30 min
47 - Gerry Forbes & Stephen Lowden The Explore84 Podcast
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- Self-Improvement
Two pubs, 48 hours, burst pipes, and 52 staff members. Returning guest Stephen Lowden breaks the news about the crazy happenings and the two Pig and Duke locations that have left their doors temporarily closed and their many employees in limbo. In steps Gerry Forbes to help Stephen find a way to keep his staff afloat, and today they’re both on the podcast to explain how you can help.
They say bad news comes in threes, and Stephen has been on the receiving end of a lot of flooding related bad news. Less than a month after being forced out of his home by burst pipes both Pig and Duke locations ended up nearly underwater after Calgary's cold snap in early January. Stephen views his staff as family and doesn’t want to leave them without a way to pay their bills until the pubs reopen, and after the immense amount of work Stephen has done in the past to support the community Gerry knew he had to help assemble the community to help Stephen’s staff. After all, good staff are hard to find and even harder to keep.
Of course we wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to have a Calgary media legend on the show, so we take a bit of time to dig into Gerry’s 43 year long career in radio and what he’s been up to since retiring from CJAY92 in 2018. We find out about his early passion for radio, creating his own tapes as an 11 year old would be DJ, followed by the start to his career at CHNL in Kamloops and the many stations in between before he finally made a home for himself at CJAY. Gerry recalls the changes from records to minidiscs to cds to computers, and how working in radio changed during that time.
“We made sure everything we do is real. There was nothing fake” - Gerry Forbes
Let’s Meet For A Beer!
Buy Tickets to the Pig & Duke Staff Fundraiser
Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagram
Gerry Forbes: twitter | instagram
Stephen Lowden: twitter | instagram
Pig and Duke: website | twitter | instagram - 12th | instagram - downtown
Two pubs, 48 hours, burst pipes, and 52 staff members. Returning guest Stephen Lowden breaks the news about the crazy happenings and the two Pig and Duke locations that have left their doors temporarily closed and their many employees in limbo. In steps Gerry Forbes to help Stephen find a way to keep his staff afloat, and today they’re both on the podcast to explain how you can help.
They say bad news comes in threes, and Stephen has been on the receiving end of a lot of flooding related bad news. Less than a month after being forced out of his home by burst pipes both Pig and Duke locations ended up nearly underwater after Calgary's cold snap in early January. Stephen views his staff as family and doesn’t want to leave them without a way to pay their bills until the pubs reopen, and after the immense amount of work Stephen has done in the past to support the community Gerry knew he had to help assemble the community to help Stephen’s staff. After all, good staff are hard to find and even harder to keep.
Of course we wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to have a Calgary media legend on the show, so we take a bit of time to dig into Gerry’s 43 year long career in radio and what he’s been up to since retiring from CJAY92 in 2018. We find out about his early passion for radio, creating his own tapes as an 11 year old would be DJ, followed by the start to his career at CHNL in Kamloops and the many stations in between before he finally made a home for himself at CJAY. Gerry recalls the changes from records to minidiscs to cds to computers, and how working in radio changed during that time.
“We made sure everything we do is real. There was nothing fake” - Gerry Forbes
Let’s Meet For A Beer!
Buy Tickets to the Pig & Duke Staff Fundraiser
Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagram
Gerry Forbes: twitter | instagram
Stephen Lowden: twitter | instagram
Pig and Duke: website | twitter | instagram - 12th | instagram - downtown
30 min