May 12, 2025 • 11 mins
Judi D. spilled the tea with Mama Said, Mama Said, producers and cast! IF you have never heard of "Mama Said, Mama Said", you are in for quite a lesson in Mamas!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mama said. Mama said at the Grandell two shows. This
is a not to miss production that if you've never
seen this show, you are in for a treat. And
I have in the studio for very special people. I
have Laura Ray and Terry Baker, producers of the show
for how many years?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twelve twelve years? Do you believe it? No?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Like dog years it is.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I'm lucky because I get this my fourth year.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I can't believe it. And thank you so much for
being the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Mc Oh, I'm mono, I'm honored. And then we have
with us Heather Kay's and Laurie Cummins. And these two
ladies are two of the storytellers. One wrote a song actually,
so let's talk about it, Mama said. Mama said, And
why it's important that you go on Saturday. Who wants
to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, okay, the shy one will Laura?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What is Mama said?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Mama said, Mama said, Mama said, is a roller coaster
ride of the most unbelievable stories of people, real life
people in Saint Louis. We have over one hundred submissions
every year. It is just very difficult to find the
fifteen best stories. It is you laugh, you cry, and
(01:17):
you're inspired, and you can't believe how much talent we
have right here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And by the way, it's called Mama Said, Mama said.
And of course Mother's Day being on Sunday, it's stories
about moms.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Isn't that. Yeah, we always say, if you have a mom,
if you know a mom, if you have an ovary,
if you used to have an ovary, if you know
someone with one, you qualify for a story. So it's
just the full gamut. And what's just completely amazing about
the story is it's going to be on PBS. Two
PBS picked it up nationally, and so what we're trying
(01:50):
to do is have Saint Louis be the Austin City
limits or the prairie home companion of Saint Louis, where
everybody goes to the Grand Theater from across the country
and see how great our city is and how much talent.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
We have.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So much talent, and let's talk to before we get
to the talent to the talent. By the way, thank
you guys, you girls for coming in. And I just
want to also say that because I say this all
the time every year about mothers.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's also people that may not have.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Come that you might not have come from, but was
always a mother to you. It could be a man
who was like a mom to you, your father. So
I just want to add that in because I'll bet
you've had stories like that in the past.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, and Terry, Terry Baker and another producer. There's two
others that are not here, Sue and Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Terry. How long have you been doing, Mama said? Mama
said now.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh. I came to the show for the first time
in twenty fourteen, and then I started submitting, and on
my third submission, third year submitting, they let me in
the show. I've been in the show probably oh or
five times since then, and it's always fun.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Great stories.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You have a story, and then Laura will have a story,
and then we have.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Heather.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Heather, you got to talk up girl, we're on radio. Okay, Sorry,
So Heather, you submitted your story.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, I submitted my story. I lost my mother in
twenty seventeen and I actually auditioned on the anniversary of
her passing, so I cried. Of course, this has been
an amazing experience and opportunity and the show hasn't even
happened yet. I have made friends that I know will
(03:42):
be my friends for the rest of my life, and
this has been a way to heal my soul. It's
been a life changing experience. And this group of women,
the support and inspiration and encouragement that I've received is
mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And as somebody who has heard your story, all the
stories very much, so yes you will. I mean the
closest that I've seen I think of all the four
years that I've seen this cast seems to be really close,
which is such a beautiful thing. And are you nervous
at all? Yes, yeah, dope, be so.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I do poetry readings a lot, but it's different because
I memorized this piece and intend to do it from
memory hopefully, So it's a little bit nerve racking. And
I think anything worth doing is going to make you nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So you just nailed it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I always say, if you're not uncomfortable that you're living
a boring life, that's right. Well, thank you for looking
forward to hearing your story. I cannot wait.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You want to give a teaser about it or.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Is that.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Sure? So I have a complicated relationship with my mother.
She was beautiful, intelligent, charismatic, and also an emotional train
wreck and an addict and an alcoholic. So I try
to in three minutes describe all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And it's an incredible story. I mean, when you hear it,
who chills.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you have to come and see again. There's two shows,
eleven and three. And then we also have Laurie. Now,
Laurie did something you were just going to be Really
you're gonna love it because it's a song and you
wrote this song. Now when you auditioned, did you have
a story with the song or how did that go?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well, it's like the background story of why I wrote it.
So I wrote it in nineteen ninety six. It's an
old song, but it's finally out there streaming.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You know, sometimes good things take a while. What's the
name of the song.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's called poop in peace.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And not piece by the way, Now, like p says
in you know you want your tranquility on the throne.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Anybody who's ever been a mom understands that completely. So
it's a really great song. You're gonna love it. And
what do you think is the number one thing so
far from this experience you've gained.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I have met an amazing group of women, and like
Heather said, I don't want to get emotional, but it's
been life changing and very supportive.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And that's what I'd say about this show is it's
life changing. I mean, the first time, I didn't even
know what it was. And here I was eb seeing
for the first time four years ago and I in
the back and I had already in a rehearsal, heard
the stories and I'm bawling and laughing and I'm going,
I got to get it together. So when you go
(06:40):
and see a show like this, everybody can relate to
at least one, if not all, of the stories. And
I think that is the beauty with Mama said. Mama said.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What I love about it the most is just randomly
I asked these two women, these two wonderful, talented women
to come to and their two stories are so different.
And that's the whole show. It's it is a roller
coaster ride. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will be so
inspired by the strength of these women. And when Laurie
(07:14):
got her guitar and started singing, you know, please, you know,
let there be you know, piece while poop or whatever,
poop and piece it was so you know, we all
have kids or we know kids, and we realize that
once we have them, we never will.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Again ever ever.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And really what you just described of a roller coaster
with a show is motherhood. I mean it is a
roller coaster ride. You are miserable at times, you don't
always love your kids. Let's be honest. And there's great stories.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Another thing that's so cool about this show is we
have always from the very beginning, donated one hundred percent
of our ticket sales to a Saint Louis local nonprofit.
And I'll have Terry talk about it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Please.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Our nonprofits this year is called Love You to Pieces.
It's a group that helps children and teens improve their
social skills. These are kids that are neurodiverse, many of
them on the spectrum, and they also learn how to
be a friend and make friends.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I love that. It's a beautiful thing. It's such a
great thing to do for Mother's Day weekend. The Grandell
is a beautiful theater and again you have there's going
to be in the lobby area.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You've got all these.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We have vendors.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So if you haven't purchased your Mother's Day gifts, said,
we have vendors, we have We just have everybody just
having fun and enjoying being with each other. What I
love is that mothers will bring their kids and their
moms and their husbands and it's just it's a very
cool event.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So where can people go to get tickets?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They can go to www dot Mama said show dot com,
scroll downe and just press on tickets. Or you can
go to my tics, or go to my website or
my go to my Facebook page, go to KLO you
facebook page, you have a Facebook page, or you can
buy them at the door perfect not sold out yet,
(09:12):
not sold out yet, so if you want to risk it,
but if not, you can buy them at the door.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now it's only twenty bucks a ticket, which is amazing,
and it's going to charity. But I happened to have
some tickets to give away, which.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Was very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Terry, Laura, producers, do your other two producers know you're
doing this? No, I won't say a word yet. And
here's what here was my idea. We have what's called talkback.
It's like a talkback on the free iHeartRadio app. And
all people have to do if they'd like to go
and get these tickets is to leave me a one
(09:45):
sentence saying something about a mom. It could be the
start of the next story.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What's really cool is our camera person, Corey Piper of
Piper Media Group, he is actually going to be filming
both shows the eleven o'clock in the three o'clock and
we're out of that. We're going to have season two
of Mama Said Mama Said on PBS, and what we're
going to be doing, thank you Judy, is she is
(10:12):
going to be interviewing people in the audience about their
favorite favorite motherhood memory.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So you could be on PBS, not just here locally,
but all in mind nay, nationwide, nationwide. So come on out,
and if you get embarrassed, you don't have to. I
don't have to interview. I would love to anything I'm missing.
Put your pen to paper and start writing your stories
for next year.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're already accepting them.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, thank you, Jerry. There's other things that we can
give away to We had these beautiful Mama Said Mama
said notebooks. And what's so funny is I handed it
over to somebody in social media and they said, oh,
let me look at it. Within like five minutes, he
wrote the most beautiful story about his mother.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thank you Laura, Thank you Terry.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thanks to Kelly and Sue the other producers for doing
this for our community and for moms all over.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just wait.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
These are just two ladies of the amazing group. I
cannot say enough about this show and how it really
just gets your soul in your heart.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Thank you Judy,
Mama said. Mama said at the Grandell two shows. This
is a not to miss production that if you've never
seen this show, you are in for a treat. And
I have in the studio for very special people. I
have Laura Ray and Terry Baker, producers of the show
for how many years?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twelve twelve years? Do you believe it? No?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Like dog years it is.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I'm lucky because I get this my fourth year.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I can't believe it. And thank you so much for
being the.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Mc Oh, I'm mono, I'm honored. And then we have
with us Heather Kay's and Laurie Cummins. And these two
ladies are two of the storytellers. One wrote a song actually,
so let's talk about it, Mama said. Mama said, And
why it's important that you go on Saturday. Who wants
to go first?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Okay, okay, the shy one will Laura?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
What is Mama said?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Mama said, Mama said, Mama said, is a roller coaster
ride of the most unbelievable stories of people, real life
people in Saint Louis. We have over one hundred submissions
every year. It is just very difficult to find the
fifteen best stories. It is you laugh, you cry, and
(01:17):
you're inspired, and you can't believe how much talent we
have right here in Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And by the way, it's called Mama Said, Mama said.
And of course Mother's Day being on Sunday, it's stories
about moms.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Isn't that. Yeah, we always say, if you have a mom,
if you know a mom, if you have an ovary,
if you used to have an ovary, if you know
someone with one, you qualify for a story. So it's
just the full gamut. And what's just completely amazing about
the story is it's going to be on PBS. Two
PBS picked it up nationally, and so what we're trying
(01:50):
to do is have Saint Louis be the Austin City
limits or the prairie home companion of Saint Louis, where
everybody goes to the Grand Theater from across the country
and see how great our city is and how much talent.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
We have.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
So much talent, and let's talk to before we get
to the talent to the talent. By the way, thank
you guys, you girls for coming in. And I just
want to also say that because I say this all
the time every year about mothers.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's also people that may not have.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Come that you might not have come from, but was
always a mother to you. It could be a man
who was like a mom to you, your father. So
I just want to add that in because I'll bet
you've had stories like that in the past.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, and Terry, Terry Baker and another producer. There's two
others that are not here, Sue and Kelly.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Terry. How long have you been doing, Mama said? Mama
said now.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh. I came to the show for the first time
in twenty fourteen, and then I started submitting, and on
my third submission, third year submitting, they let me in
the show. I've been in the show probably oh or
five times since then, and it's always fun.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Great stories.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You have a story, and then Laura will have a story,
and then we have.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Heather.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Heather, you got to talk up girl, we're on radio. Okay, Sorry,
So Heather, you submitted your story.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Yes, I submitted my story. I lost my mother in
twenty seventeen and I actually auditioned on the anniversary of
her passing, so I cried. Of course, this has been
an amazing experience and opportunity and the show hasn't even
happened yet. I have made friends that I know will
(03:42):
be my friends for the rest of my life, and
this has been a way to heal my soul. It's
been a life changing experience. And this group of women,
the support and inspiration and encouragement that I've received is
mind blowing.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And as somebody who has heard your story, all the
stories very much, so yes you will. I mean the
closest that I've seen I think of all the four
years that I've seen this cast seems to be really close,
which is such a beautiful thing. And are you nervous
at all? Yes, yeah, dope, be so.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I do poetry readings a lot, but it's different because
I memorized this piece and intend to do it from
memory hopefully, So it's a little bit nerve racking. And
I think anything worth doing is going to make you nervous.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So you just nailed it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I always say, if you're not uncomfortable that you're living
a boring life, that's right. Well, thank you for looking
forward to hearing your story. I cannot wait.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You want to give a teaser about it or.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Is that.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Sure? So I have a complicated relationship with my mother.
She was beautiful, intelligent, charismatic, and also an emotional train
wreck and an addict and an alcoholic. So I try
to in three minutes describe all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And it's an incredible story. I mean, when you hear it,
who chills.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So you have to come and see again. There's two shows,
eleven and three. And then we also have Laurie. Now,
Laurie did something you were just going to be Really
you're gonna love it because it's a song and you
wrote this song. Now when you auditioned, did you have
a story with the song or how did that go?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well, it's like the background story of why I wrote it.
So I wrote it in nineteen ninety six. It's an
old song, but it's finally out there streaming.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You know, sometimes good things take a while. What's the
name of the song.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's called poop in peace.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And not piece by the way, Now, like p says
in you know you want your tranquility on the throne.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Anybody who's ever been a mom understands that completely. So
it's a really great song. You're gonna love it. And
what do you think is the number one thing so
far from this experience you've gained.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I have met an amazing group of women, and like
Heather said, I don't want to get emotional, but it's
been life changing and very supportive.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And that's what I'd say about this show is it's
life changing. I mean, the first time, I didn't even
know what it was. And here I was eb seeing
for the first time four years ago and I in
the back and I had already in a rehearsal, heard
the stories and I'm bawling and laughing and I'm going,
I got to get it together. So when you go
(06:40):
and see a show like this, everybody can relate to
at least one, if not all, of the stories. And
I think that is the beauty with Mama said. Mama said.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What I love about it the most is just randomly
I asked these two women, these two wonderful, talented women
to come to and their two stories are so different.
And that's the whole show. It's it is a roller
coaster ride. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you will be so
inspired by the strength of these women. And when Laurie
(07:14):
got her guitar and started singing, you know, please, you know,
let there be you know, piece while poop or whatever,
poop and piece it was so you know, we all
have kids or we know kids, and we realize that
once we have them, we never will.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Again ever ever.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And really what you just described of a roller coaster
with a show is motherhood. I mean it is a
roller coaster ride. You are miserable at times, you don't
always love your kids. Let's be honest. And there's great stories.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Another thing that's so cool about this show is we
have always from the very beginning, donated one hundred percent
of our ticket sales to a Saint Louis local nonprofit.
And I'll have Terry talk about it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Please.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Our nonprofits this year is called Love You to Pieces.
It's a group that helps children and teens improve their
social skills. These are kids that are neurodiverse, many of
them on the spectrum, and they also learn how to
be a friend and make friends.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I love that. It's a beautiful thing. It's such a
great thing to do for Mother's Day weekend. The Grandell
is a beautiful theater and again you have there's going
to be in the lobby area.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You've got all these.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
We have vendors.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
So if you haven't purchased your Mother's Day gifts, said,
we have vendors, we have We just have everybody just
having fun and enjoying being with each other. What I
love is that mothers will bring their kids and their
moms and their husbands and it's just it's a very
cool event.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
So where can people go to get tickets?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
They can go to www dot Mama said show dot com,
scroll downe and just press on tickets. Or you can
go to my tics, or go to my website or
my go to my Facebook page, go to KLO you
facebook page, you have a Facebook page, or you can
buy them at the door perfect not sold out yet,
(09:12):
not sold out yet, so if you want to risk it,
but if not, you can buy them at the door.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Now it's only twenty bucks a ticket, which is amazing,
and it's going to charity. But I happened to have
some tickets to give away, which.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Was very nice.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Terry, Laura, producers, do your other two producers know you're
doing this? No, I won't say a word yet. And
here's what here was my idea. We have what's called talkback.
It's like a talkback on the free iHeartRadio app. And
all people have to do if they'd like to go
and get these tickets is to leave me a one
(09:45):
sentence saying something about a mom. It could be the
start of the next story.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
What's really cool is our camera person, Corey Piper of
Piper Media Group, he is actually going to be filming
both shows the eleven o'clock in the three o'clock and
we're out of that. We're going to have season two
of Mama Said Mama Said on PBS, and what we're
going to be doing, thank you Judy, is she is
(10:12):
going to be interviewing people in the audience about their
favorite favorite motherhood memory.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
So you could be on PBS, not just here locally,
but all in mind nay, nationwide, nationwide. So come on out,
and if you get embarrassed, you don't have to. I
don't have to interview. I would love to anything I'm missing.
Put your pen to paper and start writing your stories
for next year.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're already accepting them.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yes, thank you, Jerry. There's other things that we can
give away to We had these beautiful Mama Said Mama
said notebooks. And what's so funny is I handed it
over to somebody in social media and they said, oh,
let me look at it. Within like five minutes, he
wrote the most beautiful story about his mother.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thank you Laura, Thank you Terry.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thanks to Kelly and Sue the other producers for doing
this for our community and for moms all over.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just wait.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
These are just two ladies of the amazing group. I
cannot say enough about this show and how it really
just gets your soul in your heart.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Thank you Judy,
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