June 18, 2025 • 67 mins
The Podcast That Rocked for 6/18/25. Recap on Warped Tour DC 2025 and how it ran, Download Fest success, more.
- Warped Tour Recap with footage and photos
- Download Fest was a massive success (Sleep Token, Korn, President debut)
- Sleep Theory experience nightmare with crowd
- Hatebreed's Wayne Lozinak off the road due to tumor
- Amigo The Devil GoFundMe
- Upcoming tours/albums/more
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back to the podcast that rocks weekly, podcast that
talks about news in the world of rock, metal, alternative
and everything in between.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
My name is Luke, my name is Alex, and my
name is Rowan.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I hope you are all doing well on this Wednesday
evening that we're recording June eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
If we get to fifty likes.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
On YouTube, which we're broadcasting live, we will play one
round of Festival Rock or Flop, where we book a
random festival in a totally random place. Last week was ridiculous.
There was at least one crap band and a really
good lineup that it all worked out pretty well. I
added more bands to the fold of this week because
I saw a few more at Warp Tour, and that's
going to be the main thing from our discussion Alex
(00:41):
and Rowan no pieces of my Warped Tour situation, but
this is going to be something different, Alex said. Rowan
reserved my input that I gave you, like a little
bit on the weekend and stuff. What have you heard
outside of what I thought from Warp Tour? If anything,
I want, I'm surprises, surprises.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I watched Slar su Prevail's set list because they played
song three, which has become just like a new favorite
of mine from them, and it just like they didn't
They didn't disappoint Honestly, it was epic.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, then sounds good and Alex you said surprises.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Fun surprises. I was happy to see Avril Levine and
Derek Quindley, you know, get together.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That was fun and I got footage of that too.
They got a long history, but it's been friendly for many,
many years, you know, which is a rare feats with
their situation as well. So if that's something positive that
happened on Sunday night. So that being said, thank you
so much everyone in the chat room. Thank you as well,
Sapphire for wishing everyone. I have a Meaudi with the
Caddy motes. See that's how you do the emojis properly
(01:44):
in the chat root everyone, it's polite and friendly.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You're not throwing anything at people. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Also, someone just said tornado watch while we're watching this.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Geez geez, imagine we just lose them through the torno.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah yeah, Tornado siren. I got to hear the Warped
tour recap.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's like Twister the house, just like.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Like the old worzard of Os footage with Dorisy Dorothy's
house in the air flying away.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh yeah, I know. Yeah, and there's like a bike
just outside.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Attention to the sirens.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's that's that takes precedent even I understand, I
get it. Okay, you can again, you can catch up
later if you have to. A tornado is a good excuse.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So he's a good excuse. That is better than a
doctor's note afterwards.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So who's ready for some warped tour footage, not just photos,
straight up nitty gritty in the deep footage, because that's
what I got for everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
While I'm discussing, I'm going to be sharing this. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Roan had his hand.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Up while I'm talking about it. I'm gonna share my
screen and make sure I get this right. Share screen
for everyone. Well, bam, I hope I did that right.
Can you see my monitor?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Because I think I get the wrong one. Yeah, totally,
I totally did. I almost mess that up.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now it should be good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay everyone, what you're about to see is a mute
of about seven or so minutes of straight up footage,
and I'll be discussing things as they go on, I'll pause,
I'll replay whatever's wanted. I'll talk about things at length.
I have other clips to show from what happened at
RFK Festival Grounds in.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
June fourteenth and fifteenth, Just kidding, fifteenth I ended up
not going on the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
DC was a straight up mess this weekend. When I say.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Everything was shut down in DC, they were anticipating much
more like with the paraded stuff that didn't happen, but
they closed down so many exits and entrances to highways.
There were so many detours. People were not getting into
the first day of Warp Tour until around four pm.
And when you have a festival that's infamous for not
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showing you the schedule till you get there, that's a
bit of a problem. When I find out scal a
band I love, opens up at noon on day one
and literally people don't even have a chance to get
in on time, it kind of puts a sour taste
in people's mouth. Great, Yeah, it's not great. And also
the heat wave sucks. I saw someone make a comment
(04:36):
about I found out what heat stroke was at Warp Tour. Oh,
you found out if you were on day one and
we warped tour this year. The heat was rough. Also,
it was mostly on black top, true warp tour fashion.
Oh yeah, so that was day one. I'm just going
a recap of what I've known and stuff. I will
not be showing footage a machine gun Kelly closing out
the night doing a cover of Googoo Dolls Iris, because
(04:59):
I love you too much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I thank you for that. I didn't even know he
did that, and I know now what to avoid.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You're gonna try to bruin the goo Goo dolls? Why
why that before?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He's covered a lot before, a lot anyway, covered a
lot recently, Yes, yes, anyway, So it surprised me at
this point. Day two got there early. Was it nearly
as jam packed and as chaotic for DC? Even though
it was still a little rough, All the closed exits
were still a bummer and tumultuous weather was coming and
I'll show you soon. It was overcast and sprinkling all
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day until the very end where the flood started. What
you're seeing on screen right now, there's gonna be no
sound for the first seven minutes of this, so it's
just gonna be me talking and talking to you guys,
and I'll let me pull chat back up so I
can see what you guys are doing and asking stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I made it through. Spring is the new summer.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, clearly spring Spring just doesn't exist. So this is
between looking at two of the side stages, at one
of the many merch rows on the left and right of.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Each screen, or all the vendors.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There were labels there like Hopeless and Thriller Records and
other stuff selling their own albums. Each band got their
own merch booth. This is the band Boys Like Girls,
and this is with my into three sixty. I got
a little higher for this one and decided to just
take a little look see out and show you the
big crowd. These were the main stages right here. So
it was a sold out show, true sellout. Even on
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day two, when Day one and Day two had wildly
different lineups, it was still packed. They succeeded with that.
This was the smallest, the two smallest stages. On one
of those on the far side. This was Cliff Diver.
You'll notice something right away. The audience is definitely the
same audience from ten years ago, just ten years older.
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It's not as riled up kids running around. It's just
everyone kind of jiving and having a good time. Some
of these people are probably burnt out from the day before.
But this is the one thing I have to applaud.
They put the half pipe and they they had three
demos like one at one thirty, one at four, one
at seven, and they had all these people doing all
these different things. And they put it perfectly between two
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sets of stages, so they had the two main stages
the half pipe and then two other stages. Like it
was like the perfect barrier so that way people from
both GUIDs could see you look in and it also
added to help with the sound barrier between the stages.
They nailed everything about the half pipe demo perfectly, and
they did so much that they had to. They had
Olympians there, they had a bunch of other stuff. They
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were doing promos and giveaways. This is the A plus
part of this. They did way better with the half
pipe demos and showing all this than past all the
past workers I've seen where you didn't even know it
was there or they weren't even doing anything on it.
So it was fun for that, I know. Yeah, And
they had skateboarders, skaters, Bikers BMX. They had a lot
of stuff. I have more stuff too. This was knuckle
(07:50):
Puck in the very back. I was right in front
of one of the pits, telescoped up for that. Again,
this was one of the main stages. This was one
of the few hits that I saw that actually had
some movement. Again, you look at the pit older crowd there.
There was a lot of ibuprofen and ben Gay going around.
Monday morning, I will say knee bases. If there is
(08:13):
not one guid dress as Jesus, I know it's yeah.
Especially at DC, this is one of the smallest stages.
A lot of people are saying Sophie Powers kind of
stole the show for what she did. She's the one
that went on American Idol and trolled them with her audition,
and she had a great set. She had a lot
of energy. She was really fun, so she definitely knows
what she's doing. She's like kind of that type of
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artist and character. There's the zoom out for me with
a through sixty going back in and this was another
punk band more rning on Emo who just came out
and started playing to have screwed. I'm gonna come out
there with the crowd mash pit Massiah, well done. I'm
reading your chat now because it's perfect. Someone that warped
toward twenty twenty five is making a killing selling Advillain earplugs. See,
(08:56):
a lot of people were giving earplugs for free, like
a lot of merch places like merch tens. They're giving
ear plugs for free. Is just like promo stuff smart
nice advil. No, you had to pay top dollar for
sunscreen and advill At some of those moosese top dollar.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So single use of course.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh yeah, the little like mini packs, yeah on single Yeah,
the airport absolutely, this was what would suggestion with sweet
pill they had a little mini pit on the side stage.
They were fun like it started heavy and then the
guitar started tapping, going like and that was the first
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song like it said a good vibe and they had
a good crowd for the side stage too. It's like
at no point was nothing going on. I will say this,
at no point also whereas everyone at one stage there
was a lot of people just sit around doing nothing.
And this is where I'm gonna pause it right here.
This is a good place to pause it. The biggest
detractor for me from what I saw and I had.
(09:54):
This is my own opinion. I'll see if I can
pull it up live while I'm doing all these shenanigans.
It was the lineup for DC. It was lackluster in
my opinion, and that's what set things back. The show
sold out months before the lineup was posted, and I
remember talking to both fans, vendors people in the back
saying DC had the weakest lineup and it kind of
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is reflecting a little bit with everything going on, and
that's rough. I don't know how else to get around
saying that I felt that way when I saw it
all happen, you know, So I know we've talked about
the lineups and stuff before as well. I'll try to
show it on screen really quick in a very small manner.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
If you guys can see that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Zozo, I'm working on it, doing things live and work.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's big enough. At no point do I say it's
the worst lineup I've ever seen. It's absolutely not. But
it's not great, and I don't know if it warrants
the best warped tour of the three. It doesn't having
And I'm gonna get to this point later. Having machine
gun Carelly headline Night one after warp Tour, has spent
(11:03):
years trying to distance themselves from the many many many
accusations of child predators and band accusations. When machine Gun
Kelly has had many many accusations and proof and state
recorded statements of him going after young women.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Not the best image.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I now go before I go, Yeah, I go now
before one other thing. The woman Seene, queen who did
a great thing, gotta find it. She has a song
called eighteen plus dedicated to all those Warped Tour bands.
She made this before Warped Tour happened. Warped Tour told
her she cannot put that song on the Warped Tour CD.
They were selling on site like they always do well.
(11:41):
She had performed at live at Warptur anyway, she said,
go screw yourself. I would like to say congrats for
standing to ground, seeing queen that took up guts.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Did they like, did they cut the show or anything
like that? Did they do like an heat damage control?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
They did not, from what I understood.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
She closed out one of the side stages that night,
so it didn't really matter to them, probably, But yeah,
I say, yeah, So I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Just imagining like she performs a song and some someone's like.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
They did not do that, thankfully, But as Alex also said,
for a surprise, Avril Levine came out and had her
ex husband and still longtime friend perform in Too Deep
the uh.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What's a good way?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The Alamodi version, let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And he also dated Avril Levine imagined, she imagine he
came in on stage and played drums for them.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
No, and there was a lot of cross connections, a
lot of cross connections like that.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Absolutely, but everybody knows everybody these days.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's very true.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're both Everyone dated everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Back then in the pop punk scene from Canada and
Toronto in the same city.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yes, they actually did. There was no what is it?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
There was no Tinder back then. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They just had to sell like the same pop pump
bands and like the ones they blew up. They just
got paired off with each other, Avril and Derek.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So this is my other big thing I want to
talk about, And I had my own photo of this.
The one of the biggest other problems, Like I talked
about not being able to see scal on the first day,
even if I would have tried, because traffic was sucked,
DC was a nightmare. Even if it wasn't that bad,
they played at noon. My problem with this is they
want to have the same feeling with that inflatable stage.
(13:31):
They want to still have the surprise and planning out
your day there. You could still release the schedule beforehand
and have the inflatable stage for people to take photos
and have fun with to relave the nostalgia, which is
what they're selling anyway, release actual set schedule the week before. Yeah,
I agree, it's that time of trying to plan out
(13:53):
things when you didn't have cell phones and stuff and
you didn't have to plan it, when your parents dropped
you off to have fun. It's not the same audience anymore,
it's not the same technology.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Just post the schedule that you already have sets.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
It wouldn't cost them anything to you. Are they trying
to be nostalgic, because like, I understand that that would
be like have both there. It would cost you literally.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Nothing, right, And I think I agree both.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I think also it would cause a lot less
stress for people to get in not totally Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, this band, I actually like I came to ward
tour to actually see Yeah, I know when they're here,
and I can plan accordingly.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, Oh they're playing at noon. I better get there early.
See how easy that.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Is easy and one of the one of my new
favorite things with tours and festivals and you know this
day and age is planning out, Oh I really want
to see this band in this band, in this band,
and then having my heart broken because two of my
favorite bands are playing at the same time, and then
I gripe about it online and boom, I'm talking about
it and now everybody knows about it. Yes, to get
a little bit more put traffic out of this one.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's so answer some decisions for yourself. Really, you kind
of like realize, yeah, no, this is the this is
the man I would prefer to see.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I agree also, markin conversation flowing that way.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
This tired dog right here, who is not feeling well,
he agrees with us on the warped towards Shenanigans. He's like,
what the heck is going on here? Get it together.
It's not two thousand and five, it's not even twenty fifteen.
It's twenty twenty five. How is this difficult? How is
this difficult both. So a lot of my complaints are
(15:31):
complaints that have gone on for years. They're echo, they're
not that big of a deal. So we talk about
a few things. But there's two other things I need
to address that happened to DC. One I know Alex
already saw because she replied to me in the stories.
They were trying to be conscientious and aware in making
sure people had water. However, security didn't do a great
job of handing it out. They had bagged water like
the little pack the packs for hydration packs, and they
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had actual bottled water. They were just chuck it out
like they were doing football drills. And oh yes, people
got clocked in the head because they couldn't move in
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oops.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Like that's kind of hurt, by the way, like like
a full bottle of water to the dome that, yes,
that will hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
After I'm already standing up like shoulders and shoulder with
sweaty people. My feet hurts, I'm heat exhausted. I don't
want to get clocked in the head, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, So I'm so glad we're going to do water
like the crowdsturpers.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, I'm so glad they back back in back in
my day, they didn't really They weren't really very good
about handing water out, and they didn't really have like
solid water stations like they did I think they had to.
But now they actually pass water out for free, and
like I've passed out a couple of times at some
festivals and it is not fun. So I am glad
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they are giving water out.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
They were trying. I will give them that they were trying.
Day one was way worse for the weather and how
heat bad it was with the heats so it was
super huge. It was only like eighty like high eighties,
but it was super humid, like ninety nine percent humidity
and the sun was burning on the blacktop. This was
completely flat festival grounds too, on blacktop and like the
rubber matting.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So they try to do with the best they could.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I will say this though about Warped Tour, if you've
ever been back in the day, I'm just gonna go
back to my video and let that play out, because
we're still doing stuff we were about.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I really got to ask, like, what is going on
with security just at shows lately? It feels like it's
a pandemic at this point.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I know this is our third story and like a
month and a.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Half and now they're launching.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Clock and people in the hell of water.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Hey guys, hey guys at the Echo States, can you
hand out some water?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Sure thing? Boss?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And they start like like doing pitch exercises. Yeah, they
like shuck it out.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They brought on like the local minor league baseball team
or something.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm glad that they're doing that too, because it's either
a couple of the most recent festivals I've been to.
They'll pass out water like in the first two rows,
like if you reach.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Them, if your front row, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, so if you're back further at least now you're
getting wat to just be vigilant all the time for
anything in any direction.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yes, geez, have an enjoyable weekend away. Walt, keep your
eyes open at all times. Do not blink.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So I'm blink six all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Millionaires. Open one of these stages and I have a
pause right here. The two sets of the bigger stages
were true festival stages, no more than many warped tour
stages that are lower and smaller like. No, these were
the full size, side by side stages you see at
a DWP or riot Fest or Shaky Knees or anything
like that same thing. So they definitely step that up too.
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A lot of the organization for Warped Tour, which I've
called a traveling circus for years, they finally had the
festival plan out for for three times a year.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
They did right.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
They actually plan things out much better for grounds, like
the actual grounds itself. I wasn't crazy about the venue itself,
but that's more of the location venue. This is one
of the acoustic stages, like at the very beginning of
the morning, Like when I got in, they'd been doing
this all day as well. Come in the shade, listen
to an acoustic stuff from different bands performing. It was nice, simple,
nice little idea for that as well. Actually get out
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of the shape, like get out of the weather, sit
down on the little astro turf.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
They needed more of that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Actually, they needed more areas like to sit down somewhere
and shade.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It was another issue.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it's another issue where shade is a luxury, But
that's a totally different argument. This is millionaires about to
perform again. Let me pull this down a little, and
that's knuckle puck. This is all cell phone footage right now,
just zooming in and out. I'm just trying to get
whatever I can. It was that little acoustic That acoustic
tent was cool.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, And they had that go on all both days.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
They had different bands perform and each time to go
back a little more a little less. The three sixty
footage is a lot better for obvious reasons, but just
something like that, you know, and like they were coming
down and shaking hands like each band.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Again, this was like noon, but they had this going
for hours, so that's like little touches like that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They thought things out.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
All the vendor boosts were pretty good, like all the
every band got their own stall, like ten foot stall.
All these different brands came like Emo's not Dead and
all this other things like labels like Hopeless Records have
their own stat like selling different vinyl, so they had
a lot of stuff for that as well. The big
shock to me the food and drink options were a
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lots of variety and not any more expensive than anywhere else.
In fact, maybe a touch a touch cheaper. And that's
a miracle because it's warped tour and it's DC.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Like you actually could theoretically get food so you're not
starving and getting dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Not only that wide variety, I'm talking everything from poke bowls,
took caesadillas, they had sushi. Anything you can think of
they had there, along with the other things like chicken
onut of stick, kebabs, chicken fingers, steak fries. They had
all that stuff, and they had every type of drink.
Ghost Energy was one of the big sponsors. You can
go anywhere and find Ghost Water beverages. VIP had their
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own like food too, like their own personal food in
the VIP areas. VIP areas were pretty spacious, like if
you paid for VIP, you actually did get something out
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I mean that it was nice.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So I'm super happy to hear about the food options
and the drink options because that's usually pretty scarce. It's pretcarce.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's pretty it sucks pretty bad. Also, like if it's
and if it's not a limited selection, it's the price
is jacked up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Or totally or the food is awful.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My wife Will and I will love to tell the
story of Sonic Temple in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Nothing against Sonic Temple.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
This was not on them, but like a plate of
gourmet mac and cheese, which was like thirty dollars for
a plate thirty and it was cold when we got it,
and it tasted like death. Yeah right, I yeah, yeah.
And it's just stuff like that. This was not the
problem here, So I have to give them credit for
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that too, because that works with warped tour. So in
an area where it was sold out and people were
constantly coming and going, it was crowded pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The crowd was older and more mature.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No one that I saw I was totally obnoxious or
a moron. Again, I was not their Day two. Maybe
that or I was not their Day one. Maybe that
happened day one. In the heat, people become idiots that
they get too much of the sun. But whatever, the
crowd was more patient.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
There was a story.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'm not going to show footage of this one before
we get going. One person did get hurt pretty bad
at the Wonder Years. They were crowdsurfing and apparently like
when he got close to the barricade, securities got ready
to catch him, but the people in the front row
launched him, and of course he fell down and hit
his head ambulance had ambulance.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Had to come.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I don't know what those people were thinking or what
happened with that ban that was not on security. That
one was not them. So yeah, right sucks. So were
there any other actual serious issues. Yes, here's some footage.
God see, it rained really hard during adiral set. The
weather was coming and there was a septic leak along
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with the sewage from all the porter potties right at
the entrance. Meaning if you got didn't leave early like
I did.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You had to ruin your shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This was not a maybe, This was not a ooh maybe,
I'll wait. You had to ruin your Converse and your
vans and everything else. No, look at it. Everyone looks
at the end of Warped Tour. Everything you see on
the ground there is accurate. You are actually looking at
what you think you are looking at.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh now, weird walk of shame.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The warped Walk of Shame. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's like it's like a vision. It's like God came
down and just gave you all. Yeah, you're no longer teenage.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, by the way, your parents rude buy any new
shoes for this one.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You're on your own.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, you like nostalgia.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Let's take it back to Woodstock in ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Let's take it back to when you were in diapers.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Oh you gross, Luke?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh oh was that too gross? What you're seeing on
screen isn't gross, but this was too gross. Also top
common on the post. I've never been so relieved to
have missed out on something. Warped Tour also announced it's
coming back to DC, same place, same weekend, just a
day ahead. I don't know how I feel like being
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at the same venue, Like if it what's the DNB area,
that's fine. I just don't know about the same venue.
Could have been better, could have.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Been worse, cheaper. If I'm being honest, it is like.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
The actual stadium RFK Stadium and the RFK Festival Grounds
is roughly the glorified parking lot in area around this rundown,
out of date stadium.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
If they don't have to like dismantle everything and then
and then like put it all back together a lot
away they.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Have, they do, and they have a month. They have
one month to get all that stuff to LA, which
is easy. A month is nothing for them. So I
hope that LA goes well. We've applied for it. Don't
know what's going to happen with that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That was my big Warp Tour reaction.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And to answer any questions that might come in the comments,
would I go again if it's a different lineup? Absolutely,
that was the one thing holding me back. This lineup
was not it for me, and I know that's a
personal thing. I'm sure other people loved it. The lineup
wasn't great and that really held it back. And I
still am bitter about just the whole, like the lineup
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not gonn announce till day of. We are past that,
but I give credit to where it's due. They finally
got organized and it was in backstage and things like that.
It was organized for sure. So to close out our
Warp Tour coverage, we are now going to hear from
Dan Popnmeier and Bowling for Soup show us what that
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jokes are. Let me know, Alex and Rowan if you
can hear. I'm damn Potherameier and I know these guys.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If that helps. That's right. I created Phineas and Firm
with my buddy Swampy. When I die, I want my
remains to be spread across Disneyland. Also, I don't want
to be cremated.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Actually I actually wrote this joke. Okay, okay, you ready, yes,
all right, knock, who's there? Poo poo, poo poo poo.
I heard it coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Have you ever tried to eat a clock?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It's very time consuming.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
So my wife and I we were deciding whether or
not we wanted a kid, and we decided we didn't
want it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And that's okay, but there are kids pretty bummed about it,
get it, but getting rid of their child.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
From my last comment, Alex, do not take notes.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Poh, I don't really unimpressed.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
To be fair, they were rings, so they were dad
joke ringers, their dads themselves, so you know they have
a kind of in their blood at this moment.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Any joke they say is a dad joke at that
point exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So versus joke was funny.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
It's yeah, yeah, I want to be I want my net,
my remains spread out cross.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, maybe that had imagined ride is really gonna get scary.
A severed hand, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh my god, it's just like it. But uh, they
could put Dan's severed head right next to Waltz.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh, I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, they keep that cryogetically frozen somewhere underneath Orlando.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, put Dan right alongside of them, and then when
technology comes in, we can reanimate. It's like they put
it on a robot body. You bring Dan back.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's like making It's the Futurama heads.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
They just keep the heads in jars of famous people,
so they just stay preserved forever.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, isn't that what they want to do with Walt.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's what he wanted to way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Apparently Download also happened this weekend, and from what I understand,
Download was a massive success, and big upgrades happened, and
a lot of big things happened, one of which sleep
Token proved everyone wrong that said they weren't ready to headline.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
They did just fine.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Not only was it sold out for night that night,
everyone apparently said it was great, the stage presence, everything,
it was done perfectly. They played more songs than they
did at rock em Park or rock em Ray, whichever
one it is in Germany. They did a lot. It
was one of the members of Korn that even said
sleep Token shut everybody up. And Korn also headlined Download
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night three for the first time, and everyone said Korn
is back and swinging. Cord made the announcement this week.
Also they are working on new songs. They have several
all ready to go, which is awesome to hear. Apparently
Download had a lot of things go right as well.
That weather miraculous. Lee was not nearly as bad as
past years. It was not mudfest like it usually is.
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That's a miracle for Download, So a lot of good
things happened for that. As we move on all the
different footage, all the different stuff that happened. Korn did
a great job, and it's kind of cool to see
Jonathan Davis doing better physically enough to start touring again.
For a while he was rough like physically after all
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the health scares he had over the past few years.
And again they're thirty years from their debut album and
now they're headlining Download and still getting that type of audience.
Say what you want about the new metal scenes. Some
of the bands did just fine.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know, Korn's first album is amazing reasons, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yep, they still got it. Green Day did their thing
even in another country. They made sure to call out
the Shenanigans that they disagree with in American politics. A
lot of others happened with Sex Pistols. They had to
shop the show multiple times because Frank Carter wanted people
riled up, which good for him. I mean, that's the
show you want to get riled up. I like Frank
Carter too, I met him in twenty seventeen. My favorite
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story about Frank Carter, who's now taking cover with the
Sex Pistols and doing their tour. When his song hit
the top ten of Billboard's rock charts in the US.
He got so excited he got drunk and tattooed the
number seven spelled out on his own neck like he
did it himself. That's a tough man. That's awesome. And finally, yeah,
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and finally, the last big thing that happened was the
debut performance of presidents.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I have things to say about it.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And I know Rowan has things, like he sent a chat.
I was catching up on this because again I was
busy with other stuff. But they had their big debut. Rowan,
would you like to give a quick rundown of your
thoughts of President's debut because there has been praise and
backlash in decent amounts.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
So, first of all, before I say anything about the
performance and stuff, let me clarify I do not think
the music is bad. But if I am being completely
honest and you are all free to agree or disagree
with me here, I feel like even when it came out,
it's fine, it's very but it's very basic, it's very
run by the numbers. Can we all can we collectively
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agree on that at the very least? Like I don't know,
I just didn't. It's not exciting. So but the reason
why I bring that up is because like when when
when the music was like that quality and they only
had like two to begin with, having their debut be
a download already kind of left a bad taste in
my mouth, Like I like it felt like it wasn't earned,
if that makes sense. So already it was just like
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a thing where it's like I'm wondering how the turnout
it's going to be and corn to all the footage,
people were like really hyped about it, and but I
can't really I don't really know if it's if you
could say it's because of the music that president has
made it so far, or it's just because that like
they like Charlie Simpson, who let's be real, it's the
Internet is convinced, it is entirely convinced that it's him
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under the mask.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Again, Charlie Sinson, I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Do not know who he is.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't have the dune dun dun sound effects. But
Alex just go dun dundun really quick and there we go.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But now getting to the performance itself, I watched it
with my buddies, and here's the thing. We just we
collectively agreed that they just they just didn't have good
stage presence. In my opinion, I mean, the president, if
that's what we're calling him, he was okay. First of all, though,
the mask looks like crap. I don't know what it is.
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It looks like a different mask than the ones in
the music videos, and it looks worse somehow. It does
lips like bright red and it looks so crap. It
looks like it looks like you try to get someone
to make a Carlo Kopia mask off of like Fight.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
From Spirit Hallow, from Spirit Halloween, the Discount one. Yeah,
like for the music videos, it works, but I don't think.
I don't know if that was the music video.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I'm convinced. I'm convinced a different mask is like the
lips like super ready, it looks even more cheap and yeah,
like but that's beyond the point. The backing band has
like no stage presence. They just stand there and there
really is nothing about like I was, there nothing interesting
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about their about like their image like I was.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
There's no backdrop, like no backdrop flag or like a
fake flag or something else in the background.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Is that's it?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, that's that's a little bit like general patent type
you know, like yeah, you know, just something like this
from the big band or see, we just thought of
good ideas that are super cheap to do, by the way.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Ideas too, because me and some of my other friends
that watched the footage with me, we're all in marketing,
and we were like thinking of like, oh yeah, maybe
have the backing band be dressed like this, just so
you have like a little bit more uniqueness to them,
so they're not just black jumpsuit, black mask and that
little arm band thing. Are they trying to go or
like a dictator type thing. I don't know, have.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
A bunch of fake soldiers come out for like one song,
you know, like fake art.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Or maybe have or at least give them rubber mass
and maybe say they're the Secret Service, or.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes, just little little touches that would not have cost
barely anything for for a group that has production, that
has a budget and a label willing to back them
a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
And then finally just the and just like the thing
that kissed me and my friends off the most is
the drummer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The drummer, for throughout much of the show uses a
trigger a trigger pad. And that's fine for for some
stuff because like you know, they're they have like special effects.
It's stuff you can't naturally make with a drum kit.
But then they program stuff in the trigger pad. They
program sounds that you can make with drums, Like they
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programmed a high hat with the with the pad, and
so he's playing that instead of just playing the high hat.
And it's stuff like that, and it looks so out
of sync when you focus on him and try to
listen to the drums, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Just like it looks so fake.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It looks like he's not playing the drums as.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
A non drummer. Alex, I don't know if you've ever
played drums or not. When you have a drum pad
with you. It's supposed to add to your arsal, not duplicate.
That's correct, Like what you want, yeah, what you want
the drugs, things that, Yeah, that you don't have on
an actual drum kit, or at least have other features
to extend what a drum kit is incapable of, not
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duplicate what drums you already have.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I'm sure a program more, but that's an odd choice.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So we're all that's we're all in music, Me and
my friends, like especially my best friend who is a
who is a drummer. He went off on that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's just like.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Look, it's like either like I understand, like it's not
gonna like I understand you want to try and make
it sound like the record, But I mean like when
you're playing a high hat or a snare through a
trigger and you're not playing the snare and high hat
in front of you, it looks so like lifeless in
my opinion, it's just like there's no soul behind it.
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It looks so just dead. And that's like that was
just the biggest reason why I just didn't like this.
People were going so hype about like this show, I
I commented on a single reel on instagram of like
someone of someone's like footage of the show and I
and all I said was mid and and like so
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many president.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Fans might as well just set up a fanity at
that point to some of those.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, no they I'm not gonna I'm not gonna reiterate
what they said explicitly to me, but let me just
say they a fair amount of them told me to
do something that is just anatomically impossible.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I'm about that, but no, Yeah, it's just like a
thing where it's just like it's at a point now
where I and here's the thing. I don't mind the songs.
It just feels like people are more hype because they
know who the guy, who the guy behind president is,
and they're just more fans of him, rather than judging
the songs on their own, which in my opinion, are
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just very by the numbers, very basic. If you if
you played a song for me and I did not
know who who presidents were to begin with, you just
played the song for me blind, I would have said,
this is like bad omens or something like that. There's
nothing unique about it, even the lyrics themselves. It's it's
all about like there's a lot of religious imagery. But
I'm like thinking, like, if you're gonna be president, I
want like I want political stuff or I expect political stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
They're definitely definitely filling the what do people like in
rock and metal? Right now? We'll take some of that.
We'll take some of that. Takes some Okay, boom, this
is what we got back.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, that's why I'm like, that's why I was kind
of upset with them debuting a download because it doesn't
feel earned well.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And that's the thing we talked about that Right when
presidents started, you know, we started hearing about this new
Masked band. That was one of the first things we
all said was industry plant or just somebody who has
so much money that they can buy their way to
the top from the gets, which is exactly what this
feels like. It doesn't matter how they got here. They
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have enough support or backing, whether it's coming from within
or from so you know, the campaign managers hurt, doesn't
matter they you know what I'm saying, Like, they just
totally they didn't work for this, and a lot of
people are really upset about that as well, because we
all know you have to play in the garage for
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a while, you have to play to your mom in
the bar, you know, a couple Tuesday nights as you
work it up, and this they didn't have to do
any of that, and so it feels like they don't
really have that extra soul level of a band that
works their way to get to this download stage point.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Again, they had like two songs to begin with. I
part of me was expected. It was like saying, like,
are they really only going to play two songs? And
then dip I will say if I could say one
positive thing though, They dialed back on the vocal effects
on the guy, and I am so thankful for that,
because honestly, it is egregious.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
In the studio recordings.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
The new songs they played, they're fine, especially since he's playing.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
It's a lot more of it's just his raw voice.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
And I hope they keep it to that, because you know,
it's just like a thing where it's like I shouldn't
I shouldn't be like dreading a studio version of a
live song just because I'm worried about how it's going
to be mixed compared to it.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We'll find out, because I'm sure President's gonna have new
stuff popping off now that they already performed it live.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Presidents. Yeah, music is not done.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
But I do want to say one final thing before
we move on to the other stories. After our festival coverage,
once again, Download did do extremely well. I'm jealous, and
not only that Download has once again proven that European
festivals will always be better than you American festivals because
luxury porter partties the toilets that download We're mad yesterday,
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proper locking cubicles with a seat and electronic flush and
syncs with soap, water and mirrors. To those listening from
outside the nation, outside the United States, we don't have
those luxuries at our festivals, not even close. Do you
remember what we had at our festivals? We had poop river.
Do you think those were from the luxury ones?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, they are not.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Once again, the American festival this weekend had poop river.
The European one had arguably luxury. What goes to Europe
on this one? So we now move on to We'll
try to be brief about this one because I know
we went along with Warp Tour, Alex Rowan, you both
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were aware of what happened years ago, Courtney Love made
a big statement about how crowdsurfing and bands our fans
get way too far when the band members come out
to the crowd thinking they do it whatever to a woman,
the same thing happened as sleep theory singer boy. Was
that not what I was expectingly the same He made
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a statement of the crowd and then did it as well.
Whoever it was, I thought it was okay to finger
blast me and grabbed my blank and rub blank.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I have to censor so much and do all that
extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
After I kindly turned her out and looked her in
the face and said stop, and she kept doing it.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
You should have expected me to kick you in your jaw, now.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I know. If you said, if you sh somebody, you
ought to be like, you are opening the door to
being like assaulted back, or you know, it's like you
expect some.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
That is self defense.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
If you already say no and it's that aggressive, yeah,
that's self defense at that point. That's just like knee
jerk reaction.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
But sweet mercy.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, there's apparently footage of this online that was going
around and stuff while he was crowdsurfing and stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But maybe take that down. If you're a fan of
sleep theory.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Maybe I don't know, give the guy a little bit
of respect, but that's just.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Me, who's gross. Don't do that to anybody. I don't
care if it's a man or a woman or non binary.
You don't touch people that that's gross.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Gender should not matter in terms of the aggressor and
the victim.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Like one Am I, it's just like one of the
infamous photos I had from Welcome to Rockville twenty sixteen
when six Am was performing NICKI Six's band, when Guns
and Rotis was on, or when Motley Cruez on Hiatus
was a fan growth a woman body surver, like full on,
not just copying of feel, but like grabbing hard, you
know bad, And I like, I turned that like blurred
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out her face, introd that as like as like a
big PSA to everyone.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
It still happens.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
And I have never understood the thought logic of going
to a festival or concert but gooning so hard. They're like, oh, yeah,
I'm a cop of feel on these sweaty crowd surfers.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, that's what they do. And I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
If you had it sucks that that's the case.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
But like seriously, like, go ahead, Alex, Yeah, I do too, Alex.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
If you're what the I was gonna say, If you
need more of a deterrent to not CrowdSurf these days,
this is one I don't want to get.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
No yeah by anyone, especially a group of sweaty, yangry
standers in the dark in a venue where you can't
get help.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Well, thank you, all right, I dropped on my head
and I don't want to get felt up.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Crowdsurfing retires, crowdsurfing worth it? Really?
Speaker 1 (43:24):
What's the benefit? Tell me the benefit? At this point,
what do you get out of it?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Just like a bucket list thing. She's like, oh, yeah,
I could say I did it once.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Sure, Yeah, you want to do it once? That's it.
Cut it off. After that. There you go.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
All right, We're gonna get serious here. We joke around,
we laugh at stuff. We try to make a light
of some of this stuff where we know he's okay.
This is where and where Alex is going to back
be up on this. We found out this past week
that Amigo the Devil literally lost everything, and I have
the link to his GoFundMe in the description for this video.
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When I say everything, I mean all his old albums
and records and like notes and all the old recordings.
He had everything in his home.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
He is.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
He and his wife and this is really going to
be dark lost their dog in this fire. Literally everything gone.
He had like a gut wrenching post about it, and
he's trying to stay positive, but like there was a
merciless night and he they have this GoFundMe. They've raised
a lot of money. It's not going to replace everything yet,
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not even close. But at the same time, if you
have a dollar, you can donate to this man, to
him and his wife who lost literally everything. It will help. Alex.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Can you you've met up a me ego? Correct?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Can you go ahead? Make sure you're go ahead.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
He's an amazing guy. He is He is always the
nicest dude to chat with. He is humble, he's kind,
he is super super sweet. He's genuinely not just you know,
oh yeah, he's such an He's really one of the
nicest guys that I've ever met in the rock slash
metal world. It sucks, super dard.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
This is the type.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Imagine the type of pain that can be like your
house burns down with all your possessions it's yes, honestly,
like even if you get them, even if you get money,
it's like, how do you just like you can't just replace.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
All that, and like it says, they're like the family
member posts of this. Everything is gone, like collectibles and memories, instruments,
recording equipment, cherished arts, him and his wife's clothes. Yeah,
just everything you can imagine. And yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
There the loss of Kobe, their dog. I can't even imagine.
That sucks so hard. I am so sorry too, amigo, and.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So again links in the video description. I'll put it
in the pin comment tomorrow when I update everything. A
dollar if you have that, I promise it will go
to a better place than whatever you're gonna smell spend
that dollar on, because this is a family, a couple
that needs something, you know. So I know it sucks
to have all the down talk and stuff like that sometimes.
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And I joke about trying to be positive when it's hard.
This is something I did not want to ignore. There's
like this needed to be pointed out, so please do that.
We move on to what sounds like shockingly bad news
but does have good a good outlook of optimism. We
found out that with Hate Breed's upcoming tour. Their guitarist
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has to exit finding out he has a brain tumor.
Now that sounds like a nightmare. Turns out he knows
already that it's benign. They caught it super early and
he should be okay. He almost had a stroke at download,
like right after the performance, but again everything should be okay.
They're very optimistic. They found out everything will be okay
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with him after surgery. He'll get treatment, but they're not
as worried about it. That's a huge sigh of relief
of what could have been fatal.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
So, yeah, it's a bummer about the tour, but at
least they caught it when they did correct.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah, and it's more important it is.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And again I know, like they did download, they were
going to do some states with Lamb of God and
things like that as well. At least he knows now.
Catching it early is the biggest thing you can do
and that's what matters. So you know what a little
bit of positivity for that. It sucks, but at least
it's there and at least he knows now and he'll
be okay. So we go on next to I want
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to make sure I got the right one. Two other
things of good news, one more uplifting and optimistic good
for you, and another one of a nice cheery moments.
Nuclear Blast, a big metal record label with a whole
lot of big bands, said goodbye to twitter X. That's
huge when you have a marketing and publicity machine like
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that and all this following and they say screw this,
it's not worth it. That takes a big statement because
they are like one of the few names in like
the music world that does get money and press an
attention off of that nightmare site. And even they're saying
it's not worth it again, sticking to your ground. Good
for them, like it.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
I like it when somebody with a lot to lose
from something or like I don't care, I don't support that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I agree and I I did it, and I have
small potatoes. You know they're doing it, and if they're
gonna be fine, that shows everyone else can.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
It's it's it's just interesting because like at this point,
especially when you are such a big industry like Nuclear Blasts,
you kind of just have it just because you know.
It's because like you definitely your business, so you you
just need to reach it out to be as many
people as you can.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, I agree, so good for them. And then finally
we got the best news of all. We hear wedding
bells in the most beautiful way because Danny Filth of
Cradle of Filthy gott to ring all the way from
Mordor and propose to a school friend on stage. And
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he said it in the growley voice.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
And kissing with.
Speaker 4 (49:04):
The makeup on, and his knowmantic and.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
His pinhead bassist is there with them. I'm sorry if
that was deafening, but I wanted to play the audio
on it. I'm genuinely happy. Good for them, Gretchen, I'm
sorry I did not propose like that. I apologize. I
know it's not the best proposal I gave you, but
we can't all have the best. Okay, Danny Filth has
that now and everyone listening her name is Missus Filth
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to you, so.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Mm hmm, congratulations mister and Missus Filth.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
Yes, I hope Baby Filth, if it ever happens, will
be at Baby actually in a cradle, not a Filth. Yeah.
You got where I was going. Yeah, you got where
I was going.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
So they actually just asic cradle.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Honey, we have to do this it's the name of
the band. It's been building up to this. Just one photo,
just one photo in the dirty, filthy cradle.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Right, everyone at the bar. The bar has been set.
If you're not proposing in harsh vocals, you're not proposing
correctly anymore.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
It's true, right, Rare.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
So I know it's been a lot of stuff. We
now need to keep going with our upcoming tours and albums.
A lot got announced a lot, Alex, you had homework.
What is your upcoming tours for That got announced this week?
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Some good ones from Trivium. Massive North American tour with
Ginger and Harriet. That's gonna be awesome. Nail Bomb just
announced a summer European tour. ZK Wife and Fiend Without
a Face just announced a UK tour. We've got Tea
is Legend. They just announced some US states celebrating twenty
years of Suck Out the Poison twenty years. That's nuts,
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classic rock fans. Jeff Taate announced the final twenty twenty
six US tour celebrating Queen's Reich Operation Mind Crime. Yep
Bit for a King just announced North American tour with
Make Them Suffer, Spite and one fifty six Silence, and
I'll be announced a North American tour with Dying Wish
and Miss Pain.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I'm very, very excited for this one.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
It's gonna be awesome again. And of course those scattered
dates with Evan Essence Hell yeah, and Chimera bringing back
their Christmas show for the first time since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Chimera Christmas.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Holidays.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
All right, there's a lot of good stuff I got
announced this week. Good variety in that, especially if you're
a metal fan.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
So you know what, go get those tickets.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
If you're getting those tours, they'll all be posted on
the socials already. Rowan, What albums do we have coming
up for June twentieth, twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (51:47):
We have, First of all, we have Bad Flower with
No Place Like Home. Badflowers like they're a pretty decent
rock band, Like it's a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
They have a few, they have a few decent hits. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
We have See with an insatiable violence like so that's.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
The if I'm correct, that's the.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Brutal technology and depth. Yeah, from French Canadians. So it's
a lot friendlier and snoodier.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yes, we have Malevolence with where only the truth is spoken.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Yeah, And finally this is the one I'm most excited for.
We have Ailstorm with the Thunderfist Chronicles. Ailstorm is just
like we talked about this when Jay was on. It's
like that's the pirate metal band, right.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's like that's just like that's just fun. Get been
around for years. They're at our rock or Flop folder
as well, so you know what.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I know, that's how that's how we talked about then
they came up there.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, it's intentionally goofy, as pirate metal should be.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
If you're taking pirates, Yeah, you have.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
The gimmick and you go all the way with it
and you're just you're just being like, yeah, you know,
this is our thing. We're just here to have fun.
We're not trying to be like too serious. Just go
listen to some pirate metal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Song of the Week this week is Orbit Cole's Death
Above Life. It came out on just It came out
technically last week. It was just after the podcast came out.
It's heavy, it's got great rifts. This is a big
one from Orbit Culture. Their new stuff is coming out
later this year on my birthday. By the way for
those of you planning ahead on October third. So very
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cool to see that. I'm a big fan. When I
saw Orbit Culture on tour with Slipknot, they were opening
good stuff. Check this song out. It'll be pinned in
the description and the comments. Blah blah blah. Did I
catch everything in this nonsense and this mess because it
was a crazy week?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Did I get everything?
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Think so?
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I think so too. Okay, Okay, we now go to
super chats. Then we're gonna have at least one round
of festival rock for flop. We have two, and actually,
because someone renewed their membership and did a super chat,
I'll add that to three, so I'll have three rounds.
We'll do this very quickly. How they were rock and
Moves with title renewed his membership and did a super
chat saying I'm glad he enjoyed it, and hopefully Crash
Thompson will as well come the next rock colisseum as
(53:59):
a definitely screams Crash to me, solid pro medal. I'm
not kite positive on what all that meant, but thank
you for the super chat and Crash is great. So
also from Osh Pitt Messiah like the common already read.
I'll say it again because it was gold. Someone at
Warped toward twenty twenty five is making a killing selling
advilla and earplugs. Alex, if you want to make some
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extra cash, if we get you to a warp toward
Long Beach, bring like your mini packets, like individual packets,
and put a rock logo on.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Them, You're gonna make a killing.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
You're gonna come out of there with like a lot
of cash, like you just robbed a bank.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Son I was already thinking it. I'm down for it.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Good, good, good, Okay, We're gonna make this a business opportunity.
That said, yes, all right, Alex and Rowan, are you
ready to book some festivals?
Speaker 3 (54:46):
We've never not been ready.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
Honestly, some weeks after how bad they were in the
following weeks. Sometimes we're a little precautious, so we shall see.
Each week when we hit a certain light goal, we
play a game called wrestler Rock or Flop. We booked
four Bank in the Middle of Nowhere radio station festival
and actually ask the audience and debate if we would
go to it or not. We're in the business to
make money and we want to make sure we make
a profit for these little radio station festivals in the
(55:10):
middle of nowhere. This will be as I get the
right thing going. Can you guys still see my screen? Y? Okay,
can you see the folder?
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Awesome? All right, We're gonna go for our first one.
What should our first one be? Names? Any suggestions for
our first festival? What is would be? Names?
Speaker 4 (55:29):
Poo Pooh Festival, the poo Festival.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
We gotta sell poo. We gotta work in like the
Warp Tour.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
Aangle that was warped tour, poo poo.
Speaker 3 (55:41):
How about not a teenager festival.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Age millennial fest, advil Fest, advil Fest. There we go
sponsored by Advil. Here we go, advill Fest. If they
have monster energy fests, the next age group would be
advill Fest. It's perfect, okay, bad number one for advil Fest.
Nine Inch Nails a strong start Man. That's huge, and
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they just had their tour like start off and they're
playing old stuff too, so you know what, ad Milfest
looking strong. It's kind of weird to because I have
that photo exact photo behind me right now too, so
it's kind of just looking at see it. Yeah, well,
you know, perfect timing. Number two Baby Metal yes for me.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Get someone really crap.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
This is pretty fun so far. So number three Breaking Benjamin,
I'm fine with that and it's fine, you know what.
And number four Memphis May Fire. There's no reason I
would not go to this, come on, you know, not
one in that reverse order that we're shown Memphis May Fire,
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than Breaking Benjamin, then Baby Metal, then Nine inch Nails.
Speaker 3 (56:54):
Like one of the perfect festivals for me.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
This is at least one Yeah, audience, please, he's type
in yes or no in the chat if you would
go to this or not. Honestly, this is perfect for
Advil fest too. It does have that ramp up for
a little bit older, not super old, but a little
bit older.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
I think this.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
Yeah, we've got nine inch Nails doing all of their
old stuff.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Now, yeah, what did they played?
Speaker 4 (57:16):
They played recently. That's what I get for the first time.
That's what I thirty four years.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
If you piggy for the first time, it's something like
at least twenty something years.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
So yeah, they're definitely doing the.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
Hits and getting the old stuff, which is awesome, So
I'm happy about it.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
Lots of yeses. Come on, this is an obvious slam dunk.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
Here we go like two for like breaking Betaman, Memphis
may fire so like.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Seriously, tyler Fest coming up because he did a super
chat Andy redeed his membership. Thank you again for doing that.
The memberships help you, Tony gets you early access with stuff.
Here we go tyler Fest number one. You just did
breaking Benjamin Man, he's coming up a lot. I believe
that's Hinder. Not a great start for tyler Fest. Number two.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
A j r.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Oh, we are in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Okay, I don't know what the market's going for here
for Poplar Bluff, Missouri, for tyler Fest literally middle of
nowhere of its southern Missouri. But number three, bring me
the horizon, Bring me the horizon with a j R
And Hinder. It's a weird mix of bands and fan bases.
(58:25):
Number four we already had nine ch nails. Sorry, trends
a perfect circle.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
Well damn, but this is now on, now on torn.
Speaker 4 (58:38):
I think we sell. We spent all of our money
on the last two headliners.
Speaker 1 (58:42):
Sure did, and that's all we could get for the
other two to Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Speaker 2 (58:45):
That absolutely makes sense.
Speaker 5 (58:50):
Do I I'll go for the headliners? Yeah, I mean,
wonder I can tolerate a j R. Would would really
be like merch Like a.
Speaker 2 (58:59):
Man like I can half off Hinder a j R.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
I can like go hurry it up, but then I'm
happy a perfect circle and bring me their eyes and
then I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
You know, if I could, just if I could tough
those two out, Yes, gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
Okay, Okay, so yes, it's not not by anything. He's
a perfect show, but it leans towards yes audience. Okay, yes,
with an asterisk, I'll go for a bring me their
eyes and in a perfect circle, yes or no?
Speaker 2 (59:23):
In the chat.
Speaker 1 (59:24):
If the other two open first, then I will arrive late.
I mean if you're paying a ticket. Yeah, well yeah,
we're not closing with Hinder.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Come on now bring me Ollie.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
Sykes is not going to open for a for Hinder.
That that does doesn't work that way. Now have a
PC and b MT highlight. I'll show up late, everyone says,
I'll just show up late. Yes, I can tolerate the
modern Hinder sound. Yeah, okay, and Tyler's it's his fest.
I'm going to be late, the story.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Of my life.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
But yes, you know what second half, Yes, barely barely
got that one. All right, Finally we have mash Pitfest
because it's moshpit Messiah. Do you want to do mosh
pitfester messia fests because massia Fest makes sell like a
Christian festival, and I don't know that's what's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
So we can potentially screw ourselves over by just having
the most non moshed.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Pand calm bands.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Yeah, Moshpitfest Number one Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
I No, never mind, we're good bred.
Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
It definitely is the correct terminology and label.
Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Number two.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Tool, Yes, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
That's not a mosh pit band, but it definitely fits
the vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Number three boy, the budget for Moshpitfest is massive. Yahosa.
Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Number three jelly Roll, well, that's a that's a switch.
I actually know jelly Roll Olympus. It probably would do
something weird together. So yeah, at number four death Clock, I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Going it sounds like we had millions of dollars and
we were like, what can we do tomorrow with these
millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
We can this show?
Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yes, Like, okay, we'll pay, but you got to pay
a stubble fine, money's no objects and that's the only bands.
Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
We could get.
Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Okay, I'll say this is big.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Yeah, so I'll say this. It will sell tickets. People
will come to this for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
We get the country crowd coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
And the limp biscuit crowd and they always play nice
together and then tool.
Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
And death clock's the opener. Huh yes, oh go, I
think it sounds fine.
Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Yeah, yes, I would go. I don't know what I'd
do with myself for a lot of the show, but
I would go. So this is this is a this
is a Dton, Ohio festive. I've ever heard one, just.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Middle of Ohio. Nothing else for miles. We got three
for three. It got a little weird, but it got
three for three. Everyone agree, Okay, I think that worked
pretty well.
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I thank you guys for stickulate. We started a couple
of minutes late. Thank you guys so much for hanging
with us, for all the coverage and things like that.
We are so happy to have you here every Wednesday evening.
We'll be back next Wednesday evening. As well as I
stopped stream or stop sharing my.
Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Scream with these three tube there we go.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I did it or smooth enough. Thank you guys so much.
Please keep leaving comments. We'll try to reply to you guys.
Thank you so much for all your advice, your suggestions,
your comments, your engagement share the links.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
It does help a ton.
Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
I am going to have some upcoming content coming on
the Heavies YouTube channel. For those who are not aware,
I got picked up by the phone company Heavies. They're
going to start making their own original content more that's
coming this Friday, so you'll hear my voice and see
my face on that channel as well. I'll share out
the links in the same place as Alex. Do you
have anything you'd like to part with? I think we're good, Rowan,
how about you? Uh yeah, okay, thank you guys so much.
(01:03:05):
And now Alex, you were able to get rowing on
the last week's joke. However, the bar has been set
high by Bowling for Soup and Dan Bob and Meyer.
Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
No. We we need to. We need to have a conversation,
me and them, gentlemen. We need to. We need to
duke it out.
Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
I think I wonder if they're gonna are they gonna
be at Long Beach?
Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
I think so yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
I want to say I think so too. I don't
know if the Dan Bob, the Bowling for Soup should be.
Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Bowling for soup should be Yeah, yeah, so that we
may have to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Yeah, I heard of you three. Yeah, I heard of
you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
I hope you guys are trying to do I heard
you guys trying to one.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Yeah, come on, let's go. You're gonna be bowling for
your teeth if you keep that up.
Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Oh my god, nothing I go. I'm like, see you
guys want to fight?
Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
All right, Alex, what is your joke for the week?
Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Most bald people still own a comb? Okay, it just
can't part with it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Is your face is ros leaving, So, in fairness, if
he left, that's a good sign.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
We don't know if he left. It is he just
screamed into his pillow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
I could have been laughing as well, though he might
have just laughed into his pillow.
Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
I think that means I win.
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
We think Rowan, Were you laughing into your pillow? Because
that's what it looked like.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Did it sound like a laugh?
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Yeah kinda. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. Someone said,
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Who was throating scalding coffee at Alex.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Yikes.
Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
I think that means is that my joke was hot.
Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Oh goodness, like hauffe.
Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Oh that was just for that one.
Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
What it was a hot joke?
Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Oh gosh, person slapping you or offering high fives.
Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Just repeated high fives.
Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
It was so good, it was so good.
Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Everything's great. Those are those are rounds of applause for me.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Reminder if if the punchline makes you want to go
good night everybody, it's not a dad joke. It's an
uncle joke. What pizza ice cubes? Oh you got a
drum shot? I mean I don't do my hair like ever. Well, uh,
jury's out on this one. Um yeah, jury's out on
(01:05:51):
this one. Oh someone said game over haha. So I
think some people are liking it in the chat. So
you know what, we'll take that as it is. So
thank you all so much. Oh man, someone just threw
a whole barage of things that you you're getting the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Stick at his mouse crabb b.
Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I don't know how you throw a bee, tomato, strawberry skull.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Banjo.
Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Approval, I win he approves from a husband of Cassandra.
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Oh someone sole waffles. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Waffles thank you. And I've had a lot of worst stinkers. Okay,
I will not take this as my work.
Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
It's not the bottom. I will not agree with that.
It's not a bad it's not a bad joke. It's
a bad joke.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
What oka say, like we got to do like uh,
I mean like we're coming up on a year of
this show now. Honestly, I mean like we gotta do
like some sort of like thing where it's just like
the best or worst of of Alex's dad jokes.
Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Okay, you're this.
Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
All the podcasts are available to be clipped on YouTube
if someone wants to do the dirty work and clip
all the podcast dad jokes into one super thing, like
a super cut.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
You go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
We will not pay you, but we will give you
a shout out.
Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Yeah, we'll give you a shout out. We'll link to
the video all that stuff too. My wife, she said,
someone throw waffles my way. Yeah, well, you know, thank
you so much, Gretchen. I don't have waffles. I'm sorry.
I disappointed you without giving you the Danny Filth proposal,
and now I can't get you waffles.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Man, What a husband.
Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
She's like, get in the kitchen now.
Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
She's just sadly sitting in the dark in the kitchen. Oh,
good night, everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
We'll have more terrible music news and hilarious dad humor
next week.
Welcome back to the podcast that rocks weekly, podcast that
talks about news in the world of rock, metal, alternative
and everything in between.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
My name is Luke, my name is Alex, and my
name is Rowan.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I hope you are all doing well on this Wednesday
evening that we're recording June eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
If we get to fifty likes.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
On YouTube, which we're broadcasting live, we will play one
round of Festival Rock or Flop, where we book a
random festival in a totally random place. Last week was ridiculous.
There was at least one crap band and a really
good lineup that it all worked out pretty well. I
added more bands to the fold of this week because
I saw a few more at Warp Tour, and that's
going to be the main thing from our discussion Alex
(00:41):
and Rowan no pieces of my Warped Tour situation, but
this is going to be something different, Alex said. Rowan
reserved my input that I gave you, like a little
bit on the weekend and stuff. What have you heard
outside of what I thought from Warp Tour? If anything,
I want, I'm surprises, surprises.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I watched Slar su Prevail's set list because they played
song three, which has become just like a new favorite
of mine from them, and it just like they didn't
They didn't disappoint Honestly, it was epic.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Okay, then sounds good and Alex you said surprises.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Fun surprises. I was happy to see Avril Levine and
Derek Quindley, you know, get together.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That was fun and I got footage of that too.
They got a long history, but it's been friendly for many,
many years, you know, which is a rare feats with
their situation as well. So if that's something positive that
happened on Sunday night. So that being said, thank you
so much everyone in the chat room. Thank you as well,
Sapphire for wishing everyone. I have a Meaudi with the
Caddy motes. See that's how you do the emojis properly
(01:44):
in the chat root everyone, it's polite and friendly.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You're not throwing anything at people. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Also, someone just said tornado watch while we're watching this.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Geez geez, imagine we just lose them through the torno.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah yeah, Tornado siren. I got to hear the Warped
tour recap.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's like Twister the house, just like.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Like the old worzard of Os footage with Dorisy Dorothy's
house in the air flying away.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh yeah, I know. Yeah, and there's like a bike
just outside.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Attention to the sirens.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, that's that's that takes precedent even I understand, I
get it. Okay, you can again, you can catch up
later if you have to. A tornado is a good excuse.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So he's a good excuse. That is better than a
doctor's note afterwards.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So who's ready for some warped tour footage, not just photos,
straight up nitty gritty in the deep footage, because that's
what I got for everybody.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
While I'm discussing, I'm going to be sharing this. Yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Roan had his hand.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Up while I'm talking about it. I'm gonna share my
screen and make sure I get this right. Share screen
for everyone. Well, bam, I hope I did that right.
Can you see my monitor?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Because I think I get the wrong one. Yeah, totally,
I totally did. I almost mess that up.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now it should be good.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Okay everyone, what you're about to see is a mute
of about seven or so minutes of straight up footage,
and I'll be discussing things as they go on, I'll pause,
I'll replay whatever's wanted. I'll talk about things at length.
I have other clips to show from what happened at
RFK Festival Grounds in.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
June fourteenth and fifteenth, Just kidding, fifteenth I ended up
not going on the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
DC was a straight up mess this weekend. When I say.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Everything was shut down in DC, they were anticipating much
more like with the paraded stuff that didn't happen, but
they closed down so many exits and entrances to highways.
There were so many detours. People were not getting into
the first day of Warp Tour until around four pm.
And when you have a festival that's infamous for not
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showing you the schedule till you get there, that's a
bit of a problem. When I find out scal a
band I love, opens up at noon on day one
and literally people don't even have a chance to get
in on time, it kind of puts a sour taste
in people's mouth. Great, Yeah, it's not great. And also
the heat wave sucks. I saw someone make a comment
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about I found out what heat stroke was at Warp Tour. Oh,
you found out if you were on day one and
we warped tour this year. The heat was rough. Also,
it was mostly on black top, true warp tour fashion.
Oh yeah, so that was day one. I'm just going
a recap of what I've known and stuff. I will
not be showing footage a machine gun Kelly closing out
the night doing a cover of Googoo Dolls Iris, because
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I love you too much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I thank you for that. I didn't even know he
did that, and I know now what to avoid.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You're gonna try to bruin the goo Goo dolls? Why
why that before?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He's covered a lot before, a lot anyway, covered a
lot recently, Yes, yes, anyway, So it surprised me at
this point. Day two got there early. Was it nearly
as jam packed and as chaotic for DC? Even though
it was still a little rough, All the closed exits
were still a bummer and tumultuous weather was coming and
I'll show you soon. It was overcast and sprinkling all
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day until the very end where the flood started. What
you're seeing on screen right now, there's gonna be no
sound for the first seven minutes of this, so it's
just gonna be me talking and talking to you guys,
and I'll let me pull chat back up so I
can see what you guys are doing and asking stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I made it through. Spring is the new summer.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, clearly spring Spring just doesn't exist. So this is
between looking at two of the side stages, at one
of the many merch rows on the left and right of.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Each screen, or all the vendors.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
There were labels there like Hopeless and Thriller Records and
other stuff selling their own albums. Each band got their
own merch booth. This is the band Boys Like Girls,
and this is with my into three sixty. I got
a little higher for this one and decided to just
take a little look see out and show you the
big crowd. These were the main stages right here. So
it was a sold out show, true sellout. Even on
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day two, when Day one and Day two had wildly
different lineups, it was still packed. They succeeded with that.
This was the smallest, the two smallest stages. On one
of those on the far side. This was Cliff Diver.
You'll notice something right away. The audience is definitely the
same audience from ten years ago, just ten years older.
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It's not as riled up kids running around. It's just
everyone kind of jiving and having a good time. Some
of these people are probably burnt out from the day before.
But this is the one thing I have to applaud.
They put the half pipe and they they had three
demos like one at one thirty, one at four, one
at seven, and they had all these people doing all
these different things. And they put it perfectly between two
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sets of stages, so they had the two main stages
the half pipe and then two other stages. Like it
was like the perfect barrier so that way people from
both GUIDs could see you look in and it also
added to help with the sound barrier between the stages.
They nailed everything about the half pipe demo perfectly, and
they did so much that they had to. They had
Olympians there, they had a bunch of other stuff. They
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were doing promos and giveaways. This is the A plus
part of this. They did way better with the half
pipe demos and showing all this than past all the
past workers I've seen where you didn't even know it
was there or they weren't even doing anything on it.
So it was fun for that, I know. Yeah, And
they had skateboarders, skaters, Bikers BMX. They had a lot
of stuff. I have more stuff too. This was knuckle
(07:50):
Puck in the very back. I was right in front
of one of the pits, telescoped up for that. Again,
this was one of the main stages. This was one
of the few hits that I saw that actually had
some movement. Again, you look at the pit older crowd there.
There was a lot of ibuprofen and ben Gay going around.
Monday morning, I will say knee bases. If there is
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not one guid dress as Jesus, I know it's yeah.
Especially at DC, this is one of the smallest stages.
A lot of people are saying Sophie Powers kind of
stole the show for what she did. She's the one
that went on American Idol and trolled them with her audition,
and she had a great set. She had a lot
of energy. She was really fun, so she definitely knows
what she's doing. She's like kind of that type of
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artist and character. There's the zoom out for me with
a through sixty going back in and this was another
punk band more rning on Emo who just came out
and started playing to have screwed. I'm gonna come out
there with the crowd mash pit Massiah, well done. I'm
reading your chat now because it's perfect. Someone that warped
toward twenty twenty five is making a killing selling Advillain earplugs. See,
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a lot of people were giving earplugs for free, like
a lot of merch places like merch tens. They're giving
ear plugs for free. Is just like promo stuff smart
nice advil. No, you had to pay top dollar for
sunscreen and advill At some of those moosese top dollar.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So single use of course.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh yeah, the little like mini packs, yeah on single Yeah,
the airport absolutely, this was what would suggestion with sweet
pill they had a little mini pit on the side stage.
They were fun like it started heavy and then the
guitar started tapping, going like and that was the first
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song like it said a good vibe and they had
a good crowd for the side stage too. It's like
at no point was nothing going on. I will say this,
at no point also whereas everyone at one stage there
was a lot of people just sit around doing nothing.
And this is where I'm gonna pause it right here.
This is a good place to pause it. The biggest
detractor for me from what I saw and I had.
(09:54):
This is my own opinion. I'll see if I can
pull it up live while I'm doing all these shenanigans.
It was the lineup for DC. It was lackluster in
my opinion, and that's what set things back. The show
sold out months before the lineup was posted, and I
remember talking to both fans, vendors people in the back
saying DC had the weakest lineup and it kind of
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is reflecting a little bit with everything going on, and
that's rough. I don't know how else to get around
saying that I felt that way when I saw it
all happen, you know, So I know we've talked about
the lineups and stuff before as well. I'll try to
show it on screen really quick in a very small manner.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
If you guys can see that.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Zozo, I'm working on it, doing things live and work.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's big enough. At no point do I say it's
the worst lineup I've ever seen. It's absolutely not. But
it's not great, and I don't know if it warrants
the best warped tour of the three. It doesn't having
And I'm gonna get to this point later. Having machine
gun Carelly headline Night one after warp Tour, has spent
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years trying to distance themselves from the many many many
accusations of child predators and band accusations. When machine Gun
Kelly has had many many accusations and proof and state
recorded statements of him going after young women.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Not the best image.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I now go before I go, Yeah, I go now
before one other thing. The woman Seene, queen who did
a great thing, gotta find it. She has a song
called eighteen plus dedicated to all those Warped Tour bands.
She made this before Warped Tour happened. Warped Tour told
her she cannot put that song on the Warped Tour CD.
They were selling on site like they always do well.
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She had performed at live at Warptur anyway, she said,
go screw yourself. I would like to say congrats for
standing to ground, seeing queen that took up guts.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Did they like, did they cut the show or anything
like that? Did they do like an heat damage control?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
They did not, from what I understood.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
She closed out one of the side stages that night,
so it didn't really matter to them, probably, But yeah,
I say, yeah, So I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Just imagining like she performs a song and some someone's like.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
They did not do that, thankfully, But as Alex also said,
for a surprise, Avril Levine came out and had her
ex husband and still longtime friend perform in Too Deep
the uh.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What's a good way?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The Alamodi version, let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And he also dated Avril Levine imagined, she imagine he
came in on stage and played drums for them.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
No, and there was a lot of cross connections, a
lot of cross connections like that.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Absolutely, but everybody knows everybody these days.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
It's very true.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
They're both Everyone dated everybody.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Back then in the pop punk scene from Canada and
Toronto in the same city.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yes, they actually did. There was no what is it?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
There was no Tinder back then. You know.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They just had to sell like the same pop pump
bands and like the ones they blew up. They just
got paired off with each other, Avril and Derek.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So this is my other big thing I want to
talk about, And I had my own photo of this.
The one of the biggest other problems, Like I talked
about not being able to see scal on the first day,
even if I would have tried, because traffic was sucked,
DC was a nightmare. Even if it wasn't that bad,
they played at noon. My problem with this is they
want to have the same feeling with that inflatable stage.
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They want to still have the surprise and planning out
your day there. You could still release the schedule beforehand
and have the inflatable stage for people to take photos
and have fun with to relave the nostalgia, which is
what they're selling anyway, release actual set schedule the week before. Yeah,
I agree, it's that time of trying to plan out
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things when you didn't have cell phones and stuff and
you didn't have to plan it, when your parents dropped
you off to have fun. It's not the same audience anymore,
it's not the same technology.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Just post the schedule that you already have sets.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
It wouldn't cost them anything to you. Are they trying
to be nostalgic, because like, I understand that that would
be like have both there. It would cost you literally.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Nothing, right, And I think I agree both.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I think also it would cause a lot less
stress for people to get in not totally Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, this band, I actually like I came to ward
tour to actually see Yeah, I know when they're here,
and I can plan accordingly.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, Oh they're playing at noon. I better get there early.
See how easy that.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Is easy and one of the one of my new
favorite things with tours and festivals and you know this
day and age is planning out, Oh I really want
to see this band in this band, in this band,
and then having my heart broken because two of my
favorite bands are playing at the same time, and then
I gripe about it online and boom, I'm talking about
it and now everybody knows about it. Yes, to get
a little bit more put traffic out of this one.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's so answer some decisions for yourself. Really, you kind
of like realize, yeah, no, this is the this is
the man I would prefer to see.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I agree also, markin conversation flowing that way.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
This tired dog right here, who is not feeling well,
he agrees with us on the warped towards Shenanigans. He's like,
what the heck is going on here? Get it together.
It's not two thousand and five, it's not even twenty fifteen.
It's twenty twenty five. How is this difficult? How is
this difficult both. So a lot of my complaints are
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complaints that have gone on for years. They're echo, they're
not that big of a deal. So we talk about
a few things. But there's two other things I need
to address that happened to DC. One I know Alex
already saw because she replied to me in the stories.
They were trying to be conscientious and aware in making
sure people had water. However, security didn't do a great
job of handing it out. They had bagged water like
the little pack the packs for hydration packs, and they
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had actual bottled water. They were just chuck it out
like they were doing football drills. And oh yes, people
got clocked in the head because they couldn't move in
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oops.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Like that's kind of hurt, by the way, like like
a full bottle of water to the dome that, yes,
that will hurt.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
After I'm already standing up like shoulders and shoulder with
sweaty people. My feet hurts, I'm heat exhausted. I don't
want to get clocked in the head, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, So I'm so glad we're going to do water
like the crowdsturpers.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, I'm so glad they back back in back in
my day, they didn't really They weren't really very good
about handing water out, and they didn't really have like
solid water stations like they did I think they had to.
But now they actually pass water out for free, and
like I've passed out a couple of times at some
festivals and it is not fun. So I am glad
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they are giving water out.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
They were trying. I will give them that they were trying.
Day one was way worse for the weather and how
heat bad it was with the heats so it was
super huge. It was only like eighty like high eighties,
but it was super humid, like ninety nine percent humidity
and the sun was burning on the blacktop. This was
completely flat festival grounds too, on blacktop and like the
rubber matting.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So they try to do with the best they could.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I will say this though about Warped Tour, if you've
ever been back in the day, I'm just gonna go
back to my video and let that play out, because
we're still doing stuff we were about.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
I really got to ask, like, what is going on
with security just at shows lately? It feels like it's
a pandemic at this point.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I know this is our third story and like a
month and a.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Half and now they're launching.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Clock and people in the hell of water.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Hey guys, hey guys at the Echo States, can you
hand out some water?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Sure thing? Boss?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And they start like like doing pitch exercises. Yeah, they
like shuck it out.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
They brought on like the local minor league baseball team
or something.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm glad that they're doing that too, because it's either
a couple of the most recent festivals I've been to.
They'll pass out water like in the first two rows,
like if you reach.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Them, if your front row, that's about it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, so if you're back further at least now you're
getting wat to just be vigilant all the time for
anything in any direction.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yes, geez, have an enjoyable weekend away. Walt, keep your
eyes open at all times. Do not blink.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
So I'm blink six all the time.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Millionaires. Open one of these stages and I have a
pause right here. The two sets of the bigger stages
were true festival stages, no more than many warped tour
stages that are lower and smaller like. No, these were
the full size, side by side stages you see at
a DWP or riot Fest or Shaky Knees or anything
like that same thing. So they definitely step that up too.
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A lot of the organization for Warped Tour, which I've
called a traveling circus for years, they finally had the
festival plan out for for three times a year.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
They did right.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
They actually plan things out much better for grounds, like
the actual grounds itself. I wasn't crazy about the venue itself,
but that's more of the location venue. This is one
of the acoustic stages, like at the very beginning of
the morning, Like when I got in, they'd been doing
this all day as well. Come in the shade, listen
to an acoustic stuff from different bands performing. It was nice, simple,
nice little idea for that as well. Actually get out
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of the shape, like get out of the weather, sit
down on the little astro turf.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
They needed more of that.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Actually, they needed more areas like to sit down somewhere
and shade.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
It was another issue.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, it's another issue where shade is a luxury, But
that's a totally different argument. This is millionaires about to
perform again. Let me pull this down a little, and
that's knuckle puck. This is all cell phone footage right now,
just zooming in and out. I'm just trying to get
whatever I can. It was that little acoustic That acoustic
tent was cool.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, And they had that go on all both days.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
They had different bands perform and each time to go
back a little more a little less. The three sixty
footage is a lot better for obvious reasons, but just
something like that, you know, and like they were coming
down and shaking hands like each band.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Again, this was like noon, but they had this going
for hours, so that's like little touches like that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They thought things out.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
All the vendor boosts were pretty good, like all the
every band got their own stall, like ten foot stall.
All these different brands came like Emo's not Dead and
all this other things like labels like Hopeless Records have
their own stat like selling different vinyl, so they had
a lot of stuff for that as well. The big
shock to me the food and drink options were a
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lots of variety and not any more expensive than anywhere else.
In fact, maybe a touch a touch cheaper. And that's
a miracle because it's warped tour and it's DC.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Like you actually could theoretically get food so you're not
starving and getting dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Not only that wide variety, I'm talking everything from poke bowls,
took caesadillas, they had sushi. Anything you can think of
they had there, along with the other things like chicken
onut of stick, kebabs, chicken fingers, steak fries. They had
all that stuff, and they had every type of drink.
Ghost Energy was one of the big sponsors. You can
go anywhere and find Ghost Water beverages. VIP had their
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own like food too, like their own personal food in
the VIP areas. VIP areas were pretty spacious, like if
you paid for VIP, you actually did get something out
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I mean that it was nice.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So I'm super happy to hear about the food options
and the drink options because that's usually pretty scarce. It's pretcarce.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
It's pretty it sucks pretty bad. Also, like if it's
and if it's not a limited selection, it's the price
is jacked up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Or totally or the food is awful.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
My wife Will and I will love to tell the
story of Sonic Temple in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Nothing against Sonic Temple.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
This was not on them, but like a plate of
gourmet mac and cheese, which was like thirty dollars for
a plate thirty and it was cold when we got it,
and it tasted like death. Yeah right, I yeah, yeah.
And it's just stuff like that. This was not the
problem here, So I have to give them credit for
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that too, because that works with warped tour. So in
an area where it was sold out and people were
constantly coming and going, it was crowded pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The crowd was older and more mature.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No one that I saw I was totally obnoxious or
a moron. Again, I was not their Day two. Maybe
that or I was not their Day one. Maybe that
happened day one. In the heat, people become idiots that
they get too much of the sun. But whatever, the
crowd was more patient.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
There was a story.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I'm not going to show footage of this one before
we get going. One person did get hurt pretty bad
at the Wonder Years. They were crowdsurfing and apparently like
when he got close to the barricade, securities got ready
to catch him, but the people in the front row
launched him, and of course he fell down and hit
his head ambulance had ambulance.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Had to come.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I don't know what those people were thinking or what
happened with that ban that was not on security. That
one was not them. So yeah, right sucks. So were
there any other actual serious issues. Yes, here's some footage.
God see, it rained really hard during adiral set. The
weather was coming and there was a septic leak along
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with the sewage from all the porter potties right at
the entrance. Meaning if you got didn't leave early like
I did.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You had to ruin your shoes.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This was not a maybe, This was not a ooh maybe,
I'll wait. You had to ruin your Converse and your
vans and everything else. No, look at it. Everyone looks
at the end of Warped Tour. Everything you see on
the ground there is accurate. You are actually looking at
what you think you are looking at.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Oh now, weird walk of shame.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The warped Walk of Shame. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's like it's like a vision. It's like God came
down and just gave you all. Yeah, you're no longer teenage.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, by the way, your parents rude buy any new
shoes for this one.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You're on your own.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, you like nostalgia.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Let's take it back to Woodstock in ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Let's take it back to when you were in diapers.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Oh you gross, Luke?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh oh was that too gross? What you're seeing on
screen isn't gross, but this was too gross. Also top
common on the post. I've never been so relieved to
have missed out on something. Warped Tour also announced it's
coming back to DC, same place, same weekend, just a
day ahead. I don't know how I feel like being
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at the same venue, Like if it what's the DNB area,
that's fine. I just don't know about the same venue.
Could have been better, could have.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Been worse, cheaper. If I'm being honest, it is like.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
The actual stadium RFK Stadium and the RFK Festival Grounds
is roughly the glorified parking lot in area around this rundown,
out of date stadium.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
If they don't have to like dismantle everything and then
and then like put it all back together a lot
away they.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Have, they do, and they have a month. They have
one month to get all that stuff to LA, which
is easy. A month is nothing for them. So I
hope that LA goes well. We've applied for it. Don't
know what's going to happen with that.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
That was my big Warp Tour reaction.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
And to answer any questions that might come in the comments,
would I go again if it's a different lineup? Absolutely,
that was the one thing holding me back. This lineup
was not it for me, and I know that's a
personal thing. I'm sure other people loved it. The lineup
wasn't great and that really held it back. And I
still am bitter about just the whole, like the lineup
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not gonn announce till day of. We are past that,
but I give credit to where it's due. They finally
got organized and it was in backstage and things like that.
It was organized for sure. So to close out our
Warp Tour coverage, we are now going to hear from
Dan Popnmeier and Bowling for Soup show us what that
(26:03):
jokes are. Let me know, Alex and Rowan if you
can hear. I'm damn Potherameier and I know these guys.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If that helps. That's right. I created Phineas and Firm
with my buddy Swampy. When I die, I want my
remains to be spread across Disneyland. Also, I don't want
to be cremated.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Actually I actually wrote this joke. Okay, okay, you ready, yes,
all right, knock, who's there? Poo poo, poo poo poo.
I heard it coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Have you ever tried to eat a clock?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
It's very time consuming.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
So my wife and I we were deciding whether or
not we wanted a kid, and we decided we didn't
want it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And that's okay, but there are kids pretty bummed about it,
get it, but getting rid of their child.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
From my last comment, Alex, do not take notes.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Poh, I don't really unimpressed.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
To be fair, they were rings, so they were dad
joke ringers, their dads themselves, so you know they have
a kind of in their blood at this moment.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Any joke they say is a dad joke at that
point exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
So versus joke was funny.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
It's yeah, yeah, I want to be I want my net,
my remains spread out cross.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, maybe that had imagined ride is really gonna get scary.
A severed hand, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh my god, it's just like it. But uh, they
could put Dan's severed head right next to Waltz.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh, I don't know where that is.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, they keep that cryogetically frozen somewhere underneath Orlando.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, put Dan right alongside of them, and then when
technology comes in, we can reanimate. It's like they put
it on a robot body. You bring Dan back.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's like making It's the Futurama heads.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
They just keep the heads in jars of famous people,
so they just stay preserved forever.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, isn't that what they want to do with Walt.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
That's what he wanted to way back in the day.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Apparently Download also happened this weekend, and from what I understand,
Download was a massive success, and big upgrades happened, and
a lot of big things happened, one of which sleep
Token proved everyone wrong that said they weren't ready to headline.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
They did just fine.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Not only was it sold out for night that night,
everyone apparently said it was great, the stage presence, everything,
it was done perfectly. They played more songs than they
did at rock em Park or rock em Ray, whichever
one it is in Germany. They did a lot. It
was one of the members of Korn that even said
sleep Token shut everybody up. And Korn also headlined Download
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night three for the first time, and everyone said Korn
is back and swinging. Cord made the announcement this week.
Also they are working on new songs. They have several
all ready to go, which is awesome to hear. Apparently
Download had a lot of things go right as well.
That weather miraculous. Lee was not nearly as bad as
past years. It was not mudfest like it usually is.
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That's a miracle for Download, So a lot of good
things happened for that. As we move on all the
different footage, all the different stuff that happened. Korn did
a great job, and it's kind of cool to see
Jonathan Davis doing better physically enough to start touring again.
For a while he was rough like physically after all
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the health scares he had over the past few years.
And again they're thirty years from their debut album and
now they're headlining Download and still getting that type of audience.
Say what you want about the new metal scenes. Some
of the bands did just fine.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
You know, Korn's first album is amazing reasons, it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yep, they still got it. Green Day did their thing
even in another country. They made sure to call out
the Shenanigans that they disagree with in American politics. A
lot of others happened with Sex Pistols. They had to
shop the show multiple times because Frank Carter wanted people
riled up, which good for him. I mean, that's the
show you want to get riled up. I like Frank
Carter too, I met him in twenty seventeen. My favorite
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story about Frank Carter, who's now taking cover with the
Sex Pistols and doing their tour. When his song hit
the top ten of Billboard's rock charts in the US.
He got so excited he got drunk and tattooed the
number seven spelled out on his own neck like he
did it himself. That's a tough man. That's awesome. And finally, yeah,
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and finally, the last big thing that happened was the
debut performance of presidents.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I have things to say about it.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And I know Rowan has things, like he sent a chat.
I was catching up on this because again I was
busy with other stuff. But they had their big debut. Rowan,
would you like to give a quick rundown of your
thoughts of President's debut because there has been praise and
backlash in decent amounts.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
So, first of all, before I say anything about the
performance and stuff, let me clarify I do not think
the music is bad. But if I am being completely
honest and you are all free to agree or disagree
with me here, I feel like even when it came out,
it's fine, it's very but it's very basic, it's very
run by the numbers. Can we all can we collectively
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agree on that at the very least? Like I don't know,
I just didn't. It's not exciting. So but the reason
why I bring that up is because like when when
when the music was like that quality and they only
had like two to begin with, having their debut be
a download already kind of left a bad taste in
my mouth, Like I like it felt like it wasn't earned,
if that makes sense. So already it was just like
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a thing where it's like I'm wondering how the turnout
it's going to be and corn to all the footage,
people were like really hyped about it, and but I
can't really I don't really know if it's if you
could say it's because of the music that president has
made it so far, or it's just because that like
they like Charlie Simpson, who let's be real, it's the
Internet is convinced, it is entirely convinced that it's him
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under the mask.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Again, Charlie Sinson, I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Do not know who he is.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I don't have the dune dun dun sound effects. But
Alex just go dun dundun really quick and there we go.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But now getting to the performance itself, I watched it
with my buddies, and here's the thing. We just we
collectively agreed that they just they just didn't have good
stage presence. In my opinion, I mean, the president, if
that's what we're calling him, he was okay. First of all, though,
the mask looks like crap. I don't know what it is.
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It looks like a different mask than the ones in
the music videos, and it looks worse somehow. It does
lips like bright red and it looks so crap. It
looks like it looks like you try to get someone
to make a Carlo Kopia mask off of like Fight.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
From Spirit Hallow, from Spirit Halloween, the Discount one. Yeah,
like for the music videos, it works, but I don't think.
I don't know if that was the music video.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I'm convinced. I'm convinced a different mask is like the
lips like super ready, it looks even more cheap and yeah,
like but that's beyond the point. The backing band has
like no stage presence. They just stand there and there
really is nothing about like I was, there nothing interesting
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about their about like their image like I was.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
There's no backdrop, like no backdrop flag or like a
fake flag or something else in the background.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Is that's it?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, that's that's a little bit like general patent type
you know, like yeah, you know, just something like this
from the big band or see, we just thought of
good ideas that are super cheap to do, by the way.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Ideas too, because me and some of my other friends
that watched the footage with me, we're all in marketing,
and we were like thinking of like, oh yeah, maybe
have the backing band be dressed like this, just so
you have like a little bit more uniqueness to them,
so they're not just black jumpsuit, black mask and that
little arm band thing. Are they trying to go or
like a dictator type thing. I don't know, have.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
A bunch of fake soldiers come out for like one song,
you know, like fake art.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Or maybe have or at least give them rubber mass
and maybe say they're the Secret Service, or.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes, just little little touches that would not have cost
barely anything for for a group that has production, that
has a budget and a label willing to back them
a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
And then finally just the and just like the thing
that kissed me and my friends off the most is
the drummer.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The drummer, for throughout much of the show uses a
trigger a trigger pad. And that's fine for for some
stuff because like you know, they're they have like special effects.
It's stuff you can't naturally make with a drum kit.
But then they program stuff in the trigger pad. They
program sounds that you can make with drums, Like they
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programmed a high hat with the with the pad, and
so he's playing that instead of just playing the high hat.
And it's stuff like that, and it looks so out
of sync when you focus on him and try to
listen to the drums, and it.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Just like it looks so fake.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It looks like he's not playing the drums as.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
A non drummer. Alex, I don't know if you've ever
played drums or not. When you have a drum pad
with you. It's supposed to add to your arsal, not duplicate.
That's correct, Like what you want, yeah, what you want
the drugs, things that, Yeah, that you don't have on
an actual drum kit, or at least have other features
to extend what a drum kit is incapable of, not
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duplicate what drums you already have.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I'm sure a program more, but that's an odd choice.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So we're all that's we're all in music, Me and
my friends, like especially my best friend who is a
who is a drummer. He went off on that.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's just like.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Look, it's like either like I understand, like it's not
gonna like I understand you want to try and make
it sound like the record, But I mean like when
you're playing a high hat or a snare through a
trigger and you're not playing the snare and high hat
in front of you, it looks so like lifeless in
my opinion, it's just like there's no soul behind it.
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It looks so just dead. And that's like that was
just the biggest reason why I just didn't like this.
People were going so hype about like this show, I
I commented on a single reel on instagram of like
someone of someone's like footage of the show and I
and all I said was mid and and like so
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many president.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Fans might as well just set up a fanity at
that point to some of those.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, no they I'm not gonna I'm not gonna reiterate
what they said explicitly to me, but let me just
say they a fair amount of them told me to
do something that is just anatomically impossible.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
I'm about that, but no, Yeah, it's just like a
thing where it's just like it's at a point now
where I and here's the thing. I don't mind the songs.
It just feels like people are more hype because they
know who the guy, who the guy behind president is,
and they're just more fans of him, rather than judging
the songs on their own, which in my opinion, are
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just very by the numbers, very basic. If you if
you played a song for me and I did not
know who who presidents were to begin with, you just
played the song for me blind, I would have said,
this is like bad omens or something like that. There's
nothing unique about it, even the lyrics themselves. It's it's
all about like there's a lot of religious imagery. But
I'm like thinking, like, if you're gonna be president, I
want like I want political stuff or I expect political stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
They're definitely definitely filling the what do people like in
rock and metal? Right now? We'll take some of that.
We'll take some of that. Takes some Okay, boom, this
is what we got back.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah, that's why I'm like, that's why I was kind
of upset with them debuting a download because it doesn't
feel earned well.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And that's the thing we talked about that Right when
presidents started, you know, we started hearing about this new
Masked band. That was one of the first things we
all said was industry plant or just somebody who has
so much money that they can buy their way to
the top from the gets, which is exactly what this
feels like. It doesn't matter how they got here. They
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have enough support or backing, whether it's coming from within
or from so you know, the campaign managers hurt, doesn't
matter they you know what I'm saying, Like, they just
totally they didn't work for this, and a lot of
people are really upset about that as well, because we
all know you have to play in the garage for
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a while, you have to play to your mom in
the bar, you know, a couple Tuesday nights as you
work it up, and this they didn't have to do
any of that, and so it feels like they don't
really have that extra soul level of a band that
works their way to get to this download stage point.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Again, they had like two songs to begin with. I
part of me was expected. It was like saying, like,
are they really only going to play two songs? And
then dip I will say if I could say one
positive thing though, They dialed back on the vocal effects
on the guy, and I am so thankful for that,
because honestly, it is egregious.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
In the studio recordings.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
The new songs they played, they're fine, especially since he's playing.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
It's a lot more of it's just his raw voice.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
And I hope they keep it to that, because you know,
it's just like a thing where it's like I shouldn't
I shouldn't be like dreading a studio version of a
live song just because I'm worried about how it's going
to be mixed compared to it.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
We'll find out, because I'm sure President's gonna have new
stuff popping off now that they already performed it live.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Presidents. Yeah, music is not done.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
But I do want to say one final thing before
we move on to the other stories. After our festival coverage,
once again, Download did do extremely well. I'm jealous, and
not only that Download has once again proven that European
festivals will always be better than you American festivals because
luxury porter partties the toilets that download We're mad yesterday,
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proper locking cubicles with a seat and electronic flush and
syncs with soap, water and mirrors. To those listening from
outside the nation, outside the United States, we don't have
those luxuries at our festivals, not even close. Do you
remember what we had at our festivals? We had poop river.
Do you think those were from the luxury ones?
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, they are not.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Once again, the American festival this weekend had poop river.
The European one had arguably luxury. What goes to Europe
on this one? So we now move on to We'll
try to be brief about this one because I know
we went along with Warp Tour, Alex Rowan, you both
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were aware of what happened years ago, Courtney Love made
a big statement about how crowdsurfing and bands our fans
get way too far when the band members come out
to the crowd thinking they do it whatever to a woman,
the same thing happened as sleep theory singer boy. Was
that not what I was expectingly the same He made
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a statement of the crowd and then did it as well.
Whoever it was, I thought it was okay to finger
blast me and grabbed my blank and rub blank.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I have to censor so much and do all that
extra stuff.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
After I kindly turned her out and looked her in
the face and said stop, and she kept doing it.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
You should have expected me to kick you in your jaw, now.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
I know. If you said, if you sh somebody, you
ought to be like, you are opening the door to
being like assaulted back, or you know, it's like you
expect some.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
That is self defense.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
If you already say no and it's that aggressive, yeah,
that's self defense at that point. That's just like knee
jerk reaction.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
But sweet mercy.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, there's apparently footage of this online that was going
around and stuff while he was crowdsurfing and stuff.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But maybe take that down. If you're a fan of
sleep theory.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Maybe I don't know, give the guy a little bit
of respect, but that's just.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Me, who's gross. Don't do that to anybody. I don't
care if it's a man or a woman or non binary.
You don't touch people that that's gross.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Gender should not matter in terms of the aggressor and
the victim.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Like one Am I, it's just like one of the
infamous photos I had from Welcome to Rockville twenty sixteen
when six Am was performing NICKI Six's band, when Guns
and Rotis was on, or when Motley Cruez on Hiatus
was a fan growth a woman body surver, like full on,
not just copying of feel, but like grabbing hard, you
know bad, And I like, I turned that like blurred
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out her face, introd that as like as like a
big PSA to everyone.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
It still happens.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
And I have never understood the thought logic of going
to a festival or concert but gooning so hard. They're like, oh, yeah,
I'm a cop of feel on these sweaty crowd surfers.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, that's what they do. And I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
If you had it sucks that that's the case.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
But like seriously, like, go ahead, Alex, Yeah, I do too, Alex.
Speaker 4 (42:58):
If you're what the I was gonna say, If you
need more of a deterrent to not CrowdSurf these days,
this is one I don't want to get.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
No yeah by anyone, especially a group of sweaty, yangry
standers in the dark in a venue where you can't
get help.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Well, thank you, all right, I dropped on my head
and I don't want to get felt up.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Crowdsurfing retires, crowdsurfing worth it? Really?
Speaker 1 (43:24):
What's the benefit? Tell me the benefit? At this point,
what do you get out of it?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Just like a bucket list thing. She's like, oh, yeah,
I could say I did it once.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Sure, Yeah, you want to do it once? That's it.
Cut it off. After that. There you go.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
All right, We're gonna get serious here. We joke around,
we laugh at stuff. We try to make a light
of some of this stuff where we know he's okay.
This is where and where Alex is going to back
be up on this. We found out this past week
that Amigo the Devil literally lost everything, and I have
the link to his GoFundMe in the description for this video.
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When I say everything, I mean all his old albums
and records and like notes and all the old recordings.
He had everything in his home.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
He is.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
He and his wife and this is really going to
be dark lost their dog in this fire. Literally everything gone.
He had like a gut wrenching post about it, and
he's trying to stay positive, but like there was a
merciless night and he they have this GoFundMe. They've raised
a lot of money. It's not going to replace everything yet,
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not even close. But at the same time, if you
have a dollar, you can donate to this man, to
him and his wife who lost literally everything. It will help. Alex.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Can you you've met up a me ego? Correct?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Can you go ahead? Make sure you're go ahead.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
He's an amazing guy. He is He is always the
nicest dude to chat with. He is humble, he's kind,
he is super super sweet. He's genuinely not just you know,
oh yeah, he's such an He's really one of the
nicest guys that I've ever met in the rock slash
metal world. It sucks, super dard.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
This is the type.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
Imagine the type of pain that can be like your
house burns down with all your possessions it's yes, honestly,
like even if you get them, even if you get money,
it's like, how do you just like you can't just replace.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
All that, and like it says, they're like the family
member posts of this. Everything is gone, like collectibles and memories, instruments,
recording equipment, cherished arts, him and his wife's clothes. Yeah,
just everything you can imagine. And yeah, right.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
There the loss of Kobe, their dog. I can't even imagine.
That sucks so hard. I am so sorry too, amigo, and.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
So again links in the video description. I'll put it
in the pin comment tomorrow when I update everything. A
dollar if you have that, I promise it will go
to a better place than whatever you're gonna smell spend
that dollar on, because this is a family, a couple
that needs something, you know. So I know it sucks
to have all the down talk and stuff like that sometimes.
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And I joke about trying to be positive when it's hard.
This is something I did not want to ignore. There's
like this needed to be pointed out, so please do that.
We move on to what sounds like shockingly bad news
but does have good a good outlook of optimism. We
found out that with Hate Breed's upcoming tour. Their guitarist
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has to exit finding out he has a brain tumor.
Now that sounds like a nightmare. Turns out he knows
already that it's benign. They caught it super early and
he should be okay. He almost had a stroke at download,
like right after the performance, but again everything should be okay.
They're very optimistic. They found out everything will be okay
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with him after surgery. He'll get treatment, but they're not
as worried about it. That's a huge sigh of relief
of what could have been fatal.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
So, yeah, it's a bummer about the tour, but at
least they caught it when they did correct.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
Yeah, and it's more important it is.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And again I know, like they did download, they were
going to do some states with Lamb of God and
things like that as well. At least he knows now.
Catching it early is the biggest thing you can do
and that's what matters. So you know what a little
bit of positivity for that. It sucks, but at least
it's there and at least he knows now and he'll
be okay. So we go on next to I want
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to make sure I got the right one. Two other
things of good news, one more uplifting and optimistic good
for you, and another one of a nice cheery moments.
Nuclear Blast, a big metal record label with a whole
lot of big bands, said goodbye to twitter X. That's
huge when you have a marketing and publicity machine like
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that and all this following and they say screw this,
it's not worth it. That takes a big statement because
they are like one of the few names in like
the music world that does get money and press an
attention off of that nightmare site. And even they're saying
it's not worth it again, sticking to your ground. Good
for them, like it.
Speaker 4 (48:01):
I like it when somebody with a lot to lose
from something or like I don't care, I don't support that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I agree and I I did it, and I have
small potatoes. You know they're doing it, and if they're
gonna be fine, that shows everyone else can.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
It's it's it's just interesting because like at this point,
especially when you are such a big industry like Nuclear Blasts,
you kind of just have it just because you know.
It's because like you definitely your business, so you you
just need to reach it out to be as many
people as you can.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, I agree, so good for them. And then finally
we got the best news of all. We hear wedding
bells in the most beautiful way because Danny Filth of
Cradle of Filthy gott to ring all the way from
Mordor and propose to a school friend on stage. And
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he said it in the growley voice.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
And kissing with.
Speaker 4 (49:04):
The makeup on, and his knowmantic and.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
His pinhead bassist is there with them. I'm sorry if
that was deafening, but I wanted to play the audio
on it. I'm genuinely happy. Good for them, Gretchen, I'm
sorry I did not propose like that. I apologize. I
know it's not the best proposal I gave you, but
we can't all have the best. Okay, Danny Filth has
that now and everyone listening her name is Missus Filth
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to you, so.
Speaker 4 (49:32):
Mm hmm, congratulations mister and Missus Filth.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
Yes, I hope Baby Filth, if it ever happens, will
be at Baby actually in a cradle, not a Filth. Yeah.
You got where I was going. Yeah, you got where
I was going.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
So they actually just asic cradle.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
Honey, we have to do this it's the name of
the band. It's been building up to this. Just one photo,
just one photo in the dirty, filthy cradle.
Speaker 4 (50:00):
Right, everyone at the bar. The bar has been set.
If you're not proposing in harsh vocals, you're not proposing
correctly anymore.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
It's true, right, Rare.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
So I know it's been a lot of stuff. We
now need to keep going with our upcoming tours and albums.
A lot got announced a lot, Alex, you had homework.
What is your upcoming tours for That got announced this week?
Speaker 4 (50:28):
Some good ones from Trivium. Massive North American tour with
Ginger and Harriet. That's gonna be awesome. Nail Bomb just
announced a summer European tour. ZK Wife and Fiend Without
a Face just announced a UK tour. We've got Tea
is Legend. They just announced some US states celebrating twenty
years of Suck Out the Poison twenty years. That's nuts,
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classic rock fans. Jeff Taate announced the final twenty twenty
six US tour celebrating Queen's Reich Operation Mind Crime. Yep
Bit for a King just announced North American tour with
Make Them Suffer, Spite and one fifty six Silence, and
I'll be announced a North American tour with Dying Wish
and Miss Pain.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
I'm very, very excited for this one.
Speaker 4 (51:15):
It's gonna be awesome again. And of course those scattered
dates with Evan Essence Hell yeah, and Chimera bringing back
their Christmas show for the first time since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
Chimera Christmas.
Speaker 4 (51:31):
Holidays.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
All right, there's a lot of good stuff I got
announced this week. Good variety in that, especially if you're
a metal fan.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
So you know what, go get those tickets.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
If you're getting those tours, they'll all be posted on
the socials already. Rowan, What albums do we have coming
up for June twentieth, twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (51:47):
We have, First of all, we have Bad Flower with
No Place Like Home. Badflowers like they're a pretty decent
rock band, Like it's a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
They have a few, they have a few decent hits. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
We have See with an insatiable violence like so that's.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
The if I'm correct, that's the.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Brutal technology and depth. Yeah, from French Canadians. So it's
a lot friendlier and snoodier.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yes, we have Malevolence with where only the truth is spoken.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (52:18):
Yeah, And finally this is the one I'm most excited for.
We have Ailstorm with the Thunderfist Chronicles. Ailstorm is just
like we talked about this when Jay was on. It's
like that's the pirate metal band, right.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's like that's just like that's just fun. Get been
around for years. They're at our rock or Flop folder
as well, so you know what.
Speaker 3 (52:37):
I know, that's how that's how we talked about then
they came up there.
Speaker 1 (52:40):
Yeah, it's intentionally goofy, as pirate metal should be.
Speaker 2 (52:43):
If you're taking pirates, Yeah, you have.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
The gimmick and you go all the way with it
and you're just you're just being like, yeah, you know,
this is our thing. We're just here to have fun.
We're not trying to be like too serious. Just go
listen to some pirate metal. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Song of the Week this week is Orbit Cole's Death
Above Life. It came out on just It came out
technically last week. It was just after the podcast came out.
It's heavy, it's got great rifts. This is a big
one from Orbit Culture. Their new stuff is coming out
later this year on my birthday. By the way for
those of you planning ahead on October third. So very
(53:18):
cool to see that. I'm a big fan. When I
saw Orbit Culture on tour with Slipknot, they were opening
good stuff. Check this song out. It'll be pinned in
the description and the comments. Blah blah blah. Did I
catch everything in this nonsense and this mess because it
was a crazy week?
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Did I get everything?
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Think so?
Speaker 1 (53:37):
I think so too. Okay, Okay, we now go to
super chats. Then we're gonna have at least one round
of festival rock for flop. We have two, and actually,
because someone renewed their membership and did a super chat,
I'll add that to three, so I'll have three rounds.
We'll do this very quickly. How they were rock and
Moves with title renewed his membership and did a super
chat saying I'm glad he enjoyed it, and hopefully Crash
Thompson will as well come the next rock colisseum as
(53:59):
a definitely screams Crash to me, solid pro medal. I'm
not kite positive on what all that meant, but thank
you for the super chat and Crash is great. So
also from Osh Pitt Messiah like the common already read.
I'll say it again because it was gold. Someone at
Warped toward twenty twenty five is making a killing selling
advilla and earplugs. Alex, if you want to make some
(54:21):
extra cash, if we get you to a warp toward
Long Beach, bring like your mini packets, like individual packets,
and put a rock logo on.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
Them, You're gonna make a killing.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
You're gonna come out of there with like a lot
of cash, like you just robbed a bank.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Son I was already thinking it. I'm down for it.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Good, good, good, Okay, We're gonna make this a business opportunity.
That said, yes, all right, Alex and Rowan, are you
ready to book some festivals?
Speaker 3 (54:46):
We've never not been ready.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
Honestly, some weeks after how bad they were in the
following weeks. Sometimes we're a little precautious, so we shall see.
Each week when we hit a certain light goal, we
play a game called wrestler Rock or Flop. We booked
four Bank in the Middle of Nowhere radio station festival
and actually ask the audience and debate if we would
go to it or not. We're in the business to
make money and we want to make sure we make
a profit for these little radio station festivals in the
(55:10):
middle of nowhere. This will be as I get the
right thing going. Can you guys still see my screen? Y? Okay,
can you see the folder?
Speaker 2 (55:19):
Awesome? All right, We're gonna go for our first one.
What should our first one be? Names? Any suggestions for
our first festival? What is would be? Names?
Speaker 4 (55:29):
Poo Pooh Festival, the poo Festival.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
We gotta sell poo. We gotta work in like the
Warp Tour.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
Aangle that was warped tour, poo poo.
Speaker 3 (55:41):
How about not a teenager festival.
Speaker 1 (55:43):
Age millennial fest, advil Fest, advil Fest. There we go
sponsored by Advil. Here we go, advill Fest. If they
have monster energy fests, the next age group would be
advill Fest. It's perfect, okay, bad number one for advil Fest.
Nine Inch Nails a strong start Man. That's huge, and
(56:05):
they just had their tour like start off and they're
playing old stuff too, so you know what, ad Milfest
looking strong. It's kind of weird to because I have
that photo exact photo behind me right now too, so
it's kind of just looking at see it. Yeah, well,
you know, perfect timing. Number two Baby Metal yes for me.
Speaker 3 (56:26):
Get someone really crap.
Speaker 1 (56:27):
This is pretty fun so far. So number three Breaking Benjamin,
I'm fine with that and it's fine, you know what.
And number four Memphis May Fire. There's no reason I
would not go to this, come on, you know, not
one in that reverse order that we're shown Memphis May Fire,
(56:49):
than Breaking Benjamin, then Baby Metal, then Nine inch Nails.
Speaker 3 (56:54):
Like one of the perfect festivals for me.
Speaker 1 (56:57):
This is at least one Yeah, audience, please, he's type
in yes or no in the chat if you would
go to this or not. Honestly, this is perfect for
Advil fest too. It does have that ramp up for
a little bit older, not super old, but a little
bit older.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
I think this.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
Yeah, we've got nine inch Nails doing all of their
old stuff.
Speaker 2 (57:14):
Now, yeah, what did they played?
Speaker 4 (57:16):
They played recently. That's what I get for the first time.
That's what I thirty four years.
Speaker 1 (57:20):
If you piggy for the first time, it's something like
at least twenty something years.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
So yeah, they're definitely doing the.
Speaker 1 (57:24):
Hits and getting the old stuff, which is awesome, So
I'm happy about it.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
Lots of yeses. Come on, this is an obvious slam dunk.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
Here we go like two for like breaking Betaman, Memphis
may fire so like.
Speaker 1 (57:37):
Seriously, tyler Fest coming up because he did a super
chat Andy redeed his membership. Thank you again for doing that.
The memberships help you, Tony gets you early access with stuff.
Here we go tyler Fest number one. You just did
breaking Benjamin Man, he's coming up a lot. I believe
that's Hinder. Not a great start for tyler Fest. Number two.
Speaker 2 (58:00):
A j r.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Oh, we are in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Okay, I don't know what the market's going for here
for Poplar Bluff, Missouri, for tyler Fest literally middle of
nowhere of its southern Missouri. But number three, bring me
the horizon, Bring me the horizon with a j R
And Hinder. It's a weird mix of bands and fan bases.
(58:25):
Number four we already had nine ch nails. Sorry, trends
a perfect circle.
Speaker 3 (58:32):
Well damn, but this is now on, now on torn.
Speaker 4 (58:38):
I think we sell. We spent all of our money
on the last two headliners.
Speaker 1 (58:42):
Sure did, and that's all we could get for the
other two to Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Speaker 2 (58:45):
That absolutely makes sense.
Speaker 5 (58:50):
Do I I'll go for the headliners? Yeah, I mean,
wonder I can tolerate a j R. Would would really
be like merch Like a.
Speaker 2 (58:59):
Man like I can half off Hinder a j R.
Speaker 1 (59:01):
I can like go hurry it up, but then I'm
happy a perfect circle and bring me their eyes and
then I'm happy.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
You know, if I could, just if I could tough
those two out, Yes, gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
Okay, Okay, so yes, it's not not by anything. He's
a perfect show, but it leans towards yes audience. Okay, yes,
with an asterisk, I'll go for a bring me their
eyes and in a perfect circle, yes or no?
Speaker 2 (59:23):
In the chat.
Speaker 1 (59:24):
If the other two open first, then I will arrive late.
I mean if you're paying a ticket. Yeah, well yeah,
we're not closing with Hinder.
Speaker 2 (59:31):
Come on now bring me Ollie.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
Sykes is not going to open for a for Hinder.
That that does doesn't work that way. Now have a
PC and b MT highlight. I'll show up late, everyone says,
I'll just show up late. Yes, I can tolerate the
modern Hinder sound. Yeah, okay, and Tyler's it's his fest.
I'm going to be late, the story.
Speaker 2 (59:50):
Of my life.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
But yes, you know what second half, Yes, barely barely
got that one. All right, Finally we have mash Pitfest
because it's moshpit Messiah. Do you want to do mosh
pitfester messia fests because massia Fest makes sell like a
Christian festival, and I don't know that's what's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
So we can potentially screw ourselves over by just having
the most non moshed.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Pand calm bands.
Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Yeah, Moshpitfest Number one Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
I No, never mind, we're good bred.
Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
It definitely is the correct terminology and label.
Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Number two.
Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Tool, Yes, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
That's not a mosh pit band, but it definitely fits
the vibe.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Number three boy, the budget for Moshpitfest is massive. Yahosa.
Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
Number three jelly Roll, well, that's a that's a switch.
I actually know jelly Roll Olympus. It probably would do
something weird together. So yeah, at number four death Clock, I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Going it sounds like we had millions of dollars and
we were like, what can we do tomorrow with these
millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
We can this show?
Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
Yes, Like, okay, we'll pay, but you got to pay
a stubble fine, money's no objects and that's the only bands.
Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
We could get.
Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Okay, I'll say this is big.
Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Yeah, so I'll say this. It will sell tickets. People
will come to this for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
We get the country crowd coming in.
Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
And the limp biscuit crowd and they always play nice
together and then tool.
Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
And death clock's the opener. Huh yes, oh go, I
think it sounds fine.
Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Yeah, yes, I would go. I don't know what I'd
do with myself for a lot of the show, but
I would go. So this is this is a this
is a Dton, Ohio festive. I've ever heard one, just.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Middle of Ohio. Nothing else for miles. We got three
for three. It got a little weird, but it got
three for three. Everyone agree, Okay, I think that worked
pretty well.
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I thank you guys for stickulate. We started a couple
of minutes late. Thank you guys so much for hanging
with us, for all the coverage and things like that.
We are so happy to have you here every Wednesday evening.
We'll be back next Wednesday evening. As well as I
stopped stream or stop sharing my.
Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Scream with these three tube there we go.
Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I did it or smooth enough. Thank you guys so much.
Please keep leaving comments. We'll try to reply to you guys.
Thank you so much for all your advice, your suggestions,
your comments, your engagement share the links.
Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
It does help a ton.
Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
I am going to have some upcoming content coming on
the Heavies YouTube channel. For those who are not aware,
I got picked up by the phone company Heavies. They're
going to start making their own original content more that's
coming this Friday, so you'll hear my voice and see
my face on that channel as well. I'll share out
the links in the same place as Alex. Do you
have anything you'd like to part with? I think we're good, Rowan,
how about you? Uh yeah, okay, thank you guys so much.
(01:03:05):
And now Alex, you were able to get rowing on
the last week's joke. However, the bar has been set
high by Bowling for Soup and Dan Bob and Meyer.
Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
No. We we need to. We need to have a conversation,
me and them, gentlemen. We need to. We need to
duke it out.
Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
I think I wonder if they're gonna are they gonna
be at Long Beach?
Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
I think so yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
I want to say I think so too. I don't
know if the Dan Bob, the Bowling for Soup should be.
Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Bowling for soup should be Yeah, yeah, so that we
may have to have a conversation.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Yeah, I heard of you three. Yeah, I heard of
you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
I hope you guys are trying to do I heard
you guys trying to one.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Yeah, come on, let's go. You're gonna be bowling for
your teeth if you keep that up.
Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Oh my god, nothing I go. I'm like, see you
guys want to fight?
Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
All right, Alex, what is your joke for the week?
Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Most bald people still own a comb? Okay, it just
can't part with it.
Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Is your face is ros leaving, So, in fairness, if
he left, that's a good sign.
Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
We don't know if he left. It is he just
screamed into his pillow.
Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
I could have been laughing as well, though he might
have just laughed into his pillow.
Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
I think that means I win.
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
We think Rowan, Were you laughing into your pillow? Because
that's what it looked like.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Did it sound like a laugh?
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Yeah kinda. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. Someone said,
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Who was throating scalding coffee at Alex.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Yikes.
Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
I think that means is that my joke was hot.
Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
Oh goodness, like hauffe.
Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Oh that was just for that one.
Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
What it was a hot joke?
Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
Oh gosh, person slapping you or offering high fives.
Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Just repeated high fives.
Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
It was so good, it was so good.
Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Everything's great. Those are those are rounds of applause for me.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Reminder if if the punchline makes you want to go
good night everybody, it's not a dad joke. It's an
uncle joke. What pizza ice cubes? Oh you got a
drum shot? I mean I don't do my hair like ever. Well, uh,
jury's out on this one. Um yeah, jury's out on
(01:05:51):
this one. Oh someone said game over haha. So I
think some people are liking it in the chat. So
you know what, we'll take that as it is. So
thank you all so much. Oh man, someone just threw
a whole barage of things that you you're getting the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
Stick at his mouse crabb b.
Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I don't know how you throw a bee, tomato, strawberry skull.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Banjo.
Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Approval, I win he approves from a husband of Cassandra.
Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Oh someone sole waffles. That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Waffles thank you. And I've had a lot of worst stinkers. Okay,
I will not take this as my work.
Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
It's not the bottom. I will not agree with that.
It's not a bad it's not a bad joke. It's
a bad joke.
Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
What oka say, like we got to do like uh,
I mean like we're coming up on a year of
this show now. Honestly, I mean like we gotta do
like some sort of like thing where it's just like
the best or worst of of Alex's dad jokes.
Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Okay, you're this.
Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
All the podcasts are available to be clipped on YouTube
if someone wants to do the dirty work and clip
all the podcast dad jokes into one super thing, like
a super cut.
Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
You go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
We will not pay you, but we will give you
a shout out.
Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
Yeah, we'll give you a shout out. We'll link to
the video all that stuff too. My wife, she said,
someone throw waffles my way. Yeah, well, you know, thank
you so much, Gretchen. I don't have waffles. I'm sorry.
I disappointed you without giving you the Danny Filth proposal,
and now I can't get you waffles.
Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Man, What a husband.
Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
She's like, get in the kitchen now.
Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
She's just sadly sitting in the dark in the kitchen. Oh,
good night, everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
We'll have more terrible music news and hilarious dad humor
next week.
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