mean both of those don't mix.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Well, so yes, I would say it's just not a
well mixed situation.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
They both got along really well.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Have you ever been back to Lithuania. I've never been
to Lithuania. Okay, so is it something you're interested in? Well,
I mean I asked.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I've been to Poland, that's kind of close. I've been.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I'm a Polish fellow. I'm a Polock.

Speaker 6 (02:55):
Yes, I mean, you know, so, I've been all over Europe,
traveled the globe, so I've seen a lot, but never Lithuania.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
And it hasn't really like stuck out to me to
go there. But maybe now you're.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'm surprised, just just with the heritage.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, I just thought of that.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'm surprised you wouldn't be, but you have been to
Europe before and you traveled. Yeah, and I'll introduce you again,
Adam gel Zennis. Yes, my Lithuanian friend.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
He is the GM. You're the GM out here at
West Bend Harley.

Speaker 6 (03:23):
We am the new guy on the block in West
Bend for sure, and just the new GM in the store.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
So tell me about your your journey in the Harley world.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
Yeah, so started with Scott Fisher Enterprises. Scott's our you
know company that we work for. A great guy to
work for as well, but.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's New ownership Group.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
New Ownership Group also owns a couple other stores out
in New Mexico, so we have four total now. But yeah,
it's it's been about six years now, maybe I've.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Been with Scott.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
So you were a Florida guy for a while.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
I was a Florida guy for a while, originally from Connecticut,
but I've lived up and down the East Coast kind
of all over the place since then. Was really helping
a lot of dealers in the Harley world for most
of my career understand.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
The digital game.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
So the digital space, meaning your website, where those website
leads come in and what do you do with them,
because pretty much everyone sits on, sleeps on. Not many
people understand we have to work these leads because that's
money just sitting there. Those are people raising their hand
to talk to me.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, and I can say this, Adam, just speaking about
our podcast and our friendship.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
That's my partner Steeze Steeze.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's not gl Vinnis, but it's Gal Zennis and it's
not Steve O with a steeze.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yes, you guys have a z in comment.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But but even talking about the web world, the digital
world in general. Me being an older guy, a baby boomer,
he teaches me a lot and he tells me things
about how to grow. And we certainly have grown. I
mean from starting off with just a few hundred viewers,
a few hundred listeners now hitting one of our last shows,

(05:07):
we hit twenty three thousand.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Wow, I think it is and I know it's not
viral numbers, but for this market, it's a huge number
for a podcast, absolutely, And it's a lot to do
with him me just being here talking shit doing you
know whatever. You have that background and that knowledge to
help with these dealerships grow The Milwaukee Harley and West

(05:31):
Bend Harley are connected. So tell me when you started
getting involved with Harley in whatever capacity. Was it always
a computer behind the scenes stuff or.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
It was I did some in the dealership stuff as well,
but mostly then transitioned, mostly transitioned my career out of
the digital space into where we are today.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yeah, and so that started in Florida? Did that start?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I ard it in Florida?

Speaker 6 (06:01):
What's funny about Harley and in my life when my
mom was pregnant with me, she actually worked in a
Harley Davidson dealership where what's city? I believe it it
was in uh Surf City, North Carolina? Because I was
born at Camp La June Marine Corps. You were, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did you are you eligible for any of the money? No?

Speaker 6 (06:20):
Unfortunately, you know what I fucking called because my dad
is he's eligible for all that stuff. So he's been
kind of going through the whole thing and he's finally
getting that waiting on the settlement side whatever.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
But he's like, you got a call.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
And I called and they're like, well, do you have
any issues going on with you?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
And they have the most of symptoms, I'm sure, And.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I was like no, And I was like, so nothing.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
They're like, nope, if you had something happening, then we
could talk.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
And even though even though you're you don't want to
be a dishonest person, you still would like to say,
I don't know what's coming. Well, you're correct, you're forty
four years old. You don't know that ten years from now,
fast forward, this is right.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
And then if the whole lawsuit is settled at that point,
you get nothing anyway, because it's gone. Yeah, so and
and anyway, it is, it is what it is. I mean,
we were bathed in that water. We were you know,
everything that water, all cooking, the same stuff, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Like bathing, drinking, cooking, playing in the water, jumping through
the Sprintlaer andild is my dad's.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Going through it right now.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
You know, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, a lot of things that
have ailments from the water situation.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
There is what he's going through right now.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
But anyway, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to hear that, but
that is something that you hear about it. And they
figured it out and something was in the water, and
I'm not sure I never delved into it, but lead
was it some kind of that.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
It was lead and there were there were a few things.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Going on with the water in general. Sure, so I
don't know what.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
The how's your mom? Is your mom still with us?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
My mom's great.

Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yeah, she actually went through about of cancer and beat that.
But that my dad was like, that could have been
something as well.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know, if you're if you're stationed on kap La
June and you have you live there, you have kids?
You have do you have any brothers or sisters? You
got four siblings, how many were born?

Speaker 4 (08:05):
How many were born?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
And none of them?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
So you were the only camps.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, you know what now that, now that I'm.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Looking at you, you do look a little bit off.
You must have drank too much of that water.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's that's why I can grow these muscles.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So I'm joking. I'm totally joking at it. But it's interesting.
Everyone has a path, right, everybody. Everybody takes a path
from whatever city, country, city, state, and they end up
where they end up for now, and who knows where
your journey is going to take you.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Well, I've moved a lot, and I told people this
last move was going to be it, but I've said
that probably twelve times before that.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
So we'll see what happened, and it's hard, you know what.
You know what, Oddly enough, I don't I've never moved,
so I don't have that. But a lot of my
radio buddies they had to relocate and relocate and relocate
to chase the job, chase the money. Sure, right, And
so that's just the way it is with you. You
chose to do it because you it's the love of

(09:02):
the bike, right, It's the love of the.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
I that I also was in the army as well,
so we had that, you know, and you just move.
And I think that was something I never wanted to
stay in Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I knew that, so I was like, I'm just gonna go.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
And I ended up moving to South Carolina at that
point and lived in Charleston, spent a lot of time
there and just been in and.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Out wherever I can, wherever I can be.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I like to be comable.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
So let's do this, stez all, if we can, if
we can, Okay, just for fun, and we're gonna talk
about all the stuff going on at West Bend Harley
and that's coming out.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Here's John, So stay what is that John Green?

Speaker 3 (09:38):
And John Green?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Dude, he almost looks like a guy saw in a movie.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
He might have been maybe.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
John, you're you're gonna get right on that microphone, stay
two or three inches away, put on the headphones, and
thanks for joining us, John Green. This is a guy
that jumps between Milwaukee, Harley and West Bend.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Harriley does a lot of jumping.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
How many? How many states? Will just do this real quick?
You were born in South Carolina?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
We have we have Connecticut, Connecticut. Okay, we have what
is I'm gonna stop you as you go.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Do you know the capital of Connecticut Hartford? Correct?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
I know capitals. I'm like, I don't know all the capitals.
So you have Where I was born was North Carolina?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
And do you know the capital of North Carolina Jacksonville? No, Raleigh,
North Carolinam sorry, I'm sorry to take take the thunder
because I want you to be the star today.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
So you're good. I'm not.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
I love history, geography not so so.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
We got two states so far.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Then you move to Charleston, Charleston, Carolina. And what's the
capital Lumbia? Correct?

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Then I was in Georgia, Georgia.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
You should know this one.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
There's not usually no, Usually usually big cities.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Are not Atlanta.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, but but mostly most of the time, big cities,
the biggest city in that state is not the capital.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
In this case, it is right right, all right? So
we got Georgia, had.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Do you know what that one is? Not Harrisburg, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
No, it's harris Harrisburg. And now we have you said
you lived in Florida, Florida.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
I want to say Orlando, but I don't think it's
it's not.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
It starts with a T and it's my.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Tallahassee, all right. And now we're in Wisconsin and the
capital of Wisconsin is no idea. It's okay, It's okay,
is it Madison? Yes, lived here before, the People's Republic
of Medicine. It's the Republic of Boulder.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's but it's something that I've not done this before.
I've not shown my geography slash capital skills.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
I did here right here.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I revealed that at West Bend, Harley Davidson, idiots svant
any stay. You can lay on me and I know
the capitol. But we don't waste time with that. We
want to get right.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
To it, to the good ship.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
We want to get to the idiot. So no, oh,
I said idiots? Did I say idiot? You know I'm
a savand not an idiot. Sand So I already introduced
Adam and he's the GM here. John, tell us your
your title and what you got going And I'm sure
you're crazy busy right now.

Speaker 8 (12:26):
We have a fair bit going on right now. Yes,
but John, yes, John green boy. We kind of rotate titles. Partner,
managing partner, dealer operator, dealer.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
Operator, some one of the co owners.

Speaker 8 (12:41):
There's a group of three of us that that own
these two stores.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I got here that Adam told me you were not
only a dealer operator, but a smooth operator that too.
I don't know what that means, really, I don't really
know what that means.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
I can't go on record with that.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So you so you wear you wear a lot of
different hats in this in this industry kind of right
you're running around balancing things, juggling things, trying to make
things work.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
We've got you know, it's a it's a you know,
taking on one store is a task enough. Taking on
two stores at the same time is not double the work,
maybe three times the work.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Yeah, and then you pack that in.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
You know, this is our fourth day open and we
have a small rally going on. So it's been I
got to give huge props to the staff at both
of the stores because it's been a whirlwind for them
and they've been they've stepped up, they're willing, they're hustling,
and it's exciting.

Speaker 7 (13:37):
You know. You get in it is you get in
these grooves where you work.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
I don't know how many days in a row trying
to do this, and then that's just your mindset for
a while. So I think we're kind of just running on,
you know, adrenaline.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
But you still make it happen.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
It's not like a I find when I see people
that work in dealerships and are either in management capacity
or just sell and something outside or whatever. Everybody steps
up and everybody.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Really likes it.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
It's not a drag, you know what I mean, Like
like some jobs are a drag, and when you have this,
this is an exciting time. It's fun. Everybody's coming in,
There's there's a lot of traffic coming and going, but it's.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
I love it. I absolutely love it.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I wanted to ask you about your your knowledge or
your role in the digital world because we just started
talking about that before you failed on one of the
state capitols.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's right, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
What how do you I know you didn't get that.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Give me that option.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
When when you when someone younger, you're forty four years old.
I understand when someone younger, like I said, I'm a
baby boomer.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
There's people that you worked with.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I'm sure we're a little bit younger than you and
then much much older than you. Yes, So when you
tell them this is the new age, this is the
new world, this is what we can do. What sort
of things would without getting too technical and stuff, what's
things would be like something that you'd say, look at this,
do this, but break it down. If you can't, I know,
it's probably impossible, you.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Get I mean really no, it's very easy actually, but
very eat keep going. Yeah, it's very easy to explain
that side. You have two answers, either I get it
or I don't. And you got a lot of guys
that don't get it because they just choose not to

(15:27):
evolve their mindset in that direction. Right, Like you were
just saying with Skeezy, right, sorry, s he butchered my name,
I'm gonna butcher yours for a second.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
But anyway. They just don't want to evolve their mind
in that direction.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
And that's what I've what I've gathered over the last
few years.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
But you have to have that, you have to have
that gene.

Speaker 6 (15:55):
I don't know that you do, though, because I do
know some guys in the boomer age that are willing
to have that advanced thought and say, Okay, the future
is coming. Where do I want to be with my
dealership and how am I going to make money in
an age where people aren't walking.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Through the door And instead of staying in a comfort
zone where I just I'm good here, I can crack
the mic and I can enjoy entertain people, but I
don't want to learn a B and C. I just YAKA, you're.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
Kind of complacent in that sense, right, And that's what
a lot of these dealerships have done. But they're also
treading water on making money. They're not making the money
that's out there that they could really be making. It's
not a day and age where people are just walking
through the door anymore.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Willy nilly.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
Everyone's going to research the bike first. Because we have
that ability in the palm of our hands. People come
in more knowledgeable, but also in my buying journey, when
I buy something online, I'm doing it multiple places around
where I want to be and say, Okay, these are
the areas that I'll go to first person that's going
to come back to me, I'm going to probably talk to.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
First and easily explained because it's true. That is totally true.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Unless unless you have deep pockets and you don't really care.
But the average person correct shops around right, Absolutely, that's
what it is. Definitely, John, What do you what are
the biggest I would say the biggest hurdles or.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Whatever whatever I would whatever word I.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Don't want to say. I don't want to say problems
or whatever. But what are the biggest hurdles in the
Harley world today that we need to overcome, we need
to get And my one of my favorite things is
I just saw this here at wes Ben Harley Davidson.
We were setting up the podcast equipment and I saw
like a twenty seven to thirty year old walk in.

(17:46):
That is the best thing to see young people taking
the torch from us and being interested in this Harley world.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
And I saw a guy come in.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
He was talking to one of the sales guys and
I'm trying to listen, but I don't want to get
too close. And I'm thinking, this is a young guy
that wants to Hireley. He wants to talk. He's now
now that the rally is here, the rally is upon us.
He might have thought, I'm just gonna comand I'm going
to check it out. I don't know exactly what's going on.
I know my bike that I want is twenty six thousands,
whatever his numbers are, but that when I see that,

(18:18):
that is like, yeah, yeah, get these young guys in here. So, John,
what do you think the biggest hurdles are to overcome
to keep this alive, to keep this going.

Speaker 8 (18:28):
Well, I think the the demographic change that you're talking
about right there. You know, we've we've the baby boomers
have fueled Harley's success and growth for a long time.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
And father time doesn't rest so aging out a bit.
You know, the having the three wheeled.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
Motorcycles out there, tryglides and freewheelers, that helps a lot,
keeps them in the sport longer. But you know, we've
got to have I think, the right messaging. We've got
to have the right product. It's got to have the
right look it's got to have the right price point, right,
you know, the attainability message that comes with it. And
I think one of the biggest keys for any dealer

(19:09):
is if.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
All we do is sell a motorcycle, we've failed. Right.

Speaker 8 (19:15):
We've got to create reasons for people to be on
these bikes.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
Right.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
They buy the bike because they want the experience of it.
They just don't want to look at it in the garage, right.
So we need events. We need things like this to
bring allow people to convene and enjoy the community side
and the camaraderie side of what Harley really is.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
It's that's a huge, a huge thing. So the event.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
Side, the ride side, and some of that has to
be tailored to a bit younger demographic, right. And you know,
you think about you still go into a lot of
dealerships and they kind of look the same, they feel
the same, they're still playing the same you know, classic
rock that they played ten years ago, twenty years ago,
thirty years ago, all that stuff, and that doesn't speak
to the younger. The younger compon it just yet. So

(20:01):
as dealers, we need to do that. I think all
dealers would would implore the motor company to continue to
market to that demographic and try to intrigue them about
the brand and the history and what the lifestyle can
be and that it's not just the baby boomers that
it used to be, right, that there's a cool component

(20:23):
that's kind of hip.

Speaker 7 (20:24):
Been young again, and.

Speaker 8 (20:27):
You know it, we kind of joke about it for
a number of years. The younger people come in, they
don't want the bike that their dad has today. They
want the bike that their dad started on thirty years ago, right,
So they're stripping these bikes down and kind of making
them these rat bikes.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
Is that's what it used to look like.

Speaker 8 (20:46):
They're trying to bring that old retro thing back with
how they're dressing and so forth. And then it shifted
and they're taking the big baggers, right, and they're extending
the bags and they're slamming them a little bit in
the back, and they're putting the big front top on them.
So it's created its own little little culture. So I
think we just have to be aware of that and
support it at every turn that we can.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, And I think as much as people kick and
scream and want to hold on to their youth and
and you know of days gone, by You have to
you have to realize that I think I'm not the
only one. I guarantee I'm not the only one that
when they see young people interested in the Harley lifestyle,
the world, the bikes, you smile.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
You just go, fuck.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, that's get these guys in. Tell your buddy, tell
your cousin, tell your brother.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
And everyone's not going to glom onto it, but there's
certainly people who will if you give them the if
you show them the light, to show them.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
The ammunition, they're gonna shoot.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
You know.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
It's it's it goes a lot after how how did
everyone get started at riding? You know, like you either
saw your friends riding or your family road, someone.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Rode and that's what my cousin, My cousin was mine. Yeah,
so some are as a youngster, that's what got me.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, absolutely, it's a bit.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
I think we're seeing a bit of the kind of
the passing of the torch, if you will, not among
the not only the riders that we're talking about, but
the dealer body. Right, you know you've got I've I've
been doing this from a from a ownership side since
two thousand and five. And in the industry for you know,
probably since the late nineties. Our business partner in this

(22:27):
has been a dealer since nineteen eighty seven. And so
I've known some of these dealers for a long time.
And some of them are starting to transition generationally to
different members of their families.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
Some of them are kind of retiring.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
But some of the guys that I came up with
that were general managers that are now gotten equity in
the stores and partners. You know, they're coming in and there,
you know, late thirties forties, that kind of thing, and
they're bringing a little different spin and take and enthusiasm
on the business. And I think those two together, I
think helps us continue to propel.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Well of the next generation of the brain definitely. And
what's next is the twenty six year old.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Yeah, after that, then there's going to be another influx
of youngster young people, not youngsters, but and then that
is going to be the next thing and the next thing,
and you're going to see the involvement the evolution of
not just bikes and little things on bikes and the
paint jobs and how they sit and whatever, and the
accessories that you can put on. But then I think

(23:27):
the events. I think the the right the stuff that's
going on, and people that say, oh, I'm twenty six,
I met someone who's thirty one. There's those two guys
are both twenty seven, and then they glom onto that
younger group and they go out riding. Maybe they do
unorganized stuff for a while before they get into the organized.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Part of it. And I think that's all that all
goes hand in hand right as you see it does.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Because the last handful of years, at least, probably since
the hundredth the Baby Boomers. For the one hundredth anniversary,
the Baby Boomers were still very vibrant, very still young,
maybe in their forty some of them, but still young.
But now then one hundred and fifthe hundred and tenth,
and every five years when they have the big reunion,
you see these guys getting older and you hear about

(24:14):
someone who passed away or someone and you're like, man,
And then when you see young people come in, you're like,
as much as my kids bother me, and they're punks
and they're young. You have to you have to just say, yeah,
get into this, come on, hang out with us.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
We'll tell you stories.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
You can tell us stuff we can share this stuff.
That's that's really how it has to be.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
It's interesting the you know Scott our partner in this,
Scott Fisher.

Speaker 7 (24:42):
You know, his dad was.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
Worked as a little side gig as part of race crew,
right like stock car racing and dirt track racing and
stuff like that. And so that's kind of how Scott
got into the mechanical side, you know, go carts and
dirt bikes and some of that stuff.

Speaker 7 (24:58):
But you know, he's like back, you know, Scott's old.
Scott sixty five.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
He's my age. I thought he looks younger sixty.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
He's a Florida guy though, right, so he he has
a better look than I do, not his weathered he
doesn't have.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
The pale Wisconsin look. No, I honestly thought he was younger.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
Now he's uh yeah, because he's he's seven years older
than I am.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Yes, so he'll be sixty five this year.

Speaker 8 (25:26):
Anyway, Uh, he said, you know when he was growing up,
on the weekends or in the evenings, you know, you'd
go to your your best buddy's house and you'd hang
out in the garage yep, you know, and dad was
working on his bike or dad was working on his car,
you started tinking around with the lawnmower engine that was
going to become a little go cart.

Speaker 9 (25:44):
And that we don't really have that in the youth,
you know, eight well, in the mainstream, in the mainstream universally, no, no,
but there's still pockets of that stuff out here, especially,
I would venture to say in this area, West Bend, Schlinger, Jackson, Hartford,
this this.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Northern area, I think you have more of it definitely
than city kids.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
Sure, I would believe that.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
That's what I would say as well.

Speaker 8 (26:10):
Yeah, and some of it is just you know what,
you know, when I was growing up, it's like we
had two rules. It was light you're outside, it was
dark you're inside, you know, and if you had a
hose and some dirt, you had enough to make a
good time.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Had a great time.

Speaker 8 (26:21):
And it's you know, those things just change and begin.
For manufacturers and all manufacturers, not just hardly specific and
dealers that represent all these different brands, we've got to
continue to be aware of how do we connect with
that younger that younger generation. And we can do it
a bit at the store level. It's also the messaging

(26:42):
from from the from the manufacturers, right.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
I believe their job.

Speaker 8 (26:47):
Other than making great product is drive interest in the sport, right,
and try to drive interest in the brand, and then
let the dealers work on how do we create great
experiences at.

Speaker 7 (26:57):
The store level.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
No doubt that that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
And that's something that is always going to be a
little bit of a mystery, and I think it's a
trial and error thing sometimes.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
But I definitely think.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
That there's people that are there that want to be
in this, that have the curiosity, that have the wrenching
skills to mess around with their own stuff and change
stuff out on their own bikes and do whatever.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
But you got to find them. You got to want
them to be.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Part of this, and that's what the boomers, I think,
my opinion, the boomers were fighting that for a while, saying,
these young punkside away, and sooner or later you have
to go open your arms and go come here, Come here, buddy,
Come on, buddy, help me do this, Help me change
my saddle bag, something simple as that, and then you
get him interested. Maybe all three of my sons, when

(27:46):
they were very little, I took them on bike rides,
and I did it when their mom wasn't home, and
I did it through the Milwaukee alleys. No, but it
just was to get them on the bike and to
have fun and put a helmet on them and to
you know. And they loved it. And once Mom found
out that I was doing that, she was livid. Sure,
and I said, honey, you know it's through the alleys.

(28:07):
There's no cars. I look and there's not a car
in sight before I go the south side of Milwaukee.
Go through the alley, through the alley, come back, talk
about stuff.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Rev up the motor a little bit. Have the kids
feel that?

Speaker 2 (28:19):
And I know that's not twenty something, but that's seven
eight six seven eight nine year old seat. But you're, yeah,
you're getting them interested in something that's fun, that's different,
that's loud, that's exciting. Is it a little bit naughty
at times? You know, all of that stuff is intriguing.

Speaker 8 (28:36):
I think that's the piece too, is the you know,
three percent of the population ride motorcycles.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Is that it?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
That's out of guests close to ten? Is it really
three percent? It's three out of one.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
Hundred, and it's been three since I started, And so
you think half of that in you know, in the
in the in touring section and things like that.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
Half of that's hardly so it's a small percentage.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
So we've got some upside if you look at the
overall marketplace. But to your point, that bad boy image, right,
I think we have to keep that right because as
as I.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Think in a way, I think there has to be
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Of that a lure because even the general public looks.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Of that and they're a little bit they're a little
bit scared, they're a little bit intrigued. And I think
that mystique about it, we could play a little bit
more as we're talking about how do we get the
youth coming in there and say something few people that
do this. Do you want to be truly unique? How
about a motorcycle and really really unique? How about Harley?

(29:37):
And I want to be unique?

Speaker 4 (29:39):
And I think I do.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I do think that I believe that, and I think
that the bad boy image isn't it's nothing to do
with criminality, it's nothing to do with anything. All it
is is it's a there's a cool factor, honestly, and
I'll say it because you know, you guys probably don't
want to there's definitely a cool factor of being a
Harley Ryder and a Harley Davison owner and never and
that is I know people won't say it because if

(30:04):
you say that you're a dork, that would be like
going to an Aerosmith concert wearing an Aerosmith T shirt.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
I'll wear that Aerosmith because I'm old enough now where
I'm you know, my time is coming to an end
and hopefully I have ten more good years, but who knows.
But just to have that mystique in that that cool factor,
it's out there and it's ready for you.

Speaker 8 (30:24):
It is, it is probably you'd probably buy a new
Aerosmith at the concert.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
Hey, don't go that far, John, because that's what we want.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Paul want to fight me.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
No, No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
But that's that's that's the thing like where there's there's
different opinions, and there's different you know, factors of it.
But the cool factor, there's definitely not a cooler factor
than being a Highley owner.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
And and everybody isn't the same.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Everybody doesn't want to ride with with you know, an
organized group or a club or whatever.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
But you don't have to. I never did. You don't
have to. But it's it's it's a cool it's it's
a great, great, great life.

Speaker 7 (31:03):
It is a great one.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
In the summer years here, there's not enough riding season,
sure we all know that, but there's still you got
six months. You can ride when it's forty five and
you'll be cold. And at the end of the year
you can ride when it's forty or forty five. But
when summer hits, it's Harley Davison's season.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
There.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
You gotta be out there, and then you got the
winter and the snowmobiling and so forth. Right, let's just
if people like Harley's, they probably like motorized just about anything. Right,
give me, give me a vote, give me a side
by side, give me a snowmobile.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
And I'll go have fun on any of that. Yes,
we just if we can keep them.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Something in your blood, yeah, something in your blood that
keeps it going, gets you out there, which is motorsports
in general.

Speaker 7 (31:42):
Totally agree, definitely agree with.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Let's talk about some of the stuff coming up.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Cool, I got we got Thursday today. This is a
kickoff of the Milwaukee Rally. And you guys open at
ten in the morning every day, right, yes, every day
of the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, we're open Sunday, not for selling.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Johnny t Bird is playing right now outside.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I believe you started at three here for three to
five thirty and then Jesse and the Rippers. It's just
a great lineup. This is a really good music lineup.
I've seen all of these bands except for one. I
told though Adam earlier and Jesse and the Rippers are
playing from six to nine. In between everything.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
You have demo TROTHU so you can.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
People can come here and they show their license and
whatever documentation you need and they can take these bikes
for a ride.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Oh yeah, they can ride, every single one of them.
Take them all out. We've got a marked tour path basically.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
A route if you will. Yeah, go around some of
the lake that's over there. I don't know what the
name of the lake is, but it's a nice little ride.

Speaker 8 (32:46):
And yeah, you can all brand new twenty motorcycle.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Get the wind in your hair. If you're bald, guy,
get it on your skin.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Get it on my skin. I'm a skin rider.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Brot them too. Don't worry.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
Hats covered a great for this sunscreen market, by the way.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, we are you're not old enough to have sun
damage yet.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
No, I've used sunscreen and I have orange hats, and
sometimes you just don't and you get caught up or something.
I don't plan and staying out all day, all day,
from ten am until dark till the sundown, and I.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Ended up getting some sun damage. You can see some
of my wife. Now, don't forget to put some sunscreen on.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Put some Now, I've been using castor oil. Oh yeah,
talk about baby boomer terms. Wow, I'm using cast I
swear to god. She looked it up and she's like,
this might be good for you. It might take away
some of.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Your liver spots.

Speaker 5 (33:43):
Topic.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
No, no, you can't. You can consume it.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
But I got the non consumable that you just put
on your skin and it does something more than sunscreen.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
Now, I'm embarrassed to say this.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
John Green across from me, when I said castor oil
and I said some of these terms, I saw him going.
I could read his mind going, oh shit, I'm with
Jed Clampet over here.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
How old are you? How old are you? Minched seventy nine?
What did you say?

Speaker 3 (34:12):
But I was just trying to think of drinking that stuff, right,
I was trying to figure.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Out you can't. You can consume it. It does something
for your insights. I don't think I need that yet,
but we don't know.

Speaker 10 (34:22):
So.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
So the sun gets you, the sun gets you. Do
you wear a hat with the clips on? Or do
you turn your hat around when you ride? Depends because
steez Ol lost a hat. He actually lost one of
his hats on a recent ride.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Steez old, Right, I'm still not wearing the clips. Now.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
You don't like the clips underneath hair? They go on
and they go under your gin.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
I get I'm not passing judgment, but I'm not. It's
not it's not for me.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
I like, I kind of like that look. But again, I'm.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Seventy years old to talk to you guys about all
those hats. It's a good lid.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
So he lost, Yeah, he lost the hat just recently
in the last two three weeks.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I did, How did you?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
How did you not find it? You told me you
went back to look and it disappeared.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
No, I didn't go back.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
You didn't go there.

Speaker 7 (35:07):
Yeah, it's just you just let it call.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
You're on a highway and you said time.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
By a new hat?

Speaker 7 (35:11):
Yeah, marketing material, right, And.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Then let's go through the rest of the lineup here.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, so Saturday off Nope, Friday, Friday, July eleventh, at
ten am, the dealership opens live music by the Grim
Brothers from eleven to two on Friday, and then Landline
from two thirty to five thirty Party Animals from six
to nine. So that is Friday, July eleventh lineup.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
You can say tomorrow if you want, or tomorrow it is.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
This is you know, these weekends they're so they're so short,
but they're so long, correct, Like by the time it's Saturday.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
Going into Sunday on Lake, it's next Yeah, is it
next week already?

Speaker 4 (35:51):
Or but then you don't want it to be over?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Of course, you just don't want to be over, But
sadly it comes to an end. That's why I take
advantage of these dealerships and the events and the music
and the vendors that are here. Go look around and
see if you're in the market for a new bike
or a used bike. You guys got some stuff on
your floor here.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
We've got some great stuff on the floor. And just
to add to that, we do have some great specials
going on right now, just with financing through hdfs and
you know, just little things that we can help make
that buying journey better for you.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
And you can make it happen some people that believe
it's not possible, or they're you know, they're in a
bike and they still owe nine grand on a bike,
but they want to do some kind of upgrading whatever
that is or downsizing.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
It can happen.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It can still happen here, and you can make it
advantageous to the rider, to the buyer. I believe that,
and that's that's what has to be done. That's why
you guys have to do this as as dealership owners.
Let's go to Saturday, July twelfth, so that's not tomorrow,
but the next day, John, Thank you, store opens at

(36:56):
ten am.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
We got saved by the band and that's from what
is that?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
From eleven to two and then Bruce Humphreys and the
Rockabilly Rebels.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Have you ever seen this band?

Speaker 7 (37:08):
Have either?

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Have you ever seen this band?

Speaker 7 (37:10):
But I am a rockabilly fan.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Oh my god, you have to see these guys. They're
friends of mine, They're really good friends of mine. I'm
gonna have to take a ride out here on Saturday too,
because Bruce is great. The band itself is just one
of those bands that they get you like.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
You walk in and you hear it and you go,
is it rockabilly? Is that country?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
I don't know what that is, but you see him
having a ball on stage, having an absolute ball.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Those guys are great.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
And that is two thirty to five thirty on Saturday,
and then Bad Medicine takes the stage from six to
nine on Saturday. I've seen them guys too. That's a
bon Jovi ish type tribute band. Great, great band. So
that line up there, you guys, that's a good job.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
So we love that.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Also Saturday, we do have stunt Riders out there as
well at a few times throughout the day, So between
from one thirty three thirty pm and then five thirty
pm we have stunt Riders, which are the street cowboys
stunt show. One of the guys that are in that
stunt show actually worked here.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Back in the day. He was a parts yeah, he
one of the cowboys. He was a parts guy.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
He got daring, he got daring somehow he just wanted
to be a cowboy.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I somehow from from working here and doing what was
her wrench what he.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Was parts department. I believe he.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Either got knowledge on parts and he started wrenching his
own bike. But now he's a damn cowboy. He's a
stunt rider. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
You see him stand on those bike pop welives and
can ride.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
This d They can go as slow as you can, take.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Baby steps and keep that bike right. That's something I
can't do anymore.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
A good skill. You don't do the slow ride I
contests anymore.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
I used to be able to do it fairly effectively
and people go, oh, that's pretty neat, and now I
can't do it.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Equilibrium age whatever.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
You were referencing. Keeping it up is what you can't do.

Speaker 10 (39:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Besides, besides, the sponsorship today for the podcast is west
Ben Harley Davison.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
It's also Pineapple Juice.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah. See, you know, my wife.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Sent me along two of these today, So I don't
know what's going to happen later, but I'm.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Hopeful they better have some oysters for dinner.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I got my fingers crossed by to go. Let's talk
about a couple of the vendors here.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
Yeah, I think it's really cool. You know, we've got
our hog chapter out here, which is great. Those guys
are awesome serving up food and beer for you guys.
Any anything you want there, they're back there making it
a good time. We've got a cigar roller out there
as well, so if you want a cigar, she's out
there rolling smokes, which is great.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
That smoke's on Maine's main.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yes, I worked with her at a number of events
and she's great.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
She is.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
They have.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
They have a buffalo trace dipped stogie out there.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I've never tried it, but I sniffed it and man,
it's good.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Are they rolling it or is it from It's diesel
makes that star. It's a really good scar. You should
try one.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
I might have to buy one of those suckers do
it so that smoke's on me.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
And that's here. Yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (40:18):
Here ye Christian most motorcycle group. They're always great to
have around, really nice people. And then just you know
usual stuff. We've got jewelry people. We've got the demo
truck here all throughout the whole event.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Like we said, if you have a.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
Patch too, so lis patches you.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
A lot of people buy patches and they collect them
and then they end up sitting in a drawer where
or in your man cave, or on your work bench
and your garage, and you go, I never got this
put on. I want to get this, bring it here
because you'll sew it on for you for like four bucks.

Speaker 6 (40:48):
Yeah, we've got the she goes by the patch lady.
That's what she likes to be referenced, that Pactually, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
But that's that's something that people just just do it.
You have you have alether vest, right, most people do.
Most riders, not all, but most put those patches on
and got him start. You collected him for a reason.
Put them on your body. Put him on your vest.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
It's like buying a motorcycle. I'm not riding it right.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
It's close, it's close.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
It's close to that up and Abraham's out here as well.
Did you guys know? Well, I'll do another thing. I'm
a pretty good capital guy, so geography in the United
States mostly. And I'm a pretty good age guy, so
old celebrities.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
I'm pretty good. I think I'll get this one.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
If Steezo can guess this one, Adam goes first.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
How old is William Shatner? Just guess? I know you're young.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Eight eighty five, John Green ninety two. He is, I
believe ninety four years old. Am I supposed to look
this up?

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Yes, you're the producer of the damn Show.

Speaker 7 (41:49):
If this was a price is right, I'd be winning right.

Speaker 3 (41:51):
Now, you would be I should should?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I think he's exactly ninety four. I believe I'm right
on this one. There's everyone has a gill.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Right. You guys do what you do. I do what
I do.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
You know capitals and ages?

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I know ages of old celebrities because I'm a baby boomer.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
How old is William Shatner?

Speaker 3 (42:10):
You have to give me a minute. I'm working with
four g speeds out here.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Oh okay, well just let's keep that on the back
years old. I hit it right on a winter.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I might I might be able not to ride as
well and as fast.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
And as slow as I used to. But I can
get those ages.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
And get those ages.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Got the capital done? What is the demo truck? Is
is the thing that has all the bikes? Right?

Speaker 7 (42:37):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (42:37):
And then they they do they keep them out for
the whole whole rally. They put them whole rally.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
Yeah, not Sunday, not Sunday, Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
And Thursday Friday Saturday. You can ride any one of
those bikes. Those are all twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Five, and you get a cool commemorative coin with Willy
G on it and everything.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
So it's really nice. Good.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Yeah, we can guess Willy G's age.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Oh, if you'd like, I'm not going for okay, John,
you want to go first?

Speaker 7 (43:07):
Willie G.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Davidson, I think I'm gonna go.

Speaker 7 (43:11):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
He was just in town. He actually was at a
wedding a buddy of mine, Paul Martin. He's in a
band called Paul Martin and the Lost Souls. He played
at Willie G's party. It was a family wedding. And
this is a month or less ago for real.

Speaker 7 (43:26):
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
How old do you think Willy G is?

Speaker 7 (43:27):
By god? Eighty nine?

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I wasn't even gonna say that. I was gonna say eighty.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Seven, all right, Willie G is in fact ninety two
years old.

Speaker 11 (43:37):
I was gonna go ninety, but I thought I was
going to get in a rut, and he might. If
he's ninety one, then am I over? And you take
the cake on this one. But I believe he is
in fact ninety and maybe older. Ninety two or older.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
But he just think of that guy, think of his life,
the story, Think.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Of that he is ninety two years old.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Did I hit it on the knots oh son of
a gun?

Speaker 7 (44:01):
You know what? I think he's asked you this question.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
I literally fucking googled these things before.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
If you hung out with me, Adam, I'd like to
hang out with you for a day, absolutely, and if
you and if you would hang with me by the
end of the day, you'd be.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
Going Mitch is pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
This is pretty dope.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Mitch is pretty dope. You would say dope older people.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
So cool, cool, I've been transitioned.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Let's let's transition the show right now.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Let's get some of the gals on good John, It's
great to see you. Are you gonna be at Are
you gonna be at Milwaukee Harley tomorrow?

Speaker 7 (44:33):
Yeah, we're doing that like ten thirty.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Okay, because we're doing the podcast tomorrow from Milwaukee, Harley
Davison at ten thirty.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
We're cracking the mics at ten thirty. I apologize for
being a couple minutes later. I didn't know we were live today.
I thought they were just recording one. But I will
not punctual for ten thirty.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
So yeah, please join us, Sarah, because we have to
talk about the dealerships are connected, but they're also different
absolute ones in Milwaukee, ones in West Penn.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
So please, it was great meet me. I will see
you tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (44:58):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
I preciate Mabe Scott Fisher can join the program.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
I just have to see he's coming in tomorrow. I
have to check with my have on.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Even if it's for five minutes. I would love to
speak with him.

Speaker 7 (45:07):
He'd love to do it. He's so just see.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
If that can happen.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
So we're gonna get the gals on and we have
in the lurking in the wakes. We have Tina cunning
We have Tina Cunningham and Matty Miller. Tina, she's in
motor clothes and the service manager is Matty Miller. You
guys great, Adam, great to meet your brother. Come on in, girls,

(45:31):
come on, come on, we're gonna have fun. This is
gonna be fun. Don't be afraid.

Speaker 12 (45:40):
Radio.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Come on, come on now, get those guys out of here.
They're gonna mess with you. So Stezo is gonna set
you guys up with the microphones and you have to
move in because you have to stay very close to
the microphone. No, you're You're good. You have to stay
within within within a few inches. You can't stay that
far back.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Please want okay? And I don't want to tell you
what to do.

Speaker 12 (46:04):
You can tell me what to do, but I would
like to give you. Don't even sit twenty years of.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
What to do with us? We have next to me.
We have Tina Cunningham.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yep, she's in motor clothes and has been for twenty
eight years.

Speaker 12 (46:16):
Twenty nine, twenty nine, twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Is it when when haha, you were wrong? Do you
have okay? I missed I missed one by a year.

Speaker 12 (46:24):
You missed a whole year?

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Well was it just your twenty ninth anniversary? Or yes?

Speaker 12 (46:28):
Was on May fourth?

Speaker 4 (46:30):
So a couple months ago? All right?

Speaker 2 (46:33):
How did you get into this? How did you just
think of twenty eight years ago?

Speaker 7 (46:38):
Right?

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Tina Cunningham twenty eight years younger? You got into this game?
What what touri in? And why did you stay?

Speaker 13 (46:46):
My husband and one of his buddies used to sit
down at the Vanbeak cycle was where I started and
I was a stay at home mom, started working with
two babies that were dough they started school and didn't
need me and mister Drick and gave me a chance
and said do you want the job?

Speaker 12 (47:01):
And I took it.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
And you've been at this dealership the entire time, the
entire West Bend Harley Davison. Did you guys know this,
and Maddie will get to you in a minute. Definitely,
But I did not know this until I pulled up.
I didn't have an idea.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
Of the year.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
But this dealership opened in nineteen forty six.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Just think of right after World War two. Think of that.
Think of how this was not built up.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
There was farmhouses and it was very sparsely populated out
in this area.

Speaker 13 (47:32):
We were actually downtown Westbond, but you were still in
West Bend.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yes, we were, so there's a downtown strip, but still
it was just after World War two and the guys
are all coming home from the war, right, and somebody
decides to open a dealership in a very rural part
of Wisconsin. That's to me, that is amazing. Normally I
would think it would be in very higher populated areas.

Speaker 13 (47:54):
No, and if IRV van Beek, who started it, would
be around to tell you he has a lot of
stories to tell, but he has passed away.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
But just think of that.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Just think of West Bend having a dealership in nineteen
forty six, crazy, eighty one years ago. Yep, that is
insane to me. Anyway, So you you started this twenty
eight years ago.

Speaker 13 (48:14):
I started as a cleaner for Jim. I used to
go in and clean the store after hours, and then
they offered me the job and.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
I never left as as a cleaning younger person. Twenty
eight years younger, ok twenty nine, twenty nine years.

Speaker 12 (48:28):
We'll say thirty four.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Twenty nine years Okay, but twenty nine years ago, yep,
you started this and you came in and swept and
mopped and straightened things up. Did you ever sit on
a bike when no one was here and just like, no,
come on, Nope. You never once Scott on a bike.

Speaker 7 (48:44):
Nope.

Speaker 13 (48:45):
Once we came in here, my old boss had me
sit on one and maybe start to jump start with it.

Speaker 12 (48:51):
I don't know how to ride.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Okay, that's that's that's okay, that's it. You're you're part
of the fan. It doesn't matter what you do, matter,
you're you're part of the family. But I would think
if I was here after hours. I would think that
I would sit on every stinking bike in here. No,
because of yeah, are you are you gonna take off?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna run refresh my beer.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
You are you're gonna have one? Can you grab me
a beer? Uh?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
No? But they got white claw?

Speaker 4 (49:21):
He no, No, I enjoy get the man of beer.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
He's not allowed to drink. He doesn't drink beer. He
drinks white claw.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
I drink. I drink.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
I don't drink a lot of beer because I'm just
my body changed over the years and something. So I
drink the Seltzer drinks. And all these guys make fun
of me. Tina, you want to get me a shack.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Go ahead.

Speaker 12 (49:41):
They may have Seltzer out there.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
Already.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Look you're getting a black cherry white claw.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
I'll be right back, Okay, Maddie, Maddie, you're maddie're younger, Gale.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
If you see a guy like me and you.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
See that I order a white claw a Seltzer drink,
what's your first reaction?

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Be honest, I can take it.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
Honestly, I'm pretty used to it now. I bartend too,
so I see all kinds of things like that. So
that's normal to me.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
It's not years ago. Like I tried visy.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
I tried when I was kind of getting out of
the beer scene, and I just I don't know why
fills me up. It's just not I can't drink ten
beers anymore, so I enjoy a Seltzer drink.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
And I had a visy.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Somebody took a picture of me holding a busy and
it never it never went away. People just still make
fun of me. And that's just the way that I
don't care anymore. But at first I did. At first,
I sort of did.

Speaker 12 (50:39):
I wouldn't let it bother you.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Okay, Well he was, I know, he was trying to
bust my balls.

Speaker 12 (50:43):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
We also have a cross from me the service manager
Matty Miller. Maddie tell us about your journey. You're not
that old, Nope.

Speaker 10 (50:54):
So I started in car dealerships when I was fifteen
as a receptionist, and then when I go graduated high school,
I switched over to service writing.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Did you get work a credits school credits for working
as a fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old, Yes, because I did.
When I was I think a junior in high school.
I got to leave half day, and then I got
credits for working, didn't I started at Kohl's as a
bag boy when I was fifteen or sixteen as a bagger.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
But you were fifteen. We were fourteen or fifteen when
you started.

Speaker 10 (51:26):
Yep, I was fifteen when I started.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
How did they give you a fifteen year old? How
did they get that break?

Speaker 10 (51:33):
How did you get I mean the local dealership in
Hartford is where I started, and they needed a nighttime receptionist,
so it worked out with my school schedule to go
there when we were done with school and stay there
until the dealership clubs.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
That is that's amazing, isn't it that somebody would have
I don't know the personality.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
I guess to work with all older people.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Right, you're obviously fifteen year old, so there's nobody younger
than you at the dealership, and you just you had
the guts to do it. You had the personality and
guts to do that. That is awesome. That's a that's
that's a rarity, I think, especially for young people nowadays.
And you've been doing it for how long? You started
at fifteen and you're now twenty, so you've been doing

(52:18):
it for seven years going on eight yep, Okay, what
what a what a great story that is just to
have just to do that and to have that as
a service manager.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
How did you get into that?

Speaker 2 (52:30):
After you did some of the clerical work and some
of the typing and bookkeeping, so to speak.

Speaker 10 (52:36):
So a lot of what I did as a receptionist
was checking out the service customers. So I figured it
would be best if I knew how to read the
repair orders and explain everything to them because they always
had questions.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
But you had you had the inquisitiveness to do that,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Like instead of just.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Staying where you are and figuring that out, you wanted
to grow. You wanted to be more knowledgeable about everything,
right about the bikes, the parts whatever. That's a that's
a that's a great I love it. I love the
fact that a twenty two year old, when you're going
to be twenty three February, so twenty you're ooh.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
A big boy, white claw.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Look at that, and I don't want to hear any
garbage from anybody.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
You're a big boy.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
I don't want to hear any garbage from anybody giving
me a wise guy comment.

Speaker 12 (53:31):
Let him drink his white claws.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
This is what I this is what I enjoy. It
makes me happy I'm doing it.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Yeah, you probably blowing hot cheetos before you eat them too.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
They're not hot temperature wise, they're hot spicy wise. Maddie tell,
I'm sorry, white claw got in the way, worries. There's
no laws with the white claws. When you got into
the service part of it, then you became a manager.

Speaker 10 (54:01):
So I started as a service writer, so I was
a service advisor for a couple of years. When I
graduated high school is when I switched over to doing
that full time. So I did that with my last
dealer group, So I was with them for about six years.
So I did service writing and then when I switched
over to Harley is when I became a service manager.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
In this in this dealership, West Bend, Harley Davison, you
became a manager at that young age.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
That's incredible. I think it is.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
I mean, I I don't I don't want to embarrass
you or make you feel funny, but that's a that's
a big accomplishment to take and and to be responsible
for things, you know, as a manager, that's a that's.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
I give you credit. I gave you all the credit
in the world.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
When you were in high school and the boys, boys
you went to school with, knew that you worked, you know,
for a dealership. It was that something that was a
plus or am my? Or did you find that boys
would go, oh, did you know Maddy Miller? She's it
on there because a lot of a lot of men,

(55:06):
a lot of boys didn't.

Speaker 12 (55:07):
Even couldn't do the job she does.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
Yes, yep, definitely, no doubt.

Speaker 12 (55:12):
Oh no, I didn't really.

Speaker 4 (55:13):
Have a lot of that.

Speaker 10 (55:14):
I mean, especially being just the receptionist at the time
in high school.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
It was Yeah, but it's still a cool I think
it's a cool job to have, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
Yeah, but I didn't get a lot of There's no
plus or minus on it.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
You just did it. How your parents, how do they
feel about you going into like an unknown area because
there's probably in their mind there might not be a
lot of room for advancement or you know what I mean.

Speaker 10 (55:44):
Uh, my dad was not excited.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Some days.

Speaker 10 (55:48):
I think he's still not.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Actually would you say that? Because he thinks there's too
many men around. There's too many guys around that are
going to bother his daughter.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
What's the reason?

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Well, I think it's more.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
He's just never been a fan of like the car
in the auto industry in general. He did a couple
of years as in a car dealership and he wasn't
a fan of it himself.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
So then so then he didn't want when I.

Speaker 10 (56:16):
Was in high school at fifteen saying hey, I'm gonna
go do this. He was not overly excited.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
He wasn't supportive because he didn't want you to have
a bad experience or just not not be happy.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Yeah, and you are happy. Yeah, for sure, you do it.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
What type of as a service manager? What is of
one or two or three of the biggest things that
you have to deal with, troubleshooting wise, where you have
to deal with in the whatever whatever that is. Look
at this, he brought me a beer. Well, no, no,
that's okay. I can't drink beer because I have a

(56:54):
spastic colon. No I just made that up. No, I
just got this one. I just got this one.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
But thank you. We're having him on next.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
That's the fella that's going to talk about the gun
and fifty to fifty gun Raffle and the fifty to
fifty Steve Steve, his name is Steve, that's all I know. Ye,
they call him bad Santa in some areas too. Is
that the guy is on my right on that.

Speaker 12 (57:21):
That is Santa?

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Yeah, that is the guy.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
So Maddie, what are what are a couple of things
that are are are common that you have to really
satisfy the customer with one or two of the most common.

Speaker 10 (57:34):
Well, I think our biggest thing is we're in an
area where you only get a couple months out of
the year, so everybody wants their bikes to be done
tomorrow and ready to go done yesterday, yesterday actually so yeah,
I mean it's we do fight just our.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
Location a lot.

Speaker 10 (57:56):
Obviously, you only get a couple months and you want
to get every day of riding in that you can,
which we totally understand. We want everybody to have that
ability as well, because I mean most of our guys.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
But you can over you can over promise either, right,
Like you have to be realistic. You want to take
every job you can and get it out yesterday, like
you said, but you can't correct.

Speaker 10 (58:18):
A lot of times we'll run into you know, part
availability or just waiting for the part two ship and
arrive from the manufacturer. Stuff like that, as well as
having other bikes and sometimes being scheduled out more than
a day or two just because we can only bring
so many in at one time. Yeah, so that's that's

(58:38):
a big thing. Is we're always racing the clock in
the summer because it is it is our performance time.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
What is an average work week for you? Just say now?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
And I know that this is ridiculous because I know
it fluctuates, but what is an average work week in
the riding season? So in the summer, your dealership is
open from blank to blank, but I'm sure your job
isn't done because you have to make calls. Do you
have to call customers, do you have to whatever.

Speaker 10 (59:09):
So usually I'm here, depending on the day, one to
two hours before we open, just to get kind of
everything ready for the day. One of my other text
is usually here fairly early with me as well, just
getting like staged, getting parts where they need to be
so that once we do start on jobs, we can
flow through them pretty easily, make sure we have all
the parts for that job so we don't get into

(59:29):
the middle of a teardown and realize.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
We don't have a part, so you are here before
the dealership opens almost daily yep, okay. And then as
a dealership the different hours, I know, Saturday is different hours,
and during the week and in the summer different hours
than in the winter time. But after work too, you
have to you probably have some things you got to
clean up and tie up.

Speaker 10 (59:51):
And yeah, usually we're here about fifteen to thirty minutes
after I will see the end of the day isn't
so bad for us. We're usually all kind of on
this same page. The last hour of our day usually
does quiet down fairly enough that we can get through
most of those things during hours.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
And then my last question for you is did you
have to hire security to keep the guys I work here.
I don't want you to hit on me. I don't
want you to flirt with me. I mean because guys,
you know guys, right, men, guys, they don't mean look
at that. I am jacked up. I can stay for
the band now, thank you. I was actually just kidding

(01:00:33):
about that. But that's something that your dad thinks about.
Trust me, as a father, your dad's probably likeugh, she's
a pretty young girl, and she's in this industry and
I'm sure that guys are coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:00:45):
I'll sniggle, Hey, how you doing.

Speaker 12 (01:00:49):
Maddy can handle it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
I was gonna say, my dad knows.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
He's just like, yep, good luck with her.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Yeah, because you have to write, you literally have to.
Are you want to be personal? But are you in
a relationship right now? Because you don't have to. But
the reason is is because then they know right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Now, don't come here and and flirt with Maddie. She's
got she's with a fellow.

Speaker 13 (01:01:15):
She's you know, when Maddie first started and I was
introduced to her, my first thing is they're gonna chew
her up and spit her back out. And I was
told you, Maddie can handle herself.

Speaker 12 (01:01:26):
She Maddie sure can handle herself. So don't mess with Maddie.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Yep, just don't mess with her. That's great to meet
both of you guys. Honestly, this dealership is great. I
think the area is great. Definitely. I love being a
little bit out of town, you know, because I'm a
Milwaukee guy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
When you get out here, it's just it's just different.
It's it's it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Feels better, it's freer, it's uh, the country, it's it's
it is the country. And even even though it's a
grown in population obviously since the dealership opened.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
It's it's great. This is a this is a great,
great community. West Bend is great.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
Eight.

Speaker 12 (01:02:00):
Well, we'll do well.

Speaker 13 (01:02:02):
We're going to do well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I and you guys have a turnover in ownership now.
So there's a lot of new stuff coming and I
wish you well.

Speaker 7 (01:02:10):
I really do.

Speaker 12 (01:02:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Good luck to everybody. And twenty eight years in the
clothing business. Is there anything you could do for me?
Look at me? Can you get a shirt that fits
me better? Can you find me something new?

Speaker 12 (01:02:21):
We'll sell your leather jacket too.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
I have to call my wife for that one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Okay, only because only because I when I get to
a certain spending limit. He's not married, he doesn't know.
But all guys know that there is there's a boss
in the relations.

Speaker 12 (01:02:36):
Just tide it in your closet, just like the women do.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Yeah, you're right about that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Well, I get more Amazon packages at home than I
can believe. But I want to start a problem and say, Debbie,
what's up with this? They would just let her have
just keep in your saddle bit. Oh wait, never mind,
they fall off. I broke one of my saddle bags off.
Adam's gonna possibly set me up with some saddle bags here.

Speaker 12 (01:02:57):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
I'm gonna look and see what they have to offer here.
Great meeting both of you. Great, great meeting both you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
Honestly, that's Tina Cunningham Motor Clothes and Matty Miller service manager,
twenty two year old service manager.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
That's a beautiful thing. All right, thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Can you take your headphones off and I'm gonna get
Bad Santa on right now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:19):
He's going to join us. He brought us a drink.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
You guys, Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Tina, You're great, you are great. Great to meet you.
Come on in here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
I'm gonna put them across from you, okay, across.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
We'll sit right across from me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
This fella's name is Steve. They call him Bad Santa.
Put the headphones on and swinging close to that mic.
You have to stay within about two or three inches
of that microphone.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
You'll hear yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Actually with this board, I can I turn your mics
up and down. This board is way more but way
more gooder.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Way more good.

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Test one two three. We're there, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Good to meet you, my brother, Thank you. I saw
you outside. Were you bartending and cooking?

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Cooking?

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
You were just cooking?

Speaker 7 (01:04:06):
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
Some of the other crew takes over on the bartending side.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
And first tell us about the Legion Riders.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
American Legion Writers.

Speaker 14 (01:04:14):
Our sole purpose is let's raise a lot of money
and let's give it all the way to veterans related
be it Camp, American Legion, be it Legion Softball, Legion Baseball,
Anything Disabled Legion Milwaukee Homeless Veterans Initiative, anything that's related

(01:04:35):
to veterans.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
We raise money.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
What at What a great mission that is?

Speaker 14 (01:04:39):
It's Christmas every day. You're always giving, and that's a
good thing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
When did you join the American Legion Writers.

Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
Just guess I'm going to say seven or eight years ago?

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
All right, eight years ish, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Very fulfilling, I'm sure, right, very satisfying, very fulfilling. Yes,
people call you bad Shanah around here. I'm not sure
if you're aware of that or not.

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
Well I am.

Speaker 14 (01:05:00):
I'm Santa Claus here at Christmas. Yes, And my wife
plays missus Klass. She works in motorclothes with Tina Cuneham.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
That's your wife, Tina.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
No, No, my wife is Patty.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
Okay, I didn't. I didn't know Patty.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
He said works with works with your good.

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
Ear, oh works with yes, not for thank.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
You, works for works with I just heard Tina Cunningham
and I thought I didn't know. I thought you said
that was your wife. I'm being distracted. Now there's people
rolling in the dealership. That's good, and it's real good.
But I'm just watching the families come in and then
just the different riders that are walking to vendors around
the dealership. The stage is set up right right by

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the beer tent, right where you're cooking and serving beers,
and they are rocking. They're rocking. Johnny Tebird is playing
right now. Johnny Teabird is playing till five point thirty,
and then later tonight Jesse and the Rippers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Great band, great, great fun party band.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
So tell us about what the Legion American Legion Riders
have here besides sir, being the cooking the food and
serving the beers and stuff, what do you guys have
going for your fundraiser?

Speaker 14 (01:06:06):
Well, if I can quick interject, it's not the lead.
A lot of us are Legion Riders, but we're involved
in West ben Harley Davidson's Hog chapter. So when people
come to the American Legion booth and buy a ticket
to one of our two raffles, you know you're supporting veterans,
why not support yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:06:25):
Have a beer, have a brought, have a burger.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Have you Yeah, no, that's that's makes sense.

Speaker 14 (01:06:32):
But we have we have tickets for first our fifty
to fifty cash raffle, and the drawing for the cash
raffle will be this Sunday at one thirty. That's July
the thirteenth, So we're collecting right up until the time
of it. Last year's wonner I think got about sixteen

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hundred dollars out of the deal on a fifty to fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
So you invest five bucks and you get back sixteen hundred.
Not bad. That's that's a payday.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
That's definitely not bad at all. That's a really nice thing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
And you know a lot of people I noticed with
different fundraisers in fifty to fifties, a lot of people
give some of that money or all of it back,
So it's up to you. But that definitely happens, and
that happened last.

Speaker 14 (01:07:17):
Year because the gentleman that won it is a marine
wants a marine, always a marine. He's a marine. And yes,
and he did give some of the money back. And
so because he knows it's going back to veterans' causes.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
He knows, he definitely knows. Tell us about the gun raffle.

Speaker 14 (01:07:35):
The second raffle we have is our twenty twenty five
gun raffle. The drawing for that will be Saturday, October eighteenth,
and that will be at the American Legion Post in
Johnson Creek.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
All right, that's this fall. That's so you're going to
be buying a ticket for the gun raffle. But it's
not happening during the Milwaukee Rally that is in fall
October eighteenth, did you say, correct?

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
October the eighteenth.

Speaker 14 (01:07:58):
The only one that takes place here at the rally
is the fifty fifty to fifty money raffle.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
Got it?

Speaker 14 (01:08:04):
But you know some great stuff. You got a SIGs
Or nine. You got a Smith sixty eighty six chambered
three fifty seven, a Smith and Wesson Henry Golden Boy
twenty two, which is worth a ton of money, and
an American Tackle Cavalry twelve gage.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
So you got five guns to choose from. Yeah, how
does that work? What is it first come, first serve
or do you pick correct first gun, first service? So
the first the first pick out of the winners, they
get to choose one of those five guns.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
You're not sure.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
I'm not sure, okay, but called from last year?

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
All right, I just I just in case, in case
you knew. It doesn't matter, but you have a chance
to win one of those five guns. And there's five
that are going to be raffled off.

Speaker 14 (01:08:49):
Yeah, and they're all primo guns, so you can't you
just can't go wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
Definitely. Tell us about the prices on the gun raffle.

Speaker 14 (01:08:55):
Okay, the gun raffle are twenty dollars each or you
can get six for one hundred. That's the gun raffle
in October, and the other is the fifty to fifty

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cash raffle. Tickets are five dollars each or five for
twenty dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
So okay, gotcha.

Speaker 5 (01:09:22):
You're further ahead paying to twenty and paying the.

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
H you get a free ticket for each one ticket?

Speaker 5 (01:09:27):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
Right on?

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Well, I want to thank you for all the things
that you do for the veterans and for different organizations
and paying it forward. I think people. Some people don't know,
but many do. You guys. Nobody takes a dime off
the top. You guys do this, and you do this
as volunteerism.

Speaker 14 (01:09:47):
We are one volunteers, yes, and every single penny goes
back to a veterans related cause.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
And also just with the time that you put in
your your volunteer hours, what you do to support different things,
whether it's here at the West Bend Harley Davison Dealership
or just other things that you do. You guys take time,
you spend a lot of your own money, and I
think that's a very very noble cause.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
And I commend you guys.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
Well, thank you to a labor of love.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
Jo relia Is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
And it's just God bless you for what you do
for anything from homeless vets just to any other organization
that needs help.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (01:10:25):
One more quick pitch, West ben Hurley Davids In twenty ten,
West Washington. Get your tickets while you're standing in line.

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
This is the West Bend Harley Dealership that we're at
right now.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
That's correct, and the.

Speaker 14 (01:10:38):
Cash raffle and gun raffle tickets are only available here,
so you got to come to West Bend Harley to buy.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Your tickets, got to get them here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
The fifty to fifty will happen and that'll be given
away on Sunday at one thirty correct Sunday, that's July thirteenth,
and then the gun raffle. Buy your tickets now, support
the cause. You got a chance to win one of
five great guns that'll be happening and given away and
you'll see the information. But it's October eighteenth. Yes, at

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the Why don't we do it at my jo? Why
don't we do it at my house? Don't we just
just come on over because you've got to get behind me.

Speaker 14 (01:11:12):
I've heard her reserved that spot, all right, great, but
it'll be at the American.

Speaker 5 (01:11:17):
Legion Post in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin.

Speaker 7 (01:11:19):
To drawing Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Great to meet you. You're a great, great American and
you're not a bad Santa, You're a great Santa.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Well, we're going to wrap it up here from West
Bend Harley Davidson. Come on out and see this stuff.
Support this dealership and the area in general. There's a
lot of vendors here. You can get anything. You can
get anything from a cigar to a pretzel dipped in
cheese and everything in between. There's jewelry. There's all kinds
of stuff here. There's food also. If you have a patch,

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this is so really important because I collect once and
a while, I buy a patch and I would never
have it sewn on one of my either my cold
or my vest or whatever. There's patch, lady, that's out here.
Did you ever see Steve? Do you ever see her?
She sews patches on anything. Could be anything that you're
gonna wear, maybe on a bandana, maybe on a maybe

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a small patch on a baseball hat or something. But
don't let those patches sit near drawers and not be used.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Put them on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
You collected them, you bought them for a reason. Get
him sewing on something that you wear. Okay, wear, I'm proud, wear,
I'm proud. Thanks for watching.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
Wait, do you want to say anything? Do you want
to come? Do you want to say anything before we go?

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
Because you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Were hiding for a while, you don't want to say anything?

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
Okay, Well, can we at least say hi? What's your name?

Speaker 7 (01:12:38):
Melissa?

Speaker 4 (01:12:39):
Melissa? Hi? Thanks for having us.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
She has the same last name as I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Your bad Santa's daughter, son of a gun. Okay, all right,
well you got a great great father.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
Oh I'm hippie Santa.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
Okay, all right, thanks for watching. We'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
No, we'll see you tomorrow at Milwaukee Harley, Holy cow,
tomorrow we're doing a show from Milwaukee Harley.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Busy weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
It's a busy weekend. Those two dealerships are owned by
the same that's a correct group.

Speaker 4 (01:13:06):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
Thanks for wading to Steve Fisher Enterprise, a brand new owner. Yes,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
So much for your teams from the Florida area. Has
a couple of dealerships in New Mexico. Correct and I
can't wait to meet him. Hopefully i'll meet him tomorrow.
Good all right, thanks for watching. We'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (01:14:01):
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