{"id":2439,"date":"2024-09-25T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/journalism-advertising-media-studies\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2024-10-03T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T05:19:04","slug":"he-prints-out-discussion-topics-for-his-weekly-visit-with-friends-at-the-bar-his-daughter-made-it-internet-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/journalism-advertising-media-studies\/he-prints-out-discussion-topics-for-his-weekly-visit-with-friends-at-the-bar-his-daughter-made-it-internet-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"He prints out discussion topics for his weekly visit with friends at the bar. His daughter made it internet-famous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riley Enright confessed that he’s not normally this organized.<\/p>\n

But the internet might think differently. The Brookfield resident who sells insurance in Waukesha has become known as the man with the very specific plan, an agenda outlining talking points for his weekly check-in with his buddies at the bar.<\/p>\n

The “board meetings” \u2015 so named because they look impressive at 4 p.m. Friday in a work calendar \u2015 have been going on for years at Bullwinkle’s in Brookfield, with Enright bringing the talking points.<\/p>\n

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The discussions hit on a number of sports topics \u2014 an Aug. 16 agenda included “Packers training camp,” “Predictions on Packers season record,” and, of course, “Snoop.” It also included “Dangers of Hiking,” “Donating blood” and “Sick of political ads yet?”<\/p>\n

“I hate to say it, I don’t even make an agenda for my clients much,” said Enright, 63, a senior benefits consultant at R&R Insurance in Waukesha.<\/p>\n

“Whenever someone is like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m sure this is the most organized person alive,’ on Twitter, I’m like \u2026 ‘Oh my God, the opposite of,” said Riley’s daughter Kenzi, 31, an alumna of UW-Milwaukee and Divine Savior Holy Angels now living in Los Angeles. “I say that with love because I’m the same way.”<\/p>\n

During a holiday visit to Wisconsin in late 2022, Kenzi accepted an invitation to a board meeting, a group that includes her father; neighbor Jim Hohl, 70; Riley’s longtime work friend, Mike Kenna, 67; and high-school buddy Laird Myrold, 63.<\/p>\n

They’ve known each other for three decades \u2014 and thanks to Kenzi’s inclusion at one of their gatherings, the rest of the world kind of knows them, too.<\/p>\n

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The Dec. 1, 2022, agenda only included five items, starting with “Jordan Love” before weaving toward “After Christmas party with the boys” and then, of course, “General Discussion.” Thanks to Kenzi’s viral post on Twitter\/X<\/a>, it now lives forever.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was so funny and cute and wholesome … The funniest thing is, they don’t do it for anyone but themselves,” Kenzi said. “Someone asked Jim Hohl, ‘How do you feel about being internet-famous?’ and he sincerely said, ‘I don’t care.’<\/p>\n

“Let me tell you, they could not care less. I thought a couple friends would get a kick out of it, so I put it on Twitter, posted it and went home from the board meeting. An hour later, three people are calling me, (telling me) ‘You have half a million likes on Twitter right now.’ I was like, ‘On what?’ I didn’t even know what they’re referring to. It just took off from there.”<\/p>\n