In this episode of the Doc & Jacques radio variety show, Dr. Gigi Reed and Jacques Kepner interviewed Thomas Kelem, coordinator of the Del Norte Pride Festival, and Dan Friestman, Exalted Ruler of the Crescent City Elks Lodge. Kelem highlighted the upcoming Pride Parade on June 21st in Crescent City, themed “Stars of the Community,” […]
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Welcome everyone.
You have now entered again the cosmic radio
receptors of KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
Thank you again and always for tuning in
to this week's fabulous program. I'm doctor Gigi,
and my cohost is as always as well,
Jacques Kepner. How are you today? I am
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doing fine, doctor Gigi. Greetings, everyone, and welcome
to the Doc and Jacques Radio Variety Show.
I wanna mention that you'll be hearing this
live show on KCIW in Brookings, Oregon right
now. That said, the same show will be
rebroadcast in exactly one week from today each
and every Wednesday,
on KZZH ninety six point seven FM in
Eureka Humboldt at 8AM in the morning, and
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then a few hours later at 1PM
on my old alma mater, KFUG
one hundred point one FM in Crescent City,
California. So now you know. But doc and
I have your coast covered. Alright. We've got
a busy show today with two gentlemen in
the studio. A was planned,
to come in, but he unfortunately
felt sick and, didn't wanna come in and
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contaminate everybody else. So I that's okay with
us, that he,
better take care of himself
So I'll make just a few announcements
and then we'll get right into our guest
because we will be bypassing doctor MD Gigi
this week. So last week, we talked about
what? When? The chat and shake. The chat
and fair. That's right. The chat and like,
we talked about It was wind energy. Wind
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was good. That was interesting. Yeah. Right? And
before that, it was consciousness and time. It's
like deep and all this stuff that you
chose. Sleep. That's yeah. Oh my god. Those
are deep. Alright. There is a couple couple
announcements. There's a crazy auction fundraiser going on
at the Elk Valley Casino on Friday, June
20 from 05:30
until whenever.
It will benefit the Del Norte search and
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rescue efforts in our area, and it is
an 18 or older,
event where you spend I guess this is
what Jean,
was telling us, our friend Jean. Yeah. She's
where you spend lots of quarters
as in 25¢
pieces,
to get great goodies. And tickets are $5
in advance,
and it's gonna be fun. Get more info
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by emailing Sarah
at del nort or dnpartygirls@gmail.com.
So the dnpartygirls@gmail.com.
So it's a great fundraiser for the search
and rescue.
Speaking of parties, there's gonna be a party
going down on the
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annual
Del Norte
Rainbow
Pride,
parade and festivities.
It happens all on
Saturday, June 21,
eleven to nine, and it'll be breaking out
all over Crescent City. This year's theme is
Stars of the Community and it's pretty much
a full day event. The Pride Parade starts
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at 11:00 at the corner Of Seventh And
Gee at the Methodist Church in Crescent City.
So there you go. Now you know. We've
made this announcement multiple times in the past
few weeks, and we're excited,
because there is a madness behind the promotion
of this pride parade
for joining us. One of the two gentlemen
that is joining us in the KCIW studios
today
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is none other than an all around good
guy and
LGBTQ activist, Thomas Callum. Hey, Thomas, welcome back
to the Doc and Jacques Show. Yeah. Welcome.
Thank you. Thanks for having me. Glad to
be here. Yeah. Gigi, start asking some
interesting questions. Thomas questions. Alright. What is your
role in this upcoming
community of stars pride day
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on the on June 21?
I'm like the coordinator.
Okay. Is that like the president? Don't really
have a title.
No. No.
The Marshall. I'm much more, like, horizontal
than vertical. There we go. Go. K. Whatever
that means. Is this the
technical I think it makes sense to me.
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According to, like,
you know, the structures of organizations.
Yeah. Horizontal is more people are more on
the same level. Yeah. Vertical is there's a
hierarchy. There's somebody who's the big boss, and
then there's, like, levels. And
I like things to be more horizontal so
that everybody has a say and everybody's opinion
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and voices.
Okay. There we go. You asked, doc. Yeah.
I did. He answered. Yeah. I just I
wanna step back to your introduction. Okay. Real
loud. I think that maybe,
things have changed since
since you have whatever information you got. But
the event starts at ten in the morning.
Oh, and or nine. Did I say nine?
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No. You said eleven. Eleven. Eleven. Okay. I
see. We changed it. It used to be
eleven. So it's not Yeah. Okay. You're right.
It did take a look. So we're we
have from ten to two, we have vendors.
Yeah. And that's gonna be in the field
behind the United Methodist Church at Seventh And
Gee in Crescent City.
And during that time, we also have a
parade which starts at 12:30.
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Oh, cool. You go to the vendor. Okay.
That's better because more people would Right. Participate.
Yeah. So we have the vendors starting at
ten. Then at 12:30, we have the parade.
And then at 01:30, we have the infamous
dog show.
What makes it infamous? It makes it infamous
because last year, we thought, you know, maybe
five dogs would show up and, like, 40
dog show. Woah. And it's like judging them
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for the ugliest, the sweetest, the prettiest.
There's there's
two categories. There's big dogs and little dogs.
Okay. And then there's, like,
you know, best in show, best trick,
cutest outfit. Okay. Cool. And there's prizes for
for the top winners.
But people people just really love the idea
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of getting to have their dog in a
show. So Oh, that's She's having me dress
up too. There you go. She's bringing me.
On a leash.
Yeah.
Alright. Well, that's the
the year in a row. Year that we're
doing this, the pride festival and and show
and then And the dog show. Yeah. And
the dog show. In the evening from six
to nine, we have entertainment.
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And that's also at the church in the
social hall.
And we'll have,
DJ for dancing, and we have some drag
performances, and we have some other kinds of
performances, some spoken word.
And, it should be pretty exciting. Right on.
Very cool. Next next next What is your
horizontal
group called? Is it a five zero one
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c three?
Well, we we're operating
at pride as Denodo pride.
Del Norte and tribal lands adjacent
pride. Okay. And,
we are
not an official
organization.
We're operating as, with KFUG as our fiscal
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sponsor. Mhmm. They're a five zero one c
three corporation.
Mhmm. So they're being our fiscal sponsor. So
all the donations
and sponsors
are funneling through there, and the expenses are
getting paid through there. Cool. Very cool.
There's an adjacent organization, which is Del Norte
DN LGBTQ
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Resource Project,
which
is what I started before pride, and we
kind of
we work together.
We go with it, basically.
This is the same people.
But that's you know, that was started as
part of
a providing information to the community. Okay. Yeah.
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And
so
but that website is also where I promote
all the pride stuff. So what is the
website? What's the website? We'll call it up
later. But dnlgbtq.org.
Wow. Good night. So delnortlgbtq.org.
Is this the only parade festival, pride parade
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in our region? Because I don't think Brookings
or Curry County are. Brookings just had one
this last weekend I at Azalea Park. Told
you I knew that. And
there's quite a few that happen
that all up along the coast is an
organization called Southern
Oregon Coast Pride,
s o c Pride.
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And
they do a pride in Brookings. They do
a Pride in
Gold Beach and I think up in Coos
Bay.
And they also have a lot of activities
that happen in between.
So,
they're a really great
organization to check out. Being the actual,
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We talked about pride as, like, the day,
the event. Oh, okay. Pride. Everything involved.
Yeah. So, like, they
they had they just had their thing. It
was, like, eleven to three in Azalea Park,
and they had a DJ and Booth. Were
you there? Yes. Good
turnout?
Very good turnout.
Nice day? Nice day. Beautiful day. And, you
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know, there's something really nice about it being
in the park and it's just kinda casual,
then you got the band shell there with
the music. Right. And Fun. You know, that
that was just awesome. It made me think,
oh, we should find another
place besides a parking lot for our booths.
But Now tell us about the parade.
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Our parade is a fabulous event. People love
it. Yeah. Where does it go? It's a
sidewalk parade. Sidewalk? So it's not in the
street.
And we're very courteous to cars that are
driving on the street. But we start in
in the field
behind the church, which is
on G Street between Seventh And Sixth,
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and we walk up the sidewalk,
up G Street,
pass we cross Seventh Street. We go up
to Eighth Street, turn right,
go to H Street, and turn right, and
come back down,
and cross
Seventh Street, cross Sixth Street, and go down
to Fifth Street where we turn right again.
And then
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Fifth Street, we will get to G. We
turn right again and come back up to
the the trunk. How can people watch it
if you're on the sidewalk?
People
are participating.
Spectators close down traffic.
More more people participate than Right. Than just
stand there and watch. Yeah. Right. It it's
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really an exciting event. People like to be
able to,
like, make noise and show off and leave
it anywhere. Big floats because a float unless
it's real skinny. I think we've
had, like, a a red wagon float last
year. Like a red wagon float. Radio flies.
Yeah. Like a radio flyer. Very cool. Rolling
full of float. No. Go ahead. Now what
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is different this year? Or do you have
anything different? Because that's the plan. The the
parade is gonna be,
like, instead of being
two square blocks, it's three square blocks. K.
So it's longer. Yeah. And,
our dog show
Long. We're we're getting ready for the many
dogs. Last year, so many dogs showed up.
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That's hilarious. That this year, we're, like, more
prepared. That was a very, very popular event.
Tell us about the theme.
Yeah. What is community?
Stars of the community.
Yeah. So
the idea behind that was, like, people who
are really
involved in the community by the what do
we say?
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Support the LGBTQI
the flyer. Community
with vibrancy.
Okay. Cool. And what that meant is, like,
you know, we were talking about not just
people in the community, but people outside the
community that support the community.
Like you guys. Right. Okay? Right.
And,
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so the idea was, like, to really, like,
acknowledge
that and to to sort of encourage
people by acknowledging the people that are are
doing it, encourage other people to, like, really
say, hey, yeah, we support them. Right. And
it's actually been happening a lot this year.
I've
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the the kind of
support,
it feels different.
There are people who are like, yeah. We
really need to say something this year because
of the climate.
And,
it's not a time to just be silent.
And so it feels like more people have
been putting signs up in the windows,
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and we have more people donating money.
And it's just really been a fabulous
organizing.
Right? You have had more people join,
or
is it just of the vibe that you
get? It's the vibe that we get. I
mean, there's definitely
you know, the organizing
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committee is
similar, but Mhmm. People come and go. Yeah.
And we have different
some different booths this year, which is really
cool.
Some a few additional sponsors to who we
had last year.
And we have about the same number of
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booths,
but
with sort of different mix of people.
And we're also this year, we're also having
a
game
session Cool. Which is,
you know, like, people that do D and
D and those kind of games. Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So Cobalt's Lair, which is a a game
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shop in town. Yeah. Across the city. Yeah.
Right. Ashling from there is gonna be running
a game
in one of the rooms inside the church.
Wow. And so that'll I think a lot
of people are really excited about that because
there's so many gamers
in the community. To the United Methodist Church
for for offering this too. Dana Dana, good
reverend. They are awesome. They're a big, big
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part of it. I know that when Gigi
and I both moved here about the same
time, around five years ago to this region,
And, I moved to Brookings since she was
in Crescent City already.
And we have multiple friends who have told
us that,
they they left the Brookings area to go
to Crescent City because of the more of
a tolerant
level
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of acceptance of, of LGBTQ.
And we always thought that was kinda crazy.
So I'm glad to hear, number one, that
we recently, just this last Saturday, had a
LGBTQ
or pride parade here in Brookings
that's overdue. But I think you've really spearheaded
it, and congratulations to you and the group
for having something like this coming along. And
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this is the annual.
Right. This is the year that we're doing
it. The, besides the United Methodist Church, Saint
Paul's Episcopal
Here in town in Brookhaven? In well, the
one in in Crescent City is super supportive.
Okay. Oh, Saint Paul's. Okay. Yes.
They're they're, like, on board supporting us. They've
given us financial support.
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They're also hosting other events during the year.
Yeah. They're very eager to, like, demonstrate their
their support for the community.
I is Saint Tim's up here? The Yep.
The Episcopal Hill. With, pastor Bernie? Right. Yeah.
They're very supportive too. They're I haven't actually
been there, but I I hear really good
things. They're good things. Yeah. Yeah. And,
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you know, some of
the surprises have
been people that just sort of contacted us
out of the blue that, you know, we
we, like, reach out to people, but other
people just sort of hear about us and
say, hey. We won't be part of this.
Do you wanna,
recap how people get ahold of you?
The best way to get ahold of us
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is to go to the website,
dnlgbtq.org.
Mhmm.
The,
Gmail
email address is pretty much the same, dnlgbtq@Gmail.com.
But on the website, there's all kinds of
information.
There's ways to access us. There's forms to
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fill out if you wanna do different things,
be a vendor or sponsor. That you can
apply to sponsor or to volunteer? Yes. Yes.
Hey. Is it is it been difficult to
get how's the city been working with you?
Are they okay? Are there you don't need
any special permits since it's a sidewalk's
sidewalk? Yeah. It's one of the reasons why
we're sticking to the sidewalk
parade for a while because
it doesn't involve any paperwork or red tape.
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K. It you know, as long as we
monitor ourselves so that we're not, like, blocking
traffic or Right. You know, doing disturbing things
Right.
People have sidewalk parades and toilets on the
side. And you're not anticipating ice to show
up, are you? I'm not anticipating
any kind of trouble. Would be exactly. This
is a good good organization. Good organization. Yeah.
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And our our main,
you know, like, motivating
thing is
peace and love. Right on. We don't
aren't trying to make anybody wrong or tell
anybody to do something different than what they're
doing.
And we don't want
to have any kind of
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aggressive
arguments
or you know,
things like that. We're just
putting out good
solid vibes. Tell us about the art, gallery
opening you had a couple weeks ago, and
now it still will be on. It's open
all month long. Right. We have the Rainbow
Pride Art Show, which opened on May 31.
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We had a great evening event,
and,
Jacques has a piece in the art show.
I was gonna say, who has that weird
alligator, that rainbow alligator.
It's very, very cool piece. Alright. Yep. Tell
it it'll last it'll last the
something of time. What is that? A test
of time. Test of time. It was so
hard to make that. I just broke down
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a couple times. I said, I'm not gonna
do this. And then she'd come along and
say, no. No. No. Put more teeth in
it. Paint the different colors a little bit.
Touch it up here. And you helped me
do that. Right? Yeah. Sure. And it has
a working clock in it. It's a working
time. Right. Yeah. So I could piece it.
There's 51 to fifty Fifty. 50 teeth in
it. So that means each tooth represents
A state. One one one state of The
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United States. Pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So
Tom The yard will be
up All month? Yeah. It'll be we're taking
it down on July 5.
Okay. So I gotta come in by then
and snatch my thing if somebody hasn't snatched
it. Right. Me. Right.
Thomas Kellum, you're welcome to hang out here
with us and
participate in the for the rest of this
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about a forty minute show that we have
here.
Thank you for coming on. Thank you for
clarifying, talking about the Pride Parade.
Folks, you will be able to hear the
same show next week, and you'll hear the
same
rebroadcast on KFUG
and KZZH
and the Crescent City and Eureka areas. So
we look forward to it, Gigi and I.
We're looking forward to stopping Gong and communing
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with everybody and hanging with everybody and watching
what's going on. Maybe I'll even get a
chance to say hello to Paul Kritz there
who is gonna be manning the live radio
right in the Navy. Broadcasting live. Right on.
Okay. Well, this is this is very, very
good. This is happy to hear this, going
on in our area, and I am excited
about it. And that's on the June
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21
Right. Saturday. Saturday. Coming up like a great
event that it's going to be. Alright. Let
me, let me let me break real quickly
here for a few announcements that I would
also like to make. And that is acknowledging
some of our major supporters here on,
KCIW.
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Some of the
supporters that have been so good to this
station and its cause as a community radio
station is Michelle Buford
with our own
local Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Thank you
so much, Michelle.
Hats off to Marie and Brett Curtis, our
next door neighbors here in, Brookings at REMAX
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Coast and Country Realty in Brookings, like I
just said. Advance Airlines. Hey. Advance Airlines is
now flying in and out of nearby
Crescent City to Oakland and LA seven days
a week. Thanks for that. Chetco Medical and
Aesthetic Center located right here in Brookings, Oregon.
Doctor John Kirk, your former colleague, doctor John
Kirk,
who is also involved in Porta Pints Craft
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Brewery. They now have two locations in Credit
City. Thanks them to them. And then Jim
Doc Bilardi and his Crescent Land Title and
Escrow Company in old downtown Crescent City. Remember,
he's got that bear, Bury the Bear,
in his front window, a taxidermy
Right on.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll come back a little bit
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later to bring in some more of our
major supporters' acknowledgements. Let's introduce our
guest. Introduce our Dan Friessmann.
Friessman?
What's up, man? Hello. Thanks for joining us.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. What
are you here representing? Yeah. I'm here representing
the Crescent City Oaks Lodge. Woah.
What is your position? What do you do
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in the Oaks Lodge? I am the exalted
ruler of the Crescent City elk's lodge. Dang.
What do they jokingly call it? Is it
the exalted rooster?
The exhausted rooster. Exhausted
rooster? Exhausted rooster. Very fitting, by the way.
It does. Is it is it pretty exhausted?
No. I get it. You just became the
new exhausted rooster, exalted ruler,
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several months ago? In April. In April, which
is the the calendar year that the elks,
go by. And so far, how's it been?
Nothing short of crazy. Nothing short of crazy?
One of our other guests that couldn't make
it today because he's feeling ill is John
Mendoza. And tell us about John. He's what
position is he? John Mendoza is my lecturing
night,
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which would be the the of the side
nights.
We have a lecturing night, loyal night, leading
night. Okay. So And they go in that
order? That's in progression. Right. So, like, he
like, a lecturing night is then kind of
like vice president. Or is that No. That
would be the leading night. It goes lecturing,
then loyal, and then leading, and then ER.
Okay. Oh, so other way around from running
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out. Kind of the other way around. When
when did he get voted in?
He came in,
to replace someone who wasn't able to fulfill
the position. So he was kind of a
In trainer? Yeah. Kind of a last minute
getting in, and I'm I'm glad he was
available and willing ready, willing, and able. We
we wanted to talk to John, and I
wanna throw this out to everyone that's listening
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to thank him
and Barbara, his wife Barbara Mendoza, and all
the people that helped put together this last
Great. One King Entertainment about two days ten
days ago. It's amazing. Right. It was. A
couple thousand people showed up for his One
King Entertainment Festival with eight bands, nine bands,
12 if you count inside.
And Bertie Fence was photographing everybody, and we
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and John and, doctor Kirk's, Porta Pines, South
Beach South Beach. Yeah. And a car show
and the art art going on. And it
was just a fabulous
good vibe thing. So hats off to all
the people
that brought about this great successful
concert, and I they're gonna repeat it. They're
just gonna do a one. Oh, I don't
see why they wouldn't. It was a huge
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success.
The food trucks. The food trucks. Right. So
congratulations
to John,
and Barbara and Bertie and all the other
people involved
with One King Entertainment. Now for one for
those people who don't know what the Elks
Lodge is or are, can you explain it
in a thimble
(23:27):
sized I I could I could do that.
It's a fraternal organization.
It's it's old,
started in 1868
Dang. In New York.
The whole, the whole,
the way they come up with it was
entertainers, performers
who would be doing their stage acts and
such. When the they would be done with
theirs, the the bars would be closed, and
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so they started their own little club, sort
of an after party, after after hours type
club.
And then also
never heard of that happening before. And also
they met on Sundays,
to get past the the blue laws. And
in New York, they had the blue laws
where they weren't allowed to have alcohol. And
so they would they were trying to find
ways of socializing
and and drinking,
to get around the rules.
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And
so, the story I heard was that one
of the members,
one of the founding members, wife
took ill cancer or something maybe, and so
they wanted to raise money. So they thought
of ways
of doing that, and
their organization wasn't
non profit, or it wasn't set up for
it, so they
(24:31):
decided to
be legit, so to speak, and start the
Elks Lodge. Wow. And so that they could
do,
benefit things and raise money in charities and
all that. Are both men and women welcome
at the Yes. It was originally a men's
club. Yeah. Like most all, back in the
days, that's all they were. Women
were introduced in the mid eighties, I think,
(24:52):
so '84, '85, something. I think they were
the women were let in. And they can
also be And make a nurse. Yeah. Exactly.
They can hold office. In fact, it's been
such a big influx of women since since
that time that in some lodges,
in fact, I think it's the Vacaville Lodge.
I don't know if they're all women, but
Pretty much. 80 or 90% women. We know
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a couple of ladies that were a bit
exhausted rooter ruler. We have exalted rulers all
across the state. Lindsay Aranda has been one.
She was at
the, oh, what a Southern Northern California somewhere.
Is it considered a secretive organization?
Shh. Quite. You're nasty now. Oh. Secret. Hobbs,
don't you dare tell anybody. You're privy to
these things. No. It's a fraternal organization. It's
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it's not a we're not a secret society.
It's not like that. It's a well, fraternal
is men, I think. Right? Sorority. That was
that's how it was. Right. Originally, that was
what's omni omni
eternal? Omniternal?
Omniternal?
Not exactly how you
but men,
women. Internal.
So you were just elected, and how long
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is your service? How am I gonna be
exhausted ruler? Usually, it's a one it's it's
it's designed to be a one year term.
You spend one year each one of the
the chairs and move up, and so I've
only got a short term.
Yeah. Oh, I thought it was two One
year. No. It's been one year. Year. For
junior. My dear. We have. I am. We
have, had previous,
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officers hold more than one year. Yeah. Right.
For for whatever reason. Okay. Because because they
had to, somebody
getting sick or not being able to to
Right. Go. So Hey. Hats off to,
Ray Simon and Tom Bozek, who are engineers
in the studio today,
as always helping us produce this show and
doing their their wizardry in the in the
engineering Room. But I know that Ray Simon
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and Donna are elks.
And we just I think for the time,
we brought them by the other day to
watch the basketball game because it's you got
five
TV sets there. On Sunday, we stopped by.
And And watched the week. We watched the
the worst baseball basketball game I've ever seen.
I've never watched baseball. Basketball. Home run? Yeah.
(26:56):
Basketball.
It was but, we had a good time.
Now the elks are also known as the
BPOE.
The BP.
Oh, she scolded me. Don't. Okay. Here's all
your questions. Your question. Oh, they are my
oh, I see it. Take off the wall.
I can see oh, let me help you
with that. What does BPOE
stand for?
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The Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
Wow. And why would they name the
why would
they name themselves
after elk? Do you have any idea? That
I don't know. Probably because maybe eagles and
They were taken. Roosters.
All the other names are all taken. Lions.
Right? The lions.
And what is the sound an elk makes
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when it's in mating season? A bugle.
It bugles, which is also the name of
our Oh, for real? This is really? That's
called bugle. It's bugling. They are bugling. Oh,
I didn't know that. So our newsletter is
called the bugle.
That's how we get our word out as
to the bugle. Yeah. How about if they
all try
Then that kinda went with that. Sure.
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Do you know what the basic mission statement
for the Elks is?
You know, I probably should've looked that up.
I I just believe that we're just a,
we're a nonprofit. We're we're a five zero
one c. We Right. We all we do
is raise money just for for charities,
scholarships, help out needy,
people. We have,
we're part of the California Hawaii,
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elk association, the chia.
And our major project is the purple pig,
and we raise money for Oh, that's right.
Handicap. At the bar, you have those purple
pigs. You'll see the purple pigs in the
bar. Are pretty. So darn. Kinda like a
Jerry's kids type thing. We we help the
we help the kids to see and hear
and play. Right on. So Okay. We've got
a half hour left of our left of
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our show here, in the studio with Thomas
Kellum who is with the Pride Parade coming
up on the June 21. And now we're
talking with with Dan Friessmann Friessmann, pardon me,
here about the Elks. You are tuned in
to
KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We wish to continue to thank our major
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supporters, and I've got about five more.
Special thanks to Dan and Phyllis Schmidt for
your constant friendly support.
Nick Roehl. Hey, Nick and Lisa. Today's Lisa's
birthday. Oh. Lisa, it was a happy birthday,
Lisa,
for your birthday and his five zero one
c three project partnership for the Performing Arts
Center or PPA,
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which will be starting construction in Crescent City
fairly soon and will be serving all of
our region. Guess who else's birthday today? John
Zimmerman's.
The president of the preservation society for the
Saint George Reef. John? Yeah. Lighthouse. It's not
called Saint George. I know. Saint George. Saint
George Point. No. Saint George Reef. Reef.
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Oh. Lighthouse. Preservation society. Yeah.
Okay. Lushdahl also claims to reimagined Crescent Harbor
Art Gallery in Crescent City, anchored in the
harbor right next to the boats. Great gallery
there. Our region's only bowling center, tsunami lanes
on 101 in Midtown Crescent City. And finally,
yours truly, doctor Gigi and I, thank you
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very much for being our
major supporters of this station and other community
radio stations like it. Alright, doc. You ask
some questions.
Yeah. I okay. I asked the question about
the emblem. Why why why why is the
emblem an elk? An elk and Yeah. Because
the others were taken. Remember?
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So how many
I I believe it's because of the ADHD
kicking in? It's the
are you talking to me, ma'am? Yeah.
Because of what elks the way the the
way they carry themselves, the way the the
whole the whole,
stature of the elk and what they they're
family based. They're they're strong. They're fleet of
foot. They're quick to help.
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Right on. That sort of thing. Yeah. They're
Very good. Strong. Yeah. I wanna be now.
Strong of heart. You are now. Strong of
heart and fleet of foot.
Strong of heart and fleet of foot.
Now how many Elk
Lodges are there in The States?
In this state? In the states of The
United States. So it is a United States,
only. There are some outside maybe Puerto Rico,
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Guam, Philippines, maybe. Yeah. But it's mostly United
States, and I believe it's around 2,200.
Wow. So Wow. And Crescent City, Alex Lodge
is number?
Sixteen eighty 9. And then we have one
in Brookings, which is number 1934.
So they are 300
lodge numbers apart.
So I think the we were talking about
that off off,
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air and talking about how we across the
city is much older
than Brookings.
Does every single,
lodge have a different price? So they're all
pretty much the same?
The prices are all based on however whatever
the house committee decides to, charge for dinners,
drinks, that sort of thing. They are usually
at a discount price, though, for for those
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people to keep their membership. Member. There's a
yearly membership. Right?
But, we have noticed that the Elks really
are open.
Yes. You can show your membership card, but
often,
people can just come in. Right? Especially for
the dinners that are,
nonprofit
They're they're arguing. Unless it's an unless it's
a public event, unless we announce it as
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a public event, they're all private.
Most of the people we know will be
we see the people that come in, and
we know who are the card holders and
who aren't. So the so the fundraisers are
usually public events? Yes. They are. Oh, I
see.
Just just this last week, we had the,
the Forest Moon Festival, which was
amazing. That was really so glad we're part
of that. Oh, is that the one with
the Star Trek or Star Wars? Star Wars.
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It was a Star Wars name. Yeah. That
was You had those dolls up, outside the
bar
upstairs of the lodge. Yeah. We we put
those out on our on our stand out
there. It was fun. I was playing around
with them. Yeah. Fun. Those were really very
realistic looking dolls. I scared Ray Simon really
bad when he walked out the door with
one of them.
So, yeah, we had props, and everybody wore
costumes, and, it was a a really nice
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theme. And everybody saw watched the movies before
so they know what who was whom or
not really. They they seem to guess my
Obi Wan Kenobi costume.
Keep on keep on asking the questions, I
think. I'm gonna give you
Okay. So what are the what and where
are the oldest five lodges? Yeah. Some of
the oldest lodges. Yeah. Now I'm not sure
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about all five, but I do know the
very one was in New York 1868.
Number two
was Philadelphia.
Number three was San Francisco. Yes. That's right.
Yeah. San Francisco. That's a really nice lodge,
by the way. If you ever get a
chance to go in there. I think I,
it's Chicago and Oakland were four and five,
and I'm not sure which order. It might
have been Oakland and then Chicago, but those
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are like Well, they were very far apart.
Jeez. I mean Yeah. They they alternated back
and across the Is there any political spectrum
you're supposed to adhere to or anything like
that? Is there any problem with religion or
are you No. You're you're asked if you
believe in God, to to be a member
because
you're swearing
you have
to promise that you're not going to put
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the lodge You have to swear that you'll
put your family You have to swear that
you put
all things your religion, your
faith, you know, all your, you know, everything.
You put that before the lodge that you
won't and you have to swear to that.
So that's why they asked that because you
need to be able to swear to something.
You have to believe in something. Right.
So everybody is welcome. But it's right. There
there is no particular denomination. Nobody's held to
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a Now, why,
Dan, why did you join in the place?
And how long ago? This was, kind of
a funny story. About four years ago, I
was kind of new to the area, and,
my friend James Mitchell and I, we were
looking for places to play pool. And we
were having to drive to Brookings
to play,
and we heard that there was a pool
tournament
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on Sunday afternoon at the Elks Lodge.
So, not being Elks, we kind of like
looked into to see if we could come
in as guest. They allowed us in,
and then, of course, they asked us to
join and
So how did you place?
Played very well. In fact, that was that
was one of the reasons why we wanted
to keep coming back because the the money
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seemed kinda easy. It's like,
hey. No. We're not supposed to be betting
on your game. You know? That's not allowed.
That's not allowed. But we were Oh, yeah.
Alright.
But we were, we were we were greeted
so positively that, we just couldn't help but
join. Yeah. The I we were there. We
I I'm a I'm a member, and, yes,
very everybody is so positive. If they belong
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to, Yeah. To join. I haven't been to
many bad Elks lodges. Well, that's what I'm
saying. People are nice. They are they are
they're very friendly and open. Do a lot
of people, they travel around. Right? And they
stop it at all the Elks Lodges, different
lodges.
Yeah. Right? I mean, this because you're welcome
anywhere. Right? Once you're become When we traveled
across the country, where did we send Elk
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Lodge? We were gonna go there. It was
like Klamath Falls. It was a tiny, tiny
town. Yeah. I don't know. Klamath Falls. There
were multiple ones that we went to. Yeah.
Like, we were just really Wyoming or something
that was Out in the middle of nowhere.
Well, Winnemucca was They were closed. They were
closed. Yeah. They were closed. Off it was
an off day. Do they all have restaurants
or bars and In most cases, they they
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have some sort of food and beverage. That's
a way to get money. Right. The raise
was yeah. That's a lot of,
smaller lodges only source of income. We don't
have a RV
park on ours, or a swimming pool, those
kind of things, but a lot of the
other lodges are really well equipped. Hold on.
Tennis courts, pools, RV parks, golf courses.
There's some are pretty quiet. And that that
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address is book is to have the RV?
G And Third. Third And G Street or
where is it?
It's on G. Right? The address of the
Our live? Yeah. It's on 359 H. So
it's just just off of Third. K. Well,
wait a minute. Up the up the street
is the Methodist Church. Right? On the H
8 Thomas Thomas is not Sixth and between
Sixth and Seventh on Eighth. But you're not
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going down as far down to Third. Doesn't
matter. Not get we're just going down to
Fifth. Yeah. Ours we're between Fourth and Third.
So just just a yeah. We already noticed
it from the big BPOE on the backside
of the building,
and you're like, but you're on the backside
of the building right across the street from
the Chase Bank. Right? That's Yeah. Correct. There's
several several
cool things. And we saw the time we
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saw a big, a plaque the other day
when we left. And you said, is that
a new plaque? Yeah. That was a new
plaque.
Plaque on on the building. Uh-huh. Is that
new? No. That's old. It looks old, but
I didn't really It's because it is. It
was probably the original plaque. I couldn't see
it till last time. 1948,
I'm guessing. Oh, my goodness. Oh, cool.
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So you kind of alluded a little bit,
but tell us about how and why you
raise money.
Well,
for instance,
scholarships is a big one. Mhmm. We just
did a a scholarship
just just last week. I had the privilege
of
handing out the scholarships to a couple
of deserving students Yeah. At Del Norte High
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School, and that was, very cool. Really, really
cool.
We
also do, fundraisers, which are I just came
back from the the CHIA convention. I talked
about the California Hawaii Elks Association convention
where we,
produce our earnings for the year of what
we
had raised on our purple pig,
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and collectively, just between the California and,
Kauai elks, we raised $5,000,000
Woah. OMG.
Yeah, it was really nice. And last year
was 4,000,000. So we've already we've already we
upped a whole million dollars from just last
year's,
donations still this year's. And they're Each lodge
raises
a certain amount, and then you have a
per capita by based on,
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you know, the amount that you give divided
by the number of people you have. So
you have a per capita, and, there were
some very,
very giving flanges.
Alright. Hey, Thomas. Bouncing the ball back over
to you,
I mean, pride parades happen all around The
United States, all over the world. In fact,
when we were in Strasbourg, France a year
ago Yeah. To this day almost, there was
a huge pride parade going through the streets
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of Strasbourg, France,
just over the border from Germany.
Are they collectively
I mean, are are are you always looking
for donations and volunteers, or is it that
kind of an organization for this pride? Are
they spontaneous community events?
In bigger cities, they're very big organizations.
Big time like San Francisco is In San
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Francisco is Yeah.
Is is very big. Dude. But even, like,
in Chico,
You used to live for a while. Right.
I used to live, and I was the
executive director of Stonewall Alliance of Chico there.
And we put on pride events. And, you
know, because we were an ongoing organization, we
were always looking for grants and sponsors
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and
fundraising.
And then when we put on big events,
like,
we used to have, like, a week of
events for pride there. Oh, in in Chico?
In Chico. And they're still doing I think
they may be having two weeks of events.
I've been, like, watching the Facebook posts.
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And,
you know, so those require
extra special funding. So you're always asking for
people, and you're always looking for volunteers. Right.
Because organizations
always need volunteers.
Here, you know, it's sort of cyclical because
we're doing this once a year. Right. So
we start, you know You've only done one
year prior to this year, so it's only
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Right.
annual coming up. Yeah. So, you know, we're,
like, ask people for donations,
and we're looking for volunteers. We're looking for
volunteers right now. Yeah. Always looking for planning.
Planning starts right off the right as soon
as this one ends, you're gonna be looking
to head to the
We start a little bit of planning.
So we sort of we look at what
things we could improve for next year, what
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things we wanna maybe
make sure we change.
And we try to pick a date as
soon as we can because the weekends in
June get
packed.
Right. And we don't wanna Busy time. We
won't yeah. We don't wanna conflict with the
other areas that are close by. You know?
Because, like, Humboldt has four different pride events,
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and
there's the pride events in Oregon here. We
wanna make sure that
we have a date that's not as conflicting.
Okay.
Back back to you, Dan. How does the
Elks raise money. Okay. Obviously, you're taking,
your annual fees. And then there's a dinner
that we booked. We serve dinners pretty much
every Friday night. We rent out our lodge
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a lot to in fact, we've got,
three
food vendors that are that are cooking out
of our kitchen right now. We have DeFe's
Cocina on the weekends, which Oh, that was
Mexican
really good Mexican food if you're there on
the weekends. They're they're from That's open to
the public. It's open to the public. They're
there from nine to five or six on
weekends. This homemade cooking, to bring their food
in? Good prices and really good food. Oh.
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And using the commercial kitchen that you have
at the auction. Right? And so,
Juanita's, though you've seen the Juanita's trailer with
Ace Hardware.
Yeah. She, does preparing in in our kitchen
and then serves it outside. And the other
was,
McGowan's
Munchies. Britney McGowan, McGowan's Mobile Munchies. Oh. And
she's she's cooking out there now and now
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offering breakfast. So I just had breakfast there
yesterday, and it's really good. She's a dessert
maker, but now she's also doing Oh, all
good. So maybe you're Is it is it
Jace,
your one of your it's a pizza. Eats
a pizza? It's a pizza is, Jace. He's
he's one of our members. He doesn't he
was at our, Forest Moon. That was he
was what he was. He was making pizzas.
He was there at the pizza at our
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at our thing. Thomas, are you having vendors?
You're having food people there at this? You
know, we we
like having food vendors.
This year, we have a lot of competition
because the kite festival
Oh. Is happening the same day. Same day.
And I think that they've pulled a lot
of the the food vendors
over to their event. Same time kind of
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a deal? Yeah. So last year, we had
Norris's Kitchen, and they were fabulous.
But
they closed up and and moved away. Hey.
Did you hear Christina's is gonna be closing
down? I did hear that. They closed.
What? Already?
Oh my god. Just because I've been used
to a good Mexican restaurant down. They closed
after years and years and years being there.
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So I think we're gonna have free food
this year. We're gonna be cooking up hot
dogs and hamburgers
and giving them away. And you could stop
by and always have make a donation for
the Totally. The Pride festivities.
Right on. So you Dan Yeah. Go ahead.
We actually never asked you where are you
from. Where did you grow up?
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I was born in Sacramento, but didn't really
spend much time there, mostly, in Texas and
Washington. Oh, that's why you have an Austin,
Texas
phone number. Yeah. Well, they had lots of
families on there. They called to me the
other day and came up Austin, Texas. Yeah.
Yes, sirree. And so you did not know
about Elks there even though you lived in
those big cities? No. My my dad was
a mason, and so that was his that
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was his secret. There's a mason
lodge in in They're somewhere. They're not. That's
But,
no. He wasn't. I didn't know either. He
wasn't he wasn't an elk or a or
an eagle or a moose or anything. He
was he was a mason, so that was
his. Do you think the elks, is it
growing? Is it kind of coming back in
a resurgence? You know, it's hard to say,
because they say if you look at the
numbers, they are decreasing. But it's not that
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much. They are decreasing. Sometimes
you'll see
a growth, and sometimes you'll see
some some falling off. But if you look
back in the seventies, it was probably 1,300,000
elk. Maybe that was the golden era. And
and then maybe so. Because then from that
time, it's it's less than a million now
or right around a million. So My dad
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does elk back in the fifties. A lot
of members. Early sixties. Yeah. I have a
lot of friends in Chico who are joining
the Elks.
I see I see the I see the
numbers increasing right now, especially in, like, in
the local lodges, like, or, like, in the
nearby Chico. And,
That's what the good thing about the Elks.
They are literally every every town of any
significance, there's tends to be a a lodge.
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And if you just are looking for maybe
a bite to eat or you wanna stop
it and have a
sociable cocktail or a drink with someone or
a friend or not, no nobody at all,
go in
and, show your card. Yep. Your card will
be welcome. Yep. And they'll the the networking
too, right? It's a great networking,
right? Oh, yes. Networking. Do you play golf?
I do. So you play pool and golf?
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Yes. Competitively for money?
I caught him. You should see him. You
should see a stutter on that one. Not
so much the golf. I I play pool
tournaments more than I play golf. I do
do golf tournaments also, but,
that's more for fun. Yeah. I've heard about
you're you're you're quite a skilled I get
more I get more serious about the pool.
Right. On on,
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that's on Sundays. But so is that for
members? Oh, no. We we we're not doing
that. The no. We we don't do the
the pool tournament anymore. It kinda just
Did you win too often? Yeah. It's summer.
Maybe. I don't know. People are just too
busy in the summertime for that. So maybe
Yeah. The other Yeah. Favorite game that is
played there is
cornhole
throw. Well, they have the cornhole We have
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We do have tournaments. Right? Yeah. We have
tournaments. They're,
and there again, they're never on a on
a schedule.
Yeah. I've seen them many times when you
have some festivities, you have that. Right? Couple
times a month, they'll have the tournament in
there. Sometimes all all four weeks of the
month. What would you say is the best
part about being an elk? What would you
when you when you're when would you pitch
it to somebody to say, hey. This is
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what the elks do. What would you say?
I would have to say that it's just
a it's a real feel good story. It's
you we we donate so much. We give
all of our time. Everything we do is
just for for helping other helping the needy.
So that's
that's what I really that's what I enjoy.
That's what I really get out of it
is is the the really helping and seeing
the people that we help and meeting meeting
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the people.
We do, veterans lunches. We make a 170
sandwiches every week. Wow. I did not So
I did not morning. I'm down at the
farm time. I'm yeah. Oh,
I wonder
how do you advertise
to the other people all the stuff that
you guys are doing?
Let me just You know Newspapers cut out.
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For the bugle? What is it called? The
bugle. The bugle. What I should call it,
actually, bugle is pretty much our newsletter, so
it wouldn't really be dragging in new, members.
It's, this show, thank you for having me.
Yeah. Here in Brunswick is a is a
good good format. Yeah. Because I'm wondering, I
mean, I'm I'm I'm an elk, and we're
going to the Elk Lodge quite a bit,
but I didn't we don't know all the
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good stuff that's going out there. We know
what it's for generally, but,
like, the sandwiches. Okay. So what is it
you don't like about the Elks? Anything, mister
exalted?
Exalted.
I can't think of anything that I don't
like about it.
I knew what I was getting into. I
knew that it was gonna take a lot
of my time, and I was I I
was prepared
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for that. And what days do you work?
Do you work at bartender too? I also
bartend. Do you still do that? Yep. I
do. Yeah. I was the manager and then
Plus,
Fridays you do the bartender. I do. I
have bartend Fridays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and then whatever
else. Yeah. Saturdays. So Yeah. We were in
there with Ray Simon and Donna. And You
were a bartender, honey. And I I won't
say who was bartending. Not with you. No.
Yeah. I wasn't. Yeah. Get a darn good
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whiskey sour. So that's okay. That's alright. He
did now we needed to have you there.
Oh, yeah? Do you know how to make
your whiskey sours, I suppose. Oh, thank you.
I don't know. I drink whiskey sours? No.
Is that right, Brian? I mean
He's waving at yes. He's nodding his head.
Yeah. He's waving at his head. At the
top, make it with love. That's right. That's
right. Ask about that clock. What it yeah.
Okay. I will. I used to be the
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squire up at the Seaside Builts
years ago.
What is this ritual that you, all elk
lodges,
follow? And that is there's a large clock
that comes out at certain hours of the
day. Well, it's the 11:00
toast. This is 11:00 at night. It's 11:00.
Yeah. When when 11:00
at night, 11PM
Twenty three hope. Forget. Yeah. So Okay. Yeah.
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So,
it's it's a it's our hour of recollection,
they call it. It's
the we
when the when the clock strikes eleven, the
heart of Elkhdom swells and throbs.
And no matter where you're at, no matter
what your
lot is, whatever whatever you're doing, you stop
and pay homage to the
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Those that have gone before you. How interesting.
That was a very The mystic roll call
they call. Yeah. But are there people still
up at 11:00 at night? That's the thing.
It's getting people to stay awake for the
11:00. Is that every night or is that
It's anytime they gather at the It's anytime
when you're still there at 11:00. We do.
When when we're when we're gathering. And do
you have that big clock, the ceremonial clock?
No. We just look at the clock that's
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on the wall. But there is that's the
we do have the clock with the chimes
and the Got one with the gator inside
the gators.
Right? Out gator. I got a clock. If
it doesn't sell, I'm gonna bring it down
there. That would be the honorary,
clock that they use that But we'd we'd
love to have it. Yeah. It's it's very
different to say the very least.
So Goodness. That is good. And I remember
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that was a very, very,
solemn thing that the Elks were, and it
showed me the, good side
to the whole organization.
Alright. So somebody wants to get involved and,
want to find out more, what do they
do? How do they how how do they
reach out to you? What do they do?
You can stop by the lodge. We're at
359 H Street in Crescent City. The,
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the elevator in without being a member? Oh,
yes. Okay. You just
just the door is usually, locked or car
locked, but you just buzz the door so
they'll let you in. Okay. The rule is,
they have little,
things around the lodge that say
time, a guest
time, a friend, time, a member.
So you're, you know,
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it sometimes goes a little more than that
a couple of times in there, but the
idea is to try it out come in
as a guest,
and then, you'll want to go to the
party. What are the yearly dues now? The
present city? The current yearly dues for Crescent
City, now they do vary across the country,
Ours is a $131.
So $12 a month or something? Basically, like
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that. $12.13 dollars a month. Right. A little
less, but okay. A little less. Yeah. I'm
the competition.
No. Oh, I lost my So when are
you open? When is the Elkhart? We're open
every day of the week. And what what
time? At 04:30 in the afternoon is when
the our lounge it was just the lounge
is open every day of the week. And
then And then there's restaurants usually Friday nights?
Friday nights. Weekends is cable. And then on
the weekends.
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There's also there is one other one I
forgot to mention.
She's a Filipino. Oh. I forgot. Oh. Hee
Haw, Hee Haw. Yeah. Yeah. Hee Haw, something
like that. I forget what it's called, but
she She makes great And she, prepares food
in our kitchen also. Oh, very cool. So
So there you go. And then if you're
there till eleven, you can participate in the
(51:34):
I look at that at the theater club.
Yeah. At the gate. For the 11:00 toast.
Right? 11:00. You're there Wednesdays,
Fridays,
tending bar. I in fact, by leave here,
I'll be headed.
Well, today's Wednesday. That's right. You better get
back there pretty soon.
Is there a web? Hopefully, I have somebody
cover for me. How about a website? Is
there a website or Facebook? Yeah, she can
go to the,
correct. We have Crescent City Elks Lodge. She's
(51:56):
been able to she's able to find that
on the Okay. It's a big organization. Right?
Yeah. Alright. What are you saying about? Hours
of operation every day, seven days a week?
We're yeah. 04:30 in the afternoon till Got
lots of TVs. That's why we went Ray
and Donna. Sports on the TVs. In the
game and if the game's not on, I'll
put it on for you. Probably got your
favorite liquor. Yeah. That's right. Or We have
(52:16):
a Yeah. That's right. You always had you
have a good High five beers on top.
Good. Good.
And bottled beer. Hey. Say hello to Jamie
too. Jamie was the one that came up
with my name, Jacques Talks. Yeah. When we
I remember I remember Yeah. I think you
were there when that happened.
Alright, folks. We have been talking with Dan,
Friesman
here, and he is the exhausted rooster.
(52:38):
Pardon me. The exalted ruler of the elks
in Crescent City, California, representing a great represent
representative of all elks. Fascinating,
interesting, nonprofit,
benevolent society,
and protector of the elks. So we really
appreciate you coming on. You have any shout
out? Yeah. You got any shout outs that
(53:01):
you wanna get off?
I hope to, John. If Joseph feels better.
Hope John hope John's feeling better. Yeah. Yeah.
There we go. To be here with us.
He's listening in. Thomas Kellum, you have been
on once before. We've always enjoyed talking with
you. You're a straightforward guy. I like it.
We, are looking forward to the big events
on, June 21 in Crescent City at the
(53:23):
corner at the Methodist Church, the old archaic
boy, that's a gothic looking church. Right? It
is built back behind the church. Yep. And
it starts at
10AM.
10AM. And the the parade sidewalk parade starts
at? At,
12:30.
And it goes all day long. There will
be parties breaking out throughout the day.
Definitely. Okay. Thomas Kellen, looking forward to seeing
(53:43):
you. Having me over here. Yeah. We're proud.
Appreciate it. KCIW is is proud to be
one of your sponsors for this, and we've
been pumping out the word for it even
though I had my hours a little bit
mixed up. That's okay. That's okay. Alright. Thank
you both gentlemen very much for coming, and
I told you this is gonna go fast
when you're having fun. Right? But time is
the doc. It's It is
fun time
corner.
(54:04):
Hey. What do we have? You gotta give
some I gotta look at my joke. I
have some let's see if you can find
the theme in my quotes.
Okay.
I'm not sure which one is more impressive,
the elk's antlers or my ability to park
in a small space.
Okay. I sorta get it. I'm gonna start
quoting,
(54:24):
quotes, by Steven Wright. But give us one
more quote, Shirley. Well, thank you, sir.
If you see an elk with a plaid
shirt, don't be surprised.
They're probably just trying to blend in.
Stephen Wright, jokes, that one's a good one.
That one is a good one. That's a
good one. Right. Thanks for not laughing. Okay.
Why do psychics have to ask for your
(54:45):
name?
If at you don't succeed,
destroy all the evidence that you tried.
These are Stephen Wright's greatest hits. That's a
good one. Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.
Alright. Let's hit it with Wait. What? Let's
say that again. Nothing. I'm not gonna do
it again.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism,
(55:06):
as you know. But to steal from many,
that's called research.
I'm not laughing
since you didn't repeat the other one. Oh,
man. The elk's superpower
is is its ability to gracefully move through
the forest while simultaneously
judging your fashion choices. There are all these
little hunter things. Kinda cool.
Everyone is born as you know, everyone is
(55:28):
born with a photographic
memory, but some of us just don't have
the film.
If at you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
That's good.
Alright. How about another one?
Elk are like walking
(55:49):
work
walking works of art just with more practical
uses for their antlers,
like clearing them. They're huge
deer. I mean, they're massive. And how many
you got a couple of bullheads up in
that I mean, they're old. I wonder if
they still
Lot lot of trophies in there in there.
Lot of trophies. Yeah. I mean, it's kinda
weird at but,
(56:09):
if your car could travel at the speed
of light, would your headlights work?
That is a good one. Right? I like
that one. Okay.
A man arrives at a costume party with
a girl on his back. I am a
turtle, he says. Well, who's on your back?
Oh, that's Michelle.
(56:31):
Michelle.
Okay.
The Alcus proved that nature can be both
majestic
and a little bit chaotic.
Okay.
Woman fainted at the airport yesterday and fell
onto the baggage carousel.
Well, she is slowly coming around
(56:53):
now.
Alright. One Elks are like walking landscapes complete
with antlers that seem to touch the sky.
That's a Nice. That is a good one.
Mhmm. I I decided to change the name
of my toilet from John to Jim.
So now I can tell people that I'm
going to the gym.
(57:16):
Did you hear about the explosion at the
cheese factory?
No. Yeah. There's nothing but debris.
Debris?
Debris.
Oh, that's really bad. That's I'm afraid of
the I'm I'm afraid for the calendar, doc.
Why?
Its days are numbered.
Oh. Its days are numbered. Yeah. All the
days are numbered. Hey. And I as always,
(57:38):
I once again, I pulled out Siri the
other day, and I looked at Siri. And
I said, Siri, why am I so unpopular?
And she activated the self portrait camera.
You know, you're not loved when everybody hands
you the camera when they take a group
photo. You're not? That's a good one.
K. One more so we can meet you.
(57:58):
Cremation is my last chance
for a smoking hot body.
Wow.
Right? Right? There you go. Frost. Thomas Kellum
and and Dan Friespin, thank you again for
coming on this show. Thank you. Been a
treat. Thank you. You have been listening to
the Doc and Jock Radio Variety Show this
(58:18):
time once around
on KCAW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We hope you have enjoyed our show as
much as we have. We also, again, wanna
thank Tom Bozak and Ray Simon, for your
wizardry in the studio.
Email us if you know of any talented,
interesting people that would like to be on
the show. You can reach us at docandshock@gmail.com.
(58:41):
Now stay tuned for Tony
Sure. Or so.
Right after this program and next week, we
have the dumpster puppies at Zamala's ion on
it. Looking forward to that.
Welcome everyone.
You have now entered again the cosmic radio
receptors of KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
Thank you again and always for tuning in
to this week's fabulous program. I'm doctor Gigi,
and my cohost is as always as well,
Jacques Kepner. How are you today? I am
(00:30):
doing fine, doctor Gigi. Greetings, everyone, and welcome
to the Doc and Jacques Radio Variety Show.
I wanna mention that you'll be hearing this
live show on KCIW in Brookings, Oregon right
now. That said, the same show will be
rebroadcast in exactly one week from today each
and every Wednesday,
on KZZH ninety six point seven FM in
Eureka Humboldt at 8AM in the morning, and
(00:51):
then a few hours later at 1PM
on my old alma mater, KFUG
one hundred point one FM in Crescent City,
California. So now you know. But doc and
I have your coast covered. Alright. We've got
a busy show today with two gentlemen in
the studio. A was planned,
to come in, but he unfortunately
felt sick and, didn't wanna come in and
(01:12):
contaminate everybody else. So I that's okay with
us, that he,
better take care of himself
So I'll make just a few announcements
and then we'll get right into our guest
because we will be bypassing doctor MD Gigi
this week. So last week, we talked about
what? When? The chat and shake. The chat
and fair. That's right. The chat and like,
we talked about It was wind energy. Wind
(01:32):
was good. That was interesting. Yeah. Right? And
before that, it was consciousness and time. It's
like deep and all this stuff that you
chose. Sleep. That's yeah. Oh my god. Those
are deep. Alright. There is a couple couple
announcements. There's a crazy auction fundraiser going on
at the Elk Valley Casino on Friday, June
20 from 05:30
until whenever.
It will benefit the Del Norte search and
(01:54):
rescue efforts in our area, and it is
an 18 or older,
event where you spend I guess this is
what Jean,
was telling us, our friend Jean. Yeah. She's
where you spend lots of quarters
as in 25¢
pieces,
to get great goodies. And tickets are $5
in advance,
and it's gonna be fun. Get more info
(02:16):
by emailing Sarah
at del nort or dnpartygirls@gmail.com.
So the dnpartygirls@gmail.com.
So it's a great fundraiser for the search
and rescue.
Speaking of parties, there's gonna be a party
going down on the
(02:36):
annual
Del Norte
Rainbow
Pride,
parade and festivities.
It happens all on
Saturday, June 21,
eleven to nine, and it'll be breaking out
all over Crescent City. This year's theme is
Stars of the Community and it's pretty much
a full day event. The Pride Parade starts
(02:57):
at 11:00 at the corner Of Seventh And
Gee at the Methodist Church in Crescent City.
So there you go. Now you know. We've
made this announcement multiple times in the past
few weeks, and we're excited,
because there is a madness behind the promotion
of this pride parade
for joining us. One of the two gentlemen
that is joining us in the KCIW studios
today
(03:18):
is none other than an all around good
guy and
LGBTQ activist, Thomas Callum. Hey, Thomas, welcome back
to the Doc and Jacques Show. Yeah. Welcome.
Thank you. Thanks for having me. Glad to
be here. Yeah. Gigi, start asking some
interesting questions. Thomas questions. Alright. What is your
role in this upcoming
community of stars pride day
(03:40):
on the on June 21?
I'm like the coordinator.
Okay. Is that like the president? Don't really
have a title.
No. No.
The Marshall. I'm much more, like, horizontal
than vertical. There we go. Go. K. Whatever
that means. Is this the
technical I think it makes sense to me.
(04:00):
According to, like,
you know, the structures of organizations.
Yeah. Horizontal is more people are more on
the same level. Yeah. Vertical is there's a
hierarchy. There's somebody who's the big boss, and
then there's, like, levels. And
I like things to be more horizontal so
that everybody has a say and everybody's opinion
(04:21):
and voices.
Okay. There we go. You asked, doc. Yeah.
I did. He answered. Yeah. I just I
wanna step back to your introduction. Okay. Real
loud. I think that maybe,
things have changed since
since you have whatever information you got. But
the event starts at ten in the morning.
Oh, and or nine. Did I say nine?
(04:41):
No. You said eleven. Eleven. Eleven. Okay. I
see. We changed it. It used to be
eleven. So it's not Yeah. Okay. You're right.
It did take a look. So we're we
have from ten to two, we have vendors.
Yeah. And that's gonna be in the field
behind the United Methodist Church at Seventh And
Gee in Crescent City.
And during that time, we also have a
parade which starts at 12:30.
(05:05):
Oh, cool. You go to the vendor. Okay.
That's better because more people would Right. Participate.
Yeah. So we have the vendors starting at
ten. Then at 12:30, we have the parade.
And then at 01:30, we have the infamous
dog show.
What makes it infamous? It makes it infamous
because last year, we thought, you know, maybe
five dogs would show up and, like, 40
dog show. Woah. And it's like judging them
(05:27):
for the ugliest, the sweetest, the prettiest.
There's there's
two categories. There's big dogs and little dogs.
Okay. And then there's, like,
you know, best in show, best trick,
cutest outfit. Okay. Cool. And there's prizes for
for the top winners.
But people people just really love the idea
(05:49):
of getting to have their dog in a
show. So Oh, that's She's having me dress
up too. There you go. She's bringing me.
On a leash.
Yeah.
Alright. Well, that's the
the year in a row. Year that we're
doing this, the pride festival and and show
and then And the dog show. Yeah. And
the dog show. In the evening from six
to nine, we have entertainment.
(06:11):
And that's also at the church in the
social hall.
And we'll have,
DJ for dancing, and we have some drag
performances, and we have some other kinds of
performances, some spoken word.
And, it should be pretty exciting. Right on.
Very cool. Next next next What is your
horizontal
group called? Is it a five zero one
(06:32):
c three?
Well, we we're operating
at pride as Denodo pride.
Del Norte and tribal lands adjacent
pride. Okay. And,
we are
not an official
organization.
We're operating as, with KFUG as our fiscal
(06:52):
sponsor. Mhmm. They're a five zero one c
three corporation.
Mhmm. So they're being our fiscal sponsor. So
all the donations
and sponsors
are funneling through there, and the expenses are
getting paid through there. Cool. Very cool.
There's an adjacent organization, which is Del Norte
DN LGBTQ
(07:12):
Resource Project,
which
is what I started before pride, and we
kind of
we work together.
We go with it, basically.
This is the same people.
But that's you know, that was started as
part of
a providing information to the community. Okay. Yeah.
(07:33):
And
so
but that website is also where I promote
all the pride stuff. So what is the
website? What's the website? We'll call it up
later. But dnlgbtq.org.
Wow. Good night. So delnortlgbtq.org.
Is this the only parade festival, pride parade
(07:53):
in our region? Because I don't think Brookings
or Curry County are. Brookings just had one
this last weekend I at Azalea Park. Told
you I knew that. And
there's quite a few that happen
that all up along the coast is an
organization called Southern
Oregon Coast Pride,
s o c Pride.
(08:14):
And
they do a pride in Brookings. They do
a Pride in
Gold Beach and I think up in Coos
Bay.
And they also have a lot of activities
that happen in between.
So,
they're a really great
organization to check out. Being the actual,
(08:35):
We talked about pride as, like, the day,
the event. Oh, okay. Pride. Everything involved.
Yeah. So, like, they
they had they just had their thing. It
was, like, eleven to three in Azalea Park,
and they had a DJ and Booth. Were
you there? Yes. Good
turnout?
Very good turnout.
Nice day? Nice day. Beautiful day. And, you
(08:56):
know, there's something really nice about it being
in the park and it's just kinda casual,
then you got the band shell there with
the music. Right. And Fun. You know, that
that was just awesome. It made me think,
oh, we should find another
place besides a parking lot for our booths.
But Now tell us about the parade.
(09:16):
Our parade is a fabulous event. People love
it. Yeah. Where does it go? It's a
sidewalk parade. Sidewalk? So it's not in the
street.
And we're very courteous to cars that are
driving on the street. But we start in
in the field
behind the church, which is
on G Street between Seventh And Sixth,
(09:37):
and we walk up the sidewalk,
up G Street,
pass we cross Seventh Street. We go up
to Eighth Street, turn right,
go to H Street, and turn right, and
come back down,
and cross
Seventh Street, cross Sixth Street, and go down
to Fifth Street where we turn right again.
And then
(09:59):
Fifth Street, we will get to G. We
turn right again and come back up to
the the trunk. How can people watch it
if you're on the sidewalk?
People
are participating.
Spectators close down traffic.
More more people participate than Right. Than just
stand there and watch. Yeah. Right. It it's
(10:19):
really an exciting event. People like to be
able to,
like, make noise and show off and leave
it anywhere. Big floats because a float unless
it's real skinny. I think we've
had, like, a a red wagon float last
year. Like a red wagon float. Radio flies.
Yeah. Like a radio flyer. Very cool. Rolling
full of float. No. Go ahead. Now what
(10:40):
is different this year? Or do you have
anything different? Because that's the plan. The the
parade is gonna be,
like, instead of being
two square blocks, it's three square blocks. K.
So it's longer. Yeah. And,
our dog show
Long. We're we're getting ready for the many
dogs. Last year, so many dogs showed up.
(11:02):
That's hilarious. That this year, we're, like, more
prepared. That was a very, very popular event.
Tell us about the theme.
Yeah. What is community?
Stars of the community.
Yeah. So
the idea behind that was, like, people who
are really
involved in the community by the what do
we say?
(11:23):
Support the LGBTQI
the flyer. Community
with vibrancy.
Okay. Cool. And what that meant is, like,
you know, we were talking about not just
people in the community, but people outside the
community that support the community.
Like you guys. Right. Okay? Right.
And,
(11:44):
so the idea was, like, to really, like,
acknowledge
that and to to sort of encourage
people by acknowledging the people that are are
doing it, encourage other people to, like, really
say, hey, yeah, we support them. Right. And
it's actually been happening a lot this year.
I've
(12:04):
the the kind of
support,
it feels different.
There are people who are like, yeah. We
really need to say something this year because
of the climate.
And,
it's not a time to just be silent.
And so it feels like more people have
been putting signs up in the windows,
(12:26):
and we have more people donating money.
And it's just really been a fabulous
organizing.
Right? You have had more people join,
or
is it just of the vibe that you
get? It's the vibe that we get. I
mean, there's definitely
you know, the organizing
(12:46):
committee is
similar, but Mhmm. People come and go. Yeah.
And we have different
some different booths this year, which is really
cool.
Some a few additional sponsors to who we
had last year.
And we have about the same number of
(13:07):
booths,
but
with sort of different mix of people.
And we're also this year, we're also having
a
game
session Cool. Which is,
you know, like, people that do D and
D and those kind of games. Oh, cool.
Yeah.
So Cobalt's Lair, which is a a game
(13:29):
shop in town. Yeah. Across the city. Yeah.
Right. Ashling from there is gonna be running
a game
in one of the rooms inside the church.
Wow. And so that'll I think a lot
of people are really excited about that because
there's so many gamers
in the community. To the United Methodist Church
for for offering this too. Dana Dana, good
reverend. They are awesome. They're a big, big
(13:51):
part of it. I know that when Gigi
and I both moved here about the same
time, around five years ago to this region,
And, I moved to Brookings since she was
in Crescent City already.
And we have multiple friends who have told
us that,
they they left the Brookings area to go
to Crescent City because of the more of
a tolerant
level
(14:11):
of acceptance of, of LGBTQ.
And we always thought that was kinda crazy.
So I'm glad to hear, number one, that
we recently, just this last Saturday, had a
LGBTQ
or pride parade here in Brookings
that's overdue. But I think you've really spearheaded
it, and congratulations to you and the group
for having something like this coming along. And
(14:31):
this is the annual.
Right. This is the year that we're doing
it. The, besides the United Methodist Church, Saint
Paul's Episcopal
Here in town in Brookhaven? In well, the
one in in Crescent City is super supportive.
Okay. Oh, Saint Paul's. Okay. Yes.
They're they're, like, on board supporting us. They've
given us financial support.
(14:53):
They're also hosting other events during the year.
Yeah. They're very eager to, like, demonstrate their
their support for the community.
I is Saint Tim's up here? The Yep.
The Episcopal Hill. With, pastor Bernie? Right. Yeah.
They're very supportive too. They're I haven't actually
been there, but I I hear really good
things. They're good things. Yeah. Yeah. And,
(15:16):
you know, some of
the surprises have
been people that just sort of contacted us
out of the blue that, you know, we
we, like, reach out to people, but other
people just sort of hear about us and
say, hey. We won't be part of this.
Do you wanna,
recap how people get ahold of you?
The best way to get ahold of us
(15:39):
is to go to the website,
dnlgbtq.org.
Mhmm.
The,
Gmail
email address is pretty much the same, dnlgbtq@Gmail.com.
But on the website, there's all kinds of
information.
There's ways to access us. There's forms to
(16:01):
fill out if you wanna do different things,
be a vendor or sponsor. That you can
apply to sponsor or to volunteer? Yes. Yes.
Hey. Is it is it been difficult to
get how's the city been working with you?
Are they okay? Are there you don't need
any special permits since it's a sidewalk's
sidewalk? Yeah. It's one of the reasons why
we're sticking to the sidewalk
parade for a while because
it doesn't involve any paperwork or red tape.
(16:24):
K. It you know, as long as we
monitor ourselves so that we're not, like, blocking
traffic or Right. You know, doing disturbing things
Right.
People have sidewalk parades and toilets on the
side. And you're not anticipating ice to show
up, are you? I'm not anticipating
any kind of trouble. Would be exactly. This
is a good good organization. Good organization. Yeah.
(16:47):
And our our main,
you know, like, motivating
thing is
peace and love. Right on. We don't
aren't trying to make anybody wrong or tell
anybody to do something different than what they're
doing.
And we don't want
to have any kind of
(17:07):
aggressive
arguments
or you know,
things like that. We're just
putting out good
solid vibes. Tell us about the art, gallery
opening you had a couple weeks ago, and
now it still will be on. It's open
all month long. Right. We have the Rainbow
Pride Art Show, which opened on May 31.
(17:28):
We had a great evening event,
and,
Jacques has a piece in the art show.
I was gonna say, who has that weird
alligator, that rainbow alligator.
It's very, very cool piece. Alright. Yep. Tell
it it'll last it'll last the
something of time. What is that? A test
of time. Test of time. It was so
hard to make that. I just broke down
(17:48):
a couple times. I said, I'm not gonna
do this. And then she'd come along and
say, no. No. No. Put more teeth in
it. Paint the different colors a little bit.
Touch it up here. And you helped me
do that. Right? Yeah. Sure. And it has
a working clock in it. It's a working
time. Right. Yeah. So I could piece it.
There's 51 to fifty Fifty. 50 teeth in
it. So that means each tooth represents
A state. One one one state of The
(18:11):
United States. Pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So
Tom The yard will be
up All month? Yeah. It'll be we're taking
it down on July 5.
Okay. So I gotta come in by then
and snatch my thing if somebody hasn't snatched
it. Right. Me. Right.
Thomas Kellum, you're welcome to hang out here
with us and
participate in the for the rest of this
(18:32):
about a forty minute show that we have
here.
Thank you for coming on. Thank you for
clarifying, talking about the Pride Parade.
Folks, you will be able to hear the
same show next week, and you'll hear the
same
rebroadcast on KFUG
and KZZH
and the Crescent City and Eureka areas. So
we look forward to it, Gigi and I.
We're looking forward to stopping Gong and communing
(18:55):
with everybody and hanging with everybody and watching
what's going on. Maybe I'll even get a
chance to say hello to Paul Kritz there
who is gonna be manning the live radio
right in the Navy. Broadcasting live. Right on.
Okay. Well, this is this is very, very
good. This is happy to hear this, going
on in our area, and I am excited
about it. And that's on the June
(19:17):
21
Right. Saturday. Saturday. Coming up like a great
event that it's going to be. Alright. Let
me, let me let me break real quickly
here for a few announcements that I would
also like to make. And that is acknowledging
some of our major supporters here on,
KCIW.
(19:37):
Some of the
supporters that have been so good to this
station and its cause as a community radio
station is Michelle Buford
with our own
local Curry County Chamber of Commerce. Thank you
so much, Michelle.
Hats off to Marie and Brett Curtis, our
next door neighbors here in, Brookings at REMAX
(19:59):
Coast and Country Realty in Brookings, like I
just said. Advance Airlines. Hey. Advance Airlines is
now flying in and out of nearby
Crescent City to Oakland and LA seven days
a week. Thanks for that. Chetco Medical and
Aesthetic Center located right here in Brookings, Oregon.
Doctor John Kirk, your former colleague, doctor John
Kirk,
who is also involved in Porta Pints Craft
(20:21):
Brewery. They now have two locations in Credit
City. Thanks them to them. And then Jim
Doc Bilardi and his Crescent Land Title and
Escrow Company in old downtown Crescent City. Remember,
he's got that bear, Bury the Bear,
in his front window, a taxidermy
Right on.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll come back a little bit
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later to bring in some more of our
major supporters' acknowledgements. Let's introduce our
guest. Introduce our Dan Friessmann.
Friessman?
What's up, man? Hello. Thanks for joining us.
Thank you. Thank you for having me. What
are you here representing? Yeah. I'm here representing
the Crescent City Oaks Lodge. Woah.
What is your position? What do you do
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in the Oaks Lodge? I am the exalted
ruler of the Crescent City elk's lodge. Dang.
What do they jokingly call it? Is it
the exalted rooster?
The exhausted rooster. Exhausted
rooster? Exhausted rooster. Very fitting, by the way.
It does. Is it is it pretty exhausted?
No. I get it. You just became the
new exhausted rooster, exalted ruler,
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several months ago? In April. In April, which
is the the calendar year that the elks,
go by. And so far, how's it been?
Nothing short of crazy. Nothing short of crazy?
One of our other guests that couldn't make
it today because he's feeling ill is John
Mendoza. And tell us about John. He's what
position is he? John Mendoza is my lecturing
night,
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which would be the the of the side
nights.
We have a lecturing night, loyal night, leading
night. Okay. So And they go in that
order? That's in progression. Right. So, like, he
like, a lecturing night is then kind of
like vice president. Or is that No. That
would be the leading night. It goes lecturing,
then loyal, and then leading, and then ER.
Okay. Oh, so other way around from running
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out. Kind of the other way around. When
when did he get voted in?
He came in,
to replace someone who wasn't able to fulfill
the position. So he was kind of a
In trainer? Yeah. Kind of a last minute
getting in, and I'm I'm glad he was
available and willing ready, willing, and able. We
we wanted to talk to John, and I
wanna throw this out to everyone that's listening
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to thank him
and Barbara, his wife Barbara Mendoza, and all
the people that helped put together this last
Great. One King Entertainment about two days ten
days ago. It's amazing. Right. It was. A
couple thousand people showed up for his One
King Entertainment Festival with eight bands, nine bands,
12 if you count inside.
And Bertie Fence was photographing everybody, and we
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and John and, doctor Kirk's, Porta Pines, South
Beach South Beach. Yeah. And a car show
and the art art going on. And it
was just a fabulous
good vibe thing. So hats off to all
the people
that brought about this great successful
concert, and I they're gonna repeat it. They're
just gonna do a one. Oh, I don't
see why they wouldn't. It was a huge
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success.
The food trucks. The food trucks. Right. So
congratulations
to John,
and Barbara and Bertie and all the other
people involved
with One King Entertainment. Now for one for
those people who don't know what the Elks
Lodge is or are, can you explain it
in a thimble
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sized I I could I could do that.
It's a fraternal organization.
It's it's old,
started in 1868
Dang. In New York.
The whole, the whole,
the way they come up with it was
entertainers, performers
who would be doing their stage acts and
such. When the they would be done with
theirs, the the bars would be closed, and
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so they started their own little club, sort
of an after party, after after hours type
club.
And then also
never heard of that happening before. And also
they met on Sundays,
to get past the the blue laws. And
in New York, they had the blue laws
where they weren't allowed to have alcohol. And
so they would they were trying to find
ways of socializing
and and drinking,
to get around the rules.
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And
so, the story I heard was that one
of the members,
one of the founding members, wife
took ill cancer or something maybe, and so
they wanted to raise money. So they thought
of ways
of doing that, and
their organization wasn't
non profit, or it wasn't set up for
it, so they
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decided to
be legit, so to speak, and start the
Elks Lodge. Wow. And so that they could
do,
benefit things and raise money in charities and
all that. Are both men and women welcome
at the Yes. It was originally a men's
club. Yeah. Like most all, back in the
days, that's all they were. Women
were introduced in the mid eighties, I think,
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so '84, '85, something. I think they were
the women were let in. And they can
also be And make a nurse. Yeah. Exactly.
They can hold office. In fact, it's been
such a big influx of women since since
that time that in some lodges,
in fact, I think it's the Vacaville Lodge.
I don't know if they're all women, but
Pretty much. 80 or 90% women. We know
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a couple of ladies that were a bit
exhausted rooter ruler. We have exalted rulers all
across the state. Lindsay Aranda has been one.
She was at
the, oh, what a Southern Northern California somewhere.
Is it considered a secretive organization?
Shh. Quite. You're nasty now. Oh. Secret. Hobbs,
don't you dare tell anybody. You're privy to
these things. No. It's a fraternal organization. It's
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it's not a we're not a secret society.
It's not like that. It's a well, fraternal
is men, I think. Right? Sorority. That was
that's how it was. Right. Originally, that was
what's omni omni
eternal? Omniternal?
Omniternal?
Not exactly how you
but men,
women. Internal.
So you were just elected, and how long
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is your service? How am I gonna be
exhausted ruler? Usually, it's a one it's it's
it's designed to be a one year term.
You spend one year each one of the
the chairs and move up, and so I've
only got a short term.
Yeah. Oh, I thought it was two One
year. No. It's been one year. Year. For
junior. My dear. We have. I am. We
have, had previous,
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officers hold more than one year. Yeah. Right.
For for whatever reason. Okay. Because because they
had to, somebody
getting sick or not being able to to
Right. Go. So Hey. Hats off to,
Ray Simon and Tom Bozek, who are engineers
in the studio today,
as always helping us produce this show and
doing their their wizardry in the in the
engineering Room. But I know that Ray Simon
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and Donna are elks.
And we just I think for the time,
we brought them by the other day to
watch the basketball game because it's you got
five
TV sets there. On Sunday, we stopped by.
And And watched the week. We watched the
the worst baseball basketball game I've ever seen.
I've never watched baseball. Basketball. Home run? Yeah.
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Basketball.
It was but, we had a good time.
Now the elks are also known as the
BPOE.
The BP.
Oh, she scolded me. Don't. Okay. Here's all
your questions. Your question. Oh, they are my
oh, I see it. Take off the wall.
I can see oh, let me help you
with that. What does BPOE
stand for?
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The Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks.
Wow. And why would they name the
why would
they name themselves
after elk? Do you have any idea? That
I don't know. Probably because maybe eagles and
They were taken. Roosters.
All the other names are all taken. Lions.
Right? The lions.
And what is the sound an elk makes
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when it's in mating season? A bugle.
It bugles, which is also the name of
our Oh, for real? This is really? That's
called bugle. It's bugling. They are bugling. Oh,
I didn't know that. So our newsletter is
called the bugle.
That's how we get our word out as
to the bugle. Yeah. How about if they
all try
Then that kinda went with that. Sure.
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Do you know what the basic mission statement
for the Elks is?
You know, I probably should've looked that up.
I I just believe that we're just a,
we're a nonprofit. We're we're a five zero
one c. We Right. We all we do
is raise money just for for charities,
scholarships, help out needy,
people. We have,
we're part of the California Hawaii,
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elk association, the chia.
And our major project is the purple pig,
and we raise money for Oh, that's right.
Handicap. At the bar, you have those purple
pigs. You'll see the purple pigs in the
bar. Are pretty. So darn. Kinda like a
Jerry's kids type thing. We we help the
we help the kids to see and hear
and play. Right on. So Okay. We've got
a half hour left of our left of
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our show here, in the studio with Thomas
Kellum who is with the Pride Parade coming
up on the June 21. And now we're
talking with with Dan Friessmann Friessmann, pardon me,
here about the Elks. You are tuned in
to
KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We wish to continue to thank our major
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supporters, and I've got about five more.
Special thanks to Dan and Phyllis Schmidt for
your constant friendly support.
Nick Roehl. Hey, Nick and Lisa. Today's Lisa's
birthday. Oh. Lisa, it was a happy birthday,
Lisa,
for your birthday and his five zero one
c three project partnership for the Performing Arts
Center or PPA,
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which will be starting construction in Crescent City
fairly soon and will be serving all of
our region. Guess who else's birthday today? John
Zimmerman's.
The president of the preservation society for the
Saint George Reef. John? Yeah. Lighthouse. It's not
called Saint George. I know. Saint George. Saint
George Point. No. Saint George Reef. Reef.
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Oh. Lighthouse. Preservation society. Yeah.
Okay. Lushdahl also claims to reimagined Crescent Harbor
Art Gallery in Crescent City, anchored in the
harbor right next to the boats. Great gallery
there. Our region's only bowling center, tsunami lanes
on 101 in Midtown Crescent City. And finally,
yours truly, doctor Gigi and I, thank you
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very much for being our
major supporters of this station and other community
radio stations like it. Alright, doc. You ask
some questions.
Yeah. I okay. I asked the question about
the emblem. Why why why why is the
emblem an elk? An elk and Yeah. Because
the others were taken. Remember?
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So how many
I I believe it's because of the ADHD
kicking in? It's the
are you talking to me, ma'am? Yeah.
Because of what elks the way the the
way they carry themselves, the way the the
whole the whole,
stature of the elk and what they they're
family based. They're they're strong. They're fleet of
foot. They're quick to help.
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Right on. That sort of thing. Yeah. They're
Very good. Strong. Yeah. I wanna be now.
Strong of heart. You are now. Strong of
heart and fleet of foot.
Strong of heart and fleet of foot.
Now how many Elk
Lodges are there in The States?
In this state? In the states of The
United States. So it is a United States,
only. There are some outside maybe Puerto Rico,
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Guam, Philippines, maybe. Yeah. But it's mostly United
States, and I believe it's around 2,200.
Wow. So Wow. And Crescent City, Alex Lodge
is number?
Sixteen eighty 9. And then we have one
in Brookings, which is number 1934.
So they are 300
lodge numbers apart.
So I think the we were talking about
that off off,
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air and talking about how we across the
city is much older
than Brookings.
Does every single,
lodge have a different price? So they're all
pretty much the same?
The prices are all based on however whatever
the house committee decides to, charge for dinners,
drinks, that sort of thing. They are usually
at a discount price, though, for for those
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people to keep their membership. Member. There's a
yearly membership. Right?
But, we have noticed that the Elks really
are open.
Yes. You can show your membership card, but
often,
people can just come in. Right? Especially for
the dinners that are,
nonprofit
They're they're arguing. Unless it's an unless it's
a public event, unless we announce it as
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a public event, they're all private.
Most of the people we know will be
we see the people that come in, and
we know who are the card holders and
who aren't. So the so the fundraisers are
usually public events? Yes. They are. Oh, I
see.
Just just this last week, we had the,
the Forest Moon Festival, which was
amazing. That was really so glad we're part
of that. Oh, is that the one with
the Star Trek or Star Wars? Star Wars.
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It was a Star Wars name. Yeah. That
was You had those dolls up, outside the
bar
upstairs of the lodge. Yeah. We we put
those out on our on our stand out
there. It was fun. I was playing around
with them. Yeah. Fun. Those were really very
realistic looking dolls. I scared Ray Simon really
bad when he walked out the door with
one of them.
So, yeah, we had props, and everybody wore
costumes, and, it was a a really nice
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theme. And everybody saw watched the movies before
so they know what who was whom or
not really. They they seem to guess my
Obi Wan Kenobi costume.
Keep on keep on asking the questions, I
think. I'm gonna give you
Okay. So what are the what and where
are the oldest five lodges? Yeah. Some of
the oldest lodges. Yeah. Now I'm not sure
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about all five, but I do know the
very one was in New York 1868.
Number two
was Philadelphia.
Number three was San Francisco. Yes. That's right.
Yeah. San Francisco. That's a really nice lodge,
by the way. If you ever get a
chance to go in there. I think I,
it's Chicago and Oakland were four and five,
and I'm not sure which order. It might
have been Oakland and then Chicago, but those
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are like Well, they were very far apart.
Jeez. I mean Yeah. They they alternated back
and across the Is there any political spectrum
you're supposed to adhere to or anything like
that? Is there any problem with religion or
are you No. You're you're asked if you
believe in God, to to be a member
because
you're swearing
you have
to promise that you're not going to put
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the lodge You have to swear that you'll
put your family You have to swear that
you put
all things your religion, your
faith, you know, all your, you know, everything.
You put that before the lodge that you
won't and you have to swear to that.
So that's why they asked that because you
need to be able to swear to something.
You have to believe in something. Right.
So everybody is welcome. But it's right. There
there is no particular denomination. Nobody's held to
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a Now, why,
Dan, why did you join in the place?
And how long ago? This was, kind of
a funny story. About four years ago, I
was kind of new to the area, and,
my friend James Mitchell and I, we were
looking for places to play pool. And we
were having to drive to Brookings
to play,
and we heard that there was a pool
tournament
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on Sunday afternoon at the Elks Lodge.
So, not being Elks, we kind of like
looked into to see if we could come
in as guest. They allowed us in,
and then, of course, they asked us to
join and
So how did you place?
Played very well. In fact, that was that
was one of the reasons why we wanted
to keep coming back because the the money
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seemed kinda easy. It's like,
hey. No. We're not supposed to be betting
on your game. You know? That's not allowed.
That's not allowed. But we were Oh, yeah.
Alright.
But we were, we were we were greeted
so positively that, we just couldn't help but
join. Yeah. The I we were there. We
I I'm a I'm a member, and, yes,
very everybody is so positive. If they belong
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to, Yeah. To join. I haven't been to
many bad Elks lodges. Well, that's what I'm
saying. People are nice. They are they are
they're very friendly and open. Do a lot
of people, they travel around. Right? And they
stop it at all the Elks Lodges, different
lodges.
Yeah. Right? I mean, this because you're welcome
anywhere. Right? Once you're become When we traveled
across the country, where did we send Elk
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Lodge? We were gonna go there. It was
like Klamath Falls. It was a tiny, tiny
town. Yeah. I don't know. Klamath Falls. There
were multiple ones that we went to. Yeah.
Like, we were just really Wyoming or something
that was Out in the middle of nowhere.
Well, Winnemucca was They were closed. They were
closed. Yeah. They were closed. Off it was
an off day. Do they all have restaurants
or bars and In most cases, they they
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have some sort of food and beverage. That's
a way to get money. Right. The raise
was yeah. That's a lot of,
smaller lodges only source of income. We don't
have a RV
park on ours, or a swimming pool, those
kind of things, but a lot of the
other lodges are really well equipped. Hold on.
Tennis courts, pools, RV parks, golf courses.
There's some are pretty quiet. And that that
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address is book is to have the RV?
G And Third. Third And G Street or
where is it?
It's on G. Right? The address of the
Our live? Yeah. It's on 359 H. So
it's just just off of Third. K. Well,
wait a minute. Up the up the street
is the Methodist Church. Right? On the H
8 Thomas Thomas is not Sixth and between
Sixth and Seventh on Eighth. But you're not
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going down as far down to Third. Doesn't
matter. Not get we're just going down to
Fifth. Yeah. Ours we're between Fourth and Third.
So just just a yeah. We already noticed
it from the big BPOE on the backside
of the building,
and you're like, but you're on the backside
of the building right across the street from
the Chase Bank. Right? That's Yeah. Correct. There's
several several
cool things. And we saw the time we
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saw a big, a plaque the other day
when we left. And you said, is that
a new plaque? Yeah. That was a new
plaque.
Plaque on on the building. Uh-huh. Is that
new? No. That's old. It looks old, but
I didn't really It's because it is. It
was probably the original plaque. I couldn't see
it till last time. 1948,
I'm guessing. Oh, my goodness. Oh, cool.
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So you kind of alluded a little bit,
but tell us about how and why you
raise money.
Well,
for instance,
scholarships is a big one. Mhmm. We just
did a a scholarship
just just last week. I had the privilege
of
handing out the scholarships to a couple
of deserving students Yeah. At Del Norte High
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School, and that was, very cool. Really, really
cool.
We
also do, fundraisers, which are I just came
back from the the CHIA convention. I talked
about the California Hawaii Elks Association convention
where we,
produce our earnings for the year of what
we
had raised on our purple pig,
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and collectively, just between the California and,
Kauai elks, we raised $5,000,000
Woah. OMG.
Yeah, it was really nice. And last year
was 4,000,000. So we've already we've already we
upped a whole million dollars from just last
year's,
donations still this year's. And they're Each lodge
raises
a certain amount, and then you have a
per capita by based on,
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you know, the amount that you give divided
by the number of people you have. So
you have a per capita, and, there were
some very,
very giving flanges.
Alright. Hey, Thomas. Bouncing the ball back over
to you,
I mean, pride parades happen all around The
United States, all over the world. In fact,
when we were in Strasbourg, France a year
ago Yeah. To this day almost, there was
a huge pride parade going through the streets
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of Strasbourg, France,
just over the border from Germany.
Are they collectively
I mean, are are are you always looking
for donations and volunteers, or is it that
kind of an organization for this pride? Are
they spontaneous community events?
In bigger cities, they're very big organizations.
Big time like San Francisco is In San
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Francisco is Yeah.
Is is very big. Dude. But even, like,
in Chico,
You used to live for a while. Right.
I used to live, and I was the
executive director of Stonewall Alliance of Chico there.
And we put on pride events. And, you
know, because we were an ongoing organization, we
were always looking for grants and sponsors
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and
fundraising.
And then when we put on big events,
like,
we used to have, like, a week of
events for pride there. Oh, in in Chico?
In Chico. And they're still doing I think
they may be having two weeks of events.
I've been, like, watching the Facebook posts.
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And,
you know, so those require
extra special funding. So you're always asking for
people, and you're always looking for volunteers. Right.
Because organizations
always need volunteers.
Here, you know, it's sort of cyclical because
we're doing this once a year. Right. So
we start, you know You've only done one
year prior to this year, so it's only
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Right.
annual coming up. Yeah. So, you know, we're,
like, ask people for donations,
and we're looking for volunteers. We're looking for
volunteers right now. Yeah. Always looking for planning.
Planning starts right off the right as soon
as this one ends, you're gonna be looking
to head to the
We start a little bit of planning.
So we sort of we look at what
things we could improve for next year, what
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things we wanna maybe
make sure we change.
And we try to pick a date as
soon as we can because the weekends in
June get
packed.
Right. And we don't wanna Busy time. We
won't yeah. We don't wanna conflict with the
other areas that are close by. You know?
Because, like, Humboldt has four different pride events,
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and
there's the pride events in Oregon here. We
wanna make sure that
we have a date that's not as conflicting.
Okay.
Back back to you, Dan. How does the
Elks raise money. Okay. Obviously, you're taking,
your annual fees. And then there's a dinner
that we booked. We serve dinners pretty much
every Friday night. We rent out our lodge
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a lot to in fact, we've got,
three
food vendors that are that are cooking out
of our kitchen right now. We have DeFe's
Cocina on the weekends, which Oh, that was
Mexican
really good Mexican food if you're there on
the weekends. They're they're from That's open to
the public. It's open to the public. They're
there from nine to five or six on
weekends. This homemade cooking, to bring their food
in? Good prices and really good food. Oh.
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And using the commercial kitchen that you have
at the auction. Right? And so,
Juanita's, though you've seen the Juanita's trailer with
Ace Hardware.
Yeah. She, does preparing in in our kitchen
and then serves it outside. And the other
was,
McGowan's
Munchies. Britney McGowan, McGowan's Mobile Munchies. Oh. And
she's she's cooking out there now and now
(42:08):
offering breakfast. So I just had breakfast there
yesterday, and it's really good. She's a dessert
maker, but now she's also doing Oh, all
good. So maybe you're Is it is it
Jace,
your one of your it's a pizza. Eats
a pizza? It's a pizza is, Jace. He's
he's one of our members. He doesn't he
was at our, Forest Moon. That was he
was what he was. He was making pizzas.
He was there at the pizza at our
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at our thing. Thomas, are you having vendors?
You're having food people there at this? You
know, we we
like having food vendors.
This year, we have a lot of competition
because the kite festival
Oh. Is happening the same day. Same day.
And I think that they've pulled a lot
of the the food vendors
over to their event. Same time kind of
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a deal? Yeah. So last year, we had
Norris's Kitchen, and they were fabulous.
But
they closed up and and moved away. Hey.
Did you hear Christina's is gonna be closing
down? I did hear that. They closed.
What? Already?
Oh my god. Just because I've been used
to a good Mexican restaurant down. They closed
after years and years and years being there.
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So I think we're gonna have free food
this year. We're gonna be cooking up hot
dogs and hamburgers
and giving them away. And you could stop
by and always have make a donation for
the Totally. The Pride festivities.
Right on. So you Dan Yeah. Go ahead.
We actually never asked you where are you
from. Where did you grow up?
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I was born in Sacramento, but didn't really
spend much time there, mostly, in Texas and
Washington. Oh, that's why you have an Austin,
Texas
phone number. Yeah. Well, they had lots of
families on there. They called to me the
other day and came up Austin, Texas. Yeah.
Yes, sirree. And so you did not know
about Elks there even though you lived in
those big cities? No. My my dad was
a mason, and so that was his that
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was his secret. There's a mason
lodge in in They're somewhere. They're not. That's
But,
no. He wasn't. I didn't know either. He
wasn't he wasn't an elk or a or
an eagle or a moose or anything. He
was he was a mason, so that was
his. Do you think the elks, is it
growing? Is it kind of coming back in
a resurgence? You know, it's hard to say,
because they say if you look at the
numbers, they are decreasing. But it's not that
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much. They are decreasing. Sometimes
you'll see
a growth, and sometimes you'll see
some some falling off. But if you look
back in the seventies, it was probably 1,300,000
elk. Maybe that was the golden era. And
and then maybe so. Because then from that
time, it's it's less than a million now
or right around a million. So My dad
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does elk back in the fifties. A lot
of members. Early sixties. Yeah. I have a
lot of friends in Chico who are joining
the Elks.
I see I see the I see the
numbers increasing right now, especially in, like, in
the local lodges, like, or, like, in the
nearby Chico. And,
That's what the good thing about the Elks.
They are literally every every town of any
significance, there's tends to be a a lodge.
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And if you just are looking for maybe
a bite to eat or you wanna stop
it and have a
sociable cocktail or a drink with someone or
a friend or not, no nobody at all,
go in
and, show your card. Yep. Your card will
be welcome. Yep. And they'll the the networking
too, right? It's a great networking,
right? Oh, yes. Networking. Do you play golf?
I do. So you play pool and golf?
(45:17):
Yes. Competitively for money?
I caught him. You should see him. You
should see a stutter on that one. Not
so much the golf. I I play pool
tournaments more than I play golf. I do
do golf tournaments also, but,
that's more for fun. Yeah. I've heard about
you're you're you're quite a skilled I get
more I get more serious about the pool.
Right. On on,
(45:37):
that's on Sundays. But so is that for
members? Oh, no. We we we're not doing
that. The no. We we don't do the
the pool tournament anymore. It kinda just
Did you win too often? Yeah. It's summer.
Maybe. I don't know. People are just too
busy in the summertime for that. So maybe
Yeah. The other Yeah. Favorite game that is
played there is
cornhole
throw. Well, they have the cornhole We have
(45:58):
We do have tournaments. Right? Yeah. We have
tournaments. They're,
and there again, they're never on a on
a schedule.
Yeah. I've seen them many times when you
have some festivities, you have that. Right? Couple
times a month, they'll have the tournament in
there. Sometimes all all four weeks of the
month. What would you say is the best
part about being an elk? What would you
when you when you're when would you pitch
it to somebody to say, hey. This is
(46:20):
what the elks do. What would you say?
I would have to say that it's just
a it's a real feel good story. It's
you we we donate so much. We give
all of our time. Everything we do is
just for for helping other helping the needy.
So that's
that's what I really that's what I enjoy.
That's what I really get out of it
is is the the really helping and seeing
the people that we help and meeting meeting
(46:41):
the people.
We do, veterans lunches. We make a 170
sandwiches every week. Wow. I did not So
I did not morning. I'm down at the
farm time. I'm yeah. Oh,
I wonder
how do you advertise
to the other people all the stuff that
you guys are doing?
Let me just You know Newspapers cut out.
(47:01):
For the bugle? What is it called? The
bugle. The bugle. What I should call it,
actually, bugle is pretty much our newsletter, so
it wouldn't really be dragging in new, members.
It's, this show, thank you for having me.
Yeah. Here in Brunswick is a is a
good good format. Yeah. Because I'm wondering, I
mean, I'm I'm I'm an elk, and we're
going to the Elk Lodge quite a bit,
but I didn't we don't know all the
(47:22):
good stuff that's going out there. We know
what it's for generally, but,
like, the sandwiches. Okay. So what is it
you don't like about the Elks? Anything, mister
exalted?
Exalted.
I can't think of anything that I don't
like about it.
I knew what I was getting into. I
knew that it was gonna take a lot
of my time, and I was I I
was prepared
(47:43):
for that. And what days do you work?
Do you work at bartender too? I also
bartend. Do you still do that? Yep. I
do. Yeah. I was the manager and then
Plus,
Fridays you do the bartender. I do. I
have bartend Fridays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and then whatever
else. Yeah. Saturdays. So Yeah. We were in
there with Ray Simon and Donna. And You
were a bartender, honey. And I I won't
say who was bartending. Not with you. No.
Yeah. I wasn't. Yeah. Get a darn good
(48:04):
whiskey sour. So that's okay. That's alright. He
did now we needed to have you there.
Oh, yeah? Do you know how to make
your whiskey sours, I suppose. Oh, thank you.
I don't know. I drink whiskey sours? No.
Is that right, Brian? I mean
He's waving at yes. He's nodding his head.
Yeah. He's waving at his head. At the
top, make it with love. That's right. That's
right. Ask about that clock. What it yeah.
Okay. I will. I used to be the
(48:25):
squire up at the Seaside Builts
years ago.
What is this ritual that you, all elk
lodges,
follow? And that is there's a large clock
that comes out at certain hours of the
day. Well, it's the 11:00
toast. This is 11:00 at night. It's 11:00.
Yeah. When when 11:00
at night, 11PM
Twenty three hope. Forget. Yeah. So Okay. Yeah.
(48:46):
So,
it's it's a it's our hour of recollection,
they call it. It's
the we
when the when the clock strikes eleven, the
heart of Elkhdom swells and throbs.
And no matter where you're at, no matter
what your
lot is, whatever whatever you're doing, you stop
and pay homage to the
(49:06):
Those that have gone before you. How interesting.
That was a very The mystic roll call
they call. Yeah. But are there people still
up at 11:00 at night? That's the thing.
It's getting people to stay awake for the
11:00. Is that every night or is that
It's anytime they gather at the It's anytime
when you're still there at 11:00. We do.
When when we're when we're gathering. And do
you have that big clock, the ceremonial clock?
No. We just look at the clock that's
(49:27):
on the wall. But there is that's the
we do have the clock with the chimes
and the Got one with the gator inside
the gators.
Right? Out gator. I got a clock. If
it doesn't sell, I'm gonna bring it down
there. That would be the honorary,
clock that they use that But we'd we'd
love to have it. Yeah. It's it's very
different to say the very least.
So Goodness. That is good. And I remember
(49:48):
that was a very, very,
solemn thing that the Elks were, and it
showed me the, good side
to the whole organization.
Alright. So somebody wants to get involved and,
want to find out more, what do they
do? How do they how how do they
reach out to you? What do they do?
You can stop by the lodge. We're at
359 H Street in Crescent City. The,
(50:09):
the elevator in without being a member? Oh,
yes. Okay. You just
just the door is usually, locked or car
locked, but you just buzz the door so
they'll let you in. Okay. The rule is,
they have little,
things around the lodge that say
time, a guest
time, a friend, time, a member.
So you're, you know,
(50:31):
it sometimes goes a little more than that
a couple of times in there, but the
idea is to try it out come in
as a guest,
and then, you'll want to go to the
party. What are the yearly dues now? The
present city? The current yearly dues for Crescent
City, now they do vary across the country,
Ours is a $131.
So $12 a month or something? Basically, like
(50:51):
that. $12.13 dollars a month. Right. A little
less, but okay. A little less. Yeah. I'm
the competition.
No. Oh, I lost my So when are
you open? When is the Elkhart? We're open
every day of the week. And what what
time? At 04:30 in the afternoon is when
the our lounge it was just the lounge
is open every day of the week. And
then And then there's restaurants usually Friday nights?
Friday nights. Weekends is cable. And then on
the weekends.
(51:12):
There's also there is one other one I
forgot to mention.
She's a Filipino. Oh. I forgot. Oh. Hee
Haw, Hee Haw. Yeah. Yeah. Hee Haw, something
like that. I forget what it's called, but
she She makes great And she, prepares food
in our kitchen also. Oh, very cool. So
So there you go. And then if you're
there till eleven, you can participate in the
(51:34):
I look at that at the theater club.
Yeah. At the gate. For the 11:00 toast.
Right? 11:00. You're there Wednesdays,
Fridays,
tending bar. I in fact, by leave here,
I'll be headed.
Well, today's Wednesday. That's right. You better get
back there pretty soon.
Is there a web? Hopefully, I have somebody
cover for me. How about a website? Is
there a website or Facebook? Yeah, she can
go to the,
correct. We have Crescent City Elks Lodge. She's
(51:56):
been able to she's able to find that
on the Okay. It's a big organization. Right?
Yeah. Alright. What are you saying about? Hours
of operation every day, seven days a week?
We're yeah. 04:30 in the afternoon till Got
lots of TVs. That's why we went Ray
and Donna. Sports on the TVs. In the
game and if the game's not on, I'll
put it on for you. Probably got your
favorite liquor. Yeah. That's right. Or We have
(52:16):
a Yeah. That's right. You always had you
have a good High five beers on top.
Good. Good.
And bottled beer. Hey. Say hello to Jamie
too. Jamie was the one that came up
with my name, Jacques Talks. Yeah. When we
I remember I remember Yeah. I think you
were there when that happened.
Alright, folks. We have been talking with Dan,
Friesman
here, and he is the exhausted rooster.
(52:38):
Pardon me. The exalted ruler of the elks
in Crescent City, California, representing a great represent
representative of all elks. Fascinating,
interesting, nonprofit,
benevolent society,
and protector of the elks. So we really
appreciate you coming on. You have any shout
out? Yeah. You got any shout outs that
(53:01):
you wanna get off?
I hope to, John. If Joseph feels better.
Hope John hope John's feeling better. Yeah. Yeah.
There we go. To be here with us.
He's listening in. Thomas Kellum, you have been
on once before. We've always enjoyed talking with
you. You're a straightforward guy. I like it.
We, are looking forward to the big events
on, June 21 in Crescent City at the
(53:23):
corner at the Methodist Church, the old archaic
boy, that's a gothic looking church. Right? It
is built back behind the church. Yep. And
it starts at
10AM.
10AM. And the the parade sidewalk parade starts
at? At,
12:30.
And it goes all day long. There will
be parties breaking out throughout the day.
Definitely. Okay. Thomas Kellen, looking forward to seeing
(53:43):
you. Having me over here. Yeah. We're proud.
Appreciate it. KCIW is is proud to be
one of your sponsors for this, and we've
been pumping out the word for it even
though I had my hours a little bit
mixed up. That's okay. That's okay. Alright. Thank
you both gentlemen very much for coming, and
I told you this is gonna go fast
when you're having fun. Right? But time is
the doc. It's It is
fun time
corner.
(54:04):
Hey. What do we have? You gotta give
some I gotta look at my joke. I
have some let's see if you can find
the theme in my quotes.
Okay.
I'm not sure which one is more impressive,
the elk's antlers or my ability to park
in a small space.
Okay. I sorta get it. I'm gonna start
quoting,
(54:24):
quotes, by Steven Wright. But give us one
more quote, Shirley. Well, thank you, sir.
If you see an elk with a plaid
shirt, don't be surprised.
They're probably just trying to blend in.
Stephen Wright, jokes, that one's a good one.
That one is a good one. That's a
good one. Right. Thanks for not laughing. Okay.
Why do psychics have to ask for your
(54:45):
name?
If at you don't succeed,
destroy all the evidence that you tried.
These are Stephen Wright's greatest hits. That's a
good one. Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.
Alright. Let's hit it with Wait. What? Let's
say that again. Nothing. I'm not gonna do
it again.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism,
(55:06):
as you know. But to steal from many,
that's called research.
I'm not laughing
since you didn't repeat the other one. Oh,
man. The elk's superpower
is is its ability to gracefully move through
the forest while simultaneously
judging your fashion choices. There are all these
little hunter things. Kinda cool.
Everyone is born as you know, everyone is
(55:28):
born with a photographic
memory, but some of us just don't have
the film.
If at you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you.
That's good.
Alright. How about another one?
Elk are like walking
(55:49):
work
walking works of art just with more practical
uses for their antlers,
like clearing them. They're huge
deer. I mean, they're massive. And how many
you got a couple of bullheads up in
that I mean, they're old. I wonder if
they still
Lot lot of trophies in there in there.
Lot of trophies. Yeah. I mean, it's kinda
weird at but,
(56:09):
if your car could travel at the speed
of light, would your headlights work?
That is a good one. Right? I like
that one. Okay.
A man arrives at a costume party with
a girl on his back. I am a
turtle, he says. Well, who's on your back?
Oh, that's Michelle.
(56:31):
Michelle.
Okay.
The Alcus proved that nature can be both
majestic
and a little bit chaotic.
Okay.
Woman fainted at the airport yesterday and fell
onto the baggage carousel.
Well, she is slowly coming around
(56:53):
now.
Alright. One Elks are like walking landscapes complete
with antlers that seem to touch the sky.
That's a Nice. That is a good one.
Mhmm. I I decided to change the name
of my toilet from John to Jim.
So now I can tell people that I'm
going to the gym.
(57:16):
Did you hear about the explosion at the
cheese factory?
No. Yeah. There's nothing but debris.
Debris?
Debris.
Oh, that's really bad. That's I'm afraid of
the I'm I'm afraid for the calendar, doc.
Why?
Its days are numbered.
Oh. Its days are numbered. Yeah. All the
days are numbered. Hey. And I as always,
(57:38):
I once again, I pulled out Siri the
other day, and I looked at Siri. And
I said, Siri, why am I so unpopular?
And she activated the self portrait camera.
You know, you're not loved when everybody hands
you the camera when they take a group
photo. You're not? That's a good one.
K. One more so we can meet you.
(57:58):
Cremation is my last chance
for a smoking hot body.
Wow.
Right? Right? There you go. Frost. Thomas Kellum
and and Dan Friespin, thank you again for
coming on this show. Thank you. Been a
treat. Thank you. You have been listening to
the Doc and Jock Radio Variety Show this
(58:18):
time once around
on KCAW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We hope you have enjoyed our show as
much as we have. We also, again, wanna
thank Tom Bozak and Ray Simon, for your
wizardry in the studio.
Email us if you know of any talented,
interesting people that would like to be on
the show. You can reach us at docandshock@gmail.com.
(58:41):
Now stay tuned for Tony
Sure. Or so.
Right after this program and next week, we
have the dumpster puppies at Zamala's ion on
it. Looking forward to that.
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