The Gracious Two - LIVE Show 047 - Rodd Bland

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preparing setting it up and we are i fucked it

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up live today What is going on, ladies and gentlemen,

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boys and girls? We are live from the studio at

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210. Hey, hey, hey. Mr. Chad Gracey's birthday,

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birthday. 35 today, people. I'm going to break

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the fourth wall and show Troy here, the contest

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winner. So hello, audience out there. This is

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a fun show today. Mr. Gracey's birthday. Mr.

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Rodd Bland coming on. Oh, yeah. And we have a

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lot of stuff to talk about with this wacky, wacky

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world, Chad. Yeah. By the way, Rodd's a super

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cool blues drummer from Memphis. I'm sure he

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can play other stuff, too, but that's the kind

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of bands he plays in, Memphis, Tennessee. And

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I'm very excited to have him on. Yes. I could

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play something from Memphis, Tennessee. What

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does that band from Memphis know? I'm confusing

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myself here. Don't mind me. There are lots of

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bands from Memphis. But isn't there a band that

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has a title like the Memphis Tennessee Blues

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or something? I don't know. Yeah. Maybe Rodd will

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probably know. Rodd will know. So what are we

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getting to first here, Mr. Gracey? Well, first

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I want to say for all the Dems that are going

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to vote for a woman, what is a woman? Yeah. Let's

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get a definition of a woman, please. Well said.

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And you have your lovely candidate that's being

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forced on you with no primaries. Hey, sounds

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good. Gotta love it today. All right. Hey, look

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at this. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, dear.

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Yes. Happy birthday. Daddy doesn't want you on

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camera. Lana could be on camera. So, Chad, make

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a wish, though. Make a wish. Yay. Thank you.

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That was live. We're going to try and blur that

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face out. Bill's here, the lovely Mr. Hynes.

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Yeah, there he is, the man, the myth, the legend.

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It's a fun day here at the studio, folks. You

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all weren't ready for that. These are my mom's

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carrot cake cupcakes of the best in the world.

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I can't wait. They are. I got one last time I

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was here. Lana, is there one for me later? Not

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now, but later. Yes. Treats for everybody. Oh,

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so this is fun. Opening presents on camera. I'm

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drinking on camera, by the way. I'm starting

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early. Uh, Mr. Hayes or, oh yeah, that's Bobby.

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And, uh, he's, uh, in Bobby's world, which is

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off to the, uh, right up there. He's in space.

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My kids are giving me my gifts. Yay. Yay. Hopefully

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it's a lovely. I've seen some of the artwork

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from these kids and it's pretty bad ass. Yay.

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Look at that. Dad, hope your birthday really

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kicks ass. I love it too, man. Family is the

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best. Let's see what we got. Join the mug club.

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Oh, best person ever. Hey, now. I'm sure some

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people would have disagreed with that. That's

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not bad. Bill would disagree with it. Best person

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ever. For dad. Best person. Best person ever.

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Yeah, but you can't be one of. You have to be

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the best only. So for audience that can't hear

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in the background, we are talking to Bill as

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well here. I should have had a mic here for everybody.

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It's calamity here today. Yes, get in here, Bill.

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Say hello. He's definitely on the Mount Rushmore

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of people. Agreed. Yes. Your birthday calls for

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a drink. Your cake calls for a celebration. And

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here I am. Call for the fire department. Happy

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birthday. Thank you, baby. Thank you. Thank you.

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Lena, come say happy birthday. I got $2 now.

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It's all right. It happens all the time. Thank

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you, baby. Oh, I got a shirt. Nice. Yeah. There

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you go. Yo. Happy birthday. Extra large. Thank

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you, baby. And the gargantuan himself is here

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giving dad a present. They got an extra large

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shirt I wear to larges and my daughter told my

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grandma or my mom that I'll grow into it. I love

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it. Keep eating those delicious cupcakes anymore.

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Are you going to say happy birthday and that

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on this mic? T -Doll. Thanks, sir. Yes. Oh, my

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God. He's going to be a DJ himself over there.

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My son is 6 '2". Oh, my goodness. Let's hear

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it. He says, I'll give up my nuts to make sure

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you have a great birthday. Ah, hysterical. And

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then it says, let's hope it doesn't come to that.

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You're the best son, best dad a son could ever

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have. Thank you, brother. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate

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it. Bunny. You rock. And from the heart, dude,

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that's a good pick. $3. Don't spend it all in

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one place. Here's food for thought. You know,

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now that Kamala Harris is the nominee, potentially.

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And they're like, all women got to vote. Thank

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you, buddy. Like, all the Dems are like, all

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women. They're like, all women got to vote for

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Kamala, for the woman. But they can't even define

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what a woman is. That's right. Shots fired here,

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ladies and gentlemen. Boys and girls. You have

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a sitting justice. U .S. Supreme Court justice

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who can't define what a woman is. Yeah. Isn't

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that great? But all of a sudden they will be

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able to know what a woman is. Right. Well said,

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sir. You get it here, folks, on a live show.

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That's the beauty of a live show. This is a card

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from my mom. Son, it's so easy to remember the

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little boy you were. Yet here you are today,

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your own person. Aww. You've grown into a wonderful

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man, the kindest son every family hopes for,

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and you're wished the best today and every day.

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Happy birthday. I love it. So beautiful. Thanks,

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Mama. Mama Gracie in the house. Thanks, Mama.

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So beautiful. My gifts for Chad will be given

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off air because the kids can't see them, but

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Daddy can show them later. This is awesome. I

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love live shows, man. I love this. Love you guys.

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Happy birthday, Mr. Gracie. So 35 today, dude.

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So good. I know. Thank you. Yes, sir. We made

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throwing copper when I was five years old. Boom.

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How did you do it so well, man? Hey, man, I started

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at an early age. It's funny. Not to mention,

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it sounds like there's five -year -olds playing

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the drum set now in live. I'm not going to comment,

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nor have I listened. I just commented because

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it's real. But I wonder if Ed's going to change

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the logo back to red when Trump wins. Hmm. Let's

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see. Let's see about that, folks. Thank you.

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Love you guys. Thank you. Your family's the best,

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man. They are. I love that this live show can

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do. That's the best part of this live show. Chad

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is that stuff like that could happen. That's

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right. And it's all fun. The listening or the

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watching audience is going to love it. But when

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we put this out on audio, they're going to be

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like, what the fuck? It's going to be a little

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different. Yeah. Hey, but Hey, watch it. And

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you know, you'll figure out what's going on.

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I'm going to burp into the mic. That was a shitty

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burp. Pussy burp. Howard Stern. My little shim.

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I used to love Howard Stern until he became a

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libtard. Exactly, dude. He was scared to death

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of COVID. I feel like was that the turning point?

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Yeah. He didn't like Trump. You don't have to

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like Trump. Jesus Christ. The COVID thing just

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destroyed him. But it's just the way he preaches

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about politics, like he knows shit. It's like,

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Howard, stop it. You live in a bubble and you

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don't know shit. Well, he still believes the

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New York Times is the Bible of fucking, of truth.

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Yeah. I love the Candace Owens thing where she's

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on Twitter saying that Ukraine is corrupt and

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New York Times claps back at her. How do you

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know they're corrupt? Do you have any evidence?

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And she's like, yeah, your articles from 2017

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where you said they're the most corrupt country

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on earth. Oh, okay. This is what the mainstream

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media does. They forget about what they've reported

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in the past and then try to clap at people and

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say shit like that and then they get busted.

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Right. Because they lie to you. Isn't it amazing?

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And people keep eating the shit, dude. That's

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a good analogy. They do keep eating the shit.

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It's like, come on now. You might as well be

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a human centipede at this point. Yes. We're going

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to start that, ladies and gentlemen. Human centipede

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of news. From the ass of the fucking MSN into

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your mouth. Yeah, the gracious centipede. We're

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starting. Troy likes that. I love it. Troy Garman,

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again, the winner of the gracious contest. By

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the way, all the comms, Biden alive? Yeah. Is

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he incapacitated? Is he running the country?

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His resignation letter was put out on non -presidential

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letterhead, released on X. He's not done, I mean.

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If you were resigning like Nixon did, didn't

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he resign from the Oval Office? Yes. On camera?

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On camera. That's the way you should do it. Right.

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But, of course, the Democrats lie and fucking

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cover up and do everything they can to not tell

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you the truth. And here you are again. And this

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is the biggest thing in history. The president

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of the United States resigns via X. Non -letterhead.

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Yep. It's not his signature. And we haven't seen

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them. We haven't seen them on video. And then

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you have Kamala. Now she's like, oh, the big

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fucking nominee with no primary. In the primary

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where she ran, she got less than 1 % of the vote.

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Boom. And now this woman's going to be the president

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of the United States. Get the fuck out of here.

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And so there's a video of her saying, yeah, and

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there's this call in from Joe Biden. And all

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of a sudden, he's like, yeah, it's. Great to

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hear from you, Joel, on the call. And now comms

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are coming out saying that it's a 98 % chance

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that that was an AI -generated voice of Biden

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talking to her on that call. We're just speculating,

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of course. Just speculating. Funny how all those

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conspiracy theories come true from the right.

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Joy Reid's putting out the greatest conspiracy

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theory I've ever heard is that Trump planned

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his own assassination attempt and had people

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in the audience killed. Yeah! That makes sense,

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Joy. Why don't you go cut your fucking hair again?

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He let a bullet literally hit his head. How do

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these people stay on air? Why aren't they fired?

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That's the thing with the left. There's no repercussions

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for anything they say or do. Right. And they

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just get to spew their fucking bullshit wherever

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they want to, and nothing happens to them. Well,

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thank God. She'll just fucking resign. She should

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have been fired, but she resigned finally. Yeah.

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The head of the U .S. Secret Service, if you

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don't know, he got grilled yesterday. Even by

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the Democrats, which I'm a little weary of. Why

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would the Democrats grill her so much? But, you

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know, AOC, I mean, I never agree with her, but

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she was asking for a resignation, which is just

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interesting. And I got to figure out what her

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motivation is in that. But because it's not it's

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not about truth and justice. Well, never is.

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But for the people still buying all this bullshit

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out there, you're part of the problem. You know

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what I'm saying? Then I saw some fucking Yahoo

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today saying, this is a self -sacrifice by Biden

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for the good of the country to step down. Oh,

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okay. Yeah, that's what's going on. Yeah, the

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good of the country. When have they done shit

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for the good of the country ever? Like, in the

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past 20 years. And, I mean, they've destroyed

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the reputation of the upstanding U .S. Secret

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Service, as they've done with every three -letter

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agency and every, Just every part of this government

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is non -functional at this point because of DEI

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hires. They've corrupted them, but they've destroyed

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the fine men and women that are the lower echelon

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of the U .S. Secret Service, the agents on the

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ground. They've destroyed their reputation. First

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with the cocaine in the White House. Oh, we can't

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figure out where that came from. Holy shit. And

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now with the almost assassination of their principal.

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Can you imagine the Secret Service can't figure

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out where cocaine came from in a warehouse where

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they were cameras? With cameras, with fingerprints

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on the bag, your greasy fucking shit. If you

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don't have access to a fingerprinting kit because

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it comes off on a plastic bag, then I don't know

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what to tell you, Secret Service. One of the

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most esteemed U .S. law enforcement agencies

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in the world can't figure out where the cocaine

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came from. sure sure but the adults are in the

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room people so yeah that's i love that decency's

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back the adults are in the room when biden came

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in the office and the world's on fire and everything's

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fucked up but yeah decency's on the Decency back.

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Some gay intern has sex with his fucking partner

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in the Senate chambers. Yeah, decency's on the

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ballot. That's cool. That's cool. A trans girl's

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flashing her tits at the Easter parade at the

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fucking White House. Yeah, decency's on the ballot.

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Sounds good. So decent. Stop listening to their

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lies and their bullshit. Watch their actions.

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It's a typical gaslighting. If you watch someone's

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actions, you will see how fucked up they are.

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If you listen to their talk, you'll be like,

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oh yeah, they sound sane and great to me. Stop

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spitting knowledge, Chad, and speaking truth

00:15:43.429 --> 00:15:46.210
and real shit, dude. You're going to offend people.

00:15:46.210 --> 00:15:48.710
This is why I got kicked out alive. Yeah, okay.

00:15:50.710 --> 00:15:53.110
You're going to offend people speaking so much

00:15:53.110 --> 00:15:55.970
truth out there. So we don't keep our guests

00:15:55.970 --> 00:15:59.210
waiting, Mr. Rod Bland. Now we're just going

00:15:59.210 --> 00:16:01.230
to talk about music with Rod. Yes. All good.

00:16:01.330 --> 00:16:04.429
Yes, all good, people and gracious audience.

00:16:04.549 --> 00:16:08.570
Love you, by the way. And Rod, thank you so much

00:16:08.570 --> 00:16:15.049
for coming on, dude. Yes, coming in hot, as they

00:16:15.049 --> 00:16:19.610
say. If you want to turn video off, unmute. That's

00:16:19.610 --> 00:16:21.929
the beauty of the live show is we could have

00:16:21.929 --> 00:16:25.990
all these mistakes, no edits needed, and it's

00:16:25.990 --> 00:16:30.250
fun. I got a lot of them. What up there, Rod?

00:16:30.490 --> 00:16:35.590
Can you hear me? Yeah, I'm trying to figure this

00:16:35.590 --> 00:16:37.490
thing out here. If you click the video button

00:16:37.490 --> 00:16:41.470
up to the right, it might say to choose your

00:16:41.470 --> 00:16:46.250
camera and then audio button for your microphone

00:16:46.250 --> 00:16:50.629
because it looks to me like you are unmuted and

00:16:50.629 --> 00:16:56.129
you should be able to... Hello, hello. Technical

00:16:56.129 --> 00:17:04.960
difficulties. Mr. Rod. Setting it up. It's fucking

00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.339
crazy. I don't like this technology. No way.

00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:15.299
Do you have problems? What is happening? Dead

00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:22.440
air. We got dead air. I don't even see a talking

00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.420
thing coming from there. Oh, snap. Did he try

00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:28.880
to call back in or something? I don't know here.

00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:34.599
Let me see if I can figure this out. Sorry, Rod.

00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:45.480
Sorry, Rod. We're trying. We are. Maybe. Maybe

00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:50.140
we have to switch to a headset live, Chad. To

00:17:50.140 --> 00:17:52.880
me? Yeah, maybe that'll do it. Okay. Should I

00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.759
go grab it? Please. Let's try that because I

00:17:55.759 --> 00:17:57.940
think something is set up different on this board

00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:04.299
that shouldn't be. Let's see. Sorry, Rod, but

00:18:04.299 --> 00:18:10.059
gracious audience, this is completely a flubber.

00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.599
I'll let you in on that one too, Rod, but I think

00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.920
it's on this end. Let's see. All right, let's

00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:23.339
try this. Yo. Yes. Can you shut off? Yep, hang

00:18:23.339 --> 00:18:31.700
on. There we go. Hold on, because I got feedback

00:18:31.700 --> 00:18:41.660
there. So, Rob, there you are, sir. All right,

00:18:41.700 --> 00:18:44.220
cool. They put this on. What's the call? Do not

00:18:44.220 --> 00:18:50.579
disturb. One. Bother me while I'm talking. Two.

00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:56.079
All right, here we go. Yes, plug in. That works.

00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:59.200
I think so, Ron. We're trying to figure it out

00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:03.099
live. This is a mistake on my part for sure.

00:19:04.940 --> 00:19:08.099
Yes, bucking it up live. It's Chad's birthday,

00:19:08.299 --> 00:19:10.259
so we have to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:15.539
Last time we did this live from the studio, I

00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:18.380
got to come in the day before and set it all

00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:21.059
up. And today we were setting it up kind of hours

00:19:21.059 --> 00:19:24.000
beforehand because there was other stuff going

00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.079
on yesterday. But that's all. Okay, I have an

00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:31.140
echo now. You do? Yeah. Do I have to set anything

00:19:31.140 --> 00:19:36.140
up on here? My computer? Yeah. This is funny.

00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:38.160
Rod, you want to keep the show going while we're

00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:42.000
doing this? Why not? Let me just say it. Oh,

00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.559
Rod sounds great to me. Happy birthday to the

00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.839
Chad Gracie. Thank you very much, Rod. Really

00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.259
appreciate that. Thank you for coming on. Much

00:19:51.259 --> 00:19:57.259
like you, I hate hashtags too. Yes. That's been

00:19:57.259 --> 00:20:02.000
my running joke since I started that. Well, he's

00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:08.680
not echoing. I switched from my computer to the

00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:13.180
phone because I'm having issues. Oh, cool. Okay.

00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.599
I'm a dinosaur. Yeah, dude, I hear you. I hear

00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:23.880
you. I just got on Twitter. Real quick. Well,

00:20:24.019 --> 00:20:27.250
hey, welcome to the party. You get to see a lot

00:20:27.250 --> 00:20:33.250
of entertaining people. That's for sure. All

00:20:33.250 --> 00:20:36.069
social media has entertaining people. I think

00:20:36.069 --> 00:20:37.930
you went and saw a convention about these people

00:20:37.930 --> 00:20:43.029
or an award show. Yes. I'm trying to keep it

00:20:43.029 --> 00:20:46.269
cake, babe. So I have to apologize. I taught

00:20:46.269 --> 00:20:50.710
a kickboxing class this morning in Midtown when

00:20:50.710 --> 00:20:55.029
I'm here at the gym out east. And so. I completely

00:20:55.029 --> 00:21:00.269
slept on the distance to here record. Oh, okay.

00:21:01.049 --> 00:21:06.069
Dude, come on. Get out of here. Nice. I made

00:21:06.069 --> 00:21:12.769
a small little note. The intro on run to the

00:21:12.769 --> 00:21:19.829
water. Yeah. Right. Second line. Second verse

00:21:19.829 --> 00:21:22.289
when I go into the rolls on the snare. Is that

00:21:22.289 --> 00:21:24.259
what you're talking about? Yeah, the actual intro,

00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:28.039
I think. He had a really smooth marching thing

00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.759
happening. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that.

00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:35.740
Let me just get the fanboy out of me real quick.

00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.960
Go for it. You don't even have to get it out.

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:46.099
We'll show. The era that I discovered live, I

00:21:46.099 --> 00:21:50.200
was getting out of high school and whatnot. The

00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:56.420
lightning crashes was like, And so finally, you

00:21:56.420 --> 00:21:59.119
know, I think I was out on the road with my dad

00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:03.619
and I stopped by a tower for the kids that may

00:22:03.619 --> 00:22:05.680
be watching this tower was like the best place

00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:08.859
to go buy music. Oh yes, it was. You could buy

00:22:08.859 --> 00:22:15.579
back then cassettes, CDs, vinyl. So anyway, I

00:22:15.579 --> 00:22:21.660
got to, I fell in love immediately with white

00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:25.309
discussion. I just love the whole, like the,

00:22:25.430 --> 00:22:29.109
your intros are awesome. Just even when it's

00:22:29.109 --> 00:22:32.089
just like everyone in on the one. Thank you.

00:22:32.450 --> 00:22:36.190
And the tones of your drums. Amazing. But it

00:22:36.190 --> 00:22:38.509
was that Phil that did it for me. That made me

00:22:38.509 --> 00:22:41.890
a CG fan. The Phil that you did on shit town.

00:22:44.049 --> 00:22:48.269
Oh, what are the end of the, uh, back into the

00:22:48.269 --> 00:22:51.230
course. Right. Okay. Thank you. And I'm like,

00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:53.579
As soon as I heard that, I was like, ballgame.

00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:57.279
It's a wrap. I'm in. I love it. I love it. I

00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.640
love seeing that you were the poster child for

00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.980
all things Pearl Export. Back in the day, I'm

00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:05.039
like, wait a minute. He's in a great band. Surely

00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:07.779
he's not playing crappy Export. I got an Export,

00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:10.900
kid. What's going on? I was my first kid from

00:23:10.900 --> 00:23:12.839
Pearls and Export. Yeah, and then they gave me

00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:16.380
stuff later. Yeah, but yeah. Young artist, you

00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:20.460
know. Yeah, but you brought so much more attention

00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:25.259
to... an already reputable brand, right? You

00:23:25.259 --> 00:23:27.420
know, you were like, you know, they had, they

00:23:27.420 --> 00:23:29.680
had Dennis and they still have Dennis and Omar.

00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:32.519
And at that time, Richie Hayward from little

00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:35.859
feet and a, and a lot of other cats that probably

00:23:35.859 --> 00:23:39.200
can't think of right now, but like, that's great

00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:43.140
music to like you and I, but it's not, but the

00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:46.579
music you were putting out is what everyone was

00:23:46.579 --> 00:23:49.619
consuming, what everyone wanted. And so I was

00:23:49.619 --> 00:23:52.029
like, well, check dude out. This is awesome.

00:23:52.210 --> 00:23:54.789
But yeah. And so fast forward. So I remember

00:23:54.789 --> 00:23:59.569
being home when you guys did SNL to do the Secret

00:23:59.569 --> 00:24:01.630
Samadhi. Am I pronouncing it right? Secret Samadhi?

00:24:01.930 --> 00:24:05.849
Yeah. Correct. Yes. Yep. Okay. Now, if I'd have

00:24:05.849 --> 00:24:07.490
had some tequila in me, that'd be some interesting

00:24:07.490 --> 00:24:17.849
pronunciation. The delicate approach on ghost.

00:24:18.690 --> 00:24:24.799
Yes. dude it's just all right so yeah thank you

00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:32.039
thank you ghosts ghosts and freaks yes yeah i

00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:34.519
haven't recorded i haven't recorded ghosts yet

00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:36.660
for my video for my youtube channel i want to

00:24:36.660 --> 00:24:38.720
but yeah i've done freaks i love that i mean

00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:43.579
that's you know just i love how you're you're

00:24:43.579 --> 00:24:47.960
you're you're playing was solid and in the pocket

00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:50.099
where it needed to be but it was so supportive

00:24:50.099 --> 00:24:52.519
of the vocal and forgive me i'm sitting in a

00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:54.819
chair that keeps sinking down on me so i'm not

00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:58.119
trying to be weird like that but yeah so those

00:24:58.119 --> 00:25:01.440
are my uh i had to get that out of my system

00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:05.180
yeah tell you how much i appreciate um everything

00:25:05.180 --> 00:25:09.299
you've done and i i don't know if john knows

00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:13.059
this but so when it comes to social media and

00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:15.720
you run across maybe one of your favorite musicians

00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:18.359
entertainers whatever you know you take a chance

00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.700
to follow them and maybe open for some minute

00:25:22.700 --> 00:25:26.279
interaction or whatever so i i posted something

00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:28.640
and i tagged chad in it and like i got a hit

00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:31.079
back from him i was like holy shit yeah excuse

00:25:31.079 --> 00:25:34.119
me this is this is chad gracie like this dude

00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:38.779
part of my uh my my drumming dna right very cool

00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:42.660
so as fate would have it luck would have it uh

00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:47.500
last year 23 We're playing my tribute project

00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:50.359
to my dad, Rod Bland, a members -only band. We're

00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:52.480
on the bill for the Beale Street Music Festival.

00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:57.200
And then I mark out because what do I see? I

00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:02.559
see that live is on the bill. So this was the

00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:04.480
first conversation that Chad and I ended up,

00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:07.339
that I was fortunate to have with Chad. Hey,

00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:10.980
man, I'm really looking forward to finally seeing

00:26:10.980 --> 00:26:16.150
you play live in person. And Chad, so no play

00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:19.390
on words, but graciously and humbly said, yeah,

00:26:19.430 --> 00:26:22.569
I'm not going to be there. And he gave me the

00:26:22.569 --> 00:26:27.650
briefest rundown of the situation, if you will.

00:26:27.690 --> 00:26:32.970
And I'm like, another Guns N' Roses type thing?

00:26:33.630 --> 00:26:37.509
Yeah. I mean, I don't need to know the ins and

00:26:37.509 --> 00:26:42.390
outs. I don't even know the ins and outs and

00:26:42.390 --> 00:26:46.170
what happened. I just know that I saw this friend

00:26:46.170 --> 00:26:47.970
earlier today when I was telling him, hey, I'm

00:26:47.970 --> 00:26:49.130
going to have a conversation with Chad Grace.

00:26:49.230 --> 00:26:53.109
He goes, Chad from Live, and this is like a guitar

00:26:53.109 --> 00:26:56.829
nerd, right? Most guitar nerds don't give a shit

00:26:56.829 --> 00:27:01.410
about drummers. Right. And vice versa. Right.

00:27:01.829 --> 00:27:06.329
So he's like, so how'd you hook this up? I was

00:27:06.329 --> 00:27:10.150
like, well, I made some posts and tagged him

00:27:10.150 --> 00:27:14.069
and I, you know, politely like poked at him like,

00:27:14.190 --> 00:27:16.670
you know, hey, man, blah, blah, blah. I think

00:27:16.670 --> 00:27:18.529
you this and that. Hey, man, that's that's cool.

00:27:18.589 --> 00:27:20.369
Hey, you want to come on my podcast? And like

00:27:20.369 --> 00:27:23.690
when I got that initial DM from you, I was like,

00:27:23.710 --> 00:27:25.670
all right, somebody's ribbing me. This really

00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:28.650
is Chad. This is like, you know, this is this

00:27:28.650 --> 00:27:32.470
is like Ladd Spacey out of Nova Scotia. You know,

00:27:32.529 --> 00:27:37.970
it's not Chad. So Russian troll. Yeah, apparently

00:27:37.970 --> 00:27:40.450
they're everywhere. I don't know. I'm not going

00:27:40.450 --> 00:27:43.250
there. But still, just the mere fact that I'm

00:27:43.250 --> 00:27:46.289
getting to talk to a guy whose work I've respected

00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:50.130
for such a long time. And I appreciate it. And

00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:53.769
thank you for having me. And once again, happy

00:27:53.769 --> 00:27:56.569
birthday. Thank you. Thank you for all that.

00:27:56.630 --> 00:27:59.750
I really appreciate that. And I want to go back

00:27:59.750 --> 00:28:03.930
to your pearl. the Pearl Comet. I was really

00:28:03.930 --> 00:28:07.049
sad. In 2016, we came back together. In 2017,

00:28:07.430 --> 00:28:10.329
I played Pearl. In 2018, I was like, hey, can

00:28:10.329 --> 00:28:15.150
I get a new kit? I wanted to get some acrylics.

00:28:15.569 --> 00:28:17.990
I have reference. That's what I was playing,

00:28:18.069 --> 00:28:19.589
but I wanted to get acrylics. I thought it would

00:28:19.589 --> 00:28:23.049
be cool to get red acrylics. Kind of like Bonham,

00:28:23.109 --> 00:28:25.789
sort of. I went back to them, and they were like,

00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:28.329
yeah, it's $400, or whatever it was. I'm like,

00:28:28.490 --> 00:28:32.710
wait, what? And not, not that I wouldn't pay

00:28:32.710 --> 00:28:35.230
for it, but I was like, you know, I'd been a

00:28:35.230 --> 00:28:38.069
Pearl and Dorsey for, I don't know, 25 years

00:28:38.069 --> 00:28:40.390
at that point, something like that. And, and

00:28:40.390 --> 00:28:43.430
I was just taking it back when they, when the,

00:28:43.430 --> 00:28:46.230
this young kid who I never knew, never met before

00:28:46.230 --> 00:28:48.089
all, all the old guards gone, of course they

00:28:48.089 --> 00:28:51.329
retired or moved on. So there's young kids like,

00:28:51.410 --> 00:28:55.349
it was Mike Ferris. Yeah. I had Mike, Mike, my

00:28:55.349 --> 00:29:00.190
boy. Yeah. Lou, Lou Panessa. i'm not familiar

00:29:00.190 --> 00:29:02.089
with lou but mike i knew very well yeah mike

00:29:02.089 --> 00:29:04.710
and derrick and derrick walford derrick i knew

00:29:04.710 --> 00:29:07.029
yes yeah i don't know the kid's name that was

00:29:07.029 --> 00:29:09.009
there now and he's he's like yeah i gotta pay

00:29:09.009 --> 00:29:14.549
for it and i'm like i mean you know it was just

00:29:14.549 --> 00:29:18.609
shocked it stings it stings because again um

00:29:18.609 --> 00:29:23.289
that would be something that would be said to

00:29:23.289 --> 00:29:29.910
me because my genre of uh It's blues, you know,

00:29:29.910 --> 00:29:34.430
and even if I was saying like I had had a summer

00:29:34.430 --> 00:29:38.089
run with with BB and he wanted me to do something

00:29:38.089 --> 00:29:41.930
different, you know, they would still. I would

00:29:41.930 --> 00:29:48.049
imagine be more. Opt to charge me X amount for

00:29:48.049 --> 00:29:52.640
whatever I need versus. future Rock and Roll

00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.660
Hall of Famer, Chad Gracie. Thank you. I just

00:29:55.660 --> 00:29:58.480
want to make sure I put that into the universe.

00:29:58.940 --> 00:30:01.339
I appreciate that. It's out there already. We

00:30:01.339 --> 00:30:04.920
know that's happening. Let's just say one more

00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.480
time, future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Chad

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:14.799
Gracie. Thank you. I don't want to sound pretentious

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:19.089
about it, but like you say, it was a shock. And

00:30:19.089 --> 00:30:20.670
it pissed me off, really, to tell you the truth.

00:30:20.750 --> 00:30:24.549
I've been with him so long. But now we're still

00:30:24.549 --> 00:30:28.509
drum -wise together because I saw the DW kit.

00:30:29.089 --> 00:30:31.630
Yeah, well, that's my manager at the time. He

00:30:31.630 --> 00:30:33.150
said, yeah, I have a contact at DW. I'm like,

00:30:33.250 --> 00:30:38.130
let's call him. And I talked to Garrison. Yes,

00:30:38.250 --> 00:30:41.069
thank you. And he was a super cool dude. And

00:30:41.069 --> 00:30:43.509
he's like, yeah, man, bring it on. I did the

00:30:43.509 --> 00:30:46.970
factory tour. It was fucking awesome. Yeah. Yeah.

00:30:47.390 --> 00:30:49.549
Ordered a red sparkle kit, which I still have.

00:30:49.829 --> 00:30:54.009
And then they gave me the black designer, not

00:30:54.009 --> 00:30:56.829
designer, what was the lower series? They gave

00:30:56.829 --> 00:30:59.269
me the black kit to use until my performance

00:30:59.269 --> 00:31:02.750
series. Yeah, performance series. They gave me

00:31:02.750 --> 00:31:05.430
that to use until red sparkles were done. And

00:31:05.430 --> 00:31:08.390
yeah, I was fucking happy. And I've always, I've

00:31:08.390 --> 00:31:10.150
been using their snare stands forever because

00:31:10.150 --> 00:31:12.750
I didn't like Pearl snare stands. So I've been

00:31:12.750 --> 00:31:17.500
using a 9000 series snare stand forever. yeah

00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:20.839
and uh so i like their hardware and they're i

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:22.819
know their i know their shells are amazing and

00:31:22.819 --> 00:31:24.480
and then to go to the factory and see how the

00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.940
shells were made i was like yeah this is fucking

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:28.920
great because they're like they're taking different

00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:31.880
grains and and crossing them in the in the wrap

00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:33.859
and like just doing all this crazy stuff i was

00:31:33.859 --> 00:31:36.940
like wow this is wild so i was super happy about

00:31:36.940 --> 00:31:42.680
that but yeah um tony bronigal who He's a longtime

00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:46.640
DW guy. He lives out in LA. Great drummer, producer.

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.240
He is so astute when it comes to the shells.

00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.160
He goes and has occasional lunches with John

00:31:57.160 --> 00:32:00.000
Good. I'm like, thanks for rubbing that in considering

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.319
that I'm in Memphis and y 'all are out in LA

00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:06.519
where there's better weather. People's key is

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:08.769
don't get stolen. Not that I drive a Kia, I drive

00:32:08.769 --> 00:32:14.309
a Cherokee, but in Memphis, Kias were a hot commodity,

00:32:14.490 --> 00:32:18.630
unless you had the club. Right, of course. I

00:32:18.630 --> 00:32:23.950
met a girl recently, and she's like, hey, can

00:32:23.950 --> 00:32:25.609
you just hop into my car? It's broad daylight

00:32:25.609 --> 00:32:27.710
and midtown, but still, yeah, it's no problem.

00:32:27.890 --> 00:32:30.269
Besides, it's a gentlemanly thing to do. And

00:32:30.269 --> 00:32:32.809
I saw her in the car and said, Kia. I was like,

00:32:32.890 --> 00:32:36.990
hey, so forgive me if this seems rude. in my

00:32:36.990 --> 00:32:39.269
days of hell but i don't mean to be rude but

00:32:39.269 --> 00:32:43.289
has have you ever had any issues with your car

00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:46.170
being taken out of your possession he goes yes

00:32:46.170 --> 00:32:52.349
twice until i got the club i was like noted so

00:32:52.349 --> 00:32:56.250
last year so and this is you know well after

00:32:56.250 --> 00:32:58.390
i did my tribute show to my dad in santa monica

00:32:58.390 --> 00:33:01.509
last year but i discovered something called toro

00:33:01.509 --> 00:33:05.950
you can rent a car from someone like I knew nothing

00:33:05.950 --> 00:33:08.329
about it. I was like, man, I'm going to go broke

00:33:08.329 --> 00:33:11.089
with the Uber and this and the third, humming

00:33:11.089 --> 00:33:15.029
and bumming rides. So I settled in a Kia. And

00:33:15.029 --> 00:33:20.569
the first thing I thought of when I parked, dear

00:33:20.569 --> 00:33:24.690
Lord, please let this vehicle be here tomorrow,

00:33:24.930 --> 00:33:28.150
the next day. Where were you? You were in Santa

00:33:28.150 --> 00:33:32.630
Monica, you said? So we did this. I was standing.

00:33:33.529 --> 00:33:37.150
east hollywood i think uh my trumpet player has

00:33:37.150 --> 00:33:42.589
a place in east hollywood and the gig was at

00:33:42.589 --> 00:33:44.970
the broad stage at the performing arts center

00:33:44.970 --> 00:33:48.769
in santa monica ironically when we did this show

00:33:48.769 --> 00:33:52.910
last year it was on the 10 -year anniversary

00:33:52.910 --> 00:33:57.829
of my dad passing so you know that's you know

00:33:57.829 --> 00:34:01.859
kind of heavy in itself but um It would have

00:34:01.859 --> 00:34:03.279
been even heavier if something would have happened

00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:08.679
to that car, and I would have been doing any

00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:12.900
number of odd jobs to try to help cover the cost

00:34:12.900 --> 00:34:16.920
of the loss. But nonetheless, yeah. Dad was looking

00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:20.539
out for the car, I'm guessing, then. Hey, you

00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:23.639
know what? Someone was looking out for that car.

00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:26.320
There you go. But you didn't have the club, huh?

00:34:27.389 --> 00:34:30.030
No, and surprisingly, like, Kias are not a hot

00:34:30.030 --> 00:34:33.150
commodity in L .A. Oh, okay. I was definitely

00:34:33.150 --> 00:34:36.210
worried about being in L .A. and a Kia. Yeah,

00:34:36.269 --> 00:34:39.030
they're still in Mercedes and stuff. Yeah, they're

00:34:39.030 --> 00:34:44.530
taking good shit. That's just my preconceived

00:34:44.530 --> 00:34:46.449
notion about, you know, well, if they're doing

00:34:46.449 --> 00:34:47.949
this in Memphis, there's no telling what they're

00:34:47.949 --> 00:34:50.929
doing out west. Yeah, so for a while there, if

00:34:50.929 --> 00:34:52.570
you were buying, like, Range Rovers or higher

00:34:52.570 --> 00:34:55.559
-end cars and... in southern california you would

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:57.260
have to sign a waiver saying you wouldn't sell

00:34:57.260 --> 00:35:00.039
it immediately because they were you people were

00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:02.679
buying the car selling it immediately put it

00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:04.840
in a shipping container sending it to friggin

00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:08.260
like abu dhabi or somewhere like what the hell's

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:10.780
going on it was crazy i'm like okay i'll sign

00:35:10.780 --> 00:35:13.440
the waiver i'm not gonna sell it who has time

00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.440
to think of shit like that to do criminals yeah

00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.519
i was gonna say not us but some criminal okay

00:35:21.309 --> 00:35:24.170
Yo, can you talk to us about that Memphis kickboxing,

00:35:24.309 --> 00:35:26.110
dude? You apologized for wearing the shirt, but

00:35:26.110 --> 00:35:32.210
I think this is bad. So I am now a teacher, have

00:35:32.210 --> 00:35:37.769
been since maybe 21, 2021. We're here at the

00:35:37.769 --> 00:35:40.630
East gym, Memphis fitness kickboxing, and it's

00:35:40.630 --> 00:35:44.750
a 40 minute workout. You're punching, you're

00:35:44.750 --> 00:35:47.869
kicking. I'll have you doing pushups, sit -ups,

00:35:47.969 --> 00:35:51.300
crunches, lunges. And then me throwing up real

00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:54.739
quick from... Well, there's a garbage can right

00:35:54.739 --> 00:35:58.239
by the mat. Oh, sweet. You do it at your own

00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.119
pace. That's what we tell everyone. Like, you

00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:01.940
know, what works for me, how it works for me

00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:04.019
might not work for you. Right. You go at your

00:36:04.019 --> 00:36:09.800
own pace. So we might go 10 to 15 minutes before

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.719
the first water break. But that's a thing of,

00:36:12.780 --> 00:36:15.300
like, my warm -up is just stretching, touch your

00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:18.989
toes, and do the things. Then we get on the bag

00:36:18.989 --> 00:36:20.829
lightly and just start, you know, going around

00:36:20.829 --> 00:36:23.150
on the bag. And then I'll have you doing combos.

00:36:23.429 --> 00:36:26.210
You'll be throwing kicks. And then I'll have

00:36:26.210 --> 00:36:29.550
you, you know, squat up and down, whatever, jump

00:36:29.550 --> 00:36:34.429
squats. And then we'll get to, like, all right,

00:36:34.449 --> 00:36:37.530
30 kicks each leg, get water. Then go back and

00:36:37.530 --> 00:36:40.170
do some more stuff. All right, 20 kicks each

00:36:40.170 --> 00:36:42.349
leg, get water. Nice. You know, then the last

00:36:42.349 --> 00:36:44.949
thing you do, you're like, God, man, are you

00:36:44.949 --> 00:36:48.380
done? blah blah blah 10 kicks each leg then you

00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:50.800
stretch you dry off spray and wipe down your

00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:52.880
back stop dog cussing me under your breath and

00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.460
enjoy the rest of your day is that happening

00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:57.639
on day one like if i came and took that class

00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.280
on day one or you'd put me through that i again

00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:04.380
you go at your own pace but yeah day one you're

00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:09.079
gonna not to quote the rock from 2013 but boots

00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:12.719
to asses There you go. Nice. Even though you're

00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:14.679
either barefoot or wearing socks on the mat,

00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:18.780
those shoes. But yeah, I mean, you go at your

00:37:18.780 --> 00:37:20.599
own pace. It's just like when you start running

00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:22.659
or whatever. You don't just take off at breakneck

00:37:22.659 --> 00:37:27.900
speed. Like Richard Price said, you ease. You

00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:31.360
tiptoe into it. You don't just start out. Jump

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.030
right into it, as they say. Right. All right,

00:37:35.050 --> 00:37:36.489
I'm sorry. Get back to the drum talk because

00:37:36.489 --> 00:37:39.150
that was cool. My brain was like, I got to fucking

00:37:39.150 --> 00:37:41.070
remember that kickboxing shit because it's cool

00:37:41.070 --> 00:37:44.269
as hell. Sorry. Before we get out of here, I'll

00:37:44.269 --> 00:37:47.010
give you the quick tour of the mats here and

00:37:47.010 --> 00:37:51.769
stuff. So, Rod, I hope it's not too sore subject,

00:37:51.869 --> 00:37:53.949
but tell me about your dad. Was he a drummer?

00:37:54.949 --> 00:38:00.130
No. The funny thing, and I learned this after

00:38:00.130 --> 00:38:04.710
he passed, but I'll give you a quick two -part

00:38:04.710 --> 00:38:10.389
story to that. When he was in the hospital before

00:38:10.389 --> 00:38:13.670
we found out it was terminal, I would go sit

00:38:13.670 --> 00:38:17.429
with him, right? And this is, you know, March

00:38:17.429 --> 00:38:21.250
of 2013, so we're just now having all the tools

00:38:21.250 --> 00:38:23.230
that we utilize on a daily basis with iPhones,

00:38:23.429 --> 00:38:27.929
whatever. So I said to him, I said, hey, you

00:38:27.929 --> 00:38:30.030
feel like listening to music? He goes, yeah,

00:38:30.030 --> 00:38:32.030
I'd love to, but I don't have a box up here,

00:38:32.110 --> 00:38:36.110
you know. radio speaker right boxes yes yeah

00:38:36.110 --> 00:38:38.710
so that's for your you know your youngins out

00:38:38.710 --> 00:38:42.329
there watching this um and so i said you don't

00:38:42.329 --> 00:38:48.550
need one he goes yeah just you know uh the uh

00:38:48.550 --> 00:38:55.170
you know pandora's box whose box right so i'm

00:38:55.170 --> 00:38:58.849
uh i i said you you want to listen to jazz buddy

00:38:58.849 --> 00:39:01.670
rich channel yeah now all the while he's like

00:39:02.110 --> 00:39:04.250
I'm sure my dad's like, what in the is going

00:39:04.250 --> 00:39:07.590
on here? Right. So I will pop my phone and like

00:39:07.590 --> 00:39:10.090
it's playing, you know, speakers fairly loud.

00:39:11.230 --> 00:39:15.630
And I'm reading a magazine or whatever. And I

00:39:15.630 --> 00:39:21.050
look up. My dad's like sitting in a chair, you

00:39:21.050 --> 00:39:24.329
know, those gowns on and in the shirt pocket

00:39:24.329 --> 00:39:27.469
with some kind of cables. He's air drumming his

00:39:27.469 --> 00:39:32.239
ass off. Right. Nice. I look over. Clear my throat

00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.199
of Gressler. Hey, hey, hey. Gimmick infringement,

00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.900
don't you think? You don't see me at the front

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:42.139
of a mic. Microphone being a phony to mic singing.

00:39:42.179 --> 00:39:46.059
He goes, you know, I always wanted to play, but

00:39:46.059 --> 00:39:47.840
I couldn't get the shit together like you and

00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.980
Jabbo. And I'm like, that's a huge compliment.

00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:55.039
So after he passed, my mom went to see Buddy

00:39:55.039 --> 00:40:00.039
Guy. And Buddy said, you know, Bob was always

00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.219
a drummer. And I'm like, what? You know, when

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:08.880
I was told this story. And then I also, one late,

00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.260
late night after a gig and couldn't sleep and

00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:13.920
that bottle of whatever I was drinking just wouldn't

00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.460
let me sleep. I'm doing all this scrolling on

00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:20.820
the internet. I see a photo of my dad with, I

00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:23.460
think it was Aretha Franklin and Jimmy Witherspoon.

00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:27.340
Aretha had a ukulele or ukulele if you're, you

00:40:27.340 --> 00:40:31.329
know, how do you pronounce it? But my dad and

00:40:31.329 --> 00:40:33.369
Witherspoon have drumsticks, and there's this

00:40:33.369 --> 00:40:38.110
large floor tom or concert tom or whatever. They're

00:40:38.110 --> 00:40:42.989
posing and everything, and I'm like, damn. So

00:40:42.989 --> 00:40:46.570
that's where the whole drum thing about my dad

00:40:46.570 --> 00:40:48.369
comes into play. But for those that don't know,

00:40:48.429 --> 00:40:54.389
my dad, blues singer, Bobby Blue Bland, him and

00:40:54.389 --> 00:40:57.619
my godfather, B .B. King. They got their start

00:40:57.619 --> 00:41:01.380
together in Memphis on Beale Street in a group

00:41:01.380 --> 00:41:04.699
called the Beale Streeters, which featured Roscoe

00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:09.480
Gordon and Junior Parker. So as fate would have

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:16.719
it, eventually BB landed a gig as a disc jockey,

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:21.699
DJ to the kids, on WDIA, the first black radio

00:41:21.699 --> 00:41:24.340
station in Memphis, which would broadcast outside

00:41:24.340 --> 00:41:28.590
of Memphis. and bb had i think in 15 minutes

00:41:28.590 --> 00:41:31.889
for a spot for a show you know he'd plug where

00:41:31.889 --> 00:41:33.230
he's going to play and then my dad would come

00:41:33.230 --> 00:41:36.369
on and sing like you know half a song bb to finish

00:41:36.369 --> 00:41:40.510
it up my dad was also you and your family dude

00:41:40.510 --> 00:41:46.250
i'm sorry to interrupt but keep going it's just

00:41:46.250 --> 00:41:50.309
it's just the the old man my dad bb i i'm a dude

00:41:50.309 --> 00:41:53.969
that's like a cross between a muscular stefan

00:41:53.969 --> 00:41:57.090
urkel and Will Smith's fresh French character

00:41:57.090 --> 00:42:04.650
with a hint of 99 Dwayne Johnson. Nice. Talking

00:42:04.650 --> 00:42:10.829
plenty of shit right now. So my dad used to drive

00:42:10.829 --> 00:42:17.389
for BB. My dad told me that he would say to BB,

00:42:17.630 --> 00:42:20.090
I can sound just like you. I can sing all your

00:42:20.090 --> 00:42:22.760
songs, blah, blah, blah. And B .B. said, well,

00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:28.940
that's great, Robert. We already got one to me.

00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.539
What do we need two for? Right? Right, right.

00:42:32.780 --> 00:42:38.059
So that was the, you know, develop your own identity

00:42:38.059 --> 00:42:41.980
thing. So off to the races. I'm going to skip

00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:46.059
some things. But my dad tried out with Chess

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:49.099
Records. I think he did two singles. And from

00:42:49.099 --> 00:42:51.880
what I was told, the people at Chester were like,

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:55.139
pack it up. You're never going to make it. Oh,

00:42:55.139 --> 00:42:59.460
shit. So he goes on, you know, drafted into the

00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:04.559
Army, comes home, somehow gets sent a bus ticket

00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:08.280
to Houston, Texas, to Duke Records. And 1957,

00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:13.039
his first single, Further Up the Road, is cut.

00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.179
And we're off to the races, like a string of

00:43:16.179 --> 00:43:19.000
number one singles and yada, yada, yada. Wow.

00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:23.739
I was told the night that my dad got his Lifetime

00:43:23.739 --> 00:43:28.119
Achievement Award at the Grammys, the same one

00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:33.039
of the brothers approached him and my mom, hey,

00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:38.760
do you remember me? I sure do. Wow. It's good

00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:41.219
to see you. Thank you. You have a good night.

00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:43.460
My mom goes, who was that? That was one of the

00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:46.260
brothers that told me, basically, I think he

00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:48.559
said to her, that was one of the brothers that

00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:50.380
told me I wasn't going to be shit when they came

00:43:50.380 --> 00:43:55.539
to see him. So it's like, you know, a Rock and

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:58.380
Roll Hall of Fame induction, a Rock and Roll

00:43:58.380 --> 00:44:01.059
Hall of Fame induction later, a Blues Hall of

00:44:01.059 --> 00:44:02.920
Fame induction later, and now a Lifetime Achieving

00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:06.980
Award at the Grammy later. I think I've managed

00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.599
to make it okay without your help. Yeah, baby.

00:44:11.670 --> 00:44:13.630
Sometimes when I'm having my moments of, like,

00:44:13.650 --> 00:44:16.050
you know, I'm still playing a shit ton of local

00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:19.309
gigs and doing this and doing that, and I'm fortunate

00:44:19.309 --> 00:44:22.090
enough to be friends with, like, guys that are

00:44:22.090 --> 00:44:24.670
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, and I have what

00:44:24.670 --> 00:44:26.929
I would like to think of as a new budding friendship

00:44:26.929 --> 00:44:33.250
with a future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee

00:44:33.250 --> 00:44:41.639
founding member of this band called Live. Boom.

00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:47.539
You know, I'd like to think that, to quote Chris

00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:53.760
Cornell, my time is coming. First of all, great

00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:56.920
story. I mean, that's amazing lineage. I mean,

00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:00.019
Jesus, that's awesome. I got a couple stories

00:45:00.019 --> 00:45:02.219
here and there. Thank you for wrapping that all

00:45:02.219 --> 00:45:06.139
up and putting me in there. That's great. As

00:45:06.139 --> 00:45:08.559
they say in wrestling, I'm putting you over,

00:45:08.619 --> 00:45:12.940
kid. There you go. We're having you on every

00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:16.920
week, Rod, by the way, because you are a fantastic

00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:23.659
storyteller. And my God, just the way that story

00:45:23.659 --> 00:45:26.079
weaved in and out and just all the turns it took

00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:29.760
and how cool it was. Damn, dude. Thank you for

00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.940
coming on the show. Thanks for having me. Again,

00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:37.059
you think about a kid, a blues singer's kid.

00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:44.079
The persona about us is that we listen to nothing

00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:50.000
but blues or we're listening to R &B. I grew

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:54.179
up in the suburbs, a city called Germantown here

00:45:54.179 --> 00:46:06.150
in Memphis. So I was exposed to a lot. I had

00:46:06.150 --> 00:46:08.750
a cousin, I had a cousin that would giggle his

00:46:08.750 --> 00:46:16.789
ass off because he's wearing jams. Oh yeah. That's

00:46:16.789 --> 00:46:19.489
great. I was wearing, he was wearing jams and

00:46:19.489 --> 00:46:26.150
I was wearing like, like fucking denim shorts

00:46:26.150 --> 00:46:30.769
from made from us mail from the gap. Right. He's

00:46:30.769 --> 00:46:33.769
like, what the, he's like, I, I, I, I, I, I,

00:46:34.579 --> 00:46:38.420
What's Gap? It's like a store around the corner

00:46:38.420 --> 00:46:43.400
from the house. How do you not know Gap? Right,

00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.119
you know. But he had jams. That's great. Yeah,

00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:53.559
jams were everywhere. Did you have OP too? Once

00:46:53.559 --> 00:46:58.280
or twice, yes. But were you down with OPP? Hell

00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:03.909
yeah. So we met those. Who did OPP? What was

00:47:03.909 --> 00:47:05.829
the name? Naughty by Nature. Naughty by Nature.

00:47:05.929 --> 00:47:08.150
We played a couple of shows with them early on

00:47:08.150 --> 00:47:10.929
in the early 90s. And so we started calling Operation

00:47:10.929 --> 00:47:16.610
Spirit. We put it on the set list as OPP. That's

00:47:16.610 --> 00:47:21.449
awesome. That's awesome. Period here, folks.

00:47:23.210 --> 00:47:26.590
Bunch of cool shit. I wasn't expecting that one.

00:47:28.809 --> 00:47:31.690
So the point of all this was like, you know,

00:47:32.909 --> 00:47:35.050
That's why I tied in the whole Fresh Prince thing.

00:47:35.349 --> 00:47:40.210
It wasn't that big of a culture shock, but I'm

00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:42.130
listening to them. I love listening to my dad

00:47:42.130 --> 00:47:45.349
because I'm going to be a drummer. I'm going

00:47:45.349 --> 00:47:47.750
to listen to DB, listen to all the old live stuff

00:47:47.750 --> 00:47:52.110
too. But then flipping through channels, this

00:47:52.110 --> 00:47:56.809
is like maybe 88, I'm exposed to Headbangers

00:47:56.809 --> 00:48:00.289
Ball. That was up late. So yeah, I got to see

00:48:00.289 --> 00:48:04.360
Guns in the Appetite era. Oh, yeah. At that time,

00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:07.880
they still were playing Bon Jovi on Headbangers

00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:12.659
Ball. Right. You know, so I'm learning things,

00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:16.059
right? And I think it was MTV that introduced

00:48:16.059 --> 00:48:18.380
me to DW because, like, that's what Ricky Rocket

00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:21.880
was using, right? Oh, okay. Yeah. So, you know,

00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:24.300
messed around, and I'm hearing, like, some cool

00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:27.260
shit. Like, I think I landed on the breakdown

00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:32.269
of Jungle. you know right and i was like okay

00:48:32.269 --> 00:48:37.889
i like that and then yeah and back in the early

00:48:37.889 --> 00:48:40.469
2000s when i would have a few cocktails axel

00:48:40.469 --> 00:48:43.349
rod would be in the house i'd be doing this doing

00:48:43.349 --> 00:48:46.989
the sway thing and like standing my body you

00:48:46.989 --> 00:48:50.369
know get it uh singing singing singing night

00:48:50.369 --> 00:48:56.300
train yeah yeah so Man, thank God my daughter

00:48:56.300 --> 00:48:59.360
is not on social media right now. She's 27. I

00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:01.079
don't need her to know all the shit that her

00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:05.820
dad was doing. I hope you don't have a clicker

00:49:05.820 --> 00:49:07.840
about how many times your mom's going to say

00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:12.000
shit. You'd be like, my dad is the coolest fucking

00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.500
dude on the planet. I did not know this stuff.

00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.380
God bless. Keep going, my man. Since I'm talking

00:49:19.380 --> 00:49:24.119
about my gratuitous use of the word shit, A friend

00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.980
of mine were talking about BB's Thriller's Gone,

00:49:28.099 --> 00:49:32.280
right? A, it's not an original BB King song.

00:49:33.239 --> 00:49:38.199
It was done by someone else, and he liked it,

00:49:38.260 --> 00:49:39.860
and he wanted to record it, but he didn't want

00:49:39.860 --> 00:49:42.860
to record it like the original version that he

00:49:42.860 --> 00:49:46.920
heard. It was more like a ballad. So, you know,

00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:50.039
they worked it up to the 1969 version that we

00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.909
all know, if you've ever heard the song. the

00:49:52.909 --> 00:49:55.909
strings and everything. Bebe told a great story

00:49:55.909 --> 00:49:58.130
on this documentary about how he was sleeping.

00:49:58.550 --> 00:50:00.650
The producer called him up, woke him up. Hey,

00:50:00.789 --> 00:50:02.510
Bebe, I got a great idea. I'm thinking we put

00:50:02.510 --> 00:50:04.269
some strings in some orchestra. What do you think?

00:50:05.409 --> 00:50:08.650
Yeah, okay. Can I go back to bed now? And so

00:50:08.650 --> 00:50:11.489
he comes back in and they put all that together

00:50:11.489 --> 00:50:14.909
and there's Thrillist gone. So we were talking

00:50:14.909 --> 00:50:18.170
about the version Bebe did for the Deuces Wild

00:50:18.170 --> 00:50:21.269
record with Tracy Chapman on co -vocals, right?

00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:26.460
yeah uh if i'm not mistaken anton figg from letterman

00:50:26.460 --> 00:50:29.320
i think he played drums on that track in the

00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:34.539
studio and like it's cool how he nailed the original

00:50:34.539 --> 00:50:37.119
intro because it's not like a one two three four

00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:41.039
it's like a guitar player say uh on the and a

00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:46.360
five coming on whatever it's like you know by

00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:48.099
the way let me show you this i just picked this

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:52.239
up the other day Theory for Dummies. Hey, there

00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:55.179
you go. So I'm going to give it a whirl. Is it

00:50:55.179 --> 00:50:57.400
breaking down for somebody as lame as me in that

00:50:57.400 --> 00:50:59.760
book? I don't know. I still haven't even opened

00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:01.679
it yet. I was like, hey, I'm going to buy this.

00:51:02.099 --> 00:51:05.099
I love it. Along with this Becky Lynch book and

00:51:05.099 --> 00:51:10.420
also this five -disc Robin Williams DVD. Nice.

00:51:11.179 --> 00:51:13.559
We were talking about how everyone wants to say,

00:51:13.619 --> 00:51:15.380
man, well, man, Thrillist going, man, could be

00:51:15.380 --> 00:51:17.280
really funky if they did this or if they did

00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:19.699
that. And I'm like. Have you ever heard together

00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:24.199
again live? Who is that? My dad and BB, they

00:51:24.199 --> 00:51:25.980
did thrillers gone. And I think my dad was the

00:51:25.980 --> 00:51:28.539
first person to ever get bleeped. What do you

00:51:28.539 --> 00:51:31.300
mean bleeped? Wow. If you go back and listen

00:51:31.300 --> 00:51:34.500
to it, you know, he sets it up, you know, they

00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:36.980
keep requesting, requesting that you do a little

00:51:36.980 --> 00:51:39.659
something. So about thrillers gone, something

00:51:39.659 --> 00:51:42.079
like that. BB's like, no, this is not for recording.

00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:47.679
You mean. can he cut it y 'all you know and he

00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:49.719
says cut it and the band just drops into this

00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:53.260
heavy downbeat of the groove but again my dad

00:51:53.260 --> 00:51:57.420
i think he said shit shit you know it's your

00:51:57.420 --> 00:52:00.199
tune can you cut it y 'all and he cut it the

00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:02.760
band the band goes into it nice and so that's

00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:06.519
jabo playing drums he went from my dad to james

00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:09.619
brown and then to bb but like you know okay all

00:52:09.619 --> 00:52:12.199
full circle playing with those two again yeah

00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:16.820
and it's got the heaviest groove It's so funky.

00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:20.099
And as a kid, I loved it up until I heard this

00:52:20.099 --> 00:52:25.400
woman's voice named Viola, who my dad got to

00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:28.440
sing towards the end. And she was talking shit.

00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:31.039
I guess even as a little boy, I felt something

00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:32.719
wasn't right. She was probably hitting on my

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:38.159
old man. And as luck would have it, when my dad

00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:41.320
did pass away in 13, apparently there was a message

00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:45.880
board that my mom discovered. And she said, rest

00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.000
in peace. Thank you for letting me sing Viola.

00:52:49.219 --> 00:52:52.780
I was like, well, I'll be damned. Oh, boy. She

00:52:52.780 --> 00:52:58.559
outlived him. Wow. I grew up as a kid, you know,

00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:00.820
not smartened up to the whole entertainment aspect

00:53:00.820 --> 00:53:03.840
that, you know, you're supposed to engage a crowd

00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:06.119
and, you know, do things to help enhance the

00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:09.699
show. But as a little boy, all I knew was give

00:53:09.699 --> 00:53:11.659
me drumsticks and let me just go on my merry

00:53:11.659 --> 00:53:15.929
way. Do I have to wear this powder blue tuxedo

00:53:15.929 --> 00:53:22.590
with a ruffled shirt and these white shoes, you

00:53:22.590 --> 00:53:26.090
know? That's right. So, yeah, and no, I don't

00:53:26.090 --> 00:53:27.949
care how close friends we may grow to be, you

00:53:27.949 --> 00:53:32.329
ain't seeing that photo. Right. All right. I

00:53:32.329 --> 00:53:35.309
got to go. Never asked for it. Rod, how was it

00:53:35.309 --> 00:53:38.730
for you to pick up chicks growing up with this

00:53:38.730 --> 00:53:42.670
gift of gab? these stories, these looks. It must

00:53:42.670 --> 00:53:46.570
have been just like a breed for you. I'm going

00:53:46.570 --> 00:53:48.909
to need you to be my hype man because everything

00:53:48.909 --> 00:53:54.070
you just said was absolute purity bullshit. I

00:53:54.070 --> 00:54:01.110
may have just now at 47 grown into my looks.

00:54:04.570 --> 00:54:08.380
Humble guy. Humble brag. Well, you know, I'm

00:54:08.380 --> 00:54:11.579
just saying, but like, you know, unless I was

00:54:11.579 --> 00:54:16.599
playing like a club gig, like a supper club type

00:54:16.599 --> 00:54:19.980
gig with my dad or like, you know, no theater,

00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.539
no arena, no coliseum, but like, you know, we're

00:54:22.539 --> 00:54:29.920
close, intimate connection. Jay -Zar or me flagging

00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:32.159
anyone to ride my train wasn't going to happen.

00:54:33.949 --> 00:54:39.650
And as far as the whole gift of gab, I blame

00:54:39.650 --> 00:54:44.570
Richard Pryor, Howard Stern, Red Fox from Harlem

00:54:44.570 --> 00:54:49.610
Nights. Oh, shit. And, of course, I can't stop

00:54:49.610 --> 00:54:51.630
talking about this dude. Apparently, it's not

00:54:51.630 --> 00:54:54.489
a man crush, I promise. But, you know, one of

00:54:54.489 --> 00:54:57.469
the best talkers on the mic for wrestling, The

00:54:57.469 --> 00:55:01.030
Rock. Oh, there you go. Turn to learn how to

00:55:01.030 --> 00:55:04.119
be smooth. Be the Rod. I thought you were going

00:55:04.119 --> 00:55:06.539
to go Hulk Hogan. I'm like, wait a second here.

00:55:07.340 --> 00:55:13.099
Hulk Hogan out there. In terms of talking, like

00:55:13.099 --> 00:55:17.599
talking shit, if you will, to make people, it

00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:21.480
was Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, and now The Rock.

00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:24.000
Hogan just inspired you to want to go run headfirst

00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:26.530
through a wall. Yes, and drink Budweiser and

00:55:26.530 --> 00:55:29.110
crush a can on your head and all that. Speaking

00:55:29.110 --> 00:55:31.230
of Red Fox, I used to love watching Sanford and

00:55:31.230 --> 00:55:33.349
Sons back in the day. That shit was frigging

00:55:33.349 --> 00:55:36.849
hilarious. My dad's favorite Father's Day gift

00:55:36.849 --> 00:55:41.110
for me to him was the entire box set, like all

00:55:41.110 --> 00:55:46.230
six seasons or whatever. Really? And two of my

00:55:46.230 --> 00:55:48.690
favorite episodes was the one where Lamont got

00:55:48.690 --> 00:55:53.309
a traffic ticket. Okay. And Red Fox goes, I want

00:55:53.309 --> 00:55:55.820
to ask you a question. Why don't you arrest some

00:55:55.820 --> 00:56:00.679
white drivers? I do. You do. You got to see the

00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:03.599
whole thing. Do they stream those shows anywhere?

00:56:03.980 --> 00:56:07.619
They should be streaming. No, they don't. That's

00:56:07.619 --> 00:56:13.639
excellent. Not even Tubi. Gentlemen, we're bringing

00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:17.579
these shows back on a streamer. If we could bring

00:56:17.579 --> 00:56:26.570
back all the Norman Lear sitcoms. Yeah. Our society

00:56:26.570 --> 00:56:30.090
has gotten just a little too soft. Yeah, man.

00:56:30.150 --> 00:56:34.909
You see these memes where my generation was brought

00:56:34.909 --> 00:56:39.949
up. And you get the voices. You need to do something

00:56:39.949 --> 00:56:42.070
other than just podcasting. You need to do some

00:56:42.070 --> 00:56:47.590
voice character work. But you had a photo that

00:56:47.590 --> 00:56:51.969
was Archie Bunker, Carol O 'Connor, Red Fox.

00:56:54.190 --> 00:56:56.690
i i'm forgetting the other two but it's like

00:56:56.690 --> 00:57:00.610
these are people george carlin you know uh yeah

00:57:00.610 --> 00:57:05.909
richard prior like prior to me was that's amazing

00:57:05.909 --> 00:57:09.150
it is the greatest comedian not just because

00:57:09.150 --> 00:57:11.230
he made you laugh but the things that he told

00:57:11.230 --> 00:57:14.110
you the stories he told you it would make you

00:57:14.110 --> 00:57:17.929
think yeah we're all no matter what everyone's

00:57:17.929 --> 00:57:19.849
gonna have a different viewpoint of life and

00:57:19.849 --> 00:57:22.570
how you live your life It's how you live your

00:57:22.570 --> 00:57:26.710
life. As long as what Rod does doesn't involve

00:57:26.710 --> 00:57:31.489
any physical harm to John or Chad's family or

00:57:31.489 --> 00:57:37.489
to them, live and let live. If I step on your

00:57:37.489 --> 00:57:42.150
porch and act out of bounds, the phrase I believe

00:57:42.150 --> 00:57:48.750
they say is, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

00:57:49.110 --> 00:57:52.139
There you go. Or fuck around and find out. Fuck

00:57:52.139 --> 00:57:54.619
around and find out. But you're so true. There's

00:57:54.619 --> 00:57:56.039
a lot of that. There's a lot of that Memphis.

00:57:56.260 --> 00:58:01.780
Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, my bad. Just so sure.

00:58:01.820 --> 00:58:05.099
Prior to be that honest about yourself on stage

00:58:05.099 --> 00:58:08.880
and to bring the funny to all your mishaps and

00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:11.820
all that stuff. Like that's a legend and changed

00:58:11.820 --> 00:58:15.780
the comedy world forever. The part where at sunset

00:58:15.780 --> 00:58:18.760
strip video, I was in the hospital. I remember

00:58:18.760 --> 00:58:20.750
y 'all. Show me a lot of love, but y 'all was

00:58:20.750 --> 00:58:23.889
making some jokes on my ass, right? Oh, yeah.

00:58:23.989 --> 00:58:26.170
What's that? Richard Pryor running down the street.

00:58:26.769 --> 00:58:31.829
And then the thing ends, right? Yeah. I remember

00:58:31.829 --> 00:58:34.070
the one about him having a heart attack, and

00:58:34.070 --> 00:58:37.110
he's like, you know, some said, don't breathe

00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:40.690
no more. What? You heard me. Don't breathe no

00:58:40.690 --> 00:58:44.250
more. Think about all that pork, ain't you? That's

00:58:44.250 --> 00:58:46.369
it. You would think about that when you start

00:58:46.369 --> 00:58:50.469
all that cocaine and, you know. Yo. You know,

00:58:50.469 --> 00:58:53.530
I mean, that one was live in concert. I think

00:58:53.530 --> 00:58:55.530
that's still on Netflix. Richard Pryor live in

00:58:55.530 --> 00:58:58.449
concert. Yeah. Watch that one if you need, like,

00:58:58.449 --> 00:59:01.429
just endless amounts of laughter. And we got

00:59:01.429 --> 00:59:05.070
to go also, Eddie Murphy, Delirious and Raw,

00:59:05.329 --> 00:59:09.809
bro. Jesus. Oh, my God. Yeah. Fist your pants

00:59:09.809 --> 00:59:15.710
all day. Norton. Yeah. I'm not fucking. I used

00:59:15.710 --> 00:59:19.579
to get. I used to get in so much trouble, like,

00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.619
you know, when I wasn't around my dad. Like,

00:59:22.619 --> 00:59:24.659
if I was around my dad, yeah, he knew that, you

00:59:24.659 --> 00:59:27.480
know. Kind of slipped with my ear closer to the

00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:29.019
curtain on the bunk so I could hear what was

00:59:29.019 --> 00:59:31.500
going on up front. And, like, I would try to

00:59:31.500 --> 00:59:36.199
do impressions and stuff. If my mom happened

00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:38.400
to walk in at the wrong time for me, obviously

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.960
that was my ass. Like this comedian Eddie Griffin

00:59:42.960 --> 00:59:45.800
said about his mom, my mama beat me out the penitentiary.

00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:50.559
I have no jail record time. There was this one

00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:53.440
time I got arrested for underage drinking at

00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:57.679
a fraternity party in Jackson, Tennessee. I was

00:59:57.679 --> 01:00:02.219
bone sober. It's just that the person I went

01:00:02.219 --> 01:00:05.250
to the party with You got lucky, and I struck

01:00:05.250 --> 01:00:10.789
out. It happens. It happens. On Valentine's Day,

01:00:10.809 --> 01:00:15.329
no less. Oh, no. We got really turned on. I mean,

01:00:15.349 --> 01:00:18.190
we knew who B .B. King was, but when I say we,

01:00:18.230 --> 01:00:19.929
the band, we got really turned on to B .B. because

01:00:19.929 --> 01:00:22.349
we were huge U2 fans when they put out Rattle

01:00:22.349 --> 01:00:26.460
and Hum. Yeah. BBK come in, and I love his line

01:00:26.460 --> 01:00:28.800
where he's like, I don't know no chords, but

01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:30.659
he's playing all the notes. He's like, I don't

01:00:30.659 --> 01:00:32.480
really know chords, so you got to handle the

01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:35.780
chords, Edge. It's like, wait a minute, what?

01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:40.340
You don't know chords? Like, what? I'm sure he

01:00:40.340 --> 01:00:43.960
does, or he did. As a drummer, I probably know

01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:47.039
four rudiments. Right, well, me too. I'm not

01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:50.599
classically, I didn't take any lessons. I didn't

01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:55.639
start doing that until 96. with the great tom

01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:58.900
leonardo here in memphis uh jazz guy how old

01:00:58.900 --> 01:01:01.980
are you rod it's true black don't crack what's

01:01:01.980 --> 01:01:04.159
going on unless you unless you smoke it that's

01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:09.760
what marlon wayne says yeah um not many years

01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:12.860
of no cocaine gets me a face like this yeah but

01:01:12.860 --> 01:01:17.159
this dumpster fire habit of eating the dumpster

01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:21.119
fire style of eating i have that is my my my

01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:25.139
dude you got meant that classic memphis barbecue

01:01:25.139 --> 01:01:27.000
all over the place i'm sure down there that's

01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:29.500
the thing like every now and again every now

01:01:29.500 --> 01:01:34.960
and again i'll have some but man i'm like burgers

01:01:34.960 --> 01:01:37.039
and there's a place called gus's fried chicken

01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:40.760
that i used to frequent uh yeah i'm a huge sushi

01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:46.139
buff and dear lord pizza is pizza and a redhead

01:01:46.139 --> 01:01:47.920
will probably be the things that take me to my

01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:50.480
early grave they say you either eat to live or

01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:54.250
live to eat so i definitely live to eat That's

01:01:54.250 --> 01:01:58.329
right here. When I'm a North Jersey, New York

01:01:58.329 --> 01:02:02.050
fella, that's where real pizza lives, man. Hey,

01:02:03.550 --> 01:02:06.369
you know, I have been to Jersey and New York,

01:02:06.389 --> 01:02:09.269
you know, I'm a traveler, you know, I've been

01:02:09.269 --> 01:02:13.309
out there. I do find it disrespectful that a

01:02:13.309 --> 01:02:16.909
chain will do like New York style pizza. Like

01:02:16.909 --> 01:02:22.300
if no offense, but if your company that. is in

01:02:22.300 --> 01:02:29.199
all 50 states yes and every major like metropolitan

01:02:29.199 --> 01:02:34.920
city i don't want your new york style pizza or

01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:37.920
detroit style pizza right just give just give

01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:40.059
me a thin just give me a thin crust and let's

01:02:40.059 --> 01:02:44.440
keep it moving right um but no i have like three

01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:46.780
or four pizza places i would go to here in town

01:02:46.780 --> 01:02:50.099
that would recommend even the serious uh pizza

01:02:50.099 --> 01:02:52.260
connoisseur Shout them out. I want to hear their

01:02:52.260 --> 01:02:58.900
name. Fox Ridge Pizza in Brookhaven Circle. There's

01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:04.139
a place called Little Italy. And then there's

01:03:04.139 --> 01:03:09.460
a city place I discovered, Rotolo's. Are you

01:03:09.460 --> 01:03:14.219
fucking around? That's my last name, dude. He

01:03:14.219 --> 01:03:17.019
is fucking around. This guy, you are... I bullshit

01:03:17.019 --> 01:03:21.480
you not. There's one in Collierville. There's

01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:24.059
one out east. That's great. And they do, like,

01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:27.599
a pizza of the week, like, that you can get a

01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:31.519
slice. And I went there last night, and I'll

01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:35.139
email you the place so you can check it out.

01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:41.179
But no pun intended, Ertolos, twice in, like,

01:03:41.179 --> 01:03:46.619
one week. Last night I had their wings because,

01:03:46.820 --> 01:03:49.500
you know, I love wings. And I wasn't prepared

01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:50.840
for how good they're going to be, but I was like,

01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:54.300
I'm not going to do pizza. I had pizza Saturday

01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:57.699
night while binge -watching Cobra Kai. Nice.

01:03:57.920 --> 01:04:01.159
Yes, I'm that dude. I started on one and two

01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:05.440
Thursday, maybe. And I was like, no, I'm going

01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:09.820
in. So I had pizza from Little Italy and watched

01:04:09.820 --> 01:04:13.920
the entire first part. And it was like sometimes

01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.059
like calling spots in wrestling. I'm not going

01:04:17.059 --> 01:04:20.639
to spoil it, but like the last tail end of that

01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:23.840
episode is like Leonardo DiCaprio from that movie.

01:04:24.059 --> 01:04:26.320
Right there. I called it. I called it. I knew

01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:29.599
it. That's the aviator. It's looking great. I

01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:31.860
was fucking with you, though. My family does

01:04:31.860 --> 01:04:34.699
own Rotolo's. You got free pizza for life now,

01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:38.780
buddy. Just tell them John sent you. So your

01:04:38.780 --> 01:04:44.630
family is Rotolo's Crafts? The one and only,

01:04:44.710 --> 01:04:48.809
baby. Are you serious? No. God damn it. This

01:04:48.809 --> 01:04:56.690
motherfucker right here. Sorry. I was just about

01:04:56.690 --> 01:05:01.030
to go. I was just about to go. That was the comedian

01:05:01.030 --> 01:05:04.349
me coming out. Look out, folks. Yeah, okay. All

01:05:04.349 --> 01:05:07.179
right. You got me too, God damn it. What the

01:05:07.179 --> 01:05:10.519
hell? I love it. That's one, John. That's one.

01:05:10.820 --> 01:05:13.539
All right. I got one on Rod. You got like nine

01:05:13.539 --> 01:05:17.340
on me, dude. I didn't throw no digs at you, man,

01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:19.460
and build your hopes up so high and let you down

01:05:19.460 --> 01:05:22.019
so low, which is the first verse of my dad's

01:05:22.019 --> 01:05:24.460
Ain't That Loving You. Oh, nice. There you go.

01:05:24.699 --> 01:05:28.940
Perfect. A little shuffle action. That's great.

01:05:29.860 --> 01:05:31.780
Rod, you are the man, the myth, the legend, by

01:05:31.780 --> 01:05:35.110
the way, man. Can I say this is the most fun

01:05:35.110 --> 01:05:37.670
guest we've had on the podcast yet? Is that bad

01:05:37.670 --> 01:05:40.869
for me? I think so far, absolutely. Great stories.

01:05:41.190 --> 01:05:47.269
You guys have my bud Dave Cruzan on. You know

01:05:47.269 --> 01:05:53.949
Dave? Yeah, Dave's awesome. Again, much like

01:05:53.949 --> 01:06:03.960
you, the DNA of part of my drumming. right? Yeah.

01:06:04.139 --> 01:06:08.719
So, you know, at the time, I didn't know who

01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.260
was who because they had two of them. Right.

01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:13.079
There was a Cruisant and there was an Abrazees.

01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:16.539
That's right. And so, you know, I'm seeing the,

01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:20.139
you know, the Alive video and I literally learned

01:06:20.139 --> 01:06:22.880
that it was Matt Chamberlain and then I see...

01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:24.320
Wait a minute. That was Matt Chamberlain in the

01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:27.920
Alive video? Yes. No, I didn't know that. Oh

01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:30.320
my God. Holy shit. That's crazy. Traditional

01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:33.920
grip going. And it's actually a different audio

01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:37.079
version of a live. I was chasing, I was chasing

01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:39.760
that. I was chasing that version for such a long

01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.800
time. And I finally found the CD when I was on

01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:48.420
the road with my dad in Europe. So I'm like watching,

01:06:48.460 --> 01:06:52.219
I think it was unplugged or was it the J yeah.

01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:55.739
Even flow videos. Like, wow. Okay, so first he

01:06:55.739 --> 01:06:58.079
was playing a DW kit, and he was traditional

01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:01.579
grip. Okay, now he's playing a white Ludwig kit,

01:07:01.699 --> 01:07:05.059
and there's cymbals galore. China, a lot more

01:07:05.059 --> 01:07:09.260
cymbals than he. So then I started looking at

01:07:09.260 --> 01:07:11.500
the liner notes because those are your friends.

01:07:12.159 --> 01:07:15.599
Before there was Google, kids, we had liner notes.

01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:18.679
That's right. You can read lyrics. You can find

01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:22.219
out who's playing what, and that's why, you know.

01:07:22.650 --> 01:07:25.010
My first endorsement I ever had was with Promark.

01:07:25.070 --> 01:07:30.550
Thank you. Much love to you, Pat Brown. So I'm

01:07:30.550 --> 01:07:33.570
like, okay, this sounds a lot different than

01:07:33.570 --> 01:07:37.510
the CD. And I'm like, okay, Cruisin'. So there's

01:07:37.510 --> 01:07:41.469
a Cruisin' and then, oh, Chamberlain. Okay. Now

01:07:41.469 --> 01:07:46.210
we're up to speed. Then Dave's gone and here's

01:07:46.210 --> 01:07:50.519
Jack Irons. Now here's Matt. It's a huge Matt

01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:53.820
Kammer fan right here. Absolutely. All the drummers

01:07:53.820 --> 01:07:56.039
that they've ever had, I've had the fortune to

01:07:56.039 --> 01:07:59.559
meet and become friends with. Very cool. Didn't

01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:01.320
say that as a flex, but there's a point to this.

01:08:01.860 --> 01:08:04.860
Much like you, stop it. Much like you, Chad,

01:08:05.039 --> 01:08:09.840
I discovered Cruisin' on Instagram, Facebook,

01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:11.960
and we just kind of talked here and there. Same

01:08:11.960 --> 01:08:17.380
thing with Jack Irons. Oh, cool. Pearl Jam was

01:08:17.380 --> 01:08:20.720
getting ready to play Memphis in 14, and I went

01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:22.720
and saw him in St. Louis because I just couldn't

01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:27.119
wait. And Dave saw the thing that I posted and

01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:29.119
was like, hey, man, I'm coming to Memphis. We

01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:33.279
should, like, meet up. I'm like, you said what?

01:08:34.739 --> 01:08:39.340
All right. So Dave comes to Memphis. We meet

01:08:39.340 --> 01:08:43.000
at my place that I play at a lot of the time,

01:08:43.020 --> 01:08:49.550
Club 152. And I had the bright idea to get all

01:08:49.550 --> 01:08:52.609
the guys in the band, two crew guys, and Dave,

01:08:52.829 --> 01:08:57.869
Memphis is Fuck shirts, right? So, you know,

01:08:57.869 --> 01:09:04.850
I brought them in to, I had one for Dave, and

01:09:04.850 --> 01:09:07.470
Dave immediately put it on, right? So there's

01:09:07.470 --> 01:09:10.090
a photo somewhere on my Facebook of me and Dave

01:09:10.090 --> 01:09:15.130
wearing a, you know, Memphis is Fuck shirt. And

01:09:15.130 --> 01:09:19.949
I go see and say hi to Matt and Mike. And Mike

01:09:19.949 --> 01:09:22.350
reminded me of the conversation we had like some

01:09:22.350 --> 01:09:26.229
14 years prior that he was a huge fan of my dad's

01:09:26.229 --> 01:09:28.369
and everything. And he asked me if that was like

01:09:28.369 --> 01:09:30.130
me that was playing with BB when he went and

01:09:30.130 --> 01:09:32.229
saw him in Seattle. And I was someone else. He

01:09:32.229 --> 01:09:33.869
goes, hi, man. It was great to see you. Thank

01:09:33.869 --> 01:09:35.510
you for coming. Hey, remember what I said? Big

01:09:35.510 --> 01:09:37.369
fan of your dad's as he's walking off to go meet

01:09:37.369 --> 01:09:41.210
up with Cruisin'. Sweet. So. Fast forward back

01:09:41.210 --> 01:09:44.449
to Santa Monica. I hit Dave because he was living

01:09:44.449 --> 01:09:46.310
in L .A. I said, hey, man, are you around for

01:09:46.310 --> 01:09:48.970
blah, blah, blah? Yeah, I'm in town. I'm playing

01:09:48.970 --> 01:09:52.729
at, he goes, where? And so he's, all the while

01:09:52.729 --> 01:09:54.750
we're talking, he's like clicking and clacking.

01:09:55.029 --> 01:09:56.689
Yeah, hey, I just want to take it to your show.

01:09:58.569 --> 01:10:03.130
No, see, no, see, I was trying to invite you

01:10:03.130 --> 01:10:05.710
to come to the show and put you on the guest

01:10:05.710 --> 01:10:09.239
list like you would have done me. No, dude, I

01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:11.119
got it. You're right here. I'm stuttering over

01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:16.399
my words like the 90s sitcoms. See, what I was

01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:19.520
going to do, I was going to put you on the list

01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:23.619
and all the cranberry juice or sparkling water,

01:10:23.819 --> 01:10:29.460
I got you. That's me. This is my way of showing

01:10:29.460 --> 01:10:31.840
my love for what you have done, blah, blah, blah.

01:10:31.899 --> 01:10:36.960
I'll see you then. And sure as shit. Everything

01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:38.960
that could go wrong went wrong with Backline.

01:10:39.079 --> 01:10:44.420
I played a Gretsch jazz kit, and they had a throne

01:10:44.420 --> 01:10:49.140
that was built for a 10 -year -old undeveloped

01:10:49.140 --> 01:10:53.220
boy. Oh, boy. And you were undeveloped. I'm definitely

01:10:53.220 --> 01:11:00.079
developed. Pause. Pause. So Tony Bronigal had

01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.420
to put on a Superman cape, bring me a throne,

01:11:03.659 --> 01:11:09.149
a pedal, cymbals. Because, you know, it's a very

01:11:09.149 --> 01:11:14.630
low paying gig. No offense to the prestige. But,

01:11:14.750 --> 01:11:19.909
you know, I was going to fly out with Cymbals

01:11:19.909 --> 01:11:22.689
and this, that, and the third. Right. And then

01:11:22.689 --> 01:11:25.289
they conveniently lost my merch, so I missed

01:11:25.289 --> 01:11:29.789
out on selling my debut award winning EP. That's

01:11:29.789 --> 01:11:36.090
kind of a flex. Yeah. And, and, and so Dave is

01:11:36.090 --> 01:11:39.909
there, Tony Browningles there and the PC resistance,

01:11:40.109 --> 01:11:44.149
the kindest man in artist relations, Chris Hart

01:11:44.149 --> 01:11:49.550
from Remo. And so we're all, you know, Dave had

01:11:49.550 --> 01:11:53.710
never met Chris. David never met Tony and, you

01:11:53.710 --> 01:11:57.630
know, Tony was repositioning a bass drum mic

01:11:57.630 --> 01:12:01.069
and doing some things. and dave you know hey

01:12:01.069 --> 01:12:04.310
what are you doing what's this and so tony really

01:12:04.310 --> 01:12:06.890
quickly and astutely broke it down and dave's

01:12:06.890 --> 01:12:08.949
like i gotta try this in my studio yeah if you

01:12:08.949 --> 01:12:11.130
have any questions man like you know i'm like

01:12:11.130 --> 01:12:16.369
on the conduit for like you know so cool old

01:12:16.369 --> 01:12:20.090
head blues drummers meeting like you know quote

01:12:20.090 --> 01:12:22.489
unquote rock drummers and that's a thing that

01:12:22.489 --> 01:12:26.420
grinds my gears just because you are known for

01:12:26.420 --> 01:12:28.760
playing a certain genre does not mean that that's

01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:32.960
all you do. Right. Like, you know, I'm pretty

01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:36.159
sure the Chad Gracie can whoop out a shuffle

01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:39.720
on somebody. I played shuffles. Jerry Harrison

01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:43.319
had this little blues band with the studio, well,

01:12:43.340 --> 01:12:46.239
the guy in the studio, I forget his name, David

01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:48.979
Bartanian, who was the guy who was the engineer

01:12:48.979 --> 01:12:52.119
on Mental Jewelry. And so they had me sit in

01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:56.600
with them in Milwaukee. back in 91 to play with

01:12:56.600 --> 01:12:58.239
them they asked me to play i was like yeah i

01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.079
guess i'll figure it out so i was doing some

01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.420
shuffling stuff it was cool i'll figure it out

01:13:02.420 --> 01:13:05.859
i love i love that cool we're all there playing

01:13:05.859 --> 01:13:08.100
songs i'd never never even heard i'm like okay

01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:10.380
here's the change okay you know just trying to

01:13:10.380 --> 01:13:13.800
keep up but yeah it was cool it was cool so my

01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:17.039
my favorite um i made a two -part post uh the

01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:20.060
second part was greatly delayed but we all know

01:13:20.060 --> 01:13:22.930
stevie ray vaughn Right? Absolutely. Who do you

01:13:22.930 --> 01:13:24.609
mean? Stevie Ray Vaughan? Never heard of that

01:13:24.609 --> 01:13:30.029
guy. He's a guy out of Saskatchewan. SRB. So,

01:13:30.029 --> 01:13:36.390
Cold Shot is like my favorite shuffle of Stevie's

01:13:36.390 --> 01:13:39.470
catalog. Okay. The guitar player I play with,

01:13:39.590 --> 01:13:43.750
Will Tucker, will have me in a headlock if he

01:13:43.750 --> 01:13:46.189
could wrap his arms around his head. Because

01:13:46.189 --> 01:13:50.479
his is empty arms. Right? So as a kid, I was

01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:55.140
fortunate to have met Stevie, Tommy Shannon,

01:13:55.380 --> 01:13:59.199
Chris Slayton. I don't remember much about Stevie

01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:02.739
because it was in the 80s. Not that I was doing

01:14:02.739 --> 01:14:04.739
massive amounts of blow and shit as a kid, but

01:14:04.739 --> 01:14:08.779
my interactions that I recall the most have always

01:14:08.779 --> 01:14:13.239
been with Chris and Tommy. So I was more close

01:14:13.239 --> 01:14:18.529
to... You know what's funny? where fishes go

01:14:18.529 --> 01:14:21.989
is playing right now were you aware that it was

01:14:21.989 --> 01:14:23.750
stevie ray vaughn at that point like did you

01:14:23.750 --> 01:14:26.109
know it was like in the in the in the mid 80s

01:14:26.109 --> 01:14:29.829
like i didn't know anyone outside of my dad bb

01:14:29.829 --> 01:14:34.069
albert king yeah um little milden os clay you

01:14:34.069 --> 01:14:37.850
know that makes sense yeah as but as i'm out

01:14:37.850 --> 01:14:39.750
on the road with my dad and i'm hearing other

01:14:39.750 --> 01:14:43.149
people play you know i ease out behind the curtain

01:14:43.149 --> 01:14:49.340
looking okay so i'm uh Happy to say that a part

01:14:49.340 --> 01:14:53.260
of my teens to present day, Chris Slayton and

01:14:53.260 --> 01:14:55.779
Tommy Shannon are part of it. So my love for

01:14:55.779 --> 01:14:58.460
Chris Slayton is endless. Nice. If you listen

01:14:58.460 --> 01:15:01.279
to Cole, if you listen to Cole shot it, you know,

01:15:01.300 --> 01:15:05.720
it's just definitely not too fast. Definitely

01:15:05.720 --> 01:15:08.199
not too slow. It's just, it's right there. It's

01:15:08.199 --> 01:15:13.640
real. It's real slinky. Real slinky. Okay, that's

01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:18.220
two for you. All right, I'm on it today. Pizza

01:15:18.220 --> 01:15:26.199
main. So Chris, I think, said that when they

01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:29.760
got ready to cut Cole's shot, he was in the middle

01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:32.699
of a nap and kind of just woke it up. Oh, wow.

01:15:32.819 --> 01:15:38.000
And that's the performance you get. So whenever

01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.149
I hear other bands play a Cole shot, it's like

01:15:41.149 --> 01:15:45.050
so fast pride and joy it's like warp speed yeah

01:15:45.050 --> 01:15:48.369
so i make it a point to to where it's almost

01:15:48.369 --> 01:15:54.310
dragging so i made a couple reels of us playing

01:15:54.310 --> 01:15:58.090
it you know and then the second reel was like

01:15:58.090 --> 01:16:00.850
say the outro like the tail end of the shuffle

01:16:00.850 --> 01:16:09.210
you know the ending and um it's like chris slayton

01:16:09.210 --> 01:16:14.060
is the Most underrated drummer. I don't hear

01:16:14.060 --> 01:16:18.399
enough love about Chris, about you, about...

01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:23.979
About real fucking musicians that people should

01:16:23.979 --> 01:16:27.180
be known about. Right. Like, you know, Ringo

01:16:27.180 --> 01:16:30.880
doesn't get enough love for his approach to drumming.

01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:37.079
Right? I think Eric Kretz from STP. Thank you.

01:16:37.100 --> 01:16:39.979
I couldn't think of him to save my life. And

01:16:39.979 --> 01:16:41.819
that's my dude. And I'm jealous right now because

01:16:41.819 --> 01:16:46.380
Ed is with Live, is touring with STP and Eric.

01:16:46.819 --> 01:16:48.420
That's the only thing that I'm jealous about.

01:16:48.579 --> 01:16:50.520
Because I wanted to hang out with Eric. We were

01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:53.680
supposed to play with them in April of 2020 down

01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:55.939
in Australia. It was going to be Bush Live and

01:16:55.939 --> 01:16:59.199
STP down there. I was like, oh, cool. I get to

01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:02.560
go meet Eric Kretz. COVID. Fuck you. Like, damn

01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:06.119
it. I got to meet Eric a couple times. I've never

01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:08.899
met him. Damn. Good. Super, super cool dude.

01:17:10.569 --> 01:17:13.750
So SCP came to Memphis to play the new Daisy

01:17:13.750 --> 01:17:21.229
theater. And I met Robert DeLeo. Cool. Yeah.

01:17:21.289 --> 01:17:23.449
Robert and Dean are both cool. I met both of

01:17:23.449 --> 01:17:25.510
them, of course, but not, not Eric. Robert and

01:17:25.510 --> 01:17:29.430
I are like, kind of like Instagram homies. Right.

01:17:29.729 --> 01:17:34.189
Yeah. He. has shown me so much like if you'll

01:17:34.189 --> 01:17:36.229
let's see what let's see what junior bland's

01:17:36.229 --> 01:17:38.609
up to and like if it's something performance

01:17:38.609 --> 01:17:41.869
wise he's he's quick with the love and and the

01:17:41.869 --> 01:17:44.609
kind words amazing bass player too by the way

01:17:44.609 --> 01:17:48.670
oh my god right uh just a couple days ago i posted

01:17:48.670 --> 01:17:51.829
something with harlem knights and he said i love

01:17:51.829 --> 01:17:53.529
red fox they don't make them like him anymore

01:17:53.529 --> 01:17:55.529
so it's funny that the three of us are excuse

01:17:55.529 --> 01:17:59.399
me the four of us are or loving on Red Fox. Tell

01:17:59.399 --> 01:18:01.100
him hello when you talk to him again for me,

01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:06.340
please. Yeah, I'll do that. So I was hoping that

01:18:06.340 --> 01:18:08.119
there would have been some kind of, you know,

01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:12.340
forgive me, my fellow Christians, but I come

01:18:12.340 --> 01:18:14.739
to Jesus moment where there's going to be an

01:18:14.739 --> 01:18:18.159
announcement that Chad's back in the band. I

01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:21.979
see that I have a friend playing drums. Johnny

01:18:21.979 --> 01:18:25.939
rattled at. Okay. Oh, you know him. Yeah, he

01:18:25.939 --> 01:18:28.359
was Gary Clark Jr.'s drummer for the longest

01:18:28.359 --> 01:18:31.319
time. Wait a second. Hold on, because I'm going

01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:35.380
to talk some shit right now. I heard him playing

01:18:35.380 --> 01:18:38.739
in live, dude, and I cannot for the life of me

01:18:38.739 --> 01:18:43.159
think it sounds anywhere near what it should

01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:47.279
sound like. I don't know Johnny's other bands.

01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:50.920
I will say this. I have not heard Johnny play

01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:57.460
with live. So you have one up on me. But Johnny

01:18:57.460 --> 01:19:00.859
is a really great drummer out of Austin. Well,

01:19:00.979 --> 01:19:04.239
I met him when he was in Austin. And we were

01:19:04.239 --> 01:19:06.800
homies because of him playing with Gary Clark

01:19:06.800 --> 01:19:13.180
Jr. So the stuff he did with Gary was cool. And

01:19:13.180 --> 01:19:17.279
I don't know how that will or could apply to

01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:21.890
live. All I know is that. I'm a little envious

01:19:21.890 --> 01:19:25.869
as well because I've always, you know, liked

01:19:25.869 --> 01:19:29.829
that music. And I'm a guy that when I play covers,

01:19:29.949 --> 01:19:35.329
if you will, I try to not so much recreate the

01:19:35.329 --> 01:19:39.569
wheel or be like, you know, a carbon copy, but

01:19:39.569 --> 01:19:44.050
I try to have the same kind of approach to the

01:19:44.050 --> 01:19:47.890
feel. So again, when I... telling you chad and

01:19:47.890 --> 01:19:49.210
i feel like i've been talking for three hours

01:19:49.210 --> 01:19:51.229
about how awesome you are but deal with it's

01:19:51.229 --> 01:19:55.569
your birthday um the drum fills that utilize

01:19:55.569 --> 01:20:04.869
um on shit town uh the intro drum fill to uh

01:20:04.869 --> 01:20:08.250
freaks like like where did yeah let's just stop

01:20:08.250 --> 01:20:10.350
talking about me where did you what what were

01:20:10.350 --> 01:20:18.109
you thinking when you were like and it's just

01:20:18.109 --> 01:20:20.550
like you know it's broken up and it's all of

01:20:20.550 --> 01:20:23.430
a sudden hey i'm chad i groove yeah thank you

01:20:23.430 --> 01:20:28.109
uh so we there was a so the the guy who helped

01:20:28.109 --> 01:20:30.109
put us together his name is don karn and he was

01:20:30.109 --> 01:20:33.369
our music teacher in middle school he's an amazing

01:20:33.369 --> 01:20:36.449
bass player but also amazing violinist but he

01:20:36.449 --> 01:20:39.869
had a jazz band called extremity which still

01:20:39.869 --> 01:20:42.899
plays And the drummer in that band would do all

01:20:42.899 --> 01:20:46.479
that flammy stuff a lot. He would do that all.

01:20:46.539 --> 01:20:48.939
And I was starting to emulate that. And that's

01:20:48.939 --> 01:20:52.920
kind of where the Freaks intro came from. I mean,

01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:59.300
it's not obtrusive, but it's so powerful. That

01:20:59.300 --> 01:21:04.119
drum fill I put right next to Steve Ferroni's

01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:08.010
It's Good to Be King intro. Wow. Okay. I'll take

01:21:08.010 --> 01:21:12.810
that. It's so unassuming, right? Yeah. Thank

01:21:12.810 --> 01:21:18.289
you. It's not like Matt Sorum's intro to You

01:21:18.289 --> 01:21:22.630
Can Be Mine, right? Your two drum fill intros

01:21:22.630 --> 01:21:24.989
do not beat you over the head like Sorum's You

01:21:24.989 --> 01:21:28.890
Can Be Mine intro. Right. And again, I'm a huge

01:21:28.890 --> 01:21:37.460
Matt Sorum fan. You're playing on stage. I was

01:21:37.460 --> 01:21:38.920
like, Holy shit. This is like double talking

01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:42.520
job, like from 95. Okay. Right. I don't even

01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.100
know what that is, but I appreciate that. If

01:21:45.100 --> 01:21:47.039
you, if you listen to double talking drive on

01:21:47.039 --> 01:21:53.119
your illusion one, right. Oh, okay. Right. Okay.

01:21:53.680 --> 01:21:56.500
But you take it a step further. You're like,

01:21:56.539 --> 01:22:01.500
I'm like, Holy. The first time I heard it, I

01:22:01.500 --> 01:22:04.340
was. I used to go to sleep listening to music

01:22:04.340 --> 01:22:06.359
with the big headphones on the bus in the bunk.

01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:10.039
I remember literally sitting up, hitting my head

01:22:10.039 --> 01:22:14.180
because I was in the middle of the bunk. So I'm

01:22:14.180 --> 01:22:15.699
reaching for my CD player to see what this is,

01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:19.760
what track. Because I use that as a part of my...

01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:22.760
That song is part of my workout playlist where

01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:27.720
I'm lifting weights. Oh, yeah. Fuck yeah. I forgot

01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:29.600
about it. And then you made a post about the

01:22:29.600 --> 01:22:31.760
30 year anniversary when you said, and I was

01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:34.300
like, yeah, I remember I heard that man. I went

01:22:34.300 --> 01:22:36.520
back and like went through my cycle of tunes.

01:22:36.579 --> 01:22:38.520
Okay. This is a favorite. This is the top of

01:22:38.520 --> 01:22:44.039
the list, but that's just the drive. You drove

01:22:44.039 --> 01:22:47.260
the shit out of the band. 100 dude. Yo, thank

01:22:47.260 --> 01:22:49.500
you for saying that because that it's such a

01:22:49.500 --> 01:22:52.640
huge part of what made that music. Great. Is

01:22:52.640 --> 01:22:55.560
the fucking drum parts like. like you said, those

01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:59.460
intros subtle, but necessary, like to the fucking

01:22:59.460 --> 01:23:03.560
brings the song and makes you like, yo, this

01:23:03.560 --> 01:23:06.640
is, it's just crazy. A hundred percent. And you

01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:08.859
worded it the best that I've heard anybody put

01:23:08.859 --> 01:23:11.140
it, Rob, like you've taken what was in my brain

01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:13.420
and said it like the right way. So I want to

01:23:13.420 --> 01:23:15.579
think. I'm glad we are agreeing upon this, but

01:23:15.579 --> 01:23:17.420
you're still on my list about the Rotellos, man.

01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:21.600
I was, I was about to, I was about to. You're

01:23:21.600 --> 01:23:25.460
about to catch, like, all the hot rays. Like,

01:23:25.520 --> 01:23:30.020
if you decided to tell people that, you know,

01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:33.439
fried chicken is no longer delicious, I'd have

01:23:33.439 --> 01:23:35.439
been like, you know, John's got a point. But,

01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:39.140
no, you just had to rib me and pull one over

01:23:39.140 --> 01:23:43.020
on me. Yeah, so don't you never say nothing bad

01:23:43.020 --> 01:23:45.800
about fried chicken. Well, the Rotolo's in New

01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:47.800
Jersey. When you come to my house, there's free

01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:50.520
pizza for you every day, and I'm not a bad partner.

01:23:51.279 --> 01:23:55.680
I'll pull it that way. This man couldn't help

01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.079
himself. Hey, come to Jersey. I got you. I got

01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:01.560
you. I got you all day. No problem, you great

01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:03.680
value brand Dwayne Johnson on drums and Memphis

01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:08.100
rock. I got you. I got you. Yeah. Yeah. But in

01:24:08.100 --> 01:24:12.079
terms of Memphis and Rotolo's, I can't go for

01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:15.640
that. I don't got you there. I don't know if

01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:17.279
you know how we do this, but we do this all the

01:24:17.279 --> 01:24:19.939
time like this because you have been spectacular,

01:24:20.239 --> 01:24:25.600
dude. Absolutely. Thank you. We always leave

01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:28.180
the audience wanting more from our guests because

01:24:28.180 --> 01:24:30.979
we like to introduce them to these awesome people,

01:24:31.100 --> 01:24:35.060
you, and want them begging for you to come back.

01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:39.279
So can you direct the audience everywhere they

01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:41.640
can find Rod Bland stuff, everything you want

01:24:41.640 --> 01:24:44.359
to promote, your kickboxing, your drums, everything

01:24:44.359 --> 01:24:47.739
that you do so they could be more aware of you.

01:24:47.779 --> 01:24:49.199
And then the next time you come on the show,

01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:51.960
just be uber, uber excited to have you back on.

01:24:52.119 --> 01:24:57.560
All right. So I'm not the best at plugging myself.

01:24:59.800 --> 01:25:03.380
This is a copy of my debut award -winning EP,

01:25:03.720 --> 01:25:05.979
Rod Bland, the Members Only Band. There it is.

01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:08.279
Live on Bill Street, tribute to Bobby Blue Bland.

01:25:08.939 --> 01:25:12.500
What we did was, if you look up the album cover

01:25:12.500 --> 01:25:16.180
for my dad, Members Only. Okay. Basically, we

01:25:16.180 --> 01:25:19.260
just updated everything and put me in it. Very

01:25:19.260 --> 01:25:24.439
cool. Yeah. I'm on Instagram, at therodbland,

01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:29.819
R -O -D -D -B -L -A -N -D. Facebook, same thing,

01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:34.319
at Rod Bland. Then there is Rod Bland and the

01:25:34.319 --> 01:25:38.279
Members Only Band, which is facebook .com, instagram

01:25:38.279 --> 01:25:44.760
.com, slash RB and the MOB. Boom. And I got a

01:25:44.760 --> 01:25:47.779
YouTube channel under both names, Rod Bland,

01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:51.100
Rod Bland and Members Only Band. And here's hoping

01:25:51.100 --> 01:25:55.180
that one day we can do this in person. 100. I

01:25:55.180 --> 01:25:59.600
don't know, with... Some tequila on the rocks.

01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:04.720
Oh, absolutely. Or a good old Irish whiskey,

01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:10.180
some Jameson on the rocks. Or if we just want

01:26:10.180 --> 01:26:12.619
to kick back and it's a hot, sunny day, we'll

01:26:12.619 --> 01:26:14.720
just have some high noons. They're delicious.

01:26:14.859 --> 01:26:17.000
There you go. Rod, do you ever come to SoCal

01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:20.699
to play? It's been a minute. The last time I

01:26:20.699 --> 01:26:23.939
was there, that's when I was in California, was

01:26:23.939 --> 01:26:27.159
last year. I was thinking about trying to come

01:26:27.159 --> 01:26:33.619
up to Dana Point for the Ohana Fest. I mean,

01:26:33.640 --> 01:26:35.460
I live in Irvine, so if you do that, let me know.

01:26:35.539 --> 01:26:38.260
I'll come see you. I wanted to do that because

01:26:38.260 --> 01:26:40.880
I've seen Pearl Jam, but I've never seen Neil

01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:44.060
Young. Oh, is he playing this year? I didn't

01:26:44.060 --> 01:26:46.500
even know. Yeah. Oh, shit. That's amazing. Pearl

01:26:46.500 --> 01:26:49.600
Jam is Friday and Sunday, and Neil is Saturday.

01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:53.350
Ah, cool. I didn't know that. But I think I'm

01:26:53.350 --> 01:26:57.229
going to try to fulfill another drum wish and

01:26:57.229 --> 01:27:00.229
meet Carter Beauford. Oh, cool. They're playing

01:27:00.229 --> 01:27:04.409
in Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville, the Heritage

01:27:04.409 --> 01:27:07.529
Festival. Yeah. So I think that might be the

01:27:07.529 --> 01:27:10.569
move, but I'm going to, you know, I don't know

01:27:10.569 --> 01:27:12.829
how often you travel or not, but like I'm going

01:27:12.829 --> 01:27:15.810
to DM you all the ways to keep in touch with

01:27:15.810 --> 01:27:19.229
me because I'm known to share some zinger memes

01:27:19.229 --> 01:27:23.590
of the comedic standpoint. Cool. Yeah, Rod, I

01:27:23.590 --> 01:27:27.670
just saw DMB in Camden, dude. Carter Beaufort

01:27:27.670 --> 01:27:30.930
was, of course, killing it. Dude, I listened

01:27:30.930 --> 01:27:38.010
to the Friday Night series, and the way he's

01:27:38.010 --> 01:27:42.710
not a young man, but he still plays with every

01:27:42.710 --> 01:27:48.979
bit of intensity. Blowing bubbles. Yeah. I need

01:27:48.979 --> 01:27:53.079
to know what brand of gum this man chews. Because

01:27:53.079 --> 01:27:57.140
clearly there is, you know, one of the songs,

01:27:57.380 --> 01:27:59.539
don't drink the water. No, don't drink the water,

01:27:59.579 --> 01:28:01.840
but chew the bubble gum. Chew the bubble gum.

01:28:02.239 --> 01:28:06.500
So DMB is one of the only, one of the very few

01:28:06.500 --> 01:28:09.640
bands that we had beef with. But it wasn't between

01:28:09.640 --> 01:28:13.739
the bands. Let's listen to this. They opened

01:28:13.739 --> 01:28:16.989
for us. like way back in like early nineties,

01:28:16.989 --> 01:28:20.710
like 92 ish or nine, even maybe 91. We weren't

01:28:20.710 --> 01:28:23.050
even like really, really kind of out yet, but

01:28:23.050 --> 01:28:26.050
we went down to Richmond and we played some festival

01:28:26.050 --> 01:28:28.890
down there and we went on last and DMV went on

01:28:28.890 --> 01:28:32.210
before us and something went, we don't even like,

01:28:32.270 --> 01:28:34.890
you could talk to all four of us. We don't know

01:28:34.890 --> 01:28:37.069
what went down. Like the crews gotten some kind

01:28:37.069 --> 01:28:39.550
of scuffle about some shit and they've never

01:28:39.550 --> 01:28:42.340
liked us since. And we're like, damn it, that

01:28:42.340 --> 01:28:44.079
sucks because we don't even know what happened.

01:28:44.140 --> 01:28:48.720
But if you see Carter, say hello for me. Definitely,

01:28:48.720 --> 01:28:52.079
because at one time... No, I mean that sincerely.

01:28:52.279 --> 01:28:55.659
It's like, say hello for me because I've never

01:28:55.659 --> 01:28:58.600
met him. I love his playing. I've never met him

01:28:58.600 --> 01:29:05.060
either. And it's much like you. Like, did I see

01:29:05.060 --> 01:29:09.939
this on my vision board? No. The closest that

01:29:09.939 --> 01:29:12.899
I had of any thoughts or Chad Gracie's concern

01:29:12.899 --> 01:29:15.020
is, I hope to God I can be in the room and watch

01:29:15.020 --> 01:29:17.939
this dude play, like, you know, drums and not

01:29:17.939 --> 01:29:20.180
have a nosebleed from trying to watch him play,

01:29:20.260 --> 01:29:23.100
but, like, be somewhere semi -professionally

01:29:23.100 --> 01:29:27.739
close where I can be like, oh, I'll be damned.

01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:30.239
If I ever make it back, you can be side of stage.

01:29:30.859 --> 01:29:36.859
Boom. Do we need, like, some... Some Guns N'

01:29:36.939 --> 01:29:40.359
Roses group therapy, some Kumbaya shit. Oddly

01:29:40.359 --> 01:29:42.600
enough, when we came back together in 16 after

01:29:42.600 --> 01:29:45.899
the first breakup, that was my thing I told everybody.

01:29:45.939 --> 01:29:49.760
I'm like, I want band therapy. First breakup?

01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:54.899
Well, we broke up in 2009. And then, you know,

01:29:54.899 --> 01:29:57.779
broke up again in, what, 2022 or whenever that

01:29:57.779 --> 01:30:03.520
happened. Jeez. Well, they called it a hundred

01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:08.890
years. in 2009 it was a hiatus yeah okay i'll

01:30:08.890 --> 01:30:10.689
go i'll go with that one i'll go with that one

01:30:10.689 --> 01:30:14.449
there you go but yeah so when uh john when i

01:30:14.449 --> 01:30:17.890
was like all gearing up to to hopefully get that

01:30:17.890 --> 01:30:20.550
side stage treatment or a fan boy he's like yeah

01:30:20.550 --> 01:30:24.289
man i'm not in the band anymore and like it was

01:30:24.289 --> 01:30:29.979
like it was like meeting Eva Mendez and not knowing

01:30:29.979 --> 01:30:32.500
that she was married and thinking you had a shot.

01:30:32.619 --> 01:30:35.300
Yeah. And it's like, it just, it just, it just

01:30:35.300 --> 01:30:41.220
sank. If they had a strong lineup. Huh? He's

01:30:41.220 --> 01:30:43.960
been this cool forever. Like at the height of

01:30:43.960 --> 01:30:46.000
lives career. Cause I got to meet them way back

01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:48.960
in the day. And you know, like shit that Chad

01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:51.920
doesn't even remember, but, uh, I mean, okay.

01:30:52.060 --> 01:30:53.579
You ain't got to get hot about it and rub it

01:30:53.579 --> 01:30:57.399
in. That's I get it. I'm just saying like, I'm

01:30:57.399 --> 01:31:00.939
the dude that was buying modern drummers and

01:31:00.939 --> 01:31:05.000
looking at the Pearl Pusher ads. You're still

01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:09.539
an Evans guy, right? Yes, yeah. Yeah, so looking

01:31:09.539 --> 01:31:12.680
at all the stuff that had Chad's face on it,

01:31:12.760 --> 01:31:15.819
I'm like, man. Yeah, Remo would buff me back

01:31:15.819 --> 01:31:19.840
in the day, so I was like, well, fuck Remo. Hey,

01:31:21.060 --> 01:31:24.579
Chris, I still love you and Remo. Chris, just,

01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:26.880
you know, hey. I've always loved their heads,

01:31:26.960 --> 01:31:29.640
but they just didn't want me back then. I love

01:31:29.640 --> 01:31:31.960
that, too, now that you're saying it, gentlemen.

01:31:33.300 --> 01:31:38.079
And he's back. There he is. Hold on, let me do

01:31:38.079 --> 01:31:41.199
my BB voice. There he is, folks. He's back. He's

01:31:41.199 --> 01:31:45.399
back. There's John. John's back. And you tell

01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:48.119
me I do voiceover work. Listen to you, man. You

01:31:48.119 --> 01:31:50.859
got impressions for days. Your prior was close.

01:31:51.699 --> 01:31:55.390
Oh, no, that's because, hey. I'm sober right

01:31:55.390 --> 01:31:57.170
now because I got to teach classes and I got

01:31:57.170 --> 01:32:00.449
to live too. But, man, when I've had a few cocktails

01:32:00.449 --> 01:32:03.409
in my system, my mud bone cannot be touched.

01:32:03.670 --> 01:32:07.970
Oh, boy. That's the next podcast in person. My

01:32:07.970 --> 01:32:11.789
mud bone voice. Have you ever seen the movie

01:32:11.789 --> 01:32:14.750
Which Way is Up? Which Way is Up? Richard Pryor,

01:32:14.829 --> 01:32:18.470
Which Way is Up? Oh. The dad in the movie is

01:32:18.470 --> 01:32:22.680
really the mud bone voice and character. Okay.

01:32:22.800 --> 01:32:24.960
So like, if you ever get a chance, like, you

01:32:24.960 --> 01:32:27.840
know, again, you're going to laugh your ass off.

01:32:28.859 --> 01:32:34.119
Yeah. It's just, you know, mispronunciation of

01:32:34.119 --> 01:32:38.720
words and, you know, gestures, you know, which

01:32:38.720 --> 01:32:40.840
by the way, I told this girl that's in my kickboxing

01:32:40.840 --> 01:32:44.720
fitness class. I showed her this thing I posted

01:32:44.720 --> 01:32:46.619
on, what do the kids call it? Talk, tick, tick,

01:32:46.619 --> 01:32:51.430
tock. Yeah. John Witherspoon. God rest his soul,

01:32:51.510 --> 01:32:54.149
pops from Friday. Uh -huh. Oh, this is fucking

01:32:54.149 --> 01:32:57.850
great. Okay, so there was a scene from the Wayans

01:32:57.850 --> 01:33:00.529
Brothers show where he goes, hey, that's Sean.

01:33:00.750 --> 01:33:02.689
And like Sean was like, pop, pop, pop, pop, sugar,

01:33:02.789 --> 01:33:05.050
pop, sugar. And like John's doing this like crazy

01:33:05.050 --> 01:33:07.430
dancing with the legs and like hopping. He's

01:33:07.430 --> 01:33:10.229
like, slide, pop, slide. I said, that's going

01:33:10.229 --> 01:33:13.689
to be me at 70. I'm going to send you that through

01:33:13.689 --> 01:33:17.510
DM. Every time I go into Costco, I think of his

01:33:17.510 --> 01:33:21.239
skit about Costco carts. Yes. You know what I'm

01:33:21.239 --> 01:33:24.699
talking about? Yeah. Every time I go in there,

01:33:24.699 --> 01:33:26.819
I think about it. It's fucking hilarious. Give

01:33:26.819 --> 01:33:28.899
me a bag, man. Give me a bag. Give me a box.

01:33:29.020 --> 01:33:31.439
I don't want no box. But he's walking around

01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:34.560
like this with his cart. Yeah. Want some pickles?

01:33:34.819 --> 01:33:37.319
I'm so glad I got this big -ass jar of pickles.

01:33:37.859 --> 01:33:39.720
Exactly. Big -ass box of cornflakes. Five gallons

01:33:39.720 --> 01:33:43.359
of soy sauce. Exactly. Like, who needs this much

01:33:43.359 --> 01:33:47.479
stuff? But so, fun fact, John Witherspoon and

01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:49.819
my dad both had the same birthday, January 27th.

01:33:50.109 --> 01:33:53.529
Oh, shit. Wow. Rock the fuck on again. Your dad

01:33:53.529 --> 01:33:58.189
live in legendary status, man. Yeah. The coolest

01:33:58.189 --> 01:34:00.510
thing I think my dad did from a rock and roll

01:34:00.510 --> 01:34:02.930
standpoint. There can't be a coolest thing your

01:34:02.930 --> 01:34:04.909
dad did because he's done so many cool things

01:34:04.909 --> 01:34:06.430
that you've mentioned already. But let me hear

01:34:06.430 --> 01:34:09.130
what you think. I got two. One that I'm a part

01:34:09.130 --> 01:34:10.810
of and one that I'm not a part of physically.

01:34:11.810 --> 01:34:14.989
The one I'm a part of slash sat with my dad Long

01:34:14.989 --> 01:34:21.020
Beach in 96. Wow. That was my birthday. Uh, that

01:34:21.020 --> 01:34:24.479
was, uh, I think that was, it was in July. Uh,

01:34:24.579 --> 01:34:26.720
it's in September at the long beach blues festival.

01:34:27.260 --> 01:34:30.399
Um, and then the coolest thing that I was not

01:34:30.399 --> 01:34:34.680
there for, but I think I'm a part of apparently

01:34:34.680 --> 01:34:38.000
led Zeppelin. I've heard this story a couple

01:34:38.000 --> 01:34:41.960
of times and I think, uh, proper plan has even

01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:45.579
went so far as to tell it in depth. Zeppelin

01:34:45.579 --> 01:34:48.520
rolled up to a place called the burning spear

01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:52.090
in Chicago. And that's in the hood of Chicago.

01:34:52.829 --> 01:34:57.210
And these Rolls Royce limousines were pulling

01:34:57.210 --> 01:35:00.869
up, and out of them, respectively, is Led Zeppelin.

01:35:01.289 --> 01:35:05.949
Wow. And according to a couple guys that were

01:35:05.949 --> 01:35:08.750
in my dad's band at the time that were still

01:35:08.750 --> 01:35:13.989
with us to tell me, John Bonham sat in on drums

01:35:13.989 --> 01:35:17.430
with my dad. Get the fuck out of here. And so

01:35:17.430 --> 01:35:21.119
Robert Plant, I think, Someone mentioned it to

01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:23.819
me from his book. He said that John Bonham was

01:35:23.819 --> 01:35:27.880
just as comfortable on stage playing Turn On

01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:29.180
Your Love Light and Further Up the Road with

01:35:29.180 --> 01:35:31.600
Bobby Bland as he was playing rock and roll with

01:35:31.600 --> 01:35:37.060
us. Damn. That's badass. Obviously, I was born

01:35:37.060 --> 01:35:41.819
in 76 and I never got the chance to meet John.

01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:49.130
It's been on my bucket list to meet Jason. the

01:35:49.130 --> 01:35:54.010
things jason's doing with his love and admiration

01:35:54.010 --> 01:35:57.689
for his dad like i need like hey some i need

01:35:57.689 --> 01:35:59.449
some counseling some input like what do you think

01:35:59.449 --> 01:36:02.930
i can do or should do this in the third and then

01:36:02.930 --> 01:36:05.789
you know reading about jason and matt sorum's

01:36:05.789 --> 01:36:13.810
book uh and just the fact that like if i i can't

01:36:13.810 --> 01:36:16.329
be a singer it's not my it's not my nature if

01:36:16.329 --> 01:36:20.470
you will yeah Because it's like your dad was

01:36:20.470 --> 01:36:21.989
known as the world's greatest blues singer in

01:36:21.989 --> 01:36:24.649
the line of the blues. You ain't even Simba.

01:36:24.670 --> 01:36:27.510
What are you doing, right? I can't have that

01:36:27.510 --> 01:36:31.170
kind of pressure thrust upon me. But to see what

01:36:31.170 --> 01:36:34.250
Jason has done following his dad's footsteps.

01:36:34.670 --> 01:36:38.510
He's out with Sam Hagar right now. Yeah. And

01:36:38.510 --> 01:36:41.210
conveniently, geographically speaking, ain't

01:36:41.210 --> 01:36:43.109
coming nowhere near me. The closest I will get

01:36:43.109 --> 01:36:45.829
to Jason or to see Jason play, I think he's playing

01:36:45.829 --> 01:36:50.039
with Hart. And November, they're going to play

01:36:50.039 --> 01:36:51.779
the FedEx Forum, and I think they're out with

01:36:51.779 --> 01:37:00.380
Stevie? No? Either way, he's supposed to be coming

01:37:00.380 --> 01:37:04.960
here to play in October, November. And unfortunately,

01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:07.520
it's on a Thursday. I normally have a residency

01:37:07.520 --> 01:37:10.460
at B .B. King's, but to see Jason Bonham. Much

01:37:10.460 --> 01:37:13.100
like to see, you know, Cameron when he was playing

01:37:13.100 --> 01:37:14.840
with Soundgarden at the Bill Street Music Festival

01:37:14.840 --> 01:37:16.680
or to see you whenever you come back to Memphis.

01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:21.699
Night off, Jack. I'm out. Yeah. Exactly. I wish

01:37:21.699 --> 01:37:23.560
I would have known you in 18. We played in Memphis

01:37:23.560 --> 01:37:26.539
with, I think, Counting Crows. And we went to...

01:37:26.539 --> 01:37:32.319
You were at... You were at... You were at South

01:37:32.319 --> 01:37:35.840
Haven? At the Snowden Grove? I believe, yeah.

01:37:35.920 --> 01:37:38.100
Something like that. Yeah. Maybe we played by

01:37:38.100 --> 01:37:41.279
ourselves. I'm not... We were out in 18, and

01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:44.939
we went to, what's the studio? The famous studio.

01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:47.760
We went to Sun Studio. We recorded Lightning

01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:50.720
Crashes in Sun Studio. I don't know where that

01:37:50.720 --> 01:37:53.560
is, why we didn't put it out. So Sun Studio,

01:37:53.680 --> 01:38:01.939
another Bobby Blue Bland fun fact, he cut a single

01:38:01.939 --> 01:38:09.310
there before trying to go to chess. Okay. And

01:38:09.310 --> 01:38:13.369
there's a photo somewhere that's kind of popular.

01:38:13.390 --> 01:38:18.109
It's my dad, Elvis and junior Parker at the old

01:38:18.109 --> 01:38:21.710
Daisy theater back in the, the, like the amateur

01:38:21.710 --> 01:38:28.649
hour days. Okay. And so, you know, I, I didn't

01:38:28.649 --> 01:38:31.510
start learning about Elvis until I was probably

01:38:31.510 --> 01:38:35.170
middle school, junior high, high school. And

01:38:35.170 --> 01:38:40.689
to know that my dad, you know got the rub if

01:38:40.689 --> 01:38:44.310
you will uh the seal of approval from elvis was

01:38:44.310 --> 01:38:51.810
great but it wasn't until i met priscilla presley

01:38:51.810 --> 01:38:55.729
hey now not my not my not my finer moment because

01:38:55.729 --> 01:38:58.750
i was like five sheets of the wind and i thought

01:38:58.750 --> 01:39:01.550
she was lisa i thought she's lisa oh no but like

01:39:01.550 --> 01:39:07.930
um yeah yeah so she was lisa that's amazing dude

01:39:07.930 --> 01:39:12.430
dude priscilla was priscilla was shit yeah um

01:39:12.430 --> 01:39:15.289
by the way can i just say one thing fuck my dad

01:39:15.289 --> 01:39:18.470
he has no pictures or met anybody cool has done

01:39:18.470 --> 01:39:22.670
nothing great like your dad dad what the fuck

01:39:22.670 --> 01:39:24.829
i mean there's there's still there's still time

01:39:24.829 --> 01:39:27.109
for your dad mine mine's no longer with us so

01:39:27.109 --> 01:39:30.289
like he can catch he can catch up yeah i think

01:39:30.289 --> 01:39:35.560
so he's uh Not doing much lately. But I love

01:39:35.560 --> 01:39:38.899
you, Dad. There's always room for John's straight

01:39:38.899 --> 01:39:44.199
man, side man stick. Yeah, exactly. So, you know,

01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:46.300
they're like, hey, this is Rod Bland. This is

01:39:46.300 --> 01:39:50.119
Bobby Lou Bland's son. And her eyes, like, perked

01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:52.119
up. Like, she was just kind of low -key hanging

01:39:52.119 --> 01:39:54.659
out. But when she heard that, she's like, you

01:39:54.659 --> 01:39:57.300
know, she perked up. She goes, oh, we love your

01:39:57.300 --> 01:40:00.689
dad so much. I'm like. you know my dad's gone

01:40:00.689 --> 01:40:04.670
now but at that time but just to have her say

01:40:04.670 --> 01:40:08.189
those kind of things about him and um and then

01:40:08.189 --> 01:40:11.449
you called her lisa no in my head in my head

01:40:11.449 --> 01:40:15.869
i you know it's before you know so i'm telling

01:40:15.869 --> 01:40:18.970
you man i at that time i was battling uh depression

01:40:18.970 --> 01:40:26.159
very improperly um All seriousness aside, I didn't

01:40:26.159 --> 01:40:28.140
know whether to shit or wind my watch or whether

01:40:28.140 --> 01:40:31.979
I was coming or going. It took a minute to kick

01:40:31.979 --> 01:40:36.460
out, but I kicked out. God bless for that. Thank

01:40:36.460 --> 01:40:43.560
you. On the third floor is a little nightclub

01:40:43.560 --> 01:40:47.239
of 152. Think the trendy oomph oomph oomph stuff,

01:40:47.479 --> 01:40:55.289
right? Yeah. Then a few years later, I, uh, wearing

01:40:55.289 --> 01:40:57.449
a different color shirt that says the same thing

01:40:57.449 --> 01:41:00.829
was tipped off that Mick Jagger was at blue city

01:41:00.829 --> 01:41:03.869
cafe hanging out and it had everything roped

01:41:03.869 --> 01:41:06.210
off section. So like I found out where he was

01:41:06.210 --> 01:41:10.850
at and, you know, I saw, uh, our director of

01:41:10.850 --> 01:41:15.270
tourism, Kevin Kane. Hey, Brad, how you doing?

01:41:15.329 --> 01:41:16.949
You know, Mick Jagger's in there. I was like,

01:41:17.050 --> 01:41:22.260
really? It's like, you know, in my head, it's

01:41:22.260 --> 01:41:26.319
like, I'm here. I mean, I'm wearing a kickboxing

01:41:26.319 --> 01:41:30.460
shirt, a Pearl Jam hoodie, and shorts. And it's

01:41:30.460 --> 01:41:33.420
like 10 o 'clock at night. Right. No, I just

01:41:33.420 --> 01:41:35.960
had no idea he would be here. And I just figured,

01:41:36.119 --> 01:41:39.380
well, if he is, appropriate attire. Very rock

01:41:39.380 --> 01:41:42.979
and roll me. There you go. Exactly. Yes. So one

01:41:42.979 --> 01:41:47.180
of his security guys comes out behind the curtain.

01:41:48.090 --> 01:41:52.949
And I said, hey, my name is Rod Bland and I'm

01:41:52.949 --> 01:41:56.869
Bobby Blue Bland's son. I was his drummer. And

01:41:56.869 --> 01:42:00.510
I met Mick years ago when I was like six, maybe

01:42:00.510 --> 01:42:03.250
seven years old. And he like does that, right?

01:42:04.270 --> 01:42:10.189
And so he goes, how, why, where? And I told him

01:42:10.189 --> 01:42:14.670
how. Told him where. It's Radio City Music Hall

01:42:14.670 --> 01:42:18.920
in New York. And so. He ducks in the curtain.

01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:25.880
Please send him in. No shit. Wow. So I go in.

01:42:26.180 --> 01:42:27.279
That was your British accent right there, dude.

01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:29.899
Let me hear that one more time. Go ahead. I'll

01:42:29.899 --> 01:42:32.439
give you one more. It's coming. So I was like,

01:42:32.500 --> 01:42:36.500
I'm, you know, respectful Southern boy. Hi, Mr.

01:42:36.600 --> 01:42:40.000
Jagger. How you doing? I'm Rod. Rod Bland. I

01:42:40.000 --> 01:42:42.899
loved your father. Your father was tremendous.

01:42:43.300 --> 01:42:49.300
And he's holding court. And he's like, So I go

01:42:49.300 --> 01:42:53.779
see Bowlby Blueblind, and he's just the greatest

01:42:53.779 --> 01:42:56.479
singer in the world. And he turns back and looks

01:42:56.479 --> 01:43:01.260
at me. He goes, I have no idea why, but I decided

01:43:01.260 --> 01:43:03.300
I can't do the voicing work. But he said, I had

01:43:03.300 --> 01:43:05.899
no idea why. I thought I should or could, but

01:43:05.899 --> 01:43:08.680
I got on stage and sang with him. And I said,

01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:13.000
yeah. I said, and you had your harmonica. And

01:43:13.000 --> 01:43:15.979
you came over behind me blowing your harmonica.

01:43:16.409 --> 01:43:20.529
in my ear and as a boy i didn't know what the

01:43:20.529 --> 01:43:22.729
hell was going on i didn't know what a rolling

01:43:22.729 --> 01:43:26.449
hand or stone was and i was hotter than grandma's

01:43:26.449 --> 01:43:30.829
fish grease yeah so i was like i was like six

01:43:30.829 --> 01:43:35.970
five six seven something like that but as time

01:43:35.970 --> 01:43:40.310
goes on you recall that and you realize hey that

01:43:40.310 --> 01:43:45.010
was my very first rock and roll experience and

01:43:45.010 --> 01:43:47.710
it was with One of the greatest rock and roll

01:43:47.710 --> 01:43:52.310
front men ever Mick Jagger. Yeah. So that was

01:43:52.310 --> 01:43:54.050
sometime in the eighties and you fast forward.

01:43:54.109 --> 01:43:56.710
It was like 2018 when this happened. I said,

01:43:56.770 --> 01:43:58.609
you know, I said, I just really wanted to say

01:43:58.609 --> 01:44:02.350
thank you for giving me my very first rock and

01:44:02.350 --> 01:44:05.710
roll experience moment. And my dad loves you.

01:44:05.810 --> 01:44:08.810
We love you. And he was just a, please stay a

01:44:08.810 --> 01:44:15.590
little longer. And I'm like, like, no. Okay.

01:44:16.159 --> 01:44:19.920
I sit down and I'm just listening to Mick hold

01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:23.920
court, and I cannot tell you anything that we've

01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:27.020
talked about or heaped about. I'm sitting in

01:44:27.020 --> 01:44:32.359
the room going, it's Tuesday. Taco Tuesday to

01:44:32.359 --> 01:44:35.939
some people. Rolling Stone Hangout Night with

01:44:35.939 --> 01:44:40.479
Rod. That's right. That's great. I've had some

01:44:40.479 --> 01:44:43.060
cool experiences. When Slash started with my

01:44:43.060 --> 01:44:45.220
dad, I was playing drums. We were doing double

01:44:45.220 --> 01:44:50.060
drums and whatnot. Greg Allman used to come by

01:44:50.060 --> 01:44:56.739
and hang out with him and sit in. Now, he's gone

01:44:56.739 --> 01:45:01.359
and I'm here. I can just add this to the list

01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:03.380
of the cool rock and roll moments that I'm enjoying

01:45:03.380 --> 01:45:07.750
at 47. Thank you. I can't wait to hear this story

01:45:07.750 --> 01:45:12.029
to fucking somebody. It's great company. I appreciate

01:45:12.029 --> 01:45:17.289
that, Rod. Again, not to blow smoke and to push

01:45:17.289 --> 01:45:22.789
you over, but the way your drumming has become

01:45:22.789 --> 01:45:28.710
so timeless and so revered by me, I can't thank

01:45:28.710 --> 01:45:31.850
you enough. I should say, I'm somebody that you

01:45:31.850 --> 01:45:35.060
never knew existed. You really had a huge – why

01:45:35.060 --> 01:45:37.020
are there – what is going on here? Why are there

01:45:37.020 --> 01:45:39.899
– That's me fucking loving what you're saying.

01:45:40.680 --> 01:45:46.220
Okay. Yeah, I'm like, huh? Does my phone need

01:45:46.220 --> 01:45:50.159
a charging? Oh, boy. A guy that Chad didn't know

01:45:50.159 --> 01:45:53.920
existed. I'm sorry. A guy that Chad didn't know

01:45:53.920 --> 01:45:57.140
existed until like last year or so. This is my

01:45:57.140 --> 01:45:59.079
way of giving you your flowers while you're here

01:45:59.079 --> 01:46:03.239
to receive them in real time. Thank you, man.

01:46:03.260 --> 01:46:05.819
Thank you both for having me. Pleasure to have

01:46:05.819 --> 01:46:07.779
you on. Pleasure to hear all you freaking amazing

01:46:07.779 --> 01:46:10.979
stories. Thank you for all the praise. I really,

01:46:11.060 --> 01:46:13.199
really deeply appreciate it. And we're going

01:46:13.199 --> 01:46:15.060
to do it again. We got to do it again soon. Absolutely.

01:46:15.220 --> 01:46:21.460
That YouTube of freaks. Yes. He wants you to

01:46:21.460 --> 01:46:24.520
do freaks. He wants you to do freaks on a video.

01:46:25.359 --> 01:46:30.350
And then you got to teach me how you're so. I

01:46:30.350 --> 01:46:33.609
adapt at playing in flops. Look, I saw one of

01:46:33.609 --> 01:46:38.869
your videos. I play in bare feet. I wear flip

01:46:38.869 --> 01:46:41.029
flops on the stage, but I play in bare feet.

01:46:41.069 --> 01:46:42.729
I've done that since I learned how to play in

01:46:42.729 --> 01:46:45.470
my bedroom. I never put on shoes. So I played

01:46:45.470 --> 01:46:48.069
in bare feet in 32 degree weather. I've always

01:46:48.069 --> 01:46:51.069
played bare feet. So, yeah. And you must have

01:46:51.069 --> 01:46:54.390
great pedicures at your disposal. Just like.

01:46:55.400 --> 01:46:59.039
he's just got feet dude he could fucking climb

01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:01.260
uh trees with his feet if you know what i'm saying

01:47:01.260 --> 01:47:04.380
nah i wear a size eight oh i didn't mean they

01:47:04.380 --> 01:47:06.340
were like huge i just meant they're like you

01:47:06.340 --> 01:47:08.239
know rough on the bottom he could do shit with

01:47:08.239 --> 01:47:11.699
them Oh, I'm a 14. But, you know, Johnny Lang

01:47:11.699 --> 01:47:16.560
for years. You're a 14. Hey, now. How dare you

01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:19.060
make me say that? I hate I've even said anything

01:47:19.060 --> 01:47:21.539
because I know exactly where you're going. But

01:47:21.539 --> 01:47:24.420
Johnny Lang used to play barefoot all the time.

01:47:24.500 --> 01:47:26.319
There'd be, you know, really nice carpets on

01:47:26.319 --> 01:47:28.560
the stage. I think this is about the time that,

01:47:28.619 --> 01:47:31.500
you know, the second record, Wander This World,

01:47:31.579 --> 01:47:34.319
came out. So he's already pretty established

01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:36.949
after the Lie to Me record. So you can have the

01:47:36.949 --> 01:47:39.829
carpets and whatnot put down. But he was like,

01:47:39.949 --> 01:47:43.609
dog, how do you, I mean, shit can easily hit

01:47:43.609 --> 01:47:46.609
your bottom of your heel or something. You know,

01:47:46.670 --> 01:47:48.930
on those cockroach boards I'll use all the time.

01:47:48.970 --> 01:47:50.930
Hey, let me step on this one right here. Let

01:47:50.930 --> 01:47:52.170
me step on this one right here and see what happens.

01:47:52.949 --> 01:47:55.770
Definitely more dangerous as a front man or guitar

01:47:55.770 --> 01:47:57.890
player to not wear shoes than to be a drummer

01:47:57.890 --> 01:47:59.510
and not wear shoes. But I always thought that

01:47:59.510 --> 01:48:04.579
you were wearing like flip flops. No. Yeah. I'd

01:48:04.579 --> 01:48:05.859
wear them up on the stage, I'd put them behind

01:48:05.859 --> 01:48:08.380
me, and then I'd take them off and get down and

01:48:08.380 --> 01:48:11.600
put them back on. So did you put the thing on

01:48:11.600 --> 01:48:14.600
the pedals, the non -stick shit, or did you just

01:48:14.600 --> 01:48:17.680
went, like, did you raw dog it, as they say in

01:48:17.680 --> 01:48:19.020
another industry? I raw dog it all the time.

01:48:19.199 --> 01:48:25.060
Raw dog it. Hey now, hey now. Stephen Perkins

01:48:25.060 --> 01:48:29.979
plays barefoot, too. Yeah, I met him at the Memphis

01:48:29.979 --> 01:48:33.310
Drum Shop once. He was coming in town. He was

01:48:33.310 --> 01:48:36.449
doing something with the now late Dr. Herman

01:48:36.449 --> 01:48:41.710
Green, sax player. Herman was BB's first touring

01:48:41.710 --> 01:48:45.649
sax player. Perkins is amazing. He's an amazing

01:48:45.649 --> 01:48:48.569
drummer. Great guy. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's like

01:48:48.569 --> 01:48:51.869
to think how his brain would work with some of

01:48:51.869 --> 01:48:54.090
the stuff that he does and the parts he creates.

01:48:54.810 --> 01:48:58.029
Same thing with Jack Irons. Yeah, absolutely.

01:48:58.109 --> 01:49:02.239
Jack Irons is like so... I think Jack was just

01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:06.659
born funky. Yes. Funky. I mean, I told him that.

01:49:06.859 --> 01:49:09.199
The early Chili Peppers stuff with him playing.

01:49:09.420 --> 01:49:12.380
I mean, Chad Smith, don't get me wrong. Amazing.

01:49:12.420 --> 01:49:15.500
Right. Jack Irons stuff with like freaky styling

01:49:15.500 --> 01:49:18.260
and all that shit. That was our, we loved the

01:49:18.260 --> 01:49:20.140
Chili Peppers back in the early days like that.

01:49:20.460 --> 01:49:23.659
But yeah, Jack Irons. I came in late. I came

01:49:23.659 --> 01:49:26.439
in the Mother's Milk era. And of course, you

01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:31.020
know, the blood sugar sex magic. But yeah. So

01:49:31.020 --> 01:49:33.340
when, when Jack came in, the chili peppers would

01:49:33.340 --> 01:49:36.199
play with nothing but socks over their cocks.

01:49:36.500 --> 01:49:40.760
Yeah. I conveniently did not know about that

01:49:40.760 --> 01:49:42.760
until much later when Chris Rock talked about

01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:48.760
it. So feverishly, but so like when Jack joined

01:49:48.760 --> 01:49:53.520
Pearl jam, you know, I was like, well, this is

01:49:53.520 --> 01:49:55.880
going to be different. Yeah. And like certain

01:49:55.880 --> 01:49:59.800
things that like I was used to hearing was like,

01:50:00.270 --> 01:50:02.869
that i expected to hear i didn't hear but there's

01:50:02.869 --> 01:50:06.170
this one bootleg that i have from australia 95

01:50:06.170 --> 01:50:11.489
jack has a few bars by himself of the song why

01:50:11.489 --> 01:50:15.590
go home right right from the 10 record and like

01:50:15.590 --> 01:50:19.789
i thought what cruisin did in studio was like

01:50:19.789 --> 01:50:24.529
just so dope you know but the way jack just like

01:50:24.529 --> 01:50:31.439
i mean he just did like this 20 seconds of like

01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:34.939
just straight kick snare and crash with hats

01:50:34.939 --> 01:50:39.899
and so i'm like and so i remember like when i

01:50:39.899 --> 01:50:42.859
finally got to meet jack thank you chad smith

01:50:42.859 --> 01:50:47.020
for making that introduction um i was like and

01:50:47.020 --> 01:50:49.699
we did the facebook thing first and you know

01:50:49.699 --> 01:50:53.220
instagram all that crap and so chad's coming

01:50:53.220 --> 01:50:55.939
around the corner with me and i had two friends

01:50:55.939 --> 01:51:01.789
uh in tow and uh Hey, Jack, yo. Hey, Chad. Hey,

01:51:01.810 --> 01:51:04.869
Rod. And I'm like, did this dude just call me

01:51:04.869 --> 01:51:09.310
that name? Right. Again, the whole social media,

01:51:09.529 --> 01:51:14.130
being friends with people you've never met. And

01:51:14.130 --> 01:51:17.770
the girls like to... I thought you said you were

01:51:17.770 --> 01:51:20.229
coming to meet him. I said, I am, and I just

01:51:20.229 --> 01:51:25.449
did. Does he know your name? Facebook? Right.

01:51:27.369 --> 01:51:31.420
Powerful. yeah power social media when done properly

01:51:31.420 --> 01:51:35.659
yeah um so you know we taught for a few and like

01:51:35.659 --> 01:51:38.539
it's just really great to again like i've been

01:51:38.539 --> 01:51:40.739
doing with you but i got to chance to tell him

01:51:40.739 --> 01:51:43.300
like hey man you know this feel that you did

01:51:43.300 --> 01:51:47.239
on pilot uh from yield and then like the way

01:51:47.239 --> 01:51:50.079
you opened up with uh why i go home at 95 and

01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:53.800
jack's like wow okay you're paying attention

01:51:53.800 --> 01:51:57.020
and jack's like thank you you know high praise

01:51:57.020 --> 01:52:00.270
i appreciate that To find out that guys like

01:52:00.270 --> 01:52:02.529
your Jack Irons and your Chad Smith and your

01:52:02.529 --> 01:52:05.510
Sorums and Camerons, Mike McCree's are fans of

01:52:05.510 --> 01:52:09.689
your dad, right? Right. Because, you know, they're

01:52:09.689 --> 01:52:12.989
rock. You know, they're on this side. And we're

01:52:12.989 --> 01:52:15.090
blues. We're on that side. And, like, you know,

01:52:15.149 --> 01:52:18.170
never the two shall meet. And I'm, like, over

01:52:18.170 --> 01:52:21.890
here fanboying on, like, you know, three live

01:52:21.890 --> 01:52:25.390
records and, like, the Pearls and Soundgarden.

01:52:26.090 --> 01:52:28.789
There's, you know, stuff where a dude asked me

01:52:28.789 --> 01:52:30.130
in a pool hall, are you sure you know you're

01:52:30.130 --> 01:52:37.689
black? And I was like, yeah. I was like, yeah.

01:52:39.210 --> 01:52:41.649
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know. Yeah, right? Jesus.

01:52:41.949 --> 01:52:43.829
It's like, you know, you like everything that,

01:52:43.890 --> 01:52:46.770
like, we ain't posed alike. We are not supposed

01:52:46.770 --> 01:52:49.229
to like. We ain't posed alike. Right, right.

01:52:49.310 --> 01:52:54.430
There is no pre -written rule. Exactly. I've

01:52:54.430 --> 01:52:59.250
come across where it says, you can't like this,

01:52:59.250 --> 01:53:02.710
you can't like that. Rod, since I'm black from

01:53:02.710 --> 01:53:07.449
the waist down, I'll be damned. You know what

01:53:07.449 --> 01:53:09.750
I'm saying? I got a lot of things, dude. White

01:53:09.750 --> 01:53:11.630
from the waist up, black from the waist down.

01:53:12.170 --> 01:53:20.369
I was saying, we were into breakdancing and shit

01:53:20.369 --> 01:53:23.800
in the 80s. all over that. And then what was

01:53:23.800 --> 01:53:26.819
that movie? Uh, breaking, breaking, breaking,

01:53:26.819 --> 01:53:30.840
breaking too. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. But so our

01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:33.340
very, our very first show we ever did as Patrick

01:53:33.340 --> 01:53:36.000
Chad and I, as we were called first aid, but

01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:38.920
we played our middle school talent show and we

01:53:38.920 --> 01:53:42.319
did a medley between you twos, like a song and

01:53:42.319 --> 01:53:46.520
jam on it. Remember jam on it? Yes, I do. And

01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:49.100
there was instrumental. No, no, no lyrics. I

01:53:49.100 --> 01:53:50.479
wasn't in the band yet. It was instrumental.

01:53:51.329 --> 01:53:53.550
And then Chad was scratching on the guitar way

01:53:53.550 --> 01:53:58.090
before Tom Morello. That's how we won the talent

01:53:58.090 --> 01:54:02.430
show. Yeah. Nice. So we were in a public enemy,

01:54:02.649 --> 01:54:06.090
you know, all just all that stuff back then.

01:54:06.130 --> 01:54:08.609
It was, I mean, wait a second. White kids from

01:54:08.609 --> 01:54:10.710
war from York were allowed to be into public

01:54:10.710 --> 01:54:12.909
enemy. The world is going crazy. That's right.

01:54:13.789 --> 01:54:16.130
Yeah. I mean, we'll joke. No true words have

01:54:16.130 --> 01:54:19.779
been spoken. The world is going crazy. But isn't

01:54:19.779 --> 01:54:23.020
that, like, we're all people. We're allowed to

01:54:23.020 --> 01:54:25.539
be into everything and everything. Yeah, exactly.

01:54:25.800 --> 01:54:29.819
One human race here. Yeah. So, you know, if only

01:54:29.819 --> 01:54:33.619
people would understand that. My dad, part of

01:54:33.619 --> 01:54:39.739
his background or how he melded his style together,

01:54:40.220 --> 01:54:48.789
Perry Como, Nat King Cole. There's someone else

01:54:48.789 --> 01:54:53.069
I'm forgetting. Frank Sinatra. What's funny is

01:54:53.069 --> 01:54:55.350
as time would go on, they would call my dad the

01:54:55.350 --> 01:55:00.810
Sinatra of the blues. Oh, shit. Okay. And then

01:55:00.810 --> 01:55:03.430
Reverend C .L. Franklin because my dad would

01:55:03.430 --> 01:55:13.909
do this squall. Is it breaking up for you, Chad?

01:55:14.229 --> 01:55:17.869
Yeah. Black women would lose their mind. Rod,

01:55:17.890 --> 01:55:19.390
you broke up there. Can you go back? Because

01:55:19.390 --> 01:55:21.409
you almost sound like your dad was doing the

01:55:21.409 --> 01:55:26.090
huck to it before that. Ah, come on, man. Stop

01:55:26.090 --> 01:55:31.130
it. Don't do blue like that. Don't do blue like

01:55:31.130 --> 01:55:36.109
that. It sounded more like if you were to say

01:55:36.109 --> 01:55:39.229
the word lot, but like with a lot of strain in

01:55:39.229 --> 01:55:45.619
the throat, pause. But it's a scrawl that he

01:55:45.619 --> 01:55:48.060
got from Reverend C .L. Franklin from his sermon

01:55:48.060 --> 01:55:52.819
where the eagle stirs. So, you know, there are

01:55:52.819 --> 01:55:54.939
a lot of people that will call it a snort. It's

01:55:54.939 --> 01:55:59.220
not because you snort with your nose. You know.

01:55:59.859 --> 01:56:06.079
So anyway. I know about that. Nah. Sorry. Moving

01:56:06.079 --> 01:56:09.399
on. So my dad had a lot of different things that,

01:56:09.399 --> 01:56:13.359
you know, made up his. style of singing uh whereas

01:56:13.359 --> 01:56:16.960
you know my drumming comes from like the guys

01:56:16.960 --> 01:56:19.899
that worked with my dad and bb but then you know

01:56:19.899 --> 01:56:23.859
as time goes on i learned things that mitch mitchell

01:56:23.859 --> 01:56:27.039
did and john bonham did but then you know you

01:56:27.039 --> 01:56:29.619
fast forward to like okay you're stealing shit

01:56:29.619 --> 01:56:33.000
from sorum you're stealing shit from chad gracie

01:56:33.000 --> 01:56:41.300
smith and uh sexton yeah there's a lot Yeah,

01:56:41.319 --> 01:56:44.199
a lot of Chad drummers. And there's a lot of

01:56:44.199 --> 01:56:48.260
Mats, too. Yes. You got Chamberlain, Cameron,

01:56:48.520 --> 01:56:55.899
Apps from Government Mule, Sorum. To bring this

01:56:55.899 --> 01:57:03.560
home, to wrap this up about me, I embody so many

01:57:03.560 --> 01:57:07.340
different drummers that it's hard to pinpoint

01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:12.079
where something comes from unless i'm like literally

01:57:12.079 --> 01:57:16.100
like if i stole the intro to you know freaks

01:57:16.100 --> 01:57:20.899
or if i stole the intro to uh it's good to be

01:57:20.899 --> 01:57:23.079
king like matter of fact sunday we were playing

01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:25.039
you don't know how to feed no you wreck me and

01:57:25.039 --> 01:57:29.420
you know the ending like you watch the cymbals

01:57:29.420 --> 01:57:34.159
and then what do i do and like the guitar player

01:57:34.159 --> 01:57:36.600
goes okay we have got to start doing it's good

01:57:36.600 --> 01:57:39.720
to be king because that's like my my gag Whenever

01:57:39.720 --> 01:57:42.220
we would end, you wrecked me. I always go right

01:57:42.220 --> 01:57:44.060
into It's Good to Be King, because if I'm not

01:57:44.060 --> 01:57:47.579
mistaken, it's the next song on the Wildflowers

01:57:47.579 --> 01:57:52.060
record. I was right, though. It is Chad Channing

01:57:52.060 --> 01:57:55.220
that was the first drummer for Nirvana. I'm not

01:57:55.220 --> 01:57:57.640
as crazy as people think. I thought you were

01:57:57.640 --> 01:58:02.579
making another joke. The short amount of time

01:58:02.579 --> 01:58:05.300
that I've known of you, you got some zingers.

01:58:05.899 --> 01:58:09.500
You brought that life. I totally am. That's why

01:58:09.500 --> 01:58:11.220
people don't get me. They're like, what the fuck?

01:58:11.779 --> 01:58:14.000
I'm also a stand -up comedian, Rods, but that's

01:58:14.000 --> 01:58:17.319
where it comes from. But in real life, people

01:58:17.319 --> 01:58:18.920
are like, I don't know how to take this, dude.

01:58:19.399 --> 01:58:23.520
Is he joking? I'm a frustrated comedian. All

01:58:23.520 --> 01:58:26.819
my funny stick comes from people that have already

01:58:26.819 --> 01:58:32.020
done it. Pryor, Bernie Mac, Red Fox. You got

01:58:32.020 --> 01:58:35.260
a way of telling a story. You could definitely

01:58:35.260 --> 01:58:38.220
do it. You and me crack up a couple of times.

01:58:38.260 --> 01:58:40.579
Bernie Mac and the Kings of Comedy. Oh, my God.

01:58:40.619 --> 01:58:42.979
I was fucking crying. I was talking about the

01:58:42.979 --> 01:58:47.260
kid on the bus. Holy shit. Yes. So funny. So

01:58:47.260 --> 01:58:50.020
funny. Just last Thursday, me and one of the

01:58:50.020 --> 01:58:55.460
servers at BB's, we brought that up. Yeah. She

01:58:55.460 --> 01:58:58.880
always likes to flirt, and I said something to

01:58:58.880 --> 01:59:04.260
her, and she's like, ah. I was like, ah. Teasing

01:59:04.260 --> 01:59:08.300
me. And that's what she did to me. Ron, stop

01:59:08.300 --> 01:59:17.479
teasing me. All right. Him said. Him downstairs.

01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:23.260
Who the fuck is him? Who the fuck is him? I ain't

01:59:23.260 --> 01:59:27.279
got no motherfucking name. Yo! My god, that was

01:59:27.279 --> 01:59:30.079
fucking so great boy right there do did not did

01:59:30.079 --> 01:59:36.460
not tell your puck ass Frank Yeah, do you do

01:59:36.460 --> 01:59:38.479
this shit online I believe a kid gets out of

01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:40.220
line you're allowed to punch him in the throat

01:59:40.220 --> 01:59:52.239
and the stomach Is not I gotta say Funny big

01:59:52.239 --> 01:59:53.859
mama told you about fucking folks fix your fool

01:59:56.429 --> 02:00:02.210
Eddie Murphy? Yes, very funny. Very funny. Special

02:00:02.210 --> 02:00:07.489
one coming right up. Coming to America, one of

02:00:07.489 --> 02:00:11.189
the best movies on the planet. Yes, I'm trying

02:00:11.189 --> 02:00:16.189
to watch the newest Beverly Hills Cop. How is

02:00:16.189 --> 02:00:17.890
that, by the way? Because I put it on before

02:00:17.890 --> 02:00:21.789
I went to bed. I'm about halfway to doing the

02:00:21.789 --> 02:00:25.060
same thing. I'm getting geared up. All right,

02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:29.819
I'm going to watch this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But,

02:00:29.819 --> 02:00:32.899
I mean, the first few minutes is like a definite

02:00:32.899 --> 02:00:39.340
review of the original movies that he had. What's

02:00:39.340 --> 02:00:44.340
his name? Paul Snyder? Paul. It's Paul. The guy.

02:00:46.340 --> 02:00:49.819
What was the TV show? My Two Dads. Yes. Yeah,

02:00:49.840 --> 02:00:52.300
Paul. No, I'm trying to think of the guy's name.

02:00:52.359 --> 02:00:58.550
Yeah, he was in there. I'm hearing the Pointer

02:00:58.550 --> 02:01:01.729
Sisters Neutron Dance, which I think was in the

02:01:01.729 --> 02:01:06.670
original movie. Kenny Loggins, shakedown, you're

02:01:06.670 --> 02:01:10.630
busted. I'm hearing all that. I'm like, are you

02:01:10.630 --> 02:01:16.270
sure this is the newest movie? Right. The title

02:01:16.270 --> 02:01:18.470
kind of throws me off. Beverly Hills Cop. It's

02:01:18.470 --> 02:01:27.119
Axl F. Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah, I mean, that's

02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:29.420
what I would have done. Yeah. But, you know,

02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:32.699
they didn't ask me. You know, they got to consult

02:01:32.699 --> 02:01:35.539
us on this shit because we know. It'd be nice

02:01:35.539 --> 02:01:39.380
if we're consulted. Yeah. So in addition to probably

02:01:39.380 --> 02:01:42.000
being your most entertaining guest, I'm probably

02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:44.779
the longest running guest, right? You are. Absolutely.

02:01:45.380 --> 02:01:49.100
I hate to be your editor guy. I hate to be the

02:01:49.100 --> 02:01:50.760
guy that's going to edit any of this shit and

02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:53.550
put it out. Nothing's edited. Yeah, it goes on

02:01:53.550 --> 02:01:56.210
and it stays that way forever. But you're really,

02:01:56.250 --> 02:01:58.729
I'm going to piss this podcast table very soon

02:01:58.729 --> 02:02:02.590
here. Well, okay, R. Kelly, good to meet you.

02:02:02.789 --> 02:02:06.729
I'm going to let you go. I'm not going in the

02:02:06.729 --> 02:02:11.449
closet with you. Yeah, no. The one and only Rod

02:02:11.449 --> 02:02:14.689
Blaine. Say goodbye to this audience. Goodbye,

02:02:14.909 --> 02:02:18.029
audience. Once again, happy birthday, Chad Gracie.

02:02:18.189 --> 02:02:21.470
Thank you. Thanks for coming on. What are you

02:02:21.470 --> 02:02:25.050
pushing, 36 now? Yeah, I'm 35, but reverse it.

02:02:25.130 --> 02:02:27.149
Oh, my fault, my fault. Yeah, I put an extra

02:02:27.149 --> 02:02:30.930
penny on that. We'll do that again. So if you

02:02:30.930 --> 02:02:34.550
come out to Ahana Fest, let me know. It's looking

02:02:34.550 --> 02:02:36.510
like I'm staying here to go see Dave, to meet

02:02:36.510 --> 02:02:40.170
Carter, so I can relay that message. But I'll

02:02:40.170 --> 02:02:43.210
send you my contact, and we'll stay up. Cool.

02:02:43.430 --> 02:02:48.010
Hey, yo, Ratholo. Yo. Peace of May. Peace of

02:02:48.010 --> 02:02:50.270
May. Don't forget to tell Carter, Chad, hello.

02:02:51.149 --> 02:02:52.970
I'm going to do that, but don't forget, we're

02:02:52.970 --> 02:02:55.710
going to talk about these pieces. 100%, dude.

02:02:55.770 --> 02:03:04.609
Not pizzas, pieces. Oh, snap. I'm a little, right

02:03:04.609 --> 02:03:07.029
somewhere in here, there's a little pain from

02:03:07.029 --> 02:03:10.789
how you kind of had me thinking. I was going

02:03:10.789 --> 02:03:12.510
to at least get some deep discounts. Yeah, he

02:03:12.510 --> 02:03:15.770
got too excited about it. Fucked him up, man.

02:03:16.050 --> 02:03:18.550
I'm door dashing you a pie. I'll get you that

02:03:18.550 --> 02:03:21.810
way. Please don't door dash me a damn thing.

02:03:22.270 --> 02:03:26.489
I'm kidding. Anyway. Y 'all have a good one,

02:03:26.550 --> 02:03:29.609
Chad. Happy birthday. Thank you, Ron. I'll probably

02:03:29.609 --> 02:03:32.390
do a tequila toast for you tonight and post it

02:03:32.390 --> 02:03:35.710
in my story. All the best to you and your family.

02:03:36.170 --> 02:03:41.279
Thank you. Hey, you all right. You all right.

02:03:41.539 --> 02:03:45.319
You all right. You're awesome. Hey, John, I like

02:03:45.319 --> 02:03:48.640
you. Not very much, but I like you. Well, ditto.

02:03:48.659 --> 02:03:51.659
I love you, man. You were one of the best guests

02:03:51.659 --> 02:03:53.319
we've had. Absolutely. Freaking awesome. All

02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:55.300
right, man. Y 'all be good. All right. Thanks,

02:03:55.439 --> 02:03:57.140
Rod. Take care, bud. All right. Take care. Bye

02:03:57.140 --> 02:04:00.359
-bye. The one and only Rod Bland, folks. What

02:04:00.359 --> 02:04:04.279
do you know about that? Rod was great. Yes, that

02:04:04.279 --> 02:04:07.670
was fun, dude. Can you get rid of his other,

02:04:07.670 --> 02:04:11.109
his other, I think I did. Did I not? Oh, it's

02:04:11.109 --> 02:04:13.010
still, I still sit on my screen, whatever, but

02:04:13.010 --> 02:04:15.229
that was, I mean, that was amazing. Oh my God.

02:04:15.689 --> 02:04:19.930
That's so great. Dude. It was fucking fun. That

02:04:19.930 --> 02:04:23.689
guy's father is legend. Absolutely. Jesus. Need

02:04:23.689 --> 02:04:25.789
to apologize to my father. I mean, I didn't even

02:04:25.789 --> 02:04:27.750
know about that when I had him on. I got, you

02:04:27.750 --> 02:04:30.210
know, we, like I said, we started talking on

02:04:30.210 --> 02:04:34.609
Instagram. I had no idea of the, uh, of the of

02:04:34.609 --> 02:04:37.430
the credo there man it's freaking awesome yeah

02:04:37.430 --> 02:04:40.489
like what a nice surprise to come out you know

02:04:40.489 --> 02:04:43.489
and hear all those stories and just yeah wow

02:04:43.489 --> 02:04:46.090
i mean obviously a very talented man himself

02:04:46.090 --> 02:04:48.630
but then to have you know come from that kind

02:04:48.630 --> 02:04:52.010
of line it's just amazing so cool man the experiences

02:04:52.010 --> 02:04:55.050
the all the people his dad's met and now he's

02:04:55.050 --> 02:04:58.489
met and just yeah so cool so cool great guy loved

02:04:58.489 --> 02:05:01.579
it bobby Come on real quick because I think we

02:05:01.579 --> 02:05:04.039
could hear you now and give us a brief second

02:05:04.039 --> 02:05:06.180
of Bobby's World and I really do got to pee.

02:05:07.539 --> 02:05:13.239
Can you hear me? There he is. Bobby! Bobby's

02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:18.939
World. Hold on a second. Don't tell us about

02:05:18.939 --> 02:05:22.140
how cool Rod was because we already know. Move

02:05:22.140 --> 02:05:26.920
on to if you want to share. I'm going to share

02:05:26.920 --> 02:05:35.300
something. This is about Biden's location and

02:05:35.300 --> 02:05:39.960
why he hasn't been seen publicly in days. Especially

02:05:39.960 --> 02:05:44.439
after Sunday's sudden departure from the presidential

02:05:44.439 --> 02:05:49.640
race. This is on mainstream media? Oh my god.

02:05:50.060 --> 02:06:01.300
Yeah. It looks like they got a little coup going

02:06:01.300 --> 02:06:06.500
on to get him out and to get another Democrat,

02:06:06.579 --> 02:06:10.960
a different piece of shit in there. I know. Oh,

02:06:11.079 --> 02:06:13.399
yeah. So this is talking about when she's talking

02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:15.439
at the White House and she almost says recording.

02:06:15.899 --> 02:06:19.020
And there's a bunch of comms saying this is 98

02:06:19.020 --> 02:06:22.600
% sure that that was an AI voice of Biden talking

02:06:22.600 --> 02:06:27.140
to her. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. We're coming for you.

02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:29.199
We know your tricks, people. You ain't going

02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:31.199
to be able to pull a wool over people's eyes

02:06:31.199 --> 02:06:33.920
for that much longer, motherfuckers. I mean,

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it's insane. It's like, how much? I mean, yeah,

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exactly. What's going on is totally over the

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fucking top insane. And people are just going

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with it because it's, oh, yeah, it's like nothing

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about this is normal, Ed. all yeah like how much

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it's insane to see how much do people need to

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fucking see like i don't know man you got people

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justifying it now he stepped down because he's

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for the good of the country it's a selfless act

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like get the fuck out of here man it's nuts it

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is it's they talk about trump derangement syndrome

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there's fucking there is democrat derangement

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syndrome oh my god is spew bullshit like it's

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clearly that's all they do trump derange it's

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like no you fucking derangement system exactly

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from your fucking nuts people were tired of it

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my goodness come on it's like it's insane it

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really is it really is Put 1 ,500 black men in

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jail for no reason. They're just talking about

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Kamala Harris is putting out these statements.

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She was a prosecutor and blah, blah, blah. It's

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like, yeah, you put thousands of black men in

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jail for bullshit offenses. Yeah, and you know

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what she was doing? And then you get on the fucking

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radio and joke about smoking marijuana. It's

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like, because she put a bunch of people in jail

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for marijuana usage. It's like, what are you

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talking about? She was getting kickbacks for

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them to be working. That was the whole thing.

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She was getting kickbacks for them to be doing

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jobs for fucking a dollar an hour or whatever.

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Apparently, Bill's telling me there's been a

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Biden sighting. He was getting on Air Force One.

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Really? Which one of them? Yeah. Exactly. He's

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holding a press conference Thursday. Yeah, again,

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which one of them? Oh, God. Why wait so long?

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He's holding a press conference Thursday. It's

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fucking Tuesday. You haven't been seen since

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you're announcing you're not in the White House

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and not running again. What the fuck are you

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doing? I don't know. They're going to go with

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something like, oh, he's been sick with COVID.

02:08:41.800 --> 02:08:45.000
Yeah, after the fucking 15 injections he's had,

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that COVID stops with the vaccine. Oh, okay,

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sure. Yeah, got it. It's just a complete mess.

02:08:52.060 --> 02:08:55.199
Troy said they stopped and told him. they're

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gonna tell him on wednesday and then he's gonna

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have a press conference on thursday oh my god

02:08:59.720 --> 02:09:04.079
it really does come down to like the the only

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person that there is that that that we have any

02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:10.960
hope with is is trump really i mean the only

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proven person i will say i think i have a shot

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in rfk jr too yeah i would agree with that yeah

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so again i don't want to put all my faith into

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book He's already proven himself, so that's why

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he would have my vote over RFK. But again, they

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didn't let him primary. Yeah. They didn't let

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him primary. Right, right. And then the first

02:09:30.500 --> 02:09:32.579
thing, the next day after Trump gets shot, he

02:09:32.579 --> 02:09:36.039
implores Biden to provide secret service for

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RFK. Yeah, that's something some narcissistic

02:09:39.239 --> 02:09:41.039
piece of shit would do. Sounds good. A little

02:09:41.039 --> 02:09:45.960
late to the party, huge bag. The narcissist piece

02:09:45.960 --> 02:09:48.300
of shit is the one who denied him secret service

02:09:48.300 --> 02:09:53.819
forever. Yep. That thing was just a mess that

02:09:53.819 --> 02:09:58.939
whole day. Hello, McFly. McFly, are you there?

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But for real, though, it's like, come on, motherfuckers.

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I just don't know how much longer people want

02:10:04.739 --> 02:10:08.439
to be bullshitted, lied to, and just made to

02:10:08.439 --> 02:10:11.659
look like idiots. That's what I'm coming up with.

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Half or more than half of America is dumb. Dumber

02:10:15.199 --> 02:10:18.149
than dog shit likes to be lied to. I love you,

02:10:18.189 --> 02:10:22.369
America, but Jesus Christ, help me to help you

02:10:22.369 --> 02:10:25.310
or some shit like that. There has to be a stop

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to this. There has to be. I'm not moving to Canada.

02:10:28.489 --> 02:10:30.909
I'm kicking you all the fuck out to Canada. You

02:10:30.909 --> 02:10:34.409
know what I'm saying? There's all these celebrities

02:10:34.409 --> 02:10:36.729
that keep saying, we're leaving the country of

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Trump's president. Yeah, okay, go ahead. I wish

02:10:39.449 --> 02:10:40.770
they would, but they won't. They won't leave.

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They won't do shit. They just talk. That's all

02:10:45.130 --> 02:10:48.619
they do is talk. This was a fun show. This was

02:10:48.619 --> 02:10:51.500
an amazing show. Happy birthday, Chad, the OG

02:10:51.500 --> 02:10:56.079
founding member of Live 35 today. Let's go, people.

02:10:56.500 --> 02:10:59.060
Yeah, happy birthday. Hey, thank you, everyone.

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Thank you. Thank you, Bobby. Thanks for coming

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in to wish Chad a happy birthday, picking up

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your prize for the gracious contest winner. Well,

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there's videos of it being signed and everything,

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so we'll post those to the Insta and all that

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stuff. We're getting our Facebook. page back

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audience so uh be ready for that uh but thank

02:11:20.100 --> 02:11:23.340
you again for coming on this journey thank you

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everybody thanks everyone take care