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Rumrunners Return!! · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Welcome back to a Drinking with Dog. It is a very special honor to
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  have my returning guests. Uh. The if you listen to my show a
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  lot, Uh, you're gonna hear these guys' names all the time because they're
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  involved in everything in Milford pretty much. Uh. It is my good friends
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  from the rum Runners. I don't there's so many of you, and so
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  we couldn't fit all the in the studio today. And we're actually in the
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  bigger studio today, uh, my front studio. So the sound may be
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  a little more reverbing because it's so big in here, and I haven't really
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  soundproofed it just quite yet. But today I have Johnny Mamon. What's up
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  everybody? Johnny move, I'm like a little closer to your there, buddy,
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  Yo yo, yoga? Is it bright? Is it too bright in
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  here? Sounds good for me? That sounds good. Happy holidays, Oh
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  sexy. And then we have Chief Ito over here. He just looks like
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  a no what does he look like? He looks like one of those little
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  yes, are you no cheap? I'll do them great, you know,
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  I'll knock get in the knees when you walk by. Yeah, you know,
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  isn't it cool that, like, you know, being chief, like
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  you're retired now I am, but that's like once you're chief, you're it's
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  like president. You can't You're always called che Yeah, everybody close. Yeah,
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  so that's awesome. It was. It's kind of cool. And the
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  man, the myth, the legend, he's in seventeen bands. He's given
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  us all COVID at least once. Jimmy danosn't how it's good to be fat.
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  I had not to give it to you tonight. Yeah, no,
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  very healthy. Well that's right. Yeah, well I think I'm sure it
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  was me. So I didn't have a show last week, and I didn't
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  none of you guys know this. I'm going to start off at the top
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  of the show with this. So last Thursday I had a U I had
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  a cardiologist, you know, just a check up, you know, so
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  I can get my you know, my blood pressure meds. You got to
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  check in every six months through a year or whatever. So my blood pressure
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  was like one twenty eight over eighty forty six, nothing crazy, But he
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  wanted to add something onto it and to make it perfect. And I'm like,
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  you know, I don't know, it sounds kind of dumb, but
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  so whatever, So I kind of went through with it, and on Friday
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  I got the script. I took it at like two o'clock, just one
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  little pill that you know, goes with the little center pro And about six
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  six thirty at work, I get a little right here and like just below
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  the chest cavity, like a little like it felt like a muscle strain,
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  you know, And I was like, what's that? So I take a
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  TOMS because I have asked the reflux. I'm like, may it was just
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  kind of something coming to bubble and back up on me. I didn't eat
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  much that day, and two hours later, it's like it's just growing.
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  It's growing. It never went away, just kind of and now I'm like
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  bending over to get beers and it's just worse and worse. And I sucked
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  it up. I got the priorities. Yeah, you know, you gotta
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  work first, you gotta serve the drinks, you know. So it's like
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  midnight and me and camp are walking out of work and it's so bad at
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  this point and I'm like, all right, I don't know what to do
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  here. I might go to a hospital. He's like, ah, fucking
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  you know, suck it off. You don't waste your money going to the
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  hospital. So I get home and I lasted about four and a half hours
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  and I didn't sleep. I couldn't. I couldn't sit I couldn't sit down.
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  It was just a mens and it was on my sides now. And
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  so I went to the hospital. So long story short. You know,
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  they first check you for heart attack. Obviously it wasn't that. Then they
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  checked all my organs. I was there five fucking hours. I get home.
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  They literally discharged me with acid reflux. I'm like this, I know
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  what acid reflux reaction. So I get home different and it's even worse now,
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  Like I can't. I can only line my stomachs the only position I
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  can without being an agonizing pain. So my Girlpa's like, you want to
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  go to like Yale? Were at the Milford. You want to go to
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  Yale. I'm like, I'm not fucking wasted. I mean, all my
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  vitals are fine, you know, I'm just Milford. Is Yale now,
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  isn't? Yeah? But they don't they don't, yeah, but I mean
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  it's Milford. Yes, I want a second opinion. So so I end
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  up getting to just I just fuck it. I'm just gonna Standing up was
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  good, and lying on my stomach was good. Any other position was awful
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  off. So that was Saturday night. Sunday I wake up still kind of
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  feeling ninety percent of the way I felt, and then it just kind of
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  slowly dissipated, and by Sunday night I felt fine, Yesterday felt great and
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  today and I haven't had a drink in over a week until right now.
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  We're gonna try to see where I went with that we got So let me
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  ask you, though, when you just went to see the first doctor,
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  did you tell him you're on a new med and I did, come on,
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  but check this out. I got there at like five thirty in the
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  morning, a shift change was seven, So I told the first nurse,
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  I go listen, I tried a new blood pressure in med last night,
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  and she's like, oh, interesting, And then I was in so much
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  pain by the time the doctor got here for the new doctor, I forgot
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  to fucking mention it car Oh God, it done, d It's the trash.
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  It's fucking in Milford fucking landfill right now. So today we celebrate,
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  we celebrate not having a heart attack. Lack of pay cheers happy holidays.
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  Absolutely, So let's get into some rum runner stuff. I've been noticing you
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  guys. I know you got some announcements to make, and we'll get to
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  that in a little bit. Well, or not announcements, but you have
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  some stuff bro there playing for the Jets. Well, I know you want
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  me to tell her. I was listening. I'm the new quarterback for the
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  Jets. I guarantee if they inserted you with a week of practice, I
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  could be good. Jeremy over underrount yards, I bet you would be like
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  eighty two yards. You'd throw for kind of short, but I could throw
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  the ball just roll out. Patriots called me first. But listen, I
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  don't want the pictures a game because you're gonna win his games. I don't
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  want to win any more games. I don't know, man, all right,
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  I digress. We'll talk about music and stuff. Yeah, no,
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  well, we can talk about whatever you want. This is We've we've talked
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  about music in the past. We don't have to. I mean we're gona
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  talk about obviously what the Runners are up to. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  and a duckie. I uh. I was at the Turkey Trot and
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  I saw you guys and I'll get to you, Johnny, I know,
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  and that's why I want to thank you for that. Of Actually you you
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  did too, you actually stopped playing the game. It's this one good.
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  I don't know if your eyes were closed for the fucking thirty seconds I was
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  standing in his funny. In my defense, I closed my eyes a lot,
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  so I might have even seen. Especially it was like four in the
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  morning. What was going on? We have so so so so doug so
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  Dougie is He looked like, I know, it's eight in a fucking morning.
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  I don't know how I'm like these morning shows. He's got to be
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  rough. You know, it's Wednesday. Did you guys play the night before?
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  We didn't know we did that. I couldn't do both. No,
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  I can restaurants down don once. I'd a feeling you might have, Chief.
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  You might have had a couple though the night before seven sees made I
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  have While we were setting up, see he was drinking early. He looked
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  at I do the breakfast pay patrol? Oh my god, patron for breakfast?
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  Define what that morning? Beer? A cool day? Did that?
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  That is a great beer? Coffee bread? Coffee bread? It was cool?
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  Yes, no shortage of alcohol, alcoholic choices. It was a good
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  morning. Yeah, free beer. It was free beer, free beer,
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  free beer. That's how they bought us. That's awesome. You know,
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  I was called coffee beer. I don't know why we're on that topic film.
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  If I didn't know how, I'm very sorry because you know I love
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  it. So yeah, so I get I get the acknowledgement because I had
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  to run. I had to go to work. I had to work twelve
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  hours. That say, you came and I saw the podcast with tour Yes
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  to three guys when you hit the trot and talked about it. You said
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  you would be there and I was really really cool, beauty. Yeah,
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  I showed up. I bought some Raffle tickets. I gave him to my
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  friend and he said he won the TV, not me. So that's a
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  listen on that. I don't know what do you think? I don't probably
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  him podcast. Herot some numbers. He was like, we want to hit
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  this right. We had to hit him all and that's they brought them.
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  Room out of the Water. Room out of the Water raised a ton of
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  money. By the way, that was a fantastic event for anyone who came.
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  It was an honor for us to be there and play, and we're
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  gonna do it next year. Jimmy yep, right, yes, molling again
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  something like fourteen nd miss good turnout, but you never stopped wearing some glasses.
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  I don't know if you guys are open closed awake it is. It
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  is a little bright in here though. It was the longest intro. Oh
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  yeah, what if? What did you guys play Born and run? Born
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  ring? And we just played thos just getting fourteen hundred people were shuttling.
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  Well we played that right right, Yeah, we got a thank tour.
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  He did in a crazy They did a glorat job, and I can't thank
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  that. I was. I was. I was super impressed. I never
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  I'd never gone to it before, and I actually I think I think the
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  way this year went at work, I don't want to like predicted anything a
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  year from now, and it actually went great. I just I just realized
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  how fucking miserable and like people are entitled on that day. And I've worked
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  it like fifteen years in a row. Last last last year, I'm like
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  when I walked, when I walked away from what was going on there,
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  and a great it's only a couple hours I realized, I'm like, this
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  is what I want to do on this day, you know, And then
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  you know, I'm not going to fucking run it, but I'll walk,
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  walk, how donate, you know, maybe even set up a booth and
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  have you guys in between and have tour on again or something something. I
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  mean the weather was perfect this year too, you know, and instead of
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  schlepping around for you know, who's at the rest of that day. It
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  is tough. I mean, the money's good, but it's like at some
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  point, what do you sacrifice your your well being and your mental stability.
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  Then, Yeah, like you said, how many people I wanted to snap
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  out fifteen to do it. It's something and there's a lot of stress.
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  There's a lot of pressure, and uh, you know, it's supposed to
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  be a fun day. You know, you want to spend time with your
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  family, you loved ones, you know, And that's kind of why I
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  started working it so I didn't have to. Yeah. That's what I find
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  though, is like these people come in and they you know, it's ten
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  tops and it's you know, four families and they just you know, hug
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  hey, have a drink and then go their separate ways and no dishes and
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  no no uncle lying on the couch during it. So Chief House retired life
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  for you. I find you work more out with the bands with the grand
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  kids. Right, Oh yeah, I used to well in the beginning.
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  So the first month June, I told everybody said, I need to go
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  back to work so I could rest and relax in two wealth and I was
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  so freaking busy doing ship retirement on what I love. I'm going to tell
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  you a story. I almost see he's got right. Every time he comes
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  in in a sling. It's embarrassing, and I wanted to tell you,
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  Yeah I did. I fell off a building three stores, three stories.
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  You're looking to be alive. I landed on my shoulder and just my shoulder.
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  Did you like spin as you fell? Not? But did you like
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  rotating? Well? I did, and he was unbelievable. But while you're
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  falling in that two seconds, there's so many scenarios going through your head,
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  and I was doing to make sure some picture and where I'm going to go,
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  and I thought my best option was to go sideways and land on the
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  whole left side. Well, it was a hill, and so my shoulder
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  head and the rest of the hill was down. My body never hit at
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  the same time, so it was all shoulder and I just shattered everything.
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  Goodn't think the room runners. We bought him a life alert so he was
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  around falling life alert broke. He shattered the life alert. I shattered that
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  as well as my road. I said that, and I you know,
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  you know, biceps to listeners are imagining this exactly where it happened, falling
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  off a house. He had a capable s on the front. It's the
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  ground life alert splatters. Nobody's there to pick them up, but Jeremy.
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  He retired, but he's got thirty seven grandkids. Every No, no,
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  those are ones we know of. Actually I think there's another one. Right
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  to have another one today? So many? How many? No? Not
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  a grass on us. He's taking them on for everybody. Lord, let
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  me interject one more thing before we get really rolling on the band stuff.
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  So a good friend of mine, Steve Sagraden, he works for Eater Brothers.
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  He's the Bartenduh. He had some of his own health issues as well
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  in the last couple of years, but his wife Karen has unfortunately come down
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  the stage four ovarian cancer and obviously you guys know, Michael Campinelli can't be
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  he's the king of fundraising and he has started a a raffle and we're doing
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  it. So we do every year at Stonebridge, we do a what's called
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  a holiday market, and it's our third year doing it, and always seems
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  like something comes up where we need to do an auction or a raffle excuse
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  me, and none bigger than this year. And they have a one year
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  old son. She's going hard at you know, experimental stuff and all that
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  good stuff that hopefully can help her out. So they're ten dollars tickets.
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  You can venmo me or message me on Facebook or come down Monday, December
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  eleventh at Stonebridge And basically the grand prize is two thousand dollars worth of gift
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  cards. It's not just restaurants either, it's local shops stuff like that that's
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  awesome. And the second place prize is five hundred dollars or whatever's leftover in
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  gift cards. So yeah, her name is Karen, and she's a great
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  girl, and you know, cancer sucks, and I just want to throw
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  that out there at the top of the show, and anyone listening either just
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  DM me or or come down on Monday night and then you can actually see
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  we're actually doing a raffle raffle too, like a lot of a lot of
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  the local guys are putting baskets together. Uh it's like six to nine eleven.
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  So that's next morning, next Monday. Yeah, week from yesterday.
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  So uh yeah, come on down. It's actually a great event in general.
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  We start thinking you're doing it and it's all local, local people,
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  local shops, and they set up the little stuff and they put their stuff
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  out for sale and you can kind of see what's you know, how many
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  times you drive through town and not really realize what's there. You don't pay
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  attention. You know, you walk looking at it's pretty amazing. Walk when
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  you walk it downtown, it's phenomenal. Yeah, loves been that stroll is
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  this weekend? Is there's always a lamp, there's always something. It was
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  the tree lighting. Yeah that was a turkey trap. All right. Well
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  let's get into a little band stuff, little rum runners, fun stuff.
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  Uh. You guys are always doing something. You're always in involved in charity
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  work as well, but you would reach out to me. You guys had
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  played uh at stone Bridge, a couple of months ago, and you said
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  you got some stuff brew and you wanted to come back on the show.
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  So, uh, Johnny, I'll start with you. What's what's good?
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  Well, thanks for having us. Of course you really appreciate it. And
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  then we act like children. It's because we are. Remember the last time
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  we did the show and it didn't it didn't record. Yeah, it was
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  a great I called I was and I called you the next day and we
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  did it over the We did it on the phone. We did ye think.
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  Gave me COVID that day too. Yeah, game gave the equipment COVID.
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  It didn't work. It was just three But I don't know why.
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  He called me the next day, Frank, he said, I just you
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  know, Jimmy Pino had to COVID. And I'm like, I don't give
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  the fuck. Actually, I think the only one that didn't get it from
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  that group who me? I didn't get it? I mean I had you
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  don't get chicked. That's a secret. I don't get sick like that.
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  You give me a drug, I end up in the hospital. He's fine,
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  that's a secret. And that don't get test don't get pills. I
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  don't want to take vitamins. Anymore everything anyway. So uh yeah, So
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  anyways, thanks for having us back. So first of all, I want
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  to thank everybody. We had a phenomenal year. Yes, we we are
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  so blessed, so lucky. We played some amazing shows, We had some
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  great, great crowds. Uh. We love seeing everybody. We love you
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  know, doing stuff for the community, as you said, and we're very
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  blessed in that respect. But throughout all the gigs and everything that we normally
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  do, we've been recording, uh record or an album, whatever you want
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  to call it, uh, an original project of original work. And second
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  one, Yeah, this is the second one. We did the first one
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  locally here in Connecticut, which that Yeah, this one isn't done yet.
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  It's it's being mixed right now. But we were fortunate enough to do this
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  down in Nashville. That's awesome. Yeah, we went how'd you get through
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  that? That was just so fucking over everything he had the rough busting Yeah,
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  I'm tough, man, I'm tough. Although it was fun and some
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  people snuck out of their dorm every now and then. I had to get
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  these guys in the studio for like ten hours a day. It was it
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  was hard. Ten hours. It was a long day. Yea, what
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  an experience. It was just yeah, it was great. We recorded at
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  Blackbird Studios, which is owned by John McBride and Martina McBride's husband, and
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  we became very close and good friends, and he dug all the stuff that
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  we're doing, and he offered us some great opportunities down there, so we
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  took advantage of him and we we have probably a fifteen or sixteen song project
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  coming out early twenty twenty four, all original stuff, really cool stuff.
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  We got, you know, Jimmy killing it on sacks. We got dougyam
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  bass, we got Dean Kosh and the drum. We have Nancy Silbret singing.
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  We have Brian Robshaw, we have pat Down again, and we're able
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  to bring on some special players. Some of the sessions we're able to record
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  with drummer Chad Cromwell, who is Neil Young's drummer. He was graced us
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  with his presence and the guy was out of sight. We had Jake Brownstein
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  from the band Aggy guitar work with us. Jim that's right. The recording
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  then, yeah, but we were working at some of thatding Ben too in
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  Atlantic records too. One of the and we picked up edition for the first
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  year is our keyboard player. Oh yeah, Joey from Free Play Fame.
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  Yeah, Joey's an amazing addition to thee. They're so tough, Jenny.
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  These guys are so so good and we're so lucky to have them in the
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  band with us. And you know they you know, Joe's got an amazing
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  voice. You could sing like nobody's business. And uh, you know,
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  I think at this point, the Rummer has been around for a long time,
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  right, and a lot of us have joined the band at different times.
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  You know, Doug is an original member. He is an original member
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  father, along with Brian and Nan Nancy, Yeah, yeah, everybody else.
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  I remember them before you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what
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  yeard you joined? I don't know, but I think I'm going on like
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  thirteen or fourteen years that. I thought it would be longer than that.
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  I thought it was slow in his page, and it started as a slow
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  and painful It's well, that's why you keep your eyes closed. It's a
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  slow lead, you know, slow blead. I'm gonna drip. We did
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  a gig at for nine to eleven. Yeah, very right away. Outside
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  at the stone Bridge and John and I were playing softball together, and I
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  said, listen, why you guys played? The rummers were playing, and
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  they came. You had an acoustic act, I think at that point three
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  or four years and you sat down in a chair, you opened up and
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  had We played right after that Nights here Many. Yeah, pretty much.
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  John joined the band right after that. Doug and I were playing softball for
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  a long time and yeah, before I knew he was in this band.
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  And uh, did Doug play shortstop? No? He played tight ends.
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  No, that's Jimmy. He's a line receiver. Hour we got the jokes
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  flowing around the table. It's really bad. But listen, Jimmy all getting
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  Aside was just honored at his college his years of playing football. Yeah what
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  you got? What you got? Serious? Now? What we were Division
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  three national champions, national chance give you a yeah, so big reunion.
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  Yeah we were. We're in the school hall of Fame. Not yet said
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  it's getting the ring the budget of you know Alabama over there. We don't
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  even thinking they're giving him a ring like you put on your back. Well,
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  I have the chance to protect what position were you? I was a
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  tight end? I'll know that I'm on end, came up what position we're
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  not? I mean, if I had to guess, and not in all
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  jokes aside, I mean, you you have the body for you know,
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  for beauty's got ahead of the tag. You got the head of the three
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  of us doing here, but you know, dougies, Douggy's hiding sometimes.
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  Yeah, what was your helmet size? Seventy three quarters was probably the same
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  we got No, you got some brains, A lot of brains. That's
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  a lot of brains. The housing properly. So, uh, you still
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  in Nashville Trips yet to go? Was in all post recording now or post
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  production? Yeah, so we're in post production. We wrapped up all of
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  our time in Nashville. We we've been there like two three times a month
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  for the last six months. Following you guys, guys flying down there,
• 21:57
  back and forth, back and forth and again. Do you all have to
• 22:00
  go as a band or you can record separate stuff and they mix it all
• 22:03
  separately. Yeah, So we would take like sometimes me, Jimmy and Joe
• 22:06
  would go, Jimmy and Doug would go. We'd all go down there and
• 22:07
  depending on what we're trying to finish, and then we've been working at the
• 22:11
  Recording Dead in Bethany to kind of take everything we got and put it all
• 22:15
  together. Now, a lot of it was already mixed to Nashville, but
• 22:18
  we still off about four or five corrections, tweaking it a little bit.
• 22:22
  Yeah, it changes here and there, But I gotta tell you, it
• 22:25
  was just the most amazing experience. Was it Was it easier this time around
• 22:30
  than the first time. Yeah, I knew more of more what to expect.
• 22:33
  I mean, you guys have been recording, but you've never really done
• 22:36
  it on a stage like this or no exact originals and love right working out
• 22:41
  of this studio. I mean, this is a studio where you know,
• 22:44
  everyone in Nashville records out so well, from Dolly Parton to Cowboy. Yeah,
• 22:55
  I seventy seven. My mom came. My mom's seventy seven. You
• 22:59
  can't get off the Does she have a Dallas? We got a quarter Dallas
• 23:03
  Cowboy. She's a Patriots fan like me, So you know, Patriot had
• 23:08
  a good run. The Patriots will rise again, Dude. They're gonna get
• 23:11
  one of the top two quarterbacks. It's a quarterback league. It's a quarterback
• 23:17
  league, and the Jets. The Jets can atone to that. Yeah,
• 23:19
  I mean that was though. You know, let me ask you what about
• 23:25
  quarterback? Does he go? Do we run him? Do we keep it
• 23:27
  happening? Or what do you think? What's your opinion on my opinion is
• 23:32
  about it? No, no, no, no, I'm fifty to fifty
• 23:36
  on whether he like not me personally, but like like in general, I'm
• 23:38
  fifty to fifty he leaves, because who's just misla Belichick. See. The
• 23:44
  thing is is everything I read is that if he does leave, then Gerardmeo
• 23:48
  and Bill O'Brien and all his underlings that work for him now are going to
• 23:52
  rise up and take over. So if that's the case, what's the fucking
• 23:55
  point. Yeah, you know, if he does leave, clean fucking house,
• 24:00
  bringing these new young offensive minds, he had a good defensive coordinator in
• 24:03
  there, and start over. But Craft is loyal beyond you know, loyalty
• 24:08
  and sports. I learned back in the late eighties with the Boston Celtics.
• 24:12
  They would not trade Larry Bird, they would not trade Kevin Mchaleman now,
• 24:15
  would not trade Robert Parrish or Ange, and it literally set the franchise back
• 24:19
  ten years sure, if not more, they won't, they won't And there's
• 24:22
  no change. Right, there's six super Bowl eight super Bowl rings he's gotten.
• 24:26
  I mean it's hard to get. Yeah, no, no, no,
• 24:29
  I have no problem with him staying. But if he does stay,
• 24:32
  he can't be the general manager anymore. Well, why would he want to
• 24:34
  say? You know? Well, I mean how old is he? Now?
• 24:38
  He's got to be. Well, he's he's he's only like two nine
• 24:41
  win seasons away from breaking Don Shula's record. Yeah, and he's seventy seventy
• 24:45
  one. Yeah, these guys coach Hill are seventy five. Now, you
• 24:48
  know. It's like it's like it's like, is the guy from the Seahawks
• 24:52
  like one of the oldest coat. Yeah, he's older, he's only Yeah.
• 24:53
  The Pete Carroll's like seventy seventy and he fucking runs around that sideline like
• 24:57
  he's like a billion plus. Yeah right, yeah, he turns eighty.
• 25:02
  He could run for president. I'll tell you what he might he would be.
• 25:06
  He wouldn't be tripping down all the time downstairs. You let me.
• 25:10
  Don't you want to talk politics? I'm down. Let's keep it a felt
• 25:14
  in front of ru Runner show. Here that's right. Let's go back to
• 25:18
  the run. She doesn't have to worry about it anymore. He's out of
• 25:19
  he's out of the loop. Uh yeah, let's go back to the run
• 25:22
  runners. So do you have a date yet for this? No, we
• 25:26
  don't have a I don't want to give out a da because I'm not one
• 25:29
  hundred percent sure. But it'll be like the next six months. Yeah,
• 25:32
  the next three or four months. We're gonna we're gonna release it. We'll
• 25:34
  do a release online, do Spotify thing. We'll do some live shows.
• 25:37
  Yeah, we wanted to. We want to do a live show and just
• 25:41
  do those catch songs. Yeah. Yeah, what about Atlantic Records? Oh
• 25:45
  yeah, we don't know that. We did one one one of them.
• 25:48
  We we went to really yeah, we went to Atlantic Records. Is that
• 25:52
  in l A, not New York. We all took the train down,
• 25:56
  We went the train. Were don't even time that thing. But we went
• 26:02
  in and we're able to showcase four songs and we actually played for the president
• 26:07
  of Atlantic Records the United States. We played for Biden. We played for
• 26:12
  Biden. He didn't know what the hell was going on. He stuck for
• 26:15
  the whole thing and he woke up and he called me Chad. I didn't
• 26:18
  know what happened, Chad, Chad, he said, thank you, quarterback
• 26:22
  of the New York Chests. We have the quarter But yeah, we went
• 26:27
  there and we did like a little audition and he picked one of our songs
• 26:32
  to record, so we actually recorded a song right there at Alantic Records.
• 26:34
  It was pretty cool. So I'm called Rise. We've been playing it out
• 26:37
  a lot and right like Ride in the Car, so that'll be on the
• 26:42
  next up and coming record as well. And uh, you know, we're
• 26:45
  going to keep it going. We're taking every opportunity we could get. I
• 26:48
  know everybody knows this says a cover band, and we love being a cover
• 26:52
  band. But we're all very creative people and we're just trying to explore every
• 26:59
  opportunity. That's which was to make some great music, right, I mean,
• 27:02
  if anything, it's it's itself, you know, Like you know,
• 27:04
  you guys, can you know how many cover bands do we know? You
• 27:07
  know, there's there's tremendous ones. We just had one. Those guys the
• 27:12
  Zach and Fry that are the suit those guys are awesome. Uh, you
• 27:17
  know, we just had shotdown. I know, you guys put on some
• 27:19
  events, I think the music scene of Milford, the cover music scene,
• 27:23
  and in the originals, a lot of young kids coming up that I've actually
• 27:26
  had through the show, and uh, you know it's great. But I
• 27:30
  could see the itch, you know, I get it, you know,
• 27:33
  like I had an itch to do this show, and I didn't know what
• 27:34
  the fuck I wanted to do. And I started out just talking about I
• 27:37
  mean, Aaron Rodgers was still in the Packers three years ago, so yes,
• 27:41
  yeah, I got this. I got a sponsor, I got I
• 27:44
  got the voice from Viva, and uh, you know I love it.
• 27:48
  Yeah, absolutely very good. And uh and congratulations, this is great.
• 27:52
  You deserve it. All are tequila Tequila. So there's there's four. There's
• 27:59
  the huckle berry, which is the light blue. There's the elderberry, so
• 28:03
  the only berry is actually a little mes Cali. Yeah I like it.
• 28:06
  I like And then there's a watermelon and a grapefruit. Grapefruit you'll see mostly
• 28:10
  in my fridge because I just don't like grapefruit in general. But those are
• 28:12
  the four flavors. And they just had me up in Boston a couple of
• 28:15
  weeks ago for the two year anniversary and I happen to be the first one
• 28:19
  to get to the hotel and they had like five new flavors, taste testing
• 28:23
  flavors, and I was like, I said, Clintonville, Wisconsin, that's
• 28:29
  where it's canned. Yeah, so it's all so obviously the tequila comes from
• 28:33
  Mexico. The I think they can it and well it says yes, I
• 28:38
  think Chicago is another spot they might do it, or they brew it and
• 28:41
  can it there or something, and then but it's it's Boston based. Ye
• 28:47
  yep. And the two owners of their brothers, Chris and Steven Thurston.
• 28:52
  You had Thurston Foods that their father Jimmy yeahs to the beach Jammis Yeah.
• 29:02
  Yeah, so that's their dad and they're from Wallingford and they're great guys and
• 29:06
  uh, you know, I wish them all the luck and they're big supporters
• 29:08
  of me, and likewise to them, I saw the great people. Yeah,
• 29:12
  it's great. I'm telling it's great. It's light, it's easy to
• 29:15
  drink, it's really eighty calories. Come on, say the whole. I
• 29:18
  might have you do the promo for me after we've finished the show. Johnny
• 29:22
  with the harmonica, Yeah, I know, you're so good on the spots.
• 29:32
  I would love to do a promo. Yeah, I'm doing there though
• 29:34
  it's a little What time is your practice tonight? Guy? Shout out to
• 29:45
  Litchfield. No, I loved I still my beaver is exclusive to the you
• 29:49
  know, the can beverages, but I can bring any whiskey on I want.
• 29:52
  And I love these guys. This is not only great guys, but
• 29:56
  like if you drink a jackfire, this is totally different. This is this
• 30:00
  is sipping. This ain't like chilly to shoot too say, it's not at
• 30:04
  all. It's clean and nice punch tools. So where do you guys?
• 30:10
  I don't know if you actually you probably have an idea, But what's the
• 30:12
  albums out? Where do you guys want to play the ten songs? Would
• 30:17
  you? That's a really good question, and we've talked about it because I
• 30:22
  don't want to confuse people either. I don't want people to come out and
• 30:25
  see the rum Runners and be like, oh, you know, they didn't
• 30:26
  play all the dances, they didn't do fun. Have you ever thought of
• 30:29
  changing your name for the originals? Yes, yeah, yes, we're going
• 30:33
  to go and we were going to go under another name, and that way
• 30:37
  we won't confuse people, but might maybe leak it out so they know who
• 30:41
  it is. But we wanted to do some like really cool places, like
• 30:44
  we're going to try to play it like Caffe Knight and have it. Doug,
• 30:48
  what's the place in Milford? Want to play at the Earth the Mac
• 30:49
  the mac Oh, yeah, the maccent that's a good place to kick it
• 30:52
  off. That's where we should get off. We'll go in there one night
• 30:56
  and side everybody in Yeah. Yeah, well the place up and we'll do
• 31:00
  just like you know, eight ten, twelve, Yes, and yeah,
• 31:04
  this stuff is really good. You know, we're rocking four part harmonies,
• 31:08
  We've got killer keyboards, killer sacks. Everybody's so talented. The songs are
• 31:14
  really big, they're really strong, and uh, we're just gonna you know,
• 31:18
  we're just gonna do it. Yeah, like you said, we got
• 31:21
  the edge, so yes, like so many different styles in your band.
• 31:26
  Yeah, as a cover band. Yeah, so I'm interested. Like I
• 31:27
  remember the last album you had. I loved a lot of your music,
• 31:30
  but I sensed like almost every song was almost different. You know, you
• 31:34
  know what I mean? You're so intuitive. How much you have you been
• 31:37
  drinking today? My first drinksmore drinking a week since the Chess Picky. Hey,
• 31:51
  but yeah, you're right. The first record I do a majority of
• 31:55
  the writing. So the first record I just wrote a bunch of songs.
• 31:56
  I didn't really have a vision like a beginning, minute or end. So
• 32:00
  even though it's good and I love it, this one is more. And
• 32:04
  I wrote probably ninety percent of this stuff too. But this stuff is more
• 32:07
  in line with like a solid project. It's very reflective of the strengths of
• 32:12
  the band. Right. We have killer sacks. Jewy's got some amazing souls.
• 32:15
  The guitar players got some great souls. Joe's you know, rocking to
• 32:19
  him and B three Doug's bass playing is amazing. Dean on the drums as
• 32:23
  solid as a rock. And like I said, between me and Nancy,
• 32:25
  Jimmy and Joe, we're doing four part harmonies, and yeah, they're big.
• 32:31
  You know, the guys in Nashville really dug. I'm like, you
• 32:34
  know, I don't know if I'm any good. I probably suck. I
• 32:37
  don't even well. Look they say do while you're young, we're doing it
• 32:40
  while we're old. Yeah, we have fun. You got to give it
• 32:45
  a shot. And speaking to Nashville. We're hoping to do a little run
• 32:47
  down there, ready to run down. We're gonna try to get Connecticut presence
• 32:53
  down there. And Brian and I had just done a show in Nashville last
• 32:57
  month. Now you need to I'm sorry to interrupt. He needs like ants,
• 33:00
  like how does it work out there? Have you ever been? Or
• 33:02
  of course yeah, but I have a friend that played the circuit. But
• 33:06
  like you almost have to go to like is there like a conglomerate that owns
• 33:09
  like nine percent of the bars on on the mainstream? You might not go
• 33:14
  that route because we've been fortunate enough to play at some of the more underground
• 33:17
  clubs that are kind of cool. No disrespect to the strip, no,
• 33:22
  but the strip is just a whole other end. And listen, there's a
• 33:25
  million times and they want to cover shit on the strip, they really do.
• 33:29
  So we're thinking of doing more of an intimate thing. Like we just
• 33:31
  played a club called Third and Linsley, which is an iconic place in Nashville,
• 33:36
  and I made a great connection with the owner and we're hoping to maybe
• 33:39
  do a show there and you know, it's just more of an intimate night
• 33:44
  with the runners rather than you know, going up and down you know Broadway,
• 33:47
  and you know, seeing thirty bands every twenty minutes. So we're gonna
• 33:52
  try to do it. It's the third bar. You're bombed anyway. Yeah,
• 33:54
  your hammer, that's going on. The next thing you know, you're
• 33:57
  up. They're singing, Yeah, Jimmy, go ahead. No great place
• 34:00
  even chief. Remember we went there and we're up on the third floor having
• 34:05
  dinner. I think was Jason al Dean's or one of the bands. Yeah,
• 34:07
  well we went there to but but like you hear music and you're like
• 34:12
  they left the house music on it. You're like, no, that's that's
• 34:15
  the band out there. That Stone is really in the house music. Yeah,
• 34:22
  I've heard that, Like because nobody ever knows thought you were campy.
• 34:34
  It's usually just let me, let me tell you something. I think you
• 34:36
  know better than anything that me and can't be run that roost, and like
• 34:40
  if anything is missed, it's not because of us. No, no,
• 34:45
  no, I'm not even like I know you know, but like it's funny,
• 34:47
  like so many people are like, I'm like, dude, first of
• 34:51
  all, it's a it's a it's a it's that thing is a whole beast
• 34:53
  on its own and when I'm stuck in my spot, there's nothing else I
• 34:57
  can do. Trust me, I know I can't unless you're the shriver.
• 35:00
  My girlfriends, you have a text me back in three hours, and I
• 35:04
  can't quarter at the bar right and listen, man, we've had some great
• 35:09
  times to get off. You can't be behind the barns playing all the fantastic.
• 35:15
  I always say my favorite, my least favorite day is Oysterfest as far
• 35:21
  as as far as like just to the length of it. Yeah, the
• 35:25
  crowd early for the Oysterfest, but the minute you guys go on, I
• 35:30
  always I don't know if it's something you guys like just step it. I
• 35:32
  mean, I'm not saying I always feel like there's just so it could be
• 35:37
  the crowd. But when you guys play Oysterfest, like I find myself like
• 35:40
  fucking bop it around behind you. There's an energy there that I you know,
• 35:45
  and it's it's like I see you standing on the speakers and fucking and
• 35:50
  you know everyone You've got the crowds going, and not that you don't do
• 35:52
  that normally, but like that day this year, rat, I just feel
• 35:57
  like it's Yeah, downtown Milford, it's magic, but even on the docks
• 36:02
  everywhere, just walking around yea, the whole day and listening, you know,
• 36:07
  like at the end of like I know, my job is. My
• 36:08
  job is to do that. My job is to make sure that everyone has
• 36:13
  a great time, that I'm giving everything I got. I don't leave anything
• 36:15
  on the table. Man. When I'm done with that show, I could
• 36:17
  barely walk right. Like the fireworks show we do too, that's great.
• 36:22
  Oh the milk for fire. Milford Fire is a good show too, fun
• 36:27
  just you know, you feel so good day. I always working great,
• 36:34
  the same drop on the water. You get four or five hundred people,
• 36:37
  maybe I don't know, a couple thousand people. I don't even know.
• 36:38
  It could be a film last year, Yeah, I don't know. I
• 36:45
  don't know. We got a special shout out to our boy Phil Stonebridge always
• 36:51
  then Phil for having us him and his dad. We appreciate it as always.
• 36:54
  He's a great drums every year with yeahs every year and I can't even
• 37:00
  I don't even see that every year he plays lump Fields a great drummer.
• 37:07
  Yeah, I remember hit back to Yeah, Yeah, that was back in
• 37:12
  the Daniel Street days. He had a band I couldn't remember the name of
• 37:17
  it. I don't even know. But he had this fucking so you know
• 37:21
  how, we had like these takeover Tuesdays and Daniel Street and it was like
• 37:24
  all these like weird indie bands were around the neighborhood. So he would play
• 37:29
  because it was his idea and it was fun. I always worked at Tuesday
• 37:31
  nights and he had this band and again I can't remember the name of it,
• 37:36
  and he would get up top. It was three guys. He was
• 37:38
  drumming and a bass and a lead singer. But but Phil would sing from
• 37:42
  behind the drum set and but but this, but this is what it was
• 37:47
  like. It was like, so he get off stage. I'm like,
• 37:52
  what the fun was that? He goes, oh, so yeah, our
• 37:54
  band we do songs in an alien language we came up with. I was
• 37:58
  just like, how much do you smoke? Bro? He's artistic? I
• 38:02
  gotta he literally was like he like. It's like it's like they know what
• 38:07
  was it, star Trek or whatever. They came up with a whole alien
• 38:09
  language, like a whole like they actually you can translate it into with your
• 38:14
  iPhone and you can translate into English. I mean, his his names didn't
• 38:17
  do that, but uh but yeah so uh City Street and yeah zoom.
• 38:29
  You remember the show zoom You're you're too young? There was no zoom zoom.
• 38:32
  No, maybe not zoom on zoom zoom. Yeah, yeah, I
• 38:36
  want to zoom zoom zoom. I remember at Chill. I definitely don't.
• 38:39
  Yeah, I don't watch and ze before. I'm almost fifty, like you're
• 38:44
  gonna se fifty five? Yeah, well, Doug, you wanna uh zoom
• 38:51
  zoom. His oldest great child is forty, so kid, hey these kids,
• 39:01
  yeah, Chief cutting you off? Yeah, I'm sorry. I had
• 39:06
  their own little language. I don't remember. Oh, I say, we're
• 39:08
  going that day. He had just their own language, just like on Sesame
• 39:14
  Street. Yeah, it's like Phi, I own a restaurant. Phil was
• 39:24
  channeling the language. So Chief, let's stick with you. He no,
• 39:29
  no, no, no, no, I don't think we've ever talked about
• 39:32
  like I kind of know your background. It goes way back, we go
• 39:37
  way back. We go to like nineteen ninety five, easy, Mary,
• 39:42
  Yeah that's right. Yeah, that was one of boyfriend and girl friend.
• 39:45
  Yes, imagine that and you know my wife I do, yes, yes,
• 39:50
  and that's how I met you. Wait wait, that's another should I've
• 39:54
  said this is going. Courney is one of my favorite people involved in She
• 40:00
  loves you. Oh yeah, Cordy. My wife's a good egg man.
• 40:04
  She puts up with all my crap. Yeah, you know, you know
• 40:07
  you're here today. Absolutely. She she told me to have a great podcast.
• 40:10
  Yeah. She's a fellow Red Sox fan, so totally. No.
• 40:13
  Me and your Me and your wife worked at uh four years three four years
• 40:16
  together with Joni and Andrea. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. It
• 40:22
  was fun. But she's started ahead dug so, uh how long like you've
• 40:27
  been you've been in music your whole life? Or do you have any influences?
• 40:30
  Do you you just kind of learned base that mean it's the easiest.
• 40:34
  Yeah, it's hard to learn. That's up only has four strings. It
• 40:39
  is easy here. Oh yeah, I got you, I got you,
• 40:43
  I got put on. She talked Jeremy. Sometimes we turn it on.
• 40:53
  You were good last night? Is this like up? Because you usually we
• 41:00
  have I don't know if John told you, but we have a five part
• 41:04
  harmony. Oh yeah, they kind of excluded you from that, didn't they.
• 41:07
  Yeah? Yeah, is it all depending on how much you sing?
• 41:12
  He's right? Well lately he isn't set up a microphone. I don't know
• 41:15
  what the problems. I don't want to get into being politics here, but
• 41:17
  he's like the sing yeah, sing yeah. I was fifteen years old probably
• 41:23
  when I first picked up with My brother played guitar. That's right, he
• 41:27
  had the basses and yeah. My brother he played six train, but he
• 41:30
  had bass two and it was more more and you know, of course you're
• 41:39
  older, brother, don't touch my stuff while I go on, and he
• 41:43
  did car drives Away and I'm playing his guitar. But I always liked the
• 41:45
  bass, and I was just listening to the bass notes and then came along
• 41:51
  demand yes, oh I love yes, and I'm like, oh my god.
• 41:54
  Now, so I listened to that Chris Squire playing bass. I haven't
• 41:59
  heard about head about I mean a long time reference. That's what I want
• 42:05
  to play bass. Then you start listening to the Who and all my brothers
• 42:09
  and just these great bass players, would you know, And they're really they're
• 42:14
  good, good bass lines. I can't play any Chris Squire stuff. I
• 42:17
  would love to. I say, it's too complicated before I die. Well,
• 42:21
  it's hard. It's very complicated. Probably pick players would have pick.
• 42:25
  I play with pick. Yeah, some of these person and I always say
• 42:30
  once in a while, you got to finger it a little bit. Yeah,
• 42:34
  it gets loose. I'm not they could see your hands. Can some
• 42:46
  people what they he's tickling something, he's fingering. Then I think that's a
• 42:53
  high table. I like it up here a little more right, it's just
• 43:00
  a few more shows up here. When you said the big room, I
• 43:02
  was confused. I didn't even know this was here until you sounded the picture.
• 43:07
  Yeah. We voiced on the other room, which was nice, and
• 43:08
  I give them too. Yeah, well the other rooms kind of like my
• 43:12
  man cave room. You know, I got all the ship in there.
• 43:15
  Uh so that like a triple camera, so it's called a so actually I
• 43:20
  have three cameras. The problem so this this just like like I'll go right
• 43:24
  to you, Jimmy boom Now it's yeah anyway, but I could do like
• 43:31
  three cameras. But then like my my, so it's an obs app so
• 43:35
  like it would be like try so like that's Jimmy right now. So it
• 43:38
  turns wow, it's wild Chief, that's you that you look like. Remember,
• 43:45
  oh you want to see a hold on this, get us Remember that
• 43:50
  movie. It's cool refreshing drink. What was it Austin Power? Is the
• 43:55
  second one when they did the fucking no this No, that was the third
• 44:00
  the second one when Mini Me came out. Oh yeah, it might have
• 44:02
  been the third one though, but like they didn't. They were in prison
• 44:05
  and they did the rap and they're aware that they're wearing the flannel. Yeh
• 44:13
  che I wish I wanted to pull it up, which had production like,
• 44:19
  hey, I just pull it up and fucking side by sign it right.
• 44:22
  I wanted to do a Halloween gig this year because we used to play Halloween.
• 44:24
  We like thematic guy in the front that I want to know. I
• 44:29
  wanted to be like Jimmy and I and I would be mini Jimmy. MANI
• 44:35
  you know your shoulder, that's it. I'll have a little sacks, little
• 44:39
  mini sacks, many sacks, many sacks. You're figuring it being an honored
• 44:45
  chief. That's very nice. He wants to be just like, No,
• 44:47
  when I grew up, I want to be just like that's cheap, all
• 44:51
  right, Jimmy. When you first have sex, have said I first had
• 44:54
  sex in the fourth grade. Really well, it's young. Yeah, wow,
• 44:59
  I did she get fired. They got that back then it was it
• 45:07
  was like no big deal. I was like, now it's like you go
• 45:10
  to prison for thirty years. Yeah. Yeah, Mary Old Tracy School in
• 45:15
  Orange. That's where I grew up in Orange. Is that a real school?
• 45:19
  It was? Yeah, yeah, it was maryel Tracy School in Orange.
• 45:24
  It stopped. It was a community center for a while. Now it's
• 45:28
  back to being a school, I think, Yeah, Mary Old Tracy School.
• 45:35
  Yeah. Yeah, So I studied I it was the school band with
• 45:39
  Missus Pollard, and I played and then and then I got into sports after
• 45:44
  that, and I played in jazz band and then went on. You went
• 45:47
  from having sacks with your teacher to tight end. That's that's how they board
• 45:54
  that in. But that sounds now a wide receiver, know, in all
• 46:02
  honesty, like you should have played it. That's that's gotta be a hard
• 46:06
  instrument to pick up. I was. I was fascinated by it in fourth
• 46:10
  grade. That's why I say so so I I and I was in the
• 46:15
  in the school band, and my parents went to Bankos and they, you
• 46:20
  know, they bought me a beginner saxophone and I figured it out and I
• 46:24
  just got into it. Sas is not easy from there. No, that's
• 46:28
  not even the instrument for a kid to pick up that instrument. Who was
• 46:31
  your influences? Yea, oh god, I have too many of that name.
• 46:35
  But I would say, you know, it evolved over the years.
• 46:37
  I mean, everybody talks about Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, but I like
• 46:42
  Macio Parker. He's a funk player and and I would say he would be
• 46:47
  my number one influence. Macio Parker and King Curtis. King Curtis uh was
• 46:52
  Aretha Franklin Sachs player. She and he influenced Clarence Clemens. Of course,
• 47:00
  King Curtis was murdered at thirty seven years old in nineteen seventies. Yes,
• 47:06
  right, there just a great just that thick sound that I like, you
• 47:09
  know, so anyway, I do know I love thank you Chief. Yeah.
• 47:15
  It's like, you know, we're talking about that energy. Yeah,
• 47:16
  Jimmy brings that energy, like I love it. Like he goes out in
• 47:21
  the crowd and he plays and and you know, he's an amazing player,
• 47:24
  but he goes out there and he has that personality that goes you know,
• 47:28
  it's like you guys all, you guys all have the energy except for chief
• 47:35
  right now, all about it. He just took a breath. He's like,
• 47:40
  it's like flee. Did you see him at the slides on fucking Thanksgiving?
• 47:47
  Okay, that's right before he was bold. He had dreadlocks on Charles
• 47:52
  Island fest glass that that was a great dread. That was a great dead
• 47:59
  that was fun. That was great Charles. That's all what so yeah,
• 48:01
  that's all right, that's all you can into it. But you know,
• 48:07
  I had I had two friends from from ethnic football football. They came over
• 48:14
  from Long Island on their boat and I remember they anchored right in front of
• 48:17
  the barge, but the anchor didn't bite and they kept floating, you know
• 48:22
  away, you know. So so but he said that people were swimming.
• 48:27
  He was so afraid of hit and you know, it was crazy. It
• 48:30
  was just crazy, dangerous attle bit. But yeah, I mean, but
• 48:35
  I have another event. I love what they brought it back. If they
• 48:38
  brought it back, well they still come out there anyway. Me like that.
• 48:46
  Everything tie up boats. So they tied up and went out dating.
• 48:52
  But then you get the situations where there's an emergency or people gotta leave.
• 48:55
  It's it's it's yeah, you know little boats say that was like a bucket
• 49:00
  listing. It's a great idea. I'm glad, Yeah, I'm glad it
• 49:01
  happened. Was twice it happened, or just one, three and maybe four
• 49:07
  before that. And then we got and every year it got bigger and bigger,
• 49:12
  and I think our last year we hit the highest mark for a fundraising.
• 49:15
  So it did go out with a bang. But it's listen, it's
• 49:19
  a lot of way. Just set something up on the beach, like a
• 49:22
  stage. Well they we were thinking that doing that a golf beach. Set
• 49:27
  up a stage a place of Marston Water so everybody can hang out and do
• 49:30
  whatever they want. But again, I don't know body is like golf.
• 49:36
  There's drinking involved. You got you gotta get an et ahead or two eyeballs
• 49:40
  on that camera so when it moves, it's see you get it? Does
• 49:49
  it? Does? Ye? Put a couple of eyeballs on it. There's
• 49:52
  not too much Claire off your head though mine's got a lot of glare.
• 49:54
  Hold on, mine's got a lot of glare. I feel like, you
• 49:59
  know what this is is a nice petroup. Yeah, very nice. Thank
• 50:02
  you for making this for me. Yeah, so kill. What's what's what's
• 50:09
  your next? Uh, what's what's coming? I know you guys probably busy
• 50:12
  up through the you guys take a break. We do. So we got
• 50:15
  some big stuff and tell you now, let's get into it. Well,
• 50:20
  I drive the band. This can sell like a bad pornum. I drive
• 50:22
  the band really hard, especially receiver. Especially. A break is well deserved.
• 50:35
  We've done. Of course, we'll we'll keep working. A break isn't
• 50:38
  technically a break, but we're gonna take a little time off. Let everybody
• 50:40
  spend some time with their families, enjoy the holiday at Christmas. But this
• 50:45
  Friday we're doing the chest and a J pel R toy drive nice and that
• 50:49
  is with five Hat and Finger eleven. And then Friday that's awesome too,
• 50:55
  but they're a little I mean Finger eleven Friday morning. Friday, it's early
• 51:00
  in the morning, I mean the event, like I can wake up by
• 51:04
  eleven talking about eleven. I gotta be there. Yeah, just s me
• 51:12
  pictures. But while you're lying, Yeah, yes, if anybody wants to
• 51:19
  listen in, you can listen into the live broadcast. But uh, we'll
• 51:22
  be playing. And it's a fundraiser toys for Tots where Friday. It's this
• 51:27
  friend. Yeah, we're lucky enough to get asked to do it, and
• 51:29
  we'll be playing some Christmas songs, you know, their usual stick. It'll
• 51:32
  be fun, it'll be a really good time. But more importantly, we're
• 51:36
  doing another show on Saturday, Doug, And why don't you tell them what
• 51:38
  that event on Saturday Grassy Hill. It's an organization called Keith Milford Warm.
• 51:45
  Yeah. I just had him on We Are Right, wee great Play.
• 51:49
  You were mentioned in that show. Yeah, this is the first year that
• 51:52
  they hired. I think they had a DJ in the past. Yeah,
• 51:55
  so they their grandpall right, yeah yeah sure. It said, look that's
• 52:00
  gonna be a lot of themocrats and all those guys public or no, they
• 52:05
  sold out. Well, the after parties had Anthony D's that's why, Jim,
• 52:13
  have you playing with the brothers? Well, James get voted. Run
• 52:15
  runner sneaks up there if you play it with over there otherhoods. They're a
• 52:20
  funk band. We do. We do a lot of old school fun.
• 52:23
  How many bands are you in? Really? Really? I think Lance but
• 52:28
  really three three bands primarily but but free Play hasn't been playing as much since
• 52:34
  the COVID. We know we willed. Jimmy and Jeremy, let me ask
• 52:38
  you. Can I ask you a question? Please make sure Jey sit back
• 52:42
  and Jimmy pino. What's your favorite band? Well that I love all listen,
• 52:57
  Yeah, he gets play. You put them on the spot on that
• 53:00
  one. Yeah. Yeah. I love the rum Runners, especially because you
• 53:05
  guys are right next to me. I love it. I love the band
• 53:07
  that's in the room with me. Yeah. I just honestly, I think
• 53:13
  these guys, what's your favorite podcast? A drink with the dog? But
• 53:23
  seriously, I just love to play and I love these guys. Rum Runners
• 53:27
  are family to me. True. You guys are family. You know about
• 53:30
  with their mother cats. You guys are family. Listen. I know you
• 53:36
  and Dean and Joe and you guys you know you're hop notch bands, but
• 53:40
  you all came to the Runners and you say, I just love playing with
• 53:45
  his bands. There's no pressures, Finn, but just right, relax and
• 53:49
  you know that's right. We always were like that. Took John a little
• 53:52
  while to get there. He's there, you know, John, John John
• 53:55
  twenty five years ago was like, all right, I'm making a big time.
• 53:59
  He was big Matt's althar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you
• 54:02
  know what I want. Just so when they asked me about what I said,
• 54:08
  I'm playing softball with Dug. I can't go. I'm gonna play bottles
• 54:13
  in space. What was that was the what was the song? You guys
• 54:15
  always came out to Matt's alter and that's alter. I was like, it
• 54:20
  was from Jesus, Jesus Christ something. It was Jesus Christ Superstar, yes,
• 54:24
  and it was I don't remember all this. It was like the intro
• 54:29
  song to the rock opera. I saw you guys now, yeah, I
• 54:35
  saw you guys play at Van Dome. Wow. Yeah, in like nineteen
• 54:39
  ninety seven. E Chimmy when you said that, oh yeah Van domand don't
• 54:45
  don't about fucking three domes? Shine radio gets out. No he's not a
• 54:51
  camera, no no, yeah, we did want you guys stuff going.
• 54:54
  I guess I got to show something to Jeremy if I could find it.
• 54:58
  I think Richard, it keeps coming back, so I agreed, it just
• 55:02
  never goes away. But the really cool thing now is technology is so cool.
• 55:07
  Oh my god, what what is wrong with you? You have that?
• 55:12
  What is it? What is it? Job? Please? Why do
• 55:22
  I have that picture of hey, we need to take an emergency break for
• 55:24
  our sponsors. You're almost like a millie, a white millie vanilla, Like
• 55:35
  that's awesome, that's awesome. That's all those days are before that? Sorry?
• 55:44
  Was that mats? All those days before that? That was before that?
• 55:49
  Yeah, we're all that? And why is it on your phone?
• 55:52
  I rather you have that was a little creepy? Can you just use that?
• 55:58
  Listen? Still see? People probably get tired for that. I stand
• 56:01
  up here, let's do a toast. Oh yeah, we have a toast
• 56:05
  because I'm getting louder and more fund show it meets, yes, ye salude,
• 56:13
  this is good solu to Lichfield Distillery. But uh yeah, well we're
• 56:19
  gonna keep all the sun. You know what I always asking me in every
• 56:22
  New Year's we get together sweet roll for dinners. We have little dinners and
• 56:25
  stuff, and I'll be like, all right, who's in for another year?
• 56:28
  Right? You know, because seriously, you really got to ask that
• 56:30
  question. Everybody has a lot of things going on in their lives, you
• 56:32
  know, and you're like, are you in it? Because if it is,
• 56:36
  well, here's the next sixty shows, you know, getting us the
• 56:38
  next year, like We're already booked for Killing twenty four, so I got
• 56:42
  to know who's there and who's not, and God will who handles all that
• 56:45
  me I do. Don't get fucked a little bit off. These guys are
• 56:50
  fucking feeding off of you. It's book show someday. It's a solo out
• 56:55
  coming out in twenty thirty four. So well, it's called Johnny Shiny.
• 57:02
  I told the New Kiss Town I don't mind doing it. It's all and
• 57:06
  stuff. You know, that's the hardest part. And honestly, but you
• 57:09
  know what. You know how to sing. You guys know how to play
• 57:12
  music. You guys know how to give a studio and practice. Booking is
• 57:15
  the hardest part, and sometimes it's not fun. I have a hard time
• 57:17
  booking shows. I've been blowing off four times in the last three months.
• 57:22
  I never do that. No, you never never do that. I would
• 57:24
  come here if I was the quarterback for last week, I would come here.
• 57:29
  Did he never really heard last night? Oh Trevor, Yeah, yeah,
• 57:31
  high ankle spring, he might play this. I bet on Jacksonville guy
• 57:37
  stepped on. Yeah, but that that was a nasty looking yeah. I
• 57:38
  felt that for him it was his own player. That rolled them up.
• 57:42
  It was his but yeah, but anyways, yeah did I say there?
• 57:47
  Yeah, we did together. He drinking, So listen, I like I
• 58:00
  Like I said earlier, I grew up on listening to Yes and wanted to
• 58:02
  play bass great, all that great. Lately, I've always said, before
• 58:09
  I die, I want to play out. Oh yes, I want to
• 58:14
  play Yes song live. Yeah, the band and we just couldn't to sing
• 58:20
  it. No, we could do it, but I mean it's really hard.
• 58:22
  I got it's really hard to see. The guys seems so high.
• 58:23
  I can't do it. Just gotta be maybe Nancy. Yeah, yeah,
• 58:29
  seriously because Saturday night and I could die Sunday Blue. I've been around about
• 58:34
  is that the round about? Yeah? But he goes up high man.
• 58:37
  You know I'll play that the vocal somewhere. Eighty songs Elevator music version.
• 58:43
  What was their album Lonely Heart? Yeah? So what was that album that
• 58:47
  everybody could play? I don't like eighty seven eighty eight because in eighty eight
• 58:52
  I was no. Yeah, eighty eight that was a big record though.
• 58:54
  That was a that was the record, that was the record I listened to
• 58:58
  because yes, it was like one of the last ones great. I never
• 59:00
  wanted to play anything commercial. They were like a seventies longer. Yeah,
• 59:05
  they were good, there were There's just so many different parts and change like
• 59:07
  the seventies dreams, you know, and they were talented. Yeah, guys,
• 59:12
  they did stuff that it's almost like they didn't on purpose. And Alice
• 59:14
  could play it's hard even though the drums are hard. That yeah, I'm
• 59:19
  not saying the songs going through my head and it's nice. A lot of
• 59:23
  talented, a lot of changes. But I was from, you know,
• 59:30
  late seventies and disappointed. You know, you'reng I mean that's the one thing
• 59:34
  about music. It's like sometimes players are great players, you know, can't
• 59:37
  tonight? All right? So what about your favorite genre? I would just
• 59:42
  listen to, not to play listen to, Yes, I don't know,
• 59:46
  indie rock, indie rock, ye, indie rock. If you're in your
• 59:50
  car, what are you putting on? If you have to, let's say,
• 59:52
  if you at the gym, what are you putting on? Well?
• 59:55
  I do? I love Sublime, I love Alison Chains, I love Soundgarden,
• 1:00:05
  anything Chris. I would say, Chris, let's stick with uh,
• 1:00:08
  Chris Cornell, Soundgarden and Allison Chains Okay, So when I was a kid,
• 1:00:15
  my parents listened to Neil DIAMONDBA, you know whatever. Those bands are
• 1:00:19
  still and they never moved off that. Here's the thing, my parents and
• 1:00:28
  I always said I will always stay with the times, and I have.
• 1:00:30
  But I love Alison Chains like I'm I'm a let's say I was well yeah,
• 1:00:37
  well but I'm fifty. Like when when they were like sticking with it,
• 1:00:40
  they were younger than what I am now. And that's you know that
• 1:00:45
  everybody kind of digs. I respect the harmonies, the way they sang together,
• 1:00:47
  but I always promised myself, I want to stay relevant, not relevant.
• 1:00:52
  I want to stay current. I want to stay current in the rock
• 1:00:55
  because of a rock guy in the rock world, and I have like you
• 1:01:00
  go in my car right now, it's it's it's octane and it's it's it's
• 1:01:04
  like I love hearing new rock like I love classic like you don't get me
• 1:01:07
  wrong, Yeah, if Cornell ever comes on, I'm not changing that channel
• 1:01:10
  to the audio slave or sound guard. Yeah, I am not changing that
• 1:01:15
  channel. Yeah, but there's some really, really really good bands out there,
• 1:01:20
  but rock just does not get the exposure that it does all the other
• 1:01:23
  shit does, it doesn't, it doesn't, and it's so I mean,
• 1:01:27
  just for me, I could care less. I'd be really great radio.
• 1:01:30
  Those guys could play just for me and I'd be happy. But I'd like
• 1:01:32
  to see them, some of them get some recognition and get money. And
• 1:01:37
  I said this a couple of weeks ago. There was a girl on Octane.
• 1:01:39
  She's like one of the you know DJs or whatever, and she was
• 1:01:44
  doing a rock fest out in like Indiana or something, and there was like,
• 1:01:49
  you know, thirty eight thousand bands there, and she said, you
• 1:01:52
  know, when you're walking around the venue, outside of the venue, like,
• 1:01:58
  don't buy a T shirt from one of those you know, T shirt
• 1:02:02
  hawkers, you know. And I'm like, At first, I was like,
• 1:02:07
  I've said I said this on my show already, but I'm going to
• 1:02:08
  reach a different audience today because I got you guys on. I was like,
• 1:02:12
  fuck that I used to I used to walk out of fucking stained concerts
• 1:02:15
  in fucking early two thousands and get three T shirts for twenty dollars because they
• 1:02:20
  were just trying to get rid of shit. But then she kept going on,
• 1:02:22
  She's like, the band gets nothing, And then I realized how rock
• 1:02:27
  star struggles right now, like go inside first of all, like five washes,
• 1:02:32
  the thing is disintegrated on here, you know, and you know,
• 1:02:36
  go in spend the fifty five hours. I was at. The last concert
• 1:02:38
  ass actually was at was a post Malone concert in Nashville where in Nashville.
• 1:02:42
  Yeah, yeah, that's cool, and the house was really good and not
• 1:02:46
  my genre, but he was so entertaining. He's so town. So I
• 1:02:52
  didn't buy a shirt, and my girlfriend did and she'sbout like, you know,
• 1:02:53
  sixty bucks or whatever. Yeah, right, but maybe maybe he gets
• 1:02:58
  seven bucks of that, right, But the guy out side, he's just
• 1:03:00
  printing this ship, you know, in his basement. And I never thought
• 1:03:04
  about it younger, but now the I'm older, and I appreciate money more
• 1:03:07
  and I appreciate like the economics and all of that that goes with what these
• 1:03:10
  guys are doing. And you know, you can be the most famous guy
• 1:03:16
  in the planet, it doesn't mean you have money, especially in this industry.
• 1:03:20
  This industry is horrible, and I'm sure it's in other industries also,
• 1:03:22
  but this industry is really bad because what the perception is of what a rock
• 1:03:28
  star is or someone who's famous or whatever, it doesn't always equate to like
• 1:03:30
  there they've got a ton of money sometimes, you know, like you heard
• 1:03:35
  all these horror stories like Billy Joel and Tom Petty. They're managers who were
• 1:03:37
  like related to them, ripped them off and took all their money, right
• 1:03:40
  Like, and these guys are struggling to go out on tour to scrap I
• 1:03:45
  think, And I could be totally wrong. People could refute me, but
• 1:03:47
  that isn't Going on tour is the only way to make your money. Make
• 1:03:51
  money now because everything, I mean, you can't make a lot of these
• 1:03:55
  bands, especially in the rock industry, go uh like no label looks like
• 1:04:00
  they they made money and they built their own states. They build their own
• 1:04:03
  corn. I know Corn for a fact. Another has an awesome band,
• 1:04:08
  They have their own studio. They don't do anything with any of these big
• 1:04:11
  You don't need a record label to be successful. Well you might need one
• 1:04:15
  for distribution and awareness and all that stuff, but the way social media set
• 1:04:19
  up right now, you can do it all from your living with Well look
• 1:04:21
  at Justin Bieber and YouTube just their YouTube and stuff. You know. Yeah,
• 1:04:29
  I mean, so it's all different. But I think, like said
• 1:04:32
  before, good music will always prevail. Good music is good music, good
• 1:04:35
  musicians and good musicians. The ship gets weeded out the guys, you know,
• 1:04:41
  and then there's and then like people like Taylor Swift and all the you
• 1:04:43
  know, the bigs of the industry, And I'm selling their catalogs anyway,
• 1:04:46
  you know, I think you who notes they're up there like suing each other.
• 1:04:51
  Dude's got their straining order against the other guy because one guy wants to
• 1:04:55
  sell part of the catalog and the other guy is like, if you do
• 1:04:58
  that, that's really going to hurt. Kind of sad financially, just you
• 1:05:01
  know, that's what it is. It's so weird to me that you can
• 1:05:04
  just sell your own stuff, like like like that kind of the artistic stuff.
• 1:05:10
  Now you can sell your but you can sell your house, you can
• 1:05:12
  sell this. But I blame these wives. That's the problem with you got
• 1:05:16
  one job. By rote up, I'm the only am I the only divorced
• 1:05:24
  guy in here. I I'm never married, so I'm smart. Dougie,
• 1:05:29
  Let's go to Doggie Home and then click on Dougy over Mary married to Mary.
• 1:05:32
  Yeah, I don't even how long. Something stupid, something stupid with
• 1:05:43
  forty seven grandkids and one on the latest torow Son sort. I think you
• 1:05:50
  got to know during this podcast. That's right. What was the name of
• 1:05:57
  your band? Oh god, I've had many Oh that the fathers are deadbeat
• 1:06:00
  Battered Husband. We played at Stonebridge. You didn't the bad Husband. Yeah,
• 1:06:10
  and all of a sudden getting like just below. But it was the
• 1:06:15
  Battered Way he was band, That's what it was called. My friends in
• 1:06:18
  that band just blows. Yeah. They played like once the summer I love
• 1:06:25
  Yeah. Yeah, good band. Yeah. Chris is an amazing guitar luthier
• 1:06:29
  and Dan Barry give mco. There's got a lot of good band. Good,
• 1:06:31
  a lot of fun, a lot of action packed stuff, good stuff.
• 1:06:34
  I saw Derek and the fun Backs last Jimmy and I. Yeah,
• 1:06:38
  and they played last week last week, Yeah, in Milford. That was
• 1:06:41
  cool. They made their triumphant return to Stonebridge this year. It was amazing.
• 1:06:45
  Was outside, it was outside center and uh, you know by on
• 1:06:51
  I have nothing. I have no problem with the band, but I don't
• 1:06:54
  know. There was some issue and they did a while. It was the
• 1:06:58
  street was cleat singer all that stuff. Yeah, well we didn't know what
• 1:07:03
  a name, but it was why other bald headed guy. I think you
• 1:07:12
  said kiss yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was so good having him
• 1:07:15
  back and their their energy is amazing and and everything Derek's going through. He's
• 1:07:20
  one of my favorite people in the world. And Derek, if you're listening,
• 1:07:25
  I know you're probably not, but you know he's not. But he
• 1:07:27
  might but but no, but I literally have given up trying to get him
• 1:07:31
  on the show. Like he's like he's he's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:07:33
  and then like it's like two years running and I'm like, you know,
• 1:07:36
  he's dealing with so much other stuff. I get it, got time
• 1:07:41
  to come down here. You know. I talked to him that night.
• 1:07:44
  He said one basic pay for real. How are you doing? He said,
• 1:07:47
  Christmas hat, he's got the law Christmas set down, he's got the
• 1:07:50
  fun back hat. He's got Christmas Yeah. I love it's like a long
• 1:07:54
  style. He asked him to come down whatever. No, I love there,
• 1:08:00
  and uh we we said to him, you know, it was a
• 1:08:02
  success. We all got along, which I've never not got along with them.
• 1:08:06
  You know that the business did, which I felt wouldn't have been a
• 1:08:10
  problem regardless, and it wasn't. And hopefully they're coming back very good.
• 1:08:16
  They're around a long time. Yeah, you know they're kind of like you
• 1:08:19
  guys. You know they've gone through band members, they've gone through speaking of
• 1:08:25
  bass players, Hey, what can I get a little on my glass?
• 1:08:31
  Why talking about a good base? That's doggies though I don't work like playing
• 1:08:39
  is playing Friday? Right? Yeah? One of the basil was a Milford
• 1:08:45
  Milfred Jet. Yeah, they played the oyster Christmas. Chris mc did they
• 1:08:55
  plays? Was the school nurse at Ufford High School? Okay, he uh,
• 1:09:02
  he played base. He went to Belford High School. They weren't he
• 1:09:05
  wasn't born. He was born in Iowa or something, moved to Milford whatever,
• 1:09:10
  But he ended up playing base with fo for like eight years. Oh
• 1:09:14
  no, kidding. One original Fog member the draw. Yeah, he's passed
• 1:09:18
  away, so I wanted he's still away. He was on the radio the
• 1:09:25
  other night the other day he said, come on, what what what bass
• 1:09:29
  players? No? I wanted to to a sax player who just passed away.
• 1:09:34
  The local sax player, Joe Mayo. He played one of the reaths
• 1:09:39
  of Franklin was He was an electrical engineer at Cornell. He dedicated his life
• 1:09:45
  to music, but he was the one of the original sax players in the
• 1:09:48
  What a Funk Band and he passed away. Yes, so he's played at
• 1:09:51
  Stonebridge Minis and just an amazing player. And he played also with Rubber City
• 1:10:03
  and Rubber City. Rubber City trying to think and and uh, I think
• 1:10:10
  that's the Tower Power cover mode. Yeah. Yeah, they played at Oh
• 1:10:15
  Power still kicking huh yeah, I mean, I mean like they're alive,
• 1:10:18
  but they're all the time, right, fifty years. It's crazy. I
• 1:10:23
  know. I know my boss Richie, he's got he's friends with all those
• 1:10:26
  guys. Yeah, we've always tried to get him in there, but they're
• 1:10:28
  just too big. Yeah, yeah, take him Tower. Yeah you think
• 1:10:34
  with a lot of people jeans and drummer. He had that big Tower Power.
• 1:10:39
  They were having that fundraiser for for David Garbaldi. I think, yeah,
• 1:10:43
  yeah, yeah, Oh he wants to put in a half for that
• 1:10:46
  final segment. Oh there we go that time. No, I'm just but
• 1:10:53
  you know, we're doing good hour ten right now. I could keep going.
• 1:10:57
  Oh, I could keep back and going forever. This is gonna be
• 1:11:00
  marathon, all right. Jemmy, you look good. Well, thank you,
• 1:11:03
  Jimmy. Holidays so you know, speaking of the holidays, Jeremy.
• 1:11:10
  Every year we always try to do something. We do a worm Runners video,
• 1:11:13
  we do an original Christmas song. This year, we kind of ran
• 1:11:16
  out of time because we had so many other things going on. But we
• 1:11:18
  are gonna do something really cool. It's gonna be a little bit of a
• 1:11:20
  quickie, but we're gonna get it out there. And we'll also re release
• 1:11:26
  our last three videos. Over the last three years of the Christmas holiday,
• 1:11:29
  Right, we did some cool shows. We said we did three Christmas put
• 1:11:35
  out last year's Christmas video. Yeah, so you want to call it.
• 1:11:40
  It was a very nice Christmas on social Yeah, I was watching with Local.
• 1:11:49
  Yeah, actually have a YouTube Delee Box. Yeah, it's goods I
• 1:11:56
  did it. It's a quick toup a click. It's easy. If anyone
• 1:11:59
  wants to know you the d m me Wait, I could get back.
• 1:12:02
  Wait that old guy, Doug the Gnome, How do you get out of
• 1:12:09
  my garden? Played the bass? You don't know them? I know them?
• 1:12:15
  Hey, you know what, since we're talking about the rum Runners and
• 1:12:18
  Local, we should go back to the best of I thank our fans for
• 1:12:25
  that, because you know, we want now to get two years in a
• 1:12:28
  row. Now, yeah, you know, you know, we want to
• 1:12:31
  thank all of our supporters that came out and the people that voted online,
• 1:12:35
  and uh, that was really that was really cool. Two years in a
• 1:12:39
  row band I have. I appreciate that I can't tell this story on air,
• 1:12:44
  but remind me after the show. I love to see when I watch
• 1:12:46
  a lot of shows are always like they're talking to other people, like,
• 1:12:49
  remind me to tell you something after the show. Please remind me of something.
• 1:12:53
  Nobody after the show. You're going to freak about one of your fans
• 1:12:57
  and after after Uh, it's just hilarious. Okay, I'm in. But
• 1:13:09
  getting back to what Doug says about about winning that award, which obviously we
• 1:13:15
  know there's multiple so many challenge of bands of Milford, but we're very honored
• 1:13:20
  to have it. And I can tell you there's one thing about this band.
• 1:13:23
  There's one thing, and it's what drew me to the band before I
• 1:13:27
  was even in is they don't take it. None of us take anything for
• 1:13:30
  granted. Every gig is a blessing. Every time people come up and see
• 1:13:33
  us or say hi to us, or come to the gigs. Except for
• 1:13:36
  me, well, he fucking ignores me for twenty seconds. Yeah, I
• 1:13:41
  did that in the morning, dude, you got you gotta should have poked
• 1:13:44
  me or I really stood there like an I'm like, hey, I really
• 1:13:48
  got to go to work at Jeremy. I want to look. I want
• 1:13:53
  fifty hundred people to see me that I know you guys. That's how popular
• 1:13:56
  you guys are. I want to be the guy that, oh, that
• 1:13:58
  dude really knows those guys. Sorry, I'm gonna doumb you into the Christmas
• 1:14:01
  video, but no, I'll make it sure. But yeah, we we
• 1:14:08
  never take it for granded. Like Jimmy said, the band's a family.
• 1:14:12
  It's it's a great ride, it's a great experience, and we're gonna try
• 1:14:15
  to keep doing what we're doing and and just keep positive vibes happening. Man,
• 1:14:19
  Just make good things happen. It's all about it. Thank everybody out
• 1:14:23
  there, everybody, seriously, since it would be nobody without that. That's
• 1:14:27
  what you guys are, and that's what the guys have always been, uh,
• 1:14:30
  from since the day one you started it. Actually, I think before
• 1:14:34
  I knew your name was the rum Runners, I knew you guys were the
• 1:14:36
  charity band. Yeah, like seriously, seriously, like that was a charity.
• 1:14:41
  Yeah, and uh and I don't even think you guys back in the
• 1:14:45
  day took money or like you did, like the money just went to charity.
• 1:14:47
  I could be wrong. I mean, you guys got to get paid,
• 1:14:50
  like I have to pay your time to the restaurant that you worked at.
• 1:14:55
  Well, but hey, hold on off there, I had one more
• 1:15:00
  thing to tell me. Good. You're right. The band will do whatever
• 1:15:06
  is needed when it's needed. We find turn anybody away. But yeah,
• 1:15:11
  over the years, I mean, we have to make some money because we
• 1:15:13
  got a trailer. We got to you guys, you can't do You can
• 1:15:17
  donate your time, but you can't like me for this show. Like I
• 1:15:20
  donated my time and my money for a couple of years until Viva came along,
• 1:15:26
  and I'm like, oh, this is great and thank you Viva,
• 1:15:28
  and uh, you know it's it's it's it's much better now, you know,
• 1:15:31
  Viva Love. It's gonna be less dream. I can't wait. But
• 1:15:42
  yeah, like I remember you guys way back in the day, and uh
• 1:15:45
  I remember, I mean I remember your past band members still coming through stone
• 1:15:48
  Bridge, some of them do, some of them do you know. Yeah,
• 1:15:51
  there's been a lot of different people that were in the band, and
• 1:15:53
  you know what, every one of those those individuals that came to the band
• 1:15:57
  helped take it to where it was, and it grew when it grew,
• 1:16:00
  and it grew, and I mean, it's just it's it's a it's awesome.
• 1:16:04
  I love to sing and play. Everyone else loves to sing and play.
• 1:16:08
  We love to do you do you take your sunglasses off at night?
• 1:16:13
  No? Man sleep? Yeah, that's just does it annoyed Courtney? No?
• 1:16:18
  Sometimes she doesn't mind. You can't off. I'm looking at me that
• 1:16:21
  day they talk to me, and I was obviously no secret? Are they
• 1:16:28
  prescription? Subscription? Prescription says in a subscription? You sure? I just
• 1:16:35
  you know what I've always and all kidding aside, I'm not and I'm curious
• 1:16:40
  someone all day and I'm a very insecure person. Here we go, doggy
• 1:16:46
  Okay, no, finish, he's kinda talking to no. No, no
• 1:16:50
  no. I sung with anxiety and I look, I do close my eyes
• 1:16:57
  a lot when I sing, and one times I was close right so much
• 1:17:00
  so I just started wearing sunglasses that way. No one knows if my eyes
• 1:17:02
  are closing on parent you did because you're standing there for twenty minutes like you're
• 1:17:05
  waiting for an elevator. So I apologize, but I close my eyes all
• 1:17:09
  the time. There literally was no one else. All the trotters had left.
• 1:17:12
  It's just me and you face and I have my fist out and I'm
• 1:17:15
  like, and you're like a long day home and right, it's a good
• 1:17:21
  song. Play that song, right, I don't know, I just kidd.
• 1:17:24
  We've talked about playing that song. Make it my home. Oh yeah,
• 1:17:30
  super Trapper has to play the harmonica parts in that, and you played
• 1:17:34
  the socks great. But I don't saying exact way. Literally, I'm part
• 1:17:39
  of the band now. I just got guys a long way, super trap
• 1:17:44
  you've already passed your probationary period, I think so. Maybe that's why that's
• 1:17:48
  why I was going to cross the rope. If you go behind the band
• 1:17:50
  with you guys, listen your black Doug give a little albow to Jimmy and
• 1:17:55
  give you a hug. Right, it always it was the man's hair cut.
• 1:18:00
  You could always someone to make it. You can always bring someone in
• 1:18:03
  to make me and Doug look less ball all the times. I ship though,
• 1:18:09
  like we wear. I shaved my today for it looks good. I
• 1:18:15
  did it. I shaved it. How often you do it? Once a
• 1:18:17
  week? Yeah? Me too? Everything, but I do the beer now.
• 1:18:20
  So I go to the guy Isaac over a River three barber shopping.
• 1:18:25
  Okay, right now, he does my beard every two weeks and then he
• 1:18:28
  like does the shapes too. What about so he does every shape? Yeah?
• 1:18:31
  He does my eyebrows, he does. I used the omni shaver,
• 1:18:35
  which I'm not promoted for products does take you down to the skin. It's
• 1:18:42
  got to Raissa shaver shaver. You got to try the viva to kill a
• 1:18:53
  shaver. That's what I used. I got be, I got I got
• 1:18:59
  bench from Deep. Those guys fuz Well benj who's in that band, also
• 1:19:09
  uses the I got him using the shaver. Hold on, Fuzz has hair,
• 1:19:13
  doesn't he? No wait the basics, Yeah, come on, but
• 1:19:17
  has hair? Well? Well. Jenderkins, the lead singer, uses the
• 1:19:28
  omni shaver. I got him using Banana blackout for Jersey. Okay, hold
• 1:19:31
  on, hold on so Phil they Phil always tells me I don't know who
• 1:19:36
  these guys are. I know like some of them just because they play on
• 1:19:39
  Sundays like from like two to five before the big band comes on. No,
• 1:19:43
  they're good, they're not so talented. But it's always like this guy
• 1:19:47
  with like just normal hairy short is like five to and either Phil, I
• 1:19:50
  was probably yes, Wait did I just say fuzz has hair to Yeah?
• 1:19:56
  Hold on what part of that did you miss? Then? How long was
• 1:19:59
  I out for what I was about? So the basically am I wrong?
• 1:20:03
  No? Not, that's what I said. I said, Bench, No,
• 1:20:08
  Bench. The bass player I got him used in the Omni Shaver,
• 1:20:12
  he's ball, he's subs Brotherhood. He was based in the Brotherhood sometimes.
• 1:20:17
  So one day I was talking to him and I got him using the probably
• 1:20:20
  sounds like a it's just it's a funk. There's a whole funk scene down
• 1:20:26
  in black rock. That whole scene is a weird world with sounds a little
• 1:20:30
  Yeah, it's well, it's a there's a whole scene down there. There's
• 1:20:33
  a whole scene down anyway. I'm just saying, so anyone doing a show
• 1:20:40
  at I think Omni Omni Shaver they should sparks. You heard the wall it's
• 1:20:45
  called you know a wall like w A h L. Yeah, they make
• 1:20:47
  the products. Yeah, So I was just at my barber the other day
• 1:20:50
  and he said, there's like one. He uses them ahead all the time.
• 1:20:54
  It's like it's like golden things. It's a wall something. It's like
• 1:20:57
  a three spinner. Okay, then does my whole head. But then he
• 1:21:00
  like shaves it with a straight razor too, which is nice. You know,
• 1:21:02
  he pay the money, might as well get done. But he says,
• 1:21:05
  this won't actually shave your beard. It only you don't like if it's
• 1:21:10
  like so like if I got was like when you're like no, no,
• 1:21:13
  no, what I mean it's like like this, it won't like if I
• 1:21:15
  were to put it on this, it wouldn't shave it. It only like
• 1:21:20
  every day. So when I go to Florida next month for a month,
• 1:21:24
  I have no barber. So I'm like, I can't get all bush whacked.
• 1:21:27
  You know, I gotta keep it trim myself. So what do you
• 1:21:29
  use a tremor clippers or somewhere. I used to And then since I've been
• 1:21:32
  going to the barber, I just let him do it. But I still
• 1:21:34
  I still straight up the straight shave my head. Yeah. Yeah, like
• 1:21:39
  Jill had three Yeah, I used to. You gotta check the Shaver.
• 1:21:43
  I'm sending it to it the Omni shap good. Just send me seven.
• 1:21:48
  I'll give you my address right on there because I know it. Respond Yes
• 1:21:55
  you are, I says o Shaver. That's great, it's it's great anyway.
• 1:22:10
  So we were at Captain's Cove and oh god, the place is still
• 1:22:14
  there. Fuzz sat him with us. Yeah, he's great. He is
• 1:22:18
  the one with the hair, well, fuzzy little guy. He drinks.
• 1:22:23
  He treats Perc by the way he drinks per I didn't know that, Yes,
• 1:22:27
  in his little cooler like his little movie. I didn't know that.
• 1:22:30
  Huh. How do you know that? Give it? Every time he was
• 1:22:34
  there at Stonebridge one one freak play he played after So that's when I met
• 1:22:40
  him. And then when we saw him at at the cove cove, I
• 1:22:43
  said, come on up. And he's good. What a great player,
• 1:22:45
  very good. Those guys are so talented. God, you know up and
• 1:22:53
  comers, younger people people. What's his name? All the time? Uh,
• 1:22:58
  the little drummer boy to want to sit calm like that? Who's out
• 1:23:02
  zach Alfanacus? Uh? Oh you know what I'm talking about. I don't
• 1:23:08
  know his name? Uh, ship he plays drums, and then it was
• 1:23:11
  the Breakfast and then Tim hell maryma in person outside by going to like a
• 1:23:23
  like seeing like no no bat in court mix. Yeah, but one of
• 1:23:26
  the best guitars I've ever seen. I played with and uh there's a band
• 1:23:30
  Steal Your Funk with with Jen Dirk and she and I played with Tim before
• 1:23:36
  in Hartford. There's a place up there now I can't think of the name
• 1:23:40
  of it, but great player Woodbridge all around here, I'm telling you allot
• 1:23:44
  one man. Yeah, gets a little hot and from Woodbridge, h Woodbridge.
• 1:23:49
  And who'd you bumped into on the street in Milford? We just showed
• 1:23:56
  him Hold Elliott, Elliott Joey. He played at Belford Walls. One of
• 1:24:04
  the musicians with Daryl Hall and John Over plays up a Daryl's house. He's
• 1:24:12
  getting injury. Guy who I raised, I think in Norwalk, but he
• 1:24:15
  lives in Melford. I saw he was the drummer. He was rummer tour.
• 1:24:21
  What was the funk band? Yeah, I don't know. I don't
• 1:24:25
  come to me in twenty dropping cut and paste Jeremy drummer put into Hall and
• 1:24:38
  Oates. But he's living in Milford. And that's a funny story. I
• 1:24:42
  saw him, I I I. He did a video for one of his
• 1:24:45
  songs and it was in the firehouse. Could you do this video? And
• 1:24:49
  so yeah, I let yeah, name I was the Chief. I say,
• 1:24:51
  you can go ahead and do the video Crusade. It was my son
• 1:24:56
  was in it and Billy last cool video. But at any rate. I
• 1:25:00
  I was driving to work one day after lunch and I saw him walking down
• 1:25:02
  West Main Street and I pulled over and I said, Ellie, what's going
• 1:25:05
  on? How you doing? And he said, Chief? How are you?
• 1:25:08
  I think you're like, I recognize that you're not Chief. No,
• 1:25:13
  my car had Chief what rassals driving the car? Still a little chief?
• 1:25:23
  But I played with him and he played with us blah blah blah, and
• 1:25:26
  I said, hey, he's walking to the train and stays going to the
• 1:25:29
  city for something from an apartment downtown. Okay, bye, So I drive
• 1:25:32
  away and then I stop, I go, I drive fifty yards. I
• 1:25:35
  stopped. He walked by and said does anyone else ever recognize He said no,
• 1:25:41
  not really, Tom. He's got somebody. I mean outside of lead
• 1:25:47
  singers. I mean, for the most part, you know, I mean
• 1:25:49
  my favorite bands. I could recognize everybody but guitar players, you know.
• 1:25:53
  But and then I more drummers are art. You'll have a bass player that
• 1:25:56
  just you know, like you flee or something. You wouldn't have know.
• 1:26:00
  He walked in, Chief though I recognized you. He's got he's got the
• 1:26:06
  car on the other side. Look on the other side of says Base bass
• 1:26:11
  player. He says, Chief, the basic bass player. Everybody who was
• 1:26:15
  Dave Matthews. He said he likes that no one recognized him, you know,
• 1:26:19
  Base the bass player. Movies? Please? I was sorry? Was
• 1:26:29
  what was he? What was that? Was he? But he's not a
• 1:26:31
  recognizable guy. Stand the movies and ship. Dave Matthews was in that TV
• 1:26:41
  show named Sarah Marshall or whatever. He was a gay guy in that.
• 1:26:45
  I thought he was somebody. He was first day, very happy. He
• 1:26:50
  was happy throughout the film. Yeah, well that that's why you're good.
• 1:26:54
  You're happy. I'm gay every Christmas? Well probably why received? Yeah?
• 1:27:06
  Please, our sponsors vas happy on Christmas. Let's drink us. All right,
• 1:27:15
  let's wrap this up. Come on, it's only nine o'clock. We
• 1:27:18
  got rehearsal. You can see the You can see the post show on YouTube.
• 1:27:21
  God, we do have a rehearsal. What so Saturday morning, I'm
• 1:27:28
  gonna play so good. We played with Oh you're gonna those four strings are
• 1:27:31
  gonna murder him. We played with Elliott Lewis and Orn Bolton Oran, Right.
• 1:27:39
  I love Orn. He was a great guy when the stone Bridge all
• 1:27:45
  right, oh my god, that's where I met him. When I first
• 1:27:46
  met him, I just thought he was like I knew he was obviously Michael
• 1:27:49
  Bolon's brother, of course, identical God so much. And and then I
• 1:27:55
  heard the stories of you know, how Michael became, how Michael was and
• 1:28:00
  Orn was kind of much older than him. I and Oran was very he
• 1:28:08
  was very you know, particular about what he wanted and he didn't drink and
• 1:28:12
  whatever. And you know, the first, you know, in this business,
• 1:28:15
  the first couple you know, times to serve somebody like a douche,
• 1:28:18
  but he really wasn't. And then like over the years, like he was
• 1:28:23
  so nice to me, you know, he always you know, sat in
• 1:28:27
  my section, and uh, you know, when he got sick, it
• 1:28:31
  was just it was devastating to sea because he came in only a few times
• 1:28:35
  after that. Again we're back to cancer. Yeah, and we get back
• 1:28:40
  to that. And it's like, you know, and I heard, you
• 1:28:42
  know, and he passed, you know a few months ago, the second
• 1:28:45
  March, I think, and it's very sad and he was, he was
• 1:28:47
  so he he started right before Daniel Street closed. He actually created an event
• 1:28:53
  at Daniel Street for his talents and his bands and all that stuff. And
• 1:28:58
  I remember I remember doing it right before he closed, and I worked it
• 1:29:01
  and I'm like, these guys are like another level. Oh yeah, another
• 1:29:04
  level. Yeah. When we saw him, he just did a soul act.
• 1:29:09
  Yeah, he just played guitar and did his thing and he was really
• 1:29:12
  good. Yeah, really good. Those guys are all good. I mean,
• 1:29:15
  big respect to those guys, a big respect. Yeah, you know.
• 1:29:17
  But well thanks for having us, of course, you know, even
• 1:29:23
  without the podcast, always fun hanging out. No, you know, we
• 1:29:26
  can do this at the Stobridge. Don't forget to buy your ticket so for
• 1:29:29
  a raffle. Yeah, please do come down to me too. We're not
• 1:29:34
  gonna we're coming down. Yeah no, that would mean you guys, Yeah,
• 1:29:40
  coming down. Start Monday night six to somewhere around there. I think
• 1:29:45
  I'll give it, but you could always get there early out, all right,
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  good yeah, hold on, I'll actually you guys keep talking, I'll
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  give you six to nine month Monday. So what are you doing tonight?
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  I'm gonna go practice a this is happening seven ten. Sorry, you guys
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  have seven six and I'm coming six having dinner, so he l r Friday
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  morning. Friday, I'll be there six a m. I'll be waiting.
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  Actually, what's funny? I gotta mention this one of my good friends,
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  John Gibbs. He's driving the Florida with me and Jane away from the bunk
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  trip. He went down there to where you guys going George No, no,
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  but like George David, I know Jordans as le chair, where's my
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  buzzing? Say what is or mcdermie, I give a fuck where you want
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  to set donate for toys for Tots with I'm telling who's who's doing the show
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  in the box Jane Chaste and they ended up he was there by himself and
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  they brought him on the show. So he was on the show for ten
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  minutes. Like didn't realize it and he like and then he text me the
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  next day He's like twos on chastani Instagram, like why did the you text
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  me. I'm gonna listen. Man, It's like, what the fuck,
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  dude. But yeah, those guys Toys for Tots. Let's give a shout
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  out to Citrus and Christine, Casey and Casey and all all the places in
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  Milford Way. Let Phil from the beach Comber. Yeah, even even Chris
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  Casey Solute filming because he really started that old and uh the season. Yeah
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  Citrus, Yeah, no, thanks for paying attention. Yeah, maybe consider
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  ring six. It was. It was the power of Lichfield Cinema every day
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  day, Kenny and Christie, those guys fire departments. Yes, and that's
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  the thing. Yeah, I mean, that's right. They're carrying the legacy.
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  They're carrying the legacy and Toys for Tots. Toys for Tots is one
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  of the I've never seen a grow so big in one town in my life.
• 1:32:16
  It's so awesome. But the comb and we missed the beach Comber.
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  I love. In fact, my first exposure to the rum Runners was at
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  the beach Comber. Like COVID, I was coming back. No, that
• 1:32:30
  was the only exposure I had. A wedding. That's like Jimmy Pino,
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  he makes you sick first, and I chose to expose myself. I had
• 1:32:38
  a wedding gig and after the gig would free play. Came home and I
• 1:32:42
  walked to the comber and the rum runners were playing, and I couldn't get
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  a drink at the bar. I'm like, these guys suck. I can't
• 1:32:48
  even get to the bar. That's probably why the bar. Well, Johnny
• 1:32:54
  wasn't the singer yet, right he was, he had you only had two
• 1:32:59
  straight. He's on his bass guitar at some time where that was graduated to
• 1:33:03
  a fourth. Let me tell you. Our set list was based on three
• 1:33:06
  songs, Small Chick the Dead. We played three songs for fifteen minutes twenty
• 1:33:13
  minutes each. Right, Oh you didn't that? That is what that is.
• 1:33:17
  Honestly, I can't stand that ship. That's why I like Dave Matthews.
• 1:33:21
  I can't. I can't listen. I can't listen to a fifty minute
• 1:33:25
  fucking damp dude. I tailgate in the parking lot. I'm ready to go.
• 1:33:29
  I want an hour and a half concert. Face, I'm gonna fucking
• 1:33:31
  punch me with your fucking ten best songs and get the fuck out of there.
• 1:33:34
  And I don't do it for yourself. I paid you to play for
• 1:33:38
  fucking me, So let's go, you know, and that's why I left
• 1:33:41
  a Matthews. I can't do it anything. Call it. They fucked me
• 1:33:43
  in Jones Beach in the Rain, and I'll never go back. No dude,
• 1:33:47
  I call that musical masturbation. Look this fucking guys like they want to
• 1:33:54
  hear themselves fucking play. Yeah, the fucking Drive's gonna do it right now
• 1:34:00
  to run shocks me fucking nuts. Uh here here we are rum Runners.
• 1:34:04
  Next fucking next time you play Stone Bridgers just gonna be like, hey,
• 1:34:08
  let's play a ten minute song. You know they're gonna do jim and that's
• 1:34:12
  over love shock, but we're gonna do love. Listen to a ten minute
• 1:34:15
  love shock. Man so big like grateful dead friend, So listen before we
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  go Jesus to Jerman to drink drinking the dogs everybody, I'm a blade.
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  Happy holiday, and thank you for you, like Elderberry Mary Christmas, everybody,
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  take care of you. Thank you, thank you too much. Thank you,