Happy Thanksgiving 2023

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Hey, everybody.
This is Mike.

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And since Chris isn't here this
week, I guess Mike is going to

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interview Mike.
It should be interesting.

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No, seriously, I just wanted to
get on here and wish everybody a

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happy Thanksgiving and say that
we are thankful that you've been

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listening and following us on
Spotify.

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If you haven't done that, click
the follow button and

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subscribing, sharing it with the
social medias and all the things

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that you guys have been doing to
help us out.

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We truly appreciate it.
This is something that I have

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wanted to do for a very long
time and never really knew how

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to do it by myself and didn't
put two and two together with

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Chris until he called me up and
wanted to do some music.

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And I traded writing him music,
which I still owe him for doing

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this podcast.
I know he joked a couple

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podcasts ago that he forced me
to do this.

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I actually asked him to do it in
all seriousness and fairness to

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him, so I I'm thankful that he
wanted to do it.

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He didn't even bat an eye.
So him and I have always worked

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well together and we have a lot
of fun and there's times where

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we would get in super deep
conversations about a subject

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that we were at odds with but
somehow never came to a

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disagreement violently.
You know, nobody ever raised

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their voice or I just really
admire somebody that I can have

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those deep conversations with.
And I guess that's the point of

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the podcast is just to be able
to have a long form discussion

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with somebody that has lived an
interesting life in whatever

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capacity.
You know, I started getting into

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long form talk radio in the 80s.
My Grammy listened to Art Bell.

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He hosted a show called Coast to
Coast AM, which became the

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largest syndicated overnight
radio show in the history of the

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world.
I believe he went well into the

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2000s and had a show on
SiriusXM, but I digress.

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Anyway, that's what I'm looking
for is just those serious

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discussions where you take a
subject and break it down to the

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root, you know?
Things that I've become obsessed

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with.
I just want to figure out how

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they work, you know?
Like when I went to my first

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concert and saw the lights and
the smoke and the costumes and

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the volume and the cool guitars,
I wanted to do that myself.

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So in order to make that happen,
you have to figure out how it

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works.
So I started picking the brains

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of all the people that were
involved in that business in

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whatever capacity.
So starting out, I've found a

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good guitar teacher and he
taught me that side of it and

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how amps and guitars and strings
and cables and everything makes,

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you know, even if it's the
slightest bit of difference.

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So you figure out that and then
you figure out how to perform

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with other people and put a band
together and practice, and then

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you have to figure out how to
book gigs.

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And that's fun all by itself
because you get told no

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constantly, no, no, no.
Especially as an original band,

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nobody really wants to give you
a chance.

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So getting your foot in the door
that way and having the

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connections and the networking
and just all that stuff was

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fascinating to me.
So just that one subject I broke

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down to its root to the point
where, you know, I was playing

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professionally and we were open
international acts and playing

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on the big stages in front of
the big crowds and it was

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amazing.
So I admire anybody that puts in

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that kind of time and those are
the kind of conversations that

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I'm looking to have.
So I guess that's the target

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audience and the point of the
podcast is just to have deep

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conversations about subjects
that either I'm interested in or

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subjects that I'm competent in,
like music.

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Being a guitar player.
I've been a recording engineer,

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I've built studios, I've run
live sound.

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So Chris has been a performing
actor on stage.

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As an actor and as a musician,
we both obviously shared the

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stage in a band capacity.
So we'll be talking on those

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subjects.
And then we actually just booked

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our first guest week before last
and well, he confirmed we

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haven't booked him.
He's waiting on us.

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I want to make sure that I have
this, you know, figured out to

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the point where we don't cause
him any inconvenience being on

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here.
I think everybody's going to

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enjoy it.
I'm super excited about it.

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This person's been in the music
business for 40 years,

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professionally, give or take.
Maybe more, maybe less.

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Somewhere right around there.
And as soon as we get a date

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ironed out, I will announce who
it is.

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It's probably not somebody
that's going to be a household

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name, but he was a behind the
scenes guy for years as a front

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of house sound engineer.
He was also a recording

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engineer.
We'll let him dissect all the

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functions he's played in the
music business, but I think

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you'll enjoy your stories.
I've really enjoyed them when I

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got to hear them for the first
time.

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So we were honored that he said
yes, and looking forward to

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doing that interview coming up
probably within the next few

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weeks, I would imagine.
And then, you know, Chris and I

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don't make a mystery out of the
fact that both of us are

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recovering addicts.
So we definitely want to offer

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people some kind of hope and let
you know some of the horror

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stories of how we got there.
And the flip side of it of you

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know, how you got out of it, how
you stay out of it, finding

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positive affirmations to let you
know you're going to make it

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through another day some days.
So it's a constant.

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It's a constant reminding
yourself that you're no longer

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there.
That's not going to help you,

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that kind of thing.
So we definitely want to unpack

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what got us there, what got us
out of it, what keeps us out of

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it, what to do if you know
somebody that's in that

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position.
That's important to me as that

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people understand that A, it's
not their fault and B, that that

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person's sick and and sometimes
there's just nothing you can do

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until they want to help
themselves.

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So we'll go down that road as
well-being as we've both been

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there.
So I don't want to end on a

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downer.
It was supposed to be a

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Thanksgiving message, right.
So anyway, happy Thanksgiving to

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everybody and once again we
thank you for your support.

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The outpouring of love for this
podcast has been amazing and

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more than I expected.
And I'm humbled and honored that

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people have been listening and
are interested in listening.

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And it's a blast for us to do.
Probably more so Chris than

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myself at the moment, just
because this is way outside my

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comfort zone.
So I'm getting there.

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Just getting on here and doing
this by myself is proof enough,

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I guess.
I've come a long way.

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So Happy Thanksgiving to
everybody.

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And we will be back a week from
today with a brand new episode

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with the both of us, and we look
forward to bringing that to you

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then.
Until then, everybody be safe,

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be kind to each other and talk
to you soon.

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Peace.