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My name is Presley. I'm the host of the program.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, pretty great.
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Speaker 2: It's only five bucks a month. It's less than a
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it's fun. So I'm sitting here with my best friend
of the world, mister Mike Dawson, just cracked a delicious cors.
Speaker 3: Light beer for the underachiever.
Speaker 1: The mountains are blue.
Speaker 3: When you know what they say, man, when the mountains
are blue, climb?
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree. Have you been enjoying your cruise?
Speaker 1: There, Dawson?
Speaker 5: Half of me is totally stoked it's almost over, and
half of me is like, oh can we do it
for another five days?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 5: But you know, all things considered, I don't know, I
got I got Guardian angels working overtime, especially on these
kind of cruises, because, like all things considered, I am
in remarkable shape.
Speaker 1: Yeah me too.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess when you're not drinking all day every day, right,
you know, when you like realize that, oh yeah, I
got a job to do exactly. You know then I
host karaoke every night, and yeah, I'll hit the beers
pretty good. There beg for a shot of Jack and
somebody will bring.
Speaker 3: Me one because it's kind of mandatory.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, you know, it's like I get that shot
of Jack and me it's like when pop Eye gets
a spinach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and how is he's back? Yep? Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Is It took me two cruises or three cruises with
this awesome company to.
Speaker 3: Finally realize that I shouldn't drink it during my job.
Speaker 2: Smart I took it all the wrong way.
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, we're partying, and uh, well we are,
but yeah we are, but you don't have.
Speaker 3: To do it all day.
Speaker 5: And actually, people, you get a lot more respect when
you're doing your job sober.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But it was very slunny because a couple of cruises ago,
when I had the awakening, when I'm like, oh wait
a minute, this is a serious game and I better
play serious. I was walking, I was walking into karaoke
to say hi to you, and I still had It
was like ten thirty at night and I still had
to bring a band on at midnight and one of
our hospitality girls not hospitality, the green shirt.
Speaker 3: Natalie, Oh, we love Natalie.
Speaker 5: I walk in and she goes, Dawson, why don't you
have a beer in your hand? And I look at
her and I say, well, I smartened up and I
decided I'm not drinking while I work anymore. And this
girl who's not on this ship, I think her name
is Michelle, was standing right next to Natalie. And as
soon as I said I'm not drinking while I work anymore.
Speaker 2: This girl goes finally.
Speaker 3: And her and I had never met.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I looked at her and I said, oh,
is that a thing.
Speaker 3: She's like, yeah, you were a thing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, well, I'm glad I got to handle
on it now.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes when you get thrown into this world,
you know, it takes a little bit of an adjustment. Yeah,
you know, and moments like that you're like, oh, yeah,
I'm actually here to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're here to party and have fun, but we're
here to work.
Speaker 2: And that's the most important part, because you know, representing
the company, exactly, representing the cruise and representing the bands.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, it's I had that epiphany as well.
Speaker 1: It took me a few years.
Speaker 5: Takes some time, Yeah, take some time. And I'm fifty
one years old. I might grow up one.
Speaker 1: Day maybe maybe, maybe i'm fifty two. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I don't see that time coming anytime soon. I'm
just looking down at this water. It's pretty beautiful Caribbean.
If you've never been to the Gulf of Mexico, have
never been in the Caribbean. The water is just turquoise, turquoise,
and you can see you can see where it goes
from turquoise to dark blue, and that's where the drop
off is, right, the drop off to hell.
Speaker 3: That's where the party starts.
Speaker 1: That's right. We went snorkeling on one of these cruises
and we're out in that little.
Speaker 2: Bay and the guy goes, you see that dark line,
don't go past that because you do not know what's
gonna come up. Oh wow, because they don't know how
deep it is and they don't know what's down there.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 5: Since I've been blessed with his balcony, I've been, you know,
coming back here. I usually don't come back to my
room at almost at all during.
Speaker 3: The day, except to take a shower, grab a.
Speaker 5: Beer from the fridge or something, and I'll just find
myself coming back here and just sitting for like fifteen
twenty minutes a time and just staring at the ocean
and wondering what is out there that would eat me
if I fell off or something.
Speaker 1: Oh, you don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean it's I tell you what, though, there is
nothing better than walking out in your balcony.
Speaker 1: When you're cruising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right as you wake up and the fresh sea
breeze with your balls flapping.
Speaker 3: In the wind, flapping balls, flapping balls.
Speaker 1: It is outstanding.
Speaker 3: It is it was.
Speaker 2: It is a feeling I think that everybody should feel,
even chicks, you know.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, chicks need to have their balls flapping exactly.
So what's a highlight for you?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: What was it? God, I'm trying. She goes down to
karaoke all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's then the karaoke on this cruise is how
you say different?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: These Uh, there's a lot of Broadway songs.
Speaker 2: Then there's you know, the hardcore progs that have to
do prog songs, and then there's people that want to
do songs to annoy prog.
Speaker 3: Fans, and then that's the fun part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Usually like you know, White Snake and def Leppard
and but this gallosing all by myself last night so good,
and she just blew the fucking roof off the place.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: And then her and her husband went up and did
a love song do it and and he couldn't sing that.
Speaker 2: Well, oh he's you know, a few pops in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a few pops in ye, but yeah, no,
she was that that that got some goosebumps in the
crowd and people were like, oh my god, why aren't
you in a band?
Speaker 2: Maybe she is, Maybe she is, I'm not sure, but no,
it's just it's it's just stuff like that, you know,
the stuff that you don't expect. Yeah, you know, like
on a cruise like this, like yeah, you expect people
to play.
Speaker 3: All the notes, every note and more.
Speaker 2: But then you get stuff like that at karaoke where
it's like, well, wow, you know, outside of the box
and it's beautiful and look it's you know, Tyson and
Will doing their doing pianos sing Tyson Leslie from Vixen
and Will Dowdy from Poison they do doing pianos, and
all these cruises with us, and you know there that's
the let loose depprogram, you know.
Speaker 3: The program have fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, just you know songs that you're not
gonna hear on this bolt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but you do because it's Tyson Will right.
Speaker 5: Tyson last night or two nights ago played played Asia
Only time will Tell, which was very, very pleasurable to me.
And then at one point they did and this is
the first time I noticed this. I guess I knew
it was all possible because of the amazing things you
can do with a keyboard. But Will played all the
synth parts of in the Air tonight, Yes, and Tyson
was playing the drums on his keyboard, and it took
me a few minutes. I'm listening to it and staring
at them, and like three four minutes into the song,
I realized, oh shit, he's playing the drums on his
keyboard and it sounds like there's a kit behind him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's just that good, good so good.
We uh my, my big joke leading into this thing,
there's a band called the Aristocrats on here, and I
was thanking the gal that schedules us, you know, to
who we're going to introduce and you know who're doing
the Q and A's for and they're called the Aristocrats,
And I joked, I'm like, Dana, a smart move. She goes,
what I go, not having me introduce the Aristocrats. And
if you all know anything about comedy, you know about
the joke. The Aristocrats not gonna tell it, no reason
to tell it because it's just not the time or place.
But if you've never heard it, it's the most vile, disgusting,
hilarious thing you've probably ever heard in your life.
Speaker 1: So I was doing the Q and A.
Speaker 2: I was the crowd mic for the Q and A boy,
and I'm talking to the guys before we went out there,
and I'm like, I'm not going to ask this out there,
but I have to know.
Speaker 3: Are you familiar with the joke?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar?
Speaker 2: And they start laughing, they go, oh yeah, oh yeah,
you should ask us about that.
Speaker 3: Oh really?
Speaker 2: So I asked him how it was. Basically, the bass
player or the drummer who was writing a song called
blues Fucker, and as they're like putting these songs together,
it's just they started getting more vile, and the guitar
player just replied to all of it, go Jesus Christ,
why don't we just call this the Aristocrats, and there
is there, it is there, it is, And he's like,
you should tell the joke.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Not here, not the crowd, but.
Speaker 3: There's a there's no such thing as coincidence, apparently.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, no, So it may be happy to know
that it was actually a nod, a tip of the
hat to that, to that joke.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: I had heard from several of the cruisers, probably seven
different people who were telling me that the Aristocrats is
the best band on this boat. Especially they were talking
about the drummer.
Speaker 2: Well Tyson's saying I didn't get to see them, though.
Tyson was saying that the guitar player is the best
guitar player on the planet.
Speaker 3: Really, that's high praise coming from a player.
Speaker 2: And a lot of the questions from the crowd were
directed towards this guy.
Speaker 1: And I think I can't remember the.
Speaker 2: Band that he was with that I know, but all
of them like had played with some form of Zappa
at the time, or some part of Zappa, not Frank himself,
like with Dweasel or all that stuff. So I mean,
these are high caliber, right high caliber guys that no
more than the a chords.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the super smart musicians boat a lot
of math.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keyboards, lots of keyboards.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I did notice this year that it's a little bit
more rock and roll, though there's some more metal leading
dog metal.
Speaker 5: There's probably the fastest growing UH part of the progue genre.
I did not know that, you know, bands like.
Speaker 3: Haken and.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: I was impressed with the Alex Skolnik trio.
Speaker 1: Well Alex Skolnick testament.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh really, yeah what you preach? Yeah, I did
not know that. Yeah, this is this.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 5: Being as good friends as I am with Alan Parsons,
you would think that i'd be way more into.
Speaker 2: Prog rock, right, but you still are though I'm into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're into it.
Speaker 5: You get just don't know the things that I know
for other rock genres, right, So you know, fortunately, I've
just been able to lean on the fact that I've
been a professional broadcaster and you can throw me in
the booth with anybody and I'll be able to handle myself.
One of my Q and A is was a little tougher.
There was a little there was dead air. It was
dead air where I was just trying to think of
what the hell do I ask these guys next? And
somebody please get an audience member of microphone and bail
me out, and uh, but it it it, it all,
It all worked out just fine.
Speaker 1: Was it?
Speaker 2: One of those who was just it was just short answers?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: The worst thing you can do if you're an artist
and you're being interviewed in a public forum with a
Q and A and the host asked you a question, you.
Speaker 3: Know, is is is this.
Speaker 2: Your approach to songwriting?
Speaker 5: And then you say no, that is not no cohesive
to a good interview. And that's that's pretty much what
I got out of these guys. And the name of
the band was i Q, so they were definitely of
above average intelligence.
Speaker 1: Right, that's weird, Yeah, no, I but.
Speaker 3: We were able.
Speaker 5: We were able to to pull it together and and
and do a really nice Q and A for the fans.
Speaker 3: But it was it was my.
Speaker 5: Very first one of the cruise, and it took place
about two hours after we got on the boat, so
we're all rushing around to try to get, you know,
ready for this five days of noise and madness. And
and then immediately I got to jump on stage and
talk to a band that I know a paragraph about
you know, but it's.
Speaker 3: Doll went well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it usually does, you know, usually does, and especially
when you got guys like John Kirkman and Roy who
really know their stuff.
Speaker 1: Even thank you, I say.
Speaker 3: But it's a proper prog report, prog report.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And John Kirkman, he's been on this show. I interviewed
him a long time ago, and the fact that he's
here is phenomenal. After you know, eight strokes dog balls, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man,
he's I'm glad he has a sense of humor about it.
Speaker 1: He's like, well stop at.
Speaker 3: One right right, good times though.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolute plaster.
Speaker 3: The food wasn't bad, dude. We had chimmy chogas.
Speaker 2: One night and the oxtail stew last night was phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I saw it. I didn't partake.
Speaker 2: I will.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had oxtail?
Speaker 3: I believe I've had it once somehow some ways.
Speaker 2: Uh, I have my stepdad's Jamaican recipe, and uh, for everybody,
go free what ox you? Why would you? It's cow
it's a cowtail, and it's tender and it's delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I heard good stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're not gonna say with you guys too
long here. I was just like, where the fuck it,
we're here, we're here, let's bust out a podcast.
Speaker 3: Today. We didn't get off the boat.
Speaker 5: Yesterday or two days ago, we got off the boat
and went to every bar in the little resort town yep,
and had a shot at tequila yep, and then slept
it off and then went to work yep. But today
the stop was the Great Stirrup k which is a
Norwegian cruise line owned and built islands manufactured island where
they got you know, their fun stuff. There might be
some water slides or shit like that.
Speaker 3: But in order to.
Speaker 5: Get on the island, you have to get off the
boat and get on another boat and then take another
boat to the island. And then when you want to
get on the off the island, you got to get
back on a boat, take that boat back to the
other boat, and get back on a boat.
Speaker 3: And it was just too much boat, way too much boat.
Speaker 2: Well I almost did. I thought about it. I went
down and I saw the line like death.
Speaker 1: I don't need to.
Speaker 2: I thought, what the hell will be nice? Maybe you know,
walk around, maybe get in the ocean.
Speaker 5: Or they got a beach. I would have I would
have liked to swim in the ocean.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean not that we've never done that, right,
but but yeah, the when we were in the Dominican
republican porta Plata, like you said, it's like a little
resort thing, and you pretty much don't want to go
outside of that, actually into the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 3: So we value your life just I mean, you.
Speaker 1: Could, you can't go, but there's just no point.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's part of me is like, God, I
really want to go in there and get some like
real real food. But I mean the food that was fine,
shrimp tacos, overpriced but delicious.
Speaker 1: You know. Then we came up with a new bit me,
you and Brian.
Speaker 3: Here's how it happened. Here's how it happened.
Speaker 5: There is I guess the place that we were, the
place we stopped at Portablada is called Taneo Bay. Yes,
And there is a photo opportunity in front of the
sign that says I love tane O Bay. But it's
a lower case A in bay.
Speaker 3: And I walk by it and.
Speaker 5: I see the sign and I just say, I love
Tano boy, and we all started laughing and now we
are in a new band called the Tano Boys.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Brian DJBEF, mister uh mister Dawson here and myself and
it's quite hilarious. You will probably see the photo before
you hear the podcast.
Speaker 3: You will, you will. We did the photo shoot for
the Tano Boys before we finish the record, yep.
Speaker 2: And Brian, being the wizard that he is, already put
the photo together hm with the logo.
Speaker 3: Yep. I really haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeahed up a karaoke last night.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, oh yeah, oh boy.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't know if if it beats our other Tano
Boys record, because now now they're all our photo shoots
are Tano Boys shoots, which absolutely the name but the
single greatest picture ever taken in the history of photography.
Or the three of us in our sweatsuits at the
blisters carry tracksuits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big different, Yeah, sweatsuits and more like cloth.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right now, Definitely tracksuits.
Speaker 2: Definitely tracksuits. Yeah, nice jumpsuits, not top and a bottom.
That's that's a tracksuit, not jumpsuits. One whole thing.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be a tough picture to beat.
Speaker 1: It is it is so Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: What's the rest of your day? Look like?
Speaker 1: Karaoke? And then we have our we.
Speaker 3: Have It's Pink Floyd Night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have that thing tonight too, giving away the
cabin for next year, and there's that. Then we get
off the boat in the morning and fly back to
Vegas at four o'clock. We get to stop and get
some normal food and uh, you're flying back early.
Speaker 3: Fly back. My flight leaves at like one thirty from Miami.
Speaker 1: Oh, so we can go we can go get some food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can.
Speaker 1: We can go get some food.
Speaker 5: When we get back to the hotel, fucking sleep in
the lobby and get some food.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have a couple of drinks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, to the Arrow Puerto, and then fucking try
to sleep. I just the only time I ever sleep
on a plane is after a cruise.
Speaker 2: On the flight back to lained, you're just drained. Yeah,
it's absolutely drained, but is so worth it, so fun,
so fun. We're just honored and privileged to be able
to do this stuff. And thank you Larry and Jean
and everybody April who.
Speaker 3: Lives like this. Is he who lives like this?
Speaker 1: We do?
Speaker 3: We do?
Speaker 1: We do?
Speaker 3: This is a charmed life, my man, none.
Speaker 1: Of it for granted.
Speaker 2: Nope, let me tell you that our next cruise is
the end of auguste. Yeah, on the Blue, which is
Alan Parsons and Brosia, the Nelson Twins honoring their dad
with the Ricky Nelson Remembered show. Anybody off the top
of your head that you can think, Oh, the the
orchestra just got announced.
Speaker 5: The Elo Orchestra Is that SAMs Jeff Lynn? Yes, okay,
still who cares? That's all those songs. I mean, Ambrosia.
It's not Ambrosia with David Pack, but it's still Ambrosia
and it's still gonna be good. I'm super excited about
always getting to see Parsons and and and that family.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and uh, And that's you know, having worked and
spend most of my radio time in the classic rock world,
that's my wheelhouse.
Speaker 3: That's where I belong.
Speaker 5: And uh and that one is going to be super
cool because for the first time ever, we're going out
of Boston and we're going north in August and.
Speaker 2: I finally get to say when I'm getting on the plane,
I'm going to Boston to get some clam showder bye bye.
Speaker 3: Nice are you gonna go a day early?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, probably, Oh, we'll probably have to do the Uh,
there'll probably be a pre party, want that we'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think there was one last year.
I don't know. Figure it out. I hope there is.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we're gonna go get some chowda.
Speaker 5: I could be wrong, and we're gonna get some moistas
with some Wista sauce.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And if you guys, I think there is If you
want to guys want to go on that cruise on the.
Speaker 1: Blue Cruise dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah, easy, like Sunday morning at seven days and it's
going to be relaxing and fucking phenomenal.
Speaker 5: And it's going to be relaxing because they're putting five
days of events into seven days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's probably a lot more downtime and just
being able to enjoy it. Yeah, enjoy it.
Speaker 2: So uh ye hit up Mike Dawson at Dos Angeles
everywhere on the socials of course, check them out on
the Adam Carolla Show Adam Corolla dot com. You have
a new podcast you're working on as well.
Speaker 5: Working on I'll uh, i'll uh let those beans spilled
out of the bag when it's ready groovy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's coming and you'll dig it, love it.
Speaker 2: I've got still on it, of course I will. I
have a couple date announcements musical wise that are going
to be announced very very soon. Just have to cross
the eyes and dot the tea's. But one will be
in May and one will be in August. Right right
after we get back from the on the Blue Cruise
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