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Creeps, as you probably know. Yep. With that
kind of intro, you ought to know by now. Yeah,
yep. Yep, if you haven't turned it down, you
know, or off. Alright, you got something you
want to go into? Yeah, this was a really good
story that I caught my eye recently. Here's the
headline. The songs and the listeners were fake.
but the millions of dollars stolen was real.
Okay. This is definitely something we cover here.
An American fraudster earns $8 million. Well,
he didn't earn. He stole $8 million streaming
AI songs that no human has ever listened to.
A U .S. man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians
and music streaming platforms. frauding them
out of millions of dollars via the AI creation
of hundreds of thousands of songs, which were
then streamed billions of times to AI -created
fake accounts. So it was fake music being streamed
to fake accounts, and he was paid for every one
of those billions of times it was streamed. Now,
okay, do you enjoy this as much as I do? I do.
Yes. I do. Mostly what I don't like about it
is the eight million he stole. He didn't create
any of that money. Actually, that came out of
the pool of money to be paid to artists for their
streaming royalties. Oh, yeah. So he got that
$8 million, and that meant other musicians who
actually made music that was streamed by real
people, they got nothing. Because he'd already
stolen it. He'd stolen it. What a piece of crap.
Oh, man. Okay, Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius,
North Carolina, admitted to one count of conspiracy
to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum
sentence of five. years in prison. He will learn
his sentence in July. Smith also agreed to pay
back royalties of $8 ,091 ,843 .64, all of which
obtained fraudulently. Wow. Smith has to pay
back all of it? He's got to, yep. Who knows if
he will or he can. I was just getting ready to
say, did he invest the money and come up with
more? He probably spent a lot. I would think
so. But Smith sent thousands of accounts on streaming
platforms and created software to continuously
stream hundreds of thousands of fake songs that
he himself generated via AI. Explaining the exact
nature of Smith's offense and how it was perpetrated,
a statement on the Department of Justice website
reads, Music can be streamed through music streaming
platforms such as Amazon, Apple, Spotify, YouTube.
Each time a song is streamed through one of the
streaming platforms, the songwriter who composed
the song, the musician who performed it, and
in certain cases, other rights holders are entitled
to small royalty payments. They are pretty small,
but they add up. Now, the royalty payments are
made proportionately to musicians and songwriters
from a pool of funds. So the pool is finite.
And if you get streamed more than somebody else,
you get a bigger share. But you can't increase
the size of the pool. Yeah. As a result, streaming
fraud diverts funds from musicians and songwriters
whose songs were legitimately streamed by real
consumers, and it funnels it to those who use
automation to falsely create the appearance of
legitimate streaming. Michael Smith generated
thousands of fake songs using artificial intelligence
and then streamed those fake songs billions of
times, U .S. Attorney Jake Clayton said. Although
the songs and the listeners were fake, the millions
of dollars Smith stole was real. Millions of
dollars in royalties that Smith diverted from
real deserving artists and right holders. Smith's
brazen scheme is over as he stands convicted
of a federal crime for his AI -assisted fraud.
According to the American Music Industry Bible,
Billboard, the AI music generator platform, Suno,
generates 7 million songs per day. An AI music
generating platform creates 7 million songs a
day. According to The Guardian, the streaming
site Deezer has 60 ,000 fully AI -generated tracks
delivered daily. Wow. So a ton of the content...
Wow. So a ton of the content out there is AI
-generated and fake. But if you identify it as
such, you're okay with it. But if you pretend
that it was real songs written by real humans,
then that's when you get into the fraud. Yeah.
Wow. So interesting. I'm sure he is not the first
and he won't be the last. I got a little thing
here. I just want to talk a little bit about
Gene Simmons and his retirement. Oh, yeah. Well,
he never really was one to hold back. Yeah. Okay.
But now in his retirement, he really doesn't
really have that much that he has to really care
about whenever he says something that he feels,
and I love it. Because you're getting the true
honest opinion and he doesn't back down from
it. That's true. His filters are dropping away.
Yep. He's one of the few honest celebrities left.
Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, so Gene Simmons wants
celebrities like Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo to
stop lecturing the fellow Americans about politics.
Heck yeah. Oh, I agree with that 100%. Do your
art and shut up. Nobody's interested in your
opinions. That includes me, who I vote for, who
I like. Who the fuck do people think they are?
And I agree with it. People in America work hard
for their living, and they don't want to be lectured
to by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls
Royces. It's time for everybody in the entertainment
industry to shut their pie hole and just do your
art. Nobody cares what you think. I don't. So
we've been screaming this for four -plus years
now. Bravo, Gene. I love the fact that he doesn't
care. He doesn't hold back now. He says what
he feels like. And I like the fact that a lot
of these people are starting to get backlash
when they try to do their virtue signaling and
tell everybody what to do. People are saying,
you know what? Shut the hell up. You don't know
what I'm going through. Just shut up. Well, it's
like the latest one was Billie Eilish about that
whole deal. What have you heard from her since
the native tribe said, well, you're on our land,
so let's figure something out? Nothing. Suddenly
nothing. Suddenly it doesn't matter. She never
believed it in the first place. Imagine that.
Someone told her to say that, or she took it
upon herself to say that. Yeah, don't forget
she also said, fuck ice in the same way. Oh,
yeah, that's right. In the same, yeah. So she
was trying to virtue signal to... couple different
groups well I got an adopted project for her
just like I have the adopted judge project yeah
you know so like if she really believes us I
want to see her out there helping her yeah I
want to see her out there helping yeah build
them shelter, food, give them money. So anything
short of that. She should also spend every penny
she owns investigating to see if the Tongva people
really were the original first owners or maybe
they took the land from somebody else. Oh, and
if that happens, then what? And then you have
to see if those people... paid for that land
or stole it from the people before them. I mean,
you probably have to go back 300, maybe 400 ,000
years to determine who is the actual first human
being that set foot on that land and said, this
is mine. And then you've got to make sure every
transaction since there was completely legal
and recorded. Yeah. Bullshit this is. Yeah. Yep.
So I think she's going to end up just giving
the land back to God and saying sorry. Well,
that would be a good choice. Yeah. Or surrender
it to the U .S. government. That would be, okay,
there you go. They thank their God. Oh, yeah.
So, yeah, I love it because there is starting
to be a backlash. Yep. Very much so. And there
should have been a long time ago. But people
were, I'll tell you what I think it is, is people
are at their end now. They're like, you know,
I've dealt with this and I turned the cheeks
so long. Now I can't do it anymore. Well, the
period of time when people were willing to let
celebrities lecture them and make them feel bad
and guilty about things, that's pretty much over.
You know, people don't want to be lectured to
and made to feel bad or guilty by anybody. No,
well, they've been proven to be hypocrites. Yeah.
That's the number one thing. Whatever they're
saying, they're not willing to do. Number two,
they don't even have an idea what they're talking
about, generally. Number three, they don't give
a shit. They try to act like they do. This virtual
signaling is their own guilt. And how they've
probably fucked people over and taken money and
all this stuff. Or at the very least, it's a
career boost. Yeah, or a career boost. Either
way, cheap. And not needed. No. And there's no
value there. Nothing is accomplished. Nothing
happens. Nothing is made better. No. They just
whine publicly and people go, yay, or boo, and
that's the end of it. And that's it. Nothing
happens. Nothing changes. It's useless. Yeah.
Utterly useless. Oh, well. Celebrities are basically
utterly useless anyway. Utterly useless pieces
of fucking skin, let's be honest. I mean, there
are musicians and actors. that I think are incredibly
talented and I really love what they produce,
but they are not famous and they are not celebrities
and most people don't know who they are. But
their art is still wonderful and they don't need
to be celebrities. That part is optional. Taylor
Swift's music would still be just as good even
if most people had never heard of Taylor Swift
before. If she had never become successful, her
music would still be just as good. The celebrity
part doesn't matter. It just doesn't. Anyway.
No, I agree. I got bullet points, or you got
something? Yeah, let's do the bullet points.
Okay. Where is the music industry headed? Wow.
I know, that's... You know, it's really tough
to say because wherever it's headed, it has to
be just... completely monetized to within an
inch of its life. I think this coincides with
what we're talking about FM radio finally becoming
a subscription depending on who owns the rights
to what. Yeah. Okay. I can see that happening
and I can see the music industry being a part
of it. Yeah. I think I see the music industry
becoming pretty much irrelevant because people
are going to find a way around it. They have
been forever. Yeah. I mean, you know, the best
thing they could do for a long time is like when
people are ripping off from limelight, they put
a nasty virus in there. Got a bunch of computers.
Napster, you know, same thing. Well, you've heard
of vanity publishers. I'll see ads for them all
the time. They say, if you've got a manuscript,
we'll get it published for you. Oh, yeah, yeah,
I did see that. Yeah, and they make it sound
like they're going to sign you and your book's
going to go out there and be published and sold
and just you're going to make money. No, you
pay for every step of that because it's a vanity
project. You want your book published. You want
it distributed. You're paying for every bit of
it. They will do it for you, but it's not like
a bunch of people want your book. My grandfather's
brother, I think Walter Hughes, wrote a book
about his time in World War II as a bomber pilot.
And it was really interesting. It was really
informative. In fact, Stephen Ambrose quoted
it in one of his books about World War II. But
it was a vanity project. It was basically he
had about 1 ,000 copies printed up, and he gave
them away to people he liked. I think the music
industry is going to turn that way. You have
an album you want to put out, and you do it all
yourself. You pay it all yourself, and you directly
market it, and you get the money back. There
doesn't need to be a big overarching music industry
taking 75 % of every dollar earned. I think people
are going to realize we don't need that big monstrosity.
Music's going to be easier to get and cheaper
to get if we just avoid them altogether. Yeah,
I agree. I think that's probably where it's going
to go. There will still be a music industry that's
putting out absolute bullshit, and small -minded
people will jump on board. With so many people
on the planet, you can probably find a million
or three that will... Buy whatever you're selling.
We could have gold -plated dog turds, and we
could probably sell to about 100 ,000 people
on the planet because there's just that many
people. That many people would be it. Doesn't
have to be a good idea anymore. I mean, if you're
in a village of 10 people, you really got to
know what they want and give them what they want.
If you're on a planet with 8 billion, it doesn't
matter what you make. Somebody's going to want
it. Somebody's going to want it, yep. All right.
Do you believe that once the 90s rock bands retire,
Will that be it for rock music? No, I don't think
so. Rock music is always done best when it's
the outsider, when it's not the big thing. That's
what makes this comeback. Whenever it becomes
mainstream, it destroys it. And, I mean, look
at the 80s and look at the 90s. I mean, all of
this great music, the 70s, all this great music
and all of the protest music and the anger music,
all of a sudden when it started hitting, radio
waves and became huge, that's when the band started
following suit, but not doing what they felt.
Bands doing what they feel because they have
nothing to lose is what rock music is based on.
Think of the 70s when you had these huge super
groups like The Stones and ELP. Genesis and all
these massive tours and overblown music and disco
and all that. And then punk music came along
and said, we don't need all that crap. We need
four or five guys, doesn't matter if they can
play, playing shit instruments they bought at
a garage sale, and it can still be compelling.
And it's all attitude. And it killed that whole
big bloated 70s scene. Punk ran its course, and
then we had hair metal in the 80s, and then everyone
got sick of the posers there. And hair metal
was actually pretty much derived from punk. It
was part punk, part rock, a little twist on it.
They had to do something different, and that's
what they did. Because that's the earlier...
Ones that became hair metal, like the Quiet Riots
and stuff like that. They weren't exactly glam.
They were more like sleaze rock or something
you called it, which came from punk. Yeah, absolutely.
But I think since the mid to late 90s, it's not
anymore what the public wants. what they are
going to give us. The music industry decides
what's going to be current and popular and hot,
and that's the only thing they provide, and people
no longer go looking for good music. They just
take what they're given. Yes. Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, and you create a great story for the artist
or the band or whatever, create a couple fan
clubs, maybe get a music project going, and it
doesn't matter if the music's any good because
there's nothing any better. You know, this is
all we're offering you. Take it or leave it.
Take it or leave it, yep. As the outsider, rock
will do fine. Okay. All right. With so much talent
and personalization taking out of new music,
will this be a key factor in rock's huge decline?
Yeah. I think so. We're going to go through a
period where it's just like... Nobody cares about
the music of this era because it all sounds the
same. It's all fakey garbage. It's all written
to a formula. Half of it's called O'Toon and
sequencers and AI. And the formula rock, I think,
is really what destroyed it more than anything.
It's because everyone started recognizing patterns
to every song. There really wasn't that much
difference in the way they sang to the instruments
and how they were played. Pretty much everything.
reminded you of another song almost exactly.
And I think that was intentional. Keep people
right in the middle of their comfort zone. I
kind of compare it to the steroid era in baseball
because all those players are no longer thought
of as heroes and great players and they're not
celebrities. It's all just like a bunch of drug
doers. They injected and snorted and did whatever
it took to fake their way into these numbers
and so why should I care about it? I think this
big chunk of music is going to be exactly like
that. Yeah, I think so. All right. Guns N' Roses'
new hit, Nothin', N -O -T -H -I -N -O -G, is
holding on the charts for a few months now. Guns
is still a huge band. Is this why it's doing
so well, or they just put out more honest music?
You know, there's something to be said about
the fact they're putting out honest music. You
can tell that it's performed by real musicians
with real instruments. And they're trying to
make something that actually is good, as opposed
to Motley Crue just throwing out bullshit just
to say they put out an album. And people see
that and identify with it, and they like that.
Now, is this the best song they've ever did?
No. Not by far. But it's a lot better than what
they could have given us. Bingo. That's it. So
it is holding on to rock charts fine, and it's
selling. Yeah. So that tells me that there is
still something there, just like you said. An
authentic product, I think, will sell. Exactly.
You may never be a multi -millionaire off of
it, but it will sell. It will sell. And, yeah,
if you compare the sales of this to, I don't
know, Appetite or Use Your Illusion, it's not
going to be close. Yeah. But nothing is. Nothing
is. Nothing sells like it does. Hello, this is
Phineas J. Altaris III. I'm here to deliver your
music news this evening. Hold the line. Toto's
U .S. tour is coming together just fine. I didn't
write that. Legendary rock band Toto will be
touring as an evening with Steve Lukather and
Joseph Williams. They have curated a set list
for this entire excursion. February 18th, the
tour kicks off in Milwaukee and will wrap up
in Buffalo, Michigan. Our home base of Kansas
City is getting snubbed, unless you feel like
traveling to Tulsa, Omaha, or Des Moines. That's
not very far to travel, so if you love Toto,
there you go. This is Phineas J. Baltaris III.
That has been your music news for this evening.
I have one burning question for you all. Do people
really skip around the Maypole? It's a completely
different time. But the fact that they put out
a song that makes a difference in 2026. Being
a late 80s band like they were really means something.
And it's honesty, like you said. They're putting
out an honest product and people are responding.
I can't see Pearl Jam putting anything out that
would have any kind of relevance ever again.
That's a great example. Pearl Jam is a perfect
example of that. They had their time and they're
all done. Most people just kind of don't give
a crap about Pearl Jam anymore. It's like the
girl you dated when you were 17. And you're in
your 70s now. It's like, yeah, that was fun,
but who cares? Well, yeah, I look back at ex
-girlfriends and kind of scratch my head and
go, what was I thinking? Yeah, I guess it was
fun at the time, but I ain't going back there
again. Yeah, no, it's like, boy, I'm glad I got
through that. That's kind of what Pearl Jam is.
Yeah, exactly. People are going, you know, they
were okay for a minute, but I really don't want
to go back and listen to them. Okay, who was
the... Greatest guitar band ever. That's tough.
That is tough. I would say Aerosmith would be
one of them. Aerosmith would be a good example.
At one time, Motley Crue. Yeah. Bad Company.
Bad Company. Judas Priest was really good at
guitar rock. Yeah. Bad Company. Definitely Bad
Company. Matter of fact, Band Company would probably
be the more mainstream, shiny example of guitar
rock. I can't really say Foreigner because they
had a lot of other elements, synthesizers and
saxophone mainly. That's true, that's true. But
just basically guitar -based rock. Yeah. Van
Halen until they got to synths. Yeah, Van Halen
at first was a really good example. Pretty much
anything Sammy Hagar did from Montrose to his
solo stuff was just heavily... Guitar -based.
Yeah, it was all pretty much based on guitar.
Black Sabbath, of course. Black Sabbath, yeah.
Queen. Queen is a good one. They used some piano,
but they never used any synthesizers. No, no,
no. And the piano was just, you know, that was
pretty much Freddie Mercury's creativity to the
song. Yeah. Because that's what his instrument
made as well, besides singing, you know, being
such a good singer. Yeah. So, yeah. It's funny,
piano kind of qualifies as a percussion instrument.
Because you hit those keys, and that makes a
hammer hit the string. So it's like a hammered
dulcimer, at least. Pretty much. But also, pianos
are considered part of the rhythm section with
the bass and drums. I can see that, too. Yeah,
isn't that weird? Yeah, no, it is. But, I mean,
personally, if piano's done right, you can't
beat it. One of the best instruments. So, okay,
who was the coolest looking rock star ever? David
Lee Roth, when he was younger, was very cool.
Yeah, he was like the perfect front man image.
Vince Neal was another one. Vince Neal was like
the perfect rock and roll guy. Going back to
the older, I think Mark Bolan from T -Rex. Some
of the early glam bands had a really good look.
Ian Gillen, he looked like a rocker. Let's see.
Yeah, there have been a lot of them. But there's
some that just didn't look. I mean, Elvis Costello
never looked like a musician. No, and to his
credit, he never did try to be the good -looking
fucking front guy. He was always the nerdy. He
was kind of Buddy Holly. Yeah. Nerdy -ish. Yeah.
Yeah. And, I mean, his music didn't exactly,
you know, was it like guitar? idol type of guy
no he was never trying to be the biggest act
in the world no no he had his I enjoy a lot of
his stuff I think he was very talented I think
so too yeah I was trying to remember his name
his name is Declan something Declan shoot McManus
I think yeah I think that sounds about right
Declan McManus I think is his real name I still
love it. Elvis Costello is a great stage. It
really is. It's an awesome stage. It is. People
look at him and go, that's Elvis Costello? Yeah,
yeah, a nerdy -looking guy with glasses. That's
him right there. All right. Brian May had a stroke
a year ago. He is recovering nicely. Will he
ever tour again? You know, I really don't think
he's going to. the urge to do so. He could, I
think. I think he could if he wanted to, but
I really don't think he cares to. They have not
said any plans at all because they have a...
Oh, what's his name from American Idol? He's
been doing it for a while now. Lambert? Adam
Lambert. And they do very well with him. George
Michael was the best post -Freddie Mercury. Nobody,
me, nobody knew the guy had that much range and
that much talent until he joined Queen and people
were going, gosh, if there was someone that could,
you know, kind of not replace. Or at least carry
on. Carry on, yeah. It would have been George
Michael. But then he died young, too. Yes, he
did. Yeah, heart attack, though. Yeah, not AIDS
or nothing like that. He had a problem with bathrooms.
He did have a little difficulty with public restrooms,
yes. Yeah, they don't like you exposing yourself
and asking for sexual acts, I guess. No. Yeah,
they look down on that. All right. Yeah, I don't
think he is either. I think that's it. I mean,
the mere fact that he had a stroke and he's recovering
would tell me that he's probably, he's almost
80. He's like, no, no. Let's put the brakes.
Let me jump in and mention. Brian Setzer, formerly
of the Stray Cats. He's wanting to get back together
with the Stray Cats. I thought he was. Yeah,
yeah. He had that autoimmune disease that was
messing up his ability to move his muscles and
fingers and actually play, but he seems to be
pretty much over that now. But he said a second
thing that was screwing him up, he actually had
to go to rehab for, was that over -the -counter
drug known as Kratom. K -R -A -T -O -M it's not
all that well regulated because it's not considered
a real drug or anything but he was it's supposed
to be like an energy booster and he was using
that like constantly and it really started screwing
up his body and he couldn't just quit he had
to get medical help to get off of it wow yeah
so I don't know how much he was doing or whatever
else might be mixed in with it but it makes me
want to stay way away from that stuff Wow. Yeah.
Wow. Yeah. I didn't know that. I knew he had
the autoimmune disease, but I didn't know all
that other. No, it just recently came out. He
said, I actually had to go to rehab and get medical
help to get off it. And I really like Brian Setzer.
I've always liked the stray cats. They go to
their own. They beat. You know, they go to their
own drum beat. And, I mean, they broke the market.
Oh. Big band swing music. Yeah. I mean, it was,
people loved it. Yeah. They were a rage. Yeah,
the Brian Setzer Orchestra was pretty awesome
stuff. They got some great songs. I love that.
Yes. Yep. The Dirty Boogie and Ba Ba Boom, I
think. Ba Ba Boom, yeah. A couple albums I remember.
And he wrote all the arrangements. Oh, I know.
He's so talented. Yeah. And then seeing them
live on a video special, that was pretty amazing
too. Oh, I would love to see that. See if I can
find that on YouTube somewhere. That's one of
the things is I love... Oh, what's wrong? I'm
trying to see how much time we have. Okay, it's
about noon real time, so we've got two hours.
Before we get kicked out, I think we're going
to be fine. Yeah, we'll be fine. Okay, I forgot
where I was at, but okay, I've got a final question
here. Kansas City supports two rock stations.
Both are currently in the top ten. 101 the Fox
is number two and The Rock is number seven. So
why is it the rock shows don't sell in Kansas
City? There's an audience. Yeah, I guess it's
because they're getting their rock music another
way. I blame the stations. I don't think they're
promoting it correctly. Well, that's true too.
And their playlists are so limited. That's the
other thing too. It just makes me sad to hear.
You tune in on day one of the week and you hear
some songs and then you tune in the next day
and you hear about half of those songs again.
Yeah. There's not a lot of songs I want to hear
every single day. Oh, yeah. Well, to me, they're
like people that don't really care that much
about music listening to radio, modern radio,
like terrestrial radio. The reason is, is because
they want the same thing fed to them every day.
People that actually care about music, in my
opinion, are like, I don't want to hear this
shit again. They're going to come up with something
different. Yeah. And there are people also, like
you were saying, that use music as something
other than something to focus your attention
on. Like last night I was working on a number
of the podcast stories. I was down in my studio,
and it was pretty quiet down there, and I was
getting a little lonely. Because I could hear
Cindy moving around upstairs, and I could hear
Paisley trotting around. So I turned on the TV
and put on reruns of M .A .S .H., which was a
medical show from the 70s. And I put it on low
enough that I could hear the people talking,
but unless I paid attention, I couldn't really
tell what they were saying. But that was enough
company that I didn't feel lonely down there
anymore. So people use music for the same thing.
It's like, it's too quiet in here, I've got to
have something on. I think that's a lot of radio
listeners is that. I think so too. I like your
right background noise. Because when I want to
hear, when I want to actually listen to music,
I know what I want to hear and I go find it and
I play it. I don't turn on the radio and just
hope they play something I might like eventually.
Yeah. It's just too much of a crapshoot. No,
that's the same here. Yeah. And like, oh, if
I'm working out in the yard, sometimes I'll turn
it on. Yeah. just for something. But, you know,
when the same song comes on, I don't necessarily
give a shit because it's not the focal point.
It's just like, okay, it's back there, whatever.
Yeah. And I hate it getting invested into a song
and then somebody talks over the ending or they
play the edited version. That pisses me off more
than anything. Waste my time. The edited version
is like cutting out usually the best parts of
the song. Yeah, they always cut out the guitar
solos. You know what I'm saying? It's like...
They think people listening at work don't want
guitar solos. I do. Yeah. I used to listen to
radio at work. I wanted guitar solos. Yeah, I
did too. And I'm like, yeah, this ain't working.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, that's all the bullet
points that I had. Okay. I've got stories about
some songs that initially flopped. Or underperformed
on their first release, but then had massive
success later. Okay. Take On Me by A -Ha was
released in 84 and just utterly failed. One year
later, they re -recorded it and paired it with
an iconic video. Is it the same band? Yeah. They're
both called A -Ha. Okay. When they had their
smash hit with it, it was just... Two of the
guys you see in the video were actually in the
band. The guy playing the drums was not a member
of the band, and he was just there to mime along
because it was actually a drum machine. Oh. Okay.
So that third guy in the video playing the drums,
yeah, he was just there for looks. Okay. When
I'm With You by Sheriff, released in 83, failed
to make the U .S. Top 40, but a 1989 re -release
went to number one after a DJ started playing
it. The one, I'm Gonna Be. I'm gonna walk 500
miles. Yeah. That one was by the Proclaimers.
They released it in 88, and it was a hit in the
UK and Australia, totally flopped in the US,
until its inclusion on the Benny and June soundtrack
in 1993. And then it went to number three. Didn't
realize that. I thought it was a hit before that.
Movie soundtrack. This next one, the same thing.
Holiday Road by Lindsey Buckingham. Oh, yeah.
Released in 83. Peaked it on the number 82. But
then it become a beloved classic because it was
in National Lampoon's Vacation. Yeah. And now
you hear it all the time whenever people are
talking about holidays or something. You hear
that. And Lindsey Buckingham gets a little extra
money every time. Yep. And I'm not a huge fan
of that song, but, I mean. It's okay. If it's
a holiday song, it's good. If it's a regular
song, eh. Yeah. So. Running Up That Hill by Kate
Bush. Initially released in 1985, and it was
modestly successful. Yeah. But then it was re
-released in 2022 after being included in the
show Stranger Things. Went right to number one.
That does not surprise me. And all of a sudden,
everybody wanted to hear more by Kate Bush. Stranger
Things brought back New Coke for a little bit.
It did. Well, you had to order it, but yes. Tempted
by the Squeeze, released in 1981, did not achieve
high chart success upon release, but gained popularity
later through compilation albums, media exposure,
and being included in the best of albums. It
got way more distribution doing it that way than
it ever got on its original release. Another
example is the Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime.
It failed on initial release, but eventually
it grew. Duran Duran's Girls on Film failed on
the first release because I think it was on their
first album. And then their second album was
the one where they broke. That was the one that
broke. And then they went back to their first
album and started re -releasing stuff. Hungry
Like the Wolf was the big break. Yeah, that sounds
about right. Yeah, but Girls on Film was the
previous album. Yeah, but it came back after
that. Because I remember when it did, I mean,
yeah. It was like, oh shoot, Whitesnake did the
same thing. Yeah, yeah. I think they've got them
coming up, too, actually. Okay. I Melt With You
by Modern English. I Stopped the World and Melt
With You. Barely chartered upon its 82 release.
And then a year later, it was featured in the
movie Valley Girl and took off. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
Blue Monday by New Order was not a massive hit
on its first release and purportedly lost money
due to its expensive packaging, but slowly became
more and more popular. It had multiple re -releases
and re -mixes and is now considered the 69th
best -selling single in the UK ever. Wow. For
a song that flopped out of the game. For a song
that flopped out of the game. That's pretty good.
Don't give up on your song. Yeah. Here's one
by a little band called Guns N' Roses. Paradise
City got little airplay in the spring of 88,
at least down south where this person was listening.
But it was quickly forgotten until Sweet Child
took off in that fall, and then the whole album
almost a year old before it finally caught on.
Yeah. So Paradise City was supposed to be their
first hit single. It just didn't work. It took
a year for it to break. Okay. I didn't know that
that was supposed to be their first one, but
I know that it was being pushed ahead of time.
Yeah. But it didn't really hit because, let's
see, Welcome to the Jungle was the inaugural.
hit. So that hit big, but then they started playing
Sweet Child of Mine because for some reason people
liked that guitar at the first and it was catchy
and it was a great radio song because it wasn't
real long in length and people remember it. So
then Paradise City came a long time later and
it's probably a year or so after like it said.
It was easier to remember the hook to Sweet Child
than it was the hook to Paradise City. Yes. But
once people liked the band, they put forth the
extra effort to memorize the hook of other stuff,
too. Yeah, there's more hits off that album,
too, because Rock Radio started playing about
everything they could find on that album. Pour
Some Sugar On Me, Def Leppard. It tanked on release.
Utterly tanked. but then every strip club in
the English -speaking world bought a copy. Yep.
Because that was a great strip song. Yes, apparently
it was. Here's the one, Here I Go Again by Whitesnake,
released in 82, but then it was re -recorded
in 87, and it hit number one on the Billboard
Hot 100. Yep, that was off of Saints and Sinners,
I think. I believe so. Yeah, and that was okay
to be fair. They were huge in Europe and not
that big over here yet. Yeah. And one of the
reasons is because they were kind of like the
secondary deep purple. Yeah. They were not this
famous. And I'm talking about Glenn Hughes and
David Coverdell. Yeah. People were aware of them
and they liked their talent. Everyone was fond
of Roger Glover and Ian Gillen more and more
familiar with him. So the people in Europe didn't
care. They loved all of it. So when David Coverdell
came out with his group, he hit in Europe but
did not hit here at all. I mean, as a matter
of fact, it went nowhere at first, like it said.
Yeah, funny. And they didn't even get a record
contract over here until Geffen took him up in
87 with the... I had self -titled one, even though
it was like their fifth album. That's not uncommon.
There's a number of bands that have put their
self -titled album out late in their career.
Motley Crue. Motley Crue, yeah. Let's see. And
the last one is a pretty well -remembered one.
Aerosmith's Dream On. It was released in 1973
on their first album and just bombed. Bombed.
It was panned by the critics. They thought it
was sappy and stupid and poorly done. Two years
later, when they... The album Toys in the Attic
came out, and they started having hits with Walk
This Way and Sweet Emotions. All of a sudden,
the re -release of Dream On, and it just became
enormous. You couldn't get away from it. Yeah,
and now you can't get away from that song. Yeah,
and now I've heard it enough times that I'm okay
not ever hearing it again. I'm okay not ever
hearing it again. It's still a good song. That
was the ones that flopped on the initial release.
That was really good. I have an old radio stunt
here that I, full disclosure, I found this on
the KY102 tribute website yesterday. And I thought
this would be a good thing to cover. But, you
know, we all had our local morning shows that
did very well. And some of them were a little
bit more shocking than others, of course. So
one of the ones that were actually probably best
at it locally. Was Max Hannon Moffitt. Yeah.
Of KY -102. Yeah. And so, this is from her Christopher
Jr.'s column back, you know, I'm not even sure
what year this was, but it was 99 -7, so it was
later on, it was in the 90s at some point. So,
and this is regarding Smurfing. Oh. So, or later
on turned into Porky Pig. He's Porky Pigging
it. Yeah. So here's the article, and this just
happened, so it's going to say last week and
stuff like that. So last week, 99 .7 KY Morning
Show personality Max Floyd and Larry Moffat exported
a pair of exotic dancers from the Gala Gentlemen's
Club in Olathe for a little smurfing session.
That's where topless women take a victory lap
around a limo. During the broadcast. Oh, gosh.
Olathe police saw it, pulled the group over,
and referred the matter over to the city prosecutor's
office. So, here is basically what it's saying
here is they did not have a law to cover it,
and they had to come up with a law to make sure
that it didn't happen again. That's funny. There
is no law against smurfing or porky -pigging
up to that date in Olathe. And it took 99 .7
to figure that out, and they did, and they exploited
it. So they said, we are writing new ordinances
to specifically address smurfing or what they
call porky -pigging, because who would want topless
or bottomless women in a private parking lot?
That's what he said, but I could tell him who
wants that. So anyhow. Luckily for the KY gang,
they're all off the hook legally this time. Actually,
we don't have any anti -nudity ordinance. Dickie,
who was the city council at the time, said that
they're going to have to work harder to come
up with pranksters doing stuff like this in a
way to cover it and to come up with some ordinances
that would discourage this happening in the future.
Wow, this is so old that... 96 .5 The Buzz just
came about. Oh, wow. It was just incarnated.
And KLZR just switched to The Zone. Oh, I remember
KLZR. Yeah, because they used to be an indie
kind of alternative station. They just played
what they wanted because they were college. And
they were very good because they played stuff
that no one else would. They didn't care. And
this is when they flipped formats, and I don't
know what they are now. I don't even know if
they're still around. It's tough to know. Yeah,
so. You know, that kind of raises an interesting
question, is at what point does it become not
okay for a woman or a female human being, I'll
say it that way, a female human being to have
bare breasts in public? I don't know. Well, a
wife is. I guess has it covered now, but it didn't.
But think about if a little two -year -old girl
is running around with her shirt off and just
a diaper on, nobody cares. Yeah, that's true.
So at what age does it suddenly become a problem,
or is it breast size? Is it written in the law
exactly at what point it becomes indecent exposure
and against the law for a female human being
to have her shirt off? How can you define something
like that? I know. I think it's all just kind
of vague. Well, that's what they took advantage
of, is that right there. Because, you know, I've
seen an episode of the medical show ER. I saw
an episode of that where they had an infant who
was a girl, and they were moving her from one
place to another, and this little girl was completely
nude. You know, she was probably, you know, in
the show she was supposed to be a few hours old,
but in reality she was probably six months old.
But you saw her completely bare chest, and you
actually could see the slit of her vagina. Oh,
my God. So there was full frontal nudity of a
six -year -old girl on TV, and it was nobody
cared. It was no big deal. It was not an issue.
So at what age does it become a problem? At what
age can you not show? Is it age? What about little
boys? At what age can you not show a little boy's
bare ass on TV before it becomes inappropriate?
Do they actually have that written in law somewhere?
I don't think they do. I don't think they do
either. And another good example is breastfeeding.
There are a lot of places where they say it's
completely legal for a woman to breastfeed in
public. But they never say how old the kid can
be. So if you've got a woman whose kid is 17
years old, she could legally whip her shirt off,
the kid could latch on, and whether or not he's
getting anything doesn't matter because it's
legal. Or is a 17 -year -old suddenly illegal
now? Good question. Because, you know, there's
going to be somebody who's going to test it.
It's like, oh, breastfeeding's okay, then I'm
going to do, then I'm going to go out because
you never said it had to be a woman. There's
all sorts of ways you can take advantage of the
law and just push it and say, all right, now
you've got to very clearly define exactly what's
illegal and what is okay. Yeah. I can see that
becoming a giant mess. Yeah, the thing is, is
how do you govern something like that? It's virtually
impossible to. Yeah, because it's a judgment
call. Yeah. And this goes back to everything.
The judgment call goes all the way back to the
people versus Larry Flint. Yep. What person views
as smut, another person might view as art. Yep.
And how can you prove any different? Yeah. It's
virtually impossible to prove. Yeah. I'm sure
there's all sorts of stuff that just slides all
the way through the cracks because they can't
nail it down. And they don't even want to try.
Yeah. Because then they spend all their time
in appeals court. Yeah, unless you're a Latham.
Yeah. I guess they've got it figured out about
smutting. Do you remember the, it was a copper
tone suntan lotion. And their commercials, their
print ads were always a girl about maybe five
years old in a yellow bikini. And a dog was grabbing
her bikini bottom and pulling it down and showing
most of her ass. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And showing
that she had tan lines. Yes. Yeah. Here was this
advertisement in major magazines showing a five
-year -old girl with her ass hanging out. Uh
-huh. And supposedly that was okay because you
were selling suntan lotion. Yeah. Really? Yeah.
I'd forgotten all about that. Yeah. Oh, man,
yeah, that was something else. What about the
little cartoon pictures on the backs of people's
pickup trucks that show a little boy pissing
on something? Yes. That's a good point. Isn't
that child pornography? If you've got pictures
of little boys peeing on things, isn't that child
pornography? I would think so. But here it is
on the back of your pickup and you're making
a statement. Because he's like pissing on a commie
flag. Or a Raiders. Yeah, pissing on a Raiders
logo. Still, you've got a picture of a little
boy peeing on something. It was pants down, peeing
on something on your truck. That's pornography.
That is child pornography. And I don't think
they do that anymore, do they? I've not seen
that in a long time. I started spreading the
rumor that that's how pedophiles recognize each
other because they've got a little picture of
Calvin urinating on something in the back of
their... That was Calvin from Calvin and the
Hawks, right? Their big lifted pickup with the
fake latex balls hanging from the trailer hitch.
That's how pedophiles recognize each other in
public. The transgendered truck. Yeah, that's
a transgendered truck because it wasn't born
with those latex balls hanging from its trailer
hitch. Those were added on in a sex change operation
for your pickup truck. So all those rednecks
out there, they are fully supporting trans rights
for pickup trucks. Yes, they are. And also, I
would like to know, did they make sure that it
was okay with the truck? Did they have legal
consent? To do this? Did they fondle those latex
balls while they were putting them on their truck?
I would like to know that. Yes, I would. I would
like to know that. Yeah? Yeah, I would like to
do a saliva test too. And you know, if a woman
is driving a pickup truck, does she get to hang
like a latex vagina off the back of her trailer
hitch? You know, I'm all for that. I think that's
a great idea. Although if you want the analogous
structure, you know, where the guy has testicles
hanging from his pickup truck, then a woman should
have, like, ovaries hanging from the back of
her pickup truck. I think that's a great idea.
I think it's a good idea, yeah. I mean, just
make things even. Just make things even. You
know, a little couple of ovaries hanging by their
fallopian tubes, bouncing on the road, you're
driving along. Why not? Yeah, I agree. Get a
couple of big... veiny latex balls on your truck.
I'm so glad that fat is gone. So am I. That was
just ugly. But, you know, at least it helped
you identify who the tools were out there. Oh,
absolutely. Yeah. Balls on his pickup? Oh, yeah.
Yep, yep. It's like, I'm staying away from this
idiot. Don't make eye contact. Yeah, don't make
eye contact. Don't engage him in a conversation.
Yeah, don't bend over either. Well, I got a list
of some songs that were either regretted or actively
disliked by their creators. Oh, that guy sounds
great. All right. Up first, we have Lana Del
Rey with a song called Ultraviolence. I don't
think I'm familiar with this. Initially, it had
the lyric in there, quote, he hit me and it felt
like a kiss. And she decided, you know, maybe
it's not a good idea to sing that line anymore.
I would say she's probably right on that aspect.
Officially, she said she no longer supports the
sentiment. And I was thinking, when would you
have ever supported that sentiment? Yeah. He
hits you and you feel loved? What? Oh, okay.
Yeah, I don't think so. Katie Perry, I kissed
the girl. expressed that she changed the lyrics
due to stereotypes about bisexuality that evolved
since 2008. No, I think the record company told
her to. But it lets you know that she was trying
to capitalize on the way the public felt about
bisexuality at the time. That's why it was included
in the song. When it stopped working for her,
she took it back out. She took it back out, yep.
It never meant anything. It never meant a thing.
And she probably said that after she joined American
Idol. Yeah. Lady Gaga, her song Telephone, featuring
Beyonce. She just plain hates the song and can't
even listen to it. She just thinks it's an awful
song. No particular thing wrong with it, she
just doesn't like it. But you know, an actor
doesn't have to always like the movie he's in.
No. It just kind of doesn't matter. No, it doesn't.
You're right. Here's Paramore. Misery Business.
Hayley Williams stopped performing this hit due
to regret over the slut -shaming lyrics. Ariana
Grande, Put Your Hearts Up. She called her debut
single inauthentic and fake, and she says it
gives her nightmares. She just hates that song.
Wow. Yeah. Well, I'm sure she had absolutely
nothing to do with writing it or arranging it.
They got her in the studio and said, do this.
And she did. Because she was obligated. James
Blunt, You're Beautiful. He believes the song
was marketed poorly and became utterly annoying
to absolutely everybody. I would agree it became
utterly annoying. It's kind of like Neil Diamond
regretting how Sweet Caroline became so annoying
to everybody. Yeah. Because it was just overexposure.
Yep. Mandy Moore in the song Candy said her early
pop work was awful and joked about giving refunds.
I think a lot more bands should issue refunds.
I think so, too. I think Metallica has to offer
refunds for about four different albums, don't
they? Yeah, if not more. If not more. I mean,
actually, they need to pay pain and suffering,
too. Yeah, that's true. I mean, it can't just
be an even plunge. They've got to pay a little
bit more. That was a lot of pain and suffering.
Yeah. Radiohead in their song Creep. often felt
forced to play their biggest hit, which they
became bored with and grew to despise. Hey there,
slap nuts. It's time for the Creeps Music News.
Hey, my little pumpkin seeds. This is Johnny
Rohypnol with your music news. John Karabi, former
lead singer of Motley Crue and The Scream, has
a new album coming out on April 24th called New
Day. You can pre -order the album online. The
effort features guitars like Richard Fortis from
Guns N' Roses, Paul Taylor from winger Steve
Perry on keyboards, Marty Freckerson, producer
of Multi -Instrumentalist, and Charlie Starr
from Blackberry Smoke on guitar solos, alongside
Evan Freckerson on drums and bass. This should
be a pretty good album. Sure has a lot of talent
to go with it. This is Johnny Rohypnol. That
was your Music News, and remember, Our chords
are bullshit. Oh, I knew that, yeah. In fact,
the guitar player hated it from the beginning.
If you'll notice as they're leading into the
chorus, he starts hitting those jangly, rough
chords. Yeah. He was trying to sabotage the recording,
but it didn't work. Yeah. It actually made the
song sound a little bit better. It actually kind
of worked, yeah. I remember playing it in the
cover band, and the guitar player couldn't figure
out the timing of that, and he always screwed
it up. I thought it's not that tough. I don't
know what would make it so tough. I don't think
so either. Taylor Swift in her song Picture to
Burn. She changed the lyric in the song that
she deemed was homophobic. Of course. It's like,
why would you put it in the first place? Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah, and so what
happens is somebody suggested something, and
she's like, I better go take it out. Yep. Yeah.
Beastie Boys, you got to fight for your right
to party. They were trying to make fun of the
frat boy culture, but it wound up being the anthem
for the frat boy culture. The very people they
were making fun of adopted it as an anthem. Wow.
Yeah, they were always trying to make you think,
this is stupid, don't do it. And people said,
wow, this is great, I'm going to do it. They're
really fighting an establishment. I'm picturing
Travis Kelsey saying it over and over and over
because he just didn't get it that they were
making fun of people like that. He did not get
that. He did not. Good at football player. Kind
of unaware socially. I think so. I think so.
And last on the list is Jay -Z with the song
Big Pimpin' has expressed regret over the misogynistic
lyrics. But you look at a lot of rap and they
treat women pretty badly in the lyrics of a lot
of rap songs. I think there's a whole bunch you
can be angry about. Yes, very easily. Yeah? Yeah.
Okay. All right. Thank you. That was good. Thank
you. All right. Let's see. I don't know if I
want to go into anything too heavy here. I got
a bunch of things that rock bands and rock stars
did that got them in the most amount of trouble,
as opposed to some of the stuff that they did
that got them in some trouble. But I'm just going
to do some stories, just random stories. Sounds
good. All right. Okay, this one's saying, talk
about making lemonade. Javier Yacht, a 23 -year
-old mechanic in Brooklyn, New York, is lining
his pockets of cash after setting up a tire station
next to a huge pothole. Isn't that great? That's
like the kids selling Girl Scout cookies next
to the weed dispensary. Yes, it is capitalism.
You figure something out, you find a market,
and you do it. Wow. Okay, so this mechanic in
Brooklyn is lining his pockets with cash after
setting up a tire station next to the huge pothole.
The New York Post reported March 17th, Yacht
works out of his van and typically runs out of
replacement tires each night. Wow. Isn't that
something? So he has the tires right there and
everything. He's probably paying the city not
to fix the pothole. Yeah, I would. I would too.
Do you want to keep getting tax money? I'd be
contacting the street department and say, hey,
forget this pothole and I'll give you 20 bucks
a day. So he says I have to pay a runner to go
back and forth to the shop and pick me up what
I need, Yacht said. I think the pothole is approximately
60 square inches by 12 inches deep. That's a
big son of a bitch, he said. He arrives in the
area around 12 .30 a .m. and stays there until
10 a .m., changing 15 to 20 tires each night
and charging between $150 and $300 per tire.
Yep, one man's misfortune and another man's blessing,
Yacht said. That is great, isn't it? Oh my gosh.
You know, if the city's not going to fix it,
why not? Well, and people are on board, obviously.
Yeah. They're like, oh, you'll fix it right now?
He's providing a needed service that people are
willing to pay for. I hope no one's interfering
with him. Oh, no, I believe people are probably
thanking God he's standing there. Yeah. You know
how many people, like 3 a .m., do not want to
change a tire? Yeah, or have no idea how or are
physically unable to. Yeah, well, that's another
thing, too, is they don't have an idea. He's
got everything right there, the floor jack, the
tire, and everything. He throws your tire that's
destroyed in your trunk, has a new tire on there,
you're on your way. Hell, I swapped out a garbage
disposal yesterday, and that was difficult enough,
and I've already done it three times. Oh, shit,
yeah. Oh, I've got my work cut out for me. I'm
going to have to, since I'm buying my next automatic
dishwasher from Costco. Well, someone said that
they do tearouts, but I read on the webpage when
I was getting ready to pay for it that it said
that you have to have the old one ready to be
taken on the truck and disposed of, and then
they'll install the new one for free. So I have
to tear out the old one and then keep it as is
until they come and put the new one in. Yeah.
I think there's just like a few screws holding
the front arm to the cabinetry. And then there's
like one electrical cord, water supply, and a
water drain. I think that's about the only connection.
Yeah, I think the water supply and the water
drain is going to be the most, you know, let's
see, involved. And then you want to make sure
you don't scratch up your floor pulling it out
because they're not really designed to treat
your floor nicely. Oh, no, no, no. They've probably
got, like, metal runners on the bottom of them.
Yes. Yeah, there's no wheels on those things.
Well, that's where the dolly comes in. As soon
as I get that thing detached, it's going on that
dolly. The back saver. Yeah, yep. Anyhow, you
got something? Yeah, I got a story about the
Fender Musical Instrument Company has been in
court. Okay. And they've secured a major legal
victory. Okay. As of March 26, 2026, Fender has
secured a major legal victory in Germany with
a court ruling that the Stratocaster body design
is protected under copyright law. This allows
Fender to stop the sale and import of infringing
Strat style... guitars into the European Union
aimed at curbing counterfeiters and copycat manufacturers.
The ruling by the Regional Court of Dusseldorf
prohibits Yiwu Philharmonic Musical Instrument
Company, which is a Chinese affiliated with AliExpress,
from selling guitars featuring the Stratocaster
body shape in the Germany or the European Union.
The Stratocaster body was deemed a work of applied
art rather than merely functional, granting it
stronger protection than standard trademarks.
Violations can result in fines of up to 250 ,000
euros per instance or imprisonment. Okay, so
this is for the shape, the shape of the body.
Now, the headstock shape has been declared public
domain. Okay, that's what I was getting at. So
the headstock, no one can see. Because straps
have... I'm sorry, it's the opposite. The headstock
is copyrighted. Yes. But the body shape in the
U .S. is considered public domain, along with
Les Paul body styles, Telecaster body styles.
Those are all SG. Those are all considered public
domain. That's why all the other sorts of places
make them. But headstocks are protected. Yeah,
true. Yeah. This ruling establishes a strong
precedent for protecting Fender's intellectual
property, potentially impacting various manufacturers
producing similar, cheaper, or lawsuit -era style
instruments. And then I had a little recap on
the lawsuit era. Okay. Its origins are the Ibanez
lawsuit in 1977. It was actually filed by Gibson
against Ibanez. At that time, Gibson was owned
by... Norlin, and Ibanez was owned by Hoshino.
And they copied Gibson's open book headstock
design. I think I remember a little bit about
that, even though I wasn't really that aware
of lawsuits at the time. I remember reading something
about that. And that was kind of groundbreaking
on the design of guitars and how, you know, it's
proprietary. Yeah. In fact, if you go on the
used instrument sites, you can see lawsuit -era
guitars marketed as lawsuit -era guitars, and
they look exactly like the thing they're copying,
down to every detail. Oh, wow. And that's what
got him in trouble. It's like, eh, you're not
even trying. You're just doing a straight -up
counterfeiting. Yeah, you're just completely
counterfeiting what I'm saying. So, anyway, that
protects Fender in Europe. Okay. Yeah, but not
here. Not here. Not here. The Strat body is public
domain. And obviously you can tell it is because
it's everywhere. Yeah, Yamaha makes a guitar
called Pacifica that looks almost exactly like
a Strat. Yeah, yep. And then there's... PRS Silver
Sky. Yes. Different except for the headstock.
I mean, same except for the headstock. Same except
for the headstock, yeah. Okay, is that it? That
was it. Okay. Here are some things that... that
people don't realize happened, some famous arrests
and stuff like that? Oh, cool, yeah. Okay. Well,
Keith Richards bounced with the stuff of rock
and roll lore. His bandmates, Mick Jagger, Brian
Jones, and Bill Lyman. are all in the books for
the silliest legal run -in in the Stones' history.
Oh boy. Yeah. On the night of March 18, 1965,
along the way home from the gig, the band stopped
at a gas station in East Ham, UK, and asked if
they could use the restroom. When the attendant's
Charles Keeley, who didn't care for the long
-haired sort, refused to hand over the lavatory
key, Jagger uttered the immortal words, We'll
piss anywhere, man. Which the rest of the Stones
took up as a chant and once danced to that phrase.
A traumatized Keeley later recounted in court,
while Wyman relieved himself on the station wall.
Jagger, Wyman, and Jones were fined five pounds
and change, a small price to pay for their incident
that significantly burnished their rebellious
credentials. Oh, yeah. You can't buy publicity
like that, man. That's awesome. No, no, no, no,
no. So it sounds to me like only one of them
was pissing, and that was Wyman. Yeah. And the
rest of them were, like, threatening to piss.
But listen, if that old bastard that wouldn't
let him go piss wouldn't have done that because
he didn't like long hairs, this whole thing wouldn't
have happened. Being able to pee is like a basic
human right, I think. Yeah, I don't care if you
like long hairs or not. And also, they were the
stones. If they tore it up, they were paying
for it. Oh, yeah, they had plenty of money. Yeah,
so, anyhow. That's fun. Yeah, I think if I was
them, I would have pissed on it too and said,
all right, that's okay. We'll do this the other
way. Alright, one of the greatest drummers in
rock history, the Who's Keep Moon, was equally
legendary for the epic swath of destruction he
left in his wake during his brief time on Earth,
which he did die very young. Was it alcohol poisoning
or was it drugs? I think it was alcohol. Yeah,
and he was taking another medication and the
two didn't agree very well, but he did drink
way too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was drinking
way too much with the medication, that's right.
His legend was officially cemented on August
23rd, 1967, when he was arrested after celebrating
his 21st birthday. It was really only his 20th
that Keith wanted to be able to have a drink.
with a food fight at a Flint, Michigan holiday
inn that escalated into full -scale mayhem. Rooms
were trashed, toilets exploded, fire extinguishers
set off, and a Lincoln Continental rolled into
the swimming pool with a naked moon behind the
wheel. That's a rock star. Yeah, that's rock
star quality. Yes. Before jailing him, the Flint
police escorted Moon, who broke into a tube while
attempting to flee. To a local dentist. Well,
he got a little preferential treatment there.
Yeah. So, yeah. So, anyhow, someone doesn't know
how to control their face. Yeah. Somebody's farting
really, really loudly in his car. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, the droner was supposedly so drunk that
he didn't require Novocaine. I can see that.
I can too. The whole day in chainset, he went...
The Who owed $24 ,000 in damages, banned a group
from further stays of any of their motels, not
just where that happened, but anywhere. And...
Got something you want to go into? I got a bunch
of them. Yeah, I got something I want to tack
on there. I remember... I'm trying to remember
who wrote the book. I think it was Bob Gruen
who was writing this story about the time when
he actually... went on tour with the Alice Cooper
group and played Santa Claus during the stage
show. He said there was one hotel where they
were staying and the gig had gotten canceled
because the town decided they didn't like these
long -haired weirdos from Alice Cooper coming
in and playing in their town. So they were at
the hotel, they were bored, and the drummer,
Neil Smith, decided he was going to trash the
hotel. Now, Neil Smith was a big fan of Keith
Moon. This was before his football days. And
he was white then. Yes, and about 6 '5". And
Keith Moon was also a big fan of Neil Smith.
They had a very friendly rivalry going on about
who could have the biggest drum set and stuff.
So Neil Smith wanted to try to outdo Keith Moon
as far as hotel trashing. So he was running around
this hotel. They were in Utica, New York. And
they had refused to let them play. So he was
running around swearing and cursing at Uterus,
New York. And he was breaking TVs. He was flooding
rooms. He was ripping walls. He was doing all
sorts of terrible shit. And one member of the
crew was running around behind him with a clipboard
writing down all the damage he did. to keep track
of it. Because they were going to charge him
for it. I mean, the band was going to have to
pay, but they were going to take it out of Neil's
personal funds. Good. And he was like, you know,
dude, you can do whatever you want. You can break
as much stuff, but you're paying for every penny
of it. I think I would have done the same thing.
If you want to do that, then okay. So for like
two hours, he ran around the hotel destroying
things. And then he went back to his room and
fell asleep. And the next morning, about 7 o
'clock, he woke up with his just most brutal
hangover ever. And he said the drummer was sitting
on his bed with sunglasses on while a religious
program was showing on TV because it was Sunday
morning. And the hotel manager came busting in
to look for more damage. You know, he was checking
the damage. And he looked in and saw the room
was fine and Neil Smith just sitting there watching
a religious program. And he said, now see if
the rest of your group would just behave like
this young man here, we wouldn't have these troubles.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I try to talk to them every day.
Oh, I love that. That was one of my favorite
stories. Anyway, I got a list of musicians who
were fired and then went on to have great success.
Oh, I like that. That's really good. Occasionally
we get people who... just decide that they want
to be noisy just for the hell of it as they're
walking by the table. They're easy to spot. Yeah,
they are. They're the ones with not much going
on in their lives. Exactly. Okay, musicians who
succeeded after being fired. Pretty common one,
Dave Mustaine. Yes. Fired from Metallica. Went
on for Megadeth and has had a great, great run
with Megadeth. And is not as embarrassed over
their body and work like Metallica should. Yeah,
that's true. Megadeth didn't have a stretch of
really crappy albums that they were trying to
make. Fired from Metallica due to issues with
alcohol and infighting, Mustaine formed Megadeth,
which became one of the most successful heavy
metal bands in history. Now, what I had heard
was that not only was it alcohol, but that he
was a mean drunk. And the rest of the guys in
Metallica were happy drunks. So they just didn't
get along. Well, he admitted that he was not
a very... Easy person to get along with. Yeah,
yeah. Next up, very obvious, Ozzy Osbourne, who
got canned from Black Sabbath and went solo.
Fired in 79 due to severe drug and alcohol abuse,
he reinvented himself as a solo artist and reality
TV star and launched the very successful OzFest.
Yes. And we've talked about this before. Black
Sabbath firing Ozzy gave us two great bands instead
of one. Yes. So they did the world of rock and
roll an enormous favor. They went on with Dio.
To me, that was my favorite form of Black Sabbath
was with Dio. I love the Ozzy stuff in there.
I prefer Ozzy, Solo, and Sabbath with Dio. Yeah.
I just thought that each one of them did better
music apart. Yeah, yeah. I agree. Next, Lemmy
Kilmister was fired from Hawkwind. Hawkwind,
yeah. Or the Motorhead. Yep. After being fired
from the space rock band Hawkwind in 1975 for
drug possession, Lemmy founded Motorhead, becoming
a heavy metal icon. Next up we have Jimi Hendrix.
Did you know he got fired? He was a backup musician
for Little Richard. Wow. Yeah, it's funny to
see pictures of it. I bet. He's there looking
completely normal and straight, standing behind
Keith Richard playing guitar. Anyway. Little
Richard fired him in 1965. His guitar style had
to have been completely different. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, when you're in Little Richard's band,
you play what he tells you. So he wasn't able
to really do a whole lot. Still, he was fired
because he was upstaging Little Richard every
show. It's like, no, I'm the star. Which is hard
to do. Little Richard was pretty eye -catching.
He was, yeah, very flamboyant. Former hairdresser.
Yeah, yes. And rumors persist about his sexual
tendencies, but really, who cares? Yeah, now
it doesn't care. Doesn't matter. But, yeah, back
at the time, a gay black man... putting out rock
and roll for the youth of America, that was a
big deal. Yeah. That was a big deal. They had
to look at the rule book and see if that was
allowed. Yes. Like, hang on, someone go look.
Here's a bizarre one. Courtney Love was fired
from Faith No More. Huh? She was the lead singer
of Faith No More for a while. Was it Mike Patton?
Yep. There's actually somebody else in between
than Mike Patton. Wow! Yeah. She basically, she
saw one of their gigs, I think they were based
in San Francisco at the time, and she bullied
her way onto stage and convinced them that she
knew exactly what they needed a lead singer and
she could do it. But the band said it quickly
became the Courtney Love Show. Everything was
about her center of attention, everything had
to be done her way, and she was just awful. It
was like, yeah, you came in and took over our
band, and you're ruining things, so bye. And
she went on to great success with Hole as the
solo artist, and then she buried into a lot of
wealth and success as well. Yeah, true. Guitar
player Ronnie Wood was fired by Jeff Beck almost
daily. Oh, yeah, that's true. Eventually moved
on to the Rolling Stones. Yes. And it was about
Daley. He was fired. Another person that got
fired over and over and over again was John McVie.
Was fired by John Mayall. Mayall and the Blues
Breakers. And he kept getting fired and then
rehired and then fired and rehired. And finally
he stole the drummer. Mick Fleetwood and said,
hey, let's go form our own band. Yep, which did
very much better. And then electronic music artist
and producer Brian Eno was once a member of Roxy
Music. Wow. And Brian Ferry didn't like him anymore
and said, you're out. And Brian Eno went on to
massive success. Yeah. And Roxy Music has still
got a following, but they were never really all
that big. No. Great music. I mean, it's got some
amazing stuff. It just never really hit mainstream.
One of their songs called More Than This has
been redone by a country artist, and it was actually
done really well. Really? Yeah. I thought he
did an excellent job. I mean, well, there are
country artists that cover some stuff. Like whoever...
Who covered Tracy Chapman's Fast Car? Oh, I can't
remember, but I saw it just the other day. It
was a guy, not a girl. Yeah, and it did it really
well. And then there's Air of the Night by Phil
Collins, covered by Chris Stapleton. Yeah, there's
something about country artists covering some
of these mainstream songs that seem to do it
very well. They don't half -ass it. Al Cooper.
Cooper with a K. Keyboard player for Blood, Sweat,
and Tears. Now, depending on who you listen to,
he either left on his own or was fired. Yeah.
But he went on to have a massive career. In fact,
he still does. Songwriter, producer, session
musician, solo artist. Just enormous amount.
I started looking at his body of work to try
to, you know, there's just too many pages. It
was like page after page. The guy has never stopped
working. I mean, getting fired from Blood, Sweat,
and Tears was probably the best thing that ever
happened to him because that band went nowhere.
Yeah. Everyone likes Chicago better. Yeah. Yeah.
And they were better. Yeah, they kind of were.
Let's see. Cab Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie.
Wow. For throwing spitballs behind his back on
the bandstand and then getting into a knife fight
with him. I think if a guy gets into a knife
fight with me, I'm going to fire him too. I think
I'm going to too. The spitballs are questionable.
The knife fight, yeah, that would be the turning
point. James Brown fired Bootsy Collins. Actually,
I knew that. Who went on to fame, if not fortune,
on his own and with George Clinton. There's another
enormously underrated artist as George Clinton.
I would agree. That guy was an absolute monster
of music. He kind of got pigeonholed, in my opinion,
of the type of music that he did. He actually
probably should have extended and expanded out
further than what he did. So Erwin kind of looked
at it as, what would you call it, kind of like
Rastafarian. With a little psychedelic and a
lot of funk. Yeah, they weren't considered niche
when they actually could have been a lot more
mainstream. So yeah, I would agree. Yeah, I'm
definitely going to look into more George Clinton.
Yeah. Let's see, John Coltrane. He did pretty
okay after being fired by Miles Davis. Oh, wow.
John Coltrane and the Love Supreme. I didn't
know he was fired by Miles Davis, but yeah, he
did good. I think Miles Davis himself was fired
by somebody. Probably. Let's see, here's one
that's kind of a thing in reverse. Vinnie Vincent
Invasion. They fired Vinnie Vincent and rebranded
themselves Slaughter. And had a great career.
So they didn't get fired, they did the firing.
And Slaughter, Mark Slaughter actually joined
the band on the second album. He wasn't originally.
I think it was Robert Fleischman was the first
singer. Oh yeah, and I think he worked with Journey
too. He did work with Journey. He worked with
some other bands too. Kind of the bridesmaid,
never the bride. Yeah, yep. So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then when Mark Slaughter joined the band and
he had everybody else in Vinnie Vincent and Basie,
all they needed was a guitarist, and they found
one. What was it, Red Beach? Red Beach, I think
it was. Red Beach, yeah, Red Beach. Let's see,
in 1938, Billie Holiday was fired from the Count
Basie band. She had a massive career. Wow. Okay,
I didn't know that. She also had a pretty heartbreaking
life. She was horribly abused by the band in
her life. Yeah, I didn't know that. It was too
bad. And then the last one I got, Neil Sean was
fired from Santana. And he went on to some San
Francisco band you might have heard of. Oh yeah,
Journey. Journey, yeah. Actually, he and Greg
Raleigh were in Santana. and then Journey. Yeah,
I think Greg Raleigh left Santana and Neil Sean
was fired. Yeah, and I think they're actually
on their final tour, aren't they? I think so.
Or is it the... Oh, the singer, the Filipino
singer, he's retired. Yeah, I think he's fired.
Okay, he's retired, but Journey is not. Yeah.
Okay. So that's all my music creep stuff, but
I still have some... Some stuff left over from
about TV shows, which kind of fits. Okay. I can
do another law -breaking. Oh, nice. Okay. This
is Yngwie Malmsteen. You don't hear that much
about him breaking the law. No, just, you know,
breaking people's laws. Yeah, yeah. You hear
about him being a snob and, you know, conceited
and all that, but you don't hear so much about
him breaking the law. Yeah. Robert Knight Archive.
is where this is from, and this is at the first
of the articles, so I'm reading it to let you
know. In August 1993, a SWAT team was sent to
the Miami Shores, Florida home of Yvette Malmsteen,
after Elaine Potter, the mother of his then 19
-year -old girlfriend, Amber Landon, accused
the Swedish guitar god of holding her daughter
hostage while equipped with a small arsenal of
firearms. Whoa, that's not good. This got by
me. I never heard that. No, he... Apparently
had that covered up successfully. I guess. She
also claimed Malmsteen pointed a shotgun at her
and threatened her life. No. After a tense four
and a half hour standoff, Malmsteen surrendered
and was ushered out of his house by police, wearing
only sunglasses and a bathrobe open to his stomach.
He was charged with aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon and jailed on $7 ,500 bond. Wow,
that ain't much. No, it isn't. I guess they didn't
figure he's a flight risk. I guess not. Even
though he, what is he, Swedish? I think he's
Swedish. Swedish, yeah. But that's about as far
as the thing went. Landon, who later became his
wife, gave a statement to police denying she'd
been held against her will or assaulted, which
explains why, as the Bathrobe Mounds team was
being cuffed and carted off, the Associated Press
quoted him as saying, I have no idea what's up.
And he really didn't. I guess so. But I love
the fact that it was unbuttoned all the way down
to the mid. He just had to be a rock star on
the way out. He's probably waving his hair in
the wind, too. Yeah. Yeah, this is me. I'm getting
arrested. He's trying to sign autographs. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. He's like, hey, can you let me out
of the coach for a second? I've got to sign this.
Hey, my fellow heavy breathers. This is Dash
Riptide. with your music news. Glenn Hughes,
the legendary bassist, lead singer of many, many
great bands, such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,
Black Country Communion, California Breed, and
so on and so on. He had a U .S. tour planned
for this April. Glenn unfortunately had to cancel
due to what had been described as a minor medical
issue. I already had seats for legendary rocker
Knuckleheads, but like most times, I try to see
him, and it gets canceled. Glenn, I love you,
but no more. Third time getting jerked is enough.
We do wish you a full and speedy recovery, and
hopefully a full and speedy recovery of my fucking
money. Again, sorry, not sorry. This is Gash
Riptine, and that was your music news. If it's
too loud, you'd probably have ear damage, just
like me. Always the celebrity. Yeah, oh yeah.
Anyhow, go ahead. I'm going to be doing these
periodically. Next show, too. I'm digging the
violin that we got going here. I am, too. A nice
little addition. Yeah, we've had several people
over the years come down and play violin. As
I teased earlier, I have a list of some TV shows
that were really big and then disappeared. Okay.
Some of these I remember, some of them sort of
not. First one is, do you remember a show called
Dinosaurs? Exactly. From 91 to 94. It was a puppet
kind of thing. It was like a family of dinosaurs.
I think the tagline was not the llama or something
like that. Something stupid. The baby used to
say that and it didn't really make sense. Like
it's leading to that's not his mom. I don't know.
It was stupid. Basically it was just like every
other show about... A young family with a little
kid, except in this case they were dinosaurs.
The young dinosaur was Beaver instead of Jerry
Mathers. Here's another one that was huge at
the time and now it's just completely forgotten.
Murphy Brown. Oh, wow. That was enormous at the
time. I remember Vice President Dan Quayle making
a comment on the Murphy Brown storyline. They
addressed him. on the show. Yeah, as if the Murphy
Brown character was actually real in real life.
Yeah. He was making a comment about the writing
of the show, and then they had the character
Murphy Brown respond as if, how dare you insult
me, I'm a single mom trying to raise this baby.
Yes, that's what it was. That's what it was.
It was utter bullshit, but of course it made
the bleeding hearts go, uh -huh. What Dan Quill
was saying was it was horrifying being a single
mom, I believe is what he was saying. He actually
said it's kind of sad that they're holding up
being a single parent as the preferred way to
be. Yes. Yeah. And then your Murphy man says,
why are you attacking my baby? But he did not
know how to spell potato or tomato. No, he didn't.
It wasn't potato. I think it was potato. Yeah,
yeah. He tried to put an E on it, I think, or
something. Yeah. The joke was that the Secret
Service had standing orders if somebody assassinated
George Bush, they were supposed to shoot Quayle.
It's like, not this guy. We're going to speaker
the house before this guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This isn't going to work. And I think that old
man Bush had him specifically as insurance. Yeah.
Here's another one that was huge and is all gone.
Ally McBeal. From 97 to 2002. And it's just nothing.
There aren't even any reruns on anywhere. Oh,
yeah, yeah. Apparently it was good for the time,
and now it's just utterly out of touch. Clarissa
Flockhart was not a very appealing character
to me. She was squeaky, mousy type of a... Yeah.
I saw her on commercials, and then she all of
a sudden got a TV show because of her commercials,
and I thought, well, this is stupid. Yeah, and
it never was that good. Here's one that's kind
of surprising, but it's true. Game of Thrones.
From 2011 to 2019, it was really just huge. People
were naming their kids after characters and dressing
up and holding parties, and now it's just nobody
talks about it. Okay, yeah, that's a good one.
Wow. No, and that was so huge. You could not
walk anywhere without it. Chris, do you watch
Game of Thrones? Do you watch it? Yeah, and I
can't have it until everybody knows. And don't
ask again. I'm not going to be watching it next
either. Because it kind of replaced Breaking
Bad, remember? Yeah, I did. There was kind of
like a concession where like after The Sopranos
and there was, you know, there was like these
cornerstone TV shows that everybody knew something
about. Yeah. And that was them. Yeah. And it
kind of replaced Breaking Bad and that over.
Yeah, it did. Because I think it was like The
Sopranos and The Shield was one of them. And
then it just kept going on down there. Yeah,
and then when it came into existence, it kind
of took over everything. There was really not
another show that commanded that much God or
people talking about it. So yeah, it disappeared
into nothing. Yeah. Now, according to Jesse,
towards the end of the run, the show creators
were starting to get distracted by some Star
Wars movie that they were going to be doing.
So they were not paying attention to Game of
Thrones. And the show started suffering. And
then it turned out their Star Wars project failed
anyway. It was decided not to make it, so they
kind of screwed themselves over. Oh, I love that.
Yeah. Whoops. Here's another one. This one is
just because they did things wrong. The Drew
Carey Show. From 95 to 2004. Wow, you don't see
that anywhere. The problem was it qualified for
syndication while it was still making new episodes.
To qualify for syndication, you have to have
100 episodes. That way a TV station can pick
and choose and have at least three or four seasons
worth that they can show on a rotating basis
as reruns. But they started doing that while
the show was still making new episodes. So suddenly,
Drew Carey reruns were everywhere. And you couldn't
turn the TV on without having Drew Carey in your
face. So the new episodes, everyone just ignored.
The ratings on them tanked, and that's what canceled
the series. It's like, why should I wait around
for a new episode? Look at all these ones I can
watch any time I want. And that show was funny
as hell. Yeah. I thought that was a good show.
It was really highly rated. Who was his counterpart
nemesis, the chick, the big guy? I can't remember.
I'm picturing her in my head, but I can't remember.
You're talking about what a strong character.
Yeah. I remember one episode that I cracked up
so loud where they were having phone sex, but
they didn't notice each other. Then they found
out it was each other. It shows Drew in the shower
with his clothes on, crying in the corner. You
see how good that show was? Yeah. I remember
little parts of it that were fucking fantastic.
So, anyway. Another one was Lost. Oh, wow. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. 2004 to 2010. It's like everybody
went to work and talked about it because it was
the big deal. Now they don't even show reruns
anywhere. What's the point? Everyone knows. It's
so easy to find out what happened. There's no
suspense anymore. 24 with Kiefer Sutherland.
That was on the show for like 10 years, from
2001 to 2010. St. Elsewhere, from 82 to 88. A
lot of people got their start on that show, and
it was like the big feel -good show. A lot of
people did cut their teeth on that show, that's
right. St. Elsewhere, yeah, 30 -something, from
87 through 91. That was big for a while, but
it lost out to Friends. When Friends came along,
nobody wanted to watch 30 -something reruns anymore.
Because they were all tragic and dramatic, and
there was all sorts of hurt feelings and people
being upset. Friends was fun. So they watched
Friends instead. And here's the whole genre.
Saturday morning cartoons. They're just gone.
Every Saturday morning you get up and there's
none of my cartoons. Oh, I used to look so forward
to that. I know you did everything. Yeah. But
now it's just not a thing. There's usually Warner
Brothers. Yeah. Yeah. Hanna -Barbera too. Yeah.
But now you've got whole channels devoted to
nothing but cartoons and it's on all the time.
You can watch it any time you want. Saturday
morning isn't special anymore. I used to miss
that. So true. We also got some TV shows that
were cancelled before the very first episode
aired. This is some pretty bad ones. This one
cracks me up so much. The show was called The
Activist. And it was supposed to premiere in
October of 2021. Created by Global Citizen and
Live Nation. This reality competition show hosted
by Usher. Priyanka Chopra and Julianne Hough
was to focus on six activists working to bring
meaningful change to one of three urgent causes.
Oh my god. I do not think the more boring. Yep.
Either health, education, or the environment.
With the finalists attending the 2021 G20 Summit
to raise funds for their cause. And the one raising
the most funds being crowned the activist. So
they're telling you five years ago that these
were all paid protesters. Yep. They were going
to show you exactly how it works. Anybody who
does their research would know this. The people
who don't want to know, don't know. That's it.
Now, the way the contestants' success would have
been judged was by social media engagement and
the assistance by the host, etc. But when they
started even talking about it and promoting it,
intense backlash. And people were saying, oh,
hell no. You're going to fake being sincere about
something in order to win a competition? Fuck
you. And they never ate it. Here's another really
good one. All My Baby's Mamas. It was set to
release in early 2013. An American reality show
set to air on Oxygen starring rapper Shawty Lo.
who actually died in 2016, showcasing his life
as the father of 11 children by 10 different
women. Wow. The series was canceled after an
online petition and public outcry. I believe
it. Oh, here's another one that was just utterly
stupid idea. Confederate. In 2020, Confederate
was a planned but never made American alternate
history drama television series developed for
the network HBO. And it was created by the same
people who developed Game of Thrones. It was
supposed to be set in a timeline where the American
Civil War ended in a stalemate. And the Confederacy
was still a thing. The announcement was followed
by anger and criticism on social media with some
people describing it as slavery fan fiction.
You know, I agree 100%. There was no way they
could do that show without glorifying the Confederacy
and racism and the Klan and slavery. There's
no way they could have done it. Who came up with
that stupid idea? The same people who came up
with Game of Thrones. Which is insane. Isn't
that nuts? How could they be so clueless? I don't
know. Because HBO traditionally has been groundbreaking
on their shows. They cross all kinds of boundaries
and thoughts. Wow, when they go to that. And
here's one right along beside it. This is a show
called Escaping the KKK. originally titled Generation
KKK. It was supposed to release in January of
2017. It was an A &E docuseries profiling Ku
Klux Klan and members seeking to break away from
it. A &E canceled the series on December 24,
2016, just three weeks before its scheduled premiere,
amid revelations that the show's producers made
monetary payments to some of the participants
for access. So they're buying their way into
the Klan, giving money to the Klan in order to
make the show about the Klan. Oh my gosh. How
fucking tone deaf were they? Is that HBO 2? That
was A &E. A &E, oh. Isn't that nuts? They were
so determined to get the show that they were
willing to give money and help support the Klan
in order to get the show done. Wow. And I'm so
glad they got called on it. So am I. Man. So
am I. Here's another good one. Good grief. August
of 2014, Lifetime had announced plans to debut
the reality television series which would follow
the owners of the Johnson Family Mortuary Funeral
Home in Fort Worth, Texas. A reality show about
funerals. Oh my God, man. How many people are
going to let you film while they're grieving?
No kidding. Okay, The Lifetime canceled the series
altogether on July 24, 2014, like three weeks
before it was set to air, after scheduling and
filming issues. The program's scrapping ultimately
came from the July 15 discovery of eight unattended
and or decomposing bodies found at the funeral
home by the camera crew. Oh my gosh. Which led
to the arrests of owner DeAndre Johnson and his
wife, Rachel Hardy Johnson. The funeral home's
landlord, who was executing an eviction process,
discovered the bodies and alerted authorities.
I thought it was the camera crew. It was the
landlord, who was there to evict them. And he
stumbled across the bodies and called the police.
Wow. And both Dondre and Rachel eventually were
sentenced to prison terms. But that's how little
they background check these people before they
give them a reality show. Because they just don't
give a shit, do they? No, they don't. They just
want to get that show out there. Wow. Okay, got
three more. Jingles in 2008, a CBS series produced
by Mark Burnett in which teams compete to create
new advertising jingles for brand name products.
Wow. They really think we want to watch them
coming up with advertising? My God, no, that
sounds almost as boring as the other one. Yeah.
Oh, okay. Here's the next one, NASCAR -wise.
Oh, no. It was going to be just like the real
lives of whatever, or love and hip -hop and whatever.
Yeah, all that stupid shit. It was supposed to
be shown as a special after the 2009 Miss America
pageant, but the network changed its mind and
decided to wait until after the 2009 Daytona
500. The series never made it to air, despite
being heavily promoted due to a conflict between
the parties involved. It was reported that TLC,
who was behind the project, wanted to create
in -show conflicts that were along the lines
of traditional reality programs, namely fights
among cast members. They're straight up telling
you, we create this shit out of nothing. We fake
up these fights and conflicts to make it interesting,
and we're going to do the same thing here. And
NASCAR said, no, we're not going to have our
drivers and their wives portrayed as bad people
in any kind of negative light. So, no, we'll
do it without that. Props to NASCAR. And TLC
said, okay, well, then fine, we're just not going
to do it at all. Because TLC wanted the drama.
They wanted the fighting. They wanted that. Yeah.
Well, I'm pretty happy with NASCAR saying that.
Yeah, totally. And here's the last one. The show
was supposed to be called Seriously Dude, I'm
Gay. And it was supposed to come out in 2004.
It was a two -hour reality television special
planned for broadcast by Fox. Of course, Fox.
It was abruptly shelved only 11 days before its
intended broadcast. The special depicted two
straight men in competition for a $50 ,000 reward
over who could pass themselves off. as the more
convincing gay man. Wow. So it was about lying
to everybody about who you were for money on
TV. God. In addition to competing in daily challenges,
the two contestants were required to move into
separate lots with gay roommates, come out to
their best friends and family, and socialize
at gay nightclubs. All for the sake of an entertainment
show. totally faking everything about the gay
lifestyle, making fun of the gay lifestyle, exploiting
it for their own benefit, and in the end saying,
ha ha, we're not gay after all, joke's on you.
How stupid were these people? That is ridiculous.
And you know, it makes me wonder, what are some
of the ones that they wanted to come up with
that they're afraid to tell us about? Yes, I
agree. It really illustrates that TV will put
out any kind of absolute horrible crap if they
think people will watch it. They have no taste,
no class. I remember back in the 90s, there was
a short -lived reality show all about contestants
that were given a disease. And then as the disease
progressed, they were supposed to figure out
what disease they had. How horrible is that?
It actually started over in the UK. And they
tried to bring it here. And it's like, oh, no,
no, no. They thought that was, yeah, they thought
it was great. In the US, most advertisers wanted
nothing to do with it. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
Would you not go the furthest away from that
as you could if you heard about it? I'd be like,
no, there's no way. Now, back in the early 70s,
there was a comedy group called Fire Sign Theater,
and they actually did a skit called Name That
Disease, where they gave people diseases, and
they had to guess what it was before they died
from it. And then somebody actually created the
show. That sounds about right, actually. It's
more and more evidence that a lot of people will
do absolutely anything for money and attention.
Yeah. No, you're right. Absolutely. So anyway.
Wow. I've got one last story here, and then I
guess we can probably wrap it up. How long have
we got? We've got an hour and 40 minutes. Okay,
good. Wendy O. Williams. Oh, yeah. Remember her?
Yeah. 1981, plasmatic provocateur Wendy O. Williams
was arrested after a gig at Milwaukee's Palms
Nightclub for simulating oral sex and masturbation.
Oh. With a sledgehammer. Oh. Wow. Williams is
charged with obscene conduct. I want to see that.
How do you simulate that with a sledgehammer?
I don't know. I don't have a simul. I know how
she could actually do it. That requires some
talent. Yeah. And be able to walk away from it.
Yeah. So Williams was charged with obscene conduct,
but that was only the beginning of her problems.
A scuffle broke out during the post -show arrest,
resulting in Williams and her manager, Rod Swenson,
receiving a beating at the hands of policemen.
Williams earned an additional count of battery,
but photos taken of the assault led to all charges
against her ultimately being dropped, which allowed
the singer to carry on practicing Williams, her
particular brand of performance art, just days
after Williams was nabbed in Cleveland again
for simulating sex acts on stage. Only this time
we're wearing a bra made of nothing but shaving
cream. Yeah, she used to do that. Yeah, she used
to do that. And she also used to come out wearing
nothing above the waist except strips of black
electrical tape. Black electrical tape, yeah,
I remember that. That would be down there and
up here. Yep. Yes. I remember the... Didn't she
kill herself? Yeah. Yeah, she was in her 40s,
and she had quit rock and roll, and she was,
like, living on a ranch with animals, and she
just decided she was done with life. She was
done with life. Yeah, that's what I thought.
It was, like, well after the fact. Yeah. I remember
that her manager discovered her when he walked
into a bar, and she was working for the bar,
and... She was entertaining the guests by shooting
ping pong balls out of her vagina. I didn't know
if that was true or not. That was true? Yeah,
she was trying to hit targets with these ping
pong balls. Well, anyhow, yeah, there's the plasmatics.
And then that's why she eventually went solo.
Yeah. Because she didn't need anybody else. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I remember, I think they came to
Kansas City at one point. I didn't go see them,
but I remember them being covered on the news.
I would love to see them. They had just a brief
little clip of her out there stumbling around
stage with her black electrical tape over her
nippers. And her JJ. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I
remember the shaving cream when she'd come out
and she'd do everything possible to get the shaving
cream to melt and drop off. Oh, yeah. So by the
end of the song, she was bare breasted. Pretty
much. She was quite a character. Oh, yeah. Yep.
And, I mean, yeah, she was a character, yes,
but also she was warped enough to where some
of that was not character. You know what I mean?
Yeah. Some of that was her. Yeah, she was self
-destructive kind of along the lines of Iggy
Pop. Yeah. Who did a lot to hurt himself. I don't
think Iggy Pop ever wanted to die. But he was
willing to do just about anything to be entertaining.
You know, he'd smash beer bottles on his chest.
He'd crawl around in broken glass. He'd throw
himself out in the audience to get beat up. Oh,
yeah. He just didn't care. He didn't care. And
he looks every bit of that, too. The guy looks
used up. Oh, he's always looked like a hunter
native. Always looked old and withery. But his
credit, he's kind of like Keith Richards. That's
true. He's looked old forever, but he's never
looked any older. He's looked the same. Yeah.
Oh. All right. Well, you got anything else? I
think we're about wrapped up here. All right,
everybody. Thank you for listening. The numbers
are really showing how you guys are promoting
this. We really appreciate it. And thank you
so much for doing so. And go fuck yourself.