Tony and Dwight 6-17-24 Hour 3

Episode Transcript

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Welcome Back News Radio eight forty wh as Tony Venetti, Dwight Witt,
and Dave Jennings out till tomorrow.Rick, of course is in with us.
Rick. Have you seen slap Shot? Slap Shot? I don't think
so. Come on, Rocky teamNow. I did text Dwight and Dave

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over the weekend and I said,here's the thing I noticed about a slap
shot some reason. It was inmy timeline on one of my services,
and I said, it's Saturday afternoon. The Famili's left me alone for a
while. Slapshot. I figured outthat in the mid seventies there were no
attractive people. Everybody in that movie, even Paul Newman in this movie looks

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like crap. He's got the furcoats on and the leather pants and leather
jacket. Seven looks terrible awesome.Look at the guys on the team.
That is an ugly, ugly groupof guys. They're the best looking ones.
Come on, oh dude, lookat the rest. So when I
was playing hockey, I went outand I met the Hanson brothers, all
three of Yeah, yeah, theyturned that into a moneymaker. Oh boy

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did they? They signed about chiefsJersey the works. I think the movie.
This is the first time it sortof hit me that I think the
movie is smarter than people give creditfor. They just want to give it
as a super macho, misogynistic,raunchy film about hockey right, and in

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reality it is it is that it'sthere. They're talking about showmanship versus playing
the game in its purity right,like the fighting versus of your playing hockey
right right, old time hockey.Putting on the foil coach, putting on
the full coach. What are youdoing that for? Okay? Best best

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one to blake any shore. Bestone though, is when they get in
a fight. Was before the anthemwere just right out of the gates,
Yes, warm ups. Everybody getsin a fight, and that the ref
skates over one hands and brothers.During the anthem he goes try to hear
the song. He says something elsein there too. So it is also

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a snapshot of what these small townsall over America looked like. There was
always the mill, right they rememberthere was closing of the mill that men's
the hockey team might not make it. All of these river towns in America
had these mills attached to them,and that's what drove the cities. When
those little mills started to close downand shut down. These towns have gone

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to crap, and it is interestingto watch it from that perspective of And
I think Paul Newman's character, Ithink he's one of his best performances.
That people are like, are younuts? It's Paul Newman? How did
they talk him into doing this moviein the first place? But I think
the movie is smarter than you think. I'm going to somebody's driving and go

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I'm gonna watch the damn thing wegot to. I own the movie.
I love it so much, isit right? Look, don't watch it
if you have seven, if youhave sensitive millennials or general gen Z in
there, if you have anybody inyour household that are sensitive gen Z millennials
in there, don't watch it withhim. And you know what, watch
it and tough and the little Pansy'sup if you ask me. But I

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gotta say I enjoyed it a lot. All right, Speaking of movies,
let's do the box office receipts goingon, and even the sex versus violence.
I'm sorry in the end when theguy, the Princeton guy rolls around
and gets naked. It's the Europeanversus American, Like Americas want to see
violence in Europeans are okay with sex. It's like even that diconomy. Yes,
so this is on streaming right,Yeah, slap slap shot. Just

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look up slap shot on any ear. Just google slap shot and what platforms
are on and it'll come up.Okay, I've told you listen. Please
don't use college words like what didyou say? Let's do the top five
box office receipts. Speaking of movies, coming out, number five is The

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Watcher's three point seven million. Isthat a scary movie? Hey? Girl,
stop being destroyed? Girl, stopyour Number four, Garfield the Movie
comes in at five. These twoin the middle, come on Garfield the
Movie. And then coming in thirdis another Player of the Apes movie.

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You see the cat loves Lasaya sofunny, so imagine you don't want to
see he makes fun of the dumbdog too all the time because the dogs
just trying to be his friend.Right, Oh my gosh. Then comes
in uh, number three, Kingdomof the Planet of the Apes. That
brought in five people. By theway, Garfield brought in five million,

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if I didn't mention that last week'snumber one is now number two. Bad
Boys rided that Ride or Die stillbrought in thirty three million. Oh good
for them. And then Inside OutToo? Did that come out this weekend
or last week? No? Lastweekend? It came out last came out
last weekend? What did it make? And this is even more impressive.
Inside Out Too brought in one hundredand fifty five million dollars. Has got

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to be the biggest opening weekend.Since that's a big opening since talk on
the second top gun, I likea nice big open No, that is
a cute movie. It's it isobviously based after the original Pixar which is
Disney Pixar or whatever about Inside ofa teenage Girl's Mind. Doctor Oz came

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to the rescue you at a recentflight from New York City to Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico. Wow. Theminair healthscare involved a man who lost consciousness.
That's when doctor Oz sprang into actionsused with his usual tree Oz.
He was able to get the guyback. He checked his vital signs,
a little oxygen, little OJ,and the man set right back up and

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he was fine. He does recommendthat he gets checked out by a primary
care physician. But pretty cool.Doctor Oz was on that. I forgot
doctor Oz ran for office. Whywould you do that? I don't know.
If you're a doctor, you're makingtwenty million dollars a year on TV?
Why are you running for office?My luck? If I were to
pass out or have some kind ofairline, it wouldn't be doctor Phil.

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Doctor Phil is still doctor Oz.And he would come over and go,
what are you doing with him?Anyway? To Susan, you're okay,
let's cut your parts off, andI'm gonna ask you what did he do
to bring this upon himself? Susan, you wouldn't even have a doctor.
You'd have the what's the judge lady'sname? I have y? Hey,
judge, Judy, judge. Okay, I got it once again. Let's

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look up her net worth. It'sit's astonishing. She's good. I can't
stand. I bet you she's worththree hundred million dollars. Okay, hang
on, maybe more. I mightbe wrong. I think it might be.
I think three hundred is a goodnumber. Three hundred million. All
right, let's see, because Ijust remember it was staggering. It's going
to Forbes goly four hundred and fortymillion dollars dollars just for being a B

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word to people, because I havea uh, well what people love seeing
other people's problems. I guess you'reright. People love thinking they're hamrder than
other people. So our buddy JamieAdkins here in Louisville, he was on
and we were watching this, ofcourse in the Fox studio. Yeah,
of course he was. And hewent before Judge Judy and she asked him

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a question and he said, yes, sir, no, ma'am, no,
ma'am in her eyes got real.Bit you start a light well Wells
Fargo workers are getting fired. Nowover a dozen Wells Fargo's workers that work
remotely have just been given the boot. The company accused him of simulating keyboard

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activity. It's fantastic, No thisexisted. Uh and it might be a
band name coming up in here inthis Storytastic smell a band name in this
Wells Fargo determine that those employees thatthey fired were creating a false impression of
active work online. Here's the story. There's something called a mouse jigger jiggler,

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mouse jiggler. Yeah, yeah,that's a band name. Yeah,
it moves the cursor on the screen, so it looks like you're working.
But a band name, a bandname mouse Jiggler. Yeah yeah, yeah,
right, definitely. So anyway,evidently the mouse jigglers sell for only
twenty dollars, and when the workingat home skyrocketed because of the pandemic,

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evidently these mouse jigglers went way wayup in sales. These are the people,
well, frankly like us that inschool said, if you put the
time into getting out of the workthat you get out of the work to
just doing the work, cry youyou'd get an a you'd be done by

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now. But you're trying to gamethe systems and you're spending more time and
money doing that. How long didit take you to make that cheat sheet?
Right, yeah, a little tinycheat sheet. Just study, just
read the material. It's funny becauseI was taxing with old friend over the
weekend. I'm just goofing with him. At the end, he says,

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you know, like aunt such andsuch passed away. I'm like, oh
my gosh, had I known,I wouldn't have been goofing with you.
And he said, no, no, no, no, you're a nice
distraction. I said, Finally,I said. All of my teachers used
to say he's a constant distraction inlife in the classroom, not gonna apply
it to life. Florida is nowtaking flight when it comes to mosquitoes.

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They're using drones in Broward County.Drones are being Countyward County. Sorry,
but the local is called b Idon't think so. Yeah, they do.
The Broidians do is actually what youcall them. Drones are being used
to get in the hard to reachplaces where mosquitos like the lat nest and
their eggs. Trucks can't get throughit and you had to whack through all

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kinds of brush to get through theeggs. Now they're using instead of machetes
and men working, they're using drones. They're able to travel exactly where the
eggs are being laid and then sprayingthe pesticides whatever. I'm fine with this
as long as it's some guy youknow, with glasses or something going on,
and he's some of the more claminosthat's way and he's controlling it.

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It's not some kind of AI youknow, a drawn with poison. I
don't rick to you. I don'tknow if you guys remember when they were
trying to control mosquitoes, especially inFlorida. When I would visit my grandparents
in q West, the tanker thatlooks like a water tank or you know,
they would have the pipes coming outof the back and they turn on

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the mist. Do they remember thatd T or something right, and they
would smoke. It would fill rightwell. Back in the seventies, they're
like, oh, go play inthe smoke. Can you go in there?
And like Vietnam or something, wewould run. We'd run through this
mist of deadly gas and our parentson the front porch drincken the beer going

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ah, kids at play, It'sfantastic. But that's what they would do
to try to control mosquitoes. Becauseagain, mosquitoes have killed more people than
all of the other reasons combined.No, absolutely, mosquitos through human history
have killed more people than wars,religion, disease, natural disaster. How

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come there hasn't been like a mosquitoman villain, you know, like batman,
I think there has been a mosquitoman. I think there has been
a mosquito that bets you. Thereis sucks, But mosquitoes have killed more
people than anything else, all thingscombined. Okay, I mean building the

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Panama Canal. That was the numberone reason for thousands of people died building
the Panama Canal because of just themosquitoes. Hell, when in the Second
World War, when they were fightingtheir way off island to island, mosquitos
were part of the issue. Peoplewere getting malaria constantly from what mosquitoes the

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problem was. Okay, so stanLee, not Stanley, but Stanley Lee.
Correct. He did try to makemosquito man a thing, but evidently
it was blocked by Spider Man.There's gonna be a mosquito man. I

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guess they said, no, Mosquitoman makes sense. It's the thing stab
drinks your blood. Well, spiderrose up in the web and then side
note, side note. I wasat the zoo yesterday. I went and
saw the vampire big huge vampire bats. I don't care what age you are.
They are scary as hell. Ilove our We have their gigantic Oh
we have bats in the back.No, I don't care. There are

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ones that look like the Bromstokers.Yeah, Dracula ones. They have like
ten of them at the zoo.I think they're cutsy would see, Yeah,
they are not. Remember mosquito landedon me. If it would fly
away drunk, uh, probably explode. I bet his cholesterol would go up.
Do you think it would get drunkthough? If the mosquito, I'll

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say, Saturday, I'm out topull naked and he's out doing his mosquito
things. He goes, Wow,that's a target. It's very hard to
miss. Do you think he'd flyaway drunk or there's a blood that much?
I think that they probably they probablyknow. They're like, ooh,
don't bite him, he's gonna diesoon. Okay. So I heard a
horrible story down in the Everglades.They have these hunting camps right and at

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the turn of the century, theyhad these guys that people that worked there,
and they called them jelly's. Andthe reason they called them jellies is
because they would so when they wouldeat outside. It's like nineteen oh seven.
So when they would eat outside,they take these workers, the waiters
or waitresses, and they would getthem stripped down naked and they would rub
jelly all over them. And theysay, go stand over there, and

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they have their hands out like they'reon a cross. But they're just standing
there with their hands out with jellyall over them, so all the mosquitoes
would go over there while they ate, while they ate their dinner and drank
their bourbons. Look, if that'snot humiliating enough, can't they just wear
shorts and at least to be ajelly. I think it's one of the
sickest things I've ever heard. Theytold the story like there was no bea

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Stick Around check in with Courtney Donahoeone last time, and then Michael

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Sweet from the band Striper joins theshow. It's gonna be a good interview.
Stick Around News Radio eight forty whasHello, Courtney Donahoe from the Bloomberg
Money Minute. I was wondering whereyou all are. Sorry, we're in.
I was in the bathroom. Rollguys, takes a minute. We'll
get it again. They get it. They spent millions of dollars on these

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beautiful new studios and put one yurdalin. What the hell are you doing?
Yeah no, but that's like thelady's room too. You know at
Bloomberg World headquarters, there's always aline after a certain hour, and you
know, being on the air,you have to time everything. People understand
that, that's right. I triedto explain that to my dad, about

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how I have to time going tothe bathroom. And he's like, that
doesn't make sense, and I said, I know it doesn't, but it's
part of the it is, andpart of your job is giving us some
sort of good news at eleven thirty. Yes, well, first of all,
it's June seventeenth and it's national takeyour Cat to Work Day. Oh
that is a terrible idea, exactly, absolutely awful. I say the line,

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don't do it, don't one gendertakes their all right, sorry,
stop, all right? So takeyour cat to work Day is a terrible
idea. Yeah, So at leastlet me give you some good news besides
the terrible ideas that we have.What's a better idea is five time Olympian

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Sean White is launching a professional snowboardingtour. Oh good, what the hell?
This is awesome news. Well,they want to make a little bit
of money. You know, it'sexciting during the Olympics, and then nobody
cares about I know it's not goingto start till March. She said,
she said, it's exciting during theOlympics, is it? Well, I

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thought they did. I thought theone. I thought no, no,
no, I think I think thatno. I think the snowboarding added a
little bit too much or no,I'm sorry, added a lot to the
Winter Olympics. The Summer Olympics,though, we have to break dancing is
now an Olympic sport, and andat one point they wanted to eliminate wrestling.
I just I don't know who thesepeople are. I want to see

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Dwight break dancing. Oh is he? Oh? I guarantee you he's still
got the outfit. Yeah. Nice. And the little piece of aluminum cardboard.
Yeah, the little cardboard you putelectric. What my name was,
Cozy d That was my break.You don't understand, Corny donahoe. We
tried to. We pitched. Wepitched the idea of to the mayor of

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Uh. We got a guy deliveringpot belly sandwiches and he goes, what
are you looking for? Already he'sgot sandwiches. Uh, he's lost.
He's got a giant bag of sandwiches. We should just tell him we ordered
it. Damn it, damn he'sawait, he's outside our giant window,

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our giant window that's not bulletproof.So I am eating I am eating my
pork, which is way better.But anyway, we pitched a commercial and
then go get the food. Ijust want to say one real quick thing,
be when we get to your stupidboring money numbers, you're welcome,
and you're welcome. Doss High School. My high school actually had a breaking

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team, a breakdancing team called theDOS Breakers. And here with some stupid
boring numbers. It's Courtney Donaho ink We would we pitched to the bay
Or. I said, you knowwhat, we need to get these gangs
together, and we need to talkto him and say, instead of killing
each other, what we need todo is have a breakdance competition in breakdance
fighting, breakdance fighting, breakdowns fighting. Of course, yes, I remember

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that breakdance fighting. By the way, Speaking of the Olympics, Kate tug
List, look for her in theOlympic swim trial. She's very, very
good. She's one of my neighbors, so one of my neighbors. Cool.
We'll see hopefully from wonderful Pelham,New York. Hopefully she'll be able
to do it well. The OlympicTrials are going on right now for swimming,
and I was just an Indian.I was like, how is the
Olympic Trials for swimming? Inside LucasOil they put the Olympic pool on the

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football field. It's ridiculous. It'scool. There is a great article that
I'm forgetting. I don't know ifit's Reuter. So the Wall Street Journal
did on the whole entire process ofbuilding that pool. It was just Google
it it is, I mean itwas. It's a very long article and
I read the whole entire thing andit was a lot of words. It

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was great, but it really itjust showed it took them. I think
they only had like two or threemonths to be able to build this,
and then one of the pools isgetting sent to Italy and other pools getting
sent to the Caribbean. At theend of it all, they had to
take out a bunch of seats into where the peace was. Kind of
crazy platforms, Yeah, it's kindof crazy on real definitely Google whatever.

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Yes that anyway, one more story, let me give you apparel retailer Express,
remember them back in the day.Yeah, that's where we wore a
lot of the club clothes. Onebankruptcy court approval. Don't sell itself for
one hundred and seventy four million dollars. That includes its mall, Landlords Landlords
Run and everything The company says thedeal saves thousands of jobs, so that's

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good news, and nearly all ofits existing stores will remain open, so
good news for a lot of theemployees. Express Well, again, who
you want to be in your mall? It reflects on what stores are in
there. Yes, okay, that'sjust the bottom line. When you have
high end you know, like vonMaar in those type of where a tie

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is three hundred dollars, that's theclientele that will go there, right,
So if you have a Chuck eCheese, you're going to get families,
right. So it depends on whatyou what you put in your mall.
But the problem with it is nota lot of people are shopping. They're
getting whatever they need off Amazon orhaving it delivered to their home. So
a lot of them malls have toremake themselves or try to look for experiences

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or other ways to be able tokeep people inside the mall. So they're
hoping maybe this is one of theretailers that will great keep. Yeah,
we turned our seers into a topgolf. That's what we did there.
You go, well, that's asmart idea. Top Golf's pretty popular.
Yeah, we're starting to move higher, so good news on the markets now
up forty points after being lower throughoutmost of the morning. Tomorrow, we

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have a key report on retail sales. I was about to say consumer prices
because I'm so used to saying consumerprices over the past week. But they've
been cooling, so that's good.The S and P five hundred up two
tons of percent. Tech really supportingthings today with the News Radio eight forty
whas Bloomberg Money report on Courtney Donahoe. I don't think Michael's ready for your

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this interview. That's a difficult wantedto pull off. Michael, Hey,
Michael Sweet Striper, what's going on? Man? How are you? What's
going on you guys? How areyou? Mike? Hang on before I'm
listen, I want you to understandDwight is one of the most respected journalists
to Kentuck. He is. Thisis a fifty thousand why Clear Wade station.

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That means probably twenty seven states canlisten to our voice right now on
the Eastern seaboard. And he's gonnakiss your ass for the next time.
I tell you it's gonna be afanboy experience interview, So get ready,
Michael Sweet from Striper joins the show. You're hearing one of the new singles,
Amazing Grace from the new album toHell with the Apps. It's acoustic,

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Hey, Michael. First of all, I wanted to bring you in.
That's the single that you guys released. I wanted to bring you in
with another song of a favorite ofmine on that record. No more hell
to pay, but I'll figure itout. That's prettying in with a single,
but well done. And you're bythe way, You're going to be
in concert tomorrow night at the MercuryBallroom here in Louisville, Kentucky. I
guess before you get into I won'tget into the beginnings. But is it

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more difficult to get an acoustic album? There's less, like, there's less
effects and pedals and technology to leanon. Is it more difficult recording a
stripped down album? It is becauseyou have nothing to hide behind. You
know, when you have the bigamps and drums and all that stuff,

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you've got a little bit more noiseto hide behind if there's a mistake or
you know, a mishap or whathave you. And when you're doing acoustic
there's nothing, and especially live,you know, we're out here playing this
stuff live, and if you yourvoice cracks or you hit a sour note
or whatever, everyone hears it.But that's the beauty of it. It's

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very organic and bare bones, andit kind of just showcases what the band
does and what the band can do. And it's you know, for a
metal band, it's not an easything to go out and play the song
acoustically. It's really not. He'sa co founder of Stryper, over ten
million albums sold worldwide. But Iwant to go back to the beginnings with

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you, particularly your dad. He'sthis rail railroad railroad worker, and he
used to come home and he wouldblast Jerry Lee, Lewis, Elvis,
Chuck Berry and then going to BlackSabbath and Hendrix. Did your father's musical
choices influence you, oh, onehundred percent. I mean I used to
air guitar jumping up and down onmy bed when I was a kid,

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to Chuck Berry. Yeah, SoChuck was my first guitar influence. You
know, I don't play anything likehim, but that's what inspired me and
Elvis as well. I saw allthis at the LA Forum when I was
twelve, same night led Zeppelin athim, so I have this upbringing musically
from my dad and from my momthat really helped to shape me as a

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musician. And it's quite eclectic.You know. I love everything from Elvis
to to Black Sabbath to Judas Priest, to Pavarotti to uh, you know,
I love Tammy Wyett. I mean, country, pop, rock,
you name it. If it's agood song and a good voice, I'm
there. See. That's how Iwas coming up to get anything I could
get my hands on. But Iwant to I want to talk more about

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your father. And by the way, Tony's right super fan. So if
I get any of this wrong,forgive meg me crag me on the air.
But for what and for what Iunderstand just gleaning over the years,
is that your your father somehow startedwatching Jimmy Swagger because he liked his singing
voice, and then it trickled downto you guys. Any truth to that,

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Well, yes, but it's alittle different than that. We all
started watching Jimmy Swagger and it wasbased on the fact that we liked his
voice. He sounded a little bitlike Elvis Presley, and he played a
little bit like Jerry le Lewis.Because their cousin. So that's what drew
us in, was the musical sideof Swagger, Jimmy Swagger, and then

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we heard him preach and it reallystruck a nerve and got to us hit
our hearts, and we went outand we found a church, a Southern
Baptist church, because that's what JimmySwagger is and was, and we got
saved and the rest is history.As they say, I kind of left
the church, my brother and Ionce we got caught up in the la

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club scene and that was I startedplaying clubs when I was fifteen years old.
So between between the age of thirteenwhen I joined my brother's band in
twenty, I kind of walked awayfrom the church. And then we rededicated
our lives and devoted the band Striper, to God, and here we are.
That's beautiful, and there's more tothe story, by the way.

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So Jimmy Swagger, he's instrumental ingetting you and Jesus in the same room.
And then ultimately you make it inStripper, tremendous success. You're on
MTV, you know, you're inthe hits charts, and then when you
at the higher popularity, the veryguy that influenced you somewhat. Jimmy Swagger,

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he comes out against you, all. I gotta think, I gotta
think that's that's brutal. Was ita crushing feeling when Swagger came out against
you? It was, And Iwould even go as far as to say
that that was probably part of thereason why we kind of walked away again
from the church. And during ouragainst the Law period in nineteen ninety ninety

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one, you know, we'd goand perform at Hammerjacks, for example,
in Maryland and tell people about Jesusand then the minute the show is over,
we'd get drunk with them at thebar, right you know. So
this was going on, and youknow, I don't blame Jimmy Swagger for
that, but I do think thatit did crush us. It did hurt
to see him holding up our albumstelling people not to go to our shows.

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They would come and protest our showswith bullhorns everywhere we went. I'd
go out and speak to them andsay, have you ever even seen us?
And they would say no. I'doffer him tickets. Most of the
time they'd say, now we don'twant to see it. They didn't even
know what we were about, andthey were judging us and telling people we
were evil and wolves and sheep's clothing. You know, yeah, a culture

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personality and I got to tell youthat. What's uh? And by the
way, I'm a Christian as well. But what strikes me fascinating about that
is if Swagger was to come outagainst I don't know, Iron Maiden or
any kind of other band, theirsales would triple. But now he's attacking
your very base. Did it hurtyou guys in the pocket book as well?

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It did not? Oh good?I mean that was the one that
was the one thing and is theone thing that still happens to this day,
and that is you can't stop whatwe do. Like so many bands
speak out against this, you know, we're we suck or this or that,
But yet somehow the train keeps rollingdown the track. And maybe it

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upsets a lot of people. Idon't know, and they're they're envious,
or maybe there's a little jealousy inthere. I have no idea, but
you got to be real careful whenyou go out and you point fingers at
people and you judge other people becausewe all have garbage in our closets and
I've been saying this, lady,but it's so true. You know,
if we just focus on that,we'll spend the lifetime cleaning out our closets,

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our own closets about someone else's.Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I
just left. I just lost whatwas a father figure to me since fifteen
years old. And on his deathbedhe said, remember three c's. Don't
criticize, don't complain, and don'tcondemn. And I got to tell you,
I've been trying to practice as extremelydifficult as we're talking to Michael Sweet
from Striper see Striper Tomorrow Night likeyou've never seen them before, stripped down

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acoustic very to support the new albumTo Hell with the Apps. But I
got to ask you, Brad Delp, if you asked me one of the
most recognizable voices Boston's lead singer,one of the most talented singers in my
opinion. Unfortunately he takes his life, his own life suicide hotline nine eight

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eight, by the way, BradDelps takes his life. And then somehow
you wind up fronting Boston. Wereyou and Brad Delp friends or how did
that come about? You don't believeit or not. I moved from California
back to Boston, Massachusetts, backin nineteen ninety five, and we lived
in the same area, but wenever met. Our past crossed many times,

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we knew all the same people,but we never met. And he
meant a lot to me as asinger. That the Boston album was the
first album I ever purchased with myown money. Wow, And it really
really shaped me as a musician tremendously. And basically years later, he takes
his life and they were going todo what was the last going to be

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the last Boston show. They invitedSammy Hagar, Ann Wilson, Mickey Thomas,
all these singers they called me.Wanted me to come out and sing
a song called Higher Power, andof course I was willing to do that
and ready to do it. Andall the other singers dropped out and I
wound up going and singing you know, more than a feeling long time peace

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of mind rock and roll band.Yeah, So it went so well.
I learned all the guitar parts too. They didn't know I played, and
I walked in there ready to go, and it went so well they asked
me to join the band they wantedto continue on, so we did Wow
listen. So I was baptized.What year was that? What's that?

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What year was that? That was? I joined in two thousand and seven
and we toured in two thousand andeight fifty six shows with sticks. Wow
Wow listen. I became baptized Apriltwo thousand and five, and there was
a verse that says, I wantyou hotter code. If you're luke warmon'
spit you out. And that droveme just to want to evangelize to anybody
I could. And I was doingrock radio. I had backstage passes,

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access to shows. But Rob Zombiecomes to town. I say, you
know what I'm gonna do. I'mgonna give him the book that led me
to Christ. It was Billy Graham'sThe Journey. I'm gonna give him a
Bible. Now it's Rob Zombie.So I'm absolutely petrified on how this is
going to go. I go backthere. I say, look, I
don't know your heart, but Itold you my story. I gave him
the two books. One of themost genuine and grateful guys there was.

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Don't know if he threw him inthe trash or not. I say all
that to say this at one point, and I can't remember where you sat
down with Kim Peterson King Diamond,lots of satanic imagery, lots of inverted
crosses, the works you all meet. How does that meeting go your polar
opposites did? Was it awkward?Or how did let that go? Well?

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You know, his dressing room wasright next to ours, and I
saw that and I said, man, I can't leave here without meeting Kim
and saying hi. And I walkedover. I went over and I extended
my hand. I said, what'sgoing on? Man? And he was
just really really nice and pleasant anda sweet guy. And we talked for

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maybe five minutes about the weather inour hometowns and just normal stuff. And
he was the nicest guy. AndI took a picture with him and posted
it. I lost a lot offans when I posted that picture. A
lot of people unfollowed me and stuff. But you know, I'm the kind
of guy literally, and with alldue respect, you know, I don't

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care. Honestly, I don't careif I lose all my followers, because
that's not why I'm here on earthjust to have followers. I'm here to
make a stand and be an example. And if it pisses people off in
the process, so be it.He's Michael Sweet. He is the front
man with Striper over ten million hours. So the new album is spectacular,

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well done. It's called to Hellwith the Amps. Catch Striper tomorrow night
like you've never seen him before.Just strip down acoustically at the Mercury Barroom.
Hey, Michael will probably come byand say hi tomorrow night. Thank
you so much for the time Ireached out and you were gracious enough to
come on. I can't thank youenough. Okay, oh guys, thank
you so much as well for thetime. And I look forward to seeing

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you and come on out. Anyoneout there listening, come on out.
It's gonna be a great show.We can't wait for looking forward to it.
I promise you won't regret it.There you go, Michael Sweet.
Thanks Piper, take care of man. Who do we have? Man?
We'll see you, right, We'llsee you in town. All right.
We are gonna be live a carriageforward on Friday for a live show for

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the tent show. Hit my dingyall right, thank you. We had
two dinghies. Somebody start by dinging. I don't know what's going on.
So we will be live from nineto noon in Southern Dana Lewis and Clark
park Way. Carriage Ford come onby its best by a coachry mile.
Yes, Marty will have a apronon cooking hut dogs for us. Yes,

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good cooking hot dogs for us onFriday. Remember the hired the Wiener
King one year, Marty is yourlistening Get the winner King and then that's
Winters. I think it's a goodidea, right. So basically they have
the finance people there. They wantto use car, new car, use
truck, new truck, doesn't matter. They want to sell every car and

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truck on the lot that weekend,which is Friday and Saturday. That's the
point of the tent sale sell everything. So make a ridiculous offer and let's
get these cars and trucks off thelot. It's carriage Ford the show.
Tony and Dwight will be live thereFriday nine to noon. Back after this
on news Radio eight forty whnce Allright, thank you to Philip Perkins MMA

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Fighter catch his fights this weekend thisSaturday night at the African American Center for
Heritage. And then thank you toMichael Sweet from Stripper catch them tomorrow night.
And it was a very interesting Youdid your homework on that interview.
It was interesting with the Swagger thing, and I didn't want to jump in
and go. Was that before orafter Swagger got busted and had to do

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the crying? Remember he was cryingon TV going almost center? Was before?
Yeah? So then after the evangelist? Dude? Yeah, well do
you think they can te the evangelist? How you think that really goes?
Right? Hey, Jonas, Tomorrowour guest would be Abraham Lincoln and wow,

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are you serious? Yes? Deadserious? How did you book that?
It was tough? It was tough, but we're working really hard here
on the Tony and Dwight Show.He does that. Everyone wanted to see.
If I'm paying attention, he doesit. He goes, I know
Tony's listening, and you're like mywife, you're throwing that your phone face
take a shot, dude, Ilistened. I could do two things at

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one I can't. I guess thatdoes it for us. Rank, you're
fantastic, Brick, You're you're thebest, real quick you out of here?
Who do you like better? Meor Tony? Oh it's dad?
He look at him? Look athim? You said, Dwight with your
eyes. Thanks buddy. All Right, we'll see you tomorrow. Is a
good show. Today flew by DaveJennings. Will be back to morrow.

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Enjoy the heat because I like it. Hot News Radio eight forty w h
AN I seven great day. Ilove you, mam.