This year's Schenectady County Holiday Parade, sponsored by MVP in partnership with the City of Schenectady, will highlight Schenectady Shares, which provides food throughout the city at several outlets.

Schenectady council member Carmel Patrick and Schenectady Shares volunteer extraordinairre, Jackie Clute, stop by the podcast studio to talk about the program, its successes, and its challenges.

There is a lot to cover, especially with food insecurity making headlines throughout the past few months, and our guests provide insight and provide light to the situation.

It was an afternoon full of laughs and enlightening conversations about how to make your relationships, your interactions, your home, and work life better - all through improvisation.

Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corp.'s promotions director, Shenandoah Briere, along with Daily Gazette business editor Stan Hudy visited her newly redesigned office space and sat down with Michael Burns and Kat Koppett to talk about the 30 years of laughs and improvisation at the Mop and Bucket Co. [MOPCO] in Schenectady and how to keep the laughs coming.

Burns and Koppett discuss some of the guidelines within the IMPROV community that make it an enjoyable and enlightening experience to be on stage and be totally unscripted.

November also kicks off 'Birthday Month' for both Stan and Shen —mostly Shen —and she has a heartfelt ask of all podcast listeners for this year's gift.

Do you have someone you would like to have as a guest on The Stan and Shen Show? Email stanandshen@gmail.com

Just a few more sleeps, or nightmares, before the real thing takes over Jay Street in Schenectady, as we invited Kayla Ek into The Daily Gazette podcast studio.

Shen made her triumphant return to the newsroom after taking on her new position as Promotions Director for Downtown Schenectady Improvement Corp.

We kick off the show by discussing the tasty success of last weekend's Wing Walk, hosted by the DSIC, including the flavors, fun, and comments.

Then we turn the show over to Kayla to talk about the Oct. 18 Nightmare Market and everything that Kayla will bring to turn some heads, open some eyes, and highlight the creativity for all to see.

The duo then close out the show with their usual banter, including Taylor Swift's latest album.

• (00:00:45) - Welcome back Shenan
• (00:02:00) - Rcapping DSIC Wing Walk
• (00:05:00) - Wing Walk votes, the process
• (00:17:00) - Kayla Ek talks Nightmare Market
• (00:20:00) - Nightmare Market success, by the numbers
• (00:24:00) - Shen on Nightmare Market success
• (00:30:00) - Stan talks cool people at Nightmare Market
• (00:35:00) - Kayla talks kids fun at the Nightmare Market
• (00:37:00) - Entertainment at the Nightmare Market
• (00:46:00) - Wrapping things up... at least we started to