WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:13.400 Hey, everybody, welcome to Laura Kane after Dark. I'm Laura Kane and 2 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.760 this is my co host, Eric Rimmer. Hie. He also happens to 3 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:21.480 be my bff of sixteen and a half years, right, almost seventeen years. 4 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.640 That's right, Right from the get go, we were BFFs and immediately 5 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.960 instant besties. Yes, Producer Brian over here. Anything, we didn't do 6 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.359 a sleep together the first time we met. That's never going to happen. 7 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.119 You guys can put down the boocket list. No, Eric, No, 8 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:42.359 we had this discussion earlier today. We don't want to get back into it, 9 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:47.119 Okay, about him and women and never wanting to be near a woman, 10 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.399 a naked woman ever. And that's fine, that's fine. Anyway, 11 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.679 we have some big things to talk about. In fact, I have a 12 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:03.280 big announcement that could change the trajectory of my life coming up in my house 13 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:10.719 chat. No, thanks, anyways, help up, Eric, your host 14 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:18.480 chat is something apparently that I would do, but to you so horrific and 15 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.879 why should I even be surprised? Okay, so something really embarrassing happening, 16 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:27.359 Oh my god, humiliating. We have kind of a short double D news 17 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:33.439 because we have in studio tonight, Tad Sissler. If you've ever been to 18 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:37.760 Manhattan Restaurant in La Joya, you know him. He's the man in the 19 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:42.159 corner who has those booming voice and the he can play the piano like no 20 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:45.719 other anything. He can play anything, he can sing anything. He's just 21 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.480 a great guy. And you know what, he's so much more than that. 22 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.480 He's an author, he's an entrepreneur, he's a businessman. He is 23 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.159 an actor. Did I already say that? I mean, he's so many 24 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:59.879 things. He wrote, He wrote a book and and we're going to talk 25 00:01:59.879 --> 00:02:04.760 to him about all these things. He's a great guy and I've been trying 26 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.079 to get him on the show for a long time. So I'm really excited 27 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.039 about this happening tonight. Me too. And I just want to say you 28 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:15.280 guys, thank you so much for watching, and you know what, we 29 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.800 are trying to put on the best show possible for you guys. Really, 30 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:24.680 And these microphones that we've had, they're almost five years old and they were 31 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:29.599 kind of sucky when we got him. So we're trying to save up some 32 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.439 money for some new mics, some new headphones. So if you want to 33 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:37.719 help in any way. Easy. All you have to do is send a 34 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.000 badge through Instagram if you want, If you feel like supporting the podcast, 35 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.400 it would really mean a lot to us. You don't have to, but 36 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:46.599 if you did, it'd be great. We'll shout you out. Badge is 37 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:52.599 there, and also on Facebook now on the comments you can send us stars 38 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:57.840 and that all goes to the same pot, which means we will get new 39 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.879 mics, so we're going to sound even better and new headphones. I really 40 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:07.639 want boom stands and like I'm looking at all this stuff. Yes you are, 41 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.759 but we're going to start with the essentials, which mean the microphone. 42 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.879 Yes, which is the most important thing. Correct, So if you want 43 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.840 to do that, that would be really great. Okay, And it also 44 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:25.439 will prevent my weekly beatings from you. You eat anything that my weekly oh 45 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.919 true? Yes, true, bye weekly beatings. Yes, I'm bossy, 46 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.120 but I need to be. I need to be bossy with you. Yes, 47 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.919 let me keep you in mind. You're bossy and you're very strong. 48 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.360 I already fed you today. You did, so you're in. You have 49 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:46.439 your caffeine, and I'm in tiptop shape. You tiptop shape. 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I found the bin finally after digging 85 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:40.959 and digging in the garage, and then I discovered something Jimmy Hoffa incredible is 86 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.240 that who was no Oh? In two thousand and eight two thousand and nine 87 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:50.240 ish, every night my kids would require me to read them a story or 88 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:56.360 make up a story, and just that's how they would fall asleep. So 89 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:02.480 I started to write out chapters to a story and then I would end with 90 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:06.439 okay to be continued, and then the next day I'd read them the next 91 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:15.000 little batch. So this story it has really great meaning to my kids. 92 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.120 And let me show you how I wrote it out. And I remember like 93 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.319 there were nights when I did not want to write part of this story. 94 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:30.600 I was tired, but I did it. This is what it's all on, 95 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:33.360 like all this kind of like look at all this paper, summit my 96 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:40.079 notebook paper, Like it's just crazy I'm going to read you. No like, 97 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.879 No, I didn't cusin pay look, I just wrote it. No, 98 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.519 this is just paper that I found schizophrenic rambling. No, these are 99 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:51.839 this is just this is okay. Now. The reason I'm bringing this up 100 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:56.199 and the reason I'm going to read just a little bit is because guess what 101 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:03.040 I have decided. And this is really good timing, because Tad will be 102 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.439 a good person to talk to you about this. I am. I know 103 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:13.879 that I'm going to write not one, but two books, and one of 104 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:20.319 the books is going to be this because it's very important, and it'll be 105 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:26.519 a good children's book, maybe kids eight and older. Because it's a little 106 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.720 scary. I'll start reading it right now. This is from This is original 107 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:39.399 writing. I haven't changed anything. The police officer Johnny had twenty four hours 108 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:43.399 to collect the blood of a live chepocabra to bring to the aliens or his 109 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.759 dear wife and son would be vaporized. He saw the alien with the big 110 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:52.919 black eyes, the gray head, and the long triple jointed finger pointing to 111 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.720 the air, and a scene appeared, just like a vision, a smoky 112 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.159 vision in a crystal ball. It was horrible. His your wife and precious 113 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.240 son disintegrate while they eat dinner in the kitchen. He had no other choice 114 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.960 but to risk his life. He wanted to be angry. He wanted to 115 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.039 scream out loud, why me, But there wasn't time. I have a 116 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.840 question, but I'm getting to an important point point. How old were How 117 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.879 old were they? I know exactly they went after hearing miss I know. 118 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.919 This is why I have to figure out what age groups. Chuck, I'm 119 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.799 getting into this stuff like that. Thank you, Brian. My kids love 120 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.240 stuff like this though they love stuff He needed to came and pack. It 121 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.200 was still in the middle of the night when he pulled out. He pulled 122 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.639 into his driveway. He opened the garage door quietly as not to wake up 123 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:43.840 his family. He pulled down his camping backpack and started loading it up with 124 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.159 things he was gonna need. A net, a small axe, a snake 125 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:50.039 bite kit, a rope, a tarp, a flashlight, a knife, 126 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:54.279 a camera. He didn't have time to write his wife a note, so 127 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.519 he wanted to document this horrid, scary experience so he could show her why 128 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.720 he did disappeared for twenty four hours, well, actually now it was twenty 129 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.720 three. He needed to leave. Now, I'm getting just a one point 130 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.320 because it's really important. The last three things he shoved into his pack two 131 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:16.600 pint sized thick plastic bags and a coil of rubber tubing. He shoved it 132 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:20.360 in, zipped it up, turned to walk out of the garage, and 133 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.159 that's when he saw him standing there in the dark driveway, illuminated his hump 134 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:31.720 on his back. It was old Man Brodus, hunched over, leaning on 135 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:37.519 his rusty crutch. In a gravelly voice, he whispered, you best be 136 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:43.639 ready for fears beyond your wildest nightmares. And with that he motioned with his 137 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.639 bony finger to follow him into the night. So he did. And then 138 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.960 it goes on and on and on and on about the Chupacabras and old Man 139 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.039 Brotus. So old Man Brotus means a lot to me and my kids. 140 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.639 I'm writing a story about old Man Brodis and I'm going to publish it. 141 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.360 It's going to be a to be a kid's story. I don't know, 142 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:05.440 it's gonna be a like maybe ten year olds. They'll be okay with it. 143 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:09.320 And then once I get this out of the way and I figure out 144 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:13.000 how to write a book, I'm going to write the book about my life, 145 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.960 my autobiography, because I found some really good things in my aa bin, 146 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.000 some things that I had forgotten about, some things I wrote about that 147 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:28.840 were like what, So I have two books in me. Just call me 148 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.679 an author. Okay, but I want to be your editor because you need 149 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.159 one. I would love that. Okay, are you good at that kind 150 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:39.039 of thing? Is that? Like? I'm actually really good at creative writing? 151 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.159 Are you good at Like? I don't want you to change necessarily what 152 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.879 I'm saying, but I want you to grant. I would spice it up 153 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.879 a little. We would have a meeting about the story. There are some 154 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.320 elements i'd change, but it's good. Actually I love that idea, and 155 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.080 I'll take you up on that. But do you believe in me I can 156 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:58.519 write this book? And you know that's actually like that was good? Like 157 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.600 I was interested. I think we should throw some more sex and violence in 158 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.200 that. No, not okay, you need a little more ominous or like 159 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.120 a little more what you call it a little more mystery. But yeah, 160 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:13.519 I do need to fluffed out. Oh my god, it's it gets really 161 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.679 really really good. You just wait till you hear where old nambrodis lives. 162 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:22.480 Oh my god. Anyway, so that's my host, Chad Eric, what 163 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.360 is your host? Shut? What horribly embarrassing thing happened that should have happened 164 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:30.279 to me? Apparently, because things like this happened to me usually, Well, 165 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.279 things like this also happened to me. True. And like you, 166 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:37.080 just when you think you're hot, shit your cold diarrhea, right true, 167 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:45.600 same thing with me. On Saturday, I was at work. We had 168 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:52.399 a company come and they do they do what are those things called that crapes? 169 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.919 Okay, so they had the savory and they had the sweet. So 170 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.600 I decided to do a shredded chicken with ushrooms and pesto, and I thought, 171 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:03.840 well, I don't want this for breakfast. I'm going to save it 172 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:09.840 for lunch. So I took it home for lunch ate it and you know 173 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.919 how they they have them in they're kind of like a flowery yeah, a 174 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.480 creepy yeah, creep Yes, I know, I'm aware. At some point 175 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:28.519 I must have brushed my cheek with my hand. I'm getting ready to leave 176 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.279 work and I had to go to the bathroom. So I run to the 177 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:39.039 employee bathroom, look in the mirror and it looked like I had been involved 178 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:46.679 in some back alley sex act. What color? What? It was? 179 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:52.320 White? And it was all over the left side of my face. Was 180 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.480 it like powder? From the it was? I literally could like peel it. 181 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.360 I was frosting. Yeah, it was like frosting. And I was 182 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:07.080 so horrified. And I was like, not one person that I interacted with 183 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.799 the rest of the day, not one said anything to me. You left 184 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:13.519 for lunch and you came back with a bunch of white stuff your face. 185 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.080 I was earning lunch money. I was like, oh my god, I 186 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:26.759 was horrified. Now see why I say when I have lipstick on my teeth, 187 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.960 which is normally the case, you guys never say anything to me. 188 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.919 I always do. Well, I don't know this. I always tell you 189 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:37.799 when you have lipstick on your teeth, you do. But there are people 190 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.720 that don't. And you know what we would rather know. I think people 191 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:45.240 saw me and thought I had a poor thing. He has a son burner 192 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.679 your face? Yes, thank you, Oh my god, please we have 193 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:58.600 a guest. Please. I was so mortified. Well that and then you 194 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:01.879 went back to work and you're like, thanks, guys, did you tell 195 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.840 them what happened? Yes? I was like, oh my god, I 196 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.480 can't believe this. I remember this was years ago. I went to support 197 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.919 in Fashion Valley m hm, and they had some sort of a facial miss 198 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:16.320 stuff that you could like a hydrating miss. The conspiraen well, I you 199 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.919 know, I do it. And I was wearing like a black T shirt 200 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.639 and it wasn't a mist. It was like a lotion. So I was 201 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.919 like, oh, I feel anything, put it down, don't look at 202 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:30.480 anything. I'm walking through them all and people are just looking at me like 203 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:35.440 what it's sports of lotion all over my black T shirt. So I just 204 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.039 looked once again. Yeah, when you thought you were hot, you know 205 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.879 what? Hmm. Clearly Eric works on the opposite corner of Laura. Apparently 206 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.480 I do, and it's it's the one that has no handy wipes at all. 207 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:54.759 Well, let's get to the Double D news because I can't even wait 208 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:58.559 for our guests. You guys are gonna if you don't know this guy, 209 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:02.519 just wait. I'm super excited. He's awesome. We've seen him quite a 210 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.399 few times. Yeah, but did you know he's so much more? No? 211 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.840 I did not. I'm super excited. I was reading through his bio 212 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.799 I was like, my jaw hit the floor. I'm like, what the 213 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.759 wow? This guy is incredible. Anyway, we'll get to Tad Sisler in 214 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:23.799 just a minute. What's up in Double D News? Eric in Hollywood. 215 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:29.000 Madonna is still the biggest selling female recording artist. She has been officially certified 216 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.039 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling female recording artist of 217 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:37.639 all time. She's held the record since two thousand and nine. She's followed 218 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.240 by Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce. Taylor's going to 219 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.600 surpass her. I think, oh, it's And how do we feel about 220 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.360 Taylor and her new boyfriend? Do we love? Like the Pete? They 221 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.440 literally could not care lest I don't even know. I think I'm obsessed. 222 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:55.360 I'm obsessed. Literally could not carely. Oh they're the cutest, well what 223 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:00.679 they But he's he is so handsome, cuest I don't care. Your girlfriend 224 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.480 is a cut it is for sure, and you're you're okay, okay. 225 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.440 Rumor has it that Kevin Costner and Reese Witherspoon might be an item. He 226 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.960 is odd, he's single, Yes, oh yeah, he went through a 227 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.279 horrible he's going through a horrible divorce. Yes, not nothing. I mean 228 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.759 the ink hasn't even dry yet. He's already. Boy. I love Kevin 229 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:26.640 Costner. Guess what, he's sixty eight, she's forty seven. Well, 230 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:29.839 I'm sure they have everything. He's awesome. Come on, have you seen 231 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.880 Robin Hood? Like? Do you watch Yellowstone? No? Have you ever 232 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.839 thought about it? I mean I hear great things about it, but yeah, 233 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.319 I thought about it. But it seems like a kind of a big 234 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.680 undertaking, doesn't it. Yeah, speaking of undertaking, Oh my god, 235 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.000 my favorite show from when Evan was born. So this show is almost like 236 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.240 Netflix has just put six Feet Under back on the TV Younger Brian just like 237 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:04.119 a Christopher Pike. This is a Alan Ball show. This show is so 238 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:11.400 damn good and it was on HBO for many years. And the finale, 239 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:17.319 the series finale, I remember sobbing. I've never sobbed at a show like 240 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:22.920 that ever. I will tell you in a future episode what happened between me 241 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.559 and one of the cast members of Six Feet Under. Oh my God. 242 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:33.680 Okay, okay, talk about being humiliated. Swear to god, it is 243 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:38.960 a true story at a celebrity event. Okay, all right, I can't 244 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:47.079 wait. So women dominate the Grammy Awards this year. The nominations are out. 245 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.880 I know four of the women that are listed, Sissa Lee, I 246 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:57.960 have no idea who that leads the pack with nine, I have no idea 247 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.759 who that is. Other arts with multiple nods include Victoria Money. I have 248 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:07.039 no idea who that is. Phoebe Bridger's I don't know, boy Genius, 249 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:14.279 my girls, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, Billy Eilish and Olivia. Did 250 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:15.799 Billy Eilish even have anything out the day? I know? I don't know, 251 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:22.440 but Olivia Rodrigo did. Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday party ran the gamut from probably 252 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.640 just a bunch of twelve year old girls there. How old is he is? 253 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:32.799 Not that all? He did forty nine and I think he he's not 254 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.920 even fifty yet. I think he was like at least fifty two or something. 255 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.200 I didn't think he was even forty nine. I thought I was younger 256 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:44.839 than that. Kim Kardashian, Jay Z, Beyonce and al Pacino and Salia 257 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:51.160 Moon five herself were there. I bet that party was insane and great, 258 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:56.079 and he probably has a new nineteen year old girl yeah, well, whatever 259 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:57.160 he can. Let him. Let him do what he did for you. 260 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.440 I know who Joey Fatone is, right, Joey Fotonias from in Sync, 261 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:10.000 Right, Yes, he got hair plugs and fat removal fat removal procedure. 262 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:11.960 He says, quote, I'm not trying to change who I am. I'm 263 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.839 just trying to edit it a little bit. Hair plugs are no joke. 264 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.880 Those are pretty serious. Those are serious, and you can wind up looking 265 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:25.480 like you have doll hair. Well, I think they've they've perfected it over 266 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:30.119 the years. Hopefully careful. What else? Audrina Patridge from the Hills, 267 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:37.440 Her fifteen year old Niececedi, died of an overdose fifteen. She was able 268 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:44.559 to buy percoset through Snapchat that was laced with fens andol. That is terrible, 269 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:48.359 since you can you can buy a lot of things through Snapchat. Okay, 270 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.720 well, it's like Snapchat sold it to I'm just sure that I thought 271 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:56.000 where Snapchat was talking to her goofy face things. She probably bought it through 272 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.559 a friend, just like you can. You communicate on Snapchat, that's all. 273 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.880 That's the only way my daughter communicates with her friends. It was just 274 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.880 face nothing. Oh good, Grace. It's just like it's like the same 275 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:11.440 if I text you said, hey, give me some perks, Like I 276 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.400 mean, it's not that much different. Yeah, that's how Wow, that's 277 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.440 really sun God, dang it. I always tell my kids just do not 278 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:22.279 take a pill. Don't take a pill, don't take a strange pill. 279 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:27.200 Please. Oh so we all know who Jeff Bezos is, right, I 280 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.880 mean, he's got kind of some money. I guess that would be a 281 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:37.400 yes. And his new fiance, Lawren Sanchez. Yeah, they had their 282 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:42.160 engagement party at the private home of Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg. Here 283 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:48.079 are some of the guests. Now, who's Barry Diller? He is a 284 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.359 media tycoon, isn't he. I have no clue. I think Barry I 285 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.319 think that's okay. And his wife is Dian Vons. I think he deals 286 00:21:56.359 --> 00:22:02.279 with like a television or Yeah. Here's some of the guests. I can 287 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:04.079 honestly say that none of these guests have ever shown up to a party that 288 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:10.680 I've had. Kim Kardashian, Chloe Kardashian, Chris Jenner and her fiance Corey 289 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:15.200 Gamble, Oprah, Mick Jagger, Chris Rock, David Geffen, Robert Pattison 290 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.079 and Suki Waterhouse, Barbara Streiss and Jessica Alba, Selma Hayak, and Rita 291 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:23.799 Wilson, just to name a few. Dang, that's a celebrity gamut right 292 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:29.880 there. That doesn't sound like one of my parties. Oh it's you would 293 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.480 You would wouldn't want to be at that party. Oh I would be at 294 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:40.559 that party in two shakes, exactly the saddest news that I have to bring 295 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:44.839 to you all. Everybody gets your klean X out. Homer Simpson will no 296 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.680 longer be able to choke Bart. I heard that. What do you call 297 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.640 it? Fake? Oh? Is this something that he does? I don't 298 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:59.359 know. I'm obviously people. People were objecting to the violt like it's too 299 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.359 violent of a for cartoons. Funny though it got reported for a couple of 300 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.319 days. But then I think this one of the executives or the Simpsons creator 301 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:10.160 was made a joke basically saying that that was not true. How come that 302 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:15.039 happens? And yet South Park does like the most horrific things. It's funny, 303 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.480 it's it is funny. But they don't get Oh they do. They 304 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.559 just don't listen. They don't care. Oh, I have never watched one 305 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:27.240 minute of the Simpsons, and I think I've only seen one episode of south 306 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:30.880 Park. South Park is really good, south Park's all right, south Park's 307 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:34.279 hit or miss. I only watched semester Christmas Pooh episode. That's the only 308 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.599 thing I can remember. I think Family Guy is still the best. Family 309 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.720 Guy's great too. Family Guy, Are you done, my friend? I'm 310 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.559 pote me with a ford. Okay, before we bring tout on, let's 311 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.039 talk about first our guy, our other guy that we love so much, 312 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.400 Jay Wortler, Capital GROWTHINGK. Here's more about him. Are you ready to 313 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:57.039 take control of your financial future? Look no further than Jay Wartzler. You're 314 00:23:57.079 --> 00:24:03.880 trusted and our favorite financial planner. Life is full of financial decisions and with 315 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.480 thirty plus years of experience and a dedication to your financial wellbeing, Jay is 316 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.839 your partner and achieving your financial goals. So if you're at or near retirement 317 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.240 and you want to know if you have sufficient assets and income sources for a 318 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:19.680 comfortable retirement, or if you are simply changing jobs and you're unsure about what 319 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:25.200 your options are with your current retirement plan, please reach out to j Jay 320 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.279 Wurtzler and the team at Capital Growth go the extra mile to ensure your financial 321 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:33.519 success. Their office is a one stop shop for financial advising, estate planning, 322 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:40.200 tax preparation and divorce analysis. Call j today at eight five eight five 323 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:45.680 five two six' nine six to zero or email him at jayw at Capitolgrowthinc 324 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:52.640 dot com. You may notice that we have a third member now of the 325 00:24:52.720 --> 00:25:00.519 podcast. This is Tad Sissler. Yay, okay. If you have been 326 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.319 to Manhattan, La joya great restaurant on the weekends, I think Thursday through 327 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:12.079 Sunday, yeasay through Saturday, Thursday through Saturday. Okay. There's beautiful piano 328 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:18.200 music playing along with singing, and you can request songs. And you know 329 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.960 what, me and my girlfriends and you have been many times to sit around 330 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.240 the piano. You can actually sit around the piano. And this is him, 331 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:30.319 This is the piano man Tat and he will take your request. He 332 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:34.200 knows every single song, every new song, every old song. I mean, 333 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:37.599 there's not a song you could throw at you that you don't know well, 334 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:40.200 you know, and I love it when you come in. You know, 335 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:44.079 I've actually loved you for a long time. I've followed you when you're 336 00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:48.240 on Jeff and Jair, and I love the synergy that you two have together. 337 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.119 This is just really cool. Thank you, And I love your sponsors. 338 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:55.000 I mean, I love Amethyst Crystal. I definitely need La joya cosmetic, 339 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.839 there's no question about that. And who doesn't want capital growth, right, 340 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.960 exactly what I'm saying, thank you so much. No, And you 341 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:07.359 know what he always plays when we're there and when I'm there anyway, is 342 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:10.680 a song that my dad used to sing to me. It's the song Laura 343 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.519 Laura, which is quite appropriate, I should say, yes, and it's 344 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:18.000 just you sing it so well and anyway, So if you guys, it's 345 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.559 a great time, great food, great restaurant, great ambiance, and Tad, 346 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:27.400 you're responsible for that ambiance because that place gets crowded and it's because of 347 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.519 you. It's really good food. The owners are wonderful people. I've been 348 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.720 there for twelve years. It turned into a sentence, actually no, but 349 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:37.200 I love it, I really do, and I'm grateful for it, and 350 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.039 it's a great place to work. So I wanted to have you on because 351 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:47.640 I knew that there was more to the story than you being the piano player 352 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.839 at Manhattan. You also, okay, so he sent me his bio because 353 00:26:52.880 --> 00:27:00.640 I needed to write some things up. This man right here may or may 354 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:07.480 not have studied under Frank Sinatra and studied acting with Richard Burton. Has performed 355 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:14.079 with multiple people over the years, like Ritt was Rida Coolidge, one of 356 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:19.519 them open for Kenny Rodgers, which was very cool for a period. And 357 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:22.720 oh, it goes on and on, but I'm you know, it's funny 358 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.279 when when you look back. I had four kids at the age of twenty 359 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:32.240 three, so I just took every job I could, and I happened to 360 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.880 live in Palm Springs, which is sort of the hub of a lot of 361 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:40.160 stars. When I was very young, my dad was a physician and he 362 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:44.960 I think removed a hemorrhoid from Elizabeth Taylor. So we were invited over to 363 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:52.039 their house. Which husband was that Richard Burton. Wow, okay, yeah, 364 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.279 And so there was this magical day where I had an acting lesson for 365 00:27:55.440 --> 00:28:00.000 Richard Burton and got to hang with Elizabeth Taylor, who was probably the most 366 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:02.599 beautiful woman of her time. I mean, nothing like you, Laura, 367 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:07.640 Oh come on, I mean she was quite a looker. Oh my gosh. 368 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.359 Then and then Frank Sinatra also was in that same hub, right, 369 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.319 Yeah, that was a spring that was Later on, I was performing in 370 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.640 a nightclub in Palm Springs and the owner told me, Frank's coming in tonight, 371 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.200 and just whatever you do, don't play any Frank Sinatra songs because Frank, 372 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:26.240 I guess a lot of guys would know that Frank was coming in, 373 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.279 so they tried to out frank him, like, you know, fly Me 374 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:32.079 to the Moon, you know, that kind of thing. And we hated 375 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:36.839 that. So, I mean, I was twenty four and it was like, 376 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:38.400 I don't even remember what he did or didn't do, you know, 377 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.720 I just I'm just going to do my thing. So and he was sitting 378 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:45.920 across from me, and I remember the first time I met him, I 379 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.359 was playing what are You doing the rest of your Life? And he got 380 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:49.480 up and he started walking right at me, and I'm like, oh my 381 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.839 god, Oh my god. And he came up and he said, yeah, 382 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:55.519 tough bridge on that song. You know you did a well, kid, 383 00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:56.720 and then he walked past me to the restroom, and I was like, 384 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:03.279 oh, But then they just started calling me and I started doing a 385 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:06.720 lot of events with him and for him, and he just was one of 386 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.759 the kindest and behind the scenes things that he did for people. You would 387 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:14.680 never know because he has this reputation as being a tough guy, but he 388 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:18.720 really was just a giant of a human being and he was just it was 389 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.400 it was really cool. Wow, it was great to know him when I 390 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:26.839 was so young. I wish I wish now I knew what I did then, 391 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.519 or like Bob Seeger says, I wish I didn't know now what I 392 00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.559 didn't know that. I mean, God to look back to have this wisdom 393 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.279 and be young. Yeah, I know. Oh my gosh, that's right, 394 00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.640 so true. When is the first time you put fingers on a piano. 395 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.440 My mother was a concert pianist. She was a child prodigy. At 396 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.119 the age of seventeen, she played for the Chicago Symphony. This was back 397 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:55.200 long before any of us were born, obviously, obviously, and she just 398 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:59.279 kind of as as early as I can remember, she had me playing piano. 399 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.519 Remember sitting at the piano at the age of maybe five, and she 400 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.640 was teaching me yesterday by the Beatles and Blue Moon, and I mean, 401 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.240 I can still remember songs that that she taught me when I was before I 402 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:15.799 could even I don't even know what who I was at that point, and 403 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:22.079 then you went on to study music. I did. At some point she 404 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:26.200 put me with Joanna Hodges, who was the Van Cleiburn International Concert Pianist winner, 405 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.759 and she just sort of put me in practice rooms at a college and 406 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.160 just kind of beat me up with classical music and so. But at the 407 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:37.160 age of twelve, I was kind of winning competitions for classical music. But 408 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.160 then my parents divorced. I moved back with my father and he had a 409 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.200 piano at his house. But that was the end of the of the lessons 410 00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:48.039 and I just wanted to play rock and roll anyway after that. But that 411 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.200 classical foundation, I think it's I mean, it's amazing. Every once in 412 00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.240 a while you'll bust that out at Manhattan, like you'll do like a you'll 413 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.640 sing and then you'll be like down there. Yeah, I was like, 414 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.759 wow, that's incredible. Uh Yeah. I had the chance to meet LIBERACEI 415 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.480 when I was in the desert, which was kind of cool. I mean, 416 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.079 they all lived out there. Well. At one point, I was 417 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:12.799 walking my kids through the grocery store and he was kind of staring at me 418 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.319 from the frozen foods, like hey, you know, and I was like, 419 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.559 okay, but we ended up becoming pretty good friends, and he was 420 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.839 he was a really good guy. So I mean all these things I mean 421 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:27.039 for me, it's like I just like I said, I just kind of 422 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:33.119 found myself in a lot of these kind of positions and that's kind of what 423 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.559 led me to writing my book. Okay, that and also some pretty crazy 424 00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.200 life experiences. Tell me about your book. Okay, you've you've you've written 425 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.480 more than one, written three books. Okay, what are they about? 426 00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:49.279 And well, one book I co wrote with a lady who wrote a story 427 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:53.599 about she was impregnated by a mafioso when she was very young. And it's 428 00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:56.319 a it's kind of a bizarre move. It's a it's a bizarre book, 429 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:01.640 but it's it's cool. It's called Mafia Baby. And then I actually wrote 430 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:07.839 this really really cool biography with Steve Madeo, who you've never heard of him, 431 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:13.039 but he played on every hit you've ever heard in your life up until 432 00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:17.799 probably the nineties. He was at Woodstock with the Butterfield Blues Band on stage, 433 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:21.519 who was the trumpet player in the horn section, and then he went 434 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:25.599 with Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones and Neil Diamond and Barbaras streisand and I 435 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:28.960 mean he he played with everybody, I mean, you name it, and 436 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.440 he was on the recording, and he was a good friend of mine, 437 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:37.240 and he would he actually played in my band at some point, and he 438 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:40.039 wanted to write a biography. So I brought the tape recorder and I sat 439 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:45.400 with him for for just weeks, and we ended up writing the book, 440 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:50.559 and then we did an audiobook, and two weeks after he did the narration 441 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:53.240 on the audio book, he died of a heart attack at the age of 442 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:58.160 seventy. So it was like sort of this sort of cathartic thing that just 443 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.640 I mean, we got his life story and it's in his voice, and 444 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.400 it's really amazing. It's called Reflections in the Key of Life. Oh I 445 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.720 love that title. Yeah. And then your third book is that about you? 446 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:13.960 My book is my autobiography? Okay, tell me about the process of 447 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:17.400 writing a book, especially an autobiography, Like do you sit there in front 448 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:21.039 of a computer and go, okay, where are the heck do I even 449 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:23.000 start? What's funny? I mean, I got the idea for it. 450 00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:28.559 I went back to see my sister about five years ago and she saves everything 451 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:30.599 and she had all these papers. So I was looking through the papers and 452 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:36.319 I found this like five page autobiography that I started to write when I was 453 00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:37.720 twenty, which is hilarious to me. I mean, what do you know 454 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:39.359 when you're twenty? I mean, what are you going to talk about? 455 00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:43.279 But actually it was kind of cool and it gave me the idea that I 456 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:46.400 think I always wanted to do this, but when I did it, and 457 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:52.079 I've had some kind of tragic things happen and some beautiful things. But I 458 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:55.559 didn't want to just kind of write names and dates, because I think a 459 00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:59.119 lot of people don't like history because they teach it that way. And if 460 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:01.480 you know about the story these history is fascinating and it's kind of the same 461 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:07.119 with our lives. So what I did was I tried to I tried to 462 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.360 write about an experience, and then I would encapsulate what, you know, 463 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.320 what did I learn from this or what lesson is here to be? That's 464 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.159 huge, that's a big eie. Yeah, I'm reading I've been listening to 465 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:23.760 like how to write a book books and they say that that is like you 466 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.840 need to have that, you need to have like a like a lesson or 467 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.960 an inspiration or a message you need to have so that you did it right. 468 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.599 Well, obviously you're a good writer, so it should come easy for 469 00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.880 you. Got the old man wrote his book? Well, no, that's 470 00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:39.679 just the start. But do you have your book with you? Let me 471 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:43.840 let's see what it looks like and where do we get it. It's funny 472 00:34:43.880 --> 00:34:46.719 because I entitled it it's a long climb to the middle because that's kind of 473 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.239 where I made it. And I mean, this is a huge book. 474 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:52.880 I'm probably going to put it out in paperback at some point, but I 475 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.960 mean this is kind of a coffee table book. It's got photos of all 476 00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:00.559 my experience. Oh wow, that just with different stars and family members, 477 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.760 and and I mean it's it's pretty deep. How long did that take you 478 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.760 to write? Probably about a year, I would say, wow. Yeah. 479 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.679 I mean I kept going back to it, and and I've got a 480 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:16.760 really weird memory. I can just I mean, I can remember months every 481 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.840 month of my life for some weird reasons. One of those. But and 482 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:22.880 you kind of go back and one thing leads to it's kind of a bridge 483 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:28.880 that builds to another remembrance or thought and and so kind of that's yeah. 484 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.519 And then do you send the manuscript to somebody to publish? I mean, 485 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:36.480 is it do you? Now? You can self publish right or Amazon can 486 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:40.280 publish you? Now? Sure, I self published. But I have a 487 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:47.719 company, Mainstream Source, which we publish books and we've done just countless uh 488 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:53.440 uh songs and tracks and music for film and television and and so it's mostly 489 00:35:53.639 --> 00:36:00.960 music and film. We've done biographies and documentaries and also books too. Okay, 490 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.679 so let's move on to this part of your life. Mainstream Source. 491 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:10.960 This is your company, and this is so if okay, just say my 492 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.360 book is done, I can take it to your company and to you and 493 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:19.199 you look at it and decide if you like it or not and want to 494 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:22.000 publish it. I mean, and that part of your company. That's just 495 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:25.079 part of your company. Absolutely. But I think what we kind of try 496 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:32.320 to do with people is I'm not interested in taking a piece of your life. 497 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.480 I think you should have it. And we do this a lot with 498 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.000 different composers and musicians that we work with. And in fact, I have 499 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.920 a friend in New York who was actually a friend of Steve Madeo the trumpet 500 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:49.719 Players, And that's how I met him. And he's a great sax player 501 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:52.000 that worked with all the legends. And he wrote a book and he came 502 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:54.159 to me and said, will you publish it? And I said, I 503 00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:57.400 will edit it for you. I will look through the whole thing. I'll 504 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.039 give you suggestions. We made it into a better book. And then I 505 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.639 showed him how to publish it and how to get it on all the outlets, 506 00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.719 and how to make money himself off of it. Okay, So and 507 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:13.320 he's doing great. I mean he's really he's because most of it's marketing, 508 00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:15.960 as you well know. Right, So where do we find your where work? 509 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:20.360 Where can somebody buy your book? All my stuff is on Amazon, 510 00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:28.159 All my music is on all the outlets, iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify. 511 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:31.239 Now you play on you know, at Manhattan, you play you know, 512 00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:36.559 cover songs. You play songs you know Bruno mars to like Frank Sinatra 513 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:38.639 to. You know, it depends on the time of night. You kind 514 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:42.239 of start getting a little more spicy toward the end of the night. You 515 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:46.000 know, it devolves into dance party. Hell, I know we've been part 516 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:51.920 of that dance party. I love it. But you have you created your 517 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:55.800 own songs then oh, yeah, I've written, I've composed dozens and dozens 518 00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.440 of songs, and in fact, we we put together a collection music for 519 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:02.119 film and TV. So for a while we were writing all kinds of stuff. 520 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:06.559 And then I did some films, like I did a film with Elliott 521 00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:08.440 Gould called The Encore of Tony Durant, where we did the entire score, 522 00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:15.320 and I also I had a little bit part acting in it. And the 523 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:19.360 executive producer of the film came to me and he said, well, we 524 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.679 want to do all these different things, like we want to do really really 525 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.760 fast jazz, like sort of manic jazz when he's going through his manic phase. 526 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.719 And then and I mean little things like he goes into a body shop 527 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.800 and we want authentic to Hano Mexican music playing in the background, as if 528 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.840 you're actually in a body shop in you know, Palm Desert or in Indio. 529 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:44.519 And so I hired my friend who's an accordion player, and we listened 530 00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:50.039 to a bunch of Tahano stuff and we just created we composed three or four 531 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.559 songs. Awesome on that level, I mean, we just we just kind 532 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:58.480 of things lead one thing leads to another. So I've done rock jazz. 533 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.559 I mean, you name it, we've you've kind of done it. And 534 00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:07.800 then sometimes he has his granddaughter, which now I understand because I didn't really 535 00:39:07.880 --> 00:39:13.480 understand, like because you're such a you're a young guy, you're not old, 536 00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.079 Like, thank you, she's sit me in the morning. So it 537 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:20.840 makes sense now that you had children so young, because your granddaughter is she's 538 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.840 twenty how old. Mikayla just turned twenty one. She is absolutely beautiful, 539 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:31.159 and she is so talented, and she was on America. Yeah, Mikayla 540 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:37.000 at the age of fifteen went on America's Got Talent and she got the Golden 541 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.960 buzzer from Heidi Klum and that led her all the way to the finals. 542 00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.960 I think she ended up in the top ten on America's Got Talent. And 543 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.920 then during the COVID year, she auditioned for American Idol and she made it 544 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.960 all the way to the top ten on American Idol, and I think she 545 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:57.679 might have even won if it wasn't in the situation where they had them all 546 00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:00.320 performing in from their homes. Yeah, and she's such stage performer. Yeah, 547 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:06.320 she's so just good, amazing, and I mean she's just she's got 548 00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:10.000 like, you know, five million followers. It's crazy, but I'm just 549 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:15.480 I'm so proud of her. Do you have other grandchildren? I do. 550 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:21.639 I have that I know of. I have that are musically inclined. I 551 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.079 do. All my kids and grandkids are musically inclined, but I kind of 552 00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.800 sort of try to lead them away because it's a tough road. I mean, 553 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:32.000 it can be, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've got Whitney 554 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.880 is the oldest, and she my daughter was pregnant with her when my wife 555 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:40.119 died. When when their mother died, this was my twins were thirteen at 556 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:44.280 the time. Anyway, I have another daughter that's got three beautiful kids. 557 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:49.960 So I have a total of six grandchildren. But I did, like I 558 00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.519 said, I had four kids under the age of seven when I was twenty 559 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.559 three years old, so I started really young. I'm sorry about your wife. 560 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:02.039 One of the obviously the tragedy of these that you talked about, that 561 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:09.639 you obviously had to go through and rise up and raise your kids. And 562 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.679 well, no one's immune to that. I mean, I think that's something 563 00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:19.199 that affects all of us. And I guess I don't really know that there's 564 00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:24.400 any actual roadmap to get you through anything like that. But we find our 565 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:29.599 way. And I mean I was, I guess if you could say fortunate 566 00:41:29.639 --> 00:41:34.760 in a way that I had children that we were very close, and I 567 00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.079 mean my twins had just turned thirteen, and and they just ended up being 568 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.679 the best teenagers and we just kind of clung together. And and I mean, 569 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.199 you worry, you worry about them, and there's there's nothing you can 570 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:47.320 do. And I always tell people, I said, you know, even 571 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:52.440 if you hate your ex or the mother of your children or the father of 572 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:57.440 your children, they're the only person that you can look into their eyes and 573 00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.039 say, look at what our kids just did, you know. And that's 574 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.360 that I think that's the thing that I lost the most. I think that's 575 00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:07.679 the thing that I lost the most about it is that you don't have that 576 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:13.320 one person that you can just look and like when my daughter, when my 577 00:42:13.400 --> 00:42:15.440 twins graduated high school, and when my daughter got married, and all the 578 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.559 things that have happened since, and so many things have happened since. And 579 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:21.880 so I talk about it in the book, and I you know, I 580 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.920 get into it and try to find whatever wisdom comes out of that. Do 581 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:31.679 you believe is in like, has it renewed your faith in God? Or 582 00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:37.480 do you do you believe in in an afterlife? What do you believe in? 583 00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.400 Like are you gonna do you believe you're gonna all be together again? 584 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:44.159 I'll say absolutely? And yes, I mean it's weird because you I mean, 585 00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:45.960 I don't. I know, everybody has their own beliefs, and I 586 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:51.239 respect that and I love that. But when I go and I see a 587 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.199 sunrise and I see a blade of grass or I have a flower, and 588 00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:58.599 we I think we all sort of have a tendency to just ignore it and 589 00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:01.280 everything sort of becomes rote in the world. But I think when you when 590 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:07.840 you just stop and look around, you have to realize that how did this 591 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:12.000 all happen? And for me, the answer to that is there is a 592 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.480 creator and it's and my faith has guided me through a lot of this. 593 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.960 You know, there's definitely a power greater than ourselves, that's sure. Yeah, 594 00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.440 And I think that thing when you were talking about AA, that the 595 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:29.119 higher power thing. And my father was an alcoholic who he was kind of 596 00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:32.880 my success story. He was a terrible alcoholic who destroyed our family and for 597 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.880 the first forty five years of his life, and then for the second forty 598 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.519 years of his life he was completely sober and an icon of his community, 599 00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:46.079 and we became and ended up best friends. Wow. And so I've seen 600 00:43:46.119 --> 00:43:51.960 it from both from both sides, and you know, it works if you 601 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.719 work it, yeah, and if you you know, And that's one of 602 00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.880 those things to believe in, is a higher power, just something greater than 603 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:04.880 yourself, your mainstream source, tell us the okay, you have, you 604 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.320 have products, your products, You're going to show us things. Yeah, 605 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.639 I want to see. So when COVID happened, I became an outlaw. 606 00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:19.960 Why do you Musicians weren't allowed to perform in public? So I'm Manhattan closed 607 00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:23.960 down for ten months. And I was before COVID. I had a band 608 00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:29.159 forever and we did all kinds of huge gigs all over the world, and 609 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:30.719 I just kind of shut that down, and so I thought, what am 610 00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:35.480 I going to do with my life? And so I started selling products I 611 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:38.000 had. I'd had the idea. I was a developer for Yamaha for ten 612 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:43.440 years and we developed music for their keyboards and we had to take the very 613 00:44:43.519 --> 00:44:46.920 best keyboard they have and put a song on it that was excellent. And 614 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.159 then they gave us the worst keyboard they had and said, make it sound 615 00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:53.639 good on this, and that was really hard to do without dumbing it down, 616 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:58.880 without making it kind of not sound as good as you possibly could. 617 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.920 So I kind of took that idea and I put it into the technology of 618 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:06.719 a cute little wireless bluetooth microphone, which I'll show you. Okay, I 619 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:08.079 love this, I love this, I love this, I love this. 620 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:14.679 Okay, this is something my daughter would love. This is something that here's 621 00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:17.639 the box, Oh my gosh. And we sell this on Amazon, by 622 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:22.920 the way, and also on my website. But a karaoke microphone, Yeah, 623 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.840 what we did, it's kind of an all in one, and there's 624 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:29.079 there are other brands that do this. But what we did with with our 625 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:31.559 mic was we kind of took a look at the at the four or five 626 00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:36.960 best selling ones, and we looked at the reviews and saw that the things 627 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.639 that people really liked about them and the things that people didn't like about them, 628 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:43.760 and then we tried to sort of make the best product out of that. 629 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:50.119 And so we redesigned the control panel to make it more user friendly, 630 00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:53.079 and we separated out the reverb from the echo delay, so you have a 631 00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:58.000 little bit more control over your vocal We changed the chip insight to a DSP 632 00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:01.480 chip, which allows a little bit more memory. That allowed us to split 633 00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:07.119 these and also gives it a little bit of a better sound. And and 634 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:12.000 I mean it's really it's a fun little mic and listen to Oh, I 635 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.920 don't think you need to turn it off, yeah, because you can. 636 00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:19.159 You can just you can hear it alone, or you can hear it with 637 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:24.199 ree verb, or you can put and then there's like effects that you have 638 00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.159 that you can play with if you really want to be like I can sound 639 00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:35.280 just like share or very white that and then there's an even lower one that's 640 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:40.519 really like a monster and then magic so free but if you want to like 641 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:46.920 you and some of them so I can't sing, so that would be perfect. 642 00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:52.840 So I mean, it's a lot of fun. So there's a lot 643 00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.519 of effects, and you can also obviously hook it through Bluetooth or even a 644 00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.880 line out. Can do a line out to a larger sounds where it sounds 645 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:04.079 really big, because this little speaker is kind of fun for a little room, 646 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:06.239 but you can also make it so I was just gonna but I was 647 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.079 gonna say this speakers is outstanding, really good for a tiny little thing. 648 00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:14.920 And then it also hooks through Bluetooth to your phone and we have a little 649 00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:19.800 accessory kit with a cell phone holder and a little USB disco ball and it's 650 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.000 just fun. But I mean, it's a lot of fun. And it 651 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:24.639 retails it like thirty nine to ninety five, but I think we have it 652 00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:29.199 on sale right now for twenty five or something like that. Oh my god, 653 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.000 Okay, I mean so it's I mean, for the price, it's 654 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:35.559 not a professional microphone. It's not. It's not an s M fifty eight, 655 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:37.400 which I think this might be or something that all of these aren't professionals. 656 00:47:38.199 --> 00:47:42.880 It's not a pro mic. But it's a fun party mic and it's 657 00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:45.840 priced right and it's the best in its class. Okay. And the website 658 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:51.000 is on our website, Laura Kane after Dark all of his information and the 659 00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:57.719 link to this this website mainstream source where you can get that mic. Okay, 660 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:00.199 So what else you got on that? Okay? Well, we have 661 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:01.079 a bunch of other products, and I'm not going to bring them all out. 662 00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:04.119 I want to see one at least one more. Oh, I want 663 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:06.719 to see a couple more I know because I just love I love it. 664 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:12.360 I love creators. I love people who who come up with an idea and 665 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:16.800 actually create it and then sell it. I mean, it's hard to get 666 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.599 to that point. Oh thank you. This looks like right up my alley. 667 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.320 Oh yeah, it's a little lunch box and it's got unicorns and horses 668 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:28.199 on it. And actually there's we have fourteen different styles for boys and girls, 669 00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:31.719 and there is a there's a leading seller of this box on Amazon. 670 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:37.639 It's it's another company and they it's a great little lunch box that they have, 671 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:39.400 and we went to the same manufacturer as them. But what we did 672 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:45.159 was we again took a look at the reviews and most people really liked the 673 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:49.480 way it was built. So we used all the same materials as them. 674 00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:52.440 But what we did was we pased, we patented a built in handle so 675 00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:54.719 a kid can carry it, because the other ones don't have a handle, 676 00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.800 so they have to kind of be to put it in a lunch box or 677 00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.960 and you can still this still fits in a standard unchbox. But it's got 678 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:07.519 cute little compartments, Yeah, cute little compartments for kids, and it's it's 679 00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.400 leakproof and it's lab tested at cps I, a safe. You can put 680 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.079 like little cheese and one and grapes and one, got recipes and everything on 681 00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.199 the website, and I mean it's great for kids, and kids love it. 682 00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:21.800 And in fact it's funny because we put this one and the leading one 683 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.559 on a table and my little niece ran up and of course you grabbed this 684 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:28.719 one because you can grab the handle and run away with it. So she 685 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:31.039 stole mine, which was great. And then you can put your name on 686 00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:35.400 it with it comes with little stickers we have and then a little spork like 687 00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:40.559 a little spoonful that is so huge. So that's cool you okay, And 688 00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:44.199 so you have a lot of different products. We have different products. We 689 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.679 instead of going for just musical stuff, what we thought is just we would 690 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:53.000 create a brand that is just the highest quality in its class across the board. 691 00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:55.920 So and there's other brands like oh XO. There's other brands that do 692 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:01.159 this that that don't just focus on one like cosmetics or microphones or and so 693 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:07.840 we have wineglasses, we have bamboo ziploc bag storage containers and foil containers for 694 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:14.400 it's all sustainable and just all kinds of other stuff, little guitar wallhangers if 695 00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.000 you want to hang your guitar, and I mean just really fun things. 696 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:19.920 But they're all really good quality. And that's the thing that we really kind 697 00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:23.519 of focused on is taking that item, looking at the four best ones and 698 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:28.280 making one that's just maybe a little bit better at the same or a very 699 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:31.719 competitive price. I'm shocked at how much this microphone is. Yeah, I 700 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:37.599 mean yeah, And then so would you rather them get it a mainstream source 701 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:39.559 or on Amazon? You say that you could get them on bolth, you 702 00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:45.559 can get them on Amazon and or on our website, and we I mean 703 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:47.880 we've got stores on wal Mart and TikTok and everywhere else. But yeah, 704 00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:52.719 but Amazon is great because Amazon is prime and you can get it in a 705 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:54.960 day. And that's always kind of what we want. Want one, Well, 706 00:50:54.960 --> 00:51:00.400 we want want one, and we want it now. Well, God, 707 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:04.920 I could talk to you for hours. Oh me too. Oh yeah, 708 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:07.079 we just you know, I just one more. Yeah, I'm all 709 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.239 good. I want to see you. He probably in this big box full 710 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.400 of fun things. So these are new wine glasses and we just brought these 711 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:20.639 out about a month ago or two months ago. We sell red wine, 712 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:22.159 white wine. And then this one has red and white, so it's two 713 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.840 red and two white, and so we sell four red or four white, 714 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.239 and then we sell these were too red and two white. And I'm just 715 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.519 like amazed because I don't know if anyone else is just doing this with two 716 00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.519 red and two white wine glasses, I don't understand. But we are just 717 00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.760 selling the like these are selling like mad. So there's a different for different 718 00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:44.760 You mean red wine has a different glass than white wine does. Yes, 719 00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:49.159 it does. Oh, I mean you can probably use this wine in different 720 00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:51.840 glass Like I see a lot of people using white wine and red wine glasses, 721 00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:58.440 but traditionally red wine glasses have a deeper base. And that's uh, 722 00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:01.400 it's for a ration. And I've learned so much about wine that I never 723 00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:07.679 knew just by doing this. And we also work with a European wine connoisseur 724 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:15.159 who has a distributorship here in America called Venera and Venia Wines. What they 725 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:19.360 do is they go all over the world and they get wines from wineries that 726 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:22.280 aren't represented in America, like little mom and pop wineries in Italy or in 727 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:29.239 France, and they import the wine over here and so and they happen to 728 00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:34.159 be their business shares the same facility as mine. So I just got to 729 00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:35.800 talking with the guy one day and he was like, well, let me 730 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.119 pick out a glass for you that I know everybody will love. And so 731 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:44.599 it literally it's identical to the leading German wineglass, but it's like twenty dollars 732 00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:49.679 cheaper and so so it's great, it's going good. So we've got so 733 00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.159 many more of it. What is okay? Tell me right now in your 734 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:57.960 life, what is your favorite thing that you're doing. What is like the 735 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.480 top thing you're doing right this moment in your life? What are you most 736 00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:06.519 happy about? What? Hands down? My family? Love in my family. 737 00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:08.639 That's awesome. That's that's what That's what it's all about. That's who 738 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:13.519 you are, and everything else is just kind of really cool things that you're 739 00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:17.400 doing on the side. Yeah, well, I don't want to put you 740 00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:22.639 on the spot, but like when it's time to end the show, because 741 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:27.400 we usually end around this time, but could you maybe maybe just take us 742 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.199 out with like a tiny bit of a song? Oh sure, anything but 743 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:32.320 piano man, Oh no, I know, no, no, I was 744 00:53:32.360 --> 00:53:36.360 going to do that to you. Actually, everybody loves piano man, It's 745 00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:39.840 just it's funny. I have this like book at Manhattan that has three thousand 746 00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:44.239 songs, and people look at it and they go, I know, piano 747 00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:46.840 man. Yeah, I mean it's it's funny. It's kind of a joke 748 00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:50.519 between musicians. But you know what I always try to do is I look 749 00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:54.039 at people's eyes and how they react to something, And it doesn't really matter 750 00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:57.519 what I'm singing, you know, it's just kind of the it's the reaction. 751 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.599 Is there besides piano man, is there a song where like I really 752 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:07.039 don't want to sing that again? Well, I mean there's musicians have a 753 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.199 list of songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Mustang Sally, and I mean all 754 00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:14.480 the songs that you always get asked for. Hey, but I actually worked 755 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.079 with a guy years and years ago who was a really big fifties artist and 756 00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:22.119 he had he had his stardom, and then he was playing in the lounges, 757 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.639 you know, years later, and he always played the same fifty songs. 758 00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:27.559 And I went to him and I said, you know, I know, 759 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:29.199 you know a bunch of other songs. He goes, yeah, but 760 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:31.719 these are people want to hear this. They want to hear familiarity. They 761 00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:35.760 want familiarity. So that's when, like you go to a concert and then 762 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:37.440 the band plays all their new songs. You're like, wait, what, 763 00:54:37.599 --> 00:54:40.559 No, we want to hear like the songs we know. Yeah, yeah, 764 00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:44.880 I understand that. Yeah, Okay, well, okay, anything you 765 00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:49.159 want to sing, I would We would love to hear. Flora is the 766 00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.679 face in the misty life. That's all I'm going to give you. You 767 00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.239 got to come into Manhattan. Oh I love it when he sings that to 768 00:54:55.280 --> 00:55:00.960 me. Yes, Manhattan Thursday through Saturday, every week weekend. You guys. 769 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.079 It's a great restaurant. It's a great place to go, awesome entertainment. 770 00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:12.480 You're there until ten o'clock and so go have some dinner, stay, 771 00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:17.719 dance, listen request. Yeah, food is awesome. And you are just 772 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:23.840 such an on a You're a quality person with integrity, and I just I 773 00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:27.400 see it in your eyes. I always knew it, and I had no 774 00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:30.639 idea about all this other stuff, and I just really loved getting to know 775 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.199 you more. Thank you me too, and thank you for this opportunity. 776 00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.679 Absolute. Okay. We also say something at the end of our podcast when 777 00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:40.559 we end, so I'll say it first and then you say it, and 778 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:44.400 then Eric says it, and then we're done. Okay, Okay, here 779 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.000 we go. Thank you guys for you say this part. But thank you 780 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:52.159 so much for listening on on Instagram and on YouTube and on Spotify or wherever 781 00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:58.440 you're listening or watching. Thank you so much. And love your podcast. 782 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:02.880 Love your podcast, Love your podcast, Love you my sweet babies. Bye, 783 00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:07.199 guys, Thank you, Thank you Dad. 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