March 6, 2025 • 41 mins
Step into the enchanting world of the Speakeasy Lounge as we explore the fusion of food, stories, and relationships. In today's episode, we connect culinary delights with meaningful narratives that elevate the dining experience beyond the plate. Kelly and Gordon uncover the unique atmosphere of the Speakeasy, sharing their favorite dishes like the amazing sweet potato dumplings and irresistible truffle fries.
Through natural and engaging conversations, the hosts examine the essence of relationships—the importance of trust and understanding love languages. Listeners will resonate with their experiences navigating the ups and downs of communication in partnerships, as well as the wisdom they glean from their own relationship dynamics.
In addition to exploring culinary and emotional nourishment, we touch on the power of giving back. As the duo describes their upcoming charity event for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, you’ll understand how acts of kindness can ripple through the community, creating joy and hope for children in need.
So, whether you're an aficionado of fine dining, a curious listener exploring deeper connections, or someone into community service, this episode invites you to reimagine what it means to truly enjoy life’s flavor. Grab a seat at our table, and be a part of the conversation that values human connection intertwined with delicious food. Subscribe now and don’t miss out on future episodes!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to In your City Show.
We've got a new vibe going on.
I'm Kelly Lamb, I'm GordonMontgomery and we are excited to
be back, because In your CityShow has been around for a while
.
But this time we're bringingback a new vibe with style,
sophistication.
It's a blend of storytellingalong with relationship value,
both at home and in yourbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And we don't want you to get.
You know, miss us too much.
You know we have the In yourCity show where we go to
locations and stuff, but we wantto make sure that you get to
see us at lunch as well.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, so it's lunch with Kelly and Gordon is what
we're having.
We actually don't have lunchtoday because we're in a
gorgeous new place calledSpeakeasy.
It is underneath the Oak StreetInn and Lounge.
This is the lounge, but theyhave a bar upstairs too.
It's the Speakeasy Lounge.
Yeah, the Speakeasy Lounge.
You're going to need a passwordto be able to come in when you
(00:51):
go upstairs.
It's a gorgeous restaurant andbar.
We've had dinner there a coupletimes.
The food is absolutely amazing.
We actually talk aboutstorytelling.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We did a story actually on the chef that we're
going to show to youstorytelling we did a story
actually on the chef that we'regoing to show to you, and what
are some of the?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
plates.
What did we have the other day?
Sweet potato dumplings, thesweet potato dumplings are
amazing, so good.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, they were really good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The truffle fries.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Somebody came over to us and said they were like
crack.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, they were, they were crack.
We did have some, they weredelicious.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Everything is good, actually, everything is so good
here Fabulous.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm trying to remember what.
Oh, I think I had the beeftenderloin when we actually,
when we had dinner we were justhere recently, so we're so lucky
, so we actually had an eventhere, the social hour.
It's the first social hour thatgoes along with what we do,
which we're going to tell youall about that hour.
That goes along with what we do, which we're going to tell you
all about that.
(01:47):
Everybody came they hadcocktails, and our social hours
are about mingling in a, I guessagain Just a fun environment,
just kind of a fun like a happyhour type of environment.
I would put a little swankysexy in there with it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's not your typical chamber meeting.
No, it's not.
It's not and neither is ourshow.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You never know what we might do or say.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
But it will be a good time, that's for sure.
So we want to tell you a littlebit about us.
So we actually that's what weare.
We're storytellers, that's whatwe do.
We own three gorgeous luxurylifestyle magazines we have
Chesterfield, we have Claytonand we have St Charles County,
and we mail these to 45,000 plusof the most affluent homes and
then also to 3000 businesses.
(02:29):
We always love when someone saysI was at the dentist or I was
at the doctor, I saw yourmagazine.
How can I get it?
You know, because they see itsitting, you know, in the office
.
And we, of course, as you cansee, we have such gorgeous
covers.
That's Oasis pools on the frontthere.
But yeah, here's the story thatwe did actually on Oak Street
Inn and Lounge, featuring theirchef.
We wish she could have comedown and actually talked to you
(02:52):
all, or Chelsea or Chris, theowners of this gorgeous location
.
But they're extremely busy insome marketing meetings right
now and I guess going throughtheir menu and what they're
going to be doing as theirspecials.
I guess going through theirmenu and what they're going to
be doing as their specials.
But what's even cooler aboutthis place is when you go
upstairs, above the restaurantthere are the most gorgeous what
is there?
Eight rooms up there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think so yeah, bed and breakfast.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, gorgeous bed and breakfast rooms If you want
to have a retreat or maybe abusiness meeting, or maybe you
just want to get away with yourloved one and spend the evening
away from home.
In fact, one of our newestpartners, canine Innovations,
which our dog has completelyquit shedding since using this
product.
I wish I would have brought itwith me, but I'm going to put it
out there.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We're going to talk about that next lunchtime.
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we meet them just as we start talking about the
magazines and find out they'reactually having a wedding here
and staying in the roomsupstairs.
That's awesome, I know, isn'tthat cool.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And that's what we love about some of our, when we
do these get-togethers for oursocial hours, is that people
actually get to meet otherbusinesses and they've actually
done business with each other.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Jennifer that owns St Louis Closet Company, met
Nicole, who owns Oasis Pools,and Oasis Pools is now going in
the backyard of Jennifer's housebecause they were at the hot
list party.
We do a huge party once a yearcalled the hot list.
So if you are in our magazinesin one way or another or on our
show, you've made the hot list.
So the struggle, the struggle,seriously, women, is it not
(04:25):
almost like unbelievablydifficult to be a woman?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I couldn't, I don't know, I can't talk to you about
that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean you are getting worse.
You are getting to the pointthat you are.
Where are we going with this?
You never know.
You are getting more like achick because of my plethora of
stuff and regimen.
Seriously, when you get older,I mean it's bad enough.
When you're younger, you knowyou make up and hair, and I mean
(04:53):
most of the girls that are 18,look like they're 13, look like
they're 25 now so.
I really feel sorry for youparents out there that have kids
that are under 21, because theyare terrifying.
They look like models and oldenough to get into places.
They shouldn't be.
So I don't know how they'redoing it, but you know makeup,
tampons, you know just littlestuff like that you need right.
(05:15):
When you get to my age andmiddle age, everything starts
going to crap.
You grow hair where you're notsupposed to.
I get that one going to crap.
You grow hair where you're notsupposed to.
I get that one.
You, the, the, the, the itemsthat literally I walked into the
bathroom last night and youknow washing off my makeup and
that, and I'm like, wow, we'vegot some products going on.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You have like a four tier system to hold all your
products.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And then you smell weird at night because you're
putting all this goop on yourface.
Now he's wearing it and he'sstarting to put it on, and he
got into bed and I'm like OohOne of these products?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
can't they make them smell?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
good, keep your distance real quick.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You said they make them smell bad, so you think
they're working.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I guess that maybe I don't know, maybe that's what it
is, but seriously, there's somuch product not to mention, so
in Vita.
Uh well, health and wellness.
That was my appointment today,because bioidentical hormones
are now on my list of items thathave been put into my body so
that I can keep going, because,of course, once you reach a
certain age, either you gothrough menopause or, in my case
(06:18):
, I had a hysterectomy reallyyoung, nothing's working anymore
, and if you don't have them,you start to go cuckoo for Cocoa
Puffs, I mean start trading youin here.
Right, exactly that's probablywhy men get younger women.
Women could get younger men too, you're like fine wine love
Right.
I don't know if I'm aging wellthough, but seriously, it is
(06:40):
tough there's.
So I think about all theappointments.
I have Botox.
I mean, I don't have to do that.
Granted, I don't have to getBotox.
I don't have to use thatproduct.
I don't have to getbioidentical hormones.
I don't have to wear contacts.
Someday I'm going to need ahearing aid.
I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You already do I already do.
I can never hear don't have toI always got to come from the
other room to hear what she said, so I can hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't have to do that, but I don't.
I want to feel good.
I mean everything you startwhen you get up and you make
funny noises.
That's also part of gettingolder.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, it's not just getting up, it's sitting down.
You make funny noises too.
It's getting up and sittingdown.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Someone got up the other day in front, made this
sound.
I'm like, oh, you're definitelyover 50.
There's no way you're in yourforties when you make that kind
of noise when you stand up.
But anyway, it is tough.
Guess what my other struggle is?
What's your other struggle?
Oh, my gosh, do you ever get anargument?
Okay, we've been married.
This is our second marriage, soif you don't know us already,
so we're coming up on our sixyear anniversary, april 14th.
We do everything together.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, not the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not the bathroom, not the love toilet we don't have
that what was Saturday Night?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Live Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Live had the love toilet, yeah, no, we don't do
that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's doors locked.
Got to have your privacy insome points.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That would be horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We work together, we live together, Our office.
So we have an office outside,have meetings there, but our
office is in our home.
So if we're not on appointmentswe are in our offices at home.
We play together.
We usually always do most ofthe stuff you know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Together we do everything together, actually
everyone's like how do you?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
get along?
Do you guys ever argue Like youknow you have such a great
relationship, which we do, Imean we.
You know sometimes you justconnect and you're just.
You make each other better.
You connect for you know a lotof people connect for various
reasons, but when you reallytake the time to connect with
the right person, it's not sohard to have a relationship.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Right, it does make it easier.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Right, but it's not.
I mean, there are days thatit's probably me, because I have
high expectations all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So we're going to ask you do you guys, when you're in
your relationships, are youtogether all the time?
Do you feel like you need thatseparation?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I've got to have separation.
No, he works, he's got to goout of town.
Thank goodness he goes out oftown, because I just can't deal
with him.
I need my time, right, or is itthat you miss them and you want
to?
You know you want to havespecial times where you're just
together all the time that'slike us.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Men retire, or women might retire first, and then all
of a sudden you're together allthe time.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I remember during COVID everybody was actually
home together.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It was like oh no, this is horrible.
I wonder if, like, divorce ratewent up from.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
COVID or went down yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That would be a stat we need to find out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We should have figured that one out.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's see what it is, but one of our struggles is go
ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Where do you want to go eat?
I don't care.
Where do you want to go eat?
Well, let's I don't care, justmake a decision.
How about Mexican?
No, I don't want Mexican.
How about Italian?
No, I don't want Italian.
We had that Monday.
How about seafood?
No, I don't want seafood.
So I was watching this videothe other day and this guy was a
genius on how he handled thiswith his wife.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He's in the car.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He's in the car, she gets in the car and he goes, he
goes.
I'm going to take you to one ofyour favorite restaurants.
Tell me if you can guess whatit is.
Oh, we're going to Latoya'sbarbecue.
And he goes exactly, and that'show he did it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He was a genius.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He just acted like you know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So ask me where you're going to take me, or tell
me where you're taking metonight, that you've already
picked it out, that I've alreadypicked it out.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, we're going to go ahead and reenact this
scenario right now, so I'm goingto get you to know where I want
to go See, but now she's in onthe game, so she's not going to
play it right?
Go ahead, let's make this.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We're going to show how you don't have to argue.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm going to take you to a restaurant that you love.
You are, yes, tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Do I know which one?
It is my favorite.
You got to guess Antonino'sTaverna.
Yes, that's it.
Greek, italian restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's on the hill.
It's so delicious, isn't it?
Best toasted raviolis ever.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I was just going to say that the best and they have
a chopped kale.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Caesar salad is really good.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, that's incredible too, and their pizza
is really good.
I like it to get the gyro meaton it as well.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's something magical about going down on the
hill to get food.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Right, so okay, so I so, when you like I always say
you know what I always say whenI get mad at them, can break the
I guess, the tense tenseness ofan argument right away.
You know, some people say takea breath, maybe go outside,
maybe walk away.
What are another one to helpfrom arguing I'm a walk away?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I just want to walk away.
I want to punch him in thethroat If he walks away.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
she doesn't want me to walk away.
I'll tell you walk away.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'm not done with you yet.
You're going to hear everythingI have to say to you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Everyone should have a cape.
You should have a cape.
And as soon as you get anargument, one of you whoever
started it hands that person thecape and tells them they need
to put it on because it's theirsuper mad cape.
And if you don't start laughingafter that, then you seriously
(12:00):
should probably call your lawyer.
Call your lawyer, I have onefor you if you want.
Paige Law happens to be one ofour advertisers and she family
matters with her.
She can help you out.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
But then you know what.
This is all fun and we talkabout this stuff, but you know
what's really important?
To actually get to know theperson.
I mean, there's people thathave been married 50 years and
still don't know their mate.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Still don't really know them, like when they become
empty nesters or whatever, andall of a sudden they have to
start or retire, they have tostart spending more time
together and then they get toknow each other.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know real quick, dolly Parton's husband just
passed away.
Did you see that he finallypassed away.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It breaks my heart.
They had been together forever.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right, and I can't remember how many years.
I want to think it was60-something plus years From the
beginning when she was a younggirl, right, he was 82 years old
, wow.
Sorry, he was always that guythat never wanted to be in the
limelight.
So we see he understood.
She understood what he didn'twant and he understood what she
wanted and it worked out goodfor them.
(13:04):
In fact, he actually went to one.
He went to one big event withher and he says, honey, I never
want to do this again, and youknow what comes with that,
though you have to have trust.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Whether at home, with yourspouse partner, trust is
everything and it's everythingin your business.
Spouse partner trust iseverything and it's everything
in your business.
You've got to trust, in bottomline in life, the people that
you value most around you.
You.
You have to have trust becausethat's what makes everything
else run so much smoother.
You're not worried about, likehe could stay home or do his
work or whatever he's doingwithout that worry, because they
(13:43):
probably I mean, I don't knowthem personally, but I would
imagine, if you stay togetherthat long and you don't, you
never heard of them havingproblems in the news, so to
speak they must've had anincredible amount of trust and
respect.
That's everything.
And that person makes you wantto be a better person.
And they, they appreciate whatyou do and they value what you
(14:03):
do.
They don't want to tear youdown.
In some relationships, insteadof uplifting you, they're
tearing you down and deflatingyou, making you want to give up,
and that's not what you want tobe around.
But that's sad.
Dolly Parton I love one of herlines.
Somebody said, wow, honey, youlook so good, you look amazing.
(14:25):
And she said it's all abouthaving good doctors.
So, like I was saying about thestruggle in the beginning of
the show, I mean, if it's thereand of course, you know,
sometimes it's not affordablefor everyone because it can be
costly to try to stay young, Imean it really can.
But you know it's a matter ofkeeping yourself up, just
(14:46):
cleanliness, finding clothesthat appeal to your body shape,
whatever that is.
You know I can't dress like a21 or a 31 or maybe even a 41
year old.
I can't.
You know there's certain looksand things that I can't do
anymore.
Things start to change and itgets hard for you to realize
that, but you know, just be ableto take small steps to take
(15:07):
care of yourself, I guess.
And take care of yourrelationship as well, just like
you do with everything else.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Exactly, and one of the things that we're going to
talk about, too, is the lovelanguages.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, you know it's so important 100% that works in
home and in business.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right.
So Kelly's love language isacts of service.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, first, for if you haven't ever done the five
love languages, you can justGoogle it.
There's a book but you can take.
What a five minute test I thinkwe did.
It's free and it doesn't evencost anything.
There might be a couple outthere, but what's the author of
the five love languages?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He's the one you really Google it because there
are, I think, a few out therethat might be doing it.
But this guy's phenomenal, hisbook's great and what it is is
you take this test could ask youa question.
So you really you don't want tocheat, obviously, which it's
hard to cheat.
Gary Chapman.
Yes, Gary.
Chapman, and you want to behonest with your answers.
You know, don't try to act likewhat you're not just answer
(16:01):
them.
And this random questions thatit does for you ends up figuring
out your love languages fromone to the least, being number
five.
And number one for me was actsof service, gordon's number one
was affirmations, touch andaffirmations yeah, sorry, touch
and affirmations Touch me, soI'm acts of service.
(16:24):
And then what was so?
Mine's not, either the secondto oh time Mine's, mine's
quality of time or whatever.
So we have two different lovelanguages and what happens is
you tend to do the love languagethat you are for someone else
and you think you're doing allthese acts of like, in my case
acts of service.
(16:44):
That should be making him feelwonderful that I'm doing that
and that I want to spend allthis time with him, so he must
think I care about him so much.
But actually I'm doing what Ilove.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Quality time, Even as my kids.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I would do their clothes and fold them up all
nice and put them in this nicestack for them and all of a
sudden they would walk over themand tumble them down the steps
or they'd be back on the floorin their room.
After I did all this acts ofservice and I'm like you are
like the worst.
You don't even love me or careor respect me, but that's what
happened and that wasn't theirlove language at all.
(17:19):
So when Gordon which he did theother day changed the sink, we
got a new faucet.
What do you?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
call it Faucet.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Change the sink or does things around the house?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You got to love that.
When your wife says I got yousomething, I got you a gift, I
got you something today, I'mlike what is it?
And she goes just open it.
And I open it up and it's afaucet for me to hook together,
put a new faucet on the sink andhe was so sexy under that sink
cooking it up with Olive helpinghim.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So, speaking of Olive , you see our little mascot
there.
So we have the most amazingEnglish bulldog and we have
Louie, a little chocolate poodle, as well.
But back to Olive.
I love Louie, don't worry.
But Olive is like this heart,this, I don't know, this angel
(18:09):
that like peered into our home,that we adopted when she was two
years old and I ended upwriting a children's book it's
you can go to oolofthebulldogcomand see the plushie and the
first of the series book and shejust inspires so much.
So she's inspiring our show aswell and bringing us good vibes,
right?
So she's a little bit chubbierthan that.
We'll have to show a picture ofher.
She's cute as can be, whichmade me lose my whole train of
(18:31):
thought here, olive took herright out, she just squirreled.
So seriously, take the lovelanguage test, find out what
love language is yours andwhatever your partner, your
business person, your businesspartner I know it sounds funny
to do to love languages with abusiness partner or people you
work with, but in all honesty,it works for everyone.
If you know what their languageis, that makes them feel good
(18:53):
and that's how you remember whenyou're communicating with them.
It truly can change everythingyou know with your relationship
in work or at home.
But so I'm super excited.
I want to make sure I want tointroduce a new um I guess I
would say interviews that Gordonis doing.
So if you've just met Gordon,um, he's an incredible singer.
(19:17):
He's been performing since whatyou're 17 years old, yeah,
which is a long time ago, so umand he sings like and what's?
the stepbrothers say Fergie andJesus, the mixture of Fergie and
Jesus and stepbrothers Did.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Jesus sing.
Was he a singer I?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
don't know, but that's what Will Ferrell said.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We'll take it from Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He's a good theologian, he's my favorite, so
that's how you think about me,but anyway.
So Gordon is an incrediblesinger, but he's also a musician
, and he doesn't think that heis.
The man can sit down at a pianoor hold a guitar, listen to a
song and start playing it.
That is a musician.
I can't even do the chords.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I would never get on stage and play live for someone,
but that's because you like tosing.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But if he would practice every day and be
continuously playing, he's justas good as anyone else.
He just plays around the house.
No, he's amazing when he playsElton John.
What's my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Your song.
That's what it's called.
Yeah, it's called your Song.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But is that the name of it?
Yes, okay, I didn't know that,and when he said your song, I'm
like, yeah, what's my song?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Check this product out, just to make sure.
Go ahead and sing it a littlebit.
No, we're good.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's so good, Okay, so what he's doing is which is
so cool.
Um, on one of our other in yourcity show, we had um, I used to
bring bands on all the timeback in the day of radio and
Gordon and I did that.
And then on our last In yourCity show at the studios, when
we were there, he brought onwhat's the name of the band,
Boyfriend, Boyfriend yeah, yeahit's not his boyfriend, but the
name of the band's boyfriend,and what's his name?
(20:55):
Chuck, yeah, so he came in thestudio and I'm listening to them
go back and forth and talkabout these stories, one of them
, the fact that this bandliterally got kicked out of, not
a bar, the whole Lake of theOzarks.
How do you get kicked out ofthe home town?
Lake of the Ozarks?
Gotta leave town.
You guys have to leave town.
That's how bad they were, Notat not at performing, but how
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bad they were, I guess.
I guess back then is that theseventies, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean it was a thing for the bands back in the 70s,
I mean Led.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Zeppelin threw.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
TVs out of 10-story hotels and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So he used to perform at stages and oh my gosh,
there's probably not a placethat we don't drive by that
Gordon says he hasn't performedthere or he's done his karaoke
performance programs.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
That's the wrong word .
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Everything's a program.
Programs are our favorite wordright now, that's what happens
when you're not a musician?
Yeah, I've played a lot ofplaces, but what she's getting
ready to say is that we're goingto start doing a segment.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Called Soul Strings.
So he's going to dive deep intothe soul of a musician.
You know why they started wherethey're at now?
Are they still performing?
You know what are some of thethe I guess performances that
resonated, or people thatthey've met, just anything that
might come out.
And so he did an interview,which you're going to see a
(22:13):
little bit of it here justshortly and Gordon can introduce
who it is.
But then also, what's cool isthe interview you're going to
see here and meet and find outwhat's going on.
You can actually go to In yourCity Show, our YouTube channel.
There'll be a Soul Stringsplaylist I remember the word, a
playlist and you'll be able towatch the full interview in
(22:37):
video and then, of course, theaudio as well as our show here
on.
In your City Show will be onany of your favorite podcast
sites.
Iheart Spotify.
In your City Show will be onany of your favorite podcast
sites, iheart Spotify.
There's a zillion of them outthere now and you'll be able to
find our show audio and all ofthem.
As we start moving along Lunchwith Kelly and Gordon on the In
your City Show out and about,our next, we're going to be at
(22:57):
Carbon, a gorgeous members-onlyrestaurant in Clayton.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's where the old Morton's Steakhouse used to be
in Clayton.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, if you're familiar with St Louis, if
you're listening out of state orout of country, of course we're
here locally in St Charles,missouri, st Louis, missouri so
locally, but of course you'll behearing it all over.
So if you're in town, you'regoing to go to a Cardinals
baseball game or a Blues hockeygame.
There's some amazingrestaurants.
This is one of them, speakeasyunder the Oak Street Inn and
(23:25):
Lounge, that you can come visit.
But Soul Strings we didn't talkabout that either.
We can.
We'll bring that before we talkabout the upcoming event.
I want to make sure everybodyknows about my favorite book and
if you happen to read it, Iwould love for you to find me.
You can go to the In your Cityshow on Facebook and tell me if
(23:45):
you've read the book, so we'llget to that in a minute.
But tell us who you interviewed.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So I interviewed Ed Callison.
Ed Callison is a singermusician that is playing in a
lot of tribute bands here in StLouis and we had a great
interview.
We sat down right here in thesetwo seats and we did an
interview talking about all hisupcoming shows, the tribute
bands he plays in, how he gotstarted in the business.
Some of his family is istalented, yeah, and so, um, yeah
(24:14):
, it's going to be a greatsegment and that'll be coming up
here yeah, and then you'll besome other.
Obviously it'll be a shortsegment talking about what he's
what he's doing right now, butthen the interviews, a longer
interview you'll be able to see.
It's more in depth.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, very cool, all right.
Well, why don't you listen into a little bit of Ed Collison's
interview?
Right now Soul Strings, andthen, of course, the full
version will be Welcome to SoulStrings.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
This is an all new podcast that we're doing and
we're going to be interviewingmusicians and singers, and I
always liked it when they saidmusicians and singers, are we
separate?
Are we you know?
Do we, do we I?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
think I know how to play a little bit don't you?
There's jokes about leadsingers.
You've heard them all.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yes, we have.
Well, today I got a specialguest, ed Callison.
I know a lot of you know who heis and he's been in the music
business for quite a long time.
So today we're going to talk alittle bit about one of your
upcoming shows that you have,and it's one of the one of the
many tribute bands that you'rein couple, and it's called pink
houses pink house usa.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Uh, it's funny because pink houses there was an
east coast band tribute thatwas called pink houses, and so I
looked around, kept looking andI thought, well, freebird, usa,
we had to make that because itwas other Freebirds.
So we made it Pink Houses, usa,so we weren't the same name.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, that's interesting, yeah, so how many
guys are in the band?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Seven piece band.
Seven piece.
We've got drums Ron Kraser,we've got George Vasquez on bass
, kyle Work on keyboard, darrenHank guitar, chris Naccarato
guitar, and we've got Ron Vinceon violin.
We've got a couple other subsas well, xavier Koenig on violin
.
So seven-piece band and I'mjust a singer.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You're just the singer, just a singer.
Well, I know you playinstruments as well.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I grew up playing drums.
I still do a lot of percussionin my duos on the weekends.
Congas bongas Grew up a singingdrummer, Don Henley, was always
kind of my idol because hecould sing and play at the same
time, and so I learned that, andmy brother Rich, we played
together for a long time and hestarted singing and playing bass
(26:21):
and he went his way, I wentmine, and now he's in LA, LA and
I'm still here in St Louis.
But yeah, it was about twoyears ago.
I started talking to Ron Kraserand both Darren about are you
guys interested in doing a JohnCougar Mellencamp trip?
It's just something that Ialways enjoyed his music and
thought nobody else is doing itright.
(26:43):
And they were both in.
So we started the auditionprocess, which was not easy,
especially with violinists,accordion players.
We had a couple of polkaplayers come in and it just was
not a fit I would have loved tohave seen that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, that was a fan interview, oh yeah because
there's jokes about that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
A guy got his car broke into they had an accordion
in it.
He came back to the car wasbroken.
There was seven of them.
They left six more because it'ssuch a such an instrument, this
kind of they make jokes about,yeah, but it's a beautiful
instrument, right.
But we decided we can get thatsound on the keyboard, right.
(27:25):
So Kyle Work puts in a lot ofthe extra sounds that you would
generally get from an accordionand it's not like the
accordion's on every song, butthe violinist.
We found a great violinist whohad been for years with the
symphony and the fox and themuni, yeah, so it's a big part,
even though it's not on everysong.
We make it on every songbecause it adds, it's just the
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sound of the violin.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
find that challenging when it's trying to find these
certain musicians.
How challenging is that?
It is because here's tworeasons why.
Number one, you want somebodythat's really good, that can do
the material, and two, that'savailable, Because so many of my
friends, like myself, are in alot of bands, and Freebird was
one.
I mean Freebird USA we've gotone show this year because
everybody's in so many bands.
(28:15):
Pink House we've got 16 shows.
So I found people that wereavailable, Gordon, which was
more important than anything.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And they're good yeah .
Speaker 3 (28:24):
But they're available .
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Got to have them show up, they're available.
It's pretty important, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's right.
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So tell me a little bit about this Pink Houses
tribute band.
You've got a show coming up,you've got one coming up, first
the first one this year.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We had 15 shows.
Last year We've got 16 rightnow this year 5th, at the Miners
Theater in Collinsville,illinois.
Beautiful theater.
Have you been there?
I?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
don't know, but I think we're being arrested.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
God, let's go.
They found us Ed.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Out of all these years of hiding, they figured
out where we were In a speakeasy.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
We are at the speakeasy right here in.
Cottleville, missouri, brandnew speakeasy, which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Beautiful place it so challenging finding musicians.
It was.
And then, once we got the grouptogether last year again, we
did 15 shows this year.
Our first one, april 5th,miner's Theater in Collinsville
my birthday, beautiful theater,happy birthday coming up.
You need to come to the show,then We'll get you a ticket.
So 1918 is when it was actuallyopened.
(29:27):
It's been restored.
I did a show with anothercouple of bands an Abbott
tribute and a Bee Gees tribute.
We did a show there about threemonths ago and I was blown away
because I've done shows at theLincoln Theater, which is nice,
grew up in that area, Okay, so Iknow Lincoln Theater well.
So to me Lincoln Theater isbeautiful, but this one is just.
(29:48):
It's so well put together andit's run so well by the husband
and wife that run it.
It seats about 460 people.
We're hoping to sell it out and, yeah, that's April 5th 730.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I love the old theaters.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh 7.30.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Awesome, yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show.
I love the old theaters.
Oh yeah, you know there's oneover in East St Louis that's
been tore down for years andyears and years.
But every time I drive by it Iwould have loved to have seen it
in its heyday.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
What was that called?
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You know what I don't remember?
Greg Bishop told me about itOkay.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And I've never, you know, I've tried to look up old
pictures and everything sure, stlouis in the heyday was, yeah,
nice, you know, yeah, yeah butum but that's the illinois side.
Yeah, our second show.
This show will be april 26th atthe diamond music hall for the
missouri folks right here in stpeter's.
So we're, uh, we're lookingforward to doing that show as
well.
(30:39):
We've got an opener.
It's uh, it's a school of rockkids band.
Oh that's cool that are reallygood and I'm afraid they may
have playoffs.
School of Rock Kids Band oh,that's cool, they're really good
and I'm afraid they may notplay us.
They're that good they shouldbe the headliner huh, they're
that good Raised on Radio.
They'll open the show on April26th at Diamond.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
What a great name Raised on Radio.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, they're all between 18 and, I think, 21
years old, wow.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So how many shows again do you have coming up?
16 this year, 16.
Besides those two in April,we've got right next door at
Frankie March.
We'll be there May 31st.
May 31st We'll be at the LegacyPark, right across the street.
They do the Tuesday nightconcert series during the summer
.
We've got a show coming upthere and I believe it's June
22nd, but you can go on.
Pink House USA on Facebook, Ipost everything.
Ed Callison Music on Facebook Ipost everything as well.
(31:31):
Awesome, best place to find ourfull schedule.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Well, I appreciate you coming in and talking about
pink houses and we're going towant to go see a couple of those
shows.
I'm going to have to try andmake the birthday one for sure.
Absolutely, I thank you forbeing here and talking about
pink houses, absolutely, um, uh,we're going to talk a little
bit more.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That was so cool.
I love the whole, the wholesoul string thing.
I think it's so cool.
It's really amazing what youcan learn from somebody when
you're talking to them.
What, what was your favoritepart?
Did you have a favorite part ofwhat you talked about, or just
was it all?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I think it was just talking about um, well, he gave
some advice to what he wouldtell his younger self.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh, and that's in the big interview okay, but then I
guess don't give it away justthe fact I think some of the we
got to.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I got to poke a little fun at him about how we
always see how energetic him andhis wife are and how they,
whatever they're taking we want.
That's what we told.
So there's plenty of vitamins,but uh, yeah, I encourage you to
listen to the whole show andbecause I think it gets, you'll
get a kick out of it and you'llreally get some insight into ed
and and what does ed drink novery little, he said I find that
(32:39):
amazing.
A lot of musicians and I want totalk about the whole, okay,
well we won't it.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But a lot of celebrities have quit drinking
altogether and even some of themovie stars talk about it.
I mean, we're such in ahealthier I guess a healthier
mindset than back in the 70s andthe 80s.
There's so much out there andpeople are realizing, I guess,
as we have this incredible vodka, martini with infused tequila.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, it's not infused tequila.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Sorry, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So actually I took some notes because I knew I'd
forget it.
So this is the bathtub martiniBathtub.
It's olive oil infused, it'sfrom 1923, olive oil imported
from Italy, which means perfectthen.
And normally it's in a frostedmartini glass.
This is what we call the icebath, so this is how it's.
Uh, this is what we call theice bath, so this is how it's
(33:28):
displayed.
This is you would get a frostedmartini glass that's empty, and
then you would take it out andit's got ice packed around it
and then you would pour it inthere.
But back in the prohibition,this is how they would ice up
their, their liquors in thebathtub.
So it's kind of hide it in thebathtub.
Yeah, wow, very cool.
Yeah, it's called the bathtubmartini.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
They do a lot of different drinks here.
Yes, we had an old fashionedthat was made with vodka rather
than whiskey and I had never,ever, had anything like that and
it was really refreshing, whichI like old fashions with
whiskey but it was a uniquetaste but very similar as to an
old fashioned.
But it was a unique taste, butvery similar as to an old
fashion, but it was really good.
I definitely have it again andagain and again.
(34:10):
So, anyway, back to soulstrings.
I'm so glad that you're able todo this.
I can't wait to see who yournext person that will be on our
next show.
You always get a short clip ofit, but then, of course, can go
back to the In your City Show.
YouTube channel and watch it.
So I want to bring up one of myfavorite authors and I just
found out about her.
I might be late to the partyand everyone else has already
(34:30):
read it, but if you have readany of Colleen Hoover's books
and you want to go to In yourCity, show Facebook or Instagram
and leave me a message of yourthought of her as an author, I
kind of quit reading for a whilebetween you know, publishing
three magazines and our show and, um, he's a real estate agent
as well, and all the events andcharities and things that we're
(34:52):
involved with, I mean, andwriting children's books,
sometimes you, not to mentionhaving a life and grandchildren,
all those things.
You run out of time and Ireally just kind of quit reading
.
And someone told me that I'vegot to read Colleen Hoover which
I'd never heard of her.
It ends with us and I think ittook me two weeks, which usually
(35:12):
takes me three years to finisha book.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Like three summers Is that the movie we watched.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yes, Okay, and so or I think that was it starts, yeah
, it ends with us it ends withus Was that the movie.
But I wouldn't want to watch themovie till I read the book, so
I didn't do that.
But I read it quickly.
And then it goes to.
It Starts With Us, which thattook me another just two weeks
to read, which is incredible forme to get through a book that
quick.
So now I've started on VerityV-E-R-I-T-Y by Colleen Hoover.
(35:43):
This does not go along with.
It ends with us and it startswith us.
I think it will resonate withmany people.
I think we've all probably hada bad relationship in our life,
whether it be a boyfriend,girlfriend or a marriage.
That may be, you know, anabusive style or type
relationship and it has to end.
Someone has to end it.
(36:03):
You don't want to keep becauseit becomes a learned behavior,
and then your child and theirchild and before you know it,
you're just going on to the nextbad relationship.
So it really resonates and it'sa great ending.
This book is totally different.
It has nothing to do with theother two books but, as you can
see, in one night that's where Igot to and I would have
finished it if it, if itwouldn't have um, uh, if, I just
(36:26):
couldn't keep my eyes anymore.
So this is my book suggestion,and if you happen to read it, I
would love to know how you loveit.
Like it, dislike it?
All right.
So, uh, tell us about a greatevent we have coming on and that
this is something new thatwe're doing too.
This is the first time that acity lifestyle and then sit in
your city show is putting on acharity event, and we have to
(36:46):
say thank you to our committeemembers out there because
they're a big support and a bighelp of us putting on this event
.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So we're doing Karaoke for Wishes.
It's for the Make-A-WishFoundation.
We know that kids during theCOVID times they lost a lot of
wishes that they weren't gettingand they got behind on wishes
Like 400.
400, wow, that's a lot of kidsthat they weren't getting and
they got behind on wishes Like400.
400.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's a lot of kids.
So it's a great.
It's a great event to come out.
It's going to be held at themarquee out in new town, the big
white tent, and it's going toevery bit.
A hundred percent of theproceeds that we get from this
is going to the make a wishfoundation.
We're getting locally yeah.
We're giving everything to them.
So come out, get a table.
We have a couple tables left.
It's only $150 for a table ofeight.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
That is cheap $15 for a ticket.
There'll be a cash bar, cashbar 200.
The first 200 people that havesigned up will receive a really
cool swag bag with lots ofthings inside of it.
So you've got to get that.
And then we're going to dowe've got a wine pool so you can
buy a bottle of wine and you'llpay $25.
You're going to get a bottle ofwine 25 and way up.
(37:54):
You never know which one you'regoing to get.
There's some pretty coolbottles of wine.
And then we have a gift cardpool where you'll pay $25 for.
You'll pay 25, but you're goingto get a $25 and up.
I think some of the giftcertificates might even be $250,
$75.
So you never know what you'regoing to get.
You'll pick a card, a number.
So we've got some fun things.
Of course we have the 50-50.
You always have that going onto be able to help raise more
(38:15):
proceeds.
And we have to say a big thankyou to Snooze Mattress Company.
Mike Bowie, the owner it'sopening in Chesterfield, is one
of our sponsors, as well as OakStreet Inn, where we're sitting
right now at the SpeakeasyLounge here, the bed and
breakfast upstairs.
They are also a sponsor of thisevent and that's really what
(38:37):
helps to make the event a realsuccess when you have people
coming in as a large sponsor tobe able to donate to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation and, ofcourse, city Lifestyle because
all the other things that aregoing on we're taking care of to
give back.
The marquee is donating thetent for this event.
So there's really someincredible people that have come
together to be able to makethis event happen so that
children and if you have neverexperienced Make-A-Wish, it is
(38:59):
about granting wishes forchildren that have critical ill
disease children that havecritical ill disease things that
happen in their life doesn'tnecessarily mean that they're
going to pass away.
We hope, and many times when achild receives a wish, it
literally gives them so muchhope that it helps them to carry
on to get healthier and to livea better life.
(39:22):
And we've been fortunate enoughto meet some kids that have
been in the Make-A-Wish for avery long time, who've come and
been on our show before, andthey're getting ready to go to
college and getting through whatthey are.
I went on a wish grantingprobably 15 years ago.
I've been in love withMake-A-Wish for many, many years
.
This little girl was nine yearsold.
(39:44):
She was in the hospital with abrain tumor and the only way
that she was able to tell uswhat she wanted as a wish, which
was a pony, was by wiggling herbig toe.
And I know parents out therethat might be listening to this
that have gone through somethingwith a family member, someone
they love, when you can'timagine what a inspiring moment
(40:05):
it is to give a child a wish,when they are in such, I guess,
in a way, that they're not ableto live like a normal child and
play out on the playground andgo to school.
And not only them, the familyis affected, the brothers and
sisters, the mom and dad.
I mean, it's an incredible taskwhen you have a child that's
(40:26):
sick mentally and physically, sothey all get taken care of when
it comes to that wish, if it'sa trip or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
So this is a great event to come out, to Come out,
support it.
It's going to be fun.
People are going to get achance to sing.
Maybe it'll be a good chancefor you to get somebody up there
and make them sing that don'twant to sing.
That's always a fun thing to do, which this one right here.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I'm going to make her do.
I can talk all day, hold a mic,get up on stage, but if you
want me to sing a song, I need alot of liquid courage.
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Your picture may even end up in City Scene in the
magazine you never know.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, we will be putting a lot of photos from the
event in the magazine.
So you can check out Clayton,Chesterfield, St Charles County
City Lifestyle magazines.
You go to citylifestylecomanywhere in the world, put that
in your browser bar and it'lltake you to the magazine that's
nearest you.
Or, of course, you can look upours and see what's going on as
(41:18):
well.
You can find our show on Inyour City Show on the YouTube
channel, Facebook, Instagram.
You can find In your City showas well as all of our magazines.
And um, we'd love to hear fromyou.
We are back with a new vibe, anew location and a lot of fun
and great guests.
And also, you're going to wantto check out soul strength.
(41:38):
I'm Kelly lamb.
I'm Gordon Montgomery Cheers,oh wait.
We're supposed to look at eachother and say cheers.
Apparently, if you cheers andyou don't look into each other's
eyes, you have a seven years ofbad sex ready.
Cheers, ciao.
Welcome to In your City Show.
We've got a new vibe going on.
I'm Kelly Lamb, I'm GordonMontgomery and we are excited to
be back, because In your CityShow has been around for a while
.
But this time we're bringingback a new vibe with style,
sophistication.
It's a blend of storytellingalong with relationship value,
both at home and in yourbusiness.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And we don't want you to get.
You know, miss us too much.
You know we have the In yourCity show where we go to
locations and stuff, but we wantto make sure that you get to
see us at lunch as well.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, so it's lunch with Kelly and Gordon is what
we're having.
We actually don't have lunchtoday because we're in a
gorgeous new place calledSpeakeasy.
It is underneath the Oak StreetInn and Lounge.
This is the lounge, but theyhave a bar upstairs too.
It's the Speakeasy Lounge.
Yeah, the Speakeasy Lounge.
You're going to need a passwordto be able to come in when you
(00:51):
go upstairs.
It's a gorgeous restaurant andbar.
We've had dinner there a coupletimes.
The food is absolutely amazing.
We actually talk aboutstorytelling.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We did a story actually on the chef that we're
going to show to youstorytelling we did a story
actually on the chef that we'regoing to show to you, and what
are some of the?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
plates.
What did we have the other day?
Sweet potato dumplings, thesweet potato dumplings are
amazing, so good.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, they were really good.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The truffle fries.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Somebody came over to us and said they were like
crack.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, they were, they were crack.
We did have some, they weredelicious.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Everything is good, actually, everything is so good
here Fabulous.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm trying to remember what.
Oh, I think I had the beeftenderloin when we actually,
when we had dinner we were justhere recently, so we're so lucky
, so we actually had an eventhere, the social hour.
It's the first social hour thatgoes along with what we do,
which we're going to tell youall about that hour.
That goes along with what we do, which we're going to tell you
all about that.
(01:47):
Everybody came they hadcocktails, and our social hours
are about mingling in a, I guessagain Just a fun environment,
just kind of a fun like a happyhour type of environment.
I would put a little swankysexy in there with it.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's not your typical chamber meeting.
No, it's not.
It's not and neither is ourshow.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
You never know what we might do or say.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
But it will be a good time, that's for sure.
So we want to tell you a littlebit about us.
So we actually that's what weare.
We're storytellers, that's whatwe do.
We own three gorgeous luxurylifestyle magazines we have
Chesterfield, we have Claytonand we have St Charles County,
and we mail these to 45,000 plusof the most affluent homes and
then also to 3000 businesses.
(02:29):
We always love when someone saysI was at the dentist or I was
at the doctor, I saw yourmagazine.
How can I get it?
You know, because they see itsitting, you know, in the office
.
And we, of course, as you cansee, we have such gorgeous
covers.
That's Oasis pools on the frontthere.
But yeah, here's the story thatwe did actually on Oak Street
Inn and Lounge, featuring theirchef.
We wish she could have comedown and actually talked to you
(02:52):
all, or Chelsea or Chris, theowners of this gorgeous location
.
But they're extremely busy insome marketing meetings right
now and I guess going throughtheir menu and what they're
going to be doing as theirspecials.
I guess going through theirmenu and what they're going to
be doing as their specials.
But what's even cooler aboutthis place is when you go
upstairs, above the restaurantthere are the most gorgeous what
is there?
Eight rooms up there.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I think so yeah, bed and breakfast.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, gorgeous bed and breakfast rooms If you want
to have a retreat or maybe abusiness meeting, or maybe you
just want to get away with yourloved one and spend the evening
away from home.
In fact, one of our newestpartners, canine Innovations,
which our dog has completelyquit shedding since using this
product.
I wish I would have brought itwith me, but I'm going to put it
out there.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
We're going to talk about that next lunchtime.
Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we meet them just as we start talking about the
magazines and find out they'reactually having a wedding here
and staying in the roomsupstairs.
That's awesome, I know, isn'tthat cool.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And that's what we love about some of our, when we
do these get-togethers for oursocial hours, is that people
actually get to meet otherbusinesses and they've actually
done business with each other.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Jennifer that owns St Louis Closet Company, met
Nicole, who owns Oasis Pools,and Oasis Pools is now going in
the backyard of Jennifer's housebecause they were at the hot
list party.
We do a huge party once a yearcalled the hot list.
So if you are in our magazinesin one way or another or on our
show, you've made the hot list.
So the struggle, the struggle,seriously, women, is it not
(04:25):
almost like unbelievablydifficult to be a woman?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I couldn't, I don't know, I can't talk to you about
that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I mean you are getting worse.
You are getting to the pointthat you are.
Where are we going with this?
You never know.
You are getting more like achick because of my plethora of
stuff and regimen.
Seriously, when you get older,I mean it's bad enough.
When you're younger, you knowyou make up and hair, and I mean
(04:53):
most of the girls that are 18,look like they're 13, look like
they're 25 now so.
I really feel sorry for youparents out there that have kids
that are under 21, because theyare terrifying.
They look like models and oldenough to get into places.
They shouldn't be.
So I don't know how they'redoing it, but you know makeup,
tampons, you know just littlestuff like that you need right.
(05:15):
When you get to my age andmiddle age, everything starts
going to crap.
You grow hair where you're notsupposed to.
I get that one going to crap.
You grow hair where you're notsupposed to.
I get that one.
You, the, the, the, the itemsthat literally I walked into the
bathroom last night and youknow washing off my makeup and
that, and I'm like, wow, we'vegot some products going on.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You have like a four tier system to hold all your
products.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And then you smell weird at night because you're
putting all this goop on yourface.
Now he's wearing it and he'sstarting to put it on, and he
got into bed and I'm like OohOne of these products?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
can't they make them smell?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
good, keep your distance real quick.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You said they make them smell bad, so you think
they're working.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I guess that maybe I don't know, maybe that's what it
is, but seriously, there's somuch product not to mention, so
in Vita.
Uh well, health and wellness.
That was my appointment today,because bioidentical hormones
are now on my list of items thathave been put into my body so
that I can keep going, because,of course, once you reach a
certain age, either you gothrough menopause or, in my case
(06:18):
, I had a hysterectomy reallyyoung, nothing's working anymore
, and if you don't have them,you start to go cuckoo for Cocoa
Puffs, I mean start trading youin here.
Right, exactly that's probablywhy men get younger women.
Women could get younger men too, you're like fine wine love
Right.
I don't know if I'm aging wellthough, but seriously, it is
(06:40):
tough there's.
So I think about all theappointments.
I have Botox.
I mean, I don't have to do that.
Granted, I don't have to getBotox.
I don't have to use thatproduct.
I don't have to getbioidentical hormones.
I don't have to wear contacts.
Someday I'm going to need ahearing aid.
I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You already do I already do.
I can never hear don't have toI always got to come from the
other room to hear what she said, so I can hear it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't have to do that, but I don't.
I want to feel good.
I mean everything you startwhen you get up and you make
funny noises.
That's also part of gettingolder.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, it's not just getting up, it's sitting down.
You make funny noises too.
It's getting up and sittingdown.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Someone got up the other day in front, made this
sound.
I'm like, oh, you're definitelyover 50.
There's no way you're in yourforties when you make that kind
of noise when you stand up.
But anyway, it is tough.
Guess what my other struggle is?
What's your other struggle?
Oh, my gosh, do you ever get anargument?
Okay, we've been married.
This is our second marriage, soif you don't know us already,
so we're coming up on our sixyear anniversary, april 14th.
We do everything together.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
No, not the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Not the bathroom, not the love toilet we don't have
that what was Saturday Night?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Live Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Live had the love toilet, yeah, no, we don't do
that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's doors locked.
Got to have your privacy insome points.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That would be horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We work together, we live together, Our office.
So we have an office outside,have meetings there, but our
office is in our home.
So if we're not on appointmentswe are in our offices at home.
We play together.
We usually always do most ofthe stuff you know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Together we do everything together, actually
everyone's like how do you?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
get along?
Do you guys ever argue Like youknow you have such a great
relationship, which we do, Imean we.
You know sometimes you justconnect and you're just.
You make each other better.
You connect for you know a lotof people connect for various
reasons, but when you reallytake the time to connect with
the right person, it's not sohard to have a relationship.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Right, it does make it easier.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Right, but it's not.
I mean, there are days thatit's probably me, because I have
high expectations all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So we're going to ask you do you guys, when you're in
your relationships, are youtogether all the time?
Do you feel like you need thatseparation?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I've got to have separation.
No, he works, he's got to goout of town.
Thank goodness he goes out oftown, because I just can't deal
with him.
I need my time, right, or is itthat you miss them and you want
to?
You know you want to havespecial times where you're just
together all the time that'slike us.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Men retire, or women might retire first, and then all
of a sudden you're together allthe time.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I remember during COVID everybody was actually
home together.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It was like oh no, this is horrible.
I wonder if, like, divorce ratewent up from.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
COVID or went down yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
That would be a stat we need to find out.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
We should have figured that one out.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's see what it is, but one of our struggles is go
ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Where do you want to go eat?
I don't care.
Where do you want to go eat?
Well, let's I don't care, justmake a decision.
How about Mexican?
No, I don't want Mexican.
How about Italian?
No, I don't want Italian.
We had that Monday.
How about seafood?
No, I don't want seafood.
So I was watching this videothe other day and this guy was a
genius on how he handled thiswith his wife.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He's in the car.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He's in the car, she gets in the car and he goes, he
goes.
I'm going to take you to one ofyour favorite restaurants.
Tell me if you can guess whatit is.
Oh, we're going to Latoya'sbarbecue.
And he goes exactly, and that'show he did it.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
He was a genius.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
He just acted like you know.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
So ask me where you're going to take me, or tell
me where you're taking metonight, that you've already
picked it out, that I've alreadypicked it out.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, we're going to go ahead and reenact this
scenario right now, so I'm goingto get you to know where I want
to go See, but now she's in onthe game, so she's not going to
play it right?
Go ahead, let's make this.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We're going to show how you don't have to argue.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I'm going to take you to a restaurant that you love.
You are, yes, tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Do I know which one?
It is my favorite.
You got to guess Antonino'sTaverna.
Yes, that's it.
Greek, italian restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It's on the hill.
It's so delicious, isn't it?
Best toasted raviolis ever.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I was just going to say that the best and they have
a chopped kale.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Caesar salad is really good.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, that's incredible too, and their pizza
is really good.
I like it to get the gyro meaton it as well.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's something magical about going down on the
hill to get food.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Right, so okay, so I so, when you like I always say
you know what I always say whenI get mad at them, can break the
I guess, the tense tenseness ofan argument right away.
You know, some people say takea breath, maybe go outside,
maybe walk away.
What are another one to helpfrom arguing I'm a walk away?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I just want to walk away.
I want to punch him in thethroat If he walks away.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
she doesn't want me to walk away.
I'll tell you walk away.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I'm not done with you yet.
You're going to hear everythingI have to say to you.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Everyone should have a cape.
You should have a cape.
And as soon as you get anargument, one of you whoever
started it hands that person thecape and tells them they need
to put it on because it's theirsuper mad cape.
And if you don't start laughingafter that, then you seriously
(12:00):
should probably call your lawyer.
Call your lawyer, I have onefor you if you want.
Paige Law happens to be one ofour advertisers and she family
matters with her.
She can help you out.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
But then you know what.
This is all fun and we talkabout this stuff, but you know
what's really important?
To actually get to know theperson.
I mean, there's people thathave been married 50 years and
still don't know their mate.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Still don't really know them, like when they become
empty nesters or whatever, andall of a sudden they have to
start or retire, they have tostart spending more time
together and then they get toknow each other.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know real quick, dolly Parton's husband just
passed away.
Did you see that he finallypassed away.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It breaks my heart.
They had been together forever.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Right, and I can't remember how many years.
I want to think it was60-something plus years From the
beginning when she was a younggirl, right, he was 82 years old
, wow.
Sorry, he was always that guythat never wanted to be in the
limelight.
So we see he understood.
She understood what he didn'twant and he understood what she
wanted and it worked out goodfor them.
(13:04):
In fact, he actually went to one.
He went to one big event withher and he says, honey, I never
want to do this again, and youknow what comes with that,
though you have to have trust.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Whether at home, with yourspouse partner, trust is
everything and it's everythingin your business.
Spouse partner trust iseverything and it's everything
in your business.
You've got to trust, in bottomline in life, the people that
you value most around you.
You.
You have to have trust becausethat's what makes everything
else run so much smoother.
You're not worried about, likehe could stay home or do his
work or whatever he's doingwithout that worry, because they
(13:43):
probably I mean, I don't knowthem personally, but I would
imagine, if you stay togetherthat long and you don't, you
never heard of them havingproblems in the news, so to
speak they must've had anincredible amount of trust and
respect.
That's everything.
And that person makes you wantto be a better person.
And they, they appreciate whatyou do and they value what you
(14:03):
do.
They don't want to tear youdown.
In some relationships, insteadof uplifting you, they're
tearing you down and deflatingyou, making you want to give up,
and that's not what you want tobe around.
But that's sad.
Dolly Parton I love one of herlines.
Somebody said, wow, honey, youlook so good, you look amazing.
(14:25):
And she said it's all abouthaving good doctors.
So, like I was saying about thestruggle in the beginning of
the show, I mean, if it's thereand of course, you know,
sometimes it's not affordablefor everyone because it can be
costly to try to stay young, Imean it really can.
But you know it's a matter ofkeeping yourself up, just
(14:46):
cleanliness, finding clothesthat appeal to your body shape,
whatever that is.
You know I can't dress like a21 or a 31 or maybe even a 41
year old.
I can't.
You know there's certain looksand things that I can't do
anymore.
Things start to change and itgets hard for you to realize
that, but you know, just be ableto take small steps to take
(15:07):
care of yourself, I guess.
And take care of yourrelationship as well, just like
you do with everything else.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Exactly, and one of the things that we're going to
talk about, too, is the lovelanguages.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, you know it's so important 100% that works in
home and in business.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right.
So Kelly's love language isacts of service.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, first, for if you haven't ever done the five
love languages, you can justGoogle it.
There's a book but you can take.
What a five minute test I thinkwe did.
It's free and it doesn't evencost anything.
There might be a couple outthere, but what's the author of
the five love languages?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He's the one you really Google it because there
are, I think, a few out therethat might be doing it.
But this guy's phenomenal, hisbook's great and what it is is
you take this test could ask youa question.
So you really you don't want tocheat, obviously, which it's
hard to cheat.
Gary Chapman.
Yes, Gary.
Chapman, and you want to behonest with your answers.
You know, don't try to act likewhat you're not just answer
(16:01):
them.
And this random questions thatit does for you ends up figuring
out your love languages fromone to the least, being number
five.
And number one for me was actsof service, gordon's number one
was affirmations, touch andaffirmations yeah, sorry, touch
and affirmations Touch me, soI'm acts of service.
(16:24):
And then what was so?
Mine's not, either the secondto oh time Mine's, mine's
quality of time or whatever.
So we have two different lovelanguages and what happens is
you tend to do the love languagethat you are for someone else
and you think you're doing allthese acts of like, in my case
acts of service.
(16:44):
That should be making him feelwonderful that I'm doing that
and that I want to spend allthis time with him, so he must
think I care about him so much.
But actually I'm doing what Ilove.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Quality time, Even as my kids.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I would do their clothes and fold them up all
nice and put them in this nicestack for them and all of a
sudden they would walk over themand tumble them down the steps
or they'd be back on the floorin their room.
After I did all this acts ofservice and I'm like you are
like the worst.
You don't even love me or careor respect me, but that's what
happened and that wasn't theirlove language at all.
(17:19):
So when Gordon which he did theother day changed the sink, we
got a new faucet.
What do you?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
call it Faucet.
Yes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Change the sink or does things around the house?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
You got to love that.
When your wife says I got yousomething, I got you a gift, I
got you something today, I'mlike what is it?
And she goes just open it.
And I open it up and it's afaucet for me to hook together,
put a new faucet on the sink andhe was so sexy under that sink
cooking it up with Olive helpinghim.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
So, speaking of Olive , you see our little mascot
there.
So we have the most amazingEnglish bulldog and we have
Louie, a little chocolate poodle, as well.
But back to Olive.
I love Louie, don't worry.
But Olive is like this heart,this, I don't know, this angel
(18:09):
that like peered into our home,that we adopted when she was two
years old and I ended upwriting a children's book it's
you can go to oolofthebulldogcomand see the plushie and the
first of the series book and shejust inspires so much.
So she's inspiring our show aswell and bringing us good vibes,
right?
So she's a little bit chubbierthan that.
We'll have to show a picture ofher.
She's cute as can be, whichmade me lose my whole train of
(18:31):
thought here, olive took herright out, she just squirreled.
So seriously, take the lovelanguage test, find out what
love language is yours andwhatever your partner, your
business person, your businesspartner I know it sounds funny
to do to love languages with abusiness partner or people you
work with, but in all honesty,it works for everyone.
If you know what their languageis, that makes them feel good
(18:53):
and that's how you remember whenyou're communicating with them.
It truly can change everythingyou know with your relationship
in work or at home.
But so I'm super excited.
I want to make sure I want tointroduce a new um I guess I
would say interviews that Gordonis doing.
So if you've just met Gordon,um, he's an incredible singer.
(19:17):
He's been performing since whatyou're 17 years old, yeah,
which is a long time ago, so umand he sings like and what's?
the stepbrothers say Fergie andJesus, the mixture of Fergie and
Jesus and stepbrothers Did.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Jesus sing.
Was he a singer I?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
don't know, but that's what Will Ferrell said.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
We'll take it from Will Ferrell.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
He's a good theologian, he's my favorite, so
that's how you think about me,but anyway.
So Gordon is an incrediblesinger, but he's also a musician
, and he doesn't think that heis.
The man can sit down at a pianoor hold a guitar, listen to a
song and start playing it.
That is a musician.
I can't even do the chords.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I would never get on stage and play live for someone,
but that's because you like tosing.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But if he would practice every day and be
continuously playing, he's justas good as anyone else.
He just plays around the house.
No, he's amazing when he playsElton John.
What's my favorite one?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Your song.
That's what it's called.
Yeah, it's called your Song.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But is that the name of it?
Yes, okay, I didn't know that,and when he said your song, I'm
like, yeah, what's my song?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Check this product out, just to make sure.
Go ahead and sing it a littlebit.
No, we're good.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's so good, Okay, so what he's doing is which is
so cool.
Um, on one of our other in yourcity show, we had um, I used to
bring bands on all the timeback in the day of radio and
Gordon and I did that.
And then on our last In yourCity show at the studios, when
we were there, he brought onwhat's the name of the band,
Boyfriend, Boyfriend yeah, yeahit's not his boyfriend, but the
name of the band's boyfriend,and what's his name?
(20:55):
Chuck, yeah, so he came in thestudio and I'm listening to them
go back and forth and talkabout these stories, one of them
, the fact that this bandliterally got kicked out of, not
a bar, the whole Lake of theOzarks.
How do you get kicked out ofthe home town?
Lake of the Ozarks?
Gotta leave town.
You guys have to leave town.
That's how bad they were, Notat not at performing, but how
(21:15):
bad they were, I guess.
I guess back then is that theseventies, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I mean it was a thing for the bands back in the 70s,
I mean Led.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Zeppelin threw.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
TVs out of 10-story hotels and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So he used to perform at stages and oh my gosh,
there's probably not a placethat we don't drive by that
Gordon says he hasn't performedthere or he's done his karaoke
performance programs.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
That's the wrong word .
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Everything's a program.
Programs are our favorite wordright now, that's what happens
when you're not a musician?
Yeah, I've played a lot ofplaces, but what she's getting
ready to say is that we're goingto start doing a segment.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Called Soul Strings.
So he's going to dive deep intothe soul of a musician.
You know why they started wherethey're at now?
Are they still performing?
You know what are some of thethe I guess performances that
resonated, or people thatthey've met, just anything that
might come out.
And so he did an interview,which you're going to see a
(22:13):
little bit of it here justshortly and Gordon can introduce
who it is.
But then also, what's cool isthe interview you're going to
see here and meet and find outwhat's going on.
You can actually go to In yourCity Show, our YouTube channel.
There'll be a Soul Stringsplaylist I remember the word, a
playlist and you'll be able towatch the full interview in
(22:37):
video and then, of course, theaudio as well as our show here
on.
In your City Show will be onany of your favorite podcast
sites.
Iheart Spotify.
In your City Show will be onany of your favorite podcast
sites, iheart Spotify.
There's a zillion of them outthere now and you'll be able to
find our show audio and all ofthem.
As we start moving along Lunchwith Kelly and Gordon on the In
your City Show out and about,our next, we're going to be at
(22:57):
Carbon, a gorgeous members-onlyrestaurant in Clayton.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It's where the old Morton's Steakhouse used to be
in Clayton.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, if you're familiar with St Louis, if
you're listening out of state orout of country, of course we're
here locally in St Charles,missouri, st Louis, missouri so
locally, but of course you'll behearing it all over.
So if you're in town, you'regoing to go to a Cardinals
baseball game or a Blues hockeygame.
There's some amazingrestaurants.
This is one of them, speakeasyunder the Oak Street Inn and
(23:25):
Lounge, that you can come visit.
But Soul Strings we didn't talkabout that either.
We can.
We'll bring that before we talkabout the upcoming event.
I want to make sure everybodyknows about my favorite book and
if you happen to read it, Iwould love for you to find me.
You can go to the In your Cityshow on Facebook and tell me if
(23:45):
you've read the book, so we'llget to that in a minute.
But tell us who you interviewed.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So I interviewed Ed Callison.
Ed Callison is a singermusician that is playing in a
lot of tribute bands here in StLouis and we had a great
interview.
We sat down right here in thesetwo seats and we did an
interview talking about all hisupcoming shows, the tribute
bands he plays in, how he gotstarted in the business.
Some of his family is istalented, yeah, and so, um, yeah
(24:14):
, it's going to be a greatsegment and that'll be coming up
here yeah, and then you'll besome other.
Obviously it'll be a shortsegment talking about what he's
what he's doing right now, butthen the interviews, a longer
interview you'll be able to see.
It's more in depth.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, very cool, all right.
Well, why don't you listen into a little bit of Ed Collison's
interview?
Right now Soul Strings, andthen, of course, the full
version will be Welcome to SoulStrings.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
This is an all new podcast that we're doing and
we're going to be interviewingmusicians and singers, and I
always liked it when they saidmusicians and singers, are we
separate?
Are we you know?
Do we, do we I?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
think I know how to play a little bit don't you?
There's jokes about leadsingers.
You've heard them all.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yes, we have.
Well, today I got a specialguest, ed Callison.
I know a lot of you know who heis and he's been in the music
business for quite a long time.
So today we're going to talk alittle bit about one of your
upcoming shows that you have,and it's one of the one of the
many tribute bands that you'rein couple, and it's called pink
houses pink house usa.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Uh, it's funny because pink houses there was an
east coast band tribute thatwas called pink houses, and so I
looked around, kept looking andI thought, well, freebird, usa,
we had to make that because itwas other Freebirds.
So we made it Pink Houses, usa,so we weren't the same name.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, that's interesting, yeah, so how many
guys are in the band?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Seven piece band.
Seven piece.
We've got drums Ron Kraser,we've got George Vasquez on bass
, kyle Work on keyboard, darrenHank guitar, chris Naccarato
guitar, and we've got Ron Vinceon violin.
We've got a couple other subsas well, xavier Koenig on violin
.
So seven-piece band and I'mjust a singer.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You're just the singer, just a singer.
Well, I know you playinstruments as well.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I grew up playing drums.
I still do a lot of percussionin my duos on the weekends.
Congas bongas Grew up a singingdrummer, Don Henley, was always
kind of my idol because hecould sing and play at the same
time, and so I learned that, andmy brother Rich, we played
together for a long time and hestarted singing and playing bass
(26:21):
and he went his way, I wentmine, and now he's in LA, LA and
I'm still here in St Louis.
But yeah, it was about twoyears ago.
I started talking to Ron Kraserand both Darren about are you
guys interested in doing a JohnCougar Mellencamp trip?
It's just something that Ialways enjoyed his music and
thought nobody else is doing itright.
(26:43):
And they were both in.
So we started the auditionprocess, which was not easy,
especially with violinists,accordion players.
We had a couple of polkaplayers come in and it just was
not a fit I would have loved tohave seen that.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, that was a fan interview, oh yeah because
there's jokes about that.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
A guy got his car broke into they had an accordion
in it.
He came back to the car wasbroken.
There was seven of them.
They left six more because it'ssuch a such an instrument, this
kind of they make jokes about,yeah, but it's a beautiful
instrument, right.
But we decided we can get thatsound on the keyboard, right.
(27:25):
So Kyle Work puts in a lot ofthe extra sounds that you would
generally get from an accordionand it's not like the
accordion's on every song, butthe violinist.
We found a great violinist whohad been for years with the
symphony and the fox and themuni, yeah, so it's a big part,
even though it's not on everysong.
We make it on every songbecause it adds, it's just the
(27:49):
sound of the violin.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
find that challenging when it's trying to find these
certain musicians.
How challenging is that?
It is because here's tworeasons why.
Number one, you want somebodythat's really good, that can do
the material, and two, that'savailable, Because so many of my
friends, like myself, are in alot of bands, and Freebird was
one.
I mean Freebird USA we've gotone show this year because
everybody's in so many bands.
(28:15):
Pink House we've got 16 shows.
So I found people that wereavailable, Gordon, which was
more important than anything.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
And they're good yeah .
Speaker 3 (28:24):
But they're available .
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Got to have them show up, they're available.
It's pretty important, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
That's right.
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
So tell me a little bit about this Pink Houses
tribute band.
You've got a show coming up,you've got one coming up, first
the first one this year.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We had 15 shows.
Last year We've got 16 rightnow this year 5th, at the Miners
Theater in Collinsville,illinois.
Beautiful theater.
Have you been there?
I?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
don't know, but I think we're being arrested.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
God, let's go.
They found us Ed.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Out of all these years of hiding, they figured
out where we were In a speakeasy.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
We are at the speakeasy right here in.
Cottleville, missouri, brandnew speakeasy, which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Beautiful place it so challenging finding musicians.
It was.
And then, once we got the grouptogether last year again, we
did 15 shows this year.
Our first one, april 5th,miner's Theater in Collinsville
my birthday, beautiful theater,happy birthday coming up.
You need to come to the show,then We'll get you a ticket.
So 1918 is when it was actuallyopened.
(29:27):
It's been restored.
I did a show with anothercouple of bands an Abbott
tribute and a Bee Gees tribute.
We did a show there about threemonths ago and I was blown away
because I've done shows at theLincoln Theater, which is nice,
grew up in that area, Okay, so Iknow Lincoln Theater well.
So to me Lincoln Theater isbeautiful, but this one is just.
(29:48):
It's so well put together andit's run so well by the husband
and wife that run it.
It seats about 460 people.
We're hoping to sell it out and, yeah, that's April 5th 730.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I love the old theaters.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh 7.30.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Awesome, yeah, we'll do a two-hour two-set show.
I love the old theaters.
Oh yeah, you know there's oneover in East St Louis that's
been tore down for years andyears and years.
But every time I drive by it Iwould have loved to have seen it
in its heyday.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
What was that called?
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You know what I don't remember?
Greg Bishop told me about itOkay.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
And I've never, you know, I've tried to look up old
pictures and everything sure, stlouis in the heyday was, yeah,
nice, you know, yeah, yeah butum but that's the illinois side.
Yeah, our second show.
This show will be april 26th atthe diamond music hall for the
missouri folks right here in stpeter's.
So we're, uh, we're lookingforward to doing that show as
well.
(30:39):
We've got an opener.
It's uh, it's a school of rockkids band.
Oh that's cool that are reallygood and I'm afraid they may
have playoffs.
School of Rock Kids Band oh,that's cool, they're really good
and I'm afraid they may notplay us.
They're that good they shouldbe the headliner huh, they're
that good Raised on Radio.
They'll open the show on April26th at Diamond.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
What a great name Raised on Radio.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, they're all between 18 and, I think, 21
years old, wow.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So how many shows again do you have coming up?
16 this year, 16.
Besides those two in April,we've got right next door at
Frankie March.
We'll be there May 31st.
May 31st We'll be at the LegacyPark, right across the street.
They do the Tuesday nightconcert series during the summer
.
We've got a show coming upthere and I believe it's June
22nd, but you can go on.
Pink House USA on Facebook, Ipost everything.
Ed Callison Music on Facebook Ipost everything as well.
(31:31):
Awesome, best place to find ourfull schedule.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Well, I appreciate you coming in and talking about
pink houses and we're going towant to go see a couple of those
shows.
I'm going to have to try andmake the birthday one for sure.
Absolutely, I thank you forbeing here and talking about
pink houses, absolutely, um, uh,we're going to talk a little
bit more.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
That was so cool.
I love the whole, the wholesoul string thing.
I think it's so cool.
It's really amazing what youcan learn from somebody when
you're talking to them.
What, what was your favoritepart?
Did you have a favorite part ofwhat you talked about, or just
was it all?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I think it was just talking about um, well, he gave
some advice to what he wouldtell his younger self.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Oh, and that's in the big interview okay, but then I
guess don't give it away justthe fact I think some of the we
got to.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I got to poke a little fun at him about how we
always see how energetic him andhis wife are and how they,
whatever they're taking we want.
That's what we told.
So there's plenty of vitamins,but uh, yeah, I encourage you to
listen to the whole show andbecause I think it gets, you'll
get a kick out of it and you'llreally get some insight into ed
and and what does ed drink novery little, he said I find that
(32:39):
amazing.
A lot of musicians and I want totalk about the whole, okay,
well we won't it.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But a lot of celebrities have quit drinking
altogether and even some of themovie stars talk about it.
I mean, we're such in ahealthier I guess a healthier
mindset than back in the 70s andthe 80s.
There's so much out there andpeople are realizing, I guess,
as we have this incredible vodka, martini with infused tequila.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, it's not infused tequila.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Sorry, okay.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So actually I took some notes because I knew I'd
forget it.
So this is the bathtub martiniBathtub.
It's olive oil infused, it'sfrom 1923, olive oil imported
from Italy, which means perfectthen.
And normally it's in a frostedmartini glass.
This is what we call the icebath, so this is how it's.
Uh, this is what we call theice bath, so this is how it's
(33:28):
displayed.
This is you would get a frostedmartini glass that's empty, and
then you would take it out andit's got ice packed around it
and then you would pour it inthere.
But back in the prohibition,this is how they would ice up
their, their liquors in thebathtub.
So it's kind of hide it in thebathtub.
Yeah, wow, very cool.
Yeah, it's called the bathtubmartini.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
They do a lot of different drinks here.
Yes, we had an old fashionedthat was made with vodka rather
than whiskey and I had never,ever, had anything like that and
it was really refreshing, whichI like old fashions with
whiskey but it was a uniquetaste but very similar as to an
old fashioned.
But it was a unique taste, butvery similar as to an old
fashion, but it was really good.
I definitely have it again andagain and again.
(34:10):
So, anyway, back to soulstrings.
I'm so glad that you're able todo this.
I can't wait to see who yournext person that will be on our
next show.
You always get a short clip ofit, but then, of course, can go
back to the In your City Show.
YouTube channel and watch it.
So I want to bring up one of myfavorite authors and I just
found out about her.
I might be late to the partyand everyone else has already
(34:30):
read it, but if you have readany of Colleen Hoover's books
and you want to go to In yourCity, show Facebook or Instagram
and leave me a message of yourthought of her as an author, I
kind of quit reading for a whilebetween you know, publishing
three magazines and our show and, um, he's a real estate agent
as well, and all the events andcharities and things that we're
(34:52):
involved with, I mean, andwriting children's books,
sometimes you, not to mentionhaving a life and grandchildren,
all those things.
You run out of time and Ireally just kind of quit reading
.
And someone told me that I'vegot to read Colleen Hoover which
I'd never heard of her.
It ends with us and I think ittook me two weeks, which usually
(35:12):
takes me three years to finisha book.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Like three summers Is that the movie we watched.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yes, Okay, and so or I think that was it starts, yeah
, it ends with us it ends withus Was that the movie.
But I wouldn't want to watch themovie till I read the book, so
I didn't do that.
But I read it quickly.
And then it goes to.
It Starts With Us, which thattook me another just two weeks
to read, which is incredible forme to get through a book that
quick.
So now I've started on VerityV-E-R-I-T-Y by Colleen Hoover.
(35:43):
This does not go along with.
It ends with us and it startswith us.
I think it will resonate withmany people.
I think we've all probably hada bad relationship in our life,
whether it be a boyfriend,girlfriend or a marriage.
That may be, you know, anabusive style or type
relationship and it has to end.
Someone has to end it.
(36:03):
You don't want to keep becauseit becomes a learned behavior,
and then your child and theirchild and before you know it,
you're just going on to the nextbad relationship.
So it really resonates and it'sa great ending.
This book is totally different.
It has nothing to do with theother two books but, as you can
see, in one night that's where Igot to and I would have
finished it if it, if itwouldn't have um, uh, if, I just
(36:26):
couldn't keep my eyes anymore.
So this is my book suggestion,and if you happen to read it, I
would love to know how you loveit.
Like it, dislike it?
All right.
So, uh, tell us about a greatevent we have coming on and that
this is something new thatwe're doing too.
This is the first time that acity lifestyle and then sit in
your city show is putting on acharity event, and we have to
(36:46):
say thank you to our committeemembers out there because
they're a big support and a bighelp of us putting on this event
.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
So we're doing Karaoke for Wishes.
It's for the Make-A-WishFoundation.
We know that kids during theCOVID times they lost a lot of
wishes that they weren't gettingand they got behind on wishes
Like 400.
400, wow, that's a lot of kidsthat they weren't getting and
they got behind on wishes Like400.
400.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's a lot of kids.
So it's a great.
It's a great event to come out.
It's going to be held at themarquee out in new town, the big
white tent, and it's going toevery bit.
A hundred percent of theproceeds that we get from this
is going to the make a wishfoundation.
We're getting locally yeah.
We're giving everything to them.
So come out, get a table.
We have a couple tables left.
It's only $150 for a table ofeight.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
That is cheap $15 for a ticket.
There'll be a cash bar, cashbar 200.
The first 200 people that havesigned up will receive a really
cool swag bag with lots ofthings inside of it.
So you've got to get that.
And then we're going to dowe've got a wine pool so you can
buy a bottle of wine and you'llpay $25.
You're going to get a bottle ofwine 25 and way up.
(37:54):
You never know which one you'regoing to get.
There's some pretty coolbottles of wine.
And then we have a gift cardpool where you'll pay $25 for.
You'll pay 25, but you're goingto get a $25 and up.
I think some of the giftcertificates might even be $250,
$75.
So you never know what you'regoing to get.
You'll pick a card, a number.
So we've got some fun things.
Of course we have the 50-50.
You always have that going onto be able to help raise more
(38:15):
proceeds.
And we have to say a big thankyou to Snooze Mattress Company.
Mike Bowie, the owner it'sopening in Chesterfield, is one
of our sponsors, as well as OakStreet Inn, where we're sitting
right now at the SpeakeasyLounge here, the bed and
breakfast upstairs.
They are also a sponsor of thisevent and that's really what
(38:37):
helps to make the event a realsuccess when you have people
coming in as a large sponsor tobe able to donate to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation and, ofcourse, city Lifestyle because
all the other things that aregoing on we're taking care of to
give back.
The marquee is donating thetent for this event.
So there's really someincredible people that have come
together to be able to makethis event happen so that
children and if you have neverexperienced Make-A-Wish, it is
(38:59):
about granting wishes forchildren that have critical ill
disease children that havecritical ill disease things that
happen in their life doesn'tnecessarily mean that they're
going to pass away.
We hope, and many times when achild receives a wish, it
literally gives them so muchhope that it helps them to carry
on to get healthier and to livea better life.
(39:22):
And we've been fortunate enoughto meet some kids that have
been in the Make-A-Wish for avery long time, who've come and
been on our show before, andthey're getting ready to go to
college and getting through whatthey are.
I went on a wish grantingprobably 15 years ago.
I've been in love withMake-A-Wish for many, many years
.
This little girl was nine yearsold.
(39:44):
She was in the hospital with abrain tumor and the only way
that she was able to tell uswhat she wanted as a wish, which
was a pony, was by wiggling herbig toe.
And I know parents out therethat might be listening to this
that have gone through somethingwith a family member, someone
they love, when you can'timagine what a inspiring moment
(40:05):
it is to give a child a wish,when they are in such, I guess,
in a way, that they're not ableto live like a normal child and
play out on the playground andgo to school.
And not only them, the familyis affected, the brothers and
sisters, the mom and dad.
I mean, it's an incredible taskwhen you have a child that's
(40:26):
sick mentally and physically, sothey all get taken care of when
it comes to that wish, if it'sa trip or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
So this is a great event to come out, to Come out,
support it.
It's going to be fun.
People are going to get achance to sing.
Maybe it'll be a good chancefor you to get somebody up there
and make them sing that don'twant to sing.
That's always a fun thing to do, which this one right here.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
I'm going to make her do.
I can talk all day, hold a mic,get up on stage, but if you
want me to sing a song, I need alot of liquid courage.
Who knows?
Speaker 2 (40:54):
Your picture may even end up in City Scene in the
magazine you never know.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, we will be putting a lot of photos from the
event in the magazine.
So you can check out Clayton,Chesterfield, St Charles County
City Lifestyle magazines.
You go to citylifestylecomanywhere in the world, put that
in your browser bar and it'lltake you to the magazine that's
nearest you.
Or, of course, you can look upours and see what's going on as
(41:18):
well.
You can find our show on Inyour City Show on the YouTube
channel, Facebook, Instagram.
You can find In your City showas well as all of our magazines.
And um, we'd love to hear fromyou.
We are back with a new vibe, anew location and a lot of fun
and great guests.
And also, you're going to wantto check out soul strength.
(41:38):
I'm Kelly lamb.
I'm Gordon Montgomery Cheers,oh wait.
We're supposed to look at eachother and say cheers.
Apparently, if you cheers andyou don't look into each other's
eyes, you have a seven years ofbad sex ready.
Cheers, ciao.
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