WEBVTT 00:00:00.850 --> 00:00:05.129 Here we are starting the next one. All right, 00:00:05.190 --> 00:00:06.549 this is going to be out of sync, so it'll be 00:00:06.549 --> 00:00:23.469 fun. Okay. We are the music. We are the music. 00:00:26.010 --> 00:00:31.429 We are. There we go. That was a pretty good one 00:00:31.429 --> 00:00:33.490 there. You had a little bit more tooling there 00:00:33.490 --> 00:00:38.590 to do the special little run -offs, didn't you? 00:00:38.649 --> 00:00:49.030 I was tapping on all sorts of stuff. Cool. So, 00:00:49.149 --> 00:00:51.869 the music creeps, I'd like to jump into this. 00:00:52.030 --> 00:00:54.810 Did you see the footage I did of the 80s glow 00:00:54.810 --> 00:00:58.079 party last night on the Lido? No, I haven't seen 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:03.960 that yet. Look, I posted it. It was really cool. 00:01:04.219 --> 00:01:07.500 I mean, they played a lot of the 80s stuff. I 00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.939 mean, you know, from Prince to some Queen to 00:01:10.939 --> 00:01:13.680 Cindy Locker, stuff like that. And it was really 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.459 good. We'd been at a glow stick party before, 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.019 and there was basically about 2 ,000 people out 00:01:20.019 --> 00:01:23.140 there on the Lido deck screaming 80s music. It 00:01:23.140 --> 00:01:25.780 was interesting because a lot of them were a 00:01:25.780 --> 00:01:28.799 lot younger. that I know were not around during 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:33.959 the 80s to enjoy some of that music. And it was 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:38.980 interesting because it's kind of, I don't know, 00:01:39.019 --> 00:01:44.840 it was kind of like when you started seeing people 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.540 like, not just parents, but grandparents taking 00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:53.079 their grandkids to a KISS concert. Yeah, yeah. 00:01:54.280 --> 00:01:55.959 Yeah, I'm watching the footage. I'm looking at 00:01:55.959 --> 00:01:58.000 the footage you posted. I'm seeing people holding 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:04.319 little kids, getting into it. Yeah. Yeah, wasn't 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:06.780 that something? I really thought that was neat. 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.699 And I think what's happening now is a lot of 00:02:10.699 --> 00:02:14.139 the grandparents are taking the grandchildren 00:02:14.139 --> 00:02:16.680 and going, hey, this is the stuff that I grew 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.979 up on. This is Bon Jovi. He had all this hair. 00:02:24.189 --> 00:02:27.129 This is Guns N' Roses. They were kind of like 00:02:27.129 --> 00:02:29.949 the outlaws. They had some hits, but they were 00:02:29.949 --> 00:02:31.430 kind of like the guys you didn't want to beat. 00:02:31.969 --> 00:02:35.430 They were like the looking dangerous category. 00:02:40.050 --> 00:02:42.669 Well, that's kind of typical. I know my grandparents 00:02:42.669 --> 00:02:45.009 tried to involve me in stuff that was important 00:02:45.009 --> 00:02:47.289 to them when they were younger, so this is just 00:02:47.289 --> 00:02:52.979 kind of a continuation of that. Yeah, yeah, it 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:57.139 was really cool. The last one, it was a COVID, 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.900 we called it the COVID cruise because it was 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:03.099 in 2021 when they just started opening up 30 00:03:03.099 --> 00:03:07.259 % capacity. And it was an 80s party, but it wasn't 00:03:07.259 --> 00:03:09.740 like this, where you had children holding their, 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.719 you know, you had people holding their children 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:14.680 or grandchildren and glow sticks and they're 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.219 screaming out Bon Jovi or something. And it was 00:03:18.219 --> 00:03:21.509 a really unique atmosphere. It was pretty cool. 00:03:21.849 --> 00:03:24.629 And then I know a lot of people that had no idea 00:03:24.629 --> 00:03:32.449 about spandex had it on. Did you see some spandex 00:03:32.449 --> 00:03:36.490 going on too? Yeah, yeah. You get to see all 00:03:36.490 --> 00:03:42.669 sorts of cool little body wrinkles. Yeah. Now, 00:03:42.770 --> 00:03:45.610 I had a pair of parachute pants, red parachute 00:03:45.610 --> 00:03:47.150 pants that I was going to wear up there, but 00:03:47.150 --> 00:03:49.889 I decided not to. Because we weren't sure how 00:03:49.889 --> 00:03:51.750 long we were going to stay, but we ended up staying 00:03:51.750 --> 00:03:53.229 for the whole thing, so I probably should have 00:03:53.229 --> 00:03:56.349 brought him. Oh, yeah. But anyhow, I was going 00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:59.250 to partake, but I just didn't. So, I mean, we 00:03:59.250 --> 00:04:03.849 were there, and I was, I don't know, like 30 00:04:03.849 --> 00:04:08.050 knuckles deep in Modelo's, and then when they 00:04:08.050 --> 00:04:10.770 ran out of Modelo's Takates, but, you know, it 00:04:10.770 --> 00:04:17.209 was fun. Well, we've got a concert coming to 00:04:17.209 --> 00:04:19.810 Kansas City pretty soon. If you haven't heard, 00:04:19.990 --> 00:04:25.629 Joe Bonamassa is coming to the Midland. No, I 00:04:25.629 --> 00:04:27.649 didn't hear that, but I'd love to see him. Yeah, 00:04:27.769 --> 00:04:30.850 the tickets are already on sale. I went and looked 00:04:30.850 --> 00:04:34.930 up some of the prices. And the main floor area, 00:04:35.110 --> 00:04:38.209 the tickets that they have left are going for 00:04:38.209 --> 00:04:45.329 around $350 to $380 a piece. And then they have 00:04:45.329 --> 00:04:48.290 an upper balcony all the way at the very back, 00:04:48.370 --> 00:04:53.610 and those are going for about $170 each. When 00:04:53.610 --> 00:04:56.250 I talked with my wife about this, about how expensive 00:04:56.250 --> 00:04:58.709 they are, she was saying, well, gosh, why don't 00:04:58.709 --> 00:05:01.629 they just have a bigger venue so they can sell 00:05:01.629 --> 00:05:03.370 more tickets and they wouldn't have to be so 00:05:03.370 --> 00:05:06.709 expensive? And that got me thinking about how 00:05:06.709 --> 00:05:11.069 they book these tours. This is what I came up 00:05:11.069 --> 00:05:14.449 with. So Joe Bonamassa is on tour and he says, 00:05:14.509 --> 00:05:18.089 let's go to Kansas City. How much can we get 00:05:18.089 --> 00:05:21.089 from Kansas City? You know, the people there, 00:05:21.230 --> 00:05:25.230 how much are they going to spend? And they do 00:05:25.230 --> 00:05:28.069 the analytics and they say, okay, we can get, 00:05:28.089 --> 00:05:32.110 you know, this many thousands of dollars. And 00:05:32.110 --> 00:05:35.149 we think the people in Kansas City will pay up 00:05:35.149 --> 00:05:39.610 to this price for tickets. So they say, okay, 00:05:39.709 --> 00:05:42.129 how many tickets do we need to sell at that price 00:05:42.129 --> 00:05:44.589 to get the money we want? And are there enough 00:05:44.589 --> 00:05:47.310 of those people in Kansas City? So they work 00:05:47.310 --> 00:05:50.370 all those out and say, okay, here's the venue 00:05:50.370 --> 00:05:54.810 that we book. That will give us the best opportunity 00:05:54.810 --> 00:05:57.910 to charge this much per ticket. And then we'll 00:05:57.910 --> 00:06:00.730 mostly sell out so it doesn't look like we have 00:06:00.730 --> 00:06:04.949 a bunch of empty seats. And by the time we're 00:06:04.949 --> 00:06:08.300 done, all the... Discretionary income of Kansas 00:06:08.300 --> 00:06:10.420 City will be gone, so there's no more money to 00:06:10.420 --> 00:06:13.079 make there, so don't add a second night. But 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:14.839 that's how they do it. That's how they calculate 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.740 ticket prices. How can we get the most out of 00:06:17.740 --> 00:06:20.500 our one night there? And that's where they go 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:23.899 from. So it's never about charging you a fair 00:06:23.899 --> 00:06:26.759 price or we're a smaller act, so we get this, 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:29.480 or a big act, we get that. It's how much can 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.360 we get, and here's how we do it. So everybody 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.279 who comes to town, they're going to be maximizing 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:39.139 exactly how much they can get. And they're pricing 00:06:39.139 --> 00:06:41.439 these tickets for the people who can afford them. 00:06:41.579 --> 00:06:45.540 Not me. Not you. Not somebody who's making minimum 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:48.740 wage of $15 an hour. They're pricing them for 00:06:48.740 --> 00:06:50.860 the people who live in those giant houses and 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:54.939 drive really expensive cars and go on a lot of 00:06:54.939 --> 00:06:57.740 vacations. They can afford to pay these prices. 00:06:58.509 --> 00:07:01.170 You know, just like the NFL ticket prices, you 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:03.490 know, they priced out the average person, but 00:07:03.490 --> 00:07:06.089 they don't care because they want their money 00:07:06.089 --> 00:07:09.149 now. You know, that's why the Eagles charge thousands 00:07:09.149 --> 00:07:11.269 of dollars for tickets when they come to town 00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:13.310 is because there are people willing to pay that, 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:16.350 and if you can't afford it, they don't care about 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:21.819 you. So. Oh, yeah. So Joe Bonamassa has decided 00:07:21.819 --> 00:07:25.259 to maximize profits instead of seeing more people, 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:28.620 and he gets to make that choice, but he's priced 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:30.560 me out of it, and so I'm not going to be able 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:37.439 to go see him. Oh, well. Uh -huh. I really don't 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:39.160 know that there's going to be any concert I'm 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:44.699 going to be able to afford. Go ahead. Okay, Val 00:07:44.699 --> 00:07:46.980 just showed me something, and I predicted this 00:07:46.980 --> 00:07:50.000 not too long ago. The Church of Laszlo will now 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.560 air weekdays from 6 to 10 a .m. on 98 .9 The 00:07:53.560 --> 00:08:01.939 Rock. Warning drive. Interesting. Yes. I'll tell 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:03.579 you, and this is something else I predicted, 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:06.600 too, and I felt strongly. They're going to rebrand 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:09.860 The Rock to The X or The Edge. It's going to 00:08:09.860 --> 00:08:11.879 be alternative rock. It's not going to be rock. 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:14.040 They're not going to go up against 101 The Fox 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.800 or have... or have an album rock or whatever. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.920 It's going to be changed to where they don't 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.259 have the same type of listener that would be 00:08:24.259 --> 00:08:26.639 more conducive to listening to a show like the 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.519 Church of Laszlo. Yeah, yeah. And they'll find 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:32.940 sponsors who aren't getting their needs met on 00:08:32.940 --> 00:08:34.779 other stations, and they'll say, ah, come over 00:08:34.779 --> 00:08:36.639 here and advertise. We'll play the kind of music 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.100 and attract the kind of people you're looking 00:08:38.100 --> 00:08:45.860 for. Mm -hmm. Yeah, there's really two ways to 00:08:45.860 --> 00:08:47.899 go. You can either jump on the bandwagon and 00:08:47.899 --> 00:08:49.759 do what everybody else is doing and steal their 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.820 customers, or you can find out what your competition 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:55.879 is not doing and then do that and see how many 00:08:55.879 --> 00:09:00.659 customers you can get. Uh -huh. Hang on. Sorry, 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:02.059 I'm reading a little bit more of this article 00:09:02.059 --> 00:09:04.259 because I have a little bit more to say about 00:09:04.259 --> 00:09:10.679 that. Okay, one of the things is the Fist of 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:19.139 the Rock. But it's not different enough in the 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:21.720 audience of 101 the Fox who's kicking their ass 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.120 routinely. I mean, they've been kicking their 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.700 ass for years now. I mean, they've been like 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:30.399 more than doubling their audiences, and not just 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:33.340 Hume, but in the key demographics that they look 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:37.919 at, you know, like white males 25 to 70 or something 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.240 like that. The money spenders. The Rock was in 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:44.690 trouble. It was. And what now? The money spenders. 00:09:44.690 --> 00:09:46.809 They're looking at what part of their audience 00:09:46.809 --> 00:09:48.950 of the people that are spending the money. That's 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:54.470 who we've got to make happy. Yes. Yeah, that's 00:09:54.470 --> 00:10:02.470 it. Who is Ashley? She's going to join the Church 00:10:02.470 --> 00:10:06.909 of Laszlo. Oh, okay. All right. Ashley O., I 00:10:06.909 --> 00:10:09.590 guess, is from another market. She's going to 00:10:09.590 --> 00:10:13.289 be joining the Church of Laszlo. Trying to freshen 00:10:13.289 --> 00:10:19.570 it up, I guess. Interesting. So they must feel 00:10:19.570 --> 00:10:21.730 that they still have some value there to the 00:10:21.730 --> 00:10:25.830 Laszlo name and the Church of Laszlo brand, or 00:10:25.830 --> 00:10:27.690 maybe they've just got a lot of money invested 00:10:27.690 --> 00:10:29.690 in Laszlo's contract, and they're like, well, 00:10:29.730 --> 00:10:32.470 we've got to ride this horse until his contract 00:10:32.470 --> 00:10:37.809 expires. They may be using Laszlo's transition. 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.120 And I also noticed that there was a lawsuit going 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:49.000 on from Ephedra that was ongoing, and I believe 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:50.639 it's still ongoing, from back when they were 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:55.059 intercom. And her point was that after they let 00:10:55.059 --> 00:10:58.519 her go, she said that similar ratings, although 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.820 I disagree, and I'll explain it here in a minute, 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.759 to Johnny Dare. If you look at the queue, and 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:07.860 she wasn't getting paid nearly as much, apparently. 00:11:08.330 --> 00:11:11.269 If you look at the CUME, you can say that. But 00:11:11.269 --> 00:11:13.450 do you know that any advertisement that goes 00:11:13.450 --> 00:11:16.490 by the CUME rating, I mean everybody, like child, 00:11:16.789 --> 00:11:20.230 old man, young woman, that's the CUME, everybody. 00:11:20.809 --> 00:11:24.190 Maybe even your dog's sitting there. Okay, now 00:11:24.190 --> 00:11:27.690 they specialize. Ratings are specialized because 00:11:27.690 --> 00:11:32.429 they're not going to sell a Harley to an 18 -year 00:11:32.429 --> 00:11:36.899 -old girl. No, no. So if, let's say... Yeah, 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:40.139 let's say that the point, 18 -year -old girls 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:41.860 are listening to it. You're not going to have 00:11:41.860 --> 00:11:44.539 a Harley commercial on there. So that's the way 00:11:44.539 --> 00:11:46.539 ratings work. That's the way the advertising 00:11:46.539 --> 00:11:49.799 works. So from what I understand, if it's correct, 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:55.500 the CUNY was close. But the specialized ratings, 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.200 the demographics that bring money, were way off. 00:11:59.139 --> 00:12:01.899 And that's why Johnny Deere got much more money. 00:12:02.059 --> 00:12:05.000 You know, because he had Harley. And he had, 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:08.340 you know, all of these companies that are signature 00:12:08.340 --> 00:12:12.919 with the older adult male advertising with him 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.620 for a Ventra, probably, I don't know, maybe Alka 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:18.639 -Seltzer. I don't know what I mean. Yeah. It's 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:21.059 just not the same ballpark is from what I understood. 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:23.159 I've got a really good parallel of that. Now, 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.440 when you're talking about legalities, see what? 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:28.700 I said I've got a really good parallel of that. 00:12:28.980 --> 00:12:32.720 In the academic world for, like, universities, 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:38.149 et cetera, the university will pay the salary 00:12:38.149 --> 00:12:41.289 of the faculty member, but you're expected to 00:12:41.289 --> 00:12:48.450 bring in grants and research money, etc., that 00:12:48.450 --> 00:12:52.450 more than covers your salary. So they expect 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:56.009 you to bring money into the university, and the 00:12:56.009 --> 00:12:58.370 people who do that the most effectively are the 00:12:58.370 --> 00:13:02.210 ones who get promoted. And that's the same way 00:13:02.210 --> 00:13:04.809 in hospitals. You bring research grants into 00:13:04.809 --> 00:13:07.049 the hospital, then you're going to become an 00:13:07.049 --> 00:13:09.490 attending or chief of surgery or whatever. So 00:13:09.490 --> 00:13:14.370 it's the same way in the radio industry. If Ephedra 00:13:14.370 --> 00:13:18.350 can bring in a lot of people, that's one thing. 00:13:18.409 --> 00:13:20.590 But if she brings in a lot of people who the 00:13:20.590 --> 00:13:23.169 advertisers want to advertise to and that brings 00:13:23.169 --> 00:13:26.509 more advertisers, that's money. And if Dare is 00:13:26.509 --> 00:13:28.629 doing that better than her, then they're going 00:13:28.629 --> 00:13:30.429 to reward him more. And it's not because he's 00:13:30.429 --> 00:13:32.789 a guy. It's because he's bringing in more revenue. 00:13:35.830 --> 00:13:40.889 Yes. And also, another thing is that, look, Johnny 00:13:40.889 --> 00:13:44.769 Dare is very loyal. I mean, obviously, if you 00:13:44.769 --> 00:13:47.529 don't even know the guy, you can tell he is, 00:13:47.649 --> 00:13:52.149 right? Yeah. He didn't want any of his team to 00:13:52.149 --> 00:13:56.009 be touched, from what I understand. A lot of 00:13:56.009 --> 00:13:58.970 these other morning shows, they started cutting 00:13:58.970 --> 00:14:01.769 this guy, cutting that guy, started cutting this 00:14:01.769 --> 00:14:04.690 guy, started cutting that guy. And it was allowed 00:14:04.690 --> 00:14:07.370 to happen because people were willing to do it 00:14:07.370 --> 00:14:09.970 to stay on air. From what I understand, Johnny 00:14:09.970 --> 00:14:14.149 said, Greg's staying with me. I forgot, Nicky's 00:14:14.149 --> 00:14:19.269 staying with me. I forgot the phone guy or whatever. 00:14:20.070 --> 00:14:23.629 All of these guys were staying with him. Otherwise, 00:14:23.730 --> 00:14:26.309 he wasn't going to be doing the morning show. 00:14:26.509 --> 00:14:29.629 Yeah. So if they could have, like, got rid of 00:14:29.629 --> 00:14:32.269 some of the other overhead, he might still be 00:14:32.269 --> 00:14:34.789 there from what I understand. Now, this is not 00:14:34.789 --> 00:14:37.230 confirmed. I just know some people that might 00:14:37.230 --> 00:14:39.730 know something about it. And from what I understand, 00:14:39.889 --> 00:14:42.350 that was a big issue is they're like, we can 00:14:42.350 --> 00:14:44.629 afford Johnny. We can't afford all his other 00:14:44.629 --> 00:14:47.370 people. Oh, that makes sense. That makes sense. 00:14:48.769 --> 00:14:52.360 It does. And it also makes sense, Johnny. I mean, 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:55.519 I think he's a pretty decent guy. And I think 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.879 that also he's the type of guy that would be 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.600 like, you know what, go ahead and let us go. 00:15:00.059 --> 00:15:01.679 I'm not going to do this without these guys. 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:06.340 Yeah. You can call it loyalty to a fault, or 00:15:06.340 --> 00:15:08.279 you can just call it loyalty that's never there 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:10.220 anymore. Whatever you want to call it. Yeah. 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.779 That might have been what happened. Whether you 00:15:12.779 --> 00:15:16.440 think it's foolish or very stand -up -ish, it's 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:21.080 up to you. You know, that was probably something 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.659 else that went on. And also, I still think that 00:15:23.659 --> 00:15:26.120 sooner or later you're going to get the Edge, 00:15:26.299 --> 00:15:29.179 the X, or whatever the big fucking name is now 00:15:29.179 --> 00:15:31.299 in the alternative industry, the alternative 00:15:31.299 --> 00:15:33.820 rock industry, and you're going to get a harder 00:15:33.820 --> 00:15:39.919 -edged alternative rock feel to it. And you're 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.799 going to have Laszlo and this lady from New Orleans, 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:50.399 the Bayou, assisting, co -hosting. Yep. Well, 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:52.879 you know what? We'll see. I mean, look, when 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:55.000 Lasso first came to town, he was really funny. 00:15:55.700 --> 00:15:58.120 I don't like his show now. I think his show is 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:04.820 directional and not very funny. He sounds unenthused 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:07.399 to me. He sounds like he doesn't give a shit 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:11.000 to me. He sounds like he's past his prime, and 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.940 he just really doesn't have anything. He's just 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:17.440 not that excited about anything anymore to me. 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.139 Yeah, he sounds like it's just a job to him. 00:16:20.179 --> 00:16:21.960 He had all sorts of... Probably not his demographic. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.240 Yeah, yeah. When he came to town, he did things 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.299 completely different than he does now. He made 00:16:28.299 --> 00:16:31.179 fun of women. He called everybody hot pants. 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:35.639 He used to routinely say, the best sex you ever 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:38.179 have is whenever the girl after she's done was 00:16:38.179 --> 00:16:41.899 crying in the corner. Does that sound like the 00:16:41.899 --> 00:16:45.159 guy right now that you hear? No. I guarantee 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.019 you he said it. I guarantee you he said that. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.500 I used to listen to him in the afternoons. And 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:55.639 I know this. He was on the buzz when they first 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:05.000 started. And so whether it's by design and the 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.319 radio station's telling him to do something different 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.119 or not, the guy can be different. And he can 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.940 be much different than what he is. We'll see. 00:17:13.339 --> 00:17:15.339 Maybe he'll go back to some of that original. 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:20.019 Oh, my God, did he really say that stuff? Yeah, 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:22.099 it makes you wonder, is he just playing it safe 00:17:22.099 --> 00:17:25.220 now, or has he really lost touch? Has he lost 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:26.819 touch with what is funny? I think everything's 00:17:26.819 --> 00:17:32.519 safe now. What did you say? I was going to say, 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.980 he also, maybe he's lost touch with what's edgy 00:17:36.980 --> 00:17:40.039 and what's funny, because when he started, that 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.660 was working for him, what he was saying. But 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:45.200 now maybe the stuff he comes up with is just 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.460 cringy and awkward and weird, and they're saying, 00:17:47.539 --> 00:17:49.440 nah, you can't say that. You've got to figure 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.740 out what people want to hear. Otherwise, just 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:57.160 play it safe. I think it's a little of both. 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:00.759 Could be. I think what first happens is, and 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:04.180 it happens to all these morning shows and stuff 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:08.299 like that, is they're on them. The company comes 00:18:08.299 --> 00:18:11.680 in and goes, we just had third complaints. Oh, 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:15.380 isn't that great? No. Frito -Lays is called up 00:18:15.380 --> 00:18:17.579 and they're concerned about because so many keeps 00:18:17.579 --> 00:18:19.839 calling them up saying that they're going to 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.880 stand out in front of their plant and boycott 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.299 them if you keep this guy on the air. Yeah. And 00:18:25.299 --> 00:18:27.079 that's where these little stupid little groups 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:29.420 came from. And they're going to go fight against 00:18:29.420 --> 00:18:33.579 these people. And, you know, maybe whoever these 00:18:33.579 --> 00:18:36.319 little fucking stupid ass do -gooders are, they 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.839 think they're doing good by not allowing a certain 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.900 expression. to be, you know, whether you agree 00:18:43.900 --> 00:18:47.859 with it or not. Free speech should be, the free 00:18:47.859 --> 00:18:50.299 speech you should protect the most is the one 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:52.380 you do not agree with. Yeah, really. Because 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:58.279 that means free speech exists. So, I think what 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.319 happens is, I think the corporation comes in 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.720 and goes, hey, hey, Laszlo, come here. Yeah. 00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:05.819 You know, Frito -Lay had a talk with us. Yeah. 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.839 A lot of people are mad at you because of what 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:10.849 you said. Yeah, isn't that cool? It's getting 00:19:10.849 --> 00:19:13.130 a lot of buzz. No, no, they're going to stand 00:19:13.130 --> 00:19:16.329 in front of the plant and they're going to scream 00:19:16.329 --> 00:19:20.609 and yell and try to get us kicked off of their 00:19:20.609 --> 00:19:23.130 advertising and try to get us thrown off there. 00:19:23.309 --> 00:19:26.609 We need to quit saying that. What, really? But 00:19:26.609 --> 00:19:29.109 it was working. We don't care. Stop saying that. 00:19:29.289 --> 00:19:31.630 I think it starts like that. So then they're 00:19:31.630 --> 00:19:34.349 neutered. And then they keep cutting back. And 00:19:34.349 --> 00:19:36.109 then pretty soon you don't have that guy's personality 00:19:36.109 --> 00:19:39.839 anymore that made him famous. Yeah, because doing 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.400 what he was doing before feeds that. And it's 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:45.400 not like he can just turn it on out of nowhere. 00:19:45.660 --> 00:19:48.480 I mean, he needs to keep that ball rolling. Because, 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:50.279 you know, he says those things that are edgy 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:52.940 and slightly inappropriate. That makes him think 00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:55.339 of more and then of more and then of more. But 00:19:55.339 --> 00:19:57.440 if you shut that off, then it's like, yeah, I 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:00.779 can't come up with that stuff just cold. Yeah. 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.180 Yeah. And this is a lot of what has happened. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.940 And what it is is these people. That whatever 00:20:08.940 --> 00:20:13.839 it is, you know, not as love in their life, bored, 00:20:14.259 --> 00:20:20.839 trying to be the guy that does good, looking 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:22.819 in the mirror and going, you're the man, whatever 00:20:22.819 --> 00:20:25.359 the fuck it is. You got these people. You see, 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.279 I can't really do it on the Internet. Shows like 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:29.759 this can exist on the Internet because nobody 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.119 gives a fuck. Yeah. You know, nobody can come 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:35.980 after you really on the Internet like that. What 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:39.630 are they going to do? We don't like your podcast. 00:20:39.849 --> 00:20:46.569 Okay, so? We don't have any advertisers. Well, 00:20:46.589 --> 00:20:48.670 just keep disliking it, okay? There's some people 00:20:48.670 --> 00:20:50.829 like it, so get the fuck out of our face. They 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:53.150 don't really have anything to stand on anymore 00:20:53.150 --> 00:20:56.630 to do that, which is funny, but it also sucks 00:20:56.630 --> 00:21:01.650 because people lost their livelihood. People 00:21:01.650 --> 00:21:04.470 can't get jobs in that type of a market anymore. 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.339 because of these idiots that run around and are 00:21:08.339 --> 00:21:11.579 offended constantly, constantly crying over something, 00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:14.599 looking to be offended, can't wait until someone 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:16.240 says something a little bit wrong so they can 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.759 be outraged with their poniness. Yeah, and when 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.119 the businesses give in to them, they give in 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:25.200 not because they think they're right, but they 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.200 give in as damage control. It's like, okay, you've 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:31.140 been enough of pain in the ass. Exactly. We'll 00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:33.279 pay enough attention to you to make you go away. 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.200 It's not that they're right, it's that they've 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:40.160 been annoying enough to get paid off. And every 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:42.720 one of them, you know, despite how much they 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.539 claim to support their cause, as soon as they 00:21:45.539 --> 00:21:51.039 get paid off, they're fine. They go away. Yeah, 00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:53.940 yes, exactly. Frida Lay doesn't want a bunch 00:21:53.940 --> 00:21:57.599 of people in front of their home office picketing. 00:21:58.059 --> 00:22:17.160 Frida Lay hates women. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. 00:22:28.799 --> 00:22:30.880 Now, the problem is if people can't accept other 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.759 people having a different opinion, they have 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.740 to be outraged by it. Isn't that weird? Which 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:42.200 is idiotic. Yeah, it is. You're talking about 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:47.859 constitutional things here. You want to stop 00:22:47.859 --> 00:22:54.359 and run everything through the morality detector? 00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:59.920 Yeah, it all comes down to who gets to choose 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:03.779 for me. I get to choose for me, but why do you 00:23:03.779 --> 00:23:06.599 get to choose for me? Why do you get to choose 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:09.440 what's the right religion? Why do you get to 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:12.799 choose what's the right thing to vote for? I 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.920 get to choose that. You can have your opinion, 00:23:14.940 --> 00:23:19.779 but I choose for me, you choose for you. But 00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:22.900 people who don't like that will then enlist authority 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:25.420 to enforce their own opinion on everybody else. 00:23:25.869 --> 00:23:27.369 Well, I don't like it that you like something 00:23:27.369 --> 00:23:29.009 different from me, so I'm going to make the thing 00:23:29.009 --> 00:23:35.269 you like illegal. There. These kinds of people, 00:23:35.309 --> 00:23:36.849 I'd like to walk up to them and go, I don't like 00:23:36.849 --> 00:23:44.589 your face. I want you to get a facelift. But 00:23:44.589 --> 00:23:47.750 I don't care. I'm the one that has to look at 00:23:47.750 --> 00:23:51.289 your face. You go get fucking fixed now. They 00:23:51.289 --> 00:23:58.160 wouldn't like that, would they? No, no. Anyhow, 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.259 yeah, this is going to be interesting, this experiment, 00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:06.180 because since he has this new chick with him 00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:10.859 from the bayou with all this enthusiasm and stuff, 00:24:11.099 --> 00:24:14.339 you're not going to see a raunchy Laszlo, I don't 00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:18.440 think. You're going to see a safe, friendly, 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:21.940 kinder, gentler Laszlo that's not so depressed. 00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:25.460 I wonder if Lazlo was on there right now. I think 00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:31.880 he's maybe there just as transition. It's like, 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:34.480 you know, the people they're bringing in are 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:36.579 probably going to replace Lazlo, but now they're 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:42.099 doing it as a transition. Maybe. Yeah, he'll 00:24:42.099 --> 00:24:46.819 be replaced. Yeah, so he can probably see the 00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:49.539 writing on the wall that he's out in a few years, 00:24:49.619 --> 00:24:51.759 so he might as well just ride the train as long 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:56.490 as he can and get... get what he can. Yeah, he 00:24:56.490 --> 00:24:58.029 doesn't care. He's going to take what he can 00:24:58.029 --> 00:25:00.630 out of it, take the buyout and flit or whatever. 00:25:01.029 --> 00:25:03.250 Yeah. Yeah, so I don't blame him. Meanwhile, 00:25:03.450 --> 00:25:05.910 101 the Fox is going to hire Johnny Dare, maybe 00:25:05.910 --> 00:25:08.349 not with all his cash, but they'll hire Johnny 00:25:08.349 --> 00:25:10.410 Dare. He will be hired. You know, he may not 00:25:10.410 --> 00:25:14.369 even want a job. Yeah. But if he does, they're 00:25:14.369 --> 00:25:15.789 going to hire Johnny Dare and they're going to 00:25:15.789 --> 00:25:18.529 continue. They're going to rock out of business. 00:25:18.650 --> 00:25:20.470 I mean, they almost did anyhow. I mean, look 00:25:20.470 --> 00:25:25.089 what's happening to them. Yeah. Adapt or die. 00:25:25.369 --> 00:25:34.970 Yeah, I mean, Cumulus, Kansas City, has been 00:25:34.970 --> 00:25:38.390 routinely the only radio conglomerate around 00:25:38.390 --> 00:25:41.369 and one of the few in the nation that still believes 00:25:41.369 --> 00:25:46.910 in hiring talent. Yeah, amazing. I mean, most 00:25:46.910 --> 00:25:48.410 of them don't. They don't want it. They're like, 00:25:48.490 --> 00:25:51.970 no, we want our jukebox. We want music mornings, 00:25:52.089 --> 00:25:56.799 all music mornings. on 107 the fucking the big 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:02.819 bad whatever you know they don't like personality 00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:04.920 driven stuff because they have to pay personality 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:07.960 driven stuff yeah they just get an AI to come 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.259 up with all the stuff and the AI records it the 00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:14.099 AI writes all the promo stuff the AI records 00:26:14.099 --> 00:26:19.660 it there's no real people involved Did I tell 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:22.279 you that AI wants to write a podcast for me every 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:25.160 fucking time I look for subjects for the douchebags? 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:28.759 Yeah, you mentioned that. So many people are 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.220 giving in to that, too. I see so much crap on 00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:34.400 YouTube that it's just absolutely 100 % AI. I 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:37.940 can see that happening very easily. Yeah. You 00:26:37.940 --> 00:26:40.799 know people are doing it. You know people are 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:42.859 like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what? I'm kind 00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:45.599 of tired. I'm hungover. Go ahead and write this 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.500 for me. Yeah. I couldn't believe it. I'm like, 00:26:49.539 --> 00:26:52.460 you know, and even having like what different 00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:56.759 people would say, like scripts. Yesterday I was 00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:00.900 watching a video of they were playing song intros 00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:04.059 and you had to guess the song. And they played 00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:07.779 the intro to Satisfaction by the Stones. And 00:27:07.779 --> 00:27:10.819 the stupid AI voice that was narrating this whole 00:27:10.819 --> 00:27:13.460 thing said, that was the Rolling Stones and the 00:27:13.460 --> 00:27:21.009 song is I Can't Get No. That's how smart AI was. 00:27:21.230 --> 00:27:23.289 And you know what? The person who put the video 00:27:23.289 --> 00:27:25.650 out didn't even check. They didn't even do a 00:27:25.650 --> 00:27:27.589 quality control check and listen to make sure 00:27:27.589 --> 00:27:30.009 everything was right. They just said, AI, you 00:27:30.009 --> 00:27:31.930 handle it. I'm just going to put it out there. 00:27:33.390 --> 00:27:37.069 It's crap. Yeah, yeah. And you know, furthermore, 00:27:37.130 --> 00:27:39.869 they don't care either. No. Because you know 00:27:39.869 --> 00:27:43.490 how many people even really probably notice that? 00:27:43.549 --> 00:27:46.190 You would, because you're detail -oriented, know 00:27:46.190 --> 00:27:48.900 a lot about music. I think it would just be like 00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:55.259 a lot of people just wouldn't even notice. By 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:57.480 the time I got to that point, I had already watched 00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:59.960 the video, so whoever put that out got their 00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:04.819 money from me too. So it worked. That's true. 00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:09.319 That's true. Yep. They're like, we don't care 00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:11.500 what you think now. You already watched. Yeah, 00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:13.279 and then you try to pay attention to them. If 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:15.279 you hate us, at least watch for a minute so we 00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:17.490 can get the download. You try to pay attention 00:28:17.490 --> 00:28:19.930 to the name of the channel or the person who 00:28:19.930 --> 00:28:21.529 put it out. It's like, well, I won't watch anything 00:28:21.529 --> 00:28:23.829 from them again, but they change their name the 00:28:23.829 --> 00:28:27.690 next day and just keep pumping out the AI crap. 00:28:30.210 --> 00:28:32.569 I mean, that's a reason. You know, that's why 00:28:32.569 --> 00:28:35.650 I do the douchebag pledge. Oh, yeah. People might 00:28:35.650 --> 00:28:37.849 like that, but then when we come on, they hate 00:28:37.849 --> 00:28:46.910 us. So we get that minute out of them. It doesn't 00:28:46.910 --> 00:28:54.109 seem to be working. No. No, actually, we're doing 00:28:54.109 --> 00:28:56.269 much better than I ever thought we would. Don't 00:28:56.269 --> 00:28:58.750 you think, Topher? I think we are, really. Yeah. 00:28:59.109 --> 00:29:02.210 There's actually some pretty loyal people that 00:29:02.210 --> 00:29:07.410 are hanging in there. It's amazing. Yeah. And 00:29:07.410 --> 00:29:10.009 also, the emails that we generate are just phenomenal. 00:29:10.049 --> 00:29:14.170 And the people that, I mean, you know, I mean, 00:29:14.170 --> 00:29:18.029 for this being some, silly, kind of non -directional 00:29:18.029 --> 00:29:20.890 really podcast. Pretty intelligent listeners. 00:29:21.210 --> 00:29:26.470 Yeah, yeah. They come up with neat things to 00:29:26.470 --> 00:29:29.450 ask you or say to you. Just like the other day, 00:29:29.549 --> 00:29:31.710 someone asked me for my banana pudding recipe. 00:29:34.049 --> 00:29:40.029 That's pretty awesome. I just told her, yeah, 00:29:40.069 --> 00:29:43.809 I go to Price Chopper here in Kansas City. I 00:29:43.809 --> 00:29:47.470 buy five boxes of banana pudding, use the back 00:29:47.470 --> 00:29:50.710 of it, I mix it together, and then that's my 00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:58.029 banana pudding recipe. And then that was when 00:29:58.029 --> 00:29:59.869 Rob corrects me. He goes, well, I'm from the 00:29:59.869 --> 00:30:02.589 South, and you completely fucked that up. He 00:30:02.589 --> 00:30:05.349 goes, you know, you've got to add some wafers 00:30:05.349 --> 00:30:09.170 to that, and bananas, and maybe some brown sugar. 00:30:09.769 --> 00:30:12.329 And I'm like, you should ask Rob this, not me. 00:30:18.089 --> 00:30:20.430 But to me, that's brilliant. Whenever you get 00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:23.130 people that ask you stupid, off -the -wall stuff 00:30:23.130 --> 00:30:26.309 like that, I think that's pretty good. Because 00:30:26.309 --> 00:30:31.769 the humor in that, to me, is really good. To 00:30:31.769 --> 00:30:34.730 me, that's what we're doing. When you ask something 00:30:34.730 --> 00:30:36.470 just like that, hey, what's your banana bread 00:30:36.470 --> 00:30:40.170 pudding recipe? A lot of people will be like, 00:30:40.269 --> 00:30:43.170 well, I don't have one. Yeah, yeah, I got one. 00:30:43.289 --> 00:30:51.190 Yeah. Go buy five bucks. Uh -oh, we seem to have 00:30:51.190 --> 00:30:56.750 lost Mark. Seems like the phone hung up. Let's 00:30:56.750 --> 00:31:06.509 see how long it takes Mark to call back. He still 00:31:06.509 --> 00:31:10.369 hasn't called. Maybe I should call him. Maybe 00:31:10.369 --> 00:31:16.789 he's already calling me. Let's give it a shot. 00:31:18.990 --> 00:31:21.250 The subscriber you are trying to reach is not 00:31:21.250 --> 00:31:23.569 available. Please leave your message after the... 00:31:23.569 --> 00:31:30.730 Well, that's a shame. Well, let's see if he calls 00:31:30.730 --> 00:31:34.470 back. The Wi -Fi and the connectivity on the 00:31:34.470 --> 00:31:37.829 cruise ship apparently isn't very good. We'll 00:31:37.829 --> 00:31:47.269 see if he can come back. Hello? Okay, there we 00:31:47.269 --> 00:31:49.769 go. There we are. I don't know where it cut off 00:31:49.769 --> 00:31:52.109 or whatever, but go ahead and start something. 00:31:52.410 --> 00:31:54.630 I don't know where it cut off. Go ahead and start 00:31:54.630 --> 00:31:57.730 talking. Well, I kept people informed that your 00:31:57.730 --> 00:31:59.569 phone had hung up, and we waited for you to call 00:31:59.569 --> 00:32:02.369 back, and then I tried calling you, and then 00:32:02.369 --> 00:32:04.109 I said, let's see how long it takes for Mark 00:32:04.109 --> 00:32:10.650 to call back. Well, I got called to me, but because 00:32:10.650 --> 00:32:13.529 this is an Internet number, I have no idea how 00:32:13.529 --> 00:32:18.279 to answer it. while I'm on the old phone call. 00:32:18.660 --> 00:32:22.640 Yeah. Well, it worked out. It just told me you 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:28.039 were calling. Yeah, okay. So... Well, the thing 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.579 I was going to go into next... I think for another 00:32:30.579 --> 00:32:35.920 music creep, I want to do a list of bands that 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.039 their worst songs were their biggest hits. Oh, 00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:45.109 that's a good one. I like that idea. Yeah. I 00:32:45.109 --> 00:32:47.190 do, too. That's going to take some thinking, 00:32:47.250 --> 00:32:50.230 too, because there's quite a few of them. Yeah. 00:32:50.289 --> 00:32:52.890 And we could also go into what is your best song 00:32:52.890 --> 00:32:57.930 and, you know, and the worst song that was your 00:32:57.930 --> 00:33:03.190 biggest hit. So we could, you know, say Guns 00:33:03.190 --> 00:33:06.250 N' Roses, Sweet Child of Mine. Really a horrible 00:33:06.250 --> 00:33:10.029 song. Yeah. Biggest hit. It's the one everyone 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:14.910 wants. What was your best song? See what? Well, 00:33:14.910 --> 00:33:16.670 it would be. They've had a lot of really good 00:33:16.670 --> 00:33:18.549 ones, but yeah, Sweet Child of Mine is one they 00:33:18.549 --> 00:33:20.509 have to play at every concert because people 00:33:20.509 --> 00:33:23.529 demand it. They probably hate doing it. Yeah, 00:33:23.569 --> 00:33:26.210 and they all hate it, too. Yep. Well, I'm trying 00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:31.109 to look up. Yeah, yeah. There's a new Alice Cooper 00:33:31.109 --> 00:33:35.009 album coming out with the surviving members of 00:33:35.009 --> 00:33:40.599 his original band. Glenn Buxton has died. So 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.119 he's got Michael Bruce on guitar, Dennis Dunaway 00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:47.480 on bass, and Neil Smith on drums. And they have 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.720 someone else filling in on lead guitar, but no 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:54.559 article is mentioning her name. I can't find 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.940 it. I noticed that. Yeah, they mentioned it once 00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:59.460 or twice. You know what I read the other day? 00:33:59.539 --> 00:34:02.720 What's that? Kane Roberts. I don't know if that's 00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.920 true, but I saw that on an internet article. 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.599 He was saying that he was in contact with him. 00:34:09.050 --> 00:34:13.190 about playing on this interesting so maybe the 00:34:13.190 --> 00:34:17.030 person they initially talked about being the 00:34:17.030 --> 00:34:20.269 new lead guitarist was just on a few tracks because 00:34:20.269 --> 00:34:23.050 they have some tracks i think two tracks where 00:34:23.050 --> 00:34:25.289 they have recordings of glenn buxton playing 00:34:25.289 --> 00:34:28.230 and they've they built a song around it so he 00:34:28.230 --> 00:34:30.469 will in effect be playing with the guys again 00:34:30.469 --> 00:34:35.329 but uh I don't know if that's true, but I read 00:34:35.329 --> 00:34:37.949 that like yesterday about Kane Roberts, and I 00:34:37.949 --> 00:34:40.409 can't remember what website it was on. So I'm 00:34:40.409 --> 00:34:42.530 still going to try to find out who the Steve 00:34:42.530 --> 00:34:46.869 guitarist is, but the first song has already 00:34:46.869 --> 00:34:49.010 been released. It's called Black Mamba, and they 00:34:49.010 --> 00:34:51.969 have a video out for it, and I think it's decent. 00:34:52.389 --> 00:34:54.710 I mean, it's not earth -shattering, but I liked 00:34:54.710 --> 00:34:58.889 it. Okay, I'll have to listen. Yeah. Hmm. Okay. 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:02.820 I'll have to listen to it. I've not heard it 00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:05.440 yet. It's called Black Mamba. You get a good 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:07.460 look at his band members and how old they all 00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:10.340 look. So it doesn't have the guitarist on the 00:35:10.340 --> 00:35:14.219 image at all? No, it's just the band members. 00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:21.000 Okay. This is interesting. How come they're doing 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:26.579 it like that? I don't know. I typed in... Alice 00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:29.079 Cooper new album, Lead Guitar, and it's just 00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:32.260 talking about Glenn Buxton. Huh. So it's really, 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:34.599 it's like they... You know what, I'm going to... 00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:37.659 It's like all... If I re -Google it, I bet you 00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:39.860 it'll come up in my memory what article that 00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:43.320 was. Yeah. It's like all the press releases... 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.900 I'm going to have to go outside of here. The 00:35:45.900 --> 00:35:48.599 internet's not good enough here for me to talk 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.539 to you and do that, so I'll have to do it a little 00:35:50.539 --> 00:35:53.159 bit later. But I'll bet to the original, you 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:55.739 know how you re -Google something, a rigid article 00:35:55.739 --> 00:35:58.079 will show up? I'd like to find out what that 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.119 was, because I'm not sure. You know, that could 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:04.599 have been two dudes music from outside of Rochester 00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:08.519 .com. You know what I mean? All right. It does 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:10.739 seem weird that all the press releases have been 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:15.159 modified to completely eliminate anybody mentioned 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.460 except original band members. They're not mentioning 00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:19.920 anybody at all except original band members. 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:25.380 It is odd. And above all, I could not figure 00:36:25.380 --> 00:36:28.679 out why that would be. I think I'm going to have 00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:33.260 to go to Wikipedia. Yeah, there's not even a 00:36:33.260 --> 00:36:41.179 Wikipedia page up for that album yet. Wow. Well, 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:45.360 let's see. Does Kane Roberts even do anything 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:48.670 anymore? Yeah, I think I saw an article the other 00:36:48.670 --> 00:36:51.590 day talking about him, and it was talking about 00:36:51.590 --> 00:36:55.329 how he was surprised that he was able to hook 00:36:55.329 --> 00:36:57.230 up with Alice Cooper in the first place, and 00:36:57.230 --> 00:37:00.489 then he continued his bodybuilding, and he thought 00:37:00.489 --> 00:37:02.489 it was kind of odd that he's the big massive 00:37:02.489 --> 00:37:04.909 bodybuilding guy on stage with Alice Cooper. 00:37:05.329 --> 00:37:07.809 It kind of became a gimmick there for a while. 00:37:08.570 --> 00:37:10.670 Yeah, it's like he just kept getting bigger and 00:37:10.670 --> 00:37:16.050 bigger and bigger. I know. He wasn't a bad guitarist 00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:19.150 either. Honestly. Yeah, here's the article on 00:37:19.150 --> 00:37:21.869 Cain Roberts. He found me, this 230 -pound guy 00:37:21.869 --> 00:37:24.269 playing guitar. Alice never goes for the safe 00:37:24.269 --> 00:37:27.469 bet. How a guitar -playing bodybuilder with no 00:37:27.469 --> 00:37:30.070 musical experience helped Alice Cooper resurrect 00:37:30.070 --> 00:37:33.889 his career in the shred metal 80s. See, that 00:37:33.889 --> 00:37:38.590 article comes up when I type in Alice Cooper 00:37:38.590 --> 00:37:41.010 being a guitarist, and that's what comes up. 00:37:41.570 --> 00:37:44.880 It's like they're intentionally hiding. who they 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:46.659 originally said was going to be playing lead 00:37:46.659 --> 00:37:50.460 guitar with him. Because normally that stuff's 00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:54.139 super easy. I think I read it wrong. You know 00:37:54.139 --> 00:37:56.980 what? I will refine that. I'm going to get some 00:37:56.980 --> 00:38:03.659 clarity on that. I can't remember. Okay, the 00:38:03.659 --> 00:38:07.619 guitar style. Is it like anything that reminds 00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:09.940 you of anybody you've played with, or is it something 00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:14.449 just generic? In the single that I heard, Black 00:38:14.449 --> 00:38:16.809 Mamba, I couldn't really tell. I mean, I heard 00:38:16.809 --> 00:38:19.050 some lead guitar, and it sounded pretty awesome, 00:38:19.110 --> 00:38:23.969 but I really couldn't tell who it might be. Okay, 00:38:24.070 --> 00:38:26.570 so it could be someone from his touring band. 00:38:27.269 --> 00:38:32.469 Yeah. From What's Her Name to, oh, shit. Well, 00:38:32.610 --> 00:38:34.449 Nita Strauss. Yeah, I can't think of the other 00:38:34.449 --> 00:38:37.349 two. Yeah, Nita Strauss has dropped out for a 00:38:37.349 --> 00:38:40.630 bit. Nita Strauss and Orianti is filling in. 00:38:43.070 --> 00:38:45.389 Orianti is playing with him again? Yeah, but 00:38:45.389 --> 00:38:47.329 I don't think she's the one doing lead guitar 00:38:47.329 --> 00:38:52.489 on the new album. Okay. Yeah, Orianti's really, 00:38:52.650 --> 00:38:56.510 really good, too. I like her better than Strauss. 00:38:56.650 --> 00:39:04.849 Yeah, I do, too. The guy, I can't think of his 00:39:04.849 --> 00:39:09.369 damn name now. With the really long hair that 00:39:09.369 --> 00:39:12.309 plays, the male that plays Gagarin, he's actually 00:39:12.309 --> 00:39:18.969 better than she is. Ryan Roxy and Tommy Hendrickson 00:39:18.969 --> 00:39:25.030 are playing with him right now. Okay. I don't 00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:30.150 know. Eventually, I mean, is he touring? Yeah, 00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:32.889 he's currently touring, and he's adding dates, 00:39:32.909 --> 00:39:38.960 and he's going out with Judas Priest. Oh, that's 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.480 right. Now, is he touring with the original band? 00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:47.880 I don't know. I don't think so yet. That's what 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:50.679 I'd like to know. I don't think so yet. I don't 00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:52.679 think he had yet announced any kind of tour with 00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.860 the original band. Do you think they hired a 00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:59.960 studio musician, maybe? Could be. I'm starting 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:01.780 to wonder that. And then the Kane and Roberts 00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:05.239 stuff, I'll have to look it up. I would have 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:08.110 to say... that if Cain Roberts was actually on 00:40:08.110 --> 00:40:11.670 the album, that it would have been everywhere, 00:40:12.010 --> 00:40:17.710 not just that one article. Yeah. Yeah, it would 00:40:17.710 --> 00:40:20.090 have commanded more than that. I mean, he was 00:40:20.090 --> 00:40:24.250 pretty popular in the 80s with Alice Cooper, 00:40:24.449 --> 00:40:28.369 and then he did his own stuff. Yeah. So I think 00:40:28.369 --> 00:40:30.170 that would be more of a ride spread. I don't 00:40:30.170 --> 00:40:31.929 think that's it. I don't think it's Cain Roberts. 00:40:32.050 --> 00:40:34.750 It's got to be a studio musician or something 00:40:34.750 --> 00:40:38.260 else. I'll find that article, though, and I saw 00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:40.760 the one that you talked about, too, about how 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:42.300 he didn't think he was going to be a part of 00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:45.699 it and all that. He kept working out. It wasn't 00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:49.679 a big deal. I'm trying to think of any other 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:51.760 way we could find out. I don't know how because 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.420 it's just not the same anymore. Record companies 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:56.280 used to be able to tell you. They'd be like, 00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:58.860 yeah, yeah, yeah, we got this guy on there, whatever. 00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:03.300 It kind of reminds me of, remember on Whitesnake? 00:41:03.949 --> 00:41:06.150 You didn't know who played on the album and who 00:41:06.150 --> 00:41:09.809 was touring with him. Yeah. It was kind of like 00:41:09.809 --> 00:41:13.949 that because John Sykes was, John Sykes was on 00:41:13.949 --> 00:41:16.469 quite a few of his albums, but he never really 00:41:16.469 --> 00:41:18.889 toured with him, at least not here in America. 00:41:19.730 --> 00:41:22.869 Huh. By the time he got big in America with his 00:41:22.869 --> 00:41:26.630 self -titled album, he'd already got Adrian Anderberg 00:41:26.630 --> 00:41:30.449 and Vivian Campbell, was it? I think Adrian Anderberg 00:41:30.449 --> 00:41:33.360 and Vivian Campbell. Yeah. Yeah. I believe so. 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.860 Yeah. Yeah. He'd already gotten those two, but 00:41:37.860 --> 00:41:39.980 that was John Sykes on that whole album. He was 00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:43.559 also on Slide It In and Saints and Sinners and 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:46.340 all that. But by the time he got big in America, 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.219 John Sykes and him already split. And then John 00:41:50.219 --> 00:41:52.539 Sykes was on another album of his, but I think 00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:56.760 maybe Steve Vai. And who was the other guitarist 00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:01.119 for Whitesnake for a while? Red Beach played 00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:04.539 for a while. Yeah, Reb beached it for a while, 00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:09.639 too, later on. Well, all right. Well, I think 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:11.980 I'm going to have to cut this short because we've 00:42:11.980 --> 00:42:14.300 got a room store coming in, and we've got some 00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:18.239 stuff that we have to start doing because tomorrow's 00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:21.699 the actual last day of the cruise. Oh, yeah, 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:24.380 and we've got lunch. Okay. Okay, Val's hungry, 00:42:24.460 --> 00:42:27.760 too, so we've got lunch. All right. So let's 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.139 go ahead and cut this short. I'm thinking, like, 00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.679 I'm off Monday and Tuesday. Next week, maybe, 00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:35.940 too, we could maybe do a little podcasting. Okay. 00:42:36.260 --> 00:42:39.260 Do you want me to hang on to this until you get 00:42:39.260 --> 00:42:42.139 back, or do you want me to try to post it? No, 00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.340 go ahead and post it, man. I mean, if you want 00:42:44.340 --> 00:42:46.739 to, if you have time. Sure. Yeah, nothing's changed. 00:42:46.980 --> 00:42:50.699 I mean, we just kind of added another douche 00:42:50.699 --> 00:42:53.500 bag. That's all. Yeah, yeah. All righty. I'll 00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:56.019 see if I can get this up on the Internet to fill 00:42:56.019 --> 00:42:58.340 everybody's ear holes. Oh, yeah, yeah, there 00:42:58.340 --> 00:43:00.380 you go. And also, hey, everybody, thank you for 00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:02.199 listening. We really appreciate you listening 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:05.300 to our international edition. You guys are fantastic. 00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:08.059 You stick with us through all this. But go fuck 00:43:08.059 --> 00:43:08.380 yourself.