Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Am I Am six forty live everywhere, on the iHeartRadio app,
Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here with you at Saturdays with Tiffany from
Speaker 2: five to seven pm every Saturday, and then of course
Speaker 2: in perpetuity on that iHeartRadio app and that podcast you
Speaker 2: can catch at the end.
Speaker 3: Of every show.
Speaker 2: Happy Coachella weekend, So the freeways are moderately clear, the
Speaker 2: streets are moderately clear for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: so we are celebrating.
Speaker 3: Are you here? Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you listening? Are you in line for the porta
Speaker 2: potty at Coachella? And if you are, if you're one
Speaker 2: of those people who seems to be complaining about the crowds,
Speaker 2: the crowds that are there every year, you knewbies, I'm
Speaker 2: glad to keep you company.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Speaking of music, we have a new bumper to add
Speaker 2: to the rotation, courtesy of Bugsy Capri Raoul.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and play a little bit of.
Speaker 4: That is Time on one the Week's then time to
Speaker 4: ease my mind.
Speaker 5: Sign on my radio just in time, Sifferny Howes, gotta.
Speaker 6: Feeling fun, Jay Si.
Speaker 4: Whoa medacy.
Speaker 3: Feels like she's sun.
Speaker 2: Sign all right, thank you, Raoul, So we'll definitely fit
Speaker 2: that in at some point. Again, that's courtesy of Bugsy Capri.
Speaker 2: And you have made it when your name is in
Speaker 2: uh in music, when your name has been solidified in
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 3: So how cool is that? Thank you to Bugsy Capri.
Speaker 2: It's a music field field weekend here in southern California.
Speaker 2: Music is all around us, and today to add to
Speaker 2: that musical theme, we have comedian and inner tainer et cetera,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Doug starts at five point thirty to talk
Speaker 2: about his upcoming show next Saturday, April nineteenth. This a
Speaker 2: one week from today at the world famous Coach House
Speaker 2: Concert Hall in San Juan Capistrano out there in South
Speaker 2: Orange County. They are kicking off their forty fifth anniversary
Speaker 2: concert series, and we'll be talking to Doug about his
Speaker 2: involvement with the show, his review the Stevie Wonder tribute
Speaker 2: band that he has. We might even get some music
Speaker 2: out of him, some live music, a preview, and we
Speaker 2: have tickets to give away, so we'll be giving you
Speaker 2: that number shortly to call in so that you can
Speaker 2: get tickets. To the world famous Coach House Concert Hall
Speaker 2: and their forty fifth anniversary concert Series celebration next Saturday,
Speaker 2: April nineteenth. Doors open at six, show starts at eight,
Speaker 2: but we'll get into the details later with Doug at
Speaker 2: five thirty.
Speaker 3: At six thirty, like I.
Speaker 2: Spoke with Neil about one of my favorite places in
Speaker 2: all of Los Angeles is a barnyard.
Speaker 3: I'm an animal person. I love my animals.
Speaker 2: In fact, really quick when I came into the studio,
Speaker 2: there was, unfortunately a dead hummingbird outside of the studio.
Speaker 3: It looks like it had flown into the window.
Speaker 2: So I scooped it up and went over to our
Speaker 2: little garden and gave it a proper service and burial
Speaker 2: and put some lavender over it. And you know, I
Speaker 2: hope that's not necessarily an omen but definitely wanted to
Speaker 2: show a little respect to that poor little creature there.
Speaker 2: The barnyard zoo i'm talking about is located in Manabello.
Speaker 2: It's called the Manabello Barnyard Zoo, and Melanie Wallovic will
Speaker 2: be on to talk about some of their upcoming events
Speaker 2: as we get into the warmer weather. As we approached summer,
Speaker 2: so she'll have a lot to say, so stay tuned
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 3: At six o'clock. For our Deeper Dives.
Speaker 2: Segment, we'll be talking about movie posters and billboards, which
Speaker 2: are all a huge part of Los Angeles and LA culture.
Speaker 2: We're gonna look at some history behind some of the
Speaker 2: most iconic movie posters and billboards, and we're also going
Speaker 2: to take a look a deeper dive, if you will,
Speaker 2: at the one man responsible for some of the most
Speaker 2: popular movie posters you have ever seen. That's at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: But first let's take a look locally at what's going on.
Speaker 2: Starting with some good news for Palissades High School students.
Speaker 6: Big step forward for students at Palisades Charter High School.
Speaker 6: In a matter of weeks, they're going to be together
Speaker 6: again for into person learning. The old Seal Store in
Speaker 6: Santa Monica being transformed into a temporary campus. Eyewitnesses to
Speaker 6: put a lean Suter gives us an exclusive look inside.
Speaker 7: This once was a Sears and Roebuck store here in
Speaker 7: Santa Monica, but it is now getting a new life,
Speaker 7: being transformed into Policy Charter High School's new campus.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the first day.
Speaker 7: Of school practicing for the big reveal just weeks away.
Speaker 7: Pam McGee, principle of Palisades Charter High takes students in
Speaker 7: staff on a preview tour of their new temporary campus
Speaker 7: inside the historic Sears and Roebuck store in Santa Monica.
Speaker 7: I think I'm really excited, and it's definitely unique and
Speaker 7: amazing to be able to have school right across the street.
Speaker 4: From the promenade.
Speaker 7: I don't think a lot of other people can relate
Speaker 7: to that, so that's, you know, a fun new experience.
Speaker 8: I'm really excited.
Speaker 7: The devastating Palisades fire causing extensive damage to the iconic
Speaker 7: high school, students forced to return to remote learning, but
Speaker 7: that's about to end. Crews have been working fifteen and
Speaker 7: a half hours a day to transform the old store
Speaker 7: into a modern day school for twenty five hundred students
Speaker 7: in just six weeks.
Speaker 3: How cool is that?
Speaker 2: Can you imagine going to school at a mall? And
Speaker 2: I know malls across the country are converting to housing
Speaker 2: because there are abandoned everywhere and they're trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what to do with these properties. And this mall
Speaker 2: in Santa Monica, right there at the end of the
Speaker 2: third Street promenade, walking distance from the promenade has set
Speaker 2: to sat barren and empty for years, years, years, to
Speaker 2: the point where that broadcaster there was calling it Sears
Speaker 2: and Roebuck. No one ever calls it the Sears and
Speaker 2: Roebuck Building, but that's how long it's been there. It's
Speaker 2: the Seers Building. And now Palisades High School students will
Speaker 2: call it home. They'll start on April twenty second, after
Speaker 2: their spring break concludes, and again they'll be right across
Speaker 2: from that Third Street promenade. I'm hoping that this will
Speaker 2: also help revitalize the.
Speaker 3: Third Street promenade.
Speaker 2: Which has been really struggling with foot traffic and to
Speaker 2: get people in there to be consumers, and a lot
Speaker 2: of stores have been closing. Hopefully this will be a
Speaker 2: boost to that local economy. On the flip side, something
Speaker 2: not so great for students around LAUI happens to deal
Speaker 2: with what is now the first time in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: since the administration of President Donald Trump announced a crackdown
Speaker 2: on immigration enforcement, federal agents tried to enter two LAUSD
Speaker 2: schools just this previous week. The two schools are Lillian
Speaker 2: Street Elementary School and Russell Elementary School. This previous Monday,
Speaker 2: They're both in the La Florence Graham neighborhood and school
Speaker 2: administrators turned these agents away. The agents were from the
Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security, and again the school administrators said
Speaker 2: not coming in here. They were following LAUSD protocols that
Speaker 2: went into effect under Superintendent Roberto Cavallo, who said that
Speaker 2: they would not be allowing as a district a uniform
Speaker 2: approach to dealing with the Department of Homelands to purity
Speaker 2: and agents from Immigration and Customs. They would not be
Speaker 2: allowing those agents onto school grounds. So two completely different
Speaker 2: stories affecting our students across the Southland. On one hand,
Speaker 2: Palisades High School students get to come out of remote
Speaker 2: learning no more zoom. They finally get to be back
Speaker 2: in person with their classmates and finish out their school
Speaker 2: year after such a tumultuous time since the January seventh
Speaker 2: fires out there in the Palisades. And then on the
Speaker 2: other end of the spectrum, you have students with LAUSD
Speaker 2: who are dealing with whether or not they may be
Speaker 2: approached by the Department of Homeland Security. Either way, I
Speaker 2: say schools should be a place of peace and a
Speaker 2: place of refuge for our students, no matter what your
Speaker 2: political leanings are. When we come back, we are going
Speaker 2: to talk about all should be aware of if you're hiking,
Speaker 2: if you're out there recreation and enjoy your recreational prospects.
Speaker 2: You're hiking your long walks, and you're in the Santa
Speaker 2: Monica area, the Los Angeles National Forest, you want to
Speaker 2: get out there. You don't just have to worry about bears.
Speaker 2: You also need to worry about a new plant that
Speaker 2: is causing you a terrible rashod.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: Tiffany Hobbs here with you. It's Saturday.
Speaker 2: It's with Tiffany until seven pm. And I was telling
Speaker 2: you in the previous segment that the weather is warming up.
Speaker 2: We all know, we all enjoy getting outside. That's why
Speaker 2: a lot of people move to La.
Speaker 3: Live in LA.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of opportunity to be outdoors and
Speaker 2: enjoy our natural habitat. And when the weather warms up,
Speaker 2: a lot of people want to go hiking, they want
Speaker 2: to take walks, they want to be amongst that nature.
Speaker 3: I know I'm one of those people.
Speaker 2: I really enjoy it, and I don't give much thought
Speaker 2: when on these particularly landscaped hiking trails or walking paths
Speaker 2: to any kind of shrubbery that might be poisonous or
Speaker 2: might be dangerous. I kind of assume, and that's probably
Speaker 2: my own problem, that where I'm walking is moderately safe
Speaker 2: to significantly safe or else.
Speaker 3: Why would they have this path?
Speaker 2: Well, there's an issue now, and that issue has been
Speaker 2: kicked up because it had laid dormant for a while,
Speaker 2: but it's been kicked up by the eaten fire. If
Speaker 2: it's not one thing, it's another. And this totally adds
Speaker 2: insult to injury.
Speaker 3: What am I talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a plant that can cause you a
Speaker 2: terrible rash, a terrible rash. Back in twenty twenty, there
Speaker 2: was a Pasadena resident who was trekking through the deep
Speaker 2: snow over on the summit of Mount Wilson.
Speaker 3: He had on shorts these.
Speaker 2: Adventurers doesn't really fill cold, and so he was out there.
Speaker 2: He's enjoying himself as he's going through the pathway and
Speaker 2: he's stepping into these snow blankets, right, you know the
Speaker 2: kind where you step in and your leg sinks.
Speaker 3: Down your feet, sink down.
Speaker 2: Well he did that in these shorts, and he was
Speaker 2: unaware of what was actually beneath the snow. Not until
Speaker 2: a couple of days later did he find out that
Speaker 2: he had been exposed to this very same plant. The plant,
Speaker 2: he says, produced redness, itching, oozing, crusting, I hope you're
Speaker 2: not eating, and small fluid filled blisters up and down
Speaker 2: his bare legs. He says, my legs were on fire
Speaker 2: with itch. It lasted four weeks, not f oh, you
Speaker 2: are more than that, for numerous weeks.
Speaker 3: The name of this is the poodle dog bush. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: It kind of looks like those bell bell flowers you'll
Speaker 2: see that kind of have like that bell shaped to them,
Speaker 2: like you can you can look inside of them. They're gorgeous.
Speaker 2: They often grow on trees. Well, these particular plants sprout
Speaker 2: from the ground, and they are beautiful.
Speaker 3: They lure you in. Not just with their.
Speaker 2: Beauty, no, because this is California, that wouldn't make sense.
Speaker 3: They lure you in with their beauty.
Speaker 2: And a smell that mimics weed. It's a beautiful flower
Speaker 2: and it smells like weed, Yes, like marijuana. Again, insult
Speaker 2: to injury you're out there and you're going, hmm, this
Speaker 2: smells good. Let me get closer to it. This thing
Speaker 2: will attack you. It's in the Angelus National Forest, and
Speaker 2: because of the fourteen thousand acre Eaten Fire that ravaged
Speaker 2: large portions of the Angelus National Forest in January, this
Speaker 2: particular shrub has been reignited. If you will, it packs
Speaker 2: a bite. The rash is absolutely terrible. So if you
Speaker 2: are out there and you are walking, you are hiking
Speaker 2: in the Angelus National Forest or thereabout, perhaps even in
Speaker 2: the lower lands at the base and maybe some of
Speaker 2: these neighborhoods that were affected by the Eaten fire, you
Speaker 2: should be on the lookout. Google this thing so that
Speaker 2: you can know and not take home this unfortunate consequence
Speaker 2: of just trying to get out and enjoy a beautiful day.
Speaker 3: It's called the poodle dog bush. Google it.
Speaker 2: It's terrible, crusty, puss filled itchy blisters. I don't know
Speaker 2: how to transition from that to this next sentence. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say so, I'm just gonna do it because this
Speaker 2: next segment is the opposite of.
Speaker 3: Crusty and puss. I would say, he's laughing, So that's
Speaker 3: a good thing.
Speaker 2: This person is an amazing guest, and let me tell
Speaker 2: you just a quick little tidbit about Doug Starks. Want
Speaker 2: to start off by asking what is an entertainer today?
Speaker 3: Entertaining is confined mainly to a screen. Social media is
Speaker 3: where a lot.
Speaker 2: Of people consume their entertainment, and there are lots of
Speaker 2: talented people, but few can jump off of the screen
Speaker 2: to capture and keep your attention on stage. And that
Speaker 2: short list gets even smaller when you filter it by
Speaker 2: the artists who can transcend genre and style. Our guest today,
Speaker 2: Doug Starks, who's here with us now, certainly can do
Speaker 2: all of those things, from comedy to singing to dance,
Speaker 2: from acting to impersonations to writing. Doug Starks has done
Speaker 2: it all and continues to do even more and will
Speaker 2: find out just what Doug Starks is up to, especially
Speaker 2: in relation to the world famous coach House concert venue
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break.
Speaker 3: So stay right here.
Speaker 2: We have Doug Starts, Doug Starks coming up and tickets
Speaker 2: to give away to the coach House's forty fifth anniversary
Speaker 2: concert series Woo Woo right here on KFI AM six
Speaker 2: forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you want to continue listening to the sweet
Speaker 2: sounds of Doug Starks, and we will have every opportunity
Speaker 2: to do that after about five forty five, So you
Speaker 2: make sure you stay tuned throughout this entire conversation.
Speaker 3: As I said to you before, we have.
Speaker 2: A consummate entertainer, we have a multi hyphen it and
Speaker 2: we have someone who has graciously given his time in
Speaker 2: an already extremely packed schedule to come here today to
Speaker 2: talk about the journey to becoming Doug Starks as well
Speaker 2: as where Doug Starks is going from here, including a
Speaker 2: stop at the world famous coach House Concert Hall, concert Venue.
Speaker 2: Extraordinary forty fifth anniversary of the coach House, and Doug
Speaker 2: is going to be headlining the kickoff celebration for this
Speaker 2: forty fifth anniversary. Let me tell you a little bit
Speaker 2: more about the coach House.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: The coach House opened in nineteen eighty by the still
Speaker 2: active soul proprietor Gary Fogner. The coach House has featured
Speaker 2: national and international touring acts becoming a launching platform for
Speaker 2: aspiring artists and a home for those that are well
Speaker 2: established in the industry. Noteworthy performances include and get ready
Speaker 2: for this list, BB King, Bonnie Raid, The Black Crows,
Speaker 2: Miles Davis, BB King, Ray Charles, Pat Bennett, Tom Jones,
Speaker 2: Johnny Cash, Shenead O'Connor, Dana Carvey, and today's guest himself,
Speaker 2: mister Doug Starks. And Doug may have worked with such
Speaker 2: industry giants as Julio Iglesias, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles,
Speaker 2: and Smokey Robinson, but they've also worked with Doug, who
Speaker 2: is a legend in his own right, and legend meets
Speaker 2: legend again as Doug joins the Coach House in San
Speaker 2: Juan Capistrano for that Coach House Concert Hall Celebratory concert
Speaker 2: Series kickoff. It's a multi month celebration to commemorate forty
Speaker 2: five years of greatness and entertainment in South Orange County,
Speaker 2: and we are so delighted to have the charitable, the generous,
Speaker 2: the creative, the talented reverend brother pasta Deacon Doug Starks
Speaker 2: here today at KF five.
Speaker 3: Welcome sir.
Speaker 4: Wow, what a build up I just wish I talked better.
Speaker 3: That's you.
Speaker 2: You've done all of these things and if I kept going,
Speaker 2: we would run out of time.
Speaker 3: Simply in the introduction, thank you for being here.
Speaker 5: It is so you know, I'm sitting in the presence
Speaker 5: of Radio Royalty, so I want to thank you for
Speaker 5: having me here.
Speaker 3: It's so kind.
Speaker 5: Congratulate you on your status and your show because you
Speaker 5: know you're the queen this you're doing this. Thank you,
Speaker 5: you're doing this thing.
Speaker 2: Legend to prospective, legend over here to establish on it.
Speaker 3: Feel it own it, legend, legend, a legend.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 2: You know, Doug, you've performed with the best of them,
Speaker 2: You've traveled around the world, You've graced stages all over.
Speaker 2: What inspired you to start your career and what inspires
Speaker 2: you now to keep on going?
Speaker 5: So what inspired me is I was always a little different.
Speaker 5: I had a little different beat than most of the
Speaker 5: kids did. And when I saw people like Sammy Davis Junior,
Speaker 5: George Kirby, Stevie Wonder Yes and not just be talented,
Speaker 5: but move and inspire people what they did, I knew
Speaker 5: this is what I wanted to do and so and
Speaker 5: what inspires me now Stevie Wonder's always music is always
Speaker 5: doing a backdrop to my life no matter what. I
Speaker 5: can anchor a lot of events in my life to
Speaker 5: a Stevie Wonders song. And it's not just the lyrical content.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the spirit that's emitted from those songs,
Speaker 5: from his intention and his calling, and.
Speaker 3: So it's purposeful.
Speaker 2: His music, like you said, is very intentional and entertainment
Speaker 2: should be.
Speaker 3: It's a platform.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a platform, and use you use yours
Speaker 2: very well. Some might call you, Doug a throwback to
Speaker 2: the golden age of the nineteen fifties and sixties. You
Speaker 2: do your I won't call it a review, I'll call
Speaker 2: it a celebration of these musicians. You also have your
Speaker 2: bucket list car that you love, that classic Lincoln Continental
Speaker 2: with its beautiful craftsmanship. Side okay, the showmanship of the
Speaker 2: same era with the fifties and the sixties with the
Speaker 2: rat Pack as well, which you are a fan of.
Speaker 2: And Sammy Davis Junior, what about that period of the
Speaker 2: fifties and sixties really imprinted upon you.
Speaker 5: So what I liked most about that period and especially
Speaker 5: the rat Pack, is that they kind of modeled an
Speaker 5: ideal that the country was moving towards and wanting that.
Speaker 5: They didn't even know how to put an intelligence to
Speaker 5: its time. They had all different ethnicities, ethnic class, background, religions,
Speaker 5: and they didn't consider politically correct or incorrect. They joked
Speaker 5: about those things with each other, and it was how
Speaker 5: they endeared themselves to each other by noticing, accepting, and
Speaker 5: loving our differences and blending together. And they produced some
Speaker 5: great harmonies and music and fun, and people still enjoy
Speaker 5: watching them.
Speaker 2: Speaking of blending, one of the things that we all
Speaker 2: do now, I think is blend our real life with
Speaker 2: our social media persona. You have a social media persona
Speaker 2: Doug Star.
Speaker 4: So you've seen MySpace past, I've.
Speaker 2: Seen your I'm in your top your top tens or
Speaker 2: top nine, top eight.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what it is like. I wasn't.
Speaker 3: I'm on your Instagram.
Speaker 2: I have perused your social media and I really enjoy
Speaker 2: how you share yourself with your audience. I learned through
Speaker 2: looking at your social media that you enjoy riding your bike.
Speaker 2: You even gave your bike a name. What's the name
Speaker 2: Steve propos? Of course, let me ask you this question.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you've ever been asked this before. What
Speaker 2: do bike riding and performing have in common?
Speaker 4: For you?
Speaker 5: The what I like to do is experience a greater
Speaker 5: capacity than I think I have.
Speaker 4: I like going further than I think I can.
Speaker 5: I like reaching for things that that maybe.
Speaker 4: I've never done before, just to have new experiences.
Speaker 5: Sometimes when I reach too far, my musical director Brian
Speaker 5: Evans will say you're over singing.
Speaker 4: They back it up.
Speaker 1: Board.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But the deal of it is when I'm on a bike,
Speaker 5: and I love riding horses too, But when I'm doing
Speaker 5: either of those things, I have an opportunity to set
Speaker 5: aside everything I think about me or anybody else and
Speaker 5: just have an experience and experience something new about me
Speaker 5: or just a new dimension or just like I said,
Speaker 5: an expanded capacity.
Speaker 2: After the break, Doug, let's get into the Coach House
Speaker 2: Concert Hall and your upcoming tribute called Higher Ground, which
Speaker 2: is celebrating.
Speaker 4: The music of who Stevie Wonder and.
Speaker 2: That will be Saturday, April nineteenth. We're giving away two
Speaker 2: sets of tickets, two pairs four tickets total. You're gonna
Speaker 2: be there, you got You're headlining it. You'll see Doug
Speaker 2: Starks and his amazing band, of which Brian Evans is
Speaker 2: a part and so hopefully in a moment, Brian, you'll
Speaker 2: be able to take us to our break. But if
Speaker 2: you are interested, and I know you are, then you
Speaker 2: need to get on the phone right now and call
Speaker 2: so you can win a pair of these tickets. We
Speaker 2: are going to go to callers number four and number five,
Speaker 2: callers four and five to celebrate the forty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2: The phone number is one eight hundred five two oh
Speaker 2: one five three four. Again that's one eight hundred five
Speaker 2: to two oh one five three four, callers number four
Speaker 2: and callers number Caller number four, callers number five, two
Speaker 2: sets of tickets to Higher Ground. The coach House Concert
Speaker 2: halls upcoming tribute for their forty fifth anniversary concert series
Speaker 2: featuring today's very special guest, Doug Starks. And on the
Speaker 2: other side of the break, we'll get more into what's
Speaker 2: going on with the coach House with this entire show,
Speaker 2: your band and some more information yet to talk about.
Speaker 2: Mister Brian Evans, member of the band, can you play
Speaker 2: us please some of your music so that we can
Speaker 2: head to break. It's KFI AM six forty live everywhere
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: App you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: Saturday is with Tiffany. I'm Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 2: And that was Doug Starks, comedian and entertainer and member
Speaker 2: of his band Brian Evans, and they will both be
Speaker 2: performing next Saturday, April nineteenth, at the coach House Concert
Speaker 2: Hall in San Juan Capistrano.
Speaker 8: And yoah right, absolutely, oh man, what a beautiful venue
Speaker 8: and what amazing music that just came out of the
Speaker 8: both of you.
Speaker 2: That was just a preview of what's to come next Saturday.
Speaker 2: And in a little bit during this segment, because you
Speaker 2: guys are going to definitely get off and play in
Speaker 2: a moment, absolutely, we gave away two pairs of tickets.
Speaker 2: The phone lines blew up. Thank you to our callers.
Speaker 2: We look forward to seeing you at the coach House again.
Speaker 2: Doors open at eight pm. You can find tickets available
Speaker 2: at the coach House dot com, the coach House dot com.
Speaker 2: That's the coach House Concert Hall Celebratory concert Series. And
Speaker 2: we are speaking to headliner of the kickoff, mister Doug Starks. Doug, Yes,
Speaker 2: can you tell us what makes the Coach House such
Speaker 2: a special place for you? Because you've performed there numerous
Speaker 2: times I have.
Speaker 5: What makes it really special for me is the people
Speaker 5: that come there. All types of people come there, and
Speaker 5: there's the vibe. I mean, the Coach House is run,
Speaker 5: it's a family owned business, but that family vibe extends
Speaker 5: to the employees and the patrons that come there. There
Speaker 5: are people that come to the Coach House that come there,
Speaker 5: they come into the box office and go, Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go see four shows next month. Let's see what's playing.
Speaker 5: They don't even know, but they just want to be
Speaker 5: there in the vibe. So it's great foods, great entertainment.
Speaker 5: And there's no seat that's like bad. The furthest seat
Speaker 5: from the stage is like forty feet so that's closer
Speaker 5: than like a front row or second rowing.
Speaker 2: And like some of the larger venues, and very intimate,
Speaker 2: very intimate, oh very intimately can almost touch you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like did he almost pit in my drink? Type
Speaker 5: of intimate. And yeah, so.
Speaker 2: People ever get too close where you have to kind
Speaker 2: of pin them off and say back up.
Speaker 4: No, I haven't not yet, not yet. I mean I've
Speaker 4: been served once coming off this you got too close?
Speaker 3: I got too close?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you Doug starts, Yeah, you've been sarved. Let
Speaker 2: me ask you this, Doug. Your Your show is called
Speaker 2: higher Ground, named after a Stevie Wonders song, one of
Speaker 2: my favorites. What can guess expect from your show? You
Speaker 2: have a huge band, what can they expect?
Speaker 5: So of course you're gonna hear some of the hits.
Speaker 5: You can't do them all because there's just too many
Speaker 5: of them to do.
Speaker 4: Is just too much.
Speaker 5: Secondly, I use a multimedia narrative inside the show, with
Speaker 5: video and rare photographs and rare videos and celebrated interviews
Speaker 5: talking about Stevie, some of his beginning, some of the
Speaker 5: things he's overcome, some of the social contributions that he's
Speaker 5: done and that has he's been behind, and he's.
Speaker 4: Champion some of them.
Speaker 5: So you get a complete overview with Stevie wonder And yes,
Speaker 5: it's to acknowledge his accomplishments, but it's also to reach
Speaker 5: deep into people and maybe make you say, you know what,
Speaker 5: I want to do this one like that too. I
Speaker 5: may not be an artist in the same genre as Stevie,
Speaker 5: but I make cookies, I sow, I like reading the kids.
Speaker 5: We all can be a beneficial presence on this planet.
Speaker 5: We all have something to give and I'm hoping it
Speaker 5: inspires people to unlock and let what they have come forth.
Speaker 2: That's a beautiful message, mister Doug Starks, and thank you
Speaker 2: for sharing it with all of our listeners. I'm sure
Speaker 2: someone got a lot from what you just said. I
Speaker 2: almost teared up, I did.
Speaker 5: It's a very man I mean, because it's your Everybody
Speaker 5: has an expression, and if you don't express that, everything
Speaker 5: energy turns back towards you and.
Speaker 4: Comes out in some ways that aren't so flattering.
Speaker 2: So in addition to the coach House next Saturday, April
Speaker 2: nineteen at eight pm, where can people keep up with
Speaker 2: what you're doing? How can they follow you? Support you?
Speaker 2: Shows you have coming up?
Speaker 5: They have a Facebook page called Doug Starks Higher Ground.
Speaker 5: We're having a new website that's coming out that would
Speaker 5: be called it's actually the website, it's going to be
Speaker 5: called I Am Duck Starks and Higher Ground and it's
Speaker 5: going to have a page on that and you can
Speaker 5: get to Noah the members of the band as well,
Speaker 5: who are all very capable musicians.
Speaker 4: Brian is our captain, and.
Speaker 5: Brian is the captain of our band, and he is
Speaker 5: an amazing guy.
Speaker 4: Can have you noticed his smile?
Speaker 3: Oh? I can see it from behind the screen.
Speaker 2: And he permeates the technology, large organization.
Speaker 5: For a band, and everybody in the band gets along
Speaker 5: with this. We eat together, we travel, everyone's attractive. It
Speaker 5: makes it easy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes it easy.
Speaker 2: Okay, good and makes it makes it harder for you
Speaker 2: because you get served obviously, right. Yeah, we're gonna let you.
Speaker 2: We're going to ask you, not let you. We're going
Speaker 2: to ask you to give us a preview of the
Speaker 2: upcoming show higher Ground. You have mister Brian Evans here
Speaker 2: on the keyboard, you have a harmonica, you have a voice,
Speaker 2: and now you have the floor right on the later
Speaker 2: or later with Timney's goodness almost at the wrong tag
Speaker 2: Saturdays with Tiffany Hobbs from five to seven, we are
Speaker 2: with mister Brian Evans on keyboards and mister Doug Starks,
Speaker 2: Reverend brother pastor Deacon Doug Starks.
Speaker 4: And we hope we're gonna see you there too.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm there, I'm hosting. Yes, I are there. I
Speaker 2: cannot wait don't be shy to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Let us know, let us know how you feel.
Speaker 2: You can hit the talkback button, let us know what
Speaker 2: you wanted you If you are planning to show at
Speaker 2: the Coach House, if you want to send a shout
Speaker 2: out to mister Doug Starks, just tap that talkback button
Speaker 2: and give us some feedback.
Speaker 3: We're happy to have it.
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Speaker 9: How could you ignore that? Behind a little smile, I
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Speaker 8: Thank you can celebrate love music at the Coach House
Speaker 8: with us. Thank you fantastic, Oh, thank you very much.
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