I'll see you in the next video. Okay, welcome, everyone, to shooting the shit, open topics, anything, go, show, banter, whatever the hell you want to call it, you can do anything, you can throw any damn thing you want, you can talk about any subject you want, you can talk, you can do beer reviews, booze reviews, politics, relationships, a moon a moon, a moon a moon, and here we are, there he is, and we got BC beer reviews from Michigan, and we have one only Thomas, Thomas Metal 75 and a musician and clothing designer, Paul Anthony Manthia will be joining us shortly, we'll find out what we're talking about, and what we talking about, anything I guess right, we're talking, let's talk about sex, baby, we ain't talking about love, you know we're gonna talk any damn thing you want to talk about, right now I'm gonna crack open a beer from New Jersey that doesn't tell you what the hell is in it, they don't describe the hops of the nothing, malt, nothing, absolutely nothing, and it claims to be their version of a west coast IPA, 7.8 percent, and you know what, it's no west coast IPA because it's not hazy at all, 7.8 percent, Kate May Brewing Company, Kate May IPA? They say on the website, the American IPA named for America's oldest seaside resort, Kate May IPA is loaded with floral and citrus notes, it's only been with a zesty finish, a west coast style IPA brewed in the heart of the east coast, it's a beer that's crafted on the cape, and they say it pairs well with three icons, one is an Adirondack chair, fish, and what looks to be a cheeseburger, it's kind of clear for a west coast IPA, it's got a little bit of chill here, it's not bad, oh would you not dare, oh I have a really localized fine Pilsner style beer from the state of, no, no, no, no, no, no, Melo, the fine ass Pilsner beer, yes, but you don't want to drink the heavy guns and you just want something, yeah, that's a deal, if you need a review I can give you one, but you probably don't, no, no, I don't need a review on a macro, I don't need a review on a macro, so how you feeling there, I saw you with Michael Hilton, don't blow up my phone, I saw you with Michael Hilton on his show a little bit, because if I was busy I had to do a bunch of stuff when I got home and I went to, Eric probably knows or maybe he doesn't, I went to the, I went live at the Oyukini Sushi place and a bunch of guys were there, Fart Doctor and all the hosts of them were there in spirit, you know, watching stuff in my face, so was BC, yeah, I was watching that earlier, I mean I had to go down to my local china shop and pick up some general, so was chicken, man, and then I was joking, I told BC, as long as it's not reheated chicken and dry, you know, as long as it's moist, I told them, I always asked them who was, was general, so real general and they don't know, so I said your answer must be so what? We got jokes, yeah, general, so it's fake, it's kind of like your uncle Ben or your Aunt Jemima or, no, no more Aunt Jemima, Aunt Jemima is gone, they're already, you mean that, that bandana, whatever, it's out, the Quaker Oats, the Quaker Oats, the rosy cheeks, it looks like, like the, like the older version of the founder's breakfast style, baby, well, yeah, the Aunt Jemima is now just named Pearl Milling, which is the company that, which is the company that developed the Aunt Jemima syrup, so it's just Pearl Milling, that's what it says. Mrs. Butterworth, they have that, they had that bottom-heavy female-shaped bottle, Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup, and I think that we're trying to hint at something, yeah, Mrs. Butterworth, yeah, yeah, Forbes has an article, Forbes has an article about all of the, and the article is called Eskimo, this is from October 6, 2020, it says Eskimo Pi becomes Edie's Pi, here are all the names, are here are all the brands that are changing racist names and packing. Oh my god, no more Eskimo Pi. So, you're going to be worth millions. I guess. I always wanted to, I always thought they should get a cartoon of an Eskimo, like milking a polar bear, and have a female polar bear's teeth, and having the milk go into the container, into the pot, you know, into the ice cream. Here's what you were talking about, they said, was it on June 17th last year, the same day parent companies were Mrs. Butterworths, pancakes, syrup, and crema wheat cereal, also vowed to revisit their packaging, accused of being rooted in racist stereotypes or imagery, although the companies have released no further updates on what will change, and obviously nothing has. You're right, you're right about crema wheat, that's right, there wasn't imagery there. Now, you see what I did? I'm a schmar cookie, I got the, I got a whole, I got about four or five of these in the freezer, right? And I got them keeping cold with the frozen bluey thing. Interesting. I did the same thing on Fandango with the bottle of Fandango, I mean, hey, Rock and Paul is here. Okay, speak, speak, speak. Okay, now, I gotta tell, he is residing in Brighton Beach. Man, I'll tell you, all his equipment, for what? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, Paul. I hear myself. I hear myself. That ain't good. I hear you now. I hear you now. I'm gonna take, let me remove the echo. Yeah, that'll try. Check one. Okay. I can hear you. You can hear me. Give me a second. All right, I gotta drop something on my, um, over here. I have the computer on three screens over here. So, okay, let me just put something on the vocal mic, my mic. Okay. Just to bring the levels where I want them.  We still echo. You can hear yourself? Yeah, echo. Wait, there's an echo on the, uh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, you can hear that? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, I'll tell you what, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring that down so you can hear that. Okay. All right, go ahead. Hello. That better? Good. Hello. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Hello. Yeah, it's better.  That's it. I'll hear everything, but you won't hear it. Now talk. Now talk. Okay. Hold on a minute. Let's bring the monitors down. All right. Go ahead. Hello there. Oh yeah. I can hear you clear now. So, you don't hear no echoing now, right? No. No. Okay. Good, good, good. So, watch what I do now. Now, let me, let me tell you what, what? No. Well, go ahead. Do what you got to do. Okay. Yeah. Let me tell my story. Uh, now, uh, Mr. Thomas Meadows, 75 BC beer reviews. Concerning consumer advocate information, this week I had a problem, a big problem with, uh, an advertised, as seen on TV product that happens to be selling for 20 bucks. And excuse me, that product, that product, that product, that product is the Bell and Howell electric, uh, uh, shaver that supposedly works on the water as well as, uh, you take the shaving you ball. So it's called rocket ball. No, no, it takes eight, it takes eight hours to charge. The first, the first one I got from Amazon Prime, the bottom fell out and all the components were hanging out. Oh my God. So I took it, I took it to whole, you know, Whole Foods is owned by Amazon. So you, you could return Amazon, uh, order products at Whole Foods. So I took it, I returned it. They sent me another replacement. Guess what? I charge it for eight hours, nothing.  It doesn't work. It was fully charged. So I just got a refund. So this is the last time I'm ever going to buy an as, as, as seen on TV product. And I just wanted to tell that story, uh, because it is a whole list of garbage being sold by carnival, Barker's, uh, on, uh, as seen on TV, on infomercials. There was that fun-loving looking, uh, veteran that's trying to sell the Bell and Alva stuff in those commercials. Like that flat, like something that looks something that's much bigger, but looks like this flashlight or whatever away from your house.  They're not, you know, they're not what they used to be, obviously. But this electric shaver, was it, was it supposedly an made in America product or was it made in Northeast? No, it's made in America, I think. Wow. But the point is, how am I going to use that, how am I going to use that in the shower and thing and let it get wet if the whole bottom falls out?  And, uh, and, but it doesn't charge. I waited eight hours. I'm looking forward. Oh, I got my new Bell and Howell. It's charging. The next day.  Hey, Nene Yordy, what are you doing there? Nothing like a Ronco. Yeah, he died. Oh, the said it in forget it. Ovens are, remember the shoe polish hair spray for bald people and then he had the pocket fishing. You know what happened with the one that he had that he sold? The rotisserie chicken oven. My sister got that one time. The Ronco peel, a showtime rotisserie oven, whatever. Guess what? It smoked up the whole house and the alarms. Oh, no. No, new wave was, I don't think that was Ronco. New wave. No, I wasn't a Ronco thing. New wave combined convection with burping. No, with infrared. Halogen. I don't know. It combined everything that technology had to offer. But there's one problem. Every time I get an electric appliance, eventually it dies. It dies.  Now, you know what's big, Nene Yordy? You know what's big now? My sister loves hers. The hot air fryer. The hot air, hot air fryer. And there's a lot of them. It's like a convection oven. It's a convection. Exactly, Eric. It's a convection oven. And the oven is closer to the food source. Yeah, yeah. Hey, guys, give me a second. I just got to grab a drink, all right? Oh, I set up late tonight, man. Get a beverage and I got plenty of beverage. I don't want to knock you out. Oh, there you go. You got your beer condom. Get the beer. Oh, that's from the Roswell crash. Yeah, yeah, you try to, you try to rip it apart, back to it. Instapart.  We're expecting you, Nene. Remember, come aboard. I'm excited and new. Yeah, unless you're not home. Would you believe it? Michael Hilton was drinking non-alcoholic beer on his three-mile day. Michael Hilton had a bad experience with alcohol a couple of weeks ago, I think. And he's detoxifying right now, even though he blocked me on Facebook Messenger for some reason. Who did? I can't message him. Who's that, James? Oh, just this dude I know from San Francisco, Michael Hilton. I got into it with some guy today, man. That's if they call, he calls himself, calls himself the Pope of Hollywood.   And he, you know, you know that story, James, where he wanted me to record the song that was originally written by Maria Cristina and Jeff Frenzel for Chavon, who was a big time on the A.G.T. America's Got Talent.  So her husband, he was injured really bad in the Olympics. They were like number one in the world. And she had her, she quit her career for him.  You know, he wanted me to rewrite the song, okay, with my people from Sony Records had a couple of people going on the song. And he said, oh, forget about Jeff and Cristina. We won't tell them. We'll just sell the song without them knowing.  I've been in the music business my whole life. And I work with behalf of the big stars out there. I'm on their albums.  What is he out of his mind? You're going to steal the women's that wrote songs for Celine Dion for Titanic.   That's, that's pleasure. It's like pleasures. Yeah, man.  And then he comes out and he goes, he had to say something about my wife.  I said, that's the last time I'm going to ever listen to something like that again.  You know what I mean? And he buried it. I did him a nice number on Twitter and Instagram today. Yeah. Well, I let everybody hear the message. He left me. Yeah. Thomas Metal 75. So he plays guitar. He's in a heavy metal. He's in a heavy metal band up in New England called Rocksblood Forge. And we're going to. Yeah, man. Rock it out.  Those are the guys that I work with. I work with him. Chad is Chad Sigler is the old drummer for breaking Ben. He's now a drummer for Black Label Society. He's the drummer for Weapons of the New, you know, and him and I are on the contract. We've been on the contract this year. He's been on a couple of my songs already that hit like, you know, had a number three on the radio a few years ago. Very cool. Actually, many years ago, a decade has passed already.  I don't know where the time went, but, you know, I play with where I started. I started out with Billy Preston. My dad was Papa Joe Mantilla, the drummer. I'm sure you heard of him, the jazz drummer. He passed away. Nobody really knows about that. We kept it. I don't know. They kept it secret. Didn't do no memorial. But I toured with Billy Preston, you know, P. Frank with George Clinton, Buzzy Lindhart, Harry Robinson. I mean, I did all my work with the big legends. And then from there, I branched on to, you know, the rock bands because I was originally a rocker.  So I, you know, I've been in the business a long time. But just recently, what I did was I, I announced, I said, I'm not going to go on tour because I read, I'm not going to take the shot. Too many of my, you know, the rock industry, nobody is taking the shot in the rock industry.  Chad just told, you know, he went on tour with Stain and Corn recently about three weeks ago. He went out there. He has not been sick. He lives in Pennsylvania. He never got anything. And I mean, no shot. He goes out there. He comes back coughing up blood. All right. So that says enough.  You know what I'm saying? But they wanted me to do it. And I said, for $10,000 a night, I don't care. I said, shove the money. They paid Chad a hundred grand because he filled in for Stain and Corns. And I mean, both their drummers didn't show up at the six and doing Florida tours.  And I don't know anybody that got sick here. So I mean, right now the music industry is kind of like it's not balancing out correctly.  Eric Clapton. I talked to his agent, you know, I've been on stage with Eric before and I haven't spoke to him personally, but his agent said, Eric is refusing to do any concerts that are going to tell you you have to be vaccinated. He said they can go bust themselves. They're not going to tell me what I got to do.  He's just, you know, very old. He's 91 years old. He canceled it no more. What was that? Doesn't he have like Alzheimer's or something dementia or something? No, you don't have Alzheimer's. He's just, you know, he's old. He's getting there, but he's old. You know what I mean? He's 91 years old. He's done enough touring. You know what I mean? There comes a point you can't get on stage. I mean, he can.  He was dying in bed singing, you got to have friends, you know, over the phone to me. It's like, you know, mostly see people are looking at things right now. They're going, why are all these people dying? All the big artists, listen, people get old.  You know, they're in their 70s. All the classic rockers are in their 70s and they're 80s. What do you think is going to happen?  I tell people that, oh my God, he passed away at 95. He was just too young to go.   He wants to go out.  So I'll be on my dying bed and still sing it. You know, I mean, it doesn't matter. He knows. So tell me about yourself, Thomas.  I can tell you that. I don't want to do that.  Wingland is I'm outside of the Boston area. New England is is is okay. We're I think we've been doing mostly the right stuff and things are going all right and been having some gigs here and there in New England with band. Right. But, you know, other than that, I mean, I didn't know all that craziness about Florida until you just make that. I would not. Oh, yeah, yeah, because they don't they don't tell you that I get my information from Sony records from like Roadrunner records from Chad. You know, I get my my information from them because that's where everybody's touring right now. But now they're branching out into different states.  I think but also you're okay, I think in New England. But you know, I know Boston people next time next time we have if we have to get to this point, right? The next time we have all these major shutdowns and closures, like we did early in 2020, some of these venues and some of these local clubs and bars and establishments that that that do all the live music on the weekend, like Friday, Saturdays, they're not going to be able doors again. And they're not they're definitely not going to be able this time around to go and get all this government assistance and think like it's just going to be fine in the way that we're going to go back to the way that it was these places are going to be closing down. So either, of course, they require themselves for their faculty or whoever it is to get to either keep masks or to get vaccinations or this whole thing's just going to happen. I mean, maybe this whole thing's going to happen again. And I don't want to be the person I've been fine the whole time having any problems health wise. But I don't want to be the kind of person that brings or my band into the establishment gets people sick. And then it's on me that your club just got closed down because I brought my COVID-19 band to your club, which nobody in my band has it. But I don't want that to be any band and have anybody feel that way about about the situation, especially to the point where, okay, so if enough people this time don't try to get themselves vaccinated and then all these clubs closed down, I don't want the clubs to feel like it was their fault.  I don't necessarily care as much about what your personal belief system is with the virus and stuff, right? My whole thing is, is that this may very well happen again. And you do not, and this is what you really like to do. You got to think about it beyond yourself. I want to protect the music industry, my local community of bands that want to get out there and play. If this is what I want to continue to do, maybe this is what I should do, even if I don't, even if you don't have an opinion positively towards getting vaccinated, if you want to keep your industry thriving a little bit, you might want to get a vaccine just to make sure that it is continuing and there's a place to play. But so far so good with all that in Massachusetts. We're doing all right. I'm not, I can play around in Massachusetts in most of New England and I have a problem. So we're doing all right. I know Boston well. I mean this year every, well last year I didn't do it in the year before. Normally every year during 9-11 I do the big show in Boston, Massachusetts where they had a tea cup party. I do it every year and I do it for all the families of all the kids that died and all the people that died in 9-11. I do it with the Clintons because back in the day I dated Hillary Clinton's niece. That's uncontested. It's nothing on the air. It's off the record where I want it. I don't want that on the record. I had it removed. It's fine to have pictures up there but people question the fact, how do you know these people? Well I kind of know them because I did a lot of benefits for them. And this year she wanted me to do it, Sonia and she canceled. She said we're not going to put you on that stage. Nobody's going to be out there. We have extremist threats. She's back in. She's now back into the house with representatives. She's one of the house representatives again and she would let go when Biden became office and now she's back in again. So she's just giving me the insight of what's going on. She told me straight out yesterday, I'm going to put it like this. She goes, we can't talk on the phone but prepare. She goes, you need to prepare. She goes, you need to get all the canned goods that you can get in your house. From now to six months from now. Get every bit of canned goods that you can because I'm going to tell you straight out. We're going to go through a thing called the EMP, the Electric Magnetic Post.   There will be no food.  Do you get it? Trump, they're all in the secret society. I had the chance to be involved in that bullshit, okay? James knows the story.   I don't need to be involved in anything like that.  You know what? I'm already living a life of luxury right where I am at. I'm happy where I am.   But that's the insight that I get and I'm just telling you what she told me. She said prepare and I'm going to prepare somebody like that. You're Hillary Clinton's niece, okay?  You guess what? I'm going to prepare. I'm going to take it as a grain of a salt. That's it, no? A grain of salt. A grain of salt. A grain of salt. A grain of salt. Somebody throws a container of salt that hits you in the head. You'll be a salt. We're going to listen to you. I'll tell you what's going to happen. You're going to be surrounded by salt water because New York City is going to go into the water eventually. You do realize that they have no money to fix the infrastructure. It is impossible. They're not going to do it anyway.  They didn't fix the MTA.  And now they got a new storm right behind it.  Oh, Larry's coming. Oh, Larry's on his way, man. And there's somebody right behind Larry. We're in hurricane season. You've never seen New York.  One after the other, man. Tennessee, Texas, Nashville.  A hurricane named Ronald doesn't hit Louisiana. I heard Hurricane James was coming too, man. You better run when he comes. Speaking of hurricane, we're going to listen to a sample of Oxford Fort right now. All right, let's do that. Okay. Let's take it to the news reporter. Where is he? Who's that? That's your band, Thomas? Put your microphone up to the speakers there. No, it's definitely not James there. Who's the vocalist? So we got, we are, we have a four piece band. We got myself on the drums. We got Greg Delaria on the bass, Rob Liois, the guitar player, and Kenneth McKay is the singer. He's in another band also out of the Boston area called Red Mantis. So go and check out that stuff. So yeah, if you go to, I put a couple of links in our private chat, but if anybody wants to check out Oxblood Forge, they can go to oxbloodforge.bandcamp.com. You can order just about any merchandising we have. You can download the digital album or we can send you a CD of that and we'll send it anywhere around the world. We do have the applicable, I think we have got the applicable shipping charges if you are international. We've sent some stuff internationally so far. Pretty good, yeah. Yeah, I just put it in the comments box. So Nina thinks I can't speak a lick of English. A lick of English. That means I have to talk and stick my tongue out. You guys need to keep, you need to drink there to type keyboard is the word. Occasionally, actually, that's another funny story. The beginning of this song, I actually recorded some of the keyboard parts. So occasionally, I'm sick on keys, man. Yeah, that would be sweet. Yeah, we're going to put, we're going to, he's going to play some stuff. Nina, thank you for joining the show, Ronnie. Yes, everybody. Fartdoctors here and the one and only Masumi from Tokyo, Japan. Greetings, thank you. Hey, how you doing there, Japan? How's Japan there? Good. Thank you for showing up. Fartdoctors says, it's been a while. What's up everyone? Hope you are all well.  I went live from the rest. And there we go. Fartfordsbandcamp.com.  It's very easy to do that at a sushi bar. You can eat, you can definitely gorge yourself. What's your favorite?  Yeah, and then I ordered some sashimi, yellowtail, red snapper. Nice. Red snapper. Red snapper onagi, which is roasted eel, and mackerel sashimi. Second time around, I ordered more of the same sashimi, but I ordered some background music while he's talking. Shrimp tempura, pork gyoza. Pork gyoza. Pork gyoza, a shumai dumpling, and very tasty, some fried oysters. And that was when I started to get full. Right. That's when I started, I mean, I sorry, fart doctor, no probiotics or fiber, except for the seaweed, except for the nori and the Tekamaki, but you know, but it was, it was good. I had my fiber today in other ways. Yeah, the shrimp tempura stuff was what got me into the, into sushi, definitely. It was definitely an easy gateway. Yeah, but those fried oysters, those, those panko breadcrumbs, tempura fried oysters. People think about just raw, and you can, you can lightly cook the fish. You can, and it's still considered sushi. What's considered sushi is the, is the use of that sushi rice. If you don't have that, that's the sashimi. That's just, that's just, uh, just the. Well, yeah, they use, they use a short grain sticky rice for sushi and they add some rice wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar to the, uh, the room temperature rice. Oh, don't do that in public. I get so, I get so scared now when I'm out there, James, and if I'm at a store and I take a puff of weed, bro, I got people around me. I'm like, they, they're scattering. I'm like, COVID. Calm down, lady. Show, uh, show Eric your, your fried enjoy pipe. Whoa. What? The, the, the, I got this one and I have, oh, I don't know what the other one is. I got another, I got a few of them. I got about 20 pipes, man. I don't know what I can't figure out where they all are. The double, the double. Oh, hold on a minute. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what happens. I gotta know what that one is. I need that one all day. There is ragweed. Here's the double pipe right here. It's pretty wild.  It kind of, um, I really don't know what the purpose of it really was because this, this, this pocket right here is two bowls. So you can fill both of them up, but you're not, you know, you get, if you like this one and you like this one at the same time, you're going to get more smoke, but I think this one was made for just like, you know, to add your extra weed in when you run out of this bowl. Right. Yeah. I don't know because it doesn't get me any higher.  I don't even smoke it to get high. It's just, I smoke it to be relaxed. Yep. You know what I'm saying? Because my brain races like crazy.  You know, I got the, I got the recording studio. I got, you know, contracts.  And, you know, I work in all the genres and I mean, I work, I'm working with Michael Sweet right now also. Yeah. Michael's a good friend of mine, from, you know, Striper, he came back. He's got a new studio, you know, I'm working with him on a project with Chad Zegler and Tommy Lee from Mali Crew, the drummer. We're working on a new type of like sound, disco type of sound, but rock, every rock disco, you know. So I mean, because, because you see what's going on right now is the disco industry is coming back. All right. Disco is back in again, you know, they're bringing it back. Oh yeah. Yep. You know, like staying alive back then, you know, that type of music, they're bringing it back into the mix again. So, you know, I mean, there's a lot of different things going on and, you know, the music industry is a strange place, man.    Now you get into the rapper's quarrel, hip hop, now you're dealing with gangsters, okay. Because, you know, and I do deal with them.  You know what I mean? So they call me to do that shit, you know, and I'll take it if I want to take it, you know, if I don't see it, the project's going to go anywhere because Sony could say, hey, take this song and reproduce it. But there's no promises that even because there's Sony records that that song is going to be a hit, you know.   It's all about who they want to drop the money in. And some artists, what they do is they'll sign the artist, they'll give the artist an advancement, you know, 100 grand, 200 grand, you're supposed to take that money and pay for your recording time. Instead, some of the artists, they take and spend it on themselves. But you're talking like a 360 deal, right? Yeah, man, the 360. But then on the other hand, what the record label does is they, you know, there's exceptional artists, and there's the non exceptional. Okay, they'll take the non exceptional, they'll put them on the shelf at the end of the year, that's a tax write off.   It was like, it was like the major major recording labels, like a Sony, right, like a Capitol Records, like 50 artists, they signed a month during, and it's like in another six months, half of those art, more than half those artists are not still going to be on that label, it could be six, eight months, even less than that. It doesn't, on the dollar for them to sign that many artists, they can't just sign that artist and do it with big contracts. Hell no. No, no, because they're going to get, they give them artists cheap money, they don't give them 100 grand, they give them 10, 20,000, and they'll take the 20 grand and they'll write it off and double their money at the end of the year. Minimally, yeah, minimally, what my band would like to do is to do some pre-production on whatever we want to do next, and then try to shop it around. And I mean, minimally, like if it's just the distribution deal that helps us get our music out somewhere, we'll do all the, we'll do all this superficial legwork that's going to superficially get us somewhere, right? But, you know, it helps to get it out in two different markets that we can't previously get it out to on our own. But let me ask you, who's your recording, who are you recording with? You're in Boston. We're going to be, well, we've been recorded this album with one person, but we're not really, I mean, it came out okay. We're not really, we're not really that keen on working with this person again. We're spending a lot of money. We're spending a little bit of money. I'm a master engineer, okay.  I, not only am I recording artist, I play, you know, guitar. I've been playing for years, you know, piano, bass, I sing professionally, you know, but that's not all I do. I also, I'm a master programmer.  I got everything I would ever need here. When I bought my equipment, I made sure I bought the tools that are going to be, you know, something that's going to help me to get ahead, not behind.   Oh, I'm going to go buy it. I've had the SSL boards, big giant board.  Okay. That's number one. You got to be making 20,000 a month in the studio to really, you know, compete with your bills.  I got everything right here compacted in two boards, you know, small ones.   Now, if I'm recording my own material, I normally don't mix and master my own material because I'd rather somebody else, you know, I'll master your stuff. But, you know, it's not my sound. It's something different. If I'm mastering myself, I'm going to, it's perfection is a big thing with me. Yeah, I think other people's eyes in the project when it comes to mixing.  That's why I can't do my own max mixing on my own stuff, you know. So what I do is I've got Steve Caterzone, the pioneer of God smack, you know, sully. I mean, Steve Caterzone is right in Boston, South Boston. I've worked with him. He's my engineer.   So, you know, that's the guys I work with. And he's the one that recorded my last track that hit number three.  So if I have a question, though, say, Hey, Steve, listen, let me send you this track over, you know, like sometimes we'll get like, you know, say guitars, you know, when you're mixing guitars, a lot of guitars, they want to add a ton of trouble with it. Yeah, you have to have the trouble in the guitar. But, you know, they need to defer things and realize that when you're doing your mastering, you're supposed to remove all the excess bass that's there. Because even though you can't hear those death moves, they're still going to clash with your song.  They take things out of your song when you don't remove those. That's why master or at least mix, you probably shouldn't do it with a subwoofer. Yeah. Yeah. I mixed with the headphones I'm wearing because these are like, you know, almost they're close to a grand, you know, but don't get me wrong. And I feel like the quality is insane. I feel like for the first time ever, we actually got a good quality bass tone. But even what you just heard to in that sound quality, that sounded good. However, however, with the bass, with the bass, and especially it comes across that way in my band, it comes across how the bass is actually played and how our bass player actually attacks and plays his instrument that actually is more to the tone of how he plays. I know it sounds like everybody says it's all in your fingers, but literally the way that the finger picks and picks the strings and attacks them is like 90, almost 5% of the way that you're hearing stuff. If he did a little, if he was just a tiny bit more cleaner in his playing or sometimes maybe for certain songs used to pick or whatever and didn't embellish quite as much in certain aspects and maybe was a little bit tighter with the guitar track. The bass might be a little bit tighter in the mix. However, I mean, that's what we were told the second time or the next time we went in and did this full or we did this full length and then I had a buddy that we talked to that did the that did the matter or the the mixing on it and he said it wasn't anything negative. It's just that was our bass player's playing style, almost more like a user butler kind of having a lot of fills and runs in between. Right, right. Yeah, I do a lot of fills too, man. The engineer was saying the way that he played the bass, you're never going to be able to get it super, super tight and that's that's not a problem on the bass style. That's just that's just the reality of that. Oh, yeah, yeah.   Every every time he hits, that's got to be written down. Okay, we're going to hit the time here. We're going to come, you know, and that's a lot going on on the drums, especially with bass guitar too.  Without that, everything could fall, you know. So that's why when I record, what I'll do is I'll knock out when I'm doing my mix, I'll take out all the instruments and just leave my bass and my drum, my bass drum, because I want to lock that bass drum in with that bass guitar. It's solid and you know, because in wood metal and rock, the bass drum is not set high on bass, you know, you don't set the bass, you're going to drop the bass down because you want more treble on that bass drum, that nice punch.   Because remember, that engineer is in charge of your music, man. He can make you or break you.  If the guy, the guy sucks live, he cannot sing, okay?  I'm not going to get too far with it, you know, but he did a great song, the song's a great tune, but he didn't write it.    It don't matter if you do it or not, bring it to him. You know what I mean?   It's kind of like this, what Hinda did, we were on a tour with them, you know, I was with Breaking Benjamin opening up for them.    He goes, okay, motherfucker. I said, you just said that to the wrong engineer, man. Yeah, I mean, now this, you know, I forget what state we were in, but he went up to him, the guy said, okay, we sounded amazing, man, when he'd get up on stage to open for us. Yeah, he sang, he sang Lips of an Angel, man. He sounds bad already, okay? They just made him, it was worse.  You know, it didn't end up on the engineer. It ended up on him because the engineer tweaked his notes around.  And you're playing, if you're playing in the key of E, and the rest of the band is in the key of A, he can switch you around. He can put you in a flat bass. And it sounds like you're That one, that one half step lower in the audience is like, I know there's the untrained musical audience is like, I know there's something wrong, but why? Why? Yeah, yeah.  We don't, we're not singing in the same key, we're in the recording because you'll kill your voice. You know, we drop it, you know, like Breaking Benjamin, some songs, they got A sharp, they drop, you know, drops to A sharp, some of them a D sharp, they even drop down to a B flat minor, okay, drops, that's so many steps down because the strings are so easy to play, man. Was it Led Zeppelin when they did that O2 arena or Atlantic Records? I think they're a whole step down and everything. So by the time there's a stage mirror, it's literally in like a, well, I mean, it's dadgad, right? But it's literally in drop C for God's sakes, which, I mean, that sounds amazing that way. It sounds so heavy and just mean, but it's like they have to do that. Everybody else can play that, obviously, but they got to do that for Robert Plante, because his vocals are still okay, but okay is not exactly what he used to be back in the day. Yeah. That's for Robert Plante. You know who I work with? Have you ever heard of the keyboardist? A lot of people don't see, a lot of musicians, the newer ones, don't respect where their sounds are coming from. The synths, you know who Jezz Waldoff is? No. He was the keyboardist for Robert Plante's keyboard players. That's what that is. Robert Plante, Bill Collins, man. I mean, you name it. And I work with him. I work with him once in a while, you know, once a week and get online, you know, but he uses a certain kind of, you know, synth sounds, you know what I'm saying? He's using the JP7 and, you know, I love that keyboard. He uses the Jupiter, man.   Everything that Evanescence uses, everything that everybody uses.   I got every sound in the book.   I'd rather play those solos live and shred, you know what I mean? You know, I shred like I'm crazy, man. I've been playing like fuck, I'm 48. I've been playing since I'm five. My father put that plastic guitar on my hand. I have another one now. Look, the little guitars, man. You know what this is? Yeah, I did the artwork on it. I did this.  So this is the only thing I had to play literally two years ago. I had nothing because I lost everything, all right? This is all I had.     Don't matter what it is, man.  I'll shred on this thing. I was supposed to really poorly set up in Maine, but I have nothing to do with the individual instruments, right? Yeah, I'm with you on that. What kind of guitars do you use? Um, so I have, I have one over, I have one over here. Hey, tell me a cigarette, please. Oh, Jesus. I have the electric guitar. The last electric guitar I bought was a, I think it was a 1996 PRS SE. That's, that's a nice guitar. I have a PRS SE. Oh, yeah. PRS is beautiful, man. Yep, yep. Under 24s. I got it at Guitar Center. It's in the satin finish. That thing's cool. I was playing, I bought a Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro that for whatever reasoning, I wasn't trying, I was helping another buddy of mine at Guitar Center trying to buy a practice fan for whatever.  I'm like, I don't need another guitar, but I need to buy this thing. This was like the perfect circumstance of Epiphone. It's like usually kind of hit and miss here and there, but I like, I had to buy that. So how about that one? That was cool. Let's go for it. I play on, I play on, um, I got the, uh, this, this is a Jackson, okay. It's a very rare, very rare Jackson. I did, I was looking for this for about 10 years. I had one a long time ago in the studio. This one has 36 frets. It's very high, you know what I mean? So I can get way down here. It's got a nice cutaway. I can get my hands in there and I can play all the way down to the frigging pickups, you know?  You know what I mean? So I'm not going to change the color on it because it's a very, a very rare guitar. There's only like maybe 25 of these maybe.  The guy was shutting his music store down. He said, I had this guitar listed at 8,500. He goes, but I'm so broke. I got to sell everything. He goes, I got to shut down. I said, well, I said, how much are you looking to get? He said 500. I said, I'll give you 200. He sold it and sent it to me, man, in a box.  But you know, now I'm back on the contract. So my, you know, we're working out my package deals where I'm going to get endorsed again. I was endorsed by Ovation. You know, I'm going to get, you know, I don't know if I'm going to re-endorse by Jackson or not.  But Jackson has a great sound, man, metal and everything. And I'm saying, but then I have a Gibson. I got sponsored this year by Gibson. The acoustic, I got sponsored a bass, I got sponsored an acoustic and another guitar I'll bring down in a minute. That's pretty wild, but you know, but I don't really like their, I mean, I like the sound of this. It's okay, but it's not what I'm looking for. I'd rather play Ovation is what I look for when it comes time to recording in the studio, because the cutaways and the certain holes they have in there, it brings out that the tones are just amazing. And I mean, you know, that then I use martins, you know, I've used a lot of different things, but let me grab some of the guitars, show you. I got a few of them. I think I got like nine instruments out of line. The endorsement is that you're going to have to really like, you're going to have to really have the instrument enough to want to actually get endorsed and actually want to, if you're playing as the other one, play that instrument, you're not going to say, well, I really like these other instruments. I'm a closet fan of another company because this is also made by Gibson, this one here. This is amazing. Now, have you ever heard of the Parker, you know, Departure guitar? Oh, yeah. Yeah.  It's lighter. It's like this thing weighs like, it weighs like five pounds, man. Even if that, you know what I'm saying? It's a beautiful guitar. You know, the only thing is I don't like this. Oh, the floating bridge there. Yeah, I'm taking that bridge off and I got a new tremolo system. So I got to cut.  You know, I mean, because the other one has it too, but doesn't have a tremolo. And I'm not, I'm not going to change anything on the Jackson. Like I said, I'm leaving it original. But then I also have this that they endorsed me.  These are beautiful. This thing here, man.  It's about, probably about $6,000 bass, man. So I mean, it's pretty good. It's nice. I play every instrument. Professional. So I mean, I had to keep it.   I got to bring it, bring this to the shop and get they endorse me this.  Right. You see, the strings, they break, man. So I'm going to get one for the guitar so I can, because it sounds beautiful when you're doing like certain things on there, you know. That sounds nice in there. That's a, I bought this from a buddy of mine. I think it was from $900, kind of buy it for $950, but it's a cooler, rewounder, cooler, what are they called? Grand Auditorium. Anyway, let's kind of see a little bit. I like like, I say, I'd say if anybody understands the, the, the, the idea, I say it kind of almost is like a, it kind of has a piano like quality where it's got really good highs and then it's like the lows are, it's, it's everywhere in a really nice way. It has good tonal range. I mean, I think a lot of people for good reasoning are thinking of the sound of an acoustic and it's probably Martin and that's probably for pretty good reasoning. Right. On a lot of acoustic stuff. So what do you think about, have you played any blues?  That's my favorite stuff, where my bars are. All this tuning down to like drop, half minor, sharp or whatever and seven and eight, some of the strings, modern stuff is metal and stuff. I like some of the modern stuff, but I don't know. I can get one band that does one style and everybody can press a kind of carbon dot attack. I think you have an eight string guitar and it's going to drop a or something. Oh yeah. I've never really played on an eight string style. And it's so much gating and noise suppression. It's just, I don't know, it just feels kind of stale. Like you're bouncing a basket. I'm like, I don't know. That was modern stuff. Hey, pick that guitar up a little bit. Let me see the, the hot with kind of body it's got. Yeah. Okay. Nice. Nice. Yeah. It was a nice cutaway. There we go. Yeah. That's a nice guitar. Yeah. That's the, I think the three one, I think the three 14 series is the first. All right.  Wow. Not bad.  The only, I got, I get your, I get your deals. You'll never believe man. The only really, I bought this from a, from a buddy of mine that you probably can't even see around. You can kind of see it around the sound hole here. My buddy that does, he does wedding bands, country cover bands, just generalized cover bands. He's from the hell of it. So there's a little bit of definitely a little bit of finish gone around the sound hole, but I don't know what it was. I think it was, he didn't, he liked the sound of the guitar, but I don't know if he was thinking of the body or whatever. He went and got, I don't know, four or $500 lost or something that he liked that had a better body. I think he just thought it was too big, but I never, I put the strap on and I play with that. I never feel like it's too big a cumbersome or anything like that. See where I'm playing bass, when I play bass, I like the bass guitar all the way up. Yeah. Okay. I need to have my guitar too. I don't like my guitar hanging all the way down unless I'm playing rhythm. If I'm on lead, I like having my instrument close so I can really, you know, get in there. Yep. So it's kind of like, you know, I mean a lot of, a lot of the rock guys, they do it, you know, when we get out there, they put that guitar like that because it's the style and the look. It doesn't mean it's comfortable. You have to do it. Do what's comfortable for you.  It's what about, it's your audience is coming to see you. You ain't going to see them. Yeah. Or people go and set up their drum sets so that it looks really cool, but then they actually can't play it. Then it's actually ergonomically not right for them. Just because it looks cool doesn't mean it's the right way to do it. I wonder if just playing that song will get James the Monica. Just probably stop that. If we're playing James Taylor for James on a Taylor guitar, this is weird. I play the harmonica, but I don't have one. I got a harmonica and a holder for that. Do you know anybody that plays the skin flute? You know what the skin flute is. The only other one I own is a 2008 or I forgot when I bought that. It was at Guitar Center. I saw it on the news website for 750 bucks. And I'm like, if I don't buy this now, that thing's going to be gone. I'm going to regret that. That's probably my favorite sound. I put a, I'm trying to remember I put a few more dunking jazz in the bridge and a hurley gates in the neck, which is a person. That's just a combination of, I want a little bit of high gain, but I don't want like a now we go by a huge, gigantic pickup. Oh yeah, I'm still, I don't know what you think, but I'm still under, I still feel like the wood, even on an electric guitar, the wood plays a pretty difficult role in how your guitar is in the bass because of sound. You can't imagine the composition of the wood doesn't have anything to do with the tone, that it's only just your pickups. People will debate that.   That's what my dad told me.  Like, you know, but it's complicated. It's like, I know that song. That sounds familiar. What is that? Oh, it's a good question. Oh, what is that? That's a classic rock, man. What is that? I don't know if the power of suggestion would cause all the audio to go out of here, out of your video there, James. It sounds like I'm playing stonetime pilot, so we're going to cut it. No, I don't know. I'm just saying, I don't know if YouTube sensors are going to go, that's stonetime for pilots. You're out of here, James.  That's it. You did that once. You went to James. Hey, you remember, you remember the Bon Jovi song shot in the dark? We sang it like this, shot in the mouth. Ready?  You gave me head and I came.  Too much, too much echo, man. Way too much echo. Too much going on there. What are you drinking now, James? Oh, you're on the Cape May. Well, I'm trying to knock out that so-called pseudo IPA by, what is it, Cape May? It's not what it claims to be. I got one more left, thank God. I'll drink that when I get back home after the holiday. I bet you, Al, the beer master's reviewed that. I wonder what he wrote about me. Alex the beer master. I heard he did peanut butter and jolly on the show. He's got peanut butter. You got to do it with a peanut butter stout. Oh, is that peanut butter stout? No. He told me he did peanut butter and jolly. Oh, it was Ronnie. Yes, the man that said he was going to be on the show tonight. He ain't there. I know that song. I can say that song. That's a good song, man. I remember when those guys, when they came in, because he recourse, Steve works with them too, you know, and he recorded that song more than words for them. More than words. He did a great job with that track, because that's a lot of acoustical work, man, to get those acoustics to sound like that.  I'll make the panties moist. That's a good song. Let me ask you, Thomas, what are you running? Are you running straight through a board or are you just running right through your phone or are you in the computer? It's just the audio from this microphone on this Logitech webcam, is it? Oh, okay. This is electric, but I'm not on any interface.  I gotta run everything through my boards, so I get the sound coming through, because right now I got it wired up crazy, you know what I mean? Gotcha. This way, the sound will be clear. So when people hear it on the other end, well, I mean, my sound's clear anyway, but I want it much clearer and clean, because when they hear it, it's coming directly from my board, you know? It's not easy to hook.  Well, if you just plug it in and start playing it, let's let the microphone display whatever, you know? Yeah, my phone, I see my phone's on 16% though. I'm running off the phone right now. I gotta get the computers. I have another, I got another computer in the other room that I can build to be a, you know, online media control computer. You gotta plug in your phone. If you're online with your phone and you're doing video, you gotta keep that plugged in. Yeah, let me go get the charger. Hold up.    Gotta keep that plugged in. I'll be right there, James. You should wear one of your tie dyes and put the black light on so you you should see how his products glow in the dark. B flat, B flat was the National Anthem.  All right, let's see. Hopefully this works. Oh, yes. There we go. We're good. All right. We live live for the network. Babe, turn that air condition on.  I'm drenched over here. Oh, I got mine.  I mean, my dog's over there. I'm gonna blank it. Come on. Come on. They want it. Yeah, they want to interview you. Come here. Come on. Come here. They're going to interview you. Come here. She don't want to get up. She's lazy. I can't do that. Lazy, lazy. So, what's up, James? All right. Hello, G. Enjoy the decline once again. Enjoy the decline, the decline. Yeah, yes. Hey, Thomas, I don't ever see you on here no more, they said. Well, I got a channel. It's called Thomas about 75, Master of the Period. Come check it out every Wednesday. So, it's a better time. Yes, that's right. Well, I can't remember the name on my own show. Wild Card Winsley. Wild Card Winsley. And everything is on his YouTube channel. Everything. Yep. Everything, but everything. So, check these out, James. Oh, you're gonna, you're gonna start. What's that? What do you think, James? Oh, look at that. You did pants alone. Oh, man. Yeah, the pants, man. I could, I could, yeah, I could set the lights. That's just what we're all set up for. Put the black light on. It's already on. Everything, everything is on, man. We're all set up. Nice. All right, I had a glowing in the dark. Then I got this that I did. This one, this one yesterday for beautiful dress that I did, man. Oh, that's right.  Oh, yeah, stress, yeah. Now, turn the light on while you see that. See the designs on that, man. Right, right. Beautiful and vibrant. Very vibrant. I got some, some new stuff, man, but you know, this is what we're here with now. You see, shirts all ready to go and get sold now. All these beautiful, all these beautiful wall bunch, you know, folded up, washed, went to the wash today and did a whole wash of all this stuff today, man. Okay, look, you look at that Northern Lights tie-dye company product. You know, he's got open up that Amazon store. It's, it's a coming, it's a coming. Well, the website, I had a couple of dilemmas, but, you know, I fixed those and I'm going to get on the website later on.  There it went.  That's what it is, a poltergeist.  I mean, unbelievable. I'm just a bad guy.  My best tripod for my phone is a little clay pot, one of those little baby clay pots.    And every week I go there, I ask him for a new clip, he never has it.   So guess what?   I bet that scumbag, I bet that, that, that Scheister has the part you mean. Pakistanis.  I can't stand the Pakistanis, man.  I work with the people from, yeah, I work with Yemen, I work with people from, I'll even work with Afghanistan, you know, Arabs.   They're always trying to get something over on people, man.   How much you're going to pay me?  I said, I ain't got to pay nobody, motherfucker.    I said, now, if you're going to put it in the store, that's a different story.    Yeah, I mean, it's public property. What nerve? He goes, how much are you going to pay me to put your stuff in my store?     She wasn't with me when I went over there a second time.  Silly, silly, like the jerky boys, silly.  I got, I got them as a friend on Facebook. We should get them on here, Sal Rosenberg. You remember Sal Rosenberg? You remember the jerky boys? No, I'm not aware of them.   Yeah, I got him on Facebook.  I said, maybe we'll bring you on James show when you're available. You know, you could do some prank calls. And Eric is that he appreciates a good prank. He's been on that, man. Yeah, he's been on the prank. I think people these days are way too sensitive and get butt hurt about everything. Again, we're talking about all these companies that have to change their names because of the racial tendencies that they that they kind of come across with. Oh, yeah, yeah. They're going to cancel us out. Yeah, he was telling me about all these products that had changed their name. Yep, it's happening in this country. It's crazy. Oh, you know what? Next time you call a bar, Thomas, okay? If the female answers, right, you got to go like this. You say you call the bar and you tell them you're looking for somebody. Yeah, I got wonder if my friend is there. His first name is Mike. His last name is Hunt, okay? You see the bar, you hear the bartender on the phone. You get a ditzy once you're going. Has anybody seen my cunt?   He's in San Francisco. He's over in San Francisco. Imagine the bartender.   The 80s jokes, man. I missed that some days, man. I guess Eskimo Pi is offensive because the name of the people is Inuit. They're the Inuits. Eskimo is a name that the pale face, the round eye pale face. Yeah, Eskimo. However it over is.  Why do you think I'm a douche? I mean, I love Eskimo Pi.  Inuit Pi. Inuit Pi. That sounds even worse. Inuit Pi. Hey, I got a better idea.  Can't we just cancel the government? We can cancel them, right? You know what they're doing? They're pandering their folks. They're being so kissy-ass, but they're afraid of losing votes. Look, Biden already lost his votes, okay? Okay, look, this is how the Facebook works. When you see a post by Biden, the first thing I look at is the likes and how many hearts there are.  They can make it look like he's got a lot of likes and a lot of hearts.   But remember what Chuck Schumer came out and said today, Biden will never be impeached. We will not impeach him. Oh, you want to keep Sleepy Joe in office with the Sleepy Administration. What's my administration's name again? Oh, and remember, President Camilla, he calls for president. President Camilla. President Camelto. Look at him.  Oh my god, where did you get that?  That's great. I got a couple.   Wait, who is that? He's sniffing there. It's not me, but in that photo it is. Yeah, he's sniffing you, man.  Now he's trying to grind there. It's not right. It's not right. Come here, Oreo.   She wants to lay down in bed all day. Come here. I like the flaming Thomas. Oh, I see that. Oh, I gotta turn the light off to do this because this is all dirt. This is all with the green screen stuff, but I don't have a screen screen, so I can kind of do this. I'm kind of in the photo. Oh, okay. Ah, there we go. Prince of darkness. Yeah, I'm going to buy a green screen soon.  Yeah, you have all kinds of fake backgrounds. Yeah, I just gotta, I gotta learn the programs, but I'm going to start going live a lot now. This is where you take a photo, right? No. No, you can't. No, you cannot. That was when he was the second Conan movie. I like, I like the witch, the Asian witch with the tan skin that was in front of the fireplace in the first one. Okay, so what happened to the other dude, man? Oh, he, he's got to be at work at 6 30 a.m. on a Sunday on a Sunday. And but no, on a Saturday and Sunday, I said, they're supposed to rotate that. They're not supposed to stiff you every weekend. And he says, yeah, my boss says he's he counts on me.  You got to be able to say no, occasionally, more than occasionally, I suppose.  You know, you can't be, they can't be doing that to you like every Saturday and Sunday. Yeah. You can't do you can't do anything really. I mean, if you got to be there at 6 30. Oh, look, yeah, I see that.  Oh, no, no. Yeah, move your head. Look at the look at the girl's face. And she's trying to inhale. He's trying to sniff them too. Put your finger in, put your finger in Joe Biden's ear. See if he's got anything funny in there. All right, let's see. Let's see.  Oh, my God. Oh, that's great, man. I got to get that green screen. Oh, man, it's over. I like the I like the looks on the girl's face. And then there was another one where he's trying to sniff or put his hand on some young female and she's like giving him a dirty look. Oh, God. Oh, man. I got my buddy. He makes him. He's one of the guys that he's big time. He did the Jason mask, you know, for Friday to 13. He did all the all the effects, man, you know, making the however they do it, the rubber faces and he made he made one that looks just like Joe Biden, man.   So I said, how much? I said, I want one. He goes, listen, bro, you make me a leather jacket this year.  We'll do a trade off. I'll make you the jacket.  That's how we're going to do it. So I could go live with Joe Biden's face on all I got to do is imitate his voice, which is simple in the studio. We can all we have to do is basically record Joe Biden's voice into the sample. I got a sampler, amazing sampler recorded. I recorded, check it out, record his voice in the sampler. And then I put this effect. I have a plugin that I can lay on my vocal track and his sample and I can sound just like Biden. You wouldn't even know the difference. Stuttering and old. I'm here to approach American people today.   He sniffs, man. He's sniffing everybody, man. He sniffs and look at that. This guy just loves sniffing, man.  I don't know.  Maybe he was a bloodhound in his last life. Oh, God. Could have been a bloodhound. I want to bring on, I want to bring my buddy, the paparazzi, who is also one of the top paparazzis in the world. Steve Mack, he's also a federal agent. And he's been speaking a lot of stuff on Facebook, but they put him in jail now for good. He's not getting back out. He said, I got seven warnings. He said, they put me in jail for one year now. I can't post anything. I said, you can't even make a new Facebook. He goes, because he wrote, he wrote something up there last week that nearly disturbed everybody.  I'm probably going to lose this job, you know, but whatever.  He brought it up. He goes, they're going to do it. They're going to do it because it's in our federal agent's books. They're going to do it.  They took him down. He had like 7,000 hits. They told him not to. Look, look, Paul, look at these pictures.  I have not a clue. Nope. That looks like a little teenager, man. It's N.V. It must be Nevada when he was camping. Right on the lips. Look at Nevada. That's Nevada. And look at it. Look at it. See the look on the girl's face. Wait, Demi Nevada? I have no clue. That is Demi. That's Demi Nevada, right? Oh, no, I know her personally, man. You know, I did a show with her. I backed up her. I backed her up on guitar actually in Boston a few years ago. I forget what the home is.  It's one of those big, big amphitheater out there. I don't remember what it's called. An amphitheater.  He lived in Boston. He was the owner of City Financial. You know that building in Boston, he owned it. And he died because his wife divorced him. He was a billionaire, you know, and he was supporting my career. You know what I'm saying? He paid for my first studio, all my studio recordings over 500 grand, you know, and basically he was an alcoholic. The wife, he gave the wife over a billion dollars, man. Okay. She got the kids. She got the house, the cars. He was, he was loaded. You know what I'm saying? He had probably 10 billion and what he would do every morning is let me get to the point. So she stopped him from seeing the kids because she wanted more money.  Imagine that. Okay. So make a long story short. He did kill himself. He drank himself to death and the song he was playing when he drank himself to death was my song, Breathe Again, that he loved. Okay.  We had a condo on the penthouse, you know, on the top floor by body ocean.  I'm telling you thousands of dollars rolled up and he would drop money in the homeless people's laps.   All right. So, you know, his name was Kevin Sullivan. He was a great guy, man. Really good guy. Multi-billionaire. You wouldn't even be able to tell he was that rich, you know.  He cared more about his kids than the money is my point. There was a famous wrestler from Boston named Kevin Sullivan also. I thought that. Yep, yep. He was my manager back in 2009 to 2011. Here's another photo. Wow. What is he doing there?  He's trying to smell. He's trying to smell if she has any fishy hair. I didn't tell you with all this Biden stuff. No, not really. What do you think about Biden, Thomas? I didn't vote for the dude. I didn't vote for him. I don't know. I don't know. He doesn't. Everybody but James, I know James voted for the movie. Who cares? It doesn't matter. We're friends, you know. And everybody, we all have a right to our opinion, you know. But they're all the same. Every president you vote for. Trump is just like him. And he's just like Trump. Don't think for it. You know, people have this idea that Trump's, yeah, he loves America, but don't think for a minute that he's going to die with us because he's already in the secret society. Okay.  They're all a part of it. And you can be a part of it too for a million bucks. Or you could be a rock star celebrity that's toyed with major bands and major acts.      I don't need that life.    Seriously.  That's why they're taking so many trips up there.  Even China came out recently and said they're going to do the same thing.  You know that China had their own son.  The son. How can you create a son? I know.  Oh yeah, yeah. I know Bill personally. He's a nice guy. He sniffs from Bill Clinton. He still likes cigars. You know, Bill Clinton was definitely a good president. I don't have too much faith to say about him.  I heard the Secret Service didn't even didn't like Hillary at all when she was in the White House. My rally. Yeah, she could be bitchy, man. You know, I sat at the table with her.  Trust me. I mean, there's another side to her, but I don't know that side too well. So, you know, I was never really around when they were discussing things like if something went on, if you wanted to talk to her niece about something that my ears weren't supposed to hear, it's called Mr. Manciak, can you please step into the other room? Thank you and close the door. Step into the other room and close the door. Thank you. Have a nice day. Oh, she said close the door. Yeah, going to the, going to the house is in on, they have a house in Boston, man.  And you know, the house is huge.  And I remember she said, Mr. Mancia, can you please and very stern? And I mean, can you please step, at least she said please, please step into the other room and close the door right there.  You can't, you can't hear them.  I wouldn't be able to hear it. Damn. You know, so, but I got out of that situation, you know, they're still friends, but it just didn't work out because that wasn't my kind of crowd. I'm saying I'm a rock star.  And I'm just, you know, I'm dressed up in a suit, but I just didn't.   I'm saying they do look down at you.  You know, what do you see in him? Why can't you be with somebody that's in, you know, in the White House or a House representative? You know, that kind of stuff. That kind of deal. So I had it, you know, but I still work with them. I did a lot of campaigns.  Every one of them. They're all the same.     So that's it. And that's the way it goes. You know what I mean?  It's the opposite of what they're telling.  Oh, what do you mean? I played, I played some piano before.  That was the piano. Yeah, it is. You can't hear that? No. Nope. Absolutely not. No. I hear, I hear like, I hear like the keys, but I don't hear sounds. I just hear tapping, like tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. You can't hear my keyboard? Really? No. Do you hear it? No.  So you can't hear that? Okay. Hold on a minute. All right. Oh, that's why you can't hear it. Hey, um, all right, yeah, give me a minute. I forgot I had the headphones on. So that whole time I was playing, you didn't hear nothing. Yeah, I heard tapping, tapping, tapping, tapping.  I was playing shit, brand new song after we got back from doing a laundry. So I said, ah, let me, let me put this down on track. You know, so I recorded it actually. So actually, right here, the real part. The world, the world, the world. This is how it really goes right here. Hang on this song for like three, I don't know, about a month.       But you can hear the verses, how it's like here, beginning like just humming it, like somebody will be singing them. So basically, basically, you know, I'll probably work on the track tonight. I dropped the piano down, I gotta get the tempo, I gotta, you know, set the tempo now and because I didn't use no clock on that, I just recorded straight out. I didn't want to forget it. So I'll just write the arrangement, you know, on the computer takes me a couple of minutes.  So I'll go from dropping the piano and I'll pick up my bass guitar and I'll write my bass out. And I'm saying, because that bass is very important. And then I'll take it from there. I'll lay a guide drum track down just to get me through. And, you know, once the bass and the piano is laid down and I got one distorted guitar, you know, coming in on the hard parts, I send it over to Chad.   You know, I'm saying I'll piece it all together.  I don't really do any mixing on it. And then I'll drop, I'll send it from there. When that's all pieced together, then I send it to the bass player for, you know, Aaron Burch from, uh, Reagan Benjamin's bass player, I send it off to him. And he could be on tour. It don't matter. He'll do it on the bus. You know what I mean?  That's the melody line. And all right.  And he'll drop his bass line down. From there, I can have Keith Marlin, you know, Benjamin's guitar player who I'm good friends with. He could drop a guitar line down.  But in her range, they pretty much write their own stuff. You know what I mean? So they don't like to collaborate.  She uses a lot of auto tunes.  All those high, I mean, she's got a great voice.   I don't need to. My voice when I sing, I'm directly on because I'm the musician and it's my ear that I'm playing that song. I know my melody, you know, my melody is down already.  But I don't always use big time stars.   And once you get yourself on a few tracks, you know, for people that are already big, once you're on a track, man, that's it.   The minute I toured with Billy Preston, when I got signed with him, man, I was a star. Right then, right that, you know, I wanted to be a star when I was kid. I want to be famous. I want to be a star.   You couldn't go online and look it up back then.   I'd rather have it back the other way. I like the fact we can talk and everything like this, but I'd rather have it back where people had to actually work to make it.  You had to do massive footwork.   You know what I mean? Were you born with it?   But when you sit down with them and say, can you play this with me? Let's play some fusion jazz and fucking, you know, let's go in a five quarter to a seven quarter.  Right. I say, so if you ever get with a real concert band on stage and you're filling in for somebody, okay, you could fill in with a rock band, you know, break and bench them.  And everybody's following it because they can play. You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. All the lot of these young, young kids, man, they just get up there.     You know, you understand what I'm saying? I mean, if it feels to me, it feels to me at least, I don't know precisely, right, but what what the industry's got their own in particular value on which they give all this music. What it's supposed worth is at least to them, whatever the number is, right? And then that's how they sort of what's going to be really popular, successful. How much money they want to invest in something because they view that it's worth whatever amount of money is what people actually, you know, obviously want to do. So they create the industry and they bring in the people. However, it's it seems kind of, I don't know, a little backwards where you're creating the record label. You're also the people that you know, you're also people at the end of the day that get to decide, oh, so this is what people listen to ask anybody. I don't know. Did anybody get both this to be asked what they would like to hear these days? No, it's just force fed to you, which is what I don't like about music these days. It feels like it's this is what you're supposed to like, right? And all these people on the Grammys are the people that are supposed to be winning the awards, right? Like, why? I don't know. It's definitely not equal opportunity. No equal opportunity if you're telling me I should be watching the X ones when I really don't want to. Right, right. I don't like that.  I don't get what she does. It doesn't make any sense. Eight grand. Half of them don't even write their songs, man.  We're getting paid. I'm saying, you know, I'm working on stuff right now. You know, I'm getting my name back in there again. But, you know, I'm about to sign a few different contracts.   You know what I mean? When it's production complete, the girl's got it, that song is stamped and ready to get released. That's when you get paid.  We're going to put out the track. You know, there's no advancement. When the money starts rolling in, you're going to get percentages off of the sales. You know what I mean? Okay, no problem. All right.  Right now, right now I got my, you know, a couple of my songs that like, I don't know about 15 movies out there.  You know what I mean? They're not having the premieres. So, what is that doing to my money? It's holding my money back, okay? And nothing's selling. What are we going to make money out of if they're, you know, number one, the movie, you know, every movie Hollywood puts out, okay, the big screen, you're guaranteed, man. Everybody is going to make, you know, at least fucking, the movie is going to pull a hundred million dollars no matter what you do worldwide. Okay?  Okay, like that movie, The Rick. Okay, we all went to see it. I even went to the theater because they were hyped it up so big.  What was that called?  What was that?  Okay. The crappy ocean. What was that called? The Blair Witch. The Blair Witch Project. Yeah. Yeah, man.   I heard it's sick, man. It's real. It's sick.   I didn't see anything. You know what it was?  I mean, but I'm just trying to say, like, you know, a movie makes 700 million dollars. I get 3%. That's my cut. Okay. And people go, damn, that's all you get. 3%.  I'm like 3% is a big deal.  And that's not all the songs gonna generate, you know, it generates more, more for me. You know what I mean? It puts me in more doors.  But it takes a lot, man. You know, like, like I'm saying, I'm sitting here with 15 songs on 15 major movies and guess what? Nothing can premiere right now.  They died of something, not COVID.  Why can't we go, you know, I know I'm switching subjects, but that's what we do. We don't stay on one subject, you know, it leads into another subject. You know, think about it. You can't see your loved ones when they're dying of COVID in the hospital. You can't go to their funeral because there's a closed casket. The body's gone. How do I know they died of COVID or died of anything you said?  Huh? All these bodies, you say, where are all these bodies?   Oh, we lost 46 people and today we got the names of the 46 people that were lost in that hurricane.   Where's the people that got lost in COVID? I don't see no names out there, Joe Biden. The fucks.    They're killing the music industry. They're killing everything slowly. Watch around us. Look what they've done already to us. Yo, you want to keep playing music, Thomas? And you want to keep playing out there? Then, you know what? You got to think of life like this. Yeah. You got to fight. You got to fight for your rights these days. It doesn't matter.  Oh, you can't go out in protest.  Okay, you're going to go. Let's see. There's more of us than there are of you.  You got the United States military against you. What are you going to do now, motherfuckers? When they come for you, you going to stop them?    You know, I'm glad the military is against them.  Seriously, because you know what? You know the song by White Lion when the children cry, remember that song? No more presidents and all the wars will end. One united world on the guy. You know, it's true.  That song is perfect for right now. So what I did is the other day I contacted him. I said, listen, brother, we don't know each other, but you're friends with my friends and, you know, we know each other of each other's music. But I said, that song, can I redo that song? I said, I want to remix it into a hip hop song, rock hip hop.  You know what he said? Let's do it. Because they're back. They're back. Okay. You know who else is back? The Nelson's. Remember the Nelson's? They were great.  They had nice songs, man. You know, as an artist, as a musician, there's a lot of people that are into metal and heavy. I could sing, I could scream like a motherfucker. I can go from low tone to really high tone. Okay. Screaming. I can do the whole screamo scene. All right. But as a musician, I've learned that you have to appreciate every music. You've got to appreciate everybody. Okay. Because people, we look at people and we go, why don't, you know, we want you to appreciate us or you've got to appreciate our style of music as well. It's not all about just one style.  That's a pose. We're not playing poison. They're poses. You know what?   If you don't like it, take a walk. You know what I mean? Okay. Everybody got their Pacific music and what they like. But in order to be a great musician, you've got to be able to play everything. You've got to be able to, you're playing stuff. You're not only playing metal.  But you've got to be able to play everything. Every genre of music, you know? Because once you can learn every single genre, ain't nothing going to get past you, man. It's an unlimited world for you at that point because now all you're going to do is keep learning. You'll never stop learning music, you know? It never ends.  When I played that jazz song, you know, like a simple jazz song, let's see. Let me put this on. Like a simple, simple jazz song, you know? Let's lower the mic real quick. Well, not simple, but I could go into a solo on keyboard. Do you hear those chords? Diminished, augmented, flat minor sevenths. It's a major chords. It's a minor. It's a major.  You see how you go? It sounds like you're going to end the song, but you're not. Serious fusion into a like contemporary jazz, into a serious jazz five-quarter. Then I took it into more of a Ray Charles and Billy Preston type of feel. So that's what I tell people. Like when I, when people, they go, can you teach me? I don't teach. I don't do it no more. But what I say is, I say, you see how I went from one music and worked it right into something totally different.   And a lot of people like, you know, when I do the fast, when I'm doing fast. Billy Preston, man, you know, he was one of the best pianist and organist in the world, B3. So I learned how to play B3. I learned how to use the foot pedals, man. And when I got behind those things, he would look at me and go, I never really met anybody that could like hear what I'm playing and get on my instrument and play exactly what I play.  You know, he said, that's talent from God, man. He goes, you can't form with that. So like, for instance, I can listen to your metal song and I'll automatically know what you're tuned in. Okay. Everything you're playing. And I can pick up the guitar, listen to it a couple of times and play your song back. Same thing like Satriani and Steve Vai and people like that in Vey Mounstein. I can listen to their guitar and come back and play the same exact lick. You know what I mean? Exactly. Just from hearing. I mean, I also read music and write it. But, you know, I could put, you know, I could pull up sheet music online and sit there and play the piano and read the farts I read it. You know, but I don't even have to do that anymore.  I mean, because it's enjoyable to me. It helps my eyes to keep focused and keeps my brain, my brain going.  33. All right. I'm 48. So, you know, you know, age differs. Sometimes it doesn't matter because, you know, look, Chad's younger than me and, you know, Chad's done a lot.  He's even recorded on stuff like Oh, I had a girl who was her name. You know that song? Yeah. So, he's done stuff like that. It's funny, but give me a minute. I'll be right back. Okay. You should talk. Gotta go to the bathroom. A bathroom break. Do we get bathroom breaks on live television? We sure do. They give you a cup. They give you a mirror. I watched a video of a woman who had a pet rooster. And you know, she had a diaper. We had an adult diaper. Oh, yeah. But they have toilet bowls underneath the seats when you're sitting in long waits on the whole shows.  You see, a bird could be littered. No. A bird just stops wherever it is.  And unfortunately, you know, Paris, you know, but well, well, it was a fun show talking about intricacies of being a musician. Playing. Playing. Yeah. Well, the theme is whatever comes up when it comes up. But it went well. I'm telling you, if you need any help in any way, you can message. All right, so. You in the band. You can help these guys out, right, Paul? If they need. Go ahead. I didn't hear. I was out of the room, so I didn't hear. No, no. I think if these guys need any help, Oxford forward, you know people, you can help them out. Yeah, yeah, I do. I sure do. I mean, yeah, have them send me everything.  You know, I'm saying, because right now we have to look at the situation that we're all under. We're under siege right now. Remember, we are the enemy to them. But we're really the victims. But, you know, we have to just see where, you know, I'm not really sure what's going on out there and because I'm not really traveling anywhere.  I say three years. Yeah. Say that again, James.  Oh, yeah, yeah, we got the venues. I mean, that's not a problem. The venues are there. I mean, it's, it's about people are not people just are not going to vaccinate. So I just want you to know that that a lot of the venue owners, they refuse to vaccinate. A lot of the bands, they're not going to vaccinate.  And I, you know, I can't blame them because, you know, I got to look at the point of view of this way. Has the government ever done anything good for anybody? No, no, no. Okay.  Everything. It's true. That video you sent me today.  Come on, man, think about it. This is all a big money pit for them.  Did you get that video about that they, there's a new. Yeah, the new variants. There's variants to replace Delta. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I believe it. I believe it. What is it? What is it called? Be something to be five to or something. I don't know. But I heard about it already. And they're trying to come up with a variant that, that, that no vaccine will ever work.   So, so they want, they want to really cut down. They want to, look, they want to kill the population, man.     It takes time for the earth to go through those channels. All right. It doesn't just go boom, all of a sudden like that. All right.   All right. Listen, every 4th of July, it rains exactly at 7 o'clock. Why?  Come on, man. Think about it. Every 4th of July, we get rained every 4th of July.  They distract. They distract you. Oh, look, Afghanistan, everybody's minds over there.  Okay. When your mind's off of that, and that's all said and done, now we're here. Oh, now we got this new variant coming out. Oh God, it's killing people like crazy. Okay. Now we got to get, we got, we got to figure out how we're going to kill these people now. Now they're going somewhere else and taking your mind away from there. The people already know, man.  They know it's all distraction. They're listening.    Come on, James. It could very well be a big distraction to play mind games with the population. They are. They're trying to kill us, man. We know this already. Common sense at this point. Look how many. Listen, he's talking about heart, right? I'm calling. I'm talking about all of them. Yeah. I mean, who are locked together of F4 tornadoes in the Northeast? Whoever heard of that? Yeah, exactly. And I don't know. These people are sitting there writing in comic bases. Oh, oh, just saying nothing new for New York floods. Really?    And you know what? Half of New York is underwater right now.  Hundreds of cars.  Now I'm going to get into their asses real quick.  So now they're seizing vehicles.   Oh, there was a drive by shooting, but you're busy out there.    That's what they do.   That's what they do to motherfuckers, okay? That's what they do. That's why I am 100% for defunding all New York police at this point. They're more concerned with traffic violations than they are with real people dying out there, right? Real king pins and high crimes. Well, that's what you got me stating. Because you're right. They're lazy in their cows. But listen, I'm not going to say all cops. There's a handful of good cops in every station, but you see what's going on.  One cop does something wrong, that whole station's fucked. Well, you know, those cars really are disabled because once an infant takes in water, nine times out of 10. That's it, done. Say bye-bye to them. So why are they too busy out there taking people? Oh, look, we got 500 cars seized. They defunded us. So now we're going to take from the public. Yeah. The government defunded us. They defunded us in New York. So now the police have to make money somehow. So we're going to take your motorcycles. We're going to take your cars. We're going to crush your cars. We're going to sell your cars. And that's what's going to pay the cops to be on the street working for you.  Well, I'm really angry about this. Really angry about it. That they're too busy out there doing that.  People getting shot.    They seem to have found all the people that violated the Capitol, but they can't find the murderer that killed somebody up the street last week, right? Explain that to me.   I'll bring that back. I need a cigarette. They have hidden cameras. That's why I can't get involved with these people. They have hidden cameras.  These cops, they make me angry, man. They don't get paid that much, New York City police officer. I think they started with 25 brands a year. They don't really get paid that, but it's kind of like Latin American cops.    What do you do? What are you going to call when you need them? We call when you need you and you don't do anything anyway.  We call them. The guy looks at me and goes, we can't really do much about that. Or maybe a bird hit your window.  A bird.  Well, Queens is the worst, right? With the flood. That's what I heard.  Me and my wife, we were on the bike together. We've got our helmets on. I drive. I abide by everything. Okay.  But the motherfucker is going to turn around with four of them in the car and get behind me, right? I said, all right, motherfucker, you know what?    For real.   For real, all right? For real.   It's a good link. Thank you. Oh yeah. I'm going to start a nice big fucking. We're going to start a big committee. Oh, here's a link. Here's a link.  Here's a link that everyone posted about New York City. Police officers. I think you're doing you're doing a lot.  You never hear anything good that they do. Oh, we went down in the community and we helped the homeless today. You know, we fed 500 people. No, today we went and seized 500 vehicles.   NYPD. Yeah, it's just it's a really it's total chaos.   They don't care about us, man. Everything's been in chaos because they don't want it to become chaos. I was so cool.   And that's it. They're going to steal why the American people, you know, people couldn't go to DMV.  What do they expect people to do? How do they expect people to get to work? This is why people have not voting for the two party system. They have to start voting for independence. People outside the two parties because the two parties is establishment politics. They're they're you know, business as usual. Oh, but but you know what else?  Okay. So all that going on. Okay. Yeah. The cops are busting people, throwing them in the Rikers Island, but Rikers, it's facts.    The government's done this purposely. Okay.   You can let that happen.  Where are they when people get mugged on the train?   Where are they when all these things happen is my question.  But the guy that just killed somebody, you can't find him. It's like, it's like the movie with Kurt Russell, New York. Yeah, or the cops, the cops hate people that they can't manipulate.  All right. Okay, listen, I'm getting I'm get I got to get up early. I'm getting tired. Let's go. It was a great. Yeah, it was not really that late, but it was a great show. We got we got two hours and 42 minutes, you know, and it was a good show. So we'll say more, more talent and education for another show. Thank you to the both of these really. Yeah, if you're bad for me, listen, it's a hard thing to make me angry with the cops because I did I do support certain officers.  This is why I think Curtis Sleewell, Guardian Angels, Curtis Sleewell will be good for New York as mayor because he's running as a Republican and I support him and cheers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to I'm going to try to contact them and see, you know, because I got some things, you know, definitely. Yeah, but yeah, I'm going to get back into campaigning again a little bit. I'm just going to benefit New York. So I'll say I'll send you I'll send you Eric's profile, you know, you guys could can connect and yeah, we'll set some up, you know, we'll do it. We'll do it. Yeah. His band has high potential as high potential. Yeah, we set everything up. We'll do a music night. No politics. No, you know, yeah, yeah, we'll do a music night. It was fun. What we had, you know, you get you get you get your electric guitar all set up and and we'll we'll have a have a nice show of great entertainment. Yeah, definitely. All right. But I do know some people I can link you up with in Boston. So, you know, a lot of people about the Boston, by the way, a lot of people don't even know about any networking of all kinds is is helpful. All networking. So all right, happy Labor Day Week in 2020. Happy Labor Day Week and everybody to everybody. Thank you, everyone for participating in the comments section. Adios. Oh, yeah. All right.


Brainerd is in the spotlight tonight after the folks from the show Small Business Revolution visited the city and met business and community leaders at a rally at Roundhouse Brewery. Brainerd is in the top 10 cities that are vying to be selected as the next town featured on the show and would win a $500,000 prize to revitalize the downtown area. Show host Amanda Brinkman was in Brainerd and was blown away by the reception she was unbelievable. I have to say we have done a lot of these receptions and they're all really special for different reasons, but we have never had a scream like that. It was almost like a surprise in the downtown tomorrow against, you know, the business owners in their place of business and see what it's like on the main street. But we have just, we have really enjoyed getting to the business owners here tonight and understanding what makes Brainerd so special. After the Small Business Revolution team visits all of the top 10 cities, the top five will then be chosen sometime in the second week of February. The winner will then be selected by online fan voting. Clayton Castle will have a full report from that reception and what the competition means for the city of Brainerd. He'll have that force tomorrow night on Lakeland News.


Everybody in the womb will know that your hair is on fire. Well, I am just so pleased to be talking once again to one of my favorite people in America, Nina Turner, who is running for Congress in Ohio in the 11th district. We're talking today about poverty as a policy choice. You've talked about this. What do you mean by that? What I mean by poverty being a policy choice is that we know that we have systemic failures. One very germane example is the child tax credit. Having that be available to parents lifted almost 50% of our children in this country out of poverty and just like that because of foolishness and mayhem, it is gone and those very children are catapulted back into poverty. Imagine if we made the child tax credit permanent, thereby continuing to lift almost 50% of our children and then try to take that to 100% of the children in this country lifted out of poverty. Yes, we would be making a policy choice that would be helping real people instead of helping the billionaires. I'm old enough to remember in 1965 when Medicare was enacted and Social Security was expanded, there was a policy choice to end or reduce poverty among the elderly. And guess what? It did. We had a dramatic drop in elderly poverty and that was a decision. We did it. A boom. Why can't we do that for children? Why can't we do that for vulnerable people in our society right now? You use the words chaos and mayhem in politics. Is it really chaos and mayhem? Yes, doctor. I'm trying my best to keep this PG. Otherwise, I would use some other colorful language to describe what is happening in our country right now. It's not funny.  We do. But tell us why aren't politicians doing what they should be doing? It really comes down to intestinal fortitude. You're asking the question, why not? I want to add to that question. Whose side are they on? And clearly we can determine the side that politicians are on by what they value, by what they're pushing for, what they're fighting for, what they're willing to sacrifice even their very seat for. A lot of people are angry. You know that. You see it every day. I see it all the time. And they have a right to be angry. They're angry because they feel like the game is rigged against them and it is rigged against them. What do you think about the rigging of politics and what can we do about it? We need campaign financial reform. It is rigged and doc.  I'm right with the folks that are mad.   Everybody in the womb will know that your hair is on fire and that is what we are doing.  It is untenable and we just can't sit here and let it happen. And every time promises are made to people in this country and those promises are not fulfilled, it just chips away at any hope that they have for being able to live a good life and any hope that they have that the system will work in their favor and the people who believe in keeping the status quo, they like it like this. They want people to be frustrated. They want people to lose so much hope that they opt out and they don't participate.  Well, I am here to report memo to all folks that canceling student debt will have a impact on people, a multi generation of folks, but just think about that. That a 74 year old woman saying to me, don't forget about us. I'm still carrying a student debt. There's something I've seen about that to me.