This is the downbeat Lady seven one freak, all right, No Mike Siroy
this week. And I know Mikey, who was in New Orleans burning vacation
days, would be well. I know that he was already he was sad
about this. He was. He was like visibly upset when we told him
that our next guest would be here in studio when he was burning vacation days,
probably sleeping in now to be honest, after a long night on Bourbon
Street. But Mike Siroy was really upset that he could not be here today
because Danny JJ joining us now live in studio is a man who you may
know as one thing, you may know him as another thing. This is
one of the great entertainers out there, the great Chris Jericho joins us live
in studio. He is I thought you're introducing James Brown or something. Yes,
it's the godfather of Seul, the ghost of James Brown. We'd have
a real story on her hands if we ever introducing Jamie talking about coming to
Dallas and still missing the late great Vinnie Paul and how many great times I
had in this city with him. So anytime I come to your fine city,
I think of big Vin. Yeah, you know, it's funny.
I was self admittedly Kevin and I I don't keep up much with the modern
wrestling era. I'm a couple of years. You're fifty three, is that
correct? You're fifty three, I'm fifty five, So kind of like my
interest in wrestling was. It was feverish middle school, early high school,
you know, back in the old days, Sergeant Slaughter, Jimmy, Superfly,
Snooka, the Von Erics, all those cats back in the day.
And I got interested in rock and roll in music, which obviously you have
a major connection to that as well. But when I moved to Dallas in
the late eighties, became friends with those guys. Yeah, they were everywhere.
They were the sweetest dudes in the world. I was at their video
shoot at the Basement for their first single when they kind of changed into more
of a groove metal outfit. We're talking about Pantera, of course, at
the Basement at their video shoot for Cowboys from Hell. Well, my dear
friends was one of their sound man. So it's no surprise to me that
you had a connection with the Pantera guys. And how did that kind of
come about? As I remember just from being around the scene, and obviously
especially Van I didn't really know dime too well. But anytime we did shows
around Dallas and in Dallas, but like if we had a show like at
Tyler, Texas, at like the Oil Dome or whatever it's called, and
get a call from hey, man, I need twenty five tickets and then
t shirts for everybody, and be like, that's kind of the Vin and
his crew would come and many times we drove in that crappy limousine that he
had that he refurbished that now Jose Manganesca actually has in Los Angeles. But
this limousine that he had was probably from like nineteen seventy five. It was
like or blue and you could get about ten people in it, and he
would stuff it full of people and he would just crank the music so loud,
and it would all be Zzy Top and Journey and Foreigner and it's like,
dude, I love these songs too, but it's too loud. And
you drive the two hours to Tailer and by the time you got there you
couldn't wait to get out of the damn car because your ear drums were just
exploding. But then you'd, you know, go to the show and he'd
have his ten twelve people with him and I end up at the clubhouse and
always good times with Vin. He was the life of the party and just
a great, great dude. But whenever I come to Dallas, I always
think about, Wow, wild one, am I gonna go to Vin's house.
It's like, oh, too bad, it's gone now. But yeah,
it's always good times, good times here in this city, is my
point. They just believe the assault just sold that house. How that infamously
held the Dallas Stars postgame celebration where the Stanley Cup was thrown into the pool
and dented and it had to be repaired, ended up on the bottom of
the pool. Incredible. Did you ever get to see those guys live at
once? I saw them. I have like a ninety two right when they
were just starting. And I haven't seen the kind of the revamped celebration yet,
which I'm excited to see as well. But the Pantera music and the
party attitude of Big Van and dime lives on forever. Yeah, no doubt,
no doubt. We just had Dimebag's death day on December eighth, which
he shares with John Lennon's crazy It's also my dad's birthday, Cory Taylor's birthday,
it's my anti Bev's birthday, it's Phil Collins birthday, and it's Dimes.
Like you said, it's death day in John's death day. So it's
December eight, it's a big day of my house. Yeah, it was
a big day around here, man. I remember remember old Vickory Park,
right, Kevin. I remember being out that night and getting the text that
Dime had been killed, and as the details were kind of filtering in that
it had happened on stage, and as we learn more in the days that
followed, it was just like the most unbelievable, insane tragedy that somebody would
walk on stage and shoot a guy in the middle upper performance. Now,
you being a performer, I'm curious that had to kind of like shake your
world a little bit, just thinking number one, that was even a freaking
possibility, because it never crossed my mind that somebody would do that. I
mean, there's been times when you get fans that get pretty crazy, especially
with wrestling, you know, especially when I was a bad guy heal,
I think probably about ten twelve years ago, I was super hated and I
got attacked a few times on the street by fans and you you don't mess
around, dude, Like after that happened, like someone comes and remember one
time we were in Victoria, BC, and I was leaving the arena and
there was so many people around the parking area because you had to park outside,
and there was like a red light right by the like a traffic light
right by the parking area. So I pulled out. All these fans were
following me. Like this fan kicked in the side of my rent a car
and like try to open the door, and I was like, dude,
I ain't playing this. I opened the door, went out, got a
big brejja big, a big fight ended up like on like Nancy Grace and
all these places Adam here from We used to be in WWE together. I
probably remembers that, and it was a big thing. But it's like you
don't take it lightly. I don't know if this guy's gonna pull out a
gun and do something, so you gotta be careful that. Thankfully, things
have come down now. Even even ten years ago, people still got super
angry at the bad guys, and I think now we've kind of of realized
that it's pretty much show business. So when you leave the arena, it
pretty much stays in there. But like I said, it wasn't that long
agoere people still were trying to attack you on the street, which is so
crazy. It's like, dude, you know, like are you attacking Anthony
Hopkins on the street as well? Like he's really not eating people's livers with
a fine kiante. He's just playing a part, right. But people sometimes
as soon as, like I said, as recent as ten years ago,
would still get really really angry and literally trying to attack you on the streets.
But thankfully we don't have that as much anymore. This is Chris Jerrick
joining us live in studio. Now. You're gonna be in Arlington tomorrow and
Garland Friday at the Curtis cole Well Center, and then uh in Saturday as
well in Garland. So Arlington Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. Did you got
in last night? I did? I heard you say like you watched the
Games a New York guy? Were a New York Giants fan? Is that
the story? Yeah? Though, I mean, obviously, uh, I
was born in New York, but I grew up in Canada, right in
Canada, So so my, my, my, relationship to NFL football is
all started with my wife who is a huge Vikings fan, and then obviously
living in Tampa, especially when Brady came with the Bucks, which was great,
and then also the Jags. I mean my boss, uh Tony Kahn
and Shad Khan his father owned the Jags. Wow, so by proxy you
know I'm a Jags fan. I really have gotten into the Jacksonville team as
well, so those are kind of my three that I watched, but most
specifically is the Jags at this point in time. You know, I wanted
to ask you this, and just for fun, I was going down your
Wicked page last night. What and dude, that thing is like as long
as the Queen of England and stop we just lost last year and I'm kidding,
I'm scrolling. And number one, the first thing that came to my
mind was how in the world does this guy not only have this many irons
in the fire, but have the attention span in the middle, capacity and
drive to follow up and show up for this stuff and be able to have
so many varied interests and be able to be pretty damn excellent at all of
them. Man. First of all, thanks, Second, Ald, I
don't know, man, like I think you know it's It's the tried and
true story that people know about me is that when I was a teenager,
I wanted to be in a rock and roll band and I wanted to be
a wrestler and didn't know how to really do either one of those things because
there was really no Internet at the time. So I just started going for
it and started, you know, doing what I could to make it happen.
And now here we are, all these years later. And when I've
achieved both of those goals, then you become dangerous because I'll try anything now
that I think I can make work, whether it's writing books or doing a
podcast, or doing a cruise or acting or you know, helping aw get
off the ground. When we started it four years ago from nothing like it
was such a crazy thought to like to leave this, you know, this
this fortress of w B and try try a brand new company. And here
we are four years later, and Aw' is just thriving. All those things.
You take a chance, and if you believe in yourself and don't listen
to other people that are negative about it, you can pretty much do whatever
you want. But was it a specific drive or passion, whether it be
wrestling or music, or was it you knew that you had something to offer
in a communication entertainment format and you needed something to be a conduit into that
world. Was wrestling that for you, or were you like super pro passionate
about wrestling and super passionate about music and those two things led you to the
other stuff as well. I don't think you you realize that you have anything
to offer when you're you know, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old.
It's just more of like some kids wanted to be astronauts and other kids wanted
to be Indiana Jones, and I thought, man, it'd be really cool
to be in a rock band and be a wrestler. So that's kind of
just what I focused on. And like I said that, you know,
obviously in high school, I was in a high school band and I did
the high school play and we would make short movies and that sort of thing.
So I always knew that I wanted to do something in the creative field.
I wasn't any good at anything to do with numbers, math or chemistry
or anything like that, so I thought, like, I want to do
something that's creative, and I like kind of playing a character and you know
that sort of a thing is just entertaining people. So I knew that that
would be what I wanted to do in my life. And just wrestling always
really connected with me because my dad played pro hockey for ten years, played
for the Rangers and and the Blues, and I loved hockey. But hockey's
a team sport and you didn't even really know which guy is which, especially
when they were sort of wearing helmets with face masks and stuff like that.
Whereas wrestling, you knew each guy. He had a character and had,
you know, a personality that you could connect with. And I had a
story and a story, yeah, And I was really always attracted to that
part of things. So that's the way that I went, and I,
like I said, I just thought, like, I will give this a
try. I don't know how I'm gonna do it. Nobody really did at
the time. And telling people I wanted to be a wrestler when I was
seventeen, you might as well be saying to people I want to be a
sword swallower in the circus, Like why, But you know something that I'm
dealing with my son right now. He doesn't know exactly what he wants to
do in his life. And for me, I always knew what I wanted
to do, even though it seemed so far fetched and impossible to me.
It was like, well, other people have done it, so what can
I do to get to the next step in all of these things? And
that's kind of it all started. I almost fascinated by that, because a
lot of people, I do think are like that. They just don't really
know until you know, eighteen nineteen twenty till they half notes. Sometimes they
just work a job and might never never know. I knewe when I was
six. I wanted to do radio, like that was right and there you
are. Yeah, But I mean that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. But
I did try to do things to help prepare myself for that in case I
was able to well come across that, luck or whatever was able to get
me here. There's a great documentary from the eighties called The Decline of the
Western Civilization Part two, Part two, the one with Chris Holmes in the
pool with his mom. Yeah, and more specifically the one with Paul Stanley
where he's given all of these great bits of advice while he's surrounded by half
naked chicks, which is also great. But he had this one line that
I have said so many times people attribute to me, and Paul's like,
you stole my wine, and I'm like, well, it's become like my
line via your line. But it's don't ever let anybody tell you what to
do, because if people tell you that you can't do something, they probably
failed in their own lives. So don't listen to anybody else. Just go
do it. And I always just like when Paul said that, he was
saying it to me, like, the only people that tell you can't do
something are the ones that have failed. That's the line. It's kind of
a beautiful statement, you know, And to this day still embrace that,
like so many people, especially now social media is such a negative place,
like this guy sucks and this guy should do this, and this guy should
leave. I said, just don't listen to that. Just believe in yourself
and if you really want to do it, just go do it, and
don't listen to anybody else that tells you you can. But understanding why to
not listen to it is the real thing that I think Paul was hinting at
and almost speaking in therapeutic terms, maybe without even knowing it, because the
things that are coming at either a negative that are critical are more about the
other person's insecurities and shortcomings than they are about the real value that you should
have about yourself. So that's you know, very mindful me, you know,
mister Paul. Yeah, thanks, thanks Paul. It's like, you
know, you're too small to be a wrestled I got that when I first
started, and then you make it and rested. It's like, well,
you can't be in a rock and roll band because you're a wrestler. That's
never gonna work. And then you can't start a new wrestling company because that's
not gonna work. And it's like, but it always works, So what
else can't I do? Please tell me what has it worked? I don't
know, man, I mean, I mean, there's always things that might
not go the way you want them to. But I think the true failure
and the true things that don't work are the things that you don't try.
I don't think there's anything wrong with going and trying something and having it not
work out, because at least you tried, yeah, and you gave it
one hundred percent. You know, if you give it a hundred percent,
take some swings. Do you think Jericho Steaks would be a good place to
get your steaks? I could make it work. I mean, we sold
like fifty thousand bottles of Jericho Champagne, So why not? Right, you
could do Jericho Steaks the Jericho Meat Company session. Not a bad idea.
Call my manager again. Get your tickets at aew ticks dot com. Aw
ticks dot com. Tomorrow night, College Park Center in Arlington's ass place.
It's a great place. And Garland Friday and Saturday Curtis Colwell Center. We've
had we've had a lot of great shows in Dallas, Like in our four
years we've been uh we've been rolling and Dallas is a great wrestling town and
it's a great Jericho town too. It's I've had so many great matches and
moments here, so many great gigs here with Fozzy. It's like I always
love coming to Dallas. It really is, like, I mean, there's
so many great cities in Texas, but Dallas is just something special about it.
Man. What's your connection? Because we got really really fortunate to uh
see the very first screening public screening of the Von Aeric kind of biopic Iron
Claw. We all got to see that about a month ago. Yeah,
they're world premiered it here in town obviously. Yes, they premiered it at
the Texas Theater, the place where Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for assassinating Kennedy.
They premier that theory though, Let's go ahead. People are saying,
you know a lot of different directions there, but yeah, maybe where's your
connection with those cats in the day zero? I guess with the different markets,
right. I'm from Canada, so back in the day you would basically
learn all of your wrestling knowledge from magazines. And I got into wrestling probably
about eighty five or eighty six, so I would still read about world class
I think it was a little bit past the peak of world class wrestling.
And then, of course Carrie von Eric ended up in the WWF as the
Texas Tornado. I was a big fan of his, but I knew the
lineage of the Van Erks and actually the Von Erics. Kevin and his two
sons are going to be at our show tomorrow night one, which is cool.
But yeah, I don't think I've ever actually even met Avon Eric,
so I'm kind of excited about that and just the lineage of the family.
It's such an interesting story, so I'm really excited to see the movie as
well. I think you like it, man, Yeah, I mean it's
interesting though. The one they're getting better. But most Hollywood wrestling pro wrestling
movies suck because they don't understand what wrestling is. And then when the Wrestler
came out with Mickey Rourke, that's the first one that really got it,
and I'm thinking this one seems like they're going to get it too. What
did you think about it? I loved I loved it, but there are
you know, we did walk away. I remember the next day asking little
questions like, you know, they had to leave out one of the kids,
right because you know they have five hour movie. Yeah, and there
were a couple things and Kevin was very involved in that. But the thing
that kept running through my mind was Kevin was there, you know, at
that premiere and you're watching these dark scenes in this movie and it could have
been way darker. And I think that's the thing where I kept going It's
dark to an extent, and Kevin's there, that's got to be emotional for
him. But I was also going they could have made it way darker.
It's a Christmas release. I think we all kind of felt after leaving it.
It's really well done, but there is that element of Hollywood that kind
of seeps into it. That's that's that's always the crux of any wrestling movie,
like, yes, they got a Hollywood eyes it, Well, it's
in America too, and you've got to spoon feed everything to everybody and make
it digestible. I think people understand just how real wrestling is, right,
you know, there's still an element of people, Oh, it's just all
fake, but don't get like just you want an entertaining show. Just film
the backstage goings on of a wrestling company. They did, I think they
don't believe it. I think they did a really good job representing that in
this film. That's one element that I thought, you know what, they're
showing the pain and stuff that these guys are physically going, which is good,
you know, and I know they did that with glow they started the
in ring was getting better too, mm hmm. You know. I think
they've got actually a good friend of mine, Chavo Guerrero, whose family is
Texas. You know, foundation for wrestling too. He's really involved now in
behind the scenes training actors how to wrestle, because that's the whole other thing
too, Like you can't dead in the ring and pretend to be a wrestler
because that's not real either. You know. I did actually like a wrestling
horror movie last year. It's actually really good. Hasn't come out yet,
called Dark Mass. You're just kind of explaining to them, like this would
never happen in wrestling, but they still want to make it Hollywood style too,
right, So I get that. But that's why I'm interested in see
Iron CLAWE because it is such a dark story, but it's also such a
fantastic story. And people wouldn't might not realize just how huge the Van Erks
were in Dallas and how huge wrestling still is in Dallas. That's why we're
doing three shows in one week here. I mean that's crazy. You know,
you wouldn't see Metallica do three shows in one week in Dallas. I
mean, they could the most amateurs. But for us, for us to
come here with three shows, it just shows just how much interest there is
in wrestling and an aw here in Dallas alone. Yeah, wrestling and Taylor
Swift, the two things that will do three nights and day. They go
hand in hand, don't they exactly? Can you tell the Paul McCartney story?
What's okay? So, guy buddy of ours, the name is Brody.
And by the way, this is the great Chris Jericho joining us right
here on the downbeat on ninety seven. One of the freak buddy of ours
named Brody. He's like the biggest wrestling dork that we know, and he
sent us a list of questions. He said, you got to ask him.
Ask Chris about the time at I believe it was Paul McCartney's Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame induction where you were in a stall next to Yoko Ono,
hiding so you could possibly meet Paul, and it manifested an incredibly awkward
situation. Sounds like, I don't know, it sounds like playing telephone at
the campfire. Yeah, yeah, no. So what happened was I used
to go to the Rock and Hall of Fame every year for about four or
five years back when they put cool bands in and he would go watch them
play, which was awesome. Once again, Adam was there a couple of
times. It was the it was the one. They were doing it at
the Barkley Center in New York for a while, and then one year they
switched over to Cleveland and Ringo was getting inducted. Okay, so I knew
somebody that could get you onto the floor of the arena where all the inductees
and all the kind of the big wig sat and we could stay on the
floor, but we couldn't sit anywhere. So the security say, well,
you can't stand here. So then we go stand on the other side.
We can't stand here, and we just go back and forth, my cousin
and I and when Green Day was playing, because you get inducted, but
you play, everyone's standing up. So I'm like, I said to my
cousin, let's do it, man, Let's just go. Let's go stand
by Paul and Ringo because they're all up there. It's Paul, Ringo,
Yoko, and Olivia, George's wife, and so we just cut through the
people and there's some that I know, Hey, kid, rock, what's
up, dude? Hey are you going on going to the front? What's
up? Girl? Hey? We go on going to the front. So
then you act like you're supposed to be there and suddenly here we are.
I'm like, I'm standing right next to Paul McCartney. And it's always cool
when you meet somebody of that stature, like I met Keith Richards a few
years ago and kind of out for a while. When you first see somebody
like that, you can't believe they're real, like it's actually you know,
And I get that reaction with with people and me sometimes, where like they
just can't comprehend that Chris Jericho was standing and that's why Brody wasn't allowed to
come up here exactly. And I'm not saying I'm at that level, but
to some people they would feel the same. So I'm not cranking, but
I'm standing next to Paul. There's actually a great picture of the back of
Paul and I's head. That's the closest we got. But you know,
Paul was backwards on Sergeant Pepper, so I take it. It's it's a
great portrait of Paul and I with their backs of the camera. And so
finally it ends, and I remember that green day, like, what's this
American by? Yeah? And McCartney's just giving it. Hey, he's throwing
his hand up in the air. Hey, And we're all like singing it
together, and it's like, this is great. I'm watching Green Day with
Paul McCartney. And so then the show ends in Paul's leaving with his security
guard and he's kind of on one side of this row of tables and I'm
on the other. I'm like, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm
gonna do it. So we kind of end up just happened to meet when
the tables end and we kind of bump into each other. It's like,
hey, Paul, were you green Day was great? Great man? And
like I didn't know what to say, but he had some security. So
we're just talking for like, I don't know, ten seconds, and then
I go like, hey, man, I just want to let you know,
like if there's if any I don't know what I was even thinking,
but he had a guard in front of him, and I was kind of
flanking him from behind and it's like, listen, man, if any ninja's
attacking, I got your back. Like he's like, all right, man,
if any Ninja has got me, you've got my back. And I
go high five Paul and he gives me a high five, and I'm just
like, yeah, I got a high five for Paul. We're just jumping
up and down and then we go into the bathroom, my cousin and I
And when we go into the bathroom, this big giant dude comes in and
goes, everyone has to leave, right, and we're like what he goes
everyone has to leave the bathroom. Yoko's coming in and we're like, what
the guy's bathroom. I guess the girls was too packed and gender to the
bathroom. So they're kicking everybody out, and everybody leaves, and like there's
like like there's a bunch of of sinks and then you go around a corner
and there's the stalls, and so everyone leaves and I'm like, screw it.
I go around the corner, I get in the stall, and I'm
just don't like what am I doing. I'm just sitting in this bathroom stall
and in comes Yoko and I can hear her, and I'm like in the
stall and I'm like I'm crouched on the on the toilet like like you know,
you see like in a Friday Thirteenth movie or something where you're hiding from
the killer, you know, them to see your feet, see the warriors
when they open the door and they're in there ready to attack you. So
I'm like, well, she comes in this this stall and busted, but
whatever. So she goes to the stall next to me. Oh my god.
She she proceeds to go pee, and I see like the cloth of
her dress because she's pulled her dress down to I'm texting my cousin like,
dude, I'm literally hiding in the bathroom listening to Yoko Ono p. And
we had that text for a while, like screenshot it, frame that and
like and like I don't even know what I'm doing, Like I like,
why am I even in here? But I just couldn't resist, like I
have to try I and meet Yoko. So finally she finishes up and she
leaves and she goes to the sink and I open the door and walk up
and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing. Like I
thought this was the girl's bathroom. She's like, no, no, no,
no, I'm not gonna try and do her voice because it's it's it's
the boy's bathroom and I just had to go to the bathroom and so I'm
like, oh, how are you? She goes It's so nice to see
everybody, and obviously she knows exactly what I'm doing. She's been dealing with
it her whole life course and people hiding in the closet. Oh wow,
this is a closet. Sorry, Yoko. But she's super nice and I'm
washing my hands and she gives me a towel. You gotta dry your hands
and I'm like, thanks you, ok, yeah, and so she goes
I have a good time. She's like, oh, thank you, and
have a good time. And I walk on the crown. This giant guy's
sitting standing there and he's like seriously, and I'm like, dude, I
don't know what just happened. He goes, get out of here. I'm
like wow. And it was just like the dumbest story ever. But still
I got to meet Paul and Yoko. Yeah, and you got to hear
John Lennon's wife, Tinkle Tinkle. Now here's the here's the epilogue of the
story. Afterwards, there's a big party. I go to the party.
We're hanging out, like you know, like John Barbados is there and freaking
Billy Joe Armstrong was talking to him for a bit, and all these guys
are there and Paul is sitting with Joe Walsh and they're hanging out and Paul
gets up to get some like cheese off the buffetan people are around them and
they're kind of asking for pictures and they're bothering room. And I've done this
a few times before, like like I go help. I did it to
Bill Murray the year before, like people a bugging him. I go say,
hey, let me help you with this and get rid of everybody speak
and split right. I'm also drunk, but I'm helping. I'm helping everybody.
So I go to Paul and say, listen, man, do you
want me to clear all these people away from me? He goes, listen
man, he goes, I don't know who you are? You security guard?
Are you a cameraman? I'm like a cameraman. He goes, but
if the ninjas attack me, I'll let you know. And other than that,
I'm good. So basically saying like leave me alone, but in a
cool way. And all I could think was he remembered the duds. I
did it. Amazing, amazing, That's awesome. All right, Chris,
thank you these stories and more. I wish you had more time. There
is one thing that I want to ask you real quick before we cut you
lose, Chris Jericho, thank you so much for taking the time to come
up here. Jericho obviously not your your real last name? Okay? And
no, no, no, no, yeah, Chris Jericho is my stage
your stage name. Yeah, my real name is Eugene Jericho, right,
okay, stop, all right, So Chris Jericho, Chris, Chris is
your real first name? Though, I believe right? Are you a cop?
Okay? Regardless questions. Man, I'm getting to a point. Jericho
made up name. And you think, oh, you just got that from
the Bible. No, is this true that you got the name Jericho from
a freaking Helloween song? Is that true? Yeah, it's true. It's
a combination. A obviously always thought it was cool in the Bible too.
There was a really bad character in a comic book called The New Teen Titans
that I was obsessed with called Jericho. Like the name. Hated the character
and three Halloween is one of my all time favorite bands. They have a
record called Walls of Jericho. Right, And when I was looking for a
name, I happened to see the cassette that was on the passenger side of
my seventy six, Valari and I saw the Walls of Jericho and I thought
that might work Chris Jericho, and then when I suggested it, the promoter
went, all right, you're Chris Jericho. That's amazing. So that's to
this day. So Wikipedia is an entirely one. So Kevin's thirty five Kevin
Helloween was kind of a mid level touring heavy metal band from the eighties and
one of the first concerts I saw when I moved to Dallas at the Arcadiat
Theater was Grim Reaper Armored Saint and headlining that night was hell of freaking Wayne.
Yeah, and now they they headline festivals in Germany in front of one
hundred thousand people. Incredible, They're massive. Yeah, they're more bigger now
than they were in eighty three they ever were. And they love me because
I've always been a credit. I've always flwn the flag for Halloween with Chris
Jerikers. So whenever I see them, it's backstage. I got to sing
with them, and I earlier this year, I'm now a VIP for life
with Halloween because I always have promoted them. So there you go, come
back next time, and let's just talk about your damn band. Okay,
let's do it man, all right, Okay, aew tickets, I'm sorry,
aw Tics ticks tix dot com, aw tis dot com. Tomorrow night
Arlington College Park Center. Friday Saturday, Curtis Colewell Center in Garland. Go
get your tickets and meet the great Chris Jericho tomorrow. Well you'll see me,
we'll see you. I don't actually talk to any Yeah, I don't
meet fans unless you're a ninja. Come on down. It's a great times.
It's a rock and roll party every night, and aw's just a blast
as those who know knowing those who don't, come down and then see me.
Awesome. Thank you so much for the time. Thanks and enjoy your
interview with AO that you've got to do next, all right, Bennet Skinner
coming in here now, we got to do their iHeart Employee performance review live
on the air. That's next on ninety seven one, The Free