Garza Podcast - 141 - SOLO EP: Quad Cortex Journey, Voting & Raccoon Altercation

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

In this solo episode. Garza talks taking guitar lessons, being face to face with a transgender raccoon, his secret Muay Thai life & much more! CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE FROM SWEETWATER & SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://imp.i114863.net/rnrmVB CHAPTERS: 00:00 Quad Cortex 13:24 Racoon Altercation 26:00 How Garza Started Playing Guitar 37:53 Can New Bands Make a Living Playing Music 41:54 Muay Thai 54:17 Can Bands Pay to Be on the Podcast? 57:57 Favorite Korn Album After Issues/1999 01:04:27 Must Have Non Music Gear For Tour 01:12:00 Jehovah Witnesses & Mormons 01:15:23 The Shawn Ryan Show, Donald Trump & Voting 01:22:48 Oasis Tickets 01:24:51 Green Day & Garza Shooter Scare 01:29:13 Metalcore AI

What's up, everyone? Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. I know you all listen to this at any time during the day. What I do this week? It was a pretty uneventful week, to be real. Mentally, I've been saying no a lot as far as going out and choosing wisely when to do things. I think we all do that when we get older, but basically just been hanging out with. Ernie a bit trying to get some drum tones this fucking e-kit dude is piss me off It's trying it's you'll be surprised how hard it is just to get like a snare tone because the one that Pacificly I want It's a it's a piccolo but to get the highest Because all the snares are dope There's a lot of I mean there's endless like dope soundy stuff. I mean there's endless like dope soundy stuff snares, but they're all like, this, I don't know, how do you explain it?

Like, deep sounding? But I have, it's getting that, like, the, the, just getting like the crack that's in my mind to come out of that fucking, that stupid little mesh, that little mesh pad, a stupid little mesh pad. It's been, it's literally been pissed me off the past, like, two weeks. But, uh, we are closer. I think today will probably, we'll probably, we'll probably. finish it.

Kit does sound good. I mean, if you have an E-Kit, you know what I'm talking about. They're fun to play. We got Ernie a really good one a few months ago. We found a good kick sound, and the stock sounds are pretty sick,

but we just been doing that. I dove into the... Since we did this last, I did dive into... Should I say it? No, we're not. Been doing more diving. in,

diving in to the unknown, which is the ocean of the quad cortex. It's pretty cool. Anything that, anything that's anything that I can use, you did it right. It's like, it's like the,

the apple of whatever you would call this thing. It's, uh, I like turning, I like turning something on. I think we all do. Turn something on. and be able to easily navigate it. That's what Apple really did.

You take something very complicated, and you make it accessible for idiots like me to use it. That's what you do. Apple did it right, and then they transferred that to, what was the program? Garage band. I remember sitting in the back of the van. Mark was the first dude in our band to get a MacBook.

It was like, I think they were white before, right? I think they're like, I'm not sure. I don't remember exactly what generation it was, but it was like a white one. Like when like, the great ones were more like advanced. But like, yeah, what year does come out? Like when you go like, when like the public could buy like a MacBook. Yeah, so that those like white ones.

You remember sitting up in the van? Seamark on a garage band. Not even plugged in. Just, I was like, what is that? It was like, you could record yourself onto a fucking laptop. I think this was a gun on my head, 2006. 2006. And then Alex and myself got MacBooks around the same time.

And, yeah, be able to open something so complicated. And then me not knowing nothing about recording music or recording anything. Yeah, they really got it down, garage band. That's what we used to use being Alex would jam in the garage and just record jammed. I'm like, damn, it's the fact that I even know how to do this. So they really, they really, and then our logic did that as well. You know, very user-friendly. you could use logic for a ton of bleed

so oh shit it's a professional but also a dumb ass could use it and that's very important that's very important so yeah uh the the old quad cortex is kind of in it's it's in that same umbrella it's the same world which is really fucking cool so you could kind of it's like this like touchscreen what would you call that interface like a touchscreen interface and um and like the the fucking uh

like the the taco switches you could you could even switch them for like levels I'm like oh it's a really cool concept but I don't know what they're like on the road yet you know I've heard two sides I've heard they're sick and I've heard they break so I won't want to know until we uh

until we go out there but I am digging it and so when I did my diving in, which is pretty much what I did the past, well, since we were here last, if you get one, you get a free plugin. Which to be real, I don't like the whole, although most of the plugins on this website aren't even compatible with this unit. wasn't too stoked on that but one that is Mark told me to use the Gorgero preset I'm like okay

I believe that's a 51 53 we're getting really geeky already in the first 10 minutes but that's that this is what's happening today yeah I sat down and did the boring stuff you got to register

and type in only stupid number and finally got it I was okay and then quick trip to YouTube how do you put a preset on the quad cortex

and very very simple very simple if I could I always gauge things by if I could figure it out anyone could really figure it out and I was pretty quick

the process from going on my computer getting the registration down the numbers and figuring out that was under getting actually on the quad cortex and plugging

in and playing through an amp that process was I think an hour or less so that's that's pretty impressive but yeah plug uh anyway plug a damn thing in uh I have it running

through uh a power amp and these power amps dude they're just like the little like I don't know what you would compare it to like little like these little boxes Like the I got the

Me and Mark have the Seymour Duncan power stages That's what's people have been using out there And I like that one The power stage 200 I like that one because It has two Speaker outputs And I don't know what it is about me

But I need two cabinets going I don't know I tried one I don't like one But so I got that one Because it has two outputs And Very easy Without knowing shit

I plugged the cable from the out The Quad the cortex the input of the power app and plugged the cabs like I would a tube amp and yeah we were we were cooking and I noticed difference right away

it was a great starting point so if you're like myself and you are thinking about going into this world the app modelers I would definitely start there the Gorgiero is a good one

without I'm trying not to get like even into the next subject because you gotta split your channels and because if you want if you go through the power ramp you got to turn the cap sim

off on the quad cortex to get like the actual it's actually okay it sounds like oh well it's a chugging and like okay it sounds like

this sounds like I'm going through an amp I could see I could see this is going to take some time to really dial in there's probably little tricks here and there but I heard and I felt that this there's potential here and I just need to be patient and let my ears adjust and my body adjust my emotions to give this thing a chance I know this little like little tricks and then there's also capturing your my own amp I have a 51 52 in the in the

in the room. That's probably what I'm going to be using. But for now, just to get things going and jamming. I got it ready just basically right. So that's cool. That's the most important part. Basically what we've been doing. Long story short, I've been running for 10 minutes already about nothing. Sorry. I'm still needed this thing. But basically, just trying to, I'm just trying to walk into this fucking garage and jam. Just walk in, nothing else to do, no cables, no testing, no nothing, just press record.

But we're pretty close. We're very close. And I should be meeting with Ernie at some point today. I think you got a few more standard samples and we're going to make a final decision today. And hopefully we'll get to a point where we're just going to walk in and play by next week. Let's see right now. It's Thursday, September 15th. You're obviously listening to this on a Monday.

So yeah, mid-September It's looking like Should I say this? Oh no A few months ago I had this like Sometimes you just had thoughts That this pop up in

In your brain And I had this one This one thought that popped up It's also what I named my This is This is what I named my Trello My organizational app Because you could

You can make like What we're talking about this the last episode but how you could you could pick subjects and then you put notes on those subjects like you know podcast not the band I have personal stuff and

but you actually name the actual Trello and I need your mind welcome to hell that's exactly what it is it's fucking hell and I wrote that down on a piece of paper I don't know what just something that's made me

this came to me like just walk from the hell. I was like, hmm, kind of just, I don't know why, it's kind of stuck. It's kind of stuck the past,

since I brought it down a few months ago. I don't know, I'm just ready, like I told you, well, like I mentioned on the last one,

you know, I'm going to handle, process and handle things in real time and, I think, you know, we're all,

you're all going to be a part of the journey and I appreciate you even care to be a part of, heart of dream but yeah i'm just say what's on my mind um but uh yeah i've been definitely dreading is that the word i'm even trying to use dreading so i know once i fucking just sit down and i just know once it's really time to start fucking diving in writing i know it's not

gonna be it's gonna be it's gonna be fun it's gonna be fun just know what when i got to do mentally so it's like i'm looking forward to it but also postponing it as far as i can i just know once I start it's just I'm going to be in that emotional state until it's done but uh yeah that's pretty much what I've been doing the past a couple weeks so it's just been going good um what else so okay I'll I'll say this and then we'll go into some some questions we have prepped up here but I am I'm having I'm having issues use with this. Actually, no, before I go in, let me take a sip of this quick slammer.

Real quick, some quick slammer. Okay, sorry. The raccoon disappeared for a couple weeks. And then the raccoon is back. It does not give a fuck. This raccoon is pissing me off. It's, again, I don't, this base on its actions, I don't know if it's like

I don't know if it's a girl or a guy and I don't want to offend any raccoons so I'm just going to call this a transgender raccoon just to play it safe is that playing a safe Jay it's a transgender raccoon just based on its actions

it's like it looks could be non-binary raccoon or a transgender raccoon I don't know but just on its actions like it's it looks so cute but it's it's punking me so anyway

um it started yesterday the first time I've seen this raccoon since the first solo episode and uh so shit I talked about it and now it's gone and then

yesterday I woke up at 4.30 a.m. You know I always wake up me once I'm up or Leo gets up the same time time it starts meowing as we we walk in the hall together it's kind of cool I try to uh savor um be present in those little moments because I know he's not going to be around forever so uh yeah so we're up at the same time once he sees he sees me wake up where he hears the alarm we walk in the halls and start to feed him first and then the coffee and then when the coffee is going I like to let him go outside that says outside

time get them outside for a good at least a good 30 minutes and I open up the screen door so at this point we're talking 435 a.m. technically pre-coffee which I'm dangerous if I'm pre-coffee I'm dangerous I think I think I think we all are do not fucking talk to me don't I won't talk to you I get it get your start your day So anyway, so the water, so I had the water heater. Because I do, I use a French press kind of, it's kind of like my morning thing. Like I need, I need the grind. Speaking of the coffee, I use these, our own podcast coffee.

You know, I put it in the grinder. It's literally fucking fresh. And I put that into the French press and I had the water kettle going. Water boiler, whatever that glass fucking thing is. You know, you know what I'm saying. So I turned. on the water kettle thing and and then

I open up the screen to let Leo out and he's not going outside he's like having that's a weird look I'm like that's strange and this fucking thing this animal this creature tries to walk in the house

and this is I'm pre-coffee I see a fucking transgender raccoon I'll okay and so but this is it's trying to go in the house, but there's also Leo, so I pushed Leo out,

and then I kind of slightly chase the raccoon a little bit further from the door. And then at this point, okay, now I did test the raccoon the first time with the chair. So now, okay, all right, I tried the chair. Didn't work. Let me try this. I get a broom.

I haven't had coffee yet. And I'm pissed. So I get the broom And someone's last time I'm like Fucking So now we're Now we're having a fiscal

Artication Man this just shoe him He just this won't He keeps he's This raccoon's Punking me So I literally I do have to shove the raccoon

With the broom So I kind of Do this And nothing This nothing I'm okay Now we're at a point Are those fraccoon bites

Jay? Oh fuck Jay's pulling up raccoon bites This is gonna be a me in like Three weeks from now That's brutal Oh that sucks dude Is that a dog

Raccoon attack leaves Vancouver woman dogs covered And bite marks Fuck If this raccoon bit ill I will probably kill it Anyway yeah so I I was under age

Sometimes you need to You do need to be aggressive That's what I learned in age. So I literally shove this raccoon with the broom just to kind of let it realize, hey, I mean business. I mean business. And okay, goes away a little bit and comes right back. I'm like, oh, fuck. Okay, so, you know, I don't want to, you know, all right, I'm going to go back in a kitchen.

At least make some copy. I close the door, let Leo just look outside the screen and, you know. you know, Garza, bullies, transgender raccoon. It's not exactly a headline I want on a Tuesday, which I'm sure you can understand that. But, yeah, I had the coffee that let, and then I go out, I still go outside because I like drinking coffee outside.

When it's, there's, there's something about being outside in the summertime. There's just something about it. That's my favorite part about the summer, the nights and the mornings, and it's peaceful, just don't like, I don't know, you could, puts you in some kind of a

some kind of state some mental emotional state there's no like what do you call that noise noise pollution I guess you could say there's nothing there's no phone

there's no nothing it's just stars and sun's not even coming up yet it's not even so yeah I'm not gonna let this raccoon ruin my morning

so yeah I just drink coffee and I'm just kind of sitting there and just looking at this raccoon and this is and I think the raccoon likes to go because we have a pool in the backyard so it's just

so there's water literally everywhere and it's like I can see it washing his hands in front of me and like sitting around and then this is the part that really pissed me off and whenever I need music gear

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fucking eh like he kind of like that trying to find it's like there's like a lazy fucking yeah the up right right right right right

right boom okay that's this is how that raccoon's sitting this like and this

raccoons looking at me like what are you going to do I just no care I'm like okay I'm just going to accept it and eventually the

raccoon went up the fence and I took Leo out for a good 10 minutes but man this raccoon is not care and then same day came out

I'm letting Leo outside and came out around 7 even earlier this time same as wants to go up by the pool and I had to grab Leo and kind of put him outside and and yeah

that's how that's how the physical altercation ended but I saw it again this morning work up at 5 and yeah because now I kind of have to patrol like the vicinity

C-Vs even out there and I'm talking about a raccoon for the past 10 minutes I need to stop All right I'm gonna close it off But Yeah I went out

And it's doing the same shit Just around the pool Sitting down It's like Looking at me like You're gonna do nothing It's just like the Conn-Gregor Of raccoons

And yeah So it's kind of the same thing happened this drink of coffee and kind of waited for this raccoon to leave and took Leo out for a little bit. But what's there, I guess, to really man fights off crazy raccoon? I wonder, okay, so we're really going to close it off now. What is their history? Like, why they like that? Like, there's like there's no fear, like, no nothing.

Like, do they have predators around here? Or, like, it's just, where do raccoons come? from first originated in Europe about this can't be real 25 million years ago okay next question how old are they really 25 million years old that can't be real well that would explain it but still there has to be like a how old are raccoons I'm kind of looking we just how old now now I'm just curious our raccoons okay there we go how long they've been see I said How long a record has been around? It says 25 million years.

Okay. So apparently for 25 million years, they had not been giving a fuck. So I guess that's a good. They're entitled. I felt a sense of entitlement. It's like, yeah, it's like, yeah, this is my backyard.

This is my pole. Fuck it. Well, we'll see what the future holds. But, um, yeah, I just don't know how to act around it. Like, I just don't know, like, if I should be cool with it or let Leo out. Because, I mean, because the day is so limited.

So, like, Leo, he has to go out in the morning. That's, like, his time. And, uh, unless he freaks out. Dude, raccoon just look fucking crazy. Man, they look, they look so cute. How long have we been talking about raccoons? My goodness. Anyway, done.

Yeah, let's, uh, thank you for listening to my raccoon rant. This is basically, that was, that's been my last two weeks. dealing with drummers and dealing with raccoons so that's been pretty eventful let's hop into some I think we ask some questions I have a couple

we have a few video ones and written ones which I appreciate you all sending yeah what's the how's the volume J is good yep I'm ready let's go ahead to some questions which who's what's the username here

Ron Ron so I just pick Run. Run. Metal's response. Cool. Let's do it.

Hey, how's it going? So I just picked up my very first guitar or not too long ago. So I guess my question to you would be after all years of playing, what's your advice

for a new guitar player? Where do you think they should start and what do you think the main things are to learn the beginning and in your quest what do you wish you would have done differently at the beginning?

Thanks again, man. Take care. Cool. Yeah, run dot metal. I appreciate your question. Thank you. It's cool. You're starting your journey.

I think guitar is interesting. Guitar's are interesting. They're like books too. Like just even if you don't play guitar, I mean, I think it benefits everyone just having one around. Even if you don't even ever play, just put it up on a stand light like this, kind of keep it in the corner of your house,

just being around it. It's like an art piece. seeing my books is like something about like the history of them it's kind of it's a good vibe in your your living space but um yeah it's cool you're starting your journey and it kind of ties into what we're talking about i think we all kind of covered something like this like how do you start right

how do you start playing guitar that's a that's a pretty fascinating concept how do you start playing guitar well I don't know I just know what I did You know I could share that But uh You know

At the risk of sounding Um cliche But uh There is no wrong way to start I mean I mean as as humans You're just

We're just programmed A certain way And like And um I guess another one of those moments Where I'm just gonna share an experience And we could just go from there you had no wrong way to do it and they just just

you're programmed to like your first your thoughts go kind of somewhere and then it's like oh well I don't have to do that like okay I need lessons I need to take lessons or I need to or I need to learn how to read music learn this song and that kind of stuff and

I did that for like the first I had a guitar teacher for the first year and basically what he taught me I went to Alta Lama music in Corona, California back when they were on Main Street. They had two locations and he was a cool guy.

Yeah, about the music book for like guitar, what was it? It was a guitar for beginners kind of books, you know, classic you know, music, small music shop. and, you know, learning, like, learning Mary had a little lamb, like the, on the high e, you know, stuff,

stuff like that. This, he would teach me just how to get my fingers going. And then, you know, it was also for my parents, you know, I want the guitar. You know, my dad got me the guitar. Like, hey, you need lessons. And, like, okay, sure. Like, not really knowing.

But yeah, he will give me homework, hey, learn, like, like, the scale. And learn this song. Learned Mary, how to, a little lamb. I'll go, okay, on a high E and a B. It's a B, right? Is this a B? Right? Okay. Um, and then, uh, I wouldn't learn it. I wouldn't learn it. And then, right before we went, like, we took lessons at 7 p.m. I crazy, I remember that. Wow. That's one thing I do like about these solo episodes.

My memory has been getting better. It's kind of been freaky. Like, I've been, my chain linking has been really getting better. So yeah, went there on 7 p.m. Probably around 5 p.m. or 6, right before we're going to leave. I would try to learn it by heart because I couldn't read it. So I was trying to learn the fucking notes by heart. And it kind of make them believe, like I was reading the music off the book. But actually, I was just playing what I kind of memorized.

And obviously, you knew. We're stupid little kids thinking that the teachers don't know when they know exactly what's going on. And then he would, after the lesson's over, he would, you know, talk to my parents. And, you know, he needs to, you know, he needs to do his homework. You know, and I don't, you know, I don't like homework. I didn't do homework in high school or any time. But he did help. He kind of helped me, he helped me just get my fingers moving.

This knowing how to fucking, some kind of a strum and my fingers are moving. They're now like my fingers are on the fretboard And I'm a guitar pick of my hand And my fingers I'm strumming and I'm moving my fingers He really did, that did help So when I went home and Jacked off and

Tune my guitar to who knows what the fuck I was doing Oh and he also basically took my guitar Because I was basically I would do the lesson Go home And drop tune it to who knows It could have been drop B, it could have been G A I don't know I didn't

have a tuner. So I was just kind of just drop it to whatever is low and sound of fucking sick. And then I'll get trying to tune him back up. And then he would just retune it to a standard E. So he helped with that. And every once in a while

he'll let me bring in songs. I remember one time I brought in a the first stain record just dropped. And I had him teach me a mud shovel. And it's funny. That's That's a vivid memory, man. Him teaching me mud shovel and, uh, wow.

It's kind of funny now because he was an E and he said, okay, maybe I learned drop tuning from him. Hmm. Interesting. And, uh, he would basically drop his guitar to D. And obviously, it's not what stain is tuned to. They're tuning way fucking lower than that. And, um, yeah, it was, it was, it was a, it was a, cool experience. So yeah, so that's my experience

with starting. I think everyone is different. It's not right or wrong way to do it. I know this sounds you know, sounds overly simple and cliche, but I guess what kept me consistent is this, uh, learning songs that you want to learn.

That's, that's kind of like that's kind of a cheat code for, which I still use today. Like, I did it back then as a stupid little child and to now, I like you. When you're learning a song, you are practicing and you forget that when you're learning a song you just want to learn and you learn to play it really good like shit you're just you're practicing you're put it in time

how i mean think about it how long is it take for you learning a song for me i think i've done i've time myself a couple times where learning like a fucking learning like a slip-mouth song or like a system of a down song or like like like metallic a song like like like or what have you So, okay, oh shit, like a hour passed. A hour just flew by. And so that's my experience with that. You are learning. Like, that's, you're practicing without knowing that you're practicing.

And that's pretty fucking sick. Anyway, I'm trying to go on in the... It's all I'm trying to do is not going on rants. But anyway, there's... So that's part of your question. Next part is, you know, it's always... It's hard. There's...

You know, what were you done differently? It's really hard. It's just funny looking back at, when you look back at the past, and you try to look at it objectively and not feel the emotions of all those failures. You know, like, you're just looking at it at this soul just to learn.

And I'm trying to let, damn, I, you know, so easy to go on to, I wish, or would have, could have, should have. You know, it's very easy for me to go into that, I don't, I'm on how bad the mistake was. And, you know, we, suezance has made a lot of mistakes, a lot. A lot of bad ones.

So look back, man, it's like, but then again, I don't know if I ever thought about, like, what mistakes did I make when I was a kid, though, as far as, like, plain? I think I wish, uh, maybe I stuck to my guns more. I think I would have wanted to collab more. Because you could write songs with your band and not collab. So that's like the interesting thing about trying to figure out of how to explain that better.

Because, yeah, playing the guitar is this, there's learning a song, but there's things you do that have nothing, that have everything to do with practicing, but has nothing to do with playing. So you go into a show has everything to do with you practicing. you going out with your friends or you're in band with that has to do with writing songs you know stuff stuff like that I think uh I just wish I fucking you know one thing I did uh I used to like hold back riffs a lot and I wish I just let it fly out more I just like I used to treat riffs as a scarce fee

as opposed to like a abundant flowing of uh of energy but that's something I did wrong that you it's funny you could write a song in a room with people but not be collabbing and that's interesting that is fucking crazy but again there's no there's no wrong way to learn

or something I wish I did differently with me but yeah just clap more it's hard it's hard to know when when you're a kid

you it's impossible to balance your ego is this ego or is this being open-minded are you just trying to be stern

it's tough man so but good luck hopefully that helps probably not All right Jay, let's go into the Let's pop into the next question

But after the slammer This is a great one, right? Cool Ryan.james dot Carps? Cool Oh, this is gonna start a rant, uh-oh Can new metal bands, not new metal like corn? I mean, can brand new bands make a living

off of today's metal scene. Uh-oh. Yeah. I mean, the short answer is yes. I mean, I'm a firm believer of no matter how, because, I mean, your brain comes, and then you hear it from people that are close to you. I mean, you know, what are the chances?

You know, in my experience, like, no matter how oversaturated something is, it's always possible to break through you know I remember when we were first coming up like heard all I mean heard all out of the gates in high school there's no money in it

records aren't selling that was right at the point where records weren't selling anymore it was like right at that weird like 2006-2007 and you know only a few few bands break out and all other stuff but

I mean new bands are still coming out and fucking getting past that they're just breaking through breaking through and making a lot of money a lot of money if you're trying not to use names but uh uh i can't even i don't even want to say the genre because i'll just give it away okay so you know bands that will come out um hearing you know i'm pretty out there so i hear well this band's getting paid this much you know like you're like what the what? I was like, wow.

I mean, I am so lucky to be, that have this and this is doing what it's doing and the band Suisse is still here and we're doing our thing. Very lucky, man. If I wasn't,

I could have so easily been that bitter dude. I could have so easily been that guy. It was all these bands There's all these new bands coming out. I'm making a bunch of fucking money. But I'm very lucky. I could have been that bitter old guy. But I'm lucky that we're still here.

And I could be happy for him. And now they were helping me. Now they were helping me follow that. You know, we help make, we see what you want about deathcore, but we help make a road. And then now the bands have traveled on an airplane and a fucking, who. And now we could kind of, now they're people on road. and then we can kind of walk that road. It's kind of a crazy circle of life right there.

But, yeah, I mean, who knows where music is going? Who knows, you know, there's always going to be reactionist to music out there. And there's always going to be singing bands that break out. And it's pretty important. And now everyone's combining everything. So who knows who even knows what the style is even going to be? You know, but, yeah, short answer is, yes. they can

and I'm trying to go on a rant with business but if you do come you gotta watch your fucking business you don't want to be like me all right let's go to the next one so cool who's the uh you use your name

oh this is from our this is from our close close friend Nick Bega all right let's I save this one that's rock What got you to train Muay in the first place? Love me Nick

So yeah, he's one of my best friends. He's a really close friend. He's also my Muay trainer. He got me into Muay Thai back in the day. So yeah, what got me into Muay Thai? We were, I thought that the second, it's like 2009. The second record just dropped. I used to jam like Allison Chains' covers,

bands like that with my cousin in his garage. and he was there at playing base, so we connected, stayed in touch since that time, and he would always talk about persistence. You gotta appreciate persistence. And he would always tell me, he should train more tight.

Come train, come train. Years. Like, I'm not training Muay Thai. I'm fucking fat. I'm too busy doing cocaine right now. I'm fucking, I'm too busy at Buffalo Wilde when he's doing 10 shots of day here. I'm too busy.

And trying to write songs that suck. But, yeah, but, unfortunately, you're talking, he did it for years. You know, that's why I do always subconsciously love Nick. He is always there. He's always helped me move. He helped me move from my parents' house to Riverside, from Riverside to Venice Beach, from Venice Beach back to my parents' house. Whenever we moved to studio, he was there.

Like, he was, he's a really good friend. And, yeah, anyways, the time happened, you know, the tragedy happened with Mitch. And, um, the future was, it's in exactly certain. So, yeah, we're talking like, 20, yeah, so late, yeah, early 27, I had time. I had time and, uh, I had all this, you know, I learned then like, oh, shit, like, like the whole like plain plain shows that was a

you know I took it for granted like shit that was like an outlet we fucking went hard it was like a therapy outlet rocking out head banging hard as fuck

it was and then it was gone it was gone and um so I needed to like what do you say exert a lot of energy um

and uh I'm a very like fuck it guy like one day I'll be this way and then the next morning I'll wake up and it's fucking let's go and again I've been thought about this

in a while chain linking these things are just so worth it to me just for the chain linking factor um what happened was man a couple months I've already passed

and it was like it was really like it was over like yeah I was engaged and then the night before It was over. It was truly, truly over. And it was, okay, you know, woke up, you know, okay, I'm single. Single and, you know, this isn't the first time I've done this where you could take a heartbreak and turn into a...

I really started going to gym. And then that morning, I woke up and I called him and said, yeah, let's fucking train. It's it. There's no... Boom, let's just fucking go. Yeah, I went. I was so scared, man. And this was in that Team Quest.

At the time, was it Elsinian at the time? Or Temecula still? Team Quest, if we don't know, it was a very respected gym. So I kind of went into, like, the Lions Den. And, yeah, I got the gloves. And also, I had it in because with him and the trainer. the boyntai coach there i i met his son and he was a fan so that was kind of like my end and anyway i went there signed the fucking waiver and i was terrified i was

you know so i started training and then i got i liked it and um found since i didn't have the show i didn't have the touring anymore i started going just being consistent and the coach which I took for granted even then I don't even talk about this with my band so it's kind of interesting talking about it for the first time in front of a camera it's strange

but I don't even talk about it with my band but oh it's lucky and it's crazy because we all have access to this shit we all have access to this and um see a team quest moved from the small building and they got opened up Dan Henderson fitness center.

It's basically Team Quest but it's his spot and that's in Temecula and Coach Daniel and

it was fucking crazy dude I was getting top-nosh training for 80 bucks a month like do you like

to do the classes coach Daniel Warren he was from France he's a France kickboxing coach and he came from I believe called Black House in LA

Sorry for all the crazy U.S.C. fans that know that history But I'm saying it's... I'm not saying this to brag. It's just telling the story. This is what I had access to. It's like he... At the time he was training Anderson Silva, which at the time was being known to be one of the greatest fighters on the planet at the time.

So it's weird. It was crazy training with the coach. and then Washington UFC seeing Anderson Zilba headline and seeing like you see you know how like they had their team walk out

and coaches like it's like oh shit there's fucking there is there is Coach Daniel I was like fuck I just have very patient man

very I didn't know shit about anything I mean and of course as I said before I'd never been in a fight before so he really helped Nick and Coach Daniel

really helped me get confidence to me how to fucking basically I just, you know, train Muay Thai. When I had a punch and kick and do all that shit and humbled and

it was like a, yeah, this was a weird mix of being humbled and confidence at the same time. It really gave me a lot of confidence. And it got so extreme. I was going like going once a week, maybe even more. And again, we don't have shows booked.

I don't have shows. It was like, there was a hot second. There was a hot second. where I considered fighting so imagine like a 27 year old

you know middle kid I thought about it for a hot second like there is co-channel fucking legend dude and

I thought about you know what I should do a fight I should just fucking do a fight man it'll be sick you know I didn't have an outlet anymore I couldn't go on tour

and fucking headband and meet people and do all these things that I didn't know. I really enjoyed doing and helped. And, but luckily, we got Eddie, and that whole process started, and I never did. Thank God. I don't know. I don't know. No, I need any of my hands in my fingers.

I really need that shit. But yeah, that's why I got it into Muay Thai. And I went and then it got really hard to stay consistent with it. Then we started touring and I got away from me. I took it back up a couple months ago with Nick. So I'm trying to get back into it consistently. But yeah, that shit really helps with your focus and confidence. And I'm really lucky, like, just luck at the draw.

I just knew Nick and the coach. And I happen to get top-mouse training. Like right out of the gates. So talk about not wasting time. you know, learn, like, the basics, you know, it's, it when you learn that stuff, when you learn that kind of shit, like training,

the last thing you want to do is use it. It does something happen to your brain? Like, the last thing you want to do is get into any, anything at the bar, like nothing. We, we can go on tour, like things happen.

Man, this is one time. This is recent. It's probably the last tour we did. Where we were in London. I won't say, I don't think you can say their name, but we're hanging out with, not this name dropper sounds scummy,

but just trying to tell a story is hanging out with a bass player for a sleep token, and we're fucking getting hammered, and we're trying to get, we're doing slammers, just slammer here, slammer there, you know. And then we're trying to get into this one pub, and this guy, I started like, he's,

you know, exactly what you expect. A drunk, Englishman walks out of the bar and then uh you know kind of gives like marked like a dirty look kind of said something dumb and then basically what I did was I I mocked him to show that hey I'm this is my homie the only person I could talk shit to Mark is me that's it the only people that could talk shit to them is me or about them as me um then he asked me what's your problem? And keep in mind, I'm, I am drunk.

There's slammers just run into my veins. And there's no emotion. There was no, no urge, no nothing. It's just, I told him my problem. I was like, my problem is I eat pizza and it goes to my stomach. And that's, I told him, I was honest with him. I was like, that's a problem I have. I eat pizza.

I don't get ripped. I just diffused any kind of weird energy. There's just no... And when you go to the gym and you train, you get out all that stupid bullshit, all that primal shit out of your body. And I definitely owe that to Nick and Moytai. The last thing I want to do is get to...

Any fight. It's just... Well, I kind of know how to do this. It'll be kind of... But I hope I never get to use it. But yeah, that's why I got to... I'm why I'm why I'm talking. Nick again, thank you, man, for being a good friend.

Let's do the next one. See, what's the, what I've written one? Oh, dude, this is a, what a cool name. Desert Slams A-Z. Desert Slammed A-Z, okay, I take you listen to Slam and you live in Arizona. I should have ate before. I did this podcast. It's really stupid.

Would you interview starting bands if they paid to go to you. Hmm. No. No, anything that involves money, I've been very careful. I've been very, very careful. Even sponsors or anything I'm associated with, I have to be associated with it.

I have to love it. So, yeah, I chose not to do any, like, spots where like um how do you I'm trying to talk shit right now to be honest I just

yeah I just don't it's just not a part of the show so I'm not gonna throw something in there if I don't believe it you know it'll probably be a band I don't like right it's probably not to be honest so uh

if it's not it doesn't add a value to the show or the podcast or the conversation I'm not can do it at least like the sponsors, I either use it, I drink it, I play it,

and they help at least keep the lights on here and you support them, and I see value in it, but if it's a ban, it's funny. Like now, I mean, it's getting weird right now with, with guests.

Like, I really don't care. It's just, I have to be genuinely interested. If I'm not interested, I'm not gonna, I just don't care. Anything I had to do with money or even like, I've always looked at things long term.

And I'm still very much that way. But I'll say that rant for it at the end of the day. But long, long story short, yeah, I'm not going to. The band would have to be so sick. And even if the band's that sick, then they would just be on the podcast. So there's that. Desert Slams, A.C. I appreciate your question.

And I take you live in Arizona. So good look out there in the summer heat, my friend. Cool. Next, Alex Diaz 6991. Let's do it. This is Alex, big fan of the podcast, been listening for a while. Sick. I want to know from you as a big new metal fan and big fan of corn what your favorite album of theirs is after issues in 1999.

Because all those albums that came out in the 2000s years and after, those are kind of, you know, the album. that introduce me to new metal and I want to know what your favorite album of theirs is that you think really holds up after you know 1999 from that begins with a 2000 something. That's good.

See, it's funny, there's always a creative way to ask the question. You know, everyone asks what's your favorite corn record? But that's a very, there's always a spin that you could put on it, which is cool. I mean, untouchables does

yeah corn's last record with that lineup that was this magic it was uh touchables just sonically what they accomplished just sonically it's like I heard you got like custom gear just to fucking make it give it that sonic fucking low one at a time where it wasn't around now it's like every band could do that

but uh at the time you know they they were really pushing you know sonic boundaries you know hit or stay that's one like heaviest riffs I think still I mean that Riff is fucking sick, dude. And shout out to you, Michael Bynhorn.

This is a team that just made sense. Something that's just fucking work. That would be my favorite corn record. So this one came out right after issues. And I recently met Michael Bynhorn. About six months ago. I can't see where, because now really sound like I'm named dropping. But it's funny.

I walked in, let's just say I walk into a room. And I forgot who was even in the room I saw him like oh shit Like just that I haven't I never seen him before I was oh shit it's Michael Bynor Holy fuck That's cool I was asking questions about music

And how to record it was fucking cool It was really cool guy Very very very Interesting but yet Untouchables really pushed the boundaries You know as an artist You know it's just really cool to see You know

Other artists really Try to get out what they're trying to get out which is surprisingly very difficult. Another song I love of that record is Hollow Life. I think it's track three.

I remember jamming that song a lot. There's like this Tom part and the bridge like this what you call it bridge or a chorus but this is Tom part and no one plays Tom's like David. Just like the heaviness of it

there's just something like just fucking to your this hits your gut straight to your choral Like, what is this heavy fucking tombs? Yeah, Hall of Life, that song's fucking sick. You want to check it out. Like, the Tom part is really fucking heavy shit.

What is on that record? Thoughtless. Great, it's a great hit. Great riffs. I don't know there's other songs. There's something I'm not thinking about. Yeah, anyway, that record's fucking sick. I want to say one more thing about that record, but man,

Oh, hollow life. What else I was going to say? Oh, bum, hit me. This is what happens when you eat healthy. Thank God for, uh, for beets and spinach. Remember they did like some, like some behind-the-scenes videos they were posting, which I always,

which we always love seeing like studio stuff. The rifts they had? I'm like, why didn't they use them? That fucking pisses me off. Like, sick ass, fucking riffs they had. I was like, man, where's that riff? On the record.

But I, I get it, man. I get it. Sometimes it doesn't fit. Or something you have, sometimes that, yeah, it's a corn countdown.

You know what, dude? Are we gonna try to find it? You could probably tell that, so they're in a room jamming. I have to find it. Is there, are there in parts?

No. I would, I really want you all to hear this riff. I don't care it's boring for all of you. We have to find this fucking riff now. Uh, see, keep going, keep going on. Nope, more and more. It's probably more towards the beginning.

More towards the beginning. One week later, no, no, no, no. Try that. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Uh, if you got to find this fucking rip, dude. We might not find it.

Fuck, dude. When not, now David's going. gone. Well, they, well, they, they, they had it in parts. But this is one big fucking someone combined at all. Man, where's that fucking, where's, come on, man. You know, keep going, keep going. They're actually in the room jamming. Oh yeah, yeah, go. Oh, yeah, go. Oh, yep, yep. I think.

Yep, found it. Go back. No, yeah, start, start, start that riff. This riff, why isn't they use this fucking riff, dude? Oh, that riff is fucking sick. And that chorus? I will buy that. I will buy that record. Okay, anyway.

Sorry, we probably wasted a little bit of time trying to find it, but I want you guys to hear it. God, why isn't... I get it. Sometimes it just doesn't. Like, you have, like, this... You have this seed, like this idea,

and then it just doesn't... It just doesn't connect with the guys or, like, other riff or the record. I get it, but it would be cool. So once you make a record, where it's just like, it's just riffs. Track one,

riff one. And the track two is riff two. If I can just keep it going. But anyway, but thank you, Alex, for your question, man.

Really, uh, appreciate that. We should probably do, just, uh, just do one more. See,

what do we got? Oh, a username I, I'm struggling to pronounce. El Dostress. Thank you for your question. Uh, what,

gear is a must for the road besides music equipment. I mean, that changes with the era, but, yeah, we really, like, suicide sounds is such a unique band in that way where we really had all, like, the special stuff. We had, we got into it where there was still record selling. We got into it, where there was no, we were going on tour with no cell phones. So we kind of had, like, all, like, the special eras. We were really, really fucking lucky, really lucky to experience stuff like that. And so maybe at some point, and, you know, Mitch was, I mean, you had a kid and was married.

So, like, we would have to find pay phones out there. We'd be on tour trying to find pay phones. There's no fucking pay phones anymore. It was crazy. So right now, the cell phone is really nice, especially now being in a relationship. It's really nice to kind of Text and call whenever you can now. There's face time which is fucking Crazy. So that's fucking wild. Right now most expensive what is the most

What's a what's a must-have piece of gear? Danny for the road soap. Does that count? My first thought is computer. I started bringing my computer on a tour which is a Mac mini Macmini and a I wish there's a picture of it But there's not but you get you got my band You can ask my band you ask bands when I went on the bus and seen my bunk But uh so when someone walks in my bunk is the first row And I picked that back in a day because in case I get blacked out fucking drunk all I got to do is just

Go to the first one and it's rolling it's literally the easiest accessible bunk there is on a on a bandwet I can't order a bus. That's why I picked it back in the day. And I still have it. So if you walk in a, you walk in our transportation, our home, you see where I sleep essentially.

And so I bring the Mac Mini display. You got the wireless keyboard and the mouse. I bring in my SD cards and that was right when the podcast was starting and we're touring. So literally I would just

I set up my yeah, there, boom. So basically you'll imagine that. But imagine a big monitor there and my mac mini i'll basically the bunk turned into the bed turned into my office and i'll edit um podcast thumbnails i would post up sometimes sometimes the bus will be so close to the venue

and you get their wifi oh man that was this it was rare but when it did check an emails uploading podcasts audio photos is always working on podcast stuff. It was basically my workstation, and depending on what show it was, depending on what show it was, man, and I'll sleep with it.

I'll sleep with my monitor in the bunk. I'll sleep at my MacMini in the bunk, my podcast stuff in the bunk. I don't know why I should keep talking about this. These are some of my secrets, but who cares? Wake up sometimes, you know, Depending what, again, depending what show it was, it's, you know, my, just sitting, this setting the stuff up when the fucking bus stopped, hung over, just fucking setting it up and it's working.

Yeah, I'll say right now it's changed to the Mac Mini. It's probably the most important piece of gear. I'm going toward that I really, really need. Yeah, there was a, there's a hot minute where the podcast was, I got lucky. The podcast was taking off. And I was also touring full time. And episodes were coming out every fucking week still. And I was on tour.

I was in the middle of Canada. I was in middle of Europe. I had my fucking Mac Mini just editing stuff that I could. So that was a very, I like that Mac Mini. Because for that reason, you have, you have the fucking power in your hands. So you have, it's like that, that big. If you're listening, I'm holding my hands up. I'm holding up two hamburgers.

And you can hook up to any, any, uh, display. And that's basically what I did. I had like my home office literally right there. I remember when I first got it. Um, I was so confused when I walked in Apple. Because there was a massive line. A massive line. I was like, okay, I got, I got some cash.

I'm going to invest. And this fucking stupid podcast, you know, the podcast, it hasn't even started yet. Okay, I need, how do I edit? Well, because I had a laptop, but we were recording 4K and the 4K footage wouldn't work on my laptop, which is this one actually, the one of course, audio today. It's like, fuck, I need a computer. If I'm going to get one, I'm going to all out. Okay, so I'm committed to a MacBinney.

And this was the same day That the M1 came out And I had no idea There's a massive line I was waiting outside In Ontario, California for a while And I got it And I added all like the cool shit to

You could add gigs to it And I didn't get the M1 I don't want it It was too new Which I actually heard later that There's a lot of problems with it With Adobe Um

So yeah I put in the extra gigs ran great ran 4k great and uh i still you know mac minnie's here it's still here in the other room and i still use it all the time still goes some tours so shout out to uh to the mac minnie that's yeah very viable piece of gear yeah i would i would definitely recommend it if you're looking for like a power but also portable at the same time you'd literally take it anywhere but If I want to take that to my house, I could. Everything I have, all everything is boom, right, right fucking there.

So it's very, it's been very helpful. So I think we're good with the questions. You know, it's cool. Six questions. I appreciate you spending the time to sending your questions. I think this is time to close it off. You know what? A few things.

I have a list. I mean, gone through yet in front of me. I was just ranting the whole time. But this evening on the list, this is popped up in my brain. You know who has a lot of balls is, which we all experience, a lot of experience. And I think I want you to listen to this and kind of give it some second thought. It takes a lot of balls to walk into a, to walk up to a stranger's home and knock on door to top God. I don't, I'm not judging, but like, holy shit, that takes a lot of balls.

And I think this particular, this is last week. just this is not the first time I had communication with people that walked up to my to where I lived I'm the first time it happened I was a I was sleeping with my best friend David in Riverside you know fucking these were Mormons

they walk up and they knock on the door and you want to talk and like I do my best to understand what's going on and I go outside I asked how the day was I understand like these people get the door close on their face

this all day just rejection It's like, okay, this is take some balls. I'll entertain them for a little bit. Hey, what's up? Cool. Thank you for coming over and then kind of close up the conversation. I don't, I really do my best not to just be a dick.

And the same thing with this. It makes a little bit easier when they're women. It's like older women walking up to drive. I'm trying to, you know, I'm trying to, my car is packed. I'm ready to go to San Ana to come here. And then see these women walk up and, hey, is anyone home? know and I realized they gave me a card I look at the card

oh they're Jehovah's Witnesses I'm like okay cool and like you know put my guard down a little bit a little bit more more patient thank you for the card I'll go out go out in this house and get my mom just try to be try to give him a little bit more patience because it has been I don't know

maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm wrong maybe I don't know maybe I'm wrong I just don't understand like fuck up to someone else's house and talk God, are you talking? Hey, you want to talk about how you're going to die? So you don't even know? Like, fuck. But you know what?

In the end, I do respect it that you, and you can do that. Holy shit. That's just, but yeah, I guess I'm just asking for all you to be a little bit more patient with these people when they, you know, they have a tough job. And they're, it's a very tough thing to do. You know, walk up someone else's house and talk about one of the most extreme subjects on the the planet literally one of the most just three this is the cliche do not bring up these three subjects at the dinner table and we still fucking do it stop doing it religion financial what else politics stop it it's going to end bad so when a stranger picks one of those three

bugaboos and walks up to your home it's you know i do i do respect it but um I try to be a little bit more patient with them. But yeah, there's that. If you want to, I want to give a quick recommendation. I found a new podcast I enjoy. And if you're interested, you know, sometimes you're on YouTube or you're on your phone

and you keep seeing someone's stupid face. I keep seeing their face. I'm like, oh, I keep seeing this person's face. It's the Sean Ryan show. And I keep seeing it. Clips pop up and whatever is face something. I can't get away from this guy. And one day I finally clicked a clip, finally.

And this particular one was about, I guess he was, this guy. This particular one was about the afterlife. And he was interviewing someone that specialized and did research on people that have near-death experiences. but in your death it's they died not like I almost died no they died and what they're and what they remember

or what what happened and I'm not gonna get far into that subject that could easily add in their two hours to this fucking thing but it was crazy

I'm like oh shit that's very interesting very interesting so watch a few more clips and then um well this actually the tie in the rest of my notes perfectly right now and then right then

he drops a podcast with Donald Trump I was like okay I'll listen to this I've been listening to every podcast with that Trump because he's just interesting to what talked to or not talk to but listen to him Theo there was a other one I watched

it's interesting just to listen I definitely I posed this question is out of curiosity I'm not political at all so don't come at me with your political views I don't care but I was just curious And you know okay

Trump's doing all this podcast Cool Interesting I'm not I don't think Kamala could do a podcast And if she did It would have to be handpicked by her team With

pre Pre Questions And then I post Other question Why does that make me feel weird And what does that say Right

So you know This is just my curiosity brain Turned on you know why why is that weird but uh yeah i'm listening to uh son of ryan show uh i think the the guest was john burke episode one 111 talk about you want if you're just curious about afterlife and about about that kind of subject uh that's a really good um good thing to we'll listen to and there's other one about a hacker ethical hacker talk about um exposing pedophiles and

how we get hacked into your phone and everything. It was like, oh, shit, it made you really think. Like, this guy named Ryan, he talked about hacking key fogs. Anything that can connect, that can connect, anything that's wireless

that can connect to something can be hacked. I was like, damn. Yeah, Ryan Montgomery, special guy. But I was like, shit. You know what? Sean Ryan, shout out to you, man. You I kept seeing your face enough

And now I'm hooked to your show Holy shit And yeah Just It all kind of ties in to I'm not gonna say I will not say who I'm voting for I don't want to start that whole

That whole thing I might at some point I shouldn't say never But right now I'm not I don't influence anyone To make their decisions You know But

So voting Is in November correct November 5th Not a mistake in voting. What's voting date? What's a voting date? November 5th, right? We are looking right now.

November 5th, yes. Cool. Election dates. Wow. Vote by mail, ballot. I recommend date. October 29th, 2012, 24. Okay.

So, I'm thinking about it. I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote this year. This is my first time voting. I said 38-year-old idiot. I won't be voting. Sometimes

this is so silly. Like sometimes like these cliches just become true. Like all we get like man, like these subjects just become a part of your life. There's force into your life. And

yeah, I'm committed to voting. I should probably check if I'm even registered. I think that was in my to do notes. I'm going to put in my notes right now. Oh, fuck. I'm pretty sure. I'll register.

I hope there's not a wait to that, but I think it's time to vote. I think it's time to vote. I did want to vote. Actually, the first time I... The last time I genuinely wanted to vote

the candidate I wanted. I guess I could say that because it didn't happen. I remember when I saw, I started listening to interviews with Tossey Gabriel. I would vote for that person. Okay, I get it. It's cool.

And then that whole thing happened. I was like, oh, shit. That's kind of crazy. But I'll say, well, yeah, I don't want to pay anyone else. So that kind of sparks like, oh, shit, I should probably vote. Now I think I'm pretty interested in what's going on. And also my future endeavors. I want to do locally.

I think it's time to start voting. It's a weird thing. Growing up, growing up in voting. Oh, shit, we didn't even get to the fucking current events. Let's do one or two. We could do the, you know what? Let's just do all of them. Okay. After a little slammer.

Just so you know, I call drinking, taking a slimmer or a nightcap. And my friends know if I say nightcap, do not. to me that means we're gonna rage for a little slammer so he had this oasis thing that's happening it's cool but obviously not not as not a surprise that tickets are what how much her tickets for this fucking thing what does dynamic pricing mean that they could raise it huh wow they had dynamic pricing okay yeah so I just heard this via my lady thank you um that if you are trying to get tickets and you were in a queue in line to get tickets.

Literally, they were going up. So you'll sign up for $500 tickets or what have you the price was. And it would jump as you were in the queue. And that's like, damn, dude, that's fucking crazy. I mean, listen, I'm not saying it's right, but what do you expect? It's oasis. It's oasis, man. So how much was up to $350 per ticket around $2,000?

or more that have been advertised for a waste is oh fuck dude when you're talking that kind of caliber of band I mean the price is really like fuck

you need $388 wow is it worth it you know what no it's worth it I think it's worth it and now yeah obviously right now

they're dealing with scoppels and a whole shit people are trying to People were trying to sell tickets for like $8,000 or something crazy. Yeah, they need to really fix that shit, dude. I really hope to take this tour to the States. I really do. We cool to see them.

Oasis play L.A.? Let's go. Let's fucking go. All right, let's do the next one. Shout out the Oasis. That was Green Day Detroit Show interrupted by overhead drone. police detained suspected operator. See, I guess Greenway was like rushed off the stage for like an awkward moment.

They're playing, they're in the middle of a hit. People were singing along. But, uh, yeah, you, you can't take chances with stuff like this. You cannot take chances, especially after Las Vegas. No, I mean, any little threat, dude, you got to. I'll shake your little clip going, a little clipper. Nothing? Just posted a picture, like a bunch of idiots?

That's good one. Oh, it's great. Yeah, it's playing a hit. They're playing a hit right now, dude. Is that an orange drum suit? What does it happen? Before we get the monetized, what does it happen? Oh, shit, dude. So you gotta get the fuck off the stage right now, dude.

Oh, wow. Just look, I'll say, we gotta. Got to get the fuck up, dude. I mean, you have to, man. You have to. You don't know. Some cycle could be planning some crazy shit. You don't fucking know

I'll do the same thing You don't know I'll take this one idiot I'll share a quick story At the risk of Sorry if the story's a little bit vague But I won't say the state Or the show or the era

But this happened to us We were getting messages from someone That was acting kind of shady And this person was known to have a lot of guns and we would get like these cryptic messages, DMs. I'm just a fucking guitar player, dude. And in the end of the day, I'm just out on tour playing guitar, just following my fucking dream.

That's all I'm, that's, in the end of the day, that's all I'm doing. And I have a podcast now. I'm just going to talk to people, but it's never, it's, as time goes on, it's not even about that anymore. And there's, these were one of these moments where, uh, this gentleman showed up to a show and it wasn't exactly sure

if you had a gun or not and so I was like shit luckily luckily it happened when I was a lot younger and I was pretty stupid about it if it happened now I would actually be more genuinely scared I think back then I was still in my dumb face

but yeah someone someone that wasn't mentally stable that was done to have a lot of guns was at a show or as talked about coming out to show, surprisingly. And like, so these, these things happen. These things happen. And now you can't, yeah, you can't take chances.

You know, you don't know when you just don't know. You just don't. So, yeah, that's my shitty story. Cool. We got one more, Jay. Oh, so I forgot to you bring up. Yeah, there's this thing going on with the AI, with Metal Core AI. every band

is getting songs posted on Spotify and what is going on so this actually happened to us but this was a while ago when literally

I woke up and there's a suicide song on Spotify and it's not us and then I'm not sure this was done on purpose but it was at a very

awkward time it was like during a holiday so no one at the label was there or up to fix it right away. I was like, which really fucking pissed me off. Really like get this off our Spotify and no one's at the office. So like, oh, this is little things like that. Like really fucking pissed me off. And I was, oh, I guess.

And then I heard that it's not exactly of which now is actually why I have personal access to the Spotify now. But I guess it wasn't like this. it's not exactly uncommon like it wasn't like the first time this has happened like someone randomly just posted a song on our shit and this is obviously this is a much larger version

what happened to us this is only to start this is only to start you know obviously there's a pro with having digital music the pro of it you know we all have access to it which is cool um we get our music out there

But I always say with every pro, there's going to be an equal con. It's the way life reacts to things. You'll definitely see more of this until they figure out how to stop this. And you learn with age, like, dude, we're just talking about the ethical hacker. That one podcast guest, hacking is so easy, apparently. and what my big take away from that was once your shit is out whether it's an email or a password

it's out forever like you can't undo that so what you have to do is you have to start a new email password etc like once it's out hacked it's done like you need to get a new password and you log in info and it's many ways that they could get into it to it maybe they can't get into it

from the from the owner Well, the hacker can go to the employees And they and they could find little Mixups or little holes there And it was like it fucking it It blew me away and I definitely Recommend anyone

Recommend any of you On jamming that Jamming that pod Jam this one I think that's it I think everything Everything is on the list So yeah

what's the takeaway from this episode? Yeah, change your passwords. Oh, no. I gotta do that too. I gotta... Because before I would just... I write down on my password but even then, you're not safe.

You know, just... You know, they could always find something or whatnot. Anyway, thank you again for listening and watching. Thank you for the response of the Kyle episode. I'm really proud of that one.

um it's it's literally where i've been trying to do since day one i just didn't have the ability or knew how to like do it i had no i had no uh remember i remember like when the podcast first started i was hitting up like amp companies to sponsor the podcast because i think we invested all the money into the start of the podcast so we didn't have any any any capital to get amps so i was hitting a back app companies i didn't get any bites so i was like okay i guess It's not going to happen. But this is what I'm trying to do since day one. Talk to a other guitar player.

Jam out, but also ask questions. And this really helped me realize, oh, shit, I wasn't ready back then. To be able to go back and forth, like, it took me. Yeah, it took me three years, over three years of having conversations to kind of get that flow. And then, yeah, I hope you all enjoy it. Kyle was a great guest. He was, he's a very interesting guy. He's what you call a lifer, you know, and a ripper guitar player.

He's a fucking ripper. And if you want death metal, man, sometimes there's just some records, dude. That's just like, it's exactly what you want from that genre. This is exactly what you want. But, uh, but yeah, shout out to Kyle. He gave me, uh, he gave me a chance, you know? I'm asking a few guys around, but, I don't know, I get it. Some people just have to see it first.

and I'm pretty stoked how it turned out. Cool. Well, yeah, thank you for listening and watching. This was the third solo EP. I'm sorry I didn't have an eventful. I didn't have an eventful couple weeks besides my altercation with a raccoon. Today, that was my two weeks.

Let's see, tomorrow. I think tomorrow is slaughtered to be bail at the Hana Center. so I'm probably going to that. So I'll have some cool stories about, it needs a few shows going on. And, yeah, I will see you next week. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Later.