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It's the latest and greatest version of it So there you go. We're starting the show now. Let's get into it Episode number 701. I've said that before but I like to hear you say it out loud letting you know that I have done 700 and one of these shows and Today we're gonna dive into all kinds of great stuff gonna talk about Leonard Skinner. They're gonna talk about Going up to the Bay Area doing comedy this last weekend also Diving into what else are we getting into here? Oh Oh Berkeley haven't been to Berkeley in a long time walked around there also gonna get into the avenge sevenfold record we might as well start right there because I talked about avenge sevenfold a couple weeks ago on the podcast now, this is a band That I've tried to get into for years. I don't hate them It wasn't a band like oh my god. They had You know great influences. They were Really into GNR back in the day when they started and it's really wild that They dropped a record this deep in their career and they grabbed me and The reason I'm saying that is I tried over and over with avenge sevenfold. I didn't I didn't hate him I just was like yeah, it sounds good. It's some some rock, but it was maybe more active rock or whatever the industry likes to label But they were rock and they were out there just killing it. They've Been doing it for years. They just sold out the fucking la form. So they're still killing But this particular record I heard a song I go, alright, I'm gonna check it out They dropped a new record and I they dropped a single and I talked about the single it was called nobody I put it on I was like wow What is this? This is just crazy different and I really was hyping it up a few episodes ago I was like this is great and totally unexpected That for me, I was like wow what I I didn't think this band had this in them So I dove into the record it came out. When did it come out here? It came out like a week ago. All right June 2nd And I put it on first of all, I want to read what they have here um album first album since 2016 Written in a span over four years that included during the pandemic life is but a dream That's the name of the record was inspired by the philosophy and writings of french author and Nobel prize winner albert camis The hypnotic lead single nobody sets a reflective and pent Pensive tone with orchestral strings as singer m shadows deliver shaky overlapping vocal lines Follow up. We love you is in abrupt change of pace With guitar burst mr. Bungal like arrangement That smashes disley old school thrash into a slide guitar interlude. I'm gonna tell you this right now This is not a a band that was like Yeah, let's just uh, let's just try to be cool and do something else or whatever This shit is authentic man because these songs have so many layers It's fucking crazy How much I've been digging this record? I've been spinning it all week Over the weekend. I spun it non-stop and I will tell you this it has some flavors of of uh zappa It's got some bungal weirdness. It also has some alan parson's vibe daft punk in there It's it's really really good man and the thing I like the most is It's a lot like uh metallica Their hardcore fans are like we hate this record from what i'm reading. I don't know if this is true But I was uh reading that the band was saying They were laughing the band was laughing because people were writing them hardcore fans going like what is this? This isn't avenge sevenfold You get back in the studio And you make the same record over and over and over because that's all we want We don't want to be challenged We don't want to take a ride We want the same thing over and over A lot like metallica man. Yeah, man, I I don't like that. I don't like this. I don't like that anyway If they end up ditching a lot of the old fans and they're growing and This record grabs people like me Who are like maybe into something with a little more depth And something outside the box then that might be a fucking cool thing It was a lot a lot like uh when I started comedy For years and years I was just grinding it out Getting a little bit of success and people would be like, why'd you quit music, man? Like they just wouldn't accept that somebody could do something different in their life Which is absolutely crazy to me and uh I just don't really understand that But this fucking record the album cover art it is fantastic. It's kind of a like a steadman type of uh painting and um You know, I'm hoping to get m shadows on the show. I DMed um their guitar player because I did his podcast johnny christ And I'm hoping to get both of them on or I really want to talk to him shadows because the vocals on this record Are insane. I'll take something. It's really fucking insane on this record is the drumming and the guitar playing Actually, the I'm gonna just say the whole band is killing it But man, there's points on this record where the drumming you're just going like What the fuck? And it is killer opening song game over then into a matel nobody We love you cosmic beautiful morning easier And then these three songs in a row that spell god Track eight is g track nine is ordinary track 10 is death And then life is but a dream It's a uh, it's a it's a fucking a wild ride And uh, I'm happy I found it I'm happy I took the chance to check it out Instead of just being like nah, I'm not listening to that And between the rival sun's record and this record. I've been just in a full rock mode all week in between spurts of full-blown Wayland Jennings, which is back in my life. I love music man. I love music for that Just shit comes back india goes out comes back in At just different periods of time. You're like fuck. I'm I'm full-blown wayland Jennings right now And uh That's just a beautiful thing. But anyway, check it out life is but a dream. I hope to get them on the podcast and um You know, I might go back and try to get into some of the other records because I know I'm gonna get these DMs Dude, you ought to check out their early stuff You know, you got to check out their early stuff. You may go back and give it another try People like that. I just don't listen to dude. I put shit on over the years I'll try to figure shit out I'm not uh Jagged in and one dimensional I'll put shit on I'll go didn't grab me this time But maybe in a couple years I'll put it back on and check it again Perfect example is all the bands that I hated growing up pink Floyd burst Springsteen All of that stuff grateful dad. They're all my favorites now And thank god Thank god I'm not one of those tumbleweeds that just like it says nah forever because holy shit man That's some of the best music I've ever heard in my life You know springsteen. Can you imagine not not listening to a darkness on the edge of town? or uh Born to run But come on Speaking of that Dead and co. I can't keep I can't stop talking about it I don't know what the fuck they're drinking But I want some of it because I'm constantly trying To be the best and these guys have gone to another level again and again this tour Uh, patreoner tommy my man chicago tommy He sent over some clips from the chicago wriggly field They were doing watch tower And john mayer just going another fucking level on the guitar Just killing it. He's playing a charvel a sandema charvel with a with a pal peralta Peralta sticker on it. He's just murdering watch tower just sounding great And the band is that I've decided fuck it I said I wasn't going to take uh any time off Uh and just try to do comedy as much as I can this year, but I have to go to the last three shows So i'm doing it I'm going to go to san francisco and see the last three dead and co shows at pac bell park whatever they fuck they call it now It's always going to be pac bell to me just like candlestick. I've said it over and over it's candlestick. It's pac bell Those are those are what they're called So i'm going to go see that Because it's just blowing my mind what clips i'm seeing and i'd be an idiot Not to go see the end. I saw the fair the well the end of the grateful dead I'll see the end of dead and co And it'll be in uh san francisco the old hometown Which I was just in I was just up in san franc all weekend. Actually I was in nevato or not nevato. I clown on nevato On my last show there, but I was in santa rosa and I was in alameda Doing shows and shout out to jason and uh alameda I want to get this right so you can follow him because this guy's a fucking solid human Skinner right there just blasting over my thing um, I want to get this right because This guy's a an amazing person in the comedy world He books me a couple times a year and he just busts his ass alameda comedy works Give it a uh A follow on instagram Alameda comedy works And shout out to jason two nights. I did in alameda And I did santa rosa at the old acapulco Which was a mexican restaurant back in the day Where I'd go there and hit the happy hour for free. They had like free tokitos and many uh Many tacos and shit you buy like a beer and just eat as much as you can because you're in a band And you don't have any money. That was the key to survival in the 80s playing music If you were broke you would uh Go to happy hours They were all over the place and you would kind of have them mapped out in your wallet free cell phone or anything You just had a little map Tuesday Oh, yeah, the flamingo they got a happy hour Wednesday, oh Spirit cafe's got a happy hour and you'd go in you buy a beer because of course you you're gonna buy a beer Before you buy food and then you would just eat everything they had over there It's just four long hairs coming in sideburn stinking from work and construction all day Me and my former boss george We just roll into the happy hour Get a couple beers and demolish their free food Like a bunch of fucking lizards Man I think about it now like if I was in a uh A bar or restaurant and I saw just people come in just destroy that I'd be like look at those jackasses Holy shit Just ripping the happy hours man. Does anybody remember do they still have them? I don't know because I don't drink or hang out in bars anymore. It's been a hundred years, but Just fucking crazy Anyway, uh, so the santa rosa gig was great Uh, so many old school friends came out joey and flats were there John tipton one of my old buddies that had the he's a rich kid, but he wasn't a dick He was a cool rich kid He actually worked. He wasn't one of those fucking Lackies living off his dad. He worked his ass off. He had a gold I think it was like a 79 or 78 Transam he had the gold one which which makes me still love the gold one with the fucking bird And we would just be out cruising at night drinking Throwing the cans out the window I told the story once but we were flying down the road and a um A what are those called those fucking uh possums Those possums are fucking they look like satan just With their weird claws It ran out in front of us. We wrote we drove over it. It was so fucking big it knocked his driveline off The car did like a fucking jackknife Just straight burnt rental smoking the bandit style Full cross-up landed spun out No driveline couldn't go anywhere But we're shit-faced. We had to just kind of leave the car and run home and then pick it up in the morning you know anyway, john tipped in was there and uh a lot of old school friends some patreoners in the house jill christash uh paul Paul machado Lot of fucking steve who else was there? Oh craig bearhorse came out one of my old old friends, man I go way back with fucking craig ruffians craig And it's so cool that people come out and still You know leave their house In their fifties because so many people just don't go out once they turn like 40 That's it. They're just done But to see old school friends out and lots of them, man, I'm You know, I'm slipping right now on I didn't take notes on everybody there. Oh, cindy poon was there. Oh, that reminds me mark was there I forget his last name But it was me cindy poon and mark and we worked for the stones for years and It was a stones tour reunion. We were all three there Together and it was the first time I'd seen mark in 17 years. It was so cool Anyway, so that was rad it was it just felt good to be up in the bay area and see a lot of old school friends and it's funny to talk to people after the show because I work so hard at trying to get somewhere And I don't really know where I'm at. I know I'm not fucking beginner And I know I'm I'm not, you know I know I'm not the fucking greatest But people were telling me that it's funny. They go man, you're getting way better And that feels good, but it's so bizarre because I can't really tell I'm just doing the fucking comedy And and trying to get better, but you can't tell you're not sitting around going man. I'm getting fucking good So it was uh, it was cool to hear that from a lot of people because I just I just really cannot tell actually I'm just engulfed in comedy. I've done over how many dates have I done this year? I think it's like 338 or something. Let me look and uh No 141 so 141 shows this year and uh You know Just it's fucking hard Comedy is so hard when I get off stage even if I feel like it went well. I'm like goddamn this shit is hard Look, I know I got a handful of shit that's gonna make people laugh if you didn't you wouldn't be able to do an hour, you know Excuse me I'll tell you one thing though. This was the first time I'd been back to the bay area since my mom had passed And it was pretty rough actually, uh, I kept it inside But I was cruising around to the spots we used to hang and places we lived And a lot of memories were coming out a lot of memories And they're great great memories, but they're also really hard to think about Without my mom, you know, she's just gone and And a lot of times I I feel like I I'm still trying to just press it down And act like it didn't happen Just so I don't fall apart But you know, it's been I don't know six months now And man to be up back in the bay area, that's so much my mom there That's where we that's where we lived man And it was just it was it was heavy to be there Since that it happened. So shout out to your mom went by some of the old cribs and uh Went by some of the old food spots. We loved different stuff like that stomped around Berkeley Hadn't been to Berkeley in probably 25 years It's the same Berkeley I feel like has never changed. It's got that telegraph avenue with amoeba records That was the original amoeba. I would go there on Saturdays Park the car fucking fine parking Get a get a burrito eat it And then head into amoeba and just dig through those Those files those those bends and then find rock memorabilia Just old cool posters and photos and shit, which by the way I want to tell you this right now. I have some stuff for sale And I'm in this part in my life now Where I feel like I have pretty good Taste in fashion and architecture, but one thing I don't understand. I know what I love. I love interior Design, but I don't know how to put it together You know, like I go into other people's houses and I'm like, this is perfect This is absolute or it's not perfect. I'm like, yeah, this is a fucking shit show But I'm at that point in my life where I want to find somebody because You know, you go somewhere and you go, okay I want this piece of furniture that piece and that piece and you go home and you go, man, I fucked up You know, there's some people that get all of the same shit their house just looks like a showroom Then there's other people that have eclectic taste and they put together pieces in their house And everything has a story and it's cool. You're like, man What about this chair? Oh, you like you like that chair? Yeah, that's from the 50s from a Japanese designer who loved aims So he made his own chairs and you're like, wow, wow, that's crazy. How do you find that? Oh, I was at a flea market in Oklahoma and it was just there perfectly mint I like that kind of shit so You get to that point in your life Where it's time for the rare rock posters to go They're framed. I don't need rock posters anymore. The only kind of rock and roll I'm going to have in my house is incredible photography because I think photography is some of the greatest art and Talking pieces when you're in a house and you look at it now. Look, I got a couple great posters. I'm going to keep But I've got some rare black crows Stuff framed like the Amorica promo photo I've got the uh, who killed that birdie on the windowsill. That's a their old Laser disc remember laser disc Uh, that that's a great fucking film. Have you've never seen that black crows documentary? It's pretty rare I don't know it might be on youtube But who killed that birdie on the windowsill is basically kind of an early documentary from I guess it's the southern harmony era into Amorica. It's been a long time since I've seen it But the poster is rare as fuck. It was hanging in like warehouse records now available on a laser disc Um, and then I've got a rare acdc highway to hell tour poster with judas priest opening playing in the uk I have stuff like that all framed And it's just time to Switch it up get into some classic shit some nice classic furniture some, uh Classic books and photos around I kind of wish that like Dennis hopper was still alive and he would just come in whenever I see Dennis hopper I was just looking at his photo book today Whenever I see Dennis hopper's houses and stuff, you know, like photos of it It's just like, you know, like in tallis new mexico or in venice He's looking at his house and he's like this fucking guy had it He just had the good taste On the inside so I want to get into that. I want to find somebody That can help me curate just kind of a clean minimalist look with rad photos So the rock poster era is going to be over for the old dindale ray and You know, if you live in LA, I'm selling some of the stuff hit me up And if you don't live in LA and you're willing to pay shipping, it's going to be a lot of money. These pieces are fucking big They're big ass Wall posters framed the frames alone were $200. So you get the idea. It's it's primo shit, but um, anyway Interior design man. I get all my ideas from going to open houses I went to a couple of open houses yesterday fresh back from the three headline and weekend totally tired, but had to go I wanted to go look at these houses these three houses and see what they looked like on the inside Snap photos dig through instagram You guys are like, what is this fucking interior design talk? Fuck you Talk about something else I'm just telling you you see this shit behind me This is how I want something to look, but I don't need it to look like I fucking live in the madman tv set You know, I don't need that I don't need to look like I'm you know back in the day you go to those time travelers houses those rockabilly people And they got the fucking You know They still got the rotary dial Everything's like rockabilly I don't need to be fucking that. I just want it to be comfortable, but cool Speaking of that Let's all uh have some positive thoughts for mic ness of uh social d I guess he had a little cancer on a vocal chord And canceled the tour. I think it's only stage one. So that's very very uh good Not good, but better than stage four So positive thoughts for mic ness. This guy is a goddamn soldier soldier Social distortion. I've seen him many times one of the great great great legends mic ness, man And uh, he's getting some treatment and then he's gonna get back out on tour. They were busy working on a new record And uh, holy shit, man. He is a He's a he's an american legend The guy has just absolutely slayed it for years And I'll tell you some of his songwriting is so damn good. That's song drug train ball and chain this guy has a army of great tunes and his following his fans Are just in next level there. It's like metallica. He's got like three generations You go to a social distortion show. There'll be like an eight-year-old there dressed up full on rockabilly with like a slick back hair And uh, you know some suspenders and like ben davis and shiny like buckle shoes Or creepers that shoe creeper. I never wore creepers I never got into those but a lot of my friends did is he straddling from g&r was a big creeper fan He would wear him Uh, my buddy, uh, roger roger Who was at the show for non blond's uh guitar player another fucking solid human comes to a lot of my shows brit panada another Uh, panella wait, uh, I gotta see how to say brit's name. It's been so long. I'm old I'm actually old You know, I've known this guy played in a band with him And I just know it's like wait, how do you say his name? That's uh brit on the boat is his instagram by the way, and uh He's a fucking lifer like me Just out there playing rock and roll or And i don't put brit panella Anyway, he uh, he was at the show roger born on blond's guitar player these guys, uh Solid humans. I got sidetracked for a minute on the creeper shoe, but mic ness. Let's give him some fucking love, right? God How about social distortion? I want to see how many records they got, you know It's unbelievable. I uh I have seen them so many times they do these christmas runs every year and uh God this record is such a masterpiece right here He's had he's got i'd say he's got two masterpieces. He has the 1990 social distortion record And uh, so far away so far away so far away God his voice is cool as gold top plays that last palm gold top Just killing it let it be me let it be me and the morning Well, man, I love this guy's story in my life. This record is a masterpiece sick boy Sick boy cover of ring and fire ring of fire ball and chain. Oh my god. This whole thing is a fucking 10 It could have been me. She's a knockout. She's a knockout A place in my heart drug train. There it is 41 minutes 10 songs Unbelievable nobody sounds like social distortion. They sound like they're so that he's got his own fucking thing Then in 92 he dropped somewhere between heaven and hell cold feelings bad luck born to lose 99 to life ghost town blues I mean, there's two back-to-back crushing records there white light white heat white trash good record also, man um So just think about that fucking how long this guy's been going 1988 prison bound mommy's little monster the first record This guy is I mean get him in the rock and roll hall of fame How a lot of people complain about different people How is this guy not in the rock and roll hall of fame? He has his own fucking Thing man his own vibe. He's been doing it for a hundred years He's gonna get over this cancer. He's gonna come back out. He's gonna drop a record And he looks great too right now. I wonder how old he is Let's see how old he is because I saw a picture of him and I couldn't even believe it was him Because he looks a little different now but he just Okay, mic ness social distortion formed in 79. He was born in 62 So, you know old bad at math dean. I'm actually not bad at math. It's it's really the uh thing I'm pretty good at because uh You gotta know that when you're counting fucking money and then and the promoter tries to rip you up That's 40% right there. Yeah. Are you sure? Are you sure it's 40%? Yeah, man. You just leave Yeah, he gave us 40% Fucking you dummy So 61 Unreal It looks fucking great Orange county he is orange county to me man not the uh Not the political side. I'm talking about that old school punk rock orange county vibe So funny how Some of the greatest punk rock came out of orange county Really? Wow I'm looking at his equipment less paul gold top with decals. That's how they describe it Whoa in the early days he played sg's I never saw him playing sg Uh, then he got into the deluxe's, you know with the mini humbuckers. That's the thing I always saw him play. I don't like those mini humbuckers If you don't know what that is Uh, they're just You know gibson's has p 90s, which is kind of a dirty kind of single coily kind of thing And then they got that humbucker, which is the classic jimmy page and and all of that and then they made these little ones You know soap bars. Oh, no soap bars. I think was the nickname for p 90 Anyway, these mini humbuckers I always call them ice picks because they just fuck up your ears just Hi, indy. I never understood the mini humbucker, but some people could wrangle it And some people could really uh make it sound good mic ness has his own sound And uh his own everything Here we go uh Ness recalled seeing Neil young's guitar Uh stock with mini humbucker pickups out of the last paul deluxe. He threw him in the trash and replaced him with p 90s Ness gold tops have maple necks Which he says contributes to the tone, especially when he's using a capo on the second fret That's funny thing. I remember chuck profit Who I had on the podcast about I don't know maybe Eight years ago or something, but if you don't know chuck profit another bay area legend Do yourself a favor and go listen to him, but he used to do the funniest thing When he would put the capo on his guitar He would announce it to the crowd he go for those of you taking notes Uh, this song requires the capo on the second fret That was that was one of his rock raps. It was just so amazing It requires a capo on the second fret and then he would mount it up and kind of show it to you There it is. See Anyway Uh, I feel good man. I feel good about this episode. I'm kind of all over and uh, I guess you figured by now It is a solo episode. Yeah Um, but I do have some guests coming up But I am enjoying the solo episodes and thank you for the kind words on last week's solo episode getting into that brady bunch house and um And the josh free stuff and the ai shit. So thank you so much. That was episode 700 Motherfuckers So, um I will tell you this. I always do say promote what's great Not what you hate. I'm a big believer in that I can easily dip into the Negative world and I choose not to do it Because it it kind of just Especially when you're around other people After a while, it's just like, ah, this guy's so fucking negative all the time So I try not to ever do that But once in a while, I have to lay down my foot and be like, nah, man What are you doing? And in this particular case, it has to do with uh, davelly roth Re-recording a lot of these van hailing classics now He's been doing it for the last six months and I'm sure he's doing it So he has full ownership and he can place them in movies and tv commercials Because it's a new version And he doesn't have to cut anybody in He's just like here. I re-recorded these And thank you very much You know The old case of like when death leopard re-recorded hysteria Because they were getting the short end of the stick on the streaming And they didn't want to fuck around with that with the record companies and stuff. So they did their own version That all got settled death leopard is all over streaming now and they got paid properly So davily roth's been recording these classics. He did I think he did uh I think he did dance the night away Uh, he's done a few and recently last week he dropped atomic punk and I will tell you this I am a huge van hailing fan huge But there comes a time in people's careers where they start to fuck up their legacy And I don't know who's around them. I know dave doesn't need money There's just no way his family was rich. He wrote all of the fucking lyrics He ran van hailing This guy has armies of fucking money. He's never been married. He has no kids There's really no one around to leave his money to I think he's got a sister But other than that he's got enough money to fuck off for the rest of his life and have fun Now why he chooses to record this if he's recorded him to get him into movies and stuff To pick up an extra change It is not worth it to me To dilute your legacy And pollute the sound Of how incredible van hailing is Now look when he used to do the covers in the edamon smile band with steve vine billy sheen Absolutely killer those guys are fucking doing it But whoever he's got playing on this record and he's he's just it's not really a record. It's just these songs he's tracking And he's over there bragging like Yeah, man. No auto tune Want first take vocals? This is the goods. It's not man The melodies are terrible The performance is flat The band is just It's just awful man And I hate to even say that stuff because it's negative but It's like somebody needs to tell Dave. Hey, man Eddie's gone, man. Let's just let's just live in the glory Of some of the greatest rock music ever recorded Let's not put these diluted versions out And and I heard a couple guys on serious xm They're like, yeah, Dave's out there recording these. He sounds better than ever. I'm like, what why would you say that? There's no fucking way you believe that You're gonna say he sounds better than ever. You're gonna say he sounds great. You're gonna put on atomic punk By davily roth over atomic punk by van Halen. No fucking way Now you don't need to trash him. I'm not trash. I'm not trying to go out of my way and trash him I'm saying this is one of my favorite humans of all time and somehow You know, he's kind of Uh lost his his his way and You know, it's just a bummer. It's just a bummer when I hear These songs and and and then he does these weird vaudeville He's an old man now There's some people that are old and they're still fucking cool They're still in the game. They're still out there They're they're understanding that the world is changing and it's moving And they advance with it Like I said before a Dennis Hopper guy is he was on point till the day he died There's guys out there that stay cool forever and there's other people that lose it and that's okay It's impossible to be cool all your life. I think it's almost impossible to do that There's some people that I see and I go, they'll be cool all their life But josh homie queens of the stone age that guy just reeks fucking cool You know, I see him. I just go. Ah that guy's fucking cool You know But it's okay To not you know, I mean It's just it's just impossible to stay cool. I mean, it's it's hard to stay In the game on anything In this world that is just changing constantly right now. I'm constantly Learning and and advancing in this comedy world that's changing with clips and instagram and tick tock and you know, you got to constantly be riding you got to constantly be out in the mix And my only uh demon right now was uh facing the phone If I can get my face out of the phone, I'm gonna get a little further quicker But I like the phone Because it gives me stuff to write about and I've seen all kinds of shit in my life So I'm like, I'll just look at the phone. Oh, that's funny instagram Is a demon and it is a pleasure I was on there yesterday and this Skinnered video pops up from Dan the green And immediately I just sit down and start watching it Steve Gaines, Alan Collins Smoking guitar solos and I just instantly stop in my tracks And I look at that and I just think how fucking cool is this? In the palm of my hand. I have one of the greatest skinner performances of all time Oakland Coliseum Dan the green with Peter Frampton 1977 a short time before the plane crash That is fucking awesome to me. Just sit down and look at that And then you scroll after that and it's a french bulldog Sitting up eating watermelon It's equally awesome to me like what the fuck So, you know, like I said man, Dave I don't think I don't you know, Dave Dave is so fucking mind boggling to me the mystique that the craziness of him I don't know who he hangs out with. I don't know where he hangs out once in a while. He pops up here and there He's never been at the comedy store since I've been there. Unfortunately. I've been trying to get him on the podcast for 11 years now And he is one of the all-time greats But I could probably imagine I would be kind of spun out too If I was in something the level of Van Halen I mean the the ride that that was for those years And then all the years after that just in your mind, you're just diamond Dave and the world's changing And you're walking around look at all of you Yeah I love to see diamond David Trader Joe's right is just walking around I like the trail like the the trail mix when I'm out on the road You know what I mean? I get a barbell protein bar and I look in the sky and I feel like I'm high Trader Joe's used to be a friend of mine on a ship out on the jungle studs That's right. Right indeed my friend a girl. Why looking in your eye with a foreface. Yeah with a hearing aid body or go Oh, man Cooking I'm cooking out there um Uh, oh, hey patreon new patreoners. I gotta tell you man sign up for the patreon Dean Dale ray It's patreon.com slash Dean Dale ray sign up and get these bonus episodes. They're out there. I'm doing them for you guys and You know, I I I enjoy zooming with the patreoners. I enjoyed meeting the patreoners Oh, that reminds me. I want to give a shout out because You know a bunch of patreoners came out but I want I want to talk about this for a minute because I was talking about my mom And Todd Kent came up to me. He's a patreoner And he's a solid human and he just said hey, man. I just I want to uh You know my my father passed recently and you know, I want to just let you know that it's uh You know, it's fucking tough and his wife told him take some time off, you know Unfortunately, I can't take time off Uh, I don't have a regular job But I you know if I take time off it just fucking slips back I just keep driving But it was great to see him but patreon.com slash dean dale ray I want to give a shout out to catatonic has returned to the patreon And he's an old friend of mine and he used to make all of the dale ray stickers and maybe we'll get some more stickers made Speaking of that tour dates and merch is at dean dale ray.com lots of fucking tour dates A lot of tour dates out there with bill burr Coming up a lot of headlining dates coming up and some vegas dates i'm going to be at the uh At the comedy cellar in vegas Here you go june 22nd it's going to be at Hershey pennsylvania june 23rd bridgeport connecticut june 24th new work new jersey and june 29th and 30th Lincoln california uh july 6 It's allentown pennsylvania because i'm living here in allentown July 7th atlantic city The boardwalk i haven't been there since i opened for allison chains. God that was a great night and july 8th uh atlantic city so those are the some of the bird dates Give him a big happy birthday. He turned 55 on saturday. I love that man Great human he's fucking been a huge help in my career And just a great friend. I mean even if he Even if we weren't in comedy together It's just uh just a fantastic friend Perfect age for me to hang out with because we can we can talk about anything man just fucking You know All we can go all over the board, but anyway bill burr happy birthday. Yeah Interesting thing i will talk about comedy i don't have the Manager agent so it's tough to get gigs But there are cool people like jason that are out there doing full blown comedy shows and alternative venues And it looks like in my career at this point I'm gonna have to start doing a lot of these style venues and i like doing them Because it's not the traditional five shows in a weekend in a club Where you're just the drink salesman, I do enjoy doing them This particular one was in faction brewery In alameda this weekend and it was a massive venue It looked like something where they would film the finale scene of a terminator movie You know with the giant brew steel fucking Brew of things, you know where they brew the beer the huge silos It looked like something you know like arnold would throw a person You're dead now fool and throw you in one of those need melt and acid It was a great venue man. It was out on the alameda naval I guess it's the old naval base And uh, I said this about a year ago when I did alameda I like alameda man I lived in the bay area all my life Never went to alameda maybe two times Somebody would be having a party their dad lived on the base And they would sneak people on the base and have a big ripper The base is abandoned now Probably full of radiation I was saying like in five years from now like yeah, man. It looks like uh Looks like that uh faction brewery got you boy But um, it's a massive massive piece of property in the bay area That's probably worth billions, but it probably has a bunch of fucking old naval shit like paint and mercury and Radiation and shit all in the soil. I don't know but eventually They're going to uh, probably tear all that shit down because the views are a perfect view Waterfront property looking at san francisco It is beautiful and the whole area is peaceful. There's no one around us just these giant fucking airplane hangers and One is a brewery one's a winery and then they got the old fucking naval gym the the gym out there like the uh Where the I guess the families used to work out that's still open like a gym But it was wild to be out there just telling these jokes in this fucking big warehouse And they let people bring their dogs. There were some french bullies in there and some other kooky dogs I'm doing jokes. I also a little dog fight break out Getting heckled by fucking some kind of weird rescue schnauzer thing Going after a english bulldog It was fucking cool, man. So You know It's definitely hard to do comedy in a venue like that because it's humongous and echoey So you got to wrangle it and you got to figure it out. There's a lot of people in there. So It when the laughs hit it would explode in there And you had to go slow, but I had a great time and uh You know if I got to do these type of venues then I got to keep doing them just to uh To keep working, you know And I don't mind I I want to find a way to get bigger as a comedian like in a joe koi way You know, if you're not part of the the the tight clicks If you're not in this scene or if you're not with this agent or if you're not with that manager You've got to fucking figure it out and you can't quit And you can't complain you just keep going and you hope that the fans Grab on and keep telling people it's all about the fans because if the people don't go out then you have to quit because You have to do comedy. It's not like music where you can just put music up on on the internet and hope that people find it on instagram and tiktok and soundcloud and and youtube Comedy is not like that. So if the people don't show you're fucked So thank god that people came out over the weekend And I thank all of you and thank all of you that listed this podcast too and all of your support I hope to see you on the road keep the candles lit my friends and um Subscribe to the podcast on youtube and leave a review on the iTunes I saw three new reviews last week. That's a lot. Believe it or not You got 150 200 000 people listening to the podcast you get about 50 out per gig you get about two reviews a month I figured out you need to have like they say 10 000 or a thousand true fans is true But I think you have to have about one million fans to be able to do about 200 people per venue uh because The amount of people that come out from the one million is about this small. So you gotta you gotta have about one million people So, uh, I think I'm at 60 68 000 on instagram. I'm a long ways away But I ain't stopping fuck all y'all All right. I love you keep the candles lit. I'll see you out on the road and uh, I'll see you on patreon zoom fest And thank you so much for tuning in see Oh, don't forget listen to that avenge sevenfold and that rival suns record And go get on some uh, some fucking uh, social distortion