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Welcome into the 419.

I'm Kevin Mullin.

Gretchen Becker, Matt killing.

It's our Thursday weekend event preview show.

Yes.

We're going to have our friend John ICUs from toledo.com is going to be on the program talking about the top five.

Or what?

He gets his six timers robe.

That's right.

Is it a robe?

Yep.

Yes it is.

Okay, lovely.

Don't tell him what the seventh gift is though.

Yeah that's right.

He's not coming back seven times.

Sure.

So we're going to talk about top five events in the region.

I get a chance to catch up with him on all the all the great things he's involved in.

And we've got a jam packed show.

We've got, Ben, stalwarts from Toledo streets is going to be joining us as well.

We're going be talking about Fremont downtown.

Christy will join us.

And what else are we doing?

Well, it's.

A great Cathy.

Of course.

Talk about a. Six timer.

Right.

She's going to demand a better gift, I think.

Sure.

Backed by very popular demand.

Cathy brings a lot of energy to the show.

I, I was meant to ask you really?

In the week, but our household has had a, a new thing that we're doing every Tuesday.

We watched a scary movie, and I forgot to ask the two of you.

Do you have a favorite sort of scary movie or scary movie experience when you were a kid?

I'm not a big fan of scary movies.

And I. And there's no good reason why.

Like, they don't like.

Like I'm not having nightmares because I just don't really like.

I've never watched, Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.

Like, I just I missed those as a kid, and there's no reason for me to go back and watch them.

So we.

You waste all your time reading.

What was the.

No, no, I didn't do that either.

I had friends.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Sounds like a horror story for them.

Yeah, that's.

That's fair.

Gretchen, you.

Know, I don't.

I am a total baby when it comes to scary, scary movies.

Like murderous movies.

Like anything violent.

I met your mother.

Is.

My mother is a fan.

When we were younger, she would.

She's going to love that.

I'm telling the story.

She would read Stephen King short stories to us.

Right.

My sister and I, still to this day, there was a one story about, like, a weird thing that would come out of your room in the closet at the closet door was cracked open.

My sister and I still have.

We have talked about this.

We're 50 now.

Yeah.

We have to make sure all of our closet doors are closed.

Where you go to bed every night.

I would babysit across the street from our house.

This was I was like maybe seventh grade.

And she would call the house and say, have you checked the children?

She was a monster.

And then she is.

I would.

Be monster.

What did you do when she was doing that?

I was terrified to be like.

What?

I mean, because that was that movie was false.

Yes.

It was incredibly popular then.

So my dad had to come across and baby sit with me across the street.

Was serious.

I think he might have been.

What?

What are you guys watching?

We tried to watch all the the tenants.

Right?

So we watched the first Friday the 13th, the first name Arendelle Street.

The first Halloween.

Texas chainsaw massacre.

So.

With your kids.

With the oldest, Donny, who's 15.

Okay.

The seven and four.

Do you watch?

They like just violence.

They don't watch horror, right?

Yeah.

Do you watch the whole, like, all the Halloween movies or, like, all the Friday the 13th movies?

This was trying to check the big boxes, right?

So the beginnings of each, and I, I don't love to be frightened, but I'm very easily frightened by these.

But we saw it follows as well, which I had not heard of.

And they were terrifying.

But I think this is sort of having a renaissance period.

Right?

So is obsession.

And the movie, the movie The Sinners.

Now that that's come back into getting people back in the theater.

So I think there's really value to that.

But we've been rewatching and and enjoying it.

I have to mute and close my eyes during this season when they even have the commercials on.

That's what I do for the show.

That's fair.

When I was in college, I studied, I had a class of study film and we watched psycho.

Yeah.

And it was it was learning the value of of sound and music.

And so you watched psycho with the sound off, and it's actually hysterically.

Comical.

Like it is.

It is very funny.

Yeah.

Because it's just so ridiculous.

But when you add the sound.

Yeah, that's actually what makes it terrifying.

Sure.

That's how I watch Fox News.

All right, let's take a break.

When we come back, we'll be joined by John with Toledo.

Com.

Take a look at some of the top events happening around northwest Ohio.

We'll be right back on the 419.

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Every Thursday, we take a look at some of the great events that are coming up that weekend or in the weeks to come.

And we're joined by our friend from Toledo, dot com, John Ickes, to help us take a look at those events.

John, welcome back to season two of the 419.

John, you have experienced our green room more than anyone.

Can you tell me what your favorite amenity or sort of keepsake.

Of all the things you've stolen from the green room?

The chair, the chair that you guys provide is just.

That's right.

It's so good.

You don't get that just anywhere.

Yeah.

That's right.

We don't make people stand.

Yeah.

That would be rude.

Yeah.

That's right.

You're our guest.

We have a lot.

You are obviously with Toledo.

Com you helped us all last season with the upcoming events on Thursdays.

So people can do a little bit of a look ahead for the weekend on Halloween this weekend, it's on a Saturday night.

There's going to be a lot going on when you go out and about this weekend.

What costume will you be wearing?

Oh man, I'll.

Probably be dressed like Matt.

Matt I mean, that's that's popular season.

Is it?

Every season, every spirit.

Halloween is kind of right there, right?

You should walk through the front door.

Yeah, that's actually terrifying.

Yeah, sure.

I've taken over some of my first Joann fabrics.

I've taken.

Over where there be a sexy Matt.

Kill him.

Nope.

Oh, no.

Never.

Actually, not even in.

Real life.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's the joke, Kevin.

So that's a regrettably true.

Before we get into, the usual really cool selection of things, we were talking about a favorite horror movie.

Are you a horror movie person?

Not particularly, but, I would say The Shining for me is probably.

Yeah, just the scariest movie.

But I'm also, like, not a Friday the 13th Nightmare on Elm Street guy.

Very much.

Do you fin yourself just randomly standing in the middle of hallways in the office just waiting for.

That's right.

Yeah.

Looking for twins, you know, and.

I've never been untrusting a twin since that movie came out.

Yeah, I totally agree.

Let's get to awesome stuff.

It's a great list.

And in full candor.

One of the best things about.com is that if you've got a family, if you don't have a family, if you have people coming in town, it is a great resource to find out a selection of things indiscriminately, what the interests are.

So kudos to you guys.

Have been doing it a long time, but I'd be remiss not to make sure that there might have been a great part of the community and cultural component of this is.

So thank you, John.

Thank you.

That definitely we work hard at it.

That is kind of the foundation of the website is, you know, I've said before the event calendar, it's something we've been doing for a long time.

The email that we send out the top five events in Toledo and and nobody pays to be in the top five.

We try to curate that and, you know, spread the love.

That talk a little bit more about that.

Like what it what does it take to be a top five event.

Right.

Are you thinking that like these are the five biggest events and it's.

Not always the biggest, but it's generally events where there's going to be hundreds or thousands of people rather than tens or dozens, you know?

So, but again, we try to not necessarily focus on the same big event, planners every week, you know, the symphony comes to mind or, you know, Imagination Station or the museum.

Those are those are obvious and those definitely hit in the top five.

But, you know, not every week.

In that to put you in a spot, John.

But I we never someone says there's nothing to do here.

We have a collective eye roll.

But it must make you that must be a vital thing for you to hear, because you're actually having to cull some things down to provide this, because there's so many things to do.

Yeah, definitely.

A commentary on that.

I'd be interested in your perspective.

I mean, I've always said that you have to you have to show up.

You have to get out there and support.

And just like we said, maybe last season, you have to be curious.

You have to kind of want to explore these new places, these new spaces.

And they're they're popping up all the time.

It's not just restaurants that are new in Toledo.

There are a lot of people who are trying to do a lot of really great things and bring things to new spaces, you know, like when you have a new space, like Glass City Metropark, for example, all of a sudden you have the Jazz Fest is there and, you know, other other events.

And so to have those spaces to present new things is exciting, I think, for for the city.

And folks can submit their event to toledo.com to be listed on that calendar for free as well.

That's through your email.

What is that?

Yeah.

So that is you go to if you go to the site and you go to the event section of the site, there's an add an event button.

And if you, if you don't have an account already, again, it's free.

You just need an email address so we can communicate back and forth.

And then when you submit an event, there's a moderation period, generally 24 hours.

And then it goes live on the site.

Great.

You know, I think, you know, we've got so many great restaurants around northwest Ohio that my wife and I find ourselves like when we're trying to figure out where we want to go out to eat, like we're stuck of, like, you know, sometimes we're stuck in a row, like, always going to the same places.

Bob Evans that's exactly right.

That's exactly right.

KFC it's like, I don't even know how to get out of this room, you know, but but I yeah.

I think of.

It and it has.

Yeah.

You know, but I think in the event space, again, there's so many things going on.

I think, you know, maybe that's part of the challenge of people getting out and doing new things is it's like, I don't even know where to start.

And this list can be a good place to start, right?

To say, hey, rather than me have to decide out of all of these, you know, dozens or hundreds of events that are happening this week, here's five I can take a look at.

Let me find one that I want to go kind of push my boundaries, go to a new space, get a new experience, talk to me about TMA, Peristyle Theater, Rachmaninov and the New World Symphony.

What's what's going on?

Yeah.

So, you know, this is the fall time is kind of when the Live Arts Toledo season is ramping up and getting underway.

So this is, another Toledo Symphony show, Rachmaninoff in the New World Symphony at the Paris style.

You know, just a great we have a great symphony.

Everybody already knows that.

But to to show up in that space and see these types of programs it deserves.

Deserves absolute never.

Be told.

And if you're not familiar with the symphony or if you're not traditionally a symphony goer.

I mean, Rachmaninov is.

It's exciting.

It's it's exciting.

I was just I was going to say aggressive, but I didn't like not in a bad way.

Right.

It's it's energetic.

It's got rock in the name.

That's right.

It's got to be.

That's right.

The fancy marketing ploy.

Yeah, yeah.

The second event this week is boo on the boat.

Now, I'm not sure if you guys get that play on words, but boo, get it for Halloween.

So what does that job.

Well, I just thought it was people just upset about something.

So these people.

Boats people people who a nautical theme, right?

Yeah.

No anti clapping is a boat.

Yeah.

It's really just been on a boat.

That's right.

That's a good callback.

That's a. That's a deep cut.

But, a chance for young kids to dress up.

And I think there are stations on the boat.

There's both.

Both the schoon maker, you know, the freighter, but also the tug that is down there near Glass City Metro Park.

Free for members, but, you know, a nominal fee for people.

That would be fine.

Not members of National Museum of the Great Lakes.

Cool.

The third event of coming up this week.

Top five pick of the week from toledo.com is Paranormal Cirque Sector, which is at the Franklin Park Mall.

This is intriguing.

Is this sounds?

Yeah.

I've never been to it.

But dressed as Phil Spector I think that is.

That's right.

Or Matt Kmet.

I. Think either tomatoes.

Yeah.

But it's a huge tent that's in the parking lot.

Cool.

Kind of acrobats, illusionists, you know, freak show kind of stuff.

Cirque du Soleil esque.

Yes.

Maybe.

Magicians, killer clowns.

Yes.

All that.

Okay.

All those things.

I like it.

And Phil Spector and more in cuffs.

Yeah.

All right.

Cool.

So I'm sure I'm assuming you can get more information.

And that's several days.

That's the 30th to the second.

So that would be Monday through Monday.

That's something different.

I've never been.

To that.

I have seen it like I, I mean I do appreciate that.

I mean, I see them all use their parking lot.

I mean, they got a massive parking lot, right?

And so using that stretch of the parking lot along Sylvania Avenue for, you know, different, carnivals and, and just different activities and you'll see inflatables at different times of the year.

So sounds like set up a tent and there's an event that happens inside there.

Yeah, I think it skews more adult, you know, like kind of not necessarily gory, but you know what I mean.

Yes, maybe a little intense.

Maybe.

Maybe don't bring the kids.

That's right.

I mean, Matt would bring his kids, right?

Because they love maybe a good.

Parents and they do so.

They also love Spector.

I mean, they love him.

That's perfect.

Uncle Phil, they call him.

That's right.

The fourth event of the week on toledo.com is the mind and Soul Boogie down.

Love it.

The mind is soul gallery.

On Saturday, October 1st, 31st Halloween, as many people already know, is on a Saturday this year.

So lots of opportunities for parties.

This looks like it could be a good one.

So mine and Soul Gallery is a newer space downtown.

Chili Rodriguez, you know, and some other folks are involved with that space in general.

But I think in the early part of Saturday, it's more family friendly.

Is this the Gardner building space?

Yes, exactly.

And and then in the evening, music, more adult, you know, kind of party situation.

Great.

So very fun.

And the last event on the list this week is a party called Halloween.

Like we used to out of the pinnacle.

Also on Saturday, October 31st, it's an adult party.

Yeah.

Distant cousins are playing, which is always a good time.

What else is going on at that event?

So I think again, it's another example of Halloween is on a Saturday.

People are taking advantage of that fact that people are, you know, not necessarily I mean, they're staying out later and and doing it upright.

So I think the pinnacle just decided, hey, let's do this party.

And it's, you know, again, food, drinks, music, costumes and at the pinnacle.

Very.

Fun of these events.

How many of these five do you think we can show up in full costume?

Probably everything.

But I think only the symphony.

Because you could.

Well.

You.

Could.

But you would.

Might be looked at a little bit weird.

Really?

No, I think that's that.

Did you have a default Halloween costume?

As a young person.

You know, my one of my favorite.

I have two that come to mind.

I was Groucho Marx in the elementary school, which immediately pegged me as, who was this strange person?

None of my friends knew what I was.

I knew what I was, I just got to carry around a big cigar that was for me.

That must have cut down on you having to choose what parties to go to.

That's right.

Your weekend.

Or the ones that I was invited to.

That's good.

That's actually why he now curates an event calendar.

That's right.

Revenge.

Exactly.

And then I was a weird wolf one year, while I was also a crossing guard.

So nothing quite as intimidating as a weird wolf in a crossing guard.

You know.

I like what you're really just telling people where.

Werewolf crossing guard.

You know, it's good.

It's a good.

Thing just telling people where to go.

Yeah.

Yeah, sure.

So dumb.

John, tell us about a couple other things you may be looking forward to so you won't be back with us, God willing, for a couple of weeks.

But you again, the list is always up there.

But there's a couple of we're getting into a continue to be in a really busy season, a couple of big events coming in November.

So the walleye home games are you know, those will kick off in November.

You have things like the holiday parade.

You know, we're obviously on the front end of the holiday season, but maker's Mark is always a big one as well.

At Handmade Toledo, that's mid mid-November.

I'm trying to think I have, you know, and Live Arts Toledo.

I feel like I promoted this last year as well, but that space that they have.

It's amazing.

They're they're really kind of, you know, getting their legs under them about using those spaces for other things.

So I would tell people to always keep an eye on those spaces.

Because it's not always just Live Arts Toledo.

I know that they rent it out to theater groups and things like that.

So those are some examples.

Is there anything that just just barely didn't make the cut.

For this week?

I'm putting you on the spot.

You are putting me on the spot.

I know that there are some other Halloween parties.

And I can't think of what they are.

Well, you can go to toledo.com and look.

Them up.

That's right.

The one of them was just watching horror movies at mass House.

That's right.

Yep.

Come on, come on.

Just took too much space.

Right?

Nonstop, She-Devil.

I don't even.

I don't even.

It was quite a film.

Classic.

Which by the traditional sense.

Which was Roseanne Barr, actually, in a movie called She-Devil.

Yeah, she was the devil.

Well, I assumed that.

Spoiler alert.

And she's still I don't know.

I don't know.

Oh my goodness, John, thank you so much for joining us.

Of course, you can find the top five events.

Of course we'll have them on social media and you can find them@toledo.com as well.

We'll be right back on the 419.

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There's so many great things that are happening around Northwest Ohio.

We've got two great organizations that have got events coming up.

We're joined now by Christy Builder with Downtown Fremont, Inc.

and Ben Starlets with Toledo Streets newspaper.

Thank you both so much for joining us.

Thanks for having us.

Christy, let's start with you.

You've you've traveled the furthest to get here today.

So we'll let you we'll let you.

Live in five minutes.

That's not very long at all.

Tell us about Downtown Fremont Inc.

Yes.

So the organization has been around for 25 years.

We're not a part of the city of Fremont, but we work very closely with them, and we're all about redevelopment of our 75 acres.

And that manifests in events.

Member of ants, you know, social media sharing, you name it.

But we've been pretty successful in that for 5013.

And, you know, events is some of the other people you've had on today are a great way to get people in your downtown, which leads to food, to shopping, to you name it.

So what's.

The current mix?

Use of the of the of what's available in downtown Fremont now?

Currently the 2026 season we had over 100 events.

We just built a $3.2 million outdoor amphitheater.

It's the third year for that.

So it's a mix from movies, jam sessions, 2 to 3 day festivals, farmers markets, car shows, you name it.

It's a wide variety, you know, Fremont 16,000, but the surrounding areas is over 30,000 people.

So we help suit a lot of those people in the community.

But it's a nice mix.

And, you know, the community responds to it while you keep adding.

How did you get involved with the downtown Fremont organization?

It's kind of a fun story.

So downtown Fremont is a part of Main Street USA or Heritage Ohio.

It was a part time position when I got hired almost 14 years ago, and I just like it because it's one of those jobs where you're dealing with small businesses, you're dealing with city, you're also dealing with keeping buildings up, doing renovation projects, bringing in developers.

So what attracted me was the variety of it, a lot of different things that you're doing.

And again, the most forward facing is events, but working on streetscape and all of that, it was just the variety and the variety of people you work with from community members, city, people, county, that type of thing.

Ben, you serve as the vendor manager at Toledo Streets newspaper.

As we talk about organizations that are that are making downtowns more vibrant places.

Toledo Streets is an incredible publication.

As a as a print piece.

But the work you guys do is so much more important than that when you catch people up if they're not familiar with Toledo streets.

Yeah.

Toledo Streets newspaper is primarily a workforce development organization.

What we do is we help people who are experiencing poverty and homelessness, who might not be able to work at, like, qualify for a normal 9 to 5 sort of situation.

We provide no holds barred employment.

So that means anybody with like a criminal background that might prevent them from regular employment, or people that just can't keep 95 hours or don't have, the proper identification, anything like that, we hire them.

I had the privilege of serving as a and I put this in a lot of quotes celebrity seller last year and went out and our, our particular day was actually like largely rained out.

But it was a realization to me that while I got to call it a day and go in and get out of the rain, for many folks that's not a reality, and they're having to kind of push through this.

You guys create meaningful employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for folks.

What are some of the success stories as you think about your time there that you say like, man, we are, this is working.

Yeah.

It's tough to say because success is kind of like a moving target for each person.

It changes.

So for one person, success might be able to they might be able to pay some of their bills that they weren't able to pay otherwise, and they might just have community that they'd see every day that they wouldn't see otherwise.

But another success story would be a vendor of ours.

About four years ago, we were doing some volunteer work over with the Mud Hens.

We were doing vending, and it was like a volunteer program.

And at the end of it, they donated money to Toledo streets for the hours that we put in.

But they saw a real potential in one of our vendors.

They ended up hiring him as a manager.

He's now like a manager at one of the like.

I think it's AV.

And he he, he runs a lot of the food stands there.

That's very cool.

What do people expect to, read about if they buy a Toledo Streets newspaper?

Anything I'd like to say.

It's like the last free press in Toledo.

Like actual free press.

So?

So anything that's current.

We keep up with current events in the city, but also we are a part of Insp, which is the global street paper organization.

So that means that you'll get coverage from things around the world that you might not get anywhere else.

I'm interested in kind of the difference between, as people are making their way on their commute to work, whether they're driving or they're, you know, parking and walking through downtown.

What's the difference in your mind between a panhandler and a vendor with Toledo spirit, with Toledo streets?

Well, I think the most important thing I'd say is both of them are doing things that they need to do to make ends meet, right?

So there's no shame in either of them.

But the difference is between Toledo streets and a panhandler is deleted.

Streets.

Newspaper vendor is actually selling a product.

They are on the clock as far as I'm concerned, as far as they're concerned, and as far as anybody should be concerned.

So they are working.

There's there's also a kind of a curriculum and a program and support system behind that individual as well.

And I think that's for me when I see that, I mean, I also appreciate that, like, you know, the weight that individuals have to carry, right.

Whether you're, you know, making your way in downtown Fremont or you're in downtown Toledo or, or downtown Sylvania, the weight that we carry is heavy.

Right.

And so to have an organization that's helping carry that, help, help understand that, and helping folks navigate that, is really incredible.

So, you know, keep up, keep up the good work.

Christy, I'm curious, kind of in the Fremont area, we've got programs like this.

What are some of the nonprofit organizations that are, you know, surrounding around the downtown Fremont area to make it make it a thriving place?

The needs don't change, whether it's a larger metropolitan or it's a rural area.

It just is, again, where the resources are collected.

But we have a lot of organizations, whether it's GL cap, which services, you know, several different counties.

That helps with everything from housing to winterize of your home.

Utility bills helps.

And then we've got foundations and chambers and things like that.

But he's very right.

It comes down to people.

It comes down to all those people and trying to take advantage of what's available in the most expedient way.

And surprisingly enough, that's pretty hard.

But yeah, same similar resources, but a little smaller scale.

It's amazing to me.

I mean, how simple it is, right?

But when we take a moment just to ask questions and get to know our neighbor or get to know somebody.

The the commonalities between us, right.

Whether, you know, whether there's a 50 year age gap or a, you know, $50,000 income gap or whatever it may be, the commonalities are the things that we want, right?

What what folks, you know, in downtown Fremont want their community to look like are the same things that everybody in Toledo wants me to look like.

There's two very and ways to interact with our with our fellow man, which sometimes we don't get enough of.

Are these events.

Our Thursday show on the 419 is always about events.

You both have some pretty exciting events coming up.

And let's start with you on November 5th.

There's a an event coming up for Toledo Streets at the Valentine Theater.

Can you tell us about it?

Yeah, so it's called Toledo Street Scenes.

It's our annual fundraiser.

And what we do is every year we give our vendors a disposable camera, and we tell them to go out and capture their perspective of Toledo, whatever that means to them.

And what we get is some very unique photos of Toledo.

Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're devastating, and sometimes they're just different angles of things you've seen a million times.

And so then we take the 12 best photos and we turn it into a calendar.

And so the whole the whole event is centered around this calendar.

Yeah.

We have a calendar in our phone, but our phone doesn't have these beautiful pictures.

Yeah.

Can people purchase the calendar then as part of the fundraiser?

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

The calendars, I believe we're selling them for $15.

And that day we sell them.

And then after that, you'll see vendors selling them around town, making profit off of them as well.

That's great.

And this is your largest fundraiser.

This is this is our main fundraiser.

This keeps the lights on for the rest of the year.

Christy, you got an event coming up as well this weekend?

Yes.

Yes, it's.

It's Halloween.

All things spooky.

Yes.

You've got some some incredible masks next to you that have been created by a business in Fremont.

Yeah.

So this is a tooth Decay Creations and it's a it's a husband and wife duo that create these.

They're all done by them.

And they were inspired growing up by Scooby Doo.

Encouraged the cowardly dog.

And so these are their monster creations.

And this is just one of our vendors that's going to be, not only displaying a lot of wonderful decorations, but wears as well in downtown with music.

The event is called Nightmare on Front Street.

Yes, it's October 31st from 4 to 9.

What else can people do at that event?

So it's really fun.

Again, I talked a little bit earlier about our community amphitheater.

So it's within a block or two you've got on Front Street, which is our main business district road.

We have over 30 vendors like Michael Chef Lane here of Tooth Decay, and then we have food vendors, and then you walk up this beautifully decorated alleyway to our amphitheater.

We'll have two bands.

One's a goth glam group.

The other one is an all female group.

And then we also have ghost stories around a fire pit at our amphitheater.

And then of course, all the restaurants are open, our businesses and then wonderful food trucks, everything from barbecue to mini donuts to, you know, a lot of fun stuff and a day of the dead celebration as well.

Kind of worked in there as well.

Sounds very fun.

Yeah.

What what is what's your what's your favorite thing about Fremont?

So what I really love about Fremont is, you know, I've worked in Toledo, I've worked in, you know, I went to school in Sylvania and so forth.

What I really like about any town is you can find beauty in it, and every town, no matter big or small, has something gorgeous to it, something that you like, something that you're drawn to in Fremont.

I love my people.

They tell me what they want.

They they participate in my events.

You know, we get we get 5000 people at a farmer's market and, you know, at our this is a brand new event for this year.

And I anticipate it came from the community wanting it.

So my favorite thing about Fremont is the people I work with, my city is very proactive.

My mayor, all of that, and then also the people themselves, everything we do, it wouldn't.

It would be for not if we didn't have people come out and participate, sponsor fundraising and all of that.

And that's my favorite thing, is they care.

They want to be involved.

And like you said, we kind of forget that humanity thing.

We all want the same basic things.

We want to be loved.

We want basic shelter, you know, that type of thing.

And I just feel like community is wonderful.

And that's why all my events are free practically.

Because whether you have nothing or everything, we want you to come down.

It's that third space, right?

It's, you know, it's not home, it's not work, but it's this wonderful space where the you're 90 or a teenager, you can have some fun because life is a bit serious.

So I want adults and everyone just to be able to relax, have fun.

It's like watching a movie.

Immerse yourself in something.

And that's what I like about Fremont.

They let me immerse myself.

Danny Sanchez yes, mayor and Fremont.

Worked very closely with him.

Incredible.

We had him on the program.

Yes, as part of our mayor Mondays.

He's also a 20 under 40 honoree.

Yep.

We had them on the program yesterday talking about the great work of that organization.

Ben, throw the question to you.

What for you.

When you look at Toledo, you know, what do you what do you love about Toledo?

What makes Toledo home?

I love that Toledo is both a small city and a big city in the ways that if I need something or want something to be accomplished, I know who to reach out to.

I also love that it's small in the way that, you know, there's a bunch of people that are working together for the same cause, but, you know, I'm all, you know, I think it's there's a lot of resources because we're a little bit bigger city, but there's still like, it's got the small city feel.

How did you start working with, Toledo streets?

I first started off doing community service, and then it just blossomed into this.

Court mandated community service.

That's exactly what it was, actually.

And in fact, I wanted to give Matt Kilham hard time about it, because the first place I was trying to do community service was the Metroparks.

And they were like, you need to many hours.

We can't do that.

And I was like, why can't I just get some of my hours?

Yeah, it's probably just like, you know.

Notoriously difficult organization to work with.

Yeah.

So anyways, I found a Toledo Streets newspaper, and, it kind of put me in the position of what I feel like maybe a lot of our vendors are in, which is like needing to find a place for, that wouldn't other places wouldn't allow them to do what they want to do.

And then Toledo Streets is kind of like no holds barred.

And same with volunteering.

Do you both sort of have that feeling with these events?

You know, it's like, putting an invitation out there and just sort of waiting for people to show up.

You know, you are people going to come or people are going to buy the tickets or people are going to buy the the donuts, which I would of course, buy them.

But yeah.

So late they do.

What are you what.

Are you fishing?

Everybody fishes now.

Nobody RV's anymore.

So how do.

You got to be there?

Yeah.

What are you doing in these final days?

You both have a few days left before these events launch.

Are you feeling nervous?

Are you?

What is your activity level with your organizations in this period of time?

You go first.

Yeah.

Well, all I would say is, you know, how do people learn about stuff that is so weird?

And it changes all the time.

Used to be social media, and now it's where it's always word of mouth.

So leading up to a vent, you're always nervous.

It's like having people over at your home is how I call it.

You want to make everything dress right dressed.

You want to make it beautiful, you want to make people comfortable.

So leading up to it, it's just nonstop pushing it.

And I always joke that, you know, events are like a gateway.

You know, it's the first foot in the door, like, you know, especially my beloved 20 year olds.

They like, scope you out online before they ever come near you.

And they just want to feel welcomed.

And so an event is an easy way to just get them in and kind of passive.

But it's just, you know, it's everything from dropping leaflets to banners to you name it, because everybody learns in a different way, but always leading up to a vent.

Absolutely.

There's nervousness, you know.

Do people like it?

Do they not like it?

Did I completely miss the mark?

That's what I mean.

Yeah.

When you're outdoor events, you just like to play roulette.

So what about you, Ben?

Yeah.

What we're doing.

Well, we have a whole event team that has been working really hard on this event.

And, we're kind of in the.

We're in the final stages of it.

We've normally a lot of people in Toledo don't like to pre order tickets.

I don't know what that is about Toledo.

But like this event has had like a lot of presales which I think is really, really really cool.

But other than that, just putting it out online and doing this podcast, I think that we're going to get hundreds of people.

We're gonna do the quiz real quick.

But I want you both to say your websites where people can get more information.

Ben Toledo streets.com okay.

Downtown Fremont, ohio.org.

Great.

I mean, it's probably about I mean talk to me about the community aspect because I know, like you guys do.

I think it's once a month you do meals with the vendors and kind of pull that community together.

I mean, that talk to me about the value of that community, of community of vendors and, and the Brotherhood sisterhood that's formed there.

Absolutely.

We actually do the lunch once a week.

We have different people from throughout the community providing the lunch.

But what it is, is I actually think that's the most important part of Toledo Streets newspaper.

The workforce development is great, but the number one thing that I see people benefiting from is coming together, the community.

I see people that have been kind of almost shut ins, very isolated people come out of their shell and become like flirtatious and funny.

And, you know, it's very fun.

So I think that the community aspect is my favorite part of the whole organization.

Is doing all this work with a one month old baby at home.

Oh, wow.

Congratulations.

So call me.

Yeah.

No wonder you look so awake.

Yeah, yeah.

You guys don't cry nearly as.

Much as.

I know we don't cry after the show.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I cry in the commercial.

Breaks in between.

All right, buckle up.

It's now time for Gretchen's wacky quiz.

I know you love that.

Name.

I hate it.

All right, we're gonna make this somewhat of a Halloween theme, so I'll just one of the questions.

So the question is, which movie do they need to make a sequel to?

Let me modify that.

Which Halloween movie do you want to see a sequel to?

Or None?

I know I'm more of a suspense thriller.

I like my jams like M Night Shyamalan, and his stuff is just like, weird.

And what just happened?

So I'm trying to think, you know, sometimes things don't need us.

Maybe the Seventh Sense.

We need a like.

That's the sequel.

Yeah, I guess.

Yeah.

Okay, Ben, you got one sequel.

Man.

I know it's hard.

Sequels tend to, like, ruin the.

Whole thing.

They do.

But I was going to ask for a sequel.

I would say a sequel to honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

That was a great.

Movie where Shauna, the dad, would be good to.

The dead.

Yeah.

I like that.

Nice.

Okay, I want to, I want to I want a spooky version of honey, I Shrunk the Kids like that.

What's your most treasured possession, Ben?

A spooky or.

Just just just treasured possession.

Fortunately.

Probably my phone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Probably that.

You know, I, you know, they always say that, like, when you're running out of a building, when it's on fire, what would you grab?

You know, honest to God, I don't live with my family anymore, but it would have to be a person or my cats that's, you know, I just to me, it's like anything else can be replaced.

You know.

Most unusual food combination that you love.

Oh, I like mac and cheese and ketchup.

What?

Yeah.

That's wild.

That's great.

I you see that?

That's cat I don't think I like.

Oh, man, these are good questions.

I know maybe we're not as adventurous as we think.

I like cheese.

Yeah, I can see that.

I know I'm.

The problem.

I like I don't, you know, like, I like very savory stuff.

Kind of salty.

You take like, capers or olives and stick it with anything, and I love it.

Okay.

So I'm like, I'm trying to think, though that's pretty normal.

Is like a caper with, like, creme fraiche or something.

That's not crazy or anything.

I can.

Do that.

Like maybe that, like, I like, you know, the crushed, the crushed chilies and, like, maybe that was some olive that, like me, my jam or sun dried tomatoes, like.

But that's not weird, though.

No.

It's not.

I mean.

I don't think.

It's.

I mean, as a kid, a lot of people put chips on sandwiches.

That is good.

I like.

That wonder bread with the chips and you smash it.

Yeah, that's a good one.

It's a beautiful thing.

Awesome.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you both for joining us.

Christy.

Ben, we appreciate you being on the program.

Yeah.

We're going to take a break.

When we come back, we're joined by Kathy here from GT e. We'll be right back on the 419.

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Thanks for having me on again.

Have you always been this joyful?

You know.

I want to say yes, but it was by choice, I think, as a teenager.

I don't know.

I had a great home life.

I had mom and dad home all the time, but I just chose.

You know what?

You can either be.

You can either look at the bad side or the good side.

And I think I chose to look at the good side.

And your life doesn't prove there's.

No doubt about it.

Definitely.

I think that's I think that's a good reminder that, like, every day we get the choice, right?

What is the is the day going to get us or are we going to get the day.

And I have bad days and I get grumpy and I can cry on a dime.

You know, I am a sensitive person, but sometimes if it is a bad day, you got to start laughing about it.

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You know, you are.

About it.

You are an absolute joy every time you come on the program.

We love having you here.

We love the energy you bring to our region and to GT.

You've got so many incredible things that are going on.

What, what where do we want to start?

Well, I wanted to say first happy season two.

Love it, love it, love it.

And yay for Monday through Friday at 5:00 on GTE!

That is a perfect place to to get to watch a podcast with you guys.

We're a little.

Worried about the high definition, but You know, it works.

It's all good.

I checked it out.

Okay, good I gotcha.

My makeup, my makeup person's doing a great job.

But I love having you on there because of your energy and all the good stuff that you do.

So touch on that for that for sure.

So I did want to talk about some fun Halloween shows on Saturday, because Saturday's Halloween, which is so fun that it's on a weekend, I can't beat the mess that you just had though.

Those were pretty incredible.

But I have these shows that I have filtered in during the day one, three, five and I think at 11.

But they're called Theater the Mind.

They're from one of our distributors.

It's not a PBS show, but there's a Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and then there's a Night of Terror, and it's a radio show.

And what you do is they film them while they're doing their radio show, so you watch them go to the mix, you see the people making noises in the background knocking on the door.

Yes.

Yes.

That's what they are.

People love them.

They're fun to watch.

It's just a fun watch.

It's always so interesting to see what makes the sound.

I know that that, you know, is like footsteps or door creaking, what they're using to do that.

And some.

Of them are quite, quite clever.

Yes.

Not what you would normally think.

So.

So people love those shows.

So I kind of did that Saturday for Halloween.

So but we're all into new mysteries now.

We started new mysteries of new Senate mysteries.

Professor tea with Ben Miller season five Sundays at 8:00.

He is so good.

If you haven't checked out, check out an episode.

He's he's OCD, a c d ADHD.

He's he's a really clever guy.

We're in season two of May gray.

May gray this time is May Gray's been portrayed by 43 stars through the years.

He is a fictional character from 1943.

But anyway, Benjamin Wainwright is heating this.

He's a young, good looking guy.

Intense, you know, and he doesn't play by the rules, I mean, and that's the problem.

But he always gets down to the to the mystery.

And then we have the gold.

Season two people love the gold.

This is based on fact, 1980s hazmat gold, all that gold that was stolen.

And then they melted it right away into jewelry like the next day.

So they never traced where the gold went, I don't know.

Yeah, it's really good.

Cuban Phil, who is our Lord Grantham from Neb.

Yes.

He heads the way he plays.

Brian Boyce is his name, and he really he really cracks down these guys, and he was able to get some of them in jail.

Not all of them, because they're tricky and they're interesting.

Yeah.

So we're in season two of that.

If somebody's wanting to discover w GT programing right.

They're not familiar with these programs.

They've they've missed previous seasons.

One or season.

You know one of.

What's what's the best advice you have for somebody who's a new viewer to PBS to w gt to, to like break into this or to discover what's the right shows or show or shows for them.

Yeah, we have a streaming service.

It's GTE passport, it's $5 a month, or you can do it for $60 a year as an annual, you know, donation and then email password.

We set you up, just call the station.

We get give you an activation fee.

Our activation activation code is what I'm looking for.

And then we set you up.

And then with your email and password you go to the PBS video app and on any device and you can watch you can watch great performances like season two.

And there's like 48 seasons.

I mean, you can watch you and there's a little arrow.

You can go through the different masterpieces.

So you could go to professor T and you could watch, you know, start with season one and get all caught up to season nine.

It is so easy.

It's I love my passport.

All the Ken Burns stuff is on there all the time.

So I put on country music, which was at Ken Burns.

That was a great Ken Burns, and I put it on during the day and just while it, you know, just let it play while it's on and.

It's well worth.

Well in the streaming channels, the streaming services that people are, you know, that may be familiar with are most used to this.

Absolutely.

It's a PBS heaven.

Yes.

What it is.

And GTM and all of our local stuff is on there to $5 a month.

I mean, super simple.

Yeah.

Super simple.

So yeah.

And people can find more information on that@e.org.

Yeah, absolutely.

Speaking of Ken Burns.

Yes.

Mid-month here on the 16th.

The November 16th through the 19th.

Crime and Punishment in America.

Lynn Novick who did country music with him, is head up as producer.

He's executive producer, and it tells the story of criminal justice in America from the colonial era, all the way up to today.

That would be so interesting.

I love that, yeah.

Two hours.

Yeah.

You would?

Yeah.

Two hours each episode and it'll repeat right after.

But yeah.

So that'll take up that whole week.

But that's going to be really interesting.

How do you how do you go about I mean you've got so many different available programs right out, out in the world that are available to you.

How do you decide or who's the person that you're envisioning when when you decide what to program?

That is so and why is it Gretchen.

Yeah.

Because she likes everything.

I talk about.

That's right.

But we start off with PBS, sends me their paid advertising, where they call it common carriage, but their vision for the month.

And then I start there.

So then I usually carry everything that PBS is going to do, maybe a few adjustments or whatever.

But Sunday nights, Wednesday nights is science night, Tuesday history, whatever.

So then I start there.

So then we have some distributors that we pay yearly fees to that have their libraries of shows.

So like Thursday nights at 10:00, I do contemporary music.

So I go to my library there and I pick out the concert series there or something like that.

Maybe they have a new concert series, stuff like that.

So then I just kind of build from there.

I'm thinking of most of our demographic audience are women 50 plus, men 60 plus.

So that's where I'm at.

I'm in my masterpiece.

Antiques Roadshow are probably the pretty much watch shows for the science people.

It's nature Nova, you know, type of a thing.

So that those are the people in programing for.

That's what I'm looking at right when I do that.

So that was a great question.

What what role or what opportunity do viewers have to weigh in on what they want to see on on TV?

Well, they have to do is call me.

I do various services as well.

I'm the person who takes all the complaints and the compliments and and ideas and ideas.

So if you want to compliment this show.

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There we go.

No, I answer all my viewer services calls.

I talk to them.

You can email me.

I answer my emails.

That's the first thing I do when I get in is is is take care of all my viewer stuff.

This is I mean, when we talk about local media, right?

We talk about local stories.

I mean, I think that connection to the community is so important, right?

Is that.

You.

Know, all the new local shows we're doing, we're really trying to make that immediate connection with our local audience.

And that is the focus.

One of the new shows that you guys launched last year as a pilot has already won a national award.

Sessions.

Yeah, and I'm like the coordinating producer on that show too, which is really super fun.

That's behind behind the scenes.

Tell us.

What.

If people aren't familiar, tell us what is session?

What is sessions?

Is local bands here in Toledo or the surrounding areas that have their own original music?

We need five songs and then we film them.

We have you talk about the songs and then we do a big interview.

It's like an Austin City Limits NPR Tiny Desk kind of combined into one, and we need five songs, and then we're going to do a half hour shows.

I'm going to start airing them in January, because we're going to start filming in November at Danny's up in their club room, Danny's and Rossford.

They're so grateful.

They give us that club room upstairs, and it's a perfect setting.

Now, is there a live audience when the people when the bands are playing?

No, it's pretty much just the crew and the band.

So.

Yeah, you've already had bands that have already decided.

We've had a lot of bands apply.

Thank you so much.

Jake is helping us out quite a bit.

He was one of the bands that did did the pilot for us, but we got a public media award for it already, so we're so grateful.

But I think the, the this area has just embraced this series and that was a Shane idea.

So at the risk of getting assaulted by the folks in the control room, as soon as we're done with this episode, yes, I do say like I mean the this this for me, when I think of the the stereotypical public access.

Yeah community show.

Right.

I think about like remember movie Wayne's World, right?

Like, of course like the.

The production.

Production is a little clunky.

It's not.

And then you look at Austin City Limits and you're like, wow, this is incredible.

When I watched the the first episode of sessions and each and every one of them, it was like that was for me, the light bulb moment to realize what incredible talent we have here in Toledo that we have here at GT.

It is.

I remember texting you guys saying.

I just.

I just saw this episode.

It is Austin City Limits in Toledo.

It is so incredible.

That's awesome.

And kudos to you guys for seeing that opportunity and that talent and creating that program.

If you haven't seen it, I imagine sessions is on passport.

It is.

Well it's it's on passport, but it's on to because all of our local stuff will always be free to the community.

You can watch Toledo stories, you can watch listening.

You can watch any of our shows for free.

That sessions is one of them.

So you can go slash sessions and they're there and you can watch them.

I love the interviews in the beginning when they talk about how they wrote the song or how the song came to be.

So you get that little insight.

And then we do the big long form interview at the end, so that makes it nice to.

So sessions is and to get into words so quickly is just so positive.

And we just can't wait to move forward.

So I'm going to air those in January and February and look like Saturday nights at 8:00 at 830.

And then I'll do like maybe that following Thursday at ten for my contemporary music.

That will be the repeat date.

What are some of the I mean, you guys obviously W is known for its long form stories as well.

Yes, documentaries that you guys are producing.

What are some of the things that that you guys are working on in.

This space?

December 17th we have our new Sadr Village Leader stories that will air.

So we're excited about that.

And I know we have an Anderson's that we're working on.

And there's there's a ton more that there's there's a list that Shane has of all this stuff.

People want their stories told here in Toledo.

So you can imagine how many things and organizations and institutions that Plato has that, that they just haven't talked about their story and the great thing that they do in Toledo.

So it's pretty fun.

But I'm going to air we did the Living Wild with the Metroparks, and I am broadcasting them.

So, The Living Wild is going to be on, let's see, on the 10th at four and then the 21st of November at 7:00, and then.

Watch that show about what are.

Those that is.

It's kind of like how nature helps us and how we help nature kind of the, the hand in hand.

It's like three different segments, three different shows, and we kind of put them together into a one hour.

Okay.

So then and then we did the Nature Clash with the kids at the Metro Park.

So I'm going to put those on Saturdays at noon in November.

So I thought that would be a good time just.

Right.

There at noon.

Yeah.

So yeah.

So people I hope they embrace both those shows because it's really good.

Solid information about Toledo ecology for the Living Wild.

And yet the the great teenagers that did that.

So stuff with the different Metroparks and all the different events they did.

What will you be dressed up as this weekend for Halloween?

You know what, I am dressing up this weekend.

My brother and sister in law are having a really big party and you have to dress up.

And my other brother in law and his wife are all going as old people, and we're going to call our table the retirement home.

Got it.

And we're getting like the gray hairspray, and we're going to get the big dress and the big sweaters that are done wrong.

Bad makeup.

You know, the whole night I get that stuff.

That you can.

Oh, really?

Oh.

Yay.

Oh, that's a good idea to.

Don't ask me why.

That's what I do.

That's okay.

I was going to offer for you to check out Gretchen's closet.

Matt's not here.

I had.

To take the shot.

Are you dressing up?

No, no.

So I don't ever dress up.

My my idea for this year, and I don't know if I'm going to pull it off or not, is that I. I've seen folks at, like, trade shows where these giant cubes that have QR codes on them.

Oh, yes.

Yes.

And so I think I'm going to make a giant cube that I'm going to walk around with, with a big QR code.

One of them is going to Rick Roll people.

It's going to play.

Never want to give you a never going to give you up by Rick Astley.

I think that has to happen.

And I think that you might get.

This and then.

Maybe.

You know, maybe one of them is going to be a promo for the 419.

All right.

Or for the new season, the processions.

Kathy, thank you.

Thank you so much again.

So much fun.

It is always a pleasure.

Thank you.

So glad.

To.

Have you.

All right.

When we come back, we'll wrap up this Thursday edition of the 419.

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Welcome back into the 419.

So many incredible things happening this weekend.

Let's fly back through one more time.

Our top five events of the weekend.

Number one Rachmaninov and the New World Symphony with the Live Arts Toledo is Friday, October 30th.

At the peristyle.

Beautiful venue in town.

One of the best ones.

Second event.

On the boat, which is going to happen at the National Museum of the Great Lakes.

Boats both Friday and Saturday.

Opportunity for kids and families a little bit more.

The next three are trending a little bit more adult.

But there's a paranormal Cirque, at Franklin Park Mall on Friday, October 30th through Monday, November 2nd.

The mind and soul boogie down at Mind and Soul Galleries on the 31st, and then a huge Halloween party out at the pinnacle, also on Saturday, October 31st.

Distant cousins.

We've had Corey on the program.

Yes.

Big C. They're incredible.

That'll be a lot of great opportunities to get out and enjoy Northwest Ohio.

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Thanks to all of our guests for being a part of the program today.

And thanks for you for joining us as well for Matt Killam.

Gretchen to back.

I'm Kevin Mullin, thanks for watching.

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