JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick
From Burgers to Crafts: Michigan’s Sizzling Week of Openings
All right, we'll get back to your calls here in just a second eight hundred eight five nine zero nine five seven eight hundred eight five nine zero W chair just a couple of things to put on your radar as as we are now Certainly in the holiday holiday season the holiday move the whole deal soaring eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant is opening a Johnny Rockets this week, which is up a great spot at the casino They've got great burgers great chicken sandwiches. They've got shakes fries the whole deal. Johnny Rockets is fantastic So once you win a couple of bucks at the the blackjack table, you go over you get yourself a burger It's a it's a great spot a lot of fun kind of a retro kind of vibe. It's great And it is open Sunday through Thursday 8 a.m. Do 11 p.m. And Friday and Saturdays from 8 to 2 a.m The Johnny Rockets is on the main floor at Surrey, you know, so it's it's a perfect spot I can't wait to hit it We like to go up to soaring eagle a couple of times a year. And if there's a Johnny Rockets there, it's fantastic Meanwhile We're wrapping out a couple of different things This idea of a huge telecom hack is Problematic and it feels like we don't actually even know what the problems are And how deep they go if you miss my conversation with Ellen Akashima with the Washington Post I would head on over to wj.com. You can take a listen to it, but this salt Thai food is being called the worst telecom hack in our nation's history and I think that that It's it speaks enough when again. They don't even know the extent of how deep this actually goes Also Donald Trump and his case out of Manhattan Alvin Bragg wanted to basically put it on ice You know when I go to Costco and I buy a couple of steaks I don't cook them all at once I put them in the freezer till when I when I need them, you know down the road It's basically what Alvin Bragg wanted to do with this case Just put it on ice. We'll just wait Donald Trump gets out of office in four years. Then we'll go ahead and And and sentence him to the to the crimes that he was found guilty of by a jury of his peers There's no precedent for that. So a couple of things were rapid about and and now Judge Juan Marchan has agreed to Accept Donald Trump's motion to dismiss the case Trump teams got a file that by December 2nd then the Bragg office will have an opportunity to submit their counter and we'll go from there But many people legal experts believe that this is kind of the The motions to to move these these cases out Meanwhile, something really cool coming to Michigan central this holiday season New retail activations are coming essentially pop-ups and there's a whole host of different ones that are are going to be available to you if you want to You know get a couple of things for Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever James Morello is the founder of Trading Post And he joins me here this afternoon James. It's great to have you Thank you so much. I Love to hear just kind of how you got involved in in bringing all these activations to Michigan central because we're very excited about it Yeah, so I've been working with producing makers markets across the country for about 10 years and most of the pop-ups and then recently since COVID started opening brick and mortar versions of my marketplaces and doing them at a pretty large scale so when Michigan central was ready to activate they reached out to me because they knew that I was used to Doing things very quickly and had a huge roster of creatives and different parts of the country And so I was there man, and I'm so privileged to be able to work with them So tell me a little bit about what we can expect out at Michigan central Well, there's lots of retail. There's fault. There's a coffee shop. There's the official of Michigan central souvenir shop and then our concept which is called that's why Marché is creatives in Detroit in Michigan and in the Midwest, but also connecting the dots creatively with other parts of the country and giving people access to Detroit for the first time in a meaningful way and We've curated it and and created this really department store experience In the the grand bazaar room of Michigan central Hmm. So are you from the the California area the Coachella Valley Joshua tree you could value is that? Yes, I'm currently based in Palm Springs, but I've lived in Oh, I grew up in Los Angeles. I live in New York. I yeah, so I currently live a quiet life in Palm Springs. Yeah So how did you come up with this this idea of kind of what you've built as part of the the Mojave flea and and the trading post and the whole deal Well, it started as doing, you know pop-up market with with makers you know and that term started to rise in 2014 where there was this new sort of movement of young people going back to like very traditional traits like woodworking and ceramics and you know Knitting and and just handmade things really try kind of a return to a quality meaning, you know quality of life and and things that could be meaningful and so If that movement I just started to build more and more platforms for these you know creators to to flourish and and grow and It's it's been really amazing to to really try to move consumers away from disposable living and to really invest in things that are meaningful and lost a lifetime So in the for example the de twa Marché concept How much influence did you take from Detroit? Obviously a lot you've got the the French name But but when you when you came here, did you have to do a lot of fact-finding and just seeing kind of what's around and building this experience for people? Yeah, absolutely. We started with Detroit as the core of the collective we just started looking and getting referrals and really doing a lot of research and development and finding all our favorite things and It's a really amazing representation of women of people of color of queer people who we found and really, you know Created an opportunity for and it's it's a really inclusive in a very diverse Group of people that we represent here. It's it's I'm very proud of it And so when are these these pop-ups? When are these at these these locations activated? Are they up and running now and how long? Yeah, yeah, everything opens just about we're doing a little VIP Swari with the executives of Michigan Central and Ford today from three to five and then the first round of their Friday night Programming starts from five to ten and then tomorrow starts our regular hours, which are Tuesday through Saturday every day. We're open ten to five Tuesday through Saturday Sunday at Monday Cool. Awesome. Well, we appreciate it and we look forward to checking out what you got going on down at the the train station Thank you for the time. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, okay Yep, have a good one eight hundred eight five nine zero nine five seven eight hundred eight five nine zero W. J. R. Matt Hall the incoming house speaker says he actually has a plan to fix the roads We'll talk about that in the three o'clock hour coming up on J. R afternoon [BLANK_AUDIO]
November 22, 2024 ~ Michigan Central’s new retail pop-ups led by James Morello, amid concerns over the “salt typhoon” telecom hack.