Nov. 27, 2023

The Gracious Two - LIVE Show 005 - Joe Sciuto

Chad Gracey and JRo (Mr. GoodTimes) discussed various concerns, including the possibility of a larger conspiracy, the arming of Afghanistan and its consequences, the release of funds to Iran, and the perceived incompetence of the current administration. They expressed frustration over the world's current state and the potential risks it poses.

Mr. GoodTimes, Chad Gracey and Joe Sciuto discussed various topics including the issue of sleeper cells, the border crisis, and their frustrations with the current administration. They also reminisced about their past experiences together, particularly their time at the restaurant grandfaloon.

Joe Sciuto, Chad Gracey and Mr. GoodTimes reminisced about their early days of +LiVe+ ( live ) & Public Affection, recalling funny and memorable moments such as buying a fake camera off the street, getting fake IDs in New York, and getting into squabbles with each other. They also discussed the changes in Times Square and the immigration situation, sharing their opinions on the matter.

Chad Gracey, GoodTimes and Joe Sciuto reminisced about their early days as a +LiVe+, sharing stories of getting into trouble in New York, Joe being a hype man, and even appearing on a TV show. They also mentioned using old footage for a New Year's Eve show in 2016.

Joe Sciuto, Chad Gracey and GoodTimes reminisced about their past experiences together, including experiences when the band was called Public Affection and their adventures in rock climbing.

Chad Gracey, Joe Sciuto and GoodTimes reminisced about their past experiences with cars, parties, and smoking in bars. They discussed the nostalgia of a bygone era and the changes in societal norms over time.

GoodTimes, Joe Sciuto and Chad Gracey discussed the changing attitudes towards drinking and driving, expressing their opinions on the legal limits and potential consequences. They also briefly touched on the idea of allowing drug use while driving and the lack of accurate detection methods.

GoodTimes, Joe Sciuto and Chad Gracey discussed various topics including the high spending on wars, the sale of leftover materials from Trump's wall, the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, and the development of cities in the Middle East. They also mentioned personal acquaintances and shared some interesting facts.

Chad Gracey and Joe Sciuto reminisced about their senior year trip to Ocean City, Maryland, where they rented a condo and caused some trouble. Their parents had to negotiate with the owner and they ended up having to pay for damages out of their band money.

Chad Gracey, GoodTimes, and Joe Sciuto reminisced about past tours, meeting famous musicians, and performing acoustic sets before Jane's Addiction concerts. They also discussed a surprise birthday party show and the debauchery that ensued during Howard Stern's Hay Day.

Chad Gracey, GoodTimes and Joe Sciuto discussed their experiences performing on Saturday Night Live and hanging out with celebrities like Rodman. They also mentioned their song choices for the show and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to share their stories.

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Pairing. Got it. Got it. And setting. Did it

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work? Yeah. Live. Live. All right. So I'm going

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to. Keep it there. We are live, ladies and gentlemen.

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We are live. Back again in full force. We have

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a special guest coming on later. Chad will let

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us know a little bit about that later. There's

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a lot going on in the world. How are you doing,

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dude? Doing well, thanks. Still in New York.

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I'll be going back to Cali on Friday, so next

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week will be from Cali. And so you're getting

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to go from the cold -ish to some nice weather

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over in Cali, hopefully. yeah it's been in the

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70s there so i mean you know kind of like it

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was here about four days five days ago have you

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been getting all the rain that jersey's been

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getting in new york we've been getting a little

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rain yeah yeah a lot but yeah a little bit i

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like a week ago i've never seen like brooklyn

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was flooded parts of manhattan it was crazy i

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did see that yes that they got some torrential

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downpours there i've never seen flooding like

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that in new york Thought they had like aqueducts

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and stuff prepared for that. But hey, when you

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get nine inches and fucking, you know, a couple

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hours, I guess. It overwhelms any system. Sure,

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sure. So what else is new? You've been paying

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attention to this lovely attack on Israel. I've

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been paying attention to that. Yeah, it's amazing.

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It's amazing to see the different reactions,

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especially from the left, which just trips me

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out. It's like they now support terrorists in

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general. Not all of them, obviously, but like

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some of them, like they're having on the view,

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they're supporting Hamas and the Palestinians.

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I mean, I don't see the Israelis going around

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kidnapping babies and chopping their heads off.

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I just don't see that. anyone from the view if

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they will go visit gaza they will be fucking

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killed in an instant as right so it just baffles

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me that they they want to take that side it's

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just hilarious but i guess that's what they do

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now it's just opposite world i mean it's just

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crazy for israel to be sandwiched like right

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in the middle east like that and relatively i

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mean this is like the biggest thing that's happened

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to them since they've been there and it's Kind

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of wondering how it took this long for something

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to escalate like this. Well, as I was saying

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earlier to you when we were talking pre -show,

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like the one thing that I'm really baffled by

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and seems really frigging weird to me is that

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Mossad missed this. It's like, you know, they

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are the CIA of Israel. Right. It's their job

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to know this. And they missed this completely.

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It didn't have any idea it was going to happen.

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I mean, that's pretty wild to me. Yeah, parts

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of me think, like, they let it happen so they

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could go and flatten Palestine, but I don't know

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shit. It could be. That could be. It could be

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a larger conspiracy at play here. Who knows?

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But the Warhawks are out in D .C. for sure. I

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mean, Lindsey Graham's coming out saying we should

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go bomb all the Iranian refineries. I mean, let's

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open that hornet's nest, too. We got Ukraine.

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The world's kind of burning down, and let's just

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throw more wood on the fire, you know? Why not?

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And isn't Iran technically nuclear, or do we

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not really know? Technically not, but they're

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moving towards it. Right, okay. Well, that's

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scary in its own right. I mean... Yes. And then

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Palestine, of course, a lot of those fighters

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were rocking U .S.-made weapons that came from

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Afghanistan. lovely joe left there come on now

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how could that happen i don't know it's just

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so weird and then of course september 11th six

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billion dollars was released to the iranians

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but that wasn't used for this come on for uh

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hostage uh trees for humanitarian purposes that's

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what iran told told those guys it was going to

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be for right Well, I mean, it's kind of funny

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that we didn't learn the first time we armed

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Afghanistan against Russia and then they used

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their weapons against us. Then did they not learn

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from that first time? Apparently not. The government

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doesn't learn those sorts of things. Oh, my God.

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It's crazy. And now, again, we're arming Ukraine

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with everything under the sun. And then probably

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once this thing with Russia is over, just going

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to leave it there. And then. some crazy people

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are gonna pick up those weapons again we seem

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to do we did it with the saddam hussein too we

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armed him and then you know yeah that's what

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happens crazy man like i mean i don't pretend

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to know like i could run the world but like some

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parts of me thinks like i could do a little bit

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better or or something than uh just throwing

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weapons around and hoping they go into the right

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hands uh yeah you'd think so you think you just

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you know look a few short years back and go We

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did this then. Let's not do that again. Yeah,

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we should learn from mistakes. Leave Afghanistan

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and leave billions of dollars of equipment there.

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Supposedly, though, they decommissioned. Is that

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true? Supposedly what? They decommissioned whatever

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they left, tanks. Well, that's what they said.

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I don't know if they left tanks, but I don't

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know. Who knows? I mean, that's what they say.

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This administration says a lot, but they lie

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through their teeth constantly. So, I mean, our

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president can't even tell the truth about teaching

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classes at Penn University, for fuck's sake.

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Right. And he can't control his dogs, apparently.

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This is the second one thrown out of the White

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House, from what I've heard, for biting Secret

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Service agents. Yeah, that's great, too. I read

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an article about saying that's the sign of a

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beta male, if you can't control a dog. Of course.

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I mean, it's a big ass German shepherd and it's

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little Joe Biden who could barely walk. I mean,

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I would alpha that dude if I was the dog. You

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know what I'm saying? I'd be like, how about

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I just hit you with my tail and knock you over,

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you freaking Momo. Momo. Momo. It's a great Momo.

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But it's just it's just weird, man. Like, I just

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don't get how we could have somebody who ran

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the country so well. and put Russia in their

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place. They weren't invading Crimea, Georgia,

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anything under somebody's rule. And then we get

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somebody in office and they have just a brazen

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balls. They're going to take over Ukraine. But

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people would prefer that rather than somebody

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who speaks a little stupid and a little misogynistic.

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They would prefer to have an complete idiot in

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the office that doesn't do anything proper than

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somebody who speaks. you know off the mouth doesn't

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really think like at least his policies were

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thought out and and and and working great yeah

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we've traded bad tweets for the world burning

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right because because president mayan can't even

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freaking speak right he can't speak at all i

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can't put a sentence together that's that's better

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than bad tweets you know i mean these people

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have mass psychosis I mean, it's been propagated

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by the mainstream media, by the Russia hoax,

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by all this fucking bullshit, the deep state,

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which some people say doesn't exist, which is

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just ridiculous to me. It's the embedded bureaucracy

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and the military -industrial complex of this

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country that runs the place, and they are all

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leaning Democrat for whatever reason. They hated

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Trump. They hated him from the beginning because

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he was an outsider, and everyone that had Trump

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derangement syndrome was taught to hate him.

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And great. So now you have the world burning

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down, and it's – so we don't have bad tweets.

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It's so much better without bad tweets in the

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world. You have inflation through the roof, gas

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prices through the roof. The border is wide open.

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You have 4 million – People that have come into

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this country, most of them now you see are military

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age men. There's no women and children coming

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across the border, barely any that you see. And

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some of these people are from the Middle East.

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So, I mean, what happened in Israel could definitely

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happen here. We have sleeper cells coming in.

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For sure. Here we go into conspiracy theory,

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but just use common fucking sense. Right. You

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could easily have sleeper cells in each city,

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especially dem cities where no one has guns.

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Right. And they could go on a fucking rampage

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and kill sanctuary hundreds of people. Exactly.

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Yeah. I mean, this definitely could happen here.

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A hundred percent. And like you said, I mean,

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President Biden, when he got in office, said

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there will be no more wall built under his administration

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because Trump was building the wall. Like, what

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the fuck, dude? Like, you are not securing our

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border, which is your number one fucking priority

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in my mind. Well, now they've reversed that now.

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Now he says, well, the law says I have to build

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it. It's like, oh my God, really? Pick a stance,

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dude. Just pick one way, please. Stop being a

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flip -flopper. Stop being controlled by whoever

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the fuck controls you and just pick one thing.

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Well, I think he realized, like, my God, that

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was the right move. And now they're coming over

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in troves and we have no way to stop it. So,

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I mean, I think he had to backpedal and say it

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was the law. Why wasn't it the law when you first

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got into office then? Yeah, because he had to

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do everything opposite Trump. That's why. Exactly.

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It's crazy. They create this frigging border

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crisis and they're like, no, the border's fine.

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It's secure. Took Elon Musk going down there

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and broadcasting it to all his followers to people

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to finally go, oh, wait a minute. cnn didn't

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tell me this it's like this i don't see this

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on cnn right fucking retards in the world it's

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just unbelievable so sorry to use that word but

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you know there's no other word to describe them

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at this point yeah slow adult doesn't quite say

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it as well as retard uh in my mind but uh to

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to To say that, you know, I watch all CNN, NBC,

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and Fox News is really the only one that gives

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you the left and right side of things. Yes, they

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sway right, of course, but they still at least

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tell you the other side of things. So it's like

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if you're watching just the other news channels,

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you're only getting one side of things and you're

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not getting the full spectrum. And you're getting

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full on propaganda at this point. You're not

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even getting real news. And shame on... people

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for being such sheep and just going through life

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being told what they should be told and paying

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attention to what they're being told to pay attention

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to like do some of your own research man uh you

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know when the governor of texas is saying this

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shit ain't working like thank god texas is armed

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because if it gets crazy they can just start

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blowing people away when it comes down to it

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well then you have mayor adams from new york

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he took a flight down you know took a trip down

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to the border he's trying to trying to blame

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texas for it's like don't blame your party's

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president right in the office and his whole cabal

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of idiots right by your kiss i mean then they

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go to they go in front of congress and just blatantly

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lie no it's secure i don't know what you're talking

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about right i mean it's just baffling it's baffling

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is right And it seems to be no end in sight.

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Like if he was continuing the build of the wall

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since he got an office, we'd be a lot further

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along. If he didn't cut razor wire to just let

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people over, we'd be way better than we are now.

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Like those little things. OK, maybe it doesn't

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keep everybody out, but it keeps most out. It

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helps. It certainly helps. And it certainly helps

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to concentrate people into areas where, you know.

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The Border Patrol can apprehend more people or

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whatever, but even once they get apprehended,

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they're just let go. Let go. It's just cash and

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release. They don't even deport anybody. It's

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like, oh, they're going to show up for court

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in two years. Yeah, right. Right. I could almost

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guarantee that if you tried to cross China's

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border without going through customs, you're

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going to be shot right in the fucking head. You

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can't even cross the Canadian border without

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frigging getting, you know, worked up. Right.

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Worked down by those people. It's like, you know,

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we used to cross the border in a bus. We had

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to get off the bus at 4 .30 a .m. and go through

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the bus with the dog. It's like, it's easier

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to walk across the U .S. border than it is to

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go into Canada. It's insane. It's ridiculous.

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I have a friend who's Australian. She has a visa.

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And she has to go back on the 21st for, you know,

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because her visa's over. Right. And she's trying

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to get, you know, buy a business here and stuff.

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But anyway, so I'm just like, well, just lie

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down in the Mexicali and just walk back across

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the border. You'll be fine. You'll be fine. You'll

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get a free phone and probably a free bus ride

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back to Orange County, and you'll be taken care

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of. It's stupid. It's stupid, but it's keeping

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people like that out, honest citizens from other

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countries that want to come over and do some

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good business in America, but it's letting all

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the douchebags come over who want to come over

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illegally and don't want to be documented and

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don't want to be part of our system that we've

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developed. the oldest democracy in the world.

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You're letting over criminals and, like you said,

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it could be sleeper cells for all we know. You

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have no idea who's coming over. So I do have

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somebody entering the Zoom. You want to talk

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about this gentleman? Give a little intro? Oh,

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yeah. So my good friend, Joe Chuteau, he was

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around in the early days when we were public

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affection. Whoa. he has lots of good stories

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from those old days and he was kind of our hype

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man he would go on stage before we went on and

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like get the crowd hyped up because you know

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we were no one knew who we were there he is there's

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joe hello what's up welcome hello sir pleasure

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to meet you it's good meeting you welcome to

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the gracious too man so i hear you got a lot

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of uh history with mr chad gracie and uh even

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before live days public affection day yeah he

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had uh started back in the uh Grand Falloon days

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during high school, I guess, or junior. I forgot

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to mention that. Yeah, we worked with Joe at

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this restaurant called Grand Falloon's, you know,

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some of the guys in the band. So that's how we

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met him. Oh, wow. So some of the guys in the

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band were, is that how Ed Kowalczyk was so good

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at the server role in Fight Club? As he was from

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the Grand Falloon? Well, he, Ed, all of us worked

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in the kitchen. None of us were servers. But

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no, I think I just, you know, he's a good, he

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can be a good actor when he tries. Sure. So,

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Joe, what's up, man? Welcome. Yeah, thanks for

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having me. Excited, man. We've got a lot of good

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stories. I hope that everyone else out there

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will enjoy them as much as I will probably telling

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them and got down memory lane a little bit, you

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know, memory along with with my own. Here we

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go. So go ahead. What do you got? I'm anxious

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to hear. Where do you want to start? Well, we

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can bounce around all over a bunch of timelines.

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I mean, did you ever tell them the story about

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the brick, the video camera? No, not on this

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show. No, I've told some people, but yeah, that

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was great. That was great. So we, we would rent

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a van in the early days and we drive to New York

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to go play CBGBs. Nice. And you know, that's

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where we got signed out of. And Joe was with

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us on this. this trip and we're going through,

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we're leaving or going into this. We were leaving

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the city, right? I thought it was coming in,

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but maybe going, yeah, we were leaving. I think

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we were going in. Maybe you're right, but we

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were coming into the city and we get to the end.

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We're going through the Holland tunnel. We get

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to the end of the Holland tunnel and there's

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all these guys standing around. This guy comes

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up to the van. He's like, and he has this, this

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camcorder brand new box shrink wrapped. And he's

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like, you know, 200 bucks, 200 bucks. And so

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we're all like, yeah. So we're, we're getting

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our money together. And I think my cousin, Matt,

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who was our roadie forever and still is working

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with the band. He, he put the most in and we

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gave this guy 200 bucks. I think it was maybe

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a hundred or 200 bucks, whatever it was. And

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we give it to the guy and we drive off and we're

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like, yeah, we got a camcorder suite. We're going

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to record the show with that shit. And then we

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opened it up and it's a fucking brick. And $100,

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$200 for a band starting off, that's a lot of

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luchi to just throw out there. That's right.

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That was our Grand Falloon's money, man. Our

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gas money home, too. That guy was ahead of his

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time because I heard they're doing that with

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iPads now. They're shrink -wrapping them up and

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filling them up with paperweights or some shit

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and returning them. It was always a scam. Always.

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You know, I was bumming because I didn't have

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enough money to barely get a hot dog in New York.

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I had no money to pitch in, but I remember Matt

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G being like, I put the most in. I'll hold it

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like it's mine. And they were like, okay, it's

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yours. Needless to say, that was the last time

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you guys bought something off the street or?

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I think so. Yeah. I remember getting fake IDs

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in New York. We went to Times Square and got

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fake IDs. Times Square. Yeah, that was a good

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one. Got hassled there. I don't know how much

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we want to talk on here, but. Some guys to buy

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something on the corner and then getting hassled

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pretty bad down. That's when Times Square was

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good, right? Back in the 90s. When 42nd Street

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was full of hookers. That's right. The good old

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days. Now it's full of crime and windows busting

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and stores being robbed, which is kind of...

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Yeah. Free hotel rooms for immigrants. Yeah,

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it's fun. yes i feel like i should be an immigrant

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and just go get a free hotel room in this i saw

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a meme on instagram it was like a family dressed

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up as like with sombreros and shit on like hey

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go get a free hotel room in new york act like

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you're an immigrant family it's like okay that's

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all you gotta do i have no id i'm from fucking

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columbia i'm a refugee i'm sorry i heard tuberculosis

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is running rampant up there oh yeah I can believe

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that. Yes. I heard a lot of those people were

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supposed to be tested for TB, but they don't

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do shit. They don't test them for anything. I

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just let them in, send them out. Well, yeah,

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because, you know, it's just like you get a click

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in the arm and then they got to check it like

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days later. And probably days later, these guys

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are off doing whatever. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now stick

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it around for days or go on to wherever, wherever,

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you know, Biden sending them. or if they're being

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bused to sanctuary cities which right uh once

00:19:20.500 --> 00:19:22.359
new york realized that that was happening they're

00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:24.380
like well wait a second here this is not cool

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i love it for texas but not cool for new york

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governor holcomb like a year ago or whatever

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she's like oh yeah we're sanctuary city sanctuary

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state you know all are welcome now she's like

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no right yeah okay what else joe Well, the first

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time that we ever went up to CB's was pretty

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good. I know a lot of that info is out of there,

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but I remember Ed and Taylor kind of getting

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in a squabble there in the alleyway before we

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even pulled out. okay before we left yeah well

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we were we were in the alley behind uh at the

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band at the garage you know there you're all

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numerous yes yes yeah and i remember your brother

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scotty g coming up and saying something to ed

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like taylor said blah blah blah that's right

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yes yes that's when it was very that's when it

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was very it was very sensitive to whatever then

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so if you said whatever to him he got fucking

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pissed oh wow there I think it was my brother.

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It was either my brother or Matt was like, great.

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Or Taylor just said, whatever to you. I got in

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a fight and was like, I'm not going. And that

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was so that was the first time we went there.

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The first time we went there, we showed up. And

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I'm assuming you were with us, but the first

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time we went there, we showed up and it was like

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we showed up on a Sunday when they did new band

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day. but it was punk matinee. We didn't know

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that. So we pull up to the front of CBGB's, and

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it is fucking covered with skinheads and punk

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rock people and black leather and shit. We're

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just pulling in from New York, Pennsylvania and

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going, we're going to get fucking murdered tonight

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if this is our audience. We better play everything

00:21:09.259 --> 00:21:12.680
fast. We got to play everything super fast, like

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punk rock. But then all those people just disbanded.

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It was the matinee. And we went on and it was

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like three people in the place. We felt better

00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.960
because we knew we weren't getting killed. Yeah.

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I remember Dave showing up and being like, it's

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all right. Just calm down, guys. And those guys

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yelling like, go the fuck back to Jersey. Like

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yelling at us. We were like, oh, yeah. Then Dave

00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:41.059
Taylor's dad, he was with us. We had to bring

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an adult to rent the van. So we always had to

00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:44.960
have an adult with us to rent the van because

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we were too young. Ah. Do you remember I mooned

00:21:48.269 --> 00:21:50.569
that girl out the van when we were going there

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to meet Taylor's dad at that McDonald's and she

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chased us down the road? That's right. We want

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somebody from the band or was she just mad at

00:22:00.210 --> 00:22:04.049
y 'all? She was, she didn't like getting mooned.

00:22:04.049 --> 00:22:08.690
I didn't realize it right in there. That's right.

00:22:08.730 --> 00:22:12.379
You mooned her and then we pulled in there. that's

00:22:12.379 --> 00:22:15.440
hysterical oh my god that's like great you look

00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:17.680
like you got a real white ass if you don't mind

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:22.180
me saying oh my irish brother yeah that came

00:22:22.180 --> 00:22:26.420
out like a full moon for sure and then uh you

00:22:26.420 --> 00:22:28.319
know the one time we were going up we got caught

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in that traffic and we were weaving in and out

00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:33.079
of the cones and stole a cone and they pulled

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us into the called the cops on us and I think

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Matty G ended up getting, like, a $150 fine or

00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:44.049
something. Yeah, Matt stole the cone. Matt cost

00:22:44.049 --> 00:22:46.789
himself a lot of money going to New York. Yeah,

00:22:46.829 --> 00:22:50.730
apparently. I remember we were leaving Seabees

00:22:50.730 --> 00:22:53.529
before you guys played, and we were going down

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to Times Square. And I made a right turn going

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the right way on the one way, and we got pulled

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over. Oh, yes. Yep. I remember that, too. Yep.

00:23:01.529 --> 00:23:04.170
Yeah. And Taylor, sitting in the back, you know,

00:23:04.190 --> 00:23:06.420
started popping. Can't you give us a... freaking

00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:10.079
warning and you know the traffic cop wasn't digging

00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:12.359
that at all yeah we almost got arrested then

00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:17.279
too i mean i guess a lot of these stories are

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probably really funny to us and maybe not so

00:23:19.660 --> 00:23:21.460
interesting oh no they're definitely interesting

00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:23.640
to the rest of us for sure i mean i i didn't

00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:25.759
hear a bunch of these isn't it weird though to

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go like they just expect you to know like you

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can't make a right on red in new york coming

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from a state where you can or were you guys making

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a right down a wrong like a wrong one way we're

00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:38.579
going the right way yeah but just making a right

00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:40.440
on red yeah i mean how do i expect you to know

00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:43.500
all that without the sign being posted yeah i

00:23:43.500 --> 00:23:46.200
i never paid that by the way so if anybody in

00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:50.259
new york nice perfect no don't go to new york

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you'll get a boot on your car they don't i can

00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:54.900
tell you for a lot of years i drove a speed limit

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driving through new york big statues are up now

00:23:58.519 --> 00:24:01.660
yeah i'm probably statute of limitations on that

00:24:01.660 --> 00:24:04.519
you're good yeah so this is this this is the

00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:06.640
stories i forget this is why i had joe on for

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.759
these old these old things i just you know shit

00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:12.619
you forget so would you actually go up before

00:24:12.619 --> 00:24:15.079
they performed and get the crowd like into the

00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:17.579
into it and and like what does a hype man do

00:24:17.579 --> 00:24:20.279
yeah that's a good question typically you wing

00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:25.640
it um i i don't know who maybe it was ed or somebody

00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:27.900
was like yeah just go out and announce us and

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then it kind of maybe started there you know

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when You know, I was fortunate enough to kind

00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.660
of see the whole thing go from like high school

00:24:34.660 --> 00:24:40.059
to full -on, you know, rock stars playing, you

00:24:40.059 --> 00:24:44.299
know, stadiums. But typically, yeah, you just

00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:47.519
get up, just kind of. I don't even know. Just

00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.599
kind of like, yo, what's, you know, just kind

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.700
of. Yeah. Bring up the energy. You guys ready

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:56.720
to rock. We got this cool ass band coming up.

00:24:57.140 --> 00:25:02.460
Exactly. You know, and then after the show, go

00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:04.400
out, kind of find the cute girls, you know, bring

00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.700
them backstage kind of. I wish I had that job.

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:17.980
It had its advantages. Yeah, sure. yeah i mean

00:25:17.980 --> 00:25:21.859
uh it's uh funny because you know you you hear

00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:24.299
of live you know just kind of like what they're

00:25:24.299 --> 00:25:25.859
singing about and stuff you think they're just

00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:29.000
kind of like um no partying going on in the band

00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.680
so it's cool to hear that there was some fun

00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.799
in the early days and you guys were macking it

00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:36.259
to the ladies and some debauchery was going on

00:25:36.259 --> 00:25:40.440
yeah um and and you know the band kind of got

00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:43.019
got on the right trajectory i mean i remember

00:25:43.019 --> 00:25:46.700
with uh like a cheap um The Chameleon, excuse

00:25:46.700 --> 00:25:49.319
me, in Lancaster, you know, being able to open

00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:51.240
up, those guys opening up for a lot of great

00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:55.420
bands, you know, the Pixies, you know, I don't

00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:57.940
even think I went out and watched them play when

00:25:57.940 --> 00:25:59.759
we were hanging out with the Pixies. I mean,

00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:02.740
Kim and Frank were pretty gnarly people to be

00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:07.660
around at that time, you know. Scenic River Days,

00:26:07.859 --> 00:26:10.880
music festivals. Chad, you remember we ended

00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:14.720
up on Dance Party? We ended up on Dance Party?

00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.599
no i don't remember that what was that oh my

00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:21.839
god see this what i'm talking about yeah the

00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:24.519
the band you guys tell me shut up whatever but

00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:28.259
uh so the band was playing you guys were playing

00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:31.079
uh scenic river days up there in reading right

00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.940
yeah okay and they had a big tent off to the

00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:38.079
side there and they were filming an episode of

00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:44.299
dance party oh shit teen I'm not going to give

00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:46.099
my age here, but I don't know if I know, was

00:26:46.099 --> 00:26:49.960
this a show on TV? Yeah, like back in, like obviously

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.240
in the 90s. I mean, gosh, this was early 90s.

00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:57.740
89, 90, somewhere in there. And I just remember,

00:26:57.900 --> 00:26:59.799
I know Matt G was there. It was me. I thought

00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:01.839
all of us walked in. I remember Pat being there,

00:27:01.940 --> 00:27:04.960
I'm pretty sure. But we end up in this crowd

00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:09.200
of, you know, in the tent and the dancers, dancers

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:12.980
are up on stage. Somebody was like, who wants

00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:15.099
to dance with princess or something? We're all

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:19.119
young. Next thing I know, they're grabbing me

00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:25.039
and pulling me up on stage. Go Joe. So you get

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.500
to see yourself on TV. I totally forget. No,

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:30.079
but it's funny. Like a week or two later, sometime

00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:31.779
later, my sister calls me. She's like, we're

00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:38.900
on dance party. That's great. Oh my God. That's

00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:42.339
a good one. Hell yeah. the uh but yeah the river

00:27:42.339 --> 00:27:45.019
days they were good i mean yes it was just kind

00:27:45.019 --> 00:27:47.319
of neat to like i mean there's a million stories

00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:50.839
i used to have a video camera so i was filming

00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:54.960
a lot of stuff too back in the day nice and uh

00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:57.140
able to use some of that you know in the new

00:27:57.140 --> 00:28:00.839
year's eve um show that they did a couple years

00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.500
ago and we came back together we had we used

00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:06.920
some of his footage in 2000 was it new year's

00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:11.680
eve 2016 when we yes Played for the first time

00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:13.599
here in York, and we used some of Joe's footage

00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.319
from that. I was there. Valencia? Yeah, Valencia,

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:20.579
yep. Yes, sir. Well, it was funny. I forgot I'd

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:23.180
even had it. And then somehow, I think during

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:25.339
the construction at 210, we ran into each other,

00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:26.759
because I hadn't seen you guys in a long time.

00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:30.240
Yeah. And then it popped. I remember reaching

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.819
out to you. I was like, hey, man, I got all this

00:28:31.819 --> 00:28:34.539
footage. And I didn't know that you guys were

00:28:34.539 --> 00:28:37.559
already talking to Ed, like, you know, kind of

00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:39.160
behind the scenes. We were keeping it on the

00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:42.460
DL at that point. Yeah, so it showed up. We burned

00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:46.599
a couple copies. You have to show some of that

00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.160
to John. If not, I still have it somewhere. Dude,

00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:54.380
that is like... I don't know if I have it. Chad

00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:56.140
may have taken it when he moved out of here.

00:28:56.539 --> 00:29:00.400
He might be in his archives. I'm not sure. That

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:02.900
needs to come out and see the light, man. Yeah,

00:29:02.980 --> 00:29:08.160
there's really early chameleon clips. Nice. I

00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:13.490
think maybe even some Big City. hey it happened

00:29:13.490 --> 00:29:17.569
sorry about that the beauty of being live yeah

00:29:17.569 --> 00:29:22.349
um but but yeah we had a lot of good things i

00:29:22.349 --> 00:29:25.529
don't know if a lot of people know that uh chad

00:29:25.529 --> 00:29:29.750
gracie's a pretty good rock climber oh yeah well

00:29:29.750 --> 00:29:32.089
used to be i haven't done it for years and years

00:29:32.089 --> 00:29:34.849
but yeah i was pretty into it in the late 80s

00:29:34.849 --> 00:29:38.809
early 90s no solo free climbing right no without

00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:42.619
Oh my God. Not, not like Alex and old. No, that

00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:45.640
guy is frigging nuts, dude. That guy's nuts.

00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:48.000
But did you watch this thing? It's on Netflix

00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.619
now. It's called like something summit rage of

00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:54.079
summon or something. And it starts off with this

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.740
Uli set guy and he's free climbing, breaking

00:29:57.740 --> 00:30:00.940
records and stuff like that. And then he dies

00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:05.000
like in 2016, cause he went like a little too

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.809
nutty. And. alex honnold is on it just saying

00:30:08.809 --> 00:30:12.329
like what a great freaking guy he was and i don't

00:30:12.329 --> 00:30:15.569
understand that dude like just use a rope you

00:30:15.569 --> 00:30:18.029
know like what what what's the problem with uh

00:30:18.029 --> 00:30:20.910
you know you're breaking records but also you

00:30:20.910 --> 00:30:23.589
go too far you're gonna die that's it yeah i

00:30:23.589 --> 00:30:25.990
was i would never even contemplate that but yeah

00:30:25.990 --> 00:30:28.849
i used i only really did top roping which is

00:30:28.849 --> 00:30:31.369
you know you have a 180 foot long rope and you

00:30:31.369 --> 00:30:34.900
can basically climb 90 feet max so we would do

00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:36.880
that kind of stuff and then there's lead climbing

00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:38.799
which is where you use a rope and you put in

00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.339
protection as you go up and you can go up 180

00:30:41.339 --> 00:30:45.460
feet and then your your belayer follows you up

00:30:45.460 --> 00:30:47.160
takes all the stuff out and you continue a pitch

00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.559
so yeah that's how you do multi -pitches right

00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:52.579
but like uh i didn't i never got into that that

00:30:52.579 --> 00:30:54.700
was too high for me i was good with not about

00:30:54.700 --> 00:31:00.519
90 feet If you have one second of a, Holy fuck,

00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.440
I am up really high right now. Like I've gotten

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:06.259
that just like being on roofs and stuff. So if

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.619
you get that up there, like Jesus Christmas,

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:11.599
that's like end all of. Oh yeah. If you're in

00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:13.039
a multi -pitch climb and you don't, you freak

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:15.059
out. Yeah. You're pretty fucked. You can't get,

00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:17.500
I mean, you got to rescue all this deal. Yeah.

00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:21.019
There was a, there's a place I used to climb

00:31:21.019 --> 00:31:23.200
the most was called chickies rock over here by,

00:31:23.259 --> 00:31:25.380
by the Susquehanna river and Lancaster side.

00:31:25.889 --> 00:31:28.950
And, um, one day I was over there with my buddy,

00:31:29.009 --> 00:31:30.670
Eric Miller. I don't know, Joe, if you were there

00:31:30.670 --> 00:31:34.390
or not, but we, there were people climbing some,

00:31:34.450 --> 00:31:38.089
some guys set up. We had our, our, our, uh, route

00:31:38.089 --> 00:31:40.170
set up and we were doing it and climbing these

00:31:40.170 --> 00:31:45.109
guys set up beside us. And one guy started going

00:31:45.109 --> 00:31:48.089
up the rock and the other guy who was his belayer

00:31:48.089 --> 00:31:51.130
was just not even watching him and like not even

00:31:51.130 --> 00:31:54.430
hold on to him. And we're just like, Hey, uh,

00:31:54.890 --> 00:31:56.710
might want to stop where you are because we had

00:31:56.710 --> 00:31:58.849
to tell this guy how to how to belay this guy

00:31:58.849 --> 00:32:01.529
wow because he was basically not even attached

00:32:01.529 --> 00:32:03.609
so if the guy fell you would have been fucking

00:32:03.609 --> 00:32:06.549
you know you died or been really hurt holy shit

00:32:06.549 --> 00:32:08.289
it was like it was a while to watch these guys

00:32:08.289 --> 00:32:11.150
set up and then and then the guy starts climbing

00:32:11.150 --> 00:32:12.630
and the other dude has no idea what he's doing

00:32:12.630 --> 00:32:14.769
i'm like you just left your life in this guy's

00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:17.690
hands that's crazy or had any idea they knew

00:32:17.690 --> 00:32:20.400
what didn't know what to do so probably neither

00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:22.440
of them really knew what to do otherwise the

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.799
guy climbing would be like yo you want to start

00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.740
doing your job well the guy climbing set up the

00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:30.680
rig and like seemed to seem to tie the knots

00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:33.460
and be all ready to go whatever it was strange

00:32:33.460 --> 00:32:36.579
my goodness yeah i mean when you're doing something

00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:39.299
like that you gotta really know who your partner

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:42.480
is even more than a sexual partner i think because

00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:46.380
uh yeah yeah at least you got some protection

00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:48.880
when you're uh don't know your sexual partner

00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.339
but uh there my god one false move and uh that

00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:57.119
could be it yeah that dude that dude yuli fell

00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.440
a thousand meters i don't know what meters are

00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:01.599
compared to feet or it's about three thousand

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.660
feet it's enough holy shit three thousand feet

00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:10.740
roughly it's about three to one basically remember

00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:13.119
the first time we probably the first times we

00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:16.519
because i got out of it man it was too much anxiety

00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:18.960
for me but i remember one of the first times

00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:20.720
we went up to chickies i think it was me you

00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.000
and butch and we just free climbed up not knowing

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.259
anything yeah and get up there to the time i

00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:30.180
obviously we probably took that one route there

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:32.019
kind of off to the to the right there i kind

00:33:32.019 --> 00:33:35.049
of remember and I remember somebody up top being

00:33:35.049 --> 00:33:36.890
like, Hey, you guys are pretty good, man. How

00:33:36.890 --> 00:33:43.769
long you been climbing? Like one day. Yeah. I

00:33:43.769 --> 00:33:46.529
didn't do that too much. Like I said, people

00:33:46.529 --> 00:33:48.589
don't know what they don't know. Yeah, exactly.

00:33:48.849 --> 00:33:51.710
So where are you at now, Joe? You in what part

00:33:51.710 --> 00:33:55.089
of the world? I am. I'm in York, Pennsylvania.

00:33:55.490 --> 00:33:59.460
Oh, cool. Yeah. Currently in my office. Run a

00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:02.059
little business here doing street cleaning, paving,

00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:04.720
sweeping, construction, sweeping. I see blueprints

00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:09.760
behind you. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. No,

00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:11.420
it's all good. I mean, it's part of the office.

00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:15.460
Yeah. Are you building some or are those just

00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:17.400
for like your street routes and all that goodness?

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:19.900
Typically, that was probably parking lot layout.

00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:22.219
They're actually a little bit older. Some previous

00:34:22.219 --> 00:34:25.059
jobs that we have done, just the plans in case

00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:27.820
we ever have to come back, you know. So you.

00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.360
known these gentlemen since public affection

00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:33.260
days even before even before live well around

00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:39.179
87 87 88 when we met yeah we uh it was a grandfather

00:34:39.179 --> 00:34:43.199
i remember uh if you remember amy amy hopwood

00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:47.840
uh she got oh yeah there and uh you know public

00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:50.400
affection back then was this mystical band that

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:53.099
you know played the temple you know the temple

00:34:53.099 --> 00:34:57.630
dance and i'd heard of them and uh And I ended

00:34:57.630 --> 00:34:59.869
up getting a job there working, probably doing

00:34:59.869 --> 00:35:02.989
dishes, I think, was my first job. And at that

00:35:02.989 --> 00:35:05.650
time, it was just you and Ed working there. Right.

00:35:06.190 --> 00:35:09.050
That would work the front. I would cook. Yeah.

00:35:09.070 --> 00:35:14.090
And I was doing the dishes. And we all kind of

00:35:14.090 --> 00:35:16.010
hit it off. And I remember I had to take my car

00:35:16.010 --> 00:35:18.630
down to Volkswagen. And you offered to give me

00:35:18.630 --> 00:35:21.110
a ride. And Chad and I hit it off really well,

00:35:21.190 --> 00:35:23.909
kind of outside of work. That's when you had

00:35:23.909 --> 00:35:26.469
the Fox, right? Then I had the Fox after that.

00:35:26.710 --> 00:35:30.849
Volkswagen Fox. Volkswagen Fox. I've never even

00:35:30.849 --> 00:35:33.130
heard of that. I've heard of a Rabbit, I think,

00:35:33.150 --> 00:35:37.309
but not a Fox. It was like a four -door, not

00:35:37.309 --> 00:35:39.349
hatchback. It was like a four -door kind of sedan.

00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:43.250
Was it a four -door or a two -door? Yeah, a four

00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:45.110
-door. I think it was more like an economy Jetta.

00:35:45.869 --> 00:35:51.309
Yes, exactly. We were all into the Volkswagens

00:35:51.309 --> 00:35:54.349
back in the day. But then Joe, he moved into

00:35:54.349 --> 00:35:56.730
a house right beside Grand Falloon's, right beside

00:35:56.730 --> 00:36:00.530
the parking lot of Grand Falloon's. We'd go in

00:36:00.530 --> 00:36:02.329
the basement and open up the doors and fucking

00:36:02.329 --> 00:36:05.730
just load out cases of beer into his place and

00:36:05.730 --> 00:36:10.829
go there after and fucking just party. That's

00:36:10.829 --> 00:36:13.530
the people right there. I want to say Taylor

00:36:13.530 --> 00:36:16.670
and Gracie were on that original rental application.

00:36:17.969 --> 00:36:21.730
Were we? I know. I know Taylor definitely was.

00:36:21.769 --> 00:36:24.650
I don't know if you were, but I know Matt was.

00:36:24.869 --> 00:36:27.210
Oh, Matt. When I say Gracie, I should clarify.

00:36:27.550 --> 00:36:33.230
Yeah. So that was the party house. It was funny.

00:36:33.369 --> 00:36:36.829
Yeah, because we used to have, like back then,

00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:39.170
it was the guys in the band and kind of Matt

00:36:39.170 --> 00:36:41.650
Gracie, myself, like guys kind of our age. We're

00:36:41.650 --> 00:36:43.949
in one circle. And then the little brothers,

00:36:44.190 --> 00:36:46.750
you know, like Scott, Pete, and all those guys

00:36:46.750 --> 00:36:50.219
were. we're Adam you know we're kind of in their

00:36:50.219 --> 00:36:52.519
own little circle and we kind of crossed and

00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.960
um yeah Scott's my brother and Pete is Matt Gracie's

00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.000
brother and Adam is of course Ed's brother yeah

00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.739
just for clarity yeah sorry but it there came

00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:06.219
a time where we used to uh we get strippers in

00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:10.739
to pay the rent that's right oh yeah you'd have

00:37:10.739 --> 00:37:13.760
gambling nights and you do strippers dude how

00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:18.400
would charge at the door And the younger guys

00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:20.159
would be all like on the shoulders trying to

00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:24.739
look in the window. I'm just imagining York strippers.

00:37:24.780 --> 00:37:27.599
They don't seem as hot as they should be. Am

00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.440
I wrong? Am I right here? I think that's a pretty

00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:35.559
fair statement. But they were nice girls. Sure.

00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.500
Treated me well. They worked at Harley Davidson

00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:40.980
and Cali Caterpillar in a day and stripped for

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:44.010
you at night. That's right. with with harley

00:37:44.010 --> 00:37:46.050
having third shift a couple of these bars would

00:37:46.050 --> 00:37:49.050
have strippers at seven in the morning oh wow

00:37:49.050 --> 00:37:53.869
yeah i went to um when i went out to visit the

00:37:53.869 --> 00:37:56.610
studio i just looked for a spot at night to like

00:37:56.610 --> 00:37:58.829
just go in and drink and it was this i don't

00:37:58.829 --> 00:38:00.969
i think it was in new york because i don't think

00:38:00.969 --> 00:38:03.289
i really ventured much out of the town but it's

00:38:03.289 --> 00:38:05.929
this old school bar where people are still smoking

00:38:05.929 --> 00:38:08.309
cigarettes in the bar i'm like where did i just

00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:12.079
fucking walk into 1974 Oh, is that part of the

00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:15.320
White Rose Stooges? Is that where you went? I

00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:17.159
really don't remember the name of the place.

00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:18.960
I think that's kind of the only smoking bar in

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:22.400
New York. Probably that. Probably. Maybe Jackie

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:24.639
B's, but I don't know. I probably didn't go there.

00:38:24.699 --> 00:38:27.699
Were you in downtown? Yeah, it wasn't too far

00:38:27.699 --> 00:38:29.639
from the studio. Okay, yeah, it was probably

00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:32.559
Stooges and it's part of White Rose. Yeah, I

00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:34.440
was like, this is crazy. I felt like I walked

00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.789
back into like the 80s and 90s. But I was like,

00:38:38.250 --> 00:38:40.769
this is how bars should be, you know, like go

00:38:40.769 --> 00:38:43.650
in there, get cancer and go about your day. Yeah.

00:38:43.929 --> 00:38:48.690
Leave the bar thinking. Yeah. Oh, God. Even even

00:38:48.690 --> 00:38:52.090
when I smoked, I didn't like walking into a smoky

00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:54.309
filled room. You know, like I was like a clean

00:38:54.309 --> 00:38:56.690
smoker. I wouldn't smoke in my car or my house.

00:38:56.730 --> 00:38:58.929
It was outside. I would wash my hands. I was

00:38:58.929 --> 00:39:01.610
kind of a gay smoker, so to speak. I remember

00:39:01.610 --> 00:39:04.769
my parents used to have like when I was my brother

00:39:04.769 --> 00:39:07.980
and I were. you know eight nine ten twelve they

00:39:07.980 --> 00:39:10.900
would have party nights with like poker and like

00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:13.739
all their couple friends would come over everybody

00:39:13.739 --> 00:39:15.900
smoked and the whole fucking house would just

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:18.840
be like this haze of smoke you could barely see

00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:23.150
through it was like oh yeah right it's nuts My

00:39:23.150 --> 00:39:25.929
grandparents, you know, cause all their kids

00:39:25.929 --> 00:39:27.989
smoked and they had like six to eight kids. I

00:39:27.989 --> 00:39:30.250
don't remember how many, but they would all go

00:39:30.250 --> 00:39:32.070
to the house and then, you know, they would paint

00:39:32.070 --> 00:39:33.570
the walls every couple of years and you would

00:39:33.570 --> 00:39:37.130
see the nicotine dripping from the top of the

00:39:37.130 --> 00:39:39.909
walls. And I'm like, as a kid, I'm like, this

00:39:39.909 --> 00:39:42.750
can't be good. And this is like surgeon general

00:39:42.750 --> 00:39:45.929
warnings. Like I had enough, like wherewithal

00:39:45.929 --> 00:39:49.309
to be like, I don't know about this. Yeah. Yeah.

00:39:50.349 --> 00:39:53.440
It doesn't seem cool. yeah but those are the

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:57.119
days right when no car seats no seat belts people

00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.000
are smoking drinking and driving like what happened

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.039
we became communists we're no longer american

00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:05.860
now well even even going back to the band i mean

00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:08.380
could you imagine just that near 18 year old

00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:11.059
kid jump in a rental van and drive to freaking

00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:15.800
cbgbs right you know i mean nowadays yeah i don't

00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:19.030
know yeah well it's it's weird you look at like

00:40:19.030 --> 00:40:21.090
i see an 18 year old now i'm like that's a little

00:40:21.090 --> 00:40:24.309
kid but when i was 18 i felt like a full -fledged

00:40:24.309 --> 00:40:27.110
adult you know but it's like it's a weird perspective

00:40:27.110 --> 00:40:32.409
i think in a lot of ways there are kids now just

00:40:32.409 --> 00:40:35.570
kids Yeah, they're not maturing like we did for

00:40:35.570 --> 00:40:37.889
some reason. It's probably because we've come

00:40:37.889 --> 00:40:40.750
so lax as a society where we're not allowing

00:40:40.750 --> 00:40:43.510
people to smoke indoors. We're not allowing the

00:40:43.510 --> 00:40:45.530
old drinking and driving. Like we've just become,

00:40:45.610 --> 00:40:47.590
I was watching something the other day when they

00:40:47.590 --> 00:40:50.170
were like doing the smoking law and these people

00:40:50.170 --> 00:40:52.929
were like, yeah, we're becoming communists, you

00:40:52.929 --> 00:40:54.750
know, like. Oh, I saw that video too. It's hilarious.

00:40:54.969 --> 00:40:58.849
Yeah. Dude, that's hysterical, man. I kind of

00:40:58.849 --> 00:41:00.909
get what they're saying, but like, I, I also

00:41:00.909 --> 00:41:03.070
understand like from an employee's point of view,

00:41:03.130 --> 00:41:04.630
like you don't want to go to work and have to

00:41:04.630 --> 00:41:07.510
breathe this shit in, but in a way it is like,

00:41:07.570 --> 00:41:09.150
yeah, there's a freedom taken away from you.

00:41:10.650 --> 00:41:12.750
And then like for us, like with my business,

00:41:12.789 --> 00:41:15.230
I mean, it's, it's even a law, you know, and

00:41:15.230 --> 00:41:17.670
I'm sure Chad knows there is different, you know,

00:41:17.670 --> 00:41:19.929
real estate ventures and stuff like you can't,

00:41:19.929 --> 00:41:21.889
it's a plain air act, you know, OSHA comes in,

00:41:21.969 --> 00:41:26.670
try to have designated smoking areas. I think

00:41:26.670 --> 00:41:29.210
a lot of it too with employers is health coverage.

00:41:30.230 --> 00:41:32.809
You know, if they have, you know, non -smokers

00:41:32.809 --> 00:41:35.590
or smoking not allowed, you know, maybe they'll

00:41:35.590 --> 00:41:37.969
get a break on their health coverage for their

00:41:37.969 --> 00:41:41.610
employees. That makes sense. I mean, we know

00:41:41.610 --> 00:41:44.389
how bad it is for people for sure, right? I mean,

00:41:44.429 --> 00:41:48.610
it's just, you know, you make the decision to

00:41:48.610 --> 00:41:51.010
go into that establishment. So if some establishment

00:41:51.010 --> 00:41:53.690
said, hey, we have smoking, some say we don't,

00:41:53.690 --> 00:41:55.929
then those would be the deciding factors on,

00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:57.599
where you're going to work, where you're going

00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.460
to go. It almost seems like it should be a choice

00:42:00.460 --> 00:42:04.260
rather than a law not to, you know? Great. You

00:42:04.260 --> 00:42:06.460
know, I remember being over in Europe, like over

00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:09.739
in Ireland years ago. And of course no smoking

00:42:09.739 --> 00:42:12.320
in any of the pubs there, you know, that that'll

00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:15.300
never fly in America. And it wasn't long after.

00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.139
That had happened. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I

00:42:19.139 --> 00:42:20.860
never thought that they would pass that because

00:42:20.860 --> 00:42:22.840
everybody and their mother was a smoker back

00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.559
in the day, even. Though they kind of knew what

00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:28.679
the writing on the wall was. I mean, anything

00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.780
you take into your lungs can't be beneficial

00:42:31.780 --> 00:42:34.960
unless it's, I don't know, like an asthma inhaler

00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.699
or something. Did you guys ever see that when

00:42:38.699 --> 00:42:40.539
they were passing laws about drinking and driving

00:42:40.539 --> 00:42:43.980
back in the 70s, the old footages where they're

00:42:43.980 --> 00:42:45.699
talking about drinking and driving and they're

00:42:45.699 --> 00:42:47.360
interviewing people and the guy's like, well,

00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:49.320
what's wrong if I want to drink a beer on the

00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:55.539
way home after a hard day? mm -hmm it's so foreign

00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:58.159
now you know what i mean it's i remember my dad

00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:01.360
used to do that he i ride and pick up truck beside

00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:03.760
him the passenger seat when i was too young and

00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.480
he had a beer between his legs just driving smoking

00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:11.440
drinking it was normal and then i think it was

00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.780
mad mothers against drunk drivers that just went

00:43:14.780 --> 00:43:17.820
nuts with it and i completely get it um you know

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:21.159
you are not a hundred percent when you are drunk

00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.570
driving But I'm going to be completely honest.

00:43:23.829 --> 00:43:29.630
If I'm blowing 0 .08, I am well, I'm very good

00:43:29.630 --> 00:43:32.230
to drive. I'm not even buzzed in the slightest.

00:43:32.530 --> 00:43:33.610
You know what I'm saying? Like, I think they

00:43:33.610 --> 00:43:36.969
went a little too low with their threshold in

00:43:36.969 --> 00:43:41.730
my eyes because 0 .08 to me is like two beers

00:43:41.730 --> 00:43:45.369
and I'm not drunk or, you know, going crazy on

00:43:45.369 --> 00:43:49.010
two beers. I could drive perfectly normal. So,

00:43:49.010 --> 00:43:51.820
so with. With my business, my sweeper trucks,

00:43:52.059 --> 00:43:55.139
they're a class B CDL, like 90 % of them are.

00:43:55.300 --> 00:43:56.960
So if you have your CDL, which is commercial

00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:02.380
driver's license, your limit is 0 .04. Wow. I

00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:04.900
understand if you're driving your work vehicle

00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:07.880
or whatever, but that 0 .04 carries into your

00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:11.039
personal life. So realistically, like you said,

00:44:11.059 --> 00:44:13.719
you could stop, you know, on the way home, have

00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:15.539
dinner with your wife or whatever, have one glass

00:44:15.539 --> 00:44:19.469
of wine and potentially be over. Yeah, yeah.

00:44:19.929 --> 00:44:25.150
Which isn't real cool. No, we don't want people

00:44:25.150 --> 00:44:27.190
bouncing off cars while they're driving home

00:44:27.190 --> 00:44:29.650
and barely able to see, but we also don't want

00:44:29.650 --> 00:44:32.190
somebody who stopped to have a glass of wine

00:44:32.190 --> 00:44:34.690
with their meal getting fucked for life and then

00:44:34.690 --> 00:44:37.210
all of a sudden losing their job and not being

00:44:37.210 --> 00:44:39.469
able to support their family all because you

00:44:39.469 --> 00:44:42.929
made it .04. My God, that's probably a half a

00:44:42.929 --> 00:44:46.989
glass of wine in all reality. It could be. Yeah.

00:44:47.090 --> 00:44:48.630
And like I said, not advocating drinking and

00:44:48.630 --> 00:44:50.489
driving whatsoever. No, no, no, no, no. Right.

00:44:50.909 --> 00:44:56.090
Definitely not. It's crazy. Yeah. I do advocate

00:44:56.090 --> 00:44:58.349
drugging and driving though. If you want to,

00:44:58.349 --> 00:45:01.710
if you want to, you know, hit the crack pipe

00:45:01.710 --> 00:45:03.929
and go for a ride by all means, ladies and gentlemen,

00:45:03.929 --> 00:45:05.869
do that. Just don't ride through my neighborhood.

00:45:06.090 --> 00:45:09.449
Yes. Yes. Stay away from mine too. There should

00:45:09.449 --> 00:45:11.329
be neighborhoods where it's allowed. Like they

00:45:11.329 --> 00:45:14.039
should do a social experiment and see. Like,

00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.380
you know, have like parts of New York where it's

00:45:16.380 --> 00:45:18.380
like, it's legal here. Let's see exactly how

00:45:18.380 --> 00:45:20.599
many accidents happen. It's illegal here. Let's

00:45:20.599 --> 00:45:22.519
see how many accidents happen. And really weigh

00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:26.960
the weight of it all. So you would want to do

00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:29.940
real -time human trials? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:33.139
The only way. Real -time human trials. Well,

00:45:33.179 --> 00:45:35.980
because, listen, I'm being serious now. If I

00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:39.699
want to smoke a joint. and drive i become the

00:45:39.699 --> 00:45:42.639
best driver in the world i am following the speed

00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:46.099
limit i'm focused on what i'm doing i'm actually

00:45:46.099 --> 00:45:49.000
a better driver than if i'm sober and i'm fucking

00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.460
raging through the you know parkway trying to

00:45:51.460 --> 00:45:54.519
get to where i'm going then i'm then it's like

00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:57.260
it's an issue but if i take a little toke off

00:45:57.260 --> 00:45:59.539
of something and go for a ride i'm doing the

00:45:59.539 --> 00:46:02.619
speed limit i'm using my blinkers i'm i'm a lot

00:46:02.619 --> 00:46:05.980
cooler of a driver than i am on a normal basis

00:46:07.069 --> 00:46:10.650
The problem is they don't have a way to detect

00:46:10.650 --> 00:46:13.250
if you smoked five minutes ago or five days ago

00:46:13.250 --> 00:46:17.230
that I know of. True. Supposedly, they're coming

00:46:17.230 --> 00:46:19.590
up with cheek swabs, but I don't know how accurate

00:46:19.590 --> 00:46:22.070
they are. Well, yeah, we all know how accurate

00:46:22.070 --> 00:46:26.710
those COVID swabs were. Exactly. There we go.

00:46:27.610 --> 00:46:32.159
Speaking of human trials. Yeah. Yeah. What a

00:46:32.159 --> 00:46:35.000
what a mass. I mean, it could have been a mass

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:39.699
engineered fucking leak from a lab that, you

00:46:39.699 --> 00:46:41.059
know, they were just experiment. Let's see what

00:46:41.059 --> 00:46:43.880
happens if another pandemic hit the world. Because

00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:45.639
what was the one before? It was like 100 years

00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.599
before some kind of. Are you talking about Spanish

00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:56.980
flu? Spanish flu. Yeah. 1912. 1912. I don't know.

00:46:57.079 --> 00:46:59.000
Google that. Put the fact check. I think it was

00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:03.280
17 or 1912. There we go. I thought it was during

00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:06.400
World War II. I mean, World War I. I think it

00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.940
ended World War I, right? That makes sense. Yeah.

00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.699
You're thinking of the War of 1812. Wasn't there

00:47:15.699 --> 00:47:18.619
a War of 1812 that, for some reason, sticks into

00:47:18.619 --> 00:47:25.980
my brain? That was. Yeah. That's when the Star

00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:31.519
Spangled Banner was written. Oh, say. Fort McHenry

00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:35.179
down in Baltimore. Hey, God bless. That's a great

00:47:35.179 --> 00:47:40.559
song. Our national anthem. Or it is, actually.

00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:43.039
Does anybody know any other country's national

00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:44.980
anthem? Every time I watch the Olympics, I'm

00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:46.780
like, that's their song? That's a weird song.

00:47:48.340 --> 00:47:54.219
Yeah, I don't know. I knew I was going back to

00:47:54.219 --> 00:47:57.039
Ireland. We were there one time, and they closed

00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:59.719
the doors at like... two o 'clock in the morning

00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:01.699
go to lock in and you could just stay there and

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:04.380
drink as long as you want but the bands that

00:48:04.380 --> 00:48:06.960
are typically playing in the local bars at least

00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.500
in that town anyway always ended their set at

00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:11.619
the end of the night uh with the irish national

00:48:11.619 --> 00:48:15.239
anthem i had no idea what it was oh wow that's

00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:18.880
kind of cool pretty neat yeah i mean to have

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:21.079
that much pride i mean that's cool to have that

00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:23.659
much pride for your country that's racist now

00:48:23.659 --> 00:48:28.369
it is it is very true Very true. Everything's

00:48:28.369 --> 00:48:31.730
racist now. I mean, everything's opposite. Exactly.

00:48:32.070 --> 00:48:34.889
What's up is down. What's down is up. Like we

00:48:34.889 --> 00:48:37.030
were saying, the Democrats want war in Ukraine

00:48:37.030 --> 00:48:39.909
and the Republicans are the ones saying, well,

00:48:40.010 --> 00:48:42.010
wait a second here. How much are we spending

00:48:42.010 --> 00:48:45.829
on this war? It's obsessive to me. I mean, the

00:48:45.829 --> 00:48:48.449
fact that we were in Afghanistan for almost 20

00:48:48.449 --> 00:48:52.670
years and spent $75 billion. And we're not even

00:48:52.670 --> 00:48:55.369
in Ukraine technically. And we spent at least

00:48:55.369 --> 00:48:58.570
84 billion is absurd to me in less than a year.

00:48:58.630 --> 00:48:59.969
We're well over a hundred billion in Ukraine

00:48:59.969 --> 00:49:02.769
for sure. I'm trying to use like numbers that

00:49:02.769 --> 00:49:05.269
people won't be like, Oh, he's inflating because

00:49:05.269 --> 00:49:07.309
there's a lot of fucking morons out there that

00:49:07.309 --> 00:49:09.650
don't pay attention. So I'm just kind of using

00:49:09.650 --> 00:49:12.150
basic numbers here, but yeah, I'm not worried

00:49:12.150 --> 00:49:13.610
about it's over a hundred billion dollars. So

00:49:13.610 --> 00:49:17.010
over a hundred billion and less than a year,

00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:20.449
my God, where do we get that money? But we don't

00:49:20.449 --> 00:49:22.730
have money for Hawaii. We don't have money for

00:49:22.730 --> 00:49:25.429
the people starving in America. We don't have

00:49:25.429 --> 00:49:27.769
money to build a fucking wall. But we have that

00:49:27.769 --> 00:49:30.349
much money to throw out to Ukraine. Yep. Well,

00:49:30.449 --> 00:49:34.050
it's all laundered back through the military

00:49:34.050 --> 00:49:36.829
-industrial complex, and they're all getting

00:49:36.829 --> 00:49:39.610
kickbacks. That's a conspiracy theory, though,

00:49:39.670 --> 00:49:42.989
but just follow the money. Follow the money,

00:49:43.130 --> 00:49:46.710
people. So what's what's going on now? So Biden

00:49:46.710 --> 00:49:49.130
sold the leftover material from Trump's wall

00:49:49.130 --> 00:49:51.929
for pennies on the dollar. Yeah. And now Biden

00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:53.929
saying that he's going to build another 20 miles

00:49:53.929 --> 00:49:58.030
or whatever. Yeah. What's the net loss on that

00:49:58.030 --> 00:50:00.349
going to be for the taxpayers? Yeah, exactly.

00:50:00.670 --> 00:50:03.010
You know, the net loss, like you said, in dollars,

00:50:03.090 --> 00:50:05.510
what is it? But what is the net loss in American

00:50:05.510 --> 00:50:07.869
lives and resources from all the people they

00:50:07.869 --> 00:50:10.110
just let over without fucking checking? I mean,

00:50:10.130 --> 00:50:13.719
what's the net loss there? It's immeasurable,

00:50:13.860 --> 00:50:16.940
right? Right. Did anyone else think that was

00:50:16.940 --> 00:50:20.559
funny? I got an emergency test on my phone last

00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:22.900
week. Did you guys get that? Yes, sir. Yeah.

00:50:23.059 --> 00:50:25.340
They widely announced they were doing that. It

00:50:25.340 --> 00:50:29.239
was a massive test. I agree, but now all of a

00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:32.260
sudden we're at war again. Well, we're not, but

00:50:32.260 --> 00:50:34.559
there's a war going on, yet they didn't have

00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:36.460
any intelligence on that. I know it's a little

00:50:36.460 --> 00:50:38.969
bit conspiracy, but... Well, I was saying that

00:50:38.969 --> 00:50:41.550
earlier, Joe, that the Mossad completely missed

00:50:41.550 --> 00:50:44.110
this fucking whole thing. That's their number

00:50:44.110 --> 00:50:48.889
one job. And they missed this whole thing. People

00:50:48.889 --> 00:50:52.889
paraglided in. They freaking broke holes in the

00:50:52.889 --> 00:50:57.510
wall and en masse just came in after firing 5

00:50:57.510 --> 00:51:00.050
,000 rockets. Where the fuck did they all come

00:51:00.050 --> 00:51:03.630
from? Right. And had to hear this chatter going

00:51:03.630 --> 00:51:06.289
on while they were planning it. Yeah. Right.

00:51:06.730 --> 00:51:10.110
So that's that's that. I don't agree with what

00:51:10.110 --> 00:51:11.949
happened. I'm standing with Israel, but like

00:51:11.949 --> 00:51:14.590
it's I just that's fishy to me that Mossad had

00:51:14.590 --> 00:51:16.710
no idea. And they just there's just a complete

00:51:16.710 --> 00:51:19.489
surprise. It just doesn't make sense. Same same.

00:51:19.550 --> 00:51:22.010
I stand with Israel. But just to look at what

00:51:22.010 --> 00:51:25.130
Palestine looks like today, like they are literally

00:51:25.130 --> 00:51:28.090
bombing it to the ground and then sending in

00:51:28.090 --> 00:51:30.230
ground troops right after. I mean, oh, yeah.

00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:32.360
I get it. You know what I'm saying? After 9 -11,

00:51:32.539 --> 00:51:34.440
I wanted to fuck the world up. You know what

00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:36.320
I'm saying? After we were attacked. So I could

00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.719
only imagine what Israel feels. But, you know,

00:51:38.739 --> 00:51:41.840
when you look at it from an outside point of

00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:45.820
view, it's like people are, you know, it's just

00:51:45.820 --> 00:51:48.280
crazy. The amount of loss and devastation going

00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.639
on, you know, over there. It's just, it sucks

00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:54.079
all the way around. Yeah, I'm afraid it's going

00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:55.940
to be a little bit of a can of worms here. The

00:51:55.940 --> 00:52:01.269
Middle East is so complex. I'd heard today on

00:52:01.269 --> 00:52:04.710
the radio there that they had found a bunch of

00:52:04.710 --> 00:52:08.289
babies killed, little babies ripped out of women's

00:52:08.289 --> 00:52:10.929
stomachs with the umbilical cord still attached.

00:52:11.449 --> 00:52:16.530
I mean, some of them beheaded. Yep. Yeah. I don't

00:52:16.530 --> 00:52:20.369
know how, like, and I'm with Israel. I know that.

00:52:20.670 --> 00:52:22.949
that there's probably some type of point of view

00:52:22.949 --> 00:52:25.110
that palestine has not the terrorists or anything

00:52:25.110 --> 00:52:27.170
but just with their country and stuff i don't

00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:29.530
know enough to comment on it but how do you tell

00:52:29.530 --> 00:52:32.809
israel to lay down you know or to to stand down

00:52:32.809 --> 00:52:36.690
with that i mean i i can see why they're doing

00:52:36.690 --> 00:52:38.489
what they're doing if what we're hearing is true

00:52:38.489 --> 00:52:41.090
which i'm assuming right well again i'm dumb

00:52:41.090 --> 00:52:44.130
but i think what it really comes down to is that

00:52:44.130 --> 00:52:48.090
the israelites are saying that you know like

00:52:48.090 --> 00:52:51.400
this land was theirs and then For so long, it

00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:54.300
wasn't. And then at some point, I think America

00:52:54.300 --> 00:52:57.400
actually gave them back that land and said, Israel

00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.639
is yours. So I think the Palestinians are like,

00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:03.400
well, that came out of nowhere because for hundreds

00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:05.760
of years it was ours, you know, and then you

00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:09.659
just set up this state and say it's theirs. I

00:53:09.659 --> 00:53:12.659
think again, I don't I'm not 100 percent deep

00:53:12.659 --> 00:53:14.719
into what the fuck is going on outside of my

00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.750
own little realm. But just from bits and pieces

00:53:17.750 --> 00:53:20.949
of what I'm hearing, like, just imagine New Jersey

00:53:20.949 --> 00:53:24.630
all of a sudden was given to somebody else and

00:53:24.630 --> 00:53:27.550
is no longer America's, but it's this other country

00:53:27.550 --> 00:53:31.030
inside of our country. We'd probably be a little

00:53:31.030 --> 00:53:33.730
perturbed and try to get that back sometime as

00:53:33.730 --> 00:53:37.809
well. Chad, has the band ever played in any of

00:53:37.809 --> 00:53:41.539
those countries? hopefully not dubai or something

00:53:41.539 --> 00:53:43.519
i mean like you know i mean i didn't know like

00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:45.480
some of the american friendly countries like

00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:48.019
no never never went to the middle east anywhere

00:53:48.019 --> 00:53:51.440
over there to see what dubai's done like they

00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:53.800
were showing like uh pictures from like 20 years

00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:56.860
ago to now like the massive amount of build -up

00:53:56.860 --> 00:53:59.099
that they've done it's like a real tourist uh

00:53:59.099 --> 00:54:03.280
centric spot well they've they've heavily invested

00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:05.400
in that because you know oil is going to run

00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:09.039
out someday so sure That's what Saudi Arabia

00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:11.760
is doing now, building the line and all their

00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:14.599
gigantic construction projects they're doing.

00:54:15.380 --> 00:54:20.320
What do you guys think about these cities that

00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:22.099
they're building where they're like five -mile

00:54:22.099 --> 00:54:25.239
-long buildings and it's a city within a building?

00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:27.639
Have you heard of this? You're talking about

00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:31.900
the line? Yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. I mean,

00:54:31.940 --> 00:54:35.940
it's wild. It's dope. At first, when they first

00:54:35.940 --> 00:54:37.320
announced it, they were like, I'll never build

00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:42.760
this. Right. They're a walkthrough. Bill Hines

00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.420
walking through, yeah. How's Bill doing these

00:54:45.420 --> 00:54:55.079
days? He's good. Good. What up, Bill? How's George

00:54:55.079 --> 00:54:57.559
doing? I talked to George the other day. Oh,

00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:00.099
did you call? Yeah, he's good. yeah he's gonna

00:55:00.099 --> 00:55:03.340
get out of rehab on thursday and go live with

00:55:03.340 --> 00:55:07.739
his sister for a bit um up in new york for about

00:55:07.739 --> 00:55:09.719
another i think two or three weeks and then he's

00:55:09.719 --> 00:55:12.400
like after that two or three weeks he's good

00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.340
to go he can function on his own ready to rock

00:55:15.340 --> 00:55:20.880
and roll after after that crazy episode So does

00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:25.119
anybody know the story about Senior Week? I don't

00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:28.199
know if I told the story about Senior Week. Oh,

00:55:28.260 --> 00:55:31.360
boy. I mean, I've told some people, but not on

00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:33.980
here. But, yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, that's

00:55:33.980 --> 00:55:36.980
a good one. I'm talking about when the room got

00:55:36.980 --> 00:55:40.760
destroyed. Yeah, yeah. That's the only one. So

00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:43.199
our senior year, obviously, everyone around here

00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.039
would go to Ocean City, Maryland. Everyone from

00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:48.519
the York area goes there for some reason. I don't

00:55:48.519 --> 00:55:51.650
know why. just what you do so we were we and

00:55:51.650 --> 00:55:54.829
you know after everyone graduated there was a

00:55:54.829 --> 00:55:59.670
week dubbed senior week in ocean city and you

00:55:59.670 --> 00:56:02.389
go down there and just fucking go crazy so we

00:56:02.389 --> 00:56:05.690
rented this place it was the four of us in the

00:56:05.690 --> 00:56:08.929
band a couple other guys but joe were you in

00:56:08.929 --> 00:56:12.070
that room too no we i was down kind of with you

00:56:12.070 --> 00:56:14.489
guys but not not okay i think i ended up taking

00:56:14.489 --> 00:56:18.420
you guys home though you probably But I think

00:56:18.420 --> 00:56:22.820
B. Markle was with us. Oh, God rest. Yeah. I

00:56:22.820 --> 00:56:27.619
think he was in there. Well, this is 89. So,

00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:29.039
I mean, yeah, we had the band. We were still

00:56:29.039 --> 00:56:33.719
public affection at that point when we graduated.

00:56:33.980 --> 00:56:37.920
So, yeah, we go down there. We rent this one.

00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:42.280
It's like a one bedroom, like, you know, little

00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:45.539
condo thing. It's like we had like five or six.

00:56:45.949 --> 00:56:47.449
guys in there something like that i forget what

00:56:47.449 --> 00:56:51.929
it was um and so we're partying the whole week

00:56:51.929 --> 00:56:55.429
and one night people got fucking rowdy i wasn't

00:56:55.429 --> 00:56:58.269
there we i was somewhere trying to get laid probably

00:56:58.269 --> 00:57:02.610
and then uh come back and and uh like the fucking

00:57:02.610 --> 00:57:06.030
doors busted in the walls are all jacked up the

00:57:06.030 --> 00:57:08.969
ceiling is fucking broken like all this crazy

00:57:08.969 --> 00:57:11.880
shit went down we're like what the fuck And I

00:57:11.880 --> 00:57:14.260
think most of us that weren't that were actually

00:57:14.260 --> 00:57:16.239
renting a room weren't there when it happened,

00:57:16.300 --> 00:57:18.880
when all this shit happened. Of course. Otherwise,

00:57:19.059 --> 00:57:20.739
one of you has been like, oh, chill the fuck

00:57:20.739 --> 00:57:24.699
out. And so. So at first we were like, oh, this

00:57:24.699 --> 00:57:26.739
is fucking funny. So we'll just, you know, so

00:57:26.739 --> 00:57:28.619
it was kind of like almost like the last day.

00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:30.960
So we pack up our shit and we just roll home.

00:57:31.019 --> 00:57:37.860
Right. By the time we reached York, we're met

00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:41.659
at the door by our parents. I think we went to

00:57:41.659 --> 00:57:45.280
Chad's house first. My house. And we're met at

00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.380
the door by all of our parents and they are fucking

00:57:47.380 --> 00:57:52.019
pissed off. I mean, we're like, hi. So like apparently

00:57:52.019 --> 00:57:54.539
the state police had an APB out for us and like

00:57:54.539 --> 00:57:58.340
we were almost arrested if we were to get pulled

00:57:58.340 --> 00:58:02.059
over. Wow. So we get home. We're getting shit

00:58:02.059 --> 00:58:03.920
beat out of us by our parents like basically

00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:08.659
and the lady that owned the place wanted to charge

00:58:08.659 --> 00:58:11.820
us and you know. take us to court and all this

00:58:11.820 --> 00:58:15.780
stuff and so yeah yeah our parents ended up negotiating

00:58:15.780 --> 00:58:19.400
with her right that my father was a carpenter

00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:23.760
and matt gracie's father my my uncle tom was

00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.159
a carpenter as well and so uh chad taylor's stepdad

00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:30.880
came with this and we took the patrick's father

00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:33.199
actually came so we all we took so on father's

00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:38.760
day oh god of june of 89 we we take all the dads

00:58:38.760 --> 00:58:41.059
down to freaking And they're all pissed, dude.

00:58:41.099 --> 00:58:42.820
So we're driving down there and they're all fucking

00:58:42.820 --> 00:58:44.800
pissed in the car. It's four hours, you know?

00:58:44.980 --> 00:58:48.139
So we get there and we get to the place and we're

00:58:48.139 --> 00:58:50.199
like, they've negotiated that they're going to

00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:52.260
rehab the place, make it good as new, better

00:58:52.260 --> 00:58:55.820
than it was before. Fix the drywall on the doors

00:58:55.820 --> 00:58:58.739
and all this shit. We get down there and we ended

00:58:58.739 --> 00:59:00.800
up having to pay for it out of, you know, band

00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:03.119
money or whatever we were using at that time.

00:59:04.679 --> 00:59:06.840
So we get there, and the dads are all pissed,

00:59:06.940 --> 00:59:10.300
like I said. We open the door, and the dads walk

00:59:10.300 --> 00:59:12.179
in, and they're looking around, and they just

00:59:12.179 --> 00:59:14.860
start busting up laughing. All of them are just

00:59:14.860 --> 00:59:17.079
laughing, looking around like, God, this is fucking

00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:23.099
crazy. I've never done that. So we start laughing.

00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:25.019
So it ended up being a fucking great Father's

00:59:25.019 --> 00:59:27.460
Day. We all worked on this room, got it put back

00:59:27.460 --> 00:59:30.300
together, and they were fucking joking with us.

00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:31.800
But of course, in front of the moms, they had

00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:36.000
to be pissed. Right, right, right. But it was

00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:39.400
cool. I mean, it was hilarious when they walked

00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:40.960
in and started laughing their asses off. We're

00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:42.679
just like, what? We're all looking at each other

00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:45.440
like, why are they laughing? Oh, my God. They're

00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.039
like, yeah, we did something like this when we

00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:49.460
were your age. Right. Your dad's realized, hey,

00:59:49.539 --> 00:59:51.619
they're just boys having blown off some steam.

00:59:51.820 --> 00:59:54.400
It's like they were, you know, killing people.

00:59:55.699 --> 00:59:57.679
Haven't even recorded their first album yet in

00:59:57.679 --> 01:00:00.199
their trash and hotel room. That's right. Let's

01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:03.730
go. We had some cassettes of, I think, no, we

01:00:03.730 --> 01:00:08.150
did record Death of a Dictionary. Was that out

01:00:08.150 --> 01:00:09.429
by then? I don't remember. I don't know if we

01:00:09.429 --> 01:00:11.110
put it out yet, but we had recordings of it because

01:00:11.110 --> 01:00:14.530
we had recorded it before we graduated. I still

01:00:14.530 --> 01:00:17.650
have mine somewhere. Wow. Actually, I do know

01:00:17.650 --> 01:00:19.769
where it is. I used to have a bunch of T -shirts

01:00:19.769 --> 01:00:21.690
because I would help sell merch and sell tapes

01:00:21.690 --> 01:00:26.110
and that kind of stuff too. He was a man of many

01:00:26.110 --> 01:00:31.179
hats. I was just there for the fun, but it was

01:00:31.179 --> 01:00:32.880
crazy to see. To be along for the ride is cool.

01:00:33.559 --> 01:00:36.719
Yeah, you know, and that was cool. We had a lot

01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:39.940
of fun back then. I mean, just because it was

01:00:39.940 --> 01:00:42.599
new. Obviously, I wasn't in the band. I was just

01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:45.380
kind of a hang -around guy, but it was a new

01:00:45.380 --> 01:00:47.320
experience for me, a new experience for them,

01:00:47.460 --> 01:00:51.579
and it was just crazy. I mean, I remember being

01:00:51.579 --> 01:00:54.380
at CBGB's and Joey Ramone sitting there, you

01:00:54.380 --> 01:00:58.809
know? Wow. Yeah. Shit, like. Wow. Joe Ramone

01:00:58.809 --> 01:01:01.230
came to see us, and I think Debbie Harris came

01:01:01.230 --> 01:01:05.869
to see us, Blondie. Yeah, man. The guy who ended

01:01:05.869 --> 01:01:08.010
up signing us named Gary Kerfirst, and he was

01:01:08.010 --> 01:01:11.590
a legendary manager, and he had a joint venture

01:01:11.590 --> 01:01:14.030
record label with MCA Universal at the time.

01:01:14.690 --> 01:01:18.449
And so he signed us, but he managed the Ramones,

01:01:18.530 --> 01:01:22.409
the Talking Heads, Blondie, James Addiction at

01:01:22.409 --> 01:01:26.739
one point. Wow. So he, you know, this guy. was

01:01:26.739 --> 01:01:29.940
tied into the new york music scene well i heard

01:01:29.940 --> 01:01:32.739
that you guys were so tight in concert because

01:01:32.739 --> 01:01:35.780
technically you didn't see many concerts as kids

01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:38.440
so like you thought like you had to be as good

01:01:38.440 --> 01:01:41.320
as like you know the album so that's why you

01:01:41.320 --> 01:01:43.500
guys were so phenomenal in concert is there any

01:01:43.500 --> 01:01:46.360
truth to that it is true we didn't see a lot

01:01:46.360 --> 01:01:48.599
of shows because you know we're in york so there's

01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:51.380
not a lot of people play here but i don't know

01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:53.800
if that there was because of that that we We

01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:55.739
just wanted to be the best band we could though.

01:01:55.980 --> 01:01:59.920
Yeah. And we felt like, you know, playing what

01:01:59.920 --> 01:02:02.139
you play on the record was very important. Sure.

01:02:02.219 --> 01:02:04.300
That's, that's how we went about it. And we just,

01:02:04.380 --> 01:02:06.280
and then we ended up naming ourselves live. So

01:02:06.280 --> 01:02:08.559
we had, no, we had to live up to that too. Dude,

01:02:08.619 --> 01:02:11.820
you look at Ed from back then, like the way he's

01:02:11.820 --> 01:02:13.380
walking across the stage, I feel like he took

01:02:13.380 --> 01:02:15.519
some moves from Hitler or something. He was like

01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.480
walking across like, like some crazy German or

01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.280
something. yeah he was just like he had like

01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:24.420
a lot of anger to him it's it almost reminds

01:02:24.420 --> 01:02:26.360
me of like yeah i don't know what hitler is saying

01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:28.639
whenever he's saying something but uh he seems

01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:31.139
to have that march and that like angry tone in

01:02:31.139 --> 01:02:33.880
his voice because if you listen to like live

01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:36.519
stuff for mental jewelry ever like he was really

01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:40.119
graspy voice like it's not like the ed of today

01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:43.219
really yeah well i mean i think he would say

01:02:43.219 --> 01:02:44.900
he didn't really know how to sing at that point

01:02:44.900 --> 01:02:48.579
that was just him faking it you know wow As he

01:02:48.579 --> 01:02:50.559
got older, he figured out how to control his

01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:53.239
diaphragm and, you know. Yeah, the difference.

01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:58.699
Yeah, just the vocal range from mental jewelry

01:02:58.699 --> 01:03:01.159
to throwing copper, you know. Not that it sounds

01:03:01.159 --> 01:03:02.860
like different people, but there's just a lot

01:03:02.860 --> 01:03:08.659
more range there. Yeah. Singing lessons and being

01:03:08.659 --> 01:03:10.820
able to use your diaphragm properly and support

01:03:10.820 --> 01:03:13.750
your... I still don't understand how people use

01:03:13.750 --> 01:03:15.809
the diaphragm. Like I sing, it's all through.

01:03:15.969 --> 01:03:18.969
I have no idea where it's coming from. You know,

01:03:18.989 --> 01:03:23.449
I'm in the shower. So I'm not front of the band.

01:03:23.570 --> 01:03:27.210
Yeah. So Joe, when did, when did you stop being

01:03:27.210 --> 01:03:30.889
a hype man or like, when did they, you know,

01:03:30.889 --> 01:03:34.769
kind of outgrow Joe? Throw, throw me to the curb.

01:03:34.809 --> 01:03:39.420
No. I want to say it was the MTV tour. ah um

01:03:39.420 --> 01:03:41.619
all the big yeah that was our first big nationwide

01:03:41.619 --> 01:03:46.420
tour nationwide yeah um and it was tough because

01:03:46.420 --> 01:03:49.219
you know like at that time i mean i had an apartment

01:03:49.219 --> 01:03:52.219
i would work in construction you know when these

01:03:52.219 --> 01:03:54.440
guys started playing and you know doing these

01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:56.820
little kind of mini tours and stuff it was just

01:03:56.820 --> 01:04:01.059
i couldn't do it right but that was the one i

01:04:01.059 --> 01:04:05.489
kind of remember being like damn like Yeah, because

01:04:05.489 --> 01:04:09.530
that was with Johnny Rotten and Public Energy

01:04:09.530 --> 01:04:11.349
Limited at that time was his band. And then B

01:04:11.349 --> 01:04:15.250
.A .D., Big Audio Dynamite, Mick Jones. And that

01:04:15.250 --> 01:04:18.150
was a crazy first tour to do as a band, like

01:04:18.150 --> 01:04:20.489
a first nationwide tour. And the opening was

01:04:20.489 --> 01:04:22.849
Blind Melon. So it was Blind Melon, Us. Wow.

01:04:23.210 --> 01:04:27.190
And Blind Melon, Christopher Thorne is from Dover.

01:04:27.730 --> 01:04:30.369
So we had a connection there. Nice. And then,

01:04:30.449 --> 01:04:33.789
of course, you got to watch Johnny Lydon every

01:04:33.789 --> 01:04:37.750
night. and then fucking Mick Jones from The Clash.

01:04:37.769 --> 01:04:40.050
I was like, what the fuck is this? How did we

01:04:40.050 --> 01:04:42.630
end up on this thing? But the drummer who was

01:04:42.630 --> 01:04:47.389
playing with P .I .L. I can't remember now. Oh,

01:04:47.389 --> 01:04:48.909
no, it was P .I .L. The drummer who was playing

01:04:48.909 --> 01:04:50.730
with P .I .L. was Mike Joyce from The Smiths.

01:04:51.210 --> 01:04:53.570
I was a big Smiths fan, so we got to hang out

01:04:53.570 --> 01:04:58.110
with him. But there were some crazy... He would

01:04:58.110 --> 01:05:01.690
try to lure us into rooms as young boys, and

01:05:01.690 --> 01:05:05.969
that was not cool. But anyway. It was cool. Chad,

01:05:07.690 --> 01:05:10.789
who, who have you met? That was like your biggest,

01:05:10.849 --> 01:05:13.489
like aha moment. Like, Oh my God, I'm in the

01:05:13.489 --> 01:05:15.710
room with so -and -so. Was it, was there anybody

01:05:15.710 --> 01:05:20.989
that comes to mind? Cause you've seen guys from

01:05:20.989 --> 01:05:23.889
YouTube. I mean, I huge YouTube fan, but the

01:05:23.889 --> 01:05:26.130
only guy I have not met from YouTube is of course,

01:05:26.150 --> 01:05:29.329
Larry, the drummer. Oh my God. I mean, I've been

01:05:29.329 --> 01:05:32.559
in a room with Bono. met the edge and Adam couple

01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:37.460
of times. In fact, went to see them in 91 or

01:05:37.460 --> 01:05:41.199
not. No 92 or 93. They were doing, I forget which

01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:44.380
tour it was, but we, we had established ourselves,

01:05:44.380 --> 01:05:47.139
but so we bought tickets and, or we got tickets.

01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:49.139
And then while we were sitting in our seats,

01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:51.639
the security guard came out and got to say, Hey,

01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:56.340
you know, backstage. Okay. yeah at that moment

01:05:56.340 --> 01:05:59.300
do you do you feel like um you know like we're

01:05:59.300 --> 01:06:01.159
not worthy or are you like yeah i belong here

01:06:01.159 --> 01:06:03.320
oh absolutely yeah i was like oh they want oh

01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:05.519
they know who we are and they invited us backstage

01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:07.380
that's fucking cool so it ended up being adam

01:06:07.380 --> 01:06:09.500
and the edge but you know which is great it was

01:06:09.500 --> 01:06:11.940
fucking cool talk to them hell yeah they were

01:06:11.940 --> 01:06:16.420
fans um and then What happened was, so later,

01:06:16.539 --> 01:06:19.420
like around 94, we were starting to, you know,

01:06:19.420 --> 01:06:21.460
Throwing Copper was starting to pop and we were

01:06:21.460 --> 01:06:23.280
doing headlines, starting to do headline stuff.

01:06:23.380 --> 01:06:26.699
And we were offered a headline theater tour.

01:06:28.460 --> 01:06:30.599
But at the same time, we were offered an opening

01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:34.719
slot for U2. Oh my God. So that was a hard choice.

01:06:34.980 --> 01:06:39.119
Yeah. But because we were more focused on our,

01:06:39.219 --> 01:06:42.079
you know, being a headline band ourselves. Right.

01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:45.699
We decided to do the theater tour. well do you

01:06:45.699 --> 01:06:47.900
think like because i feel like opening up for

01:06:47.900 --> 01:06:50.699
you too like you're both of your music fits so

01:06:50.699 --> 01:06:52.659
well together that could have been a big fan

01:06:52.659 --> 01:06:54.659
grab for you guys um it would have been a good

01:06:54.659 --> 01:06:56.820
thing yes absolutely but we all made the decision

01:06:56.820 --> 01:06:59.300
that we wanted to do our headline theater tour

01:06:59.300 --> 01:07:00.699
we thought that would be better for our career

01:07:00.699 --> 01:07:07.360
at that point um but though cut to 2022 and now

01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:11.880
i have this friend uh brian who is a business

01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:14.170
partner with jerry harrison the talking heads

01:07:14.170 --> 01:07:18.849
who produced a bunch of our records and uh and

01:07:18.849 --> 01:07:21.210
they it's great to see stop making sense back

01:07:21.210 --> 01:07:23.869
in theaters by the way and and the and the band

01:07:23.869 --> 01:07:26.929
sort of back together at least all four of them

01:07:26.929 --> 01:07:31.590
in a room that was cool to see for sure um if

01:07:31.590 --> 01:07:33.409
they could get david to do a tour that'd be freaking

01:07:33.409 --> 01:07:36.289
amazing but anyway so they were having so jerry

01:07:36.289 --> 01:07:39.449
and brian were having dinner somehow with larry

01:07:39.449 --> 01:07:42.530
mullins oh wow and so brian's like hey you know

01:07:43.050 --> 01:07:46.570
know the guys in live and i know that chad gracie

01:07:46.570 --> 01:07:48.289
is a big fan of yours and he's like oh yeah i

01:07:48.289 --> 01:07:49.949
remember those guys they wouldn't open for us

01:07:49.949 --> 01:07:53.489
he's still fucking pissed about it damn it damn

01:07:53.489 --> 01:07:57.550
it yeah it's the one guy i want to meet right

01:07:57.550 --> 01:08:00.130
still because larry larry larry runs that band

01:08:00.130 --> 01:08:02.070
and he fucking would pick all the openers and

01:08:02.070 --> 01:08:04.690
we were one of the very few bands that say no

01:08:04.690 --> 01:08:08.469
wow dude so you're so i'm like what a fuck up

01:08:08.469 --> 01:08:11.849
uh yeah i know Someday if I meet him, I'll have

01:08:11.849 --> 01:08:15.010
to apologize. Yeah, for sure. So sorry, Mr. Mr.

01:08:15.170 --> 01:08:18.550
Mullen. So sorry. When was it that you guys did

01:08:18.550 --> 01:08:20.510
the Jane's addiction tour where you actually

01:08:20.510 --> 01:08:23.390
did like a full acoustic set before they came

01:08:23.390 --> 01:08:25.750
on? And I think you guys called it, you were

01:08:25.750 --> 01:08:29.869
the lube to the sex act. Yeah. Did we call it

01:08:29.869 --> 01:08:34.930
that? Yeah. That was in 2000 through two or three,

01:08:34.970 --> 01:08:37.510
somewhere in there. That was killer, man. We

01:08:37.510 --> 01:08:39.069
were asked to open for them and we're like, yeah,

01:08:39.069 --> 01:08:41.609
we'll go do it. And so we get on. So we, so we,

01:08:41.609 --> 01:08:44.409
the first few shows we did full electric, but

01:08:44.409 --> 01:08:47.489
like they would cut the lights down to like a

01:08:47.489 --> 01:08:49.289
quarter and they would cut the fucking sound

01:08:49.289 --> 01:08:51.569
in half. And like, so it was like, we weren't

01:08:51.569 --> 01:08:53.930
translating because, and I don't know if it was

01:08:53.930 --> 01:08:56.229
the band doing that or the production, you know,

01:08:56.229 --> 01:08:59.689
who knows. So we were like, well, fuck this.

01:08:59.729 --> 01:09:02.449
We're going to go like full anti rock show now.

01:09:02.569 --> 01:09:04.710
And so we went out and bought like fucking. and

01:09:04.710 --> 01:09:07.989
i think it was ed or chad's idea whatever we

01:09:07.989 --> 01:09:11.250
went out and bought like antique furniture and

01:09:11.250 --> 01:09:13.569
like fucking coveralls and we were like okay

01:09:13.569 --> 01:09:16.409
we're just gonna do fucking acoustic now dude

01:09:16.409 --> 01:09:19.970
it was and yeah i mean it worked it was like

01:09:19.970 --> 01:09:22.869
it was like you know we'll anti since we can't

01:09:22.869 --> 01:09:25.609
have full you know full pa and full lights we'll

01:09:25.609 --> 01:09:28.250
just go fucking anti and do acoustic makes sense

01:09:28.250 --> 01:09:31.460
yeah it totally worked i mean I think this was,

01:09:31.460 --> 01:09:34.140
you know, not far or maybe a year or two after

01:09:34.140 --> 01:09:37.460
9 -11, but Ed wrapped himself in like American

01:09:37.460 --> 01:09:39.899
flag and was singing overcome and shit. Like

01:09:39.899 --> 01:09:42.260
it was just powerful. Yeah. We did that in Madison

01:09:42.260 --> 01:09:43.840
square garden or he did that in Madison square

01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.800
garden. That was like huge. Yeah. Huge. Went

01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:49.060
over very well. Went over very well. I mean,

01:09:49.060 --> 01:09:51.880
and, but what a way to kind of combat because.

01:09:52.539 --> 01:09:55.500
i mean you guys are gonna kill it just as much

01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:57.380
as jane's addiction so yeah you probably would

01:09:57.380 --> 01:09:59.520
have stole a lot of fans going full electric

01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:03.279
so to do that switch like that was you know smart

01:10:03.279 --> 01:10:05.560
on on both ends because it was like all right

01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:08.020
so let me show you what we could do musically

01:10:08.020 --> 01:10:10.840
here chill and acoustic and then let these guys

01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:12.899
come out and like close the show rock it out

01:10:12.899 --> 01:10:15.439
yeah i mean they had you know obviously full

01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:17.619
production they had dancers and like fucking

01:10:17.619 --> 01:10:19.920
strippers and shit it was a great show i mean

01:10:19.920 --> 01:10:21.760
it was and i'm a fan so it was fucking cool to

01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:24.859
watch but on the other hand i'm like why can't

01:10:24.859 --> 01:10:26.460
we have fucking full pa like what are you scared

01:10:26.460 --> 01:10:28.880
like you're a fucking great band you're not going

01:10:28.880 --> 01:10:30.420
to we're not going to take anything away from

01:10:30.420 --> 01:10:33.170
you by having the same same pa ever yeah whatever

01:10:33.170 --> 01:10:35.789
you never know dude i mean you guys in concert

01:10:35.789 --> 01:10:38.630
were just there's not many people i've got i'm

01:10:38.630 --> 01:10:40.909
gonna i don't think i've seen a band better than

01:10:40.909 --> 01:10:42.850
you guys when you guys are at your best to be

01:10:42.850 --> 01:10:44.909
honest and i've seen a lot of fucking bands in

01:10:44.909 --> 01:10:48.310
concert i i lived um you know at concerts for

01:10:48.310 --> 01:10:51.770
like my 20s and 30s but uh you guys just always

01:10:51.770 --> 01:10:54.850
took great pride in i mean yeah we when we go

01:10:54.850 --> 01:10:57.550
on stage as a unit back in those days it was

01:10:57.550 --> 01:10:59.069
like we're going out there to fucking kill like

01:10:59.069 --> 01:11:02.689
we're going to do this Rock on. Taking no enemies.

01:11:03.350 --> 01:11:05.710
Absolutely. It's like Israel fucking just, you

01:11:05.710 --> 01:11:08.789
know, paving Gaza. Taking no enemies. Yeah, they're

01:11:08.789 --> 01:11:11.170
going fucking ham. So, Joe, anything else before

01:11:11.170 --> 01:11:13.850
we go? I usually cut the show around an hour

01:11:13.850 --> 01:11:18.130
-ish, a little longer. Yeah, I've got two quick

01:11:18.130 --> 01:11:19.409
questions I'd like to ask Chad, if you don't

01:11:19.409 --> 01:11:22.310
mind. Please. I didn't even think about it until

01:11:22.310 --> 01:11:24.569
we're kind of reminiscing here. I wanted to know

01:11:24.569 --> 01:11:29.100
the Howard Stern birthday party show. I never

01:11:29.100 --> 01:11:32.119
knew, like that one just popped up. Like, I didn't

01:11:32.119 --> 01:11:33.939
know you guys were doing it. You know, like I

01:11:33.939 --> 01:11:35.020
said, we hadn't spoken in a while. And I was

01:11:35.020 --> 01:11:38.079
like, holy shit. Like, was that fun? Like, I

01:11:38.079 --> 01:11:39.640
would imagine that would be debauchery because

01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:41.659
that was back in Howard's heyday. Yeah, that

01:11:41.659 --> 01:11:45.000
was pretty wild. We had played the show and then

01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:47.539
he was, he loved selling the drama. It was one

01:11:47.539 --> 01:11:49.619
of his favorite songs. And so they asked us kind

01:11:49.619 --> 01:11:51.079
of last minute to do that. And we just happened

01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:54.720
to be in or around New York. And so, yeah, I

01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:56.500
forget where it was. Some venue, some theater

01:11:56.500 --> 01:11:59.739
somewhere. in new york and yeah they asked us

01:11:59.739 --> 01:12:02.020
to do we came in yeah they had all the all the

01:12:02.020 --> 01:12:05.140
rat brat or what do they call them uh whack pack

01:12:05.140 --> 01:12:07.500
there all those guys it was i mean it was fucking

01:12:07.500 --> 01:12:11.100
hilarious but it was cool as well for you guys

01:12:11.100 --> 01:12:13.020
to be there like i didn't know there was no like

01:12:13.020 --> 01:12:14.880
announcement live's gonna be there and then when

01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:17.859
i saw it i was like oh shit yeah same it was

01:12:17.859 --> 01:12:21.779
very last minute i remember that the uh and then

01:12:21.779 --> 01:12:24.779
the saturday night live gig man i heard uh Did

01:12:24.779 --> 01:12:26.739
you guys end up being on Saturday Night Live

01:12:26.739 --> 01:12:29.579
with Alanis or something? Was that the same time?

01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:33.039
I remember some connection between you guys and

01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:36.760
Alanis. I don't remember being on the show with

01:12:36.760 --> 01:12:43.840
her. We did it twice in 95 and 97. Yeah. 97 was

01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.619
for Secret Samadhi. Yeah. I don't know. I mean,

01:12:48.739 --> 01:12:51.619
we were making Secret Samadhi in New York, and

01:12:51.619 --> 01:12:54.500
so we went to Saturday Night Live. just to go

01:12:54.500 --> 01:12:57.399
fucking check it out a couple of times once when

01:12:57.399 --> 01:13:01.520
robman was was uh hosting hung out with him and

01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.380
i think the cure play because i remember seeing

01:13:03.380 --> 01:13:05.960
robert smith and introduced myself and he was

01:13:05.960 --> 01:13:10.039
just like who the fuck are you little did he

01:13:10.039 --> 01:13:12.319
know as you could imagine robert smith to be

01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:15.260
i mean you know he's he's he seems very aloof

01:13:15.260 --> 01:13:18.739
and he was but that's fine as you should be as

01:13:18.739 --> 01:13:24.850
a rock star i mean yeah But the Rodman stories

01:13:24.850 --> 01:13:28.970
are good. Oh, those were crazy. Rodman coming

01:13:28.970 --> 01:13:30.649
out on stage with you guys. I'm like, what the

01:13:30.649 --> 01:13:33.010
fuck is this band? Like, what are they doing

01:13:33.010 --> 01:13:35.069
with Rodman? They seem so wholesome. And they

01:13:35.069 --> 01:13:37.510
got this crazy ass dude coming up singing. In

01:13:37.510 --> 01:13:41.470
96, we were, I don't know if we were playing

01:13:41.470 --> 01:13:45.289
in New York or maybe recording, but like somehow

01:13:45.289 --> 01:13:47.310
there was a connection. He wanted us to come

01:13:47.310 --> 01:13:51.289
hang out in his hotel room. He was a fan. I don't

01:13:51.289 --> 01:13:53.420
know. We went to hang out in his hotel room.

01:13:54.579 --> 01:13:57.239
And he was having breakfast. You know, he's got

01:13:57.239 --> 01:13:58.960
crazy hotel rooms, I'm sure. Yeah, and there

01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.560
was somebody in the, it was a suite, somebody

01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:03.079
in the bedroom. I don't know who was in there.

01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:06.020
Madonna, maybe, yeah. It could have been Madonna.

01:14:06.260 --> 01:14:09.340
Who the fuck knows? So we had breakfast with

01:14:09.340 --> 01:14:10.739
him in his room. That's the first time we met

01:14:10.739 --> 01:14:14.039
him. And then he would just come to a show. Like,

01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:15.800
who's not going to let Robin into a show? So

01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:18.600
he would just show up, come onto the stage. fucking

01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:21.819
jump around you guys he would sing with you guys

01:14:21.819 --> 01:14:23.720
and jump around it was like i was like this is

01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:27.159
crazy yeah it was funny and you know you couldn't

01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:29.239
couldn't say no he was just gonna fucking come

01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:31.380
up there anyway so i was like okay yeah right

01:14:31.380 --> 01:14:37.100
yeah right right security um right but yeah man

01:14:37.100 --> 01:14:40.500
you guys we definitely uh gotta dive more into

01:14:40.500 --> 01:14:43.460
your snl and your howard stern appearances on

01:14:43.460 --> 01:14:46.060
this show because uh there's just they're cool

01:14:46.060 --> 01:14:49.170
stories there like what made you guys i love

01:14:49.170 --> 01:14:51.770
the song but hero psycho dreamer is such a fast

01:14:51.770 --> 01:14:55.130
like three like maybe two and a half minutes

01:14:55.130 --> 01:14:57.229
song like why would you pick that as one of your

01:14:57.229 --> 01:15:00.189
songs like uh on snl the second time yeah we

01:15:00.189 --> 01:15:01.949
played luchini's juice and then i don't know

01:15:01.949 --> 01:15:05.130
i don't know how we decided to pick that song

01:15:05.130 --> 01:15:07.630
to do i don't know it was awesome it was all

01:15:07.630 --> 01:15:11.310
rock out i guess yeah yeah show people you guys

01:15:11.310 --> 01:15:13.489
rocking out because that's a nice fast rocking

01:15:13.489 --> 01:15:18.899
song All righty then. Well, thank you, ladies

01:15:18.899 --> 01:15:21.060
and gentlemen, for checking us out. Week five,

01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.180
we have guests coming on every week, apparently.

01:15:24.220 --> 01:15:26.359
Joe, I want to thank you for coming on. You definitely

01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:29.300
gave some cool -ass stories from the early days.

01:15:29.520 --> 01:15:31.640
Yes, sir. Thank you, Joe. Good to see you, bud.

01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:34.460
Yeah, thank you, man. And I'd love to do it again

01:15:34.460 --> 01:15:36.760
sometime. We'll come up with some more good ones

01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:39.520
for him. Absolutely, dude. You have an open invitation

01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:43.609
for sure. and uh the gracious two putting the

01:15:43.609 --> 01:15:45.770
shit in bullshit chat anything you want to let

01:15:45.770 --> 01:15:49.909
the audience know um no just again thank you

01:15:49.909 --> 01:15:52.750
for joining and we'll see you next week i want

01:15:52.750 --> 01:15:55.189
to leave the audience with this uh i don't know

01:15:55.189 --> 01:15:57.529
which side of the coin you guys are on but please

01:15:57.529 --> 01:16:00.989
please do some of your research and don't just

01:16:00.989 --> 01:16:05.229
listen to NBC, CNN, Fox, do some independent

01:16:05.229 --> 01:16:08.550
research. Get some knowledge going because the

01:16:08.550 --> 01:16:12.350
world is a crazy place right now. And we have

01:16:12.350 --> 01:16:15.670
powers to vote these people in and out. So kind

01:16:15.670 --> 01:16:16.970
of pay attention to what's going on, people.

01:16:17.329 --> 01:16:22.289
That's my PSA for the day. 100%. Later, people.

01:16:22.510 --> 01:16:23.050
Later.