February 26, 2024 • 19 mins
Welcome to the first show of a new season under a new podcast artist series by Ginger Vibe Productions!
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Meet the artists and writers behind the popular soon to be nationwide show "Mama Said, Mama Said" (Live and PBS).
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I couldn't think of a better way to open this up then with the beauty of Gaia and Mama's!
Meet the artists and writers behind the popular soon to be nationwide show "Mama Said, Mama Said" (Live and PBS).
For tickets and show information, please support this charity and beautiful series at the official Mama Said Mama Said Link at this highlight!
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I'm really excited because this is mysecond year to MC Mama said. Mama
said, And I have not onlythe director, but I have two right
now of the founders, and thenthe songwriter definitely for the theme song.
Yes, so let's start by introducingeverybody. I'm Laura Rudman Edwards Ray and
(00:24):
I have been so proud to bea part of this show for eleven years
now. Now explain I should havedone that at the beginning, but really,
Laura, you're the perfect person toexplain what is Mama said. Mama
said, is not only we're havingtwo live shows of stories about motherhood.
And I always say, and mypartners just cringe every time I say this,
(00:45):
but it really does make sense.If you have an ovary, if
you used to have an ovary,or if you know someone with an ovary,
you qualified to tell a story,or if you come from an Ovarygey
tried something like that. Yeah,and the show, so the stories you
have to pick from hundreds and hundreds. I mean, we don't have hours
of a show to watch as we'dlike to, you know, if we've
(01:07):
got everybody diapers and fed and lunch, breakfast and dinner, but we go
through hundreds of stories every year topick the top fifteen. And this year,
because that Da da da, PBSpick us up for an entire season.
So they're going to take our twolive shows, which is twenty four
speakers and divvated up to thirteen episodes. Wow, so we're going to have
(01:34):
an entire season on PBS this year. And it's so there's funny stories,
they're touching stories, stories that willmake you laugh. Cry. Already,
I'm starting to already tear up thinkingabout it because we have just wait to
hear the theme song. But Iwant to again go around the room of
who's in the studio right now withme, and then I want to go
back to the big, big news, which because this is big of how
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big this show is going to bethis year. Oh my gosh, yes,
wait, just wait, just wait. I'm Terry Baker. I'm one
of the co producer's co directors.And Laura has said if you have an
ovary or knew someone that had anovary or whatever that she always says,
but that you qualified to be inthe show. But it took me three
times auditioning before I got in theshow the first time. So it wasn't
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my fault. It's not a slamdunk. And then you get sucked into
doing it producing and yes, theyreel you in. Yeah, it's I
know what that looks like. Butit's a good thing. It's a good
real Yes it is. And andby the way, Laura, are you
guys both going to be telling storiesin it? We are. That's fantastic.
There is somebody missing, however,right, yes, there is.
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What's her name? Her name isSue Zlowski and she is our co producer,
co director, and we could notdo any of this without her.
She's tough as nails and sweet ascould be. Oh, she's hilarious.
Yeah, she's doing a story,right, She is doing a story about
when she took her son to France, and she worked with middle schoolers,
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so she can handle just about anything. And then second year, now we
have the director of the show,because it was not only on stage,
but you direct for the PBS channel. That's right, Hi, I'm Corey
Piper. I am the I don'tknow what is my official title? Am
I? Director? The director ofvideography? Yeah, director, biographer,
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and then my company also edits thevideos and gets it ready to deliver two
PBS, so me and my editorJohn we spend a lot of tire,
tireless hours putting together the episodes sothat the girls like it and PBS likes
it and it's a lot of fun. And I hear that you've cried during
some of it. Was I notsupposed to say anything more? My goodness,
(03:43):
me let me drop my voice style? No, no, you know
what. I'm one of those guysthat I feel things. I'm very much
an impath. When people are cheering, I'm cheering with them, and when
they cry, I cry with themtoo. And these girls have gotten me
both years. So yeah, I'mglad I have more people to help me
shoot this year because it might giveme a chance to, you know,
sniffle sniff a little bit while it'sactually happening, well as getting to work
(04:05):
with you for the first time lastyear. You are definitely very good at
what you do, and you arean EmPATH because you really are really good.
I could see it as you worked. Yep. So I don't know
what it is about it, butwhatever energy people put out, I'm always
able to pick up on it andreciprocate and make quick bonds. That's a
nice it's fun. Well, welcometo year two. Thanks for you to
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be here. Yeah, that's excitingstuff. Yeah it is. And we're
going to be talking more about what'sgoing to be happening. But first we
also have a new theme song.Hi, I am meror Mac Valley Girl.
My given name is Susan Martin,but my stage name is merriormc Valley
Girl, and so Terry Baker askedme if I would write a song to
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present at the show. I wasn'tsure if I could come up with anything
because I don't usually operate that way. I just things bubble up a little
more organically for me. But Icame up with something and they liked it,
and here we and we are goingto hear it at the end of
the podcast because I've heard it andI was laughing and crying and I cannot
(05:06):
wait to hear it again. Itis such a special song. I I
can understand Laura, why you guyswould pick that as your theme song.
It's amazing because it's it's just ourshow. Where Susan had been in the
audience and she had seen how manyshows did you see? I've seen two?
You saw two shows? And shegot it and her song is so
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perfect just wait till you hear it. Oh yeah, this all started Saint
Louis. Correct, correct, likethis this you guys doing it within Saint
Louis. Right, but it's it'sand last year was the first year that
it went to TV PBS. Prettycool bigs thanks to Corey. He he's
being modest. Take the kudos Coreytalking about the Emmy is soon to come.
(05:56):
But well they did. Was PBSaired it and just on nine PBS,
just the local Saint Louis station,and the ratings were so good and
people loved it that it's going national. So as I said before, we're
going to have thirteen episodes or seasonone, and it's going to run nationally
on PBS. So if you're listeningto this, because we have listeners all
(06:20):
over a lot of listeners have beento listen to some big classic hits which
is on the app. If you'rein New York, Poughkeepsie, if you're
in Omaha, if here in Colorado. You never know, next year could
be you on the stage. Andyou know what, even if you don't
want to come to Saint Louis tobe on the live show, we would
love to hear your story, becauseeverybody has stories about their mother, themselves
(06:45):
being a mother or a mother thatthey know. We have, you know,
women, men, teenagers. Youknow it's really cool. But if
you do have a story, justsend it to us at www dot Mama
said show dot com. We'll takeit. And if you want to send
us a video and you know what, you can be in season one.
(07:06):
You know what, that would becool, never know, really cool.
I think we should say too thatall our profits from our ticket sales go
to a designated charity or nonprofit.And this year we're supporting Joe's Place,
which is a program in the MaplewoodRichmond Heights School District that provides support and
housing for high schoolers so they canfinish their education and graduate. High schoolers
(07:30):
that don't have a home. Beautiful. I love that. And yeah,
you guys don't make a penny.In fact, you probably pay more than
anything. Don't ask our husbands.I'm not going to say a word.
I think it's an expensive hobby.Yeah, well it's more than a hobby
because what you're doing, and youknow, Corey, I mean what they
do, what you guys put outwith these stories, is you make us
moms feel that it's okay that we'remessed up, that sometimes we don't like
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our kids all the time. Welove our kids. One's a favorite ones
and not, oh my god,I'm going crazy, absolutely right. Well,
as someone who will probably never bea mommy myself, I have one,
and I'm definitely a mama's boy.And you know, it's just it's
got universal appeal. Everybody has theirmama placed on a pedestal to some degree,
and they have stories about them.You know, they always take you
(08:16):
to niche down, niche down,get tight and right. But this is
perfect because it literally touches everybody ina meaningful way. Until you guys made
it so big, we were goingto do a podcast with all those stories.
And we still will. We will, you know, so in our
free time whenever that happens, butyes we will. Everytime I've heard of
this, I don't know what thatis, but we'll find it. And
if you're a mama, you knowfor sure what it is. Not to
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every time, but I think that'swhat it is is it's so relatable and
now obviously here locally in Saint Louis, the show is two shows. The
dates the tickets, how do youget them? And again, charity all
going to charity. It's March thirtiethat eleven o'clock and three o'clock. It's
about a ninety minute show. Allyou have to do is go to www
(08:58):
dot Mama said show dot com.Or you can go to the Metro Ticks
link and just type in Mama saidshow and you'll get that. I would
say, go to the website that'sjust me and go before it gets sold
out for sure. Please. Thetickets are only eighteen dollars. And like
Terry said, every year we picka local charity to donate the proceeds.
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I'm very very proud of that.You should be proud of it. And
again, while you're on there,they have a Facebook page. You can
like the Facebook page. And Laura'san author too. By the way,
Yes, I am a very goodanother should defensive hobby of mine. All
the links will be in the shownotes of this podcast. I promise you
how to get the tickets, howto get Laura's books, She's hilarious.
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If that's the Grandell Theater, Idon't know if we said that, Oh
no we did not. Seutiful Theaterat Grand Center the Grandell Theater one sentence,
I'll start. All I'm going tosay is my mom. I've said
it before, I'll say it again. She used to say to me,
the michugara doesn't fall far from thetree. And thank you, Mom.
I miss you and I love you. I was just going to say,
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this show you'll just always laugh,you'll cry, and you'll be inspired by
these real life stories. And Ilove what you just said. I look
forward to the show every year,and even though I know all the stories
before they're presented, it's good everytime. I think I have an unfair
advantage over everybody, or an unfairgift, is that, you know,
when me and John, my editor, are putting these stories together, we
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get to see all the best pointsover and over again, you know,
and don't really get tired of it. You know. You just get to
see people love and cry and hurtand share it just it touches you.
And we get to get that feelingmore times than everybody else does. So
it's pretty cool. I love that. And I just think mothers are very
special creatures and so I'm glad thatyou guys honor them in this way.
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It's really really special and very it'sclose to my heart. Well again,
go to the show notes to getyour tickets and make sure that you stay
tuned. Can I say just onemore thing? Of course, the beautiful
thing about Mama said Mama said,is it's a whole community that gets together
for these two shows. And sowe have vendors and sponsors, and it's
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the day before Easter, so peoplecome in the shop. We have this
great, great guy, his nameis Hank and he owns a company called
Dan Cakes and he makes these beautiful, beautiful pancakes that look like your dog
or photos of your mother or Imean, it is just amazing. But
it's just a celebration. You know, everybody is just all together. The
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auditorium only holds four hundred people,so it's a pretty intimate setting. You
know. The electricity for ninety minutesis just Actually people come about a half
hour before so they can shop,and they stay a half hour later.
I'm wearing the heart, oh yeah, and I work at Iheartso I love
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this thing. It brings me luck. So they and I think, you
know, I just love that thatyou have that it's just a great day.
And also I think now in thistime more than ever. Do we
need to connect the world, eachother, community together. If we don't
do it now, we're in seriousdeep doodoo. Sorry mom, And who
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is the glue? But Gaya mother, That's who it is. So this
is what we need right now,And you're absolutely right. Absolutely is it
time? I think it's timed.What is the song? It's called good
enough, Good enough, Yes byMayor mac Valley. Girl, Here we
go. I didn't know your footwas broken when I said just walk it
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off, and I didn't know youhad pneumonia when I said it's just a
cough. I know I'm not great. I've made some mistakes that I am
not proud. I just hope andpray I was good enough. Remember the
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time my friends made a tray ofjello shots and somehow you ended up bringing
them to an overnight with the Scouts. As a toddler, you found my
lipstick scribbled mer hole some wall.When I woke up, I screamed,
although it was not your fault.But I sang lullabies to you as a
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baby. I sang karaoke to youin high school, though you hit your
face. We sing carols around thepiano and Christmas time and one day,
I will sing I'll fly away.I didn't know your class was listening when
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I defined the cuffs words. Itwouldn't be bad for the eighth grade,
but it was scary for the third. Our family pets were sea monkeys that
lived a month or two. Ialways cut your bangs too short and slightly
askew. But I sang lullabies toyou as a baby. I sang karaoke
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to you in high school, thoughyou hid your face. We sing carols
around the piano at Christmas time,and one day I will sing I'll fly
away. I regret the time Ileft you at the beach as we drove
away. I never said I'm sorry. I guess that's what I'm trying to
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say. I know I'm not great. I've made some mistakes that I am
not proud. I just saw uppenpray I was good enough. I just
hope my love was good enough.I was gonna not cry, and I
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did start it. That was beautiful. Thank you. I love that.
And I'm a Valley girl too,La Valley girl. Perfect. Watch the
show, Mama said. Mama said, Corey, is there anything else that
you're working on? I mean,I know this is a huge project.
But you probably have a lot inthe work. I know you said you're
busy. Yeah. Another one ofmy favorite projects that I'm working on is
I'm working with Papa Ray at VintageVinyl and also Laura and we are creating
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a documentary series that we're traveling todifferent record stores all across the country and
record pressing plants, which is actuallyharder to say than you actually think.
Because I've stumbled over that last timetime. I'm not going to try because
I might say a dirty word.Yeah. So yeah, So we're shooting
that and editing that, putting thattogether. We're currently waiting on the record
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stores that we shot with to sendus all of their information, logos,
music from the low of their artistsand things like that. But it's coming
together nicely. I'm very very excitedabout that project as well. Congrats on
that. That's fantastic, super coolman, no doubt about it. And
making a name for Saint Louis infrom Mamas to our Vintage Vinyl record store
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to Corey directing this, this isreally cool, Laura. We are so
proud. My husband opened up therecord store in University City forty two years
ago and I bought out his partner. I don't know when it was.
I think it was like ten fifteenyears ago. But ever since we have
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just been having so much fun.And we actually did an episode Papa Raisman
and the Final Road Show that endedup airing on PBS all over the country
about twelve times, and in factLewis ran the episode as part of their
membership drive, and they did sowell with it that visitors came to Saint
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Louis to come to the record store. It's a seventy seven hundred square foot
store and it's just very very cool. We've had a lot of international and
national stars come and play music forfree. Mumford and Sons. I'm sorry.
My favorite is Jason Ras. Youhad Jason Brassmore. He played for
free after he played down at thepageant Wow at eleven o'clock until like one
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wow. You know. We've hadEddie LeVert from the Ojys. We had
I want to skip some people thatI don't like, but Mumford and Sons
was super cool. Chuck Berry,of course, there's a mural of Chuck
Berry on the side. But alot of the indie record stores are just
like ours. Around the country andright before the pandemic we went to the
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UK and went to indie stores.Somebody's got to do it and went to
Brixton and London and Manchester and nomatter what time of day you were there,
like one o'clock on a Tuesday,the stores were packed. Really and
it's amazing. Vinyl has really madea resurgence and everybody has a story.
In fact, one of the thingsthat Corey did when we were on the
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road last week we went to indierecord stores in Ohio. We went to
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Loveland, and we asked everybody what their very
first album was. I love thatquestion, so think about it because everybody
remembers. I mean, if youask somebody what the who their first kiss
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was, it was like, Idon't know, I remember that too,
do you Anny album? They wereprobably playing at the same how did you
know? But it's it's it's reallysweet. It is just fun as heck
and just meeting people who are aspassionate about music. In fact, my
husband always says, music is there. It is absolutely it's the universal language
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more than any other one. Andvintage Vinyl. All I have to say
to anybody is vintage vinyl or PapaRay. Anybody who is an even lived
here ten years or is from hereknows it. But now it's going to
be known internationally world wide. Wellwhat you cool? What's so cool is
we're going to have thirteen episodes.We're gonna have season one airing on PBS
as well, so we're just multilosing our minds. But it's really fun,
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but in a good way. Ohputting some amazing stuff that makes people
feel good, and that's what weneed in this world more than anything.
So thank you for being a partof connecting this amazing, crazy world making
it peaceful. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Jud I just hope
my love was good enough.
I'm really excited because this is mysecond year to MC Mama said. Mama
said, And I have not onlythe director, but I have two right
now of the founders, and thenthe songwriter definitely for the theme song.
Yes, so let's start by introducingeverybody. I'm Laura Rudman Edwards Ray and
(00:24):
I have been so proud to bea part of this show for eleven years
now. Now explain I should havedone that at the beginning, but really,
Laura, you're the perfect person toexplain what is Mama said. Mama
said, is not only we're havingtwo live shows of stories about motherhood.
And I always say, and mypartners just cringe every time I say this,
(00:45):
but it really does make sense.If you have an ovary, if
you used to have an ovary,or if you know someone with an ovary,
you qualified to tell a story,or if you come from an Ovarygey
tried something like that. Yeah,and the show, so the stories you
have to pick from hundreds and hundreds. I mean, we don't have hours
of a show to watch as we'dlike to, you know, if we've
(01:07):
got everybody diapers and fed and lunch, breakfast and dinner, but we go
through hundreds of stories every year topick the top fifteen. And this year,
because that Da da da, PBSpick us up for an entire season.
So they're going to take our twolive shows, which is twenty four
speakers and divvated up to thirteen episodes. Wow, so we're going to have
(01:34):
an entire season on PBS this year. And it's so there's funny stories,
they're touching stories, stories that willmake you laugh. Cry. Already,
I'm starting to already tear up thinkingabout it because we have just wait to
hear the theme song. But Iwant to again go around the room of
who's in the studio right now withme, and then I want to go
back to the big, big news, which because this is big of how
(01:56):
big this show is going to bethis year. Oh my gosh, yes,
wait, just wait, just wait. I'm Terry Baker. I'm one
of the co producer's co directors.And Laura has said if you have an
ovary or knew someone that had anovary or whatever that she always says,
but that you qualified to be inthe show. But it took me three
times auditioning before I got in theshow the first time. So it wasn't
(02:17):
my fault. It's not a slamdunk. And then you get sucked into
doing it producing and yes, theyreel you in. Yeah, it's I
know what that looks like. Butit's a good thing. It's a good
real Yes it is. And andby the way, Laura, are you
guys both going to be telling storiesin it? We are. That's fantastic.
There is somebody missing, however,right, yes, there is.
(02:39):
What's her name? Her name isSue Zlowski and she is our co producer,
co director, and we could notdo any of this without her.
She's tough as nails and sweet ascould be. Oh, she's hilarious.
Yeah, she's doing a story,right, She is doing a story about
when she took her son to France, and she worked with middle schoolers,
(03:00):
so she can handle just about anything. And then second year, now we
have the director of the show,because it was not only on stage,
but you direct for the PBS channel. That's right, Hi, I'm Corey
Piper. I am the I don'tknow what is my official title? Am
I? Director? The director ofvideography? Yeah, director, biographer,
(03:23):
and then my company also edits thevideos and gets it ready to deliver two
PBS, so me and my editorJohn we spend a lot of tire,
tireless hours putting together the episodes sothat the girls like it and PBS likes
it and it's a lot of fun. And I hear that you've cried during
some of it. Was I notsupposed to say anything more? My goodness,
(03:43):
me let me drop my voice style? No, no, you know
what. I'm one of those guysthat I feel things. I'm very much
an impath. When people are cheering, I'm cheering with them, and when
they cry, I cry with themtoo. And these girls have gotten me
both years. So yeah, I'mglad I have more people to help me
shoot this year because it might giveme a chance to, you know,
sniffle sniff a little bit while it'sactually happening, well as getting to work
(04:05):
with you for the first time lastyear. You are definitely very good at
what you do, and you arean EmPATH because you really are really good.
I could see it as you worked. Yep. So I don't know
what it is about it, butwhatever energy people put out, I'm always
able to pick up on it andreciprocate and make quick bonds. That's a
nice it's fun. Well, welcometo year two. Thanks for you to
(04:26):
be here. Yeah, that's excitingstuff. Yeah it is. And we're
going to be talking more about what'sgoing to be happening. But first we
also have a new theme song.Hi, I am meror Mac Valley Girl.
My given name is Susan Martin,but my stage name is merriormc Valley
Girl, and so Terry Baker askedme if I would write a song to
(04:46):
present at the show. I wasn'tsure if I could come up with anything
because I don't usually operate that way. I just things bubble up a little
more organically for me. But Icame up with something and they liked it,
and here we and we are goingto hear it at the end of
the podcast because I've heard it andI was laughing and crying and I cannot
(05:06):
wait to hear it again. Itis such a special song. I I
can understand Laura, why you guyswould pick that as your theme song.
It's amazing because it's it's just ourshow. Where Susan had been in the
audience and she had seen how manyshows did you see? I've seen two?
You saw two shows? And shegot it and her song is so
(05:29):
perfect just wait till you hear it. Oh yeah, this all started Saint
Louis. Correct, correct, likethis this you guys doing it within Saint
Louis. Right, but it's it'sand last year was the first year that
it went to TV PBS. Prettycool bigs thanks to Corey. He he's
being modest. Take the kudos Coreytalking about the Emmy is soon to come.
(05:56):
But well they did. Was PBSaired it and just on nine PBS,
just the local Saint Louis station,and the ratings were so good and
people loved it that it's going national. So as I said before, we're
going to have thirteen episodes or seasonone, and it's going to run nationally
on PBS. So if you're listeningto this, because we have listeners all
(06:20):
over a lot of listeners have beento listen to some big classic hits which
is on the app. If you'rein New York, Poughkeepsie, if you're
in Omaha, if here in Colorado. You never know, next year could
be you on the stage. Andyou know what, even if you don't
want to come to Saint Louis tobe on the live show, we would
love to hear your story, becauseeverybody has stories about their mother, themselves
(06:45):
being a mother or a mother thatthey know. We have, you know,
women, men, teenagers. Youknow it's really cool. But if
you do have a story, justsend it to us at www dot Mama
said show dot com. We'll takeit. And if you want to send
us a video and you know what, you can be in season one.
(07:06):
You know what, that would becool, never know, really cool.
I think we should say too thatall our profits from our ticket sales go
to a designated charity or nonprofit.And this year we're supporting Joe's Place,
which is a program in the MaplewoodRichmond Heights School District that provides support and
housing for high schoolers so they canfinish their education and graduate. High schoolers
(07:30):
that don't have a home. Beautiful. I love that. And yeah,
you guys don't make a penny.In fact, you probably pay more than
anything. Don't ask our husbands.I'm not going to say a word.
I think it's an expensive hobby.Yeah, well it's more than a hobby
because what you're doing, and youknow, Corey, I mean what they
do, what you guys put outwith these stories, is you make us
moms feel that it's okay that we'remessed up, that sometimes we don't like
(07:54):
our kids all the time. Welove our kids. One's a favorite ones
and not, oh my god,I'm going crazy, absolutely right. Well,
as someone who will probably never bea mommy myself, I have one,
and I'm definitely a mama's boy.And you know, it's just it's
got universal appeal. Everybody has theirmama placed on a pedestal to some degree,
and they have stories about them.You know, they always take you
(08:16):
to niche down, niche down,get tight and right. But this is
perfect because it literally touches everybody ina meaningful way. Until you guys made
it so big, we were goingto do a podcast with all those stories.
And we still will. We will, you know, so in our
free time whenever that happens, butyes we will. Everytime I've heard of
this, I don't know what thatis, but we'll find it. And
if you're a mama, you knowfor sure what it is. Not to
(08:37):
every time, but I think that'swhat it is is it's so relatable and
now obviously here locally in Saint Louis, the show is two shows. The
dates the tickets, how do youget them? And again, charity all
going to charity. It's March thirtiethat eleven o'clock and three o'clock. It's
about a ninety minute show. Allyou have to do is go to www
(08:58):
dot Mama said show dot com.Or you can go to the Metro Ticks
link and just type in Mama saidshow and you'll get that. I would
say, go to the website that'sjust me and go before it gets sold
out for sure. Please. Thetickets are only eighteen dollars. And like
Terry said, every year we picka local charity to donate the proceeds.
(09:18):
I'm very very proud of that.You should be proud of it. And
again, while you're on there,they have a Facebook page. You can
like the Facebook page. And Laura'san author too. By the way,
Yes, I am a very goodanother should defensive hobby of mine. All
the links will be in the shownotes of this podcast. I promise you
how to get the tickets, howto get Laura's books, She's hilarious.
(09:39):
If that's the Grandell Theater, Idon't know if we said that, Oh
no we did not. Seutiful Theaterat Grand Center the Grandell Theater one sentence,
I'll start. All I'm going tosay is my mom. I've said
it before, I'll say it again. She used to say to me,
the michugara doesn't fall far from thetree. And thank you, Mom.
I miss you and I love you. I was just going to say,
(10:00):
this show you'll just always laugh,you'll cry, and you'll be inspired by
these real life stories. And Ilove what you just said. I look
forward to the show every year,and even though I know all the stories
before they're presented, it's good everytime. I think I have an unfair
advantage over everybody, or an unfairgift, is that, you know,
when me and John, my editor, are putting these stories together, we
(10:20):
get to see all the best pointsover and over again, you know,
and don't really get tired of it. You know. You just get to
see people love and cry and hurtand share it just it touches you.
And we get to get that feelingmore times than everybody else does. So
it's pretty cool. I love that. And I just think mothers are very
special creatures and so I'm glad thatyou guys honor them in this way.
(10:43):
It's really really special and very it'sclose to my heart. Well again,
go to the show notes to getyour tickets and make sure that you stay
tuned. Can I say just onemore thing? Of course, the beautiful
thing about Mama said Mama said,is it's a whole community that gets together
for these two shows. And sowe have vendors and sponsors, and it's
(11:05):
the day before Easter, so peoplecome in the shop. We have this
great, great guy, his nameis Hank and he owns a company called
Dan Cakes and he makes these beautiful, beautiful pancakes that look like your dog
or photos of your mother or Imean, it is just amazing. But
it's just a celebration. You know, everybody is just all together. The
(11:28):
auditorium only holds four hundred people,so it's a pretty intimate setting. You
know. The electricity for ninety minutesis just Actually people come about a half
hour before so they can shop,and they stay a half hour later.
I'm wearing the heart, oh yeah, and I work at Iheartso I love
(11:50):
this thing. It brings me luck. So they and I think, you
know, I just love that thatyou have that it's just a great day.
And also I think now in thistime more than ever. Do we
need to connect the world, eachother, community together. If we don't
do it now, we're in seriousdeep doodoo. Sorry mom, And who
(12:11):
is the glue? But Gaya mother, That's who it is. So this
is what we need right now,And you're absolutely right. Absolutely is it
time? I think it's timed.What is the song? It's called good
enough, Good enough, Yes byMayor mac Valley. Girl, Here we
go. I didn't know your footwas broken when I said just walk it
(12:46):
off, and I didn't know youhad pneumonia when I said it's just a
cough. I know I'm not great. I've made some mistakes that I am
not proud. I just hope andpray I was good enough. Remember the
(13:07):
time my friends made a tray ofjello shots and somehow you ended up bringing
them to an overnight with the Scouts. As a toddler, you found my
lipstick scribbled mer hole some wall.When I woke up, I screamed,
although it was not your fault.But I sang lullabies to you as a
(13:35):
baby. I sang karaoke to youin high school, though you hit your
face. We sing carols around thepiano and Christmas time and one day,
I will sing I'll fly away.I didn't know your class was listening when
(13:58):
I defined the cuffs words. Itwouldn't be bad for the eighth grade,
but it was scary for the third. Our family pets were sea monkeys that
lived a month or two. Ialways cut your bangs too short and slightly
askew. But I sang lullabies toyou as a baby. I sang karaoke
(14:28):
to you in high school, thoughyou hid your face. We sing carols
around the piano at Christmas time,and one day I will sing I'll fly
away. I regret the time Ileft you at the beach as we drove
away. I never said I'm sorry. I guess that's what I'm trying to
(14:54):
say. I know I'm not great. I've made some mistakes that I am
not proud. I just saw uppenpray I was good enough. I just
hope my love was good enough.I was gonna not cry, and I
(15:15):
did start it. That was beautiful. Thank you. I love that.
And I'm a Valley girl too,La Valley girl. Perfect. Watch the
show, Mama said. Mama said, Corey, is there anything else that
you're working on? I mean,I know this is a huge project.
But you probably have a lot inthe work. I know you said you're
busy. Yeah. Another one ofmy favorite projects that I'm working on is
I'm working with Papa Ray at VintageVinyl and also Laura and we are creating
(15:41):
a documentary series that we're traveling todifferent record stores all across the country and
record pressing plants, which is actuallyharder to say than you actually think.
Because I've stumbled over that last timetime. I'm not going to try because
I might say a dirty word.Yeah. So yeah, So we're shooting
that and editing that, putting thattogether. We're currently waiting on the record
(16:03):
stores that we shot with to sendus all of their information, logos,
music from the low of their artistsand things like that. But it's coming
together nicely. I'm very very excitedabout that project as well. Congrats on
that. That's fantastic, super coolman, no doubt about it. And
making a name for Saint Louis infrom Mamas to our Vintage Vinyl record store
(16:25):
to Corey directing this, this isreally cool, Laura. We are so
proud. My husband opened up therecord store in University City forty two years
ago and I bought out his partner. I don't know when it was.
I think it was like ten fifteenyears ago. But ever since we have
(16:45):
just been having so much fun.And we actually did an episode Papa Raisman
and the Final Road Show that endedup airing on PBS all over the country
about twelve times, and in factLewis ran the episode as part of their
membership drive, and they did sowell with it that visitors came to Saint
(17:07):
Louis to come to the record store. It's a seventy seven hundred square foot
store and it's just very very cool. We've had a lot of international and
national stars come and play music forfree. Mumford and Sons. I'm sorry.
My favorite is Jason Ras. Youhad Jason Brassmore. He played for
free after he played down at thepageant Wow at eleven o'clock until like one
(17:32):
wow. You know. We've hadEddie LeVert from the Ojys. We had
I want to skip some people thatI don't like, but Mumford and Sons
was super cool. Chuck Berry,of course, there's a mural of Chuck
Berry on the side. But alot of the indie record stores are just
like ours. Around the country andright before the pandemic we went to the
(17:56):
UK and went to indie stores.Somebody's got to do it and went to
Brixton and London and Manchester and nomatter what time of day you were there,
like one o'clock on a Tuesday,the stores were packed. Really and
it's amazing. Vinyl has really madea resurgence and everybody has a story.
In fact, one of the thingsthat Corey did when we were on the
(18:18):
road last week we went to indierecord stores in Ohio. We went to
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Loveland, and we asked everybody what their very
first album was. I love thatquestion, so think about it because everybody
remembers. I mean, if youask somebody what the who their first kiss
(18:38):
was, it was like, Idon't know, I remember that too,
do you Anny album? They wereprobably playing at the same how did you
know? But it's it's it's reallysweet. It is just fun as heck
and just meeting people who are aspassionate about music. In fact, my
husband always says, music is there. It is absolutely it's the universal language
(19:03):
more than any other one. Andvintage Vinyl. All I have to say
to anybody is vintage vinyl or PapaRay. Anybody who is an even lived
here ten years or is from hereknows it. But now it's going to
be known internationally world wide. Wellwhat you cool? What's so cool is
we're going to have thirteen episodes.We're gonna have season one airing on PBS
as well, so we're just multilosing our minds. But it's really fun,
(19:29):
but in a good way. Ohputting some amazing stuff that makes people
feel good, and that's what weneed in this world more than anything.
So thank you for being a partof connecting this amazing, crazy world making
it peaceful. Thanks for having us. Thank you. Jud I just hope
my love was good enough.
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