 All right, thank you for tuning in to another episode of what to be talk. It is Monday, July 3rd day before 4th to July. Get ready to get your fingers blown off my friends. Fourth of July, man, I just crack up. It's like, it's the same fireworks every year. Like they don't. They don't seem to have anything new. You know, it's just like boom. Whoo. Wow. Whoo. Fireworks. I do like fireworks, but I like the fucking good shit like the M 80s and 100s. The brick of fire crackers, the, the bottle rockets. The Roman candles. I love all of that shit. The illegal fireworks. Those are the only good ones. Isn't that hilarious? It's funny when you're touring around America. They have all these fireworks stands. Like out by my mom's house. I was when I was out there before my mom passed. I'd be driving around her area and they just had fireworks stands middle of the summer. Just or middle of the winter. I mean, not summer. It was it was winter. It was like December. And there was a guy just selling fireworks in a parking lot at like a target. He had like a wood and perforated steel shack. Just selling fireworks like, like people are just bored on a Monday. Hey, let's, let's go get some fireworks for tonight. 24 seven fireworks all year round. I never understood that or the Halloween store. Just at any time. I want to get ready for Halloween. In February. Halloween store. Get out. Anyway, fourth of July. I hope you have a good one tomorrow. I always think of that, that fireworks. There's some weird fireworks. They're from like the fifties, the snakes that just burn toxic black smoke. You lit it. It was just a round circle. It looked like a cop drop. And it would just burn a black stain into your driveway. Your dad would whip your ass. What the fuck you do to the driveway? I don't understand the snake at all. Got to be one of the most genius inventions ever. That somebody was like, I'll just sell this as a snake. It's basically just a toxic smoke that leaves an ash behind and they call it a snake. And then there was the other one, the log cabin. You just lit them like top of the log cabin. Like sparklers would come out of it. Fucking fireworks. I love it. I told the story before I had a neighbor. He built this, his own cannon. An actual, like, it was a cannon. You put shit in it and it would just shoot like, like bombs out of it. He was like the neighborhood star. Every neighborhood had that neighborhood star, right? That would just do the over the top explosions. It was like a couple, maybe, you know, biker looking dudes and their son looked like something like Sam Elliott out of that movie mask with share. They would just be down in the cul-de-sac completely blowing everything up. Just everything. Anyway, 4th of July, it's coming. And I still remember one of the greatest 4th of July's ever for me was me and like 20 guys went down to Riverside with hands full of mushrooms. And just two trunks of Roman candles. And we took the mushrooms. And one group of guys were on one side of the street and the other group was on the other side around hedges and trees and everything. And we just went full Vietnam war. Shootin' at each other on mushrooms. Just fucking fried. Freakin' the neighbors out like our houses are going to burn down. We all got fucking long hair. We're drinkin' mushroomed up. Just hours of firework wars. I'll never forget it. Casey Chaos from Amen was there. My good friend Bill Fould who now is one of the kings of Coachella and Power Trip and all of that. And a bunch of other guys. John Butler, the finger man. John Butler from Roxanne and his cover band Boogie Nights, great guitar player. But man, that was a 4th of July. Everybody has that 4th of July memory. You know, another good one would be going to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on 4th of July up in Northern California, just riding the giant dipper, eating all kinds of fucking junk food. And I went to Disneyland last week. First time I've been about five years since COVID. I used to go quite a bit with Steve Henry. He worked at Disney and he would get us in free and we'd get free parking and 30% off everything. So I have not been since COVID and I went and there was some interesting things going on at Disneyland. And first of all, I love the place. I love all the time for comedy, but I do love the place. And I love the memories that I have from going there. I have a photo I found at my mom's house recently. It was me there in July 70, 1970. And I'll post that up later. But there I am at Disneyland the first time. There's like a dude behind me that looks like a full blown modern day hipster. He looks just like Bill Burr's assistant producer on the podcast. One of my good friends, Andrew Thimlis, the guy who looks dead on the Thimlis. I sent the photo of the Burr and I was like, yeah, it turns out Thimlis was my babysitter in 1970. We were both laughing. But so I went to Disneyland and, you know, I just figured it was just going to be a madhouse. There's no more sleepy days, I think, at Disneyland. Like back in the day, I would go on the Monday after the Nam show, which is that big, you know, music gear convention, National Association of Music Merchants. So I'd go on the Monday and it would be kind of a shitty weather and it would always be empty. And me and like Woody, my buddy Steve Goodrich, or whoever I would go with. I think Cliff Wittemore once, a couple of other people. We'd go to Disneyland on the Monday and it'd be like empty. You could just ride the rides instantly. It was fun. But there's no more of that at all in this modern insanity of Disneyland because people just take their kids out of school and they go. There's no more, you know, it used to be like, you don't want to go in the summer and you don't want to go during Easter break and you don't want to go to during Christmas break. Because there would be kids out of school would be too packed, but you could literally go other times. It would be kind of dead. But not anymore. So this is the first time I've gone since the Star Wars land, the new Star Wars area, which I would say was, it was okay. The first Star Wars ride we rode was kind of, I don't know, it was, it was not very good. It was just kind of like you're in one of those simulators. Whoa. But the second one, I would say it was pretty kickass. It was long and cool. And you were on this kind of cart that dropped and moved around and not bad. And the whole Star Wars land was cool. They had like Yoda cruising around in Mandalorian, all that. It's not bad. If anybody knows, I'm trying to figure out, because I've gone to Disneyland since 1970, what that area used to be, because it must have been just kind of like some buildings or something because they didn't take anything out. Everything's still there. So if you know, hit me on the, hit me on the DM or the email, and let me know. I was just curious, but I went to the Star Wars land, but this time, this is the first time I've been where they had this thing going on. And I'm going to give you this tip right now. They have a few different things. They got the fucking lightning pass. You could pay $30 and get on a ride immediately. $30. I heard it was 20 like six months ago. And then they have the normal line. You're just waiting in fucking line. It says 75 minutes or whatever. And then they have this thing called single rider line. And I'm going to tell you, man, do yourself a favor. I don't care if you go with somebody that you're newly in love with, or or you're babysitting or you're bringing your kids or whatever. Send these fuckers into the single line ride. We don't need to ride next to each other. We're going to be off the ride in a couple of minutes, and we'll talk about the ride. We don't need to be right. I'm in the car with you. Fuck yeah. This was worth waiting two hours for. No. Go in the single rider line. A lot of times in the single rider line, you'll end up riding with your friend anyway. It's weird. And have each one of your friends in the single rider line. You will get on the ride in about 10 minutes, maybe five sometimes, maybe the maximum 15 maybe, but this is the only way to go. Man. I rode all kinds of rides instantly. Also another tip is these, you know, Disneyland employees, they're allowed to have their phone on them while they're watching the lightning pass line. The lightning pass, you get a ticket. It's $30. You go up and you scan it. And then you go into the back of the ride. But these fuckers are just, you know, looking at Tik Tok and Instagram and texting. They're not even paying attention. So I'm just walk right by them and just go right in. They don't even lift their head up. I blazed right by him on the Star Wars ride. I was on the Star Wars ride and seriously, like four minutes. And if they catch you, you just go, oh, shit. I thought, I thought I had it. I'm sorry. I mean, that's that. What are they going to do? Oh, sorry. No, you got to go out there and then they go back to texting. You know, nothing's going to happen to you. Try the fucking sneak ends at all time in life. Sneak into the movies, sneak into the right lines at the rides, sneak into the, you know, first seating on airlines. That's what I do. I mean, I got neck surgery like a year. So they're like anybody that needs, you know, assistance or, you know, if you're all fucked up, you can get on the plane first. And I just, I've got the photo of my, my neck surgery. I just had neck surgery. You got to, you got to do it, man. Because I mean, I need a minute anyway to get my fucking bag up there. And you know what I mean? I don't know. Anyway, Disneyland. Fucking, it was great. Actually, I loved it. I got a sweatshirt. I've been wearing it for like two weeks straight. Actually, it's finally hot here in LA, but it's been chilly, chilly six months in LA. I got the corn dogs. They have the best corn dogs on the planet at Disneyland. They are fucking stunning. I rode my all time favorite space mountain, which is just a smoking ride, just an original cool ride, man, just in the dark. And everybody that's gone a lot like myself back in the day, you've been in that situation where the car stops and they turn the lights on and you look around and you're just in basically a warehouse with tracks. It's so fucking weird. You can YouTube it space mountain with the lights on. And it's just like dumb, but with the lights off, it is full on kick ass. I do miss old school Disneyland. I'd like the 50s, mid 60s, 70s version of Disneyland, right up to probably space mountain. And it's so much cool architecture in there and design. And those old school rides, man, like the submarine. Oh, man, you don't want to be going on the submarine these days. Right. You might get some kind of PTSD. Are we coming up? But the submarine, the, there was the old rockets that you'd get on, man. You go up two floors. They got it now, but it's low on the ground. It's dumb. The old days you'd get an elevator. You go up two floors. You get in these fucking rockets. You can make them go up and down. I rode the Matterhorn, which is just a 60s classic, man, with the dumb fucking abominable snowman. I rode that. I rode Pirates of the Caribbean. Or is it Caribbean? Just depends who you're fucking hanging out with. Let's ride the Pirates of the Caribbean. They got it loaded up with Johnny Depp in there now. They didn't have the Johnny Depp in court. The Amber trial. They didn't have that Johnny Depp. It's only pirate Johnny. But I wrote that. I wrote, I wrote the two Star Wars rides. Oh, I wrote Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, which was fucking insane, man, to ride that. Because the last time I rode that was on mushrooms. So I was like, I got to ride this thing sober and just see what's going on. Those little kooky carnival type rides rock, which is the effects of black light and glow in the dark. Uh-oh, hold on, Gertie. Had to get Gertie. Yeah. Anyway, it was great though, man. They were open till midnight. I wish I could have stayed longer, but I had to go do a show. I wouldn't mind going again when they're open till midnight and just really riding everything like from 10 p.m. to midnight when it's kind of emptying out. Like on a Monday or something when the families are just dust. There's no better people watching than at Disneyland. There is no better. It is epic. You got all types in there, man. And it is absolutely wild just to sit on a bench, which by the way, I am at that age where my favorite ride at Disneyland is a park bench. It's just the bench like, oh, yeah, this is a good bench. Whenever I sat on the bench, I was thinking about when I had John Mayer on the podcast and I had that crazy comfortable couch. And he's like, oh yeah, this is a good couch. This is comfortable couch. Anyway, Disneyland was good times. I hope it's not the last time I go online. I mean, I wouldn't mind going in like towards the winter here in a few months, just going again. You know, there's people that get the fucking year-long pass and they go like 90 times. It's crazy. But man, it has changed. It's so giant now, like the parking is far away. You've got the California Adventure Park. And then you have Disneyland, then you have the Disney Boulevard or whatever where there's like restaurants and shit and the House of Blues. The thing is just a compound. It's amazing that guy fucking built that thing back in the 50s Walt Disney. I'm going to build an amusement park with my vision with these characters and shit. It's crazy. It's so funny to watch the kids. It's awesome to see them when they see Mickey or Donald Duck. They're like three or four or five, six-year-olds. They're like, oh, there was one kid in the autograph book. And the Mickey was just autographed. And I was like, that's awesome. They're just fucking, they're just, that is the part of life. No bills, no fucking problems. People are paying for their food and shit and their tickets. And they're just getting autographs from Donald Duck and stuff. Oh, man. Anyway, I went to Disneyland. I did a lot of stuff in the last couple of weeks. I've just been kind of fucking, just flying around all over the place. Bill and I went to the East Coast. And then we did Sacramento this last weekend. It was 108 degrees. Just scorcher, man. Did some arena out there and Lincoln. Did just 108. Man. Fantastic shows. Really good. Great arena. Really a nice new arena. And then what else? Oh, we're going to Allentown this week, Thursday, and then Friday, Saturday. We will be at Atlantic City and arena out there. So these are the last of the Bill Burr shows that I'll be doing for a little bit. And then he's off to Europe and I'll be out headlining. And I'll be going to the comedy seller from what? The 17th through the 21st or something like that. Vegas. I'll be there seven days. I'm going to San Francisco to see dead and co. I'm looking forward to that. I cannot stop talking about dead and co. How hard they are killing it right now. It's just mind boggling how good they sound. It really is. I say it every episode, but that's just the truth. It is wild. I do not know why they are so good on this run. Maybe they, uh, they want to go out on a real high note. Maybe it's the drummer change. Maybe it's, uh, everybody is completely focused. I don't know what it is. I would love to talk to the guys and ask him. How did they get to this level, man? But I'm going to see the last show on the 16th of the, of the band last show. And, uh, people say, uh, it's not going to be the last one. Yeah. Yeah. I think it is, man. They're not like, um, yeah, they're not like these, uh, 80s rock bands that need to do that. To draw tickets. These guys have been selling out, uh, stadiums and arenas for like 10 years now. Or I don't know how long they've been together. I've seen them since the beginning. Maybe it's seven years or something. I don't know, but they don't need to do that. That bogus farewell tour thing. So I think that's it. But I'm, uh, I'm looking forward to going to CNN. Oh, by the way, uh, when I was in New York, I ran into, uh, somebody and, uh, maybe he's listening to this episode because I didn't get his name, but I was eating breakfast and this guy came in. Hey, I'm a big fan of the podcast. I'm out here in New York. Just did the Santana documentary. We screened it at the beacon theater, Santana played, and I was like, shit, man, I would love to have me on and talk about the Santana documentary. That's getting ready to come out. But he didn't hit me on, uh, Instagram or whatever. So I hope if you are listening to this, please reach out to me and let's get you on the podcast. Unreal man, Santana doc. I cannot wait for that. I, I am still just blown away by those early days of Santana with Greg Raleigh. There's just no fucking cooler. If you have not listened to that Santana live at the Fillmore, do yourself a favor, man. Get that record and get, of course, the Woodstock record, man. These, this band was just unbelievable. I still think Santana is underrated, even though everybody knows about him. A lot of people only know about him from the second wave with Rob Thomas and smooth and all that. But that early Santana, man, the Fillmore and the Woodstock performance are some of the greatest live shows I've ever heard or seen. You know, it's just crazy. And I'm looking forward to seeing the documentary. I hope there's some Greg Raleigh in there. I'm always looking for some Greg Raleigh. You know, guy, it's just a fucking living legend, two time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. So reach out. I didn't catch your name. It was early. I was eating some fucking oatmeal, getting ready to fly somewhere, I think, and ran into this guy. So looking forward to seeing that. Shout out to Frank Bernacki. Thank you for your, your donation and some of the, um, patriarchs, brand new patriarchs. Let's see what we got here. Thank you so much. Kevin Connell. And, uh, Carl Stevenson. Thank you for joining the Patreon. Patreon.com slash Dean Del Ray. Everything helps. Uh, what else we got here? Oh, yeah. Episode is brought to you by Eric. I'm not sure you heard that episode a few episodes ago, but I had a ear go on. They make this incredible tiny hearing aid that just drops inside your ear and you can operate it all on your phone. And they sound amazing. Everybody has hearing damage out there. And also don't be afraid to go get hearing aids. 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It gets all over your karma with the fucking nuts on the top, but I love that fucking rock hard red candy coating around an apple. So I would always get the candy apple. And then I would cruise around. Then I would get saltwater taffy, just a bag of that shit. And then I would get a shiro two, three, four heroes in the day, just a fucking idiot. Grown man, just eating candy all day. I wouldn't even get a regular meal. Then I get a corn dog, which is fucking, you know, more shit for you. And then by the end of the day, I just be feeling so fucking nasty. It reminds me of this famous painting from one of my favorite painters, Todd shore painting called sugar shakes. And it's just this kid at the at the carnival and he's got cotton candy, a candy apple, some kind of fucking those suckers, remember those suckers? They're like a big circle and they're like rainbow. They look like the gay flag. And they're just a round circle. And it looks like they just, you know, that when they're making it, they just roll this stuff into a circle. And then it gets hard. Anyway, sugar shakes, Google it. One of the coolest paintings. So he's eating all the shit. And then there's just devils around him. Ghost devils. Like, I eat that sugar kid. And he's like, it's fucking great painting. It was my favorite painting that he ever did. It's right up there with the Robert Williams, Russ demon and the Mark ride in my all time favorite corky ascends to heaven. Those are the three paintings I absolutely love. From the juxtapose era of that lowbrow art that oil paintings that these guys do. Mark ride and become an absolute giant king in that world. I have not seen Todd shore in a long time. And I haven't been to any of his gallery openings. I should look him up on Instagram and see what he's been up to. He's a great painter. I haven't seen any of those guys. But the amount of candy I would eat while I'm at Disneyland or Magic Mountain, which by the way, did you see that fucking roller coaster with the cracked fucking support beam? Oh my God. The car just goes around. Someone's just filming it. And the whole support beam just goes. And opens with a giant. Like California fault line looking crack. Just. On there like as in North Carolina, their highest and craziest roller coaster. I mean, if somebody didn't happen to be filming that. And just a few more times that thing fall fucking cracks away and the car just, oh my God. That just lets you know, you know, they always say we walk the tracks every morning and every afternoon. It's like, no, you know, you don't walk the tracks. When I was young, they walk the tracks. I would see him out at Magic Mountain. We'd get in the parking lot at like eight. The gates would be at nine and we're just waiting so we could run to the most popular ride first. So we didn't have to wait all day. And you'd see fuckers walking the track. And I'd be like, that's the scariest job ever. They don't even have like a harness or anything. They're just walking the tracks inspecting it. Just scared. I got fucking. You know, sweaty palms thinking about it. Just so fucking scary. Unreal, man. Anyway, had a giant crack in it. And it's just fucking. That's some shit metal right there. That piece of metal. I don't know. It had to be like the weight of the G force of the cars over the, you know, year or whatever, just flexing it. And it finally just cracks. It could be a shit weld. I don't know. We will see. But that was crazy. You can see that all over the internet. And, you know, I just think you think about that. And then you think about those carnivals that go around. The, you know, around on tour around America with those carnies setting up the zipper. And the flying bobs and the. And the megatron or whatever that one's called where you get in it. And you lean up against the fucking wall and a spin spass. And then the four drops. And, you know, and it's like a roundup. They called it roundup at magic mountain. But I think the later was like megatron. Or something. All these rides to make you feel sick. I was at the Disneyland. They're like, you want to ride the tea cups? I was like, fuck no. I want to feel good all day. I don't. You ride the tea cups once. And the rest of the day, you just feel like shit. You're just walking around the park. Like, God, I feel like shit. The tea cups. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The tea cups. Who likes that? Who likes these rides that make you feel nauseous and dizzy? Who the fuck? That's fun, man. I got to get on the tea cups. I want to, I feel great right now, but I want to fix that. I want to feel like shit. Oh my God. Anyway, I hope you guys have a good fourth of July. I hope to see you guys out at some shows. I'll be in Utah. I'm finally going to Utah. Fucking bug in here. I'm going to Utah. I'm going to do two nights in Utah. Boxcar comedy and new club. That's on my website. Dean Delray.com. I'm doing the Vegas run. I'm doing something else too. I can't remember. I don't know. I'm fucking, I'm just grinding away, man. I'm just trying to get funnier. I'm just trying to get funny actually. And I'm trying to get more shows. And just keep going. That's all you can do, man. I'm all in. I put all the fucking poker chips. I've slid them into the middle. I'm betting on myself. I got no, you know, I got no backup plan. I'm not looking for it. I do play the lottery, which is 522 million today. I got to go down to get a ticket. You can't win if you don't play. Fucking hate when people say that. You just can't win if you don't play. That's how I look at life, man. Can't win if you don't fucking gamble on yourself. So I'm all in the chips are in. Well, here we are halfway through 2023. I'm going to be 58 and like seven months. This fucking is just going by 58. Couple more years. I'll be 60. Hopefully I'll be online. I've been fucking gym in it. Eat and clean still. And we'll see where we'll see what happens, man. That's all you can fucking do. There ain't no guarantees, right? There ain't no guarantee. And then maybe when I'm 60, I'll be one of those motivational speakers. I'll think you get out there and go for it. I'm Dean Del Ray, the motivational speaker. Let's see here. What do we got? Oh yeah, man. I wrote down some notes here because I'm just kind of, I don't want to miss anything, you know, and. Oh, I was just saw that they have modello is the number one beer in America now because, you know, all those fucking blockheads are boycotting the Bud Light because of the trans model or something. I never even, I never even pay attention to the fucking insanity going there. I don't watch the news and I just grab little snippets here and there. Like what the fuck? I don't know who has that kind of time. I was talking to Eddie Bravo. I'm going to be on this podcast in a couple of weeks. I was talking to him about it. Like I just don't fight people on the internet. I don't, I don't, you know, let my blood boil. Like you motherfucker, Libertad. I just don't do that. And these people, they're all basically, you know, living their life by this book called the Bible. Those rules, like the Bible doesn't, Bible doesn't want it like that. It's, you know, it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. I remember the first time I saw that bumper sticker. I was like, who the fuck? But, you know, but like, it just took a shit. You know, they're like, you know, go woke, go broke. All that crazy shit, man. In the meantime, they're drinking modello now. That's the number one beer now modello made in Mexico. The same place they wanted to build the wall. We got to build a wall, keep these people out, but throw the modello over the wall because we need our beer, which by the way, modello is made by Anheuser Bush, who owns Budweiser. They are Budweiser. You fucking blockheads. They're getting your money still. Fucking good. Yeah. I'll go a Mexican before I go a trans. That's the, that's the thought of them. You know, it's just crazy. Unbelievable. Better not be a Hispanic trans mofello. Are you trying to call it mofello? Oh my God. It's fucking nutty out there. It is nutty out there. Throw the modello over the wall though. And sour cream and avocados and tacos. That can all stay. Fucking crazy, man. It is a crazy world we are in right now. You know. And you know, like most people don't even realize the left don't give a fuck about you and the right don't care about you. If you make under a hundred grand, they're not fucking, if you make two one under 200 grand, they're not into you. So you got to fucking get in the middle. We all got to come together. Fucking taking these affirmative action and, and fucking, you know, abortion away. And oh my God, what are we living in the fucking medieval times? Burn the witches. That lady's a witch because I said she's a witch burner. What the fuck? People were nuts out there. People were nuts all over the Bible. The Bible said. Fucking crazy. I don't know, man. I don't know what to do. I just wake up each morning, try to make strangers laugh and make their day better. That's all you can do, man. You know, I hope you have a good fourth until I do not blow your fingers off. Keep the candles lit. Keep the Roman candles lit. And I hope to see you out at some shows out there. And that's coming from your number one, Libertad Dean Delray. You fucking Libertad Delray, you fucking surf. You're a fucking surfer sounding dude. Fuck you. I love all you. Even you fucking blockheads. Not really. I don't love the blockheads. I'm just saying that right now. Candles lit. Alright.