Episode 40: Mark Torpey

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I got the whiskey. Let me have a drink of your whiskey.

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Better get out of here. My name's Ken and I clean Willie Nelson's
under hole. Under hole?
I know you don't agree but I think he's the king of country.
Get the fuck out of here. Get out of my studio.
No, hell no.

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From the Ramona radio studios, it's the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show.
Alright everybody, welcome. Happy Sunday. Hope everybody had a good week. Welcome to the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show with me as always.
Me, Travis Billy Ross.
Alright, I've been drinking a little bit today. With me as always, sweet curbs.

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Hey hey.
That's the cutest hey hey ever.
Oh my gosh, you're losing your mind already.
The show just started. Calm down.
I know, it's been a good week, man.
You can buy hey hey merchandise on his website here for this room.
Hey hey.
Oh man, Eric Goldsworth.
Hi buddy. What's up dude?
How you doing? Did you just land your airplanes?

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Are your arms tired?
They're exhausted. Yeah.
I'm so ripped. I'm swole.
Oh gosh. I'm all swole.
Hold on folks.
Eric's swole.
I'm gonna show tonight, oh lord.
Oh my god.
Alright dude, with us today, you guys are in for a treat. We have a really freaking cool ass dude with us hanging out today.

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Mr. Mark Torpey.
How are you my friend?
Well, thanks. Thanks for having me on.
Yeah dude, thanks for coming out man.
Yeah, this is so cool.
So tell us a little bit about Mark Torpey with the music stuff. I've heard rumors about you.
Here in Ramona.
They're not all true.
Maybe rumors.

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There's a reason I moved 3,000 miles, Travis.
Oh wait, 3,000 miles? What is that accent? Say that again.
3,000. 3,000 miles.
3,000 moles.
3,000 miles.
Now you've just made me completely self-conscious.
He's gonna put on his best John Wayne.
I'm not gonna talk in my DJ radio voice for two hours.

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Hey all you cool cats, we're back.
Oh you cool cats.
Screw that lady, Carol Baskin.
Nah, I'm just kidding.
All the bitchy tunes from now till midnight.
Yeah.
Mark Torpey, where are you actually from? Boston?
I am from a suburb of Boston.

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I grew up in a town called Lexington, Massachusetts.
Also known as the birthplace of America.
Yeah, right.
You may have heard of the Revolutionary War.
I've seen Hamilton.
Began in Lexington with the shot heard around the world.
So that's where I grew up.
A fantastic town, beautiful town.

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A lot colder than San Diego.
Much colder than San Diego, yep.
Which I keep reminding my mother just turned 99.
And last time I was there in September, she can't hear that well.
So I can yell at her.
She just thinks you're talking?
Yeah.

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She reads lips.
So I say love like every fourth word.
Even though I'm...
Why didn't you move us to San Diego when I was a little kid?
Why didn't you do that?
Why did you make me shovel snow my whole life?
And get frostbite and have Reynolds syndrome?
I can't take a radish out of the refrigerator without my fingers getting white.

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It's like...
So yeah, so I grew up there.
Let's see, moved to...
Got married young.
Emily and I were 22.
We met when we were 19.
And yeah, we'll be married 40 years this year.
That's crazy. Congratulations.
40 years.
So we moved to another suburb of Boston, about halfway between Boston and Cape Cod.

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Town called Bridgewater.
That's Peter.
And...
Hold on one second.
Oh no, you're good.
Oh, I probably stopped.
Yeah.
So yeah, we lived there for 35 years.
And yeah, jumping ahead a little bit.
But yeah, in between there was a lot of things going on.
Three children and so forth.
And now they're all here too though, yeah?

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And now they're all here, yeah.
We moved to New Hampshire in 2020.
Well, when the pandemic hit in 2020, we had a house up in New Hampshire at the same time.
And I got furloughed from my job.
And I didn't think I was going to get called back.
Because the position I was in, the age I was at, all those things added up to like, they're not going to call me back.

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So we sold our house in Massachusetts.
We moved up to New Hampshire and then six months later the company called me back.
Oh shit.
Hey.
Did you come back to the office on Monday?
There's a problem.
A 200 mile commute is going to be a little too much for me.
Right.
But anyway, I'm jumping ahead.
Oh man, dude.

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So yeah, Massachusetts born and raised.
Right on, man.
I have a good friend here in Ramona that lived in that area.
Mr. Buskay.
You know Craig Buskay?
Oh yeah, of course.
He's a cool dude.
He's a cool guy.
He's from Boston.
He's from Boston.
So he was telling me one time that when he was a kid, they hit a slingshot.

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And he used to slingshot, what are those nuts?
Chestnuts?
Chestnuts, yes.
Yes.
Yeah, that was like a normal thing.
Oh, those are great.
They're not just for Christmas.
No, they're never for Christmas.
They're for poking kids' eyes out.
So me and Sweet Curbs, we love Christmas time.
Or she does.
Thank you, I was about to correct him.

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No, no, no, no.
He's a scrooge, but he deals with me.
Whatever.
We deal with Christmas.
I deal with Christmas.
Anyway, but we all...
He deals with it.
That's how much he loves it.
I love chestnuts.
I like to roast them on the wood-burning stove.
On an open fire.
These are one of those certain kind of chestnuts versus other kind of chestnuts.
We're talking about the normal chestnuts people do the Christmas thing with, right?

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Yeah.
Chestnuts go on an open fire.
So they call them Buckeyes, right?
Is that what they call them?
I think so.
Is that what they call them in Massachusetts?
Yeah, because they're chestnut-colored, but in the middle, it's brownish.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I've never heard that.
I've never heard that either.
That's pretty cool.
I think.
Well, Sweet Curbs has never even had a chestnut until she met me.

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That's true.
Well, she didn't even know what the hell it was.
I knew what it was.
She's heard the song millions of times throughout her life because she's a Christmas kid, and
she likes to listen to Christmas music in February.
Although very sad.
We didn't do that this year.
Listen to Christmas music?
No, not a single chestnut was roasted.
Oh, yeah, we didn't.
Well, you're out of town.
It's all good.
But anyway, yeah.

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So yeah, he was telling me that...
So I was talking about the chestnut thing, and I was like, man, we can get them here
during Christmas time, and they're like $8 or whatever for a little tiny bag of them.
And Craig Busque, my buddy, he used to use those things as weapons when we were throwing
them with slingshots.
Yeah.

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He wasn't the only one.
I'm like, what?
So it's true.
They're nice.
Yeah.
Chestnuts are great.
Because they fall.
They're kind of like a soft outer shell to them.
Kind of like soft spiky, if I remember correctly.
Yeah.
Yeah, someone down the street from me had a beautiful chestnut tree.
Yeah.
And that's what we'd go down.

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We'd peel them off, get the chestnuts, and like nice children would do, we'd throw them
at passing cars.
Throw them at each other.
Yeah.
Passing cars, you know.
Oh, yeah.
So Mark, I got to tell you, man, I got to be upfront with you.
You're one of my favorite musicians here in Ramona.
Thank you.
I just got to tell you out.
I love your style.

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I love the way that you...
How do you say?
Present?
You know.
His presence.
Presence.
That's what I meant to say.
Presence.
Yeah, man, your music and then the way you talk, you know, in front of the group of people
that you're playing in front of, man.
You're one of my heroes, man.

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Thanks.
Thank you so much for being on my show.
You know, my favorite Mark Torpey fact, though.
Mark Torpey fact?
Yeah, and I learned this from your wife.
I did her...
I was doing her hair.
It was the first time I did her hair.
Oh, shit.
Wait.
You said our favorite, that means I have more than one.
I didn't even know.
No, it's not bad.
It just speaks to his talent.
So I was asking Emily, you know, in Boston, where did Mark play?

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Like, did he gig around a lot?
And she's like, absolutely not.
He never played in public until we moved to San Diego.
He would play at like barbecues and birthday parties, like with family, but you never gigged
or anything until you moved to Ramona.
And it was what?
No.
Catherine's song circle that kind of got you into it, yeah?
What actually got me into it is, yeah, that's what really kind of launched it.

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You know, like any musician or guitarist and singer, you play, I played it in my own house
for my whole life.
But you always imagine, you know, you want to play in front of people, just like, you
know, if you're an artist or sculptor or, you know, you want to present it to the world
and see what the reaction is.
Part of it is trying to, you know, I lacked confidence as a musician my whole life, which

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is why I never really played out, because I didn't really think I was that good.
When did you actually start like, learning how to play?
I played, my brother, my oldest brother, I'm the youngest of five, and my oldest brother,
he was a guitar player.
And he gigged occasionally in New Hampshire, and he played in like duets and things like

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that.
And he was born in 47.
So he was, you know, the Dylan era, playing a lot of that, you know, Dylan, Peter, Paul
and Mary music.
And so when I went off to college in New Hampshire in 1980, he was living in the next town over,
because he went to the same college, and, you know, years before.

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But he came over and surprised me with a guitar in my dorm room.
Nice.
And it was my first guitar.
And I think he got it for like, you know, it was a...
What was it?
I think it was a Yamaha or a Fender.
I can't remember exactly, but...
Was it a right handed guitar?
No, no, it was a left handed.
He knew, you know, just from messing with his guitar that...
And I'd had an electric guitar, like a kind of like a, almost a toy electric guitar when

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I was probably 12 or 13, that I don't even know what happened to.
But I just always went left handed.
And so he actually got me a left handed.
I remember it.
I was in Ted Herbert's music store in, I think it was Nashua, New Hampshire.
It was like $100.
And I thought, you know, $100.
Wow, he spent $100 on a guitar on me.

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It was like a thousand, two thousand.
That's killer, man.
Hell yeah.
So it was really cool.
And I just messed around with that for years.
And he was kind of a Travis picker.
And so he showed me how to do that.
But for years and years, it was, you know, it was always a hobby.
And I would just pick it up whenever and I'd play three chords, you know.
And I remember playing Bad Company Seagull was the song I played because it was such a cool song.

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And I was a classic rock guy.
And you could play that because it was, you know, D, C, G.
And then I think there was an A in there somewhere, you know.
But I couldn't sing it.
And I could play a song and not sing it or sing a song and not play it.
So it was, you know, frustrating, that type of thing.
But over the years, you know, got a little bit better and you search for music that you can play.

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Right.
I mean, that's what you that would that's what's the most fun.
And yeah, so that's what got me rocking and rolling back around 1980.
But you're like in town, you're known as the singer, singer, songwriter guy of the 70s.
Yeah.
How did you end up playing that kind of music?
That's just the music you grew up with?
Yeah.
The James Taylor, the Gordon Lightfoot.

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Oh, I always loved it.
You know, I always loved that music, but it's also the music that I only music I could play.
You know, I wasn't an electric guitar player.
I never had an electric guitar other than a toy when I was 12.
And I never had, you know, training or new scales.
I don't still don't know scales.
That's why I can't solo on those song circles.

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But, you know, so I couldn't play sticks and foreigner and kiss and Aerosmith and all those bands that I was listening to.
But I always loved the singer, songwriter music, too.
And it was fun to be able to play that kind of stuff.
So, you know, you'd pick a Gordon Lightfoot song here and a Cat Stevens song there and a James Taylor song there.
And, you know, you get six or ten songs and that would be my repertoire for years and years.

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Yeah.
And then you never you never played like in public or other than your couch.
The biggest event I ever played in was in I think it was 2001 or two.
A friend of mine who I worked with was having his 50th birthday party and he had he had hired a reggae band.

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And during that time, a guy, another guy that I worked with, he and I would during lunch, we would just kind of go out and play a little bit together.
So he said, hey, when the reggae band takes a break at my birthday party, how about you guys come up and play three songs?
I was like, oh, my God, I was shitting my pants because there would be I knew there was going to be it was at the Knights of Columbus in Lexington.

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And there was going to probably be like 40 people there.
And, you know, oh, my God.
And so we picked three songs that had like three chords.
And, you know, I think we played for what it's worth and blue on black.
There's something happened.
That's on Kenny Wayne separate black and some other three chords.

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Art of gold or something.
And that was and then I played in front of Emily was a librarian in Bridgewater and I played in front of a bunch of four year olds Christmas.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if I can tell you that.
I love that.
That's a tough crowd.
I'll tell you, they tipped well.

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They took a half eat Tutsi roll.
Yeah, right.
My cookie wrapper.
Little dinosaur shaped eraser in the front.
You said you said, oh, man, why nobody likes to catch a song off of his knee.
Yeah, I was going to say, dude, this is we're going to we're going to we're going to take a break, but we're going to we want to talk about the song that we're about to play.

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It's off your EP.
What is it?
What's when you want to play?
We're going to play them all.
It don't matter.
I'll start with exaggerated.
Oh, I love that one.
Wait, I think I think we were saving that one for the live for a lot.
Are we?
All right.
Well, then we're scratching that one.
All right.
Stay tuned.
Because I want to play that one with you.
I love that.
I love that song, man.
It's one of my favorite.

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All right.
You do.
Well, let's go with there you go again.
All right.
What's the story?
Well, this is before I got to San Diego in the 40 prior years of playing guitar, I only wrote probably three or four songs.
And this was one of them.
And this this was, I think, around 2009 or so.
And just a story that popped into my head kind of about, you know, I think a lot of times when you write a song, there's some little bits of yourself in there, whether you know it or not.

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So consciously, they come out.
And I'm sure in this song, you know, it's kind of about someone who wants to be a star.
They want to be a musician.
They want to be on stage.
And it never happens.
And then that person decides to kind of give up the dream, live a normal life.
And then they find out they're not really that good at a normal life.

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At a normal life either.
Yeah.
I hear you, brother.
Let's check it out.
Yeah, let's check it out.
A young man has a vision that his life is on a stage, but he doesn't see a script there.

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He only sees a page, and the words have yet been written, and the cast all un-rehearsed.
So the curtain never opens, and the last night is the first.
There you go again.

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You've lost it all, my friend.
Now his fortune is his freedom, and time is on his side.

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But as the years go on, he finds the true bit or less time.
So he finds a true companion, just like those other guys.
Despite his edges back on stage, but with a new disguise.

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There you go again.
You've lost it all, my friend.

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You've seen it once, and you know so true.
You see it all so slow.
You think that time will heal those wounds.

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No one knows, you know, but you know.
Now he grabs a cup of coffee, and kisses her goodbye.

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He's heading off to nine to five, another day goes by.
Without telling her he loves her, or even that he cares.
You can't help feeling sorry as she's walking down those stairs.

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There you go again.
You've lost your only friend.
Take it all to the bitter end.

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Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream.
I wonder how the old folks are tonight.
Her name was Ann, and I'll be damned if I recall her face.
She left me not knowing what to do.
Air free highway, let me slip away on you.

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Air free highway, you've seen better days.
The morning after blues, from my head down to my shoes.
Air free highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.

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Turning back the pages to the times I loved best.
I wonder if she'll ever do the same.
Now the thing that I call living has just been satisfied.
With no air and I got no one left to blame.

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Air free highway, I've got to see you in my old flame.

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Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep.
I wonder if the years have closed her mind.
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free.
From the good old faithful feeling we once knew.
Air free highway, let me slip away on you.

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Let me slip away on you.
Air free highway, I've got to see you in my old flame.

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It's another back door sneaking in where you've been midnight.
Quiet as a Mack truck, lots of luck thinking up an alibi.

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But every light in the house is on, everything is gone.
She left me no chance at redemption, no further redemption.
Just a big red goodbye and lipstick on the wall, goodbye says it all.

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No long explanation, no reconciliation.
No let's talk it over, number I can call, goodbye says it all.
Goodbye.

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She could have thrown a knock down, screaming shy the habit out tires.
She could have made it real tough, bringing up all the hell that I raised.
But no more wasted words on me, no she kept it short and sweet.

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Goodbye.

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No more wasted words on me, no she kept it short and sweet.

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Goodbye.

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Goodbye.
Goodbye says it all.

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I had four older siblings and like I said one was born in 47, one was born in 49.
So I had almost like a generation ahead of me.
So there was a lot of different music that was played in my house and it was great.
So I had four older siblings with some listening to songs from the Peter, Paul and Mary like I said before and going back even further.

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I have two, the brother who's seven years older than me, listening to albums like Yes and Cream from 1970 and that stuff.
But what I remember most in being a kid is that I loved Glen Campbell, strangely enough.
You're on the right show.

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Yeah, I mean whenever anybody asks me what's your favorite song of all time, it's a no brainer, it's a no doubter.
It's Wichita Alignment by Glen Campbell, my favorite song of all time.
You'll be very sad to know that we both lost on trivia to this song.
What?
I know we did.
If you were listening to it, you're probably yelling at the fucking radio.

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Do you know who wrote it for extra credit?
No.
Jimmy Webb, who's amazing as well.
He wrote By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Up Up and Away.
That's a good song, man.
I love that song.
It's a good song.
Some fantastic songs that he wrote.
MacArthur Park, remember that one?
Oh yeah.

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But yeah, so that got me interested in a lot of different genres.
But growing up, I was in Kiss Army.
I was a rock and roller.
You're a rocker?
You wanted to rock and roll all night?
We had a really cool guest on our show a couple episodes ago, Stephen Talley.

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Oh yeah.
Stephen, Travis Scott official.
You mean that guy right over your left shoulder right now?
Yeah, so there's a poster behind me that's got Steve Talley on there.
Does that even look like him?
Unbelievable.
Wow.
Steve, we need you to come back and sign this.
So if anything ever happens and we need to make money, we can go to Pawn Stars.
It's actually Dr. Steve.

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Wow.
I tell you, that hair is like just...
That's a good perm.
Amazing.
Yeah.
I would know.
Really?
That's a good perm.
Top notch.
That was 80s.
Really nice.
You used to have a perm, huh?
I did.
You had a big perm?
Yeah.
Did you do a perm?
Of course, no.
I had the wings, you know, when you grow it over your ears and then they curl up.

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Oh yeah.
I had that in high school.
You got a picture of that somewhere that you can send us?
I want to see that.
There's got to be pictures.
No.
They're all lost.
Probably not.
High school, seventh grade yearbook.
Yeah.
The lost photos of Mark Torbett.
Yeah, we're just going to need your high school and the year you graduated so we can...
Yeah, Geraldo Rivera is looking for that.

(30:48):
Oh man.
All right.
So we always ask, as you've listened to the show a few times, I would imagine a couple
of times.
Yes, many times.
Maybe once, maybe all of them.
I don't know.
I hope all of them.
No.
So we always ask the guest...
George Strait?
No, don't you dare.
God damn it.

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There it is.
There it is.
Thanks, Eric.
Eric, you're the man.
No, but for country music, who would be the one that you think would be the one that started
the whole country music?

(31:30):
Sure.
I mean, 100 years, man.
Like when did...
Oh, who started it all?
Who was the king?
Who would be the...
Oh, in my opinion, you know my opinion.
I think it was Hank Williams because that was in the first start of music, like country
music, and when it started being recorded.
Like I don't know, music's been around for thousands of years, but we don't know because

(31:53):
there's no recording of it, right?
But well, we didn't have really country music in the East Coast, in the Boston area.
I didn't even listen to country for the first time until probably 1993.
What?
No, I'm serious.
There was no...
I swear to you.
And to be honest...
Would they have polka?

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And maybe, I thought maybe we'd get into this later on at some point, but that's what really
got me into playing guitar, like seriously, was when I started to listen to country in
the 90s.
Oh, shit.
It did have like a big resurgence in the 90s where like kind of everyone cut on and line
dancing was the thing.
And it was, for me, it was more that I can play this stuff.

(32:38):
That's what did it for me.
Records and the truth.
Yeah.
Like usually.
Garth Brooks and...
Yeah.
Marth Gooks.
And you know, Randy Travis and these guys that I discovered and I'm listening to this
music and I'm saying, this stuff is incredible.
I mean, really amazingly written songs, beautifully written songs.

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And there's no F sharp diminished nines and that kind of stuff.
No, that jazz stuff.
Yeah, it got me really motivated.
That's really when I started playing guitar, when I realized that I can play stuff.
I was going to say.
So who's the...
Well, I don't know who started it because again, I wasn't really in it.
I didn't even know that it existed to the level it did.

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So Johnny Cash to me, is because he's the kind of the guy who I think of when I think
of country music.
Sometimes my mind kind of defaults to Johnny Cash.
Yeah, doable.
Acceptable answer.
Because even if I didn't know anything he sang or what he was doing, he was a noticeable

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face.
If I saw him flipping the channels, I would know that's Johnny Cash.
And I know that he's a country...
I probably would have said, oh, he's a country western.
So Johnny Cash was more like a rockabilly kind of music.
You know, like rockabilly if you think about it today, like the rockabilly style.

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It's like that bass on.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
More like a rockabilly.
But back then that was considered country.
Yeah, and I think one of the other things too is that we had so many 45 records growing
up as a kid.
And I remember we had a boy named Sue.

(34:29):
And that was the first time I had heard of Johnny Cash.
Boy named Sue.
That is just a funny song.
It's just a funny song.
Yeah, yeah, I loved it.
I remember listening to that one.
Probably I was six or seven years old and loved it.
Yeah, that's a good vibe.
So you've got...
Wait, wait, wait.
We got your king.
Who would your queen of country be?
Okay, queen.

(34:49):
Dolly.
Queen Dolly.
God bless Dolly.
Yeah, that's pretty much the consensus.
Yeah, I mean, she's an amazing songwriter.
But Dolly's like Willie Nelson.
Yeah, they have the longevity.
Longevity.
I mean, she's still putting out records, albums, whatever you...
Songs.
Songs, yeah.
Yeah, and she writes too.
I'm not that old.

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I just, I don't know.
They're still putting out tapes.
Oh, man.
I love tapes.
Tapes.
I know.
I miss tapes.
I do.
I'm going to make a mixtape.
The next car I buy is going to have a cassette player.
The next mixtape I make is going to be...
It will be used.
It will be a compilation of the show just on mixtape.

(35:31):
Hey, you know what?
We have to backtrack just a little bit.
I remember a conversation like on episode three or four where we said that you would
make a mixtape for Kirby for Valentine's.
Oh, that's right.
And I'm going to make a mixtape for Cassie on Valentine's.
Yeah, we're making mixtapes.
Oh, Lord have mercy.
So I just forgot about that.
I had to come back to that.
I got to go back and look through my show notes.
It's funny.
It's funny you said mixtape.

(35:51):
Dude, I know.
Mixtapes.
I remember saying that.
I was a little drunk.
Did you make your wife mixtapes?
Did you ever make her?
You used to make her mixtapes?
I probably did.
Yeah.
I don't remember.
I don't remember.
But I probably did.
Let's just say yes.
I don't remember either.
Fucking mixtapes, man.
It was fun though, wasn't it?
And if you got the receiver with the fader, you know, fade in and out.

(36:12):
I remember...
I never made a mixtape.
That's a good question.
I remember it.
I remember it.
It was fun though, wasn't it?
This little youngin over here, sweet curves.
Fancy digital style.
I grew up in the Napster era.

(36:33):
I don't remember mixtapes.
I remember mixtcds.
A little road trip mix.
Dude, hey, Mark.
Have you ever had a Dean?
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I've never had a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
I'm a Dean.
Have you ever had a Dean-Hal-Hal BBQ?
Of course.
Dude.
Many, many times.
We had a Dean-inspired pizza tonight, as a matter of fact.

(36:55):
We got a pulled pork pizza.
What else was on it?
Red onions, barbecue sauce, Dean's barbecue sauce, cheese.
It was delicious.
Yeah, it was, man, super cool.
He's a sponsor of our show, one of the sponsors of our show.
And we appreciate that guy so much, man, for putting up with our maniac-ism.

(37:16):
And he still hooks us up, man.
He's fucking awesome.
I love when he's at events.
Don't have to cook at home.
Yeah, man, he'll hook it up.
Pulled pork, whatever.
All kinds of good stuff.
I know he always brings me on Thursday nights at Pomo, if he's doing at Red's for the catering,
if he's out there.
He always brings me leftovers.
He's so sweet.
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, he's got some good food.

(37:37):
He'll cater 150, up to 150 people for an outdoor event.
So if you don't know about Dean Outlaw BBQ, hit him up today or tomorrow or the next day.
And the phone number is 858-354-7712.
Good job.
I did it right.
I did it.
See, look at her.
Sweet Curbs, she's all yawning.
Why do you keep saying it so fast?

(37:57):
Rare form, can I?
Let me say it again.
858-354-7712.
Not so rare form.
Let me start over.
All right, 858-354-7712.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
Hit up by the way.
And we're going to hit up Dean today for your next outdoor event.
BBQ, wedding, divorce.

(38:18):
Bar mitzvah.
Bar mitzvah.
Whatever you do.
Whatever you're doing.
Whatever you want to do.
All the things that need to be celebrated.
He'll come in.
He'll come in.
He'll bring in his whole smoker thing and it's going to smell delicious.
And it's going to be awesome.
It's going to be good food.
Hit him up.
It's going to be awesome.
It will be awesome if he's there.
Oh Lord.
It's going to be awesome.
Thank you, Dean.
We love you, my friend.

(38:38):
All right.
So what are you drinking there?
Mark?
Is he getting whiskey?
He's got one for the left and one for the right.
You got two drinks in front of you.
Like I said, one of the elves came by.
Is that suntan lotion?
What is the third one?
What is that?
The suntan lotion.
Yes, he's drinking suntan lotion.
Suntan lotion.
What?
You know where I bought this.
Travis has never seen a healthy drink, Mark.
Forgive him.
I can see where you'd make that mistake, though.

(38:59):
I know where he got it.
You know where I got it.
Are you lathering yourself up?
What are you doing?
I'm just going to go to the bathroom.
I know where you got it.
It's none of your business.
I bought this at Lamona Family Naturals, owned and operated by Victoria.

(39:21):
Oh, yeah.
Nice.
Mark, you're fucking awesome.
That was a threefer.
Hell yeah.
Oh, Lord.
You play at Family Naturals on, I've seen you there a couple Sundays.
Oh, I've played there many times now and thanks to Victoria, who actually gave me my first

(39:42):
full gig.
Really?
Yeah.
My first full gig.
I was playing a open mic at Smoke and Cannon.
I think it was probably in March, maybe early March.
And she was in there and she liked a couple of songs that I played.
And she came over to me afterwards and said, we got to get you.
We got to get you booked over there on Sunday mornings.

(40:03):
Nice.
And she is also she Victoria.
You're just testing me now.
Is also a sponsor of the show.
And we are so grateful for her and for her support of music in Ramona.
Hell yeah.
Every Thursday, I know a cool band that plays there.
Yes.
All right.
Brunch on Sundays.
Brunch on Sundays, sometimes with Mark Torpe.

(40:24):
Oh, yes.
Thank you for that.
It makes for a really it actually does make for a really pleasant brunch.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it really does.
The patio, the food.
Yeah, that's just it's a nice way to spend the Sunday.
And don't forget Mamosas.
Mamosas.
Mamosas.
Yeah, we got the champagne.
Why do you say that like Forrest Gump?
Mamosas.
Mamosas.
Mamosas.
It's almost as fun going there and not playing as it is playing.

(40:48):
Yeah.
Now, I love going there on Sunday brunch.
Get the Mamosas.
Yeah.
The best croissants around.
Yeah, they have good croissants.
And last time me and Sweet Curbs went there, we had a burrito.
It was a breakfast burrito.
So good.
Oh, yeah.
Dang, that thing was good.
Man.
Yeah.
All organic food.

(41:09):
Yeah.
All the all the stuff that they make out of theirs.
Did a lot of Christmas shopping there this year.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, they get a lot of all natural stuff.
My kids like that stuff.
You know, they're that generation.
Never drank out of a garden hose.
Missing out on I've lived.
I've been there.

(41:30):
Yeah.
It was just it's only good when a sibling is on the other end.
Oh, and they hold it.
No.
Oh, and they bend it.
Turn it up a little bit more.
Yeah.
You bend it.
You bend it.
You know, everybody knows that trick.
And then they get shot through the air about 50 yards, smacked it back into a water comes

(41:51):
out.
No, yeah, completely blows all the boogers out.
Yeah.
All clean.
That was the world's first netty pot.
Yeah.
Any problems anywhere else we can do that.
Sunday you introduced us to your new grandchild.

(42:11):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Little Maya.
Yes.
She came to us October 9th as our third grandchild.
Third.
Yeah.
This is being grandparent.
Oh, it's amazing.
It's the best.
It really is.
Yeah.
I don't know anything about it.
I'm too young.
Yeah.
No, not really.
And grandparents to dogs too we are now.

(42:33):
Oh, true.
Grandparents.
Yeah.
How do you say that?
I don't know.
Grand.
Grand dog.
That's what my mom calls my dog for grand dog.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we just had the grand dogs over for a week and a half.
Gave them back this morning.
It was beautiful.
Whatever we saw.
You know, we love dogs, but oh, you know.

(42:53):
Emily's a she's a volunteer at Frosted Faces and she's up there all the time.
She loves it.
She loves dogs.
Yeah.
You know, so she's always saying, how about let's get a dog.
You know, we don't you know, you know, we're not.
You know, we're not.
I know.
You know, we're not full time dog people.
You know, we love dogs.
Yeah.
We're great grand dog parents or however you say that.

(43:16):
So we were happy to see them go home to their.
You know what, I want to do a good shout out to the Frosted Faces.
I really appreciate what they do.
Good organization.
Yeah.
Good organization.
And they and you can do also, you know, do the adopt a dog for a day or a week.
A fling.
A fling.

(43:37):
A fling if you will.
Cassie just did a fling.
Cassie did a fling.
Yeah.
My son moved here back in August and about three weeks later he adopted one.
Oh yeah.
Emily told me that.
Yeah, they adopt a little Donnie.
Yeah.
And I love that they take such good care of their dogs.
They make sure if they have any medical stuff, it's all taken care of.
And yeah, it's amazing.

(43:58):
They're great.
You know, and Andy and Kelly and Andy's a great musician.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, he's come out to Reds.
He's come to the song circles at promo.
I've heard him play several times, man.
That guy's super cool.
Maybe we can get him on here.
Yeah, we'll have to get him on here.
He's great.
Yeah.
I'll reach out and ask him if he wants to be on the Travis Billy Ross at All Our Country.
Who wouldn't?
He's got to drink whiskey though.
Oh yeah, speak him.
Yeah.

(44:19):
We don't say the C word.
We say cilantro.
We say the other C word.
Yes.
Cilantro.
Cilantro.
Bam.
All right, so we're going to play some music.
Are you guys going to do something live when you come back?
You guys going to play when we come back?
I think Mark Torpe, you brought your guitar?
I did.
All right.
Just here.

(44:39):
All right.
All right.
We'll only do a couple songs.
Okay.
And then you guys will be ready.
Yeah, let's play a couple songs.
So what do you want to listen to, Mark?
Well, of course, I love local Ramona music.
All right.
All right.
Give us some.
One of my favorites is Dirty Confetti.
If we have something by the way, I would love to hear a Dirty Confetti song.
We could do a Dirty Confetti.
That's a good guest.

(45:00):
We'll be invited back.
All right.
We'll be invited.
I love a little Whiskey Lullaby every once in a while.
That's good.
That's such a great song.
Whiskey Revival.
Whiskey Revival.
Oh, Thea.
I do love Whiskey Lullaby too.
That's Thea.
It was a great song.
Thea.
Oh, we love Thea.
We'll see you on this one.
We'll do it.
We'll do it.
We got a Dirty Confetti on here.
All right.

(45:21):
All right.
It's just so bossy.
Let's play some music.
Stop yelling at me, Eric.
I know.
Remember when wolves were easily drowned in the bottom of a bottle of aged sugar?

(45:49):
Ain't it sweet, yeah, so sweet?
And everything you said comes flooding back just like a whisper, a river of lies, or it's
the damn truth, and you meant it ain't so sweet.
It's the damn truth and you meant it ain't sweet, yeah, yeah
So sweet
Keep the devil in his grave
The skeletons keep in their closet
If you're looking for answers you can find them in the bottle, yeah

(46:15):
This is a whiskey revival
I got your shotgun bible
So fire up, girl
And drink up
And drink up, yeah

(46:36):
Remembering that night is like a dream just when you wake up
Could something so bright and lose your fate if you had stayed up
Ain't it sweet
So sweet
You're battling your mind, oh this is Jesus, a demon's your face
And you're shaming, falling faster to believe in him

(46:57):
The truth, yeah, yeah
The truth
Keep the devil in his grave
The skeletons keep in their closet
If you're looking for answers you can find them in the bottle, yeah

(47:20):
So fill your cup
If your spirit's dead, don't rival

(47:41):
So fill your cup
And drink up
If you're looking to be saved, drink up
If you're struggling from the way to drink up
Or if you want to see the light, you best start looking with your eyes
Now here I go again looking for answers in the bottle

(48:02):
I can smell them on my breath with the whiskey and regretting it's sweet
So sweet
Well pull up your bustles and gather round
I'm bringing a new kind of church to town, yeah

(48:25):
So fill your cup
If your spirit's dead, don't rival
So fill your cup

(48:46):
And drink up
And drink up, yeah
And drink up
And drink up

(49:16):
The first thing I remember knowing
Was a lonesome whistle blowing
And a young'un's dream of growing up to ride
On a freight train leaving town
Not knowing where I'm bound
And no one could change my mind, but mama tried
A one and only rebel child

(49:39):
From a family meek and mild
My mama seemed to know what lay in store
Despite all my Sunday learning
Towards the bad I kept on turning
Till mama couldn't hold me anymore
I turned twenty-one in prison
Doing life without parole

(50:01):
No one could steer me right, but mama tried
Mama tried, mama tried to raise me better
But her pleading I denied
That leaves only me to blame, cause mama tried

(50:25):
Dear old daddy, rest his soul
Left my mama heavy low
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes
Working hours without rest
Wanted me to have the best
She tried to raise me right, but I refused
And I turned twenty-one in prison

(50:47):
Doing life without parole
No one could steer me right, but mama tried
Mama tried, mama tried to raise me better
But her pleading I denied
That leaves only me to blame, cause mama tried

(51:17):
In twilight glow I see
Blue eyes crying rain
When we kissed goodbye and part

(51:41):
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dying ember
Only memories remain

(52:05):
Through the ages I'll remember

(52:43):
Someday when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again

(53:12):
And laugh and no snow part
Oh yeah, that was good old Willie Nelson.

(53:33):
Willie Wells crying in the rain.
What a good song, man.
Mark Torpe, are you Willie Nelson?
Yeah, I love Willie.
No, I think he's amazing.
You know, another guy like Dolly who's been around forever
and writes his own amazing songs.
Hell yeah.
Never stopped.
Very cool.

(53:54):
I love Willie.
Alright, so you said you brought your guitar.
I did.
Let's do a song.
Alright, what is this song that you're going to do?
This is the first song I wrote when I started doing this.
It's called Exaggerated and it was a game song.
You're aware of the game Kathryn Beaks puts on.
I remember the game, yeah.

(54:15):
Just did one last Sunday.
You know, you get a couple of prompts.
Somebody throws out a couple words at random.
One was Exaggerated, one was Tracks.
You can use one or both in the title or somewhere in the song.
So I used both, Exaggerated and Tracks.
I went to one of her things, it was awesome.
It was about trains and tracks or something like that.

(54:37):
I did a song that I wrote back in the day, 2008, 2007,
somewhere around there, called Bullet Train.
Nice.
I did it acoustically.
It was cool, it was fun.
I haven't done it in a long time.
It's more of an alternative kind of style song.
Well those are great.
I love the games because it's kind of like a term paper.
You know, it forces you.

(54:58):
Oh yeah.
You have to do it.
The master is like you.
Are you going to get it?
You wait until the last minute.
We did it, not this song, but we did a game last Sunday.
And I finished the song that I did on Saturday.
Yeah.
The day before.
Okay.
Well this is one of those, this was about, this was November of 23.

(55:20):
It's called Exaggerated.
Exaggerated.
Here we go.
I'm going to jam with you on this one.
I'm going to follow your hands.
I have my guitar too.
Alright, let's do it.
Sometimes I sit here all alone.

(55:48):
Most days I like it like that.
And think about when I was young.
And I would hang around down by the tracks.

(56:14):
There was a river beneath a mountain.
Just like the ones in Colorado.
One day I thought I saw a giant.
Turns out it was my own shadow.

(56:35):
I guess I exaggerated.
Overstated.
Memories can work like that.
The only place they really matter.
Is right here underneath my hat.

(57:08):
And on the days I really miss you.
It's like I'm at that old train station.
Where I regret the things I told you.
About all the great things I will do.

(57:30):
I may have exaggerated.
Overstated.
Desperation works like that.
The only place I plan to keep it.
Is right here underneath my hat.

(58:17):
I'm not getting any younger.
But I'm trying to do my best.

(58:40):
When I'm gone don't say things about me.
If I were around I would reject.
Might be exaggerated.
Overstated.
Cause when you're gone it works like that.

(59:03):
And remember all those memories.
That keep you smiling.
They're always underneath your hat.
They're forever underneath your hat.
Geez.
Damn dude.
Nice.

(59:25):
Thanks.
Holy crap.
That's called exaggerated.
Is that on, that's on Ramon Rady.
Oh yeah.
That's something that we play.
Something that we play.
All the major platforms you know.
What a thrill that was.
Rockstar's Day.
Is that, you have it on an album?
Like a CD or a tape?
No.
I should get it on a tape shouldn't I?

(59:47):
I want it on a 45.
I want it on a vinyl.
I want it on a 45.
Oh what a great mixtape that would be.
It's a mix of all me.
Aren't you lucky?
Merry Christmas Emily.
Oh man.
No CDs but it's on all the major platforms.

(01:00:09):
I did it in the studio with Jim Soldi.
Oh yeah.
He's so good.
Out House.
Oh my god.
Just what a thrill of a lifetime for me.
I mean just I love watching documentaries and things like that on TV about the studio.
How their albums are made.
So to be in one with someone like him who played with Johnny Cash.

(01:00:30):
Yeah.
And Catherine Beaks did the background vocals in all four songs.
Oh yeah?
Oh cool.
She just killed it.
I mean just amazing.
What a beautiful voice.
You know what her voice did to those songs.
And Jim is just tremendous.
You know he made the songs sound just how I heard them.
You know in my head how I wanted them to sound.

(01:00:51):
It's incredible.
I can't wait to get back in there.
You getting ready to go back into the studio?
Yeah I'm trying to get back in.
You got more songs ready to go?
Yeah I got four more all ready to go.
Nice.
Four more?
Yeah.
You did a Ramona song didn't you?
Yeah.
You're not on the first edition album?
No.
I don't know if you looked here.
We missed the cutoff I think.
I just missed the cutoff.
I was here.
I was here and that's kind of what inspired me to do it.

(01:01:14):
Because I loved all those songs.
I mean just amazing.
Your song is...
Thank you.
I mean really no honestly.
And anybody who knows me and Emily can vouch for me.
I've always said that song that you wrote is second to none.
So there's nowhere to go Ramona.
So there's nowhere to go listen to your Ramona song.

(01:01:36):
You're giving me a big head.
Unless your life right now.
No Spotify, Apple, all of that.
Oh it is recorded.
Okay.
Yeah.
Alright.
What's it called?
It's called Out There.
Out There.
Okay.
Alright.
Ramona it's me?
Ramona it's me.
It's out there.
Yeah.
On Apple, Spotify and all those.
It did show up the first time I looked for it.

(01:01:58):
We'll play that on coming out of the break.
Right on.
Mark have you ever met anybody famous?
Like in your...
You mean other than you?
Well come on now.
Come on.
Mark I gotta make sure his head fits in the car on our way home okay?
No.
No anybody famous?
Anybody you've ever jammed with or...
No.

(01:02:19):
Well yeah Jim Soldi right?
Play with Jim.
Yeah that's right Jim Soldi.
He played with Johnny Cash.
Yeah.
There's a video.
I mean two years ago if I had said that somebody who played guitar for Johnny Cash played on
my songs and recorded them and now they're on Spotify.
That's pretty damn cool man.
You're in Fantasyland.
Yeah.
So that's cool but the one guy that comes to mind is if you're a Seinfeld fan you know

(01:02:43):
Jay Peterman.
Oh yeah.
You know Jay Peterman?
I remember Seinfeld.
I don't...
Oh he was great.
He was the...
Wasn't he Rocky Horror Picture Show Barry Boswig?
No.
No he wasn't.
Jay Peterman was the... what was it?
The catalog owner.
Oh I thought it was Elaine's boss.
Yeah Elaine's boss.
Yeah Barry Boswig.

(01:03:03):
Yeah.
Oh that is the same guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay so he...
I think so now I gotta Google it.
Sweet Curbs knows everything.
His name is...
John O'Hurley.
You're right.
I'm sorry you're right.
John O'Hurley.
So he's a New England guy and I think he's from Maine but he had family in New Hampshire
and we were in a restaurant, our favorite restaurant in Lincoln, New Hampshire one night

(01:03:27):
and I'd gotten to know the owner there because we'd go there a lot and he walked in with
his family and so I went up to the owner I said, I asked her do you think he would be
you know I don't want to bother him he's eating with his family do you think he'd mind and
she goes well hold on give me a minute.
So I went back to my table and she comes over.
She said no dinner for you.

(01:03:48):
She comes over to the table.
No dinner for you.
That would have been perfect right?
No autograph for you.
Three years.
So we went over and he was as nice as can be such a great guy and we got our pictures
taken.
I always like hearing stories about that the famous people that are humble and nice because

(01:04:11):
I'm sure probably you just want to you know go have dinner or whatever but at the same
time it's that well you are famous and you are coming out to a common place where there's
people that are going to recognize you.
So it's always nice to hear that.
And we want to show off to our friends.
How much is this going to cost me?
It's about you making my night better.

(01:04:32):
Your job is to make my night better.
We need a selfie.
We need a selfie quick.
It's not so people can look and say oh he's cool it's to say I'm cool.
Right exactly.
I'm with you.
That's what it's all about.
So I remember I saw you do a duo with Thea.
I think it was her Christmas song.
Oh yeah we've done that a few times now.

(01:04:53):
May Your Burdens Be Mine.
Amazing song.
It's a great song.
Yeah.
And I was lucky enough to be like you mentioned about the Ramona that CD release party that
was Christmas of 23 and she wrote her song about Ramona that was on the CD so she was
part of that concert and Ben Allen who was the co-writer of that song couldn't be with

(01:05:16):
her and to my amazement she asked me to do it and I loved it.
I loved doing it.
I was very thrilled to do it.
Are you liking doing duos and collaborations?
It's not my comfort zone.
I think it's why I like to play alone because I did it my whole life.

(01:05:40):
Have you ever played in a full band?
Like a full drummer, bass, nothing like that?
Wow man you need to try that out sometime.
Yeah I'd like to.
I'm getting more and more comfortable where I'm thinking about those types of things how
it would be really cool to have a full especially if I get more and more songs of my own.
It would be pretty cool to play an hour of just my own music with a full band.

(01:06:03):
That would be cool.
That would be super cool man.
So who would live or dead, doesn't matter who they are, where they are, what they are
right now, who would you like to do a duo with?
Probably Mark Knopfler.
Mark Knopfler, oh yeah.
Dire Straits.
He's amazing.
Dire Straits.
I didn't really become a fan of his until he was solo guy.

(01:06:25):
Oh yeah?
Yeah I mean I loved Dire Straits.
It was one of the first shows I ever saw at the place called The Orpheum in 1978 when
the first Dire Straits album first came out with Saltin's A Swing.
Let me tell you right now, never heard of Dire Straits, never heard of Mark Knopfler
until I think Justin Craddock hosted it.

(01:06:46):
It was the British Invasion Night, Monday night at Reds and you guys sang Saltin's A
Swing and everybody's singing along.
I'm like what is this song and how do these people, I've never heard this song in my life,
never heard of this band.
I can't believe you never heard of it.
I love that song.
But now I can say I can sing every word to Saltin's A Swing.
There's a lot of words.
Oh yeah dude.

(01:07:06):
It's a good song.
I remember you and Travis did this one.
That's right we did.
He's made him do an acoustic even and poor Travis, his fingers are bleeding at the end,
Travis McKenzie.
You guys did that when Travis was here?
Yeah yeah yeah.
He played it live on the show.
He was on the show.
Travis kept on going back and starting over again and he was just like going, Ruck or

(01:07:28):
Cuck.
I was trying to wear out his fingers because you know, I love that guy.
We saw Mark Knopfler at a casino in Connecticut, I forget, Foxwoods, that's the name of it.
Foxwoods in Connecticut solo.
It was probably 10 or 12 years ago.

(01:07:49):
But all his solo stuff, if you haven't heard his solo.
Oh yeah I have.
There's a one song that he does now, or he did, it's called Don't Crash the Ambulance.
Have you heard that one?
That's a cool ass song.
Don't Crash the Ambulance.
It's a weird song.
It's very Mark Knopfler, it's a long story and then there's no chorus or anything until

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like, you would think it's like, okay the song is over, but now the chorus starts.
He's just such an amazing guitarist and what I'm amazed at is his vocal range isn't huge,
right?
His guitar playing man though was epic.
I'd say one of my favorite songs is, just so happens that two of my favorite people

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of all time, Mark Knopfler and James Taylor are on the same song.
They do a Mark Knopfler song called Sailing to Philadelphia.
Oh okay.
The duet.
That was with James Taylor and Mark?
James Taylor and Mark Knopfler.
Damn.
Sailing to Philadelphia.
I gotta look that up.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Oh wow.
I mean, he's like fingers of fury over here.

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I will tell you, you sing this every time in your set at some point, James Taylor, Fire
and Rain.
Makes me cry every time they play that song at my grandma's funeral and it's just such
a beautiful song.
Every time.
Fire and Rain, James Taylor.
I've seen fire and rain.
It's just such a beautiful song.
It is.
It is.
It's timeless.
It'll be as long as there's a planet, that song will be playing.

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That one and the one that you do by, what is it, Loggins and Messina?
Oh Danny's song.
Danny's song.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Oh man, that's a good one too.
I love playing both of those.
Well shoot, let's do a Sweet Curbs Critic Corner.
Bing bing bing bing bing bing.
You got Critic Corner?
We got a Critic Corner.

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I got something for you.
Sweet Curbs with a twinkle in her eye.
You cannot deny you'll adopt every Critter passing by.
Sweet Curbs has her own song.
Alright Sweet Curbs, what do you got?

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What's going on?
Thank you for tuning in to Kirby's Critter Corner.
This episode is recorded in front of a live studio audience.
So today's Critter Corner is brought to you actually by Hatfield Creek.
Elaine, owner of Hatfield Creek, we were there earlier today and she has a cat named Clifford
and he's the coolest cat.

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I don't know if he knows he's a cat, I think he thinks he's a dog.
And he just, he comes in the winery and I was sitting down and I did this and called
him up on my lap.
He jumped up, laid down and just every time I stopped petting him he'd hit my hand.
He's just the biggest love.
I'm obsessed with him.
I told Elaine if I didn't like you so much I'd steal your cat.
He's the coolest, he's a big fat orange tabby cat.

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He's a big fat cat.
He's got a clipped ear.
It looks like he got in a fight.
One of his ears is missing.
Is that a thing that they do?
So if we go to Hatfield we can go hang out with Clifford?
Oh yeah, go to Hatfield Winery man, they're awesome.
Well feral cats they clip their ear but it's just the very tip of it.
This is literally like half his ear.

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So I don't know.
There you go.
Well there you go, we have it.
Sweet Curves is Cricket Corner.
Brought to you by Hatfield Creek and the letter H.
Oh man, well shoot, let's listen to some tunes man.

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Mark, I was going to say Mark Knopfler but you're not Mark Knopfler but you're a freak.
Mark Torpe, what would you like to hear man?
Give us something.
I would love to hear that whole song.
Sailing to Philadelphia.
Oh I thought you were saying Sweet Curves.
Oh I was going to say Sweet Curves.
I was like how sweet, thanks Mark.

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I want that to come out.
I mean it's a pretty good song.
Is there a full version?
I'd like to hear the 8 minute version of Sweet Curves.
Here we go.
Oh here we go.
I am Jeremiah Dixon, I am a Jody boy, glass of wine with you, I'm a Jody boy, I'm a Jody

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boy, glass of wine with you, sir and the ladies I'm in joy.
Old Durham and Northumberland is measured up by my own hand.
It was my fate from birth to make my mark upon the earth.

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He calls me Charlie Mason, Stargazer am I.
It seems that I was born to chart the evening sky.
They'd cut me out for bacon bread, but I had other dreams instead.
This baker's boy from the west country would join the royal society.

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We are sailing to Philadelphia, a world away from the coldly tide.
We are sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line from Mason Dixon line.

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Now you're a good surveyor Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad.
The west will kill us both, you gullible Jody lad.
You talk of liberty, how can America be free?

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Jody and the baker's boy in the forests of the Iroquois.
Now hold your head up Mason, see America lies there.
The morning tide has raised the capes of Delaware.

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Come up and feel the sun, a new morning has begun.
Another day we'll make it clear why your star should guide us here.
We are sailing to Philadelphia, a world away from the coldly tide.

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We are sailing to Philadelphia to draw the line from Mason Dixon line.
From Mason Dixon line.

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Now you're a good surveyor Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad.

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3,000 miles is a long way to drive all alone

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You haul behind me, guitar beside me
I packed everything that I own
She said she'd be there if I ever did dare
To settle down out west

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They play music all day
When I pulled into town, felt a little run down
But I walked up and tapped on her door
She looked out the window, her eyes caught mine

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And she smiled and stared down at the floor
I stood in the doorway and she said as she held back a laugh
Was that knocking at my door?

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Ramona, it's me
It's me
Ramona, it's me
It's me

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I hear music all day
We drove around town with the top down
Man, I loved what I saw
The beautiful vineyards and horses and hills all around

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Ramona, I think I have finally found my place
She hears music all day
Ramona, it's me

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It's me
Ramona, it's me
It's me
We hear music all day

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And I call it home now
That's what I do
I call it home now
That I've found you

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I call it home now
That's what I do
I call it home now

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Ramona, it's me
It's me

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Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to

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I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again

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Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You gotta help me make a stand
You just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand

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I won't make it any other way
Whoa, I've seen fire and I've seen rain

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But I always thought that I'd see you again
Been walking my mind to an easy time
My back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around

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Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
Whoa, I've seen fire and I've seen rain

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But I always thought that I'd see you baby
One more time again
Thought I'd see you one more time again

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There's just a few things coming my way this time around now
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you fire with me now
Did we record? No, we haven't done Tomo yet.
All right, we're back. Welcome to the Travis Billy Ross Outlaw Country Show. I'm

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Travis Billy Ross, your host. With me is always Sweet Curbs and Eric
the crazy man behind the sound. Hi.
To answer your question, no we haven't done Tomo so you should do that.
Well, dude, we need Mark Torpey. We have Mark Torpey on
us. On the show. Also no, we have Mark Torpey on us.
Torpey. Torpey. Torpey. I know. Sorry dude, I get it right.

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I fuck it up every time. You're the only one I let. I just think it's like Torpey.
Like Torpey, like Tupé, you know.
Well there's some correlation there.
I don't know, I throw accents around like they're going out of style. So Torpey.
Yeah. Torpey. I'm just joking. First time he said I go

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I don't think there's a name in his last name. Torpey. No, Travis is, you remind me of
my best friend's husband, his name's James. He'll say the most random wild word.
I'm like, are you trying to like say this? And he's like yeah and I'm like
that's like, so he got his tires changed the other day
and it's called Canelo's and he kept saying I gotta go. Oh I just gotta walk
to Cannelli's and I'm like where are you going? Cannelli's. Canelo.

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Canelo. Canelo. Is that what it is? Or we love you Leslie Liddy but he calls you
Leslie Lidi. And I'm like no. Leslie Lidi. Leslie Lidi.
Leslie Lidi. Lidi. Lidi. Lidi. Mark Torpey. Torpey. Torpey. So you're a good company, Mark.
Hey you know what man? How do you pronounce Pamo Valley Tasting Room?

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Pamo. Thank you. Pamo. On that note. Yeah some people say Pamo. Oh Pamo Valley Tasting Room.
Yeah. We would like to thank our third sponsor, Jennifer Lane at Pamo Valley Winery. Thank you so much for your sponsorship of this show and for your support of live music in Ramona.
Pamo is such a cool place. That's a friendly place. Everybody knows your name at Pamo.

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Definitely go and check them out. Wouldn't you like to get away?
Voted best tasting room two years in a row. Two years in a row. Best tasting room in Ramona.
It's on Main Street. Best wine tenders. You know we have a good time at Pamo. Come see why.
I know a pretty good wine tender that works there. Is that what they're called wine tenders? You're
talking about Mandy or Danielle? Holly? Mackenzie? I'm talking about this lady that I know of Sweet Curves.

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I'm talking about this lady that I know of Sweet Curves. The hot redhead. Yeah. He's got a thing for hot redheads.
The fiery hot redhead. Hot tempered. Hot fiery redhead. I got the Irish temper. She puts me in line.
She keeps me in line. Sweet Curves. Mark, have you ever played at Pamo? Yes. You've played there a
couple times. Yeah many times. One of the reasons I love my job so much. I get amazing music on

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Thursday nights. Yeah Thursdays and maybe potentially doing Wednesdays. But maybe we'll figure it out.
I don't know. Would they do Saturdays and Sundays? Some Thursdays, Saturdays, occasional Sundays, occasional
Tuesdays, occasional Fridays. Occasional Tuesdays. We had music last Friday. Yeah. So it just depends

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but consistently Saturday and Thursdays. Saturday, Thursday so far. Okay well we're gonna up that
game and maybe do another day during the week. I don't know. Mark Torpey. Torpey. Did I say it right?
Yeah. No. I didn't know who you were talking to. I looked behind you. Is there someone else here?
It's my brother. Torpey. Who the fuck is that? No. I'm Torpey. Torpey. Yeah actually stick with Torpey.

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I'd like to. Dude. When I say your name like that Torpey I have to I put my pinky up when I'm drinking my whiskey.
Oh I'm glad that's the only thing. He goes a wee wee. Wee wee. Wee wee. That means yes and what? French.

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Yeah the French is coming out of you. Yes. In Francois. He's not allowed in France now. That's funny. Wee wee means yes.
So I gotta go take a yes. I'll be back. No. It's just wee. Oh wee. I gotta go. Wee wee is yes yes.
I gotta go take a yes. I'll be back. Yes. Just hang on.

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You know like I think it was Steve Martin said you know those French they got a different word for everything.
I love Steve Martin. He's a hell of a musician too. He plays the banjo. Banjo yeah. Really good. Yeah.
I was shocked. I mean because you think okay celebrities they can sing or they can whatever
but I mean he's like legit really good. He is a talented mofo. Yeah. I will say that. Good luck.

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Just like Mark Torpey. That's Mark's French cousin.
Get this here bowling for ships. Did you get it?
I'm a remnant guy. I don't know how you do a yes. I'm a remnant guy.
I'm here for nine days so I guess for this nine days I'm a stationary guy.

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How to be a millionaire. First get a million dollars.
Yeah that's always my thing. How do you become a millionaire? First thing you need to become a
millionaire you need five million. If you have five million then you can make a million.
That's like it goes back to anything. You make a dollar you got to have at least five dollars to

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make one right. You know yeah. Isn't that like a musician joke or something like if you if you
want to make a million dollars as a musician start with five million. Yeah yeah start with five million
target. We'll do it live. Have you started working on your dad jokes for the grandkids? Oh yeah.
Oh Mark you got dad jokes. You're a granddad. I was born with them I think. Yeah I've been

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I've been saying dad jokes for a long time. Like what? All right what do you got? Can't remember
any of them. Come on. Is that a dad joke? No. I was trying to segue into my new dad joke I just
heard the other day. What is that? All right so I'm a pilot so I think it's pretty fucking cool.
What do you get when you have a plane with a wooden wing wooden wheels and a wooden engine?

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A plane that wouldn't fly. Oh my god we're all gonna die in this airplane.
I thought it was pretty cool. You're on fire. All right Mark you got it you got a dad joke.
I'm sure you don't have any. Too much pressure. Too much pressure. You know you got some Jack

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Daniels right there in front of you. Yeah I know I gotta be. That's the gentleman Jack and you got
you double fisting so you got to. He's gonna have another one of those gonna go from dad jokes to
politically incorrect jokes in a hurry. That's why I have my roar. You got your little beep button
Eric. Eric. Eric. Eric. You got your little beep button right. Okay cool.

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Oh that was fun. That was fun. That works. That's what happens when I drink the Roar Originals
Mango Clementine. It's a mango clementine. It's a fruit-y fruit-y water. Vitamin enhanced
beverage. It's not a water it's a beverage. It's a beverage. Like I said pinky up. It's a bevy.
Pinky up. Pinky up when you drink that. It's gluten free. It's always up. I don't have to. Oh it's gluten

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free. Your celiacs won't kick in. Anything mango clementine I'm all over it. Is that your signature
flavor? Candles, drinks. Next week we're candles. Don't get me started. We're gonna go to
a brunch next Sunday. I just wrote a new song. Mango clementine. It's called Mango Clementine. It's like a candle.

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Oh man. All right Mark. So we asked a lot of our guests just for fun. If you were stranded on
an island. Man this is some good whiskey. If you were stranded on an island.
I thought you skipped. I was gonna put a quarter on your head. I glitched Mark. I glitched.

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Okay on an island you've got one song that you can listen to. You've got one food and one drink.
And it doesn't have to be alcoholic. Just one beverage. It can be an alcoholic drink.
It probably would be alcoholic if I'm on a desert island. One beverage, one song. Speaking of
one food. Alcoholic beverages. Well the song I already told you. It would have to be Wichita

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Lineman. Okay and that song would play on repeat. 24 7 over and over. On repeat. I'm okay with that.
Yeah? Yeah or anything by the Pat Matheny group. Not his solo or quartet weird stuff.
Oh no. Something by the Pat Matheny group. Like just any like this one. You just. Nah.

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That you said. Maybe something like Faze Dance. Have you got that one?
Damn that's gonna be on. This is gonna be on repeat forever. It's gonna be on repeat over and over.
No. That sounds like something off Wichita Falls. No that reminds me of like Mannheim Steamroller.
Like just all of this like. There you go. All right so here we've got this playing 24 hours a day.
Faze Dance. Seven days a week. Okay. Is this the live version? Oh he wants the live version.

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Oh you want the live version? You gotta have something mellow though because. He's gotta hear
he's gotta hear the crowd. He's gotta hear the crowd. Yeah I think I'd want a live version of
something. Something live? So you felt like you were with other people? I think Faze Dance live.
Okay. Faze Dance live. You can hear the crowd. Try the Travels. Try the Travels album. Okay.

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All right so there's. Okay so we're getting there. We're getting there. Here we go. Okay. All right.
Here it is. So we have this song playing 24 hours a day. Seven days a week. Live. And you hear this.
Everything. Right. And then you tell yourself like those are your friends. That's what gets you
through. Yeah. All right. What are you gonna have? What are you gonna have to drink? To drink probably

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a Malibu and Coke. Malibu and Coke. Malibu rum and Coke. Yeah. Okay. That's like a. Yeah that was my
go-to drink for years and years. Malibu Coke. Pretty much all I drank for probably 25 years.
So you're also saying rum and Coke because Malibu's rum right? Well it's like coconut rum. Yeah but
I like the coconut rum. Yeah it could be parrot bay. That would be fine. Parrot bay's good. Yeah.

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That was my best friend's Malibu and Sprite. Yeah. Yeah. And then you had to have one one food. One
food. One food. Well I mean really if you're on an island you get two because you can fish for free.
So something to go with fish. No. No. The fish don't bite. No. You just have a box. You're in a spaceship.

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You're in a spaceship. You just have a box and every time you open the lid that one food item
is in there. No it's got to be Spam. Spam. Oh Hawaiian. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. I don't like Spam.
Bakes beans, eggs, sausage and Spam. That's one item. I don't like Spam. What? That's more than one food item I think of Spam is kind of everything.

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You don't like Spam? It's like a hot dog. I'll have your Spam. I love it. I'm having Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam. Spam.
I mean if you're on an island you could dry out some seaweed and make a Spam. What is that? Musubi?
Oh it's better. Spam and kale. But Spam and seaweed. See you're going crazy. You're going crazy

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sweet curbs with the fuck you can't see. I mean I'm just trying to get the most out of my options here.
If I'm on an island obviously I'm gonna fish. I'm gonna make a spear. I'm gonna find something.
Do you like to fish Mark? No not really. No. All right Spam it is then. It's so much easier to go to Barrens.
I go to Red Lobster and just get the fucking. I'll take that. I'll get the number three.

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The seaside trio. I find it extremely unnecessary to fish.
When I can go to a store and point.
Dude I'm gonna be honest with you. I love fishing. It's my good pastime. I have a good time fishing.

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I like to go fishing but I don't eat fish so I never bait the hook. Yeah so this guy he's like
the wife that you don't want to bring fish and he's like will you bait this hook for me?
This is gross. Will you take the fish off now that I caught it? I know yeah sweet curbs. We went fishing and I was like all right let's go let's do it throw it in there.
I'm like get the worm and put it on the hook. She's like. But do you know why? It's not the worm.

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It's not the worm. It's the guts from the worm that you gotta. Not even the guts. It's the fact that so we go to Queen Maka and you can buy night crawlers but they're alive so I feel bad they're like squirming around.
The worms. If there's but it's not dead if it was dead I'd have no problem but it's like squirming around.
I'm like I'm just torturing this little thing and now I'm gonna drown it. Oh see you turn around like that. You turn around. I have a critter corner for a reason okay. I love all living things. It hurts my heart. You love all living things and then you catch a fish and you're like.

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Catch and release. Sorry about that. Throw that some mitch back in the water. Let them live. Put a little lip ring in there and throw them back out. The coolest fish in the pond. Give a little stamp.
The coolest fish in the pond. The coolest fish in the pond. Albert what happened? I don't know but now I got this cool thing in my lip so. I think I'm starting a gang. I don't know. Free piercings.

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Oh you're giving fish piercings now. So what do you like to do when you perform and play music and whatever your day job is? What is your day job anyway? I'm retired now. Oh geez. You're retired?
I was a dream account for 35 years. Now you're just bragging. Wait you were an accountant? Oh you're a numbers guy. You're a bean counter guy. You're a guy. Yeah. Dang it. Okay. Well now you're retired. So what do you like to do when you're not playing music?

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I play hockey a couple times a week. Do you? Yeah. Oh you know who else plays very much into hockey? Andy. Andy the picker. Oh Andy the picker. Yeah dude.
I met him before even very cold places. Oh be darned really? Yeah. Yeah hockey's been my life really before. Oh me too. That was way more than music. Did you ever play semi professionally or in a league or? I mean I played competitively. Did you ever meet Wayne Gretzky?

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No. And you know I as a kid and played on you know a lot of really great state champion or almost champion teams in high school. Do you have a poster of Wayne Gretzky? I do not. I have a poster of Bobby Orr in my music store right now.
Oh. Can I back up for a sec because I found this actually very fascinating for those that don't know that there is a hockey thing in San Diego. Well it's amazing really because. So how does this work? I played my whole life. There's like this app you download on your phone and like all kinds of cool things. Yeah well there's a couple. There's rink rats and then there's bench app or two of them. We use bench app. Andy I know has used rink rats but I play with the same group of guys Tuesdays and Friday mornings at UTC in La Jolla. Oh okay.

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And I was shocked because you know I've been playing my whole life and up until I moved to New Hampshire when we were in such a remote part of the White Mountains in New Hampshire the closest rink was over an hour away.
So from 2000 to 2000 I mean 2020 to 2022 and a half when we got here I didn't play and I almost didn't even bring my stuff and I had been playing for 50 something years you know I've been playing since I was five years old and but I brought my stuff and I started Googling out in San Diego and I found that there's rinks all over the place and there's men's leagues and there's picks up you know and I ended up going to Poway and playing in a league there for a while and met some guys.

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I met some guys that have this ice down on Tuesdays and Fridays in UTC in La Jolla and it's great. It's all guys like me. They grew up playing their whole lives you know from Minnesota and Wisconsin and Montreal and Vancouver, British Columbia, New York. I mean everybody is a transplant.
Oh that's all. Everybody. It's just guys like me so we have a lot in common. We have a blast and we're all you know most of us are over 60 and still going at it.

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You still have all your teeth? I do. Wow.
Original teeth?
Those are all original I was going to say.
Open ears?
Yes. I got some caved in's. I'm not sure which side. I look in the mirror and one side of my face is a little caved in.
But the funny thing is that most of the damage was like in the last 10 years.

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Just sloppy sticks?
No just unlucky tucks just boom. All within like a six month period it was really bizarre.
There was one guy. It was Cletus. Cletus is a player in the league.
It was so strange. It happened like seven years ago. I'd come home and like you know because the games are always late because they give the young times to the young kids. The early times I mean.

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Us old guys we get like 10 o'clock games. Get home at midnight and you know. My nose is over.
Emily's like oh my god when are you going to stop doing that?
When are you going to grow up?
This is why we play. This is what we want to have.

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Did you see this tooth? It's gone. I don't see it either.
I'm so pissed I've never lost a tooth. What the hell do I got to do?
That's good stuff man.
We got about 15 minutes. We got a couple more things we have to tell people about in red over there.
Dude we have the in red.

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On your board in red.
50th show.
Wait real quick before we go on to that. Today this is our 40th episode.
Oh dang.
Yeah.
Mr. Torpy your episode 40.
40th episode.
You're going to be.
You just turned 40.
Highlighted in red.
And happy Grand Hog Day by the way.

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Oh yeah.
Oh it's Grand Hog Day.
Oh man.
We'll start it over.
Hit it from the beginning Eric.
I got the whiskey.
Oh yeah we're starting over. Here we go.
The inter.
Grand Hog Day.
I got the whiskey.

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We're having so much fun we'll do it again.
We'll do it again.
But also so we're having our 50th episode.
And that is going to be epic.
Yes.
April 13th.
April 13th. Mark Torpy is going to be there.
We're trying to get all the guests that have been on my show to come out.

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Get some Roar Juice.
I know we've been trying to get Jack Daniels to sponsor us.
Meanwhile tomorrow he's going to get a call from Roar Clementine and Mango.
He's going to have a Roar Jersey tomorrow.
He's going to say yes yes we will sponsor you.
And your hockey team.
And your hockey team.
I'm going to tag him on the social media.

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Mark talks about his Roar obsessions.
Roar obsessions.
Roar originals.
Take a picture of that little bottle that you got in there.
Right next to the Jack Daniels.
So anyway we're going to have our 50th episode.
It's going to be freaking awesome.
We're going to have hopefully we're going to start at noon.
And then we're going to go until whenever I pass out.

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I guess.
Because we're going to drink the whole time.
It's going to be a drinking time.
It's going to be a little bit before you pass out.
It's going to be when someone can still help me get you to the car so we can drive home.
So as long as somebody can help me get to the car.
We're going to arrange elite transportation for you VIPs.
Yes.
The VIPs are going to have definitely transportation.

(01:46:10):
You poor bastards.
No it's going to be fun.
And then we got the Iron Butt Ride.
What's the what's the haps with that Eric?
How are we?
All we know is it will be in the fall.
We're going to go from Ramona to Las Vegas to San Antonio Texas.
You got to do that in 24 hours and then we're going to party all weekend.
And we'll arrange for your bikes to get back to Ramona.

(01:46:31):
Details coming up on your new website whenever I get my lazy ass and get it done.
Eric.
There you go.
Get off your lazy ass.
Good job.
Mark do you ride motorcycles?
Have you ever ridden?
Oh yeah.
I sold it when we moved here.
OK.
Harley?
No it was a I had a Yamaha V-Star 1100.
God dang it.
Get rid of that thing.

(01:46:52):
Because I wasn't a.
Get ya Harley.
I wasn't mechanically inclined.
So I wanted a motorcycle that actually started when I turned the key.
Every time.
Get ya Harley.
You didn't want to have to pick up all your parts on the side of the road on your way
back.
Exactly.
Whatever man.
Whatever dude.
Yeah I love that thing.

(01:47:15):
I miss it but I'm glad I don't have it because it's crazy out there now.
So dude we're doing an iron butt ride.
Yeah.
How many miles is it Eric?
Maybe a thousand.
A thousand.
Is it a thousand right?
Yeah.
Well it's a thousand and twenty or fifteen hundred and twenty four.
So we're going to do the fifteen hundred and twenty four.
So fifteen hundred miles of riding.

(01:47:39):
Steady straight.
And it's going to be documented.
Everything's going to be documented.
Discovery Channel will be there.
Discovery Channel.
We're trying to get Discovery Channel on board with our show.
Is War Original sponsoring that?
Hopefully Jack Daniels and you're.
No.
War will be keeping us hydrated.
Jack Daniels can sponsor the after party.

(01:48:02):
Yeah after party we got juice.
Nobody's going to want the juice.
We're going to want whiskey.
Not while you're riding.
No when we're done.
This is the hydration for the drive.
You know what I'm going to tell you that's twenty four hours of riding.
That's going to be the longest I've gone without having a sip of alcohol.

(01:48:25):
Your boss would love to hear that.
I don't have a boss.
Other than Sweet Curves but she already knows that.
Just get one of those camel backs.
You know just.
I know I don't like to drink and drive my motorcycle.
I think Mark I think he was joking.
No I know.
I have a rule.
I have a rule.
I do have a rule though when I'm riding a Harley motorcycle.

(01:48:48):
I have a two two.
I do I call it one per bottle.
One per.
One bottle per wheel.
One per wheel.
So if I go in somewhere and you know like.
Is that why you want to try?
That's a good concept.
I got to get me a try.
Now next thing is to drive your car down the road.

(01:49:10):
The first 18 wheel motorcycle.
Yes 18 wheeler.
It's a mile long.
He's hauling something.
I could never be a truck driver because if that's my rule I'm 18.
Oh man.
I used to play golf when I was younger.
When I was I don't know in my early 20s.

(01:49:33):
And we used to play a beer.
Do you play golf Mark?
Yeah.
Ever?
Like still?
Still once in a while.
Yeah.
I used to play all the time.
The fun part about playing golf was not playing golf.
It was.
We did one a beer a hole.
Oh like.
Early 20s.
So we do a beer a hole.
So we start out.
Boom.
We have to chug a beer and then shoot the ball and do whatever.

(01:49:54):
And then we get to the second hole.
Boom.
Chuck the beer.
Shoot the next ball.
It was fun.
I'm all for drinking but chugging a beer just is not fun.
You just end up with a bloated belly.
It was a coarsely.
That's why the last three greens of golf courses are always you know ripped up.
Yeah.
Right.
So yeah after about the night.
The car always ends up on the green.

(01:50:15):
After about the ninth or tenth.
Oh yeah.
We're jumping golf carts.
Across ponds.
Oh there's some great YouTube videos.
One of the ones we did.
All right.
I hate to interrupt your little your little fantasy here but.
It was fun anyway.
We have to do this.
Holy shit.
We're running out of time.
We're doing it.
We're doing it live.
We're gonna do it live right now.
All right Mark.
Mark's heard the show.
He knows how this works right.
Mark you know how this works.
Yeah.
You got to say your name and then.

(01:50:36):
All right.
Two choices.
Oh man.
Now I'm.
Two chances.
I'm not making any choices.
Any phrases.
Mark totally made.
All right.
Kirby.
Kirby.
Alan Jackson.
Chattahoochee.

(01:50:57):
Oh did you.
All right.
That was a warm up.
What.
Okay that was a warm up.
Okay yeah.
But I did say my name first.
That was bullshit.
Eric what the hell.
Nobody was ready.
Mark wasn't ready.
Nobody was ready.
All right.
Chattahoochee.
Alan Jackson.
Okay here we go.
You guys ready for the reel.
All right.
Here we go.
What's the wait.
What's the topic.

(01:51:18):
What's the.
90s country.
90s country.
90s country.
He's all in.
He's all in.
Here we go.
Oh I know the song.
Travis.
I'm a fool for you.
Alan Jackson.
It is.
I'm holding on I'm pushing the button.
Fool fool fool for you.
No.
That's incorrect.
I'm.

(01:51:39):
By your tall tall trees.
Kirby.
There you go.
Oh that was a county sing it.
He gets one point.
He gets one point.
All right.
Ready.
All right.
Kirby.
Kirby.
If I can make a living out of living you.

(01:52:03):
I know the song but I don't know.
Oh is it Clay Walker.
It is.
Whatever dude you are out of time on that.
I feel like we're getting ripped off.
Out of my league.
Mark.

(01:52:24):
We're getting fucked.
Here we go.
Travis.
Travis.
Let's just say it's a 1960s song.
Okay.
I'm going to go with this one.
It's a song.
Carolina.
Tales California.
Good.
Fuck the Tixie chicks.
Nope.
Kirby.
Kirby.
Jodie Messina.
She's from Massachusetts too.

(01:52:45):
I should have known.
There we go.
Mark.
Mark.
Wynonna.
Something by Wynonna.
I saw the light.
Yes.

(01:53:06):
I gotta use that one more.
I mean technically.
You're not wrong.
I think I got you there.
Travis.
Travis.
This is not the king of country.

(01:53:27):
Who is it, Kirby?
George Strait.
This is not the king of country.
You were out of time.
That was way too fast.
Write this down.
What did you say?
Write this down and start.
There you go.
Did I get any half points or anything?
No.
No?
Shit the board.
I knew it was not the king of country.

(01:53:53):
Travis.
Travis.
Alan Jackson.
There you go.
Little Town or The Little Men.
You're right.
Little Men.
I hit the wrong button.
Okay, Little Men.
Cassie.
He was right.
I got that one right.
Don't fuck that up.
We're not competitive at all.
I know.
I love Cassie, but I want to make sure you got it right.
Here we go.
Kirby.
I saw the light.
Brooks and Dunn.

(01:54:14):
Well, you got the title wrong.
Born to Live Again.
No?
Wrong.
Oh.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
No?
Wrong.
Brand New Man.
Brand New Man.
No.
You can't.
No.

(01:54:35):
I saw it.
No.
My five seconds wasn't up.
Bullshit.
No.
Whatever, dude.
Just give me one then.
You don't get anything.
Give me one.
But I got it though.
You don't get the bonus point, Kirby.
No, that's fine.
See, Mark.
Mark, this is what I do.
I'm just scared.
This is bullshit.
Port Mark is like, what the fuck.
I'm happy with the bronze.
Kirby.
Travis.
Travis.

(01:54:56):
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
Travis.
I'm from the country.
Tracy Bird.
There you go.
Wow.
Whatever.
I was going to say Larry Bird.
Or we're from the country.
Larry Bird.
The Celtics.
All right.
All right.
Kirby.
Kirby.
Faith Hill This Kiss.
Wow.
Lord.

(01:55:17):
You see, dude.
This is like.
Master.
You know what?
The God of the West.
The God of the West.
Master. Here we go. Travis. Travis. Uh Lawrence.
Rachel Lawrence. There you go. Uh. Everything changes.

(01:55:37):
Kirby. Kirby. Time marches on. Time marches on. There you go.
I got one.
Learning how to sew. There we go.
Kirby. Kirby. It's Tandy Tucker. Yes. But I don't know what

(01:56:01):
the song is. I can just tell. Anybody? Nope. My arms stay
open all night. Oh. Alright. My arms stay open all night. Never
heard it. No.

(01:56:26):
I'll let you hear his voice first. Oh, give me a hit. All
our tears. Kirby. Mark. Tim McGraw. It is.
Art of you will live in me. Will live in me. Nobody. I know
the song. You can't think of it. Please remember me. Better

(01:56:48):
love. Oh. It's called Please Remember Me. Yeah.
I took a walk in the rain one day on the Kirby. Go ahead.

(01:57:10):
Kathy Matea. Oh, Kirby. Mary Chapin Carpenter. Okay.
Passionate Kisses. Anybody? Butterfly
Kisses. I take my chances. Oh, yeah. Alright. Is that a good

(01:57:31):
song? I love Mary Chapin Carpenter's chances. Yep.
There we go. Travis. Travis.
Randy Travis. Goddamnit. Okay. Don't say that word. Sorry.
Time's up. Anybody? No. God, he's killing me. I know.

(01:57:57):
Who's Randy Travis? I got some friends.
Heroes. The others. Your friend. What a good song. I
don't know the **** name of it but Travis. Travis. Boots
Good Boogie. Federer. Kirby. Mark. Brooks and Don.

(01:58:22):
Kirby. Mark. Brooks and Don. Oh, wait. I got the first song.
You got one. You got one. I got one. You got one. Cassie.
Cassie, I got one. Okay. Make sure we're good. I don't know
cheating going on. You got one. Make it a big one. Alright,
just write it. Big one. A big one. On the old one. Here we go.

(01:58:44):
We got time for a couple more. Alright. Welcome to our third
rock from the sun. Kirby. Kirby. Third Rock from the Sun.
Who is it? I want to say Joe Dibby by the way. It is? It is.
Okay. Hey, Mark, did you want to play tonight or no? My

(01:59:05):
microphone on. Yeah, you're you're more than welcome to
play my friend. It's my mic on. Test. Test one two. Test.
You're definitely a we did invite you right? Did I say
90s country?
My bad. That's what I grew up on. Yeah. 70s song. 80s or 70s.

(01:59:26):
We you know, you and I are nominated. Alright, here we go.
Travis. Travis. Uh this is John Anderson. It is. Don't Ask
Her on a Straight Tequila Night. There you go. Good job.
If you really want to know. I'll redeem those. I love the
song. I love to hear the music and dance. Oh yeah. Alright,

(01:59:50):
two more. Two more. I love this. You can still take it,
Mark. You can still get it, Mark. Mark. How many how many
points are these last two? Alright, this next one. This
next one is worth 100 points. 100 points. You have a chance to
win. So, you're telling me there's a chance. You know,
Mark, but the problem is if she gets it, there's no **** way.

(02:00:13):
Yeah, but then the next one is worth 500 points. Fair. Fair.
This one's worth 100 points. 100 points. One million points.
Kirby. Strawberry and wine. I knew that too. This is
bullshit. I'm telling you, we're being duped, Mark. You're
lost like the last four. This is what I say when I play

(02:00:35):
Trivia Pursuit. You studied the cards. This is bullshit. You
knew the answer to that one.
Alright, let's see. We got one more. Alright, one more. This
one's worth five million. 100 billion zillion. Whoever gets
this one wins. Pinky in the mouth and everything.

(02:00:57):
Kirby. Kirby. You know me better than that. George
Strait? God, **** you. **** that. I ain't a **** ****. But
you got it wrong. Test. You gotta say not the king of
country George Strait. Suck. That's not his billing name.

(02:01:17):
Cassie, go ahead and dock a point. I still got 499 then for
that one. What point? That's 499. 499. None of that 500
stuff. Oh, even better. I'm full of it. Alright, we're out
of time. Say good night, Travis. Oh my god, man. 10,000
points. Thank you guys so much for hanging out and listening
to the this crazy show. The Travis Billy Ralph Sallow

(02:01:41):
Country Show. Mark Torp. Before you go. I'm gonna say Mark Torp.
I thank you so much for coming on the show, man. And how do
we get how do we get how do we get into listening to your
stuff like you got Spotify? All the streaming platforms. It's
an EP. It's a four song EP. It's called Out There and I have
a website now. Marktorpey.com. Cool. Marktorpey.com. Check

(02:02:05):
out. T-O-R-M-A. E-I-O. Cool. Well, they wear dirty confetti.
If I say if I say Mark Torpey, will it understand? No. Yes.
It'll say you're an idiot. It'll say is this Travis?
You're like fuck him, Travis. Give me the good ones. Stupid.

(02:02:29):
Alright, you guys have a great rest of your week. Happy Sunday
and drive safe and have a good week and we'll hear from you
guys or you'll hear from us next Sunday. Cool. Oh, just for
the final. Just before we go. 10,800. Mark Torpey got two.
Travis got nine. Kirby got 1,400. Whatever, dude. Fuck you,

(02:02:49):
dumb. Alright. Goodnight. Goodnight, guys. Say
goodnight, Travis. Goodnight, Travis.

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