Hey, everybody, welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane and
this is my co host, Eric Rimmer. Hie. He also happens to
be my bff of sixteen and a half years, right, almost seventeen years.
That's right, Right from the get go, we were BFFs and immediately
instant besties. Yes, Producer Brian over here. Anything, we didn't do
a sleep together the first time we met. That's never going to happen.
You guys can put down the boocket list. No, Eric, No,
we had this discussion earlier today. We don't want to get back into it,
Okay, about him and women and never wanting to be near a woman,
a naked woman ever. And that's fine, that's fine. Anyway,
we have some big things to talk about. In fact, I have a
big announcement that could change the trajectory of my life coming up in my house
chat. No, thanks, anyways, help up, Eric, your host
chat is something apparently that I would do, but to you so horrific and
why should I even be surprised? Okay, so something really embarrassing happening,
Oh my god, humiliating. We have kind of a short double D news
because we have in studio tonight, Tad Sissler. If you've ever been to
Manhattan Restaurant in La Joya, you know him. He's the man in the
corner who has those booming voice and the he can play the piano like no
other anything. He can play anything, he can sing anything. He's just
a great guy. And you know what, he's so much more than that.
He's an author, he's an entrepreneur, he's a businessman. He is
an actor. Did I already say that? I mean, he's so many
things. He wrote, He wrote a book and and we're going to talk
to him about all these things. He's a great guy and I've been trying
to get him on the show for a long time. So I'm really excited
about this happening tonight. Me too. And I just want to say you
guys, thank you so much for watching, and you know what, we
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for my host chat? As ready as I'll ever be my big announcement.
Okay. In my garage, it's a disaster. There's a lot of bins
and things and old old school papers, from Charlie and Evan and just it's
there's stuff that's packed in there so far. I had to find my AA
book and I had to find some other documentation for a girl that I'm helping
through the steps. So I had to find my Bill w which he's the
one that wrote the AA book bin. I found the bin finally after digging
and digging in the garage, and then I discovered something Jimmy Hoffa incredible is
that who was no Oh? In two thousand and eight two thousand and nine
ish, every night my kids would require me to read them a story or
make up a story, and just that's how they would fall asleep. So
I started to write out chapters to a story and then I would end with
okay to be continued, and then the next day I'd read them the next
little batch. So this story it has really great meaning to my kids.
And let me show you how I wrote it out. And I remember like
there were nights when I did not want to write part of this story.
I was tired, but I did it. This is what it's all on,
like all this kind of like look at all this paper, summit my
notebook paper, Like it's just crazy I'm going to read you. No like,
No, I didn't cusin pay look, I just wrote it. No,
this is just paper that I found schizophrenic rambling. No, these are
this is just this is okay. Now. The reason I'm bringing this up
and the reason I'm going to read just a little bit is because guess what
I have decided. And this is really good timing, because Tad will be
a good person to talk to you about this. I am. I know
that I'm going to write not one, but two books, and one of
the books is going to be this because it's very important, and it'll be
a good children's book, maybe kids eight and older. Because it's a little
scary. I'll start reading it right now. This is from This is original
writing. I haven't changed anything. The police officer Johnny had twenty four hours
to collect the blood of a live chepocabra to bring to the aliens or his
dear wife and son would be vaporized. He saw the alien with the big
black eyes, the gray head, and the long triple jointed finger pointing to
the air, and a scene appeared, just like a vision, a smoky
vision in a crystal ball. It was horrible. His your wife and precious
son disintegrate while they eat dinner in the kitchen. He had no other choice
but to risk his life. He wanted to be angry. He wanted to
scream out loud, why me, But there wasn't time. I have a
question, but I'm getting to an important point point. How old were How
old were they? I know exactly they went after hearing miss I know.
This is why I have to figure out what age groups. Chuck, I'm
getting into this stuff like that. Thank you, Brian. My kids love
stuff like this though they love stuff He needed to came and pack. It
was still in the middle of the night when he pulled out. He pulled
into his driveway. He opened the garage door quietly as not to wake up
his family. He pulled down his camping backpack and started loading it up with
things he was gonna need. A net, a small axe, a snake
bite kit, a rope, a tarp, a flashlight, a knife,
a camera. He didn't have time to write his wife a note, so
he wanted to document this horrid, scary experience so he could show her why
he did disappeared for twenty four hours, well, actually now it was twenty
three. He needed to leave. Now, I'm getting just a one point
because it's really important. The last three things he shoved into his pack two
pint sized thick plastic bags and a coil of rubber tubing. He shoved it
in, zipped it up, turned to walk out of the garage, and
that's when he saw him standing there in the dark driveway, illuminated his hump
on his back. It was old Man Brodus, hunched over, leaning on
his rusty crutch. In a gravelly voice, he whispered, you best be
ready for fears beyond your wildest nightmares. And with that he motioned with his
bony finger to follow him into the night. So he did. And then
it goes on and on and on and on about the Chupacabras and old Man
Brotus. So old Man Brotus means a lot to me and my kids.
I'm writing a story about old Man Brodis and I'm going to publish it.
It's going to be a to be a kid's story. I don't know,
it's gonna be a like maybe ten year olds. They'll be okay with it.
And then once I get this out of the way and I figure out
how to write a book, I'm going to write the book about my life,
my autobiography, because I found some really good things in my aa bin,
some things that I had forgotten about, some things I wrote about that
were like what, So I have two books in me. Just call me
an author. Okay, but I want to be your editor because you need
one. I would love that. Okay, are you good at that kind
of thing? Is that? Like? I'm actually really good at creative writing?
Are you good at Like? I don't want you to change necessarily what
I'm saying, but I want you to grant. I would spice it up
a little. We would have a meeting about the story. There are some
elements i'd change, but it's good. Actually I love that idea, and
I'll take you up on that. But do you believe in me I can
write this book? And you know that's actually like that was good? Like
I was interested. I think we should throw some more sex and violence in
that. No, not okay, you need a little more ominous or like
a little more what you call it a little more mystery. But yeah,
I do need to fluffed out. Oh my god, it's it gets really
really really good. You just wait till you hear where old nambrodis lives.
Oh my god. Anyway, so that's my host, Chad Eric, what
is your host? Shut? What horribly embarrassing thing happened that should have happened
to me? Apparently, because things like this happened to me usually, Well,
things like this also happened to me. True. And like you,
just when you think you're hot, shit your cold diarrhea, right true,
same thing with me. On Saturday, I was at work. We had
a company come and they do they do what are those things called that crapes?
Okay, so they had the savory and they had the sweet. So
I decided to do a shredded chicken with ushrooms and pesto, and I thought,
well, I don't want this for breakfast. I'm going to save it
for lunch. So I took it home for lunch ate it and you know
how they they have them in they're kind of like a flowery yeah, a
creepy yeah, creep Yes, I know, I'm aware. At some point
I must have brushed my cheek with my hand. I'm getting ready to leave
work and I had to go to the bathroom. So I run to the
employee bathroom, look in the mirror and it looked like I had been involved
in some back alley sex act. What color? What? It was?
White? And it was all over the left side of my face. Was
it like powder? From the it was? I literally could like peel it.
I was frosting. Yeah, it was like frosting. And I was
so horrified. And I was like, not one person that I interacted with
the rest of the day, not one said anything to me. You left
for lunch and you came back with a bunch of white stuff your face.
I was earning lunch money. I was like, oh my god, I
was horrified. Now see why I say when I have lipstick on my teeth,
which is normally the case, you guys never say anything to me.
I always do. Well, I don't know this. I always tell you
when you have lipstick on your teeth, you do. But there are people
that don't. And you know what we would rather know. I think people
saw me and thought I had a poor thing. He has a son burner
your face? Yes, thank you, Oh my god, please we have
a guest. Please. I was so mortified. Well that and then you
went back to work and you're like, thanks, guys, did you tell
them what happened? Yes? I was like, oh my god, I
can't believe this. I remember this was years ago. I went to support
in Fashion Valley m hm, and they had some sort of a facial miss
stuff that you could like a hydrating miss. The conspiraen well, I you
know, I do it. And I was wearing like a black T shirt
and it wasn't a mist. It was like a lotion. So I was
like, oh, I feel anything, put it down, don't look at
anything. I'm walking through them all and people are just looking at me like
what it's sports of lotion all over my black T shirt. So I just
looked once again. Yeah, when you thought you were hot, you know
what? Hmm. Clearly Eric works on the opposite corner of Laura. Apparently
I do, and it's it's the one that has no handy wipes at all.
Well, let's get to the Double D news because I can't even wait
for our guests. You guys are gonna if you don't know this guy,
just wait. I'm super excited. He's awesome. We've seen him quite a
few times. Yeah, but did you know he's so much more? No?
I did not. I'm super excited. I was reading through his bio
I was like, my jaw hit the floor. I'm like, what the
wow? This guy is incredible. Anyway, we'll get to Tad Sisler in
just a minute. What's up in Double D News? Eric in Hollywood.
Madonna is still the biggest selling female recording artist. She has been officially certified
by the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling female recording artist of
all time. She's held the record since two thousand and nine. She's followed
by Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce. Taylor's going to
surpass her. I think, oh, it's And how do we feel about
Taylor and her new boyfriend? Do we love? Like the Pete? They
literally could not care lest I don't even know. I think I'm obsessed.
I'm obsessed. Literally could not carely. Oh they're the cutest, well what
they But he's he is so handsome, cuest I don't care. Your girlfriend
is a cut it is for sure, and you're you're okay, okay.
Rumor has it that Kevin Costner and Reese Witherspoon might be an item. He
is odd, he's single, Yes, oh yeah, he went through a
horrible he's going through a horrible divorce. Yes, not nothing. I mean
the ink hasn't even dry yet. He's already. Boy. I love Kevin
Costner. Guess what, he's sixty eight, she's forty seven. Well,
I'm sure they have everything. He's awesome. Come on, have you seen
Robin Hood? Like? Do you watch Yellowstone? No? Have you ever
thought about it? I mean I hear great things about it, but yeah,
I thought about it. But it seems like a kind of a big
undertaking, doesn't it. Yeah, speaking of undertaking, Oh my god,
my favorite show from when Evan was born. So this show is almost like
Netflix has just put six Feet Under back on the TV Younger Brian just like
a Christopher Pike. This is a Alan Ball show. This show is so
damn good and it was on HBO for many years. And the finale,
the series finale, I remember sobbing. I've never sobbed at a show like
that ever. I will tell you in a future episode what happened between me
and one of the cast members of Six Feet Under. Oh my God.
Okay, okay, talk about being humiliated. Swear to god, it is
a true story at a celebrity event. Okay, all right, I can't
wait. So women dominate the Grammy Awards this year. The nominations are out.
I know four of the women that are listed, Sissa Lee, I
have no idea who that leads the pack with nine, I have no idea
who that is. Other arts with multiple nods include Victoria Money. I have
no idea who that is. Phoebe Bridger's I don't know, boy Genius,
my girls, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish and Olivia. Did
Billy Eilish even have anything out the day? I know? I don't know,
but Olivia Rodrigo did. Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday party ran the gamut from probably
just a bunch of twelve year old girls there. How old is he is?
Not that all? He did forty nine and I think he he's not
even fifty yet. I think he was like at least fifty two or something.
I didn't think he was even forty nine. I thought I was younger
than that. Kim Kardashian, Jay Z, Beyonce and al Pacino and Salia
Moon five herself were there. I bet that party was insane and great,
and he probably has a new nineteen year old girl yeah, well, whatever
he can. Let him. Let him do what he did for you.
I know who Joey Fatone is, right, Joey Fotonias from in Sync,
Right, Yes, he got hair plugs and fat removal fat removal procedure.
He says, quote, I'm not trying to change who I am. I'm
just trying to edit it a little bit. Hair plugs are no joke.
Those are pretty serious. Those are serious, and you can wind up looking
like you have doll hair. Well, I think they've they've perfected it over
the years. Hopefully careful. What else? Audrina Patridge from the Hills,
Her fifteen year old Niececedi, died of an overdose fifteen. She was able
to buy percoset through Snapchat that was laced with fens andol. That is terrible,
since you can you can buy a lot of things through Snapchat. Okay,
well, it's like Snapchat sold it to I'm just sure that I thought
where Snapchat was talking to her goofy face things. She probably bought it through
a friend, just like you can. You communicate on Snapchat, that's all.
That's the only way my daughter communicates with her friends. It was just
face nothing. Oh good, Grace. It's just like it's like the same
if I text you said, hey, give me some perks, Like I
mean, it's not that much different. Yeah, that's how Wow, that's
really sun God, dang it. I always tell my kids just do not
take a pill. Don't take a pill, don't take a strange pill.
Please. Oh so we all know who Jeff Bezos is, right, I
mean, he's got kind of some money. I guess that would be a
yes. And his new fiance, Lawren Sanchez. Yeah, they had their
engagement party at the private home of Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. Here
are some of the guests. Now, who's Barry Diller? He is a
media tycoon, isn't he. I have no clue. I think Barry I
think that's okay. And his wife is Dian Vons. I think he deals
with like a television or Yeah. Here's some of the guests. I can
honestly say that none of these guests have ever shown up to a party that
I've had. Kim Kardashian, Chloe Kardashian, Chris Jenner and her fiance Corey
Gamble, Oprah, Mick Jagger, Chris Rock, David Geffen, Robert Pattison
and Suki Waterhouse, Barbara Streiss and Jessica Alba, Selma Hayak, and Rita
Wilson, just to name a few. Dang, that's a celebrity gamut right
there. That doesn't sound like one of my parties. Oh it's you would
You would wouldn't want to be at that party. Oh I would be at
that party in two shakes, exactly the saddest news that I have to bring
to you all. Everybody gets your klean X out. Homer Simpson will no
longer be able to choke Bart. I heard that. What do you call
it? Fake? Oh? Is this something that he does? I don't
know. I'm obviously people. People were objecting to the violt like it's too
violent of a for cartoons. Funny though it got reported for a couple of
days. But then I think this one of the executives or the Simpsons creator
was made a joke basically saying that that was not true. How come that
happens? And yet South Park does like the most horrific things. It's funny,
it's it is funny. But they don't get Oh they do. They
just don't listen. They don't care. Oh, I have never watched one
minute of the Simpsons, and I think I've only seen one episode of south
Park. South Park is really good, south Park's all right, south Park's
hit or miss. I only watched semester Christmas Pooh episode. That's the only
thing I can remember. I think Family Guy is still the best. Family
Guy's great too. Family Guy, Are you done, my friend? I'm
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dot com. You may notice that we have a third member now of the
podcast. This is Tad Sissler. Yay, okay. If you have been
to Manhattan, La joya great restaurant on the weekends, I think Thursday through
Sunday, yeasay through Saturday, Thursday through Saturday. Okay. There's beautiful piano
music playing along with singing, and you can request songs. And you know
what, me and my girlfriends and you have been many times to sit around
the piano. You can actually sit around the piano. And this is him,
This is the piano man Tat and he will take your request. He
knows every single song, every new song, every old song. I mean,
there's not a song you could throw at you that you don't know well,
you know, and I love it when you come in. You know,
I've actually loved you for a long time. I've followed you when you're
on Jeff and Jair, and I love the synergy that you two have together.
This is just really cool. Thank you, And I love your sponsors.
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exactly what I'm saying, thank you so much. No, And you
know what he always plays when we're there and when I'm there anyway, is
a song that my dad used to sing to me. It's the song Laura
Laura, which is quite appropriate, I should say, yes, and it's
just you sing it so well and anyway, So if you guys, it's
a great time, great food, great restaurant, great ambiance, and Tad,
you're responsible for that ambiance because that place gets crowded and it's because of
you. It's really good food. The owners are wonderful people. I've been
there for twelve years. It turned into a sentence, actually no, but
I love it, I really do, and I'm grateful for it, and
it's a great place to work. So I wanted to have you on because
I knew that there was more to the story than you being the piano player
at Manhattan. You also, okay, so he sent me his bio because
I needed to write some things up. This man right here may or may
not have studied under Frank Sinatra and studied acting with Richard Burton. Has performed
with multiple people over the years, like Ritt was Rida Coolidge, one of
them open for Kenny Rodgers, which was very cool for a period. And
oh, it goes on and on, but I'm you know, it's funny
when when you look back. I had four kids at the age of twenty
three, so I just took every job I could, and I happened to
live in Palm Springs, which is sort of the hub of a lot of
stars. When I was very young, my dad was a physician and he
I think removed a hemorrhoid from Elizabeth Taylor. So we were invited over to
their house. Which husband was that Richard Burton. Wow, okay, yeah,
And so there was this magical day where I had an acting lesson for
Richard Burton and got to hang with Elizabeth Taylor, who was probably the most
beautiful woman of her time. I mean, nothing like you, Laura,
Oh come on, I mean she was quite a looker. Oh my gosh.
Then and then Frank Sinatra also was in that same hub, right,
Yeah, that was a spring that was Later on, I was performing in
a nightclub in Palm Springs and the owner told me, Frank's coming in tonight,
and just whatever you do, don't play any Frank Sinatra songs because Frank,
I guess a lot of guys would know that Frank was coming in,
so they tried to out frank him, like, you know, fly Me
to the Moon, you know, that kind of thing. And we hated
that. So, I mean, I was twenty four and it was like,
I don't even remember what he did or didn't do, you know,
I just I'm just going to do my thing. So and he was sitting
across from me, and I remember the first time I met him, I
was playing what are You doing the rest of your Life? And he got
up and he started walking right at me, and I'm like, oh my
god, Oh my god. And he came up and he said, yeah,
tough bridge on that song. You know you did a well, kid,
and then he walked past me to the restroom, and I was like,
oh, But then they just started calling me and I started doing a
lot of events with him and for him, and he just was one of
the kindest and behind the scenes things that he did for people. You would
never know because he has this reputation as being a tough guy, but he
really was just a giant of a human being and he was just it was
it was really cool. Wow, it was great to know him when I
was so young. I wish I wish now I knew what I did then,
or like Bob Seeger says, I wish I didn't know now what I
didn't know that. I mean, God to look back to have this wisdom
and be young. Yeah, I know. Oh my gosh, that's right,
so true. When is the first time you put fingers on a piano.
My mother was a concert pianist. She was a child prodigy. At
the age of seventeen, she played for the Chicago Symphony. This was back
long before any of us were born, obviously, obviously, and she just
kind of as as early as I can remember, she had me playing piano.
Remember sitting at the piano at the age of maybe five, and she
was teaching me yesterday by the Beatles and Blue Moon, and I mean,
I can still remember songs that that she taught me when I was before I
could even I don't even know what who I was at that point, and
then you went on to study music. I did. At some point she
put me with Joanna Hodges, who was the Van Cleiburn International Concert Pianist winner,
and she just sort of put me in practice rooms at a college and
just kind of beat me up with classical music and so. But at the
age of twelve, I was kind of winning competitions for classical music. But
then my parents divorced. I moved back with my father and he had a
piano at his house. But that was the end of the of the lessons
and I just wanted to play rock and roll anyway after that. But that
classical foundation, I think it's I mean, it's amazing. Every once in
a while you'll bust that out at Manhattan, like you'll do like a you'll
sing and then you'll be like down there. Yeah, I was like,
wow, that's incredible. Uh Yeah. I had the chance to meet LIBERACEI
when I was in the desert, which was kind of cool. I mean,
they all lived out there. Well. At one point, I was
walking my kids through the grocery store and he was kind of staring at me
from the frozen foods, like hey, you know, and I was like,
okay, but we ended up becoming pretty good friends, and he was
he was a really good guy. So I mean all these things I mean
for me, it's like I just like I said, I just kind of
found myself in a lot of these kind of positions and that's kind of what
led me to writing my book. Okay, that and also some pretty crazy
life experiences. Tell me about your book. Okay, you've you've you've written
more than one, written three books. Okay, what are they about?
And well, one book I co wrote with a lady who wrote a story
about she was impregnated by a mafioso when she was very young. And it's
a it's kind of a bizarre move. It's a it's a bizarre book,
but it's it's cool. It's called Mafia Baby. And then I actually wrote
this really really cool biography with Steve Madeo, who you've never heard of him,
but he played on every hit you've ever heard in your life up until
probably the nineties. He was at Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band on stage,
who was the trumpet player in the horn section, and then he went
with Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones and Neil Diamond and Barbaras streisand and I
mean he he played with everybody, I mean, you name it, and
he was on the recording, and he was a good friend of mine,
and he would he actually played in my band at some point, and he
wanted to write a biography. So I brought the tape recorder and I sat
with him for for just weeks, and we ended up writing the book,
and then we did an audiobook, and two weeks after he did the narration
on the audio book, he died of a heart attack at the age of
seventy. So it was like sort of this sort of cathartic thing that just
I mean, we got his life story and it's in his voice, and
it's really amazing. It's called Reflections in the Key of Life. Oh I
love that title. Yeah. And then your third book is that about you?
My book is my autobiography? Okay, tell me about the process of
writing a book, especially an autobiography, Like do you sit there in front
of a computer and go, okay, where are the heck do I even
start? What's funny? I mean, I got the idea for it.
I went back to see my sister about five years ago and she saves everything
and she had all these papers. So I was looking through the papers and
I found this like five page autobiography that I started to write when I was
twenty, which is hilarious to me. I mean, what do you know
when you're twenty? I mean, what are you going to talk about?
But actually it was kind of cool and it gave me the idea that I
think I always wanted to do this, but when I did it, and
I've had some kind of tragic things happen and some beautiful things. But I
didn't want to just kind of write names and dates, because I think a
lot of people don't like history because they teach it that way. And if
you know about the story these history is fascinating and it's kind of the same
with our lives. So what I did was I tried to I tried to
write about an experience, and then I would encapsulate what, you know,
what did I learn from this or what lesson is here to be? That's
huge, that's a big eie. Yeah, I'm reading I've been listening to
like how to write a book books and they say that that is like you
need to have that, you need to have like a like a lesson or
an inspiration or a message you need to have so that you did it right.
Well, obviously you're a good writer, so it should come easy for
you. Got the old man wrote his book? Well, no, that's
just the start. But do you have your book with you? Let me
let's see what it looks like and where do we get it. It's funny
because I entitled it it's a long climb to the middle because that's kind of
where I made it. And I mean, this is a huge book.
I'm probably going to put it out in paperback at some point, but I
mean this is kind of a coffee table book. It's got photos of all
my experience. Oh wow, that just with different stars and family members,
and and I mean it's it's pretty deep. How long did that take you
to write? Probably about a year, I would say, wow. Yeah.
I mean I kept going back to it, and and I've got a
really weird memory. I can just I mean, I can remember months every
month of my life for some weird reasons. One of those. But and
you kind of go back and one thing leads to it's kind of a bridge
that builds to another remembrance or thought and and so kind of that's yeah.
And then do you send the manuscript to somebody to publish? I mean,
is it do you? Now? You can self publish right or Amazon can
publish you? Now? Sure, I self published. But I have a
company, Mainstream Source, which we publish books and we've done just countless uh
uh songs and tracks and music for film and television and and so it's mostly
music and film. We've done biographies and documentaries and also books too. Okay,
so let's move on to this part of your life. Mainstream Source.
This is your company, and this is so if okay, just say my
book is done, I can take it to your company and to you and
you look at it and decide if you like it or not and want to
publish it. I mean, and that part of your company. That's just
part of your company. Absolutely. But I think what we kind of try
to do with people is I'm not interested in taking a piece of your life.
I think you should have it. And we do this a lot with
different composers and musicians that we work with. And in fact, I have
a friend in New York who was actually a friend of Steve Madeo the trumpet
Players, And that's how I met him. And he's a great sax player
that worked with all the legends. And he wrote a book and he came
to me and said, will you publish it? And I said, I
will edit it for you. I will look through the whole thing. I'll
give you suggestions. We made it into a better book. And then I
showed him how to publish it and how to get it on all the outlets,
and how to make money himself off of it. Okay, So and
he's doing great. I mean he's really he's because most of it's marketing,
as you well know. Right, So where do we find your where work?
Where can somebody buy your book? All my stuff is on Amazon,
All my music is on all the outlets, iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify.
Now you play on you know, at Manhattan, you play you know,
cover songs. You play songs you know Bruno mars to like Frank Sinatra
to. You know, it depends on the time of night. You kind
of start getting a little more spicy toward the end of the night. You
know, it devolves into dance party. Hell, I know we've been part
of that dance party. I love it. But you have you created your
own songs then oh, yeah, I've written, I've composed dozens and dozens
of songs, and in fact, we we put together a collection music for
film and TV. So for a while we were writing all kinds of stuff.
And then I did some films, like I did a film with Elliott
Gould called The Encore of Tony Durant, where we did the entire score,
and I also I had a little bit part acting in it. And the
executive producer of the film came to me and he said, well, we
want to do all these different things, like we want to do really really
fast jazz, like sort of manic jazz when he's going through his manic phase.
And then and I mean little things like he goes into a body shop
and we want authentic to Hano Mexican music playing in the background, as if
you're actually in a body shop in you know, Palm Desert or in Indio.
And so I hired my friend who's an accordion player, and we listened
to a bunch of Tahano stuff and we just created we composed three or four
songs. Awesome on that level, I mean, we just we just kind
of things lead one thing leads to another. So I've done rock jazz.
I mean, you name it, we've you've kind of done it. And
then sometimes he has his granddaughter, which now I understand because I didn't really
understand, like because you're such a you're a young guy, you're not old,
Like, thank you, she's sit me in the morning. So it
makes sense now that you had children so young, because your granddaughter is she's
twenty how old. Mikayla just turned twenty one. She is absolutely beautiful,
and she is so talented, and she was on America. Yeah, Mikayla
at the age of fifteen went on America's Got Talent and she got the Golden
buzzer from Heidi Klum and that led her all the way to the finals.
I think she ended up in the top ten on America's Got Talent. And
then during the COVID year, she auditioned for American Idol and she made it
all the way to the top ten on American Idol, and I think she
might have even won if it wasn't in the situation where they had them all
performing in from their homes. Yeah, and she's such stage performer. Yeah,
she's so just good, amazing, and I mean she's just she's got
like, you know, five million followers. It's crazy, but I'm just
I'm so proud of her. Do you have other grandchildren? I do.
I have that I know of. I have that are musically inclined. I
do. All my kids and grandkids are musically inclined, but I kind of
sort of try to lead them away because it's a tough road. I mean,
it can be, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've got Whitney
is the oldest, and she my daughter was pregnant with her when my wife
died. When when their mother died, this was my twins were thirteen at
the time. Anyway, I have another daughter that's got three beautiful kids.
So I have a total of six grandchildren. But I did, like I
said, I had four kids under the age of seven when I was twenty
three years old, so I started really young. I'm sorry about your wife.
One of the obviously the tragedy of these that you talked about, that
you obviously had to go through and rise up and raise your kids. And
well, no one's immune to that. I mean, I think that's something
that affects all of us. And I guess I don't really know that there's
any actual roadmap to get you through anything like that. But we find our
way. And I mean I was, I guess if you could say fortunate
in a way that I had children that we were very close, and I
mean my twins had just turned thirteen, and and they just ended up being
the best teenagers and we just kind of clung together. And and I mean,
you worry, you worry about them, and there's there's nothing you can
do. And I always tell people, I said, you know, even
if you hate your ex or the mother of your children or the father of
your children, they're the only person that you can look into their eyes and
say, look at what our kids just did, you know. And that's
that I think that's the thing that I lost the most. I think that's
the thing that I lost the most about it is that you don't have that
one person that you can just look and like when my daughter, when my
twins graduated high school, and when my daughter got married, and all the
things that have happened since, and so many things have happened since. And
so I talk about it in the book, and I you know, I
get into it and try to find whatever wisdom comes out of that. Do
you believe is in like, has it renewed your faith in God? Or
do you do you believe in in an afterlife? What do you believe in?
Like are you gonna do you believe you're gonna all be together again?
I'll say absolutely? And yes, I mean it's weird because you I mean,
I don't. I know, everybody has their own beliefs, and I
respect that and I love that. But when I go and I see a
sunrise and I see a blade of grass or I have a flower, and
we I think we all sort of have a tendency to just ignore it and
everything sort of becomes rote in the world. But I think when you when
you just stop and look around, you have to realize that how did this
all happen? And for me, the answer to that is there is a
creator and it's and my faith has guided me through a lot of this.
You know, there's definitely a power greater than ourselves, that's sure. Yeah,
And I think that thing when you were talking about AA, that the
higher power thing. And my father was an alcoholic who he was kind of
my success story. He was a terrible alcoholic who destroyed our family and for
the first forty five years of his life, and then for the second forty
years of his life he was completely sober and an icon of his community,
and we became and ended up best friends. Wow. And so I've seen
it from both from both sides, and you know, it works if you
work it, yeah, and if you you know, And that's one of
those things to believe in, is a higher power, just something greater than
yourself, your mainstream source, tell us the okay, you have, you
have products, your products, You're going to show us things. Yeah,
I want to see. So when COVID happened, I became an outlaw.
Why do you Musicians weren't allowed to perform in public? So I'm Manhattan closed
down for ten months. And I was before COVID. I had a band
forever and we did all kinds of huge gigs all over the world, and
I just kind of shut that down, and so I thought, what am
I going to do with my life? And so I started selling products I
had. I'd had the idea. I was a developer for Yamaha for ten
years and we developed music for their keyboards and we had to take the very
best keyboard they have and put a song on it that was excellent. And
then they gave us the worst keyboard they had and said, make it sound
good on this, and that was really hard to do without dumbing it down,
without making it kind of not sound as good as you possibly could.
So I kind of took that idea and I put it into the technology of
a cute little wireless bluetooth microphone, which I'll show you. Okay, I
love this, I love this, I love this, I love this.
Okay, this is something my daughter would love. This is something that here's
the box, Oh my gosh. And we sell this on Amazon, by
the way, and also on my website. But a karaoke microphone, Yeah,
what we did, it's kind of an all in one, and there's
there are other brands that do this. But what we did with with our
mic was we kind of took a look at the at the four or five
best selling ones, and we looked at the reviews and saw that the things
that people really liked about them and the things that people didn't like about them,
and then we tried to sort of make the best product out of that.
And so we redesigned the control panel to make it more user friendly,
and we separated out the reverb from the echo delay, so you have a
little bit more control over your vocal We changed the chip insight to a DSP
chip, which allows a little bit more memory. That allowed us to split
these and also gives it a little bit of a better sound. And and
I mean it's really it's a fun little mic and listen to Oh, I
don't think you need to turn it off, yeah, because you can.
You can just you can hear it alone, or you can hear it with
ree verb, or you can put and then there's like effects that you have
that you can play with if you really want to be like I can sound
just like share or very white that and then there's an even lower one that's
really like a monster and then magic so free but if you want to like
you and some of them so I can't sing, so that would be perfect.
So I mean, it's a lot of fun. So there's a lot
of effects, and you can also obviously hook it through Bluetooth or even a
line out. Can do a line out to a larger sounds where it sounds
really big, because this little speaker is kind of fun for a little room,
but you can also make it so I was just gonna but I was
gonna say this speakers is outstanding, really good for a tiny little thing.
And then it also hooks through Bluetooth to your phone and we have a little
accessory kit with a cell phone holder and a little USB disco ball and it's
just fun. But I mean, it's a lot of fun. And it
retails it like thirty nine to ninety five, but I think we have it
on sale right now for twenty five or something like that. Oh my god,
Okay, I mean so it's I mean, for the price, it's
not a professional microphone. It's not. It's not an s M fifty eight,
which I think this might be or something that all of these aren't professionals.
It's not a pro mic. But it's a fun party mic and it's
priced right and it's the best in its class. Okay. And the website
is on our website, Laura Kane after Dark all of his information and the
link to this this website mainstream source where you can get that mic. Okay,
So what else you got on that? Okay? Well, we have
a bunch of other products, and I'm not going to bring them all out.
I want to see one at least one more. Oh, I want
to see a couple more I know because I just love I love it.
I love creators. I love people who who come up with an idea and
actually create it and then sell it. I mean, it's hard to get
to that point. Oh thank you. This looks like right up my alley.
Oh yeah, it's a little lunch box and it's got unicorns and horses
on it. And actually there's we have fourteen different styles for boys and girls,
and there is a there's a leading seller of this box on Amazon.
It's it's another company and they it's a great little lunch box that they have,
and we went to the same manufacturer as them. But what we did
was we again took a look at the reviews and most people really liked the
way it was built. So we used all the same materials as them.
But what we did was we pased, we patented a built in handle so
a kid can carry it, because the other ones don't have a handle,
so they have to kind of be to put it in a lunch box or
and you can still this still fits in a standard unchbox. But it's got
cute little compartments, Yeah, cute little compartments for kids, and it's it's
leakproof and it's lab tested at cps I, a safe. You can put
like little cheese and one and grapes and one, got recipes and everything on
the website, and I mean it's great for kids, and kids love it.
And in fact it's funny because we put this one and the leading one
on a table and my little niece ran up and of course you grabbed this
one because you can grab the handle and run away with it. So she
stole mine, which was great. And then you can put your name on
it with it comes with little stickers we have and then a little spork like
a little spoonful that is so huge. So that's cool you okay, And
so you have a lot of different products. We have different products. We
instead of going for just musical stuff, what we thought is just we would
create a brand that is just the highest quality in its class across the board.
So and there's other brands like oh XO. There's other brands that do
this that that don't just focus on one like cosmetics or microphones or and so
we have wineglasses, we have bamboo ziploc bag storage containers and foil containers for
it's all sustainable and just all kinds of other stuff, little guitar wallhangers if
you want to hang your guitar, and I mean just really fun things.
But they're all really good quality. And that's the thing that we really kind
of focused on is taking that item, looking at the four best ones and
making one that's just maybe a little bit better at the same or a very
competitive price. I'm shocked at how much this microphone is. Yeah, I
mean yeah, And then so would you rather them get it a mainstream source
or on Amazon? You say that you could get them on bolth, you
can get them on Amazon and or on our website, and we I mean
we've got stores on wal Mart and TikTok and everywhere else. But yeah,
but Amazon is great because Amazon is prime and you can get it in a
day. And that's always kind of what we want. Want one, Well,
we want want one, and we want it now. Well, God,
I could talk to you for hours. Oh me too. Oh yeah,
we just you know, I just one more. Yeah, I'm all
good. I want to see you. He probably in this big box full
of fun things. So these are new wine glasses and we just brought these
out about a month ago or two months ago. We sell red wine,
white wine. And then this one has red and white, so it's two
red and two white, and so we sell four red or four white,
and then we sell these were too red and two white. And I'm just
like amazed because I don't know if anyone else is just doing this with two
red and two white wine glasses, I don't understand. But we are just
selling the like these are selling like mad. So there's a different for different
You mean red wine has a different glass than white wine does. Yes,
it does. Oh, I mean you can probably use this wine in different
glass Like I see a lot of people using white wine and red wine glasses,
but traditionally red wine glasses have a deeper base. And that's uh,
it's for a ration. And I've learned so much about wine that I never
knew just by doing this. And we also work with a European wine connoisseur
who has a distributorship here in America called Venera and Venia Wines. What they
do is they go all over the world and they get wines from wineries that
aren't represented in America, like little mom and pop wineries in Italy or in
France, and they import the wine over here and so and they happen to
be their business shares the same facility as mine. So I just got to
talking with the guy one day and he was like, well, let me
pick out a glass for you that I know everybody will love. And so
it literally it's identical to the leading German wineglass, but it's like twenty dollars
cheaper and so so it's great, it's going good. So we've got so
many more of it. What is okay? Tell me right now in your
life, what is your favorite thing that you're doing. What is like the
top thing you're doing right this moment in your life? What are you most
happy about? What? Hands down? My family? Love in my family.
That's awesome. That's that's what That's what it's all about. That's who
you are, and everything else is just kind of really cool things that you're
doing on the side. Yeah, well, I don't want to put you
on the spot, but like when it's time to end the show, because
we usually end around this time, but could you maybe maybe just take us
out with like a tiny bit of a song? Oh sure, anything but
piano man, Oh no, I know, no, no, I was
going to do that to you. Actually, everybody loves piano man, It's
just it's funny. I have this like book at Manhattan that has three thousand
songs, and people look at it and they go, I know, piano
man. Yeah, I mean it's it's funny. It's kind of a joke
between musicians. But you know what I always try to do is I look
at people's eyes and how they react to something, And it doesn't really matter
what I'm singing, you know, it's just kind of the it's the reaction.
Is there besides piano man, is there a song where like I really
don't want to sing that again? Well, I mean there's musicians have a
list of songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Mustang Sally, and I mean all
the songs that you always get asked for. Hey, but I actually worked
with a guy years and years ago who was a really big fifties artist and
he had he had his stardom, and then he was playing in the lounges,
you know, years later, and he always played the same fifty songs.
And I went to him and I said, you know, I know,
you know a bunch of other songs. He goes, yeah, but
these are people want to hear this. They want to hear familiarity. They
want familiarity. So that's when, like you go to a concert and then
the band plays all their new songs. You're like, wait, what,
No, we want to hear like the songs we know. Yeah, yeah,
I understand that. Yeah, Okay, well, okay, anything you
want to sing, I would We would love to hear. Flora is the
face in the misty life. That's all I'm going to give you. You
got to come into Manhattan. Oh I love it when he sings that to
me. Yes, Manhattan Thursday through Saturday, every week weekend. You guys.
It's a great restaurant. It's a great place to go, awesome entertainment.
You're there until ten o'clock and so go have some dinner, stay,
dance, listen request. Yeah, food is awesome. And you are just
such an on a You're a quality person with integrity, and I just I
see it in your eyes. I always knew it, and I had no
idea about all this other stuff, and I just really loved getting to know
you more. Thank you me too, and thank you for this opportunity.
Absolute. Okay. We also say something at the end of our podcast when
we end, so I'll say it first and then you say it, and
then Eric says it, and then we're done. Okay, Okay, here
we go. Thank you guys for you say this part. But thank you
so much for listening on on Instagram and on YouTube and on Spotify or wherever
you're listening or watching. Thank you so much. And love your podcast.
Love your podcast, Love your podcast, Love you my sweet babies. Bye,
guys, Thank you, Thank you Dad. He