Mike Fratelloni (1:49)

So the best part about it, you've been saying it for months. All the summer months, all these beautiful fall months where you could have gone and looked at the leaves changing. Instead you're like, I'm going to wait till the coldest day so far this year and drive down there.

Chris Reivers (2:02)

That's exactly what I did. I stopped in and I chatted with our buddy Larry for a long time. I got a couple bottles of the caramel apple rum.

Mike Fratelloni (2:12)

Super excited.

Chris Reivers (2:13)

Forgot those in my garage. So I will bring one for you on Thursday. But Harmony, Minnesota is Americana. It's just. It's a cool. You can walk to the hardware store, to the grocery store, to Harmony Spirits. And it's just. It's such a neat, cool little town nestled right in there in the southern part of the state.

Mike Fratelloni (2:38)

Yeah, it was really adorable. I'm gonna say, this is adorable when you said to me, like, you know how it sits. And, like, right down there. No, I don't know how it sits. It's Harmony, Minnesota. You don't just bump into Harmony, Minnesota.

Chris Reivers (2:48)

But I did. In fact, I will say this, and I'm not worrying the shirt today like I was yesterday. Their apparel is spectacular. Like, just spectacular.

Mike Fratelloni (2:58)

So their product is better.

Podcast Announcer (3:00)

True.

Chris Reivers (3:01)

I just. But, you know, if you're not a drinker, go in there and buy a sweatshirt.

Mike Fratelloni (3:04)

What I'm going to say, too is Harmony's a small town, right? They can't make a fortune in Harmony, Minnesota. They can make a fortune if people who are listening to this go into their local liquor store and say, do you have Harmony here? I want to try xyz. And then actually try it, because Larry is a good guy and they deserve to have great success.

Chris Reivers (3:25)

So it doesn't matter. Rum, gin, vodka, bourbon, it doesn't matter. They've got the product that you'd want. And especially knowing that you're going to be entertaining family, friends, and everything else, Harmony Spirits is your ticket. So please do us a favor. Stop in at that tasting room and let them know that you heard about them here on the weekly scramble podcast. So I did a little driving over the weekend, and you and I communicated via the phone a couple of times this weekend. It's one of those times of the year where we're starting to creep into it, where it's like, wait a minute, what day of the week is this? What week of the month is this? All of a sudden, now everything goes haywire.

Mike Fratelloni (4:05)

I hate this time. I hate it.

Chris Reivers (4:06)

I know you do.

Mike Fratelloni (4:07)

I just hate it.

Chris Reivers (4:07)

I know you do. But it's also like, the kids are excited because all of a sudden school's gonna be out and now you've got to worry about, okay, I gotta get this gift. I gotta get that gift. I gotta make sure this is taken care of and that's taken care of. And it's just such a bass ackwards time of the year. But I freaking love it.

Mike Fratelloni (4:25)

I love Christmas. I love that. I love that time of year. I hate the fact that it's in the middle of the week because that changes my work week up, that I don't even know where I'm supposed to be. And then we're closed on Christmas Day. Sure. What am I supposed to do then? The toughest one, Christmas Day, I have stuff to do. I can do it New Year's Day, we happen to be closed, which other things are open. And I'm thinking maybe next year we'll open on New Year's Day. No one on my staff wants to be open New Year's Day. And I don't blame them. I get it. But New Year's Day, you can get back at it. It's the first. The season's over. Right. The holiday season's over.

Chris Reivers (5:00)

Let's get back to it. Right.

Mike Fratelloni (5:02)

And I don't like, go out New Year's Eve hard anymore. Right. I mean, I'm probably. I'm much more likely to wake up at midnight than go to bed after midnight. Right. So it's. I just. I like that consistency of knowing I have this show Tuesday, Thursdays, I have work every day. I like consistency.

Chris Reivers (5:20)

So entertaining is a big aspect of this time of the year. Gathering with friends and family is a big aspect this time of the year. So you said something happened at the Frateloni estate.

Mike Fratelloni (5:32)

Okay, we're gonna talk about this.

Chris Reivers (5:34)

Well, I thought that that's where I wanted to go.

Mike Fratelloni (5:36)

I didn't. Sure. I really, really dorked up. And when I say dorked up, I should be using the F word for dorked up. Cause I screwed up. So you've been in my house, that big room with a big fireplace.

Chris Reivers (5:49)

Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Mike Fratelloni (5:51)

It's just a big open space. Right. And a couple of years back, that room started to smell. And I was like, what the hell? It smelled like something dead. And what happened is the fireplace is. And give me O. Good for you. It's a big, big fireplace. Sure. And at one point in time, since the fireplace was so large, they built like a half wall in the fireplace to make it a little smaller on the inside of it so you could have a more controlled fire. But what happened is now animals, if they fell down the flue could get stuck behind this little half wall and not get out. And sure enough, two squirrels did that.

Podcast Announcer (6:23)

Right.

Chris Reivers (6:24)

Were they two squirrels?

Mike Fratelloni (6:26)

Yeah, I think so.

Chris Reivers (6:28)

Was one chasing the other?

Mike Fratelloni (6:30)

You couldn't get anything back there to grab them, so they had to knock out a couple of bricks in the wall to grab them, throw them away, get rid of them, clean it up. And they put a couple new bricks in. So the whole thing is black because it's sooty black. Except for about four or five new looking bricks. Okay, we're having a Christmas party this Friday. My wife's Christmas party.

Podcast Announcer (6:50)

Right.

Mike Fratelloni (6:50)

She likes to entertain. You know, whatever. Right. We're gonna have it.

Chris Reivers (6:53)

She's a wonderful cook.

Mike Fratelloni (6:55)

Well, she's not cooking anything. She's not cooking reverse. Thank you. That was adorable to mention. She is a great cook. Whatever.

Podcast Announcer (7:03)

Are you right?

Mike Fratelloni (7:04)

We don't do a lot of cooking at the fried alone. When she does cook. Fantastic. Okay. She won't be cooking for this.

Chris Reivers (7:09)

I made one of her appetizers at my holiday gathering.

Mike Fratelloni (7:13)

Exactly. She's a great appetizer maker. And a charcuterie board. She makes a beautiful charcuterie board. She's a fine cook. I'm not saying that. Don't get me in trouble. Don't get me in more trouble. So anyways, I have these couple of bricks on the back of the fireplace that when you look into that room, you just can see those bricks. Like, it's. Like it's noticeable in my eyes. It's very noticeable. So I said, hey, we're having this party Friday. So this was on this. On Sunday night. So we're having this party next Friday. I'm gonna paint these bricks black. And so I got a can of super high heat spray paint. And I said, I can probably use spray paint here because the flue from the chimney, if I open that up, you know, hot air is just gonna take. Go right up, take the spray paint smell and go right up the chimney and be out of here. So I spray it a little bit, and I spray over those four or five bricks, and it looks a million times better.

Chris Reivers (8:06)

Right?

Mike Fratelloni (8:06)

But it looks so good, it made the rest of the background not look symmetric black. So I said, okay, I'm just gonna spray paint this whole thing. By the way, we don't have fires in there ever, Right. If we had fires, there'd be stood on there.

Chris Reivers (8:18)

It's more of a decorative.

Mike Fratelloni (8:19)

It's decorative. Yeah, it's decorative. It can be used. It's just decorative. So I go ahead and spray paint two cans worth of spray paint, and I'm just zesting it in there, just plowing it in there. And I can feel this draft going up. The fluent. Sure. So I'm feeling pretty safe. So my wife calls me today and she goes, hey, have you walked into the lodge room? We called it the lodge room. Right. I said, why? What's up? She goes, well, my socks. I walked in there and my socks are pitch black. I said, what do you mean? She goes, did you spray paint that or paint. Paint that? And I was like, why do you ask? Well, some magical wave reavers. I lost my mind and forgot that you can't really spray paint inside without getting it all over. Spray paint is everywhere on that level of the house. She is 100ft away on a different part. Like we have kind of a big rambler 100ft away on a different part. Taking these hardwood floor mops. You know where you get a new white piece of like a Swiffer black solid. Our carpets. You can see it sitting on the carpets. I'm like, oh, my God. Luckily it's coming out. I could have done $100,000 worth of damage with furniture and carpets if that would have not come out. But she is, needless to say, not mad at me at all because we have 100 people coming to our party on Friday. So she really doesn't have much to do. Right. So she's like spending all day today cleaning that. I feel horrible. Horrible.

Chris Reivers (9:56)

Let me ask you a couple more things. So you are, and not just on the weekly scramble podcast, but here in the umbrella of Garage Logic, you are the hardware store guy.

Mike Fratelloni (10:09)

Hypothetically. Hypothetically, I should know.

Chris Reivers (10:12)

You are and come from a family of which you've grown up around blue collar nuts and bolts all day long ever since you can remember, four years old. And I'm gonna say you are now on par with a gentleman who would normally sit in that chair, who tried to light the hump on fire at the end of his driveway. The guy that took a warm bucket of water to try to defrost his windshield in a timely manner and it cracked. You are the same guy that tried to take a little bit of sawdust and thought, I'll get rid of this and I will throw it into the fireplace.

Mike Fratelloni (10:57)

Oh, good.

Chris Reivers (10:59)

You are now on par with that guy.

Mike Fratelloni (11:02)

Honest to God, I don't know what I was thinking. I use spray paint on a fairly consistent basis.

Chris Reivers (11:07)

Sure.

Mike Fratelloni (11:08)

I actually spray paint things at my house. Like I'll be outside and I'll say, hey, this thing needs to be spray painted. And I go out into the grass and I do it. I'm outside. I. It was like I had an out of body experience with my stupidity.

Chris Reivers (11:20)

Sure.

Mike Fratelloni (11:21)

Like, why wouldn't I think. And I did have the equivalent of this big flu. You know where some of this scent went up? The flu, I'm sure. But. And I even remember midway, about 7 or 8ft away from the fireplace, we have this big U shaped couch with this white rug underneath it. And I looked at that rug and I thought, God, that rug looks kind of dingy. Then I thought to myself, no one walks into this room. No one uses this room ever in our house. Occasionally. Occasionally I'll sit on that couch. I'm the only one. I thought, how could this rug be dingy? And it was the remnants of my spray paint.

Chris Reivers (11:58)

Because it's covered in black stuff.

Mike Fratelloni (11:59)

Because it's covered in spray paint. And I didn't put two and two together, thinking I. Even the mantle, not the mantle, but the front of the fireplace, it's like it's lifted up a few feet off the ground, right? And there's like this three foot wide shelf you could sit on, right? And I thought, why does this look so black? We haven't had a fire in here. And I'm not thinking about all the paint that is just dripping down onto it. Honest to God, I don't know if the scent made me nuts. Like I just huffed a little too much, but I was like so proud too. When I got done, I turned to Nicole, I'm like, okay, look at this. You will want to make love to me because I just improved our house a dramatic amount.

Chris Reivers (12:41)

I think what you told her is you said, do you see that fireplace, dear? Once you go bl. No, I'm not.

Mike Fratelloni (12:49)

It was the dumbest thing I've done inside in a long time. And I've done some dumb stuff inside.

Chris Reivers (12:53)

But you know what? Here on the weekly scramble podcast, we are not here to look down upon those who have made a mistake or two. We've all been there.

Mike Fratelloni (13:03)

This kind of dumb one, though. This is an exceptionally dumb mistake. And she looked frazzled today. Frazzled when she was cleaning. Yeah, Right.

Chris Reivers (13:11)

Cause she's been scrubbing the damn house.

Mike Fratelloni (13:15)

She had been doing the floors for days.

Chris Reivers (13:16)

Oh, no.

Mike Fratelloni (13:17)

And then I said it would be like basically having a perfectly clean house and then spray painting all the surfaces because we have to wipe them all down.

Chris Reivers (13:26)

This is my grown man toddler. Yeah.

Mike Fratelloni (13:28)

I just. I felt so bad. But the fireplace turns out beautiful. So I'm doing some unique thing in there. Cause she's like, do something unique. You know what? I forgot about this part of this reverse.

Chris Reivers (13:38)

What's that?

Mike Fratelloni (13:39)

So I had. So my batch three. So every year I make a batch of a special drink. A bottle, right? You have batch one. Batch two is cigars. Batch three is a ten year reserve in oak barrel gin.

Chris Reivers (13:53)

Oh, man.

Mike Fratelloni (13:54)

Have 50 bottles of it, right? And I had this little shelf. I said, hey, everybody, who's coming? Like, Reivers is coming. He's gonna get a bottle of this and, you know, get one of 50. You get these bottles. It's a big deal. And Nicole said to me, why don't you set them into the fireplace, get some lights and make it look like something cool in the fireplace.

Chris Reivers (14:11)

Festive for sure.

Mike Fratelloni (14:12)

Then the fireplace had that brick that was bad. So technically it's her fault for making me have to use the fireplace that I didn't think looked good enough. So I spray painted it.

Chris Reivers (14:22)

Oh, boy.

Mike Fratelloni (14:24)

Thank you. Reverse.

Chris Reivers (14:25)

I don't think I'd go with that.

Mike Fratelloni (14:26)

If I think she deserves to clean up a little bit more. It was technically her fault.

Chris Reivers (14:30)

You know what? That's a good point. Yeah, it's technically her fault.

Mike Fratelloni (14:33)

You know how when Joe was. Joe's wife was super sick and he said, what's for dinner? And you can just. You can just stand there, just sit.

Chris Reivers (14:40)

Next to the stove. I'll make it, but you gotta walk me through the process.

Mike Fratelloni (14:44)

This was roughly the same thing where I said, you. I know you're cleaning up the house. Why don't I just spray paint every last surface of these two rooms?

Chris Reivers (14:52)

And I do. I'm not a big forecaster, but I do think that it'll probably work out the same for you as it did for Joe on that particular day.

Mike Fratelloni (14:59)

Yes. Years of happiness. Is that what you get out of it?

Chris Reivers (15:02)

Oh, my goodness.

Mike Fratelloni (15:03)

Reivers. It was sad.

Chris Reivers (15:04)

That's Mike Fredaloni. My name is Chris Reivers. This is the weekly scramble podcast and we will be right back.

Podcast Announcer (15:12)

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Mike Fratelloni (15:51)

Can you download them from your phone?

Podcast Announcer (15:53)

Just from your phone? Exactly. So I have. I had all those pictures on my phone, I got the aura frame, and I just started hitting boom, boom, boom after.

Chris Reivers (16:02)

Yes.

Podcast Announcer (16:02)

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Chris Reivers (16:14)

I know someone that just recently purchased this and that person is so thrilled and really thinks that that person has cheated Christmas because it's such a wonderful gift that there's no more worry.

Mike Fratelloni (16:29)

I've taken care of it. Yes, the other name you. But okay.

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Chris Reivers (17:27)

You brought something to the table earlier today that I was not aware of.

Mike Fratelloni (17:31)

I can't believe you haven't seen this.

Chris Reivers (17:33)

Well, I'm a big social media guy. Although I will be honest, I have really tried to dial back social media because unless it's for purposes of this job, that's one thing. But just to take a break from it really just does give you good clarity at times because I, I just, I need a break from the cesspool that can be social media.

Mike Fratelloni (17:55)

Too much news is coming at us.

Chris Reivers (17:56)

But I was not aware of Smokey Robinson and his big foray into social media. And you said that this is recent or is not recent.

Mike Fratelloni (18:07)

It was a couple years back, but it's golden.

Chris Reivers (18:10)

Oh, my goodness gracious. All right. So Smokey Robinson was doing this thing called, I think people are aware of it's cameo. Right? Isn't that so somebody must have paid him a little bit of money to do a cameo. And he was trying to wish his.

Mike Fratelloni (18:26)

Father, the person who paid them, his two kids and his father, a happy event. And this is what he came up with. Chinooka. I have no idea what Chinooka is, but happy Chinooka because they said so. Anyway, God bless you, babe, and enjoy Chinooka.

Chris Reivers (18:44)

Have a wonderful time.

Mike Fratelloni (18:46)

Happy, happy Chinooka Reavers.

Chris Reivers (18:49)

That is akin to rookie mispronouncing something very basic. Happy.

Mike Fratelloni (18:57)

So just in case you can't figure out what Chinooka is, he was attempting to say Happy Hanukkah.

Chris Reivers (19:03)

Happy Hanukkah.

Mike Fratelloni (19:04)

Happy Hanukkah. Hanukkah just started. Festival of lights. It's all just starting.

Chris Reivers (19:07)

Yes.

Mike Fratelloni (19:07)

I think it's third day in and Smokey sent this cameo saying to these great kids, happy Chinooka. I have no idea what Chinooka is, but Happy Chinooka. I am not one to make fun of people mispronouncing words. I'll do that for the rest of my life. I'll make that mistake. I think I know what Chinooka is.

Chris Reivers (19:26)

You know, and Happy Chinooka. It's not as though he's a 19 year old social media influencer. He's Smokey Robin.

Mike Fratelloni (19:36)

He's in the music industry. Is this the first Chinooka he's ever celebrated?

Chris Reivers (19:40)

That's what I'm wondering. Or here's the only other outlet or out I will give him or excuse I'll make for him. Was it mistyped in the greeting? So in other words. So do you remember J.L. coven does the wonderful Donald Trump impersonation? So Andy, Joe's son paid him to do a greeting for the CP years ago. So these things are very common where someone writes a check, makes a transaction and you just type out whatever you would like said personality to give to your beloved family member. And I'm wondering if that's maybe what happened here. Happy Chanuka.

Mike Fratelloni (20:27)

To be fair, Hanukkah is a weird spelling word, right? You can spell it. Seems like there's a lot of spellings of it. But Chinooka is not normally what I'd get out of the word Hanukkah. I do have a little bit of a story. So one time I had a friend who went to meet Mike Tyson and I said, hey, will you do me a favor? And this is when we had our beer show. And I said would you please just record him saying I vaguely remember this story. And I thought I brought this back to you. Cause Mike Tyson said, hey, this is Mike Tyson. You're listening to the beer show on AM 1500, right? And I thought it was super, super, super cool. And I brought it to you reverse. And you're like hey, yeah, great, thanks. I thought it's Mike Tyson saying, hey, this is Mike Tyson. You're listening to the beer show on AM 1500.

Chris Reivers (21:13)

Or do you guys still have it really.

Mike Fratelloni (21:15)

Are you honest to God, I'm Mike Tyson and you're listening to the Man. I were here on 1500 ESPN. Was that it? Okay, hold on.

Chris Reivers (21:21)

I gotta.

Mike Fratelloni (21:22)

I'm Mike Tyson.

Chris Reivers (21:23)

Because we were doing the beer show, but in addition we were doing the Man Hour.

Mike Fratelloni (21:28)

Oh, that's right.

Podcast Announcer (21:29)

We added.

Chris Reivers (21:29)

I'm Mike Tyson and you're listening to.

Mike Fratelloni (21:31)

The man hour here on 1500 ESPN. That is my favorite clip. So yeah, we had started. I forgot all about the Man Hour. Cause we did the beer show for.

Chris Reivers (21:40)

One hour and then we were gonna do more of a non beer related hour program. That's what this show is. Yes.

Mike Fratelloni (21:45)

It's the genesis between the beer show and the weekly scramble was the Man Hour.

Chris Reivers (21:50)

That's right.

Mike Fratelloni (21:50)

And that's where we got that. We gotta keep that. I love that.

Chris Reivers (21:53)

I completely forgot about this.

Mike Fratelloni (21:55)

That was the Mike Tyson.

Chris Reivers (21:56)

So where was this encounter? Where did that take place?

Mike Fratelloni (21:59)

They were in bed together. I don't know. I was just kidding. They were not in bed together. He was here for some promotion.

Chris Reivers (22:07)

Okay.

Mike Fratelloni (22:07)

Yeah, I don't remember the details. I just remember I was not there.

Chris Reivers (22:10)

Super bowl related.

Mike Fratelloni (22:11)

I doubt it. Maybe.

Chris Reivers (22:14)

No, I think that, that. I think that preceded when the super bowl was here because that was. That was 2018. Yeah.

Mike Fratelloni (22:20)

He did a pretty good job though with that read. Yeah, right. I mean, it's Mike Tyson. That's not that easy to say.

Chris Reivers (22:26)

Hey, I'm trying to rack my brain out when that was. Well, it's just.

Mike Fratelloni (22:29)

I can't believe you found that.

Chris Reivers (22:31)

That's how good I am.

Mike Fratelloni (22:32)

So now we have a couple of things. All right, we have Mike Tyson's. We have every. Every time Hanukkah happens, we can have Smokey Robinson saying happy Chinooka. I don't know what Chinooka is, but Happy Chinooka. And that's pretty basic for most Minnesotans. We're like, don't really know what Hanukkah is, but Happy Hanukkah.

Chris Reivers (22:48)

It's the festival of life.

Mike Fratelloni (22:49)

Seems like a lot of days.

Chris Reivers (22:51)

Let's talk about we are nuts and we are nuts. Mn.com youm know what? When you're on a road trip, we are Nuts is your friend. Ladies, gentlemen, let me tell you right now.

Mike Fratelloni (23:01)

Cup holder. Perfect.

Chris Reivers (23:03)

Perfect. Cup holder. Cinnamon, toffee peanuts, which is what I had along with me on my road trip. The maple bourbon toffee almonds, the cashews. It's such great stuff. And I gotta tell you, I'm gonna give another quick shout out to my brethren over at Coburn's Market, because you can now see them at Fratelloni's hardware and garden stores. Mac's Hardware, Kowalski's, Lonz and Barley's, Quick trip Cub Foods. But I grabbed a bag of the Hokey Pokey popcorn at Coburn's the other day and someone said, oh, I heard about that.

Mike Fratelloni (23:36)

Did you say where?

Chris Reivers (23:37)

No, they said, I heard about it on gl.

Mike Fratelloni (23:40)

Oh, okay.

Chris Reivers (23:40)

And I didn't want to do the. No, but I didn't want to do the. Yeah, that was me.

Mike Fratelloni (23:44)

Are you kidding me?

Chris Reivers (23:44)

I didn't want to do that.

Mike Fratelloni (23:45)

You could have signed a chest or something. Was it a dude?

Chris Reivers (23:49)

Had it been a beloved female, 100%.

Mike Fratelloni (23:52)

Would have done that. You're like, okay, I'm just going to not mention that I'm one of the stars of Garage Logic.

Chris Reivers (23:57)

But it was pretty cool. And I love the partnership too, because, like, Coburn's is. That's my spot, right? That's where I basically do 90%. It's Coburn's and Goodwill. It's like 75, 25.

Mike Fratelloni (24:08)

Are our ad guys selling Coburns?

Chris Reivers (24:11)

We're getting very close to that ad.

Mike Fratelloni (24:13)

Guy, but we're actually doing a deal with Coburn because I'm wondering why we're talking so nicely about them. I genuinely believe you like them, but.

Chris Reivers (24:19)

It'S kind of cool too where you see the end caps because I'm there a couple times a week and you see the supply kind of dwindling. It's working. That's very cool. But anyway, it's a wonderful family owned operation that makes. Makes great small batch snacks right here in northeast Minneapolis. But you can also get all of those supplies online@wearenutsmn.com and they've been a wonderful addition to our show. And please let them know you heard about it on the weekly scramble podcast.

Mike Fratelloni (24:48)

Absolutely. Before you stop this ad tomorrow at our frat pack. I know we're going to talk about that. I'm going to bring a bunch of we are nuts. So we can all sample them at the frat pack event on Wednesday.

Chris Reivers (24:58)

Okay, so let's talk about that very briefly before we pause.

Mike Fratelloni (25:01)

Do we have to pause?

Chris Reivers (25:01)

No, we're good. We're good. So we're going to be at Summit Brewery tomorrow, the Rat Skeller, and it's going to be fun. It's not really like an official sanctioned event through the race. It's just we're going to hang out.

Mike Fratelloni (25:13)

Just hang out with people. Just hang out. I think about 30 people said they're coming for sure. Reavers. To be perfectly honest, I thought it would be cool if a couple guys came. I thought you and I would be there and maybe a couple guys would come and we'd say, oh, cool. So us four would sit there and have a beer. And then I sent out the invite to 500 people, but technically I sent it to everybody in the frat pack.

Podcast Announcer (25:36)

Right, sure.

Mike Fratelloni (25:37)

And 30 people said, hey, I'm gonna be there. And like, 50 people said, I think I'm coming. Right. Maybes. So we could have 50, maybe 30, 40, 50 people. Right. I don't know how many people. It's gonna be beautiful. We're getting pizzas. We're gonna have a bunch of. We are nuts. I'm gonna buy some beers for everybody. I really think it's gonna be a good time. And so the word got out and Summit called me, because I didn't call Summit to tell them. I just know Wednesdays are kind of slow. And the woman's like, you can't just invite 50 people in. What if we didn't have enough staff? And I thought, you're pouring beer.

Chris Reivers (26:11)

How fast?

Mike Fratelloni (26:11)

How hard could it be?

Chris Reivers (26:12)

No one's going to complain.

Mike Fratelloni (26:13)

Yeah, like, you can pour a beer in like a minute.

Chris Reivers (26:16)

Right?

Mike Fratelloni (26:17)

And she said, no, no, we'll have extra people there. And I thought, well, now that's a lot of pressure on us.

Podcast Announcer (26:22)

Right?

Chris Reivers (26:22)

Right.

Mike Fratelloni (26:22)

Like, we're gonna have 30 people, but maybe not 100 people, but maybe it will be four people. We're unsure. But if you're free tomorrow, it's gonna be beautiful. Reivers and I are gonna be there a little bit before five. Yep. We'll sit down. It's huge parking lot. It's in a safe area. This rat skiller is beautiful. They're gonna try to get Mark if Mark Studdard, the founder of Summit, if he's available, he's gonna stop and have a drink with us. They don't know if he's gonna going to be in town or not. If he is, by the way, he is super cool to meet.

Chris Reivers (26:53)

He is.

Mike Fratelloni (26:53)

He is really.

Chris Reivers (26:54)

He's just. He's a dude.

Mike Fratelloni (26:55)

He's a beer legend, dude. He's just a dude. Yeah. We all would want him as our buddies, right? And I consider him a buddy. He's just a really, really classy, cool guy and a fun, like, down to earth guy. And he might have a beer with us, which would be just cool. So we'd be able to talk to him. As our friend, all the other frat packers, as our friend, me and you. I think some of my, like my brother in law's come in, you know, it's going to be really, really cool. So I'm very excited for this.

Chris Reivers (27:22)

No reservation necessary. Just stop by and say hi to everybody. It's going to be a lot of fun.

Mike Fratelloni (27:26)

If you can't get there at 5, don't worry about it. Get there at 6 or 6:30 or whatever. I don't know how long we're going to be there.

Chris Reivers (27:31)

That's Mike Fratelloni, I am Chris Reivers. This is the weekly scramble podcast and we will be right back. So I mentioned that I was on the road a little bit over the weekend and it's. I don't know how to phrase this by not sounding like I'm bragging, which I'm not trying to do in any way, shape or form, but I had the opportunity to do something kind of cool with. I was in the Kansas City area and I have a buddy that I've worked as a spotter for certain games and things like that. And I had texted a buddy of mine and said the main reason I just didn't want to be here when it was going to be like 25 below zero.

Mike Fratelloni (28:12)

Anything you could do to run out of town, right?

Chris Reivers (28:14)

Exactly. And I didn't want to get on a plane, I didn't want to do anything. And so he said, well, I could use some help if you're around.

Mike Fratelloni (28:22)

Use some help shoveling. What does he want to do? Use some help with what?

Chris Reivers (28:26)

Engineering type of work for a broadcast.

Mike Fratelloni (28:30)

A broadcast? Yeah.

Chris Reivers (28:31)

And I said, oh, that'd be great.

Mike Fratelloni (28:32)

Volleyball? No, soccer.

Chris Reivers (28:35)

It was NFL related, NFL broadcast. And so I went down and I thought, you know what, this would be cool. Get them helped out, set up and whatever and I'll start heading back before the game even kicks off. Right. And I thought, oh, this will be perfect. So went down. Here's the thing, you basically just get to hang out and then oh, hey, we'll pay for your hotel room.

Mike Fratelloni (28:56)

Okay, let me understand this because I bet you anything even though your work might have been done, you could have stayed to watch the game.

Chris Reivers (29:05)

Yes, but see, I'm such a spoiled brat that I don't want to stay for the game.

Mike Fratelloni (29:12)

What? Yeah, this is reminiscent of you leaving the Super Bowl.

Chris Reivers (29:16)

100%.

Mike Fratelloni (29:17)

100%. Because this was an iconic game too. Because something big happened.

Chris Reivers (29:20)

Well, yeah, Mahomes got hurt and he's out for the year. He might even be like done done. Yeah, like there's rumors that this isn't. This is really bad anyway, like, done done.

Mike Fratelloni (29:29)

His career done.

Chris Reivers (29:30)

Well, I don't think it'll be career, but there's a chance he might not play next year. That's how bad.

Mike Fratelloni (29:35)

Are you kidding me?

Chris Reivers (29:36)

No, it's so. But here's what I love about. But just going to different markets and assessing how. Because everyone is so hyper focused on their given lot in life. Right. Where they don't think anything else exists outside of it. And I remember listening to a fan related, it must have been like a post game or whatever, thinking the sky is falling. And I wanted to say, you've won three Super Bowls in seven years. You were just in the super bowl last year. Everyone in this market in the Twin Cities would kill to have just a slice of what you people have had the past couple of years. But anyway. And so I remember, though it's always funny when you go to a different market. And I'm thinking, okay, I just wanted to get out of here because it was. What was the daytime high on Saturday? Like negative five or whatever it was.

Mike Fratelloni (30:31)

It was plenty cold.

Chris Reivers (30:32)

Yeah. And I remember being down there and the Daytime High was 18 for Sunday, I believe or no, it was 25 on Saturday and 18 on Sunday, which again, is that warm. No, but it's all relative, right?

Mike Fratelloni (30:46)

Sure.

Chris Reivers (30:47)

And it was bring your pets in, don't let. Oh, really? And I remember being in San Diego over, you know, super bowl week a number of years ago, thinking you just got to really be careful because it might get down to freezing overnight. Well, the overnight low was 40 and.

Mike Fratelloni (31:06)

They'Re like, watch out for black ice.

Chris Reivers (31:08)

Make sure you bundle up if you go outside. And it's just all. I guess I don't even really know where I'm going.

Mike Fratelloni (31:14)

It just shows that weathermen have too much time, but they're getting too much of the broadcast.

Chris Reivers (31:19)

It was kind of neat. Just when you see the inner workings of something like that where you're going, oh, yeah, this is kind of cool to be able to. But just. I guess the point I'm trying to make is how much freaking production goes into all this stuff.

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Chris Reivers (33:30)

Not even a big time event.

Mike Fratelloni (33:31)

Sure.

Chris Reivers (33:32)

You know, you mentioned the super bowl. How many different semi trailers and everything goes into one bleeping football game. Right.

Mike Fratelloni (33:42)

It's just, I mean the biggest game of the year of almost the biggest game around the world for American style football.

Podcast Announcer (33:49)

Right.

Mike Fratelloni (33:50)

A billion people watch it or whatever.

Chris Reivers (33:51)

Yeah. And I guess so when you're seeing this and the other thing you asked me, you know, why don't I like to stay? I can tolerate that crowd for only so long. And here's what I mean by that. It's the I've got Press pass number A1 16 and I'm sitting in this chair and I gotta write my column or I gotta do my video shorter, I gotta post my TikTok and I'm thinking, I don't give an s. I'm here in my Mankato state hooded hockey sweatshirt that I bought at Goodwill. I don't Give a damn what you're trying. And again, because I've. I think that that's why I've gotten along with so many. Because I don't care. I don't. I don't care. What?

Mike Fratelloni (34:35)

You're not pretentious.

Chris Reivers (34:36)

What. What sporting news outlet you're working for? I don't give a damn. I don't care that you have 10 million followers on Instagram. I don't care. I literally don't care.

Mike Fratelloni (34:47)

I'd take 10 minute million followers on Instagram. I think that would be kind of cool. I'm not gonna lie. That would be kind of cool.

Chris Reivers (34:52)

But you would be amazed at the kind of. I'll mention. I had the opportunity to go to the St. Thomas game. It was last Thursday. Was it Thursday? Wednesday, Thursday, whatever. It was. And just. Those are kind of cool things that you get to do, like being. But it's like, I don't brag about it. I don't post all these self. Like, I don't care. I've never been. Is it vain? Is that the word I'm looking for?

Mike Fratelloni (35:19)

Yeah, I think so.

Chris Reivers (35:19)

But that type.

Mike Fratelloni (35:20)

Braggadocious.

Chris Reivers (35:21)

But that. Yeah, that type of.

Podcast Announcer (35:23)

Of.

Chris Reivers (35:24)

I've never cared about Reverse, though.

Mike Fratelloni (35:26)

Stop.

Chris Reivers (35:27)

What?

Mike Fratelloni (35:27)

You're in the media.

Chris Reivers (35:29)

I get it.

Mike Fratelloni (35:30)

They want to see what you're doing. Oh, by the way, the more you post, the more people find our podcast in gl. It's part of the. You actually can do it because you're part of the media.

Chris Reivers (35:43)

That's true.

Podcast Announcer (35:44)

Right.

Mike Fratelloni (35:45)

It's different for you.

Chris Reivers (35:46)

But I've never had that look at me kind of mentality ever. I really haven't. And maybe that's to my detriment. I don't know. But I've never once thought, well, this is a good opportunity for me to just say, look at how awesome I am.

Mike Fratelloni (36:02)

You know, it's super funny. So the other day, Chaos95 did their raise money for kids.

Chris Reivers (36:09)

Oh, yeah, last Friday.

Mike Fratelloni (36:10)

Last Friday. So I got to go to the Mall of America, and I got to be on the stage in the rotunda with DEZ and the crew from the morning show, right?

Chris Reivers (36:19)

Yeah, it's Crisco. Dez and Ryan.

Mike Fratelloni (36:22)

And Ryan.

Chris Reivers (36:23)

Yep.

Mike Fratelloni (36:23)

Super nice people.

Chris Reivers (36:24)

Not Ryan. Jesus, Wes. Ryan's not with the show anymore.

Mike Fratelloni (36:26)

I'm so sorry, Wes.

Chris Reivers (36:27)

Well, I got a story about Wes, but go ahead.

Mike Fratelloni (36:29)

Okay. So my company is doing roundup for Gillette Children's, which is part of the charity that they give to. Right. So we're gonna collect, like, $20,000 none of it's coming from Mike Fratelloni. It's coming from our customers. We just happen to have the most generous customers in all of retail.

Chris Reivers (36:47)

Very cool, right?

Mike Fratelloni (36:48)

Normally, I'll give you a little backstory. Roundup campaigns. Like if a grocery store turns on a Roundup campaign or Walgreens does it, they get about 10% of the people rounding up. Fratelloni's is about 50% of the people. So half of our customers say, sure, right. They just do it, which is a really amazing thing. So we're able to collect all of this money collectively from our customers. And Fratelloni's does put in money. And Mike Fratelloni wrote a little check, too. I did a little bit too. But I'm up on the stage and they're taking videos, and I'm feeling kind of cool. And Des is talking to me. I can't hear a thing because the speakers are shooting out to the crowd. But I don't have headphones on, so I can't hear what she's saying. But I know I'm live on the radio. It's really cool. Someone took a video head, get the video. They send me the video. They say, there you go. It was great. All I can see. Reverse. All I can see is my bald spot. That's all I can see in the whole video. I thought, and I felt super. I'm up on the stage, reverse. I'm holding a check for 20,000 bucks, right? This big, huge check. And Dez is giving me hugs. And Des is pretty, and I'm like, oh, my God. DEZ is touching me. Like, that's cool, right? The other guys are shaking my hand, high fiving me, people clapping. I can't hear any of this. So they might have been making fun of me, I don't know. But I get the video, and all I can see is, oh, my God. That's what I look like. Stand up. Why are you standing like you're staring at the.

Chris Reivers (38:11)

Get off your knees.

Mike Fratelloni (38:11)

I'm like, I swear to God, the way I'm standing, it's like I'm trying to look at the bottom of my testicles. I'm like, what are you doing? Stand up straight. Stand up straight. You don't have to stand like you're hunched over. It was. It really made me right from the top. I felt like I was on the top, too. Yup, I'm that old douche. I'm just that. Yep. I'm that old fart that's bent over in a hunch. And I feel like a young kid, but I don't look at like one, so.

Chris Reivers (38:38)

And I've get. I've known Des for 100 years. And Crisco and I used to work together at the other place when he was with Dave Ryan's show. In fact, Chrisco was one of my interns way back in the day.

Mike Fratelloni (38:52)

Help me, because I barely recognize Crisco. Cause he looks half Crisco.

Chris Reivers (38:57)

Yeah, he's lost a lot of weight.

Mike Fratelloni (38:59)

He looks great.

Chris Reivers (39:00)

He looks amazing. And so Wes also worked at that same station way back in the day. And when they hired Wes to come here, I thought, oh, my God, this is great. He's just a great dude. And so we kind of. Of ran into each other a couple of weeks ago, and we were talking about the days where we're in our 20s and we're single. And it was the nightclub experience because all those guys would do these gigs, right? They would do, hey, come to such and such nightclub, 18 plus. Exactly. And so then when he. It was funny because then, okay, you gotta grow up, gotta get married, gotta have the kids, gotta buy a house, gotta be an adult, right? And it's like nothing changed because I'm walking, walking from my vehicle and. Cause you know, morning show, they're done. So he was sitting in his truck, it was running. And I was walking by the front of his truck not knowing it was him. And he blasts the horn, and you jump to the point where I almost evacuated my balls. And I looked at him like, you son of a. But it's like, yeah, we're adults, but doesn't mean we have to be adults.

Mike Fratelloni (40:01)

He looks like he could be a army ranger.

Chris Reivers (40:04)

Yeah, he's a man's man.

Mike Fratelloni (40:06)

Yeah, he looked like. I was like, you're on the radio.

Chris Reivers (40:08)

He's a great dude.

Mike Fratelloni (40:09)

He didn't seem like he'd be a radio guy to me. Seemed like he'd be a black ops dude.

Chris Reivers (40:13)

Yeah, he's just a dude's dude.

Mike Fratelloni (40:15)

If you don't know Chris, go. Chrisco was a bigger guy, right? Lost a bunch of weight, looks great. He posted something where he went to the barber to get a shave and a haircut. And the barber cut his cheek in like a 2 inch, like a big, big cut. Not stitches wise, but he has a. Like a big scab there and it was bleeding. I said, I saw that. When I saw him at the thing, I said, the hell? Like, is that true that you were at the barber? And he's like, the guy didn't say one word. About it, but this dabbing cloths on my cheek from the bleeding cheek. Didn't say one word. Didn't give him a deal on the haircut. Didn't do anything. And I was like, are you kidding me? I'd say, is that sterile? Was your clipper sterile? Did you just give me hepatitis B from this cut? That's almost two inches, whatever the width of a clipper is, one and a half inches or whatever. And it was like, holy crap. And he's like, yeah. I was shocked. I'm like, thank God you're a radio guy, not a TV guy. Because if he was a TV guy, they'd say, you're off till no one wants to see a big scar on your face for another week.

Chris Reivers (41:19)

Yeah, you don't want me to. Head wound Harry.

Mike Fratelloni (41:20)

Yeah, it was really kind of crazy. And he was like. He could not believe it. And I thought, what place? And he was nice enough to not say it.

Chris Reivers (41:27)

Oh, my goodness gracious.

Mike Fratelloni (41:28)

Yeah, I didn't want to say it.

Chris Reivers (41:30)

I mentioned St. Thomas in the basketball game the other night. And I want to thank once again Mr. Bilski and all of the fine folks at North American Banking Company for having us. It was such a great time. And you know what? That's how they do business at North American Banking Company Company it's banking done differently. You get that feeling anytime that you walk into any one of their six Twin Cities locations, whether it's Roseville, 50th in France, Woodbury, Hastings, Shoreview, and also Maple Grove, they get it. They know that online and mobile banking are big, big things this day and age. You might think that a community bank last updated that technology back in 2010, but no, no, no. North American Banking Company has the same updated online and mobile banking tools as those other big national banks. It doesn. Whether you're looking to find a home, maybe finance a new home renovation project, or get that new car that you've been dreaming about, they will be able to make that happen with all of their experts. But you got to see it for yourself. Check them out online today. It's nabankco.com to learn more. It's banking done differently. North American Banking Company member fdic, is an equal housing lender. Michael, you got something for me?

Mike Fratelloni (42:41)

You know, I do have some thoughts, and I just wanted to ask you a quick question.

Chris Reivers (42:46)

Sure.

Mike Fratelloni (42:47)

Why was the letter E the only letter in the Alphabet to get a Christmas present?

Chris Reivers (42:54)

Why? Mike? I don't know why the letter E?

Mike Fratelloni (42:57)

Because all of the other letters were not E. Not E. You get it? Christmas present. They were all on the bad list except for the letter E. Reverse.

Chris Reivers (43:07)

I do love the fact that you now format these jokes to cater to my 11 year old son to come up with something.

Mike Fratelloni (43:13)

A good joke about Chinooka. But I was like, I can't think of a good Chinooka joke.

Chris Reivers (43:17)

But naughty.

Mike Fratelloni (43:17)

But naughty. Yeah, it's naughty. Reavers, you are the best. And I'm very excited to see you tomorrow at 5ish at Summit Brewing.

Chris Reivers (43:26)

Well, I'll be there before 5.

Mike Fratelloni (43:27)

Yeah, we'll be there before 5. Come whenever you want. We're taking care of a bunch of stuff. Get some food. I'll get some drinks for everybody. Some. We are nuts. Oh, I'm gonna bring some Master's maple. I'm gonna bring some Master's Maple.

Chris Reivers (43:37)

Fantastic.

Mike Fratelloni (43:39)

You know, let me ask you this real quick.

Chris Reivers (43:40)

Sure.

Mike Fratelloni (43:41)

I don't know if we can bring in some Harmony, but we might be able to like sneak in a little couple of samplers of Harmony and give people a little. Try a little bit. Right? Because we'd love to have Harmony. Don't know if we can do that. Right. Probably we can't. Let's pretend I didn't mention that. But maybe we're gonna do it. And then we'll see you and a bunch of frat packers, if you haven't already. Rsvp. Do rsvp. I need to know how many pizzas to order. Reavers, you are the best. We'll see you tomorrow.

Chris Reivers (44:07)

Thank you, Michael. Please do us a favor. Rate and review the wherever you happen to be listening to the weekly Scramble podcast. It helps others find the show and it helps us out as well. And we appreciate each and every single one of you. And as Mike mentioned, we'll see you tomorrow at Summit Brewery at the Rat Skeller. His name is Mike Fratelloni. My name is Chris Rivers. Thank you so much for listening to the weekly Scramble podcast. We'll talk to you again next time. And until then, cheers.