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Happy Thanksgiving 2023 · The Chris and Mike Show

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  Hey, everybody. This is Mike.
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  And since Chris isn't here this week, I guess Mike is going to
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  interview Mike. It should be interesting.
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  No, seriously, I just wanted to get on here and wish everybody a
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  happy Thanksgiving and say that we are thankful that you've been
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  listening and following us on Spotify.
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  If you haven't done that, click the follow button and
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  subscribing, sharing it with the social medias and all the things
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  that you guys have been doing to help us out.
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  We truly appreciate it. This is something that I have
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  wanted to do for a very long time and never really knew how
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  to do it by myself and didn't put two and two together with
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  Chris until he called me up and wanted to do some music.
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  And I traded writing him music, which I still owe him for doing
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  this podcast. I know he joked a couple
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  podcasts ago that he forced me to do this.
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  I actually asked him to do it in all seriousness and fairness to
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  him, so I I'm thankful that he wanted to do it.
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  He didn't even bat an eye. So him and I have always worked
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  well together and we have a lot of fun and there's times where
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  we would get in super deep conversations about a subject
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  that we were at odds with but somehow never came to a
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  disagreement violently. You know, nobody ever raised
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  their voice or I just really admire somebody that I can have
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  those deep conversations with. And I guess that's the point of
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  the podcast is just to be able to have a long form discussion
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  with somebody that has lived an interesting life in whatever
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  capacity. You know, I started getting into
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  long form talk radio in the 80s. My Grammy listened to Art Bell.
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  He hosted a show called Coast to Coast AM, which became the
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  largest syndicated overnight radio show in the history of the
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  world. I believe he went well into the
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  2000s and had a show on SiriusXM, but I digress.
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  Anyway, that's what I'm looking for is just those serious
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  discussions where you take a subject and break it down to the
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  root, you know? Things that I've become obsessed
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  with. I just want to figure out how
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  they work, you know? Like when I went to my first
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  concert and saw the lights and the smoke and the costumes and
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  the volume and the cool guitars, I wanted to do that myself.
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  So in order to make that happen, you have to figure out how it
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  works. So I started picking the brains
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  of all the people that were involved in that business in
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  whatever capacity. So starting out, I've found a
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  good guitar teacher and he taught me that side of it and
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  how amps and guitars and strings and cables and everything makes,
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  you know, even if it's the slightest bit of difference.
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  So you figure out that and then you figure out how to perform
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  with other people and put a band together and practice, and then
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  you have to figure out how to book gigs.
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  And that's fun all by itself because you get told no
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  constantly, no, no, no. Especially as an original band,
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  nobody really wants to give you a chance.
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  So getting your foot in the door that way and having the
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  connections and the networking and just all that stuff was
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  fascinating to me. So just that one subject I broke
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  down to its root to the point where, you know, I was playing
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  professionally and we were open international acts and playing
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  on the big stages in front of the big crowds and it was
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  amazing. So I admire anybody that puts in
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  that kind of time and those are the kind of conversations that
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  I'm looking to have. So I guess that's the target
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  audience and the point of the podcast is just to have deep
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  conversations about subjects that either I'm interested in or
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  subjects that I'm competent in, like music.
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  Being a guitar player. I've been a recording engineer,
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  I've built studios, I've run live sound.
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  So Chris has been a performing actor on stage.
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  As an actor and as a musician, we both obviously shared the
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  stage in a band capacity. So we'll be talking on those
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  subjects. And then we actually just booked
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  our first guest week before last and well, he confirmed we
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  haven't booked him. He's waiting on us.
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  I want to make sure that I have this, you know, figured out to
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  the point where we don't cause him any inconvenience being on
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  here. I think everybody's going to
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  enjoy it. I'm super excited about it.
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  This person's been in the music business for 40 years,
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  professionally, give or take. Maybe more, maybe less.
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  Somewhere right around there. And as soon as we get a date
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  ironed out, I will announce who it is.
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  It's probably not somebody that's going to be a household
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  name, but he was a behind the scenes guy for years as a front
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  of house sound engineer. He was also a recording
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  engineer. We'll let him dissect all the
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  functions he's played in the music business, but I think
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  you'll enjoy your stories. I've really enjoyed them when I
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  got to hear them for the first time.
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  So we were honored that he said yes, and looking forward to
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  doing that interview coming up probably within the next few
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  weeks, I would imagine. And then, you know, Chris and I
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  don't make a mystery out of the fact that both of us are
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  recovering addicts. So we definitely want to offer
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  people some kind of hope and let you know some of the horror
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  stories of how we got there. And the flip side of it of you
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  know, how you got out of it, how you stay out of it, finding
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  positive affirmations to let you know you're going to make it
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  through another day some days. So it's a constant.
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  It's a constant reminding yourself that you're no longer
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  there. That's not going to help you,
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  that kind of thing. So we definitely want to unpack
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  what got us there, what got us out of it, what keeps us out of
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  it, what to do if you know somebody that's in that
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  position. That's important to me as that
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  people understand that A, it's not their fault and B, that that
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  person's sick and and sometimes there's just nothing you can do
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  until they want to help themselves.
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  So we'll go down that road as well-being as we've both been
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  there. So I don't want to end on a
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  downer. It was supposed to be a
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  Thanksgiving message, right. So anyway, happy Thanksgiving to
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  everybody and once again we thank you for your support.
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  The outpouring of love for this podcast has been amazing and
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  more than I expected. And I'm humbled and honored that
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  people have been listening and are interested in listening.
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  And it's a blast for us to do. Probably more so Chris than
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  myself at the moment, just because this is way outside my
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  comfort zone. So I'm getting there.
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  Just getting on here and doing this by myself is proof enough,
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  I guess. I've come a long way.
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  So Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
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  And we will be back a week from today with a brand new episode
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  with the both of us, and we look forward to bringing that to you
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  then. Until then, everybody be safe,
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  be kind to each other and talk to you soon.
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  Peace.