IN YOUR CITY Show With Kelley and Gordon
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IN YOUR CITY Show With Kelley and Gordon
A Lifestyle talk Show with a New Vibe Lunch With Kelley And Gordon
Step into the enchanting world of the Speakeasy Lounge as we explore the fusion of food, stories, and relationships. In today's episode, we connect culinary delights with meaningful narratives that elevate the dining experience beyond the plate. Kelly and Gordon uncover the unique atmosphere of the Speakeasy, sharing their favorite dishes like the amazing sweet potato dumplings and irresistible truffle fries.
Through natural and engaging conversations, the hosts examine the essence of relationships—the importance of trust and understanding love languages. Listeners will resonate with their experiences navigating the ups and downs of communication in partnerships, as well as the wisdom they glean from their own relationship dynamics.
In addition to exploring culinary and emotional nourishment, we touch on the power of giving back. As the duo describes their upcoming charity event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, you’ll understand how acts of kindness can ripple through the community, creating joy and hope for children in need.
So, whether you're an aficionado of fine dining, a curious listener exploring deeper connections, or someone into community service, this episode invites you to reimagine what it means to truly enjoy life’s flavor. Grab a seat at our table, and be a part of the conversation that values human connection intertwined with delicious food. Subscribe now and don’t miss out on future episodes!
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Welcome to In your City Show. We've got a new vibe going on. I'm Kelly Lamb, I'm Gordon Montgomery and we are excited to be back, because In your City Show has been around for a while. But this time we're bringing back a new vibe with style, sophistication. It's a blend of storytelling along with relationship value, both at home and in your business.
Speaker 2:And we don't want you to get. You know, miss us too much. You know we have the In your City show where we go to locations and stuff, but we want to make sure that you get to see us at lunch as well.
Speaker 1:Right, so it's lunch with Kelly and Gordon is what we're having. We actually don't have lunch today because we're in a gorgeous new place called Speakeasy. It is underneath the Oak Street Inn and Lounge. This is the lounge, but they have a bar upstairs too. It's the Speakeasy Lounge. Yeah, the Speakeasy Lounge. You're going to need a password to be able to come in when you go upstairs. It's a gorgeous restaurant and bar. We've had dinner there a couple times. The food is absolutely amazing. We actually talk about storytelling.
Speaker 2:We did a story actually on the chef that we're going to show to you storytelling we did a story actually on the chef that we're going to show to you, and what are some of the?
Speaker 1:plates. What did we have the other day? Sweet potato dumplings, the sweet potato dumplings are amazing, so good.
Speaker 2:Yes, they were really good.
Speaker 1:The truffle fries.
Speaker 2:Somebody came over to us and said they were like crack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were, they were crack. We did have some, they were delicious.
Speaker 2:Everything is good, actually, everything is so good here Fabulous.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to remember what. Oh, I think I had the beef tenderloin when we actually, when we had dinner we were just here recently, so we're so lucky, so we actually had an event here, the social hour. It's the first social hour that goes along with what we do, which we're going to tell you all about that hour. That goes along with what we do, which we're going to tell you all about that.
Speaker 1:Everybody came they had cocktails, and our social hours are about mingling in a, I guess again Just a fun environment, just kind of a fun like a happy hour type of environment. I would put a little swanky sexy in there with it.
Speaker 2:It's not your typical chamber meeting. No, it's not. It's not and neither is our show.
Speaker 1:You never know what we might do or say.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:But it will be a good time, that's for sure. So we want to tell you a little bit about us. So we actually that's what we are. We're storytellers, that's what we do. We own three gorgeous luxury lifestyle magazines we have Chesterfield, we have Clayton and we have St Charles County, and we mail these to 45,000 plus of the most affluent homes and then also to 3000 businesses.
Speaker 1:We always love when someone says I was at the dentist or I was at the doctor, I saw your magazine. How can I get it? You know, because they see it sitting, you know, in the office. And we, of course, as you can see, we have such gorgeous covers. That's Oasis pools on the front there. But yeah, here's the story that we did actually on Oak Street Inn and Lounge, featuring their chef. We wish she could have come down and actually talked to you all, or Chelsea or Chris, the owners of this gorgeous location. But they're extremely busy in some marketing meetings right now and I guess going through their menu and what they're going to be doing as their specials. I guess going through their menu and what they're going to be doing as their specials. But what's even cooler about this place is when you go upstairs, above the restaurant there are the most gorgeous what is there? Eight rooms up there.
Speaker 2:I think so yeah, bed and breakfast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gorgeous bed and breakfast rooms If you want to have a retreat or maybe a business meeting, or maybe you just want to get away with your loved one and spend the evening away from home. In fact, one of our newest partners, canine Innovations, which our dog has completely quit shedding since using this product. I wish I would have brought it with me, but I'm going to put it out there.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about that next lunchtime. Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 1:So we meet them just as we start talking about the magazines and find out they're actually having a wedding here and staying in the rooms upstairs. That's awesome, I know, isn't that cool. It's great.
Speaker 2:And that's what we love about some of our, when we do these get-togethers for our social hours, is that people actually get to meet other businesses and they've actually done business with each other.
Speaker 1:Jennifer that owns St Louis Closet Company, met Nicole, who owns Oasis Pools, and Oasis Pools is now going in the backyard of Jennifer's house because they were at the hot list party. We do a huge party once a year called the hot list. So if you are in our magazines in one way or another or on our show, you've made the hot list. So the struggle, the struggle, seriously, women, is it not almost like unbelievably difficult to be a woman? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I couldn't, I don't know, I can't talk to you about that.
Speaker 1:I mean you are getting worse. You are getting to the point that you are. Where are we going with this? You never know. You are getting more like a chick because of my plethora of stuff and regimen. Seriously, when you get older, I mean it's bad enough. When you're younger, you know you make up and hair, and I mean most of the girls that are 18, look like they're 13, look like they're 25 now so.
Speaker 1:I really feel sorry for you parents out there that have kids that are under 21, because they are terrifying. They look like models and old enough to get into places. They shouldn't be. So I don't know how they're doing it, but you know makeup, tampons, you know just little stuff like that you need right. When you get to my age and middle age, everything starts going to crap. You grow hair where you're not supposed to.
Speaker 1:I get that one going to crap. You grow hair where you're not supposed to. I get that one. You, the, the, the, the items that literally I walked into the bathroom last night and you know washing off my makeup and that, and I'm like, wow, we've got some products going on.
Speaker 2:You have like a four tier system to hold all your products.
Speaker 1:And then you smell weird at night because you're putting all this goop on your face. Now he's wearing it and he's starting to put it on, and he got into bed and I'm like Ooh One of these products?
Speaker 2:can't they make them smell?
Speaker 1:good, keep your distance real quick.
Speaker 2:You said they make them smell bad, so you think they're working.
Speaker 1:I guess that maybe I don't know, maybe that's what it is, but seriously, there's so much product not to mention, so in Vita. Uh well, health and wellness. That was my appointment today, because bioidentical hormones are now on my list of items that have been put into my body so that I can keep going, because, of course, once you reach a certain age, either you go through menopause or, in my case, I had a hysterectomy really young, nothing's working anymore, and if you don't have them, you start to go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, I mean start trading you in here.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly that's probably why men get younger women. Women could get younger men too, you're like fine wine love Right. I don't know if I'm aging well though, but seriously, it is tough there's. So I think about all the appointments. I have Botox. I mean, I don't have to do that. Granted, I don't have to get Botox. I don't have to use that product. I don't have to get bioidentical hormones. I don't have to wear contacts. Someday I'm going to need a hearing aid. I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2:You already do I already do. I can never hear don't have to I always got to come from the other room to hear what she said, so I can hear it.
Speaker 1:I don't have to do that, but I don't. I want to feel good. I mean everything you start when you get up and you make funny noises. That's also part of getting older.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not just getting up, it's sitting down. You make funny noises too. It's getting up and sitting down.
Speaker 1:Someone got up the other day in front, made this sound. I'm like, oh, you're definitely over 50. There's no way you're in your forties when you make that kind of noise when you stand up. But anyway, it is tough. Guess what my other struggle is? What's your other struggle? Oh, my gosh, do you ever get an argument? Okay, we've been married. This is our second marriage, so if you don't know us already, so we're coming up on our six year anniversary, april 14th. We do everything together.
Speaker 2:Everything.
Speaker 1:No, not the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Not the bathroom, not the love toilet we don't have that what was Saturday Night?
Speaker 1:Live Saturday Night.
Speaker 2:Live had the love toilet, yeah, no, we don't do that.
Speaker 1:That's doors locked. Got to have your privacy in some points.
Speaker 2:That would be horrible.
Speaker 1:We work together, we live together, Our office. So we have an office outside, have meetings there, but our office is in our home. So if we're not on appointments we are in our offices at home. We play together. We usually always do most of the stuff you know.
Speaker 2:Together we do everything together, actually everyone's like how do you?
Speaker 1:get along? Do you guys ever argue Like you know you have such a great relationship, which we do, I mean we. You know sometimes you just connect and you're just. You make each other better. You connect for you know a lot of people connect for various reasons, but when you really take the time to connect with the right person, it's not so hard to have a relationship.
Speaker 2:Right, it does make it easier.
Speaker 1:Right, but it's not. I mean, there are days that it's probably me, because I have high expectations all the time.
Speaker 2:So we're going to ask you do you guys, when you're in your relationships, are you together all the time? Do you feel like you need that separation?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've got to have separation. No, he works, he's got to go out of town. Thank goodness he goes out of town, because I just can't deal with him. I need my time, right, or is it that you miss them and you want to? You know you want to have special times where you're just together all the time that's like us.
Speaker 1:Men retire, or women might retire first, and then all of a sudden you're together all the time.
Speaker 2:I remember during COVID everybody was actually home together.
Speaker 1:It was like oh no, this is horrible. I wonder if, like, divorce rate went up from.
Speaker 2:COVID or went down yeah.
Speaker 1:That would be a stat we need to find out.
Speaker 2:We should have figured that one out.
Speaker 1:Let's see what it is, but one of our struggles is go ahead.
Speaker 2:Where do you want to go eat? I don't care. Where do you want to go eat? Well, let's I don't care, just make a decision. How about Mexican? No, I don't want Mexican. How about Italian? No, I don't want Italian. We had that Monday. How about seafood? No, I don't want seafood. So I was watching this video the other day and this guy was a genius on how he handled this with his wife.
Speaker 1:He's in the car.
Speaker 2:He's in the car, she gets in the car and he goes, he goes. I'm going to take you to one of your favorite restaurants. Tell me if you can guess what it is. Oh, we're going to Latoya's barbecue. And he goes exactly, and that's how he did it.
Speaker 1:He was a genius.
Speaker 2:He just acted like you know.
Speaker 1:So ask me where you're going to take me, or tell me where you're taking me tonight, that you've already picked it out, that I've already picked it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going to go ahead and reenact this scenario right now, so I'm going to get you to know where I want to go See, but now she's in on the game, so she's not going to play it right? Go ahead, let's make this.
Speaker 1:We're going to show how you don't have to argue.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take you to a restaurant that you love. You are, yes, tonight.
Speaker 1:Do I know which one? It is my favorite. You got to guess Antonino's Taverna. Yes, that's it. Greek, italian restaurant.
Speaker 2:It's on the hill. It's so delicious, isn't it? Best toasted raviolis ever.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say that the best and they have a chopped kale.
Speaker 2:Caesar salad is really good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's incredible too, and their pizza is really good. I like it to get the gyro meat on it as well.
Speaker 2:There's something magical about going down on the hill to get food.
Speaker 1:Right, so okay, so I so, when you like I always say you know what I always say when I get mad at them, can break the I guess, the tense tenseness of an argument right away. You know, some people say take a breath, maybe go outside, maybe walk away. What are another one to help from arguing I'm a walk away?
Speaker 2:I just want to walk away. I want to punch him in the throat If he walks away.
Speaker 1:she doesn't want me to walk away. I'll tell you walk away.
Speaker 2:I'm not done with you yet. You're going to hear everything I have to say to you.
Speaker 1:Everyone should have a cape. You should have a cape. And as soon as you get an argument, one of you whoever started it hands that person the cape and tells them they need to put it on because it's their super mad cape. And if you don't start laughing after that, then you seriously should probably call your lawyer. Call your lawyer, I have one for you if you want. Paige Law happens to be one of our advertisers and she family matters with her. She can help you out.
Speaker 2:But then you know what. This is all fun and we talk about this stuff, but you know what's really important? To actually get to know the person. I mean, there's people that have been married 50 years and still don't know their mate.
Speaker 1:Still don't really know them, like when they become empty nesters or whatever, and all of a sudden they have to start or retire, they have to start spending more time together and then they get to know each other. That's a good thing.
Speaker 2:You know real quick, dolly Parton's husband just passed away. Did you see that he finally passed away.
Speaker 1:It breaks my heart. They had been together forever.
Speaker 2:Right, and I can't remember how many years. I want to think it was 60-something plus years From the beginning when she was a young girl, right, he was 82 years old, wow. Sorry, he was always that guy that never wanted to be in the limelight. So we see he understood. She understood what he didn't want and he understood what she wanted and it worked out good for them.
Speaker 2:In fact, he actually went to one. He went to one big event with her and he says, honey, I never want to do this again, and you know what comes with that, though you have to have trust.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, absolutely. Whether at home, with your spouse partner, trust is everything and it's everything in your business. Spouse partner trust is everything and it's everything in your business. You've got to trust, in bottom line in life, the people that you value most around you. You. You have to have trust because that's what makes everything else run so much smoother. You're not worried about, like he could stay home or do his work or whatever he's doing without that worry, because they probably I mean, I don't know them personally, but I would imagine, if you stay together that long and you don't, you never heard of them having problems in the news, so to speak they must've had an incredible amount of trust and respect.
Speaker 1:That's everything. And that person makes you want to be a better person. And they, they appreciate what you do and they value what you do. They don't want to tear you down. In some relationships, instead of uplifting you, they're tearing you down and deflating you, making you want to give up, and that's not what you want to be around. But that's sad.
Speaker 1:Dolly Parton I love one of her lines. Somebody said, wow, honey, you look so good, you look amazing. And she said it's all about having good doctors. So, like I was saying about the struggle in the beginning of the show, I mean, if it's there and of course, you know, sometimes it's not affordable for everyone because it can be costly to try to stay young, I mean it really can. But you know it's a matter of keeping yourself up, just cleanliness, finding clothes that appeal to your body shape, whatever that is. You know I can't dress like a 21 or a 31 or maybe even a 41 year old. I can't. You know there's certain looks and things that I can't do anymore. Things start to change and it gets hard for you to realize that, but you know, just be able to take small steps to take care of yourself, I guess.
Speaker 1:And take care of your relationship as well, just like you do with everything else.
Speaker 2:Exactly, and one of the things that we're going to talk about, too, is the love languages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know it's so important 100% that works in home and in business.
Speaker 2:Right. So Kelly's love language is acts of service.
Speaker 1:Well, first, for if you haven't ever done the five love languages, you can just Google it. There's a book but you can take. What a five minute test I think we did. It's free and it doesn't even cost anything. There might be a couple out there, but what's the author of the five love languages?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:He's the one you really Google it because there are, I think, a few out there that might be doing it. But this guy's phenomenal, his book's great and what it is is you take this test could ask you a question. So you really you don't want to cheat, obviously, which it's hard to cheat. Gary Chapman. Yes, Gary.
Speaker 1:Chapman, and you want to be honest with your answers. You know, don't try to act like what you're not just answer them. And this random questions that it does for you ends up figuring out your love languages from one to the least, being number five. And number one for me was acts of service, gordon's number one was affirmations, touch and affirmations yeah, sorry, touch and affirmations Touch me, so I'm acts of service.
Speaker 1:And then what was so? Mine's not, either the second to oh time Mine's, mine's quality of time or whatever. So we have two different love languages and what happens is you tend to do the love language that you are for someone else and you think you're doing all these acts of like, in my case acts of service. That should be making him feel wonderful that I'm doing that and that I want to spend all this time with him, so he must think I care about him so much. But actually I'm doing what I love.
Speaker 3:Quality time, Even as my kids.
Speaker 1:I would do their clothes and fold them up all nice and put them in this nice stack for them and all of a sudden they would walk over them and tumble them down the steps or they'd be back on the floor in their room. After I did all this acts of service and I'm like you are like the worst.
Speaker 1:You don't even love me or care or respect me, but that's what happened and that wasn't their love language at all. So when Gordon which he did the other day changed the sink, we got a new faucet. What do you?
Speaker 2:call it Faucet. Yes.
Speaker 1:Change the sink or does things around the house?
Speaker 2:You got to love that. When your wife says I got you something, I got you a gift, I got you something today, I'm like what is it? And she goes just open it. And I open it up and it's a faucet for me to hook together, put a new faucet on the sink and he was so sexy under that sink cooking it up with Olive helping him.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of Olive, you see our little mascot there. So we have the most amazing English bulldog and we have Louie, a little chocolate poodle, as well. But back to Olive. I love Louie, don't worry. But Olive is like this heart, this, I don't know, this angel that like peered into our home, that we adopted when she was two years old and I ended up writing a children's book it's you can go to oolofthebulldogcom and see the plushie and the first of the series book and she just inspires so much. So she's inspiring our show as well and bringing us good vibes, right? So she's a little bit chubbier than that. We'll have to show a picture of her. She's cute as can be, which made me lose my whole train of thought here, olive took her right out, she just squirreled.
Speaker 1:So seriously, take the love language test, find out what love language is yours and whatever your partner, your business person, your business partner I know it sounds funny to do to love languages with a business partner or people you work with, but in all honesty, it works for everyone. If you know what their language is, that makes them feel good and that's how you remember when you're communicating with them. It truly can change everything you know with your relationship in work or at home. But so I'm super excited. I want to make sure I want to introduce a new um I guess I would say interviews that Gordon is doing. So if you've just met Gordon, um, he's an incredible singer. He's been performing since what you're 17 years old, yeah, which is a long time ago, so um and he sings like and what's?
Speaker 1:the stepbrothers say Fergie and Jesus, the mixture of Fergie and Jesus and stepbrothers Did.
Speaker 2:Jesus sing. Was he a singer I?
Speaker 1:don't know, but that's what Will Ferrell said.
Speaker 2:We'll take it from Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1:He's a good theologian, he's my favorite, so that's how you think about me, but anyway. So Gordon is an incredible singer, but he's also a musician, and he doesn't think that he is. The man can sit down at a piano or hold a guitar, listen to a song and start playing it. That is a musician. I can't even do the chords.
Speaker 2:I would never get on stage and play live for someone, but that's because you like to sing.
Speaker 1:But if he would practice every day and be continuously playing, he's just as good as anyone else. He just plays around the house. No, he's amazing when he plays Elton John. What's my favorite one?
Speaker 2:Your song. That's what it's called. Yeah, it's called your Song.
Speaker 1:But is that the name of it? Yes, okay, I didn't know that, and when he said your song, I'm like, yeah, what's my song?
Speaker 2:Check this product out, just to make sure. Go ahead and sing it a little bit. No, we're good.
Speaker 1:It's so good, Okay, so what he's doing is which is so cool. Um, on one of our other in your city show, we had um, I used to bring bands on all the time back in the day of radio and Gordon and I did that. And then on our last In your City show at the studios, when we were there, he brought on what's the name of the band, Boyfriend, Boyfriend yeah, yeah it's not his boyfriend, but the name of the band's boyfriend, and what's his name?
Speaker 1:Chuck, yeah, so he came in the studio and I'm listening to them go back and forth and talk about these stories, one of them, the fact that this band literally got kicked out of, not a bar, the whole Lake of the Ozarks. How do you get kicked out of the home town? Lake of the Ozarks? Gotta leave town. You guys have to leave town. That's how bad they were, Not at not at performing, but how bad they were, I guess. I guess back then is that the seventies, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it was a thing for the bands back in the 70s, I mean Led.
Speaker 1:Zeppelin threw.
Speaker 2:TVs out of 10-story hotels and stuff.
Speaker 1:So he used to perform at stages and oh my gosh, there's probably not a place that we don't drive by that Gordon says he hasn't performed there or he's done his karaoke performance programs.
Speaker 3:That's the wrong word.
Speaker 2:Everything's a program. Programs are our favorite word right now, that's what happens when you're not a musician? Yeah, I've played a lot of places, but what she's getting ready to say is that we're going to start doing a segment.
Speaker 1:Called Soul Strings. So he's going to dive deep into the soul of a musician. You know why they started where they're at now? Are they still performing? You know what are some of the the I guess performances that resonated, or people that they've met, just anything that might come out. And so he did an interview, which you're going to see a little bit of it here just shortly and Gordon can introduce who it is. But then also, what's cool is the interview you're going to see here and meet and find out what's going on.
Speaker 1:You can actually go to In your City Show, our YouTube channel. There'll be a Soul Strings playlist I remember the word, a playlist and you'll be able to watch the full interview in video and then, of course, the audio as well as our show here on. In your City Show will be on any of your favorite podcast sites. Iheart Spotify. In your City Show will be on any of your favorite podcast sites, iheart Spotify. There's a zillion of them out there now and you'll be able to find our show audio and all of them. As we start moving along Lunch with Kelly and Gordon on the In your City Show out and about, our next, we're going to be at Carbon, a gorgeous members-only restaurant in Clayton.
Speaker 2:It's where the old Morton's Steakhouse used to be in Clayton.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're familiar with St Louis, if you're listening out of state or out of country, of course we're here locally in St Charles, missouri, st Louis, missouri so locally, but of course you'll be hearing it all over. So if you're in town, you're going to go to a Cardinals baseball game or a Blues hockey game. There's some amazing restaurants. This is one of them, speakeasy under the Oak Street Inn and Lounge, that you can come visit. But Soul Strings we didn't talk about that either. We can. We'll bring that before we talk about the upcoming event. I want to make sure everybody knows about my favorite book and if you happen to read it, I would love for you to find me. You can go to the In your City show on Facebook and tell me if you've read the book, so we'll get to that in a minute. But tell us who you interviewed.
Speaker 2:So I interviewed Ed Callison. Ed Callison is a singer musician that is playing in a lot of tribute bands here in St Louis and we had a great interview. We sat down right here in these two seats and we did an interview talking about all his upcoming shows, the tribute bands he plays in, how he got started in the business. Some of his family is is talented, yeah, and so, um, yeah, it's going to be a great segment and that'll be coming up here yeah, and then you'll be some other.
Speaker 2:Obviously it'll be a short segment talking about what he's what he's doing right now, but then the interviews, a longer interview you'll be able to see. It's more in depth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very cool, all right. Well, why don't you listen in to a little bit of Ed Collison's interview? Right now Soul Strings, and then, of course, the full version will be Welcome to Soul Strings.
Speaker 2:This is an all new podcast that we're doing and we're going to be interviewing musicians and singers, and I always liked it when they said musicians and singers, are we separate? Are we you know? Do we, do we I?
Speaker 3:think I know how to play a little bit don't you? There's jokes about lead singers. You've heard them all.
Speaker 2:Yes, we have. Well, today I got a special guest, ed Callison. I know a lot of you know who he is and he's been in the music business for quite a long time. So today we're going to talk a little bit about one of your upcoming shows that you have, and it's one of the one of the many tribute bands that you're in couple, and it's called pink houses pink house usa.
Speaker 3:Uh, it's funny because pink houses there was an east coast band tribute that was called pink houses, and so I looked around, kept looking and I thought, well, freebird, usa, we had to make that because it was other Freebirds. So we made it Pink Houses, usa, so we weren't the same name.
Speaker 2:Well, that's interesting, yeah, so how many guys are in the band?
Speaker 3:Seven piece band. Seven piece. We've got drums Ron Kraser, we've got George Vasquez on bass, kyle Work on keyboard, darren Hank guitar, chris Naccarato guitar, and we've got Ron Vince on violin. We've got a couple other subs as well, xavier Koenig on violin. So seven-piece band and I'm just a singer.
Speaker 2:You're just the singer, just a singer. Well, I know you play instruments as well.
Speaker 3:I grew up playing drums. I still do a lot of percussion in my duos on the weekends. Congas bongas Grew up a singing drummer, Don Henley, was always kind of my idol because he could sing and play at the same time, and so I learned that, and my brother Rich, we played together for a long time and he started singing and playing bass and he went his way, I went mine, and now he's in LA, LA and I'm still here in St Louis. But yeah, it was about two years ago. I started talking to Ron Kraser and both Darren about are you guys interested in doing a John Cougar Mellencamp trip? It's just something that I always enjoyed his music and thought nobody else is doing it right. And they were both in. So we started the audition process, which was not easy, especially with violinists, accordion players. We had a couple of polka players come in and it just was not a fit I would have loved to have seen that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a fan interview, oh yeah because there's jokes about that.
Speaker 3:A guy got his car broke into they had an accordion in it. He came back to the car was broken. There was seven of them. They left six more because it's such a such an instrument, this kind of they make jokes about, yeah, but it's a beautiful instrument, right. But we decided we can get that sound on the keyboard, right. So Kyle Work puts in a lot of the extra sounds that you would generally get from an accordion and it's not like the accordion's on every song, but the violinist. We found a great violinist who had been for years with the symphony and the fox and the muni, yeah, so it's a big part, even though it's not on every song. We make it on every song because it adds, it's just the sound of the violin.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 3:find that challenging when it's trying to find these certain musicians. How challenging is that? It is because here's two reasons why. Number one, you want somebody that's really good, that can do the material, and two, that's available, Because so many of my friends, like myself, are in a lot of bands, and Freebird was one. I mean Freebird USA we've got one show this year because everybody's in so many bands. Pink House we've got 16 shows. So I found people that were available, Gordon, which was more important than anything.
Speaker 2:And they're good yeah.
Speaker 3:But they're available.
Speaker 2:Got to have them show up, they're available. It's pretty important, isn't it?
Speaker 3:That's right. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:So tell me a little bit about this Pink Houses tribute band. You've got a show coming up, you've got one coming up, first the first one this year.
Speaker 3:We had 15 shows. Last year We've got 16 right now this year 5th, at the Miners Theater in Collinsville, illinois. Beautiful theater. Have you been there? I?
Speaker 2:don't know, but I think we're being arrested.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 2:God, let's go. They found us Ed.
Speaker 3:Out of all these years of hiding, they figured out where we were In a speakeasy.
Speaker 2:We are at the speakeasy right here in. Cottleville, missouri, brand new speakeasy, which is awesome.
Speaker 3:Beautiful place it so challenging finding musicians.
Speaker 3:It was. And then, once we got the group together last year again, we did 15 shows this year. Our first one, april 5th, miner's Theater in Collinsville my birthday, beautiful theater, happy birthday coming up. You need to come to the show, then We'll get you a ticket. So 1918 is when it was actually opened. It's been restored. I did a show with another couple of bands an Abbott tribute and a Bee Gees tribute. We did a show there about three months ago and I was blown away because I've done shows at the Lincoln Theater, which is nice, grew up in that area, Okay, so I know Lincoln Theater well. So to me Lincoln Theater is beautiful, but this one is just. It's so well put together and it's run so well by the husband and wife that run it. It seats about 460 people. We're hoping to sell it out and, yeah, that's April 5th 730.
Speaker 2:Awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show.
Speaker 2:I love the old theaters.
Speaker 3:Oh 7.30.
Speaker 2:Awesome, yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show. I love the old theaters. Oh yeah, you know there's one over in East St Louis that's been tore down for years and years and years. But every time I drive by it I would have loved to have seen it in its heyday.
Speaker 3:What was that called? Do you remember?
Speaker 2:You know what I don't remember? Greg Bishop told me about it Okay.
Speaker 3:And I've never, you know, I've tried to look up old pictures and everything sure, st louis in the heyday was, yeah, nice, you know, yeah, yeah but um but that's the illinois side. Yeah, our second show. This show will be april 26th at the diamond music hall for the missouri folks right here in st peter's. So we're, uh, we're looking forward to doing that show as well. We've got an opener. It's uh, it's a school of rock kids band.
Speaker 3:Oh that's cool that are really good and I'm afraid they may have playoffs. School of Rock Kids Band oh, that's cool, they're really good and I'm afraid they may not play us. They're that good they should be the headliner huh, they're that good Raised on Radio. They'll open the show on April 26th at Diamond.
Speaker 2:What a great name Raised on Radio.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're all between 18 and, I think, 21 years old, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So how many shows again do you have coming up? 16 this year, 16. Besides those two in April, we've got right next door at Frankie March. We'll be there May 31st. May 31st We'll be at the Legacy Park, right across the street. They do the Tuesday night concert series during the summer. We've got a show coming up there and I believe it's June 22nd, but you can go on. Pink House USA on Facebook, I post everything. Ed Callison Music on Facebook I post everything as well. Awesome, best place to find our full schedule.
Speaker 2:Well, I appreciate you coming in and talking about pink houses and we're going to want to go see a couple of those shows. I'm going to have to try and make the birthday one for sure. Absolutely, I thank you for being here and talking about pink houses, absolutely, um, uh, we're going to talk a little bit more.
Speaker 1:That was so cool. I love the whole, the whole soul string thing. I think it's so cool. It's really amazing what you can learn from somebody when you're talking to them. What, what was your favorite part? Did you have a favorite part of what you talked about, or just was it all?
Speaker 2:I think it was just talking about um, well, he gave some advice to what he would tell his younger self.
Speaker 1:Oh, and that's in the big interview okay, but then I guess don't give it away just the fact I think some of the we got to.
Speaker 2:I got to poke a little fun at him about how we always see how energetic him and his wife are and how they, whatever they're taking we want. That's what we told. So there's plenty of vitamins, but uh, yeah, I encourage you to listen to the whole show and because I think it gets, you'll get a kick out of it and you'll really get some insight into ed and and what does ed drink no very little, he said I find that amazing.
Speaker 2:A lot of musicians and I want to talk about the whole, okay, well we won't it.
Speaker 1:But a lot of celebrities have quit drinking altogether and even some of the movie stars talk about it. I mean, we're such in a healthier I guess a healthier mindset than back in the 70s and the 80s. There's so much out there and people are realizing, I guess, as we have this incredible vodka, martini with infused tequila.
Speaker 2:No, it's not infused tequila.
Speaker 1:Sorry, okay.
Speaker 2:So actually I took some notes because I knew I'd forget it. So this is the bathtub martini Bathtub. It's olive oil infused, it's from 1923, olive oil imported from Italy, which means perfect then. And normally it's in a frosted martini glass. This is what we call the ice bath, so this is how it's. Uh, this is what we call the ice bath, so this is how it's displayed. This is you would get a frosted martini glass that's empty, and then you would take it out and it's got ice packed around it and then you would pour it in there. But back in the prohibition, this is how they would ice up their, their liquors in the bathtub. So it's kind of hide it in the bathtub. Yeah, wow, very cool. Yeah, it's called the bathtub martini.
Speaker 1:They do a lot of different drinks here. Yes, we had an old fashioned that was made with vodka rather than whiskey and I had never, ever, had anything like that and it was really refreshing, which I like old fashions with whiskey but it was a unique taste but very similar as to an old fashioned. But it was a unique taste, but very similar as to an old fashion, but it was really good. I definitely have it again and again and again. So, anyway, back to soul strings. I'm so glad that you're able to do this. I can't wait to see who your next person that will be on our next show. You always get a short clip of it, but then, of course, can go back to the In your City Show.
Speaker 1:YouTube channel and watch it. So I want to bring up one of my favorite authors and I just found out about her. I might be late to the party and everyone else has already read it, but if you have read any of Colleen Hoover's books and you want to go to In your City, show Facebook or Instagram and leave me a message of your thought of her as an author, I kind of quit reading for a while between you know, publishing three magazines and our show and, um, he's a real estate agent as well, and all the events and charities and things that we're involved with, I mean, and writing children's books, sometimes you, not to mention having a life and grandchildren, all those things. You run out of time and I really just kind of quit reading. And someone told me that I've got to read Colleen Hoover which I'd never heard of her. It ends with us and I think it took me two weeks, which usually takes me three years to finish a book.
Speaker 2:Like three summers Is that the movie we watched.
Speaker 1:Yes, Okay, and so or I think that was it starts, yeah, it ends with us it ends with us Was that the movie.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn't want to watch the movie till I read the book, so I didn't do that. But I read it quickly. And then it goes to. It Starts With Us, which that took me another just two weeks to read, which is incredible for me to get through a book that quick. So now I've started on Verity V-E-R-I-T-Y by Colleen Hoover.
Speaker 1:This does not go along with. It ends with us and it starts with us. I think it will resonate with many people. I think we've all probably had a bad relationship in our life, whether it be a boyfriend, girlfriend or a marriage. That may be, you know, an abusive style or type relationship and it has to end. Someone has to end it. You don't want to keep because it becomes a learned behavior, and then your child and their child and before you know it, you're just going on to the next bad relationship. So it really resonates and it's a great ending.
Speaker 1:This book is totally different. It has nothing to do with the other two books but, as you can see, in one night that's where I got to and I would have finished it if it, if it wouldn't have um, uh, if, I just couldn't keep my eyes anymore. So this is my book suggestion, and if you happen to read it, I would love to know how you love it. Like it, dislike it? All right. So, uh, tell us about a great event we have coming on and that this is something new that we're doing too. This is the first time that a city lifestyle and then sit in your city show is putting on a charity event, and we have to say thank you to our committee members out there because they're a big support and a big help of us putting on this event.
Speaker 2:So we're doing Karaoke for Wishes. It's for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. We know that kids during the COVID times they lost a lot of wishes that they weren't getting and they got behind on wishes Like 400. 400, wow, that's a lot of kids that they weren't getting and they got behind on wishes Like 400. 400.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of kids. So it's a great. It's a great event to come out. It's going to be held at the marquee out in new town, the big white tent, and it's going to every bit. A hundred percent of the proceeds that we get from this is going to the make a wish foundation. We're getting locally yeah. We're giving everything to them. So come out, get a table. We have a couple tables left. It's only $150 for a table of eight.
Speaker 1:That is cheap $15 for a ticket. There'll be a cash bar, cash bar 200. The first 200 people that have signed up will receive a really cool swag bag with lots of things inside of it. So you've got to get that. And then we're going to do we've got a wine pool so you can buy a bottle of wine and you'll pay $25. You're going to get a bottle of wine 25 and way up. You never know which one you're going to get. There's some pretty cool bottles of wine. And then we have a gift card pool where you'll pay $25 for. You'll pay 25, but you're going to get a $25 and up. I think some of the gift certificates might even be $250, $75. So you never know what you're going to get. You'll pick a card, a number. So we've got some fun things. Of course we have the 50-50. You always have that going on to be able to help raise more proceeds. And we have to say a big thank you to Snooze Mattress Company.
Speaker 1:Mike Bowie, the owner it's opening in Chesterfield, is one of our sponsors, as well as Oak Street Inn, where we're sitting right now at the Speakeasy Lounge here, the bed and breakfast upstairs. They are also a sponsor of this event and that's really what helps to make the event a real success when you have people coming in as a large sponsor to be able to donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and, of course, city Lifestyle because all the other things that are going on we're taking care of to give back. The marquee is donating the tent for this event. So there's really some incredible people that have come together to be able to make this event happen so that children and if you have never experienced Make-A-Wish, it is about granting wishes for children that have critical ill disease children that have critical ill disease things that happen in their life doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to pass away. We hope, and many times when a child receives a wish, it literally gives them so much hope that it helps them to carry on to get healthier and to live a better life. And we've been fortunate enough to meet some kids that have been in the Make-A-Wish for a very long time, who've come and been on our show before, and they're getting ready to go to college and getting through what they are.
Speaker 1:I went on a wish granting probably 15 years ago. I've been in love with Make-A-Wish for many, many years. This little girl was nine years old. She was in the hospital with a brain tumor and the only way that she was able to tell us what she wanted as a wish, which was a pony, was by wiggling her big toe. And I know parents out there that might be listening to this that have gone through something with a family member, someone they love, when you can't imagine what a inspiring moment it is to give a child a wish, when they are in such, I guess, in a way, that they're not able to live like a normal child and play out on the playground and go to school. And not only them, the family is affected, the brothers and sisters, the mom and dad. I mean, it's an incredible task when you have a child that's sick mentally and physically, so they all get taken care of when it comes to that wish, if it's a trip or something like that.
Speaker 2:So this is a great event to come out, to Come out, support it. It's going to be fun. People are going to get a chance to sing. Maybe it'll be a good chance for you to get somebody up there and make them sing that don't want to sing. That's always a fun thing to do, which this one right here.
Speaker 1:I'm going to make her do. I can talk all day, hold a mic, get up on stage, but if you want me to sing a song, I need a lot of liquid courage. Who knows?
Speaker 2:Your picture may even end up in City Scene in the magazine you never know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we will be putting a lot of photos from the event in the magazine. So you can check out Clayton, Chesterfield, St Charles County City Lifestyle magazines. You go to citylifestylecom anywhere in the world, put that in your browser bar and it'll take you to the magazine that's nearest you. Or, of course, you can look up ours and see what's going on as well. You can find our show on In your City Show on the YouTube channel, Facebook, Instagram. You can find In your City show as well as all of our magazines. And um, we'd love to hear from you. We are back with a new vibe, a new location and a lot of fun and great guests. And also, you're going to want to check out soul strength.
Speaker 1:I'm Kelly lamb. I'm Gordon Montgomery Cheers, oh wait. We're supposed to look at each other and say cheers. Apparently, if you cheers and you don't look into each other's eyes, you have a seven years of bad sex ready. Cheers, ciao.
