Milwaukie

Well, next weekend, the 10th, October 10th, just because we sometimes get a little bit weird about what's next.

I will be at the Endeavor Writing Conference in Milwaukee, Oregon.

I don't know what I'm doing there, except I guess...

Wait,

Milwaukee, Oregon?

Yeah.

It's like a suburb of Portland.

Okay.

And our mission for this deep dive is not just to rattle off some trivia about movies you didn't realize started on a printed page.

We wanna understand the actual business mechanics, right? The creative friction that allowed a small independent publisher sitting quietly in Milwaukie, Oregon, to become the secret R&D lab for the film industry.

And to really understand how they pulled this off, you have to look at the philosophy of their founder, Mike Richardson, way back in 1986.

Right.

And...

Even in downtown Milwaukee, for years, it's been sleepy and quiet.

Ain't that the truth.

And there's been just tons of opportunity.

How

kind of you.

I don't think Freem means any fucking help from word of mouth, but it really does help in downtown Milwaukee because we are such a like sleepy, close-knit, small community down here.

And if you have the support of the community, the local, local community, you're going to get so much fucking support outside too.

I'm showing that on the screen.

Um, and if I look at that and bring up my weather page, it will show, I've sent my weather page for Portland, Oregon, and Well, Milwaukee, Oregon, the lovely Waverly Country Club, where I did my first golf course maintenance work.

And I can look now at the growth potential there, some of the weather parameters, and The cool season growth potential, it looks like it's pretty good growing weather for cool season grass going through the end of September.

The cool season growth potential for the next 10 days is in the green zone for nine out of the next 10 days.

Now, don't cry for Mike Richardson.

He is literally like the boss hog of, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Oregon, like he is huge in the real estate in that town.

Like he owns a good portion of that town.

So he's not, you know, poor by any stretch of the imagination.

It's 78 in Sherwood and Tualatin.

Milwaukee, 78.

Lake Oswego, 78.

And Integrity Air is bringing you this great forecast.

Her book, Blessings and Disasters, A Story of Alabama, is available right now.

Hey, special thanks this episode to Sarah Weil of Maplewood, Minnesota, and Rob Kappa of Milwaukee, Oregon.

Sarah and Rob are part of the LiveWire member community, and they are generously supporting our show with a donation each month, which we are very grateful for because it is literally how we can keep the show going.

So huge thanks to Sarah and Rob for supporting LiveWire.

Additional funding provided by the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the state of Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Live Wire was created by Robin Tenenbaum and Kate Sokoloff.

This week, we'd like to thank member Sarah Will of Maplewood, Minnesota, and Rob Kappa of Milwaukee, Oregon.

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