 All right, thank you for turning into another episode of Let There Be Talk. It is Monday and it will be a solo episode. And I want to tell you this right now. Thank you so much for taking the ride on all the solo episodes lately. I've been enjoying doing them and getting a lot of positive feedback, which is very cool sitting down, just shooting this shit about life. And I'm glad you dig it. I'm glad you're here. It is, what's the date today? The 10th. April 10th? Yeah, April. No idea what month it is. No idea what's going on. Just all kinds of brazzled. This episode's brought to you by my incredible sponsor, the clothing gurus themselves, the great, great Standard and Strange. Standard and Strange is a one-stop, incredible shop for denim, leather, boots, and good vibes. That's the honest truth right there. 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And it was just one of the most incredible events I'd ever gone to. And then it moved to downtown to this place called the Reef. And it was pretty good there. It was a weird layout. It was kind of like Rubik's Cube or something. You kind of had to spin around in there to find out where stuff was. It was a weird layout, but always incredible group of people there. Everybody from like Goodart and the real McCoys to Westco Boots and Lewis and Leathers. Just all this stuff. And basically what was cool about it was you were just around other clothing nerds. Kevin and I would go, Kevin Christie. And we just lose our minds and hang out and have some good laughs. I've had some great memories from Inspiration. It was really something I looked forward to every year. And they did it at the Reef for a few years. And then they moved it to the convention center kind of next to the Staples Center. And that thing just sucked. And that's just the honest truth. It went from something that was just mighty and incredible to just really bad. And I don't know what happened. It had to be a combination of people just not having the money to set up a booth and come out to LA anymore with a combo of the venue just wasn't cool. And I don't know. There wasn't really a lot of advertising. There wasn't even a lot of advertising on this. I'm in the clothing world. And I didn't even know about it till Standard and Strange told me Jeremy and Neil. They were like, we're gonna be in LA Friday. Are you around? Let's meet up for inspiration. And I was like, oh my God, I didn't hear nothing about it. So it is an interesting thing. I don't know if Ren Tanaka wants to keep it kind of mellow or he just doesn't have time to advertise. I don't know. But before there used to be kind of old school posters on telephone polls. So you'd be like, inspirations, what's that? And Kia from Self Edge was really, I think a guy that really promoted it a lot and told people about it and got people in there. But this year it was moved to Pasadena and they always coincided with the weekend of the Rose Bowl flea market, which happens I think once a month, which if you haven't been to that, it's one of the greatest things a one time. I mean, I used to do it all the time, but if you've never gone to the Rose Bowl flea market, do yourself a favor, man. Get yourself some fucking sunblock, good hat and some new balanced sneakers, something comfortable and head out to the Rose Bowl flea market by the early pass and go in there and just lose your mind. It's in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl. When I first heard about it, I always thought it was inside the Rose Bowl. I was thinking like, wow, that's crazy. 50 yard line, just selling denim, but it's not. It's all the way around the Rose Bowl in the parking area and the concessions area of the Rose Bowl. So if you've never been to the Rose Bowl flea market, which I think it's time for me to go again, I'll have to fire it up with Kevin and head over there because it's been a long time since I went and I bet it was really boom and during COVID because that's a kind of an outdoor event to do. Anyway, Inspirations obviously skipped a couple of years because of COVID and here it was back at Pasadena and I didn't get to see it. So what a fucking bummer. I don't know if it was any good. I don't want this show to go away. And I hope that it kicked ass. I don't know, I'll get a report on it from those guys and let you know, but I missed it. I miss a lot of stuff because of comedy and I'm all right with it. I'm all right with it because I love to do comedy. I've said it a million times. So work comes first. People are like, you're gonna go see such and such. You're gonna do this. I don't know. Let me see if I've got any stand updates first. And if I do, I won't be going. Perfect example. Every time I go to Las Vegas, I don't get to do anything because I do 14 shows at the seller, which is totally fine because that's why I'm there. And I'm always there trying to work on some new material. And this time Muse was playing and I love Muse. I've seen him a couple of times, one time at the LA Coliseum with Rage Against the Machine and Lauren Hill, me and Ian Edwards went and Andrew Thimulus, we went out there and watched one of the greatest concerts I've ever seen in Los Angeles at the Coliseum where the Raiders used to play and where Evil Knievel did that iconic jump. If you've never seen that Evil Knievel jump, do yourself a favor and YouTube Evil Knievel LA Coliseum. Unreal. He starts from the very top of the Coliseum. I mean, way the fuck up there comes down this ramp, just going 100 miles an hour. Scariest fuck, just to be up there on your motorcycle and come down as scary and then to jump crazy. Anyway, I saw Muse there, Rage. It was technically still Rage's last show ever in Los Angeles. And up until that last tour, the short run they did, it was their last show ever. And I didn't think I'd ever see Rage. I still haven't seen him because of Zack's leg injury. But I didn't get to see Muse and I heard it was fantastic. I heard they're killing it on this tour. This is a fucking monster band that doesn't seem to get a lot of chatter in the world but easily sells out all arenas. They sold out the crypto arena, whatever it's fucking crypto.com arena or whatever. That's the old staples. People just call it the staples. They never call it crypto. I asked the guy, where'd you put it? And he goes, staples. It's like candlestick in San Francisco. Candlestick Park was candlestick the entire history of it, no matter what they tried to call it. It was the stick. Dude, I'm going out to the stick. I missed the stick. South Stones there. Rolling Stones, Tattoo U Tour, 1981. George Thorger, Jay Giles, Rolling Stones, Tattoo U. One of the great Rolling Stones tour, the Tattoo U Tour, just unreal. And that's another thing, Pac-Bell. When they open that up, I think it's called AT&T now or I don't know, but where the Giants play now, it was Pac-Bell and it's always going to be Pac-Bell with me. So fuck all your names. It's so funny these people pay billions of dollars to hang their new name on the place and no one calls it that. Waste of money. You're better off saving your money and flying one of those fucking airplanes over every game with a banner on the back, just saying, hey, you're sitting in Qualcomm Stadium. Even if you didn't name it, you could just fly the plane over the stadium and act like you did name it. People would be like, oh, is this Qualcomm now? Okay, I had no idea. Or you could get one of those fucking plane riders, you know, that goes up there, will you marry me bullshit? Or in some people's insane minds, they're spraying us with Kimtrails. I don't think so. It just says, will you marry me, Mike? No, that's a Kimtrail, man. That's got COVID part four. This is bullshit. Anyway, the muse played in Vegas while I was there. And I didn't get to see him, but I did get to hang out with Dominic, the drummer. And we went out to dream racing whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I like to go out to dream racing. Thank you so much, Steve Jones, not from the Sex Pistols. Another Steve Jones, a good friend of mine who I met years back, he runs the place or he does the something there. And I remember I had the owner on the podcast who was a F1 champion from years ago. So I'd like to go out to dream racing and it is a perfect name. You go out there, they just have every car you've ever wanted to drive. I've talked about it over and over and over, but I can't ever stop talking about it because if you just have a little bit of money and you're in Vegas, don't gamble. Don't throw your money away on gambling. Do other shit like dream racing or the pinball hall of fame. Dream racing, man. I finally got to drive a 2023 Porsche 911 Turbo. Now, I was never a turbo guy. There's a couple of things I don't like about turbo cars. First, I like old school naturally aspirated. Google that, my friends, naturally aspirated. Right now, I feel naturally aspirated. I'm drinking a little fucking green tea. Hold on here. I like naturally aspirated cars. I do like turbo cars. There was things I don't like about turbo all my life. It's a thing called turbo lag, where you press the gas and it kind of goes like, but there's no immediate fucking thrust. So I never liked turbo lag. And the other thing, and by the way, they've gotten rid of turbo lag. And I'll get into that in a second here. But the other thing I don't like about the Porsche 911 Turbo, is over the back wheel wells is a vent that kind of cuts into the beautiful shoulders of a Porsche 911 that, now you don't see it in the back end. The back end of the new 992 is unreal. It's just a fat ass. It's just the straight up Jennifer Lopez car. And you don't notice it, but when you're looking at the side of the car, there's a port hole and it kind of cuts into the fucking badass shoulder stance of the 911. I never liked it. I still don't like it. That's why I like the last of the naturally aspirated Porsches, the GT3, especially the Touring. But that being said, I drove the Turbo car and you know what I say is you don't see those fucking vents when you're driving it. So who cares? You only see it when you walk up. And the handling and the power and the insanity of this car, I finally have gotten rid of my problems with that vent. It doesn't bother me now because the car is so fucking superior. I do wish they could figure out a way to put those induction vents somewhere else somehow like on the front of the car or somewhere and get it back to that clean fucking body. Look, man, that Porsche look, just looking down the side, just beautiful, you know? But I drove the 2003, 2003, 2023 911. It was charcoal color, which was beautiful actually, really look good. The seats were unbelievable. I'm sitting inside this car. It was so comfortable. And everything's laid out perfect. The 992 I think is my favorite new 911 ever made from the last 20 years. Hands down, other than a vintage 911, say a 964 or the 911 T, other than those cars, this is it for me. They have fucking knocked it out of the park with the looks, the power, the handling and the comfort. This turbo is the ultimate daily driving Porsche. I immediately texted Byrne. I said, I just drove the best car I've ever driven in my life. It was unreal. And I'll post up some video of it later today of me driving it. I mean, I was just flicking this thing around the track, just... I could feel the soul in it. Now it's paddle shift. It's paddle shift. That's another thing. People go, oh, I only go six speed manual. And now that I'm fucking 57, I'm wondering if I did have money to buy one of these cars, would I go manual or would I stick to the paddle? Because the paddle is so fucking good now. As I got into turns, you're coming into the turn, you downshift, bam, just flicking it with your pinkies. I figured it out, pinkies shifted man on the Porsche because the only thing that's bad on the Porsche is the blinkers and the windshield wipers are too close to the paddle shift. So every time you grab it, you fucking grab the windshield wipers and you're going into a turn, doing 95, 100 miles an hour and your windshield wipers going. But I finally figured out how to stop doing that. I just flick with the pinky. I did a little pinky flick, you know? Kind of like when you got that fucking annoying booger on the end, you just fucking flicking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boogers are weird, man. Boogers are weird. What is that? It's dirt, right? It's dirt that goes in your nose and there's something in your nose that kind of captures it so dirt doesn't go up to your skull and your brain. That's what it is. That's what boogers are, right? I don't know. Booger talk, on let there be booger talk. So I drove the 911 and then I got to drive the new Ferrari F8. And I absolutely love Ferrari. I've never been a Lamborghini guy. I've gone over it many times on here. I do like Lamborghini. I like the history and everything. But if I had the money and they said Lamborghini or Porsche or Ferrari, first I'm going Porsche. And second, I'd go Ferrari. And I love the history of Ferrari. But I realized with Ferrari, it's way different than Porsche because Porsche with the 911, they always have the same body at 911. The entire history of Porsche other than the 356 is that fucking body. And with Ferrari, there's eras that I love. The Dino is unreal. The Dino Ferrari is so fucking beautiful. And that 308, the Magnum PI Ferrari. I love that one. I love the Magnum PI Ferrari, especially in any color other than red, like black or this gold one I saw at the comedy store one time. You know, I saw a light blue one. I saw like a B5 blue looking one, like a MO PAR colored fucking 308. Anyway, so I drove the F8 right after I drove the 911. Now, if you go to dream racing and you have some extra money, try to drive two cars because that really lets you know the difference of these companies. It's crazy, you know? So I drove this unbelievable $1,000,000 Ferrari F8 and it was great, but it just didn't feel like the 911 to me. The 911 felt like I was part of the car. When the F8 felt a little bit bodish, it's kind of a big car. You know, those big wide body looking Ferraris. And the braking was so fucking different on the Ferrari. You had to like hammer the brake. And I think they do that for a nice analog feel, you know? So you're not just tapping it and locking them up because man, it has the biggest brake calipers I've ever seen and the biggest rotor, man. It looks like a giant fucking flying saucer inside your rim. So I drove that and it was great. And Dominic drove the race cars. They have race cars there. They have actual Ferrari and Audi and Porsche race cars. The one with the roll cage and it's like a track car. It's not like a, I like to drive the cars that potentially one day you might buy if you win the lottery. Rest in peace, mom. That's for you, mom. When I win the lottery. When I win the lottery. During the Axl Rose on the lottery. When I win the lottery. Oh no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm out of my mind this morning. Fucking crazy. I drove back last night, you know, from Vegas. You can't drive from Vegas during the day. I usually fly to Vegas, but I like to bring Gertie and I bring merch when I go to Vegas. I'm not a big swing and merch at the gig guy. I still feel weird doing that, selling merch at a gig. As much as I like doing it to get some extra money, it really helps. It just feels dirty to me. And it's just weird. Like you just, you know, first of all, if you bombed you're not gonna go out there and sell merch. Can you imagine? Hey, I know I just sucked in there, but can you help me out and buy a fucking hoodie? You know? It feels weird to sell merch, but I gotta do it. I'm at that level where I don't make enough money from the weekend of doing comedy. It's getting so expensive out there that I like to bring merch to the gigs I drive to. And people enjoy buying it actually because I find that, you know, I have all this merch on my website and people it's just out of sight or out of mind or they just don't wanna buy it unless it's from you. I get all of that. I get that if you're like, this is a few minutes I can talk to you and let you know face to face that I'm buying this and supporting you. I get it, that's cool too. But man, does it feel fucking weird selling it? There was a time it was right, it kind of ended right around when I started comedy but the headliner would bring a feature out and he'd make the feature sell fucking merch. That's just dirty. I remember a couple of comics asked me to do that and I was like, nah, I'm not selling your merch, dude. You know? And I didn't open for those guys ever again which is fine with me. I'm not out there to sell in your merch. I'm not your fucking boy, you know, your employee. I mean, yeah, you brought me to feature and technically I am kind of working for you but I'm not selling your fucking merch and I would never ask a comedian to sell my merch. You know, some comedians wanna help. Sometimes I'll like, dude, I'll help you sell merch, whatever. It's still, I'm like, nah, dude, it's just fucking, you know, enjoy the ride. It's dirty. That's a dirty old school comedy world trick. Just have a, oh yeah, after you sell my merch, go down the street and get me in and out burger. All right, and pick up some cigarettes for me too. Just fucking, yeah, gross. Anyway, it feels weird selling the merch but I gotta do it and I don't mind, I love selling merch on my website and I love, I wouldn't mind hiring somebody later on like an assistant, if I got to a level, I would just say you sell the merch and take the pictures and, you know, like a tour manager type of assistant. That's a different thing. That's not a comedian on the show. That is a employee of yours hired to sell shirts, maybe do some video and photos and all that stuff. That's a, that's a total different game but I do love selling the merch. I love creating the merch. I love collaborating with people on merch. I love fashion, I love clothing. I try to get the best quality stuff. My shit's more money than most people because I don't go to those shitty print on demand people. I actually hire silk screeners and artists to do the work and come up with my ideas, silk screen, what are they called? I use these guys silk and you should hit them up. I want to give them a shout out because they're just so fucking great. And the quality of stuff, silk screen printing, hit them up, phone numbers 5307150299. This is not an ad. I just think that these guys are some of the greatest, you know, printers, shirt printers I've ever seen. They're absolutely a dream company and they come up with all of my wacky ideas including the latest coming out. The tree hoodies will be coming out. I've got the tree hat. The tree hat has been selling pretty damn good. I've wanted to, you know, have a clothing line. I came up with the idea during COVID being out in Joshua Tree. I look at it as like something I could build. Yeah, it's part of my brand. You know, dude, I got, you know, it's part of my brand, it's who I am. All of those terms are kind of, you know, cliche and throwing around and everything, but it really is part of who I am coming up with fun, cool merchandise. So over the years, I feel like I've had some of the funnest, coolest type of comedy shirts and I'll see people show up at gigs in them and I'm just so proud. I'll look at it like the old Marshall head one that was just Dean Del Ray or the cabbage patch one or the grail art and working with trapplin' on the Gertie hoodies. Gertie is, I do a Gertie joke now. So the Gertie hoodies make sense before I would have the Gertie hoodies at the show and people are like, well, why do you got a hoodie of this dog if they didn't know about Gertie. But now Gertie's been around a few years coming up on her, by the way, seventh birthday. Gertie's gonna be seven May 30th. Hi, Gertie. She's under the blanket out cold. And, you know, so Draplin' and I came up with some great ideas. Draplin' is just, Aaron Draplin is one of the fucking greatest and wackiest guys I've ever come in contact with and become friends with. If you didn't hear the Aaron Draplin episode, go back and listen to it. He is just a fucking, this guy is so good at what he does, graphic design. He is beyond. I feel like I've put together this amazing dream team and I'm just waiting to blow up. And when I do blow up, it's gonna be like, okay, I've got the printers. I've got Draplin'. I've got Perry Shaw. I have Marcus Price, the incredible photographer and videographer and director. I've got Troy Conrad's, one of the best photographers on the planet. Liz Big. I've got all these people to help with the vision. I just gotta keep pushing and keep pushing. It gets tough sometimes. I've said it over and over, man. It gets really fucking tough. Lately I'm just in a spin out, man. And I'm just being honest with it. Lost my mom, you guys know that. And it's still fucking with me. And my career, I'm constantly trying to get another level up. That's always fucking with me. And it's not all good. And I just admit it and just be honest about it. It's definitely not all good. There's people that have passed me up that started after me. And you know, you can't blame things. There was a while where I was like, well, it's agist and it's this and it's that. I don't have a manager, it's not. It's either you kind of stick with people or you don't. And or you do, but it takes a long time. And Bill Burr has been such an inspiration to me because he was in the game for years. No one knew who this guy was except for, you know, he had a good friend pack, you know, being on the Chappelle show and had good friends around. Keith Robinson and Patrice and, and you know, he had a, he had a good squad. You gotta have a good squad around you. I'm definitely not one of those people that are part of this quick or that quick. I started later in life. So I'm not with the young guys and the guys that I do hang out with are giant famous now. So they're busy with families and careers. So I'm out there and I'm just trying just trying to navigate my way through the depression and the time bombs and the ups and the downs. There's a lot of ups. I am not here complaining, but it's definitely really, really tough right now. And I'm handling it, but you know, you deal with a lot of emotions when you lose your last family member, your mom, your fucking mom and yeah, it's just, it's crazy. And I try not to talk about it too much on the podcast because oh, here he goes with his mom, but hey man, that's fucking, that's what it is man. That's what's going on with me. And once a week, I kind of like to throw it out there and let people know, you know, a lot of people look shiny on their Instagrams, but you know, it's all a facade a lot of times. It's tough social media, it's fucking tough. It'll eat you up, you know, people are fucking crazy out there. I put that video up last week where I was talking about how the people stole the music and you know, I only got like four or five negative comments on it. And it's so funny that people think they know what the fuck they're talking about when they're not even in the business. They're over there just mowing lawns, going this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. And I didn't accuse anybody. And I think that if you took that wrong, if you took that wrong about stealing music, you definitely stole music. And you're one of those people that are like, nah, I didn't do anything wrong. If you didn't steal music, you'd be like, yeah, man, he must have something to say here. And look, that's not the only problem with the industry. I get it. That's one of the main things that started people, you know, bring up dumb stuff, like one particular thing. Like, well, the Eagles started charging $100 before and they sold a lot of records. You can't talk about old record sales. And I'm not gonna bring this up every episode, you know, because I don't wanna be that guy, but I just wanted to throw this out real quick. People could sell millions and millions of records from the past. Life still costs money and their accounts start to drain even no matter how rich you are. You got divorces, shit happens, people sue you, managers rip you off, record companies rip you off, fans rip you off, you know, venues rip you off, ticket agencies rip you off. It's fucking crazy. So you gotta constantly make money. And so you can't say, well, those guys sold a zillion records and they're still charging a lot for their tickets. I just saw the who. The who said that they will never tour the U.S. And that's what they said in 1982, by the way. They said that was their farewell tour. They were the people, the who invented the farewell tour. The who on the Eminence Front tour, I saw it, the who, the Clash and T-Bone Burnett, Oakland Coliseum, great fucking show. Kenny Jones on drums, of course, no Keith Moon, but the Clash out there destroying on the Rock the Casper tour and kind of coming to the end of the Clash, but the who said that they will not be able to tour America anymore because what a lot of people don't know is no insurance companies will insure you now, used to go out on tour and they would insure the band in case they missed a show. You know, a guy fucking breaks a finger or somebody gets violently ill from food poisoning, they can't play, they'll insure the tour and cover the losses of one or two shows. But since COVID, nobody will insure a tour anymore. So what Daltry said was, they won't tour the U.S. anymore because just to start the tour, just to start the tour, it costs $600,000 to a million dollars. Just to start it up, that means rehearsals, hiring the crew and getting the tour buses, getting the hotels just to start at $600,000 to a million. So to recoup that, they need to play at least six shows on the tour and now they've recouped and they can start making some money. But if they're only doing a 12 day tour of the U.S. like he's talking about, if they get out there and somebody gets COVID, like a bunch of guys on the tour and they have to shut it down for three days, now they've completely lost money because they needed to play six shows to recoup the starting price of the tour. And then they would start making money, but if they have to shut the tour down, there it is. So it's going to be really weird. And I know a lot of bands out there, I'm sure they're getting COVID and they're just playing through it now. They're like, nah, I mean, that's how you did it in the old days. You just got the flu and you just played. Sometimes you might've saw Led Zeppelin in Cincinnati in 1977, they were terrible. And literally, did you know that maybe Jimmy was dope sick or John Paul Jones fucking got food poisoning or Robert Plant just, you know, voice was gone. And if you just played through it, like a fuck as Joey or Diaz would say, like a soldier, like a doctor. So that's the last I'm going to bring it up because it's interesting how people just go crazy. And I will tell you this, and I'll tell you this, this felt great. I released that video of me clowning on the music stealing. And there were key people that liked and thumbs up and said, fuck you out of this. And they were artists that I hold at the highest level. Brent Aynes from Mastodon, thumbs up to it. Brad Wilk from Rage Against the Machine, thumbs up to it, you know, and a few others. There was a bunch on there, Davey, Eagles of Death Metal, Dave Ketchum, Greg Dooley, guys out there that are like, yeah, man, this is one of the problems, you know. And I will tell you this, I had a conversation with Brad when we were out in the desert. And it was, I had heard Tom Morello on SiriusXM, he's on every channel now, Tom Morello. It's like, hey, how about a radio show? Sorry, man, we hired Tom Morello to do all our channels. Good, fucking good for him, man. Good for him. Goodies over here snoring like crazy. But he was talking about how, you know, there were venues that were, you know, asked for vaccine cards to get in and they were saying that Rage Against the Machine was the ones that were making us do the vaccine cards. Mr. Rage Against the Machine are now the machine. I'm not, and you know what, like I said, I'm not gonna bring any of this up anymore. I always say, promote what's great, not what you hate because I can see how fast you can spiral in to this fucking negative energy. And next thing you know, you're in that. And I can see how much the internet and the algorithms love negative energy because that video I posted up got shitloads of views. And you know, they always say, man, you need to engage with these people and fight with them. And then you'll get like a million views and I'm like, there's nothing more fucking dirty and garbage than engaging with somebody you don't give a fuck about and don't know and hoping to get likes and views. That's disgusting. That is disgusting to me. Like, oh yeah, man, I'm a fucking, I'm gonna show these guys, oh yeah, well I don't give a fuck who you voted for, man. I'm just gonna keep it fucking positive. And maybe I'll be one of the first dudes to make it who has had positive energy, shout out to Brody Stevens. Maybe I'll be on the top and it'll be like, this one's for Brody. This one's for you, Brody Stevens. Positive energy, push and believe. Yeah, oh man, that was a fucking, a rifling of words coming out of my mouth. That shit is crazy. Let me look at my notes here because lots of stuff to cover, lots of stuff to cover. Oh man, talk about negative energy. Let's get into this a little bit. You saw the Nick Mars, Motley Crue battle and I'm not gonna pick sides and I'm not gonna, Nicky Six is a great friend of mine and I'm not going to try to even for an inkling act like I know what is going on in that camp. Not even for a minute because I've been in bands and if you look at all the stuff out there right now of Motley Crue and who else was going crazy? Oh, I just saw that Nick Mason is talking about maybe playing with Roger Waters again and after he called him an anti-Semitic and him and Gilmore like, fuck that guy and shit. And of course the battles of all the other bands over the years that you've seen, the Van Halen battles and all of these battles, I'll tell you this right now. Bands should only be together until they make their first couple million dollars and after that, it should be by law, no more, no more because it's all gonna be fucking grim after that, especially in this world of, you know, reunions and bringing guys back and getting this shit so they can get the big money and I'm cool, you know, you didn't make money back in the day, get out there, but it's gonna get dirty. And I will tell you this right now, all bands suck, it's just the truth when you get to a certain, a long era, you're like, I hate this guy. I don't know any bands really where all of them, maybe you too, maybe you too, still love each other. I don't know. Like I said, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but I will tell you, are you still friends with the guys you went to high school with? I am friends with a couple of those guys and the rest, I don't even know what the fuck they're doing or you had some kind of blowout with them on Facebook 10 years ago and you never talked to them. Now throw like 50 to $100 million into that friendship and let's see what happens. Let's see what happens out there, huh? Let's throw the money in a ring and watch each other just punch each other out. That would be great. That's what we need. We need a new, like fuck the UFC. The UFC is boring now. These are skilled fighters, trained, beating each other up. We've seen that. Let's get some bands. Let's get like, okay, Mick Mars can't fight, of course, because he's got the fucking, he's got the cement bones. He's got that disease. But let's get like Vince Neil and throw the money in the middle and then get like Mick Mars' lawyers and just let's see them fight it out. Let's see these people fight. That's what I wanna see actual, let's see Roger Waters and Gilmore fight. Just fucking bare knuckle, no gloves, just old school in the ring and the winner gets the song publishing and the fucking band name. Winner gets the band name and the song publishing. Fuck that. I mean, those fuckers are gonna fight it. Couple of 70-year-old grandad's, you fucking, even Kiss, Kiss having the battles. Ace coming out saying, I'm gonna drop the secrets. I'm gonna reveal the secrets of you fuckers if you don't apologize. What kind of fucking, what kind of third grade shit is that? If you don't apologize, I'm gonna drop your secrets. Yeah, that's so fucking pussy. That's the thing, man. That is the thing. The internet has made everybody tough, you know? Everybody thinks they're a badass on the internet. It's so funny. Paul Stanley called me and told me to fuck off. I was gonna drop the secrets, but my AA said, man, be a bigger man. Be a bigger man about it, dude. You know, just walk away. Oh, man. It's so fucked too, because I love all these guys, you know? Some of them are my friends and you're just like, damn, damn, they motley crew just fucking, you know? It's a rough world. I'll tell you this, I wanna give a shout out to Gene Simmons. And I'll tell you this right now, people shit on Gene Simmons for years. You guys are goddamn genius. I love him. And he figured out the business and did it right. Make all the money you can so you can fucking relax. I went to the Gene Simmons Museum at the Rio Hotel and saw the collection in person. And it is so insane to see this kiss behemoth. You know how they say, yeah, kiss, you know? I love his thing. We got condoms and we got coffins. So we'll get you coming and we'll get you going. That's a fucking funny thing to me. You know, it's a funny, cool Gene throwaway dad joke. But this man is absolutely a genius for all the stuff that they had. And I'm telling you at 57 years old, I looked in those cases and still wanted all the stuff that was in those cases from the 70s. The old kiss tattoos, the viewmasters, the kiss dolls, the kiss pinball, the kiss eight millimeter concert kind of viewer, the belt buckles, that kiss everything, man. It was just, I mean, you know, I know he got it from the Beatles, you know, the Beatlemania and he took it and he went way, way further and he really pioneered merchandising and licensing out your logo. Look, man, I think Kevin Hart is a funny guy, but I also think he's a genius for having his hands in all kinds of business. And, you know, at the end of the day, you kind of want to, you want to be all over the place so you can have money to create stuff you want to do. Do some films, do some movies, do some documentaries. I'd still love to do that day in the green documentary. So, you know, you constantly pushing and you got to have all the irons in the fire. So, to see this Gene Simmons stuff and to really take it in, you're inside this museum in the Rio Hotel and you're walking through and you're looking at literally thousands of pieces of stuff that say kiss. And it's unbelievable. And the stuff, a lot of it is just cool shit, man. It is like really cool. I was working with a comedian, Gabriel, and he said, you know, they had the kiss pinball there and we went to the pinball hall of fame. And he said, do you think there's a lot of money in their name on the machine or do you think it's just a cool factor? And I said, well, I think it's probably a little of both. They get it probably a licensing fee, but then it's the cool factor of having your own pinball machine. I know if I had the Dean Del Rey pinball machine, it would just be crazy. I would just make it the grail artwork, you know, the back splash would be the grail artwork. Me walking by the shop like, whoa. And then all kinds of shit, comedy, rock and roll, motorcycles, cars on the playing field, Gertie in the middle, get the Gertie extra ball. Gertie, quit snoring, Gertie. Gertie snoring like crazy. Anyway, Gene Simmons Museum, go check it out. I wanted to go to the punk rock museum in Vegas, but I did make it over there. I was just pretty busy, but I did go to the pinball hall of fame again. I ran into Tim Arnold, the owner. He's the guy I had on episode 100. That was 590 episodes ago. And there he was, still in there, owner. And also the fixer of the machines, Tim Arnold, still one of the most craziest wild dudes I've ever had on Let There Be Talk. And it was just so great to see him. There he is, still standing, I'm still alive. And I'm playing pinball. I played the new Foo Fighters game. Foo Fighters have a pinball machine. I played the new Rush Machine. Rush Machine's great. Foo Fighters machine is really good. I played the Mandalorian machine, which I hated, which is a bummer because I love Bill and Bill's on the machine and I love the Mandalorian. I just don't like the layout of the machine. Anytime it has too much shit in the middle, ramps and everything where I can't visually see the playing field, I don't like that game because it's just too, it's a dirty playing field. I can't see it. And the best game I played, and the best game I played in a while since Metallica, Metallica was my favorite pinball for years, is the new James Bond. And the new James Bond pinball machine is so fucking great. You get the ball, James Bond captures it in as, remember the one James Bond, Sean Connery, where he's in the rocket thing, you know, the people, you know, the Rocket Pack. I'm trying to find the name Rocket Pack. You put on the Rocket Pack and you kind of fly around. He flies around. Well, there's this one ramp where you shoot it up and it gets on to James Bond's Rocket Pack and then he flies across the playing field and then drops the ball. Oh man, James Bond, Kenny, shout out to Club Soda Kenny. We both love James Bond and I would love to have the James Bond pinball. I asked Tim Arnold, the owner, what his favorite game was and he's like, well, I am a proprietor of the establishment. So I am not allowed to have an opinion. Those are the kinds of answers you will get from Tim Arnold, owner of Pinball Hall of Fame. He is, do yourself a favor, if you're in Vegas, you go to Dream Racing and then you go to Pinball Hall of Fame and then you go to the Punk Rock Museum and the Kiss Museum. They got the Pee Wee Golf too at the Kiss thing but those are some great things to do in Vegas that have nothing to do with gambling or whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Great week of shows. Thank you Comedy Seller for having me and thank you to all the people that came out to the shows. I met a lot of great fans. Let me get some of Jason Stratton. Great, he came out, thought he had a heart attack in the front row during the show. That was kind of scary but he's okay and it was great to see him. He's a new patron. Roger Lewis, new patron. Thank you for joining up, buddy. And what else we got here? Patreon.com slash Dean Del Ray. I'll be doing a live Zoom tonight, Monday night, April 10th, probably around 5.30 Pacific time. If you wanna join me once every couple of weeks on a live Zoom, join the patreon.com slash Dean Del Ray. Anyway, great to see a lot of the shows were sold out. Great comedians were on the show. Dustin Urban, who else was on Kathleen. Kathleen Dunham, which by the way, she started comedy at 44 also, which was amazing to hear her story. Really cool, really cool. Comedy Seller, Las Vegas, do yourself a favor. Go see comedy at the Rio in the Seller. Great fucking room, great room. This weekend I will be in Texas. I'll be in Austin, Texas at the MotoGP with my buddy Bill Burr. I can't thank him enough for bringing me. And I wanna thank Jason Sinek, CEO of Ducati who I had on the podcast for getting us hooked up. I called him up, he said, I got you. I'm gonna get to ride on the track on Saturday. I'm gonna ride a Ducati Panigale on the track. And it'll be the first time I've been on a motorcycle in a couple of years. So I'm excited about that. And then we're doing a show out at Texas A&M at the arena there at the college. DeanDelRay.com for your merch and all your tour dates. I got a Santa Rosa date coming up. I've got two shows in Alameda coming up. And then of course a bunch of shows in Los Angeles over the next few weeks, Comedy Store. Saw Air. I saw Air the story of the Air Jordan, the Jordan one sneaker, the Jordan deal, the Nike fucking sensation done by Matt Damon. And what's the other dude? Fucking Jennifer Lopez's guy. And I'm fucking drawing a blank on his name right now. And he's, they did the film. And, you know, they did Goodwill, honey. And these guys are fucking killers. Why am I forgetting his name? I'm forgetting his name right now. And while I'm doing it, you're in your car or you're at the gym and you're going blah, blah, blah. It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I want to kind of blah. Anyway, I saw Air. It's fantastic. It's a great, great film. And I love sneakers. I love fashion. Like I've said at the top of the show and I say at all the shows and it's just loaded with incredible 80s memories. And one of the main ones and one of the greatest games, a few of them that I had was Coleco football, the handheld football and the Mattel football and the Mattel baseball, those plastic little games with dots that you were just obsessed with. It just sat in your hand Coleco football and he just fucking and they had pro and novice. And you just, you know, you can pass and you're moving the red dots. It's so crazy how simple it was by then. You move a red dot and then you press it, get down the field, dodge it. Oh my God. So the whole movie is great, but I saw those handheld Coleco and Mattel football and baseball games and they had a basketball one too. They were just square, perfect piece of plastic. And it just, oh God, you just fucking, you get in so much trouble in school when this shit came out. People now, I can't even imagine going to school with a phone. I mean, I already hated school and I would drift off in the back playing the Coleco football with my goddamn Sony Walkman on, listening to fucking scorpions, love drive album, just scorpions in your pocket, hidden, you know, hoodie on. You got your hoodie on with your fucking headphones hidden and the teacher up there is just teaching bullshit. She doesn't want to be there. We don't want to be there. We want to be at the fucking ACDC Back in Black show at the Cow Palace, but we got to go to school, you know? So to go, you start fucking doing shit that makes it feel a little better like your Sony Walkman with auto reverse. Remember that auto reverse came out? You didn't have to flip the cassette anymore. Oh my God, I don't have to take the cassette out and turn it around. And finally that was such bullshit taking the cassette out and turning it around. The work that took. Anyway, error is great. It's really good. And a couple of really quick cameos by comedians, Al Madrigal and Jay Moore are in there for a minute or two. Great to see. Whenever I see comedians on movies and TV I'm not one of those guys like, why didn't I get that? I'm like, fuck yeah, cool. Maybe next time they'll pick me to be in something. Maybe they'll keep hiring comedians. Maybe they'll keep coming down to the store and putting us in some films. Make a little fucking side change and get some health care. Yeah, maybe. Maybe you stop hating. This whole episode is geared around not talking about the haters again. Okay, what do we got here? I guess that's about it. Oh, new Metallica this week. I cannot speak any haters. Speaking of haters. That comes out this week. And you know what that means? When a new Metallica comes out the new fucking complainers come again. I don't like the snare. I don't like the guitars. I don't like the guitar. I don't like the guitar. I don't like the guitar. I don't like the guitar. Can't wait to hear the new Metallica. They're gonna be on Jimmy Kimmel all this week. And then they got the movie on Thursday night. You can go to the movie theater and you can see all 12 videos and hear stories about the record and everything and hear the record first at the movie theater. And then it's out, I believe Friday. And man, what I've heard so far is just fantastic. And I can't wait to hear the whole record. Metallica has just been killing it. On the way home, I've been listening to the Metallica channel 105 on serious. I listened to it all last night at two in the morning coming home from Vegas. And man, the last three Metallica records have been so fucking good. And people just, I don't think they're talking about it enough. They're just not talking about the level of metal these guys are putting out at 60 years old. That song came on, that was just your life. It came on and then spit out the bone back to back. And I was like, this shit is fire, man. And those were on the last few records and it's just amazing how great these are. Death Magnetic and the new record is 72 seasons. Death Magnetic, what was the other one called? Man, my brain's not working today. And I fucking know it. All right, I refuse not to know. I gotta look it up. I think that the least that you look up, the more your brain will work. And come on, I'm a huge Metallica fan. I just, I'm old and I'm babbling stuff to you guys off the cuff, hard wire, self-destruct. Death Magnetic, Sane Anger. I know you hate Sane Anger. I know they played a Sane Anger song also on the way home, still love it. Purify. Oh God, Sane Anger is great. Fuck all y'all, dirty window. Sane Anger, frantic, some kind of monster. Get out of here. It's fucking great. Anyway, 72 seasons out this week. I cannot wait. It is 12 tracks. 72 seasons was the latest single they put out. And, oh my God, Screaming, Suicide, Lux, Eterna. If Darkness Had A Sin, just great. This record's great. I don't like the cover and I'll admit it. And I'll say it, I don't like the uncovered. It's all good. It's not my cover. It's not my band. I get to hear the music. That's fine. Great, great. Anytime we get another Metallica record at this level, they're working at this level at 60 years old. I'm 60 in a few more years. I want to be like an incredible comedian at 60. I'd love to put out a death magnetic level comedy special or a 72 seasons or a, I don't know, I don't think I'd want to put out a, I don't think I want to put out a level of saying anger comedy special because you guys, I would love it. You guys would be like, this guy knew he wasn't funny. Let's hit his Instagram. Dean, you need to learn to get funny. Someone wrote that yesterday on my Instagram. It's like, you know, I don't even get mad at bad comments. I'm more disappointed just in humans. Anytime I see stuff like that, I'm just like, I don't care what you say to me. I'm just disappointed in you. You know, you're just like, humans just like, bummer, bummer what we are right now. Anyway, I'm leaving it on a high note. I'm leaving it on a high note. What do we got here? Let me, one last thing and then we're out. Gert is still snoring. 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