Latest / Classic Metal Show / Dokken Hangouts & Restaurant Disasters Unleashed
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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: Hey man, it's Phil X and you're watching CMS TV.
- 0:04SPEAKER_03: Cautionary thing.
- 0:05It's like,
- 0:06well,
- 0:06don't go to this part of town and don't go down to that part of town.
- 0:09SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, you know what?
- 0:11SPEAKER_03: I just think I'm just going to stay here at the hotel.
- 0:13SPEAKER_03: Don't go more than two miles on the Vespa in any direction.
- 0:17that's exactly right it says well go down this street because
- 0:21they got restaurants
- 0:22and bars and blah blah blah but don't venture off this street
- 0:26and go like a block
- 0:27over it you know it's like that's okay i don't need all those
- 0:30instructions because
- 0:31i'm just gonna stay here at the hotel bar and just enjoy the
- 0:34enjoy the comforts of
- 0:36SPEAKER_03: this nice uh jack and coke exactly
- 1:01it's pin siren right here on your classic metal show with hung
- 1:05like jesus one of
- 1:06the best skid row songs you'll never hear and just before that
- 1:10we kicked off the
- 1:11show with uh rat with uh back for more and uh here we are we're
- 1:16back for more chris
- 1:18yes we are hi folks away we're back we're back for more i
- 1:22enjoyed my week away
- 1:24SPEAKER_03: sounds like you enjoyed your week away
- 1:26Well,
- 1:26it was,
- 1:27uh,
- 1:27it was definitely a week,
- 1:28uh,
- 1:28definitely,
- 1:29uh,
- 1:29interesting week away.
- 1:31SPEAKER_03: I'd say a lot of traveling,
- 1:34SPEAKER_03: a lot of juxtaposition,
- 1:35SPEAKER_03: a lot of,
- 1:36SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 1:37SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 1:38SPEAKER_03: goings on,
- 1:39SPEAKER_03: but,
- 1:39SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 1:40SPEAKER_03: I will recap all that in,
- 1:41SPEAKER_03: in,
- 1:42SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 1:42SPEAKER_03: later in the show.
- 1:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 1:46SPEAKER_03: So, uh, anyway, uh,
- 1:49SPEAKER_03: What's going on here?
- 1:50SPEAKER_03: What the hell?
- 1:51SPEAKER_03: I see you're doing the show from the massive bar tonight.
- 1:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm ready for a drink or two, although I'm starting with coffee.
- 1:58SPEAKER_03: Maybe it's Kahlua coffee.
- 2:00SPEAKER_03: What kind of coffee?
- 2:01SPEAKER_03: What kind of coffee?
- 2:03SPEAKER_03: What do you have in the coffee?
- 2:04SPEAKER_03: What's the additive in there?
- 2:06SPEAKER_03: What are you drinking?
- 2:07Well,
- 2:07Dealey,
- 2:08just so that you know,
- 2:09this is a peppermint provided by the fine folks at Dunkin'.
- 2:14SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 2:15SPEAKER_03: Dunkin' Peppermint Mist, I think it is called, actually.
- 2:19fancy fancy coffee and barden just for you i shaved the beard
- 2:24just for you got rid
- 2:26SPEAKER_03: of the fucking lumberjack look
- 2:29not really just for barden but he's a lumberjack and he's okay
- 2:33that's right i
- 2:33really got rid of it because it fucking finally got warm again
- 2:36yeah yeah we we had
- 2:38some uh 70 degree uh days here in the last couple of days so uh
- 2:43yeah it's nice to
- 2:43have some weather but it was windy as fuck you live in the
- 2:48windy city yeah no shit
- 2:50but uh yeah it was just windy and warm and windy that's that's
- 2:54all i have to say
- 2:54SPEAKER_03: about that but uh
- 2:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 2:57SPEAKER_03: So,
- 2:58SPEAKER_03: yeah,
- 2:58SPEAKER_03: it's time to start getting the,
- 3:00SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 3:01getting the spring fever going here and getting out of the
- 3:04house a little bit more.
- 3:05SPEAKER_03: You know, when is spring?
- 3:06SPEAKER_03: Next week?
- 3:07SPEAKER_03: Is that the official start?
- 3:08SPEAKER_03: Is that next week or next month?
- 3:10SPEAKER_03: I can never keep track of when these official days are.
- 3:14SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 3:15the only time that I know is sort of a mark for me is December
- 3:2221st when it starts
- 3:23SPEAKER_03: getting lighter again.
- 3:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 3:26SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 3:27SPEAKER_03: because,
- 3:27SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 3:28SPEAKER_03: that's the,
- 3:28that's the pinnacle of the darkness and it starts moving the
- 3:31other direction.
- 3:32SPEAKER_03: So the pendulum starts swinging the other way.
- 3:37SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 3:37SPEAKER_03: So,
- 3:38SPEAKER_03: That's the only date that matters to me.
- 3:40SPEAKER_03: And then,
- 3:41SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 3:41SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 3:42SPEAKER_03: of course,
- 3:42SPEAKER_03: June 20th is a sad day because,
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: oh no,
- 3:45SPEAKER_03: the days are going to start getting short again.
- 3:48SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 3:48You know,
- 3:49I,
- 3:49I seem to live my life by the,
- 3:51uh,
- 3:51summer,
- 3:52the summer,
- 3:53uh,
- 3:53what is it?
- 3:53SPEAKER_03: The summer solstice and the winter solstice.
- 3:57SPEAKER_03: Oh,
- 3:58SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 3:58I would prefer that it would just stay the same all the way all
- 4:01year round,
- 4:01SPEAKER_03: but,
- 4:02SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 4:02SPEAKER_03: well,
- 4:02SPEAKER_03: this could be the last one,
- 4:04SPEAKER_03: man.
- 4:04SPEAKER_03: So they say, yeah, we'll see.
- 4:07SPEAKER_03: We'll see.
- 4:08SPEAKER_03: We don't know.
- 4:09SPEAKER_03: But what did you do on your week off there, Mr. Aiken?
- 4:12SPEAKER_03: Did you enjoy the weekend?
- 4:13SPEAKER_03: Did you go out to see a band like you said you were going to?
- 4:17SPEAKER_03: Did not go see a band.
- 4:18Instead,
- 4:18just heavy on the pot smoke and some dinner out and,
- 4:26you know,
- 4:26just kind of.
- 4:28SPEAKER_03: I did get out, though.
- 4:29SPEAKER_03: Ultimately, that is the answer, is yes, I did get out.
- 4:32SPEAKER_03: I did not just stay here and work nonstop.
- 4:36SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, I got out a little bit.
- 4:37SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 4:38SPEAKER_03: Hanging out, having some fun.
- 4:40SPEAKER_03: So you just hung out with friends, didn't go do any...
- 4:43go go to see a band or anything like that i i was gonna go and
- 4:47then i just didn't
- 4:48want to see like the cover bands that were playing last
- 4:52saturday were really not
- 4:54what i wanted to go see you know it was like there was one 80s
- 4:58thing that was out
- 4:59there but one of the bands was the fix and i hate the fucking
- 5:02fix and i was like
- 5:03SPEAKER_03: i'm not gonna sit through 45 minutes of this
- 5:05SPEAKER_03: Were they playing like at the casino or something?
- 5:07SPEAKER_03: Not The Fix, a cover band of The Fix.
- 5:10SPEAKER_03: Oh, a tribute to The Fix.
- 5:11SPEAKER_03: A tribute to The Fix.
- 5:13SPEAKER_03: I wouldn't go see The Fix.
- 5:15SPEAKER_03: I'm sure not going to go see a tribute to The Fix.
- 5:17SPEAKER_03: Well, I actually saw The Fix.
- 5:20SPEAKER_03: I didn't go purposely to see them.
- 5:23It's just that they were playing at the Akron Rib Burnoff,
- 5:27and they were playing with NXS.
- 5:31that's a show i would never go to really you don't like in
- 5:34excess at all not
- 5:35especially no really i i really have that's one of my guilty
- 5:39pleasures is i really
- 5:40do like in excess quite a bit michael hutchins did us all a
- 5:43favor of not making us
- 5:45watch him grow old yeah that was kind of a sad sad day i
- 5:50remember uh i was i went
- 5:52SPEAKER_03: to see them at uh
- 5:55at nautica and uh this was late in the year i think it was it
- 6:01was like one of the
- 6:02SPEAKER_03: last outdoor shows of the year it was this was 1995 i think
- 6:09SPEAKER_03: When did he die?
- 6:10SPEAKER_03: I think he died in 95, right?
- 6:12SPEAKER_03: Somewhere in there.
- 6:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 6:13SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 6:13SPEAKER_03: So,
- 6:14SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:14SPEAKER_03: he basically was making comments about the,
- 6:18SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:19SPEAKER_03: the bridges and things that are down around the,
- 6:21SPEAKER_03: the flats there in Cleveland.
- 6:23And he was just saying,
- 6:25you know what,
- 6:26you know,
- 6:26they have that raised bridge.
- 6:28It's in the,
- 6:28it's in the raised position all the time,
- 6:30you know,
- 6:31the bridge.
- 6:32SPEAKER_03: He goes, you know what?
- 6:33SPEAKER_03: I think I'm just going to get off this stage and go climb that thing.
- 6:35He goes,
- 6:38because,
- 6:38you know,
- 6:38in fact,
- 6:39I'm going to come out into the audience.
- 6:40SPEAKER_03: He says, I'm talking to people now.
- 6:42SPEAKER_03: Cause I guess he had gone through some,
- 6:44SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:45SPEAKER_03: some mental issues where he was,
- 6:49SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:49SPEAKER_03: having some,
- 6:50SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 6:51SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 6:51SPEAKER_03: social anxiety or something.
- 6:53SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 6:53SPEAKER_03: And then, uh, within a matter of.
- 6:57think it was like six weeks later he was dead whoops yeah i
- 7:03remember going to visit
- 7:04my dad which by the way it's my dad's birthday today so happy
- 7:07birthday dad yeah
- 7:08SPEAKER_03: happy birthday 96 years young today wow
- 7:13SPEAKER_03: Just getting started in life.
- 7:15SPEAKER_03: He's just a young man.
- 7:16SPEAKER_03: That's right.
- 7:17SPEAKER_03: Taking his way in life.
- 7:18I had a very long chit chat with him today after I'd spoken
- 7:22with you briefly.
- 7:23SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 7:25SPEAKER_03: And we chatted quite a while, about an hour, hour and a half or so.
- 7:29SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 7:30SPEAKER_03: And,
- 7:30SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 7:31SPEAKER_03: anyway,
- 7:31SPEAKER_03: but getting back,
- 7:32SPEAKER_03: I remember,
- 7:33SPEAKER_03: um,
- 7:34SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 7:34SPEAKER_03: cause he doesn't never really quite understood the,
- 7:37SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 7:38SPEAKER_03: the bands or the music or whatever it is that I liked,
- 7:41SPEAKER_03: but he knew enough about it to make mention of it.
- 7:44SPEAKER_03: And I remember the weekend that the news had come out that he had,
- 7:49SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 7:49SPEAKER_03: either a committed suicide or B erotic asphyxiation.
- 7:54SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 7:54SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 7:56I don't even know if they've ever came to a conclusive of what
- 7:59happened to him.
- 8:00SPEAKER_03: I think we all settled on that.
- 8:02SPEAKER_03: That he hung himself, but he was hung like Jesus.
- 8:06SPEAKER_03: That's right.
- 8:07But yeah,
- 8:09he goes,
- 8:10I see one of your favorite band guys died the other day.
- 8:14SPEAKER_03: And I was just like, who, Michael Hutchence?
- 8:17SPEAKER_03: He goes, yeah, that's him.
- 8:18SPEAKER_03: I saw that in the news.
- 8:19SPEAKER_03: And I remember you just recently went to see them, didn't you?
- 8:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 8:23SPEAKER_03: I was just like, wow, my dad kept up with that.
- 8:26SPEAKER_03: Holy shit.
- 8:28SPEAKER_03: That just really threw me.
- 8:30SPEAKER_03: Cause I, it's like, you know, you, you know who in excess is.
- 8:34It's just kind of strange,
- 8:35you know,
- 8:35that he remembered that is what I'm trying to get,
- 8:37get at.
- 8:38SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 8:39And then he was trying to figure out what the Roman new most
- 8:41numerals were for the name.
- 8:43SPEAKER_03: He was like, what is this?
- 8:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 8:46SPEAKER_03: 1961.
- 8:46SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 8:47And then strangely,
- 8:48my third cousin,
- 8:50Marlene Neely went married to Andrew Ferris.
- 8:53SPEAKER_03: Oh, wow.
- 8:53SPEAKER_03: The guy from NXS.
- 8:55SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
- 8:56SPEAKER_03: So, so I'm sort of related to NXS in a, in a roundabout way a little bit.
- 9:02SPEAKER_03: So you have to like them.
- 9:04SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 9:04SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 9:04SPEAKER_03: I liked them anyway,
- 9:05SPEAKER_03: but anyway,
- 9:07SPEAKER_03: I did see the,
- 9:08SPEAKER_03: I did see the fix,
- 9:11SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 9:11SPEAKER_03: just out of by chance.
- 9:13SPEAKER_03: And they actually, they weren't that bad.
- 9:15SPEAKER_03: I mean,
- 9:15SPEAKER_03: I wasn't into them at all when,
- 9:17SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 9:17SPEAKER_03: when their popularity in the early part of the eighties,
- 9:20SPEAKER_03: when reach the beach,
- 9:22was huge was a huge album for them but uh actually when i went
- 9:27to see them i was
- 9:28like because they they did what's that song red skies at night
- 9:32yeah red skies yeah
- 9:33and i i particularly like wow i remember this song i didn't
- 9:36realize it was the fix
- 9:38SPEAKER_03: at the time you know sure
- 9:40SPEAKER_03: That one's their other one.
- 9:41SPEAKER_03: One thing leads to another.
- 9:43SPEAKER_03: That was the, that was the part I wasn't digging at all.
- 9:47SPEAKER_03: I wasn't into that at all.
- 9:49SPEAKER_03: That was on reach the beach.
- 9:50SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 9:51SPEAKER_03: So,
- 9:52SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 9:52SPEAKER_03: yeah,
- 9:52SPEAKER_03: but anyway,
- 9:53SPEAKER_03: I've seen them,
- 9:54SPEAKER_03: but,
- 9:54SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 9:55SPEAKER_03: yeah,
- 9:55SPEAKER_03: I,
- 9:55SPEAKER_03: I can understand not going to see the fix cover band tribute band.
- 9:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 10:00SPEAKER_03: The allure of getting high was much better.
- 10:04SPEAKER_03: And where did this take place?
- 10:07SPEAKER_03: Did you go to a, what's the word I'm looking for?
- 10:13SPEAKER_03: What do they call that?
- 10:15SPEAKER_03: Years ago, decades ago, something den, opium den.
- 10:19SPEAKER_03: No, we just were at Kelly's house for the weed.
- 10:22SPEAKER_03: You went to Kelly's opium den.
- 10:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we did.
- 10:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we did.
- 10:27SPEAKER_03: And I told the story already about the restaurant,
- 10:29SPEAKER_03: so I won't retell it,
- 10:30SPEAKER_03: but we went to a restaurant in Streetsboro,
- 10:32SPEAKER_03: but...
- 10:33one that you know real well that i absolutely trashed on the
- 10:36seth show but i didn't
- 10:38hear the story about the restaurant oh i'll tell i'll tell it
- 10:42quick let me go to
- 10:43the private chat here and tell you which one it is because i
- 10:46don't i don't want to
- 10:48say the name of the place yet because all right we're somewhat
- 10:51working it out okay
- 10:53SPEAKER_03: you're working it out yeah
- 10:56you're working it out with who the owner oh okay is this is
- 11:00somebody you know yes
- 11:02oh went to high school with them oh okay all right you see the
- 11:06name uh where did
- 11:07you put it private chat in in um stream yard oh um i don't know
- 11:15that at all you
- 11:18SPEAKER_03: used to get pizza from there
- 11:20SPEAKER_03: No, that's not the name of the place.
- 11:22SPEAKER_03: That's one of the places.
- 11:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:25The place I know the other,
- 11:26the one that you used to get pizza from Giannino's.
- 11:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:29SPEAKER_00: That's the one.
- 11:30SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:30SPEAKER_03: This is another one.
- 11:32SPEAKER_03: I'm not aware of that place, but go ahead.
- 11:35SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 11:35SPEAKER_03: I'll just tell this quick.
- 11:36If you really want the full telltale drawn out story,
- 11:39it's on the Seth show.
- 11:40SPEAKER_03: It's up on every fucking platform.
- 11:43SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 11:44Well,
- 11:45we went,
- 11:46we went to the restaurant to go out and have some dinner and
- 11:50and they just were fucking dicks the the staff was fucking
- 11:56horrible they they just
- 11:59weren't it seems like they just didn't want us to stay and eat
- 12:03even though it's a
- 12:04dining room okay we we get to the dining room it's completely
- 12:08empty there's no one
- 12:09in it the dining room in this place seats 60 to 70 i would say
- 12:1510 booths three long
- 12:17SPEAKER_03: tables in the middle
- 12:19SPEAKER_03: That's probably 60 ish, I guess.
- 12:22SPEAKER_03: But we're the only ones in there.
- 12:25SPEAKER_03: We go in.
- 12:26SPEAKER_03: Nobody gives us any fucking service.
- 12:28SPEAKER_03: After 20 minutes, I get up.
- 12:29SPEAKER_03: I say, hey, can we fucking get some menus?
- 12:33SPEAKER_03: Guy hands me a pamphlet that he has on the counter.
- 12:37SPEAKER_03: We go back.
- 12:38SPEAKER_03: We wait 20 minutes.
- 12:40SPEAKER_03: Still nothing.
- 12:41SPEAKER_03: I go back up.
- 12:42SPEAKER_03: Now I walk into the kitchen.
- 12:44SPEAKER_03: I'm like, can we fucking order or what?
- 12:46SPEAKER_03: Did they have anybody working there?
- 12:49SPEAKER_02: They did.
- 12:50SPEAKER_02: They didn't.
- 12:51SPEAKER_03: They had staff.
- 12:52SPEAKER_03: They didn't.
- 12:53SPEAKER_03: Well, they, they never did wait staff to us, but they had people working.
- 12:58SPEAKER_03: So anyway, so I go back into the kitchen to yell at the guy.
- 13:02SPEAKER_03: I go start walking back to the fucking table.
- 13:05The guy stops me and goes,
- 13:06no,
- 13:06no,
- 13:07you have to order it here at the counter.
- 13:10SPEAKER_03: I'm like, all right, this is fucking stupid, but I order.
- 13:14SPEAKER_03: And meanwhile,
- 13:14I'm yelling back and forth into the dining room with Kelly
- 13:17because I don't know
- 13:18SPEAKER_03: what she wants to fucking eat.
- 13:19Okay.
- 13:20SPEAKER_03: So we're yelling back and forth for this.
- 13:22SPEAKER_03: I placed my order disappear.
- 13:25SPEAKER_03: 20, 30 minutes go by.
- 13:26SPEAKER_03: Oh, one back to placing the order.
- 13:29SPEAKER_03: There's no one in this fucking place.
- 13:32SPEAKER_03: And this asshole says, uh, can you give me a name for the order?
- 13:39SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 13:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I can, asshole.
- 13:42SPEAKER_03: So anyway, fast forward.
- 13:44SPEAKER_03: Food's done.
- 13:46SPEAKER_03: He brings it out in a bag in a box.
- 13:49plastic where like take your fucking food and get out yeah beat
- 13:54it and i was like
- 13:55fuck no i was like we are fucking eating now i'm mad so i we
- 14:00absolutely i opened
- 14:01the shit up right there on the fucking table and fucking did
- 14:05finger painting with
- 14:06the marinara sauce off of my rigatoni all over his table to
- 14:10make a fucking
- 14:10SPEAKER_03: disgusting mess and
- 14:13And so he never mentioned to you like,
- 14:16hey,
- 14:16the dining room's never or nothing.
- 14:18SPEAKER_03: Never.
- 14:19SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 14:20SPEAKER_03: No.
- 14:21SPEAKER_03: So we eat our dinner.
- 14:23I know the dinner was fine,
- 14:24but it was served in fucking plastic where plastic containers.
- 14:28SPEAKER_02: Sure.
- 14:29SPEAKER_03: I'm boiling at this fucking point.
- 14:33SPEAKER_03: We go to pay.
- 14:34SPEAKER_03: I pay for the shit, 40 bucks or whatever it costs.
- 14:38This fucking cocksucking fuck has the gall to fucking say,
- 14:43you could put the tip here.
- 14:44SPEAKER_03: The tip?
- 14:45SPEAKER_03: The tip.
- 14:47SPEAKER_03: It's like, put the tip of my dick in between your teeth, motherfucker.
- 14:51SPEAKER_03: You know?
- 14:52SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
- 14:52SPEAKER_03: No.
- 14:53SPEAKER_03: So, yeah, it was a it was a terrible, terrible experience.
- 14:56By this point,
- 14:57I was at the at the end of Kelly's like,
- 14:59you want to go do something else?
- 15:00SPEAKER_03: And I was like, nope, I don't.
- 15:02SPEAKER_03: My mood is ruined.
- 15:04SPEAKER_03: Well, I honest, honest to God truth.
- 15:07I figured if I started drinking on top of the real anger that I
- 15:11had at that point.
- 15:13SPEAKER_03: I might get in trouble.
- 15:14SPEAKER_03: Oh,
- 15:15SPEAKER_03: I just,
- 15:16SPEAKER_03: I was that kind of,
- 15:17SPEAKER_03: I was boiling mad,
- 15:18SPEAKER_03: which does not happen to me very often anymore.
- 15:22SPEAKER_03: And I literally was like,
- 15:24SPEAKER_03: man,
- 15:24if I go in some place and knock back a couple of drinks and
- 15:28someone bumps into me,
- 15:29SPEAKER_03: I am going to be throwing punches.
- 15:31SPEAKER_03: I better, I better just go home.
- 15:34SPEAKER_03: So I did it.
- 15:35SPEAKER_03: So we wrote it off as a not a date night.
- 15:40We just wrote it off as a fucking misstep,
- 15:43and we're going to do a do-over this week.
- 15:46SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 15:47SPEAKER_03: Look at you making good on a bad situation.
- 15:51SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to.
- 15:52SPEAKER_03: I'm just trying to get out more is really what I'm trying to do.
- 15:54SPEAKER_03: I don't blame you.
- 15:55SPEAKER_03: I really don't.
- 15:57SPEAKER_03: I mean, if I stay cooped up for too long, I get a little nutty myself.
- 16:02SPEAKER_03: I mean, obviously, I leave the house every day to go.
- 16:06SPEAKER_03: go do the job and obviously do traveling and things like that.
- 16:10But even with that,
- 16:12I get kind of antsy after being cooped up a day or two in the house.
- 16:17SPEAKER_03: It's extremely cold weather.
- 16:19SPEAKER_03: I just don't have anywhere to go.
- 16:21SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 16:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's I don't know.
- 16:23SPEAKER_03: I mean, I'm I'm used to being home, but I'm trying me.
- 16:26That's one thing me and Kelly did talk about at length was that
- 16:29we got to get back
- 16:30SPEAKER_03: to what we were doing before,
- 16:31SPEAKER_03: which is at least once every two weeks going and doing something,
- 16:36SPEAKER_03: whatever it is,
- 16:37SPEAKER_03: whether it's.
- 16:38SPEAKER_03: It doesn't always have to be a concert.
- 16:40SPEAKER_03: It could be going to, I don't know, a soccer game or something.
- 16:48SPEAKER_03: It doesn't matter.
- 16:48SPEAKER_03: Anything.
- 16:49SPEAKER_03: Just to get the fuck out and go do something.
- 16:53We made an agreement that we're going to try and do that and
- 16:56find some things to do.
- 16:58SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 17:00SPEAKER_02: Well,
- 17:00when it's always left up to one to make all the decisions or
- 17:05make the plans,
- 17:06SPEAKER_03: it kind of gets old after a while.
- 17:07SPEAKER_03: It's just like, why don't you have a little input here?
- 17:10SPEAKER_03: Well, there is that.
- 17:11SPEAKER_03: Well, whatever you want to do is fine with me.
- 17:13SPEAKER_03: It's like you like step up.
- 17:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there is definitely that part.
- 17:18SPEAKER_00: I'm aware.
- 17:18I'm aware because I do not,
- 17:21you know,
- 17:22and I and I've said that to her a bunch of times.
- 17:24SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, I don't have time to think about this shit.
- 17:28SPEAKER_03: You're the one that's sitting home watching TV,
- 17:30texting me 14 times a day that you're watching this murder porn
- 17:33or that murder porn.
- 17:34Mix in five minutes and fucking do a search of C Magazine and
- 17:37see what's going on in town.
- 17:39SPEAKER_03: Find out what's happening and make a suggestion or two.
- 17:41SPEAKER_03: It might strike my fancy as well.
- 17:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 17:45SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 17:46SPEAKER_03: especially,
- 17:47SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 17:47SPEAKER_03: especially a guy like you,
- 17:48SPEAKER_03: when you're,
- 17:49SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 17:50SPEAKER_03: working and keeping your head in the game,
- 17:53SPEAKER_03: as it were,
- 17:53SPEAKER_03: you can't.
- 17:54SPEAKER_03: Well, let me, let me also plan the weekend.
- 17:57SPEAKER_03: Let me plan the outings as well.
- 17:59SPEAKER_03: Let me plan everything.
- 18:00SPEAKER_03: Why not?
- 18:01SPEAKER_03: Yeah, of course.
- 18:02SPEAKER_03: I'll just go along for the ride.
- 18:03SPEAKER_03: No.
- 18:05SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 18:06one interesting thing that did happen late last week was Seth
- 18:12and I did an
- 18:12SPEAKER_03: interview with the owner of the Cleveland Crunch,
- 18:16SPEAKER_03: the soccer team.
- 18:18SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 18:18SPEAKER_03: And one of the players from the soccer team as well, McCain Spragling.
- 18:25SPEAKER_03: and out of it, it looks like I might be getting a gig.
- 18:30I might be getting a gig to do the official podcast of the
- 18:34Cleveland Crunch.
- 18:36SPEAKER_03: So what would that entail?
- 18:38SPEAKER_03: Just doing some interviews and talking about,
- 18:41SPEAKER_03: they're just looking for ways to help promote it,
- 18:44SPEAKER_03: and they asked me,
- 18:45SPEAKER_03: I guess they watched what me and Seth did,
- 18:48SPEAKER_03: and they liked what we did,
- 18:51SPEAKER_03: and asked me if I'd be interested in doing it,
- 18:53SPEAKER_03: and I was like,
- 18:54SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 18:56SPEAKER_03: Why not?
- 18:56SPEAKER_03: That'd be great.
- 18:57SPEAKER_03: A hundred thousand a year.
- 19:02SPEAKER_03: What?
- 19:02SPEAKER_03: Ruples?
- 19:06SPEAKER_03: Somehow I got a feeling it'll be a lot less than that.
- 19:08SPEAKER_03: We have not talked about money at all.
- 19:09SPEAKER_03: It was just,
- 19:10SPEAKER_03: it was just floated in a text chat back and forth,
- 19:14SPEAKER_03: but,
- 19:15SPEAKER_03: but I would be thrilled to look,
- 19:16SPEAKER_03: I'll be thrilled to do a podcast for any pro sports team.
- 19:20SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 19:21SPEAKER_03: That'd be a lot of fun to be honest with you.
- 19:23SPEAKER_03: I really know nothing about the Cleveland crunch.
- 19:26SPEAKER_03: I don't know, you know, anything about that as far as like soccer, right?
- 19:33SPEAKER_03: Indoor soccer.
- 19:34SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 19:34SPEAKER_03: Indoor soccer.
- 19:35SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 19:35SPEAKER_03: Cause you know,
- 19:36SPEAKER_03: I always hear about these,
- 19:38SPEAKER_03: these sports teams because number one,
- 19:40SPEAKER_03: I not a soccer fan,
- 19:42SPEAKER_03: but I know very little about it.
- 19:46And then I hear,
- 19:47well,
- 19:47this,
- 19:47this professional soccer team in something,
- 19:51something city.
- 19:52SPEAKER_03: And it's like, I've never heard of them.
- 19:54SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 19:55SPEAKER_03: No, I mean, dude, I'll, I'll have to learn all of it myself.
- 19:57SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 19:58SPEAKER_03: I don't know anything.
- 19:59SPEAKER_03: I had to learn to do the interview.
- 20:01SPEAKER_03: You know, I mean, I know enough.
- 20:04SPEAKER_03: I do know enough because I grew up going to see the Force.
- 20:11SPEAKER_03: The Force was the team before the Crunch.
- 20:13SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 20:14SPEAKER_03: I remember seeing and hearing the Force.
- 20:17SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 20:17SPEAKER_03: Well, they were a championship team, so they got some...
- 20:23you know some play in town but but they were a cheap like
- 20:27people that couldn't or
- 20:29didn't want to play to afford football games or basketball
- 20:32games would go see the
- 20:34force okay tickets were like 10 bucks or five bucks or whatever
- 20:37back then and it's
- 20:39still kind of the same thing it's not it's not huge or anything
- 20:42but um you know i i
- 20:46i'm i'm always willing you know if it if it gets me a box seat
- 20:50somewhere i i don't
- 20:51even care if i get paid to do a podcast what the fuck do i care
- 20:53yeah right hey i'm
- 20:55talking to the forward of the cleveland cleveland crunch it's
- 20:59blah blah blah
- 21:00SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 21:01do that and then have me a suite at the fucking Wolstein center
- 21:03to go watch a game
- 21:04SPEAKER_03: here and there I'm in.
- 21:05SPEAKER_03: So, so do you think this podcast thing will be on site type of thing?
- 21:10SPEAKER_03: Or do you think it'll be like a, like a, what you do with Seth?
- 21:14SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
- 21:15SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
- 21:16SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
- 21:17SPEAKER_03: Whatever they want to do.
- 21:18SPEAKER_03: I mean,
- 21:18SPEAKER_03: if they want to do it on site,
- 21:19that's fine with me as long as they set up the facility or
- 21:23maybe it'll be an
- 21:24on-site thing that I take out to the studio that Billy and I
- 21:28have or something like that.
- 21:30SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's probably what it'll end up being.
- 21:33SPEAKER_03: I would rather it be that than this,
- 21:36SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 21:36SPEAKER_03: personally,
- 21:36SPEAKER_03: just because it'll look better if we're both sitting at a table.
- 21:39SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 21:40You know,
- 21:41it doesn't look poor,
- 21:43you know,
- 21:43since they are a professional sports team.
- 21:45Maybe you could take a cue from that awful sports show there in Cleveland.
- 21:50SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
- 21:51SPEAKER_03: Well, here.
- 21:52SPEAKER_03: All right, so you guys are going to be playing some soccer.
- 21:55SPEAKER_03: Because they know how to bring a TV show.
- 21:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they just stink.
- 22:01SPEAKER_03: Still stink.
- 22:02SPEAKER_03: I check every once in a while.
- 22:06SPEAKER_03: Check it out just to see if they've improved anything.
- 22:08SPEAKER_03: I do.
- 22:09SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 22:09SPEAKER_03: like this,
- 22:10there was a lot of sports news this week with the Browns best
- 22:14player re-signed
- 22:15after saying that he wouldn't because they threw $40 million a
- 22:19year at him.
- 22:20SPEAKER_03: And that somehow convinced him that they're a winning team now.
- 22:23So,
- 22:23you know,
- 22:24he signed,
- 22:24but obviously it was a lot,
- 22:25it was big news here.
- 22:26So of course I jumped into the ultimate Cleveland sports show
- 22:31to see their,
- 22:32their take on it.
- 22:33SPEAKER_03: And it was as shitty as always.
- 22:35SPEAKER_03: Just poor production.
- 22:38It's astounding to me that an NBC affiliate would have
- 22:42something this podunk.
- 22:45SPEAKER_03: That is amazing, though.
- 22:46SPEAKER_03: It's just...
- 22:48SPEAKER_03: What do you think the issue is there?
- 22:50SPEAKER_03: I mean,
- 22:51SPEAKER_03: if you,
- 22:51SPEAKER_03: if you could put,
- 22:52SPEAKER_03: put your finger on it,
- 22:54SPEAKER_03: why do you think it's so poorly produced and,
- 22:58SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 22:59SPEAKER_03: mic'd and,
- 23:00SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 23:00SPEAKER_03: I don't,
- 23:02SPEAKER_03: I just don't think they have money,
- 23:04SPEAKER_03: but it's not a money thing as it could be.
- 23:07SPEAKER_03: Oh, it's a money thing.
- 23:08SPEAKER_03: The guys that are doing it.
- 23:09SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:10SPEAKER_03: The guy,
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: Adam,
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: the bull,
- 23:11SPEAKER_03: he literally quit making 150,
- 23:15SPEAKER_03: $200,000 a year as a Cleveland day to day sports guy to go do it.
- 23:18SPEAKER_03: So they're paying him.
- 23:19SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 23:21SPEAKER_03: And the other guy, Jay, whatever his name is, he's an ESPN guy.
- 23:25SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 23:27SPEAKER_03: So they obviously are paying him to do it.
- 23:30and then um the third guy the the black guy that they got on
- 23:33the show um he has he
- 23:36was doing 92.3 the the local sports stuff as well so they're
- 23:40paying they're paying
- 23:41all these guys to do it and my hunch is that they just don't
- 23:44have any they probably
- 23:45have a budget they paid it all in in names salary to get to get
- 23:51names on this dumb
- 23:52show and therefore they can't afford things like a 30 lavalier
- 23:58mic or something
- 24:02SPEAKER_03: You know, it's expensive.
- 24:04SPEAKER_03: It is expensive.
- 24:06SPEAKER_03: It's crazy.
- 24:08SPEAKER_03: It is.
- 24:09SPEAKER_03: It's stupid.
- 24:10SPEAKER_03: But so be it.
- 24:12SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're getting more and more viewers than we are.
- 24:16SPEAKER_03: Well, yeah, but they're on a TV show.
- 24:19SPEAKER_03: They're actually on commercial television.
- 24:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and they get promoted on NBC.
- 24:24SPEAKER_03: So, of course, they're doing better.
- 24:25SPEAKER_03: And they're also bigger names than us as far as this market.
- 24:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 24:30you know i mean i get it but it just is like do better yeah i
- 24:34agree i completely
- 24:36agree yeah so all right well very cool so uh well you know
- 24:41obviously i was away um
- 24:44you know last week for the uh the rock that the 80s rock cruise
- 24:50wait a minute our
- 24:52SPEAKER_03: first chance to use a bumper oh
- 24:56SPEAKER_01: Hey,
- 24:56SPEAKER_01: it's been five minutes,
- 24:57SPEAKER_01: and it's time now for Neely to talk docking on the Classic Metal Show.
- 25:09SPEAKER_03: Whoops.
- 25:10SPEAKER_03: Wanted it to go twice, I guess.
- 25:13SPEAKER_03: That's your new creation.
- 25:15SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:15SPEAKER_03: My new toy.
- 25:16SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:17SPEAKER_03: So,
- 25:18SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 25:18SPEAKER_03: yeah,
- 25:19SPEAKER_03: obviously most,
- 25:20SPEAKER_03: most people who listen to the show on a regular basis know that,
- 25:24SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 25:24there was no live show last week only because I was out on the
- 25:28eighties rock cruise.
- 25:31SPEAKER_03: And of course,
- 25:32SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 25:32the eighties rock cruise made big news due to a tragic incident
- 25:37that took place,
- 25:38SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 25:38SPEAKER_03: the first day of the cruise.
- 25:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 25:41SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 25:44SPEAKER_03: At this point now,
- 25:45SPEAKER_03: I guess it's safe to say the suicide of Tamey Down of Faster Pussycat,
- 25:51SPEAKER_03: his girlfriend,
- 25:54SPEAKER_03: apparently just jumped overboard.
- 25:57SPEAKER_02: Yes.
- 25:57SPEAKER_02: Wow.
- 25:58I don't need to get into the details about that because if you
- 26:02follow the news story,
- 26:04SPEAKER_03: I mean,
- 26:04SPEAKER_03: there was updates almost daily on that thing.
- 26:06SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 26:07SPEAKER_03: And I was not on the cruise at that point.
- 26:10SPEAKER_03: I did not join the cruise until Wednesday.
- 26:13The cruise sailed out of Miami on Sunday and me and the docking
- 26:19crew joined the
- 26:20SPEAKER_03: cruise on Wednesday from Puerto Rico.
- 26:24SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 26:24SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 26:24So I had to fly to Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning,
- 26:29and that's where,
- 26:30you know,
- 26:31Don and...
- 26:32SPEAKER_03: Chris and BJ and John all, we all gathered there in Puerto Rico.
- 26:37SPEAKER_03: They put us up at a really, really nice hotel.
- 26:40SPEAKER_03: There was a oceanfront hotel.
- 26:42SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 26:43And very,
- 26:45probably one of the nicest hotels I've ever been in,
- 26:47to be honest with you.
- 26:48SPEAKER_03: I've spent, I've been in a lot of hotels, some better hotels.
- 26:52SPEAKER_03: This one was very nice.
- 26:55And then where Puerto Rico was in Puerto Rico was in San Juan,
- 26:58Puerto Rico.
- 26:59SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 27:01SPEAKER_03: And,
- 27:02SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:02SPEAKER_03: business must be good there because,
- 27:05SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:05SPEAKER_03: since the pandemic,
- 27:07SPEAKER_03: a lot of,
- 27:08SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:09hotel accommodations and restaurants and things have had to cut
- 27:14back on staff.
- 27:15SPEAKER_03: And so they're not quite as attentive these days.
- 27:19SPEAKER_03: The service industry has certainly suffered.
- 27:23SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 27:23SPEAKER_03: Uh,
- 27:23SPEAKER_03: since the pandemic and,
- 27:25SPEAKER_03: and it has not come back to,
- 27:28SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:28SPEAKER_03: to where you get the,
- 27:30SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:31SPEAKER_03: the expectation of good service wherever you go,
- 27:34SPEAKER_03: whether it's a nice hotel or whether it's a restaurant or,
- 27:38SPEAKER_03: or anything,
- 27:38SPEAKER_03: I mean,
- 27:39SPEAKER_03: it's.
- 27:40SPEAKER_03: not quite the level it was.
- 27:43Well,
- 27:43this hotel in,
- 27:45in,
- 27:45uh,
- 27:45Puerto Rico there's there's,
- 27:48they had staff galore.
- 27:50SPEAKER_03: They must've had,
- 27:52SPEAKER_03: they had,
- 27:52SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 27:53SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:53SPEAKER_03: doorman they had,
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 27:56SPEAKER_03: obviously the,
- 27:57SPEAKER_03: the people at the check-in counter they had,
- 27:59SPEAKER_03: um,
- 28:01people just running around,
- 28:02just service people that were just at your beck and call.
- 28:05SPEAKER_03: Nice.
- 28:06SPEAKER_03: It was just a very, and the place was extremely clean, just clean.
- 28:12SPEAKER_03: They had people everywhere.
- 28:14SPEAKER_03: Every time I went through the,
- 28:15SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 28:15SPEAKER_03: like the main areas and things like that,
- 28:19SPEAKER_03: there was always somebody cleaning.
- 28:22They were either mopping the floor or wiping down the walls or
- 28:26cleaning the windows
- 28:27SPEAKER_03: or whatever,
- 28:28SPEAKER_03: and it showed.
- 28:29SPEAKER_03: It was kind of a resort hotel,
- 28:31SPEAKER_03: and it was very well staffed,
- 28:35SPEAKER_03: very well maintained,
- 28:36SPEAKER_03: very nice,
- 28:37SPEAKER_03: very nice accommodations.
- 28:38SPEAKER_03: Well, that's great.
- 28:40SPEAKER_03: Yeah,
- 28:40SPEAKER_03: so I was able to fly into San Juan and,
- 28:44SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 28:45SPEAKER_03: again,
- 28:45SPEAKER_03: the 80s crews took care of the talent and their staff,
- 28:51SPEAKER_03: which obviously I was on the staff of the docking staff.
- 28:55And they sent a limo for you to the airport to pick you up and
- 29:01checked you into the hotel.
- 29:04Everybody had a nice suite,
- 29:06you know,
- 29:06and it was just very,
- 29:08very,
- 29:08very,
- 29:09very nice.
- 29:11SPEAKER_03: So you just don't get that treatment anywhere you go.
- 29:17SPEAKER_03: So it was very nice.
- 29:19But I wasn't there very long because I flew in about 3 o'clock
- 29:22in the afternoon and
- 29:23we had to leave to get on the boat like at 11 o'clock the
- 29:27following morning.
- 29:28SPEAKER_03: So I wasn't even there 24 hours.
- 29:31SPEAKER_03: But, you know, everybody made it into San Juan.
- 29:36SPEAKER_03: You know, they gave you some kind of a guide.
- 29:39They go,
- 29:39well,
- 29:39if you want to go check out old San Juan because it's spring break.
- 29:43SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 29:44There were,
- 29:44you know,
- 29:45the spring breakers were out,
- 29:46you know,
- 29:47running around.
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- 30:45SPEAKER_03: There was also the other cautionary thing is like,
- 30:49SPEAKER_03: well,
- 30:50SPEAKER_03: don't go to this part of town and don't go down to that part of town.
- 30:53SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, you know what?
- 30:54SPEAKER_03: I just think I'm just going to stay here at the hotel.
- 30:57SPEAKER_03: Don't go more than two miles on the Vespa in any direction.
- 31:00SPEAKER_03: That's exactly right.
- 31:01It says,
- 31:02well,
- 31:03go down this street because they got restaurants and bars and blah,
- 31:07blah,
- 31:07blah.
- 31:08SPEAKER_03: But don't venture off this street.
- 31:09SPEAKER_03: Then go like a block over it.
- 31:12SPEAKER_03: It's like, that's okay.
- 31:13I don't need all those instructions because I'm just going to
- 31:15stay here at the
- 31:16SPEAKER_03: hotel bar and just enjoy the comforts of this nice plush.
- 31:22SPEAKER_03: Jack and Coke.
- 31:23SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 31:26SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 31:26So,
- 31:27you know,
- 31:28the guys from Firehouse also were getting on the boat at the
- 31:33same time.
- 31:34I guess I didn't see the guys from Warrant at all because they
- 31:38got off the boat.
- 31:40SPEAKER_03: So that was the whole thing is that they were switching everybody out.
- 31:45SPEAKER_03: So some of the bands that played early in the tour,
- 31:49SPEAKER_03: the crews rather,
- 31:50SPEAKER_03: that launched with the crews on Sunday got off on Wednesday.
- 31:55SPEAKER_03: And then the crew that got on on Wednesday got off the boat on Sunday.
- 31:59SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 32:00SPEAKER_03: So that's how it all worked out.
- 32:02but hung out with Bill Leverty a little bit from Firehouse and
- 32:07the rest of the guys
- 32:08SPEAKER_03: in Firehouse and the American Idol winner,
- 32:12SPEAKER_03: Nate Peck,
- 32:13SPEAKER_03: who is now their lead assistant.
- 32:16SPEAKER_03: Very nice kid.
- 32:16SPEAKER_03: That guy, I met him in Texas back on the weekend that C.J.
- 32:23SPEAKER_03: Snare passed away.
- 32:25SPEAKER_03: He was filling in at that time and got to meet him.
- 32:29SPEAKER_03: And in fact, I don't know if you remember
- 32:32his claim to fame on American idol as he,
- 32:35uh,
- 32:35I think he sang docking lightning strikes again.
- 32:38SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 32:39SPEAKER_03: Believe you.
- 32:42SPEAKER_03: I believe you.
- 32:43So when,
- 32:44uh,
- 32:45when we met up with him,
- 32:46uh,
- 32:47back in,
- 32:47when was the eclipse that was back in May 20?
- 32:52SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:53SPEAKER_03: The last year.
- 32:54SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 32:54SPEAKER_03: We went to that ground zero, uh,
- 32:59concert in texas where it was that's where the best place to
- 33:03see the eclipse was at okay
- 33:07SPEAKER_03: And,
- 33:07SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 33:07Firehouse was playing that and Nate was filling in for CJ who
- 33:12unfortunately passed
- 33:13SPEAKER_03: away that day.
- 33:14SPEAKER_00: Wow.
- 33:15SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: but,
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 33:16SPEAKER_03: we had met him and,
- 33:18SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 33:18SPEAKER_03: he met Don for the first time and,
- 33:20SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 33:20SPEAKER_03: obviously Don was aware of him and it was,
- 33:23it was just kind of a cool thing when we're seeing this kid who
- 33:27loves docking and
- 33:28SPEAKER_03: sun docking on TV show,
- 33:31SPEAKER_03: get to meet Don face.
- 33:32SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 33:33you know and it was pretty cool but uh he was there and we hung
- 33:37out a little bit
- 33:37and catted it up and stuff so uh guys in firehouse very good
- 33:42dude it's always been
- 33:43very friendly to me uh over the decades you know i hate to say
- 33:47that but holy
- 33:49decades yeah it's crazy right i think i met uh i think the guy
- 33:53met the guys in
- 33:54SPEAKER_03: firehouse i said way back and i think it was like 98
- 33:58SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 33:58SPEAKER_03: I was doing a live remote from,
- 34:01SPEAKER_03: for WSTB from the Midwest fireworks out Deerfield,
- 34:05SPEAKER_03: Ohio.
- 34:06SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 34:07SPEAKER_03: For the rock never stops tour.
- 34:08SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 34:09And,
- 34:10uh,
- 34:10that's when I met,
- 34:11met those guys and got acquainted with them the first time.
- 34:14And ever since,
- 34:15uh,
- 34:15you know,
- 34:15I've seen firehouse right across them many,
- 34:19many,
- 34:19many times.
- 34:20SPEAKER_02: Right on.
- 34:20SPEAKER_03: So, uh, so it was kind of like old home week hanging out with those guys.
- 34:25SPEAKER_03: But, uh,
- 34:26SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we got on the cruise.
- 34:27SPEAKER_03: So, you know, they, they doubled us to the, to the boat.
- 34:31SPEAKER_03: And,
- 34:32SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 34:32SPEAKER_03: I know you've been on a cruise once,
- 34:35SPEAKER_03: but this,
- 34:36SPEAKER_03: this,
- 34:36SPEAKER_03: this ship,
- 34:37SPEAKER_03: this Royal Caribbean ship,
- 34:39SPEAKER_03: this thing was fucking massive,
- 34:42SPEAKER_03: right?
- 34:42SPEAKER_03: That's a massive boat.
- 34:45SPEAKER_03: And of course,
- 34:46SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 34:46SPEAKER_03: the,
- 34:46the discussion getting on the boat is what happened to Tammy's girlfriend.
- 34:51SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 34:52SPEAKER_03: Of course.
- 34:52SPEAKER_03: Everybody was just like pretty much still abuzz.
- 34:55SPEAKER_03: How did, how did this possibly happen?
- 34:58SPEAKER_03: How could that have gone?
- 34:59SPEAKER_03: How could she have gone overboard?
- 35:01SPEAKER_03: Well, you know, she, she went overboard in the, uh,
- 35:06SPEAKER_03: in one of the,
- 35:07SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 35:07SPEAKER_03: at the room that they were in and he got into our rooms,
- 35:11SPEAKER_03: which were all ocean side rooms,
- 35:14SPEAKER_03: balcony rooms.
- 35:15SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 35:15SPEAKER_03: And that, uh, that balcony rail comes up to here on me.
- 35:22SPEAKER_03: So, so she had to make an effort.
- 35:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 35:24SPEAKER_03: She had to make a real effort to get over that rail.
- 35:28You know,
- 35:28so,
- 35:29uh,
- 35:29you know,
- 35:30the discussion is how could this possibly happen?
- 35:32SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 35:33SPEAKER_03: how could that,
- 35:33SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 35:33SPEAKER_03: you can't just fall overboard,
- 35:36SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 35:37SPEAKER_03: either you had to,
- 35:38SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 35:39intentionally climb over the rail or somebody had to grab her
- 35:42and throw her over.
- 35:43SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 35:44SPEAKER_03: And,
- 35:44SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 35:45SPEAKER_03: so that,
- 35:45SPEAKER_03: that kind of haunted the whole cruise,
- 35:47SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 35:48SPEAKER_03: the,
- 35:48SPEAKER_03: the whole time it didn't seem to put a real damper on,
- 35:51SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 35:52SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 35:53SPEAKER_03: the activities there,
- 35:54SPEAKER_03: but I gotta tell you,
- 35:55SPEAKER_03: Chris.
- 35:56SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
- 35:56SPEAKER_03: Being on this 80s-themed cruise, I didn't know what to expect.
- 36:03SPEAKER_03: So you just think it's like,
- 36:05SPEAKER_03: okay,
- 36:05SPEAKER_03: well,
- 36:06SPEAKER_03: there's a bunch of 80s artists on there that are going to perform.
- 36:09SPEAKER_03: It's way more than that.
- 36:12okay it's a whole culture of people who worship everything 80s
- 36:19really these people
- 36:21dress up all the time as 80s characters whether they're dressed
- 36:26like prince or
- 36:27whether they're dressed like hall and oats or peewee herman or
- 36:31the ghostbusters or
- 36:33SPEAKER_03: And the thing is, is some of these wannabes and shit like that.
- 36:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 36:38SPEAKER_03: So these,
- 36:38SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 36:40SPEAKER_03: these people who come on this cruise,
- 36:42SPEAKER_03: some of their,
- 36:43SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 36:45SPEAKER_03: costumes and things were very elaborate.
- 36:48SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 36:49SPEAKER_03: And some of them had more than one costume.
- 36:51SPEAKER_03: And I'm thinking, well, these people come in from all over the world.
- 36:55You know,
- 36:56they fly in from different countries and they have to carry all
- 37:00this stuff with them.
- 37:02right you know what i mean so to to carry you know not only
- 37:07your regular clothes
- 37:08and things but you're carrying all your cosplay stuff with you
- 37:12you know to dress up
- 37:13and you know they have these contests and you know who looks
- 37:17the most like madonna
- 37:19and who you know all this this other kind of stuff you know and
- 37:22it was a big to do
- 37:24SPEAKER_03: and uh
- 37:26you know oh hey there's a guy who looks like ferris bueller hey
- 37:29there's a guy that
- 37:30looked you know there was a guy who looked just like peewee
- 37:32herman you know and
- 37:35they they acted out the whole time you're there it's just they
- 37:38acted out yeah you
- 37:39know you know how peewee used to go you know and just kind of
- 37:45walk funny and stuff
- 37:46SPEAKER_03: the guy who did that he would
- 37:50SPEAKER_03: more or less take on the whole personality of peewee Herman or something,
- 37:53SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 37:54SPEAKER_03: God had to make you want to chuck him overboard.
- 37:57SPEAKER_03: It was just kind of a bizarre environment to be in,
- 38:01SPEAKER_02: you know,
- 38:02SPEAKER_03: but,
- 38:02SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 38:03SPEAKER_03: so they,
- 38:03SPEAKER_03: they really get into this whole thing,
- 38:06SPEAKER_02: you know,
- 38:06SPEAKER_03: and I did,
- 38:07SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 38:07SPEAKER_03: again,
- 38:07SPEAKER_03: I wasn't aware of that.
- 38:09SPEAKER_03: This was,
- 38:10SPEAKER_03: part of the whole cruise.
- 38:12SPEAKER_03: And,
- 38:12SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 38:13SPEAKER_03: again,
- 38:13SPEAKER_03: they,
- 38:14SPEAKER_03: they have all kinds of activities and,
- 38:16SPEAKER_03: and contests and,
- 38:18SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 38:19SPEAKER_03: they're playing beer pong and all kinds of things in the,
- 38:22SPEAKER_03: in the main,
- 38:24SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 38:24SPEAKER_03: promenade or whatever.
- 38:26SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 38:27SPEAKER_03: So,
- 38:28so just watching people who were in their fifties and sixties
- 38:31and heading up to seventies,
- 38:33SPEAKER_03: acting out like,
- 38:34SPEAKER_03: um,
- 38:35SPEAKER_03: You know, like Don Johnson or something.
- 38:39SPEAKER_03: It's just kind of goofy.
- 38:41SPEAKER_03: Oh, my God.
- 38:42SPEAKER_03: It was just goofy.
- 38:44SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 38:45SPEAKER_03: I think the highlight for me,
- 38:47SPEAKER_03: as far as like the cruise was concerned is,
- 38:49SPEAKER_03: is beating the three,
- 38:52SPEAKER_03: three of the original MTV VJs.
- 38:55SPEAKER_02: Okay.
- 38:55SPEAKER_03: I got to meet Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman and downtown Julie Brown.
- 39:00SPEAKER_03: Nice.
- 39:01SPEAKER_03: All of them.
- 39:02SPEAKER_03: Very, very, very nice people.
- 39:05SPEAKER_03: Extremely nice.
- 39:07SPEAKER_03: And,
- 39:07SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 39:08SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 39:08SPEAKER_03: once they made sure acquaintance,
- 39:09SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 39:10SPEAKER_03: I,
- 39:10SPEAKER_03: I,
- 39:11SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 39:11SPEAKER_03: would run into them.
- 39:13you know periodically on the ship and they'd come up hey man
- 39:16how are you you know
- 39:17hey bro see you again you know that kind of thing and uh it was
- 39:22it was just very
- 39:23cool just chatted it up with uh all three of them at one point
- 39:27or another and uh i
- 39:29in fact i mark goodman did a uh behind the music uh interview
- 39:35with don right it was
- 39:38SPEAKER_03: on a it was on a um
- 39:40SPEAKER_03: Saturday morning and,
- 39:41SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 39:42SPEAKER_03: it was about 10 o'clock and it was,
- 39:43SPEAKER_03: it's supposed to last about an hour.
- 39:45SPEAKER_03: It was about an hour and 10 minutes.
- 39:48SPEAKER_03: Cause you know, Don, once he gets talking, he just chats it up.
- 39:53Well,
- 39:54after the,
- 39:55uh,
- 39:55the interview thing was over,
- 39:57yeah,
- 39:58there we are in Alan Hunter.
- 40:00SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 40:03SPEAKER_03: you just don't think Alan, you remember Alan Hunter back in the day?
- 40:06SPEAKER_03: He had like long hair at that on the show, right?
- 40:09SPEAKER_03: Not really.
- 40:10SPEAKER_03: He didn't really have long shoulder length.
- 40:13SPEAKER_03: Not so much.
- 40:14SPEAKER_03: He, he, he looked pretty much the same.
- 40:16SPEAKER_03: He just looked like an older version of him, you know, nice guy though.
- 40:21SPEAKER_03: Very friendly.
- 40:24SPEAKER_03: But, uh, um,
- 40:27SPEAKER_03: Mark Goodman, very friendly guy.
- 40:29SPEAKER_03: We chatted it up a bit and I invited him to come on the show.
- 40:32SPEAKER_03: He goes, yeah, I'd love to come on the show.
- 40:34SPEAKER_03: So we may have Mark Goodman on the show at some point.
- 40:38SPEAKER_03: That'd be good.
- 40:40SPEAKER_03: But after the Q&A or the behind the music interview thing with Don,
- 40:48SPEAKER_03: he did a meet and greet with people.
- 40:50There were no less than 60 or 70 people in line and they
- 40:57brought all kinds of dock
- 40:59SPEAKER_03: and stuff with them.
- 41:00SPEAKER_03: Of course they did.
- 41:01SPEAKER_03: Well, here's the thing.
- 41:02SPEAKER_03: They're on a cruise.
- 41:03SPEAKER_03: So they had to think ahead to pack this stuff to bring with them.
- 41:07SPEAKER_03: They were like Ozzy A's.
- 41:08SPEAKER_03: They had a separate suitcase full of shit.
- 41:12SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 41:12SPEAKER_03: So they,
- 41:13SPEAKER_03: they had to pack,
- 41:15have the forethought to bring their album covers with them for
- 41:18the off chance that
- 41:19SPEAKER_03: they would have an opportunity to,
- 41:22SPEAKER_03: to meet Don and get their shit signed.
- 41:25SPEAKER_03: And I'm going to get these 43 album covers.
- 41:28SPEAKER_03: People who brought, you know, probably the whole catalog with them.
- 41:33SPEAKER_03: And, and, uh, you know, Don is kind of paralyzed with his right hand.
- 41:37SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 41:38SPEAKER_03: And he does,
- 41:38SPEAKER_03: he,
- 41:39SPEAKER_03: he has to,
- 41:40SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 41:40SPEAKER_03: he's improvised the way that he can hold a marker and sign this stuff.
- 41:44SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 41:45SPEAKER_03: I got to give it to Don.
- 41:47SPEAKER_03: He sat there, took every picture, signed every autograph, and,
- 41:52SPEAKER_03: Signed every piece of merchandise people brought with them.
- 41:56SPEAKER_03: It was probably about an hour and probably an hour and 10 minutes or so.
- 42:02SPEAKER_03: He sat there taking pictures,
- 42:04SPEAKER_03: signing autographs,
- 42:06SPEAKER_03: signing all the docking stuff that people brought with them.
- 42:10SPEAKER_03: But again,
- 42:11SPEAKER_03: I thought to myself,
- 42:12SPEAKER_03: wow,
- 42:12SPEAKER_03: that's some forethought that you thought,
- 42:14SPEAKER_03: Hey,
- 42:15SPEAKER_03: there might be an opportunity.
- 42:16SPEAKER_03: I'll get to meet Don.
- 42:17SPEAKER_03: So I'm going to pack these four album covers.
- 42:20SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 42:21SPEAKER_03: Did every one of these people have a dumb docking story too?
- 42:24SPEAKER_03: A lot of them.
- 42:24SPEAKER_03: Dude, I saw you in 1984 with twisted sister.
- 42:29SPEAKER_03: I just got to say you fucking blew them off the, off the stage, man.
- 42:35You remember that show in Columbus,
- 42:37Ohio,
- 42:38you were opening up for Aerosmith.
- 42:40SPEAKER_03: Remember that show?
- 42:42SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
- 42:43SPEAKER_03: That we actually talked about that after the meet and greet was over.
- 42:49It's just like,
- 42:50do these people think I remember every goddamn show I ever
- 42:53played in my life?
- 42:54SPEAKER_03: It's like, good Lord.
- 42:56SPEAKER_03: That was 40 years ago.
- 42:58I'm supposed to remember when we opened up for Aerosmith at,
- 43:01you know,
- 43:02at,
- 43:02at,
- 43:03SPEAKER_03: At some specific venue somewhere.
- 43:05SPEAKER_03: And there was a guy in the fourth row.
- 43:07SPEAKER_03: So you got to remember that guy in the fourth row,
- 43:11SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 43:11SPEAKER_03: the three of the peace sign and then you threw it back to him.
- 43:14SPEAKER_03: And remember,
- 43:15SPEAKER_03: remember you,
- 43:16SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 43:16I was there with my girlfriend and you looked at her and you
- 43:19said such and such to her.
- 43:21SPEAKER_03: Remember when you did that?
- 43:23SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 43:26SPEAKER_03: It's like, well, what am I supposed to remember all that?
- 43:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 43:29SPEAKER_03: I remember it well.
- 43:30SPEAKER_03: It was only 42 years ago.
- 43:31SPEAKER_03: It was like, like it was yesterday.
- 43:34But yeah,
- 43:35I got to commend the people who had the foresight to bring all
- 43:40their stuff with them.
- 43:41SPEAKER_03: Holy shit.
- 43:43They had,
- 43:44again,
- 43:44like I said,
- 43:45album covers,
- 43:46CD covers,
- 43:48promotional photos,
- 43:51all kinds of things.
- 43:53SPEAKER_03: It was just overwhelming, I would say.
- 43:56SPEAKER_03: I guess,
- 43:57SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 43:58SPEAKER_03: and again,
- 43:58SPEAKER_03: Don being the trooper,
- 44:01SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 44:01SPEAKER_03: he didn't get,
- 44:02SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 44:02SPEAKER_03: he didn't get irritated with any of it.
- 44:04He sat there and just find a way and chatted it up with
- 44:09everybody and listen to
- 44:11SPEAKER_03: their stories and took the pictures and,
- 44:13SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 44:14SPEAKER_03: and that is,
- 44:15SPEAKER_03: and then of course,
- 44:16SPEAKER_03: after it was finally over,
- 44:20SPEAKER_03: I got to get a cocktail.
- 44:21SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 44:25SPEAKER_03: But, uh, you know, good on the fans.
- 44:28SPEAKER_03: They were very good.
- 44:29Now the weird thing,
- 44:31you know,
- 44:31I'll wrap this up as you know,
- 44:34the cruise was the cruise.
- 44:35I mean,
- 44:36we had nice rooms and nice accommodations and you know,
- 44:39everybody was very cool and,
- 44:42um,
- 44:43SPEAKER_03: There was no problems of any kind.
- 44:45SPEAKER_03: I didn't see any issues with anybody, no fights.
- 44:49But then again,
- 44:50there was a certain demographic that the 80s cruise does not
- 44:53appeal to.
- 44:54SPEAKER_03: What, the Swedes?
- 44:56SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the Swedes were not on the boat.
- 44:57SPEAKER_03: There were no Swedes?
- 44:59SPEAKER_03: So there were no fights that I saw or was aware of.
- 45:03SPEAKER_03: Well, there was one we were aware of.
- 45:08SPEAKER_03: Just one?
- 45:08SPEAKER_03: Just one.
- 45:09SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 45:11SPEAKER_03: But the last night of the cruise, which was very weird.
- 45:16SPEAKER_03: Dokken played the last night of the cruise, which was Saturday night.
- 45:21SPEAKER_03: So Dokken went on at nine 30.
- 45:25SPEAKER_03: We had to,
- 45:26SPEAKER_03: from,
- 45:27SPEAKER_03: from the,
- 45:28SPEAKER_03: the,
- 45:28SPEAKER_03: the rooms,
- 45:29SPEAKER_03: we had to walk across the main pool deck to get to the,
- 45:33SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 45:34get to the elevator that took us down to the venue that they
- 45:37were playing at that
- 45:39SPEAKER_03: pool deck.
- 45:41SPEAKER_03: was totally deserted.
- 45:42SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 45:44SPEAKER_03: Totally deserted.
- 45:45SPEAKER_03: The,
- 45:46SPEAKER_03: the place was packed all week long,
- 45:49SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 45:49SPEAKER_03: up it up to like two o'clock in the morning,
- 45:52SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 45:52SPEAKER_03: people were out on the deck,
- 45:54SPEAKER_03: swimming,
- 45:54SPEAKER_03: hanging out place was like deserted.
- 45:57SPEAKER_03: Like everybody got off the boat already.
- 46:02Cause they were in their room packing because you know,
- 46:05they had to get off the boat.
- 46:06SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 46:07SPEAKER_03: But it was so strange.
- 46:08SPEAKER_03: There was nobody to be seen anywhere.
- 46:11SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 46:12SPEAKER_03: And so same thing with the show.
- 46:15SPEAKER_03: Nobody came to the show.
- 46:17SPEAKER_03: I won't say nobody, but I'll say maybe there were a hundred people there.
- 46:21SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 46:22SPEAKER_03: It's crazy.
- 46:23SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 46:24SPEAKER_03: the other thing is that Firehouse had played before Dokken,
- 46:28SPEAKER_03: and then Dokken came on,
- 46:30SPEAKER_03: and then after Dokken was off at,
- 46:31SPEAKER_03: let's see,
- 46:33SPEAKER_03: 9,
- 46:34SPEAKER_03: 10,
- 46:42SPEAKER_03: 30,
- 46:34SPEAKER_03: like 11 o'clock,
- 46:37SPEAKER_03: this 80s tribute band called the Reflex,
- 46:40SPEAKER_03: which,
- 46:41SPEAKER_03: by the way,
- 46:41SPEAKER_03: they were very good.
- 46:42SPEAKER_03: They played a lot of the 80s pop songs.
- 46:46SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 46:47Duran Duran,
- 46:48which,
- 46:48of course,
- 46:48is where the Reflex comes from,
- 46:50but they did all the 80s tunes.
- 46:52SPEAKER_03: They had to play after docking.
- 46:56SPEAKER_03: And I don't think, I don't think there were 20 people in the place.
- 47:01SPEAKER_03: Nice.
- 47:02SPEAKER_03: I never saw anything like it.
- 47:03SPEAKER_03: And then after,
- 47:04SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 47:05SPEAKER_03: after docking was over and we went back to the state rooms,
- 47:09SPEAKER_03: nobody on that ship.
- 47:11SPEAKER_03: Wow.
- 47:12SPEAKER_03: It was just the weirdest thing.
- 47:15SPEAKER_03: The place was packed all week.
- 47:17SPEAKER_03: You walk out there.
- 47:18SPEAKER_03: Nobody.
- 47:19SPEAKER_03: Hmm.
- 47:21SPEAKER_03: And they were what,
- 47:21SPEAKER_03: just packing up and getting,
- 47:23SPEAKER_03: cause I know they do shuttle you right the fuck off the boat when they,
- 47:26SPEAKER_03: when they go,
- 47:27SPEAKER_03: they're like,
- 47:28SPEAKER_03: all right,
- 47:28SPEAKER_03: everybody out,
- 47:29SPEAKER_03: out.
- 47:29SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 47:30SPEAKER_03: Basically,
- 47:31SPEAKER_03: basically we had to gather the,
- 47:33SPEAKER_03: the,
- 47:33SPEAKER_03: the artists and crew all had to gather at six 15.
- 47:37SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 47:37SPEAKER_03: And yeah,
- 47:40you know you you had because you you went international you you
- 47:44know they had to
- 47:45check to make sure you had your passport on you and you had
- 47:48your id card and all
- 47:50this other to make before they would get you off the boat
- 47:53because you had to go
- 47:55through immigration and all that to get off the boat but uh
- 47:58yeah the artists were
- 48:00shuttled off first before the general public uh got out but i
- 48:06guess the the the
- 48:07SPEAKER_03: protocol for
- 48:09cruise ships is that when you the night of the cruise or the
- 48:13last night of the
- 48:13cruise i guess you go to your room pack up all the shit that uh
- 48:17you got to check
- 48:18your bag and then you put your bag outside your door and they
- 48:22come around and pick
- 48:23up all your luggage oh wow okay and then the only thing you
- 48:26have with you is your
- 48:27carry-on stuff right so that's what everybody was doing as they
- 48:31were packing up
- 48:32SPEAKER_03: their week's worth of
- 48:34costumes and right so he put my prince wig away and exactly so
- 48:39that's where
- 48:40everybody was as they were packing it up for the week it's
- 48:43funny but uh yeah just
- 48:45the whole ship full of people just deserted that's funny it's
- 48:49just crazy but uh
- 48:51SPEAKER_03: Overall, um, good experience.
- 48:53SPEAKER_03: Would I do it personally?
- 48:55SPEAKER_03: Would I personally book and go to a cruise?
- 48:58SPEAKER_03: I wouldn't do that.
- 48:59SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 49:00SPEAKER_03: You know, it's just, it's a lot of money to, for this.
- 49:03I heard people talking about what they spent beyond this cruise
- 49:07and on an average,
- 49:08SPEAKER_03: it's about five grand.
- 49:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 49:10SPEAKER_03: That's a bit much.
- 49:11SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 49:12SPEAKER_03: Five grand to,
- 49:13SPEAKER_03: to go on a,
- 49:14SPEAKER_03: on a cruise,
- 49:15SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 49:15SPEAKER_03: and again,
- 49:16SPEAKER_03: people came in from all over,
- 49:17SPEAKER_03: all over the world.
- 49:19But aside from the tragic event that took place the first night
- 49:24of the cruise,
- 49:25SPEAKER_03: as far as I could tell,
- 49:26SPEAKER_03: it was a very successful,
- 49:30SPEAKER_03: well-run organization.
- 49:32SPEAKER_03: Well, that's good.
- 49:33SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 49:34SPEAKER_03: Sounds better than what people were getting at the Monsters of Rock.
- 49:39SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 49:39SPEAKER_03: Nothing but complaints about that cruise.
- 49:42SPEAKER_03: Plus they had a heart attack on that cruise too.
- 49:44SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 49:45SPEAKER_03: Who was it?
- 49:45SPEAKER_03: Their drummer?
- 49:46SPEAKER_03: What drummer?
- 49:47SPEAKER_03: Ted Foley or danger, danger drummer or something.
- 49:50SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it was Ted Foley solo or whatever,
- 49:54SPEAKER_03: whatever band Ted Foley's in now,
- 49:56SPEAKER_03: it was his drummer,
- 49:58SPEAKER_03: but I guess he lived.
- 49:59SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 50:00From what I understand,
- 50:01he lived,
- 50:02but no,
- 50:02it's like,
- 50:03like our friend Eric having a heart attack.
- 50:05SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:06SPEAKER_03: You know, right after one of his gigs.
- 50:08SPEAKER_03: Mm-hmm.
- 50:09SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:10SPEAKER_03: I'm sure that guy having the heart attack on the boat that Eric was on,
- 50:13SPEAKER_03: I'm sure that didn't scare the shit out of Eric.
- 50:15SPEAKER_03: Oh, shit.
- 50:18SPEAKER_03: Well,
- 50:19SPEAKER_03: anyway,
- 50:20SPEAKER_03: overall,
- 50:21SPEAKER_03: interesting experience,
- 50:23SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 50:24SPEAKER_03: an opportunity to go a different place,
- 50:28SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 50:28during the time I was on the ship from the point that we got on
- 50:33at San Juan,
- 50:34SPEAKER_03: Puerto Rico,
- 50:36SPEAKER_03: Haiti.
- 50:38SPEAKER_03: And it was just like, yeah, I'll just stay within this area.
- 50:41SPEAKER_03: It's like, yeah, that's okay.
- 50:42SPEAKER_03: I'm not getting off the ship.
- 50:43SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:43SPEAKER_03: I'm going to stay within this area.
- 50:45SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:45SPEAKER_03: I don't think I'll be getting off at Haiti.
- 50:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 50:48SPEAKER_03: I'm staying within the area of the bar.
- 50:51SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 50:52SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 50:52SPEAKER_03: And to be honest with you, I hardly drank anything on the ship.
- 50:58SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 50:59SPEAKER_03: I had,
- 51:00SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 51:00I had some wine at dinner and I may have had during the course
- 51:07of the whole ship,
- 51:08SPEAKER_03: I may have had six cocktails total.
- 51:10SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 51:11SPEAKER_03: That's not bad.
- 51:11SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're on the boat five days.
- 51:13SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 51:13SPEAKER_03: And it was just like, yeah.
- 51:14SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 51:17SPEAKER_03: And it was a crowded scene at the bar, man.
- 51:20SPEAKER_03: And of course,
- 51:22SPEAKER_03: every time Don wanted to go out and go get a cocktail at the bar,
- 51:28SPEAKER_03: of course,
- 51:28SPEAKER_03: he had to deal with everybody coming up.
- 51:31SPEAKER_03: But can I get a picture?
- 51:32SPEAKER_03: Can I get a picture?
- 51:34SPEAKER_03: which was fine because he took a picture.
- 51:36SPEAKER_03: That's the whole reason he's there.
- 51:38SPEAKER_03: Yeah,
- 51:39they were very patient about waiting if he was engaged in a
- 51:43conversation with
- 51:44SPEAKER_03: somebody or whatever.
- 51:45SPEAKER_03: They waited very patiently until he was done
- 51:49talking to whomever it was he was talking to and he'd take a,
- 51:53take a photo with him.
- 51:54SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 51:54But how uncomfortable is that when you just see the guy just
- 51:57standing there,
- 51:58like stalking?
- 51:59SPEAKER_03: And they did.
- 52:00SPEAKER_03: Of course they do.
- 52:01SPEAKER_03: Some people stood there for up to like a half an hour, just waiting.
- 52:06SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 52:06SPEAKER_03: Like one step away from being uncomfortable, but still noticeable.
- 52:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 52:11SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 52:12SPEAKER_03: So good time, I guess.
- 52:15SPEAKER_03: Again, I wouldn't do it personally.
- 52:17SPEAKER_03: It's just really not my cup of tea.
- 52:19SPEAKER_03: I was just glad to be invited to go along and enjoy that.
- 52:24SPEAKER_03: But personally, I would never just do it for shits and giggles.
- 52:29SPEAKER_03: Just not really something that I have any interest in.
- 52:32SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 52:33SPEAKER_03: just being on a ship failing open seas for days at a time as there's,
- 52:38SPEAKER_03: there were times,
- 52:39SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 52:39SPEAKER_03: you don't see anything except just open water,
- 52:42SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 52:43SPEAKER_03: for,
- 52:43SPEAKER_03: for as far as you could see,
- 52:46SPEAKER_03: but,
- 52:46SPEAKER_02: uh,
- 52:47SPEAKER_03: you know.
- 52:49SPEAKER_03: Some people do that every single year,
- 52:51SPEAKER_03: though,
- 52:51SPEAKER_03: because they have a class of people who are,
- 52:55SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 52:55SPEAKER_03: they call it,
- 52:57SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 52:57SPEAKER_03: just like if you were in high school.
- 52:59SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm a freshman.
- 53:00SPEAKER_03: This is my first time on the ship.
- 53:02Well,
- 53:02next year I'm going to be,
- 53:04you know,
- 53:04a sophomore,
- 53:05and then I'm going to be a junior.
- 53:07SPEAKER_03: Then I'm going to be a senior.
- 53:08SPEAKER_03: And they actually have like a graduation ceremony.
- 53:13SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 53:14SPEAKER_03: And they actually have a prom ceremony.
- 53:19prom prom so what if you go on four cruises and you get invited
- 53:23to the prom is that
- 53:24what it is yes and these people were actually wearing caps and
- 53:30gowns oh my god
- 53:32graduating you know they were seniors now so they've actually
- 53:37had like a big
- 53:37graduation ceremony and the whole thing it's just a it's a real
- 53:41weird thing how
- 53:43SPEAKER_03: embarrassing
- 53:44SPEAKER_03: Well, people seem to love it.
- 53:47SPEAKER_03: Did they wear their name tag too?
- 53:49SPEAKER_03: They did.
- 53:50SPEAKER_03: I'm Bill, class of 2025?
- 53:53SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
- 53:54SPEAKER_03: Jesus.
- 53:57SPEAKER_03: What about the ones that have been there more than four times?
- 53:59SPEAKER_03: Do they get alumni status?
- 54:01SPEAKER_03: I think they do.
- 54:02SPEAKER_03: I believe they do, as a matter of fact.
- 54:09SPEAKER_03: Okay.
- 54:10SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 54:11SPEAKER_03: So,
- 54:11SPEAKER_03: so the people who were on the cruise,
- 54:14SPEAKER_03: their fourth time on the cruise or something,
- 54:16SPEAKER_03: they had a graduation ceremony and they had,
- 54:19SPEAKER_03: they had the class at 2025 and all this and that,
- 54:23SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 54:23SPEAKER_03: they walk across a stage and they get handed a diploma.
- 54:28SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 54:28SPEAKER_03: They,
- 54:29SPEAKER_03: they,
- 54:29SPEAKER_03: they get their little certificate to say that they've graduated,
- 54:33SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 54:34SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 54:34SPEAKER_03: and they,
- 54:35SPEAKER_03: they literally wear cap and gowns.
- 54:37SPEAKER_03: That is lame.
- 54:39SPEAKER_03: It was pretty weird.
- 54:41SPEAKER_03: That's so dumb.
- 54:45SPEAKER_03: But,
- 54:45SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 54:45SPEAKER_03: one of the things that,
- 54:46SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 54:47SPEAKER_03: I enjoyed while I stayed,
- 54:48SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 54:49SPEAKER_03: while I was in the cabin anyway,
- 54:50SPEAKER_03: is that,
- 54:51SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 54:51SPEAKER_03: they had,
- 54:52SPEAKER_03: they had a bunch of eighties movies on the,
- 54:56SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 54:56SPEAKER_03: close caption ship channels.
- 54:58SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 54:59SPEAKER_03: You,
- 54:59SPEAKER_03: you could watch a bunch of eighties movies,
- 55:02SPEAKER_03: any of the back to the futures or dancing or Ferris Bueller science and
- 55:08SPEAKER_03: You know, so they ran all the mostly, mostly the John Hughes movies.
- 55:13SPEAKER_02: Right.
- 55:13SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 55:14SPEAKER_03: so you could,
- 55:15SPEAKER_03: any time of the day or night,
- 55:16you could flip to one of those channels and probably find one
- 55:19of those movies playing.
- 55:21SPEAKER_03: So that was, that was kind of fun.
- 55:23SPEAKER_03: I would fall asleep watching one of the older movies.
- 55:26SPEAKER_03: Sure.
- 55:27SPEAKER_03: Oh, so yeah.
- 55:29SPEAKER_03: Good times.
- 55:30SPEAKER_03: Good stuff.
- 55:31SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 55:33SPEAKER_03: So that's my saga being away.
- 55:36SPEAKER_03: At least you had fun.
- 55:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I had fun.
- 55:39And again,
- 55:40whoever runs the 80s cruise,
- 55:43they took very,
- 55:44very good care of us.
- 55:48SPEAKER_03: And accommodations, couldn't complain about the accommodations.
- 55:52SPEAKER_03: That's great.
- 55:53SPEAKER_03: Very good stuff.
- 55:54SPEAKER_03: Cool.
- 55:55SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 55:56SPEAKER_03: So that's it.
- 55:58SPEAKER_03: That is it.
- 55:59SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 55:59SPEAKER_03: So,
- 55:59SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 56:00SPEAKER_03: apparently,
- 56:01SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 56:01SPEAKER_03: Tammy down from what I understand,
- 56:03SPEAKER_03: he's been cleared of any suspicions or charges or anything.
- 56:07SPEAKER_03: That's what I hear.
- 56:08SPEAKER_03: That's what I hear.
- 56:09SPEAKER_03: I hear that,
- 56:10SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 56:11SPEAKER_03: they have,
- 56:11SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 56:12SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 56:12SPEAKER_03: video of,
- 56:14SPEAKER_03: of his girlfriend basically going overboard,
- 56:17SPEAKER_03: jumping off,
- 56:18SPEAKER_03: jumping off.
- 56:20oh boy i feel for him now having your having anybody you care
- 56:24about just fucking
- 56:25kill themselves right in front of you that's pretty brutal that
- 56:27is brutal and
- 56:29that's again it's during an event that you'll never forget yeah
- 56:33as well as the
- 56:34public you know yeah and that's it is now i mean anytime tammy
- 56:39does an interview
- 56:39for the rest of his life that'll be the first thing feeling
- 56:42better after that
- 56:43SPEAKER_03: cruise thing man
- 56:46SPEAKER_03: It's like what Jack Russell had to deal with with that station fire.
- 56:50SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and look what it did to him.
- 56:52SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 56:53SPEAKER_03: So yeah, it's just something that, uh, that you will never forget.
- 56:58SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 56:59SPEAKER_03: And as well as the people who were on the cruise or,
- 57:03SPEAKER_03: you know,
- 57:03SPEAKER_03: oh yeah,
- 57:04SPEAKER_03: that cruise,
- 57:04SPEAKER_03: that's the one that Taney down his girlfriend jumped overboard.
- 57:07SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 57:08SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:11SPEAKER_03: Never forget that.
- 57:12SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 57:12SPEAKER_03: the,
- 57:12and this thing about that is because this thing happened in
- 57:16international waters,
- 57:18SPEAKER_03: uh,
- 57:18SPEAKER_03: Tamey had to stay on the ship,
- 57:20SPEAKER_03: the entire cruise.
- 57:22SPEAKER_03: Yeah, seven days of just sitting there thinking about it.
- 57:25SPEAKER_03: Yeah,
- 57:26SPEAKER_03: and he was kind of sequestered in a room,
- 57:28SPEAKER_03: from what I understand,
- 57:30SPEAKER_03: and he wasn't out in the general public at all.
- 57:33SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 57:34SPEAKER_03: Just seven days of misery.
- 57:37SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:38SPEAKER_03: Surrounded by reruns of Miami Vice and weird science.
- 57:46SPEAKER_03: Yee.
- 57:47SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:48SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
- 57:49SPEAKER_03: Anyway, that, that wraps up my tales of being away.
- 57:52SPEAKER_03: Well, that's cool.
- 57:54SPEAKER_03: So we're, we're back here to entertain you all.
- 57:58SPEAKER_03: Yes, we are.
- 57:59So,
- 58:01well,
- 58:01I say we take a break and get into the,
- 58:05uh,
- 58:05get into some tunage.
- 58:07SPEAKER_02: All right.
- 58:08SPEAKER_03: Uh, get into some other stuff here.
- 58:11SPEAKER_03: Um,
- 58:12Of course,
- 58:13the fans have been extremely busy with sending in their
- 58:17requests early.
- 58:18SPEAKER_03: Of course they have.
- 58:19I appreciate that fact that everybody thinks about the show way
- 58:24ahead of the show.
- 58:25SPEAKER_03: Right.
- 58:26SPEAKER_03: You know,
- 58:27SPEAKER_03: that's always kind of funny to me that it's like,
- 58:30SPEAKER_03: so you were thinking about the show days before the show.
- 58:34SPEAKER_03: What am I going to pick for my song this week?
- 58:39But if you want to get a request in and I have time,
- 58:43I will get your request on.
- 58:44SPEAKER_03: Just send it to me.
- 58:45Request at the classic metal show.com request at the classic
- 58:50metal show.com.
- 58:51And if I have time,
- 58:52I will play your request,
- 58:54but first come first serve as it goes.
- 58:56SPEAKER_03: So, so, uh, since, uh, Chris is, uh, first, what should I play?
- 59:02SPEAKER_03: Mr. Mr. Aiken.
- 59:03How about a little hell star,
- 59:06um,
- 59:07run with the pack and no,
- 59:08it is not a,
- 59:09um,
- 59:10bad company cover.
- 59:13SPEAKER_03: It's from the burning star record.
- 59:15SPEAKER_03: All right.
- 59:15SPEAKER_03: Run with the pack.
- 59:17SPEAKER_03: Yep.
- 59:20there it is okay all right all right well we're gonna play a
- 59:23few tunes let chris uh
- 59:25process the video and uh you two get your uh request in and
- 59:31i'll see about uh
- 59:32SPEAKER_03: playing it for you so so here it is it's hellstar with run with the pack
- 59:38SPEAKER_03: exclusively here on your classic metal show
- 59:49Bye.
- 59:49Bye.
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