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PODCAST: Episode 737 - The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show 6-6-25 · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody, it's your
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boy Kefi. Back again with another ghost.
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coltmag.com weekly ritual, our rock and metal news show
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everywhere on the web. I feel like we are not live on
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the gram. Give me one second.
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No, normally I have this. All good.
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What's going on here? I don't know why IG has shut the
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bed today. Let's see it's making me do it
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over. Thanks for joining.
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I'll dispense with the pleasantries and clackety clacks
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and let's see if I can pop this thing in.
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For some reason it did not work. I had a huge computer crash this
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week and I kind of fucked me for everything.
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Let's see let's edit this huge this IG key.
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Oh there it is. Let's all right one remove and
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then add save the changes. Edit Thanks for being patient.
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It's been a week of technical difficulties.
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My computer shit the bed this week.
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It was brutal. And then we had some problems
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with the site last night, which was unusual because normally it
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runs pretty great. Might not be able to do
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Instagram this week, I'm not sure why there's a glitch.
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But anyway, thanks for being here, I appreciate everybody.
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We will rock'n'roll with the news this week because I got
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shit to do and I'm heading out of town, so let's do this.
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What's up to Dale for joining? Thanks for everybody watching.
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Feel free to jump in the comments.
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As always, I'm here doing the news, goes cultman.com.
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If this is your first time here is your rock, your number one
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source for rock and metal news. Something stupid is here.
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What's up? Yo, Alan is here in the you.
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What's up? It's up.
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Yeah. Just can't seem to get IG to go
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today. I don't know why it will not
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cooperate, but OK, I'm not going to force the issue.
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Here we are. We're doing the damn thing.
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But thanks for being here. As always, let me add this deck
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here and here's here's how we do the show.
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I moved my camera angle this week, so I'm kind of competing a
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little bit with the visuals here we go that's better it's me on
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the side of the camera. Maybe I'll move it around.
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We'll see. It's possible I could move it
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other places too. But thanks for being here, Chef.
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9 Inch Nails is here. So this is our weekly Showtime
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for the announcements. This is how we start.
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We do the announcements, then we go through the big features,
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goes cold Head this week. Then we cover rock and metal
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festivals, concert tour news, all the news and rumors and
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stuff you want to know about that you might have missed this
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week. And then we do a little bit of
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fun for my mailbag. You can see the box behind me on
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the bed and right next to my twin temple stuffy that I like
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very much. Still rocking this thing from a
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couple years ago. Shout out to Twin Temple.
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And then, yeah. And then we rock through the new
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music out this week because you need to know about it.
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And then we say our goodbyes after the mailbag.
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So let's do the thing. Just a reminder, if you want to
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give us a tip, we'll ghost called Magazine is a not
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You can also buy us a coffee on COVID.
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Something stupid with dumb. As to I think Sepultura was only
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Sepultura with Cavallera. Absolutely not.
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No, I love Sepultura. People forget that Igor
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Cavallera continued in Sepultura for 10 years while he and Max
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were not speaking. 10 years, four or five albums and an EP
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that Igor made that he believed in that he still had the
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Sepultura name next to his. So I think the only Cavalera's
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only Sepultura thing is a dumb argument.
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Nothing personal with deaths. I only like the classic that
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blank blank blank. A lot of bands have no original
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members today. A lot of bands have few original
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members and I really appreciate the music.
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The classic Sepultura lineup included Kisser and Paulo.
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And Kisser was by the way not only a huge, not just a lead
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guitarist, he Co wrote half of those albums as well as lyrics,
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a lot of lyrics. So he doesn't get enough credit
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and you know, they've continued to carry the flag, sell albums,
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help Sepultura, continue to sell albums that Max and Igor make
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money from. So I don't really see the
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problem. We had an interview with Derek
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before the pandemic that was quite a long sit down thing.
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I love Max. I've interviewed Max, I've
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interviewed Max actually more than any or other artists like
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10 times in my career, even before Ghost Cult.
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So I'm very close to Max. I have an interview coming up
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with Richie Cavallera. I've interviewed the nephew,
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Igor, Max's son, you know, Zion. I've met and then hung out with
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super cool Zion and Richie on the different bands.
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And I absolutely love Soul Fly and go ahead and die and kill or
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be killed. But I do love the classic
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Sepultura and you know, it's time for them to go do other
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things. And I don't think Sepultura
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should ever reunite the original lineup anyway because honestly,
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they'd have to get along as friends first.
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Nice work, nice work, thanks for sharing.
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I appreciate you already. Some comments in this live were
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filtered to protect the community.
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Thanks to whoever's being a Dick.
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We eat in the comments. Gabe is here from Auntie
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Mosby's. Just a reminder, we are ghost
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cultman.com. Feel free to jump in the
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comments. The best experience for this is
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usually YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, which we're not on
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today, and and obviously YouTube where all our videos live.
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But of course, I like hanging out on TikTok.
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Metalhead is here. And again, thank you for your
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question, Dom. So you can tip us if you want
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You want to pause the screen and Cash App us some money.
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I appreciate it. Tomorrow is Bandcam Friday as we
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record this on Thursday night every week.
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So it's the newest Bandcam Friday.
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How do we feel about Bandcam Friday started in the pandemic.
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Band Camp has got a new owner the last couple of years, Epic
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Games, who created Fortnite. I don't know if band camp is
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still useful, but if you have a band we will be.
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We will be sharing our band camp posts and you're welcome to
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share your links. And I'm a big fan of AMP while
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I'm still trying to check out Band Camp.
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Friday started during the pandemic and Band camp is sort
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of a a lot of bands use it. Originally it was only for
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underground and unsigned bands, but a lot of labels now have a
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band camp. And basically band Camp is an
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alternate streaming platform where bands can communicate with
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their fans directly, sell merchant records to you, and
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skip over streaming things like Spotify and Pandora that do not
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pay. Now, band Camp does take a cut
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and they it's a smaller cut than, you know, normal and you
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would make more of your money from band camp than anywhere
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else depending on local taxes and stuff.
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But I will say on Band Camp Fridays, this started during the
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pandemic. It was band camp's way of giving
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back to the community. So what happens on a band camp
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Friday is they do not take their cut of the money.
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They just give the band whatever you paid them, they get all the
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money. So that's really cool.
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So band camp Fridays coming back?
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Gabe asks, did Soul Fly have one of their members murdered?
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No. But what happened is that in
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between the time when what happened was Sepultura was on
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the final tour with Max and Igor for Roots and Max and Gloria's
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son Dana, Max's stepson. But his son basically he raised
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Dana, was murdered. And that was kind of the
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impetus, sort of one of the reasons Max left Sepultura.
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There were other reasons as well as the beginning of Soul Fly.
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A lot of it had to do with the stuff that Max and Igor talked
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about. The reason Roots has a new metal
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influence is because Dana was a fan of new metal and Max became
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one as a result. Max and Igor loved the new metal
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stuff that Dana showed them, including Korn, and that's why.
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And honestly, once Roots was a huge success because I think
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it's a great album on its own. A lot of other bands started to
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do that. Label started to pressure their
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bands to do that. So, yeah, nice man Louder than
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life. We'll be covering it, Tom.
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I won't be there personally, but we have somebody coming out to
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cover it. And then also.
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Yeah, yeah, it was the whole the the back of the original Soul
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Fly record is a photograph of Dana's hands as I think a young
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child in in Max's. And that's actually how the Soul
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Fly logo came out like this. Like we're angels, right.
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And it's a beautiful story. And you know, they don't.
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It's still very painful for them.
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I'm going to drink a liquid death.
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I've still got the old formula Tall boy liquid death.
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This is a brand new flavor I have never had brand new to me
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Taylor Cola. So this I love seltzer and this
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is sparkling water that tastes like soda.
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I don't know how it's going to be if it sucks.
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I have my little thermos of water.
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Well, it's kind of sweet and it does taste like flat soda, but
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OK, it's not too bad. Yeah, maybe.
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Man, I love KSADI. Think KSAD is really their punk
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record. It's so hardcore punk and great.
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Just a reminder, this is Pride Month and we're going to
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highlight artists from across the spectrum of music and arts
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on this, and I'm going to talk about why in a second.
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You know, I think one of the most important things ever is
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that Rob Halford came out as gay in the early 2000s.
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I think everybody kind of already knew.
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You know, I get questions. People come at me all the time,
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like why isn't, you know, when is it white people's month?
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Why? And is it straight person's day?
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Why is it a why does International Women's Day exist?
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Why is Black History Month to think?
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Why is Juneteenth to think? Because from the dawn of time it
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has been colonialism, colonizers, divine right, white
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privilege, white power, all these racist things and white
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straight people have been in charge of everything from the
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dawn of time. So I'm happy I live in San
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Francisco. I am straight as I like to say
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straight but not narrow. I'm an ally to everybody.
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Rob Halford's incredible. He's literally the patron state
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of metal living on earth. He's incredible.
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What a time to be alive. The Judas Priest is still out
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there kicking ass. So.
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And here's why we still need a pride month, and pride and
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awareness of these issues is because I'll talk about it in
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one second. We had some birthdays this week.
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DMC. Here's a picture of me with DMC
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from run DMC. Tomorrow is Tom Moriah's
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birthday. Terry King's birthday was this
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week. Tomorrow is also the National
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Day of Slayer 666, originally founded on 666.
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Hey, thanks, man. I appreciate you, Gabe.
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You know, you don't have to. We're friends.
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But I appreciate you. Yeah, I'm he.
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Oh, yeah, That's absolutely true.
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Dom and William is here. I am missing my TikTok people,
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my my Instagram people today. But here's this is just a
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fucking terrible story. OK?
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This is why we still need pride month and we need, you know,
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tolerance is the bare minimum of acceptance we need.
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Nobody's lifestyle is changing or stopping you from living
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yours. It's never happened.
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So here's the guy who played, you know, is the voice actor for
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many things, but especially known for John Redcorn from King
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of the Hill. Everybody loves King of the
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hill. John Redcorn was hilarious
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characters and he was murdered in front of his house that was
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burned down by racists and homophobes and died in his, you
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know, husband's arms. And the San Antonio police are
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saying it's not a hate crime and it was just kind of incidental
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that he was shot to death. So this is some bullshit.
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San Antonio is one of the more progressive cities in the state
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of Texas. Holy fuck what a what a terrible
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shame man. Jonathan Joss is the actor and
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he's been in a lot of things, you know, and have seen and you
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enjoy. So you think about that.
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You know, we all have to change our behaviors and there's a
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there's a come to Jesus or come to the Satan moment for
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everybody out there. So yeah, I'm very sad, man, Very
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sad. Anyhow, Pride Month is a good
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thing. Once again, we're trying to
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raise awareness and help for our friend Lisa.
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Man, she had a terrible leg injury.
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She got a long recovery. She's a mice, a maestro of the
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bass guitar and guitar. She's a celebrated Blues artist.
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She's a heavy metal singer for her own project, White Crone, as
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well as Splintered Throne. My favorite thing she ever did
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is this incredible rainbow cover of Stargazer by Dio.
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She's got an incredible voice and we'll link some things in
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the description, including her band camp where you can help.
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Just also for funsies, we're trying to get our favorite dog
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in San Francisco. Sainthood from the sisters or
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perpetual indulgence. Django seen here.
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I'm sorry TikTok, you can't see this photo, but come to YouTube
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and see it. Here's Django with Necro
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Butcher. They were on their way to kill
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Uranimus. Should have killed Barg and
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maybe a few other people in the black metal scene back then.
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But yeah, we're doing a petition for Django.
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If you want to help, sign up. There's no money to give.
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We're just getting signatures to help a dog get sainthood.
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OK, time for the features at Ghost Cult this weekend.
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We had a Gangbuster week the last week since we've been
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together again. Paradise Slaves is the new
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hardcore metal super group and he's a little curious, but my
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partner Omar Cordy interviewed Paradise Slaves, which features
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former members of 36 Crazy Fists and Die Cast.
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These are cool turn of the century metal core and hardcore
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bands and they got a brand new album out and Omar talked to
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them all about it. Also, my interview with Gottard
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finally ran. I've been this is Nick from
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Gottard. We've been working on this for a
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long time, getting this out. Their new record is out now
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they're on tour in Europe, Swedish Hard Rock, heavy metal
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band. And then also Omar once again
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interviewed Diamond and Josh from Tetrarch and it is
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officially Tetrarch. I did not know how it was
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pronounced. It's Tetrarch with the ACH at
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the end is a hard Ki got a very European name, so I should know
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CCHS and CHKS and how that sounds.
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But anyway, also just a reminder, we've got a bunch of
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killer interviews recently across the metal spectrum.
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Steve Von Till, formerly Neurosis, the legendary
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avant-garde artist Jarboe. So many more things.
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We interviewed Max not that long ago.
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I've got interviews coming up with a gang of artists.
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We did kill Switch Engage earlier this year.
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We did Melvin's a second time or third time.
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So you know we've been doing our things.
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Hey, Morgan is here. Morgan, you turned in just in
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time about to talk to you about you.
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This is Ava. Maybe this is going to run
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tomorrow. This Ava maybe is Chad Smith
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from the Red Hot Chili Peppers daughter and she's kind of a a
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rock and R&B singer and pop singer, a kind of amalgam of
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these things. And she's got a new EP out, her
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debut full EP after a gang of singles, like 11 singles in five
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years. She almost won and she made like
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the next to last cut of American Idol.
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And she's the daughter of Chad Smith of the Chili.
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So I interviewed her recently for our podcast It Goes called
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Magazine Podcast. Super fun interaction, super
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cool check, and really what a great artist in the making.
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I'm really interested in watching her career grow.
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And then oh, trigger, trigger failure.
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This is Anna de Rudias of the band De Rudias Morgan who's
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hanging out in here, interviewed her, did AQ and a with her.
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One of the most interesting, artistic and talented
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revolutionary artists of our time.
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Honestly, quite honestly, I'm going to go pick up her book.
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She's got a book, she creates and makes art and she's got one
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of the most bad ass punk bands on the planet.
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You definitely want to check that feature out.
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I will link that in the description as well when I get
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done with this video. What else?
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What else? So again, we have a podcast.
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This show will be a podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Check us out. And because I don't have enough
17:53
to do, I'm also the Co host of the Glacially musical podcast
17:56
Beer Metal and Swearing. We are finishing our series on
17:59
Heart and with the album Dog and Butterfly from 1978.
18:04
It's all right. Check it out though.
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I definitely you want to tune in and listen to us talk about
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craft beer and unbox vinyls and dog each other about stuff Dog
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and butterfly each other, I guess.
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And we have a lot of fun there. So now it's time for the news
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rundown. And as we do every week, we
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start with the metal festivals. We start with metal festivals.
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That's where we begin. So coming up next month, it's
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festival season officially. We've had Maryland Death Fest,
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we had Milwaukee Metal Fest, we had Roadburn.
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We had a bunch of festivals in Europe already starting and a
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few to come. Incarceration Festival, which is
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coming up in July at the jail where they made Shawshank
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Redemption, which is one of my favorite movies, has this
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incredible festival headline by Slipknot.
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And it's also got a tattoo festival and it's got haunted
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tours of the prison and all kinds of awesome stuff.
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And they announced their set times for the entire weekend and
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a few more bands. So I think their final round of
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bands. So that's pretty cool.
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Also also Warp Tour. We told you there was going to
19:10
be new Warp tour work tour DC is next weekend and it is going to
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be streaming live on Amazon Music, which is super exciting
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and I think probably they all will be streaming.
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I'm very interested to see what this does.
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Obviously it's not going to be the same as the old Warped door.
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We're not covering this first one.
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I might go down to LA for the second one for the for the LA
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one, but as of now, I'm just interested to see this is the
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test of how it does mostly sold out.
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So they're doing all right, moving along and Download is
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around the corner and we've been talking about them quite a bit.
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That is headlined by Green Day. So very exciting for that
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festival. Lee, the granddaddy of them all,
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formerly Donnington or Castle Donnington at Castle Donnington
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and now it is Download Festival for the last, I don't know, 20
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something years. Brandon Machado is here.
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Michael Licious is here. Welcome back, Michael Licious.
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Just a reminder, I went to Bottle Rock.
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They have early bird tickets on sale now.
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Bottle Rock was over Memorial Day weekend and that's where I
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interviewed Ava. Maybe there's a picture of me,
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Woo. And I'm excited to find out
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about their lineup next year. We shall see if we, you know,
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probably go cover it again. I might want to travel next year
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and cover some other things. And again, Yep, Vans Warped Tour
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in DC, streaming on Amazon Music, and a reminder that the
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final Maryland Dune Fest is a couple of weeks away.
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Very bummed out about this if it's true.
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And that's really a quick rundown of festivals.
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We'll have more festival coverage next week as we get
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deeper into the season. Hellfest is coming at Dynamo
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this summer and Fire in the Mountains in Wyoming.
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So much stuff, so much stuff. What a time to be alive.
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Iron Maiden kicked off their tour last week.
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We have Iron Maiden, Metallica all touring at the same time as
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like a Black Sabbath farewell show.
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What a crazy time to be alive. But yeah, maidens on tour now.
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We'll be expecting some more Maiden news soon.
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You know, they, they're celebrating their 50th
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anniversary. There's a book coming out, a
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coffee table book, a new documentary about the band.
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Very exciting time for metal fans.
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Again, Metallica tickets went on sale this week for their 2026
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European shows. Hopefully that means they'll be
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announcing some shows in America, probably festivals and
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and again, I I feel like this is the end of the road for
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Metallica. They're really not going to do
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too much going forward. Just my two cents.
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I am not. I'm unsure there's no proof of
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that, but I just don't see how they're going to keep going year
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after year after year. So.
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And then, yeah, there's the Metallica dates running out the
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string. We also had ACDC on tour until
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last week. I mean, what a crazy time that
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week was. So here's the Black Sabbath
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shows, a week from today, the final Black Sabbath show.
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And you know, I got to be honest, like, again, I still
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have a lot of trepidation about it.
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We'll probably do something special as a review.
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I'm sure it'll be live streamed. I'm sure I'll watch it.
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But yeah, I just don't know how I feel about it.
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I think Ozzy is going to play barely any songs, maybe a song
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and a half, two songs, 3 songs from a chair.
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Every band is going to play a couple of songs in a Black
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Sabbath cover. Maybe some other singers will
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come out with Black Sabbath, Tony, Geezer and Bill and they
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will all sing Black Sabbath songs and Ozzy will do, you
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know, Paranoid, Iron Man and War Pigs a little bit.
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And I just don't know. I just don't know how good it'll
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be. OK, moving along.
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Fear of the dark word. I listened to fear of the Dark
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last night. It was pretty great.
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Cale Decapitation has been forced to do unforeseen
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circumstances, which you're going to hear a lot about this.
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Cancel their entire European Tour.
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They were about to leave for. This sucks.
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It's all about money. It's about the increase in visas
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and work visas to come in and out of Europe and Europeans to
23:07
come here. It's about tariffs.
23:09
It's about all these things. If you're a European and you
23:12
love American bands, you're going to have to make do with
23:15
all the bands in Europe. If you are American and your
23:17
favorite metal comes from another continent, be patient.
23:20
It's going to be a while till all these bands can come back.
23:24
Kiko Laurero and Marty Freeman kicked off a Co headlining tour
23:28
across South America and jammed together for the very first
23:32
time. Unbelievable and fantastic.
23:35
They covered an angry song. Kiko and Marty both have
23:38
Megadeth songs in their set. I wouldn't be surprised if they
23:40
go do some Megadeth together at some point too.
23:43
We interviewed Marty not that long ago.
23:46
I would love to interview Kiko about his solo career at some
23:48
point in the in the past in the future.
23:50
I've met him and he's super cool.
23:52
I always seem to meet. I've met Glenn and Sean Drover.
23:56
We've interviewed Chris Broderick when he was in
23:58
Megadeth and in flames. It's kind of funny.
24:01
The last time I interviewed Broderick, he was like, I have
24:03
no comment on Megadeth whatsoever.
24:06
I thought that was hilarious. May the Prince of butt.
24:10
You know, I hope so, man. You know, I I just I know he
24:14
wants to do the show and Sharon is made him a millionaire.
24:17
Obliviator is here. Speed metal.
24:19
Thanks. I'll check your band out.
24:21
Pedro Pascal seems to be here. What's up Zaddy?
24:26
Anyway? So yeah, man, I don't know.
24:28
I just don't know. I don't think it's going to go
24:30
well. I've been hearing all kinds of
24:32
countering things. Also.
24:34
Also, Jesus Lizard is wrapping up their last few dates in
24:38
Europe until later in the year, then they have Japan.
24:42
Stay tuned for some Jesus Lizard coverage from Ghost Cult as well
24:45
as live album from the band. Probably next year.
24:49
So Santa Torres wrapping up with their final few dates this week.
24:52
We will have a review of the show coming soon.
24:56
It's going to be pretty spectacular.
24:57
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25:01
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26:45
and the concert tours and the news and the features.
26:47
And now time for the rest of the news.
26:50
And we're going to rapid fire through this shit because we got
26:53
shit to do. Let's let's blow this up for a
26:55
while and take me off screen. Boom, boom goes the dynamite.
27:01
So check it out. I keep talking about the next
27:05
wave of metal, the new, then the the new guard.
27:10
The guard. The changing of the guard is
27:11
happening now. Black Sabbath and Ozzy will
27:13
never perform again soon. Metallica's winding down.
27:16
Iron Maiden's got a couple of years left.
27:18
They're already starting to lose classic members.
27:21
Who are the next bands? Whether you love them or not,
27:23
Ghost, Sleep, Token and Turnstile are opening things up
27:28
for other bands. You're already seeing a band
27:30
like Knock Loose and other bands follow in the footsteps of a
27:34
turnstile and a scowl. So turnstile was on Fallon.
27:37
They killed it. Their new albums coming out any
27:39
day now. Their documentary is going to
27:41
debut this weekend at Tribeca Film Festival.
27:44
They are blowing up. This dumb photo from last week
27:49
is actually John Rice. He is was in fact on tour within
27:53
flames this week as they started the European festival run and a
27:57
great drummer. You know him from his many many
28:01
bands, formerly of 1,000,000 bands, but he's within flames
28:06
for the summer at least. This is touring drummer.
28:07
Interesting stuff after all these drummers and guitar
28:09
players got the May acts in the last couple of weeks.
28:12
Was just absolutely crazy. Nefarious is this new super
28:18
group of Bay Area and classic thrash metal artist.
28:21
Former and current members of Death Angel, Exodus, Hyrax,
28:26
Kate, Katyn from Hyrax is the singer.
28:28
This is an incredible band. They've got their dropped
28:31
another piece of new music this week with a video.
28:33
They've got their debut show July 19th here in San Francisco.
28:37
Killer band. Great, great band.
28:39
We've talked. We love Katyn and Will Carroll.
28:43
I see Will all the time around town and Rick Renault from
28:47
Exodus is on guitar and also with Die Humane.
28:49
We've had a great couple of interviews with him also.
28:54
Also one of my favorite bands ever and probably one of the
28:56
most underrated bands. Should have been Bigger Failure
28:59
from the mid 90s. Alternative rock and Hard and
29:02
Metal band has a documentary coming out about them on Hulu
29:05
later this month. I am so stoked for this and I
29:08
hope I get to interview the band once again.
29:10
I have interviewed a couple of members of the band in the past
29:13
and I hope I get to again. Bands are reuniting like crazy.
29:18
We had Mugvane a couple of years ago.
29:19
Job for a Cowboy we predicted a while back they dropped the new
29:23
album last year and now Primer 55 has returned.
29:27
And I, we, I feel like right around New Year's we were
29:30
talking about Bobby Burns, who just had like a terrible run
29:34
with liver failure or kidney problems, but apparently he's
29:37
well enough to put the band back together.
29:39
Donnie the DRP, Polinski's back on vocals since Jason passed
29:44
away. Josh Toomey on bass talking to
29:46
me, the great podcaster and music journalist and Preston
29:49
Nash, legendary fill in drummer and drummer for Primer.
29:54
So be cool to see the band come back.
29:56
They were a big Oz fest man fest band, right?
29:58
The new metal second wave, the new metal if you will.
30:02
Also also I set to kill us teasing new music maybe even as
30:08
soon as tomorrow. I would be very excited about
30:11
this. You know, they kind of should
30:13
have also been a lot bigger. They were kind of a darling band
30:17
about 15 years ago for Hot Second Twin sisters lead the
30:21
band. One of them kind of retired
30:23
temporarily and they're back now.
30:25
So I'm super interested to see what new music they come out
30:28
with. Cool band.
30:29
We've interviewed them before. A long time ago.
30:32
Max Mechanic, friend of Ghost Cults, got a new piece of music
30:36
out 420. You can check that out wherever
30:38
you listen to and buy music on Electric Talent Records.
30:41
Very cool indie record label for psychedelic and Stoner rock in
30:45
the East Coast. Here is Born Of Osiris.
30:48
We told you last week they announced their new album.
30:50
They've got a huge world tour they're on and they announced
30:53
that Lee McKinney, they're shredding amazing guitar player
30:57
has quit the band after many years to step down from the
30:59
band. I believe that it's the rumor is
31:01
he's going to go join a new version of As I Like Dying.
31:04
Good luck to you there, Lee. The band has done a cattle call,
31:08
a absolute cattle call anybody in the world audition.
31:11
Send your audition videos into the band and maybe you too can
31:15
join Born Of Osiris. I wouldn't do it that way, but
31:18
they are. Good luck to y'all having to
31:20
watch many many many hours of many hours of of a lot of that
31:28
Good luck. Here's Burton C Bell dropped a
31:32
new song last week, formerly a Fear Factory.
31:35
He has been teasing he's going to drop like a single at a time
31:38
and EP at a time. Never going to do a full album
31:41
ever again. I love the current version of
31:43
Fear Factory with their new singer and I also am moving for
31:47
Burton. Dillinger Compound has returned.
31:51
Welcome. Welcome back my friend to the
31:53
show that sometimes ends. We are into the news rundown and
31:57
we're almost done. We're almost done with the show.
31:59
We rapid fired this mofo this week because I got shit to do.
32:02
Curtis Neff is here. What's up?
32:03
Welcome back Curtis and welcome back Pumpkin Jack.
32:06
We've seen you here before and Max Devlin has been here before.
32:08
Thank you, Stacey, thank you for dropping Bell.
32:11
Yep, Bert. Man, I love Bert Sinenum.
32:16
I don't know if I've ever said this band name correctly.
32:18
Let's see, it's on the next slide.
32:20
Since Sanum. Jesus Christ, I can never say
32:23
this band correctly since Sanum or since Sanum.
32:25
The band formerly led by Joey Jordison, formerly of Slipknot.
32:28
He passed away a few years ago. The band crowdfunded a vinyl
32:32
release of their classic album In Devastation.
32:35
It is completed. They are not taking any more
32:38
money. They will press 1000 of these
32:40
things and sell them. And the band has announced
32:42
they're going to do a one off tribute show to Joey later this
32:46
year. Stay tuned for that if I think
32:48
it's taking place in Hollywood and we will try to go cover it
32:52
also also, I just love this thing.
32:54
Sisters Mercy fun with titties. I mean, I'm the meme.
32:58
I'm the meme guy. Rose Dolly Shop is here.
33:01
Zombie Lives is here. And thank you for passing by
33:03
Sylvia Dom Thanks for, you know, sticking through US.
33:06
I appreciate it. Burton Siebel spoken word
33:15
obsolete Tor cancel. Did he cancel the Torah?
33:17
I don't remember. I mean, listen, man, it's just a
33:19
fortune to go tour irrespective of Burton and anything going on
33:24
with him. We covered he performed at the
33:28
start of the year in LA opening for God Forbid, late in the year
33:31
for a God Forbid. We were at those shows and all
33:34
reports were he was marvelous. Now, can Burton hold up for a
33:37
whole tour? It remains to be seen.
33:40
I'm a big believer in positivity.
33:42
I've always been a fan of the guy.
33:44
He did struggle at times when the band over toured when he was
33:48
in Fear Factory. But again, he almost created a
33:52
whole singing style to go from absolutely brutal as you can be
33:57
to singing melodically and beautifully.
33:59
So, you know, hard to hard to keep that up at, you know, 50
34:04
something years old. I can't do the things I used to
34:06
do at 50 something years old, can you?
34:09
But anyhow, anyhow, we're almost done with the show.
34:11
It's time for new music. Friday 666 tomorrow, the
34:14
International Day of Slayer. And what a day it is.
34:18
Let's talk about the records coming out.
34:20
It is the busiest time of the year almost.
34:23
It's, you know, April, May, June, August, September,
34:26
October, early November, just slammed with new music.
34:30
So you can't, there's nothing good to listen to.
34:32
You didn't try. Somebody tells me they didn't
34:34
find anything good to hear. They did not try.
34:37
So I'm going to read off the albums coming out tomorrow, band
34:40
name, album name, label, if they have one, and a genre.
34:44
You tell me if any of these are interesting to you and I'll tell
34:47
you my opinions if I have any on the things I've heard already.
34:51
Activity 1000 Years and Another Way on western vinyl for some
34:55
alt rock. Austere.
34:56
The Stillness of Dissolution on Prophecy productions.
34:59
Great label. Depressive black metal.
35:02
Bacon Wagon. What a great name.
35:03
Trauma Cake. Reptilian Records.
35:06
There's some Swedish noise rock. Battlesnake, Dawn of the
35:10
Exultants, In the Hunt for the Shepherd.
35:12
Self Release for some classic heavy metal and psychedelic
35:15
rock. Bear Mace, The Brutal Man from
35:17
Chicago. Slaves of the Wolf.
35:19
Self released for some death metal bludgeoned by deformity.
35:22
Epoch of Immortality on Iron Fortress Records for some brutal
35:25
fucking death metal. Crom Lack of owls and eels.
35:29
Dark Michelle Rise label for some black metal.
35:32
Dissonant seepage dystopian putrescence on comatose music.
35:37
Great label if you love the extreme black and brutal death
35:40
metal like this band for your help.
35:41
This bitter garden on Three dot recordings.
35:43
That's the record label owned by Misha Mansor of Periphery.
35:48
So you know progressive will leave Italy.
35:50
Guitar music, Fuzz riders. I like it on Electric Valley
35:55
Records. Great label.
35:56
I'm a fan of Italian Stoner rock.
35:58
The great Galls word gall of Gold Rocks solo band parading
36:02
the stories. I've already heard this record
36:04
on Season and missed for some great progressive avant-garde
36:07
black metal. Another record I'm super high on
36:10
this week, Ghosta Berlings Saga, Forever Now and Pelagic Records.
36:14
For some avant-garde music. The great Def tribute band
36:18
Gruesome, led by Matt Harvey of Exhumed and a bunch of other
36:22
bands. Silent Echoes on Relapse
36:24
records, Holy Roller Rat King on Ripple.
36:27
Music for some heavy stone or rock.
36:29
Heavy rock. Holy scum.
36:30
All we have is never on Rocket Recordings for some more
36:33
experimental noise. Ayaton Portit Kohaljalan.
36:37
I hope I said that correctly on Signal Rex Records for some raw
36:41
black metal. It can Torso the album is
36:44
Wolfheart. Purity Through Fire is the label
36:46
for some Finnish black metal. Inglorious VI Guess that's their
36:50
5th record on Frontiers SRL, the Italian progressive rock British
36:55
rock record label. Catatonia's new album, their
36:59
first officially without Anders Nystrom, although he hasn't been
37:02
on the last three records. Nightmares as extensions of the
37:05
Waking state. I listened to this already.
37:06
It's a banger. Napalm Records.
37:08
Not quite as brutal as they used to be, but it's still very heavy
37:11
and sad. Another one that I love this
37:14
week, King Parrot, a young person, a young person's guide
37:16
to King Parrot. I listened to this whole record.
37:18
I interviewed Yungi, that's going to come up in a few weeks.
37:21
Out on House Core Records for some great grind core and death
37:24
metal. Lehra Reverie on Sub Sound
37:27
Records for some post metal and doom metal.
37:29
Mystic Circle the great heavy metal band with their new album
37:33
Kriegsgotter 2025 on Roar RPM, Obsidian Scapes, Death Chance,
37:39
Echoes from the Ephotic Void, Dark Michelle Rise Records again
37:42
for some doom Orthodox great hardcore.
37:44
Banned from Tennessee. A door left open out on Century
37:47
Media records. The Prestige Emir vanishes per
37:51
reason. Experimental hardcore.
37:53
That's what our our spreadsheet says.
37:54
Few more records to go. Refusal Venomous human concept
37:57
on Time to kill. Records for some more death
37:59
metal Rothko like the painter Rothko Fool's gold EP Man
38:05
Demolish Records for some gothic noise rock and post punk Taurian
38:11
blood, Quantum Blues on Wise blood record and another record
38:13
I love. I really need to interview Wise
38:16
Blood records head we're we're friendly online and I really
38:19
love that label. Love to talk to them some more
38:22
and a few more vole beats. New album Man God of Angels
38:27
Trust on Republic Universal for some Hard Rock arena rock waste
38:31
cult. Blame for their album is called
38:34
Blame on the Aesthetic Death Record label for some Italian
38:37
dune metal and last and not least, 0 Pichette.
38:42
Oh defos on Influenza Records, A2 Influenza Records for some
38:47
more noise rock and post hardcore.
38:49
And that is all of the stuff. Got a feeling it might be all
38:55
Dino Cazares dillinger's out about Burton.
38:57
Obviously, right? And yeah, I don't know.
39:01
I don't know, you know, it's hard to know.
39:04
Dino has said everything he can say about the subject.
39:07
I don't know what more people want from the guy.
39:09
Hey, we have a great band, one of the most influential killer
39:12
bands of all time. Hey, the most of the members
39:15
don't get along. Hey, I tried everything I could
39:17
to keep at least me and the singer together.
39:19
We started this thing. The singer absolutely cannot be
39:22
a member of our band for a lot of reasons, especially legal
39:25
ones that he probably caused or that we're beyond his control.
39:29
Dino, I either lose my band completely and start over from
39:32
scratch, or I preserve my band and put a new lineup of guys
39:35
together. Which one do you want?
39:37
I want the band to preserve. That's me.
39:40
That's where my head is at. That was the And now it's time
39:42
for the mailbag. That was it.
39:43
And I got a fun thing in this week's mailbag.
39:45
So I did some spring cleaning this week.
39:47
I'm tidying up my apartment and I found an unopened.
39:52
I had an unopened box from Funko.
39:54
I must have got it, brought it home, set it down, piled some
39:58
shit on top of it and forgot it existed.
40:00
Do you ever have shit like that? I'm definitely in my old man
40:03
phase. Get off my lawn.
40:06
When I found this box and it's and it was from Funko and
40:09
actually a Funko I bought from a company called Entertainment
40:13
Earth. We used to do an affiliate deal
40:15
with them. I don't know if you've seen it,
40:16
so I'm going to unbox this. I know what it is because I saw
40:19
the bill of lading the label inside, but I had never looked
40:24
at this thing. So let me put myself back on
40:26
screen. Hey, it's me and I'll just take
40:30
this out all together. Hey, it's me.
40:32
What's up? And I have this Funko here.
40:34
You guys can see me unbox it. I knew what it was.
40:37
I I was like, I remember, like what I do with this thing.
40:39
Where'd it go? Why don't I have this thing
40:41
handy? Beautifully wrapped.
40:44
Mostly, you know, I buy Funkos a little less.
40:48
You know, recently, I don't know if you guys have seen like fun
40:52
codes have gone up in price. Super Seven had to lay off a
40:55
bunch of people. I have one of the Super 7
40:57
flagship stores in my neighborhood, actually a short
40:59
walk from my house, maybe 1520 minutes tops.
41:02
And you know, I'm bummed about that and I don't want anybody to
41:05
lose their job. But I got this fun code in the
41:08
mail a year ago and I never opened it.
41:11
So I think I was going to unbox 2 fun codes.
41:14
I got these at the same time and so I forgot completely that I
41:19
had it. So here it is.
41:21
This paper is an ordeal. Isn't it ASMR paper?
41:33
And it is a Funko of Mick Thompson from Slipknot.
41:36
And I got this at the same time. This was a brand new release
41:40
when the V Man Funko came out. And I have a bunch of Corey's
41:43
and I have a clown somewhere. And so we got Mick.
41:47
And so let's unbox this Funko of Mick Thompson because I have
41:50
never, never opened it. I forgot I had it.
41:55
I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing.
41:58
If I'm doing it right, cool. Here's the front of the package.
42:02
And here's the back, of course, with the clown Jay, who is now
42:06
out of the band, and Mick. Collect them all.
42:09
They'll have to get one for Eloy.
42:10
It usually takes a few years for them to, you know, make the
42:12
moles that come from China, by the way, China.
42:16
And we'll see how much these Funkos cost.
42:19
I know, you know, they went ham on all these licenses and stuff,
42:23
but I want I love toys. You know, we've gone to Comic
42:26
Con and San Diego Comic Con and New York Comic Con is coming up
42:28
again. All these things are happening
42:30
and I'd like Ghost Cult to continue to be a part of these
42:32
communities. So I usually do comic book and
42:35
geek stuff. I interviewed a lot of comic
42:37
book creators and writers in my time.
42:39
So here's this very cool. This is the black Jumpsuited
42:42
Mick Thompson. I didn't get my second camera
42:44
out. He's got his arms crossed, like
42:46
most people at a black metal show, like most pure metal fans.
42:50
That their girlfriend took them to the Slipknot show and they're
42:52
really angry, so they stand in the back like this sucks.
42:56
Slipknot fucking rules. Mick rules.
42:58
He's got very cool long hair. I don't know if you're a big fan
43:02
of Mick's wife, Stacy does a tremendous Instagram behind the
43:08
scenes account of all the Slipknot goings ONS.
43:11
So definitely check out her and follow her.
43:14
Mick doesn't do much social media.
43:15
It's got the killer, I believe Ibanez guitar.
43:19
It's pretty fucking bad ass. I got to say, I really do love
43:21
this thing and I will sit it here on the computer station
43:25
here with my Dio and my Funko of me.
43:30
Here's a Funko Kefi that was made for me by my friends.
43:33
Look, it's even got a trucker hat.
43:35
Look at this. Look at the resemblance.
43:37
Pretty. It's pretty uncanny, isn't it?
43:40
So that's the show. I'm going to leave Mick out
43:42
here. I have about four or five dozen
43:43
of these fun codes and super sevens.
43:45
But yeah, I don't know. I forgot all about this thing
43:48
that I had. Unbelievable.
43:50
And that is our show. That is our show.
43:53
You know, we reached another one.
43:54
You could spend your time with anyone, but you spent it with
43:56
me. Thanks so much for hanging out.
43:58
Hi, Brooke. We're taking off.
43:59
Hi, Dog Wizard. We're taking off, but thanks for
44:01
being here. Subscribe and like and follow us
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44:06
week. And be safe out there this
44:09
weekend. Please don't drink and drive.
44:10
And as we say every week at this juncture of the show, it's a
44:13
tough time in the world. So please take care of each
44:15
other, take care of yourselves and stay as metal as humanly
44:18
possible. And I'm going to dance a jig on
44:20
the way out. Peace and grease y'all.
44:22
Have a great weekend. No more live stream in the
44:48
middle of the night. I promise peace.