Hottest Happy Hour Episode 3: Storm Stories, Style, And Hot Dogs

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SPEAKER_06 (00:20):
Well, here we are in your city show.
And it's another day ofsurprises.

SPEAKER_05 (00:25):
Yeah, and tornado warning.
Tornado warning place.
I also have to admit, I don't Idon't do well.
I'm I'm one of those old peoplenow.
I don't do well driving atnight, and I especially don't do
well driving in storms.
I'm like a little old lady, likewith my head like this, sweating
and scared to death the wholeway I'm here.
But it slowed down just enoughfor me to get in here without
being blown over.

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But you know, you don't take itfor granted now because the last
time I was sitting in the Targetparking lot thinking, I'll just
wait for the rain to slow downand then I'll go in and do a
damage to the credit card.
I it wasn't, it was literally atornado going over the top of
the car.
Hail was coming down on me.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00):
So, you know, you never doing that, I was in on
Clayton Road, right by Lindberghand Clayton Road, and the trees
were actually blowing sidewaysacross my windshield.

SPEAKER_08 (01:10):
Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_06 (01:11):
I was like thinking, this is a tornado.
So luckily I was right next to acompass, a little plug for
compass real estate, and um wentdown in their garage and stayed
there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:21):
Yeah, a lot of people said someone was there in
curlers or oh, yeah, coming outfrom the beauty salon.

SPEAKER_06 (01:26):
And then they said there's a tornado in Midtown.
And then we're like, wow, okay.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29):
Well, I'm Kelly Lamb.
This is Gordon Montgomery, andwe are coming to you live from
the YouTube channel uh there atthe In Your City show.
Of course, this is the LouInformation Station, and you can
go to Louinfo.com as well andcheck out all the shows.
Of course, we're on 590 a.m.
If you are a true die-hardradial dow person, you can get

(01:50):
it there as well.
So this is our third day now ofthe new station, the Lou
Information Station here locatedin Kirkwood, and of course,
anywhere around the world, ifyou've got the internet, so you
can listen to it.
But today's show, we got somegreat guests coming up.
Granted, they don't get whippedup by a tornado, which I
shouldn't even say that.
We've got some text handicome.

SPEAKER_08 (02:09):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (02:09):
Yeah, we've got uh Logan Janice who will be here,
uh, who's a fantastic producer,as well as mostly superheroes.
You're gonna be finding aboutthat, as well as what are the
movies for June that you mustsee.
We got Steve Ewing coming intoday to talk about a big event.
He's a powerhouse in the musicworld.
And then we're gonna talk alittle fashion with Be Spoke
Apparel, which is located inClayton.

(02:31):
They are a haberdashery service.
Uh they fit the stars and thecelebrities and more, and we're
gonna talk to them.
And of course, our question ofthe day, which we're getting
some answers um already, is whatwas your first album you ever
purchased?
I know it's yours.
I know exactly what it was.

SPEAKER_06 (02:48):
I know it's crates.
The what?

SPEAKER_05 (02:50):
Peaches, Peaches Music Store.

SPEAKER_06 (02:52):
That's exactly back, right?
That's exactly where I bought myfirst album.
Was it Peaches?

SPEAKER_05 (02:57):
Did you have crates in your bedroom?
Yes.
I have tables.

SPEAKER_06 (03:00):
I had one crate and it was full of albums.
But yes, very first album Ibought, and the reason I bought
it is I was in Peaches and I waslooking at albums.
It was actually the first timeI'd ever been into it because I
lived in Illinois, remember, wedidn't have Peaches over there.
Oh, these are late bloomers.
So I'm over in Missouri,thinking it's like a half, you
know, half across the country tocome to St.

(03:21):
Louis back when you live inIllinois.
So I get there and I hear Who'sNext by the Who?
That album.
And I'm like, Who is this?
I'm like, this is awesome.

SPEAKER_05 (03:32):
And it's like you saw the Who album and said,
Who's this?

SPEAKER_06 (03:35):
I heard it.

SPEAKER_05 (03:36):
Uh yeah, nice.

SPEAKER_06 (03:38):
But I heard it and I was like, Who is this?
Well, it's the Who, the Who'sNext?
I'm like, and they always hadlike the albums up that they
were playing, you know, over thest over the in the store.
And I said, I gotta get this.
And it was, it's a great album.
I mean, it's like so.

SPEAKER_05 (03:52):
I guess there's a difference between buying an
album and maybe remember thelittle, what were they?
38, what were the littlerecords?
The the teeny ones, you know,that just played one song.
Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 (04:02):
Oh my gosh.
45s.

SPEAKER_05 (04:04):
45, that was it.
I think I messed it up.
I say 38.
Yeah, you didn't say 38.

SPEAKER_06 (04:09):
Well, they had the reason you messed me up is
because they had 38, but theyhad 78.
There was 78.
78.
78 was like well, 78s were likefor for a while.
Your album, your your turntablehad 78, 45, and 33.
And 33 is what a regular albumis.

SPEAKER_08 (04:24):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (04:25):
But 78 was like the big thick ones.
Do you remember see the oneswith the uh uh what's the one
with the big gosh, doggone it?
This is what happens when youget old.
You can't remember anything.
And uh, but yes, um anyway,they're thick, they're super
thick, they're old, like back inthe you know, back in the 40s
and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 (04:45):
But and then the records that you'd get on the
back of a cereal box, um, youknow, that would go, mmm, on
your record player, they'd be soexcited.
Cut them out.
Yeah.
My the first parties, we'd playthe 45s.

SPEAKER_06 (04:56):
The first record I took off of the back of a cereal
box was a honeycomb box, and itwas Sugar Sugar by the Archies.

SPEAKER_05 (05:02):
Which that makes sense, doesn't it?
I love that song.
Well, so was who your firstalbum then?
Going back to that.
Who?

SPEAKER_06 (05:08):
And then Led Zeppelin 2.

SPEAKER_05 (05:10):
Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_06 (05:11):
Three Dog Night was probably I got introduced to
Kiss, and then it was like I hadlike every album they made.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (05:18):
So I I I remember getting Three Dog Nights.
Well, that um, and I thought Iwas super cool because that was
a rock, but I would have to say,probably my first record or
something I had would have beena Donnie Osman or a Michael
Jackson because they were reallypopular, popular.
And then the Partridge family.
But the real album that I thefirst album that I really
remember having and playing overand over and over again, which

(05:42):
is super cool because it's ourfriend, but he didn't actually
play with the band at that time,was the head east, the one with
the pancake on the front.
Oh, flat as a pancake.
Well, that makes sense.
Flat as a pancake.
And one of my friends lived bythe house where I guess some of
the group the band members livedin, um, it was over in North
County.
They had a house and theypracticed then, and it was

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Peaches was right around thecorner from it.
And I can remember we would gofor walks, we'd be walking by
and I do the walk, thinkingthey're gonna see us and they're
gonna want to know us.
I'm like 12.
They're gonna want to know us.
This band is gonna want to knowus.
I thought that was the coolest,coolest ever.

SPEAKER_06 (06:19):
Michael McDonald lived over there too.
Michael McDonald.
Really?

SPEAKER_05 (06:22):
In North County?

SPEAKER_06 (06:23):
In North County, yeah, that's really cool.
Yeah, I grew up in Spanish Lake,so a buddy of mine, Larry
Cottner, actually was friendswith him.
And uh with who?
Michael McDonald.

SPEAKER_05 (06:32):
Oh, Michael McDonald.

SPEAKER_06 (06:33):
Yeah, I did Michael McDonald's.

SPEAKER_05 (06:34):
I get him confused with Michael Booblay.
Who's the one that walks in andgoes, oh, in every sound room,
it's like the joke is an SL.
Okay, it is.
He's like in every song with hischorus.

SPEAKER_06 (06:44):
Right, the Saturday Night Live skit where he'd like
come flying in.
But uh yeah, so I mean I didn'tknow that.
Yeah, I didn't I did I when Ihad my DJ company, I actually
DJ'd Michael McDonald's classreunion, but he wasn't able to
make it.
I was like, I was so bombed.
I was hoping he'd be able tomake it yet.

SPEAKER_05 (07:02):
Well, some uh some of the people who answered the
question, Becky Jekka, Bread,that's a great album.
And then Lisa Marie, she's withme, Donnie Osman album, 1971.
Andrea Early says vanilla ice.
Wasn't that a fake band?
Okay, Andrea.
Didn't they lip sync?
Wasn't it proven they lip sync?
No, no, no, that's NillyVanilli.
See how I start rumors?

(07:22):
Vanilla vanilly, vanilla,vanilla.
You're kind of close.
They're close though, right?
So I almost started a rumor.
Okay, well, that would besomething new.
Black Sabbath, paranoid, is JimCrosby.
Dave King says the Partridgefamily, which I loved.
I so I either wanted to be partof the Brady Bunch, but probably
more so wished I was in thePartridge family, which would

(07:44):
have been kind of creepy becausethe only reason why I wanted to
be in the Partridge family isbecause I wanted to ride in the
bus and date, which he wouldhave been much older than me,
David Cassie.
So that'd have been creepy, thatwould have been my brother.
So I couldn't date my brother.

SPEAKER_06 (07:55):
Can't remember the year that the the Partridge
family came out, but I was likeyou.
I watched it religiously everynight.
And um we actually Which is awhole turn from your family,
which was like June and WardCleaver.
I think I was in third or fourthgrade, I was in fourth grade,
and me and a couple guys formedthe uh a Partridge family.
We lip sync to the Partridgefamily.

(08:16):
I played the drums.
I played the draw, the thedrums, and I was like fake
drumming, you know.

SPEAKER_05 (08:21):
Yeah, it was that's great.
Let's see.
Uh Mario Margiterio, I'm gonnamess that last name up right
now.
Rush 2112, or how do I say that?
Yeah, that what a great albumthat was.
Track tape.
Remember eight tracks?

SPEAKER_06 (08:34):
There was nothing better than getting in the in
your car at 16, cranking up yourCraig Supertuner stereo.
Craig Supertoner.
Craig Super CMC stereos, CraigSuper Tuner with a Radio Shack
EQ.

SPEAKER_05 (08:47):
Yeah.
I don't know what this stuff is.
What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_06 (08:50):
So you had to always you had to like put components
together to make your stereoawesome, right?
Back then.
Because they aren't weren't liketoday.
So you'd have like your in youryour in either your in-dash
stereo, which you could get atCMC stereo or high-fi-fo-fum.
Remember that stereo.
Hi five foam.
And uh but you'd have to putcomponents together.

(09:12):
So you'd have the stereo, thenthat wasn't good enough.
So then you had to put uh oryou'd get a Craig super tuner,
or you'd get the RadioShack EQto boost your levels up.
And then you'd have the Jensencoaxial speakers.

SPEAKER_05 (09:23):
Listen to yeah.
I did have those.
So I got so my first car, sadlyI got my mom's hand me down,
which was at Delta 8.
Delta 88.
I didn't, yeah, I know.
What's that?

SPEAKER_06 (09:36):
Old Delta 88?

SPEAKER_05 (09:37):
Old Delta 88.
It was a total mom car, but ithad only two doors.
It didn't have like a door tothe backseat, so I was a little
bit cooler.
It was kind of a blue baby bluecolor.
You'd never have speakers in theback window of a car like that.
That had speakers in the backcar because there's no way a
bunch of cheerleaders can drivearound and not have the stereo
pumping, right?
But then I got my Camaro for acollege uh present, and then I

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thought it was super cool.
I didn't have the speakers inthe back windows of that one.
Well, that's that back thingkind of went up weird in the
Camaro.

SPEAKER_06 (10:06):
So I sounded really cool telling you about the Craig
Super Tuner, the Jensen Coaxialspeakers, the Radio Shack EQ,
all of that stuff.
How big were they?
And don't forget this either.
Remember, you had a slide mountso you could take it out of your
car so nobody'd steal it.
It's like um that happened and aCD radio Janet.

SPEAKER_05 (10:21):
Was that in your pento or your van with uh
shelled carpeting?

SPEAKER_06 (10:24):
This is where I'm going with this.
So I had a Ford Pento.
And you know, this is where it'sso not hot.

SPEAKER_05 (10:29):
This is where But do you even have a girlfriend?
Who can you have a girlfriendwith a pento?

SPEAKER_06 (10:33):
A Ford Pinto could be hot, especially if it blew
up.
If it blew up?
Don't you remember?
They discontinued them becauseif somebody rear ended you, the
car could explode.
Oh wow.
Yeah.
But anyway, this is this iswhere I started my career as far
as technical stuff, right?

SPEAKER_05 (10:47):
Okay.

SPEAKER_06 (10:48):
Ford Pinto.
I I forgot what stereo, I thinkit was a Jensen stereo, but uh
put that in.
But I didn't have cool speakers,but I had a it was a hatchback
pinto.
So I took the big old housestereo speakers out of my car,
put them in the back, and hookedthem to my stereo.
I had house speakers in my car.

SPEAKER_05 (11:07):
Of course you did.
It's really creepy.
I picked up all the chicks backthen.

SPEAKER_06 (11:11):
Oh, it was so cool back then.

SPEAKER_05 (11:12):
But were you singing when you had that?

SPEAKER_06 (11:14):
You started singing, what, 17?
I started getting in bands whenI was, yeah, about 16 and 17.
We started garage bands.
Gordon had really long hair onmy hands.
Not in high school.
Not in high school.
But that's because your dad wasa little bit.
I had the David Cassidy look.
Everybody did.
So not super long.
When'd your hair get long?
My senior years when it startedgetting long.
18, 19 or something.

(11:34):
So not too long.
My dad was very he was imaginehaving a high school teacher for
a dad, right?
So and he was very strict.
My hair had to be an inch abovemy collar until I was like a
junior or senior.
Showed him.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (11:48):
And then the hair came out.
Did your parents Aqua Net.
Gordon like had stock inAquanet.

SPEAKER_06 (11:53):
Did your parents ever like buy you clothes that
you couldn't stand?
You're like, what are you buyingme clothes for?

SPEAKER_05 (11:58):
No, because my mom was super cool.
Your mom was cool.
So I got cool clothes.
So I was, yeah, I had I had coolclothes.
And I love my dad, but my dad.

SPEAKER_06 (12:09):
My dad was a whole different ethnicity or something
because the way he took it.
If you wear the jump, like thejump on the one-piece leisure
suit, jumpsuit.

SPEAKER_05 (12:17):
I ever want to wear a jumpsuit if you're a guy.
Because that isn't that what youget when you're in prison is a
couple of things.

SPEAKER_06 (12:23):
You wear orange with the big collars.
He did wear orange.
Oh yeah, you don't want either.
And the Zanza belt, nobody'sgonna know what we're talking
about.
Zanzi belt pants.
They didn't have a pants.
They didn't have a belt.
They just stretched likeforever, you know?
It's like there were the farwindows for dinner.

SPEAKER_05 (12:42):
All right.
Well, we've got some hiddengems.
So, you know, a lot of times wetalk about all the time, we like
live in St.
Louis, St.
Charles, you know, Illinois,wherever it might be that you
reside, whatever your city is.
And you you don't, we don'treally know our own, we don't
find those places.
We always say that every monthwe're gonna find, you know, a
place to visit that we haven'tbeen to.

(13:03):
And I'm really surprised.
Like, even yesterday with ourguest Bethany coming in, I've
never been to Squires.
No.
Sounds like a really cool placeand the market.

SPEAKER_06 (13:11):
In reality, you could probably spend a whole
year if you went every day to anew place.
Still wouldn't reach all thetime.

SPEAKER_05 (13:17):
Steve, we'd have to make a lot more money to go
someplace.
We do have single days.
So we've got the City Secrets,it's Wednesday City Secrets,
it's hidden gems, as we say inplain sight.
They're literally right there.
So this is very close to us.
Never been there.
Candle Fusion Studio.
It's in historic St.
Charles.
I've seen it.
I've driven past it.
Fantastic.
So why is this a gym?

(13:38):
It's this is an interactiveexperience, lets you create your
own custom candle scent from ahundred options.
You love candles, you're such achick.
Perfect date night, girls, dayout, solo, self-care.

Um, a fun fact (13:49):
they even offer a candle and wine night.
So you know I love wine, andscent memory making experiences.
Number two, have you ever beenhere?
I haven't been here either.
This is in the Forest Park, theWhispering Wall at Grand Basin.

SPEAKER_06 (14:04):
Or some used to call it the Whispering Arch, or I'm
sorry, the Whispering Arch,maybe Whispering Arch at the
Grand Basin, but there's also awhispering arch in Union Station
downtown.

SPEAKER_05 (14:15):
All right.
So that's near the Grand Basin.
I've never even heard thatmentioned before.
Grand Basin?

SPEAKER_06 (14:20):
Have you It's the bigger water there by Art Hill
as it goes up and it comes downthat big basin of water.
Okay.
That's that's one of the things.

SPEAKER_05 (14:34):
And it's one of the few things that are left over
from the World's Fair.
Which is super cool.
So why it's a gem, it stands onthe opposite ends of this curved
stone wall and whisper.
So what it says is your voicecan travel like magic.
It's acoustic, uh, acousticwizardry and a romantic
backdrop.
So you could kind of like whensomeone's across, we always
worry, like we l you know, liveon the water and then the house

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across when we're making fun ofyoga man out on the water.

SPEAKER_06 (15:01):
Hopefully, he's not listening.

SPEAKER_05 (15:02):
He can probably hear everything we're saying because
it travels across right there.

SPEAKER_06 (15:06):
What was the name of the movie?
What was the name of that movie?

SPEAKER_05 (15:09):
With um uh Couple's Retreat.
Couples Retreat.
Yoga Man, yeah.
That's what he looks like outthere on his paddle board doing
yoga.
Well, it becomes a secretproposal spot.
My Botox must be messed up withmy lips.
I can't talk very well.
It's been a long time.
So imagine when I get him redonein a couple weeks.

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I'm talking like duck lips.
Come on, you know if you're awoman, you love it.
That's what they did.
Remember, we were in the studioover here at 590 when I was in
there and I had gotten my, Iactually got where you get
filler put in them, and Icouldn't talk, and it was like
my lips entered the studiobefore I did.
Sorry, I can make fun of myself.

SPEAKER_06 (15:52):
You just can't.
Do you see what I deal with?

SPEAKER_05 (15:55):
So, anyway, it's a great proposal spot.
Actually, what someone should dois have their person stand at
the one end of the base and theygo to the other and then whisper
to them and see if they heardthem propose.
Now that'd be the only thing.
All right, another one, theCrooked Tree Coffee House.
That's in St.
Charles.
I have been there.
They do have really great umbreakfast food.

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I mean, really good.
It's not like it wows you whenyou walk in, like the new
Caldies in Clayton that we wentinto that's near Lord's Diamond
on the Dew.
Man, that is a cool Caldies.

SPEAKER_06 (16:27):
We're doing a lot of shameless drugs today.
They set it up really nice withthe couches in the back.

SPEAKER_05 (16:33):
Super modern and the wallpapers, that super cool new
look that's going on.
Designers are using.
It's not like that.
It's very old school.
This is a really old building,but it's more than a coffee
shop.
It's got charm and exhibit.
They have poetry nights andsecret garden and seating in the
back.
And but it's a local haunt, theysay, and it's where creative

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thinkers quietly gather.
All right, I've got one more foryou, and that's the dark room at
the Grand L.
I don't even I don't even knowwhere the what is the Grand L.
Is that by the Fox?
Or no, Midtown St.
Louis, so that's by the Fox,right?
The Grand L is at the Grand Ole,I want to say the Grand Ole
Opera Theater, but that's notthe theater.

SPEAKER_06 (17:11):
Right.
And it used they used to have ajazz club in there.
Okay.
Remember, we we went there withJim and Monica.

SPEAKER_05 (17:16):
Been to the symphony, yeah.
But that's not the same place,right?

SPEAKER_06 (17:18):
Right.

SPEAKER_05 (17:19):
Okay.
All right.
Oh, where we went with Monicaand Jim?

SPEAKER_06 (17:21):
Yeah, it's kind of like it looks kind of like a
church almost.
It's like sound pretty much.
We were at a bar.
There was no church in there.
But it was the that's the samebuilding.
Okay, all right.
So I guess I have to do that.
Yeah, but like we walked in andwalked in, and the and the band
was all the way down at that in.
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 (17:35):
All right.
So why is it a gym?
Hidden live music, uh, withgreat wine, intimate jazz nights
you just mentioned, and rotatingart displays.
Stop by during off nights.
So it's still that, okay.
Yeah, for a quiet drink, stayfor soul filled, um, you know,
and meet some of the localartists.
I really love the jazz placethat we went to.

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I that was my first time.
Was that your first time?
Um maybe another date you're onthere?

SPEAKER_06 (18:01):
At what at the jam our the dance club we went to?
Yeah.
Yeah, that was definitely thefirst time.
Oh, that was the first time.

SPEAKER_05 (18:06):
Don't do a Kevin James on me.
Remember that place we went to?
Oh, yeah.
Isn't it nice?

SPEAKER_06 (18:13):
Just like it was the last time we're in there.
I've never been here, Doug.

SPEAKER_05 (18:17):
Sure you have.
See, there you go again, quotingthe lines, but can't remember to
take the trash out.
Loving that part.
So there's some secrets uh herein our very own city, um,
whether it be St.
Louis, Midtown, or St.
Charles, you know, that you canvisit.
So um, okay, I gotta say onemore thing before we go to
break.

SPEAKER_06 (18:37):
I'm afraid to hear this.

SPEAKER_05 (18:38):
Oh, yeah, it's you.
So do you ever like, are you oneof those when you talk on the
phone, you tend to pace?
Are you a pacer when you talk onthe phone?
Some people they get on thephone and they start walking the
room.
Oh, you were gonna bring thisup.
They can't just sit down andhave a conversation and and talk
on the phone.
They gotta zigzag around andthey kind of make you a little
stressed and nervous becausethey're they're walking in front

(19:00):
of you back in the back.

SPEAKER_06 (19:01):
It's me and it's also my son.

SPEAKER_05 (19:03):
Oh my gosh, that's annoying.

SPEAKER_06 (19:04):
But my son gets it from me.
I can't blame him.

SPEAKER_05 (19:06):
Does your son walk around naked when he does it?
Not that I won't even put thatvision in my head.

SPEAKER_06 (19:10):
Well, you just did, and you put it in front of
everybody else.

SPEAKER_05 (19:13):
So I'm in the kitchen this morning, okay?
I'm making some coffee.
It's it's early.
And uh Brian, uh Brian, who isour friend, calls Gordon on the
phone.
And as I'm sitting there doing,here comes Gordon.
Here's a vision for you.
You get to keep that all daywith you now.
Just move it across through thekitchen into the family room,

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butt naked.
It's all it's all there.
But not only does nothing isnothing, not only does he do
that, but he not thinking, notthinking whatsoever that he's
not dressed for my benefit.
He walk, okay.
So we people, you know, we livein Newtown, people walk.
I don't care if it's snowing,icing, raining.

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People are walking in front ofour house, in front of our
porch.
It's by the water, so it's apretty view, pretty walk.
So, but our our our shutters areall open in the door, like we
have those uh plantationshutters, but you can open it,
so then you get a real pictureand you're looking out, and it's
really pretty.
Gordon walks to the front door.

(20:18):
I can't even stand it.
He walk he walks to the frontdoor and is just talking on the
phone.
I'm like, Gordon, Gordon, he'slike, what?
And I'm like, for God's sakes,move away from the door before
we have to move.
Every city buddy walks.
I mean, there's kids, it'ssummer break, so you know,

(20:40):
they're walking and going to thenext destination together, and
and there's Gordon, just notbutt-naked in front of the door,
but you know, the other way infront of the door.
So, anyway, put some clothes onwhen you're talking on the
phone, okay?
I know.

unknown (20:55):
I know.

SPEAKER_05 (20:56):
So the crazy things that you know your your partner
spouse uh may do, you know, whenthey uh when when they're at
home.
So anyway, before we before wedo take it to a break, I want to
uh introduce you to St.
Louis Closet Company.
We're proud, proud and honoredto have Jennifer Williams want
to be a part of our show andallow us to talk about her great

(21:17):
products.
She's a fabulous businesswoman.
Um my gosh, since 1991, she hasbeen in business um building her
company, St.
Louis Closet Company, and it uhshe's a beautiful building right
off a big bin that you can go inanytime during the week,
gorgeous showroom with greatideas of maybe what you want to

(21:38):
do for your house.
They do everything in-house, sonothing is you know shipped from
somewhere else.
Her people, her team are workingon it at their location.
It's locally owned, operatedright here, and it is not a
franchise.
It is a family-owned business.
Whether you're dreaming of thatperfect walk-in closet or your
garage, your bedroom, your mudroom, wherever it might be, if

(22:00):
you know it doesn't matter whatroom it is, if it's your office,
your basement, bedroom, she candesign the space that works for
you.
Um, she's very philanthropic.
She does a lot to help thecommunity, and that's really
important to her as well.
It's all about sort supportinglocal charities and schools

(22:20):
across the region.
She's big with that.
So if you have an idea, or maybeyou don't have an idea, but you
have a room that needs help, gofrom chaos to calm with St.
Louis Closet Company, make thatappointment, come in, look
around.
She'll make it functional,she'll make it beautiful in
every corner of your home.
So get organized the St.
Louis way.
Go in, meet Jennifer Williams.

(22:41):
She's there all the time becauseshe's running her business, not
somebody else.
And uh, she's someone you wantto meet.
Yes, sir.
So we're gonna take it to abreak.
You're listening to the In YourCity Show on the Lou Information
Station here at 590.
But of course, right now you canlisten to it live, see it
visually at the YouTube channel,the In Your City Show.
We'll be right back.
Hopefully, Logan Janice hastaken the weather by storm.

(23:06):
He's here.
He's here, yay.
So we got a guest.
All right, awesome.
We're gonna come back with LoganJanice, have some fun with him,
and you're gonna learn aboutmostly superheroes.

(28:55):
The Lou information station iswhat's new to St.
Louis.
You can go to LouInfo.com, checkout all the shows that are going
on there, and of course, alwayson the 590 a.m.
uh dial for the new KLIS.
So here we are, uh Logan Janicewill be coming up with mostly
superheroes, bringing you alittle fashion right now with
Bespoke Apparel.

(29:16):
We are so excited to have youboth in the personal favorites.
It is truly becoming a familyoperation, starting with your
dad and his little buckaroogrowing up to be a woman, and
now she's in there running it.
And now you're going to begetting married and you're
bringing in the son-in-law.
Now, is there any other familymembers in here we don't know

(29:37):
about?
And why don't you go ahead andintroduce yourselves and also
give an introduction to thosethat couldn't be here with you
today?
You know, your dad and so forthare behind the scenes.
Let's tell us a little bit who'sbehind the scenes right now.

SPEAKER_01 (29:49):
So I'm Danny Corbett.
This is my fiance, DJ Howe, andthen my You're gonna be Danny
Howe, sir.
I'm gonna be Danny Howe, yep.
Um, my dad, David Corbett,founded Bespoke Apparel.
30 something years ago.
Um, so I grew up around thisbusiness.
DJ's been in it a few years, andwe just have a really tight-knit
group.
Um, back at the shop.

(30:09):
We also have our wonderfultailor, Samir.
He is absolutely fantastic.
Yes, he is.
How long has he been with you?
Uh five years now.
Okay.
Actually, we set up hisequipment one week before the
COVID shutdowns.

SPEAKER_06 (30:23):
He was with you at the old place, right?

SPEAKER_01 (30:25):
No, no, he was, yeah.
We um another client introducedhim to us.

SPEAKER_05 (30:29):
Which is a was a cool place too.
I mean, yeah, two completelydifferent looks.
I remember being in that one.
We did our show there actually.
Yep.
And in your um uh first spot,which was cool.
It's really old school, the darkwood and all that.
And then you move over toClayton, and now you've got more
of a contemporary, big windows,you know, to see in that.

SPEAKER_01 (30:50):
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Samir, and then is thereanyone else?
Uh my mom helps out with books.
She's also HR and whatever elsewe want her to do.
Yeah, so HR issues.
Not really.
It's mostly we fired someone,it's just gonna be fire in the
video.
It's mostly just my dad and Ibickering about something silly.
He always says we're saying thesame thing in two different

(31:10):
ways, and he just shakes hishead and walks around.
That's me and Kelly.

SPEAKER_05 (31:14):
I'm like, for God's sakes, we just did the same
thing three times.
You keep arguing with me, and wejust said the same thing, just
differently.

SPEAKER_01 (31:20):
Well, and then my dad says the same thing about
him and I.
So apparently I'm the commondenominator.

SPEAKER_06 (31:27):
You know what?
I'm just always right.
We see the problem.

SPEAKER_05 (31:30):
When you guys figure out, listen.
When any man figures out we'realways right, then we'll quit
arguing with us.
Just agree.
Even if you don't, right?
Like he's not saying anything.
No.
You got four months till thewedding, he's being careful.
So thank you so much for beinghere and and all that you do.
And I get you uh that suit, I'msure that jacket right there,

(31:51):
you designed uh as well.
Gordon has so many.
We are constantly askedeverywhere we go, dude, bro,
brother, hey, Gordo, Gordy,where'd you get that jacket?
That is like a forever questionall the time.
All the time, yeah.
All the time.
And I'm I'll see something or acolor.
I'm like, it's time for you toget back to Be Spoke.
I I need this color on you.

(32:12):
I need this color on you.
So yeah, you've designed somebeautiful jackets.
So let's get into asking yousome questions here.
So, of course, the name BeSpoke, it's already set the tone
for something, right?
Elevated and personalized.
What was the vision behind BeSpoke apparel really coming into
fruition?

SPEAKER_01 (32:31):
Well, so my dad I know you were little.
Yeah, I was little, but my dadwas a financial advisor.
And in October of 1987, thestock market crashed, and the
firm he was with, from what I'vebeen told, wasn't the best at
all of the detail paperwork.
And so it left him feeling alittle freaked out and exposed,

(32:52):
especially considering hisfirstborn, um, yours truly, was
due just a couple months afterthat.
And so his brother-in-law at thetime called and was like, You
can sell ice to an Eskimo.
Do you want to come sell suitsto me or with me?
And my mom thought we were gonnastarve because this is a man who
she would go buy three suits, hewould try them on at home, and

(33:14):
then she'd return the ones hedidn't like because he's
allergic to stores.
So she's like, You're gonna sellclothing?
Oh my god, we're in trouble.
Turns out having that type ofmentality is fantastic for a
because a lot of men areallergic to stores.
And so that chick right here.
Tailoring the experience, youknow, both from the literal

(33:35):
sense of your tailored clothingdesigned for you, made for you,
all about you, even the wholeexperiences.
So for the guys that like Gordonthat enjoy looking at the
fabrics and experiencing all ofthat and picking out the details
and the buttons and all that, wecan spend as much time as you
want diving in.
And then for the guys that wantnothing to do with it, they can

(33:56):
DJ gets calls all the time fromhis guys or even text messages
like, I need a blue suit, and hejust makes it.

SPEAKER_05 (34:02):
Wow, that's incredible.
I mean, you'll you have thestore, but you also go into
someone's closet and you'll goright to their home as well,
right?
And work with them, which isfabulous, especially for people
that are very busy.
It's hard to get into the storeto know that you can come to
them, is incredible.
Now, I know that you've dressedsome really unforgettable
people, and I know your dadtalks about Muhammad Ali um uh

(34:23):
quite often, and I know CoachBarube uh when he was here, and
we loved um still does it.

SPEAKER_03 (34:31):
Yeah, when he comes in, when he comes in and he
comes in and hangs out andorders the more stuff.

SPEAKER_05 (34:35):
Nicest guy ever.
Isn't he just incredible?
Look at this star that youcreate.
I love my jacket.
I love that I've worn that somany times.
I need that's the only one Ihave, so I'm due for a n maybe
like a spring jacket orsomething.
That's more winter, and I don'thave anything for the spring, so
I'd love to get any.
And who's the most famous?

SPEAKER_08 (34:55):
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (34:56):
Primetime himself.
Oh yeah.
There's a little bit of green uhglare, so I can't see the TV.
Who was up there?
Dion.
Oh, okay, sure, yeah.
And gosh, didn't the blues,didn't you do all of their
jackets when they won theStanley Cup or something?
Wasn't there something you didfor those?

SPEAKER_01 (35:11):
So it Vince Dunn was the first player to come in and
he placed his order, and I thinkthey like won a game.
And they hadn't done that in alittle while.
So it was like, whoa.
And then he came in and hepicked up his order, and Benner
placed an order around the sametime.
And so it was after that firstorder was picked up that they
started their famous run all theway to the cup.

(35:32):
And so we joke that The Gloriadays.
Maybe, maybe, just maybe there'ssomething lucky.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 (35:38):
Maybe something lucky about it.
I'm sure that there is.
So I know that you've, you know,obviously, is there any story
maybe that your dad's told youover the time of one of those
unforgettable people that youdress that still talks about?
Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 (35:53):
Do you want me to tell them the Hank Williams
story?

SPEAKER_05 (35:55):
Yeah, please.

SPEAKER_01 (35:56):
Now that you said it, you have to.
Which one?
Oh.

SPEAKER_03 (35:58):
Which one were you thinking?

SPEAKER_01 (35:59):
I was thinking Hank Aaron, because you like bring me
under the bus.
I don't know how much time Ihave.
We can tell both how much timewe have.

SPEAKER_03 (36:05):
The first one was David and I were in Florida, and
I've always made the joke thatif I pr if I ever fly private,
I've made it.
Uh and I asked him, I said, Didyou fly private?
And he goes, Yeah.
I was like, When?
And he said he was, I don'tremember where he was stuck at.
He was stuck and he was hangingor he was doing clothes for Hank
Williams Jr.

(36:26):
Uh, and obviously ever anybodyknows him, he's a big family
man.
Uh and there was a snowstorm andhe was trying to get home.
Was Sarah born yet?

SPEAKER_05 (36:32):
I think so.

SPEAKER_03 (36:33):
So trying to get home to the girls.

SPEAKER_05 (36:34):
David's a big uh family man.

SPEAKER_03 (36:36):
I didn't know if we were talking about Hank or Both
of our And so uh from what Davidtold me, Hank Williams said,
Give me 10 minutes.
Give me 10 minutes.
And he goes, What do you mean?
He's like, just hold on.
Uh and then he said he came backin the room and he goes, Hey, my
private jet's waiting for you,go home.
And he goes, What?
And he goes, You go home to yourfamily, go get out of here.
He goes, It's waiting for you,go up on it.

(36:57):
And he said he flew home, andsure enough, he got home to his
girls, and he was like, Wow.
And he's like, What do you, youknow, do you need anything?
He's like, No, we you just getout of here.
You gotta get home.

SPEAKER_05 (37:06):
That is a great story.
What a way.
That's when you know you'redesigning a great jacket and
close for somebody when theybecause those private planes,
they are not inexpensive, theyare um uh quite costly.
So that's really cool.
Your dad is such an amazing guy.
We've enjoyed knowing him overthe years and just getting to
know all of you.
Now, you have a puppy that runsaround in there too.

(37:28):
So I know you brought somesamples.
Tell me what's going on newright now with the bespoke.

SPEAKER_01 (37:33):
Well, what's kind of cool is that the custom world
traditionally was just suits,some sport coats, maybe a blazer
here or there, but verytraditional business attire.
Um, which obviously we still doa lot of.
But one of the things thatpeople don't necessarily know is
that custom has expanded somuch.
So, like these super stretchy,comfy pants that DJs are pants?

(37:57):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (37:58):
That's a dream.

SPEAKER_01 (37:59):
So we're doing stuff like that.
Polos, t-shirts, you know, moretravel attire where we're
getting into can you yep, I cansee that like all kinds of
different jackets.
Like this is a nice lightweight,waterproof fabric for outer wear
that's more like this.
Yep, exactly.
So I love that color.
Custom has expanded so farbeyond.

(38:23):
So we got like a beige, but yes,we can also do like a blush.

SPEAKER_05 (38:26):
Maybe the top underneath has kind of got a
pinkish tone to it, so it'sbringing that out.

SPEAKER_01 (38:30):
Yeah.
And so just all this kind ofcasual wear that really
elevates.
Elevates your look on theday-to-day, you know?
Yeah, and comfortable.
Yes.

SPEAKER_05 (38:39):
I mean, I can't imagine.
I know like as a woman, heelssometimes and and dresses,
you're trying to look nice, butoh my gosh, can you it's
uncomfortable.
And the same with a man, you'rewearing the suit look and trying
to, you know, have asophisticated style.
It's uncomfortable.
So to think that you're makingpants that move with the body,
because there's nothing but it'sthe the greatest thing ever is

(39:00):
yoga pants and stretch pants.
Now, I could never just wear anormal pair of jeans that are
made just that stretch, youknow, now they've got that give
and that stretch, so they movewith you.
You don't feel so confined inyour clothes.
Right.
Well, that's fabulous.
That is so good to know.

SPEAKER_01 (39:15):
Same thing with DJ's dress shirt.
I mean, it's same way.
Yeah.
And that's just the way thatfabric.
The like clothing has justchanged so much, especially for
men, where you're not having towear a suit and tie and be super
buttoned up every day.
So you get so much more freedom.
But with that freedom comes alittle more effort of thought.

(39:35):
Yeah.
It's not automatic that you'rewearing a blue or gray suit with
a white shirt and a red or goldtie every day.

SPEAKER_05 (39:42):
You know, I think what you wear, and in a man, you
know, it's funny.
Gordon came home one day and hesaid, you know, it's weird how
my because obviously he's in,you know, we're sales, you know,
we're building partnerships allthe time.
And when he's been out aboutmeeting people and he's maybe
been a little too casual orsomething like that, it's really
hot out.
He doesn't if it's 100 degrees,Gordon will wear a sport jacket

(40:04):
now.
There's something about when hewalks in and he's a good thing.

SPEAKER_06 (40:07):
I get more of these from your store, something like
this.
Yeah, that's what I think.

SPEAKER_05 (40:10):
When he goes with more of an elevated, just more.
I think people re feel like,wow, he must really respect us,
taking the time to come in, eventhough he's still comfortable
and maybe something that gives,he's still wearing something.
I think it makes a difference.
I think that people, men need torealize that presentation is
everything, right?

SPEAKER_06 (40:29):
Yeah, that you know, style.

SPEAKER_05 (40:32):
Style matters when you go somewhere.
People feel like you took thetime to care to talk with them.
That you he met with somebodytoday that might be on our team.
He's like, wow, you know, shelooked fabulous and really put
herself, you know, um, in asophisticated, elevated place.
You know, she didn't just showup.

SPEAKER_01 (40:51):
Well, they say that we make a decision
subconsciously about somebodywithin an eighth of a second of
trust or don't trust.
And then our brains look forevidence to back up that initial
thought.
So when we present ourselves ina certain, you know, we we're
thoughtful about it.
It yeah, because our brains aretrying to constantly prove
ourselves right.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (41:11):
So I'm in real estate, right?
Yep.
What do they always teach us,real estate agents, and when we
talk to a client that's gettingready to sell their home, we
want to make sure that the curbappeal because it's the first
impression that a client's gonnasee when they a potential buyer
is gonna drive up to your house,that's gonna be their first
impression when they see thathouse.
I'll never forget walking up toa glass door and seeing 500
kids' smudges over the glass.

(41:33):
And I'm thinking, as a buyer,I'm thinking, well, you didn't
take if you didn't take the timeto clean your front glass door,
you didn't take the time toclean your whole house.
So we're curb appeal.
Make sure we're curb appeal withit.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (41:45):
Before we um the interview ends, I have two
things.
First, I'm gonna ask you first,what is your first album you
ever purchased?
Because that is our question ofthe day.
Do you remember?
Did do they have albums?

SPEAKER_06 (42:01):
I should say, what was the first CD you bought?

SPEAKER_05 (42:03):
Have you ever bought an album?

SPEAKER_06 (42:04):
It's the first iPod you bought.

SPEAKER_05 (42:06):
Have you ever bought an album?
Like albums are coming back.
Like we got a record playeragain.

SPEAKER_01 (42:11):
Okay, so I gave them a record player for Christmas.

SPEAKER_05 (42:13):
So it was the first album you wanted to go with it,
or did you already have yourfavorite?

SPEAKER_03 (42:17):
Um actually, it's probably there's a band in
California named Day Seeker, andwe do their suits too.
Daisy or Day Seeker?
Day Seeker.

SPEAKER_05 (42:25):
Okay.
Oh, Day Seeker.

SPEAKER_03 (42:27):
Yeah.
Day Seeker.
Uh we did we met with them anddid suits for them as well, um,
because they wore suits onstage, and that was the first,
it's like my favorite band.

SPEAKER_05 (42:34):
We're gonna have to listen to Daisy.

SPEAKER_03 (42:36):
Whenever, whenever I got that reply on Instagram from
the lead singer, I was Ifangirled a little.
I was like, I told her, I'd go,I don't know if I can answer
this.
I was like, I looked because youwere out of town and I called
you.
I did I called her, I calledher, and I was like, you'll
never guess what just happened.
And uh sure enough, we met upwith them when they were in
town.
They were wonderful.
Um, that was the first one thatI bought.

(42:57):
Um I say CD.
There's a band called CensusVeil.
It's just a band I had back inthe day that I liked.
That was for the first CD Ibought.
I was like, I don't even knowhow old.

SPEAKER_05 (43:06):
That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 (43:07):
I used to go to Sam Goody's.

SPEAKER_07 (43:09):
Sam Goody.
I remember Sam Goody.
I remember that.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (43:12):
So before you guys leave us, is there anything that
you want to make sure thatpeople leave with what be what
the experience of bespokeapparel is all about?
And it's not just for men, alsowomen can get tailored as well.
Leave us with the experience ofbespoke.

SPEAKER_01 (43:29):
Our tagline for a long time was master the
unspoken word.
And so, and we also joke that wecan guarantee a good first
impression until you open yourmouth.
Then you're on your own.
Then you're on your own.
Um Welcome to my world.
But also that custom is not justcustom clothing, like as in
literal, we customize theexperience.
We can meet all kinds of pricepoints from you know, a little

(43:52):
more entry-level, you know, justa little more bit elevated from
what you're probably used to,all the way up to over 20,000.
You know, it's all over theplace, but we really try to meet
people where they are and helpthem build not just a wardrobe,
but a whole, what do you want tocall it, a personal brand, or
just a personal style that helpsthem to meet their day with

(44:13):
confidence.
Master that unspoken word.

SPEAKER_03 (44:16):
That's great.
The one thing I just kind ofwant to add to what you said,
one thing that I would say weget compliments as a business on
more than anything is is whenyou're there, you're treated
like family.
I can't tell you how many of theblues players have been like
when I'm here, I feel like I'mjust part of the family.
And I know that that experienceis not for everybody, but the
people that truly love that,because I feel like what we do,

(44:39):
I I don't know.
I this the whole experience ofwhat we have to offer, I think I
think that's what sets us above.
We all are very good at nottreating people like a business
transaction because that's notwhat it is.
Um we love creatingrelationships.
I mean, I'm going golfing Sundaywith one of my clients, you
know, and he set it up.
He was like, You want to go?
And I was like, Absolutely, youknow, and I travel, and like

(45:01):
when I travel, I had one of myclients in Florida, every time
there's wife makes me anauthentic Cuban meal every time.
And I meet them at their house.
And I can wear street clothes.
They one time they told me, Whatdo you want, change?
Get out of that.
And I, you know, but that's butthat's part of and I think your
dad, since I've started, andthen just being around a family
environment, has really driventhat value.

(45:22):
Is you treat everybody the same.
It doesn't matter where you'redamp, like where you come from
financially, none of it.
Because we don't look at we it'sjust not something that we focus
on.
Uh we'd much rather someone walkout the door and say, that was
the greatest experience I'veever had buying a shirt or shoes
or whatever case may be the mostminimal thing.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.

SPEAKER_05 (45:40):
Dressing someone is is very personal and intimate.
You're touching them and talkingto them and sizing them and
finding out their personality toknow what's going to look best
on them.
You're helping them becausesometimes we don't always know
what looks best on us, andsomeone else's eye can you know
definitely help.
And so you all do that.
I don't think there's ever beena time we haven't been in there
that a blues player hasn'twalked in the door, and we're

(46:01):
kind of like, is that is that?
You know, do that kind ofpointing thing, you know, and
then walk away like we oh, we'recool.
We're we're not we're not uh allgiddied at all.
We're hiding it.
But well, thank you so much.
Beastbook is located in Clayton.
Um, it's right there on the thecorner of Clayton and gosh,
highway, what is that, oneseventy?
Yep.
Um and but like you just said,California, uh wherever it might

(46:26):
be.
You guys will travel to whoeverneeds your services.
That's not a problem.
You don't have to walk into thestore, whether it be locally or
even out of state, so it's supercool.
Thank you so much.
We we've known you for a while,and you're like family with us.
And seeing you grow up and nowgetting married, I guess we'll
be seeing more babies comingalong, ready to be part of the

(46:47):
colour.

SPEAKER_03 (46:47):
We got a nine-year-old, that's enough.

SPEAKER_05 (46:50):
We'll see about that.
Well, thank you so much forcoming by and sharing B Spoke
Carol with us, and we continueto keep coming in and let you
beautify us with some greatclothes.
So we love it.
Thank you so much.
Tell your dad hello and give hima big hug.
We'll do.
All right, in your city showright here, coming from the Lou
Information Station and ondemand at LouInfo.com.
And of course, you're watchingus on the YouTube channel of In

(47:12):
Your City Show in the 590 AM Da.
We'll be right back with LoganJanice, mostly superheroes.

SPEAKER_06 (47:18):
That's right.

SPEAKER_05 (52:52):
All of a sudden, we're gonna go into a whole
thing with that like that.
So, our question of the day, ofcourse, on the In Your City Show
is what was your first albumthat you ever purchased?
Casey Pierce says she had a CD,um, was Music Box by Mariah, of
course.
She's just in her 30s.
She was hooked.

(53:12):
She said, I think my dad boughtit for me from the Columbia
Music Catalog albums, purchasedit on her own, which is cool.
Probably more Mariah in what's NS Y N C or Britney Spears.
You can tell when they're soyoung, aren't they?
Uh Sam Goody, that's what shesays.
In sync.
Yeah.
We got a few more announcements.

SPEAKER_04 (53:35):
Never heard it pronounced.

SPEAKER_07 (53:36):
N Sync.
Who's that?

SPEAKER_05 (53:43):
Have you heard NSNYNC?
So N S Y N C.

SPEAKER_06 (53:46):
Somebody's definitely out of sync.

SPEAKER_05 (53:50):
That's kind of like when I read the Mazoous sign.
Um, it was spelled out, and Igo, what's the restaurant
Muddiggers?

SPEAKER_06 (53:59):
I go, that's mutigers.com.

SPEAKER_05 (54:02):
Come on, Muddiggers.
Muddigers.

SPEAKER_06 (54:04):
I never let her live it down.

SPEAKER_05 (54:06):
Restaurant is Muddiggers.
I feel like I'm red as a Jerryright now.
Okay, that was that's probablyone to play on for a while.
So we're sitting here right now,and we're of course we're gonna
ask Logan what his favorite orfirst album he ever purchased
was.
But welcome to the show, LoganJanice.
So nice to have you wear yourmostly superheroes, heroes
t-shirt uh with you right now.
And uh we want to say two thankyou because you are hoping with

(54:28):
production for our show andbringing on great guests, which
it looks like Steve, who wasgonna come on in, is here with
us right now.
So hopefully he's out therecomfortable.
I wish I could say we had thisgorgeous greed room that he's
out there, but he's in thelittle four-year opening of the
radio station.
It's comfortable.
It's comfortable.
Yeah, there's two couches.
You could take a little nap ifneeded, you know, whatever.

(54:48):
It floats your boat.
So welcome to the show.
We appreciate you.
And, you know, tell us, I mean,I think the first most important
question is let's start with theorigin of what the heck mostly
superheroes is about.
Do you wear capes when you're onair and fly through the air, or
what's going on?

SPEAKER_04 (55:05):
Um well, first of all, I, you know, after
following bespoke, I was like,you know, I feel like I'm
dressed very well.
You know, I feel like this isthis is the fit.
You know, I can't see you.
I don't know if you remember thegame The Sims, where you know,
you pick your outfit and youwalk around.
I feel like I have my threeoutfits.

SPEAKER_05 (55:19):
So you're not selling us.
I guess I don't buy anythingfrom you, so you can wear your
shirt.

SPEAKER_04 (55:23):
Like wear my shirt.
That's what I mean.
It's it's great advertising, butit sounds like I need to get
over there to bespoke.
But the origin story of mostlysuperheroes the podcast, which
you know, we talk about a lot oforigin stories on our show, um,
started about six years ago interms of the podcast itself.
So we're based out ofShrewsbury.
My wife and I, Carrie, createdthe show.
And then you can't really talkabout the origin story of the

(55:46):
podcast without talking aboutthe origin story of myself.
So I'm from about an hour southof here in Bonterre, Missouri,
where I grew up there, raised bymy dad Stan, my mom Angie, my
stepdad Greg, oldest of nine.

SPEAKER_05 (55:58):
All three of you in the same house?

SPEAKER_04 (55:59):
Oh, we were all in the same no.
They split when I was my parentswhen I was nine.
So we had you know a couplehouses growing up, and but all
you know, my mom and stepdad andall the siblings, we were
definitely all in the house atleast one time for probably
about four or five years, and itwas very much cheaper by the
dozen, you know, a little bitand brady bunch for sure.

(56:20):
Um but I grew up on TV, grew upon movies.
Um, you know, my parents taughtme all the good lessons, but we
also had a TV in the livingroom, and it was a pastime.
And uh I always thought I'd havemaybe my own talk show.
You know, thought about maybedoing weather, thought about
maybe doing news.
Um, and I actually got startedin radio at 18 in Lincoln,
Nebraska for a station called1063 KFRX.

(56:44):
Took a year off of school, wentthere, followed a friend out
there who was playing footballfor the Cornhuskers, Will
Compton.
He's a Bonterre boy, 10 years inthe NFL, has a podcast.
He's in now in Nashville.
Uh plugged their podcast, busthim with the boys, because he's
a hometown legend for sure.
So I knew one day maybe a talkshow was in my future.
I didn't really know what itwould be, but first I guess I

(57:06):
went to college for x-ray.
I became an x-ray technician.
Wow.
Did that for a few years, had alot of jobs before that, too.
I started working at Fortune.

SPEAKER_05 (57:14):
You saw some crazy stuff in those x-rays.

SPEAKER_04 (57:16):
X-ray was crazy.
Yeah, driving a van aroundtaking x-rays in Missouri.

SPEAKER_06 (57:20):
Driving a van around taking x-rays.

SPEAKER_04 (57:22):
Got it stuck in a creek once.
They still never know that ithappened.
They know now, but they didn'tknow then that it happened.
I got it out.
A local neighbor had to pull meout of a creek.
I'm not even kidding.
Um, but it's funny now.
It wasn't that seven yearspharmaceutical research in
corporate business, and thenseven years in marketing and
advertising.
That was a little bit of threeyears in Chicago, about ten

(57:43):
years in St.
Louis, mostly in Soulard.
And then the last six years I'vebeen in Shrewsbury with my wife
Carrie.
We we've been together about sixyears and uh we got married
about in this past September.
So all over the board there.
But now we have mostlysuperheroes.
I work for myself.
I'm a producer in town, I'm apromoter in town.
Me and Carrie both live andbreathe St.
Louis.
We love the city.

(58:04):
We're in Shrewsbury, but we'rein the city and everywhere else
all the time.
So now it's podcasts, radio,events.
Uh I'm on the board for anonprofit called Team Jakey that
gets a lot of my time.
But uh yeah, just it's it'sgreat.
We work for ourselves.
It's been the big experiment allthis time.
So we're set free in a lot ofways, but it's also Feast or
Famine as a freelancer.

SPEAKER_05 (58:24):
Yeah, when you're in business for yourself.

SPEAKER_04 (58:26):
Absolutely.
So thank you for having me.
It's been so fun working withyou all and producing for the
show, getting to book for theshow.

SPEAKER_05 (58:33):
Well, you got great vibes, great energy.
You know, you're super pleasantto be able to work with, and
lots of great ideas of people,you know, for us to be able to
meet as well.

SPEAKER_04 (58:44):
I think you've got a question you're your your
network's are networks.
It's been like I know.

SPEAKER_06 (58:48):
So let's tell us, let's tell, let's talk a little
bit about mostly superheroes.
You cover everything from Marvelto DC and beyond.
So, what is your favoritecharacter?

SPEAKER_04 (58:57):
Great question.
I started off as a Superman guyfor sure.
That was like my entry point.

SPEAKER_06 (59:02):
Was this like at three?
Yeah, it was uh were you jumpingoff like putting capes on and
jumping off the roof?

SPEAKER_04 (59:07):
I was born in 89, so I grew up I grew up watching
stuff in the 90s.
Yeah, and watched a lot ofSuper.
I saw Superman the movie withChristopher Reeve.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (59:16):
And that really still my favorite Superman.

SPEAKER_04 (59:18):
Absolutely.
And I was a big Henry Cavillguy, and man, we are counting
down big time to Superman andTheaters this July.
And James Gunn.
That's right, yeah.
And James Gunn, St.
Louis, he is the CEO of DCStudios.
We had his brother Sean on ourpodcast podcast last year.
And he's been in like theGuardians of the Galaxy and some
DC movies and stuff.

(59:39):
So Superman and Z O G, butnowadays I kind of lean toward
the everlasting characters.
I like the ones that kind of canlive forever.
So you got like Thor.
I'm a huge fan of the SilverSurfer, kind of like a galactic
explorer.
So that's mine.
How about yours?

SPEAKER_06 (59:54):
Oh, um throw it back at you.

SPEAKER_04 (59:56):
I'm sorry.
You know what?
That's the interview.
It's your show.

SPEAKER_06 (59:58):
You know what?
I gotta go with.
Batman, because I go all the wayback to the 60s, you know, even
with the you know the the goofyuh Burt Ward and Adam West, you
know.
I mean, I mean, horrible.
Let's when you watch it now,it's just horrible, you know.
But it's it's great because it'salmost like watching the old 60s
Batman was almost like watchinga comic book in action.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:20):
That's what they did.

SPEAKER_06 (01:00:21):
Yeah, it was like slap comic, but it's walking up
the wall, and then the starsopening the windows and coming
out.
You see Sammy Davis Jr.
come out, or you never know whowas gonna pop out of those
windows, you know, when they'reclimbing up the building.
But that was one of my favoriteparts, too.
But yeah, I have to go withBatman.
And then as it went on even tonow with Batman, I mean, what
they did with the you know, umBatman series with you know,

(01:00:45):
going up and having a differentBatman each time they come out
was kind of weird too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:49):
Getting Michael Douglas look hot.
That's Michael Keaton.
I'm sorry, Michael Keaton's.

SPEAKER_04 (01:00:53):
Michael Douglas, Michael Douglas can look hot
too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:00:55):
I just mean Michael Keaton's.
I think anybody can look reallyhot in a Batman.
So is Thor a Marvel?

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:02):
Yes, Thor's Marvel.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:05):
Don't talk over Thor right now.
You totally just took my my spotaway of my favorite.
Which is it's just it really hasnothing to do with Thor.
It's just who plays him.

SPEAKER_08 (01:01:18):
Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:20):
Come on, every woman thinks Thor's hot, right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:01:23):
Hemsworth.
I don't know.
Hemsworth.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:25):
Does every woman think Thor's hot?
Yes.
Yeah.
He'd have to be deaf, dumb,blind, and just maybe not even
born.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:32):
I mean, I'm I'm very straight.
He's a hot guy.
Okay.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:36):
He had to say that out loud.

SPEAKER_04 (01:01:37):
I mean, just to say he's hot, though.
He's like, I mean, you can'tignore it.
And his brother Liam, too.
He was like in the Hunger Gamesmovies.
Like these guys are, they gotthe genes.

SPEAKER_05 (01:01:44):
They they do have the genes.
Um, so let me ask you, um, youobviously you've built a strong
community around your show, um,and you've been doing it a
while.
What do you think that mostlysuperheroes offers that just
keeps getting having yourlisteners come back for more?

SPEAKER_04 (01:02:00):
Yeah, that's a great question.
And really, it's like trying toyou always start trying to do
the same things over and over tomake it better, sharper.
So I was inspired by reallygreat podcasts and shows like
Radio Lab and a lot ofprogramming on St.
Louis Public Radio and and a lotof the uh AM and FM stations in
town, morning shows.

(01:02:20):
And so my goal from the get-gois just you know, the best
version of all those things,just a variety I wanted it to be
a variety talk show.
So I that's where the mostlycomes in, and mostly
superheroes.
And it started with TV and filmbecause that was a great entry
point for me.
Like TV and film helps me figureout how I feel about things.
It teaches me these greatlessons and it also teaches

(01:02:43):
great characters.
So it was just a great, easy wayto be like, all right, let's
start with talking about movies.
But now at the heart of it, it'sbeing useful, being intentional,
being straight to the point to ato a way, but also leaving the
room to breathe and talk to eachother.
But we want to try to be allthose things, you know.
I think there's a lot ofpodcasts, there's a lot of

(01:03:06):
shows.
We were at like under a millionfive years ago, and I know it's
well over two million now.
So it's just a crazy kind ofecosystem.
And as you guys know, asproducing a show, you you know,
it you kind of find out likethere's no shortcuts.
It's like either this is gonnabe this vision that I have, but
you're always working toward avision that you have.
So I think like always keepingthat, those things in my head.

(01:03:28):
And I'm really proud of what wedo.
We put out weekly shows that arereally accessible.
That's a big thing for us.
Our show is completely free,it's accessible.
Um, and now we're able to shareeven on the airwaves in St.
Louis and whatnot.
So that's even helping get inour reach even even bigger.
We love that.
Um, but it's usually shortepisodes that are pretty
pointed, you know, like you'rehere to talk about Superman the

(01:03:50):
movie.
Maybe it's 10 minutes, maybeit's 30 minutes.
You know, we'll do some longones for some commuters and
stuff, but you know, we'retrying to get you to that long
form, medium form, and the shortform to where like you might not
have time for a whole podcast.
We know that.
So we work hard to try to justyou know get create high
quality, good content, but atthe it's at the heart of it is

(01:04:11):
uh you know, St.
Louis and movies andstorytelling and really awesome
people.
Like that that's been like sucha journey of like the interviews
have been great, but the localsponsors and groups that we work
with, like Team Jakey, thenonprofit group, you know, Four
Hands has been a really funpartner of ours, Steve's hot
dogs.
You're about to talk to SteveEwing, who's becoming She
brought a couple.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:30):
I'm starving.

SPEAKER_04 (01:04:31):
I I hope he did.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:32):
I mean, oh all right, guys, I'm about to stump
you, okay?
So, you know, this is Mr.
Movie Man right here.
I think I gotta go against him.
Yes, Gordon never forgets a lineof a movie.
No, that's it.
He can prove something up that amovie came out when you're 12
years old and say the line andhe likes to do the voices, so
you might he might whip out afew voices here.
He has no idea what I'm askinghere.

(01:04:53):
He did not get to see this.

SPEAKER_06 (01:04:54):
So you see the shirties working on the case.

SPEAKER_05 (01:04:57):
The game that we're playing right now is guess that
quote.
So the quote comes from a movie.
So what you're gonna give me isthe movie.
I'm gonna give you the quote.
Gordon, if you would like to doit in the voice to help us, we
can do that.
And you can see if you know ifyou might know the answer to
who's listening.
So here's looking at you, kid.

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:18):
Um, Casablanca.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:21):
You won that one.
Did you know that?

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:23):
That was a classic.
I hadn't seen that one sincecollege.
I would not have got that one,I'll be honest.
So one-nothing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:28):
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
How'd you like that phone?

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:32):
Oh Jaws.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:33):
Okay.
How do you like my accent?

SPEAKER_06 (01:05:34):
It didn't come to me quick enough.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:35):
Go ahead.
Life is like a box ofchocolates.
You never know what you're gonnaget.

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:41):
We both know it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:05:41):
Yeah, gump.
Say it together then.
Forrest gump.
That's 1994.
By the way, Jaws is 1975.
Casablanca 1942, Forrest Gump1994.
Wow.
I know that's how old we are.
I see dead people.
You keep giving Gordon a chance,just say.

SPEAKER_04 (01:05:58):
No, well, I didn't know the first one, the Sixth
Sense.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:00):
Yeah.
1999.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:02):
Wow.

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:03):
All right.
May the Force be with you.
Star Wars.
You look like those.

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:08):
Well, I guess that's where I get nerdy.
I'm like, which one?

SPEAKER_05 (01:06:10):
Did you?
Yeah, I know which one.
Well, that's I guess I'd say.
I'll give you the year, 1977.
So a new hope.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:18):
And I heard, I heard uh uh Grant's show the other
day.
They were talking about StarWars on their show.
And they're talking about the uhNamie's son, he couldn't
remember, I don't think he'sever seen a Star Wars episode,
is what he saw.
But I was like But they weretalking about technology and how
it's like I just gotta ask youthis and then we'll go on to the
game.
So with the Star Wars episodes,I was looking so forward to the

(01:06:42):
new ones because I wanted to seenew technology in place with the
Star Wars, but it looked justlike the old technology, which
was ahead of its time at thetime and they came out, right?

SPEAKER_04 (01:06:52):
Right, yeah.
And a lot of those old movieshave been remastered too.

SPEAKER_06 (01:06:55):
My eyes I had to go to the movies.
I was a little disappointed.
I wanted to see technology tomake Star Wars just explode.
All you Star Wars fans hated.
What are your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:05):
Oh man, they have definitely come a long way.
And uh the latest uh show in theStar Wars universe is called
Andor, and it was uh I hadn'tseen that one.
Two seasons, and the secondseason had a budget of six
hundred and eighty milliondollars, which is about double
any of the biggest Marvelmovies.

SPEAKER_06 (01:07:19):
Do you know what the budget was for the original Star
Wars?

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:21):
Uh and it's time, and uh not off the top of my
head, but seeing seeing enoughof uh seeing enough
documentaries and and whatnot, Ithink at the time it was
probably 50 to 100 million, 150million in in their money time,
not ours.

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:34):
And not bad to our regularly.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:37):
Toy story.

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:38):
Yeah, 1995.
Why is so serious?

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:44):
The dark night.

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:45):
Thank you.
Wow.
I'm getting blown away.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:49):
Well, that was my specialty.

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:51):
Yeah.
Nobody puts baby in the corner.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:55):
Million dollar baby?

SPEAKER_05 (01:07:57):
No, no, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 (01:07:58):
No, the boxing.

SPEAKER_06 (01:07:59):
No, nope, nope, nope, or no dirty dancing.
Yeah.
Good job.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:02):
I got it mixed up.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:04):
1987.
I'm the king of the world.
Titanic.
Oh, yeah.
1997.
There's no place to me now,Doctor.
There's no place like home.

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:15):
E.T.
Nope There's no place like home.
Uh Wizard of Boss.

unknown (01:08:19):
Oh.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:21):
1939.

SPEAKER_06 (01:08:23):
My daughter used to walk.
That's insane.
My daughter used to walk aroundthe house.
She was just a little bitty kid,like two or three, and she'd
like, there's no place like Mo.
She kept thinking Mo.
I'm like, what is this?

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:32):
All right.
All right, now name this movie.
Phone Home.

SPEAKER_05 (01:08:35):
E.T., E.T., there you go.
So, what was your first albumthat you ever purchased for a
question of the day, sir?

SPEAKER_04 (01:08:41):
I'll tell you the first.
I can remember my first threealbums.
The first one was definitelyBritney Spears, uh, Baby One
More Time.
Oh my god, you're so young.
They're killing us more.
City High.
City High in 2001, theself-titled album, Sit City
High.
And also in 2001, Alien Ant Farmanthology.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:00):
Oh my god, you were chicken a guy's body too, like
my husband.

SPEAKER_04 (01:09:03):
I like it all too.
My first album I was ever giftedwas Bruce Springsteen, and the
first cassette tape I ever gotwas A Beatles' Greatest Hits.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:10):
Oh, okay.
Now you're talking.
There you go.
I like that.
So tell us how we can watch andlisten to Mostly Superheroes
before you exit us.

SPEAKER_04 (01:09:20):
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, you're definitely gonnahear mostly superheroes on 590 K
L I S.
Really excited to have the showpresented here.
And I know we're gonna have, Ithink, a spot definitely on
Fridays, and we're gonna tellyou about movies, TV, film, and
definitely come check us outwhen you're not listening to the
station, mostly superheroes.com.
We put a lot of work into thatwebsite, and it's very good.

(01:09:42):
It's searchable, it's organized,it's got our videos.
And if you're on social media,it's always at Mostly
Superheroes.

SPEAKER_05 (01:09:50):
Awesome.
All right.
Well, Logan, Janice, thank youso much for spending some time
with us today and everybodygetting to meet you.
We will be at the end, uh,towards the end in the in your
city show segment.
We are going to be playing uhmostly superheroes, and we're
gonna give the movies for Junethat you are not gonna want to
miss.
So be sure uh to stick around atthe end and be able to watch and

(01:10:13):
see what movies you don't wantto miss with Logan Janice and
Mostly Superheroes.
Listen, the In Your City Show,we're coming back.
We've got Steve Ewing with ustoday.
We're gonna be talking about agreat event that's coming up.
He is a powerhouse in the musicworld, and we're excited to have
him.
So we'll be right back.
We're gonna go ahead and uh giveyou a few commercials because,
of course, that's how we get tobe here on the show.

SPEAKER_06 (01:10:34):
Yep.
We'll be right back.

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First, before we get going, which I know uh you'll be
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I mean, a smile, it's amazinghow much a smile can change your
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Um, I I have uh a few friendsthat have made the choice to get

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their teeth fixed.
Um, not to mention that teeth,it's so um good for your health
to take care of your teeth.
I mean, when you find out whatit can do to your heart and the
health of your body by nottaking care of your teeth, you
will want to know about autoorthodontics.
Um, they have several locationsin St.

(01:16:40):
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Crevecore, DePair, Fenton, St.
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Dr.
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It's the perfect time right now,whether it's Invisalign, braces,
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(01:17:02):
And right now, if you mentionthe In Your City show, just
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Like when you go to the doctorsand maybe only have a small
coverage to take care of.

(01:17:23):
Well, maybe I don't know, thesedays medical coverage is cost a
fortune to be able to have it.
But$1,000 off, just mentioned inyour city show.
Dr.
Otto has earned a ton of localawards, the A-list awards, and
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You can go to Otto, that'sO-T-T-O, autoortho.com, book a

(01:17:44):
free consultation, let Dr.
Otto help you smile withconfidence.
She and her husband are theretogether with some other local
dentists, and they're fabulous.
You deserve it.
So, Dr.
Otto with Auto Orthodonics isthe place to get back your smile
and feel good.
So, with no more time to wait,you're gonna meet the Steve
Ewing himself.

(01:18:06):
He is a powerhouse in St.
Louis when it comes to music.
He's been in it for years, anduh not only that, he's a very,
very successful entrepreneur aswell with his hot dogs, Steve's
St.
Louis hot dogs, which arefabulous, and we're extremely
upset right now that there's nota couple of them sitting in your
lap for us right now.

(01:18:26):
So, you know, you are rollingright off the street.
Do you understand?
We are starving at this time ofthe day.
Exactly.
The hot dogs got blown away.

SPEAKER_09 (01:18:38):
Yes, that's it.
That's it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:18:40):
So, Steve, thank you for spending some time with us
here today.
I mean, not only are you outthere just singing your heart
out um with your band, which wewant to kind of catch up where
you're at in the music scene.
For those that haven't been orknow about, you know, Steve's
hot dogs, we want to know aboutthat too.
But you also have some reallyfabulous events.
One of them we actually wrote astory on in our magazine.

(01:19:00):
It was a year ago, too, orsometimes the years run together
when we've had these magazinesfor so long, but we did a big
feature on uh your event thatyou're gonna talk about.
So, first, why don't you catchus up on Steve the Musician?
Where are you at right now?
I know that you have the SteveEwing as a musician.
Are you still with the Urge aswell?

SPEAKER_09 (01:19:18):
Yeah, so the Urge is um we just did Point Fest two
weeks ago.
Uh we co-headlined that with ourfriends 311.
And this year we have aboutanother five tour dates with the
Urge, and then we'll have thepageant again in November.
It's a big show we always doevery year.
So some big events for Urge thisyear.
So we um we don't do as much asum we used to way back in the

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day, where it's just be on tourall the time.
Now we just pick the festivalsand shows that we like and have
fun doing and you know, make alittle bit of money at.
So yeah, we're still doing quitea bit of Urge stuff, and gosh,
um I'm doing a lot with theSteve Ewing band.
I'm usually playing at least acouple, two or three times a
week, you know, in the region.

SPEAKER_06 (01:19:58):
So I know we've been to a few events, and there you
are.

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:01):
I know.

SPEAKER_09 (01:20:01):
Yes.

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:02):
Fantastic to listen to.

SPEAKER_09 (01:20:04):
We stay real busy here in the in the area.

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:06):
How the heck do you run that successful business
with your hot dogs and all thatyou do?
We can't figure out how we dowhat we do.

SPEAKER_09 (01:20:11):
So well, I um I have a really great um two great
business partners, and then overthe past like five years, we've
been really good at building uma fantastic team of general
managers and um and HR andthings like that, so I can step
away from the day-to-day withthese hot dogs and really
concentrate on music, um, whichis what what I've been doing for

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35 years, you know.
So that's nice.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:20:36):
So how right now, so how many dates are you playing
throughout a year?
Let's say it's the whole year.
Like how many dates do you play?
The whole the whole year, about120 shows.

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:43):
Oh my gosh, you're like, what's his face?
Um, what's the guy that couldbelieve he cheated after finding
out all this time?

SPEAKER_06 (01:20:50):
What's I have no idea what we're talking about?

SPEAKER_05 (01:20:52):
And he's so successful, you know, rock star,
musician, and we just watched abiography on him.
And we found out Oh, Bon Jovi.
Bon Jovi, like three and 20 daysout of the year, the band.
You're like half of that.

SPEAKER_09 (01:21:05):
Yes.
Yeah, I Bon Jovi is uh he's fromthe old, old school where those
guys were those, they workedhard.
They performed.

SPEAKER_06 (01:21:12):
Oh, yeah.
I was so sad to find out he wasa cheater.
Well, I you know what?
I remember, and as a singer, youcan understand this, but I'll
I'll never forget playing stagesback in the 80s all the time.
Yeah.
We were doing in Nichols, wewere playing, we're I I would
play 14 days straight without aday off.
Yeah, as a singer, that'skiller.
It's like you're less.
That's a little rough.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's like we did it all thetime.

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I probably have one day a weekoff.

SPEAKER_05 (01:21:35):
But when you're young, I mean, they give the
energy to the wrong people.
I need the energy now, not back,you know, not when I was that
age.
I mean, kids just run incircles.
I'm like, why didn't God give usa little bit of that?
I can't even run a half a circlefor a second now.
I'm tired.
I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
That's a lot of shows.

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Yes.
It's half the year.

SPEAKER_09 (01:21:57):
It's it's yeah, something like that.
And then we um I'm like you'resaying, the schedule used to be
even more than that.
You know, um, with the SteveHewing band and the other things
I do, the schedule was fournights a week, five nights a
week.
And now with the restaurant,opened the restaurant in 2011,
um, I knew I couldn't do both ofthem that much, you know.

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So I'm like, well, let me see ifI can scale back on what I do
with the Steve Hewing band andreally get this business off the
ground.
And that's what I did.
And then, like I said, in thepast five years, we've been able
to really build a good team so Ican um dip more back into
performing um as you know, more,so which is what I love doing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:22:37):
So let's talk about Bourbon and Bruce event.
Um, one of your passions andreason why that you're here
today with us is to talk aboutthis event.
So um tell us about the event,what people can expect.
It's a pretty big deal, andwhere it's at, too.

SPEAKER_09 (01:22:51):
Yep.
So Bourbon and Bruce um is anawesome event.
Drew and James have been puttingthis on for I think this is
their fourth year, and um theydo an amazing job of getting all
of the breweries and all of theyou know, bourbon makers,
whiskey makers uh from theregion and nationally together
uh for this event.

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So there's 400, there's like 400whiskeys.
Seriously?
And and beers is a lot.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:19):
And so this is gonna have to eat some burgers and hot
dogs there in between all thatwhiskey tasting.

SPEAKER_09 (01:23:24):
And a ton of food trucks.
So yes, you gotta get yes.
It's it's like if you're intobourbon.
Yeah, there's a lot.
And it's just growing.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:33):
Yeah.
Still growing, yeah.
Yeah, that's just crazy.

SPEAKER_09 (01:23:36):
So they and they have a number of other events.
Um, you know, the the St.
Louis Bourbon Society, but thisis their kind of their big one.
And they do it every year out atuh Frankie Martin's car.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:45):
So it's at the same place every year.
Or well, I guess Frankie Martin,is it did it start when Frankie
Martin's was built out there?
Is that how it happened?

SPEAKER_09 (01:23:52):
They were the first event.

SPEAKER_05 (01:23:53):
Okay.

SPEAKER_09 (01:23:53):
So they were the first thing to happen at Frankie
Martin's when they opened up.
So they didn't even have it allthe way full built yet.
Um Bourbon and Bruce was thefirst thing that they did out
there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:02):
Incredible.
Now, will your will your hotdogs be there?

SPEAKER_09 (01:24:05):
Um, I won't be there as a hot dog vendor.
Um, we have a lot going on thatday.
We don't have a food truck yet,but I will be performing.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 (01:24:12):
So are you thinking about starting your own bourbon
or your own?
Um not necessarily yet.

SPEAKER_07 (01:24:20):
So it's been why.

SPEAKER_09 (01:24:22):
Because I love bourbon.
So it's you know, it's justsomething that I think would be
cool.
Um, just trying to figure outhow to actually get into it and
how to do a good job doing that.
That'd be something down theline.
So, but I love bourbon.
That's why I'm this event justworks out perfect for me.
Um, I get to play my music, aslong as well as urge music and

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some old classic covers, and umreally get you know folks hyped
up about whiskeys and beers.
That's great.

SPEAKER_05 (01:24:50):
I mean, with 400 vendors, I can't even imagine
how many, because you that's thevendors.
Then you have all the peoplethat are coming to be part of
this.

SPEAKER_09 (01:24:59):
Correct.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:00):
So does it go all day long from morning till
night, or how is there so much?

SPEAKER_09 (01:25:04):
It goes um it goes from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:06):
Okay, so during the day, during the day people get
home and have to go to bed.

SPEAKER_06 (01:25:10):
So out of all those, out of all those vendors are um
is it all is every summer food,right?
And some are bourbon.
That's not all bourbon.

SPEAKER_09 (01:25:19):
The food is in the food trucks.
No, he's so if you know howcotton how um it's the bourbon
in that.

SPEAKER_06 (01:25:24):
Yes, 400 bourbon vendors.

SPEAKER_09 (01:25:27):
So I don't know, I don't think it's 400 vendors,
but between all the vendors,you're gonna have 400 different
varieties.

SPEAKER_06 (01:25:34):
Varieties varieties, varieties.
Oh, I got still that's a lot.
I know.

SPEAKER_09 (01:25:37):
She liked when she said that I was like, yeah.
So when you look at it, theentire footprint is tense with
people with their um with theirsamples and like all the way up
and down.

SPEAKER_05 (01:25:49):
So it's what's your favorite?

SPEAKER_09 (01:25:51):
Um, I like Penelope.
You've heard of Penelope?
No, I haven't, but we're gonnahave to.
And there's a bunch of varietiesof Penelope, but a friend of
mine turned me on to that lastyear, and that's my new
favorite.

SPEAKER_05 (01:26:00):
And do you like just sipping it?
Like I love a good old fashionedis, and if you get a bad one
made, it can ruin you.
Sure.
But when you have a good one, ohmy gosh, that's just fabulous.
And then, but uh usually like awhat I always say, what am I
supposed to get?
A bullet rye.
A rye.

SPEAKER_06 (01:26:17):
Rye, but yeah, rye for old fashioned.
Old fashion.

SPEAKER_05 (01:26:20):
There is a difference in in in that taste.
Oh yeah.
So Penelope, we're gonna havewe're gonna have to try that
out.
Now, do you find um uh when yougo through and you have all the
vendors, uh is there certainones that you're looking for
then?
Is that will that one be there?

SPEAKER_09 (01:26:35):
So I'm I'm not looking at any one in
particular.
Um, I'll usually partake after Iget done.

SPEAKER_05 (01:26:42):
Um be quite silly up on the stage, right?
Right, yes.
Because it's it's hot afterabout your tenth sample.

SPEAKER_09 (01:26:48):
Right, yes.
So I will partake.
Usually someone will approach meand say, hey, check this out,
try this out.
Um, or like you should try thatout.
That's really good.
There's so many bourbons that Ihave tasted.
Um, I love bourbon.
So yeah, I'm I'm I'm always openfor for folks to come and say,
check this out.
This is you're gonna love this,this a little different, or

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there's something about it.
And the cool thing about whatI've learned in the past like
few years is every bourbon has astory to it.

SPEAKER_07 (01:27:17):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 (01:27:17):
They all have a little story, like how you know
how it was made and what barrelsit's in, and where the stuff
comes from.
So it's it's always cool tolisten to them talk about the
bourbons.

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:28):
I did not know, I did not know that that they had
a story behind it.
That makes it even better.
Like I love those wine bottlesthat you was it prison or
something, and they have storypeople on the on the uh on the
bottle.
You take your phone and theycome to life and they attack it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's cool like whenthere's something about it.
I didn't know that they all hada story behind it.

SPEAKER_09 (01:27:47):
It's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_05 (01:27:48):
Yeah.
So with the event, um, it's atFrankie Martin's.
So people that maybe have notbeen to Frankie Martin's, that
is located in Cottleville,right?
Uh inside the St.
Charles County area.
Really a great location that'sthe big outdoor astro turf, you
know, and they've got the whatdo you call that when you throw
the um the sandbags, you know,the bag talls.

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Yeah, and then they've gotpickleball courts if you want to
play pickleball.
They do have the great uhwhiskey tasting tasting room and
cigar that you can go in andvisit.
Of course, they have the outsidearea, you know, you can buy
beverages, but they do line upwith food trucks.
And we went there for uh Casey,my daughter's birthday, and that
was fun sitting outside.
Let me ask, is there any charityor anything about it?

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Is there a reason Bourbon Brewsis about it has come to
fruition?

SPEAKER_09 (01:28:35):
Yeah, so the St.
Louis Bourbon Society um it's acharitable organization.
So they um they raise a lot ofmoney for lots of different
charities, and one charity inparticular for this is um our
Feed the People charity.
So we have a charity that's fedat this point since COVID around
10,000 people, um, and theydonate every year to that cause.

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And what we do is we take thatmoney and we make meals and we
get them right out to thepeople.
So um Feed the People is ourorganization, and they've been
donating to that for the pastfour times we've done this.
So they're really good aboutraising money for that, and they
also raise money for tons ofother um organizations.

SPEAKER_05 (01:29:13):
I love hearing that.
We just had the St.
Louis food bank on, and you justdon't realize in Missouri alone,
900,000 people are needed to befed.
Yeah, and then here locally,just in St.
Louis, over 400,000.
So knowing that anyone's outthere helping to get people fed
is just really is dear to myheart because you can't, I mean,

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obviously we need sleep, but youcan't survive without food and
water.
Any food, yeah.
And to think of a child uh notbeing able to eat and being
hungry just that that breaks myheart.
I mean, it's just an incredibleuh thing they're doing.

SPEAKER_09 (01:29:52):
We learned that we learned that big time during
COVID um when people were out ofwork and people in the
neighborhood needed.
Help, we learned how much therewas a need, and so um we were
able to get some help from otherum organizations that to help us
actually get the food out on thestreet so we'd make the food and

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they'd get the street the foodout, so it's really nice.

SPEAKER_05 (01:30:14):
Yeah, so the bourbon brews event again.
What date is that?

SPEAKER_09 (01:30:18):
That is that's this Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 (01:30:20):
Oh wow, this weekend and the June 7th and uh 8th or
whatever that is then coming up.
Yeah, now you have somethingelse also that's dear to your
heart that's coming up.
Can you tell us a little bitabout that?

SPEAKER_09 (01:30:31):
So um, if you don't know, our location on Del Mar
was right in the middle of thattornado.

SPEAKER_08 (01:30:37):
How did you think?

SPEAKER_09 (01:30:38):
In May, so we we sustained quite a bit of damage.
Sorry, but um, and the entireblock from Union all the way
down to Kings Highway sustaineda massive amount of damage.
All the restaurants, all thebusinesses were closed um for a
long time.
And most of us still closed,where none of us have gotten
open again.
We're we're working to get backopen soon.

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So we have an event called BuildBack the Block, which is
Tuesday, June 17th.
And that is the day we're hopingto get back open again.
And so we've got a lot of peopleum involved in getting all the
businesses um on the block backopen.
So that's what we're here to do.
We're raising money.

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:18):
What will we be doing?
You'll be raising money.
How will you be doing that andwhere?
Well on the block itself or yep,so we have a concert.

SPEAKER_09 (01:31:24):
So the funky butt brass bands.

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:26):
On that block.

SPEAKER_09 (01:31:27):
Yeah, right in front of our restaurant.

SPEAKER_05 (01:31:28):
Wow, okay.
So I'm sorry, go ahead again.

SPEAKER_09 (01:31:31):
Oh, you're good.
So yeah, we have the funky buttbrass bands playing.
Um, my band, The Urge, uh, someof our guys are gonna be joining
them um in a couple of thoseperformances.
Um, we have a lot of donors whoare already donated.
Um, like we have, you know, theClark Fox Foundation.
Um, we have gosh um many of St.

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Louis.
So right now we already haveabout 20,000 in pledges.
And then so our goal is to raise$40,000 um dollars for all the
restaurants and businesses andhouses in the block.

SPEAKER_05 (01:32:03):
And that's not even enough that you that you need.
You I hope the donor comes, Imean, there's no even imagine,
you know, putting businessesback together again and sure
roofs, windows, and and insides,and the food that you know, in
like in your place that ruined.
I mean, there it takes more thanthat.
So I hope that you there's evenmore that find you that have

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deep pockets that can help toget you back in action.

SPEAKER_09 (01:32:27):
So yeah, I think this will be great to help the
businesses get the ones we need.
Maybe they didn't get all theinsurance money, or maybe
there's some other stuff youneed.
This is there for them.
And um, this is also good tobuild awareness of that
district.
Like if people come down thereand and patronize the
businesses, that's what that'swhat businesses need to sustain

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themselves, is uh folks to comein the district and um and
patronize them.
So that we're hoping that wejust create more awareness for
the district as well.

SPEAKER_05 (01:32:57):
So you have the bands and then and then let us
know again what's gonna be goingon, people can look forward to.
And also, like you said, youhave donors that are already
coming in.
So if someone wants to donate,where would they do that if they
they can't make it to the eventbut they want to give back?

SPEAKER_09 (01:33:12):
Just go to Steve's HotdogSTL dot com um and there's
a link there where you can makedonations um to either uh build
back the block or feed thepeople.
Okay, and um, while you're thereat the event, there'll be ways
where you can use QR codes um tomake donations as well.

SPEAKER_05 (01:33:29):
Make it easy, right?
And again, I kind of I stoppedin the middle of asking.
I know you had the bands, ifpeople want to donate, what all
what else will be going on?

SPEAKER_09 (01:33:36):
Um we'll have an auction.
We have uh quite a few items umthat we've gotten donated from
some some business around St.
Louis.
We'll have an auction and we'llhave a 50-50.
Um we're hoping to get the mayorand a few people out to come
hang out with us and talk to theand talk to folks.
Um the neighborhoods on bothsides of the boulevard were
greatly affected by thistornado, um, north and south of

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us.
So we'd like to make this kindof a way to really bring the
community together as well.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:05):
I think people will quit um sitting back when they
hear those sirens and think, youknow, a lot of times you hear it
and you you don't really, youknow, you just keep watching
your movie or doing what you'redoing, or in my case, sitting in
my car just waiting for the rainto slow down so I could get into
Target when there was like atornado going over the top of
the room.

SPEAKER_06 (01:34:23):
It was a crazy day too, because it was actually
pretty decent weather.
It wasn't bad just out ofnowhere.

SPEAKER_09 (01:34:27):
Out of in many places in the city, uh it was
not even, they weren't evenaware that there was anything
happening.
So downtown was different.
Um, the south side was thesirens did not go off completely
different.
So north side, and then youknow, Clayton and the Forest
Park area got hit really bad.
So it's oh I know.

SPEAKER_06 (01:34:45):
I drove down there the other day, and I it's just
the trees and the mass amount oftrees that were just taken down.
All the blue tarps and all thehouses and everything.

SPEAKER_09 (01:34:54):
Yeah, pretty much every house has some damage
around it.

SPEAKER_05 (01:34:56):
It's really surreal.
I remember the one that camethat hit St.
Charles, and I remember ustaking a drive like to the
Defiance area, and you'redriving your mouse just kind of
hanging open because you'relike, you can't believe what
you're seeing.
The devastation of houses justbeing shredded and and torn
apart, and then you're justpraying that nobody was, you
know, in the home.

SPEAKER_09 (01:35:15):
That was hurt, and then and then the aftermath is
these people lost their homes.

SPEAKER_06 (01:35:20):
You know, so some of them don't even have insurance.

SPEAKER_09 (01:35:22):
Correct.

SPEAKER_06 (01:35:22):
And that's the heart, that's the one tongues of
my heart.
It's like, what do they do?
Where do they go?

SPEAKER_05 (01:35:26):
You know, if you don't have family, you know, not
everyone has family heresomewhere to be.

SPEAKER_09 (01:35:30):
Everyone in one way or the other has been displaced.

SPEAKER_05 (01:35:33):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 (01:35:33):
They're someplace else.
You know, so um, you know,hopefully we get some more
house, some more temporaryhousing.
Um, you know, a lot ofrestaurants and a lot of folks
have really stepped up theirgame and um and feeding people
who need food and basic items umaround the area.
So I think there's a lot ofgreat organizations doing that.
Um I'm hoping we get morehousing more.

SPEAKER_05 (01:35:55):
Yeah, we have some stuff down actually in our
basin.
So we're really hoping to figureout.
I know they're not figure outshouldn't be hard at all, but uh
with like a coffee make.
We just have things downstairsthat we that someone could use
that.
You know, so we're gonna beputting all that together,
putting that as a truck, andthen getting an address that we
can, you know, take that to.

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Blankets, everything, thingsthat you lose in a terrible
storm like that.
So this this question, you know,you definitely um St.
Louis is lucky to have you.
You're just people really umrespect and appreciate you.
You're always talked highly ofwhenever your name is mentioned,
and you definitely have you'reall heart and hustle.
Um, what does it mean to you?
What the feeling to be able totake your talent and to be able

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to give back to your hometown tohelp others, um, you know,
through your music and throughyour food.
Right.
What does that mean to you?

SPEAKER_09 (01:36:50):
Um it's a blessing to be, you know, have support
like that.
You know, I I pour into the citybecause I live here, you know?

SPEAKER_05 (01:36:57):
Sure.
And so not everyone does though,just because they live here.

SPEAKER_09 (01:37:00):
Right.
I mean, and I've I was born andraised here.
I live here, and the more I canpour into my city, um, the
better.
So I I think it's amazing that Iget the support back.
And that's sometimes I don't seeit or or you know, my head's
down, and I'm not kind of in youknow that in that zone or
whatever, but then people willsay something like that, and I'm
like, okay, cool, maybe I'mdoing something good here.

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Yeah.
But um, I I just feel like themore I can pour into my city,
the more that I can get back.
So it's great.

SPEAKER_05 (01:37:28):
You have a family, Steve?

SPEAKER_09 (01:37:30):
I do.

SPEAKER_05 (01:37:30):
So tell us a little about that.
Tell us a little bit about youwhen you're not on the stage.

SPEAKER_09 (01:37:34):
So I'm I'm married, my wife and I, we've been
married for 25 years.
Wow, that's wonderful.
Yeah, so um, and then we have adaughter, she just she's
graduated from high school thisyear.
Wow, is she in music?
She is not, she's amazing, butshe's not a professional, she's
not in the professional fan ofplaying music.

SPEAKER_05 (01:37:49):
Yeah, but she's amazing.
Yes, what does she want to do?

SPEAKER_09 (01:37:52):
She's going into business school at KU.
So yes, so we'll great school.
Yeah, so I'm excited about herto get to college and daddy's
girl.
Do her thing.

unknown (01:38:00):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:01):
What does she think?
You know, here, you know, toyou, you're you're her dad.
You're just her dad, you know.
Well, what is it like when shesees you sing?
Is she just like, that's my dad?
Or does it embarrass her?

SPEAKER_09 (01:38:12):
No, I don't think I don't think it embarrasses her,
but for a while, she's like,Yeah, that's just dad.
That's what dad does, right?

SPEAKER_08 (01:38:19):
Okay.

SPEAKER_09 (01:38:20):
And then when she got older, and then maybe some
of her friends kind of startedto get into it, then then the
kind of was like, Oh, my dad iscool.
Okay, then he's kind of cool.
Then so my dad is cool.

SPEAKER_06 (01:38:33):
Yeah.
That's what it got cool for him,you know.

SPEAKER_09 (01:38:41):
But yeah, she's always, I mean, that's what dad
does.
He's always entertaining.
So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:45):
Does your wife still think you're cool?

SPEAKER_09 (01:38:47):
She's I think she still thinks you're cool.
She's your biggest fan.
She is.
She's and we've been like, infact, we've been together for
like almost 30 years.

SPEAKER_05 (01:38:55):
So you were before you got married, you were been
together for a while.

SPEAKER_09 (01:38:58):
We've been together for a very long time.
Um, you know, throughout thebeginning of my career, and you
know, how things were doing likethis, she was right there.

SPEAKER_05 (01:39:05):
So yeah, we're what do you think keeps your
relationship so strong?
Because being in the musicindustry, that's a lot of
weekends and late nights and alot of flirtations.
Because for every singer, MickJagger, look at him.

SPEAKER_06 (01:39:18):
And her going to all of your shows early on and then
saying, I'm taking a night off,man.

SPEAKER_05 (01:39:24):
So tell us what keeps a relationship strong with
the with what you do.

SPEAKER_09 (01:39:27):
I mean, we communicate, we're you know, we
both love each other and wecommunicate, and um, you know,
it's we're we're we're we'remade for each other.
We're just the two of us, youknow, we're we're made for each
other.
We're definitely soulmates.
And uh, and with as far asperforming goes, she knows that
for me, it's work.
You know, when I'm when I'm outthere, it's work.

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So I go to work and I come home.
So I'm it's trust andcommunication, right?

SPEAKER_05 (01:39:51):
That's a big that that's a big that's a big thing.
Does she get to watch you playoften?

SPEAKER_09 (01:39:55):
Um at the big shows, she'll go to the big shows.
But like on you know, on theweekends or stuff when I'm if
I'm doing smaller shows, or ifsometimes I'm doing two in a
day.
Um, so then it's just like I'mlike once again, I'm like in in
the zone.
In the zone, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:40:10):
So is she taking care of the hot dogs when you're
busy then?

SPEAKER_09 (01:40:13):
Um lately these days, she's been kind of just
helping out.
Um, like on her side, her herlife changed, different job,
whatever.
She's like, Well, I can help outa little bit.
Um, especially that we have theones at the stadiums.
Oh, um, and then we have youknow meltdown and city foundry.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:30):
Um and there's a stadium this year or last year
that you've got in the stadiums.

SPEAKER_09 (01:40:34):
Well, we've been at the soccer stadium since the
beginning.

SPEAKER_06 (01:40:36):
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_09 (01:40:37):
And then we're this is our second year at
Enterprise, and then we've beenat the dome for three years.

SPEAKER_05 (01:40:43):
That's fantastic.
So my daughter, I used to own arestaurant, the chocolate cafe,
and my daughter, sweetest, mostpersonable person ever, but my
worst employee ever, she atleast got fired once a week.
So, did your daughter ever workfor you and help you out before
she went to college?

SPEAKER_09 (01:40:59):
Yes, so that's so she's working um this summer.
Um, she's working um becausewe're at AUXL, the only vendor
for Shakespeare in the park.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:09):
Oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_09 (01:41:10):
So, which is great for teenagers because they can
just work little short shifts.
Um, it's you know, super safe,they all come in and out
together.
So it's just it's a great summerjob for kids.
And so um her and her friendswork together at Shakespeare, so
it's nice.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:25):
My daughter was sitting on the counter and she
just kind of did her thing.
She loved making herselfcoffees, but she was very, very
personal to the guests.

SPEAKER_09 (01:41:33):
That's hey, that's good too, though.
That's great too.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:36):
When there wasn't a guest, then she didn't have
anything to do, which you allknow there's a million things to
do, right?

SPEAKER_09 (01:41:41):
There's always something to do, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:43):
Well, let us ask you.
So, our question of the day iswhat was your very first album
you ever purchased?

SPEAKER_09 (01:41:49):
Um, that's a good question.
The first album I purchased wasEarth Wind and Fire, I Am.

SPEAKER_05 (01:41:55):
There you go.
Oh, that's a great one.

SPEAKER_09 (01:41:58):
Yeah, so the I Am record came out, I think it must
have been like, I could bewrong.
78.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:08):
Yes.

SPEAKER_09 (01:42:09):
Came out 79, maybe.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:11):
Weren't those the good days?

SPEAKER_09 (01:42:12):
Yeah, but it was that record had so many hit
songs on it.
And I bought it at Venture.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:17):
Adventure.
Oh my gosh, the black and whitestripes, right?
I remember Adventure.
I left my purse there once.
Or I left my purse in thebathroom.
Adventure?
Yes, and someone stole it.
But they found it later.
They didn't realize it was aLouis Vuitton, and they took my
money but left the purse.

SPEAKER_09 (01:42:35):
They had no clue what it was.

SPEAKER_05 (01:42:37):
No, so you know it was a kid because they didn't
even know what back then, youknow.
But wasn't that something backthen to to purchase an album or
to see a concert becauseeverything wasn't in front of us
on the television or the you hadto go to a concert in order to
see the audience?

SPEAKER_09 (01:42:57):
It's the most amazing.
And it is still today to seebands live is still.

SPEAKER_05 (01:43:03):
But I can YouTube you, Steve.

SPEAKER_09 (01:43:05):
Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 (01:43:06):
You know, I can YouTube you or you know, buy
your music.
And whereas back then, yeah, thethe the anticipation of being at
that concert or going to thestore, Adventure, or Peaches, or
wherever these every Sam Goody,whatever people talk about, to
buy that album and go home andlisten to it over and over.
Over and over again again.

SPEAKER_08 (01:43:25):
Yes.

SPEAKER_05 (01:43:25):
Either back then it was you know, try to hit the
needle on the album correctly,or pressing that cassette and
hearing that rewind.
Yeah, go back and hoping youdidn't have to use a pencil to
fix the um, what was that stuffcalled?
The film or tape?
I guess tape.
And you'd have to try to takethe pencil and eating up vitamin
tape machine.

SPEAKER_06 (01:43:47):
It would be stuck and you couldn't get it to move
at all.
Then you're done.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:43:51):
Boom boxes came out, and you try to um, it had two
sides.
So you try to make your owncassette with your favorites by
getting the radio, and you'd beso mad when the DJ would talk
over the song starting becauseyou wanted to record it.

SPEAKER_09 (01:44:04):
Dude, you just quit talking over my music, right?

SPEAKER_05 (01:44:11):
A tracks.
Oh, A track.

SPEAKER_09 (01:44:13):
A tracks, yeah.
We had my dad had a van uhsurprise in the 70s.
Oh, he uh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 (01:44:19):
This guy, this guy had a big shag carpet done in
the background windows.
He was that guy.
Why would anybody, how could youdrive up to any father's
driveway to pick up theirdaughter on a date with a what
color was your van?

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:33):
It was gray.
It was like a charcoal gray withblue shag, blue interior all.

SPEAKER_09 (01:44:39):
Yeah, like that's what ours was like that.
It was a gray uh Florida kind ofline that was completely redone
with the blue carpet, yeah, C B,had a uh H rack stereo in it,
like the whole house on wheels,man.

SPEAKER_06 (01:44:52):
Yep, yeah.
The party.

SPEAKER_09 (01:44:53):
Yeah, party party.

SPEAKER_05 (01:44:54):
So do you have to rush?
Can we we want to introducemostly superheroes, which you
know Logan Dennis?
Yeah, and he has got the moviesfor June.
Cool.
So we want to, this is his debutof his first segment on our
show.
We'll be able to watch it up onthe screen, you know, that we
have here in the room and take apeek at what he's bringing to
St.
Louis.
So we know his shows out there,mostly superheroes, but he's

(01:45:16):
doing an actual segment thathe's gonna share with us so that
people can find out what'splaying at the theater.
Do you have it, Gordon?
Yep.
All right, let's take a look atLogan Janice with Mostly
Superheroes.
We're sitting here with SteveEwing.
All right.

SPEAKER_04 (01:45:35):
Hello and welcome to Mostly Superheroes, Indie
Podcast here in St.
Louis, Missouri.
I'm your host, Logan Janus.
Really excited to be here on InYour City with Kelly and Gordon,
4 to 6 p.m.
every weekday on 590 a.m.
K L I S.
We're so proud to bring you ourIndy podcast and variety talk

(01:45:55):
show to the station.
We've been around for about sixyears.
You can always find us at mostlysuperheroes.com where you get
podcasts and YouTube.
And this week is all about themovies.
We're talking with MarkBluestein from Alamo Draft House
St.
Louis, who we just sat down withthis week for him to tell us
what movies are in the theatersthis June.
Enjoy the interview.

(01:46:16):
We'll see you right after.

(01:46:40):
We're going to do a whole recapepisode of that, and I got to
moderate some panels and we'regoing to share how it went out
there.
But today is all about themovies.
We are so happy to welcome backtwo Mostly Superheroes, a really
special guest, local here intown, and a friend that knows
movies very well.
Before we get to them, I'm yourhost, Logan Janice, and thanks
for checking out the podcast.
We're on YouTube, Spotify, andpretty much anywhere you search

(01:47:02):
Mostly Superheroes, you're goingto find us.
Also, here is Andy Hun, aka theGiggler.
How are you, Andy?
Dude, I'm great.
Mark Bluestein, programmingmanager and special screenings
coordinator, yes, at AlamoDrafthouse.
Mark, welcome back.

SPEAKER_02 (01:47:17):
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's good to be here.
I always feel like I'm on a gameshow or, you know, like a live
studio audience thing.

SPEAKER_04 (01:47:23):
We've done events with you here recently.
We're still pushing our charityon tap citywide.
Drink that citywide for$1.50.
Going to Team Jakey in theStigma here in St.
Louis.
If you buy that citywide atAlamo Draft House through June
30th, tell us about this stuffover the real life movie phone
is back.

SPEAKER_02 (01:47:41):
I love it.
Mr.
Movie Phone.

SPEAKER_04 (01:47:43):
The Phoenician Scheme, a Wes Anderson movie,
Isle of Dogs, is one of myfavorites.

SPEAKER_02 (01:47:48):
Let's start with the newest stuff.
Um, this weekend, we've got theKarate Kid Legends.
So we've got Bringer Back uhthis weekend as well, a horror
movie from A24.
We're also doing Friendship,which uh came out last week.

SPEAKER_04 (01:48:00):
He's gonna have to talk to you about this.
Did you watch it?
Yes, it's I think it's one of myfavorite movies of all time.
Wow.
Fate comics, guys.
You can look up fate comics andthey were raving about Lilo and
Stitch.
The new live action remake, theywere raving.
They said there's so much moreto this movie.

SPEAKER_02 (01:48:16):
Megan 2.0, 28 uh years later, Jurassic Park,
obviously, the 4th of July.

SPEAKER_04 (01:48:21):
Yes.

SPEAKER_02 (01:48:22):
Anything that we have that is an older title, we
call a rep title.
Oh, nice.
Uh, instead of like a classic orsomething like that.
Because sometimes we show moviesthat are rep, but not so much in
the classic vein.
Like this month on Father's Day,we're doing Showgirls.
It's a great film.
But I don't know if you couldcall that a classic.
And then next weekend is You GotMail, and that's all building to

(01:48:43):
Celine Strong's Misfits moviethat's coming out.

SPEAKER_04 (01:48:46):
So the life of Chuck, I've been seeing this.
Like Tom Hiddleston is okay.
We got Dogma resurrected the20th, 25th anniversary.

SPEAKER_02 (01:48:53):
We're also gonna do Friday the 13th on the 13th.

SPEAKER_04 (01:48:56):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (01:48:57):
How to Train Your Dragon is going to be a
shot-for-shot live actionremake.
New wise, we've got F1 with uhBrad Pitt, which is gonna be in
the big show.
Uh so that's gonna be absolutelyawesome.
The sound quality andeverything.
We're gonna do a kids' campseries this uh summer.
We're gonna start with some Sonytitles.
Uh so we're doing Garfield,Lilao Crocodile, and uh Hotel

(01:49:19):
Transylvania.
Those are three dollars.
We are going to start with theHarry Potter series uh in a
month or two, and we're gonna doall nine of those, I think there
was.

SPEAKER_04 (01:49:27):
What I'll end with is a couple Alamo reminders if
you haven't been before.
You get there 30 minutes early.
It's a custom pre-show that arenot ads that give you the
context about the movie you'reabout to see.
Order from your seat, write whatyou want on the paper, push the
button, no, no con sessionsline.
They're coming to you.
A couple events that will havean Alamo with you outside of
your unbelievable programming.
Mark, thank you for sharing thiswith us today.

(01:49:49):
But we got more screen andsocials.
Fantastic Four and Superman.
All right, guys, that's mostlysuperheroes.
We'll see you next time.
Bye Andy.
Bye, Andy.
Bye, Mark.
See ya.
See you later.

SPEAKER_02 (01:49:59):
Goodbye.

SPEAKER_05 (01:50:05):
Now we know what to order.
What a great interview.

SPEAKER_04 (01:50:07):
If I don't say so myself, obviously, you know.

SPEAKER_06 (01:50:10):
We got Logan talking.
Yeah, we gotta take him out.
Sorry we go.

SPEAKER_05 (01:50:16):
All right.
So we're I guess we gotta turnthe volume down.
So we got all kinds of controlswe're gonna work on there,
Steve.
So we're sitting here with SteveEwing.
We're getting towards the top ofthe hour right now, but guess
what?
We've got the bands, whichyou're gonna love.
Uh, and you're in it as well,Kat Muse.
So uh she's got what's rockin'in the city, and she's gonna
tell us who's gonna be playingthis weekend so you'll know

(01:50:37):
where to go as well.
If you don't know what movie youwant to see, you're gonna know
what band you're gonna see heretoday.
And I believe you've beenfeatured as well, Steve.

SPEAKER_09 (01:50:44):
Love Cat.
It's great.

SPEAKER_00 (01:50:46):
Hi guy, Kat Muse here, and here's what's going on
this weekend in music.
Friday, kick off your weekendright with Bosco Light Trio at
Chateau Le Vin.
Ethan Carr will be at SilverCreek, and Shangri Long will be
at Summerbird's on Norset.
Nad Bond will be at Sky MusicLounge, and Money Shot will be

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at the Alt BSW.
The Ford Rangers make theirdebut at the Capitol Bar and
Grill in St.
Charles.
Jeremiah Johnson will be atEckert Cider Sheck.
Platinum Rock Legends will be atBruce's in the flow.
Mr.
Young will be at Charlotte Clubwhere all the best musicians
play and the music matters.
The machines will be at Reaverright next door, Rock and Rap

(01:51:29):
will be at Celtic Doors in St.
Tom's.
And it's Kansas Balooza, benefitfrom Prince and Sarah at
Redfish, Bluefish.
Check out this lineup.
Wicked time thing and STPtributes.
Pudding time of Primus Tribute.
Rotten Apple and Bleak Black.
They'll be drawings and drinks,pinball, all kinds of merch, all

(01:51:52):
the goodies.
I hope to see you there.
Saturday, infringements at LongShots Tiggy Bar.
Center line will be at Mimi'sand Ferguson.
And Clueless Line will be atCopper Fox.
Elliot and Patrick will be atthe Old House at Tiki Bolo.
Acoustic Rock Show will be atChariots of Fire, their 20th
anniversary blowout.
Bay Wolf will be at FastSettings.

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Stevie D.
Hunt, one man, Five Beats VanTour will be at the Great Break.
Decades of Floyd will be at FactSettings Blood Patio.
And Larson, Gen X dance party,and Sky Music Loud.
After midnight will be at Rebar.
And Night's Light will be rightnext door to overtours at St.
Charles.
Studio is doing it too, forcheck this out.

(01:52:36):
Studio Evan at Burbank Bruce,Frankie Martins at 12 o'clock.
And then he'll be at 636 Day inSt.
Charles Main Street at 8:30.
Ruth Toby will be at Nancy'sNight Shift.
And Trixie Deline will be atBruce's North Allen.
Destroy the future will be atCharlotte Pop where all the best
musicians play.
And Lazy Lester will be at thePumphouse.

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Sunday, Monday.
Shock Young Craig will be atlong shots.
Brandon Rooster will be at theHogbit.
Helen Bagatousie will be at KT'sSaloon.
And it's Elvis Meets theBeatles.
Ever Dean and the Fan Black willbe at the Grand Lip Floor.
Your free concert from 68.
Bring your lawn chairs, coolers,all the goodies.

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The Roostone Company will be atMain Street Hockey Channel.
Live music is better.
Thank you for supporting ourartists and venues.
Check out STR or Monday nightsat 79 and have a safe weekend.

SPEAKER_09 (01:53:28):
And I'm gonna go around trying to flip that
bring.

SPEAKER_05 (01:53:32):
Cat Muse bringing uh what's rockin'?
That's a lot of bands.
That's cool to know.
So much is going in the city.
And we really appreciate that.
Uh um, you got the volume thatKat is bringing us all the band.
So we'll have that each week ofwho's playing.
So I'm sure we're gonna beseeing a lot of you.
Steve You ain't thank you fortaking time to come in, talk hot
dogs, talk music, talk uhraising money for great causes.

(01:53:56):
We appreciate you so much, andI'm sure we're gonna have you
back on the show many more timesto talk about more music, more
stuff that's happening in St.
Louis.
So it's been a great show hereon In Your City.
Fun guest today, lots to talkabout.
We'll be back tomorrow and maybethe next.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Who knows what we'll be doing?
But we're gonna try to be backtomorrow.

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We appreciate it.
So the Lou Information Station,that's where it's at.
It's growing every single day,getting better and better.
And of course, you can go toLouInfo.com, check out the shows
as they keep increasing and andmoving along and taking you
there.
Right now, we're at the In YourCity Show YouTube page as well
as 590 on the new K L I S, theLou Information Station.

(01:54:38):
I'm Kelly Lamb.

SPEAKER_06 (01:54:39):
I'm Gordon Montgomery.

SPEAKER_05 (01:54:41):
Thank you, Steve.
We'll see you until then.
Cheers.
Cheers.