March 3, 2026 ⢠25 mins
EITM interviews Eric Hutchinson
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eric Hutchinson, Eric Helloy, I am doing great, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm great, I'm great, happy to be on the phone
with you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Excellent. Don't you want doesn't the tour crank up tomorrow?
Do I have that? Right?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes? That's right, Boston, New York, DC Phility.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey is the is the the Big Four? Exactly? Exactly? Hey?
Is the day before a tour starts? Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Butterfly? Well? I mean you've done this long. You don't
get butterflies? Is it?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Nervous? Exciting?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Like?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Uh? It's yeah, it's all those things. I mean it's
not this similar from packing for any trip. You know,
you're just like, all right, I gotta get that stuff together.
I gotta do this, I gotta get that. And I
mean I've been doing this over twenty years. I still
do get like anxious though before it's time to force
them to take off. Just as soon as I'm out
the door, it's fine, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right, Yeah, No, it's just the whole getting up and
get ready.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Because I know, like you were out on the road
all of January and then you were off in February,
and I know what you did in February and now
you're going But when I was looking at your schedule,
so you're on the road all of March, but then
you're off in April and back on May. Are you
doing the same thing in April that you did in February.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I've had to change my schedule around my touring schedule.
A you know, I'm a dad now, I've got a
seven and a half year old daughter, and it just
wasn't working a lot. So I'm kind of doing what
they call in the business a weekend warrior thing where
I go out Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then come
back and then do that about once a month or so.
(01:41):
So it's it's spread out. So this tour is going
to be going on for quite a while. It's going
to take me a while to get everywhere. But yeah,
this way, this works easier for me and my family.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh, that's not what I was referring to. I was
referring to you doing rock Boat.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh okay, like that's all that's all nice and stuff
for the family.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But yeah, dude, you did rock boat.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
How is it possible that's the first time you've done it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't know. I was asking everybody on there, and
everyone said, oh, even trying to get you on forever,
and I was like, well, not trying hard enough. It's
just I don't know if people know about it, but
it's it's there's these you know, it's a big it's
a festival out at sea, it's a cruise ship and
and it's thirty bands or something like that, and it
(02:35):
was really cool. It was my first time doing it.
They were celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary. They do all
kinds of cruises now with music obviously, sure, but it's
just super fun.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you know what's weird, Eric is for that for
that cruise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There are so many endless rock Boat's been around, like
you said, for twenty five years, and it was kind
of one of the first ones that started the whole
run of like this one's got a cruise, and this
one's got a cruise, and that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
One's got a crew.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But like I was looking, I was just looking back
to see who was on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
There's so many of our friends on there.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You the Alternate Roots, Steven Kellogg, Carbon Leaf, the Struts,
Matt Nathanson, like it just it seems like it's so
much fun.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It is fun, you know, and you're hanging around. You know,
it's like you do the show and you're the rock
star and then you're in the dining hall getting putting
next to everybody else. So it's like it's, uh, the
everyone on the boat was really less by the end
of it, and the fans enjoy it and the artists
enjoy it, and it's all kind of just mixing together.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Have you everard on one of those No.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, I want to honestly the one that I want
to go on, and I know that there are like
a bunch of the individual bands, but the one that
we've always talked about, like taking the show on is
rock Boat because there, again, there's so many people that
we know that perform on there, and there's so many
different bands.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It just like with the three eleven crew be awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, would the Kiss Cruise be awesome, of course it would,
But the rock Boat one just has so many different
friends and artists.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's the one that we've always talked about, if we're
going to take the show on, one would be the
one that we would want to go on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You guys would sit right in that would be awesome.
I'm here to pitch. I'm here to pitch Elliot in
the morning at sea, just your own cruise.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm going to need about ten or eleven bands on
the rock boat to go, and then we'll just change
the name and listen.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'd love to go. I have no problem.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The problem Eric, if we're being honest, the two pussies
in the room who don't want to go on the cruise,
or Diane and Tyler.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh wow, you're naming names.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Are you a big cruise guy?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I was a little seasick the entire time, Okay, just
like a low grade headache, and just didn't felt like
jet lagged the entire time, even though we were in
the same time zone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So you have never been on a cruise prior to this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was I'm like, it's fine because like I do it.
But then as soon as I get onto solid ground,
I'm like, oh, I feel like myself again.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Gotcha? Hey? Can I ask you about another band that
was on the on the rock boat?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, and they had done we had done some stuff
with them years and years and like decades ago. Great
guys back then. But I saw they were on it.
How was American?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Fi? Oh? They were cool. They they yeah, like they
that's legendary. They were cool and put on a great
show and you know, saw them, saw them around everything.
It was the same, you know. Like I said, everybody
was just hanging out and it was American High Final
was the other group that joined. The last minute, A
(05:44):
switch Foot came on and uh, classic band and people
were loving that too. So yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, let me know the next time you're going,
are you going to do another one?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I hope? So yeah, I hope. So I don't. I'm
doing the next years, but maybe the year after that,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, So anyway, let's get back to it. So
the tour kind of kicks back up tomorrow. You'll be
here on Friday. You also have some new songs coming out,
which I'm assuming you are playing on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The I have a new album coming out called Repeating Myself,
which is it's sort of my homage to myself. It's
the Snake eating the Snake. I pretty much was like,
I want to write an album like the guy who
made my first album did. So it's almost like I
fed my own music. I didn't do this, but it
was like I fed my music into AI and then
(06:39):
it was like write something in the style of Eric Hutchinson,
and that's what I did. So it's like definitely a
throwback to like my earliest songs, and so we're playing
some of those and plan the new songs and play
some of the meg hits and it's gonna be a
good time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know what. The song so a couple of the
new ones.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Which one I really like is King of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Thank You, Yes, I do too. I was a little
scared to release that song, but so far it's been
getting nice response. It's a sort of a fantasy about
how my life would be so much better if I
lived in Philadelphia, and I thought Philadelphians would get mad,
(07:25):
but they were all like, yeah, it would be idiot,
why don't you move here already?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The video is hysterical.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, it was fun. I dressed up like a king,
like a goofy king, and I walked around the city
and ate a cheese steak, and I thought maybe I'd
get my ass kicked, but people were really friendly and
like they wanted to get into the silliness of it.
People were just bowing to me on the streets and
so it was fun. Video came out nice, it was
a silly day.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, No, it was good. It was really good.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And then one other thing that I wanted to talk
to you about, Eric, is your your podcast Song Versations.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it's really good. It's really really well done.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thank you. It's been it's been the labor of love
to get up and running. You know. It's based on
my card game Son Versations. It came out a few
years ago, and I'm pretty sure we came on and
talked about that then. But yeah, it's it's talking to
different guests about the music they love. And it turns
out I never ever ever get to started doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And did you like the first guest you have on
is Justin Willman, who's who's a magician, a very big magician.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, it's been on Netflix a aunch and on tour.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Very cool that you went to school with him. But
it was easy, or maybe it was easier because you
two know each other and there's a little bit of
history and obviously like he's famous, but to be able
to lay out I'm assuming that it'll be the same
format for every guest that you have on.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, And actually the next one just dropped today. Is
Eliza Schlessinger, who's also a friend of mine. She just
stand up comic and she's on today, and so yeah,
it's it's asked. The questions changed, but it's pretty much
this idea of like, you know, you can really get
to know somebody through the music they grew up listening
to and what they're listening to right now. And so
(09:20):
we listened to clips of the songs and we you know,
it kind of just it really came out of missing
listening to music with other people. You know, these days,
everything is here's a cool song, I like, here's a
link to listen to it on Spotify by yourself, And
it's really I just missed the days of high school
coming home after school being like I'm going to play
this song and I'm going to sit here and watch
(09:42):
you listen to it, and it's what you think of it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And what is the do they get the because you know,
as the questions like so like, for example, it'll be
like one of the questions you had for Wilman was
what is the song you are embarrassed you only recently
learned the correct lyrics to? And then yeah, he answers
it and like you said, you guys play it, you'll
talk about it, you'll talk about the song, you'll you'll
(10:06):
kind of give yours he has, and you know, people
are playing along as they're watching it. But you know
what the problem is, I can't, like in that moment,
I can't think of anything.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, I'll give you some behind the scenes. We
do let them know the questions ahead of time, so
there's not a bunch of dead air, but I don't
know what they're I don't know what their answers are.
So I get to kind of just really react in
real time and be like, wow, okay, all right, and
so yeah, he justin Willman was brave enough to admit
that he never knew the lyrics of Little Red Corvette,
(10:38):
even though that's the song title.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was embarrassing. That was embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They were singing living correct. But then you know, in
the comments, so many people were like, I also did
not know what the song title or what the lyrics were.
You know, it's like, I guess, a confusing thing, but.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Like, but now I am glad to know they got
it ahead of time, But I'm also glad that you
don't know the answer. So I guess that's burns who
knows the answer or you're no, you're just getting the answer.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I'm learning it as as the audience learns it. That's
that's my most fun way to do it. So I
can just actually respond to it and be like wow, okay.
And then it's very extreme of conscious interesting. That song
makes me think of this song, and then we listen
to a little bit of that song and it's, uh,
you know, it's just a show for music lovers. It's
a good way to discover new music as we kind
of talk about whatever people are into. And yeah, you
(11:30):
can watch it on YouTube or get it wherever you
get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But then there was a song that reminds you of
an old job you have.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, know what, this is all I've ever done. Well,
that's not true. I worked at a Walmart.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Maybe go back to like an burger king.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I worked at Burger King for a night.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Like different music eras, different music eras with different stations
you were on.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well, yeah, but that's not like an old job.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Kie, Eric job, Okay, Eric, what was the last job
you had before quitting it where you were like full
time musician?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I was pretty bad at having quote unquote regular jobs.
I wand all fall to get an internship, and then
I got this internship at like a production company. In
day two, they were like, we want you to reorganize
all these tapes, and I was like, I kind of
think I'm above that. I don't know, to do something
(12:32):
else more, get ready for like a higher level ready
for a high level job. And they were like, why
don't you just not come in anymore? And I was
like huh. And I got a job working at an
ice cream store instead. And at that ice cream store,
I remember there was the manager was obsessed with Janet Jackson,
(12:56):
and so she would always play Janet Jackson on the
on the radio when she was in charge of it,
and so I would probe pick a Jana Jackson song
that reminds me of working at JP licks.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh yeah, very nice, very.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Nice, you know, And then I'd play the song and
then you'd be like, oh, man, I remember this song.
I made out to this song with Susie Donaldson or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But you know what, And I was and I understand it.
He's your friend and he's being kind. But Wilman kind
of lied a little bit, did it, because he said
that the he had never had any other job but
being a magician. And then he went on and said,
even when I was working at this Mexican restaurant, I
(13:42):
would go and do magic as the waiter. I would
do magic tricks for people that were seated in my section.
And I wanted to go, idiot, that is your water
is job like your job was waiter.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Your job wasn't a magician who delivered food?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You were You delivered food and then you'd did magic
for him.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well that's how he always saw. That's you know, that's
why he's successfully all. Even when he was being a waiter,
he was saying, I'm not a waiter, I'm a magician
that delivers food.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It's the uh suspension of disbelief, which is really all
magic is about.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But now do you remember the name of the restaurant
that he said he worked at.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, El Torito, because I loved elter Edo in Maryland
growing up. That's where I had all my birthdays.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Right, And what dorky, dorky dorky thing did Eric Hutchinson
do when celebrating his birthday at El Touredo?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, you really did listen to the episode? I would
I El to Edo. I think it was maybe in
green Belt. There is the one we went to, and
it was they sang their own proprietary birthday, happy Birthday song,
and I think it was because they didn't want to
pay legal rights to sing the other happy Birthday, which
(14:56):
was copyrighted. But I don't know if that's true or not.
But I loved it. It was like happy Birthday, Happy birthda.
They every birthday, it was different. So I brought my
own tape recorder to record them singing that version so
I could listen to it year round. It didn't have
to just be my birthday because it was just so cool.
And that's why, years and years later, I'm hosting a
(15:18):
podcast about listening to songs. I guess, hey, I'll ask
you one of them. This is this is the one
we always start with that I like is I think
it's just wait from song versations.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah yeah, okay, but I didn't Burns did not send
me this question.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I know you're gonna have to be ready.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh crap, Okay, all right, this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Because for everybody can answer this one. So, like, you know,
when you were in sixth grade, what is the song
that made you feel like the absolute coolest person.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In the world in sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Sixth grade, you're like eleven or twelve. The hormones haven't
really kicked in yet.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Not true, Not true, It's not true.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You were okay.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
One of the last things I did in sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I split sixth grade between l Paso Garbage City if
you ever tore there, and Houston. But before I left
El Paso, I kissed Marcy Callahan. She had a big
sweat mustache. But I did kiss Marcy Callahan. So the
hormones had kicked in, okay?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And was the song in Janet Jackson song that listening
to you at the time? Or now?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Like? I can't think of I can't think of like
because now I'm trying to think. I also liked Regina
Khan a lot, but I don't remember nope. I well, no,
but that didn't make me feel like a badass. Now
I can just think of a song from sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
All right, why don't you let you think about it?
What about Diane?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I immediately went to like van Halen?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Won hm, And how did you find out about van Halen?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I don't know. It must have been it was probably
like one of the boys in my class.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Because I remember specifically having like a little like I
ripped out a page of a magazine of David Lee
Roth like doing the Teddy Bear jump.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What Yeah, so you were a David You liked them
because of David Lee rock.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Because of Eddie Well, Eddie too.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
But do you like Van Hagar?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Not as much I do.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You're not talking to me, this is I know, I understand,
I understand, I understand, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Do you have okay?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
So Van Halen, I would say, uh, meet Loaf, I
do anything for love, but I won't do that.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I know. Tell us more.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Because the video was so theatrical, so it like it
made me feel seen because I did all the school musicals.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh I didn't know that you did the musicals. Okay,
so you.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Were That's why I am here.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Can you tell us some of the musicals you were in?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, the audience does know, but for you, Eric Flowers,
drum Song, Damn Yankees me me and Saint Louis Oliver you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Know, wow, okay, and you were like those songs, those
are those are cool? But meat Loaf he kicked that.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, Hey, what year? What year? What it was? Ice?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Sixth grade or can I just do middle school? Like
I don't know if it was sixth grade or later. No,
But you know, the one that comes to mind now
is point blank on a Roll.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, okay, that's a great song. Eric, that's a great song.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know if I know it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh God, damn you. You don't know. You don't know.
Point blank on a roll?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Is which one is the artist?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Point blank?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay on a Roll?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They also did I hope you're pulling it up right now.
They also did own Nicole, But point on a Roll
was good. I crashed my bike into a car parked
on the side of the road because I was high
as a kite while but we were we were playing
that song on a on a on a on a
boombox really really loud.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And crashed our bikes listening to that song.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Wow, you were like a pre iPod, just driving around
making your own with the with the book.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh well, you know what, I'm sorry, I wasn't doing
Meet me in Saint.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Louis hard to blast that one on the boombox.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is, it is, it is. But I like those.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I like those, but I wish I had more time
to think how to think about it?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Well? You know, that's that's it. But you can think
about it and you can be shouting at alone along
at home, but you know, that's how that's how it works.
And I love getting to learn about a new song.
And then you know, forever from now on, whenever I
hear eventually point blank on a roll, I'm going to
think of I'm gonna be like, unless.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Unless we hang up and you play it, you will
never hear it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Let's play it when we hang up here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hey, do you have your are you? Are you at
your setup for song versations?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm not, I'm just on them, just on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
God damn it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I'm gonna ask you to play it that way, I
could hear your reaction to the greatness that is point blank.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And they were Were they a local al Passo band.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Bite your freaking tongue.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
They were semi nationwide.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Wide. I saw the point Blank band members listening.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It's okay, I forgive you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hey, so you said you said a new song versations
dropped today?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What do you do? You have a bunch of them
lined up?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Like now you're going out on the road, Like, do
you have a bunch of them lined up?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, we've been working to get some uh some pre
recorded and then still recording them. And yeah, we got
all kinds of fun guests coming up my Embiolic my
friend is coming out, and comedian Gareth Reynolds and Jen Widerstrom,
who's a fitness like celebrity fitness coach. So you know,
(21:14):
we're trying to talk to all different kinds of people
and see what kind of music they like.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I think that's great. All right, A couple of other things.
I got to go back to something you mentioned earlier.
When does the record come out?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I don't know yet. Sometime soon, sometime in the summer
or the fall. Probably it's looking.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Like okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Correct two songs out now, right?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yes, and then correct me if I'm wrong. You're a
big baseball dude, right, we've talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah. And who is your team?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
The Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
How disgusting is it to have Pete A Lonzo on
your team?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Mean, I'm pretty into it it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh god, I can't take it. I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
The but I am stoke for the I am stoke
for baseball season to get underway. Are you a Kenri.
I was looking at some on Instagram. You were talking
about Ken Griffy Junior. Are you Were you a Ken
Griffy guy?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh? I mean, of course the time I grew up,
everybody knew and loved Ken Griffy, But he was never
my absolute favorite. He was. I tend to like underdogs
a little bit more so. He was a little too good,
you know. I had to find people more like that
I could relate to as a bad baseball player.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Right, yeah, no, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't remember what you were talking about online where
you were talking about Ken Griffy.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But the only reason.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That it's that that I that I lined from one
of my songs, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Was the Are you hip too?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Are you paying attention to Connor Griffin out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm paying attention to all of it. Yeah. Yeah, he's
supposed to be Ken Griffy very well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
He would be the first if he if he cracks
the lineup in the dude is ridiculous. But if he
cracks the lineup, he'll be the first teenage hitter to
debut on an opening day roster since Griffy.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, and he is a horse. He is massive.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, I've seen pictures of him. He's easy on the
eyes too, you know, he looks like it could be
in heated rivalry baseball.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And then last thing, last thing, Eric and then I'll
uh and then I'll let you run. When I was
when I was snooping around on Instagram the picture that
you posted with your mom going to see Paul McCartney
and realizing, as you said that it's the first time
that your mom had seen Paul McCartney since she saw
(23:50):
the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in the early sixties.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Dude, that's that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, it was a special trip. He didn't uh, he
didn't come around the DC area. My mom still lives
in Silver Spring and we uh so we did a
road trip and we went to go see Paul in
Pittsburgh and uh, it was it was a fun It
was a fun time. We made a little road trip
out of it, and my mom was really happy. And
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you know, Paul played all the hits and uh, she
shared some memories from seeing them back in the day.
That's what life was like back then, though, Like I
was like, who took you to the Hollywood Bowl show?
She's like, I don't know it was some guy who
was a friend of my mom's or something, and she
couldn't go. And he was like, I like, we're going
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to write an article about them. I'll take her. And
I'm like, you would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Let that happen though, dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I'm I don't know if the answer is yes
or no, but is the picture of the two women
at the Hollywood Bowl sign?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Is one of them? Your mom?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh? Man, wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's not?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean it could be.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I didn't double a check, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Look like all right, very good, All right.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Eric Hutchinson will be at the Atlantis this Friday night.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's the Repeating myself tour. Dude, have a blast on
the road.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I hope Friday night show is great and I'll keep
checking out so conversations.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Appreciate it, guys. Always fun to talk to you. Thanks
a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Hey, you got it. We'll talk to you later. Thanks Eric,
all right, bye,
Eric Hutchinson, Eric Helloy, I am doing great, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
I'm great, I'm great, happy to be on the phone
with you.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Excellent. Don't you want doesn't the tour crank up tomorrow?
Do I have that? Right?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes? That's right, Boston, New York, DC Phility.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hey is the is the the Big Four? Exactly? Exactly? Hey?
Is the day before a tour starts? Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Butterfly? Well? I mean you've done this long. You don't
get butterflies? Is it?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Nervous? Exciting?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Like?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Uh? It's yeah, it's all those things. I mean it's
not this similar from packing for any trip. You know,
you're just like, all right, I gotta get that stuff together.
I gotta do this, I gotta get that. And I
mean I've been doing this over twenty years. I still
do get like anxious though before it's time to force
them to take off. Just as soon as I'm out
the door, it's fine, you know.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right, Yeah, No, it's just the whole getting up and
get ready.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Because I know, like you were out on the road
all of January and then you were off in February,
and I know what you did in February and now
you're going But when I was looking at your schedule,
so you're on the road all of March, but then
you're off in April and back on May. Are you
doing the same thing in April that you did in February.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I've had to change my schedule around my touring schedule.
A you know, I'm a dad now, I've got a
seven and a half year old daughter, and it just
wasn't working a lot. So I'm kind of doing what
they call in the business a weekend warrior thing where
I go out Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then come
back and then do that about once a month or so.
(01:41):
So it's it's spread out. So this tour is going
to be going on for quite a while. It's going
to take me a while to get everywhere. But yeah,
this way, this works easier for me and my family.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh, that's not what I was referring to. I was
referring to you doing rock Boat.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh okay, like that's all that's all nice and stuff
for the family.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
But yeah, dude, you did rock boat.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
How is it possible that's the first time you've done it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't know. I was asking everybody on there, and
everyone said, oh, even trying to get you on forever,
and I was like, well, not trying hard enough. It's
just I don't know if people know about it, but
it's it's there's these you know, it's a big it's
a festival out at sea, it's a cruise ship and
and it's thirty bands or something like that, and it
(02:35):
was really cool. It was my first time doing it.
They were celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary. They do all
kinds of cruises now with music obviously, sure, but it's
just super fun.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But you know what's weird, Eric is for that for
that cruise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There are so many endless rock Boat's been around, like
you said, for twenty five years, and it was kind
of one of the first ones that started the whole
run of like this one's got a cruise, and this
one's got a cruise, and that.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
One's got a crew.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
But like I was looking, I was just looking back
to see who was on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
There's so many of our friends on there.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You the Alternate Roots, Steven Kellogg, Carbon Leaf, the Struts,
Matt Nathanson, like it just it seems like it's so
much fun.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It is fun, you know, and you're hanging around. You know,
it's like you do the show and you're the rock
star and then you're in the dining hall getting putting
next to everybody else. So it's like it's, uh, the
everyone on the boat was really less by the end
of it, and the fans enjoy it and the artists
enjoy it, and it's all kind of just mixing together.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Have you everard on one of those No.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
No, I want to honestly the one that I want
to go on, and I know that there are like
a bunch of the individual bands, but the one that
we've always talked about, like taking the show on is
rock Boat because there, again, there's so many people that
we know that perform on there, and there's so many
different bands.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It just like with the three eleven crew be awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yes, would the Kiss Cruise be awesome, of course it would,
But the rock Boat one just has so many different
friends and artists.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's the one that we've always talked about, if we're
going to take the show on, one would be the
one that we would want to go on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You guys would sit right in that would be awesome.
I'm here to pitch. I'm here to pitch Elliot in
the morning at sea, just your own cruise.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'm going to need about ten or eleven bands on
the rock boat to go, and then we'll just change
the name and listen.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'd love to go. I have no problem.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
The problem Eric, if we're being honest, the two pussies
in the room who don't want to go on the cruise,
or Diane and Tyler.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh wow, you're naming names.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Are you a big cruise guy?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I was a little seasick the entire time, Okay, just
like a low grade headache, and just didn't felt like
jet lagged the entire time, even though we were in
the same time zone.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So you have never been on a cruise prior to this.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I was I'm like, it's fine because like I do it.
But then as soon as I get onto solid ground,
I'm like, oh, I feel like myself again.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Gotcha? Hey? Can I ask you about another band that
was on the on the rock boat?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, and they had done we had done some stuff
with them years and years and like decades ago. Great
guys back then. But I saw they were on it.
How was American?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Fi? Oh? They were cool. They they yeah, like they
that's legendary. They were cool and put on a great
show and you know, saw them, saw them around everything.
It was the same, you know. Like I said, everybody
was just hanging out and it was American High Final
was the other group that joined. The last minute, A
(05:44):
switch Foot came on and uh, classic band and people
were loving that too. So yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
All right, let me know the next time you're going,
are you going to do another one?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I hope? So yeah, I hope. So I don't. I'm
doing the next years, but maybe the year after that,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All right, So anyway, let's get back to it. So
the tour kind of kicks back up tomorrow. You'll be
here on Friday. You also have some new songs coming out,
which I'm assuming you are playing on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The I have a new album coming out called Repeating Myself,
which is it's sort of my homage to myself. It's
the Snake eating the Snake. I pretty much was like,
I want to write an album like the guy who
made my first album did. So it's almost like I
fed my own music. I didn't do this, but it
was like I fed my music into AI and then
(06:39):
it was like write something in the style of Eric Hutchinson,
and that's what I did. So it's like definitely a
throwback to like my earliest songs, and so we're playing
some of those and plan the new songs and play
some of the meg hits and it's gonna be a
good time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know what. The song so a couple of the
new ones.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Which one I really like is King of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Thank You, Yes, I do too. I was a little
scared to release that song, but so far it's been
getting nice response. It's a sort of a fantasy about
how my life would be so much better if I
lived in Philadelphia, and I thought Philadelphians would get mad,
(07:25):
but they were all like, yeah, it would be idiot,
why don't you move here already?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
The video is hysterical.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, it was fun. I dressed up like a king,
like a goofy king, and I walked around the city
and ate a cheese steak, and I thought maybe I'd
get my ass kicked, but people were really friendly and
like they wanted to get into the silliness of it.
People were just bowing to me on the streets and
so it was fun. Video came out nice, it was
a silly day.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, No, it was good. It was really good.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
And then one other thing that I wanted to talk
to you about, Eric, is your your podcast Song Versations.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it's really good. It's really really well done.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Thank you. It's been it's been the labor of love
to get up and running. You know. It's based on
my card game Son Versations. It came out a few
years ago, and I'm pretty sure we came on and
talked about that then. But yeah, it's it's talking to
different guests about the music they love. And it turns
out I never ever ever get to started doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And did you like the first guest you have on
is Justin Willman, who's who's a magician, a very big magician.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, it's been on Netflix a aunch and on tour.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Very cool that you went to school with him. But
it was easy, or maybe it was easier because you
two know each other and there's a little bit of
history and obviously like he's famous, but to be able
to lay out I'm assuming that it'll be the same
format for every guest that you have on.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, And actually the next one just dropped today. Is
Eliza Schlessinger, who's also a friend of mine. She just
stand up comic and she's on today, and so yeah,
it's it's asked. The questions changed, but it's pretty much
this idea of like, you know, you can really get
to know somebody through the music they grew up listening
to and what they're listening to right now. And so
(09:20):
we listened to clips of the songs and we you know,
it kind of just it really came out of missing
listening to music with other people. You know, these days,
everything is here's a cool song, I like, here's a
link to listen to it on Spotify by yourself, And
it's really I just missed the days of high school
coming home after school being like I'm going to play
this song and I'm going to sit here and watch
(09:42):
you listen to it, and it's what you think of it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And what is the do they get the because you know,
as the questions like so like, for example, it'll be
like one of the questions you had for Wilman was
what is the song you are embarrassed you only recently
learned the correct lyrics to? And then yeah, he answers
it and like you said, you guys play it, you'll
talk about it, you'll talk about the song, you'll you'll
(10:06):
kind of give yours he has, and you know, people
are playing along as they're watching it. But you know
what the problem is, I can't, like in that moment,
I can't think of anything.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, I'll give you some behind the scenes. We
do let them know the questions ahead of time, so
there's not a bunch of dead air, but I don't
know what they're I don't know what their answers are.
So I get to kind of just really react in
real time and be like, wow, okay, all right, and
so yeah, he justin Willman was brave enough to admit
that he never knew the lyrics of Little Red Corvette,
(10:38):
even though that's the song title.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That was embarrassing. That was embarrassed.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
They were singing living correct. But then you know, in
the comments, so many people were like, I also did
not know what the song title or what the lyrics were.
You know, it's like, I guess, a confusing thing, but.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Like, but now I am glad to know they got
it ahead of time, But I'm also glad that you
don't know the answer. So I guess that's burns who
knows the answer or you're no, you're just getting the answer.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I'm learning it as as the audience learns it. That's
that's my most fun way to do it. So I
can just actually respond to it and be like wow, okay.
And then it's very extreme of conscious interesting. That song
makes me think of this song, and then we listen
to a little bit of that song and it's, uh,
you know, it's just a show for music lovers. It's
a good way to discover new music as we kind
of talk about whatever people are into. And yeah, you
(11:30):
can watch it on YouTube or get it wherever you
get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But then there was a song that reminds you of
an old job you have.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
That.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, know what, this is all I've ever done. Well,
that's not true. I worked at a Walmart.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Maybe go back to like an burger king.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I worked at Burger King for a night.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Like different music eras, different music eras with different stations
you were on.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Well, yeah, but that's not like an old job.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Kie, Eric job, Okay, Eric, what was the last job
you had before quitting it where you were like full
time musician?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I was pretty bad at having quote unquote regular jobs.
I wand all fall to get an internship, and then
I got this internship at like a production company. In
day two, they were like, we want you to reorganize
all these tapes, and I was like, I kind of
think I'm above that. I don't know, to do something
(12:32):
else more, get ready for like a higher level ready
for a high level job. And they were like, why
don't you just not come in anymore? And I was
like huh. And I got a job working at an
ice cream store instead. And at that ice cream store,
I remember there was the manager was obsessed with Janet Jackson,
(12:56):
and so she would always play Janet Jackson on the
on the radio when she was in charge of it,
and so I would probe pick a Jana Jackson song
that reminds me of working at JP licks.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh yeah, very nice, very.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Nice, you know, And then I'd play the song and
then you'd be like, oh, man, I remember this song.
I made out to this song with Susie Donaldson or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
But you know what, And I was and I understand it.
He's your friend and he's being kind. But Wilman kind
of lied a little bit, did it, because he said
that the he had never had any other job but
being a magician. And then he went on and said,
even when I was working at this Mexican restaurant, I
(13:42):
would go and do magic as the waiter. I would
do magic tricks for people that were seated in my section.
And I wanted to go, idiot, that is your water
is job like your job was waiter.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Your job wasn't a magician who delivered food?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You were You delivered food and then you'd did magic
for him.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well that's how he always saw. That's you know, that's
why he's successfully all. Even when he was being a waiter,
he was saying, I'm not a waiter, I'm a magician
that delivers food.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
It's the uh suspension of disbelief, which is really all
magic is about.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But now do you remember the name of the restaurant
that he said he worked at.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, El Torito, because I loved elter Edo in Maryland
growing up. That's where I had all my birthdays.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Right, And what dorky, dorky dorky thing did Eric Hutchinson
do when celebrating his birthday at El Touredo?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, you really did listen to the episode? I would
I El to Edo. I think it was maybe in
green Belt. There is the one we went to, and
it was they sang their own proprietary birthday, happy Birthday song,
and I think it was because they didn't want to
pay legal rights to sing the other happy Birthday, which
(14:56):
was copyrighted. But I don't know if that's true or not.
But I loved it. It was like happy Birthday, Happy birthda.
They every birthday, it was different. So I brought my
own tape recorder to record them singing that version so
I could listen to it year round. It didn't have
to just be my birthday because it was just so cool.
And that's why, years and years later, I'm hosting a
(15:18):
podcast about listening to songs. I guess, hey, I'll ask
you one of them. This is this is the one
we always start with that I like is I think
it's just wait from song versations.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah yeah, okay, but I didn't Burns did not send
me this question.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I know you're gonna have to be ready.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh crap, Okay, all right, this.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Because for everybody can answer this one. So, like, you know,
when you were in sixth grade, what is the song
that made you feel like the absolute coolest person.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In the world in sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Sixth grade, you're like eleven or twelve. The hormones haven't
really kicked in yet.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Not true, Not true, It's not true.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You were okay.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
One of the last things I did in sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I split sixth grade between l Paso Garbage City if
you ever tore there, and Houston. But before I left
El Paso, I kissed Marcy Callahan. She had a big
sweat mustache. But I did kiss Marcy Callahan. So the
hormones had kicked in, okay?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
And was the song in Janet Jackson song that listening
to you at the time? Or now?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Like? I can't think of I can't think of like
because now I'm trying to think. I also liked Regina
Khan a lot, but I don't remember nope. I well, no,
but that didn't make me feel like a badass. Now
I can just think of a song from sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
All right, why don't you let you think about it?
What about Diane?
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I immediately went to like van Halen?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Won hm, And how did you find out about van Halen?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I don't know. It must have been it was probably
like one of the boys in my class.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Because I remember specifically having like a little like I
ripped out a page of a magazine of David Lee
Roth like doing the Teddy Bear jump.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
What Yeah, so you were a David You liked them
because of David Lee rock.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Because of Eddie Well, Eddie too.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
But do you like Van Hagar?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Not as much I do.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You're not talking to me, this is I know, I understand,
I understand, I understand, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Do you have okay?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
So Van Halen, I would say, uh, meet Loaf, I
do anything for love, but I won't do that.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I know. Tell us more.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Because the video was so theatrical, so it like it
made me feel seen because I did all the school musicals.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Oh I didn't know that you did the musicals. Okay,
so you.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Were That's why I am here.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Can you tell us some of the musicals you were in?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Well, the audience does know, but for you, Eric Flowers,
drum Song, Damn Yankees me me and Saint Louis Oliver you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Know, wow, okay, and you were like those songs, those
are those are cool? But meat Loaf he kicked that.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, Hey, what year? What year? What it was? Ice?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Sixth grade or can I just do middle school? Like
I don't know if it was sixth grade or later. No,
But you know, the one that comes to mind now
is point blank on a Roll.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, okay, that's a great song. Eric, that's a great song.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I don't know if I know it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh God, damn you. You don't know. You don't know.
Point blank on a roll?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Is which one is the artist?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Point blank?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Okay on a Roll?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
They also did I hope you're pulling it up right now.
They also did own Nicole, But point on a Roll
was good. I crashed my bike into a car parked
on the side of the road because I was high
as a kite while but we were we were playing
that song on a on a on a on a
boombox really really loud.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And crashed our bikes listening to that song.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Wow, you were like a pre iPod, just driving around
making your own with the with the book.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh well, you know what, I'm sorry, I wasn't doing
Meet me in Saint.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Louis hard to blast that one on the boombox.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It is, it is, it is. But I like those.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I like those, but I wish I had more time
to think how to think about it?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Well? You know, that's that's it. But you can think
about it and you can be shouting at alone along
at home, but you know, that's how that's how it works.
And I love getting to learn about a new song.
And then you know, forever from now on, whenever I
hear eventually point blank on a roll, I'm going to
think of I'm gonna be like, unless.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Unless we hang up and you play it, you will
never hear it.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Let's play it when we hang up here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Hey, do you have your are you? Are you at
your setup for song versations?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm not, I'm just on them, just on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
God damn it.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I'm gonna ask you to play it that way, I
could hear your reaction to the greatness that is point blank.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And they were Were they a local al Passo band.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Bite your freaking tongue.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
They were semi nationwide.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Wide. I saw the point Blank band members listening.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It's okay, I forgive you.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Hey, so you said you said a new song versations
dropped today?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
What do you do? You have a bunch of them
lined up?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Like now you're going out on the road, Like, do
you have a bunch of them lined up?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, we've been working to get some uh some pre
recorded and then still recording them. And yeah, we got
all kinds of fun guests coming up my Embiolic my
friend is coming out, and comedian Gareth Reynolds and Jen Widerstrom,
who's a fitness like celebrity fitness coach. So you know,
(21:14):
we're trying to talk to all different kinds of people
and see what kind of music they like.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I think that's great. All right, A couple of other things.
I got to go back to something you mentioned earlier.
When does the record come out?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I don't know yet. Sometime soon, sometime in the summer
or the fall. Probably it's looking.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Like okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Correct two songs out now, right?
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yes, and then correct me if I'm wrong. You're a
big baseball dude, right, we've talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah. And who is your team?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
The Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
How disgusting is it to have Pete A Lonzo on
your team?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Mean, I'm pretty into it it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh god, I can't take it. I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
The but I am stoke for the I am stoke
for baseball season to get underway. Are you a Kenri.
I was looking at some on Instagram. You were talking
about Ken Griffy Junior. Are you Were you a Ken
Griffy guy?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh? I mean, of course the time I grew up,
everybody knew and loved Ken Griffy, But he was never
my absolute favorite. He was. I tend to like underdogs
a little bit more so. He was a little too good,
you know. I had to find people more like that
I could relate to as a bad baseball player.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Right, yeah, no, but I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I don't remember what you were talking about online where
you were talking about Ken Griffy.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But the only reason.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That it's that that I that I lined from one
of my songs, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Was the Are you hip too?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Are you paying attention to Connor Griffin out of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I'm paying attention to all of it. Yeah. Yeah, he's
supposed to be Ken Griffy very well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
He would be the first if he if he cracks
the lineup in the dude is ridiculous. But if he
cracks the lineup, he'll be the first teenage hitter to
debut on an opening day roster since Griffy.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah, and he is a horse. He is massive.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yeah, I've seen pictures of him. He's easy on the
eyes too, you know, he looks like it could be
in heated rivalry baseball.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And then last thing, last thing, Eric and then I'll
uh and then I'll let you run. When I was
when I was snooping around on Instagram the picture that
you posted with your mom going to see Paul McCartney
and realizing, as you said that it's the first time
that your mom had seen Paul McCartney since she saw
(23:50):
the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in the early sixties.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Dude, that's that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, it was a special trip. He didn't uh, he
didn't come around the DC area. My mom still lives
in Silver Spring and we uh so we did a
road trip and we went to go see Paul in
Pittsburgh and uh, it was it was a fun It
was a fun time. We made a little road trip
out of it, and my mom was really happy. And
(24:19):
you know, Paul played all the hits and uh, she
shared some memories from seeing them back in the day.
That's what life was like back then, though, Like I
was like, who took you to the Hollywood Bowl show?
She's like, I don't know it was some guy who
was a friend of my mom's or something, and she
couldn't go. And he was like, I like, we're going
(24:39):
to write an article about them. I'll take her. And
I'm like, you would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Let that happen though, dude, that is awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And I'm I don't know if the answer is yes
or no, but is the picture of the two women
at the Hollywood Bowl sign?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Is one of them? Your mom?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh? Man, wouldn't that be cool?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
It's not?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, I mean it could be.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I didn't double a check, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Look like all right, very good, All right.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Eric Hutchinson will be at the Atlantis this Friday night.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's the Repeating myself tour. Dude, have a blast on
the road.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I hope Friday night show is great and I'll keep
checking out so conversations.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Appreciate it, guys. Always fun to talk to you. Thanks
a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Hey, you got it. We'll talk to you later. Thanks Eric,
all right, bye,
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