Sad men go to Guitar Center... and Rich

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You guys all know how much of a guitar player
and fan of guitars Rich is, right. I mean, a
couple of years ago I got him an autographed guitar
from the Rolling Stones. He's you know, he's got You've
got a room where the guitars are, like in a
temperature controlled room.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I mean you are a guitar fan. I mean it's
my favorite thing and the music is my favorite thing.
So I'm watching this stand up comedian the other day
on TV and something happens where it reminds me of Rich. Now,
before we play the clip, I happened to also know
that Rich has a story about Guitar Center. So I
thought Rich could tell the story about Guitar Center. Rich,
And if you don't mind after the story, could I

(00:32):
play the clip and tell me if it rings true? Okay,
you may be right, So what's the story?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
So I had lunch with my buddy DJ and where
meaning that like noon, and I realized it's going to
be really early for the lunch. I call my wife Stacey,
and I'm like, what can I do for the next
forty five minutes? And her list was terrible. It's like,
can you go to the post office for me, can you,
you know, stop by Safeway and pick up a prescription.
Neither one of those are fun and totally out of
my way, but I do know that there's a guitar
center right down the street from where we're supposed to

(00:59):
have lunch. I like to go in look at new microphones,
look at headphones, look at new guitars. So I pop
in and there's really nobody in the store. I go
back into the acoustic guitar rooms. So they have some
of the like you know, normal people guitars out, but
if you go into the acoustic room, that's the higher
price stuff. You can find fancy, really fancy stuff. So

(01:20):
I go in and I noticed like some things are
kind of set up wrong, like they got tags sticking
out of guitar string. So I pull a few of
the tags out so people can play guitars because I
want to look nice in there. So I start playing
a guitar and a guy walks in behind me and
he's kind of noodling around on something and he's like, hey,
what do you think of these? I'm like, oh, those
are okay. I go they're kind of expensive. So I

(01:40):
talked to him for a few minutes. Said what's your
budget for an acoustic and he tells me that he's
looking to spend about a thousand dollars. I'm like, that's
a lot of money. You can get a great guitar
for that. How about this one? So I handed to him.
It's all out of tune. I'm like, let me tuote
it for you. So I tune the guitar. Like, what's
your name? My name's Tim, Like, I'm Rich, Nice to
meet you. We start talking for a while and I'm
handing him different guitars and his price range, and I'm

(02:02):
tuning him for him before he plays him, and I
picked the one. I'm like, you should buy this Martin guitar.
So he's like, thanks, your name's Rich. So I can
tell him that you help me so you can get credit.
And I'm like, oh, I don't work here there. I'm
so used to when I hang out in a guitar place,

(02:24):
musicians just talk to each other. Big deal. So I
really thought he was like, well, what do you think
you're a player? I didn't think he worked there. So
I'm actually I gotta go from my lunch with DJ,
so just you know, I grab the price tag, bring
up front. Whatever it is, You're gonna love it. You're
gonna love it.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Commission.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I did walk out. I told the guy kind of
working the cash, I'm like, hey, Tim's in there. He's
gonna buy the Martin guitar.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
The ad.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
He's gonna love it.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
So on Hulu there's a comedian and he's off the
special his name is Bill Burr. He's got a lot
of specials. Really funny guy. And you know, I mean
Rich Bord goes to guitar sent I can't imagine ever
doing that. It's never in a million years when I
do anything like that. And I'm watching this comedian tell
the spet. He's telling the story, and I just thought,
oh my god, all.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Right, well I will give you. I will give you
the number one place.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
To see sad men.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Guitar Center one of the saddest places on earth, failed
struggling musicians. Behind the counter, a bunch of men in
loveless marriages are divorced, just walking around looking at the guitars.
Is that a custom color? Is? Maybe if I add

(03:38):
that to my collection, will fill up whatever this void
is in centerous funny.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's like the algorithm following algorithm. But you're not sad,
no I, Your story is sad.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It is sad.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Thank you, Guitar Center