Geese & Their Goslings with Sarah & Jason

♪♪ Hello and welcome to another episode of Goose Chicks Podcasts an all women lead show focused on the bangus and the community that supports them. I'm Luzzie Mack producer and co-host and this week we are talking about bringing children to shows and festivals what are some best practices which venues are most accommodating and what you need to do to ensure your child is safe and having fun alongside you. We'll have some special guests later in the show to get into all of that. But first we want to do a brief check in with the lovely ladies of the Goose Chicks Podcast. Alexi is Chelsea and Hannah. Hi there. How are you all? Good, especially with, you know, we get to see each other this week. We get the cap run, you know, recording this like two sleeps before the cap run. So y'all will hear this later, but we are in prime about to leave our homes to head up to New York to see Goose and end our Goose droughts respectively together. So I'm very excited about that. The other thing that happened is that our merch dropped occurred. So folks can actually pick up our first merch stop right now. You can go to goosechickspod.com to check it out. What pieces are y'all most excited to see on folks once people can purchase Hannah? I'll start with you. Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I'm a big fanny pack girl. So that's the number one thing where I'm just like, I have to have one. And then I know that I've showed the design. So a lot of my friends and people are very excited for the sweatshirts, the guitar hoodies. Yeah, the full print. Yeah, those are really nice. How about you, Chelsea? Yeah, I was going to say I'm definitely getting a fanny pack for myself. I just have to decide which one because there's like three versions are all cute. So I'm definitely getting the fanny pack and I just really like all the t-shirt designs even just the plain t-shirt. I have some ideas for some tie dye that we can do on those. So anyone need some tie dye and hit me up. But yeah, so I'm excited for people to get those. Love it. Alexia, what about you? I love all of it. But I'm very excited. I really want to try like one of the dresses and one of the dresses on. And so I'm excited about that. And my girls are super pumped about the bucket hats on the hair. They're like super pumped. Yes. Especially after this weekend. I was going to say, yeah. That's not a bucket hat. Suddenly they're back in favor in the community. Everyone's been talking about bucket hats and luckily we have bucket hats on our drum. So there you go. Yes, very excited. I loved all of that. I want to give a shout out to creative Dev. It is out of Seattle for their work. They did the work on all the designs. They really were able to tap into kind of the spirit of the show and what we've been trying to create, which is like fun, vibrant, you know, about music. But I'm really excited about that. The other thing is we went with a, you know, a drop where we're not pre-ordering materials. We really didn't want to have like a negative environmental effect. And so when you order your item will actually get produced. So there's no overage of inventory that will occur at any point, which I'm very excited about. And of course, people might ask what, what did the merch sales go to? They go to directly supporting the show and supporting all of us being able to go to shows, go to festivals and cover those things on the show. So yes, when you buy merch, you support us directly and making the show possible in the future. So definitely like I said, go to goosechickspod.com back slash merch and pick up an item or two or three or gift for your friends, whatever you'd like. I am very excited about the hoodies. I'm also very excited about the beanies as well because they're very cute. So those are the two things that I'm into. I got really into beanies this past year. I had never worn them before, but I'm like obsessed. All right, let's head into our running segments. And we're going to start with how to be get down and we're going to talk a little bit about pancakes, which you'll know why when we get to the second one, the interview a little bit later while we chose this song, but a little, you know, just info about the song. Pancakes is a great blue original, which was the band that Peter was in before goose and it debuted with goose January 27th, 2022 at the observatory North Park in San Diego, California. Goose played goose 20 times since then. Most recently they played it at Moon Palace in Riviera, Maya, Mexico at the playing in the sand festival. And yeah, so it's become pretty big staple for them. Just they've only been playing it for a year and 20 times already. That's pretty high. I think I've seen them at least seen it at least two or three times so far. So yeah, it's definitely heavy rotation. We'll post links to the lyrics of course, but I'm curious what everyone, what happens at a set when pancakes comes on? Like what, what's the vibe? What, yeah, what do you all think occurs? Chelsea, I'm going to start with you. This song I just think is so fun. It's kind of one of those that has silly lyrics in the chorus. But then again, I think it really brings this feeling of like togetherness, like coming to get some pancakes. There's plenty for us all. So, you know, just that bringing people together. And I think it's just fun when it's just kind of a chance to like let loose and dance and have fun whenever they play it. They do, I feel like they do tend to jam it out though. Yeah, they always jam it out when they play it. So yeah, so yeah, so I mean, right now. So it's definitely, you can expect some good jams coming out of it, but it's just good vibes to me. Just, you know, everyone, we're all here together. We're all here for the same thing sort of by Hannah. How about you? Pancakes, what happens when it comes on? So it is a silly song, I think. And at first I was like, oh, this is just a silly D&C song. But when you actually look at the lyrics, the sense of unity and, you know, I think we talked about this with shoot. What other Peter's song were we talking about recently? And how are we doing? I think. Yeah, yeah, or a cleaner alien. Yeah. And how there's this sense of like, okay, maybe he's trying to tell us a little bit more about like, you know, social issues and politics and stuff like that. I definitely get a flavor of that in the lyrics for Pancakes. So, you know, I appreciate that Peter weaves that in, in some of his lyrics and not just one song, but, you know, throughout and you can choose to view his songs as cute little D&C songs and they are. But you can also listen to a little bit deeper message if you want to. Absolutely. Alex, what about you? Are you feeling, how are you feeling when Pancakes comes on? You're muted. Thank you very much. I am feeling when Pancakes comes on at first, like when I first heard it, I was just like, hmm, this song is different. You know, and I'm hearing it in the shows. And then when I come out and everyone's, you know, getting super excited in the shows, everyone's clapping and, and then when I came out, you know, reading the lyrics and stuff, and it is the, like we've all said, the unity in it is beautiful, like the message of unity. And I think that we need that so much right now because there's such a disconnect between everyone all over the world and the message of unity is so important. But also it's the message of, you know, sometimes we forget and he's, he's also, Peter's also when he's writing the song, like forgetting who we are. And, you know, and where, and basically like saying the stamp talking about where does the stamp go. I never tried to mail myself. There isn't a price tag. There's no reason to sell myself. And I think that that's a great message in the song. Like a big part of it is unity, but also knowing our self worth and, you know, knowing that we don't have to just succumb to what everyone else is saying, you know, what the general consensus is on everything else because I feel that that's a big thing that people do, that they don't want to have that difference, that they don't want to, they don't want to have any difference or to something to come up. I can't try to think of what I'm saying or put it in words, you know, but the difference people are afraid to be themselves and to step outside of that box and to what other people say. And, and I think that that's a great thing that he's putting, you know, like that we can still be ourselves and we can still all be united. I guess is what I'm trying to say out of it is to still be yourself and let's all love each other and let's all still come together. And there's plenty for all of us. Let's not fight over it. That's another thing that this community has taught me. And, you know, like Chelsea, we were talking about the tie-dice and stuff. My husband does tie-dice. She does tie-dice. And, you know, Jason said one day he was like, he's like, well, I don't want to mess with Chelsea's business. You know, I really like with her and Chelsea's like, no, there's plenty room for us all. And that kind of relates back to this. And there is. There's plenty room for us all here. And there's a lot of things that a lot of us will step back on and that they don't want to step on someone else's toes. And, and so I think that that's really, really important to remember to not be greedy, to not hurt others around you, that there's plenty for us all. So I think that's a beautiful message of the song, The Unity, and not being greedy and to remember that there's plenty for us all. And to meet up, we can eat them on the ceiling and flip them off the wall. Just, you know, wherever we are, come together and let's be united and don't sell yourself for, you know, for a short, don't sell yourself. That's so, I think this song is beautiful. It's a fun, dance-y song. And I didn't get, you know, until looking at the, and looking at the lyrics of it, the written lyrics. And I think that that's a common thread that we see with Peter and that we've talked about is how that at first it looks like it's just like a fun song. But then we need to actually get into the lyrics that he's a great lyricist for making very, very important topics that are going on in a fun way and to help you see that fun, you know, and you just don't even realize that it's kind of, it's changing your mentality in a happy way and not in a negative way. So I think this song is really cool and that way. I love it. For me, this is one of Goose's fishiest songs, both in lyrical content and also the fact that they just like, she met out every time. And so I always connected with this. I was really excited during the Tibuz tour that Trey played pancakes with them. I was like screaming in the audience like, oh my God, Trey's playing pancakes because this whole time I've been like, that's such a fishy song. And so I was excited to hear Trey play it. And, you know, he's saying it too. And it's clear he wanted to sing pancakes. And I was like, yep, I was right. It's very fishy and Trey totally connected with it. So I love that. And I do think it's one of those like great dancey songs, but it's not super hype. So you can like move but not feel like your heart rate has to get up. So for me, it is set. It's like a good breather song. It's a good song to like get back into your body a little bit, especially because I feel like they sometimes because it's such a, they know it's going to be a long jam. They sandwich it between high energy songs. 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Like we all have human feelings and human reactions to, you know, critique or, you know, especially as you said, it's art, it's personal, it's something that you're putting out there. And it's a vulnerable position to be in. So I appreciate that. You know, the first time we actually met formally was at the joy run and you were shooting those shows. And I remember thinking to myself, I don't know if I could kind of wear both hats and be a fan and then like switch into photography mode and then come back and go and, you know, enjoy the rest of the show. So I just wanted to ask, how do you do that? Like what happens for you when you switch from one side of the rail to the other? Is there something physically you do? Is there something mentally? How you prepare yourself for that shift? Because I mean, the energy is different. When I see you shooting, it's like, you're so serious and you're like, you know, getting your shots and moving around. And then when you're on the other side of the rail, it's like, oh, it's a Lexi. She's out here. I just want to know, like, how does that happen for you? And like, did it take a while to kind of develop that, you know, that switch for yourself? It's really funny that she asked that because Chris Quinn and I were talking about that the other day. And, you know, he sent me a meme and it's like this big football player and, you know, fully dressed out at a football game, watching it from like the nosebleed section and stuff. And this is how you feel as a photographer at a concert because I literally, when I'm not shooting shows, I'll literally be like looking around like, is there a photographer there? Getting that? This is a great spot. Like, is there a photographer getting that? Oh, you missed that. So, in my mind, I'm always in that photography mode. And so I've kind of just had to teach myself, like, okay, you only get this much, you know, so, and then go and go enjoy it after that. So it's definitely been a thing that I've had to teach myself and still something that I'm struggling with every, you know, you'll see me also like I'll flip that camera out when I'm back there, like trying to get if I have my camera at a show. But I've also taught myself when I don't have my camera at a show to stop and enjoy. And, you know, don't be thinking about those shots because you can't get them like see us. Like you don't have your camera in here. So, you know, just stop and enjoy the show and enjoy the people around you. And so, yeah, that's definitely been something that I've had to work on. But I think I'm getting better at it. I was at the Billy Strange show this weekend. And of course, I was like, I got to meet Jesse Fats. So, you know, so I got that done. And then after that, and he's such an amazing photographer. And then after that, I was like really, you know, enjoying it. But I will say probably 10 times I call myself being like, where's Jesse? Where's Jesse? Where's he? Where's he? But he, it was really cool watching him and everywhere that he went and stuff. So, no matter what, definitely it shows I'm watching, you know, what different photographers are doing and what different parts of the building that they're in and what what I could possibly get. So, so yeah, so I don't think that I don't think that switch ever turns off. It just is quietly in there. Yeah, it's there. It's excellent. And what is your website? So everyone knows where to follow you and by Prince and see your work up and everything. Yeah. So my website is electsleslepo.com. Thankfully, I have a very easy name and I didn't add photography or anything else because my name is already so long. And so it's just electsleslepo.com and heads up. It's in, it's being, it's under construction right now. And I should be like completely finished by the end of the month and more photos will be going out there. But that was the trying to get all the photos from all those past shows. So, you know, like taking, you know, getting all those downloaded. So, so have patience with me. I have a lot on my Instagram. Well, if you, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to reach out to me at electsleslepo.com. I try and keep everything really easy. It just being my name, electsleslepo at gmail or electsleslepo.com. And, but you know, I have people reach out to me like, Hey, I saw you taking a shot of me at the show. Can you, you know, can you give me a preview of the shot and, and so I'll give people a while it's under construction. So, but at the end of the month, everything should be up and, and I'm really, and adding different things from old times, like, you know, from when I started and stuff. So I'm excited to have that, you know, the whole, the whole thing, the beginning, what's going on now, you know, and just keeping up with it. So I'm excited about that. Love it. Thanks so much. And everyone check that. We'll have all the links in the show notes. For podcast flow down, I wanted to shout out the but why a podcast for curious kids. It's an NPR podcast that aims to answer kids questions about everything from nature, politics, culture, science, even the end of the world. And your kids can submit their own questions as well on their website. We'll include links in the show notes. They cover a wide range of topics. So it's actually fun for adults to listen to as well. Some recent episodes include don't swallow gum and other things parents say. A why do bison run fast, but walk slow and who invented the emoji. So definitely check that one out again. I'll have the, you know, the links in the show notes. And I'll also put a link to a great Wired article that just has a bunch of podcasts that are great for families and kids because that's the theme of this episode. We are going to take a short break and we'll be back with Sarah and Jason to talk about their. Gosslings and best practices that shows for kids will be right back. Coming gets a bad case. It's plenty for us all. We need a more receiving. We're living more for war. We're coming gets a bad case. It's plenty for us all. We need a more receiving. We're living more for war. Welcome back from the break. We're so excited. We have some parents joining us on the podcast today. Sarah and Jason, I'm going to throw it over to Chelsea to introduce them and kick off this conversation Chelsea. Thank you, Leslie. So I'm super excited today. We have my friends Sarah, Haynie and Jason Sostik here to talk about being parents of little Gosslings at Gushos. So a little bit about them. Sarah is an Appalachian interpreter, educator, artist, goat farmer and stepmom. They live in Southeast Ohio. They've been following Gussen's December 2019. And Jason is a hardcore Guss man. He also works in the interpretation and tourism industry. He has two kids. He loves being a dad. And they got hooked on the Gussen at the Covington 2019 show. They've been to 18 shows together since then. And they brought their kids to four of those shows. So I'm super excited for Sarah and Jason for being here today. A little background, how we met was actually because we were all bringing kids of similar ages to a Guss show. And Sarah and I got connected on the Goose Chicks Facebook group. I had posted on there who has kids, our kids want to play with someone else's kids. And Sarah responded, we all met up the boys played together like all night. And then we were able to have some adult hangs as well. So that was fun. So shout out to the Goose Chicks group for connecting us. I'm super excited for our friendship we've built since then. So Sarah and Jason, first of all, we've you guys tell us a little bit about your Gatslings and their personalities. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having us on. So we have two little boys, Josiah and Judah. Josiah is 10. And just to kind of describe his personality a little bit, he's very sweet and loving and loves to help Josiah has autism. And so navigating Guss shows can definitely be challenging at first, but he really, really enjoys going to watch them, especially for the lights. That's his kind of main thing. And then Judah, he's eight. He's our wild child. He loves to run around and be loud and scream. And then I would say the best way to describe him would be theatrical. He's very theatrical. And he, of course, is obsessed with Peter. And so yeah, they've kind of got hooked on Goose just to give you a little bit of background because of the Luigi stuffed animal. And they also have a Luigi stuffed animal. And they were convinced for the longest time that Luigi would leave our house, go to the show, sit on Peter's keyboard, and then would magically appear back in our house, you know, the next day. I feel like it might be a comic or something or like a children's book. It sounds literally, it sounds so amazing. It's the most key to sing ever. I love that. Yeah, it's like, like, Elphana shelf, but Luigi on a keyboard. That's right. We're really lucky that the kids instantaneously fell in love with Goose. I became their stepmom in 2019. And it's been really fun because it definitely instantaneously helped bond our family, like going to see live music together. And I wanted to say too, like, Legend Valley has definitely been their favorite tradition now. We always are going to try to take them there. Yes, and that was the show we met at. I don't know if I said that Legend Valley, so which has like a huge lawn, like we were talking about for the kids to run around. So how do you guys decide which shows you want to bring the kids to? Like what makes a show where a venue kid friendly? Yeah, I recommend like planning ahead of time with with your partner discussing it because like for our family, we think the outdoor venues are the best because it's more open. You end up having more space and then for stimulation, like indoor venues can be very overstimulating for kids. Outdoor venues can definitely make it more kid friendly. We also like the outdoor venues for if camping is available. We took the kids to Fred Fest. It was great because then by the time of second set came along. Then we just got to go back to camp and relax and fall asleep with the kids there. So if camping is available, that's definitely a big benefit for the venue. And then also with us planning the venue, it's how far is it away from our house because when you're taking kids, you definitely want to calculate the car ride because Jason and I usually. We'll drive anywhere to goos, but if it's with the kids, we got like a radius of like a couple hours. So. Hi, yeah. That's true. I was going to say Alexie says the parent she also has brought her daughter to show. So if you have anything to add Alexie, feel free, but I agree with the outdoor venue. Definitely. It seems to make sense. Definitely. Sky was definitely overwhelmed. Her first show was that endorving you and Charlotte and it just and she was on the rail with us and you know, kind of at the end, it just you could tell that she was just like exhausted. She had been out the line all day and, you know, so I completely agree with you. And these are are great because once they do get to that tired point because they're younger, you can always either switch back to the lawn. And they can lay down if they want to. And, you know, when I'm start, I'm going to start bringing my seven year old this year. So I'm going to see more like, you know, more of the whole the exhaustion of the younger ones because my older ones she's ready. She's ready to play and go all the time. But yeah, we'll see how it goes with our this year I'll be, I'll be hitting y'all up for advice. And so, yeah, so what Sarah and days, what are some must have to bring to a show when you bring your kids because, you know, like we're talking about law and you probably want to bring a blanket anything else. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I will say that we were lucky enough that their first goo show was a drive in. So we were lucky enough to have our car right there. So we brought all their goodies. You know, we had chairs for them and blankets and all sorts of stuff. But then after that we weren't really, we didn't have that luxury. So like legend Valley last year, we brought a wagon with us, which honestly was clutch. It was amazing. Not only did it serve its purpose at helping to get the kids in and out of the show, but the side of the wagon came off as well and it we turned it into like a couch for them. Yeah. So they had like blankets and all sorts of cool stuff in there. Yeah. And with the wagon, I want to add like for people have little kids, you know, you probably have wagons, you have strollers, they fit in the wagons fine. But then when you, your kids get above the age of five, it's way harder to fit them in a wagon. So we looked into the garden wagons because those are way bigger. You can fit kids up to the age of like preteen and then still give them that comfortable space. It kind of gives them a home base. And we really liked that. I think we're only going to use the wagon because also at the end of the night when your kids are sleepy, they can kind of like crawl up in there and then you can just kind of roll them back to the car. I will say the one downfall of the wagon though was like a legend valley. There's that big hill. You walk down to get into the venue. And that was kind of nice going down the hill with the boys in the wagon. But coming back up the hill was absolute torture. So that's going down. You know, maybe if it had like a mechanical assist to it or something. Yeah, get ready for a workout. Have the end of the show like when your energy is totally depleted, you're like, okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, put me in the wagon. Pull me up. Oh, yeah, exactly. Some other fun must have. So PSA for people who might be new to bringing their kids to goose is that a lot of venues have strict bag policies. But there's usually a side note that if you're bringing childcare items, you can get more stuff in like childcare item bags are provided. So just make sure you check that out for the venue before you pack up your stuff. But we love bringing glow sticks for the kids. So I know like glow sticks are really common in the jam scene, but specifically for the kids, like it thoroughly entertains them. But then also we love attaching the glow sticks to them somewhere on their clothes or their shoes because that helps us keep an eye on them as they're like running around with their friends. And man, the glow sticks like they like usually end up running around the kids have lights, air battles dancing with them. So that's really fun. Yeah, at legend Valley, it was like, if you looked up in the lawn, you just saw all these lights running back and forth. And we gave, we had brought a seven year old with us and we gave him like a special light up thing that none of the other kids had. So we knew we were like, you have to carry this at all times. So we could just like see where he was running around. So yeah, double duty on those because they're fun and they service a deep purpose. Absolutely. Yeah, another good thing that I highly recommend are the over the year, like ear protection for the kids. Those are crucial. And I will say like I've been just to a lot of shows in general and been up front and heard people talk about, Hey, it's separate and I can't hear anything. I just want to advocate for more earplugs that shows, I think that it's a great investment. If you're going to continue to go to shows for a long time to keep your hearing. That's kind of important. So those are really nice. And that the over the ear ones, I prefer better than the ones that go in the ear for the kids because you're not sure if those go all the way in or if they get seated correctly. Or if the kid is just running around like wild, they can fall out. So the over the ear ones are nice because you know they're on, you know, they're sealed and they're going to keep that noise down for the kids. Oh, you are definitely like super pros. I'm not going to a lot of shows, but you know, definitely, definitely, I completely agree with the advocating for earplugs. And for the longest time, I was just like, why, why, you know, can you hear the show properly? And you can hear the show better. I learned that I started bringing, bringing the little earplugs with me and I can actually hear what they're saying on stage. Like when Peter says something or Rick says something, usually it used to just be all muffled, you know, up at the front. And now when I have my headphones in, I can actually hear what they're saying and understand it instead of having to go back after the show and watch it in the stream. And so, but I completely agree with you on the headphones and over the ear. And it's just, it's very important. I think all of us don't realize how important it is in the music scene. And we're just like, Oh, we're going to be able to hear forever. And that's not the way it is. My mother in law is practically almost deaf. And she was one that went to all the dead shows, all the, you know, all those shows like followed on them. And so she, her hearing is absolutely horrible now because of that. And she even wears hearing aids and has to have them all the way up and she can still barely hear and she has to read your mouth. And that was literally all from concerts. So, and teaching them from a young age teaches them like, Hey, you still can hear it and you can still protect your ears. So that's a great motivation to start doing it a young age. And then when I shout out to ear chasm, I just bought my first pair. They just came in the mail just in time for the cap run. So I'll be using those, but I've only heard good things. And this is the first time I'm taking my hearing seriously at shows. So I'm super excited about it because I can definitely feel, you know, from all the shows, so especially for kids, when you're looking out for them, make sure that you get them those headphones. I'm really so obnoxious about ear phones up front. I was like, where are your ear phones? I ask everybody. But I say, but like blank stares. I'm like, um, you also just for adults too, it cuts chompers out. Just there's a, there are lots of benefits. It's a reply. In addition to, you know, preserving your hearing, it does help you hear the show better. But if there happen to be people talking about around you, it cuts that out immediately that that whole like thing. So there's a lot of reasons why there are pluses to protecting your hearing and wearing ear pods or earbuds or earbuds. Protecting your hearing and protecting your shows. That's right. Protecting your hearing and protecting your sanity from chompers. It's the best hack for that. It's so good. That's hilarious. Okay. I'm excited to wear my new, what are they ear plugs? Ear plugs. Yeah. Capron. So I'll let you guys know your next episode. So in addition to that, are there any other safety tips or best practices you guys wanted to share? Yeah, we like value safety so much. The kids actually nicknamed me safety Sarah, which I love. Like I, that is like so important to me. We recommend writing your phone number on the kids with a Sharpie. Two kind of placements I recommend is under their sleeve of their shirt or on their ankles. Like not just out on the open. So other people might be weird and pick up your number, but this is a safety tip. So let's say, where's case scenario? Your kids do wander off. Someone can call you based off of the number on their arm. Because kids get over stress whether they memorized your number or not. Still do this. Put your first and last name. Put your number to piggyback off of that safety tip. When you get to the venue, point out to your kids with the staff. You look like point out their shirts, point out their radio and just explain like, hey, if you don't see me, call out to these people. And we always set boundaries with the kids. Like, hey, we're going to stay in this area. You have to always see us. But like, you know, the kids are running around playing usually like pretty close to us, but it's still just to follow those best practices to help keep everyone safe. Yeah. And I would say another tip. This is a good safety tip, but just to get your kids like familiar with where you're going is something I've learned with Josiah having autism is that sharing your life. And so the reason is that sharing social stories with the kids is extremely beneficial. So we're lucky and blessed that we have YouTube now. And you can go on YouTube and just type in whatever venue you're going to and type in walk through. And they'll do these great videos. They'll show you where the parking lots are, what the venue looks like, what it looks like from the balcony. And that gives your kid a good idea of what they're going to expect when they get there. Obviously, there's not the crowds and the noise. You got to get over that. But that way they can see the venue without people in it kind of see where the routes are. They need to go. That's very beneficial. I need to do that for myself. So I'm going to just match that safety tip and put it in my back pocket because that's actually like it would alleviate some of my own anxiety as well. So thanks for that, Jason. That's awesome. I think y'all need to be like the parental leaders of everyone. Like I am just beyond impressed. Everything that you are saying. And you know, I go to concerts all the time, take my kids. And I'm just like, wow, wow, this is a, you know, this is a great idea. That's a great idea. Like I've never shown my kids. And just like Leslie said, you know, this is something that we need to do for ourselves. And, you know, so, and when I get to a show, I'm always so panicked trying to, you know, what do I need to tell Sky? What does she need to do? What does she need to know? And just knowing all this. And, you know, just like beforehand showing what they need to see. And these are just excellent tips. I just, I'm, I am flabbergasted at all this time that I've forgotten or didn't didn't even realize that I should do safety Sarah. You were amazing. Thank you so much. Yeah, we like, we're definitely passionate about Goose and we're passionate about like sharing that with our kids. And like, I think it's important to like normalize this space for all ages, like Goose, like whether you're young or old. It's such a phenomenal band to get into and share that community. So, some other best practices I wanted to share is encouraging families who are going to goose to plan to meet up with other families. And to use social media as a platform to make this happen. What you said I did for the last Legend Valley show is we looked at an aerial photo of the venue. And notice the lawn side on Peter's side and posted up on Goose checks that hey if you have kids like let's meet up over here in this lawn space and like almost like 10 families showed up as we've been talking about. And it was great because like we want to encourage the kids to be social because it's like one of our favorite aspects is like talking about Goose at the shows and encouraging people to do this because if we are just going to shows and like we're like kind of like walking around and like running into families here and there like stopping and talk to a second maybe like by the bathrooms or there's a family somewhere like by your seating area like it's best to plan that beforehand because then you know you have like a whole Goose kid village running around and like putting yourself out there can be hard it you know like meeting new people but the benefits of it like outweigh anything negative that could happen like it was so nice to have so many other moms and dads to talk to and connect with. I think it's just been a confidence for everybody in this space as well just knowing that there's kids to play with and that there's multiple eyes on all the kids as well so yeah I love that you know kind of safety and numbers approach and creating a nice space for all the families to be in that must have been so fun oh gosh so fun. It was so fun like because like I said that's where we met and how we met and we were able to like go up and be able to talk between us and always look back and be able to see our kids and all the kids were playing and having a great time because they didn't have to just stand with us the whole time you know so yeah it was really nice and we made friendships out of it because here we are Sarah and Jason are my show high family now because I will see them whenever I go to shows in Ohio which I just saw them in Cincinnati. Yes, it's very exciting so. Yes, we love those connections that's how you build them though is you do have to put yourself out there like you said. I love that because I have been saying I'm sure you've heard me or Leslie and you've heard me a couple of times saying like I really want to get a parent group and I've been talking to a few people that I know that have kids and take their kids to get a parent group and different shows and like legend Valley last year and have people that are on duty like people that we can trust and stuff so that everyone has time that they can go down to they have time to enjoy the show where it's not always watching the children and just like okay first night, first night, first night, first night these people are going to watch the kids or these people and then second set these people are going to come and just switch it out so everyone has that chance to enjoy the show knowing that your children are safe and also your children have that experience from a young age of making their friends and being able to go to shows and teaching them the safety and how to make friends with other people and what to look for and all those wonderful positive things so y'all saying this I think that we really need to get on and like make I don't know if y'all know if there's like a Facebook page like a goose I know that there's like an own online counseling page but I think that was more just the kids sharing music with each other that I would love to have like a group that the parents can talk and figure out you know like hey we're going to this show and who's going to what shows so that we know what we need and so that way that we can all discuss and it makes it more fun and easier for the parents and for the children because they have friends that they know that are coming and so it's I think that would be a great idea and safety Sarah I think that's leading the yard and so beyond impressed so you know like leading the group and even you don't have to take all the responsibility of it and stuff you know but just all the information that y'all have is absolutely amazing that would be a really cool thing I advocate for us to have a parental group you know at shows and just like I said it's so nice Chelsea like finding friends that you can okay we've got these kids and that that's very exciting I'm very excited I love that idea I love that idea so much about like having like parent groups and cultivating that community I feel like it's so important definitely and showing that it's okay for the kids to be at shows because I know whenever I don't know if y'all have the same thing but you know people will at first look at you and be like why do you have your kids at the show and it's just like any other Oh yes yeah I don't like that judgment like we got to create that positive space and like luckily people have been so nice to us and our kids like given our kids stickers or when we were at Fred like someone gave our kids like little dinosaurs so like we've luckily have had like really positive experiences but yeah like any judgment you have like it's a good space like you can have that safe space for kids and um and like with best practice with that is like um the only thing with having kids and going to go shows is you do sometimes have to plan to leave early but we want to normalize that like that's okay and that like um Jason and I usually leave two to three songs after second set with the kids um and usually the kids are sleeping up and like the show if it's going to go to 1 a.m. like we know the kids aren't going to make it to that so um and but we just wanted to say like hey that's okay like the experience of making the memories with your kids at the show like definitely out way like missing a couple songs at the end of the night so we would definitely want to say that just to like hey like you can go show shows with your kids and it's going to be a really good time. I love that you say that because that is exactly those memories are what is the most important to them and showing you know getting out there creating those memories and letting them meet people and just showing the experience the there's just so much to it that they learn at a show and just like you said like the being overwhelming it being a lot to take in and teaching them all these things that we don't even realize actually the benefits that are coming from it for the children that they're learning big world things that that they would have to learn on their own going to a concert and so teaching them safety and what things to look out for and what things are very important and so I think that this is a wonderful thing and that you are doing this and making those memories and and thank you so much for saying it is okay to leave a show a couple of songs and you know if you're bringing your children and just saying please bring your children please me please bring them out and make these memories and that's the thing that's so important is the memories and that time with your children and we don't have that much time with them and so to make these memories and then the next generation coming into it and teaching them how to be empathetic and safe and loving and looking around at their surroundings around them and how to be aware about this is as such a jump as such a big a big jump in their life that we don't even realize that the other people are like oh you have your kids at a concert and it's like yes we do and it is a great thing and we are learning any memories they're learning things for when we're not with them what to look out for and so that's a great thing and I really thank y'all for bringing that up and saying it's okay and for other people not to say anything so I really appreciate that I mean the sound boards will be up very soon so yeah and so yeah I think that goose is like an ideal band to be like it's cool you're fine later right like you don't have to make that your reason why you leave the kids home you know and they're so supportive too like they love the kids when I took when Sky went to her first show I was for sure just to I mean they don't respond you know they don't they're not able to respond back and stuff but I messaged Peter and I messaged Ben and sent a few messages I was like hey I'm bringing my daughter to this show this is her first show she absolutely loves it and absolutely loves the band and you know we weren't far into the band I think at this point like we'd only seen him like six times and they came out spent so much time with her just you know giving her so much love and attention and so that's another thing that you can you know it doesn't mean it's going to happen but there's a bigger chance that they know that the kids are there and you know they want to show that love to them and to see you know that things are possible so I would always say you know possibly just reach out and let them know and you never know you could get a shout out too like thanks to the you know these awesome kids are here so you never know what you're going to get and the band is so so amazing and so wonderful and wanting everyone inclusive of everyone so and especially the kids and and it's such a wonderful space for them. Goose is truly the ideal band to take them to start them with. Yeah totally agree we had a nice little interaction at legend Valley I think it was night two we were walking in and coach was driving around on his little moped and he saw the kids and he did kind of a 180 as soon as he saw them and stopped and shook their hands and said hello I don't think we stopped hearing about that for you know at least a year now yeah I'm going to talk about it. Cheetah our youngest like gave coach a flower and I wish like just so cute we're like really happy that I stopped and like shout out to and Bonnie for now having a kid you know like this next generation is going to be growing up it's like kids and you know the Goslings community we have the goose community and now maybe that's what we should call it the Gosling community. Yes they can you know get in and stuff that would be really cute. I love that. So we already know your boys love goose like we talked about. So how else do you connect through goose outside of the live shows like I know you all love to make pancakes. Yes. So we have a pancake challenge that we want to share with everyone and encourage you to try this with your kids or on your own. Our favorite part about goose is that they can jam for a long time so this challenge is. Pop on along pancakes jam like a 28 minute jam 20 plus. And you see how many pancakes you can make before the songs over and this includes the entire process and so. So much fun. I love that. Now I want to do this I have a girls weekend coming up I'm like should we should we do this sounds fun to me. Yeah that's definitely a cake challenge what's the most pancakes you ever made and one pancakes on. Oh my goodness I feel like for 20 yeah they just go they go ham with it and it's funny too because like. Hey pancakes super easy for kids to do on their own you just get out the supplies from. They get really creative with it we give them all sorts of random toppings and it's like. Our mutual love of goose is like the kids will randomly clap the pancakes opening. Like it's just an inside joke like besides just seeing like live music with them it has now become. A daily part of our lives whether it's doing like random challenges or like the inside jokes I've seen this a lot on. And different goose pages that people say that in the yeti song instead of saying. Yeti that people are saying daddy. And so our kids definitely think that's a daddy song. Yes I remember they opened Fred the one night with yeti and the kids lost it they turned around they're like it's the daddy song. I got right I'll take it that's great. Yeah they'll also like if they just get excited or they're happy in general. They will just start yelling goose as loud as they can. We could be we could be anywhere we could be in the house we could be on the public doesn't matter that's there I'm happy I'm excited. I'm so excited about that. It's a really good expression. Just a loud goose. Oh wow. The coolest kids ever like we I am definitely like okay we've got to make a play date and get together like parents and kids that love goose especially boys and girls like you know that's a I'm especially trying to get you know boys even though the goose community is very safe. That's one thing I definitely have realized like through this goose drought of all the shows that have definitely been doing like wow we are spoiled we've got it made and but it's you know that's an awesome thing to for the guzzlings to me and to know like different shows that they can go to and have have that support group that you know from a young age and so that's really, really cool you're an awesome cool family I'm so excited to get to talk with y'all. Yeah I have to be up at a show for sure. Definitely. I would love to see the kids too. Our kids like like love playing concert like they love putting on shows themselves so I love to get them with other kids to do this together and have that like team building kind of with other kids because like. That's such a big part of what our kids do now when they're just home having free time is they will come down invite us to a concert cut out tickets try to sell me the tickets I have to get my like coins out for them and I'm like paying like a couple quarters to go to their shows. They put on a full performance and then they've even made posters and do like the backstage and like I'm not sure like the long term effects of bringing your kids to music is like you're cultivating like a lifelong love for music and like for them to practice that and influence their play and imagination I think is so because I love seeing that imagination with concerts for them like I think that it's such a healthy play it's such a fun play and I would love to get them with other kids to keep on doing that so I wanted to definitely share that with y'all. I was such an inspiration like I just cannot stop smiling over here and hearing you say like things like I you know my kids will they'll like make a little you know invite you to different things and stuff and so it's so nice to hear that you know that y'all's kids the imagination is just you know and just like you said it the long term benefits is much more than just going to a show is their imagination and then the things that they feel like oh I can do this and I can do this and you know like Peter and Ben coming out and my husband is a drummer and so Skye she likes to you know she's been playing around with different things and so Ben was talking with her and she is so hardcore dedicated to drums now and you know she's in drum lessons all the time she's in band she's you know doing all these things and you know like mom you've got to send Ben this video and so and he'll actually like look at him and watch him and then you know when he sees them when he sees her he's like are you working on your pair your own models or I'm not for you know and just like hey are you doing this are you doing this and just that just the inspiration that they've gotten from seeing goose has been like what like what we've gotten and so it's just not just for adults is the children have gotten such inspiration and then like you said like the connection between your children and you and the bonding that comes between that it is it's just been a beautiful thing and I'm so happy to hear y'all sitting here talking about it and hearing the beauty that I've been seeing on this side and just explaining it to people and just how much more than it is and just a band and the community and everyone coming together and this is beautiful to hear y'all's story and y'all definitely I think definitely I think should lead the little guzzling you know y'all have so many awesome tips and so much wonderful things to give experience on and and I do want to say that is absolutely amazing that a lot of people are afraid to do these things when they have an artistic child and you know like oh no this is going to overwhelm them and this is and you're helping him so much to you know to get through those hard things autism is a very that's that's one of the things that I've realized with my little cousin is that that's a big that's a big step is that overwhelming and not and going into a place that you don't know and that you're not aware of who's around and so that's an awesome awesome thing and I'm so thankful that y'all I just can't tell you how thankful I am enough that y'all are sharing this and it's a it's a really big deal and I think it's not something that has been addressed in the community a lot and just for y'all to come on and address it is huge it's absolutely huge we really appreciate all the love and sending it back like it means a lot to you say that and like we just want to help like other parents feel like they can do the same and like it takes a village to raise a child and you know it's such a safe welcoming community the goose community has like just been so amazing so thanks for saying that like it's really nice to be a star our dogs started barking too like a little while I'm putting so they should be showed out it's all good I didn't hear them do it here I love this so much you all can see why when we talked about doing a parenting episode and bringing your kids to shows I was like Sarah and Jason those are my people because they really are passionate about this topic and and you can feel that and so thank you for sharing that one thing we kind of touched on but I wanted to make sure we had a chance to talk about so we talked a little bit on the impact that you think this is had on your children and what about anything else that you think it's had on your children but what about your family as a whole as well Yeah I think that Goose has really helped us as a family to bond and have that like unique shared experience that's ours and I think you know being a parent you can you try to get your kids into stuff and it might work or maybe one one kids into it and one kids not but you know Goose was the thing that all of us were into from the beginning and I think it was bingo bingo tour that hooked them is like having that ability to have a bingo board and customize it and make it their own thing it really got them gave them that ownership over it and then opened the door to the experience So I think that just as a whole it's helped us bond as a family over the last four years now It's so beautiful so beautiful you're such an amazing like stepmom Sarah I mean just the way that's a beautiful thing to come into a family and it's hard I came from a you know grew up in a divorced family and step parents and everything and sometimes it can be such a hard thing but for you to come in and you know and to be going to goose and for this to all bring y'all together as a family is just such a beautiful story to hear and just how wonderful that it brought your family together and bonding and just so quickly like solidified that bond because it's very usually is very hard and it takes a long time and it takes years and it's so beautiful to hear that you know that you came in and you found a way to you know for y'all all to bond and it's still continuing and just the bonding is growing and growing and growing like I just have such goose bumps because it's an inspiration to such an inspiration to me and I'm sure to others and it's a beautiful beautiful story Yeah we had our valence and simple love Valentine's Day episode we had like some romantic couples we had some friends to me this is yet another love story right who's has brought to the fore as a family one and it's I'm just so grateful y'all were here to the parents it's really awesome Thank you I made that connection the other day we were listening to that that episode and I was like oh my gosh this kind of fits right into that that that community and love. Yeah thank you. Yeah definitely Oh thank you so much for being here is there anything else you wanted to share that we didn't get a chance to touch on or any parting words. Yeah. I wanted to shout out to Peter because during the pandemic we ended up going on the cameo and for those who don't know it's like where you can purchase that individualized customized videos from different artists to send to your loved ones and we bought one for the boys and Peter gets on his video camera and he has Luigi and he's just being so sweet talking about how Luigi is from our housing and going to the concert and he ended up singing them like Time to Flea which is like one of their favorite songs and so I just want to say like special shout out to him because I really feel like it's the band like members who really make it such a welcoming like family environment because they cultivate like best practices and they cultivate so much love for the community that like that really helped us to go to all these shows because it gave us you know that special connection so that was definitely something I still cherish is that video from Peter. Oh cute. Oh my goodness. Luigi is the inventor of Luigi. I love it. Yeah, I love it. Bring some tears to my eyes and stuff. That's so amazing and just the sweetness of that is your Luigi. He comes home. You know, he's here. That's that means the world to them like the absolute world to them and telling all their friends and that's so cute. And do you hear stories about like them coming home and like going to school and stuff did they ever like having to listen to this song or you know I was telling my friends about goose today in this like do you all hear those stories. Oh yeah like it sounds like Judah is just a little rock star at school like he's very much that like performance and now they're having tryouts for this like alien. So I'm going to show at his school and he's going for one of the leads and I really think that you know it's so good to get your kids involved in live music because it helps encourage them to also try to be a performer and like when he's been talking about stage fright I've been bringing up the shows we've been to I'm like well I bet like Rick it's stage fright but like you know he overcomes it and like it's a good example. All the guys from goo sand. I like the earth link or alien connection to that with Judah we've been talking about that a lot. Well I'm inside jokes with the songs they definitely like that one. I love these kids friendly songs I feel like for goose earthling or alien. Time to flee. Yaddy animal they love animal on they were like singing that Christmas to the rest of the family and they were like very shocked by it but we like it. I know Judah is like a little comedian that's always like got jokes about goose and quoting random goose shows and stuff. Tell me about the where's where's a gripo. Yeah. I was like oh my gosh it's like an obscure goose line that you would only know from listening to some sound boards like I love him so much. He was walking around that was the legend Valley drive in show and we were waiting in line to get a poster and he's just walking around going. Hey anyone seen gripo. You are losing it you know. What is he doing. Like he gets it. It's hilarious. Well thank you so much there and days in for being here today and we are going to leave everyone with a word from Judah and Josiah themselves. Here we go. My name is Josiah and I was really deep rolling and I got a PSK board and I like what we did. Do you have anything else to say. That's it goodbye. Hi my name is Judah. I K.A. Judah McJ. So these are some reasons and things about goose times and stuff I've had. Number one I like which ones first. Yeah I won. Number one I like songs the songs. I like time to flee pancakes and highway to the danger zone. Next everybody in the band is so funny. And last of all one time we were driving to legend valley when I got out there was some people kind of across from us or next to us. I went out I was like I'm free. And then the people next to us were like. Bye now. Wait actually Peter. Cheese. Bye now. Oh my goodness. Thank you Judah. Thank you Josiah for adding your voice to our podcast. We're so excited that you're able to join us. And of course thanks again to Sarah and Jason. We of course also want to hear from you. We have our voicemail line set up for everyone to call in and tell us about their experiences with goose and any other bands you'd like to see. Give us a call at 704-275-3128 to leave us a message. It might get played here on the show. This week we're asking folks to call in and tell us about your first goose show again that number 704-275-3128. 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