Hey everybody welcome to the cripes cast I'm your host Charlie Barons this week my guest is Packers play-by-play

announcer Wayne Lairby we had a really fun interview of course a lot of you saw the first time

sportscaster video we did last week so I asked Wing to come on the Crapes

cast and he said yes and we covered a lot in this interview including Wayne's

early days where he snuck into the Boston Garden to do play-by-play on his tape recorder.

Really great story and a bunch of other stuff we'll get to it in a second but first I want to actually talk to you about my first job and I promise there's a reason for it

But we'll get to that we'll get to that we'll get to that but when I was 10 or 11, I started working at this place called the

Yarn House. And it's exactly what sounds like. It was a house with a bunch of yarn in it.

And it was in this building from the 1800s and it just stuck out like a sore thumb from all of its surroundings.

It was in this very suburban area and my job was to kind of do everything I cut the

grass I clean brush I painted and of course I sorted the yarn I was bad at

that I'm gonna be honest with you I was not not not the best yarn sorter but you know I got better over time anyway the woman who owned the yarn house was named Shirley Grady and she was as unique as the business she started.

Shirley grew up during the Great Depression,

which means if she ever threw anything out,

I was not there to witness it. She was unconventional, I guess, to say the least.

She was a Catholic woman with the kids to prove it.

She had 12, 10 of which survived childhood.

Her husband passed away in the 80s and I always

knew her as a strong independent woman who lived through tragedy but you know

never let that dominate her disposition she had just this amazing

lust for the simplest things in life but what I admire most about Shirley is she

just she didn't give a shit about what anyone thought about her.

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