Latest / Classic Hitz with Hitman / Hitman Talks to Chris Jericho of Fozzy and AEW
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Okay, there we go.
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- 0:17Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right. So they said he's going to be
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- 0:24Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Than a person. Hello. Chris. Good to meet you.
- 3:57Speaker 1: There's Jeff, Chris, Jeff.
- 3:59Speaker 2: I'm going to leave you guys. Nice to meet you guys.
- 4:02Speaker 2: You too, brother. All right.
- 4:11Speaker 1: Are you there, Chris?
- 4:12Speaker 2: I'm here.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Oh, hey, how's it going, dude?
- 4:14Speaker 2: Good morning. Good morning.
- 4:17Speaker 1: How are you today?
- 4:18Speaker 2: Ready to rock. All right.
- 4:20Speaker 1: Well, first off, congratulations on your eighth top 20 hit
- 4:25Speaker 1: now with I Know Evil.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Yeah, man, thank you. It's pretty cool to know that
- 4:32Speaker 2: after 25-odd years that the band has now become essentially
- 4:37Speaker 2: a radio band, which means every single that we release
- 4:41Speaker 2: goes top 10, top 15, top 20, number one on
- 4:46Speaker 2: some of the other charts. So it's kind of what
- 4:49Speaker 2: you have to do these days, because rock radio is
- 4:53Speaker 2: still so important. And you have to establish that your
- 4:56Speaker 2: band is a hit maker, so to speak, which then
- 4:59Speaker 2: opens the doors to whenever you release a single, people
- 5:02Speaker 2: are interested instantly, which is how you get to a
- 5:05Speaker 2: Shinedown level, for example, where you hear every one of
- 5:08Speaker 2: their songs goes to number one. And that's more because
- 5:12Speaker 2: of the repetitiveness of the fact that they keep having
- 5:15Speaker 2: these big hits. So that begets more hits. And it's
- 5:17Speaker 2: kind of been the same with Fozzy. So we're very
- 5:19Speaker 2: excited about that.
- 5:20Speaker 1: And your video actually just went a million views over
- 5:24Speaker 1: on YouTube also.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it might even be more than that.
- 5:27Speaker 2: I haven't checked in a while, but I know it
- 5:29Speaker 2: hit a million fairly early on. So it's probably getting
- 5:32Speaker 2: closer to a million and a half right now, which
- 5:34Speaker 2: also is so important because, you know, in this day
- 5:37Speaker 2: and age, there's so much content and so many places
- 5:40Speaker 2: for people to watch videos and see, you know, um,
- 5:45Speaker 2: content and that sort of thing. So, you know, when
- 5:47Speaker 2: you have that sort of, of reaction for, for your videos, well,
- 5:52Speaker 2: it all, it's all part and parcel, you know, back
- 5:54Speaker 2: in the days we had MTV, now you have YouTube
- 5:58Speaker 2: and you can actually see the numbers that those YouTube
- 6:02Speaker 2: videos are doing. So it's, it's all cool across the
- 6:04Speaker 2: board for sure.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Well, you're been a pretty busy guy. I mean, I
- 6:09Speaker 1: doing my research, checking in on you. I mean, you're
- 6:12Speaker 1: going to be over at nostalgia con over in Houston
- 6:14Speaker 1: pretty soon. And you're going to be doing talk is
- 6:16Speaker 1: Jericho there. Also, you've also got your cruise that's coming up, uh,
- 6:21Speaker 1: that you're, you're still booking people to go to the cruise.
- 6:24Speaker 1: You're also, I did a read, you're also going to
- 6:25Speaker 1: be on the kiss cruise or something.
- 6:29Speaker 2: So, yeah, I mean, the thing that's cool, just kind
- 6:32Speaker 2: of going back to, to what you were saying to
- 6:34Speaker 2: start this, um, you know, I do have a lot
- 6:38Speaker 2: of different jobs, so to speak. And I mean, doing the, the,
- 6:43Speaker 2: the comic cons, the horror cons, the pop culture cons,
- 6:47Speaker 2: whatever you call them. Those are a lot of fun.
- 6:50Speaker 2: Cause you get a chance to actually, you know, beat
- 6:51Speaker 2: the bushes and, and, and meet some of your fans and,
- 6:54Speaker 2: and realize just how much of an effect that my
- 7:00Speaker 2: career has had on them, which is great. I mean,
- 7:03Speaker 2: I'm not saying that from an egotistical standpoint, because that's
- 7:05Speaker 2: the idea was, You know, I was wanting to do something,
- 7:10Speaker 2: you know, exciting with my life. And I've had a
- 7:13Speaker 2: chance to be, you know, a wrestler and in a
- 7:17Speaker 2: band and do these things at a high level. And
- 7:19Speaker 2: then the acting that I've done or the cruises or
- 7:21Speaker 2: the podcasts. And my mission is to just keep people
- 7:24Speaker 2: entertained and give them, you know, cool things to look
- 7:28Speaker 2: forward to in their lives. The same way that my
- 7:31Speaker 2: favorite performers have done that for me, even to this day. So, yeah.
- 7:36Speaker 2: that's kind of a cool place to shake hands and
- 7:38Speaker 2: say hi. And the cruise started when we did the
- 7:43Speaker 2: kiss cruise originally about 10 years ago. Right. And I realized, man,
- 7:48Speaker 2: I can do this. You know, I can put together
- 7:50Speaker 2: a rock and roll cruise, combine it with, with wrestling,
- 7:53Speaker 2: combine it with comedy, combine it with all these different
- 7:56Speaker 2: things that I'm into. And we weren't getting asked to
- 8:00Speaker 2: do any other cruises. So we thought, well, screw it.
- 8:02Speaker 2: We'll just start our own. You know, it's like if
- 8:05Speaker 2: you can't find a table at the party, you start
- 8:07Speaker 2: your own party. And that's kind of what we did.
- 8:09Speaker 2: So here we are getting ready for the seventh cruise
- 8:12Speaker 2: of a seventh cruise. Shout out to Iron Maiden for that.
- 8:17Speaker 2: And it's in six weeks. And, you know, it's a
- 8:20Speaker 2: year and a half of planning, putting it together, figuring
- 8:24Speaker 2: out who's going to be on it, what the events are,
- 8:26Speaker 2: what the schedule is. You know, so it's not easy
- 8:30Speaker 2: to do, but it's one of those things where you
- 8:33Speaker 2: when it comes to a cruise, it's pretty much a unicorn.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Cause there is no other cruises like us. There's no
- 8:38Speaker 2: other cruise that has wrestling at sea. Right. You actually
- 8:41Speaker 2: have the, the, the patent, the trademark on the, on the,
- 8:45Speaker 2: you know, apparatuses that needed to even tie down a
- 8:52Speaker 2: ring to the cruise, you know, to make sure it
- 8:54Speaker 2: won't move, you know, batten it down, batten down the hatches. So,
- 8:59Speaker 2: and the AI, you mentioned the kiss cruise, the last
- 9:01Speaker 2: two that we've done, that they've had or landlocked they're in,
- 9:06Speaker 2: in land. Right. Cause it's not easy to get a boat.
- 9:09Speaker 2: I think Paul and Jean decided they wanted to do
- 9:10Speaker 2: another cruise after a decade of doing them and realize
- 9:14Speaker 2: that you have to, it's like a two year wait to, uh, to,
- 9:18Speaker 2: to reserve a boat, shall we say? So they started
- 9:20Speaker 2: their own kind of on land cruise and my other
- 9:24Speaker 2: band quarantine, which is our non makeup eighties kiss cover band,
- 9:28Speaker 2: lick it up and heavens on fire and X and
- 9:30Speaker 2: sex and those tunes. We got invited to play it
- 9:34Speaker 2: last year to actually open for KISS. And once again,
- 9:37Speaker 2: Paul and Gene personally invited us to do it again
- 9:39Speaker 2: this year. So it's going to be a pretty exciting
- 9:43Speaker 2: fourth quarter of the year with all the different things
- 9:45Speaker 2: that are going on. Yeah.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Also, you got the Odds and Sods tour that's coming
- 9:50Speaker 1: up pretty soon, including performing in Mexico City on December 4th.
- 9:55Speaker 1: I mean, are you excited performing in Mexico City?
- 9:59Speaker 2: Yeah, we call it Odds and sods because we had
- 10:00Speaker 2: one gig a month. We had, we had a state
- 10:03Speaker 2: fair last week. We've got a tailgate party for the
- 10:07Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens this week. Then we've got the Jericho cruise
- 10:10Speaker 2: where Fozzie is always one of the headliners. And then we,
- 10:13Speaker 2: we finish out the year playing our first gig ever
- 10:15Speaker 2: in Mexico city. So yeah, we've been waiting a long
- 10:18Speaker 2: time to, to go to Mexico. and to play there. Um,
- 10:22Speaker 2: you know, I think central America is, is huge for, for,
- 10:26Speaker 2: for rock and roll. It's huge for wrestling as well.
- 10:29Speaker 2: I used to live in Mexico city for, for a
- 10:31Speaker 2: couple of years, you know, in the early nineties. So it's,
- 10:34Speaker 2: it's one of those places that we've had on our
- 10:36Speaker 2: list to play and go to for years now. And
- 10:41Speaker 2: we finally get our chance. And, you know, once again,
- 10:43Speaker 2: when you have, um, a video like I know evil with,
- 10:46Speaker 2: you know, over a million views, A lot of those
- 10:50Speaker 2: views are in South America and central America. They're big
- 10:53Speaker 2: YouTube watchers there because, you know, record labels themselves don't
- 10:58Speaker 2: really exist. I mean, they don't really exist here either,
- 11:00Speaker 2: but you know, there's, there's digital and that sort of
- 11:02Speaker 2: a thing, but I think the actual video, you can
- 11:05Speaker 2: keep track if you know, 157,212 people watch it in Mexico,
- 11:11Speaker 2: you see those exact figures. So it gives us a
- 11:14Speaker 2: little bit more leverage to talk to promoters. and say, look,
- 11:18Speaker 2: here's actual palpable figures that you can see of who's
- 11:23Speaker 2: watching Fozzy in your country. So I think all of
- 11:25Speaker 2: those kind of technological advancements helped us get this very
- 11:30Speaker 2: important first gig in Mexico. And like I said, we're
- 11:33Speaker 2: really looking forward and excited to be playing there.
- 11:35Speaker 1: You know, one of my favorite videos from your band,
- 11:40Speaker 1: you know, I've loved Judas, of course.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Right.
- 11:42Speaker 1: But my favorite video was Sane. You did the whole
- 11:47Speaker 1: video on a roller coaster.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Did that do it? Was that only one take?
- 11:51Speaker 2: I mean, there was a couple, a couple, you know,
- 11:55Speaker 2: quick edits that you didn't notice, but each take was
- 12:01Speaker 2: one take because you, you get on the roller coaster
- 12:03Speaker 2: and you leave the station and you're gone for however,
- 12:07Speaker 2: I think the song we had timed it to whatever,
- 12:11Speaker 2: four minutes, whatever the roller coaster was. Right. Um, And
- 12:16Speaker 2: I think the coaster was a little bit shorter than
- 12:19Speaker 2: the actual song, which is why there's a couple edits
- 12:22Speaker 2: in there. But once you leave the station, you don't stop. Okay, stop,
- 12:24Speaker 2: like you're going. And we did six takes and two
- 12:28Speaker 2: of them were technically dead because one time the music
- 12:32Speaker 2: didn't work, the other time the camera didn't start. Those
- 12:35Speaker 2: are the hardest takes because now you're on this damn
- 12:37Speaker 2: roller coaster and it is the old school physical wooden
- 12:41Speaker 2: roller coaster. So it's very like, shaking shaking and you
- 12:45Speaker 2: gotta hold on and it's like it's not like a
- 12:48Speaker 2: smooth modern one and those were the two hardest takes
- 12:52Speaker 2: because now you're you're feeling a little bit queasy already
- 12:54Speaker 2: because i don't think the human body unless you're some
- 12:57Speaker 2: kind of a weirdo is meant to go on a
- 12:59Speaker 2: roller coaster six times in a row right that's like
- 13:02Speaker 2: a half an hour or 45 minutes of straight roller
- 13:05Speaker 2: coastering right And it was tough. I mean, I think
- 13:09Speaker 2: after the fourth take, one of our guitar players threw
- 13:12Speaker 2: up and he was off. So you can actually watch,
- 13:14Speaker 2: there's a couple scenes where there's only four of us
- 13:17Speaker 2: on the roller coaster instead of five. Um, and after
- 13:20Speaker 2: the six take was done, I was like, I hope
- 13:21Speaker 2: you've got it because we're done. Like I can't, I
- 13:25Speaker 2: I'm going to throw up as well. So we, we,
- 13:27Speaker 2: we got it, but no one's ever done that before,
- 13:30Speaker 2: you know? And, and, and there's a reason for that
- 13:32Speaker 2: because it wasn't easy. And the craziest thing was rich
- 13:35Speaker 2: through a guitar. off of the roller coaster from the
- 13:38Speaker 2: very top of the peak. That was the, you might
- 13:41Speaker 2: as well thought we were going to try and, you know,
- 13:43Speaker 2: dismantle an atomic bomb or something. We had to get
- 13:45Speaker 2: permits and there was cops on the ground and there
- 13:48Speaker 2: was cordoned off area of, of where this Qatar had
- 13:52Speaker 2: to land. And, you know, I guess, cause it is
- 13:54Speaker 2: quite dangerous throwing, you know, a 20 pound piece of
- 13:58Speaker 2: wood off the top of a hundred foot roller coaster,
- 14:01Speaker 2: but there was nobody there. We did it when the,
- 14:02Speaker 2: when the park was closed, but still we permits and,
- 14:07Speaker 2: you know, it, that was as difficult as getting, you know,
- 14:10Speaker 2: as figuring out a way to secure a ring to
- 14:13Speaker 2: a boat deck. Like you would have thought we were building,
- 14:16Speaker 2: you know, a cure for cancer on this ship. There was,
- 14:20Speaker 2: there was, you know, accountants on board and there was,
- 14:24Speaker 2: you know, scientists on board and there was engineers on board.
- 14:28Speaker 2: So it was the same thing. We dropped that guitar
- 14:30Speaker 2: off the top of the, of the roller coaster. So
- 14:32Speaker 2: it turned out awesome. Right. The video was a huge
- 14:34Speaker 2: hit for us, but, I'll, I will never ride a
- 14:38Speaker 2: roller coaster again. I'm done. I think we're all done
- 14:42Speaker 2: with that and happy to have it on film for
- 14:45Speaker 2: the world to see.
- 14:46Speaker 1: Hey, uh, uh, the, the graphic that you, when you
- 14:49Speaker 1: sent out the release of, I know evil, is that
- 14:52Speaker 1: Jacqueline Kennedy on assets on the front?
- 14:56Speaker 2: It's kind of, we were looking for something a little
- 14:58Speaker 2: weird and I found, I think, I think I just
- 15:02Speaker 2: Googled like I know evil or something. And this guy,
- 15:05Speaker 2: came up this kind of ghostly image i i think
- 15:08Speaker 2: it's jackie o but i'm not quite sure it wasn't
- 15:11Speaker 2: listed as that right and she was kind of crying
- 15:14Speaker 2: some blood so i thought well let's add some more
- 15:17Speaker 2: blood and just it's just a very weird image you
- 15:21Speaker 2: know it's kind of like the same way that michael
- 15:25Speaker 2: myers is mask is william shatner's face but it's kind
- 15:28Speaker 2: of not right so it's kind of a jackie o
- 15:32Speaker 2: homage maybe but we made it a little bit more
- 15:34Speaker 2: ghostly and with the crying of the blood it just
- 15:38Speaker 2: it looked a little bit off to me like a
- 15:40Speaker 2: little bit like you'd see it in a conjuring movie
- 15:44Speaker 2: or something in the back like just a flash or
- 15:46Speaker 2: something so it really fit the vibe of what we
- 15:48Speaker 2: were looking for for a different type of cover and
- 15:52Speaker 2: also something that was a little bit evil in the
- 15:55Speaker 2: same way that that a haunted house is evil it's
- 15:57Speaker 2: not in your face but it's very unsettling and weird So.
- 16:01Speaker 1: As busy as you've been, what do you do on
- 16:02Speaker 1: your off time, dude?
- 16:04Speaker 2: Talk to people like you I'm off today. Yeah, man.
- 16:09Speaker 2: I mean, I, I have a pretty good system of
- 16:12Speaker 2: when I work, I'm working and there's a lot to do,
- 16:16Speaker 2: but when I'm home, you know, I've got my office
- 16:19Speaker 2: here and I do an hour, a couple hours of
- 16:20Speaker 2: work a day, but then, you know, after this is done,
- 16:22Speaker 2: I'll go do my cold plunge and I'll go do
- 16:25Speaker 2: my plank and I'll go work out and I'll watch
- 16:27Speaker 2: Monday night football tonight. And we went to the bucks
- 16:29Speaker 2: Vikings game yesterday. And, you know, so all of that stuff,
- 16:33Speaker 2: just normal things, you know, I've got a bunch of
- 16:35Speaker 2: dogs and cats and goats and, you know, whole, a
- 16:39Speaker 2: whole menagerie of animals here. So I have, I have
- 16:43Speaker 2: a fairly normal side as well. Wow. Wow.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Well, I got to ask you this. I saw the
- 16:49Speaker 1: tributes like crazy all over social media. I mean, what
- 16:52Speaker 1: are your thoughts concerning the passing of Benjamin Satterley of PAC?
- 16:56Speaker 1: I just, I'm in shock. My heart goes out to
- 16:59Speaker 1: Marina Shafir. I saw her video just this morning. I
- 17:04Speaker 1: just wanted to know if you have any thoughts.
- 17:08Speaker 2: Still processing it, man. I mean, it's pretty tough to
- 17:12Speaker 2: the point where I almost canceled today, but you know,
- 17:13Speaker 2: the show must go on, but Yeah, I mean, there's
- 17:16Speaker 2: not really much you can say. We don't really know
- 17:18Speaker 2: anything about it, but great guy, great performer, and just
- 17:23Speaker 2: a beautiful person.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was very underrated. One of my favorites,
- 17:29Speaker 1: besides you, of course. You know, I've been a wrestling
- 17:31Speaker 1: fan for years.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Well, once again, you know, when somebody passes like that,
- 17:36Speaker 2: you know, in wrestling or rock and roll or whatever
- 17:39Speaker 2: it may be, you feel like you know them because
- 17:41Speaker 2: they were, you know, in your house on TV every
- 17:45Speaker 2: Monday or every Wednesday, or you watch their videos or
- 17:48Speaker 2: you listen to their music or watch their movies or
- 17:50Speaker 2: whatever it is. And, and I think at the end
- 17:52Speaker 2: of the day, that's something that, that all of us
- 17:56Speaker 2: can kind of, all of us in the entertainment business can,
- 18:00Speaker 2: can take as a compliment that you did connect with
- 18:03Speaker 2: people and make them feel things, you know, and that's
- 18:07Speaker 2: what it's really all about. Like I said earlier about
- 18:09Speaker 2: entertaining the people that appreciate your work and, and, giving
- 18:14Speaker 2: them something to look forward to, you know, on a
- 18:16Speaker 2: weekly basis or whatever it may be. And I think
- 18:20Speaker 2: you can see the reactions with, with Ben's passing or
- 18:22Speaker 2: with Andy Williams a few weeks ago, or Dolly Parton,
- 18:26Speaker 2: you know, we, we never met these people or, you know,
- 18:30Speaker 2: you haven't, or I haven't met some of them, but you,
- 18:32Speaker 2: but you feel that, you know, them, right. And you
- 18:34Speaker 2: feel like a member of your family passed away when
- 18:37Speaker 2: somebody that close to you, you know, leaves us. So,
- 18:41Speaker 2: I think at the end of the day, all of
- 18:42Speaker 2: us who are in kind of the entertainment world would
- 18:45Speaker 2: take that as a great compliment that people had such
- 18:48Speaker 2: great memories of their work and of, of, of the
- 18:50Speaker 2: influence they had on, on, on people's lives. Yeah.
- 18:54Speaker 1: So one last question I thought I would ask you
- 18:56Speaker 1: is your, who's your Mount Rushmore of rock gods.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Great question. Um, and I won't go with rock gods
- 19:06Speaker 2: cause that's a very broad statement. I'll go with maybe
- 19:08Speaker 2: with front men. Okay. that have influenced me. So I,
- 19:13Speaker 2: it's Mick Jagger is on there. Okay. Bruce Dickinson, Paul Stanley, um, Ozzy. Yeah.
- 19:23Speaker 2: Those are the four that have influenced me the most, um,
- 19:27Speaker 2: as a singer and as an entertainer. And, and I
- 19:29Speaker 2: think you could probably, you could put some other people
- 19:32Speaker 2: on there, but you can't go wrong with those four.
- 19:34Speaker 2: That's pretty high up. Yeah. Yeah.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Well, I, Always been a fan of yours for years, dude,
- 19:40Speaker 1: ever since you even came out with Fozzy. And every
- 19:43Speaker 1: time your songs come out, they always ask me, hey,
- 19:46Speaker 1: you got a new one from Fozzy. I literally add
- 19:49Speaker 1: it like within. days as soon as you bring it
- 19:52Speaker 1: out yeah so whenever you come to Corpus Christi Texas
- 19:56Speaker 1: You you've got a place here every time, dude, you know,
- 19:58Speaker 1: you'll be welcome with open arms and love you to death, dude.
- 20:02Speaker 1: You're a great guy and great performer and everything. I
- 20:06Speaker 1: love you in the movies. I love you on stage.
- 20:08Speaker 1: I love the video of, I know you've all the
- 20:10Speaker 1: concert footage on there. I thought that was kind of
- 20:12Speaker 1: great too.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah. That turned out great. And we had
- 20:15Speaker 2: a good tour with a lot of big shows. So
- 20:16Speaker 2: it was fun to put that together as well, but
- 20:18Speaker 2: I appreciate it, Jeff. Like I said, it's, it's stations like,
- 20:22Speaker 2: like you guys that have made Fozzy even bigger and,
- 20:25Speaker 2: And rock radio, like I mentioned, I didn't realize how
- 20:29Speaker 2: important rock radio still is until we started getting played
- 20:32Speaker 2: on rock radio. And it really is the backbone of
- 20:36Speaker 2: a band like ours and of the whole scene. So
- 20:38Speaker 2: thanks to you guys for still flying the flag and
- 20:41Speaker 2: for supporting Fozzy.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, you guys are core artists here. Every time
- 20:46Speaker 1: somebody brings up your name, I'm like, okay, done. I
- 20:48Speaker 1: don't even have to hear the song. All I got
- 20:49Speaker 1: to do is, it's Fozzy, done.
- 20:51Speaker 2: It's done. It's awesome. So thank you, Jeff. I appreciate it, man.
- 20:54Speaker 2: We'll talk to you soon. Hopefully we will. Guys, just
- 20:56Speaker 2: wanted to congratulate you real quick. We hit top 15
- 20:59Speaker 2: on billboard that will come out tomorrow. There you go.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Breaking news.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:05Speaker 2: Gentlemen. So thank you. Thank you guys. Thanks, Jeff.
- 21:08Speaker 1: All right, man.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Have a good day. You have a good one. Thanks, man.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Take care.