Well, my fucking panties off. Go. Let's got episode eighty seven of
the Playpants Podcast. That's rod Ryan OLAPOPI. I'm Jason Ginty, and we
are ready to go with an exciting episode where we are going to cover so
much dumb shit your head's gonna implode, which is basically what we should call
like the you know how you have like a title, then you have like
a subtitle. You know, the Playpants Podcast. We're gonna cover so much
dumb shit your head will implode. Well, but you know, as my
boss, as my boss would tell me, and as you as a program
director, now you would talk to your staff and you would say, well,
let's implement some word economy here. So what you would say is podcasts
eighty seven, and then take what you said and then we would just type
out more dumb shit. Yep, yep, yeah, I love that phrase
word economy. Well. As a guy that talks a lot, I've been
on the receiving end of that more than once in a heating conversation with an
authoritative person. Yeah, those authoritative people probably aren't on the radio, haven't
been for years. That's what's fun about that, right, that's a whole
other discussion for another day. Man, we're gonna a lot to cover today.
The great, the great Priscilla Presley having a seventy eighth birthday this week,
of course, Elvis Presley's ex wife. So Rod had a great idea,
let's talk about rock star wives and girlfriends and relationships, and there are
some really cool ones I cannot wait to dive into today. And I don't
think it's a hands down winner. I mean, Priscilla is going to be
up there, but I don't know that she is the most famous rock star
wife of all time. I don't know that I'm ready to crown her that,
but she's got a great argument for it. So I can't wait to
get into that. And then Lenny Kravitz has a birthday this week as well.
He turns fifty nine. Doesn't look at day over twenty three, son
of a bitch. Yeah, he's a vampire. He is so freaking cool.
And I just watched a couple of weeks goes some like little five minute
YouTube thing and he's got this place down the Bahamas or he's working on a
new album and he's like, yeah, I just got up and I lift
and I run and then I eat wheat, grass or where the fuck he
eats, and it's like he's in perfect shape and he's just got this regiment,
and it's like, man, I gotta be honest. If I could
live on an island and ride a horse around and have a trainer and eat
the right food, I'd still be a piece of shit. But he looked
awesome always, even when he lived in New Orleans, I know he always
looked amazing. His condo was just a block away from where mine is,
and it's still there. I remember when it was kind of up for sale,
and that was cool because then they showed pictures online to see what it
looked like. So we can talk a little bit about that too. We're
gonna run down his top five or our top five favorite Lenny Kravitz songs.
I don't think we did it, you asked me. I didn't think about
even checking up to see if we did. If we did, I'm sure
it'll be different songs this time, because it always seems to change. And
then we're gonna get into a Memorial Day weekend is this weekend that we record
this episode. And Rod's got a few uh, we's got one recommendation and
I remember this vividly. You recommended this movie to watch Memorial Day Weekend last
year. And guess who hasn't seen the movie yet. You you know,
dipshit right here. You know who did watch it. Michael stands, Oh
goody love. Mike stands. He listens to. He listens to just about
every one of these and uh. And I remember him hitting me back saying,
man, thank you for that recommendation for that movie. Wow, you
were right. That is the Memorial Day movie. So we'll talk about that,
and we'll talk about the real reason that we have Memorial Day Weekend.
It's not just grilling and mattress sales and all that sort of thing. I
was actually going to ask you that about how you handling that with your radio
station, because it is obviously the grill and chilling, getting hammered, having
friends over pool parties, grilling, which you you know, as a radio
station, you want to reflect what your listeners are doing. This is the
program director talking now, right. You always want to reflect what the lifestyle
is happening in the moment. But then I talk to my staff and I'm
like, man, you know what, there's a real reason we have the
barbecues. Man, it's it's the people who gave the ultimate sacrifice. So
you've got to balance that, Like, how do you approach it? Because
I know your morning show you've got, you know, your listeners love you
and all that stuff, So how do you approach it? Well, because
we have people that have been listening a long time, they kind of know
who you are, so you don't always have to You can just you can
do a whole break talking about chili peeing in the pool and hot dogs on
the grill, and you could talk about Memorial Day weekend and how excited you
are and man, we don't got to work. You can do that whole
thing and I won't get one email. Well, Rod, it was kind
of disrespectful. You didn't mention the real reason if we're if we're taking care
and talking about the military and showing our appreciation year round, which we do
and all of and it's it comes from a real genuine place from everybody on
the show. Like I don't I don't have to tell anybody, Hey,
make sure you know you act like you appreciate the military. It's never anything
that I have to force upon anyone. Everyone genuinely really does feel that way,
and it comes up throughout the year. So we're covered right now.
I will I will say, like I said already, Okay, it's not
just hot dogs on the grill. There's a reason, Okay, those that
made the ultimate sacrifice. Where people get it's kind of like you know,
when you when you come across somebody that's Jewish and you tell them Mary Christmas.
I don't know one. I don't have one Jewish friend that gets upset
being told Mary Christmas. Okay, but one year I won't say his name.
He worked at the radio station and he kind of was thanking veterans,
and his whole thing, his whole spiel was, you know, thanking veterans
and really appreciate, you know, all the veterans and didn't specifically say,
you know, Memorial Day weekend is specifically for the men and women that made
the ultimate sacrifice. And he took a little crap for that, and I
said, it's not coming from a place of being mean, you know,
and it's not even overly ignorant. He was just really excited about anyone that
served the country. Because he didn't but because he didn't specifically state what Memorial
Day was about, he caught some shit online and then you know, online
people start to kind of just pile on. And I thought it was really
unwarranted. You know, I guess you know, you're really not supposed to
say happy Memorial Day weekend. Now, let's feel a little weird. But
again, it's not coming from a place of your trying to be mean or
insensitive. It's like, man, have a good long weekend, have a
great Memorial Day weekend. There's some people that have a problem with that,
the nuns and the priests. When I was a little kid, you wouldn't
say happy Good Friday. Good Friday is supposed to be a terrible day.
It's the most holy day. It's a solemn day. It's when Jesus is
going through hell. If somebody says happy good Friday to you and it ruins
your day, then come on, you know. So the same thing kind
of goes with Memorial Day. Okay, let's be very clear that this is
the one that is for those that died serving the country. Okay, but
I don't think we've got to get too upset about it, man. You
know, I think he was coming from a point where, hey, man,
make sure you think a veteran. Well, we're thanking people that aren't
here to thank That's what this weekend's about, right, But I don't think
you need to grill somebody over that. No. No, And I've seen
it had before, some some military guys, and you know they're like,
well, you know that's uh, that's that's that's that's for you know,
veteran's day. Thinking of veteran. I'm like, dude, we're thanking you.
Who cares? You know? I mean, you know what I mean.
And I get it. It gets a little sensitive. And that's why
I was asking because I used to just be like, yeah, we're talking
about beers and hot dogs and the whole thing. But because we're a little
more sensitive age, and it's like, well, you know, you can
talk about like you said, you talk about it, but then you also
go the other way with it. So it's just a balanced it's kind of
the deal. That's what we're doing to all weekend, just balance the two.
If you were to send out an email to your staff, I would
say something to the effect of what I did, you know, just again,
if you're appreciative of the military man, that's I see that all is
upside. But if you really want to be specific, make sure that the
messaging is hey, those that gave all and showing you, you know,
the appreciation for the ultimate sacrifice. So we will talk about a movie.
At least one person that listens to this podcast watched the movie last year.
I will watch it this weekend at some point. Can we take a look
real quick at YouTube from last week? Yeah? Yeah, And then I
want to ask you a very a dude question. Okay, it's important it
actually folds into the grilling thing, so yeah, do it. Well.
I was I was happy that Melissa, Melissa Goulsby hit us up on YouTube
because that was her suggestion for the Tom Hanks and again she stopped shy from
giving me her top five. But Melissa was our inspiration for coming up with
what we did last week. And Melissa says, the movie Big was one
of my top five money pit is absolutely hysteric, hilarious. And the Green
Mile, oh shit, dude, did did the Green Mile? Even even
if it wasn't in our top fives, the Green Miles should have been mentioned
last week, correct, Yeah, because it was a bit of a different
role for Tom Hanks in that in that movie too, and that movie's great
that he kind of because he kind of wasn't the star, right right,
Um, I mean he was, but you know it didn't it didn't he
I would say that he was the number two in that movie period. Melissa,
you're right, thank you. The green mild definitely should have been mentioned.
What in the blue fuck Jason and I say that all the time ever,
And that's James Cromwell, right, Yeah, he's so great. When
they fry the guy, he doesn't go well and he's burning his face and
shit, and he comes down the stairs Percy. Percy doesn't put the water
on the sponge what it was, and then the the electric chair goes wrong
and there's this horrific scene and there's always you know back the movie takes place,
I'm gonna guess in the forties or fifties. Yeah, and uh there
were still witnesses there and it was just horrific. Apparently you need to have
water on that sponge when you when you spiraled it down on the head when
you clamped it down, and uh so it was a big mistake. And
the guys are in the back room and James Cromwell is the warden and he's
what in the blue fuck was that? And I don't know, you and
I must be watching that movie together and we just knew, Okay, there's
something that's going to be said for the next ten years. Yeah. Yeah.
It's like it's like, you know, we're gonna be beating the shit
out of the fucking what no Way guy for the next ten years. It's
like, it doesn't happen all the time, but what it does, we
will beat it but dust. But when you do what we do, it
just becomes a part of your gig. Now, when you watch a movie,
even if it's a newer movie, and something's really funny, you listen
to that soundclip and you wonder, hey, would that sound funny on the
radio? Right as soon as I mean, I don't just popped in my
head, but in the movie Old School, as soon as Vince Vaughn said,
oh yeah, cheese, I fucking knew that would kill on the radio.
Just playing that isolated, even if you didn't see the movie Old School
Cheese, that was gonna be a funny drop. And we still I probably
used it. This week there was a story about cheese or something. People
can't open up the American craft slices and we played it on the air like
three times the other day. Well, it's like every time somebody swears around
a kid earmuffs, earmuffs. Yeah, it's the same concept. So yeah,
yeah, no, that was a great Top five last week. The
Tom Hanks say, I end up. It happens every time I like edit
stuff together and put everything and then put it up on so people can listen
to it on Thursday on Wednesday nights. So I'm doing that. But then
of course I'm I'm thinking about the conversation. I'm going back and listen to
just bits and pieces of the podcast as I'm putting it together, and then
I'm like, oh, yeah, shit, let me go check this thing
about Tom Hanks. So what should take me about fifteen minutes to do?
It takes me about two hours. Everyone's start getting I start getting lost in
YouTube and looking up shits, so I gotta I gotta get more disciplined.
But yeah, the Tom Hanks thing is is pretty badass, all right.
NOCF Quick Top five, Tom Hanks number five, Road to Perdition number four,
The Burbs number three, Big number two, Saving Private Ryan number one,
Money Pit number one. Now I did talk about how funny that movie
is and still to this day, Tom Hanks okay, speaking of like a
drop that gets played on the radio, because the funniest moment is when Tom
Hanks goes through the floor, right and then he's sitting there and he's making
the little money and he's making the little paper airplanes. But maybe the funniest
thing in that movie, which I will play this on the air, is
when they're filling the bathtub and it goes through the floor down to the first
floor, and then he does that laugh. It's brilliant. He does that
laugh like he's just losing his mind. And I'm not going to get into
what the money pits about, but he is absolutely at the end of his
rope. And Tom Hanks has a laugh, no doubt about it, Like
you know, Seth Seth Rogan has a laugh. Tom Hanks has a laugh
that is very very much. But this is the greatest one ever. And
that drop. I use that on the air all the time because it's just
instantly makes you laugh. It's just when you play it on the air by
itself, you can't not smile at least hearing that. And it always makes
me know that I watched a lot of these movies and that movie's been out
forever. Is like I said, there, I think, well, you
know, was that something that just said laughs and kind of loses it and
then Tom Hanks just takes and expands on it, or they did they do
that scene like seven times until he got it right? You know what I
mean? Those are those moments in movies where you're like, did he just
fucking do that, you know what I mean? Or was it plotted out
and planned out? Because sometimes it just you just get lucky. Yeah,
I mean you clearly can't. A writer cannot type out the laugh it just
said, you know, you would have to say losing your mind hysterically laughing,
you know, like you're at the end of your rope. They can
do all these descriptive things, but Tom's just got to do it right.
So yeah, I would put that. Even if I had five minutes with
Tom Hanks, I would ask him that question the laugh the laugh in money
pit, how many takes? And I mean I wouldn't take up a lot
of time with that, but it'd be funny. I would absolutely sandwich that
into a Tom Hanks interview. I really think it's would be that important.
I mean, there'd be a million, obviously a million things to ask him,
but that certainly would be one. One more here Michael Martinez, Oh
no, that was Michael. Oh no, this is Michael. Here we
go The Burbs in at five again with the Burbs Money Money Pit at four,
Road to Perdition at three, A League of their Own at two,
Saving Private Ryan at one man people. Because we talked about how Tom Hanks
kind of had, you know, the young career and then everything else,
like if you really kind of cut his his span of movies almost in half.
You know, some of the young stuff was silly. I mean,
I love Bachelor Party and all that, really silly, silly stuff. But
you know, we didn't know that Tom Hanks was going to become the biggest
actor in the world. Was he was? He splash, Yeah, okay,
I thought so. I'm like sitting here going, oh, we didn't
even talk about that. That's Turner and Hooch first run. Yeah, that's
first fun Tom Hanks. Yeah, that's the first fifteen years Tom Hanks.
By the way, NCF, wouldn't ten duck sized bears be like ten pit
bulls. I would have to go with the one giant duck good point.
Yeah, that was a weird question that came out of the left field,
and people kept hitting on that. I'm like, okay, I canna keep
my weird fun questions in myself. This was an easier question, Rod.
Okay, So last weekend had some people over, you know, pool hanging,
everyone's drinking, having a night. You know, it's just a nice
little time, great time. So a guy is on the grill, right
and he's cooking. He's like, yeah, I got it. Okay,
cool, you got it. I'm chilling in the water. I don't want
to get out, no big deal. I think nothing of it. Yeah,
man, you want to cook the burgers? You do it? Is
this at your house? Is it my house? Somebody's using the grill at
your house? Which was gonna be my question, Okay, obviously the answer,
Oh my god, this is crazy. This is the same cover.
So I'm sitting what no way, damn it. So I'm in the pool
and then like so that like he's fucking up the burgers. Whoever this dude
is, he's sucking them up. So I get out. I'm like,
a right, you have flames born out and shit. I'm like all right,
So I go over and I cooked, and then my buddy comes over.
Who's in the pool. But he goes, I go, yeah,
man, I said your burgers might be a little fucked up. And he
goes, He goes, what the fuck is this? You're letting somebody use
your grill? There? You go, Yeah, I am, it's right
fucking here. Why wouldn't I was in the pool. I don't give a
shit who cooks. Start giving a ship, dude, it's your your house.
It is an absolute thing. It is a thing. Now, if
somebody brings over something specific to put on the grill, then okay. Like
so Chile, he goes to the Mexican meat market and he gets the most
tender, but he to meat and it's already pre all pre marinated and everything.
It's amazing. I kind of let him do that. But I'm already
doing, you know, the burgers and the grills and doing it, you
know, and all of that stuff. Right, if somebody brings something over
specific, I'll hey, you know what, I don't want to wreck that.
I'm not familiar with that whatever. But if it's hamburgers and hot dogs
and it's at your house. You heard my reaction because I needed to know
immediately, Wait a minute, a dude is using the grill? Would you
let him make out with your wife? I mean, it's wow. I
just was. I was like, I looked at my buddy just like I'm
looking at you, like, okay, it's fine. Like like if you
came into my house right and and we're hanging out cooking and stuff, or
we're gonna cook some burgers. Yeah, I know you're a fucking better cook
than I am, So I'm gonna be like, bro, you wanna hit
that grill like I would have. No, I'm be like because I know
you know what you're fucking doing better than I will. So I didn't.
I don't give a shit. I really give outdo rando. It was somebody
a new cook, and so, okay, care about that. But but
he's like, hey man, can I get the grill going. I'm like,
yeah, I do it. I'm chilling the water. So it was
like, yeah, that was an interesting reaction that you had before. I
haven't finished the question. Holy shit, So you're not allowed to do that?
Huh No? And bearman, I'm helicoptering too. IF's chili or somebody
is on my grill, I'm I'm there, dude, I'm there, I'm
hovering, I'm hanging. I got an extra tongue ready to go. I
might be goosing them a little bit from behind. I'm there. I'm present.
If there's stuff on the grill, I'm present. I'm not fucking swimming
in the pool while the grill is blowing up. Yeah, I mean the
grill is right there. It wasn't blowing up. Is it the reason?
Is it a safety issue or is it just Hey, I'm a dude,
this is my fucking grill. Is it that issue? So what it is?
God rest his soul. Mitch the engineer, he would come over and
he was a really, really good cook. So he brought over you know,
bacon wrapped, you know, Armadillo eggs they call him here in Texas.
And I don't know what the fuck, but it's bacon on the outside
and it's probably halapeinos and shit like that on the inside. Well, bacon
cannot be unattended on a grill. No, and here's me try, Okay,
Mitch is this guy he kind of taught me how to smoke and do
that. I know he knows his stuff, so I kind of don't a
helicopter on him. Dude, this fucking black chary smoke is coming out of
the grill. It colors the side of my house. Okay, now I've
got like the next day, I'm scrubbing my house. Terrible, dude,
I had smoked stains on my house. Bacon. Can't you do not leave
somebody at your grill? Yeah, I guess it's just weird. Just felt
like it was like like I was like, my buddy looked at me shocked,
like I let another man touch my grill. I'm like, well,
that's weird. Yea, he should have a little buddy drive my car.
That's not a big deal. I don't like it, but you know anyway,
huh, Okay, let'son learn. I learned something new every day on
this podcast. See an all dumb shit. Hey Purcella Presley as we're recording
this on Wednesday, May twenty four, seventy eight years old. Um,
she's been in the news a little bit lately because her I guess that would
be her. Her granddaughter is the chick from Daisy Jones and Daisy Jones and
the six Yeah. Yeah, that's her. Okay, Riley Riley key keo.
Okay. She's also Elvis had one kid, and then that kid had
two kids, one of them had passed away. So Riley is the only
grand kid of Elvis. So she's kind of taken over the estate now because
her mom passed away. Lisa Murray Presley just passed away a little while ago,
and apparently, and this kind of sucks, so Riley Keo is now
fighting her grandma and they're fighting over money and estate things, and apparently they
got it worked out. You know, I don't know how any of that
works. I will say this, and I'll stick up for Priscilla Presley because
the things that I had read before a long time ago that Elvis estate wasn't
worth a whole lot when Elvis passed away, and she kind of kept it
humping along and she built it up to, you know, a couple hundred
million dollar empire with all the licensing and everything. So I think even though
they were only married a short period of time, it still was Elvis's wife
who produced Els his only kid. And you know, I don't know what
they're fighting about. We'll never know, but I just don't look as at
her as like this money grubber. I really do think that she was kind
of in on this and in the best interests of keeping things going for her
daughter, knowing that she was going to be the sole heir until she had
kids, which were now we have Riley Keo. Right. Is Priscilla Presley
the most famous rock star wife of all time? Man, that's a tough
one. The most well known kind of the first one. But but for
being a rock star wife, I'm gonna throw it. I'm gonna I'm gonna
take somebody off the table. Okay, even though she wouldn't really be mentioned,
but when Gwen Stefani was married to Gavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani is Gwen
Stefani on her own. You know, she's famous on her own, So
it's almost not fair, but I guess everything's in play. Yeah, there
were more equal I know, but I'm gonna take that back off the table
just because I want to see where this goes. Who is the most famous
rock star wife of all time? You know, you got to look at
Sharon Osbourne and Ozzy, Yes, absolutely, and then you know, to
a lesser level because it just didn't last very long with Kurt and Courtney Cobain.
You know, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain because they were huge. They
were peak fire at that moment in the discussion, absolutely in the discussion,
and then you got and then you got to put Pam Anderson in there.
Well, she was with everybody, so you know her and Tommy. Nothing
ever came close to Pam and Tommy. I mean sure, if you,
I would say, you would just pile on extra points for throwing kid Rock
in there. But I think you got to have Pam Anderson in there as
far as the most famous and again famous on her own, but Pam and
Tommy, come on, I mean it, Pam and Tommy. You just
say one with the other. They haven't been married in twenty five years.
Pam and Tommy still seems like something that you say and you you pair them
together. Well, the videotape certainly helped that situation out a lot. You
know, it was still a huge. But man, when that when that
videotape came out, that thing, I mean, that was it. They
were white hot. You know you could look at um. This is going
back a little bit further. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley was pretty big for
that time period in the eighties. You know, he wrote Uptown Girl about
her. She's in the video that whole thing. She didn't glow up with
Billy she was and I said, and I did say glow up, So
she was already she was already a supermodel, so boom. They were already
there, Like they were already two huge people that came together kind of like
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. They were both names, big names together.
But you could look at Eddie van Halen and Valerie Burton Elly two both huge
stars at the time, you know, and they came together, so and
it's pretty universally known. You know. My litmus test is, Okay,
I'm going to run these names by my mom, and my mom's gonna know
everybody that we've talked about already, Like she's gonna say, okay, like
my mom, I think knows who Courtney Love is, and she she definitely
knows who Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love is. Right. The only other one
that I that I wrote down. I mean there's tons of you know,
famous wives or Sherry Moon Zombie, Shannon Tweed. I even kind of thought
about with Jean Simmen, but it's just those are just famous people that are
married. Did everybody know that David Bowie was with Iman forever. I don't
know if that was this universally known, but I mean I knew it.
But that's the world we live in too, you know. But they were
together forever too, man. But it's nowhere near Priscilla Presley. Oh God,
no one's touching Priscilla Presley because she's come of the first one. She
was this little girl, a little too little. But the times where they're
and you know, and then they were together and they were just everywhere.
He was the biggest thing on earth at the time, and she was hot
and cool and badass and everything. And then that's when the newspapers would take
pictures of them. So that was the early early days of all that shit.
So you know, you think about the oas the boomers that grew up
with it. Neither one of us are going to know our name, but
you know, Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin, Jesus the seven Times Dude, but
rock star wives he married his thirteen year old second cousin. Yeah, pretty
famous, but not on that level because we don't know her name. I
would say Priscilla Presley is one where I I think it's between Sharon Pam and
Courtney who's number two? If we both agree, if we both agree that
Priscilla Presley is the most famous rock star wife of all time? Right,
who's two, three and four? Or am I missing somebody? I mean
Heather Locklear, Heather Clear with Tommy Lee and uh Richie Sambord. That's a
big one, you know. But that that was hot for a minute,
and then you know, Tommy moved on. You know, Pam eclips his
head of Lochlyer by about nine hundred miles. So she's in the discussion.
But because of what Pam and Tommy did, Heather Lockler kind of gets pushed
to the side. You kind of forget that they were even together. You
know, Um, you gotta go. You know, Ozzy and Sharon,
she's pretty famous show and everything. Yeah, and they've been together forever and
the whole Osbourne's TV show on MTV years ago solidified that whole thing. So
I think that's that's household name. That's that's not just dumb, dopey rock
fans like us. That's a lot of people know who she is. Sharon's
number two? Yeah? Who was the other one? I forgot already?
Pam. I thought it was Pam, Courtney and Sharon. It's far as
famous. You gotta go Pam and Tommy. I think second, I think
you gotta go. Second, I think it's I think is Priscilla, Elvis,
Pam and Tommy, Ozzie, Sharon, Hurt and Courtney, and then
again after that, then after that, I think it's Janie Lane and Miss
Louisiana Teena, USA, nineteen eighty seven, Bobby Brown. She was in
the cherry Pie video. Oh yeah, cherry Pie for sure. Maybe that's
a little further down the list. You know, what is the famous one
that is fucking wild but no one really knows the name. But George Harrison
of the Beatles was married to Patty boyd Well. George's banging Rango's wife,
and Patty starts banging other dudes, so they split up. She started banging
Clapton while Clapton kept chasing after, and she said, no, I'm not
interested in Clapton, I'm not interested in you. So Clapton, being an
artist, he's all bummed out. He really wants to be with his Patti
boychick, so he goes out and he writes fucking Leila. That song is
about his desire to be with her, and then later on he went to
write the song Wonderful Tonight that is also about Pattie Boyd. They got married.
They were married for quite a few years, and of course that did
not work out forever. But I wouldn't consider her a famous one. But
she's famous because of the songs that were written about her. She was quite
the museum you could look at. I don't know that. I didn't.
I didn't know both of those songs were written about her. Yeah, I
knew Layla was about her, I didn't know the other one. You look,
Wonderful Tonight is about her. That's about her the whole, and it's
a fucking great song. Man, if you if you got to check play
that for her, she'll be like whoa. And he's fucking friends with George.
Yeah, they're great pals. But that back then, dude, Patty
boy was banging a lot of people. But then George was also banging a
lot of people. It's a mess. I started diving on that rabbit hole.
I'm like, I gotta get out of this one. This one's freaking
me out too much. But yeah, Layla was written, and he sent
the song to Patty boyd, and as soon as she heard it, she's
like, holy shit, everyone's gonna know this song is about me, and
she still kept turning them down. I thought you're gonna say she heard the
song and jumped right on his rocket. No, it took a took.
It took a little while, and then she warmed up. She realized how
great the song was. She's like, holy shit, he wrote this about
me. And then they got together and it all worked out. But yeah,
then he later went and wrote Wonderful tonight. If you haven't heard that
song, that's a good one. That's a really good song. Rosanna,
our cat Toto, Rosanna. It's true right? What's the top five on
that? What's the other song that's written about her? Should I know this?
But I don't know it right now? Damn it? Ah, Pete
Gabriel in your eye Oh yes, well I always call it in your eye
because I'm thinking a load. But it's called in your eyes two eyes that
you've got a decent batch. You can probably hit them both. What I'd
like to think that Peter Gabriel wrote one right in her eye socket? Why
do we how do we get Rick o'kask Paulinava Cova Porta Cova, who is
a great follow on Instagram. Really, um, she is thrown out there
fifth six fifty seven and naked all the time. She's got that whole look
at me, look at me. You know. She used to be a
runaway model and nobody could understand why she married Rick o'kasick because he was not
a handsome man at all, and she was like one of the hottest girls
ever. But she was in that Who's going to Drive You Home? She
was in the drive video? Yeah I think maybe I don't know if that's
where they met or I don't know, but I know she's in that video
and she was and is smoking out there man, like she winds the date.
She she's an interesting follow. Man, I'd let her use my grill.
Oh yeah, she's allowed. She's allowed. You can put your meat
right on her grill. This is funny, But no one's gonna know this
one because it's a little bit older than our generation. X Mick Jagger and
Jerry Hall. Jerry Hall was a famous model back in the eighties. They
were together from like eighty five to ninety seven. Yeah, you know,
Axel Rose was who that Stephanie Seymour, our underwear model. Of course,
then he beat the shit out of her and stuff allegedly. Um, she
was in the November Rain video. They were for like a year and a
half. Dave Dave, Dave Navarro, Carmen Electro. They were married for
a couple of years, but they weren't super famous. They had an MTV
show Till Death Do Us Part. Yeah, it wasn't bad and she's still
hot. What have we learned about this exercise? Learn to play a damn
instrument? Or saying because ugly dudes get models when you're a rock start,
did you notice how bad Mick Jagger looks, how weird Billy Joel looks,
Rick Okasik, Axel rose Azzi. Yeah, everybody is way everybody's like,
way out of the dudes. The chicks are way out of their league,
way way out of their league, way out of there. Except for I
would I think Devin Rossdale is hotter than Gwen Stefani. I want to be.
I want to go on record as saying that he is absolutely stunning to
look at that Tati's dreamy. He is hotter than Gwen Stefani I by a
mile. When Stefani never really did anything for me. I don't know what
I mean, not that she's it's not that. I just when people would
lose their mind over her, even back in the No Doubt days, I
just never saw it. I never saw it with her. Nice I interviewed
her a hundred years ago, long before she was famous. But I just
never saw the beauty. And I mean, she's, man, she's beautiful.
Okay, record is saying that, but uh, Gavin's more beautiful than
Yeah. Yeah, I had to flip a coin on that one, because
he is. He's unbelievable man. And you know what's really cool about their
stories. They were on tour back in like ninety five or whatever it was,
and they were all over the place where they played in New Orleans.
No Doubt was opening up for Bush and he had been trying to get her
to go out to go out. You know where. That dude got her
to go Molly's right off of Bourbon Street, and they had some pints down
there and they hung out all night, going around the French Quarter. And
that's when they started dating. Here in Molly's pub, Yeah, the one
that's off of Bourbon. I forget the side Street. But it's yeah,
yeah, like time maybe or something. Yeah, the little gumpy one,
you know, not the one where you get the Irish coffe. He's done
a decatur there's a different one. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's where
they were hanging out and stuff chilling. I'm like, oh, it's all
started here in New Orleans. But yeah, now, Gavin Rostell, he
wins the handsome or the better looker um in that in that deal. Yeah.
Outside of that, I couldn't think of anybody else. Oh oh wait
a minute, recently consciously uncoupled. Yeah, Gwyneth Paul Oh, I have
that. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrick. She's annoying. Yeah, she's just
fucking awful. She's not hot, nothing. He does nothing for me.
Yeah, I might. I might do Chris Martin over her in a minute.
Yeah, he's at least cool. I really really enjoyed my conversation with
him last year, So yeah, I might. I might have Chris Martin
over Gwyneth. Yeah, like a wet paper towel. She does nothing for
me. Coming up, we're gonna talk Lenny Kravitz. He's having a birthday
on Friday. We said he's a vampire. It's gonna be fifty nine.
He was a resident of the French Quarter for a number of years. Yeah,
just down the street from where I've got a place. Lenny Kravitz top
five before we break, was this easy? It was. I haven't done
a deep dive on Lenny Kravitz deep cuts in a long time, So I
know I'm gonna miss some ship and you're gonna have one on there. I
like, damn it. Yeah no, I love Lenny Kravitz. Man.
He's always been one of those guys. It's just always there. It's always
solid as old shit. I love his old shit. I couldn't tell you
any of his more recent stuff, but yeah, we wasn't too bad.
Wasn't too bad at all. Yeah I was. I was there out of
the gate with his career and going to see him live right when he was
brand new. I've seen him multiple times. Um, traveled to go see
him, and yeah, uh so great. I can't wait talk a little
Lenny Kravitz. Um, why don't we take a break and we'll come back
and we'll do our Lenny Kravitz top fives. Wow, I can take I
can actually take a break here. I don't remember the last time I was
able to take a break during this podcast. Well, that's because the Rod
Ryan Show cars has been busy in the store stores up, it's online.
All new summer merch is avalable. Man, I've seen some of these T
shirts. They looking good. The couses are badass, stickers, all kinds
of cool stuff. Now what Rod's trying to do here, and he's done
it many times in the past. He's raising money to purchase backpacks for Eric
Houston kids who obviously are in need of them. And he's working again with
the Houston's Children's charity, trying to outdo last year. Let me just put
this number in perspective. Okay, last year pulled in one hundred and one
thousand dollars. That's not one hundred and one dollars, that's one hundred and
one thousand dollars, and they passed out over thirty five hundred filled backpacks.
They can also supply as the kids are gonna need in. They're safe,
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It's cool shit, it looks badass and I will be doing a little
shopping uh this weekend on the rod Ryan Show Care's page at the buzz dot
com. When you look at a number like one hundred one thousand, you
just go, the fuck are we gonna beat that? Yes, a lot
of money, dude. And I do that to myself, and it's it's
it's a terrible thing to want to outdo yourself every year. It's awful,
but it's awful. I mean, it's a great thing. I love having
goals and I love setting the bar and I never want to go backwards and
all of that. And it's like, Okay, we're gonna have to top
out somewhere. Listen, if we come close to one hundred grand again,
I'll be happy. The backpacks with everything, dude, what's not more expensive?
Everything is more expensive. Not only are the backpacks more expensive, but
everything that goes in those backpacks. The scissors are more, the crayons are
more, the spiral notebooks, the protractors, the rulers. It's insane,
dude, how much more everything is. So I used to be able to
get about, you know, twenty bucks for a backpack. I got to
raise the price of the T shirts and I don't want to do that either.
But the actual T shirts are costing me more, right, And there's
just nothing that's not kind of gone through the roof over the last five years
in the fleet five years has been ridiculous. I could fix the one of
the things. I could probably get the price lower, because what you do
is printing costs money. Right, and when you have to buy crayons,
Okay, if you take out the why and just Crans, I know you
tried, still Sun, you could do it. Krans cr a n s
Krans. You're saving ink, dude. We can lower the cost of Crans
cr a n s kryons. Kids, you're getting Crans this year, right.
It's just still sounds weird to me after all these years as well.
Okay, but so all these years removed from Western New York, Krans still
sounds good to you. I don't know anymore, man, I don't hear
it very often. I don't exactly talk Krans in my house anymore. You
know, it's not something we do. I'm gonna, you know, I'm
gonna start. I'm gonna try to get people to use that word in a
sentence. I can hear all they say it now. It's like the word
iron. So I got people say I say iron wrong, iron, You
can iron your clothes iron if it's a little rushed iron. Hey, well
you okay, wait up here. I got called out on the air on
this. Okay. I didn't know I was saying anything wrong. I would
p at the urnal, I would pee, I would stand up and pe
at the yurnal urnal. Urinal. It's a urinal. It's like, what's
the rush, dude? Why are you missing something there? It's a urineal?
And I didn't saying that right, There's no way we we grew up
saying urinal. No, we're a little quick up there in the northeast,
man, You're right, yeah, I would say, yeah, yeah,
the urnals fucked urnals out urinal? Hey is it? Is it shit?
Or is there a urnal in there too? Is there a urinal in there?
And who the fuck took the cryans and rode all over the walls above
the urnal? Shit? What? Oh? You know what? And you
know I'll tell you what it was. It was a growing moment. It
was like the day that Alex went from a boy to a man. He
just looked at me on the air and he said, I got a question
for you, what's a urnal? I went, what, I go what
little man what he goes? Yeah, what are you saying? What's a
yurnal? And I said, Wow, I had no idea. I was
saying it wrong. For fifty years. It's where it's where I write down
all my deepest thoughts. I hope nobody ever reads it. Yeah, the
yurnal, it's a urinal. Yeah, it's pretty bad when your job is
to speak on a radio or in a public forum and you're saying, you're
fuck up some words. You can't talk. I mean, I don't know
how I've gotten to this point in my in my career. I don't know
many province is turning what fifty eighty nine, fifty nine? I looked like
nine. I've had a couple of opportunities to meet him. I've been up
close with him. He looks fabulous up close. It's not one of those
guys that there's no trickery, there's no makeup, no nothing. God damn,
he's a handsome man. Um and in when I the last time,
it was a long time ago when I when I interviewed him. I've interviewed
him on the phone before. But I'm talking like face to face, and
he's sitting there in like some red silky robe and it's like open here.
Of course it's in a fucking robe, you know, barefoot, sitting on
a couch. And I go back there and he's just he's waiting to Like
I really felt like I was being received, you know. It wasn't like
I walked in and met him. He was ready to receive me. And
he was just sitting on the couch, just like you would think a sultan
would then. And I didn't really I didn't feel comfortable sitting on the couch
next to him, and I didn't want to kneel on the floor in front
of him. That seemed a little weird. I remember pulling a chair over
because he was he looked so comfortable, and I felt weird sitting next to
him on the couch because I knew I had to do some of this with
the microphone right back and forth and he so, you know, he's ready
to receive me, but he's clearly not setting up for me, nor is
anybody. And I grabbed a chair and I dragged it over in front of
him. I go, is this okay? He's like, go ahead,
So that's kind of that's kind of what I remember about that. And then
I tried to get out of him where he lived at that time. I
didn't know where he lived in the French Quarter. I knew it was,
and he kind of shut me down on that. Yeah, but so he
lived. He lived past Tense on the six hundred block of Dauphine Street.
And it's a cool little place. Man. I think it would be an
easy Google search for you if anybody was that interested to put Lenny Kravitz French
Quarter cottage. And I bet you you know some kind of old um real
ittour, another one real ittour, Nope, another one of those real ittour
websites, and uh, and I bet you there's old pictures up. It's
pretty cool. He he had the place redone. It's awesome. Inside.
I knew a guy who was fixing my cable and somehow we were talking about
Lenny Kravitz came up. He's like, yeah, he goes, I just
got done. This was years ago, obviously, when he was still down
here. He's like, yeah, I just got done. Rewired and Lenny
Kravitz's place. I went, you did, what badass? He goes,
Yeah, he goes, he goes that place is wild. Apparently there's like
a loft where it's just the bed. The upstairs they like redid the whole
inside of this French quarter. From the street, it looks like nothing.
It looks like nothing, but inside it's like he's got just a huge loft
where it's just his bed and all his weird shit piano in there and all
this stuff. I'm like, no, I don't imagine. It's still got
the same crazy white shag carpet and all that cool shit that was in there.
But the pictures are out there is it's a rock star place for shi
fucking cool drapes and stuff. And I want to say, in urnal he
might have a Jurnal in there. I want to say. When I did
see it for sale, I don't know. It was like, I really
have this number in my head. One point two million dollars. That's about
right for that's that's the property in the quarter. Um, yeah it would
be it would be more now, but this was years ago. I don't
I have no idea who lives there. I know exactly where it is.
It still looks cool on the outside too, But I remember I remember the
number one point two million and you're like, well, what size is that
rod? I bet you it is twelve hundred square feet. It's not huge
as a cottage. It's small. Yeah, it is very small. But
in the French Quarter, your property value is huge. And it's like,
if you're gonna buy a place, you're looking at five hundred to five hundred
and fifty dollars per square foot in the French Quarter. So you start doing
I hear you humming, Harold. Yeah, that's that's some big, big,
big Well. He's he's written some pretty freaking cool songs. He's got
the cash lane around. I'm sure, yeah, I've written no songs,
and I don't know what I'm doing down there. Right, all right,
let's go, bro, all right, Top five Lenny Kravitz Songs. Here
we go. I'm gonna go first, okay, because I know you're gonna
bust out some fucking song. It's like a deeper cut. I'm gonna be
like, damn it, I miss um uh deep cut? Maybe one okay,
maybe one? Maybe just one deep cut and go ahead. I'm just
gonna tell you, if you have that fucking cover song in your top five,
I'm gonna punch you right through this Zoom meeting American Woman and it number
no. Actually, you know what I left it off? I hate it.
I hate it. I don't don't. I don't like the original one.
It's it's talking bad about American women. It's from a Canadian band saying
American woman, I don't want you, I don't need you. It's it's
a terrible song. I don't like what it's about. I don't like the
actual song, and I don't like the fucking cover. So I'm so happy
you don't have that in your top five. No, I do not number
five. Are you gonna go my way? Number five? Now? The
reason is number five is I've been playing it on the radio since nine ten
ninety five, so little burnt, But I still love that damn song.
It's still rips. He wrote that in like five minutes. He literally went
bang knocked it out. It was like at the end of the album cycle
that he was writing and all that shit, and he just went in there
and I wounded that thing out, and I'm like, are you fucking kidding
me? And most famous song. I think it's pretty common in a lot
of his songs, but that one specifically, that's Lenny Kravitz playing the drums
in the studio on that right. Yeah, great song. I mean,
how you beat that song? Number four? Can't get you off my mind?
I don't remember what. I don't know we wrote that one about,
but just a great, great freaking song. Lenny's got some some very cool
music you want to put out in the evening. Got a lady friend over,
you know what I'm saying. Lenny's got that kind of vibe and a
lot of his songs because he's so fucking cool that if he comes into that
falsetto, that kind of that BG thing like, he can do it,
yep, and he'll sing a song. He'll start out in that falsetto on
You're like, he's not gonna stay the whole Holy fuck, He's gonna sing
the whole song like that. He's cool it up. He can do it.
People cannot do that. That's a lot. That's a lot in your
voice. That was number four. Another great almost an anthem in a way,
let love rule. How do you beat that? You know that's that's
a great, great freaking song. Well, apparently two songs beat it because
that's your number three. Yeah, I have six, but I will skip
the one um number number two, Always on the Run a song written with
Slash. And what's interesting about that is Slash was over on tour with Guns
n' Roses in Europe and he flew took the concord over to New York because
Lenny Kravitz is in New York and they knew they wanted to write a song
together, so they just fixed it. This timing was just the only way
they could pull it off. And Slash tells Lenny Kravitz, have a gallon
of vodka and a ship ton of ice, and I'll be there in a
little while, and he flies in. I would assume drank the vodka.
And they wrote Always on the Run. How freaking badasses that And then then
Slash took off and went out into La like that was on. That was
on my mother's day list because the whole chorus, so the whole verses,
my mama said, right right, And it's all about lessons that he learned
from his mom, who was famously Roxy Roker, who was the neighbors of
the Jeffersons, the Jefferson's that interracial marriage and number one my favorite Lenny Kravitz
song, at least for today, believe. It's a slow song, but
when you get that, that song just builds. And when he starts ripping
into that guitar solo and it just builds and builds and builds. Man,
it is epic. That guitar solo is so fucking cool that you could play
everything. It's so great. So that was my number one believe. Definitely,
definitely, Man, you put on some Lenny. You got yourself a
lady friend coming over. Go with Lenny Kravitz. I had, I had
believe and can get you off from my mind as my sixes. God,
those are good songs, man, those are great fucking songs. Yeah,
oh mine are it kind of slow? Well in at number five, dude,
that's late eighties. Man, let love rule. The first time I
ever heard Lenny Kravitz. I always have this. I always feel like when
we do these top vibes. If it's the song that introduced me to you
as an artist, and I like you as an artist, I I gotta
go back to the root, the roots that got me into you in the
first place. So that first album he looked different, he sounded different.
It wasn't long that we found out that his mom was a famous you know,
actress, and then it kind of made sense. Okay, but then
you kind of thought, Okay, nepotism. Let's see what this guy does.
Okay, he's gonna get the one album and that's it. He's gonna
be a one and done deal. He's got this whole hippie thing going on,
this great vibe. Let Love rule eighty nine, dude eighty nine.
That's incredible. I forget that he was actually earlier. You don't think of
Lenny Kravitz is being out in the late eighties like that. You know,
you think, yes, early nineties. Let Love roll in at number five,
in at number four. This is my kind of deeper cut from the
Mamaset album. Slash apparently didn't get too drunk, but because he played on
Fields of Joy and that's another one that's just a builder, and then boom,
Slash hits. Those kids went to high school together, so he had
known Slash for a long time. And I know Lenny Kravitz, I don't
know exactly his story because he's a New York kid, but if he went
to high school with Slash, that means he had to go to LA and
spent so he must have split with the parents. He must have split his
early early years in New York and then went to LA for high school.
So that's where he hooks up with Slash God. It's amazing that those guys
didn't get like a full on band together. Can you imagine? Feez?
So Fields of Joy from the Mama Said album, I've always loved that song.
That's my number four, innit number three, always on the run,
So I got slashed back to back on that number two. Are you Gonna
Go My Way? Are you Gonna Go My Way? The video is like
the thunder dome looking thing, and if you remember the very beginning, I
just that drums, no, no, no, just they're just that chick's
beaten on the snare drum. And if you remember Lenny standing there, I
remember the video. There was this it looked like a crown of thorns,
but it was a crown of lights that was coming down on his head.
And the imagery for that he must have. I mean, I don't know
where it was filmed. I'm sure all of this is on the Internet,
but it was in some kind of a silo and there were people and it
was very apocalyptic and they were all around him on different levels. It was
such a fucking cool video. It's such a rocking song. Are You Gonna
Go My Way? In at number two and number one? And I have
personal reasons for this, But Lenny Kravitz put out an album, Circus,
and nobody was touching him. Lenny Kravitz was no longer on the radio.
There was nothing going on with him, and Circus was I think his fourth
album. He comes out with the album called Number five and the song Flyaway
is on there and I heard it. The record company's working me. I'm
a music director at the time, and I get this thing on the radio
because I think it's gonna be a fucking slam dunk. I think it's gonna
be a hit. Lenny Kravitz calls me and thanks me for getting the song
on the radio, and then when the song does become a smash, se
ends me a gold record. Lenny puts a note in there thank you.
So we you know, New Orleans is not the biggest radio market, nor
is it the biggest city. But that was the spark I was in on
a couple of those. That was one of them that I was definitely in
on the ground floor, and the record company remembered it. Lenny remembered it.
Yet, Lenny, how it worked is the record guy called me and
said, hey, dude, Lenny wants to talk to you, and then
transferred me over. And then I'm sitting at my desk talking to Lenny Kravitz
and he's thanking me for playing Flyaway. Dude, nobody was playing Lenny Kravitz
on the air. Yeah, well, this time kind of falling apart for
some reason. Yeah, And I do want to say it was that third
it was the fourth album. It might have been Circus. I don't think
that was rock and Roll is Dead or I can't remember what was on there,
but I know that we weren't playing it. And Lenny Kravitz was already
he was a star, he was famous, and then the Lisa Bonet,
he was very famous. But we didn't touch anything off of that fourth album.
No, and that and that stress is an artist out They want to
be on the radio. So fly Away with the personal story, it is
a great song. But Flyaway is uh yeah, with the gold record and
everything that that in the phone call and the handwritten note, how can how
can that not be my favorite Lenny Kravitz song? Oh shit, dude,
Wow, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's weird
because you know, in the position like I do now again programming at a
radio station, you're you're shuffling the deck and you're like, well, you
know, you're looking at songs and you're just trying to figure out what you
think is gonna work, what it's not gonna work. And that doesn't happen
very often anymore. It didn't happen a lot back then either, really,
you know, with a with a song. But you know, once in
a while you get that magic spark and like, oh wait, New Orleans
is playing that, and then other radio stations are gonna look at that go
oh well, I better listen to that again. And then yeah, the
next one, and then you get two, and then you get four,
and then you get eight, and then you get sixty and they say,
you know, you're getting a gold record from Lenny Kravitz. I don't think
he was even living there at the time, so there wasn't any well,
you know, he's a you know, he's a he's a citizen. He's
here, you know, it makes sense for us to play him. I
don't think he moved there until after that, and nobody really talked about when
he lived here. You didn't hear about it very often, or at least
I didn't, you know, like you knew he lived here, but no
one ever was freaking out about it, you know what I mean. It
was just it was it was late nineties. Yeah, it was late nineties,
so it was clearly after fly Away. So again I didn't play the
song because he lived there. There was no like, you know, hey,
here's one of our own, you know, because you know, when
you live in a city, the city kind of adopts you a little bit.
But you're right, like Lenny Kravitz, I don't remember him being out
and about a lot. I'm very quiet now. When we first moved to
New Orleans, about a year before we moved there, Trent Resiner moved there,
right, So I mean, I'm gonna say Resner moved We moved to
New Orleans and ninety five Resiner moved down there, and maybe ninety three,
and that's when he bought the funeral home, and you know, he started
working with you know, and then that's when he started working with Marilyn Manson
and everything. Right, he was kind of out and about a little bit.
I saw him, Yeah, you know, I saw him several times.
I saw him at like a Cheap Trick show. He was in that
loge area and in the House of Blues. When I got to go backstage
to meet you too, he was back there, wanted to meet you too.
I mean he was. He was a New Orleanian. He was out
and about. You know. He he borrowed our studio to do rock Line
back in the day or whatever. That show was a national show, came
up on our platform at Voodoo to watch um I can't remember, Queens of
the Stone Age or something. And he didn't want to be bothered. He
had goons with him, but he was around town. He would go to
concerts. I don't remember that vibe with Lenny being around, going out and
about. Never saw Lenny. I was in a Marty Girl parade one time,
standing on Saint Charles Avenue. Was standing there, just standing there catching
beads and hanging out with a beer. And I looked at my left Trent
Resider a leather jacket, just chilling catching beads. I'm like, right,
I go Weser. But he was just kind of hopping down there. He
would just stop for a couple minutes, watch a float, and then he
started walking again. I'm just like, holy shit, Trent Resler. And
then yeah, the Voodoo thing. It might have been that year. We
had like a little platform out in the field somewhere out back from the stage,
and it might have been a different year. I don't remember, but
but yeah, he came up and he's like, hey, might if we
stand up here and watch Cypress Hill. I go, yeah, you could
do whatever the fuck you want. Dude, you're Trent Resider coming up,
you want to drink, you want whatever, you know. I'm gonna get
on my knees and I'm away the year then, I mean, we might
be talking about the exact same story. I remember being on the air broadcasting
at the Voodoo Festival. Hey, you know, Trent Residers. People are
here, they want to know, you know. Can he come up?
And I remember immediately, you know, because you remember thinking about how your
mindset was back then. Yeah, he can watch, but he's got to
come on the air and say hi, Yeah, no problem after that's the
problem. Yeah, he'll do it after. So he came up with his
goons and I don't I don't know if we're talking about the same time,
but mine specifically is yeah, he'll come over. You know how great would
that be? Hey we got Trent resider man, Hey, who do you
here to see what you're working on? That type of thing. Second to
last song, I don't remember what fucking band it was, Boom they boogie
out. He's not going on the air with us. I know he just
wants to go and hang. He wants to go and experienced things. But
yeah, no, he seem around every once in a while. Or you
hear stories saw Trent residents the grocery store. I'm like, that had to
be weird. No, this fucking melanate right, he's the thumping on a
melon as Trent Resident people say that he would. There was a there was
a gym in lake View that he used to work out at. That's when
he really started to get in shape, right, believe it or not.
In New Orleans is when he started to really start a little skinny guy.
If you go back to you know, pretty hate Machine and all that,
he was a little skinny dude, but he started to get really buff and
uh he was working out in New Orleans all the time. Yeah, yeah,
Um, things that didn't make my list again with that damn falsetto.
Only he can do it well, only he and the bgs. It ain't
over till it's over, Yes, And he always talked about how personal that
song is was to him because that's right where he was. The whole song
is about him and Lisa Bonet arguing. So it's it's one of those where
he's really letting you in. Man. It ain't over till it's over.
It sounds like he's kind of fighting to keep that marriage together. And uh,
it's a super super personal song. It's got a beautiful string section in
it and everything. Again, a lot of songs and I like this a
lot of the Lenny Kravitz songs. I associate the video and Mister cab Driver
has always been a personal favorite of mine. Banger love that too. I
love Mister cab Drivers. So, I mean, those first two Lenny Kravitz
albums are unbelievable. The first two albums he I went to Toronto and he
opened up for the cult What a shovel Man, And that was right when
he was brand new. That was on the first album that he was touring.
Awesome. Just you still kind of thought maybe he's just the celebrities kid,
but fuck, it was so good. You were hoping that it wasn't
just a lucky thing, and clearly he turned out to be this just megastar.
You know when you think about where where he fits into the whole scheme
of the ship. We talk about every episode about you know, the early
nine in the nineties and stuff and jen X and all that shit, you
know, grunge, Ellison, Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jeb all that stuff.
Lenny Kravitz was one of these guys. It was just kind of always
along in there. He was always in that fabric. You know, he
wasn't that level obviously, but his ship would come in and come out,
you know, are you gonna go? My Way? Was massive. We
still play it, you know, from time to time, you know.
And then thank god you showed up, because otherwise, what would Letty be
doing now without Flyaway? Thank you? Would he That's why he probably had
to sell his place until you saved Lenny. Call me we can catch up.
Rod Ryan saves Lenny Kravitz headlines pretty much, I mean pretty much.
Thank god you keep the note, but he uh yeah, I have it
with the record. Uh. It's not a traditional it's not a traditional gold
record, it's still it's an r I a A certified, but the gold
record itself is a number five. Oh yeah, I mean yeah, yeah,
it's a it's a plexiglass number five and it's got the R A A
certification and then you know it's got the brass plate in there with your name
engraved in it. So it's to me, and yeah, it's it's that's
probably the most special one. I have a bunch of those, but that's
the most special one for sure, just because it came from I felt like,
like, I don't know, the guy made me believe that he wanted
me to have it. I'm like, okay, thank you, Lenny,
I appreciate it. That is pretty good. That's pretty cool. I saw
Lenny Kravitz here in Houston. He wasn't having his best night. He talked
about his voice not being well, but he didn't want to cancel the show.
And in his backing band was Trombone Shorty. Well. They were in
BFFs for years. Man, they played together all the time. Yeah,
but I imagine they kind of met in New Orleans, right, yeah,
yeah, because so yeah, so he's got a horn section with him when
he's out on tour and yeah, he's got Trombone Shorty, and he called
him out. He said, yeah, Trombone Shorty back there before. Trombone
Shorty was huge, huge, you know, I mean, if you're in
New Orleans, Trombone Shorty is huge. But yeah, that was pretty great.
He brought him up up front, kind of like you would bring a
guitar player up front or kind of you know, you'd feature your your lead
guitar player. He brought Trombone Shorty up to the front a little bit and
jammed with him. It was pretty awesome. It's funny you mentioned about Trombone
Shorty because, like, you know, he closes out the last Sunday to
jazz Fest every year, and all my friends, who are you know,
Usually when I've got out of towners, I'm like, okay, you know,
you just saw this whole thing all weekend whatever. You're drunk and you're
full of all the great food and you've seen a million bands. Now we
go close it out with Trombone Shorty. They're like, nah, let's just
leave. I don't need some I don't need some fucking band dork up there
on stage. And I'm like Oh good lord, you are missing it because
I have converted so many people into Trombone Shorty fans. I go, just
give me two songs, Give me two songs. Okay. He comes walking
out in the band is spectacular, and there's all these horn players and they
are just destroying. And by the end of you just like, where do
I buy a ship? This is awesome, Like, it doesn't take much
to get become a fan for trump of Trombone Shorty. It's fucking great.
So the Chili Peppers are playing here Thursday night Tomorrow night at Minute Made Park.
The last time they played here, they played the Toyota Center. Trombone
Shorty opened up. Wow. He was out on tour with the Chili Peppers.
So we managed to get some awesome side stage type deal or whatever.
And we're standing there and we're watching the Chili Peppers and you and you're Trent
Resin Trombone Shorty fucking standing right next to us. I'm like, Jesus Christ,
Trombone Shorty, what the fuck is up? Bro? And talking to
him the whole deal. Man super great guy said, dude, you know
New Orleans Jazz vest Senior million times now that you're closing, you know,
congratulations on being the guy that's closing it out and stuff. He seemed to
be you know, at least the did like, hey, you know,
thanks for knowing some of those things. So the time didn't you know,
didn't talk as a or off the Chili Peppers are on stage, but um,
just telling him that that, you know, he's closing jazz Fest because
it was something that the Neville Brothers did forever, and you know, Jason
coined the term years ago. It's like that was walkout music. Yep,
that the Neville Brothers pack up the chairs and then that's what we're gonna listen
to when we're walking out. And then Trombone Shorty changed all that shit.
We're not walking out, We're staying to the end, and we're not trying
to beat the traffic, beat the crowd. No, we're staying here for
this the last band of the last weekend. Yeah. And he brings it.
I mean it's just brought. He fucking brings it every year and he's
so great. So so yeah, yeah, no, and Trombo and Shorty
was would go out with Lenny Kravitz so and you can see a little influence
of Lenny Kravitz on trombone Shorty. Sometimes the way he sings a little bit
where he moves around, you can totally see there is a certain influence with
that whole thing. Right, let's take a quick break and then let's wrap
this thing up. Dude, Let's let's get it done. We gotta get
to our final thoughts. Next time you visit New Orleans, man, make
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you're walking around and you're hearing real stories about the French Quarter. I mean
real stories. I don't think it was last week or the week before.
And we didn't end up shitting on anything, but we just talked some of
the differences and some of the other tours. And this is real history.
But it's it's interesting enough that you don't got to fake it. You know,
everything is at Pirates of the Quarter dot com. Follow them on all
socials at Pirates of the Quarter. Okay, so let's let's talk about this
movie. I gotta watch this weekend. I forgot about that part you have.
I mean obviously Private Ryan Saving probably Ryan. I'll probably watch that.
That'll be on at some point. I'll have it on and I'll walk by
it, you know, a bunch of the weekend, and I'm sure is
it AMC somebody will run all of the bandam Brothers, Right, They'll just
kind of have a marathon on. Yeah, I would imagine so, and
that's just so great. So yeah, it'll just be war movies all week
got at my house for this. But you've got this movie that I didn't
watch last year, and I hope to get to it this year, so
I think it might be made for HBO. And maybe that's why I don't
think it was ever something that was in movie theaters. Maybe I'm not sure,
but it's Kevin Bacon and the movie is called Taking Chance, and Chance
is the name of a soldier. And when a soldier passes away, which
is why we have this long weekend, the amount of respect and what and
how that body is transported back to the family. You'll learn so much.
Kevin Bacon is brilliant in it. Kevin Bacon is we need to do a
top five Kevin Bacon movies. He's been a billion of them. We might
almost have to expand to top ten. Kevin Bacon's done so much Taking Chance.
He wants to do this job and it's so difficult, and he wants
to be respectful. And you just will be blown away at the transportation of
a fallen soldier's body and the amount of respect every where. And you know,
sometimes these bodies are on commercial flights and they're down there with the with
the luggage and stuff, and people are looking out the window and they can
see and they all stop. It's amazing, dude, I cannot stress enough
the movie Taking Chance, Kevin Bacon. It is an absolute must from a
moral day weekend. All right, I'm gonna have to watch a damn movie
now, I promise you hands down, two thumbs up. It's just it's
just an amazing movie, and you'll come away just appreciating this weekend that we're
about to have tenfold good advice, good advice. I'm taking Chance. I'm
gonna have to watch it this weekend because I said I'm gonna do it last
year. Yep, Mike Stands did well. Mike Stands a little smarter than
I am. He is a lot smarter than you. I feel a lot
smarter than I and say Crans although you know what, but he does.
What do you have for some final thoughts there, Jason Guinty, anyone wants
to use my grill, they can fuck off. That's what I learned today.
That's my final thought. I'm not letting anyone touch Mike. I will
smash your fingers with my spatula. Move forward. I've learned something that I
didn't realize that was a thing. No idea, dude, it's I mean,
yeah, like I said, you wouldn't let this guy make out with
your wife. Don't let him, don't let him play wrong with your grill.
Weird again. If he brings something, then okay, I really feel
like I said I Chili does a great job when he brings that crazy he
goes to the Mexican meat market. I'm like, okay, bro, you
do that, you do you, you do all that, but boom,
now the grill, dude, it's your grill. Come on, come on,
dude, you're better than that. All right. I didn't know this.
I just was like, hey, man, ils fair in love and
war. Man, I'm good with it. How about you run any thoughts
and no, you're not using my grill. Um. I will be in
New Orleans this weekend? Are you fucking kidding me? I'm gonna be not
in New Orleans this weekend. Yeah, but I don't have the kid.
So I planned this out well, I know, so it's a last minute
thing. It just went down yesterday. I believe I have a friend Chris
here that just turned fifty. My buddy Dennis just turned seventy. So I
sent a text and it said, kunts no, Jesus so much. I
don't have my kid this weekend. There's a one thirty flight on Friday to
New Orleans. Let's be on it. And again I only send it to
them too, because it's their birthday and I know that they're kind of their
their liquid. Neither one of them is married, kids are older. And
they both got back to me and they're like, okay, boom, we're
in, We're in, We're in. So yeah, it's one of those.
So it's a dude. It's a dude New Orleans weekend. Where what
should we do? We'll come to New Orleans. What should we do?
All of it? All of it? Drink everything and eat everything. There
you go, That's what I would do. I would I would get my
ass down like Frenchman Street, go see some good music. Yeah, we
fucking walking up down Bourbon Street all night. That's that's cool for about an
hour. Then you got to get off to the weeds. Gotta get out
there a little bit and see some shit. You know. Yeah, you
know, neither one of those mooks have ever been on a train on a
trolley, So st I thought we would take a street car, and I
thought we would maybe take it up all the way up Saint Charles and maybe,
you know, even if we just wrote it all the way up to
Couter Browns or something. You know, yeah, do that, go up
there and then go down to the Maple Leaf right next to Jacomo's. Actually,
you know you do. Get you? I got you, dude,
I got you. You go up and get dropped off at the Camellia Grill.
Get off at Chamillia Grill, walk down, go to Jacomo's, have
dinner fucking classic. They'll love the place. The food's great, it's insane.
And then go next door to the Maple Leaf. See so band you'll
never heard of, but they'll be great. Um, And then get back
in the damn street car and head down a little bit. Then head over
to you go to the Columns for a nice, nice drink over there,
get yourself a nice drink. Well, I gotta take him to Snake and
Jake's. Oh well, but then you go all the way back to the
Quarter. Then you go over to Frenchman Street, and then about three am
you uber up the Snake and you can't go into Snake and Jake's until at
least one thirty in the morning. Dude, you come on, what's your
first time to New Ones? Right? Seriously, Snake and Jake's is a
late night place. Yes, yes it is. I've been there in years
either man. Another great place I went about four years ago. Yeah it
was awesome. Yeah, it always it was awesome. We talked about that
on the podcast before. Jason and I roll in there about two in the
morning and Stephen Kenny, the drummer from Alison Chains, is playing the piano.
Sean Kenny, Johnny Kenny Kenny. Yeah, he's in there playing the
piano there. Yeah, that's the drummer Allson Chains. I'm like, what,
like, holy shit, sure as shit is? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's that would be my move, man. I would just just
keep going, just keep if it looks good, don't do the same old
same well, fine, get out, get out and stretch your legs a
little bit, stretch your wings. See some shot is the key under the
mat case. I need to come over and grill and you know, jump
in your pool and all that naked party at your house, your party at
your house, grilling, No grilling party, not grilling, not grilling,
dude, Sorry, ain't happening that. No one, you know what,
anyone comes to my house. I don't give a shit who you are.
Emerald can come over and be like, hey, I'm gonna get the fuck
away from that. Emerald slam his fingers in there. Never cook again.
Guys, thanks for checking this podcast out. If if you haven't subscribed to
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there. And then of course with Memorial Day weekend, you know, those
that made the ultimate sacrifice. It's pretty amazing. One of the most amazing
things I ever ever seen in my entire life is being at Arlington National Cemetery
and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the changing of the guard and everything.
It's one of the most amazing things. And I know that will be
featured on, you know, all the national newscasts, and the President will
probably swing by there and stuff. This weekend. If you have never been
to Washington DC as an adult, some of you probably you know, went
to cool schools and you had field trips. I didn't. I didn't go
as a child either, but you won't appreciate it as a child. Go
as an adult to Washington, d C. It is absolutely unbelievable. Just
go at it. I mean, it doesn't matter, but you just go
in a time of year when you can walk and Arlington National Cemetery and all
of that stuff is it's just it's unbelievable. So um, that is another
huge recommendation of mine to every for everyone to do in their adult lives.
When there a couple of years ago and we got to see in this I
guess it's in the Smithsonian I remember, but the Declaration of Independence, the
Bill of Rights and on stuff. And we got there. We were like
the second people in line. Like usually there's a fucking crowd of people and
you can barely look at the Declaration of Independence, you know, And we
had the room was us and you know, the seventeen security guard standing around
there. It was literally my wife, me and my son for about five
minutes in the room with a Declaration of Independence by ourselves. I'm like,
holy fuck, is this crazy to sit in that room and just be looking
at that going, dude, this is insane. Like to see that stuff
and really appreciate it. It really is a cool thing to check out.
Uh, you know, And I went over to Mountain Vernon, saw George
Washington's house, you know, did all that stuff. Yeah, now,
Washington c Is a great trip. I want to do it again because there
is so much there to learn, you know, the tours of you know,
the Congress or the Capitol Building and all that shit. There's a lot
of cool stuff you can check out. Yeah, you can contact your local
congressmen and they have like minions and when you're when you're in town, that's
their job is to I mean, we pay it for all of that,
you know. And that's why all those Smithsonians that you were mentioning, they're
all free. They are there's no admission, and there's and I imagine that
somebody is hearing this for the first time, there's more than one Smithsonian.
There's the Air and Space one, and then there's the one that's got Fonsi's
jacket and Archie Bunker's chair, and you know, there's different Smithsonians. But
yeah, you can contact your your local congressman and they'll assign you like some
little menu. They'll call you back and they'll get you in, they'll get
your badge and they'll show you around. They'll walk you around. Yep,
it's cool. It's cool as shit. And then to actually see the Lincoln
Memorial where he's sitting in the chair. Yeah, like you don't realize how
fucking huge that is. Thank you see it on TV, You're like,
oh, that's cool. No, no, no, when you're standing,
they're like, whoa, It's just there's a heaviness, there's there's just yeah,
DC, great trip. Definitely put on your bucket list because it is
cool as shit. Anyway, that's enough for today. I'm done. Yeah
shit, all right, guys, thank you for checking us out. Krems
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