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Technique of the Week: Possible Power Outage Help
Power Outage Help
Punk Rock Museum – Joe Escalante (in studio at Wynn) Live

Episode Transcript

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Hey, it's Neil Savedra. You'relistening to KFI EM six forty the four
Report on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Hey everybody, it's the four Report,
all Things Food, beverage and beyond. I am your well fed host,
Neil Savedra. How do you doon this interesting Saturday afternoon? Of

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course, as you just heard fromJoe Kuan in the twenty four hour KFI
Newsroom, Hurricane Hillary coming for southernCalifornia. It is now category two tropical
storm and it's losing speed and powerand all those things that we expected it
to do. However, go nowhere any breaking news anything you need to

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know about. When it hits landfallin San Diego in the Southland here,
moving up through Los Angeles and thelike, we will tell you everything.
You'll be getting news throughout today tomorrow. As it gets heavier, our news
will be stepped up and there willbe change of schedules and things like that.

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So no reason to go anywhere else. All the news will be heard
right here, So stick around.We're broadcasting live today from the Win Las
Vegas. We're at Blue Wire Studios. Again. They always treat us great,
and it's always really fun to behere. We've got some guests coming
in today from Las Vegas, sowe'll be introducing you to a couple of

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folks on the program today as wellas telling you more about next weekend where
Twala and I will be broadcasting livetogether, him doing his show, me
doing my show the entire time fromtwo to seven out there in Pomona at

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the Pinner's Convention. So we'll talkabout that coming up a little bit later
as well, and how you canget tickets and come by and say hello,
and all those good things coming up. So just stick around right here
is what I'm trying to tell you. Okay, So let's go back to
some basics today. Normally we startevery single Saturday with Technique of the Week
and we go through different cooking techniques, so or focus on a particular dish.

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Let us start out specifically with somereminders about if the power goes out,
if winds come in heavily with thetropical storm, there is a likelihood
of power outage and the like.So if you're in that situation, we'll
go over a couple of things asfar as anything in the refrigerator. If

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you don't open your refrigerator. Thepower goes out and you don't open your
refrigerator, then you have approximately fourhours, four hours what you have for
the parish bulls to be good inthere. Now, after that's without power,
it stays cool enough. We've talkedabout the Dane zone zone many times

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on the program, and that iswhen food sits in a temperature between forty
degrees and one hundred and forty degrees. When it sits in that area,
that is when your bacteria, theyuckies double every twenty minutes, so that

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that gets pretty heinous pretty quickly.The bacteria is slowed down by the chill
of the refrigerator. It is pausedby the freezer, meaning that once it
thaws out, that goes that startsback up again. Freezers usually last about
twenty four hours. If they're packed, they're more packed the better. So

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what drives my wife crazy is apacked freezer. But every time we get
near the possibility of you know,blackouts or the power going out, I
always reminder, see, it's gonnalast even longer now because all of those
cowboys steaks and ribis and things likethat are acting as ice cubes. So

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about twenty four hours for the thingsin the freezers. Freezer without opening it
and about four hours with the powerout in your refrigerator, so you could
start making your plan if the powerdoes go out. These are the thing
the most perishable. These are thethings that we're going to focus on and
then keep things closed. Look aroundyour pantry and the like. If there

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is something that does go down andyou can't drive, it's not safe.
There's tons of rain and really theworst combination would be rain and wind.
You know, you get the rainand wind coming at you, that's when
you're going to have major problems.Like in Los Angeles, you got palm
fronds. Southern California is known forits palm trees. Those palm fronds are

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much heavier and much larger than youthink. You know why because you're standing
on the ground and they're one hundredfeet up in the air and you go
they're not that big. Well,they get bigger as they come to land.
As it were. So many timeswe've had those get cars and neighbors
houses, and even our place fromtime to time because we live in an

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old part of LA with it hasa ton of them, so falling debris,
those things make it not safe.You probably don't want to put anybody
else in any hazard situation by orderingfood. You know that's up to you
and the weather in your area.But if you can't go out, I
bet you have more in your homeand your pantry than you think, So

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assess everything, bread, whatever youhave. I know this sounds super dramatic,
but I'm just trying to give youtips. I realize that we get
really hyped up about weather in southernCalifornia because we don't have it. And
last time it was kind of likea wooooo, and it wasn't that big
of a deal. But better safethan sorry, right, So if you

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do get in those situations, you'regoing, well, I'm hungry, but
I don't want to go out.I'm not going to get delivery. Just
keep in mind you use it asa challenge. Use it as a challenge
for yourself and the family. Comeup with things with what you have in
the house. And if you don'thave power and you're you don't want to
be using your iPads or your computersfor looking up recipes. Just get creative.

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Get creative. Understand texture, protein, your starches, veggies. Hell,
you may even have some veggies inthe backyard, in your little garden
ready, and then you're you're allself contained and you can walk around all
high and mighty and better than everybodybecause you're like, I grew this myself

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just in case a hurricane slash kindof story two tropical storm comes in,
and I will be ready, alwayssomething to be able to do in there
in the house. Not a problem, Get together with the family, have
a good time, make fun outof it, and be safe. It's
going to hit very different different partsof southern California depending on its trajectory,

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so all fun and games. Nowwe shall see how it goes. And
you know, as I'm broadcasting herefrom the Win Win Las Vegas, my
flight for tomorrow has been canceled,so you know, there's a lot of
things that are going to be changingover the next twenty four hours, and

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we're going to be keeping our eyeon it. Here. We're keeping an
eye on the storm, of course, but we come together for three hours,
two to five on a Saturday tocelebrate food, the people that make
it, the culture behind it.I am your friendly neighborhood Fork reporter Nil
Savedra. How do you do somuch going on and we're broadcasting live from
WIN Las Vegas. Again. Wetry to do this once a month,

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get out here to Blue Wire Studios, and it's this gorgeous studio setup that
they have here in the middle ofwhat is a gorgeous, gorgeous campus and
resort at WIN, Las Vegas,and so much going on. Cosa Playa
is one of the restaurants here,and we're going to be talking about this,

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the menu and everything they do herewith chef Sarah Thompson. Coming up
in a little bit. My buddyJoe Escalante, the bass player for the
Vandals, all over stud obviously hehas those of you who know him know
he has a show on our sisterstation at KiB eleven fifty am on Sundays

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from five to seven called Live fromHollywood. You can catch him there every
Sunday. He's going to pop inand talk about the new Punk Rock Museum
here in Las Vegas. We'll talkabout some of the food places nearby it
if you come to visit. ButI know lawd of people are having a
good time and you get to meetsome really, really fantastic people there.
So we'll talk about that coming upin just moments from now. As well,

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so go nowhere, all right.I When it rains, I start
thinking about things like a grilled cheese. Now you have the standard grilled cheese,
of course, but I want totalk about elevating it in any way
you can. And I know you'rethinking, well, there's only a couple
of ingredients, right, So howdo you elevate a grilled cheese? Oh,

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there are so many ways to takeit up a notch and bring in
something. So let's start with thefat. The fat is what you're going
to put up against the grill.You're gonna put it on the bread.
That's what's going to give it thatcrunch, that crispiness on the outside.
Most often, when you think aboutthis, you think about butter, which
is fantastic. I will tell youthe more butter doesn't give you necessarily,

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the more crisp that more crunch.Sometimes lighter amounts of butter will give you
because you've got it just enough toget that sissle and just start browning those
sugars in the bread, but notso much that it moistens it and makes
it all soft. But there areothers. Mayonnaise, mayonnaise which has eggs

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and oil in it as an emulsionthat can elevate your instead of using butter.
That can elevate your grilled cheese aswell. But there are others.
You can use rendered bacon fat thenI got a wa wa yep, bacon
fat. You can put just alittle bit of garlic powder on the outside
as well to kick it up.You can put some parmesan cheese on it

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as well to make a crunch.One of the things that I like to
do is to cut it diagonally,which I always do. I'm on grilled
cheese, and then you put atiny bit of whatever your fat is,
butter what have you on the cuts, and then put those face down and
get those to see her off too, or to get nice and crunchy rather

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and if the butter starts to melteven better, or the cheese, another
thing you can do is you canactually put a little bit of cheese down
on the grittle and then you putthat cut right into it. That cheese
starts to get caramelized in bubble.Once it cooks, you pull them off
and you'll have this really crispy,cheesy, crunchy goodness on the edge.

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Keep in mind, there's now youcan find in sprays wonderful stuff like duck
butter. Not duck butter. Mindgrouping abs some boys duck fat s du
butter. Don't keep saying please,please, thank you, Joe, just

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don't. Anyhow, you take theduck fat and it gives another flavor.
Now about the cheese is look aboutat other cheeses. I love the American
cheese for my grilled cheese. Iget it. It's the standard, It's
what we all grew up with.But check out different cheeses. Combine different
cheeses. Change the bread. Agreat sour door bread can kick it up

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as well as others. So youopen yourself up to other things, and
as the rain starts to come in, comfort yourself with the simplicity of a
grilled cheese that'll bring smiles for allwho make them and eat them. Stick
around more to come on the FOURKReport Live from when Las Vegas. Of
course, everything going on with HurricaneHillary now downgraded to a Category two tropical

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storm as it goes through Mexico andup into southern California. We will keep
you posted. It looks like thevast majority of it is going to be
hitting tomorrow. We've got our eyeson it, and our programming will adjust
as needed, so there's no reasonto go anywhere else. Thanks for hanging
out with us this Saturday, thenineteenth. Of course, a lot going

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on. We're broadcasting live in LasVegas at Win Las Vegas, which is
stuttering. It's beautiful, the foodis fantastic. We'll be talking to one
of the chefs coming up shortly,Chef Sarah Thompson from Kassa Pliya, so
we'll be looking forward to that,or a fresh look at Mexican cuisine and

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and Joe's Galante. My buddy isgoing to be joining us the bass player
for the Vandals, and also onour sister station KiB eleven fifty every Sunday
from five to seven with Hollywood Liveor Live from Hollywood Live from Hollywood,
I got it, I got it, Okay, So we're watching everything going

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on. Hurricane Hillary has now beendowngraded to a Category two tropical storm.
We will be keeping an eye onthat. It still looks like it's going
to bring a lot of wind andrain with it, even on the outskirts
of it. If you've seen anythe modeling being done, you've got this
big chunk of water activity on theoutsides that are definitely going to be hitting

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a lot of us. As faras the winds that come around with hurricanes
and even tropical storms, now,it could get pretty crazy out there.
We've seen that in obviously in southernCalifornia. Before we get water, it
starts going into those fire areas thathave nothing holding them together that causes issues.
And then you add wind to thatbad bad mix. So where you're

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going to be keeping an eye onthat throughout today. It looks like the
vast majority of it's going to hiteither early morning or into the middle of
tomorrow, so we will have specialprogramming going on. So there's no reason
to go anywhere else. And obviouslyas it goes into if and as it
goes in southern California on Monday,we will be taking care of you there

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as well. So all I'm sayingis there's no reason to go anywhere else.
Okay, when it comes to cookingwithout power, it can be a
little tricky depending on the setup youhave. If you have electrical stuff,
that's going to be a problem.Some gas has shut offs as well,
so you can't light them if theyhave an electronic igniter and they are lightable

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safely, then you can ignite themwith a match or something like that.
But there are other ways. Ifit is windy and you've got a lot
of rain and you're not in anenclosure of any kind and I mean more
like a something where you're covered inyour outdoor kitchen, then you're going to

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have issues trying to grill. Youstill might be able to if you have
that and you have the little areatthat you can go under your good Otherwise,
look to the stuff that you wouldkeep with your with your camping stuff,
rocket stoves, you know, maybeeven open fire if you have a

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fire pit again that's covered, oryou have space that you can keep out
of the elements. But some ofthose folding steel stoves or buttane stoves that
you have, those might come inhandy if it gets that bad. And
keep in mind, it's a prettylarge area in southern California, and you

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know, not all of us aregoing to be experiencing the same storm in
the same way. As it movesa little bit more east, a little
bit more east, a little bitmore east, then less of us might
take that brunt as it moves closerto southern California out of Mexico. So
keep those things in mind that thereare ways just make sure that you're keeping

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everything safe, not especially if you'reusing open flame and a fire somewhere.
There are many ways that you cando that. If you have generators and
back up. Keep in mind oneof the things that is most dangerous or
most difficult to use or to taketo power up with some generators or battery

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packs is are things that heat,things like coffee makers, things heat elements.
Those things like a power plate ora little cook top plate or something
like that hot plate. Those thingsare going to be very difficult and may
not even power up from a batterypack. If you have a big enough

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generator, yet they will, butoftentimes off those smaller ones they will not.
It just takes so much. It'snot just you know, you've got
vaults, you've got watts, You'vegot a lot of other things going on,
and they all mean something different asto how it can power up.
So don't be surprised if your generationwater works perfectly and and yet you can't

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get the you know, something towork. It's a situational all right,
stick around, we'll be back.When we come back, we'll talk to
my buddy Josh Gallante about the newpunk rock Museum here in Las Vegas,
places to eat around it, Whyyou should be checking it out, So
go know where The Fork Report onNil Savedra. We take three hours out
of your day, three hours ona Saturday, two to five to kind

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of shake off everything going on andfocus on things that we all love and
enjoy, and that is food,celebrating food, the people that make it,
the culture behind it. I amyour friendly neighborhood Fork reporter Nil Savedra.
How do you do? Thanks forhanging out. We're broadcasting live from
Wind, Las Vegas in the BlueWire Studios here just right around from the

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buffet, and always a good time. They treat us very nice. It's
beautiful here. But I want youto know that we are on it.
Hurricane Hillary has been downgraded to aCategory two tropical storm ripping through Mexico right
now, but it will hit usin southern California sometime tomorrow most likely.

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But again, these things are shifting. Thankfully started shifting a little inland,
which is gonna slow it down.My whole fear was, man, if
it goes more west than it's goingto tear through our coastline, but it
looks like it's going to be goingmore east. We're keeping breast of all
of that. And in addition totomorrow, at the peak of all of
this, we will be switching programming. Tim Conway Junior will be joining the

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lineup and you also have our veryown Steve Gregory that will be joining the
lineup, all covering everything you needto know from every part of southern California,
so go know where. Some monthsback we talked about it on the
air briefly. There popped up anew element of the scene in Las Vegas,

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and it is the Punk Rock Museum. A buddy of mine has what
do they call you, like adocent or something or the highest paid docent
in the museum industry, really isright? You mean docent to me is
is volunteer. Yeah, this isa record for you. It's a it's
it's a steal. Yeah, it'sthievery. That is the voice of Joe

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Escalante, bass player for the Vandals. Also heard on our sister station,
The Patriot k e I B elevenfifty every single Sunday from five to seven
with live from Hollywood Patriots Only.Yeah, tomorrow we have a whole hour,
whole two hours actually on Disneyland withthe Orange County Theme Park reporter Brady

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McDonald. So it's very special episodegoing deep deep dive deep diving in the
plumbing issues or plumbing issues? IsDisney adults all my Disney gripes, all
kinds of stuff. Oh wow,and you're a big Disney fan. Well
the more, the more, themore crazy gey than I do. Probably,
But i'm i'm I'm, I'm retreatingI because it's people are embarrassing the

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Disney adults there. Don't get mestarted. Well Disney adults, I mean
like you don't have to be them. You don't think, you don't think.
I don't think. There's punks thatare embarrassing. You stop around that
in a long time. If youstick around something long enough, you end
up in a museum. So hereI am. Oh I also you are
at the museum. Yes, Iforgot to mention when I was introducing you.

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Also a friend to the new drummerof food Fighters mis attorney. Yeah,
that's I made this deal made.I made Josh's deal on the food
Fighters A swagger. I refer tohim as John John John this new name.
Yeah. So it's nice to haveyou hear back on the program.
We've hung out on the air beforethe Punk Rock Museum. You brought even

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a beer. We're gonna induct thisbeer into the Punk Rock Museum today.
This is a Vandals they call iton october Fest beer, and it's celebrating
the twenty fifth anniversary of our albumHitler Bad Vandal's Good. And they struggled
for a while to figure out aname because they didn't want the word Hitler
written on aber Fest beer released duringoctober Fest. So it's called the h

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b VG october Fest Beer, andit's it will be in a matter of
days. It will be in TraderJoe's and Bristol Farms and just just about
anywhere. I mean, once theysaid Trader Joe's, I stopped listening because
I thought they were lying. Butit's a bunch of munch of grocery stores
and it's it's I didn't know youcould. I thought you had to be
part of some like caball or somethingto get into trade shows. Yeah,

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the beverage beverage industry is a isa close shop, and you gotta That's
why I was surprised. But evidentlyyou know we're in We have another beer
coming out in October, I meanin December for our Christmas stuff. Uh
six percent alcohol by volume. Weall know that means twelve proof. Six
team flew and up. This isreal. I can tell you this is

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a real I'm holding it. It'sa real beer. Yes, I would,
we would drink it right now.But this is more of a museum
piece. It's like it's like arace car. You don't drive it on
the street. This one, youknow. Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna defile it with the limpseof you know, the fat bald guy
on food radio now. But we'llget it over there. And let me
tell you just quickly say, there'sa very special weekend at the Punk Rock
Museum because they're inducting some or they'reputting in some new items. Have Joe

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Strummer's nineteen sixty six telecaster, andif you any image you have in your
mind of Joe Strummer from the Clash, he's got that telecaster and it's iconic
and it's going into the museum andwe're having a big party tonight to celebrate
it all weekend, and so thereare a bunch of other clash stuff there.
And if you have clash stuff,man, you've got a real punk

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rock museum. So if you're anywherenear Las Vegas, put it on your
list of things to go to andcheck the schedule. I might be a
tour guide when you're in town.I might not be. So you go
here. You go to the website, the punk Rock Museum dot com.
The punk Rock Museum dot com.You've got the homepage when you click on
tours. So, okay, let'ssee and so oh C. J.

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Ramone is there today? Wow?Yeah, the Ramon's the original family band.
Is that what is real? Yes? Alike? They look alike,
they act like do you know what, I'll give you a taste of my
tour? Do you know what thelook? Okay, everybody where did this
look come from that the Ramones havewith the leather jacket and the hair and

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everything. No one ever knows.But the truth is it's the look of
the New York City male prostitute ofthe nineteen seventies. It's yeah, so
Dee Dee Ramone cultivated that look.It was the only look. If you
wanted to get customers, you hadto look like a like a Coney Island
beach kid. And that's the lookof a Coney Island beach kid, that
the dirty old men would want toplay within their cars. And that can't

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be true. That's the true,that's the truth. I thought it was
Roy Orbison. Hey he can hecan make money in New York City two
in the seventies two. So thereis all kinds. So let's see.
You've got Smelly from No Effects,Yeast Bay Ray from the Dead Kid.
Oh my gosh, I'll take thatto Uh, let's see Warren Figs Figs

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Fixed Girls, definitely the drummer ofthe Vandals. But whatever, Fitzgerald,
that's a very hard kneed Warrens Figs, The Girls, Warren Fitzgerald from the
Vandals, Alice Bag from the Bags. And of course you're going are you
doing anything tonight? Are you justhere for the party? I'm partying in
Las Vegas. I'm here with somefriends and we're gonna celebrate, you know,

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the clash. And there's a barat this you don't even have to
take the tour. You could justgo to the bar. And there's a
lot of events and uh, it'sit's just a it's a wedding chapel,
the tattoo parlor. Why do youwink at me when you said wedding chapel.
That was weird because well, here'swhen they first asked me to be
a part of this museum. Theyasked me, Hey, Joe, we're

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gonna let you. They're trying toget me an invest you know, there's
a fletcher from anyways. We're gonnalet you officiated weddings in the wedding chump.
And I'm trying to think of reasonsto get out of this. You
know, yeah, I said,not a priest, No, I said,
well, as a Catholic, encouragingsomeone to be married outside the church
would be perhaps causing them their soulsto be doomed and damned to hell for

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all eternity. So I'm gonna haveto pass on that. And he laughed
so hard he let me off thehook. And well, but isn't being
in a punk rock punk rock bandthe same doing people to hell? Not
my band. My band's uplifting andpositive. Yes, you see about diarrhea
and haircuts. Long, this isthis is like, you know, yeah,

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anarchy, Hamburgers. What could bewrong with that? Anarchy? Burger
hold the government that's as deep aswe get. Still it does. Yeah,
you can hear it in movies.They played a move, they referenced
it, and it's got pop cultureLike if you look at the song on
Wikipedia, it'll say pop culture referencesand name movies. Yes, I wrote

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it on the way home from Arizonaat a Stuckies use nineteen eighty one.
You still make any money from it? Yeah? Well, I mean there's
you know what, there's so muchmoney in streaming royalties right now compared to
the way it would be if youif all your albums were at a print,
like like Picture fifty years ago,a band like ours, All the
albums are at a print now,they are all in print. They're all

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sitting there streaming. And if yoursongs are good and they're somewhat listenable,
I look at the streaming statistics andthey get played over and over. You
got a happy birthday song that getsplayed. You got a song that says
my girlfriend's dad, that's funny.Let me click that again. If you
have a really really lifting if youhave if you have a really really hardcore
band, like I'm not going toname any but just really you know,

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nasty, like a new York hardcore. I notice some of those bands are
popular, but they don't. Peoplearen't streaming them over and over and putting
them on playlists. But we dopretty well, and so do a lot
of other bands that normally would havezero income. And it gets bigger every
year because they figure out how tofind the royalties better and better every year.
Your representatives are out digging and scrapingup every penny, and I'm very

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happy with it. I'm not oneof those artists saying that I'm being cheated
by the Spotify. Well, youare an attorney, an entertainment attorney.
Yes, any thoughts on the strikegoing on with the directors and the writers
when it comes as not streaming butdigital. I'm on both sides. So
I want a production company, andI also I am a writer. Oh

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so you're a d and a creative. I'm a I'm a I'm a i'm
Remember the screen actors guilt? Yeah, well so am I because yeah,
because of all this, I usedto be remember the film actors guilt,
and then I realized it wasn't real, and it was it was it was
just a magazine. But yeah,I you know it strikes come and go

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you think. I mean, Italk about it every week on my show,
and it's just one of those it'slike a mystery of like why do
Mexicans like Morrissey. I think youjust don't know. I'm getting down to
the to the to the core ofit, and then and then I realized,
I don't know, and it doesn'tmatter. So you know, they'll
resolve it one day and both sideswill come a little bit closer. And
because the the tattoos smile now crylater, the cry later is moss.

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Yeah. I like that. Weall get to cry later watching this fool,
this fool. Oh yeah, thatguy was at the museum during my
last tours and then was there recently. He was there. I was given
tours, and then he would givetours and we had a great time.
Oh you never know what's gonna happenthere. You gotta love it when he's

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wearing a H three shirt on theshow. Come on, ye oh yeah,
there's Strata guy. Yeah yeah,yeah, super cool. A little
knock back to the old school stuff. But it's always good to see you.
Great to see you. I can'tbelieve that the first time we see
we have houses near each other andeverything, and I see you in Vegas
by accident. That's how the worldworks. He does, You're deep,
You're great. It's always good tosee you. The new beer you Vandal's

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Beer is being inducted into the Museum. Night Trader Joe's. You get that
stuff, man, go get andget it. And you can hear Joe
tomorrow five to seven on k eI B eleven fifty, our sister station
just down the hall, and everysingle Sunday from five to seven, of
course, with Live from Hollywood.You've been listening to the Fok Report.

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You can always hear us live onkf I AM six forty two to five
pm on Saturday, and anytime ondemand on the iHeartRadio app