 Episode 744 of let the be talk is here on the Monday. What is it? April 8th? And episodes a little late because I was fucking out late last night. I went to go see Springsteen at the forum and holy shit. I don't know how he does this. Seventy four years old played for three hours, 24 minutes. Because I came home last night and had to lay down for hours. So fucking hats off to the Superman. Definitely one of those rare, rare gems in rock and roll. I can't really think of anybody. I mean, you can you could say Jagger. But I don't I put I put Bruce above Jagger as far as a performer because Bruce is playing guitar. He's singing. He's playing a zillion songs. And, you know, he's not going off stage for a couple of tunes like Keith Richards plays some. And he he's he's fucking up there the whole time. Yeah. There we are. We're jumping into the episode right away, which, by the way, thank you for joining me today. And I appreciate every week. Solo episode is here tomorrow. I will be dropping the annual Watches and Wonders Bazzle World, which is no longer, but Watches and Wonders is here with my man, Bo Gore and Kevin Christie. So that will be out tomorrow. So it's going to be like two episodes in two days. Sometimes I think about just doing five days a week, 15 minute episodes. See if that fucking stirs up your engine of ADD. Just an episode each day. That's 15 minutes. I don't know. Got to try something, man. I'm on my twelfth year and you got to fucking mix it up. I don't know. Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey for bonus episodes. Lots of them. I just put one up on Thursday. Make sure you subscribe. Let me just give a quick shout out and then I'll get back to the Springsteen concert. Hold on. Let's go to the Patreon here, people. These people are gods to me. Sebastian Brantus joined up four days ago. Thank you, Kevin. Malera, LL L. Chris Doherty, Frank Ariola. I think I gave Frank a shout out last week, but all good. Anyway, patreon.com got some bonus episodes. How many of them, man? I think it's over a hundred and fifty. It's a hundred and fifty five bonus episodes of Let There Be Talk. Is anybody listening? Is anybody listening to the podcast? Get out there. We want to bring on the people. Slipping into the Bruce Springsteen mode. What a what a performer. Did not like Bruce growing up. I grew up during the born in the USA era. My mom loved him. Went and saw him. She did rest in peace. Mom love you. She saw him on the born in the USA tour in 1984. When I was just peaking on, you know, screaming for vengeance. And what else is out right around then? Just all of the great, great metal iron maiden. All of that stuff, Saxon. Throw in a little bit of Ozzy. You know, what diary of a madman? Bark at the moon, Blizzard of Oz, that kind of stuff. Born in the USA. I was like, I don't get it. Then later in life, it hit me like a fucking ton of lead. And I fell in love. And it all happened on the ghost. Ghost of Tom Jode era saw that tour by accident at the Neil Young Bridge benefit, and I've told the story before, but that has. That has kickstarted. That kickstarted basically the insane love of Bruce Springsteen. I've seen him many, many times, including a few years ago in New York City at one of the most incredible performances I've ever seen from a human. The Broadway show. I cried, I laughed and I thought about a lot of stuff in my own life. And it's very rare we're at a concert and it mixes up so many emotions. So. That being said, I went to the forum last night and I want to give a shout out to my man, Mike, I'm not going to say his last name. So people don't try to Google him and go, hey, can you get me into Bruce, man? I'm a big fan. But my buddy, Mike, who is a huge supporter of my comedy and my podcast and a great friend happened to work for Bruce and hooked it up. Deluxe style, 100 percent. They had like a snake pit type of thing where there was a general admission area where you could get in there and not be too crowded. One thing that did bother old man Dean is it was nice and loose in there. But there was some fucking jackasses who every five minutes. I really can't believe how much booze people need to drink at a Bruce Springsteen concert. I'm sitting there, stone cold sober, getting so fucking high on raw emotions that's coming from Bruce. And I'm blown away. There's this four people in front of me. I moved around away from them and somehow they kept fucking finding me like a shit magnet. Somehow I got made a medal and here comes the the magnet of shit. Just sticks to me. I went solo so I could fucking ditch him. But the amount of booze that all these fucking people were drinking was insane. I get it, the the venue sells booze, but holy shit, they're the big fucking beers, too. It was looked like it was maybe two cans of beer in the big ass plastic cup. And these fucking people. Man, they drink in the booze and then talking. Man, I'm fucking, you know, I'm waiting for the eclipse. Yeah, fucking you got a goddamn genius up there. One of the last to do it at the highest fucking level. And they're over there talking about the fucking eclipse. Get the fuck out of here. Man, I was steaming. But I finally got away from them and got myself a nice spot and took it in, man. And I was, you know, with Bruce, the list, I love Bruce and I love the dead now, which I didn't like the dead when I was growing up to bands that were just too deep for heavy metal Dean. And then you find them later and you're like, thank God, thank God I have some, you know, genius art to dig into. But there's a lot of Bruce songs that I don't like. And there are so many that I love that you get a little bit. You know, you're like, I only want this fucking era, Bruce. And I'm sure there's people out there that just want born to run. There's people that just want the river. He did that river tour. There's people that just want darkness. There's people that want the born in the USA. But with me, I like a lot of newer Bruce stuff over the last 20 years, stuff like the Rising Record and some stuff on Wrecking Ball and all of Ghost of Tom Jode, all of it. I fucking love. So I'm not like some guy that's like, I only like the first four records. Because that is just not true. But when it comes to the set list, man, I get it, Bruce needs to, you know, get off on it himself. He's been playing that born to run darkness river stuff most of his life. So respect to him. And I got lucky. A lot of it was in the Dean love, love, love line. Let me, let me look at the set real quest, opened with open all night. And I didn't even that song. I was like, ah, what is this? But then he fucking kills it with Lonesome Day, which I love that song. Lonesome Day. Fucking great. Prove it all night. Two hearts. I like two hearts. Ghost OK song. Letter to you. OK. Promise land. Unbelievable song. Death to my hometown. You know, I could do without it. Tougher than the rest is wife came out. She was only on stage for two songs. She used to be in the band full time. I talked about it on a bonus episode a couple days ago. She does not really tour with Bruce anymore. And they haven't really made a big deal or said anything about it. But she did tougher than the rest and fire. And then it kind of kicks into gear. Hungry Heart comes on and I posted it on my Instagram. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen among life at a concert. I have never seen this. There were two old ladies. One looked really old, I would say, maybe around 81, 2, 3, maybe 85. And there's another woman next to her. And I was thinking, well, that must be her daughter or a sister. And they had a sign that said, please play Hungry Heart. Bruce is fucking staring at him. He's singing. And I just mean I started like tearing up because they turned the sign and said, this is our very first concert. And I thought to myself, this is incredible. You know, like I said on my Instagram, I start a comedy at 44. People are like, you're too old. What are you doing? You know, and I just thought for a good 20 minutes, it took me out of the concert for a minute, I was going through the emotions and the what it would take for them to get to the show, because to get to the form is brutal. And you're at an age, let's say 81 years old. And maybe that's your daughter. I think it might have been the sister because she might have been like 75 or something. You can see the video in my Instagram. So I sat there and thought, not only is this their first concert, but they don't need to ever see one again because it'll be all downhill from there on for them. I mean, they are seeing the fucking best. And I thought, look at them, man, out there living a life. Wherever they live, I could just imagine the scenario. You know, the mom to the daughter or the sister to the younger sister. You know, I've never seen Bruce. I haven't either. You know, we should go. Yeah, we should go. I don't know where they live. I don't know how they got there. But the first thing you got to do is have enough money at that age, which a lot of people don't. Old people are living on a fixed income and it's brutal out there, especially if they live in California. Unbelievable. You got to have enough money to get a ticket. Then you got to get on the internet. So maybe they got some kids that got them, whatever. Then you got to get to the concert. But before you go to the concert, you stop at fucking, I don't know, Kinkos and you get a giant piece of pink fucking paper and you make this two-sided sign, please play Hungry Heart and turn it over. This is our very first concert ever. Now you got to make a sign. You get back in the car or maybe Uber there, whichever, still fucking brutal. Then you get to the venue. You got to walk pretty far into the forum. You got your fucking sign. You're ready to go. Meanwhile, there's people in your community, wherever you live, they're going, what are you doing, Mildred? You're too old to go to a concert. You're not a child. Quit trying to fucking relive old days. It's dangerous out there. People your age don't go to concerts. Mildred and Gertrude, what are you doing? Gertrude, bringing your sister to that concert. Just fucking negative chatter. Like when I start in comedy, you're too old. What are you doing? Then they get into the venue. They have primo seats behind Max Weinberg. And now they got to hope Bruce sees him. A couple of beautiful old women back there just holding the sign. Yay. Also, they got to stand up for three eight hours, 24 minutes, which I'm fucking having a hard time doing. Bruce is rocking in at seventy four. I'm standing there in my fucking boots going, I should have worn my new balance. What am I dumb? But I wanted to look cool, man. I want to look cool at the concert. And then Bruce, there he is. He turns, he sees him. They break into hungry heart and my fucking my heart just right now. I'm thinking about my mom or my mom just rocking out at the born in the USA concert. And I'm just I'm just fucking, you know, I'm just overwhelmed with emotions. And then I'm thinking about my fucking first time seeing Bruce and and just everything going through me. And there I am just deep into emotions and loving every minute of it in between these beer drinking fucking Eclipse talking piece of shits. It was it was definitely the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my two thousand, three thousand concerts I've been to. It was unreal. And Bruce just giving it all to him. Just every guy hungry. Unbelievable. Anyway, great set list. Sherry Darling, somebody threw a sign up. He played that, you know, the East Street ban. Holy shit, man. Let me give the proper glory for the East Street ban, because I want to tell you something that really blows my mind. OK. All right, of course, we know we got Nils there and he's fantastic. And then Jake Clements has taken over on the sax for his uncle who passed away. Then you got the Steve Van Zandt, who's been the band leader since fucking, you know, the 70s. Max Weinberg, absolutely killer. And and then rest in peace. Danny, who played the B3. Roy Bitten, I'm going to get into this. Gary Talent, Roy Bitten and Max Weinberg. Absolutely fucking blew my mind last night. I was focusing on them because I was thinking about, wait a minute. First of all, Bruce. Yeah, he's in shape and he's playing for three hours, 24 minutes. But you're in the East Street ban. You've been in the East Street ban for 40 years. And if you want to stay in the East Street ban, you have to stay in shape like Bruce. You have to, you know, not have arthritis. You got to be wanting to tour and stand up there for three hours, 24 minutes, giving it your all. And at that moment, I was like, oh, I would want to be the keyboard player in this band so I can sit down for the three hours, 24 minutes. But the insanity of how good Roy Bitten is on the piano, if you go and listen to the live records, the 75 Hammersmith, which is the born to run tour, and then the 78 darkness, I believe it is tour, those are both on streaming platforms. And really concentrate on what that fucking guy is playing on piano. And then you get it into the base of Gary. It is unreal. The nuances and the subtleties and how fucking much this is part of the sound of Bruce, what Bruce, I've seen a many times acoustic and just kill it. Bruce is fucking a freak of nature. But to, you know, have these guys that lived around your area. The the fluke of that, like this guy and that guy and this guy. This would be the East Street band. And then. They're still alive. Most of them. It is unreal. And the bass is just fucking cool. I was like watching him just do is just fucking killing it. Beautiful, beautiful, man. The highlight of the night for me and mostly because it's always my highlight on Bruce bootlegs from the 70s is Spirit in the Night. And it is such an incredible song. I don't know how he wrote that. I wrote a lot of songs in my life. No way could I ever get to the level of like Spirit in the Night. It is unreal. And that's about mid show. It was song 13. We were only about an hour and a half in and might came up to me. That's we're only halfway there. I know how long he plays and it does not feel long. It's like when I saw Rollins do spoken word, you're so engaged in it. Unless you're those beer, drink and perfumes, you're so into it that you're like, holy shit, we've been in here three hours, 24 minutes. Spirit of the Night into one of the greatest newer songs, My City of Ruin. And I remember when I was touring with the wallflowers at the end of the night, we did an encore and, you know, I would sing a chorus out of a chorus and a verse out of My City of Ruin's in the middle of I believe we are doing the band the way I can't remember which one, but I would bust that out in the middle. My City of Ruin, it is so great, man. Then Night Shift, which is unbelievable. Bruce has a giant band on this tour. He's got like six background singers and six horns and these background singers came out and they did Night Shift by the Commodores and it crushed. Oh, my God. And Last Man Standing was a tribute to his first band, Bruce being the Last Man Standing, it's on a recent record, Wrecking Ball off of Wrecking Ball. Then the great Tom Morello comes out. And it's funny because I did not notice the entire show that this Marshall Half Stack was up there and it's the same rig that Tom's played since day one of Rage Against the Machine that chewed up fucking Marshall head. And he came out with that that bad ass, I think it's a Kramer with the fucking hockey puck, hockey stick headstock. And he just slid out, did the solo for 41 shots, which is a beautiful fucking dark tune, then he stayed up there and he did the ghost of Tom Jode. Because, you know, he did a tour with Bruce, which is fucking wild. And he even sang a verse of Ghost of Tom Jode. And he absolutely just smoked it. And Bruce was giving them they were going solo to solo to solo. And Bruce was fucking seventy four. Just fucking I'll post it on my Instagram tomorrow. He was killing. He was killing. You know, I looked at Bruce for a good three hours. I was looking at him. I was like, holy shit, man. You know, this guy looks better than anybody in the biz. And I really stared at him for a while. And I thought, you know, if Bruce was a crushing actor, which he was on Curb last Sunday, the the final curb. But if Bruce was a true fucking actor and I've said this about Sean Penn, Bruce could play Sonny Barger towards the end of his life, Sonny, that era of Sonny 60 to 70, 75. Because Bruce looks like fucking Sonny Barger. A hair meets if Joe Strummer was still alive. That's, you know, that's what Bruce reminds me of, like just a Joe Strummer meets Sonny Barger, just American up there, but not in the cheesy way of like, American, man, America, just authentic. Even though Bruce has said over the years that he has felt like a phony singing about working on cars and racing and he didn't really do any of that. You know, Peter Benchley didn't fucking get in the cage with Jaws. And, you know, good writers can conjure up incredible visions for you to dive into, you know, there's people that are writing autobiographies and there's people that are writing, you know, full fiction. They're both great if they're done well. But Bruce, man, God damn, he looks fucking great. Skin is smooth. He's got perfect fucking hair. He wasn't even sweating, really. I love to know his workout regimen, what he eats. If he's on a little bit of Roids or whatever. I, you know, fuck, man, this guy is he's inspiring, man, not just his music and his art, but his his health. That should be the thing that inspires most of those fucking 29 beer drinking fools in there. You know, like he's going to be alive longer than you fucking 41 beers. Ghost of Tom Joe shout out Tom Marilla killing it. Then they go into the rising, which I like. I saw the rising tour a few times. He played the entire rising record. I should have only seen it once because it's beautiful. You see it a couple of times and I got shit all of the rising again. But the rising's a great, great record. And so is the ghost of Tom Joe as far as the records from the last 20 years or so. Then hits with Badlands, unbelievable Thunder Road. He doesn't even leave the stage for an encore. They all stand up front. They give a fucking thank you, Los Angeles. Then they put their instruments back on the house lights. Come on. And it's like full festive party for the next 40 minutes. Born to run. Rosalita, glory days, dancing in the dark, 10th Avenue, freeze out. Detroit Medley and then I'll see in my dreams solo acoustic. Beautiful, beautiful, upset it over and over. I got about four more concerts in me. And I'm glad that was one of them. And if Bruce decides to do that Broadway concert play one man show in LA, I'll see that again. Thank you, Bruce Springsteen, for the years of unbelievable, unbelievable music and man, just inspiring for me to constantly try to do something good, which is really fucking hard in the world of art. You got to fucking have this barometer. It's like, oh, man, do they want shit? Pussy fart jokes or do they like fucking, you know, smart jokes? I'm not the smartest dude by far. Got a lot of street smarts. I've been around the world multiple times. I love good art, so I'm always trying to get there. But it is balance, you know, even with Bruce, he's got a hungry heart. But then he's got Adam raise a cane. So I get it, man. I get it. And I wish they played Adam raise a cane. I wish they played Point Blank. I wish they played Youngstown, which is a fucking head spinner tune. There's a lot of tunes I wish he played, but it's all good, man. I got it on my streaming platforms, which, by the way, I just saw this Instagram post about the streaming farms that are robbing newer bands of royalties because record companies have hired these streaming farms and like China and stuff where they just have like 5,000 phones on like sticks. And somebody goes around and just constantly or AI does it and just picks such and such song to where it just keeps getting streamed. And then they get, you know, they they get royalties and they get in the top 10 and people are like, this is fucking bullshit. And I'm like, this is old. The the fucking business has always been rigged, my friends. It's always been fixed. A lot of people don't even remember 20 years ago, SoundScan came out where when you bought a CD at a at a record store, the guy would go and it would scan as a sale. And then late night, one fucking Tower Records employee would get some bump money from somebody at Warner Brothers in a bag and he's in the back old school. Then before that, a little thing called Payola that you've seen a million documentaries on where the record companies go down to the fucking radio stations and go play Van Halen one. Here's five thousand bucks and a sack of cocaine. Play it until you fucking die. So it's always been rigged. And I say it over and over on the podcast. It's the people that make the artist the winner. Of course, you got the scammers. There's always going to be that. But there's the other thing, the power of the people. If they go, I like this and they tell a friend, I like this and they tell a friend, I like this and they buy a ticket to see you live. They join your Patreon or they whatever it is, they go to screening of whatever you got out of film or or they go to an art gallery and they see your paintings. It's the power of the people will always beat the fucking stream farms. So, you know, that's why I'm always saying, please leave a review on iTunes. And, you know, after a while, you went out of a gas of like asking you guys. I'm fucking happy that you're even listening to it. The podcast, you know, and that's just the fucking truth. But I do throw that out once in a while. And of course, I know it sounds like a goddamn broken record, but this stupid shit here where you got to get into the algorithms and you got to, you know, I had a meeting yesterday with someone. You know, you got to do this with your YouTube. And then you got to fake and make it this thumbnail. And then you got to do this. And then you got to host it right at 11. If you don't, you're going to. It's just like and I'm not complaining. I've been doing comedy now for 14 and a half years. And I love every second of it. There's been some huge ups and some huge fucking downs, which, by the way, Comedy Store turned 52 yesterday. And I saw something that was interesting on there. They had a they had a 52 anniversary yesterday. And I read the post by the Comedy Store. I'm not quite sure who writes the post there. Sometimes they switch. I don't know if it's Peter Schor. I don't know if it's the Instagram people or I don't know who it is. But I was reading this and it said 52 years ago today, we opened the original doors to the first time we had no idea the adventure. We were starting when the first comedian grabbed the microphone. Over the years, there has been endless joy, laughter, heartache, surprise, frustration, luck, hope and love. When I read that, if somebody asked me about my my time at the Comedy Store in the last 14 years to right now today, I would go over the years. There's been endless joy, laughter, heartache, surprise, frustration, luck, hope and love. And there is no bigger truth in a sentence than that for me at the Comedy Store. It's it's been a place that's been fantastic to me. It's been a place that's been frustrating. It's been a place of great friends and family. It's been a place of joy, tears. I've lost some friends there. And I've said it many times. If the Comedy Store was not in Los Angeles, I don't think I would live here. You know, I bust my ass to be part of that. And, you know, I'm constantly the squeaky wheel that gets the the oil once in a while. So happy 52 anniversary. Fuck, man, you're almost the same age as me. And the history of that place is absolutely fantastic and historic. It has to be a historic landmark soon because there's no place more insane than that place of what it's created and the talent that's been in there. Unreal. I was talking I was talking to Anne Wilson, they her camp reached out to me to do some comedy with Hart last week. I couldn't do it because I was on the road, but maybe something coming up. Who knows? And that was that would be a band I would go out and open for because. I mean, Hart is just it is that band's incredible to me. And it would be wild. Just, you know, a couple of shows here or there or whatever. But she was talking about how she hung out at the comedy store in the 80s with Sam Kinnison. And I think she said Eddie Murphy. So the amount of fucking people that have been in that place, not just the comedians, but all kinds of other people in the world that have drawn in there. It's fucking wild. Max Weinberg was at the store a couple of nights ago from the East Street band. So very cool. Fifty two years. And I have enjoyed my time there and looking forward to many other years. Hopefully you just never know. There's no guarantee that you're going to go on there unless you're a big fucking star, your big star man, you're going on every fucking night at any club in town because they need you. And so it's a constant. But I just want to get big enough to where I could work there five nights a week. That's all that's all I want to do. And then go on the road at the end of the year. Record a special or whatever you do, you know, tour bus, but work at the store every night at the highest level. That to me is doing art. You know, it's more than any club I've ever done. My whole life changed the day I walked on that patio. December 6, 2009. And I'll never forget it. Thank you, comedy store. Speaking of opening for bands, my good friend, Marcus King, who I did two months with. What was that like almost two years ago now? Was that a year and a half? I don't know if fucking time just goes by. It's a blur. It is a goddamn blur, man, the time. Marcus King. I have been promoting on this podcast for years and years. And he has been, you know, one of my favorites in the last 20 years, hands down. Marcus King, Rival Sons, you know, Neil Francis, these bands that hit me and I'm just I just fall in love with them. So Marcus King, when we were on tour, revealed to me that he was on the download working on a record with Rick Rubin. And I was so excited because you guys know how much I love Rick Rubin. And you know how much I love Marcus King. And so he had played me some of it. And I was like, wow, this is way different. And I've said it over the last year or so that I was fired up, that he was taking a giant leap away from his kind of core crowd. Let's see who takes the ride with Marcus. You know, early on he's kind of blues rocky and he's out in that blues scene. And then he kind of steps up into the kind of zeezy top black crows kind of sound without the Marcus King band. And now he has stepped into a total fucking change. And the balls to do that. The balls to do it a completely different sound. It sounds like Marcus, his voice is there, but it's not burning guitar. It's what I love the most about music. And I've talked to Marcus about it many times. It's soul rock to the highest level. And for Rick and him, Marcus, to put this together. It's just unbelievable out there as Shangri-La. And I've said it before. It's kind of a Maxwell, D'Angelo, Adele, Aretha Franklin. It's it's got that heavy vibe with some cool, subtle drum loops and real sparse arrangements. Lots of, you know, world sir and B3 keys, piano in there. Just unreal mood swings came out on Friday. And I'm going to tell you dig into this record and enjoy it and and and take the fucking ride, man. I'm going to give a couple shout outs to some tunes that I really love on this record. This is how I know he's not really worried about. You know, anybody that plays music or comedy, they want to be successful mostly so they can keep doing this for the rest of their lives. But he's got a song on there that is so catchy, but it's got the word fucking in it. And you know, there's probably some people other than Rick that would be like, well, you know, can't you change that? You know, mess it mess in my life up again. Like that famous thing of Jim Morrison. Can't you say, you know, instead of what was that? Uh, what is it? Come on, come on. We can get higher or whatever on the Ed Sullivan show. Oh, instead of saying higher, can we can we get together? It was some ridiculous thing. And he and he goes out there and just looks right into the camera. Hi, just a big fuck you. Anyway, fucking my life up again. Great, great tune. The title track Moons, Moonswings is just beautiful. But then I I just lose my mind on Soul at Screams and Save Me and Hero. These tunes are just beautiful. I mean, I could almost see people going like, hey, I don't need a Marcus. You know, don't don't break what's not, you know, don't fix what's not broken, you know, just, you know, maybe a panda upon those tunes off on to Beyonce or something. You know, maybe you outside writer or something. It's like, nah, man. I like all kinds of music. And I love that about him. We've talked very, very deep and long on the bus about just just putting out music that that you love because you got to go out and play it. And that old old saying, watch out where you get famous for, you know, you go out, you're some blues, blues. You know, like, oh, my God, he's the new, the new savior of blues. Nah. You know, it's like when I start a comedy. You're a rock comic. You're a biker comic. No, I'll take the long hard route. I want to be me. And sometimes I do ride a motorcycle and I used to play music. And, you know, I also like. I like architecture. Maybe I'm in the architecture comic. Here comes the architect. Anyway. Big love for you, Marcus. And I'm super proud of you. And I've always loved you since the day I met you and since the day I heard your music, authentic, I love your family. I love your dad. Great. And I love your band. All the guys shout out the sleeveless. They're on tour right now with Chris Stapleton. They're doing fucking stadiums. Opening for Chris Stapleton. It's just so great to see I miss him all the time. And I never, ever will forget those two months on the road. Everybody in there, the good people and the ups and the downs of that tour. The incredible driver, Jason. Fantastic. And Drew Drew Smithers over there on the guitar. My man, Jack Schiller, groove on the drums. All those guys, I love them. And I can't thank them enough for letting me have the opportunity to go out and tour with them and do that whole thing. I'll never forget it. Mood swings out now. Friday on is that American records? Let me look real quick, because I know Rick Rubin signed it. What this is why I hate streaming. It's Republic Records, a division of UMG. So there you go. And, you know, streaming, the only reason I hate streaming mostly is because the artists don't get paid. And I will ask you this, if you are streaming. Maybe stay off Spotify and try to find who pays the most for the streaming. I'm not sure who it is these days. It switches around, but I'm a I'm an Amazon guy. Also, check out title. And I'm into that because I heard they pay a little better. And the quality is fucking phenomenal. So many people send me over Spotify links, check out my band, dude. They send me a Spotify link. They don't even ask if I have Spotify. They obviously don't listen to the podcast. I spent years trashing them. I was going Eddie Vedder style, trashing Ticketmaster. You know, I remember Marin going, you know, you got you're not going to win that battle, dude, just just fucking, you know, give in. And that's a sad thing, because I think if the top 50 groups took their music off of Spotify and all the streamers for a month, you know, after two weeks, the streamers would be like, OK, let's renegotiate a fair royalty for the lower bands. Because if you read deep into this, the bigger bands, they're making some pretty good money. They're still not making fair money, but it's the little bands. And I truly believe if they did that, the fucking thing would turn around so goddamn fast, it would make your head spin. OK, that is my fucking preach in there. Sorry to get into that, but it was just kind of, you know, I think about it. Still thinking about those fuckers with their 41 beers. This is something that happened recently, that I was kind of I was happy about to hear. But also surprised, you guys know that. I usually take down negative comments on my stuff and people have said, leave the negative ones up, let the people fight. And that's how you get higher in the algorithm. They love fighting. So I usually take down the negative comments. And now I've just kind of lost interest in it, you know, unless they're saying some kind of fucking dumb politics shit like you Libertad. I'm not your platform for that. But if I do something and you don't dig it like, I don't like that joke. It sucks. You suck. Your hat sucks. Your glasses suck. Whatever. I'm just letting it fly. I don't give a fuck anymore. You know, if you are that bummed in your life and you get off on just shitting on someone, go at it, buddy. Go at it. But somebody had left a comment. I was wearing denim in one of the clips and I was walking into. I believe it was. Let me see if I could find it real quick. Just to see what I'm talking about here. They made a comment. I believe I'm going to turn this down so it doesn't come on. About my ass, something like, yeah, I want to fuck your ass or something. Let me see if it's on here. Comments, let me find it. Let me find it, my friends. I probably can't find it. Let's see here, people. Come on, Dean, this is getting boring. Come on, man. Which, by the way, I've got a little project coming out. I think you guys are going to like that I'm doing with Troy Conrad's. Troy Conrad, the incredible photographer. And hopefully we'll have that done maybe next week. I will let you know. Let's see if I can find this. I don't know. I can't fucking find it. But it was basically, oh, wait, it might be here. It's just kind of important because I want to make sure that I quote it right, because I didn't really think much of it. Let's see. Let's see here, which, by the way, I've been putting up a lot of clothing stuff just because I just love supporting these small companies, which, by the way, this weekend, if you're in Los Angeles, the inspirations clothing show is coming up. And I'm going to go to that. I don't know how good it'll be the old days. It was absolutely fucking fire. But it is in Pasadena and I will be out there with Kevin Christie working around seeing what we got out there. And all right. So anyway, I can't really find it. Maybe the person took it down. So anyway, they were saying, hey, nice ass or something like that. You know, I can't even remember what they said. But I didn't really pay much attention. But this caught me kind of off guard. I wasn't ready. The guy emailed me and he said, hey, sorry about that comment. I got a lot of people coming at me, man. And holy shit. They were they were angry about that. And I was kind of I was happy that some people had my back, even though I don't remember what the comment was or whatever. But I thought, you know what, I'll just leave these comments up and let the people go to town on it. I'm not going to engage with the trolls. But if other people did, hey, whatever, man, it was it was wild to find out about that that you guys out there had my back. And I fucking appreciate you for that. Really fucking cool. Absolutely. So I just want to give you a shout out on that. And I guess that's about it right now. Oh, Shirley Jones from the Partridge family turned 90. And she is the original rock and roll mom. So 90 still alive. Partridge family was a big, big part of me. And and when you watch it now, it's fucking wild to think about here's this mom with the kids going around in a school bus painted wacky playing music. Very cool. And I've often said and I think I'm going to tweet this. Most people in the entertainment business want a Peter Grant, you know, style manager, the Zeppelin manager. But in reality, we all get a Ruben concade. Now, most people aren't going to get that. But to me, I thought that's a great fucking tweet right there. Just in life. Everybody wants a Peter Grant in life, but we mostly get Ruben concaves. Anyway, Shirley Jones turns 90. Very fucking cool. And oh, last thing I wanted to talk about two things. This G and R concert that got dropped on YouTube a couple days ago, something like 32, 34 years to the day of this show at the whiskey. The entire concert's an hour and 24 minutes. Watch the entire thing. You're going to see it right there. Everything laid out the blueprints of that group, the songwriting. Everything was there. And it just took the right person to see the vision. I mean, it could have so easily not happened if they didn't get a record deal. You know, and we wouldn't have a G and R, but you get a guy like fucking Tom Zutat, who signs him, you get a Mike Quink that understands how to bring in this fucking garagey band, but slick it up just a little bit. And you have the masterpiece of appetite for destruction and the illusion record. So go watch this guns and roses. 1986, the whiskey. It is wild to watch. And you two just dropped the entire fuck, hold on, let me get this here. It is incredible what they dropped here. I saw the tour. The Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. I think I love you. Got a partage family. Cool. They fucking got some tunes, man. I mean, they didn't write them, but bunch of killer hits. OK, here we go. Check out you two. They dropped the entire fucking Zeropa tour in Mexico. That was pro shot. Oh, and tonight, if you're listening to this now, PBS has got the Elton John tribute with Metallica and all these great people paying tribute to Bernie and Elton on PBS tonight. So fuck yeah, Metallica plays funeral for a friend. I love you guys. Shows coming up. Going to be doing two headliners in San Diego in one night at Mike Drop. I'm going to be headlining Acme. I'm going back there after the mystery illness. I still don't know if it was food poisoning or fucking I don't know. Acme Minneapolis, I'm coming back. And in the next few months, a lot of great shows. I'm going to be at Berkeley at the Greek Theater with Burr and the Bell Co Arena two nights with Burr and Denver. I'll be headlining at where else am I? I'm you know, let me just look on the fucking website because I'm goddamn fucking old and and dumb. I'm old and dumb. I'm not dumb. I keep seeing these things. Don't call yourself dumb because, you know, you're just fucking beating yourself up. It's negative reverse. Inner inner fucking negativity. Mike Drop, San Diego, May 10th, two shows. The Bell Co Arena two nights, June fifth and six with the Great Bill Burr, Greek Theater, Berkeley, June 8th, Blue Room, Comedy, Springfield, Missouri. I'll be headlining June 21st and 22nd. I'm spending a week out at the Comedy Seller at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas starting July 8th. Men Act Me July 24th. There you go. Tour dates right there. Get them. Get the tickets. Help a friend out. Keep the candles lit, my friends. Tune in tomorrow for the Watches and Wonders episode with Bo Gori, Kevin Christie, myself and a special guest. I'm at Zappa. I love you guys. I mean it. Always have. See ya.