Latest / Day Drinking With Dog / Ian Biggs joins the show!!
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- 0:01Viva Tequila Seltzer, the number one hard Seltzer in the world. In an
- 0:05official Heart Seltzer Day Drinking with Dog ditched them all at Tequila Welcome Back Day
- 0:11Drinking with Dog on another blistering, hot, steamy Tuesday afternoon this week,
- 0:17I'm kind of sick of the see I can't go golfing in it, so
- 0:19I just kind of stay inside. But good thing my studio is inside because
- 0:24after probably two years of trying to get this gentleman on my show, Ian
- 0:27Biggs is finally joins day Drinking with Dog. Ian, what's going on?
- 0:31What's up, Jared? Thanks so much for having me on. Sorry it's
- 0:34taking so long with I'm very excited to be Yeah, Mike sounds great by
- 0:38the way. Oh great, Yes, thanks for coming. We go.
- 0:43Man, what was your first year of playing there? It's gotta be like
- 0:49seven eight years, be like eight years, I gotta think, you know,
- 0:51pushing a decade. Yeah, I was playing at whenever Eli is across
- 0:56the street. Used to have brunch on sun I mean maybe they still do,
- 0:59but I was doing brunch gigs there and I saw there was music at
- 1:02Stonebridge and I had sort of meandered across the street, asked for the manager
- 1:04and said, hey, I love the player. Sometime. So Phil and
- 1:07I switched numbers and we realized we already had each other's numbers, but I
- 1:11had him saved as a Phil Daniel Street and he had me saved as Ian
- 1:15all in Blind because that was the band I had been in when he booked
- 1:18me at Daniel Street. So people my phone or like Ryan, my friend
- 1:23Ryan as food runner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bar back, yep,
- 1:27exactly, Yeah, your name and what you do right right, right,
- 1:30all right, we're good there, all right, So let me tell
- 1:34tell everyone a little bit about yourself. How you know your musical role and
- 1:41what you got going on now and for the future. Sure. So,
- 1:45I mean I've been been playing music for a while. As a kid,
- 1:49I you know, I wasn't really I wouldn't say it was that musical,
- 1:53but my dad was like a director in theaters, so I would. I
- 1:57was in some like you know, children's productions. I was kind of used
- 2:00to being on stage, so that part was never weird to me. And
- 2:04then I just like, you know, school chorus whatever would sing and then
- 2:07I think it's fourth grade and you know, public school, you're encouraged to
- 2:10take up an instrument and play in the school band. So I played the
- 2:14saxophone. I was kind of digging that for a while, but it was
- 2:17always are you stick one now? Oh man, I should have brought it
- 2:20in because we can try on the air. Yeah. Yeah, I don't
- 2:24think i've touched when in like ten years. But once I got to I
- 2:30started guitar kind of late. I think it was like fourteen or fifteen,
- 2:31but once I picked it up, it was I was like, I don't
- 2:35need anything, like this is not practice, this is awesome, this is
- 2:38fun. And it kind of coincided with I think, like an age where
- 2:42I was really paying attention to like you know, it's interested in music and
- 2:46like rock bands. I grew up on the nineties rock like Chili Pepper's,
- 2:50Alice and Chains, like, you know, I'm probably out of the same
- 2:51stuff you you know, you like it's I don't play a lot of it
- 2:53at Stonebridge, but it's I was like in the mid eighties, yeah right,
- 2:58I was like, you know Score, oh yeah, totally yeah,
- 3:01Poison and then grunge came in nineties. Yeah, I kind officially switched right
- 3:06and yeah, I was like that that was last a lot. I mean,
- 3:08people fuckingould stop killing himself would have right, right, would have been
- 3:14a biggest ever, I know. I mean Nirvana just changed the Nirvana and
- 3:20like the Red Chili Peppers in the early nineties, you know, they're you
- 3:22know, Chili Peppers are more funk rock er universal, but they changed the
- 3:28landscape. I think you know Pearl Jam, the Sound Garden, Yeah,
- 3:31both of them, yep, yeah yeah. And Pearl Jam is still going.
- 3:36I think, aren't they? Yeah? Are they? Pearl Jam still
- 3:38going? Chili Peppers are still they're still going. I saw him a couple
- 3:42months ago obviously sound Garden. Yeah all right, Chris, yeah, he
- 3:49So I have my own favorites over the years. Chris Cornell. It's literally,
- 3:53hands down my favorite vocalist. He's unbelievable. Yeah, Like just like
- 3:59you could sing like, what's that song? Like that? Who was it
- 4:01that that lady singer? I don't know, and he'd cover her song?
- 4:05Yeah, his covers were amazing. Oh yeah, wait, h I don't
- 4:10know. I mean, he doesn't know we're going in his direction, so
- 4:12I'm trying to think of who it was, but he does nothing compares.
- 4:15Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's holy ship like this fucking
- 4:18he wasn't heady metal but this, but he was. But he was rock,
- 4:21you know, he was rock for sure. And uh, yeah,
- 4:24did you like sound Garden more or I was like I was kind of into
- 4:28I mean, I love Soundgarden, but they were around. I was still
- 4:30pretty young, yeah, when they were around, but I definitely knew the
- 4:32big tunes, you know, spoon Man, Black how Son, and I
- 4:34heard heard the records that first Audio Slave album because I loved Rage against the
- 4:39Machine. So that was the three guys some Rage minus the singer, the
- 4:45rapper plus Chris and that felt like a really good match that I think maybe
- 4:48by the third album, I felt they had fallen off a little bit.
- 4:51Every good band does. That first album was like, oh, this is
- 4:54a super band that makes sense. Had a terrible one actually proag and changed
- 4:59so much. I fairly listened to my anymore. Yeah, I just still
- 5:00will listen to you know, their first three albums, right, Religious right,
- 5:03right, sound Garden. I definitely take obvious sleeve over them. I
- 5:08think so too. I just think it was more contemporary for the time.
- 5:11It was, Yeah, definitely more refined. I love like what Tom Morella
- 5:14is doing now too. He's he's kind of made a resurgence. I just
- 5:17heard a new song of his thing the other day. It wasn't bad,
- 5:20Yeah it was. I mean, I'm not I mean I used to love
- 5:24Rage, but then again, not that we want to get into it.
- 5:26Yeah. Politically, yeah, I know, it's just like God, can
- 5:30we just just please use I know it's it's but it's funny too, like
- 5:33they're I think kind of you know, I think they hate kind of both
- 5:40sides of the aisle here. They're more just like out out there as a
- 5:43machine. I feel like the machine, the machine, right right, Yeah,
- 5:46it's you need, you need the machine to get there, you know
- 5:48what I mean. It's definitely I'm sure some of that's you know, I
- 5:53don't know enough about it, but I'm sure some of that is. Like,
- 5:55but it's a brand, it's you know, you know, there's probably
- 5:59almost ten songs. Yeah, you can't turn off in there in your car
- 6:01and you just literally start rolling the windows. Rank. Yeah, they're just
- 6:05they're so good. Yeah, you were like an angry fun movie. Yeah.
- 6:10Yeah, yeah, it's still that. I've seen the Chill members five
- 6:14times. At Rage was the best live show I've ever seen. They were
- 6:16live. I did see Morello had that band for a little while. Oh
- 6:21yeah, it sound like five six yeah. Yeah, what the hell is
- 6:27the name of them? Like again, I didn't know what the Watchman or
- 6:30something that wasn't called something like that. I don't remember. Anyway, it
- 6:33was good. They had like a DJ open forms like uh but yeah,
- 6:39so let's get to your current you play I know, you know you come
- 6:43stone Bridge. Yeah, you're playing confers. Yeah. So you feeling the
- 6:46crowd? Yeah, what's gonna get them going? Yeah? I mean I'm
- 6:48I'm literally looking around and I'm like guessing what I think people in the crowd
- 6:54are. Like, I could be way wrong, but I'm like I'm trying
- 6:56to profile, like you hear me that guy wanted yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 7:00I know. Well I started to, you know, especially inside when
- 7:03it's you know, like you guys are right next to me. I'm like,
- 7:06all right, I have to mix up because I know probably five hundred
- 7:10songs, but I played this, but I played the same like fifty tunes.
- 7:13What's that rooster? Yeah, but I just played this like a lot
- 7:15of the same ones for certain bars, so I know they work, which
- 7:18is like, I gotta like these guys hear me every time I gotta give
- 7:20them, I get to give him something different here and there. But yeah,
- 7:26you know, I do my my original music too. I've been in
- 7:29a bunch of bands. I was in a in a rock band kind of
- 7:30you know, in high school in my early twenties, and that was that
- 7:33was the beginning. It was very audio Slave would actually be a pretty good
- 7:36confidence somewhere between audio Slave and the Chili Pepper's like not heavy metal, not
- 7:41pop. It's got some funkiness too, but it's it's riff rocky, it's
- 7:44heavy. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. And and Chris Cornell was certainly
- 7:49a massive, massive influence of mine as a vocalist. But then I do
- 7:56you think I think he was like I don't know, yeah, but weren't
- 8:01he on some medication? He was He wasn't supposed to be hony of three
- 8:03guys that I'm already going out side, three guys that were basically going to
- 8:07release a child sex trafficking ring movie and Chris Cornell, Oh, I didn't
- 8:13know. Mister Bennington and Anthony Bourdain were the three leaders, and they all
- 8:16killed themselves within the span of two years or whatever it was. Wait,
- 8:20I didn't know about this one. They were they were gonna they were going
- 8:24to expose some people hard on, you know, Bennington and him became Cornell
- 8:28became great friends, right, Well I knew they were great, great friends.
- 8:31Yeah, and uh sorry, and yeah they were. They were in
- 8:35collaboration, I believe with Anthony Bourdain. I'm pretty sure he was involved too,
- 8:39in exposing you know, child sex right, like globally right, and
- 8:46it happens a lot in the United States, more than we think about it.
- 8:48Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just say that to my girlfriend the
- 8:52other day. There's there was this lady that left her child in the car
- 8:56for like five hours while going at casino. Oh my god. And I'm
- 8:58like, just just alone. You don't think about your daughter once like Arsana
- 9:01who every one was like, you don't think of them five hours to seo.
- 9:03Yeah, I mean they could be dead when you get back. Yeah,
- 9:07and like it could be your car could be stolen the child, Oh
- 9:09my god. Yeah. Oh, she goes, well, that thing like
- 9:13stealing children isn't really a thing anymore. And I'm like, what, like
- 9:18she doesn't watch the news or anything. I feel like it's like more what
- 9:22happened today. I feel like it's it's it's more of a thing than ever.
- 9:24I mean, and it's it's like it's one of those things that maybe
- 9:26hasn't talked about enough, you know, definitely, you know, there's needs
- 9:31to be more awareness, and I know there's a lot of good people out
- 9:33there doing good things to to make people more aware. But yeah, it's
- 9:37like it's not something that I'm thinking. I mean, I don't have kids,
- 9:39but you know, yeah, I mean, it's it is one of
- 9:43those things that there's a lot of topics in America, a lot of people
- 9:46suffering that just I get it, like trying to struggle through their own lives
- 9:50to make their own ends meet totally, you know, and like I'm always
- 9:54approached for donations and stuff, and I'd love to help out as many people
- 9:58as I could, totally a limit. So you know, I got,
- 10:01you know, mortgage coming up right right right, We all got to live
- 10:05in the microwa and the macro. Like like you gotta what's the Buddhist saying,
- 10:09you can't love somebody else until you love yourself, So I think it's
- 10:11kind of the same, Like if you can make sure, you're good.
- 10:13Take care of yourself. You can do a lot more right for other people.
- 10:16You know, once you're in a good place. So what are all
- 10:20right? So now you're doing these shows. You had your influences, Yeah,
- 10:24you had your bands. Yeah yeah, and I see you've been to
- 10:26California. Yeah, like Abu Dhabi or something. I was in some desert.
- 10:33I was, Oh, I was, well, that was a couple
- 10:39of years ago. I was in I was in Morocco for I was playing
- 10:43a wedding. It wasn't well, this isn't like your fifth time on the
- 10:45show. So yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta Yeah. So I
- 10:48mean there's your inaugural show. There's been some cool travel stuff. I mean
- 10:52in twenty nineteen the band was in in the time, we got to tour
- 10:56the country, like you know, bus tour and everything, playing and opening
- 11:01for a guy who was good for bringing you know, probably a thousand people
- 11:05a night or so. So that was was pretty cool. I've done the
- 11:07bus tour thing before, but this was the first time I did it as
- 11:09like, I'm not a hired gun in the band. I'm this is my
- 11:13you know, I got to live live that piece of my dream and I
- 11:16can't wait to do it again. But there's been some random travel stuff that's
- 11:22like I did a wedding in Key West and was like, I'll say yes
- 11:24to this, this is cool. But I remember you had a guy you
- 11:28performed in the winter time at stone Bridge didn't give you his card or number.
- 11:31He wanted to fly you out to California. Oh yeah, fucking I
- 11:37didn't play at his wedding in like La or something. I never did.
- 11:41I never heard, I never heard of. I mean, people a lot
- 11:43of times, especially drunk, especially if you if you, if you and
- 11:46camp are behind the bar, people are people are throwing around things. They
- 11:50might not really they're a little loose, heavy right hands behind that bud.
- 11:54But uh no, no, it's all good. But yeah, I mean
- 11:58lately I've basic been going out to California for the winners because you know,
- 12:01the cover gigs get a lot slower, the wedding gigs are slower, and
- 12:05so that's the time I'm really focused on where do you stay here? Do
- 12:09you have a family out there? My uncle is in La. And then
- 12:13I've like gotten temporary living, like I'll rent a place it's month to month
- 12:16for like you know, three months kind of thing. And then for a
- 12:20while my girlfriend was living in Huntington Beach, so we were kind of both
- 12:24back and forth. She ran a place there, I ran into place here,
- 12:28so we sort of made it work that way. But you know,
- 12:33I don't play gigs out there too. A play play with a good buddy
- 12:37in San Diego who's from there, who he's kind of got the whole the
- 12:41whole setup. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but he's
- 12:45he's a Navy seal. So when we play in San Diego, like like,
- 12:48well, I just I know they don't like I won't mention his name.
- 12:50Then how about that they don't like I think they don't like people saying
- 12:54what they do. But we'll have like twenty team guys show up at the
- 12:58gig, and like I thought, players were like, you know, rowdy,
- 13:01these guys are running up the level. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 13:07yeah exactly, Like I mean, I went to that guy's bachelor party
- 13:11and that was insane. But so that's so California, basically La down to
- 13:16San Diego. I'm doing that maybe a third of maybe a quarter of the
- 13:20year, and then the rest of the year I'm here stone Bridge is obviously,
- 13:24you know, become a big home base for me. You guys have
- 13:28been amazing to me, and you know, Phil, you and and Campy
- 13:31and everybody. It's built a lot of other rooms for me and like private
- 13:35events because it's a popular destination. So people come in, they'll take my
- 13:39card, and you know, I have I feel like I have a number
- 13:43of recurring private clients that are like on some beach house in Milford now,
- 13:46you know what I mean every summer they do a party and so that a
- 13:50lot of that was built, you know, through you guys. And I
- 13:52know you you've been there a long time now and you've probably seen the place
- 13:56change and grow, and but it's it's definitely the spot to be, you
- 14:00know. I feel like in the summer, yeah, I always uh you
- 14:03know, especially the summertime. I always seen that I've seen the changes over
- 14:07time. Uh you know, obviously double COVID, but like and just we're
- 14:13just moving right along. We're we're a machine there, you know, especially
- 14:16summertime, and you know, the economy is up and down and people still,
- 14:22I mean, we don't see as much like say Thursday to Sunday right
- 14:26right, come out every night right right, the Cherry Pick and you know
- 14:31with the dock Side, and I love dock Side. They're on the other
- 14:35side of town. They're kind of keeping some people. But like the other
- 14:37outdoor place, there's just so many people in a small area that it doesn't
- 14:41really affect anybody. Right, run well, right, some bars just aren't
- 14:46run well. I think that's what it comes down to for sure. What's
- 14:50the best place you've played or stone? I mean like a venue. I
- 14:58mean I had a show. I did this show in the Netherlands in May
- 15:01this past year and it was certainly the most people I have ever played in
- 15:05front of. That was like crazy. It was like an E d M
- 15:09festival. But so I was playing with this DJ. It's really was his
- 15:13show and I just came up for a few songs. But it's a big,
- 15:20long story short. It's the fifth of May is a significant date for
- 15:22them. It's kind of like their fourth of July. It's the day they
- 15:24were liberated from the Nazis. So it's their big national Yeah. Yeah,
- 15:30I didn't even think about that. It's the same day. Yeah, there's
- 15:33got to be like a bar somewhere. Yeah, But so it's a big
- 15:37national holiday and they do it like all the cities in the Netherlands do do
- 15:41a big festival. So we did the one in the Hague, and the
- 15:46guy that owns that particular festival or runs it, like commissioned me to write
- 15:50the theme song for the festival. So the whole day long, they've been
- 15:54just been months leading up to this, they've been pumping this song and everybody
- 15:56knows this song, but they don't know that I'm going to be there,
- 16:00right, And so all of a sudden I come out and like starting to
- 16:02like wait, what, Like that's the guy right? And it was cool.
- 16:06I mean I've played in front of like ten k a couple of times.
- 16:08This was like twenty twenty five. Like I couldn't tell where it ended.
- 16:12It was, it was, it was, it looked pretty cool.
- 16:15It was absurd. So that was just a cool experience. But in terms
- 16:19of like venue like music venues, I mean, Toad's Place will always be
- 16:22home. You know, I grew up on that stage that I really cut
- 16:26my teeth there. The space in Hampden which is now the original space isn't
- 16:30there anymore, but you know, Steve Rodgers over there was always really good
- 16:33to me. I mean, man, there's so many rooms and around the
- 16:40country. I couldn't tell you as much because you know a lot of these
- 16:44places have seen once or twice and yeah, yeah, yeah, and sometimes
- 16:47you're like you do the show and then you're you're back on the bus and
- 16:49you don't really get to it's not you know, I feel like Stonebridge,
- 16:52I know every corner of that place at this point, you know what I
- 16:56mean. I mean, when you're able to, you know, pack it
- 16:57up, leave, you're like where we're going drink exactly exactly, yeah,
- 17:02exactly exactly. I'm like a peripheral part of the team, you know.
- 17:06Yeah, oh god, yeah, I need those after after being in the
- 17:08sun, you know. I mean, how many gimes you do a week?
- 17:11Because I know sometimes I see you on a Sunday Happy Hour Sunday and
- 17:15you're like, dude, you're getting me at the end of the week too.
- 17:18Yeah, it's brutal this time of year. It's really it's a lot.
- 17:22It's probably like before COVID it was worse. I was playing like every
- 17:25day and then and then I was like I can't, I cannot keep doing
- 17:27this. Right now, I'm probably playing like this week is super light.
- 17:30But right now I'm probably playing four to five, and then in the winter
- 17:36it's more like two or three. But there's some days because it's I try
- 17:40to stack now and people want it, you know what I mean, I'd
- 17:42rather structure it, you know, Like most of my income is from like
- 17:49Memorial Day until like the end of the year, you know what I mean,
- 17:52and then like the the winter months are kind of whatever but particilar.
- 18:00Yeah, well it's exactly. I mean, you guys go you and you
- 18:02and camp. He always take off like two months or something, right,
- 18:06that's kind of the moved you bartend when you go, when you go away,
- 18:08you just you know, one summer about six years ago, I mean
- 18:12I was down there. My mom had just kind of got in the house.
- 18:15She'd been there a couple of years, and I was like, all
- 18:18right, you know what, I can stay here, though, fucking because
- 18:22their season isn't long in Fort Myers area, it's not a long season.
- 18:26It's like basically New Year's Day, maybe a little later than that to the
- 18:30beginning of April. Some people stay longer, but that's when the flow of
- 18:33people's down there. So I'll make this long story really short. My buddy
- 18:38that lives down there was in a cab. I'm sorry. He was a
- 18:41uber driver and one of his clients in the car ended up being from Milford
- 18:45and owns like eight of the biggest bars in Fort Myers by the Water.
- 18:51And Daniel Kerns is his name, and his don't I can't remember something with
- 18:59his five it was local and then he was But anyway, so I found
- 19:03a guy on Facebook. I sent him a message. She's like, holy
- 19:07shit. I'm like, yeah, we're with Stonebridge. Yeah, for a
- 19:08three or four month gig, just to stay down here. You know.
- 19:11I didn't have a girlfriend at the time, and I applied in a couple
- 19:15of places and there's one called the Beach House and they gave me this interview.
- 19:18I'll never forget this. They gave me an interview and it was cold,
- 19:22and it was like nine am. And it's in the same town.
- 19:26It's in Cape Coral, and it went down. It's this lady and this
- 19:29is only six years ago or something. You know, I'm in my mid
- 19:32forties and now that they have a lot of like young people working there,
- 19:36but right now here, who's this guy? Right? So she's asking me
- 19:40all these questions and she's like, well, we're very high volume here.
- 19:44She's like, you know, how much could you ring in one shift?
- 19:47Have you seen Stonebridge on Saturday night? I said, or I said,
- 19:51honestly, I prefer not to say because you won't believe me. And she's
- 19:53like try me, and I'm like ninety five hundred and she's like, oh,
- 19:57you're lying. I go, I'm late. I'm not telling you like
- 20:02you don't understand. All I know is how you volume, right, that's
- 20:04that is Stonebridge. So whatever, and to be finished, I went home
- 20:11and I got a call back like, look a week later. Now it's
- 20:14like towards the end of January, and they were like, oh, we'd
- 20:18like to hire you, but the weather sucks, and the weather sucked,
- 20:23and the weather wasn't looking any better till like Valentine's Day. I'm like,
- 20:26fuck, because I gotta start working. So I tried a couple of other
- 20:30places they're immediately hiring and and nothing came to fruition. And that was it.
- 20:36I said, now I'll just whatever for the month and go back home.
- 20:38I mean still make plenty of money show Bridge, of course, of
- 20:42course. I mean it also is kind of like fun to do to do,
- 20:45Like that's kind of the experience we get like like okay, totally like
- 20:49like our summer help. You know, they're the right right right, It's
- 20:53it's cool. EVE been like a different experience. That's kind of what I've
- 20:56been having with California. Like I have a like a couple of really regular
- 21:00spots that I play and I've got to know the staff there really well.
- 21:03And it's like I live there, but I'm only living there for a few
- 21:07months, you know what I mean. But I don't know, maybe if
- 21:10you, if you score a gig down there at some point, that makes
- 21:11sense we should do like like I'll fly down and play a few gigs.
- 21:14I'll get some Stommers people to come down. I'll do it like a vacation
- 21:18run when I retired, Like I'll be like my father. I'm never going
- 21:21to retire, right, you know, But I'm like I could just buy
- 21:23a place in summer. I don't think you think it could be four Myers
- 21:26area or Tampa or something. Yeah, and just you know, bar ten
- 21:29two days a week and not just extra, just to just yet well and
- 21:33also just to like do something too right so you don't get born golfers,
- 21:37right, you know, and just a little away. Are you a big
- 21:41golfer? I am a big golf there's a lot of golf as there are
- 21:45a lot of golfs. We love the golfing golf. I suck at it
- 21:49now though my body broke down too much. I can't get any distance anymore.
- 21:53Golf once a year, that's it. Well, I don't really golf
- 21:57event Well yeah, well you know you know you knew heels, right,
- 22:00Sean. Hell, yeah, he's Friday. Yeah, that was my dad's
- 22:03memorial. I was texting Todd and Joe. They'll understand the shots my dad.
- 22:10Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just throw it back. But yeah,
- 22:12that's my Uh. I'm sure it'll be the next one and camp and
- 22:17everybody. But after that off a Friday though, yeah, that's tough for
- 22:22a lot of people off on Friday. It's all industry, I know.
- 22:26But on a Monday we'll all be there. Yeah. I think my second
- 22:30time ever golfing was last year. And so I don't really know what I'm
- 22:33doing, but like I play hockey and so I can kind of like I
- 22:37can swing, but I don't know what I'm doing. But I got three
- 22:38guys I play hockey. That are all good golfers and it's a scramble,
- 22:41so it doesn't matter. I can just do whatever you want. Yeah,
- 22:45Like I sunk a couple of putts and they're like a great job. And
- 22:48then at the end of the thing, they like they wanted to replay the
- 22:49first hole again. So I'm like, all right, whatever, I'm the
- 22:52hammer at this point. And but they're all playing their own ball. But
- 22:56two of them landed right next to each other, like on the very edge
- 22:59of the green, and so I just put my ball next to them,
- 23:00as I thought, we're just doing the same thing. This thing's like sixty
- 23:04feet from the pin, and they uphill and they both miss, and then
- 23:07I like sank it. I don't know how Yeah, and I was like,
- 23:11oh that was expensive. Like now I gotta go buy some clubs.
- 23:14This is I never did though. Maybe this year I'll play a little more.
- 23:17But you know, I'm telling you what I'm looking for clubs. Yeah,
- 23:19buy my perfect cheap there we go, there we go. Yeah,
- 23:22So I don't know, I might not get them. I mean the summers
- 23:25rolling right along. Yeah, I know, Like, like I said,
- 23:27I can't golf in this heat. Like it's so hot. It's like it's
- 23:30been like a month of this river and yeah, dude, it just sucks.
- 23:33It's been a month of this is like if the sun's out and it's
- 23:36like hot, but it's the humidity like now like just you sweat and shade
- 23:40and I eat it. Yeah yeah, yeah, so I mean hopefully what
- 23:44I mean, it's been Fuck, it's been two weeks almost with it.
- 23:45It's been Yeah, it's been brutal. I'm like, every day I get
- 23:48me on my Alexa Update yep, and it says Amazon Weather Advisory extended the
- 23:52heat. So like tomorrow nine o'clock it's said that seven days. Just tell
- 23:56me it leaks. I know what to expect. Oh man, all right,
- 24:03what are we got coming up? So? Uh so the rest of
- 24:07the summer. I've got a bunch of Stobris hits coming up. I've got
- 24:11one I'm particularly excited about. It's August eleventh. Uh it's a full band,
- 24:15so that'll be five to eight. And it's kind of like like I'm
- 24:18the little guy on this. It's a bunch of heavy hitters. It's it's
- 24:22Tim Paul Mary, Adrian Traumontana on the drums, christ'angelish who who played Uh
- 24:27plays with those guys in Kung Fu on the bass, Uh, Tommy Weeks
- 24:32on the sacks from Funky Dogs, and then Wayne Brown on the keys and
- 24:34the vocals. So I'm pretty pumped for that one. Will probably play all
- 24:37covers, I think, but it's gonna be it'll be rock funk, it'll
- 24:41be pretty lively. Won't be my typical, you know playlist. So so
- 24:48who's Who's You're the same? I mean, we're gonna me and tim will
- 24:52both sing. We'll move it around a bit. Wayne Wayne, Oh great,
- 24:56I know he's. Timmy's awesome. Yeah, he's he's actually the re
- 25:00Actually drink with me. I'll come back when he's on and just sit in
- 25:03the corner and drink. He's the reason I play music for a living because
- 25:10I was playing, like you know, I always had a day job to
- 25:11supplement this, and and whether it was like I did a landscaping job for
- 25:15a while, I worked in the warehouse for a while. And he's like,
- 25:18you know, you're You're great with you and your originals, but you
- 25:21can do the cover thing. It's just a different model. Instead of playing
- 25:25toads and selling tickets you just agree to play three hours at a bar restaurant
- 25:30and like whoever's there is, they keep you all entertained. Just you just
- 25:33got to go buy a good PA system and play wonder while more. And
- 25:36I was like, Oh, that's all it really is. And then like
- 25:37that's all it was, you know, like so Masse, Yeah, so
- 25:44he's great. I kind of followed in his footsteps. Had been still am
- 25:47and he's been crushing it with with Lotus. I got to see them.
- 25:51They Lotus is a band that lost their drummer and son I think it was.
- 25:55He was like the Precautionists. Yeah yeah, so sad, yeah,
- 25:59yep, yeah, so they took some time off. I remember reading that
- 26:00in like National news. Yeah like Lois Lois, Yeah, I know that
- 26:06Texas. It's awful. It's so sad. But they're they're back on their
- 26:12feet, you know. I know they can never replace those guys. But
- 26:17I saw them this past winter. I was in l A and they were
- 26:21coming through on tour, so I got to go see Tim playing. I
- 26:22mean, he's he's just a monster, you know, he's so good.
- 26:26It's funny. The last time he did a solo on there on a Friday,
- 26:30like you know how you got it? Like this is I get it?
- 26:32Like it's early, you don't. You don't come out with a good
- 26:34ship yet. Right, So he's doing the first set and he's so talented,
- 26:38and right before the first set ended, like everyone really started to get
- 26:42up and then he was a little break, came back on and you know,
- 26:45I almost felt like there was a full band at that point. Yeah,
- 26:48him, and he was just he's so good with the guitar. He's
- 26:52like, holy ship, you just had everyone out, not that you don't
- 26:53know. Yeah, but he can he worked world, Yeah, he can.
- 26:57He can work the crowd really really well. Actually I should plug one
- 27:02of the things. Speaking of Tim, So Tim and I used to rotate
- 27:06every other week at Bar and New Haven on Wednesday nights. He had that
- 27:08gig for like fifteen twenty years or something, and I was on it for
- 27:11a rubbly ten years. I think that was like a COVID casualty or whatever
- 27:17Wednesday nights there, late night, like like in the back room. They
- 27:22just started that way, but then they would also have like an acoustic guy
- 27:25in the front, right, so they kind of did it was like a
- 27:26live music right night, like band band bands. Yeah, yeah, but
- 27:30we're bringing ex yeah the back round. The back room would be right,
- 27:34well, the back room would be like a kind of three original bands,
- 27:40like like like a full band build in the front rould be like me or
- 27:42tim playing covers and sneaking in some originals. But we're bringing the same setup
- 27:48on Mondays to Nolo and New Haven. They're doing an industry night and it
- 27:51starts Timmy's doing the first one. I think. I think he's just coming
- 27:55Monday, and then I'll be on the next one. So yeah, come
- 27:57on up. It's yeah, me me a text and remind me. Well
- 28:02cool, Yeah, it's gonna be. It's on State Street. Delanea pizza
- 28:07like combined with Nolo. It's on State Street by it's like right across from
- 28:11our left, but I don't know the name of the street. It's by
- 28:15like State and like the where you get on the highway on State, like
- 28:22close to downtown. Yeah yeah, yeah, by State in Auduban, basically
- 28:25wh is on your left, keep going far but no, no, sorry,
- 28:30it's where you get on the highway going northbound on ninety one, so
- 28:33other direction, it's like almost to CMS. Oh I'm not quite isn't that
- 28:40Yeah, yeah, range, yeah, the power Google and right right right,
- 28:48isn't that funny? One? Like like someone's giving you directions like I
- 28:52I don't need I don't need to just yeah it's left right, Yeah,
- 28:56it's easier. You're making this more confusing. I have to map this in
- 28:59my head. Well, you know, as you went to the bathroom before
- 29:00the show, I came up with something in my head, and I think
- 29:04you are not eligible because you know where to go now. But I think
- 29:07my next guest that comes on and sits where you're sitting and has to go
- 29:15to the bathroom and they find it on their own after I already pointed it
- 29:18out to them on the way in, and then they have to make it
- 29:22out of the building. That I would be directing them wins like a bottle
- 29:26of bourbon or something. I mean, just listen. I had over probably
- 29:30one hundred and fifty guests on this show, and not one has ever navigated
- 29:36from that front door here. Granted there are doors and stuff, but I
- 29:38try to tell everybody just yeah, yeah, the exit, Like if there's
- 29:44a fire, what do you look? Yeah, yeah, it's simple.
- 29:47Oh my god, Yeah, that was confusing you probably get lost walking out
- 29:51of here. I might. I might. Sometimes you get like you ever
- 29:53seen the bit and spinal tap and they like can't find the stage like sometimes
- 29:57the venues. Oh man, So what do you got for new music coming
- 30:03out? So I I'm gonna be putting out an EP probably this fall.
- 30:07I've got like three of I want to I want to do five tunes.
- 30:11I've got probably thirty songs basically close to done that are in the mix.
- 30:17But I want to be really concise about what I release and just you know,
- 30:21really focus on promoting that. So I'm I have a call today with
- 30:25my manager and with someone else who's gonna help with like release strategy, and
- 30:29we're gonna kind of put a plan together. But I think the first one
- 30:33will come out, you know, And we live in a world of releasing
- 30:34a single at a time, right, let each one live on its own.
- 30:37But I don't like it. I I I love like Pink Floyd in
- 30:41an album. I understand the business model, completely understand it. Like they
- 30:45want to buy every song, Well, like you're gonna It's more that each
- 30:48song could get its own push, right, Like if I put out five
- 30:52songs, all I want just one of a twelve track album, like not
- 30:55all twelve to make it totally, totally, totally, and and maybe that's
- 31:00you know, I'll bring it up on the call today, like maybe that
- 31:02is a strategy, like, hey, we really just believe in this one
- 31:04song being the song. Let's just put out a three or four pack and
- 31:07the other ones are just accompaniment to that, you know, like because I
- 31:11love like I love albums where like maybe the first song isn't even it's like
- 31:15an intro, you know what I mean, it's not even a song.
- 31:18It's just like how good are those first three songs on dirt? You know
- 31:21what I mean? They just go right and they would always play those in
- 31:23order live, like they just go right into each other. They're all in
- 31:26the same key, the same kind of feel, and you know, and
- 31:29then I think the fourth song is down in a Hole and then you have
- 31:32this we're talking about Alison Chains by the way, people that didn't I know,
- 31:34you know, but for people who didn't know. But yeah, I
- 31:40love the artistic idea of an album, but I think like even that model
- 31:44may start to change because think about streaming. If an album is let's say
- 31:49forty five minutes long. What's gonna make you more more money? Ten songs
- 31:56or forty five one minute songs? Right? You know what I mean?
- 31:59So I think it's not gonna happen overnight, but I think we're gonna start
- 32:01seeing We're already seeing songs get shorter and shorter, which is probably partly like
- 32:06a TikTok attention spand syndrome, but I think it's I think there's also a
- 32:09business end of that, because you'll you'll get you know, however, many
- 32:15times more the streams. I can't do the math right now, but you
- 32:17know, Yeah, So streaming is a big topic I have on this show,
- 32:22not necessarily musically, but right TV totally. And it's all kind of
- 32:25in the same grouping category. And if the NBA just made a huge seventy
- 32:31five billion dollar deal with the NBC, RESPN and Amazon, I believe it's
- 32:37a lot of money. The NFL does their Peacock TV streaming right right.
- 32:45I think the biggest problem is you're asking somebody it's basically pay to play,
- 32:51right, You're asking somebody to spend another whether it's seventy ninety nine to sixty
- 32:55nine nine a month, it's for something that they can still tech watch for
- 33:00free paying for cable Astrono numbers. And the biggest shortcoming that they have to
- 33:07figure out is channel surfing, because you can't when I'm on Peacock and I'm
- 33:13watching out. I was at my mom's place in Florida and it was it
- 33:15was Canty and Chiefe versus Miami Dolphins in the playoff game. It was prime
- 33:20time and it was on Peacock. Well, I had a free seven day
- 33:22trial on Peacock, so I ordered through a TV. I watched the game,
- 33:27which sucked, and then I canceled it because I know I'm not going
- 33:30to watch it again. But this is the this is the way this stuff
- 33:34and music is going. And you know, you gotta like you don't really
- 33:38own your music anymore. And that's the weird buy it. But like if
- 33:45you just stream, you know, Apple Music or Amazon Music, once it's
- 33:51over, it's over. You don't own any of it. Oh I switch
- 33:52me as a consumer cons right, no, And I think that's when the
- 33:57people miss It's like having a physical medium. And that's why Vinyls made such
- 34:00a big comeback because Vinyl's still the best sounding it. They just it just
- 34:05kind of went out of style because it's it's huge, and it's like,
- 34:07well, I don't have a record player in my car. Someth We went
- 34:09to cassette tapes and went to CDs the game I thought so too. I
- 34:15thought so too. But now that we've gone to streaming, it's it's like
- 34:20it all the people people are like cool, it's I can just pull it
- 34:24off the internet anytime. And they grew up with it, right, But
- 34:28the real sort of audio files are like, well then I'm going to go
- 34:30back to the best sounding way this works. But yeah, no, I
- 34:34grew up on I had a few cassette tapes, CDs. I had,
- 34:38Like I used to be a DJ. You probably don't even know this.
- 34:42I worked for this DJ company when I was in high school, and I
- 34:45remember, like, you know, we'd do some bar mitzvah or something and
- 34:47I had to like look in one book to find like C seven and then
- 34:52find that I had. Like it was like, you know, now they
- 34:55just have a computer. It's so simple. Don't even need that. Yeah,
- 35:00but I mean you're doing a sense where you know, I take requests.
- 35:04Yeah, like you know they can they could actually play or not play
- 35:09things to our discretion. Sure, but you're right. At the end of
- 35:13the day, we can put a fucking four hour plays again and it'll be
- 35:15great. Yeah, just put some lights up and you really need a DJ
- 35:19And hey, there was last night at the MLB Home run game. There
- 35:24was I didn't see it there, but there's robotic bartenders there now. So
- 35:30I talked about AI a lot last year. I'm terrified. I'm terrified.
- 35:34Yeah, it's fucking it's crazy. Well, I can't say, like,
- 35:37Okay, if you do a Google search, you're using AI, Like I
- 35:38can't say AI across the board. But I think AI in art has gotten
- 35:45pretty bad. I mean, somebody offered me a pretty good amount of money
- 35:50to use my voice to make an AI character for a platform's building. And
- 35:53he's a friend of mine, and I appreciate what he's doing. It just
- 35:57one, I'm not trying to compete myself, and two, I just don't
- 36:00I don't believe. I can appreciate the technology is cool, but I don't
- 36:02believe in it. And it's one of those things where it's so new that
- 36:06I want to see how it shakes out, but like it's hard enough to
- 36:09break for it through. Now there's like you can have somebody uploading a thousand
- 36:14songs a day to Spotify that are all AI country whatever, you know what
- 36:16I mean, Like and like the stuff on Instagram, and if you've seen
- 36:20it's like pretty funny, it's entertaining, Like look at this AI country song
- 36:22I've met and it's hilarious. But I think we can't lose sight of what
- 36:27makes art amazing, and that's human error and and and a real person behind
- 36:30it telling their story. Songs are about relationships or personal stuff right, and
- 36:37you know AI doesn't have that right and that they can make it right.
- 36:44And and that's the other thing that does you know, scare me too.
- 36:46It's it's I don't think we'll wind up in like an I robot situation where
- 36:51the machines run us. But I do think there's a but I think I
- 36:57think there's a world in which the top point one percent used the machines to
- 37:04run everybody else, you know what I mean, Because yeah, they're gonna
- 37:07make jobs obsolete, Like I don't know, it's definitely a scary scary thing.
- 37:13And I think you know, we've seen it in our lifetime, how
- 37:15fast technology is evolving, Like well, it's funny exponential, Yeah, but
- 37:20thirty years ago, like you know, oh my god, it's insane and
- 37:22like it's funny, like you know, our imitating life. I had this
- 37:28conversation in my own head after I did the podcast last week with the scir
- 37:31Maya who she she brought AI to the table and her thoughts, and I'm
- 37:35like, in my head, I'm like, Lama Bartender, I should be
- 37:37pretty safe, you know, like you know, hairdressers and ship and then
- 37:42I saw that last night and then I'm like, wait a second. You
- 37:44seen the Jetsons. Oh yeah, I was a hairdressers. Yeah no,
- 37:47yeah, yeah, everything was yeah I did, yeah, you know they
- 37:52Cogswell Cogs. That was company that everyone worked for because everything needs a cog
- 37:57and you know, all that's got to watch that. I recently rewatched Wally
- 38:01that like it's really like ahead of its time, like you know what I
- 38:06mean. It's like all we're all just like kind of fat and useless and
- 38:09can't even walk without you know, no one can do anything. Everything's automated.
- 38:14And I mean it's an extreme idea, but we have slightly different views
- 38:17on some topics. Sure I think we can agree on that's what that's what
- 38:22big government wants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't. They don't
- 38:25even want you to be talking right now. They want us to stay at
- 38:28home. Everybody wants to control packages. Yeah, work from home. Yeah,
- 38:32that's it. I don't even know if that it's the big government.
- 38:36But it's like who's paying, like you know, Jeff Bezos, like whatever.
- 38:39I mean, I'm not gonna say anything bad about someone who had a
- 38:43good business model and it worked. But but a lot like Russia, like
- 38:49this country is still run by ali arks, if you will. It's just
- 38:52not out in the open. It's it's not there. It's like everyone knows,
- 38:55it's blatant. It's not on the open. But here's like we we
- 38:58we still have monarchy in this country. They're just big businesses, you know
- 39:01what I mean, like farm farms. Yeah, yeah, you can't go
- 39:05toe to toe with that, you know, like and like and like,
- 39:07you know, I feel Musk is the breakaway sure from that group or click
- 39:12or what however you want to call it. You're right, they are old
- 39:15R's. He speaks out a lot more than the rest of them. I
- 39:17think are happy to kind of be under the radar. Well, they're under
- 39:21the public radar. They're very high in the private sector what they're doing right,
- 39:25right, you know, and it's you know that that'll that's will lead
- 39:30us right into First of all, I want to mention at least five people
- 39:35that died on and around the assassination from Shelley Duvall. She was a little
- 39:40old, but remember her from the Shining She was the wife and the Shining.
- 39:45Oh yeah, she passed away. Yeah, she passed away. And
- 39:46she was in I believe she was in the original Popeye Do with Robbie Williams.
- 39:52You know, Richard Simmons, the flamboyant Ye Shannon already one zero.
- 39:59I never had I saw that show. But doctor Ruth oh wow, yeah,
- 40:02well she was probably Yeah, and Jacoby Jones, who probably if you
- 40:07don't know sports, I can know who that is. But he was a
- 40:10wide receiver for the Ravens that won the Super Bowl, and he was probably
- 40:15one of those guys that had like a really good three year window. Yeah
- 40:19yeah, and they kind of faded and that's how the NFL is. He
- 40:21was only forty yeah, oh, he was young. His career spans like
- 40:23two point three years. It's crazy. Yeah, and the quarterbacks throw that
- 40:28off right, right right, Brady thirty years Yeah, take quarterbacks out.
- 40:32Yeah, it's a that's a tough, tough sport. So you know,
- 40:37I actually tell your story about how you kind of found out Trump got shot
- 40:39legend apparently. Yeah, yeah, I mean, but I'm pretty sure it's
- 40:45it's it's not a conspiracy theory, but if anybody would pull off something like
- 40:49that, it would be. But uh, so I was playing a gig
- 40:52private party h for a birthday party of like backyard kind of thing, and
- 41:00and I know the client. They're friends of mine, and there I think
- 41:02I think they like Trump. I'm not actually really sure. I don't love
- 41:06them, but it doesn't who cares, It doesn't really. I've never let
- 41:07that come between friends. It's like like, let's be helmies and whatever,
- 41:12you know. But so I had no idea what happened because I had been
- 41:15playing for like four hours and then you know, I know them some sitting
- 41:17around having a beer with them after just shooting the shit. You know,
- 41:21when you're like kind of pretending to listen to what somebody's saying, but you're
- 41:23so tired that you're not really listening, and you're just like like what are
- 41:27like, and they were like, yeah, you know, like when Trump
- 41:29got shot at when the guy tried to kill Trump today and I was like,
- 41:31yeah, that was crazy. Wait wait what wait what what happened?
- 41:37I had no yeah, just going along with that. I had no idea
- 41:39for four hours had gone by it, and I was like what what and
- 41:44you know, and on a serious note, like I might not vote for
- 41:46the guy, but this is awful and and and you know, to echo
- 41:51what, you know, both Trump and Biden said since like there's no place
- 41:53for that, for political violence in this country, and it's just an awful
- 41:58thing to see, like it's you know, and I'm glad he's okay,
- 42:00and I feel awful for the person who was killed. Yeah, of course,
- 42:05just just to be a bystander at a thing. And then you know,
- 42:08I mean, I guess maybe I if someone asked me, do you
- 42:12want to go to a Trump or Biden rally and sit behind them? I
- 42:15probably maybe that thought would cross my mind. I wouldn't go sit there,
- 42:19but you know, just because you never know. But I mean, it's
- 42:22it's awful and I'd love to see you know, election years are always awful,
- 42:27but I'd love to see people just kind of like go and vote,
- 42:30you know, like don't don't worry about any other way to be friends with
- 42:32people, and we've got to bring each other up, you know, and
- 42:37and who knows. This is still so new, like they're still investigating literally
- 42:39a kid, you know. You know, my friends don't stop and that's
- 42:42why I love my friends. But the latest report is this does not look
- 42:50good. Multiple Eye went as to say, there was another shooter at the
- 42:52tower. Oh wow, I haven't really like jumped into it. But and
- 42:58then obviously there was a parent Iranian plan to kill Trump. I saw the
- 43:02notification about that, but I haven't read into it. And now you know,
- 43:06with all these shootings. Three days four days later, FBI come out.
- 43:10He's like I was a person of interest, right right right, right
- 43:15right right right right right, Yeah, you did nothing about it. It's
- 43:17one of the it's one of those things where it's like I understand why they're
- 43:20not saying anything. It's mid investigation. They don't want to like compromise anything.
- 43:23But it also wouldn't it wouldn't hurt it. It's kind of like in
- 43:29COVID, like if Fauci and the who had just been like look we just
- 43:31don't really know, like, give us some time to figure this thing out
- 43:34instead of like trying to call her around. We're on this. You're like,
- 43:37no, how could you know? You know what I mean? This
- 43:38is Brandon. You know they rushed it because they do the presidential exactly.
- 43:44Yeah, So it's but yeah, I mean, I just I hope there
- 43:46isn't more stuff like this. Man, Like, we're all American and and
- 43:51you know, there's just no need to turn on each other regardless of political
- 43:55beliefs, you know what I mean. I honestly I think that was this
- 44:00that Saturday, this past Saturday could be hopefully a turning point in history of
- 44:07this country. But I don't fucking see it. I don't like it should
- 44:12be. And it's not going to be because Biden came out with his messages
- 44:15the other night about what exactly what you just said, and then the next
- 44:19day, just yesterday, he's been interviewed by Lester Hoole and he's like,
- 44:23well, he use a threat to democracy, Like listen, stop for that,
- 44:25fucking give it a week, give it a week. A week.
- 44:30And this was a quote I saw today. This is not mine, it's
- 44:35not original to me, but I felt it very very p pertinent to what
- 44:42the what this country is dealing with right now. Sure, and I don't
- 44:45even know whose person is or said when somebody reposted it, but it says
- 44:47the US citizens are not craving unity, they are creating acceptance. Once they
- 44:52realize the Maga Party are willing to accept anyone who calls ourselves an American,
- 44:57regardless of race, regardless of religion, a flood of motion enter into them,
- 45:00giving them the ability to to basically accept what like it is, everything's
- 45:06inclusion now. It was about right right right where it needs to be unified.
- 45:09And like, like I watched I don't watch Mutch of the News,
- 45:14but I just like and I like the show because they infuse a lot of
- 45:17comedy. And he was like, listen, uh, you know we've been
- 45:22as conservatives attacked as racist and all this. Dude, we just go out
- 45:27with more long, you know, we go out. I'll help you fix
- 45:30your car. You're my neighbor here, who like And I think a lot
- 45:35of the news just just points their cameras and the ang they want clicks,
- 45:39you know what I mean, Like like they're going to find the one,
- 45:43the one, you know, lesbian chick wearing a Biden mask, knowing what
- 45:50she's gonna do, already know what she's gonna say, But why why make
- 45:52her out in public just there. They're trying to find stereotypes, probably on
- 45:58both sides. But it's like, you know, I think that I get
- 46:01frustrated. I think, you know, politics should be more all of a
- 46:06cart, like I don't think you should be like, well, I'm on
- 46:07the left, so I think these things. I'm on the right. I
- 46:09think these things, like, you know, because I'm not really completely I'm
- 46:15sort of in the middle. I just don't don't love Trump, don't want
- 46:17them to ge assassinated. Just in case the FBI is listening, I had
- 46:21nothing to do with it, but yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 46:25yeah, but you know, like, but it'll bother me if I have,
- 46:30like, you know, friends of mine that are on the left that
- 46:35might say, like, we see an American flag and they feel that it's
- 46:39but it's like that's my flag too, you know what I mean, like
- 46:43like like and and you because a lot of people are not that passionate about
- 46:50and that's totally fine. Like I it's exhausting to go into and to learn
- 46:54about it. And everything. But like if you are and you feel that
- 46:58flag doesn't represent you, try to change it so that it does not the
- 47:02flag, but the country, the system, you know. So I don't
- 47:06think when people everyone's so afraid of each other. I think part of that
- 47:08social media too. I think we're more divided now than ever because it's so
- 47:12easy to be a keyboard warrior. But if you get in a room with
- 47:14somebody, have a beer, you know what I mean, Like, you're
- 47:15gonna find common ground. I have, you know, Facebook friends. That
- 47:22just happened yesterday too. I only ab my name, but you can go
- 47:23on my feet and see what I was talking to. And both of our
- 47:28conversations ended with I love you man, you know what I mean. Whatever,
- 47:32we have different beliefs, but you're not going to ruin a friendship.
- 47:36No, I really wish, you know, like these are my posts that
- 47:38they're depending on. I'd rather have as a friend that today call me call
- 47:44me instead. And that's, you know, like so much because the random
- 47:47person. Not that I'm some influence around social media, but most my friends
- 47:52I'm pretty pretty aligned the same as me and I just I just feel like
- 48:00if they see you talking, ship back to me, right, they're already
- 48:05they're gonna come like regardless, they don't know you, you know. So
- 48:08that's why i'd be like, either private message me if you don't like,
- 48:12or call me, or just say I don't like that. Take You don't
- 48:15have to go into the whole spiel of exactly of you know why you feel
- 48:19why you hate Trump? You know it just you're going to live with it
- 48:23because you know what, if you accept it, like you don't have to
- 48:28accept it, you don't going to change. It's going to change your life
- 48:30that much. Seventeen to twenty twenty outside the COVID that fucking manufactured what like,
- 48:37why is that? What is the Hitler comparison? I still have not
- 48:40seen anyone tell me why is it just because they think he's going to be
- 48:44a dictator because he's certainly not fucking mowing down a million fucking Jews. Yeah,
- 48:49I know. I mean, well, I don't understand that. There's
- 48:52not others can compare him to that Hitler. I haven't compared him to that.
- 48:57I haven't seen I have to see what you're talking about to lay it
- 49:00depending on it. Yeah, I just thought, like I'm waiting, I've
- 49:04asked this question before, like why why the comparison with Hitler, Like,
- 49:08let's say he wins, we control the Senate and maybe we get the Congress
- 49:13back. I mean, that is not what the Downs want. And they
- 49:15had no controller everything right, right, and they say, oh, because
- 49:16he packed the court, okay, sure, right. And then the big
- 49:21kicker was last night at RNC when everyone was raising their FISCO in USA,
- 49:25you know, when Trump showed up and everyone's comparing that at nineteen thirty is
- 49:29Nazi Germany with Hitler? I mean that's that's like the fuck. Yeah,
- 49:34that's dumb. I mean my you know, my qualm with him. I
- 49:37suppose at this point it's not like if you're on the left, right,
- 49:42he really did his damage in the first term because he got three justice in
- 49:45there. Like, I don't think there's I don't think there's any more turnover
- 49:47the next term whoever's whoever's in right, so it doesn't I don't think that
- 49:52much is gonna change. We also, Peter Ginsburg fucked it all up for
- 49:55them. If I'm not retiring and she's dying, all right, Trumps like
- 50:00that Republican. Yeah, but I do really think both these guys buying and
- 50:06Trump like and maybe this is always the case. I really think they're in
- 50:10it for themselves, you know what I mean. And I just like I
- 50:14don't if I have dropped out after that, That's what I'm saying, like
- 50:17like if you're a team player and you see the riding on the wall,
- 50:21like you know, I don't know, but but it's you know, I'm
- 50:27ready for it to for it to be over. About it in four years,
- 50:30it's all over. Yeah, if I will be eighty seven, right,
- 50:35he's not gonna run again, ye run again? Right? And either
- 50:37one can't run again? Right, yeah, No one's running again in four
- 50:40years. Yeah. Well, I mean if if somehow if if Trump that's
- 50:45just change the law, right, Well, that's that's I mean. I
- 50:47think that's the fear some people have. But I don't know that, Like,
- 50:50it's not gonna, It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna. I
- 50:52think people are still a little scared of you know, what happened on January
- 50:54sticks and I'm not We don't have to dive. And that's really my only
- 50:59qualm. I felt he could have prevented it. Maybe he didn't even realize
- 51:01what was gonna happen like that was just a chaotic thing, but like,
- 51:05oh my ship and that you're right, that's a whole fucking show. Yeah,
- 51:08you know, and every whether you see a pro Trump documentary, like
- 51:13a pro Biden documentary on it Pelosi right now, they're each documentary is gonna
- 51:20You're always gonna get in the opinion. Yeah. Well I was told me,
- 51:22like, you gotta go watch CNN and Fox. You get both ends
- 51:24of the bullshit, you know what I mean, Like you gotta Yeah,
- 51:27like Donald Trump could save a baby from a burning building and seeing them won't
- 51:30report it, but like, you know, but like they'll now today they
- 51:32had him falling asleep at the convention last night and I didn't really know any
- 51:37contacts, yeah a little bit, and they were just boring, yeah,
- 51:40all of them. Yeah, And today's big headline by all the people on
- 51:45Twitter was like there was like a like seven second shot of like Trump here
- 51:47with his eyes closed. Yeah, like they'll fucking funk with Joe Biden.
- 51:52But look at this, he's sleeping. And my first thought was, the
- 51:55dude just probably hasn't slept before you. Yeah, he's had a interesting couple.
- 52:00The prayer portion of the Oh my god, it's like I can't,
- 52:05that's the thing. I can't, And both sides do. And it's like,
- 52:09if you take a step back and look at it, it's sort of
- 52:12hilarious that like, and like it's very satirical, Like this is what we've
- 52:15come to. It's not good, you know what I mean, Like the
- 52:17news needs to be honest and be the news, and like, you know,
- 52:21but if you go to nineteen eighty and eighty four with Reagan running,
- 52:24or even with Clinton in ninety two with his scandal, Yeah, and you
- 52:29got two sides of the aisle there. If social media was around back then
- 52:32like it is now, how would we feel about the Clintons. It might
- 52:36be it might it might be the same. Second term, he's basically Biden
- 52:39forgot everything, you know, or the Cuban whatever, the contract. Yeah,
- 52:45yeah, and he was just like I can't remember remember, but he's
- 52:51he's like literally gone down as one of the greatest presidents ever. Sure,
- 52:54and I love Reagan, but like that second term, his last two years
- 52:58is what we're facing with it right now. Right Also, is that really
- 53:02what you want? I don't know, but yeah, you're a gambling man,
- 53:06right, I'll gamble bit. Yeah right, you're the curtain odds from
- 53:09Saturday to today who's going to win the presidency? Trump on Saturday was minus
- 53:16one ten. Today he is currently minus two thirty three. So that means
- 53:21you have to lay two hundred and thirty three dollars down just to win one
- 53:24hundred dollars back. So that is a heavy, heavy favorite. Biden,
- 53:29who trailed Kamala before all this pubove on Saturday, is now beating her.
- 53:35He's plus five twenty and she fell all the way to fourteen fifty, which
- 53:38means to me that they don't think he's being replaced. I think they can't
- 53:45they. I don't think that's too soon or too late, too late to
- 53:47do it movement, it's too late to do it now. I think they
- 53:51should have Like Trump two thirty three and Biden five twenty is like, you
- 53:57know, Alabama Crimson Tide versus what I say, Florida Gulf Coast twenty something
- 54:05point favorite. You know, and but we see how quickly this ship changes
- 54:10daily. It's true, you never know, it is daily. They're both
- 54:14they're both going to be alive, right Well, that that is a just
- 54:22get murdered, bro I mean, that's why they could both die of old
- 54:25age. I mean, the drum's up there too, isn't He's yeah,
- 54:30he went golf in the next day. That's the thing. Out in the
- 54:31heat. I don't know, man, Like, I don't want to go
- 54:35in the seat. I feel I had it. Oh my god. I'm
- 54:37sure they'll both be there come November. But that's a I don't even really
- 54:43realize you could bet on the president. It seems like, yeah, it
- 54:46seems like it should be legal, you know, but you can bet on
- 54:52it if you want to. All right, Well, that brings us to
- 54:55the douche of the weak portion the show. I actually was going to I
- 55:01have a runner up, and her name is Ingrid and Dress. If anyone
- 55:07watched the home Run Derby last night in its entirety, she was the anthem
- 55:12singer. Apparently I don't follow country music. She is a four time Grammy
- 55:16nominee, not a winner. And I'm sitting there watching it with Braden and
- 55:22she starts singing. In the first like ten seconds, I look at him
- 55:25like she fucking sucks, dude, Oh no, And then she kept singing
- 55:30and it was just she she crackled, she was missing the high notes when
- 55:36you get home. Just watch it. You may even turn off after thirty
- 55:39seconds. So in my head, I'm like, man, that girl must
- 55:43have been bombed. Well sure enough. Today she posts on her Instagram that
- 55:47she checked herself into rehab. She apologizes for everything, and she hopes to
- 55:53come back one day, and you know, the whole typical I fucked up
- 55:58apology. I mean social media, you owned it, I guess. Or
- 56:00no, no, that's why, as you know, run her rock.
- 56:05Yeah, yeah, this is your big moment. I guess she dates somebody
- 56:08that or her husband is somebody that's involved in MLB, So it's probably she
- 56:13got it or anything right right, right, right right, And I think
- 56:15that's probably how she got the gig. You're nominated for four Grammys. I
- 56:20mean that's I'm sure she can sing. It's a tough song, though,
- 56:23and I've sang it a couple of times. No, no, no,
- 56:29it's a great anthem. I love it. Yeah, I'm always happy to
- 56:31sing it. And one that like prolongs it or you just kind of get
- 56:35through it. Uh. I think I sing it pretty much like the typical
- 56:40you know, yeah, like you like trying to try not to drag,
- 56:44but at the end you let that little you know, a little that little
- 56:46spot for people to clap. Hopefully they clap. I think they do.
- 56:50I think they do, no matter even if, like I bet last night,
- 56:52they still cheer. Maybe they clap. She was done, maybe it
- 56:54was over. Yeah you knows standing have you seen the one? Uh?
- 57:01And I felt so bad for this girl. I think it was like a
- 57:04minor league hockey games, like you, I'm a big hockey fan. She
- 57:07was singing. I think she might have been like French Canadians, so she
- 57:10was doing both anthems and maybe just wasn't that familiar with Star spangled banner.
- 57:15She came out and like screwed up the words and then stopped and then panicked.
- 57:19I went sorry, and then ran into the like off, and they
- 57:22got her to come back out to try again, and then she slipped on
- 57:23the ice and fell, and then she just went back off again. I
- 57:28feel so bad for her, But it's like it's very funny you no,
- 57:34yeah, yeah, like everyone here in front of people though, right,
- 57:37like we'll see who singings in that son. It's the actual All Star Games.
- 57:39So it's probably something more famous, obviously for sure than the home run
- 57:44derby Gal. But she's getting crushed on the internet though, I mean I
- 57:50knew it wasn't her, like you know what I mean, Like I knew
- 57:52like something was wrong. Yeah, yeah, this talented and fuck this up
- 57:55so bad it can be hard to. Like I've said, I did.
- 58:00Canada once at a Sound Tigers game. They called me like the day of
- 58:05because I guess they like there's only two Canadian teams in the AHL, and
- 58:10they didn't realize they had one of them. And they had like some girl
- 58:13in high school who was supposed to send the anthem and like, oh,
- 58:15she doesn't know it, and like the DJ knew when he's like you're a
- 58:17hockey fan, right, do you know? Canada is like sure, like
- 58:20I'm never saying it, but I have to be in front of yea,
- 58:22yeah I could. I could know the note. Yeah yeah, yeah exactly.
- 58:25And I was like, I definitely know it, and so they're like,
- 58:29yeah, we'll like we'll pay you a little bit, we'll give you,
- 58:30don't bring as many tickets as you want, which makes sense because there
- 58:32was nobody there. But before the game, I'm I'm in this like dressing
- 58:38room. It's me the refs the mascot who's got his whole top off and
- 58:45he's just got like suspenders on. He's just chain smoking cigarettes. It's like
- 58:47it's a scene out of like goon or something. And then this girl with
- 58:52her mom and she's got to be like, you know, fifteen or whatever,
- 58:55and she's just like shaking like she's nervous, and like now it's almost
- 59:00making me less nervous. I'm like, no, you're gonna be fine,
- 59:02and they're like, I'm gonna be fine too, right, And she's got
- 59:06tape over her ears, and like, what is the tape over your ears
- 59:07for it? She's like, well, they told me that there's a two
- 59:10second delay from the speakers to when it hits you. Oh really, So
- 59:15sometimes he's big. You know, granted baseball is gonna be outside, but
- 59:19that can really throw you off. And they said, don't look yourself on
- 59:24the JumboTron because it's not going to be in sync at all. Right,
- 59:28So, I you know, I haven't seen it from last night, but
- 59:30maybe that was a factor, or maybe she was just hammered. I don't
- 59:34know. Like all right, that brings me to the douche of the week,
- 59:40who you got you know Jack Black is right, of course, Yeah,
- 59:44of course, Tenacious D. He is in a lot of actually pretty
- 59:49funny movies. I will give him. That's good one good like kind of
- 59:52character actor like Jackass, like his name. Yeah, so this is his
- 59:57band in Australia last night. I hope you can hear. You're okay,
- 1:00:00it's just kind of in my computer, but a little snippet from it.
- 1:00:04So he's, uh, the band made his Tyler gas and it was his
- 1:00:07birthday apparently, So give this a listener next time. In front of It's
- 1:00:30like you said Canada though, but I read that it was Australia. I'm
- 1:00:34not really sure where it happened. But he didn't. I mean he said
- 1:00:37happy birthday. I thought he said Canada. But whatever. Either way,
- 1:00:40so tough. Look, and you know, I know it's comedy. It's
- 1:00:45common now. I see it everywhere. Well I think I think they're trying
- 1:00:47to be fun. I think it's comedy, right, Like the problem is
- 1:00:51way for that. It's not even that. It's like you're talking about the
- 1:00:54crazy United States former possibly future, and he literally like almost had his head
- 1:01:01blown off the people to watch, and you know, we weren't alive when
- 1:01:07JFK got his head blown, people still talk about it. I can't believe
- 1:01:10it's a fucking image that you want anyone in America to see. And let's
- 1:01:15flip the script. If that was by it, there'd be riots everywhere right
- 1:01:20now. It would just mean like like like Greg Goffeldt said last night,
- 1:01:23dude, we just go out more loans. We had a peaceful little you
- 1:01:27know, uh kumbaya in the streets were candles that he survived, and if
- 1:01:31he died, it wouldn't be no civil war because one Republicans have all the
- 1:01:36guns and they know. But today Jack Black apologized, which is kind of
- 1:01:44ironic because he's literally that was just the audio. There's a video of this,
- 1:01:47and he's like kind of like slabbed, laughing like they're all chuckling it
- 1:01:51up, and of course somebody filmed it. And now they canceled the rest
- 1:01:55of their tour because of this insensitive to but you know in the moment comment,
- 1:02:01and he's just one of a million. They're all over the internet,
- 1:02:05Like he said a Keepboard Warrior earlier. I'm sure he's getting you know,
- 1:02:09and everyone that really puts really wacky shit out there has nothing to lose,
- 1:02:14nothing already. So that's why they become so strong on the internet. You
- 1:02:17know, they're some of these guys, fuck off, these CEOs of for
- 1:02:22the most part, everyone that's spewing hatred, and on both sides of the
- 1:02:24aisle, both sure is because they don't have anything, and they want to
- 1:02:30be talked to, They want to purpose, they want everyone to all that,
- 1:02:34and that's why they do it. And you know, I know,
- 1:02:37like I don't say my base, but I know my friends who are my
- 1:02:40base. And when Trump got shot, immediately this quote came into my mind
- 1:02:47from the wire Omar little and I said this on Sunday when I did a
- 1:02:51quick, little ten minute thing, is you know, you come up the
- 1:02:53King, you best not miss He was one of the drug dealers and they
- 1:02:59they went for a hit them and they didn't get him. Yeah, And
- 1:03:01it's like the literally the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw
- 1:03:04so I posted it and of course you got you know, ship from both
- 1:03:07calling him a king like everyone it's from just like ye Yeah, And sure
- 1:03:15enough did Portnoy posts a fucking T shirt ten hours later of Trump doing this,
- 1:03:21and on the bottom he says, if you come at the king,
- 1:03:22oh my god, I ago yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah seven
- 1:03:29there yeah yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. He's uh, he's I
- 1:03:34mean, I feel like Portnoy's always right at the center of anything kind of
- 1:03:37controversially. You, I mean, he he seems to know how to spin
- 1:03:39it, you know, in a way that works for him. You want
- 1:03:43one last text? I just got sure, say who's from? All right?
- 1:03:47You know? Alex Jones is Alex Jones like said Sandy Hook was a
- 1:03:52hoax and he got for that guy. That guy Yeah, yeah, fucking
- 1:03:57nutty right when Yeah, but a lot off he says, it becomes real.
- 1:04:01He just wrote breaking Deep State may use tactical nuclear weapon to kill Trump,
- 1:04:08Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Tuckle Carlson, tactical nuke to kill Oh
- 1:04:14that's what I ran was gonna do. And Joe Rogan to be hit next,
- 1:04:24I said, the poison, yeah, this whole thing. Yeah,
- 1:04:30but yeah, I wonder if that kid too, like, you know,
- 1:04:34was he a paid hit man? Was he just like, well that was
- 1:04:36the second shooter theory going on? Was he just some of the one to
- 1:04:40like, like, why do people shoot up schools like what do they have
- 1:04:42against the kids. I think they just want to Like, I'm going to
- 1:04:44die anyway, and I want to do it in a awful huge way,
- 1:04:48you know what I mean. Like one of the biggest liberal talking points is
- 1:04:50getting rid of guns. They don't, but you can't. I mean,
- 1:04:54I'm a liberal, and I already know you can't get rid of the guns.
- 1:04:56They're already out there, you know what I mean, Like you could,
- 1:04:58maybe it could be better restrict Like, I think it's fine to say
- 1:05:01there is a gun violence problem in this country, but you also can't just
- 1:05:03go get rid of the gun. It's like, what is the solution?
- 1:05:05I don't know. But that's why I'm not in politics for sure. I
- 1:05:11don't know. It's I'm here things. Well. I literally what happened to
- 1:05:15Alice Jones with Sandy Hook, Like, Yeah, the guy's a douche bag
- 1:05:18for insinuating that nobody died that day or I didn't. I didn't even know
- 1:05:21what he said because I don't follow the gun. Yeah, but to force
- 1:05:26him to pay billions of dollars in restitution of families for basically using free speech,
- 1:05:30Yeah, it's just crazy to me. Crazy to me, I mean
- 1:05:35Trump needs a bullseye on him now and then how you get in trouble for
- 1:05:43that rhetoric by Alice Jones is I don't know, it's just yeah, I
- 1:05:45mean I have application forms for conservatism here. I know you're kind of the
- 1:05:51liberal. It's fine with me. We're friends. Yeah, but you don't
- 1:05:55you're not like, like, I'm not far right and you're not. So
- 1:05:59I think it's like like, I'm only registered as a Democrat so I can
- 1:06:01vote in the primary like I used to, not because I don't consider myself
- 1:06:05a Democrat. I also just think the party is like not organized or well
- 1:06:10run, Like look at the fucking mess they have right now, you know
- 1:06:12what I mean? Like so, and there's been conservatives I like, I
- 1:06:16just Trump to me has always been a bit too unhinged and dangerous, unpredictable.
- 1:06:23I sort of like the idea of shocking the system. What do you
- 1:06:26mean by January sixth? I think he could have he could have prevented people
- 1:06:30from dying, and he didn't. And who died? There were police officers
- 1:06:33that died on January sixth. Yeah incorrect, Yeah, no, it's very
- 1:06:36correct. It's not one person died actually, died, but the cops that
- 1:06:41died days later from national causes. One guy died that day. He got
- 1:06:45like that. I don't know the guy's name, but yeah, well look
- 1:06:47I'll look it up when I get home. But or send me what you
- 1:06:50know, what you've got and I'll look at both sides. But regardless,
- 1:06:56the Capitol building shouldn't have been start, like, we need to have the
- 1:06:58guy preach law and order and then this half and you know were let in
- 1:07:00by the FBI. Have you seen those videos? I haven't seen those.
- 1:07:03I mean a lot of a lot of I don't want to make it.
- 1:07:05Believe me, I'm not making an argument out of this, but a lot
- 1:07:08of the videos I've seen and like literally like it's like a dude walking with
- 1:07:13the lectern like it just it just you know, they should not have been
- 1:07:15there. Yes, they should be arrested, but to go away for seven
- 1:07:18years for sitting on no, I'm putting your legs up on Pelosi's desks.
- 1:07:23Yeah, I got mob mob mentality, you know, like the people who
- 1:07:26were like the people that were there was actually the people that were there to
- 1:07:31like you know, whoever was the ring leaders or whatever, like if they
- 1:07:33can identify if you're just mob mentality, like a lot of people should be
- 1:07:38slapping the wrist or whatever, you know what I mean, Like I'm not
- 1:07:40seeing people like three blocks over. It's like if you were just in the
- 1:07:45kind of the rally, like who cares? You know what I mean?
- 1:07:46Could Trump have done a better job, of course, because they they would
- 1:07:50listen to me. He's like, hey, everyone go home. And he
- 1:07:51did eventually say that it just was pretty late, you know, well he
- 1:07:58said, I think one of the things he said at his speech was let's
- 1:08:01march peacefully to the Capitol just to protest the electrics going through. I don't
- 1:08:08think if he had any idea they were gonna break in. Of course,
- 1:08:11you know, no one's found the maker of that pipe bomb either, and
- 1:08:15there's just going on rabbit holes, and I know you don't. Probably it's
- 1:08:20just another story that will never get to the bottom of ever, just like
- 1:08:25this shooting. Probably, well, I mean, if there's a if it's
- 1:08:28only been two days, right, I think there's there's gonna be a lot
- 1:08:30more to uncover about, like who this kid was, guy's running it,
- 1:08:33secret services running? Are we really going to get counts of the shooter on
- 1:08:40top of that building. That was what was crazy. They didn't get to
- 1:08:42him, no sooner. It could just be bad security. Like sniper was
- 1:08:45using a range finder and spotted him. Wasn't he firinging? Oh there's never
- 1:08:49the show a golf range finder like looking around on the rooftops and I guess
- 1:08:56couldn't see the gun. I'm like, I would, I would fire warning
- 1:09:00shot. Yeah, sure, yeah, And the guy gets up of the
- 1:09:02gun and take him out right. Sure if he's just like, oh my
- 1:09:04god, like, don't shoot. I wonder if portraying not to because the
- 1:09:08minute a shot rings out and there's just like that big of a crowd people
- 1:09:11like people getting trampled, you know what I mean. You see it's somebody
- 1:09:13on the roof. They should at least be like, get him off the
- 1:09:15stage. Yeah, you don't have to tackle him off the stage. Get
- 1:09:17him off stage now? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, well, maybe
- 1:09:20it's not a threat. We can continue later. But we had a big
- 1:09:24breach of security here. Yeah, yeah, no, it's not. It's
- 1:09:29not a good looking I mean, do you think a lot of this is
- 1:09:30DEI hires? I mean, you see a lot of women with him last
- 1:09:35night so the director says, she's mandated a higher thirty percent women for presidential
- 1:09:41detail. I don't know. You see the video of the one girl,
- 1:09:45so you haven't watched much of this. She couldn't holster her guns, got
- 1:09:49to holster her fucking gun. There was one woman in his security detail that
- 1:09:53pulled them off the stage. That's all I saw, Yeah, with her
- 1:09:56head down and his fucking body exposed. But anyway, no, there's a
- 1:10:00girl they hold it on. Then they sent She looked like Melissa McCarthy,
- 1:10:04you know, that big the bad actress. I'm trying to think who she
- 1:10:08is. She's kind of I don't know. She's been in some sitcoms and
- 1:10:12a couple of bit parts of movies any like nineties era, around the twenty
- 1:10:17twenty times, and uh like like they were like the memes of Internet always
- 1:10:23wins these events, no matter what, because there's some shit. It's like
- 1:10:26it's like the best and worst thing, you know what I mean. But
- 1:10:28Japan already made an anime of this fucking incident, and like it has like
- 1:10:32Trump stopped the bullet with his fucking fingers right the floor is here. It's
- 1:10:39but I don't know, I think if I was president, I'd want the
- 1:10:42toughest SOBS Navy seal. Yeah, and some girl does not a holster or
- 1:10:47gone. It keeps asking what do we do? What do we do?
- 1:10:49No? Of course that's the thing. It's like, and it's like I
- 1:10:54might be a bit on the left, but like when it comes to like
- 1:10:57being ready, like I'm a big believer in defense contract acting and like pro
- 1:11:00military and all that stuff. Like that's the whole thing about a Lahart politics.
- 1:11:02Like just because I'm on the left doesn't mean I have to be like
- 1:11:05not to say that the right is pro war then either side of pro war,
- 1:11:09but but you know what reward it's arguable. But you know, it's
- 1:11:17uh, like I feel like some people when they say, like you know,
- 1:11:21God bless the troops, are saying it out of formality, but like
- 1:11:24I think that's something that's something I take to heart and believe, you know,
- 1:11:27sacrificing. Yeah, dude, Like I know it's like it sounds cheesy
- 1:11:30like they're defending our freedom or whatever, but like I do believe that,
- 1:11:33you know what I mean. Like it's yeah, maybe maybe that's a word
- 1:11:36that's thrown down our throats a lot you know what I mean, freedom for
- 1:11:40in freedom. But it's like no, like we can have a conversation on
- 1:11:43this podcast different viewpoints and times because of people out there. They gave everything
- 1:11:48so that you know, that's never been lost on me. You know,
- 1:11:54it's sad state of affairs in this country right now in the world. Really
- 1:11:59yeah, but is it just going to be a dark period of time?
- 1:12:02You know, we're gonna get out of it, I have to think.
- 1:12:05So my fear is like, you know, let's say Trump wins, he's
- 1:12:10heavily favored right now after Saturday. Sure, it's not gonna unify anything.
- 1:12:15And like you said, you like it won't be unified and Biden wins,
- 1:12:17No, but Trump, they're both gonna divide still at least he keeps saying
- 1:12:25lower the temperature, and then the next day he keeps referring to Trump is
- 1:12:29you know threat the de mind it's all these like hate campaigns now to you
- 1:12:32know what I mean, it's like there's no more like this is my small
- 1:12:34time politics, you know, Like I don't remember the last time, like
- 1:12:40I was like this is what I'm all about, Like I don't even know
- 1:12:42what either of these guys policies are I just know what they say about the
- 1:12:45other person. You know what's bickering, you know what I mean? Yeah,
- 1:12:53can we get to the main issue, not battery either, right?
- 1:12:57Right? Because you know the left is going to think, they're sure,
- 1:13:00it's gonna think their ship and you know, and abortion seems to be the
- 1:13:03big dividing line right now. Sure, And I've talked about it before,
- 1:13:09like I think it just I think it should be case by case. Sure.
- 1:13:14I'm not I'm not a man of faith. I'm not a religious person,
- 1:13:17but I wish I had the Bill Bert clip when he was in Red
- 1:13:20Rock. He was talking about abortion, and he wasn't really saying which side
- 1:13:26he was on. He tows the line a bit, but he goes but
- 1:13:30I'll tell you this. I was baking a cake and I put that cake
- 1:13:34in the oven, and my wife comes by and it's on in the bag
- 1:13:38of a twenty minute, she fucking hooks it across the fucking room, Like
- 1:13:42wait a second, She's like, well it wasn't He's like, it was
- 1:13:45gonna be a cake, right right, right? Right? Know what I
- 1:13:48mean? Right, that's a totally fair argument. I think, like and
- 1:13:53I believe me, I'm I cannot rely, said Bill Burgh, like he
- 1:13:55doesn't, he's he's so family. You've seen that, right, great show.
- 1:14:01But I think for me, like it's it's just not up to me
- 1:14:06to say, like I'm not a woman, I'm never gonna have a And
- 1:14:10that kind of makes me pro choice right in here, like like, you
- 1:14:14know, no one should be pro abortion, that's not what we're saying here,
- 1:14:17Like I just think everyone should be aborted, but not well that's a
- 1:14:20lot, right, but pro choice is that it's like it should be your
- 1:14:25choice if you believe that the soul was formed the minute of conception. Like
- 1:14:30but like I just don't feel comfortable like imposing my belief on somebody else.
- 1:14:34It's just not you know, like yeah, if it was like my girlfriend
- 1:14:36or whatever, I'd want to have some at least say I suppose it should
- 1:14:41be should you know, it's not my I'm not the vessel for this,
- 1:14:44but you know that's right now. I just I say, I say,
- 1:14:46pretty far out of that one, you know, But I feel like it's
- 1:14:49an age thing too, sure. I think you know, when I was
- 1:14:53in college, I had a scare with a girl and and she said to
- 1:14:56me oh you want to you want to abort it, right, And I'm
- 1:15:00like, well, maybe this is where I made my stance in life.
- 1:15:02I said, I'm just the guy. I mean, I'll do whatever,
- 1:15:05yeah, exactly exactly together, exactly exactly. I don't want to do that,
- 1:15:12exactly, But I can't rape and insects. Yeah, health right,
- 1:15:16if the mother's gonna if the mother's gonna die, you know what I mean.
- 1:15:19Yeah, but don't like change your mind six months and you know what
- 1:15:24I mean, Like, actually, you know what, you know, I
- 1:15:26think it's it's it's it's a it's a sensitive subject for a lot of people,
- 1:15:31and I understand both sides of it. It's not it's not a really,
- 1:15:35I just don't feel like it's my place to say, you know what
- 1:15:38I mean. I think a lot of the things that that divide the country
- 1:15:42like they're all sort of I'm not to say there aren't real issues. Abortions
- 1:15:45of real issue. These things are real issues, and then people feel passionate
- 1:15:47about them, but really arguing about like we're really just arguing about money.
- 1:15:51We're just worrying about where the taxes should be. That's all. That's like
- 1:15:56Reagan actually realized it, and he's like, you know, and you can
- 1:16:00say he's a great president and everything. I kind of think the original divibe
- 1:16:04we're seeing now started with him because he basically realized we need a couple of
- 1:16:08other weapons on our side, got abortion involved, and then people are starting
- 1:16:12to argue about things, not that they don't matter, but really, at
- 1:16:15the end of the day, if you're like, hey, you're gonna keep
- 1:16:17this much money and the wealthy will be taxed here whatever, it's like,
- 1:16:20I'm not an economist. I don't know. Maybe if I was, i'd
- 1:16:24become Republican. I'm doing it wrong, but but yeah, I maybe.
- 1:16:30But that's really like morally liberal, I think exactly. And I think we
- 1:16:35just lose sight of that sometimes. And of course there are other real issues.
- 1:16:39I don't mean to downplay them, you know, Like I feel like
- 1:16:41everyone should have their place here and have their opinions be heard. But I
- 1:16:46think a lot of times we're arguing about some other focal point that isn't really
- 1:16:49you know, and that's probably what they want us to be arguing about.
- 1:16:54With AI and TikTok and all this shit and clipping of videos and breast context,
- 1:17:00it is really will never be unified if that's just going to continue to
- 1:17:03be exactly. Yeah, I mean we got to like really really be like
- 1:17:08like what you're saying to the left, they can't take Donald Trump praying as
- 1:17:12Donald Trump praying with the mass. They have to turn into he fell asleep
- 1:17:15at the I don't I don't mean to laugh at it, but it's just
- 1:17:18like it's so it's so funny, but it's so bad, like like what
- 1:17:23come on? Like that's that's dirty, and I'm sure both sides are hard
- 1:17:26doing it, but it's like that is that? Is that what we've come
- 1:17:29to you? Under? One one covet though, is Biden Act freeze like
- 1:17:34the June team thing? Was this the literally the whole left. Oh that's
- 1:17:39a false flag and it didn't really happen. No, he's frozen about twenty
- 1:17:43five seconds, But yeah, I don't know. And that's the other thing
- 1:17:45too, like man, like how did you how did you you saw this
- 1:17:49coming from so far out? Like that's like it was when I watched the
- 1:17:55bait and I went right to CNN afterwards and I'm like they're like, oh
- 1:17:58my god, it's over for him, and I'm like, at first I
- 1:18:00was like kind of cheering it because I really don't want Biden to win.
- 1:18:02But then I'm like, ah, fuck, this is what they wanted.
- 1:18:08They've in town as long as they could. Then he's fine. And the
- 1:18:11minute in the national stage everyone saw that he wasn't, which we already knew
- 1:18:14he was, so now they can make were gonna make a change. And
- 1:18:16then of course this happened Saturday. So is that enough to call off the
- 1:18:21dogs for Biden? I don't know. If Biden stays, there's no way
- 1:18:25I see he wins. Kamala goes in, there's no way I see she
- 1:18:28wins. But there are some people on that ticket. I mean, it
- 1:18:30could be Gavin Newsom, who is cringe worthy but appeals to a lot of
- 1:18:34that. He's he's like even a little too far left for me. But
- 1:18:39but it's also California, you know what I mean. So when you play
- 1:18:43at California, you gotta pay Cali taxes No. No. Ninety nine,
- 1:18:46and you come home and or you pay some place something. It depends.
- 1:18:55So there's a there's a wedding band company. I've taken some gig from there,
- 1:19:00but I don't know. I think they run there like their companies,
- 1:19:03Like I work for them in New York too, and I think, like
- 1:19:06I get paid from like someplace in Texas. I don't know how it all
- 1:19:10works. I mean it's definitely on the books, like I get left.
- 1:19:17Yeah, yeah, because even if you like don't want to film there anymore
- 1:19:20because if you're working, it's so expensive. I know, it's crazy.
- 1:19:25It became like I think, things just move around, right, Like taxes
- 1:19:29are gonna become like the new hotspot because you know, California was like the
- 1:19:32frontier. Let's get everything out there. It's cheap to do things out there.
- 1:19:35It's interesting. Like even like Detroit, after you know, the collapse
- 1:19:39of the like the motor industry, they had a resurgence in film because they
- 1:19:43had all these warehouse spaces and like we're gonna have huge tax breaks for filmmakers
- 1:19:45to come here, and can I do the same thing. And it's like
- 1:19:48things just move around, like once it gets once there's enough money somewhere,
- 1:19:53and then like there's a point where it breaks where people are like, oh
- 1:19:55you know what, yeah, yeah, I get like I think California is
- 1:20:00beautiful, Like if you have a lot of money, you can afford to
- 1:20:01buy a house there. Why wouldn't you I get that, But you know
- 1:20:05it's I think it's an art thing that really pisses the right off a lot.
- 1:20:09It's just these celebrities just they don't have a grip on reality. It's
- 1:20:13like, especially now we're now at our age, we're into like all the
- 1:20:16celebrities are like a child of a celebrity, you know, like we're moving
- 1:20:20up in those it's all you know, nepotism, and these kids are all
- 1:20:26grown with silver spoons and they don't they don't know this, and it's and
- 1:20:30it's so easy to have a following, you know, just like influencers and
- 1:20:33stuff. But it's like, where's your credentials? You know what I mean?
- 1:20:35Like, I think one thing that I always try to say is like,
- 1:20:39yes, I believe these things. I'm a little more rooted in my
- 1:20:44moral beliefs than my political beliefs. But I'm also willing to just check things
- 1:20:47at the door and say, you know what, like, hey, like
- 1:20:49maybe I just don't know, you know what I mean? Like I think
- 1:20:51we're so quick to grab something that we saw someone share and be like yes,
- 1:20:57but it's like, you know, you've gone down some rabbit holes,
- 1:20:59and it's like that can either give you more information that's correct or more information
- 1:21:01that's wrong. You know, like it's so hard to check all about the
- 1:21:05Las Vegas shooting with a guy sitting in your chair that was at Las Vegas
- 1:21:11and we were literally two different He was there, yeah, and it was
- 1:21:16such an interesting conversation and you know, he still didn't believe the things that
- 1:21:23I saw or read or anything, because he was there and I get that
- 1:21:27right, And we came through conclusion, like he was swept on the run
- 1:21:31so fast it was literally off MSM in three days. And it's called,
- 1:21:38uh, one October, now, was that the data happened first? Oh?
- 1:21:43Yeah, right before The Night started their season, right one October or
- 1:21:46whatever or sixth October first, Yeah, And it's like because they labeled that
- 1:21:51way, so you can't really google search like or national excuse me Vegas shooting,
- 1:21:57like you can, it'll come up, but like the real juicy dirt
- 1:22:00stuff they labeled it that so people be directed in a different spot. And
- 1:22:03interesting, like how manipulative people can be on the Internet and just you know,
- 1:22:11like I always say, Instagram's listening to me now, so you know,
- 1:22:14we'll probably have you know, Ian Biggs ad come yeah. I mean
- 1:22:17they Apple admitted that the phones listened to you. Oh yeah, they like
- 1:22:21they flat out admitted it. What's weird is when I think something shows like,
- 1:22:26there's so weird. No, we're not there yet, we come on.
- 1:22:30I don't know. I don't know because there'll be times like I'll be
- 1:22:32typing something in a text message and it'll say, like the next seven words
- 1:22:36like in light font. I'm like, that's exactly what I was gonna type.
- 1:22:41That is fucking right. It's a yeah. I'm like, what the
- 1:22:45fuck? All right, we're at one twenty two. Let's go, we're
- 1:22:47gonna wrap this up. Yeah. Man, it's a little hockey. Oh
- 1:22:50man, I could we could do a whole other podcast. I don't feel
- 1:22:54the middle of the season's huge. So we're both rooms fans. Where do
- 1:22:59you think be hot season so far? Are you cool with swimming taking the
- 1:23:02lead as or number one without Homark backing it up? And uh, you
- 1:23:06know how much longer? I don't know, what do you think? I
- 1:23:11don't really until training camp totally. I know the moves they made. I
- 1:23:16love it. I love everything they did. I didn't like the return they
- 1:23:18got in the hall Mark but I think that and I love all Mark like,
- 1:23:23and I love the goalie hug. I loved all of it. It's
- 1:23:24like, you know, you know, you know you can keep them both
- 1:23:27at that yes, yes, six seven. Yeah, but he but I
- 1:23:30mean, he's not going to play for a while. He's he's he's eighteen
- 1:23:34years old or seventeen or whatever. He's a draft pick. But they also
- 1:23:38had to take back corpors Salo, who's I think they're gonna They have a
- 1:23:43history of bringing in goalies that may be underperformer then getting you know, like
- 1:23:47the goaltending. Well, but it's just his contract isn't great, so I
- 1:23:51would have thought, you know, they could have gotten a little more.
- 1:23:55But I think part of the problem was they wanted they wanted to have a
- 1:24:00first round pick, and so they had to do it by the draft.
- 1:24:01But like swingman's still not signed. You know, he will. I'm sure
- 1:24:05they have. I'm sure they have a framework on a deal. They must
- 1:24:09know it's happening. Yeah, But I in terms of everything else they did
- 1:24:12picking up a last lind Holm and Nikita Zadoro. I uh, that's huge
- 1:24:16because he's he's a two way center. He's not he's not Ray, He's
- 1:24:21not necessarily he's not Patris burs Round. But he has a lot of the
- 1:24:26same parts of his game. Yeah, Like the contract is going to take
- 1:24:30him to what age thirty six or something, but like these guys play later
- 1:24:34and there's a door off, like they were. The Bruins had become too
- 1:24:38soft, you know what I mean, Like and not to say you have
- 1:24:41to be the big bad Bruins of the seventies, but they needed some meat
- 1:24:45potatoes on the on the back end. Oh yeah, there we go,
- 1:24:46there it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I love
- 1:24:55what they did. I think, which they kept Maroon though I do too,
- 1:24:59even just just have in the room. Just yeah, even if he
- 1:25:01didn't play that much and he was like the thirteenth forward, I would have
- 1:25:03loved for them to keep him too. But they got a couple. They
- 1:25:06got some jam in the bottom six. Now that Castellect guy that came over
- 1:25:11from in the Ottawa trade, he's he's got some jam Jones. I think,
- 1:25:16like there's gonna be competition in the bottom six. And then Matt Patra
- 1:25:20got hurt last year and he was looking really promising so so like who knows.
- 1:25:25They they're kind of leaving that that two right wing spot open. So
- 1:25:29maybe Fabian Mycel makes the jump. But if he doesn't, you know,
- 1:25:33how much is Marshall as captain. I think he's just going to have He's
- 1:25:40so competitive that like he'll and he's such a smart player that he'll figure out
- 1:25:45if he's like, okay, I'm losing a step, he'll still be a
- 1:25:46really good third line, complimentary player and a good leader. I think I
- 1:25:50think he's playing what is he thirty five? I think he's playing at minimum
- 1:25:56two three, like three seasons. I think he'll Yeah, you know,
- 1:26:00I was a little surprised Bergron and Crazie didn't come back, but I guess
- 1:26:03they were. Bergron was kind of beat up and had been thinking about retiring
- 1:26:09for a while. Yeah, I still think I leave both of them on
- 1:26:12the table. Still, you think they would come back. I mean if
- 1:26:15they don't have to go through training camp, yeah, yeah, or like
- 1:26:19you know, come back. It's not an Olympic here. Yeah, there
- 1:26:23was a Cup this year. They're doing like the four nation shut down.
- 1:26:26They're doing the fate, which is the Czechs won the World Championships and Art
- 1:26:30weren't invited to the Four Nations because it was like pre determined it was gonna
- 1:26:32be like the Checks aren't gonna win. And yeah, that was the thing
- 1:26:35too with Crachie. He said he was going to retire from the Bruins rehab
- 1:26:40his injuries and then he was going to play for like a team in check
- 1:26:43so he could play in the World Championships. And apparently he wasn't able to
- 1:26:45come back, so he may have a he's a kind of a quiet guy
- 1:26:48that he's going to be forty, right, he's yeah, he's probably thirty
- 1:26:53nine now. Yeah, so I think it's done. I think if they
- 1:26:57two years ago and they're just fucking winning, he's like, you know what,
- 1:27:00you never know? Fourth one. I mean, that'd be incredible,
- 1:27:02that'd be incredible. I found a lot in the playoffs, and I knew
- 1:27:06Florida was the worst matchup for US. Oh yeah, just like with the
- 1:27:10Rangers, like the fast and heavy, just the way they played, man,
- 1:27:13and they deserved the cup. Oh yeah, Florida was he deserved to
- 1:27:15get fucking tossed around a little bit. Yeah, because they're fucking dirty.
- 1:27:18If we were Florida fans'd we'd be losing our minds. Yeah, that's not
- 1:27:23like half They got Zador, Like, yeah, he's a little dirty,
- 1:27:25but like I want him on my team. Yeah. Like so I don't
- 1:27:28know, like maybe maybe they make a little I'll come back, you know,
- 1:27:31we'll see what happens. But I think I think they're deeper. I
- 1:27:34think getting Lindholms slots everybody in because they were kind of like who's our one
- 1:27:38seed? Coil Zaka and neither those guys are really a one seat. It's
- 1:27:41going to slought everybody in a little better. And then if Patrick takes the
- 1:27:44next step and pushes Coil back to your three, CE like, that's a
- 1:27:46deep team. And I didn't lose or shed once here about the Brusk leaving,
- 1:27:53Yeah, he's this is so many open nets. I know, he's
- 1:27:56kind of like he still scores like, you know, twenty twenty five gold
- 1:28:00a year, and he's got a lot of speed, but and he plays
- 1:28:01big in the playoffs, but he's inconsistent, you know, so much better
- 1:28:04than I know. He's frustrating, right, Yeah, he's just one of
- 1:28:09those enigmas in hockey, like why are you not better? Right? Like
- 1:28:12you have all the skills right right, and he'll go light it up.
- 1:28:15He'll go light it up, and what the fuck? I think he will
- 1:28:18do well. He's gonna probably play He's been playing his off wing for like
- 1:28:23his whole career. He's probably gonna play on the first line of the left
- 1:28:26wing with Patterson. So I think he will score thirty thirty five. I
- 1:28:29won't be surprised, probably, But would he have gotten that here? Probably
- 1:28:31not. You know, so he had his chances for sure. Yeah,
- 1:28:35you got to you gotta make you got to make those chances count and then
- 1:28:38and then you know, yeah, the first line and then you're off and
- 1:28:41running. I mean he had two big ones in the Winter Classic. I
- 1:28:44was at that game. Yeah, that was wild. I was there,
- 1:28:46Yeah, I went h It was like irresponsible decision. Like the day before
- 1:28:51I was with my girlfriend and buddy mine to play hockey. I was like,
- 1:28:55let's buy these tickets. They were like six hundred dollars a piece,
- 1:28:57and it said like your view might be obstructed, and I was like no,
- 1:29:00Like where they have the rink and the mock up, there's no poll
- 1:29:03there. That's like for baseball, they're using the same map. We get
- 1:29:05there there's like pole like right here, like we can see like part of
- 1:29:09the rank here. It's blocking one of the goals. Sot like, all
- 1:29:12right, fuck it, let's just get hammered. And we ran around the
- 1:29:15brain and it was it was cool, like kind of watch from different places
- 1:29:18until security told us to leave and yeah, there you go. Well we'll
- 1:29:21see how it goes. Yeah, we can do actually do it. We
- 1:29:26can do a whole pot on dude, the beginning of the season. I'll
- 1:29:29do a Bruins pot bring another buddy in, can't we won't come on.
- 1:29:31But my other buddy of mine is big hockey guys can't be a Bruins fans
- 1:29:36won't come on the show. Neither. Was something wrong with the wrong yea,
- 1:29:42Ian Biggs, thanks so much, and you're gonna be a snobs win.
- 1:29:45I'll be there August August eleventh with a full band with Temple Mary and
- 1:29:49Adrian Traumaton and a bunch of friends. So that'll be five to eight and
- 1:29:53so that's a Sunday, right, that's Sunday off that day. I'm going
- 1:29:56to get a crew to see Oh yeah, and uh I can't wait,
- 1:30:00can't wait, man, it's gonna be great. Thanks so much for coming
- 1:30:02on the show. Brother oh Jared, thanks for having us is luck and
- 1:30:05success and traveling the world and doing your thing and your music is awesome and
- 1:30:11any other plug. All my all my socials are at Ian Biggs Music and
- 1:30:16if you want to see dates, I'm playing just Ianbiggs music dot com.
- 1:30:19Nice. You can see all the dates there. All right, let's go.
- 1:30:23Should be an interesting the next four months. Yeah, man, oh
- 1:30:25my god, I can wait. Talk to you you soon. Man. Thanks