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Hey, my fellow heavy breeders, this is Dash Riptide,

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your music news. Walls of Jericho is a song by

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Bon Jovi that features a guest appearance by

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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott. According to

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this Instagram post, the track is from the forever

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legendary edition of Bon Jovi's album, which

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was released in October 2025. The song is named

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Walls of Jericho. The song features Bon Jovi

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and Joe Elliott from Def Leppard. Jon Bon Jovi

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chose this song for Elliot to feature on because

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it's stadium rock sound that is reminiscent of

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both bands. It is their first ever collaboration.

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This is Gash Riptine, and that was your music

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news. If it's too loud, you'd probably have ear

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damage, just like me. Art to the music. Creeps.

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We are the music. Sweet. Okay, that's it. I call

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it. Every time you do the, I can't. That's it.

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It's done. Okay. That's so much fun. All right.

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This is, of course, the Music Creeps. And we

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are creeping up on all sorts of musical things.

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Oh, yeah. Hang on. I'm Mark. I'm Topher. We're

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the Music Creeps. We are. We're also the Sports

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Bastards, too, but we forgot to tell you that.

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Yeah. I know. I know. Big surprise. I know. Big

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surprise. A lot of people didn't know that. Yeah.

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You got something to start off with? I'm all

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excited about Triumph. It's going out on a 50th

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anniversary tour. But they're not coming by here,

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are they? No, I don't think so. It's Rick Emmett,

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the guitar player, and then you have Gilmore

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and Mike Levine. Rick Emmett's talking about

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he's really excited to be doing this, and it's

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been kind of in the works for a bit. But he admitted

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that there was about a 20 -year span where he

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just didn't even talk to the other two guys.

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Oh, I know, yeah. He was just so done and over

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it. It's a three -piece, in case anyone doesn't

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know, and a very talented three -piece. Kind

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of like Rush. In fact, when Rush was signed and

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got popular... A lot of record labels went up

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to Canada and said, we need to sign more power

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trios from Canada because Rush was successful.

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And Triumph was one of the ones they swept up

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in the net. But they are so different from Rush.

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Oh, I know. They got signed because of Rush,

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but they're not like Rush. No, no, no. They're

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very different. The only thing that's close is

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the three -peat, the trio. Yeah. Other than that,

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the music is completely different. And Rick Emmett

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has such an amazing high voice. Oh, I know. Much

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better than Geddy's. Well, Geddes, when he back,

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let's see, when did he really stop doing the

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high, like, Temple's Assyrian stuff? It was the

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album right after that, Farewell to Kings. He

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still did some high nasally stuff, but then he

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started getting away from it. Yeah, he realized

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he couldn't do that anymore and keep a voice.

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And in a lot of ways, the audience really didn't

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want that anyway. No, you're right. Yeah, it's

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the high -pitched, screaming, heavy metal kind

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of voice. It just didn't fit with Rush. Because

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they're Frog Rock. They're not heavy metal. Yeah,

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I mean, look at Trees. Yeah. There's Trouble

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in the Forest. I think it's called Treason. Uh

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-huh. Or Trouble. Yeah, yeah. Unrest in the Forest.

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There's Trouble with the Trees. Yes. Because

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the maples want more sunlight and the oaks ignore

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their pleas. Ignore their pleas. Yeah. And all

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of these are... What would you call them? Imitating

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life. Metaphors. Metaphors. Yeah, yeah. Actually,

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metaphors is perfect. Yeah. So, I'm excited about

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that. Yeah, yeah. I got something to check, though.

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Okay, where they're coming to. I'm starting to

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notice some big concerts ever since the Rolling

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Stones went there last year. Thunder Ridge Amphitheater.

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Down at Dogwood Canyon in extreme southern Missouri.

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They're getting a lot of big concerts. They've

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got Guns N' Roses coming by there. Yeah. I wonder

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if the facilities are just that awesome. I think

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that. I think they are. They're brand new and

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they're beautiful. And they're in the Ozark.

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Actually, the Boston Mountain Chain, I believe,

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by that. It's either the Ozark Mountain Chain

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or the Boston. They go into each other. And a

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lot of people don't realize that northern Arkansas

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has a lot of the Boston Mountain Chain that comes

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in from. Pretty much Oklahoma over in that area.

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Small mountains, huge hills, whatever you want

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to call them. There's a big earthquake fault

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line down there. That's generally where you get

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mountains pushing up is when you get fault lines

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that are mushing together. Yeah. And they had

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an actual little small one not too long ago.

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And that's what you want. You want to fall by

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my cat to release his tension by small ones.

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Yes, a whole bunch of little small ones. Made

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the Mississippi River flow backwards for, what,

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three days? It did, yeah. Man, that's power.

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That's power. So I'm going to check Thunder Ridge

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because I could watch Guns N' Roses here at the

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new Morton Amphitheater in Riverside or Kansas

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City. It depends on who's... Who's calling you?

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Some people say it's Camp City. Some people say

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it's Riverside. I'm just going to start calling

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it Riverside Amphitheater because Morton Salt

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is not paying me to say their name. Okay, Riverside

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Amphitheater. I agree. Just like it's Sandstone

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in Bonner Springs. It's not whatever name they

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come up with. And who knows what name it is?

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Jeez. Some cell phone company. We're like 10

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deep on names. I don't care anymore. No, and

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nobody's ever sent me a check to say their name,

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so I ain't doing it. Oh, yeah. I had a co -worker

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that worked at Sandstone, and any time somebody

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said Sandstone, he'd go correct them. No, it's

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called whatever Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.

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Did you ever smack him? No, I told him. I said,

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they're not paying me. I said, I understand you

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work there. You have to say their name. And they're

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not paying me, so I'm going to call it whatever

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I want. He'd just smile like I was an idiot.

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It's like, you're the one bootlicking, dude.

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He's an idiot. How does their boot taste? You

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like the taste of their boot down your throat?

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyhow. Let's see. Oh,

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yeah, yeah, yeah. Thunder Ridge. I'm going to

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check all their concerts because they got the

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Rolling Stones last year. We didn't even get

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them here. Yeah. We didn't get them anywhere

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near, but I forgot what the deal was. There was

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some sort of trickery involved somehow in like

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a fishing trip or something. This is a guy that

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owns Bass Pro Shops. Yeah. He owns that in Dogwood

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Canyon where they're at, too. He owns all of

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them. Actually, Bass Pro sold out to Cabela's.

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Oh, did it? Yeah. Then he doesn't own them anymore.

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So he probably has the big payoff for selling

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Bass Pro to Cabela's. Payoff? Payoff. Okay. Well,

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then maybe Thunder Ridge isn't owned by him anymore.

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Maybe it's owned by Cabela's. Could be. You know,

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a lot of times concert locations are chosen by...

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Some of the factors is who will this venue draw

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from? Like the one in southern Missouri will

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draw from Oklahoma and Arkansas. Well, Black

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Oak Amphitheater, which used to be Swiss Villa,

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used to attract... big, big names. I saw Ozzy

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there with Alice in Chains opening. Yeah. That's

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where I seen all the Hill Rods jumping off their

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foot. Yes, yes. But like you tell the concert

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goers, you know, we got the newer amphitheater,

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great parking, great roads in and out, much better

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experience. You know, the fans are more likely

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to come. The bands are more likely to want to

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play there. So they're expecting people to drive

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over there from Springfield and Joplin and Kansas

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City, etc. Because if they put it in KC, there

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are a lot of people that wouldn't drive to Kansas

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City to see it in one of our older venues. But

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you put it where it's going to be an awesome

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event, and you'll get people to travel to it.

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You can even go offer some travel packages. Go

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to little travel agents and say, hey, here's

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a flight and a hotel and rental car package.

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Start offering it for this concert coming up.

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There's all sorts of ways to make it work. You

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also try to move a concert out of an area if

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they've just had several big concerts and everybody's

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already spent their money. You kind of leave

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that area alone for a while to get people to

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build up their spending money again before you

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send a big artist in there. I think a lot of,

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okay, they saw a potential market down there

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with the Black Oak Amphitheater. But now the

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Black Oak Amphitheater is more of a tribute band

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place and less of a... I saw Skinner there way

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later when it's Black Oak Amphitheater. And that

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concert was actually kind of convoluted, if you

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will, with fights. A bunch of locals just knocking

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the shit out of each other. So it's almost impossible.

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Just like when it was the Swiss Villain, I've

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seen everybody jump off of the cliff with Skinner.

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It was everybody fighting behind us. So either

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way, I didn't get to watch the whole concert

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because there's better things going on somewhere

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else. So I think where Thunder Ridge, you're

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not going to see that. You're going to see a

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higher quality of people, a higher quality concert.

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That's another thing if you can attract people

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with more money to spend. Like at Swiss Villa,

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the people that are coming there have enough

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money to get in, pay parking, and maybe a few

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concessions. At Thunder Ridge, you're attracting

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people who have enough money to spend $500 while

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they're there. You get people that own those

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huge condos on the mountains. You get people

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from Branson that own a lot of property. You

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get people from Springfield. You get people from

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Joplin. You get people from Oklahoma. Even the

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Boothill. You're drawing from a large amount

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of people, and people go there because there's

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places to go. You go there and you go, well,

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we could go to Eureka Springs, we could go to

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Branson, or we could go out in the middle of

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nowhere and stay. It's like movie theaters. If

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they had to survive just on ticket sales, they

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wouldn't survive because they'd make a shit ton

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off of concessions. It's the same with concerts.

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If they had to survive just on ticket sales,

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they'd be burned. it'd be a bad investment. But

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if you know you're going to spend, you're going

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to get a million or two in concession sales,

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merchandise sales, parking, et cetera, et cetera,

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suddenly it becomes a much better viable option

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and you start thinking, hey, I want the rich

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people to come to my concert that I'm hosting

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here because then they'll spend more money. I'm

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relatively sure that's the idea behind Thunder

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Ridge. It's like, okay, Black Oak can have that

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Poison tribute band, Poison Overdose or whatever.

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Because nobody's going to spend money on merchandise

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concessions. They're going to buy $20 tickets

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and go there and buy cheaper beers and go see

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a play band, a band playing like someone else.

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It's just part of any event that happens. You

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have to have every single little corner of it

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monetized to the hilt or people won't invest

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in it. Exactly. And I think Thunder Ridge, you

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have that. You're going to have the VIP seating.

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You're going to have the special areas, the special

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clubs. You're going to have a lot of money poured

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into that to where the minimal amount of money

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went into the Black Oak Amphitheater as the way

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it looks. I don't know. I'm not privy to financial

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records, but it kind of looks to me like a has

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-been venue. Well, you know. Look at the Buffalo

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Bills. I know it's the music and not sports,

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but they're building, they've got their new stadium.

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They've got Highmark Stadium right now. And they're

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going to be selling seat licenses for this stadium.

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They're going to be multiple thousands of dollars.

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And that just gives you the authority and right

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to buy a ticket. It's not the ticket. You don't

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get in. You spend $2 ,000. You don't get into

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a single game. That just gives you the right

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to buy a ticket. So they're pricing out their

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regular fans, and they don't care. That's been

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the plan the whole time. You guys watch it on

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TV like everyone else. Oh, by the way, you're

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going to have to pay for that too. Yeah. So that's

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why they're going to start monetizing the tailgating

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because they're eventually going to phase that

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out. It's too much of a liability to have, you

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know. 5 ,000 to 7 ,000 people with barbecue grills

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out in the parking lot that could set someone's

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car on fire. They just don't want that anymore,

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so they're going to start charging you to tailgate,

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and then it's going to become, oh, if you want

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to tailgate, it's in this official pavilion with

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our food and ours, and eventually it's just going

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to be history. Because the people who are coming

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and spending $10 ,000 on season tickets, they

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don't want to tailgate. They want to breeze in

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and go to their suite and sit back and eat truffles.

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You know, whatever. Yeah. Be seen at the game.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. The good old footage of them

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eating popcorn or whatever and laughing. And,

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you know, people like us with our budgets, et

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cetera, we're going to have to find something

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else to go do because football is going to be

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way too expensive. That's fine. I have no desire

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to ever go to another football game again. And

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it's not because I don't love the sport. It's

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because they priced me out, and I admit it. Yeah,

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not only priced me out, but the presentation

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is all about gambling now. gambling and buying

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merchandise, which two things I'm not going to

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do. So they just really don't care whether I'm

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there or not. They couldn't tell me. They don't

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give a shit less about me anymore. I know. They've

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been very clear. They've been really clear about

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it. They spoke slowly. and let me know that they

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don't want me. So that's fine. I'm not going

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to be there. Have you ever seen those posts from

00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:07.500
waiters and waitresses who say, if you're not

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able to tip 20%, then you shouldn't even bother

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coming out to eat. I think football teams are

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like that. If you can't afford to come out to

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the game and spend like $3 ,000 or $4 ,000 on

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a single game, then we don't really want you

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anyway because we've got 100 people who will.

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Yeah. And all of them want your seat. Oh, and

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also, have you ever noticed the math is completely

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wrong on those? No. It says move the decimal

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over and all that. And it equals out to like

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35 % to 40%. And I bet you people don't do the

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math and go, oh, this is a $100 tab, so I owe

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$40 to her. Okay. How many people do that? A

00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.019
lot. They just take their word for it. Yeah.

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They're used to taking the TV's word. Oh, the

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TV told me, so it must be true. It just cracks

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me up. It's like people actually believe us.

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They're like, okay, how hard is that? Four out

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of ten. That's 40%. Yeah. Yeah, but anyhow, who

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cares? And then you can throw in like $1 .50

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more like $41 .50 just to confuse them really

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good. Yes. I got something if you don't. Sure.

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Okay. All right. Let me explain this. A lot of

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bands put out music way after the fact. Like,

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look at Motley Crue and the garbage they put

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out the last, I don't know, 20 years, 30 years

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even. Every band seems to be like that. Let's

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say Dokken. Dokken was a great band in the 80s,

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but that's it. They had nothing else. Def Leppard

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even, to an extent, same thing. They come out

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and they all started doing different things.

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They never could get that original sound, right?

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Yeah, yeah. Well, let me go into this. Axl Rose's

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idol is Elton John. Yeah. The new song release,

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Nothing, without the G, really shows off his

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Elton John influence. Yeah. Guns are the only

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80s band that are still capable of writing their

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own niche of unique quality music. Why do bands

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lose their songwriting abilities? Are they too

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far removed? They can never get that original

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hunger back? I think that's a big part of it.

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That would go a long ways to explaining why a

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band's first two albums generally have their

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best music on it. Because they've spent their

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whole life writing music, coming up with music,

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weeding out the bad ones, perfecting it, and

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then they finally get that album deal. It's like,

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ah, here's all our best material. And it explodes.

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It goes wild. Everyone loves it. And then their

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second album comes out. and they've only had

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six months to write that one. So half of the

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album is stuff that didn't make it onto the first

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album, and the rest of it is stuff that they've

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just kind of come up with in the last six months.

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And that's the sophomore jinx, you know, the

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second album. Quiet Riot. Quiet Riot is a great

00:16:55.789 --> 00:16:58.690
example of that. Condition Critical. People are

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like, what's that? What's that band you love?

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What? Doesn't sound like them anymore. Yeah.

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So Motley, to be honest, who knows who wrote

00:17:07.789 --> 00:17:10.299
their good music? Yeah. There's so much debate

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on whether Nicky could even play bass. Yes. So

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even Ozzy had a string of albums that were subpar.

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And a lot of it was because Bob Daisley and him

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were in legal problems. And Bob Daisley was the

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songwriter. He was, I mean, he's a hell of a

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songwriter. And look at his body of work from

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Rainbow, Uriah Heep, Ozzy. There's some bands

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I'm forgetting, but yeah. So, okay, Ozzy got

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smart after that, after a string of subpar albums

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like Scream with Gus G, who has no feeling at

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all, but has fingers, like real fast fingers,

00:17:48.769 --> 00:17:51.690
but just no feeling in his music. I got to where

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I can't stand his playing. Yeah, it's just heartless,

00:17:55.369 --> 00:17:59.069
soulless. So he started going to his idols like

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Elton John again, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton. Even

00:18:03.309 --> 00:18:06.789
Tony Iommi, his old new bandmate or whatever,

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he turned to Faithfuls and came out with quality

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music because he realized he didn't have that

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component anymore to write quality music. So

00:18:16.490 --> 00:18:19.029
not only did he want to perform with his idols,

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but he also wanted good music. So that was the

00:18:22.630 --> 00:18:25.769
smartest thing I could do. So is there an emphasis

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on not producing too many songs on an album?

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Would it be just too costly and sales aren't

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what they used to be? Yeah, yeah. There's not

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a lot of sense in packing your album with a whole

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bunch of really good songs and really good hits

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unless it's your last album. I agree. You can

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put four good songs on there and then use filler

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for the rest, and then all the other good songs

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that you were going to put on there, well, there's

00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:54.599
your next two albums. Yeah. It just makes more

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sense. You don't put all your good stuff on that

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first one and then you're done. Especially when

00:19:01.539 --> 00:19:03.519
you're established. and you're trying to make

00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:05.279
a comeback. When you're brand new, you're trying

00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.319
to do anything to get noticed, get famous, get

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attention. And like you said, all your best music

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is going to be on your first effort because that

00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:16.720
is what people are going to start recognizing

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you about. Yeah, yeah. It's just like if they

00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:20.880
don't notice us here, we're never going to be

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here again, so we've got to just pull out all

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the stops. I think you're right on that. Well,

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Gunn still has that feel. Yeah. They still have

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that feel. They still have some of that magic.

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What helps is when the members of the band go

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work with other musicians and expand their experience

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pool. Slash definitely did that. Or you continue

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to go through hard times during your life so

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you have more inspiration to write and come from

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emotional places. But if life gets easy and simple

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and fun, you really can't write stuff. The stuff

00:19:54.589 --> 00:19:57.869
you write would be boring. I wasn't real fond

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of Velvet Revolver. I thought their music was...

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ordinary at best. Scott Weiland, I don't feel

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that was his best effort ever. But it did help

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him, I think. I think it did because then he

00:20:12.430 --> 00:20:14.849
came out. Well, he had Snake Pit before that,

00:20:14.910 --> 00:20:17.630
Slash and Snake Pit. But I could definitely see

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an expansion of music there. But when he came

00:20:20.589 --> 00:20:22.829
back to it, it didn't bother him because that

00:20:22.829 --> 00:20:25.089
was, I think, one of the things is that wasn't

00:20:25.089 --> 00:20:29.720
his real love. I think his real love is Appetite

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for Destruction. That was his real love right

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there. And I think that when you have that in

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you, that set in you and that sound, that way

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it is, I think that he was able to go back to

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it. And Axl has always been there. I mean, he

00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:48.559
never really left that whole realm. He's always

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been a phenomenal talent and a songwriter. All

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right. Would you be interested in seeing Soundgarden

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with a different lead singer, even Chris Cornell's

00:20:58.569 --> 00:21:07.869
daughter? Hmm. Yeah, I don't think I would. You

00:21:07.869 --> 00:21:10.170
know, I always wanted to see Soundgarden. I always

00:21:10.170 --> 00:21:14.019
wanted to see Alice in Chains. but I kind of

00:21:14.019 --> 00:21:16.779
want to see the original form. If I had already

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seen Soundgarden a couple of times, then I'd

00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.279
probably be open to that with a replacement singer,

00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:23.740
but to have that be the first and only time I

00:21:23.740 --> 00:21:25.920
see Soundgarden is just, yeah, it doesn't really

00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.759
thrill me. I agree. I got to see him three days

00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:34.940
before his ultimate suicide would suck, but he

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put on a hell of a show. I'm going with that.

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I saw him solo at the Uptown Theater. I'm happy

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with all my Chris Cornell stuff. Yeah. So I wish

00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:48.079
he was alive, but you know. Yeah. All right.

00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:50.420
I got an interesting one here. All right. And

00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:51.960
I guess we went into bullet points. I didn't

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even think about it. I just started talking.

00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:55.079
I didn't realize it was bullet points. I thought

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this was a story. So, okay. The band or artist,

00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.039
what band or artist t -shirt, if you see it for

00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:12.349
sale, you couldn't resist? There's an old band

00:22:12.349 --> 00:22:15.650
from the late 60s, early 70s called Blood Rock

00:22:15.650 --> 00:22:21.029
out of Texas. Don't remember them. Their first

00:22:21.029 --> 00:22:23.750
few albums were good old rock and roll, and then

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band members left and switched around, and suddenly

00:22:27.329 --> 00:22:31.329
they were kind of this soft, mellow, flute -playing

00:22:31.329 --> 00:22:34.450
music, which really sucked. But in the original

00:22:34.450 --> 00:22:36.950
lineup, it was two guitars, bass, drums, singer,

00:22:37.049 --> 00:22:41.049
and a hell of an organ player. Yeah. One of their

00:22:41.049 --> 00:22:43.450
biggest hits was a song called DOA. It was about

00:22:43.450 --> 00:22:46.049
a plane crash. And it was very graphic about

00:22:46.049 --> 00:22:49.190
what was going on in the plane crash. Wow. It

00:22:49.190 --> 00:22:53.329
was pretty intense for 1970 radio. But they had

00:22:53.329 --> 00:22:57.009
a lot of really good songs, and I've always really

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liked the band. And if I could find a Blood Rock

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tour T -shirt, I think I would be a happy person.

00:23:02.789 --> 00:23:04.769
I don't even know if they were doing T -shirts,

00:23:04.869 --> 00:23:10.220
tour T -shirts back then. Oh, wow. I mean, I

00:23:10.220 --> 00:23:12.039
imagine you could probably find it online somewhere.

00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:14.759
Yeah, somebody's probably made some. I'm sure.

00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:18.779
Unlicensed, you know, in their basement. But

00:23:18.779 --> 00:23:25.660
still. All right. Temple of the Dog. Yeah. Did

00:23:25.660 --> 00:23:31.160
you know they released a full album? What was

00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:34.019
it called? It was one with Hunger Strike and

00:23:34.019 --> 00:23:38.579
Pushing Forward Back. Say Hello to Heaven. Yeah.

00:23:40.049 --> 00:23:43.289
Wouldn't Jesus, all night thing, times of trouble.

00:23:43.769 --> 00:23:46.990
Yeah, okay, you knew that. A lot of people didn't

00:23:46.990 --> 00:23:49.259
know. That album is solid all the way through.

00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:52.380
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I just started getting little

00:23:52.380 --> 00:23:54.579
snippets all over YouTube about it. I already

00:23:54.579 --> 00:23:56.420
knew about it. I was like thinking, how many

00:23:56.420 --> 00:23:59.279
people don't even know that that was a full album?

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They thought it was like a couple of tribute

00:24:00.660 --> 00:24:04.059
songs. Yeah, yeah. Or like EP at best. Yeah,

00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:06.920
EP at best, yeah. And that was actually recorded

00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:09.779
before the band Pearl Jam officially formed.

00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:13.019
Yeah, yeah. It's just they delayed putting it

00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:16.089
out for a couple years. Yeah, that was Stone

00:24:16.089 --> 00:24:19.289
Gossard, wasn't it? Yeah. Chris Cornell, of course.

00:24:19.470 --> 00:24:22.990
Eddie Vedder. Cornell did most of the lead, which

00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:25.750
I'm good with. Yeah. They had Matt Cameron on

00:24:25.750 --> 00:24:29.089
drums. Yes, Matt Cameron. Who is actually now

00:24:29.089 --> 00:24:31.269
Pearl Jam's drummer, but was Soundgarden's drummer.

00:24:31.470 --> 00:24:33.970
But was Soundgarden, yeah. One of my favorite

00:24:33.970 --> 00:24:36.589
drummers of all time. Matt Cameron is just insanely

00:24:36.589 --> 00:24:40.769
good. He is so unique. Hello, this is Phineas

00:24:40.769 --> 00:24:44.730
J. Altaris III. I'm here to deliver your music

00:24:44.730 --> 00:24:51.990
news this evening. Toto Steve Lukather said that

00:24:51.990 --> 00:24:54.230
Michael Jackson's Beat It was almost ruined by

00:24:54.230 --> 00:24:56.710
Eddie Van Halen. Steve Lukather has explained

00:24:56.710 --> 00:24:58.529
that the issue wasn't Eddie Van Halen's solo

00:24:58.529 --> 00:25:01.349
itself, but that Eddie and his engineer, Don

00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:04.529
Landy, edited the master tape and messed up the

00:25:04.529 --> 00:25:06.630
time code, which was crucial for syncing other

00:25:06.630 --> 00:25:09.089
tracks. This forced Lukather and drummer Jeff

00:25:09.089 --> 00:25:12.420
Porcano to meticulously... Recreate the song's

00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:14.819
backing tracks from scratch, using the faint

00:25:14.819 --> 00:25:16.859
bleed of the drums in Michael Jackson's vocal

00:25:16.859 --> 00:25:21.200
track, and reestablishing the rhythm. This is

00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.900
Phineas J. Baltar S. III. That has been your

00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:29.059
music news for this evening. I have one burning

00:25:29.059 --> 00:25:32.420
question for you all. Do people really skip around

00:25:32.420 --> 00:25:41.089
the Maypole? He's one of the guys you can hear

00:25:41.089 --> 00:25:45.430
the beat and go, oh yeah, yeah. He's so inventive.

00:25:45.509 --> 00:25:49.809
The choices he makes are just so different. I

00:25:49.809 --> 00:25:58.589
really dig it. I do too. Do you listen to local

00:25:58.589 --> 00:26:03.109
music, radio, in your car? No, I really don't.

00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:05.559
I don't listen to their local radio stations.

00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:08.720
I have so much pre -recorded on my phone or on

00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.619
a flash drive. There's no commercials, so I listen

00:26:11.619 --> 00:26:13.940
to that. I don't have to wait for them to talk

00:26:13.940 --> 00:26:16.380
about some traffic tie -up or what they did last

00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:20.819
night before they play a song. With regular broadcast

00:26:20.819 --> 00:26:23.359
radio, you're waiting through a lot of crap before

00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:25.079
they finally play a song, and then it's not a

00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:26.819
song you like, or it's one you've heard a million

00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:31.579
times. Such a waste of time. The voyeuristic

00:26:31.579 --> 00:26:36.240
type of DJ isn't quite what it used to be because

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:39.019
they don't give them time. And by voyeuristic,

00:26:39.059 --> 00:26:42.240
I mean the eavesdropping in on their private

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.960
life and stuff going on. It used to be a real

00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.279
appeal to them. Now, they give them so little

00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:50.420
time, they don't have time to establish any type

00:26:50.420 --> 00:26:52.759
of a hook at all. And a lot of the stuff that's

00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:55.339
supposed to be their natural patter is written

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:58.519
for them. Yes. Because AI says this will attract

00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:01.619
and keep listeners if you talk this way and say

00:27:01.619 --> 00:27:06.480
these things. Yeah, you're right. So, yeah. What

00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.559
would be the best band to come from Kansas City?

00:27:08.579 --> 00:27:13.880
Not sales, just the best. Talent -wise? Yeah.

00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:20.859
I really liked Pat Maffini. Kind of a jazz guitarist.

00:27:21.579 --> 00:27:24.740
and the Rainmakers. The Rainmakers were really

00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:28.519
talented and extremely unique. Yeah, they started

00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.400
out as, what, Steve, Bob, and Rich, and then

00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:32.779
there was Steve, Bob, and Dave, and then they

00:27:32.779 --> 00:27:35.559
became the Rainmakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rich

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:38.339
and Dave, yep. There was a band called Missouri.

00:27:38.420 --> 00:27:41.720
They were kind of mediocre. Yeah, Shooting Star

00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:44.539
was okay. Shooting Star was one of the lesser

00:27:44.539 --> 00:27:46.500
bands, in my opinion, that came from here, talent

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:49.200
-wise. Yeah, and they came out at a time where

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:52.019
they were trying to imitate Kansas. Yes. And

00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:54.279
you could tell by the drumming on that first

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.460
album that the producer was saying, sound more

00:27:56.460 --> 00:28:00.099
like Kansas. Yeah, yeah, you can. Yeah. I agree

00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:03.519
100%. I think that's about it. They even had

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:05.940
a violin, because they wanted to sound like Kansas

00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:08.579
so bad. Oh, they did, didn't they? Yes. I forgot.

00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:14.680
I mean, even Banshee was really talented. Terry

00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:18.839
Dunn, if this is true, their guitarist, almost

00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.119
got the spot with Ozzy. Yeah. And I think this

00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.099
is after Jake left. Oh, wow. It would have been

00:28:25.099 --> 00:28:27.859
mid-'80s. I remember Banshee. I remember J .T.

00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:31.779
Cook was real popular in the late-'70s. I think

00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:33.420
they had some originals, but they were pretty

00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:35.740
much identified as a cover band. Yeah, pretty

00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:40.680
much. But Terry Dunn was phenomenal. I forgot

00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:47.859
their bassist name. Damn it. Westhoff? That sounds

00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:49.880
right. Jerry Westhoff, maybe, something like

00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.559
that. Tommy Lee Flood, I think, is something

00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.519
Westhoff. But anyhow, they were pretty talented,

00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:58.759
too, but not the most talented. I think he pretty

00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:00.779
much identified it. Probably the Rainmakers.

00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:05.460
Unless it's a band that we never heard of. Not

00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:08.099
Puddle of Mud. No, Puddle of Mud. Puddle of Mud

00:29:08.099 --> 00:29:11.400
is horrible. Yes. I was in a band called Weatherhead

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.380
in the mid to late 90s, and it seemed like for

00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:16.960
a while, everywhere we played, Puddle of Mud

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:20.039
had played there the week before. It was just

00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:22.339
like, I think the promoter that was booking us

00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:24.480
was just like, okay, Puddle of Mud this week,

00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.839
Weatherhead next week. So we were just following

00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:31.059
them around, and I remember seeing them on some

00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:35.069
local... music shows, and then off they went

00:29:35.069 --> 00:29:37.069
to California to do their first album, except

00:29:37.069 --> 00:29:38.890
the singer was the only person they kept, and

00:29:38.890 --> 00:29:40.730
they sent everyone else home. Everyone else got

00:29:40.730 --> 00:29:45.589
fired from the band. Wes Scanlon? Yeah, Scanlon,

00:29:45.690 --> 00:29:51.710
who's not immune to getting in trouble. He's

00:29:51.710 --> 00:29:53.750
been doing a lot of that. It reminds me back

00:29:53.750 --> 00:29:55.809
of my Westport days and watching cover bands.

00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.480
how I formed this fake band called Fuckhammer.

00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:03.319
I remember Fuckhammer. Yeah. We made cool flyers.

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:07.440
We took this ugly glam band called Lake's Diamond,

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:09.579
I believe is what it was. I've heard of Lake's

00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:11.400
Diamond. Yeah, they were like in the back of

00:30:11.400 --> 00:30:14.759
Circus and Hipparator. We took their image and

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.759
put up Fuckhammer flyers. It got so bad to where

00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.180
the guy at the Hurricane was so mad, he said,

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.619
if you catch these guys, bring them to me. Because

00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:26.539
everybody came in wanting to see Fuckhammer.

00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.980
And the name was just simply Trip Hammer and

00:30:29.980 --> 00:30:33.180
Sacred, or Sacred were the two big bands at the

00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:36.420
time. And I couldn't think of anything to make

00:30:36.420 --> 00:30:39.720
off of Sacred. So I was like, Hammer, Hammer,

00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:42.599
Trip Hammer, Fuckhammer. That's it. And then

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:46.240
I just started doing that. Oh, my God, yeah.

00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:48.380
And the funny thing is a lot of people remember

00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:51.660
them like you do, but some people remember seeing

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:55.039
them because of how memory works. There was never

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.319
a real band, but I remember people going, oh,

00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:00.640
yeah, I saw them. And they really believed it.

00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:03.059
They really believed they saw them. It was somebody

00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:06.299
else, but they thought it was them. And I found

00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:09.220
a flyer. I got it at home, and I put it online.

00:31:09.339 --> 00:31:11.680
I was like, here's one of the flyers. Actually,

00:31:11.700 --> 00:31:14.990
I had a friend of mine. Johnny, although his

00:31:14.990 --> 00:31:16.730
name's not Johnny. I don't know why he's hiding

00:31:16.730 --> 00:31:18.789
it. But anyhow, he sent me it. He sent me it

00:31:18.789 --> 00:31:24.569
in my ear. So, anyhow. All right. What guitarist

00:31:24.569 --> 00:31:34.569
would be the most underrated ever? Wow. That's

00:31:34.569 --> 00:31:37.690
tough. Because everyone I'm thinking of is pretty

00:31:37.690 --> 00:31:40.089
well regarded. Yeah, same here. I don't think

00:31:40.089 --> 00:31:42.710
it actually is. I'm going to have to go with

00:31:42.710 --> 00:31:45.190
somebody like unappreciated, like a Mick Mars

00:31:45.190 --> 00:31:47.890
or something. Yeah. And the whole thing, or a

00:31:47.890 --> 00:31:51.769
Pat Travers or something, you know. I've got

00:31:51.769 --> 00:31:57.190
someone. Oh, go ahead. Steve Hunter. Yeah, yes.

00:31:57.470 --> 00:32:00.490
He and Dick Wagner played with Lou Reed on his

00:32:00.490 --> 00:32:02.650
Rock and Roll Animals album and then the subsequent

00:32:02.650 --> 00:32:06.200
tour. And then both of them caught the eye of

00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.960
producer Bob Ezrin, who started using them on

00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:11.859
a lot of different albums, like Aerosmith's Long

00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:14.119
Train, or Train Kept a -Rollin'. Train Kept a

00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:15.960
-Rollin', yeah. That's Steve Hunter on guitar,

00:32:16.180 --> 00:32:18.359
all the way through. There's not a bit of Joe

00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:22.839
Perry in there. And on the lead guitar, Dick

00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.319
Wagner, I used to think he was awesome. But over

00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.220
the years, I've realized, you know, he's good,

00:32:27.380 --> 00:32:29.900
and he was the lead guitarist, but that was more

00:32:29.900 --> 00:32:33.690
like lead as in musical direction. But Steve

00:32:33.690 --> 00:32:36.829
Hunter, who played at least half of the solos

00:32:36.829 --> 00:32:39.170
and a lot of the rhythm parts, just phenomenal,

00:32:39.509 --> 00:32:43.230
just amazing. And for a guy that throughout his

00:32:43.230 --> 00:32:48.609
adult life was slowly going blind, he still has

00:32:48.609 --> 00:32:51.670
been putting out albums. I don't know if he's

00:32:51.670 --> 00:32:53.829
putting out anything the last five years, but

00:32:53.829 --> 00:32:58.130
he's put out a number of just solo bluesy. I

00:32:58.130 --> 00:33:00.089
didn't know that. I'll have to listen. He's got

00:33:00.089 --> 00:33:02.670
some excellent, excellent. There's one that's,

00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:04.609
I think, called Before the Light Fades or something

00:33:04.609 --> 00:33:07.450
like that. Okay. Referring to Linus. I'll have

00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:10.690
to look that up. He's amazing. The feel and just

00:33:10.690 --> 00:33:13.089
the emotion he puts in his guitar playing is

00:33:13.089 --> 00:33:17.430
just really stunning. Famous Peter Gabriel song,

00:33:17.549 --> 00:33:20.589
Salisbury Hill. Uh -huh. Climbing up on Salisbury

00:33:20.589 --> 00:33:22.849
Hill. That's Steve Hunter. Oh, I didn't know

00:33:22.849 --> 00:33:25.210
that. That's him on acoustic guitar. How about

00:33:25.210 --> 00:33:29.059
Steve Lukather? Yes. Yes. Nobody really knows

00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:32.740
it. It was fashionable to hate Toto. Yeah, it

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:34.779
was. And then hate on all the band members, too.

00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:37.839
But they were amazing, amazing musicians. I agree,

00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:40.839
yeah. Yeah, Steve Lukather will never get the

00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:43.359
credit he deserves because he was in Toto. Yeah.

00:33:44.579 --> 00:33:47.799
Yeah, you know, the song that sings Africa. Yeah.

00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:50.759
Yeah, you know. Steve Lukather also did all the

00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.039
guitar parts for Tommy Chong in the Cheech and

00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:57.339
Chong movies. He sure did. Yeah. And another

00:33:57.339 --> 00:34:00.339
one, this is just kind of weird, but only because

00:34:00.339 --> 00:34:03.539
I've heard him play a full set, is Robert Plant.

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:09.019
Yeah. Robert Plant plays some pretty decent guitar.

00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:11.659
Now, he's not the best, not nearly the best.

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:13.579
What I'm saying is people don't realize how good

00:34:13.579 --> 00:34:17.159
he is. Yeah. Because he's a singer and one of

00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:20.409
the most prolific ever. He'll never get credit

00:34:20.409 --> 00:34:22.710
for guitar, and also he doesn't accentuate it

00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:25.590
either. And he plays a lot with Alison Krauss,

00:34:25.590 --> 00:34:30.030
too, which really, I like his feel. Yeah, and

00:34:30.030 --> 00:34:32.710
I think he's a lot happier with that, especially

00:34:32.710 --> 00:34:35.210
at this stage of his life. Yeah, well, I mean,

00:34:35.230 --> 00:34:38.190
we went into why he is not doing Led Zeppelin

00:34:38.190 --> 00:34:42.380
reunions. He can't sing like that. And he said

00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:44.519
this has been going on for 27 years. He's not

00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:46.559
been able to sing like that. And he said he wouldn't

00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:49.159
even try to embarrass himself. I wish somebody

00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:54.099
had told David Lee Roth that. His ego won't allow

00:34:54.099 --> 00:34:56.800
it. No. You know, I was thinking, why in the

00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:58.400
world? He's got enough money. He's got enough

00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.260
everything. Why in the world would he embarrass

00:35:00.260 --> 00:35:06.460
himself so bad? And he's already got tour dates

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:10.710
picked out for next year already. I guess it's

00:35:10.710 --> 00:35:12.590
like watching the train wreck happen in slow

00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:14.449
motion. It's just fascinating. You can't look

00:35:14.449 --> 00:35:18.429
away. I mean, he was so bad that he almost got

00:35:18.429 --> 00:35:21.510
booted off the Kiss opening for Kiss. But then

00:35:21.510 --> 00:35:25.469
he finally had to step down and retire. And then

00:35:25.469 --> 00:35:28.070
after all that was over, he came back and started

00:35:28.070 --> 00:35:32.230
doing a solo. So, I don't know. Why would you

00:35:32.230 --> 00:35:38.030
want to watch somebody ruin themselves like that?

00:35:38.869 --> 00:35:41.710
Yeah, it's weird. There's some people that just

00:35:41.710 --> 00:35:45.269
want to go see someone fail. But there are other

00:35:45.269 --> 00:35:48.750
people that will look at, you know, 900 -year

00:35:48.750 --> 00:35:51.190
-old David Lee Roth, and all they see is the

00:35:51.190 --> 00:35:54.670
David Lee Roth from 1980. And they get wet between

00:35:54.670 --> 00:35:56.889
the legs, and they're like, ooh, David Lee Roth,

00:35:56.889 --> 00:36:00.070
he's so awesome. It's the pretend image in your

00:36:00.070 --> 00:36:02.530
mind that you're thinking of. Now they look at

00:36:02.530 --> 00:36:06.519
him and go, Skeletor! Oh, he's... And if you

00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:08.480
like David Lee Roth and you don't care how he

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.280
looks, great. But a lot of us care how he looks,

00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:13.960
and a lot of us care that he can't sing for shit

00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.639
anymore. I do. I do, too, because I won't go

00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:18.579
see it. And he's not even entertaining on stage.

00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:21.539
He's just creepy and weird. Yeah. And some of

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:24.840
the stuff he does is just like, why? You know

00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:28.099
that looks questionable. Yeah. And the tight

00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:30.300
little pants showing off the Tootsie Roll he's

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:32.300
packing. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. That little meat

00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:36.000
thimble he's hiding there. Oh, yeah. It just

00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.440
stuns me that people can look at that and not

00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:41.239
see it and instead have the mental image of him

00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:43.940
in his prime and still think that that's... I'd

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:46.500
rather remember him in his prime doing the splits

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:49.280
in air. Yeah, I don't need to see him now hobbling

00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.000
around, you know, with... No. Yeah, don't need

00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:59.039
it. Yeah. Yeah, it's sad, but... All right. What

00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:07.599
guitarist would be the most overrated? Ooh. There's

00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.739
a fair number of them. There's a lot of the 80s

00:37:10.739 --> 00:37:13.179
hair bands. There were some real overrated guitar

00:37:13.179 --> 00:37:15.579
players. Yeah, because it was all done with electronics

00:37:15.579 --> 00:37:19.360
and hammer -ons and finger tapping. Yeah, you

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.500
didn't have to be good or have any kind of soul

00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:24.239
or feeling. You just had to have fast hands.

00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:27.780
Finger tapping is easy. Making music out of it

00:37:27.780 --> 00:37:29.980
is hard. I can do finger tapping. It sounds like

00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:33.239
shit. Yeah. Well, a lot of the 80s is like that.

00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:35.199
I got a great example. It would be Vinnie Vincent

00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:40.480
Invasion. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. All he's

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.019
doing is like ultra fast finger tapping on most

00:37:44.019 --> 00:37:47.400
of it. No. It didn't make sense. No. No feeling

00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:52.840
nothing. It was horrible. Yeah. Yeah. There's

00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:55.440
a lot more like that, but I would say over half

00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.320
of the 80s guitarists were like that. Gavin Rossdale

00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:03.179
of Bush. Yeah. I mean, all he had was a lot of

00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:06.170
volume and fuzz. Yeah. Everything he did was

00:38:06.170 --> 00:38:09.289
really mediocre, really easy to play, and really

00:38:09.289 --> 00:38:11.489
kind of simple. Songwriting was horrible. Yeah,

00:38:11.510 --> 00:38:14.250
I was in a band during the time when Bush was

00:38:14.250 --> 00:38:16.989
popular, and we were doing cover songs, and we

00:38:16.989 --> 00:38:20.869
did a couple of Bush cover tunes, Machine Head

00:38:20.869 --> 00:38:24.269
and Glycerine. Oh, yeah, yeah, the ballad. And

00:38:24.269 --> 00:38:26.010
I remember the guitar player complaining, he's

00:38:26.010 --> 00:38:28.650
like, these are so boring to play, there's just

00:38:28.650 --> 00:38:31.269
nothing to it. And the guitar player brought

00:38:31.269 --> 00:38:33.250
in another one. He said, hey, we should do this

00:38:33.250 --> 00:38:37.389
song too. And he got so fed up with how simple

00:38:37.389 --> 00:38:40.150
and basic the songs were that he called me over.

00:38:40.289 --> 00:38:43.210
And I was still wearing drumming gloves, fingerless

00:38:43.210 --> 00:38:46.010
gloves. And he handed me his guitar. And he said,

00:38:46.070 --> 00:38:48.829
here, do this chord shape. So I did. And he said,

00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:51.030
now I'm going to point on the neck. And wherever

00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:53.889
I point, you play there. So I started strumming

00:38:53.889 --> 00:38:55.869
the strings. And he pointed. And I moved around.

00:38:55.989 --> 00:38:58.460
I played the song perfectly. That's how simple

00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:01.019
it was. What a neat little system. He could stand

00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:04.480
there and say, that fret, now that fret, now

00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:07.980
that fret. And the singer was just pissed. Because

00:39:07.980 --> 00:39:10.780
that was the first time I'd ever played guitar

00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:14.480
in my life back then. And I played the song perfectly

00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:23.559
with gloves on. Wow. Wow. That's funnier than

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.880
hell. He discovered Guitar Hero. Before Guitar

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:28.900
Hero, because that's what they do. Pretty much,

00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.440
yeah. All right, move up here, move down there,

00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:33.679
move up here. Yeah. Love that. Was it notes or

00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:35.659
was it actual chords? It was just power chords.

00:39:35.860 --> 00:39:38.019
Power chords, okay. Two fingers, pretty much.

00:39:38.119 --> 00:39:43.619
Yeah. All right. Oh, let's see, overrated, shit.

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:47.440
There's too many. Yeah, but the ones that stand

00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:49.280
out are the ones that everyone points to and,

00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:51.179
oh, they're so wonderful. It's like, no, they're

00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:54.420
not. Oh, I agree. They're really not. I agree

00:39:54.420 --> 00:40:02.619
100%. All right, and finally, what bands need

00:40:02.619 --> 00:40:11.860
to stop immediately? David Lee Roth. Corey Feldman.

00:40:12.219 --> 00:40:14.360
Actually, he's kind of funny. I want to see him

00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:15.420
once before he quits. I want to see him once

00:40:15.420 --> 00:40:21.239
too, yeah. Dave Matthews, if they haven't stopped

00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:26.099
already. Who knows if they did or not. Rolling

00:40:26.099 --> 00:40:30.739
Stones. Yeah, you bet the who, but they are.

00:40:31.420 --> 00:40:34.460
Pretty much anybody whose last album was more

00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:37.480
than 30 years ago, they need to just quit. Eagles

00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:46.449
need to quit. Yep. Roger the Prick Waters. Oh,

00:40:46.449 --> 00:40:51.070
yeah, yeah. He needs to quit and catch a very,

00:40:51.150 --> 00:40:53.650
very bad case of the clap that kills him. And

00:40:53.650 --> 00:40:56.349
then go back to England and rot. Allegedly, yes.

00:40:57.050 --> 00:41:02.750
Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah, okay. I think that's

00:41:02.750 --> 00:41:04.750
pretty much covered, too. So you got some stuff

00:41:04.750 --> 00:41:08.530
you want to go into? Yeah. Do the music stuff

00:41:08.530 --> 00:41:20.110
first here. Zach Brown. Okay. Have you seen Zach

00:41:20.110 --> 00:41:22.489
Brown's recent performances at the Sphere in

00:41:22.489 --> 00:41:27.909
Vegas? No. Zach Brown as in Pantera? Country

00:41:27.909 --> 00:41:30.389
singer, Zach Brown. What Brown am I thinking

00:41:30.389 --> 00:41:33.989
of? I know who you're talking about. Rex Brown.

00:41:34.170 --> 00:41:35.869
I'm thinking of Rex Brown from Pantera. This

00:41:35.869 --> 00:41:38.150
is big, beefy guy with a brown beard. Yeah, I

00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:40.030
know who you're talking about now. I've seen

00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:44.070
two different still images. The first one...

00:41:44.460 --> 00:41:47.800
Everything is red and black, and he's wearing

00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.440
this bizarre outfit, and he looks for all the

00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:54.099
world like Satan come to life. And in fact, people

00:41:54.099 --> 00:41:58.179
at the concert were complaining a lot on social

00:41:58.179 --> 00:42:00.420
media, said, what the hell is with Zac Brown?

00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:03.059
He's actually doing a satanic ritual here on

00:42:03.059 --> 00:42:04.820
stage, and this guy's supposed to be a country

00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:07.570
singer. What the fuck? No kidding. And the one

00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:09.809
I saw this morning, he's in some sort of weird

00:42:09.809 --> 00:42:12.590
glittery costume with this shiny golden crown

00:42:12.590 --> 00:42:17.309
on with Illuminati signals on it. Okay. Since

00:42:17.309 --> 00:42:22.369
you went there, he's doing effect. Because it

00:42:22.369 --> 00:42:24.730
went from satanic to Illuminati, he wants people

00:42:24.730 --> 00:42:27.210
to talk about it, which we're doing. Yeah. Yeah.

00:42:27.210 --> 00:42:32.590
Yeah. Controversy makes the scar. Yeah. And the

00:42:32.590 --> 00:42:35.349
funny thing is, is there's nothing that works

00:42:35.349 --> 00:42:38.309
like controversy. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot

00:42:38.309 --> 00:42:40.150
of stuff that can be as talented as they want.

00:42:40.969 --> 00:42:44.369
But, I mean, let's face it, like Guns N' Roses

00:42:44.369 --> 00:42:46.389
isn't nearly as popular as they used to be, neither

00:42:46.389 --> 00:42:48.809
is Motley. They're not doing anything controversial.

00:42:49.349 --> 00:42:52.710
Yeah, it's easy to make money if everyone loves

00:42:52.710 --> 00:42:54.710
you, but it's also easy to make money if everyone

00:42:54.710 --> 00:42:58.090
hates you. Well, everybody secretly likes you,

00:42:58.110 --> 00:43:00.469
but they say they hate you. Yeah, yeah. That's

00:43:00.469 --> 00:43:03.340
what I found out with stuff like that. They're

00:43:03.340 --> 00:43:05.280
like, oh, I can't stand them. They're the ones

00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.079
that go out and buy the posters and albums of

00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:11.019
them. But I would recommend taking a look at

00:43:11.019 --> 00:43:13.599
some of his recent performances from Vegas and

00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.980
the Sphere, still pictures or video. And to call

00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:22.340
this guy a country artist is just nuts. It's

00:43:22.340 --> 00:43:27.079
weird. Okay, what's your feeling on it? Do you

00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:28.739
think it's a factor? Do you think he's really

00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:31.539
doing stupid shit like that? I think it's for

00:43:31.539 --> 00:43:33.659
a fact, as you said, if he was really trying

00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:35.539
to do some signaling, it would be a lot more

00:43:35.539 --> 00:43:38.380
subtle. Well, yeah, I mean, like, backmasking

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:40.880
would be perfectly valid if that's really what

00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:42.840
was going on, but then we find out they're trying

00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.119
to sell more albums, which they did, because

00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:47.550
you destroy them. playing them backwards yeah

00:43:47.550 --> 00:43:50.369
um but or just have like a little symbol painted

00:43:50.369 --> 00:43:53.130
on your guitar or on the guitar strap or maybe

00:43:53.130 --> 00:43:56.250
on your shoe and you know people can notice or

00:43:56.250 --> 00:43:58.650
not notice and that's subtle and that seems more

00:43:58.650 --> 00:44:01.170
genuine well look what people made of led zeppelin

00:44:01.170 --> 00:44:03.889
symbols yeah oh yeah they're satanic symbols

00:44:03.889 --> 00:44:07.030
they're they're like you know the the hierarchy

00:44:07.030 --> 00:44:10.329
all this stuff you know when actually It was

00:44:10.329 --> 00:44:12.469
just kind of like their little motto or whatever,

00:44:12.610 --> 00:44:15.949
like the feather and all that. It had no thought

00:44:15.949 --> 00:44:20.150
like that at all. Yeah, it started out as astrological

00:44:20.150 --> 00:44:22.349
symbols, but then they were heavily stylized

00:44:22.349 --> 00:44:24.369
and modified, and it was supposed to be like

00:44:24.369 --> 00:44:26.929
a cool little, oh, this cool symbol means you,

00:44:26.989 --> 00:44:28.849
and this cool symbol is him, and then everyone

00:44:28.849 --> 00:44:31.989
started reading the darkest possible versions

00:44:31.989 --> 00:44:34.590
of it. Well, someone comes out with a theory,

00:44:34.710 --> 00:44:38.190
and then everybody runs with it without checking

00:44:38.190 --> 00:44:41.289
the facts. And the more fun it is to talk about

00:44:41.289 --> 00:44:44.710
and to leave in, the more it spreads. Yeah. So,

00:44:44.809 --> 00:44:46.769
all right, Zach Brown's got his own thing going

00:44:46.769 --> 00:44:49.090
on and all that, and he wants people to go pick

00:44:49.090 --> 00:44:50.730
at his shows, and that's what's going to happen.

00:44:50.789 --> 00:44:52.489
Yeah, yeah. I think if we looked, we'd probably

00:44:52.489 --> 00:44:54.809
see that his career is flagging a little bit,

00:44:54.869 --> 00:44:57.789
and he's trying to pump some air into it. So

00:44:57.789 --> 00:45:00.050
he's doing all this stuff, and, like, people

00:45:00.050 --> 00:45:04.050
are out there with signs. Yeah. So, anyhow. All

00:45:04.050 --> 00:45:07.449
right. Another thing I wanted to talk about,

00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:10.960
goes in line with you know residencies are a

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:16.139
part of this um recently there was an artist

00:45:16.139 --> 00:45:20.599
who sold i'm forgetting the the name of the the

00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:24.159
artist but they had they sold about 300 recordings

00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:29.239
of their past concerts and at first i thought

00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:31.500
who the hell is going to buy all these old recordings

00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:34.820
then i started thinking about it is you can mine

00:45:34.820 --> 00:45:40.619
that with ai and put out albums, you can put

00:45:40.619 --> 00:45:43.039
out movies, you can recreate them. That's what

00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:45.559
they're saying it's going to. They take a sample

00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:47.360
and then they're going to have AI do the rest.

00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:50.780
And I was counting back through the years. It

00:45:50.780 --> 00:45:55.079
used to be in the 60s and early 70s that a band

00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:57.380
would go out on tour and they would record themselves.

00:45:58.219 --> 00:46:00.659
and then play it back and listen and try to make

00:46:00.659 --> 00:46:03.099
improvements etc but you know it's super easy

00:46:03.099 --> 00:46:05.719
you just you know bring a couple of stereo leads

00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:07.900
off the mixing console in your recording device

00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:11.719
and there you go super easy um and then bands

00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:14.719
realized hey we can do this and put out live

00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.420
albums so they started recording a lot of their

00:46:17.420 --> 00:46:19.940
shows and then using them to put out live albums

00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.780
And then the video age came along and they said,

00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:24.940
okay, we're going to start videoing our concerts

00:46:24.940 --> 00:46:28.699
to see where we can improve. And then, oh, by

00:46:28.699 --> 00:46:31.320
the way, then we'll rent really good quality

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:33.820
video equipment and put out a concert video.

00:46:34.579 --> 00:46:38.579
So they've turned their own quality control into

00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:41.860
something they can sell. And now it's kind of

00:46:41.860 --> 00:46:45.659
taken over. When an artist will go to a residency

00:46:45.659 --> 00:46:49.119
somewhere, they will set up... The cameras and

00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:51.320
the recording gear and the lighting. And you

00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.559
notice these concerts are exactly the same night

00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.159
after night after night. And a lot of times the

00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:00.480
band members will wear the exact same thing night

00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.400
after night after night. And the reason that

00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:05.800
they're not telling you is so every recording

00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:09.760
made looks like every other recording made. So

00:47:09.760 --> 00:47:12.420
you could have like a six -month residency in

00:47:12.420 --> 00:47:18.119
Vegas, film 150 shows. and, like, say it's Def

00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:20.679
Leppard's residency, they'll find the version

00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:23.659
of Pour Some Sugar On Me out of those 150 shows,

00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:26.400
they'll find the absolute best version of that,

00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:29.320
and that's the one going on the live album or

00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:32.079
the concert video. Yeah. And it's just so much

00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:35.000
easier. It's not really live. Yeah, yeah. It's

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.039
like, okay, on this date, the first chorus was

00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:40.500
awesome. But three weeks earlier, the second

00:47:40.500 --> 00:47:42.619
chorus was really awesome. So we'll take that

00:47:42.619 --> 00:47:45.460
piece out and stick it in here. And it all works

00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:47.460
because everyone's playing through a click track.

00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:50.420
Everything's synchronized. You can take individual

00:47:50.420 --> 00:47:52.980
notes out of different performances and put them

00:47:52.980 --> 00:47:54.599
together and they sound seamless and perfect.

00:47:55.739 --> 00:47:58.239
So all of those shows they do as a residency

00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:02.940
is raw material. And some bands are mining it

00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:06.940
for concert videos, songs, this, that, and the

00:48:06.940 --> 00:48:10.050
other. Or you can use AI and it says, here's

00:48:10.050 --> 00:48:12.670
all your basic information now. Create a brand

00:48:12.670 --> 00:48:14.989
new concert that never happened out of all this

00:48:14.989 --> 00:48:18.329
information. Or, like some bands do, they sell

00:48:18.329 --> 00:48:20.630
it to somebody else. They say, look at all this

00:48:20.630 --> 00:48:22.789
raw material. It probably costs them a few thousand

00:48:22.789 --> 00:48:24.789
dollars to record it all, and then they can sell

00:48:24.789 --> 00:48:28.389
it for five or six million. So it's something

00:48:28.389 --> 00:48:30.969
they've always been doing, recording through

00:48:30.969 --> 00:48:33.510
audio and visual, and now it's suddenly worth

00:48:33.510 --> 00:48:36.190
a large amount of money. And storage is so cheap.

00:48:37.070 --> 00:48:40.610
I'm heading out. It strikes me as interesting

00:48:40.610 --> 00:48:43.769
that they'll show us, you know, so -and -so is

00:48:43.769 --> 00:48:45.809
coming to Vegas for this residency, and that's

00:48:45.809 --> 00:48:47.650
the whole story. Well, it's not the whole story.

00:48:47.869 --> 00:48:50.690
The residency is there so they can create this

00:48:50.690 --> 00:48:53.829
giant backlog of info so they can sell. They're

00:48:53.829 --> 00:48:58.539
getting paid every step of the way. It's not

00:48:58.539 --> 00:49:01.000
a performance for a performance sake. It's come

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.639
watch us while we mine all this raw material

00:49:03.639 --> 00:49:05.360
that we're going to sell to somebody else for

00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.719
a huge amount of money. Oh, yeah. So you're watching

00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:09.880
us do all the practice and the run -up, and the

00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:12.360
real main event is going to come later. But thanks

00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:17.199
for the money in the meantime. Yeah. Yep. Oh,

00:49:17.699 --> 00:49:19.300
I'm sorry. Do you have something else? No, that

00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:22.119
was about it. Okay. You want to hear the truth

00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.920
between the Beach Boys and Charles Manson? Sure.

00:49:25.219 --> 00:49:30.219
All right. In the spring of 1968, Dennis Wilson,

00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:33.360
the only actual surfer in the band, picked up

00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.800
two female hitchhikers who introduced him to

00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:40.699
their guru, Charles Manson. Manson and his followers

00:49:40.699 --> 00:49:45.619
subsequently moved into Wilson Sunset Boulevard

00:49:45.619 --> 00:49:48.840
mansion for several months where they had free

00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:50.780
reign of his home and credit cards in exchange

00:49:50.780 --> 00:49:55.059
for group sex and drugs. So I know you know this,

00:49:55.059 --> 00:49:56.840
but I'm telling this for other people. Yeah,

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:59.019
that was the big draw with Charlie Manson. He

00:49:59.019 --> 00:50:02.280
said all these young gals who basically would

00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:06.400
do, they were basically Charlie's horse, and

00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:08.679
he was their pimp. Yeah. And he would get what

00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:11.880
he wanted by throwing the bodies of young women

00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:16.780
at people. He was like an of -age purveying Epstein.

00:50:16.820 --> 00:50:22.800
Yes. Okay, Manson was a struggling singer -songwriter,

00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:25.059
and Wilson hoped to help him jumpstart his music

00:50:25.059 --> 00:50:28.500
career. He introduced Manson to his friend, record

00:50:28.500 --> 00:50:34.980
producer Terry Melcher, son of Doris Day. Wilson

00:50:34.980 --> 00:50:38.639
also brought one of Manson's songs, originally

00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:42.039
titled Cease to Exist, to his bandmates. The

00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.059
Beach Boys recorded a reworked version of the

00:50:45.059 --> 00:50:48.559
song, retitling it Never Learn Not to Love, and

00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:51.539
crediting Dennis Wilson as the sole composer.

00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:56.440
The song was released as a B -side on a single

00:50:56.440 --> 00:51:02.539
and included on their 1969 album, 2020. Hey,

00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:05.480
my fellow heavy breathers, this is Dash Riptide

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:12.800
with your music news. For a nerd to take center

00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.219
stage on Stranger Things float at Macy's Thanksgiving

00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:18.119
Day Parade, I remember the infamous Kiss float

00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:20.500
years ago where the large Gibson guitar on their

00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:23.199
float was replaced with a much smaller ugly one.

00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:26.019
Paul was seen mincing and bitching, so in other

00:51:26.019 --> 00:51:30.260
words, he was being normal. George Thorogood

00:51:30.260 --> 00:51:34.980
has announced a world tour. Minus the rest of

00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:39.420
the world. It kicks off March 8th, Thousand Oaks,

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:41.900
California. March 10th, Napa, California. March

00:51:41.900 --> 00:51:45.039
17th, Kamloops, California. March 19th, Parkland,

00:51:45.139 --> 00:51:48.579
California. It ends in Fort Wayne on March 31st

00:51:48.579 --> 00:51:51.199
with a Hamilton, Canada three days later. And

00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:55.420
that appears to be all the tour as of date. He

00:51:55.420 --> 00:51:57.920
is 150, so he probably is not going to tour more

00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.559
than that. This is Gash Ruktine, and that was

00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:04.599
your music news. If it's too loud, you probably

00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:14.179
have ear damage, just like me. I was furious

00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:17.179
that his lyrics were changed and that he was

00:52:17.179 --> 00:52:20.099
not given songwriting credit, a move that the

00:52:20.099 --> 00:52:23.079
band engineer later described as a fair trade.

00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:25.860
for all the items Manson's family had stolen

00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:30.460
from Wilson. Yeah, no kidding. In a fit of rage,

00:52:30.619 --> 00:52:34.400
Manson left a bullet on Wilson's bed and threatened

00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:38.559
him and his children. Did you know that? There's

00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:41.199
some facts in here that I didn't know. After

00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:44.480
Melcher auditioned Manson but declined to sign

00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:46.639
him to a record deal, Manson sought revenge.

00:52:47.710 --> 00:52:50.769
He sent his followers to the address where Melcher

00:52:50.769 --> 00:52:57.849
used to live. Yep. 150 Celo Drive. Yep. Melcher

00:52:57.849 --> 00:53:00.110
had since moved out, and the house is occupied

00:53:00.110 --> 00:53:04.489
by director and known pervert Roman Polanski.

00:53:04.530 --> 00:53:07.349
Yes. And his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, who

00:53:07.349 --> 00:53:09.309
was murdered along with four others in August

00:53:09.309 --> 00:53:13.289
1969. Dennis Wilson is reportedly consumed by

00:53:13.289 --> 00:53:15.690
guilt over his role in introducing Manson to

00:53:15.690 --> 00:53:18.530
the Hollywood scene until his death by drowning

00:53:18.530 --> 00:53:23.309
in 1983. Someone else that died in the house

00:53:23.309 --> 00:53:26.190
that night was Abigail Folger, who was the heir

00:53:26.190 --> 00:53:27.750
to the Folger Coffee Fortune. The Folger Coffee

00:53:27.750 --> 00:53:30.349
Fortune, yeah. And that's something that's not

00:53:30.349 --> 00:53:32.849
widely reported either. And actually the first

00:53:32.849 --> 00:53:35.989
person that Manson's followers killed that night

00:53:35.989 --> 00:53:41.739
was Stephen Earl Parent. who was just there to

00:53:41.739 --> 00:53:44.079
visit the groundskeeper, who was a friend of

00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.300
his. He didn't know anybody in the house. He

00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:48.500
was just there to visit his friend, the groundskeeper.

00:53:48.659 --> 00:53:50.619
And he was the first person they found, and they

00:53:50.619 --> 00:53:53.880
killed him in his car. Yeah, his time to go.

00:53:54.059 --> 00:53:56.960
Classic example of his time to go. I mean, what

00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.519
do you do? You're doing what you're supposed

00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:01.340
to do, and some idiot comes along and decides

00:54:01.340 --> 00:54:04.469
to take you out. So what do you do? So, all right,

00:54:04.530 --> 00:54:06.170
and I have some other stuff, but you got something

00:54:06.170 --> 00:54:07.929
you want to go into? Just one last thing about

00:54:07.929 --> 00:54:12.750
Manson is when he was convicted, his attitude

00:54:12.750 --> 00:54:16.469
was, I don't mind being convicted because obviously

00:54:16.469 --> 00:54:18.969
you got the right guy, I did it. But what he

00:54:18.969 --> 00:54:22.429
was pissed at was the motive that the prosecuting

00:54:22.429 --> 00:54:25.369
attorney came up with. Oh, yeah. You know, the

00:54:25.369 --> 00:54:28.989
Helter Skelter, trying to start a race war and

00:54:28.989 --> 00:54:32.099
all that. He said that was utter bullshit. Utter

00:54:32.099 --> 00:54:33.880
and complete bullshit. I actually knew it was

00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:36.679
utter bullshit. His motives were really very,

00:54:36.739 --> 00:54:39.840
very selfish. Yeah, very simple, very basic.

00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.019
Very simple, basic, and he was mad because he

00:54:42.019 --> 00:54:44.539
got turned down, and he was also mad about the

00:54:44.539 --> 00:54:46.440
songwriting credits, and all of them pointed

00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:48.800
to Melcher, who he was trying to kill. Yeah.

00:54:49.059 --> 00:54:51.260
But his followers, he wasn't there. His followers

00:54:51.260 --> 00:54:53.659
didn't know. They were just kind of like, oh,

00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:57.420
this must be them. Yeah. But yeah, the prosecutor,

00:54:57.780 --> 00:55:00.500
Vincent Bugliosi, knew that if he was going to

00:55:00.500 --> 00:55:02.579
get the conviction and the death penalty, he

00:55:02.579 --> 00:55:06.579
had to make Manson look like even more of a deranged

00:55:06.579 --> 00:55:08.940
freak than he really was. Yeah. And if he had

00:55:08.940 --> 00:55:12.639
just ordinary pedestrian motives for these murders,

00:55:12.780 --> 00:55:15.239
then he might not get the death penalty. Yeah,

00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:16.780
he might not, yeah. And it wouldn't be as good

00:55:16.780 --> 00:55:19.679
for his career. Exactly. I was getting ready

00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:21.780
to say this. He was looking at advancing, so

00:55:21.780 --> 00:55:23.500
he was kind of like, I'm going to nail this guy

00:55:23.500 --> 00:55:26.139
to the fucking wall. I'm going to make shit up.

00:55:26.460 --> 00:55:29.360
But that's where they fail, too, is prosecuting

00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:30.820
attorneys. Sometimes they need to get a little

00:55:30.820 --> 00:55:33.099
simpler on their stuff and just go, this is what

00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:35.460
happened, that's it. Give them a sentence. Because

00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:37.639
the more stuff you throw out, the more, in my

00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:39.800
opinion, the more stuff you throw out, the more

00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:43.300
the jury looks at it and goes, well, I don't

00:55:43.300 --> 00:55:44.860
know. They got a lot of this stuff thrown out.

00:55:44.980 --> 00:55:47.000
I don't know. And maybe some of this other stuff

00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:49.719
they just didn't catch. And you open a lot of

00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:53.489
doors on appeal to overturn convictions. But

00:55:53.489 --> 00:55:55.510
yeah, Bugliosi wrote a book, and the book was

00:55:55.510 --> 00:55:58.889
turned into a movie. And he went on all the talk

00:55:58.889 --> 00:56:03.110
shows, and he started a political career. He

00:56:03.110 --> 00:56:07.530
was like the opposite of Lance Ito. Yes. Google

00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:11.610
it. So, yeah. Ito didn't really want anything.

00:56:11.989 --> 00:56:14.690
He was just trying to get a fair trial, and he

00:56:14.690 --> 00:56:16.710
didn't want all the publicity. He was just doing

00:56:16.710 --> 00:56:20.750
his job as a judge there in Orange County. Yeah.

00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:25.280
All right. You got something else? Let's see.

00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:31.159
Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers. Really?

00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:37.079
It's all of Warner's discovery, like Warner TV

00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:39.000
discovery, I think is how they're calling it.

00:56:39.260 --> 00:56:42.380
But along with Warner, they would get HBO Max,

00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.159
and they would get the whole DC Comics franchise,

00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:48.630
et cetera. And a lot of people are thinking,

00:56:48.710 --> 00:56:51.449
oh, God, don't let Netflix get a hold of DC Comics.

00:56:53.849 --> 00:56:57.530
But in the meantime, Paramount has now interceded

00:56:57.530 --> 00:57:00.030
with a competing bid in trying to do a hostile

00:57:00.030 --> 00:57:06.150
takeover. And they're offering more per share.

00:57:06.630 --> 00:57:10.050
And they say, overall, our deal will be $18 billion

00:57:10.050 --> 00:57:13.550
more for the shareholders, so you should let

00:57:13.550 --> 00:57:15.750
us buy it. And if you let Netflix buy it, it's

00:57:15.750 --> 00:57:18.739
going to be too big of a deal. giant in the industry.

00:57:20.099 --> 00:57:22.820
So they're arguing back and forth over who's

00:57:22.820 --> 00:57:25.559
going to get to buy Warner. But something that

00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:28.760
came out in the meantime is Warner has their

00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:32.760
computer and video game studio. They put out

00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:36.860
the Arkham Knight, Arkham Asylum, the Batman

00:57:36.860 --> 00:57:41.260
games. They've had some success with that. Stuff

00:57:41.260 --> 00:57:42.840
they've been putting out lately has just been

00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:45.639
garbage that nobody pays attention to. I'm hoping

00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.500
Netflix does buy them because I think that's

00:57:48.500 --> 00:57:50.739
going to breathe some new life into an old company

00:57:50.739 --> 00:57:53.860
that really isn't doing anything new. True. But

00:57:53.860 --> 00:57:56.340
the weird thing about this current buyout bid

00:57:56.340 --> 00:57:59.320
is when Netflix was going through Warner's ad

00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:03.639
sets and valuing them, their game studio, they

00:58:03.639 --> 00:58:07.079
assigned a zero value to it. They said, we don't

00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:10.039
think it's worth a thing. We presume that that's

00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:14.699
just nothing. Wow. Yeah. Isn't that weird? That

00:58:14.699 --> 00:58:17.440
is weird. Why in the world? It's an existing

00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:20.139
studio with employees, with the infrastructure,

00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.119
with a history of some games, and they just think

00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:25.340
it's worth nothing. If they think it's worth

00:58:25.340 --> 00:58:27.480
nothing, they could gladly hand it over to me.

00:58:27.699 --> 00:58:32.980
I know. Yeah. It's just weird. Wow. I don't get

00:58:32.980 --> 00:58:35.380
it. What an interesting story, though. Okay.

00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:37.769
So we're all going to... Wait and see what happens

00:58:37.769 --> 00:58:41.489
with that buyout. Another thing that people have

00:58:41.489 --> 00:58:44.670
been buzzing about lately is, you heard the supposed

00:58:44.670 --> 00:58:48.510
THC ban? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That whole thing

00:58:48.510 --> 00:58:51.670
is so convoluted and stretched out of what...

00:58:51.670 --> 00:58:56.010
Go ahead. It basically boils down to is, you

00:58:56.010 --> 00:59:00.909
know that stuff, the Delta 8 stuff? They take

00:59:00.909 --> 00:59:05.789
hemp and they do some really... bizarre chemical

00:59:05.789 --> 00:59:09.889
things to it and create an artificial type of

00:59:09.889 --> 00:59:13.829
THC called Delta -8, which has anywhere from

00:59:13.829 --> 00:59:16.010
about a third to half the potency of regular,

00:59:16.050 --> 00:59:20.989
normal, natural THC. But it's not specifically

00:59:20.989 --> 00:59:24.369
covered in the law, so it's legal to sell over

00:59:24.369 --> 00:59:26.909
-the -counter in gas stations and convenience

00:59:26.909 --> 00:59:30.150
stores and things like that. That's what's being

00:59:30.150 --> 00:59:34.110
banned. is the THC products that are artificially

00:59:34.110 --> 00:59:37.769
created out of hemp products. If you want to

00:59:37.769 --> 00:59:41.130
do hemp, fine. If you want to do regular marijuana

00:59:41.130 --> 00:59:44.750
with THC, in certain states, that's fine. But

00:59:44.750 --> 00:59:47.269
it's the people who are manipulating it into

00:59:47.269 --> 00:59:50.030
this thing. Those are the ones who are under

00:59:50.030 --> 00:59:51.809
the thumb, and they're screaming and yelling.

00:59:53.250 --> 00:59:56.409
I'm not too concerned about that. No, me neither.

00:59:56.610 --> 00:59:59.090
Because nobody knows the long -term effects.

00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.780
of using that stuff. Oh, I know. Yeah. Yeah,

01:00:02.780 --> 01:00:05.260
I know. And one of the biggest manufacturers

01:00:05.260 --> 01:00:11.659
of this fake THC is American Shaman. Really?

01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:14.900
The ones with all those CBD stores. Yeah. So

01:00:14.900 --> 01:00:17.059
behind the scenes, they're taking a lot of their

01:00:17.059 --> 01:00:20.360
hemp and turning it into the fake THC and selling

01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:23.280
it at gas stations who don't really check age

01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:26.599
IDs. Very clever. Yes, isn't it? And their own

01:00:26.599 --> 01:00:30.099
stand -alone stores, they would have to. Yeah,

01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:33.739
wow. Yeah. And I remember the first time I went

01:00:33.739 --> 01:00:35.460
into an American Shaman to look at some of their

01:00:35.460 --> 01:00:39.320
product, the CBD lotion they were selling, the

01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:43.440
main active ingredient was DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide,

01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:48.139
which is not legal for humans. It's a livestock

01:00:48.139 --> 01:00:52.760
drug. It's anti -inflammatory, but it's dangerous.

01:00:53.739 --> 01:00:56.019
But that was the main ingredient. And then in

01:00:56.019 --> 01:00:59.179
small print on the jar was, this is intended

01:00:59.179 --> 01:01:02.159
for animals and livestock, not for human use.

01:01:02.340 --> 01:01:04.539
But they would sell it to you telling, oh yeah,

01:01:04.599 --> 01:01:06.840
put this on your hand. Your hand will feel better.

01:01:06.900 --> 01:01:10.000
You should use this every day. Wow. So from the

01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:13.019
beginning, American Shaman has been like snake

01:01:13.019 --> 01:01:17.239
oil. They're ripped off snake oil. Allegedly,

01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:20.300
all this is allegedly. But they've got this image

01:01:20.300 --> 01:01:22.860
of, oh, we're so natural, we're so pure, we're

01:01:22.860 --> 01:01:26.000
in touch with the earth. It's all bullshit. They're

01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:28.219
out to make a quick buck selling you garbage

01:01:28.219 --> 01:01:37.340
that might kill you. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Yeah, and

01:01:37.340 --> 01:01:39.559
then all the other stuff that was going around

01:01:39.559 --> 01:01:41.820
about it, saying like Mitch McConnell's the one

01:01:41.820 --> 01:01:44.400
that got that in there because... He was in Kentucky

01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:47.320
with all the bourbon companies and all that.

01:01:47.460 --> 01:01:50.679
Which is very possible. True, yeah. A lot of

01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:52.960
people, if they're buying marijuana, it's money

01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:54.920
that they would have spent on booze. Yeah, and

01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:57.139
that's another theory that they had going on

01:01:57.139 --> 01:01:59.000
too. Whether that's true or not, who the hell

01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:02.099
knows. It's kind of a stretch for me. But then

01:02:02.099 --> 01:02:04.199
again, I could see a corporation thinking like

01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:06.739
that. Well, all this money is not going to us.

01:02:07.340 --> 01:02:10.489
Yeah. And your companies hate that when they

01:02:10.489 --> 01:02:12.929
see money changing hands and it's not their hands.

01:02:13.090 --> 01:02:20.690
Yes Recently read that on a yearly basis the

01:02:20.690 --> 01:02:24.150
synthetic chems that are in our processed food

01:02:24.150 --> 01:02:30.769
Result in 2 .2 trillion dollars of medical spending

01:02:30.769 --> 01:02:34.750
every year Those synthetical chems are causing

01:02:34.750 --> 01:02:39.659
so much sickness and illness that Americans are

01:02:39.659 --> 01:02:44.559
spending $2 .2 trillion of money every year to

01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:47.420
fix what this nasty poisonous food is doing to

01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:52.400
us. It's kind of sick. Well, it's all the system.

01:02:52.539 --> 01:02:55.239
Think about it. It's like just a big circle of

01:02:55.239 --> 01:02:57.639
shit like that. It's like give them food that's

01:02:57.639 --> 01:03:00.300
bad for them all their life. They'll get sick

01:03:00.300 --> 01:03:02.500
and then we'll have something that doesn't cure

01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:05.099
it, but we'll control it. And plus you get people

01:03:05.099 --> 01:03:06.719
hooked on the convenience. Subscription medicine.

01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.599
Yeah. You know, you get them hooked on the convenience,

01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:12.619
and then you run the quality down, and they don't

01:03:12.619 --> 01:03:14.719
care. Yeah. And you run the price up, and they

01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:16.119
don't care. It's like, well, it's convenient.

01:03:16.260 --> 01:03:17.880
I don't want to go into any trouble. I don't

01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:20.260
want to go shopping. I don't want to cook. Oh,

01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.159
well, here, have this plastic burger that's going

01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:25.300
to kill you in five years. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:27.659
But there is. People simply, they don't care.

01:03:27.820 --> 01:03:30.480
Yeah, they don't. They don't. Some people actually

01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:32.940
do. I remember I've been telling you, I'm expecting

01:03:32.940 --> 01:03:35.659
at some point there's going to be a giant lawsuit

01:03:35.659 --> 01:03:38.320
against processed food the way there was against

01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:42.239
tobacco. I think so, too. It's a few years off,

01:03:42.260 --> 01:03:44.380
but yeah. San Francisco has already started.

01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:47.360
Oh, have they? The city of San Francisco is suing

01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:50.739
about, my S's are just killing us, suing about

01:03:50.739 --> 01:03:55.599
seven processed food companies. and they're alleging

01:03:55.599 --> 01:03:57.659
that these companies knew their food was bad

01:03:57.659 --> 01:03:59.900
for us, knew it was making us sick, and sold

01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:02.539
it to us anyway, which is going to be super easy

01:04:02.539 --> 01:04:06.280
to prove, I'm sure. But San Francisco is saying,

01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.300
you sell all this crap to our citizens, and then

01:04:09.300 --> 01:04:11.679
we're stuck having to get them all healthy again

01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:14.639
because you don't pay for the med bills, but

01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:16.960
the city winds up paying med bills for a lot

01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.159
of these people. I already got hit once. I'm

01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:21.739
sorry. This guy doesn't seem like he knows what

01:04:21.739 --> 01:04:26.719
the hell he's doing. Yeah. So I'm going to follow

01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:28.940
this quote. I am really hoping that processed

01:04:28.940 --> 01:04:31.900
food just gets taken to the cleaners. I hope

01:04:31.900 --> 01:04:35.280
so, too. And just utterly destroyed. And I hope

01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:37.679
all sorts of documents come out the way it did

01:04:37.679 --> 01:04:40.300
with tobacco. It will. It will. Where it shows

01:04:40.300 --> 01:04:43.980
where they bribed the Food and Drug Administration,

01:04:44.300 --> 01:04:46.619
where they bribed the American Cancer Society,

01:04:46.860 --> 01:04:50.699
where they bribed whatever it is that does the

01:04:50.699 --> 01:04:53.179
American Heart Council or whatever. All these

01:04:53.179 --> 01:04:56.239
nitrates. that they're allowed to use. And seed

01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:58.960
oils. And seed oils, all that. It's just been

01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:02.920
horrible. I want there to be a giant reckoning

01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:05.679
on processed food. I do too. I think it's coming,

01:05:05.739 --> 01:05:07.980
like I said. Well, San Francisco started it.

01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:12.079
It's going to go from there. Other cities, states

01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:15.800
will jump on because you're looking at the health

01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:18.280
care that they spent. And they're going to want

01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:21.260
reimbursed for that. And that's part of what

01:05:21.260 --> 01:05:25.039
got tobacco. you made all of our citizens sick

01:05:25.039 --> 01:05:28.880
and then we had to pay to help them same thing

01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:31.679
with processed food and people say well it's

01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:35.059
going to make the price of food double but we

01:05:35.059 --> 01:05:38.059
they've already figured out the math even if

01:05:38.059 --> 01:05:41.239
the price of food doubled If it was good, decent

01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:44.159
food, we would save way more than that on medical

01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:47.460
bills. So we would still be dollars ahead, even

01:05:47.460 --> 01:05:49.619
if we're spending twice as much on food, because

01:05:49.619 --> 01:05:51.619
then we won't be spending it on health care.

01:05:51.699 --> 01:05:53.639
But the public, because they've never been taught

01:05:53.639 --> 01:05:56.860
true value in economics, don't see that. That's

01:05:56.860 --> 01:05:59.139
the big reason why this public school system

01:05:59.139 --> 01:06:01.519
has been sabotaged so heavily, is to keep the

01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:03.679
American public ignorant of what's really going

01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:06.480
on and just doing what they were told. And congratulations

01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:08.539
to them. They've done a great job. They've done

01:06:08.539 --> 01:06:16.380
an excellent job. All right. Next up I have animals

01:06:16.380 --> 01:06:20.519
in the history of the planet Earth have evolved

01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:27.340
into crabs five different times. What has? Basically

01:06:27.340 --> 01:06:30.400
crustaceans. Oh, crustaceans. Sea -going animals

01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:34.079
have decided their evolution has led them into

01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:38.230
becoming crabs. Yeah. researchers are starting

01:06:38.230 --> 01:06:41.610
to try to figure out what is it about crabs that

01:06:41.610 --> 01:06:47.530
is so efficient and so successful that evolution

01:06:47.530 --> 01:06:51.469
keeps turning into crabs they called it uh carcinization

01:06:51.469 --> 01:06:57.130
carcinization turning into crabs so there you

01:06:57.130 --> 01:06:58.829
know there's all sorts of varieties of crabs

01:06:58.829 --> 01:07:02.369
out there but they've had five different origins

01:07:02.369 --> 01:07:05.429
you know these crabs came from you know these

01:07:05.429 --> 01:07:08.920
different these types of sea creatures 100 million

01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:10.639
years ago. That's a great point. These crabs

01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:13.119
over here came from something else only 50 million

01:07:13.119 --> 01:07:16.019
years ago, but they're crabs too. It's like the

01:07:16.019 --> 01:07:18.500
ultimate destination for them is being a crab

01:07:18.500 --> 01:07:20.659
finally. When you're an ocean -going creature,

01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.360
being a crab is pretty darn successful, so a

01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:26.480
lot of things wind up just eventually becoming

01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:28.920
crabs. Is that why crabs are getting diseases

01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:30.719
and dying off, because there's new ones coming

01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.619
behind them? Probably so. More successful versions.

01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:36.500
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Yeah, because

01:07:36.500 --> 01:07:40.119
crabs have been hard to find lately because they've

01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:42.420
been getting diseased up in the northern, like

01:07:42.420 --> 01:07:47.159
the northern Alaska crab is hard to get. It's

01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:52.659
funny. Yeah, that is odd for sure. Why aren't

01:07:52.659 --> 01:07:55.119
we panning in and out? I don't know. I feel that

01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:56.739
audio going back and forth. That's just kind

01:07:56.739 --> 01:08:01.579
of weird. That was weird. I don't know why that

01:08:01.579 --> 01:08:05.280
was, but okay. Have you heard of Waymo robo -taxis?

01:08:05.789 --> 01:08:07.809
Yeah, yeah, I've got that story, but go ahead.

01:08:07.849 --> 01:08:09.789
I'm going to do it tonight. Okay, well, what

01:08:09.789 --> 01:08:12.530
I've been hearing is they're having lots and

01:08:12.530 --> 01:08:14.190
lots of trouble with their cars. Yeah, they drove

01:08:14.190 --> 01:08:17.949
us to a crime scene with a passenger. Yes, it

01:08:17.949 --> 01:08:20.510
was a road accident, and they had all the cops

01:08:20.510 --> 01:08:23.189
there, and they had the tape up, and they had

01:08:23.189 --> 01:08:25.390
the thing blocked off, and this taxi drove them

01:08:25.390 --> 01:08:29.850
straight. I remember seeing one video where the

01:08:29.850 --> 01:08:32.229
taxi was trying to drive them through the scene

01:08:32.229 --> 01:08:34.130
of an accident, and the cop was yelling at the

01:08:34.130 --> 01:08:37.520
guy, you know, Turn around. This is an accident.

01:08:37.680 --> 01:08:39.579
Turn around. And the guy sitting there said,

01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:42.220
I don't have a steering wheel. I'm just a passenger.

01:08:42.380 --> 01:08:45.399
The car is driving me. It's not my fault. Because

01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:47.039
there is no steering wheel in those things. None

01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:51.199
whatsoever. So they're still doing it. And they

01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:55.359
did a road test of a number of, in 20 different

01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:58.039
occasions, the robo -taxi went around the stop

01:08:58.039 --> 01:09:01.300
school bus. Blew right past it. Yeah, I did see

01:09:01.300 --> 01:09:05.130
that. So now robo -taxi's like, Well, we're doing

01:09:05.130 --> 01:09:08.449
a voluntary recall on some of the software. We're

01:09:08.449 --> 01:09:11.090
going to tweak the software a little bit. No,

01:09:11.149 --> 01:09:13.010
I read that too. I'm like, you know what they

01:09:13.010 --> 01:09:15.289
pretty much said? They wiped their ass with it.

01:09:15.390 --> 01:09:20.770
Yep. Yep. Yep. I get the impression that they

01:09:20.770 --> 01:09:22.750
are thinking, we've spent enough money on this,

01:09:22.850 --> 01:09:24.930
we're ready to start making money, so everyone

01:09:24.930 --> 01:09:27.210
shut up about these little tiny things that don't

01:09:27.210 --> 01:09:29.880
matter. But the first time they mow down a couple

01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:32.399
of kids at a school bus stop, suddenly it's going

01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:33.939
to matter a whole lot. It's going to matter suddenly,

01:09:34.100 --> 01:09:38.060
yeah. And when you realize that it's somebody's

01:09:38.060 --> 01:09:40.680
lines of computer code that is telling the car

01:09:40.680 --> 01:09:42.680
to go ahead and drive over these little kids,

01:09:42.859 --> 01:09:45.840
then liability is going to go up the chain backwards.

01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:47.600
Yes, and it's going to be different. It's going

01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:52.800
to be like, hey, wait a minute. Crazy. Oh, but

01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:55.979
there was also another example. This is in another

01:09:55.979 --> 01:09:58.260
article. It sounds like you might have gotten

01:09:58.260 --> 01:10:01.779
the same article I did. But, okay. There was

01:10:01.779 --> 01:10:05.420
an active crime scene with a shooter. Oh, I didn't

01:10:05.420 --> 01:10:07.600
hear about that. Yes, look this up. There was

01:10:07.600 --> 01:10:10.819
an active crime scene going on. They had a guy

01:10:10.819 --> 01:10:13.640
barricaded. And I don't think he was shooting

01:10:13.640 --> 01:10:15.960
back, but he was barricaded. And the cops had

01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:18.340
their guns drawn. Of course, they didn't know

01:10:18.340 --> 01:10:21.699
what they were going into. And the robo -taxi

01:10:21.699 --> 01:10:25.539
went right through it. Now, the Y -Mode's response

01:10:25.539 --> 01:10:28.000
was, it was only for a split second, then it

01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.739
turned around. But the fact is, is it did go

01:10:30.739 --> 01:10:32.680
into an active crime scene. That's what I was

01:10:32.680 --> 01:10:33.840
talking about. The other one, you're talking

01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:35.439
about the wreck that it went through? Uh -huh.

01:10:35.500 --> 01:10:38.560
No, this was an actual crime scene, like a guy

01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:40.619
being barricaded. That's like saying, he only

01:10:40.619 --> 01:10:42.279
raped her for a little bit. It doesn't matter.

01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:46.699
He pulled out after two press. So it doesn't

01:10:46.699 --> 01:10:48.220
matter, does it? It's not that big a deal. Just

01:10:48.220 --> 01:10:51.920
go on. And I'm sure somewhere in the fine print,

01:10:52.060 --> 01:10:54.960
to become a passenger in it, you sign away your

01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:57.500
rights to sue them if they put you in danger.

01:10:58.119 --> 01:11:00.060
They're putting you in harm's way. They're putting

01:11:00.060 --> 01:11:01.800
you in danger. You'd think the customers would

01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:04.380
be suing by now, but it must be in the fine print.

01:11:04.439 --> 01:11:07.180
Hey, the moment you get in, you give up all rights.

01:11:07.699 --> 01:11:13.319
And people will do it. They will do it. This

01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:15.560
one might have gone better in Sports Creeps.

01:11:15.939 --> 01:11:19.119
Okay. Or Music Bastards. Sorry, Sports Bastards.

01:11:19.239 --> 01:11:23.520
Sports Bastards. Yeah, the T -Mobile and their

01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:25.640
big giant campus over there in Overland Park,

01:11:25.739 --> 01:11:29.699
Asperia Park, whatever. T -Mobile is now saying

01:11:29.699 --> 01:11:34.560
we're looking into moving. We're looking at bailing

01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:37.079
on here because Asperia is seriously looking

01:11:37.079 --> 01:11:39.659
at putting a ball stadium there. Yeah. That's

01:11:39.659 --> 01:11:42.430
where they want to put the Royals. And T -Mobile's

01:11:42.430 --> 01:11:44.750
like, well, we'd like to stay in the same city,

01:11:44.770 --> 01:11:47.010
and we'd like to stay in the same state, but

01:11:47.010 --> 01:11:49.449
we ain't promising. Well, there's a big petition

01:11:49.449 --> 01:11:51.310
in Johnson County saying we don't want them.

01:11:51.369 --> 01:11:55.750
Yeah, yeah. But it's far enough advanced that

01:11:55.750 --> 01:11:58.949
a big -ass corporation like T -Mobile is seriously

01:11:58.949 --> 01:12:01.170
looking at moving and announcing they're looking

01:12:01.170 --> 01:12:04.930
at moving. So the idea of a ballpark being put

01:12:04.930 --> 01:12:07.649
there must be pretty well along. Oh, it's been

01:12:07.649 --> 01:12:09.670
going on forever because one of the managing

01:12:09.670 --> 01:12:12.590
partners of the Royals bought that land. Yeah,

01:12:12.670 --> 01:12:14.909
yeah. I remember we reported on that a few months

01:12:14.909 --> 01:12:17.310
back. Yeah. And it's always been one of the spots.

01:12:17.569 --> 01:12:19.949
And cleverly, they've been talking about downtown,

01:12:20.170 --> 01:12:22.029
downtown, downtown. It's because they're trying

01:12:22.029 --> 01:12:24.010
to hide this. They don't want anyone else investing

01:12:24.010 --> 01:12:24.989
in that area. Yeah, they're talking about Washington

01:12:24.989 --> 01:12:27.170
Square, which is everybody's sexy pick. Yeah.

01:12:27.649 --> 01:12:30.369
But it's the distraction of everyone look over

01:12:30.369 --> 01:12:32.869
here while me and my friends go buy up all the

01:12:32.869 --> 01:12:34.649
land here because that's where we know we're

01:12:34.649 --> 01:12:39.000
putting it. I think that is the concerted effort

01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:41.119
that they're trying to mask, but they haven't

01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:43.819
been able to because things have came out, especially

01:12:43.819 --> 01:12:48.899
like T -Mobile. The ballpark there, the reason

01:12:48.899 --> 01:12:53.739
Kansas is so preferred now is because they have

01:12:53.739 --> 01:12:55.739
the money and they don't have the crime. Yeah,

01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:58.460
they have better roads. Yeah, they have much

01:12:58.460 --> 01:13:01.279
better roads. The roads in Kansas City are awful,

01:13:01.420 --> 01:13:04.909
just utter crap. Because they're not being fixed.

01:13:05.010 --> 01:13:06.930
The ones in Kansas are being fixed. We have the

01:13:06.930 --> 01:13:08.949
same weather. We have the same road salt. We

01:13:08.949 --> 01:13:10.810
have the same everything. Kansas fixes their

01:13:10.810 --> 01:13:13.210
roads. Missouri does. We have politicians here

01:13:13.210 --> 01:13:15.770
that are more interested in photo ops than they

01:13:15.770 --> 01:13:18.170
are actually doing what's right, in my opinion.

01:13:19.069 --> 01:13:25.109
Okay, so I just, like right there, the structure

01:13:25.109 --> 01:13:28.520
of 119th. It could be easily made to where Blue

01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:32.159
Parkway is your escape route to go on to 69 Highway

01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:37.420
to go on to 435, go on to 35, go on to I -49.

01:13:37.579 --> 01:13:40.939
However, there's work around the city from right

01:13:40.939 --> 01:13:44.000
there that you can go a certain way, get on at

01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:46.880
least an expressway, if not a freeway, and they're

01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:49.380
having that Oakland Park Expressway or the Kansas,

01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:52.529
I forgot what they call it. 69 highway is going

01:13:52.529 --> 01:13:54.449
to have like two dedicated lanes and you can

01:13:54.449 --> 01:13:59.409
pay money. Yeah. You know, a toll to go and not

01:13:59.409 --> 01:14:03.029
have all the traffic. Yeah. Yeah. So that's another

01:14:03.029 --> 01:14:06.529
escape route that would be so good because they

01:14:06.529 --> 01:14:08.130
just, you know, they're like, okay, we want to

01:14:08.130 --> 01:14:10.090
get out of here quick. Go to the expressway.

01:14:10.189 --> 01:14:12.590
Yeah. Pay a little bit of money. You're out of

01:14:12.590 --> 01:14:15.550
here in a minute. Something I'm concerned about

01:14:15.550 --> 01:14:20.069
is Menorah Hospital. just south of there. Oh,

01:14:20.069 --> 01:14:22.310
yeah. So on game day, getting in and out of that

01:14:22.310 --> 01:14:24.689
hospital is going to be stupid tough. And Menorah

01:14:24.689 --> 01:14:26.729
is one of my mainstays. Me too. That and St.

01:14:26.869 --> 01:14:29.090
Luke South are both really close to there. Yeah.

01:14:29.210 --> 01:14:31.630
And probably good at traffic being packed. Yeah.

01:14:31.689 --> 01:14:32.989
So they're going to have to come up with some

01:14:32.989 --> 01:14:35.029
decent ways to get in and out of the hospital

01:14:35.029 --> 01:14:37.630
without going through game day traffic jams.

01:14:37.750 --> 01:14:41.449
Yeah, that's right. I never even thought about

01:14:41.449 --> 01:14:44.369
that. I've got a nightmare scenario in my head

01:14:44.369 --> 01:14:48.840
of someone in an ambulance. stuck in a traffic

01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:51.619
jam, a ballpark traffic jam, and the person dies

01:14:51.619 --> 01:14:53.539
because they can't get to the hospital because

01:14:53.539 --> 01:14:55.659
they're stuck in traffic. I could see that happening.

01:14:55.859 --> 01:14:59.800
Yeah. I could see it happening, too. Wow. And

01:14:59.800 --> 01:15:02.020
if there's enough money to be made, it will happen.

01:15:02.220 --> 01:15:04.680
Yeah. You know what? I like this. I mean, I know

01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:06.760
this isn't quite the music creeps, but, I mean,

01:15:06.779 --> 01:15:08.840
I like this. This is more like what we used to

01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:10.899
do down here. Yeah, yeah. We're just going over

01:15:10.899 --> 01:15:14.500
stories, topical stuff. Anyhow, go ahead. Australia

01:15:14.500 --> 01:15:18.710
has put in place a ban. on people under the age

01:15:18.710 --> 01:15:21.909
of 16 accessing social media of any kind. Yeah,

01:15:22.050 --> 01:15:24.649
I saw that. And they've done it the smart way,

01:15:24.770 --> 01:15:27.729
is the penalties are on the social media platforms.

01:15:28.930 --> 01:15:31.390
And it's like, if you let anyone underage get

01:15:31.390 --> 01:15:33.569
on, it's not their fault. We're not punishing

01:15:33.569 --> 01:15:35.069
them, we're not punishing their parents, we're

01:15:35.069 --> 01:15:37.189
punishing you. I love it. And we're going to

01:15:37.189 --> 01:15:41.960
nail you hard. Yep. Two things that brings to

01:15:41.960 --> 01:15:44.680
mind. One, the social media platforms, once they

01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:47.479
can say, oh, well, no one under the age of 16

01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:49.659
is able to log on, so they're going to ramp up

01:15:49.659 --> 01:15:53.319
the adult content. Big time. Big time. Twitter,

01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:56.239
you can watch any damn thing you want. It's insane.

01:15:56.359 --> 01:15:59.760
I can't believe the non -structure and the non...

01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:03.180
What would you call it? Just the permissiveness.

01:16:03.260 --> 01:16:05.880
Just the lack of regulation and oversight. It's

01:16:05.880 --> 01:16:08.039
like whatever, yeah. You want to have like fucking...

01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:11.180
Five guys fucking doing something or what? Yeah,

01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:15.680
go ahead. There is a concerted effort and an

01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.420
end goal in mind to get the people of the United

01:16:18.420 --> 01:16:23.600
States to be as base and sleazy and slimy as

01:16:23.600 --> 01:16:26.859
possible because we're easier to control that

01:16:26.859 --> 01:16:32.819
way. So give us access to five ways and orgies

01:16:32.819 --> 01:16:35.539
and stuff like that that you can just easily

01:16:35.539 --> 01:16:38.960
access. It'll keep us stupid. and the people

01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:40.560
in charge get to do whatever the hell they want

01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:43.260
because we won't notice. They already have all

01:16:43.260 --> 01:16:47.100
these fucking pandy videos and shit on Facebook.

01:16:47.819 --> 01:16:51.039
It's not quite porn, but it's definitely titillating,

01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:53.960
if not a little bit more. And it's like, what

01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:56.199
is this doing on here? How come this is on my

01:16:56.199 --> 01:16:58.159
feed? I didn't ask for it. I didn't look it up.

01:16:58.659 --> 01:17:02.539
There's that whole app Reddit where you can get

01:17:02.539 --> 01:17:04.899
all sorts of discussions or topics or things.

01:17:05.649 --> 01:17:08.149
Apparently there's whole sections of just nude

01:17:08.149 --> 01:17:13.029
pictures. On Reddit? Yeah, I've seen an ad pop

01:17:13.029 --> 01:17:16.750
up. The women of Reddit. Wow. Women who just

01:17:16.750 --> 01:17:19.989
post nudie pictures of themselves. Because there's

01:17:19.989 --> 01:17:22.310
nothing illegal about it. They're not engaging

01:17:22.310 --> 01:17:24.710
in a sex act. They're just nude. Yeah, I had

01:17:24.710 --> 01:17:27.510
no idea that Reddit allowed that. Wow, that's

01:17:27.510 --> 01:17:30.789
another one. Yeah, Tumblr is another one. I'm

01:17:30.789 --> 01:17:32.369
not familiar with Tumblr. It's a dating app.

01:17:32.510 --> 01:17:36.140
Okay. But... people are allowed to post very

01:17:36.140 --> 01:17:38.420
explicit pictures as part of their dating app,

01:17:38.500 --> 01:17:40.340
and now those pictures are just making their

01:17:40.340 --> 01:17:42.380
way around the web as, hey, let's look at all

01:17:42.380 --> 01:17:43.579
the nude people that post the pictures on there.

01:17:43.579 --> 01:17:45.720
Oh, that's funny. Isn't it? Yeah, yeah, so you

01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:48.159
can turn something in, and everybody's got it

01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:50.319
now. They got it on their phone. They didn't

01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:52.420
expect that, did they? It's kind of like OnlyFans

01:17:52.420 --> 01:17:56.539
Junior. Oh, I think we need to start calling

01:17:56.539 --> 01:17:59.479
this the Music Creeps and Shit. Yeah, I think

01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:02.079
that's a good idea. Music Creeps and Shit. There's

01:18:02.079 --> 01:18:05.229
something else I thought about. If it's the platforms

01:18:05.229 --> 01:18:08.810
themselves that are going to get punished, that

01:18:08.810 --> 01:18:12.449
gives people an incentive to be underage and

01:18:12.449 --> 01:18:15.850
weasel your way on and then bust them. It's like,

01:18:15.909 --> 01:18:20.750
I hate Instagram in Australia, so I'm going to

01:18:20.750 --> 01:18:24.829
find a bunch of 14 -year -olds and get them to

01:18:24.829 --> 01:18:27.010
log on, and then I'm going to bust Instagram

01:18:27.010 --> 01:18:28.569
and say, look, you've got all these 14 -year

01:18:28.569 --> 01:18:31.529
-olds on and wreck their business. That can become

01:18:31.529 --> 01:18:34.689
a weapon that other platforms use to sabotage

01:18:34.689 --> 01:18:37.470
each other. Yeah. That could get interesting.

01:18:37.510 --> 01:18:39.770
That's going to get very interesting, in my opinion.

01:18:39.770 --> 01:18:42.609
I predict stuff like that going on without a

01:18:42.609 --> 01:18:47.949
doubt. Do you have more, or is that it? One more

01:18:47.949 --> 01:18:51.350
thing about microplastics have been an issue.

01:18:51.590 --> 01:18:55.909
Yeah. I've heard that there are fungus that can

01:18:55.909 --> 01:18:58.909
eat... Microplastics, there's fungus and irradiation.

01:18:59.029 --> 01:19:01.449
I read that, yeah. But now they've discovered

01:19:01.449 --> 01:19:05.289
there are crickets who eat microplastics. And,

01:19:05.510 --> 01:19:08.810
in fact, break them down into nanoplastics. How

01:19:08.810 --> 01:19:10.630
are they going to get out of us, though? It doesn't

01:19:10.630 --> 01:19:13.010
hurt the crickets in the least little bit. Well,

01:19:13.069 --> 01:19:15.250
the idea is to use the crickets to eat it up

01:19:15.250 --> 01:19:17.970
out of the environment, and then the cricket's

01:19:17.970 --> 01:19:20.510
body will have a concentration of microplastics,

01:19:20.529 --> 01:19:23.250
and then you sequester that somewhere else. Oh,

01:19:23.250 --> 01:19:26.340
okay. So use the crickets as kind of a mop. to

01:19:26.340 --> 01:19:28.600
mop up all the plastics, and then you go ring

01:19:28.600 --> 01:19:31.699
the mop out somewhere. Well, they still haven't

01:19:31.699 --> 01:19:33.880
determined where the microplastics are coming

01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:36.039
from. They don't know the origin. They think

01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:38.300
it's been created, but they can't prove it because

01:19:38.300 --> 01:19:40.500
it's so far in the ground. Yes, yes. It's like,

01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:44.100
how did it get there? Some of it is human -created.

01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:46.939
A lot of it is not. Because plastics were being

01:19:46.939 --> 01:19:49.399
formed all the time through natural processes.

01:19:49.899 --> 01:19:52.500
Oh, yeah. Look at radon gas. Yeah. Deadly as

01:19:52.500 --> 01:19:54.890
hell. Can't smell it. Nothing. It comes from

01:19:54.890 --> 01:19:57.250
the earth. Yep. So if you're the unlucky bastard

01:19:57.250 --> 01:19:58.970
that has it in your house and you don't have

01:19:58.970 --> 01:20:00.750
a detector because nobody thinks about that,

01:20:00.890 --> 01:20:04.989
you're going to die. It means you've got a uranium

01:20:04.989 --> 01:20:07.430
deposit somewhere below your house that is creating

01:20:07.430 --> 01:20:11.789
the radon gas. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, it is

01:20:11.789 --> 01:20:13.869
uranium, isn't it? I think it is uranium. I think

01:20:13.869 --> 01:20:18.420
so. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, so you're in your house

01:20:18.420 --> 01:20:20.119
watching Price is Right. Next thing you know,

01:20:20.119 --> 01:20:24.239
you go sleepy sleep. That's it. Yes. You probably

01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:26.140
get a good headache before you go sleepy sleep.

01:20:26.140 --> 01:20:28.539
I would imagine. Yeah. I would imagine so. Yeah.

01:20:28.659 --> 01:20:34.460
A nice long slumber. Yeah. You got any more?

01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:37.539
There's some other things I haven't written down,

01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:39.439
but I need to remember them. So if you've got

01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:41.439
something, go ahead. Well, I've got music stuff,

01:20:41.500 --> 01:20:43.420
but we're kind of off of music now, so I kind

01:20:43.420 --> 01:20:46.840
of like to stay on the subject here. Let's see.

01:20:46.859 --> 01:20:49.899
Let's think of something coming up or something

01:20:49.899 --> 01:20:54.000
we want to talk about really bad. Hey there,

01:20:54.060 --> 01:20:56.939
Slap Nets. It's time for the Creeps Music News.

01:20:59.539 --> 01:21:02.100
Hey, my little pumpkin seeds. This is Johnny

01:21:02.100 --> 01:21:05.600
Rohibnall with your music news. Almost two decades

01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:07.859
after donating hundreds of signed books to the

01:21:07.859 --> 01:21:10.880
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, a legendary musician

01:21:10.880 --> 01:21:13.260
returned to the museum Saturday to sign the book

01:21:13.260 --> 01:21:16.439
he wrote about his massive collection. Geddy

01:21:16.439 --> 01:21:18.760
Lee is best known as the league vocalist and

01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:21.560
bassist for legendary rock band Rush, but the

01:21:21.560 --> 01:21:23.800
Negro League's Baseball Museum knows him best

01:21:23.800 --> 01:21:27.020
as the man who donated 400 baseballs signed by

01:21:27.020 --> 01:21:30.579
Negro League players. Lee returned to the museum

01:21:30.579 --> 01:21:32.659
today to sign his new book about the stories

01:21:32.659 --> 01:21:35.659
tied to those baseballs, called 72 Stories from

01:21:35.659 --> 01:21:39.220
the Collection of Geddy Lee. Kendrick said Lee

01:21:39.220 --> 01:21:41.140
actually bid on the collection at an auction

01:21:41.140 --> 01:21:44.869
specifically to donate to the museum. Geddy,

01:21:44.890 --> 01:21:46.529
couldn't you have at least played a small set

01:21:46.529 --> 01:21:49.029
while in town? Casey isn't getting a tour date

01:21:49.029 --> 01:21:53.109
anyhow. This is Johnny Rohypnol. That was your

01:21:53.109 --> 01:21:56.170
music news, and remember, bar chords are bullshit.

01:21:59.250 --> 01:22:02.689
You got a subject that you'd like, you really

01:22:02.689 --> 01:22:05.930
want to kind of... Oh gosh, what was I singing

01:22:05.930 --> 01:22:07.229
the other day? Oh, I'm going to pick this up.

01:22:08.250 --> 01:22:09.989
Okay, I'm going to cheat and look at my phone.

01:22:10.350 --> 01:22:13.689
Okay, cool. Elvin Sear, everyone just talk amongst

01:22:13.689 --> 01:22:26.229
yourselves. Yeah, okay. Let's see. Here's somebody

01:22:26.229 --> 01:22:28.210
predicting the Eagles will still make the playoffs.

01:22:28.930 --> 01:22:32.590
Playoffs? Somebody named McCullen. Of course.

01:22:32.810 --> 01:22:37.550
Yeah. And if it's Craig Carton, all he wants

01:22:37.550 --> 01:22:39.430
to do is motherfuck the Chiefs because he has

01:22:39.430 --> 01:22:44.479
nothing to offer. Yeah. Like, hey, what are you

01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:46.439
going to do today, Craig? I'm going to say bad

01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:48.359
things about the Chiefs. Oh, like yesterday and

01:22:48.359 --> 01:22:49.699
the day before and the day before and the day

01:22:49.699 --> 01:22:52.140
before. Yeah, yeah, just like that. Same old

01:22:52.140 --> 01:22:55.359
broken record. I learned that Spirit Airlines

01:22:55.359 --> 01:22:59.939
has filed for bankruptcy for the second time.

01:23:01.159 --> 01:23:03.779
Don't buy a ticket on Spirit. Hell no, I wouldn't

01:23:03.779 --> 01:23:06.579
anyhow. The weird thing was this article was

01:23:06.579 --> 01:23:09.920
talking about American Airlines was petitioning

01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:13.550
the court. for a much more explicit breakdown

01:23:13.550 --> 01:23:17.250
of the assets of Spirit Airlines. But they didn't

01:23:17.250 --> 01:23:20.369
say why. Does American own a stake in it? Is

01:23:20.369 --> 01:23:22.810
American wanting to buy it? Can anyone go tell

01:23:22.810 --> 01:23:24.949
the court we want more information? Why does

01:23:24.949 --> 01:23:28.329
American Airlines get to go tell the court, give

01:23:28.329 --> 01:23:31.789
us more information about their assets? That

01:23:31.789 --> 01:23:36.979
is interesting. There must be a reason, but the

01:23:36.979 --> 01:23:39.300
article wouldn't say it. I'm guessing American

01:23:39.300 --> 01:23:41.720
Airlines is an investor in Spirit. I would think

01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:44.260
they're an investor, too. That happens all the

01:23:44.260 --> 01:23:48.420
time. And I've been hearing things about certain

01:23:48.420 --> 01:23:52.800
aircraft are starting to lose their popularity.

01:23:53.939 --> 01:23:57.880
The Airbus A380, the big giant one, pretty much

01:23:57.880 --> 01:23:59.840
nobody wants it anymore. They're just sitting

01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.460
around in storage, costing billions of dollars.

01:24:02.970 --> 01:24:08.010
yeah uh the 737 is starting to get phased out

01:24:08.010 --> 01:24:10.770
from a lot of airlines in favor of air buses

01:24:10.770 --> 01:24:14.329
yeah which are a little more efficient yeah um

01:24:14.329 --> 01:24:18.909
and then one of the it was the 757 which was

01:24:18.909 --> 01:24:22.710
a two engine i think it was supposed to be really

01:24:22.710 --> 01:24:25.560
fuel efficient It can carry a lot of passengers

01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:27.500
on shorter haul flights, kind of like a bigger

01:24:27.500 --> 01:24:31.020
version of a 737. And suddenly, nobody wants

01:24:31.020 --> 01:24:33.600
those anymore. Nobody's buying them, and the

01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:35.539
ones that exist are sitting around in storage.

01:24:35.579 --> 01:24:40.800
The 757 is just, nobody wants it. And then the

01:24:40.800 --> 01:24:43.920
MD -11, the one that was in the recent UPS crash.

01:24:45.220 --> 01:24:47.899
I think they're still grounded, and a lot of

01:24:47.899 --> 01:24:49.600
airlines are saying, you know what, we're just

01:24:49.600 --> 01:24:51.239
going to dump ours because the three -engine

01:24:51.239 --> 01:24:54.520
concept just really doesn't work anyway. It's

01:24:54.520 --> 01:24:57.859
just there's a basic flaw in it. So I think a

01:24:57.859 --> 01:24:59.960
lot of those cargo planes are going to hit the

01:24:59.960 --> 01:25:03.600
scrap pile. Okay. And a lot of other ones are

01:25:03.600 --> 01:25:07.300
going to get, I mean, take 737s and 757s and

01:25:07.300 --> 01:25:09.859
convert them to cargo planes and dump the MD

01:25:09.859 --> 01:25:15.369
-11s. Makes sense to me. I agree, yep. Of course,

01:25:15.369 --> 01:25:17.970
the UPS crash was because of lack of maintenance,

01:25:18.069 --> 01:25:21.149
which is usually one of the main causes of airline

01:25:21.149 --> 01:25:24.189
crashes is maintenance decided to not do it or

01:25:24.189 --> 01:25:26.569
management decided that maintenance was too expensive.

01:25:29.930 --> 01:25:33.310
A Grammy, I just got this on my phone. I'm cheating,

01:25:33.430 --> 01:25:36.050
too. I'm avoiding my phone. I don't feel like

01:25:36.050 --> 01:25:39.029
we go back to music because we already exited

01:25:39.029 --> 01:25:42.279
music. Yeah, kind of moving along. Yeah. A Grammy

01:25:42.279 --> 01:25:44.300
-nominated musician was struck and killed by

01:25:44.300 --> 01:25:46.659
a driver with more than 100 arrests and dozens

01:25:46.659 --> 01:25:49.100
of traffic violations in Rhode Island, police

01:25:49.100 --> 01:25:55.180
say. Roderick McLeod, 70, was a member of the

01:25:55.180 --> 01:25:58.359
band Roomful of Blues in the 1980s and received

01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:00.939
a Grammy nomination for his work with them. He

01:26:00.939 --> 01:26:03.140
was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall

01:26:03.140 --> 01:26:08.460
of Fame in 2014. And it doesn't tell who hit

01:26:08.460 --> 01:26:11.140
him, but someone with over 100 violations struck

01:26:11.140 --> 01:26:14.619
and killed him. And I actually expected it to

01:26:14.619 --> 01:26:16.939
be a bigger name than that. So that's what you

01:26:16.939 --> 01:26:24.159
get when you cold read shit. Okay, Shaquan Barkley,

01:26:24.279 --> 01:26:29.920
do you think his year last year was more of an

01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:33.060
anomaly where he's at with his career than this

01:26:33.060 --> 01:26:36.180
year? This season is more of what he really is.

01:26:36.260 --> 01:26:39.380
Yeah, I think so. It's pretty easy to have a

01:26:39.380 --> 01:26:41.380
big year last year when he's all excited about

01:26:41.380 --> 01:26:43.680
a new team, new situation. He just got paid.

01:26:43.739 --> 01:26:46.380
He's all keyed up. New system, all that. And

01:26:46.380 --> 01:26:49.500
then this year it's like, well, okay, it's kind

01:26:49.500 --> 01:26:51.180
of back to usual. I kind of know what everything

01:26:51.180 --> 01:26:54.380
is. And he just doesn't have that spark anymore.

01:26:55.100 --> 01:26:57.399
I'm sure he wanted to show the Giants how awesome

01:26:57.399 --> 01:27:00.020
he was, especially since he's still in the same

01:27:00.020 --> 01:27:02.359
division. And then with the Super Bowl without

01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:04.760
him, I'm sure that was a nice little belly warmer.

01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:07.939
Yeah. Okay, all right. I was going to ask that

01:27:07.939 --> 01:27:09.439
earlier. I was like, you know what, while we're

01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.279
doing odds and ends, how long have we got? An

01:27:12.279 --> 01:27:15.960
hour and 23. Okay. You want to keep going or

01:27:15.960 --> 01:27:17.859
you want to? Yeah, we can think of something.

01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:22.989
Okay, yeah. This is kind of fun, just ad -libbing,

01:27:22.989 --> 01:27:25.369
though. Yeah. Let's see. I have some stuff written

01:27:25.369 --> 01:27:27.369
down on my notes we might be able to get into.

01:27:27.789 --> 01:27:30.229
And I do the show notes because I'll think of

01:27:30.229 --> 01:27:31.989
something at work or somewhere else and then,

01:27:31.989 --> 01:27:35.409
you know, like throw it down. Yeah. I read that

01:27:35.409 --> 01:27:39.430
EVH, Eddie Van Halen's amplifier and guitar company,

01:27:39.550 --> 01:27:45.310
has put out the 5153 amp, Eddie's signature amp.

01:27:45.689 --> 01:27:48.590
Uh -huh. It is now a fully digital modeling amp.

01:27:50.000 --> 01:27:53.239
Isn't that kind of sad? That is. Yeah. With all

01:27:53.239 --> 01:27:56.680
sorts of recording features built in. It's designed

01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:00.760
not so much for live play anymore. It's designed

01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:03.079
to sit in your studio and you record off of it.

01:28:03.600 --> 01:28:07.319
Okay. Wow. But being a fully digital kind of

01:28:07.319 --> 01:28:11.260
modeling... Yeah. Ruined it. And they still call

01:28:11.260 --> 01:28:14.300
it the 6L6, which is the power tube that was

01:28:14.300 --> 01:28:17.920
used in the tube amp version. This is solid state.

01:28:18.729 --> 01:28:22.289
But they help. They think they can make more

01:28:22.289 --> 01:28:25.670
money like that. Solid -state's cheaper to build,

01:28:25.850 --> 01:28:29.630
easier to build, easier to maintain. The parts

01:28:29.630 --> 01:28:32.390
are pretty modular. They use the same parts here

01:28:32.390 --> 01:28:35.989
as there. I really wonder how the vacuum tube

01:28:35.989 --> 01:28:40.069
industry is going to progress as far as audio

01:28:40.069 --> 01:28:45.779
tubes. i would think there'd still be a big enough

01:28:45.779 --> 01:28:48.119
market and it really isn't all that expensive

01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:52.840
to set up your own vacuum tube making company

01:28:52.840 --> 01:28:56.159
yeah you know for a couple hundred thousand investment

01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:59.500
you can start cranking out a lot of these really

01:28:59.500 --> 01:29:04.000
really rare tubes and it seems like a good business

01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:06.439
venture but there must be more to it because

01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:11.489
no one's doing it yeah good point I've got something

01:29:11.489 --> 01:29:13.550
sports -related that I was going to get into

01:29:13.550 --> 01:29:18.210
last week, I think it was. The Chiefs versus

01:29:18.210 --> 01:29:21.590
the Cowboys, record numbers on Thanksgiving Day.

01:29:21.729 --> 01:29:24.869
Yeah. So they're calling the Chiefs the new America's

01:29:24.869 --> 01:29:26.710
team. I've got a slightly different thought on

01:29:26.710 --> 01:29:29.409
that. I think that everybody tuned in to try

01:29:29.409 --> 01:29:31.750
to see the Chiefs lose. Yeah, I think so too.

01:29:32.010 --> 01:29:33.850
Yeah, it wasn't like, hey, the Chiefs are on.

01:29:33.869 --> 01:29:35.909
It's like, hey, we think they might be able to

01:29:35.909 --> 01:29:39.149
get beat. Let's watch them. Yeah. And they did.

01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:42.819
Yeah, they did. So you think so too? Yeah, yeah.

01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.840
I think there's a lot more people outside the

01:29:45.840 --> 01:29:47.560
Kansas City area that want to see the Chiefs

01:29:47.560 --> 01:29:49.539
fail than want to see them win. And that's why

01:29:49.539 --> 01:29:51.579
you got the record numbers, because people want

01:29:51.579 --> 01:29:54.180
to see Patrick Mahomes on the ground holding

01:29:54.180 --> 01:29:59.239
his knee or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's

01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:00.699
sad to say there's a lot of people that would

01:30:00.699 --> 01:30:03.380
celebrate if Mahomes was knocked out for the

01:30:03.380 --> 01:30:05.899
season. They're like, thank God we don't have

01:30:05.899 --> 01:30:09.680
to look at him and hear him. When he's your guy,

01:30:09.819 --> 01:30:11.720
you love it. You can't get enough. But when he's

01:30:11.720 --> 01:30:13.819
not your guy, he's kind of irritating. Oh, yeah.

01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:16.659
Yeah. Oh, I could see that. Yes. I never liked

01:30:16.659 --> 01:30:19.899
looking at John Elway. No, me neither. Josh Allen

01:30:19.899 --> 01:30:22.720
has become the new whore. Yeah. I see him on

01:30:22.720 --> 01:30:25.260
everything now. Oh, yeah. And Jason Kelsey, too.

01:30:25.399 --> 01:30:30.260
Both of them. Mahomes still does his share of

01:30:30.260 --> 01:30:33.039
commercials, but it seems like lately Josh Allen

01:30:33.039 --> 01:30:36.659
has been beefing it up and definitely Jason Kelsey.

01:30:37.000 --> 01:30:39.710
Yeah. And the one that I thought were going to

01:30:39.710 --> 01:30:41.670
do more commercials is not, and that's Travis

01:30:41.670 --> 01:30:43.970
Kelsey. I haven't seen him in a whole lot. No,

01:30:44.090 --> 01:30:49.069
not really. I saw a cartoon ad. It was a cartoon

01:30:49.069 --> 01:30:53.069
image of Mahomes and Kelsey. So, you know, all

01:30:53.069 --> 01:30:54.529
you have to do is pay for the rights, and you

01:30:54.529 --> 01:30:56.869
have someone pretend to do their voices. Yeah.

01:30:56.970 --> 01:30:58.989
That's all you have to worry about. I'm really

01:30:58.989 --> 01:31:01.909
glad Andy Reid isn't showing up in any commercials

01:31:01.909 --> 01:31:04.270
because that used to piss me off when the Chiefs

01:31:04.270 --> 01:31:07.069
were playing lousy and losing. And then we'd

01:31:07.069 --> 01:31:09.489
see Andy Reid acting like a brain -dead fool

01:31:09.489 --> 01:31:14.310
in a commercial. Oh, like when he's drawing mustaches

01:31:14.310 --> 01:31:16.829
on people? Yeah, it's like I don't want to see

01:31:16.829 --> 01:31:20.470
the head coach acting like a fucking moron when

01:31:20.470 --> 01:31:23.210
his team is sucking on the field. That makes

01:31:23.210 --> 01:31:25.670
me think this guy's wasting his time and not

01:31:25.670 --> 01:31:28.380
paying attention. get his ass back into the office

01:31:28.380 --> 01:31:31.340
and do some work. I think he needs to do more

01:31:31.340 --> 01:31:33.220
commercials since he quit doing commercials when

01:31:33.220 --> 01:31:36.000
he quit winning Super Bowls. Yeah, yeah. I know.

01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:39.979
But I'm glad that they're not showing his commercials

01:31:39.979 --> 01:31:41.680
now. At least they're not showing them to me.

01:31:42.119 --> 01:31:44.579
Because as bad as they're doing, I would be so

01:31:44.579 --> 01:31:46.720
pissed off. It's like, yeah, you're sitting there

01:31:46.720 --> 01:31:48.920
doing the commercial and getting paid, and all

01:31:48.920 --> 01:31:50.680
the time you spent doing that commercial, you

01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:53.060
weren't thinking about football one single moment,

01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:56.600
were you? I agree. Yeah. I just don't like it.

01:31:56.899 --> 01:31:59.119
No, I don't either. I'm the same way. If you

01:31:59.119 --> 01:32:01.560
can do that and still succeed at your main job,

01:32:01.659 --> 01:32:04.520
great. Yeah. But if you now suck at your main

01:32:04.520 --> 01:32:07.100
job, I'm going to blame it on doing too many

01:32:07.100 --> 01:32:10.640
commercials. Yep. You know what? I mean, yeah,

01:32:10.699 --> 01:32:12.399
there's a lot to be said for that, too, and it

01:32:12.399 --> 01:32:14.800
is distracting. Yeah. Because you can look at

01:32:14.800 --> 01:32:18.359
many cases and point out where someone's hit

01:32:18.359 --> 01:32:21.239
a certain level of success. And I'm not talking

01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:24.180
about Mahomes or Reed. But what I'm saying is

01:32:24.180 --> 01:32:27.640
it happens a lot because you can go back to the

01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:30.479
moment when they changed, and that is usually

01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:33.359
the moment that they got huge and started doing

01:32:33.359 --> 01:32:35.600
everything else like night shows and stuff like

01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:39.819
that. Yeah. I did see a guy. He'd gotten that

01:32:39.819 --> 01:32:44.619
old Aflac commercial with Deion Sanders in it

01:32:44.619 --> 01:32:47.680
where he's jumping up and down and flapping his

01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:51.260
arms like the Aflac duck. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God,

01:32:51.300 --> 01:32:54.800
it's hard to overcome that. This guy had that

01:32:54.800 --> 01:32:57.359
clip on his phone, and every time there was a

01:32:57.359 --> 01:33:00.699
Deion Sanders press conference after the Colorado

01:33:00.699 --> 01:33:04.380
Buffaloes lost, Deion Sanders would say something,

01:33:04.380 --> 01:33:06.340
and then the guy would play that clip of Deion

01:33:06.340 --> 01:33:09.180
Sanders acting like a fucking retard on a commercial.

01:33:09.539 --> 01:33:12.239
That's funny. That was funny as hell. And it's

01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:14.899
like, I hope his players have that clip. And

01:33:14.899 --> 01:33:17.439
when Deion Sanders tries to discipline them for

01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:18.880
something, they just play that clip and say,

01:33:18.939 --> 01:33:22.250
hey, coach, wasn't this you? being a freaking

01:33:22.250 --> 01:33:25.510
moron for money. Wasn't this you? Is this you?

01:33:26.050 --> 01:33:29.270
Is this you that's the ad whore? Is this you?

01:33:29.409 --> 01:33:31.949
And then I'm supposed to take you seriously when

01:33:31.949 --> 01:33:34.229
this is what you... I see you clucking like a

01:33:34.229 --> 01:33:38.090
duck. And ducks don't even cluck. Which makes

01:33:38.090 --> 01:33:42.130
it even worse. Okay. I've got one that I wanted

01:33:42.130 --> 01:33:45.609
to do a long time ago. Top five teams that you

01:33:45.609 --> 01:33:50.300
absolutely hate to lose to. Oh, gosh. Are we

01:33:50.300 --> 01:33:52.279
counting the division rivals or besides them?

01:33:53.279 --> 01:33:55.680
Let's not count the division rivals because that's

01:33:55.680 --> 01:33:58.100
too easy. You get everyone in the division. Yeah,

01:33:58.140 --> 01:34:01.800
that's four. Or three. I've got three right off

01:34:01.800 --> 01:34:05.760
the bat. Pittsburgh. I'm using the Pittsburgh.

01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:13.359
Buffalo. Yeah. Dallas. Denver. Yeah, they're

01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:17.710
division. Yeah, that's right. Dallas. Dallas.

01:34:17.770 --> 01:34:22.789
Philadelphia. Yeah, Philadelphia now. Cincinnati.

01:34:23.289 --> 01:34:26.470
Cincinnati, definitely. Cincinnati has almost

01:34:26.470 --> 01:34:29.229
escalated to number one. I'm not for sure. This

01:34:29.229 --> 01:34:32.890
is outside the division. Number one is Cincinnati.

01:34:33.270 --> 01:34:36.449
Number two is Buffalo. Number three is the Cowboys

01:34:36.449 --> 01:34:47.199
to me. This is my list. Philadelphia. There's

01:34:47.199 --> 01:34:49.220
some teams that used to be on the list that aren't

01:34:49.220 --> 01:34:52.340
anymore, like Miami. Yeah, yeah. Now they're

01:34:52.340 --> 01:34:53.640
like nothing. Don't really care. I'm trying to

01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:57.279
think. Who else? There's more. I'm just not thinking

01:34:57.279 --> 01:35:01.199
of them. Probably the Patriots. Yeah, yeah. I

01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:04.539
used to hate losing to the Patriots. Yeah. So

01:35:04.539 --> 01:35:08.460
that's my top five right there. Yeah. What's

01:35:08.460 --> 01:35:11.500
all yours? Top five? Yeah, this is Cincy, Buffalo,

01:35:11.960 --> 01:35:22.109
Dallas. Pittsburgh, and then I need a fifth one.

01:35:25.390 --> 01:35:27.989
I could include Pittsburgh, but I already did

01:35:27.989 --> 01:35:30.569
mine, so we got a little bit of a difference

01:35:30.569 --> 01:35:33.090
there, so I'm just going to keep it off. I kind

01:35:33.090 --> 01:35:36.369
of hate losing to the Jaguars, too. Oh, you know

01:35:36.369 --> 01:35:38.390
what? The Jaguars should be number five for me.

01:35:38.430 --> 01:35:43.250
Yeah, you know what? I agree with that. I just

01:35:43.250 --> 01:35:45.760
hate losing to them. I hate their team colors.

01:35:45.859 --> 01:35:48.119
I hate everything about them. I used to like

01:35:48.119 --> 01:35:50.239
the Jaguars a lot when they first came into the

01:35:50.239 --> 01:35:54.840
league in, what, 95, 96? Uh -huh. But over the

01:35:54.840 --> 01:35:59.399
years, their logo has changed, their uniforms

01:35:59.399 --> 01:36:01.960
have changed, their whole team attitude is kind

01:36:01.960 --> 01:36:04.399
of like, I just kind of don't like them. I like

01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:07.220
the town of Jacksonville. Oh, I do too. I like

01:36:07.220 --> 01:36:09.520
Jacksonville, Florida a lot. When they had Tom

01:36:09.520 --> 01:36:12.920
Coughlin and Mark Brunel, they were a very likable

01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:16.300
team. Yeah. Now, Trevor Lawrence, he needs to

01:36:16.300 --> 01:36:19.460
go play Spicoli on a remake of Five Times a Ridgemont

01:36:19.460 --> 01:36:25.060
High. That's about it. All right, dude. Hell

01:36:25.060 --> 01:36:28.439
yeah, man. My dad's a TV repairman. He can fix

01:36:28.439 --> 01:36:32.539
it. Man, my brother does shit. He's going to

01:36:32.539 --> 01:36:34.840
kill us. He's going to shit. Well, what's he

01:36:34.840 --> 01:36:36.180
going to do? Is he going to shit or kill us?

01:36:36.260 --> 01:36:38.060
He's going to shit, and then he's going to kill

01:36:38.060 --> 01:36:44.390
us. Oh, my God. Many famous quotes came from

01:36:44.390 --> 01:36:46.010
that movie. Oh, a lot of them, yes. And I want

01:36:46.010 --> 01:36:49.390
to hear Trevor Lord's do all of them. Yeah. I

01:36:49.390 --> 01:36:52.670
want to see him take a shoe. And smack himself

01:36:52.670 --> 01:36:54.489
in the head. Yeah, and go, you know what that

01:36:54.489 --> 01:37:01.470
is, man? No, that's my skull. Or I want to see

01:37:01.470 --> 01:37:06.569
you place Mr. Hand. Oh, yeah. Let's see. There

01:37:06.569 --> 01:37:12.449
we go. Because my favorite marching guy played

01:37:12.449 --> 01:37:17.850
him. Ray Walston. Yeah. My name is Mr. Hand.

01:37:18.069 --> 01:37:21.050
Whenever you're in my class, it's my time, not

01:37:21.050 --> 01:37:25.449
your time. There'll be no eating. Then the pizza

01:37:25.449 --> 01:37:30.510
guy comes up. Oh, gosh. That movie set the precedent

01:37:30.510 --> 01:37:35.029
for a lot of cool shit. It did. The famous carrot

01:37:35.029 --> 01:37:39.949
scene. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. At the reach of puberty,

01:37:40.029 --> 01:37:42.949
I'm like, oh, my gosh. I don't think I can watch

01:37:42.949 --> 01:37:48.170
this too many times. Getting some bald hair,

01:37:48.270 --> 01:37:52.050
and I see that. There was a show the other day

01:37:52.050 --> 01:37:55.329
where a guy had run across a gal he had a crush

01:37:55.329 --> 01:37:57.949
in back in high school, and they were having

01:37:57.949 --> 01:38:01.109
a eating somewhere, and she was eating. I think

01:38:01.109 --> 01:38:03.630
she was eating a banana. And he looked at her

01:38:03.630 --> 01:38:05.649
and said, there was a time in my life I would

01:38:05.649 --> 01:38:08.069
have paid $1 ,000 to watch you eat a banana.

01:38:11.510 --> 01:38:15.369
But now, not so much. Not so much, no. They got

01:38:15.369 --> 01:38:17.949
an internet for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I

01:38:17.949 --> 01:38:23.789
don't need it. Yeah, like the prehistoric porn

01:38:23.789 --> 01:38:26.329
where you'd find, like, you'd happen to find

01:38:26.329 --> 01:38:28.869
a playboy in a stupid area. Yeah. Just walking

01:38:28.869 --> 01:38:31.569
along, and all of a sudden there's one just sitting

01:38:31.569 --> 01:38:34.250
there. How'd this get here? I don't know. Somebody

01:38:34.250 --> 01:38:36.289
probably threw it when their wife walked out.

01:38:36.289 --> 01:38:39.390
Yes. That's how it got there. But as a child,

01:38:39.430 --> 01:38:44.470
you're like, oh, my gosh. I found, oh, wow. Then

01:38:44.470 --> 01:38:46.770
you get all your friends, hey, guys, meet me

01:38:46.770 --> 01:38:49.810
over at the place in the woods, okay? Oh, yeah.

01:38:50.130 --> 01:38:52.930
No, just meet me there. Erwin meets you there

01:38:52.930 --> 01:38:57.930
like, look what I found. I found one when I was

01:38:57.930 --> 01:39:00.869
living in Raymoor. There was a barn. Just down

01:39:00.869 --> 01:39:05.310
at the end of the driveway. And there was a...

01:39:05.310 --> 01:39:10.789
This would have been about 1975. And I found

01:39:10.789 --> 01:39:14.710
a Playboy from about 1972. Just sitting in this

01:39:14.710 --> 01:39:17.390
barn. But somebody had spilled kerosene on it.

01:39:17.449 --> 01:39:19.710
And it was just soaked in kerosene. So all the

01:39:19.710 --> 01:39:22.869
pages were almost see -through. So it was really

01:39:22.869 --> 01:39:25.050
hard to get any benefit out of looking through

01:39:25.050 --> 01:39:29.439
it. Plus it was an immense fire hazard. So I

01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:31.699
left it in the barn. I ain't taking this home

01:39:31.699 --> 01:39:33.560
because, number one, you can smell the kerosene.

01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:37.500
But we used to, you know, a couple friends of

01:39:37.500 --> 01:39:39.439
mine go down there. It's like, hey, let's get

01:39:39.439 --> 01:39:41.279
out the magazine. And we'd, you know, peer at

01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:43.640
it and try to see what it was. You couldn't see

01:39:43.640 --> 01:39:46.420
much. But eventually we got tired of smelling

01:39:46.420 --> 01:39:49.300
that kerosene, so we just ditched it. Yeah, no,

01:39:49.460 --> 01:39:51.880
that's the way I was too. I got tired of hiding

01:39:51.880 --> 01:39:54.119
it when I found one. Yeah. And finally I just

01:39:54.119 --> 01:39:57.060
forget about it or something or a close call.

01:39:57.300 --> 01:40:01.630
Yeah. Yeah, I hid all sorts of things from the

01:40:01.630 --> 01:40:04.470
mom when I was growing up, but I don't think

01:40:04.470 --> 01:40:07.949
she ever really looked. No. It would have been

01:40:07.949 --> 01:40:11.470
easy to find where I hid my booze. Oh, that was

01:40:11.470 --> 01:40:14.310
a whole different thing. Yeah. Yeah, the booze

01:40:14.310 --> 01:40:16.390
was completely different. We used to have a code

01:40:16.390 --> 01:40:19.409
word growing up. Whenever I called Davey, they

01:40:19.409 --> 01:40:23.069
used to sell 8 -ounce PAPs in model. Blue ribbon.

01:40:23.329 --> 01:40:26.170
Little ponies. Yeah, little ponies. And there

01:40:26.170 --> 01:40:30.720
was 35 of them. So, a code to say, because his

01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:33.140
mom used to listen in on the phone, and so did

01:40:33.140 --> 01:40:35.279
mine, occasionally, you know, and catch you,

01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:37.560
you know, what you're going to do and catch you

01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:39.399
off, hit you off at the pass and all that good

01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:42.260
shit before you do it and all that. So, we used

01:40:42.260 --> 01:40:44.539
to have a code word. I go, you go, hey, you got

01:40:44.539 --> 01:40:48.000
that 35 cent showing? Yeah, I sure do. That's

01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:50.619
pretty clever. Yeah, or, no, I don't. I don't

01:40:50.619 --> 01:40:54.039
have any money. I'm sorry. But later on, his

01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:56.159
mom revealed that she did know what we were talking

01:40:56.159 --> 01:40:59.939
about. She knew about what it was. She knew it

01:40:59.939 --> 01:41:03.920
was alcohol, but she couldn't prove it, and she

01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:06.539
wasn't going to stop us anyhow. But anyhow, I

01:41:06.539 --> 01:41:08.579
thought that was funny. Yeah. Yeah, we used to

01:41:08.579 --> 01:41:10.380
use code words all the time like that, and I

01:41:10.380 --> 01:41:14.920
know you did too. I think I was 16 when my mom

01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:18.779
figured out I was drinking, and she said, I drink

01:41:18.779 --> 01:41:21.319
too, so I'm not going to tell you to stop. I'm

01:41:21.319 --> 01:41:23.439
just going to tell you to be careful. That's

01:41:23.439 --> 01:41:28.300
a good way of handling it. Yeah. The first thing

01:41:28.300 --> 01:41:30.699
I thought was, hey, my mom used to smoke. I wonder

01:41:30.699 --> 01:41:32.460
if I could take up smoking and she'd be okay

01:41:32.460 --> 01:41:36.239
with it. Oh. So I did, and she was okay with

01:41:36.239 --> 01:41:38.460
it. Maybe that was a good thing to say. She wasn't

01:41:38.460 --> 01:41:40.180
okay with it? She was okay with it. She was?

01:41:40.180 --> 01:41:42.640
Yeah, because I used to go for walks around the

01:41:42.640 --> 01:41:44.260
neighborhood and smoke while I was out walking

01:41:44.260 --> 01:41:47.319
around. And I'd come back smelling like cigarettes.

01:41:47.500 --> 01:41:49.399
She figured it out pretty quickly. I thought

01:41:49.399 --> 01:41:52.039
I was being so clever. And she was like, as long

01:41:52.039 --> 01:41:53.880
as you don't smoke here, it's your money. I don't

01:41:53.880 --> 01:41:57.510
care. Stupid thing to do, but if you want to

01:41:57.510 --> 01:41:59.529
do it, go ahead. Because her parents smoked.

01:41:59.590 --> 01:42:03.449
She smoked for a while. It was the 70s. Everybody

01:42:03.449 --> 01:42:05.949
smoked. Oh, yeah, yeah. It is in movies. People

01:42:05.949 --> 01:42:10.189
are doing it in movies, too. It used to be common.

01:42:10.250 --> 01:42:11.770
Someone would light up a cigarette to relax.

01:42:12.250 --> 01:42:15.090
Yeah. Of course, the reason it calmed you is

01:42:15.090 --> 01:42:16.729
because you were going through nicotine withdrawal.

01:42:17.069 --> 01:42:19.390
Yes. It's the same way that shooting up heroin

01:42:19.390 --> 01:42:21.289
calms you down when you're going through heroin

01:42:21.289 --> 01:42:23.649
withdrawal. Yeah, and the cool thing is you get

01:42:23.649 --> 01:42:26.069
to shit yourself and piss yourself before you

01:42:26.069 --> 01:42:28.310
pass out. That's the coolest thing right there.

01:42:28.409 --> 01:42:30.850
So there you are lying somewhere where you don't

01:42:30.850 --> 01:42:32.890
know, on the ground, shit and piss everywhere.

01:42:33.609 --> 01:42:40.560
Just great. I'm a winner. Yeah. Well, I couldn't

01:42:40.560 --> 01:42:45.640
wait to go try it when I saw that. I saw a show

01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:47.600
the other day advertised. I think it was on Netflix.

01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:50.159
It might be Hulu. That's the only two streaming

01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:54.119
services I look at. But Charlie Sheen has basically

01:42:54.119 --> 01:42:57.430
a tell -all. where he gets in front of the camera

01:42:57.430 --> 01:42:59.350
and gets interviewed, and he basically will tell

01:42:59.350 --> 01:43:01.069
you whatever you want to know about his life

01:43:01.069 --> 01:43:03.409
and all the excesses and the things he's done.

01:43:03.409 --> 01:43:05.470
I would love to see that. Yeah, I'm looking forward

01:43:05.470 --> 01:43:07.029
to watching that. Because supposedly he's in

01:43:07.029 --> 01:43:11.229
a relationship with a younger guy now. I remember

01:43:11.229 --> 01:43:16.510
him saying that he was into women except when

01:43:16.510 --> 01:43:18.789
he was on crack, and then he was into dudes.

01:43:19.369 --> 01:43:21.149
He said, I don't know why, but every time I did

01:43:21.149 --> 01:43:23.350
crack, I just wanted to have sex with other dudes.

01:43:24.050 --> 01:43:26.550
Wow. Isn't that weird? Yeah, I quit doing it.

01:43:29.329 --> 01:43:32.989
But I'm geared like that. He obviously, he can

01:43:32.989 --> 01:43:35.149
call it whatever he wants, but I think he's not

01:43:35.149 --> 01:43:37.229
geared like that. I think he's geared for whatever.

01:43:37.510 --> 01:43:41.149
I don't know. Who knows what kind of life he

01:43:41.149 --> 01:43:44.829
had growing up with Martin Sheen as a dad, who

01:43:44.829 --> 01:43:48.079
was a big partier. I find it interesting that

01:43:48.079 --> 01:43:51.079
he took his dad's stage name and Emilio Estevez,

01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:53.279
his brother, took his dad's real name. Yeah,

01:43:53.359 --> 01:43:56.140
and Emilio has had a better career and has kept

01:43:56.140 --> 01:43:59.340
his life together a lot better. Oh, gosh. He's

01:43:59.340 --> 01:44:02.439
had a pretty good career. He is. Yeah, but he

01:44:02.439 --> 01:44:05.000
kept his life together. He's pretty much a normal

01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:07.899
guy where Charlie Sheen, you know, and then the

01:44:07.899 --> 01:44:12.060
whole Tiger's Blood thing and all that. I mean,

01:44:12.119 --> 01:44:16.020
I think, does he have HIV or not? Yes. He does,

01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:19.079
okay. And that was the whole tiger's blood talk

01:44:19.079 --> 01:44:22.800
that he was going on. Yeah. One of the things

01:44:22.800 --> 01:44:27.380
that a lot of people didn't realize is he was

01:44:27.380 --> 01:44:29.539
making crap tons of money. He was like the highest

01:44:29.539 --> 01:44:33.239
paid guy for a while. Oh, yeah. But he was spending

01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:35.840
just about everything he earned, and a lot of

01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:40.239
it was being spent on drugs and that fun lifestyle.

01:44:40.579 --> 01:44:44.720
But another huge chunk was going to paying off

01:44:44.720 --> 01:44:49.140
people knew some of the things he'd done or people

01:44:49.140 --> 01:44:52.680
he'd infected with HIV. Yeah. And he was paying

01:44:52.680 --> 01:44:56.199
to keep them quiet. And it got to the point where

01:44:56.199 --> 01:44:58.760
he just simply couldn't earn enough money to

01:44:58.760 --> 01:45:01.039
pay off all the people he was having to pay off.

01:45:01.239 --> 01:45:03.460
Yeah, so he simply just kind of came out and

01:45:03.460 --> 01:45:06.159
fessed up. But I think now he's got his life

01:45:06.159 --> 01:45:08.939
together pretty good. It looks that way, yeah.

01:45:09.220 --> 01:45:12.720
Yeah. So I'm going to really enjoy watching that

01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:16.020
show. I am too. What's next? It's either Hulu

01:45:16.020 --> 01:45:19.939
or Netflix. I've got it bookmarked on that. But,

01:45:19.960 --> 01:45:24.960
yeah, it's like Sheen on Sheen or Charlie on

01:45:24.960 --> 01:45:27.960
Charlie. I think I've seen that in the little

01:45:27.960 --> 01:45:31.020
previews when you jump on there. Yeah. So I thought,

01:45:31.180 --> 01:45:33.960
you know, I saw that and I took a look at it.

01:45:34.000 --> 01:45:36.180
It's like, whoa, he's not holding back. So I

01:45:36.180 --> 01:45:38.300
pointed it out to my wife. She's like, oh, yeah,

01:45:38.460 --> 01:45:40.880
it's just a bunch of lies. And I showed her the

01:45:40.880 --> 01:45:43.039
trailer and she's like, whoa, he's telling the

01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:47.289
truth. He probably isn't going to tell the truth

01:45:47.289 --> 01:45:51.789
about raping people. No, he's going to leave

01:45:51.789 --> 01:45:53.369
that part out. Statute of limitations isn't up

01:45:53.369 --> 01:45:55.569
on that yet, so he's going to keep quiet on that.

01:45:56.550 --> 01:45:58.689
He's going to admit that information. You're

01:45:58.689 --> 01:46:02.810
not going to be in there. Redacted. Yes. Yeah,

01:46:02.810 --> 01:46:07.829
redacted, just like Epstein was. Another interesting

01:46:07.829 --> 01:46:09.750
thing, I don't know if this is going to appeal

01:46:09.750 --> 01:46:11.949
to anybody else, but I've been watching videos

01:46:11.949 --> 01:46:15.680
by a guy named Hobo Shoestring. He calls himself

01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:18.500
Shoestring, and he lives the life of a hobo.

01:46:20.159 --> 01:46:23.180
Is this on Netflix? This is on YouTube. Oh, on

01:46:23.180 --> 01:46:27.319
YouTube. Hobo Shoestring. This guy's backstory

01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:32.100
is a guy named Mark Nichols. And out of high

01:46:32.100 --> 01:46:34.979
school, he joined the Army, got trained as a

01:46:34.979 --> 01:46:37.460
helicopter mechanic, stayed in the Army for like

01:46:37.460 --> 01:46:41.119
two, three years. As soon as he got out, he embraced

01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:46.479
the hobo lifestyle. Completely homeless, riding

01:46:46.479 --> 01:46:49.579
trains. Just living out in the open, sleeping

01:46:49.579 --> 01:46:52.760
wherever. He would occasionally keep stuff at

01:46:52.760 --> 01:46:54.100
some friends and family's house. That sounds

01:46:54.100 --> 01:46:58.520
interesting to me. He spent 30 years riding the

01:46:58.520 --> 01:47:01.500
rails being completely and utterly homeless.

01:47:02.199 --> 01:47:04.680
And then he started having health problems, so

01:47:04.680 --> 01:47:07.159
he got an apartment with the help of some of

01:47:07.159 --> 01:47:09.750
the people who... supported his YouTube channel.

01:47:09.930 --> 01:47:12.569
There's years and years of his videos of him

01:47:12.569 --> 01:47:15.170
showing how he lives, how he gets along, how

01:47:15.170 --> 01:47:18.449
to pick a place to sleep, which trains to look

01:47:18.449 --> 01:47:22.010
for, how to decipher which trains are going where.

01:47:22.090 --> 01:47:26.810
This guy was a huge wealth of knowledge and kind

01:47:26.810 --> 01:47:30.789
of a fascinating character, too. Spoiler, he

01:47:30.789 --> 01:47:34.630
is deceased now. He died a couple years ago at

01:47:34.630 --> 01:47:39.800
the age of 54. No, he was found floating in the

01:47:39.800 --> 01:47:44.300
pond behind his apartment. More than likely,

01:47:44.359 --> 01:47:48.000
he was trying to fish. And he had a lot of health

01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:50.460
problems. He had balance issues. He had immune

01:47:50.460 --> 01:47:54.460
system problems. Half of his left hand had been

01:47:54.460 --> 01:47:58.000
cut off, so he had a thumb and two fingers. He

01:47:58.000 --> 01:48:00.739
was completely deaf in his right ear and 40 %

01:48:00.739 --> 01:48:04.510
deaf in his left ear. He had macular degeneration.

01:48:04.909 --> 01:48:07.289
Oh, he was a mess. Looking at something directly

01:48:07.289 --> 01:48:09.010
in front of him, he couldn't see it. He could

01:48:09.010 --> 01:48:11.630
only see the peripheral vision. So the guy was

01:48:11.630 --> 01:48:15.270
in some bad shape. So he probably got back there

01:48:15.270 --> 01:48:17.609
behind his apartment and was trying to fish and

01:48:17.609 --> 01:48:21.670
just fell in. Oh, wow. One of the people who

01:48:21.670 --> 01:48:23.630
had followed his videos for a number of years

01:48:23.630 --> 01:48:26.789
and was a doctor said that he's pretty sure that

01:48:26.789 --> 01:48:31.470
Shoestring had HIV. but was undiagnosed or wasn't

01:48:31.470 --> 01:48:33.550
telling people. That could have led to a lot

01:48:33.550 --> 01:48:36.470
of his health issues too. Because in the five

01:48:36.470 --> 01:48:39.250
or six years of videos that I see on YouTube,

01:48:39.369 --> 01:48:41.710
he had gotten sober, but before that he said

01:48:41.710 --> 01:48:46.050
he drank about 30 to 40 beers a day. He got into

01:48:46.050 --> 01:48:49.510
all sorts of trouble. He talks about how he used

01:48:49.510 --> 01:48:52.149
to be a pretty good knife fighter during his

01:48:52.149 --> 01:48:54.489
drunk days. He didn't fuck around, did he? So

01:48:54.489 --> 01:48:56.989
who knows what kind of shit he got into. He had

01:48:56.989 --> 01:48:59.829
no teeth left. All of his teeth were gone. So

01:48:59.829 --> 01:49:02.569
it was interesting to hear him talk. But fascinating

01:49:02.569 --> 01:49:05.670
guy. And just to watch him hop on this train

01:49:05.670 --> 01:49:10.350
and go wherever. And it's kind of fascinating

01:49:10.350 --> 01:49:12.670
to watch. It's kind of sad watching him now that

01:49:12.670 --> 01:49:17.189
I know that he's deceased. But it's just a fascinating

01:49:17.189 --> 01:49:23.000
window into just living completely on... your

01:49:23.000 --> 01:49:25.420
own wits the few dollars you can scrape up the

01:49:25.420 --> 01:49:27.260
money he was getting from his youtube videos

01:49:27.260 --> 01:49:31.100
was buying his food and some supplies and i showed

01:49:31.100 --> 01:49:33.020
a scene of him going into dick's sporting goods

01:49:33.020 --> 01:49:35.699
and buying some gloves and some hand warmers

01:49:35.699 --> 01:49:41.050
and a thermos and tent and stuff like that Then

01:49:41.050 --> 01:49:43.010
off he went. He's like, well, here's where I'm

01:49:43.010 --> 01:49:45.569
going to roll out for the night. He'd get off

01:49:45.569 --> 01:49:47.550
into the bushes a little bit and kind of hide

01:49:47.550 --> 01:49:49.930
up. He's like, yeah, the last time I was here,

01:49:50.029 --> 01:49:52.210
somebody called the cops on me and I had to spend

01:49:52.210 --> 01:49:55.109
the night in jail because he's trespassing. A

01:49:55.109 --> 01:49:58.710
lot of what he does is not legal. But sometimes

01:49:58.710 --> 01:50:00.810
the police just let him go. There's this one

01:50:00.810 --> 01:50:03.510
time where a railroad cop came up on him and

01:50:03.510 --> 01:50:06.329
said, Shoestring, I was hoping I'd meet you.

01:50:06.350 --> 01:50:08.310
What's going on, brother? He's just like his

01:50:08.310 --> 01:50:11.220
best friend. Took him home, gave him a meal,

01:50:11.239 --> 01:50:13.439
let him stay there overnight. His wife made him

01:50:13.439 --> 01:50:16.359
some food. That's pretty freaking cool, actually.

01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:21.199
Yeah. Wow. To be recognized like that for something

01:50:21.199 --> 01:50:23.659
like that is interesting. Yeah. So, you know,

01:50:23.659 --> 01:50:25.460
I don't know how many people are following his

01:50:25.460 --> 01:50:27.960
videos. Must be quite a bit, I would think. I

01:50:27.960 --> 01:50:31.260
would think, yeah. And there was another guy

01:50:31.260 --> 01:50:35.180
that he talked about called Hobo Stobe, and he

01:50:35.180 --> 01:50:39.100
died a few years earlier. it looked like he got

01:50:39.100 --> 01:50:41.479
his backpack caught on a passing train and was

01:50:41.479 --> 01:50:44.500
pulled under the wheels. Oh! Yeah. At least that'd

01:50:44.500 --> 01:50:47.199
be pretty quick. Yeah, at least he went quick.

01:50:47.239 --> 01:50:49.960
I agree. But Hobo Stove also has a whole lot

01:50:49.960 --> 01:50:52.859
of videos out there and was a younger guy, it

01:50:52.859 --> 01:50:55.819
seemed like. The shoestring looked older because

01:50:55.819 --> 01:50:58.399
he was pretty well beat up. Yeah, they have.

01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:04.359
Yeah. It's pretty fascinating to watch. Watch

01:51:04.359 --> 01:51:06.619
him just live his life totally free. He never

01:51:06.619 --> 01:51:10.300
files taxes. He never fills out forms. He doesn't

01:51:10.300 --> 01:51:14.000
get mail. It's just like, wow, utterly free.

01:51:14.119 --> 01:51:16.779
There was one video where he's out in a rail

01:51:16.779 --> 01:51:19.239
yard, and he'd been sick for a while and having

01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:21.020
to stay in his apartment. This is the first time

01:51:21.020 --> 01:51:22.699
being able to get out. He's like, you know, I'm

01:51:22.699 --> 01:51:24.779
not going to ride a train today. I'm not strong

01:51:24.779 --> 01:51:27.319
enough yet. He just kept saying over and over.

01:51:27.850 --> 01:51:30.189
Man, it feels good to be out here on the train.

01:51:30.310 --> 01:51:32.750
Man, this feels great. Nowhere else I'd rather

01:51:32.750 --> 01:51:35.670
be. And then, like, the next video is like, I'm

01:51:35.670 --> 01:51:37.369
going to go ahead and ride a train, even though

01:51:37.369 --> 01:51:38.770
I'm probably not ready. I'm going to go ahead

01:51:38.770 --> 01:51:41.350
and hop on this one. He was based in Tennessee,

01:51:41.529 --> 01:51:47.210
but he went all over the place. And even earlier

01:51:47.210 --> 01:51:50.369
in his life, he rode trains up to Alaska and

01:51:50.369 --> 01:51:54.029
then rode around Alaska and then rode back. But

01:51:54.029 --> 01:51:57.479
he says any more he takes. a plane to alaska

01:51:57.479 --> 01:52:00.439
and then rides the trains once he gets there

01:52:00.439 --> 01:52:04.619
because getting from here to alaska oh yeah it's

01:52:04.619 --> 01:52:07.840
really tough yeah ride the train or fly a plane

01:52:07.840 --> 01:52:10.300
there and then get off and go on the trains in

01:52:10.300 --> 01:52:12.680
the mountains yeah that sounds perfect yeah so

01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:16.579
all right how long you got about an hour and

01:52:16.579 --> 01:52:19.239
50. hey you want to go ahead and call it yeah

01:52:19.239 --> 01:52:21.220
i'm getting hungry i think we should go eat something

01:52:21.220 --> 01:52:23.279
yeah that's what i was getting ready all right

01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:26.319
break mine sink alike All right. Thank you all

01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:28.779
for listening. We really appreciate your listenership.

01:52:28.859 --> 01:52:32.420
I mean, it's really, really growing and we really

01:52:32.420 --> 01:52:34.760
love it. It means a lot. Yeah, it does. Go fuck

01:52:34.760 --> 01:52:35.140
yourself.