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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is Appetite for Distortion. Welcome to the podcast Appetite
(00:33):
for Distortion, Episode number five hundred and eleven. My name
is Brando. Coming up a little bit later on, we're
gonna be dancing with mister Mailestone. We're gonna hear from
you your reviews of the podcast. That should be fun. Also,
if you stick around, we might be having a contest.
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I don't do these things, so you probably want to
stick to the end of the episode. But first, if
you're like me, if you're like Slash and I love cartoons,
you're excited for today's guest, Vincent Martella. He voices the
animated title character of Phineas in the beloved five time
Emmy Award winning cartoon series Phineas and Ferb. So much
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to we fans delight this summer Mark's a revival of
the hit show. It's been gone for ten years. Welcome
to the podcast, mister Vincent Martella. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Have you got the Guns N' Roses poster back there?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I do. We're going to get into that because I
think there's a crossover between Phineas and Ferb and GNR,
and that's kind of what I do here.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Is I was about to bring it up.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, before we get to Slash's appearance in the movie.
I mean, it's an honor to meet you as well.
We maybe joined by my two year old who's in
the back. So I love the fact that Phineas and
Ferb is coming back because now I'm trying to get
him into cartoons, some of them might be outdated. Now
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I can kind of, you know, rejoin Phineas and for
So you were surprised that after a decade it's back,
I mean that it could catch you off guard.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, I mean that's something so wonderful about this show
is that even when during the original run of the show,
we had a lot of parents who would meet us
and talk to us and be like, hey, thank you
for making a show where the whole family can sit
down and watch the show and we can all sit
down and we can all laugh and we can all
have a good time together. And that's a credit to
our writers and to our creators of how good of
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a show that they've written. But now we have you know,
not just those parents and those kids who are watching
the show, is you have people who grew up watching
the show themselves. Who are now introducing it to their kids.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And I can't tell you how special it is to
work on a project.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You know, when you do any kind of art, you know,
whether you're a voice actor like me, or you're a
musician or you're a writer, and you find out that
people care enough about the art that you put out
where they go. I have to share this with my family.
I have to introduce this to my kids because it
meant so much to me.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's pretty spectacular.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So it's it's great that there are gonna be multiple
generations of people watching the show when it comes back
right now this summer, and that's really really cool.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It is again, it's special with my he just turned
two like a month ago, and he's still really not
into plots yet, like as far as like storylines. He
just like shining things. Yeah, he's a.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Little a little young for our show.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, but uh, I'm working. I'm working on Do he Love?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Does he Love?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Perry the Platypus though, because I feel like Perry the
Platypus is just such a cute character.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
He loves animals. So that's where he's at right now.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh perfect, You got to introduce him to to Peter
the Panda as well. You know Perry the Platypus in
an episode I played it. I played Peter the Panda.
So I'm I'm super biased.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, fair enough, at least you're honest about it. What
about when you were younger? What cartoons like do you remember?
Did you watch something with your parents or what has
stayed with you throughout all these years. But because I'm
still a cartoon guy, I mean, I couldn't wait to
have a kid to share with.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I love cartoons so much, and and I love other
voice actors. I love listening to their work and getting
inspired by it. But the great irony of my life
is I actually was like my parents were pretty strict
on what cartoons I could watch as a kid.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Okay, So, like I could not watch so many of
the really really popular cartoons.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Because I'm thirty two and so I couldn't watch rug Rats,
I couldn't watch Hey Arnold.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I couldn't watch like Ed ed Nettie. I couldn't watch
Courage the Cowardly Dogs.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So all these cartoons that were so popular when I
was growing up, I actually couldn't watch them because I
just wasn't allowed to my parents were pretty strict on that.
I watched a lot of Arthur. Like when I was okay,
that was allowed to watch. I was allowed to watch
PBS shows. And then as I started getting older, like
when I was in my third grade, fourth grade, that's
when they couldn't really stop me from watching things like.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
SpongeBob and like odd Parents.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But and I loved Kim Possible a lot in Powerpuff Girls,
so I started kind of sneaking into And that's also.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
When I started getting into like anime.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
So I would watch the Tsunami section on Cartoon Network,
and I would watching Dragon ball Z every day after school.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But that wasn't until I was like in third or
fourth grade.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I gotcha, one of my brothers has a nice Dragon
ball Z tattoo sleeve, so I mean it's passed on.
I got never ending story over here, so I mean
that's kind of cartoonish.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Oh that is cool. I have.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, I only have one pop culture tattoo. I
have quite a few tattoos, but I have a one
O four because there are one hundred and forties of
summer vacation.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, I had to something. I was after we
we were wrapping up the show.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You know, because I was in my early twenties and
it was the first tattoo I got. I was like,
you know, I want to this thing has been a
part of my life for so long.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I want to get something.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, and you know it's it's subtle. It's subtle, it's
not it's not. I don't have the full pair of
the platyff was sleeve yet.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We'll see. If the show goes on for ten more seasons,
I might have to. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
You know it's crazy because I you know, you hear
about especially in other, you know, decades. I'm forty two,
but I mean certain cartoons not you're not allowed to watch.
I mean back in my day they I had certain
family friends wh couldn't watch The Simpsons. And this is
so funny when you hear about these all seemed tame
by today's standards. So to make the transition, I mean,
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if you have Slash as your dad, I gotta imagine
that's not an issue because he's been outspoken. He's a
SpongeBob fan.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He was in the movie.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So the fact that he was in the Phineas inferb movie,
he did a song kick it up a notch. Did
a video with you guys. I don't know, we'll both
we'll talk about it. Talk about that if you Karen.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, I got to sing a song that Slash plays
guitar on. I mean, it's an I haven't very fortunate
to have had some really cool experiences in my career,
and that's one that I I it blows my mind
that I got to do that, because you know that
I met him when we did, he was doing like
the music video for it that they advertised on like
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the Disney Channel.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And when I met him, because I had spoken to
him kind.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Of over like video chat, like over like FaceTime, and
you know, he looked normal when I was on FaceTime
with him, but then when I went and I met him,
met him, you know, he was Slash Like he has
you know, the hat on, he has a sunglasses, he's
got the least Paul guitar in his hand, and that
was crazy. I was just like, this is so surreal.
And I met him and he told me what a
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big fan of mine he was and how excited I was, like,
are you what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Slash.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'm a big fan of yours, Like you're a You're
an absolute rock and roll legend. And yeah, he's a
huge animation fan. I didn't even realize until I worked
with him obviously that he Yeah, he was responsible for designing,
you know, so much of their artwork on their covers
of their albums.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, he's an artist. You know, back in the day
with all the drum and he would draw out the
guns or roads his flyers and yeah, all that I
mean because I was curious. I'm glad that you got
some interaction because you never know when you put something
like that together. Is he just sending over a guitar part?
Are you just in a voiceover? Do you ever get
the met because the story goes he was just a fan,
right and saw the movie with his kids.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, he was just a fan of the show and
and and I did with his kids and want to
be part of it. And that's actually you know, how
we've gotten a lot of really great guest stars on
the show is their kids like the.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Show, where they watched the show with their kids.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And the only bummer about that for me, because I'm
I love the people who've worked on the show, is
that because we don't record together, there are some people
who I haven't gotten to meet well loved to have met.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
That we that we had on the show, like you know.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
We we we had we had Regis Philbin and Taylor
Swift and David Beckham on like all within a brief
period of time, and all.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Of them recorded from different cities.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
And so I couldn't you know, convince Disney to go, hey,
can I accidentally be uh you know, like I'm a
I'm a big sports fan, and we have a really
great athlete who's gonna do who's gonna be guests, uh
you know, doing doing a guest role on our show?
And I'm like, yeah, you have to have me in
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right after this person is in the booth so that
I can accidentally be wearing their jersey and accidentally have
a sharpie in my hand.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And I'm like, so crazy this worked out.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I mean, if we're both here, you might what are
the odds?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I mean might as well? You might as well do it.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
So and it's funny because they'll ask me sometimes You're like, hey,
what you know, we have some really great guest stars
this coming season, Like we have we have Michael Buble,
Megan Trainer.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And uh Megan Rappino who's a great u US women's
national soccer player. But whenever they asked me to like.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Like who you want to try to get on the show,
I'm always like trying to get my favorite athletes on
the show.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'm like and I'm like, can we get like you know,
so am I like my favorite basketball player, like my
favorite football player? Because I want to I want to
meet them to my heroes.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, i mean, now with there is revival, you've got time,
you can you can meet more people.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So it's let's hope. So I'm gonna try to get
I'm trying. I'm trying to get Patrick Mahomes on the show.
My official plea to get Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelcey
on the show.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Let's see if we can get it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Get it so and because I know I got it,
run just to keep things. Also with my theme, Axel
Rose has done Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I'm just saying he's interesting. I wonder if he would
do the same thing that Slash was on.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Though you never know, but I will say this, you're
not super close. Well they're together now again. Yeah, but
you've done something that Slash hasn't. You've been veineas and
Ferb and The Walking Dead. I just want to say
that your death scene, who's one of my favorites.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Oh cool, thank you. Yeah, that was a that was
a real pleasure for me.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I It's one of the rare times that I that
I was a huge fan of something and then got
to work on it, Like I was already a huge
fan of it, and that happened to me too with
like I'm a big DC Comics fan and I got
to I've gotten to play Robin and I've gotten to
play red Hood.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So Okay, it's always it's always surreal when you go,
oh my gosh, this is actually something I'm a huge
fan of. And it was that way with The Walking
Dead and a lot of the Andrew Lincoln who plays
Rick on The Walking Dead, he I had a whole,
you know, hour long conversation with his kids love Phineas
and Ferb, and so I was all done up like
a zombie at that point.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Spoiler for anyone.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Who hasn't seen the fact that I die on that show,
I know, right, but I was like just like dressed
like a zombie talking to him for like, now we're
about Phineas and Ferb because his kids love the show
so much.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What a life.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, Vincent's I can talk to you for more about
gin RN cartoons. But hopefully you get to do this again,
and just congrats and just keep doing what you do.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I love your work. Thank you. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And yeah, hopefully, if you know, if we get to
do more seasons of the show, I'll be back talking
with you about the next season right on.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I'll look forward to it. That was a fun one.
Wish I had more time, but you know what, you
take what you could get, and I had an opportunity
through my job. Lucky enough. You know, Vincent comes through
through US Premiere Radio Networks. He's promoting for two and
a half hours talking about the new season of Phineas
and Ferb. I don't know if anybody else asked about Slash,
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but I got my ten minutes and is talking to
the stations all across the all across the country, and
I got my time. And you know, if you're watching
on on on YouTube, I apologize because you know, even
though sometimes it's my job to do these radio tours,
not always I have my co workers doom them as well,
and I should have requested to record the video in
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addition to the audio, but that's okay. It kind of
leaves the illusion what does he look like? Because Google
doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And let's since it was short but sweet, let's continue
this episode with one of my favorite segments. Well we
talked to you or I talk for you. Well I
read what you wrote, you know what, Let's just play
the SoundBite or mister mailestone, here's a mail. It never fails.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It makes me one on my tale when it comes out.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
If you're unfamiliar, I love reading your comments. The conversation
continues in between the broadcasts. I say that all the time.
So sometimes let's bring the conversation to the podcast. So
today the conversation comes or your your comments come in
the form of reviews. A couple on Facebook, one you
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left on Apple Podcasts. So let me read them because
they they made me feel good and you know, and
it helps me. Let's let's see where we can go
with this. So this one comes from uh Sarah Ashley Fox.
She writes, I just bingched listened over the past few
days to so many episodes of your show, and it
brought me so much joy in nostalgia you remind me
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of Mark Maron with your ability to relate to your
guests well, with plenty of space for them to share
their stories. Keep going. Thank you, Thank you, Sarah, I
really do. I appreciate that so again that she gave
me five stars on Apple Podcasts. If you want to
do the same, I wouldn't hate it, wouldn't hate it
at all. I appreciate the Mark Maron comparison because, yeah,
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another paranoid. I know that's not what you meant, but
I see a lot of myself in him in that
regard of just somebody who likes why I like his
sense of humor because somebody who's all over the place.
But there's a method to his madness, which is what
I'd like to think about, you know myself. There's a
method to the madness. And you may have heard that
(14:46):
Mark Maren is ending his legendary WTF podcast. He really
was one of the pioneers a podcast. And yes, internet
radio has been a long I've been around for a
long time, but Maren, it wasn't a viable thing until
he and Joe Rogan came along and changed the game.
(15:08):
I mean, Mark had been a successful, you know, pretty
successful comic, but he really made a name for himself
doing podcasting. It was a really it added another chapter
his career and who would have guessed it. So for
him to with his decision that he said to him
and his producer wanting to end it, I mean, congrats man,
(15:29):
you know, so hopefully get some of his listeners over here.
And I appreciate that because I want to connect to
my guests. That's why I talk about myself at all.
There are too many talking heads out there. There's always been,
but now more than ever with all the different mediums
tiktoks and different podcasts and everything. But I'd like to
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do it to relate to my guests and help them
because just like now with Vincent doing so many different interviews,
is he gonna remember all of them? Maybe because he's
that nice of a guy. But I want to connect.
So whether it's ten minutes, whether it's an hour, two hours,
I want to especially if it's two hours. You better
connect with your guest at some point. But you want
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to make them laugh. And how do you connect You
share with yourself and you see where it goes. So
that's good, So thank you for that compliment. So let's
go to against That goes to from Sarah. These two
left on Facebook. Now you can do the same thing.
(16:34):
You can leave a review on Facebook. I don't always
promote these things that you can leave a review. I
don't think I've ever mentioned that if you want to
be a subscriber on Facebook. I don't even know what
that means. It was just something that's like, hey, do
you want to add this to your page because you've
been doing well? Sure? Does it cost me anything? No,
(16:55):
of course you can subscribe. I don't know what that means,
you tell me, but you can leave reviews. So this
is two very cool people who are always in conversations
from posts that I make. And there are many of you,
more than the two that I will read now that
sent me info facts on this day stuff. Hey did
(17:16):
you hear about so and so? Here's what happened. Did
you check out this show last night? So you were
all my producers? It's a one man show me. Yeah,
but I couldn't do it without you. So, and that
goes without saying for these next two. Jonathan Holme who
started listening to me in twenty twenty two. So a
(17:37):
little late to the party, Jonathan, But that's Okay, I
always say this is three years ago because we started
back when GENR Reunited or Axual Slash, But there are
still people finding out about the podcast all the time.
I say it. I've said it for years, I've said
it back in twenty twenty two, and I say it
now because Sarah just found us. So that's why sometimes
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I repeat things or I forget that I said it before,
But usually it's because people are always finding us at
different points. So I started listening to Brando in twenty
twenty two when I was actively searching for a podcast
about GNR, and it immediately became a regular in my
podcast rotation. I can't say enough about the kind of
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person Brando is, and the professional radio experience really shows.
If you're a Guns and Roses fan, do yourself a
favor and check this podcast out. So again, thank you
Jonathan on Facebook. Thank you. I try to be a
good person. It goes back to connecting with your guests,
and you want people to be able to want to
listen to you as a host. If I was an asshole,
who wants to listen to an asshole? I guess some
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people make that part of their persona but that's not
something I want to deal with. I don't want to
be an asshole just for show. I try to minimize
the actual part of me, because every human being is
an asshole to a degree, just some more than others.
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I digress. Let's go on to This is the last
one for mister Mailstone that will wrap up the episode.
But this is a long message and I appreciate it,
so Jimmy VB. I feel like I almost owe it
to you since you took the time to write this
to share it with the listeners. And just a little
preface that he I guess I should have asked, because
(19:26):
he did explain it to you. Once he breaks down
the guns and roses chapters of their career, who filled
who was part of their the band at the time
differently there he calls them gn R, m K one,
m K two, MK three, so that's be aware of
that's part of his vernacular. This pod is regular listening
(19:48):
for me. I find it both to be an online
oasis and a breath of fresh air at a time
when the popular music landscape has long become largely homogenized
and a badly and badly characters and engaging personalities, and
then he goes on to talk about guns and roses.
I became a tragedy GNR fan at the age of ten,
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at a time when the usual Illusion albums were released
to great fanfare. GNR ruled the world and of the
radio back then, and it was easy to understand why,
given their immense talent and reverence personalities as we devoured
their news with wide eyed relish when MTV Europe burst
into the Maltese living rooms in nineteen ninety three. So
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I was devastating when Slash quit the band in ninety six,
since I long hoped that GNR MK three would release
another chart topping album and co sign the fast growing
dance and hip hop music to the shadows where it belonged.
It's okay, that's dancing hip hop man. That's the biggest
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thing now, isn't it. Sadly it was not to be,
and the way goes on. Yet. Brando's pod provides much
solid during the ongoing Unbearable Weights as it sheds light
on what happened behind the scenes during the eighties and
nineties pre Internet days, as well as the far less
revered GNR MK four era. His interviews helped me to
(21:14):
realize just how many interesting people exist within gnr's orbits
to accept that GNR MK two and MK three's breakups
actually refractured gnr's light in so many intriguing ways and directions,
further multiplying the number of amazing characters who helped contribute
to the music GNR members produced, as well as the
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many friends and contacts they each made on their own
journeys prior to the long overdue sixteen reunion. Brando interviews
all of these gems with wit and respect intertwined with
engaging philosophical insights, always keeping the objective high ground during
his discussions that should always appeal to music fans who
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are not necessarily GNR diehards. His is an approach that
makes AfD the natural home for fans and friends of
the band, while reminding all of us that the GNR
following is in fact a large global family of irreverend
freethinkers and not solely a group of concert ticket buyers.
A ticket to buyers, thank you, Brando for the gluts
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of emotions that your pot brings us along. It may
continue and love your work mates, and he ends it
with don't you ever leave me? Say You'll always be there.
All I ever wanted was for you to know that
I care, I appreciate the rock and Queen ending there,
Jimmy and all of that. That's kind OF's what I
(22:46):
want to get across you pretty much now that the
different chapters of this band who when I started, who
knew how long this sixteen reunion was going to last,
And now that we're in twenty twenty five, they're touring
Axel smiling, we have a new drummer, we have as
of this podcast, we think we're gonna get Atlas Shrugged
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this year. We think we should be getting nothing this year,
and we'll have those discussions then when it happens, Chinese leftovers,
what's been done, we'll say those conversations for then. So
it's there's a lot to continue. I'd be lying to
you if there weren't points of like how much longer
can I go with this? But it's comments like that,
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the fact that there's always something, there's always something going on,
there's always something, is someone new to talk about, another interview.
We didn't have another interview to maybe redo that we
haven't had in a while, A guest to have another
kind of conversation, an old guest who's having a new project,
because it's all creativity. I'm surrounded by creative people, whether
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it's the guests or you, the listener. I mean, you've
got to be creative to listen to this podcast. You've
got to be a creative who what other kind of
person finds this podcast?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Then?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
A creative thinker. So I'm glad that all of you
are here. So I want to I guess reward if
you made it this far? You So I was sent
a second copy of the book by Martin pop Off,
The Guns of Roses at forty I don't need two books?
(24:25):
Do you need a book? So if you are the
first person, I know, the first person to email me,
and it's not just email me, you want to email
me the key phrase because if you're familiar with the
Martin pop Off interview, what did what? Did he refer
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to Guns of Roses as what kind of music? So
it's two words, So you gotta email me. And of
course the email is at the AfD Show at gmail
dot com. So it's well, I know, I said ads,
so I used to saying social media handles. So it's
just the a f D Show at gmail dot com.
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Of course, short for appetite for distortion. So the af
D Show at gmail dot com. First person who gets
the right answer of just its two words, what did
Martin pop off? And it was not a popular opinion
refer to guns or roses as what kind of music?
So email me AfD Show at gmail dot com. First
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one that get gets that right? Is he gonna get
that book? Suppose that I wish. I want to be
able to do more giveaways. So, and thank you to
those of you who have contributed to Patreon. I really
I'm sorry it's taken me this long to thank you
on the air. I've thanked you via email. You've helped
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me invest back in the podcast a little bit. But
the more we get these are things that I would
love to do, to do giveaways, and there's so much
more to do. Just like what Jimmy said, there's so
much more to do and all I can think about
as well when Harrison just starts being cognizant of music
and just to involve him in interviews and have him
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asked questions. I want to do this forever, I really do,
but I have other jobs where I make my bread
winning money. I can only have to give most of
my time to that, I guess. So whatever you're able
to give, you can see how you can donate back
to the podcast via the website afdpod dot com. So
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that does it for this episode of Appetite for Distortion.
What's next on the way Angry Anderson Actually he was
supposed to be this episode, but he in the band.
I think they caught some sort of like food poisoning
or something. I was talking to one of their reps.
Hopefully they're all okay. So Angry Anderson is on the way.
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Steve Rosen, who wrote a book about his friendship with
with Eddie van Halen, that is on the way. Also
Alan Niven, Yeah, again on the way. We're talking about
his book, this Sound and Fury, which comes out. It's
going to be out on the day, so mark your calendars.
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So those other interviews are going to come out before Allen's.
So Allen's book Sound and Fury Rock and Roll Stories
comes out June twenty fourth, so that'll be the same
day my interview. My next interview with Alan will be
so stay tuned. When will you see these episodes? In
the words of Axel Rose concerning Chinese democracy, I don't
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know as soon as the word, but you'll see.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
It thanks to the lame ass security. I'm going home.