Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Stan.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: And I'm Shen.
[00:00:03] Speaker A: And each week we bring you the Stan and Shen Show.
And each week, we talk about fun things through our travels throughout the capital region. We touch on food, we touch on news, try to touch heavily on good news. And Shen's always available with hot takes.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So if you could follow along and listen to us every week on DailyGazette.com or on all major streaming platforms, we'd love to have you join us.
[00:00:29] Speaker A: Hey, Shen, it's Brian Kraus.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: I hear you doing great things on the show and the newspaper, and I want to say, oh, look at that. How sexy is that?
Same guy. I don't know. Listen, word is keep it up. You're kicking ass.
And to the Stan and Shen show, keep rocking. I'm Brian Krause. Much love.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: All right. How the heck are you? We're changing it up today. Big time.
Big time change up.
I didn't do the normal open for you.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: I know. Where's your good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good day, whatever?
[00:01:08] Speaker A: It's like, much, much to my chagrin, once again. I mean, this is, like, totally about you today.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Doesn'T have to be.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. It is. I don't think. It's not that.
So welcome to the Stan and Chen Show.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: In the Gazette podcast studio.
And today is a little bit different, and we're going to get to that.
But if you are a new listener, welcome.
And just to explain to you, kind of the line I use when I talk about the podcast incessantly, wherever I go, with or without my podcast co host, most of the time when I'm talking about the podcast, you're not with me, which is okay.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: And sometimes when you are and I am there, I just roll my eyes.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: She does. She does.
So here is the elevator pitch of the Stan and Shen Show.
Bear with me.
So I host a podcast with a great co worker.
She's half my age, so that makes it entertaining.
Let me tell you. It's called the Stan and Shen show, but her name is Shenandoah.
She is as difficult as her name is.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: I just hope you pronounced it correctly this time.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: I did. I've been practicing all day.
And that's like, the lead in all the time.
Just because we're together so much and we get on each other's nerves at times.
[00:02:44] Speaker B: And of the amount of times that you've done this elevator pitch, what percentage would you say is of which you've said my name wrong?
[00:02:52] Speaker A: I still got it across because I go, it's like the valley.
[00:02:54] Speaker B: That's not an answer to the question.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: It's like. I said, it's like the river. You're not opposed to a river.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: Answer the question.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: It's like the river. Like. Oh, okay. Oh, my God, what an interesting name. I said, yeah, she's interesting too. But besides that, you gotta listen to podcasts. It's a lot of fun.
So I talk about it. I said, we have a great dynamic today. We do so many things together.
It's a lot of fun. And talk about the parade and things like that. I said, let me tell you. Let me tell you something.
When the light goes on, my friend Shen is a million dollars.
I have to work a lot to get to that point when the light comes on.
But when the light's on, she is worth a million dollars.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: And I go, there's, wow, only a million.
Feel like you're shortchanging me.
[00:03:36] Speaker A: Well, so I had to come. I came up with a million.
But before we get to you in that theme, just to show you what you mean to me as a million dollar co host, I think you're worth $1.3 million.
As I have procured Shen's favorite candy bar.
The 100 grand.
[00:04:10] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Placed it in the freezer for two days.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Oh, yeah, that's the best.
[00:04:16] Speaker A: And there's 13 in there, so you're actually worth 1.3.
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: In candy.
So that's been my elevator pitch, but it is.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: This is all my snack drawer.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: It's not breaking news. It's news and it's.
I know, as I said, shocked to say. This is all about Shen. So it's all yours, man.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Oh, you want me to tell everybody?
[00:04:42] Speaker A: Okay, for anybody who doesn't know.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah. For anybody who doesn't know, I am leaving the Gazette after almost five years here to take a position as the promotions coordinator for the downtown Schenectady Improvement Corp. And I'm super excited to start working with Marie Newfield over there and Gil, our secretary on a lot of the events that take place in downtown Schenectady, including some big, well known ones, Soup Stroll, which we were judges on at one point. Wing Walk, which you'll see me at as one of my first events on October 4th.
Little plug for the new job there.
You know, they partner with the county and helping with the holiday parade. You know, there's just so much that they do small business Saturday, and it's all just about, you know, promoting our downtown businesses here in Schenectady, of which we have so many Great ones. And so I'm looking forward to getting to know a lot of the owners even better than I do now and really starting to highlight, you know, just what they have to offer in the community. I already have ideas. In fact, I had one over the weekend, of which all my ideas seem to come to me at the most inconvenient times.
So as Stan will know, I. I meal prep on the weekends because if I didn't, I probably would not feed myself or it would be a lot of donuts and 100 grand candy bars and Pop Tarts and popcorn.
So I was meal prepping and I literally like diced chicken in one hand that I was like, mixing. And in the other hand, I'm typing out notes on my phone because I had an idea pop in my head for Small Business Saturday.
And then I'm like, voice talking to Suri going, hey, text Maureen.
Like, I have a great idea for Small Business Saturday and how to promote it. And it was nice that she like basically immediately text back and was like, approved. I'll hear about it later.
So a lot of. She has a lot of confidence in me coming in and I'm thankful for that. And I'm excited to meet some more of the board members for dsic, though I do know a few of them and just met one over the weekend, the owner of Electric Grinch.
So, yeah, so it'll be fun.
I mean, do you want me to say the next announcement?
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Just. It's yours. I'm just running the board.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Okay.
The next announcement is that the Stan and Shen show will continue.
Stan, am I allowed to say what.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: You have become your new role, if you would like.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: Okay, so Stan is. Stan is taking over my role as business editor, which I'm super thrilled about, and I think he would do a superb job at. And I don't think that there is a better person in this office to handle talking about and highlighting our local businesses, which means that Stan and I will still be working together.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: It's not gonna end.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: It's not gonna end.
In fact, I'll probably be bugging him more.
I will be bugging him like, did you write about this? Did you get this in? Can you get this in? Do you need me to set anything up? How's that going? So in the third paragraph, it says this, but can we change it to this just to clarify it a little more?
[00:07:55] Speaker A: You want first read now?
[00:07:57] Speaker B: No, no, no, not first read.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: I just second read.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Just. Just pre post in case I need to clarify something, you know, and so you know the show will be continuing. We still have high hopes, though no announcement has been made, nor have we been formally asked yet to emcee the holiday parade again. But we are keeping our fingers and toes and ears and eyes and I don't know what else you can cross, but we're keeping everything crossed that we will be able to do that again because it was a ton of fun. But if not, I will still be there that day helping out, probably in some fashion, and if not, at least watching, because it's my favorite thing that we. This city does so and the county does.
I think that covers it. I don't know what else you want me to talk about.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Damn it.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: I don't think that. Think that that got there. Well, how much time do you need me to fill for whatever you're waiting for?
[00:08:53] Speaker A: So the announcement came.
You called me.
[00:08:58] Speaker B: I did. But I will say that I do have to admit Stan was not the first person who found out. And I told you.
I told you that. I did tell you that, because, you know, shout out to Mike Kelly, who used to work here, who moved over to the Times Union, who I've stayed in touch with, who really became a sounding board for me. Great, now I'm gonna cry.
Getting emotional now. Who really became a sounding board for me while making this decision?
Because I've done journalism since, you know, college. I've talked about it since high school.
You know, I have a book in which someone says that I would, you know, doesn't know a better person to come and do this job. And I've had a lot of people reach out to me, and there's been a lot of emotions in the last two weeks, and a lot of, like, you know, just honestly, like, am I. Is this the right move? Am I giving up on journalism? And, you know, I think I'm not. I have a lot of ideas on ways to still stay with journalism beyond just reading it. You know, some advocacy efforts at the state level to push for better open meetings law and better foil law.
Something I think that, you know, we do okay here in New York, but we don't do great with, you know, other efforts to still, you know, be part of news in the news industry without being a journalist.
But he was a great sounding board. And something I've not really talked to a lot of people about is. And though Stan has known this for, like, the last two years, is I've had a number of times where I've thought about leaving, going to other papers. I've had other opportunities come up I've had opportunities to go home and work for Syracuse Post Standard, you know, the paper I grew up reading and how I fell in love with journalism.
I had an opportunity at one point to go work for the Cortland Standard, become the city editor with the potential to maybe one day take over as a managing editor. And that was just like the second time that they had reached out to me that I, you know, options to be on their editorial board. You know, I've had a lot of things, you know, people ask me about whether or not I'd be interested in jobs. And it was hard to think about, one, leaving this era because I love it so much. But two, leaving the Gazette because I think it's a. I think it's a great paper. I think there are superb writers here. I think we do important work in this community. And without it, there would be a huge hole in this area, especially because the paper is so just localized on its coverage. Like, we're not always. You're not going to see a lot of, like, gigantic national news topics day to day and stories like that. Like, we might take a national news topic, but we'll localize it so that people in our area can understand, you know, what's being talked about.
And I love that and I enjoy that. So to think about leaving this industry and. And this place that I like this job. Like when they say you married to a job. I was married to this job. You know, that I was. I would text about this job all the time. I think there was maybe in my almost entire five years here, two times. You and I can both recount that I did not have my phone and did not answer people. And it was a really recent vacation that I. Nope, it was actually when my grandpa passed away and immediately after that when I.
And another time when I was sick and that was it.
And even you were like, oh, my God, she must really be sick. She's not even sending us emails.
So, you know, to think about not doing the work day in and day out that we do and, you know, being up late and covering meetings and getting up early and working on three hours of sleep and 17 cups of coffee is going to be weird.
But as I said in our slack, in the slack message I sent out earlier, this is a time for me to take a step back, but also take a step forward because I made the job so much of my life.
It has cost me in many ways with my emotional health, with my mental health and with my physical health to the point where, like, you know, I Would be so stressed with just getting things done by the end of the week that I'd go home so tired on Fridays. I'd sleep all of Saturday, and. Or I'd not want to leave my apartment, or I found myself getting a little too angry about things, People not responding to me in a timely enough fashion.
And I realized that, like, that's not a way I want to live life. I don't want to look at everything in a negative aspect, which can happen very easily on this job with just some of the hard things we have to cover.
And, you know, while my beat did change and being business editor let me in some ways take a step back from some of that hard news coverage. Your body's already in such a motion where it can't stop.
Like, you're just set at a certain pace. So this is really gonna, like, let me step back, but still keep sort of that creativity and still do something that I love, which is telling people's stories, whether that be in writing or in videos that we do or in Facebook lives.
And also let me use some of my other skills.
You know, I did love PR in college. I took a class then. I wish you could double major in it. I love how people always say it's interchangeable. And it is to a degree, but not to a degree. So it'll be fun to see where that goes. And. But yeah, so a few people to just. Yeah. Right off the bat, immediately. The first person to find out was Mike.
And he never once pushed me one way or the other. He just asked me questions that allowed me to come to my own conclusion. And he very thoughtfully pointed out certain things, you know, regarding it, regarding this job, regarding the future job.
So, you know, I appreciated that. And then Andrew found out. I actually put in my two weeks in text message because I was. So Once I decided. Once I had made the decision, I was like, I thought about being funny and bringing in, like, a condolence card and being like, sorry for your loss, But I didn't do that, though. I wanted to.
And then I think I told Chad you weren't super far down on the list, but I did not want to tell you on the day that you were celebrating Rita and Rita's birthday. So I held off until the next morning.
And then I called, and I was like, is Rita around? Are you doing anything with Rita right now? Can you. Do you have a couple minutes to talk?
So.
But yeah, it's been an interesting two weeks. It went quick and slow at the same time.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: And part of the two Weeks is other than you leaving the shock and where are you going and what are you doing and stuff like that. It was automatically. What about the podcast?
[00:15:55] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that. In the fall food section. So I don't think a lot of people know. This is like when I came on as business at, I immediately had to take over our fall food section, our special section that comes out September 18th.
And so, you know, part of my decision to leave was I always told Andrew I was not going to leave him hanging on this. I was going to get these stories all written, edited. You're going to have a rundown of the story.
We call it a slug here. The story, the story slug, the photos in the collections and la. Yesterday when I left, I handed him a sheet, although he does have it in a shared Google Doc of all of that.
So I'm proud that we were able to get that done and it took a lot of effort and I really leaned on the interns this summer to get a lot of that done. I don't think without them writing so much that we would have been able to make this happen.
So shout out to them and I hope they're having fun. One in Italy and one at the Ohio State University. Right? Yep, I said that. Right, okay.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: Yeah, you got it.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Right. Okay.
Go Ducks. I know they're not the ducks, but go, go Ducks.
So anyways.
But yeah, so that's done. And so you will see my byline a couple more times.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: So when you're putting together the food section, who's the last story you're waiting on?
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Me.
Last two were me. Everybody else was in.
Everybody else was in. Including a story that I literally did the interview for back in like June.
So. Yup, that was familiar. It's how it goes sometimes. Because, I mean, it wasn't. Like, I had only focused on the fall food section and that's all I was doing in my last two weeks. Like, you know that the first week after the announcement happened, I was still doing like normal day to day things pretty much, you know, bite size, blah, blah, whatever it may be. And then like the last sort of few days here, I really just, I hunkered down and that was all I really took on other than a few bite sizes. Just because you're. You're getting used to sort of doing those now.
But yeah, I mean, and a lot of emails back to people who were reaching out like, hey, I have a business story. And me being like, I'm gonna send this to so and so I'm leaving.
But like I said it was really nice to hear from people. And I think if there's one thing to take away from this is that I didn't realize how many people loved and appreciated my writing. And I think that that says something. I think that it says that we, on a daily basis, journalists in general, get a lot of. And I don't know if I can say this on the podcast. You might have to believe me.
A lot of.
From people. We get a lot of negative comments. Why didn't you write it this way? Why don't you do this? You guys are so liberal. You guys are so.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: It's behind the paywall. I got to pay to see.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I got to pay to see it. Don't get me going on that. You can go back in a few podcasts ago where I went off about how you should pay people for their work. At least I think I did. If I didn't. Let's reiterate that right now. You didn't to pay people for your work. We don't work for free. Neither do you.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: We're gonna promote it. To subscriber.
[00:18:59] Speaker B: Yes.
And, you know, I. The. The big takeaway, though, is like, we take a lot of hits on a daily basis.
We try not to read the comments as much as we try.
Sometimes it's hard and it gets to you, and you get angry over that, and you got to find ways to let it go. Or you have people who are super nitpicky about this or that mistake that's in the paper.
And I think if there's one thing people can take away from me is like, reach out to the people whose writing you. Like, reach out to them. Let them know that you appreciate them covering that. That you loved reading that story, that, you know, this is great. Can we do this too? You know, give them something to look forward to. Give them a little bit of, like, hope that not everybody who's reading our stuff just hates us on the other side, depending on how. How we write it, just, like, I don't know, show that appreciation. Because I tell you what, journalists don't. We don't get it. Get a lot of hate mail, but very, very rarely. Yeah, I think in my entire five years being here, I got an appreciation certificate for a thing I did as a member of the Gazette, but it was, like, outside of my work hours.
And one thank you note, 1. You want to know how many hate letters I got? If we're not counting email alone, I got.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: I got a file for you.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: I had a person find my personal address. Which is not easy to come across and send me a letter to my personal address of how much they hated me. You know, we get threatened with lawsuits all the time from people.
So I think if there's a big takeaway here that I have from people reaching out to me is like, reach out to those journalists. You. You could be the person that makes. It breaks whether that person stays in this industry, to be quite honest, because after I got all these notes, I was like, oh, my God.
I was like, should I have stayed? But I know that I'm. I'm making the right decision. So.
[00:21:01] Speaker A: So a lot of the questions were, what's going to happen with the podcast? And my response was, don't worry, I'm fine.
So, yeah, it's. I'm okay.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: You're fine.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: I'm okay. I'm not fine. I'm okay.
[00:21:18] Speaker B: Is that okay with Jessa okay or okay fine?
[00:21:22] Speaker A: I'm okay. I'm okay.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: Like, okay. Why?
[00:21:24] Speaker A: I'll be okay.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: I don't know what this means.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Neither do I, but I just say, I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay.
What are you gonna miss?
[00:21:35] Speaker B: The people.
I feel like everybody says that because when we would be writing stories and I'd be like, oh, what are you gonna miss?
Everybody always says the people. And now I know what that feeling's like, because it's like. It is the people like. And it was. This is a different feeling than when I worked at the Cortland Standard, because there's, like, way more people in this office, and I've worked across multiple departments now.
I'm gonna miss the people a lot. Like, there are a lot of people when they talk about becoming a family in this workplace, it is. You spend a lot of time together. You spend a lot of, at times, late nights doing election coverage, you get angry at each other. You blow up at each other and make up with each other. Andrew and I know that very well. And then, you know, you. You hate each other. Then you find commonality. You make fun of each other.
You know, like, it's. It really is just like.
Like when you get to college where you're in high school and you have that set, a group of friends, and then everybody's leaving at the end and we're all sad and world. It's like that, except nobody's sad and crying yet.
Please don't.
But yeah, so I'm gonna miss the people. That'd probably be number one.
Number two, holding governments accountable. I gonna miss. I actually Kind of am going to miss government meetings in court.
Those. I feel like some people find that not interesting. Anyone in this office will tell you I was damn good at those two things.
Being able to pick a story on the fly from a meeting or being able to cover a protest that breaks out in the middle of a meeting, or. I thought it was so fitting that one of my last government stories was covering the FOIL case up in Saratoga Springs, because I was a queen of Foil in this office, and I could easily write a FOIL request for anybody that would pretty much get you what you needed.
And if it didn't, then that's not my fault. That's their fault for hiding documents.
But, yeah, so I probably missed those two things in that order.
And you're part of people, so don't be looking at me. And the podcast ain't going away, so don't be making faces over there.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: As I. As I put up on one of your Facebook posts, as your.
Your goodbye tour on Facebook, which is, like, the most active you've been on Facebook in, like, two months.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: I know.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: For, like, for a long time.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:54] Speaker A: Like, you're going away mentioned.
[00:23:55] Speaker B: Like, you know, I. I've gone through these phases, and you honestly, you notice them when I'm on. So when I'm not, When I am and am not on social media, just like these mental health phases here with the work that we do, where just you get to points where you're so exhausted to do to anything other than just get through the day. And I'd gotten to that point, and, you know that, and I. I didn't want to be that person anymore. And I felt like, you know, I still have an opportunity to do something I love and share what I love, which is telling people stories.
It's just going to be in a. In a different fashion. But, yeah, I mean, again, the hardest parts of leaving this, like, are the people and the government. Reporting, like, that was even hard. When I became business editor, there were still days where I'd have someone be writing a story and I'd be nosy as hell as to what their story was.
What their story. And I'd be like, oh, did you do this? Did you do that? Like, backseat driving their story? And I apologize to everybody I did that to. I just. I can't help it. It runs in my bloods. It's in my bones.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: So on one of your posts, you gonna miss Belmont with me?
[00:25:03] Speaker B: Oh, God, no.
[00:25:06] Speaker A: As I said on your post by Shenandoah Brayer on Facebook, yes.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: The only person I will miss that view.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: The only person.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: Yeah. To get you on top of roof.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: Of the city center.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Twice.
[00:25:21] Speaker B: Twice.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Not once.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:25:23] Speaker A: Twice.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Correct.
I won't miss Belmont in general.
It actually was, like, one of my least favorite things to cover. It's because it's a long. They're long days.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: We went. I mean, we went full bore that first year and that really.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: Second year, we really toned it, and that was.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: I mean, that really kind of you know, coming around a little bit back to Stan and Shan.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: We didn't even create this.
[00:25:54] Speaker B: No, we did not, actually. That is also Michael Crowley.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: Michael Kelly.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Doing there after, you know. Yeah. He's credited with a lot between the two of us. I mean.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: Bizbeat was him and I creation, or. Yeah, him and I creation. And this was, you know, back when.
[00:26:11] Speaker A: Mike ran the newsroom, it was, like, kind of a thought. And then we crushed it with Chocolate Fest. Our first Chocolate Fest together. Which is.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it was just like a running gag between the two of us that we. Because we kept doing things together. And then, you know, it started to become like, oh, you used to stand in Gingo. And then, you know, and then even. I mean, I wouldn't say for sure, like, the podcast itself was Mike Kelly.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: But, like, the running podcast was Stan asking Shannon for six months, will you please do a podcast? I don't know. I'm leaving. I don't know. I don't know if I have time.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: But the running gag of, like.
[00:26:45] Speaker A: And what happened after the second podcast?
[00:26:50] Speaker B: I don't know. I can't remember.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: I think it was after the. It might have even been the first podcast. What everyone you walked up to said, you know, I have a podcast. We have a podcast. You're like the number one salesperson for the Stan and Shensho podcast.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Ah. It's a brand.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: And that's part of the.
When I. The joke about, you know, you being. At times I can get cranky. As difficult as your name.
But I also add, you know, the daughter I never wanted.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: More like you never knew you needed.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: What else you gonna miss?
[00:27:27] Speaker B: What is this?
This is my own box.
[00:27:32] Speaker A: So one of Shannon's requests for her last day is, everybody gets pizza.
[00:27:37] Speaker B: Cause this is such a Rita thing right here.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: I have.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: She would be proud of you for getting this.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: The.
Everybody gets pizza when they go. So we're doing pizza today.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: Well, everybody gets pizza, and it always comes from the same place.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: From the same place. And surprisingly, style. Shout out home style. But you. You did not get pineapple and ham.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: I did not. Because I'm a flavor connoisseur and people in this office need to expand their horizons. So I did see they threw in a cheese, and that's just because we have extra people who don't like flavor in their life. And there's a pepperoni for the next step up of flavorless people. And then there is a sausage, pepper, onions, because those people have more flavor. And then for the superb people, that that 12 cut of which I will probably be taking three slices, is a chicken, bacon, ranch, my favorite, ultimate favorite pizza, and will be about the only time you see me really eating ranch with, like, stuff.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: We had this debate and Shannon called me and said, I know we're getting pizza.
Will you make me cupcakes?
[00:28:44] Speaker B: Yeah. But then I couldn't decide on a cupcake and you wouldn't go with my Frankenstein idea, so.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: No, because it wasn't on the menu. There's like, there's almost 60 on the menu.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: Yeah. But this one should.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: And I'm just not coming out of the blue.
[00:28:54] Speaker B: It's a good Halloween one.
[00:28:56] Speaker A: So I went Frankenstein. I went with. I'm just saying, your next favorite.
[00:29:00] Speaker B: I said it to Will and he was like, wow, that does. He goes, it sounds like too much like you are only going to get one of those. And I was like, yeah, but there's.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: A lot more work for, like, the amount of people coming up to see you off.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: So that's true. So instead I got lemon drops, which is also one of my favorite things.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: So you have your own box, like over a dozen lemon drops mini cupcakes with a lemon glaze on it. So it's basically a lemon muffin with a tiny lemon muffin with lemon glaze on it.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: I'll be eating a lot of that. Actually, Maureen has made a request that for my first. First week, she would also like a snack.
I told her that we were gonna have these, and she goes, oh. She goes, I don't know, we might, you know, new. New gig. We might need some.
Might need to get some of those.
So.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: So I had this in the can.
And this goes back to one of our earlier podcasts. Not too early, but a little bit early.
And I never forget anything you say.
[00:30:01] Speaker B: Is this the bleep?
[00:30:03] Speaker A: No, that's always forever. The reason why we have a beep is you.
But everybody got the intro where Brian Krause from Charms said, you're doing a great job and how much.
How great the Stan and Chen show is. So that was one of my Favorite things to do for you.
And the second one was this.
And I found some friends to help me out with a conversation we had.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: This makes me cry. Swear to God.
[00:30:33] Speaker A: I think you're probably more mad at me than anything. So we'll see. What. Come on. There we go.
So Shannon is 28 and says that she wants to now identify as 30. What do you think here?
[00:30:45] Speaker B: It's quite.
Hang on to it. Hang out in the 20s. 29. That's not what I want.
I don't know. I think that the 30s are exciting, so I get where you're coming from, Shen I. But I do think that it's fun to be like, I'm still in my clinics. But you have the wisdom, right, of a 30 year old, I think.
Yeah, no, I'm 31. And so I do have some perspective on where you are and I do think I identify with that feeling of being 28 because it was like a weird moment. Like you're not in your mid-20s anymore. You're kind of like in your upper 20s and you're like, where do I fit well? And you're kind of looking forward to just. People in their late 20s are doing three things. You're getting engaged, having a baby, or buying a vacuum. I'm buying a vacuum. 20s are a really great time to figure out who you are, what you're going to do. Kind of get your. Get your feet. Feet, you know, get your footing.
And so I wouldn't rush by that because I think that as much as I would like this month, you know, society can judge you less if you're out there having a great time in your 20s, so, you know, relishing that a little bit. So I'll get to your 30s and your 30s will be a great time. But don't rush it. Her outfit was fabulous. 28's a great age, I think. Own it and live for your 20s and then you start your 30s when they come.
How about for you, Henry? I think you only went one.
I no, I never said I wanted to be 30. They said you should be. I'd rather be 20 than 30. So yeah, stay in your 20s.
Be younger. Always be younger. I'm always younger.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: Here we go.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: 20S are the best years. I'm only 21, so I'm just starting. But no, no. Such great wisdom from a 21 year old. Shannon, you are never going to be younger than you are right now.
So she was. Smart girl.
All right, what do you got with. Speak with your age. You are young, you've been Going, don't age yourself.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: And how about you, son?
[00:32:55] Speaker B: This is your time to be the life of the party. Embrace your plenty. You only have it once.
I just want to note that this only got brought up because Bill once said, shannon, what are you, 30? And I said, what did you just say to me, Bill?
So I was like, 30.
So I know the whites are coming.
[00:33:18] Speaker A: In, but good Lord, the souls we talked about, Stan and Shen, is going to continue thanks to your boss. Your new boss.
[00:33:26] Speaker B: Correct. And the fact that we were just like, we'll do it and ask for forgiveness later.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: That and it just, you know, it'll be kind of partnership. Yeah. And that's how we're kind of.
[00:33:36] Speaker B: So I guess we should explain how it's going to work. So instead of weekly, it'll probably be monthly or bimonthly, depending on whether or not DSIC has any specific events or promotions coming up that we really want to highlight. My role in this now will be to talk about those things as well as sort of what's going down in our business community and potentially bringing on some business owners. So that is our goal there.
And so, you know, very much sort of like how we just did with Heather when we did that podcast and just talking about things that are going on with them, you know, anything new going on that they might be doing or just getting to know them a little bit more.
And because, you know, obviously there's always something to talk about, but not nearly as much as like before when we could do a weekly where we had just so many things coming at us news wise, we decided to scale it back to once or twice a month. But also, you know, obviously starting out, I have a lot of new things I'm taking on, so. And you do as well.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: And I think your first ribbon cutting could be 5, 18 coffee coming up. I saw that 24th, I think, from DSIC. I don't know if you're running the show on that one.
You'll find out Monday.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Okay, so I'll find out Monday.
[00:34:50] Speaker A: I'll get an email. Stan, it's me. You better be there.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: It's me. I already know my opening line.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: We said you do it once, I.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: Get to do it once.
[00:35:00] Speaker A: What's it gonna be?
[00:35:00] Speaker B: I'm not gonna tell her.
[00:35:01] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:35:02] Speaker B: All right.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: They gotta see it.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: I have to run video for it for the first one.
[00:35:05] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:35:06] Speaker A: Maybe so.
It took me six months to get you to do a podcast.
I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to like it. I don't know. I'm going to go. Stuff like that.
And then everyone's like, what's going on podcast? I said, well, I think we're going to do something. But I've always said modeling ourselves after the Today show because we're both beautiful people with millions of listeners and followers is that, hey, when Hoda left, Jenna didn't pack up and leave. It went from Jenna and Hoda to Stan and Friends.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: You mean to Jenna and Friends.
[00:35:40] Speaker A: Jenna and Friends. And now we're going to model it. We're going to call it Stan and Friends.
[00:35:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: So Stan and Friends will be out here on a weekly basis.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: Oh, you are going to do a separate Stan and Friends.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Doing a Stan and Friends. So basically be prepared.
Whoever I see is going to get sucked in here for five or ten minutes on the road or in the.
[00:36:00] Speaker B: Nearby the office, I don't know, delivering a package. Come in.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Hey, Mr. Amazon, you had lunch? Let's talk about it.
[00:36:08] Speaker B: Let's talk.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: So. So we're gonna. And a lot. And hopefully part of the thing too is just, you know, trying to keep it short and stuff and just grabbing somebody, you know. The Sunday stories that you're gonna miss, we're getting there. It just came by, okay, the pizza's here.
So hopefully bring in some people. Just talking about what they got. Coming up on the Sunday story, which I know you're gonna miss. The Wednesday meetings will not be the same.
We'll be texting you to pitch something. Shen, we're lost on. We're lost on story ideas. Can you help us?
[00:36:35] Speaker B: You. You can always ask me because I probably will have something for you and it probably won't even be DSIC related all the time, but just cause my head is consistently going with ideas.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: No, I need you to text Andrew about 1:10 on Wednesday during the meeting.
[00:36:49] Speaker B: Oh, did you put this.
[00:36:52] Speaker A: Hey, did you think of this?
[00:36:53] Speaker B: Did you think of that idea?
[00:36:54] Speaker A: So doing that and then kind of with the business editor role, you know, took a size 12 wide to fill a size 7, not a pointed toe.
[00:37:03] Speaker B: He's been working on this all I have.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: Cause we weren't talking about weight. We just. I figured shoo I can get away with without getting her mad at me.
Tell me your story. You know, was kind of filling that like bisbeat type of thing on a weekly basis. A lot of great people made some contacts last night at Treehouse, which we helped open. We were there the first day, told everybody about that.
[00:37:21] Speaker B: Yep, we were the first day.
[00:37:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I go to a Mixer, trying to talk about the new gig, find stories, and everybody wants to know how she's doing, so that's not gonna change.
So.
But it's.
It's been a blast.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: You say that as if it's ending. The blast is still continuing the day.
[00:37:42] Speaker A: In and day out.
[00:37:44] Speaker B: I can call you and annoy you every morning if that helps.
[00:37:47] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's not. But. But it's. There's a different, again part of the pitch, you know, two peas in a pod. Great chemistry. We have fun. We bring energy. When we were doing the biz beats, I was taking the photos, you were writing the stories. Every once in a while, I'd have a question I thought of while I had time, while we were there, which.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: I always responded with. That's a great question.
[00:38:10] Speaker A: And people enjoyed our energy.
[00:38:13] Speaker B: You better not lose that energy when I leave.
[00:38:15] Speaker A: I'm just saying they enjoyed our energy.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:38:18] Speaker A: Because we just bring it. I think we bring it. I think we brought it to the podcast. We're still gonna bring to the podcast. Hopefully we bring it to the parade again.
[00:38:25] Speaker B: He should be the first friend.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: First friend's already taken slots. Already taken.
[00:38:30] Speaker B: Who is it?
[00:38:32] Speaker A: Number one best friend, Rita. Yep.
[00:38:34] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:38:36] Speaker A: First ever podcast. Yep.
So that's kind of. We're kicking it off with the bride, so we're doing that. But we said, nobody's crying, so I will miss you.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: Stop it so much and don't cry.
[00:38:54] Speaker A: It has been doing this 27 years.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: Say that as if you're not going to see me properly on a weekly basis.
[00:39:02] Speaker A: I see a lot of people on a weekly basis. You know what I mean? It's not the same of. What are you doing? Do you want coffee? Did you get coffee?
[00:39:09] Speaker B: You still bring me coffee? Like, you make that?
[00:39:12] Speaker A: Stuff like that? Just the. The dynamic, the. You know, the. The accessibility.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: I still anticipate a coffee on our monthly podcast. I just want to make that the writer.
[00:39:22] Speaker A: The writer continues. That's a note I brought. I brought candy and confection today, so there's no coffee involved. That's fine in today's writer, but we may be here maybe at the new digs. We may do the first podcast. The new digs.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: Well, that would be fun. Yeah. You can see the new office space. Hopefully we'll have photos by then.
[00:39:41] Speaker A: All right, so for Stan of the Stan and Shen Show, I'm going to exit first.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: What? Why?
[00:39:50] Speaker A: Because you're. This is the last, this format of the Stan and Shen show.
And because I care about you so much, I'm not using the same clothes because it annoys you to no end.
So if this is all there ever.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Is, that you got to get the slogan at the end that you got to get the call.
[00:40:10] Speaker A: I get the quote at the end.
[00:40:12] Speaker B: Yeah, hold on. Give me. I don't have my phone on me. Oh, that's a first.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: So I'm gonna come up with a.
[00:40:19] Speaker B: Good quote on the fly about journalism.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: I'm closing with a line from Bull Durham.
[00:40:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:40:30] Speaker A: When you speak of me, speak well.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: I'm gonna one up you.
If you ask me for a comment, I'm already set with my no comment.
[00:40:44] Speaker A: So for this iteration of the Stan Shen show, I'm Stan.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: And I'm Shen.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: I'm gonna miss you, man.
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Stop saying it like that as if I'm, like, dying or something.
[00:40:54] Speaker A: It's just again, it's the. It's all right.
You're Shen adjacent.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: You're making things too sad. Let's go eat some pizza.
[00:41:01] Speaker A: Say goodbye.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Goodbye.
That is how it's always been.
My candy crunching a dean.
[00:41:11] Speaker A: It did.
