Lenny Kravitz Top 5. Rock Star Wives. Grilling.

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Well, my fucking panties off.Go. Let's got episode eighty seven of
the Playpants Podcast. That's rod RyanOLAPOPI. I'm Jason Ginty, and we
are ready to go with an excitingepisode 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 havelike a title, then you have like

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a subtitle. You know, thePlaypants Podcast. We're gonna cover so much
dumb shit your head will implode.Well, but you know, as my
boss, as my boss would tellme, and as you as a program
director, now you would talk toyour staff and you would say, well,
let's implement some word economy here.So what you would say is podcasts

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eighty seven, and then take whatyou said and then we would just type
out more dumb shit. Yep,yep, yeah, I love that phrase
word economy. Well. As aguy that talks a lot, I've been
on the receiving end of that morethan once in a heating conversation with an

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authoritative person. Yeah, those authoritativepeople probably aren't on the radio, haven't
been for years. That's what's funabout 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 Presleyhaving 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 andgirlfriends and relationships, and there are

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some really cool ones I cannot waitto 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 knowthat she is the most famous rock star
wife of all time. I don'tknow that I'm ready to crown her that,
but she's got a great argument forit. So I can't wait to
get into that. And then LennyKravitz has a birthday this week as well.
He turns fifty nine. Doesn't lookat day over twenty three, son

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of a bitch. Yeah, he'sa vampire. He is so freaking cool.
And I just watched a couple ofweeks goes some like little five minute
YouTube thing and he's got this placedown 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 eatwheat, grass or where the fuck he
eats, and it's like he's inperfect shape and he's just got this regiment,

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and it's like, man, Igotta be honest. If I could
live on an island and ride ahorse around and have a trainer and eat
the right food, I'd still bea piece of shit. But he looked
awesome always, even when he livedin New Orleans, I know he always
looked amazing. His condo was justa block away from where mine is,

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and it's still there. I rememberwhen it was kind of up for sale,
and that was cool because then theyshowed pictures online to see what it
looked like. So we can talka little bit about that too. We're
gonna run down his top five orour 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 wedid. If we did, I'm sure

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it'll be different songs this time,because it always seems to change. And
then we're gonna get into a MemorialDay weekend is this weekend that we record
this episode. And Rod's got afew uh, we's got one recommendation and
I remember this vividly. You recommendedthis movie to watch Memorial Day Weekend last
year. And guess who hasn't seenthe movie yet. You you know,

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dipshit right here. You know whodid watch it. Michael stands, Oh
goody love. Mike stands. Helistens 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 recommendationfor that movie. Wow, you
were right. That is the MemorialDay movie. So we'll talk about that,

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and we'll talk about the real reasonthat we have Memorial Day Weekend.
It's not just grilling and mattress salesand all that sort of thing. I
was actually going to ask you thatabout how you handling that with your radio
station, because it is obviously thegrill and chilling, getting hammered, having
friends over pool parties, grilling,which you you know, as a radio
station, you want to reflect whatyour listeners are doing. This is the
program director talking now, right.You always want to reflect what the lifestyle

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is happening in the moment. Butthen 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 thepeople 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 howdo you approach it? Well, because

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we have people that have been listeninga long time, they kind of know
who you are, so you don'talways have to You can just you can
do a whole break talking about chilipeeing in the pool and hot dogs on
the grill, and you could talkabout Memorial Day weekend and how excited you
are and man, we don't gotto work. You can do that whole
thing and I won't get one email. Well, Rod, it was kind

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of disrespectful. You didn't mention thereal reason if we're if we're taking care
and talking about the military and showingour appreciation year round, which we do
and all of and it's it comesfrom a real genuine place from everybody on
the show. Like I don't Idon't have to tell anybody, Hey,
make sure you know you act likeyou appreciate the military. It's never anything

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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, likeI said already, Okay, it's not
just hot dogs on the grill.There's a reason, Okay, those that
made the ultimate sacrifice. Where peopleget it's kind of like you know,

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when you when you come across somebodythat's Jewish and you tell them Mary Christmas.
I don't know one. I don'thave 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 andhe kind of was thanking veterans,

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and his whole thing, his wholespiel was, you know, thanking veterans
and really appreciate, you know,all the veterans and didn't specifically say,
you know, Memorial Day weekend isspecifically for the men and women that made
the ultimate sacrifice. And he tooka little crap for that, and I
said, it's not coming from aplace of being mean, you know,

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and it's not even overly ignorant.He was just really excited about anyone that
served the country. Because he didn'tbut because he didn't specifically state what Memorial
Day was about, he caught someshit online and then you know, online
people start to kind of just pileon. And I thought it was really
unwarranted. You know, I guessyou know, you're really not supposed to

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say happy Memorial Day weekend. Now, let's feel a little weird. But
again, it's not coming from aplace 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 somepeople that have a problem with that,
the nuns and the priests. WhenI was a little kid, you wouldn't

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say happy Good Friday. Good Fridayis supposed to be a terrible day.
It's the most holy day. It'sa solemn day. It's when Jesus is
going through hell. If somebody sayshappy 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

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the one that is for those thatdied serving the country. Okay, but
I don't think we've got to gettoo upset about it, man. You
know, I think he was comingfrom 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'sabout, right, But I don't think
you need to grill somebody over that. No. No, And I've seen

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it had before, some some militaryguys, 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? Imean, you know what I mean.
And I get it. It getsa little sensitive. And that's why
I was asking because I used tojust be like, yeah, we're talking
about beers and hot dogs and thewhole thing. But because we're a little

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more sensitive age, and it's like, well, you know, you can
talk about like you said, youtalk 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 doingto all weekend, just balance the two.
If you were to send out anemail to your staff, I would
say something to the effect of whatI did, you know, just again,

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if you're appreciative of the military man, that's I see that all is
upside. But if you really wantto be specific, make sure that the
messaging is hey, those that gaveall and showing you, you know,
the appreciation for the ultimate sacrifice.So we will talk about a movie.
At least one person that listens tothis podcast watched the movie last year.

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I will watch it this weekend atsome point. Can we take a look
real quick at YouTube from last week? Yeah? Yeah, And then I
want to ask you a very adude 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 theTom Hanks and again she stopped shy from

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giving me her top five. ButMelissa was our inspiration for coming up with
what we did last week. AndMelissa says, the movie Big was one
of my top five money pit isabsolutely hysteric, hilarious. And the Green
Mile, oh shit, dude,did did the Green Mile? Even even

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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 inthat movie too, and that movie's great
that he kind of because he kindof 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 thenumber two in that movie period. Melissa,

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you're right, thank you. Thegreen mild definitely should have been mentioned.
What in the blue fuck Jason andI say that all the time ever,
And that's James Cromwell, right,Yeah, he's so great. When
they fry the guy, he doesn'tgo well and he's burning his face and
shit, and he comes down thestairs Percy. Percy doesn't put the water

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on the sponge what it was,and then the the electric chair goes wrong
and there's this horrific scene and there'salways you know back the movie takes place,
I'm gonna guess in the forties orfifties. Yeah, and uh there
were still witnesses there and it wasjust horrific. Apparently you need to have
water on that sponge when you whenyou spiraled it down on the head when

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you clamped it down, and uhso it was a big mistake. And
the guys are in the back roomand 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 togetherand we just knew, Okay, there's
something that's going to be said forthe next ten years. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's like it's like, you know, we're gonna be beating the shit
out of the fucking what no Wayguy for the next ten years. It's
like, it doesn't happen all thetime, but what it does, we
will beat it but dust. Butwhen 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

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radio? Right as soon as Imean, I don't just popped in my
head, but in the movie OldSchool, as soon as Vince Vaughn said,
oh yeah, cheese, I fuckingknew that would kill on the radio.
Just playing that isolated, even ifyou didn't see the movie Old School

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Cheese, that was gonna be afunny drop. And we still I probably
used it. This week there wasa story about cheese or something. People
can't open up the American craft slicesand 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,

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yeah, no, that was agreat Top five last week. The
Tom Hanks say, I end up. It happens every time I like edit
stuff together and put everything and thenput 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 theconversation. I'm going back and listen to
just bits and pieces of the podcastas I'm putting it together, and then

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I'm like, oh, yeah,shit, let me go check this thing
about Tom Hanks. So what shouldtake 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, soI gotta I gotta get more disciplined.
But yeah, the Tom Hanks thingis is pretty badass, all right.
NOCF Quick Top five, Tom Hanksnumber five, Road to Perdition number four,

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The Burbs number three, Big numbertwo, Saving Private Ryan number one,
Money Pit number one. Now Idid 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, rightand then he's sitting there and he's making

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the little money and he's making thelittle paper airplanes. But maybe the funniest
thing in that movie, which Iwill play this on the air, is
when they're filling the bathtub and itgoes through the floor down to the first
floor, and then he does thatlaugh. 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, buthe is absolutely at the end of his

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rope. And Tom Hanks has alaugh, no doubt about it, Like
you know, Seth Seth Rogan hasa laugh. Tom Hanks has a laugh
that is very very much. Butthis is the greatest one ever. And
that drop. I use that onthe air all the time because it's just
instantly makes you laugh. It's justwhen you play it on the air by

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itself, you can't not smile atleast hearing that. And it always makes
me know that I watched a lotof these movies and that movie's been out
forever. Is like I said,there, I think, well, you
know, was that something that justsaid laughs and kind of loses it and
then Tom Hanks just takes and expandson it, or they did they do
that scene like seven times until hegot it right? You know what I

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mean? Those are those moments inmovies where you're like, did he just
fucking do that, you know whatI mean? Or was it plotted out
and planned out? Because sometimes itjust you just get lucky. Yeah,
I mean you clearly can't. Awriter cannot type out the laugh it just
said, you know, you wouldhave to say losing your mind hysterically laughing,
you know, like you're at theend of your rope. They can

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do all these descriptive things, butTom'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 himthat question the laugh the laugh in money
pit, how many takes? AndI mean I wouldn't take up a lot

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of time with that, but it'dbe funny. I would absolutely sandwich that
into a Tom Hanks interview. Ireally 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. Ohno, this is Michael. Here we

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go The Burbs in at five againwith the Burbs Money Money Pit at four,
Road to Perdition at three, ALeague 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 cuthis his span of movies almost in half.

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You know, some of the youngstuff was silly. I mean,
I love Bachelor Party and all that, really silly, silly stuff. But
you know, we didn't know thatTom Hanks was going to become the biggest
actor in the world. Was hewas? He splash, Yeah, okay,
I thought so. I'm like sittinghere going, oh, we didn't
even talk about that. That's Turnerand Hooch first run. Yeah, that's

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first fun Tom Hanks. Yeah,that's the first fifteen years Tom Hanks.
By the way, NCF, wouldn'tten duck sized bears be like ten pit
bulls. I would have to gowith the one giant duck good point.
Yeah, that was a weird questionthat 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.

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Okay, So last weekend had somepeople over, you know, pool hanging,
everyone's drinking, having a night.You know, it's just a nice
little time, great time. Soa guy is on the grill, right
and he's cooking. He's like,yeah, I got it. Okay,
cool, you got it. I'mchilling in the water. I don't want
to get out, no big deal. I think nothing of it. Yeah,
man, you want to cook theburgers? You do it? Is
this at your house? Is itmy house? Somebody's using the grill at

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your house? Which was gonna bemy 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'sfucking up the burgers. Whoever this dude
is, he's sucking them up.So I get out. I'm like,

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a right, you have flames bornout 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 hegoes, I go, yeah,
man, I said your burgers mightbe a little fucked up. And he
goes, He goes, what thefuck is this? You're letting somebody use
your grill? There? You go, Yeah, I am, it's right
fucking here. Why wouldn't I wasin the pool. I don't give a
shit who cooks. Start giving aship, dude, it's your your house.

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It is an absolute thing. Itis a thing. Now, if
somebody brings over something specific to puton the grill, then okay. Like
so Chile, he goes to theMexican meat market and he gets the most
tender, but he to meat andit's already pre all pre marinated and everything.

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It's amazing. I kind of lethim do that. But I'm already
doing, you know, the burgersand the grills and doing it, you
know, and all of that stuff. Right, if somebody brings something over
specific, I'll hey, you knowwhat, 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. Youheard my reaction because I needed to know

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immediately, Wait a minute, adude 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 andwe're hanging out cooking and stuff, or
we're gonna cook some burgers. Yeah, I know you're a fucking better cook

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than I am, So I'm gonnabe 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 betterthan I will. So I didn't.
I don't give a shit. Ireally give outdo rando. It was somebody
a new cook, and so,okay, care about that. But but
he's like, hey man, canI get the grill going. I'm like,
yeah, I do it. I'mchilling the water. So it was
like, yeah, that was aninteresting reaction that you had before. I

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haven't finished the question. Holy shit, So you're not allowed to do that?
Huh No? And bearman, I'mhelicoptering too. IF's chili or somebody
is on my grill, I'm I'mthere, dude, I'm there, I'm
hovering, I'm hanging. I gotan extra tongue ready to go. I
might be goosing them a little bitfrom behind. I'm there. I'm present.

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If there's stuff on the grill,I'm present. I'm not fucking swimming
in the pool while the grill isblowing up. Yeah, I mean the
grill is right there. It wasn'tblowing up. Is it the reason?
Is it a safety issue or isit just Hey, I'm a dude,
this is my fucking grill. Isit that issue? So what it is?

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God rest his soul. Mitch theengineer, he would come over and
he was a really, really goodcook. So he brought over you know,
bacon wrapped, you know, Armadilloeggs 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 likethat on the inside. Well, bacon

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cannot be unattended on a grill.No, and here's me try, Okay,
Mitch is this guy he kind oftaught me how to smoke and do
that. I know he knows hisstuff, so I kind of don't a
helicopter on him. Dude, thisfucking black chary smoke is coming out of

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the grill. It colors the sideof my house. Okay, now I've
got like the next day, I'mscrubbing 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 waslike, my buddy looked at me shocked,

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like I let another man touch mygrill. I'm like, well,
that's weird. Yea, he shouldhave a little buddy drive my car.
That's not a big deal. Idon't like it, but you know anyway,
huh, Okay, let'son learn.I learned something new every day on
this podcast. See an all dumbshit. Hey Purcella Presley as we're recording

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this on Wednesday, May twenty four, seventy eight years old. Um,
she's been in the news a littlebit lately because her I guess that would
be her. Her granddaughter is thechick from Daisy Jones and Daisy Jones and

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the six Yeah. Yeah, that'sher. Okay, Riley Riley key keo.
Okay. She's also Elvis had onekid, and then that kid had
two kids, one of them hadpassed away. So Riley is the only
grand kid of Elvis. So she'skind of taken over the estate now because

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her mom passed away. Lisa MurrayPresley just passed away a little while ago,
and apparently, and this kind ofsucks, so Riley Keo is now
fighting her grandma and they're fighting overmoney 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 beforea long time ago that Elvis estate wasn't

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worth a whole lot when Elvis passedaway, and she kind of kept it
humping along and she built it upto, you know, a couple hundred
million dollar empire with all the licensingand everything. So I think even though
they were only married a short periodof time, it still was Elvis's wife
who produced Els his only kid.And you know, I don't know what

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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 thebest interests of keeping things going for her
daughter, knowing that she was goingto be the sole heir until she had
kids, which were now we haveRiley Keo. Right. Is Priscilla Presley

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the most famous rock star wife ofall time? Man, that's a tough
one. The most well known kindof the first one. But but for
being a rock star wife, I'mgonna 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 toGavin Rossdale, Gwen Stefani is Gwen

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Stefani on her own. You know, she's famous on her own, So
it's almost not fair, but Iguess everything's in play. Yeah, there
were more equal I know, butI'm gonna take that back off the table
just because I want to see wherethis 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

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a lesser level because it just didn'tlast very long with Kurt and Courtney Cobain.
You know, Courtney Love and KurtCobain because they were huge. They
were peak fire at that moment inthe discussion, absolutely in the discussion,
and then you got and then yougot 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,

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I would say, you would justpile on extra points for throwing kid Rock
in there. But I think yougot to have Pam Anderson in there as
far as the most famous and againfamous on her own, but Pam and
Tommy, come on, I meanit, Pam and Tommy. You just
say one with the other. Theyhaven't been married in twenty five years.

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Pam and Tommy still seems like somethingthat you say and you you pair them
together. Well, the videotape certainlyhelped 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 youcould look at um. This is going
back a little bit further. BillyJoel and Christie Brinkley was pretty big for

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that time period in the eighties.You know, he wrote Uptown Girl about
her. She's in the video thatwhole 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 asupermodel, so boom. They were already
there, Like they were already twohuge people that came together kind of like
Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. Theywere both names, big names together.

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But you could look at Eddie vanHalen 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 bymy 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 whoCourtney Love is, and she she definitely

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knows who Kurt Cobain and Courtney Loveis. 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'sjust those are just famous people that are
married. Did everybody know that DavidBowie was with Iman forever. I don't

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know if that was this universally known, but I mean I knew it.
But that's the world we live intoo, you know. But they were
together forever too, man. Butit's nowhere near Priscilla Presley. Oh God,
no one's touching Priscilla Presley because she'scome of the first one. She
was this little girl, a littletoo little. But the times where they're
and you know, and then theywere together and they were just everywhere.

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He was the biggest thing on earthat 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 wasthe early early days of all that shit.
So you know, you think aboutthe oas the boomers that grew up
with it. Neither one of usare going to know our name, but
you know, Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin, Jesus the seven Times Dude, but

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rock star wives he married his thirteenyear old second cousin. Yeah, pretty
famous, but not on that levelbecause we don't know her name. I
would say Priscilla Presley is one whereI I think it's between Sharon Pam and
Courtney who's number two? If weboth agree, if we both agree that

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Priscilla Presley is the most famous rockstar wife of all time? Right,
who's two, three and four?Or am I missing somebody? I mean
Heather Locklear, Heather Clear with TommyLee and uh Richie Sambord. That's a
big one, you know. Butthat that was hot for a minute,
and then you know, Tommy movedon. You know, Pam eclips his
head of Lochlyer by about nine hundredmiles. So she's in the discussion.

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But because of what Pam and Tommydid, Heather Lockler kind of gets pushed
to the side. You kind offorget 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 MTVyears ago solidified that whole thing. So

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I think that's that's household name.That's that's not just dumb, dopey rock
fans like us. That's a lotof people know who she is. Sharon's
number two? Yeah? Who wasthe other one? I forgot already?
Pam. I thought it was Pam, Courtney and Sharon. It's far as
famous. You gotta go Pam andTommy. I think second, I think
you gotta go. Second, Ithink it's I think is Priscilla, Elvis,

(29:00):
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 eightyseven, 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 onereally knows the name. But George Harrison

(29:26):
of the Beatles was married to Pattyboyd 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 interestedin you. So Clapton, being an
artist, he's all bummed out.He really wants to be with his Patti

(29:48):
boychick, so he goes out andhe 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 isalso about Pattie Boyd. They got married.
They were married for quite a fewyears, and of course that did
not work out forever. But Iwouldn't consider her a famous one. But
she's famous because of the songs thatwere written about her. She was quite

(30:11):
the museum you could look at.I don't know that. I didn't.
I didn't know both of those songswere written about her. Yeah, I
knew Layla was about her, Ididn't know the other one. You look,
Wonderful Tonight is about her. That'sabout 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 likewhoa. And he's fucking friends with George.
Yeah, they're great pals. Butthat back then, dude, Patty

(30:33):
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 outof this one. This one's freaking
me out too much. But yeah, Layla was written, and he sent
the song to Patty boyd, andas soon as she heard it, she's
like, holy shit, everyone's gonnaknow this song is about me, and
she still kept turning them down.I thought you're gonna say she heard the

(30:56):
song and jumped right on his rocket. No, it took a took.
It took a little while, andthen she warmed up. She realized how
great the song was. She's like, holy shit, he wrote this about
me. And then they got togetherand it all worked out. But yeah,
then he later went and wrote Wonderfultonight. If you haven't heard that
song, that's a good one.That's a really good song. Rosanna,
our cat Toto, Rosanna. It'strue right? What's the top five on

(31:18):
that? What's the other song that'swritten 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. Butit's called in your eyes two eyes that
you've got a decent batch. Youcan probably hit them both. What I'd

(31:41):
like to think that Peter Gabriel wroteone right in her eye socket? Why
do we how do we get Ricko'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 allthe time. She's got that whole look

(32:06):
at me, look at me.You know. She used to be a
runaway model and nobody could understand whyshe married Rick o'kasick because he was not
a handsome man at all, andshe was like one of the hottest girls
ever. But she was in thatWho's going to Drive You Home? She
was in the drive video? YeahI 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

(32:28):
and she was and is smoking outthere 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'sallowed. You can put your meat
right on her grill. This isfunny, But no one's gonna know this
one because it's a little bit olderthan our generation. X Mick Jagger and

(32:50):
Jerry Hall. Jerry Hall was afamous model back in the eighties. They
were together from like eighty five toninety seven. Yeah, you know,
Axel Rose was who that Stephanie Seymour, our underwear model. Of course,
then he beat the shit out ofher 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

(33:12):
a couple of years, but theyweren'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 aboutthis exercise? Learn to play a damn
instrument? Or saying because ugly dudesget models when you're a rock start,
did you notice how bad Mick Jaggerlooks, how weird Billy Joel looks,
Rick Okasik, Axel rose Azzi.Yeah, everybody is way everybody's like,

(33:37):
way out of the dudes. Thechicks 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 hotterthan Gwen Stefani. I want to be.
I want to go on record assaying that he is absolutely stunning to
look at that Tati's dreamy. Heis hotter than Gwen Stefani I by a

(33:57):
mile. When Stefani never really didanything for me. I don't know what
I mean, not that she's it'snot that. I just when people would
lose their mind over her, evenback in the No Doubt days, I
just never saw it. I neversaw it with her. Nice I interviewed
her a hundred years ago, longbefore she was famous. But I just
never saw the beauty. And Imean, she's, man, she's beautiful.

(34:21):
Okay, record is saying that,but uh, Gavin's more beautiful than
Yeah. Yeah, I had toflip 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 backin like ninety five or whatever it was,
and they were all over the placewhere they played in New Orleans.
No Doubt was opening up for Bushand he had been trying to get her
to go out to go out.You know where. That dude got her

(34:44):
to go Molly's right off of BourbonStreet, 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. Herein Molly's pub, Yeah, the one
that's off of Bourbon. I forgetthe side Street. But it's yeah,
yeah, like time maybe or something. Yeah, the little gumpy one,
you know, not the one whereyou get the Irish coffe. He's done
a decatur there's a different one.Yeah, okay, yeah, that's where

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they were hanging out and stuff chilling. I'm like, oh, it's all
started here in New Orleans. Butyeah, now, Gavin Rostell, he
wins the handsome or the better lookerum in that in that deal. Yeah.
Outside of that, I couldn't thinkof anybody else. Oh oh wait
a minute, recently consciously uncoupled.Yeah, Gwyneth Paul Oh, I have

(35:30):
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 mightdo 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

(35:51):
over Gwyneth. Yeah, like awet paper towel. She does nothing for
me. Coming up, we're gonnatalk Lenny Kravitz. He's having a birthday
on Friday. We said he's avampire. It's gonna be fifty nine.
He was a resident of the FrenchQuarter for a number of years. Yeah,
just down the street from where I'vegot a place. Lenny Kravitz top
five before we break, was thiseasy? It was. I haven't done

(36:16):
a deep dive on Lenny Kravitz deepcuts in a long time, So I
know I'm gonna miss some ship andyou'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 lovehis 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. YeahI was. I was there out of

(36:37):
the gate with his career and goingto see him live right when he was
brand new. I've seen him multipletimes. Um, traveled to go see
him, and yeah, uh sogreat. I can't wait talk a little
Lenny Kravitz. Um, why don'twe take a break and we'll come back

(36:58):
and we'll do our Lenny Kravitz topfives. 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 thispodcast. Well, that's because the Rod
Ryan Show cars has been busy inthe store stores up, it's online.
All new summer merch is avalable.Man, I've seen some of these T
shirts. They looking good. Thecouses are badass, stickers, all kinds

(37:19):
of cool stuff. Now what Rod'strying 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 needof them. And he's working again with
the Houston's Children's charity, trying tooutdo last year. Let me just put
this number in perspective. Okay,last year pulled in one hundred and one

(37:42):
thousand dollars. That's not one hundredand one dollars, that's one hundred and
one thousand dollars, and they passedout over thirty five hundred filled backpacks.
They can also supply as the kidsare gonna need in. They're safe,
secure shopping now on the world famousRod Ryan Show page at the buzz dot
com that is the Buzz dot Com. Get your merch. Put it on.

(38:06):
It's cool shit, it looks badassand I will be doing a little
shopping uh this weekend on the rodRyan Show Care's page at the buzz dot
com. When you look at anumber like one hundred one thousand, you
just go, the fuck are wegonna beat that? Yes, a lot
of money, dude. And Ido that to myself, and it's it's

(38:27):
it's a terrible thing to want tooutdo 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 barand 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 wecome close to one hundred grand again,

(38:49):
I'll be happy. The backpacks witheverything, dude, what's not more expensive?
Everything is more expensive. Not onlyare the backpacks more expensive, but
everything that goes in those backpacks.The scissors are more, the crayons are
more, the spiral notebooks, theprotractors, the rulers. It's insane,

(39:12):
dude, how much more everything is. So I used to be able to
get about, you know, twentybucks for a backpack. I got to
raise the price of the T shirtsand I don't want to do that either.
But the actual T shirts are costingme more, right, And there's
just nothing that's not kind of gonethrough the roof over the last five years

(39:34):
in the fleet five years has beenridiculous. I could fix the one of
the things. I could probably getthe price lower, because what you do
is printing costs money. Right,and when you have to buy crayons,
Okay, if you take out thewhy and just Crans, I know you
tried, still Sun, you coulddo it. Krans cr a n s

(39:55):
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 meafter all these years as well.
Okay, but so all these yearsremoved from Western New York, Krans still

(40:16):
sounds good to you. I don'tknow anymore, man, I don't hear
it very often. I don't exactlytalk 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 toget people to use that word in a
sentence. I can hear all theysay it now. It's like the word
iron. So I got people sayI say iron wrong, iron, You

(40:37):
can iron your clothes iron if it'sa little rushed iron. Hey, well
you okay, wait up here.I got called out on the air on
this. Okay. I didn't knowI was saying anything wrong. I would

(41:00):
p at the urnal, I wouldpee, I would stand up and pe
at the yurnal urnal. Urinal.It's a urinal. It's like, what's
the rush, dude? Why areyou missing something there? It's a urineal?
And I didn't saying that right,There's no way we we grew up

(41:21):
saying urinal. No, we're alittle 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 theretoo? Is there a urinal in there?
And who the fuck took the cryansand rode all over the walls above
the urnal? Shit? What?Oh? You know what? And you

(41:46):
know I'll tell you what it was. It was a growing moment. It
was like the day that Alex wentfrom a boy to a man. He
just looked at me on the airand 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

(42:09):
saying it wrong. For fifty years. It's where it's where I write down
all my deepest thoughts. I hopenobody 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 ina public forum and you're saying, you're
fuck up some words. You can'ttalk. I mean, I don't know

(42:30):
how I've gotten to this point inmy in my career. I don't know
many province is turning what fifty eightynine, fifty nine? I looked like
nine. I've had a couple ofopportunities to meet him. I've been up
close with him. He looks fabulousup close. It's not one of those

(42:52):
guys that there's no trickery, there'sno makeup, no nothing. God damn,
he's a handsome man. Um andin when I the last time,
it was a long time ago whenI when I interviewed him. I've interviewed
him on the phone before. ButI'm talking like face to face, and
he's sitting there in like some redsilky robe and it's like open here.
Of course it's in a fucking robe, you know, barefoot, sitting on

(43:15):
a couch. And I go backthere and he's just he's waiting to Like
I really felt like I was beingreceived, 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 reallyI didn't feel comfortable sitting on the couch

(43:39):
next to him, and I didn'twant to kneel on the floor in front
of him. That seemed a littleweird. 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 knewI had to do some of this with
the microphone right back and forth andhe so, you know, he's ready

(44:00):
to receive me, but he's clearlynot setting up for me, nor is
anybody. And I grabbed a chairand I dragged it over in front of
him. I go, is thisokay? He's like, go ahead,
So that's kind of that's kind ofwhat I remember about that. And then
I tried to get out of himwhere he lived at that time. I

(44:20):
didn't know where he lived in theFrench Quarter. I knew it was,
and he kind of shut me downon that. Yeah, but so he
lived. He lived past Tense onthe 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 anybodywas that interested to put Lenny Kravitz French

(44:43):
Quarter cottage. And I bet youyou know some kind of old um real
ittour, another one real ittour,Nope, another one of those real ittour
websites, and uh, and Ibet you there's old pictures up. It's
pretty cool. He he had theplace redone. It's awesome. Inside.
I knew a guy who was fixingmy cable and somehow we were talking about

(45:07):
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, youdid, what badass? He goes,
Yeah, he goes, he goesthat place is wild. Apparently there's like
a loft where it's just the bed. The upstairs they like redid the whole

(45:29):
inside of this French quarter. Fromthe street, it looks like nothing.
It looks like nothing, but insideit's like he's got just a huge loft
where it's just his bed and allhis 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 andall that cool shit that was in there.
But the pictures are out there isit's a rock star place for shi

(45:51):
fucking cool drapes and stuff. AndI 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'tknow. 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 inthe quarter. Um, yeah it would

(46:12):
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 outsidetoo, But I remember I remember the
number one point two million and you'relike, well, what size is that
rod? I bet you it istwelve hundred square feet. It's not huge
as a cottage. It's small.Yeah, it is very small. But

(46:32):
in the French Quarter, your propertyvalue 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 inthe 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 somepretty freaking cool songs. He's got
the cash lane around. I'm sure, yeah, I've written no songs,

(46:53):
and I don't know what I'm doingdown 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'slike a deeper cut. I'm gonna be
like, damn it, I missum uh deep cut? Maybe one okay,

(47:14):
maybe one? Maybe just one deepcut and go ahead. I'm just
gonna tell you, if you havethat fucking cover song in your top five,
I'm gonna punch you right through thisZoom meeting American Woman and it number
no. Actually, you know whatI left it off? I hate it.
I hate it. I don't don't. I don't like the original one.

(47:34):
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 likewhat it's about. I don't like the
actual song, and I don't likethe fucking cover. So I'm so happy
you don't have that in your topfive. No, I do not number
five. Are you gonna go myway? Number five? Now? The

(47:57):
reason is number five is I've beenplaying 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 thatin like five minutes. He literally went
bang knocked it out. It waslike at the end of the album cycle
that he was writing and all thatshit, 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

(48:21):
of his songs, but that onespecifically, that's Lenny Kravitz playing the drums
in the studio on that right.Yeah, great song. I mean,
how you beat that song? Numberfour? Can't get you off my mind?
I don't remember what. I don'tknow we wrote that one about,
but just a great, great freakingsong. Lenny's got some some very cool

(48:42):
music you want to put out inthe evening. Got a lady friend over,
you know what I'm saying. Lenny'sgot that kind of vibe and a
lot of his songs because he's sofucking cool that if he comes into that
falsetto, that kind of that BGthing 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 staythe whole Holy fuck, He's gonna sing

(49:02):
the whole song like that. He'scool it up. He can do it.
People cannot do that. That's alot. That's a lot in your
voice. That was number four.Another great almost an anthem in a way,
let love rule. How do youbeat that? You know that's that's
a great, great freaking song.Well, apparently two songs beat it because

(49:23):
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 thatis Slash was over on tour with Guns
n' Roses in Europe and he flewtook the concord over to New York because

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Lenny Kravitz is in New York andthey 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. AndSlash tells Lenny Kravitz, have a gallon
of vodka and a ship ton ofice, 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

(50:07):
Slash took off and went out intoLa like that was on. That was
on my mother's day list because thewhole chorus, so the whole verses,
my mama said, right right,And it's all about lessons that he learned
from his mom, who was famouslyRoxy Roker, who was the neighbors of
the Jeffersons, the Jefferson's that interracialmarriage and number one my favorite Lenny Kravitz

(50:30):
song, at least for today,believe. It's a slow song, but
when you get that, that songjust builds. And when he starts ripping
into that guitar solo and it justbuilds and builds and builds. Man,
it is epic. That guitar solois so fucking cool that you could play
everything. It's so great. Sothat was my number one believe. Definitely,

(50:51):
definitely, Man, you put onsome Lenny. You got yourself a
lady friend coming over. Go withLenny Kravitz. I had, I had
believe and can get you off frommy 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,

(51:13):
that's late eighties. Man, letlove rule. The first time I
ever heard Lenny Kravitz. I alwayshave this. I always feel like when
we do these top vibes. Ifit's the song that introduced me to you
as an artist, and I likeyou as an artist, I I gotta
go back to the root, theroots that got me into you in the
first place. So that first albumhe looked different, he sounded different.

(51:38):
It wasn't long that we found outthat his mom was a famous you know,
actress, and then it kind ofmade sense. Okay, but then
you kind of thought, Okay,nepotism. Let's see what this guy does.
Okay, he's gonna get the onealbum 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 ruleeighty nine, dude eighty nine.

(52:02):
That's incredible. I forget that hewas actually earlier. You don't think of
Lenny Kravitz is being out in thelate eighties like that. You know,
you think, yes, early nineties. Let Love roll in at number five,
in at number four. This ismy kind of deeper cut from the
Mamaset album. Slash apparently didn't gettoo drunk, but because he played on

(52:22):
Fields of Joy and that's another onethat's just a builder, and then boom,
Slash hits. Those kids went tohigh 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 aNew York kid, but if he went

(52:45):
to high school with Slash, thatmeans he had to go to LA and
spent so he must have split withthe parents. He must have split his
early early years in New York andthen went to LA for high school.
So that's where he hooks up withSlash God. It's amazing that those guys
didn't get like a full on bandtogether. Can you imagine? Feez?

(53:07):
So Fields of Joy from the MamaSaid album, I've always loved that song.
That's my number four, innit numberthree, always on the run,
So I got slashed back to backon that number two. Are you Gonna
Go My Way? Are you GonnaGo My Way? The video is like

(53:28):
the thunder dome looking thing, andif you remember the very beginning, I
just that drums, no, no, no, just they're just that chick's
beaten on the snare drum. Andif you remember Lenny standing there, I
remember the video. There was thisit looked like a crown of thorns,
but it was a crown of lightsthat was coming down on his head.

(53:51):
And the imagery for that he musthave. I mean, I don't know
where it was filmed. I'm sureall of this is on the Internet,
but it was in some kind ofa silo and there were people and it
was very apocalyptic and they were allaround him on different levels. It was
such a fucking cool video. It'ssuch a rocking song. Are You Gonna

(54:12):
Go My Way? In at numbertwo and number one? And I have
personal reasons for this, But LennyKravitz put out an album, Circus,
and nobody was touching him. LennyKravitz 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 thealbum called Number five and the song Flyaway

(54:36):
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 afucking slam dunk. I think it's gonna
be a hit. Lenny Kravitz callsme and thanks me for getting the song
on the radio, and then whenthe song does become a smash, se

(55:00):
ends me a gold record. Lennyputs a note in there thank you.
So we you know, New Orleansis not the biggest radio market, nor
is it the biggest city. Butthat was the spark I was in on
a couple of those. That wasone of them that I was definitely in

(55:21):
on the ground floor, and therecord company remembered it. Lenny remembered it.
Yet, Lenny, how it workedis the record guy called me and
said, hey, dude, Lennywants to talk to you, and then
transferred me over. And then I'msitting at my desk talking to Lenny Kravitz
and he's thanking me for playing Flyaway. Dude, nobody was playing Lenny Kravitz

(55:43):
on the air. Yeah, well, this time kind of falling apart for
some reason. Yeah, And Ido want to say it was that third
it was the fourth album. Itmight have been Circus. I don't think
that was rock and Roll is Deador I can't remember what was on there,
but I know that we weren't playingit. And Lenny Kravitz was already
he was a star, he wasfamous, and then the Lisa Bonet,
he was very famous. But wedidn't touch anything off of that fourth album.

(56:07):
No, and that and that stressis an artist out They want to
be on the radio. So flyAway with the personal story, it is
a great song. But Flyaway isuh yeah, with the gold record and
everything that that in the phone calland the handwritten note, how can how
can that not be my favorite LennyKravitz song? Oh shit, dude,

(56:28):
Wow, that's cool. Yeah,yeah, yeah, it's it's it's weird
because you know, in the positionlike I do now again programming at a
radio station, you're you're shuffling thedeck and you're like, well, you
know, you're looking at songs andyou're just trying to figure out what you
think is gonna work, what it'snot gonna work. And that doesn't happen
very often anymore. It didn't happena lot back then either, really,

(56:50):
you know, with a with asong. But you know, once in
a while you get that magic sparkand like, oh wait, New Orleans
is playing that, and then otherradio stations are gonna look at that go
oh well, I better listen tothat again. And then yeah, the
next one, and then you gettwo, and then you get four,
and then you get eight, andthen you get sixty and they say,
you know, you're getting a goldrecord from Lenny Kravitz. I don't think
he was even living there at thetime, so there wasn't any well,

(57:14):
you know, he's a you know, he's a he's a citizen. He's
here, you know, it makessense for us to play him. I
don't think he moved there until afterthat, and nobody really talked about when
he lived here. You didn't hearabout it very often, or at least
I didn't, you know, likeyou 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 latenineties. Yeah, it was late nineties,

(57:37):
so it was clearly after fly Away. So again I didn't play the
song because he lived there. Therewas no like, you know, hey,
here's one of our own, youknow, because you know, when
you live in a city, thecity 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 veryquiet now. When we first moved to

(58:00):
New Orleans, about a year beforewe moved there, Trent Resiner moved there,
right, So I mean, I'mgonna say Resner moved We moved to
New Orleans and ninety five Resiner moveddown there, and maybe ninety three,
and that's when he bought the funeralhome, and you know, he started
working with you know, and thenthat's when he started working with Marilyn Manson
and everything. Right, he waskind of out and about a little bit.

(58:22):
I saw him, Yeah, youknow, I saw him several times.
I saw him at like a CheapTrick show. He was in that
loge area and in the House ofBlues. When I got to go backstage
to meet you too, he wasback there, wanted to meet you too.
I mean he was. He wasa New Orleanian. He was out
and about. You know. Hehe borrowed our studio to do rock Line

(58:45):
back in the day or whatever.That show was a national show, came
up on our platform at Voodoo towatch um I can't remember, Queens of
the Stone Age or something. Andhe didn't want to be bothered. He
had goons with him, but hewas around town. He would go to
concerts. I don't remember that vibewith Lenny being around, going out and

(59:06):
about. Never saw Lenny. Iwas in a Marty Girl parade one time,
standing on Saint Charles Avenue. Wasstanding there, just standing there catching
beads and hanging out with a beer. And I looked at my left Trent
Resider a leather jacket, just chillingcatching beads. I'm like, right,
I go Weser. But he wasjust 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

(59:28):
then yeah, the Voodoo thing.It might have been that year. We
had like a little platform out inthe field somewhere out back from the stage,
and it might have been a differentyear. I don't remember, but
but yeah, he came up andhe'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 wantwhatever, you know. I'm gonna get

(59:51):
on my knees and I'm away theyear 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

(01:00:14):
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 itafter. So he came up with his
goons and I don't I don't knowif we're talking about the same time,
but mine specifically is yeah, he'llcome over. You know how great would

(01:00:35):
that be? Hey we got Trentresider 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 whatfucking band it was, Boom they boogie
out. He's not going on theair with us. I know he just
wants to go and hang. Hewants to go and experienced things. But
yeah, no, he seem aroundevery once in a while. Or you
hear stories saw Trent residents the grocerystore. I'm like, that had to
be weird. No, this fuckingmelanate right, he's the thumping on a

(01:00:59):
melon as Trent Resident people say thathe would. There was a there was
a gym in lake View that heused 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 startedto 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 NewOrleans all the time. Yeah, yeah,

(01:01:22):
Um, things that didn't make mylist 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'sright where he was. The whole song
is about him and Lisa Bonet arguing. So it's it's one of those where

(01:01:46):
he's really letting you in. Man. It ain't over till it's over.
It sounds like he's kind of fightingto 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, alot of songs and I like this a
lot of the Lenny Kravitz songs.I associate the video and Mister cab Driver

(01:02:10):
has always been a personal favorite ofmine. Banger love that too. I
love Mister cab Drivers. So,I mean, those first two Lenny Kravitz
albums are unbelievable. The first twoalbums he I went to Toronto and he
opened up for the cult What ashovel Man, And that was right when

(01:02:30):
he was brand new. That wason the first album that he was touring.
Awesome. Just you still kind ofthought 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 clearlyhe turned out to be this just megastar.

(01:02:52):
You know when you think about wherewhere he fits into the whole scheme
of the ship. We talk aboutevery episode about you know, the early
nine in the nineties and stuff andjen 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 alwaysin that fabric. You know, he
wasn't that level obviously, but hisship would come in and come out,

(01:03:15):
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 savedLenny. Call me we can catch up.
Rod Ryan saves Lenny Kravitz headlines prettymuch, I mean pretty much.

(01:03:39):
Thank god you keep the note,but he uh yeah, I have it
with the record. Uh. It'snot a traditional it's not a traditional gold
record, it's still it's an rI 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 fiveand it's got the R A A

(01:04:00):
certification and then you know it's gotthe brass plate in there with your name
engraved in it. So it's tome, and yeah, it's it's that's
probably the most special one. Ihave 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, theguy made me believe that he wanted
me to have it. I'm like, okay, thank you, Lenny,

(01:04:21):
I appreciate it. That is prettygood. That's pretty cool. I saw
Lenny Kravitz here in Houston. Hewasn'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 TromboneShorty. Well. They were in

(01:04:45):
BFFs for years. Man, theyplayed together all the time. Yeah,
but I imagine they kind of metin New Orleans, right, yeah,
yeah, because so yeah, sohe'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, youknow, I mean, if you're in

(01:05:06):
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 ofyou know, you'd feature your your lead
guitar player. He brought Trombone Shortyup to the front a little bit and
jammed with him. It was prettyawesome. It's funny you mentioned about Trombone
Shorty because, like, you know, he closes out the last Sunday to

(01:05:28):
jazz Fest every year, and allmy 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 allweekend whatever. You're drunk and you're
full of all the great food andyou'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 Idon't need some fucking band dork up there
on stage. And I'm like Ohgood lord, you are missing it because

(01:05:49):
I have converted so many people intoTrombone Shorty fans. I go, just
give me two songs, Give metwo 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 theend of you just like, where do
I buy a ship? This isawesome, Like, it doesn't take much
to get become a fan for trumpof Trombone Shorty. It's fucking great.

(01:06:13):
So the Chili Peppers are playing hereThursday night Tomorrow night at Minute Made Park.
The last time they played here,they played the Toyota Center. Trombone
Shorty opened up. Wow. Hewas out on tour with the Chili Peppers.
So we managed to get some awesomeside stage type deal or whatever.
And we're standing there and we're watchingthe Chili Peppers and you and you're Trent

(01:06:36):
Resin Trombone Shorty fucking standing right nextto us. I'm like, Jesus Christ,
Trombone Shorty, what the fuck isup? Bro? And talking to
him the whole deal. Man supergreat guy said, dude, you know
New Orleans Jazz vest Senior million timesnow that you're closing, you know,
congratulations on being the guy that's closingit out and stuff. He seemed to

(01:06:58):
be you know, at least thedid 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 theChili Peppers are on stage, but um,
just telling him that that, youknow, he's closing jazz Fest because
it was something that the Neville Brothersdid forever, and you know, Jason
coined the term years ago. It'slike that was walkout music. Yep,

(01:07:20):
that the Neville Brothers pack up thechairs and then that's what we're gonna listen
to when we're walking out. Andthen Trombone Shorty changed all that shit.
We're not walking out, We're stayingto the end, and we're not trying
to beat the traffic, beat thecrowd. No, we're staying here for
this the last band of the lastweekend. Yeah. And he brings it.

(01:07:42):
I mean it's just brought. Hefucking brings it every year and he's
so great. So so yeah,yeah, no, and Trombo and Shorty
was would go out with Lenny Kravitzso 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 cantotally see there is a certain influence with
that whole thing. Right, let'stake a quick break and then let's wrap

(01:08:04):
this thing up. Dude, Let'slet's get it done. We gotta get
to our final thoughts. Next timeyou visit New Orleans, man, make
sure you book the Pirate tour.What Pirates of the Quarter. It's a
French quarter walking tour. It's agreat time a year to get down to
New Orleans right now. Discover thereal pirate history of New Orleans. Man.
Book your tour Pirates of the Quarterdot com. If you already took

(01:08:27):
the tour and they didn't have shirtsat the time, or if you just
love pirates, or when you goand you take this, you're gonna want
some sort of memento. Check outthe shop page at Pirates of the Quarter
dot com. Pirates of the Quarterdot com. The shop is there.
You can make your reservations when you'regoing to be in town. Book the
tour. They got these kick assshirts for sale. They got a great

(01:08:48):
little walking tour, and there's apub crawl and you're drinking your beers,
you're walking around and you're hearing realstories about the French Quarter. I mean
real stories. I don't think itwas last week or the week before.
And we didn't end up shitting onanything, but we just talked some of
the differences and some of the othertours. And this is real history.

(01:09:09):
But it's it's interesting enough that youdon't got to fake it. You know,
everything is at Pirates of the Quarterdot 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 probablyRyan. I'll probably watch that.

(01:09:30):
That'll be on at some point.I'll have it on and I'll walk by
it, you know, a bunchof the weekend, and I'm sure is
it AMC somebody will run all ofthe 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

(01:09:54):
watch last year, and I hopeto get to it this year, so
I think it might be made forHBO. And maybe that's why I don't
think it was ever something that wasin movie theaters. Maybe I'm not sure,
but it's Kevin Bacon and the movieis called Taking Chance, and Chance
is the name of a soldier.And when a soldier passes away, which

(01:10:15):
is why we have this long weekend, the amount of respect and what and
how that body is transported back tothe 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'sbeen a billion of them. We might
almost have to expand to top ten. Kevin Bacon's done so much Taking Chance.

(01:10:44):
He wants to do this job andit's so difficult, and he wants
to be respectful. And you justwill be blown away at the transportation of
a fallen soldier's body and the amountof respect every where. And you know,
sometimes these bodies are on commercial flightsand they're down there with the with

(01:11:11):
the luggage and stuff, and peopleare looking out the window and they can
see and they all stop. It'samazing, 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

(01:11:35):
just an amazing movie, and you'llcome 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 weekendbecause I said I'm gonna do it last
year. Yep, Mike Stands didwell. Mike Stands a little smarter than

(01:11:56):
I am. He is a lotsmarter than you. I feel a lot
smarter than I and say Crans althoughyou know what, but he does.
What do you have for some finalthoughts there, Jason Guinty, anyone wants
to use my grill, they canfuck off. That's what I learned today.
That's my final thought. I'm notletting anyone touch Mike. I will
smash your fingers with my spatula.Move forward. I've learned something that I

(01:12:19):
didn't realize that was a thing.No idea, dude, it's I mean,
yeah, like I said, youwouldn'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 agreat job when he brings that crazy he

(01:12:41):
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'syour 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 withit. How about you run any thoughts
and no, you're not using mygrill. Um. I will be in
New Orleans this weekend? Are youfucking kidding me? I'm gonna be not

(01:13:05):
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. Mybuddy Dennis just turned seventy. So I

(01:13:29):
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 birthdayand I know that they're kind of their
their liquid. Neither one of themis married, kids are older. And

(01:13:55):
they both got back to me andthey'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 adude New Orleans weekend. Where what
should we do? We'll come toNew Orleans. What should we do?
All of it? All of it? Drink everything and eat everything. There
you go, That's what I woulddo. I would I would get my
ass down like Frenchman Street, gosee some good music. Yeah, we

(01:14:15):
fucking walking up down Bourbon Street allnight. That's that's cool for about an
hour. Then you got to getoff to the weeds. Gotta get out
there a little bit and see someshit. You know. Yeah, you
know, neither one of those mookshave ever been on a train on a
trolley, So st I thought wewould take a street car, and I
thought we would maybe take it upall the way up Saint Charles and maybe,
you know, even if we justwrote it all the way up to

(01:14:38):
Couter Browns or something. You know, yeah, do that, go up
there and then go down to theMaple Leaf right next to Jacomo's. Actually,
you know you do. Get you? I got you, dude,
I got you. You go upand get dropped off at the Camellia Grill.
Get off at Chamillia Grill, walkdown, go to Jacomo's, have
dinner fucking classic. They'll love theplace. The food's great, it's insane.

(01:14:58):
And then go next door to theMaple Leaf. See so band you'll
never heard of, but they'll begreat. Um, And then get back
in the damn street car and headdown a little bit. Then head over
to you go to the Columns fora nice, nice drink over there,
get yourself a nice drink. Well, I gotta take him to Snake and
Jake's. Oh well, but thenyou go all the way back to the
Quarter. Then you go over toFrenchman Street, and then about three am

(01:15:20):
you uber up the Snake and youcan'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, yesit is. I've been there in years
either man. Another great place Iwent about four years ago. Yeah it

(01:15:42):
was awesome. Yeah, it alwaysit was awesome. We talked about that
on the podcast before. Jason andI roll in there about two in the
morning and Stephen Kenny, the drummerfrom Alison Chains, is playing the piano.
Sean Kenny, Johnny Kenny Kenny.Yeah, he's in there playing the
piano there. Yeah, that's thedrummer Allson Chains. I'm like, what,
like, holy shit, sure asshit is? Yeah, yeah,

(01:16:03):
yeah, that's that would be mymove, man. I would just just
keep going, just keep if itlooks 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 comeover and grill and you know, jump
in your pool and all that nakedparty at your house, your party at

(01:16:23):
your house, grilling, No grillingparty, not grilling, not grilling,
dude, Sorry, ain't happening that. No one, you know what,
anyone comes to my house. Idon'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 hisfingers in there. Never cook again.
Guys, thanks for checking this podcastout. If if you haven't subscribed to

(01:16:45):
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drop your top five. I mean, even if it's just a couple of
songs that you you know, maybejust off the top of your head,

(01:17:05):
you only know three or four LennyKravitz songs, man, drop those on
there. And then of course withMemorial Day weekend, you know, those
that made the ultimate sacrifice. It'spretty amazing. One of the most amazing
things I ever ever seen in myentire life is being at Arlington National Cemetery
and the tomb of the Unknown Soldierand the changing of the guard and everything.

(01:17:30):
It's one of the most amazing things. And I know that will be
featured on, you know, allthe 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 fieldtrips. I didn't. I didn't go
as a child either, but youwon't appreciate it as a child. Go

(01:17:53):
as an adult to Washington, dC. It is absolutely unbelievable. Just
go at it. I mean,it doesn't matter, but you just go
in a time of year when youcan walk and Arlington National Cemetery and all
of that stuff is it's just it'sunbelievable. So um, that is another
huge recommendation of mine to every foreveryone to do in their adult lives.

(01:18:14):
When there a couple of years agoand 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. Likeusually there's a fucking crowd of people and
you can barely look at the Declarationof Independence, you know, And we
had the room was us and youknow, the seventeen security guard standing around

(01:18:39):
there. It was literally my wife, me and my son for about five
minutes in the room with a Declarationof Independence by ourselves. I'm like,
holy fuck, is this crazy tosit in that room and just be looking
at that going, dude, thisis insane. Like to see that stuff
and really appreciate it. It reallyis a cool thing to check out.

(01:19:00):
Uh, you know, And Iwent over to Mountain Vernon, saw George
Washington's house, you know, didall 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 andall 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 andwhen you're when you're in town, that's

(01:19:23):
their job is to I mean,we pay it for all of that,
you know. And that's why allthose Smithsonians that you were mentioning, they're
all free. They are there's noadmission, and there's and I imagine that
somebody is hearing this for the firsttime, 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, andyou know, there's different Smithsonians. But

(01:19:45):
yeah, you can contact your yourlocal congressman and they'll assign you like some
little menu. They'll call you backand 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 yousee it on TV, You're like,

(01:20:08):
oh, that's cool. No,no, no, when you're standing,
they're like, whoa, It's justthere's a heaviness, there's there's just yeah,
DC, great trip. Definitely puton your bucket list because it is
cool as shit. Anyway, that'senough for today. I'm done. Yeah
shit, all right, guys,thank you for checking us out. Krems
creans you at the Jurnal. Let'sgo find us wherever you listen to podcasts,

(01:20:34):
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