Canadian Baseball Concerts

[00:00:01] Speaker A: Recording in progress. No kidding. Welcome to what yout Thinking Friend. My name is K. Linda Berry. [00:00:32] Speaker B: With me as always, Edwar L. How [00:00:36] Speaker A: you doing today, buddy? [00:00:37] Speaker B: I, I forgot how to do this. [00:00:39] Speaker A: I, I, I just hopped back on that bicycle right now, and bam, we're right back into it. [00:00:46] Speaker B: I, I, I had to put training wheels back on. Yeah, it's. It's rough. [00:00:52] Speaker A: You got to learn to sprint before you learn to crawl or something like [00:00:54] Speaker B: that or something, I think. Yeah. Who knows? [00:00:58] Speaker A: Yeah, swap that, Reverse it, drop it down. Yeah, let's go. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Whatever. Yeah, it's fine. [00:01:06] Speaker A: Sure. But, man. [00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:10] Speaker A: I have a conspiracy I want to share with you. [00:01:13] Speaker B: Ooh. All right. [00:01:15] Speaker A: Okay. I'm convinced that every time that Evanescence makes an appearance, there's a war in the Middle East. [00:01:26] Speaker B: That's a, that's damn close. [00:01:30] Speaker A: Now, I say that with zero evidence behind it and something I thought of in the shower. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Well, it's close. [00:01:42] Speaker A: It's close. [00:01:43] Speaker B: I'll say that. [00:01:44] Speaker A: It's pretty close. [00:01:46] Speaker B: It's. I'm glad you brought up, you know, older music in our world. You know that Evanescence band from that's now old metal. Yeah, that band that's, you know, 20 plus years old. Because then that makes us a little [00:02:02] Speaker A: old, my brother, in. In the ways. Because I don't want to take anybody's Lord name in vain. But space jam is 30 years old. [00:02:16] Speaker B: Space jam is 30 years old. [00:02:18] Speaker A: The American movie classic known as space jam is 30 years old. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Wow. [00:02:27] Speaker A: How does that make you feel? [00:02:29] Speaker B: Old. [00:02:30] Speaker A: Yes. [00:02:31] Speaker B: I loved that movie when it came out. Still have not seen Space Jam 2 because I can't support anything LeBron James does. [00:02:38] Speaker A: I'll. I'll save you the movie review with this garbage, garbage, garbage. [00:02:46] Speaker B: I just. No, just. That's, that's all there is to it. Yeah, no, it's a sequel that never should have made. Been made. That's. That's all there is to it. [00:02:58] Speaker A: Ooh, sequels that never should have been made. [00:03:01] Speaker B: Spaceballs 2, I mean, well, it's not done yet, but I was gonna say [00:03:07] Speaker A: you haven't even given it a chance. [00:03:09] Speaker B: I don't care. Spaceballs is just that iconic that it never should have been touched again. [00:03:16] Speaker A: I'm gonna go with the crow. [00:03:19] Speaker B: The crow. I forgot there was a crow too, or whatever it was called. [00:03:24] Speaker A: There's like, five of them. [00:03:26] Speaker B: Is there five of them? [00:03:27] Speaker A: Oh, yes. [00:03:28] Speaker B: I stopped watching after the first one. [00:03:30] Speaker A: My sweet summertime child. You should stop after the first one, and if you go back and watch the first. First one, uhhuh, it does not age well. [00:03:39] Speaker B: You know what. Oh, God, what was that movie? I'm trying to remember. Had a bunch of stuff done by Jonathan Davis. [00:03:50] Speaker A: Queen of the Damned. [00:03:51] Speaker B: There you go. That does not age well either. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Oh, I know, but that sound. [00:03:55] Speaker B: It's an iconic movie, though. [00:03:57] Speaker A: It's an iconic soundtrack. [00:03:58] Speaker B: Well, that too. It's not a great movie. Never was, but. [00:04:01] Speaker A: No, but the soundtrack was. Oh, baller. [00:04:04] Speaker B: Oh, it was amazing. It was like the. The groups of the early 2000s and metal and new metal. It was just. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Come on, United. There we go. Sorry. [00:04:17] Speaker B: Soccer. [00:04:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, bud. [00:04:19] Speaker B: All right. [00:04:20] Speaker A: I. I am at least giving you the benefit of the doubt, where I'm like, I have it as a tab. I don't have it necessarily on the tv, like, years in the past. So I'm at least giving it the good old attitude because I was looking up, like, trying to find Evanescence, which now that I have that, a part of my goddamn Google search. I hate every little bit of it. Active since 94. Good for them. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Evanescence. [00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:55] Speaker B: Did you know that there was a time frame in the. Right around Covid. Actually maybe a few years before Amy Lee and Evanescence were on hiatus or hiatus. I can't say that today. They. Amy Lee actually made a couple children's musical albums, like Lullabies Get Out. Yeah. [00:05:18] Speaker A: I didn't know they were still touring through that process, so. [00:05:21] Speaker B: Well, well, they weren't touring, but they were kind of just on hiatus and everything. And she made a couple solo albums that were like, just kids songs, man. [00:05:35] Speaker A: That is. I cannot. You know, I'm sure that she. Amy Lee is a very nice human being. And. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:42] Speaker A: I just can't not. I'm not a fan. [00:05:47] Speaker B: Although I will say the song. Couple songs that she's done with Poppy and the lead singer of Spirit Box are actually quite good. I will give that some credit. It's what Evanescence aspires to be. [00:06:09] Speaker A: So when you are talking in the means of old stuff. [00:06:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:14] Speaker A: Centaur looping around here. [00:06:17] Speaker B: We're nostalgia stake. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we are. And this is relevant. Sure. Of the times of like. Oh, yeah. Mortal Kombat. One of those, like, movies came out around the 94 section. I could look it up. [00:06:33] Speaker B: But why, why, why use facts the rest of the world doesn't have to. [00:06:38] Speaker A: But much like you were saying about movies and songs. [00:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:42] Speaker A: One of the bands on that particular soundtrack to the movie was Fear Factory. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:06:46] Speaker A: And they are coming to Montana. Yeah. [00:06:49] Speaker B: We. The Newberry just announced their concert. Yeah, I. I don't know, I. I never was a huge fan, but it might be okay. [00:07:02] Speaker A: You know that you love them. [00:07:04] Speaker B: I know that I love them. [00:07:05] Speaker A: Yes. It's your favorite band, huh? [00:07:09] Speaker B: I think you're saying that with some sarcasm. [00:07:12] Speaker A: No. Yeah. [00:07:13] Speaker B: No. Yeah. [00:07:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:15] Speaker B: I don't know. It's been a while, so I can't quite tell. No, just kidding. [00:07:20] Speaker A: I for one will be going to that show because both the pub station and the Newberry will be having them and I will be going to at least one of those shows. [00:07:30] Speaker B: Cool. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Particularly wherever is local and I don't have to travel. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Well, there you go. [00:07:37] Speaker A: There you go. Because. Wow. Speaking. This is going to go tit for tat here. [00:07:42] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:07:42] Speaker A: I was supposed to be in your neck of the woods this weekend. [00:07:47] Speaker B: Be glad you didn't. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Boy howdy. We had a plan. Like we were going to boogie up on Thursday night, help out with anything that ever needed to be helped out with. I was going to possibly, probably hopefully spend time to say hey to my buddy. And sure enough, that did not happen. [00:08:10] Speaker B: No. [00:08:11] Speaker A: Thursday got up to 70 mile per hour winds, closing many routes. [00:08:20] Speaker B: Did you hear about. I can't remember exactly where it was between here and Billings, but did you hear about the semi that got blown over on the top of the. On top of a police cruiser on the highway? [00:08:31] Speaker A: Yes, I've seen the picture. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Yeah, it was. Luckily nobody was hurt, but it's just like, what. What kind of bad luck is that? Literally wrong place at the wrong time. Oh yeah. Type of thing. I just. That's wild. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Like, it's one thing to have a semi that's blown over and then you have somebody that comes for assistance, but when your assistance vehicle just gets taken out in the process. [00:08:56] Speaker B: Well, and they were. I think they were stopped because they were helping the other truck. Yeah, yeah. It was just. I'm like, damn, that's some crazy, crazy stuff. [00:09:07] Speaker A: So you try not to park right below, like to the side like that. It's always. That's why you are behind or ahead. [00:09:16] Speaker B: It's always baffled me that they haven't figured out a way to, you know, maybe redesign semi trucks so they're not so. Damn top heavy. [00:09:26] Speaker A: I was gonna say aerodynamic, but. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Yeah, well, that too. Yeah, aerodynamics. But it's just amazing to me that we still have this problem and it's 2026. [00:09:36] Speaker A: You know, you got to be thinking that a lot of those. I mean, there's a lot of cats that are still runnable with 1980,'80s Peter belts. [00:09:43] Speaker B: Well, that's true. Yeah. [00:09:45] Speaker A: That's true. And as we know, and we at what you thinking, friend? Support our trucking industry as well as our unions. We are pro union, and if we weren't, that would be a fun argument, but we are, so it's all good. Yeah, man. So Thursday, windy as. Then it said, okay, we're gonna let lighten up on the wind a little bit. And then comes 7 inches of wet, heavy snow. [00:10:23] Speaker B: We're just gonna dump a shitstorm of snow everywhere. [00:10:26] Speaker A: Oh, boy. Yeah. And then somehow it made its way up to you as well, because we got hit hard here. [00:10:35] Speaker B: And then I say we probably have in certain places, four, maybe five inches of snow. [00:10:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:43] Speaker B: In the middle of town where we're at. I say it's somewhere in the 3 to 4 inches. Maybe. Maybe a little more. I don't know. It's hard for me to tell, to be honest. [00:10:54] Speaker A: We got hammered, bud. [00:10:57] Speaker B: About time. [00:10:57] Speaker A: No, I haven't been hammered in, oh, I don't know, year and a half. [00:11:03] Speaker B: Well, you know, better late than never. [00:11:07] Speaker A: Sure. [00:11:07] Speaker B: I. I just can't believe how late our winter is. We. We quite literally just got more snow in 24 hours than we have the rest of our entire winter. [00:11:16] Speaker A: Oh, well, bullshit. Don't say that it's late because it. You don't act like. Yeah, I haven't been kilts for Snowy days for St. Patrick's days. [00:11:28] Speaker B: Well, that's true. Although I'm just saying, I guess late because we didn't basically, we had no snow in January or February. Oh. [00:11:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:38] Speaker B: So I guess that's what my definition of late this year. I guess. [00:11:42] Speaker A: Yeah, it was suspect. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Suspect. [00:11:46] Speaker A: Of course, you know, you never quite sure, like, February is almost like, almost guaranteed to have some hellacious snow because that's. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:57] Speaker A: Just what it is this time. Not really. And even still leading into March, it like, suspect. Even the plants were like, well, what's going on? Are we supposed to be sprouting confused here? Yeah, we're straight up corn fused. [00:12:17] Speaker B: Yeah, well, you know why it snowed? Why is that the Russell art auction stuff? Is this next week? [00:12:26] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, I would. I would have figured it's because friends of ours planned a wedding ceremony on Friday the 13th. [00:12:36] Speaker B: Oh, well, naturally. Yes, that's. Yeah, that's exactly it. Anytime you schedule an event on a day such as Friday the 13th, expect weirdness. [00:12:45] Speaker A: For sure, my dude. Yeah, like, and no discredit to our homies because, you know, they're quite lovely people. However, in this particular case is like, even. Oh, I don't know. Let's let's give some credit. Worth credit, Sue. Like even back in my marriage time, which was in August. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Right. [00:13:06] Speaker A: What? You know, you're saying, yeah, we're gonna get married February 13th in March. And you're thinking March in Montana, that is gambling. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. You don't, you don't request people to travel until at least the first week of June. [00:13:27] Speaker A: I'd say April, but you know, who am I to say? But yeah, you're right. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Because April and May still a crapshoot. And the only reason I would say that is Easter falls in that time frame and it always snows around Easter. And yeah, that's just a guarantee. [00:13:46] Speaker A: Well, and again, we just need to be sat with the state doesn't burn down. But that's just how it is. [00:13:57] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Oh, man. So needless to say, we did not. And we've been. It's been a nice little staycation. [00:14:08] Speaker B: Nice. [00:14:09] Speaker A: Nice. Yeah. [00:14:11] Speaker B: Sometimes you need that. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Oh boy. [00:14:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Just stay home and do nothing. Absolutely nothing. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Well, I ain't got no damn holidays until like May anyways. So it's just like I need a. [00:14:23] Speaker B: Let me take a me day in March. [00:14:25] Speaker A: I need a cup of tea and a. And a just me day. There you go. [00:14:30] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:32] Speaker A: So all that withstanding, good stuff ahead. Hopefully. Anyways, it's. The world is kind of chaotic and sometimes you're just like, I just need. I need a day away from news. Need a day away from Reddit. [00:14:47] Speaker B: I'm. I'm waiting for like the inevitable Montana State Fair concert announcement. [00:14:57] Speaker A: Ah, I was like that. That pregnant pause that you had there. [00:15:00] Speaker B: The inevitable. [00:15:02] Speaker A: That could be. [00:15:03] Speaker B: What is that? What is. [00:15:04] Speaker A: I'm just waiting for dot dot dot dot dot. [00:15:08] Speaker B: The other shooter drop. No, I'm just waiting for the inevitable State Fair concert lineup because, I mean last year wasn't bad with Smash Mouth, but for the. They called it classic rockish. And I'm like, well, sort of. But I don't know, it'll be interesting to see what we get because we've been getting a weird, weird group of concerts lately. [00:15:34] Speaker A: So I'm not mad considering the lineup of like, okay, 156. Silence. That's cool. [00:15:43] Speaker B: I did listen to that the other day. It's. It's not bad. [00:15:45] Speaker A: Fear Factory. That's all so cool. But I. I made the joke earlier to the waifu that we are getting bands that are nearing their 30 year tenure. [00:15:59] Speaker B: That's because they're cheap. [00:16:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:03] Speaker B: No other reason I. Did you see in or this summer? I don't even want to say the date. Great Falls is getting the Fray. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:16:13] Speaker B: And I'm like, speaking of bands that their heyday was 30 years ago. [00:16:19] Speaker A: Come on. United. All right. Yeah. No, you got Frey, and then you got Dashboard Confessional, which is a band that a friend of mine loves. Like, has done the meet and greet numerous times. [00:16:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:16:32] Speaker A: And so it was just like, oh, they. Both. [00:16:34] Speaker B: Those bands had their day in the sun. Granted, that was 30 years ago, but [00:16:39] Speaker A: Dashboard blew out the. The PAs at. At when We Were Young festival. Did they? Oh, yeah. Really? [00:16:47] Speaker B: They went, guys. [00:16:48] Speaker A: No, their sound guys it up. [00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, is that what it was? Okay. [00:16:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:52] Speaker B: I was like, huh. I. I just. I never thought Dashboard Confessionals was that good. They had one or two songs that were. You know, I wouldn't necessarily turn the radio station if they were on, but, [00:17:07] Speaker A: I mean, it's not like I'm jumping at the mute button like, it was Rush, right? I'm not. I'm not diving on that. No, I. I stand nowhere on it. It is. Yeah. [00:17:24] Speaker B: I'm just like, oh, well, that's cool. Yeah. [00:17:27] Speaker A: So are you gonna go to. Are you gonna go to that show? [00:17:31] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. I. I have no desire to wait three hours to hear three songs. [00:17:41] Speaker A: Did you go to Sebastian Bach? [00:17:43] Speaker B: I did not. I. Again, I had no desire to go to a concert for three hours to hear three songs. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Our brother Corey, huh, Did go to that show, and he said Stitched Up Heart was really, really good. [00:18:00] Speaker B: Stitched Apart opened. [00:18:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. [00:18:06] Speaker B: They didn't list any opening bands here in Great Falls. Huh? They didn't list them. If I would have known Stitched Up Heart was going. God damn it. Some. Oh, well. But yeah, that also was on Becky's birthday, so I wouldn't subject her to Sebastian. [00:18:24] Speaker A: So, I mean, if you got. I went to see Stitched Up Heart, and then you can leave that, though. [00:18:31] Speaker B: Those tickets were expensive. They were over 50 bucks. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:37] Speaker B: No, thank you. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Not their factory for here is only, like, 41. [00:18:40] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:41] Speaker B: 50 bucks was just too. Too much. [00:18:43] Speaker A: 126 for 156. So I'm. I'm not mad at some of the prices for some of the things that are coming around the bin, just because there's variety, and I love that. [00:18:56] Speaker B: Right. So, yeah, I'm. I'm all for variety, but, like, it just. I looked at it as. Because I. I didn't know Stitched Apart was opening. That would have changed my thought process maybe a little bit. Maybe because they've been in heavy rotation in my playlist lately. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Yeah. And so that was a son of a moment. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Literally just now. Son of a. Yeah. But Sebastian Bach, I. Yeah, he has a couple songs. I don't. He's kind of quirky, so you never know what. What's going to happen. I did see a thing online that I assume it was. [00:19:42] Speaker A: Oh, parents did see that Pop Evil canceled out. Right. [00:19:45] Speaker B: I did see that. Yeah. [00:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:19:47] Speaker B: At the Sebastian Bach show. I did see that somebody on Facebook in what's up Great Falls? Or what's happening Great Falls, whatever it was. One of those groups posted that it was their kids first concert and the Newberry heard that it was the kids first concert and got Sebastian Bachelor to autograph a tour poster for him. [00:20:07] Speaker A: Hey. [00:20:08] Speaker B: And then the other part that was kind of fun is he was apparently throwing out Sebastian Bach frisbees that he had signed. So the frisbee went over the kid's head and a guy behind him caught it and everybody pointed to the kid to give the. The frisbee to the kid. [00:20:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:29] Speaker B: And the guy walked over, handed over the frisbee signed by Sebastian Bach and everything to the kid. And I'm like, that's awesome. I love. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Love. [00:20:36] Speaker A: That's the equivalent of getting a. That's the equivalent of like hitting a foul ball at a baseball game. [00:20:43] Speaker B: I have the weirdest luck at concerts where I get hit by guitar picks. I'm like a magnet for guitar picks. It's. It's weird. [00:20:53] Speaker A: What is your. What is your best trophy from like a random occurrence like that? [00:21:02] Speaker B: I. I would have to say my smile empty soul guitar pick. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Nice. [00:21:11] Speaker B: I mean I did get hit by a 7 dust concert or guitar pick at the Babcock in Billings. Nice. And we were weirdly under the balcony. [00:21:21] Speaker A: Huh. [00:21:22] Speaker B: So I'm not sure how, but it just like plunked me in the chest and I'm like, what the hell? [00:21:28] Speaker A: Like I. [00:21:29] Speaker B: And the story obviously grew that I did a backflip off the seat in front of me to catch it in my teeth and landed back on the. Sitting on the seat. But you know, you know, fish. Kind of like that fish fisherman story. It just keeps. [00:21:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:21:42] Speaker B: Getting bigger as it goes. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:21:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But no, I. I would say the smile empty soul guitar pick. [00:21:51] Speaker A: Nice. [00:21:51] Speaker B: It weirdly didn't hit me or anything like that on stage, but it was. Or like out. Out on the floor. But we. It literally landed at Becky's feet and the. One of the Newberry people walked up and pointed at the ground and there was A guitar pick. Becky picked it up and handed it to me. So I'm like, cool, Nice. And that was a cool show. There was less than like 200 people there. [00:22:16] Speaker A: I. That just made me remember the Static X getting you the. [00:22:21] Speaker B: The drumstick. Drumstick, yes. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Yes. And then somehow ending. Yeah. Because I ended up knowing the sound guy. [00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:28] Speaker A: Who's running the show. And was like, okay, I'm gonna go take care of this. And it was just like, oh, yeah, here's drumstick. It's like, okay, I'm gonna make this worth it for head for having to walk back. Yeah, no, that's all good and funny enough. Static X is going to be playing here in Billings. [00:22:46] Speaker B: We saw Static X [00:22:49] Speaker A: last year. Yeah. Oh, did you? [00:22:51] Speaker B: In Great Falls? Yeah, it was dope. Seven Dust and Static X. [00:22:59] Speaker A: See, it's going to still be dope and Static X. But I forget that the worst kept [00:23:03] Speaker B: secret, the lead singer of dope is the lead singer of Static X. Oh, yeah, Yeah. [00:23:09] Speaker A: I just liked it for dope. [00:23:11] Speaker B: But, you know, I won't double duty. [00:23:13] Speaker A: Why not? [00:23:15] Speaker B: I was. [00:23:16] Speaker A: Was it good? [00:23:17] Speaker B: Dope was not. But Static X was really good. Oh, I. I remember seeing dope years ago at the Northwest center here in Great Falls. That would have been probably 2003, 2004. And they were really good back then. But there again, I had different standards for concert. The standards were cool. There's a concert? Yes. Holy. [00:23:43] Speaker A: We're getting something. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. Now my standards are a little different. I'm like, oh, really? Sebastian Bach? No, thanks. [00:23:52] Speaker A: Now you can cherry pick. It's like, oh, seven dust for the 15th time. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah. I've seen seven dust twice now. I saw the one at the Babcock was interesting because they were opening for. For 10 years. Or maybe I have that backwards. I don't remember. I know it was American Fangs, which is a band that apparently never really went anywhere. Seven Dust and Ten Years. And there was another one like. That was terrible. That opened Sarosa, I think, was the band. Oh, they were not. They were not good. Not my style of music at all. They were just. I don't know. It was really weird. [00:24:40] Speaker A: What concert have you gone to where you basically got taken to it and you've had to endure it. [00:24:52] Speaker B: Well, I can't say. And. [00:24:53] Speaker A: Or that you had a good time at it, that you were like, I'm shocked. [00:24:59] Speaker B: I am shocked. Would have been Chevelle. [00:25:03] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good point. [00:25:06] Speaker B: We got tickets for it. Free tickets to go at the. To the Montana State Fair. Of all Places to see Chevelle. [00:25:14] Speaker A: Yes. Post Covid. [00:25:17] Speaker B: Post Covid. Yep. [00:25:20] Speaker A: I was there with you. [00:25:20] Speaker B: You know this. [00:25:21] Speaker A: Thanks, buddy. [00:25:22] Speaker B: The one show I would say that we went because we hadn't seen Breaking Benjamin yet. [00:25:33] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:25:34] Speaker B: And, and nothing more was opening. It was actually at in Bozeman at the Brick Brick Breeding Field house. [00:25:44] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:25:45] Speaker B: But seeing Shinedown for like the 972nd time, it was a drag. It. That's gotta be I, I, that's just gotta be. The band that I could do without seeing again is Shined Down. [00:26:04] Speaker A: I was gonna make a joke of going to say, like I was dragged kicking and screaming into Extreme. [00:26:12] Speaker B: I, I would have been really wise. Extreme. No. And then you're like, holy crap. All right. [00:26:19] Speaker A: Well, it's like extreme also. Greatest name for a band that's like. False advertising. [00:26:28] Speaker B: Yeah. False advertising. Yeah. And yours and my, My world were like. [00:26:34] Speaker A: Huh. [00:26:35] Speaker B: All right, I guess I see the irony. Yeah. Don't like it. But I, I [00:26:42] Speaker A: But the funny part about it is that Living Color was opening for them. [00:26:49] Speaker B: Okay. [00:26:50] Speaker A: And I've heard the song Cult of Personality a hundred thousand times. Yep. But, but they themselves were awesome. [00:26:58] Speaker B: Good. That's cool. I, I, I don't know. I, I think there's been a lot of things I've seen over the years. It used to be that I would go to concerts because I wanted to see the opening bands rather than the headliner. [00:27:18] Speaker A: Hell yeah. [00:27:21] Speaker B: Like we went to it was hinder of all things. But it was on their American Nightmare tour, which is a great album if you've never listened to it. It's actually takes a lot of, what do you want to call it? Cues from like Motley Crue. Oh, it's, it's actually quite good. It's, it's got a very kind of Motley Crue esque feel for the whole album. But they were surprisingly good. Weirdly, the what band I wanted to go see ended up cancelling that one of the opening bands. And I don't remember who it was. Dark New Day, I think is who it was. So they were replaced by. Oh, I'm trying to Something else dark. I am drawing a blank. But now he's this co. Lead singer of Three Days Grace. It was his first band. I don't remember. But they were surprisingly bad. My Darkest Day. Becky from the other room. Becky with the. [00:28:40] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:28:41] Speaker B: Yeah. My, My Darkest Day. [00:28:43] Speaker A: The Hail Mary toss. [00:28:44] Speaker B: Yeah. My Darkest Day opened and they were surprisingly awful. But yet Matt, the lead singer from My Darkest Days with Theory of a Dead man. Surprisingly amazing. [00:28:59] Speaker A: I had a particular. God damn it. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Oh. [00:29:04] Speaker A: In this moment opened up for Rob Zombie in Gray Falls, and then they were signing their CDs after the fact that that was one of the cooler moments, for sure. [00:29:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I don't know. I, I like when you get concerts at some of these smaller venues because the band is more likely to be involved after the show or more likely. [00:29:26] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Like, hey, we're here after the show, Come buy some merch because a ice ball broke our front windshield. [00:29:37] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. [00:29:39] Speaker A: That was, that was Hawthorne Heights. Yeah. [00:29:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I, I, I don't know. I just think. And then there's like, a lot of the bands we listened to growing up are now independent artists because they, they, A lot of them either A, made their money back with the big record label or B, didn't make their money with the big record label. So either way, they're independent now. [00:30:05] Speaker A: Most of them made their money off of touring anyways. [00:30:07] Speaker B: Yeah, that's where a lot of them make their money is touring with merch sales and stuff like that. But yeah, like, Smile Empty Soul for me was a big one. Um, I, I found it interesting, you know, how most bands will have somebody working their merch booth before the concert and stuff like that. Yeah, the Smile Empty Soul merch booth basically didn't have anybody at it until, until they were done playing and then the band was out there doing their own merch, which I thought was kind of cool. [00:30:41] Speaker A: I, not to change subjects. Sure. But I have my curiosity about this. Have you been keeping up on the World Baseball Classic? [00:30:49] Speaker B: I have not. Because I hate that thing. [00:30:52] Speaker A: You hate that thing? [00:30:53] Speaker B: I just, I have no interest in it whatsoever. [00:30:57] Speaker A: Really. [00:30:58] Speaker B: I just, I don't know. [00:31:00] Speaker A: I, I would have figured that you meant all over it. [00:31:03] Speaker B: No, I, I, I'm very much. I follow one team and that's it. [00:31:11] Speaker A: America. [00:31:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I have nothing proud to be about. Nothing. [00:31:17] Speaker A: Not lately. Not lately, man. It's a, it's a hard, it is a hard battle right now to be. [00:31:26] Speaker B: And this says, says everything. So the Atlanta Braves pitcher, and I just lost his name. He's their ace. Huh. Wow. [00:31:45] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:31:45] Speaker B: I mean, right as I just said it, it just, just right up my. Anyway, Brave Raves pitcher was asked to, to, you know, play for the USA team during the World Baseball Classic, and he declined because of his. Literally what he said was because of reasons. [00:32:10] Speaker A: That's fair. I mean, okay, I got a, I [00:32:14] Speaker B: think where I was going with it, I think there was some political Undertones there. [00:32:18] Speaker A: You have Chris Saleh. You have Spencer Strider. Oh, Ronaldo Lopez. Chris. [00:32:23] Speaker B: Champ. Yeah. [00:32:25] Speaker A: Okay. [00:32:26] Speaker B: Yeah. He. He. He was the one that declined because of reasons. [00:32:34] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:32:35] Speaker B: And the reasons had a very, very political undertone to him. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:40] Speaker B: And I'm like, you know what? [00:32:41] Speaker A: I could respect that. [00:32:42] Speaker B: Yeah. He essentially. Basically, Essentially, like a lot of the US Athletes at the Olympics were, well, using their. [00:32:53] Speaker A: You could be in that camp where you could either not give a hoot or you're like me, where you're like, come on, Schwaba, you bum. Bum. [00:33:01] Speaker B: Get all Philly on him. [00:33:02] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:33:04] Speaker A: Between him and Hopper. [00:33:05] Speaker B: Hopper. [00:33:07] Speaker A: That was more Boston then. [00:33:08] Speaker B: But the whole Internet is on Harper for being a bum. [00:33:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:33:14] Speaker B: I think that's Philly's contract with him isn't going to age well. [00:33:18] Speaker A: No. Well, you know what, though? Huh? I. I think that it has, because if you got to be thinking, like, at the time, astronomical price tag. Right? [00:33:30] Speaker B: Sure. [00:33:31] Speaker A: But as the years go through, it's like, he got his money from the. The beginning of the stuff, and they've made appearances. They just haven't finished the goddamn thing. [00:33:39] Speaker B: You know when they're going to win the World Series? [00:33:42] Speaker A: Never. At this rate. [00:33:43] Speaker B: When Harper retires. [00:33:45] Speaker A: Oh, that's a great answer. [00:33:47] Speaker B: Because the Nationals. Harper brought a World Series to the Nationals. He just had to leave to do it. [00:33:54] Speaker A: Hey, he still got a. Wait, now I gotta check because I'm. I'm bad at math. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Math is hard. We. We don't condone math this early in the morning. [00:34:08] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. For those that are happily coming around the way, 2008 was the last time that. That the Phillies won. [00:34:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:20] Speaker A: And I don't think he was a part of that team. No, no, no. [00:34:25] Speaker B: So he was a. Nah, he was a national at that time. [00:34:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And so. But. But they have made it to the show. But of course you have the Astros, the cheating that. Yeah, the whole goddamn thing for everybody. Just. [00:34:41] Speaker B: All it takes is one. [00:34:42] Speaker A: I thought it was sooner than that, but now this is another one of those aging moments are like. [00:34:48] Speaker B: Although I will say logically, I don't know how their whole cheating scandal actually would have worked in real time. Beating on trash cans and stuff like that. I'm like, yes, they were attempting to cheat, but in reality, they did have some. A damn good team, too. So I'm taking Devil's ad playing devil's advocate here, because I don't think they gained an edge, to be honest. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Gotcha. [00:35:20] Speaker B: And if. And if your pitchers are tipping pitches I mean, your pitchers have to be better that. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Well, that's baseball. As long as the day is old, man. [00:35:28] Speaker B: Well, yeah, yeah. If, if the sign is going to be stolen, it's going to get stolen no matter what. Right. It's just a matter how they get that information. Everybody else, that. That's where the cheating comes in play. I'm. [00:35:45] Speaker A: Yes. [00:35:46] Speaker B: I'm not against stealing of signs if you can figure out the pattern, but when you start using third party things like the Red Sox got busted for using technology on the field. [00:36:02] Speaker A: That makes sense. [00:36:02] Speaker B: People were wearing Apple watches. Uhhuh. And somehow they were. [00:36:12] Speaker A: If you're not using them. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know how they were doing it, but probably had somebody in, you know, on the dark side of things, built a little app for them or something. [00:36:23] Speaker A: That was definitely the case. Oh, man. I had one of those this week where it's like, if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying. It was working on like Microsoft Office with somebody from West Virginia. And it's just like, I don't know the solution to this, but I do know how to cheat at this. And so I'm going to cheat, teach you the way. And he's like, I forgot how to do it. And so now I'm basically had job security from that. So. So. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Nice. Yeah, nice. [00:36:49] Speaker A: That's. That's how I like to play the game here. It's like, ah, it's just, we're going [00:36:52] Speaker B: to make it work, right? If. [00:36:55] Speaker A: Is this, Is that the way you should be doing it? Nope. [00:36:59] Speaker B: No. No. But it's the way I learned. [00:37:03] Speaker A: It's. It's all I've ever known. Damn it. [00:37:06] Speaker B: There you go. [00:37:09] Speaker A: Bupkus. That's fantastic. Well, aside from that, that's everything that I have, buddy. What did you think, Fred? [00:37:19] Speaker B: I, I, you know, I don't have much of anything else. It was just more of a. We haven't done a podcast for a while. It's been a minute. Yeah. And maybe I'll get this one edited. We'll see. [00:37:33] Speaker A: And now are you still on the trend? Are you still on the trend where you don't post up one until you have one in the bank? [00:37:41] Speaker B: I used to, but now it's just. I try to post it whenever. [00:37:46] Speaker A: Just get it out of the gate. Yeah, it's like, oh, it's, it's not hanging out there in the ether. [00:37:50] Speaker B: And I have one from when we did one in November, December is that I'm like, do I post it? Because it's, you know, March or do I just, you know, say whoopsie? [00:38:05] Speaker A: I guess if you time stamp and you just go, yeah, okay, that's worth it. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I, I, I'll have to go back and re listen to it, but I am, I've just been so preoccupied, occupied with all sorts of other nonsense and both you and I got sick at one point and it's just [00:38:22] Speaker A: we went back to back. [00:38:24] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:38:26] Speaker A: Which is, it was just awesome. No, no, not awesome at all. [00:38:30] Speaker B: No. [00:38:31] Speaker A: All right, brother. Well, I think that this has been a fun engaging. Anyways, it's a nice little catch up edition of what you thinking friend. I'm Cody Lindaberry. [00:38:43] Speaker B: I am Ed Worrell and you can find us all online on all of the socials. Some of the time. [00:38:49] Speaker A: Some of the time I, I'm giving up on the time. [00:38:53] Speaker B: I, I'm mostly on Mastodon once in a while, but I don't at this [00:38:58] Speaker A: point I just go, ah man, you know, I don't need it. So there is such a thing as screen time burnout? Oh, absolutely. I am not about that action, boss. [00:39:10] Speaker B: I've, I've been mostly looking at like blogs and RSS feeds instead of social media. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Good, good on you, bud. All right, well. [00:39:22] Speaker B: Yep. [00:39:23] Speaker A: Sorry, bud. [00:39:23] Speaker B: No, no, it's all good. I was just gonna say it's, it's just overload it. [00:39:29] Speaker A: There is such a thing as information overload. And honestly, just much like AI like there's too much. I'm done. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Exactly. I agree. [00:39:39] Speaker A: And with that, thank you for all for listening. Have a great day.