IN YOUR CITY Show With Kelley and Gordon
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IN YOUR CITY Show With Kelley and Gordon
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Well, here we are in your city show. And it's another day of surprises.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and tornado warning. Tornado warning place. I also have to admit, I don't I don't do well. I'm I'm one of those old people now. I don't do well driving at night, and I especially don't do well driving in storms. I'm like a little old lady, like with my head like this, sweating and scared to death the whole way I'm here. But it slowed down just enough for me to get in here without being blown over. But you know, you don't take it for granted now because the last time I was sitting in the Target parking lot thinking, I'll just wait for the rain to slow down and then I'll go in and do a damage to the credit card. I it wasn't, it was literally a tornado going over the top of the car. Hail was coming down on me.
SPEAKER_06:So, you know, you never doing that, I was in on Clayton Road, right by Lindbergh and Clayton Road, and the trees were actually blowing sideways across my windshield.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_06:I was like thinking, this is a tornado. So luckily I was right next to a compass, a little plug for compass real estate, and um went down in their garage and stayed there.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, a lot of people said someone was there in curlers or oh, yeah, coming out from the beauty salon.
SPEAKER_06:And then they said there's a tornado in Midtown. And then we're like, wow, okay.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I'm Kelly Lamb. This is Gordon Montgomery, and we are coming to you live from the YouTube channel uh there at the In Your City show. Of course, this is the Lou Information Station, and you can go to Louinfo.com as well and check out all the shows. Of course, we're on 590 a.m. If you are a true die-hard radial dow person, you can get it there as well. So this is our third day now of the new station, the Lou Information Station here located in Kirkwood, and of course, anywhere around the world, if you've got the internet, so you can listen to it. But today's show, we got some great guests coming up. Granted, they don't get whipped up by a tornado, which I shouldn't even say that. We've got some text handicome.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, we've got uh Logan Janice who will be here, uh, who's a fantastic producer, as well as mostly superheroes. You're gonna be finding about that, as well as what are the movies for June that you must see. We got Steve Ewing coming in today to talk about a big event. He's a powerhouse in the music world. And then we're gonna talk a little fashion with Be Spoke Apparel, which is located in Clayton. They are a haberdashery service. Uh they fit the stars and the celebrities and more, and we're gonna talk to them. And of course, our question of the day, which we're getting some answers um already, is what was your first album you ever purchased? I know it's yours. I know exactly what it was.
SPEAKER_06:I know it's crates. The what?
SPEAKER_05:Peaches, Peaches Music Store.
SPEAKER_06:That's exactly back, right? That's exactly where I bought my first album. Was it Peaches?
SPEAKER_05:Did you have crates in your bedroom? Yes. I have tables.
SPEAKER_06:I had one crate and it was full of albums. But yes, very first album I bought, and the reason I bought it is I was in Peaches and I was looking at albums. It was actually the first time I'd ever been into it because I lived in Illinois, remember, we didn't have Peaches over there. Oh, these are late bloomers. So I'm over in Missouri, thinking it's like a half, you know, half across the country to come to St. Louis back when you live in Illinois. So I get there and I hear Who's Next by the Who? That album. And I'm like, Who is this? I'm like, this is awesome.
SPEAKER_05:And it's like you saw the Who album and said, Who's this?
SPEAKER_06:I heard it.
SPEAKER_05:Uh yeah, nice.
SPEAKER_06:But I heard it and I was like, Who is this? Well, it's the Who, the Who's Next? I'm like, and they always had like the albums up that they were playing, you know, over the st over the in the store. And I said, I gotta get this. And it was, it's a great album. I mean, it's like so.
SPEAKER_05:I guess there's a difference between buying an album and maybe remember the little, what were they? 38, what were the little records? The the teeny ones, you know, that just played one song. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my gosh. 45s.
SPEAKER_05:45, that was it. I think I messed it up. I say 38. Yeah, you didn't say 38.
SPEAKER_06:Well, they had the reason you messed me up is because they had 38, but they had 78. There was 78. 78. 78 was like well, 78s were like for for a while. Your album, your your turntable had 78, 45, and 33. And 33 is what a regular album is.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:But 78 was like the big thick ones. Do you remember see the ones with the uh uh what's the one with the big gosh, doggone it? This is what happens when you get old. You can't remember anything. And uh, but yes, um anyway, they're thick, they're super thick, they're old, like back in the you know, back in the 40s and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_05:But and then the records that you'd get on the back of a cereal box, um, you know, that would go, mmm, on your record player, they'd be so excited. Cut them out. Yeah. My the first parties, we'd play the 45s.
SPEAKER_06:The first record I took off of the back of a cereal box was a honeycomb box, and it was Sugar Sugar by the Archies.
SPEAKER_05:Which that makes sense, doesn't it? I love that song. Well, so was who your first album then? Going back to that. Who?
SPEAKER_06:And then Led Zeppelin 2.
SPEAKER_05:Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_06:Three Dog Night was probably I got introduced to Kiss, and then it was like I had like every album they made. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:So I I I remember getting Three Dog Nights. Well, that um, and I thought I was super cool because that was a rock, but I would have to say, probably my first record or something I had would have been a Donnie Osman or a Michael Jackson because they were really popular, popular. And then the Partridge family. But the real album that I the first album that I really remember having and playing over and over and over again, which is super cool because it's our friend, but he didn't actually play with the band at that time, was the head east, the one with the pancake on the front. Oh, flat as a pancake. Well, that makes sense. Flat as a pancake. And one of my friends lived by the house where I guess some of the group the band members lived in, um, it was over in North County. They had a house and they practiced then, and it was Peaches was right around the corner from it. And I can remember we would go for walks, we'd be walking by and I do the walk, thinking they're gonna see us and they're gonna want to know us. I'm like 12. They're gonna want to know us. This band is gonna want to know us. I thought that was the coolest, coolest ever.
SPEAKER_06:Michael McDonald lived over there too. Michael McDonald. Really?
SPEAKER_05:In North County?
SPEAKER_06:In North County, yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I grew up in Spanish Lake, so a buddy of mine, Larry Cottner, actually was friends with him. And uh with who? Michael McDonald.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, Michael McDonald.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I did Michael McDonald's.
SPEAKER_05:I get him confused with Michael Booblay. Who's the one that walks in and goes, oh, in every sound room, it's like the joke is an SL. Okay, it is. He's like in every song with his chorus.
SPEAKER_06:Right, the Saturday Night Live skit where he'd like come flying in. But uh yeah, so I mean I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't I did I when I had my DJ company, I actually DJ'd Michael McDonald's class reunion, but he wasn't able to make it. I was like, I was so bombed. I was hoping he'd be able to make it yet.
SPEAKER_05:Well, some uh some of the people who answered the question, Becky Jekka, Bread, that's a great album. And then Lisa Marie, she's with me, Donnie Osman album, 1971. Andrea Early says vanilla ice. Wasn't that a fake band? Okay, Andrea. Didn't they lip sync? Wasn't it proven they lip sync? No, no, no, that's Nilly Vanilli. See how I start rumors? Vanilla vanilly, vanilla, vanilla. You're kind of close. They're close though, right? So I almost started a rumor. Okay, well, that would be something new. Black Sabbath, paranoid, is Jim Crosby. Dave King says the Partridge family, which I loved. I so I either wanted to be part of the Brady Bunch, but probably more so wished I was in the Partridge family, which would have been kind of creepy because the only reason why I wanted to be in the Partridge family is because I wanted to ride in the bus and date, which he would have been much older than me, David Cassie. So that'd have been creepy, that would have been my brother. So I couldn't date my brother.
SPEAKER_06:Can't remember the year that the the Partridge family came out, but I was like you. I watched it religiously every night. And um we actually Which is a whole turn from your family, which was like June and Ward Cleaver. I think I was in third or fourth grade, I was in fourth grade, and me and a couple guys formed the uh a Partridge family. We lip sync to the Partridge family. I played the drums. I played the draw, the the drums, and I was like fake drumming, you know.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it was that's great. Let's see. Uh Mario Margiterio, I'm gonna mess that last name up right now. Rush 2112, or how do I say that? Yeah, that what a great album that was. Track tape. Remember eight tracks?
SPEAKER_06:There was nothing better than getting in the in your car at 16, cranking up your Craig Supertuner stereo. Craig Supertoner. Craig Super CMC stereos, Craig Super Tuner with a Radio Shack EQ.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. I don't know what this stuff is. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_06:So you had to always you had to like put components together to make your stereo awesome, right? Back then. Because they aren't weren't like today. So you'd have like your in your your in either your in-dash stereo, which you could get at CMC stereo or high-fi-fo-fum. Remember that stereo. Hi five foam. And uh but you'd have to put components together. So you'd have the stereo, then that wasn't good enough. So then you had to put uh or you'd get a Craig super tuner, or you'd get the RadioShack EQ to boost your levels up. And then you'd have the Jensen coaxial speakers.
SPEAKER_05:Listen to yeah. I did have those. So I got so my first car, sadly I got my mom's hand me down, which was at Delta 8. Delta 88. I didn't, yeah, I know. What's that?
SPEAKER_06:Old Delta 88?
SPEAKER_05:Old Delta 88. It was a total mom car, but it had only two doors. It didn't have like a door to the backseat, so I was a little bit cooler. It was kind of a blue baby blue color. You'd never have speakers in the back window of a car like that. That had speakers in the back car because there's no way a bunch of cheerleaders can drive around and not have the stereo pumping, right? But then I got my Camaro for a college uh present, and then I thought it was super cool. I didn't have the speakers in the back windows of that one. Well, that's that back thing kind of went up weird in the Camaro.
SPEAKER_06:So I sounded really cool telling you about the Craig Super Tuner, the Jensen Coaxial speakers, the Radio Shack EQ, all of that stuff. How big were they? And don't forget this either. Remember, you had a slide mount so you could take it out of your car so nobody'd steal it. It's like um that happened and a CD radio Janet.
SPEAKER_05:Was that in your pento or your van with uh shelled carpeting?
SPEAKER_06:This is where I'm going with this. So I had a Ford Pento. And you know, this is where it's so not hot.
SPEAKER_05:This is where But do you even have a girlfriend? Who can you have a girlfriend with a pento?
SPEAKER_06:A Ford Pinto could be hot, especially if it blew up. If it blew up? Don't you remember? They discontinued them because if somebody rear ended you, the car could explode. Oh wow. Yeah. But anyway, this is this is where I started my career as far as technical stuff, right?
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:Ford Pinto. I I forgot what stereo, I think it was a Jensen stereo, but uh put that in. But I didn't have cool speakers, but I had a it was a hatchback pinto. So I took the big old house stereo speakers out of my car, put them in the back, and hooked them to my stereo. I had house speakers in my car.
SPEAKER_05:Of course you did. It's really creepy. I picked up all the chicks back then.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, it was so cool back then.
SPEAKER_05:But were you singing when you had that?
SPEAKER_06:You started singing, what, 17? I started getting in bands when I was, yeah, about 16 and 17. We started garage bands. Gordon had really long hair on my hands. Not in high school. Not in high school. But that's because your dad was a little bit. I had the David Cassidy look. Everybody did. So not super long. When'd your hair get long? My senior years when it started getting long. 18, 19 or something. So not too long. My dad was very he was imagine having a high school teacher for a dad, right? So and he was very strict. My hair had to be an inch above my collar until I was like a junior or senior. Showed him. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And then the hair came out. Did your parents Aqua Net. Gordon like had stock in Aquanet.
SPEAKER_06:Did your parents ever like buy you clothes that you couldn't stand? You're like, what are you buying me clothes for?
SPEAKER_05:No, because my mom was super cool. Your mom was cool. So I got cool clothes. So I was, yeah, I had I had cool clothes. And I love my dad, but my dad.
SPEAKER_06:My dad was a whole different ethnicity or something because the way he took it. If you wear the jump, like the jump on the one-piece leisure suit, jumpsuit.
SPEAKER_05:I ever want to wear a jumpsuit if you're a guy. Because that isn't that what you get when you're in prison is a couple of things.
SPEAKER_06:You wear orange with the big collars. He did wear orange. Oh yeah, you don't want either. And the Zanza belt, nobody's gonna know what we're talking about. Zanzi belt pants. They didn't have a pants. They didn't have a belt. They just stretched like forever, you know? It's like there were the far windows for dinner.
SPEAKER_05:All right. Well, we've got some hidden gems. So, you know, a lot of times we talk about all the time, we like live in St. Louis, St. Charles, you know, Illinois, wherever it might be that you reside, whatever your city is. And you you don't, we don't really know our own, we don't find those places. We always say that every month we're gonna find, you know, a place to visit that we haven't been to. And I'm really surprised. Like, even yesterday with our guest Bethany coming in, I've never been to Squires. No. Sounds like a really cool place and the market.
SPEAKER_06:In reality, you could probably spend a whole year if you went every day to a new place. Still wouldn't reach all the time.
SPEAKER_05:Steve, we'd have to make a lot more money to go someplace. We do have single days. So we've got the City Secrets, it's Wednesday City Secrets, it's hidden gems, as we say in plain sight. They're literally right there. So this is very close to us. Never been there. Candle Fusion Studio. It's in historic St. Charles. I've seen it. I've driven past it. Fantastic. So why is this a gym? It's this is an interactive experience, lets you create your own custom candle scent from a hundred options. You love candles, you're such a chick. Perfect date night, girls, day out, solo, self-care. Um, a fun fact: they even offer a candle and wine night. So you know I love wine, and scent memory making experiences. Number two, have you ever been here? I haven't been here either. This is in the Forest Park, the Whispering Wall at Grand Basin.
SPEAKER_06:Or some used to call it the Whispering Arch, or I'm sorry, the Whispering Arch, maybe Whispering Arch at the Grand Basin, but there's also a whispering arch in Union Station downtown.
SPEAKER_05:All right. So that's near the Grand Basin. I've never even heard that mentioned before. Grand Basin?
SPEAKER_06:Have you It's the bigger water there by Art Hill as it goes up and it comes down that big basin of water. Okay. That's that's one of the things.
SPEAKER_05:And it's one of the few things that are left over from the World's Fair. Which is super cool. So why it's a gem, it stands on the opposite ends of this curved stone wall and whisper. So what it says is your voice can travel like magic. It's acoustic, uh, acoustic wizardry and a romantic backdrop. So you could kind of like when someone's across, we always worry, like we l you know, live on the water and then the house across when we're making fun of yoga man out on the water.
SPEAKER_06:Hopefully, he's not listening.
SPEAKER_05:He can probably hear everything we're saying because it travels across right there.
SPEAKER_06:What was the name of the movie? What was the name of that movie?
SPEAKER_05:With um uh Couple's Retreat. Couples Retreat. Yoga Man, yeah. That's what he looks like out there on his paddle board doing yoga. Well, it becomes a secret proposal spot. My Botox must be messed up with my lips. I can't talk very well. It's been a long time. So imagine when I get him redone in a couple weeks. I'm talking like duck lips. Come on, you know if you're a woman, you love it. That's what they did. Remember, we were in the studio over here at 590 when I was in there and I had gotten my, I actually got where you get filler put in them, and I couldn't talk, and it was like my lips entered the studio before I did. Sorry, I can make fun of myself.
SPEAKER_06:You just can't. Do you see what I deal with?
SPEAKER_05:So, anyway, it's a great proposal spot. Actually, what someone should do is have their person stand at the one end of the base and they go to the other and then whisper to them and see if they heard them propose. Now that'd be the only thing. All right, another one, the Crooked Tree Coffee House. That's in St. Charles. I have been there. They do have really great um breakfast food. I mean, really good. It's not like it wows you when you walk in, like the new Caldies in Clayton that we went into that's near Lord's Diamond on the Dew. Man, that is a cool Caldies.
SPEAKER_06:We're doing a lot of shameless drugs today. They set it up really nice with the couches in the back.
SPEAKER_05:Super modern and the wallpapers, that super cool new look that's going on. Designers are using. It's not like that. It's very old school. This is a really old building, but it's more than a coffee shop. It's got charm and exhibit. They have poetry nights and secret garden and seating in the back. And but it's a local haunt, they say, and it's where creative thinkers quietly gather. All right, I've got one more for you, and that's the dark room at the Grand L. I don't even I don't even know where the what is the Grand L. Is that by the Fox? Or no, Midtown St. Louis, so that's by the Fox, right? The Grand L is at the Grand Ole, I want to say the Grand Ole Opera Theater, but that's not the theater.
SPEAKER_06:Right. And it used they used to have a jazz club in there. Okay. Remember, we we went there with Jim and Monica.
SPEAKER_05:Been to the symphony, yeah. But that's not the same place, right?
SPEAKER_06:Right.
SPEAKER_05:Okay. All right. Oh, where we went with Monica and Jim?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it's kind of like it looks kind of like a church almost. It's like sound pretty much. We were at a bar. There was no church in there. But it was the that's the same building. Okay, all right. So I guess I have to do that. Yeah, but like we walked in and walked in, and the and the band was all the way down at that in. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_05:All right. So why is it a gym? Hidden live music, uh, with great wine, intimate jazz nights you just mentioned, and rotating art displays. Stop by during off nights. So it's still that, okay. Yeah, for a quiet drink, stay for soul filled, um, you know, and meet some of the local artists. I really love the jazz place that we went to. I that was my first time. Was that your first time? Um maybe another date you're on there?
SPEAKER_06:At what at the jam our the dance club we went to? Yeah. Yeah, that was definitely the first time. Oh, that was the first time.
SPEAKER_05:Don't do a Kevin James on me. Remember that place we went to? Oh, yeah. Isn't it nice?
SPEAKER_06:Just like it was the last time we're in there. I've never been here, Doug.
SPEAKER_05:Sure you have. See, there you go again, quoting the lines, but can't remember to take the trash out. Loving that part. So there's some secrets uh here in our very own city, um, whether it be St. Louis, Midtown, or St. Charles, you know, that you can visit. So um, okay, I gotta say one more thing before we go to break.
SPEAKER_06:I'm afraid to hear this.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, yeah, it's you. So do you ever like, are you one of those when you talk on the phone, you tend to pace? Are you a pacer when you talk on the phone? Some people they get on the phone and they start walking the room. Oh, you were gonna bring this up. They can't just sit down and have a conversation and and talk on the phone. They gotta zigzag around and they kind of make you a little stressed and nervous because they're they're walking in front of you back in the back.
SPEAKER_06:It's me and it's also my son.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my gosh, that's annoying.
SPEAKER_06:But my son gets it from me. I can't blame him.
SPEAKER_05:Does your son walk around naked when he does it? Not that I won't even put that vision in my head.
SPEAKER_06:Well, you just did, and you put it in front of everybody else.
SPEAKER_05:So I'm in the kitchen this morning, okay? I'm making some coffee. It's it's early. And uh Brian, uh Brian, who is our friend, calls Gordon on the phone. And as I'm sitting there doing, here comes Gordon. Here's a vision for you. You get to keep that all day with you now. Just move it across through the kitchen into the family room, butt naked. It's all it's all there. But not only does nothing is nothing, not only does he do that, but he not thinking, not thinking whatsoever that he's not dressed for my benefit. He walk, okay. So we people, you know, we live in Newtown, people walk. I don't care if it's snowing, icing, raining. People are walking in front of our house, in front of our porch. It's by the water, so it's a pretty view, pretty walk. So, but our our our shutters are all open in the door, like we have those uh plantation shutters, but you can open it, so then you get a real picture and you're looking out, and it's really pretty. Gordon walks to the front door. I can't even stand it. He walk he walks to the front door and is just talking on the phone. I'm like, Gordon, Gordon, he's like, what? And I'm like, for God's sakes, move away from the door before we have to move. Every city buddy walks. I mean, there's kids, it's summer break, so you know, they're walking and going to the next destination together, and and there's Gordon, just not butt-naked in front of the door, but you know, the other way in front of the door. So, anyway, put some clothes on when you're talking on the phone, okay? I know.
unknown:I know.
SPEAKER_05:So the crazy things that you know your your partner spouse uh may do, you know, when they uh when when they're at home. So anyway, before we before we do take it to a break, I want to uh introduce you to St. Louis Closet Company. We're proud, proud and honored to have Jennifer Williams want to be a part of our show and allow us to talk about her great products. She's a fabulous businesswoman. Um my gosh, since 1991, she has been in business um building her company, St. Louis Closet Company, and it uh she's a beautiful building right off a big bin that you can go in anytime during the week, gorgeous showroom with great ideas of maybe what you want to do for your house. They do everything in-house, so nothing is you know shipped from somewhere else. Her people, her team are working on it at their location. It's locally owned, operated right here, and it is not a franchise. It is a family-owned business. Whether you're dreaming of that perfect walk-in closet or your garage, your bedroom, your mud room, wherever it might be, if you know it doesn't matter what room it is, if it's your office, your basement, bedroom, she can design the space that works for you. Um, she's very philanthropic. She does a lot to help the community, and that's really important to her as well. It's all about sort supporting local charities and schools across the region. She's big with that. So if you have an idea, or maybe you don't have an idea, but you have a room that needs help, go from chaos to calm with St. Louis Closet Company, make that appointment, come in, look around. She'll make it functional, she'll make it beautiful in every corner of your home. So get organized the St. Louis way. Go in, meet Jennifer Williams. She's there all the time because she's running her business, not somebody else. And uh, she's someone you want to meet. Yes, sir. So we're gonna take it to a break. You're listening to the In Your City Show on the Lou Information Station here at 590. But of course, right now you can listen to it live, see it visually at the YouTube channel, the In Your City Show. We'll be right back. Hopefully, Logan Janice has taken the weather by storm. He's here. He's here, yay. So we got a guest. All right, awesome. We're gonna come back with Logan Janice, have some fun with him, and you're gonna learn about mostly superheroes. The Lou information station is what's new to St. Louis. You can go to LouInfo.com, check out all the shows that are going on there, and of course, always on the 590 a.m. uh dial for the new KLIS. So here we are, uh Logan Janice will be coming up with mostly superheroes, bringing you a little fashion right now with Bespoke Apparel. We are so excited to have you both in the personal favorites. It is truly becoming a family operation, starting with your dad and his little buckaroo growing up to be a woman, and now she's in there running it. And now you're going to be getting married and you're bringing in the son-in-law. Now, is there any other family members in here we don't know about? And why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves and also give an introduction to those that couldn't be here with you today? You know, your dad and so forth are behind the scenes. Let's tell us a little bit who's behind the scenes right now.
SPEAKER_01:So I'm Danny Corbett. This is my fiance, DJ Howe, and then my You're gonna be Danny Howe, sir. I'm gonna be Danny Howe, yep. Um, my dad, David Corbett, founded Bespoke Apparel. 30 something years ago. Um, so I grew up around this business. DJ's been in it a few years, and we just have a really tight-knit group. Um, back at the shop. We also have our wonderful tailor, Samir. He is absolutely fantastic. Yes, he is. How long has he been with you? Uh five years now. Okay. Actually, we set up his equipment one week before the COVID shutdowns.
SPEAKER_06:He was with you at the old place, right?
SPEAKER_01:No, no, he was, yeah. We um another client introduced him to us.
SPEAKER_05:Which is a was a cool place too. I mean, yeah, two completely different looks. I remember being in that one. We did our show there actually. Yep. And in your um uh first spot, which was cool. It's really old school, the dark wood and all that. And then you move over to Clayton, and now you've got more of a contemporary, big windows, you know, to see in that.
SPEAKER_01:Right. Yeah. Yeah. So Samir, and then is there anyone else? Uh my mom helps out with books. She's also HR and whatever else we want her to do. Yeah, so HR issues. Not really. It's mostly we fired someone, it's just gonna be fire in the video. It's mostly just my dad and I bickering about something silly. He always says we're saying the same thing in two different ways, and he just shakes his head and walks around. That's me and Kelly.
SPEAKER_05:I'm like, for God's sakes, we just did the same thing three times. You keep arguing with me, and we just said the same thing, just differently.
SPEAKER_01:Well, and then my dad says the same thing about him and I. So apparently I'm the common denominator.
SPEAKER_06:You know what? I'm just always right. We see the problem.
SPEAKER_05:When you guys figure out, listen. When any man figures out we're always right, then we'll quit arguing with us. Just agree. Even if you don't, right? Like he's not saying anything. No. You got four months till the wedding, he's being careful. So thank you so much for being here and and all that you do. And I get you uh that suit, I'm sure that jacket right there, you designed uh as well. Gordon has so many. We are constantly asked everywhere we go, dude, bro, brother, hey, Gordo, Gordy, where'd you get that jacket? That is like a forever question all the time. All the time, yeah. All the time. And I'm I'll see something or a color. I'm like, it's time for you to get back to Be Spoke. I I need this color on you. I need this color on you. So yeah, you've designed some beautiful jackets. So let's get into asking you some questions here. So, of course, the name Be Spoke, it's already set the tone for something, right? Elevated and personalized. What was the vision behind Be Spoke apparel really coming into fruition?
SPEAKER_01:Well, so my dad I know you were little. Yeah, I was little, but my dad was a financial advisor. And in October of 1987, the stock market crashed, and the firm he was with, from what I've been told, wasn't the best at all of the detail paperwork. And so it left him feeling a little freaked out and exposed, especially considering his firstborn, um, yours truly, was due just a couple months after that. And so his brother-in-law at the time called and was like, You can sell ice to an Eskimo. Do you want to come sell suits to me or with me? And my mom thought we were gonna starve because this is a man who she would go buy three suits, he would try them on at home, and then she'd return the ones he didn't like because he's allergic to stores. So she's like, You're gonna sell clothing? Oh my god, we're in trouble. Turns out having that type of mentality is fantastic for a because a lot of men are allergic to stores. And so that chick right here. Tailoring the experience, you know, both from the literal sense of your tailored clothing designed for you, made for you, all about you, even the whole experiences. So for the guys that like Gordon that enjoy looking at the fabrics and experiencing all of that and picking out the details and the buttons and all that, we can spend as much time as you want diving in. And then for the guys that want nothing to do with it, they can DJ gets calls all the time from his guys or even text messages like, I need a blue suit, and he just makes it.
SPEAKER_05:Wow, that's incredible. I mean, you'll you have the store, but you also go into someone's closet and you'll go right to their home as well, right? And work with them, which is fabulous, especially for people that are very busy. It's hard to get into the store to know that you can come to them, is incredible. Now, I know that you've dressed some really unforgettable people, and I know your dad talks about Muhammad Ali um uh quite often, and I know Coach Barube uh when he was here, and we loved um still does it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, when he comes in, when he comes in and he comes in and hangs out and orders the more stuff.
SPEAKER_05:Nicest guy ever. Isn't he just incredible? Look at this star that you create. I love my jacket. I love that I've worn that so many times. I need that's the only one I have, so I'm due for a n maybe like a spring jacket or something. That's more winter, and I don't have anything for the spring, so I'd love to get any. And who's the most famous?
SPEAKER_08:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Primetime himself. Oh yeah. There's a little bit of green uh glare, so I can't see the TV. Who was up there? Dion. Oh, okay, sure, yeah. And gosh, didn't the blues, didn't you do all of their jackets when they won the Stanley Cup or something? Wasn't there something you did for those?
SPEAKER_01:So it Vince Dunn was the first player to come in and he placed his order, and I think they like won a game. And they hadn't done that in a little while. So it was like, whoa. And then he came in and he picked up his order, and Benner placed an order around the same time. And so it was after that first order was picked up that they started their famous run all the way to the cup. And so we joke that The Gloria days. Maybe, maybe, just maybe there's something lucky. I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:Maybe something lucky about it. I'm sure that there is. So I know that you've, you know, obviously, is there any story maybe that your dad's told you over the time of one of those unforgettable people that you dress that still talks about? Oh man.
SPEAKER_03:Do you want me to tell them the Hank Williams story?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, please.
SPEAKER_01:Now that you said it, you have to. Which one? Oh.
SPEAKER_03:Which one were you thinking?
SPEAKER_01:I was thinking Hank Aaron, because you like bring me under the bus. I don't know how much time I have. We can tell both how much time we have.
SPEAKER_03:The first one was David and I were in Florida, and I've always made the joke that if I pr if I ever fly private, I've made it. Uh and I asked him, I said, Did you fly private? And he goes, Yeah. I was like, When? And he said he was, I don't remember where he was stuck at. He was stuck and he was hanging or he was doing clothes for Hank Williams Jr. Uh, and obviously ever anybody knows him, he's a big family man. Uh and there was a snowstorm and he was trying to get home. Was Sarah born yet?
SPEAKER_05:I think so.
SPEAKER_03:So trying to get home to the girls.
SPEAKER_05:David's a big uh family man.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't know if we were talking about Hank or Both of our And so uh from what David told me, Hank Williams said, Give me 10 minutes. Give me 10 minutes. And he goes, What do you mean? He's like, just hold on. Uh and then he said he came back in the room and he goes, Hey, my private jet's waiting for you, go home. And he goes, What? And he goes, You go home to your family, go get out of here. He goes, It's waiting for you, go up on it. And he said he flew home, and sure enough, he got home to his girls, and he was like, Wow. And he's like, What do you, you know, do you need anything? He's like, No, we you just get out of here. You gotta get home.
SPEAKER_05:That is a great story. What a way. That's when you know you're designing a great jacket and close for somebody when they because those private planes, they are not inexpensive, they are um uh quite costly. So that's really cool. Your dad is such an amazing guy. We've enjoyed knowing him over the years and just getting to know all of you. Now, you have a puppy that runs around in there too. So I know you brought some samples. Tell me what's going on new right now with the bespoke.
SPEAKER_01:Well, what's kind of cool is that the custom world traditionally was just suits, some sport coats, maybe a blazer here or there, but very traditional business attire. Um, which obviously we still do a lot of. But one of the things that people don't necessarily know is that custom has expanded so much. So, like these super stretchy, comfy pants that DJs are pants? Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:That's a dream.
SPEAKER_01:So we're doing stuff like that. Polos, t-shirts, you know, more travel attire where we're getting into can you yep, I can see that like all kinds of different jackets. Like this is a nice lightweight, waterproof fabric for outer wear that's more like this. Yep, exactly. So I love that color. Custom has expanded so far beyond. So we got like a beige, but yes, we can also do like a blush.
SPEAKER_05:Maybe the top underneath has kind of got a pinkish tone to it, so it's bringing that out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And so just all this kind of casual wear that really elevates. Elevates your look on the day-to-day, you know? Yeah, and comfortable. Yes.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, I can't imagine. I know like as a woman, heels sometimes and and dresses, you're trying to look nice, but oh my gosh, can you it's uncomfortable. And the same with a man, you're wearing the suit look and trying to, you know, have a sophisticated style. It's uncomfortable. So to think that you're making pants that move with the body, because there's nothing but it's the the greatest thing ever is yoga pants and stretch pants. Now, I could never just wear a normal pair of jeans that are made just that stretch, you know, now they've got that give and that stretch, so they move with you. You don't feel so confined in your clothes. Right. Well, that's fabulous. That is so good to know.
SPEAKER_01:Same thing with DJ's dress shirt. I mean, it's same way. Yeah. And that's just the way that fabric. The like clothing has just changed so much, especially for men, where you're not having to wear a suit and tie and be super buttoned up every day. So you get so much more freedom. But with that freedom comes a little more effort of thought. Yeah. It's not automatic that you're wearing a blue or gray suit with a white shirt and a red or gold tie every day.
SPEAKER_05:You know, I think what you wear, and in a man, you know, it's funny. Gordon came home one day and he said, you know, it's weird how my because obviously he's in, you know, we're sales, you know, we're building partnerships all the time. And when he's been out about meeting people and he's maybe been a little too casual or something like that, it's really hot out. He doesn't if it's 100 degrees, Gordon will wear a sport jacket now. There's something about when he walks in and he's a good thing.
SPEAKER_06:I get more of these from your store, something like this. Yeah, that's what I think.
SPEAKER_05:When he goes with more of an elevated, just more. I think people re feel like, wow, he must really respect us, taking the time to come in, even though he's still comfortable and maybe something that gives, he's still wearing something. I think it makes a difference. I think that people, men need to realize that presentation is everything, right?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that you know, style.
SPEAKER_05:Style matters when you go somewhere. People feel like you took the time to care to talk with them. That you he met with somebody today that might be on our team. He's like, wow, you know, she looked fabulous and really put herself, you know, um, in a sophisticated, elevated place. You know, she didn't just show up.
SPEAKER_01:Well, they say that we make a decision subconsciously about somebody within an eighth of a second of trust or don't trust. And then our brains look for evidence to back up that initial thought. So when we present ourselves in a certain, you know, we we're thoughtful about it. It yeah, because our brains are trying to constantly prove ourselves right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So I'm in real estate, right? Yep. What do they always teach us, real estate agents, and when we talk to a client that's getting ready to sell their home, we want to make sure that the curb appeal because it's the first impression that a client's gonna see when they a potential buyer is gonna drive up to your house, that's gonna be their first impression when they see that house. I'll never forget walking up to a glass door and seeing 500 kids' smudges over the glass. And I'm thinking, as a buyer, I'm thinking, well, you didn't take if you didn't take the time to clean your front glass door, you didn't take the time to clean your whole house. So we're curb appeal. Make sure we're curb appeal with it. So yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Before we um the interview ends, I have two things. First, I'm gonna ask you first, what is your first album you ever purchased? Because that is our question of the day. Do you remember? Did do they have albums?
SPEAKER_06:I should say, what was the first CD you bought?
SPEAKER_05:Have you ever bought an album?
SPEAKER_06:It's the first iPod you bought.
SPEAKER_05:Have you ever bought an album? Like albums are coming back. Like we got a record player again.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so I gave them a record player for Christmas.
SPEAKER_05:So it was the first album you wanted to go with it, or did you already have your favorite?
SPEAKER_03:Um actually, it's probably there's a band in California named Day Seeker, and we do their suits too. Daisy or Day Seeker? Day Seeker.
SPEAKER_05:Okay. Oh, Day Seeker.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Day Seeker. Uh we did we met with them and did suits for them as well, um, because they wore suits on stage, and that was the first, it's like my favorite band.
SPEAKER_05:We're gonna have to listen to Daisy.
SPEAKER_03:Whenever, whenever I got that reply on Instagram from the lead singer, I was I fangirled a little. I was like, I told her, I'd go, I don't know if I can answer this. I was like, I looked because you were out of town and I called you. I did I called her, I called her, and I was like, you'll never guess what just happened. And uh sure enough, we met up with them when they were in town. They were wonderful. Um, that was the first one that I bought. Um I say CD. There's a band called Census Veil. It's just a band I had back in the day that I liked. That was for the first CD I bought. I was like, I don't even know how old.
SPEAKER_05:That's awesome.
SPEAKER_03:I used to go to Sam Goody's.
SPEAKER_07:Sam Goody. I remember Sam Goody. I remember that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:So before you guys leave us, is there anything that you want to make sure that people leave with what be what the experience of bespoke apparel is all about? And it's not just for men, also women can get tailored as well. Leave us with the experience of bespoke.
SPEAKER_01:Our tagline for a long time was master the unspoken word. And so, and we also joke that we can guarantee a good first impression until you open your mouth. Then you're on your own. Then you're on your own. Um Welcome to my world. But also that custom is not just custom clothing, like as in literal, we customize the experience. We can meet all kinds of price points from you know, a little more entry-level, you know, just a little more bit elevated from what you're probably used to, all the way up to over 20,000. You know, it's all over the place, but we really try to meet people where they are and help them build not just a wardrobe, but a whole, what do you want to call it, a personal brand, or just a personal style that helps them to meet their day with confidence. Master that unspoken word.
SPEAKER_03:That's great. The one thing I just kind of want to add to what you said, one thing that I would say we get compliments as a business on more than anything is is when you're there, you're treated like family. I can't tell you how many of the blues players have been like when I'm here, I feel like I'm just part of the family. And I know that that experience is not for everybody, but the people that truly love that, because I feel like what we do, I I don't know. I this the whole experience of what we have to offer, I think I think that's what sets us above. We all are very good at not treating people like a business transaction because that's not what it is. Um we love creating relationships. I mean, I'm going golfing Sunday with one of my clients, you know, and he set it up. He was like, You want to go? And I was like, Absolutely, you know, and I travel, and like when I travel, I had one of my clients in Florida, every time there's wife makes me an authentic Cuban meal every time. And I meet them at their house. And I can wear street clothes. They one time they told me, What do you want, change? Get out of that. And I, you know, but that's but that's part of and I think your dad, since I've started, and then just being around a family environment, has really driven that value. Is you treat everybody the same. It doesn't matter where you're damp, like where you come from financially, none of it. Because we don't look at we it's just not something that we focus on. Uh we'd much rather someone walk out the door and say, that was the greatest experience I've ever had buying a shirt or shoes or whatever case may be the most minimal thing. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_05:Dressing someone is is very personal and intimate. You're touching them and talking to them and sizing them and finding out their personality to know what's going to look best on them. You're helping them because sometimes we don't always know what looks best on us, and someone else's eye can you know definitely help. And so you all do that. I don't think there's ever been a time we haven't been in there that a blues player hasn't walked in the door, and we're kind of like, is that is that? You know, do that kind of pointing thing, you know, and then walk away like we oh, we're cool. We're we're not we're not uh all giddied at all. We're hiding it. But well, thank you so much. Beastbook is located in Clayton. Um, it's right there on the the corner of Clayton and gosh, highway, what is that, one seventy? Yep. Um and but like you just said, California, uh wherever it might be. You guys will travel to whoever needs your services. That's not a problem. You don't have to walk into the store, whether it be locally or even out of state, so it's super cool. Thank you so much. We we've known you for a while, and you're like family with us. And seeing you grow up and now getting married, I guess we'll be seeing more babies coming along, ready to be part of the colour.
SPEAKER_03:We got a nine-year-old, that's enough.
SPEAKER_05:We'll see about that. Well, thank you so much for coming by and sharing B Spoke Carol with us, and we continue to keep coming in and let you beautify us with some great clothes. So we love it. Thank you so much. Tell your dad hello and give him a big hug. We'll do. All right, in your city show right here, coming from the Lou Information Station and on demand at LouInfo.com. And of course, you're watching us on the YouTube channel of In Your City Show in the 590 AM Da. We'll be right back with Logan Janice, mostly superheroes.
SPEAKER_06:That's right.
SPEAKER_05:All of a sudden, we're gonna go into a whole thing with that like that. So, our question of the day, of course, on the In Your City Show is what was your first album that you ever purchased? Casey Pierce says she had a CD, um, was Music Box by Mariah, of course. She's just in her 30s. She was hooked. She said, I think my dad bought it for me from the Columbia Music Catalog albums, purchased it on her own, which is cool. Probably more Mariah in what's N S Y N C or Britney Spears. You can tell when they're so young, aren't they? Uh Sam Goody, that's what she says. In sync. Yeah. We got a few more announcements.
SPEAKER_04:Never heard it pronounced.
SPEAKER_07:N Sync. Who's that?
SPEAKER_05:Have you heard NSNYNC? So N S Y N C.
SPEAKER_06:Somebody's definitely out of sync.
SPEAKER_05:That's kind of like when I read the Mazoous sign. Um, it was spelled out, and I go, what's the restaurant Muddiggers?
SPEAKER_06:I go, that's mutigers.com.
SPEAKER_05:Come on, Muddiggers. Muddigers.
SPEAKER_06:I never let her live it down.
SPEAKER_05:Restaurant is Muddiggers. I feel like I'm red as a Jerry right now. Okay, that was that's probably one to play on for a while. So we're sitting here right now, and we're of course we're gonna ask Logan what his favorite or first album he ever purchased was. But welcome to the show, Logan Janice. So nice to have you wear your mostly superheroes, heroes t-shirt uh with you right now. And uh we want to say two thank you because you are hoping with production for our show and bringing on great guests, which it looks like Steve, who was gonna come on in, is here with us right now. So hopefully he's out there comfortable. I wish I could say we had this gorgeous greed room that he's out there, but he's in the little four-year opening of the radio station. It's comfortable. It's comfortable. Yeah, there's two couches. You could take a little nap if needed, you know, whatever. It floats your boat. So welcome to the show. We appreciate you. And, you know, tell us, I mean, I think the first most important question is let's start with the origin of what the heck mostly superheroes is about. Do you wear capes when you're on air and fly through the air, or what's going on?
SPEAKER_04:Um well, first of all, I, you know, after following bespoke, I was like, you know, I feel like I'm dressed very well. You know, I feel like this is this is the fit. You know, I can't see you. I don't know if you remember the game The Sims, where you know, you pick your outfit and you walk around. I feel like I have my three outfits.
SPEAKER_05:So you're not selling us. I guess I don't buy anything from you, so you can wear your shirt.
SPEAKER_04:Like wear my shirt. That's what I mean. It's it's great advertising, but it sounds like I need to get over there to bespoke. But the origin story of mostly superheroes the podcast, which you know, we talk about a lot of origin stories on our show, um, started about six years ago in terms of the podcast itself. So we're based out of Shrewsbury. My wife and I, Carrie, created the show. And then you can't really talk about the origin story of the podcast without talking about the origin story of myself. So I'm from about an hour south of here in Bonterre, Missouri, where I grew up there, raised by my dad Stan, my mom Angie, my stepdad Greg, oldest of nine.
SPEAKER_05:All three of you in the same house?
SPEAKER_04:Oh, we were all in the same no. They split when I was my parents when I was nine. So we had you know a couple houses growing up, and but all you know, my mom and stepdad and all the siblings, we were definitely all in the house at least one time for probably about four or five years, and it was very much cheaper by the dozen, you know, a little bit and brady bunch for sure. Um but I grew up on TV, grew up on movies. Um, you know, my parents taught me all the good lessons, but we also had a TV in the living room, and it was a pastime. And uh I always thought I'd have maybe my own talk show. You know, thought about maybe doing weather, thought about maybe doing news. Um, and I actually got started in radio at 18 in Lincoln, Nebraska for a station called 1063 KFRX. Took a year off of school, went there, followed a friend out there who was playing football for the Cornhuskers, Will Compton. He's a Bonterre boy, 10 years in the NFL, has a podcast. He's in now in Nashville. Uh plugged their podcast, bust him with the boys, because he's a hometown legend for sure. So I knew one day maybe a talk show was in my future. I didn't really know what it would be, but first I guess I went to college for x-ray. I became an x-ray technician. Wow. Did that for a few years, had a lot of jobs before that, too. I started working at Fortune.
SPEAKER_05:You saw some crazy stuff in those x-rays.
SPEAKER_04:X-ray was crazy. Yeah, driving a van around taking x-rays in Missouri.
SPEAKER_06:Driving a van around taking x-rays.
SPEAKER_04:Got it stuck in a creek once. They still never know that it happened. They know now, but they didn't know then that it happened. I got it out. A local neighbor had to pull me out of a creek. I'm not even kidding. Um, but it's funny now. It wasn't that seven years pharmaceutical research in corporate business, and then seven years in marketing and advertising. That was a little bit of three years in Chicago, about ten years in St. Louis, mostly in Soulard. And then the last six years I've been in Shrewsbury with my wife Carrie. We we've been together about six years and uh we got married about in this past September. So all over the board there. But now we have mostly superheroes. I work for myself. I'm a producer in town, I'm a promoter in town. Me and Carrie both live and breathe St. Louis. We love the city. We're in Shrewsbury, but we're in the city and everywhere else all the time. So now it's podcasts, radio, events. Uh I'm on the board for a nonprofit called Team Jakey that gets a lot of my time. But uh yeah, just it's it's great. We work for ourselves. It's been the big experiment all this time. So we're set free in a lot of ways, but it's also Feast or Famine as a freelancer.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, when you're in business for yourself.
SPEAKER_04:Absolutely. So thank you for having me. It's been so fun working with you all and producing for the show, getting to book for the show.
SPEAKER_05:Well, you got great vibes, great energy. You know, you're super pleasant to be able to work with, and lots of great ideas of people, you know, for us to be able to meet as well.
SPEAKER_04:I think you've got a question you're your your network's are networks. It's been like I know.
SPEAKER_06:So let's tell us, let's tell, let's talk a little bit about mostly superheroes. You cover everything from Marvel to DC and beyond. So, what is your favorite character?
SPEAKER_04:Great question. I started off as a Superman guy for sure. That was like my entry point.
SPEAKER_06:Was this like at three? Yeah, it was uh were you jumping off like putting capes on and jumping off the roof?
SPEAKER_04:I was born in 89, so I grew up I grew up watching stuff in the 90s. Yeah, and watched a lot of Super. I saw Superman the movie with Christopher Reeve. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:And that really still my favorite Superman.
SPEAKER_04:Absolutely. And I was a big Henry Cavill guy, and man, we are counting down big time to Superman and Theaters this July. And James Gunn. That's right, yeah. And James Gunn, St. Louis, he is the CEO of DC Studios. We had his brother Sean on our podcast podcast last year. And he's been in like the Guardians of the Galaxy and some DC movies and stuff. So Superman and Z O G, but nowadays I kind of lean toward the everlasting characters. I like the ones that kind of can live forever. So you got like Thor. I'm a huge fan of the Silver Surfer, kind of like a galactic explorer. So that's mine. How about yours?
SPEAKER_06:Oh, um throw it back at you.
SPEAKER_04:I'm sorry. You know what? That's the interview. It's your show.
SPEAKER_06:You know what? I gotta go with. Batman, because I go all the way back to the 60s, you know, even with the you know the the goofy uh Burt Ward and Adam West, you know. I mean, I mean, horrible. Let's when you watch it now, it's just horrible, you know. But it's it's great because it's almost like watching the old 60s Batman was almost like watching a comic book in action.
SPEAKER_04:That's what they did.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, it was like slap comic, but it's walking up the wall, and then the stars opening the windows and coming out. You see Sammy Davis Jr. come out, or you never know who was gonna pop out of those windows, you know, when they're climbing up the building. But that was one of my favorite parts, too. But yeah, I have to go with Batman. And then as it went on even to now with Batman, I mean, what they did with the you know, um Batman series with you know, going up and having a different Batman each time they come out was kind of weird too.
SPEAKER_05:Getting Michael Douglas look hot. That's Michael Keaton. I'm sorry, Michael Keaton's.
SPEAKER_04:Michael Douglas, Michael Douglas can look hot too.
SPEAKER_05:I just mean Michael Keaton's. I think anybody can look really hot in a Batman. So is Thor a Marvel?
SPEAKER_04:Yes, Thor's Marvel.
SPEAKER_05:Don't talk over Thor right now. You totally just took my my spot away of my favorite. Which is it's just it really has nothing to do with Thor. It's just who plays him.
SPEAKER_08:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Come on, every woman thinks Thor's hot, right?
SPEAKER_08:Hemsworth. I don't know. Hemsworth.
SPEAKER_05:Does every woman think Thor's hot? Yes. Yeah. He'd have to be deaf, dumb, blind, and just maybe not even born.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, I'm I'm very straight. He's a hot guy. Okay.
SPEAKER_05:He had to say that out loud.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, just to say he's hot, though. He's like, I mean, you can't ignore it. And his brother Liam, too. He was like in the Hunger Games movies. Like these guys are, they got the genes.
SPEAKER_05:They they do have the genes. Um, so let me ask you, um, you obviously you've built a strong community around your show, um, and you've been doing it a while. What do you think that mostly superheroes offers that just keeps getting having your listeners come back for more?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's a great question. And really, it's like trying to you always start trying to do the same things over and over to make it better, sharper. So I was inspired by really great podcasts and shows like Radio Lab and a lot of programming on St. Louis Public Radio and and a lot of the uh AM and FM stations in town, morning shows. And so my goal from the get-go is just you know, the best version of all those things, just a variety I wanted it to be a variety talk show. So I that's where the mostly comes in, and mostly superheroes. And it started with TV and film because that was a great entry point for me. Like TV and film helps me figure out how I feel about things. It teaches me these great lessons and it also teaches great characters. So it was just a great, easy way to be like, all right, let's start with talking about movies. But now at the heart of it, it's being useful, being intentional, being straight to the point to a to a way, but also leaving the room to breathe and talk to each other. But we want to try to be all those things, you know. I think there's a lot of podcasts, there's a lot of shows. We were at like under a million five years ago, and I know it's well over two million now. So it's just a crazy kind of ecosystem. And as you guys know, as producing a show, you you know, it you kind of find out like there's no shortcuts. It's like either this is gonna be this vision that I have, but you're always working toward a vision that you have. So I think like always keeping that, those things in my head. And I'm really proud of what we do. We put out weekly shows that are really accessible. That's a big thing for us. Our show is completely free, it's accessible. Um, and now we're able to share even on the airwaves in St. Louis and whatnot. So that's even helping get in our reach even even bigger. We love that. Um, but it's usually short episodes that are pretty pointed, you know, like you're here to talk about Superman the movie. Maybe it's 10 minutes, maybe it's 30 minutes. You know, we'll do some long ones for some commuters and stuff, but you know, we're trying to get you to that long form, medium form, and the short form to where like you might not have time for a whole podcast. We know that. So we work hard to try to just you know get create high quality, good content, but at the it's at the heart of it is uh you know, St. Louis and movies and storytelling and really awesome people. Like that that's been like such a journey of like the interviews have been great, but the local sponsors and groups that we work with, like Team Jakey, the nonprofit group, you know, Four Hands has been a really fun partner of ours, Steve's hot dogs. You're about to talk to Steve Ewing, who's becoming She brought a couple.
SPEAKER_05:I'm starving.
SPEAKER_04:I I hope he did.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, oh all right, guys, I'm about to stump you, okay? So, you know, this is Mr. Movie Man right here. I think I gotta go against him. Yes, Gordon never forgets a line of a movie. No, that's it. He can prove something up that a movie came out when you're 12 years old and say the line and he likes to do the voices, so you might he might whip out a few voices here. He has no idea what I'm asking here. He did not get to see this.
SPEAKER_06:So you see the shirties working on the case.
SPEAKER_05:The game that we're playing right now is guess that quote. So the quote comes from a movie. So what you're gonna give me is the movie. I'm gonna give you the quote. Gordon, if you would like to do it in the voice to help us, we can do that. And you can see if you know if you might know the answer to who's listening. So here's looking at you, kid.
SPEAKER_06:Um, Casablanca.
SPEAKER_05:You won that one. Did you know that?
SPEAKER_04:That was a classic. I hadn't seen that one since college. I would not have got that one, I'll be honest. So one-nothing.
SPEAKER_05:You're gonna need a bigger boat. How'd you like that phone?
SPEAKER_04:Oh Jaws.
SPEAKER_05:Okay. How do you like my accent?
SPEAKER_06:It didn't come to me quick enough.
SPEAKER_05:Go ahead. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
SPEAKER_04:We both know it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, gump. Say it together then. Forrest gump. That's 1994. By the way, Jaws is 1975. Casablanca 1942, Forrest Gump 1994. Wow. I know that's how old we are. I see dead people. You keep giving Gordon a chance, just say.
SPEAKER_04:No, well, I didn't know the first one, the Sixth Sense.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. 1999.
SPEAKER_04:Wow.
SPEAKER_05:All right. May the Force be with you. Star Wars. You look like those.
SPEAKER_04:Well, I guess that's where I get nerdy. I'm like, which one?
SPEAKER_05:Did you? Yeah, I know which one. Well, that's I guess I'd say. I'll give you the year, 1977. So a new hope.
SPEAKER_06:And I heard, I heard uh uh Grant's show the other day. They were talking about Star Wars on their show. And they're talking about the uh Namie's son, he couldn't remember, I don't think he's ever seen a Star Wars episode, is what he saw. But I was like But they were talking about technology and how it's like I just gotta ask you this and then we'll go on to the game. So with the Star Wars episodes, I was looking so forward to the new ones because I wanted to see new technology in place with the Star Wars, but it looked just like the old technology, which was ahead of its time at the time and they came out, right?
SPEAKER_04:Right, yeah. And a lot of those old movies have been remastered too.
SPEAKER_06:My eyes I had to go to the movies. I was a little disappointed. I wanted to see technology to make Star Wars just explode. All you Star Wars fans hated. What are your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER_04:Oh man, they have definitely come a long way. And uh the latest uh show in the Star Wars universe is called Andor, and it was uh I hadn't seen that one. Two seasons, and the second season had a budget of six hundred and eighty million dollars, which is about double any of the biggest Marvel movies.
SPEAKER_06:Do you know what the budget was for the original Star Wars?
SPEAKER_04:Uh and it's time, and uh not off the top of my head, but seeing seeing enough of uh seeing enough documentaries and and whatnot, I think at the time it was probably 50 to 100 million, 150 million in in their money time, not ours.
SPEAKER_05:And not bad to our regularly.
SPEAKER_04:Toy story.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, 1995. Why is so serious?
SPEAKER_04:The dark night.
SPEAKER_05:Thank you. Wow. I'm getting blown away.
SPEAKER_04:Well, that was my specialty.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Nobody puts baby in the corner.
SPEAKER_04:Million dollar baby?
SPEAKER_05:No, no, I don't know.
SPEAKER_04:No, the boxing.
SPEAKER_06:No, nope, nope, nope, or no dirty dancing. Yeah. Good job.
SPEAKER_04:I got it mixed up.
SPEAKER_05:1987. I'm the king of the world. Titanic. Oh, yeah. 1997. There's no place to me now, Doctor. There's no place like home.
SPEAKER_04:E.T. Nope There's no place like home. Uh Wizard of Boss.
unknown:Oh.
SPEAKER_05:1939.
SPEAKER_06:My daughter used to walk. That's insane. My daughter used to walk around the house. She was just a little bitty kid, like two or three, and she'd like, there's no place like Mo. She kept thinking Mo. I'm like, what is this?
SPEAKER_04:All right. All right, now name this movie. Phone Home.
SPEAKER_05:E.T., E.T., there you go. So, what was your first album that you ever purchased for a question of the day, sir?
SPEAKER_04:I'll tell you the first. I can remember my first three albums. The first one was definitely Britney Spears, uh, Baby One More Time. Oh my god, you're so young. They're killing us more. City High. City High in 2001, the self-titled album, Sit City High. And also in 2001, Alien Ant Farm anthology.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my god, you were chicken a guy's body too, like my husband.
SPEAKER_04:I like it all too. My first album I was ever gifted was Bruce Springsteen, and the first cassette tape I ever got was A Beatles' Greatest Hits.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, okay. Now you're talking. There you go. I like that. So tell us how we can watch and listen to Mostly Superheroes before you exit us.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, absolutely. I mean, you're definitely gonna hear mostly superheroes on 590 K L I S. Really excited to have the show presented here. And I know we're gonna have, I think, a spot definitely on Fridays, and we're gonna tell you about movies, TV, film, and definitely come check us out when you're not listening to the station, mostly superheroes.com. We put a lot of work into that website, and it's very good. It's searchable, it's organized, it's got our videos. And if you're on social media, it's always at Mostly Superheroes.
SPEAKER_05:Awesome. All right. Well, Logan, Janice, thank you so much for spending some time with us today and everybody getting to meet you. We will be at the end, uh, towards the end in the in your city show segment. We are going to be playing uh mostly superheroes, and we're gonna give the movies for June that you are not gonna want to miss. So be sure uh to stick around at the end and be able to watch and see what movies you don't want to miss with Logan Janice and Mostly Superheroes. Listen, the In Your City Show, we're coming back. We've got Steve Ewing with us today. We're gonna be talking about a great event that's coming up. He is a powerhouse in the music world, and we're excited to have him. So we'll be right back. We're gonna go ahead and uh give you a few commercials because, of course, that's how we get to be here on the show.
SPEAKER_06:Yep. We'll be right back.
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SPEAKER_09:Yes, that's it. That's it.
SPEAKER_05:So, Steve, thank you for spending some time with us here today. I mean, not only are you out there just singing your heart out um with your band, which we want to kind of catch up where you're at in the music scene. For those that haven't been or know about, you know, Steve's hot dogs, we want to know about that too. But you also have some really fabulous events. One of them we actually wrote a story on in our magazine. It was a year ago, too, or sometimes the years run together when we've had these magazines for so long, but we did a big feature on uh your event that you're gonna talk about. So, first, why don't you catch us up on Steve the Musician? Where are you at right now? I know that you have the Steve Ewing as a musician. Are you still with the Urge as well?
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, so the Urge is um we just did Point Fest two weeks ago. Uh we co-headlined that with our friends 311. And this year we have about another five tour dates with the Urge, and then we'll have the pageant again in November. It's a big show we always do every year. So some big events for Urge this year. So we um we don't do as much as um we used to way back in the day, where it's just be on tour all the time. Now we just pick the festivals and shows that we like and have fun doing and you know, make a little bit of money at. So yeah, we're still doing quite a bit of Urge stuff, and gosh, um I'm doing a lot with the Steve Ewing band. I'm usually playing at least a couple, two or three times a week, you know, in the region.
SPEAKER_06:So I know we've been to a few events, and there you are.
SPEAKER_05:I know.
SPEAKER_09:Yes.
SPEAKER_05:Fantastic to listen to.
SPEAKER_09:We stay real busy here in the in the area.
SPEAKER_05:How the heck do you run that successful business with your hot dogs and all that you do? We can't figure out how we do what we do.
SPEAKER_09:So well, I um I have a really great um two great business partners, and then over the past like five years, we've been really good at building um a fantastic team of general managers and um and HR and things like that, so I can step away from the day-to-day with these hot dogs and really concentrate on music, um, which is what what I've been doing for 35 years, you know. So that's nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So how right now, so how many dates are you playing throughout a year? Let's say it's the whole year. Like how many dates do you play? The whole the whole year, about 120 shows.
SPEAKER_05:Oh my gosh, you're like, what's his face? Um, what's the guy that could believe he cheated after finding out all this time?
SPEAKER_06:What's I have no idea what we're talking about?
SPEAKER_05:And he's so successful, you know, rock star, musician, and we just watched a biography on him. And we found out Oh, Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi, like three and 20 days out of the year, the band. You're like half of that.
SPEAKER_09:Yes. Yeah, I Bon Jovi is uh he's from the old, old school where those guys were those, they worked hard. They performed.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, yeah. I was so sad to find out he was a cheater. Well, I you know what? I remember, and as a singer, you can understand this, but I'll I'll never forget playing stages back in the 80s all the time. Yeah. We were doing in Nichols, we were playing, we're I I would play 14 days straight without a day off. Yeah, as a singer, that's killer. It's like you're less. That's a little rough. Yeah, yeah. So it's like we did it all the time. I probably have one day a week off.
SPEAKER_05:But when you're young, I mean, they give the energy to the wrong people. I need the energy now, not back, you know, not when I was that age. I mean, kids just run in circles. I'm like, why didn't God give us a little bit of that? I can't even run a half a circle for a second now. I'm tired. I don't get it. I don't understand it. That's a lot of shows. Yes. It's half the year.
SPEAKER_09:It's it's yeah, something like that. And then we um I'm like you're saying, the schedule used to be even more than that. You know, um, with the Steve Hewing band and the other things I do, the schedule was four nights a week, five nights a week. And now with the restaurant, opened the restaurant in 2011, um, I knew I couldn't do both of them that much, you know. So I'm like, well, let me see if I can scale back on what I do with the Steve Hewing band and really get this business off the ground. And that's what I did. And then, like I said, in the past five years, we've been able to really build a good team so I can um dip more back into performing um as you know, more, so which is what I love doing.
SPEAKER_05:So let's talk about Bourbon and Bruce event. Um, one of your passions and reason why that you're here today with us is to talk about this event. So um tell us about the event, what people can expect. It's a pretty big deal, and where it's at, too.
SPEAKER_09:Yep. So Bourbon and Bruce um is an awesome event. Drew and James have been putting this on for I think this is their fourth year, and um they do an amazing job of getting all of the breweries and all of the you know, bourbon makers, whiskey makers uh from the region and nationally together uh for this event. So there's 400, there's like 400 whiskeys. Seriously? And and beers is a lot.
SPEAKER_05:And so this is gonna have to eat some burgers and hot dogs there in between all that whiskey tasting.
SPEAKER_09:And a ton of food trucks. So yes, you gotta get yes. It's it's like if you're into bourbon. Yeah, there's a lot. And it's just growing.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Still growing, yeah. Yeah, that's just crazy.
SPEAKER_09:So they and they have a number of other events. Um, you know, the the St. Louis Bourbon Society, but this is their kind of their big one. And they do it every year out at uh Frankie Martin's car.
SPEAKER_05:So it's at the same place every year. Or well, I guess Frankie Martin, is it did it start when Frankie Martin's was built out there? Is that how it happened?
SPEAKER_09:They were the first event.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_09:So they were the first thing to happen at Frankie Martin's when they opened up. So they didn't even have it all the way full built yet. Um Bourbon and Bruce was the first thing that they did out there.
SPEAKER_05:Incredible. Now, will your will your hot dogs be there?
SPEAKER_09:Um, I won't be there as a hot dog vendor. Um, we have a lot going on that day. We don't have a food truck yet, but I will be performing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:So are you thinking about starting your own bourbon or your own? Um not necessarily yet.
SPEAKER_07:So it's been why.
SPEAKER_09:Because I love bourbon. So it's you know, it's just something that I think would be cool. Um, just trying to figure out how to actually get into it and how to do a good job doing that. That'd be something down the line. So, but I love bourbon. That's why I'm this event just works out perfect for me. Um, I get to play my music, as long as well as urge music and some old classic covers, and um really get you know folks hyped up about whiskeys and beers. That's great.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, with 400 vendors, I can't even imagine how many, because you that's the vendors. Then you have all the people that are coming to be part of this.
SPEAKER_09:Correct.
SPEAKER_05:So does it go all day long from morning till night, or how is there so much?
SPEAKER_09:It goes um it goes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, so during the day, during the day people get home and have to go to bed.
SPEAKER_06:So out of all those, out of all those vendors are um is it all is every summer food, right? And some are bourbon. That's not all bourbon.
SPEAKER_09:The food is in the food trucks. No, he's so if you know how cotton how um it's the bourbon in that.
SPEAKER_06:Yes, 400 bourbon vendors.
SPEAKER_09:So I don't know, I don't think it's 400 vendors, but between all the vendors, you're gonna have 400 different varieties.
SPEAKER_06:Varieties varieties, varieties. Oh, I got still that's a lot. I know.
SPEAKER_09:She liked when she said that I was like, yeah. So when you look at it, the entire footprint is tense with people with their um with their samples and like all the way up and down.
SPEAKER_05:So it's what's your favorite?
SPEAKER_09:Um, I like Penelope. You've heard of Penelope? No, I haven't, but we're gonna have to. And there's a bunch of varieties of Penelope, but a friend of mine turned me on to that last year, and that's my new favorite.
SPEAKER_05:And do you like just sipping it? Like I love a good old fashioned is, and if you get a bad one made, it can ruin you. Sure. But when you have a good one, oh my gosh, that's just fabulous. And then, but uh usually like a what I always say, what am I supposed to get? A bullet rye. A rye.
SPEAKER_06:Rye, but yeah, rye for old fashioned. Old fashion.
SPEAKER_05:There is a difference in in in that taste. Oh yeah. So Penelope, we're gonna have we're gonna have to try that out. Now, do you find um uh when you go through and you have all the vendors, uh is there certain ones that you're looking for then? Is that will that one be there?
SPEAKER_09:So I'm I'm not looking at any one in particular. Um, I'll usually partake after I get done.
SPEAKER_05:Um be quite silly up on the stage, right? Right, yes. Because it's it's hot after about your tenth sample.
SPEAKER_09:Right, yes. So I will partake. Usually someone will approach me and say, hey, check this out, try this out. Um, or like you should try that out. That's really good. There's so many bourbons that I have tasted. Um, I love bourbon. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm always open for for folks to come and say, check this out. This is you're gonna love this, this a little different, or there's something about it. And the cool thing about what I've learned in the past like few years is every bourbon has a story to it.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:They all have a little story, like how you know how it was made and what barrels it's in, and where the stuff comes from. So it's it's always cool to listen to them talk about the bourbons.
SPEAKER_05:I did not know, I did not know that that they had a story behind it. That makes it even better. Like I love those wine bottles that you was it prison or something, and they have story people on the on the uh on the bottle. You take your phone and they come to life and they attack it. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's cool like when there's something about it. I didn't know that they all had a story behind it.
SPEAKER_09:It's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. So with the event, um, it's at Frankie Martin's. So people that maybe have not been to Frankie Martin's, that is located in Cottleville, right? Uh inside the St. Charles County area. Really a great location that's the big outdoor astro turf, you know, and they've got the what do you call that when you throw the um the sandbags, you know, the bag talls. Yeah, and then they've got pickleball courts if you want to play pickleball. They do have the great uh whiskey tasting tasting room and cigar that you can go in and visit. Of course, they have the outside area, you know, you can buy beverages, but they do line up with food trucks. And we went there for uh Casey, my daughter's birthday, and that was fun sitting outside. Let me ask, is there any charity or anything about it? Is there a reason Bourbon Brews is about it has come to fruition?
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, so the St. Louis Bourbon Society um it's a charitable organization. So they um they raise a lot of money for lots of different charities, and one charity in particular for this is um our Feed the People charity. So we have a charity that's fed at this point since COVID around 10,000 people, um, and they donate every year to that cause. And what we do is we take that money and we make meals and we get them right out to the people. So um Feed the People is our organization, and they've been donating to that for the past four times we've done this. So they're really good about raising money for that, and they also raise money for tons of other um organizations.
SPEAKER_05:I love hearing that. We just had the St. Louis food bank on, and you just don't realize in Missouri alone, 900,000 people are needed to be fed. Yeah, and then here locally, just in St. Louis, over 400,000. So knowing that anyone's out there helping to get people fed is just really is dear to my heart because you can't, I mean, obviously we need sleep, but you can't survive without food and water. Any food, yeah. And to think of a child uh not being able to eat and being hungry just that that breaks my heart. I mean, it's just an incredible uh thing they're doing.
SPEAKER_09:We learned that we learned that big time during COVID um when people were out of work and people in the neighborhood needed. Help, we learned how much there was a need, and so um we were able to get some help from other um organizations that to help us actually get the food out on the street so we'd make the food and they'd get the street the food out, so it's really nice.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so the bourbon brews event again. What date is that?
SPEAKER_09:That is that's this Saturday.
SPEAKER_05:Oh wow, this weekend and the June 7th and uh 8th or whatever that is then coming up. Yeah, now you have something else also that's dear to your heart that's coming up. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
SPEAKER_09:So um, if you don't know, our location on Del Mar was right in the middle of that tornado.
SPEAKER_08:How did you think?
SPEAKER_09:In May, so we we sustained quite a bit of damage. Sorry, but um, and the entire block from Union all the way down to Kings Highway sustained a massive amount of damage. All the restaurants, all the businesses were closed um for a long time. And most of us still closed, where none of us have gotten open again. We're we're working to get back open soon. So we have an event called Build Back the Block, which is Tuesday, June 17th. And that is the day we're hoping to get back open again. And so we've got a lot of people um involved in getting all the businesses um on the block back open. So that's what we're here to do. We're raising money.
SPEAKER_05:What will we be doing? You'll be raising money. How will you be doing that and where? Well on the block itself or yep, so we have a concert.
SPEAKER_09:So the funky butt brass bands.
SPEAKER_05:On that block.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, right in front of our restaurant.
SPEAKER_05:Wow, okay. So I'm sorry, go ahead again.
SPEAKER_09:Oh, you're good. So yeah, we have the funky butt brass bands playing. Um, my band, The Urge, uh, some of our guys are gonna be joining them um in a couple of those performances. Um, we have a lot of donors who are already donated. Um, like we have, you know, the Clark Fox Foundation. Um, we have gosh um many of St. Louis. So right now we already have about 20,000 in pledges. And then so our goal is to raise$40,000 um dollars for all the restaurants and businesses and houses in the block.
SPEAKER_05:And that's not even enough that you that you need. You I hope the donor comes, I mean, there's no even imagine, you know, putting businesses back together again and sure roofs, windows, and and insides, and the food that you know, in like in your place that ruined. I mean, there it takes more than that. So I hope that you there's even more that find you that have deep pockets that can help to get you back in action.
SPEAKER_09:So yeah, I think this will be great to help the businesses get the ones we need. Maybe they didn't get all the insurance money, or maybe there's some other stuff you need. This is there for them. And um, this is also good to build awareness of that district. Like if people come down there and and patronize the businesses, that's what that's what businesses need to sustain themselves, is uh folks to come in the district and um and patronize them. So that we're hoping that we just create more awareness for the district as well.
SPEAKER_05:So you have the bands and then and then let us know again what's gonna be going on, people can look forward to. And also, like you said, you have donors that are already coming in. So if someone wants to donate, where would they do that if they they can't make it to the event but they want to give back?
SPEAKER_09:Just go to Steve's HotdogSTL dot com um and there's a link there where you can make donations um to either uh build back the block or feed the people. Okay, and um, while you're there at the event, there'll be ways where you can use QR codes um to make donations as well.
SPEAKER_05:Make it easy, right? And again, I kind of I stopped in the middle of asking. I know you had the bands, if people want to donate, what all what else will be going on?
SPEAKER_09:Um we'll have an auction. We have uh quite a few items um that we've gotten donated from some some business around St. Louis. We'll have an auction and we'll have a 50-50. Um we're hoping to get the mayor and a few people out to come hang out with us and talk to the and talk to folks. Um the neighborhoods on both sides of the boulevard were greatly affected by this tornado, um, north and south of us. So we'd like to make this kind of a way to really bring the community together as well.
SPEAKER_05:I think people will quit um sitting back when they hear those sirens and think, you know, a lot of times you hear it and you you don't really, you know, you just keep watching your movie or doing what you're doing, or in my case, sitting in my car just waiting for the rain to slow down so I could get into Target when there was like a tornado going over the top of the room.
SPEAKER_06:It was a crazy day too, because it was actually pretty decent weather. It wasn't bad just out of nowhere.
SPEAKER_09:Out of in many places in the city, uh it was not even, they weren't even aware that there was anything happening. So downtown was different. Um, the south side was the sirens did not go off completely different. So north side, and then you know, Clayton and the Forest Park area got hit really bad. So it's oh I know.
SPEAKER_06:I drove down there the other day, and I it's just the trees and the mass amount of trees that were just taken down. All the blue tarps and all the houses and everything.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, pretty much every house has some damage around it.
SPEAKER_05:It's really surreal. I remember the one that came that hit St. Charles, and I remember us taking a drive like to the Defiance area, and you're driving your mouse just kind of hanging open because you're like, you can't believe what you're seeing. The devastation of houses just being shredded and and torn apart, and then you're just praying that nobody was, you know, in the home.
SPEAKER_09:That was hurt, and then and then the aftermath is these people lost their homes.
SPEAKER_06:You know, so some of them don't even have insurance.
SPEAKER_09:Correct.
SPEAKER_06:And that's the heart, that's the one tongues of my heart. It's like, what do they do? Where do they go?
SPEAKER_05:You know, if you don't have family, you know, not everyone has family here somewhere to be.
SPEAKER_09:Everyone in one way or the other has been displaced.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:They're someplace else. You know, so um, you know, hopefully we get some more house, some more temporary housing. Um, you know, a lot of restaurants and a lot of folks have really stepped up their game and um and feeding people who need food and basic items um around the area. So I think there's a lot of great organizations doing that. Um I'm hoping we get more housing more.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, we have some stuff down actually in our basin. So we're really hoping to figure out. I know they're not figure out shouldn't be hard at all, but uh with like a coffee make. We just have things downstairs that we that someone could use that. You know, so we're gonna be putting all that together, putting that as a truck, and then getting an address that we can, you know, take that to. Blankets, everything, things that you lose in a terrible storm like that. So this this question, you know, you definitely um St. Louis is lucky to have you. You're just people really um respect and appreciate you. You're always talked highly of whenever your name is mentioned, and you definitely have you're all heart and hustle. Um, what does it mean to you? What the feeling to be able to take your talent and to be able to give back to your hometown to help others, um, you know, through your music and through your food. Right. What does that mean to you?
SPEAKER_09:Um it's a blessing to be, you know, have support like that. You know, I I pour into the city because I live here, you know?
SPEAKER_05:Sure. And so not everyone does though, just because they live here.
SPEAKER_09:Right. I mean, and I've I was born and raised here. I live here, and the more I can pour into my city, um, the better. So I I think it's amazing that I get the support back. And that's sometimes I don't see it or or you know, my head's down, and I'm not kind of in you know that in that zone or whatever, but then people will say something like that, and I'm like, okay, cool, maybe I'm doing something good here. Yeah. But um, I I just feel like the more I can pour into my city, the more that I can get back. So it's great.
SPEAKER_05:You have a family, Steve?
SPEAKER_09:I do.
SPEAKER_05:So tell us a little about that. Tell us a little bit about you when you're not on the stage.
SPEAKER_09:So I'm I'm married, my wife and I, we've been married for 25 years. Wow, that's wonderful. Yeah, so um, and then we have a daughter, she just she's graduated from high school this year. Wow, is she in music? She is not, she's amazing, but she's not a professional, she's not in the professional fan of playing music.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but she's amazing. Yes, what does she want to do?
SPEAKER_09:She's going into business school at KU. So yes, so we'll great school. Yeah, so I'm excited about her to get to college and daddy's girl. Do her thing.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:What does she think? You know, here, you know, to you, you're you're her dad. You're just her dad, you know. Well, what is it like when she sees you sing? Is she just like, that's my dad? Or does it embarrass her?
SPEAKER_09:No, I don't think I don't think it embarrasses her, but for a while, she's like, Yeah, that's just dad. That's what dad does, right?
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_09:And then when she got older, and then maybe some of her friends kind of started to get into it, then then the kind of was like, Oh, my dad is cool. Okay, then he's kind of cool. Then so my dad is cool.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. That's what it got cool for him, you know.
SPEAKER_09:But yeah, she's always, I mean, that's what dad does. He's always entertaining. So yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Does your wife still think you're cool?
SPEAKER_09:She's I think she still thinks you're cool. She's your biggest fan. She is. She's and we've been like, in fact, we've been together for like almost 30 years.
SPEAKER_05:So you were before you got married, you were been together for a while.
SPEAKER_09:We've been together for a very long time. Um, you know, throughout the beginning of my career, and you know, how things were doing like this, she was right there.
SPEAKER_05:So yeah, we're what do you think keeps your relationship so strong? Because being in the music industry, that's a lot of weekends and late nights and a lot of flirtations. Because for every singer, Mick Jagger, look at him.
SPEAKER_06:And her going to all of your shows early on and then saying, I'm taking a night off, man.
SPEAKER_05:So tell us what keeps a relationship strong with the with what you do.
SPEAKER_09:I mean, we communicate, we're you know, we both love each other and we communicate, and um, you know, it's we're we're we're we're made for each other. We're just the two of us, you know, we're we're made for each other. We're definitely soulmates. And uh, and with as far as performing goes, she knows that for me, it's work. You know, when I'm when I'm out there, it's work. So I go to work and I come home. So I'm it's trust and communication, right?
SPEAKER_05:That's a big that that's a big that's a big thing. Does she get to watch you play often?
SPEAKER_09:Um at the big shows, she'll go to the big shows. But like on you know, on the weekends or stuff when I'm if I'm doing smaller shows, or if sometimes I'm doing two in a day. Um, so then it's just like I'm like once again, I'm like in in the zone. In the zone, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:So is she taking care of the hot dogs when you're busy then?
SPEAKER_09:Um lately these days, she's been kind of just helping out. Um, like on her side, her her life changed, different job, whatever. She's like, Well, I can help out a little bit. Um, especially that we have the ones at the stadiums. Oh, um, and then we have you know meltdown and city foundry.
SPEAKER_06:Um and there's a stadium this year or last year that you've got in the stadiums.
SPEAKER_09:Well, we've been at the soccer stadium since the beginning.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_09:And then we're this is our second year at Enterprise, and then we've been at the dome for three years.
SPEAKER_05:That's fantastic. So my daughter, I used to own a restaurant, the chocolate cafe, and my daughter, sweetest, most personable person ever, but my worst employee ever, she at least got fired once a week. So, did your daughter ever work for you and help you out before she went to college?
SPEAKER_09:Yes, so that's so she's working um this summer. Um, she's working um because we're at AUXL, the only vendor for Shakespeare in the park.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, that's great.
SPEAKER_09:So, which is great for teenagers because they can just work little short shifts. Um, it's you know, super safe, they all come in and out together. So it's just it's a great summer job for kids. And so um her and her friends work together at Shakespeare, so it's nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:My daughter was sitting on the counter and she just kind of did her thing. She loved making herself coffees, but she was very, very personal to the guests.
SPEAKER_09:That's hey, that's good too, though. That's great too.
SPEAKER_05:When there wasn't a guest, then she didn't have anything to do, which you all know there's a million things to do, right?
SPEAKER_09:There's always something to do, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Well, let us ask you. So, our question of the day is what was your very first album you ever purchased?
SPEAKER_09:Um, that's a good question. The first album I purchased was Earth Wind and Fire, I Am.
SPEAKER_05:There you go. Oh, that's a great one.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, so the I Am record came out, I think it must have been like, I could be wrong. 78.
SPEAKER_05:Yes.
SPEAKER_09:Came out 79, maybe.
SPEAKER_05:Weren't those the good days?
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, but it was that record had so many hit songs on it. And I bought it at Venture.
SPEAKER_05:Adventure. Oh my gosh, the black and white stripes, right? I remember Adventure. I left my purse there once. Or I left my purse in the bathroom. Adventure? Yes, and someone stole it. But they found it later. They didn't realize it was a Louis Vuitton, and they took my money but left the purse.
SPEAKER_09:They had no clue what it was.
SPEAKER_05:No, so you know it was a kid because they didn't even know what back then, you know. But wasn't that something back then to to purchase an album or to see a concert because everything wasn't in front of us on the television or the you had to go to a concert in order to see the audience?
SPEAKER_09:It's the most amazing. And it is still today to see bands live is still.
SPEAKER_05:But I can YouTube you, Steve.
SPEAKER_09:Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_05:You know, I can YouTube you or you know, buy your music. And whereas back then, yeah, the the the anticipation of being at that concert or going to the store, Adventure, or Peaches, or wherever these every Sam Goody, whatever people talk about, to buy that album and go home and listen to it over and over. Over and over again again.
SPEAKER_08:Yes.
SPEAKER_05:Either back then it was you know, try to hit the needle on the album correctly, or pressing that cassette and hearing that rewind. Yeah, go back and hoping you didn't have to use a pencil to fix the um, what was that stuff called? The film or tape? I guess tape. And you'd have to try to take the pencil and eating up vitamin tape machine.
SPEAKER_06:It would be stuck and you couldn't get it to move at all. Then you're done. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Boom boxes came out, and you try to um, it had two sides. So you try to make your own cassette with your favorites by getting the radio, and you'd be so mad when the DJ would talk over the song starting because you wanted to record it.
SPEAKER_09:Dude, you just quit talking over my music, right?
SPEAKER_05:A tracks. Oh, A track.
SPEAKER_09:A tracks, yeah. We had my dad had a van uh surprise in the 70s. Oh, he uh yeah.
SPEAKER_05:This guy, this guy had a big shag carpet done in the background windows. He was that guy. Why would anybody, how could you drive up to any father's driveway to pick up their daughter on a date with a what color was your van?
SPEAKER_06:It was gray. It was like a charcoal gray with blue shag, blue interior all.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, like that's what ours was like that. It was a gray uh Florida kind of line that was completely redone with the blue carpet, yeah, C B, had a uh H rack stereo in it, like the whole house on wheels, man.
SPEAKER_06:Yep, yeah. The party.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, party party.
SPEAKER_05:So do you have to rush? Can we we want to introduce mostly superheroes, which you know Logan Dennis? Yeah, and he has got the movies for June. Cool. So we want to, this is his debut of his first segment on our show. We'll be able to watch it up on the screen, you know, that we have here in the room and take a peek at what he's bringing to St. Louis. So we know his shows out there, mostly superheroes, but he's doing an actual segment that he's gonna share with us so that people can find out what's playing at the theater. Do you have it, Gordon? Yep. All right, let's take a look at Logan Janice with Mostly Superheroes. We're sitting here with Steve Ewing. All right.
SPEAKER_04:Hello and welcome to Mostly Superheroes, Indie Podcast here in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm your host, Logan Janus. Really excited to be here on In Your City with Kelly and Gordon, 4 to 6 p.m. every weekday on 590 a.m. K L I S. We're so proud to bring you our Indy podcast and variety talk show to the station. We've been around for about six years. You can always find us at mostly superheroes.com where you get podcasts and YouTube. And this week is all about the movies. We're talking with Mark Bluestein from Alamo Draft House St. Louis, who we just sat down with this week for him to tell us what movies are in the theaters this June. Enjoy the interview. We'll see you right after. We're going to do a whole recap episode of that, and I got to moderate some panels and we're going to share how it went out there. But today is all about the movies. We are so happy to welcome back two Mostly Superheroes, a really special guest, local here in town, and a friend that knows movies very well. Before we get to them, I'm your host, Logan Janice, and thanks for checking out the podcast. We're on YouTube, Spotify, and pretty much anywhere you search Mostly Superheroes, you're going to find us. Also, here is Andy Hun, aka the Giggler. How are you, Andy? Dude, I'm great. Mark Bluestein, programming manager and special screenings coordinator, yes, at Alamo Drafthouse. Mark, welcome back.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you. Thank you. It's good to be here. I always feel like I'm on a game show or, you know, like a live studio audience thing.
SPEAKER_04:We've done events with you here recently. We're still pushing our charity on tap citywide. Drink that citywide for$1.50. Going to Team Jakey in the Stigma here in St. Louis. If you buy that citywide at Alamo Draft House through June 30th, tell us about this stuff over the real life movie phone is back.
SPEAKER_02:I love it. Mr. Movie Phone.
SPEAKER_04:The Phoenician Scheme, a Wes Anderson movie, Isle of Dogs, is one of my favorites.
SPEAKER_02:Let's start with the newest stuff. Um, this weekend, we've got the Karate Kid Legends. So we've got Bringer Back uh this weekend as well, a horror movie from A24. We're also doing Friendship, which uh came out last week.
SPEAKER_04:He's gonna have to talk to you about this. Did you watch it? Yes, it's I think it's one of my favorite movies of all time. Wow. Fate comics, guys. You can look up fate comics and they were raving about Lilo and Stitch. The new live action remake, they were raving. They said there's so much more to this movie.
SPEAKER_02:Megan 2.0, 28 uh years later, Jurassic Park, obviously, the 4th of July.
SPEAKER_04:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Anything that we have that is an older title, we call a rep title. Oh, nice. Uh, instead of like a classic or something like that. Because sometimes we show movies that are rep, but not so much in the classic vein. Like this month on Father's Day, we're doing Showgirls. It's a great film. But I don't know if you could call that a classic. And then next weekend is You Got Mail, and that's all building to Celine Strong's Misfits movie that's coming out.
SPEAKER_04:So the life of Chuck, I've been seeing this. Like Tom Hiddleston is okay. We got Dogma resurrected the 20th, 25th anniversary.
SPEAKER_02:We're also gonna do Friday the 13th on the 13th.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:How to Train Your Dragon is going to be a shot-for-shot live action remake. New wise, we've got F1 with uh Brad Pitt, which is gonna be in the big show. Uh so that's gonna be absolutely awesome. The sound quality and everything. We're gonna do a kids' camp series this uh summer. We're gonna start with some Sony titles. Uh so we're doing Garfield, Lilao Crocodile, and uh Hotel Transylvania. Those are three dollars. We are going to start with the Harry Potter series uh in a month or two, and we're gonna do all nine of those, I think there was.
SPEAKER_04:What I'll end with is a couple Alamo reminders if you haven't been before. You get there 30 minutes early. It's a custom pre-show that are not ads that give you the context about the movie you're about to see. Order from your seat, write what you want on the paper, push the button, no, no con sessions line. They're coming to you. A couple events that will have an Alamo with you outside of your unbelievable programming. Mark, thank you for sharing this with us today. But we got more screen and socials. Fantastic Four and Superman. All right, guys, that's mostly superheroes. We'll see you next time. Bye Andy. Bye, Andy. Bye, Mark. See ya. See you later.
SPEAKER_02:Goodbye.
SPEAKER_05:Now we know what to order. What a great interview.
SPEAKER_04:If I don't say so myself, obviously, you know.
SPEAKER_06:We got Logan talking. Yeah, we gotta take him out. Sorry we go.
SPEAKER_05:All right. So we're I guess we gotta turn the volume down. So we got all kinds of controls we're gonna work on there, Steve. So we're sitting here with Steve Ewing. We're getting towards the top of the hour right now, but guess what? We've got the bands, which you're gonna love. Uh, and you're in it as well, Kat Muse. So uh she's got what's rockin' in the city, and she's gonna tell us who's gonna be playing this weekend so you'll know where to go as well. If you don't know what movie you want to see, you're gonna know what band you're gonna see here today. And I believe you've been featured as well, Steve.
SPEAKER_09:Love Cat. It's great.
SPEAKER_00:Hi guy, Kat Muse here, and here's what's going on this weekend in music. Friday, kick off your weekend right with Bosco Light Trio at Chateau Le Vin. Ethan Carr will be at Silver Creek, and Shangri Long will be at Summerbird's on Norset. Nad Bond will be at Sky Music Lounge, and Money Shot will be at the Alt BSW. The Ford Rangers make their debut at the Capitol Bar and Grill in St. Charles. Jeremiah Johnson will be at Eckert Cider Sheck. Platinum Rock Legends will be at Bruce's in the flow. Mr. Young will be at Charlotte Club where all the best musicians play and the music matters. The machines will be at Reaver right next door, Rock and Rap will be at Celtic Doors in St. Tom's. And it's Kansas Balooza, benefit from Prince and Sarah at Redfish, Bluefish. Check out this lineup. Wicked time thing and STP tributes. Pudding time of Primus Tribute. Rotten Apple and Bleak Black. They'll be drawings and drinks, pinball, all kinds of merch, all the goodies. I hope to see you there. Saturday, infringements at Long Shots Tiggy Bar. Center line will be at Mimi's and Ferguson. And Clueless Line will be at Copper Fox. Elliot and Patrick will be at the Old House at Tiki Bolo. Acoustic Rock Show will be at Chariots of Fire, their 20th anniversary blowout. Bay Wolf will be at Fast Settings. Stevie D. Hunt, one man, Five Beats Van Tour will be at the Great Break. Decades of Floyd will be at Fact Settings Blood Patio. And Larson, Gen X dance party, and Sky Music Loud. After midnight will be at Rebar. And Night's Light will be right next door to overtours at St. Charles. Studio is doing it too, for check this out. Studio Evan at Burbank Bruce, Frankie Martins at 12 o'clock. And then he'll be at 636 Day in St. Charles Main Street at 8:30. Ruth Toby will be at Nancy's Night Shift. And Trixie Deline will be at Bruce's North Allen. Destroy the future will be at Charlotte Pop where all the best musicians play. And Lazy Lester will be at the Pumphouse. Sunday, Monday. Shock Young Craig will be at long shots. Brandon Rooster will be at the Hogbit. Helen Bagatousie will be at KT's Saloon. And it's Elvis Meets the Beatles. Ever Dean and the Fan Black will be at the Grand Lip Floor. Your free concert from 68. Bring your lawn chairs, coolers, all the goodies. The Roostone Company will be at Main Street Hockey Channel. Live music is better. Thank you for supporting our artists and venues. Check out STR or Monday nights at 79 and have a safe weekend.
SPEAKER_09:And I'm gonna go around trying to flip that bring.
SPEAKER_05:Cat Muse bringing uh what's rockin'? That's a lot of bands. That's cool to know. So much is going in the city. And we really appreciate that. Uh um, you got the volume that Kat is bringing us all the band. So we'll have that each week of who's playing. So I'm sure we're gonna be seeing a lot of you. Steve You ain't thank you for taking time to come in, talk hot dogs, talk music, talk uh raising money for great causes. We appreciate you so much, and I'm sure we're gonna have you back on the show many more times to talk about more music, more stuff that's happening in St. Louis. So it's been a great show here on In Your City. Fun guest today, lots to talk about. We'll be back tomorrow and maybe the next. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Who knows what we'll be doing? But we're gonna try to be back tomorrow. We appreciate it. So the Lou Information Station, that's where it's at. It's growing every single day, getting better and better. And of course, you can go to LouInfo.com, check out the shows as they keep increasing and and moving along and taking you there. Right now, we're at the In Your City Show YouTube page as well as 590 on the new K L I S, the Lou Information Station. I'm Kelly Lamb.
SPEAKER_06:I'm Gordon Montgomery.
SPEAKER_05:Thank you, Steve. We'll see you until then. Cheers. Cheers.
