 Welcome to another episode of Let It Be Talk. It is episode number 707. 707, my friends. And if you're old like me, you might remember that band 707, which I didn't even remember until I looked up what episode I was on. And then I was like, oh yeah, fucking 707. They had that song, Mega Force. I think it was 1983, kind of in the vein of like Night Ranger, they were on the same label as Night Ranger. And the whole time I thought they were from Sonoma County. That's the area code up there in the Bay Area 707. Oh, from the 707 dog. But they weren't, which is hilarious. They had Kevin Chalfant. That's his name, the singer. He later on, I think he sang in the storm. Kind of that journey spinoff with Greg Rawley. And what was that guitar player's name? Fuck, I forgot his name. I know it, but he, he looked like Neil Sean. And he was a Neil's buddy. Josh Ramos played in Le Mans. Fucking brain is working on a Sunday. I'm recording this on Sunday here in Las Vegas cause I'm about to do two more shows. And then drive home in the fucking Prius with Gertrude. It's been 114, 115, 16, 18 out here. And I finally realized. I could probably never live in Palm Springs or Arizona. Or even Joshua tree. As much as I want to live out there. Hence the hat, the tree hat. Wearing today. But fuck, man. The heat is just gnarly. They, you know, people get old and they want to live around the heat. I don't know, man. I'll take some Boise or Portland. Or Boulder. You know, I mean, yeah, like Gertrude can't go outside. We've been here in Vegas. I got to take her out at night. It's over a hundred at night. Knock it off, son. Knock it off. We get it. You're fucking high. Chill out. But I take Gertrude out at night. I got to keep her off the ground. Carry her over to the spot where the dog shit. I got to keep her at the Rio. They got the shit spot for the dogs. And it just smells. It's so hot that it just bakes this urine. Poop dog station. It just bakes it. As soon as you walk up, it's like, ooh, smells like a porta potty at Coachella on a, after a three day festival. God damn. Hot as fuck out here. But great shows, man. They're really good shows at the comedy seller this week. 14 shows. And they've all been really, really good working on some new stuff. I enjoy the, the comedy aspect of Vegas. And I've said it many times before I, I couldn't live here. Have you lived here? All right. You know, I'm not going to knock it. People live places. But I couldn't do it. I could not do it. I could not do it. I could not do it. I just walked around this weird energy. I took some mushrooms yesterday. Walked around the casinos. I took them around 10 a.m. little solo mushroom trip. And walked around the casinos. That is a weird energy when you're on mushrooms in a casino. I went over to the. Where did I go first? First of all, I rode the little shuttle over to the Aria. And then I walked around and they got some crazy architecture in that, the crystal shopping area. And I was just sitting in there on mushrooms, looking at this weird wood structure. I was like, Oh, right. And then I got on the little, it's weird when you're on mushrooms during the day and you're around all the normal people and they're not. You're just walking around like, all right. And then I rode the shuttle over to the Bellagio. And I was like, Oh, I gotta get the fuck out of here. There was just too many people. It was fierce. I like went to the Omega watch shop and I was in there looking at watches, just cooking on mushrooms. Just playing it off. I think, you know, you think you're, you think he got it all cool. But the energy is weird when you're on mushrooms in Vegas. I don't really feel the weird energy of the people gambling. And I've said it many times. I've never understood gambling at all. It's so dark, man. It is so dark because people. Like there's gambling for fun. I get it. You're a little drunk. You hit the crap stable. You're rolling. It's a Friday night. People are yelling and screaming. You feel like you're performing. I'm up. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sneak eyes. Fuck. But you get, you know, you get around that casino. Late night, like four in the morning until like. 10 the next day. And you see the people still trying to get their rent back. They're like, fuck. I got, I just spent my rent. I've got to, I've got to win it back. I'm feeling lucky now. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good, man. Fucking weird energy, man. On mushrooms, you can really take it in. I was like, I got to get back to my room. Hang out with Gertie. Just look out the window at the fucking Allegiant stadium where the Raiders play. I looked at that thing for about an hour. The black flying saucer. Wow. It's a, it's been a good week of shows, man. I've been feeling good. And if you came out, thank you so much. A lot of different people came out that listened to podcast. And I always really appreciate that. It's very, very cool. Let's see. I wanted to talk about a few different things today. It is a solo episode. And I was just talking about. A lot of different things. I was talking about. Greg Raleigh. And Journey and 707 and all that Bay Area stuff. But what was funny is lately I've been following this. Instagram. Midnight special. That was a 70s TV show when I was growing up. You catch on Friday nights. It was after Johnny Carson. Back then, you know, Johnny Carson. I think I was. A lot of people don't remember this. Was an hour and a half. You know, imagine like. You watching Jimmy Fallon right now for an hour and a half, but it was an hour and a half for a long time. And if you wanted to watch a band. You'd have to stay up till around. Five minutes to one. And back then, man, I was in school, just trying to stay up. But I could not see the do be brothers. And you just would fall asleep. No VCR. None of that shit. No YouTube to watch the next day. Now, you know, comedians on. I don't even need to watch the show. If it's a friend of mine, I'll just watch their set the next day or a band. It'll be the next day on the YouTube channel. Jimmy Fallon's YouTube channel. There it is right there. White Reaper. Planned killer. And I'm going to go back to the live. And I'm going to be back then, man. You had to fucking stay up. So it was a interesting to read the history of the midnight special because I, I watched it so much that the midnight special. And they had Don Kirschner's rock concert. And these were two different shows. That were just giving a massive. Massive platform. To rock music. And they had a lot of bands on. Sometimes they would host it, you know, Richard prior, George Carlin. Cheech and Chong. And it was just an incredible. Incredible show. The bands did not lip sync. Which they did on soul train. And, and American bandstand, which is another place you would get to see bands. But that was kind of, it was fun to see your favorite band, just lip syncing. It was just awful. They actually had those microphones with the bed antenna on the end to make it look like it was some. Wireless. Mike. Just homemade. Just crazy. But. I was reading about how the midnight special happened. And this guy. This guy. I sound like a Norm MacDonald. This guy. Had an idea. He thought he had put on a show. This guy. Huh. Fuck I miss norm. God damn. I miss seeing him at the comedy store. I miss his comedy. What an original man. What an original. Anyway, this guy came up with an idea. Back then TV. Would shut off network TV at 1am. You remember that? I remember my mom would just fucking fall asleep to TV. I'd come home from like band rehearsal. And it would just do that. This is a public service announcement. NBC is shutting off. Nothing would be on again till 6am. Just fucking blank channels. Oh, that's simplicity. That's simplicity of when I was growing up. You dumb dumps. You didn't have 4 million channels and YouTube and Instagram and TikTok and. Fucking all that other shit. Anyway, so this guy had his name. I wanted to look at it. I want to get the guy proper glory because. Anybody that comes up with something that fucking cool. Here we go. Unbelievable. And his name is Bert Sugarman. Bert Sugarman is the creator of the midnight special. Bert Sugarman. Holy shit. Looks like he's still alive. He's 84. But somebody has put together a incredible YouTube channel. With all of the performances and it is stunning. But he had an idea. And he said, Hey, you know, there's nothing on after Johnny Carson. Why don't we put this music show on? Call it midnight special Friday night. People are up doing a little toot. Drinking some Coors. And, uh, you know, smoking a little reefer. Let's give him something to watch. And NBC is like, nah, see you later, dude. And he said, okay, well, I'll just buy an hour and a half of time. And I'll put up a TV show and he put up the pilot. And it fucking smoked it. And NBC was like, oh, whoa. And they ended up buying the idea from him and, and letting him create the show. And at first he was begging bands to be on it. And then the show got so hot that bands were begging him to be on it. And I'm telling you, man. It is some of the greatest live performances captured by some of the biggest bands up and coming and famous. That you'll ever see. It's just insane to watch. Journey talking about Greg Raleigh. There's this incredible clip. Of, uh, hold on, let me look at this stuff here. It's just so insane. And they're, oh, they got a Instagram channel, by the way, too. Instagram channel. Uh, and they got an Instagram channel. But, uh, go to the YouTube. Let me see her midnight special. And, uh, enjoy these performances. They're just, they're just standing, man. I was just telling Ian about it. Because, uh, he saw a clip. Okay. Check this out. They got a clip on here. Um, that is so insane. It's journey. They got a clip on herbie Hancock playing. And it is fucking nuts. It is insane, man. They got so much good stuff. Steely Dan. Ted Nugent. Uh, let's see here. Willie Nelson. Jim Croce. A ton of summer. It goes on and on. I mean, everything kiss, kiss at the fucking early. Just crushing it. And then they had a band with the smoke and everything. And they'd shoot them. The band would play live. And it blow your mind. I'll give you a little list of some of the people that played this thing. It was just so unreal, man. I was looking at the list. They had everybody. The AC DC footage. Is so mind boggling. With bond Scott. It'll just blow your mind. They had Abba, AC DC, Earl Smith, Alice Cooper. You know, I'm not going to name them all because it's hundreds of bands. The cars that cars clips really blow my way to blow my mind to see the cars at that time. Just early, you know, mid seventies, yellow. Earth, wind and fire. Just crushing it. Al Green heart. Oh, heart lights it up on this thing, man. So all these clips. Are on. It's here now, Richard Pryor, unbelievable. Are you a speed wagon? You know, our speed wagon. Right up until that high infidelity record. They were just fantastic. And then, you know, they had the big hits. I want to keep on loving you. That's the curse, man. You get the monster hit from the ballad. And then, you know, the singer is like, let's do more ballads or the record company is like, let's do more ballads. And then all of a sudden they lose their full heaviness. And Ario Speedwagon is definitely one of the. Kings of that before that, just Gary Richrath. What an unbelievable guitar player. This guy and sad, sad story. If you watch their behind the music. Oh my God. It's just so sad. There's like a scene with him at like a, a, a park. And he's like on like the monkey bars or the merry-go-round thing or whatever. And the party's just like, it just, it just went downhill, man. Whoa. Man, he is just trashed. Then Kevin Cronenberg was the lead singer. I think Ario Speedwagon is still out there doing it, but nowhere near what they were. They were fucking, I mean, riding the storm out. These guys were great. I saw them at day on the green. They fucking, they headlined a day on the green man, 60,000 on that big high infidelity record. What a record that is. Great record. Anyway, midnight special Don Kirchner's rock concert. Then later on, of course, SNL having all the great live performances of like fear and Divo and the Rolling Stones, man. The Stones kill it on SNL. And then that show Fridays, another great show that was like a SNL copy. That's where that, that dude from Seinfeld, what's his name? Oh, the guy that just got bounced. Richard. What is his name? He was on, he was on Fridays and he was funny as fuck on that. The guy that got completely canceled for going cuckoo at the Laugh Factory. But these are the spots you could see great live music. And, you know, these days, you just, it's tough to see more of like a big platform like midnight special where a band would come on and play three, four songs. Unbelievable to have all that in the can. And then to be able to have the beauty of YouTube to put it all up, which by the way, subscribe to my YouTube channel, Dean Dell Reyes. Please subscribe and send it around to your friends. Let them know that the channel's out there. And also speaking of that, I have fired back up the Grail. It was down for six months. I was having some tough times keeping myself together. And I've kind of, you know, working on it, staying positive and a fired back up the Grail. I feel good about it. I feel good about some of this new material. So yeah, last week was shady, weird grim, but that's just real. You got to be real. Can't go on the podcast every time and be like, it's fucking great, dude. Some guy left a comment last week's episode. Man, this episode gave me a headache. It's not all fucking perfect. If it was, I'd have fucking 40 million listeners. Anyway, midnight special, really fucking cool. I'm going to, uh, I'm going to be back in Vegas during the F one formula one race. I'm going to be back in Vegas with Burr in November. We're doing the MGM arena. And we're going to get to see that formula on race, which is going to be fucking crazy. Racing cars. They say it's going to be the biggest event in the history of Las Vegas. Which would be wild because, uh, in and out of the casino areas and shit. So I can't wait to see what this is going to be like. Man, formula one, I saw formula one with Bill in Austin, Texas, about five years ago. And that was crazy on a track, but this will be like kind of that. The one they do, um, what is it like in France or somewhere where they do it down the water. Just that's the shit that was crazy. I mean, I think it's kind of like that Long Beach Grand Prix where it goes around Long Beach. Like in wild. So I'm looking forward to seeing that. I will be back in Vegas in November with the mighty Bill Burr. And we will be watching that race. And, uh, speaking of racing, I didn't get to go drive the cars because it was just too hot out here. It was too hot. To, uh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I haven't driven a race since the first time in years that I haven't. Drove a car on the track while I'm out here. I didn't do anything. I wanted to go see Oppenheimer. I think that's how you say it. And it was totally sold out. At the I max. So I'm going to see it on, um, Sunday or no Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. At the Chinese theater, I'm going to see the greatest movie theaters of all time. And I haven't been in it for years. And I am looking forward to going. And seeing this epic film. In true 70 millimeter. I max. I was reading a lot on it. And. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I really find out if your theater has the true I max. Cause there's I max. And then there's. Bogus. I max, I guess. I don't know. But I know one thing. I want to see it the way the director wants you to see it. And that's. In this. True. Giant. I max. I think the fucking film is like. It's like 600 pounds. It's like a 150 pounds. It's like a 500 pound. Or something. Or vice versa. I don't know. But I'm going to see it on Wednesday morning. I'm fired up. I need to catch up on the movies, man. I gotta see Indiana. I gotta see mission. I gotta see Barbie. I'll just go see Barbie because it's fucking. Weird. They made Barbie. Let's see it. I'll probably see that on an airplane. And then I gotta see up and I'm. I'm seeing that first. talk about it on the Patreon bonus episode. I'm looking forward to that and looking forward to going back to the Chinese theater. If you've never been there, it is a masterpiece of a movie theater. It is old Hollywood with the hand prints out front, all of the major old school premieres done there over the years and years and years. And it's just true Hollywood history. You go in there, it's just giant. They redid it a few years ago, it's beautiful. And I've seen so many great premieres in there. A bunch of Tarantino premieres. I think Django Unchained I saw in there, premier. And the other one, the Germans one with Brad Pitt. I can't remember the name of that right now. But it is, I know it's Tarantino's favorite place to premiere a film. And I know Christopher Nolan, apparently he has a secret favorite seat in there. He likes to run his film and sit in this seat and make sure everything's right. So if you're in LA, I guess the Universal Studios and the Chinese theater are the only ones where you can truly see it in true IMAX. But the IMAX right up the street here at the Palms was totally sold out. Me and another comedian, we're gonna go see it. And fucking every screening sold out. And some theaters with IMAX, it's sold out for the run. So that's pretty cool to think about people are going back in the movie theaters because like I said before with the strike and everything going down after COVID, the movie industry's had a tough, tough time. So I don't know, are you guys gonna see it? I think it's a must see, you know? Sipping off my fucking spin drift. I'm on spin drift recently lately. After reading that Topo Chico has some kind of fucking high levels of some bullshit in it. It's always something, man. It is always something. All right, get into some more here. What else do we got? Did you guys have a good weekend? Oh yeah, hold on, hold on. Man, my throat is trashed from just Huffin AC. Just Huffin AC, man, unreal. Okay, this is what I was gonna talk about a couple of days ago was the 37th year anniversary of appetite for destruction. Wild. Which means when I turned 60, it'll be 40 years old, that record. So I guess I was 20. I don't know how that is. I thought maybe in 1987, July 21st, it came out. But every year on that anniversary, I always think back to that record and where I was when I got it and who I was with, what I was doing. And it's such an iconic debut. Many, many, many times people will battle it over out. What is the greatest debut record of all time? Is it Van Halen won? Is it the first doors record? Is it appetite for destruction? Is it the first Boston record? There's people are at Boston. Yeah, that thing had a fucking massive impact. And then you start thinking about records that had a huge impact. I'd never mind. Nirvana, that's not their first record, but it's the debut on a major. They had bleach before. And then of course, Hobot, Jane's Addiction, nothing shocking. A lot of these records, they have a massive impact, meaning where they hit and then it completely changes the musical landscape, Jane's Addiction. That thing, I would say arguably launched the massive kind of alternative rock scene. Of course, I know we had alternative rock before that with the cure and the Pesh mode and all that, but I'm talking about that next smash where just all of a sudden you have a lot of a Palooza and that whole thing completely changes everything. And at the same time, same year, GNR with appetite, change and everything. I will say that I haven't really listened much to appetite in the last five years or so, because I think I finally kind of hit a wall with it. I'd heard it so much, so much. From the day it came out, it's been one of my favorites forever. It's timeless, but of course you get hammered with the sweet child of mine, the paradise city and the welcome to the jungle over and over and over on Sirius XM, over and over and over and over, unless there's a guest DJ on and then you're gonna get a great deep track. Whenever I get a deep track on Sirius XM, I know it's not a fucking, it's a guest DJ, like a Tom Morello or something, you know? Deep track like my Michelle or out to get me. Or, you know, Mr. Brownstone. Deep track, oh, Rocket Queen, they play the shit out too, but Rocket Queen still feels like a deep track. Once in a while you get the Rocket Queen, you're like, oh, God, thank God it's not sweet child of mine. Great, great songs when they came out, but I can't hear them anymore. It's a lot like ACDCs shook me all night long. I cannot listen to that song. But what an epic record. Everything about it, man. The album cover, the Robert Williams original cover, the incredible painting. Mike Clink, unknown, you know, produces it, makes it sound classic. There's no dated shit on there. It still sounds really good. The songwriting is unbelievable. The songwriting is so fucking next level compared to what was going on in the strip at that time. And same with Jane's Addiction, nothing's shocking. A lot of people, including the people I hung out with, we were like, this Jane's Addiction is our Zeppelin. This is the new Zeppelin. That's what they were kind of quoted, not big rock Zeppelin, but just so special sounding. And same with G&R. It's like, oh, shit, this is outlaw. This isn't your Bon Jovi soft rock, you know. This is unreal smashing your face rock and roll. Crazy. And the effect it had on me and everybody around me is massive. And still to this day, I don't really need to see G&R anymore. But I thank them for all the incredible memories and what that record meant to me at the time, just unreal. And then of course, two of my favorites later on, the illusion records, completely different than appetite 100%. Some people don't even listen to the illusion records, which is just sad, unbelievable. But when I look back on the appetite record now, and I know the history and what they had in the can that I didn't put on there, I do think the record is a masterpiece, but I do think there's two songs that are kind of weak on it. And one of them is, think about you. I think about you. And the other one is anything goes tonight. Now, I don't need either of those songs. And I don't think the band really does either because they never really play them much. They did play, think about you not too long ago, which was wild. But if you replace those two, it's a 12 song record. You could either have 10 songs, which would be unbelievable. So look at this. This would be the, if you remove those songs and you just went straight 10 songs, you would have Welcome to the Jungle, It's So Easy Night Train, Out to Get Me, which is a fucking underrated classic. Brownstone, Paradise City, My Michelle, Sweet Child, Your Crazy Rocket Queen. That would be the 10 song record without anything goes and think about you. Or you could go the 12 songs and put in Civil War, which they had at the time. And maybe Don't You Cry, which would have been another ballad might have been too much ballads on there, you know. But who am I to say? I didn't fucking make a masterpiece. So it doesn't fucking matter what I think. I'm just, that's just my feeling now when I'm listening to the record, I can pass those songs up. But man, also happy birthday slash. It's weird to think about their record came out and slash's birthday is like two days later. What a birthday present, right? And we all know the story. Rekker came out, they had the Jungle video. Rekker kind of tanked, didn't do anything. You know, Zutat trying to work the record. Eventually they drop Sweet Child of Mine in Paradise City and the whole fucking rest is history. Once again, proving that you had to have a massive ballad back then to be huge. Bon Jovi, I'll be there for you. 18 in life. You know, Skid Row, all the bands had the big ballad and it even took even Metallica. Nothing else matters, skyrocketed. But unlike the GNR record, Metallica, Sandman, it hit, it hit. But, you know, Jungle did not hit, which is wild because I fucking loved it. When it came on that video and shit, I was like, this is incredible. And, you know, later on down the road, you find out they did, I think they did a video for It's So Easy. I'm pretty sure it was one of those where you can see it now on YouTube and they didn't release it, but it was like, oh, I just shot at the cat house. Really cool. It's so easy. And, you know, I put up on my Instagram, what's your favorite song on there? Mine, Mine Being My Michelle. And to me, that was just this dark, dark classic in the middle of that record. Anyway, so there it is, 37 years, appetite for destruction, amazing title, coming from the Robert Williams painting. And I've said it many times, I learned a lot from that band. I learned about Robert Williams and that kind of juxtapose, high brow art, low brow, high brow, eyebrow, eyebrow art. Which by the way, I got my car wash a couple of days ago. And I was at the car wash and I was sitting there and I was looking at the car air fresheners. They got those trees dangling there. And they have, you know, it's like peach and then cinnamon spice. And they got unemployed, unemployed, your car smell. And then they got black ice. And I was like, what the fuck is black ice? What is that scent? And how did it get popular? It's the black tree, black ice. And I was thinking like, how did you even pitch that you're on? We need a new scent. How about black ice? All right, that sounds good. What's the smell? It doesn't matter. Just call it that. It'll sound, it's fucking crazy. Black ice, I drove on black ice before. I was scared out of my fucking mind. I didn't roll down the window, right? Like, oh man, that smells good, that black ice. Let's get it in my car. That fucking black ice. They should have called it black ice. Black ice, like, you know, smells like domestic violence. Black ice. Insane. Black ice. That was an ACDC record, right? Yeah, fucking. I mean, that makes sense, because fucking ACDC is so fucking dangerous, you know? And that's like black ice, man. I remember I had this meter. What year did that black ice come out? Let's see here. Wait a minute. Where is it? Black ice. Am I crazy? I think I'm crazy. No, there it is. Oh man, ugly album cover. ACDC totally fucking failed with this black ice album cover. It's like the new Metallica cover. Just who fucking put that together? Oh, that was the last great tour, man, before they came back. That was when they had the train on stage. They played the LA Forum. It was killer. Let's see. ACDC got so many songs set up before that they just don't ever play. It is wild. This record has 15 fucking songs. Black ice. Yeah, I want my car to smell like black ice. Anyway, happy birthday appetite for destruction. So fucking good, man. So good. I was, I'm here in Vegas, like I said before, and I was coming up on the elevator. I always trip on these people that they're, when you're crossing the street or you're getting on an elevator, you know, I walk up, I press the button. Then I'm standing there and then somebody next to me presses the button. Like I'm standing there, like I wouldn't press the button. Like I'm sometimes, it's lit up. The elevator's lit up. You see, I pressed it. And then they go over and press it again. Like total fucking no patience. Just pressing it again. They press it again like it's a gas pedal. Like if I keep fucking pressing this, it'll get here sooner. It doesn't fucking get there any sooner. That is not how it works. They have to fucking stop at floors to let people out. It's not just sitting up there, the elevator like, you know, you didn't press the button enough time. So I'm not coming down. Fucking guy, I watched him this morning. He pressed it. I've already pressed it. I'm just sitting there looking at my phone. That's what I do when I'm waiting for shit. Just look at my phone. That's the greatest thing about the phone if there's a giant line or anything. That's why there's no more people watching cause you're just facing the fucking phone. But I pressed it, I'm sitting there, then he walks over, the guy presses it. And I can see, you can see it's counting down up there. It's like, you know, 21, 20, stopped at 18. Then it stopped at 14. There he is again, pressing it. Fucking get down here. Now I can see if you gotta take a bad shit or something. You're just doing that like, oh my God, I'm not gonna make it. But if you're just a fucking lunatic thinking that the more you press that button, the faster it's gonna come. You're out of your fucking mind. It's the same thing with the street crossing, you know? These people are fucking nuts. It doesn't work like that. You nutty fucking weirdos. Relax. It's coming. It's coming, like I said, unless you gotta take a shit. Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you this, like I was in my room and I slashed his birthday. So there's a video of him. I put it on my Instagram where he's showing somebody the rift to jungle, you know? And he's trying to remember it himself. I understand how that goes. People say, hey, how's that Joker? And I'll just go, I don't know. Even if you've done it a thousand, a million times, slash has played jungle, at least a million times probably. Maybe not. I don't know. I don't think they've done a million concerts, but he's done it a lot. And somebody goes, yeah, how's that going? And he's like, doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly. Oh, wait, hold on. Doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly, doodly. He's doing it. And I just kind of did an Instagram remix on it where I float up and I'm like, you know what you want? Get in the jungle, baby. And I'm doing it fucking loud and dirty. It just freaked Gertie out to do full volume axle. She's on the couch. She's like, what the fuck? She's not sure if I'm yelling at her. She's never heard me go full volume axle. She shook her up. It shook her up, man. Right Gert? She was like scared for like 20 minutes. Hilarious, man. Anyway, thank you guys all for tuning in to the solo episodes. I appreciate it. I got some cool guests coming up here in the next few weeks or so. Be sitting down with some of your favorites. And I'm looking forward to that. Oh, I wanted to tell you this episode is brought to you by Standard and Strange. This is where I get all of my clothing, my denim, my leather jackets, my boots, my hoodies, my sweatshirts, everything. Standardandstrange.com. Hit them up. Tell Neil or Jeremy I sent you. Get yourself a nice little discount or visit their stores, New York, New Mexico, Berkeley and go in and support small businesses. This place is absolutely fantastic. They have the highest level of denim and leather. All my favorite brands, Momotaro, Real McCoys. God, I love Real McCoys. 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Have you guys seen Barbie? I'm gonna see Barbie. Oh yeah, here's something I wanted to talk about. There was an Instagram video and this is kind of the curse of AI and fake video now, and I've talked about it in the last few weeks, but AI is a scary thing and we got a lot of music being made on AI and a lot of videos being made. I said, I saw a video of Jerry Garcia as on Instagram talking about John Mayer playing in Denco. Now that is just fucking spooky. And I sent it over to Greg Hipps, my buddy Greg from the Mother Hipps and we both agreed it wasn't exact to Garcia, but that's because we know what Jerry sounds like, but it was about 90% there. And which means we're so early on in AI that in three months from now, this is how fast this AI shit is changing. It's going to be exact. And that's a scary fucking thing. It was so weird just to hear Jerry, there's two videos of him. One of them he's talking about fish and it was wild. He's like, you know, I really like fish, you know, just they don't do the same thing as we do, you know, they jam, but they're not the same as us. They're their own thing. It must have been a fish fan because he had Jerry, AI, Jerry really talking up fish. It couldn't have went the other way. You get a non-fish fan and they got Jerry talking like, you know, without fucking Grateful Dead, there'd be no fucking fish. And that's just the honest truth. Fish just completely rips us off. And when we're not touring the fans get bored. So they go see fish because they need to take some drugs and twirl and spin and here's some jams, you know, and it could have went that way, you know, real quick. But the Garcia one talking about John Mayer was amazing because he's like, yeah, these people, you know, they're giving John Mayer, you know, a lot of grief that he doesn't come from this music, you know, he's more of a singer-songwriter and a guitar, a guitar God. But in reality, I don't come from this music either. If you don't remember, if you didn't remember, I come from bluegrass and jazz. And so leave him alone. He's doing a fantastic job. And it was wild just to hear this, like, you know, Jerry AI, which also I was all for what he was saying about the AI Jerry, what he was saying about John Mayer. So it was wild. My point is there was an AI video on Instagram a couple of days ago and Ian sent it over to me, Ian Edwards and he knows I love cars. So it was like an AI video. And at the time I did not know it was AI and I still didn't know until I was talking to my boys over there, Steve Jones at Dream Racing and his buddy, I didn't know it was a fake video. And this is where AI gets dangerous. So it was SUVs parked against the wall and then they made it look like it was a legit government type of auto test, you know, where they remember those old ones crash test dummies. They would just have two dummies, not the band. Remember that? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. But they would have two crash test dummies in a car and then they'd smash it into a wall. I remember that one commercial where the dummies talked like, I should have wore my seat belt. Anyway, it's kind of a spin on that where they have a 18 wheeler truck hit these different SUVs, new SUVs at 30 miles an hour, front and then the back. And each time they did it, it looked like the fucking new Ford Bronco just crumbled like an accordion, just, I mean, gong, like you would be dead at a 30 mile an hour collision with an 18 wheeler. And they had all these different SUVs but the Bronco was just, it was just shit. The forerunner did a great job. So I was like watching this and I had no idea that it was fake. So for weeks I was like, man, I wouldn't get a fucking Ford Bronco, that's for sure. You see that fucking piece of shit, brand new car just crumbles with a 30 mile an hour impact, you're dead. Now I'm telling everybody that, I had no idea who fucking sits around like I got to make this video and really show the Bronco as a piece of shit. I started thinking, is that like a Defender? Did they make that like Range Rover? Somebody in the deep, deep web, you know? Like, man, these Broncos are selling like crazy. Did Chevy do it? You know, who made this video? That I didn't know it was fake till two nights ago and my bed said, oh man, some people did some research and that's a fake video. And I'm like, fuck, that's fucking evil. Because here I am walking around telling people that the Broncos shit, unbelievable, man. So that's just one little fucking nuance of how AI and fake videos and, you know, it's gonna be fake news or we already got fake news, but it's gonna be people on the screen talking and it's not gonna be them. But people are gonna, I saw you, man. I saw it with my own fucking two eyes. You were up there talking about how you were doing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know? And it's going to be to a point to where you just can't believe anything unless it's a fucking human in your face and you see him with your own eyes doing something. Other than that, you just gotta be like, yeah, that's gotta be fake. It's gonna be crazy out there. It really is gonna be crazy. So if you did see that video, get at me on the Instagram or whatever. Let me know if you know who made the video and why would they make it. I'm just curious on who went through all that to really make the Bronco look like a fucking piece of shit. Unbelievable. God damn crazy shit out there. The world, right? It's getting nuttier and nuttier. It's fucking 120 degrees for two, three weeks. We're all burning up out there. Oh, I saw the sphere, the sphere, sphere. Here in Vegas, that giant new concert place. I can't wait to see you two in there, man. Anyway, they got it lit up. Sometimes it's an eyeball. Sometimes it's a basketball. Sometimes it's just fucking like pouring weird white shit over it. Man, this thing is so cool. And I cannot wait to see a concert in there, especially you two. And I wouldn't be surprised if they, oh man, it'd be cool to do it as a comedian. I just, it just hit me. That would be rad. The headline in there with all kinds of fucking weird shit going on behind there. Just go see a comedian on mushrooms and they got like weird. You're telling a story and behind it, the stories going on all over the fucking 360 screen. Man, that would be so crazy. A storytelling show by a comedian, like if I'm talking about Dan the Green and the whole fucking sphere turns into like a just a giant 360 of a Dan the Green of like Ted Nugent, ACDC. Damn. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing a band in there, man. That's gonna be really cool. You know, like I said, I'm not going to a lot of concerts anymore, but that's something I gotta do. They're taking it to another level and that'll be really cool to see what it's like. It's crazy. I can see it out my window. And it's just a, it's a, it's a work of art, man. A billion dollars over budget on it. There's two billion dollars. The two billion dollar venue. Where are these people getting this money, man? Six billion dollars that football team sold for. The, the Redskins. They're still the Redskins to me cause they changed their name a bunch of times. I can't remember that. It's the commanders or the Washington's. The Tomahawks. Anyway, six billion dollars. A fucking NFL team. Man, if I owned the Raiders right now, if I was that guy with the weird haircut, Al Davis's kid, I would just sell the Raiders and just go fucking ride it out, man. Ride it out with your billions of dollars. Why fucking, why put up with losing every year? Raiders lose every year. Just sell it and go fucking buy an island and chill. Fucking NFL. I'm at that age where I remember the players had jobs on the off season. Fucking nuts, six billion dollars for a football team. That is crazy. Oh my God. My buddy said that they wanted that owner out of there cause he was like stealing from the NFL, hiding profits so the other teams, you know, they split the profits. What a fucking shade tree. Anyway, I love all you guys. Dindelray.com's got the tour dates. I'm going to Utah. I'm going to be in Vegas again. Like I said, there's a bunch of dates with Burr. I'll be at the comedy store this week. Rocking and rolling. I'll also be at the ice house and the lab factory if you're in LA, I'll be home for a while. I'm going to be home, keep working on this new material, trying to always get funny, blocking the fucking dummies out there on Instagram with a fucking fierce right hand block. And I love all you guys, man. CactusRadioNetwork.com, all the podcasts. Patreon.com slash Dindelray bonus episodes. There's one up right now. 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