 Alright, here it is, another episode of Let There Be Talk. It is episode number 737. How the hell are you today, on this Monday, out here in Los Angeles, getting ready for what they say is going to be another fucking superstorm. Just rain city this year in LA. Anyway, welcome to the show. I'm just back from Palm Springs for the weekend, a little comedy with my man Bill Burr and some modernism weekend, which I've been wanting to go to for years. Basically, it's a week of modernism. It's like they set up tours of all the greatest houses out in Palm Springs, everything. I'll get into that in a minute. Before I do talk about that, I want to thank all the new Patreoners. Let's get them on here right away. Also, if you are listening to the podcast, pause it for one minute and then go and leave a review of the podcast on iTunes. Sorry, I'm waking up the new Patreoners. Here they are, Tyler Fox. How are you? Cecily J, Kenny Abel, Lisa Piani. There you go. Some of the new Patreoners and also somebody else. Hold on, I want to give this person a shout out because they just did a straight donation to my PayPal. Pretty fucking kind, my friend. Very kind. Let's see, who was it? It was Zane O'Loughlin out there, Sacra Timento. Sacra Tomato. That's at the dumb radio. Morning, DJ would call Sacra Meno on Instagram. Hey, it's going to be 105 out in Sacra Tomato. Holy shit, that's funny. Oh my God. Anyway, thank you for the Patreon. You want to join everybody? Patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey. Get your bonus episodes and some live zoomin' out there. The tour dates are at DeanDelray.com. There you go, merch. I don't know, all kinds. I'm fucking a little sleepy today. Trying to get this episode fired up. I just kept chilling on the couch. Is that rain mode, man? It just gets into rain mode and you get home from the road. Look at that. I got a little something on my fucking mic there that's going to bother me. Okay, so I'm back from Palm Springs and everybody knows if you've listened to this podcast for years that I absolutely love Palm Springs. I have been going out there for years, but I went out there a lot during COVID. Had a little fantasy for a minute. Didn't think I was going to be doing comedy anymore because of COVID. I was like, it's over. I'm going to move to Palm Springs. I really like it out there. It is just beautiful when it's not 148 degrees. Even we were just there this weekend and we're outside and there's something about Palm Springs where I think the ozone is, you know, people say there's a hole in the ozone or everything. I think it definitely is a huge hole in the ozone or something over Palm Springs because it was only like 78 degrees, but you could just feel the sun like on your fucking neck right here. Like it's tapping you. Like, hey, dude, I'm burning you up here. It's only 78. Look, it's 80, 90 in LA. I'm never standing there in LA going like, fuck. It basically feels like back when you used to fry ants with the magnifying glass. Maybe that was the sun, just fry ants. Remember when you first learned that? It was like, you're just burning leaves in your backyard, starting mini fires with the magnifying glass. Oh my God, just instant fucking lighter, whip out the magnifying glass, the bigger one too, like the big one. And then you get that. It's got to be like a real small pinner beam. If you had the big beam, it wouldn't light, but you get the proper beam and you got some fucking smoke. That's what it feels like in Palm Springs. Even at 78 degrees, you're just sitting there going, oh, I'm fucking burning right now. I don't know what that is, but I absolutely love Palm Springs. And you know, if I didn't do comedy and I wasn't afraid of the boiling heat in the summer, I'd live out there. But Gertie does not like the fucking heat. And you know what else doesn't like the heat? You're a goddamn car. You just sit in your car out there. You go into the grocery store for a minute and you come out and your car is like, seriously, like 140 degrees. So that's a big, that's a big bummer out there, a little thing called fucking heat. But we were out there this weekend, me, Bill Burr, and the great club Soda Kenny. And we went out to do a couple shows at the Agua Caliente Casino, I guess it was. Nice fucking casino. No cigarette smoke allowed inside. So just beautiful, man. There's nothing better than a casino with no cigarette smoke. You can just walk through it and not worry about just stinking. But nice place. Great kind of a mini arena. It was kind of like this cool bowl. Really fucking nice. Josh Fries and his wife came out. That was great to see them. Total surprise. Had no idea they were coming out. And a couple other friends were there. Two sold out shows. Great audiences. And you know, we did one show Friday night and we woke up Saturday and we got to go to the Elvis Presley Honeymoon House. I had set it up about a month before because Bill said, hey, here's a couple dates and Palm Springs you want to do them. And I go, oh, shit, that's during modernism week. So like I said, you can sign up for these tours of some of the most famous houses. One of the greatest houses I think of all time is the Kaufman House. Let me look that up real quick. The Kaufman House is, it's just a fucking piece of, it's a masterpiece of architecture. Let me see Kaufman. Let me see when it was built. And now look it up if you want. Kaufman House and Kaufman is spelled K-A-U-F-M-A-N and Kaufman Desert Home. Architect the super superstar Richard Neutral. And it was built in, let's see when this was, 1946. Unbelievable. So right there you got the Kaufman House. And then in this neighborhood it's just loaded with some of the greatest architecture in the United States, probably in the world as far as mid-century modern. And one of the guys that was really heavy involved in it was a guy named William Chrysler or Chrysler, depending on who's fucking saying his name. And I was always a fan of his because I fell in love with this work out in Palm Desert called the Sandpiper. He was a guy that did kind of the first mid-century condominiums, which was unheard of back then condominiums. People would come out from LA like Marilyn Monroe and fucking people like that and stay in these condos and just chill outside of the LA business, man. So we went to the Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway. It's the famous one that looks like a stealth bomber and William Chrysler did it. It's right next to the Kaufman House. There's like a cool fucking A-frame house there. There's a bunch of great shit right around it. And when we walked up, it was really wild to notice there was like steel construction to the right and steel to the left. And right away my insanity was like, nope, couldn't live here. That's going to be two years of fucking just noise. Just fucking trucks and bad music in the morning. People talking and you know, what was there was a tennis courts for the Elvis Presley Honeymoon House. And to the left was just a nice open property that was kind of like an orchard, they said and everything. And this guy bought the Elvis Presley Hideaway. Elvis didn't own this. He didn't live there. He was only there like three nights for a honeymoon. But this guy bought it from the original Alexander family. And then he, you know, sold off two plots of land in front of it and then flipped the house. Total dick move because now the next people that bought it for 5.5 million are living there in between these two fucking full construction sites. So that was a real bummer, man. I'm sure once the owns are done, it'll probably look amazing because they're doing mid-century style houses. But I'd much rather see a tennis court there and just an open property. But the property there is worth a fortune. So me, Bill and Kenny went inside to the Elvis Presley Honeymoon Hideout. Apparently he wanted to get married to Priscilla Presley in this house. But the old school road of Barrett, remember her? She was a gossip columnist, columnist of this. She caught wind that he was there and then snitched it off to other people and there's just paparazzi out there and shit. So he snuck out the back to Frank Sinatra's limousine. He went through the orchards, him and Priscilla, and they drove to Vegas and got married and then came back. Wild story. This thing is known as the Elvis Presley Honeymoon Hideout. And he basically was in there for about 72 hours. That's how fucking big of a star Elvis was. Anywhere he went, they'd be like, Elvis lived here. Oh yeah, how long? Well, he was here about 16 hours, but he didn't live here for a minute. The guy that bought it and flipped it was weird. You get a half hour for the tour, which by the way, shout out to Modernism Week for hooking us up, man. It was great because it was sold out. And I said, hey, we're going to be in town anyway. We could pay to come. We didn't know we were going to be there and they did us right. So the guy that flipped it, he was shown it to us and you only get 30 minutes. Basically 15 minutes of it, he's talking about how he bought the house, making the tour all about himself. Yeah, I bought the house like five years ago. I wanted to sleep in all the bedrooms and take a bath in each bathtub and then sell it. Fucking guy was nutty. There's some video of it on my Instagram and also you can, I'm sure there's some great video on YouTube. Somebody did like pro stuff. At some point I was filming it, but then I was just looking at the house in awe and I was just filming the ground, which was all terrazzo. The fours were terrazzo, which I fucking love. This is all architect, architecture, mid-century design, nerdy shit. But I can't recommend enough a trip to Palm Springs and just see what it would be like to live when it wasn't all about just track homes or boxed apartments. It's funny we were driving out there and there was a newer neighborhood built on the side of this hill before Palm Springs and it was just like probably 1200 houses that looked identically the same. It was gross, just in there stacked next to each other, just identical houses, just so steppford wives who just turned down the street. Yeah, here's my house. Oh shit, that's not mine. That's Teddy's house. Here's my house. Oh no, that's Suzanne and Frank's house. Yeah, I mean it's just fucking the samey same. So to see this beautiful stuff in Palm Springs is always just inspiring and every time I go out there it makes me want to just live there. I keep playing the goddamn lottery. It could happen. It's funny because they were talking about how the houses cost around 12 grand and every one of them was the same in this neighborhood in Palm Springs but not the same like the bullshit I'm talking about. It was the same floor plan but what they would do is they've turned the houses different ways and put different roof lines on them like a butterfly roof or that kind of the roof that looks like diamonds and then that would give it a different feel in the neighborhood and man it totally works when you're in there. You're not like look at all these dumb houses like to say it's just beautiful. They're like they're just works of art. So we didn't get to go to the Frank Sinatra house because the show was eight o'clock and we were supposed to go to the Frank Sinatra house and the party was going to start at like five thirty or six and we're 20 minutes away so it was like yeah better not do that but I will be back out there soon and take a you know rent a bicycle and just ride through that neighborhood. You can rent bikes in Palm Springs and just cruise around. That's the way to do Palm Springs before it becomes 114 out at night time. Thanks for everybody that came out the shows. Really good shows like I said great casino and just kicking off the 2024 dates that I'm doing and it felt pretty good working out a bunch of new stuff. Getting ready to go to Portland on Thursday, Portland Oregon and then Vancouver Friday and Salt Lake on Saturday. Those tour dates are on dndlray.com and then in March I am headlining Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis and I really really hope that you guys buy tickets and come to this if you're out there or Fort Collins Colorado. So yeah those are some headlining dates coming up and Mic Drop in San Diego. They're all on the website dndlray.com. Feeling pretty good about some of this new material. Okay so yeah that's it man I was out there for the weekend now I'm home. I'm chilling. By the way I talked about the sphere a couple weeks ago and seeing you too and I am I am still in this full-blown awe Mach 2 of Octung Baby. Mach 2 being the first time Octung Baby you know it came out I hated it and then returned it and bought it. I've told that story but right now since I went through the sphere sphere I have been just obsessed with Octung Baby again. Just can't stop listening to it enough I was rocking it yesterday all day Sunday just getting into that back half of that record love is blindness acrobat wild horses all of that shit just a fucking great record can't stop listening to it I just want to throw that out. I do have a new band recommendation for you let me get this fired up for you people right here and I really like this fucking band somebody sent it over to me it's called Ghost Woman and let me see if I can find out anything about it I haven't really dug deep because I've just been so into the music Ghost Woman let's see where they're from Ghost Woman here they are Ghost Woman musical band the record is called Hindsight is 50 50 and it's out right now and if you are into some fucking desert rock oh they're out on tour too um you're gonna want to fucking dig into this band there's not much on their website about them it's just tour dates that's kind of fucking weird let me see if that's yeah just tour dates they're um oh they're doing Boise Idaho March 20th through the 24th Tree Fort Festival April 27th Austin at the site festival these guys are great let me see if I can find anything on them which is kind of a bummer that uh there's nothing on their website Ghost Woman not sure uh where they're from let me see if I can find out where they're from here this band is really fucking good man Ghost Woman and it's W-O-M-A-N not women here we go they got an Instagram let's see what we got here Isle plus Ivan Europe and UK bookings North Cape North North America bookings yeah nothing fucking on these guys really weird like now where are they from somebody's gonna tell me I know I I think they might be Europe anyway record Hindsight is 50 50 I cannot recommend this enough it is a fucking great great uh record so I wanted to give them a little shout out out there it's been uh about a month or so before I or so since I've uh shouted out some new music and Ghost Woman is definitely in there okay something uh over the last week somebody sent me over a photo of the very first foster freeze that I um worked at I worked at a foster freeze when I was I guess I was 13 I don't think you could work in California until you were 13 you had to get a work permit weird you know that you couldn't work too many hours because of school but my buddy Mark Garderman his mom owned a foster freeze and I remember exactly what happened I wasn't really looking for a job at 13 but you know we grew up pretty broke my mom and I and I went to Guitar Center in San Francisco the one that was on uh not Lombarda Venice it was the old small one it might have been actually it might have been the new one now I'm not sure I can't really remember but I remember walking in I think it was the new one and they had the Gene Simmons Axe bass and they had the guitar and I talked to Gene about this on the podcast when he was on which was fucking highlight of my life unbelievable but Kramer made him and had the metal Kramer headstock remember that that was kind of slit in the middle a lot of people don't remember that early Kramer had the metal headstocks kind of like those like uh those other guitars had them too I can't remember what they're called that Loose Sight ones anyway I saw the Axe bass and guitar and I wanted the guitar which is ridiculous I think it was something like $1300 might have been a little more whatever and I was like I gotta get that man and you know I'm coming off a paper route when you're like 10 11 12 which is the original uh sweatshop I forgot I used to do that bit I hate when I go into Starbucks and they're like hi you want to donate money to get the kids out of the Chinese sweatshops I was like no no what about me what about what about the America sweatshop the paper route what about that yeah where were you from me back then you know you were fucking 30 days a week getting up at five in the morning you know you had to fucking fold the papers back then put the rubber band on you all fucking black with ink and then you put the bags on your bike and you're dodging drunk drivers I've told the story before like you're going down a street and you're trying not to get kidnapped and you're throwing the fucking papers up you're not putting it on the porch the people are screaming at you I said board shit motherfucker and then you get like a like seriously like $27 or something at the end of the month so that's my first introduction into the working world back when I was a kid and the next one was foster praise and at the time America the minimum wage was $335 an hour I was like $335 okay cool you know I'll just work and and you could claim exempt so they didn't take taxes out because you were a student so I work like a full month I get the first check and I think it's like $90 for a month and I'm like oh I'm never getting that fucking guitar and I quickly forgot about that guitar and just focused on I got a job now and I was working with my buddy Mark Garderman and this foster phrase happened to be right in the neighborhood where people cruised so I was like 13 working and like you know like teenagers are coming up like let me get an ice cream fuckface you know and girls would be like hi like flirting with you to get free ice cream you'd just be like oh yeah here yeah making a fucking caramel sundae ooh maybe she'll like me here's a here's a caramel sundae for free just fucking Mark's mom owned the place but we're just meanwhile giving away shit my favorite thing was you got a meal each meal or each shift so I just fucking make my own shit invent my own stuff like here's a tripled cheeseburger with jalapenos and a caramel sundae with french fries on top you're just doing dumb shit and you just smell like a french fry fryer when you come home you just stink but I did that job and you know it was definitely early uh you know introduction into work ethic because I you know I had to fucking ride the bus there that took like an hour it was only like I don't know 20 minutes away but the bus stopped at every stop and and then you know at night I'd ride it home and then walk to the house it was it seemed like it might have been awful but their memories were great anyway it closed recently and it had a cyclone fence around it I hadn't thought about that place in years the bus stop was right across the street and just some of the memories of that you know like your first job it's fucking wild like you're working it's so weird to to have a job where you go in you had the time card you and then you got to put on whatever the fuck thing they make you wear it was cool though it was like a blue work shirt they had like foster freeze the cone guy it was an ice cream cone with eyes and shit it wasn't cool I don't know why I said it was cool but looking at it now I'd be like that's pretty cool but when you're when you're young and you're you're you're trying to think you're cool you don't you want to be wearing like a an acdc shirt on all times you don't have to be wearing the foster freeze shirt you know one of those ones remember that on fast times as soon as judge ryan hall is going to go deliver the uh fishing ships to someone the guy's like hey hey whatever his name is randy where's your fucking pirate outfit he's oh well you know i'm getting in the car so i bet you are a proud employee of the fucking buckaroo you know fishing ships or whatever it was put your outfit on so he puts the fucking outfit on and he's driving to deliver the fucking fishing chips and he gets to the red light and he looks to the left and it's uh an wilson or sorry nancy wilson in a corvette and he's like oh hey baby and then he forgets he has the dumb fucking hat on she just laughs at him and burns away and he just throws the fucking pirate hat out the window that is the fucking early work of uh dumb work uniforms you know so as soon as i got off work i take that fucking shirt off and get on the bus and be like this is my van halen two shirt first job so man what was your first job what did you do a lot of people don't even fucking want to work now nobody works you notice that i was in a movie theater no one working there i just walked right in it was crazy no one wants to work i i don't know what happened man but when i was young you you got a job and then you you know saved up a little money buy yourself a a dots and b2 10 this is the non-rich kids i went to school and there was like a rich neighborhood and then there was like the poor people like me it was like um on outsiders the the greasers and the socias and you know the kid would come up drive up in like a brand new fucking Mustang you'd be like this fucking rich kid oh it's made me hate rich kids all my life i don't know why i don't know why anyway uh foster freeze great great old school memories and uh did you ever eat at a foster freeze they were fucking so good it smoked mcdonald's and jack in the box and windies and burger king you know they were like uh franchised out they were all over california i don't know uh how many are left let's see if they they have that here but uh and also i don't know if it was just a cal california thing foster freeze it's weird it's freeze f r e e z e not to be confused with josh freeze with f r e e s e okay there's some there's some open right now still wittier boulevard there's some in la eagle rock boulevard has one right now that's not too far away i might not to fucking try it out here's the wikipedia on it their new logo is not as cool but it still has the ice cream cone guy foster freeze is a chain of fast food restaurants in california first location was on labrea avenue in englewood wow opened by george foster in 1946 still operating that's fucking amazing 78 years ago number of locations as of now 62 the chain's name refers to its soft serve ice cream and milkshakes its marketing slogan is california's original soft serve its mascot is little foster a smiling ice cream cone little foster got the og logo i'm looking at one from cloverdale california now i'd go on these long motorcycle rides up to the redwoods and there'd be like four or five fosters freeze on the way and i would hit them all the time just bikers out there in front of a foster freeze in their leathers eating an ice cream sundae oh and they had the fucking chocolate covered bananas frozen bananas remember those you just looked like a fucking you just looked like you're giving someone a smoker while you're eating that thing is frozen banana smoker okay george foster moved to california after world war two to open up outlets of of a dairy queen since he owned the development rights in the state of california however state laws protected the dairy industry preventing the use of the word dairy in his restaurant names what the fuck so instead he called it fosters old-fashioned freeze that's crazy and then he later dropped it 1951 he sold the chains 360 locations for a million dollars six 360 locations for a million bucks he owned them all by 87 had been reduced to 80 189 locations that's fucking crazy el polo go signed on and bought them that's a wild thing it's probably boring to you but it's just a little memory lane to me you know oh look at this foster freezing at water village which is close to me appeared in the movie pulp fiction there you go fucking quentin knows how cool foster freeze is it's funny they have those type of chains that are state only like you'll go to another state and you'll be like oh what's the fuck is cactus time you know but uh that was uh my first well i have my paper route was my first job but that was really my first real job and it was weird you had to deal with people and you had to learn how to work a register and you had to know how to do math you know like it didn't do it didn't tell you the change it was the fucking when you push the buttons in yeah i'm fucking old i'm 58 you press it okay cheeseburger 275 and then a fucking vanilla shake dollar 50 french fries dollar and then hit it total and the guy give you a 20 and you're like under the counter doing finger math you know like when you go on your first date and you're trying to figure out the tip you're like let's see here okay it's it's 1275 he gave me a 20 uh and you're just nervous you're fucking nervous hey he gave me the wrong change back buddy trying to rip me off oh no no i'm i'm 13 i just i'm nervous eventually i got off the cashier and they put me over to the fucking burger flipping just fucking flipping some burgers cheeseburgers dropping some fucking chicken into the fryers yeah man old days old days i wonder if i got any uh social security coming to me from the foster freeze days anyway uh yeah rest in peace foster freeze the one i worked at awesome uh Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced a tour now if you guys remember i saw Neil Young a couple months ago at the Roxy for the 50 year anniversary of the Roxy Neil Young had played the Roxy the opening night he played it a few nights in a row and for the 50 year anniversary he went back and played it with Crazy Horse he had not played with Crazy Horse in years and it was uh wild to see and i thought for sure no way are they going back out because you know they're up there man they're up there in age so the tour is called Love Earth Tour and it starts April 24th in San Diego two nights and uh it seems to be like it's going to be outdoor amphitheater type of uh sheds like the shoreline type of places if you know the shoreline in the Bay Area or the greek here in LA but they're not playing LA which leads me to believe that maybe they're going to be announced at what is that stage coach because there's no way you wouldn't play LA like the greek or the hollywood bowl it's just no fucking way but he's doing some cool shit like he's doing uh forest hill stadium out in queens that's a cool venue so i i gotta tell you man if you have not seen Crazy Horse do yourself a favor and get out there and see Neil Young on this tour because you definitely do not know if you're ever gonna see Neil Young again he has not uh been very active in the tour world after covid and he is definitely not played with Crazy Horse in a long time other than the the Roxy shows so i can't tell you enough how much i love Neil Young and you have to go see this just to hear like a cowgirls in the sand or any of the classic long jam cinnamon girl that stuff where they just open it up and play like 15 minutes unbelievable and uh that set list that i saw was you know they played the first two Crazy Horse records everybody knows this is nowhere hold on let me see that real quick because it was it was fantastic man Neil Young Crazy Horse you gotta go see this out of anybody people go you think i should go see such and such or such and such i would say see this Neil Young because how old is Neil Young you know let's see Crazy Horse set list Crazy Horse set list guy you gotta love the internet here it is right here Roxy what a fucking set list tonight's the night unreal song and then they're playing uh come on baby let's go downtown great one albuquerque unreal song tonight's the night like i said just fire cinnamon girl everybody knows this is nowhere and then you know you get classics like down by the river cowgirls in the sand uh what else did i look oh fucking albuquerque albuquerque is just that's just fucking that's just a beautiful song so yeah that that tour is coming up too let's see it starts in april which is weird it just fucking dropped out of nowhere these people seem to uh i mean you know Neil Young or or acdc and stuff they can drop tours like that because the tickets will just be gone instantly and which by the way i wonder how the um the dead and co tickets are selling i'm sure they're fucking gone i heard the acdc tickets are already gone in europe and they're adding like second dates and stuff which is wild people are asking if i'm gonna have chris chaney on the podcast i hope so i hope to have him on um i'm sure he's he had to sign an nda so he doesn't really want to say much and he might not even be allowed to do interviews actually you know they could have the clamp down on him angus and brian do the uh do the talking mostly so i'd love to have chaney on talk about his audition how it came about stuff like that um mom mom okay let's see a couple more things thanks for tuning in today obviously it's a solo episode or it would be the longest intro ever like oh okay my guest today is uh gurdy gurdy's over there on the couch waiting snoring and uh she wants to talk about her new food she's pissed off that uh her old food company went out of business and uh the gurdy interview is right around the corner let's see okay i guess that's about it other than um the tour dates one more time give you a little rundown podcast is brought to you by actually standard and strange my one stop shop and uh they are the best for denim and boots and leather jackets all of that standard and strange dot com and banker guitars get yourself a boutique guitar banker guitars both are on instagram both are incredible companies and uh i love them i love them both banker guitars get yourself a carina v or an explorer or get a uh a junior they'll double cut away tv junior oh my god i just saw that uh brentin hines from mastodon he got another guitar from the great mad banker oh speaking of that too this uh this marcus king has been dropping a bunch of new songs from that rick rubin record and each one is absolutely fantastic so uh dig into the tracks he's been dropping mood swings it's just fire this song mood swings this guy's got a he's got a classic record uh on his hands again another great fucking record i've heard the whole thing and i can't wait for you guys to hear it also and he dropped some tour dates he's gonna be up in portland i saw the old crystal ballroom i did that place with marcus that's where the woman did the greenout just passed out face down i'm looking forward to going to portland this weekend i absolutely love it great food and uh who knows what the weather will be like but portland vancouver i'm looking forward to vancouver again and then salt lake's always fun so those are the dates dindale ray dot com uh don't forget to subscribe to the youtube channel too i love you guys have a great week stay safe out there and if you are coming to the shows let me know hit me up on the uh instagram don't forget one more time leave a review on itunes see you later