Hottest Happy Hour Episode 1: Back On Air In St. Louis

Send us a text

You can see the Live Video To all of our shows at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRJsM_js_n_aX6Vt-lV2lQ
https://www.facebook.com/inyourcityshow

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_04 (00:31):
Well, welcome to the show, the hottest happy hour in
STL.
We are coming to you fromLouinfo.com, and of course, uh,
we're on the dial at 590 a.m.,the new KLIS.
So they did kind of a re walkdown memory lane of you know
going out with the old andcoming in with the new.

(00:53):
And so we are now uh back onradio.
We used to be at this stationdoing our Saturday morning show.
Actually, it was the She said hesaid show back then for a while,
yeah.
Doing the In Your City uhpodcast, and now we're taking it
to the airwaves and thenbringing it to you here from our
brand new studios.
You luckily you can't see allthe chords and the crazy behind

(01:15):
the scenes stuff.
We just look cool against thewall right now.
Well, you look cool.

SPEAKER_06 (01:20):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 (01:22):
I look like a some sort of wild, hazley uh abstract
painting.
I don't know what I wasthinking.
We're in this crazy shoe.

SPEAKER_06 (01:30):
Yeah, definitely and it would have popped, but it
popped before the show.

SPEAKER_07 (01:33):
And isn't that typical for a guy to just you
know which guy you're talkingabout?

SPEAKER_06 (01:39):
Definitely not talking about this guy.
We will go there.
That's a whole nother show.
Yeah, a whole nother day.
That'll be our 12 o'clock showat midnight.

SPEAKER_04 (01:47):
So a interstate show, it's gonna be you know,
high-impact stories,conversations, celebrities.
Um, it's gonna be the buzzaround town and really some
serious community talk.
We're going to meet a lot ofpeople throughout the St.
Louis, but also throughout theUnited States, are we coming our
way to talk conversations andhave some fun with us?

(02:08):
And as usual, we're bringingback the question of the day.
So, of course, I did ask thequestion of the day um
yesterday.

SPEAKER_06 (02:15):
Are we gonna do the question of the day before we
toast to the new show?
I guess we should we're gonnatoast first of all, we're gonna
toast uh you in St.
Louis, and then we're also gonnatoast to us.

SPEAKER_03 (02:25):
We're gonna toast looking at the TV, we're gonna
toast to the news stations.

SPEAKER_06 (02:29):
I know it's getting used to it.
I'm looking to God right now.
Yeah, thanks for this.

SPEAKER_04 (02:33):
So, yeah, cheers.
Cheers and cheers to you.
You did not look at me.
So Kelly says No, it's not mythis isn't this is someone
else's.
It's I didn't come up with thisanswer.

SPEAKER_06 (02:45):
All right, what did what did they say?

SPEAKER_04 (02:46):
Listen, when you cheers that you must look into
the eyes of the other person,otherwise it's seven years of
bad sex.

SPEAKER_06 (02:57):
You can say sex now.
You can get mine with that.

SPEAKER_04 (03:00):
I guess you don't.
Does that mean then if bestfriends are looking at each
other?
It doesn't mean typically itdoesn't mean necessarily what
that person's a lot of peoplefrom now on looking away.

SPEAKER_06 (03:09):
Yeah, but it's just general, right?
Yeah, I guess you're the one whocame up with it, so cheers.

SPEAKER_04 (03:18):
Okay, that's that's why it popped because um it's
warm.
It's warm.

SPEAKER_06 (03:22):
It's warm.

SPEAKER_04 (03:23):
That's probably what you know.

SPEAKER_06 (03:24):
Back speaking of champagne, we'll talk about this
real quick.
Uh I did a wedding.
I used to have a DJ company, andI did a wedding, and we did uh
they put the champagne all inthe freezer at the beginning of
the reception.
When come time to do the pose,it was all frozen.

SPEAKER_04 (03:36):
So how's the marriage?
Did it last?

SPEAKER_06 (03:38):
You know what?
I don't know.
That was the same that was thesame wedding that I did that the
bride sat on one side of theroom with her family, the groom
sat on the other side of theroom with his family, they
didn't do a dance together, theydidn't do anything together.
It was an arrangement.
I don't know, but nobody washappy.

SPEAKER_03 (03:56):
I'd like to know if they're stuck.

SPEAKER_06 (03:57):
I couldn't wait for it to get over.
I doubt that they are.
They weren't really togetherwhen it started, so I doubt that
they're good together now.

SPEAKER_04 (04:03):
Have you done the bride or groom more than once?

SPEAKER_06 (04:07):
Two.

SPEAKER_04 (04:08):
You've literally done two people that married a
second time.

SPEAKER_06 (04:11):
So obviously, they didn't blame me for the wedding
for the marriage.

SPEAKER_04 (04:16):
Was it it?
Was it your fault?
No, all right.
So we've got some great guestson the show today.
Um, we are actually out in theum, do we have a green room?
I think it's more of the areathat you walk into when you come
into the street.

SPEAKER_06 (04:27):
It will be when Kelly gets done with it.
It'll be the green room.

SPEAKER_04 (04:30):
You know, there has not been a female touch in this
station for quite quite sometime.
So it's like walking into amen's locker room.

SPEAKER_06 (04:38):
I would just walk in here, and Dave would just look
at me with that grin and shakehis head, like I know who did
that.
Yeah.
Kelly's going around puttingrenews at air freshener plugins
everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 (04:51):
Seriously, there actually is a locker out there,
and not always.
So I guess they're kind ofgetting the feel.
But we're in a socks in it,though.

SPEAKER_06 (04:58):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (04:58):
What is it looking at?
You guys like there's too manyof you in one spot.
It starts as a boy and goes up.
It just it just stinks.
You guys just stink.
Get too many of you together.

SPEAKER_06 (05:12):
Some of us do bathe regularly.
I don't know about the otherones.
I can't vouch for everybody.
I know.

SPEAKER_04 (05:18):
We've got a great time.
We're gonna be talking to workand leisure, which is a cool
space I did not know about, andso I was excited to find out.
But we have Raven, um, Weinrich,and Jordan Renard that we're
gonna speak to just shortlyhere.
Before we get going, though, wegot some fun things you know
that we wanna we want to talkabout with you.
And we yeah, you tap me.

SPEAKER_06 (05:39):
You could probably you probably just ask well, I
couldn't get your qu couldn'tget your attention.
Yeah.
Um, apparently your mic's notworking very well for some
reason.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (05:48):
So do I need to come in close?
Because that's gonna really beodd.
Yeah.
Am I not?
Because I usually talk prettyloud.
So I know like breaking the micup.
So you're looking, so you'relooking at so here's what we're
gonna do.

SPEAKER_06 (05:58):
Okay, we're gonna go to our question of the day, and
then we're gonna come rightback.
But during the break, what Iwant you to do.
Why are we breaking already?
Because my mic's not so we canfix your mic.
So we're gonna take a quickbreak so that Kelly's mic can
get fixed.
But while we are, I want you tothink about our question of the
day.
And Kelly, what was our questionof the day?

SPEAKER_04 (06:15):
So much to say.
We can't go to break.
Yeah, what's that one food thattakes you back to your
childhood?
That one food that takes youback to your childhood.
And we've got some greatanswers, and we've got our
answers, so we will would youshining that around to me
because my mic's alreadycontinuing, yeah.
I can just talk really loud.

(06:37):
That's okay.

SPEAKER_06 (06:37):
You know what?
That's gonna happen today.
We are gonna see some of that,and that's okay.
So we're gonna take a quickbreak and we'll come right back
here.
You're listening to the In YourCity show on KLIS 590.

SPEAKER_04 (06:48):
The Lou Information Stage.

SPEAKER_06 (06:50):
There we go.
Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 (06:58):
One down, how many more to go, Matthew?

(08:49):
We're back.
I think you can hear me.
Gotta hear me.

SPEAKER_06 (08:52):
I have always love those infomercials on on the TV
when I go, okay, we're back.

SPEAKER_04 (08:56):
And they just, where were you?
I have so much to say.
So of course, um, it is thefirst day.
It's the Lou InformationStation.
So if you happen to be on thedial of 5 90 a.m., go ahead and
get a crackle and pop and justpop on your phone, pop on your
laptop, wherever you're at, andgo to luinfo.com.
There's literally a button, youjust press it and it'll take you

(09:17):
to the show live.
There's a chat room there if youwant to talk to us and be able
to be involved with the show,answer our question of the day,
which is what's that one foodthat takes you back to
childhood?
And talking about food, I havenever been to a crawfish boil
before.
That was the first one.
The Summerdis, friends of ours,Frank and Angie, invite us, and

(09:40):
we haven't been able to go thelast three years.
And so we went this time,gorgeous day on Saturday.
Wow, the weather was amazing.

SPEAKER_03 (09:47):
And you go in, they have these big boiling pots, and
it's kind of like they made it.

SPEAKER_04 (10:22):
I did try the crawfish.
Um, the saw, everything was madeto perfection.
Then they made this cool table.
Did you have um did that youshow that?
Well, I'm talking, I'm busyright now.
I'm so busy.
Like, what are you watching?
I'm not watching what's goingon.

(10:42):
So they they they made thistable.
So instead of just this longtable, they put those like great
big holes in the center of thetable that drop down into trash
cans.
Now I'm gonna admit, so I'm thatperson, I'm that person that I
don't really care for I don'tlike buffets because everybody
is just kind of on top of it andbreathing on it and sort of

(11:03):
touching it and doing all kindsof things.
So I get really grossed out.
And that was way before COVID.
So I know everybody's grossedout now.
If you just cough, you feel likeyou have to tell someone it's
okay.
I'm just have a tickle.
Not going to kill you.
But they but after, so I got myplate, you did the same thing.
Oh, yeah, walked away.
Walked away.
Once I walked away, I was notable to go back because there

(11:26):
are some people.

SPEAKER_06 (11:27):
I know they take everybody sits there and just
eats over the table.

SPEAKER_04 (11:29):
And it was just the men that sat and ate over the
table.
You guys are vicious.
You're like, Why do you keepincluding me?
Because you're a man.
We are the guys, but you'llprobably hear that a lot.
He is we I walked away.

SPEAKER_06 (11:43):
I was like, first guy was a guy next to me, and he
was eating over it, and it wasjust coming out, and I was like,
Okay, I'm moving down.
So my food to my table.

SPEAKER_04 (11:53):
You know what happens, right?
And they just couldn't leave.
I mean, it was just too, andthey said that you're really
supposed to just kind of eat andthen throw your stuff into those
uh the buckets buckets, butyeah, I was I I felt so much
better taking it to my seat.
So so anyway, again, thatquestion of the day what's that
one food that takes you back tochildhood?
And some of the answers were sowhat would yours be, Gordon?

SPEAKER_06 (12:14):
Well, I used to take so all these uh uh all the
millennials and gen Z, Gen,whatever they are.
Yeah, no, the ding dongs allcome in cellophane now, right?
That was the I don't even wantit anymore.
Ding dongs used to come in foil.
Each ding dong was separatelywrapped in foil.
And you put them in the freezerand let them get I'm pretty sure

(12:37):
it's supposed to be toxic now,all those big dongs we ate, but
we put them in the freezer andthen we'd pull them out and eat
those things.
They were the best.
A frozen ding dong in thesummer, and then uh hostess ding
dong, and um then burger chef.
Remember Burger Chef?

SPEAKER_04 (12:52):
No, I mean McDonald's.

SPEAKER_06 (12:54):
It was Burger Chef and Jeff.
Okay, was the the Burger Chefand Jeff?
I don't remember Jeff.
Well, he was the little littleguy that hung out with them,
kind of like my ex.
Right, but the burgers all camein these little cellophane, you
know, uh packages, and you couldsee the burger and it would get
all steamed up, and it was like,it was great.
I can't believe that they're nolonger in business.

SPEAKER_04 (13:14):
Yeah, it's probably because of Jeff.

SPEAKER_06 (13:16):
Yeah, Jeff's fine.

SPEAKER_04 (13:17):
But I love my mom would never keep snacks in the
house.
So if she bought ding dongs fora special trip or we went
camping or you know, out on thewater, I literally almost ate a
whole box, and then I spent thewhole camping trip throwing up.
So I really urge you not to eatmore than one or two, you know,
if you're gonna indulge in it.
But anyway, some of the stuff,meatloaf.

(13:38):
Remember, remember when you'reyoung, it was Monday meatloaf,
Tuesday tacos, or whatever.
Maybe that's where that camefrom.
What we named our day of theweek the parents only knew what
what they were cooking.
And did your mom cook with likeCrisco and all that?

SPEAKER_06 (13:52):
All the time.
Lard, Crisco, just put big oldhonks of it in the frying pan.
Wow.
Now we do have uh uh mostlysuperheroes.
Childhood favorite food for mewould be homemade pizza, making
in with my mom.
It was a delish.

SPEAKER_04 (14:06):
Now homemade, I was just gonna say that like chef
boyard.
That smell, that sauce was oneof its own.

SPEAKER_06 (14:13):
It was a square pan, too.
Jiffy Pop, we tried that withthe brand kids.
Remember that?
Yeah, absolutely.
That was awesome.

SPEAKER_04 (14:19):
We it was, but I don't think it was as good as
what we once remembered.
No, kind of changes or whatever.
It's caught on fire.
How about spam?
Mary Dennis.

SPEAKER_06 (14:28):
Never.
That is not a childhoodfavorite.

SPEAKER_04 (14:30):
That's just my mom bought um, let's see, it's not
spam, it's not baloney, whichbaloney was big.
What's the other brownschweiger?
Oh remember that and it's likeshe goes, I'm not eating that.
Smell of it was just like my momalways.

SPEAKER_06 (14:45):
Oh, it's a sauerkraut and some brown
schweiger.
It's like a lot of parents madeliver.

SPEAKER_04 (14:50):
That smell never went away.
My mom made me eat.

SPEAKER_06 (14:54):
Let me rephrase that.
My mom never made me doanything.
She was the the sweetest woman,and still is still is.
But my dad, you're gonna eatthat.
You're gonna try it.
You gotta you gotta try it once,you know.

SPEAKER_04 (15:07):
That's why we were all fat because our parents said
you'll not eat up from thetable.

SPEAKER_06 (15:10):
Eggplant.
And it was horrible.
And I said, I'm gonna throw upif I eat that.
And sure enough, I took one biteand I threw up.

SPEAKER_04 (15:17):
My dad looks at it.

SPEAKER_06 (15:17):
And my mom looks at my dad and goes, He told you
he's gonna throw it up.

SPEAKER_04 (15:20):
Cold sloth.
You just even say the word sortof kind of do that.

SPEAKER_06 (15:27):
What are you saying?
I'm fat.
I don't know where to look.
I'm looking for support here.
Did did anybody hear me say thatshit?
Absolutely nothing.
This isn't where men and women Igo, you said that I did not say
that we're married.

SPEAKER_04 (15:43):
I did not say that.
Kinda.
I'm pretty sure I heard it.

SPEAKER_06 (15:46):
I got witnesses.

SPEAKER_04 (15:47):
I'm pretty sure.
I want to say our chairs.
How cool are chairs?
Yeah.
Swivel.
So the white hair is my crack.
So if I can go into the whitehair, it's located in St.
Peter's and go shopping.
Gordon will tell me if I getreally like crabby or whatever,
that I need therapy.
He doesn't need like acounselor, like to go sit down
and talk to somebody.
He actually means like I need togo shopping at the white hair.

(16:08):
And then I can just feel better.
It's a very expensive therapy,though, to have.
I don't really highly suggest.

SPEAKER_06 (16:14):
In fact, most of our houses, 80% of our house is from
the white hair.

SPEAKER_04 (16:18):
Yeah, it pretty much is.
I don't think there's a roomthat doesn't have something from
it, but our two of our peoplelikely, you know, yeah.
We're a little overboard on.
I just want to say that.
So, so yeah, so if you've got achildhood favorite food or
something that takes you back,let us know.
You can uh put it right up thereon the chat.
We can take a look at it, seewhat you have to offer.
We've got a poll question comingup.

(16:38):
We'd like to know um, you know,about that as well.
We've got um some little sizzleand style here today.
That's our Mondays, andhopefully we'll have time to get
around to that.
But actually, we're gonna take abreak so that we can get our
very first guest on the new InYour City show here at the Lou
Info, Lou Information Station.
But Louinfo.com, of course, iswhere you want to go, which

(17:00):
makes it so simple to watch itanywhere.
And you know, as we move along,everything will get a little bit
smoother and running and andgoing.
So uh we'll uh we'll take it toa break and then we'll be right
back with more of In Your Cityshow.
I'm Kelly Lamb, GordonMontgomery, and uh we'll be back
for more fun.
Cheers.

(17:25):
Holy ovens, the bad thing.

(22:52):
All right.
We are back to the In Your Cityshow.
We're not.
Banner's still on.
Banners up.

SPEAKER_07 (22:59):
I don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_04 (23:02):
Banner's up, but my mic's on, so they can hear me
talking.

SPEAKER_05 (23:08):
This is so much fun.

SPEAKER_02 (23:10):
I'm having a blast.
We haven't even done anythingyet.

SPEAKER_05 (23:13):
Oh my god, it's like the blind leading the blind
right now.

SPEAKER_02 (23:16):
Oh my gosh, I love the little dog with the
headphones.

SPEAKER_04 (23:18):
Okay, are you in the um so we have a full dog that
we're madly in love with, and umgreat talk to us?
Tell us what's happening.
So she's our mascot.
I love it.

SPEAKER_02 (23:37):
The headphones are cute.

SPEAKER_04 (23:39):
We uh all right, we are back this time.
We're back again.
I don't even, this is like thefifth time we're trying, but all
right, I'm Kelly Lamb.
I'm Gordon Montgomery.
And you are listening to the InYour City Show right here at the
Lou Information Station.
You can listen to us, of course,at youtube.com.
You can just, or you can justhit luinfo.com and literally

(24:01):
there's a button right therethat you can press to go on.
Of course, you can find us atApple, Spotify, anywhere that
you stream.
And being that we're 20 24-7 andyou just really can't get enough
of us, you can just listen to usall day long.

SPEAKER_06 (24:13):
That's really important to say too, because if
you're listening on air andyou're we're talking about
things that you can't see.
No, actually, it's really it'sreally good.
It's been really good.
But if there's things thatyou're here talking about, but
you have no visual, you can goback and see other visuals.
Yeah, because visuals makes itso much fun.

SPEAKER_04 (24:29):
It's the crawfish going into the boiling water.
But now we're gonna take it toour guests, which have a really
cool uh venue.
And but before I'm gonna dothat, I am gonna talk about
someone that's super, supercool.
Auto Orthodontics.
Have you guys heard of it?

(25:18):
They couldn't stand it.
Uh, braces, whitening, or evenBotox touch out.
I'm not for that.
They've got you covered withfaster, more comfortable,
personalized treatment.

And here's what's even cooler: they're Missouri's number one (25:27):
undefined
Invisalign provider with fiveconvenient locations: Cre Core,
DePair, Fenton, St.
Peter's, and Wentzville.
They accept most insurance andoffer interest-free payment
plans.
So getting started is easy andit's stress-free.
So here's the deal.
Now, this is important.

(25:48):
Mention this ad when you call,and you'll get$1,000 off your
treatment.
Just act like I'm not telling.
So I can get a deal.
And so$1,000 off your treatment.
Yep,$1,000.
And that's just being alistener.
But listener, Dr.
Otto has earned a ton of A listand local awards because of her
patients.

(26:08):
Trust her.
And that's something she takesseriously.
So don't wait.
You can go to visit.
You can visit, not go to visit.
But you know, that's whathappens when you start to read
the website, and then you gowww.
So visit autoortho.com.
They're keeping it short andeasy for you to book your free

(26:30):
consultation and let Dr.
Otto help you smile withconfidence.
And of course, as we mentioned,$1,000 off if you mention my
name, Gordon's name, in yourcity show, KLIS, whatever you
want to remember from thisstatement right here.
I did it.
Dr.
Otto, you are my first live readfor the show.
We got our first guest in thestudio.

(26:54):
Everything's a first today.
You know how it is when you havethose first, right?
So now back to our regularprogramming schedule with our
guest.
Work and leisure, cool venue.
I I just of course heard aboutyou getting uh to be on the
show, and I'm looking at it.
And then I find out that LizSchuster is part of the uh food

(27:16):
ensemble, and we are madly inlove with her.
We've had so much fun going toher.
One of our first dates was aTenacious Eats.
Uh, it was elf.
Oh yeah.
It hooked them line and sinker,line.
Have you say that?
You know, with that.
Yeah.
So welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for having uson.
Yeah, it's Richard.
We have Ryan Rich.
Did I say that right?

(27:37):
Ryan Rick.
Rich sounds really good.
I just go by Rich.
You're Rich.
Yeah.
But it's Fine.
Rine Rick and Jordan Renard.

SPEAKER_02 (27:45):
Yes.

SPEAKER_04 (27:46):
Are you Mary?
Are you related to Mary EllenRenard?
And it's a very good family.

SPEAKER_02 (27:51):
So probably it could be a distant cousin of uh mine.
I've bumped into I'm not fromSt.
Louis, but as I've moved uphere, there'll be other people
like, wait a minute, we have thesame last name we start talking,
and it seems like it's somewhaton the line where it's like my
dad's cousin's cousin's kid orsomething like that.
Yeah, yeah, so it's probablycousins, you know, three or four
times down the line.

SPEAKER_04 (28:10):
Well, welcome.
We're so glad to have you andand finding out about your um
your uh your location.
And I've got all my I mean, I Iwas equipped and ready.
Gordon, you've got here we go.
Easy question.
So go ahead, Gordon.

SPEAKER_06 (28:26):
The name is unique.
Yeah, so what's the story behindthe name?

SPEAKER_02 (28:30):
So the story behind the name is we initially opened
up in 2018 and we were aco-working space by day with a
coffee shop, and then we werehosting events at night.
So you we wanted to create aspace where you're able to kind
of work during the day and thenfade into leisure as the day
went on with cocktails anddifferent small plates.
Well, COVID happened, kind ofhad to switch it up a little bit
with our business model.

(28:51):
So now we use it for largerdaytime meetings and then
private events uh during theevening hours as well.
Yeah.
So we do some different pop-upsand stuff throughout the year,
but that's where the name waswas work and leisure because we
work during the day and leisureat night.

SPEAKER_04 (29:03):
Sure.
So you're located, of course, inthe heart of midtown.
Uh you're just blocks from theFox Theater, is that correct?
Not too far, yeah.
Not too far from it.
So being that close and such avibrant area, how does that
influence your events and yourclientele actually?

SPEAKER_01 (29:20):
It definitely makes our demographic not like there
is no demographic that exists.
So we have everyone from likechildren to older, every
background, every religion.
There's nothing about work andleisure that is like this is
what this is.
But it's it's great becausesince we have so much diversity,
we get a lot of art and culturethat comes through.

(29:40):
So all of our private events arecharitable and art focused and
live entertainment, and it's allit's just like it's like you see
the community come together withevery single event.

SPEAKER_04 (29:50):
I feel like a tourist right here.
I mean, we've lived hereforever, and we live out um in
uh a new town.
Yeah, but when we go into thecity for anything.
And we're just there recentlyfor a wedding and had never been
to that jazz club that's rightthere by the Fox.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Tourist.

SPEAKER_02 (30:07):
Bistros at the jazz?
Jazz at the bistroom makes you.
What a cool thing.

SPEAKER_04 (30:12):
I didn't feel like I was a native to St.
Louis also.
I felt like it was a wholedifferent art district.
Wasn't it?
It was fun.
I said we've got to start actinglike a tourist in our own city
and finding out new things andnew culture.
And so that it's really cool.
You're the part of so much funbeing there.

SPEAKER_01 (30:29):
Love to hear that.
Midtown is really unique in thatway because it's kind of up and
coming.
It disappeared for a while, andnow, like now that's like the
new art district.
So people are really justfinding out about it.

SPEAKER_04 (30:39):
Come back.
You say it disappeared for alittle while.

SPEAKER_02 (30:42):
Oh, yeah.
The Kranzburg and stuff havereally taken on a lot of work in
that area with you know,bringing a lot more of uh music
and things that had been there,just help revitalizing it,
making it a little more of anarts district.
And then obviously the citystadium going in didn't hurt at
all, which is about seven blocksaway from our establishment.
So it's starting to get somedifferent eyes in the area that
hadn't been there for a while.
So I think it's a mix of a fewdifferent things over time that

(31:03):
the build, you know.

SPEAKER_04 (31:05):
Actually, that's where the wedding that we went
to was the Kransberg, thatbuilding.
Oh yeah.
First time I'd been in there.
I mean, we were just completelyimpressed by it all.
Yeah, and then the art, youknow, they're the art that's
like being painted on the sideof the buildings of that just
adds such an incredible vibe,yeah, you know, to the city.
So very, very cool to be in themidst of that.

(31:27):
So it's not a typical, to me,workspace or event space.
You have bocce ball,shuffleboard ball, uh,
shuffleboard, three bars thatdefinitely set you apart.
Well tell us a little bit aboutthat and how it does set you
apart from other commonworkspace.

SPEAKER_02 (31:44):
Yeah, so you wanted to do something a little bit
different, right?
So we had this old building thatwe took possession of back in
2018.
It was a completely blank spaceat the time.
Uh actually it's an oldoptimology repair company, but
once they took all that oldequipment out, we were able to
kind of have this blank slate,right?
We wanted some bare walls, highceilings, and be able to have a
blank canvas to start from.

(32:04):
So with that in mind, we wantedto be able to access different
ways to be able to bring peoplein and to highlight different
areas of the space.
So some of it's a little moreloungy, it kind of feels like
almost like a living room, andthe other areas are a little bit
more industrial, which kind ofplays into some of like the
shuffleboard areas and thingslike that.
So we wanted to be able to havepeople be in the space and be
able to walk 100 feet into adifferent space and feel or

(32:26):
outside of the room, excuse me,and feel like they're in a
completely different space, eventhough it's the same thing.
So we just want to do somethingkind of a little bit different,
but give people a reason to go,oh, look at that over there.
Did you notice that littledetail?

SPEAKER_04 (32:36):
Right.
So unique.
So much.
I'm looking at the cocktail theyjust put on my I'm definitely
this is our happy hour rightnow, you know.
So we got a little champagnegoing at the pork box a little
too soon.

SPEAKER_06 (32:50):
It's called work and leisure, and you got all this
fun stuff.
It's a little bit more leisurethan work.

SPEAKER_01 (33:00):
The leisure room at work and leisure.
So that is helping a little bitkind of take people away from is
this just co-working?

SPEAKER_02 (33:08):
Yeah, yeah, it is a lot more lean towards leisure
than the work side of it.
Our work is your leisure.

SPEAKER_06 (33:21):
I think I'll have a drink.
Maybe uh that's how we ended upat the jazz bar.

SPEAKER_04 (33:28):
We set up great Hawaiian that we're having way
too much fun.
Let's try something new.
So you host some events.
Um, obviously, there.
You've been talking about that.
Um, what type of events are youdoing there?
And um uh what's the wildestevent you might have had there?

SPEAKER_05 (33:46):
I don't know if we can talk about the wildest.

SPEAKER_01 (33:50):
Just don't cut.
Yeah.
Uh so we do a little bit ofeverything.
Again, no demographic.
Like um, we hold everything froma mitzvah to a daytime meeting.
Um, we're really kind of leaninginto um adults uh themed events,
not well, not that type ofadult, 21 and above.

(34:12):
21 and above things that weloved as kids.
We recently did an adult summeruh selling bee for our second
year to raise money for thisyear for the boys and girls
club.
Um, and this year it will be oursecond year of adult summer
camp.
So it's hot outside.
We have the air conditionersblowing, but we deck out the
whole inside of the building tolook like a mountainscape.

(34:34):
It's kind of the little sisterof our uh winter pop-up
avalanche.
And um, we decorate the space,our lofts we change into a
bunkhouse with old Playboysunder the bunk.
And yeah, yeah.
Um we put coolers throughout thespace.
So when people get a littlenosy, like, what do they got in

(34:55):
here?
There's a smear and off ice,your ice.
So it's a lot of really funstuff like that.
And then each night has a themethat um is camp themed, but we
have scout night, we have twoscout nights, the second scout
night.
We actually have Liz's son,Benny, um, coming out with James
Enstall from Geek to Me Radio.
And they are gonna do Tales fromthe Trails because Benny hiked

(35:18):
the Appalachian Trail, the wholething.
Oh wow, and he has someincredible stories.
And we're gonna play some gameswith that, um, where people can
come up and try and pack theirbag for hiking.
And Benny's gonna come throughand say, Nope, you don't need
this.
Nope, wins wins that wholebackpack.

SPEAKER_04 (35:38):
You need to like turn down the lights and have
Jason come through and startplaying Friday the 13th because
you're adults.

SPEAKER_01 (35:48):
Um, a couple couple nights, chef Liz will have
takeovers and she'll be doingthe full Tenacious Eats.
The first one is Friday the 13thon Friday the 13th.
Oh my god, and it's also onTenace's Tenacious Eats' 13th
birthday.
Um teenager.
Um, and then June 20th, we'redoing Troop Beverly Hills, and

(36:08):
that's gonna be really funbecause that'll always show on
the movie and having food thatgoes with the movie, but we have
hairstylists.
Um sincerely, the craft will beout doing tarot readings.
I have a really great friend, uhShayna, who will be coming out
doing Botox, and we'll have umjust a few little other things
that are pampering some cookiegirls.
We could get the woman there,have the Botox, yeah, walking in

(36:31):
to get rid of our wrinkles.

SPEAKER_04 (36:33):
As long as no one makes out, no one should die at
the front of the third.

SPEAKER_02 (36:36):
Oh, yeah, I think everybody will survive this
five.

SPEAKER_05 (36:39):
Someone always gets stabbed at that point.
That's true.
Gordon's like, where'd myquestion go?

SPEAKER_06 (36:49):
No, no.
So I mean, okay, so let's say meand Kelly, we said, well, we
wanna have an event there.
So what's the process?
How do we go about contacting?
How do we go about contact?

SPEAKER_01 (36:58):
We do have events.
Yeah, you just uh you would makean inquiry on our website,
workandleasure.com, and it goesstraight to us.
We'll see it within probably 10minutes because we're excessive
that way.
We'll reach out and then we'lljust get some details and put
together a custom quote for youguys.
That'd be great.

SPEAKER_04 (37:13):
Now I see um with you're gonna do the tenacious
eats, but is there food thereall the time then or cocktails?
Because um you had a menu andnibble nibble.

SPEAKER_02 (37:22):
I don't know.
Yeah, so for the private events,we have teamed up with Chef Liz
Schuster, and she's been doingall of our culinary um stuff
through this year, and hopefullylonger than that.
And uh yeah, we're um we shehelps to come in, does all the
food and things like that.
And so we're not a typical likebar right now where we have
regular hours trying tofacilitate something like that

(37:43):
to make that happen.
We do miss being open to thepublic like we used to be
pre-COVID.
Um, but right now it is just forthe private events and
scheduling, uh, you know, theprivate events and larger
daytime meetings and things forright now.
But then we host our own thingslike the adult summer camp all
through July, uh through June,or Avalanche, which is all
through December, which is thewinter version of that thing.
So kind of a couple times a yearwe do some different uh hosts of

(38:04):
our own bigger pop-ups, andthere's it's a ticketed um event
mostly for those, but we alwaysgive a portion back to a charity
or some sort of cause.

SPEAKER_04 (38:11):
Oh, that's all bigger than a charity work.
It's funny how AC used to eventsomething out or BC and AC
before COVID and after COVID.
No longer before drive.
I'm going there on it.
So let me ask you, what sizeevents?
You know, how many people, thesmallest to the largest, can you

(38:32):
have with the vents before uh wetake it to break here?

SPEAKER_02 (38:35):
Oh yeah.
So we can do a wide range ofdifferent um sizes.
We max is about 200 people.
Okay, and that's more cocktailkind of standing around, but
we'll do things for 10 people.
Sometimes it is really small.
They need an area for uh thatthey want to get together and
have some games and have somefun, and you're celebrating a uh
a reason.
So you know we're prettyflexible, so it's a pretty wide
range for hopes.

SPEAKER_04 (38:55):
Well, do you have a few minutes?
We'll we'll take a break, we'llcome back.
Um, want to ask you the questionof the day.
We've got a poll question thatwe're going to be uh popping up
uh on the screen too that maybeyou might be able to buzz in on.
Um, would you rather watch amovie or would you rather binge
a show?
So we'd like to ask you thatquestion.

(39:15):
And we've got a little stylecoming up, so maybe you guys can
give your take on it too.
Do you have a few minutes tostick around?

SPEAKER_02 (39:20):
Absolutely.
Yeah, I would love to.

SPEAKER_04 (39:22):
All right.
So work at leisure is in theroom with us right now.
We've got Jordan and Ravensitting there having some fun.
We'll take it to a break andthen we'll be back with more of
In Your City show for our veryfirst time here at the Lou
Information Station atLouInfo.com.

SPEAKER_07 (39:37):
We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_06 (39:43):
And just kill it.

SPEAKER_02 (39:49):
I started to cross my legs, like, oh nope, don't do
that.

SPEAKER_06 (39:51):
I do that all the time.
All the time.
Um, you did it.

SPEAKER_04 (39:56):
Right.

SPEAKER_02 (39:57):
I don't I didn't know if it was supposed to or
not.

unknown (40:05):
Yes.

SPEAKER_04 (40:06):
You said you were so like that.

SPEAKER_02 (41:47):
There's one behind the laptop, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04 (41:53):
I just want to make sure because we don't have to go

(44:03):
to the back.
We are in your city show withJelly Lamb and Gordon
Montgomery.

SPEAKER_06 (44:13):
Some hot vibes coming your way, some more hot
vibes.

SPEAKER_04 (44:16):
We do.

SPEAKER_06 (44:16):
How'd you like your little introduction on my little
video?
So I can start to have fun withit too.

SPEAKER_04 (44:24):
Jordan and Raven have stayed back with us to have
some more fun in our hot vibesuh segment here.
And you're gonna also go tellthem about Lacefield music.
You guys play piano?

SPEAKER_06 (44:34):
Unfortunately, no musical talented on my and I'll
tell you what, it's very easy tolearn how to play piano.
So oh, I was gonna say, what youmean because of them?
Lacesfield piano, Lacespielmusic.
Kelly keeps on Lacel pianothere.
They are now let me tell yousomething.
Me and Kelly took piano lessonsand Kelly learned how to learn

(44:55):
how to play piano with a couplelessons.
And their lessons are supereasy.
There's uh the great thing aboutit too is if you buy a piano at
Lacfield Music, guess what?
You got one lessons for life.

SPEAKER_08 (45:05):
Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_06 (45:06):
Lessons for life.
So if you've ever filled ever ifyou've ever dreamed of filling
your home with the timelessbeauty of music, let me
introduce you to LacespillMusic.
I love Lacespill music, it'sright down there in the heart of
Chesterfield.
It's not just the piano store,but it's a musical experience.
They have grand pianos, theyhave digital pianos.
In fact, every so often theywill do a big sale.

(45:29):
I think it's their Muni salethat they do, and they sell all
the used pianos that the Munihas used throughout the season,
which is kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04 (45:37):
Because the Mini, of course, gets them through them
so that they sell them.
Actually, Dwayne, who uh owns uhLeacefield Music.
One of the owners, yes.
One of the owners, he is theone.
If you've been to a Cardinalgame and you hear the organ
play, that is him.
Oh no, that'd be pretty neat tobe the person that you know is
up there playing the organ.

SPEAKER_06 (45:56):
They have so yeah, like the lessons, like we talked
about.
They also have rentals,restorations, and expert tuning
services.
Have you ever listened to that?
We we had a piano all our livesat my house.
And watching some watching a guytune a piano, you can you can
tune a piano, but you can't tunea fish.
Anyway, have you tried to tune afish?

SPEAKER_04 (46:15):
Where'd that come from?
Aren't there some of thestupidest sayings I've got?

SPEAKER_06 (46:19):
Tune a fish.
Anyway, watching a guy tunepiano is incredible because you
got like three strings per notethat you gotta guitars are
pretty easy, but a piano ismusically inclined.
There used to be a guy that cameto our house and he was a blind
guy and he tuned pianos, but ofcourse, the terror.
Yeah, okay, tune up pianos.comand you can swing by their

(46:45):
beautiful showrooms inChesterfield and check out all
the pianos that they have andtalk to them about getting
lessons.
And if you say, Well, you knowwhat, how much your lessons?
Well, why don't I just buy apiano and then I'll get lessons
for free?
We'll check them out.

SPEAKER_04 (47:00):
So Julie Lolly, happy first show uh to the
incredible Kelly and Gordon.
Hi, Julie.
Oh, she's answering herquestion.
So she said um that for thequestion of the day that brings
her back to you know being akid, bologna, bologna, baloney
and cheese.
I will read.
I like buying it.

(47:20):
I will read what you put down inmy proper.
All right, bologna and cheesesandwiches for lunch and grape
Kool-Aid in my straw.
Oh my gosh, strawberry cake, uh,short cake thermos.
Is that the lunch box in Google?
I had Scooby-Doo one year, andoh my gosh, I just wanted I just
want to keep my lunchbox with meall the time.
That was so much fun.

(47:41):
And my computer.
Go ahead.
Casey said something too.
My computer just went bye-bye.
I gotta get my plug.

SPEAKER_06 (47:46):
Oh, tuning in, can't wait to watch.

SPEAKER_04 (47:48):
No, she wrote something else.

SPEAKER_06 (47:50):
Uh oh, it says our kids watch the movie.
Oh, well, she's talking aboutour movie thing.
Oh, yeah.
We'll get to that in just aminute.
You said great Kool-Aid, andwe're talking about things that
remind you, you guys areprobably too young.
But Tom Furhop's mom, Tom, ifyou're listening, you'll
remember this.
We talked about it the otherday.
His mom would always makeKool-Aid for all the kids, but
what she served it in was thosemetal glasses.

(48:14):
They were metal.
You know, you're when you'reyoung, you're teaching.
I don't know about metal cups.
And you touch a metal cup andjust what'd you do?
It was such a great memory, youknow.
And they were all differentcolors, purple and red and
green, and it's yeah, that's achildhood.

SPEAKER_04 (48:33):
All the things that we had at our generation are
like dangerous now.

SPEAKER_01 (48:38):
My oldest graduated college, so I might be a little
older than you think.
Were you a 12-year-old atpregnancy?

SPEAKER_05 (48:46):
I'm actually turning 29 and pregnant.
You are so young, there's noway.
Yeah, we're a little older thanwe look.

SPEAKER_04 (48:53):
Wow, I definitely want your moisturizer.
Whichever you're eating,anything, I'll take it.
Because you look like you couldbe my child.

unknown (49:01):
Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 (49:05):
So I know my friend Shayna who does my battery.

SPEAKER_04 (49:08):
Get that little plug in there.
All right.
So our question, which we justhad a couple answers.
Of course, I can't read anythinguntil the break, and I can find
my plug to plug my computer in.
But um, what was the food thatbrings back childhood memory for
you all?

SPEAKER_02 (49:23):
Um, the one for me, the first thing that popped in
my head was my mom's chili.
She's got a certain chili thatshe makes, and for some reason
when you were little.
We're little all the timethrough the fall and the winter.
And it's just, I don't know,every time I eat chili, it kind
of takes me back to thatchildhood thing.

SPEAKER_04 (49:39):
That is like that's the only time of the year that I
need chilies on Halloween.
So I guess that'll be my kid'slike maybe memory of being a kid
as well.

SPEAKER_05 (49:47):
That's cool.
And what is yours?

SPEAKER_01 (49:49):
Oh my gosh, all the Italians out there are about to
roll over their graves.
Um, so spaghetti on a piece ofwhite bread with butter, fold it
in half.

SPEAKER_04 (49:58):
That's a wedding.

SPEAKER_01 (49:59):
Yeah, spaghetti.

SPEAKER_05 (50:01):
Spaghetti white bread at a wedding.
Yeah, put it on the bread, youfold it in half.
Spaghetti.
Literally that.

SPEAKER_04 (50:12):
I'm disappointed now because now when you go to a
wedding, it's you know, I don'teven recognize the food, but I
eat it anyway.
But the olden days at thewedding, it was mustard chili,
ham and cheese, white bread, youhave to pick your slice of
cheese to slap on there and thenmustard and mayonnaise in a
bowl.

SPEAKER_08 (50:28):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (50:28):
Yeah, good old days, right?

SPEAKER_08 (50:30):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (50:31):
So we've got our poll question, which I can't
read.
So um, basically, because our umtalking about if people would
rather binge watch or um watch amovie, it's so close.
I told Gordon the percentage,I'm like, wow, 54% prefer bench
watching.
He goes, Okay, that's not reallymuch higher than you know, yeah,
it's a little over 50%, which Iactually thought binge watching

(50:55):
would be off the chart overwatching a movie.
We bench watch all the time, butwe like it's like certain
nights, it's almost like thespecial night we're gonna watch
a movie.
Yeah, you have to really focus.
We literally watch Game ofThrones.
Now there's nine seasons, right?
Yeah, in 30 days.
There were several nights thatit was four o'clock in the

(51:17):
morning and we're still watchingsaying I really totally got it.

SPEAKER_01 (51:23):
Tomorrow, our dog's name is Khaleesi.

SPEAKER_04 (51:26):
Yeah, so you're really bad, aren't you?

SPEAKER_01 (51:30):
But we got her right before the last season, so it
probably would have changed alittle bit.
I wonder how many kids are namedKhaleesi right now.
I think it's the biggest girl'sname of the year.
Really?

SPEAKER_02 (51:39):
I heard on the radio of um the last week or
something, they're talking aboutsome of the newer names, and
Khaleesi was one of the top likefour or five like bigger names
of the year.

SPEAKER_04 (51:48):
No, if I could see the board up and talk to him, or
I'd have to type it in realfast, which would take much
longer.
He could probably hear me.
I'd be asking him to find thestats on how many people names
there's probably stats on it nowbecause it's been up been a
little bit.
They tried to bring it back, butI guess they did House of
Dragons maybe.

SPEAKER_05 (52:07):
And we watched it, but I don't think that's come
back either again, has it?
Um, I think it's coming outpretty soon.
I saw a trailer for it recently.
Do you think that's like thenumber one um series ever?

SPEAKER_04 (52:18):
Is maybe um Game of Thrones?

SPEAKER_02 (52:22):
I mean, that would it's been I've never heard of
another show having such a rangelike that.

SPEAKER_04 (52:28):
Yeah, yeah, or whatever to see at the ending of
the show, or even watching itthroughout the week.
Shameless.
We were addicted to that today.
We're talking about twodifferent shows.

SPEAKER_06 (52:38):
But we're late covers, so we're always stuff
like maybe two or three yearslater.

SPEAKER_04 (52:42):
I do that too.
Yeah, I thought it was whathappens when you get old.

SPEAKER_06 (52:46):
So I do have a question for you guys because
you guys are younger.
And so we come from there.
I mean, I grew up in the 60s.
With dinosaurs.
So here's my question for youabout benchwashing and movies.
Do you feel like today, moviestudios are just having a hard
time coming up and creatinganything that's new because they

(53:07):
keep repeating stuff likeMission Impossible 17, or even
going back to something likeStarsky and Hodge and all the
shows that we grew up with,they're trying to recreate into
today.

SPEAKER_01 (53:17):
Well, I think those movies are easy to create like
that nostalgic bubble.
Like, I want to go relive thatwith my kids.
Yeah, and with movies or withshows, like every everybody has
such a large budget now.
Camera works better, thewriting's better, the actors are
higher budget.
So you get more it depends onthe show, like that's definitely

(53:38):
gonna be very subjective.

SPEAKER_04 (53:40):
But a lot of the movies, I think, they're
throwing them out so fast withso many apps now that the movies
are just being thrown out, andwe watch them.
We're like, I can't believewe've actually fast-forwarded
the movies just so we could seethe ending because the movie's
so bad.
But we needed to know theending.
Yeah, and trying to watch TV,see another generation.

(54:01):
It was 25, 11, 30, 30.
35, 9, 11, channel 30.
And you could turn the TV on,and it would be right in the
middle of one of your favoritemovies, and then you'd finish
watching it.
Yeah, now literally we havefinished the popcorn, all the
snacks are done, and we stillhave a funny thing to watch
going through the apps trying tofind it.

SPEAKER_02 (54:21):
Oh, we we do, definitely.
It's definitely a quality overquantity, it feels like right
now of just this of stuff outthere, right?
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 (54:29):
We we do cycle, we just started cycling it out,
yes, and we need a second jobfor all the apps.
Remember when we used tocomplain that oh my gosh, having
cables like a whole 45 or 60dollars or something, it's like
so expensive, and now you'relike almost at 300 by the time
you have your you know cableoutlet, and then you're buying
all of your apps.
It's kind of uh a little bit,it's a little out of hand right

(54:51):
now.
So we have to sell an extra adjust so that we can afford that
to have cable, right?
We gotta go.
We're at the top of the hour.
Is it is it one minute?
It is fine.
I don't want.
We're gonna take a quick break.
We should be.
We'll be right back.
Top of the hour is important.
I'm not gonna say anything, justgo.

SPEAKER_05 (55:12):
Sorry, we're so entertaining.
He isn't gone yet.

SPEAKER_04 (55:18):
Goodbye, Grant.

(01:01:07):
Or not.
They're the owners of work andleisure, having some fun,
letting stick around andenjoying them so much we didn't
let them leave.
So we were talking about thepoll question if you binge or
watch, uh, tend to watch a moviemore.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:23):
So what did you did you answer what you like more by
any chance?

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:27):
I'm definitely a binger.
Like I said, like it's likeeverything is like watching a
movie.
Yeah, having mom bladder, I geta lot more breaks.
Mom bladder.
Yeah.
Like that.
If you're binging, you'reprobably drinking something.
But yeah, it's like I like tohave those breaks without having
to see the funny face on pause.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:45):
Like, uh it's just you can't stop with binging if
it's really good.
Then you just keep that it doesit to you quickly.
It's got that little nextepisode coming up.
So why not?

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:55):
Just go and fall asleep.
I'll just start back over.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:59):
Yeah.
And how about you?

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:00):
I'm gonna I agree with her.
I like binging as well becauseit's like you know, if you have
10 episodes and they're an hourlong each, it's like a long
movie, right?
Because it's a 10-hour movie.
So I do like that and be able toget through the storyline a
little bit more and not have tobe like, oh, I gotta wait for
it, or whatever.
So I do like appreciate theaspect of binging.
Movies do have a good time.
I like it in movies when it'sraining outside.
Raining outside, you get a nicerain day inside.

(01:02:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Something kind of fit the mood,but I get into movies a little
bit more um in that way.

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:27):
So I have to leave towards the I get so invested in
Avenge watching, and then theygo.
I'm like, I'm not done with youyet.
I need to know what's gonnahappen next, and if you're gonna
stay together, I'll meet babies.

SPEAKER_06 (01:02:38):
That's my ow ow.
It's so much fun to watch Kellywatch a movie.
Sometimes I watch Kelly the onethat I wrote in a movie.
She gets so into it, she'll belike, I'm really up.

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:54):
And in scary movies, she starts gonna be like, I love
scary movies and I hate scarymovies all at the same time.
So um, Liz Schuster, she's on.
She's going back to the motherof the dragons.
Uh, she's the cutest mother ofdragons ever.
I guess that was our dog.
Your dog.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:11):
She's talking about that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:12):
Yeah, we call her our head of HR because she's at
work with us all the time.
So when someone comes in, shehas to make sure they're happy.
She makes sure the whole timethey're happy.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:20):
They definitely do roll.
What do you guys binge watchingright now?

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:23):
We just finished White Lotus.
The uh just finished that one.
That was really the second one.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:28):
Okay, second one.
Um what's her name?

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:31):
Oh, the third one.

SPEAKER_05 (01:03:32):
Third one.

SPEAKER_02 (01:03:32):
Oh yeah.
Sorry, yeah, they all get we canget them all kind of
consecutively.

SPEAKER_04 (01:03:36):
Very different shows, aren't they?
We love it.
Yes, we we love when we get onethat we don't want to quit
watching.
It's hard to find thosesometimes.
We just finished, um, which isactually one of the top ones.
Uh, actually, it's not.
Wait a minute.
I think that's what I wassurprised about.
No, no, friends uh friends andneighbors.
Oh, yeah, Johnny and finished itlast night, but it's not on the

(01:03:59):
top trending bench.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:00):
I'm I'm really completely shocked because it is
really good.
I feel like we could probablytalk too long about the ending
on that.

SPEAKER_01 (01:04:07):
We're really disappointed in those choices.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:09):
I am too.
Yeah, because you could have hadboth.
I know.
So another thing has anythingcan't tell.
Another thing that's reallydisappointing about series is
you when we watch it and all ofa sudden you realize they
changed writers.
Oh, yeah, you could tell.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:27):
Oh I like it.
Everything changed.
Yeah, I don't appreciate that.
Or if they wait three years forit to come back, like
Yellowstone was like, come on,oh my gosh.
And then it was a time to stop.
Yeah, I was kind of getting alittle tired of that.
She was just got a little youdidn't get tired of her ever
just because she could sayanything.
She's got a trailer park.
I like a little too tough at theend.

(01:04:49):
Come on, she's like whippingpeople's butts and stuff like
that.
But I guess for a guy it wasokay.
She came back.
Sirens.
So we just started watchingsirens.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
Yeah, so we started that one.
Jordan hasn't watched that one.
That we just the blonde, Irealized the little blonde.
I'm like, how she's 12.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:07):
So I was like, she's from House of Dragons, but she
looks like she's 12.
I had to look her up because Iswore that had to be Matt
Damon's child.

unknown (01:05:16):
Damon's child.

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:17):
I was watching her face and I was like, I look like
I feel like I'm looking at MattDamon's gotta be his child, and
they're not related at all.

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:24):
Side by side, then on that one and see.
Um, let's see.
Oh, Julie says she can't waitfor the bear to come back.
So again, it's one of thosethings where you get all
invested in a show, then theystop it, and then you gotta wait
for a new season, you know, tocome out.
Or in the fact in the case ofneighbors and friends, I'd
almost rather start watching itnow because we had to wait a
week.

(01:05:44):
Yeah, yeah.
Oh my gosh, it drives me crazy.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:46):
That is the key.
If it's already played out, thenyou just go buzz through it.

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:50):
Yeah, someone with Harry.
Um, they're English.
Oh bad to the bone, Harry.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:55):
Uh Mobland.
Oh, haven't we started that one?

SPEAKER_02 (01:05:58):
Yeah, we saw the advertising for it, but it's it
is worth watching.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:03):
He has not James Cocoa Beans.
What's the lady's the actress'sname?

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:07):
Yeah, in Yellowstone or 1880, 1893, 1828.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:11):
One of those years.
1928.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:13):
Uh the silver, the white hair buddy.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:15):
Uh I know you're talking about haven't seen that
one advertising for it as well.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:18):
She's crazy.
She's off the chain.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:21):
His wife in the movie, correct?
Is that right?
If I got a bright food trailer,okay.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:24):
Yeah, it looks thorn in Landman.
Did you watch that?
No.
Oh my gosh, you're so lucky.

SPEAKER_02 (01:06:32):
We've got to add some things to our queue.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:34):
We're waiting for the next on right here.
That's the full point of all theapps that we have to continue to
keep buying because you have tohave Paramount for this and uh
Prime for I mean.

SPEAKER_01 (01:06:48):
Let's start in a bundle now.
I think some people are startingto catch up.
I think Hulu, Disney, andParamount might have a
connection.
The bundle.
There's like three of them.
The Disney though, we're out.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:01):
It has to see pre nudity, top language, sexual
content, we're in.

SPEAKER_02 (01:07:07):
Those are prerequisites for the
represents.
Oh yeah, yeah.
That's a new one to see.
You're like, oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:16):
Can't watch this.
They're smoking smoking.
Well, the bear is that is one ofthe top trending murder bot,
I've not watched.
Secrets with keep, I haven'twatched.
We watched one episode of thebear, so we have to get back
with that.
That one, Agatha, all along.

SPEAKER_02 (01:07:30):
No, not familiar with that one.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07:32):
Clizz loves the bear but can't watch it.
Why?
She says it's the mosttriggering thing she's ever
because they're in the kitchen.
Yeah, and there's just one scenein in particular where he keeps
looking at the clock because heneeds a cigarette.
And she's like, I have I turn itoff.
I start sweating.
So funny.

SPEAKER_02 (01:07:47):
So we see printer going to oh yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:51):
She's like, oh no.
Department Q adults.
That's a comedy.
I would have thought, kind oflike your adult summer camp.
Only meaning, only murders inthe building and the pit.
Those are the top picks rightnow, which we've obviously
missed most of those.
So we'll have to.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:08):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:08):
We just watched the studio with Seth Rogan.
Probably one of the best.

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:12):
It's really cool.
Have you seen that yet?
It's on Apple TV as well.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:15):
The way it films.
You passed the first episode.
The first episode was kind oflike us on Anna Roll or
something.

SPEAKER_02 (01:08:21):
It gets better.

SPEAKER_01 (01:08:22):
It stays that way.
It's it's all about that longshot.
Everything in the in the show isabout that long shot.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:26):
So we should try to give it another chance.
Because it keeps throwing itselfat us.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:30):
Every time it ends, all of a sudden it pops back on.
Like, you must watch me.

SPEAKER_07 (01:08:34):
Yeah, we'll do that.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:35):
Okay.
All right.
So before we go to our nextguest, which we're gonna uh take
it to uh charity, a little uhphilanthropic.
Um we have Meredith Knopp, who'son the show from STL Food Bank,
which they're celebrating 50years.
So that is dear to my heartbecause I just can't believe the
amount of families and children,um, like one in seven that are

(01:08:58):
you know literally on the, youknow, they don't have enough
food, you know, in the home.
So so we're excited to get totalk to her.
But a little summer trend.
So do you have a favorite style,like a go-to?
It's hard to keep up because itkeeps changing, but I do like
this one.
So apparently, the hot summerstyle trend for women is the
coastal cowgirl vibes.

(01:09:19):
I believe it.
Country's super hot right now.
Yeah, kind of like boots orstraw hat, white, but it's kind
of uh, it's not the typical,like I grew up with horses, so
jeans, Wrangler, uh cowboybuckle, you know, belt coming
barrels.
I had to, you know, you got thebuckle.
Very, very, very different.
Whereas now it's everythinggoes, and you know, you can as

(01:09:41):
long as you stick some cowboyboots, you can wear like a
something pretty fancy, likegoing to a club, you can resort
where you're gone country.
Uh stuff here.
Good job on that one.
Yeah, and then they're bringing,of course, the uh turquoise.
So we're gonna turquoise back.
And then the guys, it's the boltprints, the uh short uh

(01:10:01):
throwback, short sleeve buttondown, the unstructured linen,
high-waisted shorts.

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:07):
Yes, oh high-waisted shorts.

SPEAKER_04 (01:10:09):
Or has bought some shorter shorts, yeah, like his
little it's like you with theleg showing there.
Short shorts are coming back.

SPEAKER_02 (01:10:16):
He's so we gotta get back into our squats, get our
quads built up, sir.
Yes, yes, chance.

SPEAKER_04 (01:10:27):
Yeah, not fair.

SPEAKER_05 (01:10:30):
So so you guys are hip on the new style then?
We try, yeah.
Again, we're hitting up there,but I'd say I tried.

SPEAKER_04 (01:10:37):
Isn't it like what's the cutoff where we can you know
can't wear certain things?

SPEAKER_01 (01:10:42):
I don't think there is a cutoff.
I think that whole stigma needsto be a little bit more.
Sometimes if you've been inWalmart lately, sometimes it
should be.

SPEAKER_04 (01:11:10):
Yeah, yeah.
I took my guitar to my grandma'sfor the summer, and I thought
for sure someone's gonna ask mefor my autograph when I was like
11.
I thought for sure just carryingmy case and all dialed up and
wearing my cowboy hat, somebodywould think that I was a movie
star.
Nobody thought he has.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:26):
You're intimidated too much.
You're like, oh my gosh, youknow who that is?
Well, don't bother them.

SPEAKER_04 (01:11:30):
My whole life I've been thinking that nobody
thought I was a movie star.
It was strictly because theywere intimidating.

SPEAKER_02 (01:11:35):
Intimidated them with too much confidence.
You had so much confidencewalking through there, and
they're like, Oh my gosh, youbrought a guitar with her.

SPEAKER_04 (01:11:40):
Like, and I don't want to be anybody checking it.
I mean, I could have had like amachine gun in there, nobody
even checked it.
Let me tell you something tooabout just in case.
This is some really goodinformation to know when flying,
and you know how you have toprop your uh little carry-on up
because maybe you're the onethat gets picked.
Like that looks so dangerousthat they want to open it and
check it.

(01:12:01):
This is what you should not sayto the TSA.
Oh my gosh, don't open it, itmight explode.
Oh, yeah, we were leaving as ourhoneymoon, wasn't it, when it
happened?
Yeah.
I I did get to go.
They did not arrest me, and hedid have to check that bag after
that.
And it was where I'm sure I'mvery curious about it.

SPEAKER_02 (01:12:24):
Yeah, yeah, but exploded.

SPEAKER_04 (01:12:25):
Did you really need to give the notes on that?
We did not think it was reallyat a bomb in it, but seriously,
it was really Pat.
I forgot that you're notsupposed to take all of your
big, you know, bedazzled itemson there because they would uh
not your other stuff, yeah.
And they're so expensive, therewas no way I was gonna throw
them away.
So poor Gordon, we were prettyclose to having to get on the

(01:12:46):
plane, had to go, and you knowhow far that is.
Oh, check my check.
That's what happens when you'remarried.
You that person gets stuck doingthe things that I really should
have had to go check my bag in,right?
I'm the one that that packed itincorrectly, but I just waited.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13:04):
That's a good start to it, right?
Like, I got a honey airport.

SPEAKER_05 (01:13:08):
Literally, he thought that if he said me, I'd
probably see the layer marriedbecause he was running the
opposite direction.

SPEAKER_04 (01:13:18):
So that might have been one of the two, but yeah,
he was really it wasn't that hewas being so polite.
He knew that I would never comeback, that I would be lost and
end up on the wrong plane.
So he just wanted to share I'dget there, right?
Yeah, so some things that arehappening, in case you're uh
wanting to know.
Um, today is June 2nd, right?
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely HeartCup Club band was released in

(01:13:42):
the US on this day.
Who was that?
When would that be?
And the information before youcame up with that.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13:49):
That'd be 60 something years ago, right?
Was it 62?

SPEAKER_04 (01:13:51):
The album came out?
Good job.
Once again, maybe not.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13:55):
I'm not jumping it up, please.
Somebody, there's people factchecking it right now.

SPEAKER_04 (01:13:58):
I'm like, you're wrong.

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:02):
Yeah, so June 2nd, I know what year, but if you know
what year the don't off the topof my head, I was looking at
some of their albums a coupleweeks ago because I love the
Beatles, and that's why I wastrying to think because they
have the disography on Spotify,you know, has all their the
dates.

SPEAKER_04 (01:14:14):
That's why it's well did you just say disography?

SPEAKER_02 (01:14:16):
Oh, yeah, like if you're on Spotify, you're on a
certain uh certain artist.
Well they had the samedisography.

SPEAKER_06 (01:14:21):
Well, it used to be there was a time that they said
Paul was dead, and so if youlook at all the albums, it's
like so Abbey Road album, wherethey're walking the famous
walking across the street onAbbey Road with the black, you
know, the white stripes.
Yeah, Paul doesn't have shoeson.
Everybody else has shoes.
He's both right, yeah.
And they don't bury people withshoes on.
So they that was one of thedoesn't bury people with shoes

(01:14:44):
on then, yeah.
Sergeant Pepper's band was morelike a funeral thing, the way it
was, you know.
And then actually, it's I can'tremember the name of the uh what
track it is.
Um I think it's the number ninesong, but at the end, you would
remember what number the songwas?

(01:15:06):
It says uh at the very end, youcan hear Paul or John say, Paul
is dead.
At the very end, very low.
I don't remember what's it thewhite album or which album is it
on?
I think it's the white album.

SPEAKER_04 (01:15:19):
I can't remember to take the trash out on Tuesdays,
but he can remember that it wastrack number nine on an album
that came out in the 60s,possibly, is what it was.
There's our there's our recenttwo.

SPEAKER_01 (01:15:30):
It's crazy.
We we were saying somethingabout um like the now CDs, like
now that's what I call music.
And we said, Well, I wonder whatsongs were on like now three or
something.
So Jordan thought about like,okay, so it came out in this
year, so three would have beenthis year, and he named like 10
of the 12 tracks.
And can you remember the trasheither?

SPEAKER_08 (01:15:50):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:15:51):
That's what the photo is strawberry fields.

SPEAKER_06 (01:15:54):
Oh, so it doesn't say peppers, huh?
Yeah, it's at the end of Stray.
Oh, it says iBurry Paul.

SPEAKER_02 (01:15:59):
I Buried Paul.
Did it say what year that is?

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:01):
I'm just um no.

SPEAKER_02 (01:16:03):
Oh, sorry.
But it said iBerry Paul.
We're gonna listen to that inthe car on the way home.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:08):
Real loud.
Almost asked just like that.

SPEAKER_04 (01:16:17):
And the other thing today is Babe Ruth, which was
born on the same day as ourgrandson Kylin.
He announced his retirement.
How many hits did what did he goout as?
Do you remember that usefulinformation as well?
That's for the sports show.
That's I one time was invited tobe on Andy Strickland's show.
He thought I knew sports becauseI was teasing.

(01:16:40):
So I'm like, yeah, I can come onthere.
I can talk sports with you.
So I showed up with my littlepink book, and it was a woman's
guide to sports.
So I just turned to the pagereal quick.
I did get invited back to Andy'sshow after that again.
I guess he realized I knewnothing.
Absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_06 (01:16:58):
Actually, I love you talking about sports.
It's the most entertainingthing.

SPEAKER_04 (01:17:02):
Like, how many innings are at a football game?
How many innings?
And when can I go get a snack?
That's all I wanted.
A snack and something there.
And then we were at the hockeygame.

SPEAKER_05 (01:17:13):
We were in the front row against the glass.

SPEAKER_04 (01:17:16):
They they the guy hit that's the best.
Well, the camera's also there,by the way.

SPEAKER_06 (01:17:25):
Kelly, the prince's going up here.
Is it completely embarrassing?

SPEAKER_05 (01:17:34):
Yeah, in slow motion continuously, so we can keep
watching going backwards.

SPEAKER_04 (01:17:41):
But so if you don't ever sit where the play's
happening, you need to watch howyou hold yourself because you
will be on camera with thatcrazy look on your face.
So, well, there you go.
All right, so on Wednesday,look, here's a sports.
Here, I'll let you do it sinceyou're really our sports.
I don't know about it.

SPEAKER_06 (01:18:04):
Get your voice going.
And then on Thursday, the NBAfinals tip off, hitting the
Oklahoma City Thunder againstthe Indiana Pacers.
That should be a good gamebecause those those guys got
great talent on both teams.

SPEAKER_04 (01:18:15):
Going back to the hockey a second, though, I was
really sad.
I really wanted Barube to win.
After the Blues were out?
U Yeah, after the Blues.
To be honest, I wanted the Bluesto play against a uh Canadian
team with Barube.
And there was a part of me thatwas like either way, because I
love Coach Barube and his wifeDominic.
They they were one of ourfavorites.

(01:18:36):
We got to know them a little bitmore.
We did a story on them in ourmagazine and incredibly
down-to-earth, good people.
And when he left by not his ownaccount, I was really sad.
So when I he was back in theplayoffs, I'm like, and then of
course when the blues are out, Iwas like, come on.
I was really sad that theyweren't they weren't part of it.

(01:18:58):
But um, yeah, so I think there'sone more thing that's going on.

SPEAKER_06 (01:19:01):
French Open Women's Finals on Saturday, followed by
the men's on Sunday, and inhorse racing, you're gonna help
me with these names.
Sundays, Beaumont Stakes isexpected to feature both
Sovereignty, is that it?
And the Kentucky one and thejournalism won the fitness
stakes.

SPEAKER_04 (01:19:17):
We got that.
So there we go.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, we have had fun on thisbreak here.
We are gonna take it to a breakso that we can bring Meredith
Knopp into the show.
Raven Raven Jordan, so fun tohave you on and talk about work
and leisure and let everybodyknow again if they want to be
able to find out more about yourvenue, be a part of your events,

(01:19:38):
or maybe be able to use it as aworkspace.
How can they do that?

SPEAKER_01 (01:19:41):
Yes, you just have on uh www.work at leastleisure
stl.com.
Or uh you can reach out to us onour Instagram, which is at work
at leisure stl.

SPEAKER_04 (01:19:52):
We'll be able to share your information on our in
your city as well.
We'll put that out there.
Thank you.
It's so much fun having you on.
We look forward to you know seeyou again and coming to one of
the um events that with ofcourse with Chef Liz uh
preparing the food.
So we'll look forward to comingout there.
I want to come to the Friday the13th.
So we'd love to have you on theconversation so that we can make

(01:20:13):
sure and do that.
Yeah, so you've got champagne.

SPEAKER_01 (01:20:16):
Oh, yeah, we brought you guys a bottle of birthday as
a congratulations on yourcongratulations, and thank you
so much for having us on.

SPEAKER_02 (01:20:24):
We were so excited when we got the invite to come
on.
We're like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (01:20:28):
We're gonna come back from the next spring, tell
you a little bit about St.
Louis Closet Company, JenniferWilliams, who we adore and
admire, brilliant businesswomanuh running that business, and
speak to Meredith Knopp as well.
And of course, tell everybody alittle bit about our magazines
and what brings us here withCity Lifestyle magazines, which
we own, Clayton, Chesterfield,and St.
Charles County magazines mailedout to the 45,000 homes every

(01:20:50):
single month.
So we're always telling stories.
We have a great opportunity toshare your story as well in our
magazines.
We'll make sure that you leavewith a few copies.
So we'll be right back.
Grant's got us at the boardthere.
Thank you, Grant, for keeping usgoing and pressing all the
buttons, and we'll be back withmore right here on In Your City
Show at the new Lou informationstation at Louinfo.com.

(01:26:29):
Had a really fun time.
The first hour, the second uhpart of the second hour.
I'm Kelly Lamb.
I'm Gordon Montgomery.
And we are back with the lasthalf hour of guests that we're
gonna introduce you to.
But first, I want to tell youabout an amazing company, an

(01:26:50):
amazing person that we know.
She's quite the businesswoman,and that is the St.
Louis Closet Company.
Did you have any great,wonderful photos to show of
Jennifer yet?
Um, yes, we do.
Are you gonna show those?

SPEAKER_06 (01:27:02):
Um, actually, it when we are talking now, he's
gonna play buddy of talking.

SPEAKER_04 (01:27:06):
Grant's gonna go ahead and do it for us.
That's awesome.
We've got a button pusher that'sgonna take care of it.
Well, I am gonna be talkingabout Jennifer Williams right
now.
Really admire um her story.
I'm excited.
She's gonna be part of myanthology that I'm doing called
It's About Time, a book that'sgonna be coming out.
She's one of the authors in it,telling her story.
And, you know, you know thatfeeling like and you know how I

(01:27:28):
am about how our home is andfeeling calm.
And I like when things areorganized and in their place.
I feel like I can work better.
Um, I'm more efficient wheneverything isn't, you know, a
mess.
And that's exactly what St.
Louis Claus and Companydelivers.
They are locally owned, which welove.

(01:27:48):
They're operated right here inSt.
Louis since 1991.
It's not a franchise.
And she really is, you know,strong about letting anybody
know that because not only isshe not a franchise, she's
women-owned.
And that's something that Iadmire and I really love
supporting women-ownedbusinesses.
Founded by Jennifer Williams.
Um, she has built her own brand.

(01:28:09):
She's been transforming homesfor over 34 years.

SPEAKER_06 (01:28:13):
34, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 (01:28:14):
Wow, that's a long time.
She's very good at it.
They have a gorgeous showroom.
Whether you're dreaming of theperfect walk-in closet, you need
more functional pantry, maybeit's your laundry room, maybe
you want to finally organizethat garage or that mud room.
It doesn't matter what room youwant to come up with.
Jennifer will have a way toorganize it.
There's not a one shop, aone-size-fits-all, I guess it

(01:28:36):
should say.

SPEAKER_06 (01:28:36):
And that's what's great about her showroom, is
that she's got so many differentdisplays.
You can actually envision, Itold her that the other day when
I was in there.
I said, this is so cool that youhave all these different layouts
because you can actually just goin and envision what you're or
envision what I told her yourcloset should look like.
Yes.
And envision, you know, uh thelaundry room.
It's right.

(01:28:57):
There's so much that they do.
It's so cool.

SPEAKER_04 (01:28:58):
Yeah.
So then go in and transform itto what you need.
Um, what makes them stand out?
They're floor-based systems.
They add strength and stabilitywhile giving you the seamless
built-in look.
And if you're someone who lovesto see things close up, of
course, head out to theirshowroom.
It's absolutely lovely.
And I love that she has mychildren's book, Oh Olive, and
the plushie which are um sittingon one of the shelves in the

(01:29:19):
children's closet area.
Uh and then the beds that folddown.
So if you have a room, maybeit's your office, but it's your
spare bedroom as well.
You can do one of those fold outbeds that come down.
They got a strong heart forcommunity.
Yes, she does.
She really is big at supportingcommunity.
They do a huge toy drive aroundthe Christmas time that you can
drop off there.
It's actually one of the largestin the region.

(01:29:42):
So from chaos to calm, St.
Louis Closet Company is your goto for creating functional,
beautiful spaces in every cornerof your home.
Support small, support local,and uh get organized the St.
Louis way by Vinca Williams.
So we love her, but so glad sheis one of our first.
She's on.
Board with us, and we will neverforget the first um that have

(01:30:04):
come on board with us for us tostart back on radio again, but
not just radio, a huge powerfulsource of streaming 24-7.
You can just go to theluinfo.com, click the YouTube.
You know, if you want to go toApple, Spotify, also if you're
audio, you can go to any of yourfavorite podcast sites and
listen to us there 24-7.

(01:30:25):
So right now, Meredith Knopp isin the house and so glad to see
you again.
You guys are doing great thingsout there with the um St.
Louis Food Bank.
Uh, I mean, to know thatliterally 400,000 in the St.
Louis area out of the 900 andsomething thousand in Missouri
that do not get enough food.
And this is probably besides theterrible tornadoes and

(01:30:48):
everything that's happened,that's even done more damage to
the livelihoods of families.
It's also the um schools areout.
So children that are used togetting breakfast or, you know,
um lunch snacks at school, theyare getting them now.
And so being able to provide forall of those families has to be

(01:31:09):
a tremendous amount of work.

SPEAKER_00 (01:31:11):
It really is.
And thank you for having me.
Uh, you know, and and that'sjust part of the story.
You're right.
I mean, we are working here atthe St.
Louis Area Food Bank to providefood and resources to families
that don't, right?
Many of us are fortunate thatour toughest question tonight is
what's for dinner?
Yeah.
But there's hundreds ofthousands of families asking, is

(01:31:31):
there anything that we have toeat dinner tonight?
It's a very, very differentconversation.
And then you throw the tornadoesthat happened May 16th.
And we have been working aroundthe clock to really procure
resources, food, water, hygienesupplies, just to get to these
families that quite literallylost everything just over two
weeks ago.

SPEAKER_04 (01:31:51):
I mean, just in a split second, how your life can
change.
And it doesn't matter if you areum poor or rich.
Tornadoes, they they don't um Iwhat's the word?
They don't discriminate.

(01:32:11):
Thanks, Mary.
I usually do.
I didn't know where you weregoing with that.
So Julie says Meredith is ourcity's biggest cheerleader, and
thank you for all that you do.
I get to work with her everySeptember, 9-11, um, for their
meal packaging event.

SPEAKER_00 (01:32:25):
Yes, we'd love to help with that.
I think you should.
We do this every year.
So I'm an Army veteran.
Uh, and so we had theopportunity to bring, my
pleasure, uh, this opportunitywith 911day.org, David Payne.
Uh, we come, he comes to St.
Louis every year with his crew,and we are able to pack over
400,000 meals in one day.

(01:32:46):
So we've locked this in again.
This will be our fifth or sixthyear doing this.
We'll be at the Shavis Arena on9-11 Day.
It's a great way for thecommunity to get involved and to
give back and to turn a day oftragedy into a day of hope and
triumph.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:02):
Give me a little insight into how that process
works.
So something like this happens.
What's what happens?

SPEAKER_04 (01:33:08):
So just you mean the tragedy of the tornado would
happen?
Just the tornado.
Let's see.

SPEAKER_06 (01:33:11):
Because you guys have a hard enough time trying
to come up with food as it is,right?
Right?
So let's say all of a sudden,wow, bam, we get this thrown on
as a tornado.
So what's what's the first thingthat happens?
And kind of take us through thatprocess of how that happens, how
that how that all comestogether, because that's pretty
interesting to me.

SPEAKER_00 (01:33:28):
Right.
It is.
And so obviously, you know, May16th, the tornado hit.
It was a beautiful day thatmorning.
If you remember, the sun wasout, it was blue skies, and then
everything started to turn.
And it was rain and wind andhail.
And next thing you know, aneight-mile stretch was just
destroyed.
Right.
And so what we're doing first iswe're reaching out to our
partners.
When I talk about partners, theSt.

(01:33:50):
Louis Area Food Bank isfortunate to serve and support
almost 600 food pantries andsoup kitchens across the
by-state region.
So that's our first thing iswe're reaching out.
How are you?
Are you impacted?
What are your immediate needs?
Is everybody safe?
Right.
On all of those things, thatfirst responder mentality.
And then we really go into theactivation, which is how do we

(01:34:12):
really get our resources and getthose focused on the people who
need them most?
And so immediately it's water,it's cleaning supplies, it's
tarps, it's food, you know, butit's not food that you can go
put in an oven because your ovenwas just obliterated by a
tornado, right?
So we talk about pop tops, wetalk about easy-to-make meals,
things that don't require a lot,especially when so many people

(01:34:35):
were without power for days andhours.
And Amoren has done an amazingjob restoring power.
But when you lose your home,then it's working with our
partners at the Red Cross to getthem shelters and to get them
out of homes that really are notsafe.
Uh, and so we've been doing thatfor two weeks.
We've been getting food andwater and emergency supplies out
to our community.

(01:34:55):
Right now, we're preparing forthat next phase, which is
getting sustainable resources tolocalized locations where people
can come and get food boxes,they can get water, they can get
hygiene kits, they can getcleaning supplies.
And all of that is because ofthe generosity of our community.
We're working with farmers andgrowers, we're working with

(01:35:16):
great companies and churches whoare all stepping up.
On Saturday, we just did a hugedonation drive out at Shamanade
with Cam OV and the Jason TatumFoundation.
And we were hoping that peoplewould show up.
We're thinking, mey, if we canget 15 to 20 gay lords, these
are really big boxes for thosewho don't know what it is, you
know, full of food, that wouldbe a great way just to give it

(01:35:36):
an extra infusion and show thecommunity that we're there.
They're not alone.
We actually were able to fill 75gay lords.
So each truck carries 12, do themath, over 52,000 pounds.
We started and we hoped peoplewould show up and the lines, the
cars, they kept coming.
We were all brought to tears.

SPEAKER_04 (01:35:56):
I was just gonna say cars just kept coming.

SPEAKER_00 (01:35:58):
Goosebumps, I'm feeling right, and we had adults
and kids volunteering.
My daughter was out there, she'slike, Mom, I've never seen
anything like this.
She's 12, getting ready to go toeighth grade, and she's been,
you know, volunteering since tohave a child uh volunteer to
realize how important it is.
It is, and it was a drive-thruevent, and so everyone there,
they were thanking us.

(01:36:18):
They were thanking us for givingthem an opportunity to give back
because they weren't sure wherein the city to take their
donations.
And so it was just thisbeautiful expression of the best
of humanity and sends a messageto those families that did lose
everything to say, you're not inthis alone.
We are going to be here with youtoday, tomorrow, and for the

(01:36:40):
months to come while we rebuildour great city.
How can we continue to help?

SPEAKER_04 (01:36:44):
Because it that's one day, and it helped, I'm
sure, enormously.
But how can we continue to keephelping the St.
Louis food bank and the peoplethat are in need now from the
devastation, but as well as justyour everyday families that are
suffering?

SPEAKER_00 (01:37:00):
You're right.
That's one county.
I said we serve 26 counties.
There's 25 other counties thatare counting on us to do our day
jobs.
The best way people can supportus is to go to our website,
stlfoodbank.org.
There's a drop down there.
I tell people the three thingsthat we always need: we need
food, we need funds, and we needfriends, right?
So if people are willing to do afood drive for us or want to

(01:37:22):
participate in an upcoming fooddrive, they can go online and
get all the resources, make itsimple.
If people are able to donatefinancially, they can go to
stlfoodbank.org, click givefunds.
If they have time, especially inthe summertime, they're off,
they're out with our kids.
They want to teach them thosegood habits about giving back.
They can come and volunteer withus at the St.
Louis area food bank at one ofour mobile distributions out in

(01:37:45):
community and make thoseconnections and make a
difference in the lives ofothers.

SPEAKER_04 (01:37:49):
Oh, that's wonderful.
Let me ask you, what is like thefuture plans when you when you
look at um St.
Louis Food Bank?
What's in the future that yousee to even try?
I mean, like you said, thenumbers are so big.
And then when you havedevastation, are there any
future plans that can help?
I mean, I always used to say Iwish all every school would have

(01:38:11):
a garden because they couldactually, you know, canned food
that families could have in thesummer and even use them in the
lunches that they wanted.
There's a lot of kids at schoolthat, you know, that are they
can't afford to even buy thatmorning breakfast or food.
Is there any future plans of howto help your kids?

SPEAKER_00 (01:38:28):
Yes.
Actually, this July, the St.
Louis Area Food Bank willcommemorate 50 years of serving
our community.
And we have been innovating likecrazy.
You mentioned schools.
We opened school markets a fewyears ago.
So these are grocery stores inthe schools to destigmatize the
need to ask for help.
And all the food in there, it'sfresh produce, it's proteins,

(01:38:50):
it's dairy.
It is shelf stable.
There's pet foods, there'scleaning supplies.
It's at no cost to the studentsor their families because of our
ability to raise money from thecommunity.
That's why those funds matter.
And we're doing things like ourfood on the move.
These are mobile grocery storeson wheels, you know, 40-foot
tractor trailers that go intocommunities that have high

(01:39:10):
poverty, high food insecurity,but transportation's a barrier,
right?
It's great to say you can cometo this pantry or even come to
the food bank in Bridgeton, butif you can't get there, we can't
help you.

SPEAKER_04 (01:39:20):
We don't have Uber Eats for the St.
Louis food.
Correct, correct.
We are Uber.
Got to get it to them.

SPEAKER_00 (01:39:26):
And so Food on the Move is another free program.
We're the only organization inthe region that has the ability
and the resources and the reachto do this.
But we do it because we havegreat partnerships, right?
We're talking to farmers andgrowers, we're talking to
manufacturers, distributors,grocers, we're talking to the
faith-based community, we'retalking to people who are
listening to your show, right?

(01:39:47):
Who say, I want to roll up mysleeves and help.
There's always ways.
We tell people that hunger canaffect anyone, but anyone can
affect hunger, right?
It's a job loss, it's a medicalsituation.
All of these things, a tornadothat causes someone to go from
being food secure to now saying,Where do I go?
The St.
Louis Area Food Bank is ourregion's response to hunger at

(01:40:10):
any stage.

SPEAKER_04 (01:40:11):
Well, we're looking forward to we're actually, of
course, featuring you in ourJuly issue of our actu of our
St.
Charles, Chesterfield, andClayton City Lifestyle
magazines.
And when you said the trailer,all of a sudden I went, Oh, I
know it because it's one of thebeautiful pictures actually that
we have that will be in thearticle is is that of the the
big um truck that you do takearound.
So we really did you have one ofthose pictures?

(01:40:33):
Were you looking for it?
All of a sudden I saw him godown into the computer.
I'm like, I think he's trying tofind that big truck.
Well, we can see you doing it,maybe.
That's a better view than me.
So it's incredible.
And those are all huge coststoo, having you know the trucks
and that that you aretransporting, you know, the

(01:40:54):
food.
So um, do you take um is itmonthly donations, or is it any
time that people can can dropoff?
And is there certain types offoods that you're looking for?
Are they canned things thatdon't spoil quickly?

SPEAKER_00 (01:41:06):
Yes, yes.
So the answer is yes.
We take uh food donations, wetake monetary donations anytime.
Uh we really focus in on shelfstable foods for donations,
right?
Because if people are going togive us produce or dairy
products, usually that has ashorter shelf life.
So we would rather take thefinancial donations that we get
and purchase food that has thatlonger extension.

(01:41:28):
And so that way we're giving itto our neighbors and we're
treating them with dignity andrespect, right?
Our food goes out to 26counties.
We have urban, we have rural, wehave metropolitan, anywhere
that's listening to your stationand beyond, we go as far south
as Carbondale.
And people are like, wait aminute, the St.
Louis area of food bank inCarbondale, Illinois, you got
it.
We're there.

SPEAKER_04 (01:41:49):
Yeah.
So on a personal note, umworking for a nonprofit, you
know, versus a profit business,that's a big choice in the world
or in your life, I should say,um, to take on that position.
It's it's a very differentcorporate world, I guess, to be
in.
Um, you know, with that sectorand leading a nonprofit, what

(01:42:13):
drives your passion for thismission?

SPEAKER_00 (01:42:17):
Right.
It's it goes back to mychildhood.
I'm actually from Detroit,Michigan.
Uh, and so growing up, I wouldvolunteer at soup kitchens.
But I remember I was too youngto serve food, so they let me
call bingo.
But I remember as a childsaying, wait a minute, I don't
understand.
You know, I am fortunate to gohome and I have a refrigerator
and there's food in there.
And so for my little brain atthe age of five to try to

(01:42:39):
understand that not everyonedoes.
Fast forward after college, Iactually served in the military
for eight years.
So I deployed all over theworld.
I was a platoon leader andcompany commander, right?
And I saw real suffering.
I saw what that looked like.
And so it's really being a partof something that's bigger than
yourself and knowing every daythat what you do matters.
Right.
I talk to people, they're like,you know, I really want to make

(01:43:02):
sure that I'm doing something.
I'd love to do something so Iknow I'm making a difference.
At the St.
Louis Area Food Bank, we knowthat every day we are making a
difference in the lives ofothers.
And that's what drives us.

SPEAKER_04 (01:43:13):
Thank you.
Meredith Knopp.
I want to ask you before we takea quick break, before we're
wrapping up the happy hour, thefirst happy hour of the NYR City
show is all right, talking food,right?
So what is that food that takesyou back to your childhood if
you smell it, see it, eat it?

SPEAKER_00 (01:43:30):
Oh my goodness.
So there's probably two things.
Uh, the first is oatmeal raisincookies.
Oh my gosh.
Uh so my Nana, she just turned100 last October.
She's still with us, so we'llturn 101 this October, right?
Um, she would make the mostamazing oatmeal raisin cookies.
So whenever I smell that, Ithink a Nana.
Yeah.
And the second is silly, butit's macaroni and cheese

(01:43:51):
casserole.
Uh, you know, my parents wouldmake just elbow noodles with
velvet and cheese, right?
Diced tomatoes and some groundup hamburger.
But two barbecue dish.
It's easy, it's simple, it's youknow, healthy.
Right.
Oh my gosh.
So good.
So good, so simple.
I might make it tonight fordinner.
And if my family's listening,guess what's for dinner?

(01:44:12):
Well, we're coming over becauseI'm starving.
Right.

SPEAKER_04 (01:44:14):
Well, thank you so much.
Meredith Knopp, she's with theSt.
Louis Food Bank, and it is youropportunity to be able to help
to give back.
Um, there's too many children,too many families that are going
without.
And right now, with it being uhafter the terrible devastation
we've had, they need your helpeven more.
So we hope that you'll find timeto give back, volunteering, or

(01:44:37):
maybe be able to donate and bepart of helping another child or
another family.
So thank you so much.
We're gonna take a quick break.
We're gonna come back and uh dosome final fun before the end of
our first show.
And hopefully uh they'll want usto come back tomorrow.
We'll see.
We'll see.
If you don't see us tomorrow,you know they didn't want us to
come back.
Merida, thank you so much.

(01:44:58):
We'll be back with one last ofIn Your City show here at the
Lou Information Station righthere in Kirkwood.
And of course, you can go toanywhere in the world,
Louinfo.com, and watch us liveor streaming twenty-four seven.

SPEAKER_06 (01:45:13):
We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_04 (01:49:35):
I might cheers.
Cheers, we're back.
All right, so we're back with InYour City Show.
I'm Kelly Lamb, GordonMontgomery.
It is the first In Your Cityshow, um, back on radio again,
but um most importantly,streaming 24-7 on the new
looinfo.com, which is fun.

(01:49:56):
So you can go back and watch itanytime if you're just really
bored and have nothing else todo.
Nothing to do, you can listen toit.
We're like, we're like the newbinge watch.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:04):
There you go.

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:04):
You can binge watch us once we get a few episodes
going.
We'll be your new binge watch.
We'll take over what is it?
Uh, what was Game of Thrones?

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:12):
Yeah, we have to go back for the thing.

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:13):
We can do nine seasons and three.
You might want to drink heavilyby watching it.
But we love being the new happyhour here.
Um, Father's Day, of course, isgummy is gumming up or coming
up, and we have the damn mansnack box here.
What is that?
This way, right here.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:31):
So when you open it up, what's in the box, Kelly?

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:34):
Well, not a new greenwashing machine.
It's gonna be a short.

SPEAKER_03 (01:50:41):
Yeah, we're done.

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:42):
Okay, it's over.
So, right here, look at this.
You know, just like a guy, youguys are kind of simple.
You've got your damn man thatsnacks guys love, mild smoke.
Uh, let's see if we've got someblack peppered smoked beef
sticks.
You've got your uh, let's see,this is the tap room mix, and

(01:51:03):
then the whiskey nut mix rightthere.
That's pretty much, is that whata guy wants?
If I could just add what, add abeer with it?
There you go.
And you'd be set.
So let's see if this uh tastesgood to you.
So I've got a word for the day.
So we were we were at the um uhright, and so uh all of a sudden
Tammy says this word scissorism.

(01:51:25):
She didn't say that word.
I was gonna say that okay, itmeans the sound of wind
whispering through trees.
Why can't we just say that?
Why do we have to say scytherismthrough the trees?

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:38):
I have no idea why.

SPEAKER_04 (01:51:39):
But it sounds cool.
So if you guys want to reallystump your friends and be like
superstar, scytherism.
So tell us about our men'sbecause we got to get out of
here like in one day.

SPEAKER_06 (01:51:48):
Well, this this month is our men's issue of our
Clayton, St.
Charles County, and ChesterfieldCity Lifestyle magazine.
City Lifestyle goes to 45,000homes in all of St.
Louis.
Tell who's on the cover.
We have uh Gianni, our chef hereat uh uh Carbon Members Club.
Gianni Carucci.
Carucci, amazing chef.

(01:52:10):
Then we have Anthony Beck, ourcoach for the St.
Louis Battlehawks, and then wehave Dave Glover right here on
the cover of Chesterfield.

SPEAKER_04 (01:52:19):
Amazing photographer John Lorr took uh Dave Glover
and the uh the um chef, and thenof course the coach was taken by
Carl Lund.
So great photographers, greatstories.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:28):
And one thing I realized I don't kill I said, I
think everybody's bald on thecover.
They are yeah, and including theguy holding the magazine.

SPEAKER_04 (01:52:35):
If Coach Beck would have his hat off, then all three
guys on the cover of themagazine.

SPEAKER_06 (01:52:40):
He might have some hair on his head.

unknown (01:52:41):
I can't remember.

SPEAKER_04 (01:52:42):
Maybe to that.
That's because that's what theydo, is we just do that.
So we've had a great show.
Um, loved having the guests on.
It was great in our new studiohere that we have, and we look
forward to seeing you tomorrow.
So 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m., it is the happy hour,the hottest happy hour in STL
with the in your city show.
And we'll be back.

(01:53:02):
We've got some great gueststomorrow to be cut on.
We're gonna be talking to JudyHenderson.
This woman spent 36 years inprison for a murder that she
didn't commit.
Yeah, so we're gonna talk to herand more.
So till tomorrow, we just wantto say cheers.

(01:53:27):
So that it comes true, whateveryou're like cheers about, right?
All right.
Thanks so much.
There you go.
Thank you to Grant for keepingthe show going.
We really appreciate you.