The Catchiest 90s And 2000s Commercial Songs

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Hey bitches. Before TikTok sounds, before viral audio, there were commercial jingles that somehow took over our brains. Today we're counting down the top 10 commercial jingles from the 90s and 2000s that we will that we still can't forget. Sorry guys, I need glasses. Oh, you froze too.

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I fucking love it. I'm the worst person to have a podcast.

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I feel very what's going on, everybody.

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Welcome back to the show. We have a big one for you today. Today's topics we are going to be discussing, like Chris said, the greatest jingles ever. Uh, we also have your song of the week, my choice this week. And then we are going to talk about some big stories. Country music is surging overseas. The butthole surfers are back, and Bon Jovi is living at Madison Square Garden. But first, we've got some big life updates, and we have Danny joining the show today. Danny, how are you, sir? I'm doing good. How about you? I'm doing great, man. I have I have a ton of stories that Chris has been waiting literally a week to hear uh from my trip to Ohio. But first, Danny, what is going on in your life? What's new?

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So much. Like

Danny’s Walking Boot Update

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ups and downs. Good good, bad. I uh I just officially uh got put into a walking boot. I don't know if I I didn't get to tell you that when we were doing ketchup. Um yeah, so I hurt my foot uh jumping up and down on stage, and uh we never really knew what it was. And I went to a podiatrist, I got x-rays, I got all this stuff, no fractures. That's the good news. That is good. Bad news is it's probably ligaments and a really, really bad sprain. Hey, yeah, just like you. This is why I completely forgot to tell you this. Um and he basically said, Hey, so you're gonna start a bunch of shows uh at the end of July, you know, August, September, all the stuff I was kind of getting into the other day. Um so he's like, uh, I want these to be healed by the time you know you do that. So I want to completely make it difficult for you to overuse your leg in the next month. So I have to use walking boot for the next month. Yeah, I have not worn it yet, though. Don't tell anybody by the time this airs, it's fine. I'll be wearing it by the time this airs, but I'm just resistant to to put it on. I'm home. I'm like, why do I need it right now? It's weird, it's weird. It is we never had to wear one before.

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It's it's yeah, it's weird, and also like once I had mine for like a week, I was like, can I put one on the other leg? Because it's to balance it out. Well, no, it feels like you're wearing um uh the suit from Fallout, like the the power suit. Oh, okay.

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Okay, it's pretty cool.

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So I was like, I want to feel like uh a giant power suit guy. Um, but I will tell you if it's ligaments, you're gonna be fine in a month. Yeah, however, you are going to have issues anytime you try to sit crisscross applesauce. Anytime I put anything against my ankle, it hurts like a mother. But outside of that, I'm pretty much good to go. I can jump and run and do whatever.

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Well, yeah, I mean, there's not too much margin for for error because I like I said, end of July, I'm I I got a weekender, I'm gonna be bouncing up and down. So, like, yeah, I gotta get better.

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I think you're gonna be good. Where definitely wear the boot. I did wear my boot, definitely wear the boot. It does help. Yeah, it's so crazy how like the repair process works on an ankle, like just keeping it stationary is literally all you have to do.

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And I'm I'm weird, like so. Even working from home and and you know, working and and editing and stuff, I can't stay seated. I'll stand, I'll randomly just stand at home. So, like my my uncle who was who was helping me, you know, out with with getting it and stuff, um, he's like, you have to make sure if you're gonna stand for periods of time, put it just just wear it when you're when you're standing. Right. I was like, really? And he goes, he goes, Yeah, you don't have to wear it while you're sitting on the couch, but like, and and if you get up to go to the bathroom and you're gonna go right back to sitting on the couch, that's fine. Don't don't worry about it then. But if you're just gonna like, I he's like, I know you. If you're just gonna like stand for like 30 minutes because you're tired of sitting, like put it on.

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It dude, you get used to it though. After like two or three days, I was like, Yeah, this is this isn't a big deal. Yeah, at least they didn't give you crutches though. When they thought mine was a fracture, that sucked. They tried, and I was like, I was like, Yeah, sure.

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I have I have a prescription for crutches, sitting on the problem, yeah. Yeah, sitting on the end table. And it was like, I asked my uncle, I was like, Do I really need crutches? He's like, he goes, I have crutches in my basement. If you feel like you need them, fine, but we're not getting crutches. And I was like, All right.

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Also, uh, not to do uh a whole dig on the American healthcare system, but the American healthcare system fucking sucks because I got my boot and they gave me a short boot instead of a long one. So I had to get a second boot. They charged me for both boots and a set of crutches. I had to pay a thousand dollars for two boots and a pair of crutches.

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I will I'll I'll let you know off air what I did to do it. Like there was no like funny business or anything, but my insurance, my insurance really, they were like, Oh, we cover 80%

How The Boot Costs So Much

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once you hit the minimum, yeah. And I was like, Oh, cool, cool. What what's the is that like you know, a hundred bucks, a couple hundred bucks? They're like, it's it's uh like uh 1200. And I was like, it's halfway through the year. I'm not like yeah, this is the first thing I've ever needed. I was like, so they were like, Yeah, you're gonna pay out of pocket wherever you go. I got it for 70 bucks, and it's the tall one, it's the one that goes right under the to right under the knee. Yeah, that's incredible. So we'll we'll talk, we'll talk in case it ever happens. Well, you had you're set, you have a short one and a long one and crutches. You don't need it ever again.

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I could break both of my legs today. We are good. Don't put that out in the universe. Um, Chris, how has life been? It's been a little while. Yeah, yeah. It's uh it's putting along. You look tired. Happy Father's Day, by the way. Oh, happy Father's Day to both of you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you.

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Yeah, yeah, that's it. Nothing, nothing new. Listen, listen, listen, there's some new stuff, but then I get they'll talk for an hour.

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So this I also think this has become like a reoccurring bit on the show. It seems like every week Chris's response is yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So um well, Chris, I know you're dying to hear some of these stories, so I guess let me jump in and recap my entire week for you. Um, I my cousin got married. Shout out to oh, yes, yes.

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Start out start off with a cousin kissing story.

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So my cousin got married. Um, shout out to Greg and Hannah. Congratulations on their wedding. Uh, it was a beautiful ceremony. They looked fantastic, the wedding was awesome. Um, but prior to that, we showed up uh a few days early, went and hung out with my mom, and then uh found out through her talking to an aunt of mine that the dress code was not what I brought with me. So I had to go to the mall and get me a nice suit. Um, so my sister and her boyfriend Dylan said, Why don't we all go? So we all got in my car and we went to the mall. Uh well, no, we drove two separate cars. That's important to the story for later. So we go to the mall and we're walking around doing some shopping or whatnot, and then I go get my suit, and then I was like, I need to get a haircut. Because uh, you didn't see me, Danny, but I was looking real rough. My beard was huge, my hair was long, something had to be done. So I see a customer service desk, and I walk over the customer service desk and I say, Excuse me, I need to get a haircut. And she was like, right down there, you'll see the barber insignia, the little spinny thing. So I was like, that's perfect. So I go down there and I walk into this barber shop, and there's this guy standing there with his son eating something out of a ball. And I'm like, hey man, trying to get a haircut. He was like, I also am getting a haircut, he's in the bathroom. I said, Okay. Now, mind you, this man looks like a superhero, looks like John Cena. Like if John Cena were Middle Eastern, I mean, this guy is nothing but muscle, his entire body is just one giant muscle, and he is looking sharp as hell. I mean, fully lined up facial hair, looking fantastic. Uh, I don't know why he was even there. His hair was already short. So I wait for the other guy to get out of the bathroom and out walks this man in his late 50s, early 60s, uh, gray slicked back hair. And I say, Hey, I'd like to get a haircut. And he was like, Oh, I'm done taking appointments for the day. I was like, Oh, I'm sorry. He told me, come back tomorrow. I said, I can't come back tomorrow. My cousin's getting married, I have to get one tonight, so I will I will find somewhere else. He was like, For you, I will take care of it. Come back in 45

Wedding Prep And A Mall Run

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minutes. And I was like, All right, not a problem. I go and I try and kill 45 minutes. I go to a card shop, a little hobby card shop next to the the barber shop, and sure as shit, they've got Pokemon cards. First time I've seen Pokemon cards in the wild in a very long time. Um, and they are selling it was the the release day of something called the first partner experience or something like that. Anyways, so I was like, I'm gonna get this because I want to get um the the packs basically have starter Pokemon in them, it is always a set of three, and it's always the matching set, so like gen one, gen two, gen three, and so forth. Oh, and I really wanted gen two, so I was like, I hope my luck is good, and sure enough, it was good, guys. So these are the cards, and they're incredible. So that is the Cyndaquil, and here is the Chikorita. Oh, I like that one a lot, and then here is the Totodial. Sweet, and these are now my my favorite cards. Um, so I will be getting these graded, and those will be going on a shelf. So obviously, I killed 45 minutes in there just looking at stuff. Um so then we go back into the barber shop. He's still cutting this guy's hair. I don't know what's going on. So I'm sitting there, another like 35 minutes go by. The mall closes in like an hour, right? So he finishes up with this guy, and then they start talking to me about like where the wedding is, where I live, all of the stuff going on in life, telling me about their lives and and where I they think that the wedding should be held. And I was like, That's that's cool. I I'm not from here, so I don't know. Um, so we finished our talk, and the one guy in his family leave, and then the barber says, I'm gonna take care of you. I knew from the minute you walked in you needed my help. And I said, I trust you, man. You seem like you know what you got going on. So he was like, I'm gonna make you look better than you've ever looked in your entire life. He's like, You're not gonna recognize yourself when you leave here.

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That's not how I want to feel being told right before getting a haircut.

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Listen, Danny, it's so much worse. So now, now, mind you, this barber, again, he looked, he's in his late 50s, early 60s. He is listening to 2000s RB. Like, we're talking T-Pain, we're talking Usher, we're talking Rihanna, Jay-Z, like uh uh Biggie, Tupac, you name it. That's what's playing in this barber shop. And he's singing every song, he's having a great time, and he's just telling me like how much of a piece of shit I am. He's like, Yeah, we're gonna fix that beard, we're gonna fix this hair, you're not gonna need that hat anymore. He's telling me all this stuff. So I'm like, this guy seems like he knows what he's talking about. He says, Come, my friend, come sit in the chair. And I said, Okay, and I sit down, and he proceeds to do the little thing, and he was like, I started to tell him what I wanted, right? I was like, Yeah, I like it this way. He was like, No, no, no, you don't know what you want. He was like, I I've got this. I said, All right, man, you're the boss. Whatever you say goes. You're in charge, not me. So I'm sitting there and he's lining me up and everything, doing his thing, and we start talking, and he starts telling me his life story. This man did 25 years in the federal penitentiary for assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, um possession of a class three narcotic, um under uh under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The list goes on and on and on. Basically, the story goes, he was exceptionally high on uh what did he say? Uh pills and uh the cocaina and a handful of other substances, and pistol

Meeting Nas At The Barbershop

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whipped a pharmacist who owed him money. He was a drug lord, and the pharmacist was a dirty pharmacist that owed him money, so he showed up to the pharmacy and beat this man within moments of his life, and it was all caught on video camera at the pharmacy, and his getaway driver left without him, so he was arrested on the spot and sent to prison. And what he did during his time in prison was get his life together and get a haircutting license and proceeded to get out of the penitentiary and open up said barbershop, where I am currently in his barbershop hearing these stories with my wife sitting across from me, and he locked us in the barbershop because the mall was officially closed, so we he had to lock the doors. So I'm just listening to all these stories. He's going in town, he's cutting my hair, he's doing a fantastic job. And um that's what you say, whether he is or not, at that point. His name is Nas, by the way. He is a uh uh Greek man. Um, his name had like 17 syllables, but he goes by Nas. All I know is the beginning half started with an A. Whatever he said started with an A. It was like R something Nas something something something. And he said, just call me Nas. And I said, Okay, you got it. Nas, got it. Easy to remember. And he's just telling me like all of these stories about his past and telling me um how he was he was a drug lord, but he was a responsible drug lord. He wouldn't sell drugs to families who were trying to like auction off their children for drugs or sell their homes or whatever. He had morals and ethics, is what he told me. Uh he said, in the middle of of clipping my hair, that people pay for drugs with two different things, green and pink, and you know what the other one is, and then he pointed at my wife and went, ah, and she said, No. So it gets worse, it gets worse. So this man finishes up my haircut, and I'm like, Thank you so much, Nas. You did a fantastic job. Love the haircut, love the beard trim. I look fantastic, great job. He really did a fantastic job. How much do I owe you? And I went to pull out my debit card, and he said, No, no, no, cash only. I said, Well, Nas, that's gonna be a problem. I've got $25 in cash, and surely you want more than that. And he said, No worries. I'll walk you guys out. There's an ATM outside. I said, All right, you're also still in charge. I'll do anything you say at this point, because you're a man and I am not. So I grab my things, my my suit, and all of my purchases from the day, your Pokemon guard, and I grab my wife, and we proceed to walk out of the mall with this stranger to the outside of the mall. He unlocks the door, locks it back up to the actual mall. He has keys to the actual mall. Don't ask me how that's possible. Um, so we get out there, he locks the mall up, and he says, Okay, so there's a chase over there, and then there's a Huntington, which is a bank that I use over there. I when he said ATM, I was picturing like right outside of the mall. No, this is across the street. This is like you're I have to get in a vehicle and drive to said ATM. And I'm like, Okay, uh, let's go to the Huntington because that's who I bank with. And he was like, not a problem, I'll drive you there. And I'm like, All right. So I tell my wife, I was like, you go to your car, and I will go in Nas's car, and we're gonna go to the ATM, and he's gonna drive me back to you. So she walks to her car. I go, I get in Nas's car. He reaches over and hugs me and says, You look incredible. I can't wait to see everyone's reactions to you at the wedding. And I said, Thanks, man. I really appreciate it. He said, I need your number, and I said, I couldn't imagine getting out of this car without giving you my number. I've never wanted anything more in my life. So I proceed to give him my phone number, and he says, You need to send me a picture of you at the wedding tomorrow. I said, I will absolutely send you a picture of me and my family at the wedding tomorrow. All right, we go to the ATM, I get out, I get the cash. He never told me how much the haircut was, so I just took out a hundred dollars because I was like, I don't know what the protocol is here. There weren't prices in the building, so and I'm way too deep in now, and I don't want to die tonight, so I'm just gonna give this guy a hundred dollars. So I give him the hundred bucks, I go get in my wife's car, I get in, and I sit down and I said, I think I just joined the mafia, and she said, Why? And I said, He insisted on my number, so I gave it to him, and he wants photos of us tomorrow. And she said, You're not gonna do that, and I said, Oh no, I am, he's got my number. So the next day arrives, it's the wedding. I'm having a great time. I'm four Jack and Coke's deep, I'm having a blast, and I forget about Nas. Nas proceeds to call me, and I didn't save his number because, like, why would I? And I see the phone number, and I'm like, who the hell is that? And they leave a voicemail, so then I look and I'm like, oh, I have a text message from that number. Oh, it's Nas. I can't hear this voicemail in the wedding, so I'll I'll have to wait, right? But I was like, I'm gonna send him the picture right now. So I send him a picture, and this is what I said. Here's I know this is a long story, but it's well worth it. Um, again, this is a music show, and we have plenty to go over, but bear with me just a moment. So here

Locked In The Mall After Hours

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we go. So I send him a photo of me and my wife at the wedding. And I said, Nas, how are you, sir? We're having a blast at the wedding. Thanks again. He said, You're more than welcome, Harley. Enjoy, brother. You guys look phenomenal. Fist bump emoji. Now, this was sent at 9 03. He responded at 9 05. The voicemail that he left me was at um Um, does it say 855? 855 is when the voicemail was left. So we get through the wedding, and I'm like, oh yeah, I have this voicemail from Nas. It's a long one. I gotta listen to it. Well, it turns out it was a butt dial. Now, if you're listening to this right now, I need you to not listen to this with children. And this is your warning. Please put on headphones for the next two minutes. I'm gonna try and play this. We'll see if we can hear it on the shelf. Um, it's it's a little long, it's a little drawn out, but I assure you it is worth it.

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Now you won't hear anything at first, but give it a time.

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So dude, Arlie, that's gonna be like done for you.

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How wild is that I was please, please, somebody give me something.

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So so because that's a butt dial, or some other kind of dial. Um his best life. That's happening, and then all of a sudden you do exactly what you told him you were gonna do, and he thinks completely unprompted. So, like, he's just like, this is great.

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It's it's man, my jaw dropped so hard.

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Yeah, hard, hard.

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This was this was me, Taylor, Dylan, and Lindsay sitting around outside of the wedding, like at a at a table where it was just quiet. You know what I mean? Like the wedding's over, there's like an hour left of the reception. We're just sitting outside chatting, and I was like, Oh, I gotta listen to this voicemail. And I was like completely baffled. I was completely speechless, couldn't couldn't fathom what I had just heard. Um, so anywho, I'm a part of the mafia now and gas, everybody.

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Now you just gotta hope he hasn't tracked you well enough to listen to the podcast. Otherwise, you're gonna get another series of messages.

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If you are ever in Ohio in the Eastwood Mall area, I highly recommend going to a shop and getting a haircut. I will be back. Anytime up that I'm up there, I'm going.

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Well, you have to go back. I have to.

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It's for my safety. If Nas finds out you're up there and you don't go see him, then you're done. I'm done. I

The Wedding Call And Butt Dial

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might not get another haircut until I go back. Dude. Yeah, so anyways, uh, yeah, that was that was my one of my many adventures up there, but that's the one I'm I'm prepared to tell here at least. That and I I wore this shirt. Um right here. There we go. It's a Viridian Forest shirt. It looks like a like a uh like national park shirt. Um I wore this shirt to my mom's work. My mom does um a job where she works with uh severely autistic people on a farm, and we took my son over there to see the animals on the farm, and we get over there, and one of the autistic people uh cornered me and said, Where's Viridian Forest? I want to go. And I said, I am so sorry. It's actually from a video game, and they said, So I can't visit. And I said, No, I'm really sorry, but it's not a real place. So that happened also, and he got to hang out with like you know, pigs and and horses and whatnot. But anyways, yeah, that uh that was my week, guys.

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You had a lot, you had you had a lot going on for the week. I'm glad I didn't like I was I was busy. I was supposed to like actually call you and talk. You had enough going on.

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I did not need that that's like the fourth time I've listened to that voicemail. I've shown so many people.

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Last time he listened to it, he lit some candles, the bath.

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Nice really wanted to take it all in. Um so did he. Uh, anyways, guys, we are here to talk about some music stuff. Oh, that's right. Is big music news. Uh, country music can sir continues to surge internationally. New industry data highlighted this week shows that it is becoming the fastest growing music genre in the UK for a third consecutive year, driven by artists like Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs, and Beyoncé's influence on the genre. Uh, we all know how I feel about country music, but Chris, are you excited that uh country music is infiltrating the UK and other

Mafia Jokes And Farm Visit Story

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places overseas?

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Well, I mean, I wish actual country music was infiltrating. Um instead, was it you that said it? Stadium country? Is that what it was?

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Uh no, it was somebody we interviewed, but I can't remember who it was, called it Stadium Country.

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Yeah, that's what it is. It's not real country.

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Right. No, I get that.

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That's that's my opinion.

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We caught a lot of heat online talking about country music the last time we talked about it. People were not happy with that. Dedicated fan base. It forced Taylor to turn off Instagram notifications because she was like, somebody's gonna say something mean about me, and I can't handle it. They were all directed at me, just so everybody knows. Nobody said anything mean about Chris or Taylor. It was all directed to me.

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But I mean, I like actual country music. So yeah, not this new age crap. Don't get me wrong. A catchy song will come along every once in a while, and it's it's catchy, you know. It uh generally they don't they don't um put me in my feels.

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Uh catchy, a catchy song is a catchy song, regardless.

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Like Yeah, I was literally about to say that. The only thing I will say is a catchy song in any genre is a catchy song, regardless of it, regardless of it's a if it's a genre that you normally listen to or not.

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Yes. And there are plenty of catchy songs in all genres, and I love most of them because I like catchy things. Um, I I love a good hook. So Taylor, Taylor is our bridge of the show. Um but but I think that the hooks in songs are incredible, especially in country songs, and despite what people may think, I am a white trash boy from Ohio in the back woods. So even though I say like all country songs are the same, they all have the same core elements: dogs, trucks, beer, women, those are true facts, but my white trash ears still perk up when I hear it. You think I don't hear red solo cup and go, hell yeah, brother? Come on.

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But listen, those are the only things that matter. Yeah, I mean, yeah, right, you know, right? The powers on beer, truck.

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Chris. Now now you're just naming stuff in front of you.

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That's all you're doing. Yeah, but also you just did a Grammy nominated song. And anybody listening, just so you know, that's copyrighted. You can't have it. I'll pop. So uh here's an here's the one that I'm super excited about. Rock fans had a huge release week this week. New albums from Muse, The Pretty

Country Music Surges Overseas

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Reckless, and The Strokes, and the long-awaited Butthole Surfers album from 1998. It took them that long to finalize and release this album. But also, when are we ever gonna get to talk about the butthole surfers ever again? I mean, that's that's a name that I forgot existed. It was my favorite thing in high school. I can't even remember. My brain hurts, but what what uh the song was um pepper? I think. Are you thinking of the band Pepper? No, no, the band is definitely yeah, the Bottlehole Surfers. Uh, it's the song Pepper. Um Pepper lyrics. As soon as I read some of these lyrics, you'll definitely know it. Uh Marky got with Sharon, Sharon got Charisse.

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Oh, okay.

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She was Sharon, Sharon book on the topic of disease. Yeah, yeah, that was the one, man. So they were cake before cake.

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I feel like that in my head, I can hear the song, and it sounds like it could have been a cake song. Also, cake, one of the greatest bands of all time.

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I love that song.

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I love cake. I love cake.

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Uh, but I mean, the butthole surfers, man, it's it's exciting. It was one of those bands in high school where you could go to somebody and be like, you don't even listen to the butthole surfers, you don't know music. And now I get to do that again to a whole new group of people. Now they're back. Have you listened to the album though? Uh I have not. I just found this information out, but I will. I will listen to the album. Um, and I can't wait. I'm very excited for it. And then finally, we've got Bon Jovi preparing to launch a nine-show residency at Madison Square Garden beginning in early July. The shows celebrate the band's enduring popularity through longtime guitarist Richie Sambora remains absent, though, though longtime guitarist Richie Sambora remains absent from the lineup because they had a falling out a few years ago. Um, so that's that's pretty cool. My mom is a giant Jovi fan, so I'm sure she'll be excited. Um, how do you guys feel about residencies? Well, first, Chris, do you know what a residency is?

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Of course I do, but for all these ignorant people listening, go ahead and explain it.

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So a residency is where an artist basically takes up um one place, one venue for an extended period of time. They usually sign a contract with the venue saying I'm going to play X amount of shows here every week for X amount of time.

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Um Vegas. Yeah, it's more so than New York.

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Yeah, but yeah. I think the only New York one that I can remember was Bruce Springsteen, right? He had a residency. Billy Joel. Yep, Billy Joel. Yep, you're right. Um, he had a residency recently. Um, and now Bon Jovi. Yeah, Billy Joel had one for years.

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Like Springsteen may have had one also, it might have been shorter, but no, I think I was definitely thinking of Joel. I feel like it's always more like Jersey, like you you relate more to Jersey, but Billy Joel is New York City, like he was there. Like, I think, and it's it's one of those things where they like advertised that his residency was ending, like that's how big it was.

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Like normal it had become like he'd been doing it's what Brittany Spears did when she kind of started her comeback. She went to Vegas and signed a residency in Vegas for I believe a couple years also.

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A lot of a lot of bands have done. I like even like like it doesn't even have to be like pop stars

Butthole Surfers Are Back

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or or like classic rock. I I think there's like rock bands that do it for in Vegas for like a good couple of months or something like that, too. Especially at the the dome out there, right?

SPEAKER_02 35:40

I think Fish had a residency at the dome for probably about a year or so.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

I still want to go there.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

I want to I want to see something there. I'm terrified of heights though. I saw a tool show a few years ago, and uh it was at a um a stadium, and uh my wife got us the best seats that we could afford, and it was still like in the nosebleed section.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

And yeah, and dude, I mean, I got up there and I was like, oh, this is this is a little too high for my liking. Thankfully, they insisted that everybody stay seated, and I was like, You don't have to tell me twice. I am gripping the side of this chair. It was terrifying to be up that high. Um, I didn't it didn't bother me when I was younger. Like I used to ride roller coasters and go to like football games at uh the Cleveland Stadium. Like being that high up never bothered me before, but in my 20s it started to really bother me.

SPEAKER_03 36:39

So I think I mean it it I'm not gonna speak for you. I was a dumb little kid and I did a lot of stuff that like I'm a little bit more weary about now, like climbing up trees and not caring about how I was gonna get down, right? Running through like little streams and and like you know, smaller rivers and stuff, not caring about ticks or snakes or anything. And I'm like, now just to go down to like the the end of like you know, an embankment, I'm like, okay, how many ticks could I get from this? I don't want to not be able to ever eat red meat again, like and I weigh that out on whether it's worth whatever is I dropped down there or whatever's going on, right? I don't want to not be able to eat steak ever again. Like, holy shit.

SPEAKER_02 37:26

I feel the same way about water too. Now that you bring that up, like I I will not go as an adult. Like, if somebody was like, Hey, you want to go swim in the creek or swim in the lake, like, no chance in hell. Are you crazy? I don't even like swimming in the ocean.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

Swim or jump in, because if if you're like, Yeah, let's we're just gonna run to the end of the dock, jump off it, get out, and go. Like, I could be talking to that. I could swim distance in a lake. Hell no.

SPEAKER_02 37:55

You could like to just like gaming just like get in and like drink beer in the water in a lake, no chance.

SPEAKER_03 38:02

Like, I'm yeah, no, and same thing with the ocean.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

I'm I'm now at a point where I'm like, I don't want to do that either. There's the bacteria. Oh no, I'm an idiot. I'll run in the ocean without even thinking about it. Yeah, no, no, no. For some reason, I I would in Virginia Beach, but if I was like, I don't know,

Bon Jovi And The Residency Debate

SPEAKER_02 38:20

like on a boat somewhere, I would be like, nah, no, there's animals in there.

SPEAKER_03 38:24

You're not supposed to jump off.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

If you're on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you're not supposed to jump off. Well, not in the middle, but like you're close enough you can see the the shore, but you're definitely far enough away from shore.

SPEAKER_03 38:36

I don't know. Like, I so I I haven't been on like a boat, like you know, resting, you know, far enough away where it's like you know, you gotta really swim if something happened and the boat like capsized or whatever. But I rode um on a on like a jet ski and we were going parallel with the shoreline, and we were far enough off. And the friend that I you know, I got to drive it half the time, he got to drive it half the other half. And so I when I was on on the back, he's an idiot, and we're like going maxing out the speed. And I'm like, if he hits a bump and I fly off of this, like yeah, right. I'm I mean, I'm just gonna life vest off and swim as fast to the shoreline as possible because I'm just like I will be too far out. I'm not sitting there like going like the water until he spins back around. There's no chance.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

I'm going, like, yeah, yeah, I agree. I know, Chris. That's like your thing, right? You hate the water.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

Yeah, yeah. It's it's not the water, it's the things under the water that I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Agreed. It's the there are lake monsters, yeah. And sharks in the ocean.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

Yeah, fucking sharks, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Also, uh, fun fact, uh, Adam now loves Sean the Shark, my little, my little puppet for the show, and he now sleeps with it on his hand. He goes to bed and it's on his hand. All right. So that's a new thing. Um, but anyways, yes, so I I I equate the residency thing, uh, as I feel a lot of people do, with like the the um the downward of a musician's career. Uh Billy Joel, I guess, is is kind of an exception.

SPEAKER_03 40:23

He just had such a last ball, but maybe more so like the end, not the end stages, because usually you have to be really well known to be able like Celine Dion had a residency, like you know, like that. You have to be a certain caliber to even be able to do that. But you're you're at a point, I feel like, where you're not at you're you're you're not young enough to tour anymore. You can't like endure doing like a world tour or anything crazy like that, but you're willing to do so many shows like and still perform and not just do like a show like every month or or something like that. You'll you'll still be able to do a bunch of shows, type of thing. So end downfall of careers sounds negative, whereas I think you really have to hit a certain stat like a certain status level. Like there's very few artists that I think could do a successful like residency type of thing.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

So would you as a as a up-and-coming musician, if somebody presented your band with a residency, would you sign that today? Like if somebody came to you and was like, we want you to play every Saturday for the next six months at this venue. Is that something that you would say yes to? Because it seems enticing.

SPEAKER_03 41:46

Yeah, well, so it would really have to depend on the venue. And I would definitely be like, okay, well, what kind of opening bands are we gonna have? Like, is this gonna be like a rotating thing? Is it gonna be a lot of fun? Like, I would have a lot of questions. Obviously, like I mean, guaranteed shows a guaranteed, like I just think, and this isn't even like self-deprecating or anything. I don't know if enough people would come out after the first two weeks. Like, it'd be like, right, hey, we kind of saw you jump up and down and sing the same songs already. Like, I'm good. I'll see you in six months. Like, I mean, maybe maybe five years down the line when we have like a couple out a couple more albums, like you'd be like, you know, this Saturday we're doing this full album, and Saturday we're doing these two EPs, like, and then like you know, we'll mix in some cover versions of stuff. Like, stuff like that might be kind of cool. Like, I could get into that. Um, yeah, because the other thing is like if I was doing if if somebody approached me for residency for one day a week, you know, I can still do shows Thursday, Friday, like other completely other places, so I can still do that kind of thing. Like, I could, you know, if it's a Jersey residency somewhere, I can play New York City one of those other days, or if it's like New York City residency, I could do some Jersey or Connecticut or Philly, even stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

So when I was moving to Virginia, um, literally the day that my wife came to me and was like, hey, we were still dating, we weren't married at the time, but she came to me and she was like, Hey, I'm taking a job in Virginia as a teacher. The same day I was coming to her and saying, Hey, I just got offered, um, oh, we lost Chris for a second. Uh um uh I had just got offered uh Carnival Cruise line to be part of the Carnival Cruise line band. Oh wow. Yeah. And and I chose to move here, obviously. Uh, but at the time, like part of weighing those options was like, how fun can I make this? Because it's gonna be every single night for X amount of months playing the same songs over and over. Over and over. The money was great, the per diem was fantastic, the free room and board, getting to see things that I would never see again.

Would A Weekend Residency Work

SPEAKER_02 44:10

There was a lot of enticing factors, but it ultimately came down to will this cause me to lose my passion for the thing that I love doing because it becomes such a mundane job at that point.

SPEAKER_03 44:22

I feel like oh, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

No, you're I just I talked to a couple of the other musicians, and they were like, I've been doing this for 25 years and I regret it every day of my life. Wow. But it became their their career, you know, it's what they chose to do, and they made good money doing it, and they chose to stay with it. And like even the worst day at work, they're still playing music. But like cruise. Yeah. But some of them were like, uh, you can only go to the Bahamas so many times, you know. And it's like saying that to somebody who's never done it, like it's like for them, it's like you we've been to the same places every year of our lives for the last 15 years. Damn. Like, and they've been playing the same routine songs. He said the set list usually changes like every four years or so, um, because of like new music coming out. Um, but for the most part, when you're on those cruises, they want to hear classic stuff, they want to hear classic rock because it's an older crowd. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:23

I I was gonna equate it to basically what I was gonna say is um it really would for me, and it'd be way, way weirder if if I ever got up because I I sing, I don't play anything. Um, or at least I don't anymore. I used to play guitar, but more so sing. Um I would say it would really depend on how long. Like, I I don't think I would lock myself into that for more than you know a year, like type of thing. Um that would be crazy to do just to say you did it for a short term type of thing.

SPEAKER_02 46:00

Um it literally was like uh sorry, sorry, go ahead. No, no, what were you gonna say? Uh well, it it literally was like the the only thing that stopped me from doing it was her moving here because it was like, okay, well, I'm following my passion, she's following her career. Are we gonna try and make this work? Or, you know, how's that gonna look? And I chose not to do it and move here so I could be with her. But like I think it would have been a fun thing to do for a couple of years, you know what I mean, or even just one year, like yeah, that's what I'm saying. Six months, just six months out on the boat playing songs, you know? Yeah, it would it sounded great.

SPEAKER_03 46:38

What the the thing is, so I'm not weird. I I I think there's two types of musicians. There's musicians who are built to be able to play covers and and to be able to, you know, make those covers their own, but still keep the essence of the song and be able to do that and perform and and do that to make other people happy. Like I think, you know, if you're play if you play music live regardless, covers or originals, you're doing it to entertain, you're doing that to, you know, share, you know, your your talent, your originality, your spin on whatever you're doing, cover cover or original, with the other people that are, and you're hoping that they enjoy it too. Um but I do think there's two types of musicians. They're musicians who can do that, and they're musicians who I feel like would never truly be happy doing that. And I kind of fall into that second category where like I love doing pop punk covers of songs, but I could never go, okay, guys, so we're gonna we're still gonna be, you know, our original band. But you know what? Every third weekend of the month, we're gonna play Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 50 covers in the whole, like each night. Like you know what I mean? Like, I just couldn't, I couldn't do that. It wouldn't obviously the money's good, like like you said, people just want to hear the hits sometimes, and you get hired by the right place where there's like a huge crowd, all of those drinking nights, like you can you can get paid really well. I get that, and I I a hundred percent understand that, and so like there's no shade to anybody who can do that and and and enjoy it, and that's their thing, 100% go for it. Um, because you're still doing music, like I have nothing against how you what you're doing to do music. I just know myself, and I know I wouldn't that wouldn't make me 100% happy. Um like I said, putting our spin on covers, throwing out a cover every once in a while in a set, recording a cover, like we did with the Christmas cover, um, and and future plans for other stuff. Um, absolutely love it. I love doing that kind of stuff. I love just like bouncing other stuff around, but like like emo night karaoke, they they do that kind of thing all the time. And there are people that have you know just do that like every single night of the week and and stuff like that. I just I don't know if I could do that, and so that's to me why I don't know if I could ever do the the the cruise thing. Like, even though I'm like that would just be cool, I would almost rather just work on the cruise, like and then just like be like, hey, if you ever need somebody, like if somebody's hand hurts, like I'll learn, you know, 15 songs or something like that, or like if you need somebody to sing, I'll I'll jump in like every third night, or you know, something random like that, like type of thing to give somebody's voice a rest or or every third song or something like that, right? But like, yeah, I I just it's kind of almost like what you said, like what you were worried that the other people were telling you. You kind of if if it if you can ask yourself the question and and not be okay with it, I think it would turn into torture. Um but you're still it's still gonna be a cool experience, and and that's why I said like duration is really what I think is key in that whole thing, right?

SPEAKER_02 50:08

Well, and it was uh it was a six-month contract. I remember that. Oh, that's a problem. Oh no, yeah, no, no, no. It was like we would we would go down to Florida, we would dock um three months out of the year, and then take three months off, do three months. Um, so I mean it was it it would have been cool. It is weird too, because like I like what you're saying,

The Cruise Ship Band Offer

SPEAKER_02 50:30

because like I find myself somewhere in the middle, and I think I lean more towards covers now because I'm not performing, because like when I was performing regularly, I was like, I want to do my songs. I wrote these songs, I want to perform those. But it is interesting the evolution of just live music because when I was coming up, it was mandatory. Like, hey, you can play some of your lives, your your stuff, but like we're hiring you to play Don't Stop Believing, uh, you know, Hotel California, Thunderstruck, like these are the songs that we want you to play, so that's what you're gonna do, and you can mix in some of your stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

And and look, I have plenty of friends who came from only original music and then went to that because they're that's where like that's where the money is. Like, I get it. Like, like if if you know you have if you've kind of jumped out of, you know, I'm going to drive around in a van with five other sweaty dudes, uh, you know, eating gas station food, which is what we're gonna be doing in Virginia. Um, but I'm not gonna tease that yet. What we're gonna be doing though, um, like if you've kind of gotten past that and you don't want to do that anymore, the next best thing is you know, doing that kind of like playing the hits. Like you market yourself as you know, and and you can make it fun, obviously. Like it so it wouldn't be torture. Like, there are plenty of like you know, bands that just it like emo and karaoke. Like there are plenty of of bands like that. They're playing, you know, early to mid-2000s, pop punk, emo, you know, some some even dip into new metal and and you know, list of stuff, so you can do anything you want. It doesn't always have to be classic rock, but yeah, I that just seems so foreign to me. Like, yeah, I just I would want, I would always always want to do my own stuff, like right.

SPEAKER_02 52:31

But now, since I haven't been performing, I I haven't done anything since I I think I didn't open mic um right around the time Adam was born, so maybe a a year, year and a half ago. Um but uh since then I I hadn't done anything for like five years, and now when I'm here playing, like I'll I'll work on well, I've sent you some stuff, like I'll work on writing and stuff, but when I'm just sitting here playing, like I'm doing a bunch of covers and I'm like, damn man, how how cool would it be to just be like, but I I instead of doing like a genre cover band, I pick like specific artists. I'm like, man, how cool would it be to be a collective soul cover band or or a godsmack cover band or a disturbed cover band?

SPEAKER_03 53:17

Yeah, that that's the thing though, it's like do it so that you you are going to enjoy it, and then if if if the day came and you burned out of your collective soul cover band, yeah, then you pivot to another one, like that type of thing, and that's how you I think you make it something that still stays fresh and enjoyable if you were going to do that, like like type of thing. You have to, and I I mean, you know, I think, like I said, no shade to anybody who does do that. I have like I said, I have plenty of friends who have, you know, they still write original music, but they just don't perform their original music live, like they still write, they still record it, they still put it out, stuff like that. But like what really is making them money is you know these kind of cover bands and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 54:02

So, yeah. I also think that like if I were to do it, I would want to do one show. Like, that's because every time I think about it, I'm like, I want to do this song, this song, this song. Okay, I'll start contacting people, and then I'm like, I only want to do this once, though. Well, you gotta do it after I do it once, I'm like, all right, let's do somebody else.

SPEAKER_03 54:21

They do it every year, though. The the the close to Halloween, they'll do like so-and-so as Weezer or So and So as Blink 182. You gotta do something like that. Jump on a show like that. You're right.

SPEAKER_02 54:34

You're so right, dude. I might do that.

SPEAKER_03 54:36

You should. It's absolutely the perfect time to do that. Like, everybody's into it, and and especially like when you do have a bill, and it's like, you know, oh shit, this is gonna be fun because it's gonna be like, you know, blink 182 from the take off your pants and jacket era, and it's gonna be like, you know, what did Green Day have during Take Off Your Pants and Jacket? Oh, they did the pop disaster tour with with Blink and Green Day.

SPEAKER_02 55:03

I can't remember. It wasn't Dookie, it was where it was whatever came right after Dookie. Was that Nimrod? It might have been Nimrod, it might have been Nimrod, or it was well, it had to be Nimrod because it was before American Idiot.

SPEAKER_03 55:14

So yeah, it had it might have been Warning, because Warning wasn't on Warning was its own record, right? Was it right? I actually don't know for sure. I don't remember, but there's something else between there's definitely something else between Nimrod and American Idiot. Yeah, you're right. Um anyway, but but like that's how they kind of stack the the the bills for those nights.

SPEAKER_02 55:37

No, if you're right, it is warning. Yep, it's warning. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_03 55:40

Yep. Um, I don't know how I pulled that. Um but um but that's how they stack those kind of shows. So like pick, do exactly what you want. You're right. And and just pick, like, I wanna I want to do a set as this as this, like covering just these songs, like, and then they'll like just put something together like that. Yeah, a couple other bands.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

I might I might do that. I've been absolutely itching to do, I'm I've been itching to do something because like I sit here and play songs. I just want to play guitar though. I don't want to sing anymore. I just want to play lead guitar. That's all I want to do. My singing days are over, I use my voice here. That's it.

SPEAKER_03 56:19

I told you that's I I started the opposite, right? I I started not wanting to sing. I got pushed into singing and I just wanted to play guitar because that's growing up. My dad, I didn't see my dad ever sing. I know he did in in some of the past uh bands that he was in, but I only saw him playing guitar, so like I was like, cool, I'm just gonna play guitar. Yeah, and then I just slowly drifted completely away from guitar. And now I just sit, just like you, you said, I'll I'll just like like uh strum on it, and I find myself just strumming covers. Like if I'm ever if I ever have a guitar in my hand, I'm just going through you know covers because I don't know how to play our original songs. They're too complex. That's why like I'm like, I would never pick up a uh a guitar to play any just happy to be here songs because like there's they write them very difficult, like yeah, very difficult for me, not for them. They're they're they're very talented. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Like um, I know Chris is trying to get on here.

SPEAKER_03 57:17

He was having a couple of problem, like like a little bit of trouble with his internet.

SPEAKER_02 57:22

Yeah, we're having we're having major storms. Well, you're having storms too, but yeah, we're having major storms here right now. Um, but while we

Covers Versus Originals And Burnout

SPEAKER_02 57:30

wait for him, I do have a little game that I want to play. It's called Product Placement. Okay, and I have here a screen of some of the biggest brands in America, and the key is can you guess the jingle? Not what product it is, because that's pretty obvious, but can you remember the jingle for these?

SPEAKER_03 57:59

Uh I can a hundred percent get number one, I can definitely do number five. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could do 12, I could do nine. I hate number eight, and I never want to hear it ever again. Um it's really funny the number 10 crossfire. I have definitely I don't remember ever seeing commercials for that, but I remember somebody making fun. I saw a stand-up comedian and he made fun of the commercial for Crossfire. Really? Yeah. I if I ever crossfire is it's some it's some like board game where you're like shooting something out and the uh the you're the the opponent is shooting something out and they like spin and they just bump into each other and whoever's bumped out of the ring first like lose it. Like I'm telling if I see it go past me like my my feed on TikTok again, I'll I'll send it to you. And I I was laughing, but I had never I had never heard of Crossfire before that. Like it definitely seems like it's something that was like early, early 90s, like kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 59:06

When I first put this together, I was like, I can do all of these. Now I'm looking at it and I'm like, oh, I actually can't do a lot of these.

SPEAKER_03 59:17

I don't know a jingle for Oreos, I don't even know a jingle for MMs or Circuit City.

SPEAKER_02 59:23

So so number one, I wanna say that I could nail it. Yeah, but I don't I know like bits and pieces of the jingle, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 59:35

Oh, okay. I I have heard it recently because I don't know if you if you watch the um is it last week tonight, they did a story on JG Wentworth and other places. Really? Yeah, like saying that they're not the greatest services to ever use, but like everybody knows the jingle type of thing. So I've heard it recently.

SPEAKER_02 59:55

Like well, you know, I have a structured settlement and I need cash now, man.

SPEAKER_03 59:59

Call JG Wentworth 877 Cash now. I've got an annuity and I need cash now.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:08

Yeah, what's number two? Oh, that is call 1-800-588-2300 Empire.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:17

Oh, okay, okay. That rings a bell. I did not know it just from the screenshot. Number four, I have no idea what number four is. It's just a little kid playing soccer. How is that advertising anything? Uh, what is three?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:33

Um three, oh, education connection, man. I don't remember the the jingle, I just know that that

Product Placement Jingle Challenge

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

song is a really, really hard-hitting song. Like people that know the Education Connection song love that song. Um obviously Meow Mix, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

Yeah, Meow Mix, I love because I since since I was a small child, just I can latch on to to annoying things and out-annoy them, like because I know people are annoyed by them more so than I am. So like I'll just latch on to that like Baby Shark. I did that for like an entire year. So when I had when I was doing popping off like live in studio, I had a I had a host. We had like four, four or five hosts that would you know be associated with the show. There was one who hated Baby Shark. I don't even know how it came up, but it turned it into this runny bit where we just found different versions of it. And I found about 18 different versions of of Baby Shark, and I'm talking like the metal cover of Baby Shark, and like so funny. I found so many, and then I think I think it ended with one of our one of our friends made like a Christmas version of it, and we played it, and it didn't sound like it at first, so he's like, Oh, this is awesome! And it was like during a holiday episode, and he's like, Oh, this is great, and then it and then it dipped right into baby shark, and he's like, I can't believe this happened. So that's so funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:06

Anyway, as a as a new parent of a two-year-old, almost two. I I hear Baby Shark a lot, I could far more than you think.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:15

Yeah, I could still get down with Baby Shark. I uh so I always want to do a new intro. Like, you'll you're gonna come to one of my shows and you're gonna hear the intro we have now, which is great. I love the intro. Um, but I have ideas for new ones that I want to make, and they involve stuff like that. And so, like, we may have a baby shark, but never definitely not by the time that you see us, but like we may eventually do a baby shark.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:40

Um obviously the the freecreditreport.com, f R E E, that spells free creditreport.com baby. Wait, where is that one? Uh 11.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:52

Oh, I was looking for the guy, like the oh yeah, the the guy with the guitar, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

They had they had two. Do you remember that? They had that one, and then they had the one that was like free creditreport.com.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:07

They have a lot of them, and you know how I know that. Um, so I just on my TikTok, I have followed almost every single Vine compilation one that just pops up like as I'm going. Yeah. And so then I'll get suggestions because the algorithm for TikTok is still pretty good. Like it's pretty like it's like, oh, you like stuff during the era of Vine. Cool. I'm gonna send you this. And then it was like 2000s memes, and so I'll get everything from like power thirst, like comes up and and stuff like that, and and Charlie the Unicorn, like it's a magical Leopolidon, Charlie. Um, that all that stuff comes up, and so every once in a while it'll be something like from the 90s and stuff like that, and it'll be like classic rewind or classic commercials or something like that. There's like five of those. Oh there's one where he's like a pirate in a pirate-themed restaurant. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that one. There's one where he's in a shitty apartment.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:05

Um there's the one where they're like on like a uh a moving stairs escalator.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:16

That's the word. I think there's one more, but anyway, yeah, I saw all of them like in in rapid succession, like they just played all of them in a row. So that's why I think I'm pretty sure there's five. I just can't remember. Like, I can't imagine my favorite. Yeah, that I can't imagine being a band because it's all the same people. I can't imagine being a band and then going, Okay, we need you to make this in in a bunch of in like a you know, not completely different genres, but just different styles, but saying like the exact same thing, type type of thing, and then just being the commer like you're the commercial, like yeah, okay, like it's just that that's cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:56

They're doing now. I need to look them up.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:59

I just yeah, I'm gonna do that real quick. Yeah, you look that up. Um, I do not did Toys R Us have a jingle? Oh, I don't want to grow uh Toys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Um, I never want to hear Cars for Kids again. I have a I've explained the horror stories of of my life in Cars for Kids. What I don't even know what 13 is. Uh 13. Oh, that's Stanley Steamer, your home cleaner. Okay, I've heard the name Stanley Steamers, but I can't think of like I remember uh 16 the 1-800 collect.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:36

I remember them having a jingle. I can't remember what it was, but I do remember yeah, I remember the commercial that I liked though was Carrot Top. And it was like him going to a payphone and paying for a payphone. That was before ATT did like cell phones and stuff. So it used to be like call 1-800-800. ATT whatever um with uh with Caratop in the video. Um, but I can't remember the song. I don't know what the Guy Fieri one is.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:10

Yeah, I don't know either because I don't know him from anything except for the his his Shiners Drives and Dives or something, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um and then the Eclipse Gum mints.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:23

Yeah, that was um wasn't that the one where they pay him in gum? You remember that? Where it's like nobody pays me in gum. I don't remember that. And then why French toast crudge did not sit on it? All of all of the um the cereals had great jingles. Uh Frosted Flakes, the they're great. I do remember that. Follow your nose from Fruit Loops. Yeah. The Apple Jacks one from back in the day was awesome. It had the the Apple, the little apple character, and then the cinnamon stick. I do remember that. Oh, dude, that commercial was great. They would do like crazy stunts on uh on skateboards and then crash into each other, and that's how Applejacks were made.

unknown 1:07:10

I do.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:11

Commercials in the 90s were crazy, dude.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:14

Oh, they were definitely unhinged, and that's why I like, like I said, that's why I like my algorithm because every once in a while I just get like a you know 90s cartoon or uh commercial compilation really quick.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:25

Oh um Eric Violet Viol Violet Violet? I'm gonna say Violet um is the one that uh that did the songs for Freecreditreport.com. I don't know if you remember the show Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy on Cartoon Network.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:50

I absolutely remember that show.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:52

He also did the brain song from that show. You remember when the brain wrecks into um Earth, and then like Billy starts bringing it different people, and it sings the song about eating brains.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:09

I remember that, but I don't remember the song. I can't I can't bring up the the song in my head.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:15

Yeah, I I definitely can't either, but I remember loving that song because it was like um almost like a ska song, it was like swing heavy. Um, and and that was the same guy. So did not know that. So that's pretty cool. Um Got Milk obviously was a classic commercial. I don't remember there being a jingle.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:38

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. I don't remember a jingle, I don't remember a jingle for Wendy's either.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:43

Like did they have oh no, they had they had yeah, they had something, um, but it was always like a like a song, like a popular song.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:54

So it was like Wendy's went the opposite direction because Wendy's is unhinged now. Like, oh yeah, stuff that they get to post on social media, like they're unhinged now, so they they really like they like they found their niche.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:08

People like Wendy's social media.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:11

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Also, anytime you have fast food, you gotta put the color red in there. It makes it makes you hungry. Um that's a psychological thing. Um is that really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they the color red um in advertising uh will bring up ideas of like um lust in your brain chemistry, which makes you think about I want that food. That's why all of your major fast food brands have the color red in some area. Wendy's, Burger King, McDonald's, Chick-fil-A. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:52

I know that. Um what is number 20? 20. Oh, those are um I mean I see heavy duty hand soap, but I've never I've never even seen that or even heard of lava lava soap.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:10

Yeah, it was yeah, lava soap. Um, it was the um the pine saw ladies, the power of pine saw ladies. Um, but they had lava soap in the 90s. I've never I've I've never seen that in person. I've never seen it in person, but I've seen the commercials. I've never seen a commercial for that. But it was the same ladies that do the power of pine saw stuff, huh?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:35

Before I read the words on the bottom, I thought maybe it was a candy. I also thought it was Mike and I's for a second. Yeah, or like a different brand, like yeah, something like that. And it's like little like pyramid-shaped like gummy candy. Yeah, right. That's literally what it looks like behind it. And I was thinking like lava, so maybe it's like cinnamon candy and spicy, like I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:56

Yeah, yeah. Um, and then value is that value city? No, circuit city. Circuit city have a jingle.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:05

They must have. Um the only thing I remember from Circuit City is just never going there and going to Best Buy. That's all I ever remember from Circuit City.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:15

See, I remember not going to Circuit City and going to Radio Shack.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:21

I don't think I ever went to a Radio. Like, I would have probably chose to go to a Radio Shack over a Circuit City because Circuit City just never seemed like a nice place to be.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:31

Radio Shack was the greatest about a year before they went under. Really? They really just stopped caring. You would go into a Radio Shack and you'd be like, How much is this computer? And they're like, Whatever you've got in your pockets, man. Like everything is whatever you want it to be. I just remember going in there, they had like batteries on sale. It was like buy one, get like five packs, and I was like, I'll take all of your batteries. Damn. Yeah, just Duracell AAA and double A batteries loading up a whole cart full of them. It was awesome.

unknown 1:12:08

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:08

And then, like any charger, for some reason, they had every charger that you ever needed. Like, like I remember my my uh Game Boy SP charger just like stopped working, and I was in my 20s. And uh I was in my late 20s actually. Uh no, no, I guess I take that back. It was before I moved to Virginia, so it was like 22, 23. Um, but I remember driving my car to Radio Shack because we didn't have uh any electronic stores other than Radio Shack in my hometown. Oh wow. So

Why Old Commercials Hit Hard

SPEAKER_02 1:12:40

I went in there and I was like, long stretch, but any chance you guys have this charger, and they were like, dude, we've got five of them. And I was like, I will take three. I mean, how an SP charger, like Nintendo had very re weird, like oh yeah, this charger only works for this device. Yep. Um, yeah, no, I I remember a lot of these. The MM one, I remember. Um did they have a jingle? Yeah, but it was like super short. It was the melt in your mouth, not in your hand, or whatever. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:18

Like, I remember those two, and I I remember those two in like honestly, if I have to recall any MM any MM's commercial, it's the Christmas one that they're still playing now. The last 20 years, it does exist, they do exist, and then they both faint. And then and then the yellow one says, uh, is it Santa?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:40

Santa?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:40

Yeah, it's it's been playing for what probably 20 years at least.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:46

Since I was a little kid for sure. I've remembered that for forever, and it's on every year still.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:51

Like talk about an advertisement that has paid off for a company. They made that and they're like, yo, and that Santa looks like a Santa.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:59

Yeah, yeah. He looks like Santa.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:01

Like that and the the Hershey Kiss one for Christmas, where it's all of them turning into bells. Yep. They've been playing that one for like 15 years.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:10

They've been playing that one, and then there's a Coca-Cola one that you kind of see. Like they they've done newer Coke ones, but they definitely have some old the classic, right? They definitely have a classic Coke one that always plays every year still. Um I'm trying to think what else.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:26

Yeah, I mean the Meow Mix, the Meow Mix still stays the same. I mean, they've got to be a good one. I've never seen a Meow Mix commercial. Like oh, well, I guess I haven't in recent years.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:40

I mean, my problem is I haven't seen a commercial in yeah, that's my problem. Like, well, I I I I do have commercials, but on some of my streaming services I don't have ad-free for all of them. But um, I don't I haven't had cable since 10 years. I don't think I don't think I have a cable in like 10 years. Now, I'll go visit like my grandparents or my aunt and uncle, and they they still have you know cable thrown in with their plans and stuff, so like we'll see regular commercials, but yeah, the ones on streaming services are never like that, like they're never like um you know, like these kind of local ones or or like you know, from from Meow Mix. I couldn't imagine Meow Meow Mix. Right, right. Like they'll have like a Pet Smart commercial or something like that. They'll never have like a specific like brand. I guess there are still some just general because I definitely saw Dawn, like I know Dawn's still cranking out commercials.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:38

Yeah, they do, they do. They're always in Spanish for some reason, though. I always get Dawn power wash commercials specifically in Spanish.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:47

So for the longest time, I thought maybe it was just me. Mine go back and forth. It's like one commercial break will be a hundred percent Spanish, and then the next will be a hundred percent English, and they're not the same commercials, and but then like later, like you know, three episodes down the line, I'll see the same commercials that I saw in Spanish and English. And I'm like, I don't know what uh if I'm watching something to cause this or or what is happening. Like, is my is my brain broken? Am I seeing the same commercials and somehow I I'm I'm hearing them in Spanish one time and I'm hearing them in English like another? It's like the the blue dress, yellow dress thing. Yeah, like yeah, yeah. What if it's really just the same commercial and sometimes I'm just hearing it one way and the other, yeah. Not that English and Spanish are close enough where you can, but right.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:35

I will say I miss like so. I had YouTube TV for uh a little bit, and that was like sort of like cable because they still had commercials, it was basically cable. Um, but I do miss like the feeling of when you want to watch something now, it's like, what do you want to watch? Okay, let's go to Disney Plus, we'll search on there for half an hour. All right, let's go to HBO Max, search there for half an hour, go to Netflix, search there for half an hour. I miss the days of being like, let's look and see what's on, and you just find you have 150 choices and you just picked one. And sometimes if you were really planning out the day, you'd be like, I see this comes on at seven, and I know I want to watch that. It's 4 30. I'm just gonna leave it on TBS until that movie starts. Like, I miss those days.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:32

Well, so certain apps, I don't I don't think it's all of them, but certain apps are kind of giving you the option to do that. I do know that Disney Plus has an option for that, it's not for all of their content, but I think they always do a Star Wars one um where they're just playing Star Wars shows and episodes from different series, and then they'll have but I think they do a movie one um also. And then uh I know for a fact HBO Max does just a one, and it's they have a Rick and Morty one where it's just 24-7, Rick and Morty, and yeah, but it's not like start to finish and then start all over again. It's like season one, episode five, then season two, episode seven. Like it's just like all over the place. That's the thing. I've I've put that on too sometimes when I'm trying to just like think of, I can't think of what I want to watch. Um, but there are a couple of free apps, only because I have a smart TV, so I know this. Um I can't remember off the top of my head that do exist like that. Well, I know the Visio TVs have like the live TV section.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:35

They've been doing that.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:36

Yeah, they do that, but there's another one. It's like a step between that and and like um like regular channels. It's not sling, so it's it's um oh I can't, it's not Tubi.

Cable Nostalgia And Streaming Choice Paralysis

SPEAKER_03 1:18:50

Even though I Tubi does have live channels that do that type of thing, where it's like they'll have commercials in between episodes and stuff, but um, it's another one that would came out like at the same time Tubi did, and Tubi just is way more well known now because they got the Super Bowl that one year. Right last year or the year before. Um, but yeah, you would go through it and and you would see you would see like everything played. Yeah, this is what's playing. And it would be like one episode or one channel has like, I don't know, all of the seasons of Jackass, like just going on, and I'm like, holy shit, like I'll sit here and watch Jackass for like three months.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:28

Dude, like I miss that. Like, I I remember like going through the channels, and you'd be like, in a uh law and order SVU marathon, sign me up, or you'd be like, Oh, dude, ridiculousness is playing right all day. That's the other one, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:42

Or or Robin Big and the fantasy, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:45

Um, or or Tosh.0. You'd scroll and be like, seven episodes of Tosh.0, I'm in.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:50

Yeah, I gotta figure it out. I'll I'll go like right after this. I'll go and look, and if it still behaves the same way, because I don't delete any of the apps off of smart TV. Um, I just can't remember what the name of it is. But if I'll I'll open I'll open all the apps that I don't recognize, and if if it still looks the same, I'll text you the name and you just gotta download it. Hell yeah. So um, I just realized how late it is. You have another thing to do right now. Spoiler alert, I'm not gonna tell you I'm gonna say what it is because it'll be a surprise for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:20

Um, so, anyways, guys, that's been the show today. I had such a blast talking with you, Danny. Yes, and Chris, I know Chris wasn't able to get back on, but I had a blast talking with him too.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:30

Yeah, it was a good time.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:32

Danny, tell the people about your band.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:35

My band is called Just Happy to Be Here. Uh, we're a fun, bouncy pop punk band. Um, and we got new stuff, but what one thing that we're concentrating on now, which we think is gonna be a lot of fun, is um I'm codenaming it we uh the the I've got the zoomies mini tours just because I think it's funny. I love that. Yeah, but uh uh so we're gonna do a lot of weekenders, extended weekenders and and stuff like that. So we, you know, like I was already alluding to, end of July, we're gonna start this. We've got another one in August. We've got at this point two potentially in September, maybe another one or two in October already, like in the works and stuff like that. And we're just going places, you know, we've never we've never played before. Um just to have fun. And and we're you know, so far, it's been a lot of of fun. Like local bands are are uh really open to the idea, and then we're trying to help them if they if they come over to Jersey, like one of the bands, like another one that we have that we're I can tease, but I can't say for sure where what what it what is going on with it is um Pittsburgh area, and then we have we just found out that one of the bands from Pittsburgh may be coming over to uh Jersey and we're gonna link up with them and and kind of hopefully have a really good, really good time over here too. Hell yeah, man. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. Um the only thing I'm upset about so far is that I'm not going to be able to visit you in in your hometown of Virginia Beach. But I swear we're going to come back. We're good, we're definitely gonna do Virginia Beach at

Band Plug And New Goodbye

SPEAKER_03 1:22:10

another point because everything you described, I described to everybody else in the band, and they were like, in. Like it just immediately they're like, we're doing everything. I was like, great, let's do everything. Um, but we just couldn't make it this that particular trip, but we will definitely do another one.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:24

Absolutely. Um, but yes, just happy to be here is the band. Uh, highly, highly recommend checking them out. We love them. You've seen them on here, we've talked about them all the time. Um, other than that, everybody, it has been an absolute blast. And today, unfortunately, Chris isn't here, but we have a new ending to the show. Normally, I say, All right, everybody, have a great time, peace. But we've decided collectively from now on, Danny. The ending of this show is have fun monster trucks. So, this is this is the official first time doing it. Oh, I guess you're gonna do it with me. This is this is for my son. That is how he says goodbye to everybody. When you say bye to him, he goes, have fun monster trucks, and then he runs away. Oh, that is our new I'm saying that at the end of the show that you're gonna be playing. Have fun monster trucks is the way to say goodbye now. Um, so we're gonna do it three, two, one. Have fun on Monster Trucks. All right, guys, it has been real. We'll see you later. Bye, everybody.