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#95. Jackie Dandeneau: How A Small Playhouse Became a Big Engine for Culture and Connection
A small stage can change a whole town. That’s the heartbeat of our conversation with Jackie Dandeneau , the executive artistic director behind Playhouse Arts, conductor of the Blue Lake Community Choir, and one of the community builders shaping Arcata’s creative life. We swap stories about saving a venue, turning it into a citywide arts engine, and how a Tuesday night show can feel like church when the room leans in.
Jackie takes us from a farm near Jasper to national theater tours, radio drama in Vancouver, and eventually to Blue Lake, where the Arcata Playhouse became home base. We dig into how the Playhouse grew beyond performances: writing the City of Arcata’s strategic arts plan, placing artists in schools, and creating Our Space, an arts-and-wellness program for houseless neighbors that restores dignity through making. When KHSU went dark, the community lit a new signal—KHHA 94.7 LPFM—broadcasting from a converted storage unit with big spirit and a local-first roster that keeps Humboldt’s voices on the air and in your earbuds.
We share favorite shows and why they hit so hard, from an all-women mariachi band filling the room with new songs and new neighbors, to intimate sets where the audience becomes the magic. Jackie’s lens is clear: gratitude is a balm inside pain, justice is the work of designing belonging, and succession is generosity in action—handing over the reins so a legacy no longer depends on one person. We close with what’s ahead: holiday pantomime chaos, porch festivals, poetry in the marsh, line-dancing fundraisers, and how to rent the Playhouse when your crew needs a seasonal home.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends and neighbors, Scott Hammond with the 100% Humboldt Podcast in Humboldt County with my new very best friend, Jackie Dandano. Hi, Jackie.
SPEAKER_01:Hi, Scott.
SPEAKER_02:How's your day?
SPEAKER_01:My day has been a lot and good.
SPEAKER_02:A lot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:As my days usually are these days.
SPEAKER_02:I think we're all having a lot to do. Exactly. Yeah, that's it's happening a lot. So what's your I was gonna just be funny and say, what's your deal? But what's my deal? What's your deal? What's my deal? What's your deal? What do you what do you do? How did you uh well we'll uh find out how you got here, but what's your current uh deal?
SPEAKER_01:Well, currently I am the executive artistic director of Playhouse Arts, which is the local arts agency for the city of Arcata. I'm also the conductor of the Blue Lake Community Choir. Oh. Mother to Leo and Cora.
SPEAKER_02:Wow. Yeah. That's a lot of hats.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, partner to Barb. Got all these hats, got them all on.
SPEAKER_02:Nice. You got and you're out in Blue Lake, which is really cool.
SPEAKER_01:Out in Blue Lake. It's awesome out there.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man. All the the old crows, those guys.
SPEAKER_01:They are awesome. The Lolas, ladies of the lake.
SPEAKER_02:Those are Lolas.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there's Lolas and Crows. Okay.
SPEAKER_02:I think we bought Lolas too.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm always envious of you Blue Lakers because it's 22 and freezing in McKinleyville. We got to Blue Lake and it's 89, and everybody's got their Speedos on.
SPEAKER_01:And we're also happy and full of joy and Love Thy Neighbor.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. McKinleville a little.
SPEAKER_01:It's yeah. No, McKinleyville's, you know, I I firmly believe that McKinleyville is the next hot hub because um I I just think McKinleyville's on the cusp of a lot. A lot of change and a lot of community connection and a lot of community action. So I know people have discommun uh McKinleyville for a while. Oh, but I just um I mean I love the stuff that's going on in McKinleyville. You got more grocery stores per capita than cents.
SPEAKER_02:Eureka Natural Foods, come on.
SPEAKER_01:Safeway. So Gross Out.
SPEAKER_02:And we got good old gross out. I'm glad that you called it gross out. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Sorry.
SPEAKER_02:Only Grocery Outlet. Park and Market, there's a song, we won't sing it.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, so I, you know, I I'm a fan of cum of McKinleyville. And like I said just recently, we did our festival out there, One Village, Many Peoples, in McKinleyville. And it was fabulous. Pearson Park is like a gem.
SPEAKER_02:It's beautiful.
SPEAKER_01:It's beautiful. And you don't have to rent porta potties when you do an event there. That's all I'm saying, producers. You can save yourself, you know, two grand.
SPEAKER_02:Shucks, we got electricity out there.
SPEAKER_01:I know. You got toilets and electricity.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah. And so many spaces and grass and well, you know, Jesse with the Chamber does that summer concert series every Thursday. It's great. Oh well, there's been some big crowds. Yeah. And fun fun dancing. I actually have been known to dance now and quite quite I could cut a rug and cut the grass.
SPEAKER_01:Nice. At the same time?
SPEAKER_02:Occasionally. Depends on the Trevor Burrus.
SPEAKER_01:Well, you'll have to come to the playhouse because we're doing a big uh fundraiser and we're gonna do some line dancing. We're gonna have some people teach line dancing and then Cadillac Ranch is gonna play. There'll be a cabaret Cadillac Ranch, a little bit of line dancing.
SPEAKER_02:Rick from Blue Lake.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Rick from Blue Lake. Cadillac Ranch rehearses at the little church.
SPEAKER_02:Is that Cadillac Ranch from Blue Lake?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. Nice. That's Cadillac Ranch.
unknown:From Blue Lake.
SPEAKER_02:Is that in California?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Wait, Blue Lake is let me show everybody where Blue Lake is.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:See the line that goes to the right? It's out that line that's 299. It's about three inches from Arcata.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. It's on your way out of town.
SPEAKER_02:As the crow flies.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So give us the Jockey story and how the arc of your your deal.
SPEAKER_01:Ah. You're Canadian, right?
SPEAKER_02:You're born here.
SPEAKER_01:I am Canadian. I was born on a small farm between um Edmonton and Jasper, if anyone knows Jasper National Park in Spruce Grove. I was actually outside of Spruce Grove. So I grew up youngest of seven on a farm. Did a lot of uh you know horseback riding and gopher catching and did a little bit of milking, not very much, but every once in a while, because I was the youngest of seven and I was a girl. So when times were tough, they would get me to go out and milk my sister's cows. Um yeah, so I grew up doing that. Very musical family. My dad was a guitar player, my sister, guitar player singer, knew every song to words to every song and chords. And so I kind of grew up around music and community engagement. They were big um community people. My dad was the bingo caller and Spruce Grove, and my mom worked concessions, and they were Elks Club and Royal Purple and curling and very, very involved in the community. Curling.
SPEAKER_02:Curling. Curling.
SPEAKER_01:Not hurling, like throwing up. No, curling like the sports. Yeah, Canadians bond spiels and matching sweaters. And we would go to town on a Friday, and my parents would curl and I'd go to the arena and watch people play hockey and you know, skating and all kinds of things like that. And then I went to theater school. Uh I went to the University of Alberta, which is a professional training program in Canada. Kind of one of the, you know, there's two schools, a national school theater school and and um University of Alberta. Now there's York and there's other um schools as well. But at the time those are kind of the two major ones. And I went there. It was a four-year program. And then I got out and I got my Canadian actor's equity card and I started working professionally right away.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:I'd worked at them kind of regional theaters across Canada, um, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia. I did the Stratford Festival, which is like the Ashland Festival of Canada. It's a pretty big deal.
SPEAKER_02:Mostly Shakespeare.
SPEAKER_01:It is Shakespeare, but the same thing. They have to do musicals so that they can pay for Shakespeare.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:Um and I was part of the young company. So we were in Stratford, Ontario.
SPEAKER_02:Ontario. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So out east. So I I did that. And then I did a l a whole bunch of uh theater. Oh, just kind of did, you know, I do like six theater professional shows a year where I just go into towns and act and go.
SPEAKER_02:So rock star actress.
SPEAKER_01:Roll them through Canada. And then yeah, then I got a part in a movie called Blood Clan.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, and you can see it. I think it's on YouTube or something. I don't know. Who does it star? Um Besides you. Gordon Pinsent, who's a big Canadian actor, and Michelle, I can't remember her last name. It's uh it's a murder mystery. Or not a murder mystery, it's like a horror show. Anyways, I got that part, and so it was being released in the theaters in Vancouver. So I moved to Vancouver and I got an agent, so I did film and TV for a while, did some commercials, film and TV things, and did a lot of radio drama while I lived in Vancouver.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Theater.
SPEAKER_02:That plays it today, right? The radio station that we'll talk about.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, later. Yeah. And then I moved to Pandora Island. And then I met David Fernie, who was from Del Arte, and then we got married, and then we had a baby and Del Arte Blue Lake. Yeah, Delarte Blue Lake.
SPEAKER_02:Do you have Leo or your Leo? Yeah. How old is Leo now?
SPEAKER_01:26.
SPEAKER_02:Wow, how quickly they aged.
SPEAKER_01:I know. We moved here when Leo was three. So we've been I've been here twenty-three years. Wow. And then we had another kid, Cora, who's now twenty.
SPEAKER_00:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:And then David and I got a divorce and we're still friends and work together.
SPEAKER_02:He doesn't work at Del Arte anymore.
SPEAKER_01:He does not work at Del Arte. Sometimes he does. He was in the summer show last year. Oh, cool. Yeah. So he's great. He's a great technician and he does video.
SPEAKER_02:Is he part of the Playhouse group at all?
SPEAKER_01:He is. I mean he's a founder, so you know.
SPEAKER_02:You guys founded it together.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, for sure. We founded the Playhouse together.
SPEAKER_02:Is there so the Arcata Playhouse is in Arcata, which is on that map. Yep.
SPEAKER_01:And uh it's was there theater or anything there before you guys It was before we took it over, it was a Stargardden Theater, which was a small children's theater. But before that it was the Pacific Arts Center, which was a pretty big deal in Humboldt County. The Pacific Arts Center did a lot of stuff, a lot of really great performers doing and directors and um you know. Theater though? Theater, straight ahead theater, the Pacific Art Center.
SPEAKER_02:So that much music wise.
SPEAKER_01:I don't think so. What I think it was known for was theater, and the theater was set up differently. Uh-huh. So it took up the playhouse, the Bella Studio, and the big studio. So that was Yeah, it was bigger. And it was turned the other way. So there was a backstage and a shop. And Michael Foster, who's kind of well known for a lot of uh lighting designs in Humboldt, he lived in the little button factory house, which is now Haliyashi's hairdressing studio, which was a button factory. Right. He lived in that little house and was the TD. The little pincus? Yeah. Yeah. So it's nice to know a lot of those um Pacific Arts Center people who did a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Ross Powell My mind is going way ahead. I want to hear about all the bands and everybody that you've met and all this stuff, but we're we'll put that. But if you're just joining us, my new best friend Jackie.
SPEAKER_01:That's right.
SPEAKER_02:And I are here together talking about it. Here we are talking about her and Arcada and Humboldt. And I want to go back to Canada.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Let's go back to Canada.
SPEAKER_02:So I'm I'm I'm kind of a little bit funny sometimes. Yeah. So I really like the Trailer Park Boys. Trailer Park Boys. Oh yeah. Is it the trailer?
SPEAKER_01:Trailer Park Boys.
SPEAKER_02:Sorry.
SPEAKER_01:That's okay. Um Do you speak Canadian? I do. Sometimes I speak Canadian, but sort of I've got my American accent now. But when I listen to some of my my sisters, I hear a very big oh, sorry, yeah. Oh. Wolsa Gold? Yeah, that's right. I'm gonna throw that up on the roof.
SPEAKER_02:On the roof?
SPEAKER_01:On the roof. Um Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Our kids got to s our our older teenagers got to start a trailer park boys. So off the hook and and off It came out after I left Canada, oddly enough.
SPEAKER_01:I've been gone for 23 years. So you don't get a lot of CBC Canadian broadcasting stuff. I mean, you do now with some of the stuff that goes on, but I uh kind of missed a lot of the Canadian things about the biggest.
SPEAKER_02:CBC's really beautiful.
SPEAKER_01:It is really beautiful. There's a lot of really beautiful things in in British Columbia. Yeah, you go up and Vancouver's a beautiful city. It's got beaches. Right. Sometimes in Vancouver you can ski, go to the beach all in the same, like just with a bus ride. Fun. You can take the business.
SPEAKER_02:Literally. It can do both.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And then Bouchard Bouchard Gardens.
SPEAKER_01:That's in Victoria.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, my dad worked there. He said it was unbelievable.
SPEAKER_01:The Victoria is really beautiful too. Big island. Lots of really Ycule and lots of really wild things there on the uh west coast of Vancouver Island. I lived on an island in between Vancouver and Victoria, Pender Island, which is the customs island. So it was a small island. So when I moved to Blue Lake, I was like, ooh, I've moved to the city now. I can just like drive and get groceries and come home. I don't have to like take a ferry or I'd go to Murphy's Market. Yeah, exactly. You know, market. Just before I moved, to be fair, just before I moved, we got a a new grocery store on Pender Island and it had one of those doors when you come to it and it opens. And you could actually have two shopping carts in the same aisle.
SPEAKER_02:So we were like Star Trek.
SPEAKER_01:Look at us go big time now. Yeah. But so Blue Lake felt like a big city when we were.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, cool. Went to the brewery and just, you know, we'd have an hour on Wednesday nights and it was all the live music back in the day, and it was really the vibes it's shifted. It's there's still music.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um The casino, the sushi at the casino is really great. They have good sushi. Sushi blue.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01:Mm. It's delish.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I like the I like the casino. Everybody's going to cigarette smoke. I whatever. I don't think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01:They have one room that's or one section that is cordoned off, but sushi blue, you can just go in with your kids even.
SPEAKER_02:Right. Kids can go in. They have a good IPA too. The Dylan, what's his name? Shats?
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:He was the brewer master at Powers Creek Brewery. Correct. Very good. Shout out to Blue Lake Casino.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And also the doghouse is really good too. Darcy at the doghouse right there in the city.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, Darcy's our favorite.
SPEAKER_01:Such good food.
SPEAKER_02:Shout out to Darcy at the doghouse. Yeah. Go Dog House. Is that in Paragua Park? It sure is. Is that Blue Lake, California?
SPEAKER_01:It's in Blue Lake, California, which is just up the little black dot, about three inches from Cat from Al Qaeda.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Hey, Darcy, we love you a lot. She was our school bus driver for our special needs son Gabriel for a while.
unknown:Nice.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. We always loved Darcy.
SPEAKER_01:She's a good egg. And then there's Jewel Jinn and Jewel, that's uh awesome. Jewel and Jack's chocolate is out there now in the U.S. Oh, they're out there too.
SPEAKER_02:Tomas, too, right? Or his warehouses.
SPEAKER_01:And also Fish Brothers.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, they're there. Okay. Mm-hmm. Huh.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we got to be.
SPEAKER_02:And Wallace and Hines.
SPEAKER_01:Wallace and Hines. Here it goes.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, bl uhger bar.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the Lager Bar.
SPEAKER_02:Is what's his name a cool guy, Michael?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, he is. The Lager Bar's great. He's a Del Arte guy, right? He was. He was one of the founders. Well, one of the original sort of staff of Dell Arte, Joan and Michael and Donald, kind of put the the name on the company there.
SPEAKER_02:That was a legend in the day.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:And I worked at Barrago Park as a rec recreation guy with Pete Shepherd and Greg Devaney. Oh, yeah. Back in the day.
SPEAKER_01:Back in the day.
SPEAKER_02:One of my first jobs as a rec major, Humboldt State. Come on. Yay. That's cool. Not Cal Poly.
SPEAKER_01:I like the rec majors. We often have I mean, we have had in the past rec majors come work with the Playhouse. Oh, cool. Yeah. They're fun. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We're fun.
SPEAKER_01:You get a lot of things with you being a rec major. You think, what the heck is a rec major? But they get like, you know, event planning and business and marketing and everything. They come with it all.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. My kids go, Did you major in recess? Actually, you know who made that up was Janet Cole, Steve Cole's ex-wife. Yeah. And she introduced me in a Toastmaster meeting. And he was a rec major and he majored in recess. Nice. Oh my gosh. I don't know f I like that. I'll go with that. I don't I didn't mind majoring in recess. Recess was a cool major. I came out with about seven minors, but that's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I got a BFA, so you know. So what's a BFA? Bachelor of Fine Arts. Okay. Um, you know. Or Bachelor of you know.
SPEAKER_02:So what brought you and your ex to Humble? Did you guys come together? Mary in Canada?
SPEAKER_01:We did. We he was a Del Arte grad and he got a job being the booking um manager for Delarte, so he came and I taught voice there for ten years. So I um did vocal ensemble work and voice stuff.
SPEAKER_02:Do you still sing?
SPEAKER_01:I still do.
SPEAKER_02:Really?
SPEAKER_01:Can we sing the rest of the interest of the interview, don't we? Sometimes I just have today is a musical day, people. I'm gonna sing everything I do.
SPEAKER_02:I like it. Yeah, musical thing.
SPEAKER_00:Welcome to the meeting, meeting, meeting, welcome to the meeting.
SPEAKER_01:Perfect.
SPEAKER_02:Like you know somewhere.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Keeps me interested. That's good. I'm interested anyways.
SPEAKER_02:But yeah. No, you're you're fun. So um You're really fun. So you guys came to Humboldt. Yep. Because he was here earlier.
SPEAKER_01:He had gone to school with Delarte and done some booking for them. So then they were looking for people to someone to book tours for them. They wanted they did a bunch of national tours. And so that's right. They used to tour. Yeah. He took over that and I taught voice and then we brought it.
SPEAKER_02:Who was the one with uh Joanne Joanne with the Mary Jane? Joan Shirley.
SPEAKER_01:That was not Mary Jane. That was Scar Tissue.
SPEAKER_02:Scar Tissu?
SPEAKER_01:This is kind of her film noir. Is she still living? No, she died. She died almost three years ago, sadly. Really big loss. How old was she? She was I want to say six seventy.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, not that old.
SPEAKER_01:Not that old. I think. She was a good friend of mine. Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:All right. Good memory.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, good memories.
SPEAKER_02:So so then you guys branched out and and bought or Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Well then we started the Playhouse because I had this one woman show that I wrote that was kind of um a mystery one woman show about how this restaurant started on fire on a small island. So I I wrote this show and so I wanted to do it. So we did it at what was the Stargardden Theater. And then we found out that they were at risk of losing their lease because they couldn't pay the rent. So we said, Oh, this would be great. We could rehearse, we could do our things. So we took it over as a star garden. And Cora, our youngest, was really young at the time. And I remember nursing and then the just being like, okay, look, if we're gonna do this, we just have to have control of it. Because I can't deal with people fighting or any nittly things. I got too much on the boil. So we took over the lease, and then that's where we where we uh where we are now.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Ross Powell Who owns the building then?
SPEAKER_01:Uh Melissa um uh Lisa, Brian and Lisa Tonson Finnegan?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. They used to have the shoe shop.
SPEAKER_01:Uh Melissa Lis Lisa Tonson and Brian Finnegan.
SPEAKER_02:Finnegan.
SPEAKER_01:Nobody knows her as Melissa.
SPEAKER_02:I just have that in my head because I know I know them from they owned a business in Arcata.
SPEAKER_01:Aaron Ross Powell Yes, they're woodworkers, amazing woodworkers. And her brother's a like world-renowned photographer who's just an amazing photographer.
SPEAKER_02:Is there a Kelly Townsend printer thing?
SPEAKER_01:I think so.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Ross Powell I know a lot of this because I used to call in all the businesses in Arcada. I sold it newspaper, which is a print product that had paper. Oh, yeah. We sold ads in the Tri-City Weekly. Oh, I remember that.
SPEAKER_01:I love the Tri-City Weekly.
SPEAKER_02:I thought he was great.
SPEAKER_01:They had those little jokes in the Tri-City Weekly. Oh, remember? They had like the joke column. You'd always get it like if you go to Pepper's or one, you know, whatever the restaurant was for breakfast, they'd have the Tri-City Weekly.
SPEAKER_02:I loved it, man. It was cool because we just kicked butt on the time standard because it was all about revenue and advertising. So you could do Pearson's would do the front page twelve times a year. It was great.
SPEAKER_00:Right. Nice.
SPEAKER_02:And it was just uh and Ron Pellegi, my boss and f still friend, um, talked to him today. It's a great, great family-ran thing and it's positive. And how else do you support nine children on one income in Humboldt? Barely.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Magical place. Anyway, I digress.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So you guys took over the entire We started the Playhouse.
SPEAKER_01:We renamed it the Arcata Playhouse, and we started that, and then we went along with that. And then at some point, um, I I was a teacher's aide and I got laid off from my job. And at that point, you could go to the job market and they would help you find a job.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And so I went through every personality. I did it all. Personality test, had a counselor, what what is my aptitude? What could I be good at? And they were like, well, it seems like you should be in the arts. And I was like, Oh, isn't that crazy? Weird. Weird. So uh I I made the choice. They were like, you could, you know, I was I was becoming a teacher or a bookkeeper. And I decided I would go for my business associate's degree because it would help me more to run the playhouse. So I got my business associate's degree from CR. I went back to school.
SPEAKER_00:Lovely.
SPEAKER_01:And then I interned with the Ink people and Libby Maynard.
SPEAKER_02:That's right.
SPEAKER_01:And so uh We were next door neighbors, right? Yeah. That's when we were next door neighbors. That's when I first met you.
SPEAKER_02:Scott Hammond State Farm located in Eureka, California, right over here on the map.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Just three inches from the black line.
SPEAKER_02:Was your neighbor? Yeah. How long were you there?
SPEAKER_01:Because I remember You know, I think I was at the Ink People for uh almost eleven years total. I told Libby that I would stay with her until she retired, but the playhouse just kind of took off and I couldn't, I was not doing a good job there, and I was not doing a good job at the playhouse, so I had to step out of there. What was your role there? I was their bookkeeper. I worked originally when I first interned, I worked for them 20 hours a week. So I did admin and bookkeeping for them. And then I went down to be their bookkeeper for like five to seven hours a week. I came in one day and they were picking up and all these other revenue streams, like all of a sudden there was Venmo and PayPal and who knows what, all these things were coming. Yeah, and it just I kind of my head kind of exploded a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:That's the other side of the arts brain.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:The numbers.
SPEAKER_01:It was just like it needed more than five hours a week, is what it all came down to. And so I left and just started doing the playhouse full time. Uh well, I was already doing it full time, but um so then I just started doing the books there, and then I ended up giving the books away there too.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:So just too too much.
SPEAKER_02:And they just moved uh a couple well, pre-COVID, I think, and then Pottawat Dental has the building now. Oh it's all redone, it's beautiful.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_02:Shout out to Pottawat.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. They um they just bought a new building. Ink people did.
SPEAKER_03:Oh.
SPEAKER_01:Um yeah, Leslie Castellano is the ED of the Ink people, and they just bought a new building on um, I think it's third and they're down in Old Town somewhere, yeah. But they're not there anymore. They're now well, they're they're gonna be there for a bit, but they're got this new building and they're gonna move in.
SPEAKER_02:Where's that at?
SPEAKER_01:It's in Eureka, and it's I think it's where the old um the old billiards place used to be.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's right there on the corner. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, right there on the corner. Club triangle, yeah. Yeah. So they just bought that building. And it's gonna be beautiful. That I I missed the the release of it and all their plans, but I've sort of heard via the snarky thing that no one's gonna sleep in the doorway anymore. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It'll be actually a business that'll be.
SPEAKER_01:But they might sleep in the doorway, but it'll be okay. They'll be okay. They'll say, Hey, we're gonna open and they'll move. Pretty reasonable. Move it on down. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Move it on down. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So Okay, so Playhouse. Yeah. The fun part.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the playhouse, the fun part.
SPEAKER_02:So how fun city? What have you liked about doing the playhouse and running the show?
SPEAKER_01:Oh man.
SPEAKER_02:Because it sounds like you're more than just shows and concerts and theater.
SPEAKER_01:We really are.
SPEAKER_02:Like you've branched out into like this other stuff with the city and like you were telling me outside the the um all the art displays and things. And painting hydrants?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we did we work with the city of Arcata on um we helped develop the Arcata Strategic Arts Plan through a grant that we got with the National Endowment for the Arts. So we kind of spearheaded that with Susan Ornellis, and then it completed with uh Gillen Martin and who else was on that? Gillen and I just drew a blank. That's okay. That's crazy. So yeah, we we did the strategic arts plan. So we're the local arts agency, so we help them, you know, connect with artists and put together an artist panel to make sure, you know, what the call to art is and and make sure that, you know, things are going and we administer the program for them. And then we also have a program called Our Space, which is an arts program for houseless people. So we use art as wellness. So giving people a place to be something other than a number or a thing to be dealt with. Cool. They come and we've made we're coming up on our fourth zine, so we do that.
SPEAKER_02:Is that the creamery at the building?
SPEAKER_01:Well, you know, we were in the Presbyterian church, but we got kicked out. We didn't get really get kicked out by the Presbyterian Church, but it it became an uh uh we couldn't stay there. So now we're looking for a new place and we have some deets on some, but uh it's all sort of under wraps right now.
SPEAKER_02:So I want to do a shout-out to all the Presbyterians in the world.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, exactly. I only work in Presbyterian Church, apparently, because I use the Presbyterian Church in Blue Lake for the choir.
SPEAKER_02:Right. And then I think we're f uh full gospel choir. No, we're a small little No no, I mean the one the big one in Arcata, didn't they hang out at the Presbyterian for a long time?
SPEAKER_01:They were the Presbyterian for a long time. And now what are they called?
SPEAKER_02:Arcata full gospel choir?
SPEAKER_01:Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, they've changed.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and they're at the Playhouse. They rehearse at the Playhouse.
SPEAKER_02:Oh beautiful. Did you ever know Marquita Sims?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Loved her. Yeah. Just go to church. I mean, I knew her through Barb, so just on that project. Yeah. Still is a sweetie. Yeah. We'll go with that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So um shout out to Marquita. Marquita. Marquita Sims. And then what else? Then we have artists in schools. So we put artists in schools. Right now we're in Blue Lake and Fieldbrook and um just signing contracts. We go to Whale Gulch. We've done Lolita. Where's Whale Gulch? Like so? South. Yeah. So hum, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Like Petrolea down that way?
SPEAKER_01:No, more like towards not Petrolea, Garberville, maybe?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_01:Garberville. In between Garberville and Petrolea.
SPEAKER_02:It's Soham. Yeah, Soham. It's right over Yeah. Can you see it? It's right over there.
SPEAKER_01:It's past. It's yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It's on the map. On that argument.
SPEAKER_01:It's to the right of the lower black line.
SPEAKER_02:Dial it in. Dial it in, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:So we do that. Then we do a program called Skuyetch Sanina with the Yurok tribe, which translates to We Are Becoming Well, and we're in Auric doing that program right now.
SPEAKER_02:So cool.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And then we have KHHA 94.7 Community Forward Radio in the heart of the Creamery District. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_02:Say it one more time.
SPEAKER_01:That's KHHA 94.7 Arcada L P F M in the heart of the Creamery District.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I know. I know. What? My neighbor is one of your DJs. Greg Smith.
SPEAKER_01:Oh.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:He does like a hip-hop show or something.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah. Yeah. Probably. I think Marilee has like 60 plus. He knows Daryl.
SPEAKER_02:He's telling me all about her.
SPEAKER_01:I have a radio show there too.
SPEAKER_02:Do you really?
SPEAKER_01:I do. I do uh 11 to 12 on Tuesdays. It's called WhatsApp. It's called that so that I can talk about whatever I want to talk about.
SPEAKER_02:Is it just you?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Cool. Yeah. And come on my radio show. I don't have an engineer though. For a camera. No. So sometimes I push the wrong button where I'm like, yeah, we're going to hear from oops, okay. Wait, that's the wrong button.
SPEAKER_02:Sorry, Led Zeppelin.
SPEAKER_01:That's right. We're not going to hear from anyone because I have not pushed the computer button. No, so I'm my own engineer. It's fun. It's a great little radio station. Where's the studio? It's uh in the Creamery district, kind of across from Halayashi. It's in a converted storage unit.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Powell Of course.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Like all good radio stations.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:You started in radio.
SPEAKER_01:There you go.
SPEAKER_02:I even have a face for radio. Uh you've never heard that joke, ever.
SPEAKER_01:Never. Never. Never.
SPEAKER_02:So tell me about the station. Is it like a hundred watt? Is it bigger?
SPEAKER_01:Not a very good question. It's LPFM, so it's really in Arcata. But I can get it in Blue Lake in my driveway, and I can get it coming coming here.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:I can get it along the waterfront. People can get it in Neeland. Some people in McKinley have got it. That's the 94.7 in your car. 94.7. But you can also, there's an app, so you can get it wherever you are.
SPEAKER_02:Then it streams is perfect.
SPEAKER_01:And it's the same programming.
SPEAKER_02:Trevor Burrus, Jr. It's all digital at that point.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um tell me, has it kind of replaced KHSU? Is by giving it a that kind of credit for it?
SPEAKER_01:It grew out of KHSU shutting down where I was like, oh dear.
SPEAKER_02:Were you part of that?
SPEAKER_01:No, I I just used them a lot. They were really, they really connected us to a lot of our people who came to shows, who supported the playhouse. So it was kind of like it was a uh we got together then and we're like, let's do another one. And you know, we talked about doing a radio station, and we're like, that's so much money. We don't it was discouraging. But then we started the the the streaming, uh Humble Hot Air online, humblehotair.org, and then narrowly went to a radio conference in New Orleans. And um people were like, they're opening up the, you know, the LPFM licenses. So she just was like, let's get one. And she applied and we got one, and she sort of took all the stuff and ran with it and worked with the engineers to get the equipment up and running.
SPEAKER_02:And her dad was Vinny.
SPEAKER_01:Vinnie Devaney, FOGU.
SPEAKER_02:FOGU.
SPEAKER_01:FOGU on KHA. Yeah, so she's been it's been quite astounding. Watching her narrowly came through the playhouse with Apprentice Entertainment. We used to have a teen program called Apprentice Entertainment. So she was heavily involved with Apprentice. And then she went away and came back.
SPEAKER_02:It's beautiful.
SPEAKER_01:And I ran into her at Murphy's and I was like, Hold up, are you back in town? And she said, Hold up. Hold up, I am. And I said, Hold up, you should take over this radio station. Because she had so much experience in radio with her dad. She's surrounded. And also she had a a show called Queen Beats in Santa Cruz, where she went to school. And my kid loved Narrowly's Queen Beats show. Wow. So it all just shout out to Narrill. Hey, Narrowly. I want to meet her. Yeah. You should have her on. She's awesome.
SPEAKER_02:Maybe I'll do that.
SPEAKER_01:She might be your new best friend.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I need as many as I can get.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. We need so many best friends. It's what it's all about.
SPEAKER_02:Can I tell my Greg Devadey story?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So Greg and I um worked together at the rec program, Humboldt Rec program with Pete Shepard, doing conversations. Kind of like what you're doing. Oric, Manila, rec programs in Trinidad, where I worked. And then uh also um Bryceland and all these low-income kids that couldn't get to Camp Kim to save their life. But we did we staffed people for like six, eight weeks every summer. And Pete and Greg, come on, made it happen through grants through Manila West Haven Parent Council and John Woolley and Amazing Sue, what's her name, and just amazing people that we have in our community. And uh Greg would do uh t-shirts. He would do screen prints of t-shirts. And one of the classics was don't eat the stew at Camp Kim to. Every kid got a shirt, brought a shirt, screened it. And one of the beautiful things I'll never forget is he was dying. He was having a beer at Mad River. I'm like painting a story like I'm out there all the time, you know, not a big beer drinker at all. Um and he's and I I sat with him and I knew that he was perishing, but he was having a beer with his caregiver. I don't know who it was. And he goes, Yeah, he could sit down. He's a Christian, but he's not an asshole.
SPEAKER_01:That's good.
SPEAKER_02:I go, I love you, man.
SPEAKER_01:Stamp of approval.
SPEAKER_02:I ended up praying over him and with him, and it was beautiful. It was just a really it's who I am, man. I just showed up and I was present with a man I loved and who who was dying.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_02:And um transitioning. So it was just a there's my moment. Um That's a good moment. It's a great moment.
SPEAKER_01:It's a great moment.
SPEAKER_02:Let's go on to rock and roll. Because I want to hear the I want to hear the shows that have been memorable at the at the playhouse. Um Hold Up. Let's talk about that.
SPEAKER_01:Hold up?
SPEAKER_02:If you're well, that's what you said to narrowly, right? Hold Hold up, narrowly. Was it hold up? Hold up. Was it hold up?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Hold down. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Are you living here? So Hold up. So what are the best I don't know, five best shows that just come to mind that were just like a powerful night that got anointed and they're the supernatural and the natural got really close that night.
SPEAKER_01:You know, mariachi Lindas is an all-female mariachi band. Oh, cool. And they came for the women's fest. And that to me stands out as something that was like so much work and so much negotiations and so many travel, everything. How many people? There were uh nine of them, ten of them, and we had to fly them from LA.
SPEAKER_00:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:And they did a workshop at Cal Poly, and we had to find housing for them. And they were so awesome. It brought in so many people that weren't normally at the playoffs. And all these people where they'd say, This is from Oaxaca, and people would be like, Wow, and they'd sing along with them.
SPEAKER_02:That's so international now.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, it was great. That was a really, really great, great show. Um, you know, there's been so many great shows. Patty Larkin's show is really great. Um, you know, John Doyle show on Tuesday. The the one thing that really makes the shows Is John Doyle good? He was really good.
SPEAKER_02:Johnny's gonna be bummed when she sees.
SPEAKER_01:John Doyle. He was really great, really like personable and so skilled. And he's the Irishman. Yeah, and really generous. And but the thing, you know, when I think back on all the shows, the thing that really sort of makes it for me, and I know it's gonna sound corny, but really it's the audience. It's the people that show up to come see what is brought forth for them.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Ross Powell Or they're really into the band.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Even if there's like 30 of them, the people, the musicians who tour through, pretty hands down, are like, this is a gem.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Both the room, the way it sounds, and the people who show up on a Tuesday or a Thursday or a Friday, Saturday. But just um Earl Thomas was pretty good. Earl Thomas. I wasn't there for that one.
SPEAKER_02:His guitar player, man, that dude.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, he's awesome too.
SPEAKER_02:San Diego. Yeah. He came with him last time. You know what he did that was cool? What? He actually has a uh Oh, wait. Oh, wait. He doesn't have a Dick Taylor bar, but he has a business card. A Baileys Toledo? What just happened here? Look at that.
SPEAKER_03:Dick Taylor.
SPEAKER_02:You know they were a big sponsor. Oh, nice. You know, they just won a bunch of contests like for the last 10 years. Like they win everything. Yeah. Voted best chocolate on the West Coast by somebody. I don't have any idea what I'm talking about. But I do know it's good chocolate. Do you like chocolate?
SPEAKER_01:I like every like everything except for pork hawks. It's the only thing I don't like.
SPEAKER_02:You don't like what? Pork hawks. Oh, like a hawk, like the like No, like the pig's feet. Like a pickled pig seeth. And they roll the fat down and boil them. Oh, they're gross. You don't like the pickled pigs' feet in the bars. No. Those are Midwest. That's neither. Trevor Burrus, Jr. So we're going to we're going to compete here in about fairly shortly for a Dick Taylor bar. Oh. If you're ready, do you like a good contest?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I'm a little nonlinear for a contest, but you know, we'll give me a whirl.
SPEAKER_02:Watch this done linear. I'm going to go back to Earl Thomas.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, great. I'm paying attention to the Trevor Burrus.
SPEAKER_02:So as guitar player goes, here's my guy here's my I said, Manny, bro, you're good. I'm from San Diego. He goes, I'm from Fallbrook, man. And I go, Fallbrook? I totally live. My aunt and uncle lived there and avocados. I was just going to say avocados. And I go, hey, bro. You know, and he goes, here's my business card. So I've never had a musician have a Instagram everything uh what's that called? The the symbol that you scan? Oh, QR code. QR code. He had the whole nine. But this guy could play guitar like nobody's business. He's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:I remember him from last time where Thomas came and played.
SPEAKER_02:Funny thing is I looked like him. I go, see what I look like now with see see the no hair guy? I go, I had hair exactly like yours, like down to my waist. Wow. And I was that in a bag of chips. I go, this is what you have to look forward to, bro. I think he walked away at that point. He just turned around. No, they were fun. That was a good show.
SPEAKER_01:Cool. Yeah. I was out of town that weekend on the.
SPEAKER_02:Sure.
SPEAKER_01:You know, the the funny story about the Wardens is we had this young man from Humboldt State, when it was Humboldt State still. Oh. Uh it wasn't Cal Poly yet. He uh we did this speed dating thing to find us like speed kind of a speed dating thing to find someone to work with our teens for Apprentice Entertainment. His name was Eli Baum, and he came and worked with our teens, and then he stuck around and he was involved with us, and then he was like, Jackie, there's this band called The Wardens. We should bring them in. And I was like, okay, let's give it a world. They're from Canada? What? Yeah. So it was his first show kind of that he he produced a skateboard show with um.
SPEAKER_02:But he did their show.
SPEAKER_01:But he produced Because it had video, it had a whole video screen.
SPEAKER_02:It was fabulous.
SPEAKER_01:It was fabulous. So he brought them to the playhouse. And they were so great.
SPEAKER_02:They've been back, right?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. They came once and then they just came back like not that long ago, like monthly.
SPEAKER_02:And their slideshow is Banff and Beauty and Jasper. By the way, how far in inland is Jasper from the Pacific? Like in hundreds of miles?
SPEAKER_01:Like I don't know, miles. But it's probably about another province. It's Jasper's in Alberta.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Powell So it's two over three.
SPEAKER_01:No, one. So BC is shaped like this, and Alberta is shaped like this. Okay. And Jasper is right here. So it's center. Kind of where the two provinces are What's after uh Alberta? Saskatchewan.
SPEAKER_02:Saskatchewan. Is Edmonton in Saskatchewan?
SPEAKER_01:No, Edmonton's in Alberta. Edmonton is the capital of Alberta.
SPEAKER_02:I should know that. My neighbor's there now.
SPEAKER_01:Regina is Saskatchewan.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. That's the capital. Oh, it reminds me of a song. Exactly. So anyway, uh I really digress on that one. Um This for you. Oh. Chocolate. Yeah. Tick Taylor Downtown, Old Town. And all around the world.
SPEAKER_01:I like those guys. I also like uh what's their band?
SPEAKER_02:Huckleberry Flint.
SPEAKER_01:That's it.
SPEAKER_02:They played at your place.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, they did. They played a Christmas show at our place when our Christmas set was all up.
SPEAKER_02:Heard about it. Couldn't get tickets. No, it sold out because it's only 150 seats. Haven't missed a show since.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, they're great.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:They're playing at the steeple.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_02:Do you know Paul Beattie that was on the show? That runs the steeple?
SPEAKER_01:I know. I've spoken to him on the phone, but I don't know him. I know they do great stuff out there. What a great idea.
SPEAKER_02:The other lady we saw at the um at the playhouse was Lori, what's her name? Bluegrass? Lori Lewis. Correct.
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02:Also good.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she couldn't come back to the playhouse this time. It was just a little booking.
SPEAKER_02:Great sign up. Okay. First. Yeah. Uh-oh. For all the dollars, at least it's chalk them up.
SPEAKER_01:It's too far away for me to ding it. That's an unfair competition.
unknown:No, I'll.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you're gonna be the dinger. I'll be doing the digging. Okay. I thought it was gonna be like who dings first. No, no. No, you don't I already know the answer to the question.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02:Actually, I don't best day of your life.
SPEAKER_01:Mmm. They're all so good. That's the hard thing.
SPEAKER_02:What a good answer.
SPEAKER_01:You know, because I'm nonlinear, I don't have a like a a beginning and an end.
SPEAKER_02:You could circle back.
SPEAKER_01:I have like a a milieu. Um I guess meeting my kids uh on my trip across the country in my 1997 Toyota Tacoma with my dog.
SPEAKER_03:Sweet.
SPEAKER_01:When we were all together for a hot second. That was really fun. That was a good moment. How old were they? Uh Leo was probably 22. So Cora was 16.
SPEAKER_02:Like a road trip.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. They uh Leo was graduating from college. So we drove I drove there and Cora flew in and we had some moments. That's a cold memory. I don't know why that one came to me. There's so many those, Scott. I feel so grateful for my life. It's full of a lot of really good things. And so to pick one is hard.
SPEAKER_02:Somebody said uh do a gratitude journal every day.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah. Life changing. Great. That that means you'd have to be linear. That means you'd have to do the same thing every day.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. That's kind of that'd be a habit. A habit. Maybe it's habit forming in a good way. Yeah, maybe. Maybe you could do it at different times of the day.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. Wake up. Oh, I forgot to do my journal.
SPEAKER_02:You run it in different ink every day. Okay. Yeah. Question number two. What's soul crushing for you?
SPEAKER_01:Uh injustice. That is soul crushing for me.
SPEAKER_02:Which means you're a justice person.
SPEAKER_01:I am a justice person. That's good. I hate when things are unfair. But uh it really um it doesn't it sits really hard with me.
SPEAKER_02:We have an a justice joke in our house. Right. Which is like, what? Injustice is really bad. I really hate it, but I really hate it when it happens to me.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So it becomes personal. Hey. Dream Day and Humboldt. You go nine to nine a.m., nine p.m. unlimited funding, stay in Humboldt. What are you doing for twelve hours? Go.
SPEAKER_01:Uh getting up. I'm probably going for breakfast, kind of go for a walk, maybe a little hike in something around, sit on the beach, draw things in the sand, watch my dog run. Um, then have food outside with a whole bunch of people. Uh hear some great music outside. That would be really great. Just to sit and not do anything.
SPEAKER_02:And then do that.
SPEAKER_01:Not do anything. Follow my nose wherever my nose takes me. That is a really great day for me. When I don't have any meetings, I don't have anything going on, and I can just be like, huh. Maybe I feel like having a coffee now. Maybe I'll lie in my backyard and look at the leaves of the lilac. In blue lake. In blue lake, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Where it's sunny, not right now, but Yeah, I think it's raining right now.
SPEAKER_01:It's lesser rain. Wow, good answer. So that's mine. Good follow-up.
SPEAKER_02:I love the free flow. Yeah. All right. For all the marbles. I would I would give you the chocolate bar in that last answer, Brett. But one more. What's life giving for you? What really feeds your soul in terms of refreshment, renewal, recreation.
SPEAKER_01:Um oddly enough, my job, not oddly enough, it's my job and my passion are so closely aligned that I that I am filled with gratitude that I get to do the thing that I love the most.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:You know, standing and seeing people enjoy something that you've put together or that you've been a part of. To me, that's really an amazing feeling, like Porch Fest. Or sometimes when I walk in the theater and I turn on the lights and I'm like, look at this.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Look at this.
SPEAKER_02:That's a big moment for me, too. So uh congrat by the way, congratulations. Oh, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm a winner. When I win a chicken dinner.
SPEAKER_01:Yay! I hardly ever win anything.
SPEAKER_02:This is a t from Toledo, not Ohio. Uh 72% dark. Let me give you the notes. Maya Mountain cacao, dried plum, tart cherry, and jasmine tasting notes. Taste that jasmine. Congrats.
SPEAKER_01:I'm gonna wolf this down while I drive back to my meeting in Arcata.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, no. We we've actually polished close to full bars. You know, it's funny because they're actually pretty low cal, and the and the wire the wiring up of the sugar, not that bad. Oh, that's good. Pairs with red wine, very magnetic.
SPEAKER_01:That's great. I'll have this when I'm on the beach. It's Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday, which is a harvest festival. So I'm going to have Thanksgiving dinner at my house. On Monday. On Monday. And so I will be giving thanks for the harvest and and the change of seasons and moving into winter.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Powell I get in a gratitude uh sort of thread here.
SPEAKER_01:There's so much to be grateful for.
SPEAKER_02:You gotta look and you gotta make an effort. There's so much to be about to. Yeah, but I think I think gratitude's training. It's just soul training. Yeah. I gotta get disciplined and just really do it. Because otherwise, what's the opposite of gratitude? It's pretty ugly.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that complaining complainer. Oh. Oh, yeah. Who wants to be around that person?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Get out of here with your bad vibes. Go on now. I know you're hurt, you're broken. Yeah. But are you but we could choose.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And also, uh I mean, I think of gratitude not in the absence of pain and in the absence of brokenness, but gratitude as the small balm within the brokenness and within the pain. So where am I right now? I like it. Am I, you know, do I have s sun on my skin or rain on my fingers right now? What is one thing that I can have gratitude for? Because I think all of us are broken and all of us have pain. And and all of us have gratitude. No matter the person who's sleeping in the doorway at the Ink people is filled with gratitude and community. And we are all connected in that web of um, you know, in that web of humanity.
SPEAKER_02:Amago Day.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. What's that? Amaga Day.
SPEAKER_02:Amago Day? Huh?
SPEAKER_01:What's that?
SPEAKER_02:Image of God.
SPEAKER_01:Oh. Yeah. CD.
SPEAKER_02:I know a little Latin.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know the I'm not I'm a rec major.
SPEAKER_02:I have no idea what I just said.
SPEAKER_01:I'm not a very good I think I'm I don't know what I am. I never grew up with any religion. I just developed my things as I went along.
SPEAKER_02:You grew up with people.
SPEAKER_01:I grew up with people and a big family and a lot of community that says this is what this is the thing.
SPEAKER_02:Aaron Powell I like your comments on brokenness and holding space for love and gratitude and grace and all those things in brokenness because I think that's kind of closer to my definition of joy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And happiness has the lucky element of haphazard within it. Because it can go I can be maybe happy or not.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But joy is kind of an attitude and a hate place of the heart. So um let's let's call out all all of the other concerts really fast. And then let's call out all your marketing and where we can go to find out more about the Playhouse. Great. And then I want to know about your legacy, what you want to be known for, and when you're when you're gone, what are we gonna s what what's what kind of talk are we gonna talk about you?
SPEAKER_01:They're gonna talk shit about me. Oh the good shit. Exactly. You know, uh I I think generosity, that would be the big thing that if people thought that I was a generous person. I love it. And that they said I shared and I was willing to roll up my sleeves and help out and be generous with both my time, my energy, my spirit, my visions. Um and that leads to, you know, the playhouse, what's gonna happen with the playhouse? Secession, looking at secession, who's coming in, how you loose the reins, how you give over, how you say, Yeah, that's great. How about you do that? And I won't be involved in telling you how to do it. And so looking really, really a lot at secession, because I turned 61 this year. So I'm like, I want it to be a legacy that lives on through the eyes of everyone. So trying to make a scope that can do that.
SPEAKER_02:You look great for 61.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, thanks. I just got my hair cut, that's why. I just turned 51. Uh, really? So my nose my nose is I think that it's good to embrace your age because you worked hard for it, and the other alternative is not so great in this moment. How do we know? Exactly. We don't know, but at this moment it wouldn't be a great alternative.
SPEAKER_02:We'll get curious later.
SPEAKER_01:Because we wouldn't be having this conversation.
SPEAKER_02:That's also true.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. I'm be I'll be 66 in January.
SPEAKER_01:Good job. Yeah, look what I high five of 66.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. I just showed up. Yeah, exactly. I just woke up today and went outside and breathed some air.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:There I was.
SPEAKER_01:There you are.
SPEAKER_02:And grace. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01:I know. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02:So tell us how to get a hold of the playhouse.
SPEAKER_01:Oh. You can find us online at playhousearts.org. That's playhousearts.org. You can phone us at 707 822 1575. That's 822 1575. Very nice. You can find us on Facebook or Instagram. You can find us at info at playhousearts.org. You can knock on our door. We are open 11 to 2 Tuesday through Friday. We have an operations person there.
SPEAKER_03:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:You can come to the Arcata Playhouse, find us at your local school, find us at the City of Arcata. Wow. Find us at Fairyfest, Porch Fest, Zero to Fierce, the Family Fun series. We have a holiday show coming up.
SPEAKER_02:You're everywhere.
SPEAKER_01:We have a lot of things on the boil right now. We're um doing a book launch with um the Big Read, NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, Big Read. We're giving away books of poetry by Ada Lamon called You Are Here, Poetry in the Natural World. And we have 350 books to give away so people can read poetry about nature across America, and then we can meet up later in the marsh in May and talk about what we love about our environment and where we live.
SPEAKER_02:And poetry.
SPEAKER_01:And poetry. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So who's coming fourth quarter to the playhouse?
SPEAKER_01:Because I remember coming up, we have Jeffrey Fulcold, we have Robbie Fulkes.
SPEAKER_02:Got tickets for that.
SPEAKER_01:This weekend we have um Ponies of Harmony, uh Benny Sidlinger, and blah la la, I'm forgetting the other priest there on Friday night. That's the Christmas show. Creative Sanctuary, jazz on Saturday night. The holiday show opens the first two weekends of December. What's that about? Um, well, it's called Dungeons, Dragons, and the Wizard of Doom, a Playhouse Holiday Pantomime. So it is a wacky piece of original theater with a nine-person cast, a choir, a band, lots of business going on. So that's the first two weekends of December. Danny Gone is doing a fundraiser for North Coast Children's Services. Um, and someone else on December 20th. You can rent the playhouse. We're renting it out for your holiday Christmas party. Oh, that's right. And it'll be all decorated and ready to roll. You just show up. The Christmas tree is there. Bring your children. Everything's ready to go. Yeah. We can run the bar for you.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Um, so we're doing that for the holidays. I'm trying to think if I'm missing somebody else.
SPEAKER_02:That's quite a good idea. I like that, especially if you have any sort of like bigger crowd or crew.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like if you have a small, like like I'm thinking, you know, Dennis Real Los Payles, that you have these smaller satellites, but to bring everybody together. Real exactly.
SPEAKER_02:Peter German.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly. What's the phone number again?
SPEAKER_02:822?
SPEAKER_01:822-1575. That's 707-822-1575.
SPEAKER_02:I like that. Steve Oh, Steve Justice was an insurance guy in Arcata. He would go 822, you know, 87793-822-PA bucket.
SPEAKER_01:Pa bucket? Pa bucket. That's funny.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, it's quite funny. We had it on Kins Radio forever. It was quite um It took a little bit for people to get it, but they did.
SPEAKER_01:We're also doing radio ads for the holiday show. So you, Scott Hammond, could uh enlist us to write a radio ad for you. We will write it, we'll perform it at the Playhouse during the show, and then you can have a digital copy of it. Very cool. We have Tim Randall's, Jeff Kelly, Marla Joy, Charlie Itell, and a 14 to 20 voice choir and actors to Tim Randall's really execute uh quite a skookum ad, as we say in Canada.
SPEAKER_02:Skookum. Skookum. Yeah. Wow. That's a BC thing. I think that's an Alaska thing. It might be. I had a pastor friend that goes past her in base side and he goes, this coffee is scook. I go, I haven't heard that one.
SPEAKER_01:It must be Northern Vancouver Island. It's a subject. But I think I got it in the Queen Charlotte's.
SPEAKER_02:I mean it's killer.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Skookum.
SPEAKER_02:That's scookum coffee.
SPEAKER_01:So we can make you a skook em ad.
SPEAKER_02:I'm all about scookum ads. Yeah. The trouble right now is you don't really want to hear about your insurance or your insurance guy because it it's a whole nother.
SPEAKER_01:If it's fun, you definitely want to hear about it.
SPEAKER_02:That's true. It's just gotta be fun. You know what they taught me in insurance school? What? If you're not having fun, Scott. You're just selling insurance. I go, I go, Darla, you're amazing. Darlene. Darlene, you're amazing. That was a great quote. If you're not having fun, you're just selling being a janitor. You're just running a theater.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, it's true. I I motto one of my mottos is if you can't have fun, what can you have?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, what are you doing here? It's not fun. Well, what a delight you are. Thank you for being here.
SPEAKER_01:You're welcome. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_02:Appreciate you. Yeah.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I know we've got to get you to your next meeting and everything.
SPEAKER_01:I know. I gotta go eat pizza with artists and talk about an upcoming call to art for the city. I'm gonna eat this chocolate on the way there.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you're the not for the camera.
SPEAKER_01:I think that's the camera.
SPEAKER_02:Jackie, thanks for joining us.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you so much for having me, Scott. Come on What's up one day, KHA 94.7.
SPEAKER_02:I I will take you up on that.
SPEAKER_01:Put it on your car.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Hey everybody, thanks for joining us. Scott Hammond, 100% Humboldt. We'll be back next time. If you want to like us, love us, give us money, do all the things, um, uh please adore us. At uh uh we're on all the socials. Nice. We're on all the podcast platforms. Nice. We are on YouTube under 100% Humboldt. Yeah. And you know that we're we're on, we didn't even talk about Access Humboldt.
SPEAKER_01:Oh.
SPEAKER_02:All those other channels?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Oh, lovely. That's that's they're a great outfit.
SPEAKER_01:That's true. They are.
SPEAKER_02:They're really cool. Shout out to Access. Anyway, thanks for Yay Local Media. Yeah, yay, local media.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:Thanks for coming.
SPEAKER_01:Thank you. Boom.
