Monday Morning Podcast - Guitar Center Drum-off, Sea Travel, Clothing Store Scans | Monday Morning Podcast 8-24-26

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

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Hey, what's going on? It's time for the Monday morning podcast for Monday. August 24th, 2020. Six, six, six. What's going on? How are you? How's it going, man? Things are going good over here.

It's fucking 100 degrees out every day out here in L.A., but, you know, that's, you know, when you put too much carbon in the atmosphere, that's what happens. but I'm fully believing that pretty soon, late-night TV, you'll be able to buy Carbon Be Gone for 1995, and we will somehow turn this around. But in the meantime, Jesus, it's humid too.

Like, I literally feel like, you know, when I'm outside, like, you know, when you're baking something and you go to check on it, you open the oven door and you get blasted? You guys feeling that too? Anyway, we're going to figure it out. Last second, we'll handle it like we did Y2K. Be a couple of tsunamis. We'll let a few states go into the ocean.

And then finally we'll be like, you know what? We finally figured out what's causing global warming. It's the Russians. It's the Mexicans. It's the Chinese. It's Venezuelans. Um, anyway, anyway, it really is amazing

like as a human being. Like, how many great things you can do and then your capacity to also do so many bad things. Like, why is that? Well, you know, it's the balance of the universe. It's like, no, it isn't. What if everybody was cool, would the universe be unbalanced? Hey, man, like, how would you know

like what cool was if there wasn't like uncool people. I don't know. It'd just be cool because everyone would be nice to each other and kind of be thinking about generations after us and checking in on each other and making sure we're all right. Well, what's the benefit of check?

How would you even know that that was? I don't get it. I don't understand any of it. I don't fucking give a fuck. What are you going to do? Anyway, we're going to go with the positive here, people. We're going with. The positive.

So I took my son to the barbershop because they went back to school. The saddest friggin' day of the year is when I take my kids back to school. I love when they're off for the summer. I get excited, you know, I can't say like as excited as I got when I was a kid, but it's damn close.

We had the best summer. I did that acting gig out in Belfast and I brought my whole family, my lovely wife and the two kids and uh you know you know monday through friday but my shooting schedule wasn't bad like we got there on the 17th and i didn't work until like a week later and i only had two days the first week and then i was just on the movie every day the next week and then i was done so it wasn't bad but i had a lot of days and uh i got to tell you if you got kids you know belfast is a great place. Like right outside the city is some of the most beautiful parks I've ever been to. And,

you know, if you bring your mother-in-law along and she can watch the kids while they sleep, you can go out with your wife to a pub. And what I love about the Irish is despite all of this digital age, I noticed them. When people were in the pubs, like the phones were not out, everyone was just sitting there talking. It was awesome, man. Oh, my God. Oh my God, did I want to start drinking again? I've had those feelings lately. Oh, Billy Whiteknuckle. I've had them, like, recently, like,

there's just been a couple of moments where I was like, you know what? But all I think about is going through quitting again and also the shame of my kids seeing me drunk. I wouldn't want that. Dad, what's wrong with you? Nothing? I don't want to do that.

The shame. I don't need that. So we did that. We went swimming a bunch of times. We rode bikes and went on the last bike ride of the summer vacation this weekend. And we had like I got a few things. You know, I got the old truck. I got a few things that need to be fixed.

And I deliberately put it off until the kids went to school. So we could keep doing that. And I don't know, man. It just a lot of laughs, a lot of fun. And now it's like they're back to school. And I love the school, but it's also like, you know, I don't know. They take your kids for so long. 10 fucking months.

You only get two with them. It's almost like they want to fill their heads up with their ideas rather than yours. No. Anyway. So that happened. And then I had like two really, um, had two really fun gigs this week. I co-hosted the Guitar Center drum off at the Fonda Theater with the absolute legend Stephen Perkins.

And, uh, of course, you know, I was the side man. I let him lead the way, you know? I mean, it's a drum night. So I'm just sort of the chime in guy. And, uh, they had like six or seven contestants. that had made it all the way to the final and they were fucking amazing. I mean, the level that these kids

can play is insane. It's just insane. I think I mentioned that to the crowd going like, the kids who would like trying to be discovered have more chops than the professional drummers that played on hit record.

Some of them, studio guys. They have like more chops than like the DVDs and VHS tapes that I used to watch back in the day. And what I kind of have noticed, the pendulum swinging back to leaving some space.

I mean, all of them blazed around the kit, and I was, I literally sat there with my jaw on the ground with how good these kids were. But what I've, really appreciated was the space and the quiet and all of that. And I was kind of joking with the buddy of mine there that like, you know, for a while there, when sort of the amazing knowledge that was available at your fingertips on the internet, like the initial way that that was digested was everybody was just trying to play the craziest, fastest licks

strung all together. And like, I was comparing some of those drum solos to like a sleeve tattoo. You know when somebody has a sleeve tattoo? I mean, you don't know where to begin, where to end, where to look. Like, what is going on? Like, I mean, I've had friends of mine. They've had sleeves. tattoos for years and to this day I'm still oh fuck you got a fish on your own I never noticed that because there's like no negative space but then if you look like bond scott he had a tattoo on top of his forearm under his forearm and one on his bicep and with all the negative space of the rest of his skin framing it you could take in the beauty of the art you know and I feel like with drum solos for a while it was like the sleeve tattoo was just like it was just like it was just like

I don't know. And it's like, it's amazing. But like, I don't know what you're saying. And what I've liked is the pendulum is coming back. And I feel like hopefully it's going to come back to themes and phrases and, you know, and peaks and valleys. But that's what I saw this year. and I don't want to, because I don't want to ruin it,

but like, it was just a great collection of incredible young drummers from all different backgrounds. And they, I just remember thinking at the end of it that I would not be, I would not want to be the one

that had to judge this thing. But anyway, I'll tell you what was amazing. I mean, they posted about it, I don't think I'm letting the cat out of the bag here, but like, at the end of the night, there was this All-Star band that went up. They went up after Rival Sons.

And oh, my God, rival Sons was fucking unbelievable. I've been meaning to see those guys live for a long time. Their lead singer, Jay Buchanan, holy shit. Holy shit That guy Just like You know It's one of these nights where it's like

Hey you know it's the drum off and blah blah blah Dude you know and you could see people Maybe people would fuck around a little bit who weren't like competing and thing That no That band went out there and was like Fuck you we're bringing it They were incredible And then at the end of the night

This power trio I swear to God, it was Kenny Aronoff on this fucking giant Tom, I think Star Classic 24-inch double kicks three up, two down, I mean, just a man's kit. Phil X, who's now in Bon Jovi,

on guitar and singing, and then Michael Anthony on bass and they went out there and they just started playing all this old school Van Halen stuff and like

Michael Anthony is just still one of the greatest voices ever and he's absolutely crushing it on base Kenny's killing it and then Phil X who I don't think I'd ever seen him

play live he played all the Eddie Van Halen stuff like it was nothing. They were so unfucking believable bringing like the night to an end and they played one of my favorite Van Halen songs ever because of the guitar, the drums, the bass, and the singing is I'm the one.

They played that. And I was standing on the side of the stage. I was on Michael Anthony's side. and the one time unfortunately I did get to see Van Halen you know he wasn't in the band anymore so I had never seen him play live so I saw Eddie I saw David Lee I saw Alex I saw Wolf I saw all of them but I never saw Michael Anthony so like I got to see him and I met him briefly backstage absolute sweetheart

sweetheart of a guy totally self-deprecating is I'm going like no dude you don't understand. You made my childhood happier. I fucking love you. And he was just like, ah, you know, whatever. You was just, you know, just thanks, you know. Holy shit. Holy shit.

And it was just so much fun. Thank you to Dave Kushner for putting the whole thing together. And I got so inspired to go home and play and figure out some stuff. And I don't. I don't know, try to, I don't know, it's just music is the best. It's just the best. So anyway, last night, so that was the first gig.

And that was just such a funny gig. Like when you, when you like host something like that, it's all going to be off the top of your head. But like Stephen Perkins is like the nicest, like happiest dude. Like, whenever you see him playing, he's always smiling. That's literally his vibe. Like the guy is just, I don't know, he gets. That's life, man. The guy, the dude is in like a good mood, man. So he was like, it was fun playing off of him. And he's funny and everything. So, but like the whole day, I'm kind of sitting there like, I got like this big gig. And it's like, I need to get ready for it. And it's just like, what, there's, there's nothing to get ready for. You're just going to be like winging it when you go up there. So it was a weird. It was a weird sort of anxiety.

Oh, and then also all the judges were all these drummers that I look up to, like Trey Kuhl and Dave Eilich, a friend of mine too. The Pocket Queen, I finally got to meet her after all these years of following her and watching her career. Adrian Young, I know there was so many people. I fucking hate that. I should just start writing it down because then, I go blank.

It was just an awesome, awesome, awesome night. So, anyway, oh, I know. I know what made me want to drink. Was at the after party. I'm not going to drop any names here. Somebody goes, hey, check this out. And he handed it to me. You know, those little airport bottles, you know,

or hotel room bottles, I mean, you know, that you reach in and it's basically a shot or whatever. he handed me, this guy hands me one of them. And it's a fucking, it's Johnny Walker Blue. I couldn't believe it. Like I've never seen, Johnny Walker Blue, you always had to buy a bottle of it. You know, you ever get a really nice fucking bottle of booze?

And you're like, you're trying to savor it. And then like, then it's weird. Like, you start having people over your house. and then you got the blue and you got the black and then you got to make like this choice. Like, this is a friend of mine. Are they at the Johnny Walker blue level? Are they Johnny Black?

And I'll tell you right now, if you're Johnny Red, you're not in my life because I would never have that in my house. But that thing, that, the espresso martinis, all of this cool shit that they never had. You know, back when I was drinking or whatever. So, I mean, I am glad to not be drinking anymore. But so anyway, last night, I had another private gig.

And I wasn't too nervous about that one because it was this big cigar smoker event, you know, to raise money for a school in the Dominican Republic, you know, which was fun because usually I'm doing benefits. And then you find out it's like a private school. and you're like, I thought all you guys had money. Like, what the fuck are we doing here? This was for an actual, you know, real people school, you know? So that was cool.

And then, you know, cigar smokers are cool. And I went over there and I, you know, I don't want to drop names or whatever, but I met some people that were really like heroes of mine and everything. And there was this Cuban band that played after I went up did my set. And, you know, it was like outside at night, you know, next to the clubhouse on like a golf course, you know, and there was like all of these cigars and everybody's smoking. There was, you know, a couple of the heads that actually I've seen in cigar of Fictionado magazine. And they were dressed, you know, white on white with the, with the, you know, the pork pie hat or whatever,

the traditional Panama had or whatever. I mean, it was fucking amazing, dude. It was fucking amazing. So after I did my bullshit, right, this Cuban band went up and like just absolutely destroyed. Like the level of musicianship. And what I love about music from that part of the world is like they go into a music store and they buy everything.

It's like they buy everything. Congas, bongos, cowbells, pianos, all the horns, all those, you know, that thing you, whatever that fucking thing is,

you dragged it. I don't even know the names they have the shit they had up there. And they're all using it musically. And just the phrasing of it and all of that, like in Cuban music, obviously the percussion,

but what always gets me is the piano playing. The phrasing of the piano playing. I just, it's my favorite, you know, sort of piece of that whole puzzle, and then I love the horn hits

when they come in and all of that. And I'm sitting there, my set went great, thank God, people, you know, because those private events, man. If you have a bad set, dude, then you have to walk amongst them and everybody's like just looking at you like dude they paid for that

that fucking performance you know thank God it went well and people coming up hey I appreciate it can we get a picture or whatever so I was like all right thank God people liked it and then I'm just sitting there smoking a cigar listening to this incredible band

and to be honest with you just watching all of them as human beings Vibing off of each other, vibing off the crowd, watching people slowly getting up onto the dance floor.

And it's like, AI is never going to be able to do that what I saw last night. And to, I don't know, the fact that we're being forced in that direction, simply because the people at the top don't want to pay anybody any money. And they want to have the ability,

like to write a song, to write a script, to act in a movie, even though they weren't given that gift. They want to cheat and use this AI shit, so then they can control everything and they can keep everything. It's really fucking, you know, I don't know, man.

It's always been my thing as an adult that stopped me from buying into this fact that there's a God that loves us. It's like, why does, Why would you make people that were prone to that sort of mentality? Just this whole idea that we all have to be in competition with each other because there's not enough. And if I'm not, you know, operating, you know, at 8,000 RPMs, redlining my own happiness, the fucking wheel of progress is going to run over me.

Or my neighbor's going to take what I have. The whole thing is just fucking, it's stupid. So anyway, that was the second gig that I did. And I had a fantastic time with that. This weekend, I got, I got an amazing run of dates. I got Vancouver, Calgary, and Spokane, Washington. I don't think I've ever been to Spokane. Vancouver, I've been to enough that I have like my coffee spot.

I did that Facebook movie that's coming out, the social reckoning. I did that last year in November and I was up there for about 10 days or so. And, you know, my lovely wife, Nini came up with me and she, of course, scoped the place out. Next thing you know, I know, I can always find the coffee spot, but she finds all the other stuff. And really is one of my favorite cities. And then Calgary, I've been to that place a bunch of times. Those people are fucking lunatics. They are, you know, like just hockey crazy fucking drinking and shit.

Like I remember when I first did Calgary, I forget what venue I was in, but somebody's empty beer bottle tipped over and then you heard it roll all the way, all the way down to the front. So that was my first experience with them. I usually do like these outdoor things. So there's not that vibe, but like I do love going up there doing these end of summer things in Canada. It's kind of like it's a different vibe because throughout my career I've tended to go up there during like hockey season. And, you know, it's kind of, it's just sort of kind of what you expect.

Everybody's hockey crazy. It's cold out. There's snow on the ground. But to go to Canada in the summer, it's like a totally different vibe. Then lastly is Spokane. Was it Spokane? Spokane? I don't know. I've never been there. I've done a bunch of stuff in Washington along the coast and in down into Oregon and all

way down to Coos Bay. But I've never gone out that way. So, you know, if I didn't have the Calgary date, the day before, I would have landed in Seattle and then driven out just to kind of drive the state. But I'm really psyched to go out there and hoping I'm going to have a good show at that one so I can start going to that place

because, you know, that's basically how I keep it fresh when I'm on the road. You know, I go to places that I've been to, so I know where to fucking go. I got places to go. And then I always try to add one that I've never been to. so it's the newness of it or whatever.

So I'm really psyched to do these gigs. And I think that was it. I think that that was kind of my whole summer there. All right. Oh, by the way, I forgot to announce this. On October 17th, I will be headlining the Fastball Comedy Festival in Mesa, Arizona at Sloan Park. Also on the show is Rachel Feinstein and Thompson.

Segora. Two fucking beasts and a bald old man. Pre-sale goes live Thursday, August 27th, and the general on sale is Friday the 28th. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you haven't heard my stomach rumbling. I'm fucking, uh, I'm staying with this diet of eating two meals a day for two days. Listen to it. It's rumbling, bumbling. humbling. And then on the third day, he rose again and had one meal at noontime, 10 to 12 ounces of protein, and then some vegetables, and then I go 24 hours. So it's 125. So I'm coming up on, you know, I had a late lunch yesterday, and that was my one meal for the day. And I know, it's been, it's been going good. The old, the fucking spare tire is coming down. And on Monday, I start like a three-day fast. So on the first day, on the first, sorry, dude, now my stomach's like, I got to stand up

because it's starting to beg for food here. On the first day, I forget what happens. I think it's dealing with that. It begins with a GL. It has to do with the sugar in your system. On the second day of a fast, that is gone. And so are your hunger cravings. And on the third day, this is the one that excites me

is your cells repair themselves. So if you have precancerous cells, I don't know if this is true or not. Okay, I'm not trying to be that comedian with the podcast that gives you medical advice. Okay, I am a summer school kid. I just look shit up and read the first thing and take it as law, you know, like a lot of people.

So take all of this with a grain of salt. but this did come from a doctor told me that on the third day, he said if you can do three days, that any sort of precancerous cells would repair themselves. And I was like, really? All right, let's fucking do that. I'm into that. So I'm going to do that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week.

I find it starts to suck on the third day. Once you get past the initial hunger pangs, once that's over, then you just sort of like cruising, you know? Like your wife when she's in her second trimester. Past morning sickness, the middle's good, and then the end is like, I just want this to be over. Yeah, the third day, what I always, I remember I haven't done a fast in like at least a year and a half.

And I remember the last time I did a fast on the third day, I just kept thinking about a breakfast burrito and how cool it is that somebody took the time to invent one. Not only invent the breakfast burrito, but then to share the recipe with the rest of us. I mean, what a great thing, huh? And I also like that like everybody does it a little different. You know? Which is the art of cooking?

Oh, cheese, Bill. What are you fucking Martha Stewart now? All right. Let's do some of the reads here. Oh, Billy dehydrated here. Let's do some of the reads. Oh, I forgot to tell you this. So when I came home last night,

I was watching, you know, I was driving home, and I put on Stevie Ray Vaughn tightrope, Austin City Limits, which if you've never seen that, man. It's just, it's one of the great performances I've ever seen. So I got that plane in my car. And, you know, when I get out, I just throw my phone in my pocket. I'm walking up to my house, you know,

everybody's sleeping and shit, so I'm trying to be quiet. All of a sudden I just hear this unbelievable fucking drum solo, and I'm like, who the fuck is that? Oh my God, listen to that guy play. And I looked down, and it was this black and white footage from like 1981, and this guy's foot, it's beyond John Bonham.

He took what Bonham did, and he went beyond it. I've never seen anybody with the foot like this. And I'm going, who the fuck is this guy? It was like he was playing mid-tempo double bass with one foot and there was power behind it. It wasn't some like little rock in the foot, you know, pooh-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-bo.

It was like, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-chchchchchchchchchchchchchch. And then he was going in and out of those, you know, 16th, no triplets. Dare I say faster than good times, bad times. It was just insane. And then I found out the drummer's name. It was Leonard Hayes. rest his soul, who played with Y&T.

And I only knew of that band when, you know, they were like a West Coast band. And they had, they finally got this hit summertime girls, which was a really poppy song or whatever. But people always said that, oh my God, Leonard Hayes had the greatest fucking bass drum foot I ever heard in my life. And there's just, unfortunately, a staggering, staggeringly little amount of footage on this guy.

This audio of him playing at like a drum clinic. And they were asking him about his technique. And he was saying, you know, I use my whole foot. I use, you know, this part of my foot, this part of my foot, the toe, whatever I got to do. And he just sort of figured this thing out. But I'm posting this video to, all of my socials

because this guy needs to be acknowledged. He took a drum solo and basically all he did, all he needed was his high hat, his snare, and his right foot. And he just, just absolute, like, it's like a two and a half, three minutes solo.

And his right foot is just, it's the fastest foot I've ever heard in my life. And, you know, I know there's guys, you know, but like I'm giving it to Leonard because this fucking guy figured this out by himself. He didn't have YouTube. He didn't have the greatest drummers in the world with close-ups and 20 different angles of the right foot and showing you how to do it.

He blazed his own fucking trail. And I've never heard anybody play like this in my life. And I'm posting this fucking video. And whether you play drums or not, you're going to be fucking blown away by this guy. I just jaw on the fucking ground. How good he sounds and his feel and everything. It isn't just like this guy has a crazy right foot.

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Out to sea, medical emergency. Last week I was talking about doing the one and only cruise ship and how scary the ocean is and that if you have a medical emergency, the last place you would want to have that is out to sea. So this person is comments. and they say out to see medical emergency. Hey, Billy, Bilgewater, B-I-L-G-E,

I hope I said that right. I don't know what that means. You mentioned medical emergencies out-to-see on your 820 podcast. Get this. All right, this person has a story. I went to see as a deck officer on cargo ships many years ago.

When I was a deck cadet, dude, I would love to hear stories about that. About what it's like to be out to see. like that, the calmness of the ocean, the terror when you would get into like, you know, you must feel invincible when you're on that big ship on calm seas. And then you can just see how quickly that the ocean decides it can just throw you around and snap the boat in half. Oh my God. One of these days I'm going to get over my fear of the ocean and I'm going to take like an ocean liner across to Europe just to do it. Um,

But I just don't get what is there to see. After a while, it's like, yep, that's the ocean. So then you probably kind of hope for weather. I don't know. I know there has to be something about it because there's people out there that just dedicate their lives to it. And in a lot of ways, I look at it. It's like the aviation of staying on the ground,

even though you're in the water. You know what I mean? It's the same thing where instead of like air currents, you're dealing with the ocean. but if you're sailing, you're also dealing with that. And you have to kind of become sort of like a weekend warrior meteorologist to make sure, you know, you don't get yourself into a situation that's going to get yourself killed. It's fucking fascinating.

Like I would actually at this point in my life, I would learn how to sail on a lake. But there's no fucking way you get me out on the ocean. Unless I'm wearing one of those chants. chain shark suits. I went to see as a deck officer on a cargo ship many years ago when I was a deck cadet on a grain ship to and from Poland. Who knew like adventures like that still exist? That sounds incredible.

The chief mate, parentheses deck officer directly beneath the captain in the chain of command had chess pains. Oh no. During our navigation watch on the bridge. He let the captain know and the captain came to the bridge. The captain told me to get the medical chest book, a reference to ailments, symptoms, and treatments. All right, I'm already getting nervous.

And take the chief's mates vitals and figure out what was going on. After taking vitals and thumbing through the book, I thought the chief mate was having an angina attack. I don't know what that is. The treatment is nitroglycerin under the tongue. If I remember correctly, I'm too lazy to fact-check myself. I remember reading that unnecessary,

I remember reading that unnecessary nitroglycerin under the tongue could be fatal. And oh yeah, ships have all kinds of medical supplies on board that we didn't necessarily know how to administer, including nitroglycerin. Dude, this is like, edgy your seat here. So I go back to the bridge and tell the captain what I thought was up. And you have no medical background. You're just reading this book. I also told him,

if I was wrong, the dose could kill the chief mate. The captain told me I wasn't wrong and to give the dose. Perenthesies, he didn't bother to tell me how I knew so. Anywho, the chief mate lived because of me or in spite of me, I'll never know. Here's the kicker to the story. At the time, I didn't know that George Washington University had a 24-7, 365-day-a-year medical helpline, accessible via satellite phone for ships with medical emergencies. Yet another reason to love George Washington University.

I don't know if the captain didn't want to spend money on the satellite phone or just didn't give a shit about the chief mate living or dying. They didn't get along great. Love the podcast, go fuck yourself. Wow. Can you tell me about what is it like out at sea going to and from Poland to get grain wherever you went? What is the worst storm you've been through? And did you ever have nightmares on the boat about falling overboard without anybody knowing

and watching the boat disappear over the horizon? In other words, can I project all of my fears onto you and you can tell me how you got past them? All right. I would love to hear stories about that and I would love to hear stories about people riding motorcycles across this country or a continent or any type of stuff like that

because I feel like that is the last sort of I don't know, adventure that's left, considering now they're killing wild horses in this country. It's just, we can't even have that. Like, I don't understand the people in power. It's like they want to destroy everything beautiful, everything that should just be left alone. You know, and I'll tell you last night,

when I was watching that band up there, that Cuban band playing all that music and everything, and I'm just sitting there, We've had this embargo with them for 60 years. At the end of the day, as much as they've suffered, we also missed out. We missed out on going down there, being able to travel back and forth

and observe and enjoy that amazing culture that they have there. It's fucking unreal. Because of what? Different ideologies? We're communist. We're fucking, you know, it wasn't because of communism.

It's because we wanted to go down there and take over their fucking national. resources. That's what it was. And then they sell us all on, oh, they're communists and they're going to do this. Listen, I knew we had to get the fucking missiles out of there. That's what we do. Hey, you don't point missiles at people. We do that. All right, clothing store wanted to scan me. I mean, it's pretty funny that we had fucking missiles right up against the iron curtain in Europe, but you can't do that over in Cuba. It's like, why? You're doing it to us. Yeah, man, it doesn't work that way. All right, clothing score wanted to scan me. Clothing, you mean store. Hey, Bill, today I went to a

chain clothing store. They wanted to scan you. The attendant greeted me, made some small talk, then asked me if I had my measurements taken recently. I said no, and then the lady offered to take my measurements. She grabbed the tape measure and got my waist. Okay, good so far. She then grabbed a pair of compression shorts and says, follow me and guides me to a dressing room. She opened the door and there was a tall pole with a camera. She instructed me to disrobe and place this compression shorts over my underwear. She said that they used the scanning and AI to make fit recommendations. No, they don't.

They're selling, it's all, you know, it's another revenue stream. And they're selling it to people like, I'll be honest with you. Now that they finally admitted that aliens exist, maybe they're just taking all of our measurements to replace us, to lead us off to slaughter. I don't know what. She said that they use scanning and AI to make fit recommendation.

Before she could finish giving me directions, the rest of the rest of the direction, I interrupted her and said, I'm not doing this and started to walk out. She following me all the way to the door, apologizing and saying, sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable. I kept ignoring her and left.

I was so disturbed by this, as you should, and you did the right thing. And not only did you do the right thing for me, you did the right thing for everybody. Stop complying to this shit. We need fucking strong people like you. Good for you. Trying on pants isn't very complicated, but now they want your scan. I also thought about all of the recent news about flock cameras and how they freely invade your privacy, and in some cases, gather Bluetooth data from your phone.

It's mind-boggling to think about how quickly, all of this technology has been forced upon us. The future sucks, man. Well, not if people like you in a nonviolent way choose to not comply. And you watch, when we don't comply, they will make laws forcing us to comply. And all your fucking political leanings

that my side is better than your side, you watch them all play ball with the corporations. All right. Lawrence Welk. Hey, Bill. I just listened to your podcast when you were talking about Lawrence Welk. There was an episode in 1979 where they sang one take over the line. I don't think they knew what they were singing about. Just that the song had a reference to Sweet Jesus in the lyrics.

Check it out. It's on YouTube. I find it hilarious. Well, I'm not familiar with that song. let me let me look that up one take over the line typing that in now one take over the line song meaning uh

one take over the line oh one toke wait one toke or one take did I read it wrong oh one toke I don't have my glasses oh Jesus Christ They were singing about drugs. It's literally slang for smoking too much marijuana. Oh my God, that's fantastic.

And they sang that? I have to be honest with you. If there was a way that I still had a DVD player that could talk to my TV, I would buy the Lawrence Welk Show. And like once a year, I would take some mushrooms and I would just watch an entire,

season of it. It's just one of the most fantastically psychedelic shows that I've ever seen in my life. And I recommend that you read this book, William, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1892, the insurrection, something like that. Just look up those words. Read that book and see what white people did to black people, see how they did it, and watch how the North did what they always did, which is they didn't condone it, but they didn't prosecute the people that did what they did. And this whole narrative that white people are the most civilized, smartest, the ones that God loves the best and all of that. Like all of that vibe is in Lawrence Welk. And once you read what Caucasians have done to every fucking, you know, group of people out there. And then you see like

sort of, you know, our college brochure advertising us. Now, I'm not condemning white people only, and I'm not condemning all white people. But I'm just saying in general, we have a lot to answer for. And we've got a lot of balls fucking, you know, sitting back, watching our own people do what they did and not prosecuting anybody and letting others suffer. And then simultaneously, also, also having the Lawrence Welk Show. And I don't even, I don't even, maybe those two aren't connected. My paranoia says that they are, but like you can get lost, like the same way like a racist person watches the Lawrence Welk show and goes,

yes, look at those civilized people and then watches the news and their depiction of other races of people and just looks at both things like they exist in a vacuum and that there wasn't all of this interplay that put one group of people in this position to be this way and another group to be that way is the backbone of racism aside from keeping us divided. And the same way I was going back to like this and this sanctions and this embargo that we've had on Cuba for all this time that, you know, it ends up hurting us too. And that's the same way of being racist is you live this very compartmentalized life and a boring life.

I believe, just my opinion. You know, the fuck do I know. All right, movie recommendations. Oh, speaking of that, I'm going to go on a run. I enjoyed down by law the way that that was shot by the director, Jim J-A-R-M-U-S-C-H that I've just decided, I'm watching all of his films. I've already seen some of them.

I saw Ghost Dog. And I want to see that, that, that was it, coffee and cigarettes or something like that. I'm going to watch that one next. But like, both of those movies are amazing and completely different that, like, you know, last time I did this, I just watched all the Cohen Brother movies. I still have to finish the last few.

I ended up getting busy. I got all the way up to like true grit, which I'm dying to see because, hey, I love a Western, you know? So I'm going to watch a bunch of his stuff. But anyway, and I really appreciate you guys telling me about books and movies and that type of stuff. It's really helping, you know, in this age of, you know, it really makes your brain work better to watch great cinema,

read great books, listen to great music, watch people do it live. and not get scanned to get a pair of pants. All right. Dear Billions, you were asking for recommendations from motorcycle and car movies a few weeks ago. I can't be much of a help with the motorcycle movies outside those B movies from the 60s and 70s.

I have a couple of car movies, but you might have already seen them. Tulane Blacktop. I have seen that. I need to see that again. starring James Taylor, Warren Oates, and Harold Dean Stanton. I got to see that again. That was a fucking great one.

And I also love that what they're, they go up against this guy who's got a brand new 69, what was that car? They called it the judge. It was a GTO. And they're going up against James Taylor and his buddy. And they have, I believe it's a 59 Bell. It might be the Biscayne, but I don't know. I think it's a Bel Air.

And what I love is around 1970, that car was looked at as like a piece of shit. It's 15 years old. You know what I mean? Who knew it would become a classic? Anyway, he says, and the second is Vanishing Point. I've seen that one, too, with Kowalski.

Great anti-hero movie. I'll be completely honest. I haven't seen either of them, but I know them by reputation and they're on my watch list. I recommend both of them. And they're great to go back and watch. He goes on to say,

I have a third car movie, but it's a British B movie. No way. From the 50s. Yeah, that's another thing, too. If you're listening around the world, I know you guys have your own car movies. I need to hear about those too.

So it's not great. Dude, a B movie is fucking great. It's called Checkpoint. All one word. The best thing about it, is they included real footage of the 1954 milmiglia, M-I-L-E, next word, M-I-G-L-I-A. Well, now I've got to learn what that is. Speaking of Italian, okay, it's an Italian race, races and cars on your recommendation,

I picked up a copy of Ferrari, The Man in the Machine by Brock Yates. Incredible read, thanks for mentioning it. There are so many books on Ferrari, it's hard to know which ones are any good. take it easy. Well, that was the one, that was the book, I believe, that Michael Mann based his movie on. Anyway, all right. So, there you go. That is the podcast, everybody. Thank you so much for listening. And thank you to everybody. As always, they are coming out to my shows this weekend, Vancouver, Calgary and Spokane. And I'm psyched. I'm ready to go. My axe ready to go. I'm in a stupid, silly mood. And I got all of this new shit. I'm due to do a special.

I'm just, I don't have the time because I'm in pre-production for this movie that I'm gonna make at the top of the next year. So, whatever, you know. I'll let the shit marinate a little longer and I'll let you know what's up. All right, that's it, everybody. Go fuck yourselves and I'll check in on you on Thursday.