Mountain Escapes, Music Journeys, and Live Show Rants
Ever wondered what it's like to come face-to-face with a bear in a motel parking lot? Join us as Tyrone, filling in for Daniel, dives into Tom's wild Tennessee adventure and the unexpected wildlife encounters in Cades Cove. We also chat about the growing touristy vibe of Gatlinburg, compare it to the calm of Shenandoah, and explore the pros and cons of beach versus mountain vacations. Plus, Mike shares the challenges of his upcoming long drive to visit his mom, sprinkled with a hearty dose of humor and personal anecdotes.
Next, we take you behind the scenes of the Warning, a young rock band's meteoric rise from school gigs to international fame. Discover how a simple video game ignited these three sisters passion for music, leading to hit albums like "Escape the Mind" and "Queen of the Murder Scene." Learn about their journey, supported by their parents, to create music that resonates on a social level. We marvel at their success playing to massive crowds at Germany's Wacken Festival and Poland Rock, and discuss the impact of their latest albums "Error" and "Keep Me Fed."
Lastly, get ready for a no-holds-barred discussion on the highs and lows of live concerts. We tackle the steep ticket prices for stars like Taylor Swift, share our grievances about marijuana at concerts, and vent our frustrations about people filming shows on their phones. Then, we lighten things up with a hilarious story about a man with a perpetually negative barber, and how his trip to Rome—and an audience with the Pope—turned the barber's predictions on their head. It’s a whirlwind of laughs, reflective moments, and practical tips on navigating the world of live music.
00:09 - Mountain Life and Musical Discoveries
07:41 - Rising Rock Band Success and Influence
15:53 - Concert Complaints and Musings
28:46 - Barber, Rome, and Taylor Swift
Mountain Life and Musical Discoveries
Speaker 1Hey , hey , hey . Welcome to the MT Alternative Podcast . I'm your host , tyrone , filling in for that stuffy British dude , daniel . Mike and Tom have a great show for you today , so chill out , grab a beverage and enjoy .
Speaker 2Hey , hey , hey , welcome back Tom . What's going on , buddy ?
Speaker 3Hey , not much , Mike .
Speaker 2How was your little weekend getaway last week .
Speaker 3It was a getaway .
Speaker 2That's all you're going to say about that .
Speaker 3Yeah , well we did have some exciting experiences . We had bears in the parking lot there at the motel oh that's awesome .
Speaker 2That's Tennessee for you .
Speaker 3Yeah , we had bears in the trees up there in the cage cove so we got our money's worth .
Speaker 2How'd the dogs deal with the bears ?
Speaker 3bark a little bit . Yeah , yeah , of course when you have a chihuahua .
Speaker 2They're the biggest animal and the bear would probably run off from that anywhere he's like what the hell is this thing's problem ? Be like that .
Speaker 3You had a good time though yeah , be like the gazoo on flintstones little annoying , little , annoying thing come popping in every once in a while hello dumb dumb but yeah , we did have a good time , had a good time . Excellent gatlinburg is not what I remembered now .
Speaker 2I hear that from a lot of people but , it's touristy .
Speaker 3That's the way it is Give me Shenandoah any day of the week .
Speaker 2A little quieter .
Speaker 3It's Gatlinburg without the people .
Speaker 2Excellent .
Speaker 3That's cool .
Speaker 2What did I do ? Same thing I did this weekend Not much , we did work .
Speaker 3Seems like that's all we do .
Speaker 2We worked last Saturday , worked this Saturday .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm thinking we're going to work again next Saturday .
Speaker 2I think so too .
Speaker 3Oh boy , but anyway , it looks like that's the situation . Money's money , you know what .
Speaker 2I'll be going up north soon to see Mom .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm not a perv .
Speaker 2Making a couple stops at certain places . Yeah , extra money is going to come in handy .
Speaker 3Yeah , I'm not a perv , but 20 bucks is 20 bucks .
Speaker 2Yeah right .
Speaker 3There you go . So , but yeah , I'm looking more forward to your trip than I was mine .
Speaker 2Well , I'm pretty looking forward to my trip too . Yes , I get to see mom . That's the best part of the trip . Sure it is Then there's a little you know icing on the cake there so to speak , side trips . Yeah , side trips .
Speaker 3Those are what we call them . I like the side trips .
Speaker 2Do you yeah ?
Speaker 3Yeah , I like the side trips , do you yeah ?
Speaker 2I love the side trips .
Speaker 3There you go .
Speaker 2The only thing is the trip up there that I don't love .
Speaker 3Right .
Speaker 2Driving is actually . Once I'm there , I'm fine .
Speaker 3I mean the people on the road crazy .
Speaker 2But at least this year I'm not traveling during Fourth of July week .
Speaker 3Well , that's true , that sucks , that's true . Well , I get to Gatlinburg and they're talking about well , I said , there's so many people , Ah , this typical August . And then I got to thinking . My wife and I were talking . We've never been to Gatlinburg in August , it's always been early or late in the fall . Yeah see , that's what I'd rather go , and we don't normally go dead middle of the summer like this , and there were people everywhere , kids are out of school , people on vacation .
Speaker 2Last week without school there was a lot to that .
Speaker 3There were so many people , it was miserable . Right , but I did have a good time .
Speaker 2Sometimes you get to deal with that crap . That's the way it goes . But give me that over the beach any day .
Speaker 3Yes , I do like the beach any day .
Speaker 2Yes , I do like the beach , I like the ocean . It's just give me the mountains all day long At night . That's what .
Speaker 3The beach at night , is it ?
Speaker 2The beach to me is like I'll go there for a weekend or whatever .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2Just enjoy it . If someone put me in the mountains for a year , I'd be quite happy .
Speaker 3What's really cool is you could actually just hop in the car one day and drive to the beach , see the beach and then drive back .
Speaker 2The thing is , it's going to take me longer to get to the beach , but the mountains are less than an hour away .
Speaker 3I know .
Speaker 2That's the best part of it .
Speaker 3Yeah , and see , the cool thing is , you've got both worlds here .
Speaker 2Right , right , no , that is a good thing . Yeah , you've got both worlds here , right , right , no , that is a good thing . Well , same from Massachusetts . Oh , yeah , you know , you've got New Hampshire , you've got the mountains up there .
Speaker 3Vermont , the spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of .
Speaker 2America there's some beautiful sights in there in New England . I wouldn't live there again . You wouldn't For certain reasons . You know my favorite color is blue the waters are terrible . My favorite color is blue , but someone has stolen it and it bugs me oh yeah , I see a lot of red . I'm seeing red that people stole my blue oh yeah yeah . Well , we won't go down that rabbit hole , yeah we won't do that .
Speaker 3Let's not . Let's not today .
Speaker 2Massachusetts , great place to visit . Would not want to live there again .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , well , say it like that .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2Love you guys , all my friends out there . Great , but nope , that state is not for me .
Speaker 3I think that's a lot with anybody . I mean . Kansas is the same way . Kansas is a wonderful state . It's great to live there . I shouldn't say that all about Massachusetts , Boston , like every .
Speaker 2Democratic city is a shithole .
Speaker 3I probably wouldn't live there again , but I enjoyed Kansas . It gave me a lot of my morals .
Speaker 2This is as close as I'm going to get .
Speaker 3This is me , right here .
Speaker 2I could be back home right now and it kind of looks like this Seriously , it covers my hillbilly . Yeah , I guess I'm more at home with the southern people Speaking of hillbilly . I guess I am . The other morning I never said the word hillbilly .
Speaker 3No , I did .
Speaker 2Okay .
Speaker 3But you know bringing that up the no , I did . Okay , but you know bringing that up the other morning . I'm getting ready to take the dogs out . I hear a high-pitched squeal out there . I go out .
Speaker 2Coyote's got a rabbit in the backyard Did you know , a rabbit screaming can make the same sound as a baby .
Speaker 3Deer , yeah , they do they have the same sound ?
Speaker 2They do have the same sound Like a baby's cry almost . It's crazy , it sucks hearing that .
Speaker 3But that's kind of what I like .
Speaker 2I'm looking at my little chihuahua one day Went under the porch and I hear something squealing . Grabbed a little baby rabbit . Oh no yeah . We saved it , it's gone .
Speaker 3There you go . It lived Cool Animals .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3What a great thing , love animals .
Speaker 2All right . So I think now's a good time to dive into my little rock story there about the Warning . Yep , I'd like to talk about Anybody who's not familiar with the Warning . They're from Monterrey Mexico . The band consists of three sisters . You've got Daniela , Danny . She's vocals lead guitar Right . She plays all kinds of things with piano . You have Paulina , nicknamed Pow , she plays the drums . It's fitting . She's like the middle child , she's like an animal on the drums .
Speaker 2A wild child Basically . And there's Alejandra . Her nickname is Ale . She's the bassist Awesome , fricking bassist . I started found out early I wanna say 2015 , 2016, . I first saw these little kids on YouTube Right At the Sandman . I'm like you know , cute . That's pretty cute . They're doing that keeping Rocketball alive . I was excited to see it Right Couple years later .
Rising Rock Band Success and Influence
Speaker 2Something else caught my attention . They were at this thing called TEDx and I guess it's some forum they have . They have different guest hosts doing different things , whether it be business music , whatever , right , and they did three songs and they get up and do a little speech in between their songs . I said , damn , these are those girls . They're getting bigger and they're still doing this . This is awesome , wow . So I followed them a little more . So they did some covers of . There was a big cover thing back then .
Speaker 2They did have their own stuff out , right and uh , but they were doing a lot of covers twisted saint's and martin crew , which was cool . They came out with . Their first , I think , was a dp , which is a small album , not a lot of songs , right , and that was escape the mind , which had some good songs on it . Then it was a 21st century blood , which I said you know if you listen to the music and that everything's a lot of social things going on in life . Right , he's a kid writing this stuff . Wow , all the music .
Speaker 3So their parents are keeping them parents . Yeah , the parents .
Speaker 2the parents aren't new . Yeah , they'll parents . They don't play music . They don't play any instruments , right , but they really were into music and a lot of the stuff we listen to . Yeah , so they grew up listening to this . How they got into it was rock band . Ah Danny started playing and Paulina started playing on rock band and it went from there . This is cool .
Speaker 2The wee game the little one , al , will just sit there and clap her hands . This is from them saying that , and you know , go along with it . Well , danny ended up getting a guitarist long story short , I'll get drums and the parents said you have this long , you have to stick to it , at least this long . And even danny said after like a week or two she wanted to quit , but she stuck to it . Al picked up the bass after she whatever 10 years old , 9 years old , and all of them would play separate . Then they figured out wait a minute , we could start a band . And that's how it really happened .
Speaker 2So , they would do .
Speaker 3Christmas shows be at the school little school functions .
Speaker 2That's how they started out .
Speaker 3Heck yeah .
Speaker 2But I'm trying to keep it short . You gotta go into every little detail . But uh , they came out with queen of the murder scene and that was 2018 . That was a concept album written mostly by the drummer the middle child , yeah a concept album . If you have no , what a concept album ? Everything kind of goes . It's like a story . Right , it's not this song does this it's a story . So to write something like that ?
Speaker 3it was creepy , you know for a kid , and she probably was how old then .
Speaker 2You know , let's see . I want to say maybe 14 .
Speaker 3Yeah , for a 14-year-old to write a story 13 , 14 at least .
Speaker 2Like I said , I don't know all the details . I'm really starting to get into this band more and more that , like I said , I don't know all the details . I'm really starting to get into this band more and more , that's great .
Speaker 2In 2022 , they came out with their album Error . That had some good tunes on it . That's when it started really hitting . They opened up Amuse , guns N' Roses , foo Fighters and , as of this year , they came out with another album , keep Me Fed . That came out on June 28th of this year . Pretty much went from what they were 10 years ago almost headlining . These shows now Pack arenas . Just a bunch of talented young ladies down to earth . It's just their music . That's their passion . They're not wearing their skimpy little outfits . They're not singing about puppy love .
Speaker 3Right .
Speaker 2Come out half naked , it's actual issues that are actually happening . Very intelligently , but anyway .
Speaker 3Speaking . You just mentioned . You hit something a minute ago . You said packing venues and stuff . I seen you going through some numbers earlier .
Speaker 2Oh well , they just played a Bakken Festival which is in Germany , held every year . It's a festival with a lot of different bands . They did not open , but they were part of the . I think they were on a main stage Right that place gets 85,000 people Right that concert alone . A couple nights later they played Poland Rock .
Speaker 3Okay .
Speaker 2They headlined Poland Rock Right headline-polling rock Right 750,000 people , wow , yeah , wow is right . Their biggest way , bigger than the biggest show ever . That's crazy , and the sad thing is in America they're not really known . I mean , a lot of people know Right Because they have their warning army . That's what a lot of fans will call themselves now .
Speaker 3But the music expands hard rock , not to be confused with the Idiot Squad .
Speaker 2Yeah , not to be confused with the Idiot Squad , but just to give an idea of their music , their genre . It usually spans like hard rock , alternative rock , progressive rock Right , but they do have their own sound . But you can tell where they're . You know where it comes from their influences .
Speaker 3Yeah , and the few videos I've seen , I've enjoyed .
Speaker 2Right , well , I showed you the Enter Sandman when they were little .
Speaker 3That was their big break for everybody watching them .
Speaker 2You know their family would just . Parents have always been influential with these kids because they listen to a lot of music Zeppelin . Guns N' Roses that's the kind of music the kids grew up listening to . Granted , now all the kids listen to . Everybody has their own musical taste of what they listen to .
Speaker 3If you heard what they said they listened to , you'd be like you can tell my son was raised around Dr Hook and the Muttage Show . He's not very bright .
Speaker 2Maybe that was the problem , yeah , but uh I mean right now . They've been torn extensively . And I do want to make a correction on Pone Rock . I said 700-something thousand and it was over 350,000 plus .
Speaker 1Which is still yeah , which is still a lot .
Speaker 2I guess it could hold up through that many people , 700 plus .
Speaker 1Right right .
Speaker 2Which is incredible in itself , and that's a free concert . You were talking about concert tickets . That's a . That's freaking , unbelievable free . Yeah , hey , want to go to a show . There's like 20 bands playing .
Speaker 3It's free yeah , let's go here , take this right I'll drive , but uh , yeah , they've been touring extensively .
Speaker 2I don't think they've stopped and uh , again , it's a tribute to the way they were brought up . I mean three sisters that are all gifted .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2It just blows my mind . I mean there's a lot of family bands out there and stuff . Don't get me wrong , I'm not dissing anybody else , yeah , it's just . Rock's been going away for a while and this has kind of brought rock back the Osmonds is pissed at you Again .
Speaker 3I don't want to beat a dead horse .
Speaker 2Taylor Swift , but that music I'm sorry Swifties . The .
Speaker 3Osmonds are pissed at you right now .
Speaker 2I'm sorry , Donnie , whatever your other names are , yeah .
Speaker 3Donnie Marie Maurice , all right , no , that's a give , yeah , that is a give .
Speaker 2But , anyways , people , people , listen to the check out the warning you will not be disappointed .
Speaker 3Yeah , you'll be shocked .
Speaker 2They have a song pretty much everybody will like . But that was my little rabbit hole , and there's more to say . But I could save that for another segment because I got a bunch of bands I'd like to talk about . They all kind of go together .
Speaker 3Very informative . Another segment , because I got a bunch of fans I'd like to talk about they all kind of go together very informative , I try .
Speaker 2I mean , there's people that know more , but , like I said , I'm jumped into this not too long ago . I've seen them for years ago , but never really followed them followed them and , uh , and , like I said , followed them for different things . But once I saw the mtv awards with evolve right , I said holy shit , these girls grew up Wow .
Speaker 2They really rock , but again anyways . So yeah , I wonder if , uh , our little friends were listening to the segment at all . I'm sure they were . I don't know , maybe he hears everything that angry the angry one probably didn't listen to shit .
Speaker 3No , he listens .
Speaker 2You sure , he ?
Speaker 3listens , he hears everything . You can't .
Speaker 2That's true .
Speaker 3You can't open a damn bag of cookies without him showing up .
Speaker 2This is true . Should we try ? Yeah , well , anyways , let's take our little break and let's let them in and do their thing .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2All right , we'll be back .
Concert Complaints and Musings
Speaker 4Hey , buddy , what's going on ? Oh , not too much . What's up with you ? Oh , I found that interesting , that story on that band . Yeah , that's pretty wild . Yeah , yeah , bands are wild . Yes , they got some talent for these young ladies . Yeah , I knew some ladies with talent once . Yeah , I'm sure you did . We're not talking about that kind of talent , buddy . Oh , oh , the real talent , the real talent . I'd like to go to a concert . A concert , yeah , why would you do that ? Yeah , watch some bands . No , no , no , why , when you go to a concert , right , unfortunately , you pay . It's not unfortunate , I'm fortunate . Well , you , I'm going to see a band . Okay , stop it . Did I suck ? Just stop a minute and let me explain .
Speaker 4Oh , sure , you know , what pisses me off about going to concerts ? What ? First off , the ticket prices . Huh , yeah , they do get kind of pricey , kind of pricey . Okay , first off , if Taylor Swift , who , in my opinion , sucks ass , she gonna charge $500 for a ticket , is it her or the ticket people ? Who the hell cares ? I'm not paying that much to listen to her . Well , there's some dumbasses who do . I'm not paying $500 to listen to Merle Haggard , and he's the best ever was .
Speaker 4What kind of person listens to a girl at 37 singing about breakups ? Exactly , that's a sad life . Listen , ladies . If you're 37 and still breaking up , take some counseling . You have issues ? Yeah , if you're lost , the kitchen is to the left , ah , yeah , anyway .
Speaker 4But I went to this one concert one time . Well , uh , I didn't ever really get there , but oh , ha ha ha , there was some issues that stood in the way . Ah , damn issues . Yeah , well , sometimes those issues are tagged with names like alcohol and drugs . And , okay , growing up and learning as you move , you're stupid , oh , but as you grow older , you don't remember too much . Anyway , let's get back .
Speaker 4I went to this one concert one time and the ticket price was okay , but the music sucked . Well , why did you go ? Well , because I thought it was going to be good . Oh , and it wasn't good . Well , no , they said Sunday , sunday , sunday , ah , we went to go , we'll sell you the whole seat , but you only need the edge . Well , shit , I didn't even need the edge , you don't sit down . Walking back to your car , I left that place . Anyway , who wants to bring a lawn chair ? Bring your own chair . What'd I just pay for A field ? Yeah , a piece of grass . No , bullshit , I can have a piece of grass . Well , you know , speaking of grass , I should have said the lawn . Well , speaking of grass , Right ? Well , that stuff's everywhere at these concerts Kind of pisses me off .
Speaker 4Why ? Well , because nobody I know brought none . You just get next to somebody who has some and they'll share . Yeah , then I look like a mooch . That's all right , it was . Yeah , see , you see .
Speaker 4But there's a danger in that . There is . You might sit next to somebody that only buys that brown Mexican shit . That shit gives me a headache , not me . Oh , Don't give me no headache . What does it give you ? An empty billfold , an empty bill .
Speaker 4You're stupid and bought it . Yep , ah , what an idiot . Yeah , tell me about it now . Well , he said it came from Guadalajara . That sounded exciting to me . That meant someone's basement . No , it meant you're going to be lazy after you do this shit . Yeah , yeah , anyway , but it just .
Speaker 4How do they get that stuff in there ? Very easy , they don't check it for that , do they not ? No , that's good information . Oh , maybe I shouldn't have told you that . Thank you , no , no problem . Hey , wait a minute .
Speaker 4Let's go back to the concert . You know what pisses me off ? What concert are we going back to ? I'm sitting here watching my favorite band getting into the music and I got 20 dicks in front of me holding up their phones . You're there . What are you taping ? You're already there . Yeah , just right in front of you . Yeah , what a bunch of morons . I paid to come here and film . You're an idiot . Yeah , why don't you just look it up on your phone , dumbass , instead of going and dealing with all them idiots ? Let someone else film it and sit home and watch it . If that's what you're doing , okay , but what's this ? What ? Every concert I don't give a stupid two shits which one it is Every time they start breaking into a ballad oh , I love you , honey Causes everybody to want to light a damn cigarette at the same time .
Speaker 4What's that all about ? Because you're mellow now , in a mellow mood . Mellow , it's like a sexual experience With your lighter . No , no , no , I have never had a sexual experience with a lighter that ever was ended in good . Evidently you haven't lived right . Well , no , I did one time and ended up with blisters all over everywhere Because you did it wrong . You don't actually put the lighter there . Well , that would have been good to know then . Basically , you just heard a good song . You rocked your ass off . Now they're doing a mellow song . You kick them back and enjoy it . So you light yourself on fire . No , you light your cigarette . You dumbass . I don't smoke . Well then , don't worry about it . Yeah , because even if you don't smoke , you can get killed by cigarettes .
Speaker 4You are smoking . If you're not , you really are . No . Secondhand , well , secondhand , who wants to buy a secondhand cigarette with some Joe Schmoe spit all over it ? What the hell is that all about ? I'm talking about the smoke , not the cigarette itself . Oh , we call those gutter butts . Oh , hey , you gonna finish that . I heard that a lot when I hitchhiked one time at a Baptist mission . You gonna finish that . It's even worse when you go in a convenience store and you leave it on the wall and you come out and someone else is smoking it . Yeah , robert , wait a minute , you'll probably have to delete this part Because , yeah , that's what he does If they stupid .
Speaker 4Okay , one day we pull up to a gas station Old girl working behind the counters outside having a cigarette and he pulls up . She hurries up , goes back in there to wait on us because we're the only ones there . She leaves her cigarette there on the counter While I'm in there buying shit . I come out there and find out he done smoked her damn cigarette . Yeah , yeah , he did . That's kind of fucked up A little bit . Why would you leave a cigarette on a building that's fucked up so he can smoke it ? Well , no , you can burn your damn building down . Well , it mostly made of brick or concrete , yeah , which reminds me , sure , what you know what's red and bad for your teeth ? What A brick , ah , yeah , yeah , anyway , that could hurt .
Speaker 4So , but I want to go to a concert , but I don't want to pay all this money . How much is it A lot Like ? How much ? What's a lot ? $25 . That's shit . I know it's stupid . No , that's reasonable For what ? No , it's stupid . No , that's reasonable For what ? To go to the concert , okay , let's . Would you rather go see Taylor Swift for like a grand ? No , I wouldn't . Well , there you go . $25 sounds reasonable , now , doesn't it ? You know what sounds more reasonable ? What ? Sitting in my damn recliner and punching up Taylor Swift , my God , I want to watch that stupid stuff . Anyway , they actually have a good documentary out of her , very informative , I can hear it now .
Speaker 4This is Taylor Swift . She was stupid when she was born . She grew dumber as she got older and now she's a damn vegetable . Okay , you know what sucks , though . Yeah , you can blame Toby Keith . Why ? Rest in peace , toby Keith . Yeah , I was going to say . He's not even with us anymore . He's the one that gave her a record deal on his label . He started it . Well , he knew he had nothing to lose . Then he burned his damn house down . Get rid of the evidence . I don't want no one tying me to this . I can see it . I see it . I seen it . Yeah , I seen that coming . Uh-oh , better burn every damn thing I did down . That was dumb . I still can't believe . You think $25 is a lot ? Well , it depends . Look at all the people charging outrageous money . Now , $25 is a drop in the bucket , yeah , but I don't have a bucket and I'm not dropping one when I get it . Okay , okay , I went and seen Leonard Skidder . Right , you know what that cost me .
Speaker 4What A car ride and a hamburger . How long ago was this ? About four or five years ago ? That's bullshit . Oh , my buddy bought me a hamburger and I paid the gas and he bought all the tickets . Oh , then see , then you gotta go find this buddy again . I know where he's at Now . There you go , you know who he is . No , fuzzy , who , fuzzy ? Remember Fuzzy ? Yeah , hello , fuzzy , you bastard . Remember Fuzzy ? That's who I went with . Here's another shout-out to Fuzzy . That's who I went with . Here's another shout-out to Fuzzy . Ah , fuzzy , although we did have a damn good time . Is that your Texas boy ? No , no , no , no , no , that's not him . No , who's Fuzzy ? Fuzzy's the guy I remember . Fuzzy , yeah , I shouted out to Fuzzy before , right , yeah , he used to work with me . He , yeah , he used to work with me . He thinks I'm rude . Yeah , man , that's the fuzzy . Yeah , but he lives in .
Speaker 1Margaretton Fuzzy fuzzy .
Speaker 4He lives over by another guy . We know Kelly Not fuzzy . Yeah , it's not fuzzy , it's Kelly . Kelly isn't fuzzy . He's got a good clean-cut hair . Now , fuzzy , he's fuzzy , that's why we call him fuzzy . You're tiring me out . I'm tired myself . I'm gonna get going . You know why I'm tired ? Why , because I've been here . Oh , every time I come here I get tired . Well , you got your parking spot , so don't complain . Yeah , thanks , bill . Ah , and don't forget , troy will be making an appearance . Who the hell is Troy ? Yeah , you'll find out . Yeah , I remember Troy . Yeah , you know , you don't . Yeah , well , you said Troy's the one that took your clothes from the laundromat . No , yeah , you blamed Bill . That wasn't Bill . Oh , it wasn't . No , bill's a very respectable gentleman . Bill is Troy . On the other hand , yeah , yeah , Gonna , land his damn helicopter in my spot . He can get into some shit . Yeah , you'll meet him . I don't think you're gonna like him , but you'll meet him . Who knows , I might become best friends . Anyways , folks , see you next week . Yeah , go see a concert . Bye , bye .
Barber, Rome, and Taylor Swift
Speaker 2Well , that seemed like a little different there with the little dudes today . Yeah , that was tolerable . A little enjoyable actually . I do hear his concert issues , though I get it .
Speaker 3Yeah , concerts are getting out of hand A little bit , a little bit .
Speaker 2People are always so negative and pessimistic .
Speaker 3I hate negative and pessimists . You get a lot of those everywhere in life , unfortunately . Yeah , negative , pessimistic .
Speaker 2I hate , negative and pessimists yeah .
Speaker 3Yeah , you get a lot of those everywhere in life . Yeah , unfortunately , but you know I love it when karma comes around to them kind of people .
Speaker 2Kamala .
Speaker 3No .
Speaker 2Oh .
Speaker 3Well , yeah , karma Kamala same thing . But anyway , I've got a buddy one time and he was telling me about his barber being the most negative dude . He was just telling the story .
Speaker 2Like a woman barber or a barber . A barber that cut his hair .
Speaker 3Oh , okay , you know like the barber of Seville .
Speaker 2Oh yeah , me , me , me no , okay Go ahead , brutus the barber beefcake .
Speaker 3Oh , yes , me , me , no , okay , go ahead .
Speaker 2Brutus the Barber Beefcake .
Speaker 3Ah yes , All them people . Well , he was talking about his barber being so negative . One day he said this story . He said I went in there and told him I was getting ready to go to Rome . And the barber said Rome , why do you want to go to Rome and how are you going to get there ? He says well , I'm going to fly on TWA . Well , twa , that's a dumb thing to do . They're the worst airline I ever seen . They'll lose your bags . They'll starve you to death while you're there . It's awful .
Speaker 3And Rome , what are you going to do in Rome ? That's a stinky city . He said I'm going to do in Rome ? That's a stinky city . He said I'm going to see the Pope . The Pope , what do you want to see the Pope ? For ? He's an idiot . You're going to stand out there with 100,000 people in the hot sun and wait to hope to see him stand on a little ledge on a building . Yeah , yeah , that's what I'm going to do . That's stupid . He said Well , a couple months later he goes by and he goes back in for a haircut .
Speaker 3The old barber asked him . He said where did you take that old trip ? Yes , sir , and you lied to me . What do you mean ? I lied to you . He said TWA was a very pleasant experience . He said they got me there on time , brought snacks the whole trip , never lost my bag or nothing . I said well , you're lucky . He said Rome , you lied to me about Rome too . He said it wasn't stinky at all . I got there , it was beautiful , People always helping out and wanted to do this . He's like yeah , well , he said you weren't right about one thing . He said there were over a hundred thousand people waiting to see the pope and he said when did you get seen ? He said yeah , yeah , as a matter of fact , he come out there on that little ledge on the side of the building , just like you said he would . He said is that the one thing you didn't lie about ? He ?
Speaker 3said well it was an awful , awful experience around all them people , wasn't it ? He said no , no , not really . He said because a little bit into the speech and everything , these two fellas come down there and tap me on the shoulder and said follow us , the Pope wants to see you . Oh , he did not . Yeah , yeah , Called me up there . So he said I went up there and I got to see the Pope . He said I'll bet that was an awful experience . No , no , it was lovely . He had fruit , we had fruit and everything and we just it was awesome .
Speaker 3He said I got to see his ring , he let me kiss his ring and he blessed me and everything . He said well , out of 100,000 people , why would the Pope come down there and get you ? He said well , I asked him that and I said Mr Pope , I'm very honored and I'm so glad that you offered to come up here . I've kissed your ring and I've been preceded with all this beauty in here . And he said but I'm wondering , why me , out of all them people down there ? Why did you want to come with me ? He said well , son , I wanted to counsel with you , speak to you , he said because out of 100,000 people , you undoubtedly have the worst haircut of any one person I ever did see how did the pessimistic barber take it ?
Speaker 3I don't know , that was the end of the story never finished but I thought that was pretty funny .
Speaker 2You have the worst haircut .
Speaker 3Of any of the 100,000 .
Speaker 2You picked that out of all these people .
Speaker 3I must have been a bad barber .
Speaker 2Must have been terrible .
Speaker 3Yeah , sounded like a little dude in the barber .
Speaker 2You should send a little dude there . I'd like to hear what he has to say when he comes back . That could be a pretty good show .
Speaker 3Yeah , it could be Two pessimists in the same room . That wouldn't be very good .
Speaker 2Yeah , boy .
Speaker 3But yeah , that was pretty fun .
Speaker 2Yeah , those damn little dudes man .
Speaker 3I just don't think it'd work in another barber .
Speaker 2You don't think so . I don't think so yeah , I don't think so either . They they could work in another barber . You don't think so ? I don't think so ? Yeah , I don't think so either . They'd probably pull a knife . He got pissed off because Bill parked in his stupid parking spot . He won't let it go .
Speaker 3Yeah that he was pissed at Eric and he didn't even know who Eric was . Eric never even showed up .
Speaker 2Oh gosh , but anyways .
Speaker 3I think he's a little jealous .
Speaker 2They enjoyed the warning . Anyways , I did . I'm telling you they're a great band , but what do we got for the future coming up ?
Speaker 3For the future we have .
Speaker 2Anything spectacular .
Speaker 3Um .
Speaker 2Yeah , that's what I'm thinking too .
Speaker 3I don't know if anything big .
Speaker 2Well , I do have another band that I would like to talk about next week , and that's Nightwish . Nightwish , that was one of my rabbit holes a couple years ago , but we'll get into that then .
Speaker 3Yeah .
Speaker 2They're a Finnish band .
Speaker 3I know it's not your genre .
Speaker 2They're not .
Speaker 3Finnish Right .
Speaker 2They're from Finland .
Speaker 3Oh .
Speaker 2Yeah , finish .
Speaker 3Oh , they're finished .
Speaker 2Okay , what's not my genre .
Speaker 3And I know bluegrass is not your genre .
Speaker 2I don't mind bluegrass . I probably don't know who they are , but I don't mind bluegrass music .
Speaker 3There's a band that I would like to bring up in a couple of weeks or something .
Speaker 2We talk about all kinds of music .
Speaker 3Oh yeah . We of music , oh yeah we do , except for Taylor Swift .
Speaker 2Yeah , well , that is a genre .
Speaker 3That's a genre in itself . It's called shit music .
Speaker 2But again all kidding aside , she's making money . Gotta give her credit .
Speaker 3No .
Speaker 2There's a lot of idiots .
Speaker 3No , no , exactly . Let's give a lot of idiots credit for having more money than sense yeah , okay , we can do that , that . Yeah , because she didn't do anything but get up there and crap can't both be true , yeah no , ever open your garbage can after a night of chinese food and it stinks . It's got that freaky smell and , yeah , that's what it sounds like listening to a Taylor Swift album .
Speaker 2Not bad huh .
Speaker 3Oh God , Anyway Shake it off . Yeah , let's just move on .
Speaker 2Yeah , let's move on .
Speaker 3Yeah , I don't want to give her any more time .
Speaker 2I was looking up some stupid stuff today .
Speaker 3Taylor Swift . I thought we were quitting on this .
Speaker 2Yeah , I'm moving in a different direction from her .
Speaker 3Oh .
Speaker 2Oh , oh , this isn't probably has done .
Speaker 3Other stupid stuff . Okay , go ahead .
Speaker 2I'm just looking at humorous news stories in the US this week .
Speaker 3Is there any humor in the news ?
Speaker 2They're pretty funny . I mean this is funny . I find it amusing . Some guy got pulled over for speeding in Florida .
Speaker 3Yeah , why would you want to be going ?
Speaker 2past there . As the cop goes up , he hands him a get out of jail free card from Monopoly .
Speaker 3The cop did .
Speaker 2He gave the cop that . It says while the officer had a good laugh . It didn't stop from issuing a ticket .
Speaker 3Well , of course not .
Speaker 2Now you lost your card too . Yeah see , and then there was a squirrel that stole a package delivery . A doorbell camera in a neighborhood captured a squirrel snatching a package from someone's porch .
Speaker 3Yeah , it was probably from nutties .
Speaker 2Well , the ordered nuts , what does he expect ? The homeowner was left scratching their head when they found their missing package high up in a tree , thanks to the furry thief . I didn't say fuzzy .
Speaker 3No , but I thought you said something about a homo earlier .
Speaker 2No , no , no , homeowner . Oh , one of those . I was going to say that could be a homo , I don't know .
Speaker 3Yeah , nowadays it could be .
Speaker 2Tom , this sounds like something for you City home . I don't know . Yeah , nowadays it could be , Tom , this sounds like something for you City . No Pants Day causes confusion . I was confused about that . A small town in Texas celebrated its annual no Pants Day , where locals walk around in their underwear to promote freedom and self-expression . However , several out-of-towners were quite confused and even called the police , thinking there was some sort of an emergency . People are walking around in their underwear . Is this an emergency ?
Speaker 3Yes , Somebody shot off a missile that only takes your pants off First of all .
Speaker 2I see people walking around in their underwear . I'm not going . This is an emergency . I'd be like what the F is wrong with these ?
Speaker 3people . Maybe all of our pants are on fire . We gotta get rid of them , oh they have drones that deliver pizza now .
Speaker 2Yeah , this one went to the wrong address . What the hell . And it got held hostage A drone did In California . A drone delivering pizza mistakenly dropped the order at the wrong house . The residents decided to have some fun by holding the drone hostage until the pizza company offered them a free meal .
Speaker 3Yeah , bring us a pizza . Well , we just did . I kind of like that , yeah that's all I could find for stupid , I mean everything else , wasn't it ?
Speaker 2I think everything else was stupid , but it's like no , that doesn't sound so stupid .
Speaker 3Here's what I think is stupid . What's's stupid Drones delivering your medications .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 3That is dumb . Wait a minute , wrong address . Unless we live next door to a guy who just got hit by a truck and they're going to drop a bunch of Percocet , that'd be all right . I'll leave a flag out for you where to park .
Speaker 2Maybe they'll drop a couple of blue pills off at your house . No , I don't need those .
Speaker 3You sure . I'm positive .
Speaker 2Hey , four hours , five hours of fun though .
Speaker 3No , no , no . Yeah , that's not fun .
Speaker 2There's about 30 seconds of fun , and then the rest of the time you're laying awake wondering what am I going to do with ?
Speaker 3this ? What am I going to do with this ? Come on man , let's be real has it been four hours yet ?
Speaker 2why do you keep asking ? I gotta call the doctor I've seen alice .
Speaker 3I'm in trouble oh shit could be , big , big problems . Yeah , let's well , yeah , yeah , yeah , big , big problems big problems yeah , but grandma took it the hardest .
Speaker 2Well , it's good to be back this week , tom . It really is . Hopefully we won't delay again yeah , things come up still working on the new podcast folks yeah , hang in there , we are you can tell this one we're taking a little more serious . Yep , yep , this is our fun . This is our release here on this podcast .
Speaker 3We're enjoying it and Hope that you are . And when you guys have suggestions , we hope you .
Speaker 2Yes , don't be afraid . Again , you can text us messages . We don't know who you are .
Speaker 3Not to mention , we're getting ready to put up a webpage .
Speaker 2This is true A webpage is starting up that's ready to put up a web page . This is true A web page is starting up .
Speaker 3That's going to open up a lot of doors for you all .
Speaker 2We have a lot of things going on down there .
Speaker 3That's to come later .
Speaker 2We'll post a couple little videos of certain things , but anyway , there , you go Folks , listen to us on Spotify , Deezer , iHeart , Amazon , many more Player FM . We have a Facebook group page . That's the Alternative Podcast . That's the Facebook group page . Check it out . And again , our website should be up and running , probably within this week , hopefully , yeah let's shoot for that .
Speaker 3But , mike , I had a good time . Me too , tom , and we'll see you the next time and always thank God for the gift of gas .
Speaker 2Amen , tom , take care everyone , God bless and that's a wrap for today's episode .
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