Kurt Pfister has quite a life story, spanning a radius of 5,000 miles. He was born in Miami, moved to Detroit as a kid, and left to go to school at the University of Hawaii.
Kurt tells us how a hobby of creating T-shirts became his full time career, how he kept white t-shirts white while living with college students, and why on Earth he left Hawaii weather for Michigan's.
Once he came back to Michigan, Kurt created shirts and more for some very profile entities, including Bob Seger, the Red Wings in their glory days, and more. He shares some stories of waiting for the final horn, and how quickly large quantities needed to be produced.
Today, Kurt's Kustom Promotions also works with many local businesses to provide promotional items for all times of organizations, causes, and events.
Resources:
Kurt's Kustom Promotions on the web: https://kurtskustom.biz/
Jon Gay from JAG in Detroit Podcasts - http://www.jagindetroit.com/
Trish Carruth from The Personal Jeweler - https://www.thepersonaljeweler.com/
Lisa Bibbee from Keller Williams - http://soldbylisab.com/
Andrea Arndt of Dickinson Wright - https://www.dickinson-wright.com/
And if you'd like to know more about the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce, or join, find them here: https://www.royaloakchamber.com/
Note: Transcripts are automatically generated.
Episode 12 - Kurts Kustoms
Jon: [00:00:00] Welcome back into the rock pod from the Royal Oak chamber of commerce. I am John Gay from Jag in Detroit podcasts. I am at
Lisa: [00:00:11] Lisa, Bibbeeyour local neighborhood realtor with Keller Williams advantage
Trish: [00:00:14] I'm Trish Carruth, third generation jeweler, and owner of your personal jeweler.
Andrea: [00:00:19] I am Andrea. Arndt an attorney at Dickinson Wright.
Jon: [00:00:22] With us today is Kurt. Pfister from Kurt's Kustom promotions. We have so much talk about with you here. Kurt. I feel like we could talk about Hawaii for about four hours, but we're going to kind of keep a little bit of a limit on that, but briefly, if you could tell us the story of how you kind of went from Michigan out to Hawaii to study oceanography and then transitioned to the t-shirt printing, I'm fascinated by your journey
Kurt: [00:00:43] here.
Ironically, I'm originally from Miami and, uh, my dad, uh, moved the family to Michigan when he became a head surgeon at one of the hospitals here, back in the early sixties. So I went to Highland park high school, but I was always coming back to the oceanography and the Marine biology stuff that we learned about when I was in middle school, down there.
And the first year in high school. Well, anyway, he got to Michigan, went through high school here. I wasn't thinking about going into medicine, but, uh, my dad suggested a Marine biology. So living in Detroit suburbs, we knew that Michigan has a good oceanographic school, but it's all fresh water, the great lakes.
So I put some applications into several schools like Scripps oceanographic and San Diego and UCLA, but I also applied to Hawaii university. So one night going through the applications, my dad and I. Looked at each other. And he looks at the Hawaiian one and he says, if you don't go, I'm going. So he kind of kicked me out of the house at, uh, and I think I was about 19 at the time.
So that's how I got to Hawaii. Just to study Marine biology oceanography as a three days a week student I'd lived looking for part-time jobs and because living in Florida and living in Miami and surfing pretty well, I found that I could get, uh, surfing instructors job at the Hilton Hawaiian village. So the Hilton hired me and of course, on the beach, we didn't have any uniforms.
Anyway, irony comes into this point because back in Florida, in the ninth grade, I had a silkscreening class, how to print cardboard, how to print other things. So I went over to the, uh, JC Penney's bought a couple half dozen white shirts and cut the stencil for the Hilton Hawaiian village logo, printed up some white teas with my name above the word surfing instructor on the left chest and the big Hilton logo on the back.
And then I got down to the beach and a couple of the beach guys. The kids wanted to get shirts too. So guess what? I'm back to the JC. Penney's I'm printing up some more shirts. And this is all water basing. I was living in an apartment about two blocks off of Waikiki. We had a back balcony, a Lanai, so I would take the shirts out, lay them on the ground on the balcony and the sun would warm them up, dry them out, and I'd take them down to the beach.
Well, about a week later, the hotel day manager for the Hilton comes walking down in his Aloha shirt, in his slacks. And he, uh, wants me to come over and talk with him. So I'm over in a corner somewhere and he says, In a stern voice, where did you get those shirts? And it's kind of like, oh, I'm in trouble now.
And, uh, ironically he said there was a lady that had a small shop in the Hilton lobby that sold the Aloha shirts. And she was thinking about selling. So I went to meet with her the next day after class. And I said, what would you want to put on there? She said, well, on some of the shirts, we might want to put beach bunny.
And on the other, some of the shirts you might want to put surf bum. And I thought, well, as a great idea, so, and came up with some prices and went back to her. She called me about a week later and said, well, we want to do about 72 shirts. We'll do 36 with a beach bunny and 36 with the surf bum printed the shirts up.
And fortunately, as they say, that's the, the, how we got into the business. The one thing I have to remind everybody that I'm in an apartment with three other college guys, and I'm printing these shirts on a countertop, taking them out the back door, through the bedroom to lay them out on the balcony, to let them dry.
And that the three guys that I had as roommates. These guys are always at the beach are always at school. So I had enough time to print the shirts that I was doing. Hey, Kurt,
Lisa: [00:04:07] I got one question for you. How in an apartment with four dudes living in it, did you keep white? T-shirts white?
Kurt: [00:04:17] Yeah, it was a little difficult, but, uh, it wasn't that bad.
It was
Andrea: [00:04:20] maybe some tie with pizza sauce and, and other food.
Kurt: [00:04:27] You know what that time, the tie dye really blew up because you had Haight Ashbury. This is back in, I moved to Hawaii in 67. So Haight Ashbury in San Francisco was a big, big tie dye, the hippie era and all that good stuff. So the tie dyes were pretty prevalent over and over at the time.
Well,
Andrea: [00:04:44] Kurt, you are speaking with the Royal Oak chamber of commerce here. So why did you come back to Michigan if you were living in frickin paradise in Hawaii?
Kurt: [00:04:57] Well, the container industry started to becoming one of the biggest things in the world. Nowadays, you see container ships all over the world and 73, I think it was, we had a dock strike on the west coast.
The entire west coast was shut down by the Longshoremen's union. And it lasted about a month, month and a half. And our illustrious Dick Nixon didn't do much about it at the time. So imagine living on an island and you don't get your canned peaches or your bags of, oh, by the way, you don't get your gasoline.
So we were rationing a lot of stuff and of course, shirts are getting ration. I wasn't getting my shipment of, you know, 150, 200 cases of shirts. So I didn't know how long this was going to last. So I kind of packed up the old kit bag and moved back here and moved back with my mom over and lay through village for the time being.
And then I found a small little shop up on main street in Royal Oak. Opened up. Uh, it was about a thousand square feet. Started printing four colors on a manual press, and that is leading up to the next. Stage of Bob Seger.
Lisa: [00:05:59] I was just going to ask, since you're talking about the next stage, I heard rumors that you've done t-shirts for quite a few big name, rock star clients.
Kurt: [00:06:08] The concession agent that I didn't know who he was when he first walked in the shop, uh, gave me this. Four color artwork with a, a big giant bullet on the front with a couple of girls wrapped around it. And then Bob Seger. Now this is before he got the national, when he got really popular. So, you know, Beatles and rolling stones.
Yeah. But who's Bob Seger. So he was, uh, the concession manager for Bob for awhile. So we were doing stuff for the first couple of five or six months. And then when Bob got his first national record, We ended up moving to a different location, but this was down in Ferndale. We bought an automatic press and we're running about 500 shirts an hour.
But getting back to Lisa's question, we've done stuff for ZZ top REO, Speedwagon, some beach boys stuff. When they were at pine knob, that was about it really. I mean, the, for the, because the concession manager for Bob Seger knew a couple of the concession managers for other guys. And of course, when they came into a certain area, they might be out of stock.
So they needed somebody locally to print for them. So that's where we ended up getting to do stuff for them. But when Bob hit the big time, we were pushing about 700 pieces an hour, 24 hours a day, six days a week,
Jon: [00:07:16] you enjoy that you are on a first name basis with Bob I'm. I'm, I'm just noticing that if anybody else listening to just pick it up on
Kurt: [00:07:21] that.
No, no, I'm not. I met him twice. That's been about it, but very nice guy, just a, and he was very appreciative of what we've been doing for him for a couple of years. So it was nice to meet him once or twice. And I had a backstage pass for the all the five years that I was doing stuff for him, but I'd never got to the concerts.
It's a
Trish: [00:07:36] bummer. So Kurt, can you tell me more about the automated presses that you just mentioned? How does it work?
Kurt: [00:07:43] Anybody know what a lazy Susan is circular on a table. It spins around. Okay. Now, if you magnify that you put. Large frames in it and you line them up perfectly. And each frame is going to be a certain color.
You could be printing. There are automatics that have 14 heads, as they say. So you could be putting 14 colors in there. Other presses are smaller than that. And once you get them lined up and registered and you put the inks into each one of those frames, turn the button and you're loading one little palette where you would put the shirt.
Then there's another somebody standing right next to you. That's going to take the shirt off when it comes around full circle. So you could be printing usually a t-shirt every couple of two or three seconds, literally.
Lisa: [00:08:25] Yeah. Kurt. I was going to ask you about that. So I had a friend that was in the business many years ago and it was pretty fascinating cause it is, it's a whole like conveyor belt system of putting these shirts on, printing them and then sticking them through a dryer.
So what is your capability like how many shirts can you print? Like
Kurt: [00:08:43] in an hour? At one point when the, one of the automatics that we had, we were doing figuring about 750 an hour. Wow.
Lisa: [00:08:50] That's crazy amount of t-shirts
Kurt: [00:08:52] you see, you know that with Seger on the road? Um, we would be doing 24 6, and then of course, after they finished the first concert or whatever, they would pick up about half of a 50 foot container of shirts and belt buckles and posters and all the other stuff.
But we were only doing the shirts. So they'd go on the road. Let's say they're in San Diego and they finish a concert. They know basically what they sold that night. The next morning they would call me and say, we're going to Los Angeles would be there in two or three days. We need to have you ship. Let's say 50 or 75 cases.
Just take them down to Metro airport, put them on the Freightliners and then hold for pickup at lax. So we had a pipeline of constantly air freighting. To the cities that they would be coming into, pick them up, get the shirts sold, and then they would go onto the next city and we would keep replenishing their inventory by taking them down to the airport.
And how
Andrea: [00:09:41] specific were they in their instructions? Were they saying. Oh, well, we need this many v-necks we need this many, this color and size, or is it more left up to your
Kurt: [00:09:50] discretion? Sure. And it was a white baseball Jersey with a black sleeve black three quarter length sleeve, and it had the Bob Seger logo on the front.
And that was it. The same shirt they would sell at the concert nowadays. You're right. There is more sophistication and they could have five or six, seven different designs and everything. But back in the day when it got started, it was just. One shirt and they would just say, well, how many cases of small, how many cases of medium?
And, and so
Jon: [00:10:12] on. I know you've had a lot of rock as you've worked with Eve also at the time that you're doing this t-shirt business, kind of a golden age of Detroit sports. You've got a lot of sporting events and a lot of teams winning championships to work for
Kurt: [00:10:25] too. Right. We were fortunate again, when, back in the day, um, there were people in the industry that knew that we had had an automatic press.
And we were able to do large volumes and we had a visit from, um, the starter company back in the day. And, um, they were looking for a secondary press person to run the next upcoming Stanley cup. And ironically, the wings were in the haunted for getting into the, uh, Championships. And they finally did the first year that we were allowed to run the job was the year that the wings got swept by the Islanders.
So we were on the press as they call it, press ready, ready to go shirts, ready to go. And that's what they call the hot market. You don't start printing until the fat lady sings. Until the final gun goes off or whatever. So that's
Jon: [00:11:10] interesting because that's changed to where we are now, because you hear these stories of like, whoever loses the Superbowl, the shirts are already made, but they go to like some third world country.
I don't know if that's a, if that's a rumor or if that's actually the way it works,
Kurt: [00:11:23] part of it is correct. Yeah. They're not making up 20, 30, 40,000. They're usually doing about five or 6,000. It'll be ready to sell at the stadium. Okay. For instance, if we go back to the Philadelphia flyers Redwings, Stanley cup.
The rings did win in Philly after they went four and oh, they swept the Philadelphia flyers while there was another company in Philadelphia. For sure that was ready to print. For the flyers, if they had won, even though they lost four to nothing in games, but that's the way the company works. They'll have the two opposing cities they'll have printers in both cities ready to go and to print.
We were going to do Cleveland Indians back when they played the Marlins, I believe 20, 25 years ago in the world series. But Cleveland lost. 11th ending of the seventh game. And so we turned the lights off on one home. That was
Jon: [00:12:11] 97 if I recall. Yeah, that sounds about
Kurt: [00:12:14] right. Yeah. Yeah. So there are times when, you know, you lose while of the pistons that one year that they were seven seconds away from winning and they got, they lost in seven seconds at the end of the game.
So we didn't do anything for them. It's gotta be such a
Jon: [00:12:26] strange feeling to be ready to do this huge job then up. Just kidding.
Kurt: [00:12:30] Yeah. Well, we get costs for, you know, just being ready to go, but those are the highlights. I mean, those are the Mount Everest. I think you want to call it. Uh, the business that we're in is mainly doing the school districts, the elementary schools, the charter school shirts, restaurants, bars.
We do a lot of stuff for the Royal Oak. Some of the restaurants in there at Ferndale restaurants and. Schools from all the way from Novi out to Harrison township and everything. Kurt, you talked
Andrea: [00:12:54] about the very rich and famous work that you've done, the exciting stuff. Life of celebrities, rock and roll.
And now you're working more with local companies. Michigan-based companies. That's really fantastic to have such a wide range of skills and clients to work with. So can you tell me a little bit about how a small business would work with you to. Maybe print some shirts, uh, do they have to provide you with graphics?
Do you have any like graphic capabilities that, you know, you give ideas to small businesses and do they have options and like types of clothing, that kind
Kurt: [00:13:31] of stuff. Back in the day, back in the caveman screenprinting days, it was a, in a dark room taking pictures of each piece of the artwork that you want to produce, putting it up onto the screen, setting it into the press.
Nowadays you have the computer and they can do the films, breakdown the artwork for you. And yes. Nowadays, we would prefer that the client supply the films or the artwork itself, because again, they're so meticulous in what they want to get done. And it's unfortunate that when you go to a person that's going to design your logo for putting it on the web.
Uh, the resolution doesn't have to be very, very tight and very, very precise. Whereas when we go to do a t-shirt, if you give me a design, that's about two inches by two inches, you want me to blow it up to 10 by 10 inches? The resolution could look like I'm looking through the bottom of a Coke bottle, or you're going to have all the pixelated stuff on there.
That's the difference between the words it was called rostered, R I S T E R. Raster or vector art vector. Art is precise. Pristine. I mean, you can take a two inch by two inch and blow it up to a 50 foot road billboard, and you will not lose any resolution at all. You have to walk the client through. It's almost like an education.
Every time a client walks in a brand new client, you have to teach them. What the industry is about and how it goes about getting stuff done. And for instance, if we go back to the shirts, if somebody wants to do, let's say a Tweety bird picture on the front of a black shirt, well, you can't print yellow ink on a black shirt.
The yellow is going to look like baby poop, green. Literally. I never would've thought of that. Yeah. So you have to put what they call an under base. So we would print the same exact size of the Tweety bird design. In white, just a flat white, what they call under base. And then we could print the yellow bird and the blue eyes and the white pupils and so on and so on.
So it does take a little bit of artistic ability to come up with that. But somebody walks in with, okay. I remember one the bad boys, the pistons, bad boys, a guy walked in with a paper napkin. This is what we want to put on the shirt for the distance. And it was through the pistons themselves, but the guy had designed this in a bar on a paper napkin, and we had to recreate the lettering, the two cross hammers and all the other stuff for him to do.
So time-wise to the first question I ask any client is how soon do you need this? How about this afternoon or tomorrow morning? Well, how many are you going to do while we're going to do 500 now it's not like walking into a FedEx and asking them to do 500 paper copies. They can do that in 10, 15 minutes, but you're talking a totally different realm of printing on a piece of fabric.
So do
Andrea: [00:16:08] you have options of what consumers or business owners can purchase? On your website or do they provide you with the material? Like the t-shirts that they
Kurt: [00:16:19] want are certain instances. When the general public will ask us to supply the product, we have a 800 page catalog. And of course with the COVID, a lot of the companies are not producing catalogs anymore, so you have to go online, but there's what they call a contract services.
We have other companies that like the Bob Segers, they supply their own shirts, like the pistons and the Redwing shirts that we printed. They were supplied by the agency that had the licensing rights. So all we had to do was just print them. So oral we're only charging for the print only on the shirt.
Whereas a lot of times. Somebody can go over to Michael's and buy five shirts and want to get them printed, uh, you know, with a little logo for a birthday party or for an anniversary or something like that. So we have all the capacity to do everything. It's just that, what does the client want to do? So
Trish: [00:17:03] Kurt, I know in addition to t-shirts you also handle promotional products, which I am a big fan of.
Whenever I go to jewelry trade shows, I'm always getting the. Free pens and free totes. What promotional products do you find yourself creating an addition to
Kurt: [00:17:18] t-shirts really it's the, uh, the nature of the client that what they want. We just finished a job for the hemophilia foundation of Michigan. They have a summer camp up in Muskegon, but unfortunately last year, and this year they're not going to be able to have the summer camp.
So they are doing a virtual camp. So they asked us to do a Nalgene water bottle. Now Jean is one of the top water bottles out there. You could take one and throw it against a brick wall and it would not even scratch it probably. And they're also doing a sunscreen last year. We did a paper airplane.
Believe it or not for the kids, we did a puzzle for them. So all of these items that are the promotional products, we have national suppliers that we are able to go to where a licensed promotional products dealer. So we can go and get these things directly from them. We've done blankets with embroidery on them for the hemophilia foundation.
And. We've done stuff for the Crohn's and colitis and for the American cancer a long time ago, the American cancer society would supply us with 1500 shirts for their walk-a-thon. So they already had the shirts. All you had to do to have us do is do the printer.
Lisa: [00:18:21] So Kurt it's been great getting to know all about your business, and I have actually seen a picture of you doing some tandem surfing.
So can you tell us a little bit more about how you got into that?
Jon: [00:18:33] Uh,
Kurt: [00:18:34] when in Rome do, as the Romans do, um, Tandem surfing is similar to, um, what happens with the cheerleaders on the side of the football field, the guys will hold the girls up and do certain poses. Well, they have taken that years and decades ago to another level.
And you actually paddle out with a girl on the board with you, a bigger fatter, wider board. Almost an aircraft carrier surf board.
Jon: [00:19:00] Andrea is laughing because she was thinking the same thing I was, which is that she thought you were going to say a bigger fatter girl
Andrea: [00:19:10] clarified. It's a bigger fatter, wider
Kurt: [00:19:13] surfboard.
Andrea: [00:19:15] You might want a similar weight to yourself to keep it level.
Kurt: [00:19:20] Well, don't forget you have two people on the board as opposed to one, and you need it a little bit more stability. So anyway, but, um, I was working at the beach at the Hilton. Then I had a, there was a girl that was a real short youngster, a like a, a sixth grader.
And she wanted to go surfing. So I took her out for a lesson. She was a local ironically, but anyway, the girl wanted to go surfing. So I took her out on a board for herself. I mean, not her board and I had a board and then we were talking out there just, you know, and she was saying, well, I've seen some tandem surfing.
And I said, yeah, we can do that later on. So she jumped in and said, let's, uh, let's try tandem surfing. So I talked to her dad and mom, and they were happy with that. And there is competition out there at California and Hawaii. Tandem surfing. So you, you have a certain pose. You lift a girl up, you do a certain pose and you hold it.
And the way you surf the wave, there's a degree of difficulty in the judges inside on the shore are going to point you just like they would do it. If you go to a cheerleading convention or a cheerleading competition, I'm sure that the same thing. Certain ways they throw the kids up in the air and the way they stand.
So there is a competition factor on that. So I hope that answers your question, Lisa. Yeah. And there's
Lisa: [00:20:27] such a degree of difficulty in those because what people don't realize, if you haven't gone surfing that platform is constantly moving, then you've got a balance as well as Lyft. And then right behind you, is this wild, alive crashing wave that's coming for you.
Kurt: [00:20:44] Oh yeah. It was fun. You practice on the beach. You're doing the. The lifts on the beach for an hour, an hour and a half to make sure you get everything down. Right. It's just competition. So it was kind of cool. I
Andrea: [00:20:53] enjoyed it. Well, that sounds like a lot of fun. I know I've tried surfing once and I was not a natural at it.
Um, I think it might need to work out a little harder to be good. Uh, Santa Barbara.
Kurt: [00:21:06] Oh yeah,
Jon: [00:21:06] sure. Makes you feel any better. Andrea. When my wife and I were on Maui for our honeymoon, we snorkeled and I am not a good swimmer. Nevermind. A good surfer. And. I accidentally ended up on the coral reef and cut my foot up pretty bad and had to go to urgent care on our honeymoon because I was a dummy and ended up touching the reef by accident.
Lisa: [00:21:29] Oh, but it sounds like you were in love, so it sounds like you had a really good nurse to take care of you.
Jon: [00:21:37] Yes. After she rolls her eyes and said, guess we're not going to nice dinner tonight.
Andrea: [00:21:42] Oh, I was going to suggest that you never made it to the ER.
Oh
Jon: [00:21:49] my gosh. I actually did say to the nurse biotic, you're giving me for like the cut on my foot. Like I can still have cocktails in my ties cause I'm in Hawaii, right? Just, yeah, you can still have a drink. It's fine.
Kurt: [00:22:01] John. I noticed a shirt you've got on there. It looks like a beer shirt. Do I, am I correct?
Jon: [00:22:05] It is a Kona brewing t-shirt, which we, uh, got on our second trip. We actually went to the big island for my wife's 40th birthday. Cause we're obsessed with a Y so corner brewing,
Kurt: [00:22:14] longboard beer, and big wave
Jon: [00:22:16] beer. That's right. Prominently featured in the last several seasons of Hawaii. Five-O which I have to ask you to tell your quick Hawaii Five-O story.
Kurt: [00:22:24] Uh, boy, I was, uh, at the university and I was taking, uh, an acting class as an elective and, um, A gentleman comes in and he sat down and we were in the finals. I was doing a scene out of tea and sympathy. The gentlemen after the class was over the stands up and he hands out his business card, which said independent casting.
And he said that there is a possibility within a year that there may be a new television show. That's going to be filmed entirely in Hawaii. Okay. So I took the cards, stuck out my pocket. Never thought about it. Got a call a couple weeks later. And the guy said, would you like to come over and give us a head sheet, which is, you know, a couple of different poses of your head and your body and everything so that the agency can look at you and see what you look like.
So, happenstance was the next semester I had a photography class, so I took some photos of friend of mine, took some photos. I did some black and whites that took a head sheet over and never thought about it. The first year that Hawaii Five-O came out with, uh, Jack Lord, never even thought about that second season, I got a phone call.
Hey, would you like to be on a segment of Hawaii five Ellen? I'm thinking that this is one of my roomies. That's pulling my leg. You know, who the hell is this? Get the hell off the phone. No, this is so-and-so from independent casting. And I said, all right, fine. So I was shocked and amazed and amazed. He said, well, here's the address?
Be there in a week to the soundstage. Don't shave wear t-shirts and a pair of jeans. Don't shave. So it was a week later. I got a scruffy beard already.
Andrea: [00:23:47] Did you wear one of your t-shirts
Kurt: [00:23:49] that you made? No. Unfortunately the scene that I was in and I ended up becoming a jail cell person, I was in the, in a jail cell with a big Hawaiian guy.
The two of us were in the cell. It's just a ten second, 22nd scene where Jack Lord walks in off stage into what is the jail turns around, looks at the two of us. And it turns to the camera, which is behind another jail bar down the hallway and walks down that hallway. Cut. That was it. That was just that one scene.
So the directors is okay. You sit on the cot and you stand up over there next to the wall. So I'm sitting on the cot and the other guys, the Hawaiian guys standing up, Jack goes back, turns around. Okay, action. So Jack walks onstage looks at us and turns around and walks towards the camera. Okay. I'm standing up, he's sitting down.
We did about five or six, seven of these takes. That was, I mean, the, the thing lasted, uh, not even a half hour, probably which
Andrea: [00:24:46] configuration made the air.
Kurt: [00:24:48] I don't even remember. I've got the tapes downstairs, but I don't remember which one did, but, um, the next season I think I got called again and the guy said, we'd like to have you come down.
And this time was going to be early morning at 6:00 AM walking the streets of hotel street, downtown Honolulu, which was one of the. Red light districts back during world war II. So I said, okay, fine. Where do I meet? He gave me the address. He says, okay, don't shave t-shirts and jeans. And I said, I'm being typecast
Jon: [00:25:17] during quarantine. Last year when we were stuck at home with nothing to do my wife and I actually binged all 250 episodes of the Hawaii. Five-O reboot. That CBS ran over the last 10 years or so. And so we're planning on a trip visiting a wahoo this winter. And one of the touristy things we're going to do is the four hour Hawaii Five-O tour, where you get to see the, where they shot Maghera its house and all the different scenes from the show.
So we're going to kind of geek out
Kurt: [00:25:44] over that. That's so cool. Take a lot of pictures. We'll
Jon: [00:25:47] send it back to your Curt. All right.
Andrea: [00:25:49] So Kurt now it's time for the fishbowl question of the day. Where we pull a totally random question just for you, John, can you pull the fishbowl question of the
Jon: [00:26:03] day? All right, let's see here.
Um, well, this is a good one. I think I might have a guest to it, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Kurt, who is your favorite? Non Michigan-based sports team.
Kurt: [00:26:16] Wow, thank you very much. So I'm, I'm, you know,
Jon: [00:26:22] any allegiances to Miami Hawaii or anywhere
Kurt: [00:26:24] else? No, I've, I've been back in Michigan so long that it's been, you know, ingrained in me for the Michigan teams.
Um,
Jon: [00:26:34] I was
Lisa: [00:26:35] going to dolphins just because,
Jon: [00:26:38] well, there you go. Let's see oceanography in Miami. I was going to see the rainbow warriors of the university
Kurt: [00:26:43] of Hawaii. Well, I, you know, I could too, but, uh, you know, they had a good basketball team quite a while ago. Um, and a good football team, decently, uh, you know, years and years ago.
So. I mean, I would definitely, you know, pass on that, uh, university of Hawaii rainbow warriors, for sure. Hi, well,
Jon: [00:27:00] Kurt Fister from CURT's custom promotions. If somebody wants to get in touch with you for any promotional products, what's your website, social media, best ways to
Kurt: [00:27:07] find you. Kurts custom.biz.
That's K U R T S K U S T O M dot biz.. Or KurtsKustom@gmail.com would be the email. The local number here is 2 4 8 5 4 1 0 2 2 0. And I'm usually able to take calls from seven o'clock in the morning until almost seven o'clock at night.
Trish: [00:27:31] It was great talking to you today. Kurt. Thanks for joining us.
I'm Trish Carruth third generation jeweler and owner of your personal jeweler. I specialize in creating custom engagement wedding rings and fine jewelry. You can find me on Instagram and Facebook at the personal jeweler or on our website, www.thepersonaljeweler.com.
Andrea: [00:27:52] My name is Andrea Arndt. I'm an intellectual property attorney at Dickinson, Wright.
And I help my clients protect their inventions and build their brands. You can find me on LinkedIn and on our website. Www dot Dickinson, wright.com.
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You can find me on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram at sold by Lisa B.
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