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hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on, Thanks for telling a
friend. That's how we spread the word about the pirate ship. Lots happening
today. Danny's going to reveal the name of the new Bandi's in. Yeah,
I wish, no, no, I can't cover. In fact,
one guy suggested twenty more names. Well, Steve barn Alotta, the founder
of the Steel Rail Festival happen Sunday, He's gonna join us and more on
that. It's Stiggler's Bridge. Yes, Sticklers brig just last gig Danny's band.
Thus the new band and the new name. Yes, and we still
won't and we won't find out bridging themselves to the new bandy. Yes,
that's right. I like DV three corner. Let's go with that, Sugar
corner. D three actors are now striking. That means more shows those your
entertainment. I don't even know really what it means. What happens. TikTok
has just killed everything, I guess. I mean, podcasts are going Hollywood.
I mean, that's the only thing I could think. Our friend Alex,
who has worked in the world of TV and is further impacted by this,
he was already impacted by the writers' strike, is uh gonna tell more
about that? And then uh, something happened with a couple of old men
at a political fundraiser where they started yelling at each other. And then I
can't find audio anywhere, but one of them farts and acknowledges that he farted.
I owned it. No, he owned it. He owned it.
Broke the tension. And then a follow up on the Swanson manlius, Oh
the Swans. Yeah, yeah, you know, babies go back, Baby
got back. When was the last time you used cash to pay for gas?
Oh? Gosh, can you think about that, The last time you
use cash to pay for gas? To pay for gas? That? Oh
man? Maybe like in the turn of the century. Really, yeah,
it's like, I don't don't forever. Yeah, it's been a long time
now. Sometimes they still have places that are just like ten cents cheaper if
you pay cash. The cash price restaurants too. There's certain restaurants that restaurants
now, if you charge it, they gave you three or four percent increase.
Yea menu prices are cash prices. Steve's Diner and Henrietta. I know
they'll give you like a three percent off if you pay cash. They actually
appreciate it. Yeah, well they're getting charged the three percent. They're just
passing on to you. You pay cash for gas every once in a while,
where just yeah, yeahs is paying the as to pay cash because you
have to go over. You gotta find the due park in the first one
right to it. And that's actually if you can wait that long. Because
sometimes sometimes how about the tap thing? You ever just tap your tap?
Yeah, I think most people would give it a tap tap tap. Sometimes
that doesn't work, so you swipe and you probably don't even think about it.
Think about swiping in any way, I would think not. I think
my pecking mortar goes tap and then chip and then swipe is like the last
resort. Between July second and fifth, the Ontario County Sheriff's Office found skimming
devices in a Geneva and Canandaego Walmart I believe that now, I don't know
that it was their gas station. I think it was. I don't even
know how they would get in there because where it's oh, I know,
probably at the self checkout or whatever. You put your chip in. That's
why if you go to like BJ's or Costco, the attendant will run his
fingers through the little slot to make sure that there's no skimming devices put in
there. They do it once an hour. Oh. Usually they're using magnetic
strips, so when you swipe the card, it's taking that information. You're
still able to make a normal transaction with it. This is according to a
cybersecurity expert. And then they keep pad. If you type in your like
your PIN number, it'll take that information down, it'll record it, it's
gonna store it, and from there it can basically be used through Wi Fi
or Bluetooth. Sometimes I've ever used my PIN number with my card. I
always just do it as a credit Yeah. Yeah. Across the country though
there's different rules in different states. If you use a debit card, it's
it's actually more affordable, not much because like they'll charge you the credit card,
right yeah, right, So you put your pin in because it's transaction.
Here's the thing is, it's summer. People are swiping all over the
place. You know what I mean. You're on the go, you're out
for drinks, You're out here, you're swiping. You got gas, you
swipe, you go. Let's call my buddy Aldo. Aldo is the owner
of Fixing Fox, which provides computer repair services, tech support and anything in
between. For we'll see the guy who blew in Hunter Biden or no,
no he didn't. It wasn't that guy. Uh. Students, professionals,
individuals, residential and local businesses in Rochester. And Aldo is kind of a
cybersecurity smart guy. So we'll see. He's also having at a party tonight
right now, and we're calling him. Well, yeah, he told me
I could okay, Aldo, the whiskey is okay. It's like it's like,
uh, Aldo, how are you sir? How are you doing?
Gentleman? So Aldo is uh? I think currently preparing flank steaks or strip
steaks on the grill for his uh stepfather. It's his birthday right all right?
Yeah over there, such a good guy, Uh Aldo. We were
talking about the the skimmers that we're found in Walmart in Geneva and Canadagua.
Is there any way to protect yourself? Other than not to swipe skimmers.
Credit card skimmers talk, yeah, credit card skimmers. Yeah, oh you
gotta you gotta like physically actually touched them and try to pull them out yourself.
Well, how would you even know, like, how would anybody know
they're in? Like what do they look like? Yeah? Um, they
looked identical. But before you pull your card out, just feel it,
pull it out, try to see if you can actually get like something down
there, and ask them, like the staff if you ever feel suspicious,
but like, hey, can I get a different credit card reader? Oh?
Okay, right, yeah, you go to a gas station there they've
been skimmers and like what like Henrietta and Gay, Yes they're right, And
then what they did look like identical. But there's all of this is just
like an attachment onto it. There's got like a Wi Fi reader and somebody's
nearby with a Wi Fi reader giving your card man, Yeah, that's you
know what that makes sense because I live in Henrietta. It's the only time
I've had like, you know, issues, is because I've probably swiped the
card that I'm not gonna say where, but at the gas station and all
of a sudden I got like these charges at a hotel in Baltimore, and
I'm like, yeah, I've never been to Baltimore. Now it's this on
a credit card or on a debit card. On a debit so I stopped
using a debit card in because I don't use credit cards, but now I
do and I just immediately pay it. Well, because there's no liability on
a credit card. On a debit card, it could be another story.
Well, that's the thing, because I would assume although most people not knowing
until it's too late what has happened, because you know, like you're saying
to skim and then it comes over bluetooth and the person's got access to your
money and the money's gone, and you may not even know what had happened.
You may not even be aware that it was, you know, a
skimmer. And then it maybe days later you see in the news and you
go fuck. Or the person just sits on or they just collect on the
number, right, yeah, and then they wait later and they wait wait
until they gather like probably hundreds of numbers and then they auction them off and
like in a dark web or something even scarier, right, and then they
all right, and then after that then they go to town. I'm like
a giant group by of things. And then before you know, like,
how did you get scammed? And you don't even know when it happened?
Holy shit, I didn't even so wait there's did you? Were you aware
of this kind of thing on the dark web where they went auction these you
were, Oh yeah, I used to well, I used to work in
UM. I had no idea, Kevin, dude, no nothing. I
worked in UH. I worked for a credit card transaction company for about a
week once way way way back, and then another time when I worked in
UH DET collection. They would tell you about these things you had to be
aware of, and one of them was was this that they take care of
from me? That's why we had to be so secure with the information because
it could be auctioned off. It can be all that stuff. Wow,
are these things easy to put into a machine. There is this something where
they're doing it while they're getting quote unquote their gas or is it something they're
sneaking into the middle of the night, um job sort of some sort right,
if it doesn't look right, doesn't feel right. That's why when you
always go to the Costco gas station, right, the attendant always put a
brand new sticker on the grand and the gas station card reader. Right,
they put a brand new sticker. Every single day they change it. They
rip one out, they put a brand new one just to make sure that
everyone has like the brand new. It's been inspected and they have those monitor
the cameras around them monitored at all times. You don't think it puts any
adapters on top of it, right, But some other places where the other
gas stations where they don't have the luxury of having a tendant, they can
do that NonStop, not to mention, monitor the gas pump at all times.
Right. Then that's when they're like, all right, we're gonna put
an adapter. Have somebody like put an umbrella rain like at a certain time,
pretend it's raining, and then you can't see it. And then they
just do it. Like with a matter of less than a minute, they
could put in the dapter on with two sided tape and then boom, right
there they got They got on a dapter on and they monitor it from like
a remote card somewhere nearby. Holy shit, Yeah, that's our words.
So tap is the best way to go at this point, or pay cash
yeah, or or a credit card only because the credit card, if they
catch it, you can dispute it and they're protected. So that's your one
layer of protection if you're going to use a card. But I would say
you're right, Kevin, I would go either tapping is the probably the better
way, as Kevin mentioned, where you can just hold up your Yeah,
sometimes hasn't worked though, that's what I mean. That's that's what I'm saying
in the beginning. Sometimes, but the cat cash is still king. I
get. The big thing that I do is that with because I'm remember a
BJ's I have a card. What they'll do is like you could have it
on your phone where every time you make a purchase, you get sent a
text message or an alert. Say, hey, did you buy wheaties?
A box of wheaties from Casco Jesus Christmas? Yes? I did. I
made that perch family side, right, but like, are you buying a
fucking family size? I'll tell what I am acting, Chris, Okay,
all right, yeah a lot of them. Yeah, No, I don't
need the cereal. I remember the last time I ate Sereal. But yeah,
like if you ask the credit card company to send you a text alert,
That's how I found out I was getting scammed, Like did you buy
these boner pills? I'm like, now, shit works, ye aldough have
you ever been scammed? Have I? Back in the day, lived in
California yet one really what happened? Oh? I got my my card guy
like scammed off from like I went out one night, like I went to
like the ad tack at the party, and then later later on, like
two days later, I got like charges for like eight hundred nine hundred dollars.
My bank caused me. They're like, hey, did you make these
charges? I'm like, what charges did that make? So like you made
eight hundred nine hundred dollars charges on this and so fores And I'm like,
I didn't make any charges. Man, that's uh, that's that's a It's
terrible. And that seemed like earlier in the day, right, I mean
when I say earlier in the day, like in earlier time that this kind
of stuff happened. Yeah, that was like late two thousand, like like
early two thousand and ten, maybe two thousand and thirteen. Yeah, when
when that went down now and I was like disputed, it took two days.
Like the worst is like the agony that you get locked out of your
own accounts. That's the worst feeling, right, Yeah, you got you
got like you little like your your tail between your legs and everything you like,
how did this happen? Why am I a oh I might victim?
Now let me backtrace my steps? Well, what can I do? But
at the same time, it's like everyone's getting like more and more sophisticated about
it. Well, that's the thing. It's like it's like a giant chase,
like we cracked out on one. Right, they'll find a way to
get the tap. Hey, it's sad day for Aldo Anchor Steam Brewing or
Anchor Brewing excuse me, the Anchor Brewing Company, which I think it was
about one hundred and twenty five years old in San Francisco U officially closed or
they're they're done, they're not making I think they're making their last run.
Here wait, what you're actually like went out of business, well out of
business, and they were a craft brewery, correct, the first one,
Yeah, the first one and about one hundred and twenty five years. The
problem is that at some point where you know, these things start to sell,
they become popular, investors get involved, they know nothing about it,
and they run it like shit, they just try and then you're and now
you're chasing to get caught up in a new owner and they're cha. And
then eventually you just you can't run anymore because all these other fantastic beers have
come about. But Anchor Brewing was kind of the first. They were.
They were the anchor so to speak, right, that started a lot of
this. I was trying to people out of there once they were they were
a staple back there in the West coast, right, like they like they
started at all. They started this whole like ipa flavor thing, and everyone
followed two with like something different from like Budweiser or a bud like beer.
Right. They had like when they everyone had like a little seafood party or
like an oyster fast or a clam bake or anything. And then if it
was like a big big party out in like the San Francisco Bay area,
Anchor Steam will be like, hey, we'll give people throw you two kegs.
Were like to put our name or like a little banner of our beer
over there, right, so like you would go off there. Yeah,
they did a genius And then what what I will always remember is their holiday
party, a right so they always released the Christmas Ale during how they see
them s Thanksgiving comes around, they release these bank amazing like not ridiculously over
flavored like porters, but just in between where it gets you a flavor of
a porter of a beer, but not right there of the Christmas Ale.
And then they would have these parties of like Who's who in San Francisco.
Right, So then back in the day when I was living there, you
had like Zenga, which was making like billions of dollars after Facebook games back
in the day. Then you had Facebook executives coming in there. Then you
had all these online dot com companies coming a bunch of nerds hanging out getting
drunk. Oh my god, you have no idea. They would have a
great elevator coming up and down with CAGs they would have. And then I
somehow I was in between jobs and I don't know how I got invited,
but I got invited, and then all of a sudden, like I started
making friends and started networking. I'll never forget like that. How are they
party? Like? You can't complicate what what they were trying to pull up
and then what they actually pulled up for like decades as how are they part
wow? Wow? Well, Aldo, that that is kind of disappointing to
see. I hate seeing something like that. That happened on kind of an
American first right in the in the craft brewery at least in the West Coast.
And I mean the original owner sold sold out like to a venture capitalist,
and the venture capitalist sold out to the Poro, and Saporo just sat
back and was like, hey, we only got three recipes, right like,
they didn't didn't move on it. And in the Bay Area, you
got people up there in the North Coast in Mendocino County and all that coming
at you. And you got Russian River Brewery, which is the number one
brewing the nation, right like they're making their names. And you got everyone
out in Oakland who pays less rent than you coming out at you like like
you're like like with like a big fat target. And then rent do and
rent threw and rents dow Yeah right, rents down. I know that feeling,
Aldough, So do you. Aldo has his own business. It is
called fixing Fox. It's right there in a pitch for and if you need
something fixed, he'll either come to you or you can bring it in.
It's all kinds of tech support for everybody from professionals to students to idiots like
me. It's right there. And then when you get compromised, you got
viruses or anything, come to me, give me a rank. I'll don't
be ashamed. Just like walk into me, give me be honest, and
then I'll help you through. I'll walk you. Guys, I don't know
how many guys have coming and gone porns like porn guys or girls? Oh
really ryeah, like like like like the words is when you were like when
you're a professional and you got something that I'm doing, you're the one person
that like flicked on like the wrong recipe link. Then you then you gave
remote access to your computer. Know that. The one thing that I can
like tell all the audience is listening, is like, never give remote access
to anybody. I don't care who they are on the phone, I don't
care what they say on the computer or anything. Never give remote access to
anybody. Never. I used to do it at I hearn all the time
because they would. But the ihard I tea is yeah, that's a different
story. But yeah, anybody else, although I appreciate it and get to
fixing Fox and enjoy your father's your stepfather's meal that you're preparing for his birthday.
Billy boy, I love you man, See you later, Aldoo,
I get in this show with one of our laptops. Okay, porn,
Yeah, let's just saying that the hard drive these to be reinstalled with love
the small enough screw driver. Get it. So coming up see him speaking
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Baseball dot com bTB in the mall at Grease Ridge. They have some great
specials in the month of July, like the Nacho burger, or how about
the chicken blueberry sammy that Kevin had. It's so good. It's housemade fried
chicken, blueberries, right, you wouldn't think this. Maybe blueberries, hallapemeos,
blueberry sauce and provolone. Kevin had it and loved it, loved it.
They have a Caprezy burger sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarel I don't know if
I'm saying the right. Danny might say, how do you say it mozzarell?
Or with a basil balsamic reduction on top of her burger? How good
does that sound? They're always doing cool stuff over there. They may even
do a Billified special. Yeah, Bill of Fried is what we're calling him.
And of course they have the ten dollars large pizzas on Tuesdays and Fridays
that includes a topping Yeah, where else you're beating that, You're not bTB
wood Fire, Pizza and grill in the mall like Grease Rich. We'll look
at the mail less night. A letter from a girl Nate. She said,
Merie Rude, get to her in the big Steel do the the Lake.
Gordon Lightfoot was Steel Rail Blues. Everybody know that song. I don't
think I knew that song. I only know Fellows. It's been good to
know. It was like he was actually a good looking guy. He looked
like Brian Cranston when he was young. Yeah, but now the one I
remember from Gordon life, it was just the old man that one, and
then and then what's the other one? Uh uh, I can't, I'll
think of it. There was another one that my sister always don't even playing
that song? Oh you should play it? Yeah? Yeah. Steve Barlotta
is here. The Steel Rail Revival. It happened Sunday. It's to benefit
the Arkha Monroe and it's five stages, five all day. What time does
it kickoff? Kicks off at noon, gates open under eleven thirty at eleven
thirty And if you want to see the schedule, who's playing what stage?
When a steel Railfest. Go to steel Railfest dot com slash schedule and all
the bands there and everybody that's that's doing it. Where did the idea come
from? We started out doing a benefit in Penfield for a friend of mine,
Alisa, you knows, my partner and I and you know we we
we started out with it and I had one of the guys, actually,
the guy who was the CEO of Rochester Regional Health, Eric came to me
and he said, you know, Steve, if you really want to do
some charity, he goes with, the hospital could really, Like, I
had no idea. The hospital works on like a one percent profit margin.
They're yeah, probably even lower now, it's right. He's like, we
could really use like something for our neurology department if we could, If we
could raise like say thirty grand, we could buy this sling that would help
people learn how to walk again. Oh wow, I'm like, you serious.
You can't freaking you guys can't afford He's like, no, really,
that's how tight it was. So I'm like, okay. So we did
it, and we did it the first year with lou Graham yea, and
we had just the one stage and then I think at the time, none
of the other businesses in the Canary District we're even there. So it's just
iron smoke, right, and then a stage outside and it went over so
well, and then COVID hit and then we decided we're not We're not gonna
let that stop us. We're gonna keep going with this thing. So we
started. We did it again last year and then this is our third.
So I mean it's like, but it's a lot. It's a lot.
Yeah, Like I sat on my phone forty bands, dude, Yeah,
we had we actually had one hundred and twenty last year. Yeah, okay,
so because I'm looking at his over forty musical acts. It's a nice
summer to throw out there. But like, do you know that it's is
it closer to one hundred or did you scale out? You know, if
we scaled it back. You just need people kind of all in the same
place, you know, and in order to be able to do the best
job, I kend to raise money for their chair. So is everything all
because I think last year there was even some stuff. Was it up in
Fairport Brewing as well? We're still having a stage, you still are,
but that's the only outside the cannary just at stage that there. Everything else
is cannary. Yeah, it's tin cup, it's smoking out Chicks, it's
iron smoke. And then the big main stage out on the parking lot.
Yeah wow, yeah, Now you're gonna get up there and play. I
usually don't, but I'm gonna do a little Beatles set with Beatles rock.
Oh cool, that's good. That's that's a that's a great thing. Where's
that going to be at? Which show? Which stage? We're I think
we're at five o'clock on the bigger stage. Oh yeah, cool. Because
nothing even gets done alone. Who who has helped with all this stuff?
Oh? Well right? First of all, well, my partners are Lisa
Enos and Will Young, But my partner really should be Kelsey bart A Lotta,
my daughter, because she does She books all the bands, She puts
all the sponsorship packets together, she puts all the lanyards together so the bands
can pick up all that stuff. It's just an amazing task. She organizes
everything. And then of course I got my wife Diane and her her brother,
my brother in law Doug, back here, and they're they're always doing
stuff. They've been running around all week delivering stuff. And it's a lot.
You know, I really enjoy the process, but sometimes it's just like,
oh, yes, I got so different text messages with fires I got
to put out. But you know, that's the fun of it. Yeah,
what is music meant to you? Like, you know, in terms
of here you are using it for a charitable thing, Well, what is
it meant to you over the years It's been your life? Yeah. Well
it's interesting that you bring up the music in the charity part because Diane and
my wife and I were talking about like we should really we've been lucky,
like we should really do something to give back, you know what I mean.
And so we actually volunteered doing at a food place, you know,
packing boxes. And then I said, you know, I could do a
lot more if I just used what I'm good at, which is I don't
know marketing company. And I'm a musician. I know all the musicians in
town. So we decided to dedicate our you know, our fundraising efforts to
this. So, yeah, my big contrition for the year. It's I
mean, it's a huge undertaking. It was a lot of fun. It
ran so smoothly last year, even with all those bands, and I was
only in the Iron Smoke stage. But I mean that ran very smoothly.
Thank you. There's no hiccups. You had nice crowds. It was it
was great. We get a lot of compliments on our organization, and I
can't take any credit for that myself. First, so as I'm as I'm
listening to you, do you do anything? It was? Your wife did
this? Your brother, your daughter? Just put out fires? Come on,
he's a project, Marria. You know I think he does. I
think he goes guys to get a fire and goes who I'm taking a nap
kids. It's true, Billy, I don't do much. I'm just your
jobs. Who he gets much? Who in the who in the music world?
Do you would you still love to meet? I know you've probably shared
the stage played with a bunch of people. Is there anybody you would still
love to meet and talk to. I've never actually met Jeff Lynn. I'd
like to sit down and talk. Yeah. I saw him a few times
to play well, we saw him in Denver. It was awesome. Yeah.
I just have a lot of respect. First a lot of stuff with
Petty and then was in the Traveling Wilberries and yeah, yellow and and I'm
a fan of Like most bands are like disciples of the those whether they realize
it or not. But he's a real He was one of the first band,
uh, you know, bands that really emulate Okay, how how can
we pick up one of the Beatles left off? And he's always brought that
thread throughout anything he's produced. And I just hear it and I did.
I just love it. He's one of my definitely one of me. Yes,
have you ever tried in any way? No, I got a picture
of a fake uh Jeff Flynn and me. The guy looks just like him.
He was at the he was It's the concert, and I sent it
out to a couple of people are like, Jeff looked just like of that.
Yeah, I would be kind of cool because and you would just talk
Beetles stuff. I bet he would love that, don't you think? Because
how many Yeah that he seems pretty dub I mean we've seen interviews with like
so like the wilber Is when they used to you know that name the wilber
Is doing or they can bury him. I don't know. They just recorded
everything in the in the studio and if they made a mistake, they said,
don't worry about it. We'll just bury it in the mix. So
they came in the Wilbar. Oh okay, the story where they combined this
all star band said, will bury him. We'll bear critics because it was
criticism. Okay. No, they didn't rehearse ever, or they just wrote
and did everything in the studio. Wow, there's a really good documentary of
them all doing. Oh I want to see that. Yeah, it's great.
Yeah, because I was a huge fan, you'll get it. You'll
get a good um kind of window into what jeff Lynn's all about, which
is, you know, it made me like him even more. You know,
really, what what was it? It seems like so down to earth.
He's like super talented and he writes and you know, produces all this
stuff, and it's just like it seems like a regular dude, you know.
So jeff Lynn's a guy you'd love to me. Have you met anybody
in the musical world and it was a real letdown, like you were kind
of disappointed. I won't say letdown, Yeah, but likes what I thought.
Yeah, Okay, okay, okay, so you remember you remember Ario?
Right now, I don't want to I hear this. Let me let
me preface it, no bob, no bashing. See. No, what
I was gonna say, No, you can't ask me questions I was gonna
say. I was gonna say. I was gonna say, Steve seems like
he's a nice guy and wouldn't want to talk ill about anybody, is what
I was gonna say. No, I'm an asshole. Oh good good,
that's what we like. That's what we like, all right, So Ario,
So it was we did the show and Durian like we opened for him,
and I'm like, Gary rich look at him right on the album covers,
got this heavy beard and he plays it less Paul, he plays it
low, and he's like such a badass, right you know. And then
I met him and he was like, Hey, I'm Gary. I just
like I just want to expected you know what I mean. It's like so
soft spoken. It was just totally different. But you know, nobody Mario
will do that to you. Roll with the changes, did the uh nobody
that kind of you? Were Like God, I really thought more. You
know, I had heard horror stories about George Thorogood for years, like just
a difficult to deal with, whendn't grumpy, wouldn't talk to anybody I did
an interview with him. My guy was great, but really yeah, but
I've heard other people say not not always the case. Yeah, No,
I mean I never really had a run. I've met several people, and
everybody's always been very gracious. You know, um, well you all so
maybe like sort of behind the scenes so to speak, you know what I
mean. I was telling me that they were backstage. I think it was
Tommy was saying that one time, and I forget the band. I might
have been a metallicer or somebody, maybe the Stones, and they're like,
everybody had to get out, oh yeah, and he goes, but Tommy
Brunette and their band can stay, and he's like, you know, it
made me made me uncomfortable because they were kind of rude and surlied everybody else.
And then when the band was coming through, like you couldn't look.
I guess they came in and warned one time, Mick Jagger is going to
go out to a truck that is actually his gym, so you know,
don't look at him when he goes to And I always wonder if that's like
a little you know, if you actually talk to Hi, Mike, I
don't think you'd give a shit, but he doesn't want to be slowed down.
There's a process that work for that. Yeah, they get a little
panicked because so I'm wondering if you were sort of like in the Tommy situation
sometimes with bands where you got to know Tommy has a like a magnetism about
him, an unexplainable magnetism. I don't have that. You have an animal
man about I mean, I don't know, it's just a miranimal is What
would you say? Your genre mostly beatles like that that I love, Like
if I if you listen to stuff I write, it's sort of in that
vein. Yeah, um, I like everything. I mean I really I'm
a I'm a music nut, you know, Because I was gonna say,
outside of that genre, is there anybody that you really admires? I don't
know. There's gonna be hard questions on this test. I'm sorry. It
didn't mean that. I just always think, like I find these you interesting
and I you know, a musical guy with a big history. I think
that the one of the most underrated bands and ever I think is Deep Purple.
I just think that's an awesome band that ye got enough credit. That's
that's interesting. Yeah, because I mean, most of the time all we
think is smoke on the water, right, isn't go listen to child listen
to because I love Ian Gillan's one of my heroes him, Lou Uh,
Paul Rodgers, Um, Steven Tyler, Paul McCartney. Um, they're those
are like those guys can all just freaking sing, yeah, and they they're
blazing trails that nobody else has done before. Like if you look at all
the offshoots and all of the disciples that they have from their singing style,
it's like, you know, and people say Robert Plant too, and I
agree, But Robert Plant he was a great singer for that band, but
a lot of people as a pure singer don't love his voice because you know,
they just don't like any sings a little. He sings in quarter tones,
which sounds off key to people. It's very it's very Eastern music style,
you know, and so some people think it's sounds off key. Well,
wasn't it the story of at cemac when he was playing with Alison Krauss,
And the story was Alison Kraut that Alison Krause told on the stage that
she had to teach Robert plant or reteach him how to sing because he couldn't
hold a note. And she told the story because he never liked did that
and led Zeppelin. Yeah, I know, he never did. He was
very good live though, Yeah. Yeah. I even like some of his
solo stuff in the eighties and he's very eighties. Yeah, but that these
guys I saw. I saw Stevie Ravon open for him, and at the
time, Stevie Ravon only had pride and joy out and I'm like, who's
this guy? You know whatever? Yes, and then he was like freaking
great. Yeah, like, holy crap. I got to see him in
concert. There was a guy that opened for him named Henry Lee Summer.
I think Henry had that. Yeah, I think he had like one song,
yeah that was a hit. And uh and then Stevie came out and
just blew the stage apart. Yeah, he was unbelievable. Are you listening
to anybody new? Do you listen to any newer music that comes out?
Do you have time? My commute to where I tell my brother in law
was Doug this this morning. My commute to work is like eight minutes.
Yeah, so like by the time I find a station, I want to
get to him, I'm done, and I'm always listening to to tunes because
I have to learn him for something. Yes, so that's that's mostly what
I end up doing, and I miss out on a lot of stuff.
But my daughters keep trying to keep me, so I'm wondering, right,
Yeah, they keep that. That's that's uh, that's funny. They like
some classic right to what's in your what would be in your than your musical
queue if you're listening to anything for pleasure, not to learn, just for
pleasure. Most of the Beatles, yeah, I know. I we usually
have like Petty and stuff, like the stuff that's in that in that zone.
I love Crosby Stills, Nasty Young and that kind of stuff, Um
Simon and Garfuncle. I like all different kinds of stuff. It depends on
what mood I'm in. Yeah, you know, I've heard a lot of
like the classic rock stuff so many times I'm like, I don't really,
I can't anymore, but I put out a little mixed mix of that stuff.
Yeah. I always liked the singer songwriters stuff to me. I mean
Petty sort of falls into that a little bit, but more of the acoustic
when he does some stripped down stuff. I love it, yeah, he
said. He goes, People like, wonder why my music so appealingly?
He goes, it's six sixties music. Yes, the st the style really
is. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's interesting. Steel Rail Revival, let's
talk about that. Yeah, when do you uh so, when it's all
over, when it's all said and done, everything's packed up for the night,
what do you do? You and I are going on we've already talked
about this bill. Do you do like just I mean, you gotta be
yeah, you gotta just be ready to blast it out. Yeah. I
have a few things in the hopper, but I kind of just like take
the rest of the month off. It's pretty exactly like we like to start
our summer after the Steal Rail. Yeah. I don't blame you, man.
Yeah, any big plans or something, you're gonna go away? Uh
No, I'm gonna take my son. We usually go up to Diane's parents
live up in Michigan. They live on this little private lake. It's beautiful.
I usually take my son up there to fish, and he couldn't get
off this year. So we're gonna go up there in a couple of weeks
and just like fish for six or seven days. It's nice. Yeah,
get out fishing is like there's just one lake up their third lake. You
can't even get to it because it's it's a public lake, but there's no
lake access. You have to like carry a boat in, and in order
to carry a boat in unless you live in a property near there. It's
several like it's like a half a mile to carry a boat or more.
And people don't even know about it. So we fished this lake. That's
Does anybody else fish or is it just me? No? I have I
want to get into fly fishing, but I haven't done yet. So we
just bring a boat in this lake and it's like that's it never gets fished
and it's this is like huge bass in there. It's yeah, so that'll
be my unwinding there. That's nice. Yeah. So the Beatles stage,
the Beatles band that's gonna be playing, Yes when and we're going to start
it. I think we start at five. Everybody starts on the hour,
okay, and we have a fifteen minute intermission to change over bands. I
should say. The thing that makes the Steel Rail Revival a little bit unique
as opposed to some other festivals First of all, it's inside and outside,
so it's like a south By Southwest kind of a thing like that. Yeah,
and and and the thing about it is is everybody plays for forty five
minutes, so you can everybody can have a completely unique experience, like you
could just sort of fill out a dance card for the day. I want
to be here at two o'clock and here this country band, and then there's
a blues band playing at three. I want to go over there and see
that. So people, the same people got all the time the same festival,
have a completely unique experience. It's not like this is the band that's
playing out on the main stage and you've got to sit there for two hours
and if you don't like it, you're you're kind of stuck. Yeah,
you know that's a really cool idea. Did you get that kind of from
south By Southwest? Because I love that festival. I just got it from
going to festivals and being like, you know, I really want to see
this band, but now I have to wait and sit through this band.
I want to. I want to I'm short attention span. How are the
bands when you when you approach them and said, listen, man, I'm
just looking for a forty five minute set. We're most bands receptive to that.
Everybody's cool. Yeah, I mean the musicians in town. We get
way more submissions than we can even fill. I was talking, you know,
Randy and Christina get your gig on right, Yeah, those guys.
So I talked to Randy. I said, you have a master list of
all the bands as of several years ago, just so that I have contact
information in case they want to contact somebody or they contact me. And they
said a thing. There were five hundred and fifty bands on that list that
are playing in or around the Rochester area on a regular basis. So wow.
We yeah, we get way more submissions than we can even honor.
And I'm very grateful that people want to play at it. All the bands
that are playing are donating their time, just very magnanimous. It's awesome.
So did you know that this is the last gig for Diggler's Bridge. I
didn't steal rail there, ride down on a steel rail man. Yeah,
we're gonna we're doing a little facelift. Let's say, did them they're getting
um an eyelift? Yeah, job, we're getting it all. It's done
to catch a Predator. Finally, if we want to get tickets in advance,
where do we go? You can go to Steel Railfest dot com.
And also Iron Smoke has bracelets if you if some people are like a physical
bracelet, I understand that you can get them there. Yeah, because I'll
wear him for for like weeks. Yeah, that's a great thing. Over
forty musical acts, Fairport Steel Rail Revival. It's this Sunday, July sixteenth,
Uh, the last gig for Diggler's Bridge and then see Steve jump on
stage with the Beatles band. And it's gonna be a whole lot of fun
and all all proceeds benefit the Arkham And which I think is fantast and our
headliner this year is Big Eyed Fish, which is the ultimate Dave Matthews tribute
band, and before them the Misfit Toys or Playing, which is a very
fun band. Um there's some really good They do a lot of Arrowsmith.
I don't know why. They do pretty eclectic mix of awesome tunes. It's
very unpredictable, but that's what makes it cool. They do Audio Slave,
I mean they're pretty. They do Dave Matthews and they'll go in to audio
Wow and then they'll do like I don't know, Gabriel tune, Yeah,
you know what I mean, love love that. I don't know if they'll
do Dave Matthews with the Dave Matthews closer. Probably not, but I mean
that's how wide their range is. That's amazing, pretty cool, very good.
All right, steal a rail Revival. Check it out this Sunday.
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podcast. Hollywood actors are officially headed to the picket line, joining the writers.
I think this is the first time since nineteen sixty that both the Hollywood
Writers Association and the Screen Actors Guild and after the American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists are going to be on strike together, essentially over They've done all
this during COVID just to get it over with. Well, no, because
I think a lot of this has to do with the emergence of AI and
so it wasn't as prolific then as it is now, but with more on.
That is Alex who was on the show not just a couple of weeks
ago, and it's going to be producing a show that we'll have out in
September, call Games. And she has worked in television and stuff and was
affected by the writer's strike. And I'm talking to her today and I go,
do you think there's anybody that could talk about this actor's strike and what's
going on? And she's like, well, you know, it's all being
sorted out at the moment. I don't think they officially strike till midnight.
And she said, and I go, what about you? Can you talk
about it? And she said, yeah, I'm actually watching the press conference
now. Wasn't that the case? Alex? Yeah, The UM Union had
a press conference today at three o'clock where they were going to announce whether or
not they voted on the decision strike and they did so. Um effective right
away. You know they are striking, they are paying the picket lines.
Um And it's crazy. It's crazy first time in the nineteen sixty but in
listening to all the talks and going through what I've been going through the last
couple of months, like it does make sense. We are tired as writers,
producers, actors of hearing corporations, studios, big network say we have
record profits, record profits, and then when you want pay commensaris with our
experience, they're like, well, yeah, thank you, I've heard that
before. And await a second. They're following the radio modeling. We're broke,
but you're getting And I think the big problem is like this is based
on the old model of doing business, and we are not doing business that
way anymore. We're not appeasing to the advertisers. We're in the streaming world.
We're not adapting to streaming and we have to because yeah, like you
said, AI is hunting. It's coming for our jobs. They're already scanning
actors into systems. So thirty forty fifty years from now, you can watch
a mission impossible two hundred and seventy Tom Cruise in the lead role. Oh
my god, you know what I mean. They're already putting out all kinds
of like reimagined Lord of the Rings, all AI reimagined this AI. It's
crazy. If you've ever played around chat GPT, go ask it to write
you a television treatment. It's not half that. No. Yeah, I've
messed around with chat GPT and I've seen it. And I had somebody in
the studio yesterday that for just a meeting. And this is somebody who does
a lot with AI, is training AI themselves for more for medical purposes.
They're a doctor. But they were telling me that there's so many AI apps
and AI I don't even know what they are. I'll call them apps that
can talk to each other. So you could have somebody or have an AI
take what we're talking about now, put it into a transcript, then send
that transcript to another AI that would then chop it up into tweets that you
could send out of the transcript. So right there, you've taken away so
many jobs. Now does that make You've taken away the job of a transcriber.
They've ben't have to do that job anymore. As you could just put
it into this, you know, right, the transcriber and even some social
media people. But I and in some ways I go, Okay, So
how do we embrace this and make it and make it work. I see
this AI in the medical field as supplemental. I don't see it as replacement.
I see it as possibly more accurate. The other problem is AI is
only as good as the people that are training in, right, and so
it's only as good as as the information we give it to begin with.
So there's a lot of data that we may not even have yet that AI
could have gotten to even deeper on. And lets do you understand, I'm
saying like we're starting out with infantile information. We need more information in the
medical field on certain certain diseases, certain things. Like they're almost saying like
AI could possibly, if we could crack some of this stuff, make you
go forever, he help you go forever potentially potentially. But when it comes
to learning, and it learns and it communicates with other AI systems, and
you know, it's the only thing it lacks is like emotion, but you
can even piss it off, so it really even has that. So really
the show and once in a while, has Artificial Intelligence AI or Billy what
are the so I mean does this have to do a little bit with AI
or a lot with AI? It has a lot to do with AI,
and it has more to do with the streaming business model. And like the
problem is is like you know, record profits, and we're no longer catering
to the advertisers. We're catering to the subscribers. And what you know what
these streamers to figure it out, Like Disney, if they keep the Little
Mermaid on their Disney Plus, they will get people to subscribe just to watch
the Little Mermaid in Disney classic movies. They don't need to put out all
kinds of new content all the time new content, and they can do it
much cheaper, especially with AI. You get some AI writers, like you
can put out you can put out so much garbage because there already is so
much garbage on these streaming networks anyway. So it's like, really, we
have to figure out how to adapt to the streaming model and how do we
build a business around this new wave so that the money that the spoils get
divided equally as they should so yesterday kind of part of all this or was
it just conveniently placed as of yesterday, I think it was sort of conveniently
placed. And I think a lot of like the studios are panicking and they're
trying to get people out and things out and stuff done because they knew this
was coming. And if if you if you go back and listen to the
press conference, and you listen to Fran Dresher, who's the president of the
Sagastra union, she says, you know, you should have heard them as
a bargaining table, they said about the right. I could see her n
She's actually really smart and pretty cool when I've heard her in interviews and things,
But it would be funny to hear from gayhead. Yeah, but the
studios are basically saying, like in terms of the writers, in terms of
people like me, uh, they will just let us starve and lose our
homes and apartments until we come back to the tables being more reasonable, when
the truth of the matter is they've lost so much money in the strike they
could have easily paid us what we were asking for ten times over by now.
Yeah. So, well, that that's interesting that wants her money.
I think that's something that well, anybody wants anymore. She wants to work,
Um, she wants her cash. Oh blaber uh okay, So what
are the chances that this gets sorted out? So, I mean we the
sagasor union gave the AMPTP an additional four weeks of bargaining. So we were
supposed to like they were supposed to make this decision a month ago, and
they gave them an additional four weeks. And basically the AMPTP just wasted everybody's
time. They didn't they did not, weren't willing to negotiate, they didn't
come to the table. So I don't know, like this actor's union is
saying, like we're here, we're ready to talk. We don't want to
put these people out of work because I'm out of work, and the pas
are out of work, and the director is out of work. It's not
just the actor, right, And this affects entertainment on a global scale.
Any productions going on in Hong Kong with American actors, London, wherever,
they're being shut down. Okay, so right now, if you're any promotions,
they can't do any anything, right, So now every show is going
to turn into the DUCSA has or when they had the cousins of the cousins.
Yeah, well no remember actually because those guys want to track. But
these are all actors. If you will volunteer, yeah, I'll scat for
a movie, no offense, Alex, but I gotta get paid. If
you are a member of the Screen Actors Guild, say which you'd have to
be, you can't. You can't work, right, So that means no
more work, No nobody can. There will be a list of like demands
that will go out from the Union that basically tells everybody, every actress,
an actor, every agent, every PR person, like, here are the
rules under this journey. Here's what these actors and people in the union can
and cannot do, Like any promotion for any movie that has come out that
as an already left. They can't go out and do red carpets, they
can't you videos for wires, they can't. They can't do any they can't
do talk shows. They can do a lot of signings that it's not connected
to many kind of projects. They can't do any awar shows. They basically
are quarantines like COVID. So what happens what happens with the new TV season?
We're seeing that Fox has a lot of reality shows, but some of
those reality shows are manipulated and scripted, and they have pas and different people
I've set and so a lot of them have union crews that work for them.
So you're going to see a lot of things getting shut down, and
you're not going to see a lot of new shows until this turns over.
So you'll get reruns and you'll get to I don't think so far. Parn's
always good. No, But so how much would you say in terms of
all this stuff, do things like TikTok and sort of the everyman's view of
the world, the silly dances, the whatever that we're doing where we're just
picking up a camera and somebody's rambling into and we laugh at them. How
much is that playing into all this as well? Well, that's going to
grow exponentially because right now, casting agents and talent people are immediately going to
TikTok and trying to find these independent content creators because they already have the brand
deals, they already have the followers, they have the audience, so there's
very little the needs to be done in terms of making money out these people.
That's immediately where they will go, and YouTube just change their whole creator
models to allow independent creators like you or me or ever to make more money
to basically opening up the coffers because they know they saw this coming. Why
should we pay an entire production company to do this project that these influencers are
doing with their iPhones? They won't, they know it. So it's like,
you know, we have to adapt in that or or are all out
of work. Wow, So where's the common ground? Then that's a really
good question. I mean, unfortunately, I'm not, like I've only been
in bargaining for my particular unfair labor practice, so I only know like the
terms of my particular contract that's going. But even that, like they're they're
trying to screw us around so much like, oh, well, we'll give
you more severance, but you have to drop the lawsuit. We're like no,
so you can just go back to treating people this way. No.
Now, this initially everybody's going to kind of oh when I say this,
But I am serious because it doesn't have to be of a pornographic nature.
But how many actors do you think would turn to only fans? I think
you're going to see a lot more of them. I mean, look at
what happens during the pandemic. So many people hit the only fans like crazy,
They're like, yes, this is my well and I just no,
it's it's not It's that Gordon Ramdy, you teach you how to cook eggs.
This is how Yeah. A lot of things right right, Yes,
there are, but the ones that get attention are the Hey, I was
a teacher making thirty five thousand dollars a year and went on their feet and
I you look at my feet and I tork or I catch golf balls in
my ass and yeah, and I'm making a million dollars. You know what
I'm saying. I mean, but that but that's the thing, and I
don't think it has to be that way. You know, I saw Ethan
Hawk. I didn't realize how intelligent that guy is, Like, yeah,
I was blown away by something I saw on Instagram, and I go,
yeah, I could see people, you know what a lecture from Ethan Hawk
or a question answer where you get to type in questions and answers. I
mean, how many people would pay let's say, twenty five dollars for what
would almost seem like a one on one with a Matthew McConaughey or I'm just
trying to think of somebody who would be like an a list actor that a
lot of people would want to talk to, that you'd want to ask questions
and he'd answer for forty five minutes and maybe your question gets ready and maybe
not. But it's twenty five dollars to get in there and have the chance
of that. I think a lot of people would or even charge ten bucks.
And you know, what's that thing you had that cameo? You know
there are sort of doing that a cameo. You can get a cameo message
and you can get you know, marking to you know, tell your girlfriend
she's pretty. Like, so they're already kind of is that we played Mark
McGrath dumping, dumping a boy, dumpling a guy. That's hilarious. I
would pay it back. Wow. So what do you do in the meantime,
Alex me? I am serving drinks at my local neighborhood bar because uh,
you know, you gotta go to work. I gotta pay the rent.
Yeah, and I and I'm just really waiting it out and waiting to
see, you know, what we can do. And I'm on the picket
lines when I'm not working, and that's you know, where do you pick
it? So it depends. The writer's sales will send out an email or
a group tax and just kind of let everybody know where they're going to be
for the day, and they kind of choose, like based on the studio.
So they'll go to Netflix headquarters and pick it. Outside of there,
They'll go to dirty Rockefeller Center and they'll pick it outside of there. They'll
go to like I'll te Building or CBS CBS, and like, you know,
it just kind of depends on where they feel like they want to make
some Conde Nast building world trade. They go there and like, yeah,
so wherever they feel like they can make noise and be annoying and disruptive and
like have fun getting your sweet green salad while we're out here. I have
I have audio of Alex on the picket line. O writers make your favorite
chows? Hey, Hey, is that a Is that a constant chant that
they do over there? Yeah? It is? Isn't that? It's true?
I mean, yeah, they can't write anything new? Great, right,
Yeah, it's true. They can't. They can't write a new chant.
You're get in trouble. Uh yeah, yeah, so well, I
I don't like hearing this, but yet at the same time, it does
kind of go well, the independent model too, may be screwing some things
up for them. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, it's a
little bit of everything. I think this good thing is is like unfortunately,
like this not only affects the entertainment industry, this industry kind of worldwide like
hospitality and everything else. And I think, you know, people workers of
the world unite type of thing, and I think, you know, you
can only get change when you make enough noise. So I think this,
I think the actors going on strike was the catalyst needed to actually get everybody
back to the bargaining table in a reasonable way. But if this is terrifying
because we're all out of work right now and there's no it's like COVID times
where you just don't know what's going on and there aren't any answers. There's
a lot of people saying yeah, yeah, yeah, But you don't really
know who could settle first, the actors, the writers. Oh god,
I hope it's the writer because I think once they get it back, they'll
get the actors back, you know what I mean. But I think so
I think it's the actors will be the ones that will get everybody back,
because because they've shut things down globally and the writers just didn't. They didn't
have that impact, you know, and that's the impact we needed. We
needed to see all these people like, fuck, you're all out of work
now. I remember. I don't know if that helped. I heard the
last time the writers went on strike and when it finally wrapped up, they
went back to work immediately, Like John Stewart was writing his own daily shows
and then the commercial he he's holding up a script in front of his nose.
He was have a script. Yeah, like I don't have to do
this show by myself anymore. And they like they went back to work that
day, so it would be immediate and that would be better obviously the actors.
And you'll notice, like if you watch shows from like two thousand and
seven, there's some real, real bad seasons of things, like Lost was
like a terrible season just because like they just would high like any interns that
they wanted. Yeah, it was fan fixture. It gave me an opportunity
though, to step up, if that was the thing. Um, And
what it did last time was it opened the door for reality TV. So
all of a sudden, like we were out here working, working, working,
making all kinds of shows, but now they are doing that. They're
not screen lighting new shows, they're not making scripted and they're not making reality
but they're holding onto the money. That's the next show scabbed. This is
um. They're going to strike tonight at midnight, right? Is that when
it officially begins for the actors. Yeah, that's when it officially begins.
They can get all like the notifications of city and like they have to send
out documentation basically outlying like here are the dudes and don't during the strikes,
just like they did with the writers. Yeah, it's a little it's a
scary, unsettling time for sure, But because there's no end in sight,
right and it's very soon for the actors, they haven't officially started to strike
as we're taping this now when you're hearing it, they'll have been on strike
for probably a couple of hours. Most of the listeners will be there about
ten after their coffee, so we don't really know how long it will be.
But I mean, is there any rumblings like, hey, we think
if if we pull this move. And I saw Jenna Kirkman, who's a
comedian, had put something up last night's Sewing the showing the letter that fran
Drescher had sent out to everybody and after contacts saying that, you know,
but it almost felt like if we did this, it could happen pretty quickly.
Yeah, well that's what they're hoping. They're hoping that by officially announcing
and getting the backing of like the director's guilds and the camera guild and all
that, by getting the you know, support for the strike and actually announcing
we are officially on strike, that maybe that'll be the thing that gets these
people back to the barteining table, because they sat in the press conference like,
we will talk to you tonight, We will go to the table tonight
if you're going to be reasonable. But when you say things like you'll just
let your the writers starve, you'll just let them wait it out till October
so they're homeless, Like, look, that is absolutely in humane. Yeah,
that's pretty shitty. Having watched a few lockouts in the sports, one
ends up happening is more often than not, the workers eventually just come back
and go, okay, we give because the billionaires can just wait this out.
Yeah, well it's the sad part. Well maybe not maybe hopefully not.
Maybe this time is you know, as she's saying, the workers unite
on all levels from hospitality on. Yeah, and there's a lot of I
don't know if you know about like you know, just kind of nationwide what's
going on. Labor unions all constination are going there. People are stepping up,
they're organizing. Starbucks is organizing, Amazon is organizing. They don't want
to be treated. I totally get it. I didn't really understand the whole
union thing until I got in the union, and I thought it was just
like, oh, you get to stay here in the union. But there's
so much like all we want is just to be paid fairly and treated fairly
and get health insurance and pensions and all these things that aren't typical in our
line of work because what we do is important, you know what I mean.
It's entertainment, but it's important. Not when I got ai, all
right, alex, Uh, we want more beer. There's always want more
beer. There's always only fans, that's true. I was just thinking about
it today. I'm about head to the photo studio when I leave work and
get some fe picks going. I've left a month. I hear knees are
the new the knees are the new feet. Oh yeah, I get some
exfoliation. It'll be good to go. Like you know what, my handle
it just right, Alex. I appreciate a great insight to all that.
And I'm sorry this is all happening. Yeah that's okay, um me too.
But hopefully, you know, all things will turn around and I have
to help. But I'm looking forward to game Night too. I from when
I've listened to, I've enjoyed it, and I think it's gonna be great.
You've done, You've done, You've done a nice shot with It's another
podcast, it'll be coming in September. On the UH on the Bill MRIM
Production to Network. I know it sounds silly to say, I think I
have to call it network. I'm thinking I gotta call you. I think
I think I gotta call it b BP Network Bill Productions or BMP to network
or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, all right, Alex,
thank you, You're welcome by there goes. Wow. Man, that's
some Yeah, that's it's a lot going on there. Well, we'll see
I know some celebrities to some people who depend on writers are laying very low.
They don't even want to be seen out doing anything fun. But I
feel like I wonder who's who's next if the if the actors can't get this
done, who's striking next to get this taken care of? It's only that
photographer. But look at all these people are out anyway. I don't have
anything to shoot. I don't have any writers, and I don't have any
actors, So I'm out Jamison on the street, bro, we can hire
them. I understand that, but but do you see what I'm saying,
like anything that's going to require a union of the hospitality. There's food tables
at these places. I'm sure the amount of food that gets wasted there could
feed a small nation, you know, on just a couple of Hollywood sets.
But all those people are out of work. I feel bad for all
the bars that they're gonna lose their their employees when the strike is over.
Yeah, well we'll go back to work. Sorry, I can't make it
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round and freeze again, you know. How Like we were talking about YouTube,
yeah, and how people just make content that's all aggregation. They steal
it from Wikipedia, make a video. I got sucked into a seventeen minute
mini doc about how George Harrison and Eric Clapton, how like Eric Clapton was
in love with George Harrison's wife and she wanted to leave for Eric Clapton.
I watched the whole thing that's true. Yeah, I know it's true.
Yeah, it's just like the first see the Wikipedia. That's true. No,
but this is a documentary. Somebody just put together a video. Oh
yeah, and subscribed to by page. If you like Corey's World, subscribe
to Corey's World. I like, um, George Harrison was my favorite.
Vital does he Yeah? The Stories that was Paul but Joe. I could
see George. I see thee the Quiet Beatle. Yeah, he was gonna
leave, he was gonna quit and wasn't. Yeah. And that documentary that
um, I think it was on Disney Disney, Yeah, that they had
they had to go tak him coming back to the studio. I watched like
forty five minutes of I'm like, okay, we're we going where we go?
Very slow, very slowly? The Beatles? Who is I'm not a
huge fan of the Beatles. I'm not a Beatles fan either. I could
I said that. People used to make fun of me. I used to
say things like the the Beatles can can you just turn that camera? I
don't know what happened there. Um I was, yeah, let's see hang
out a second. Keep going, keep going, keep turning, keep coming
in this way. There we go right there, that's it, thank you.
Um. I used to say that the Beatles. Beatles wrote some of
the most beautiful melodies and that sometimes there's songs sounded better sung by other people,
and fucking people went nuts on me. Nuts. Well, I mean,
if you're gone, wow, if you liked the thing, I'm not
wrong. But like, it's all a matter of opinion. And the Beatles
did. They were iconic. They changed music, they did. But if
you were gonna put together an all star band of all the bands that you've
ever seen, yeah, I picked five guys, mean, two guitar players,
a drummer of bassis the vocalist, you would not pick a single Beetle.
You don't think so? No, I think he might not pick Paul
No, no, no, John to even be a writer a little bit.
I don't know, George. Did you take bray Manswick? You don't
even need a bassist. There was a press dinner to boost Robert F.
Kennedy Junior's presidential campaign. Now he is, I believe, going to be
on the democratic side of things, but he is an anti vaxer, so
he's getting a lot of support from people. He's been very, very vehemently
out speaking about the dangers of this vaccine and how it wasn't properly researched.
Yeah, well, and it was his father. It was his uncle who
held the office and his father who was on his way. People thought for
sure. So this is at a I would like to just read the article
as it came from paid six because the New York Post, Yeah, it
almost comes like an onion article. It almost nearly post like, doesn't lean
right? They are, no, but this sounds like an onion article when
I read it, all right, and I mean that from the comical,
satirical bullshit. But then I went Vanity Fair, has this article not by
written by their people? And the New Yorker had it like it's this This
legitimately happened. A press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Junior's presidential campaign
descended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting. Tuesday night. The
White House hopeful attended the affair at Tony's on the Upper East Side, no
doubt, hoping to impress them, the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth of
State, his worthiness to sit in the very same oval office desk once occupied
by his late uncle. But a shouting match over climate change broke out between
two boisterous old men, sending the even evening down an extremely unfortunate path.
Began. It began after a guest asked Kennedy, founder of the ecological organization
Waterkeeper Alliance, about the environment, and it seems that the mere inquiry was
enough to set off apparently drunk gossip columnists turned flack Doug Deckert. I don't
know, I don't know what that's about. But the host of the event,
so he's hosting the event. This guy who became in raids that the
question and screamed at the top of his lungs the climate hoax. Meanwhile,
octogenarian so an eighty year old art critic Anthony Hayden guest, who appeared to
have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was aroused, was roused
by the abrupt rumpus. He suddenly he suddenly opened his eyes and denounced his
longtime pal Deckert, the guy who's hosting, calling him quote a miserable blob.
Hayden guest tells us he was not asleep quote. I was just thinking,
he told us, and says he's the one who asked the question about
the environment. Decker continued to scream wildly about climate change scam, while Hayden
guest peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling him variously fucking,
insane and insignificant. Can you imagine being in at some like Hi,
these are usual thousand dollars a play. I'm thinking, I don't know,
maybe fine, dum, dumber or they killed the two owls. It's those
types of events. Yes, but you gotta see like the octagen the older
guy. He looks like he's just well to do old. Yeah, but
at a top hat and had a little No, he had hipper dressed than
that, but he was very well dressed, like doctor Bowers. Yeah.
Maybe here it seems, Deckert sends the need for a new rhetorical tact and
let rip a loud, prolonged part while yelling as if to underscore his point,
I'm farting. I gotta go hang on a second. Who knows if
he really was? We really want to fan Guto. Where is the audio
for this? Where is the audio right? Where is the video? Somebody
who's actually there too, reported Bush. Everybody's got a phone nowadays, there's
video of this. The room, which included a handful of journalists as well
as Kennedy's campaign manager, former Republican Dennis Cassinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure
about whether Deckhart was farting at Hayden. Guests personally, who are at the
very notion of global warming? Man, I haven't even heard the name Dennis
Cassinich in a long time. Yeah, I guess he's the campaign now.
That's what happens. That's where to go back on your way down. Regrettably,
we may assure readers that there was no room for doubt that the climate
changed in the immediate environment of the dining of the dinner table. It's like
when the pope they announced a new pope comes up. We have a winner.
It's white's brown. If they don't have a winner. Former Paid six
reporter Floe Anthony attempted to change the subject, telling Kennedy how much he admired
his father, the tragic Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Sadly, and
someone inexplicably another guest brought things back to climate change. Yeah, because why
wouldn't you? That's more entertaining if I can see these two old fox go
at it and somebody's screaming I'm farting, which is going to change the climate.
That's hysterical. I mean that is the funniest. Usually, like,
where would you expect to see people yelling at each other over a dinner table?
Do you expect to see it at Christmas? Thanks? No? No,
no, Let's say a restaurant, Like, like a restaurant, would
you expect to see it? Let's say at um. I don't know tastings,
well, it's not tasting some no, but I'm saying like next door,
which is the Wegmans, right, this would be kind of a fancier
place, a nicer place. You can have your own wine locker at next
door. If you are a wine kind of store, you can store your
own wine and they'll serve it to you there. And so that's the kind
of place again, mister or mister solo buddy, you know my warm bunny,
you know it. That shit didn't happen, that's like, yes,
that's right. Two dollars the last the two for twenty meals two for twenty
after dollar margarita week plus an app Yeah. So uh. When I asked
to comment about okay, so sadly and someone didn't explicit inexplicably another guest brings
it back. We're told Deckhart and Hayden guest have known each other for three
decades. When asked to comment about his outburst the next day, Decker told
us, I apologize for using my flat lens as a medium of public commentary.
In your place, man, the guy farted saying climate change is the
hoax and basically screamed on farting I'm changing the climate in here. I mean
this is this is like, this is the home. He also asked us
to refer to him as him either as and this is what the gallivanting bulverdere
or the beer fueled sex rocket. Now they had pictures of this guy a
lot of big words in the circle. Yeah yeah, botha deer. But
the beer fuel sex Rocket, who picked up the tab for the evening as
its host, was unapologetic about his views, telling us that he has zero
tolerance for the climb and hoax scam nonsense in any venue that I am personally
funding. So he was he was paying for the dinner. It sounds like
he also told uh, so, I'd like to get something off my chest.
Yeah, I mean the other guy, the other the art critic.
The octogenarian has written for Rolling Stone, Venery Fair and Penn books like Studio
fifty four disco on the culture of the night. He tells us I've now,
I've known Doug for many years. We've had spats before about this and
that we are not quite saying politically, but that doesn't affect our relationships.
But I thought this was a pretty ridiculous from the old men. It's it's
fine. I mean, where is the video? Where against the video?
This is what we need in politics. Look, I've been I don't think
you can. I don't think you know what. I wouldn't be surprised if
they no. But if they put a thing out going, we don't want
this out in any anywhere at all. Maybe it's like maybe it's like the
comedy shows in the big arenas, like the Kevin Hart where they lock your
phone up. It very well could be. But at the same time I'm
not it could be, But I would also think that, you know,
if I'm part of his political campaign, I don't want this associated with him
because it will get a viral. I mean, if we have old men
screaming, I'm farting into climate oaks. I mean, come on, it
just makes everybody look back. It is interesting because we've had Kevin Williams on
a few times and I and I, you know, we've seen things change
in our climate. It feels like to me that the heavy, heavy,
heavy rain that's led to flooding seems like it's a newer thing. But when
you talk to Kevin, he goes, well, we have data that we
go back and see, and so I never know if this is just kind
of how the earth is. And yes, with the bigger population, we
are going to be a little bit warmer. And you know, I don't
know where to feel. Like last sure with the Winner, there was just
no there was no we had like what one's nothing. I couldn't and it
was in April and I didn't need to run my snowboard, but somebody just
wanted to. Somebody tweeted at Kevin today about something similar to that, okay,
and he and they said, hey, Kevin, are we they're just
asking the question. Were entering a heat age, you know? And he
showed they showed a picture and he goes, yeah, but I'm gonna give
you the hear the whole picture here, and it shows going back into the
thousand years where we were at an ice age. Any heat, that ice
then heat. That's what is this a cyclical thing? And I don't know,
and I certainly wouldn't want to look at like somebody who's going, fuck
you guys, the planet will take care of itself. I don't know.
As Kevin Williams has said many many times, be a good steward of the
planet. Yeah, be the steward. Let's go. Here's your test.
You ready, how many billionaires still own oceanfront property and are buying up oceanfront
property because if you're scared of the climate change, you ain't gonna be doing
that. Yeah, oh they are. Ye Oh. Who doesn't want a
nice fifty degree winner whatever Buffalo could have whatever? Yeah, we had that
nice. I don't think we got cold. That's a good point. It
hasn't been about ninety miles in the other direction, the western direction. It's
about no, no, no, no, no, no, it's it's
about it's about seventy here's why. Because North Buffalo it's whether like we do
South Buffalo, like blot all the way in Chattaqua County. That was annihilated.
That was a hoax too, because I was there two days after the
Thanksgiving one and they wasn't a drop of snow on the ground. It didn't
melt that quick. They my brother lived through it. They got crush lying
there home. My family's like lying about. Yes they are. Here's a
quick follow up. We had talked to about the swans. Brella liars,
the Burrillos were ones. They claimed that they killed the swan in Silver Creek
and they ate it. We don't believe it. Can the swans be swapped
out for the hawks in Manlius. I don't know. I don't think so.
Well, they're pretty mean, they aren't pretty mean. He's almost killed
every buddy balls. Yes, it's right. They chased Paul, so that's
right. That would be Berkeley bringing from the news ten NBC. Well,
we had told you about these swans and Manlius, where some I guess they
were young people. They claim they killed and then ate one of the swans,
and they have a whole swan park. It's a whole pond dedicated to
these swans and the families, and it's in Manlius. I think, I
said, Manilas and everybody laughed at me. But it's Manlius? Or am
I saying wrong? Is it Manilas and this man Camillus? But there's also
a Manlius. Well you probably you probably merged the two. It's Manlius,
Is it Manlius? Yeah? You sure doesn't matter? Pretty sure? Yeah?
All right? Well so they so so. Now the mother's dead and
some biologists has been raising the what do they call him? Sigots? Is
that the name of baby baby Swans? I think it is psyops? No,
I don't know what it is ms sygot I think so. Anyway,
here's the story they went back. But oh there's more. After the four
baby Swans and manly Us have finally returned back to the village pond, reuniting
with father Manny since mother Faye was killed. During Memorial Day weekend News Channel
Lines Ashley Kafaro was there for They're welcome home the Second's Day, Jeff.
The four baby Swans are back home where they belonged. They were dropped off
read this afternoon, and so far they are doing well. Now. The
biologist that has been caring for the four babies said they are happy and comfortable
to be back in the pond and really should have been brought home a month
ago. The Manlius community is also thrilled to welcome the baby swans back,
but are still heartbroken over mother Faye excitement but said still though Mama, i'man
sir, they're just so our life so lyon they belonged. Mainly. As
for father Manny, he's been ignoring the four babies, which is actually a
good sign according to the bio. Shows any type of aggressive behavior, the
biologists will have to take him back to his home in Skinny Outlas and me
only us. Ashley Kafaro News Channel Night rights, no vegetation rights or anything.
Listen to this a tough turn of events. On Wednesday night, after
what seemed like a successful reunion between the four baby swans and their father just
a few hours earlier, it started to take a turn. Reverse beds.
Just yeah, just by looking at them, you can see they're extremely happy.
Said this, said Michael, being the biologist, but that happiness would
turn into a sad evening instead, being had to guide village workers to try
to catch Manny, who went after his four babies just hours after being reunited
with them for the first time in weeks. Now I'm saying, you're you're
cramping my style. I'm a Dayton. According to this, I got chicks
coming over. He's literally more the loss of the female, but he's treating
this as it's still his territory. The young ones he doesn't recognize because they've
been gone for a few weeks. Short term memory, Yeah, because trust
the scienced guys. You know, it's some weeks and obviously they're much bigger.
So it's a choice for him or the young ones. So he thinks
they're gonna try to off him. Hard choice, That's what I think.
So this one, this woman with this woman named Sherry den den Blecker,
I've never seen den Blecker d e n b l e y k e R
a resident of Kirkville. She said quote and I'm wondering how she sounds.
I lost Faye and I lost Manny. She didn't feel that bad when her
own parents died. Right. It's sad. I was able to hug him.
I hugged him and kissed him, said Jennifer Benneck, resident of Manlius.
Manny's attacking the four babies left them traumatized. According to Bean, it's
gonna need As of Wednesday evening, the babies did not go back to you
to the pistol whipping him at the begins, and he found h They found
a hiding spot underneath the bush. Bean says the babies will probably not go
back in the water until Thursday morning. Fortunately they were not injured. That
would be this morning. Manny will now be taken to Skinny Atlas, where
Bean will take care of him until Manny moves to his new home in Pennsylvania,
the Aburn. He's been sent to a halfway house a day at the
Manliest Pond until they at the end of the year. But I just thought
it was a funny follow up to that thing. That's uh, that's outrageous.
I hear I need to hear that lady again. Wow. I love
him and I can you get that invested in something that you know what I'm
saying. She must she must be no, But we get my kids the
things. People get more invested sometimes in animals than they do humans where they
belong. They were off at three this afternoon walk and so far they are
doing well. Now. The biologist that has been caring for the four Beach,
she really annunciates everything biologists to deep back in the pond and really should
have been brought home a month ago. The Manlius community is also thrilled to
welcome the baby Swan's back, but are still hard working. Her mother fay
excitement, but said still though, Mama, I mean, sir, we
used to hang out smoke cigarettes together. We do a little stitching, bitch.
I bought we were both gonna win the fuck well, I mean so
yeah, check from that video. Ear, I remember a guy coming in
talking more of this dog Diablo who got the people who go, yeah,
yeah, guy, I'm not gonna say. His name is jail now,
was it Limo, No, Teddy Laura? Yeah? And like seeing jail
now yeah for like stocking or harassment or something. I don't know. We
gotta look it up in anyway. Um yeah. And he he was like,
I know, it's like to lose a pet. He goes, he
goes, it's like losing a good child. And Tommy goes, oh no,
no no no no, no, no no no no. A dog
eats on the floor, craps outside, and when he dies, you go
and get another one. That's not like losing a good child. That's why
I don't understand the attachment to I understand why you got attached to an animal.
I think the grieving point has gotta be like more than like or like
less than three weeks. Okay enough, I think some people you miss here.
I'm sure people missed their dog, and I would never want to belittle
that. But I've always had a problem Like you got a kid lost versus
your pet loss. I think it would be Wait, it's so much more
devastating. I couldn't even really well. We had we worked with the guy
Tom Georgia passed away. He loses his dog. He was like the straw
for like a day and a half. He buys a new dog, so
we never heard about the old dog again. He was like thrilled. Yeah,
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Whoa the electors bearing my phone? Me when not at home? Ain't
got good time to fooling around? Fee the floor the galtime man, I
want pie in the sky? Alloway the song bomber a while it's to be
one. He would be singing, Yeah, that's right, five five two
or six eighty eight sixty sixteen. Sorry for And we call him Simon de
Grum. We had Simon On. He discovered the missing or the stolen key,
I should say, behind a little mom and pop grocer in Charlotte.
And now Simon had a lot of issue, Simon, how are you?
I'm doing all right for an old day. So what happened? Simon?
You bought a scratch off ticket. I went out to my local little store
that I found my Kia had. By the way, it's your lucky store,
buddy, that's my lucky star. I just stopped in to pick up
a lot of the ticket. I get one of those foot dollars scratch offs
every day, hoping that I hit that you know, big pay day,
which never breathing happens, of course. But I bought the ticket, walked
out of the store, popped in my truck, scratched off this ticket and
it was a five dollar loose change, which means there's like five lines on
this ticket. It Kevin Noh's okay, I don't know five dollar loose change
for Chris Us Okay, all right, okay, So Dan's familiar with the
five hour loose chamee. Well, Kevin is another guy on the podcast.
I don't gamble much. Jesus don't like it. So Danny said, no,
Danny, gamble of the collection plate. That's it. Yeah, So
I scratch your stick it off and it's a two time winner sight scratch off
the amount. You know, I won five bucks, sanks too, stunt
bucks. Okay, get out of my truck, going the store, go
to cash the ticket from the same person I bought it from, and she
goes, I'm sorry it was cashed in. I said, you're right.
I figured they were bumps on my ball. Yeah. Read it again and
it says she goes, I'm sorry, but it's already been paid out.
So of course I'm trying not to get upset the store here and I'm going,
please explain to me how I could just buye this ticket from you.
So sit in my truck, scratch it off, come back in and face
cash. Not how that happened. The only thing I can think, Simon,
is a cashier scan the back of these, claimed the winner and took
the money. I'm thinking, key of boys, payack, key boys got
you. That's the only thing, because you bought it scratched it off.
So what did they say to you, Well, they said they've never seen
anything like this happened before. Okay, because the authorization number that came up
on the ticket that said it was paid was a different authorization number than the
store has. Yeah, it shouldn't tell you where the store and what where
it was where it was paid out. Yeah, it doesn't tell you where
it's paid out, you know, by name, it's a it's numerical,
but by the authorization number, and you can look that up and find out
what the store is. Yeah, ezac backtly. So what they did was
they on earth a ticket. You know, they gave me a ten bucks
and you know, of course they apologize. I said, you know,
for shifting giggles. Let me buy the next ticket on that step. The
ticket I bought was number fifty one, the one that won, and said
that I already catched it in. I bought number fifty two because nobody had
bought one in the thirty seconds it took me to scratch off that freaking ticket.
They ran that one and it came out. Of course it was a
loser, but they ran it anyways. It came up with the right authorization
code and it was a loser. That's weird. So that's why I take
our governor canty, whok, I ain't get my ten dollars, a bitch.
I did not vote for you for this to happen. It wasn't it
wasn't. It wasn't even about that you know, shit happens to the grump
and then he exposes it. That's what I've been doing stuff. He's the
IT team. What's that shit? It happened to let it happened to some
others? Ten BC has a brand new report streets. Well, no,
we have a new reporter on the streets. I could see him paired up
with Berkeley, though, I'd rather have Simon. You know what, No,
no, fuck these Why what? Why what did you do? Why
does Berkeley not like you? Because I was about to say something, why
does he not like you? I like Berkeley? Oh he's blocking me a
long time ago, Billy, Well, because you probably did something stupid online
to him. I would not do something like that. I may have pisted
in its coffee, but there's no no way I would have done something stupid.
Well, all right, all right, let me let me rephrase that.
Then, let me rephrase that, because that wasn't nice for me to
say stupid. Because you don't do stupid things. You do passionate things from
a from a a well meaning perspective. Yes I do, No, I
do. I really think that at least that's where your point of view is
coming from. Your you you mean, well, you just sometimes have grump
ways about you. But I think it's not about says Billy. It's about
supposing what I saw. Yeah, I didn't off my shoulders. You need
you need to buy more tickets and see if you hit another one and see
if it's that same store, because then you can know it's that store.
Well, it's a it's a weird thing that, um, this happened.
But but there were other people this has happened to. You got to scan
the whole I used to work in my buddy's dad's convenience store. But okay,
okay, And then you get a little the pack would come shrink wrapped
and there would be a little card in there and you would scan that quote
unquote activate all the right now that he's are being able to be sold okay,
and then once it's activated, everything's free reign. So somehow seems like
maybe there's a mistake in the card that comes in the pack, or somebody
playing games re shrink wrapped it and somehow scammed the system. Yeah, I
don't think it's a little No, it's not the governor. But what I
think he's saying is like, bring it to the attention because the lotto I
believe funds the schools, right, yeah, right, And that's what you
want to believe. Well, I thought some of the money went actually,
I thought some of the money went to school Simon, Simon, Simon,
I think some of that money went to schools, the computers some of it
once and I don't I don't know, I really did. I totally believe
that paper at the region's exams. But either way it is it is residents
being scammed. I mean, I think that Simon is smart enough to realize
that probably Kathy Hokels I could do anything. But if somebody should, would
you call the Attorney General's office. I blame Rhode Island. I feel like
they're trying to attack did you, Uh yeah, I know, I'll hear
you. But but other people on your thread, Danny said, had had
responded saying that this has happened to them. Yes, and it happened.
It's more than a coincidence. Somebody enough, it's been up that they use
a lottery to take away people's social security money, because that's all it's really
for, just tinkeet their money back. So so you think the lotto is
put in place to try to get people who have who don't have a lot
of money a little entertainment and get the money that they're given whatever government funding.
And it doesn't have to be just social security. But you go ahead.
I'm not gonna swear. I'm not you're allowed to swear. It's a
podcast. Say whatever you want. It's I'm gonna take it by for Saturday
Freight sent five where the big lotto that's coming on. I want to talk
about that one because I bought twenty bucks. I lost one of those fucking
tickets somewhere some clefts probably pick the fucking thing up one fifty sixty bucks and
I got sucked again. Governor Hope will fall, I've missed thet They got
to stop this ship. Yeah, but you think that's where the lotta was
designed. It was a way to get back government money. Oh, there's
no doubt in my mind. Though everybody on such security buys a lot of
the things. Well, I mean, okay, okay, but people of
all walks of life buy a lotto tickets. I will tell you that I
do think that a lot of times the people that are most into the gambling
are probably the ones that are don't have the means to lose the money.
They don't really have the dollars to ten dollars to lose, but there are
goddamn do they want that million or whatever. They think it's going to change
their lives forever, and they're chasing them, and it's kind of sad when
you think about that. Well, Billy, you know, I've been at
lottery agents before where the people in front of me will throw in like numbers
on the daily lattle in the bill, the look them up the web tun
bucks. I'm going, Hannah, how do they do this at fifty cents
here? Twenty five cents there? No? I told me could I once?
I said? Sorry? Holy shit? Yeah? Well, Simon,
what else has happening? So you got your money anyway, so that's a
good thing. They were kind of yeah, right, so you just gave
so he gave it back. So basically you did what the government wanted you
to do, exactly likely exactly silver faults. All right, Simon, what
else? What what are you gonna do for summer? What do you do
for pleasure? It's the summertime. We should all be happy. Your shorts
at least, come on stop it, Soco sandals, what are you really,
what are you gonna do? Gave me the fuck alone? You go
what I got, My got yours on, Leave me to fuck a lot?
Cool now, But what do you do for fun? Anything? Fun?
Not much anymore? Bill, I used to I used to go out
to a cottage in a little town called Kuckville. Yes, it's it's top
Route eighteen. It's a bunch of people. Watch. So I used to
go out there. We used to go out there. Would you let me
fucking talk? What you asked me a question? You want me to give
me the answer? But keep laving God fight turned out right? Yes,
yes, all right. I was going out there for the past five years
every summer. A friend of mine had a cottage there, and I would
spend the summers there. Um in the middle of nowhere, fulm barely worked,
shit reception, great places, A great place to be in the summer.
Ye, the man, the man died. Property was sold. I
didn't. I didn't have two hundred grand to buy it, right, So
now I just uh, I hang out here. Well, I'll have to
get you in studio sometime in Fairport. Yeah. Really, that's like going
to fucking Canada. Jesus Christ, stop it. I'm telling you no,
you guys, tell your stubburds. I'll put I'll put you up for the
night, and then you can come back to Charlotte the next day, only
if my dogs and come with me. Your dog can come with you.
How old your dog? My dog tent and I'll probably shit and piss all
over the place, Well shit and piss anywhere unless I tell him to.
He will piss on your lake, all right, So don't even break my
balls about the dog, all right, Simon. It was it's always a
pleasure to be scolded by the grump. Hey, you know a new asport.
You're going to get it. You guys have a YouTube, buddy,
thank you. That's so funny. That's like an angry racing Randy. He's
there were all these characters when we did the break room, Oh my gosh,
And I didn't even it was. It was what I wanted. I
mean, it was what I was trying to do, but I didn't realize
we were doing it in the middle of it, and I and at times
I felt like other people on the show were a little resistant to all this
stuff, and I was pushing anyway. And then it just seemed to all
kind of come together. So every Christmas we would have ever to come in.
Yeah, and it got to be like nuts. Uh. Tommy would
get so pissed at me because I would. I'm the one who like goes,
hey, we're having a party, right, And then I'd have to
run it and run aboard and make sure nobody was swearing all talking during the
show, just like yeah, and they're drinking and we're brought you provided the
food and they were bringing their own stuff, right. And then other people
are trying to do radio shows like outside, are we leave the door open?
Tom Georgia is trying to do traffic. They're out yelling the mini waders.
There's a backup at the mini at one point. At one point,
somebody I think the be brought in this school chorus to sing Christmas songs,
right, and somebody picked up their camera and started taking pictures and then Mike
the dead hey, put your camera down taking pictures. It grustled the phone
away from I had talked to the guy, like can you get the guy
his camera back? Clients alcohol on a kids corse? No, Like yeah,
Jay Fry and his crew shows up. They got like a whole like
leader of or they got a whole like case of beer and stuff they're drinking
in the cream room. Oh, we had just it was for so many
great people on that show. So funny because I guess I blocked it all
out in my mind after I left that it was a great show. That
was a great show, and I think they do a nice job still,
but I don't. It wasn't like that. This was chaotic. Oh yeah,
it was organized chaos on our end. Yeah, I mean. And
by the way, Simon wasn't the only grump on the show. We also
had Grumpy Doug. Remember Grumpy Doug. Yes, I do now knew it
six, knew it's six, knew it's six. Hey, don Alhart.
The only thing that knew it's six in my house is Channel eight and nobody
watch. Oh my gosh. Like we had some great, great, great
guests on that show, right, Randy was the first race and Randy was
the first and he's still with us. Sunday you have, um, we
we tape Sunday through Thursday. Yes, pull him back the curtain, so
to speak for people. So Sunday you have your Steel Rail revival. Yes,
one o'clock. When you you said you're gonna come down here. Oh
yeah, when you come down here, will you reveal yes, the name
of the band, Yes you will, your guitar, Yes, my guitar.
I don't know about that. I don't. I don't. I don't
bring my guitar. I don't play the guitar anymore. I just sing now,
Oh he just sings. I'm just you know, he's just that guy
too high up, trying to help I do. What can I do?
I could, but I mean, all right, well, it gonna be
we're looking forward to this. We're gonna find out the name of the band.
This is gonna be very excited, very excited. Lay your bets on
good fight at this point, what's the band? Day gonna be, Dan,
I'll give you a prize. Somebody's gonna scan that card and go,
hey, it's certainly been paying out for Kevin Murra will be gomfing and drunk
on Sunday. I'm Bill Moran. We'll see them cold Tale. Didn't know
what to do. I tv gonna do the letter to you, Ba