Our guest this episode is Pete Nordstrom who is the bassist of Seattle band Stag, co-organizer (along with his wife Brandy) of SMooCH (Seattle Musician's for Children's Hospital) and who happens to have started his career in the women's shoes stockroom at the department store that bears his own family name (not a coincidence). We had a great time talking through tons of stuff including his early aspirations of becoming a NBA player, Seattle Supersonics politics, band life, and how he and Brandy came to put SMooCH together. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did! Please do go support SMooCH and be sure to catch the entire benefit program that will stream on KEXP's YouTube Channel through the end of December '20.  Thanks for listening! If you're enjoying the Couch Riffs Podcast or our video series of the same name please consider becoming a Patreon supporter. This is the only place that you can download the MP3 audio for the cover songs in our videos and we have exclusive merch for specific tiers as well as early access and peeks at what is coming up! Thanks so much for listening and for your continued support!