#3 - Talking Nemesis & Fire Trucks

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See what I did there Mike?
That was A It was a plug.

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You get sponsors by plugging
them A.

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Shameless.
It was a shameless plug.

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Today.
I'm today.

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I'm also the Gilbert Fire
Department's 100th year

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anniversary hacked.
Very nice.

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Very nice shout out to the
Gilbert Fire Department and

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their 100th anniversary, right?
Right.

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And my buddy Jake Slash, Todd
Smith, who was around still

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around.
He came to our many of our

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Nemesis shows back in the day.
I remember him.

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He was cool dude.
He still is a cool dude.

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Well, I only knew him for the
very short time.

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I'm glad to hear he's still a
cool dude.

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I personally would like to be
sponsored by.

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That's great.
I would personally like to be

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sponsored by Charvel Guitars.
I will give my address out.

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Just give me a shout out, I
accept all. 3 Charvels This is a

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beautiful 1989 STX custom.
This particular guitar has

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played approximately 1000 shows
on stage.

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Oh yeah, not many people have
set the guitar with the string

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broke one night and you were oh.
Yes, yes, OK.

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That's the guitar that broke a
string on stage and and you

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were.
That's a good story.

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That's a good story.
So it is a good story.

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You can't make this up.
We were in the middle of playing

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Vision.
Vision.

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OK, I love that song.
That's a good song, man.

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At the end of episode #1, I've
made myself a note to shut my

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phone off, and I did not do that
this time.

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So I apologize to all the people
out there who are diligently

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listening.
That is a good story though.

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So I had a roommate at the time
and his name was Martin Norton.

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That was really his name and he
decided that he was going to be

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my guitar tech slash bodyguard.
The only problem is he was crazy

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enough to be my bodyguard, but
he didn't know anything about

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the bodyguard.
Yes, but he didn't know anything

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about being a guitar tech.
So.

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I break a string in the middle
of the song and this is the only

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guitar I have at the time
because my other one had gotten

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stolen out of the back of my
car.

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Fucking assholes.
I worked one whole summer doing

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a paper route to buy that
guitar.

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Fucking assholes.
Yeah.

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Everybody out there driving
around, holding up, driving

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around and they see musicians,
instruments and drums and any

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type of musician material in the
vehicles.

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Leave them alone.
Starving Musicians Note starving

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for a reason.
They spend their life savings on

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their equipment to get to where
they want to be with their

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dreams.
Take them and you motherfuckers

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that break into their cars and
steal their gear are the scum of

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the earth.
You have no idea the struggles

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that musicians have to go
through when initially starting

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up to buy their own gear, right?
Amen.

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So Amen.
Back back to my story.

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I broke the string at one time.
This is way too much

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information, but it's necessary
to tell the story.

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This guitar had what you call a
floating Tremelo, so the tuning

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of the guitar was in direct
proportion to all the strings

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being on the guitar.
So when you broke a string, the

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whole guitar went out of tune.
So.

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Instantly I couldn't play.
I was fucked.

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And being on stage in front of
hundreds of people at the time,

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I panicked and went back behind
my amps and the band valiantly

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played on for probably 10
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Never, never missed a beat.
These guys were true

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professionals.
Everybody had fun.

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Chris took over, started giving
out beers.

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It was a great time, but Marty
came back and he said what can I

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do to help you man?
I said you can get the fuck away

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from me is what you can do to
help me because you don't know

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anything about what I need to do
right now.

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Normally this guitar before I
had it set up professionally by

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a friend of mine.
Shout out to thad it.

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I had the floating Tremelo, so I
ended up having a block put in

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here so that it was like every
other guitar because I only had

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the one guitar at the time and
it was probably a year before I

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got another one.
I think I played at least six or

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eight months with just one
guitar really well.

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Yeah, it was a while.
And I begged Troy to sell me

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this guitar.
This guitar right here was

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originally bought by Ray Stone.
Remember Ray Stone from The

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Juice Boys?
Oh, I do remember Ray Stone.

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Yeah.
He jammed with us at the

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Electric Ballroom in the Fender
Showcase room.

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Remember you guys got written up
about doing that song in.

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Was it The New Times that wrote
about that Roadhouse Blues?

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Yeah, they said it was the best
version they had ever heard.

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And I concur.
It was the Roadhouse Blues,

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right?
Yeah.

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Yep, Yep.
That was it.

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Yeah, I love doing Morrison,
man.

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So I had.
I had, I had the.

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I had the.
I haven't.

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I haven't.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Ray bought this guitar

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originally in 1989.
He sold it to Troy, who played

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in Common Ground that I ran
sound for.

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Troy worked with me at a place
called Color Masters when I was

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doing graphic arts.
That's where my that's where my

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Charvel Model 6 got stolen.
So I knew that Troy had bought

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this guitar from Ray and I
begged him to sell it to me and

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he sold it to me for 300 bucks.
So.

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Shout out to Troy.
I still have it, and I still.

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Love it.
It's It's always been my #1.

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Oh yeah, so.
So here's a.

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Here's a little known fact about
electric guitars.

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OK, fire away, little fire away,
Mike.

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Little known fact about electric
guitars.

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When you truly understand what
you're looking for in the

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instrument, you do not plug the
electric guitar in first.

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You play it acoustically in a
quiet environment and you're

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listening for the sustain of the
wood.

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If you hit the note and it
doesn't ring out in the wood,

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it's going to sound like shit
when you plug it in.

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It's not even worth plugging in.
This guitar is made out of swamp

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ash.
And it has a just a beautiful

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mid range tone to it that cuts
through anything beautiful right

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now.
I guess while we're on the

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subject with Nemesis, maybe we
should talk about Nemesis.

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We could talk about, I have a
question because this is our

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third one and you know I
inadvert you don't want to say

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something, check, say something
right.

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Hello.
Check.

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Test.
Hello.

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So, yeah, so, so The funny
thing.

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I'm here.
Can you hear me?

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Can you hear me?
Yeah, I can hear you.

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Can you hear me?
Yeah, I got you.

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OK, well what's weird is is my
mic.

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My mic's not using this mic,
it's using that mic, which is

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weird.
So I'm just making sure you can

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hear me because for some reason
even though this is plugged in

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to my focus right and it's
selected.

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Oh, I got you.
It's not going through your

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condenser mic right now, no.
Like on the bottom of this where

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I click mic, it shows internal
microphone built in.

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So hopefully that isn't Jack
with our sound quality at all.

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That would be a drag, you know.
So anyway, let's talk about the

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rock'n'roll bands that should
have been Hello.

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Lay it on me.
What's your fondest memory of

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Nemesis?
Moving this around, my fondest

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memory of Nemesis had to be the
the the cigarette incident on

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the electric ballroom Just.
Do you want to tell that story,

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or do you want me to?
We could both tell it.

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All right, so we were, we were,
we were preparing to go on.

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We were preparing to go on.
I forget who we were, who we

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were opening up for, but we were
preparing to go on.

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It was.
The Marshall Tucker Band, I'm

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always saying I'm nervous
Synergy.

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And those that know me, there
you go.

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Those that know me know I have
nervous synergy.

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So I was antsy.
I was pacing back and forth, you

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know, and not nervous, just
antsy.

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Just I I was never the first
time we ever played live.

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I was nervous because it was the
first time ever with a band

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live.
I don't really count Disturbed.

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We played like 2 shows and they
were open mic stuff.

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So.
But with Nemesis, because we

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were playing, you know, real
gigs, we were selling tickets,

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we were opening for national
bands or yeah, national acts,

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whatever you'll call it.
And I remember every show,

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because you smoked you, you,
you'd have your guitar and you'd

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always have a smoke stuck up in
the the keys, you know?

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Hold on.
One SEC, One SEC.

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A big smoker.
Because, you know, I wasn't.

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OK, OK.
See that you could.

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There you.
There you go.

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There you go.
Ladies and gentlemen, just so

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you know he wasn't kidding.
That's a permanent cigarette

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burn.
Yeah.

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There you go.
I don't smoke.

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You know, I never really did
because being a singer, you

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know, I always felt it would get
damaged my my instrument, right.

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But every now and then, every
now and then, just, you know,

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for the hell of it, before every
show, I would, I would, I would

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do a shot of Jaeger and drink a
beer.

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And so I had done that and I
still was kind of antsy, white,

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amped up.
So I grabbed your smoke.

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Took a drag.
Inhaled and put it back.

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We all should take it from
there.

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Yes, because what he didn't know
was that I had a guy that lived

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about, I don't know, 5-6 doors
down from me when I lived at

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Metro Village, also where Barton
Norton lived.

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For those that are following
along with the Nemesis story,

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Martin Norton and myself lived
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There was a kid.
I don't know.

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He was probably 5-6 years older
than us.

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And he lived right by the pool,
so everybody had their door open

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in the summertime and we'd all
be hanging out and drinking.

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This kid was a little weird.
He was standoffish, kind of a

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strange guy.
But I saw him sitting on his

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patio one day and he was rolling
cigarettes.

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And you know, for those who are
younger people in the audience,

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marijuana wasn't always legal.
We used to have to hide it and

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if you got caught with it, they
would actually put you in jail.

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So we didn't talk about it and
we hit it and only those that

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were in the know, we're in the
know, right?

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So I get the bright idea.
I'm like, he's rolling

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cigarettes.
I wonder if you could roll a

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cigarette into a joint.
Right.

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So this poor kid, he cleans up
his cigarette rolling machine

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and he's into it just because
we're giving him the time of

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day, right?
He was so fascinated.

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That we wanted to hang out with
him and I felt sorry for him,

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but I was happy for him at the
same time.

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So we take our weed over there,
we get it all broke up, not

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really having thought it
through.

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We were a little naive and
stupid.

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Marijuana is very sticky,
tobacco is not sticky.

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We we ruined this poor kids
rolling machine.

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So that's the only reason we
only had one joint.

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Because we couldn't get another
one through the machine, I bet

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he spent days cleaning that
thing, man.

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So then poor Chris, he sees my
cigarette like it's always there

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and he's just used to grabbing
it.

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Because this wasn't we weren't
weekend warriors.

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We were either practicing every
day or we had a gig.

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There were no days off.
So.

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Whether we were at practice or
whether we were at a gig, he was

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just used to grabbing it, taking
a drag, drinking his beer.

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That was his thing.
So being in the middle of the

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song, we had no way to tell him.
So I looked at Scott and he

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looked at me and we just both
started laughing.

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And Needless to say, I think
Chris had one of the probably

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better times he had on stage
that night.

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It was one of those things where
there's a couple couple more

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songs in the set.
It's like, well, I feel really

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good, absolutely better than I
normally feel like.

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What's going?
On here, man.

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Yeah, so tell the general public
who is not experienced, tell

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tell everybody that is not
experienced with the great

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blessing to the earth that is
the THC in the marijuana, that

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all it does is make you feel
better, right?

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Correct.
That's that's all it did.

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It just it it it it took the
anxiety I had down for sure and

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just you know we knew we knew
all our stuff forwards and

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backwards.
So it wasn't you know, I I I

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pride myself on never having
forgotten lyrics or or fucked up

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the song, you know, from a from
a musical standpoint.

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I mean practice we did, you
know, when we were building

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songs but live never messed
anything up.

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You know, I'm sure there was
times I was out at you, but

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that's just being live.
But with with that night, it

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just remembered by two or three
songs later, man, it was just, I

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was just I was just kind of like
in so in I could hear and feel

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everything musically.
It was kind of a trip to where

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you just.
It's one of those weird moments

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where you're just In Sync with
everything, like everything you

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guys were doing and I was doing.
It was just, I mean, it wasn't

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until like a week or so later,
but I realized what I did.

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But and swimming up, she'll be
in a blast, you know?

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And then just jamming and having
fun, which is what it was always

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about to me.
Just jamming, have fun.

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Whatever happens, happens.
Just, you know, own the space

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and time you're in and make the
most of it.

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Put smiles on people's faces
down.

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Well, I I think you hit the nail
on the head.

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I think you hit the nail on the
head when you said.

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That there were times that you
were out of key.

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There were times that Scott
speed up and slowed down.

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There were times that I hit the
wrong note.

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The one thing that we always,
the one thing that we always

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reinforced all the time to each
other is everybody's going to

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make mistakes.
For the love of Christ, don't

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stop.
Correct.

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Right.
Yeah.

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Because if you stop, it's a
train wreck.

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Just just, yeah.
Because The thing is, the

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audience doesn't right.
And the audience doesn't know

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you made the mistake.
Unless they followed us from day

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one and know everyone of our
songs forwards, backwards, and

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even then sometimes some of
those stands that we had, you

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know, knowing that we may have
done something a little awkward.

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I don't think it was ever really
caught by them because like you

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said, we just kept playing.
We just played through it.

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And that's the the true
tightness of a band is, is, is

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you just never stop like that
Mellencamp show we talked about.

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I think the first episode when
he was from he was drumming and

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his snare, his snare, he he
popped his snare.

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We heard he popped the snare
because you and I both looked at

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him and as soon as we looked at
him the the drum tech guy

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grabbed.
I just snare, snare his, his

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hand came up.
By the time I went back down and

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hit that snare, that new snare
top was on that set.

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He didn't miss a beat.
It was insane probably.

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That was at cricket.
So there's probably, what,

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20,000 people there?
So I'm going to guess maybe 1000

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people saw that if that if that
because it was just that

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flawless of a of a transition
from and boom you know you

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needed that guy insured guitar
deck.

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I did, absolutely.
That would have been great to

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have that night.
Because just having it don't,

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you know, I I actually got to go
back.

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There's no way I waited a year
to buy another guitar that that

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that story just came out of a
fantasy land, because what that

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night taught me.
Was that I could never play

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another gig without another
guitar again.

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And if you remember, that's when
I borrowed my cousin's Paul Reed

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Smith.
He had that beautiful Red Paul

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Reed Smith.
It was gorgeous, yeah.

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So I use that and then the I use
that and then the guitar that I

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have now.
But I always, dude, I always.

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Now, well, the Paul Reed Smith
got stolen, so that's probably a

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story for another day about
scumbags.

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If you remember that guitar got
stolen out of my apartment off

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the air, I'll tell you who I
think it was.

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But I don't want to publicly
shame someone because they were

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never convicted.
But I have my suspicions as to

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who it was, OK.
Fair enough.

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And you were you were going down
the path about something about

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the band?
No, I just what I think the

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difference between a band that
can power through mistakes to

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where nobody else notices.
And you're right, we used to ask

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people all the time that
followed us from day one or

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happened to be engaged to or
married to the one of the people

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in the band.
What did you think?

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Did you hear, you know, a
mistake here or there and. 99

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out of 100 times they'd say no,
it sounded great or it sounded

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better than the last time.
We only knew that.

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And we were conscious of not
paying attention to the fact

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that we played these songs
thousands and thousands of times

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at practice, at gigs.
We played them till we were sick

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of them, and then we played them
about 1000 more times.

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And then we were ready.
Like Chris said, we played them

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from our subconscious.
We would do things that thank

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God we had.
Recording ability Back then,

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because we'd watch those tapes
that you recorded and Scott and

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I and yourself, we would all
hear things that we didn't even

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know we did that night, right?
So actually the songs would

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evolve and grow as we played
them more because we never

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limited ourselves to.
They have to be a certain way.

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Nope.
And playing live.

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Every time you play live,
regardless of the band,

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everybody, every musician knows
it's faster.

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You just unintentionally your
music's faster alive.

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That was the one thing I heard
about Charlie Watts.

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Rolling Stones drummer.
Like he kept all those

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motherfuckers in check.
Like he never speed up.

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He never slowed down.
He was, he was like a human

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metronome.
They called him because his his

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drumming was on point.
Regardless if it was in front of

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five people or 500,000, he
wouldn't waver at all.

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He was like the metronome
drummer of all time.

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He's dead, right?
I think he's dead.

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Yes, poor Charlie just died
recently and I saw him in an

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interview and the one thing that
I took away from that interview

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that I always remember is he was
asked why he never showed his

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ability.
Because Charlie was a bad ass

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drummer.
That guy could play anything.

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And the interviewer said, you
know, why don't you showcase

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that more often?
And Charlie said, I play what

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Mick and Keith asked me to play.
I play what the song requires,

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and I'm proud to do that.
He knew what he signed up for.

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It's the whole thing that we
talked about with songwriting

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within our own band.
It's all about the song, man.

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It's not about me.
It's what can I do to make this

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song that much better at this
moment in time?

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Correct.
Right, Exactly.

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That was the one cool thing that
we talked, I don't know, we

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talked about this, but that's
the one cool thing about you and

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I's relationship.
I could give you, I could give

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you a lyric, I give you a which
I wrote them out as there's

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always rooting in in a in a four
verse, four line verse, you know

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chorus type ballad from a poetry
standpoint.

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Because that was my background
in writing was poetry.

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So I could give you something
that typically would have you

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know two or three verses and a
pre course and a chorus and two

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or three verses and a you know,
a bridge in there and then a you

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know, wrap it up course and you
could take that.

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And the next time we played
together we'd have music that

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emulated what what I was
thinking of emotionally and the

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feeling of the song.
You just you made it work which

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is cool and the only and I'm not
comparing us to INXS at all.

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But the only time I've ever come
across anybody that had that

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kind of uncanny ability that you
and I have with Michael

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Hutchinson and and the musicians
in in XS because I saw I saw

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Doctor Miner on them.
They would give him music and he

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would leave the room and go
through his notebooks like I

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used to go through and boom, oh,
here it is blah blah blah

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melody.
Here you go.

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Here's your melody here's your
song What the fuck.

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But that was just he had that
connection and I just for

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whatever reason you know I
always had that connection

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that's and it's it's I never had
that with any other guitar

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player I've ever played like
ever.

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I've had to explain.
I've had to, you know, I don't

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know you and I just have that
thing.

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It was easy, man.
It was super easy version of

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yeah, yeah.
It just always flowed naturally,

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you know, but but we made it
work that way because we, you

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know, we don't have, neither one
of us have an aggressive

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personality when it came to.
Really anything.

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You know, it was having a good
time and it wasn't, it wasn't a

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competition, you know, I wanted
to do justice to your lyrics.

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And it was just fortunate that
you like the music that I wrote,

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you know?
The thing that I've missed in my

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life is having Scott behind the
drums because that was equally

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as easy to get a song written
because.

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I can sit here and come up with
riffs for days, you know that.

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I'll just come up with one after
another, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

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But what?
His Forte?

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And there's never been anybody
I've sat in a room with before

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or since that could piece
something together that he heard

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for two seconds?
2 minutes?

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Two days ago?
Two weeks ago.

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He just had a his brain being a
drummer, it was super easy for

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him to take pieces and put them
together like a puzzle, You

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know, he would say you played
this thing the other day.

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Now you're doing this.
If you come up with just a

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couple chords here, now we got a
bridge and we can tie those two

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things together.
It would take 5 minutes sitting

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here at my computer trying to do
that on Garage Band.

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Holy crap man.
It takes me days because I'm not

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a drummer, right?
Well, there's a big difference

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of.
Yeah, and there's.

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And there's a big difference of
of of making music in the same

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room than it is, you know, over
the Internet.

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Like a lot of the bands that put
music out during COVID, right.

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And they would be recording
their part like Guns and Roses

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the last time before they broke
up.

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Originally, nothing was recorded
in the same spot.

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Like actually this shit and send
it to slash, even Van Halen.

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The last record was Sammy from a
documentary I watched.

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Sandler would go in and lay the
the vocals down after they were

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done laying the music down.
Like to me that would have

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sucked.
I was like fuck you.

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I'm not going in there by
myself.

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It's not happening.
It's because to me you got to

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have that that camaraderie and
that rapport with with your

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brothers and your you know
because music's music and you

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need everybody there in order to
you know do the thing.

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So it's just it's just I I don't
know how people can do it

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without being in the same room
like we're we're we're you and I

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are going to work on some stuff
It's going to be interesting to

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see how we how we pull it off.
If we pull it off being because

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we fed so much off each other
energy you know that that it's

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just it'll be interesting.
If I'm dinging, that's because

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my my son is chiming in from
Okinawa.

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He can chime in all he wants.
He's defending our freedom.

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Thank you very much for your
service.

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Exactly.
Yes, he's sending a messenger,

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but yes.
Tell him hi from the podcast and

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thank him for our service.
For our service.

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For his service.
Jesus, Absolutely.

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His service services the
service.

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Our services, We're sitting our
asses in this chair trying to

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00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,160
provide some entertainment for
the fine folks out there, right?

454
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:08,600
Right in this 92 fucking degree
day in Arizona on November 7th,

455
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,960
2020.
Three.

456
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,200
So Chris was on the West Coast.
And he's enjoying 93 degrees.

457
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,960
And it was a it was a pleasant
63 degrees here in Pontiac, IL

458
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:27,160
today.
Beautiful, beautiful.

459
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,280
Yeah, it's all good, man.
It's all good.

460
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,440
That's why I moved back here 68
degrees.

461
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,600
You can brag when I'm freezing
my nuts off.

462
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,680
Has a winter, right?
That's good.

463
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,360
Just going to say, how's the
winter?

464
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,720
You know, right.
What do you start and I haven't

465
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,560
been in Illinois, I mean I'm
from, I'm from Illinois too, so

466
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:50,840
the listeners understand that
but.

467
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,520
Yes, all the cool people come
from Illinois 50 years.

468
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,600
All right, this is true cheap
trick.

469
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,880
Adam Jones from Tool and us.
Tom Morello from Raised Against

470
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,080
the Machine, Billy Corgan from
Actually the whole Smashing

471
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,120
Pumpkins.
I believe they started in

472
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,400
Chicago.
Really Disturbed is from

473
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:22,680
Chicago.
REO Speedwagon is from

474
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,720
Champagne.
I knew that.

475
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:34,720
There's got to be more, yeah.
There's more.

476
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,880
I just can't remember.
Those are some pretty those are

477
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,760
some pretty big bands.
Yeah, I'm sure there is.

478
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,160
Yeah, absolutely.
I could Google it, but you know,

479
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,520
so, so people, so we should
probably plug this down.

480
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,160
So it's a crystal mic show.
We're on.

481
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,280
Where are we on?
We're on Spotify, we're on

482
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,680
Apple.
Where else?

483
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,280
Yes.
OK.

484
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:03,120
So we are on Spotify, we are on
Apple Music, we are on Google

485
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:10,680
Podcast, we are on Amazon Music,
and we are on iHeartRadio.

486
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,240
I have confirmed Spotify.
I have confirmed Apple.

487
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,760
I have confirmed iHeartRadio.
I have not confirmed Amazon

488
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:29,440
Music or Google.
I will do that soon.

489
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,320
OK.
I need to.

490
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,920
Reach out to SO yes, Gavin and
find out where he's at with our

491
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,800
logo.
We definitely appreciate the

492
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,160
people who have been listening
and if you can share it or get

493
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,120
people to share it on your
social media.

494
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,320
We should currently be working
on a Facebook page and an

495
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,600
Instagram page and all that
stuff will be coming soon and

496
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,680
when we get it, we'll let you
know we're going to have a logo.

497
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,520
We need the logo to put on those
pages.

498
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,680
So that's why they haven't been
made yet.

499
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,000
I've had, I've been questioned
about a couple things.

500
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,960
That's one of them.
Yeah, I just.

501
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,720
I just text Gavin right now.
Like, dude, where's the logo?

502
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,400
Where's the.
Logo.

503
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,840
He's on the ball, man, so
sometimes.

504
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,680
We do appreciate the people who
have listened and subscribed,

505
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,440
Absolutely.
Oh, I see.

506
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,480
I haven't looked at anything now
but yet, 'cause I'm that guy

507
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:31,840
that just I don't.
I don't.

508
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,800
I don't want to know how many
followers we have.

509
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,000
I don't want to know how many
subscribers we have.

510
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,040
I just want to do our thing.
So I'm going to let you do that,

511
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:50,880
but I kind of got to have to be
that guy because I would like to

512
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,920
monetize this at some point,
right?

513
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,160
Oh yeah, absolutely.
I have to know how many hits we

514
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,120
have so I can contact those
people, right?

515
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,040
Yeah.
Yeah.

516
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Like we maybe we can get Gilbert
Fire Department to sponsor us.

517
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,040
You know, bring a fire truck to
my house during the show.

518
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,360
Park it out front.
Turn on the sounds.

519
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,080
You know if I had a little fire
truck, I'd.

520
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,640
I'd show it to you.
But it's in the other room.

521
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,120
You don't have any fire trucks,
really.

522
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,880
Like you have a little man on
the wall with a fire truck.

523
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:31,240
Though I can I can make a weird
little dash say that he's.

524
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,120
Going to show us a picture of
his grandson.

525
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,320
On the fire truck.
His grandson loves fire trucks,

526
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,920
by the way.
Has a lot of grandsons do.

527
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,080
I'm sure my little nephew likes
fire trucks too.

528
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,840
This could be another.
We were talking fire trucks

529
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,000
while they were gone.
By the way, shameless sponsor

530
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,760
plug.
Oh, right on.

531
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,440
Yeah.
See, there's little man at the

532
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,160
Gilbert fire station number one
with.

533
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,200
He's got his little ladder fire
truck right there.

534
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,440
And then the real life fire
truck right there.

535
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,920
My buddy Todd gave me this.
So this is mixed tiles.

536
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,080
Mixed tiles.
You want to put your memories on

537
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,159
the wall?
Little magnet stickers, boom on

538
00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:16,040
the wall.
So.

539
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,280
Mixed tiles.
So let me tell you, let me tell

540
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,480
you there's your sponsor, Mike.
If you ever find yourself

541
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,800
driving down Interstate 55 past
Hudson, IL.

542
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:30,520
Find my brother because he's a
volunteer fireman there and

543
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,320
he'll give Little Man a ride on
the fire truck, I'm sure.

544
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,440
But I don't.
I don't know what I've been

545
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,440
doing in Illinois with Little
Man because he's not mine.

546
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,199
He's my grandson.
Yes, he is your grandson, but if

547
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,400
you ever find yourself.
If I do, If I do.

548
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,440
You know where to find a place
for him to get in a fire truck?

549
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,520
Yeah, yeah, 'cause he gets that
here with Todd.

550
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,600
Like, I think he's been to the
station three Times Now.

551
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,360
His, his, his first one was
really cool.

552
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,760
I should have brought it off the
wall too, because the the size

553
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,160
of him, the picture I took, he's
flying.

554
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:10,680
He's doing this little flying
thing he's doing.

555
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,440
He was not funny like this, but
he's flying.

556
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,480
So he's flying like this with
the big fire truck next to him.

557
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,840
And it's just he captures the
moment, 'cause that was the

558
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:26,080
first time he went to the fire
station and his eyes just kind

559
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,640
of got a buddy, Ian Campbell,
who's a trucker from the truck

560
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,200
driving company.
So I took him over to Ian's

561
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,160
house one day because Ian was
working on the brakes in his, in

562
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,880
his, in his, in his semi.
But he took the whole thing so

563
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,640
she, she, not this tractor
trailer took up like in front of

564
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,480
his house and his neighbors on
both sides.

565
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,520
And little man is a cul-de-sac.
So he got out of, out of my

566
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:50,600
truck, put him on the ground.
He was just like this thing was

567
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,520
massive to him, right?
Because he was only, you know,

568
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,680
as high as my knee.
And here's this monster.

569
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,920
And so Ian was cool, man.
He let him in the cab.

570
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:00,960
He let him message the
headphones and push all the

571
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,800
buttons and shit.
We got him.

572
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,160
That's awesome.
Get him in the back.

573
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,040
You know the cargo.
And he was running up and down

574
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,960
that the ramp.
Super nice guy they have, They

575
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,800
have the annual Ugly Sweater
Christmas party we go to every

576
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:12,960
year, which is coming up next
month.

577
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,240
So that should be fun.
Super nice family.

578
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:20,120
Met them, the booster guy for
football when Jake was in high

579
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,120
school.
But yeah, it's nice to have

580
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,400
those kind of friends that that
have things that the little ones

581
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,000
get into.
Well, it's.

582
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,840
Crazy because this was a cool
day.

583
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,280
Because he was.
He's old enough.

584
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,520
All of a sudden, my brother just
decided he wanted to be a

585
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,200
volunteer fireman.
So we got one in our family now,

586
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:43,200
too.
That's awesome.

587
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,640
And it is.
It is.

588
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,800
Yeah, for the other brother,
Matt.

589
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,080
OK.
Yep.

590
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,280
I just got one brother, and then
I have a sister.

591
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,200
I don't think you can be a
volunteer firefighter.

592
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,120
Oh, yeah, OK.
I don't think you can be a

593
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,600
volunteer firefighter in
Arizona.

594
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,960
At least down in the Valley.
I think he got to be legit.

595
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,160
Well, he lives in a pretty small
town, you know.

596
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Yeah, yeah.
Does he have a little fire bell

597
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,960
in his house?
So when the fire goes off, he

598
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,400
rings to go right on.
No shit.

599
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,640
I'm I'm sure that's how it
works.

600
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,320
I have no idea I.
I see the pictures that he posts

601
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,400
on Facebook and he told me that
he became a volunteer fireman.

602
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,320
And past that, I really don't
know how it works.

603
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,840
I'm sure they got to have
something to where they can get

604
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,440
a hold of him because they're on
call 24/7.

605
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:33,440
You know, maybe we'll have to
have him on the podcast and

606
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:39,480
we'll talk about fire stuff.
He can tell us about the trucks,

607
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:43,640
what it took to be a fireman.
I don't know anything about

608
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,560
being a firefighter.
So there you go.

609
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,760
We could learn about that.
You have to.

610
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:54,960
Yep, you have to go to school.
Think you have to go to school

611
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,360
at some point in time, or you
have to be in the military to

612
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,360
learn all the firefighting
things.

613
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,640
The one thing that I will share
with you that that that you're

614
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,360
not going to miss is the Arizona
crud.

615
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:10,920
Remember the Arizona crud.
You.

616
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,600
Know I do.
I had it many times, yes.

617
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:19,480
And yeah, that's what's going on
right now.

618
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,000
That's what's going on right
now.

619
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,320
So if you think I'm doing this a
lot, that's because I'm doing

620
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,880
this a lot because the Earth
just some people don't

621
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:32,720
misconstrue my my stifling.
For something, yes.

622
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,120
He's definitely not a cocaine
addict.

623
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:41,520
So no, no drug.
Free right here.

624
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,680
So what else should we chat
about in this episode #3 of the

625
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:56,880
Crystal Light Show podcast as we
are fastly approaching 40

626
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,560
minutes on the time and you'll
be happy to know I haven't had

627
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,480
to pee, so that's good.
You know, normally I have to go

628
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,120
to the bathroom by now, but not
right now.

629
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,720
Not today.
Not today.

630
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,400
We have ways of making that
happen.

631
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:16,240
So nobody knows, you know, You
know, I do.

632
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,480
I don't really know.
Oh, because you could pause it.

633
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,120
That's right.
But you could pause the thing

634
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:21,840
and I would disappear and come
back.

635
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,360
But I'm good.
I'm good.

636
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,200
Though Or I can just talk to get
a bottle like little man.

637
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:30,160
I can just talk to general
public while you're gone, you

638
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,160
know, right?
I could tell them some stories.

639
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:36,080
Yeah, so, so.
True story.

640
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:41,240
Yeah, true story.
I don't know, about a month ago,

641
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,000
maybe a month and a half.
I take little man to school

642
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,280
every day.
So we get up, they bring them

643
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,120
over, they hang out.
I take them to school through my

644
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,600
truck.
He looks at me like scared to

645
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,280
death, pop up.
I got to pee, you know, reaches

646
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,360
down and grabs hold.
I'm like shit because I have

647
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,240
nothing.
And at home it's like, dude go

648
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:06,640
out and pee in the grass.
So luckily I had a water bottle.

649
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,480
So take the lid off the water
bottle, dump the water out.

650
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,320
There you go, little man.
Pull the shorts down.

651
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,200
Take his dangling in the in the
water bottle.

652
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,640
He proceeds to fill about 1/4 of
that water bottle up.

653
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,600
He's looking at me like, what
the hell are you doing

654
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,840
scribbling back on?
Pull his pants back up, open my

655
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:29,240
door, dump it out, and he's just
just like, whoa, what did you

656
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,960
just do?
Needless to say, he hasn't had

657
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,840
to go to the bathroom ever again
in my truck while waiting to go

658
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,360
to school.
I would say that would probably

659
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,360
have solved it for me.
Yep.

660
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:44,840
So I'm like, hey, well man, you
got pee?

661
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:45,760
No.
OK.

662
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,080
If he does backyard, go pee in
the grass.

663
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,640
Let's go Every now and then
he'll pee in the front yard,

664
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,680
which is kind of funny.
But birds, I'm seeding and the

665
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,840
birds are in my yard.
Away birds.

666
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,360
It's winter grass time in
Arizona.

667
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,200
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Anything else you want to talk

668
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:17,640
about?
I don't think we had any

669
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:21,480
anything else, I don't think.
I don't think I had anything

670
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,920
else.
We will cover the We'll cover

671
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,160
the Nemesis subject from time to
time.

672
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,600
Like to thank everybody for
listening and share it with your

673
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:36,760
friends.
Yes.

674
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,680
And remember, little man and his
fire truck, everybody should

675
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,320
smile on that note.
Exactly.

676
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,480
We'll leave everybody with a
smile.

677
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,400
They should, they should here
leave everybody with a smile.

678
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,560
The fact that he he, he, he had
the the sense to bring his

679
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,000
ladder truck with him and he was
playing with his ladder truck

680
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000
while a ladder truck in the
background was being washed.

681
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,480
That picture is he didn't hang
out right at the.

682
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,720
That picture is amazing, man.
I love it.

683
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,640
Yeah, I was portrait with my
with my iPhone, my Apple iPhone

684
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,040
I-15 Pro.
You should like, submit that to

685
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:21,560
some kind of contest or
something, Yeah, yeah, it's the

686
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,480
portrait mode, man.
Portrait mode on the phones are

687
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:24,960
so unbelievably.
Cool.

688
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,000
Yeah, that's awesome.
But yeah, it's just and I just

689
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,520
take him in the.
I just take him in the mall.

690
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,840
Nikki was with me that day, so I
didn't have to be latched to

691
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,960
him, you know?
But he we popped him up there

692
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,120
because it was hot.
And he had his fire truck and he

693
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,800
was talking about his fire truck
and fire truck behind him.

694
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,280
But yeah, and you can't really
tell when he's got a he's got a

695
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,400
really cute little grin on his
face because because you know,

696
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:54,000
best day ever when you're 3
years old, you get to go to a

697
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,120
fire station.
Damn right.

698
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:58,000
Don't get anybody from Mike
Michaels.

699
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,600
I'm Chris Dunham.
I would like to give a shout out

700
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,040
to Chris Dunham until next time.
He's Chris Dunham.

701
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,640
I'd like to give a shout out to
Rhonda and Sunshine and Hannah

702
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:14,040
and my mom and my dad and my
sister and my brother-in-law.

703
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,880
Those are like our first 10
listeners or so.

704
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,840
So thank you very much for being
patient with us and we'll keep

705
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,160
getting better.
We're going to learn how to do

706
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:29,040
music and video and.
Going to get amazing bear with

707
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,080
us.
What's your shout out?

708
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,040
I can do music right now.
Oh, he's going to do music right

709
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:41,480
now.
It's over 4 and 20.

710
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,120
That's my shout out.
There's our shout out.

711
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:51,920
We have to get off here in 13
seconds, right, 10-9, please.

712
00:43:53,200 --> 00:44:00,240
Goodbye, ladies and gentlemen.
Right on dude.

713
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,280
That's good.
I It's weird my mind.