Hey, my fellow heavy breeders, this is Dash Riptide,
your music news. Walls of Jericho is a song by
Bon Jovi that features a guest appearance by
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott. According to
this Instagram post, the track is from the forever
legendary edition of Bon Jovi's album, which
was released in October 2025. The song is named
Walls of Jericho. The song features Bon Jovi
and Joe Elliott from Def Leppard. Jon Bon Jovi
chose this song for Elliot to feature on because
it's stadium rock sound that is reminiscent of
both bands. It is their first ever collaboration.
This is Gash Riptine, and that was your music
news. If it's too loud, you'd probably have ear
damage, just like me. Art to the music. Creeps.
We are the music. Sweet. Okay, that's it. I call
it. Every time you do the, I can't. That's it.
It's done. Okay. That's so much fun. All right.
This is, of course, the Music Creeps. And we
are creeping up on all sorts of musical things.
Oh, yeah. Hang on. I'm Mark. I'm Topher. We're
the Music Creeps. We are. We're also the Sports
Bastards, too, but we forgot to tell you that.
Yeah. I know. I know. Big surprise. I know. Big
surprise. A lot of people didn't know that. Yeah.
You got something to start off with? I'm all
excited about Triumph. It's going out on a 50th
anniversary tour. But they're not coming by here,
are they? No, I don't think so. It's Rick Emmett,
the guitar player, and then you have Gilmore
and Mike Levine. Rick Emmett's talking about
he's really excited to be doing this, and it's
been kind of in the works for a bit. But he admitted
that there was about a 20 -year span where he
just didn't even talk to the other two guys.
Oh, I know, yeah. He was just so done and over
it. It's a three -piece, in case anyone doesn't
know, and a very talented three -piece. Kind
of like Rush. In fact, when Rush was signed and
got popular... A lot of record labels went up
to Canada and said, we need to sign more power
trios from Canada because Rush was successful.
And Triumph was one of the ones they swept up
in the net. But they are so different from Rush.
Oh, I know. They got signed because of Rush,
but they're not like Rush. No, no, no. They're
very different. The only thing that's close is
the three -peat, the trio. Yeah. Other than that,
the music is completely different. And Rick Emmett
has such an amazing high voice. Oh, I know. Much
better than Geddy's. Well, Geddes, when he back,
let's see, when did he really stop doing the
high, like, Temple's Assyrian stuff? It was the
album right after that, Farewell to Kings. He
still did some high nasally stuff, but then he
started getting away from it. Yeah, he realized
he couldn't do that anymore and keep a voice.
And in a lot of ways, the audience really didn't
want that anyway. No, you're right. Yeah, it's
the high -pitched, screaming, heavy metal kind
of voice. It just didn't fit with Rush. Because
they're Frog Rock. They're not heavy metal. Yeah,
I mean, look at Trees. Yeah. There's Trouble
in the Forest. I think it's called Treason. Uh
-huh. Or Trouble. Yeah, yeah. Unrest in the Forest.
There's Trouble with the Trees. Yes. Because
the maples want more sunlight and the oaks ignore
their pleas. Ignore their pleas. Yeah. And all
of these are... What would you call them? Imitating
life. Metaphors. Metaphors. Yeah, yeah. Actually,
metaphors is perfect. Yeah. So, I'm excited about
that. Yeah, yeah. I got something to check, though.
Okay, where they're coming to. I'm starting to
notice some big concerts ever since the Rolling
Stones went there last year. Thunder Ridge Amphitheater.
Down at Dogwood Canyon in extreme southern Missouri.
They're getting a lot of big concerts. They've
got Guns N' Roses coming by there. Yeah. I wonder
if the facilities are just that awesome. I think
that. I think they are. They're brand new and
they're beautiful. And they're in the Ozark.
Actually, the Boston Mountain Chain, I believe,
by that. It's either the Ozark Mountain Chain
or the Boston. They go into each other. And a
lot of people don't realize that northern Arkansas
has a lot of the Boston Mountain Chain that comes
in from. Pretty much Oklahoma over in that area.
Small mountains, huge hills, whatever you want
to call them. There's a big earthquake fault
line down there. That's generally where you get
mountains pushing up is when you get fault lines
that are mushing together. Yeah. And they had
an actual little small one not too long ago.
And that's what you want. You want to fall by
my cat to release his tension by small ones.
Yes, a whole bunch of little small ones. Made
the Mississippi River flow backwards for, what,
three days? It did, yeah. Man, that's power.
That's power. So I'm going to check Thunder Ridge
because I could watch Guns N' Roses here at the
new Morton Amphitheater in Riverside or Kansas
City. It depends on who's... Who's calling you?
Some people say it's Camp City. Some people say
it's Riverside. I'm just going to start calling
it Riverside Amphitheater because Morton Salt
is not paying me to say their name. Okay, Riverside
Amphitheater. I agree. Just like it's Sandstone
in Bonner Springs. It's not whatever name they
come up with. And who knows what name it is?
Jeez. Some cell phone company. We're like 10
deep on names. I don't care anymore. No, and
nobody's ever sent me a check to say their name,
so I ain't doing it. Oh, yeah. I had a co -worker
that worked at Sandstone, and any time somebody
said Sandstone, he'd go correct them. No, it's
called whatever Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.
Did you ever smack him? No, I told him. I said,
they're not paying me. I said, I understand you
work there. You have to say their name. And they're
not paying me, so I'm going to call it whatever
I want. He'd just smile like I was an idiot.
It's like, you're the one bootlicking, dude.
He's an idiot. How does their boot taste? You
like the taste of their boot down your throat?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyhow. Let's see. Oh,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Thunder Ridge. I'm going to
check all their concerts because they got the
Rolling Stones last year. We didn't even get
them here. Yeah. We didn't get them anywhere
near, but I forgot what the deal was. There was
some sort of trickery involved somehow in like
a fishing trip or something. This is a guy that
owns Bass Pro Shops. Yeah. He owns that in Dogwood
Canyon where they're at, too. He owns all of
them. Actually, Bass Pro sold out to Cabela's.
Oh, did it? Yeah. Then he doesn't own them anymore.
So he probably has the big payoff for selling
Bass Pro to Cabela's. Payoff? Payoff. Okay. Well,
then maybe Thunder Ridge isn't owned by him anymore.
Maybe it's owned by Cabela's. Could be. You know,
a lot of times concert locations are chosen by...
Some of the factors is who will this venue draw
from? Like the one in southern Missouri will
draw from Oklahoma and Arkansas. Well, Black
Oak Amphitheater, which used to be Swiss Villa,
used to attract... big, big names. I saw Ozzy
there with Alice in Chains opening. Yeah. That's
where I seen all the Hill Rods jumping off their
foot. Yes, yes. But like you tell the concert
goers, you know, we got the newer amphitheater,
great parking, great roads in and out, much better
experience. You know, the fans are more likely
to come. The bands are more likely to want to
play there. So they're expecting people to drive
over there from Springfield and Joplin and Kansas
City, etc. Because if they put it in KC, there
are a lot of people that wouldn't drive to Kansas
City to see it in one of our older venues. But
you put it where it's going to be an awesome
event, and you'll get people to travel to it.
You can even go offer some travel packages. Go
to little travel agents and say, hey, here's
a flight and a hotel and rental car package.
Start offering it for this concert coming up.
There's all sorts of ways to make it work. You
also try to move a concert out of an area if
they've just had several big concerts and everybody's
already spent their money. You kind of leave
that area alone for a while to get people to
build up their spending money again before you
send a big artist in there. I think a lot of,
okay, they saw a potential market down there
with the Black Oak Amphitheater. But now the
Black Oak Amphitheater is more of a tribute band
place and less of a... I saw Skinner there way
later when it's Black Oak Amphitheater. And that
concert was actually kind of convoluted, if you
will, with fights. A bunch of locals just knocking
the shit out of each other. So it's almost impossible.
Just like when it was the Swiss Villain, I've
seen everybody jump off of the cliff with Skinner.
It was everybody fighting behind us. So either
way, I didn't get to watch the whole concert
because there's better things going on somewhere
else. So I think where Thunder Ridge, you're
not going to see that. You're going to see a
higher quality of people, a higher quality concert.
That's another thing if you can attract people
with more money to spend. Like at Swiss Villa,
the people that are coming there have enough
money to get in, pay parking, and maybe a few
concessions. At Thunder Ridge, you're attracting
people who have enough money to spend $500 while
they're there. You get people that own those
huge condos on the mountains. You get people
from Branson that own a lot of property. You
get people from Springfield. You get people from
Joplin. You get people from Oklahoma. Even the
Boothill. You're drawing from a large amount
of people, and people go there because there's
places to go. You go there and you go, well,
we could go to Eureka Springs, we could go to
Branson, or we could go out in the middle of
nowhere and stay. It's like movie theaters. If
they had to survive just on ticket sales, they
wouldn't survive because they'd make a shit ton
off of concessions. It's the same with concerts.
If they had to survive just on ticket sales,
they'd be burned. it'd be a bad investment. But
if you know you're going to spend, you're going
to get a million or two in concession sales,
merchandise sales, parking, et cetera, et cetera,
suddenly it becomes a much better viable option
and you start thinking, hey, I want the rich
people to come to my concert that I'm hosting
here because then they'll spend more money. I'm
relatively sure that's the idea behind Thunder
Ridge. It's like, okay, Black Oak can have that
Poison tribute band, Poison Overdose or whatever.
Because nobody's going to spend money on merchandise
concessions. They're going to buy $20 tickets
and go there and buy cheaper beers and go see
a play band, a band playing like someone else.
It's just part of any event that happens. You
have to have every single little corner of it
monetized to the hilt or people won't invest
in it. Exactly. And I think Thunder Ridge, you
have that. You're going to have the VIP seating.
You're going to have the special areas, the special
clubs. You're going to have a lot of money poured
into that to where the minimal amount of money
went into the Black Oak Amphitheater as the way
it looks. I don't know. I'm not privy to financial
records, but it kind of looks to me like a has
-been venue. Well, you know. Look at the Buffalo
Bills. I know it's the music and not sports,
but they're building, they've got their new stadium.
They've got Highmark Stadium right now. And they're
going to be selling seat licenses for this stadium.
They're going to be multiple thousands of dollars.
And that just gives you the authority and right
to buy a ticket. It's not the ticket. You don't
get in. You spend $2 ,000. You don't get into
a single game. That just gives you the right
to buy a ticket. So they're pricing out their
regular fans, and they don't care. That's been
the plan the whole time. You guys watch it on
TV like everyone else. Oh, by the way, you're
going to have to pay for that too. Yeah. So that's
why they're going to start monetizing the tailgating
because they're eventually going to phase that
out. It's too much of a liability to have, you
know. 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 people with barbecue grills
out in the parking lot that could set someone's
car on fire. They just don't want that anymore,
so they're going to start charging you to tailgate,
and then it's going to become, oh, if you want
to tailgate, it's in this official pavilion with
our food and ours, and eventually it's just going
to be history. Because the people who are coming
and spending $10 ,000 on season tickets, they
don't want to tailgate. They want to breeze in
and go to their suite and sit back and eat truffles.
You know, whatever. Yeah. Be seen at the game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The good old footage of them
eating popcorn or whatever and laughing. And,
you know, people like us with our budgets, et
cetera, we're going to have to find something
else to go do because football is going to be
way too expensive. That's fine. I have no desire
to ever go to another football game again. And
it's not because I don't love the sport. It's
because they priced me out, and I admit it. Yeah,
not only priced me out, but the presentation
is all about gambling now. gambling and buying
merchandise, which two things I'm not going to
do. So they just really don't care whether I'm
there or not. They couldn't tell me. They don't
give a shit less about me anymore. I know. They've
been very clear. They've been really clear about
it. They spoke slowly. and let me know that they
don't want me. So that's fine. I'm not going
to be there. Have you ever seen those posts from
waiters and waitresses who say, if you're not
able to tip 20%, then you shouldn't even bother
coming out to eat. I think football teams are
like that. If you can't afford to come out to
the game and spend like $3 ,000 or $4 ,000 on
a single game, then we don't really want you
anyway because we've got 100 people who will.
Yeah. And all of them want your seat. Oh, and
also, have you ever noticed the math is completely
wrong on those? No. It says move the decimal
over and all that. And it equals out to like
35 % to 40%. And I bet you people don't do the
math and go, oh, this is a $100 tab, so I owe
$40 to her. Okay. How many people do that? A
lot. They just take their word for it. Yeah.
They're used to taking the TV's word. Oh, the
TV told me, so it must be true. It just cracks
me up. It's like people actually believe us.
They're like, okay, how hard is that? Four out
of ten. That's 40%. Yeah. Yeah, but anyhow, who
cares? And then you can throw in like $1 .50
more like $41 .50 just to confuse them really
good. Yes. I got something if you don't. Sure.
Okay. All right. Let me explain this. A lot of
bands put out music way after the fact. Like,
look at Motley Crue and the garbage they put
out the last, I don't know, 20 years, 30 years
even. Every band seems to be like that. Let's
say Dokken. Dokken was a great band in the 80s,
but that's it. They had nothing else. Def Leppard
even, to an extent, same thing. They come out
and they all started doing different things.
They never could get that original sound, right?
Yeah, yeah. Well, let me go into this. Axl Rose's
idol is Elton John. Yeah. The new song release,
Nothing, without the G, really shows off his
Elton John influence. Yeah. Guns are the only
80s band that are still capable of writing their
own niche of unique quality music. Why do bands
lose their songwriting abilities? Are they too
far removed? They can never get that original
hunger back? I think that's a big part of it.
That would go a long ways to explaining why a
band's first two albums generally have their
best music on it. Because they've spent their
whole life writing music, coming up with music,
weeding out the bad ones, perfecting it, and
then they finally get that album deal. It's like,
ah, here's all our best material. And it explodes.
It goes wild. Everyone loves it. And then their
second album comes out. and they've only had
six months to write that one. So half of the
album is stuff that didn't make it onto the first
album, and the rest of it is stuff that they've
just kind of come up with in the last six months.
And that's the sophomore jinx, you know, the
second album. Quiet Riot. Quiet Riot is a great
example of that. Condition Critical. People are
like, what's that? What's that band you love?
What? Doesn't sound like them anymore. Yeah.
So Motley, to be honest, who knows who wrote
their good music? Yeah. There's so much debate
on whether Nicky could even play bass. Yes. So
even Ozzy had a string of albums that were subpar.
And a lot of it was because Bob Daisley and him
were in legal problems. And Bob Daisley was the
songwriter. He was, I mean, he's a hell of a
songwriter. And look at his body of work from
Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Ozzy. There's some bands
I'm forgetting, but yeah. So, okay, Ozzy got
smart after that, after a string of subpar albums
like Scream with Gus G, who has no feeling at
all, but has fingers, like real fast fingers,
but just no feeling in his music. I got to where
I can't stand his playing. Yeah, it's just heartless,
soulless. So he started going to his idols like
Elton John again, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton. Even
Tony Iommi, his old new bandmate or whatever,
he turned to Faithfuls and came out with quality
music because he realized he didn't have that
component anymore to write quality music. So
not only did he want to perform with his idols,
but he also wanted good music. So that was the
smartest thing I could do. So is there an emphasis
on not producing too many songs on an album?
Would it be just too costly and sales aren't
what they used to be? Yeah, yeah. There's not
a lot of sense in packing your album with a whole
bunch of really good songs and really good hits
unless it's your last album. I agree. You can
put four good songs on there and then use filler
for the rest, and then all the other good songs
that you were going to put on there, well, there's
your next two albums. Yeah. It just makes more
sense. You don't put all your good stuff on that
first one and then you're done. Especially when
you're established. and you're trying to make
a comeback. When you're brand new, you're trying
to do anything to get noticed, get famous, get
attention. And like you said, all your best music
is going to be on your first effort because that
is what people are going to start recognizing
you about. Yeah, yeah. It's just like if they
don't notice us here, we're never going to be
here again, so we've got to just pull out all
the stops. I think you're right on that. Well,
Gunn still has that feel. Yeah. They still have
that feel. They still have some of that magic.
What helps is when the members of the band go
work with other musicians and expand their experience
pool. Slash definitely did that. Or you continue
to go through hard times during your life so
you have more inspiration to write and come from
emotional places. But if life gets easy and simple
and fun, you really can't write stuff. The stuff
you write would be boring. I wasn't real fond
of Velvet Revolver. I thought their music was...
ordinary at best. Scott Weiland, I don't feel
that was his best effort ever. But it did help
him, I think. I think it did because then he
came out. Well, he had Snake Pit before that,
Slash and Snake Pit. But I could definitely see
an expansion of music there. But when he came
back to it, it didn't bother him because that
was, I think, one of the things is that wasn't
his real love. I think his real love is Appetite
for Destruction. That was his real love right
there. And I think that when you have that in
you, that set in you and that sound, that way
it is, I think that he was able to go back to
it. And Axl has always been there. I mean, he
never really left that whole realm. He's always
been a phenomenal talent and a songwriter. All
right. Would you be interested in seeing Soundgarden
with a different lead singer, even Chris Cornell's
daughter? Hmm. Yeah, I don't think I would. You
know, I always wanted to see Soundgarden. I always
wanted to see Alice in Chains. but I kind of
want to see the original form. If I had already
seen Soundgarden a couple of times, then I'd
probably be open to that with a replacement singer,
but to have that be the first and only time I
see Soundgarden is just, yeah, it doesn't really
thrill me. I agree. I got to see him three days
before his ultimate suicide would suck, but he
put on a hell of a show. I'm going with that.
I saw him solo at the Uptown Theater. I'm happy
with all my Chris Cornell stuff. Yeah. So I wish
he was alive, but you know. Yeah. All right.
I got an interesting one here. All right. And
I guess we went into bullet points. I didn't
even think about it. I just started talking.
I didn't realize it was bullet points. I thought
this was a story. So, okay. The band or artist,
what band or artist t -shirt, if you see it for
sale, you couldn't resist? There's an old band
from the late 60s, early 70s called Blood Rock
out of Texas. Don't remember them. Their first
few albums were good old rock and roll, and then
band members left and switched around, and suddenly
they were kind of this soft, mellow, flute -playing
music, which really sucked. But in the original
lineup, it was two guitars, bass, drums, singer,
and a hell of an organ player. Yeah. One of their
biggest hits was a song called DOA. It was about
a plane crash. And it was very graphic about
what was going on in the plane crash. Wow. It
was pretty intense for 1970 radio. But they had
a lot of really good songs, and I've always really
liked the band. And if I could find a Blood Rock
tour T -shirt, I think I would be a happy person.
I don't even know if they were doing T -shirts,
tour T -shirts back then. Oh, wow. I mean, I
imagine you could probably find it online somewhere.
Yeah, somebody's probably made some. I'm sure.
Unlicensed, you know, in their basement. But
still. All right. Temple of the Dog. Yeah. Did
you know they released a full album? What was
it called? It was one with Hunger Strike and
Pushing Forward Back. Say Hello to Heaven. Yeah.
Wouldn't Jesus, all night thing, times of trouble.
Yeah, okay, you knew that. A lot of people didn't
know. That album is solid all the way through.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I just started getting little
snippets all over YouTube about it. I already
knew about it. I was like thinking, how many
people don't even know that that was a full album?
They thought it was like a couple of tribute
songs. Yeah, yeah. Or like EP at best. Yeah,
EP at best, yeah. And that was actually recorded
before the band Pearl Jam officially formed.
Yeah, yeah. It's just they delayed putting it
out for a couple years. Yeah, that was Stone
Gossard, wasn't it? Yeah. Chris Cornell, of course.
Eddie Vedder. Cornell did most of the lead, which
I'm good with. Yeah. They had Matt Cameron on
drums. Yes, Matt Cameron. Who is actually now
Pearl Jam's drummer, but was Soundgarden's drummer.
But was Soundgarden, yeah. One of my favorite
drummers of all time. Matt Cameron is just insanely
good. He is so unique. Hello, this is Phineas
J. Altaris III. I'm here to deliver your music
news this evening. Toto Steve Lukather said that
Michael Jackson's Beat It was almost ruined by
Eddie Van Halen. Steve Lukather has explained
that the issue wasn't Eddie Van Halen's solo
itself, but that Eddie and his engineer, Don
Landy, edited the master tape and messed up the
time code, which was crucial for syncing other
tracks. This forced Lukather and drummer Jeff
Porcano to meticulously... Recreate the song's
backing tracks from scratch, using the faint
bleed of the drums in Michael Jackson's vocal
track, and reestablishing the rhythm. This is
Phineas J. Baltar S. III. That has been your
music news for this evening. I have one burning
question for you all. Do people really skip around
the Maypole? He's one of the guys you can hear
the beat and go, oh yeah, yeah. He's so inventive.
The choices he makes are just so different. I
really dig it. I do too. Do you listen to local
music, radio, in your car? No, I really don't.
I don't listen to their local radio stations.
I have so much pre -recorded on my phone or on
a flash drive. There's no commercials, so I listen
to that. I don't have to wait for them to talk
about some traffic tie -up or what they did last
night before they play a song. With regular broadcast
radio, you're waiting through a lot of crap before
they finally play a song, and then it's not a
song you like, or it's one you've heard a million
times. Such a waste of time. The voyeuristic
type of DJ isn't quite what it used to be because
they don't give them time. And by voyeuristic,
I mean the eavesdropping in on their private
life and stuff going on. It used to be a real
appeal to them. Now, they give them so little
time, they don't have time to establish any type
of a hook at all. And a lot of the stuff that's
supposed to be their natural patter is written
for them. Yes. Because AI says this will attract
and keep listeners if you talk this way and say
these things. Yeah, you're right. So, yeah. What
would be the best band to come from Kansas City?
Not sales, just the best. Talent -wise? Yeah.
I really liked Pat Maffini. Kind of a jazz guitarist.
and the Rainmakers. The Rainmakers were really
talented and extremely unique. Yeah, they started
out as, what, Steve, Bob, and Rich, and then
there was Steve, Bob, and Dave, and then they
became the Rainmakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rich
and Dave, yep. There was a band called Missouri.
They were kind of mediocre. Yeah, Shooting Star
was okay. Shooting Star was one of the lesser
bands, in my opinion, that came from here, talent
-wise. Yeah, and they came out at a time where
they were trying to imitate Kansas. Yes. And
you could tell by the drumming on that first
album that the producer was saying, sound more
like Kansas. Yeah, yeah, you can. Yeah. I agree
100%. I think that's about it. They even had
a violin, because they wanted to sound like Kansas
so bad. Oh, they did, didn't they? Yes. I forgot.
I mean, even Banshee was really talented. Terry
Dunn, if this is true, their guitarist, almost
got the spot with Ozzy. Yeah. And I think this
is after Jake left. Oh, wow. It would have been
mid-'80s. I remember Banshee. I remember J .T.
Cook was real popular in the late-'70s. I think
they had some originals, but they were pretty
much identified as a cover band. Yeah, pretty
much. But Terry Dunn was phenomenal. I forgot
their bassist name. Damn it. Westhoff? That sounds
right. Jerry Westhoff, maybe, something like
that. Tommy Lee Flood, I think, is something
Westhoff. But anyhow, they were pretty talented,
too, but not the most talented. I think he pretty
much identified it. Probably the Rainmakers.
Unless it's a band that we never heard of. Not
Puddle of Mud. No, Puddle of Mud. Puddle of Mud
is horrible. Yes. I was in a band called Weatherhead
in the mid to late 90s, and it seemed like for
a while, everywhere we played, Puddle of Mud
had played there the week before. It was just
like, I think the promoter that was booking us
was just like, okay, Puddle of Mud this week,
Weatherhead next week. So we were just following
them around, and I remember seeing them on some
local... music shows, and then off they went
to California to do their first album, except
the singer was the only person they kept, and
they sent everyone else home. Everyone else got
fired from the band. Wes Scanlon? Yeah, Scanlon,
who's not immune to getting in trouble. He's
been doing a lot of that. It reminds me back
of my Westport days and watching cover bands.
how I formed this fake band called Fuckhammer.
I remember Fuckhammer. Yeah. We made cool flyers.
We took this ugly glam band called Lake's Diamond,
I believe is what it was. I've heard of Lake's
Diamond. Yeah, they were like in the back of
Circus and Hipparator. We took their image and
put up Fuckhammer flyers. It got so bad to where
the guy at the Hurricane was so mad, he said,
if you catch these guys, bring them to me. Because
everybody came in wanting to see Fuckhammer.
And the name was just simply Trip Hammer and
Sacred, or Sacred were the two big bands at the
time. And I couldn't think of anything to make
off of Sacred. So I was like, Hammer, Hammer,
Trip Hammer, Fuckhammer. That's it. And then
I just started doing that. Oh, my God, yeah.
And the funny thing is a lot of people remember
them like you do, but some people remember seeing
them because of how memory works. There was never
a real band, but I remember people going, oh,
yeah, I saw them. And they really believed it.
They really believed they saw them. It was somebody
else, but they thought it was them. And I found
a flyer. I got it at home, and I put it online.
I was like, here's one of the flyers. Actually,
I had a friend of mine. Johnny, although his
name's not Johnny. I don't know why he's hiding
it. But anyhow, he sent me it. He sent me it
in my ear. So, anyhow. All right. What guitarist
would be the most underrated ever? Wow. That's
tough. Because everyone I'm thinking of is pretty
well regarded. Yeah, same here. I don't think
it actually is. I'm going to have to go with
somebody like unappreciated, like a Mick Mars
or something. Yeah. And the whole thing, or a
Pat Travers or something, you know. I've got
someone. Oh, go ahead. Steve Hunter. Yeah, yes.
He and Dick Wagner played with Lou Reed on his
Rock and Roll Animals album and then the subsequent
tour. And then both of them caught the eye of
producer Bob Ezrin, who started using them on
a lot of different albums, like Aerosmith's Long
Train, or Train Kept a -Rollin'. Train Kept a
-Rollin', yeah. That's Steve Hunter on guitar,
all the way through. There's not a bit of Joe
Perry in there. And on the lead guitar, Dick
Wagner, I used to think he was awesome. But over
the years, I've realized, you know, he's good,
and he was the lead guitarist, but that was more
like lead as in musical direction. But Steve
Hunter, who played at least half of the solos
and a lot of the rhythm parts, just phenomenal,
just amazing. And for a guy that throughout his
adult life was slowly going blind, he still has
been putting out albums. I don't know if he's
putting out anything the last five years, but
he's put out a number of just solo bluesy. I
didn't know that. I'll have to listen. He's got
some excellent, excellent. There's one that's,
I think, called Before the Light Fades or something
like that. Okay. Referring to Linus. I'll have
to look that up. He's amazing. The feel and just
the emotion he puts in his guitar playing is
just really stunning. Famous Peter Gabriel song,
Salisbury Hill. Uh -huh. Climbing up on Salisbury
Hill. That's Steve Hunter. Oh, I didn't know
that. That's him on acoustic guitar. How about
Steve Lukather? Yes. Yes. Nobody really knows
it. It was fashionable to hate Toto. Yeah, it
was. And then hate on all the band members, too.
But they were amazing, amazing musicians. I agree,
yeah. Yeah, Steve Lukather will never get the
credit he deserves because he was in Toto. Yeah.
Yeah, you know, the song that sings Africa. Yeah.
Yeah, you know. Steve Lukather also did all the
guitar parts for Tommy Chong in the Cheech and
Chong movies. He sure did. Yeah. And another
one, this is just kind of weird, but only because
I've heard him play a full set, is Robert Plant.
Yeah. Robert Plant plays some pretty decent guitar.
Now, he's not the best, not nearly the best.
What I'm saying is people don't realize how good
he is. Yeah. Because he's a singer and one of
the most prolific ever. He'll never get credit
for guitar, and also he doesn't accentuate it
either. And he plays a lot with Alison Krauss,
too, which really, I like his feel. Yeah, and
I think he's a lot happier with that, especially
at this stage of his life. Yeah, well, I mean,
we went into why he is not doing Led Zeppelin
reunions. He can't sing like that. And he said
this has been going on for 27 years. He's not
been able to sing like that. And he said he wouldn't
even try to embarrass himself. I wish somebody
had told David Lee Roth that. His ego won't allow
it. No. You know, I was thinking, why in the
world? He's got enough money. He's got enough
everything. Why in the world would he embarrass
himself so bad? And he's already got tour dates
picked out for next year already. I guess it's
like watching the train wreck happen in slow
motion. It's just fascinating. You can't look
away. I mean, he was so bad that he almost got
booted off the Kiss opening for Kiss. But then
he finally had to step down and retire. And then
after all that was over, he came back and started
doing a solo. So, I don't know. Why would you
want to watch somebody ruin themselves like that?
Yeah, it's weird. There's some people that just
want to go see someone fail. But there are other
people that will look at, you know, 900 -year
-old David Lee Roth, and all they see is the
David Lee Roth from 1980. And they get wet between
the legs, and they're like, ooh, David Lee Roth,
he's so awesome. It's the pretend image in your
mind that you're thinking of. Now they look at
him and go, Skeletor! Oh, he's... And if you
like David Lee Roth and you don't care how he
looks, great. But a lot of us care how he looks,
and a lot of us care that he can't sing for shit
anymore. I do. I do, too, because I won't go
see it. And he's not even entertaining on stage.
He's just creepy and weird. Yeah. And some of
the stuff he does is just like, why? You know
that looks questionable. Yeah. And the tight
little pants showing off the Tootsie Roll he's
packing. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. That little meat
thimble he's hiding there. Oh, yeah. It just
stuns me that people can look at that and not
see it and instead have the mental image of him
in his prime and still think that that's... I'd
rather remember him in his prime doing the splits
in air. Yeah, I don't need to see him now hobbling
around, you know, with... No. Yeah, don't need
it. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad, but... All right. What
guitarist would be the most overrated? Ooh. There's
a fair number of them. There's a lot of the 80s
hair bands. There were some real overrated guitar
players. Yeah, because it was all done with electronics
and hammer -ons and finger tapping. Yeah, you
didn't have to be good or have any kind of soul
or feeling. You just had to have fast hands.
Finger tapping is easy. Making music out of it
is hard. I can do finger tapping. It sounds like
shit. Yeah. Well, a lot of the 80s is like that.
I got a great example. It would be Vinnie Vincent
Invasion. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. All he's
doing is like ultra fast finger tapping on most
of it. No. It didn't make sense. No. No feeling
nothing. It was horrible. Yeah. Yeah. There's
a lot more like that, but I would say over half
of the 80s guitarists were like that. Gavin Rossdale
of Bush. Yeah. I mean, all he had was a lot of
volume and fuzz. Yeah. Everything he did was
really mediocre, really easy to play, and really
kind of simple. Songwriting was horrible. Yeah,
I was in a band during the time when Bush was
popular, and we were doing cover songs, and we
did a couple of Bush cover tunes, Machine Head
and Glycerine. Oh, yeah, yeah, the ballad. And
I remember the guitar player complaining, he's
like, these are so boring to play, there's just
nothing to it. And the guitar player brought
in another one. He said, hey, we should do this
song too. And he got so fed up with how simple
and basic the songs were that he called me over.
And I was still wearing drumming gloves, fingerless
gloves. And he handed me his guitar. And he said,
here, do this chord shape. So I did. And he said,
now I'm going to point on the neck. And wherever
I point, you play there. So I started strumming
the strings. And he pointed. And I moved around.
I played the song perfectly. That's how simple
it was. What a neat little system. He could stand
there and say, that fret, now that fret, now
that fret. And the singer was just pissed. Because
that was the first time I'd ever played guitar
in my life back then. And I played the song perfectly
with gloves on. Wow. Wow. That's funnier than
hell. He discovered Guitar Hero. Before Guitar
Hero, because that's what they do. Pretty much,
yeah. All right, move up here, move down there,
move up here. Yeah. Love that. Was it notes or
was it actual chords? It was just power chords.
Power chords, okay. Two fingers, pretty much.
Yeah. All right. Oh, let's see, overrated, shit.
There's too many. Yeah, but the ones that stand
out are the ones that everyone points to and,
oh, they're so wonderful. It's like, no, they're
not. Oh, I agree. They're really not. I agree
100%. All right, and finally, what bands need
to stop immediately? David Lee Roth. Corey Feldman.
Actually, he's kind of funny. I want to see him
once before he quits. I want to see him once
too, yeah. Dave Matthews, if they haven't stopped
already. Who knows if they did or not. Rolling
Stones. Yeah, you bet the who, but they are.
Pretty much anybody whose last album was more
than 30 years ago, they need to just quit. Eagles
need to quit. Yep. Roger the Prick Waters. Oh,
yeah, yeah. He needs to quit and catch a very,
very bad case of the clap that kills him. And
then go back to England and rot. Allegedly, yes.
Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah, okay. I think that's
pretty much covered, too. So you got some stuff
you want to go into? Yeah. Do the music stuff
first here. Zach Brown. Okay. Have you seen Zach
Brown's recent performances at the Sphere in
Vegas? No. Zach Brown as in Pantera? Country
singer, Zach Brown. What Brown am I thinking
of? I know who you're talking about. Rex Brown.
I'm thinking of Rex Brown from Pantera. This
is big, beefy guy with a brown beard. Yeah, I
know who you're talking about now. I've seen
two different still images. The first one...
Everything is red and black, and he's wearing
this bizarre outfit, and he looks for all the
world like Satan come to life. And in fact, people
at the concert were complaining a lot on social
media, said, what the hell is with Zac Brown?
He's actually doing a satanic ritual here on
stage, and this guy's supposed to be a country
singer. What the fuck? No kidding. And the one
I saw this morning, he's in some sort of weird
glittery costume with this shiny golden crown
on with Illuminati signals on it. Okay. Since
you went there, he's doing effect. Because it
went from satanic to Illuminati, he wants people
to talk about it, which we're doing. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Controversy makes the scar. Yeah. And the
funny thing is, is there's nothing that works
like controversy. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot
of stuff that can be as talented as they want.
But, I mean, let's face it, like Guns N' Roses
isn't nearly as popular as they used to be, neither
is Motley. They're not doing anything controversial.
Yeah, it's easy to make money if everyone loves
you, but it's also easy to make money if everyone
hates you. Well, everybody secretly likes you,
but they say they hate you. Yeah, yeah. That's
what I found out with stuff like that. They're
like, oh, I can't stand them. They're the ones
that go out and buy the posters and albums of
them. But I would recommend taking a look at
some of his recent performances from Vegas and
the Sphere, still pictures or video. And to call
this guy a country artist is just nuts. It's
weird. Okay, what's your feeling on it? Do you
think it's a factor? Do you think he's really
doing stupid shit like that? I think it's for
a fact, as you said, if he was really trying
to do some signaling, it would be a lot more
subtle. Well, yeah, I mean, like, backmasking
would be perfectly valid if that's really what
was going on, but then we find out they're trying
to sell more albums, which they did, because
you destroy them. playing them backwards yeah
um but or just have like a little symbol painted
on your guitar or on the guitar strap or maybe
on your shoe and you know people can notice or
not notice and that's subtle and that seems more
genuine well look what people made of led zeppelin
symbols yeah oh yeah they're satanic symbols
they're they're like you know the the hierarchy
all this stuff you know when actually It was
just kind of like their little motto or whatever,
like the feather and all that. It had no thought
like that at all. Yeah, it started out as astrological
symbols, but then they were heavily stylized
and modified, and it was supposed to be like
a cool little, oh, this cool symbol means you,
and this cool symbol is him, and then everyone
started reading the darkest possible versions
of it. Well, someone comes out with a theory,
and then everybody runs with it without checking
the facts. And the more fun it is to talk about
and to leave in, the more it spreads. Yeah. So,
all right, Zach Brown's got his own thing going
on and all that, and he wants people to go pick
at his shows, and that's what's going to happen.
Yeah, yeah. I think if we looked, we'd probably
see that his career is flagging a little bit,
and he's trying to pump some air into it. So
he's doing all this stuff, and, like, people
are out there with signs. Yeah. So, anyhow. All
right. Another thing I wanted to talk about,
goes in line with you know residencies are a
part of this um recently there was an artist
who sold i'm forgetting the the name of the the
artist but they had they sold about 300 recordings
of their past concerts and at first i thought
who the hell is going to buy all these old recordings
then i started thinking about it is you can mine
that with ai and put out albums, you can put
out movies, you can recreate them. That's what
they're saying it's going to. They take a sample
and then they're going to have AI do the rest.
And I was counting back through the years. It
used to be in the 60s and early 70s that a band
would go out on tour and they would record themselves.
and then play it back and listen and try to make
improvements etc but you know it's super easy
you just you know bring a couple of stereo leads
off the mixing console in your recording device
and there you go super easy um and then bands
realized hey we can do this and put out live
albums so they started recording a lot of their
shows and then using them to put out live albums
And then the video age came along and they said,
okay, we're going to start videoing our concerts
to see where we can improve. And then, oh, by
the way, then we'll rent really good quality
video equipment and put out a concert video.
So they've turned their own quality control into
something they can sell. And now it's kind of
taken over. When an artist will go to a residency
somewhere, they will set up... The cameras and
the recording gear and the lighting. And you
notice these concerts are exactly the same night
after night after night. And a lot of times the
band members will wear the exact same thing night
after night after night. And the reason that
they're not telling you is so every recording
made looks like every other recording made. So
you could have like a six -month residency in
Vegas, film 150 shows. and, like, say it's Def
Leppard's residency, they'll find the version
of Pour Some Sugar On Me out of those 150 shows,
they'll find the absolute best version of that,
and that's the one going on the live album or
the concert video. Yeah. And it's just so much
easier. It's not really live. Yeah, yeah. It's
like, okay, on this date, the first chorus was
awesome. But three weeks earlier, the second
chorus was really awesome. So we'll take that
piece out and stick it in here. And it all works
because everyone's playing through a click track.
Everything's synchronized. You can take individual
notes out of different performances and put them
together and they sound seamless and perfect.
So all of those shows they do as a residency
is raw material. And some bands are mining it
for concert videos, songs, this, that, and the
other. Or you can use AI and it says, here's
all your basic information now. Create a brand
new concert that never happened out of all this
information. Or, like some bands do, they sell
it to somebody else. They say, look at all this
raw material. It probably costs them a few thousand
dollars to record it all, and then they can sell
it for five or six million. So it's something
they've always been doing, recording through
audio and visual, and now it's suddenly worth
a large amount of money. And storage is so cheap.
I'm heading out. It strikes me as interesting
that they'll show us, you know, so -and -so is
coming to Vegas for this residency, and that's
the whole story. Well, it's not the whole story.
The residency is there so they can create this
giant backlog of info so they can sell. They're
getting paid every step of the way. It's not
a performance for a performance sake. It's come
watch us while we mine all this raw material
that we're going to sell to somebody else for
a huge amount of money. Oh, yeah. So you're watching
us do all the practice and the run -up, and the
real main event is going to come later. But thanks
for the money in the meantime. Yeah. Yep. Oh,
I'm sorry. Do you have something else? No, that
was about it. Okay. You want to hear the truth
between the Beach Boys and Charles Manson? Sure.
All right. In the spring of 1968, Dennis Wilson,
the only actual surfer in the band, picked up
two female hitchhikers who introduced him to
their guru, Charles Manson. Manson and his followers
subsequently moved into Wilson Sunset Boulevard
mansion for several months where they had free
reign of his home and credit cards in exchange
for group sex and drugs. So I know you know this,
but I'm telling this for other people. Yeah,
that was the big draw with Charlie Manson. He
said all these young gals who basically would
do, they were basically Charlie's horse, and
he was their pimp. Yeah. And he would get what
he wanted by throwing the bodies of young women
at people. He was like an of -age purveying Epstein.
Yes. Okay, Manson was a struggling singer -songwriter,
and Wilson hoped to help him jumpstart his music
career. He introduced Manson to his friend, record
producer Terry Melcher, son of Doris Day. Wilson
also brought one of Manson's songs, originally
titled Cease to Exist, to his bandmates. The
Beach Boys recorded a reworked version of the
song, retitling it Never Learn Not to Love, and
crediting Dennis Wilson as the sole composer.
The song was released as a B -side on a single
and included on their 1969 album, 2020. Hey,
my fellow heavy breathers, this is Dash Riptide
with your music news. For a nerd to take center
stage on Stranger Things float at Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade, I remember the infamous Kiss float
years ago where the large Gibson guitar on their
float was replaced with a much smaller ugly one.
Paul was seen mincing and bitching, so in other
words, he was being normal. George Thorogood
has announced a world tour. Minus the rest of
the world. It kicks off March 8th, Thousand Oaks,
California. March 10th, Napa, California. March
17th, Kamloops, California. March 19th, Parkland,
California. It ends in Fort Wayne on March 31st
with a Hamilton, Canada three days later. And
that appears to be all the tour as of date. He
is 150, so he probably is not going to tour more
than that. This is Gash Ruktine, and that was
your music news. If it's too loud, you probably
have ear damage, just like me. I was furious
that his lyrics were changed and that he was
not given songwriting credit, a move that the
band engineer later described as a fair trade.
for all the items Manson's family had stolen
from Wilson. Yeah, no kidding. In a fit of rage,
Manson left a bullet on Wilson's bed and threatened
him and his children. Did you know that? There's
some facts in here that I didn't know. After
Melcher auditioned Manson but declined to sign
him to a record deal, Manson sought revenge.
He sent his followers to the address where Melcher
used to live. Yep. 150 Celo Drive. Yep. Melcher
had since moved out, and the house is occupied
by director and known pervert Roman Polanski.
Yes. And his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, who
was murdered along with four others in August
1969. Dennis Wilson is reportedly consumed by
guilt over his role in introducing Manson to
the Hollywood scene until his death by drowning
in 1983. Someone else that died in the house
that night was Abigail Folger, who was the heir
to the Folger Coffee Fortune. The Folger Coffee
Fortune, yeah. And that's something that's not
widely reported either. And actually the first
person that Manson's followers killed that night
was Stephen Earl Parent. who was just there to
visit the groundskeeper, who was a friend of
his. He didn't know anybody in the house. He
was just there to visit his friend, the groundskeeper.
And he was the first person they found, and they
killed him in his car. Yeah, his time to go.
Classic example of his time to go. I mean, what
do you do? You're doing what you're supposed
to do, and some idiot comes along and decides
to take you out. So what do you do? So, all right,
and I have some other stuff, but you got something
you want to go into? Just one last thing about
Manson is when he was convicted, his attitude
was, I don't mind being convicted because obviously
you got the right guy, I did it. But what he
was pissed at was the motive that the prosecuting
attorney came up with. Oh, yeah. You know, the
Helter Skelter, trying to start a race war and
all that. He said that was utter bullshit. Utter
and complete bullshit. I actually knew it was
utter bullshit. His motives were really very,
very selfish. Yeah, very simple, very basic.
Very simple, basic, and he was mad because he
got turned down, and he was also mad about the
songwriting credits, and all of them pointed
to Melcher, who he was trying to kill. Yeah.
But his followers, he wasn't there. His followers
didn't know. They were just kind of like, oh,
this must be them. Yeah. But yeah, the prosecutor,
Vincent Bugliosi, knew that if he was going to
get the conviction and the death penalty, he
had to make Manson look like even more of a deranged
freak than he really was. Yeah. And if he had
just ordinary pedestrian motives for these murders,
then he might not get the death penalty. Yeah,
he might not, yeah. And it wouldn't be as good
for his career. Exactly. I was getting ready
to say this. He was looking at advancing, so
he was kind of like, I'm going to nail this guy
to the fucking wall. I'm going to make shit up.
But that's where they fail, too, is prosecuting
attorneys. Sometimes they need to get a little
simpler on their stuff and just go, this is what
happened, that's it. Give them a sentence. Because
the more stuff you throw out, the more, in my
opinion, the more stuff you throw out, the more
the jury looks at it and goes, well, I don't
know. They got a lot of this stuff thrown out.
I don't know. And maybe some of this other stuff
they just didn't catch. And you open a lot of
doors on appeal to overturn convictions. But
yeah, Bugliosi wrote a book, and the book was
turned into a movie. And he went on all the talk
shows, and he started a political career. He
was like the opposite of Lance Ito. Yes. Google
it. So, yeah. Ito didn't really want anything.
He was just trying to get a fair trial, and he
didn't want all the publicity. He was just doing
his job as a judge there in Orange County. Yeah.
All right. You got something else? Let's see.
Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers. Really?
It's all of Warner's discovery, like Warner TV
discovery, I think is how they're calling it.
But along with Warner, they would get HBO Max,
and they would get the whole DC Comics franchise,
et cetera. And a lot of people are thinking,
oh, God, don't let Netflix get a hold of DC Comics.
But in the meantime, Paramount has now interceded
with a competing bid in trying to do a hostile
takeover. And they're offering more per share.
And they say, overall, our deal will be $18 billion
more for the shareholders, so you should let
us buy it. And if you let Netflix buy it, it's
going to be too big of a deal. giant in the industry.
So they're arguing back and forth over who's
going to get to buy Warner. But something that
came out in the meantime is Warner has their
computer and video game studio. They put out
the Arkham Knight, Arkham Asylum, the Batman
games. They've had some success with that. Stuff
they've been putting out lately has just been
garbage that nobody pays attention to. I'm hoping
Netflix does buy them because I think that's
going to breathe some new life into an old company
that really isn't doing anything new. True. But
the weird thing about this current buyout bid
is when Netflix was going through Warner's ad
sets and valuing them, their game studio, they
assigned a zero value to it. They said, we don't
think it's worth a thing. We presume that that's
just nothing. Wow. Yeah. Isn't that weird? That
is weird. Why in the world? It's an existing
studio with employees, with the infrastructure,
with a history of some games, and they just think
it's worth nothing. If they think it's worth
nothing, they could gladly hand it over to me.
I know. Yeah. It's just weird. Wow. I don't get
it. What an interesting story, though. Okay.
So we're all going to... Wait and see what happens
with that buyout. Another thing that people have
been buzzing about lately is, you heard the supposed
THC ban? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That whole thing
is so convoluted and stretched out of what...
Go ahead. It basically boils down to is, you
know that stuff, the Delta 8 stuff? They take
hemp and they do some really... bizarre chemical
things to it and create an artificial type of
THC called Delta -8, which has anywhere from
about a third to half the potency of regular,
normal, natural THC. But it's not specifically
covered in the law, so it's legal to sell over
-the -counter in gas stations and convenience
stores and things like that. That's what's being
banned. is the THC products that are artificially
created out of hemp products. If you want to
do hemp, fine. If you want to do regular marijuana
with THC, in certain states, that's fine. But
it's the people who are manipulating it into
this thing. Those are the ones who are under
the thumb, and they're screaming and yelling.
I'm not too concerned about that. No, me neither.
Because nobody knows the long -term effects.
of using that stuff. Oh, I know. Yeah. Yeah,
I know. And one of the biggest manufacturers
of this fake THC is American Shaman. Really?
The ones with all those CBD stores. Yeah. So
behind the scenes, they're taking a lot of their
hemp and turning it into the fake THC and selling
it at gas stations who don't really check age
IDs. Very clever. Yes, isn't it? And their own
stand -alone stores, they would have to. Yeah,
wow. Yeah. And I remember the first time I went
into an American Shaman to look at some of their
product, the CBD lotion they were selling, the
main active ingredient was DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide,
which is not legal for humans. It's a livestock
drug. It's anti -inflammatory, but it's dangerous.
But that was the main ingredient. And then in
small print on the jar was, this is intended
for animals and livestock, not for human use.
But they would sell it to you telling, oh yeah,
put this on your hand. Your hand will feel better.
You should use this every day. Wow. So from the
beginning, American Shaman has been like snake
oil. They're ripped off snake oil. Allegedly,
all this is allegedly. But they've got this image
of, oh, we're so natural, we're so pure, we're
in touch with the earth. It's all bullshit. They're
out to make a quick buck selling you garbage
that might kill you. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Yeah, and
then all the other stuff that was going around
about it, saying like Mitch McConnell's the one
that got that in there because... He was in Kentucky
with all the bourbon companies and all that.
Which is very possible. True, yeah. A lot of
people, if they're buying marijuana, it's money
that they would have spent on booze. Yeah, and
that's another theory that they had going on
too. Whether that's true or not, who the hell
knows. It's kind of a stretch for me. But then
again, I could see a corporation thinking like
that. Well, all this money is not going to us.
Yeah. And your companies hate that when they
see money changing hands and it's not their hands.
Yes Recently read that on a yearly basis the
synthetic chems that are in our processed food
Result in 2 .2 trillion dollars of medical spending
every year Those synthetical chems are causing
so much sickness and illness that Americans are
spending $2 .2 trillion of money every year to
fix what this nasty poisonous food is doing to
us. It's kind of sick. Well, it's all the system.
Think about it. It's like just a big circle of
shit like that. It's like give them food that's
bad for them all their life. They'll get sick
and then we'll have something that doesn't cure
it, but we'll control it. And plus you get people
hooked on the convenience. Subscription medicine.
Yeah. You know, you get them hooked on the convenience,
and then you run the quality down, and they don't
care. Yeah. And you run the price up, and they
don't care. It's like, well, it's convenient.
I don't want to go into any trouble. I don't
want to go shopping. I don't want to cook. Oh,
well, here, have this plastic burger that's going
to kill you in five years. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
But there is. People simply, they don't care.
Yeah, they don't. They don't. Some people actually
do. I remember I've been telling you, I'm expecting
at some point there's going to be a giant lawsuit
against processed food the way there was against
tobacco. I think so, too. It's a few years off,
but yeah. San Francisco has already started.
Oh, have they? The city of San Francisco is suing
about, my S's are just killing us, suing about
seven processed food companies. and they're alleging
that these companies knew their food was bad
for us, knew it was making us sick, and sold
it to us anyway, which is going to be super easy
to prove, I'm sure. But San Francisco is saying,
you sell all this crap to our citizens, and then
we're stuck having to get them all healthy again
because you don't pay for the med bills, but
the city winds up paying med bills for a lot
of these people. I already got hit once. I'm
sorry. This guy doesn't seem like he knows what
the hell he's doing. Yeah. So I'm going to follow
this quote. I am really hoping that processed
food just gets taken to the cleaners. I hope
so, too. And just utterly destroyed. And I hope
all sorts of documents come out the way it did
with tobacco. It will. It will. Where it shows
where they bribed the Food and Drug Administration,
where they bribed the American Cancer Society,
where they bribed whatever it is that does the
American Heart Council or whatever. All these
nitrates. that they're allowed to use. And seed
oils. And seed oils, all that. It's just been
horrible. I want there to be a giant reckoning
on processed food. I do too. I think it's coming,
like I said. Well, San Francisco started it.
It's going to go from there. Other cities, states
will jump on because you're looking at the health
care that they spent. And they're going to want
reimbursed for that. And that's part of what
got tobacco. you made all of our citizens sick
and then we had to pay to help them same thing
with processed food and people say well it's
going to make the price of food double but we
they've already figured out the math even if
the price of food doubled If it was good, decent
food, we would save way more than that on medical
bills. So we would still be dollars ahead, even
if we're spending twice as much on food, because
then we won't be spending it on health care.
But the public, because they've never been taught
true value in economics, don't see that. That's
the big reason why this public school system
has been sabotaged so heavily, is to keep the
American public ignorant of what's really going
on and just doing what they were told. And congratulations
to them. They've done a great job. They've done
an excellent job. All right. Next up I have animals
in the history of the planet Earth have evolved
into crabs five different times. What has? Basically
crustaceans. Oh, crustaceans. Sea -going animals
have decided their evolution has led them into
becoming crabs. Yeah. researchers are starting
to try to figure out what is it about crabs that
is so efficient and so successful that evolution
keeps turning into crabs they called it uh carcinization
carcinization turning into crabs so there you
know there's all sorts of varieties of crabs
out there but they've had five different origins
you know these crabs came from you know these
different these types of sea creatures 100 million
years ago. That's a great point. These crabs
over here came from something else only 50 million
years ago, but they're crabs too. It's like the
ultimate destination for them is being a crab
finally. When you're an ocean -going creature,
being a crab is pretty darn successful, so a
lot of things wind up just eventually becoming
crabs. Is that why crabs are getting diseases
and dying off, because there's new ones coming
behind them? Probably so. More successful versions.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Yeah, because
crabs have been hard to find lately because they've
been getting diseased up in the northern, like
the northern Alaska crab is hard to get. It's
funny. Yeah, that is odd for sure. Why aren't
we panning in and out? I don't know. I feel that
audio going back and forth. That's just kind
of weird. That was weird. I don't know why that
was, but okay. Have you heard of Waymo robo -taxis?
Yeah, yeah, I've got that story, but go ahead.
I'm going to do it tonight. Okay, well, what
I've been hearing is they're having lots and
lots of trouble with their cars. Yeah, they drove
us to a crime scene with a passenger. Yes, it
was a road accident, and they had all the cops
there, and they had the tape up, and they had
the thing blocked off, and this taxi drove them
straight. I remember seeing one video where the
taxi was trying to drive them through the scene
of an accident, and the cop was yelling at the
guy, you know, Turn around. This is an accident.
Turn around. And the guy sitting there said,
I don't have a steering wheel. I'm just a passenger.
The car is driving me. It's not my fault. Because
there is no steering wheel in those things. None
whatsoever. So they're still doing it. And they
did a road test of a number of, in 20 different
occasions, the robo -taxi went around the stop
school bus. Blew right past it. Yeah, I did see
that. So now robo -taxi's like, Well, we're doing
a voluntary recall on some of the software. We're
going to tweak the software a little bit. No,
I read that too. I'm like, you know what they
pretty much said? They wiped their ass with it.
Yep. Yep. Yep. I get the impression that they
are thinking, we've spent enough money on this,
we're ready to start making money, so everyone
shut up about these little tiny things that don't
matter. But the first time they mow down a couple
of kids at a school bus stop, suddenly it's going
to matter a whole lot. It's going to matter suddenly,
yeah. And when you realize that it's somebody's
lines of computer code that is telling the car
to go ahead and drive over these little kids,
then liability is going to go up the chain backwards.
Yes, and it's going to be different. It's going
to be like, hey, wait a minute. Crazy. Oh, but
there was also another example. This is in another
article. It sounds like you might have gotten
the same article I did. But, okay. There was
an active crime scene with a shooter. Oh, I didn't
hear about that. Yes, look this up. There was
an active crime scene going on. They had a guy
barricaded. And I don't think he was shooting
back, but he was barricaded. And the cops had
their guns drawn. Of course, they didn't know
what they were going into. And the robo -taxi
went right through it. Now, the Y -Mode's response
was, it was only for a split second, then it
turned around. But the fact is, is it did go
into an active crime scene. That's what I was
talking about. The other one, you're talking
about the wreck that it went through? Uh -huh.
No, this was an actual crime scene, like a guy
being barricaded. That's like saying, he only
raped her for a little bit. It doesn't matter.
He pulled out after two press. So it doesn't
matter, does it? It's not that big a deal. Just
go on. And I'm sure somewhere in the fine print,
to become a passenger in it, you sign away your
rights to sue them if they put you in danger.
They're putting you in harm's way. They're putting
you in danger. You'd think the customers would
be suing by now, but it must be in the fine print.
Hey, the moment you get in, you give up all rights.
And people will do it. They will do it. This
one might have gone better in Sports Creeps.
Okay. Or Music Bastards. Sorry, Sports Bastards.
Sports Bastards. Yeah, the T -Mobile and their
big giant campus over there in Overland Park,
Asperia Park, whatever. T -Mobile is now saying
we're looking into moving. We're looking at bailing
on here because Asperia is seriously looking
at putting a ball stadium there. Yeah. That's
where they want to put the Royals. And T -Mobile's
like, well, we'd like to stay in the same city,
and we'd like to stay in the same state, but
we ain't promising. Well, there's a big petition
in Johnson County saying we don't want them.
Yeah, yeah. But it's far enough advanced that
a big -ass corporation like T -Mobile is seriously
looking at moving and announcing they're looking
at moving. So the idea of a ballpark being put
there must be pretty well along. Oh, it's been
going on forever because one of the managing
partners of the Royals bought that land. Yeah,
yeah. I remember we reported on that a few months
back. Yeah. And it's always been one of the spots.
And cleverly, they've been talking about downtown,
downtown, downtown. It's because they're trying
to hide this. They don't want anyone else investing
in that area. Yeah, they're talking about Washington
Square, which is everybody's sexy pick. Yeah.
But it's the distraction of everyone look over
here while me and my friends go buy up all the
land here because that's where we know we're
putting it. I think that is the concerted effort
that they're trying to mask, but they haven't
been able to because things have came out, especially
like T -Mobile. The ballpark there, the reason
Kansas is so preferred now is because they have
the money and they don't have the crime. Yeah,
they have better roads. Yeah, they have much
better roads. The roads in Kansas City are awful,
just utter crap. Because they're not being fixed.
The ones in Kansas are being fixed. We have the
same weather. We have the same road salt. We
have the same everything. Kansas fixes their
roads. Missouri does. We have politicians here
that are more interested in photo ops than they
are actually doing what's right, in my opinion.
Okay, so I just, like right there, the structure
of 119th. It could be easily made to where Blue
Parkway is your escape route to go on to 69 Highway
to go on to 435, go on to 35, go on to I -49.
However, there's work around the city from right
there that you can go a certain way, get on at
least an expressway, if not a freeway, and they're
having that Oakland Park Expressway or the Kansas,
I forgot what they call it. 69 highway is going
to have like two dedicated lanes and you can
pay money. Yeah. You know, a toll to go and not
have all the traffic. Yeah. Yeah. So that's another
escape route that would be so good because they
just, you know, they're like, okay, we want to
get out of here quick. Go to the expressway.
Yeah. Pay a little bit of money. You're out of
here in a minute. Something I'm concerned about
is Menorah Hospital. just south of there. Oh,
yeah. So on game day, getting in and out of that
hospital is going to be stupid tough. And Menorah
is one of my mainstays. Me too. That and St.
Luke South are both really close to there. Yeah.
And probably good at traffic being packed. Yeah.
So they're going to have to come up with some
decent ways to get in and out of the hospital
without going through game day traffic jams.
Yeah, that's right. I never even thought about
that. I've got a nightmare scenario in my head
of someone in an ambulance. stuck in a traffic
jam, a ballpark traffic jam, and the person dies
because they can't get to the hospital because
they're stuck in traffic. I could see that happening.
Yeah. I could see it happening, too. Wow. And
if there's enough money to be made, it will happen.
Yeah. You know what? I like this. I mean, I know
this isn't quite the music creeps, but, I mean,
I like this. This is more like what we used to
do down here. Yeah, yeah. We're just going over
stories, topical stuff. Anyhow, go ahead. Australia
has put in place a ban. on people under the age
of 16 accessing social media of any kind. Yeah,
I saw that. And they've done it the smart way,
is the penalties are on the social media platforms.
And it's like, if you let anyone underage get
on, it's not their fault. We're not punishing
them, we're not punishing their parents, we're
punishing you. I love it. And we're going to
nail you hard. Yep. Two things that brings to
mind. One, the social media platforms, once they
can say, oh, well, no one under the age of 16
is able to log on, so they're going to ramp up
the adult content. Big time. Big time. Twitter,
you can watch any damn thing you want. It's insane.
I can't believe the non -structure and the non...
What would you call it? Just the permissiveness.
Just the lack of regulation and oversight. It's
like whatever, yeah. You want to have like fucking...
Five guys fucking doing something or what? Yeah,
go ahead. There is a concerted effort and an
end goal in mind to get the people of the United
States to be as base and sleazy and slimy as
possible because we're easier to control that
way. So give us access to five ways and orgies
and stuff like that that you can just easily
access. It'll keep us stupid. and the people
in charge get to do whatever the hell they want
because we won't notice. They already have all
these fucking pandy videos and shit on Facebook.
It's not quite porn, but it's definitely titillating,
if not a little bit more. And it's like, what
is this doing on here? How come this is on my
feed? I didn't ask for it. I didn't look it up.
There's that whole app Reddit where you can get
all sorts of discussions or topics or things.
Apparently there's whole sections of just nude
pictures. On Reddit? Yeah, I've seen an ad pop
up. The women of Reddit. Wow. Women who just
post nudie pictures of themselves. Because there's
nothing illegal about it. They're not engaging
in a sex act. They're just nude. Yeah, I had
no idea that Reddit allowed that. Wow, that's
another one. Yeah, Tumblr is another one. I'm
not familiar with Tumblr. It's a dating app.
Okay. But... people are allowed to post very
explicit pictures as part of their dating app,
and now those pictures are just making their
way around the web as, hey, let's look at all
the nude people that post the pictures on there.
Oh, that's funny. Isn't it? Yeah, yeah, so you
can turn something in, and everybody's got it
now. They got it on their phone. They didn't
expect that, did they? It's kind of like OnlyFans
Junior. Oh, I think we need to start calling
this the Music Creeps and Shit. Yeah, I think
that's a good idea. Music Creeps and Shit. There's
something else I thought about. If it's the platforms
themselves that are going to get punished, that
gives people an incentive to be underage and
weasel your way on and then bust them. It's like,
I hate Instagram in Australia, so I'm going to
find a bunch of 14 -year -olds and get them to
log on, and then I'm going to bust Instagram
and say, look, you've got all these 14 -year
-olds on and wreck their business. That can become
a weapon that other platforms use to sabotage
each other. Yeah. That could get interesting.
That's going to get very interesting, in my opinion.
I predict stuff like that going on without a
doubt. Do you have more, or is that it? One more
thing about microplastics have been an issue.
Yeah. I've heard that there are fungus that can
eat... Microplastics, there's fungus and irradiation.
I read that, yeah. But now they've discovered
there are crickets who eat microplastics. And,
in fact, break them down into nanoplastics. How
are they going to get out of us, though? It doesn't
hurt the crickets in the least little bit. Well,
the idea is to use the crickets to eat it up
out of the environment, and then the cricket's
body will have a concentration of microplastics,
and then you sequester that somewhere else. Oh,
okay. So use the crickets as kind of a mop. to
mop up all the plastics, and then you go ring
the mop out somewhere. Well, they still haven't
determined where the microplastics are coming
from. They don't know the origin. They think
it's been created, but they can't prove it because
it's so far in the ground. Yes, yes. It's like,
how did it get there? Some of it is human -created.
A lot of it is not. Because plastics were being
formed all the time through natural processes.
Oh, yeah. Look at radon gas. Yeah. Deadly as
hell. Can't smell it. Nothing. It comes from
the earth. Yep. So if you're the unlucky bastard
that has it in your house and you don't have
a detector because nobody thinks about that,
you're going to die. It means you've got a uranium
deposit somewhere below your house that is creating
the radon gas. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, it is
uranium, isn't it? I think it is uranium. I think
so. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, so you're in your house
watching Price is Right. Next thing you know,
you go sleepy sleep. That's it. Yes. You probably
get a good headache before you go sleepy sleep.
I would imagine. Yeah. I would imagine so. Yeah.
A nice long slumber. Yeah. You got any more?
There's some other things I haven't written down,
but I need to remember them. So if you've got
something, go ahead. Well, I've got music stuff,
but we're kind of off of music now, so I kind
of like to stay on the subject here. Let's see.
Let's think of something coming up or something
we want to talk about really bad. Hey there,
Slap Nets. It's time for the Creeps Music News.
Hey, my little pumpkin seeds. This is Johnny
Rohibnall with your music news. Almost two decades
after donating hundreds of signed books to the
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, a legendary musician
returned to the museum Saturday to sign the book
he wrote about his massive collection. Geddy
Lee is best known as the league vocalist and
bassist for legendary rock band Rush, but the
Negro League's Baseball Museum knows him best
as the man who donated 400 baseballs signed by
Negro League players. Lee returned to the museum
today to sign his new book about the stories
tied to those baseballs, called 72 Stories from
the Collection of Geddy Lee. Kendrick said Lee
actually bid on the collection at an auction
specifically to donate to the museum. Geddy,
couldn't you have at least played a small set
while in town? Casey isn't getting a tour date
anyhow. This is Johnny Rohypnol. That was your
music news, and remember, bar chords are bullshit.
You got a subject that you'd like, you really
want to kind of... Oh gosh, what was I singing
the other day? Oh, I'm going to pick this up.
Okay, I'm going to cheat and look at my phone.
Okay, cool. Elvin Sear, everyone just talk amongst
yourselves. Yeah, okay. Let's see. Here's somebody
predicting the Eagles will still make the playoffs.
Playoffs? Somebody named McCullen. Of course.
Yeah. And if it's Craig Carton, all he wants
to do is motherfuck the Chiefs because he has
nothing to offer. Yeah. Like, hey, what are you
going to do today, Craig? I'm going to say bad
things about the Chiefs. Oh, like yesterday and
the day before and the day before and the day
before. Yeah, yeah, just like that. Same old
broken record. I learned that Spirit Airlines
has filed for bankruptcy for the second time.
Don't buy a ticket on Spirit. Hell no, I wouldn't
anyhow. The weird thing was this article was
talking about American Airlines was petitioning
the court. for a much more explicit breakdown
of the assets of Spirit Airlines. But they didn't
say why. Does American own a stake in it? Is
American wanting to buy it? Can anyone go tell
the court we want more information? Why does
American Airlines get to go tell the court, give
us more information about their assets? That
is interesting. There must be a reason, but the
article wouldn't say it. I'm guessing American
Airlines is an investor in Spirit. I would think
they're an investor, too. That happens all the
time. And I've been hearing things about certain
aircraft are starting to lose their popularity.
The Airbus A380, the big giant one, pretty much
nobody wants it anymore. They're just sitting
around in storage, costing billions of dollars.
yeah uh the 737 is starting to get phased out
from a lot of airlines in favor of air buses
yeah which are a little more efficient yeah um
and then one of the it was the 757 which was
a two engine i think it was supposed to be really
fuel efficient It can carry a lot of passengers
on shorter haul flights, kind of like a bigger
version of a 737. And suddenly, nobody wants
those anymore. Nobody's buying them, and the
ones that exist are sitting around in storage.
The 757 is just, nobody wants it. And then the
MD -11, the one that was in the recent UPS crash.
I think they're still grounded, and a lot of
airlines are saying, you know what, we're just
going to dump ours because the three -engine
concept just really doesn't work anyway. It's
just there's a basic flaw in it. So I think a
lot of those cargo planes are going to hit the
scrap pile. Okay. And a lot of other ones are
going to get, I mean, take 737s and 757s and
convert them to cargo planes and dump the MD
-11s. Makes sense to me. I agree, yep. Of course,
the UPS crash was because of lack of maintenance,
which is usually one of the main causes of airline
crashes is maintenance decided to not do it or
management decided that maintenance was too expensive.
A Grammy, I just got this on my phone. I'm cheating,
too. I'm avoiding my phone. I don't feel like
we go back to music because we already exited
music. Yeah, kind of moving along. Yeah. A Grammy
-nominated musician was struck and killed by
a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens
of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police
say. Roderick McLeod, 70, was a member of the
band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received
a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He
was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall
of Fame in 2014. And it doesn't tell who hit
him, but someone with over 100 violations struck
and killed him. And I actually expected it to
be a bigger name than that. So that's what you
get when you cold read shit. Okay, Shaquan Barkley,
do you think his year last year was more of an
anomaly where he's at with his career than this
year? This season is more of what he really is.
Yeah, I think so. It's pretty easy to have a
big year last year when he's all excited about
a new team, new situation. He just got paid.
He's all keyed up. New system, all that. And
then this year it's like, well, okay, it's kind
of back to usual. I kind of know what everything
is. And he just doesn't have that spark anymore.
I'm sure he wanted to show the Giants how awesome
he was, especially since he's still in the same
division. And then with the Super Bowl without
him, I'm sure that was a nice little belly warmer.
Yeah. Okay, all right. I was going to ask that
earlier. I was like, you know what, while we're
doing odds and ends, how long have we got? An
hour and 23. Okay. You want to keep going or
you want to? Yeah, we can think of something.
Okay, yeah. This is kind of fun, just ad -libbing,
though. Yeah. Let's see. I have some stuff written
down on my notes we might be able to get into.
And I do the show notes because I'll think of
something at work or somewhere else and then,
you know, like throw it down. Yeah. I read that
EVH, Eddie Van Halen's amplifier and guitar company,
has put out the 5153 amp, Eddie's signature amp.
Uh -huh. It is now a fully digital modeling amp.
Isn't that kind of sad? That is. Yeah. With all
sorts of recording features built in. It's designed
not so much for live play anymore. It's designed
to sit in your studio and you record off of it.
Okay. Wow. But being a fully digital kind of
modeling... Yeah. Ruined it. And they still call
it the 6L6, which is the power tube that was
used in the tube amp version. This is solid state.
But they help. They think they can make more
money like that. Solid -state's cheaper to build,
easier to build, easier to maintain. The parts
are pretty modular. They use the same parts here
as there. I really wonder how the vacuum tube
industry is going to progress as far as audio
tubes. i would think there'd still be a big enough
market and it really isn't all that expensive
to set up your own vacuum tube making company
yeah you know for a couple hundred thousand investment
you can start cranking out a lot of these really
really rare tubes and it seems like a good business
venture but there must be more to it because
no one's doing it yeah good point I've got something
sports -related that I was going to get into
last week, I think it was. The Chiefs versus
the Cowboys, record numbers on Thanksgiving Day.
Yeah. So they're calling the Chiefs the new America's
team. I've got a slightly different thought on
that. I think that everybody tuned in to try
to see the Chiefs lose. Yeah, I think so too.
Yeah, it wasn't like, hey, the Chiefs are on.
It's like, hey, we think they might be able to
get beat. Let's watch them. Yeah. And they did.
Yeah, they did. So you think so too? Yeah, yeah.
I think there's a lot more people outside the
Kansas City area that want to see the Chiefs
fail than want to see them win. And that's why
you got the record numbers, because people want
to see Patrick Mahomes on the ground holding
his knee or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's
sad to say there's a lot of people that would
celebrate if Mahomes was knocked out for the
season. They're like, thank God we don't have
to look at him and hear him. When he's your guy,
you love it. You can't get enough. But when he's
not your guy, he's kind of irritating. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, I could see that. Yes. I never liked
looking at John Elway. No, me neither. Josh Allen
has become the new whore. Yeah. I see him on
everything now. Oh, yeah. And Jason Kelsey, too.
Both of them. Mahomes still does his share of
commercials, but it seems like lately Josh Allen
has been beefing it up and definitely Jason Kelsey.
Yeah. And the one that I thought were going to
do more commercials is not, and that's Travis
Kelsey. I haven't seen him in a whole lot. No,
not really. I saw a cartoon ad. It was a cartoon
image of Mahomes and Kelsey. So, you know, all
you have to do is pay for the rights, and you
have someone pretend to do their voices. Yeah.
That's all you have to worry about. I'm really
glad Andy Reid isn't showing up in any commercials
because that used to piss me off when the Chiefs
were playing lousy and losing. And then we'd
see Andy Reid acting like a brain -dead fool
in a commercial. Oh, like when he's drawing mustaches
on people? Yeah, it's like I don't want to see
the head coach acting like a fucking moron when
his team is sucking on the field. That makes
me think this guy's wasting his time and not
paying attention. get his ass back into the office
and do some work. I think he needs to do more
commercials since he quit doing commercials when
he quit winning Super Bowls. Yeah, yeah. I know.
But I'm glad that they're not showing his commercials
now. At least they're not showing them to me.
Because as bad as they're doing, I would be so
pissed off. It's like, yeah, you're sitting there
doing the commercial and getting paid, and all
the time you spent doing that commercial, you
weren't thinking about football one single moment,
were you? I agree. Yeah. I just don't like it.
No, I don't either. I'm the same way. If you
can do that and still succeed at your main job,
great. Yeah. But if you now suck at your main
job, I'm going to blame it on doing too many
commercials. Yep. You know what? I mean, yeah,
there's a lot to be said for that, too, and it
is distracting. Yeah. Because you can look at
many cases and point out where someone's hit
a certain level of success. And I'm not talking
about Mahomes or Reed. But what I'm saying is
it happens a lot because you can go back to the
moment when they changed, and that is usually
the moment that they got huge and started doing
everything else like night shows and stuff like
that. Yeah. I did see a guy. He'd gotten that
old Aflac commercial with Deion Sanders in it
where he's jumping up and down and flapping his
arms like the Aflac duck. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God,
it's hard to overcome that. This guy had that
clip on his phone, and every time there was a
Deion Sanders press conference after the Colorado
Buffaloes lost, Deion Sanders would say something,
and then the guy would play that clip of Deion
Sanders acting like a fucking retard on a commercial.
That's funny. That was funny as hell. And it's
like, I hope his players have that clip. And
when Deion Sanders tries to discipline them for
something, they just play that clip and say,
hey, coach, wasn't this you? being a freaking
moron for money. Wasn't this you? Is this you?
Is this you that's the ad whore? Is this you?
And then I'm supposed to take you seriously when
this is what you... I see you clucking like a
duck. And ducks don't even cluck. Which makes
it even worse. Okay. I've got one that I wanted
to do a long time ago. Top five teams that you
absolutely hate to lose to. Oh, gosh. Are we
counting the division rivals or besides them?
Let's not count the division rivals because that's
too easy. You get everyone in the division. Yeah,
that's four. Or three. I've got three right off
the bat. Pittsburgh. I'm using the Pittsburgh.
Buffalo. Yeah. Dallas. Denver. Yeah, they're
division. Yeah, that's right. Dallas. Dallas.
Philadelphia. Yeah, Philadelphia now. Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, definitely. Cincinnati has almost
escalated to number one. I'm not for sure. This
is outside the division. Number one is Cincinnati.
Number two is Buffalo. Number three is the Cowboys
to me. This is my list. Philadelphia. There's
some teams that used to be on the list that aren't
anymore, like Miami. Yeah, yeah. Now they're
like nothing. Don't really care. I'm trying to
think. Who else? There's more. I'm just not thinking
of them. Probably the Patriots. Yeah, yeah. I
used to hate losing to the Patriots. Yeah. So
that's my top five right there. Yeah. What's
all yours? Top five? Yeah, this is Cincy, Buffalo,
Dallas. Pittsburgh, and then I need a fifth one.
I could include Pittsburgh, but I already did
mine, so we got a little bit of a difference
there, so I'm just going to keep it off. I kind
of hate losing to the Jaguars, too. Oh, you know
what? The Jaguars should be number five for me.
Yeah, you know what? I agree with that. I just
hate losing to them. I hate their team colors.
I hate everything about them. I used to like
the Jaguars a lot when they first came into the
league in, what, 95, 96? Uh -huh. But over the
years, their logo has changed, their uniforms
have changed, their whole team attitude is kind
of like, I just kind of don't like them. I like
the town of Jacksonville. Oh, I do too. I like
Jacksonville, Florida a lot. When they had Tom
Coughlin and Mark Brunel, they were a very likable
team. Yeah. Now, Trevor Lawrence, he needs to
go play Spicoli on a remake of Five Times a Ridgemont
High. That's about it. All right, dude. Hell
yeah, man. My dad's a TV repairman. He can fix
it. Man, my brother does shit. He's going to
kill us. He's going to shit. Well, what's he
going to do? Is he going to shit or kill us?
He's going to shit, and then he's going to kill
us. Oh, my God. Many famous quotes came from
that movie. Oh, a lot of them, yes. And I want
to hear Trevor Lord's do all of them. Yeah. I
want to see him take a shoe. And smack himself
in the head. Yeah, and go, you know what that
is, man? No, that's my skull. Or I want to see
you place Mr. Hand. Oh, yeah. Let's see. There
we go. Because my favorite marching guy played
him. Ray Walston. Yeah. My name is Mr. Hand.
Whenever you're in my class, it's my time, not
your time. There'll be no eating. Then the pizza
guy comes up. Oh, gosh. That movie set the precedent
for a lot of cool shit. It did. The famous carrot
scene. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. At the reach of puberty,
I'm like, oh, my gosh. I don't think I can watch
this too many times. Getting some bald hair,
and I see that. There was a show the other day
where a guy had run across a gal he had a crush
in back in high school, and they were having
a eating somewhere, and she was eating. I think
she was eating a banana. And he looked at her
and said, there was a time in my life I would
have paid $1 ,000 to watch you eat a banana.
But now, not so much. Not so much, no. They got
an internet for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I
don't need it. Yeah, like the prehistoric porn
where you'd find, like, you'd happen to find
a playboy in a stupid area. Yeah. Just walking
along, and all of a sudden there's one just sitting
there. How'd this get here? I don't know. Somebody
probably threw it when their wife walked out.
Yes. That's how it got there. But as a child,
you're like, oh, my gosh. I found, oh, wow. Then
you get all your friends, hey, guys, meet me
over at the place in the woods, okay? Oh, yeah.
No, just meet me there. Erwin meets you there
like, look what I found. I found one when I was
living in Raymoor. There was a barn. Just down
at the end of the driveway. And there was a...
This would have been about 1975. And I found
a Playboy from about 1972. Just sitting in this
barn. But somebody had spilled kerosene on it.
And it was just soaked in kerosene. So all the
pages were almost see -through. So it was really
hard to get any benefit out of looking through
it. Plus it was an immense fire hazard. So I
left it in the barn. I ain't taking this home
because, number one, you can smell the kerosene.
But we used to, you know, a couple friends of
mine go down there. It's like, hey, let's get
out the magazine. And we'd, you know, peer at
it and try to see what it was. You couldn't see
much. But eventually we got tired of smelling
that kerosene, so we just ditched it. Yeah, no,
that's the way I was too. I got tired of hiding
it when I found one. Yeah. And finally I just
forget about it or something or a close call.
Yeah. Yeah, I hid all sorts of things from the
mom when I was growing up, but I don't think
she ever really looked. No. It would have been
easy to find where I hid my booze. Oh, that was
a whole different thing. Yeah. Yeah, the booze
was completely different. We used to have a code
word growing up. Whenever I called Davey, they
used to sell 8 -ounce PAPs in model. Blue ribbon.
Little ponies. Yeah, little ponies. And there
was 35 of them. So, a code to say, because his
mom used to listen in on the phone, and so did
mine, occasionally, you know, and catch you,
you know, what you're going to do and catch you
off, hit you off at the pass and all that good
shit before you do it and all that. So, we used
to have a code word. I go, you go, hey, you got
that 35 cent showing? Yeah, I sure do. That's
pretty clever. Yeah, or, no, I don't. I don't
have any money. I'm sorry. But later on, his
mom revealed that she did know what we were talking
about. She knew about what it was. She knew it
was alcohol, but she couldn't prove it, and she
wasn't going to stop us anyhow. But anyhow, I
thought that was funny. Yeah. Yeah, we used to
use code words all the time like that, and I
know you did too. I think I was 16 when my mom
figured out I was drinking, and she said, I drink
too, so I'm not going to tell you to stop. I'm
just going to tell you to be careful. That's
a good way of handling it. Yeah. The first thing
I thought was, hey, my mom used to smoke. I wonder
if I could take up smoking and she'd be okay
with it. Oh. So I did, and she was okay with
it. Maybe that was a good thing to say. She wasn't
okay with it? She was okay with it. She was?
Yeah, because I used to go for walks around the
neighborhood and smoke while I was out walking
around. And I'd come back smelling like cigarettes.
She figured it out pretty quickly. I thought
I was being so clever. And she was like, as long
as you don't smoke here, it's your money. I don't
care. Stupid thing to do, but if you want to
do it, go ahead. Because her parents smoked.
She smoked for a while. It was the 70s. Everybody
smoked. Oh, yeah, yeah. It is in movies. People
are doing it in movies, too. It used to be common.
Someone would light up a cigarette to relax.
Yeah. Of course, the reason it calmed you is
because you were going through nicotine withdrawal.
Yes. It's the same way that shooting up heroin
calms you down when you're going through heroin
withdrawal. Yeah, and the cool thing is you get
to shit yourself and piss yourself before you
pass out. That's the coolest thing right there.
So there you are lying somewhere where you don't
know, on the ground, shit and piss everywhere.
Just great. I'm a winner. Yeah. Well, I couldn't
wait to go try it when I saw that. I saw a show
the other day advertised. I think it was on Netflix.
It might be Hulu. That's the only two streaming
services I look at. But Charlie Sheen has basically
a tell -all. where he gets in front of the camera
and gets interviewed, and he basically will tell
you whatever you want to know about his life
and all the excesses and the things he's done.
I would love to see that. Yeah, I'm looking forward
to watching that. Because supposedly he's in
a relationship with a younger guy now. I remember
him saying that he was into women except when
he was on crack, and then he was into dudes.
He said, I don't know why, but every time I did
crack, I just wanted to have sex with other dudes.
Wow. Isn't that weird? Yeah, I quit doing it.
But I'm geared like that. He obviously, he can
call it whatever he wants, but I think he's not
geared like that. I think he's geared for whatever.
I don't know. Who knows what kind of life he
had growing up with Martin Sheen as a dad, who
was a big partier. I find it interesting that
he took his dad's stage name and Emilio Estevez,
his brother, took his dad's real name. Yeah,
and Emilio has had a better career and has kept
his life together a lot better. Oh, gosh. He's
had a pretty good career. He is. Yeah, but he
kept his life together. He's pretty much a normal
guy where Charlie Sheen, you know, and then the
whole Tiger's Blood thing and all that. I mean,
I think, does he have HIV or not? Yes. He does,
okay. And that was the whole tiger's blood talk
that he was going on. Yeah. One of the things
that a lot of people didn't realize is he was
making crap tons of money. He was like the highest
paid guy for a while. Oh, yeah. But he was spending
just about everything he earned, and a lot of
it was being spent on drugs and that fun lifestyle.
But another huge chunk was going to paying off
people knew some of the things he'd done or people
he'd infected with HIV. Yeah. And he was paying
to keep them quiet. And it got to the point where
he just simply couldn't earn enough money to
pay off all the people he was having to pay off.
Yeah, so he simply just kind of came out and
fessed up. But I think now he's got his life
together pretty good. It looks that way, yeah.
Yeah. So I'm going to really enjoy watching that
show. I am too. What's next? It's either Hulu
or Netflix. I've got it bookmarked on that. But,
yeah, it's like Sheen on Sheen or Charlie on
Charlie. I think I've seen that in the little
previews when you jump on there. Yeah. So I thought,
you know, I saw that and I took a look at it.
It's like, whoa, he's not holding back. So I
pointed it out to my wife. She's like, oh, yeah,
it's just a bunch of lies. And I showed her the
trailer and she's like, whoa, he's telling the
truth. He probably isn't going to tell the truth
about raping people. No, he's going to leave
that part out. Statute of limitations isn't up
on that yet, so he's going to keep quiet on that.
He's going to admit that information. You're
not going to be in there. Redacted. Yes. Yeah,
redacted, just like Epstein was. Another interesting
thing, I don't know if this is going to appeal
to anybody else, but I've been watching videos
by a guy named Hobo Shoestring. He calls himself
Shoestring, and he lives the life of a hobo.
Is this on Netflix? This is on YouTube. Oh, on
YouTube. Hobo Shoestring. This guy's backstory
is a guy named Mark Nichols. And out of high
school, he joined the Army, got trained as a
helicopter mechanic, stayed in the Army for like
two, three years. As soon as he got out, he embraced
the hobo lifestyle. Completely homeless, riding
trains. Just living out in the open, sleeping
wherever. He would occasionally keep stuff at
some friends and family's house. That sounds
interesting to me. He spent 30 years riding the
rails being completely and utterly homeless.
And then he started having health problems, so
he got an apartment with the help of some of
the people who... supported his YouTube channel.
There's years and years of his videos of him
showing how he lives, how he gets along, how
to pick a place to sleep, which trains to look
for, how to decipher which trains are going where.
This guy was a huge wealth of knowledge and kind
of a fascinating character, too. Spoiler, he
is deceased now. He died a couple years ago at
the age of 54. No, he was found floating in the
pond behind his apartment. More than likely,
he was trying to fish. And he had a lot of health
problems. He had balance issues. He had immune
system problems. Half of his left hand had been
cut off, so he had a thumb and two fingers. He
was completely deaf in his right ear and 40 %
deaf in his left ear. He had macular degeneration.
Oh, he was a mess. Looking at something directly
in front of him, he couldn't see it. He could
only see the peripheral vision. So the guy was
in some bad shape. So he probably got back there
behind his apartment and was trying to fish and
just fell in. Oh, wow. One of the people who
had followed his videos for a number of years
and was a doctor said that he's pretty sure that
Shoestring had HIV. but was undiagnosed or wasn't
telling people. That could have led to a lot
of his health issues too. Because in the five
or six years of videos that I see on YouTube,
he had gotten sober, but before that he said
he drank about 30 to 40 beers a day. He got into
all sorts of trouble. He talks about how he used
to be a pretty good knife fighter during his
drunk days. He didn't fuck around, did he? So
who knows what kind of shit he got into. He had
no teeth left. All of his teeth were gone. So
it was interesting to hear him talk. But fascinating
guy. And just to watch him hop on this train
and go wherever. And it's kind of fascinating
to watch. It's kind of sad watching him now that
I know that he's deceased. But it's just a fascinating
window into just living completely on... your
own wits the few dollars you can scrape up the
money he was getting from his youtube videos
was buying his food and some supplies and i showed
a scene of him going into dick's sporting goods
and buying some gloves and some hand warmers
and a thermos and tent and stuff like that Then
off he went. He's like, well, here's where I'm
going to roll out for the night. He'd get off
into the bushes a little bit and kind of hide
up. He's like, yeah, the last time I was here,
somebody called the cops on me and I had to spend
the night in jail because he's trespassing. A
lot of what he does is not legal. But sometimes
the police just let him go. There's this one
time where a railroad cop came up on him and
said, Shoestring, I was hoping I'd meet you.
What's going on, brother? He's just like his
best friend. Took him home, gave him a meal,
let him stay there overnight. His wife made him
some food. That's pretty freaking cool, actually.
Yeah. Wow. To be recognized like that for something
like that is interesting. Yeah. So, you know,
I don't know how many people are following his
videos. Must be quite a bit, I would think. I
would think, yeah. And there was another guy
that he talked about called Hobo Stobe, and he
died a few years earlier. it looked like he got
his backpack caught on a passing train and was
pulled under the wheels. Oh! Yeah. At least that'd
be pretty quick. Yeah, at least he went quick.
I agree. But Hobo Stove also has a whole lot
of videos out there and was a younger guy, it
seemed like. The shoestring looked older because
he was pretty well beat up. Yeah, they have.
Yeah. It's pretty fascinating to watch. Watch
him just live his life totally free. He never
files taxes. He never fills out forms. He doesn't
get mail. It's just like, wow, utterly free.
There was one video where he's out in a rail
yard, and he'd been sick for a while and having
to stay in his apartment. This is the first time
being able to get out. He's like, you know, I'm
not going to ride a train today. I'm not strong
enough yet. He just kept saying over and over.
Man, it feels good to be out here on the train.
Man, this feels great. Nowhere else I'd rather
be. And then, like, the next video is like, I'm
going to go ahead and ride a train, even though
I'm probably not ready. I'm going to go ahead
and hop on this one. He was based in Tennessee,
but he went all over the place. And even earlier
in his life, he rode trains up to Alaska and
then rode around Alaska and then rode back. But
he says any more he takes. a plane to alaska
and then rides the trains once he gets there
because getting from here to alaska oh yeah it's
really tough yeah ride the train or fly a plane
there and then get off and go on the trains in
the mountains yeah that sounds perfect yeah so
all right how long you got about an hour and
50. hey you want to go ahead and call it yeah
i'm getting hungry i think we should go eat something
yeah that's what i was getting ready all right
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