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news. If it's too loud, you'd probably have ear
damage, just like me. Alright. That's enough
beatboxing for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright.
And you know everybody cringes. They go, oh,
man, you've got to get through the first minute,
and that is somewhat tolerable. I wonder how
many people just shut it off when they hear that
awful beatboxing. All of them? All of them, yeah.
You know, they just hit the skip ahead 30 seconds
button. Hopefully they do that. Well, on this
one, I got songs that make you stay in the car
until it's over. Oh, yeah. The Fleetwood Mac
guitar curse. Gene Simmons comments. A couple
of different ones. And then I have some other
assorted stories that are interesting. Alrighty.
So, you got something you want to hit? Yeah,
let's start off with well -known albums that
have a bizarre backstory that people may not
know of. That's cool. The first one I got is
Led Zeppelin's In Through the Outdoor. Yeah.
The last one before John Bonham died. Yeah, because
CODA was stuff left on the floor that they swept
up. It was nothing. And they didn't want it released,
but the record company did. Yeah, and they were
in charge. Yeah. For that album, Robert Plant
and John Paul Jones took over the songwriting
tours. Page and Bonham were pretty much unreliable
because they were drunk -slash -stoned all the
time and sometimes weren't even showing up. So
the sound kind of changed. There were more keyboards,
more complex song structure. But if you look
at some of the songs, the title of the album
and the theme of a number of the songs in the
album have to do with mortality and grief and
loss. Is that the one that has Nobody's Fault
But Mine on it? No. No, no, no, that isn't. Because
that was one of the songs that people teed off
on. It said that it is admittance, that they
sold their soul. You know what I mean? Yeah,
you can read whatever you want into a lot of
that stuff. But yeah, this one had In the Evening,
Carousel Umbra, Fool in the Rain, what was the
sappy ballad, All of My Love? All of My Love,
yeah, and that was supposedly to Robert Plant's
son that passed away from a rare disease. A stomach
infection. In fact, that's what the whole album
is basically about. Things of mortality, grief,
loss, etc. His son, Carrick, died of a stomach
infection while Led Zepp was on the road. And
Robert couldn't be there for his son's last days.
Jimmy Page and John Bonham skipped the funeral.
Yes. For his son. Yes. And Robert Plant... took
that very seriously and when it came time for
in through the outdoor he started being a lot
more outspoken and a lot more forceful in the
studio and not compromising and the engineer
was the one who put it into words he said robert
plant came in with the attitude of we're gonna
do it my way or i'm gonna walk because i really
don't care and i think the rest of the band Picked
up on that, and he's like, if we're going to
make another Led Zeppelin album ever, we've got
to do it Robert Plant's way. Yeah, and I don't
blame him at that point. I don't blame him at
all either. The other two, except John Paul Jones,
were fucked up constantly. Jimmy Page is like
a lot of heroin, you know, stuff like that. And
Bonham was constantly drinking. But, you know,
skipping his son's funeral reminded me of Nikki
Sixx. Mick Mars and Tommy Lee skipping Vince
Neil's daughter's funeral. Daughter's funeral,
yes. It's like, what the hell is it with these
rock bands that they treat the death of a band
member's family as no big deal? Oh, I know. It's
just the detachment from reality must be very
strong. Oh, yeah. I mean, and not only that,
but when they were separated. They had John Carabi
in the band when Vince Steel's daughter Skylar
died from stomach cancer at, what, six, I think?
Yeah, she was a little girl. Yeah. And they didn't
even say anything to him. Didn't call him, nothing,
didn't wish him well, sorry it happened, nothing.
Yeah. And I remember they did a couple of documentaries
where he mentioned that specifically. And how
could he not? He's just doing this for money.
How could you not? I would never speak to the
people again. Yeah. I'd be like, money or not,
fuck you guys. Yeah. No kidding. Eddie, I'm glad
you brought that. That is a really good little
story there because a lot of people don't realize
that. They thought that Led Zeppelin was all
this magical stuff, but actually it was a constant
fight and struggle. Yeah. So, anyhow, go ahead.
Next up, we have Station to Station by David
Bowie. This is the one that came out right after
Young Americans, which had a lot of funk and
saxophone and soul and a cover of a John Lennon
tune. But for Station to Station, David Bowie
took on the persona of what he called the thin
white duke. He had like a dozen different personalities
and personas that he could manifest for stage
or whatever. But Thin White Duke was a Coke fiend.
And he cut off a lot of his friends. John Lennon,
Harry Nilsson. I forget who else they mentioned.
But he was just so heavily into Coke and that
was all that mattered. He started having psychotic
episodes. He started blaming everything on his
persona. He said, oh, that wasn't me that snorted
all that coke. That was the thin white dude.
And I'm helpless. He claimed that Jimmy Page
had conjured up Satan to be in David Bowie's
swimming pool. So he moved into a hotel because
Satan was in his swimming pool. Because of Jimmy
Page. So, I mean, a lot of the album was written
while David Bowie and Iggy Pop and their girlfriends
were holed up in a hotel room doing massive amounts
of coke. In fact, there's one song, TBC15, that
he said was written when he thought the television
was trying to eat Iggy Pop's girlfriend. He was
so wasted. Just utterly blasted. But he cranked
out an awesome album that is considered one of
the essentials in David Bowie's discography.
He had Golden Years, TVC15, the title track Station
to Station, Word on a Wing. Some great, great
tunes on it. Really good stuff. Next up, we have
The Smile Sessions by the Beach Boys. Okay. Brian
Wilson was just utterly obsessed over the details
of the recording. This was after Pet Sounds came
out. He went crazy on Pet Sounds trying to make
everything perfect. So for the next one, Smile
Sessions, it got even worse. And he drove the
label crazy with all of his retakes and startovers.
This isn't perfect, and I need nine more people
to play on this track. And eventually the label
said, you know what? We're done with this. Dump
the whole album and move on to something else,
which they did. Bootlegs of the Smile Sessions
started coming out. The album and the songs within
were fairly psychedelic and kind of weird. I'm
ordering some food. I'm listening to you. And
then eventually the Beach Boys reworked a few
of the songs and put out tamer versions of them
on an album called Smiley Smile, which I think
came out in 67. Eventually in 2011, the record
label released the entire Smile Sessions album.
So you can actually listen to it if you want,
but it's weird. It's pretty weird. If it had
come out at the time, I think that would have
really damaged their career. Yeah, probably so.
Now, Brian Wilson himself, he had bipolar disorder
and he had schizophrenia, both of which were
undiagnosed and untreated. So that's a big part
of his obsession. OCD is not uncommon in situations
like that. Especially creative people like that.
I mean, they're ridiculed with stuff like that
because that's what... That's what drives them,
really. Yeah. And there was a similar band that
did, I mean, not a similar band, a band in a
similar situation, My Bloody Valentine. You've
heard of them? Oh, yeah. They had a song. I actually,
I liked them. They were decent. Yeah. Go ahead.
The album Loveless. Pretty much the main guy,
Kevin Shields, in the band. He's the singer,
guitar player, main songwriter. He was like Brian
Wilson, obsessing over every detail. They would
spend days working on precise microphone placement
in front of the amplifiers to get just exactly
the sound you wanted. And it went on for like
eight months. And everybody was getting really
fed up and sick with this whole mess. But the
album was pretty well received. It's like a shoegaze
masterpiece, basically, is what they call it.
But the process to make it was Kevin Shields,
basically. going deep, deep, deep inside himself,
and nobody else could make any decisions but
him. He just hijacked the whole process. Okay.
Next up, we have John Lennon and his album Plastic
Ono Band. Yeah. That one should work. Thank you.
Sorry, I'm trying to order a little bit of food
for us. Okay. Go ahead and start it up again.
Okay. When John Lennon recorded the Plastic Ono
Band album, primal scream therapy was becoming
very popular, and Lennon himself joined in. So
most of the album, the theme is primal scream
therapy, where you relive the trauma in every
detail and fully feel it, and then you can process
it and get past it. The scream comes from, you
know, you feel the overwhelming emotions for
whatever it is that is bothering you, and you
let out just this caveman scream. Lennon did
get the album done, but his therapy sessions
were cut short. He had visa problems and was
sent back to England. The guy who was working
with him said, you know, he needs at least a
year in the therapy, but he didn't get it. And
his psychotherapist said, what we did is we dug
up all this stuff and then covered all this pain
and hurt and longing, you know, his douchebag
of a father and his mother's death. Bad douchebag,
not good douchebag like us. So they dug all this
stuff up and got it all raw and fresh, and then
his therapy had to end. So he wasn't able to
process and deal with all that, and he was left
with all that mess. And it came out in the album.
So I'm going to check out the album and see what
kind of mental health issues I can deduce from
what he's doing. But he was apparently just like
really, really opened up and really raw and really
vulnerable. And then it all ended. It's like,
okay, no more therapy. Go make an album. It was
pretty tough. Very cool. Okay. Here's one that's
pretty familiar. Machined Head by Deep Purple.
Now, we know the story from the song Smoke on
the Water, how the Mantra live venue burned down,
and they had to go record their album somewhere
else. The basic story is Deep Purple liked the
way they sounded live better than their studio
albums. And a number of bands had recently recorded
at the Mantra, Mantro, Mantra, whatever. And
they thought, we want to capture that kind of
live energy, so let's record our album there.
The night before, Frank Zappa was playing a show,
and somebody shot a flare gun, and actually shot
a flare gun up into the ceiling, which burned
the whole place down. Uh -huh. So they had to
switch plans. And then they went to a theater
that was nearby. Uh -huh. And set up there, but
then they got about a lot of noise complaints.
So then they're relocated to, as it says in the
song, the Grand Hotel. We ended up at the Grand
Hotel. It was empty, cold, and bare. It was.
It was abandoned. It was vacant. It was unheated.
Oh, wow. Yeah. So they moved into there with
a mobile truck outside, as they say in the song,
the Rolling Truck Stones thing just outside.
Yeah. It was the Rolling Stones that had used
this mobile truck to record one of their albums.
Uh -huh. So they were freezing in this giant
vacant hotel, and the trek that it took to get
from the studio down a number of staircases,
across some balconies, down some more, and walk
all the way outside to get to the truck to listen
to the take you had just done. It was such a
pain in the ass that the band said, you know
what, we don't even care. They just quit listening
to their takes and trusted the engineers. And
they said, you know what? That sounded pretty
good while we were doing it, so let's just keep
that one. Okay. So they didn't even hear their
own takes until the album came out. Wow. Because
they couldn't be bothered to walk down all those
stairs. That's funny. That's pretty funny. But
you know what? The album did pretty damn good.
Yeah, that's like one of the seminal Deep Purple
albums. Oh, yeah. That was like a cornerstone
that everybody recognizes most of the songs off
of that. Yeah. Okay, next up, Queens of the Stone
Age. Okay. They have their album, Light Clockwork.
Yeah, they're grunge, kind of. Yeah, pretty heavy.
Yeah. Their main guy, Josh Hume, I'm not sure
how to spell his name. That sounds about right
to me by how it's spelled. Around 2011, he supposedly
had to have some minor knee surgery. Uh -huh.
What it actually was is he had MRSA infecting
his knee joint, and he had to go in and get that
MRSA cut out. But he had a lot of complications
during that. In fact, he died during the surgery,
and they brought him back. They had to basically
rebuild and reboot his immune system, which had
been destroyed by years of drug use. So he said
he remembers waking up from the surgery, and
his doctor was looking at him and said, Shit,
we lost you on the table. I'm glad we got you
back. But for a couple of years, he had to isolate
himself because his immune system was so weak,
he could not even see his own kids and wife.
I have never, wow, that is so weird. I've never
even heard that story before, which baffles me.
I haven't either, yeah. But his immune system
was so weak, he was like somebody with advanced
AIDS. His immune system was that weak, he could
cause anything. If you catch any disease, it's
going to kill you. So you had to stay separate.
So, of course, during that time, he was isolated.
Isolation fosters depression. He became very
depressed. And this album also has themes of
mortality, survival, pain, etc. In 2013, when
he was all better, the band said, you've got
to rejoin, let's put an album out. And Like Clockwork
was the album that came from that. Which considered
one of their best pieces of work. I would agree.
Songs for the Deaf and Rated R were put up there
with those two albums, but those were done ten
years prior. Yes. So it's like they'd come back
to that level of creativity. Too bad it took
almost killing the guy. Yeah, and also it took
too long between albums, too, so it never did
catch. By the time they brought out another one,
it really wasn't that hype like it would have
been if it had just been like a year later. We'd
go, hey, remember Queens of the Stone Age? Yeah,
they're back with it. You know, 10 years later,
people are like, let me think here. Who are they
again? Yeah, exactly. It just doesn't work like
that. Yeah. Okay, last one I got here is the
album is Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
and his magic band. I have no idea. Google the
album cover, Trout Mask Replica. It's ugly as
hell, but it's fun. Okay, Captain Beefheart was
Don Van Vliet, who was a high school friend of
Frank Zappa. Okay. That's starting to connect
the dots. It's starting to make a little more
sense, yeah. And Van Vliet had really bizarre
ideas about music. I mean, his music was really
kind of out there and bizarre, and he loved odd
time signatures and, as they said, aggressive
and uncomfortable noises. Oh, so you're telling
me he's a friend of Frank Zappa. Yes. Oh. And
Frank Zappa produced this album for his, at the
time, Zappa had his own record label called Straight
Records. Okay. It's the one he signed Alice Cooper
to for his first three albums. Yeah. I always
find that remarkable, too, Straight Records.
Yeah. It's like a little Iggy. If you know it,
you know it. If you don't, you don't. Don Van
Vliet pretty much ran the recording sessions
like an abusive cult. It took eight months to
record this album, during which time nobody had
any income. Oh, hey, thank you. You guys are
awesome. Thank you so much. Coffee is the best.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Let's see, they
were all, you know, there's no income, so everybody
was on welfare. And pretty much everybody's daily
food ration. was a cup of soybeans and whatever
they could shoplift. Members of the band said
that they were forced to record and rehearse
14 hours a day. No one was allowed to leave the
house or grounds. Several members of the band
said they were driven to tears by the emotional
and physical abuse. They're actually getting
hit. If you need any ketchup, I got it. And then
at the end of this big mess, they have the album
Trout Mask Replica, which was probably the best
work Captain Beefheart ever did. But it isn't
all that good anyway. I kind of gathered that
because he's Frank Zappa's friend and nobody
heard of him and he did music. I'm kind of thinking,
yeah. But it's bizarre that... His bandmates
stuck with him through all that abuse. Knowing
the album was not going to be a commercial success.
It just couldn't be. The way it was written and
performed. I guess he had everybody under his
thumb. I guess. Yeah. So that's it for albums
with a weird backstory. Okay. You're going one
second, please. All right. Gene Simmons has commented
extensively on Ace Frehley's death in October.
Okay. There's some things I want to bring out
about this. For everyone that's like musically
inclined on rock and stuff like that knows about
it. It's pretty well publicized. Yeah. Okay.
He said that substance abuse contributed. to
patient -released death. That makes sense to
me. My own grandfather, in his years of alcoholism,
weakened the blood vessels in his brain, and
a fall and bump on the head that would have been
just inconvenient and painful for us caused a
catastrophic brain bleed, and he died. So, yeah,
substance abuse screws you up. Yeah. Well, here's
what I want to point out right here. Okay. It's
this. Okay, where Gene Simmons went wrong is
this right here. He alleged that the reason he
fell was substance abuse. You see, it could be
argued like his balance isn't the same like it
used to be because of years and all that. It
could be argued, but it couldn't be proven, right?
But I guess people took it as he was stoned and
that's why he fell. Which I guess wasn't the
case. He's been sober for over 30 years. Yeah.
So, Eddie Trunk went after him. That was Ace
Frehley's best friend by all accounts. He signed
him to his first solo record deal. Nice. Megaforce.
They've been friends. They were friends ever
since. Close friends. Not just kind of friends,
but close friends. Maybe even best friends. I
think they even said they were best friends.
So, Eddie Trunk automatically jumped out and
got after him. Which I agree with because of
the context. Okay. There's some respect that
you expect. Yeah. So, Gene manned up. Probably
apologized. He said they didn't intend to hurt
Ace's legacy, but recognized how his statements
caused pain, acknowledging his anger at addiction
issues in the past, but clarifying he expressed
himself early. Yeah. So, what is your take on
it? I kind of see that Gene was not trying to
be a jerk. I'm glad you said that, because me
too. It just seems a little odd that normally
Gene Simmons is very careful about how he phrases
things and the words he says. And to be that
imprecise with his first statement to where people
could get... the impression that he was being
disrespectful about his sobriety. Okay. I can
understand people being upset, but I really don't
think Gene, even if he felt anger towards Ace,
really would never say anything like that in
that circumstance. He wouldn't pull a Roger Waters,
let me put it that way. No, no, no, no. And I
think he meant it exactly how you put it. Yeah.
Was probably not the same person after years
of abuse. Yeah, yeah. It's more the attitude
of... If you hadn't been an addict, imagine how
better your life would have been. You'd still
be here with us. And also, I have close family
members with addiction issues. Yeah. I understand
the anger completely. Yeah. It's like everything
would be okay if you could just fucking quit.
Yeah. And I understand. You know, they're in
a band, and Ace is never showing up, admittedly.
Yeah. Okay. Now, I love Ace to death, and I would
never say that about, you know, about it was
his fault or, you know, substance abuse or all
that. I would never say that. But the thing is.
If you're going to comment on something like
that, you've got to be precise and let them know
exactly what you say. But he left too much wiggle
room, and this goes back to what you said. He's
usually more reserved. Yep. But as he gets older
and is out of the spotlight more, the more he
is not watching his statements because I've got
another one. And I agree with this one wholeheartedly,
though. When Gene Simmons was asked who he voted
for, Gene Simmons responded, it's none of your
damn business. This is a music reporter emphasizing
his privacy while also criticizing media for
inflaming divisions and encouraging people to
vote their conscious rather than focusing on
celebrity opinions. stressing that every vote
matters and people should focus on shared freedoms.
Yep. Okay. He said, it's none of your fucking
business. Yeah. Okay. This also indicates to
me, like, he doesn't care anymore. He's been
there, done that. Yeah. He's not in the, I think
there's something to be said for him not being
in the public eye so much, to where he feels
he has to stand down a little bit more, whether
it's realized or not. I think there's some of
that, I'm going to go over the top. I'm going
to go over the top so people talk about it and
relay on it and all that. But that being said,
I agree with him 100%. Exactly what he said I
think is 100 % true. Number one, it's nobody's
fucking business, like you said. And number two,
they want that so they can divide you. They go,
oh, if he's a Trump fan, then oh my gosh, that
guy's a devil. But then if he's a Biden fan or
just a Democrat or whatever, then you have the
other side going, you're a communist. Yeah, asking
that question of Gene Simmons is basically the
same as asking him for his credit card number
and his passwords. Yes. Because they're going
to use it against you. There's no good that can
come from it, and he knows it, and he's calling
him out basically saying, quit asking me these
rude, insensitive, asshole questions. Bet you
know I'm not going to answer anyway. I agree
with him 100%. I remember, I was going to ask
you, how much of this new attitude of Gene's
could have to do with the fact that he doesn't
own Kiss anymore? A lot of it. He and Paul sold
it for $300 million. Now it's somebody else's
headache. So he can be a little more of himself
and be free because it's not all on him anymore.
Somebody else owns that franchise. And he's going
on tour. Yeah. So. I remember getting asked that
question at the post office. Who'd you vote for?
And my response was, it's a secret ballot for
a reason. And his comeback was, oh, so you're
ashamed of the way you voted? And I said, are
you ashamed for asking this personal question?
Oh, I love that. I had the same thing in the
union I was in. pretty much told me who to vote
for, and I pretty much told them to go fuck themselves.
Yeah, we had our union president come in and
said, here are the candidates that we've bought.
That's what I had too. They say we've contributed
to their campaigns, basically saying we bought
them. Yeah, yeah, and they let go. Did you want
your money going to waste? No, my money was going
to waste anyhow. I'm going to vote how I feel.
Yeah, I didn't want my money going to any politicians.
They're the ones that took that without. And
this just goes back to Gene Simmons. He's been
like this for years now. He'll do one statement,
I just love him for it. Then he'll do another
statement, I can't stand him for it. It just
depends. But I like the stress. He is going out
on tour and sets a solo. He doesn't have the
budget for any type of advertising. How do you
get advertising? Let someone ask you a stupid
fucking question and you go off on it. They'd
also make a prolific statement about an ex -bandmate
that is obviously wrong in the context it was
set. Yeah. Another good way to get free publicity
for an Olympic coming tour album is go have a
minor traffic accident. Yeah. Oh, that's true.
A lot of people do that. How many times have
you seen, oh, so -and -so's accident. They weren't
injured, and there's minimal damage, because
it was a setup, because you wanted to get their
names in. The accident probably never even happened.
It's just a story. The effort did is a parking
lot, and it was someone they already had planted
there. It's like, we're going to pay you for
everything. Very true. Their fries are really
good, aren't they? They are. Well, so far, I've
found nothing. at murmuration that is bad yeah
it's all good all is nice hot and fresh coming
right out of the kitchen to us it's awesome who
is murmuration i'd ask city market coffee yep
they uh built on they got the place next door
they have an eatery plus cocktails great place
encouraging all to check it out very good place
this sign says city market coffee house on the
door it says city market coffee and roasters
Which they are both. Yeah, they're both. And
the next door is... Murmuration Eatery and Cocktail
Bar. Yep. All under one umbrella. I think it
might be roasters. And the reason is because
I think I've seen that in paper a lot more. Yeah,
that might be the official business name. Yeah,
and they do roast them. And also, anyone that
roasts their beans... You want people to know
that. It's like, hey, we do our own stuff here,
and we do it our way, and it's very good. Now,
don't judge them by the city market coffee that's
at the airport. Oh, no. Because those people
just bought the rice for the name and are serving
whatever they feel like, whatever's cheap. So
don't think that this place is anything like
the one at the airport. Oh, no, no, no. This
one Nicole has control over, and it is good.
Nicole is the owner. Very nice lady. Really nice
lady. you ever seen those little starbucks that
are in grocery stores yeah they're not they're
not a real starbucks they're just they're licensed
to use the name and sell the products that's
why the coffee there is always crap and also
they don't make everything you ask for a quad
or something and they're like i don't know if
we have that and it's like you know what forget
it you're not going to make it right if you don't
know yeah so that's all i got for that one all
right For those of you who are Nine Inch Nails
fans, they're working on a new album. Oh, I knew
they were going on tour, but I did not know they
were doing a new album. Yeah, it's bizarre. They're
going on tour, then they're going to make a new
album. Usually it's the other way around. Yeah.
But they've got so much material they can tour
on anyway. Yeah, and I think that it really doesn't
matter to them anyhow because they have their
audience still. Yeah. Now, you know, they all
have walkers and oxygen machines. Yeah. He has
his own audience. The live show is amazing. Oh,
yeah. I've seen him only once, but, ooh, wow,
that was something else. Yep. I mean, I don't
know how well it plays out now because he's not
angry. Yeah, yeah. When he was angry and suicidal,
he wrote some pretty amazing, gut -wrenching
stuff. Tori Ables? Oh, my God. But then he got
all happy. Yeah. It's kind of like when Scott
Whalen kicked heroin, he wrote a shitty album.
Oh, I know. Wayland, Wyland, ever pronounced.
Yeah, whatever it is. But it's funny because
the hardcores are even like, you need to get
back on heroin. Yeah. Crusty ones. Yeah, there
we go. We're finishing off the bottom of the
prize. Nom, nom, nom. All right. But yeah, this
will be their first new album since 2020. Cool.
Very good. Or as Barbara Walters would say, twin
tweet, twin tweet. Yeah. Who in the world ever
thought Barbara Walters, with her speech impediment,
was a good choice to be talking on TV? Giving
serious interviews where they asked you if you
were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
Yes. What a moron she was. She really, to me,
wasn't that talented. No. I think what it was,
was they took advantage of the times where women
lived was huge. And I'm not saying anything bad
about women's lib. It needed to happen, and they
made a lot of strides. But at the time, it was
really a focus. And like anything, it gets exploited.
Yes. You know, here's its original purpose, and
then here's all the commercial exploitation of
it over here. And it's not a reflection on the
women's lib movement or women's rights. Everything
gets exploited and co -opted. Yeah, I mean, are
we mad at her for doing it? Hell no. She got
better. Yeah. But I do believe that a lot of
her picking, a lot of why she was there was because
she was a woman that was already there that they
could prop up. And the reason I say that is because
she isn't the most fluent talker, wasn't the
most fluent talker. And there's a lot of other
things, too, that came out later. But, you know
what, I don't even need to go into that because...
She always gave me the impression of an East
Coast snob who thought she was better than everybody.
Yep. And supposedly she slept with a lot of generals
and stuff like that. And I think Geraldo Rivera
had a story. He thought he was going to nail
her, and he was all happy about it. And then
she comes into the room, and she goes, Sorry,
Geraldo, not going to happen. I've got a general.
I don't know if that story is true or not. I
think I read that online or something. You wouldn't
be surprised. I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either.
And you know, when a woman sleeps her way to
the top, that's not a reflection on her. That's
a reflection on the men who are sleeping with
her and promoting her for sex. Hell yeah. No,
you're right. Not a reflection on her by any
means. She's taking advantage of the situation
the way a smart person would. Exactly. The men
are to pray. Yes, I agree. And I support her
100 % for doing what she can with what she had.
Obviously a very intelligent woman by what she
did. Something I, when we're talking about being
in touch with current times, and I got an example
of that the other day. Have you been hearing
the expression drip? Yeah, that's clothing. Yeah,
for style or swagger or image or something. Hold
that above your clothing, depicting your style,
your swagger and all that, yeah. I'm going to
go out on a limb and say that that term is on
its way out because I'm starting to hear it extensively
overused. You know what? You're right. That's
a good sign that it's been co -opted by brands
and is now being used just like anything. Yeah,
and you know this because the casual stand buyer
is using it. Yeah. And whatever that is, it's
run its course. I'm hearing it a lot on, not
necessarily, I've heard it before on NFL game
broadcasts. So have I. Shows about the NFL, I'm
hearing it a lot. Uh -huh. And then the other
day I was watching a video. NFL actually promotes
it. They call it drip on a lot of their swag.
I was watching a video where the guy was basically
rating the appearance of certain things within
this video game. Completely useless, meaningless
information. It's just a video game, and this
is just how things look to him. But he must have
used the word drip about a half dozen times in
a 20 -minute video. It was just relentless. Yeah,
that destroys it right there. I don't want to
hear it anymore after that. And he used it in
a different way each time. The one time he talked
about this thing having eternal drip, and that
was awesome drip, and the drip of this. He's
just trying to work it in so many ways. He's
like a guy that learned a new phrase and is all
happy. So I'm pretty sure it's on its way out
because it's being heavily overused. I think
I would agree. It's like when the NFL comes up
with, like, push -push, and they all want to
use it every 30 seconds, and they can't not say
it. Yeah, are you talking about where they're
all offsides? Yeah. Yeah, okay, that one. Yeah,
but the NFL ignores it because it's sexy right
now? Yeah. Have you got something? Yeah. Okay.
Something I've been... You and I both have studios,
and we have sound equipment, etc. What's the
name of your studio now? Awkward Possum. Awkward
Possum, and mine is The Talk is Cheap. Mine was
The No Filter, but somebody already got that.
Bastard. I said we go kill him, that way you
can have it. But something I heard a lot when
I was buying stuff... Allegedly, just joking.
Yes, yes. Sorry. Was that there's a thing called
speaker burn -in. I've heard this for guitar
amps and for home speakers and studio monitors
and all that stuff. And the audiophile -approved
method is you buy the new speaker and then you
run Pink Noise through it. Pink Noise is every
octave of audible sound amplified equally. Instead
of every frequency. There's brown noise. There's
white noise. Pink noise is exactly what he just
said. White noise is where you amplify every
frequency equally. And you mostly get the high
end because they're louder. Pink noise is you
take every octave of sound frequencies and amplify
them as an octave. So it gets a little more muted
and thorough. So anyway, the idea is you run
100 hours of pink noise through these speakers
to get them flexed in and limbered up. And everybody
swears up and down that they sound so much better
afterwards. Well, now it's been objectively measured.
And the difference in frequency response and
all other things that they could measure that
would be desirable, it was a .09 % difference.
Nine one -hundredths of one percent. That was
how much difference it made. to do that 100 -hour
burn -in. And most people can't even hear that.
That's over. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Now, by
comparison, they took the exact same studio equipment,
speakers, cables, monitors, et cetera, and bought
the exact same thing, like three, four, five
sets. Exact model. sequential serial numbers,
so they came off the assembly line on the same
day, and then they measured the differences there.
I just found a couple more. Those differences,
the fluctuations from one example of this amplifier
to the next, or one example of the speaker, that
was a 1 .08 % difference. 12 times greater. Wow!
So the 100 -hour speaker burn -in does maybe
something, but you'll never hear it. You can
pretend you hear it, you can think you, you can
convince yourself you heard it. Buying a different
example of the exact same piece of equipment
will give you 12 times more difference in the
sound quality. Wow. Yeah. So all this audio burn
-in and the snobbery around it, it's BS. It's
BS, yeah? Total BS. It goes for guitar amps.
I hear so many people say, well, yeah, buy a
new amplifier. The speaker isn't broken in yet,
so it still sounds really stiff. It's like, you
moron. You're just spouting what other people
have said. You're a parrot. You're absolutely
a parrot. You have no idea, do you? Those are
the people I like to tear down if I get a chance.
Just like throw all the facts and walk off. That's
the thing, objective versus subjective. Objective
is something you can measure. Subjective is how
you feel about it. Yes. And people do the burn
-in. They don't want to admit that they can't
hear a difference, so they convince themselves
they did, and then it's so much better, and then
they feel proud of themselves for doing it. Yes,
I agree. And also, it sounds good. Yeah. It's
just like, oh, man, the mics are hot. You could
just say, like, hey, this doesn't sound quite
right, but someone's trying to impress them,
they go, oh, the mics are hot today. I just touched
it, and it didn't burn. Yeah. The audio manufacturers
are capitalizing on this, and now they're starting
to offer equipment that's already been pre -burned
in for you. So the work's been done, and, of
course, they charge you more for that. So, number
one, they're probably not doing anything. They're
just claiming they did. And number two, even
if they did, it makes no difference whatsoever.
They're just charging you more money because
they're like, oh, you want charged? Okay, we'll
do it. Yeah. Man, isn't it weird about Rob Reiner
and his wife? Oh, shit. Yeah. This is entertainment.
I have some more music stuff coming up, too.
This is on the same page, so I'm going to get
to it. No, no, no. I'll just explain it. We're
entertainment and music. Yes. Well, look at it
this way. Rob Reiner directed This Is Spinal
Tap, which was all about a heavy metal band.
That's right. Music related. But the story went
from Rob Reiner found dead. to Rob Reiner and
his wife found dead, to Rob Reiner and his wife
murdered, to Rob Reiner and his wife murdered,
and we have a person of interest, and then the
person of interest turned out to be their son,
and then their son was arrested, and just on
and on. Then we find out that they were stabbed
to death, and blah, blah, blah, blah. It's weird
because his son Nick, who is under arrest for
killing them both, he and Rob just recently put
out a movie. about addictions and addiction struggle,
which was based on Nick's own personal addiction
struggles. In a picture like a couple weeks ago,
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award ceremony, and everybody's smiling except
Nick, who looks unhappy. He doesn't want to be
there. Something was going on, something was
happening, and something made him want to go
murder both of his parents. Wow. Now, some of
the things I first heard coming out about once
they discovered it was his son was people were
saying... Rob Reiner was, he was about as outspoken
as Roger Waters is. Yes. On his liberal views,
his hatred, I mean, absolute hatred. Republicans,
conservatives, Trump, etc. Which is fine. He
gets to. It's his choice. I didn't want to do
it. Personally, I fucking hated him because he's
one of the guys that causes division. Yeah, yeah.
Now, he gets to do that if he wants. He's not
breaking any laws by hating on that. No, but
it's not my thing. Especially not anymore. I'm
so sick of it. It's like, if you're going to
cause division, get out of the way. Yep. So,
anyhow. But the comparison... immediately brought
in was maybe somebody was taking Rob Reiner out
the way somebody took Charlie Kirk out. That's
funny because that's what I just thought about.
And then Trump weighed in on basically that same
thing. He really needs to stay out of shit like
that. Yeah, he does. It was stupid. Anyhow, go
ahead. But now the attitude has shifted to people
are saying Okay, look how the liberals acted
when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Now, watch
how the conservatives act now that Rob Reiner's
been murdered. We're not going to go out and
start imitating the act of being stabbed to death
and bragging and boasting and laughing about
it the way a lot of people did with Charlie Kirk.
It really shows a difference in attitude and
outlook on life. Yes, and I also have a little
bit more I can expand on that, too, if you don't
care. Go ahead. A lot of the liberals that we
know, the extreme ones, just came out of college.
They don't have a direction in life yet. They
haven't been crushed to death and then brought
back up and then smashed down and brought back
up. So they don't have real -world experience.
They're only going by what they think they know.
And that breeds stuff like this. Yeah, you spend
four years at a university where basically everybody
around you is agreeing with you and there's never
any discussion, there's never any critical thinking,
there's no debate, there's no looking at either
side. It's all just, here's what you should believe,
here's what you should memorize it. Absolutely
no study on it at all. Someone suggests something
and you run with it. I mean, look at the internet.
That's part of the problem is they have no real
word experience. And they're the ones that are
reacting to this going, ha ha, it's funny, he
was killed. I lost a lot of people that I liked
over this, and I'll never speak to them again.
You do not ever, ever support that type of, I
mean, what if we all ran around shooting each
other in the fucking neck because you didn't
agree with something? Yeah, yeah, the idea that,
oh, I don't like your outlooks and views that
you're legally allowed to have, therefore. I
hope somebody murders you and I'm going to celebrate
your murder. That's sick. People that say they
celebrate freedom like that are completely misguided
and lying. Anyhow, go ahead. I just wanted to
mention that. We're going to find out in the
coming weeks, etc., what motivations might be
and what's all going to happen with it. It's
something to think about, isn't it? It really
is. I'm seeing a lot of... we love you stories
about Rob Reiner and his career and his movies
and people weighing in. Oh, I loved him so much.
He was such a great guy. Which is all fine. But
what I don't see. Most of them didn't even know
who he was. Yeah. Meathead. Yeah. What I don't
see is conservatives and conservative groups
attacking and shaming people and saying you shouldn't
like him. And let's see, one person said that
Charlie Kirk's children should die. So should
we all be saying that Rob Reiner's children should
be murdered too? No, I don't see him saying that.
And the problem is media picks up on these fringe
people like that. I would say that most of the
liberals that you don't hear from are more in
the center and do not believe that and are appalled
by an act like that. I got a good example of
that years and years and years ago. I was in
a band that played at a Harley Davidson kind
of open house event. That was the one in Belton
that Gail, Gail's Harley Davidson. Yeah, when
she moved. Yeah, she was involved in this, but
she hadn't moved to her new place yet. And this
was the first time they were doing like a band
thing. It went from, what was it, Worth to Gail's
or something? I think they got a divorce or something
and she inherited it or something like that.
But I remember one TV news station showing up.
And, of course, there's a bunch of bikers and
people out in the parking lot between the two
buildings that are doing all this. And the news
crew looked around for the most outrageous, stereotypical
biker person that you could find. Lots of huge
beard, overweight, leather jacket with lots of
patches and buttons, lots of tattoos. just a
prototypical scary biker, and that's who they
found, went and interviewed. Yeah, yes. So they
wanted to create the image of this is what bikers
are, this is what they all are. It's what they
do. They find the most outrageous example of
something, and that's who gets put on the news.
Yeah, meanwhile, most bikers I know do bikers
for babies. BACA, Bikers Against Child Abuse.
Yes, BACA. And they do all of these, and they're
intimidating people that have a huge heart. Yeah.
But you'll never see that portrayed on TV, which
is disturbing. Yeah. So, I mean, I used to ride
motorcycles, so that made a difference on me.
I used to hunt, and I remember that somebody
I would teach in the hunter education courses,
you could go out. hunting and ten times and do
everything right, be kind, be considerate, pick
up trash, and the press is going to ignore you.
You've got one time and shoot too close to somebody's
house or a little before shooting hours and you're
going to be headlined next. Because they don't
want to talk about hunters. They want to talk
about bad hunters. Bad hunters, yes. They don't
want to talk about bikers. They want to talk
about bad, evil, scary bikers. And this is a
problem, the agenda. The agenda is what a lot
of these media outlets, they have their agenda
on the wall. And it doesn't matter what happens.
They have to make it fit their agenda. Yeah,
yeah. So I think Rob Reiner is going to get massaged
and squeaked and pushed into whatever it takes.
to hold him up as some liberal hero who was cut
down in his prime. He already is. And if they
could find a way to blame the Republicans for
it, they would. Well, and this is where Trump
comes in. He really needs to keep his mouth shut.
Yeah. He really does. Yeah, he didn't help anything
by stepping in there. All he did was give the
angry people another opportunity to hate on him.
Yes. Which... I'm so sick of the Trump hate.
I'm sick of the Biden hate. I'm sick of the liberal
and conservative hate. I'm so tired of it. And
the truth is, I'm in the middle on so many things.
I don't think you can really fucking describe
me as anything. Yeah, that's why I've never joined
a political party. It's like there's not one
out there that I agree with enough that I want
to identify with them. And if I did find one,
they could change completely tomorrow. And they
do. Then I'd be stuck with a reputation of having
supported them. Like, no thanks. The Republicans
in the 90s, I didn't like them at all. They were
like, huge business trampled the little man.
Now it seems to have shifted quite a bit. And
so, I mean, I agree with them. In the 80s, the
Republicans were all about deregulation. Yes,
which led to where we are now. But they're saying,
we need a free market. Well, when you have this
free market like that and you can't stop anybody
and you can't stop a monopoly, then you have
what you have now. Yeah. Ticket bastard. All
those guys. Yeah. Fucking Axis. All those guys.
Yeah. They do whatever the fuck they want because
they have a monopoly. And you have to play ball
with them if you are going on tour. Yep. It's
either do it their way or don't do it at all.
Don't do it at all. All right. One more small
story is the iRobot vacuum, the Roomba iRobot
vacuum, the little hockey disc thing that scoots
around your house. Are those the Roomba people?
No, Roomba. Roomba, yeah. That's them, right?
Yeah. Okay. They've declared bankruptcy. Okay.
They say they're going to stay in business and
keep producing product, but they need to totally
reorganize and they're bankrupt. So it's chapter
13. They're going to reorganize, pay off their
debtors as much as they can, call it good. Okay.
But I think the primary problem they have, have
you ever priced any of those? Oh, they're way
too high. They're insanely expensive. You can
buy a knockoff model that works almost as well
for a lot cheaper, and that's a problem. Everybody
does that. They go to Amazon and look for...
disc cleaners or something. And they're like,
hey, look at this one. That was a problem. One
of the problems that Peloton had, in addition
to their streaming services, I mean, when you
bought the exercise equipment, you had to buy
a subscription to the streaming services. But
if you didn't live in an area with high -speed,
reliable internet, it did you no good. You couldn't
use the online streaming services. And then a
lot of people figured out, okay, We can make
this exact same thing and offer our own online
things for way less. And Peloton went bankrupt
and had to reorganize and come back. That works
out as a business model to introduce something
new and fun and exciting and charge out the ass
for it. But you've got to learn at a certain
point people are tired of the high price. And
it's like, no, I'm not paying that anymore. They'll
pay a high price for like... A Rolls Royce or
a Bentley or a Lamborghini or something. But
an exercise bike? No. A home vacuum cleaner?
I'm not paying premium prices for the name on
that. The Rumba, whatever, they got the element
of surprise when they came out with it. A lot
of people rushed out and got it. Then after that
was over and people figured out there's other
options, they did that. So at first it looked
great. I was like, oh, look at it. Smashing success.
Yeah. Then all of a sudden everyone would quit
buying it. And it's like, well, what happened?
Well, competition happened. That's what happened.
Free market. I'd say my mom was a pretty typical
user. One of my brothers bought her the system
and put it in her house. And it learns your house
as it goes. It learns where its home base is.
And then it ventures forth, and it maps your
whole house a little bit at a time. It'll go
around until it runs out of energy, and then
it goes back and recharges. And over the course
of several days, it will learn your whole house
and learn how to vacuum. Except if you have pets.
Yeah. Yeah, it picks up stuff it shouldn't. Yeah.
But my mom didn't like that. You know, because
it would go out and explore and do a little vacuuming
for about 20 minutes and then go back. And then
15 minutes later, it was coming out again. And
she's like, well, that's not right. How could
things get dirty again in 15 minutes? I'm like
a little bitch who's earning this money. Yeah.
Keep going. But she would never let it learn
her house and do what it took to actually get
to the point where it was doing the job efficiently.
Too much control. Yeah. Every time it would leave
its dock, she'd look at the clock and say, well,
this is too soon. This is too early. We could
not convince her. Let it do its job. Let it figure
things out. She kept picking it up and sticking
it back in its dock or just shutting the power
off. That's counterproductive as hell. I mean,
if she'd bought it herself, it would have been
a waste of money. But someone bought it for her,
and she didn't like it, didn't know how to use
it, didn't trust it. And then when she passed...
The brother that bought it for it took it and
smacked himself. He's probably using it to this
day. He probably so. Yeah, it doesn't surprise
me by everything that we just said. I've got
the Fleetwood Mac guitar curse. I mean, you're
done, right? Yeah, I've got two more car stories
and then we'll move on. Okay, we'll go into it
here in a minute. The Fleetwood Mac guitar curse,
guitarist curse. This is an expanded version
of it. We broad -stroked it for a while now.
Yeah. All right. This is The Curse of the Fleetwood
Mac Guitarist. Peter Green, founder, suffered
severe mental illness battling schizophrenia,
psychosis linked to LSD use, quit music, and
gave away all his money. Yeah. He does have a
guitar named after him. He does. Yeah. The Greenie.
The Greenie, yep. Because he had a Les Paul that
was accidentally wired wrong at the factory.
The neck pickup and the bridge pickup were in
reverse polarity to each other. Which, on a Stratocaster,
that's on purpose. Yeah. But on a two -pickup
humbucker guitar, that's not on purpose. No,
no. So when you had the two pickups both on at
the same time, you got this weird, quacky, kind
of filtered noise that was kind of distinctive.
And he rode that to a nice career. True. And
now they're making replicas of the Greeny guitar.
I know. It's funny how that does, isn't it? Of
course, I have one that all you have to do is
pull up a knob, and it switches the polarity
for you. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. So you can
turn it on and turn it off, and that one only
cost me $600, but these Gibson Greeny versions
are about $3 ,000. Yeah, way too much. Yeah.
All right, Jeremy Spencer, his original. Yeah.
Vanished during 1971 U .S. tour after joining
the Children of the God religious cult. Oh, yeah.
Remember Children of the God? Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.
That was one that I did not know. There was a
keyboard player that used to tour with Alice
Cooper, among other bands, Joseph Sharowski.
Yes. And on one tour, he met a young woman, and
they fell in love. She introduced him to a quiet
life of a farmer. And he, after the tour was
over, he quit rock and roll and just went to
be a farmer in the backwoods somewhere. That's
kind of neat. Yeah. Just like that. All that
was fun, but oh shit, there goes my glasses.
And apparently they have lots of kids now. Okay.
So he became Amish. Yeah. Danny Kerwin. In the
60s and 70s, developed alcoholism, suffered psychotic
breakdowns, became homeless, and struggled with
severe stage fright. Yeah, I remember Danny Kerwin.
Yeah. So he had a lot of shit going on. Yeah.
You know about Bob Welch, of course. Yeah. He
committed suicide. His wife is still sure that
it was the Ambien he was on that made him commit
suicide. Yeah, but they said he had constant
pain from his spinal surgery, and that's what
led to it. But I mean, it could have been a combination
of both. Who knows? And also, whenever something
like that happens, you tend to blame what you
see. You're like, well, that's why it happened.
Maybe part of it. Yeah, maybe not. From what
I heard, it was like the last chance surgery
to fix his back problems, and it didn't work.
Yeah, and he was just kind of like, I don't want
to be around if I'm going to be in constant pain.
Yeah. So I get it. I mean, some of it could have
been the ambient kind of clouding your brain,
but, I mean, that hasn't been proven by any measure.
I know when my mom broke her neck, it wasn't
healing. There's just no bone growth. So they
said, well, there's a surgery we can do to kind
of fuse things and give you, you know, use of
your neck and head back but it doesn't have a
high success rate and if it doesn't succeed you're
going to be in chronic severe pain and painkillers
won't work so that's the downside she said well
let's not do it then So you're telling me I'm
going to go through all this pain, spend all
this money, and it might not work. And there's
a good chance I'll be worse off than I was before.
No, thanks. That's why I won't do shoulder surgery.
Yeah, surgery on your shoulder should always
be the absolute very last resort. Well, I mean,
not only am I down for basically a year, but
if you move around wrong enough, you have to
go in for another surgery to have it amended.
It's like, no, thank you. I think I'm going to
do my best. just to not injure it ever again.
All right. Bob Weston, early 70s in Fleetwood
Mac, fired after an affair with Mick Fleetwood's
wife, later died from gastrointestinal hemorrhage
in 2012. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage. That could
be as a result of alcoholism. Probably. And I
didn't know he had an affair with Mick Fleetwood's
wife. Yeah. Well, Mick had an affair with other
people's wives. No, that's what I was getting
ready to say. It's kind of like Just Desserts.
Yeah. Oh, he's done enough of that. Oh, man,
yeah. You didn't bring them around the band.
He'd be trying to bang them all the fucking time.
Yeah, drummers are notorious for that. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the old, what do
you call a guy that hangs around musicians? Drummers.
Yeah. That's like when you see a band breaks
up for creative difference. That's code for the
drummer slept with my wife. Yes. Or if you're
at Poison when they hired Richie Cotsen. Supposedly
he banged all their wives and they're kind of
like, well, we really like this guy, but he did
this. He's out. They're like, CC, do you want
to come back? Then my wives will touch you. Don't
blame them there. Yeah, don't blame them. Your
pink hair. Yeah, goofy little mannerisms. Anyhow,
I'm surprised he likes women, actually. He's
kind of infeminate to me, but anyhow. It's a
little weird. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Lindsey
Buckingham, of course, later, faced intense interpersonal
conflicts, temporary exits, firings, and had
his own well -documented eccentricities, which
he did. You know, there are a lot of stuff that
he demanded, wanted, and all that during performances,
and that led to them and all the lawsuits and
them not being with him anymore and continuing
to tour without him. The girl's heels are about
four inches tall. Are those making a comeback
now? Maybe she just doesn't like being short.
I think orthopedic surgeons convinced everybody
that's what they want to wear. Yeah, like high
heels. Orthopedic surgeons. They came up with
those. Hey, these make your legs look better.
You know, if you're going to be a doctor, you
should probably just be a dermatologist. Because
it's real simple. If it's wet, keep it dry. If
it's dry, keep it wet. If it shouldn't be there,
cut it off. That's it. That's a dermatologist.
So what you're saying is the dummies in the class,
they're all looking around going, The ones that
graduate last and great in med school. They're
all going, you're going to dermatology. But I,
no. You're going to dermatology or not. Okay.
Dermatology it is. Like it or you're going to
be a proctologist. You're going to go spelunking
every day. Who wakes up and goes, man, I want
to be a proctologist. I want to look up people's
assholes. I don't know. I'm glad they're there.
We need them. God bless them for doing it. But,
I mean, I don't know. I'd be like, let's see,
dermatologist. Pretty much any other orifice
would be preferable to the butthole. Yeah, yeah.
Oral surgeon, something. But proctologist, nah.
Another thing about Lindsey Buckingham is his
preferred style of playing was an acoustic guitar
played with his fingers. Yes. He hates guitar
picks, and he hates electric guitars. But the
first thing that happened when he joined Fleetwood
Mac was Mick Fleetwood went out and bought him
a Les Paul guitar and said, you will play this.
And there's a lot of bartering going on, too,
because he was adamant not playing it. There's
a huge backstory on his demands, even then. And
Mick Fleetwood wanted him so bad that he's like,
all right, I'll do it. I can't remember what
it was, though. The odd thing is that originally
they wanted Lindsey, and he said, well, Stevie
comes with me. And they're like, eh. Yeah, that's
right. That was one of them. That quickly turned
into, we better give Lindsey what he wants because
we want to keep Stevie. They knew Stevie was
it, but if they pissed Lindsey off. They would
both go. Yeah, they didn't necessarily care about
Lindsey Buckingham. They loved his style of playing,
and I do too. Good songwriter. Great songwriter.
That really gave them their sound. Yeah, it really
did. Before that, they were kind of mediocre.
Yeah, yeah. When that album came out, which one
came out first, Rumors or Fleetwood Mac? I think
it was Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac came out
first, yeah. When that came out, what I kept
seeing over and over in the critics' comments,
was that it was a really confusing album because
nobody was accustomed to Fleetwood Mac actually
writing hits. Yes. They're like, oh, my God,
this has, like, hits on it. They actually have
hit songs. Yeah, it's not anymore like a niche
thing where certain people and only certain people
knew about it. It was kind of like they went
to massive radio plays still to this day. Yeah.
Huge radio play. I can only think of a few Fleetwood
Mac songs from prior to Buckingham Knicks. There
was Hypnotized, which was sung by Bob Welch.
Uh -huh. Black Magic Woman, which was a Fleetwood
Mac song originally. And then sold to Santana.
Which, you know, was a brilliant choice. Yes,
he did. Yeah. And... Oh, Well. Yeah, okay. The
one that goes... Can't help it about the shape
I'm in. Can't sing ain't pretty and my legs are
thin. Don't ask me what I think of you because
I might not give you the answer that you want
me to. That was prior to Buckingham and Nix.
Yeah, it was. That was a decent hit. It wasn't
like their uniqueness of their hit writing. Buckingham
had so much to do with that because he was not
an electric guitar player. Totally different
perspective, kind of like Randy Rhodes did, coming
from classical. It's kind of like, what is this?
He's like, well, this is what you get when you
get a classical trained player shredding. Imagine
if John Denver had picked up an electric guitar.
Oh, I would have loved to have heard it. Wouldn't
that have been weird, though? How about Roy Clark?
It would have been amazing to hear. Roy Clark.
Yeah. That guy was so fast. Yeah. And Glen Campbell.
Glen Campbell, another one. Stunningly good guitar
player. Yeah. I would love to have heard all
of them on electric. You can actually see some
videos out there of Roy Clark on electric doing
a song called Classical Gas. Oh, I didn't know
he ever did. Yeah, there's one where he's playing
it on a 12 -string electric. Really? Sounds so
nice. Oh, with Jimmy Page? Yeah. Okay. I think
it was an Ovation. An Ovation, okay. It had the
Ovation headstock. Kind of looks like a hammerhead
shark. I'm going to have to look that up. I bet
it was great, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I think
it wasn't classical gas. That was one I saw Glenn
Campbell do. But pretty much any live performance
of Roy Clark playing guitar, you're going to
love it. Yeah, I agree. He was just amazing.
Yeah. Yeah, Roy Clark was in a division all by
himself. Of course, he was mainly banjo. Yeah,
which is not an easy instrument. No. No, you
have five fingers with little metal picks on
them. Yep. And you know what they're doing constantly
while the other finger is doing chords and notes.
What freaks me out about a banjo is that string
that doesn't go all the way up to the head. Yeah.
It goes up to like about the third fret and ends
there, and there's a toonie pick sticking out
of the neck. You're like, what the hell? Is this
Frankenstein? It's like, who the fuck designed
this? Yeah. But then you hear it and you go,
oh, okay. That's where you get that flat sound
in the middle of it. It's good. I would love
to try playing mandolin and ukulele, but I don't
want to tackle the banjo. They say that a lot
of songs are actually written on ukulele because
they're easier to write on. And a lot of musicians
that are not that good, but good at coming up
with ideas for writing songs, use that. I'm starting
to see some guitars, actual full -size guitars,
being sold with only three strings, the top three
strings. And it's basically rhythm and songwriting.
Yeah, because once you get that power chord,
if you will, down, you move it on the frets,
you can move it anywhere, up or down, and that's
how you write a song easily like that too. Yeah,
and if you want to flesh it out later with more
complex chords. A lot of times they do. Sometimes
they're like, keep it. Malcolm Young. He'll be
right there. Sometimes too many chefs spoil the
broth. And so sometimes simplicity is the key.
Especially in anthems. Yeah. Alright. Let's see.
Go ahead. You got something? Just right now.
Let's come up off the top of our head with some
of our most most valuable rhythm guitarists.
Okay. Maybe they don't get the recognition, maybe
they do, but they're super important to the band.
I've got the two that stand out the most, and
that's Iommi and Blackmore. I know they play
lead, but their rhythm is what they excel at.
I think Ozzy coined it the best. He said the
best guitarist you ever worked with was Tony
Iommi because American players play too fast,
and a European player is even worse. I agree
with that. Songwriting is one thing. Flashy is
completely different. You know, you've got a
bridge, you've got a hook. All this stuff goes
into writing songs, and this is what makes a
song good. And there's so much feel that you
can imbue in a rhythm guitar track. Yeah. Mick
Mars. Yeah. There are so many more examples,
so let's get into it a little bit more. Brad
Whitford, Aerosmith. Oh, yeah. Although he does
play some lead. Yeah, he does. But he is so good.
Underrated. Yeah. I mean, think of all those
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lot of them were rhythm guitar hooks, not lead.
They could walk this way. That's Brad Whitford.
Yes. It was not Joe Perry, like people go. Music
do the talking. That was Joe Perry. That was
off of his Joe Perry project, and then they stole
it or whatever, borrowed it on Aerosmith. Yeah.
But a lot of those classic ones dream on. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he had a knack. Sweet Emotion.
Sweet Emotion, yeah. Although the bass on that
is incredible. Yeah. The bass on that is so good.
It's simple, but it just hits it. Dave Knopfler.
Oh, yeah. The brother of Mark Knopfler. Yeah.
Dire Straits. Because Dave was their original
rhythm guitar player. Uh -huh. And he was, you
know, in the Psalm Sultans of Swing, he talks
about, you know, check out guitar George. He
knows all the chords. Yeah. But it's strictly
rhythm. He doesn't want to make it cry or sing.
He was talking about his brother Dave. Yeah.
Because his brother Dave was like, I don't want
to do leads. I don't want to do solos. That's
your deal. I'm just a bad play rhythm. And the
way he sang, talked. Take a look. Let's see.
What are the exact words? We got to move these
refrigerators. We got to move. Yeah, yeah. Really
good stuff. Yeah. The thing is, it really gets
me is, they still use the F word as regard to
homosexuals. Yeah. On that song. Yep. It says,
look at that F. That's the way you do it. Yep.
Look at it. He's going to, he's going to. The
little F has his own jet airplane. Yeah. The
little F is a millionaire. Yes. Yeah. And it's
like, and I still hear that on the radio. I'm
like. Yeah. Don't they realize that, you know,
that that is being said? But then again, you
can hear Jimi Hendrix, let's stop talking bullshit
now. Yeah. And you can hear Who the Fuck Are
You? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Pink Floyd's money,
do -goody -good bullshit. Yes. And people sing
it out loud everywhere. Yeah, you sing it in
front of your parents and don't even feel weird
about it. Yeah, and usually your parents are
singing it with you going, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a good song. Oh, Mick Ralph's. Mick Ralph's.
Oh, my God, yeah. Awesome rhythm guitar. Oh,
my gosh, yeah. I mean, rock steady. Yeah. How
about that rhythm? Simple, but. my god that thing
is just incredible but he does little tricks
on it and deviates from it but it's not much
yeah just a couple of notes it's like wow he
just added that and it just made it 100 times
better yeah and then on the next verse he takes
it away and then he brings it back very very
clever inventive um nimble really nimble fingers
by the way he's done things yeah um yeah i just
recently read an article paul rogers was talking
about mick rousey saying man That guy was probably
the best guy that I ever worked with. He said
that he just had a knack for all this stuff.
And whatever I felt we needed, he could just
do. He could just produce. And Paul Rogers is
a music writer himself. He can play piano and
guitar. So he knows what he's talking about.
He's not just a singer that's like, oh yeah,
like a David Lee Roth or something. He knows
absolutely nothing about music. They didn't always
get along. I remember when Bad Company broke
up the first time. No, they did not get along
a lot of times, yeah. The story I read was that
they argued and then the argument turned physical.
And then Mick Ralphs, who was a black belt in
one of the martial arts, basically kicked Paul
Rogers' ass. Yes. I think I was confirmed by
Paul Rogers, too. And I don't think Paul Rogers
said this just because Mick Ralph passed away.
I think that he really did truly mean it. But,
I mean, it's just like all these bands. In the
heat of the moment, they don't like each other.
But when they go home and they listen to what
they created and go, you know what? I needed
him to kick me in the ass. Yeah, yeah. Look where
I am because we work together. Because he challenged
me. Queen was like that. He had Brian May and
also Styx. You had Brian May, the melodic. Or,
no, you had the rocker. Styx, too. You had Tommy
Shaw, Dennis DeYoung. There's something about
that that makes such great music. Queen, you
have Brian May, Riffmaster. That's another one
right there. Oh, yeah, Riffmasters. Yeah, yeah.
Well, and also rhythm guitarists. Yeah. And then
you have Freddie Mercury, opera. Gosh, all his
influence. You can tell what Freddie Mercury
was really into by what he put out when he left
Queen. Yes. A lot more like show tunes. Definitely
not the rock and roll arrangement or rock and
roll instrumentation. Mr. Nice Guy or something.
Something like that. Yeah, that was an interesting
album. Yeah. Because it was nothing. A lot of
piano -based songs. Yeah, a lot. Trying to think
of more rhythm guitar players. There's a lot
more of them. Yeah. I was trying to think. Robin
Crosby. Oh, yeah. He was amazing. And because
he's been dead for quite a while now, he won't
get the credit he deserves. And Rat kind of ran
its course early. And it didn't really go on
like it probably should have. And so that kind
of bars his stuff too. But if you listen like
round and round and lay it down and stuff like
that, man, that guitar tone and his rhythm was
just impeccable. Warren Demartini was great too,
but Robin Crosby made those songs. And, of course,
Malcolm Young. It started with Malcolm Young.
Yeah, everything started with him. Izzy Stradlin.
Yes. Izzy Stradlin is an unsung hero that will
never get credit that he deserves because Guns
N' Roses is like 30 deep on rhythm guitarists
now. But Izzy had that dirty sound that made
Appetite for Destruction maybe one of the best,
probably one of the best albums, if not the best
album ever made. I think an underappreciated
pair in that band was Izzy Stradlin and Steven
Adler on drums. Yes. Because when Steven Adler
was replaced, their songwriting got really different.
And when Izzy Stradlin left, their sound got
different. Yes. And then that's when you get
the songs like Coma. And stuff like that. The
only one that's left over from my understanding
is You Could Be Mine. But that sounded like something
that could have been on. That song could have
been on Appetite easily. It was probably written
back then. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I
believe it was written back then. And they're
kind of like, well, we don't really have room
for it. It doesn't really fit this. But we're
doing a double album next time of new stuff.
We'll put it on there. You'll agree with this
one. Steve Clark. Yes. Oh, my God. Yes. Yes.
Now, Vivian Campbell did great when he came in.
Yeah. But that sound. Yeah. That sound that Steve
Clark produced, he was not very precise. He was
clunky as hell. But that offset with Phil Cullen
so well because he's so precise. Yeah. Yeah,
if both of them were that precise, it would just
sound mechanical. Yes, and those two together.
in tandem, made that Def Leppard sound that was
so unique and good. You think James Hithfield
should be up there? Yes. And also, also, Dave
Mustaine. Yeah. Dave Mustaine probably even more.
Yeah. But this is personal taste. To me, a lot
of people are into this. After And Justice, which
was a lot of leftover stuff from Cliff Burton.
I don't think they sounded nearly as good as
when they did their first four albums, from Kill
Em All to And Justice. That signature sound and
that heavy bass with the heavy rhythm was what
made them Metallica Metallica. That's what got
them attention, not the Alternica stuff in the
90s. I don't appreciate that, and I never will,
because they're not good at it. They did it to
stay relevant. Yeah, yeah, it really smelled
like something that, you know, we could be true
to ourselves and not be big and famous, or we
could chase the current trends and, you know,
basically sell out to whatever fashion is current.
It smelled like King Spirit. Yes, it did. So,
yeah, I would say, to me, they must stay in a
little bit more than James Halffield, but James
Halffield's body of work. Those four albums were
so good. Yeah. I mean, but I'm going to go with
Mustaine a little bit over Hetfield, but both
of them great. And either way can be argued so
easily. Let's see. There's a lot more. Robin
Trower. I liked a lot of his rhythms. Oh, Billy
Gibbons. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Billy Gibbons is
so unique. I don't even know. It's rhythm, but...
Except during the solos, isn't the basses playing
rhythm? Yeah, that's what I mean. A lot of the
rhythm is played by basses, but if you want to
go by the core of the song, yeah, I think Billy
Gibbons is very unique. If I look back at the
Cars first album, Rick Ocasek was playing some
guitar, and they used keyboards. A little bit
like a rhythm guitar. Their lead guitar, Elliot
Easton, is amazing. I mean, he's another one
of those guys who... He'll never get all that
credit. Yeah, the band he was in never really
used his full potential. It's like Steve Lukather.
We talked about him last week. That guy was one
of the best guitarists you ever heard, but you
won't know it because... Oh, Brad Gillis. Brad
Gillis. Only people knew about him because he
joined Ozzy for a tour, the Speak of the Devil
tour, or any finished up Diary of a Madman, actually.
The album that came out with the minute was Speak
of the Devil. It was a live album. And rumor
has it they did it to preempt Live Evil, which
featured Ronnie James Dio with Black Sabbath,
which they'd already broken up at this point.
But I think it was kind of like a pissing contest,
from what I understand, where Ozzy and Sharon
are like, oh, they put out a live album? Okay,
let's put out this. And I think... I mean, to
me, both albums are great, but Live Evil to me
was epic. Just the clarity of the sound, and
Dio's voice is so precise. That thing is a masterpiece.
And besides that, it introduced me to the world,
the underworld of occultism, even though it was
probably a ruse, I would think, just to get...
children like me to listen to it. Yes. Okay?
But I remember my brother telling me, like, he
was, like, getting scared at the concert that
kept reading. He's like, I think I just joined
a black mass. You know, and, you know, Dio comes
out there during the middle of Heaven and Hell.
Yeah. You know, he's like singing, they're going
to do you in, they're going to do you in, they're
going to do you in. Okay, so it's kind of like
talking about religion each way. Yeah. But then
he goes, then the little white shake looked down
at me. He says, I'm where you ought to be. Come
with me. I know just what to do. And then he
screams and points to the audience. He goes,
but I said, go away. I'm going to burn in hell
with all of you. And then they pan to the audience
and all these children are giving the devil horns.
Yeah, yeah, we want to burn in hell. And my brother
was just like, what the hell is going on here?
He was like, I'm not doing that sign. I'm not
saying, you know. Now you know exactly how Hitler
whipped his crowds into a frenzy. The same tricks.
Yes. You can get them to agree to anything if
you whip them into a big enough frenzy. Yeah,
and he did. Yeah. Because he was, what Dio did
was he built it up for so long going, you know,
I see the light and, you know, it's left me blind
and all this stuff. You know, it's talking about
religion in general. And it's like kings and
queens and wind your eyes and steal your dreams.
It's heaven and hell. Yeah. He is talking about
the world. But then when he goes into that, that
occultism stuff, I think he might have been somewhat
of a druid guy, but probably not an outright
devil worshiper per se. But that was put in there
for effect. Yeah, it was still very important
for the music to be something that pissed off
your parents. Yes, and when parents seen that,
first thing they did was tear it in half. Yep,
so you had to go buy another one. Yeah, you had
to go buy another one. And Dio... me went on
with that occultism stuff a little bit too long.
I think it kind of played its course and he should
have moved on. He did very well with it but I
think after Dream Evil he started doing the medieval
stuff still and I think it really hampered his
career because people didn't care. Yeah. Yeah
they're like I don't want to hear about you know
druids and all that so go join Blackboard's Night
even though you guys hate each other. Yeah. All
right anyhow rhythm guitars. You're kind of running
out. I'll have to come up with some more for
next time. Okay. That's it. How about, oh, you
got something? I just got a couple of car stories.
Okay. All right. Songs that make you stay in
the car until it's over. There we go. Good segue.
My first one. Most of Meatloaf's Bad Outta Hell
album. Yeah. Yeah. Especially Paradise by the
Gasport Lights and Two Outta Three Ain't Wrong.
Yeah. Those two songs in particular, you cannot
hang up on. No. They're out there. And then you're
waiting for the chick to come in. Do you love
me forever? Will you love me? And all that stuff.
And he's like, ah, ah, ah. Let me sleep on it,
baby. I mean, it's just perfect. It's a perfect
song. Jim Steinman, genius. Todd Rundon produced
that album. Oh, yeah. Yeah, go ahead. He played
guitar on it. And he said in a recent interview
that Bruce Springsteen had just recently come
out with... his Born to Run album, and Rundgren
thought that it was just really kind of corny
and over the top, the way this album was produced.
So he said, I'm going to produce Bad Outta Hell
as a joke on Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run.
I'm going to make it sound like his album and
show everyone how easy it is to get that sound.
So when you listen to the two, there is a lot
of similarity in the production and the way it's
all put together. Phil Spector recruited me.
produce Born to Run. He loves that wall of sound.
It's kind of like what we're talking about about
Ace Frehley's Shock Me Solo and Eddie Van Halen's
Eruption. The signatures and the time and the
flow and the make of the song, the bridges, all
that. I can kind of see that. It was kind of
the attitude of he saw someone come out and juggle
three balls and get all sorts of applause for
it. So he went out and juggled five. Five balls,
yeah. And then, like I said, Jim Steinman, you
could never get this type of an album without
a show guy like Steinman. Yeah. Very eccentric.
He used to wear those big gloves for no reason
and just weird outfits and very flamboyant. He's
very much into appearance. Yes, very much. Odd.
Very odd guy. Yeah. But... very talented in the
evening led zeppelin i think that is a song i
can't put down yeah i mean from the very start
where uh where the guitar just like it's building
up and you hear the background noises and then
he just comes in sloppy as hell with that a rhythm
that makes a whole song and then in the middle
one of my favorite solos ever It sounds like
he took the guitar and threw it against the amp.
Yeah, yeah. It's, I don't know, he was probably
just like hammering it with his fist or something.
I think so, yeah. But the way it comes in is
really interesting and unique. And I think he
might have done that by accident and everyone
looked at each other and said, that's it. Yeah,
we're keeping that tape. Yeah, that happens all
the time. Jimi Hendrix was on acid and he kept
playing Purple Haze as a story. And they kept
asking, play what you played last night. I didn't
play last night. You did. We were all here. So
finally they recorded it. He played it back.
He goes, I played that? Yeah. All right. Well,
let me. Yeah, yeah. Let me figure out how he
did that. Yeah, and he did. Okay. Most of Blizzard
of Oz except Crazy Train. I'm sorry. I can do
without that song. I love it. It's a great song,
but too much. Yeah, a little tired of it. Yeah,
that's rock radio's go -to, especially now. Yeah.
The sentimental, oh, it's Ozzy. Come on, everyone,
come around here. This is Ozzy's song. Even though
they didn't like him before that. Play the overplayed
one. Yes. Diary of a Madman, all of that album,
none of it's overplayed. Especially Diary of
a Madman. That song is a masterpiece. It's another
composition that's written such as... Where you
have all these pieces coming together and then
a climax is immaculate. And that would be the
guitar, rhythm, the rhythm break, the bridge,
the edge, whatever you call it. The guitar that
he does at the end of that made the whole song.
Because that's where the song was headed the
whole time. And I'm so glad that, remember when
radio stations for the radio version would just
ax the last guitar solo and have a repeat chorus
again? Oh, that pissed me off. People missed
out on so many amazing guitar solos that were
intended to close out the song because radio
programmers thought, well, nobody wants to hear
a guitar solo. They want to hear those people
singing so they can sing along. Oh, yeah, well,
John Sykes, right? Great guitarist, played for
Whitesnake several times. Here I go again. Yeah.
The radio play of that on a pop station is horrible.
It is. Because they do... Not even a guitar in
the middle. I don't even know what you call it.
It's mostly just chorus over and over and over.
Yeah, it's horrible. That guitar, that solo is
a masterpiece. John Sykes is so good. He'd never
get the credit he deserves. I mean, Slide It
In and then the Whitesnake, Whitesnake album.
He wrote a lot of those songs. Yeah, he has a
signature all over both of them. And they ruin
that, here I go again, not only by airplay constantly,
but by taking out that solo. I've even heard
songs that end with a solo and have an actual
ending. And instead they'll chop the solo off
and do a repeat and fade on the chorus. Yeah,
that pisses me off too. And also you can tell
if you know music at all, it's like, wait a minute.
No, no, no, no, that did not go like that. That's
what you guys did. Yeah, the 10cc song, I'm Not
In Love, they chopped the hell out of that for
radio. And it just sounds awful. It's not the
same. No, I mean the actual song is probably
about five and a half, six minutes long. They
chopped it down to about three, three and a half.
Yeah, three and a half maybe. Yeah. Yeah, they
ruined it. Deep Purple, Burn, and Highway Star.
Yeah. Those two songs to me, I couldn't put down
if I'm in the car at all. Are you writing down
some? Uh -huh. Okay. Do you want to go into a
couple of yours, and I'll go back with some more
of mine? Dreams I'll Never See, Molly Hatchet.
Oh, yeah. It's an Allman Brothers song, and the
Allman Brothers version is actually really, really
good. It is, but I like Molly Hatchet's... Yeah,
because the solos go on and on and on and on,
and then it comes back to the verse. Yeah, but
the only thing is, you said it wrong. Molly fucking
Hatchet. Molly fucking Hatchet. Yes. There we
go. And then Whipping Post. By the Allman Brothers.
Oh, yeah. That's got such a funky time signature,
and it just builds and builds and builds and
builds. It is an odd song, but yeah, it's great.
And then it's got a slow, you know, screaming
ending. Sometimes I feel. You've got to hear
the ending to make it all work. Yes, and if that
was rock radio and they took that out, it would
ruin the song. Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree. That's
some amazing work. Yeah. I could listen to Whipping
Post every day. Yeah. No More Mr. Nice Guy by
Alice Cooper. Yeah. It's one of those songs I
just want to hear it conclude and hear it end.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you want to hear Reverend
Sidney recognize me, punch me, and all that stuff,
you know, because it's so classic. It is. It
is. Pink Floyd. Just about any Pink Floyd. Yeah.
Which is a difficult one because so many of their
songs are so long. Oh. But you start a Pink Floyd
song and it's like, I feel like I'm... being
rude if I turned it off before it's over. Yeah,
as much as a dick as they both are, and I'm talking
about the two main members now and have been
for a long time, Gilmore and Waters. Boy, they
wrote some stuff. They wrote some good stuff.
They really did. Imagine turning off Wish You
Were Here. It's impossible. I can't do it. My
fingers can't do that. No. It's like, no, I can't
go there. I can't get near it. It's got to end.
Space Lord by Monster Band. Another band that
will never get the credit they deserve. They
are so good. There's a lot of Monster Magnet
songs. God Says No. I listened to that one all
the way through. Melt is another good one. Heads
Explode because at the very end he holds a note
for an impossibly long amount of time. Listen
to it closely. You can hear it's overdubs of
him doing it over and over and over. But at one
point, I got to the point where I could hold
that note for the full amount of time he was
doing it. I was like, wow. Oh, that's cool. That
takes lung power. Yeah. But I've smoked way too
many joints since then, and my lungs are not
that capable anymore. Did you stretch them thin?
Yeah, I think I did. Okay. Go ahead. I could
go on about much more Monster Magnet songs. There's
some Elton John songs. that are just so beautifully
written i want to hear the whole thing don't
let the sun go down on me oh yeah you gotta i
gotta listen to the whole thing there um leave
on and tiny dancer i want to hear the whole song
before i turn it off i've not promoted this in
a while so maybe i need to hold up my empty coffee
cup there we go All right. There we go. All right.
Got to promote it. All right. That's about all
I'm thinking on. Okay. As long as you stay there.
Maybe Slow Ride, Foghat. But I've heard that
so many times that I could skip it now. The rhythm
at first. I could turn it off at the end, but
that rhythm at first. I mean, that thing is just,
that tone is just irresistible. Yeah. Great stuff.
Yeah. I've got Dio, Holy Diver. Yeah. To me,
that song's so powerful and intense, you can't
just, like, leave. Yeah. You know, it's like
you, I don't know, it's like you didn't wipe
after you took a dump. It's like, I can't leave.
I don't think so. There's also some that you
would think you'd want to stay and listen, but
I'd just go ahead and turn them off, like Hey
Jude. Yes, yeah. That was cool the first 10 or
12 times I heard the song, but now it's just
endless repetition and I'm kind of done. Actually,
the song, after I listened to it several million
times, I decided it's not that good. No, not
really. It was an ass kiss song anyhow. They
weren't getting along that well. It's about John
Lennon's kid. Yep. Yep. All right, let's see.
The next one I have is Cream Badge. Yeah. Like,
we don't need no stinking badges. Yeah. I always
thought that that song was unique. I mean, everything.
Supposedly it was supposed to be, it wasn't supposed
to be called badge. It was a word that was similar
to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I went into that last
one or the one before it was supposed to be called,
what was it supposed to be called? But Harrison
was such a horrible writer. penmanship yeah that
he thought it was bridge it was supposed to be
bridge it came it looked like badge yeah yeah
okay uh leila yeah you gotta listen through the
whole ending piano and guitar thing yes yep i
agree yeah my ex -wife used to hate that which
is you know why i would turn it up extra loud
oh absolutely absolutely my ex -wife hated a
lot of things Well, you know what like I always
talk about my ex -wife the feeling was quite
mutual Yeah, yep, yep, yep, you know the first
trial one glad is over yeah, yeah Let's see now,
all right, it's gonna be short and sweet and
I'll tag you a little bit later that way your
people get it, too All right dire straits money
for nothing Yeah, you kind of kind of listen
to that Yeah, although I think I could turn it
off now, but there's a good point in time where
it's like, oh, I've got to keep hearing this
guitar. Oh, you got one. I saw the look on your
face. Yeah. Jethro Tull, Locomotive Breath. Oh,
yeah. You've got to listen to the ending. You've
got to listen all the way through, even though
it's a repeat and fade. It's still, yeah. It's
still really, really, yeah. I'd put Aqualung
and Cross -Eyed Mary up there, too. I would,
too. Cross -Eyed Mary was the first Jethro Tull
song I heard that I actually knew was Jethro
Tull. And I had never heard it on the radio as
I found this tape that had it on it. Remember
that old electronics store, Burstein Appleby?
Yeah. They were probably fading by the time you
were... No, I don't remember them in the moment,
but I know what you're talking about. There was
one on the way home from walking home from school,
and I would go dumpster dive. for old reel -to
-reel tapes, the 7 -inch reel -to -reel tapes,
vacuum tubes, just all sorts of electronic stuff
they'd toss out. And I got a tape that had Cross
-Eyed Mary on it, and I kept playing it over
and over, and I was like, who the hell is this?
And then I figured out it was Jethro Tull. I
wrote down all the words because they're so interesting.
That's when I'll always listen to the whole thing.
Yeah, I would agree. Locomotion breath. I mean,
that song is so snotty. Yes. And, you know, snot
is running down his nose. That's Aqualung. That's
Aqualung, sorry. I'm not running down his nose.
That's a great song. Yeah. Locomotive breath
is the dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun
-dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun -dun
Yeah, yeah. I admit, when I listen to Duran Duran,
I listen to the bass player. Me too. Because
he was such a phenomenal freak on the bass. Oh,
I know. Just unbelievable. You look at him and
you think, how does someone that young have that
much skill at this point in his life? Oh, I agree.
He was just... Another thing that I really liked
about their music, Duran Duran, is you could
hear their accent in their singing. Yeah. They're
one of the few bands that you can do that. They
didn't try to sound American. No, no. I mean,
you know, Ozzy, obviously, you know, really,
really big accent from England. Yeah. Elton John
always tried to sound very bland and neutral.
Yeah, he did pretty good. Yeah. Especially later
on. Bon Scott, you could tell he was Australian.
Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, oh, yeah. He said stuff
you didn't understand. She's got it. The Jack.
Dun, dun, dun, dun. She's got the Jack. And Walking
Sideways. Walking Sideways, another go at you.
Whole Lotta Rosie. Oh, yes. I want to learn that
song. I mean, it's rude, but I want to learn
it. Watch Axl Rose perform that. Oh, yeah. I
haven't seen that yet. I want to see that. I'm
telling you, I wished he would have stayed in
the band. Brian Johnson, I'm not a huge fan of
him right now. I don't like the way he sings
at all. I think he ruined his voice. Yeah, yeah.
He definitely doesn't have the same vocal quality
he had on Back in Black. He's kind of like Vince
Neil. He can't really do that same replica of
what they used to do. And it just doesn't sound
right to me. It's boring. I've noticed Chris
Isaac doesn't sound the way he used to either.
I haven't heard him recently, but I can believe
that. A couple years ago... Cindy and I went
to his Christmas concert at the Uptown, and he
was not hitting some of the high falsetto notes
that he used to. He hit some of them, but there's
others he skipped. And I was wondering, he's
like, maybe he can only do that a few times a
night. It's kind of like Ian Gillen. Yeah. I
mean, at St. Louis, it wasn't as bad. Yeah. He
still could hit some of the high notes, but Highway
Star, he didn't even try. Yeah. When they played
at the Uptown Theater, it was even worse. He
was a few years older. And a lot of the signature
songs they couldn't play, so they had to stretch
out other signature songs. Yeah, I can get that.
Yeah, but same thing. All right, next one I have
is The Cult, Sweet Soul Sister, and Little Devil.
I'd put Fire Woman up there, too. I have to listen
to the end of Fire Woman. Yeah, okay, that is
another one. Actually, there's several ones.
I can't think of the other song. Yes, that's
another one. Edie is another one. Interesting
guitar on there. Billy Duffy is amazing. Really
interesting tone. Yes, very. Let's see. Prince,
When Doves Cry, and Purple Rain. You've got to
listen to the end of Purple Rain for the guitar.
Yes, that thing. I mean, that broke them onto
a lot of rock and roll stations. It did. It's
like, oh, my God, this guy can play. Yeah. We've
got to get this on the air, you know. It's like
this first part kind of fits some other format,
but the second part fits ours. All the rockers
were like, you've got to stay. Yeah. You've got
to listen to this. Yeah. I mean, even Michael
Jackson's beat it. Because Eddie Van Halen played
the solo in it, rockers were like, I'll listen
to Michael Jackson because I want to hear Eddie.
Yes. Yep. I got one, speaking of Michael Jackson,
my very next one, Dirty Diana. I'm not familiar
with that one. Steve Stevens. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
Billy Idol's guitar player. Yeah, he does interesting
rhythms all the way through that, which makes
the song very tolerable. Yeah. But if you're
like me, which you are, you're going to be listening
to that rhythm going, ooh, that is nice. Yeah.
And it's a rocking song. It's not a, like Beat
It was not a rocking song, but the solo was.
Yeah. So. All right. Yeah, that's true. The Go
-Go's. Our Lips Are Sealed. Yeah. Simple song,
but really a foot tapper. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep.
Walk Like an Egyptian, The Bangles. Oh, that's
another good one. Yeah. Written by Prince. Yeah,
it was, wasn't it? No, Manic Monday was written
by Prince. No, it was Manic Monday. Foreigner.
Urgent. Yeah, yeah. That's got a great saxophone
solo in it. Yeah. They made saxophone cool again
after Meatloaf made it cool in Rocky Horror.
Yes. Here's a really long one from a long time
ago. It's Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic.
It's got multiple saxophone solos in there that
are just... I don't think I'm... I'm not familiar
with that. It's a slow, kind of slightly jazzy
piece. It's by Traffic? Traffic. Steve Woodward.
And it's saxophone, bass, drums, and piano. I'm
going to have to check that out. It's amazing.
And they're at least two long saxophone solos
where they do unusual and inhumane things to
the saxophone to get it to sound that way. I
don't think I've ever heard that. Oh, my God.
It ends on a long saxophone solo. You've got
to listen to the full version. Make sure you
get the long, full version and it's not edited
down. You're not really sure what the song is
about, but you can understand all the words,
but you really don't know what they quite mean.
But if you like saxophone, and it's not a fast,
upbeat song, it's real smooth and relaxed and
mellow, and then the sax comes on and it just
fires you up. It's awesome. Okay. And then finally,
my last one is Van Halen DOA. Yes. That rhythm.
Very cool. Very cool. That's all I have. You
have something else? Recently, Lamborghini wanted
to buy the rights to a domain, Lambo .com. But
somebody else had already registered that. Somebody
back in the 80s. Not 80s. Back in the 90s. registered
that with the intention of selling it to Lamborghini
one day. And Lamborghini has been calling this
dude saying, hey, will you sell us that domain?
His most recent offer, $75 million. So Lamborghini
took him to court. And the judge ruled that the
guy was asking way too much, and he was basically
just withholding it and holding it hostage. So
he gave the domain name to Lamborghini. Really?
Free. And made the guy pay Lamborghini's legal
fees. To me, that sounds like the fix was in
on that one. Wouldn't you say? It sounds like
it, but it really spanked this guy big time,
didn't it? I want to know what money was exchanged
when and where. Yeah. Wow. Boy, that just seems...
Excessive. It does. And I guess, let's see, Lamborghini's
owned by Volkswagen now. Yeah. So it's probably
in the German courts. I wish sport people knew
that. Yeah. But at least in the German courts,
withholding something for too high a price is...
frowned on, so scalpers must not do well in Germany.
Oh, so then that's common practice there. Probably
so. Then the guy that did that deserved what
he got. If he knew what he was in for... He probably
spent $100 to reach that name, and now he wants
$75 million. Yeah. Okay. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've got a story about a famous, iconic... Movie
cars that have gone missing and nobody knows
where they are. I mean, all of them are great,
but this one I've been waiting for. First one
up on the list, remember the movie Vanishing
Point? Yeah. It's an old car chase movie. They
bought five 1970 Chargers, Chrysler Plymouth
Chargers. The original ones. Yeah. Was it Dodge
Charger? Dodge. Yeah, that's right. And they
were the beefed up Sportbird. There were four
of them with the big engine and a four -speed
manual. And there was one with a 398 and an automatic.
And they used that one for a lot of the complex
things. Driving scenes and stuff. I think it
was a car chase from what? Denver to San Francisco?
Yeah. But they rented five cars from Chrysler
at a dollar a day and used all five of them in
the shoot. Of course, because Chrysler wanted
them there. Yeah, because that was advertising.
That's product placement. Yep. What is that,
1970? That was product placement all the way
back then. Yes. Here it is 55 years later. They're
really good at it now. Yeah. It's just like people
don't realize, whenever you see that Pepsi can
on a counter with the Pepsi logo right towards
you. That was bought. Yep. That was bought. Absolutely.
But then the movie came out. Uh -huh. And Chrysler,
some of the representative of Chrysler was sent
to the screening, and they hated it. Like, okay,
the guy driving our car is breaking laws. He's
getting chased by the cops. What did they expect?
He's wrecking things. He's being a bad person.
And they thought it was going to be some puff
piece making their car look wonderful. Do they
know nothing about marketing? Apparently not.
So when Chrysler got them back, they sent all
five of them to the crusher as punishment. And
the prop master for the film production said,
yeah, I watched them. Put all of them into the
crusher. Chrysler is a sore loser. Jeez. That's
ridiculous. Next up, we have Thunder Road. It's
a movie about moonshining. Yep. And then the
hero in the movie, what was it? Was it Robert
Mitchum, maybe? Gregory Peck, one of those two.
Might have been Mitchum. It could have been Peck.
I don't know. So they had a Ford sedan that was
his car. And it was... Billed as a 1950, but
everybody who looks at the movie said, no, it's
a 51. So it's a 50 -slash -51 Ford. And they
actually got it from a moonshiner who had modified
it to be better brakes, better suspension, faster,
etc. And when the movie was over, let's see.
Let me get my own handwriting here. Okay, yeah,
it's the opening scene of the movie that really
features that car. But when the filming wrapped,
nobody is really sure what happened to that car
because the studio wasn't keeping records of
their prop department that well. So a lot of
people said, hey, we gave it back to the moonshiner.
Other people say, you know, they modified it
back into just a regular street car and sold
it as a used car. Nobody really knows. And there'd
be no way to authenticate what really was. Which
was, yeah. But in 1950, they really weren't thinking
about that thing's having value or not. No, they
weren't. You're right. On Rebel Without a Cause,
James Dean drove a 49 Mercury. And it's the famous
scene where he's drag racing with another guy.
And you're supposed to drive towards a cliff.
and the last person to bail out and let their
car go over the cliff wins, except Jimmy Dean's
character bailed out, and the other guy got his
jacket caught in the door handle and went over
with the car. So, you know, it's famous for that
scene. And after the movie came out, like a few
weeks later, Jimmy Dean died. Yeah, from a car
wreck. A car wreck, yes. Studios prop department
went looking for that 49 Merc. Couldn't find
it. It's just gone. Somebody took it. And I have
no idea what happened to that. And especially
after James Dean died, they're like, we want
to find that car. Nowhere to be found. Wow. Yeah.
An entire car is stuck up in this area. Goes
to James Dean. Yeah. Blade Runner. Remember the
movie Blade Runner? Yes, I do. The flying cars?
Yes. Those were called spinners. Within the script
or the prop department, that's how they're referred
to, the spinners, because they take off and they
turn around. When the filming was done and the
movie was complete, they took all of those spinners
and stuck them out in an outdoor storage field
and just let them rot in the weather, in the
sun, day after day, year after year. Most of
them just rotted away to nothing. And there were
some collectors who tracked down these cars.
And I remember one of them posting a picture
online. And you could tell it used to be one
of those awesome Blade Runner spinners. But it
was just all beat to crap. And he asked the studio,
please, will you sell me this? You know, I want
to buy it and I want to restore it. And they
said no. And they just let it rot. So as far
as I know, there are absolutely none of them
left. Because the studio just didn't give a damn.
Weird. That is weird. Mad Max. The original Mad
Max movie. He had a 73 Ford Falcon that was turned
into the Interceptor which they labeled the hero
car. It's an Australian made Ford Falcon because
the steering wheel is on the other side. They
built a number of them for the movie but the
very first one they built was sold after the
movie was over, but they lost the records of
who they sold it to, and they've never been able
to find it since. And they've got part numbers
and serial numbers so they could identify it
if it ever showed up. They said there are a ton
of them out there that are replicas and tributes,
and people have found other 73 Ford Falcons and
made them look like that, but the original one,
the very first one they built, you can't find
it. Now, Mad Max was a very low -budget film.
It was. And so they probably weren't thinking
too much. They probably were selling it off because
they had to at the end of the film. I think you're
right. Yeah, probably so. Another iconic car
was the 68 Ford Mustang Fastback in the movie
Bullet. And there's an extended chase scene in
the movie. They built two 68s. Mustang Fastbacks
painted dark green for the movie. They didn't
really beat them up so they finished the movie
in pretty decent shape. One of the two that they
built was found in 2018 in a barn and it was
verified with the serial numbers that it was
one of the two from the movie. and it sold at
Mecham Auction for $3 .74 million. Wow. Now,
the second one was used as more of a stunt car,
so it was a little more beat up. That one they've
never found. In fact, Steve McQueen asked to
buy it, and they said no. Wow. Steve McQueen
could have been cool enough to buy it, too. He
should have had that. He should have. American
Graffiti. The kind of main guy in the movie drives
a yellow 32 Ford Deuce Coupe. Yeah. And at the
time, it was chosen because that was kind of
prototypical for the Hot Rodders of the time.
A lot of them were using the 32 Ford Coupe. And
it was all, you know, modified in the typical
fashion. It was actually rented from a car enthusiast
at Hot Rod. In fact, they rented like five or
six of them. And they made them all look the
same so they could use them interchangeably.
But they were all rented from actual hot rodders
who were modifying the cars. And when the movie
was over, all of them were returned to the people
that owned them. And like hot rodders do, they
continued to modify them. So within a year or
two, none of them looked like the way they did
in the movie. And none of them even had the same
parts as when they were in the movie. So there's
a ton of them that have been... made as copies
of the one that was in the movie, but there's
absolutely no way to verify the ones that were
actually used in the film. Because they've all
been modified so heavily. And some of them probably
crashed because they were cars people drove.
Christine. Stephen Kingsman. 58 Plymouth Fury.
Oh, I love that car. It's kind of up for debate
how many of them they made for the movie. Some
say 23, some say 27. Yeah, either one of them
sounds about right to what I've heard. Because
they wrecked a lot of them. Yeah, they did. And
not all of them were actually 58 Plymouth Furies.
There were a number of them that were similar
models, cars that were in the same line as the
Plymouth Fury, that they could modify and make
it look like a Fury, especially if it was a 19.
So they did a lot of that. Cars one through four
are missing, and nobody has any idea whatever
happened to them. The rest of them they know.
It's like, yeah, that was all mashed up. We scrapped
it. This one, you know, so -and -so took home.
This one was also destroyed. Yeah, it makes you
wonder if the people that stole them, like, just
put them somewhere just to have. I mean, like
in a barn somewhere. Yeah, and it's like stolen
guitars. Some of them wind up under somebody's
bed, and they'd sit there for so long, no one
ever remembers whose it was in the first place,
and it just winds up being just another guitar.
It was like that Mustang that someone stole the
first year of their inexistence, like 57 or something,
and the guy took it home. He didn't have insurance
on it yet or nothing, because that's back when
you couldn't just call or do internet or something.
He took it home, and someone stole it. And approximately
15 years ago, it was found in a garage in an
old barn in mint shape. And they gave it back
to him, and it was worth like 300 grand. But
he was like 90. The guy who stole it probably
just parked it there and left it. Yeah, that's
what happens all the time. They're just like,
oh, that's cool. And then they go to jail or
something, and no one remembers. It's not so
much, I want that. It's more like, I don't want
you to have it, so I'm going to take it from
you and stick it somewhere. Yeah, yep. Here's
one from the 60s. Herbie the Love Bug. Oh, yeah.
The little Volkswagen Beetle. Was that the 60s?
Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Because the bug itself was
a 63. Yeah. And the storyline was it was a Volkswagen
Beetle, painted white with some racing stripes
and the number 53 on it, and the car was alive
and intelligent. And he was kind of the underdog
hero of the movie. Yeah. It was a 63 VW Beetle.
They bought 26 for the production of the movie.
The very first one that they modified is the
one they can't find. All the other 25 are accounted
for. Except for the very first modified one.
And the very first one was the one that they
modified to be an everyday driver. A lot of the
other ones were built for stunts. the hood would
pop up, or the doors would flap, or this one
was designed to crash into something, or blah,
blah. But the first one was the nice one and
the good one, and somebody walked off with it,
or drove off with it. That's funny. And at this
point, there's absolutely no way to, I mean,
there's been like a dozen over the years. People
say, yeah, this is it. I found it. This is it.
There's no way to verify. There's just absolutely
no way. Like someone could have been at the bottom
of a lake or something just to be a dick. They'll
never get it now or they'll never catch me or
whatever, you know. And then the honorable mention
for this list is the Captain America motorcycle
from Easy Rider. Yes. It's the red, white, and
blue Stars and Stripes motorcycle that Peter
Fonda drove. Yeah. And I believe there's only
one of them. And after the movie wrapped. It,
along with a number of other things from the
movie, were put in a storage facility, and it
was stolen that night. So somebody who knew it
was being stored there went back that night and
took it. Inside job. Never been seen since. Inside
job. Now, there have been a ton of replicas made,
and they don't drive very well. Apparently, as
Peter said, that bike did not drive very well
at all. It was made to look cool on film, but
it was a nightmare to drive. But somebody could
have that. Or it could be something that was
modified and modified and somebody didn't realize
what they had and just jumped it. You never know.
Probably. Most of the times they either chicken
out or they'll never get it or something like
that. They do something with it that no one will
ever find it. Or just, I don't know, sometimes
you never know. They might have had it chopped
up or something. That was my list. Okay. Their
little serial plate VIN number is probably sitting
on somebody's fucking dresser. Yeah. All right.
So, we have an Idiot of the Year contestant here.
All right. All right. On November 7th at Louis
Armstrong New Orleans International Airport,
Corey Johnson, 35, of Alexandria, Louisiana,
tried to exit the short -term parking lot, but
he wasn't able to pay the fee. Okay, so he's
kind of like, oh shit, I didn't know it was going
to cost this much or whatever. So People Magazine
reported that Johnson at first refused to move
his Jeep out of the exit lane, but later agreed
to pull aside. And while Johnson was still stuck
in the parking lot, the airport's aviation communications
center... received a threatening phone call.
Ooh. Yeah, so he's out there and he's pissed
off. He doesn't have enough money. So he decides
to call the aviation center and threaten them.
Oh, smart man. Well, he goes on from there. Oh,
God. Suggesting a bomb would be detonated if
the operator did not page Hassan. Oh, my God.
Yes. Oh. The center received another call around
1035 saying, He wanted Hassan to bring the bomb
to level three. Dig that hole. Just keep digging.
He's already in it so far now that dirt's coming
on him. Deputies, of course, pinged the phone,
making the calls, and traced it back to Johnson.
By 11 p .m., he was under arrest on November
20th. Johnson was indicted for willfully conveying
a bomb threat. He could face up to 10 years in
prison, a $250 ,000 fine. He would have been
better just having a car towed or whatever, or
plead mercy or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, moron.
I know. I know most of those places, all you
have to do is sign a piece of paper saying, I
promise I'll send you the money in the mail,
and no one ever does. Yeah, and it would have
been easily. Easily resolved. He wanted to die
on that hill, apparently. I guess so, and he
did, too. Okay, I got another one. Okay. This
is a runner -up, or I don't know, just a stupid
story or whatever. Police in Auckland, New Zealand,
are holding a man in custody, presumably awaiting
a certain biological development. After he was
accused of swallowing a $19 ,000 Fabergé egg
pendant on November 28th, the BBC reported. Officers
went to Partridge Jewelers, no tree, and arrested
the 32 -year -old man. Okay. Who has undergone
a medical assessment. Talk about crap duty. An
officer is assigned to constantly monitor the
man. Oh, my God. Inspector Gray Anderson said,
if this state's defendant has not been recovered,
the egg is set with white diamonds. and blue
sapphires, and has an 18 -karat gold miniature
octopus inside. Yeah. Do you want to buy and
own that after it's been through somebody's digestive
tract? That's exactly what I was thinking, too.
Why would you even want that damn thing after
that? I don't think you could wash that enough.
I don't either. No. And wouldn't it be tarnished
because of the digestive acids? Well, I guess
gold wouldn't tarnish, but silver would. No,
gold wouldn't, but silver would. Yeah. I don't
know about the jewels. And a lot of times adhesives
are used to keep, you know, things together.
That might be partly digested away. So, yeah,
they might get the egg back. It's like, hey,
we're missing two sapphires, man. That would
not surprise me at all. So they have people on
shit duty. Yeah. Ready to dig it out of his shit,
but it hasn't happened yet. I guess you can make
the guy wear a diaper, so, you know. Maybe that's
what they're doing. I don't know. And every time
he takes a dump, you might go, all right, give
me the diaper. So I guess he was trying to shoplift
it and thought, if I just swallow this thing,
then they won't know. Yeah. But instead, now
he's sitting somewhere waiting there, waiting
to shit it out. Right next to the people who
swallowed cocaine -filled condoms on the way
into the country. Shoving drugs in their can
to try to get a... Let's see. Rankin, Pennsylvania
got his first snowfall this week, but it was
less than prepared. KDKA -TV reported. Alas,
Rankin has only one Public Works employee, and
that employee isn't licensed to operate a snowplow.
Yeah, it gets a little bit better. Still, Borough
Resident Marcus Clay cut them some slack. They
didn't do too bad. It was better than it was
last year. Borough Council Member Walter Sewells
hopefully noted. We're working through it, though.
So the city subcontracted with local businesses,
and in the spirit of the season, even residents
chipped in, shoveling and salting their own blocks.
That's what happens in Kansas City, too. People
get tired of waiting, and they're like, well,
it's going to be in the 50s this weekend, so
if it's going to be shoveled, it's got to be
now, not on their time. And there's nothing worse
when you're sitting there waiting. And then it's
like 35 degrees and it's melting on its own.
And then you see the plow go by. It's like, no,
no, get out of here. We don't need you now. I
delivered mail in KCK for 32 years, which is
32 winters. And it was the policy there that
when a snow was forecast and it was going to
be significant enough that the snow plows would
have to run, then they'd already informed everybody
repeatedly, don't park your car on the street,
park it in your driveway. We won't plow your
street if there are cars parked on it because
the liability is too high. So what does everybody
do? They park their cars on the street. And then
they bitch that their street didn't get plowed.
And I started telling people, you know, I'm delivering
the mail and they complain, yeah, they never
plow our street. And I said, well, it's because
cars are parked on it. They won't plow if there's
a single car parked on it anywhere. And then
they bitch and complain, well, I can park in
front of my house if I want to. That's the weird
thing about Wyandotte County. They'll have like
a double -wide driveway and a two -car garage.
So between that, they can get six cars parked
in there. They'll park every damn car on the
street for some weird reason. I guess none of
them trust themselves to back out of the driveway.
I guess. But everybody parked, you know, the
car, when the car is in the driveway, are the
ones that didn't run. Do you tell me when it
snows, they can't all just park in the driveway
until it's cleared? Yeah, they could. They just
choose not to. Yeah, they just choose not to.
And then they conveniently forget that the reason
their street's not plowed is because they leave
their cars parked on the street. And then they
just bitch and whine. Conveniently. Yeah. I've
got some more stories, but how long have we got?
I don't know. Two hours and eight minutes. I
think it's probably time to wrap up. I think
so. We've been probably pretty tired of hearing
our voices right now. Probably. They probably
already shut it off a long time ago. But in case
you didn't, thank you for listening. Our numbers
are reflecting it. We really appreciate you.
Thank you so much. Go fuck yourself.