One, two, three, four.

Get my shoes on at the door.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Feels great.

I'm gonna sign up to do and guys aren't gonna do about to do what they do.

Yeah.

Look at this guy with the beautiful color about the and just for me he's gonna share it with another I got to show to get.

I want to finish.

I'll take a look at that beautiful morning that turns to a beautiful evening.

Look at the big beautiful.

And if you want to see that, come along with me.

That's right.

Well, summer's coming to an end, but Kelly and I are still having a good time.

Yes, we are.

I tell you and we're at the Hummingbird Lounge at New Buffalo.

And like Courtney said, as you can see, it's going to be a good show.

It is.

And we're going to tell you about that next week.

But this week, we actually checked out a few more things locally around the area.

I was able to talk to the folks, the cast over four out a parable, which is happening with the Elkhart Civic Theater.

They're doing that at the Opera House starting this weekend.

You wanna make sure you get tickets.

We have all the information coming up about that.

And I got to play a little football.

Found out about Friday tailgating on the gridiron.

And this will happen at every home game, every Notre Dame home game.

Good to know.

And then, Dave, I think Bates got a chance to catch up with a band.

Yes.

On music.

They call them supervise, which makes leaving Dave unsupervised.

We need to check this out first.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And maybe we should be shearling to it.

Bob, do talk and I can down.

How so?

And a final thought.

I'm not crazy.

Anyone from saving.

I've got nothing to do.

Oh, I can't drink and I've got nowhere to go at all.

He wondered how not a criminal.

Then in one night get.

Killing anyone?

I've got too muc on my hands.

The family has got time on my hands.

So to put Lamone, I've got too much time on my hands and digging away.

So today on Experience Michiana, I'm experiencing something for the first time since starting on the show, which is going to be live music.

I'm here with Nicki from the band unsupervised.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good, man.

How are you?

You're not used to playing music so early in the day while there's still daylight outside, right?

As musicians, as against our human nature to play during the morning.

If you're normally just going to bed at this time.

Right.

That's the rock and roll lifestyle you need a little before.

Really?

Yeah.

So and we're here at VFW, which is important for you guys as a band.

And we want to say thank you to them as well.

But this is somewhere that you actually play quite a lot about once every other month usually.

Yeah And this is post eighty eight here on Bursill Street right now.

The card is where we are right now.

So tell me a little bit about unsupervised.

I believe you're a little bit like the Pussycat Dolls, that you don't necessarily all have the same original members as you did when you started.

Well, I don't know what the Pussycat Dolls, but the band started about seven years ago, and I'm the actual only original member.

Yeah, but these guys have been really bandsman like it is for about three years, except for our lead singer.

He's been with us for about about three months now.

Yeah.

How is he getting on?

Oh, he's making the cut.

He's doing a fantastic job.

Adobe does a fantastic job.

So tell me a little bit about the last year and a half.

How difficult has it been for you guys to continue playing?

Well, pandemic, of course, shut everything down.

You know, I'd say probably from last December to last December to probably the beginning of March.

Then things started to pick up slowly.

But it was a it was a gradual.

Yeah.

But then when the doors opened up, we're out.

And I always it's been crazy, actually.

It's great to be back out in Nevada and enjoying live music, enjoying the energy of other people around.

Absolutely, man.

It's like a breath of fresh air.

We love it.

Absolutely.

And for anyone who doesn't know on supervise, what kind of music do you play?

We play classic rock, late 60s, 70s, 80s and some 90s.

Nice.

All right.

Well, I know that we're going to hear some of your songs as well throughout the show here and experience Michiana.

So for anyone watching who loves what you're playing, where can I actually see you over the next couple of months?

Oh, OK. Let's see.

This coming Friday will be a Sherry Lees and Van Dalea.

And Saturday night we're going to be at the Clay Social Club and it's in Roseland, actually.

And then the Saturday after that, we're going to be a Kubiak's up in Niles, Michigan.

You can get on our website as unsupervised on Facebook, and it's spelled with a Z at the end.

Or you can get on our other site, which is ReverbNation.

It's unsupervised for the number four at ReverbNation.

ARCOM, you can get on that, too, and see our entire play schedule.

Awesome.

We are right now.

I've got it.

I'm sitting on 12 bookings for all the way in the next year already.

Nice.

That's where we're playing right now.

We're in the middle of our summer tour, and that's what I call a summer tour, because we're playing every weekend for about 19 weeks, just boom, boom, boom.

All right.

So you talked about the band and how some are in it.

Just three months, somewhere in a little bit longer.

So for anyone watching, tell us the name of the band members so we can actually get to know them.

OK, Steve Auto plays bass guitar and sings Bob Knight.

He's our lead singer, Mark Maurer's our drummer.

And I also love this march that you have on Super Bowl.

Thank you.

My wife is going away soon.

So every picture I send her, it's going to be full of whiskey.

I'm just going to send her a picture to let her know I'm at home alone.

Unsupervised.

Remember, you're unsupervised.

The possibilities are endless.

What is he?

All right.

Let's hear you play.

You got it, man.

All right.

On down.

Don't even go back to.

Don't Hollywood.

They would like to be.

Don't give a damn.

Betty White.

I'm daddy, why?

White boy.

SAT on one.

And why?

In love.

Well, the last time we visited with Elkhart's Civic Theater, they were putting on a very fun and exciting performance of Cinderella, but this time we're changing things up quite a bit with a drama filled performance.

We're talking about the upcoming performance of doubt, a parable, and that is going to be happening here at the Bristol Opera House in Bristol, Indiana I have with us the director, Desmarais, as well as two of the actors.

Thank you for joining us today.

Thanks.

So tell us a little bit of what the background of the storyline is.

Sure.

So Dout is a play really about change?

I would say an uncertainty.

It's set in nineteen sixty four in Saint Nicholas School and Parish in the Bronx, New York.

You can kind of feel it around.

Yeah, absolutely.

And the play only has four characters.

We have sister wishes and we have Mrs. Moeller, whose son is the first black student in the school.

I'll be an eighth grader.

And we've also got Sister James, his teacher, and Father Flynn, who is the priest at St. Nicholas Parish.

So the play really revolves around the the sort of actions and decisions of those characters in relationship with Mrs. Mueller's son and with the changing times of nineteen sixty four.

Absolutely right.

And what we know and don't know about what those characters do and what their motivations are you.

You leave the show with, I think, more questions than answers.

And that's promising.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that's it's I think sort of sort of the point of thinking about the uncertainty and the change of this time in this .

This is kind of a story.

And I think a lot of that is still relatable to this day and age to so much that can fill and consumers know.

And how do you relate that to your character?

Man with Mrs. Mueller is just so many unsaid things as well as sad things that she's definitely one of the characters that you leave here thinking, wow, you know, what, must her home life be like where she's having to deal with all these many different uncertainty and doubts of her own?

And I just I think it' a character that has a lot of different levels, a lot of different emotions in different ways that she could have been portrayed.

But I'm really proud of the way that I'm going to portray her.

And I've worked really hard.

And I hope everybody loves him terribly well.

I'm sure we will.

So I was a little bit about background.

So it is it's just the four it's a very intimate cast.

And Tricia, you've been participating with Elkhart's in the theater for a while now.

I performed back in the 70s and 80s and did music direction and then took some time off and came back about 2004.

And we're glad to have come back.

Thank you.

Sure.

Now, the event itself or when is it happening?

Because I know it's coming up here soon.

And I love the way the Elkhart's Civic Theater does it.

You run it for usually about two weekends and then those are coming up.

Do you want to make sure you get the tickets?

When can you see these performing?

Absolutely.

We are going to open on this Friday, September 17th.

We'll have shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then the following weekend as well, September twenty four, twenty five and twenty six.

And the ticket prices are very reasonable.

They sure are.

Yes.

And how could people purchase tickets?

They can go to Elkhart Civic Theater dot org and they can find a ticket link there or they can call the theater.

And I don't know.

That number is on the screen.

I saw this Photoshop, OK, with the same set back in the 1960s.

I think it's important to note that there is certainly some topics that might be controversial.

Yeah.

Kind of like a trigger warning for the audience if this is appropriate for.

So this is definitely a show that's more for adults than kids.

I wouldn't call this a family show, though It's not challenging in any really huge ways.

But the show represents the change of that time.

Right.

We talk about the civil rights movement.

We talk about women's rights.

We talk about the Catholic Church in this time.

Right.

There is absolutely some allusions to child abuse.

Some of the main central pieces of this show revolve around the questions of child abuse and whether it did or did not happen, that kind of thing.

So absolutely.

I think there are trigger warnings about this show.

It's one that people should go in to understanding that it's a drama and it's a serious show with it, with a lot of heavy emotion behind it, which I think is so great, especially in the performing arts, to have a variety.

Like I said, you know, we were last year talking about Cinderella and that we're talking about this have this heavy drama.

For either of you to answer this question.

What is it like to play as that actress perspective to experience these different kinds of roles?

For me, it's brought back a lot of memories of my Catholic childhood.

So you have a personal correlation to that?

Yes.

And I remember the sixties.

I'm old enough.

So it brings back a lot of those memories as well And you're able to bring that into the role?

I hope so.

OK. Well, I'd love to see a little bit of the performance I don't know if we can show some of that, that would be wonderful.

And I hope people will come and check it out.

And you hear some of the next upcoming performances that are going to be.

Oh, yeah.

After that, we have some really wonderful shows.

Coming up after this is Brightstar, which is a musical by Steve Martin.

And if you recall.

And then after that, we will have radio radio for the production of Miracle on 34th Street before the pandemic.

We've done a few of these sort of radio productions that were really wonderful.

Glad to be doing that again.

Oh, yeah.

And then we'll start the new year with a youth production and into another musical.

I believe it.

You know, just kind of the background.

If you have a little bit of that, what goes into making the decision of what kinds of performances and what show specifically are going to be in the performances for the year?

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, parts of it theater is truly a civic organization.

And so we have a committee who works with our staff, an artistic director.

And, you know, they're really they're representative of our volunteers and our community, and they work all year long to read plays and think about the shows that are reasonable for us to do on the stage and choose the right productions for us.

I'm really, really happy they chose this one.

Excellent for our stage and for our volunteers, and I really hope people enjoy it.

Well, we hope that he will come and check it out this weekend and next weekend.

And let's take a look and see a little bit into it.

Absolutely.

What do you do when you're not sure?

That's the topic of my serving today.

You look for God's direction, but you can't fight.

Last year, when President Kennedy was assassinated, who among us did not experience the most profound sense of disorientation and despair?

What now?

Which way?

What do I say to my kids?

What do I tell myself?

It was a time of people sitting together, bound together by a common feeling of hopelessness.

But think of that your bond with your fellow beings was your despair.

It was a public experience shared by everyone in our society.

It was awful that we were in it together.

How much worse is it than for the lone man, the lone woman stricken by some private calamity?

No one knows I'm sick.

No one knows I've lost my last real friend.

No one knows I've done something wrong.

That's in the isolation.

You see the world I see through a window.

On one side of the glass, happy and untroubled people, on the other side, you.

Something has happened.

You have to carry some.

And it's incommunicable for those who afflicted him.

Only God knows their pain.

Their secret, the secret of their alienating sorrow.

And when such a person as they must else to the sky, to God help me.

What if no answer coughs?

Silence.

Notre Dame football is back, and after the year we had last year, the great news is so is tailgating.

Those yes, that's what I said is like you want to jump up and shout and scream.

Tailgating is so much fun.

You're not going to believe this, Kailey.

I'm from New York and I never even heard of tailgating until I moved out here to Indiana.

It is a big thing out here.

Yes.

Yes.

And one of the great things about it is it because it brings communities together.

Right.

And this is the great thing about this tailgating event.

It is free.

Yes.

Open to everybody.

Whether you're a Notre Dame fan or you got a ticket for the game or you don't, whether you just have nothing better to do on a Friday night.

You can come down here to the gridiron to take part in football Fridays.

And so this happens at every home game, Notre Dame home game.

So there's a couple of Fridays and it runs until November 5th.

Yes.

And so what time does it start?

It goes from six to 10.

And we have a live band, a different one every time from six thirty to nine thirty.

And they're right there.

Nice meeting.

You can picture it all around here.

We've got some cash, fast food trucks.

Or you can bring in your own food into the event I love that.

When I saw that, it says, oh, wow, you can not only can you go to the food trucks, but you can go to some of the restaurants around here, too.

So many great options.

Get Chacao, you could get tacos, you could get pizza, anything you want.

Bring it here.

We've got corn whole and nine games and you can dance.

So kids just running around with footballs.

People brought beach balls last Friday.

Was just a fun time for everybody.

I love that the food is here because I will tell you one tim I did tailgate one time and I made the food.

I was so tired I had to lug the food there.

I was tired.

I love that you could just go to the trucks and go to some of the restaurants.

Yes.

And it's great because just we're bringing back the game to express this year.

We were off last year for Covid, but that's a really great option.

A lot of people will stay downtown now because there's a free shot.

A lot of people don't know about this.

Oh, they ghost.

I think it's three hours before the game, two hours after from those four different stops downtown.

So it's a really great option if people are coming in from out of town, they stay downtown, come to football, Friday is Friday night and take a free shuttle on Saturday to the game and then back.

Oh, that's great.

Now, you talked about seating.

Do people have to bring their own chairs?

Will they be sitting here?

There will be seating here.

So you could bring your own if you want.

But we will have seating here for you.

And it's just a really a fun time where you can dress like Kellex, where you're Notre Dame gear, show your appreciation.

And.

Yeah, and speaking of appreciation, by the looks at the first two games, it's going to be a great season.

Yes, it is going to be, hopefully.

Yes.

How about the first Friday go here at the tailgate.

So we kicked off last Friday with our first football Fridays And we had, you know, about about a hundred people came on and they really enjoyed the music.

People were dancing and grooving, kids running around playing, people enjoying food trucks.

So it's a really great time now.

Covid is still happening.

Thank God it's not what it was like last year.

So are there some precautions that still are in place?

Yes.

So we have a hand sanitizing stations.

We have the tables are being cleaned and disinfected by our ambassadors, and we're following CDC mass guidelines.

If you're vaccinated, it's optional.

But if you're not, we do recommend and encourage the vast wearing.

And that's something talking about the pandemic.

I mean, it kept us separated for so long.

And it's so important, especially nowadays, for the community to come together for something fun and positive.

It is.

And so it was fun like some Covid gave us some opportunities for some new things and new ways of doing things.

We had football Fridays and downtown like 10 years ago, and it was a huge street party.

But when Eddy Street Commons came on and they kind of took over some Friday night activities, we stopped doing them.

But because last year there weren't any kind of game day activities around campus, we were like, what a great opportunity.

So many people staying downtown to come and bring back this fun downtown event and we're we're keeping on doing it.

And so it was kind of like we saw this this chance to enliven an old event and we're excited to do it.

That sounds great.

And, you know, we just want to say thank you to downtown South Bend.

You guys do a great job just bringing different events and activities for the community to come together and enjoy.

So thank you so much.

Thank you.

Every Friday, home game, free parking, free speech thing All right.

Hard to find parking.

You're on campus.

Is so many parking opportunities here on street in the garages are free nights and weekends.

So that's a really good bonus.

That's great.

Now, you know, I don't know too much about football, but look at what I have here.

Oh, my gosh.

I have a Notre Dame football signed by Charlie Weis Barkley.

That goes a lot.

You look at that.

So, you know, I kind of thought I would go have some fun.

Yeah, well, you know, in dance with dance, we sing, right?

We sing dance, but we're going to try something a little different here.

I just I was watching the game.

I mean, they did a great job.

But is it really that hard, right?

I do.

You know, you throw the little pick and somebody catches it and runs.

So let's try this.

OK, send you an address.

OK, I'll let you through.

And you're going to do the running.

Thank you.

Catching and running.

I'm going to catch and run.

Do you remember from gym class I was holding my fingers on.

Do you think you're asking me, Kylie?

I don't know.

Icecast gum.

You know the Notre Dame team.

All right.

You're ready.

OK. Is it hype?

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Oh, yeah.

Touchdown dance.

Yes, there.

Well, that was a fun show.

It was very fun, we had a great time.

Yes, we did.

And can't wait for you to join us next week again.

You'll find out all about the Hummingbird Lounge and let them quietening.

I had a chance to catch up with them already and try that cocktails and I think.

Amazing.

They are amazing.

They are amazing.

I hope everybody has a great time this weekend and experience Michiana.

But there's more to do.

And we know that.

And we're excited for fall, too.

That's coming up.

So do you have some ideas of what do you want us to check out?

You can tag us on social media with the hashtag experience Michiana.

We'd love to hear what's up next for us.

Yes, we would.

All right, guys, see you next weekend.

How about bubble bath soap and a final thought?

I'm not.

Anyone from Slavitt?

I've got nothing to do.

I got friends and I've got nowhere to go.

Adobe and Jeff.

He was not a criminal.

Oh, no.

Not get.

Killing anyone?

I've got too muc on my hands.

The father they go But time on my hand, the toss.

So to put Lamone, I've got too much time on my hands and digging away.

Time on my hands, too much time on my hands.

By.

She decides to follow well from us without even trying.

The friends at the far never ran as long as a fire.

He won the president.

He was rock solid boy.

Now you tell there isn't any water, I've got to do my job.

And in taking away the sanity, I've got too much time on my hands, Adobe.

Such a calamity, I've got too much time on my.

Get away.

For me to take a decision.

Well, I don't know what to do with myself, but not too much.

Tumor.

How much time?

Five.

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