November 26, 2024 • 32 mins
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We're taking Thursday off, so I'm in all week except
for Thursday. I'm coming to you live from Phoenix, Arizona
and Trans Siberian Orchestra touring. Then I was taking a
look at the upcoming tour dates and they are everywhere.
They are everywhere, but some of the shows that you're
going to see pretty soon Sacramento, Nashville, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Tampa, Youngstown,
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and Akron, Saint Louis, Phoenix, Washington, d C. So a
lot of you have access and if you haven't seen
a TSO show, I think you need to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I think you need to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Even I a noted Christmas grinch, just ab I loved it,
loved the show. We're talking with a drummer and founding
member Jeff Plate as they are running around the country
bringing you a fabulous Christmas show. So I am so
thrilled that we're going to be able to talk to
him in just a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
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hundred and six eight eight nine two two eight hundred
and six eight eight nine five two two. We were
talking a little bit about Christmas and how I am
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kind of a grinch, and I've been grinchy for as
long as I can remember.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm just that girl.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I'm that gen X girl who's grinchy when I got married,
I started to appreciate Christmas more my my wonderful ex husband, James,
and he and I are still very very good friends.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
He made me appreciate Christmas. He had four kids in
his previous marriage. I have none, and so he kind
of was able to drag me, kicking and screaming into
enjoying the holiday a little bit more than I normally did.
Now I have a hard time going to stores during
the holidays.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Because of the Christmas music, because I just.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Don't need to hear Mariah Carey's all I want for
Christmas is you thirty million times in two weeks, And
that's what happens when you end up at the stores.
So I've learned that if I'm going to go Christmas shopping,
I've got to bring my headphones and my metal playlist
with me, and then I'm fine. Then I'm absolutely fine.
I can do all of the Christmas shopping. So I
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started embracing it when I was in my h Let's see,
when did I marry James. It was nine, ten eleven,
so I must have been forty five years old.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Forty five, So I started.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Embracing Christmas then, and I still enjoy it. I don't
dive wholeheartedly into it. Like a very good friend of
mine who currently lives in Iceland, Darren could do My
friend Darren Adam could do Christmas all year long and
it would make him happy. His poor partner, Chris. I
don't know how Chris stands it, but he manages. I
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think he drinks, but I'm not sure, but that's how
he handles Darren's Christmas psychosis. And there are those who just,
you know, they love it. They've got to do the
whole thing. Do you have to do the whole thing?
Do you have to do the whole Christmas deal where
you've got the Christmas lights and you've got the you know,
you're it's basically Christmas vacation for you. I know a
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lot of people like that, and I can appreciate them.
From Afar eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. One of the things that we're hearing more
of is that more people are going to be shopping
in stores this season, and I think that that is
my opinion at least, is that people just feel like
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they need to get out, they need to be around
other people, they need to be where everybody kind of
feels the same. You know, it's not everybody does the
Christmas stress thing.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I don't do the holiday stress thing. I don't have
to be told not to drive drunk. I'm I'm fine
because I stay off of the roads for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
First of all, I just don't go out.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So, you know, are there things that you do that
make you happy during Christmas?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And do you go all in?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is your Morning Show with Michael DELTONA.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Trans Siberian Orchestra is what happens when you take the
Who's Tommy and then add some Andrew Lloyd Webber and
then put pink Floyd flights on it.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Let's face it.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Trans Siberian Orchestra is for a lot of people, and
we include the shows read in on this one. It's
one of those things that is a It is a
Christmas thing for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And Jeff Plate is an original member.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
He plays drums for Trans Siberian Orchestra and he is
joining us.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Good morning, Good morning with Anna.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You know what I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I got to see TSO a couple of years ago
for Christmas and had way more fun that I thought
I was going to because I'm not a Christmas person,
So how is it that Trans Siberian Orchestra even how
did that even happen?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, this is the brainchild division of the late Paul O'Neill.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
O'Neal had had.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
This idea of creating this super group, so to speak,
but not so much with big name players and stars,
but a group that was going to be able to
perform all different types of music, all different kind of styles,
including his story in it, but also including the production
You mentioned Pink Floyd and who and in the likes
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of that, And Paul O'Neill was a man of the seventies,
you know, he grew up with this type of music
and just loved the live event. And I think you
kind of touched on it. When you come see our show,
it's a little bit more than you thought it was
going to be. You know, even if you watch video
online or whatever, being in the arena and watching our
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show and experience it is there's nothing like it now.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
One of the things that Red who is our producer,
pointed out to me, and I remember from the from
the time that I got to see TSO live, was
that you kind of you do this this Christmas show
and it is is amazing, and you kind of just
turn into a heavy metal band for a little while,
which is my favorite form of music. So you know,
you're right in, You're right up my alley with that.
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What what how do you even make that transition and
make it work more importantly because it does.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I mentioned Paul O'Neil.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
He was working with a.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Band called Sabotage in the late eighties early nineties and
progressive hard rock metal band out of Tampa, Florida, and
he was kind of heading in this direction that TSO
became with that band. Paul come from rock and roll roots,
but he's you know, also New York City guy. I
loved Broadway in theater and all that, so I wanted
to incorporate all these other elements into this. At our core,
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we are a rock band, but Paul had an interesting
way of weaving these traditional holiday themes and melodies in
and out of his original pieces of music, and lo
and behold, Transient Orchestra is a sound like no other. So,
like I said, at the very core of it, we
are rock band. That's where we all started from, and
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it's really where TSL was born from. But there's a
lot more to it than that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
So one of the things that that maybe people don't
know after you've sold twenty million tickets, are you joking
twenty million tickets to Cso.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. This year we actually we just set
the twenty million dollar mark.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think last week there was a there was.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
A family in Denver I believe that were the twenty
million tickets sold, which it's really incredible to think over
all these years we've accumulated that type of number. But
and then along with that too is chitable donations that
we've been doing ever since the very first ticket sold,
and this was this was something that Paul O'Neill instituted,
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you know, right from the very beginning. So we've donated
over twenty million dollars across the country to a number
of different charities, something that we're all very very proud of.
And yeah, we've reached a couple of significant milestones this year.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Jeff played is with us.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
He is Trans Siberian Orchestra's drummer and original member of
the group. Their twenty twenty four tour is The Lost
Christmas Eve. Now this is an all new show, correct.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yes, Well, having said that every year is a new show,
whether we are doing the same story or not performing
the same album, the show is different every year. But
this year we are performing The Lost Christmas Eve, which
is the third album in our Christmas Trilogy that Paul
Rillman o'nil wrote for the Transferveran Orchestra. We have not
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performed this particular show in twelve years, I believe. So
this is also the twentieth anniversary of the release of
the album, so good.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Timing with that.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But yeah, every year of the show is different. We
incorporate different songs into each performance. Into each year's performance,
I should say, and every year the just changes and improves.
Our staff is just fantastic. Every year Tso comes out,
We've got something new that's on the stage. There's a
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new look to the stage.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
And this year is no different.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And I have to say, not just because I'm in
the band, but they've really outdone themselves this year. The
show just looks magnificant and sounds great.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Let's talk logistics because I'm always interested in digging a
little bit deeper on stuff that I enjoy. You are
performing one hundred and ten concerts in sixty six cities
in forty eight days.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh do you do that?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, it really does sound impossible, doesn't it. We actually,
for people that don't know, we have two different touring groups.
We have a West Coast and an East Coast group
that cover the country in this amount of time that
we do these tours. There's no other way we could
possibly cover all of that. And having said that, it
is a grueling schedule, nonethe less, even if you split
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that in half. We are we are doing I think
I am in the East group, which we will be
playing in Nashville coming up for pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I believe we are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Fifty six shows and that's just in just like seven weeks,
so a lot of double show days. It's the grueling schedule.
You know, It's something we've been doing for for a
long time.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Everybody is used to it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
The tour is a grind, but it's just a fantastic show.
Everybody loves doing what they're doing. And you know, I
always got to give a tip of hat to the
road crew because these guys make sure the show is
up and running and running to perfection.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Ninety nine point nine percent of the time. There's a
there's a million moving parts in our show, and these
guys doing.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Great jobs getting it up. Everything everything runs smoothly and
we get from city to city without, uh, without any
problems to get these shows on.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So Jeff played with Trans Siberian Orchestra. He is the
drummer and also an original member of TSO. When you
get done with a Christmas holiday and you've passed out
because you're absolutely exhausted, when do you start planning next
year shows? Because like I said, you know, for a
lot of people, a TSO show is a major part
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of the Christmas holiday celebration.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Time of year.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's you know, we're going to go shopping, we're going
to eat turkey, and we're going to go see Trans
Siberian Orchestra. And like you said, every show is is
every year. It's it's a different show with some elements
from previous shows.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So how do you plan for it?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Because it's it's an incredibly complicated show.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It certainly is, and I mean honestly, management is probably
looking at this year's show and thinking, well, how do
we how do we improve it for next year? What
do we need to change for next year? What different songs,
what different elements can we.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Bring along with this?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And then also just deciding, you know, what story, what
album we are going to be presenting.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So you know, once the Duff settles, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
About February where they really start thinking, you get serious
about this. But nonetheless it is it's always.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
A work in progress.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I mean we learned from everything that we do. Every
year is a different show, and it really is something
that Paul. Paul made a point of this when we
first started doing that. So many people come to see
us every year. He just wanted to make sure that
they were going to get a great show for their money,
but also a new show, and this is what we do.
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So probably February is when they start getting really serious
about this to sit down at the table and start
planning it out.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
But I know right now they're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Looking at things and thinking of ways to improve it
and change it.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You know, you talked about your crew and having seen
a tso show. For anybody who's listening who hasn't seen one,
this is not a simple This is not a simple thing.
How long does it take them to set that stage
up and get it ready? Because you use pyrotechnics, you
use lasers, you use all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's amazing, I you know, if I asked the stage
manager to that, he would tell me it takes as.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Long as we have so.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They can take all day and set the show up.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
If they want to.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But if they are in a pinch and get into
a city kind of late in the morning and have
to get it up within several hours, they will do that.
So they're fantastic at what they do. We've we're kind
of lucky in the fact that when we tour at
this time of year, you know, a lot of other
tours have already ended, and you know they've gone home
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for the holidays. So we kind of get the all
star group of roadies and technicians to come out and
do these tours with us, which certainly helps making sure
everything is run properly. Getting the show torn down, I
mean they can to have this thing packed up and
then the truck and down the road, you know, in
two hours after the show. As long as they have
the local crew is really efficient and everybody knows what
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they're doing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They're really good at what they do.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But there are so many elements to it, as you mentioned.
You know, we've got lasers, we've got pyro, we've got video.
The lighting is just amazing. The sound is amazing. There
is production literally from one end of the arena to
the other, and these guys make it happen.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It really is really is magic.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Well, Jeff, I know that there are a lot of
people who are really looking forward.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
If I was not flying out of.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Phoenix on Sunday, I would be going to see Trans
Siberian Orchestra alas you guys are doing the show the
same day that I'm leaving. So I'm sorry that I'm
going to miss it this year because I could use it.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
You know. It's we're coming post election.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We need some positive, we need some fun, and we
definitely need some rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And we appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Thank you, Jeff, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Take care.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
That's Jeff play Trans Siberian Orchestra drummer, original member right
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Speaker 5 (16:37):
All they do is the holiday. That's it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's all Trans Siberian Orchestra does. Probably for the rest
of the year. You know, the guys probably go out
and they're playing in bands and having a great time
and doing their thing. But their job is trans Siberian Orchestra,
which is just incredibly cool. It's a thing that I
know Red likes to go see trans Iberian Orchestra. He's
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seen them nine times. I've seen them once, Jeff, have
you seen them yet?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I have not seen them outside of YouTube.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Oh, you know what, you should go to a live
shown either got.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To Nashville on the eleventh.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Did read that correctly?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
December the eleven.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Let me look at my hold on.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I have notes all over the place which they are, yes, Wednesday,
December the eleventh, bridgetone.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You know what you should go?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I got to grab some tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You're going to have to grab some tickets, go and
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Could enjoy a night out on the town.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, and get it and get in the holiday spirit.
Right now, we're all kind of trying to shake off
the election and get into that holiday spirit, and that's
a great way to do it. I'm curious about your
Christmas plans. Are there things that you do that where
you say in your head, okay, it is officially Christmas.
For a lot of people. It used to be Black
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Friday shopping. I tried to Black Friday shop one time
in a store was back way, way way pre pandemic.
This was in the nineties, and I went to this
mall called Fashion Valley because I thought, Okay, I'm finally
I'm finally off on a Black Friday because I'm in radio.
Normally I work on holidays and all of the you know,
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even informal holidays, so I didn't have a chance to
I ended up blasting past Fashion Valley mall so fast.
I ended up at a TiO Leo's drinking Margarita's at
about noon on Black Friday, and I thought.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I will never I will never try to do that again. Ever.
People try to tell you that.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
On Black Friday trying to get into the stores, and
they're all lined up and they'll crush fat. And I'm
short in stature, so it's not a good place for
me to be in a crowd of people.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
So I'm big, so I stick out. You know, I'm
I'm five foot nine.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I know there are people a lot taller than me,
but I'm five foot nine and I have bright red hair,
so I'm hard to miss. And boy, it seems like
people just aim for me because they're thinking I'm going to,
you know, football tackle my way through the crowd. I'm
not going to do that. That is not happening. Well,
come get you some Yeah, I'm not that girl though.
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I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Our phone number is eight hundred and six eight eight nine,
five two to two.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I know a lot of people have rituals, though, I
know that you might have a ritual that when you
have had your Thanksgiving dinner, now it is time for Christmas.
Maybe that is the time that you put up your
Christmas tree. My friend Darren Adam, as soon as it
hads November first, he has got his Christmas tree up
and he's visited every Christmas store that he can find
in the Western universe, and that includes Iceland, where he lives,
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and also Edinburgh, where he's from, and every place in between, London,
you'd name it. He is on the lookout for everything Christmas.
He's embraced it, he loves it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's his thing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
For other people, it's you know, the day after Thanksgiving. Okay,
then you've cleaned up, and now you can put up
the Christmas tree, and now you can go shopping. But
we all have our little triggers and our little rituals,
our little ways that life makes us happy. And I'm
curious about yours. What do you do that says Okay,
now it's time for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm one of those bitter bitter souls that when I
start hearing Christmas stuff and seeing Christmas stuff and it's
not even Halloween yet, I get miffy about it.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I get snitty about it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I don't want the Christmas stuff up until after Halloween
is over, thank you very much. And oh see, I
need the dividing.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Line I have. I have been handing out Halloween candy
to the children. As my wife is pulling boxes out.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Of the attic. I might have to lock her into
a room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I would like to until after we get done with
Thanksgiving quite frankly.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But no slam on your wife.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
No, don't open until after Thanksgiving is what I'd like
to put on most of our decoration boxes.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I know, and but you know, but for some people, listen,
this is a it's a big time of year.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It is the time when they feel the best. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You notice an uplift in mood, don't you, Especially after
an election in November. You get to the holidays and
you think, who, I am happy to put this nastiness
behind me, No matter you know, no matter which side
you're on, it doesn't matter. We all have to suffer,
don't We were tired of the political ads, We're tired
of the political ranker, and we would like to think
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of something that is much more fun and uplifting and
brings us joy. And that's how we get it is
going into these holidays for you know, some Christmas cheer,
some Thanksgiving turkey. I'm looking forward to my Turkey coma.
I embrace the Turkey coma. By the time I get
rid of all of my relatives, and by the end
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of Thanksgiving dinner, believe me, I will be getting rid
of them. I just want to go and lay and
be in my Turkey coma and go Okay, now I
can have the rest of my year. This is the time.
But first I'm going to sleep this off. Eight hundred
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going on in your world, how you feel about Christmas,
how you feel about the holidays, what you're planning on
doing this year. A lot of people are planning on
spending more money, and they're planning on spending it in
the stores, which I think is a great thing.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I am a fan of brick and mortar, and this is.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
A girl who I mean, if I was to look,
I should be embarrassed. I'm actually going to look at
my Amazon shopping cart and see what's in it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Malt we grew up in the malls.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I know.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
We we like brick and mortar. I believe that is
in that word that you just said, brick and mortar.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We love that.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I love it, I really do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I've got one, two, three, four five, I've seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Okay, probably, okay,
I'm still rolling. I'm still scrolling here. Oh my gosh,
I'm embarrassed. They're probably forty five things in my shopping
cart on Ana though, and it's a random assortment of things,
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from a birdhouse to a shirt to a My dad
has drop foot, so I found a little articulated ankle
drop foot supporter thing.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
He may be getting that for Christmas. I have no idea.
Eight hundred and.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Six eight Clondike Bars KNZ Clondyke Bars, the keto kind.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's so cool being able to do this show for
Michael del Jorno on the air and everywhere on that
free iHeartRadio app. And Vincent from Rosedale has called in
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too Good morning, Vincent, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Hey, good morning, Good morning to you. I had literally
just turned on the radio to drive some my job,
and you talked about Trans Siberian Orchestra. And I have
another one of those persons that have listened to it,
never seen it live, always wanted to, but because of
November and December being you know, a busy time, I've
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never been able to do it. Now we know the show.
I live in Sacramento. They are here tomorrow, yes, tomorrow,
for two shows on two pm and seven pm. I
believe I looked it up.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So we'll see if.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I can make it. I know my wife's off, so
we'll see if we can swing it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Don't you know what, Vincent, I swear you know, even
if you're not even if you're not a huge Christmas
person or whatever, go see the show. I think that
you will have a great time. You will get to
rock and roll all night, party every day and still
get in the Christmas spirit and just see one heck
of a show. They put everything into it, and I
(24:55):
am a huge fan of the Trans Siberian Orchestra. So
do it it. Do it, absolutely to it. You're going
to have a ball, And thank you for calling. I
appreciate that. Eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. It's your morning show and we can't have
that without your voice. Michael del Jarno is off on
I don't know what we call it vacation. He's just
(25:17):
taking some time off. I know that Michael kind of
does the same thing that I do. He has family
members that he makes sure properly cared for their elderly
and they are suffering with the kinds of struggles that
we are all expecting to kind of end up with,
thank you very much, as we get older. Apparently, yeah,
(25:39):
all of our body parts are falling apart. I keep
thinking that, you know, so far, I'm still on original parts.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And it's not for lack of trying.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It is absolutely not for lack of trying to ruin
certain body parts.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
But so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
However, I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to have
to have a hip, And yeah, I'm thinking that I'm
going to try to wiggle my way out of it,
because I don't actually want to replace a hip if
I can avoid it.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
But my left hip is not.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Doing what it should be doing these days, and it
makes me very sad.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
End of mine. His name is lad Bennett, and I
wrote this down and put it in my phone, and
it says I abused myself as a child and the
swelling never went down.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And I you know, I broke my back on a
trampoline when I was a kid, and broke it again
when I was intertubing down a mountain and hit a
guy wire at about thirty five miles an hour across
my back. So I've broken many I've broken many things.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's little hairline fractures and things.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I didn't sever my spine, but you know, you can
get these little hairline fractures in your spine, and that's
what I've managed to do. So I keep waiting for
the spine to give out. My lower back's not doing
so great. The upper back, where I did most of
the damage, is actually fine. I have no idea why that,
but I'm pretty I'm feeling very uncertain about this left
hip and what is going to happen to it in
(27:05):
the next ten years. And is there anything anything at
all that I can do to avoid the worst of
the worst. I'm not really sure that there is, and
it makes me very sad, although I do take heart
because I was an athlete when I was a kid,
but I'm very much not.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
An athlete now.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I do not do athletic things outside of you know,
vacuuming and weed whacking. That's about the extent of the
athletics that I get up to these days. I have
a friend who is an avid hiker, and he's you know,
he is mister fitness, and he just goes out and
he's going to need a hip. So it's like, well,
it's not just me from sitting on it. He walked
(27:49):
on it and he's going to get his too. So
that's that's where we are. The Menendez brothers thing has
kind of wended its way through the court, and I
wanted to talk a little bit more about that. They
are going to stay behind bars right now. Eric and
Lyle Menendez they killed their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
(28:09):
They don't say that they didn't do it. They absolutely
did it. Now they're saying that they were abused by
their father for years and their mother did nothing to
stop it. And that's why this situation erupted in nineteen
eighty nine the way that it did. And it was
a shocking case for those of us who were kind
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of of their.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Age, you know, or maybe a little bit.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I think there might be a little bit younger than me,
but not by much, not by much. And it was
a shocking case because, you know, you just don't kill
your parents. That's not something that happens in our world,
or at least it seemed like it didn't happen in
our world. At that time they are going to be resentenced,
but it's not going to happen until January.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Now. What's happened is new evidence.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
According to George Gascone, who is the LAEDA right now,
new evidence has come to light that says that they
were in fact abused by their father. And if they were,
I mean, it would be a mitigating circumstance, wouldn't it.
And they've been in prison all of this time since
they went on trial I believe in was it ninety
or ninety one, I can't remember, but it's they've been
(29:19):
in prison since then, and they've been separated for most
of that time. Only now are they together at Donovan
State Prison in San Diego. Now, the outgoing DA is
a very soft on crime guide named George gascarm And
when I say soft on crime, I'm not joking. He
says that you know they were mitigating circumstances, we need
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to relook at this, etc. And of course Mark Garrigos,
who is the attorney for Eric and Lyle, agrees. The
newly elected DA, however, is not quite as convinced. There
was also a Netflix story that came out about the
Menendez brothers and has cast some doubt on whether they
were the cold blooded killers that they were portrayed. I mean,
(30:05):
the way that it was portrayed at the time was
they were killing for money. Their parents were incredibly wealthy,
and they killed their parents in order to get their
hands on the money. That was the story, and that's
really what got them their life sentences. But this new
DA says, you know, I'm not going to just buy
from Netflix, that this is a story that's worth looking
(30:27):
into a little further.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I'm going to take some time.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I'm going to study the case and we'll do a
re sentencing for late January, so after the beginning of
the year we will find out more about the Menendez brothers. Also,
a story came out about Drake. Now, Drake is an
artist that I don't get and it's not in a
kids these days way or get off my lawn way,
(30:51):
which I am not above. By the way, I will
I will tell you to get off my lawn. Drake,
I think, is one of the most untalented hacks out there.
I love some rap music, I love hip hop, I
love R and B. I love music as a whole.
So this is this is not about not liking that style.
(31:12):
I don't like him. I don't think he's any good.
I think he's terrible. And now he's taking action against
Universal Music Group and Spotify, saying that they have come
together to fake the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's song Not
Like Us. So his legal team, Drake's, filed a pre
(31:33):
action petition claiming that the companies used bots and other
methods to manipulate and saturate streaming services. I guess it
kind of a like in the old school terms, it
would have been payola or plug ole or something like that.
You know, it's if you are colluding with a radio
station to get a song.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Played a lah.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
You know, Alan Freed, who was a great DJ, coined
the Turm rock and roll and also took pay to
play people's records, let's face it. Then you know he's
saying that that Kendick Kendrick Lamar is getting way too
much airplay because because Spotify is getting paid to do it,
and that is it is illegal.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
It is illegal as heck.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I mean certainly in terrestrial radio, and I would imagine
that it is going to be illegal even with Spotify. Jeff,
did you have something to say to me, dear I.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Thought I could hear you just letting you know we're
in our final minute.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I can't believe it, right, what, How did this day go?
This day went by too fast. You know what, we'll
We're going to do it again tomorrow. How about that
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We're taking Thursday off, so I'm in all week except
for Thursday. I'm coming to you live from Phoenix, Arizona
and Trans Siberian Orchestra touring. Then I was taking a
look at the upcoming tour dates and they are everywhere.
They are everywhere, but some of the shows that you're
going to see pretty soon Sacramento, Nashville, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Tampa, Youngstown,
(01:14):
and Akron, Saint Louis, Phoenix, Washington, d C. So a
lot of you have access and if you haven't seen
a TSO show, I think you need to do it.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I think you need to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Even I a noted Christmas grinch, just ab I loved it,
loved the show. We're talking with a drummer and founding
member Jeff Plate as they are running around the country
bringing you a fabulous Christmas show. So I am so
thrilled that we're going to be able to talk to
him in just a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
It's six after the.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Hour and we are on the errand everywhere on that
free iHeartRadio app. Just hit that talk back Mike and
you can join the conversation. Because it's your morning show,
not mine. It's your world, man, I'm just renting eight
hundred and six eight eight nine two two eight hundred
and six eight eight nine five two two. We were
talking a little bit about Christmas and how I am
(02:07):
kind of a grinch, and I've been grinchy for as
long as I can remember.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm just that girl.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I'm that gen X girl who's grinchy when I got married,
I started to appreciate Christmas more my my wonderful ex husband, James,
and he and I are still very very good friends.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
He made me appreciate Christmas. He had four kids in
his previous marriage. I have none, and so he kind
of was able to drag me, kicking and screaming into
enjoying the holiday a little bit more than I normally did.
Now I have a hard time going to stores during
the holidays.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Because of the Christmas music, because I just.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Don't need to hear Mariah Carey's all I want for
Christmas is you thirty million times in two weeks, And
that's what happens when you end up at the stores.
So I've learned that if I'm going to go Christmas shopping,
I've got to bring my headphones and my metal playlist
with me, and then I'm fine. Then I'm absolutely fine.
I can do all of the Christmas shopping. So I
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started embracing it when I was in my h Let's see,
when did I marry James. It was nine, ten eleven,
so I must have been forty five years old.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Forty five, So I started.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Embracing Christmas then, and I still enjoy it. I don't
dive wholeheartedly into it. Like a very good friend of
mine who currently lives in Iceland, Darren could do My
friend Darren Adam could do Christmas all year long and
it would make him happy. His poor partner, Chris. I
don't know how Chris stands it, but he manages. I
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think he drinks, but I'm not sure, but that's how
he handles Darren's Christmas psychosis. And there are those who just,
you know, they love it. They've got to do the
whole thing. Do you have to do the whole thing?
Do you have to do the whole Christmas deal where
you've got the Christmas lights and you've got the you know,
you're it's basically Christmas vacation for you. I know a
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lot of people like that, and I can appreciate them.
From Afar eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. One of the things that we're hearing more
of is that more people are going to be shopping
in stores this season, and I think that that is
my opinion at least, is that people just feel like
(04:25):
they need to get out, they need to be around
other people, they need to be where everybody kind of
feels the same. You know, it's not everybody does the
Christmas stress thing.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I don't do the holiday stress thing. I don't have
to be told not to drive drunk. I'm I'm fine
because I stay off of the roads for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
First of all, I just don't go out.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So, you know, are there things that you do that
make you happy during Christmas?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And do you go all in?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This is your Morning Show with Michael DELTONA.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Trans Siberian Orchestra is what happens when you take the
Who's Tommy and then add some Andrew Lloyd Webber and
then put pink Floyd flights on it.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Let's face it.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Trans Siberian Orchestra is for a lot of people, and
we include the shows read in on this one. It's
one of those things that is a It is a
Christmas thing for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And Jeff Plate is an original member.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
He plays drums for Trans Siberian Orchestra and he is
joining us.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Good morning, Good morning with Anna.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You know what I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I got to see TSO a couple of years ago
for Christmas and had way more fun that I thought
I was going to because I'm not a Christmas person,
So how is it that Trans Siberian Orchestra even how
did that even happen?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, this is the brainchild division of the late Paul O'Neill.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
O'Neal had had.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
This idea of creating this super group, so to speak,
but not so much with big name players and stars,
but a group that was going to be able to
perform all different types of music, all different kind of styles,
including his story in it, but also including the production
You mentioned Pink Floyd and who and in the likes
(06:23):
of that, And Paul O'Neill was a man of the seventies,
you know, he grew up with this type of music
and just loved the live event. And I think you
kind of touched on it. When you come see our show,
it's a little bit more than you thought it was
going to be. You know, even if you watch video
online or whatever, being in the arena and watching our
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show and experience it is there's nothing like it now.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
One of the things that Red who is our producer,
pointed out to me, and I remember from the from
the time that I got to see TSO live, was
that you kind of you do this this Christmas show
and it is is amazing, and you kind of just
turn into a heavy metal band for a little while,
which is my favorite form of music. So you know,
you're right in, You're right up my alley with that.
(07:09):
What what how do you even make that transition and
make it work more importantly because it does.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I mentioned Paul O'Neil.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
He was working with a.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Band called Sabotage in the late eighties early nineties and
progressive hard rock metal band out of Tampa, Florida, and
he was kind of heading in this direction that TSO
became with that band. Paul come from rock and roll roots,
but he's you know, also New York City guy. I
loved Broadway in theater and all that, so I wanted
to incorporate all these other elements into this. At our core,
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we are a rock band, but Paul had an interesting
way of weaving these traditional holiday themes and melodies in
and out of his original pieces of music, and lo
and behold, Transient Orchestra is a sound like no other. So,
like I said, at the very core of it, we
are rock band. That's where we all started from, and
(08:02):
it's really where TSL was born from. But there's a
lot more to it than that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
So one of the things that that maybe people don't
know after you've sold twenty million tickets, are you joking
twenty million tickets to Cso.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. This year we actually we just set
the twenty million dollar mark.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
I think last week there was a there was.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
A family in Denver I believe that were the twenty
million tickets sold, which it's really incredible to think over
all these years we've accumulated that type of number. But
and then along with that too is chitable donations that
we've been doing ever since the very first ticket sold,
and this was this was something that Paul O'Neill instituted,
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you know, right from the very beginning. So we've donated
over twenty million dollars across the country to a number
of different charities, something that we're all very very proud of.
And yeah, we've reached a couple of significant milestones this year.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Jeff played is with us.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
He is Trans Siberian Orchestra's drummer and original member of
the group. Their twenty twenty four tour is The Lost
Christmas Eve. Now this is an all new show, correct.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yes, Well, having said that every year is a new show,
whether we are doing the same story or not performing
the same album, the show is different every year. But
this year we are performing The Lost Christmas Eve, which
is the third album in our Christmas Trilogy that Paul
Rillman o'nil wrote for the Transferveran Orchestra. We have not
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performed this particular show in twelve years, I believe. So
this is also the twentieth anniversary of the release of
the album, so good.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Timing with that.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But yeah, every year of the show is different. We
incorporate different songs into each performance. Into each year's performance,
I should say, and every year the just changes and improves.
Our staff is just fantastic. Every year Tso comes out,
We've got something new that's on the stage. There's a
(10:08):
new look to the stage.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
And this year is no different.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And I have to say, not just because I'm in
the band, but they've really outdone themselves this year. The
show just looks magnificant and sounds great.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Let's talk logistics because I'm always interested in digging a
little bit deeper on stuff that I enjoy. You are
performing one hundred and ten concerts in sixty six cities
in forty eight days.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh do you do that?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, it really does sound impossible, doesn't it. We actually,
for people that don't know, we have two different touring groups.
We have a West Coast and an East Coast group
that cover the country in this amount of time that
we do these tours. There's no other way we could
possibly cover all of that. And having said that, it
is a grueling schedule, nonethe less, even if you split
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that in half. We are we are doing I think
I am in the East group, which we will be
playing in Nashville coming up for pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I believe we are doing.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Fifty six shows and that's just in just like seven weeks,
so a lot of double show days. It's the grueling schedule.
You know, It's something we've been doing for for a
long time.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Everybody is used to it.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
The tour is a grind, but it's just a fantastic show.
Everybody loves doing what they're doing. And you know, I
always got to give a tip of hat to the
road crew because these guys make sure the show is
up and running and running to perfection.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Ninety nine point nine percent of the time. There's a
there's a million moving parts in our show, and these
guys doing.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Great jobs getting it up. Everything everything runs smoothly and
we get from city to city without, uh, without any
problems to get these shows on.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So Jeff played with Trans Siberian Orchestra. He is the
drummer and also an original member of TSO. When you
get done with a Christmas holiday and you've passed out
because you're absolutely exhausted, when do you start planning next
year shows? Because like I said, you know, for a
lot of people, a TSO show is a major part
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of the Christmas holiday celebration.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Time of year.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's you know, we're going to go shopping, we're going
to eat turkey, and we're going to go see Trans
Siberian Orchestra. And like you said, every show is is
every year. It's it's a different show with some elements
from previous shows.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
So how do you plan for it?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Because it's it's an incredibly complicated show.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
It certainly is, and I mean honestly, management is probably
looking at this year's show and thinking, well, how do
we how do we improve it for next year? What
do we need to change for next year? What different songs,
what different elements can we.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Bring along with this?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
And then also just deciding, you know, what story, what
album we are going to be presenting.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
So you know, once the Duff settles, it's probably.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
About February where they really start thinking, you get serious
about this. But nonetheless it is it's always.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
A work in progress.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I mean we learned from everything that we do. Every
year is a different show, and it really is something
that Paul. Paul made a point of this when we
first started doing that. So many people come to see
us every year. He just wanted to make sure that
they were going to get a great show for their money,
but also a new show, and this is what we do.
(13:28):
So probably February is when they start getting really serious
about this to sit down at the table and start
planning it out.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
But I know right now they're.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Looking at things and thinking of ways to improve it
and change it.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
You know, you talked about your crew and having seen
a tso show. For anybody who's listening who hasn't seen one,
this is not a simple This is not a simple thing.
How long does it take them to set that stage
up and get it ready? Because you use pyrotechnics, you
use lasers, you use all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's amazing, I you know, if I asked the stage
manager to that, he would tell me it takes as.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Long as we have so.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They can take all day and set the show up.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
If they want to.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But if they are in a pinch and get into
a city kind of late in the morning and have
to get it up within several hours, they will do that.
So they're fantastic at what they do. We've we're kind
of lucky in the fact that when we tour at
this time of year, you know, a lot of other
tours have already ended, and you know they've gone home
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for the holidays. So we kind of get the all
star group of roadies and technicians to come out and
do these tours with us, which certainly helps making sure
everything is run properly. Getting the show torn down, I
mean they can to have this thing packed up and
then the truck and down the road, you know, in
two hours after the show. As long as they have
the local crew is really efficient and everybody knows what
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they're doing.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
They're really good at what they do.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
But there are so many elements to it, as you mentioned.
You know, we've got lasers, we've got pyro, we've got video.
The lighting is just amazing. The sound is amazing. There
is production literally from one end of the arena to
the other, and these guys make it happen.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
It really is really is magic.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Well, Jeff, I know that there are a lot of
people who are really looking forward.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
If I was not flying out of.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Phoenix on Sunday, I would be going to see Trans
Siberian Orchestra alas you guys are doing the show the
same day that I'm leaving. So I'm sorry that I'm
going to miss it this year because I could use it.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
You know. It's we're coming post election.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
We need some positive, we need some fun, and we
definitely need some rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
And we appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Thank you, Jeff, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Take care.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
All right.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
That's Jeff play Trans Siberian Orchestra drummer, original member right
here on your Morning show.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
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Speaker 5 (16:37):
All they do is the holiday. That's it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That's all Trans Siberian Orchestra does. Probably for the rest
of the year. You know, the guys probably go out
and they're playing in bands and having a great time
and doing their thing. But their job is trans Siberian Orchestra,
which is just incredibly cool. It's a thing that I
know Red likes to go see trans Iberian Orchestra. He's
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seen them nine times. I've seen them once, Jeff, have
you seen them yet?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I have not seen them outside of YouTube.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Oh, you know what, you should go to a live
shown either got.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To Nashville on the eleventh.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Did read that correctly?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
December the eleven.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Let me look at my hold on.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I have notes all over the place which they are, yes, Wednesday,
December the eleventh, bridgetone.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
You know what you should go?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, I got to grab some tickets.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You're going to have to grab some tickets, go and
enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Could enjoy a night out on the town.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, and get it and get in the holiday spirit.
Right now, we're all kind of trying to shake off
the election and get into that holiday spirit, and that's
a great way to do it. I'm curious about your
Christmas plans. Are there things that you do that where
you say in your head, okay, it is officially Christmas.
For a lot of people. It used to be Black
(17:54):
Friday shopping. I tried to Black Friday shop one time
in a store was back way, way way pre pandemic.
This was in the nineties, and I went to this
mall called Fashion Valley because I thought, Okay, I'm finally
I'm finally off on a Black Friday because I'm in radio.
Normally I work on holidays and all of the you know,
(18:16):
even informal holidays, so I didn't have a chance to
I ended up blasting past Fashion Valley mall so fast.
I ended up at a TiO Leo's drinking Margarita's at
about noon on Black Friday, and I thought.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I will never I will never try to do that again. Ever.
People try to tell you that.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
On Black Friday trying to get into the stores, and
they're all lined up and they'll crush fat. And I'm
short in stature, so it's not a good place for
me to be in a crowd of people.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
So I'm big, so I stick out. You know, I'm
I'm five foot nine.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I know there are people a lot taller than me,
but I'm five foot nine and I have bright red hair,
so I'm hard to miss. And boy, it seems like
people just aim for me because they're thinking I'm going to,
you know, football tackle my way through the crowd. I'm
not going to do that. That is not happening. Well,
come get you some Yeah, I'm not that girl though.
(19:11):
I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Our phone number is eight hundred and six eight eight nine,
five two to two.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I know a lot of people have rituals, though, I
know that you might have a ritual that when you
have had your Thanksgiving dinner, now it is time for Christmas.
Maybe that is the time that you put up your
Christmas tree. My friend Darren Adam, as soon as it
hads November first, he has got his Christmas tree up
and he's visited every Christmas store that he can find
in the Western universe, and that includes Iceland, where he lives,
(19:40):
and also Edinburgh, where he's from, and every place in between, London,
you'd name it. He is on the lookout for everything Christmas.
He's embraced it, he loves it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It's his thing.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
For other people, it's you know, the day after Thanksgiving. Okay,
then you've cleaned up, and now you can put up
the Christmas tree, and now you can go shopping. But
we all have our little triggers and our little rituals,
our little ways that life makes us happy. And I'm
curious about yours. What do you do that says Okay,
now it's time for the holidays.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I'm one of those bitter bitter souls that when I
start hearing Christmas stuff and seeing Christmas stuff and it's
not even Halloween yet, I get miffy about it.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I get snitty about it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I don't want the Christmas stuff up until after Halloween
is over, thank you very much. And oh see, I
need the dividing.
Speaker 8 (20:32):
Line I have. I have been handing out Halloween candy
to the children. As my wife is pulling boxes out.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Of the attic. I might have to lock her into
a room.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I would like to until after we get done with
Thanksgiving quite frankly.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
But no slam on your wife.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
No, don't open until after Thanksgiving is what I'd like
to put on most of our decoration boxes.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I know, and but you know, but for some people, listen,
this is a it's a big time of year.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It is the time when they feel the best. You know.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
You notice an uplift in mood, don't you, Especially after
an election in November. You get to the holidays and
you think, who, I am happy to put this nastiness
behind me, No matter you know, no matter which side
you're on, it doesn't matter. We all have to suffer,
don't We were tired of the political ads, We're tired
of the political ranker, and we would like to think
(21:29):
of something that is much more fun and uplifting and
brings us joy. And that's how we get it is
going into these holidays for you know, some Christmas cheer,
some Thanksgiving turkey. I'm looking forward to my Turkey coma.
I embrace the Turkey coma. By the time I get
rid of all of my relatives, and by the end
(21:50):
of Thanksgiving dinner, believe me, I will be getting rid
of them. I just want to go and lay and
be in my Turkey coma and go Okay, now I
can have the rest of my year. This is the time.
But first I'm going to sleep this off. Eight hundred
and six eight eight nine, five two to two. That
is the number that you need to call and you
can talk back on that iHeartRadio app. You just hit
(22:12):
that red microphone button and you tell us exactly what's
going on in your world, how you feel about Christmas,
how you feel about the holidays, what you're planning on
doing this year. A lot of people are planning on
spending more money, and they're planning on spending it in
the stores, which I think is a great thing.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I am a fan of brick and mortar, and this is.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
A girl who I mean, if I was to look,
I should be embarrassed. I'm actually going to look at
my Amazon shopping cart and see what's in it.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Malt we grew up in the malls.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I know.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
We we like brick and mortar. I believe that is
in that word that you just said, brick and mortar.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We love that.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I love it, I really do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
I've got one, two, three, four five, I've seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Okay, probably, okay,
I'm still rolling. I'm still scrolling here. Oh my gosh,
I'm embarrassed. They're probably forty five things in my shopping
cart on Ana though, and it's a random assortment of things,
(23:18):
from a birdhouse to a shirt to a My dad
has drop foot, so I found a little articulated ankle
drop foot supporter thing.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
He may be getting that for Christmas. I have no idea.
Eight hundred and.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Six eight Clondike Bars KNZ Clondyke Bars, the keto kind.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
It's your morning show with Michael del Jorno.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's so cool being able to do this show for
Michael del Jorno on the air and everywhere on that
free iHeartRadio app. And Vincent from Rosedale has called in
an eight hundred and six eight eight nine five two
too Good morning, Vincent, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Hey, good morning, Good morning to you. I had literally
just turned on the radio to drive some my job,
and you talked about Trans Siberian Orchestra. And I have
another one of those persons that have listened to it,
never seen it live, always wanted to, but because of
November and December being you know, a busy time, I've
(24:15):
never been able to do it. Now we know the show.
I live in Sacramento. They are here tomorrow, yes, tomorrow,
for two shows on two pm and seven pm. I
believe I looked it up.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So we'll see if.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
I can make it. I know my wife's off, so
we'll see if we can swing it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Don't you know what, Vincent, I swear you know, even
if you're not even if you're not a huge Christmas
person or whatever, go see the show. I think that
you will have a great time. You will get to
rock and roll all night, party every day and still
get in the Christmas spirit and just see one heck
of a show. They put everything into it, and I
(24:55):
am a huge fan of the Trans Siberian Orchestra. So
do it it. Do it, absolutely to it. You're going
to have a ball, And thank you for calling. I
appreciate that. Eight hundred and six eight eight nine five
two two. It's your morning show and we can't have
that without your voice. Michael del Jarno is off on
I don't know what we call it vacation. He's just
(25:17):
taking some time off. I know that Michael kind of
does the same thing that I do. He has family
members that he makes sure properly cared for their elderly
and they are suffering with the kinds of struggles that
we are all expecting to kind of end up with,
thank you very much, as we get older. Apparently, yeah,
(25:39):
all of our body parts are falling apart. I keep
thinking that, you know, so far, I'm still on original parts.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And it's not for lack of trying.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
It is absolutely not for lack of trying to ruin
certain body parts.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
But so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
However, I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to have
to have a hip, And yeah, I'm thinking that I'm
going to try to wiggle my way out of it,
because I don't actually want to replace a hip if
I can avoid it.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
But my left hip is not.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Doing what it should be doing these days, and it
makes me very sad.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
End of mine. His name is lad Bennett, and I
wrote this down and put it in my phone, and
it says I abused myself as a child and the
swelling never went down.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
No, it didn't.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
And I you know, I broke my back on a
trampoline when I was a kid, and broke it again
when I was intertubing down a mountain and hit a
guy wire at about thirty five miles an hour across
my back. So I've broken many I've broken many things.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's little hairline fractures and things.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I didn't sever my spine, but you know, you can
get these little hairline fractures in your spine, and that's
what I've managed to do. So I keep waiting for
the spine to give out. My lower back's not doing
so great. The upper back, where I did most of
the damage, is actually fine. I have no idea why that,
but I'm pretty I'm feeling very uncertain about this left
hip and what is going to happen to it in
(27:05):
the next ten years. And is there anything anything at
all that I can do to avoid the worst of
the worst. I'm not really sure that there is, and
it makes me very sad, although I do take heart
because I was an athlete when I was a kid,
but I'm very much not.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
An athlete now.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I do not do athletic things outside of you know,
vacuuming and weed whacking. That's about the extent of the
athletics that I get up to these days. I have
a friend who is an avid hiker, and he's you know,
he is mister fitness, and he just goes out and
he's going to need a hip. So it's like, well,
it's not just me from sitting on it. He walked
(27:49):
on it and he's going to get his too. So
that's that's where we are. The Menendez brothers thing has
kind of wended its way through the court, and I
wanted to talk a little bit more about that. They
are going to stay behind bars right now. Eric and
Lyle Menendez they killed their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
(28:09):
They don't say that they didn't do it. They absolutely
did it. Now they're saying that they were abused by
their father for years and their mother did nothing to
stop it. And that's why this situation erupted in nineteen
eighty nine the way that it did. And it was
a shocking case for those of us who were kind
(28:31):
of of their.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Age, you know, or maybe a little bit.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I think there might be a little bit younger than me,
but not by much, not by much. And it was
a shocking case because, you know, you just don't kill
your parents. That's not something that happens in our world,
or at least it seemed like it didn't happen in
our world. At that time they are going to be resentenced,
but it's not going to happen until January.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Now. What's happened is new evidence.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
According to George Gascone, who is the LAEDA right now,
new evidence has come to light that says that they
were in fact abused by their father. And if they were,
I mean, it would be a mitigating circumstance, wouldn't it.
And they've been in prison all of this time since
they went on trial I believe in was it ninety
or ninety one, I can't remember, but it's they've been
(29:19):
in prison since then, and they've been separated for most
of that time. Only now are they together at Donovan
State Prison in San Diego. Now, the outgoing DA is
a very soft on crime guide named George gascarm And
when I say soft on crime, I'm not joking. He
says that you know they were mitigating circumstances, we need
(29:41):
to relook at this, etc. And of course Mark Garrigos,
who is the attorney for Eric and Lyle, agrees. The
newly elected DA, however, is not quite as convinced. There
was also a Netflix story that came out about the
Menendez brothers and has cast some doubt on whether they
were the cold blooded killers that they were portrayed. I mean,
(30:05):
the way that it was portrayed at the time was
they were killing for money. Their parents were incredibly wealthy,
and they killed their parents in order to get their
hands on the money. That was the story, and that's
really what got them their life sentences. But this new
DA says, you know, I'm not going to just buy
from Netflix, that this is a story that's worth looking
(30:27):
into a little further.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I'm going to take some time.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I'm going to study the case and we'll do a
re sentencing for late January, so after the beginning of
the year we will find out more about the Menendez brothers. Also,
a story came out about Drake. Now, Drake is an
artist that I don't get and it's not in a
kids these days way or get off my lawn way,
(30:51):
which I am not above. By the way, I will
I will tell you to get off my lawn. Drake,
I think, is one of the most untalented hacks out there.
I love some rap music, I love hip hop, I
love R and B. I love music as a whole.
So this is this is not about not liking that style.
(31:12):
I don't like him. I don't think he's any good.
I think he's terrible. And now he's taking action against
Universal Music Group and Spotify, saying that they have come
together to fake the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's song Not
Like Us. So his legal team, Drake's, filed a pre
(31:33):
action petition claiming that the companies used bots and other
methods to manipulate and saturate streaming services. I guess it
kind of a like in the old school terms, it
would have been payola or plug ole or something like that.
You know, it's if you are colluding with a radio
station to get a song.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Played a lah.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
You know, Alan Freed, who was a great DJ, coined
the Turm rock and roll and also took pay to
play people's records, let's face it. Then you know he's
saying that that Kendick Kendrick Lamar is getting way too
much airplay because because Spotify is getting paid to do it,
and that is it is illegal.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
It is illegal as heck.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
I mean certainly in terrestrial radio, and I would imagine
that it is going to be illegal even with Spotify. Jeff,
did you have something to say to me, dear I.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Thought I could hear you just letting you know we're
in our final minute.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I can't believe it, right, what, How did this day go?
This day went by too fast. You know what, we'll
We're going to do it again tomorrow. How about that
We're all in this together. This is Your Morning Show
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