Speaker 1: Here's what we do for you.
Speaker 2: On Fridays at eight eighteen, we bring you the Founder
Speaker 2: six pack. We ask questions outside sounds good, outside of
Speaker 2: the realm of sports, just to give you an idea.
Speaker 2: And it is the holiday season. It is the Christmas
Speaker 2: time of year, so mine is a Christmas theme.
Speaker 1: Just so you know. Your favorite Christmas carol or song?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: That's a great question.
Speaker 4: A song like that I hear on the radio. I
Speaker 4: love the baby Please Come Home the Christmas. I don't
Speaker 4: want to sing, but I love that version. The Darlene
Speaker 4: Love version of that song is my favorite.
Speaker 2: What about Darlene Love? Okay for me? A little bit
Speaker 2: off the beaten path. I'm sure not many people know
Speaker 2: about it. My favorite Christmas album is Vince Gill's Christmas.
Speaker 3: Oh It's excellent. That's a great pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So there is a song called Till the Season Comes
Speaker 2: Around Again. And I'm going to be very honest. I
Speaker 2: like a good once in a while. I do release
Speaker 2: the emotions.
Speaker 1: No, I do. I like to release the emotions.
Speaker 2: I can be a very emotional person when it comes
Speaker 2: to my family, when it comes to my friends, when
Speaker 2: it comes to the people I work with, it can
Speaker 2: be very emotional. Sometimes I get too emotional. I get it.
Speaker 2: It's one of my many faults. But that song hits
Speaker 2: me really hard and I love listening to it. My
Speaker 2: wife will tell me turn it off because it makes
Speaker 2: her emotional. For me, I love it and it makes
Speaker 2: me think of the people I have in my life,
Speaker 2: but the people I don't have in my life. So
Speaker 2: it is my favorite Christmas song. Okay, fire away you.
Speaker 4: I want to know. I've got one Christmas question for you,
Speaker 4: but I'll save it. I want to know from you, Chef.
Speaker 4: I know your son Ron's Anti Ghost. He plays guitar,
Speaker 4: he sings. Are you a musician in any capacity? And
Speaker 4: if you're not, If.
Speaker 3: You're not, what instrument would you love to be great at?
Speaker 1: I would love to be able to play the guitar.
Speaker 2: I would like a Who's Deck or Alex Rick or
Speaker 2: what both both. I don't have a musical bone in
Speaker 2: my body. To my son's credit, and he's referring to
Speaker 2: my son Sean, who is that writes the songs and
Speaker 2: is the lead guitars and singer for a band called
Speaker 2: Anti Ghost. They started in Grand Rapids actually, and they
Speaker 2: play a lot of Grand rapid shows.
Speaker 1: I think they're very good, but it's alternative rock.
Speaker 2: He's self taught, didn't take one lesson, very impressive.
Speaker 1: Has taught himself.
Speaker 2: So he can play the guitar, the acoustic guitar, the
Speaker 2: elect guitar, acoustic guitar, the bass guitar, and he can
Speaker 2: play drums too. He can play all those instruments, and
Speaker 2: he's taught himself to play them all. And I remember
Speaker 2: when he was a kid. He would come down. He
Speaker 2: would in the basement. He would put headphones on and
Speaker 2: he would take his guitar and play while listening to
Speaker 2: the music that I grew up on, the music I love.
Speaker 2: So it's a big influence on him. But I don't
Speaker 2: have a musical bone in my body. Have you ever
Speaker 2: played an instrument?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I play bass.
Speaker 4: Actually, my brother's music, right, that's what you hear underneath here,
Speaker 4: that's my brother, Miles Valle.
Speaker 3: He's down in the Wow.
Speaker 1: It's really good.
Speaker 4: And he he's the same way chef. He's self taught.
Speaker 4: He drums, he plays guitar, he sings all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's really good. I love them. Yeah, you should be
Speaker 1: proud of him. I really like it.
Speaker 2: I'll be Honestly, I thought this was like a country
Speaker 2: big time country star underneath.
Speaker 3: Milly drink it to the bottom.
Speaker 1: This is really good, really good.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Okay, and congratulations to him in a
Speaker 2: happy Holidays to him.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Favorite Christmas tradition.
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: For me?
Speaker 4: It's kind of gotten tougher over the years, but it's
Speaker 4: definitely cutting down the Christmas tree.
Speaker 3: We always go as a family. We get a real
Speaker 3: tree every year.
Speaker 4: It's either a Fraser fur or blue spruce, and we
Speaker 4: have a great time of going to Formattag's Christmas Tree
Speaker 4: Farm out here on the West Side, and.
Speaker 3: We just make a whole day out of it. We
Speaker 3: make an event out of it. You get hot schalk.
Speaker 1: Do you decorated that night?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so you bring it back, you put it
Speaker 1: up and then you decorate it.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we usually stop.
Speaker 4: We stopped for dinner and drinks afterwards, and we still
Speaker 4: got the Christmas tree tied to the roof of the car,
Speaker 4: and it's great.
Speaker 1: Have you got when do you guys do it? Have
Speaker 1: you already done it? Yep?
Speaker 4: We'd usually do it the weekend, like the Friday after
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving is what we aim.
Speaker 2: For who started that tradition? Your dad, my parents? Yeah,
Speaker 2: God love them. Way to go. Uh, that is so neat.
Speaker 2: I hope more and more people do that. I'm gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. We have a fake tree. I
Speaker 2: mean a lot of people do. We store it away
Speaker 2: and we put it back up. Kids are all over
Speaker 2: the place. There's no excuse. But we turned to that
Speaker 2: a while ago. My favorite Christmas tradition, and this is
Speaker 2: a selfish one, admittedly, I write a letter to every
Speaker 2: one of my kids every year, a one page letter,
Speaker 2: and I put it away.
Speaker 1: I've done it.
Speaker 2: Since they were born and they've never read them. So
Speaker 2: it'll give them an idea of what was going on
Speaker 2: in their life and how I viewed their life or
Speaker 2: their year that time.
Speaker 3: Is awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So every Christmas Eve, everybody goes to bed. I stay up,
Speaker 2: I put on the Vince gild album and I write
Speaker 2: a one page sometimes it's two page letter on how
Speaker 2: proud I am or some of the things that I've
Speaker 2: noticed that took place in my kids' lives.
Speaker 1: That's what we do, and that's what I do.
Speaker 2: Anyway, And I put it in a folder and it's
Speaker 2: in a filing cabinet, and when I'm gone, I'll give it.
Speaker 2: My kids can take it and read through it and
Speaker 2: share it with their children.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll change that.
Speaker 2: Maybe I might give it to them someday, maybe when
Speaker 2: they get married, you know, or maybe when my daughter
Speaker 2: graduates from MSU next year.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's when I'll open it up and give it
Speaker 1: to them. We'll see what happens, all right, last question
Speaker 1: or Okay, you got another?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got my second one for you.
Speaker 4: I want to know the best Christmas present you ever received,
Speaker 4: could have been as a kid, could have been as
Speaker 4: an adult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably a baseball glove. You know.
Speaker 2: When I got a baseball glove, I mean I would
Speaker 2: used to sleep with it. I used to wear it
Speaker 2: every day. So that or my first football. I used
Speaker 2: to take the full ball and walk around the house
Speaker 2: and just climb up the football and then flip it,
Speaker 2: climb down the football, flip it. And I would do
Speaker 2: that when I went to school too, I would walk
Speaker 2: down the halls and do that constantly.
Speaker 1: One of those two is an easy one.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, as an adult, if I can
Speaker 2: have two answers here, my family got me a driver.
Speaker 1: The tailor made sim two.
Speaker 2: That was a great Christmas present, and I'm expecting more
Speaker 2: golf gifts this year.
Speaker 1: How about you.
Speaker 3: Let's hope you can hit them straight with that thing.
Speaker 4: For me, guaranty there living on the West Side and
Speaker 4: growing up on the West Side as a diehard Detroit fan,
Speaker 4: going to games in Detroit was always a bit more
Speaker 4: of an event. And I remember when I was I
Speaker 4: believe I was a freshman in high school, or maybe
Speaker 4: I was an eighth grade but my parents surprised us
Speaker 4: with we knew we were going to the Lions game.
Speaker 4: We go to one every year, at least back then
Speaker 4: we did. So we were going to one Lions game,
Speaker 4: our big Lions game, taking on the Saints, I think
Speaker 4: it was, And then randomly we found out that we
Speaker 4: were going to the Pistons game the night before, and
Speaker 4: we were just so excited that we were going to
Speaker 4: get to go see a Pistons game. We got tickets
Speaker 4: to that we were going to do a double whammy
Speaker 4: for the weekend. Pistons on Saturday, Lions on Sunday. That
Speaker 4: was I just remember being so shocked, so happy, so
Speaker 4: enamored and excited to be in the Palace at that time.
Speaker 2: And then ford Field. You're easily pleased, all right. Last question.
Speaker 2: Favorite Christmas movie for me, it's Christmas Story. We put
Speaker 2: it on from Christmas morning and it stays on the
Speaker 2: TV all day long, twenty four hours of Christmas on
Speaker 2: TBSD and t we just let it roll. It's my
Speaker 2: favorite Christmas movie because it makes me think of the
Speaker 2: kids when they were young. Not for me, you know,
Speaker 2: per se, but from when my kids were young. And
Speaker 2: the secondary question to that would be, do you consider
Speaker 2: this is an old bit Diehard? But I have Yeah,
Speaker 2: is it a Christmas movie?
Speaker 4: That's the age old question. I why not power to
Speaker 4: you if you consider it a Christmas movie.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great movie. I don't consider it
Speaker 4: a Christmas movie. My favorite though, quickly you're without a
Speaker 4: Santa Claus. I know it's a little bit off.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 3: But oul Miser and heat Miser, I love that. It's
Speaker 3: just a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like Wonderful I like Wonderful Life as well. For
Speaker 2: Christmases is underrated, by the way, it's pretty funny die
Speaker 2: Hard is if it's a Christmas movie, Why isn't die
Speaker 2: Hard too?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean diehard. I don't believe is a Christmas movie.
Speaker 2: If people want to consider it, I don't hold it
Speaker 2: against them. But shoot them up, you know, killing people,
Speaker 2: hanging people with chains and stuff. I just don't think
Speaker 2: that's the Christmas spere