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Those aren't pillows? No, Jeff Lebar, Those are not pillows.
Those are my ass cheeks, well where my ass is
supposed to be, because I do not have an ass. Hello,
Las Vegas, Hello world, Hello, my loyal minions, especially my minions.
It is good to see you when it's always good
to be seeing. I am Izzie Presley, And this is
another edition of another fin podcast, Welcome, Welcome, and you
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But if you are one of those loyal minions, yes, kids,
you're getting the show tonight. And if you are not,
you were getting the show on Monday the twentieth. And
I'm very excited for Monday the twentieth, and I will
tell you why, because the day has finally come, folks.
I've been excited about this for about a year. January twentieth,
twenty twenty five. Oh my god, it's finally finally happening.
It really is, and I cannot believe it's gonna happen.
It's rather exciting. And I am us dragging this on
right now to make you wonder what, oh what it
could be, Ladies and gentlemen. Jenu January twenty, twenty twenty
five is a glorious, glorious day. Like I said, I've
been waiting for this day for about a year. Bo
Jangles is opening in Las Vegas. That's right, kids, bo Jangles,
the Southern staple, the Southern chicken place is opening in
Las Vegas. And I know a lot of you thought
I was gonna go somewhere else with that, but kids,
bo Jangles is opening in Las Vegas. I drove through
there the other night because I thought it was already opened,
because it said it was open on the app around
the interwebs. Well, that lied to me. Lights were on,
people were in there when windows were closed, like drapes,
I mean stuff that covers up the windows, you know,
you pull them. The blinds. Yes, the blinds were closed.
And I was very, very sad, so I when I
got Panda Express, because you know, why not. But anyways, yes, folks,
Bojangles is opening on Monday. And I'm fucking excited about that.
Oh yes, And I nearly forgot and I can't believe
I'm gonna do this because I'm hungover still and I
didn't even get that fucked up last night. But it
is happening, ladies and gentlemen, in the words my close
personal friends Stone Kell Steve Austin, cracking one for the
working man. Oh yeah, Am I doing this because I'm
hardcore and because I care and cannot let the bit die?
Or am I doing this because I'm alcoholic? Yes on both,
Yes on both. We heard the ten bell salute at
the top of the show. And today Thursday, what is
today the sixteenth? Thursday the sixteenth, we lost Bob Yucker,
the iconic baseball announcer you know from all of those
millerte commercials from the movie Major League. He was a
Major League player. I had the pleasure of meeting Bob once.
A lot of you might know, might not know that
I was a sports writer in a former life. I've
already made more money this month from the Patreon than
I ever made being a sports writer. Yes, folks, I
did it for free foot in the door, but I
was in the door. I was in the press boxes,
and you know, complete seasons for the Twins, complete season
for the Wild Timberwolves, and spot Vikings games here and
there when like Detroit was playing. Football is harder to
get into because there's only so many games and there
are so many people trying to cover it. But I
was there for many years, well not many years, but
five or six years. I was in those press boxes,
and I met a lot of cool people. I met
Carl Reiner or Rob Reiner. I'm sorry, Rob Reiner, not Carl.
Carl would have been gone, he's dead, right, But I
met him in the press box at the Twins game.
I met oh God, Dino Cissirelli, Neil Broughton, Wayne Gretzky.
But I did meet Bob Yucker because he of course,
as many of you know, unless you're not a sports
guy or gal. Not that I have a lot of
gals that listened to this show, but uh, there's there's
a few. There's a there's a couple. There's a couple
in that uh, in that Loyal Minion, another FN podcast Patreon,
it's only five dollars a month, that Realzy President. I
I did get to meet Bob Buker and very nice guy.
It was a very short conversation, very short conversation, but uh,
basically I brought up WrestleMania, and I'm sure he told
the same story that he does to everybody, had the
same response that he has to everybody, and I can't
even remember what it was, but it was funny because
Bob was quick, and Bob was funny and Bob was
He was really nice to me. It was like we
were getting hot dogs because they used to have free
hot dogs in the press box at the Twins games.
And super nice guy. It was short, it was sweet,
and that was my brush with Bob Bucher. So Bob
rest in peace, my friend, and we'll see in the
front row. So obviously, the big, big, big story that
is going on is the fires, the fires. And I'm
sorry I say it like that. It's Stone called Steve
Austin's fault because when I was at Stone Cold Steve
Austin's house, this is a true story. I was there
with Don Jamison. Don was doing Steve's podcast. I drove
him there. Steve was another super nice guy, and I
sat there while they did the interview and he let
me chat on the show a little bit. So if
you find that Don Jamison episode on the interwebs of
the Stone called Steve allaston podcast. You'll hear me, You'll
hear me. And afterwards we were sitting around shooting the ship,
talking metal because Steve is a hard rock and metal fan.
Pardon me, we will to take a sip of beer,
a little parch ah, yummy. We're talking metal and Steve
and Donn are talking like Norwegian death metal and just
all this super heavy shit, and Steve just stops. He
looks at us. He goes, I don't want to ruin
my rap with you guys, but god damn it, I
love farms. Of course, don and I are like, well, Steve,
those are our boys. Goddamn Yant should have been huge, Steve,
those are our boys too. And that's how I got
Stone called Steve Austin's phone number. So there's that story.
But yeah, so when I see when I say firehouse,
now I got I say firehouse, firehouse, and I've just
caught myself doing it talking about the fires. Terrible. I mean,
what else can you say? God damn terrible. It's sad,
it's horrible. And you know, I know three people in
my inner circle that have lost everything. And uh, in
the notes and the links that you're gonna find be
below here below the blow and the show description and
all that stuff. And if you're watching this on the YouTube,
you'll notice that there is no video because I realized
nobody wants to look at me just fucking talk. If
I have a guest on, yeah, we'll crank that goddamn
video up for recording it via zoom. But you don't
need to see me just hitting here yapping for twenty
five minutes. But there will be three gofundbes down there.
Caleb Rapaport from Nerd Haleen have a nice history with
those guys. Of course, hal has been on the show.
Caleb has been on this show. Great guys, and Caleb
lost him and his wife lost everything. I think he
saved a couple of guitars first and foremost of course,
obviously the family is the most important thing, and then
he loaded up everything that they could, and of course
a couple of those guitars were in there, like as
any guitar player would do. But uh so he lost everything.
Friends Dan and Alicia Kalishar, who I got to know
very well in Hollywood and when I was hosting still hosting,
by the way, Soundcheck Live. If you were wondering if
there is a show this week. There is not stay tuned.
That's all I'm gonna say. That's all I gotta say
about that. And then lastly, somebody really close to the
family as you all know him in a band called
Mike Dawson and the Smoking Kills with my best friend
in the world, Mike Dawson from The Adam Carolla Show.
And well, we have a guitar player that plays with
us from time to time, whose name is Brian wheelin
phenomenal player. He came in. He came in and played
with us in Santa Barbara because at the time guitar
player was not available. Brian came in. Never rehearsed with
the band. Our first rehearsal part of me. Our first
rehearsal was soundcheck, but dated. He played with fucking uh.
He played with Dwight Yoakam, the guy's of pros Pro.
He came in and he nailed it. And I'm sure
the four people that were there really really appreciated because
I know all this on stage did and so Brian
and his family lost everything, and so those are gonna
be the three gofundmes you see down there. And look,
I know, I know it's just filled filled with gofundmes
everywhere as well as you would expect, because you know
that seven and seventy dollars check is going to go very,
very far. We're not going to get into politics on
this show. I know you guys believe what you believe.
I believe what I believe, and it's not going to
change your mind or mine yapping about it on a podcast.
But here's the thing. Here's the thing about politics, and
I'm gonna make this short. People can lose their minds
on the interwebs, on the social media's and you're very
very good friends with these people, and you may really disagree,
But when it's all said and done and you get
in the same room, you know what you're talking about.
You're talking about kiss because it always comes back to kiss. No,
you're talking about the reasons that your friends don't bring
it up. It's not worth it because with all that
bullshit aside, you remember why your friends and you enjoy
that conversation and you enjoy that hang because that person
is your friend. But you know, these fires in la
and I did record a show, and we're going to
get into what happened with the show that this was
supposed to be on that I recorded earlier this week
with an interview with Marty Friedman that is not going
to air, and we are going to get into that.
Don't worry, it's nothing bad. No finger pointing, nobody was
a dick, blah blah blah blah blah. We're gonna get
into why that's not airing LA. Look, I shit on LA.
Everybody shits on LA. A lot of people shit on LA,
especially especially people that don't live in LA. And I
did eight and a half years in Los Angeles move
their fresh out of radio in Sant Cloud, Minnesota at
rock in one oh one with not stars in my
eyed eyes, maybe a star and a half a twinkle,
a tad of a twinkle. Not thinking I'm gonna go
out there and be a fucking superstar or anything. But
you know, it was in the plans to do this podcast,
and that's why this podcast started eleven fucking years ago.
And I'm still going, which is good for some and
bad for others. I have no idea why I just
said that.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: And I, in the words of a couple friends that
are in the industries, hit the ground running and I
met a lot of people in Los Angeles in the
music industry and in the comedy industry, in the entertainment industry,
which is where I feel that I belong. I am
an entertainer, I should be entertaining and without Los Angeles,
without my time in Los Angeles, I wouldn't be where
I am today. I owe everything to that town and
I love that town. Don't get me wrong, I miss it,
but I don't miss it. And look, and there's people
that go, well, if you can't afford LA, then you
just can't make it in LA, then you don't belong
fuck you. Fuck you people that make it in LA
can't afford fucking La. People living in fucking closets, following
their dreams with like three other people in a fucking
closet just to get by. But I love LA. I
love the aura of LA. I love the dreams of LA,
even though as somebody that's a fifty two year old,
chubby white guy with formerly long hair, that dream is
pretty much dead, which is why I don't live in
Los Angeles US anymore. Plus, for the first time in
my life, I have my own place. I couldn't afford
a one bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. I was living
in a house with five other roommates, paying nearly a
couple hundred dollars less than I'm paying to have my
own place on the Strip in Las Vegas. I missed
Los Angeles. I miss my friends, and that is why
it tears me up seeing the brutality, the devastation, the
horrendousness of those fires last weekend. And was it last weekend? No,
it was like when they started, So yeah, it was
like last weekend, but it started last week. I was
watching the dogs because I have a some friends out
here that have me watch their dogs, because that turd,
that boxer, that's my girl, that's my sweet girl. And
I'm just sitting there, I'm watching the news as this
is all breaking, and I was just in awe. I
was in shock. I was numb seeing this, just seeing
it go down, seeing it as it was happening, seeing
the reports as they were coming in, worrying about my friends,
worrying about Oh fuck, there's families up there. Families have
lost everything. Hell, families have lost loved ones. So I
don't even know what the death count is at right now,
but thankfully, that could have been a hell of a
lot worse. And then you know, seeing the news that
people that I know, people that are in my circle,
people that are in my phone lost everything really makes
you put shit in per perspective. Sorry, I'm a little
dry mouth. Beer will fix that, goddamn some bitch. So yeah,
it's it's tough. I mean, even right now. And when
I recorded that show, I was I got a little emotional.
I didn't like bust out crying. I didn't crack or anything,
but it felt like I could have. And of course
this is a week later, and or not a week later,
but you know what I mean, a week later everything
broke down, broke out. Yeah, it's been a week, week
in a couple of days, week in a day, whatever.
It's more just numbness now and just hoping that people
will land on their feet. Just a sad, sad, sad thing.
Oh yeah, by the way, if you are listening to
this on the interwebs on Monday the twentieth, the day
that Bojangles opens here in Vegas, you're probably hearing commercials.
Well guess what, Patreon doesn't hear the commercials. They get
it all and they get it before you do. And
it's only five bucks a month, and I'm probably gonna
start doing shows nearly every day, because why the fuck not.
People are paying for content, They're gonna got goddamn content.
So the Marty Friedman interview, why that has not aired well?
That was by the request. It was actually a mutual
decision between the three of us. Why well. I did
particularly did not have a good interview, And this is
nothing on Marty. This is nothing on nothing. Sometimes you
just don't vibe with somebody, if that makes sense, And
it was a little awkward, and mostly my fault. I
wasn't as prepared as I probably should have been, especially
with somebody who I've never met before. You know, some
of you know, you're a little bit looser and you
can it's like you're just shooting the shit, and sometimes
it doesn't work, and that one it did not work.
And like I said, this is nothing about Marty. He
was a super, super nice guy and I'm looking forward
to seeing the show here in Vegas on the twenty fifth,
and he was coming on the show to promote his
tour that starts here in Vegas on the twenty fifth,
So if he is coming to your town, make sure
you get out and see that. And Patrick Kennison who's
been on the show, and his wife, Nikki Stringfield, who's
been on the show, or they're they're doing their little
acoustic duo thing opening up for him. And check out
the record drama, the Marty Frieban record drama that this
tour is for. It's very very cool. It's it's instrumental,
but it's not like noodle Ley guitar nine thousand notes
a minute, fucking instrumental. Shit. No, it was like feeling
and tone and like you can hear the notes. It's
like songs. There's one song that does have a singer
on it, but but yeah, check that out. It's it's
pretty damn good. It's pretty damn good. I did listen
to it before the interview. I'm not that big of
a hack, but yeah, so it just it was just odd.
It was weird, and he was like in the middle
of a bunch of interviews. And I got an email
the next morning say hey, can you please not post that?
So I did have it up in the in the
Patreon for a few hours, and when I woke up,
I saw the email and I said, Yep, whatever you
guys need. Because I am a team player. I'm not
a dick bag, and we decided to take it down.
I took it down and boom, that's it, so that
that interview will never surface again. So but like I said,
that's on me. That's not on Marty Friedman. That's on
me for being unprepared. It works with Johnny Martin doesn't
work sometimes and that time it did not. So that's
that's where we are sitting with the Marty Friedman in you.
There it is, dud. We're rolling up on almost a
half an hour, so ms well hit that out tro music.
There it is. There is the first official show that
is going on Patreon. First, there is it the second.
I think I did this one another one. So anyways,
like I said, I don't have an interview for a
reason to have the camera on. I can just sit here.
I can relax and not have to worry about looking good,
which I do naturally. Anyways, But we'll have an interview
for you next week, and if you're on the Patreon,
you'll get that interview before anybody else and you'll get
it ad free and you'll get multiple shows next week.
Make sure you pay attention to all the socials. That
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may be happening as well. Maybe another show might be
coming back on the airwaves. See you next week's kids
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