 All right, here it is, another episode of Let There Be Talk. Today, it is a solo episode starring you, me, yours truly, whatever that all means. It is episode number 690, 10 away from 700. Absolutely insane to me. 700 episodes of Let There Be Talk, all for free. Come on! How are you guys? It is a Monday, and I'm in Las Vegas, Nevada, about to start the 14-show residency here at the Comedy Cellar at the Rio Hotel. So if you are in Las Vegas for the Easter week, Easter's coming up, come join me. Come down for some laughs. Two shows a night, seven, and I think 9.30 Comedy Cellar in Vegas. It's good to be here, going to be working on a bunch of new stuff. I love coming out to Vegas and trying to try to polish up some of this new stuff, so to be a great week. And yeah, I don't know what you guys are doing for the Easter week, but catch a flight. Come out and party. It is two days after April Fools. So I'm glad that foolish stuff's over, April Fools. I started thinking about how did April Fools catch on? What is the history of it? And how come people are still doing it in 2023? What are you doing? We got the internet. We have cars. We have airplanes. And people are still holding on to some old... It's fun. It's fun. Don't be such a downer. It's dumb. How did it fucking start? I didn't even Google to find out how. And I should have, but maybe you guys know, and you can hit me on the Instagram or Twitter and tell me how it caught on. April Fools. It's so insane. That one and the Irish, the Irish day, you're not wearing green. I'm going to fucking pinch you. All that weird shit, which was fun. You know, maybe in the 20s, the Rower Warring 20s or the 30s or the 40s, but we are in 2023, my friends. And people still out there, you know, once in a while, someone pulls off a killer April Fools, but not really. I will tell you this though. On Wednesday afternoon, there was the rumbling rumors of this super desert concert power trip. And if you don't know what that is, you must be sleeping under a fucking rock because anybody a fan of this podcast definitely knows what power trip is. It's out there where they do Coachella, done by the same people, where they had the Big Four back in whatever year that was. Years ago now, the Big Four with Metallica, Megadeth Slayer and Anthrax. And they had Old Sheller, remember that? They pulled off that one where it was all the big, big old people bands. I think it was like Dillon Stones and the Eagles or something like that, crazy. But here it is, power trip. And so the rumblings were around Wednesday, rumors were dropping that it was a super concert in the desert. It was going to be Iron Maiden, Guns N' Roses, Ozzie, ACDC and Metallica and Tool. And I was like, oh man, this is gonna be the greatest April Fools joke ever. That's all I kept thinking. They're gonna have these rumors going and then they'll drop some kind of poster and then on Saturday, it'll be April Fools. I'm thinking this is gonna be fucking funny. Because I'm really good friends with one of the guys that is one of the main dudes of Coachella. I've known him for 35 years. And I thought, well, wait a minute, you know, maybe, you know, he would have told me, he knows I love ACDC and Metallica and, you know, I love the whole bill. So I text him and he's like, yeah, yeah man, it's happening. I was like, well, this guy, this particular guy I'm talking about, he is definitely a funny, funny dude and a joker. So I was like, I still don't really believe it. But then he sent me over the flyer and then he sent me over this Beavis and Butthead video and I was like, well, this would be a pretty intricate April Fools joke. But those are the good ones. Those are the good April Fools jokes, the super intricate ones that are slow building and then everybody goes, ah, fuck, you got us. So, you know, it was, it turned out to be real. And man, what a fucking lineup in October they got out there in the desert. And of course, here comes the fucking internet. That's it. Here comes the internet with their fucking complaints. I can't believe how much it is. Fucking chickens are bullshit, man. This is bullshit, the prices. It's unreal what people, you know, want. They want everything free. Ever since they stole music, that's why the concerts are how much they are. I keep telling people that over and over, do you realize you stole the music and now you're gonna pay triple for concerts and T-shirts and everything because you stole the music. That's, you know, there's no other revenue. And when you look at the bill, I asked people, they go, this is fucking outrage. And so I'm like, how much did you think it was gonna be? What year are you living in? Where are you going out these days? Because I'll tell you what, I opened my fucking front door and it's $100. So let me know where you're getting all these fantastic deals in the universe because it does not exist, okay? A movie in Los Angeles, a movie is $20. Just for the movie, not the fucking bullshit red vines that are $9 and the popcorn that's 10 and the Coke that's seven and the parking, just the movie is $20. So when you look at that bill, just one band is 150 at least, just one band. And that's like nosebleeds, very back of the rafters. If you wanted to see Metallica, you might be able to get a ticket for 150. I don't think you could though. So I just don't understand what universe, what planet people are looking at or living on that see that lineup and not go, holy shit, that is the lineup of the century. That looks like a lineup from 1988 Castle Donington in the UK, a monsters of rock. One of those back in the day and people go, yeah, back in the day that ticket would have been $40. Yeah, back in the day, you fucking bought the records. You know, you bought a $15, $20 CD and they sold three, four, five, 10 million records, all those bands on that bill at $15 a CD. The people complain forever. I do not understand how you walk around life and just complain, you know, like you know it's gonna be big money. You see that goddamn lineup. Do you think it's gonna be $75? Do you live in that kind of fucking world? Just for these bands to get out there. And I just did the Marcus King tour and we broke it down with the bus driver, how much it cost just for a bus. Just for these bands just to get out to Coachella is going to be a fortune. Then they gotta get their crews out there. They gotta get their production out there. They gotta get hotels. They gotta rehearse. They gotta get flights. They gotta feed all the people. They gotta pay all the people. The lighting, the soundman, the techs, everybody, the security, anything. Before they even fucking leave the door, it's probably a million dollars to get out to do this show in the right way where they wanna make it, you know, insane. And you know, each band's gonna go all out. There's gonna be some old school competition. They're gonna give you the old bullshit of like, this is just far out, man, all of us together. We're just one big family out here in the desert celebrating metal. It's just incredible. But you know, deep inside, they're like, dude, we gotta bring out the fucking submarine. We gotta have a flying saucer come off the drum kit. We need to have not just fire, but let's actually have some missiles, some real missiles that we can fire off over to some other wars going on. You know, we'll get two things out of the missile. We'll get a wow factor and we'll be able to shoot something down. I'm telling you, man, these bands are gonna go forward. Each band's playing a full set with full stage. It's not the standard 75 minute festival shit. This is full blown, two bands a night going at it. And man, look at that lineup. So I just don't know what planet people are living on where they think that the tickets we're gonna be, you know, not expensive. Everything's expensive. I'm telling you, man, I can barely do comedy on the road right now because a flight to like Denver that used to be 299 is 800. And every time I go to eat after a show, it's $25. I'm not going to fucking Burger King and I'm not eating high roller style. Just everything's fucking crazy. Coffee's are $5, gas here in LA is $5, you know? It goes on and on and on. So instead of shitting on it, sit back for a minute and think about what these guys did at Coachella. They put together a dream bill. Now, I bet you I'm willing to bet you. If you were with your buddy and the buddy said, man, what's your dream concert? And he's like, I don't know, man. What's your dream concert? And the guy goes, how about this? This would be my dream concert. Guns and Roses, Iron Maiden, AC DC, Ozzy, Metallica and Tool. And the other guy in the beavers butt head, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be cool, yeah, yeah. And then the other guy, I guarantee we go, dude, I'd pay a million dollars to see that. I guarantee that comes out of the guy's mouth. Dude, I'd pay a million dollars to see that fucking bill, man. Oh, fuck, that's a dream bill. It's crazy, man. Instead of just sitting back and thinking what these two, three guys, these promoters out at Coachella put together, instead of celebrating it, you just immediately, and I guarantee you this, 90% of the complainers, 90% weren't gonna go anyway. Even if the tickets were $100, they wouldn't go. Cause they'd be like, ah, man, I got fucking, you know, it's all the way out there in the desert. I live in Kansas, you know, fucking them anyway. That shit's stupid. That fucking stuff's dumb. Cause they're afraid to leave their house, take a flight, take a flight, find a hotel room and go enjoy their self, you know? Instead, they go down and buy the $10 pack of cigarettes, sit on the patio. Yeah, fuck those guys. Fucking suck. All those people in California suck at that concert. Fuck them. I love it. I love the fucking nutty negativity of these people out there. Just crazy. It's gotten worse and worse. Anyway, power trip, it is going to be fucking epic. Not quite sure on that goddamn name, power trip, but holy shit, the lineup. So many questions too. So many questions. And nothing's been really answered or even talked about except the lineup, which gives it that crazy mystique. But who's gonna sing for ACDC? Is it gonna be Axl or is it gonna be Brian Johnson? People right away go, oh, Brian Johnson. I mean, of course. What do you mean, of course? The last time we heard Brian Johnson, you know, they put out the record. But before that, Axl did the last dates and Brian hasn't really sang in years out live other than a couple of spots here and there with Dave Grohl or he sat in with somebody else. I think it was Billy Joel for a song here and there, but, you know, we don't know. I don't know, you know? He had some kind of special hearing stuff, I guess. And so we don't know about that. Also, if you listen to my podcast, the only podcast to have ACDC, thank you, Cliff Williams, bass player said, yeah, I'm not gonna tour. Now, this is not a tour. We don't know if ACDC is touring or anything. There's no, that's another question. Is it just a one-off? Are they gonna play four shows? Cliff Williams said, I'll play like four shows. And so we don't know about that. We don't know what the state of Ozzy is. Last I heard Ozzy, he's having a hard time with his balance. And, you know, he was not able to tour. I understand that. I thought maybe Ozzy would do like, an internship out in Vegas. A residency, though, where he could just kind of chill in one of those Dave Grohl Axel Rose chairs and just sing some tunes. So we don't know what's going on with Ozzy. And it's a long ways away, man. It's in October. That's a lot of months away. And then the interesting thing to me was GNR and Iron Maiden are playing together. And it looks to me like Iron Maiden's going on first. Now, look, there's no headliners or any of that, but they both play the same amount of time. But it would be tough to go on after Iron Maiden because those fucking guys bring the goods with airplanes and fires and Eddie and an army full of fans and hits. They're going to come with some massive number of the beast stuff, you know, they're going to come with a bunch of great stuff live after death style. And then I know they're not going to fuck around because I think there was a beef between the two years ago. So interesting, a lot of good stuff. And then Metallica and Tool could be one of the greatest bills I've ever seen right there. Metallica and Tool. Tool in the Desert on a good fucking handful of psychedelics could be probably one of the coolest things you would ever see. So this is going to be epic. And holy shit. So it's going to be great to see how this unravels over the next three, four months. Any kind of press releases, see if ACDC kicks something out saying, hey, man, Brian's in. We're on our 50 year anniversary. We're going to do the back in black record. If ACDC came out and said, we're going to do the back in black record. I mean, just that statement would be worth the ticket price alone. Come see us in the desert, play the back in black record. Come on, man. That would be fucking nutty. So I'm fired up about it. And if you aren't, just turn your computer off. You know, everybody's a goddamn critic. I'm not fucking back. OK. I had a great week this week of shows. I was out at the comedy store four spots this week. Last night I did Sunday night. The comedy store is slowly opening back up on Sunday nights again, which is epic. The comedy store has always opened 365 days a year. They were never closed until COVID. Then they opened back up. And it was tough to get employees for a while. And it was tough to just kind of get everything running again. Now it's up. It's just been killing it. The comedy store is better than ever. Just all three rooms sold out every night. And a lot of just magic going on in there. And last night was the first night of Sunday nights again, and I got to do the original room. And it just made me remember how great Sundays were, because it was really just a different vibe when you were working on Sundays at the comedy store. You could go in, really work some new shit. It was really a lot of super comedy fans that were in there every Sunday. So I'm glad to see that back. But I did a bunch of spots this week. But one thing that was really epic to me was I got a call from Dave Ketchin, who is the owner of Rancho De La Luna. That is the infamous Joshua Tree recording studio where so many epic records have been made. And Dave Ketchin and Brian BoC, Big Hands O'Connor, Brian O'Connor, Big Hands are out there nonstop recording. And they asked me to come out and maybe work on a tune or sing something. And now look, I don't do music anymore. And there's a reason why I don't do it, because I fucking love doing comedy. And I've said it over and over. I've done music for 25 years. And I'm good. I put that away. Rollins was talking about it recently. And I could relate to him. And I wasn't ever even at a level at Rollins. So in life, sometimes you find something later in life that you love. And so I just don't ever have that itch at all. Alls I think about is comedy every day. So they called me and they said, you want to come out. And this group of people, immediately, I said yes. Because first of all, I grew up listening to all the great desert music. Of course, Kias and later Josh with Queens of the Stone Age and what he turned that fucking just behemoth into. And Dave and Eagles of Death Metal and everything in that studio and Sonic Highways, that whole cool episode of Growl out there. And then my favorite episode ever of No Reservations with Bourdain and Josh driving through the desert in that T-bird and then ending up at Rancho and just recording and hanging out. It's got this fucking energy that I love. And so they gave me a call. They said, will you come out? I said, absolutely. And they said, oh, Brad Wilkes going to play drums. Head explodes right away. One of my favorite humans. I absolutely love Brad and Rage being a top 10 band of all time to me. And Brad's playing is insane. And then Dave on guitar, Brian on fucking bass. And me in the little tracking room, we're just working up trying to find some magic. And immediately it starts happening. And I realize, oh, this room has magic. And that is the bottom line. And it is unreal how we were just in there in a matter of like 40 minutes or 50 minutes. We had a tune going. And it was one of the greatest days I've had in a long time, other than opening for Burr at Red Rocks or LA Forum or the Bond Scott Bash, the last one. Those are like high fucking, high, high watermarks to me. And this just slid right in there. It's like day on the grains, us festival. Open them for Burr at Red Rocks. Open them for Burr at the Forum two times. And then the Bond Scott Bash, the last one, and then this. Those are like, those are just fucking mind boggling memories in my head. And it just meant so much to me to be out there and be part of that. It's basically the 30 year anniversary of the studio. And they're putting out a maybe a double record or whatever vinyl with all these different people coming together and writing and tracking songs and going to put it out. And they're not full bands. They're just people like me like pieced together and find some creative energy and put some shit out and celebrate everybody that had worked in there. And I got to tell you, man, it was just an incredible day out there all day. And then the end of the afternoon, we went to some secret taco shop in the back of a grocery store that I have never been in in Yucca. And I'm out there all the time. Didn't even know about it. They serve breakfast burritos at night, which is always my favorite. A breakfast burrito at night is my jam. And we sat around and talked to life and had laughs. And I realized if those guys said, hey, man, you want to make a record, a whole record, I would do it just for the fucking memories and the feel goods, the feel goods. I would do it for the feel goods. Anyway, so I don't know if it's going to my track will ever get finished or come out or whatever. It's not even about that at all. It was just about taking a day off out in the desert and going in and recording. And it was interesting to me because I hadn't used that muscle of songwriting in a long time. And it came right back instantly. And that's from doing something for 25 years. Like, you know, I want to get to a level in comedy where I'm OK right now at finding the bits. And but then it takes me a while to get them working and rocking, you know, months and months of creating it. But I want to get to a level in comedy. This is what I'm looking forward to getting to. At the same level I am at music as far as writing process, you know, being able to hear a groove and gears start instantly turning of like, oh, yeah, this would be a good melody. This would be a good melody over this part right here. Is it a verse or am I feeling a chorus here? Maybe we move this over here and make that diverse. And this will be the chorus. Just flipping stuff around here in it, shouting out melodies, coming up with key little lyrics here and there real fast, real fast. And a lot of my jokes come like that magically. And but then with jokes, you got to sit down and and expand on it. Where music, you know, you got a verse and then you got a chorus and you got a verse, then you got a bridge and then you got a chorus. You know, you can pretty much figure that out once you get rolling. But with jokes, you can have a two minute thing. And later in a few months, it could become 10 minutes. And how fast that becomes 10 minutes is the difference between someone like me and the big level dudes like a Burr or a say, Norm MacDonald, you know, where the joke you think is this, it's really about this. But no, it's not. It comes around. It's a full circle, the joke, you know, it's not just the surface of what you think it is, like the little throwaway fun thing I had of cocaine bear. You think it's just about the movie, but no, it's not. It's about three other things. So that's the the thing I'm looking forward to getting to in comedy that I can seem to do with music. Now, look, I'm not saying it was a hit song or anything. What I'm saying is how fast I can kind of hear it and start working on it. So looking forward to that phase to get to that level in comedy, which would be really cool. Anyway, thank you, Rancho and the Rancho family, Brad, Dave, Brian. And, you know, oh, I wanted to give a shout out to the fucking engineer slash producer out there. This is what I want to tell you guys. So there is a thing in the recording studio that happened 30 years ago or so, which was Pro Tools, I don't know when it first came out. But when Pro Tools first came out, Pro Tools, what it is, is it's the way that everybody records now on the computer. You know, you grid up tracks, you don't use tape. And I've been talking about how great Pro Tools is now. Like, if you listen to all this new Metallica, it just sounds so fucking good, man. And old days, Pro Tools was flat, digital recording was kind of it was kind of funky. But you did it because it was cheaper and it was convenient. You could record in your house or in your rehearsal studio, whatever. But there was a dude. Now, let me see if I can find this here. This that was working on the he was on the desk. He was on the desk. That's what some people call the mixing board. I was over on the desk mixing up some towns, mate. And some people call it the the table. He was on the table. This guy, Paul Frazier. And he's from Europe. And I got to tell you, other than Jaqir King, who I had on the podcast, who is and you want to follow Paul Frazier, his Instagram is Space Music Producer. But other than Jaqir King, I had never seen a guy this fucking good in the studio, not in your fucking hair, not in your ear, just understanding, I'm like, dude, maybe fly this right here. And then cut this and repeat it like three times. Without even sitting there going over with him, I would turn around, sip my topochico and he would be playing it and it would be fucking perfect. This guy is a wizard. And I tell you what, when you get a guy like that in the studio, that does not slow down the creative process. You are going to have a killer record because there's nothing more that kills a creative process than a guy that doesn't know what he's doing on the fucking on the desk, on the buttons, on the computer. Because you'll be like, hey, man, can you maybe fly in that vocal? Now, this is all technical terms. You know, can you fly in that vocal and maybe drop it over here? And then the guy goes, huh? And you got some intern and he's over there trying to fucking figure it out. And you're just going like, I'll be outside for a minute. And you come back in 20 minutes later, he still doesn't even know what the fucks. Is this what you're talking over? Creativity over. But when you got a guy like this guy, Paul Frazier, I've never heard of him. I go, what have you done? He's like, everything. Let's see what he has done, actually, because I didn't really Google him or anything because I just knew how fucking good he was that he had to. Let's see, producer. Let's see, producer. Let's see here, Paul Frazier. Motherfucker. Here it is. Oh, my God, I found it. OK, space is a British recording artist composer. Oh, wow, his pseudonym is Space. Oh, yeah, I feel like an idiot, too. Like, I didn't know anything about this guy. But I mean, I can't know everybody. He's four. His birthday is three days after mine. Wow. OK. Space list of projects include work with the idols. What a fucking band. That's right. He told me he worked with idols, which is a unbelievable band, never not nothing. The prodigy, of course, he worked with the prodigy because that's how fucking good he is with the computers. Do nothing and Jamie Lindman. As well as the score for 2020 film, The Owners. I'm telling you, man, this guy I'm looking at his discovery. And it is deep. Idols, EP meet, which is a great fucking EP. Anyway, the prodigy, the day is my enemy, 2015. Anyway, my point is the guy need I needed to shout him out because I just couldn't believe how great he was. God, man, it was it was just an honor to work with those guys out there. I mean, Brad Wilk. Oh, my God. Anyway, so which, oh, by the way, I wanted to bring up this this new band that I heard. I don't know if it's a band or a person, but Eve's tumor. And it is unbelievable. The song that I really love is Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood. And the record is called. Praise the Lord who choose, but which does not consume Eve's tumor. Why VES and then tumor TUMOR. Record came out 2023. It is fucking great. Artist born Sean Bowie has a gift of presenting sounds we know in ways we don't. So while the surface of praise of Lord Eve's TUMOR's fifth record, oh, shit, might remind you of late 90s, early 2000s, Electro Rock, the album's twisting songs, but structures and restless detail. Are phenomenal. I'll tell you what, so give it a spin, man, Eve's tumor. It is it just blew my somebody sent it over to me and they said, hey, this is next level. When somebody says that, I'm like, all right, let's see what you think is next level. And it was he sent me the video on YouTube and it's fucking great. So I'm looking forward to digging into that while I'm out here in Vegas, listening to some records, catching up on some movies and writing some jokes, my Vegas thing, you know. Next up here, what do we have, my friends? Um, oh, oh, I wanted to give you guys this shout out. We did the watch episode last week, Kevin Christy and I, and it was the Watches and Wonders. And if you haven't heard the episode or if you don't give a fuck about watches, I get it, OK, but Watches and Wonders is the big show where Rolex and the big brands show off their new watches for the year. And we covered pretty much everything we loved on it. Well, this year, Rolex did something that I thought was an April Fool's move also. And they've never done this before. At the end of the week, the show is a week long. They dropped one last watch just to fuck everybody up. And this is the 60 year anniversary of the greatest Rolex ever made, the Daytona, the Daytona. So at the end of the week, they dropped a Daytona. And it's it was it's first of all, I've never even heard of this from Rolex. And I am a deep watch guy. And so is Kevin Christy. And so is a lot of my friends. I've never heard of this. But anyway, at the end of the week, Daytona dropped a rare Rolex drop, the rare Daytona gem set. And this is what they said on the last day of watches and wonders, we reveal one of the year's most surprising releases. The new Daytona is part of Rolex's off catalog twenty twenty three collection. This is incredible because basically what they're going to be doing is you got your standard Rolexes that are already hard to get. But they're on the website. This is what we offer. And then they're going to offer some off catalog custom shit for the super ballers, which is wise, man, because these people get bored with just a regular Rolex. If you're LeBron James, you're like, man, I have Rolex. You know, fuck, I got them all. Who cares? But they got an off catalog collection for the most exclusive models reserved for brands, VIP clients. So this Daytona is it's basically all rubies and diamonds. And it is insane. And it's called it's four hundred and forty thousand dollars. You have to be a serious bowler. And I bet there's a line. I bet there's a line right now for one. People are like, immediately, someone like Jay-Z. Jay-Z wears a million dollar watch all the time. He goes down to the fucking basketball games wearing a million dollar watch. That is a full fuck you. I am crazy rich. This is a million dollar watch and I drove here my five million dollar Bentley. Anyway, unreal, man. So I wanted just to throw that out because Rolex has never done anything like that at the end of the week. Put out a custom watch for some off catalog shit. That is just rad to me. Let's give a quick shout out real quick to some new Patreoners. Dan Badrock. Thank you. Emily Thorner is back. She is a longtime Dell raiser and friend and she is joined back on. She's busting her ass out there, going to college in some cold city. Fortune Farms. Thank you so much. And that's it for the new Patreoners. But if you want to join the Patreon, it's Patreon.com slash Dean Del Ray. I also want to read off the an ad right now. We have the sponsor has returned. Hello, fresh. 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And now she's like, take me back at salmon season. Anyway, those are the sponsors today. And I appreciate the sponsors. They really help out. All right, let's get back into the show, people. Let's get back into the show. What else I want to talk about here. Oh, yes, I saw the crime Davis documentary. I've been I'm real late to the game because I don't have a lot of time to watch stuff. So what happened was I was going on to watch the the U2 documentary on Disney Plus and whoever Disney Plus code I was using, it no longer worked. So I was fired up. Here I am. It was a Tuesday night. I'm at home. I go, all right, I want to watch the U2 doc. I love you too. I'm not one of those people that trash you, too. I think they're one of the greatest bands ever. Octung Baby, still one of the greatest tours I've ever seen and one of the greatest records ever made. So I'm ready to watch this. They've got this new record out where they're reinterpretating some of their biggest hits. It's fantastic. I'm ready to watch it. Letterman's on it. Code doesn't work. I'm like, ah, fuck. So now I'm ready. I want to watch something. So I go, fuck it. Let's go over to Netflix here. I use some other code, some other friends code. Thank you. And I'm skimming through the documentaries and I was going to watch the David Geffen one. And I thought that's what I pressed. And it turned out it was the Clive Davis talk. Now, Clive Davis and David Geffen. And there's there's only like four or five of these people in the record business that are actual. What's the other guy, Amit, the guy that signed Zeppelin from Atlantic Records. These guys are true fucking geniuses. All right. They believed in art. They believed in good music. They believed in supporting the artist, whether it be fucking Zeppelin or Springsteen or somebody seeing you two or even Eve's fucking the new new shit I'm listening to. Anyway. It's amazing to watch this Clive Davis documentary. His story is so unbelievable. I love when I see people's stories and you're like, what? What the fuck? This guy basically was going to law school. And gets out of law school and, you know, this big fucking Sony, Columbia, all that. They want him to run the Fender Guitar Musical Instrument Department. And he's like, yeah, I don't really know much about that. You know, and they're like, OK, they give it to somebody else. And they go, OK, well, what we want you to do then is, you know, come in, be the lawyer here. And then all said, they just make them like the head of A&R. Like, yeah, you know, scout out some music. And and the fucking shit this guy signed not ever, ever being in the record business ever. I mean, look at this, did Springsteen. OK. Springsteen. You know, that's back on the first two records, you know, you have to really hear. You know, I mean, everybody was thinking, oh, this is the New Dylan. But those first two records, you know, blinded by the light and all that, the jazzy lineups, which I fucking love. Greetings. The first two Springsteen records, you know, they're they're crazy good. But you you if you hear that, you're not going like, mmm, big hits, these are going to be big hits. It wasn't about that. He's just like, this guy's a goddamn artist. Let's sign him. OK. Springsteen doesn't sell any records. They're getting ready to shit can him if you saw that the documentary. You know, born to run. If that didn't hit, he was gone. So look, he does Springsteen. Then he signs Santana. Uh, late in Santana's career when people are like, what are you doing? Sign in Santana. And then he does that supernatural record. He goes, well, I'm going to get Santana. I'm going to put him together with other people. And that record sells like 50 million or 30 million records. This guy was on and on and on. He gets a after his first run a little while, he gets caught up in this this phony payola lawsuit scheme and he loses everything. It's unbelievable. They shit can him there. He's out and he had nothing. They had nothing on him. And even Rolling Stone did a story like, hey, the turned out this is a bogus fucking scam. You know, there's no payola going on here. There's no proof. And the judge, the main judge was like, this is all bullshit. And it's just how you get fucking gaffled in life by bullshit. You know, somebody says this than other people. And they just like, yeah, yeah, he, yeah, payola. And then when he comes off innocent, it's in the deep, deep, deep back pages of the New York Times. Turns out Clive Davis didn't have anything to do with the payola way back after the obituaries. Anyway, this guy signed Janice Joplin. This is how it all starts. He gets the job. He goes up to Monterey Pop. He doesn't even know anything about the record business. He doesn't know anything about hippie music, anything. They're playing fucking Sony, Colombia. They're signing like polka ax and shit like that. He goes, smokes a couple of joints, sees Janice. It changes his fucking life. Signs her and the rest is history. I'm telling you, you got to see this goddamn fucking documentary. Earth, Wind and Fire. I love this guy. He's like in the middle of the seventies, we got to get into some R&B and soul music. Earth, Wind and Fire. All right. And then he, he, he's got, he's at a Rista after the Sony thing. I know this is kind of fucking all over the board, but I'm just kind of remembering it and it was just so good. But he's at a Rista and he's like, I got this track record killing it. And they're like the old ageism. They're like, hmm, he's about 66. We got to get rid of him. And he's doing nothing but killing it. Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston. What? And then he fucking gets Jay records going. And they have huge hits with fucking Puff Daddy and all hip hop and all that work. It's unbelievable. This guy's still out there killing it. So go see the Cried Davis doc, man. Oh, you guys are all like, hey, man, we saw that like three years ago. I know I'm one of those dicks. I seen it so late. It's like breaking bad. I didn't get it and start watching it till the third season. And then I was like, you guys watching breaking bad. They're like, what are you talking about? Yeah, dude, we've been watching it. So, oh, my God, man. Check that shit out. Anyway, I hope you guys can make it out to Vegas. If not, I will be in Texas with Bill Burr. Texas A&M, an arena out there, April, I think, 14th. Yeah, that's what it is. Also, Santa Rosa just got put up on the gig list. I mean, Santa Rosa in June, I believe. All the shows are on my website, dindlray.com. And the merch is up there too. And remember, the most important thing is I do this podcast, hoping you love it, but also hoping that you'll come out to some live comedy shows and and and enjoy it. You know, I will be seeing you guys out there. Patrioners, I'll see you this week on a zoom. I will do a live zoom from Vegas for the Patrioners. And I will also do a bonus episode for you guys. So that'll be fun, too. Candles are definitely lit here and thank you for tuning in. Have a great Easter or whatever you celebrate this week, whatever it is, it's all good. I'm going to go out and drive some cars out at the Dream Race track this week. Hopefully I'll get to drive the new GT3 Porsche dream, dream to drive that. So I'll see you guys soon. Thank you for tuning in. And oh, don't forget, I'm going to ask you this one thing to do. I ask you to do things because I put the podcast out for you. You can do something for me. Go to my Instagram and share all of the comedy clips in your stories. It takes about one second to share them in your stories and say, hey, follow Dean Delray, check out his comedy. It takes one second to share to your stories and also share them on your Twitter, your Facebook, whatever. Let's get these comedy clips out. I got a lot of clips going up and I really like this comedy I'm doing right now. I'm pretty proud of it. It's funny. I just watched a show from 2017 and I used to think I was pretty good back then. Oh, man, I watched it. I was like, whoa, yeah, the people were laughing, but it wasn't to me. I'm glad that I watched it and I'm glad I didn't watch it and go. Oh, I was better back then. That would have been horrible. Oh, I was better back then. I watched it and I was like, all right, there's probably like two clips that I could cut out of the hour and post them up. I'm going to post them up this week. But oh, man, it was just it was great to feel a little cringed on it. You know, people are like, how come you don't have a special out? Man, I'm glad that thing wasn't out at the time. I thought it was the greatest. And right now I truly believe in this comedy I'm doing. That's why I'm putting it up, you know. So anyway, share it and keep the candles lit. Hope you guys are good. Thank you for tuning in to episode number 600. And what is it, 80, right? Was that 680? I can't remember. I love you guys. See you.