Garza Podcast - 249 - Sound and Fury, Billy Strings & Chipotle Hate

Episode Date: September 7, 2026

Garza is back for a solo episode to talk Sound and Fury ‘26, Suicide Silence update & much more!Get SUICIDE SILENCE tickets here: https://suicidesilence.store/pages/tour00:00 - 200k Celebration Clear Up01:53 - Hot Take: Chipotle04:54 - 90 Day Goal Update12:34 - Frizzy Hair13:20 - Lacey Sturm & Flyleaf16:15 - Sound and Fury19:20 - Boxing Lessons & Muay Thai25:21 - Dashcams28:13 - J Check-In30:07 - Q&A: Reading Books33:14 - Q&A: Leo the Cat40:27 - Q&A: Podcast with Late Artists45:05 - Q&A: Bands That Get Better48:48 - Q&A: Biggest Blunt Smoked54:45 - Q&A: Overcoming Personal Struggles1:02:53 - R.I.P. Dolly Parton1:03:52 - Billy Strings w/ Cryptopsy1:06:09 - Upcoming Shows

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Just real quick. So I'm making something clear. There was some confusion about how we were celebrating. So when Jay first joined the pot He brought over these plastic Champagne glasses And we've kept them For a few years now

So and then we were drinking Non-acoholic beer In the champagne glasses That was non-alcohol Because I saw some people saying Oh, looks like Garza fell off It's non-alcoholic beer In the fucking champagne glasses

You know, try to be boozy you know, trying to be like, you know, celebrate. I was smoking the cigar inside. It was more like, it actually happened, literally where, it really happened the last time we were recording a solo. And it happened that evening. So it was cool. So I just wanted to clarify that that was not a sponsor,

a affleger beer. But there is non-alcoholic options of champagne options. I've seen those around, but I'm not ready to dive into that yet. It tastes like juice. You know, but beer has that, that taste still. So I just wanted to clear that up. Something that's been helping me lately and might help you. And again, like the last one, let's just go straight into the heat.

I have a hot take. And let's just bring the hot heat. I'm wearing the hot heat shirt again because I knew we're going to talk about this. But, all right, hot take. What's up with people? disrespecting Chipotle is fucking pissing me off Chipotle is fucking sick

and I notice there's two kinds of people you either love Chipotle or you hate Chipotle I've not found one person that talks about Chipotle that likes it I love it I always go there or it's like I went there and it sucked ass and I have noticed

a common thread is that people that don't like Chipotle like In and Out. And we all know how I feel about that. In and Out has great hamburgers. I just talk shianam. Because they're a lot of hype.

The disrespect, dude. I eat Chipotle a lot. I love Chipotle. So it's, for me, it's like if you want to have Mexican food, but you don't want to feel like shit after, which tends to be what happens me have the really good stuff is that nice middle ground so if i have a craving i go to chepaulet it satisfies

the craving i could go on about my day uh without the craving so that's a big fucking help the thing the thing about chepaulet are you going to fart a lot yes are you going to see your pants yes are you going to get ripped yes but there's no reason to hate on it it's awesome it's just a common thing i i've been hearing about people are disrespecting chepaulet and i'm here to make my stand to stand on my 10 toes I think I have 10 toes right right stand on my two feet

and say that Sheputli is fucking sick and another another another brand to hop on the sponsor list because I'm fucking pushing it hard right now

I went through yesterday and did we wake up farting yes did we wake up shitting yes do we do we wake up more ripped yes and that's all that matters shout out to

Shepotla want to get that out there. Have you noticed that? There's no one in the middle, right? Jay, are you, where, where are you at? I'm actually in the middle. Oh, no. Yeah, I'm like, I'll get it, I guess.

And in our own home, Jay? Yeah. Oh my goodness. I love it. I really do love it. I'm not saying it's like a Mexican food spot. Like, obviously there's, we have our spots. But I think you got to separate them.

You got to separate them. But yeah, I guess I brought it up because it ties into, I know my, I know my new goal isn't exciting. It's not like alcohol. It's not drinking alcohol. But I'm curious. I think a lot of people are dealing with this. So I just want to touch on it. Almost a month into my new 90-day goal, which is not overeating.

Because again, I touched on the last one. Like I noticed right out of the gates. Stop drinking. I'm in 7-Eleven, almost every night. So I saw like that kind of creeping in, like the other habit was going to replace this one. So when I stopped drinking, I didn't lose any weight. It was just bloated.

Like you're just bloated when you're drinking all the time. It's like a fat fucking face, fat cheeks. You look like a fucking chipmunk. I had that face. And I noticed that I didn't drop any weight, but it was just like I tightened up only because like the alcohol was not there to, fatten up my face. And I'm doing it.

I am three weeks in. I'll go out and have a treat meal once a week to go off the, go off my app because I follow a macro factor, which I think is a great app to track your food. Tracking your food works for me. It won't for everybody, but to me counting my calories works for me. Because let's say I get a burrito craving.

I'm like, fuck. there you go. Day 2. And this is the issue. Okay, I could put a bean and cheese, Shepo let burrito in there, and you could fit it in your day. So me, I lose weight at 2,000 calories.

According to this app. So I could eat it. That's a lot of fucking food. 2000 calories is a lot. So get a craving, you can put it in the app. You're not overeating. I still go towards my goal.

And for me, me it works. I used to use My Fitness Pal, that app fucking sucks. I think they got bought out. I mean, they got about a few times, but man, I updated it and holy shit. How do you fucking ruin a great app? Like, my fitness pal was like, they've been the goats for so many years. Like, they were one of like the originators of tracking your food on your phone. And then I realized, when I line and realized, I realized, I wasn't alone. Everyone fucking hates this app now. So I had to find new one. New one's awesome.

So that personally helps me. I'm having Ben and Jerry's ice cream on my treat days. But I'm going old school. I'm going old school discipline. Discipline. I'm not any peptides.

I know the peptides are a thing right now. I'm not taking peptides. At least not yet. talk to me in a year. But I just want to build the discipline muscle and achieve something. Okay, I got here because, you know, I used some, I used my mind. So yeah, Chipotle and tracking my shit helps. I have been fitting in for a snack at night.

Baskin Robbins. Because a pint is only 400 calories. So put that in the night, fit in. kind of satisfies that craving I'm not trying to fucking again what I learned I learned with the no alcohol thing

just do one thing when you do one thing it's fucking tough and this is why I bring it up who agrees with me not overeating was it's way fucking harder than me cutting out alcohol

like this shit is hard like it seems like the last goal was so easy to fucking do just not drinking like it's like an everyday okay am i going to overeat right now am i going to fucking this fuck it up and those thoughts are intrusive every single day and i'm like if i think this

other people have to feel like the same way and um right out of gates this is way harder and it's not as exciting because people like i know a lot of people are sober which i found out um i keep finding out every single week how many of you don't drink and are in your own journey If not, that's that's cool too. But my gosh, I know it isn't exciting, but this is a fucking real thing because I'm trying to make this better for myself, make this better for you guys.

So every little thing needs to be dialed in, and I notice that when I overeat, my brain isn't on point to have the best podcast possible, so it's something that I need to do. And plus, I want to, you know, I want to go to beach. And I want to fucking,

and have my Chipotle six-pack. That's what we want. So the one treat a week helps. The tracking helps if you're struggling. Not doing extremes helps me to just one pound a week. I follow a few other podcasts to talk about it. Like, just lose one pound a week. Unless you're like obese, then you're going to lose more.

But you're trying to drop a couple. Just, man, don't kill your body. Just the one thing. Because everyone wants to like eat, oh, I got to hit my protein. I got to go to a gym. I got to not eat sugar. I got to not overeat. It's too much.

It's just too fucking much. I'm like, oh, I'll handle the sugar thing later. The protein later. Right now it's just one fucking thing. Don't overeat. Lose a pound a week. get ripped fuck everybody

wet maxing that's just so again that's helping me the past three weeks it is a struggle but the one thing if this

anything helps you that's what helps me with alcohol to this one fucking thing and then probably when this is done maybe tackle

maybe I don't know I wonder what I'll do next high protein hit protein hit the macros I'll probably you know what I'll probably tackle the sugar.

That's probably next. So I'll see this one again, uh, have you a part of my journey. Because I know, uh, yeah, you like go out with friends and the anyone's having their, their food.

They're like, man, what do I do? And also with the new app, uh, to wrap, to wrap this subject up is, uh,

the future. Like, I'll be out having dinner and you could take a fucking picture. of your food and then it tracks it for you that shit is fucking sick that was a big help and that is unfortunately hate it use it love it uh that's AI and uh this is a positive side of AI where it's helping it's helping you towards whatever it is you're trying to do because that that's fucking AI like take a picture of like I was taking pictures of salads like some, uh, I went to like a, a smash bigger spot with, with a friend, took a picture of it.

Boom. Lines it up. I'm like, fuck. I'm sorry, man. Sick. It's awesome. But, so that's a very positive thing with AI. So if you're on a weight loss journey, uh, let me know. Oh, I fucked this thing up already. I was going to open up with something. This is off script, but dude, this piss me off. I'm talking to people. I have a problem with fizzy hair. And I have people

recommending products to me. Right now I'm using like some Paul Mitchell thing, some other foam thing and nothing's working. If you know anything about to make your hair not frizzy, please let me know. Comment underneath the YouTube episode or Spotify or Apple.

I'm down just to like whatever I see. I'll buy it all and I'll have a fucking bathroom full shit to experiment with because the fizzy hair is pissing me off and I need to help. So, okay, back on script,

I was going to open up with that, but I forgot, as always. I hope you, all you enjoyed, the Lacey Stern episode. It's hard to say like which one, which ones are my personal favorite,

which ones are your favorite, because they're all great in their own way. for me personally just set a new bar of subject matter deaf style music so for me personally I had fun doing it and Lacey is awesome and I had fun doing it I had the luxury going to the show down the street and it was a nice moment for me

I think I told her during the conversation where it was my first time watching a band not drinking and getting in that zone I used to get into when I used to have a couple beers and that was really cool It was like a light It was like a light at the tunnel

Just watching Fly Leaf at house booze like damn They were fucking it was sick It was very sick And And a few days before that, beginning my research process, I was going out for a walk in Corona. I was all right. I think it's time. Let me put on the records.

I put on their self-title record. And that song, I'm so sick. Came on. I was walking. I got goosebumps. I was like, okay, this is fucking sick. This feels right. So, yeah, obviously, I touch on vulnerable subjects throughout the whole, um,

they're at this whole journey but that one was like that's all we talked about it was really cool and set another bar so thank you to Lacey for a guest episode I hope you all enjoyed it

it's different um hopefully we have more guests like that I have noticed that not a lot of people dig the religious talk but uh I like it you know

it's something I like talking about spiritual stuff getting insight how other people think and live their lives and that could it's funny how thou either rub people the wrong way or without fucking inspires someone else

and that's what's fucking fascinating about fascinating about how someone else lives their lives it could like inspire you or it could turn off somebody else kind of similar to music like this person will love this band this song and then this person will hate this fucking band.

I hate this song. But it'll affect you differently. So that was a sick episode. And then what else did we do? Went to Sound and Fury. My first ever Sound on Fury, pretty cool. Deep in L.A. I believe I was off the 10th freeway.

I was in there. If there's no traffic, I have grown to enjoy driving there. Because I like being close. I like seeing the buildings. Like, damn, I'm like, I'll just sit on their freeway and just look Like wow Like this is LA

I live in Southern California Holy shit Um So that's cool I walked in Um And discontent was playing They were pretty sick

I was watching their whole set I was viving out Listening to breakdowns And After them It was a band called I believe Click That band was sick

And then I went I went into the crowd around like the mixer area, we call it front of house. And then, uh, please help me if I butcher the name. But, um, uh, B-N-Arme, I believe they're, uh, French, maybe French-French Canadian. I didn't hear of them until that moment. So they're a really unique band, um, B-N-Arme, I think, I think it's called B-E-T-O-N. A-R-M-E. I tried to say earlier, I'm like, I'm...

I can barely speak English. I'm sorry. No, me-r-M-A. B-R-M-A. Sick band. They were, yeah, they were different. They were really different. I was in the crowd.

You might... I'm in there somewhere. Just getting the whole vibe. Because I went there for no cure. Because they were doing the pod, the very next day and uh i was watching no cures my my first time being on the you know i always i always see the videos

it was on the stage watching the bands so they were kind of like my first real like sound and fury experience on stage watching them uh drink drinking a monster that had a little tub of monster there was like yeah fuck yes yes give me give me this fucking straight-edge caffeine dude

and uh it's cool A lot of fucking power. A lot of, their drummer has a lot of energy. And, yeah, we did the pod the next day. I've been jamming their,

their newest record. I believe it's been out for two months. Maybe by the time this is out, it might be three months. But their, their new record's sick. It has a fucking red cover with,

with, I think, some kind of demon angel on it. It's going to get dark. That has a pretty, it's a fucking sick-ass record. Great podcast. I hope you all enjoy that

one too I'll see if I was gonna talk about this or not I should probably go into some questions but I guess if you're listening this far you care about what's going on in my personal life but uh sorry taking boxing lessons so I'm in there

I'm learning how to fucking beat people up just Ernie I'm just kidding um my friend Ian is training me doing private lessons pretty fucking sick but doing that for a month

right after Mitch passed away I needed something to kind of yeah just kind of I don't focus my mind I guess I needed something extremely also like I uh

my relationship at the time broke off literally the fucking next day I call my friend Nick Vega which I've talked about him before I need something extreme like hey

he's like he's been so persistent like dude come out of train come on train for years I'm like fuck don't my training dude I fucking play guitar years he's been fucking insane come on train dude and uh

just nothing like a classic breakup that makes you do something extreme and that's what it was for me. So I went over to a team quest when it was still actual the team quest out there. Would it be Elsinor or

Wildamar? It's not Temecula. It might be Tamacula. But the actual team quest, I was fucking terrified. Literally called him. He's like, yeah, dude, come out. And probably within the week, I was in there not knowing

what the fuck I was doing. I was scared. I was scared. So it's cool. Also, like, I think like a year after that, team quest moved into an other building. And then that's now called the Dan Henderson's fitness center, which is obviously owned by Dan Henderson, which is a UFC fucking legend. And, uh, it's kind of fucking crazy. So I got, I got into Moitai back then.

There was a hot minute where it was hot. But it's like, maybe I should do one. one fight. You know, I didn't have any tourist book. No shows? I don't know. I need something extreme to fucking get my mind off shit.

It was a, that was a shitty year. It was a really bad year. But, uh, I also learned then, like, because our coach was

legendary, uh, boxing coach. His name's, uh, coach Daniel Warren. And it was fucking crazy to me how a nobody like me,

just literally nobody just I'm I'm 27 at this point I don't at the end just for 27 I just stopped doing drugs and uh I'm a nobody I don't know shit I go straight into this fucking gym and this is my coach if you pay that monthly this is your fucking coach

because they get classes and it was a trip to train that And at the time, Anderson Silva was still fighting. He was still popping. And to watch UFC fights, the headliner of a UFC fight, because you know what? They left to the fighter and his team walks out. And it's like, holy shit, it's Coach Daniel.

What the fuck? That's our coach. And like, it's so crazy how if you live in the area and you go to that gym, you have access to these coaches. coaches, which is crazy. I'm lucky because I'm in SoCal. Imagine if you're like, there he is, Coach Daniel, great dude.

He fucking really helped me. He was very patient with me. And his son, Alec, was a death court fan. So that was also my end. His son was a big fan. He was playing seven strings. So I got lucky as fuck there. I was like,

damn, we all have access to this. If you live next to a gym, like if you like if you lived in ireland you could go to probably to connor mcgregor's gym and train with john cavan like we all have that if you if you live there you train there well you you're gonna be around these coaches because in the day they're they're coaches and they give classes i mean probably five days a week um i remember like watching that fight my this is crazy how we just have access to there's like the best knowledge ever. So shout out to you with Coach Daniels. I've been I did that for a couple years and I've been falling on because then Sue was a

on and started touring that was like on in and out but so I'm back after years back and onto a consistent training regimen and I don't know there's a couple of things that have happened in the past

few years. I'm like I need to I just don't trust people, man. Like, walking around the town with my lady, all it takes is one idiot. And I just want to know how to defuse, you know? And my dumb ass might do something. But I don't think that's a problem anymore. And also, training just makes the brain work better.

So this is, I mean, everything I do is for this. I mean, anything I do that could get my brain sharper. So we're back to boxing I'm gonna beat up our drummer Ernie And that's not a big deal So in case you're wondering what I've been up to That's what I've been doing I haven't installed it yet

But this has been on my mind for years Let me know you've been thinking the same thing I went the best by a couple days ago And I finally got a dash cam It's been on my mind for years there's been quite a few close calls. I'm like, people drive like shit, dude. Like, so I finally, you know what?

I'm driving there right the fuck now. And I went there and I'm like, I don't know what I'm getting. Give me the fucking soccer mom kit. Give me like what like everyone gets. And yeah, it's like, um, the brand was called Rexing, I think. Rexing? There's an orange box. It's like it was so it's the front cam, the back cam.

and the inside cam. Yeah, there it is. Yeah. Rexing. Pretty cool. It's like 200 bucks, I think. That's what it is. So I'll be installing that.

So next time we, I give you an update. It will be installed. So I'm looking forward to that. I do, straight up, I feel safer. I felt safer the moment I bought the box. I just, I just want that, like, security. The worst one was, uh, during Christmas of last year.

That's when it really gets bad. But, remember leaving here, it was nighttime. Just when the 55 hits the 91, it goes to other exit, which people tend to rush towards. And I never forget this white charger

that just went across the fucking freeway and almost annihilated me. I was like, wow, dude. You know when someone cuts you off or like someone does something stupid, you have to, look inside their car. Why do we do that?

We always do that. So like, look at me. And I looked in their car. They were in a fucking la-la land. They were in their own planet. Man, man, fuck that person. Like, literally almost killed me.

But ever since then, like, just, oh, man, I need to jazz cam. You never know. You never fucking know. If you want something cool to watch on Netflix, I just finished Hawk. I'm also a golfing fan. Heads up. I love golf.

So that's with Will Ferrell. Very funny. If you want like, just chill out, turn your brain off, watch something. This was really cool. Will Ferrell is always funny. The quality of Netflix, dude, it's like you're watching a movie. It's like, wow, the times have changed, man.

Times have fucking changed. I think it, well, that's what the updates for me. I think. I think we could hit see what's up with Jay's world What is uh What's Jay doing? Just working

Twerking Working Just fucking Trying to stay alive Trying to be an adult Um Pay my bills Yeah

Just hanging out with the wife Uh going going hiking With the pooches Ooh Um Yeah just trying to stay active I was watching lanterns Lanterns

What's that? Pretty good show It's a DC show Okay About like the green lanterns Oh okay Yeah it's pretty dope Nice

Yeah I recommend it It's pretty good Oh yeah Episode three is out That's it I don't know Looking forward to all the stuff We got on the

On the docket I don't know if I guess people will hear about it For sure Yeah we'll announce it In a couple weeks There's be big big things coming. Oh yeah.

Big, big things coming. Oh, yeah. Let's just ruin it. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, just trying to mentally prepare for all that. I mean, I'm ready, but. Yeah. It's going to get crazy in a minute.

It's going to be nuts, dude. So this would be fun. Oh, yeah. And real quick, I know we announced something last solo. We postponed it. So literally it might, as you're listening, watching this it should be out either this week or the following week with

the postpone our announcement but but big feelings are common yeah it's been fun it's been fun crazy ride past a couple months I guess it's only getting crazier and fun and can't wait for people to see everything it's getting crazy and fun dude it's all it's all we're trying

trying to do yeah hell yeah well let's hop into some questions one of our long-time followers on our Patreon Nisa the Crime Adelist There's actually Four questions in one So let's just I'm gonna try to power through these

And I already fucked up the podcast I'm like you know what I'm gonna do an intro Fifteen minutes straight into questions We're already in 30 minute mark But that's just how you roll. It's fine First question she asked is What are you reading What am I reading?

um every morning literally every single fucking morning for the past like 13 years i will always read a book i know it's boring as for a coffee read just pure information is pages smell in the book no screen um and i recently stopped doing that a few two thousand three months ago when I bought the laptops and now I wake up and I just basically work. And that's kind of, it has been helping the pot a lot. But I was just having a conversation last week how, uh, I noticed a difference. Like, um, what, what's the cliche? You don't know what you have until it's gone.

But, uh, no matter what I do, there is a little bit more anxiety throughout the whole day. I'm fine. I'm, I'm, I'm fucking chill, dude, but. the calming of the book every single morning. Like that just sets up my fucking day. And I noticed like the past couple months, I'm like, every day I feel off. Not like, let me off.

I'm not like, I'm not like fucking is locked in. But I was, oh shit, I'm not reading it anymore. Because, uh, it's just wake up coffee screen, which I think we all, we all kind of do, right? But I never did that.

notice a big fucking difference and no matter what I do. Training now I'm fucking training. Trying to learn out of a fight when I'm 40 fucking years old. Gym walks. This just doesn't add up to just reading up. There's something about reading a book. So I'm really trying to get my life in order so I can go back to reading. But the last book I read was not exciting.

I think we already touched on it here. Dan Kennedy, no BS rules for time management. That was really cool book. I read all three of Alex Ramose's books. What was around that? Yeah, this is it. I was rereading The Alchemist, which is my favorite book. Yeah, once I saw your question, it just kind of sparked.

Like, man, I haven't read in like three months. I definitely missed it. Definitely, definitely miss it. But next part of your question, how is Leo? Leo the cat is doing great. As I brought up before, he got attacked by a raccoon. And we took him to the vet. At least no time got the x-ray, the rabies shot.

And shout out to Dr. Tuttle. She was a sweetheart. Really handled it great. And it wasn't like a for sure thing. And it's like, okay, we won't really know until like two weeks if he has rabies. And then he's fucked. So it was kind of weird two weeks. But no, he's got through it.

He's fine. It's getting cooler outside. So the raccoons are pretty much not there. Look at Leo. He's fucking chill, dude. So he's doing good. I see him every morning. He helps me.

He helps me with the podcast work every single month. morning. He's just there pretty much. I work right there on that table. It's just nice because it'll be like around today I woke up at five. So around 5.30 like I'm going to miss this dude. But it is hot. But when the sun starts to come up at 5.30, it's just so fucking beautiful. And that is peaceful. And Leo's is there like watching the sunset and it's there with like a laptop. This is like man, it's fucking beautiful out there. But when the time changes, because I'm not sure when it is. It's going to be a bummer.

It's that perfect time when I'm sitting outside at 5.30 and the sun's just like, man, it's fucking beautiful. I'm going to miss it, man. November 1st is the time change. Shit, so I better soak up October. And this month. Literally a perfect outside. Literally like the sunset at 530 is fucking beautiful.

Another one which they think, these two questions kind of coincide so i could probably tie them both then maybe i'll i'll read both of them for you guys um do you ever sit across from say pepper keenan or zach wild and freak out a little because they're childhood heroes and the next question is um do you feel like you've made it um Or have you ever felt like you made it Or does it feel like a fever dream? Zachwell was a mild freak out But I composed myself

The best I could But he taught me like I touched on before I'm a man It's just It's just another day And you gotta be professional And he kind of put like the stamp on it

Which I have applied to future guests after that It was just cool you gotta be pro um age definitely helps too um just chill out be present

and when I learned from Zach I applied the Pepper Canaan just fucking be present and enjoy it I would never have this moment outside of this room and I was he was playing that that song jail

and was just fucking I was just tripping out my damn he's playing guitar for me this will never happen anywhere else like oh this is wow and this uh not freaking out but just putting myself back in the body and enjoying the the present moment was really cool um i'm a very for better or for worse i'm a very never satisfied person and there's pros and cons to that so I never felt like I made it

not even close there's not enough time to do what I want on this planet there's really no time so doing as much as we can um there's like this never

sad I've always had it as a child like when I used to play like T ball or like baseball and like um as a child is always pissed like or we win the game could i could get better on the band you always do something better um but with this it could always be better um so i never really

feel otherwise um the pro is is very motivating keeps you uh focused um consistent Also, the con is that it could take you out of the present moment I've found. Which one is better? I would say the not satisfied part. Benefits me more for sure. But that's me personally that could affect someone else. And it is a fucking dream, dude. Like, this is, I live a weird life.

Very, very lucky. but uh when was it like this month i was like driving like you ever like drive somewhere you've driven a million like to drive home from work i was driving on the same freeway getting out getting out the same exit i've been here how many fucking time have you been here and it's just a wake into a new thought you're like wow maybe again could be age or maybe something inspired you earlier but yeah i remember like i don't know how many times i'm I've fucking driven up my exit and now I'm just thinking about

life. How it's like holy shit dude holy fucking shit my thought was like holy shit you're in suezance I like wow like

the chances of a riding having like that a record like the first record underneath your belt it was like wow how did that even happen so fucking thankful dude. Cause and what's for that? Like literally, nothing else would happen.

I was tripping out. Um, um, on that. But yeah, it feels like, feels like a dream because I'm living two dreams. Um, this is fucking unreal, man. So it makes all the, uh,

it makes all the stress burritos worth it. I do find myself right now wanting to go on, onto a rant and I probably, should move on because I'll just fucking put minutes on the timer but yeah Nisa thank you for the

question you've been a long time supporter I know appreciate it and uh next one eight troll nine you gotta have troll in your username you got to do it you got to do it

um uh oh why why do this one if you could do a podcast with one musician that is dead or alive who would it be so sad um number one i'll get to you in a in a minute because that's just gonna it's gonna get really negative but uh out of the gates there's so many legends that that probably would not even my podcast but just maybe could have been on like a like a rogan or the ovan it's a podcast in general but i guess i was i mean

Imagine Jimmy Hendricks on a long-form conversation. Jimmy Hendrix? Insane. Or a Kirk Cobain. That long-form style. A Chris Cornell. A Chester Bennington. Like, just...

You see him in all these short-form interviews. And I'm just like, man, like... Just sit down with you for an hour and a half. for three hours, would have just been, it would have been history. But we will never get those conversations. Unfortunately, so sad, man.

Legendary conversations. Who else, man? My brain went to this dead. I mean, that's just where my brain went, unfortunately. I feel like I'm missing somebody else. Not my number one. one but I'm missing my my uh if you're a

following the podcast you already know what where I'm going but uh who I want to who else am I fucking not thinking of 60s um oh John Lennon would have been sick a John Lennon podcast

you know the Beatles dude Death Corps of Beatles let's go John Lennon would have been legendary um I do want to do a quick shout out to Rick Biotto. We got to get Paul McCartney on a show, dude.

It's long overdue. I don't know how he hasn't gotten Paul McCartney yet. It's a fucking sham. Okay, I guess we could go to number one. I mean, Mitch is my top. I mean, that would literally be the best podcast ever. And it'll never happen. um yeah just like the history

and now that everything has happened now with me and the band and the resurgence like the shit that we would talk about he would probably be like that like reoccurring guest that this legendary guest keeps coming in and we just talk shit um yeah yeah it'll never happen but that would have been a legendary

um conversation but uh I remember we were thinking about making like some AI thumbnails, but we might, we might revisit that idea, but it might piss people off, but I don't care. I'm not sure you notice yet, but we piss people off sometimes. Whatever makes the best conversation, that's what I'm interested in. Yeah, I've been debating on doing some crazy, uh, some, some like, what if thumbnails. Um, um, whatever. So yeah, that's my number one pick, obviously, and the others would have just been.

But yeah, so podcasting is still a new thing. It's still a brand new thing. But 8-Troll 8-9, thank you for your question. It was a very thoughtful question and evoke. A lot of feelings there. Let's see. Next. Don Don Don 1722.

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Two bands pop up And there is an order in my brain I'll start with number two Um Gorgera gets better and better And it's fucking Their record just keep taking them to a whole other level Just they keep getting better

Um They have one of the best drummers of metal Like on the planet currently Um that dude is fucking plays man yeah Mario that dude just fucking plays that dude could play the

fucking drums just the riffs and the records I mean all of them all of them they keep getting better and better and my this this could be personal but

number one to me is my sugar because they were still getting better Um, it's like after they put out Obson, it's just like, it was just a unattainable level. And they just keep. I love how they take a while to put out records. I do, I do enjoy that. Like just from, uh, um, absent to, uh, Colossus fucking, what, four years, bro?

It's four years. I mean, yeah, you don't. It's like, why? It's like, why do more? Then to the next one, Colossus to a violent sleep, another four years. And then immutable.

Am I seeing that, right? It's hard to count that because the old Pandy. But, yeah, a while. Six years. And I think that's a band. I think they're number one. They just keep getting better. They just keep,

and then seeing them live too with each era it's been really cool to see um they just keep fucking bringing it dude and it's fascinating it's just fascinating how some metal bands how uh even with age like they could somehow find a way just to keep up in it and that's you know obviously that's uh for me that's inspiring and if you think there's a band i'm missing let me know but those are my personal uh two picks but goger is a close low they're like right behind them they're like right behind them i'm just i'm just going by like record level that keeps like because gorgera is so massive you know so it's kind of impossible to tell what the because when they drop like magma it's just like it's like okay like you don't like you

just not put out records anymore like that that that record's going to continue to fucking just do what it does forever um but they're right there they're fucking right there they're fucking right there Um, I'm already, I'm already going. I have two more, no, I have two more questions. I'm debating which one I should, because I want to answer like the last one, but it might be for a hundred time. Okay, I, oh, I know what I'm doing.

All right. This one is from, uh, Jay, you got me? Kyber. Kyber, okay. That's Star Wars. reference I think is it Khyber Sith

Khyber Sith okay What's the biggest Blunt you smoked What a pleasant memory The biggest blunt I smoked I got a shout out We were just talking about him Last solo

But a shout out clown When we did that Mayhem festival The first one All Hope is Gone didn't drop yet then they just psychosocial was out they had like the single and uh after a show he comes on arbus and he has a fucking cd um and uh we fucking put it in a player and it is still full record and there's the fattest blunt being passed around my memory and like and i'm not still on a smoker and uh we were

I only got a high thing twice that tour and twice he was around and a fun man I'm too high to be around clown right now This is too much And it was such A beautiful memory that I still Carry with me Because suicide didn't really blow up yet so I still have like the innocence I don't know shit about the music industry so I'm not jaded by it and just fucking beating down It was a very pure time still.

I remember that first song came on. It was all of us. Mitch was obviously there. Art Cruz would play drums for Lemon God. He was drum teching us at the time. And we were passing around as fucking blunt. And I just remember the music just hitting me. It was also my first time hearing music before,

a music from one of my favorite bands before it came out publicly. So I'm getting like the perks of being in the band for the first time too. It was like a lot of moments at once. And I'm hearing sulfur for the first time. I remember when psychosocial came on, we were all air drumming. I forgot clowns even there at some point. This is air drumming. Me and our crews are just fucking on, I think, the other planet.

We're high as fuck. Just hearing the whole record and be like, wow, this is fucking amazing, man. So to my memory, that is, that just sticks out to me of like that. I remember, I remember that being a fucking fat one because, uh, I still avoid smoking. Uh, so it takes like a moment for me to like, okay, I'll fucking smoke and I don't care how I look. So hearing new slip knot, that's a, that, that's a moment. Okay, I'll smoke and I don't, and let the chips fall with them. if I look like an idiot

whatever. I do have a picture of us hanging out somewhere. I gotta find it. It might be in our fucking old practice base. I gotta find that fucking photo. But just a beautiful moment, us high as fuck.

What a fucking cool photo, man. Cool, cool time, cool moment. But that's, why do Blunts have to be so fucking fat? is like do they make that does it make you higher I think it's good for sharing sharing oh yeah yeah

big communal okay but what size like how big was it was it cigar sized or like yeah we're talking like cigar sized fucking like a like a stogue yeah it's like stoked out um he was a fucking fat boy and we're sharing so we're talking like five at least seven people

are sharing at once. So that makes sense. Okay, it might have been a print size, actually. Print size, because now we're going to the old Google size chart. It could have been a king, actually. But printer king, that she was fucking.

That she was a big boy. That she was sick. Also, the a combination of sick beautiful moment and being extremely paranoid. Just like freaking out. Like, oh my God, I'm too high. You know that feeling?

Oh, I'm too high. And everyone knows you're too high. You're a fucking loser. You're a loser. So could it be, uh, what's this? A Solomon? A Solomon?

Is it, did I say that right? Yeah. Solomon. Salamon or a torpedo. A Gordo. Toro. Okay. Maybe a Gordo.

Could be a Gordo. Yeah. A fat. It's a fucking. It's a fat fucker, dude. Well, that was a pleasant question. Should I hit this?

I'll fucking hit it. I'm sorry. I'm trying to make it condensed, but all right. Last question is from Robert Westland. What is one of the biggest struggles you feel proud to have overcome, not necessarily about guitar or music. I love the second

part because I think people forget that things you do in your personal life will directly affect your guitar playing and music. The biggest one for me was my speech impediment. And I'm not sure if I'm proud, but it is insane. It's still fucking insane to me that this is, podcast exists it's so it's so to know where I was like in high school or like elementary I couldn't fucking talk I couldn't get through like a word I couldn't say a word it was just like this like the stutter was so bad um people thought I was um retarded I people in uh school to him I thought you were like retarded because I couldn't like speak so um to be able to form like a sentence right now is like I guess looking back was definitely a long process

and uh it's I mean it I mean right now it's it's affected my guitar playing and my music because I could talk to people and learn some shit to apply to my instrument so it has affected like the guitar and and my music and things I've learned about the business that affects my band um so it's and I wish I had these communication skills back then. I would have done older interviews. That sucks. I mean, we, I mean, we fucking live and learn, but our insecurities will get the best of us.

And they, and they got the best of me, man. I don't think suicide sounds would be in a spot we're in now. If I didn't, if I knew what I knew now, I definitely let insecurities get the best of me. I didn't do any interviews. I didn't mention to them all. We didn't really communicate. But it affected everything.

Now my love life, now I have a chick that probably wouldn't have talked to if I had a speech impediment. I still do, but I didn't. Like, how do you talk to a... How do you talk to a chick? So,

it's brought nothing but great things into my life. Just tackling that fucking, tackling yourself. It's like a battle. You're like fighting yourself. Like in a weird way because it's all you. It's a person you look at in the mirror.

All my problems were me. So that was a hard thing to. And I've seen some questions about how do you fix your stutter? It's kind of one of those subjects where I'll part talk about again and again just to remind people and it might spark up some memories of me growing up that I always share forever but uh dude it's now when I think about it that might be the hardest

thing I ever done in my life it was so it's such a long fucking process and a lot of things a lot of shit um the insecurity thing was was a big one uh Like the gym helped The gym's a weird place It's a crazy place because Everyone is there For a different reason And I've been there

For the superficial reason before Like oh I'm trying to get buff I'm trying to look good The fuck I'm trying to be a fuck machine But uh Or you get this other people that go That you could tell they're strictly there for themselves And their mind

And create their mind your focus or for discipline or working out some other some emotional stuff there's that side to you it's funny

just your simple mind shift will affect your workout and that's fucking fascinating to me so I've been like the superficial shit but just going to a gym purely for mental to slow down your brain

um the gym meditation reading um Doing things you're uncomfortable doing. Will help your insecurity. Will, in turn, help your stutter.

Things that just slow down your mind, yoga. All this boring shit over the course of you for a year or a couple of years, oh shit, like I'm a different fucking person. Shipping away at your own bullshit. You're just chipping away at yourself. You're just fighting yourself. So I guess looking bad,

I never really looked back at this. before which is actually sad. We're also fucking busy, man. We just forget. But this speech impediment thing was huge. You know, you're insecure about your own voice too.

Your own voice, how you sound, but you realize no one gives a fuck. Everyone has their own shit. And I did take some voice lessons a few not a few years ago wow at this point

it's been six years oh shit that was that was kind of a trip yeah all those things they just stack up

they just fucking stack up yeah I'm definitely I'm sorry I'm kind of having a moment it's weird I really thought about it I guess you could say I overcame it

is that overcoming something when you're still working on something is that does that count I don't know Because I'm still working on it.

Like, um, we're talking about, about the boxing. That I box also, it just keeps, keeps the mind straight. Well, in turn, help out my speech impediment, which, um, anything that you, that you can do. Um, yeah, pretty fucking proud. I guess I didn't, I never thought about it until right now. I guess I am proud. Pretty sick. We all kind of crazy too.

Like, sometimes you like, do something. something you just like in you and you and you forget your own past and you forget your own history of shit that you overcome I do it all the time dude so um don't feel bad there you just forget your history I'm like yeah yeah I did that I got over that so I got over that I go over this why am I still pissed up about this one thing I'd done this before um I'm the same way dude it's fucking this is a way your brain's wired is fucking trippy yeah I'm glad I answer that question And I wish I put more thought into it.

I haven't really, it's kind of weird. I haven't thought about that in a while or ever. Hmm. Not so this thing helps me too. But anything we should pull up real quick. I don't, I don't only have any news in my notes. I know just a few things that transpired the past few weeks, I guess. Dolly passed away.

August 25th. Wow. What a legend. So rest in peace to Donnie Aparton. That's fucking sad, dude. Great. An inspiring figure.

Yeah. Always championing people. Nice reveals why country music legend kept, oh, she had cancer as she kept kept it a secret. Wow. Oh my goodness.

She didn't want to worry anybody. well she's a goat it's awesome and maybe one more thing but fucking Billy Strings plays with the cryptopsy so good

dude I was watching that fucking video yeah we we could probably play it and crank it where's the I sent it's the other one I would like the full video that's

no it's there it's I'll hear I was fine Full rig I pull up the Social media one There's like one where it's like closed up

Is that it? Yeah there go This is the video that I found And he's just fucking Billy's just fucking ripping dude This part got me His tremolo picking is way better than mine Yeah Billy's tremolo picking is way better than mine

I was like I wish I was that like Solid And also he does the a closed hand technique, which I just don't do. I threw it out there. I said, man, we should try to get Cryptopsy. I didn't think it would happen. When I heard that they were actually going to come play,

I could not believe it. I saw the email come in. It was immediate shock and awe. So good. Shout out to Cryptossey and Billy Strings, man. Say, man, I got to work on my fucking tremolo picking, dude. Damn. I'm honored to play with them.

I'm honored to get to know them. I never thought that. one of my wildest dreams coming true. They really are truly one of my favorite bands of all time. Damn, that's awesome. Nice little crossover. Shout out, cool. Well, shout out to the both of them.

All right, rounding third here. Again, yeah, I apologize that we announced last solo that we had something coming out. We kind of pushed it back a little bit, so it should be within the coming weeks. So be on a lookout for that I will be shows up I'll be attending uh

course I'm going to the Slaughter to Preveil Show at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California I'll be there September 16th and the following day I'll be driving down the street and I'll be watching

Gatsmack at the Honda Center September 17th I bought that first record I hope they'll play shit off that. I was a godsmack band. And also the Hana Center. I love that arena. It's a cool vibe.

And of course, September 20th at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium, my backyard. I'll be at the Seven Dust Show. Which, obviously, I'm just

going to get a fucking horned up. So those are three shows I'm going to The podcast will already be out But I might see some of you at the Osher Pair show At the observatory I spoke about it last time Hopefully I saw some of you guys there I know unfortunately

I think there's other show that day I think Biden and Bud is playing locally to you I wish I can go I think there's A showcase theater Doc showing the same day. There's a lot of shit happening that that same day. It just fucking happens.

And I've learned that you can't be in multiple places at once. You just can't. Get a pick and that's fucking it. So I'm, um, so, also your parents was probably sick and I probably saw some of you there at the bar. Um, and, uh, let me know what you think.

Uh, kind of crossing my mind. But, uh, thinking about, doing some solo episodes live. Maybe in Corona, something local, something small. Maybe like 40 cap,

maybe I'm thinking about doing that. Just to add some spies to the solo episodes. Maybe get some fans up there on the couch. Have a fucking random fan episodes. That's kind of where my mind's going. If you're interested in that, let me know. It'll probably happen the next couple weeks. again

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