Beantown Podcast - Tariq Shihadah of the Local Glow Podcast (Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 13, 2019

Quinn comes to you LIVE from beautiful Rogers Park to sit down with local podcaster, musician, and artist Tariq Shihadah to discuss his show, The Local Glow Podcast, and the creative journey Tariq and his team have been on the past 2 years. Head to thelocalglow.com to listen! beantownpodcast.com #FriendsofthePodcast

Welcome to the Bean Town podcast for July 13th 2019. What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show creator best boy producer all that stuff of the Bean Town podcast one of the better podcasts on the north side is Chicago and your number one source for misinformation far and wide Across the bowels of the internet. I love the word bow will be oh wide across the bowels of the internet. Love the word, bow will be O-W-E-L because it can refer to your bum or just when you're referring to things far and wide like the bowels of the internet. Well, listen to discretion as advised when you are checking out the bean-town podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally use some bum related language.

And number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Although I tell you what, I was just talking to our guest about this. Bean Tom podcast is very much a low to no production value type of show. I think Richter or something has a scale. It goes no production, low production, and then local, global production.

Well, we're going to be balancing out no production with the production value of our Dear guests and friend of the podcast Tart Shahada who will introduce in one second here. He's the host of the local glow podcast local artist and musician and he's just one of those people that you want to know in life. So without further ado Tart Shahada, welcome to the Bean Town podcast. How are you doing today? I'm doing fabulous.

And I noticed that the intro is switched up since we moved to Chicago. So welcome to Chicago. Yeah, well, we can't be one of the top 500 podcasts in Baltimore anymore, because I think there's a residency requirement. So we're not beating those yet. And the problem is when I moved to Baltimore, I never actually changed my

Illinois driver's license. So two years later, I moved back to Illinois and I still got the Illinois driver's license. So it all came full circle. Here you go. That's convenient. You saved yourself $5 or however much it costs to get a new driver's license. Well, you got plates and title and registration. And of course course that's a

death cab song but a separate podcast. I don't even have a car so I would want to buy a car just so I could do those things and the cost will really add up over time. So I think it was a great car and it's just like the biggest headache to make those things happen. Thankfully my wife Laura took care of just about all the paperwork and stuff but I just kind of threw her experience to stress of it. So. Well, in Illinois, you've got to do the inspection, right?

I'm told that you do. I don't even really know what it means, but I heard you have to be inspected. And that's what I've heard as well. Yeah, I've never owned a car, but those things always feel a little prohibitive to me. Like I'm in no rush to go out and buy a car because with stickers and documents and you know, all that stuff just seems like a lot to me. It adds up.

Yeah, well let's jump right on in here. Tark, you are the creator, and I believe the executive producer of another local podcast here called The Local Glow, which for my listeners out there, if you haven't, listen to it. Go stop what you're doing right now. Just put a pause in this episode of Beentown Podcast, and go check it out because it's one of my favorite podcasts to listen to. Tark, why don't you share with us a little bit about your show and sort of how you

develop the concept? Sure, and I would recommend instead of pausing this one if you haven't already, go and just play the look, go at the same time as this one. Oh. Just one in one here, one in the other here, and I think that's probably the ultimate podcast listing experience there. So the way that I sort of, well, okay, the way that our sort of crew started putting this together, I suppose it's a long story, kind of started. So I was living in Champaign, Illinois.

Well, Urbana, Illinois specifically don't want to get that, you're living in Urbana, Illinois, toward a college there. And so I was involved in the music community there. I was also involved in music community in Rockford, going up as well for a while, which is kind of an interesting spot and continues to be interesting. So I've always been sort of involved in local music experiences around the state.

And so moving to Chicago, sort of involved in local music experiences around the state. And so moving to Chicago, I just sort of wanted to see what the next sort of level of that was that I could dive into being kind of a busy guy living an engineer's life. We're going to nine to five and being kind of boring nerdy person now. The sort of late night shows aren't always as accessible as they used to be. And so I want to sort of stay involved in local music and sort of the community experience, but in sort of a new sort of fashion.

So, started the podcast just trying to do like a tiny desk concert type thing, just bringing in artists into our living room and, you know, having to play some songs and talking to them and stuff. And so there's a few episodes like that of the first season, and that idea sort of started to expand and grow. We started doing some more like narrative storytelling type episodes and a couple more like investigative type of episodes and sort of had some fun with that. Until I got overwhelmed and was like you know

what I need to stop for a while. That was the end of season one. It wasn't sure if there's gonna be a season two because it was just two frigging tiring to make. And then one of the you know making some friends who want to be involved and we are five episodes into season two now. Yeah one thing I really like and you kind of alluded to this is how every episode is it's really different you never really know what you're gonna get yourself into when you turn on an episode of the podcast what is sort of the process for you and your team like when you're deciding what you want to do for an episode?

What does that creative process look like? It looks like a lot of Google documents right now. So we've got this sort of, I love spreadsheet something. So we've got this Google Drive directory where we keep all of our sort of gems of ideas and stuff. So we've got a spreadsheet of just kind of, we're keeping track of different ideas that come up. And so we've got a four person team now.

It's myself, my friends, Brian Doherty, Fred via and Victoria Thomas. And they're all really fabulous, excellent talented people. So we'll meet up for a few hours a month here and there. And we'll talk ideas, we'll work on episodes, we'll work on all sorts of different things, and sort of throughout our conversations, where we keep it in our ears tilted towards finding new ideas. And what sort of things are happening around town, around the state, and around the country, really, that we might want to cover. So we've got a spreadsheet of different ideas, and depending on how passionate we are about one idea or another, we'll pull the trigger on one, and start exploring it

See what that might look like as an episode. So ideas come from all sorts of different places Can we know just kind of pick them off one by one? If you ever gone down to the American Southwest and just done a whole lot of peyote and see what happens I haven't done that yet, but that might be the energy behind season three. Well, teaser there. You mentioned not necessarily burnout, but just sort of feeling overwhelmed, and that's when you decided to end season one and you weren't sure what the future was. I think that's something, I don't know how many fellow podcasters are listening to this

episode, but anyone who's kind of created a show and tried to do a lot of it themselves and stayed creative and tried to stay passionate. I think that's something that a lot of us have experienced and I've certainly felt that way at times throughout the second year of the bean town podcast. What did you feel like you needed to do to sort of get back in the game and stop feeling so overwhelmed? And it was so yeah, so for the first season, it was just me working on it and so Laura was helping me with some interviews and stuff and she was very helpful. And stuff, a really 95% of the work was kind of, I kept it on my shoulders and I've always

been sort of a greedy creative in that way. Where if I'm working on something, I'm working on something and we're going to kind of keep this within my fold. I think that was going to be the downfall of this project of mine. I just had to open myself up to bringing other hugely talented and creative folks on board. I think the season break happened in the middle of production on a few episodes. So a couple episodes that have come out so far, the season, the second season, as well as a couple more that will be coming out later, those began in the middle of season one. And so it kind of shows how I just had to call it quicks in the middle of a lot of things,

and just kind of put in that break for a while. And so I'd always sort of try to keep an open mind. Maybe I'll start this back up again or something, but I just needed to, I don't know, I left myself open to friends who seemed interested and they kind of came on and we had some meetings and stuff and they just brought so much energy and creativity and interest and unique views and stuff where, you know, I feel like I could walk away and things would keep moving forward. So that really helps me to sort of relax in the project a little bit knowing that I don't have to do everything as I was trying to do before.

And I don't know, it lets me be a little bit of an observer. You know, still being sort of the guy ultimately pulling levers on the show, it allows me to still sort of be a part of these conversations that are turning these ideas into episodes and not feel like I need to be the end all be all for the show or something. I don't know, but I mean, just the value of bringing people on and having other people involved, I think, is kept the podcast alive when it was going to not necessarily survive into 2019. Sounds like what you're saying is you're the big greedy CEO at the top who's taking in all the money that the local glow makes and you're having a Zuckerberg line. Exactly. I'm glad you got where I was going with that.

I'm glad you're sort of seeing behind the curtain here. Yeah, a little wizard of Oz action. I love that phrase. For those of us and myself is not included in this, but for those listeners who haven't had the chance to listen to an episode of the local glow yet, you mentioned season two has been a little bit more narrative storytelling type stuff. What are some of the different sort of topics that you've explored through season two so far? Yeah, well, season two has been really, I've enjoyed it so much. It's been really cool, I've got to say,

because the team that we have is just so cool and such creative minds going into these things. So the first season, it was, like I said, sort of started with kind of a tiny desk rip-off sort of a vibe. And so we were focusing on just, you know, local music and just kind of the, you know, the local independent musicians, you know, pretty, it is cool stuff, but it wasn't especially sort of a diverse sort of set of stories that we were telling. Moving into season two, we've tried to open that up a bit.

So we've expanded from just music to music and poetry. We might, you know, expand even beyond that, depending on how things move. So, for example, Episode 1 of Season 2 featured a live performance and an interview with a really cool poet named Chris Bernstorf, who is from Taylor Michigan, I believe. And so somebody that I just sort of stumbled into at a local DIY show in town, and you know, it was a teeny little show and the living room of sort of this community sort of co-op space and we discuss the role of spirituality and religious identity as it sort of informs creative writing in music and in poetry specifically and sort of what that looks like in DIY spaces and in local community events because this guy is very spiritual, very religious, but not in the way that it feels aggressive in

the way that a lot of Christian bands might come across or something like that, for example, where it almost feels like there's always an agenda behind things. How can people's beliefs and stuff join in with whatever is happening in a local space without in a healthy way? let's put it that way. So that's one cool episode, and then one that just came out, this last episode is kind of a cool one, coincidentally on poetry as well, where we got in touch with a bunch of poets around the region, really across the country, actually, there's one from California, and so we brought in a bunch of poets who contributed one of their pieces. They recorded themselves performing it.

So we do just sort of a feature of a bunch of different poets from around and sort of follow a general theme of intimacy in different sort of forms and theme of intimacy in different sort of forms and stages and sort of narrate that through some really excellent pieces of poetry. So just a couple, you know, snapshots. What's the season two is looking like? The local glow definitely puts the term local into the conversation here. And that's something that I really enjoy. And something that I don't do a very good job of is staying local because I'm a bean town podcast out of Chicago, so it doesn't really make sense.

But I really, I do really appreciate your kind of intentionality there. And for all my kind of hip of hipster gluten vegan free shop local PETA friends out there I think you're really gonna like this local glow podcast. You gotta know your market. You of course mentioned that and if you listen to the show you'll know this season one different than season two looking ahead to the future do you feel know this season one different than season two. Looking ahead to the future do you feel like this is sort of a trend where you think every

season is going to be something a little different or do you feel like at this point you're just kind of still searching for what works best for your format or is it is it kind of still too early to tell? That's a good question. I think a couple of thoughts come to mind on that. I think, you know, if, you know, two years ago, I couldn't have told you what season one would look like a year ago, I couldn't have told you what season two would look like. And so I wanna say that I've got no clue

what season three is gonna look like. It's probably gonna sort of continue in this sort of way, I think. I think I don't have the attention span to create the exact same thing for season three anyways, and this being sort of a hobby that I'm doing on the side, you know, something that I mentioned before we started recording, I'm a, you know, traffic safety engineer. And so being an engineer, that's, I mean, that's pretty far from, you know, podcasting about music. I'd say it's about as far to the other side of the spectrum as you can get. And so this is sort of a complimentary experience for me, that's something that I used

to kind of help balance out my life. And so I think that I need to, for my own sake, sort of keep expanding and exploring and trying new weird things with it. And I have a lot of interest in the productions side of things, of just kind of, you know, making, using sounds to sort of help tell the story, not just, you know, words as an engineer, my words are perhaps enough to finest. But I, you know, I love using sounds and sort of, you know, just using sort of that oral medium to help tell stories that are happening around. So I think I think we'll be diving into some more interesting sort of production type of things in the future. If I had to make a prediction, I'd say something like that.

Yeah, that's excellent. I wonder the thing I want to get to. Oh, of course, if people want to listen to the local glow, where should they go to find your show? Good question. I could tell you to go to thelocalglow.com. We're on every podcasting app as well. I think there's sometimes I'll get tapped on the shoulder and somebody will be like, why aren't you on, you know, session session and so I'll go put us on that. I think we're even on YouTube now. You could find this, you know, anywhere, any podcasting app, you can find us the local glow, Instagram, at the local glow, Facebook, etc. If you Google the local glow, I believe that we're the first thing that comes up.

So that's huge. Oh, that's huge. That's a huge thing too. Yeah, that's been our greatest success, probably. Your SEO is skyrocketing. That's right. That's what it's all about. That's really sort of the heart of podcasting. It's SEO.

This is true. We're wrapping up here. I want to just very briefly shift gears because you mentioned that you're an engineer, you're a podcaster, but you also still play a little bit of music on the side. And before we get into what I was actually going to ask you about, I had a really interesting thought here. I hang out and do some podcasts with Ryan Liggan occasionally, who we both grew up with. He was in a band growing up with some siblings and friends called Say With Love.

And I have some fond memories of going to some concerts in the basement of a church where his band would be playing. But you also had a band. And I'm struggling on the name of what it was, but I'm sure you remember. I'm sure you can tell us. I do remember, I hesitate to tell. Well, okay, so we were called at the uproar, and yeah, we played with Ryan's band for sure.

He said it was called Save With Love. Yeah, that was Ryan's band. I remember that. I love playing with them. They were so much fun Yeah, we would do some like basement shows. I mean, that was kind of the aesthetic of of the rock-cred music scene was was sort of dank Church basements and things like that Definitely sort of sticks in the mind

Can we expect a reunion true? sort of like hardcore sort of Like want to be as city's burn type of band. It's a good time. Any chances the band gets back together? Hopefully not. I mean, I love playing with those guys. And I would play with them again in the snap of a finger or whatever, but I think we'd have to hit the refresh button pretty hard. A little bit of joking around there, but in all seriousness, you have a show coming up on Tuesday, is that right?

Yes, very true. Yes, yes. I'll be playing, I'll actually be doing just a solo thing. I've got a new band right now, which is sort of a funny example of how I, how much that's chilled out since high school, I told you I was in a hardcore band in high school. This new band is called Discoverer. We're just about as. You can get so we'll be playing later this month the full band at Uncommon ground the lake few location on the 31st

But yeah, this Tuesday I'll be doing a solo thing at the tonic room Which I just love that venue such a wonderful like small little bar space, and it's it's awesome So I'm really excited. We'll be playing with a band called Honey Cellar. And yeah, I'm gonna be doing some new songs there and having a really good time. So I'd love to see some of the bean heads out there. Oh, bean heads, that's a new one. I don't wanna make any promises,

but maybe an at the upper reunion. Again, no promises, haven't talked about it just think about it, you know, it's a possibility. It is always a possibility. You can never rule out another reunion show. Oh boy, maybe some, I don't know, weezer covers or something, just things to keep in mind. If they call you out for an encore, you know, you got to have some songs ready to go. That's a great point. I'm always up for a Weezer cover, honestly. So yeah, get ready for an happy hour for reunion, playing exclusively Weezer covers. Only the new stuff too.

Well, when I was in college, there was this Sakka-Pellah group, and we always wanted them to only sing outcast covers, but it never really came to fruition. So that's another dream of mine, but separate conversation. Of course, I only know, I think, one and a half outcast songs. So I couldn't really give them a set list, but oh well. I'd probably wanted a quarter, so you're ahead of me there. Well, Tari, I wanted to thank you so much for giving us some time on your weekend. I know you've got a busy schedule and getting over a little bit of a cold here.

So thank you so much for coming on our show. We really appreciate it. Absolutely. I was excited when you asked me. I've been hoping to get the call. I've been eagerly watching that show for that call. You've been like the picture down in AAA, just waiting for that call up to the big TriCon League. That's right, we're in my glove and got my baseball cap on, ready to go.

TriCon, good, good, good, good, reference. Come on down to the phone call. I'm so excited to be on Quinn. I love your show and I love what you're doing. So really really glad to be talking to you. As a reminder, everyone, go check out the local glow podcast local glow podcast.com. Is that right? Did I get it right? The local glow dot com. Okay, don't even need the podcast, the local glow dot com. If you Google local glow

podcasts, they're probably going to be the first ones that come up with this very exciting. Tark is playing a solo set this Tuesday night at the Tonic Room and then later this month with his band discover at Uncommon Ground Lakeview location. All right. That was excellent. Tariq Shahada, dear friend from growing up and glad we could reconnect. And yeah, thanks, Tariq, for coming on our show. So what did we learn today?

Well, there are podcasts out there where people actually put a lot of thought, creativity and passion into them. I know the beaners out there listening say, no, it's an uproar. How could you actually spend time editing and producing? And I say, hey, to each their own, every podcast should be different. They can have their own values system. All podcasts are created equal except they're different.

So I just kind of like to use the words of the Constitution to make things fit the way I want them to. Maybe I should be a politician. Well, let's get to some ads here and then we're gonna end it so I can go run in this 90 degree Chicago weather. I was thinking about, well, this was embarrassing, a little insight into the high in the scenes at Bean Town.

I was going to run this morning and I didn't have a super late last night late late whoo didn't have a super late night last night. That's tough to say five times fast but I got home around midnight and I'd had probably four or five beers throughout the night and when that happens and I you know I still get you know seven eight hours to sleep awake up in the morning though and I'm just like man all I want to do is lie in my couch and watch curb your enthusiasm or something So I was under the impression and this was stupid because at no point had we ever said this

But I was thinking we're gonna record at 10 o'clock Well, we recorded at 11 o'clock Which is what we had agreed to in text and I don't again no idea why I thought 10 so I plan my schedule out So that I was gonna run before the 10 o'clock taping. And then I woke up at like 8.15 and I was like, I can't do this, I need a little bit of time to stretch out, get hydrated was the most important things

that's hot out today. And then eventually, of course, I was just like, I'm not gonna do it. Well, then at 10 o'clock, I'm like, all right, let's record and of course, I'm talking to Tarik and he's like, oh, I thought we were doing 11. Well then at 10 o'clock I'm like all right let's record and of course I talk to Tariq and he's like oh I thought we were doing 11 so then I wasted a whole hour so now to pay my penance I'm about to go out and noon when they say the sun is most intense so that's going to be an exciting time. Well before we get to that let's read some ads here. Home Pride Organ, are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter

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guide story because I think we officially broke up. I was, you know, a move tier said, the one bad thing about moving apartments is now I'm not going to give those Victoria secret catalogs anymore, unless you can get them for free. And then maybe I would hook myself up. But that feels like the next level, not even purve, but just like kind of weird. Because I support women's bodies, like a human bra.

Well, I was feeling down on my luck. When one day this past week, I get a ad plus coupon from what is this company called. Torrid, is that what it's called? Torrid Curve, is that what it's called? It doesn't sound like a name of a company. Beautiful all around. We designed life-changing bras and intimits. I thought it a name of a company. Beautiful all around.

We designed life-changing bras and intimits. Thought it said inmates for a sec. So you can have confidence when you want to be sexy, support to move effortless through your day and comfort every moment of your life. That sounds pretty good to me. Then let's see, they're advertising the plush up plunge. It's got five stars.

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Well, Samson pulling double duty today, not something we've asked to do a ton this year, but also kind of in that vein. And this is something I mentioned on the phone to Tark was, this is probably the first episode in what feels like a really long time, and you can check me on this. I'm not sure how long it's been, but a while I feel like where we've done like an actual serious sit down interview, we did a decent amount of those in year one, a couple come to mind, Graham Sal, Maggie J. John Paul Pintowski. But we really haven't done that much this year. This year year two has been a lot more improv, comedy,

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We got buttons. We have got buttons and I'll give you a little dangle right now so you know it's real. Sounds like Legos or something. We got a hundred count of I Heart Being Town buttons and there's no gimmick, there's no nothing. You don't have to do anything, we just wanna share them with the fans, with the friends of the podcast, the beeners, or the beanheads, a new term introduced by our friend, Tark, and I kinda like it, I don't know. So, remind me, next time I see you,

hey Quinn, I heard you got these bean toned buns, I'd love to have one wall, I'll try to carry some with me at all times so that you have a bean-toned button wear them on your backpack Physically wear them on your skin pierced nipples whatever you want to do enable Tongue I don't know I think it could be tough with swallowing and talking, but the bean-town button is yours. I Lay no claim to it So we've got something we would love for you to have them. So Remind me and

That's what I got. Well, it's a hot summer day here in Chicago about to go out for a run. Stay hydrated Stay hydrated everyone, can never drink too much water, especially if you go out the night before and you're drinking alcohol, you got a double time in the morning when you wake up and that's what we've been doing. Thanks to our friends at Jack Link's Feed,

your wild side, drinking from the Jack Link's growler courtesy of Uncle Andy. Well, all right, 36 minutes, That's a great place to end. It's a nice, happy medium. That's right in this sweet spot. We've had some longer episodes in the past, typically with friends of the podcast. But this one, we got right to the point,

and no fat, except for the stuff I got on me. Pfft. And yeah, so thanks again to Tark so much for giving us some time out of your day for sharing with us again. Go to thelocalglow.com or you can find those podcasts, anywhere you listen podcasts. And if you're thinking, oh, this is just another podcast. If it's anything like Bean Town, I'm going to hate it. Well, it's nothing like Bean Town.

It's well produced. They've got four people working on it. It's local, shop local, buy local, vegan free, all that stuff, local glow podcast, you're gonna wanna listen to it. And it's not, you're not overwhelmed with content, there's not a new episode every week. There's probably a grand total of what? Like 12 or 13 episodes out there.

So just go check them out. If you're looking to just learn a little bit more about our local community and some of the art, some of the poetry, something music that exists here. Go listen. All right. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, you can always email us, be in Tom podcast at yahoo.com against be in Tom be in pah-gm yahoo.com. I kind of unintentionally lost that one.

It was like my tongue was on a rollercoaster. It's six flags, great America up there in Gurney. And it just kind of got away from me. Just got away from me. All right, for all of us here at Bean Town podcast, thanks so much for listening. Thanks to the friends. Don't forget to listen to us.

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