Dave and Molly Sept 11 Kalae

0:00We now return to the Dave and Molly show. Hey, welcome back everybody. Dave and Molly show continues with our friend, Collie. Happy Friday. Hello. Hello. How are you guys today? Good. Ready for a week. We're three to weekend. Three day weekend. Um, why? What are you doing on that day? I wish it's him. Golf tournament. Nice. Oh, nice. I don't know how to work any of this stuff. I just, I'm just, I'm just, I mean, I've really, I've done this golf tournament multiple times, but it, and it always starts like at 11 o'clock and they, but they have a breakfast thing and everything. So I usually am flying out there. I missed the breakfast. I'm all rattled and it's everything. Well, this time, having the morning off, sleep in a little bit, get there, take full advantage of the big breakfast. Is it a fundraiser? Uh, it's, uh, cotton. Uh, they've gotten classic for meals on wheels. Oh, cool. See, you're doing, he's doing philanthropy. Yeah, so I'm doing the work of the people. Yeah, often does.

1:00When we're off. If we're, he's flandering. We're off. He's flandering. Flandering, not to be confused. Phil and tropical. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. So, uh, the purpose. That'd be good. Yeah. Well, fun that you guys have. We've talked about it. Like you guys make your own schedule. So that's kind of the benefit to be an in charge of yourself. It's the one benefit, right? I know. Well, uh, uh, and then you, uh, you, you got some fun stuff. Um, and two, back to back days tonight. Yes. And tomorrow morning, both involve football. Yeah. That is fantastic. Well, I told Dave, cause I cared little about the game itself, but he has the add-off. And then I was like, actually, I'm going to a high school football game tonight, and I was watching the coops of our morning. But I'm more excited about the social engagements around it. So we have friends coming over for, we call it nacho, nacho, MF Friday. Okay. Okay. My friend coined it like I swear 15 years ago. Okay. And then we've maintained it. So what?

2:00So what? So what? When you're talking, like when you're talking back and forth, you say the real words. Yeah. MFing. Yeah. Yeah. So, so what happens for this? You guys, you're making nachos. Yes. Everybody has a nacho. And then you go to the game or do you go to the game and then have the nachos? The games now are six o'clock, which you see. Okay. Yeah. Mead versus a school out of the tri cities that I can't think of. Mead. Chioana. Chioana, which is a good team. Well, mead's good. Yeah. Mead is like the favorite to win the GSO. We're hoping. Yeah. So we'll see, but yeah. So the friends are coming over before the game. Okay. Luckily. Yeah. Do you know anybody who's playing in the game? Well, my son's on the team, but he's injured. Oh. Yeah. But all these friends that are coming over, they've got boys on the team. Okay. Oh, perfect. Yeah. Have fun. And so, yeah, we'll do that. And then the game will be done early, so depending on how everyone feels, maybe they'll go have a drink somewhere. Boy, you see that's that's whenever it gets really good when it's like you have the pre-funk.

3:03Then you have the actual thing. And then the thing ends up like, hey, do you guys want to just come on over and do this? Right. Or are we going to all do this together? Yeah. Make a night of it. I know. Well, my friend I was on a walk with her yesterday. And she's like, well, I don't want to be like, I'm going to have a children's home. Like a children's event. Like, I want to be tamed. Yeah. Going to a high school football game. Yeah. And I'm like, okay, I guess good point. Good point. Good point. Yes. Very good point. So, yeah, think that else can go have a cocktail at someone's house. Or we've been talking about it's a union stadium is up in Mead. And it's on old market street. And there's a bar called the Lariat, which I have not been to. But we've been talking about hitting that place up. Oh. Since our boys started playing football three years ago at your. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that should be fun. And then, but we can't get crazy tonight because as I mentioned, Cougs play tomorrow, nine o'clock kickoff. Yeah. And we got family coming over. We're going to do. Is it just family tomorrow? Just my parents. So be very relaxed. Yeah. And you're going to have you're going to have drinks for the nine o'clock.

4:04Always mimosa. Yeah. Do you do mimosa with champagne or per seiko? Oh, both. Usually though, it's just the giant bottle of cooks mixed with. Oh. Oh, okay. You don't need to. I don't like champagne. I like per seiko better. It's a little sweeter. It's a little sweeter. It gives a headache. I don't know. Oh. But it doesn't have to be expensive. Yeah. Per seiko. But just, I don't know. I feel like a lot of times I'm. Well, Per seiko is usually sweeter. A lot of times like a nicer champagne. I feel like they're more dry. Yes. Yes. I think that is the thing. Yeah. So yeah, we don't discriminate. Then I have time to take a nap. And then I am see an event tomorrow for a big brother's big sisters. Oh, so you're going to have to be somewhat, you know. Under control. You can't like pass out after the food or game. Right. And then try to reroute me for. Yes. And Dave, do you live at home alone? Alone. Yes. My daughter is there in and out. See, I still have to set example for the people around me. I can't be like, well, I was drunk Friday night after the high school football game. Well, I'm drunk again this morning at 11 o'clock for the KUGAR football game.

5:09But then you're going to do a charity event for the community. Yes. So, um, yeah, for big brother's big sisters, um, where's the Hemingstein Center and. That's where we're doing our event. Oh, wow. The same thing at event. Nice. Yeah. I've never done anything in there. So I want to hear all about it. Okay. Yeah, I don't know it well either. I think I've been there one time for the. I need to look. I don't think. I don't know. I don't want to. Is it like a, is there an auction thing to and like a hole? The whole deal. Okay. I'm really curious about how they're setting it up. How everything is going to work. Because are you in charge or do you have like organizers? Wow. It's me and my friend Mary. She's co-chair, but she's been a little distracted with the fires and all. Right. So I mean, we have a committee of course, but mostly it's like. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. But we've never been there. They have very strict rules about alcohol and. Uh, uh, auctioning alcohol. And you can't have donated alcohol. The liquor board was very hard on them because they have a bar somewhere in

6:09Kentucky like a new. Are they allowing alcohol at the games now or something? They've had wine, uh, wine and beer and in some of the. So I don't know if you get a hard liquor there. And so the liquor board is in general, very, very strict, but they have rules, but I will say. Their prices compared to all the other venues in town are amazing. Oh, that's a rental price. It's really, really good for nonprofits. Yeah, sometimes I'm in a really beautiful space. And I'm just thinking of the overhead. Yes. I'm not an event organizer. So I don't know, but like there is a benefit if you're actually trying to raise money. Sometimes like when the overhead is lower, you're hoping you're going to be able to raise that money. I know. And people like, we like it when you have it here. Here. Well, that's great, except it's $7,000 to be there. So do you want your money to go to paying the rent for someplace? Or do you want us to maybe we just make the fun ourselves? But I, that it's a really nice venue. They have a little outdoor area, like a little teeny balcony type thing. And there's windows on either side.

7:10So it's really pretty. Have you hosted this event? No, not obviously there, but like connected with that group. I have in years past. It hasn't been an annual thing. And I had a little sis when I first started in Spokane. It was 2006. Oh my gosh. She was 12, 13 years old. And I remember I started at our old station. And I was on the morning, they put me on the morning show. And I was like, I have no kids. I have all this time in the day. So they hooked me up with this girl named Kat. And now she's like this wonderful woman who has a little family of her own. Her and her husband are nurses. They have two kids. They live in the Indian Trail neighborhood. And they're like, you're still keeping touch with them. Yeah. Wow. That's a great story. Yeah, she was an awesome person. I always say people are like, wow, you really made a difference in her life. And I'm like, she was pretty cool. Like, she was going to do well no matter what. It was more like an honor for me and my family to be part of her life.

8:12But yeah, it's a total success story. So how often did you like, once a week, you would take her to things? During that time, it was like, I think one week. So we leave every other week or something like that. And then we just go out and do something. And so it's usually kids who are coming from like a single parent home or some kind of. You wouldn't usually find a kid who has a mom and a dad and a bunch of siblings in this program, right? It's normally like, yeah, the idea is like an adult mentor. But I know there's sometimes where it's. There's so many siblings and not enough enough enough. So I think it's like parents at home, like investing quality, quality time with every single kid. So I know some parents sign their kids up in like situations like that as well. That makes sense. So you were like in your early 20s. And then she was like 12. Yeah, I still remember telling her when I was pregnant with my daughter.

9:12We were at the North Town Mall. We went to the mall. We were eating in the food cart. And I told her I was pregnant with Leia, who's 19 now. Oh my gosh. And so yeah, I was really full circle like she was there when my kids were born. She moved away because her husband that she met right out of high school or even in high school. He was in the military. So they went to Hawaii. They went to DC. And then they moved back. I believe within the last five or six years. But yeah, like we went to her first child's first birthday. And again, I'm like, this is so surreal. It's like her husband, her baby, my two kids that weren't born when I met her. So it was pretty cool. So we casually stay in touch. And then they asked you to host the event. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you will they have you'll tell your story. Yeah. Yeah. So I'll share a couple of pictures. It's like the day cat and I met. I think I have the one from when she graduated. She went to Rogers High School and then one of her cute little family. Is there and you said there's an auction? Do they have an auction here?

10:13Do you have to do it? Yeah, Rosebacks. Oh, good. She's great. Yeah. I think it's amazing. I think it's amazing, man. Those events like like I always have to say yes. And I, you know, do a bunch of them. But when they say, oh, and we have an auction too, how are you with the auction? I was like, I say, you don't have to pay me. We'll work out something else. But get a real auction here because you get your you get your money's worth with. That is always my advice. Yeah. Always. It's like it can turn so there's a pacing to it. Like it can turn so awkward if the person doesn't know what they're doing. Like I've only ever been asked to do it once and it wasn't like a big event or anything. Like there were a couple items. It wasn't that big of a deal. But just in that I could sense like this requires a professional. I had there was one that was a Friday. This is probably four or five years ago. It was after it was after the pandemic. But it was a Friday. It was at the casino. And I was the host and auctioneer. And I was fighting a cold and I'm tired.

11:15It's Friday. I mean, it's like everything that could go wrong was. And it was not only did they have like 12 auction items. Then they had a dessert thing that was its separate auction. So I might by the end of the night I had a horrible headache. I had no voice left. But had there been an auctioneer or just another person. Just to give my voice a break. If you can switch off at least I just always do it for safety. When we first started we couldn't afford an auctioneer. And I just did it. I am seed and I would do the auctioneer. But it was more of a there were 150 people. Yeah. Everybody knew us. We I turned it into a comedy bit. It was joke around. But then that thought was because I knew everybody. I wasn't willing to push certain people. And they said you're if it was strangers. Maybe plus I'm not a professional. But also your auctioneer needs to be willing to make people spend money. And when you personally know somebody's financial situation you're like.

12:16Oh, she's. You know or you know you get him into a battle and you're like, oh God. What have I done to this person? No, this is horrible. That's funny. And so it's decided like just get a professional. We have Tom Sherry who does ours. He does great. Yeah. He's fun. Yeah. I feel like the last time I went and he was the auctioneer. I was. Oh, well, I was having fun because I feel like rarely am I just in the audience at the. Yes. Yeah. It's so fun. It was so fun to bid people up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did inadvertently get a few things that didn't mean again. You're just in there to pump up the numbers. You know it rose sold me rose sold me my. My headstone. Yeah. My plot. That was a rose thing. Yep. She tried really hard. I jumped in at a thousand dollars. And she's like. Yeah. I mean, she started at about a thousand and one dollar. I'm sorry. Like 1500 and then she's slowly realized like, oh boy, this isn't going to happen. How much is it worth though?

13:17Like $4,500. Yes. So we're always going to repackage it. And I should do that. I still have it. Obviously, it's. That doesn't expire until you do. Because that wouldn't make sense. Like only good till 20, 20, sorry. Sorry. But her. I'm dying. We were going to package it. We were going to try to get some like parasailing and or parachute or bungee jumping. And then we were going to package it together as a thing and be like, here it is. And in case anything goes wrong, you already have your funeral plot. That's so funny. But I almost had it sold to one of our listeners. Somebody somebody died and they said, hey, where these people need a plot and they don't have a lot of money. How much would you want? And I said, I'll do it for what I paid for it. I'm not going to try to make money on it. But then they didn't need it. Still for sale. Why did you come back to life? You have a different plan for when you die? Well, my mom goes, why would you want to be it? And you're not going to know anybody there. And that's cemetery. And I won't be dead. And it's close to my house. And actually, it's the cemetery. The fire went through it. I believe.

14:17Well, so Mary, whose house got lost. Her parents are at the veterans. They're on the bluff. They're buried on the bluff of that thing and that got decimated. And she said, so not only is my house gone, my, where my parents are buried got also just all of it. But it's there. It's like in that area. I just. Oh, yeah, I have a different plan. Okay. I mean, I don't really have a plan, but I don't. Do you have a plan, Dave? I have a plan for any. Where would you like to be laid to rest and do you have a thousand dollars? Yeah. I'm not sure. No. Do you think I want to be sprinkled somewhere, though? I don't. I don't think I want to be where. Yeah. I think once I think I'm okay with that. Like I. I want to consume less space as possible so they can. Turn me into, you know, little thing. A little. Do you think that. So do you want there to be a place where people can go. To visit you because none of my only my one grant.

15:19I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Well, maybe. Like most of my family, there is no place where I can go see them on a plot. They were all spread. I don't know. Because I think for me, I like. Someone explained that to me. They're like, it's so that the people who are still here can like have a place to go. Okay. Remember you. Because I. Yeah, I don't care. I think like that's sad when you have a tombstone and one day, not long after you died, no one's going to know you. Right? No. It's just. Like your great grandkids probably aren't going to go to your headstone. No. Regularly. Right? No, or at all. Yeah. Here's what makes me think of it. Spreading ashes is what I think. But what if you could do, what if you could do both? What if you were in like a little. Yeah. Earn and then you were also. Uh, you know, buried in that. Yeah. And you take up less space. Okay. But then people still could come see. Okay. But that's how they do it. That's like my plot is not. It's for an earn. It's small. But it's, it's like a.

16:19I have to get the paperwork out and look at it again. But it's like a. Black and then a thing on the ground. And it says close to the walking path for your loved ones. Easy access. See that's good. Yeah. But it would be definitely cremation. And then but like Jack is in an earn in my mom's bedroom. Um, I know a lot of people. That's what they do. Uh, have a plaque somewhere. Is this pay for cremation to. Yeah. I am not joking. Do not get rid of that. I think it's a great. Yeah. Cause you want to get cremated. At least it's paying me for that. It's paying for everything. Yeah. Here's the thing. I said it's the one thing we know for sure. We're going to use one day. You buy a trip to Mexico. I bought a trip to Mexico last year. I never used it. I'm pushing it forward into this. Auction because I can't go to Mexico right now. The dining day. What part of Mexico? Uh, There's two different places you can go. Seven days. Six, seven days. But it in the thing it said for four people. Well, in the small print, it said for two people and two people under 12.

17:22So they were building it as a trip for four. So it's really a family, a small family, instead of like two couples, which is great for a small family or for just a couple. But for me, it wasn't going to work after I saw the small print. It was a kind of a bummer, but it's going to be great for somebody else. And it's cool. It doesn't expire so often. There's like an expiration date. Well, we talked to them and said, Mary, at the same auction, but a trip to Bali. And a trip to Italy or something. She bought like two trips because we were like kind of the big spenders at the, I was a lower, you know, and then I think she got rid of one of them. That's the thing you buy these things out. Sounds great. And then airline and stuff. But this one's tickets too. This comes with Southwest. Yeah. One time we were with our like two other couples. And we were, they were bidding on this Walla Walla wine weekend. And like they were like, like, you know, how they're making plans like you're making plans at your table. Like, okay, we're going to both put in on it. Because this is for six people. So we'll split the cost. And then it turns out it was like a wine tasting in Walla Walla.

18:27Not a weekend, like not like a hotel. Oh, no hotel. No, no, no, no. So that was so easy. We still went. We had to pay out a pocket. But it was just funny because it's again, they're like, oh, a wine weekend. Yes. Well, little did they know. Yeah, like you're going to go down there and have a wine weekend. And then we're going to only pay for it. It's only paid for like one wine tasting or something. Oh, man. Yeah, I think you have to be careful with that. Yeah. We also have like $3,500 in Alaska airline miles for our auction. Which is going to be good for somebody. Yeah. Good stuff in our office. Will that be a separate thing or will that be paired up with some of these other. I think it's going to be paired up with a trip to Ireland that we're doing. And then we'll get like the castle and all of that. We'll have a Mexico trip that comes with miles. We'll have the Ireland trip because Ireland or Scotland. I can't remember. Oh, so yeah, do you guys have a goal of how much are you trying to race? Yeah, we have it in mind. We'll see how many people are going. Hopefully 300. Hi. We'll see again. We'll see.

19:27Yeah. It's yeah. Yeah. Ben, this, we'll see what's the economy. It really depends like the perfect scenario is the economy is good. It's not anywhere near an election. That's when you get people. Like 2024 was our best year ever because we were far enough out of the. I'm trying to think if that was that was an election year that wasn't a 2024. Yeah. So maybe it was 2023. That's what it was. Then 24 and 25 were little less but 2023 we made the most money we've ever made. It was a new venue. The economy was pretty good. No election. It was like was that the one in the felt field first one at the felt field. We had more people but but and we were far enough out of the pandemic. That was the other thing that set us back huge amount. So how many years have you guys been doing this? 19 Wow. Next year is the 20th. Yeah, you know, big event for the 20th. Yeah. Yeah, I think we started in oh six.

20:28How many kids are you guys helping annually? Probably about 200. That's so many. That's awesome. I love that. And like even when I was talking earlier this week about taking my daughter to college and like how lucky I felt like that I can take time off that we have. We have gas money to get down there and stay in a hotel and I'm like your kid is my kid is 19. She still leans on her parents for so much. So what a blessing to have safety net to help those kids who don't have resources like that. It's I my kids 32 and he still needs. You know it's he just do you need your family like like Christie coming back you know your kids come back and forth when needed. And it is is reasonable especially now so many kids are moving back in with their parents. It just makes more sense. And if they have parents and if not like what a cool organization to me like hey we've got you we're going to help you out. We have we have birth parents who are a holes too and they like actively work against these kids trying to make their life more difficult while we're trying to help them.

21:28It's like not only did you abandon them. They're in foster care. You didn't take care of them. Now they're 18 and you won't even. Give them their ID if it gets accidentally mailed to your house. What is wrong with you like that's it really is. Yeah. It's crazy and they say biologically like biologically no matter what you've lived through like you are connected to those your blood. And so those kids it's hard to make that they know what happened to them but it's hard to make that cut because of where they came from. Exactly. Exactly right. And they still want their love they still want their acceptance and from an outsider it's like I just want to help you but yeah. It's a good thing we feel good about it. Hopefully I hope you do well with your auction. Thank you. I'll be really interested to see what the venue is like and how much money you raise to see what. Like get a temperature read on what's going on out there because. I have concerns about the economy and raising money. You and you haven't been to an event there. Uh-uh. Yeah. Okay.

22:28I'll take notes. Take notes. I'll come back and I'll tell you guys not on Monday. But on Tuesday. That's right. When I see you back. Once you dare try to talk to somebody. And then when is Sam back. He comes back Tuesday. Oh yeah. Maybe I'll be I don't know what I'm talking to you. I'll talk to you next week. Well we we we you should come in. Okay. All right. Bye. Have a good weekend. You too. I'll uh. Enjoy. Enjoy my house. High school football and college football. And then you should take the next level. It should most Sunday is pro. Just watch a little bit of pro. And then you could say I watch football at all levels this weekend. Maybe. What is it? If the TV's on in my house somewhere. Yeah. Counts. Okay. It'll guarantee the TV will be on. Okay. I just don't know if I'll be in front of it. Okay. I'm going to be in front of it. For Sunday, just the game having a game on. Even if I got stuff to do, it's like I'm good. I don't know. I don't have to be actively watching. Yes. Yes.