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Why Did VH1 Call This Show “That Metal Show”? (2015 Archive) · Classic Metal Show

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SPEAKER_00: Hello, this is Andrea from Lacuna Coil, and you're watching CMS TV.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah!
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SPEAKER_00: It is the Classic Metal Show right here on theclassicmetalshow.com.
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SPEAKER_00: That's Black Sabbath featuring Ronnie James Dio and that of course is Lady Evil.
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SPEAKER_00: And Chris, I know this guy that we got on the phone.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a big Black Sabbath Dio fan.
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SPEAKER_00: You've heard him talk about him before, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Every Monday on MXM, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, we want to welcome back to the Classic Metal Show the one
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SPEAKER_00: and only radio DJ extraordinaire, Eddie Trunk.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to the Classic Metal Show, Eddie.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey, guys.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks for having me.
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SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it.
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SPEAKER_01: I am definitely a big Dio Sabbath fan.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing against the Ozzy era.
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SPEAKER_01: I love that as well.
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SPEAKER_01: But the Dio era is when I discovered the band, and I love what they're doing now.
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SPEAKER_01: I can't wait for the new record,
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SPEAKER_01: actually, because I love those three new tracks they did on The Greatest Hits.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, see, Eddie, that just proves that I listen to your show.
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SPEAKER_00: It does.
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SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that.
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SPEAKER_01: It absolutely does.
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SPEAKER_01: And, you know,
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SPEAKER_01: it's funny because on the TV show that I have coming up,
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SPEAKER_01: which I know we're going to talk about,
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SPEAKER_01: we have a debate segment with the audience,
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SPEAKER_01: and one of the debates in the TV show,
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SPEAKER_01: in one of the episodes,
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SPEAKER_01: is Sabbath with Dio versus Sabbath with Ozzy,
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SPEAKER_01: and we get into it on the set a little bit on that,
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SPEAKER_01: so it's actually one of our debate topics on this new VH1 Classic show I'm doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Well, Andy, the name of the show is That Metal Show, correct?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess kind of after that 70s show.
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SPEAKER_01: It was actually not our idea for the name of the show.
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SPEAKER_01: It was the executives, but we're getting more comfortable with it.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, look at you already apologizing for a lame name.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, it's just funny.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you, it's really funny what happened with that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's funny you bring that up because One of the most difficult things we had
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SPEAKER_01: when this show got up and running was to try to figure out what it was going
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SPEAKER_01: to be called.
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SPEAKER_01: It became this big issue between myself and my two co-hosts and the network.
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SPEAKER_01: We all submitted about 15 names,
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SPEAKER_01: and the one name that was on one of the lists that we all said, well,
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SPEAKER_01: we can live with any of these names except for that one,
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SPEAKER_01: and what do you know, that was the one they ended up using.
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SPEAKER_01: So we are all getting warmed up to it.
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SPEAKER_01: I guess it's kind of in the spirit of like that 70s show.
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SPEAKER_01: And hey, look,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: when you're trying to do a show with the network and if that's one of
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SPEAKER_01: the sticking points to get it on the air, you go with what they want to do.
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SPEAKER_01: I actually personally didn't I don't want the show to even have the word metal in
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SPEAKER_01: the title,
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SPEAKER_01: only because I wanted to be able to have the diversity to go a little bit more wider
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SPEAKER_01: in scope.
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SPEAKER_01: And quite honestly, I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: I think what happens is, and,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: that's why on my radio show I always say hard rock and metal,
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SPEAKER_01: because I think there's a very distinct difference between the two,
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SPEAKER_01: and ultimately what you have is you have a guy like,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know,
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SPEAKER_01: Bret Michaels,
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SPEAKER_01: who's a really great But,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: you have them on something called a metal show,
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SPEAKER_01: and needless to say,
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SPEAKER_01: there's going to be some backlash from the real metal community.
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SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to kind of guard against that,
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SPEAKER_01: but another thing that VH1 told us in their studies was that
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SPEAKER_01: when any time anything had the word metal in it,
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SPEAKER_01: it had a better audience reaction and rating than when it was just called rock
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SPEAKER_01: or hard rock.
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SPEAKER_01: So, again,
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SPEAKER_01: we deferred to the experts there and went with their wisdom,
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SPEAKER_01: and within the context of the TV show,
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SPEAKER_01: we tell people that So it is,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, it's called that metal show, but it is the best of hard rock and metal.
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SPEAKER_03: Sure.
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SPEAKER_03: Now, Eddie,
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SPEAKER_03: will the show be featuring primarily the quote unquote classics or will you go
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SPEAKER_03: into like your kill switch engage and newer type stuff or what are you looking
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SPEAKER_03: to do?
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SPEAKER_01: No, it's definitely the classic core artist for a channel like VH1 Classic.
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SPEAKER_01: It's predominantly 70s and 80s hard rock and metal artists.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's very much suited and tailored to the demographic that is VH1 Classic.
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SPEAKER_01: So basically any of the artists that you would see that channel play concerts from
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SPEAKER_01: or see videos from are pretty much fair game to be guests on our show.
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SPEAKER_01: The show does not have any...
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SPEAKER_01: It does not have any videos or music in it for a couple of different reasons.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's strictly a talk interview show.
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SPEAKER_01: And a lot more than that, though, too,
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SPEAKER_01: because there's a comedic element with my two co-hosts being stand-up comics
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SPEAKER_01: and big fans of hard rock and metal as well.
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SPEAKER_01: So they bring that element to it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're Jim Florentine and Don Jameson.
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SPEAKER_01: They're two guys that are friends of mine that I brought into this to...
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SPEAKER_01: You know, to kind of bring that element.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're perfect at it.
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SPEAKER_01: And they do some great field segments with people.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's really a lot of fun.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's a mix of a lot of different things.
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SPEAKER_01: But one thing it is not is performance or music or videos.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: So it's almost like a heavy metal roundtable type of a thing, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a good point.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a very good explanation.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you what.
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SPEAKER_01: The top executive at VH1 called the show...
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SPEAKER_01: The view for hard rock and metal fans.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a really interesting dynamic that goes on between all of us
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SPEAKER_01: because we are all friends, and those guys being comics are big-time ball busters.
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SPEAKER_01: I take the brunt of the ball busting,
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SPEAKER_01: but I got a thick skin after doing this for all these years,
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SPEAKER_01: so I can roll with anything, and we have a good time.
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SPEAKER_01: The one question that I don't know,
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SPEAKER_01: we've shot the first season already,
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SPEAKER_01: which is eight episodes,
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SPEAKER_01: And the one thing that I don't know yet,
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SPEAKER_01: which I'm waiting to find out,
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SPEAKER_01: is how this thing gets edited because there's so much involved in
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SPEAKER_01: the editing process.
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SPEAKER_01: We overshot every show.
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SPEAKER_01: When the shows air, they're going to be a half hour long.
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SPEAKER_01: But we shot probably 45 minutes at least in every show.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's really in the editor's hands now from what content they pick and choose
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SPEAKER_01: and how it makes me look and everyone else look because these two comics,
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SPEAKER_01: Don and Jim, they give it to me pretty good at times and I zing them right back.
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SPEAKER_01: Obviously,
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SPEAKER_01: if they don't include my return zings,
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SPEAKER_01: it makes me look like the whipping boy,
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SPEAKER_01: which I'm ready for because I got a feeling that's the way they're going
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SPEAKER_01: to make it go.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's all good.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all in good fun.
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SPEAKER_01: We have fun with the artists.
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SPEAKER_01: We have fun with breaking each other's chops.
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SPEAKER_01: Those guys go out in the field and they do stuff with people at concerts and stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I kind of act as the anchor on the set and host it and do the majority
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SPEAKER_01: the interviews with whatever artists we have on set with us.
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SPEAKER_01: And the other cool thing is there's a live studio audience, too.
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SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot of energy from them also.
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SPEAKER_03: Now, Eddie,
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SPEAKER_03: I remember when you left hosting over at VH1 and hosted Metal Mania and whatnot,
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SPEAKER_03: you know, what,
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SPEAKER_03: a year or so ago,
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SPEAKER_03: and I remember on your website, you weren't really thrilled with it.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean, you didn't come out and bash VH1 or anything,
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SPEAKER_03: but you definitely made it known that you weren't really happy about it.
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SPEAKER_03: You know,
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SPEAKER_03: was it easy to go back to working there again,
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SPEAKER_03: or did you have to get over some feelings,
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SPEAKER_03: or were the people that let the show go initially not even there anymore?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, no, that's a good point.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I never,
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SPEAKER_01: to be honest with you,
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SPEAKER_01: I never had ill feelings at all towards the channel or the network for what happened
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SPEAKER_01: because what happened had nothing to do with me in particular.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was a,
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SPEAKER_01: what happened a couple years ago with what you're referring to was
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SPEAKER_01: a complete clean out of the channel.
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SPEAKER_01: In the sense that there were 35,
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SPEAKER_01: 40 people that worked for that channel exclusively,
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SPEAKER_01: and they were all let go in one day.
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SPEAKER_01: So it was not a reflective thing towards me at all or any host at the time.
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SPEAKER_01: It was just a change in philosophy and an economic issue where I think they looked
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SPEAKER_01: at it,
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SPEAKER_01: the powers that be,
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SPEAKER_01: which are the people that run VH1 proper, and they said, listen, we've got...
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SPEAKER_01: We've got a full-time studio for this channel.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got a couple hosts.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got editors and producers and general managers.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got a lot of people here.
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SPEAKER_01: Granted, we're producing some great original content, but we're also sitting on a vault of...
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SPEAKER_01: Hours of old concerts and things on MTV and VH1 that haven't aired in years
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SPEAKER_01: that we own and things we can acquire
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SPEAKER_01: that they thought would make more compelling programming
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SPEAKER_01: and quite honestly would cost them nothing.
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SPEAKER_01: So it was a complete change in philosophy on what was going to happen to the channel
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SPEAKER_01: as a channel from above.
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SPEAKER_01: And when that came down,
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SPEAKER_01: it was literally one day where they said, okay, thanks,
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SPEAKER_01: but VH1 Classic is going to cease to exist as a channel that creates new things for
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SPEAKER_01: a little while,
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SPEAKER_01: and we're going to reinvent it,
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SPEAKER_01: and we're going to park All the pop-up video and all this other classic programming
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SPEAKER_01: that we own that people haven't seen in a while that's just sitting there
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SPEAKER_01: and we're going to put that on the channel.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's what ended up happening.
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SPEAKER_01: It was never a reflection on me or anyone except for it was just an economic thing and all that.
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SPEAKER_01: And when that went down,
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SPEAKER_01: I actually still did do a couple things with the channel afterwards because...
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SPEAKER_01: When you're a host, you're considered a freelancer.
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SPEAKER_01: So there were a lot of people behind the scenes, though,
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SPEAKER_01: that those were full-time jobs for them with benefits,
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SPEAKER_01: with families and stuff, that they were all let go.
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SPEAKER_01: And some of them have surfaced elsewhere in jobs like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Others are still looking for work.
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SPEAKER_01: So for me, it really stung because...
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SPEAKER_01: I love the channel so much.
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SPEAKER_01: I loved the diversity that I brought to the channel.
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SPEAKER_01: In other words, yes,
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SPEAKER_01: my passion is hard rock and metal,
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SPEAKER_01: but I really like talking to all the other different artists because I know quite
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SPEAKER_01: a bit about that sort of music as well.
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SPEAKER_01: And it was just a job that I thought was, you know, I mean, I did for five years.
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SPEAKER_01: It was really comfortable for me.
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SPEAKER_01: So it hurt when it was gone, but it was not a reflection on me or anyone.
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SPEAKER_01: It was just a change in philosophy about what they were going to do.
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SPEAKER_01: So when that happened, you know, there were a lot of people upset.
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SPEAKER_01: And I should also mention it was not just VH1 Classic.
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SPEAKER_01: They have other, you know, spinoff channels as well, VH1 Soul, things like that.
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SPEAKER_01: And not to as large of a degree,
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SPEAKER_01: because VH1 Classic is by far the biggest of the spinoffs,
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SPEAKER_01: but, you know, there are people that were let go there too.
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SPEAKER_01: So it was really a company-wide thing.
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SPEAKER_01: But I, you know,
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SPEAKER_01: I maintain my relationships with everyone and all the people above that were part
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SPEAKER_01: of this decision.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, I continue to stay in touch with them.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to let it go.
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SPEAKER_01: I felt I still had more to offer to the channel.
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SPEAKER_01: We had had some conversations here and there.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I started pitching this idea and I realized that they wanted something
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SPEAKER_01: that was, they didn't want straight music interviews anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: They didn't want straight hosting of video hours anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: But they wanted something,
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SPEAKER_01: but they wanted it to be a little bit left of center,
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SPEAKER_01: a little bit more fun,
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SPEAKER_01: a little bit more edgy, a little bit more entertaining in their view.
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SPEAKER_01: So I came up with this idea to bring to them,
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SPEAKER_01: which was really born out of,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, the way I pitched it to them was, best damn sports show for music fans.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's what,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: and it went through an evolution and,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: obviously,
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SPEAKER_01: literally over a year's worth of meetings and discussions and pitches
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SPEAKER_01: and Different people drifting in and out of being involved in it,
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SPEAKER_01: and it died for a while,
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SPEAKER_01: and then I brought it back to life,
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SPEAKER_01: and went through,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: it's a chapter in a book alone,
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SPEAKER_01: what I went through to get it to this point,
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SPEAKER_01: and then I introduced them to Don and Jim,
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SPEAKER_01: let them see what they were capable of doing in terms of,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: from the comedic level,
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SPEAKER_01: and a lot of things,
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SPEAKER_01: they had their own line of hidden camera videos, which,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: they'd done a lot of stuff with rock artists anyway,
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SPEAKER_01: so I got them all that material,
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SPEAKER_01: got them to agree to a meeting with those two,
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SPEAKER_01: To show that they would be great partners for me.
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SPEAKER_01: And we went one step at a time.
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SPEAKER_01: And, you know, kind of just chipped away.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm persistent.
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SPEAKER_01: I've always said there's a really fine line in being persistent and being annoying.
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SPEAKER_02: Hello?
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SPEAKER_02: Good afternoon.
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SPEAKER_02: How are you?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm good.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just in the middle of an actual confessional church.
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SPEAKER_02: But I got time.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, you're at church?
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SPEAKER_02: I don't want to bother you.
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SPEAKER_02: No, it's okay.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm not the confessional, but the priest isn't here.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm in here for like 20 minutes, so I got time.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, real quick, this is a mortgage.
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SPEAKER_02: Now, were you looking to pay off debt or make some home improvements?
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SPEAKER_02: Both, actually.
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SPEAKER_02: Man, I haven't been a confessional in years.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't even know how it works anymore.
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SPEAKER_02: Do you?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm a little nervous.
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SPEAKER_02: Confession?
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SPEAKER_02: Excuse me?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Are you asking me if I know?
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just honestly a little stunned.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm Catholic.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't understand.
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SPEAKER_02: Like, that's not okay.
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SPEAKER_02: What's not okay?
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SPEAKER_02: You should probably say something about this in your confession.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_02: Is it a joke to you?
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SPEAKER_02: No, I was asking you if you knew.
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SPEAKER_02: I haven't been here in a while.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm just having a conversation with you.
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SPEAKER_02: Why are you asking me is what I'm...
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SPEAKER_02: I'm confused.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm a little bit taken back.
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SPEAKER_02: You're taken back.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm honestly uncomfortable.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't think you believe in... Maybe you should leave that church.
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SPEAKER_02: No, I'm...
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SPEAKER_02: You're not a good person.
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SPEAKER_02: Why am I not a good person?
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SPEAKER_02: Because I asked you a question?
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SPEAKER_02: I don't like this.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm asking for advice.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm in the confessional right now waiting for the priest.
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SPEAKER_02: That's why I just asked you that question.
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SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_02: It wasn't out of the blue.
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SPEAKER_02: Congratulations.
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SPEAKER_02: You're at a church.
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SPEAKER_02: There's deacons.
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SPEAKER_02: There's everybody around you.
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SPEAKER_02: James, you've got to take care of yourself a little bit better.
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SPEAKER_02: You can't be in a church and talk like that.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, that's why I'm in the confessional.
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SPEAKER_02: I'm trying to get better.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, hello?
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SPEAKER_02: Hi.
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SPEAKER_02: Hi, this is Father Don.
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SPEAKER_02: Do you have any sins you'd like to confess, son?
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SPEAKER_02: Is using a plug a sin?
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SPEAKER_02: You can't be in a church and talk like that.
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SPEAKER_02: Technically, it's not.
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SPEAKER_02: James, God's looking at you right now, and he doesn't like what he sees.
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SPEAKER_02: What if I used it on myself?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have to look that one up.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, Eddie, congratulations on the show and all, but that's not the story I heard.
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SPEAKER_00: I heard that VH1 Classic wanted to keep pace with that juggernaut known
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SPEAKER_00: as Talking Metal on Fuse.
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SPEAKER_00: Is there any truth to that?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not aware of that at all.
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SPEAKER_01: I know the guys who did that show.
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SPEAKER_01: They're both good guys, and I don't know anything about that show or what happened to it.
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SPEAKER_01: I know it was pretty short-lived, but I can tell you, honestly, that my show...
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SPEAKER_01: was in development at VH1 Classic before that show even went on the air.
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SPEAKER_00: Sure, I was only kidding about that, Eddie.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I'm sure, I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: I know those guys,
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SPEAKER_01: and I know that that kind of came and went real quickly,
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SPEAKER_01: and I don't know what went on there, and I don't have any knowledge.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what went on with that situation.
15:22
SPEAKER_01: This thing has been knocking around with me for a long time,
15:25
SPEAKER_01: and it's gone through a lot of stuff before we've got it to this point.
15:29
SPEAKER_01: We shot the pilot back in the summer,
15:32
SPEAKER_01: and we found out about a month after that that we were going to go to a series,
15:35
SPEAKER_01: and we've shot season one,
15:37
SPEAKER_01: and it premieres on November 15th at 11,
15:39
SPEAKER_01: and there will be a new episode every Saturday.
15:42
SPEAKER_01: And we just got greenlit for a second season before the first season even starts
15:47
SPEAKER_01: to air, which is pretty unheard of in TV.
15:50
SPEAKER_01: So they're obviously pretty pumped up about it.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: They've taken out Madden Rolling Stone that's coming out next week,
15:55
SPEAKER_01: putting an ad out, a billboard up on Sunset Boulevard.
15:58
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're really excited about it at the network.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: And I don't get too high or too low.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: I just kind of keep an even keel and wait and see how it all unfolds.
16:05
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, Eddie.
16:06
SPEAKER_00: Well, again, congratulations on that.
16:09
SPEAKER_00: And that's very cool.
16:10
SPEAKER_00: And could you imagine being that you got a Jim Florentine involved,
16:14
SPEAKER_00: which, you know, he's a great comic.
16:17
SPEAKER_00: I really like his comic style.
16:18
SPEAKER_00: But could you imagine if, say,
16:20
SPEAKER_00: like a Sam Kinison were still alive being he was the quote unquote rock
16:25
SPEAKER_00: and roll comedian?
16:26
SPEAKER_00: Could you imagine him being your co-host?
16:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, look, you know, there's a lot of guys that would be great in that role.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: You know,
16:34
SPEAKER_01: surely Kinniston, I mean,
16:35
SPEAKER_01: everybody knows with Wild Thing and all the,
16:37
SPEAKER_01: you know, the great things that he's done with...
16:40
SPEAKER_01: Rock bands and the affiliation there.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: Another guy who is my personal all-time favorite comic is Andrew Dice Clay.
16:48
SPEAKER_01: Dice opened for Guns N' Roses as a stand-up.
16:53
SPEAKER_01: I had Dice on my XM show not too long ago.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: I've gotten to know him a little bit recently because both Don and Jim opened for him a lot.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: I've gotten to know him through those guys.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm a huge Dice fan.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: He's a guy that we'd love to try to get on the show at some point and do a bit with.
17:11
SPEAKER_01: There's a bunch of other comics that are really into rock music.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: This whole TV show and this whole idea of merging comics
17:19
SPEAKER_01: and metal really was born out of my radio show.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: Because I've always had a lot of comics on.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: Jim Brewer has always been on with me.
17:30
SPEAKER_01: Like I said, Florentine and Jameson, Billy Meir, Craig Gass.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's a lot of people out there that,
17:37
SPEAKER_01: if they were big rock fans, would always come and sit in and hang out on my show.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that VH1 really wanted to create
17:43
SPEAKER_01: with this show is they wanted it to be the same spirit of my radio show and
17:48
SPEAKER_01: when these guys came on.
17:50
SPEAKER_01: It is to some degree,
17:51
SPEAKER_01: but the flip side to that and the big,
17:53
SPEAKER_01: big difference is in radio, there's three hours you can really spread out.
17:57
SPEAKER_01: This is a half hour, so it's a lot more quick hitting.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of your radio show, Eddie, there's a guy in Oklahoma City.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: He speaks very highly of you.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you ever listened to the classic metal show at all or
18:15
SPEAKER_00: if you ever tuned us in ever and listened to Chris and I's style and what we do,
18:20
SPEAKER_00: but we're kind of ball busters too.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: We kind of goof on people a little bit, but I guess we drew the ire of this one guy.
18:30
SPEAKER_00: He refers to himself as the Rev.
18:34
SPEAKER_00: And for whatever reason, he feels he can volunteer your time and your radio show to him.
18:41
SPEAKER_00: Would you like to hear him talking about that?
18:44
SPEAKER_01: Wait, I don't follow you.
18:45
SPEAKER_00: He wants to do what?
18:47
SPEAKER_00: He evidently feels comfortable enough to volunteer you,
18:52
SPEAKER_00: your time and your radio show to entertain a debate between the classic metal show
18:59
SPEAKER_00: and himself.
19:01
SPEAKER_01: But what does my radio show have to do with his or yours?
19:03
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's the good question.
19:05
SPEAKER_00: That's our question forever.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: That's what our question is.
19:07
SPEAKER_00: So would you like to hear it?
19:10
SPEAKER_00: Sure.
19:10
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what I'm hearing, but sure.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: Well, take a listen to this.
19:14
SPEAKER_03: Let me give you my cell number.
19:17
SPEAKER_03: 1-405-314-0560.
19:20
SPEAKER_03: I want Eddie Trunk to call me.
19:26
SPEAKER_03: You know what?
19:27
SPEAKER_03: That's the deal.
19:28
SPEAKER_03: There you go.
19:30
SPEAKER_03: That's the deal.
19:31
SPEAKER_03: You get this on Eddie Trunk's show.
19:34
SPEAKER_03: You want me?
19:35
SPEAKER_03: Get me on Eddie Trunk.
19:36
SPEAKER_03: Classic Metal Show vs.
19:38
SPEAKER_03: Dirt Talk on Eddie Trunk.
19:40
SPEAKER_03: There you go.
19:41
SPEAKER_03: How about that?
19:42
SPEAKER_03: What do you think about that, Ray?
19:43
SPEAKER_03: Because I'll bet you a million dollars they can't do it.
19:47
SPEAKER_03: I'll bet you a million dollars they can't do it.
19:49
SPEAKER_03: And I hope they do.
19:50
SPEAKER_03: So we can do deep pants and freaking morons in front of the world.
19:55
SPEAKER_03: What do you think?
19:58
SPEAKER_03: I'm setting myself on the table.
19:59
SPEAKER_03: I'm ready to bring it on.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm ready too.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: So how about that?
20:05
SPEAKER_01: So it sounds like to me he wants my show to host the debate or issues
20:12
SPEAKER_01: between your show and his show?
20:15
SPEAKER_01: That's what he's saying.
20:16
SPEAKER_03: That's it.
20:19
SPEAKER_01: That sounds like you guys, where's the issue based out of between the two of you guys?
20:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well,
20:25
SPEAKER_00: we were just kind of goofing on him a little bit because he's one
20:29
SPEAKER_00: of these real pompous guys that just acts like he knows everything,
20:33
SPEAKER_00: and we called him out on a few things, and so now he's kind of...
20:37
SPEAKER_03: He thinks the place that issues get solved is on the Eddie Trunk Show.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've had my fair share of debates on a lot of things,
20:47
SPEAKER_01: whether it be,
20:48
SPEAKER_01: you know, well, God,
20:50
SPEAKER_01: the list is too long to even get into,
20:51
SPEAKER_01: but I've never debated two people's radio grievances on my show.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm flattered that he thinks that enough of my show that,
21:02
SPEAKER_01: you know,
21:02
SPEAKER_01: it's a place where this would be,
21:05
SPEAKER_01: you know,
21:05
SPEAKER_01: the ultimate place for something like this to be resolved,
21:08
SPEAKER_01: but in all honesty,
21:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if there's enough interest,
21:11
SPEAKER_01: you know, Or awareness with my audience to really do that.
21:16
SPEAKER_03: Eddie, believe me, we're not pitching this to happen.
21:20
SPEAKER_01: It's an interesting concept.
21:21
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you something.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: My biggest issue with what I do in radio is the lack of time that I have.
21:28
SPEAKER_01: I have three hours a week on FM broadcast, terrestrial, whatever you want to call it.
21:34
SPEAKER_01: It's on a dozen cities,
21:35
SPEAKER_01: 13 cities,
21:36
SPEAKER_01: whatever, and we just picked up a station in Phoenix, KDKB, which is a big score.
21:42
SPEAKER_01: But I've got three hours a week there.
21:45
SPEAKER_01: And I've got four hours on satellite radio a week.
21:48
SPEAKER_01: If I had, my dream is to have five nights a week to do what I do on radio.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: And if I had that, I'd have both you guys on tomorrow doing this.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: I think that's great radio.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: I think it would be fun.
22:03
SPEAKER_01: But, I mean,
22:04
SPEAKER_01: my biggest problem is that I'm trying to cram so much into
22:07
SPEAKER_01: a weekly three-hour broadcast,
22:09
SPEAKER_01: you know,
22:10
SPEAKER_01: terrestrial show,
22:10
SPEAKER_01: which is not easy when you consider, again,
22:12
SPEAKER_01: that there's,
22:13
SPEAKER_01: There's commercials and stuff in there,
22:15
SPEAKER_01: but I certainly hope you guys can resolve this in some sort of way at some point.
22:22
SPEAKER_03: I hear you, Eddie.
22:23
SPEAKER_03: Well, Eddie,
22:23
SPEAKER_03: I want to swing it back around to radio because I'm going to start
22:27
SPEAKER_03: by letting you know that I took your recommendation from the XM show at
22:31
SPEAKER_03: the beginning of the year and saw a band that,
22:34
SPEAKER_03: one, I mean, I knew their music, obviously, but I was not a huge fan of.
22:37
SPEAKER_03: But after seeing them, I was like, wow, this band really kicks ass.
22:41
SPEAKER_03: And that was UFO this year, man.
22:43
SPEAKER_03: They just...
22:44
SPEAKER_03: Yeah,
22:44
SPEAKER_03: people thought that I had some sort of vested interest or was getting some sort
22:48
SPEAKER_03: of kickback because I'm such a UFO fan.
22:49
SPEAKER_03: Unfortunately, those guys are in no position to...
23:04
SPEAKER_01: Not that I would ever do that,
23:05
SPEAKER_01: but they're not in a position to take back anyone but themselves,
23:08
SPEAKER_01: because clearly after 40 years,
23:10
SPEAKER_01: they're still trying to make their way and trying to get their own traction
23:15
SPEAKER_01: and pay their own bills.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: Of all the bands I grew up with, their music holds up extremely well to me.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: I just think that it's a shame that they were so unbelievably underrated and underappreciated.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: And I'm happy to hear things like what you just told me and that me screaming
23:33
SPEAKER_01: about them for all this time has kind of made an impact.
23:35
SPEAKER_01: There's been a lot of people that have come to me and said,
23:38
SPEAKER_01: hey, if I'm going to start with UFO, what album do I start with?
23:43
SPEAKER_01: And things like that.
23:44
SPEAKER_01: So I know it's resonating with people.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: Most people that get turned on to it become big fans of the band and
23:53
SPEAKER_01: Next year is their 40th anniversary, and it's good to see.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: A real quick thing about UFO,
23:58
SPEAKER_01: which I don't think I had anything to do with, but was really a cool thing.
24:03
SPEAKER_01: I've never seen the show on Fox,
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Prison Break,
24:06
SPEAKER_01: but someone told me that a UFO song was featured in that TV series last week,
24:12
SPEAKER_01: actually, or a couple weeks ago.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: So I think that's really cool.
24:15
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's some producer at Fox or something that's clearly...
24:18
SPEAKER_01: You know, a UFO fan.
24:19
SPEAKER_01: And then,
24:19
SPEAKER_01: you know,
24:20
SPEAKER_01: Kirk Hammett was in Rolling Stone about a month ago saying that UFO was
24:25
SPEAKER_01: the reason why he picked up a guitar.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: So when stuff like that starts coming out,
24:28
SPEAKER_01: you know,
24:29
SPEAKER_01: it certainly is good to see and good to see people start to get an awareness for
24:35
SPEAKER_01: a band no matter how late in the game it is, you know.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: Where did you see them at?
24:40
SPEAKER_03: Here in Cleveland at a little club called TNGers, which has, it's like a dinner club almost.
24:45
SPEAKER_03: It has like 200 seats.
24:46
SPEAKER_03: It was great.
24:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're just a class band,
24:50
SPEAKER_01: and the sad part about it is,
24:52
SPEAKER_01: unfortunately,
24:53
SPEAKER_01: Pete Wake still can't get into America,
24:56
SPEAKER_01: so Pete is one of the founding members, and I really wish that could get resolved.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: It's been like five years now,
25:03
SPEAKER_01: so I'm hoping,
25:04
SPEAKER_01: like heck,
25:04
SPEAKER_01: that that works itself out at some point,
25:08
SPEAKER_01: and that Pete gets healthy and can get over here,
25:10
SPEAKER_01: because next year being the 40th anniversary,
25:12
SPEAKER_01: it would be awesome if they came out and they did some shows with Not only
25:16
SPEAKER_01: with Pete,
25:16
SPEAKER_01: but maybe,
25:17
SPEAKER_01: you know,
25:17
SPEAKER_01: if Michael Shanker can keep his head on straight,
25:19
SPEAKER_01: and Paul Chapman,
25:21
SPEAKER_01: I was a big fan of the records he made,
25:22
SPEAKER_01: and of course the stuff to do with Vinny is great also.
25:24
SPEAKER_01: So it would be really cool if they could find a way to make that work,
25:28
SPEAKER_01: because I think a lot of people would be pumped up for that.
25:31
SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, man.
25:32
SPEAKER_03: Well, dude,
25:32
SPEAKER_03: obviously,
25:33
SPEAKER_03: you know,
25:34
SPEAKER_03: I'm a fan of your XM show and Neely listens to your XM show as well and is a fan.
25:38
SPEAKER_03: And I'm curious with the merger,
25:40
SPEAKER_03: you know, a lot of things change and a lot of people from XM not around anymore.
25:44
SPEAKER_03: Are you going to get to hang in or what's it look like?
25:46
SPEAKER_03: Or do you know yet?
25:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, that's a developing situation by the hour as we speak right now.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: Sadly, yeah.
25:57
SPEAKER_01: I mean, a byproduct of this merger,
25:58
SPEAKER_01: a lot of people were yelling,
26:00
SPEAKER_01: you know, wanting this merger and for some very obvious reasons.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: But the one thing that I had always feared about the merger is I said, well, the merger happens.
26:09
SPEAKER_01: That's great for the audience.
26:11
SPEAKER_01: And it's great to have, you know, double the amount of people.
26:15
SPEAKER_01: Literally overnight being able to access whatever channels or shows they want.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: But the flip side of that is obviously whenever a merger happens,
26:22
SPEAKER_01: there's a lot of good people that lose jobs.
26:24
SPEAKER_01: And sadly, that's the case.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people on the XM side and a good amount of people from what I understand on
26:31
SPEAKER_01: the serious side as well.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: What's happening is they are in the process now of sooner than later,
26:38
SPEAKER_01: as a matter of fact,
26:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm told maybe in the next week or two,
26:42
SPEAKER_01: All the music channels are going to be merged.
26:44
SPEAKER_01: So basically,
26:45
SPEAKER_01: regardless of if you have Sirius or XM,
26:48
SPEAKER_01: you will get 99% the same exact music channels.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: That means some stuff is going to go on the Sirius side,
26:57
SPEAKER_01: some stuff is probably going to go on the XM side.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: If you have four XM rock channels and four Sirius rock channels, well...
27:07
SPEAKER_01: At the end,
27:07
SPEAKER_01: there will probably be four standing and four may go by the wayside altogether
27:13
SPEAKER_01: because they can't physically take everything from both sides and just put it
27:17
SPEAKER_01: on one platform.
27:18
SPEAKER_01: It can't be done because they don't have the bandwidth.
27:21
SPEAKER_01: They don't have the ability to deliver all of it in the system.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: It gets into technical issues.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: And honestly,
27:27
SPEAKER_01: they need to streamline it a little bit now that it's merged because
27:30
SPEAKER_01: the whole idea is to try to save some money and keep the thing going.
27:35
SPEAKER_01: The good news for me is that...
27:38
SPEAKER_01: I did receive notice that I will be retained and that my show will be a part of
27:42
SPEAKER_01: the new merged system.
27:45
SPEAKER_01: Probably, for me, that means sometime in January of next year.
27:51
SPEAKER_01: But there's still some details being worked out.
27:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure when, because these decisions go way above me.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: When things are going to be merged,
28:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure if some things are going to have to be taken off for a little bit
28:04
SPEAKER_01: and come back on.
28:06
SPEAKER_01: I'm waiting on information on that.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: All I know is that I've been told to keep doing what I do and
28:13
SPEAKER_01: that they definitely want to keep my show and make it part of the merged service,
28:20
SPEAKER_01: which I'm obviously grateful for.
28:23
SPEAKER_01: What I tried to do there and what I tried to do with that show is do something
28:27
SPEAKER_01: a little bit different I just really wanted to create some sort
28:29
SPEAKER_01: of interactive programming and do what I do,
28:31
SPEAKER_01: which is really a hybrid of talk about music and playing the music.
28:34
SPEAKER_01: I think because of that, people who are into the show, it's become like a destination.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: So I think that's one of the things that
28:55
SPEAKER_01: Has helped,
28:56
SPEAKER_01: you know,
28:56
SPEAKER_01: the support from people and has helped them reach the conclusion
29:00
SPEAKER_01: that I should be part of this going forward.
29:02
SPEAKER_01: So, grateful to the audience.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm happy that, you know, this new merged Sirius XM is going to be a part of it.
29:09
SPEAKER_01: And it is going to be cool because there's, you know, XM has about 9 million subscribers.
29:14
SPEAKER_01: Sirius has about 8 million.
29:16
SPEAKER_01: And when this merger is done on the...
29:19
SPEAKER_01: On the radio side,
29:21
SPEAKER_01: I will now be accessible to another 8 million people literally overnight
29:25
SPEAKER_01: at some point in the next month or two.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: So that's exciting to me and I'm looking forward to connecting to those people
29:31
SPEAKER_01: because there's been a lot of people on the serious side that have said to me, man,
29:34
SPEAKER_01: we'd love to be able to get your show and we all buy two different radios and all
29:37
SPEAKER_01: that.
29:38
SPEAKER_01: So I hope it's a good thing for everybody and hopefully a good thing for
29:42
SPEAKER_01: the company too because at the end of the day,
29:45
SPEAKER_01: this technology's really got to keep building and people really have to kind
29:48
SPEAKER_01: of You know,
29:50
SPEAKER_01: get into this evolution of satellite radio because it needs to continue to grow
29:56
SPEAKER_01: and become something people are interested in.
29:58
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, I see one of your compadres over there,
30:36
SPEAKER_00: Dee Schneider,
30:36
SPEAKER_00: has his doubts about that and feels that satellite radio will go by
30:41
SPEAKER_00: the wayside fairly soon as well.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: I saw Dee's comments about that recently.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: I've known Dee for a really long time,
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SPEAKER_01: and I respect Dee tremendously because he is a total straight shooter,
30:53
SPEAKER_01: even at his own expense and peril sometimes.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: He completely speaks from the heart.
30:59
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't pull punches on anything, and I have a lot of respect for people that do that.
31:05
SPEAKER_01: I don't necessarily agree with everything he said.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: In that little article that I read.
31:11
SPEAKER_01: But look, you know, it's an interesting situation.
31:14
SPEAKER_01: I mean, what Dee is doing on the serious side is,
31:16
SPEAKER_01: I believe he does a show on Fangoria,
31:20
SPEAKER_01: which is, you know, like a horror movie talk show or something.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: So the beauty of satellite radio is that just that,
31:27
SPEAKER_01: that you can have Dee Snider doing,
31:29
SPEAKER_01: and have something called the Fangoria Channel,
31:32
SPEAKER_01: that you can have a show like mine,
31:35
SPEAKER_01: And for four hours playing music and having,
31:38
SPEAKER_01: you know,
31:38
SPEAKER_01: last night had Randy Jackson in from Zebra talking politics on Led Zeppelin.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, or Yngwie Malmsteen talking about politics and stuff like we did last night.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, that's the coolest, that's what's so cool about Satellite.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that to me is the most compelling thing,
31:54
SPEAKER_01: much more so than the fact that you can hear song after song on any sort
31:58
SPEAKER_01: of formatted music channel.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
32:01
SPEAKER_01: But look,
32:01
SPEAKER_01: you know,
32:02
SPEAKER_01: Dee's not saying anything that anyone doesn't know that follows the market
32:06
SPEAKER_01: and industry and business,
32:08
SPEAKER_01: and that is the fact that, you know, the company needs a kick.
32:12
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know,
32:13
SPEAKER_01: they're trying to really make this thing work,
32:15
SPEAKER_01: and anybody that follows stock prices and things like that know that it's not
32:19
SPEAKER_01: without its challenges.
32:20
SPEAKER_01: And there's also challenges from the technical standpoint.
32:23
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, it's not a cheap proposition to run.
32:26
SPEAKER_01: You're talking about satellites orbiting the Earth,
32:29
SPEAKER_01: you're talking about New satellites that have to go up when the other ones burn out.
32:33
SPEAKER_01: I mean, stuff that's just mind-boggling from a, you know, space age type thing.
32:38
SPEAKER_01: It's crazy.
32:39
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, nothing's cheap.
32:41
SPEAKER_01: The thing's got to prosper,
32:44
SPEAKER_01: you know, and I think that the merger will help, but I don't have a crystal ball.
32:48
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it's, you know, if it's going to go one way or the other.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: But, you know,
32:52
SPEAKER_01: there's a lot of frustration with some people at Satellite because you'll hear from
32:56
SPEAKER_01: a lot of people that,
32:57
SPEAKER_01: you know,
32:58
SPEAKER_01: Make tremendous amounts of money in satellite radio that have these blockbuster,
33:02
SPEAKER_01: unbelievable contracts for people like Howard Stern or Oprah Winfrey
33:07
SPEAKER_01: or Martha Stewart.
33:08
SPEAKER_01: But for every one of those,
33:09
SPEAKER_01: there's a lot of people that get paid peanuts or a lot of people that,
33:14
SPEAKER_01: quite honestly, don't get paid at all.
33:17
SPEAKER_01: And they're doing it because they want to be on radio and make these connections.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's a pretty polarizing situation with people that work in satellite.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: I kind of slot in somewhere in the middle.
33:30
SPEAKER_01: If I had my druthers, I mean, sure, I'd be making more money, and I would be on more.
33:35
SPEAKER_01: I'd love to do, and people have said for years, hey, man, you should just do your show.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: Why do you do it just Monday?
33:42
SPEAKER_01: I'd love for you to do it Monday to Friday.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: And the answer is, so would I, but that's not my decision.
33:48
SPEAKER_01: People tell me all that.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: It's funny, I hear from people all the time on the FM stations I'm on.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: Dude, why don't you want to do more shows?
33:55
SPEAKER_01: You should be on more.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: It's not my call.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: You know, the program directors have to want it, and of course they need to be paid.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: The XM situation is interesting.
34:05
SPEAKER_01: They would love for me to do it.
34:06
SPEAKER_01: And I could do it tomorrow, but there's no money.
34:09
SPEAKER_01: They wouldn't pay me anything.
34:10
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, if I was a kid looking to break into radio, that would be one thing.
34:14
SPEAKER_01: But, you know,
34:15
SPEAKER_01: I've got 25 years under my belt here,
34:17
SPEAKER_01: and I do have mouths to feed and a family to support.
34:21
SPEAKER_01: I did my work for free 25 years ago.
34:24
SPEAKER_01: And, man, I worked for five years at a radio station without getting paid a penny.
34:27
SPEAKER_01: So I put my time in,
34:29
SPEAKER_01: and I think I've built a little something with this audience and in this world.
34:33
SPEAKER_01: And, you know, my days of working for nothing are not going to happen.
34:37
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, that's a matter of principle for me at this point.
34:41
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, I'd love to do more.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: And maybe if the situation presents itself going forward with this merger,
34:49
SPEAKER_01: I'd be the first in line.
34:50
SPEAKER_01: But for now...
34:52
SPEAKER_01: At least on the satellite side,
34:54
SPEAKER_01: things should remain pretty much unchanged with my show as far as where it's at.
34:57
SPEAKER_01: The only big change would be the positive that a lot more people will be able to hear it.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, Eddie.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: Well, good.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: Well, there you go.
35:04
SPEAKER_00: Eddie Trunk on satellite,
35:06
SPEAKER_00: Eddie Trunk on terrestrial,
35:08
SPEAKER_00: Eddie Trunk back on VH1 Classic with the new show,
35:11
SPEAKER_00: The Metal Show or That Metal Show.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: And when does that air, Eddie?
35:15
SPEAKER_01: When can people watch that?
35:17
SPEAKER_01: The show premieres on November 15th at 11 o'clock Eastern and Pacific,
35:24
SPEAKER_01: and then you do the conversion from there if you're not Eastern and Pacific.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: So that's a Saturday night at 11,
35:31
SPEAKER_01: and there will be a new episode every Saturday night after,
35:34
SPEAKER_01: you know, from there on out.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: There will be replays throughout the week, no doubt.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know what the schedule for that is.
35:40
SPEAKER_01: But the show premieres on the 15th of November,
35:43
SPEAKER_01: and then the new one will run every Saturday at 11.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: It's a half-hour show,
35:48
SPEAKER_01: and the first show that everyone will see on the 15th was actually the pilot
35:52
SPEAKER_01: that got us picked up.
35:54
SPEAKER_01: And Lita Ford is the guest, and...
35:58
SPEAKER_01: It's interesting because when you guys see the first show and then when we go to
36:02
SPEAKER_01: the next week and the second show, you'll see a pretty big difference.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: The difference being that we changed some stuff.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: The first show is exactly that, a pilot, a test show, a test run.
36:14
SPEAKER_01: It's going to seem a little dated because it was shot in the summer
36:17
SPEAKER_01: and there's some things in it that I think one of the things we discuss is if
36:20
SPEAKER_01: the new Guns N' Roses record will ever come out.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: Clearly we know it's going to now.
36:25
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, at the time we taped it, we obviously didn't.
36:28
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it's going to be, you know, it's a kind of a good introduction to the show.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: But what the show truly becomes is starts with season two, because that's when we go to series.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: And there's some things in the first show that we don't do again the rest of the way
36:44
SPEAKER_01: that we didn't feel worked that well.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: So you can kind of see the evolution of it as it airs.
36:49
SPEAKER_01: And we're going to start shooting season two in February of next year.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: So there shouldn't be a lot of downtime between the two seasons when they run.
36:57
SPEAKER_01: And in season one,
37:00
SPEAKER_01: in addition to Lita,
37:01
SPEAKER_01: we had Rush,
37:03
SPEAKER_01: Getty and Alex flew in from Canada just to do the show, which I was so honored by.
37:07
SPEAKER_01: Ace Freely is in an episode.
37:10
SPEAKER_01: Baseball star Mike Piazza is in an episode.
37:13
SPEAKER_01: Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater, Yngwie Malmsteen.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: ACDC, Angus and Brian.
37:21
SPEAKER_01: So we have a good mix of guests in the first, and Twisted, J and D, do an episode as well.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: So we have a good mix of people, and it's a lot of fun.
37:29
SPEAKER_01: I think people are,
37:30
SPEAKER_01: from people who have seen it,
37:32
SPEAKER_01: that were in the audience,
37:33
SPEAKER_01: people that are in the crew, I mean, they've all been raving about it.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: Again, I've been in this game too long to get too high or too low,
37:40
SPEAKER_01: but I'm appreciative of what people are saying about it who have checked it out.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, Eddie.
37:45
SPEAKER_00: All right, well,
37:45
SPEAKER_00: go check out Eddie Trunk on his new VH1 Classic show,
37:50
SPEAKER_00: That Metal Show,
37:50
SPEAKER_00: premieres November 15th, 11 p.m.
37:53
SPEAKER_00: Eastern Time in Pacific, and listen to him on his show on XM Radio on the Bone.
37:59
SPEAKER_00: That show is actually called Eddie Trunk Rocks is the generic name for
38:01
SPEAKER_00: because it originates in New York off of Q104 on Friday nights at 11 and
38:05
SPEAKER_00: then it's rebroadcast on the affiliate stations the next week.
38:21
SPEAKER_01: Whatever days and times they want.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: So in New York, they call it Friday Night Rocks because it's on on a Friday, obviously.
38:26
SPEAKER_01: But it doesn't air on Fridays everywhere else.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: So it's a little bit more of a generic name elsewhere.
38:32
SPEAKER_01: But really, the best thing to do is that people just go to my site, which is eddytrunk.com.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: We've redesigned that site.
38:39
SPEAKER_01: We've upgraded it so much with video.
38:44
SPEAKER_01: It's still evolving,
38:45
SPEAKER_01: but a new company has taken over the website,
38:48
SPEAKER_01: and there's just so much new content that we're doing and so many new things
38:52
SPEAKER_01: that are coming there that people who haven't seen my site in a while will,
38:56
SPEAKER_01: I think, really like.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: There's a ton of free content.
38:59
SPEAKER_01: There's podcasts.
39:00
SPEAKER_01: There's videos.
39:02
SPEAKER_01: There's a slew of stuff up there, and the complete grid of all the different...
39:07
SPEAKER_01: Ways and places you can hear the show because you can log in online and listen
39:11
SPEAKER_01: to it live if you want from New York.
39:13
SPEAKER_01: You can,
39:13
SPEAKER_01: when the affiliate stations run it,
39:15
SPEAKER_01: if you miss it then, you can log in and hear their stream of it.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: It runs twice a week on knac.com.
39:21
SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot of different places that the show can be accessed
39:24
SPEAKER_01: and you can find out everything up there and you can also email me through that
39:29
SPEAKER_01: and all that.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: And the last thing real quickly on the satellite side,
39:33
SPEAKER_01: when this merger goes down,
39:36
SPEAKER_01: In terms of the channels being merged, there's going to be some changes.
39:40
SPEAKER_01: And like I said, some channels could go away for a little while and then come back.
39:45
SPEAKER_01: When they come back, they could be on different numbers on your service.
39:50
SPEAKER_01: I don't know for a fact.
39:51
SPEAKER_01: I know for a fact Boneyard's going to continue.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: I don't know for a fact if Boneyard's still going to be 41 on the XM side.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: It could be a different number.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: And there's also going to be a number that it is going to be on the serious side as well.
40:04
SPEAKER_01: So there is some transition that's going to go down between here and the end of the year.
40:08
SPEAKER_01: And I don't have all the details yet, but I will post them as I get them on my site.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: So it's another good way for people to just keep up with what's going on in
40:18
SPEAKER_01: the event that The channel's not on for a couple weeks or I'm not on for
40:21
SPEAKER_01: a couple weeks just so people know what really is going on because that's
40:26
SPEAKER_01: a way I can communicate with everybody pretty much unfiltered.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, Eddie.
40:31
SPEAKER_00: Well, again, Eddie,
40:32
SPEAKER_00: congratulations on the new show,
40:34
SPEAKER_00: That Metal Show,
40:35
SPEAKER_00: and we appreciate you taking time to talk to us again on
40:38
SPEAKER_00: the Lowly Classic Metal Show.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: Guys, I appreciate you having me and really thank you.
40:45
SPEAKER_01: We start up Season 2 on the TV show early next year.
40:49
SPEAKER_01: If you guys find yourself in New York when we're doing the taping,
40:52
SPEAKER_01: I'd be happy to have you down to the studio audience or whatever.
40:55
SPEAKER_01: It'd be good to meet you.
40:57
SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully we'll make that happen sometime.
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, we're not worthy.
41:00
SPEAKER_00: We've only been doing this for 13 years.
41:03
SPEAKER_00: So when we get to that 25-year mark like you, maybe we'll take you up on that.
41:07
SPEAKER_01: Well, and I can only hope that if you do,
41:09
SPEAKER_01: that you will have an honor like I did and have a band like Judas Priest play
41:14
SPEAKER_01: a free show for you, a free private show, because...
41:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, rub it in, rub it in.
41:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying it's a rub it in.
41:20
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying it because I can't thank a band like that enough.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: I mean, an honor of honors.
41:25
SPEAKER_01: To have been able to accomplish and have these relationships with these bands
41:31
SPEAKER_01: that I still am a fan of and grew up with,
41:34
SPEAKER_01: and to be able to call them friends and to have a band like Priest willing to do
41:37
SPEAKER_01: that when they played that for me back in August,
41:41
SPEAKER_01: the buzz for that still hasn't worn out.
41:44
SPEAKER_01: I mean, when a band like Judas Priest says to you,
41:46
SPEAKER_01: you know,
41:46
SPEAKER_01: we want to do something for you, I mean,
41:49
SPEAKER_01: There's a ton of bands I worked with over the decades,
41:51
SPEAKER_01: but not a lot of that stature would come up and say something like that.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: I can only hope you guys can get the same sort of honor at some point if you can hit
42:01
SPEAKER_01: that milestone, and I truly hope you do.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: We're all in this together trying to promote this stuff and let people know it's out there.
42:10
SPEAKER_01: At the end of the day, these bands need us and we need them.
42:14
SPEAKER_03: Sure.
42:15
SPEAKER_03: Well, we're close, Eddie.
42:16
SPEAKER_03: We've got London playing for us in the first of the year.
42:20
SPEAKER_03: So we're Judas Priest, London.
42:21
SPEAKER_03: They're about on the same caliber, right?
42:23
SPEAKER_00: Who's left in London now?
42:25
SPEAKER_00: Nader DePriest, Sean Lewis, and Tim Yasui.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know they were still together.
42:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they're back.
42:32
SPEAKER_00: The classic metal show brought them back.
42:35
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
42:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's pretty cool.
42:37
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know,
42:37
SPEAKER_01: it'd be cool if you could have gotten Nikki Sixx to get up there with him, but...
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Well, Nicky's too busy,
42:43
SPEAKER_00: you know,
42:43
SPEAKER_00: banging that tattoo chick now and,
42:46
SPEAKER_00: you know, writing love poems and diaries and stuff.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: Is that what he does now?
42:50
SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: Who's the tattoo chick?
42:52
SPEAKER_00: That Cat Von D on that L.A.
42:55
SPEAKER_00: Ink.
42:56
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
42:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what he does now, so.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, hey, you know, if that's... Good for him if that's what it's about, but...
43:05
SPEAKER_01: You know, he's already got another sideband with 6AM, so why not go do some stuff with London?
43:12
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: It's funny you mention tattoos because,
43:14
SPEAKER_01: and I won't give anything away,
43:15
SPEAKER_01: but there is a moment,
43:17
SPEAKER_01: there is a show in the upcoming VH1 Classic show that focuses on me,
43:22
SPEAKER_01: UFO, and a tattoo.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: And I'll leave it at that, but you guys will see the bit when it unfolds on the show.
43:28
SPEAKER_01: It's...
43:30
SPEAKER_01: It's pretty interesting.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: I'll leave it at that.
43:33
SPEAKER_00: All right, Eddie.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: Well, we appreciate it once again.
43:36
SPEAKER_00: And, Eddie, as always, we let our artists, our guests, pick a closing song.
43:41
SPEAKER_00: So what would you like us to play to take us out of the interview and maybe tell us
43:45
SPEAKER_00: a story about it?
43:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh, boy.
43:50
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'll tell you,
43:51
SPEAKER_01: we mentioned UFO earlier and how I kind of inspired you guys to get into them
43:56
SPEAKER_01: a little bit.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: And since we talked about that, I'm going to go with a UFO song.
44:01
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to go with,
44:03
SPEAKER_01: gun to my head,
44:04
SPEAKER_01: probably not only my favorite UFO song,
44:07
SPEAKER_01: but maybe my favorite or in my top three favorite songs of all time.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: And that would be the live version from Strangers in the Night of Love to Love by UFO.
44:18
SPEAKER_00: Excellent.
44:19
SPEAKER_01: And the reason why I love this so much,
44:21
SPEAKER_01: not only do I love the band,
44:23
SPEAKER_01: but this song in particular to me,
44:26
SPEAKER_01: in a nutshell, shows everything that is great about UFO.
44:30
SPEAKER_01: And that is the unbelievable combination of melody and heaviness,
44:37
SPEAKER_01: where you've got Phil Mogg's voice just unbelievably top form
44:41
SPEAKER_01: and This beautiful melody and keyboard arrangement and then just these jammy right
44:47
SPEAKER_01: in the gut power chords and heaviness and this jam and this guitar solo
44:52
SPEAKER_01: from Shanker.
44:53
SPEAKER_01: It's just in a nutshell everything that's great about UFO
44:57
SPEAKER_01: from what I think is probably my favorite live album of all time.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: That's the one to go with as far as I'm concerned.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: All right.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: Well, once again, we want to thank Eddie Trunk.
45:08
SPEAKER_00: And here it is.
45:09
SPEAKER_00: This is Live UFO exclusively here on your classic metal show.
45:27
SPEAKER_02: I'm a big baseball fan.
45:28
SPEAKER_02: It's always weird when you're watching baseball, especially on TV.
45:31
SPEAKER_02: Between every pitch, they cut to somebody in the crowd watching the game.
45:35
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm already watching the game.
45:36
SPEAKER_02: Why am I looking at somebody else watching the game?
45:40
SPEAKER_02: I'm seeing the same thing.
45:41
SPEAKER_02: That'd be like if you guys were at the game and they cut to me on my couch watching the game.
45:47
SPEAKER_02: You'd be like, who's this asshole?
45:48
SPEAKER_02: Why am I looking at him?
45:51
SPEAKER_02: Imagine if I didn't know the camera was on me.
45:52
SPEAKER_02: I was in the middle of my f***ing, you know?
45:56
SPEAKER_02: You guys have a saving.
45:57
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, wow, this guy must be a really big fan.
45:59
SPEAKER_02: Damn.
46:01
SPEAKER_02: He's jerked off to a double.
46:07
SPEAKER_02: It's like the third inning of a Met game.
46:08
SPEAKER_02: It's nothing, nothing.
46:09
SPEAKER_02: They cut to a woman praying in the crowd.
46:11
SPEAKER_02: It's like, really, ladies, are we doing?
46:13
SPEAKER_02: You're praying for a hit?
46:15
SPEAKER_02: Man, we've got two wars going on.
46:16
SPEAKER_02: Get your priorities straight here with your prayers.
46:18
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, you think God's going to answer those prayers?
46:22
SPEAKER_02: Because she's got the prayer hands up, so she means business.
46:27
SPEAKER_02: Because according to the lore, God's watching everybody at all times, right?
46:30
SPEAKER_02: So he seems like he's pretty busy.
46:31
SPEAKER_02: You know, he's probably got an assistant helping him out.
46:37
SPEAKER_02: You know,
46:37
SPEAKER_02: an assistant goes up to,
46:38
SPEAKER_02: hey, God, I hate to bother you, but there's a woman at the Met game.
46:43
SPEAKER_02: It's not the nothing in the third inning she's bringing for a single, what should I do?
46:47
SPEAKER_02: God be like, are you serious?
46:48
SPEAKER_02: He's like, yeah.
46:49
SPEAKER_02: He's like, you know what, f*** her, give her a flat tire and go away home.
46:51
SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?