“How’s the Soup?” Joins Bobcat on the Second Edition of The Cortland Beat

DJ Bobcat: [00:00:00] X101, Always Classic, DJ Bobcat here in the Centralis Health Studios, today for the second ever episode of the new Local Music podcast. It’s the Cortland Beat.

Jamie Hazard : The crowd goes woooo !

DJ Bobcat: I got a special guest here with me today. The band known as How’s The Soup. We got Richie Benjamin, Pat Nadge, and Jamie Hazard.

Jamie Hazard : Hello.

DJ Bobcat: You guys wanna say hello ?

Richie Benjamin: Hello out there.

Pat Nadge: Hey. Hey.

DJ Bobcat: All right. How’s everybody doing today ?

Richie Benjamin: Oh having fun

Jamie Hazard : Super !

DJ Bobcat: Yeah

Jamie Hazard : Super duper !

DJ Bobcat: All right

Richie Benjamin: Gotta say super Richard

DJ Bobcat: So, yeah, I have known Richie for quite a while now. First met him at the Homer Farmer’s Market back in the day, right outside on the Great Village Green there.

And I never thought that I needed punk rock musical comedy for kids in my life.

Richie Benjamin: But I, but I do.

DJ Bobcat: You heard it, man.

Pat Nadge: Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: But how do you, how do you describe the music ?

Richie Benjamin: I call it comedy punk,

DJ Bobcat: Right

Richie Benjamin: It, you know, it, it [00:01:00] just fun. Um. They’ll be positive about things is it’s okay to laugh at anything really.

DJ Bobcat: Yep. Life’s just one big joke, right ?

Richie Benjamin: Yep. It is.

DJ Bobcat: Alright, before we get started, I wanna give a special thanks to some of our supporters, Eve’s Digital, the Center for the Arts, and Homer and Rose Hall. Thanks for the support and if you wanna sponsor the podcast, let me know. We’re still looking for a title sponsor.

Alright, so let’s get into it now, shall we? Tell me a little bit more about the band. Like who you are, what you play, how you got started, where you play. Go ahead Richie. You wanna get started ?

Richie Benjamin: How do I get started ? My goodness. Um, yeah, I, I’m Richie. Um, I grew up here in Homer actually. Um, then moved outta state and I moved back up here ’cause I missed Homer ’cause 9-11 happened, that kind of thing.

And I’m like, I need to go home and uh, when I got to the college, I was working at the college and I met this family there. Or the, the, the main cook. He, um, I found out his whole family plays music and I’m like, Hey, can I come over ? And he’s [00:02:00] like, uh, do you, do you know what an uh, um, f chord is ? I’m like, yeah, sure.

But I didn’t. But they took me under their wing and they helped me, uh, come on Michelle and learn that, that I could play guitar and I could actually sing and play guitar. That, that was an interesting experience. The first time I did that, I was like, oh my goodness, I can do that. Um, yeah. But now, um, were House of Soup we’re trio for the most part.

Pat Nadge: Trio for the most part

Of two and a half, two and a half Men.

Jamie Hazard : But it started out with just you and then…

Pat Nadge: Started out with just Richie

Richie Benjamin: I, I, I played at, um, daycares and had started classes, um and…

DJ Bobcat: What year that was, your How’s The Soup gig ?

Pat Nadge: Oh, I don’t even really remember. Um, I wanna say around like 2005-2006

Jamie Hazard : And where was that ? Where was the first gig ?

Pat Nadge: Probably, well one of the first gigs I played for actually was my, uh, it was at work at the college. It was back to work day and I wrote a song for, [00:03:00] for that place of employment. And it was awesome just playing for, we had a full band of just playing for all my coworkers and um, I was like, I gotta do this more often.

And I was, and then with the college, I was laid off a lot. So I was, uh, I was like, I need to, you know, see if I can play for music at, for kids for, um, historic classes and I played all the little, um, Itsy Bitsy Spider songs and I had the kids, all the kids were just dancing and the teachers were dancing.

And it was, um, by the time I left, they were ready for a nap. All of them, all of them.

Jamie Hazard : That’s how we feel too.

Pat Nadge: Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah. I mean, when, when I first heard you, you sounded good, but I feel like something changed in the last few years where the, your sound got even better. What changed ?

Richie Benjamin: Brought on Pat.

Pat Nadge: Yeah, well I brought on drums

Richie Benjamin: It took a different direction for sure a little bit.

Pat Nadge: Yeah. I, I don’t,

Richie Benjamin: I think it was probably 2017 that [00:04:00] we started playing together. It was just Richie still, you know, and then I started, I just listened to his songs. And just tried, like I always do just play the song.

Just play to the song. You know, just follow what, what he’s doing and just yeah, just back him up and play the song, yeah, so,

Pat Nadge: They’re different because I, I had experiences where people, uh, would here, my stuff, it’s kind of hard to play with.

DJ Bobcat: Mm-hmm.

Pat Nadge: But I did do, um, I’d say, um, I had a full band before and we played at a, at um, was a biker benefit.

And, and it was awesome. The, the, the guy that passed away, um. His son came right up to us by like while we’re playing and his son just came up in front of the band, just, just hung out for the whole show. I thought that was so awesome.

Pat Nadge: And all the kids wait just the way kids react to music and you see that if they like you, you’re gonna know it.

If they don’t like it, you’re gonna know that too, because I play that one daycare with the kids like, “you’re not funny”, like meet me outside,

DJ Bobcat: You’re doing the best no filter. [00:05:00]

Richie Benjamin: Right

DJ Bobcat: Tell you how they feel.

Jamie Hazard : Oh no.

DJ Bobcat: Cool. Alright. Uh, and what about you, Jamie ? You wanna got anything you wanna add to that ? How did you get started with the band ?

Jamie Hazard : I came and I’m, I’m the newest, I think I’m four years in.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah. It’s going on four years though.

Jamie Hazard : Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: It’s been a little while.

Jamie Hazard : I, I have, I have tried to leave several times.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah. She’s tried to leave several times, but we just keep reeling her back in.

Jamie Hazard : Yes

Richie Benjamin: Well, I played with Jamie in a band back in like the early nineties, so, and we were thinking about getting a bass player, and I said, I know who we need.

Jamie Hazard : And I hadn’t played,

Richie Benjamin: You brought her out of retirement

Jamie Hazard : Yeah, I hadn’t played bass in 25 years or something.

DJ Bobcat: Wow.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah,

Jamie Hazard : I don’t know, I guess I just needed this.

DJ Bobcat: Cool, cool. And so Richie, I guess is a question for you. How’s the soup ? Where’d that, where’d that name come from ?

Richie Benjamin: Um, at first it started where like, I was a cook for [00:06:00] many years. I’ve worked at food service and for some reason soup was always like hard for me to just to make, I couldn’t just come up with soup.

Um, and, and like at the college, every, every day you had to make two soups. And I was like, Hey, yeah, how’s this soup ? And um, and kinda like, um, it’s kinda like a, like our songs were a mix of all kinds of subjects, all kinds of tempos and, um, which kinda like a soup is

DJ Bobcat: Yeah. Like a melting pot.

Richie Benjamin: But now I use it for, for, for when I go to restaurants and I order soup and the waitress will come back.

Come back and say how was the soup ? And I’d like, oh my god, you know me ?

Pat Nadge: He knew what he was doing the whole time.

DJ Bobcat: Anyway. All right, moving on. So tell us about any albums or recordings that you guys have where we could find your music or anything you got in the works.

Richie Benjamin: Well, we just recorded five songs, um, and we’re just working on putting the CD out, [00:07:00] getting those mastered and probbaly, come famous that day probably.

Jamie Hazard : Then it’s Madison Square Garden after that.

DJ Bobcat: Oh cool, you got a name for the album, or is it more of like a EP or whatever the kids are calling it these days ?

Richie Benjamin: Yeah, I don’t, I probably, I don’t, we don’t have a name, but yeah, but we’ll release it like on Spotify and all your,

DJ Bobcat: Apple music will be a look. Be on the lookout for that. I know I found some of your tracks on SoundCloud. For those that are fans of SoundCloud, you’d find some old tracks.

Richie Benjamin: My daughter was uh, like four or five to telling the story and then playing guitar over it and it worked.

It’s a beautiful story. I was like, what about a Care Bear ?

DJ Bobcat: That’s cool. That’s pretty cool.

Richie Benjamin: And a shark that like lost his tooth. My kid. Ha ha.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: Feel funny, Megan.

DJ Bobcat: Nice. I got, I, I wrote a song, well my daughter writes us songs all the time now, but about a year ago she wrote, she started saying this thing tomorrow now,

It came from like, ” [00:08:00] I wanna watch more TV”, And it’s like, no, gotta shut off. You get more time tomorrow. ” Tomorrow now !”

DJ Bobcat: That’s a great song. I’m like, Lily, let’s write a song about tomorrow now, we wrote it. I got the demo recorded and I’ve been trying to like record it, but like. It’s hard to top the demo.

I’m like, I don’t wanna just put the raw demo track on an album.

Pat Nadge: Mm-hmm.

DJ Bobcat: And just be like it’s perfect, you know ? Yeah. Alright, so next up, we’re gonna take a little break and play a clip from a song. Richie, why don’t you tell us about this song we’re about to hear ?

Richie Benjamin: It’s about, uh, kid, uh, finding a pet stick of a real piece of wood and it just, it’s just a story about it.

DJ Bobcat: Cool.

Pat Nadge: What a kid in his pet

Richie Benjamin: Kid, in his pet.

DJ Bobcat: All right. Well, here it is. It’s My Pet Stick, by How’s the Soup ? On the Cortland Beat Podcast. We’ll be right back.[00:09:00]

All right and we’re back with the Cortland Beat Podcast.

Pat Nadge: Oh yeah.

DJ Bobcat: And we’re, we’re here with our friends. How’s the soup, Richie, Pat, and Jamie. How’s it going ?

Richie Benjamin: Uh, fantastic.

Pat Nadge: Glad to be here. Thank you.

DJ Bobcat: How does it feel to hear your song on the radio ?

Richie Benjamin: It’s pretty cool, actually. Pretty cool. Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: Never thought that really happened.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Jamie Hazard : That’s a sweet mix.

Richie Benjamin: I love it.

Pat Nadge: It’s a sweet mix. The base came through.

Jamie Hazard : Finally.

DJ Bobcat: Alright, so next up. So Richie, we’re friends and, uh, you know, I, I often see you on your social media page. Hyping up other local, uh, musicians and bands. So first I [00:10:00] wanna say, as a fellow local musician, I appreciate you being a good cheerleader for all of us and, and, and getting people hyped on, on new music and different music and local music.

Um, so it’s a good segway ’cause I have a question I like to ask guests that come in, tell us what other bands or musicians in the area inspire you or who some of your faves are. I don’t wanna put any pressure on Richie, you’ve been talking a lot, let’s start with Pat.

Pat Nadge: Oh, start with me then. Okay.

Um. Yeah, there’s, I, I like a lot of the bands here in Cortland and the region actually. I mean, I could name names, could I name names ?

DJ Bobcat: Yeah, you can name names.

Pat Nadge: I mean, I have some friends that I think are gonna be coming in here. Uh, Dry County Welders.

DJ Bobcat: Mm-hmm. They’ll be our guest next month. Tune in for that.

Pat Nadge: I like those. I dig those guys.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Pat Nadge: And, uh, Bob Holes is uh, uh, great, uh, drummer friend of mine.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Pat Nadge: He plays in a bunch of different bands, and yeah, yeah that’s a couple.

DJ Bobcat: Cool.

Pat Nadge: Jamie,

Jamie Hazard : Well, Patrick stole one of mine, uh

[00:11:00]

DJ Bobcat: You can say it again.

Jamie Hazard : Dry county welders. Um, I love Clint. Clint’s awesome.

Um, and Perilous. Um,

Pat Nadge: Oh, yeah,

Jamie Hazard : Renee, she’s the best. Um, so yeah, those are my two favorite round here. Oh, I should say though, shout out to Defining 13.

Pat Nadge: Oh yeah, I do play in another band.

Jamie Hazard : Yes. Defining 13.

Jamie Hazard : And they let me play every once in a while for them, so

Pat Nadge: Thank you.

DJ Bobcat: Cool. Alright, Richie, you’re up.

Richie Benjamin: No, um, um, I’ve always been focused more on the local, local scene because you go to the shows and like you’re right there with the band. But like, one band I really do like is they’re, they’re from Syracuse area. Uh, Brand New Sin. Awesome. Local band. One of the riffs that, that they wrote, uh, from my world.

Like, it kind of really, um, helped me learn to play, which is pretty cool. Oh my god, there’s so many bands, um, back about 10 years ago, it was a band called New Animal, which is, uh, which is that Courtland, um, real, just awesome [00:12:00] people. Awesome band. I, I, I still play their CDs. Um, um, I got a bunch of CDs, all, like, about 9% of my CDs are local, local from around the world, like the smaller band, the independent artists.

DJ Bobcat: You, you travel just to buy CDs from the local artists ?

Richie Benjamin: Well, some call say, Hey, can you ship me a cd, please ? Like, yeah, 40 bucks.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: All right. And I got a bunch of merch from, yeah, just small bands. The one band called Royal Bliss Outta Utah. Thier song really got me through a, um, probably the hardest time of my life.

So I’m thankful for music and, but there’s, there’s way too many for me to name right now ’cause there’s so many good, I just looked musicians here in Homer, here in Cortland, Ithaca, Syracuse, It’s an awesome place.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah, I agree. I talked about this on the last episode and I said I moved to the area in 2011 to help my buddy Alan start a farm.

Not really knowing too much about the area other than Ithaca and Syracuse, but I [00:13:00] was blown away for the small town that Cortland is for the amount of music and great musicians and bands we have here. Like we’re, we are so lucky like,

Richie Benjamin: That’s awesome.

DJ Bobcat: And it’s not just like one little niche genre, this or that,

It’s like across the board, like

Richie Benjamin: Mm-hmm.

DJ Bobcat: We’re lucky in on multiple levels for, you know.

Jamie Hazard : I don’t know what’s in the water here, but I am so impressed with just the musicians, but even the art and I know a lot of, uh, actors, actresses, writers,

DJ Bobcat: Creatives. Yeah.

Jamie Hazard : It’s. Crazy.

DJ Bobcat: Mm-hmm.

Jamie Hazard : How creative people are around here.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah, I know. It is great and we’re really lucky to have places like the Center for the Arts and Homer and Rose Hall and CRT and all that kind of stuff is, is really cool. We are really lucky. Have some good, good culture here in Cortland.

DJ Bobcat: Cool. So next up, just an opportunity for you guys to share any interesting stories you have, anything we haven’t touched on yet.

Like one of the things I was gonna ask you, [00:14:00] Pat, is, so you mentioned your other band, but you play in more than one group, right ? You still play in,

Pat Nadge: Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: With Aiken ?

Pat Nadge: Yeah, with Mike Aiken as well.

DJ Bobcat: You can talk about that real quick for a minute. Give him a shout out.

Pat Nadge: Yeah, it’s just, it’s just a duo, Mike and I, but it’s a lot of fun.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Pat Nadge: Yeah. Play a lot of shows and have a lot of fun.

DJ Bobcat: Cool.

Pat Nadge: Um, but yeah, and I fill in for a bunch of different bands. You know, when they, they call me up, Hey, you can’t play drums tonight ? Can you come play ? Yes I can.

DJ Bobcat: Nice.

Pat Nadge: So, yeah.

DJ Bobcat: Cool.

Pat Nadge: Yeah, it’s a good time.

DJ Bobcat: Nice. Anybody have any particular stories you wanna share ?

Any funny stories about,

Pat Nadge: I think Richie’s got a story about a show that we have coming up cause,

Richie Benjamin: Soon

DJ Bobcat: Well, we’ll talk about the show last.

Pat Nadge: Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: There’s one story. Um. I don’t dunno how long ago, uh, um, I played for the for the Cabaret Center for the Arts and Homer. I did two songs. I did, uh, Hey, Good looking.

Pat Nadge: What’d you say ?

Richie Benjamin: Um, the, um, Banana Belt song

DJ Bobcat: Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: And um, that song though, like. Back then, I didn’t have an iPad. [00:15:00] I had two sheets of paper, one for each song, and just me and my acoustic guitar. And when I got almost done with the Banana Boat song, the paper falls off the, the music stand and I kind of shut down.

I was like, what’s going on ? I was like, oh, no freaking out, but as I, but, but as I’m stopping playing music, I hear the whole place is singing the song.

DJ Bobcat: Oh, that’s sweet.

Richie Benjamin: Like that was, it was. I was like, oh my goodness. So I’m like, I’m, yeah. Something like, I’ll never forget. It was like the worst and best experience

DJ Bobcat: It goes, right.

Richie Benjamin: I just get weird technical difficulties happen like that cause there’s one,

one show we played at Tudor Lounge. I, I always bring two, yeah, Buffalo. And, um, I, I go to get, you

I go to hit my go play my guitar, my strap falls out, which I thought I had a strap lock and nope.

And then I get my other, the second guitar, the Jack is, is Unscrew, so I can’t plug it in. I’m like, so I’m, I’m running around, like, I ended up playing a show [00:16:00] sitting on a speaker with a guitar in my lap, which I like to dance when I’m singing and playing. So it was kind of hard, but, but it was fun. It was a great place.

Awesome venue, we’ve been all over the state and in Pennsylvania.

Pat Nadge: Yeah,

Richie Benjamin: A couple times, yeah some fun shows and people. There was one show I had, um, I played at Neubig Hall actually. They had a big dinner going on, so it was like 400 kids. You know, in the dining room as I’m breaking down this one kid comes over, he is like

DJ Bobcat: Breaking down the equipment,

Richie Benjamin: that’s another story. But, um, I, yeah, as I’m breaking down my equipment, uh, one kid, one student comes over and says, uh, did you sing about cheese ? I’m like, yeah, man. And he is like, all right. Um, I thought I heard that, but it was like just the looks just I get from people with the stuff I sing about with cheese and sticks and lots of fun stuff.

DJ Bobcat: Well, I gotta say that’s, you know, part of the reason why I had had you guys on here is ’cause like, yeah, I feel like it’s. You’re one of those groups that a [00:17:00] lot of people might not know about, but at the same time, a lot of people know who you are. I think a lot of people probably know who all you guys are from different parts of life.

Um, but your music is some of the most unique music that I’ve come across in, in a while. And, and it’s pretty cool to, like, you really have your own style. You kind of own it. You go with it. You’re, you know, the confidence and the it just, it all kind of just fits and, and just knowing you as a person as well and knowing that you’re just like an extremely good human being.

It just, it just gives me good feelings all around, so

Pat Nadge: Nice, thank you.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah,

Pat Nadge: That’s good. I’m fine.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah. And that goes all guys too. I always talk to.

Pat Nadge: Yeah they’re alright.

DJ Bobcat: Talking right there, Richie. ’cause you know, I’ve known him the longest, but,

Richie Benjamin: Right.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah. Um, and I’m sure the music has evolved as you bought more people, right ?

Richie Benjamin: Yeah, like I like, I basically write the songs, like just the guitar part and the lyrics and kinda how it go. Then they, they make it ours. You know, and it’s so awesome. I just add to just [00:18:00] her one song, A Big Red Belly Bug, she plays like, something really surprised me when she played, I was like,

Jamie Hazard : There is a good story for this.

Richie and I played a show, just the two of us together, and I think that’s the first time he ever realized that I was playing something completely different and probably that was a bad time to drop it on him during a show when it’s just me and him because he’s looking over at me like, what ?

What are you ? Just giving me that look of like, what are you playing right now ?, but

Pat Nadge: If you play something different. He notices it.

Richie Benjamin: I don’t know.

Pat Nadge: Yeah. If you play something different or do something different, he looks over at you

Jamie Hazard : Yeah, but he doesn’t notice me until it’s, it’s me and him alone without drums. And then he’s like,

Pat Nadge: Like, are you playing ?

Jamie Hazard : Oh my gosh, what are you playing ? And it’s in the middle of a show and okay, but now, he’s learned to listen to me. It’s taken [00:19:00] a while. I do wanna back up though and say like about his music, if people are listening and don’t really know it’s, it’s about, yes.

Cheese and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Pat Nadge: Yeah, laundry.

Jamie Hazard : Itchy sweaters, yes, laundry day. So it’s very, I like to tell people that we are kind of the Seinfeld of music where it’s a Seinfeld was a show about nothing. But it’s kind of like everyday life,

And we’re kind of the Seinfeld version of music of like, it’s everyday things and Richie’s like hyper fixated on whatever that thing is for the week of,

Pat Nadge: Yeah.

Jamie Hazard : Like butterflies one week or you know, like,

Pat Nadge: yeah.

Jamie Hazard : So yes, we are the Seinfeld of, of music, I think like, we’re a band about nothing really and everything.

DJ Bobcat: I like it, I like it, good stuff cool alright, so last question is just, you know, an opportunity to tell the [00:20:00] people about any upcoming shows you might have, and also how can people find out more about you.

Richie Benjamin: Well, that’s, we’re on Facebook. Uh, How’s the Soup ? It’s just a bowl of soup with a how’s the soup in the, in the steam. We’re on Facebook mainly, um, as, as where we share the music. Um, but our music soon will be available on Spotify and Apple Music. Got, there’s nothing really available on my YouTube channel.

But that’s just me playing solo acoustic stuff

Jamie Hazard : With a shirt off, usually. I’ve had to force him lately to Richie, please put a shirt on. If you’re gonna make a video, please put a shirt on for everyone.

Richie Benjamin: Good for radio. Good for radio,

Jamie Hazard : Yes

Richie Benjamin: Yep. I’ll put my shirt back on.

Jamie Hazard : Yeah.

Richie Benjamin: Thank you. And, uh, far as a show, we got a really, really big show for us coming up.

This band was big in the nineties. They, they, a song called Three Little Pigs. It was all over MTV, all over the, the, the world really. I’m a huge fan of Green Jello. Um, I’ve, I’ve got, I [00:21:00] just, all their stuff, lots of CDs, lots of records,

Pat Nadge: Guitar,

Richie Benjamin: Sign guitar by the band, and yeah you know

Pat Nadge: Just a little bit of the fan.

Richie Benjamin: It’s crazy fun music. It’s like, it’s like ours but amplified. And we’re playing it at the Photo City Music Hall. It’s our debut there, and it’s, it’s gonna be an awesome night. It’s gonna be a crazy night cause they do this thing in their show. The pool noodles, if you look up green jello, you’ll see right now they have a U-Haul.

Trailer full of pool noodles. And what they do is they pass ’em out to the crowd and the crowd just goes crazy with them. And they have this thing called punk rock puppets, where it’s like duct tape and cardboard and actually our logo’s on one of ’em.

Or how’s the tube logo, is on one of ’em touring the country in the world right now.

So how’s the soup is on this punk rock puppets backside.

Jamie Hazard : Nice.

Richie Benjamin: That’s gonna be awesome that that’s May 1st, uh, we have tickets. You can message the band. How’s the Soup, uh, directly. Um, anytime, any questions if you need, um, even if you’re going through some stuff, whatever we’re, we’re always right there you know,

DJ Bobcat: Good friend to talk to.

Pat Nadge: Richie, write a song [00:22:00] for you.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: Yes. Yeah. There you go.

And now, how’d you, how’d you land that Green Jello gang ? That’s pretty cool. One of your favorite bands ?

Richie Benjamin: I feel like I’ve been, um, been manifesting it because,

I would make, um, I would joke about playing for Green Jello because I know it’s a crazy show and I,

Pat Nadge: And you talk to some of the guys in the band

Richie Benjamin: A lot of the band members I know they have some,

Pat Nadge: Changes

Richie Benjamin: Yeah. Yeah. The band changes overall, good people, good guys, when I first saw the, the Gimme Rochester, I messaged music hall like that minute, the songs they had recorded were songs that they didn’t care for because it wasn’t mixed properly, which I understand.

But like I send him and, and, and like the next day he’s like, yeah man, can you sell tickets ? I’m like, I don’t know. I don’t, that’s why he said that, yeah, you try

Jamie Hazard : So please buy a ticket through us

Richie Benjamin: $20. ‘

Jamie Hazard : Cuase it helps us out a lot.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because the more tickets we sell, it’s our better, the closer I get to play to.

[00:23:00] Green Jello set time, you know, but, but either way it’s gonna be an awesome night.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah. That’s pretty cool. Alright, so I think it’s about time to wrap it up. I wanna thank you guys all for coming and spending some time with us here. We got one more song to play.

Pat Nadge: Yeah thank you.

DJ Bobcat: Give a shout out to our, our supporters, Eves Digital Center for the Arts and Homer and Rose Hall.

And thank you Pat, Jamie, and Richie for joining us.

Pat Nadge: Yes, thank you.

DJ Bobcat: Any last minute things you wanna say ?

Richie Benjamin: Just, uh, thank you so much, man. I know that, um, for, for giving us this opportunity.

Jamie Hazard : Yeah,

Richie Benjamin: Uh, for music and just, um, to tell people, you know, uh, local music’s amazing. People don’t realize what they have in their backyard, even.

Um, like yeah, you got these huge shows at the amphitheater, but it’s like, there’s great shows right down the street probably from where you live.

Richie Benjamin: Good time. And you’re right there with the band. You can have a drink with ’em if you do

DJ Bobcat: Probably almost any night of the week.

Richie Benjamin: Yeah.

DJ Bobcat: You go see music, especially if you’re willing to travel a little bit to Ithaca, Syracuse, or Binghamton [00:24:00] to,

Pat Nadge: You could go every night

DJ Bobcat: Yeah, open mic nights too. Good stuff.

Pat Nadge: Yep. Yep.

DJ Bobcat: Cool. Alright, well thank you everybody for listening. We’re gonna close it out with one more song. Richie, do you wanna introduce this last song ?

Richie Benjamin: The song is called, uh, Ithcy Sweater. I think I wrote it because in the summer people like complain about heat.

I’m like, just put a sweater on, you know ? And of course it, and it just hot and itchy. It’s awesome.

DJ Bobcat: Alright, well on that note, we’re gonna close it out with itchy sweater, by How’s the Soup ? Have a good one, y’all. Peace out.

Richie Benjamin: Take care guys.

Jamie Hazard : Bye.

Pat Nadge: All right, thank you. Goodbye.

DJ Bobcat: Yeah, thanks for checking out the podcast. We’ll have another new episode next month with the Dry County Welders. Be on the lookout for that new episodes drop on the third Wednesday of each month. Till next time, [00:25:00] thanks for listening.