Welcome Back News Radio eight forty w h as Tony Venetti, Dwight Witt,
and Dave Jennings out till tomorrow. Rick, of course is in with us.
Rick. Have you seen slap Shot? Slap Shot? I don't think
so. Come on, Rocky team Now. I did text Dwight and Dave
over the weekend and I said, here's the thing I noticed about a slap
shot some reason. It was in my timeline on one of my services,
and I said, it's Saturday afternoon. The Famili's left me alone for a
while. Slapshot. I figured out that in the mid seventies there were no
attractive people. Everybody in that movie, even Paul Newman in this movie looks
like crap. He's got the fur coats on and the leather pants and leather
jacket. Seven looks terrible awesome. Look at the guys on the team.
That is an ugly, ugly group of guys. They're the best looking ones.
Come on, oh dude, look at the rest. So when I
was playing hockey, I went out and I met the Hanson brothers, all
three of Yeah, yeah, they turned that into a moneymaker. Oh boy
did they? They signed about chiefs Jersey the works. I think the movie.
This is the first time it sort of hit me that I think the
movie is smarter than people give credit for. They just want to give it
as a super macho, misogynistic, raunchy film about hockey right, and in
reality it is it is that it's there. They're talking about showmanship versus playing
the game in its purity right, like the fighting versus of your playing hockey
right right, old time hockey. Putting on the foil coach, putting on
the full coach. What are you doing that for? Okay? Best best
one to blake any shore. Best one though, is when they get in
a fight. Was before the anthem were just right out of the gates,
Yes, warm ups. Everybody gets in a fight, and that the ref
skates over one hands and brothers. During the anthem he goes try to hear
the song. He says something else in there too. So it is also
a snapshot of what these small towns all over America looked like. There was
always the mill, right they remember there was closing of the mill that men's
the hockey team might not make it. All of these river towns in America
had these mills attached to them, and that's what drove the cities. When
those little mills started to close down and shut down. These towns have gone
to crap, and it is interesting to watch it from that perspective of And
I think Paul Newman's character, I think he's one of his best performances.
That people are like, are you nuts? It's Paul Newman? How did
they talk him into doing this movie in the first place? But I think
the movie is smarter than you think. I'm going to somebody's driving and go
I'm gonna watch the damn thing we got to. I own the movie.
I love it so much, is it right? Look, don't watch it
if you have seven, if you have sensitive millennials or general gen Z in
there, if you have anybody in your household that are sensitive gen Z millennials
in there, don't watch it with him. And you know what, watch
it and tough and the little Pansy's up if you ask me. But I
gotta say I enjoyed it a lot. All right, Speaking of movies,
let's do the box office receipts going on, and even the sex versus violence.
I'm sorry in the end when the guy, the Princeton guy rolls around
and gets naked. It's the European versus American, Like Americas want to see
violence in Europeans are okay with sex. It's like even that diconomy. Yes,
so this is on streaming right, Yeah, slap slap shot. Just
look up slap shot on any ear. Just google slap shot and what platforms
are on and it'll come up. Okay, I've told you listen. Please
don't use college words like what did you say? Let's do the top five
box office receipts. Speaking of movies, coming out, number five is The
Watcher's three point seven million. Is that a scary movie? Hey? Girl,
stop being destroyed? Girl, stop your Number four, Garfield the Movie
comes in at five. These two in the middle, come on Garfield the
Movie. And then coming in third is another Player of the Apes movie.
You see the cat loves Lasaya so funny, so imagine you don't want to
see he makes fun of the dumb dog too all the time because the dogs
just trying to be his friend. Right, Oh my gosh. Then comes
in uh, number three, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. That
brought in five people. By the way, Garfield brought in five million,
if I didn't mention that last week's number one is now number two. Bad
Boys rided that Ride or Die still brought in thirty three million. Oh good
for them. And then Inside Out Too? Did that come out this weekend
or last week? No? Last weekend? It came out last came out
last weekend? What did it make? And this is even more impressive.
Inside Out Too brought in one hundred and fifty five million dollars. Has got
to be the biggest opening weekend. Since that's a big opening since talk on
the second top gun, I like a nice big open No, that is
a cute movie. It's it is obviously based after the original Pixar which is
Disney Pixar or whatever about Inside of a teenage Girl's Mind. Doctor Oz came
to the rescue you at a recent flight from New York City to Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico. Wow. The minair healthscare involved a man who lost consciousness.
That's when doctor Oz sprang into actions used with his usual tree Oz.
He was able to get the guy back. He checked his vital signs,
a little oxygen, little OJ, and the man set right back up and
he was fine. He does recommend that he gets checked out by a primary
care physician. But pretty cool. Doctor Oz was on that. I forgot
doctor Oz ran for office. Why would you do that? I don't know.
If you're a doctor, you're making twenty million dollars a year on TV?
Why are you running for office? My luck? If I were to
pass out or have some kind of airline, it wouldn't be doctor Phil.
Doctor Phil is still doctor Oz. And he would come over and go,
what are you doing with him? Anyway? To Susan, you're okay,
let's cut your parts off, and I'm gonna ask you what did he do
to bring this upon himself? Susan, you wouldn't even have a doctor.
You'd have the what's the judge lady's name? I have y? Hey,
judge, Judy, judge. Okay, I got it once again. Let's
look up her net worth. It's it's astonishing. She's good. I can't
stand. I bet you she's worth three hundred million dollars. Okay, hang
on, maybe more. I might be wrong. I think it might be.
I think three hundred is a good number. Three hundred million. All
right, let's see, because I just remember it was staggering. It's going
to Forbes goly four hundred and forty million dollars dollars just for being a B
word to people, because I have a uh, well what people love seeing
other people's problems. I guess you're right. People love thinking they're hamrder than
other people. So our buddy Jamie Adkins here in Louisville, he was on
and we were watching this, of course in the Fox studio. Yeah,
of course he was. And he went before Judge Judy and she asked him
a question and he said, yes, sir, no, ma'am, no,
ma'am in her eyes got real. Bit you start a light well Wells
Fargo workers are getting fired. Now over a dozen Wells Fargo's workers that work
remotely have just been given the boot. The company accused him of simulating keyboard
activity. It's fantastic, No this existed. Uh and it might be a
band name coming up in here in this Storytastic smell a band name in this
Wells Fargo determine that those employees that they fired were creating a false impression of
active work online. Here's the story. There's something called a mouse jigger jiggler,
mouse jiggler. Yeah, yeah, that's a band name. Yeah,
it moves the cursor on the screen, so it looks like you're working.
But a band name, a band name mouse Jiggler. Yeah yeah, yeah,
right, definitely. So anyway, evidently the mouse jigglers sell for only
twenty dollars, and when the working at home skyrocketed because of the pandemic,
evidently these mouse jigglers went way way up in sales. These are the people,
well, frankly like us that in school said, if you put the
time into getting out of the work that you get out of the work to
just doing the work, cry you you'd get an a you'd be done by
now. But you're trying to game the systems and you're spending more time and
money doing that. How long did it take you to make that cheat sheet?
Right, yeah, a little tiny cheat sheet. Just study, just
read the material. It's funny because I was taxing with old friend over the
weekend. I'm just goofing with him. At the end, he says,
you know, like aunt such and such passed away. I'm like, oh
my gosh, had I known, I wouldn't have been goofing with you.
And he said, no, no, no, no, you're a nice
distraction. I said, Finally, I said. All of my teachers used
to say he's a constant distraction in life in the classroom, not gonna apply
it to life. Florida is now taking flight when it comes to mosquitoes.
They're using drones in Broward County. Drones are being Countyward County. Sorry,
but the local is called b I don't think so. Yeah, they do.
The Broidians do is actually what you call them. Drones are being used
to get in the hard to reach places where mosquitos like the lat nest and
their eggs. Trucks can't get through it and you had to whack through all
kinds of brush to get through the eggs. Now they're using instead of machetes
and men working, they're using drones. They're able to travel exactly where the
eggs are being laid and then spraying the pesticides whatever. I'm fine with this
as long as it's some guy you know, with glasses or something going on,
and he's some of the more claminos that's way and he's controlling it.
It's not some kind of AI you know, a drawn with poison. I
don't rick to you. I don't know if you guys remember when they were
trying to control mosquitoes, especially in Florida. When I would visit my grandparents
in q West, the tanker that looks like a water tank or you know,
they would have the pipes coming out of the back and they turn on
the mist. Do they remember that d T or something right, and they
would smoke. It would fill right well. Back in the seventies, they're
like, oh, go play in the smoke. Can you go in there?
And like Vietnam or something, we would run. We'd run through this
mist of deadly gas and our parents on the front porch drincken the beer going
ah, kids at play, It's fantastic. But that's what they would do
to try to control mosquitoes. Because again, mosquitoes have killed more people than
all of the other reasons combined. No, absolutely, mosquitos through human history
have killed more people than wars, religion, disease, natural disaster. How
come there hasn't been like a mosquito man villain, you know, like batman,
I think there has been a mosquito man. I think there has been
a mosquito that bets you. There is sucks, But mosquitoes have killed more
people than anything else, all things combined. Okay, I mean building the
Panama Canal. That was the number one reason for thousands of people died building
the Panama Canal because of just the mosquitoes. Hell, when in the Second
World War, when they were fighting their way off island to island, mosquitos
were part of the issue. People were getting malaria constantly from what mosquitoes the
problem was. Okay, so stan Lee, not Stanley, but Stanley Lee.
Correct. He did try to make mosquito man a thing, but evidently
it was blocked by Spider Man. There's gonna be a mosquito man. I
guess they said, no, Mosquito man makes sense. It's the thing stab
drinks your blood. Well, spider rose up in the web and then side
note, side note. I was at the zoo yesterday. I went and
saw the vampire big huge vampire bats. I don't care what age you are.
They are scary as hell. I love our We have their gigantic Oh
we have bats in the back. No, I don't care. There are
ones that look like the Bromstokers. Yeah, Dracula ones. They have like
ten of them at the zoo. I think they're cutsy would see, Yeah,
they are not. Remember mosquito landed on me. If it would fly
away drunk, uh, probably explode. I bet his cholesterol would go up.
Do you think it would get drunk though? If the mosquito, I'll
say, Saturday, I'm out to pull naked and he's out doing his mosquito
things. He goes, Wow, that's a target. It's very hard to
miss. Do you think he'd fly away drunk or there's a blood that much?
I think that they probably they probably know. They're like, ooh,
don't bite him, he's gonna die soon. Okay. So I heard a
horrible story down in the Everglades. They have these hunting camps right and at
the turn of the century, they had these guys that people that worked there,
and they called them jelly's. And the reason they called them jellies is
because they would so when they would eat outside. It's like nineteen oh seven.
So when they would eat outside, they take these workers, the waiters
or waitresses, and they would get them stripped down naked and they would rub
jelly all over them. And they say, go stand over there, and
they have their hands out like they're on a cross. But they're just standing
there with their hands out with jelly all over them, so all the mosquitoes
would go over there while they ate, while they ate their dinner and drank
their bourbons. Look, if that's not humiliating enough, can't they just wear
shorts and at least to be a jelly. I think it's one of the
sickest things I've ever heard. They told the story like there was no bea
and then all the mosquitoes would go over there. So I'd sure dad do
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Stick Around check in with Courtney Donahoe one last time, and then Michael
Sweet from the band Striper joins the show. It's gonna be a good interview.
Stick Around News Radio eight forty whas Hello, Courtney Donahoe from the Bloomberg
Money Minute. I was wondering where you all are. Sorry, we're in.
I was in the bathroom. Roll guys, takes a minute. We'll
get it again. They get it. They spent millions of dollars on these
beautiful new studios and put one yurdal in. What the hell are you doing?
Yeah no, but that's like the lady's room too. You know at
Bloomberg World headquarters, there's always a line after a certain hour, and you
know, being on the air, you have to time everything. People understand
that, that's right. I tried to explain that to my dad, about
how I have to time going to the bathroom. And he's like, that
doesn't make sense, and I said, I know it doesn't, but it's
part of the it is, and part of your job is giving us some
sort of good news at eleven thirty. Yes, well, first of all,
it's June seventeenth and it's national take your Cat to Work Day. Oh
that is a terrible idea, exactly, absolutely awful. I say the line,
don't do it, don't one gender takes their all right, sorry,
stop, all right? So take your cat to work Day is a terrible
idea. Yeah, So at least let me give you some good news besides
the terrible ideas that we have. What's a better idea is five time Olympian
Sean White is launching a professional snowboarding tour. Oh good, what the hell?
This is awesome news. Well, they want to make a little bit
of money. You know, it's exciting during the Olympics, and then nobody
cares about I know it's not going to start till March. She said,
she said, it's exciting during the Olympics, is it? Well, I
thought they did. I thought the one. I thought no, no,
no, I think I think that no. I think the snowboarding added a
little bit too much or no, I'm sorry, added a lot to the
Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics, though, we have to break dancing is
now an Olympic sport, and and at one point they wanted to eliminate wrestling.
I just I don't know who these people are. I want to see
Dwight break dancing. Oh is he? Oh? I guarantee you he's still
got the outfit. Yeah. Nice. And the little piece of aluminum cardboard.
Yeah, the little cardboard you put electric. What my name was,
Cozy d That was my break. You don't understand, Corny donahoe. We
tried to. We pitched. We pitched the idea of to the mayor of
Uh. We got a guy delivering pot belly sandwiches and he goes, what
are you looking for? Already he's got sandwiches. Uh, he's lost.
He's got a giant bag of sandwiches. We should just tell him we ordered
it. Damn it, damn he'sa wait, he's outside our giant window,
our giant window that's not bulletproof. So I am eating I am eating my
pork, which is way better. But anyway, we pitched a commercial and
then go get the food. I just want to say one real quick thing,
be when we get to your stupid boring money numbers, you're welcome,
and you're welcome. Doss High School. My high school actually had a breaking
team, a breakdancing team called the DOS Breakers. And here with some stupid
boring numbers. It's Courtney Donaho in k We would we pitched to the bay
Or. I said, you know what, we need to get these gangs
together, and we need to talk to him and say, instead of killing
each other, what we need to do is have a breakdance competition in breakdance
fighting, breakdance fighting, breakdowns fighting. Of course, yes, I remember
that breakdance fighting. By the way, Speaking of the Olympics, Kate tug
List, look for her in the Olympic swim trial. She's very, very
good. She's one of my neighbors, so one of my neighbors. Cool.
We'll see hopefully from wonderful Pelham, New York. Hopefully she'll be able
to do it well. The Olympic Trials are going on right now for swimming,
and I was just an Indian. I was like, how is the
Olympic Trials for swimming? Inside Lucas Oil they put the Olympic pool on the
football field. It's ridiculous. It's cool. There is a great article that
I'm forgetting. I don't know if it's Reuter. So the Wall Street Journal
did on the whole entire process of building that pool. It was just Google
it it is, I mean it was. It's a very long article and
I read the whole entire thing and it was a lot of words. It
was great, but it really it just showed it took them. I think
they only had like two or three months to be able to build this,
and then one of the pools is getting sent to Italy and other pools getting
sent to the Caribbean. At the end of it all, they had to
take out a bunch of seats in to where the peace was. Kind of
crazy platforms, Yeah, it's kind of crazy on real definitely Google whatever.
Yes that anyway, one more story, let me give you apparel retailer Express,
remember them back in the day. Yeah, that's where we wore a
lot of the club clothes. One bankruptcy court approval. Don't sell itself for
one hundred and seventy four million dollars. That includes its mall, Landlords Landlords
Run and everything The company says the deal saves thousands of jobs, so that's
good news, and nearly all of its existing stores will remain open, so
good news for a lot of the employees. Express Well, again, who
you want to be in your mall? It reflects on what stores are in
there. Yes, okay, that's just the bottom line. When you have
high end you know, like von Maar in those type of where a tie
is three hundred dollars, that's the clientele that will go there, right,
So if you have a Chuck e Cheese, you're going to get families,
right. So it depends on what you what you put in your mall.
But the problem with it is not a lot of people are shopping. They're
getting whatever they need off Amazon or having it delivered to their home. So
a lot of them malls have to remake themselves or try to look for experiences
or other ways to be able to keep people inside the mall. So they're
hoping maybe this is one of the retailers that will great keep. Yeah,
we turned our seers into a top golf. That's what we did there.
You go, well, that's a smart idea. Top Golf's pretty popular.
Yeah, we're starting to move higher, so good news on the markets now
up forty points after being lower throughout most of the morning. Tomorrow, we
have a key report on retail sales. I was about to say consumer prices
because I'm so used to saying consumer prices over the past week. But they've
been cooling, so that's good. The S and P five hundred up two
tons of percent. Tech really supporting things today with the News Radio eight forty
whas Bloomberg Money report on Courtney Donahoe. I don't think Michael's ready for your
this interview. That's a difficult wanted to pull off. Michael, Hey,
Michael Sweet Striper, what's going on? Man? How are you? What's
going on you guys? How are you? Mike? Hang on before I'm
listen, I want you to understand Dwight is one of the most respected journalists
to Kentuck. He is. This is a fifty thousand why Clear Wade station.
That means probably twenty seven states can listen to our voice right now on
the Eastern seaboard. And he's gonna kiss your ass for the next time.
I tell you it's gonna be a fanboy experience interview, So get ready,
Michael Sweet from Striper joins the show. You're hearing one of the new singles,
Amazing Grace from the new album to Hell with the Apps. It's acoustic,
Hey, Michael. First of all, I wanted to bring you in.
That's the single that you guys released. I wanted to bring you in
with another song of a favorite of mine on that record. No more hell
to pay, but I'll figure it out. That's prettying in with a single,
but well done. And you're by the way, You're going to be
in concert tomorrow night at the Mercury Ballroom here in Louisville, Kentucky. I
guess before you get into I won't get into the beginnings. But is it
more difficult to get an acoustic album? There's less, like, there's less
effects and pedals and technology to lean on. Is it more difficult recording a
stripped down album? It is because you have nothing to hide behind. You
know, when you have the big amps and drums and all that stuff,
you've got a little bit more noise to hide behind if there's a mistake or
you know, a mishap or what have you. And when you're doing acoustic
there's nothing, and especially live, you know, we're out here playing this
stuff live, and if you your voice cracks or you hit a sour note
or whatever, everyone hears it. But that's the beauty of it. It's
very organic and bare bones, and it kind of just showcases what the band
does and what the band can do. And it's you know, for a
metal band, it's not an easy thing to go out and play the song
acoustically. It's really not. He's a co founder of Stryper, over ten
million albums sold worldwide. But I want to go back to the beginnings with
you, particularly your dad. He's this rail railroad railroad worker, and he
used to come home and he would blast Jerry Lee, Lewis, Elvis,
Chuck Berry and then going to Black Sabbath and Hendrix. Did your father's musical
choices influence you, oh, one hundred percent. I mean I used to
air guitar jumping up and down on my bed when I was a kid,
to Chuck Berry. Yeah, So Chuck was my first guitar influence. You
know, I don't play anything like him, but that's what inspired me and
Elvis as well. I saw all this at the LA Forum when I was
twelve, same night led Zeppelin at him, so I have this upbringing musically
from my dad and from my mom that really helped to shape me as a
musician. And it's quite eclectic. You know. I love everything from Elvis
to to Black Sabbath to Judas Priest, to Pavarotti to uh, you know,
I love Tammy Wyett. I mean, country, pop, rock,
you name it. If it's a good song and a good voice, I'm
there. See. That's how I was coming up to get anything I could
get my hands on. But I want to I want to talk more about
your father. And by the way, Tony's right super fan. So if
I get any of this wrong, forgive meg me crag me on the air.
But for what and for what I understand just gleaning over the years,
is that your your father somehow started watching Jimmy Swagger because he liked his singing
voice, and then it trickled down to you guys. Any truth to that,
Well, yes, but it's a little different than that. We all
started watching Jimmy Swagger and it was based on the fact that we liked his
voice. He sounded a little bit like Elvis Presley, and he played a
little bit like Jerry le Lewis. Because their cousin. So that's what drew
us in, was the musical side of Swagger, Jimmy Swagger, and then
we heard him preach and it really struck a nerve and got to us hit
our hearts, and we went out and we found a church, a Southern
Baptist church, because that's what Jimmy Swagger is and was, and we got
saved and the rest is history. As they say, I kind of left
the church, my brother and I once we got caught up in the la
club scene and that was I started playing clubs when I was fifteen years old.
So between between the age of thirteen when I joined my brother's band in
twenty, I kind of walked away from the church. And then we rededicated
our lives and devoted the band Striper, to God, and here we are.
That's beautiful, and there's more to the story, by the way.
So Jimmy Swagger, he's instrumental in getting you and Jesus in the same room.
And then ultimately you make it in Stripper, tremendous success. You're on
MTV, you know, you're in the hits charts, and then when you
at the higher popularity, the very guy that influenced you somewhat. Jimmy Swagger,
he comes out against you, all. I gotta think, I gotta
think that's that's brutal. Was it a crushing feeling when Swagger came out against
you? It was, And I would even go as far as to say
that that was probably part of the reason why we kind of walked away again
from the church. And during our against the Law period in nineteen ninety ninety
one, you know, we'd go and perform at Hammerjacks, for example,
in Maryland and tell people about Jesus and then the minute the show is over,
we'd get drunk with them at the bar, right you know. So
this was going on, and you know, I don't blame Jimmy Swagger for
that, but I do think that it did crush us. It did hurt
to see him holding up our albums telling people not to go to our shows.
They would come and protest our shows with bullhorns everywhere we went. I'd
go out and speak to them and say, have you ever even seen us?
And they would say no. I'd offer him tickets. Most of the
time they'd say, now we don't want to see it. They didn't even
know what we were about, and they were judging us and telling people we
were evil and wolves and sheep's clothing. You know, yeah, a culture
personality and I got to tell you that. What's uh? And by the
way, I'm a Christian as well. But what strikes me fascinating about that
is if Swagger was to come out against I don't know, Iron Maiden or
any kind of other band, their sales would triple. But now he's attacking
your very base. Did it hurt you guys in the pocket book as well?
It did not? Oh good? I mean that was the one that
was the one thing and is the one thing that still happens to this day,
and that is you can't stop what we do. Like so many bands
speak out against this, you know, we're we suck or this or that,
But yet somehow the train keeps rolling down the track. And maybe it
upsets a lot of people. I don't know, and they're they're envious,
or maybe there's a little jealousy in there. I have no idea, but
you got to be real careful when you go out and you point fingers at
people and you judge other people because we all have garbage in our closets and
I've been saying this, lady, but it's so true. You know,
if we just focus on that, we'll spend the lifetime cleaning out our closets,
our own closets about someone else's. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I
just left. I just lost what was a father figure to me since fifteen
years old. And on his deathbed he said, remember three c's. Don't
criticize, don't complain, and don't condemn. And I got to tell you,
I've been trying to practice as extremely difficult as we're talking to Michael Sweet
from Striper see Striper Tomorrow Night like you've never seen them before, stripped down
acoustic very to support the new album To Hell with the Apps. But I
got to ask you, Brad Delp, if you asked me one of the
most recognizable voices Boston's lead singer, one of the most talented singers in my
opinion. Unfortunately he takes his life, his own life suicide hotline nine eight
eight, by the way, Brad Delps takes his life. And then somehow
you wind up fronting Boston. Were you and Brad Delp friends or how did
that come about? You don't believe it or not. I moved from California
back to Boston, Massachusetts, back in nineteen ninety five, and we lived
in the same area, but we never met. Our past crossed many times,
we knew all the same people, but we never met. And he
meant a lot to me as a singer. That the Boston album was the
first album I ever purchased with my own money. Wow, And it really
really shaped me as a musician tremendously. And basically years later, he takes
his life and they were going to do what was the last going to be
the last Boston show. They invited Sammy Hagar, Ann Wilson, Mickey Thomas,
all these singers they called me. Wanted me to come out and sing
a song called Higher Power, and of course I was willing to do that
and ready to do it. And all the other singers dropped out and I
wound up going and singing you know, more than a feeling long time peace
of mind rock and roll band. Yeah, So it went so well.
I learned all the guitar parts too. They didn't know I played, and
I walked in there ready to go, and it went so well they asked
me to join the band they wanted to continue on, so we did Wow
listen. So I was baptized. What year was that? What's that?
What year was that? That was? I joined in two thousand and seven
and we toured in two thousand and eight fifty six shows with sticks. Wow
Wow listen. I became baptized April two thousand and five, and there was
a verse that says, I want you hotter code. If you're luke warmon'
spit you out. And that drove me just to want to evangelize to anybody
I could. And I was doing rock radio. I had backstage passes,
access to shows. But Rob Zombie comes to town. I say, you
know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give him the book that led me
to Christ. It was Billy Graham's The Journey. I'm gonna give him a
Bible. Now it's Rob Zombie. So I'm absolutely petrified on how this is
going to go. I go back there. I say, look, I
don't know your heart, but I told you my story. I gave him
the two books. One of the most genuine and grateful guys there was.
Don't know if he threw him in the trash or not. I say all
that to say this at one point, and I can't remember where you sat
down with Kim Peterson King Diamond, lots of satanic imagery, lots of inverted
crosses, the works you all meet. How does that meeting go your polar
opposites did? Was it awkward? Or how did let that go? Well?
You know, his dressing room was right next to ours, and I
saw that and I said, man, I can't leave here without meeting Kim
and saying hi. And I walked over. I went over and I extended
my hand. I said, what's going on? Man? And he was
just really really nice and pleasant and a sweet guy. And we talked for
maybe five minutes about the weather in our hometowns and just normal stuff. And
he was the nicest guy. And I took a picture with him and posted
it. I lost a lot of fans when I posted that picture. A
lot of people unfollowed me and stuff. But you know, I'm the kind
of guy literally, and with all due respect, you know, I don't
care. Honestly, I don't care if I lose all my followers, because
that's not why I'm here on earth just to have followers. I'm here to
make a stand and be an example. And if it pisses people off in
the process, so be it. He's Michael Sweet. He is the front
man with Striper over ten million hours. So the new album is spectacular,
well done. It's called to Hell with the Amps. Catch Striper tomorrow night
like you've never seen him before. Just strip down acoustically at the Mercury Barroom.
Hey, Michael will probably come by and say hi tomorrow night. Thank
you so much for the time I reached out and you were gracious enough to
come on. I can't thank you enough. Okay, oh guys, thank
you so much as well for the time. And I look forward to seeing
you and come on out. Anyone out there listening, come on out.
It's gonna be a great show. We can't wait for looking forward to it.
I promise you won't regret it. There you go, Michael Sweet.
Thanks Piper, take care of man. Who do we have? Man?
We'll see you, right, We'll see you in town. All right.
We are gonna be live a carriage forward on Friday for a live show for
the tent show. Hit my dingy all right, thank you. We had
two dinghies. Somebody start by dinging. I don't know what's going on.
So we will be live from nine to noon in Southern Dana Lewis and Clark
park Way. Carriage Ford come on by its best by a coachry mile.
Yes, Marty will have a apron on cooking hut dogs for us. Yes,
good cooking hot dogs for us on Friday. Remember the hired the Wiener
King one year, Marty is your listening Get the winner King and then that's
Winters. I think it's a good idea, right. So basically they have
the finance people there. They want to use car, new car, use
truck, new truck, doesn't matter. They want to sell every car and
truck on the lot that weekend, which is Friday and Saturday. That's the
point of the tent sale sell everything. So make a ridiculous offer and let's
get these cars and trucks off the lot. It's carriage Ford the show.
Tony and Dwight will be live there Friday nine to noon. Back after this
on news Radio eight forty whnce All right, thank you to Philip Perkins MMA
Fighter catch his fights this weekend this Saturday night at the African American Center for
Heritage. And then thank you to Michael Sweet from Stripper catch them tomorrow night.
And it was a very interesting You did your homework on that interview.
It was interesting with the Swagger thing, and I didn't want to jump in
and go. Was that before or after Swagger got busted and had to do
the crying? Remember he was crying on TV going almost center? Was before?
Yeah? So then after the evangelist? Dude? Yeah, well do
you think they can te the evangelist? How you think that really goes?
Right? Hey, Jonas, Tomorrow our guest would be Abraham Lincoln and wow,
are you serious? Yes? Dead serious? How did you book that?
It was tough? It was tough, but we're working really hard here
on the Tony and Dwight Show. He does that. Everyone wanted to see.
If I'm paying attention, he does it. He goes, I know
Tony's listening, and you're like my wife, you're throwing that your phone face
take a shot, dude, I listened. I could do two things at
one I can't. I guess that does it for us. Rank, you're
fantastic, Brick, You're you're the best, real quick you out of here?
Who do you like better? Me or Tony? Oh it's dad?
He look at him? Look at him? You said, Dwight with your
eyes. Thanks buddy. All Right, we'll see you tomorrow. Is a
good show. Today flew by Dave Jennings. Will be back to morrow.
Enjoy the heat because I like it. Hot News Radio eight forty w h
AN I seven great day. I love you, mam.