 Alright, thanks for tuning in to another episode of Let There Be Talk. It will be a solo episode today. And there's going to be video. Video. People are like, how come you don't have video, man? You're going to go, you know, it's like, I'm a one-man show. I've said it a million times. Hey, it's impossible to do video, but I figured out a way to do it on Zoom here. And if I'm doing a solo episode or episodes with people far away, I can kind of pull it off. So I will do a little video here, but I don't think it matters. It's, you know, I like the episode better. I saw two faces. I saw two faces the whole time, man. My ADD drew me in to like, are those books in the background real? Are those, is that his house? Is that his TV? Whatever, man. I'm just trying to keep the show fresh, keep it flowing. And yeah, I'll do some video here and there and see what happens. It's tough podcasting, man. You know, you're out there. And you're doing it for 11 years and you hope that people still dig what you're doing. And so I'm glad you guys are still tuning in. After all these years, 11 years on 11 years on the mic. Yeah. But here I am. Gertie's here. She's on the side of me here. Got to be making a little noises from now. Now and then Gertie sounds. Gertie makes it weird as a sound. So just be sleeping. It should just be. Anyway, I'm glad you're here. It's Monday and I just got back from New York City. And the most of you know, I canceled a lot of my shows. I hadn't been on stage in about five weeks, but I did not want to cancel the show with Joe ideas because two things. I didn't want to let him down. And I knew he would understand if I canceled it, but I felt that it would be good to go see Joey, Joey Diaz and some New York friends and just walk around the city by myself and just air out my, my brain. You know, just air it out. Just get out there and walk around and take it all in. I love New York City. I love Los Angeles. I love them both. People are always like, yeah, you're fucking there. You're fucking LA. Actually, LA people never shit on New York. It's New York people that shit on LA still to this day. It's hilarious. But anyway, I love them both. And I would love to live in both just every six weeks. Just go back and forth. One day that will happen. But yeah, I flew out, got on stage. I'm not going to lie. It was pretty brutal. The first couple of nights that just had this, this gnarly anxiety. And I, I don't know what it was about. I mean, I didn't, I didn't go on all during COVID and then, you know, I started doing dates, maybe mid COVID out there. Did the Texas run with Bill and then started doing parks and all that. But that was different. Everybody had been off for a long time, all the comedians. But this was me dealing with some heavy emotions and being thrown right into the game at the stand with just absolute killers. And, you know, I was on shows with like Joe list and Ari Shafir, big J Mark Norman. These are killers. And if you haven't gone on in five weeks, you're just kind of like, oh God, I got to get it together. But after I would say two days, I started, I started rocking and rolling and just feeling pretty good. It felt good to get back on stage and, you know, and just do what I love. And I know that's what my mom would have wanted. She'd be like, like I said before, no sick days. You get out there. Um, dusted off to set. It was great, man. A surprise visit from one of my oldest and best friends, Jacob Dylan, not oldest in age, but one of my longest, uh, incredible friendships with that man. And I tell you, whenever I see that guy, it is just unreal how, um, how happy he makes me feel. It's just like our bond is years and years of, of, uh, friendship and love of, we just love all the same stuff. Music, art, comedy, films, leather jackets. Whenever we hook up, we sit down and immediately we're going to talk about comedy. We're going to talk about music. And then the explosion of a leather jacket talk will happen. And, uh, I love Jacob because he, you see somebody who's a lunatic like yourself and you go, I could talk to somebody about leather jackets or any kind of jacket. It's a jacket thing. I don't know what the hell it is. Like I grew up in LA and San Francisco and California. You only wear a jacket a little bit here and there, even in San Francisco. It's always like 68 degrees. You kind of get acclimated to that. And then you're just like, I don't need a jacket, you know, but, uh, I love jackets and I love talking rock and roll with him. And speaking of jackets, I went to standard and strange again. Everybody always asks me, where do you get all your clothes? And, um, it's pretty much a one stop shop. I go to standard and strange. They're in Oakland. They're in, uh, New Mexico. Uh, and, um, now New York. So I immediately go there and, uh, oh God, it was just great to go in there. They got the best jackets. They got the best, uh, denim, the best boots and the people that work there are just fantastic. I was in there for two hours. I was texting Jacob different, uh, jacket photos like, look at this one, dude. And he's like, yeah, that one, you, that'll probably be good on the couch. Staying home. Where, uh, where the fucking big old furry jacket or something. Anyway, if you're in New York or Oakland, the Bay Area, go to standard and strange and get yourself, uh, you know, fitted as the kids would say, man, that's a tight fit. Check out his fit. You got to keep up with these, uh, you got to keep up with these fucking words. I mean, when I was growing up, I used all kinds of words I've said it before, you know, ropes, man, that's ropes, meaning no good and, uh, Buddha. For some reason, Buddha was good or bad. Sometimes my mom would say it. She go, oh, Buddha. Oh my God. But, uh, that's when you, that's when you're kind of got to figure out, are you going to stay, you know, young in your mind and say these newer terms? Yeah, man. Sweet fit. And, uh, and then, you know, somebody goes like that. Oh God, talking fit and mid instead of medium. That's a flatch. I hit him up. I go, yeah, I like this. These guys are medium good. And he's all, you mean mid, like the kids say, I don't have kids. So I don't hear the, uh, terms, but I do hear them when I'm out doing comedy. People will come up and sweet fit fit, man. But, uh, anyway, I do love cause I do love cause I'm fucking rocking the Rolling Stones made worn shirt today. And, uh, I've come to the conclusion I'm going to sell all my vintage concert shirts and, uh, and just wear made worn because it fits me better. And I don't, the fit and the fit, it fits me better. And I don't have to, um, you know, worry about it getting trashed, but you know, some of these fucking shirts I got, they're worth the fortune now. You just don't want to wear them. You know, you don't want to get that aluminum fucking deodorant. I saw a guy a couple of days ago. He raised his arms up and he just had the, just the white deodorant circle. Oh man. That just destroys vintage concert T shirts. Just deodorant. Just eats it up at all of my old shirts, not now, but I had a run of 90 shirts that were just destroyed from deodorant. You just have no idea. You're like, what's going on here? You're throwing in the wash machine. I washed it. It's not coming up. But then you throw it in the dryer and the deodorant just gets rock hard in the armpit. You ever had that just fucking shitty deodorant circle? I saw a guy who's just had his arms up and it was just ruined shirt. Uh, I use the, uh, organic deodorant now, which absolutely doesn't work, but I don't know why I, why I use it, but it has no aluminum in it. It won't fuck up your shirts, but I put it on and it works for about an hour or so. Actually, it works pretty good. Uh, the first few I use did not work, but the one I use now works pretty damn good. But when I was younger, I don't know if I told this story, but I was trying to figure out how not to, uh, fuck up my shirts with the deodorant. You know, I got all these vintage shirts. So I bought, um, the deodorant crystal. Don't fucking do this. If anybody's ever seen it, they sell it at like Whole Foods or, or natural stores. It's our, basically a crystal, a rock and a rollup type of thing. And you roll the crystal on and it stops you from sweating. And yeah, it stops you from sweating and it just puts the crystals in your armpit. And I did tell the story. I remember I tried to do it as a bit, you know, and after a while you can't lower your arms because it hurts so bad. It's burning. The crystals are in the pores and they lock in there permanently like a fucking, uh, one of those talon bullets just shit comes out. It's locked inside your armpit. And next thing you know, I'm on stage. I'm just kind of like this, like, oh fuck armpit ropes, ropes. Anyway, so, uh, if you don't use the fucking crystal, it is just a goddamn scam. I don't know who thought, you know, hey, just rub this rock on, you'll be good. Everybody has to be getting, cause I went to the doctor and he goes, Oh, crystal. Yeah. Doctor on my doctor. Oh yeah. Crystal. Don't use that. Don't use that ever again. Unbelievable. Anyway, so out in New York city. And I want to thank anybody that came out to the shows. I'm still baffled. I will always be baffled till the day I die. When people go, Oh man, I didn't know you were coming to New York city. It'll just, I've learned not to get angry at it anymore. It just blows my mind that nobody uses a website or, you know, they randomly happen to see my post after I've come home. I don't know how that happens. I think that people just, and I've said it before, they just, they don't go or they just, and they don't want to look like a dick. So they're like, I didn't know. I'm sorry. I didn't know. It's like, wait a minute. Yeah, you did because you liked the photo right before the flyer photo and you liked the photo right after. So you're just saying, I didn't know. Anyway, so I was out there at the stand and I did 10 shows. Shout out to the stand and Patrick and everybody there. It was great to see everyone. And first day I got there fucking rain for 12 hours, which was gnarly. And then the rest of the time it was pretty, pretty good, man. It was right around 40 degrees, which is fine with me walking about eight to 10 miles a day around the city, just getting in the energy. And it's nice to see the city bounce back. I went during COVID. I said it before during COVID. It was fucking day of the dead zombies. It was crazy how fast New York slipped into us, slipped back into the 80s in a matter of like two months. It went from like Disneyland, Times Square, all beautiful and shit to like just unbelievable crack and a fentanyl and meth zombies. And oh man, so it's back, felt good. And the main reason I went out was to do the show with Joey Diaz at the Sony Hall, which was just a great room right there on Broadway. Joey Diaz did a residency at Sony Hall, five shows. And he asked me to do the last one. It was Lisa at me and Joey Diaz. Oh, there was another person on the show. And I can't fucking remember because I was just, you know, I'm just old, but I brought Joey up. I went on, did 15 minutes and then brought him up. And it was great to see him do stand up. And it was great to see him just in general. I hadn't seen him for about eight months since Burr and I did the PNC center in Jersey. I believe that was over the summer, that big outdoor concert venue in Jersey. Joey came down and did some time on that, but he hadn't been really doing a lot of comedy. So it was so great to see him back up. I get it. He's probably in that comedy, that era of his comedy career where I was with music. You know, after you do something, I did music. I did music 25 years. I played music 25 years. I don't know if you guys know this, but I did music anyway. So I get it, you know, take a take time off and figure out if you still love the art of doing stand up or music or anything, anything you've ever done. Ask yourself if you still like it after five years. I am very lucky that I found comedy at 44 years old and have something that just gets me excited to get out of the house every day. I think that's the key to living a great life is always challenging yourself and finding something that's going to get you out of a rut or that monotonous feeling of like, I don't want to do this. So it was great to see Joey up to killing, man. Just killing. He doesn't go on every night and he's just up there, did an hour. Audience was amazing. That church crowd, that old school church crowd, man. I would love to have an audience like Joey's where, you know, it's just dedicated. They're there like a soldier, as Joey would say. I have a great group of you out there that I am just thankful for. And like I always said, if you can just get 1000 true fans, you will, you will be there. Speaking of that, I want to give a shout out to the new Patreoners and patreon.com slash Dean del Rey. I'm going to start doing the bonus episodes again this week and some of the zooms. So join up for $5. You can get the bonus episodes and you can get the live zooms with me and some of the other patrons. It's fun, man. I feel ready. I feel I can do it. And I'm just kind of getting back into the mode. So new patron or Scott Redman. Thank you, buddy. Jeremy. Thank you. ZD. That's his name. ZD Gertie. And Bobby snakes upgraded his, uh, his, uh, Patreon subscription. So thank you so much. And like I said, thanks for hanging in. I just, I really couldn't fuck with the Patreon for a while. I was just, uh, I couldn't do anything. I couldn't do comedy. Uh, I couldn't do this. The podcast, I was just absolutely, um, just, uh, you know, I'm still working through it, but I'm getting there and a shout out to my mom. Uh, every episode, shout out to your mom. I love you. And, uh, I saw something funny that really reminded me of my mom. That it's, uh, somebody told me once your mom or your, your, somebody passes your dad or whatever, that there'd be constant reminders of them to keep you smiling and, and, uh, and remember them. And it's been happening like non-stop stuff, uh, you know, stuff my mom would dig or whatever. But I follow this guy on Instagram and I'm going to give you his Instagram. It's C H R I S. And, uh, so Chris and it is a W E E E T Chris wheat. Let me make sure that's right. It's three E's and this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Here it is. Wait a minute. Uh, Chris wheat. He's a reptile guy. And the reason I bring this up, let me get this here. He's, this guy is absolutely insane. Now I've talked about him before, you know, he's got fucking King cobras. Here he is. Yeah. It's, um, Chris wheat. So C H R I S W E E E T. And he's a, it says pet breeder with this fucking guy, man. He's got King cobra. He's got every kind of snake on the planet. And what really got me, uh, falling in one time, he got bit by his fucking cobra. Just a massive King cobra bit him, the venom fucking ate away his, uh, skin on his head. This guy's crazy, but he saves cobras in the wild and he finds all types of reptiles and keeps them out in the loop. And, um, so he posted up this, uh, this bird eating tarantula, which reminded me a couple of tarantula stories in my life. One was my mom and I used to, we used to go scuba dive and my mom liked to scuba dive, which by the way, when I was doing the estate sale, I found all her scuba gear and her scuba license. I got her scuba license. I kept it. I love it. But, uh, my mom would, she was a lot. I'm a lot like my mom. Like I, if I like something, I'm all in like comedy. She was like, I'm scuba diving now. And, uh, so, uh, we, you know, we got certified and we started scuba diving places. So she wanted to go to Costa Rica to scuba dive in this, um, area of Roatan, which is, um, they have their famous for these underwater waterfalls. You dive down like 30, 40, 50 feet. And if you look, it's just, there's this underwater waterfall. It's not a waterfall. It's sand. That's just like. And as you swim up on it, you can hear it. It's just like roaring. Like, man, it is insane. Actually. And then you can swim behind it and be behind the sand, just seeing it go over. It is, it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. I'm totally, you know, forgot about this memory until, uh, I saw this Chris Wheat put up this tarantula stuff. Cause there's two tarantula stories. One is we're out there diving. And so we're in Costa Rica. We're in the small little area called Roatan and they got basically these kind of beach kind of weird bungalows you stay in for like 20 bucks a night. It's like nothing, you know, and, uh, and the power is real iffy on this island. And it's like they would have the power would just go in and out throughout the day and night. So I'm walking back to the bungalow and I got like a flashlight and the power is out. And it would happen, you know, two, three times a day, zero AC none of that. It's just straight up like jungle living. It's actually pretty peaceful. You're like, oh man, I could live. I could live. I stayed there for like two weeks until I was like, all right, I'm ready to get out of here. But I'm walking with my flashlight and I'm just going back to the beach bungalow. And all of a sudden I see this fucking thing on the ground and it's about the size of a coffee can, maybe a little bigger, furry fucking tarantula, just right by me. I was like, oh, it's scared the fuck out of me like beyond. And what I didn't know is what they have there. And that's what Chris wheat has on his thing there are these bird eating tarantulas. And what they do is they go up into the banana trees and they spin this giant fucking web and then birds come in to eat the bananas and they get stuck in this web and then these fucking tarantulas eat them just up there like just partying. This one ran by me, man. And I was so fucking scared. I was like, I just yelled like, and I, you know, she doesn't scare me, but spiders and snakes. You know, I like to look at him. Big ass fucking snakes. And I also like to see tarantulas. So when I was young, I bought a tarantula. At the pet store. His name was tiny when I got him. He was about this big and he was one of those Mexican tarantulas that they sell as pets. Now it take him out for a while. You know, and I was scared. I'm not going to lie because these tarantulas would bite once in a while. They got big fucking fangs. They're big ass. They go like this. They go, they go this way and they go like this. And I think the longer you don't hold them, the more they're like, get the fuck out of here. If you start holding them right out of the gate early on, but tiny got to be pretty fucking big. He got big, man. And they, you know, when they walk on you, it's creepy too. They're just like, oh, and they got the weird little suction cup type of legs. And they look beautiful, though, but scary as fuck. So anyway, one time. And this is, this is what, what reminded me of this story of my mom way, you know, back when like, I think it's like ninth or ninth grade or whatever way, no cell phones, nothing. My mom calls my friend's house where I'm at, my buddy Jack's house. And she's like, get over here. Get over here. Somebody broke in the house and they put a tarantula in your cage and it killed tiny. I'm like, what, what are, what is my mom on? What are you talking about? They broke in the house. They didn't steal anything. They just put a tarantula in the cage that killed my tarantula. She's like, yes, get here now. So I ride the BMX bike home. And I get in the house and sure enough in my room, there's two fucking tarantulas. One of them's dead and the other one's over in the corner like, yeah, that was me, motherfucker. And I'm like, what, what the fuck? I mean, I'm kind of freaking out. Like who someone broke in our house, put a tarantula in here and it killed my tarantula. Now we are completely freaked out. I mean beyond. So we call a few people were telling the story and somebody finally hips us, which the pet store never told me this. They basically do this thing called mulch, which is a shedding like a snake and they mulch out of their old skin. And when they come out, they come out of the bottom, the old skin pops off and it looks perfectly like a tarantula. I mean, exact. So when you go to the Chris Wheat Instagram, you'll see it says my female tie bird eating tarantula just gave me another mulch. And as per usual, she is in defense mode and wants nothing to do with me. I just want to take the old mulch out, but she's not having it. And this fucking tarantula is like, I was just trying to pull the old one out. But it reminded me, and there it is, another mom memory right there. I was like, that's the weirdest story your mom calls you and says somebody broke in the house, put a tarantula in your cage and it killed tiny. And then they broke out. They left. They didn't steal anything. They didn't take the fucking, the ghetto stereo we had. They didn't take our answering machine, our digital answering machine. They didn't take my records. They just put a tarantula in to kill your tarantula. So yeah, pretty fucking crazy story, man. But anyway, that's, it's amazing how, you know, things like that happen and people, and a lot of people have just been reaching out, telling me cool stories about what will probably happen with you, which is really good. I want to get into some, first of all, shout out to some insane tours that are happening this year. I keep saying I'm not going to go see live music anymore. I'm pretty much done other than special stuff. And special stuff is happening, man. I'm dying to see this Gojira mastodon tour. That is going to be insane. Talk about just two of the greatest bands of the last 20 years. I mean, as far as amazing songs, I'm going to go see that. And then I'm fired up for Mr. Bungle and the Melvins. They are touring together. That is going to be it. So talk about a perfect. Both these tours are two perfect combos, man. I mean, Bungle and Melvins. My boy in Portland brand and said, he's going to come out for that. So I'm looking forward to seeing him at the Palladium. We'll go see Bungle and the Melvins. And then Mars Volta just announced another run. And I didn't get to see him because I was out with Marcus King. Why they toured. So I'm going to go to San Diego to see the Mars Volta, which would be amazing. Gertie's over here snowing. So yeah. And then of course, Metallica is touring. I see them no matter what. So that's going to be great. I think they're playing at the where the Rams play, which by the way, what a fucking brutal loss on on the 49ers yesterday. Oh, I flew home from from New York. I was so excited. You know, I touched down. I get in my car. I'm driving over to watch the game. And you know, party. Who I was just rooting for because I always root for underdogs. I feel like I've been an underdog all my life. And I'm always rooting because I can relate with you, dude. No one wanted you. And then you've got your shot. And you're fucking kidding me. No one wanted you. And then you've got your shot and you fucking killed. He was killing the entire season. He gets in and he gets fucking injured. The first run, the first plays, second plays actually fucks his elbow up and he's done. And then they bring in this other dude. And he looked okay, then he gets a fucking concussion. 49ers have like no quarterbacks. So that they bring pretty back in, you know, they never even had a shot after all that after the Eagles got that fucking scam touchdown, total scam touchdown. It wasn't a catch the next play. They get a touchdown, you know, 49ers didn't challenge it quick enough. There was all kinds of shit. Look, they lost. I get it. But God damn it. It hurts. I've kind of got back into football the last couple of years, just on the down low. I'm not one of those guys. I'll tell you, and I enjoy it a little Sunday. And, you know, 49ers lost last year to the Rams. I was crushed. And now this one. And I was just, I was just bummed, man. I was so fired up. I went over to a buddy's house. He's got like, I'll tell you what, man, he's got a, the projectors are getting amazing these days. And he even said his is older, but he's got just a projector that shoots on to a white wall in his living room. And it's just, it's, it's like you're at a movie theater watching football games or, you know, Judas Priest screaming for vengeance tour or anything, you know, anything he puts up there is just fucking insane. And if I do get a TV, I haven't had a TV in years. I'm thinking about just going to a, the projector. Now I did see that scam on Instagram. And I don't know if it's good or not. Maybe somebody knows, but Ian Edwards sent it over to me where it's basically like a cube like this big and it shoots onto the wall. It's just a cube and it looks insane. So if anybody knows if that's any good or a great projector, that's not a lot of money, I might go projector. I, because I don't like the look of a TV in a house. It's just fucking ugly. Even though the flat screens are pretty unintrusive, it's still, it's just there. So I kind of like the idea. I mean, you know, my friend got one that you can put artwork on the screen. So it always looks like a painting. Now I fucking love that. That looks cool as shit. You go in and you go, God damn, you can put whatever you want. You can put a Zeppelin photo in there. And it was like, Oh, that's a killer photo. And it's your TV screen. You don't even notice. So anyway, if anybody's using a projector, what are the downfalls of it? And tell me if you dig it, you know, get at me a tweet or anything. And let me know what you think because I'm just curious about if I do get something. I know it's slippery slope. Get something in here. Next thing you know, I'm watching it. But I mean, I can't believe I didn't see more people with it. All these people that love to be gamers and everything because this guy is, we go over there and you're sitting on the couch and you're just watching like you're at the movie theater. It's beautiful. Sounds great. He's got it going through some kind of fucking sound. I don't know. And he said his shit's five years old. It's got to be even crazier now. So fired up for that. A quick sponsor before I keep going here. Me goes dog. Me goes dog running some specials right now. I feed Gertie me goes dog. If you live in California, you can pick up this food at Erwan or healthy spot or they deliver now in LA anywhere in LA, they'll deliver to your house. Me goes dog.com. 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You know, I always love it because Joey's like, I leave your dog at home. You fucking freaks. What are you doing? Bringing your goddamn dog to the restaurant. Fuck you. So I don't really discuss it much with Joey, but everybody knows I bring Gertie everywhere. Comedy clubs, restaurants everywhere. Gertie. People like to see Gertie more than me. So I bring her. Gertie, Gertie. Anyway, um, me ghost dog.com. Check them on Instagram. Tell them I sent you. Also, if you go to standard and strange, I forgot to tell you, tell them I sent you. All right. Keeping it going here. Uh, some great records came out Friday. What a, what a onslaught of music on Friday. Oh my God. The mother hips dropped another record. And I just want to say, um, hats off hats, hats off to the mother hips. Uh, I think they're 32 years now or something like that. And these guys are just constantly making records. Constantly touring. And, um, you know, it's just amazing to see. And they released a new record. And, uh, oh my God, the mother hips dropped another record. And I just want to say, um, and, uh, oh my God. When we disappear as the name of the record, but there's a couple of songs on here that really knocked me out. I like the record a lot, but two of them are like, wow. Uh, what is it leaving, leaving the valley. This song is so unusual for the mother hips. It's kind of like, uh, right up my alley. It's just this got this soul rock kind of R and B beautiful feel. And I just love this song. I played it like 10 times in my hotel room in New York, the people next door probably like this fucking Luna tick. Uh, and then they got another great one on their spirit of 98. Those are my two tracks so far. I've only had the record for a few days that I'm really, really digging. Oh, and then they did a cover of, uh, is Kodyne, which is coding, but I guess cause I caught them. I said, Hey, why is Tim saying Kodyne? Isn't it coding? And they said, Oh, it's a cover. And that's how she said it. I forget who did the cow, who the original song was from, but it's a great song. It's got this total great country feel. I'm messing with Kodyne. I'm ruining it however it goes, but oh man. So mother hips got a new record out. I want to give them a shout out. Then my boys white Reaper dropped a new record and it kind of unfortunate. I didn't get to see him in New York. I was hoping to hook up with them, but they were like me. They were running around, uh, working, uh, but they will be here in a couple of weeks to talk about the new record. I'm fired up to see the white Reaper guys again. I had them right before COVID. That was brutal. They played the troubadour. I went to see him, had him on the podcast and they were getting ready to do the Pearl Jam tour. They're big fucking break and then code, uh, COVID hit and they did get to do some Pearl Jam, uh, dates once COVID, uh, once COVID ended, I don't know if it ended or whatever, but, um, you know, uh, they got a new record and the title track asking for a ride is just smoking. Oh my God. This is an uptempo smasher record. So get in on that white Reaper. If you're into, uh, some great Weezer-esque type of, uh, beautiful hooks and just crushing, uh, energy white Reaper man. Oh, and they got a fantastic cover album cover. Definitely is Robert Williams inspired. I can tell, uh, great artwork. I love this artwork on the album cover and mother hips album cover too. Beautiful. Looks kind of like it may have been a, um, a, uh, oh fuck. What's the name of that band? Oh, uh, brain's not working. Brain's not working like I wanted to. Uh, shit. What are those guys called? I love them. Oh man. I can't remember. Damn it. Um, they're the Hispanic guys, man. They just been around like 20, 30 years. I love them. How am I not remembering their name right now? Oh my God. I've seen them a bunch. Oh man. Anyway, holy shit. See, I got video. I can't go. I can't figure it out because I don't want to have to fucking edit the video because it takes hours. So I don't know you guys DM me. You know who I'm talking about? Oh, what are they called? Shit. They're good. Anyway, uh, mother hips record, white reaper record. And then here's a band I wanted to give you guys, give a shout out to because, um, they, uh, yeah, they're really cool. When I was playing in Colorado, uh, a year ago during, um, during, uh, Thanksgiving, these guys came in. To the gig. Five dudes. They had a couple of chicks with them. They came rolling in. They got fucking sideburns, long hair, you know, glasses, wearing sunglasses and, but not douchey, just authentic douchey. Oh man. I hate that word. Oh, I can't even believe I said it. It's so fucking old, but they were authentic. They came cruising and they're like, yeah, Dean Delray, man, big fans of the podcast came down to see you. And immediately I was like, Oh, this is cool. I don't know these guys at all. The whole band came and, uh, they brought some chicks with them and they had a great night and we hung out all night. They were just so cool. Anyway, uh, and then look was just perfect. It just looked like each guy looked like, uh, like they were seventies style, but it wasn't like, oh yeah, we went down to the, uh, you know, to the Goodwill and just got seventies clothes. They had to fucking proper, proper look. It was shit. It was authentic. Anyway, they're called love gang and the record's called mean street. And, uh, oh my God. Great record. It came out on Friday. I think they dropped it on their own. Follow them on, um, Instagram. Tell them I sent you and listen to their record. It's on the YouTube. It's on any platforms that you stream on, but really cool band, really cool band. And, uh, looking forward to seeing them. I'm sure they'll be out on the road. So, uh, love gang, mean streak. Very cool. Right. Goodies. Um, and then, um, I flew to New York. Jet blue. I was flying jet blue. I tried to fly on them as much as I can because they're the least of the animal airlines because they have free movies, free wifi and better seats. And they still old school, give out a little food and snacks and stuff. They're not like, uh, we got some almonds here for $39. And then we have a crusty stale sandwich in this plastic container for 1995. And we don't take cash. So, uh, these guys are still pretty fucking good. Them and, um, rest in peace, virgin airlines, because that was my main, uh, my main brother when I'd fly to, uh, New York and back. I always flew virgin every Sunday, not every, but, uh, when I fly out to New York, I'd go on a Sunday evening at like, uh, I think it was 1130. Come here. Goodies. And then I would, um, fly from Burbank to JFK and, uh, virgin, just killer. Anyway, so I got on the jet blue flight and fell asleep right away. Cause my flight was like six AM and woke up mid-flight and I was like, Oh, movies. My new way of catching movies now is, uh, I would have never done this years ago, but I watch all my movies now on an airplane because, um, I don't know. It's just, it's just the time that I have. It's like, this is when I can listen to it. Gertie's trying to get under her blanket. Let me fix this. Get over there, Gertie. There you go. So I wake up and, uh, finally I go, okay, I'm going to watch Elvis, uh, rest in, uh, rest in peace. Uh, you know, the, the whole family, the Elvis family is just, it's just, it's just been brutal. You know, Lisa Marie. Oh my God. Her son. A couple. It's just a, what a, what a tragic, tragic family. Just highs, big highs and big lows. So I go, all right, I got to watch the Elvis movie. I'm not, I'm not a big Elvis guy. My dad loved them. Me and my dad didn't get along. And, uh, here Elvis kind of reminds me of, uh, of my dad, but it really doesn't have that much to do with that. It's just, it's just not an Elvis guy. I do love, love, love the 68 comeback. I love his look. I love that authenticity that, that just the realness of them just playing on that round little stage, Scotty Moore, the guys in there, the band was killer. His look was great. But I never just, I actually don't even own an Elvis record. And I, um, I never play Elvis ever. I know a lot of people love Elvis, Beatles, uh, Zeppelin, Robert Plant, love fucking Elvis. And I get it. They grew up and I also appreciate Elvis for the, uh, the outlaw on this of them back in the day, but, uh, and, you know, jumpstarting that rock and roll with him and, uh, Jerry Lee Lewis and, uh, and all, all of that fifties rock, you know, all that stuff, but, uh, I don't really go to it. And that's, you know, that's, you know, obvious. Uh, I didn't grow up in that era. Anyway, so I fire on the Elvis movie and, uh, you know, a big fuck you to, uh, Colonel Parker. That guy was just the epitome of garbage and robbing and everything. Shit. Uh, Colonel Parker was that's basically just, just ruined and killed Elvis. That's how I feel. And that's from the knowledge that I have of a Colonel Parker. That's what I'm going to go with. So I hate Colonel Parker so much that it was making me hate Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks fucking, uh, you know, gump forced gump himself. I'm like, I hate you right now. It's just so crazy. And I love Tom Hanks. It's the, the, I started thinking about the depth of him from Mr. Rogers to Colonel Parker. Oh my God. Two of the fucking most opposite people on the planet. Right. Colonel Parker and fucking Mr. Rogers. Oh, anyway, I got about an hour and a half in the films long. I think it's two and a half hours, but it doesn't feel long. It moves. It feels good. It's fucking good, man. And, uh, and then I land. I'm like, shit. I'm only at the 68 comeback tour. That's how far up I got. I still got to get into fat Elvis and, uh, the drugs and everything. And so we land and I go, that's all right. I'm going to watch it on the way home next week when I fly home. So I get on the plane yesterday and immediately get my headphones out. I'm ready to watch the second half. And I got captain comes on. He goes, this is the captain speaking. Uh, you're going to be pretty much fucked on this flight because there's going to be no TVs. They're broken. Sorry. And I was like, what the fuck? It's so amazing how addicted you can get to Wi-Fi and movies on a plane. Because before they had all that, you just sat there. You just sat on a plane for hours with your own thoughts, maybe some magazines and a book. You know, you're just sitting on this plane, like sitting at your watch, like every four minutes, like fuck, how much longer? How much? Oh, fuck, only eight minutes went by. It just, so I just sat on the plane and I was just like, uh, I had Wi-Fi. Thank God. But still they had so many movies. I wanted to, uh, I wanted to finish the Elvis movie and then dive into another movie I wanted to see on there. So now I have not seen. I don't have HBO. I guess it's on HBO. So I got to see, hit me with your HBO numbers, guys. Hit me with your codes. Hit me with your goddamn HBO codes. I need to watch the second half of Elvis. Um, but I also watched for the first time. I don't know if you guys were on board where I was talking about where I feel like people watch movies or don't see a movie for years. And they just, uh, they say they've seen it. Just so you're not involved in the conversation. Mine was, uh, for years it was, uh, the big Lebowski. You know, I didn't want to tell anybody I didn't see it because they just fucking chew you. Oh, dude, you haven't seen the big Lebowski, dude. It was like, oh, because I was kind of fucking living a life. Well, there's another movie on that list. That I have only only saw like the first 15 minutes and then never saw the rest of the movie. And I was bummed and I kept saying, I need to finish this movie. And that was all the way back in like, whenever it came out 15 something years ago, training day. So I sat down and I finished training day. Finally. I actually just watched it from the beginning again, just so I was fresh. Cause what happened? I saw, um, I was watching training day and then, uh, I got a last minute gig or something and just said, shit, I got to go and left and never saw the entire training day. I got up to the like, I didn't know you like to get wet. When Ethan Hawks, he makes Ethan Hawks smoke the PCP. Oh my God. Now training day fucking great film. The ending's a little Hollywood, which I was kind of surprised, but still solid, solid film. The acting is unreal. And, uh, Denzel Denzel's fucking, he's like Denzel's like Tom Hanks. They just get in these movies and crush it. You know, uh, Tom Cruise also people clown on Tom cruise. I said, fuck you guy just does hit after hit, which by the way avatar too is, I haven't seen it. Giant hit. Giant hit. He, uh, you know, he, uh, did pretty much the impossible. It's like a 2.4 billion or something right now. This is just insane avatar. James Cameron crushing a Titanic avatar and the second avatar. The guy has more money than earth. Holy shit. And I'll go see that one. I might have to see that one of mushrooms just for a fucking just for a comical. I'm going to be 57 this Friday. Maybe I do that on my birthday. Mushrooms at the movie theater. Just like a kid just in there tweaking. Looking at the fucking avatar, dudes. Oh my God. Unbelievable. Anyway, so I, I saw training day and, uh, now I can, now I can talk about training day. Do some old dated comedy. You guys see training day, man? This shit is crazy. Fuck. Um, shit. I guess that's about it, man. Oh, no. One last thing I wrote down on here, uh, rats eating wires. So my boy just called me before I started the podcast and, uh, I go, Hey, what's happening? He's like, dude, I got rats and they're getting in my cars. He's got two porches. He's got a nine 11 and he's got a, uh, what's he got? Cayman. He's got one of, he's got one of the SUV ones. Cayenne, uh, one of those. And I didn't know this, but I guess in 2006, the manufacturers changed the wiring in the cars to be coated in soy instead of petroleum. So they wouldn't dry up and the rats smell this soy and they go in and they eat your wires. What the fuck? What kind of like road warrior into the world shit is that? Like I'm starving. Let's just eat these wires. So he goes out to start as nine 11 a couple of days ago and he turns it on. He said just all these sensors lighting came up power steering now stereo doesn't work. Uh, oh, you know, uh, AC is gone. He's like, what the fuck is going on with my dash? So he opens up the hood and it's just Chewbacca. Just, just fucking rats ate all his wires and he's like, what the fuck? So then he goes to get into his Cayenne and they ate all those wires. So he bolted his fucking high dollar cars, don't run. And now he might have to move. He called up the landlord and he's like, dude, there's rats here, man. They ate. We gotta get something going with the eight, the wires in my car and the landlord obviously had had it before just a shitty landlord. Just like I had in my last place with the broken sewer pipe. He just goes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'll happen. That'll happen. Yeah. He did. I got rats there eating the work. Yeah. Yeah. That'll happen. What the fuck? So now he might have to move or he's got to move. He doesn't have a garage. They fucking get in there. Somebody told him to get this spray. He sprayed it in there and they just were still in there eating. They ate the fucking, the car hood has like a liner to keep the engine insulated and quiet and everything. They ate that. They ate all his shit. Holy shit, man. Rats. Oh my God. I didn't see any rats this time in New York, which is weird because it must be too cold or something because usually I see about a thousand rats a day, at least a thousand a day. That's not even exaggerating in New York. Just rats. They're just part of the program. Anyway. So, oh man, fucking rats ate his wires. I mean, if you got a car that's got the soy wires, man, it could happen. It could happen. Tour dates coming up this Friday. I'll be in Palm Springs. Come celebrate my birthday. I'll be at, what is that name in that place? I'm doing a casino out there and looking forward to, you know, rocking around for you guys with you guys. I will be at the Palm Springs Agua Caliente casino this Friday, February 17, 18, the stage door in Elco, Nevada. I returned back to Elco, Nevada, working on some new material, having some fun. Shailen's going to be there with me. He's a great friend and a funny, funny comedian. So Shailen and I will be in Elco, February 17, 18, February 22 through 25. This is a very important one. I'm coming home to San Francisco to do the punchline four nights and please tell a friend about this. I want to pack the houses, you know, I'm trying to just get butts in the seats. So people will be like, fuck, he's doing some tickets, man. And I get booked to other places. That's just kind of how it works. Anyway, so those are the dates coming up this Friday in Palm Springs, February 17, 18, the stage door in Elco and the punchline tickets, Dean Delray.com website. Hit it up. Also, uh, subscribe to my YouTube channel and leave a review on iTunes. All of that stuff really helps. I'm just pounding away, keeping going, keeping my brain, uh, keeping my brain sane. I love all you guys. Keep the candles lit. Shout out one more time to my mom. And, uh, by the way, my record of the month I've been listening to again is radio heads in rainbows. I cannot get enough of this record again. I love this band and every once in a while I fire up one of the records and I just rock it for a month and in rainbows really was my New York soundtrack walking around. So, uh, there you go. Uh, thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of Let There Be Talk.