 All right, it is episode number 693 of Let There Be Talk. Welcome aboard, my friends. It is, what is the date? It's Monday, April 24th. Episode's a little late because I got the fucking rippers. They're fixing some kind of leak on the roof and they've been here, I don't know, five days. And I should have recorded it last night while they weren't working, but I was, you know, diving into this goddamn show on Netflix. I usually don't, you know, watch stuff unless people over and over say, you got to be watching this. And it's people I trust. So people have been saying that for a few weeks now in this show, Beef with the Great Alley Wong. And next thing you know, I was hooked. It's like 10 episodes or like 35 minutes each. And it's super original and super dark. And if you have not seen it yet, tune in. It is twisted and I really enjoyed it, weird as fuck. All Asian cast, which is cool to see. I'm not some woke fucking dude like finally, but it is cool to see different people, you know, an entire show, pretty much Asian people other than who's on that. There's a couple of other comedians on it. Oh yeah, Andrew Santino's on it. He's definitely not Asian. Ginger, but oh man, I can't recommend Beef enough. I hit up Alley and said, this show is fantastic. And just give her all the Emmys now. She kills it. It's wild to see. Cause I don't think she's done a lot of acting that I know of, but watching it, just slaying it, just slaying it. And another case of, you never know, you give somebody a shot and you get a superstar that you didn't know was out there. It takes one person or actually maybe three or four to open the door and then your whole life could change. It's wild. Check it out, beef. So anyway, that's why I didn't do the podcast last night cause I had a spot to do another spot on a Sunday. Sunday spot seemed to be happening now. It was gone since COVID. Comedy store has been back open on Sundays. And this one I didn't do a comedy, I didn't do comedy store. I did some bar show. I don't usually do bar shows anymore. I remember early on Irish beer was like, hey, you want to do this? Is it a bar show? Yeah. No, no, I don't do bar shows. And I finally got it later on in life. I was like, oh yeah, bar shows suck ass, but this is a good one. A bar show is only good if they have a separate room. Like this one's upstairs and it's an Irish bar which number one, I can't stand Irish bars. And how, hey, this is going to be done. Let me go tell you about little Guinness Irish bars. Not for me back when I was drinking. And my fact, it's really weird to be 57 and go into a bar when in last night. And you go into the bar and then you go upstairs to the separate room. And so I go into the bar and I just kind of looked around at the bar scene. It was just so bizarre to look at different age groups in this neighborhood, see my neighborhood, neighborhood bar. And just that whole lifestyle, I just haven't seen in so long. So when I go in, I was just kind of looking at, kind of like a younger couple in the corner, maybe a first date kind of vibe. Then you got three or four of the real deal bar flies over there. Just, they hate everybody. Yeah, fucking comedy night, good fuck you, you know. And then you've got just random people in a bar, maybe some tourists, maybe some first timers. Let's try the Irish bar, I bet it's fun. So it was weird to look around, just people in there spending money and drinking instead of just being a real deal alcoholic and just picking up your booze at a liquor store and going home much cheaper. But it was, it was wild. Went upstairs, did a set, working on new material, some struggles here and there. It takes a long time for me to get these new jokes going because they are not just one-liners, they're chunks and to do the chunk, you have to do the chunk. If that makes it, to do the chunk, you have to do the chunk. Sounds like an 80s new wave song. You've got to do the chunk. But for real though, to do the bit, you have to do the whole bit. So you just starting it up like, okay, it works all the way up until this part and I'm still trying to find some new parts. So you're going along and it's working and all of a sudden it just stops. And in between the chunks, you got to do old chunks and you're more excited about the new chunks. It's just a fucking, it's just a demon. I can see why people quit. If you don't have the full strength and drive, you're just like, man, I'm out of here. And there's so many weird, weird things to comedy. What are you doing, Gertie? Uh-oh, Gertie. Gertie looks like she's going to get sick. Oh no, Gertie, come here. Come here, Gertie. Something's wrong with Gertie. She was eating grass yesterday. I knew it, Gertie. Uh-oh. Oh, Gertie just got sick, but I'm on the podcast. Not like real sick, but she fucking wouldn't stop eating grass yesterday. Took her to the park. You know, just like, you know, and then you're watching Instagram. Somehow they fucking knew I was at a park and they're like, is your dog eating grass? Oh, he's got gut bomb. You need blah, blah, blah. Oh, Gerts. Gertie's just laying there like, deal, clean that up. Clean that up. I'm fucking podcasting. I'm dodging the roofers. Gertie just throws up. Man, my fucking, my fucking podcast is insane. You guys are like, just bring back the rock stars, man. That's why we're here. We don't want to hear about your bullshit. Give us the rock stars. Actually, a lot of people have been emailing saying like the solo episode. So that's fucking kind of cool. Last week, by the way, Spotlights, great, great band and a lot of you guys really dug it. You emailed me and said, hey, that band is fantastic. And that's what it's about, man. Spread the word. So anyway, I'm doing the bar show, working on the new chunks and I'm in the middle of the set. Some fucking guy. I'm up on this makeshift stage they've made. Really, really weird setup. You're on this stage and the people are like 30 feet away. I'm like, what? This is just setup for failure, you know? So I'm doing the set and some fucking buffoon comes walking in with a yellow sweat jacket on, real bright, looking like fucking Big Bird and he comes walking towards the stage and he just stops and I'm like, what are you doing, dude? And he's just looking at me and I can tell he's looking over my shoulder. He needs something behind me. I'm like, is this like a comedian that forgot his phone? I've seen that a million times. You do your set, you're recording your set with your phone and then you leave it up there by accident. And he's like, well, maybe he was up earlier and left his phone here. So I turn around and look and then I said, what's going on? He goes, sorry, man, sorry. And he reaches behind me, starts grabbing a cable off the TV screen. I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? It's like mid-set. I took a shower. I got ready for a Sunday night. It's mid-set. And this guy's just acting like I don't fucking matter at all. This is the fucking problem with people. He's like, I don't wanna wait until he's done and I don't give a fuck. It's about me, I need that cable. So I go, just grab your fucking cable, dude. And so he grabs it and I figure he's done. But no, he starts grabbing like all kinds of cables and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing, dude? Now the crowd's laughing because I'm just destroying this guy and he's just starts winding up cables like it's an end of a night gig. And I'm destroying him to a point to where he finally fucking leaves. And I'm talking, this is a good three minutes and he's ruined the flow of my 20-minute set and I'm down there to work on new material. Once you fry someone and you're doing crowd work, it's really tough to go back to material, especially when you're working on new material because it was so organic and the anger I was firing at him was just like, you idiot. And I find out later, he's just this fucking dick that hosts the karaoke on Saturday nights at the Irish bar and he left his cables there because he probably thought he was gonna score a little pussy or something. Now I get the cables later, this girl's digging me. I don't know what the fuck I'm just saying that because I know how fucking idiot dudes are. Like, oh man, I'll get the cables later tomorrow night when there's a comedian on stage. I roast at one point, I go, hey dude, I fucking, I've been on TV before you dick. Get out of here. Oh my God, man. A karaoke DJ ruining my, that's why I don't like fucking doing comedy in non-traditional venues because when you're doing them in bars, you got the people in there like, yeah, these fuckers are ruining my basketball viewing or these guys are ruining the football night or whatever, you've hijacked their local watering hole and they don't give a fuck about you and usually it's never crowded. Now look, if it's packed, then the people outweigh the barflies and you win but these shows are never packed. They're always like somebody wants to try to do a show. You know, it's probably where he gets drunk three nights a week and he's like, you know what, Timmy, I could probably do a comedy show here. It'll be packed, comedy's hot. It'll be jam-packed, man. That's how comedy was in the 80s growing up in the Bay Area. Once that first wave of the huge comedy hits, it was just everywhere. Cheese factories, lumber yards, bars, coffee shop, everywhere, just everywhere you went. Laundry mats, everywhere had a comedian. It was insane. Anyway, that was the Sunday night and during the day was wild because let me hit off my spin, my sparkling. What is this shit I'm drinking? Spindrift, mm, mm, Spindrift, not fucking bad, man. One gram of sugar, one. I can do that, it's one gram of sugar. I go to the gym every fucking day. I can have one gram of sugar in my drink. It ain't bad though. Anyway, yesterday, Sunday, Bill Burr did a live podcast at the Troubadour which is one of the greatest LA venues of all time, the great Troubadour down on Santa Monica and started at noon. Live podcast at the Troubadour and I hit up my buddy, Greg, I said, let's go down and then my buddy, Andrew Thimless who produces the Burr podcast said, yeah, get there around 11, which I felt was kind of early. Like, why am I getting there right at 11? It doesn't start till noon, but I did it anyway and I parked out front and I think about life all the time how things happen. It's so bizarre how life works. A lot of people, you know, during that COVID were like, are you gonna fucking move out of that shit hole LA? It's like, no, no, I'm not. I like LA. Also, I don't have $100 million just to go move anywhere I want and I'm still heavily in the comedy game and meaning that you have to be where the comedy business is. If you wanna take it serious, LA, New York, those are the heavy-duty comedy machines. So I've always said that life works weird and if you're doing entertainment, comedy or whatever, you gotta be out in the fucking stream. If you're panning for gold, you can't pan for gold on a dirty field. And that's just the truth. It's the same with comedy. You want to be around in the business, the energy that anything could fucking happen. You could be in a restaurant. A guy can walk up and say, hey man, saw you last night at the comedy store. I think I got a role for you or hey man, saw you at the comedy store last night. I've got five shows next week up the street if you wanna do them. Whatever, it can happen. And it's happened for me, 13 and a half years, no agent, no manager, but have survived in the business by being constantly in the business, in the machine, being in the hallway of the store, being on the patio of the comedy store, being in front of the comedy store, whatever it's happened, being at a restaurant. Like I said, I've gotten TV roles, movie roles, everything from being in some specific weird place at a time in LA and you cross paths with people. My point is you never know what the fuck's gonna happen in this town. And so there I was getting out of the car and instead of swiping my card for the parking meter, which takes one second, I had this army of quarters in my car for a couple of weeks because I was washing Gertie's blankets and towels and stuff. I had to take them to the laundry because I've got a small laundry machine in my place. It just does underwear and socks basically. That's all you're washing in my washing machine. So I stopped for a minute. I go, oh, wait a minute. I got a fucking army of quarters. I'm just gonna unload them in this parking meter because West Hollywood is greeting motherfuckers at charge for parking on a Sunday. Just evil. Two hour parking, $2. So I turn around, I go to my car and the reason I'm setting this up because it's kind of like that movie, was it Crash? I think it might have been with Matt Dillon. Timing is so weird. It's also a big theme on this TV show, Beef. It's timing. This happened because you were here at this time. But on the way to that, any fucking turn, any change in your whole day or life or career or anything is totally different. It's so weird how the universe works. And it's actually fucking pretty spiritual. I believe all in all of this shit, not in a hippie way, but it just happened so many times to me in my life that I'm like, this is what it is, man. And if you back it up, you go, wait, wait a minute. If I just used my credit card and swiped for parking and just walked right into the venue, the next string of events wouldn't happen. And I'm gonna tell you what happened. So it's not like it's a big fucking, my career didn't change or anything, but it lines up in such a weird way in my life. So I stop, I get the quarters, I put them in, then we're walking up the street. And as I see the billboard at the troubadour marquee, I have Greg take a picture of me. And I say, hey, take a picture of me real quick with Gertie and I bring Gertie everywhere. So with Gertie in front of the marquee. So we stop and here's another niche in the timing. As we stop, the troubadour door opens, the security guy opens and he goes, hey, you guys want to come in now? Cause you know, we're on the guest list. I go, hold on one second. I just want to get this photo. Now, if that door was open a second sooner, I would have just went in. I wouldn't have fucked with the photo. I'd been like, let's just get inside. It was like a 90 degrees out. I got Gertie. Whoa, birds. So we stopped to take the phone and as Greg's about to take the photo, there's two girls in line. And he goes, hold on, wait for a second. They're moving, they're moving out of the photo. They were polite. And as he's doing that, then a guy comes walking up the street and goes, wait, I'm going to wait for this guy to go by and then we'll get the photo. As the guy moves, another guy's walking. I go, just take the fucking photo, let's go in. A guy goes, Dean? And I turn around and it's Mark from Death Angel. And I'm like, whoa, what the fuck are you doing here? And he's jogging. And this about an hour before was, I've just read on Instagram that it was the 36th anniversary of Death Angel's ultraviolence. And as I was reading that in bed going like, God, 36 years. What a fucking record. Can't believe it's been 36 years. All that's going through my mind this morning, that morning. And then I'm like, and now I'm fucking seeing Mark. And the last time I saw him was at the Trugador when I interviewed him for the podcast. And everything was just like, this is fucking insane. And he doesn't live in LA. This guy lives in the Bay Area. And he just happened to be in town for some press for their tour coming up with Creator. So my point is, it's just so fucking weird timing. Timing is so bizarre to me in life. They always say, bad timing. Or too soon or they were before their time. There's all these things. But it's so weird to think about at what point that wouldn't even have happened. If the security guard opened the door and I just went in, Mark would have just jogged by, looked at the marquee, went, ah, Bill Burke, who kept on his fucking exercise. He was standing in a hotel up the road. All of that is just bizarre to me. So we stop, we hug, we talk. I go, fuck, 36 years, ultra violence, I can't believe it. Which is just a goddamn masterpiece. One of the greatest pieces of thrash metal ever recorded. And the album covers great. The songs are great. It's so original. They were all like basically in high school. They were friends of mine at the time. And we're still friends and we're still alive. All of that was just blazing through my skull. So I go, Mark, you gotta come to this, man. I'll see if I can get you in. It was sold out. It was only held 90 because they had it seated. And it was a very small event, but we got them in. And for the next two hours, we sat next to each other and we laughed as Bill Burke just crushed it on his solo Monday morning podcast. Super funny. Unlike this podcast, this one you're like, well, why don't you try to be funny once in a while? So fucking funny, man. Some guy hosted on my Instagram. This is the world that we live in. And he wrote, I posted up a photo of me, right? I was working on some jokes. Liz Vig wrote, Liz Vig, the photographer at the store, took a picture while I was writing, working on some jokes on the patio before I was going on. And some guy wrote, look, man, just the reality is you're not funny, dude. Your podcast is great, but you're just not funny. And I just thought, what kind of piece of shit, an actual piece of shit would just sit there for a minute and go, you know what, I'm gonna comment on this. And instead of just saying, hey, love the podcast, that's all you gotta say. Instead of just saying that he has to throw in, look, man, you're just not funny, which right away, the guy's just a piece of shit. For one thing, I bet he has never seen me. Second of all, if I wasn't funny, I wouldn't be hearing people laugh on a nightly, a nightly, whatever the fuck I'm trying to say, because I'm so mad. And I'm not mad, actually, because it didn't affect me at all. I just disappointed in how shitty people are. And that's another topic on that beef show. Shitty people. It is wild to watch. When you're shitty, it's wild to watch how the universe catches you and just starts giving you shit for the rest of your life. If you're shitty, man, the universe is looking. Man, this is, I'm fucking turning into the new Tony, Tony Robbins. Is that his name? You're here. Dude, you're talking to Dean Delray, comedian, podcaster, spiritual goo boo. But, you know, it's true. If you are shitty, it is going to stay with you forever. And you're always going to be angry at other people that are doing what they love to do. To sit there and go on and go, dude, it's just a fact you're not funny. Wait a minute. I was in front of an arena three nights ago, 14,000 people laughing. I guess I'm not funny. You know, nightly people laughing. It's so fucking great to see somebody just play those cards because then it's immediately like, see you later. And I just block them. Blocking is so great. It's just like, see you later, buddy. You know? And I bet he listens to the podcast. That's not good enough for him, you know? And it's definitely, definitely, you know, some angry guy not doing what he loves in life. It's, it's hilarious. And that goes down to, and you know, it doesn't even phase me because it comes down to, I was talking about that new Metallica record came out last week, 72 seasons. And I said, whenever a new Metallica record comes out, you know what's coming next. Tons of negative fucking energy. And I've learned in life how to just keep going with what you love doing and blow that shit off. And I've learned it most of all from Lars and Kirk Hammett. Those are probably the main dudes that get the abuse in Metallica and the band itself actually gets a lot of abuse whenever they put out new music. It is just unreal to me. And you know what? They're like, I don't give a fuck about you guys. It's a small, small percentage, but it looks like it's a lot because the press likes to pick up on the negative shit for the quick bait. So there was first, there was one of the songs, Kirk Hammett's solo, somebody commented, kind of this solo is just so basic, a two-year-old could play it or whatever. And then it just snowballed. And people were just like, you know, this solo, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And Kirk Hammett was great. He's like, yeah, man, whatever dude. You know, I'm not gonna sit there and do our peggios over a fucking rock metal song. Those are, you know, Ingve and Steve Vai and other guys that do that stuff. It's just amazing that somebody would take the time like that. It's like, how's the fucking song? Doesn't matter, it's solo sucks, man. He didn't go, he didn't do that. He went, and I was like, man, you need to go jump off a bridge, dude. It's just crazy. And then of course, you know, this album sucks, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And like I said, it's a small amount of people. It's very small, but the press loves to pick up on it. But I've learned that when you're in the business, you're putting yourself out there, you're going to have shit people. And most of the time, their opinion does not matter because everybody likes different shit. And usually they have bad taste. They're not doing what they wanna do in life. They work at some fucking shit job. And I've said it over and over, then they just get on the keyboard and fucking fire away. At the same time, they buy tickets to go see the band or they listen to the band still. And I don't understand how you could be a fan of the band and shit on them at the same time. Look, do I love everything on 72 seasons? No, and I'll just be honest. Everybody knows I don't like the load and reload record either. But I love the band. I don't shit on it because half of 72 seasons is fucking incredible. And these guys are 60 years old. They're doing more than 99% of the bands out there. They put out new music. They tour and they sing for real. They play, you know, they play live. They're out doing it for the fans. It's unreal. At 60 years old, I watched them play Master of Puppets on Jimmy Kimmel and it was fucking fierce. They're doing more than all these other bands that are touring with no original members. Not putting any fucking music out, just cashing in and clowning fans, you know, the Skinnerds, the Foreigners out there. All of them. There's so many bands out there with no original members running tapes and just robbing people. And Metallica has kept it real. Same with Death Angel, man. Out there making new records all the time. Death Angel, Testament, all the bands I listen to they constantly need to make new music. They're not cashing in on their, you know, greatest hits. Metallica has the last four records and I'm gonna say the last four because yes, I love St. Anger. You gonna die on that hill. Yeah, man. St. Anger, the last four records have been fucking great and this one has some killer songs. Tell you, 72 Seasons, fantastic. Luxeterna, fantastic. If Darkness Had a Son, Unreal. My favorite of the record so far is Crown of Bob Wire. That is an unusual and great, great tune for Metallica. Chasing Light, really good. The tune that really kind of bothered me was You Must Burn. It just was, it's just too close to Sad But True. I wouldn't have put that on the record because Sad But True is a goddamn masterpiece. That's funny, I was talking to Dave Elich yesterday at the Bill Burr taping and Dave Elich and I both were like, it all really started after Cliff Burton died. Once Cliff Burton died, they would say, no more Metallica. I said it before. Then when they put out the black album, no more Metallica. They sucked. Then they cut their hair, fucking no more Metallica and they just keep going and keep going 42 years, solid and fucking hats off to these guys for putting out a great, great record. Now that being said, I'm gonna listen to it more and more and more and some of the songs that may not have hit me will probably hit me later in the old fashioned way of how Octongue Baby by you too hit me. So looking forward to diving more into that. Also it was great to see Mark and congrats on 36 years of the ultra violence record and congrats Metallica on their new record 72 seasons and their fucking massive world tour about to come up, which will be really cool, playing two different, completely different sets each night. A lot of fucking cool shit out there. Great summer. Speaking of great summer. Well, oh, wait a minute. I wanted to give a shout out right here to some of the new Patreoners. Where's my fucking, here it is. Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey bonus episodes I'll have to be talk and zooms, live zooms. I might do a live zoom tonight. God, the Riffers are on lunch right now. It's so nice. Let's see, Patreoners, brand new Patreoners. Roger Lewis, thank you. Evan Boyle, killing it. Tracy Shepherd, brand new Patreoner. Samuel Schraut and Racken, Racken, brand new Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey Patreoners. Thank you so much. I don't know if you guys saw it, but they put together some fans, put together some money and had a Brian Johnson statue made. At the very first gig, he played with ACDC. Let me look that up real quick. I don't know those stuff about things. I don't remember his exact spot he did the first gig because my brain just doesn't work like that anymore. You know, I need room to remember the bits, but let's see, where is it here? The statue is in Belgium. Statue of ACDC, Brian Johnson has been erected, erected. He said erected, has been erected in a park in Belgium. So I looked at the statue. June 20, 1980 was the very first gig Brian Johnson sang with ACDC, really crazy to think about that. And I looked at the statue and I got to say they fucking nailed it because basically it has him wearing that football jersey number 22 that he wore in the videos for Back in Black. You know, those four videos they did, let me put my love into you. What is it, Rock and Rolling Noise Pollution? Back in Black, Hell's Bells? I think there's five videos. Anyway, they nailed it. Some of those statues, you know, when you see them, and they're like, they had the unveiling and they pulled the curtain down and it comes down and you're like, yeah, I guess so. And when the people are making the statue, are you stopping by going like, I don't think that really looks like him. I mean, that's almost embarrassing. The greatest statue I've ever seen is the Lemmy one at the Rainbow Bar and Grill. And it's outside, you can take pictures of it, full size, Lemmy. And I'm telling you, it is the perfect statue. It looks just like Lemmy. But there's been statues over the years and those figurine toys that these companies put out. You know, they're like, now you can get the authentic such and such and you look at it and you go, that's not him at all. So this Brian Johnson statue is fantastic. And they nailed it. It's got the hat, he's got the 22 jersey. He's just up there going for it. And I thought it was really cool. I still think that Brian Johnson is one of the greatest singers ever. And that's another band that gets the old no bond, no ACDC for me, fuck you. Which is just crazy. Because that means you're denying some of the greatest rock records of all time. Back in black, those about to rock and flick of the switch. Which by the way, lately I've been noticing flick of the switch getting some love around the world. People start and it's discover flick of the switch. A record that came out in 1983. They're like, hey, you know, this record's pretty fucking good. It's like, yeah, you think so? I mean, listen to that thing. It's so fucking raw. No mutt land, just raw fucking rock. So yeah, Brian Johnson gets a statue and well deserved. Also thank you everybody for the kind words on the video footage of me singing with Primus and members of Tool and Queens of the Stone Age that happened last Monday night. I was asked to host the Jimmy Hayward Benefit, which by the way, the link to donate to his GoFundMe is on my YouTube channel on the video. You can see the full video of me singing with Primus and Tool and Queens of the Stone Age. Guys, it's all a Primus. And then it's Danny and Justin from Tool and it's Troy VanLuin from Queens of the Stone Age and Jimmy Hayward on guitar. And then me singing, whole lot of Rosie. And I've had about a week to think about it and take it in now. And I would say that that was probably the top five things I've ever done in my life to sing with Primus and Tool. First of all, two of the greatest bands ever and Queens of the Stone Age, of course. But to sing with Primus and knowing these guys since I was a kid and no way did I think ever I would see Les play ACDC's whole lot of Rosie and play it fucking perfect, of course. These guys are so good at their instruments that it must be so hard to play ACDC because they're just like fighting not going like da-da-da, be-da-do, be-da-do, be-da-do, be-da-da-da, be-da-do, be-da-do, be-da-do, be-da-da-da, be-da-do, be-da-da-da, be-da-do, be-da-do, be-da-da-da. Ha ha ha ha. Oh man, it was an epic night. I got to host the show and the crowd was electric, the merch was incredible and Jimmy will be on the show. I think next week we'll talk about exactly what's going on with him. He's done animation killer videos for Tool over the years and Mastodon and other great bands. He has worked on incredible movies. He is a rock and roller, has a band with Brent Hines, the Siegelman and a fantastic human. So any donation you could do would be greatly appreciated and I want to make sure that we hit that mark on the GoFundMe. But once again, it was mind-boggling to do that. It was really insane and I'll never forget it. So yeah, congrats to Brian Johnson on the statue and all of that good stuff. I've been doing a little work around the apartment and I needed some wood and I went down to the lumber yard and I think I know about three types of wood. You got the high school kid wood being boner. Dude, I got full wood. Then you got redwood, you got pine, you got walnut, what else you got? That's probably it. Cedar, now you got cedar. There's just these woods you know about, these trees. And so I was down there and I was looking at some walnut and it's a fucking fortune. I was like, God damn. Oh, you know, after COVID everything's just triple. I mean, that's just how it is. Supply issues, it's triple the price of the wood, it's triple, it's just what it is. I'm sorry, man, we're just gonna charge triple for life on everything now. Gas, wood, coffee, anything, concerts, movies, popcorn. So I go down there and I'm looking at the different woods and the guy's like, yeah, so this is the walnut. I go, God damn, that's way too much. And then he's like, and then we got some, we got pine over here, we got cedar, redwood, redwood. And then he says we got this, let me get this wood out because I'm like, we got this over here, what was it called? Hemlock, hemlock, the fuck tree is hemlock. He's like, yeah, yeah, I got what? I'm 57. I've been all over, you know, the forests and stuff, they're never like the beautiful hemlock trees here. I'm like, what is a hemlock? And I will tell you this, it's the most generic looking grain wood ever. It almost looks fake. It looks like when people paint onto, they can make shit look like wood or leather. You ever seen these guys, they come into your house, they can paint your fucking walls to look leather? It's insane actually how good these guys are. You go in, your house looks like leather or wood or, you know, I forget what those guys are called, but they do a lot of set work. They'll go into a place, they can make your house, your sheetrock look like metal, like a warehouse. They can paint your sheetrock to look like, you know, just old rusted warehouse. So the guys like, yeah, hemlock, man. And so I hit him, I go, well, where's the fucking hemlock trees from? Where, what is hemlock? And he just looked at me like, doesn't matter. I'm just asking, dude, I've never heard of hemlock. I know redwood, cedar, walnut. You know what, what is hemlock? And he just walked away, because he didn't know either. I think I was the first person that asked him, what the fuck is a hemlock tree? I've never seen it, where does it grow? You know, I should have looked it up. Let's look it up actually. Is this exciting content or what, people? You follow me, we figure out, fuck it, here it is, hemlock, hemlock, a highly poisonous European plant. The fuck? Number two is hemlock fir or hemlock spruce, a North American tree with dark green foliage that is said to smell like hemlock when crushed, grown for timber and pulp production, also grown in Europe as ornamental. Yeah, look at that first one, hemlock, a highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family. Is that like that shit? What was that shit that they used on Breaking Bad? Remember, it's just like one fucking small grain. It's like basically like fentanyl of plants. You just touch it and you're fucking dead. I can't even remember what it was called and I knew it. Ricin, boom, brain's working, ricin. Oh, fucking, oh, Breaking Bad knowledge. It's funny, you learn about ricin and then people are talking about it for a couple of years. Yeah, I think he slipped them some ricin. Anyway, hemlock tree, I'm in there and I had to go with it. It was the cheapest, I guess I'll get it. And then a guy stained it up for me and it looked like walnut. So I've got like fake walnut, but it's real wood. It's hemlock to look like walnut. So I'm killing it out here with the fucking simulated walnut wood. Oh man, I don't know. I'm just happy to fucking not hammering right now. All right, I'm going through my notes here because I don't wanna miss anything this week. Last week, I wanted to talk about some stuff and I missed it and then it's really kind of done, you know? Podcast is brought to you by Banker Guitar, speaking of wood, Banker, King of the Karina. You know, Matt, Mr. Banker himself has more Karina wood than I've ever fucking seen and he's spitting out some of the greatest handmade Karina Vs and Explorers on the planet. Basically crushing everyone on the handmade Karina Vs and Explorers, it's just unreal. 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And also, I just didn't understand how much work it was going to be to do a podcast network, two, three different shows, write comedy, travel, do comedy. And the honest truth is, I'm trying to run like I'm in my early 40s and I'm 57 years old, man. And I'm fucking tired. And in reality, alls I'd really love to do is just the podcast once a week, let there be talk and then do comedy. And, but I love the Grail and I feel that these people deserve their own show. But man, until I can get some help, I'm just a one man show and it's really fucking gnarly, man. It really is. It's, I just want to have a little bit of time to rest and just dick off. I don't have much dick and off time. I've got to constantly work. I've got to constantly work on these jokes and do comedy and then podcast. And in between all that, it's like, fuck, I got to do the Grail. But it's a passion of mine and I really do want to get it back up and running. And I don't know if I should just keep it all and let there be talk again or keep with the original vision. I don't like to quit anything. So I'm just trying to figure it out. But I do believe that the Grail, just for the artwork alone, the Grail needs to survive and live. The artwork is so fucking good. And I love the idea of having these people have their own show. I'm just, I just fucking, I just try to do so much stuff to keep myself out there. And so yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. So I want to get the Grail going again. I want to thank all of you guys for tuning in and hope to see you at some of the live shows and hope to see you on the Patreon, on the Zooms and the bonus episodes. I dropped a bonus episode a few days ago. I really liked it. It's a good episode. I hope you liked this solo episode. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else that you get your podcasts, cactusradionetwork.com. I keep it going, man. 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