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[00:00:00] Welcome to the Tell Us Something podcast. I’m Marc Moss, your host. We have a special edition of the Tell Us Something podcast. Today I was lucky enough to be invited into the Trail Studios with Mike Smith for the Trail Lunchbox and when it Wednesday and unbeknownst to me, they recorded the show so.

Thank you so much to Tommy Evans for producing what you’re about to hear. Remember that we have an event coming up on Monday, June 30th. You can get your tickets@tellussomething.org.

The Trail 1 0 3 3 is KDTR fm Florence Missoula, locally owned and operated by the Missoula Broadcasting Company. Five, six.

Time for lunch. This is a very nutritious lunch. All the food groups are represented. You enjoy every sandwich. Give me two. Call me. Have lunch. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, double. Now. Listen, lunchbox, don’t try [00:01:00] anything. Funny.

Well, Marc, this is kind of your theme song.

I feel real grateful to Cash for Junkers for letting me use it. What a,

that just sounds like Missoula, you know what I mean?

They’re, I mean, the first version of it, I sat down with Nate Beal, who, who’s plays in that band. Mm-hmm. He’s a friend of mine and, uh, I said, you know, I’m gonna be [00:02:00] doing a podcast.

This is back in 2011. For live storytelling. And we, we record the stories and, um, we’re gonna publish ’em as a podcast and I need music. Do you have anything? Yeah. And he said, well, I’ve got this rough cut of something that we’re working on and you can just use the rough cut. Hmm. And it was this, and, but it was, it was not as produced as this.

And then when the. Album came out, it was called, um, poop and Shinola, and um, obviously edited for radio play. Yeah. Thanks for pulling that. Mm-hmm. Thanks for pulling that. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And he said, um, you know, use that, use the record cut. Yeah. Now, but that was years before we got that. Yeah. And it’s interesting to go back and, you know, you can listen to all of the podcasts episodes, all of the stories ever been told.

At tell us something on the website or wherever you get your podcasts. And so if you go back into the early days, you can hear that early version. The song is called Buzzing. Buzzing, [00:03:00] buzzing. All right, Marc Moss, tell us something. You got an event coming up. First of all though, I wanna talk about your t-shirt.

Oh, yeah. Quote on Marc’s t-shirt. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. It’s Pete Seeger quote. Yeah. Thanks for wearing that. I mean, it’s the truth. I, yeah. The millions of small things are also gonna eat the shirt. Like Yeah. Got mos, right? No, it’s, it’s well loved. Yeah. But, uh, that’s kind of, uh, putting te us something together is by no means a small thing.

No. But all of the stories, all the stories that build it up seem like small things and the people that are telling them sometimes. Have never been on a stage before. Yeah. And maybe you’ve never heard of them. Mm-hmm. And I don’t announce who the storytellers are ahead of time. Right. For the reason that I believe.

That we all have a story to share. Everybody’s story is important, and I would love to see the community come out and support each other by [00:04:00] listening to each other. Mm-hmm. And it’s like, oh, Mike Smith is gonna be telling a story. Yeah. Awesome. I’m going to that show. Yeah. Or I’ve seen this person around.

Yeah.

Or, wow, I’ve never seen that person in my life. Right. Cool. Yeah. Let’s hear their story. Oh, I’ve seen this person. And they’re, they, they’ve got that as a story. What this time, uh. Each time you have a theme. Yeah. And this is lost and found. Right? Boy, you could go in a lot of different directions and we, and I bet they do.

And we do. Yeah. We have, uh, eight storytellers. They each have 10 minutes to share their true story on that, that theme. Lost and found. Mm-hmm. No notes. No calls to action, no props. There’s no PowerPoints or anything. Let’s talk about stage fright. How do you get folks to, you know, somebody who’s just like, oh Marc, I really want to tell my story, but this is not gonna be easy.

So terrified. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. One person actually, um, is fairly known in town, said I was gonna try to go onto the radar, but somebody told me that they know I’m doing it. Yeah. And I said, I don’t know how they know that. Um, I didn’t say anything to anybody. Yeah. She’s terrified. Right? [00:05:00] Right. And I said, you know, you can back out and, and that’s up to you.

Yeah. And she’s like, it’s an important story. I’m gonna tell it. Yes. You know? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And because when, once people know that they have a story worth hearing mm-hmm. And I give them that faith and that. Confidence, they’re ready to go. And that’s your belief in people, that everybody has a story to tell.

We hear you going back to that on a regular basis. That is absolutely true. You know, and, and to have your story be seen and witnessed and heard by your community mm-hmm. Is so powerful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Uh, the next storytelling event, tell us about it. It is at Ogren Park Allegiance Field.

And it will be closing out Pride month. So we have some queer voices, we have some allies, and we’ve got people coming from the East coast [00:06:00] to witness one of their friends sharing this story story. Oh, that’s fun. Yeah. We’ve got, and, and that’s the point, obviously you have this great catalog of people, uh, telling stories over the years.

Yeah. On the tell us something website, fantastic resource. But the point is getting together to hear these stories. Yeah. The live event can’t be, can’t be transformed. Yeah. I mean, you do radio for a living. Mm-hmm. And you understand the power of spoken word. Yeah. It’s different when you’re in person and you’re witnessing in community.

It really is. Yeah. And you’re about to cry and you’re looking around and there’s people already crying. Mm-hmm. Or you’re like laughing out loud. Mm-hmm. Maybe what seems like an inappropriate moment and everybody else is laughing. Yeah. And it’s like, and the personal nature of it, you just get so personal with that, you know?

And oftentimes on the radio, I’m just telling you, I love this new song. Yeah. Or isn’t it gonna be cool when we go to this concert? Sometimes we’re passing along sad news, the passing of a, of a musician or, or, or something going on in the world. Yeah. But when you get real personal, that’s where it gets not only, uh, it gets [00:07:00] deep and meaningful for everybody involved.

Yeah. And then even things going on in the world, if you can personalize even that. Mm-hmm. You know, we have a story about a woman who is trained to. Deal with, um, conflict. Mm. And she goes into a situation where there is war and she’s trying to be humanitarian aid. Mm-hmm. And that’s just amazing. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, and we have a story of a. Police officer responding to a robbery in progress and what does that like? Mm-hmm. What about the decisions that get made and how are those going? Those decisions gonna change not just his life, but everybody else’s life in there, per usual. Marc, you have a beautiful, uh, poster for this event.

I. You wanna shout out the artist on that one? Yeah. This poster is Ryan Hawk and this poster originally, so lost and found was going to be the theme for the March. Mm-hmm. 2020, yeah. Program. I dunno if you remember what happened in [00:08:00] March of 2020. Yeah. Yeah, kind of. Uh, we, we, we try to forget. Then we remember and yeah.

And we remember a lot of positive that came outta that. Yeah. So, uh, it was way before, right? It was mm-hmm. I think I was, she used the 10 bar, Ryan Hawk used the 10 bar at the North Side Cattle House, and that’s in my neighborhood, and I spent some time there and she was, you know what’s, it was a. Slow afternoon and well, you know, what’s going on?

What have you been doing? I was mm-hmm. Sort of complaining that I have a show coming up in two months and I don’t have a poster artist. Yeah. And she said, well, I’ll do it. And I said, well, you know, you’re an artist. Okay. You know, you never, everybody’s an artist. Yeah. And so I wanted to see. Her work and she pulled out her phone and started showing me she does the, all of the artwork for the, uh, international Wildlife Film Festival.

Yeah. Nice. And I said, what’s your rate? And she told me, and I said, I can pay you that. And, and she whipped this out and a. Couple of weeks and it’s beautiful. Yeah. [00:09:00] And obviously I couldn’t use it right. March, 2020. Mm-hmm. Didn’t that show didn’t happen, so I adapted it a little bit and added the trans pride flag, um, to the flames.

And if you haven’t seen the poster, yeah, check it out for the listeners. Uh, it features a person and, uh, what looks like a monkey with a. Space helmet on and a Sasquatch much, and then like a cero or cat, a cowgirl looking person, cowgirl sitting around a campfire. And the flames are going up into the sky and featuring, could be a moon, could be a sun.

I kind of think it might be a moon, full moon looking thing. It’s open to interpretation. Yeah, it’s cool. And it’s all, all monochrome. Except for the flames now. Yeah, but, but her initial design was all monochro, the pride flames. Cool. Yeah. Tell us something. Dot org. We dig your style. Marc Moss. Thanks. Not only putting on this event all these years, but also reaching for [00:10:00] an artist here and a musician there.

I mean, everyone gets paid. Lot of fun. Casper Junkers initially gave us the song pro bono, and I thought, you know, I don’t have any money right now, but when I finally did have some money mm-hmm. Uh, they didn’t ask me to pay them, but I, I did. And I was, it was, I think I’ve told you this before, knocked on their door.

Yeah. And they practiced in the, in Tyler Roddy’s shop. Mm-hmm. Down the, down the alley from where I live. Right. Yeah. And I knocked. And it was dark and you hear all the shuffling going on, it’s like hide the weed. Pretty much. Yeah. And he goes, I go, it’s Marc Moss. He goes. We thought you were the cops. That’s how the cops like a noise complaint.

Right? That’s how the cops knock. Right. You know? That’s You knock like a cop. Yeah. Well, my dad was a, my dad was a cop. Yeah. Well, Marc Moss of tell us something lost and found stories coming up. June 30th, seven o’clock. Ogrin Park at Allegiance Field. I say [00:11:00] June 30th, but that’s Monday next. Yeah. Would you like to go?

I’m talking to you. Fair listener. Uh, would you like to go text in? Tell us something. Lost and found. Lost and found. Thank you. Yeah. Lost and found. 4 0 6. 6 0 4 1 0 3. 3 4 0 6. 6 0 4. 1 0 3. Three. Lost and found. Uh, June 30th next week you can find out all the details that tell us something. Dot org. Uh, final thought.

Marc, you’re away. Tickets, right? Yeah. Lost you text. Yeah. We’re giving away tickets. You text, text laws and found to that number. What was the number? 4 0 6. 6 0 4 1 0 3 3. Text Lawson found to that number and you’ll get a pair of tickets. To the Monday June 30th event, and for those of you who don’t get those free tickets, you can purchase tickets@tellussomething.org.

Tickets are on sale right now, and they do go up. The price of tickets go up on Monday, the day of the show, but right now they’re $20. Thank you very much. Marc Moss. We’re gonna go out of the, uh, trail lunchbox today with a new one from Role Model. This is called [00:12:00] Sally. When the Wine runs Out, trail Lunchbox.

Remember that we have an event coming up on Monday, June 30th. You can get your tickets@tellussomething.org.