The Maryland Crab Cake Tour celebrated its final stop of the year under the Christmas lights of Costas Inn with old friends telling music tales. Your kids might know Milkshake but Nestor knew them as a kid music critic in the 1980s as Beyond Words and went back to the New Wave 80s with Lisa, George and Mikel in his dreams for his 31st Anniversary celebration.
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milkshake, play, gina, music, band, friends, words, john, people, lisa, worked, remember, lottery, started, baltimore, george, drummer, called, 80s, record
SPEAKERS
Mikel Gehl, Lisa Mathews, George Kondylas, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
What about wn? S, T Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive. Iโm going to lose control this segment Iโm sure it will tell brought to you by the Maryland lottery. We are celebrating the holidays were cost the same. Weโre not in front of the big cost assign. So I wore the cost to shirt here today for the 31st anniversary of this radio show. As of Tuesday and the 31 years, two days I made it itโll be our 25th anniversary wn st a little later on. In August of next year weโll be celebrating that the battle of lottery comes along with us the holiday cast drop Roz dropped these off last week to fade these Iโm giving them away all day here Costas weโre gonna have Gina shock from the Go goes by a little later on all of it brought to you by our friends at Goodwill Industries. Give to them if youโre cleaning out your places make sure shopping there as well at Dan Rodricks last week on the program say heโs doing all secondhand buying at places like Goodwill to support the environment as well and our friends at window nation. They support the environment 866 90 nation you buy two and you get two free and 0% financing. Thatโs an even better deal than the deal that I had. Peter St. crabcakes out we arenโt Costas and heโs delicious. Right this is the crab cake tour. So the crab cake tour has crab cakes involve legitimate crab cakes, but it also today has rockstars if you want some of that go ahead have I been knowing Lisa Matthews here George can do this Michael gal for many many many moons you guys knew me I was a little boy right? I mean I literally I was 1516 years old backstage at the marble bar at the Galaxy whatever was upstairs and Joyce says to you guys this guy writes it to paper man heโs gets syndicated like it you can get you so beyond words and weird Hindy your beautiful beyond words was one of my my pet bands because I loved you guys and I love joy.
Lisa Mathews 01:47
We did have a giraffe in the band. What you have we had a giraffe and a dog? You said putting out a dog. Get it?
Nestor Aparicio 01:55
Oh, that sounds like the beach boy. Oh yeah. The milkshake you would admit it and weโll love right you but George you began this journey with Joyce last segment talking about beyond words as being like the motels because you had a beautiful female singer sax player. You were in that you werenโt a hammer Jackโs band although you did play hammer jacks, right. Give me the story from and weโll pick Gina up when she gets here about where scratch and sniff ended. And she went on a jalopy out to LA but when did this thing start because I literally donโt even know this story.
George Kondylas 02:30
This started at 81 So Miko, Miko and I and a bass player and then bass player laughs and Miko and I continued, and we decided we needed a singer we lost a singer had vocal nodules, couldnโt find a singer looked everywhere in Baltimore looked everywhere in Washington.
Nestor Aparicio 02:49
Atlanta Shore was taken right at that point, right. She was right.
George Kondylas 02:53
She was 11. So so at that point, honestly, I put an ad in The Village Voice in New York. And the main thing I would get is what area code is this Baltimore click. Okay, that did not work. Lisa picked up and said, Well, what is this? And I said Baltimore need a singer. And she said, Well, I donโt really know Iโm in New York. Can you send me a tape and Iโll send you a tape. So the story is neither tape arrived. I had everything in a spiral notebook. I had a bunch of names people that I called. I eventually on a whim one day just said, You know what, let me just call again and see, and I called Lisa, she picked up and it was Kismet because she said, Oh yeah, well, I never got your tape. And I said, Oh, yeah, I never got your tape. She said, Iโm coming down to gaithersburg to see my parents this weekend that we had a band with a female singer. We rehearsed with a female singer from two to four and at 430. Lisa walked in and that was it was it? We started right with her and never stopped. Thatโs why you remember?
Lisa Mathews 03:53
Kind of sorta No, all my thinking was, Oh, wow. 301 Or was it three in one area? Sure. Yeah. And I said I could visit mommy. It was just gonna be a weekend
Nestor Aparicio 04:08
that you grew up in in the DC area then or
Lisa Mathews 04:11
No, no, I grew up in New York. Iโm a Queens girl Bayside queens.
Nestor Aparicio 04:15
I donโt know that at all about now, you know, I know that. No, no, youโre talking i
Lisa Mathews 04:19
i I lived in Greenwich Village had a little rent control apartment. Never heard of now, you know, but had my own rehearsal space in the music building on 13th Street. It was called the music building because there were all these rehearsal spaces and studios. And I remember mine was called Safe sound on the sixth floor. And the Ramones rehearsed in the basement at Planet sound. And it used to be loud. I could hear that there were so loud you know, I always knew when the Ramones were downstairs rehearsing but yeah, yeah, it was great. I love New York. But then George and Michael,
George Kondylas 05:02
they came calling.
Lisa Mathews 05:04
I donโt know what it was your wife, right? We, we, we were, we were rehearsing and writing songs and playing out. And then I said, I canโt keep I canโt do this anymore. And, and, and I left when, you know, I just like I canโt keep going back and forth from New York to Baltimore and, and then I realized shortly that I canโt not do it. I just kept hearing the music and in my head, you know, I just loved it remained the same all those great songs. And so I just left I left everything I had in New York. I just came to Baltimore. And that was it. So thatโs how I remember it.
Nestor Aparicio 05:43
Wow. So What year was this? 8182 Where are we at? 484. A little later than okay. So Iโd already known Joyce at that point. Youโre trying to piece on Mike, where do you come into this and itโs so good to see you. And I canโt wait about milkshake and all that. But you got your Oreo gear, you patronizing me? Is that what youโre doing?
Mikel Gehl 06:04
365 I love the Ravens but I wear my Oreo gear you
Nestor Aparicio 06:08
are you are true orange and black, like totally million percent. And
Mikel Gehl 06:13
we were talking earlier, like you say 84. But I remember I distinctly remember that in 83 when the Orioles were in the World Series we were doing I think we were doing a rehearsal with you. We did a long rehearsal. I think itโd be Sunday. Maybe that was when you were commuting back to New York because we did it on a Sunday. We went late. You left I came home and watch that last game of the World Series. And then we won. Of course, I was living in Charles village. So I just walked over Memorial Stadium. We all waited for the buses to come back and just walk down 33rd Street, right? Yeah, yeah. And we were there when the Orioles got back after they beat the Philly. So I remember that being part of your history here. So it must be at through
Nestor Aparicio 06:51
the connections of music and friendships and we hear about bands breaking up and weโll have to go goes tell that story a little later on. But the different genres have an ad in The Village Voice during that period of time where MTV was happening, right? Money For Nothing chicks for free, right? Like, I knew lots of people that wanted to be rock stars. Obviously. I knew John when he was a kid doing the hair hairspray and the metal thing and it was a different gig. You both Now have you mentioned the Ramones. I know scratch and sniff had some punk rock sensibilities. Iโve spent some time with the Go Goโs documentary to realize where those young ladies came from in the LA sort of punk scene, talking about CBGBs or whatever. Something about punk and new wave at that time. I guess Blondie and Debbie Harry would be in the middle of that right? Like how do you get from tu tu tu tu, tu tu tu, you know, Sex Pistols to the motels or beyond words or the cars or what MTV became, but all of this was rooted in really loud, punk rock aggressive, anti social behavior.
George Kondylas 08:00
Right, somewhat. Yeah. And then I think when people will sort of get into that they want to do maybe their version of it or their spin, and things start to take a different, you know, then you have grunge and then you have things start to slow down, things speed up, it gets more electronic, less electronic. The variations are endless. Well, electronic
Nestor Aparicio 08:17
wasnโt a bad thing in your era, right? I mean, that was an introductory part of rock music at that point, right.
Lisa Mathews 08:23
Yeah. And I think the new wave was very electronic, you know, the synthesizer was, was all Semmens drums to to to write, you know, and human Lee and it was more I, itโs, itโs really fun having spent 4040 plus years in music, and each decade was dedicated for me to one band, right. 80s was beyond words. 90s was love. Right? The 2000s and net to now is milkshake, right and each band is unique and, and reflected both the time I think that was going on what was going on during that decade. And for me personally, what was going on in my life, you know, who I was, and the 80s like beyond words. I remember I remember we changed that music started chanting as the as the ad as it got closer to the 90s
Nestor Aparicio 09:20
He changed music as well at that point, right? Yeah, I mean video and Peter gave you the sounds of the merging sounds right of new wave and rock, and even hard rock and the music
Mikel Gehl 09:31
business was changing. Like it used to be that they call it being an indie artist now and it has some cred but at the time, it just meant you didnโt get a major label. You didnโt have any money you play in a band. You said Yeah, you get a major label do you put out your own record and it used to be in those days it was you might as well throw a Frisbee with it you know, but But then as we first started they were starting to get distribution was better and then you can play it you know, you could get on college radio and you could write you know, you have a hidden and other you know, not a hit but youโd be played on college. Right, I want to know the town, you could go there and have people that knew your songs. And
Nestor Aparicio 10:04
college radio was big for us, you know, HFS of that era.
Lisa Mathews 10:08
Yeah. But at the same time, and I think you guys would agree, business wise, just as a music was very different 80s to 90s, you know, to now very different from the 90s and 80s. But the business beyond words was, you know, these records we first it, this is an embodiment, right? Yeah. It was, by the way made records back then. Right. The itโs come full circle. Now youโre making records again, right. But we did this ourselves. And but but it was, we were limited and how successful we would be in the 80s. Because to be in a band that was successful, you still needed a record contract, you need it to be on a record label. And we spent a lot of time trying to get a record deal. Really close
Nestor Aparicio 10:59
showcasing Yeah, going to New York, and New York was where it was gonna have to happen for you, right?
George Kondylas 11:04
Literally, yes. Where the industry is there in LA, and you get a much bigger chance of somebody coming to see you in New York, than to say, hey, weโre gonna play Gerards Will you come down? Yeah, right. Sure. So yeah, man, you know, we sat in peopleโs offices, Joyce, and I did and they were just sort of go, Well, you know, you havenโt really shown me the right incentive to play the record. So you read into that what you want.
Lisa Mathews 11:28
There you go. All right. But we like beyond words, we just donโt love beyond words. A whole
George Kondylas 11:34
folder full of rejection letters. Yeah. But
Lisa Mathews 11:37
the 90s it started changing. And then now itโs a DIY industry altogether, right? Who cares about a record company? Right? Really? Look at Justin Bieber, I donโt need one, YouTube and all.
Nestor Aparicio 11:51
Sports for 25 years, Iโm 31. The last five or six years, Iโve tried to have more of these kinds of conversations. Because my lifeโs been about more than just sports in the same way your lifeโs been about more than sort of no new wave music that you wrote, 35 years ago, you guys want the milkshake thing and with love, right? And how this has happened that most people I know as kids in this area, have come in contact with with milkshake. And I donโt know that if Iโm when I knew you back in the 80s, youโd say one day, weโre going to really form this incredible thing. But itโs going to service children and education and folk songs kind of sort of right, like modern folk music.
Lisa Mathews 12:31
You canโt predict right? I mean, you could, I donโt know, some people say, Iโm going to be a lawyer when theyโre 10. And they become lawyers. Right?
Nestor Aparicio 12:39
But Johnson is gonna be rock star. Look
Lisa Mathews 12:40
at that. That turned down. Yeah. Thatโs so funny. But um, but you know, for me in the 80s, beyond words, I was, I was in my 20s. Right hanging in clubs. And I was I was do, I would dance around barefoot on stage. And that was dangerous right there. But I felt immortal. You know, I felt young and immortal. And then in the 90s, I was in love. And that was more romantic music love, right. It was all about love in all its many dimensions. Right? And then it was the right Yeah, right. Yeah, it was and that was reflected for me then but, and then I had a baby. So all of a sudden, who cares about love anymore? I need to write songs for my baby. And
Mikel Gehl 13:28
my wife and my boyfriend had a child we we had a family. We had a child about the same time Lisa did. The timing was good. Once
Nestor Aparicio 13:36
the last time beyond words played together, as you guys would know it, was it in the 80s then
Lisa Mathews 13:41
no, 9292 it just kind of went into the 90s. And the music again, was really changing. We have this you know, Iโve been archiving, right? Well, I
Nestor Aparicio 13:52
I invited my bro heart today, right? So bro hearts at Dundalk, one of my brother. And he said Iโve been in touch with Lisa about archived like all of this using that you have made during the course of your life that you want to, I guess preserve present pain represent right literally,
Lisa Mathews 14:09
right. And itโs very gratifying seeing this vast catalogue of music. But itโs also like, I forgot my train of thought.
Nestor Aparicio 14:21
No, no, no, youโre talking about the notion of writing songs and how youโve grown right? I mean, you can see who you were as a kid. Yeah, now you can see where you are now. Yeah,
Lisa Mathews 14:32
but back to the beyond words thing. Yes. I remember. I we found we were we were saving these two inch tapes digit. We have to digitize them right. Otherwise, that music would just go away which is fall away. Magnetic dusty. For a certain point, right after 3540
Nestor Aparicio 14:53
years,
Lisa Mathews 14:54
just deteriorates. So we realized Iโve got to save them. Weโve saved the music and now weโre saving all these videos and I did not realize until George just dug up all these boxes how many things beyond words did video wise we will all over cable at the time that was a big thing right and did so many videos so weโre weโre starting weโve got the beyond words YouTube channel now I set up a website so all the
Nestor Aparicio 15:23
job ready how to find all these
Lisa Mathews 15:24
young words band.com And that will link you to a Bandcamp. And on this Bandcamp is all this music and some of it was never released. You know, we went down and worked with this producer who worked with
Mikel Gehl 15:39
the Allman Brothers Allman Brothers, we were at their studio, their rehearsal studio thatโs
Lisa Mathews 15:44
done in Bradenton, Florida and we spent a couple of weeks recording the songs that were really more 90s music, donโt you think? And itโs really great stuff never ever, ever released never. Until now. Until now.
Nestor Aparicio 16:02
Thatโs kind of neat. Iโm into that. Yeah. So I mean, as much as young people are pushing their music, thereโs all this music that exists. Thatโs a huge part of your life. Yeah, that your kids arenโt even heard. Right, literally, right.
Lisa Mathews 16:14
Yeah, itโs true. And you know, thereโs a market for 80s Music 90s Music, Stranger Things. Itโs all ladies right? Bush phenomenon. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 16:24
Now have you guys ever gotten together in modern times just for fun and gone in a basement and played in my dreams or no, but last time we sang you my dreams just 30 years ago.
Mikel Gehl 16:33
Iโll play it on guitar and sheโll sing a line and then say okay, now what are we playing? Iโll do it and soundcheck is always
Nestor Aparicio 16:40
archived in that way in your mind. Do you not want to do it? It means something to me I know a lot to yell right
Lisa Mathews 16:46
now. This has been like a rebirth for me every respecting of this music because beyond words wrote a lot of great music again, so many things we didnโt release and I mean recordings on beta. You know, Iโm like, didnโt went away Did we do something with this? Itโs amazing. Youโre getting
Nestor Aparicio 17:07
it off the tape here in 2022
Lisa Mathews 17:09
Yes, saving it and putting it on the beyond words. Bandcamp so people that like 80s music should go to the words band.com You know and same thing with love right? saved all that music. Love right band.com And do you
Nestor Aparicio 17:23
guys play some love right music from time to time or no? Thatโs shelved as well. Right?
Mikel Gehl 17:27
No, I play those songs all the time at home we will do them at soundcheck but we havenโt done a show yeah, no but like you say about relationships in being in a band with someone is itโs a relationship Yeah, unlike any other and thereโs a love and that you know that you know when I saw Jordan I had to St George for a couple years and I just gave him the biggest hug and itโs just Iโm glad you came out
Nestor Aparicio 17:49
well I can bring you guys together thank you for for making wonderful began and Iโll tell Gina this as well because Jean is gonna be coming in a little bit later part of this choice taught me choice taught John Joyce and I were friends John and I were together and Iโm like you have choices number give me that and then letโs all go get Indian food. So before the plague mama three, four years ago, the six of us went out spent a bunch of money, drank a lot a lot had beer, laughed, sopped up with the naan bread do the whole deal. And it was that night that I realized he was in the band with Gina shock. And Iโm like, Iโve been trying to get cine shock on my show for 15 years. Sheโs from Dundalk. Everybody tells me I donโt know her. I donโt know anybody that knows her. Iโve never seen her do anything in Baltimore. Iโve never been in a room whether or known Iโve been in a room with her. But I know she she grew up right over by crossing Black was everybodyโs a legend urban legend. Like I didnโt know whether it was true or not. Itโs true. You told me it was true. And I tabled it and then the plague happened and John Allen and I were strangely friends in real life route. Going to a concert one night we got we were in a car and Iโm driving as usual and heโs passenger and participating. And we started talking like a shark. Heโs like, Hey, you seen that documentary? To Cocoโs. And like because we talked about this. I saw the Patti one, eagles one, but I havenโt seen that one. Heโs like, dude, the minute she opens her mouth, sheโs like, Baltimore. Sheโs like, he had never met her and I have never met her. So flash forward six weeks ago. Iโm doing a show in Dundalk right down the road of drug city. And I woke up at six in the morning. And Donna Jean rumbly from 100.7 is my friend and sheโs got pictures of her and Jean Jacques doing breakfast together and Cockeysville and Iโm like, hello. Nobody called me nobody told me and by 930 Her manager is on the phone with me. Sheโs coming over to truck city. I text John Iโm like dude, Gina shots coming to five hours to do a segment with me. You got to come over. John dropped everything in western Howard County, got the kids take came over sat down Jeanne to 21 minutes like a like a whirlwind. She came into the room and had to go and sheโs coming back for Christmas. Weโre doing this again. Today is the day A and putting all this Jonโs doing some travel his family and trying to put all in thereโs going to be even better story when Gina gets here about this hard rock gig thatโs coming up on the 28th that sheโs doing. But youโre linked to Gina, can you just give me a genius? Sheโs not here yet. Tell some genius stories that you want to tell before she gets here. What do I need to know about Gina?
George Kondylas 20:19
You need to know about Gina let me think I had my cheat sheet. You guys knew that he had
Nestor Aparicio 20:23
been in a band with the Go Goโs drummer right. When you met him. Right?
Mikel Gehl 20:27
Well, I when he ran that when she left to LA, they needed he was actually playing guitar, right.
Nestor Aparicio 20:34
So sniff sniff real quickly.
George Kondylas 20:37
What was that Charles Freeman played bass. We went to high school together. First grade. So he was the bass player. I was the guitar player. We had a singer we needed a drummer. I donโt. I still canโt remember how exactly we met Gina. But we went over somebody introduced us and we went to her house on 45th street and went into the upstairs bedroom was the kind of house where they had a summer kitchen. They lived largely downstairs. It was a full basement but it had a kitchen and a living room. Full very Dundalk very upstairs with the bedrooms and there was very frilly curtains. I remember pink curtains and a big drum set and a big stereo system, the old headphones with the coiled wire and she would put them
Nestor Aparicio 21:20
to play the drums before now. Sheโs the first woman youโve ever met. Okay, this is 1970.
George Kondylas 21:26
And she still plays with like baseball bats. And she can whack it. Sheโs in the pocket. Sheโs not you know, sheโs not neil peart. But who is that she could play and she can still play. She was great.
Nestor Aparicio 21:40
So cool. So, so thatโs you meeting her? Yep. And then she let me say, trucking goes
George Kondylas 21:46
away. While we said, you know, do you want to be in the band, and we were in the band and all the stuff happened. The thing that I think was maybe really helpful for her is that when we did covers, we did ino covers off of here come the warm jets, we would say weโre going to do some Eno and she was like, alright, well, let me hear it. And Iโd say now, let me just play it for you. I donโt want you to play their stuff. Letโs make our version to sort of start to learn how to write. Yeah, because youโre gonna write your part. Iโm not going to tell you what to play, you play. And she still remembers that. And she credits us credits us for that.
Nestor Aparicio 22:21
Beautiful stories here.
Mikel Gehl 22:23
The most amazing thing is that when Gina left that he was he was the drummer Charles was a bass player, he decided that he wanted to Iโm sorry, Iโm sorry. He was the guitar player. He then decided he wanted to be a drummer. So he switched from guitar to drums. And then they ran an ad in the Baltimore City paper that I responded to for guitars. So then, instead of replacing Jeanne, he just got behind the kit. And then they and then I answered the
Nestor Aparicio 22:46
better drummer. He was a better guitar player.
George Kondylas 22:48
I got to stop running these ads.
Nestor Aparicio 22:51
Well, thatโs how you found the band. Right? Yeah, right. You were looking for a band you didnโt know was in Baltimore. Right? You responded to a I want to be honest, some
Lisa Mathews 23:01
voice thatโs so while she
George Kondylas 23:05
she traded her car she worked at AAA up on Mount Royal Avenue. She had a month Carlo. And we were like, oh my god, I bought the car. I traded it to her dad for his pickup truck, loaded full of shit and went and took a friend and
Nestor Aparicio 23:19
so I maybe I should ask you this when he gets here. But I remember the first time I saw the Go Goโs was we got the beat. I saw the video right and this beautiful, itโs got this Poppy, you know can use. So I remember seeing the video for it. You were still in talking to me? Did she? Were you in touch with her at that point as a friend. Sheโs like, Iโm in this band with these girls, and weโre playing the rocks and youโre like it and youโre about to start in the onwards.
George Kondylas 23:45
And sheโs on the cover of Rolling Stone. Right? Sheโs opening for the stones sheโs opening for the police and your head explodes because you think God she was just here? How did that happen?
Nestor Aparicio 23:55
So I guess it also gives you belief when you meet someone really talented from New York thatโs willing to come down here and weโre really willing to be distributed all in to be all in itโs true. You had a North Star I mean, we can say beyond words. 30 didnโt make it in that way. But when you see I mean John last Johnny about this when John sees poison making it after they opened for him at the seagull. I would think it changes your Oh, I can we can do that. I can really do that. And that was real for you havenโt been you know, havenโt been in a band which
George Kondylas 24:28
itโs, itโs the work right? We worked constantly. We didnโt play out as much as maybe we could have we didnโt make money but we worked at it all the time. Yeah, worked at our craft and Gina said when she got to LA they were just they wanted to play they wanted the party and she was like that wonโt work. And you see that in the documentary. We have got to get down to work and sheโs got a career to prove it. Thatโs great. I got
Nestor Aparicio 24:49
the members of beyond works your love Ryan milkshake Michael gal in the in the corner, the left with the Oriole, the perfect Oreo logo I might add and memories of 1983 and itโs still holding out hope like Eddie Lauer over there that one day there will be a world championship trophy here in Costa Skiba Lisa Matthews of course milkshake beyond words and in love right and of course George can deal with who brought all of this together along with choice my high school art teacher as well as John Allen milkshake I want to certainly pay respect to what youโve done and what youโre doing this winds up being the enduring some folks and theyโll be onwards they go out to listen certainly love right people my age came out so you guys play note but milkshake is has become this seminal eternal thing that Iโm sure you have grown adults that come up and say they call you Miss Lisa or Mr. Mike or whatever that remember you from singing to them when they were a kid and maybe a great exposure for them to say I want to sing I want to play guitar I write songs right that is
Lisa Mathews 25:51
happening. Yes, yes. And you know what when those stories come by us, you know like Oh, my daughterโs now sheโs singing because of you you know
Mikel Gehl 26:01
thatโs over Oberlin Academy shake they got into music early and they never stopped Yeah. Louder.
Lisa Mathews 26:08
incredibly gratifying.
Nestor Aparicio 26:10
To set with here got to the music early never stop. Right.
Lisa Mathews 26:13
Yeah. And milkshake. You know, each band beyond words love right milkshake had its own success. You know? I mean, I remember playing the Ritz opening for men without hats. What? That was wicked fun. I mean. Yeah, right. And love riot. We played ourselves basking in the subway for the subway episode of Homicide Life in the streets. We played the Lilith fair. I mean, we won an award. We did the premium went in Japan. Yeah, we played the Preakness with the awards, went to Japan with love riot won an international competition. Amazing. And then milkshake was crazy. Grammy nominated you know on this wonderful success videos on PBS Kids and Nick Jr. and discovery genre. Itโs
Nestor Aparicio 27:04
not obvious. No,
Lisa Mathews 27:06
no. But now the genre is very much changed and exploded so many bands doing it now. But what are
Nestor Aparicio 27:12
you doing now? Bring me up to speed. Because I would see you at the ballpark time to time. I see you guys pop up. Weโre all Facebook connected in some way. But I mean, what music you guys have written is beautiful for any kid could come in here right now and you pick it up and itโs fresh to that child, literally. Right?
Lisa Mathews 27:28
Well, our audience keeps like recycling, you know, we get okay. Okay, so 910 Youโre out, youโre out. Now youโre into something else a different kind of music. But the 123 says people are always having kids. Right. So thatโs a regenerating our new young ladies to become Taylor
Nestor Aparicio 27:47
Swift Fans.
Lisa Mathews 27:48
Itโs so funny. Thatโs true. Thatโs true.
Mikel Gehl 27:51
We love playing with the full band. But the nice thing about milkshake is we can break it down to a duo and go into libraries or classrooms where in schools does it dozens of times a year. So it actually became a job, you know, where you could count on some gigs. And thatโs fun, you know, because we do enjoy playing as a duo as well.
Lisa Mathews 28:08
Yeah. But I donโt know. Letโs see whatโs next. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 28:12
Whatโs next thing crabcakes about that? Cost. This is all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery talking to old rock and roll old bands, beyond words, one of my favorites from the 80s here, great members and an incredible connection to George and Jean Jacques from scratch and said, I got it. You know, I started I did a little research. I donโt research these shows usually. But I did a little bit of Go Goโs documentary stuff to go back to scratch and sniff stuff. I need to I need to experience that music because I want to hear what you were doing. Because I know the punk rock of that era, but I donโt know scratch and sniff music. Does it exist? Is it on YouTube is is there a place to get it?
George Kondylas 28:50
It exists but I really have to dive deep to find it.
Nestor Aparicio 28:54
Alright, well Jean is here. She probably got an on track or something today or cassette tapes or whatnot. All right, we got Rockaway and royalty and Hall of Famers here. And itโs all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery, the holiday cash drops, one for you. I feel like for you, one for you. For you everybody seen here please do not. And listen, this is really important for you milk shakers, okay. I want to tell this story as best I can tell it. So last year, a Maryland lottery sponsored and the Director of the Maryland lottery comes on John Martin. And he does a really serious segment last year right around this time. Heโs like, I got to talk about something. Iโm gonna think itโs a little weird, but itโs good. He said, so we get on the air and heโs like, alright, so these these, these are not stocking stuffers for people under the age of 1870. And he doesnโt suddenly like Okay, John, cool. You know, Iโm having dinner with my wife you read at the Beaumont Kingsville. And I said I did the damn this thing I had John on today weโre talking about like, people giving kids lottery tickets and putting them in there. Right? And my wifeโs like, oh, no, she says she tells me and this is in the ad. So itโs all itโs not only up and up but nobody can be prosecuted, not her parents, because theyโre lawless. Her parents They gave the kids lottery tickets and she won 500 bucks. Her sister No no, no no. Didnโt tell mom or dad paraded around with money flashing money the neighbors saw it and said hey, Jackie and Dan, because they all they all speak like theyโre from the habit, Dan from New Hampshire. Utah A is I think she won the lottery or something. And so this has changed so my wifeโs telling his story Iโm like, Youโre the reason I need to do public service announcement so milkshake parents donโt give your kids lottery tickets All right, no, no, no I love you guys. Appreciate your mismatches Mike and George is gonna stay with us John Allen is going to come back up. Jean Jacques from the Go Goโs is going to be him is they say? Weโre hanging on the side weโre done the awkward cost itโs all brought to you by friends of goodwill make sure youโre giving and buying during this holiday season. Recycle absolutely no friends of course. When donation 866 90 nation to buy two you get two free 0% financing better deal than I got. But youโll save money on heating and air conditioning as well and your capital while there my cat loves it. She sits in the window loves it. All right. crabcakes for all my friends. Thanks so much rock and rollers. John Alex familyโs here. Itโs a mess down here worked on dog brought to you by the Maryland lottery goodwill and window nation. Weโre back for more from cost. Itโs my 31st anniversary celebration with friends and rockstars itโs all good back to more right after this.