Pudding Shot Maker, Fundraising Expert, and Everyone’s Favorite Hype Woman for Multi-Generational Concerts Sharri Scott Positively Runs Through this Episode

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Music Lovers and your hosts ofRecords in Real Estate.
Hi, karen Andrew.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm good, I'm cold.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, we gotta turn the heat off in order to record.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's right, because the blower is right next to us
and it is loud, but all worth itbecause we got to talk to.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Sherry Scott, sherry Scott yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, delightful.
This is in the orbit of many ofthe guests that we've had, and
one degree of separation.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yes, yeah, and she comes from a different side of
it and puts on performances forchildren.
Kids, I guess, Children kids.
I mean they're the same.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
They're the same, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
One of the same.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Children and kids are synonymous right, but she takes
the rock and rollers of Chicagoand then puts on the show as
four kids.
Yes, yeah.
And I like she's playingukulele wheels on the bus.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, which is amazing.
So yeah, she talks about PeterShapiro.
I don't know much about him,but I know that he is a concert
promoter and she says put on theFairly Well Grateful Dead 50.
It was basically all themembers of Grateful Dead, my
Jeri Garcia plus Tray Nostagio,you know, guitarist for Fish.

(01:52):
Funny story about that.
I went to one show the firstnight in Chicago and you know
I'm a huge music fan, as you canprobably tell from this podcast
, name Records and Real Estateand Jam Band fan, and my dumb
ass thought it was going to belike just a nice little tribute,
a nice little sing-along.

(02:13):
You know that they weren'tgoing to get into it and
obviously that was justcompletely wrong.
I mean the God damn GratefulDead plus the Fish guitarist,
and I was like, oh okay, I'm anasshole.
So then I, you know, ponied upfor all three nights and it was
just a phenomenal, phenomenalweekend.

(02:33):
So he started Rock and RollPlayhouse and, yeah, I mean I
went to one concert and it'slike oh hi, oh, hey, oh, you
know, we all have kids now we'reall older and so it was awesome
.
So Talking Heads is coming upand we can bring that X-Man and
Lenny loves to.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Talking Heads show.
That'd be amazing.
I'd love it.
Yeah, it was really again aninspiring person who's doing
good for the community and, youknow, fundraising, which is not
a job that I would ever want tohave, and she loves it.
And it's just like, yeah, she'sa natural phone, so yeah, very
cool.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
And I think that's what she has to say let's do it.
Well, we're here with SherryScott.
Thank you for joining us,Sherry.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, thank you for eventually deciding to come on.
You wore me down.
Yeah, you're probably just likeenough.
Enough, I will.
I will join.
I will be a guest.
Fine, after six attempts toreach out to them Wow.
All right, that's anexaggeration.
Very gracious.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean, I've seen the guests you've had and I thought
what could I possibly add?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
But you know, I thought you were going to go a
different direction, Like oh mygosh, I don't want to be
associated with those clowns.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, no, no, no, you wore me down with the kids.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
you know like let's rock and roll playhouse.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Like you know I, if there's one thing I can talk
about, it's how much I like that.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So how long have you been affiliated with rock and
roll playhouse?

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, so we'll just go right into it.
Yeah, rock and roll playhousecame to Chicago in March of 2018
.
Okay, you want me to just kindof give you the history of how
that came about.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah, tell us what it is.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
So the rock and roll playhouse is the brainchild of
Peter Shapiro.
Peter Shapiro is he's a prettybig deal.
He's a concert promoter,probably most famously known for
his being the brains behindFairly Well with.
Grateful Dead.
He also owns the Brooklyn Bowls.
He also is the founder ofLockin Music Festival.

(04:34):
He's the publisher of RolexMagazine.
Wow, he, I mean he's done somuch.
He's, you know, he's wrote abook.
He's done a lot.
And he the rock and rollplayhouse came about because he
had small kids and he realizedthat there was really no great
programming for family concerts.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right.
You know, there was like kidmusic, you know like.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Barney, but nothing that you as parents wanted to
come to also.
So he hooked up with Amy Streim.
She was, I think her backgroundis like early education and I
think that her daughter andPete's daughter were in the same
kindergarten class.
So they got together and theycreated rock and roll playhouse,
which is you know.
The mission is to introduce thelove of live music to the next

(05:18):
generation.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Lovely, yeah, love it .
And so it was 2018 in Kim,chicago.
When did it start?
In general, do you know?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I think he founded it in 2014.
Okay, yeah.
So he he was, you know,obviously testing it out in New
York at his own venues, I thinkCapitol Theater.
I mentioned that also when Iwas saying Brooklyn Bulls, yeah,
so Capitol Theater, he wasdoing these shows and then he
was looking to branch out.
So he was coming to Chicago.
You know, somebody reached outto a mutual friend of mine and

(05:47):
said, hey, we're bringing thisconcept to Chicago.
Do you know anybody like youknow like a good music person
and then a good, you know likeperson to work with the kids?
So you know, she hooked them upwith Markeigh and Paul Bolger
from Mr Blotto, Okay, and me,Nice.
So, yeah, they came to Chicago.

(06:09):
The people from New York allcame.
We did a show.
Our first show was at ValleyHall in March of 2018.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Right yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, and you know they were kind of like all right
, you guys got this and we'vebeen doing it ever since.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
That's cool.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So when you say it's music that you know kids can
enjoy but also adults can enjoy,so are is it regular bands
playing that are, you know,clean and kid friendly and they
can play a show, their normalshow, or is it?
What are they doing?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Well, so it's.
It's always like kind of agroup of core musicians, like
like Markeigh is the person thatcoordinates the music.
So you know, some of the showswe do are like Grateful Dead
Fish, bob Marley, I mean.
It goes on and on.
Those were Grateful Dead Fish,and Beatles were kind of like

(06:59):
our bread and butter and ourrotation and then we branched
out.
So obviously, if it's like Fishor Grateful Dead, you know these
musicians can do that in theirsleep.
But in recent years we'vebranched out to, you know,
taylor Swift and then we've gotto bring in some other people.
So you know Mark does a greatjob of bringing in.

(07:19):
You know they're all local.
You know Chicago musicians.
We've had a lot of you knowreally great musicians come and
play with us.
It's kind of funny because alot of times these guys will be
coming from a gig the nightbefore and then they are, you
know, loading in their stuff thenext day, you know the next
morning to play with kids.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Right, right, taylor Swift.
Yeah, yeah, that's so good.
Yeah, oh man.
I loved that when I was a kid.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I mean it's great because, like the you know
, we started out at Thalia Halland now we've branched out to
Cubby Baron Wrigleyville.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
And then we're in Caligarway.
In the summer we have freeshows at Caligarway which are
really fun because they turn onthe fountains and the kids play
in the water and, you know,dance and do their thing.
And then we're also in Evanstonspace.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, sure, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, so that's where we are now.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Nice and what do you do at the shows?
I mean to walk us through kindof your experience at the shows.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Okay, so at first I was brought on to be they call
it a teaching assistant a TA,which is basically I play with
the kids, along with the music.
So we have, you know, whateverband, we have the music of Blank
, and then we have a set listand then we have activities that
go with the set list.
So you know we'll bring out theparachute.

(08:39):
Well, I'll back up.
We always start.
We have kind of a format.
We start the show with like ahello song.
Get the kids you know likeinteractive, like they know
what's going on here, and thenwe'll do like introduce the
instruments where we're like youknow what's this person playing
, and the kids all shout it outand it's super cute.
And then we'll just go into thesongs.
And so you know we'll have aset list and then we'll have

(09:01):
assigned activities.
So we'll have a parachute andwe'll have a limbo stick.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
And.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I mean, you know, we used to pre COVID, we had these
streamers so we'd fly aroundwith the streamers, but they
don't like those anymore becauseI'm I guess I'm the germs.
We'd literally have to sprayand try to clean streamers.
But yeah.
And we'd freeze dance.
I mean, you know, like, as wetook those away, we introduced
other things.
So we have like freeze dance,and you know we'll, we'll make a

(09:28):
train, like going around theroom.
So so basically that's my role.
I'm kind of leading theactivities and then we have an
end of day report that you knowwe sent to New York because
obviously it's you know, theyneed to know what's going on and
there are different venues andI would I would be like super
extra, I'd write these longreports and I would do more than

(09:48):
what was asked of me.
So they're kind of like hey,you know what Would you like to
be in charge in Chicago?
Like would you manage the showsand be like the liaison?
So I'm basically the liaisonbetween New York and the venues.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
So that's awesome.
Yeah, what a great role.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
What's the age group of the kids that tend to come?

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Um, I'd say like our.
I mean, you know, they'reeverything from you know in the
womb you know like I've I've metbabies strapped to mom, and
then a few years later, I'm likeoh my gosh, they're like
dancing around and running underthe parachute, um.
But I would say like the sweetspot is probably, like you know,
eight like well, kids to likeseven, eight, nine years old

(10:32):
before they get jaded Right,right, or, you know, they get to
that age where they're like ugh, I don't want to be here with
mom and dad Exactly.
But usually when I see a bigkid I will enlist their help and
they love that.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Oh, that's a great idea so you know I'll be like.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Can you, you know, help me with the parachute, or
can you help me with the limbo,and do you have a teaching
background?
I do not.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, I do not, which is naturally good with kids and
organizing.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, I mean, I'm the one of my friends' group that
if there's kids there, they'regoing to be with me.
Okay, you know, like I'm thekid magnet, which is great.
But you know, sometimes I'll,you know we'll be somewhere and
my friends are like Sherry, youknow, can you, can you come over
here and play with the adults?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Kids and dogs, they they like me Gravitate towards
you.
Yeah, totally yeah.
I need to see my father.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Sherry time right now , so and Karen and Karen needs
her Karen time.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, so how often do concerts happen in Chicago?

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Um, you know, there's not a set schedule.
Pre pandemic, we were, like youknow, ramping up and getting
really popular and like sellingout shows, and it was great.
Um, and then, obviously, uh,when the pandemic hit, we had to
pivot and we did some, you know, at home, kind of like
programming.
Sure, um, that must have beenhard.

(11:57):
Yeah it was.
It was weird.
Uh, we, I did one once at homeand, uh, you know, my husband
like set up lights and I wastrying to do it.
I, you know, I can't reallyremember exactly how we were
doing it, but basically I wastrying to do it like like
something visual Right, and Iwas like over the top animated

(12:17):
and I mean I just I've nevereven watched it because I can't,
which is probably what, whichis probably why it took so long
to get me in here, because Ithink of that and I think, oh,
geez.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Anyway, you were over the top, you were trying, it
was, everybody was thrown off.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
But then they were doing it in New York, like they
had like a you know some peoplewho were there in New York.
I think that was easier Gotcha,um, but yeah.
But anyway, to answer yourquestion, um, you know, then, as
we came back slowly from thepandemic, we're building back up
now.
And so now I'd say we're likeback up there some months you
know one or two shows Somemonths three or four.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, I mean, I don't knowwhich one.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Which show did you come to?
I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean it was, it was either, I don't remember it was
, it was one of your like it wasfish grateful data or the
Beatles, but it was.
You know it was a tough ticket.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, if you ever want to come, you know, so I do.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I do.
But yeah, I mean I was.
But, like I said, when we're,you know, kind of gearing up for
this, I mean I was there notexpecting well, I guess I was.
I was there without anyinformation that other people
that I knew were going to bethere, and of course you know I
saw this person and that personall kind of from the jam band
scene.

(13:30):
But you know, for example,kevin Kaiser in that group, you
know who's a friend of mine fromhigh school, who knows you
really well, and so you knowwhat sort of ingratiates
yourself to all of thesedifferent types of different
groups of people.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
You know, I mean obviously there's a common
thread of music, but um yeah,Well, I mean we joke about it,
but all roads do lead back toBarry Brown.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I mean, I knew.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Barry Brown Back in the day, like when he would play
with Jack Straw at Griffin'sside note.
I dated a guy in his band.
So, yeah well, yeah, that's howI got to know him.
But then you know, like it justkind of, you meet Mr Blotto,
like there's all these Chicagolike local bands that would play

(14:12):
at Griffin's you know you meetlike that's how I know Kevin
Kaiser from like back in the day.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Sure, yeah, I just think it's a combination of,
like you know, always going outto see live music.
I've always worked in nonprofitand if you know anyone who's
worked in nonprofit andfundraising, we're always
hustling, you're always lookingfor, you know, donations and
things like that.
So, you know, I think it allkind of just like overlaps

(14:39):
Sometimes I will well, likerecently, I have a friend who
seems to know everyone that I do, and you know, one day I said
something about, like did wemeet at a Mr Blotto show?
And she's like no, we met whenyou were selling boozy, putting
shots during the pandemic.
And I'm like, oh geez, it seemslike we should have been

(15:00):
friends.
And now we are Now.
I see her all the time but it'sjust kind of funny Like, oh
yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
How didn't I meet you earlier, which is kind of what
I was saying about.
You know that I'm sure we havemet back in the day.
I'm sure we've probably been toa concert together or party
together or something like that?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah for sure.
Did you go to Griffin's likeback in the day?

Speaker 1 (15:18):
You know, I don't think I did go to Griffin's.
I did not go enough.
You know, if I went, it wasjust a couple of times and I
don't know what I was doing.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
I don't know where I was, but I was not.
You were not there.
Yeah, yeah, putting shots, yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
That was a, thing.
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
So not Jell-O shots, but putting shots.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, sounds harder to eat.
No, it's delicious.
I maybe I just brought you guyspretzels today, but maybe I'll
bring you putting shots nexttime.
Yeah, I started making them andthen, during the pandemic, I
you know there was nofundraising going on.
So I thought or you know eventsso I thought I'd throw my own

(15:58):
little fundraiser and I wouldmake these boozy putting shots.
And well, to back up, I got theidea because in one of my
neighborhood Facebook groupssomeone posted that they were an
out of work Flamenco dancer andthey were selling coquito and
they would bring it to yourhouse.
And I thought I would likecookie, though brought to my
house.
So I bought so many, brought itto me and I thought this is

(16:20):
genius, I will sell puttingshots.
You know I'll make.
I make lots of flavors, and itwas close to the holidays.
So I was like, okay, I'm goingto make it a fundraiser,
obviously, and I will dress upas an elf and deliver them.
That's so nice.
Well, when I started, I saidlike for an additional $2, that
was my idea for, like thefundraising part.
Like for an additional, likewhatever, I would dress up as an

(16:41):
elf.
But then everybody wanted me asan elf.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
So I thought what?

Speaker 3 (16:44):
am I going to do, like change clothes in my car,
like okay, here's the price?
And then people were likeordering me, like I put it in
one neighborhood group, well, no, I put it in a couple.
And then I had to go back andtake it out and just keep to the
one in the buck townneighborhood group because those
women were into it.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
And sometimes I mean they're busy in buck town.
That's a new neighborhood logo.
During the pandemic, peoplewere locked in and they wanted
you to come dress as an elf todeliver them boozy pudding shots
.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
That's so great.
Were you getting these duringthe day at night?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, I would, you know, I'd take the orders and
then I would have a delivery dayand then I'd, you know, go out
and do it.
But sometimes people wouldorder me as like a gift, or they
were going to like you know,the pudding shot, because I'd
package them all cute for theholidays and they were going to
take them to a party thatweekend.
But then they would just tryone and then they were like, oh,
and then they would try themall, all of them, yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, so I mean, you would say later yeah, so I make
great flavors.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Like you know, I changed my menu according to
like the holiday, so like I wasmaking like Mexican hot
chocolate and I was making likepeppermint and white Russian and
like boozy chocolate, bourbonand.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
I mean yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
I was so like that was my hobby, I would go to
Benny's and I would just kind ofperuse, you know, and get
flavor inspirations.
That I started talking to likeI think she was a manager or I
can't remember what her titlewas, but anyway she, she gave me
a discount and she said whenyou come, you ask for me.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I brought her pudding shots and then I got discounts
on booze.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, you know, when they bring up your customer
history, like when you give yourphone number, they're like oh
wow, yeah, so good yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Did you have to?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
did you feel like compelled to explain the
situation so they didn't thinkyou were just like some?
You know, alcoholic yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, listen, I would .

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I would tell anybody who would listen about my
pudding shots, because I wassuper into them Right.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, Nice, I mean we were talking a lot about the
pandemic.
I mean we often talk a lotabout the pandemic, because I
mean things.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Stories like this come up.
You know I mean it's.
You know, obviously there washuge tragedy, lots of loss of
life, but a lot of you know,wonderful sort of stories like
this come from the pandemics.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, Well, I was going to.
I was going to bring it back tomusic because you know the
drive-in shows during thepandemic.
I would have the pudding shotsand I would hand them out and
people loved it.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, so good, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, I've got you intrigued, I know yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, I was thinking of my old waitressing days where
we I worked at a bar 24, likeseven days a week, live music in
Ann Arbor, and you know we hadto go around with pudding, with
Jell-O shots.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
So I just you know it's a whole new world with the
pudding.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, the pudding is delicious.
I put them in little, like youknow, the little two ounce
containers and then a littleplastic spoon.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, oh, the spoon.
I was thinking you had to crushthem like you do a Jell-O shot.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, I know, that sounds messy, but you're
sophisticated.
Yeah yeah, sometimes I'll put aboozy whipped cream on top.
It just really depends.
You know, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
So you know, speaking of fundraising, you did
fundraising with the puddingshots and you also are involved
with Jake and Brendan's holidayshow, which is a you know Berry
Brown production.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
And you also did a fundraising component to that
too.
Yes, my sister and you havebeen elves.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, we have what does that mean?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
What does an elf do at that show?

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Well, so I mean I back up a little and tell you
how I okay.
So I used to obviously go tothe I say Brendan and Jake
holiday show.
You can say Jake and Brendan,but I would go you know, as a
fan.
And then this was back in, likeI think, 2015,.
I was working at theAlzheimer's Association, okay,

(20:54):
and you know, brendan and Jakealways have a charity component
to that.
A lot of times it's people'smusic school, but sometimes it's
, you know, something differentand Joel's dad had been
diagnosed.
So Berry Brown called me andsaid hey, this year the charity
recipient is going to be theAlzheimer's Association.

(21:14):
Would you like to accept thecheck on their behalf?
Nice, and I immediatelypanicked because I knew that
would be going on stage andspeaking in front of people,
which was, you know, mortifyingto me.
But I did.
So, you know, I got to go onstage and they handed me a big

(21:36):
old check and it was super cooland I, you know, I gave a little
speech.
So that was my first, you know,kind of like introduction into
being more than just a fan.
So then, you know, the nextyear the people's music school
was the recipient again, butBerry was like, you know, hey,
do you want to volunteer?
Yeah, I need someone to sellornaments in the lobby.

(21:56):
So I was the ornament girl andI, would, you know, set up and
sell a lobby.
And getting back to my how I,you know, I always do like I'm
always a little extra, when Iwas selling in the lobby I
thought like it's kind of darkand nobody knows I'm over here.
Like next year I'm going tolike yeah, I'm going to make
myself known yeah.

(22:17):
So the next year I, you know, Iasked if is it okay, if I like
decorate this area?
And Berry is like, do whateveryou want to do.
So I decorated the area andsold ornaments.
So then my job was secured asthe ornament girl.
Then, like just a couple ofyears ago, I was promoted to elf
.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So wow, congratulations, that's amazing.
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
And well deserved Thank you.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Thank you.
Yeah, I was freed from thelobby and.
I was able to do what I do,which is run around and talk to
people and separate them fromtheir money, and I'm good at
that.
I'm good at that, but yeah, soSteph and I do that together and
she's so funny, she she would,so she gave us names and she is

(23:02):
what I'm shelf and she's stealth, and it probably took me longer
than I should admit to realizethat connection.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
What was happening?
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Oh, oh, that's so cute Okay.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
So, so yeah, I got to .
I sell raffle tickets.
Now I'm an elf and we get to,you know, go on stage and pull
all the winners and it's superfun.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Love it.
Here's a question.
So you love going around, youlove talking to people,
separating them from their money.
You know you're, you'reobviously a very vivacious
person, but yet getting on stageand talking in front of people
is seems kind of terrifying toyou.
So what?
What's that disconnect?
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, people, if I like shy and Sherry Scott don't
seem to go in the same sentence,but I mean I can tell you even
going on stage at rock and rollplay house, like I always intro
the show and I would get so likein my head and freaked out and
then you know I had to stop andsay their kids you know, no

(24:13):
one's going to boom me off thestage and you know, with, with a
little time, and then you know,you come off the stage and all
the parents are, like you know,just gushing about what a great
time they had and saying thankyou so much for this, and you
know, but yeah, no, just gettingup there.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
It's more of a performance at that point, as
opposed to you approachingsomebody one on one.
Oh yeah, I can approach you andtalk to you all day long.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
But to get up there, I mean for the dumbest thing I
read in rock and roll playhouses.
I welcomed everyone to themusic of fish at a print show,
yeah.
And then I was like, oh my but.
But you know again, like nobodyis going to boot you off the

(24:54):
stage at a kid's show.
We're just glad to be out ofthe house and they're glad that
their kids are running aroundand expelling some energy.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
But you know, in a contained environment, whether
it's prints or fish or yep, yeah, yeah.
I mean, how many musicians havethanked Cleveland when they
were in Pittsburgh?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Right, right, that's exactly.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
I think also at the at the holiday show.
It's like this is my favoriteband and I'm accepting like a
donation, you know, on behalf ofa job that I love in front of
people, that I respect.
What if I get up here and saysomething stupid?
I just don't want to embarrassmyself.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
So now they kind of do it differently.
I think sometimes the personwill speak before the show
starts.
Before it was sort of like inthe middle of the show or like
before the encore or whatever.
So that year that I was goingon stage I sat and all my
friends are drinking and Sherry,do you want anything?
I'm like no, leave me alone.
Oh, my God, because all I wasdoing was going over my head,

(25:58):
like if I can just get the firstline out, I'll be okay.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know that's good.
That's good, I mean good foryou for having that discipline.
It's like when you're given abest man toast and you're
shmammered by the time.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
I got this.
That's cool yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Well.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
I actually did embarrass myself at that show,
but it was not on stage, it wasside stage, oh good.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Nobody knows yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
We're side stage waiting to go on, and it's you
know, barry, myself, steph and Idid not know it, but the rest
of like the band members werestanding behind me.
And that year because you knowit was the Alzheimer's
Association.
Joel was there.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So it was.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Brendan and Jake and Joel and Andy, and I'm standing
there and I kind of feelsomething behind me and I slowly
turn and look and there theyare, and I mean I'm friendly
with them some of them more now,but back then you know just a
huge fan.

(26:58):
And I turned around and I saidhow about that Zonkey?
Because Zonkey had just beenreleased.
And I remember Brendan lookedat me and goes oh, you like it?
And I'm like yeah, and then Ijust turned back around and I
was like oh my God, what iswrong with me?
Like that's all I could come upwith.

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So you know.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
That's all right, you did it.
You said something, at least.
Yeah, I said something.
I said something and I got thename of the album right.
Unlike Barry, unlike Barry.
Yeah, so that's awesome.
So you take the fundraising toyour own sort of extent too,
with you were mentioning JingleJams earlier, yes, so what tell

(27:41):
us about Jingle Jams?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
So Jingle Jams, my husband is a very talented
musician as well Nice.
And I'm, you know, being afundraiser.
I'm always looking, you know,for a way to have an event, use
my husband as the talent andraise a little money.
So you know we started doingthat.
I don't even know what year itwas at first, but, oh my gosh,

(28:06):
again it leads back to BarryBrown.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
There you go, the thing.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
This started off as a joke, but it's really true.
All roads do lead back to BarryBrown.
So, Barry Brown was a bartenderat Harrigan's Pub.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
And he was trying to get some people you know, trying
to hustle getting those peoplein and he said you should like,
you know, have that here.
And I said great, so I did.
My husband played Barrybartended, we all wore ugly
sweaters.
So the name has changed overthe years it's been.
It's been an ugly sweater party, it's been a holiday for Ray

(28:41):
and most recently it's kind ofsettled into Jingle Jam.
So yeah, we do it.
It's not always a fundraiserbecause, like I was telling you
guys earlier, you know you don'twant to keep dipping from that
you know, saying well, you wantto give your friends time to
forget how much money you'vetaken from them, so they're
feeling more generous.
But usually when we have it andthere's a fundraising aspect,

(29:01):
it's because something is goingon.
In our friend group we had a.
We have a dear friend Her nameis Katie and she had an accident
in Broker.
Neck dove into shallow waterand that year obviously it was
like we're going to donate tothe.
It was the rehab institute atthat time.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's now the.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab.
But you know we've done that.
We had a friend.
We lost a friend to cancer, sowe have raised money for that.
Most recently, other recipientshave been like suicide
prevention.
This year we had it and therecipient.
So we have a.
We have a friend and his dadwas in an accident.

(29:43):
He here's a little lesson foryou Never throw anything foreign
into a fire.
He did.
He threw something into thefire, the fire exploded.
He had burns over most of hisbody.
Yikes, yeah, serious.
He was in the hospital inRockford for about two months
and then he moved to ShirleyRyan Ability Lab.

(30:06):
But his family was able to stayat the Ronald McDonald House
and they have stayed at theRonald McDonald House before
because he has a younger sisterwho has had chronic illnesses
and she's been at LurieChildren's Hospital.
So so basically what I'm sayingis we wanted to donate the

(30:28):
money but in like he, the familydidn't necessarily need the
donation to be made to them.
So they, we thought let's do itfor Ronald McDonald House
because they've helped so much.
So that's our that's our mostrecent recipient.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Nice, that's great.
Yeah, where was the jingle jamheld this year?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
It was held at Fortres Tavern.
Our friend Mark Worthley is thebartender there.
So he is.
You know, between myself, markand Jeremy we can curate a
pretty good night of music andyou know, like got a bunch of
raffle items.

(31:06):
You know we were telling youearlier, like the between the
Rock and Roll Playhouse and andMike at Jam and Omfries McGee,
like they're always so generousWhenever I ask for something,
they are more than willing andand helpful.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, Nice, nice, that's great.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
So we raised about, I think about $1,300.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah, we're going to make that donation to the Ronald
McDonald House in the name ofthe family the Johnson family.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Good yeah, that's great.
What a great story.
Did you sell putting shots atyour jingle jam?

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I didn't, but I have had putting shots at that bar
before, yeah, although I'm notsure if that is really allowed,
so maybe oh keep it on the lowdown.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep it on the low down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back for the musicians.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, it's like you know, the tamale guy comes in
and plays.
So I like have my little cooler.
I'm like pudding and it's funnyPeople are skeptical when you
offer them a putting shot.
Yeah, right, you know and it'sfunny how often people are.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
You know, guys, especially guys, are like I
don't think so like pudding,because it's just not manly
enough, or they don't know, Idon't know, they don't know, if
you're poisoning them.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
But guess who the repeat customers are?
The men.
The men are like you guys aremore of those pudding shots.
So I try to make some flavorsthat are like you know, like
bourbons.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Axe body spray.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah yeah, Peanut butter screwball whiskey, that's
a good one.
That's a good one.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Peanut butter screwball yeah, I had that for
the first time at last year's StPatrick's Day.
It blew my mind.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
What is it?
Is it it's peanut butterwhiskey and it is so peanut
buttery.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
It is amazing if you love peanut butter, yeah.
It's a punch in the chest.
It's so good yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
I do that with chocolate pudding, oh my God,
and then I've, I've tried to addlike I'll try to like melt.
I try different things and thenI realize I'm not a chef but
I'll, I'll try to like get somepeanut butter like melty, and
then I'll incorporate that inthere with like a swirl with the
booze.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yeah, it's good.
All right, I'm going to hit youup for some of those.
Oh yeah, you're yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Next Jingle Jam.
Please invite us yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Please bring some pudding chads, of course, sure.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
So you and your husband?
I've seen posts that you guysare runners.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yes, we are.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, run marathons or.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yes, you know there's a joke.
How do you know?
Someone has run a marathon andthe punchline is don't worry,
they'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah Well, here's your opportunity.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, how much time do we have?
Yeah, so I started running latein life and you know, it's kind
of like a slippery slope, likemy first thing I ever was going
to do.
It was going to be the onlything I was going to do.
I was going to run the shamrockshuffle.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
And that was it.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
And you know, I was such an inexperienced runner I,
you know, I was wearing likecotton capris and you know, like
all the wrong things and and Iremember, like almost you know,
finishing and being like, no way, I'm never, never doing this
again.
Yeah, yeah, you know.
But then you finish and you'relike, oh, that was awesome, I'm
going to do it again.
So, anyway, slippery slope.

(34:09):
Next thing, you know you'rerunning a half marathon and then
you're like, well, may as well,so I'll do it.
I mean, I mean, I'm never goingto be in butter shapes than I am
now, so I might as well try it.
But I mean, you know, I'm not anatural runner Like my.
My marathon training group usedto say that they knew when they
didn't need their garments totell them when we were at mile

(34:30):
four, because that's when Iwould start talking.
Because it's true, you knowmarathon training.
You run like two by two andyou're supposed to run at a
conversational pace, so you knowthe first four miles I would
literally be in my head goingwhat are you doing?
This is ridiculous.
You know you you can't do this.
This is hard.
And then, by mile four, it'slike your brain finally gives in

(34:54):
and says all right, you knowlike.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I guess she's doing this, yeah, so so let's go so.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
So, yeah, yeah, I ran Chicago.
I've only ran Chicago marathonand I ran it four times, okay,
wow, congrats.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
That's great, thank you.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Everyone thinks my husband is the big athlete
runner and I have to remind themthat I ran marathons before he
did Uh-huh, dude, you know,that's how.
I, that's how I lured him in.
He was impressed with myrunning, yeah, yeah.
And and I, you know, I met himat a bar and literally he was
like so you just ran, I just ranthe marathon.
So he's like so you just ranthe marathon.
And it was like I talked forthe next 20 minutes and now

(35:33):
we're married.
That was it.
Yeah, that was it.
Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, what?
What do you?
So I mean, if you're training,you're training with other
people, you're talking, but doyou have a playlist, like a
running playlist, that youlisten to?
You listen to music along.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Um, yeah, so yeah, when you're, when you're like
doing official training, like ifyou're training with a group
like a CARA or something likethat with Chicago Area Runners
Association, they don'tencourage music because you're
supposed to talk.
But when I'm just runningmyself, you know I'm listening
to music and it's kind of funny.
My, what I listen to during arace is very different than what

(36:09):
I listen to when I'm just outthere like getting it done.
Sure, um, you know, when I'mrunning a race, I like to listen
to like 90s, like old schoolrap, you know, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Really oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
And it's kind of funny too, like you'll be
running and you know you'llit'll be, like you know hard
It'll you'll be late into yourmiles.
And then you've got like some,you know some, like explicit
lyrics in your ears and you'relooking around and you're
thinking if any of these peopleknew you know like, look at me,
I don't look like super athletic.

(36:45):
I don't look like whatever, butI am like this is what's
getting me to the finish lineyeah, hardcore gangster rap,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
So it's funny.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Also you'll start singing it out loud and then
you're like, oh wait, oh wait,wait, wait, yeah, I can't say
that I did seriously hope.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
I started climbing the stairs in my condo building.
It's a 20 story building.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
And I go down to the bottom and I climb up and I
listen to stand up comedy.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
And.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
I have it on YouTube and I'm literally just walking
with my phone and by the timeI'm like I'm already on the 12th
floor or whatever.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
The same.
The same I like to listen topodcasts yeah, you know, like my
husband would die before hewould listen to.
Like you know, he'll put on awhole show.
So, like we're very different,he'll put on, like you know,
umphreys or disco biscuits Likehe'll put on a whole show and
he'll run to that.
Yeah, I, that's not my jam.
Yeah, you know, like I like tolisten to a podcast because I

(37:40):
it's going to keep me interestedand I'm going to stay out there
longer.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Right.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
But it strikes your brain, it totally it distracts
your brain, yeah, but again, itdepends on what you're doing,
because if I'm, you know, likeI'm running a race, then I want
to listen to something.
All right, I also likesoundtracks, like Hamilton.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Like when.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Hamilton came out, man, I would be like running
around Humboldt Park, Dun, dun,dun, dun dun.
And then my like I would lookat my you know I'm not much for
stats, I'm not the fastestperson out there Like I'm, I
like to say I'm getting mymoney's worth, you know, because
my husband and I will run thesame thing and I'll be like, oh
my gosh, did you see, you knowlike whatever on the trail, Like

(38:18):
did you see that cute dog onthe trail?
And he's like no you know I wasrunning.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Or, like I like to say, I'm getting my money's
worth because, you know, myhusband will run a marathon and,
like you know, I think hisfastest is like 335.
Wow, yeah, and I'm.
You know, my fastest is like448.
But my, my first was, like youknow, five and a half.
Yeah, I'm like, well, I knowone could run for three and a
half hours.
You know, like you shouldn'thave seen me three and a half

(38:43):
hours then I was having a greattime.
You know, try running for fiveand a half.
And he's like I would hate that.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Like shoot me, like I would never do that.
That's a good point.
Yeah.
The slower you are like, themore yeah, the more respect you
should garner, right, yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Well, do you get to take in Chicago?
I mean, I always think likewalking through, I don't, I
don't run, but walking throughChicago is a great way to get to
know the city.
Do you, do you run through theneighborhoods or is it like
strictly in the lake?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Well, yeah, when I first started training.
And you're in groups, you knowyou run along the lakefront, so
you know when you're a beginner,every furthest distance is the
furthest distance and you'd belike, wow, you know, like I
remember the first time I ranaround, like is it the Shedda
Quarry on?
Or the yeah Right, like howit's like it just out?
Yeah, yeah, I'm making handgestures, yeah, but you know,

(39:34):
like the first time you runaround, that it's amazing.
Yeah, you know you're like holy,I can't believe I am all the
way down here and my own twolegs got here, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, yeah, especially when you drive it the
next day and you're like I ranthis whole thing, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
You know, cars like when you're running like along
the lake, and cars are likegoing on Lakeshore Drive and
they're honking at you andyou're like yeah.
I'm so cool and you knowwhatever, but then it's like the
running back, you realize, ohGod you know, because we, you
know, I trained out of Montrose,so you kind of like, after
you're doing this for a coupleof years and you're training for

(40:10):
the marathon, it gets.
It's like the opposite effectinstead of like excitement at
what's next, it's dread atwhat's still to come.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Right.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
So, but you know, I also run around Humboldt Park.
Okay, I live in Humboldt Park,right?
Between the actual park and the606.
Okay so between those twothings.
You know, I know, I know onetrip around Humboldt Park is two
miles.
Yeah, you know, I know thedistance of the 606.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
So you know there's those things.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
And then we also like to go out of town and run.
Okay, so you know, I've runfour Chicago marathons.
I was trained for five and Igot hurt which really is a
bummer, because it's like I hatethat I sometimes I think, maybe
if I had one more in me likeyou know, just so I could end on
a nice number like five.
Five is respectable.
I've ran five Chicago marathons.

(41:00):
But, when I say I ran four, Ifeel like I need to give the
disclaimer.
Well, I got booted in Septemberyou know, so I whatever, but we
like to travel and run.
So I mean this year so I kindof took a break from my personal
running and I managed, likecharity marathon teams Okay.
But this year I kind of gotback into running for myself and

(41:23):
my husband wanted to run.
My husband's son lives in SanFrancisco.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Jacob, my stepson, and his girlfriend goes to
Stanford.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Medical.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
They're a couple of smarties, nice, nice, yeah, yeah
.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
So you know, like you do when you have kids, you try
to make them, or, you know,influence them to like what you
like.
So when Jacob was, you know,younger and living here, we
would get him out running and hewould run but he hated it yeah.
But then, you know, fastforward.
A few years later he's livingin San Francisco and he starts
running again.
So he tells his dad that he andhis girlfriend signed up for

(42:01):
the San Francisco half.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
So of course my husband's like well, let's see,
and if there's, you know, ifthere's a full option, he's
going to run it.
So he ran the full and Jacob,ella and myself ran the half.
And it was great because I was.
I was not in the best shape,but the new to me scenery yeah
Like, oh yeah, san.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Francisco.
Oh yeah, what was the route?
I still live there, so.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Well, I got to run across the Golden.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Gate Bridge which was amazing.
Yeah, you know, amazing yeah,gorgeous, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
And then, you know, there were, there was like two
different routes, so there waslike a bridge.
It was very.
It was kind of confusing.
You know, I'm just like sign meup for whatever, as long as I
can run across a bridge, I don'tcare, right, so that was kind
of like.
You know, you were workingtoward the bridge, then you were
on the bridge, then you cameback across the bridge and then
you were like okay, I've got the, but the hills.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
I was going to say it's hilly there, because here
it's wet.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the hills were crazy Brutal, Are
you guys Ted Lasso fans?
Yeah, yeah, so um, now ofcourse I'm drawing a blank, but
the angry like Kermudgeny um one, roy Roy Kent, yeah yeah.
Yeah, I, every time I wouldturn and like go up a hill, I'd
be like you know, I would makethat noise.

(43:20):
You know, I mean I seriously, Iprobably did it like a hundred
times.
It was so hard.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, oh, my God, you know again, you can do it there
, you can probably do itanywhere.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, once you finish , you're like oh yeah, man, I
rock that thing.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
And you'd yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
So yeah, that's, that's a good way, to you know,
take in scenery and and kind oftakes the sting out of what
you're doing, because you'rejust like what's next?
What's around this corner?
What's at the top of this hill?

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Oh, another hill.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, great Yep, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Well, since we reached the top of a hill, why
don't we take a quick break andwe'll come back and talk a
little bit about Chicago.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Sounds great.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Karen Andrew, do you have a record of the week Record
of the week Record Record.
Record of the week.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
Andrew, yes, I do have a record of the week.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
It is or it's a band of the week.
It's called Mute.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Mute?
Yeah, I don't think you talkedabout mute, you never brought
this up.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Okay, M-E-U-T-E no definitely not.
I mean, and it might not evenbe pronounced that way, I don't
know Miaute, miaute or mute, andI don't know how I found it,
randomly, yeah.
But when I was listening to itI was like sort of LCD sound

(44:40):
system.
It's little techno-y, it's verydrive-y, dance-y, kind of cool
things.
And then I looked them up andit is a marching band.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
And they're playing music like solid dance, techno,
cool, but it's all live marchingband instruments.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
That is awesome.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
It's so cool.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I actually have seen them on Instagram, okay, maybe.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
That's how I found them.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I think I've seen them on Instagram.
I've seen some of the similaron Instagram, but that is really
, really cool.
How talented must they be.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Oh, I mean, it is like astounding how tight they
are and they're playing out onthe streets and all these videos
and stuff.
So I can only imagine it's an11-piece self-described techno
marching band from Germany.
That's what Wikipedia is sayingto me and I so I don't have an
album per se.
I just kind of looked them upand put them on Spotify and I

(45:39):
love it.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, so that's my record of the week, perfect.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
That's perfect.
Let's let our listeners justyou know learn more about mute
or, meute, meute, m-e-u-t-ePerfect.
Well, we're back with SherryScott.
Are you having fun?
I am Good, I am, that's great.
Yeah, we like it.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
It always works out like that right, you dread
something.
Yeah, I mean you know, and thenyou have the best time.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you're not scary.
Well, I mean Karen can bereally scary.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
I can be scary.
Oh yeah, just looking, justlooking yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I mean, sometimes I dread getting on this red gas.
You never know how it's goingto go.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
But this has been amazing.
No, you guys are great, you'rereally cool Handling leading me
right through it, that's right,yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
So speaking of that, I was researching.
Do you have a journalism degree?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, me too.
Oh, nice yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
My first job ever was at an advertising agency and
the first big thing I got towork on was an account with
Asiago cheese.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
OK.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
And I remember being in a room with a big table and
the big block of Asiago cheese.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
They had it in front of you yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
And they gave us all some.
We took it home.
I was like, am I in heaven?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
You put it under your pillow?

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Yeah, I was like you're sending me home with a
block of cheese Nice.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Best day ever.
You turned it into pudding.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Yeah, it's the perks of the job, right, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
That's awesome, yeah, so journalism degree, I guess
maybe helps.
Like I've never used it, butnow I get to ask people
questions.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, so yeah, thank you for telling us all those
stories about your experiencewith not-for-profits and
fundraising.
That was a lot of fun.
Just have some sort of simpleChicago-based questions.
That I was talking aboutChicago, so let's continue on
with the music theme.
Oh, what are your favoritevenues to go see music at?

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And if you feel like you can'tanswer that question because you
might offend venues that youhave relationships with, you can
artfully dodge it.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
No, I mean, Thalia Hall is amazing, both being able
to it's awesome.
It's a historic landmark and sojust the building itself, like
inside, how cool looking it is.
It's neat to go to as justSherry Scott concertgoer.

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And then working with the rockand roll playhouse, I get to see
behind the scenes, I get to seedownstairs.
I know the code to the greenroom, yeah, so I mean I love all
the venues that we you know.
I think earlier we're talkingabout the favorite venues for
rock and roll playhouse and,again, like the different venues

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hold different you knowattributes.
So, like with Dahlia Hall, it'slike, oh, that's like a big
stage, and then at EvanstonSpace or Cubby Bear, the stage
is lower to the ground and sothat's more like you know,
interactive for the kids.
But I mean, you know mepersonally.
I would say you know, dahlia, Ilove an outdoor venue.

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I mean, you know I love a.
I've been to the salt shed acouple of times.
Salt shed is great.
Yeah, you know, if I had onecritique of the salt shed, it
would be.
I wish there was some differentlevels.
Right, you know if you're onthe floor it's hard to see.
You know, I saw King Gizzardand the Lizard Wizards there

(49:27):
this summer and I couldn't see athing.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
I had to be like kind of tiptoe, look up there.
You know, yeah, I saw TylerChilders there this summer
outside it was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Yeah, we went there for a party for cross country
mortgage and rod tough curls andthe bench press was there, they
were great yeah they're funyeah.
It was not.
It was not full.
Obviously it was an event puton by a private event, but I
took a really good picture ofKaren.
She's like at the front and itlike kind of just the

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perspective, looks like she'sthe only person in the crowd.
Oh, that's fun and I'm dancing.
That is so fun.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, I forgot about that.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
I also think a lot of like as far as like my favorite
venues kind of depends on likethe experience that you have
there, obviously, and you knowthe where your seats are.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I've recently went to the RIV to see Humphreys.
New Year's Eve and husbandssplurged on some nice VIP
balcony tickets and we werefront row balcony and.
I had the best time you know,because, like you're right there
and you feel in it.
Now, like looking down on thefloor, I'm like, no, thank you

(50:40):
Right, but that first rowbalcony was fantastic.
And we had several friends atthe show also and you know they
were a little behind us up somerows, yeah, and I'm like, oh, I
should go say hi, but yeah youjust have to leave those seats.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Yeah, I'm like, I'm really I can't do it.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I'll talk to you on that set break.
Yeah, yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah, I used to be somebody that, like you know,
floats amongst the crowd andgoes to see all my friends at
shows, and now I just like.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
I'm a little bit that way, although.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
I've learned not to you know talk, I think they call
them.
I think the Humphreys peoplecall them chompers.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Yeah, I've been a chomper.
You're not supposed to talkduring a show.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
No, ok, no, I've been , I've been guilty of it in the
past, certainly me too.
If anyone's listening right now, they're like you're guilty of
it now.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
My sister, stephanie, who is an elf, with you and she
was a pregnant elf this year,the first first pregnant elf.
There have been times whereI've talked her ear off at shows
and now it's a joke.
I think we were at, we were atJ Rad recently and I'm like just
making jokes like so do youwant to?

(51:53):
You know, get into that thingabout our parents.
She's like good one, good one,yeah.
What are your favoriterestaurants in Chicago?
Do you guys get out to eat?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Not as much as we should.
You know, whenever you go outand have a great meal, you're
like, why don't we go out todinner more often?
But the best meal I can saylike that I can think of that
I've had in Chicago is Maple andAsh.
I celebrated a birthday thereand wow delicious.
Where is it?
It's downtown.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah, like Gold Coast area You've.
You live in Humboldt Park now,but is that like your favorite
neighborhood, or do you haveother favorite neighborhoods
that you like to?
You know that you lived in orthat you like to visit?

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Yeah, you know I've lived in several neighborhoods
and you know they servedifferent purposes in your life
at different times, like myfirst apartment in Chicago was
in Roscoe Village.
Sure, loved, loved thatapartment Funny side note so I
lived in that apartment inRoscoe Village and I could I

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could see this guy in his window.
I sound like a peeping tom, butanyway I could see this guy and
he was always doing like weirdthings, like animated you know.
So I'd be like what in the world?
I didn't know exactly what hedid or whatever.
And then, but my downstairsneighbors knew him and like

(53:24):
whatever.
And then I heard that he waslike an actor, like did some
second city, like stuff, youknow.
But again I don't know.
Like you know he's, he's, he'sjust a guy.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
But I'd always see him doing weird things and I'm
like, okay, you know whatever.
And then I got a job and we allwent out to celebrate little
place in Roscoe Village, and hecame along and he was you know,
everyone's congratulating me thenights about me, but they were
congratulating him as well andI'm like, you know, he's like I
got a new job too.
I'm like, oh, what's your job?

(53:53):
Well, he was moving to New Yorkto go to SNL.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
And.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
I can't believe, I can't think of his name right
now, but he he's in all like theWill Ferrell movies like coach
coachner, david coachner.
He played like coach in thoselike in the in the movies.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
You know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, yeah, anyway.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Cool.
Anyway, Roscoe Village was agreat apartment in my younger,
like new to Chicago days.
I lived at Clark and Belmontlike above the what was the
alley?

Speaker 1 (54:29):
I lived above the alley.
Okay, nice yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Um you know, was it really fun when I was in my, you
know, early twenties.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
And the alley is what , like it's a store, is like
kind of like a biker leather.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Yeah, Like biker leather, like punk, like you
know, Punk punk rock store.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
It's actually.
It moved.
It's right near my, my placenow, oh yeah, in Avondale.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Oh, I didn't even know it was still.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, it's still a, thing, yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
But so, yeah, I mean, you know, was it fun in my
twenties?
Yeah, I worked at a restaurant,I went out all the time you
know what I?
Mean I was living my no sleeplife.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Would I live there now?
No, um, you know, I've lived in.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Bucktown.
You know I had a crookedapartment in Bucktown.
I remember like you could lookdown my apartment and the toilet
, like you could see into thebathroom and the toilet was
crooked.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Um, you know, the kitchen floor was crooked.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
These are absolutely experiences that that Chicagoans
who you know have lived inChicago for 20, 30 years and you
know had apartments whenthey're in their early twenties.
All sorts of experience.
Yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
And I didn't have a car, so everything was based on
public transportation.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Right, right.
You know, yeah, I would yeah,no car.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
But yeah, I mean I met my.
I lived in Lincoln square whenI met my husband and he lived in
Logan Square at the time and tome that was like deal breaker
because I'm like I'm not takingtwo buses to get here.
Oh yeah, crazy.
And then he said he was lookingfor a house in Humboldt Park,
which was even more foreign tome.

(56:05):
And yeah, so then fast forward.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Yeah, do you like Humboldt Park?

Speaker 3 (56:12):
I do.
I like it a lot.
It's changed a lot.
I'm a girl that likes to shop,so I could totally handle some
more shopping in that area somemore restaurants.
But I love you know we live onSawyer, right between, like,
humboldt Park and the 606.
So I mean it's crazy to walkthrough Humboldt Park and be
like I can't believe this is inthe city.

(56:33):
Like this is not something Ilike the lagoon there.
Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, I think it's one of my favorite parks in the
city.
I mean nostalgic reasons too.
I used to play softball therefor many, many years, but it's a
beautiful, beautiful park.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Remember when the alligator was in the lagoon, oh
my.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
God, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
I would, I would I had a hearing about that that
got me out of my house to go fora run because, I'm like I can't
just like walk over there andbe like so what's going on with
the?

Speaker 1 (57:01):
alligator search guys .

Speaker 3 (57:02):
That's right.
But I was like, if I'm gonnarun and I just casually, I'm
like, oh yeah, I was just on myrun, what's going on, you know?
So I would go over there everyday and I had a runner on my
Alzheimer's team whose husbandwas the curator at Wildlife
Discovery Center.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
So she's like Sherry, you know Rob's out there, so
I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go getthe scoop.
Yeah, so every day I would goover there and then I would do
these dumb Facebook posts.
Like you know, alligator watchJournalism major.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
Yeah, that's true, right, yeah, I couldn't help it.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
I went and got Rosers Bakery.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
I don't know if you know Rosers.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Bakery yeah, delish.
So I went in there one day andI was getting donuts but I'm
like, can you individuallypackage them?
So I went over and that's how Iingratiated myself to like the
newscasters and the people thatyou're not supposed to be near.
You know they're like get back,get back.
I'm like I brought donuts.
They're like come on down, Lether through let her through, so
I had like exclusive, you know,like alligator, oh yeah, yeah,

(58:02):
that's amazing, yeah.
You were scooping the newsstories just by posting on
Facebook.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Right, I forget the name of the alligator.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Yeah, it was like.
It wasn't like Chance theSnapper.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Chance the Snapper, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
I didn't know that I didn't like that name.
There were other ones that Ithought.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Yeah, oh, my God, chance was really Was it Chance?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
the Snapper.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
I can't remember that sounds right.
I mean, cause Chance was reallybig at that time.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
It was something with Chance.
I just can't remember.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, Do you have, I mean so we.
So Humboldt Park is yourfavorite park.
Do you have like a favoritestreet, Like a strip of commerce
or a strip of bars that youused to go hang out at?

Speaker 3 (58:42):
You know, like when I lived in Lincoln Square, like
that little like the square arealike right down there, is super
cute and nice and I mean it'salso changed a lot.
You know when I lived therethey didn't have as many
restaurants as they do now butI've always liked that little
area.
There's some cute little storesthere, like on joy, like that

(59:03):
little urban general store.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
But you know I did want to mention we were talking
about restaurants earlier andyou said you live in Avondale.
Have you been to?
Is it smoke steak?

Speaker 1 (59:14):
I have.
Yeah, I was there for mybirthday and it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Agree, I was there for my anniversary and I mean,
it was amazing.
Yeah, it was really cool.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
We met one of the owners and their first
restaurant was Smoke theBarbecue.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Joint yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
And it was really cool.
I mean it was, like you know,an approachable steakhouse.
It didn't seem so hoity-toity.
You know it had a little bit ofthat smokiness flavor, but it
was an overwhelming.
Just a quick side note that theworst thing that happened that
night was I left the leftoversout.
Oh, I remember you telling meabout that the audible gas, yeah

(59:55):
, oh my wait first of all, youhad leftovers.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
I know it was a weird thing.
That's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I mean, I have small kids and so like we were
probably rushing a little bit toget through dinner and we did
order quite a bit, the bone,bone marrow the bone marrow.
So that was it.
So like we took the bone marrowhome and I'm like I don't know
if the bone marrow is going tokeep the next day.
And they're like it'll keep ifyou just put it back in the oven
, but the bone marrow that theygive you, it blows any other

(01:00:22):
bone marrow experience out ofthe water.
It's just like it's so much morethan you were expecting.
Yeah, and you know I wasfilling up on that.
So, yeah, we had some leftoversthat sadly we did not get to
enjoy because I left them out.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Wow, that's really sad.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Yeah, it was terrible .

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
We picked that plate.
We were looking at a fewdifferent places to celebrate
our anniversary and neither ofus my husband or I had bone
marrow.
And we thought, like the waythey described it and they had a
picture of it, we're like, yeah.
And then the drink that I hadthere it was like a smoke
pineapple, oh nice.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
I mean with the bone marrow.
Good job though.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Yeah, the drink, like you know.
I mean, I've seen drinks likewhere they, like you know,
remove something and the smokecomes up, but then you take the
drink and you don't.
Actually, it was more like avisual thing than my flavor
thing.
Not this place.
That drink is delicious and Istill think about it, thinking
about it right now.
Yeah, yeah well, like I think,maybe my well they brought us a

(01:01:21):
glass of champagne while we werewaiting, because it was our
anniversary.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
So like there was that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
And then, you know, I think, maybe my second smoked
pineapple drink.
I wanted to video the smokecoming off.
So I'm like Jeremy, jeremy youknow, like video it, which is
great until you hear my voice onit.
And then I go, oh my God, likeI sound like, I'm just like so

(01:01:45):
impressed, which I know leads meto my worst fear about doing
this, like hearing my voice onrecording.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
But yeah, obviously I was a little little tipsy and
very excited about that drink,but yeah, I literally, oh, my
God, that's so embarrassing, butthe drink was delicious, like
you tasted that smoke till thelast drop.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Highly recommended.
That's a really cool and it's awelcome addition to the
neighborhood of Miss WalkingDistance.
Yeah, it's so good and they doa good brunch.

Speaker 2 (01:02:18):
Yeah, we should go sometime yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
What don't you like about Chicago?

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Well, I'll tell you what I don't like.
I don't like getting tickets inthe mail when I had no idea I
did something wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Dude, that's the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Yeah, so I don't know if this is just a brief thing,
but for about four months I wasgetting tickets about every two
weeks for speed cameras thatwere not post.
Nothing was posted.
It was just a hidden camera andI went back to the area and I'm
like there's no speed limitsigns here and yet I got dinged

(01:02:57):
every single, like every twoweeks, hundreds of dollars a
month racking up, and then allof a sudden it kind of stopped.
So I don't know if it was apandemic thing, but now I have
speed cameras on all of my apps.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Right, and I just.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
I spend more time looking at the friggin' app than
looking at the road because I'mlike where's the speed trap?
Where's the speed trap?

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
I'm like I'm not a fast driver, but you go 22 next
to a cemetery and all of asudden you're getting dinged and
you're like what did I do?

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
And like when you're approaching it, and it's like
you have that moment whereyou're like, oh, like should I
go?
And then you go because youthink isn't that more dangerous
to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
Or, you know, this is so my car.
So when they mail the tickets,they're nice enough to include
my husband on my ticket.
Like he's my dad, or?
Something you know.
So he'll get my ticket in themail and then he'll be like,
he'll be talking and he's likeso anything you wanna tell me?
And I'm like missy, yeah, I'mlike no.

(01:04:02):
And then he'll say where wereyou on?

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
You know he'll cam it up and be a dork about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
And then I'll be like , what are you talking about?
And then he'll pull out theticket and he'll show it to me
and you know they have picturesof your car.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Yeah, they do.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
And I say, well, like that's not right, like that is
like camera trickery, because itlooks like I'm you know, like
whatever, or I'll be like I'msure I stopped Like those.
No, turn on reds oh yeah.
Yeah they get me.
I'll say to Jeremy I'm likelike how am I supposed to know?
He's like there's a sign thatsays no turn on red.

(01:04:37):
I'm like, yeah, but there's somany different variations, Like
there's no turn on red duringthese hours and no turn on red
during whatever.
So then he's like well, there'sa video, Do you wanna watch it?
And I was, you know, new tothis.
And I'm like, well, yes, I do.
So, he pulls up the video andyou see me go and like I didn't
even like think about breaks.

(01:04:57):
I mean like cause you know I'mlike well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I'm sure I stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
You know, I'm like sure I'm stopped and then I
probably went, because probablysomebody with you know people
behind you will honk you and youknow.
So, yeah, I watched the videoand it's just me, you know, but
I'm like I don't like gettingtickets in the mail because I'm
not learning anything in themoment.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Yeah, if.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
I got pulled over in the moment and then you know,
then you'd have half a chance attalking your way out of it.
But, when you get the ticket,it's like here's all the photo
evidence and here's a video andhere's three witnesses.
And you're like take my money?

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
You know, totally yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
I actually just got a .
I just got a $200 ticket.
I know, I know, because mysticker was expired.
And here's the thing I thoughtthat all my stuff expired in
February, like I know somethingelse I have expired in February,
like so whatever.
And I mean, you know, it's kindof hard to argue it because
it's like it's right here inyour windshield.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
And it says really big 11, 23.
But it's kind of like you getlike blind, like you don't
really pay attention.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
And so you know, whatever I was shopping for New
Year's Eve and I always pay mymeter If I'm speaking of which I
should look, I'm gonna get aticket sitting here talking
about how I have about thetickets and I don't deserve them
.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
We'll have a fundraiser to take care of it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Right, yeah, but I, you know, I'm like I'm only
gonna be in here 20 minutes.
I'm just gonna run in and seeif there's something I might
like for New Year's and thenleave.
I paid the meter, I came in,blah, blah, blah.
I was thinking about gettingthis shirt, whatever.
I go outside, I see the ticketand right away I'm like oh no,
oh no, you didn't.
I look at my phone and I'mdoing a screenshot to show that

(01:06:43):
I still have minutes left.
And then I pick up the ticketand I'm like sticker.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Sticker.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Yeah, so that the girl from Makira texts me like
are you coming back for theshirt?
I'm like no, I got a $200ticket, I'm not coming back for
anything.
Yeah.
I'll wear something I own.
Actually, I'm like I'll wearwhat I bought yesterday.
I just wanted to have backups,you know that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Yeah, what do you love most about Chicago?

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Geez, you know I love that there's so much to do,
although I don't take advantageof like half of it.
Like most people that live inChicago.
It's like I'll say the summersmake days like today worth it.
Like I love I have a house witha backyard and a garden.
Like I love all that, yeah,just in the community, like I've

(01:07:35):
built here over the years themusic community non-profit life.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
And yeah, well, it's, yeah, I don't like those
tickets in the mail.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Yep, I'm all fired up , I know right.
And.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
I'm thinking I really should look at my parking app.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Yeah, well, we can wrap up, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
No, I mean, oh, no, I can talk for 20 more minutes.
No, no, no, this has been great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
Thank you so much for your time.
Loved hearing your stories andlove what you do and keep on
doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Yeah, thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
As Brandon Bayless would say, like thanks for
letting me do what I do.
That's right, absolutely Ialways do that at rock and roll
playhouse shows.
I'll get up and I'll say, likeyou know, you guys got time for
one more.
And in my head I'm laughingbecause I know that I'm, like
you know, doing my BrandonBayless imitation.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
And no one else does, but.
I'll be like thanks for lettingus do what we do.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Some people in the crowd, get it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Yeah, yeah, some people do, Some people do.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
That's awesome.
It's fun.
Well, we'll see you there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Yeah, this has been really fun.
Thank you so much for having meOf course, Sharon Putting shots
next time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Yes, that's right, nice, so intense Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Hey, karen, andrew, hi, I just talked to Sherry
Scott and she is, you know,comes to us from the Jam Band
Circle.
Yeah, and I've been wanting toask you in this.
I'll bake it into our whyquestion why fish?
You went to a fish show with mewhen they were in town in
October.
I did.
That was your first show.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Yeah, like you, it took a long time to convince
Sherry to come on and be ourguest.
You took a long time for me tobe like, fine, I'll go to a fish
show.
Yeah, I was just talking tosomebody last night about this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:13):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Really eye-opening.
So, listeners, I am not a Ihave never been a Jam Band fan.
It's just like I listened tothe Grateful Dead and it's that
classic thing of like all theirsongs sound the same to me and
whatever.
I just don't get it.
I also whatever, but being atthe live show experience, I get
it.
Now I totally get it.

(01:09:36):
I have never it was at theUnited Center I have never been
to a concert that was so like.
The vibe was so positive andthat idea that you're watching
something but you are part of it, as opposed to watching a
performance where you could be abrick wall and it wouldn't

(01:09:56):
matter, and everyone from thepeople standing next to you, to
when you're sort of back in thearena side area where you're
trying to figure out where yourseat is and you're walking
around the stadium thing.
Normally there's just a vibe,there's some aggression.

(01:10:17):
I'm at a rock concert.
People have been drinking andit's whatever, and it's probably
part of it as the drugs orwhatever that people may or may
not be on.
But it was like we're just allbrothers in arms, just part of
the human being race, and we'reall gonna come together and
we're gonna love the hell out ofthis band and they're gonna

(01:10:38):
love the hell out of us.
I mean, that's hard to achieve,even when you're in a more
intimate venue.
But here's I don't know 25,000people or however many people
are in that venue, and it wasjust a heartwarming experience.
And that's not even talkingabout the musicianship, of

(01:10:58):
course.
They've been playing for amillion years.
They're so seasoned, so tight.
They go on these escapades withnot even a moment where I'm
like how did that happen?
Like the vibe between all themusicians and whatnot is just
unspoken and it was eye-opening.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Nice, well, that's amazing.
I mean, you've nailed it.
I mean that's kind of theessence of why people love this
band and why people go to thesetypes of shows, and it's to be
part of something that has notexisted before and hopefully
have a great communal experienceand come out, go in one person

(01:11:43):
and come out a different person.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah, exactly.
So if you say that you don'tlike jam bands, but you've never
seen fish, hold that thought.
And go to a fish show withsomebody who loves them like you
do, because you were my Sherpaand you guided me through the
experience.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
What did I say?
I said I think I give twopieces of advice.
I said their lyrics or theirsinging might grate on you a
little bit.
Just ignore it.
And then I said if you get alittle lost, just listen to the
drummer.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Yes, that's right, and actually I didn't get graded
by the singer at all.
Ok, I was just kind ofmesmerized by the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
Nice, that's great.
Well, it was a lot of fun.
We were there with our previousguest and colleague, micas, and
so it was like a little a berealty excursion to a fish show
and it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Yeah, I appreciate you making that introduction.
For me, that will be amemorable experience in my rock
and roll history.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Nice, let's do it again.
Let's do it.
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