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The Ben Maynard Program
EP. 79 "ANOTHER FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE"! More RARHOF Discussion and STUFF
What if a simple shot of Malort could change the course of your Friday night? Welcome to a packed episode of the Ben Maynard program, where we tackle everything from technical glitches to new camera angles, all while keeping you entertained with the infamous Malort Challenge and our fan-favorite music trivia game, Stump the Chump. Whether you're tuning in on YouTube or Instagram, your engagement fuels the fun as we navigate through this live session with laughter, antics, and maybe a few unpleasant sips of Malort.
Join me and my buddy Spaz as we celebrate the legends nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including iconic names like Bad Company, Mariah Carey, and Oasis. We'll also toast to memorable birthdays, from the late, great Alan Rickman to my cousin in West Virginia, all while reminiscing about the significance of National Margarita Day and George Washington's birthday. With Spaz's uncontainable enthusiasm adding an extra spark to our conversations, this episode brims with personal anecdotes and a vibrant celebration of musical nostalgia.
Explore the intricacies of the fan voting process for the Rock Hall and the notable omissions that always stir up debate. We'll share insights on why artists like Ted Nugent and Iron Maiden have been overlooked and bring you a glimpse into my collaboration with Larry Reidy on his podcast, "Larry Reidy's America." As we swap lists of top songs and movies, you'll also hear about my top 10 rock favorites, perfect for energizing your day. From celebrating past triumphs with my baseball team, the Tough Guys, to offering a fresh tour of the studio filled with personal memorabilia, we promise a lively adventure in this episode.
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Well, hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard program. Thanks for being here. It's Friday night and we're live. Yes, we are. Let me see, let me do something here. Let me get this going right there. Oh man, all right, let's do that. And then let's you know what? My color's all messed up. See my, what happens here.
Speaker 1:Some of this stuff, I think it just resets itself. I don't know. Let's look here. Let's see what we got, see if we can change this, see if we can change this Show Hide Producing on the fly, right?
Speaker 1:You know, I always check this stuff beforehand. There we go. No, that's not what I want. That's what I want. Yeah, I always check this stuff beforehand, and when I was testing everything, it was fine. Okay, I think we're back to, I think we're back in business now. Wait, let's go bubble. Yeah, that's what we want. But you know, we haven't been up here in a week and I don't know what's going on. I think sometimes this stuff just resets itself. Let's put the comments on the screen. There we go. Oh, there it is. Because when I was checking the camera and the mics, which I do before every show, I come up here and check everything, make sure that it sounds like I'm screaming into the microphone and that I look halfway decent, whatever the name and the banner on the screen was blue, and then, as soon as I hit record and go live, it's black. I don't know why. I have no idea why. So anyway, yeah, welcome in.
Speaker 1:Thanks for sharing your Friday evening with me. This is Friday night, we are live, but before we can start, we have to take care of a little bit of business first. All right, so let's do that right now. Get it out of the way and get on with the fun. All right, so let's do that right now. Get it out of the way and get on with the fun.
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Speaker 1:And if you are here tonight, which we're live, so you would be here, because you wouldn't be hearing this on any of the streaming services not live. So you're here on YouTube watching this live, this train wreck. But if you are, thank you so much, greatly appreciate it. You just have to do a couple of things for me. First, you have to subscribe to the channel, okay, and then hit the notification bell so that you'll get all the notices when a new episode is ready to go. Secondly, give me a thumbs up. Come on, I deserve it. I really do Work hard at this, you know. And then, last but not least, leave me a comment. I like the comments, I reply to your comments and then you can follow me on Instagram as well. All one word Ben Maynard Program. I would certainly appreciate all of that. So there are plenty of ways to take in this show for your dancing and listening pleasure.
Speaker 1:And with that, it is Friday. We are live as I stomp the floor. Yeah, a little bit different. Look, yes, here in the studio this evening. I came in here a couple hours ago and I've got various camera mounts in the studio here and I've never used them. Never used them, but I put them up because I thought at some point I might be able to do. You know, multi-camera stuff, and maybe somewhere down the road we'll do that, but it's not happening right now. But I saw the one camera mount over here to my left and I thought, hey, you know what, let me put the camera on there and see what it looks like and we'll get into the studio from a different angle. And so here we are. So that's, you know, it's nothing special, but that's what I'm doing tonight. And there you go. So let's get into this. It's going to be a normal Friday Night Live. We will have the Malort Challenge.
Speaker 1:What does that mean? That means if you call into the program, I have to take a drink of this delicious here worst tasting liquor ever Malort. It's nasty stuff, but I do it to get you to engage into the program. And oh, and it's right here. I take that shot right here in my Mr Spock shot glass. Been sitting here in the studio for a while just collecting dust.
Speaker 1:I did throw a what do you call it? A bean, boozled bean, threw one in here. I just grabbed one. I wasn't trying to be picky or anything. I have a feeling this one's going to be hot. I just do. I think I had taken a. At one point I had taken a box of the hot ones they have several different, I don't know varieties of these bean boozled beans and I think I'd taken a a box of the hot ones, the spicy ones, and I mixed it with the one that I already had, and so I think that's what I pulled out. But anyway, so that's the Malort Challenge Call in. The phone number is right here at the bottom of the screen, and if you do that, then I've got to take a shot of Malort. We'll also play Stump the Chump. If you have any music trivia you can call in, and if I get it wrong and you stump me, well, then again I have to take a shot of Malort.
Speaker 1:It's not a drinking show, it's not even a drunk show, it really isn't Just something to get a little participation, that's all All right. Just something to get a little participation, that's all All right. That's what morning radio shows have done forever Is they do dumb, silly things to get the audience to engage. And so there you go. You know I love radio, you know who my morning show heroes are, and so I'm just falling right in line.
Speaker 1:All right, now a couple of things today. Today is National Sticky Bun Day. Now, I didn't realize that until roughly an hour ago. So I hollered to Catherine to get in the truck and drive to the mall and grab me a Cinnabon. And she basically told me to go fly a kite with a hole in it. So I don't think I'm getting my sticky bun tonight. Bummer Cinnabons, come on, they're the best. You know that Cinnabons are so, so good and when we we don't go to the mall very often, but when we do we have to we have to stop by Cinnabon and then we'll get like a, we'll get like a half a dozen and, you know, in a big old giant box and a couple extra, a couple extra cups of the the, the frosting, the cream cheese frosting oh my gosh, that stuff is so good. And then I'm I I'm paying for it, you know, for the next few days, because I'm feeling all heavy and full and, oh my gosh, all this sugar which, you know, I have a sweet tooth, but I have to work extra hard in the gym right there, right next door. So today is National Sticky Bun Day. If you're out having a Cinnabon, awesome. If you had one, great, I hope you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Oh, and tomorrow. This is what's kind of? Do I sound nasally? I think I sound a little. My nasal passages are pretty clear, but for some reason, to me at least, it's coming back in my ears that I sound a little nasally. So if I do, my apologies. We're only here for like an hour or so. Don't even sweat it, it's no big deal. Besides, it's just you and I. Nobody out there is watching, nobody out there is listening.
Speaker 1:But tomorrow is National Margarita Day. That's cool Not for me, because I'm not a margarita guy, but Catherine loves her margaritas, she loves margaritas, and we've got plenty of tequila downstairs in the house and we've got lots of agave nectar, so we're good there. And just we've got fresh lime juice, so we're good there. We've got everything. We need to have a couple of margaritas tomorrow, so we probably will.
Speaker 1:And we have a very busy day, very, very busy day tomorrow. What do we have going on? We have we've got a grandparenting seminar early in the morning at church, but we can't stay, can't stay. That's why I said it's busy. We're just running. So we're going to stay as long as we can at that, probably only about 90 minutes. Then I've got a haircut at 1030.
Speaker 1:And then we have the Whittier High School alumni luncheon tomorrow at one o'clock and then my buddy Darren is coming over. He's going to come over tomorrow evening. We're just going to have a guy's night, him and I I don't know if I've shared with you, but he, um, he's getting married next Saturday and he asked me to be his best man. So, yeah, I talked to him. When did I? I called him?
Speaker 1:I talked to him today. You know, we talk on a fairly regular basis, but it was, I don't know, a couple, three weeks ago, maybe a month ago, and I called him and I asked him. I said so look, we're both far too old for bachelor parties and all that kind of stuff. What do you want to do? And he says no, no, no, we're not doing any of that dumb stuff, you know. And, um, he says I don't know, we don't have to do anything. And I said no, no, no, no, no, we got to do something. And he says, I don't know, maybe we'll just go. Let's go have a good steak dinner. All right, done. So I had that in my mind. Ok, we're going to go have a nice steak dinner. I got the place picked out already. It's like my favorite steakhouse ever in the history of ever. And so that's what was.
Speaker 1:You know what I was thinking about, and I think it was Tuesday. Yeah, it was Tuesday. I'm at work and I happen to be making a delivery to Bucca di Beppo, and that's an Italian restaurant. For those of you who may not know, but most of you probably figured that sounded pretty Italian, right? So I'm making a delivery to Bucca di Beppo and I walk in the kitchen and I was like whoa, and I haven't experienced this smell in a while. Maybe that's what we're going to do. Let's do that instead.
Speaker 1:So I called Darren. I said hey, you sure you want that steak dinner. Look, I was thinking about this. And he says look, let's just have some pizza and beer. All right, that's it. And you know I don't drink beer, so that's going to be easy. So let's just have some pizza and beer, all right, that's it. And you know I don't drink beer, so that's going to be easy. So let's just have some pizza and beer. Man, it's going to be so cool. I said, all right, well, we'll just do it right here at the house. He says, yeah, let's just do it at the house, we're just going to hang out. A couple of guys will have some pizza, have some beer, just sit out on the patio, get a fire going. It's all good. All right, that's what we got going. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a busy day. I'm going to be whooped. I am going to be whooped by the end of it, but it's all right, it's cool. So you know what? Today is February 21st and got some birthdays that I want to run past you.
Speaker 1:The first one is actor Alan Rickman. Does everybody remember Alan Rickman? He played Hans Gruber in Die Hard. Hans Gruber in Die Hard, and then I mean he's done a whole lot, but kind of like the big roles that come to mind. And I know he was in the Harry Potter movies, but I never saw any of the Harry Potter movies so I wouldn't even know his character. In fact, I don't remember his character in this movie, galaxy Quest. Remember? Galaxy Quest was kind of a spoof on Star Trek A little bit.
Speaker 1:Tim Allen, sigourney Weaver, alan Rickman, who else? Who else? Who else? Tony Shalhoub, isn't that his name? I think that's his name. The guy who plays Monk? Yeah, and oh, somebody else to somebody else? Darn it, I can't recall her name. It was a good movie, it was a funny movie. Anyway, alan Rickman was in that.
Speaker 1:Well, he passed away, you know, in 2016. He was only 69 years old, but today would have been his birthday. He would have been 78. So rest in peace, alan Rickman, and happy birthday to you.
Speaker 1:But a very special happy birthday to my cousin Sharon. Today's her birthday. So happy birthday to you, cousin Sharon. She lives in West Virginia, so I know she's not up watching this. I've actually asked her before. Hey, because you know, when I send out the, I make the post on Facebook and I put out the notification. Let everybody know that. You know we're going to go live. She likes almost every single one, and so I kind of comment to her. I said, instead of liking it, why don't you just watch it? And she's like oh, no, no, it's past my bedtime, so you can stay up for a couple of minutes. Come on, yeah, guess not. Huh, fat chance, well, anyway. So happy birthday, cousin Sharon, and hang on.
Speaker 1:I feel like I sound nasally. I feel like my throat is dry. What's going on here? I'm not even sick.
Speaker 1:Oh, tomorrow, not only is it National Margarita Day, but tomorrow it's George Washington's birthday. Yes, the first president of the United States of America, the father of our country. It's awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. And one of my favorite radio talk show hosts is he's been trying to get to George Washington all week long. Well, I think he hasn't, hasn't been able to do it, so I'm going to have to wait till Monday. He's going to do a big thing on George Washington, so I can't wait. Cannot wait. Good stuff. So happy birthday to you, george, father of our country. So last week last week Spaz was on my buddy. Spaz, everybody knows that Show's out there. It's doing pretty well. Yeah, it's doing pretty well.
Speaker 1:We talked about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees. We went over the whole list of 14 of them and if you want, I'll remind you who they are and then I'll get into this discussion a little bit. So Bad Company, the Black Crows, mariah Carey, chubby Checker, joe Cocker, billy Idol, joy Division, slash, new Order, cindy Lopper, mana, oasis, outkast, fish, soundgarden and the White Stripes. So those are the nominees for this year, and we went through the list just as if we were part of the voting body. We selected the ones that we felt should be inducted this year. We had a lot of discussion. It was good, man, it was such a good discussion.
Speaker 1:And you know what? Spaz is so awesome, he's just so awesome. And I mean, when we got done recording uh, the show, we just started listening to music up here and, uh, that's it. You know, and and so it was just, uh, one of those things him and we did. I and I don't have I don't have my stereo in the studio, um, so we couldn't go out into the loft where the stereo is and just start putting stuff on. But I just grabbed my phone and just start hitting stuff, start listening to it. Hey, check this one out, check this one out. So it's always good to hang out with Spaz, it's great to have him over, and he just does it on no notice. He's so good, like that.
Speaker 1:I remember a week ago, wednesday, when the nominees were announced. I waited till they were announced and then I said, okay, boom, we're doing this. So I texted him hey, what are you doing Friday? Can you come in studio and talk about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees? He was like hey, just let me know anytime. Just like that, boom. So he's always very accommodating. Yeah, so we just had a good time. Like I said, we had this really, really good discussion about these nominees.
Speaker 1:So where I'm going with it is that I didn't catch all the details. I tried to look it up and I couldn't find it anywhere. And I couldn't find it anywhere. But you know, for those of you who don't know, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame does a. They allow the fans to vote for who they want to see in. Also, and I think they you go on their website and you can vote for whomever you want on the ballot, and they allow you seven votes, which is what the voters get, and it's just to create some interaction with the fans. Fans and then I. I you know it really well.
Speaker 1:It really doesn't make any difference as far as getting an artist or a band into the rock hall, um, because, and and you'll see numbers that are incorrect you know a couple hundred thousand for um for a particular artist, not yet because it just started, but at some point, you know you'll have one or two artists. It'll be over a hundred thousand votes or a couple hundred thousand votes. I think the most I've ever heard of was over 300,000 votes for a particular artist I don't remember who. But, all that said, that only counts for one vote. So the fans get a sort of a say-so, but they get, however many millions of people vote, it counts for one vote. And what they do is, I think, they take the top seven off of that and they count for one vote for each of those artists.
Speaker 1:So it really they make it sound like it's so important and the, the bands or the artists, their, their, their management companies or record companies, they start, you know, trying to get fan engagement. Hey, you know, go, go vote for your favorite band, go vote for this band, that, whatever it is, and, um, you know, they want you to rally behind them and that's fun, it's cool. Like I said, it creates. Make a little bit of difference is if the members of the voting body or just a particular member, they see where the fan vote is going and they might say, oh well, you know, x artist has so many votes, they're number one, so the fans definitely want to see that artist get in and maybe it could sway a voter in that direction. You know, maybe a little bit, but, like I said, it only counts as one vote. So it's not. Yeah, so everybody gets all crazy about, oh my gosh. So, and so has x number thousands of votes, uh, but still only counts as one, um.
Speaker 1:But so this, this fan voting, started this week and there are some, just preliminary, some early numbers, and I don't have them. I heard them but I don't have them because I tried to look it up and I'm not the greatest at searching for things, so I wasn't able to find it right now, but I can say that. Let me go back to the nominees here here. I can say that right now, uh, in the early fan voting, our boys from Manah are not doing so well, I know they're bringing up the rear and, um, I think who was who was who was next up after that? I believe I'm looking at the list right here. I believe it was that bastion of rock, mariah Carey, I believe she was next up, and so they're not getting a lot of love from the fans right now.
Speaker 1:I know that the couple of acts that are doing quite well, uh, as far as the band voting, are bad company. They're doing pretty well. Uh, they're like in the top five. So you're in the top seven. You know that would be, you know, like I said, equal to the to the voting body. But so bad company's doing pretty well, chubby. Did I get numbers on Chubby Checker? I don't recall. I don't recall that. I don't recall getting numbers on Chubby Checker or Joe Cocker. I know Billy Idol's doing really well, cindy Lauper's doing really well, I think Soundgarden was doing pretty well, but the one that, as far as the fan voting is concerned, the the band that's doing the best and they have like twice as many fan votes as any other artist or band.
Speaker 1:Um is Fish, and we talked about it a little bit last week. Spaz and I did. I don't believe if I remember correctly. I don't believe either of us voted for Fish. I know I didn't because I'm looking at my pretend ballot right here, but the fans are rabid. I mean they are just bananas over this band. So it kind of makes sense. It kind of makes sense. I mean they are just bananas over this band, so it kind of makes sense. It kind of makes sense. I mean a band much like the Grateful Dead, where their fans travel. They travel wherever the band is. That's where they are, and so, yeah, it just kind of makes sense that that's the way it's kind of looking so far. But we were.
Speaker 1:You know, spaz and I we talked about some snubs for the Rock Hall and I know I think I brought up about seven of them. What did I bring up? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh, I brought up nine. Well, I left some off. I left some off.
Speaker 1:I was thinking this week and I thought, oh well, a friend on Facebook had posted something about Ted Nugent and once again getting snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And Ted Nugent is so very deserving of being in the Rock Hall call. In the 70s, when he was a solo act, ted was an arena sellout. When they had these big festival shows in stadiums, he was a stadium act as well. He would always be like second from the top of the bill. So you know, when you're that high on the bill, that means you can support a good crowd, a lot of big songs, tremendous airplay on rock radio.
Speaker 1:But the thing that kills Ted. And look, I think if you asked Uncle Ted if he was upset that he was snubbed once again and if he ever cares about getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I won't repeat, I won't try to say what his response would be, but basically it would be. No, he doesn't care at all, it doesn't bother him whatsoever, and he would probably say something like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, can you know, take their hall and you know, stick it where the sun doesn't shine, I'm sure something like that. But but he definitely is deserving of it. The problem is and I don't, I don't, I don't know the problem is and I don't know the problem for him. I don't know why it's a problem, but the problem for him is that he's such an outspoken person, an outspoken conservative as far as his politics are concerned. And, of course, yes, he's a big hunter as well. He always has been, always has been an outdoorsman and I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think the way that he I've heard him in interviews before and I think the way he talks about it, for some reason, I think that turns people off. It doesn't turn me off at all. There's no cruelty in anything that he's doing. When it comes to hunting, if you understand anything about hunting throughout the nation, maybe even the world, I know here the reason why we have hunting season for certain animals is to thin the herd so we don't get overrun by bears or deer or whatever it might be so that's why and a season is only so long for whatever animal it is. But Ted doesn't hunt for sport. Ted hunts for food and I just think it's a beautiful thing. Um, he is so charitable he's. I've I heard him one time. He said that his like his, his charity donates. Charity donates upwards of a million pounds of meat to veterans organizations, stuff like that. So he's feeding people and it's not barbaric or anything like that. He eats what he hunts or what he kills and I don't know, for some reason. I think that I think the because the fact that he's a hunter sorry about that, if you're listening to my iPad go off. I apologize, I silenced my phone, but the iPad I didn't, but the iPad I didn't. But I think between the hunting and the conservative view on his politics just seems to rub people the wrong way, especially in the nominating and voting body of the Rock Hall. So it's a shame. It's a shame. Ted should definitely be in the Rock Hall. It should have been a long time ago. I just don't think it's ever going to happen.
Speaker 1:Another band that I failed to mention, and they've been on the ballot a couple of times and they couldn't care less about getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and that's Iron Maiden. I mean, when they see, I don't remember if they were on the ballot last year, but I know they were on the ballot two consecutive years, I just don't remember what years. It was off the top of my head. But when they were nominated and on the ballot they did absolutely no press at all, no interviews, which a lot of artists do. They get on the ballot and then they start doing all the radio shows and other outlets you know, trying to. They're just out campaigning a little bit. You know, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:Did an interview was Dennis Stratton, who hasn't been in the band in like 45 years. I think he was on the first album. He was one of the guitarists on the first Iron Maiden album, which I believe was like 1980, I think, and that was it. And he did an interview. He was included. He was included in the possible inductees which we kind of touched on last week about that as well. As far as the ones nominated this year. I have no idea who it includes when it comes to each individual artist or band, but but he was included with the iron maiden nomination and he was the only one that did any type of interview at all. The rest of the band said they weren't doing anything and they couldn't care less if they got in. They weren't even going to show up, so it didn't really matter, but still they deserve to be in. Gosh, who else? Those two came really quick after I brain farted last week over it.
Speaker 1:Let me take a sip of water. I'm getting a little dry here. You know why I'm getting dry? Because no one is calling in taking up some of this airtime, so I'm the only one talking. I'm looking at the studio wall while I'm drinking water and I see my boys from Bohemian Queen and they had a busy weekend last week. Yeah, they were doing shows Friday night, saturday, and they did a private party on Sunday. They were busy. The private party was right, was like I don't know 20 minutes from the house here, but I couldn't go because it was a private party. Anyway, great guys, great, great, great, great, great guys. So this is kind of exciting. I like this.
Speaker 1:Next Friday I'm going to for the first time. For the first time in how long has the Ben Maynard program been on the air, or been on the air Kind of on the air, right? Uh, how long has the Ben Maynard program been in existence? Since October of 2023? So I mean close to a year and a half, what a year and four months? A year and five months or so, whatever, something like that. In that time, I have yet to be a guest on another podcast and next Friday, for the first time, I am going to be the guest on a podcast. I'm looking forward to it. It's really it's going to have a good time.
Speaker 1:It's my friend Larry Reedy's podcast. His podcast is called the Larry. No, I'm sorry, it's called Larry Reedy's America. That's what it's called. Called Larry Reedy's America. That's what it's called Larry Reedy's America. And same thing as this podcast here. It's available everywhere, has his own website. Just look up Larry Reedy's America. You can get his podcast that way on the website, or you can just go to whatever streaming outlets you use or wherever you get your podcasts. That's where his is available.
Speaker 1:But, if you remember, he was on the show last year for Veterans Day when we did the Veterans Day weekend stuff, and he lives in Batesville, indiana, so we've got a three-hour time difference, but a few, I don't know three, four weeks ago he sent me a text and he asked me to put together, if I would put together a list of like 10 favorite songs and 10 favorite movies, and he was going to do two separate podcasts. And at that time I said, hey, I can call in with my list. And he said it wasn't going to work because he had some other guests on. I think he had two or three other, two or three other buddies on and they all had their list of 10 songs. But when he does that, he doesn't. He doesn't record at at home in his studio, he takes it out on the road. And he said where he was recording at that time he said the cell phone reception is terrible, it wasn't going to work. So I, okay, that's fine, but I sent him my list of my 10 songs and then I sent him the movies as well, and so that that that episode was on last week, the one with the 10 songs, I think. I think the one with the movies just posted this week I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.
Speaker 1:So they went through and each guy talked about his songs and so on and so on and so on. And so then Larry was Larry gets in touch and he says, hey, you know we can do. You know, you, you your your podcast is. You know you had. You talk a lot of music, you have some knowledge on music, blah, blah, blah. He says, yeah, we can, let's just do this together. And uh, so he gave me some days, uh, to pick. And of course, you know, look, larry's 86. He's retired. Larry can do whatever he wants. I'm not yet, so they're all during the week.
Speaker 1:And it was like, oh my gosh, so fortunately I I'm not working next Friday. So I called Larry. He said, hey, this next Friday works, yeah, sure, all right. So first, he says he says, all right, well, you want to do it around what time? Did he say, oh well, you want to do it around what time? Did he say, oh, he says you want to do it around 11 o'clock, your time. And I said, larry, I said I get up at one thirty in the morning, I'm at work at three o'clock in the morning. I said, don't worry, let's just do it in the morning. Oh well, ok, all right, you know, know. So how? About 10 o'clock my time, seven your time? I said seven o'clock's, perfect.
Speaker 1:So for the first time ever I get to be a guest on, uh, another podcast. So I'm really, I'm really looking forward to it. We're going to talk some music. Um, larry's going to send me some stuff, stuff that he wants me to check out and listen to, because, like I said, he's 86 years old. Our music tastes are going to be so different, but I know we do have some common ground though. So that's going to be fun too. We'll get to talk about our differences and we'll get to talk about the stuff that we have in common and just go from there. It'll be a lot of fun. So I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:You know, no, I'm not, I'm not going to, I'm not even going to tell you my list. I mean, tell you my list. If you want to know my list, oh, you know what? Well, okay, all right, I'm going to give you the list. Where is it? Oh, yeah, there it is. I'm going to give you the list from 10 to 1. And the way I told Larry, I wanted you to listen, and I still want you to listen to Larry's podcast next week or whenever it posts. I'll let you know when it posts, but I may not go over these 10 songs. Who knows, I don't know, I don't know where it's going to go. So I'll give it to you now. I know you're just like on the edge of your seats, right, I can tell, so I'll preface this by saying that and I'll tell you what I told. Tell, so I'll preface this by saying that and I'll tell you what I told.
Speaker 1:Larry, this list of 10, is it my like top 10 favorite songs of all time? I don't know, I don't think so, but this top 10 list here is like the perfect beginning to a long playlist that you can put together and listen to while you're like out doing the yard or, you know, just doing whatever you're doing. It's just, it's, it's, it's a great's, a great. I, I think it is, I think it is so and that's what I like to do. You know I, um, I put playlists together and you know me, I'm a physical guy, I like physical product, I like my music to come in a physical form so I can hold it, I can smell it, I can, you know, really look at it. But for convenience, I, you know, will listen to it on my phone. I've got my AirPods in and you know doing that and it's just out of convenience. So, okay, so let's do this. So from 10 to one. That's where we're going with this list.
Speaker 1:My top 10, at number 10 is Gypsy from Uriah Heep. It's off of the live 1973 album, it's. I think I, when I did my Uriah Heep top 20, I told you Gypsy, and July morning would flip-flop just depending on my mood, and man, that's a great, great, great version. Oh my gosh, it's so good. Number nine is Deuce from Kiss off of Alive 3. Okay, off of Alive 3. That's my favorite version of that song.
Speaker 1:Number Where's eight? There's eight. Number eight the Tower From my boys Angel. Love those guys, love that band, love that band. So that band. So good, so, so, so good. And they're celebrating their 50th anniversary, or, yeah, 50th anniversary this year. So, um, I'll be there. Oh, and I'm gonna. I'm gonna try to take spaz, because he's not even familiar with Angel. So I'm going to try to take spaz if he wants to go, and maybe we'll get a VIP meet and greet or something like that. That would be so awesome. Anyway, so the tower from Angel off of their debut album.
Speaker 1:Number seven is I Need you from Foreigner off of the debut album. Is that number seven? Yeah, it is Number six. Fantasy from Aldo Nova off of the debut album. Number five Higher Place from Journey off of the Arrival album. Number four, again my boys, my boys from Loverboy with Turn Me Loose. That's off of their debut album. Let me see, let me see, Let me see, let me see, let me see what else we got here. Number three, let me see, Let me see, let me see, let me see what else we got here. Number three there it is. Number three, double Vision from Foreigner, off of the Double Vision album. Number two Edge of the Blade from Journey off of Frontiers. And my number one song is Message of Love from Journey off of the Trial by Fire album.
Speaker 1:So that's the top 10 on my, like I said, working in the yard or whatever it is you know you're doing, getting all your stuff done. Playlist. All right, I mean, that's just the start of it. If you didn't have pen and paper, get some pen and paper, rewind this a little bit and write those down. Great stuff, great, great stuff. Just letting you know it's the way it is. I'm really stuff. Just letting you know it's the way it is. Okay, yeah, so I'm really looking forward to getting on Larry's podcast next week and talk some music and have a little bit of fun. It's all good stuff. So I think, oh yeah, like I said, I wanted to do something a little bit different here in the studio tonight, so you're looking at it from a different angle.
Speaker 1:Normally the camera is right over here and now it's right over here. So stuff that you normally don't see. You don't generally see this right here. Let me see if I can swing the camera over here. There it is. So there's my books and this right here is a painting. It probably kind of hard to see it if you're watching, but it says tough guys and that's the number three and what that is.
Speaker 1:That was a baseball team that we had back in 1987. And remember, I told you, I've got the same friends I had when I was a kid. And when this team here, the tough guys, was comprised of the guys that I grew up with, you know, and my brother Chuck, we all grew up together. We would have our pickup baseball games, our pickup football games and whatever during high school years, and in 87, we were playing. We put a team together, of course. We called it the Tough Guys and we played in a Latin American or a Latin League. I should say Good stuff. We ended up taking the championship that year. They had five divisions, 52 teams, and we finished first out of 52 teams that season. We took the championship. We took the championship, we were champions of our own division and then there was a round Robin tournament with the winners of each division and we won that as well. So it was, it was cool, we. We had, we had a good time. It was a great, great obviously, a great group of guys, great team, a lot of chemistry, a lot of chemistry.
Speaker 1:But that number right there is for my friend, mike Dominguez, who passed away in 2019. And he was our second basement and I had asked my brother-in-law to paint this for me because when Mike passed away, I, um, I spoke at his, at his services, and I wanted to have that and have that on display. Um, and I had made a mural with a bunch of pictures from when we were kids, some of them when we were playing ball, some like of my first wedding night, stuff like that. I should say the night of my first wedding. Let me change that. It didn't come out right. So just all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1:But stuff you don't see, stuff you don't normally see when the camera's over here.
Speaker 1:So I thought maybe I'll give it a different, different look, uh, tonight. And uh, that's just headphones. There's another pair of headphones right there. Let me see if the camera gets over that far. Oh, yes, it does. Yeah, so, and then, of course, you know, you only see about that much of the bookshelf normally. Hey, there's Superman, what's up, dude? Tonight you get to see all of it, except right up on top. Right there, right on top, there's my kiss bobbleheads. Right there, right on top, there's my KISS bobbleheads. That's from when they had their Arena Football League team, the LA KISS. I was a season ticket holder the three years that they were in existence, and good stuff, it was good stuff. So I got bobbleheads. I'll clean out some of this stuff and then let's do this.
Speaker 1:And then, whatever books we have here as well you guys know most of these books because I've talked about them and I've talked about how much I want to read them, and some of them I've read, some of them I haven't, and you know. But you know books from my friends, pepper Ann and Rachel Thompson, larry Reedy, and yes, yes, they're not just friends, they're not just friends of the program, they're friends. I, yeah, we're, we're friends, it's, you know. Then it just come on the on the podcast and and then that's it, never hear from them again.
Speaker 1:Actually, I stay in touch with them, I text them, call them whatever, text them, call them, whatever, and uh, you know, I just think that people are special and, uh, when you have special people, um, on the show and I can honestly say that every single guest that's been on the program for the nearly year and a half, very special, very special people, and I would have every single one of them on again in a minute All they have to do is let me know. Some of them. I have, you know, actually most of them, I think, maybe all of them. Like, I have their, I have their cell phone numbers or a way to contact them.
Speaker 1:But you know, I don't, I won't be that guy and I like, especially like the, the, the musicians, like you know, pauly Z or or Adam Holland, I don Holland, I don't want to, you know, just abuse that privilege. You know Jack Frost from Aldo Nova's band. I don't want to abuse that. So I just, you know, send them a text every once in a while and kind of leave it at that. Hey, how's it going? Or whatever, and you know, usually they'll get back to me too.
Speaker 1:But, like I said, I just don't want to be that guy. Oh, uh, hey, remember me, I got your number or whatever. You know we went to school together, you were on my podcast, you know that kind of stuff I don't want to. I don't want to be that guy. So, uh, anyway. But but yeah, that's it, that's what's going on, that's what's been happening this week, and if you have any interest in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at all, start checking stuff out, start listening to the radio television, whatever, check on this fan voting, see how that's going and, for fun, go on and vote for whomever you want. You know I'm feeling really strong about the nominees that I voted for. I'm feeling really strong about at least six of them getting in. So kudos to me, right, right, anyway.
Speaker 1:Um, so we're done. Okay, I appreciate you being here tonight. It is friday night. Thank you so much, for I got away with it. And if you don't believe me, you know they have a website. Go order it. Go order yourself a bottle. It's not really expensive. Order yourself a bottle and try it. You'll agree.
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