WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:32.000 Greetings, troubled listeners. Welcome back to the Troubled Men podcast. I am Renee Coleman, sitting in Snake and Jake's Christmas Club Lounge in the heart of the clampire with my co host, the original troubled man for troubled times, Mr. Manny Chevrolet. Welcome, Manny. 2 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 Hey, man. What is going on now? 3 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:40.000 Not too much. It just had a trio walk in with the berets, the Russian hats, sunglasses. 4 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:45.000 I don't know, maybe someday escape from island. 5 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Maybe it's. Maybe it's a. It's an Agent 99 lookalike contest. 6 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 Well, also, the World cup is happening in the France plate today. 7 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.000 Oh, okay. Is that. 8 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.000 That could be it. It could be a bunch of frogs entering this stu dump. 9 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.000 All right, now, have you been kind 10 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.000 of like the agent 99, agent 9A 11 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:03.000 Barbara Feldman look alike contest? 12 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.000 Yeah, it works. 13 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:10.000 She's pulling it off right, right now. Manny, have you been following that? 14 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.000 Of course. 15 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.000 Oh, really? 16 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.000 Of course. 17 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:16.000 I love the World Cup. I've got World cup fever. Really? And I always do. 18 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.000 Huh? 19 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:30.000 And now it's even better because the late. The late Wadzilla, before he passed away, he. He set me up with this. 20 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.000 You were telling us that. Yeah, the. The television. 21 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:38.000 Yeah, I've got over 6, 000 channels all over the world. 22 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:39.000 So you're. 23 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:50.000 So. I've. I. I can watch any game. Any game. I could watch a game. Let's say Australia is playing the U.S. i could watch it from an Australian station in Sydney. I can watch their fee. 24 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Who's your pick? 25 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:59.000 I'm going for Iran. Iraq. Iran. I mean, I'm going for Iran. No, Iraq. I'm going for one of those two. 26 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:00.000 Huh? 27 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:36.000 The ones that we are. We. We attacked and killed and murdered Iran, I think. Yeah, Iran. I'm pulling for them. They played most recently Iran. Yeah. But they played a great game. Yesterday was a great tie. It's amazing how it's like the only sport where a tie can actually be really entertaining, you know? Huh? It's really amazing. And the game on Sunday with the. The Japs and the. The Netherlands, they played a tie game. And that was an amazing game, huh? Amazing. But I'm going for Iraq because I want them to win it all and spit on the US they look at us, man. 28 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:46.000 A lot of people are pulling for Iran against the United States. It's crazy, man. Crazy. Going nuts. Yeah. 29 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:53.000 They're always a tough team. But do you remember about two World Cups ago, one of the players for Uruguay bit another player? 30 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.000 Yeah. 31 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:55.000 Remember that? 32 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:01.000 Yeah, yeah, I remember his name. He was. That's why I Love him so much, I think I can't remember the guy's name, but, yeah, he bit the guy. 33 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:10.000 Yeah, it was like a Tyson on a soccer field. He just bit the guy. I forget his name, too, and I forget who they were playing. But that was about two World Cups 34 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:11.000 ago, I think so. Yeah. 35 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:12.000 Yeah. 36 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:16.000 And he's been known to do it. He had done it before. It was not his first bite. 37 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:19.000 Yeah, it's one of his moves. 38 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.000 And he was apparently one of their top players or something. I don't know. Defenders or whatever. I don't know. 39 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.000 So we got to watch out for that. The young Uruguayan soccer players, for some 40 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:40.000 reason, you know, they won. They won. They were like the Cinderella team that won back in the 30s or something. Right. And they've never won since. But they always seem to get there, you know, they always seem to be in the Cup. 41 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.000 They're scrappy. They're always scrappy. 42 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:59.000 They're scrappy. Like Italy. Italy hasn't been in it since, like, 2012. They haven't even qualified because, you know, there's like, four years of qualifying for these teams to get in, because you have every country in the world trying to qualify for these 48 spots. 43 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:00.000 Okay. 44 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:22.000 You know, and look at the Cape Verde. They. They. They held Spain to Nasina yesterday. And this. This is a little island nation of about 250,000 people that qualified. They're ranked 67th in the world. And they tied the number two team in the world, Spain, which they celebrated like, they just, you know, won. 45 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.000 Won the whole thing, huh? 46 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.000 Yeah. And it was, like, amazing. 47 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:26.000 All right. 48 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.000 You know, crazy drama there. Yeah. A little island off the coast of West Africa. 49 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.000 I'm missing out on it all. I can't, can't, can't. 50 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:41.000 Of course, you know, I. I have to watch it in the Spanish language because it's so much funner and more exciting to watch it in the Spanish, 51 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.000 they call it better. It's just. It's just so. 52 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.000 It's just exactly. 53 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.000 There's. 54 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:50.000 There's inflection in that voice. Whereas Amer. It's just so. So blase and homogenized. 55 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:51.000 Right. 56 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:52.000 Watching an English person do it. 57 00:04:52.000 --> 00:05:08.000 Right. Exactly. Where, you know, it's like, oh, what a gold for that. For the English, you know, where it's like, you listen to in Spanish. I mean, it's just like. It's just like crazy. Going nuts. But even, like the leading up, this stuff, you know, it's just what they're talking about. 58 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.000 Yeah. 59 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:17.000 You know, Anyway, so that's what I'm watching. I'm excited about it. I'm missing a great game right now for it, you know, which I. Hopefully I'll be able to get home and watch the end of it. Yeah. 60 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.000 You know, this thing's last. 61 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.000 I'm trying to watch it all. 62 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.000 Okay. 63 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 Because it only comes around every four years. 64 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:24.000 Yeah. 65 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:34.000 You know, and you got to remember, the United States wouldn't even be in it if they weren't hosting the. The. The cup. They get an automatic entry because they host it. 66 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.000 Well, FIFA is very, very corrupt, is it not? 67 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.000 Yes. 68 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.000 The whole organization, it's. 69 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:39.000 It's all. 70 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:47.000 I think it's run by a bunch of money. Oh, yeah, it's the Illuminati. It's what. It's their guys. They just call it FIFA. 71 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:50.000 I think it's a lot of. A lot of oil money. 72 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Well, it's very. You know, people get into it, man. 73 00:05:53.000 --> 00:06:15.000 All right, well, you know, God bless them. Glad they're having something they can enjoy now. I don't know. Some other news going on here, and I know I was out of town this weekend. I was up in Tennessee playing a few dates, but apparently I missed the. The annual naked bike ride, which we seem to always mention on this podcast at. Annual event. 74 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.000 It's so stupid. 75 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:17.000 Did you attend? 76 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:32.000 No, I didn't. That shit. Oh, well, you know, it's the only. It's the only time, you know, people on bicycles don't get hit by cars for some reason. It is this bike race or this bike run, whatever they call it, usually 77 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:43.000 for things like that. It may sound alluring. Ooh, naked bike ride. But there's usually only about two or three people that you'd actually want to see naked doing it out of the 500. 78 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.000 Oh, yeah. No, I think you want to put your eyes out. 79 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 Yeah. Most of the time it's like, oh, my goodness. Yeah. 80 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Well, what's it. There's naked, there's good naked, and there's bad naked. And that's definitely. 81 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:54.000 Exactly. 82 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.000 Because that's definitely bad naked, you know. 83 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:56.000 Right, right, right. 84 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:01.000 People there and all that. It's always the ugliest and fat as fucks you ever want you anyway, you 85 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:06.000 have to be like, how often do you ride your bike? Really? Like, look at you. 86 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Sure. 87 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:17.000 Exactly. Is this the only day of the year? But, yeah, so it's. They get some exercise out of it. No, I didn't go to that, man. I don't need that in my life, man. 88 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:35.000 Well, did you see this item in the news? This was in Brazil I believe, had a woman. You know, people go on vacations, they get talked into, you know, doing something exciting, you know, free diving, or in this case, the bungee. Bungee jumping. 89 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.000 It's not bungee. It's rope swinging. 90 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:38.000 It's. 91 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:39.000 Well, I don't know. Is that. 92 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:48.000 Is that what it was? Yeah, that's what it was, what they call it, because I actually read even more about that. There's actually an international organization for bungee jumping. 93 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:49.000 Okay. 94 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:55.000 And they're saying this is giving us a bad name because it wasn't bungee jumping what they were doing. It's rope swinging. 95 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:27.000 Well, so I'm sure everyone's seen the video by now, but in case you haven't seen it, there, the person's being filmed from behind and you can see the whole thing on the camera. And I guess they couldn't see, but as soon as they showed it on television, I noticed right away there's no rope attached to her. And this poor woman, they just launch her off the side of this 130, 30 foot high bridge and she just sails down unobstructed, you know, and they 96 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:36.000 forgot the rope, forgot to hook her up. It was three guys. It was like they were going, I thought you were supposed to do it. No, I thought you. No, that wasn't me. You're supposed to do it. I did the last time. 97 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:45.000 It goes back to my rule of thumb that, you know, there's certain things you just don't do because. Why, what could. What could the possible upside be of it? 98 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:52.000 You know, it's like jumping off of bridge with the rope. That's. There's very few upsides. Like. 99 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.000 Yeah, yeah, I don't know. 100 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.000 I don't know. Some adrenaline for a second. 101 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 Supposed to be terrifying. I'm sure it was terrifying. 102 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:59.000 Yeah. 103 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:00.000 But. 104 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.000 Yeah, for a lot of people, the last. 105 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.000 The last thrill. Last. 106 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:08.000 Well, it's like always, the only people that are going to win are the lawyers. The lawyers will win. 107 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:09.000 Sure. 108 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:20.000 Sure, they'll win. You know, but. Yeah, those South Americans, they're crazy people, man. They should have been at the World Cup. Why are they throwing. Why are they jumping off bridges, man? Man, they should be at the World cup supporting their team. 109 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.000 Yep. 110 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:22.000 You know. 111 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.000 Okay, well, you have anything else there, man? 112 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:24.000 Yeah, I got plenty. 113 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Okay. 114 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:36.000 While you were gone, I. I saw this thing. You know what do you usually tip when you go to a restaurant? You try to do the 20%. 115 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:37.000 Sure, sure. 20%, 25. 116 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:43.000 Being. Being an ex waiter, I might push it up a little bit, But I have 20% for sure. 117 00:09:43.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Yeah. Okay, so you're an ex waiter. This waiter, in some town, I think it was in Ohio or maybe Pennsylvania. And it was apparently a $200 bill. And the customer left a $50 tip, which is 20%. 118 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:04.000 Yeah, 25%. 119 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:12.000 20, 25%. And the waiter looked at him and goes, I'm not taking this. 120 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.000 What? 121 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:17.000 I want $85. What? And the, the woman was like, that's 122 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:18.000 not really the way it works. 123 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:35.000 Yeah. He goes, I want $85. 200. And that's like a 42% tip. Jeez. 40. And it was this big thing and basically the woman, the customer just said, well, if you don't want it, I'll take it right back. Sure, put it back in her pocket. Right. 124 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.000 Yeah. 125 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.000 You. 126 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.000 I don't have to give you nothing. 127 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:43.000 I don't have to give you anything. Really. Yeah. But this guy, this waiter, he. He refused a $50 tip, man. 128 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.000 You know that. Yeah, I could be mentally ill. I don't know. 129 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.000 Maybe it's just like, I don't know, whatever became of it, there was no real resolution to it. Like, did. 130 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:54.000 Oh, there was a resolution. He got nothing. 131 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:17.000 Yeah. But did he get fired? I know it went on online. The woman was interviewed by all those magazine shows and stuff. It's just like, who's going to say no to 50 bucks? Yeah. An idiot. This guy's an idiot. I hope he got fired. I hope he's washing dishes now, you know, but anyway, that happened. I thought that was crazy. Going nuts. 132 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:18.000 Yeah. 133 00:11:18.000 --> 00:12:08.000 And then over, I think it was about two weeks ago, there was a guy, speaking of 42%. He was, he was celebrating his 42nd birthday and apparently it was a whole day long party. He's celebrating his 42nd birthday. This is in Orange County, California, you know, which is kind of a crazy area of California. He got, he was drinking and apparently witnesses said he had two quarts of Jack Daniels. He drank two quarts of Jack Daniels. And then this is at his own birthday party. His family's there visiting. Family and friends are visiting. And he comes out of his bedroom with guns and just starts shooting everywhere. Fortunately for him, he didn't kill anybody. 134 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.000 Wow. 135 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:34.000 They ran like crazy. And then he was still in the house. The family called the cops on him. Later, about 20 minutes later, the cops are coming. 20 minutes. A helicopter, a sheriff's helicopter is coming overhead to check out the scene. He gets on like his balcony and starts shooting at the helicopter. Jeez. So one night of partying for this guy, one drunken Night. Now he's facing up to 24 years in prison. 136 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.000 Oh, I'll bet. 137 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:36.000 You know, so. 138 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.000 Yeah. 139 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:44.000 Yeah. I never was a Jack guy, really. You know, Jack and coke once in a while in my younger days. But at 42, you got to move on. 140 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.000 Yeah, exactly. 141 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:46.000 Yeah. 142 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:48.000 I'm having one right, Jack? 143 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:49.000 Right now. 144 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:50.000 You don't have any firearms. 145 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:55.000 No, I have no firearms, and I'm only having one. I'm not gonna drink two bottles of it. 146 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.000 Right, right. 147 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:00.000 That's. That's the whole. That's the whole thing. Like, drinking it kind of responsibly if you're gonna. Yeah. 148 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:10.000 I never understand people that get a good head of steam with the booze and think, oh, this will be a good time to pull out the guns. 149 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:11.000 Exactly. 150 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.000 Yeah. 151 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:15.000 It's like. I don't know. I don't know what. How that. 152 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:19.000 Knives. Okay. Well, not guns. Well, yeah, you know, you could break out the knives. 153 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:30.000 Being from a rural south southern Louisiana town, I had a lot of friends that like the. The whole get. Get drunk and pull out the shotguns and let's shoot things. 154 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 Oh, geez. No, that's. You're asking for trouble. 155 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.000 Yeah. Yeah, I did. It was. It was. It was nothing but trouble. As a matter of fact. 156 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:38.000 Yeah. 157 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:47.000 Manny was talking about something last week where the. The forest rangers were. A show where they were arresting drunk hunters. 158 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:55.000 Yeah. It's called Drunk Louisiana. It's a hunting show. It's a cop show where they. They bust drunk Louisiana hunters. 159 00:13:55.000 --> 00:14:11.000 That's probably every single one of them. I don't know. A hunter that doesn't get loaded. You know, it's not. They don't. It's. It's weird. It's weird. It's like. Yeah, it's like that. It's like their thing. I'm gonna go sit up in a stand with a gun. I better bring a bottle of bourbon. Right, Because. 160 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.000 Just to stay warm. 161 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.000 To stay warm. 162 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.000 That's what they say, right? 163 00:14:14.000 --> 00:15:13.000 Yeah. That's crazy. Also in the news, and they're doing it now at our former place, New Orleans Athletic Club, that we used to do this show at. It's a new aerobics kind of thing, and it's catching the nation by storm. And they're even offering it where I go. My club. It's where you put. You get a pack, maybe two packs of post it notes, and you write things that you want to get rid of in your life. You know, you want to get rid of your. Whatever, you know, your sugar. You don't want to Eat sugar anymore. Right. You know, resolutions and stuff. Or maybe things. Affirmation stuff and things like that. And you write them on these post it notes and then you stick them all over your body. You stick them all over your body and then they put on this aerobics music and you dance and you. You dance and you dance and you do all these exercises until every post it note falls off your body. 164 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:14.000 Okay. 165 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:27.000 And they're offering it at my place, and I tried to sign up for it, but they looked at me and they said, you're gonna need more than one pack of post it notes because they know me there. 166 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:28.000 Right. 167 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.000 But apparently it's taken the country by storm. 168 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.000 I hadn't heard of that. 169 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 Oh, yeah, you can YouTube it. It's crazy going on. Yeah. 170 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.000 Did you say that you could wear clothes that were like three sizes too big? 171 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 Well, I don't know. 172 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.000 You cover me with as many of them as you want. 173 00:15:43.000 --> 00:16:10.000 I mean, I saw footage of it. There was girls, like, in aerobic outfits, and there was girl. People just wear. It was mostly girls and people wearing just sweatpants and sweatshirts and stuff. And it was funny to watch because some of these post it notes flew off of these people really fast. And some of them, for some reason, didn't fly off at all. And they were moving just as fast. They were doing the same moves and stuff, but they just weren't coming off. So I don't know if that says anything about these people. 174 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:15.000 Like, I would be interested in the naked post it note of Robi's class. 175 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:16.000 Okay, well, would you. 176 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.000 That's better than the bike ride. 177 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:24.000 We already discussed that nakedness could be. Could be a real deal. Have a lot of downsides to it. 178 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.000 I would like to. The naked drunk hunting. 179 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:31.000 Ah, yeah, that's. That's a winner. 180 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.000 All right. Shooting people on bikes. 181 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.000 Couldn't. No concealed weapons there. 182 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Yeah. So that's a big thing that's happening now. Other than that, I'm. I'm just all hyped up about everything else except that. And I got world fever on my mind. Fever. 183 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Well, we got. I have one more. One more piece of information before we get to the guest here. You know, we've had the. The ongoing saga of the phrase welcome in. 184 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.000 Oh, yeah. 185 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:23.000 And so since we've spoken about it on the show, now we're hearing more troubled listeners weighing in, bringing examples of people using that phrase welcome in. Like when you go into. To a restaurant or something. You know, it's a new thing that I started hearing in the last year. Or so where they start saying welcome in. Weird phrase. 186 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:28.000 Very. As a. As the. As the ex matra. D. It's just welcome, welcome. 187 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:44.000 Right, right. But no, now it's. It's a new thing. And so the Eddie V, our longtime patron and and troubled listener, weighed in. He said he heard. Heard it in a Walgreens in Flowwood, Mississippi. Somebody said, welcome in. 188 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Well, I heard it. Well, that tracks. Chase bank commercial. 189 00:17:48.000 --> 00:18:00.000 Well, that, that. And then he said. Then he sent me the, the, the link of, of he had taped it off his television where it's. Yeah, Chase Bank. And, and the woman banker says welcome in to Chase. 190 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.000 Ben, did I tell you I was at Martin's Winery? And the girl said that. 191 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Said that to you? 192 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:11.000 Yeah, I told you that already. And then it's not a motel. We're not a motel here. 193 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:35.000 Then, since then, an article and Apple News appeared tracing the origins of the phrase welcome in. And they say it maybe was somewhere floating around in the south or something in the early 2010s. But then in the aftermath of the pandemic that recent, huh? Yeah, it's. Well, I mean, it's. 194 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.000 They're saying it's a Southern thing. 195 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.000 Well, they're. 196 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.000 Yeah. 197 00:18:37.000 --> 00:19:06.000 Saying possibly, you know, they're trying to find the first iterations of this showing up somewhere and that. Yeah, possibly somewhere in the South. But then it got, you know, got into the hospitality industry and maybe somebody wrote articles about it or something promoting this and, and starting post lockdown that it has become more universal that people are using this in the hospitality industry. Welcome in. Strange. 198 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:10.000 I think next time someone says it to me, I'm going to tell them to shut the up. 199 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:11.000 That's one way to stop it. 200 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:12.000 Shut the up. 201 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.000 That's one way to stop it for sure, you know. 202 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.000 All right. 203 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:21.000 I don't know if the Southern thing works for me because usually we make things simpler. We don't add a word. 204 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:22.000 Yeah. 205 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.000 If you can get away with saying welcome, you don't say welcome in. 206 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000 Yeah. 207 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000 Because you have to say more. 208 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:26.000 That doesn't sound like. 209 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:27.000 That doesn't track. 210 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:33.000 New Orleans. That's what this article I was reading was. Was suggesting that. Well, somewhere else. 211 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:38.000 Yeah, it's. But, you know, I got one more thing. This Friday is Juneteenth. 212 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.000 Oh, yeah. 213 00:19:39.000 --> 00:20:10.000 Yeah. And you know, it's. It's a great holiday, you know, all that. And I was thinking about how long it took for them to get this federal holiday and stuff like that. And then I started thinking back about MLK Day and, you know, we Always talk about Florida and Arizona, right? You know, being the freaky states and stuff like that. And then I realized that Arizona was the last state to get on board to make it a federal holiday for. 214 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.000 For mlk. 215 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:31.000 Yeah. For MLK Day. I think to myself, boy, boy, you've got to be really fucking racist not to want a paid holiday. Yeah, yeah. You know, you really have to be racist to say. Say, you mean I don't have to go to work and you're gonna pay me, right? That MLK guy. No way. 216 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.000 Sure, sure. 217 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.000 You know. 218 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.000 Well, I guess they're committed. 219 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:37.000 Yeah, well, they. They finally passed it right on. 220 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:40.000 I think they like to drink when they hunt in Arizona, too. 221 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:47.000 Okay. Yeah, I could say that. It's not. There's not a ton of people in Arizona. It's a lot of empty space, right? 222 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:49.000 I. I think so. Desert. 223 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:50.000 Desert, yeah. 224 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:51.000 Yeah, yeah. 225 00:20:51.000 --> 00:21:01.000 I do love the desert, but in. Only in small doses. Can't take the dry heat. People. People seem to love it, but not me. Well, can we get to our guest here? 226 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.000 You like the humidity heat? 227 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.000 I do like the humidity, yeah. 228 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:07.000 I like it to feel like the womb. 229 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:08.000 Yes. 230 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:12.000 I want to be 98.6 degrees and about 98% humidity. 231 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.000 Yeah. 232 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.000 I want to feel that's like. I've never left the womb. 233 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:21.000 I don't like to change my underwear every day down here. You have to with this humidity, man. 234 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:22.000 Oh, yeah. 235 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.000 You know, I'd rather have that dry heat going through my balls. 236 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.000 No, no, no, I don't care. 237 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000 It dries out your skin. Look at this. Not a wrinkle. 57 years old. 238 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:33.000 That's right, baby. Soft. 239 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.000 It just stays. It's just like. 240 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:36.000 You're only 57. 241 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.000 Yeah, I'm only 57. 242 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.000 You'll get them. Don't worry about it. You already went bald. 243 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.000 I know. Yeah, exactly. 244 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.000 You already has. 245 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.000 Nothing to do with the humidity, though. Well, let's get our guest in here. 246 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:49.000 All right. 247 00:21:48.000 --> 00:22:17.000 Well, it's a guest I've known for, for a good long time. He's a terrific drummer, guitar player, songwriter, singer. He plays with bands such as Narcissi, the Bonapartes, the Low Amps. Did a lot of jobs with the great John Sinclair, also with Carlo Ditta, and has a band up there in a beat of where he lives, the Abitols. And he's also an artist and a sausage maker, and. 248 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.000 That's right. 249 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:21.000 So we're going to get into all that, find out. Maybe find out how the sausage is made before it's all. 250 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.000 Oh, absolutely. 251 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:30.000 So we're going to get into all that and more. But without further ado, the great Mr. Anthony Donato. Welcome, Anthony. 252 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.000 Well, thank you for having me, y'. 253 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:32.000 All. 254 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:37.000 Yeah, yeah. Glad you could do it. And you, you brave the potential 255 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:38.000 tropical storm? Yeah, yeah. 256 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:41.000 Forming out in the Gulf. You came, came down from Abita. 257 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:46.000 Being from south Louisiana, we don't really, you know, tropical storm, like, okay, I can make it to the store. 258 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.000 Yeah, it's not no big deal. 259 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.000 Yeah, right, right, right. 260 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:52.000 Tell us, tell us a little bit about your background. You're not from New Orleans. 261 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:57.000 I am not from New Orleans. I'm from a little town called New Iberia, Louisiana. 262 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.000 New I. 263 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.000 About two and a half hours west of here. 264 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:05.000 Okay. Now, the Donato family been in. Been in New Iberia for some time. 265 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:50.000 No, not at all. My dad was from Brooklyn and my mom was from north Louisiana. And when my dad got out of Korea, he went to broadcasting school. And they said, hey, if you make it through this program, we promise you you will get you a job. And he was like, cool, I'm making the three. He's like, he's, you know, he said only like 40 of the guys, it's like only about 12 of them made it through the whole program. And he's like thinking, boy, yeah, I'm going to 30 Rock. I'm gonna be working in Manhattan. This is gonna be so cool. And they're like, hey, congratulations. They hand him his degree and, oh, by the way, your job is in New Iberia, Louisiana, at knir. And he's like, where is that? Like, he had no idea where Louisiana was, I don't think. And he ended up down here. 266 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.000 Huh. So he must have liked it, huh? 267 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:55.000 I think so. I think he did. Yeah. 268 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.000 Right on. So did he. Was that a long time career for him? 269 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:15.000 Yes, yeah. He was in radio for decades. And it was kind of cool because he's kind of like a little. He was not kind. He was a local celebrity because in the 60s, radio in south Louis, not everybody had TVs, everybody had a radio. So my dad was still in the radio was still kind of the main. The big dog. 270 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.000 So he was playing music or doing news or doing everything. 271 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:31.000 He was doing everything and that. And at that time, he was more. More the on the air guy. Like, he was. He went into like sales and managing the stations and all that stuff. But as a younger man, he was a dj, he was the news guy, he was the weather guy. 272 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:32.000 Right. 273 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:34.000 He did like the, you know, he 274 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.000 would go in hurricanes, doing AM and fm. 275 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.000 If you had fm, yes, they had fm. 276 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:41.000 Really? 277 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:46.000 He was working at a AM station, but he has worked. He did work at FM stations too. 278 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:47.000 Huh. 279 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:50.000 So that your whole time. Time growing up, he was. That was his business that he was in? 280 00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:09.000 Yeah, yeah, he was. And he like. And he would. He. For a long time. He did a lot of the commercials too. And like my. At 5 years old, I did my first commercial for a local eatery called Cornies. And I was like, I like Corny's hot dogs and corn dogs. And that was my line. 281 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.000 Just a radio commercial? 282 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.000 Yeah, radio commercial. 283 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:17.000 Nice, nice. So did the. Did. Were you bitten by the showbiz bug early on? 284 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:49.000 Maybe. I don't. I don't really. I like that. I like doing the radio stuff, but like as far as music and Stu, I didn't have. I went to a little bitty school. Didn't have much of an arts program or anything like that. I thought music musicians were like magic, you know. I don't know how they do that. I love music. We always played it. But I was like. It was just like this foreign entity of. Wow. And then a buddy of mine learned how to play the drums and I was like, well, if that guy can do it, geez. You know. And he like. And I got him to show me a little. I like the simplest drum beat. And I kind of went from there. 285 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:57.000 Huh. Well. So down in New. New Iberia, did they have a lot of local bands playing? They have. 286 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:23.000 Oh yeah, yeah. That was. They were like, you know, in high school we had the heavy metal bands. My buddy that taught me how to band called Keystone and they would do like Rush covers and they'd, you know, all these heavy metal or more. Even more heavier heavy metal kind of stuff. And I can remember, yeah, it was pretty vibrant, you know. Like a bunch of the VFW halls around New Iberia were full of little rock bands. Just about any weekend on any given weekend, you know. 287 00:26:23.000 --> 00:26:28.000 Right. Because there wasn't like a ton of stuff to do. So if you put on a show like that probably. Probably be pretty well attended. 288 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:38.000 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And. And the people, it. It's a fun. The people there like to party, you know, so if you give them a little chance to, they'll take full advantage of it. 289 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:49.000 Right Now, I'm assuming since your dad was from Brooklyn and he sent down here, he didn't automatically become like a drunk hunter. It was tired. None of that was around? 290 00:26:49.000 --> 00:27:18.000 No, no, no, it was around. But I can remember him telling me like the first Time. Like, the dudes, they're like, hey, Mal, come hunting with us. And he's like, I've never been hunting. What do you do? And they're like, well, you got to get up at like 3, 4 o' clock in the morning. And he's like, okay, that's X. They're like, well, then it's going to be really cold, so you're going to need some really warm clothes. He's like, ah, cold, huh, X? He's like, where are we going? We go out into the marsh. Oh, cold, wet out in the marsh. No, I don't enjoy you boys. Yeah. 291 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.000 What's the upside? 292 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:23.000 All right, the drinking, I guess to 293 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.000 get away from your family or something. 294 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:32.000 I don't know. That may have good that you never really got introduced to that. I mean, he didn't. I guess he just wasn't turned on by. 295 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:37.000 No, no. And he, he had been like a. He was a combat veteran, so he didn't want to play with guns anymore. 296 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:38.000 He was like, yeah, sure. 297 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.000 Not enough of that, boys, I'll have fun. 298 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:47.000 Like, he was. Korea, you said yes. Okay, Korea. So, yeah, that was. Yeah. Okay, now what about like fishing did he get. 299 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.000 Oh, yeah, he loved that. 300 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.000 He loved fish. 301 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:54.000 He loved fishing. We had a boat. We usually had a boat around and he would drag us out there. 302 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.000 And how many of you, your mom and your. How many kids? 303 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.000 I had one brother and one sister. They're both older than me. 304 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.000 All right, so the fishing was there. 305 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:04.000 Fishing was definitely there. 306 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.000 Okay, now, being from Brooklyn, does he 307 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.000 or did he like, had no idea how to fish? 308 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Well, yeah, but. 309 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:19.000 Yeah, probably had no idea how to fish. But he tried, he tried the bodies. 310 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:31.000 But I mean, did he get into to automatically, like? Because I'm sure being at a radio station and having to promote businesses and stuff, he's having to go to the hot dog eating contest or across eating 311 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:35.000 contest and he would cover those. He would go and he was the guy. 312 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.000 Did he like that? Did he like crawfish? 313 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:42.000 Oh, he, he was all right. He ate it. He wasn't like crazy about or anything, but he was fine with it. 314 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:46.000 Yeah, but he liked the local color aspect of it. 315 00:28:46.000 --> 00:29:06.000 Yeah. And he, and he had fun with it. You know, he realized he was the Brooklyn kid and like, he made it work for him. He said the first thing he ever did, like, he got to New Iberia and they sent him to a livestock auction. And the main guy that they hired to call the livestock auction was Paul Harvey. 316 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.000 Oh, wow. 317 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:32.000 And his first show was Paul Harvey was doing it, and he was. The guy in the pit. Is that. Paul Harvey would be like, okay, I'm going to throw it down to Mal in the. In the pit, like, with the Animals. And my dad just was like, hey, yeah. Oh, you know, he was just, you know, like, Brooklyn Kid Fresh, never seen a pig. Was like. Just like. And he said, paul Harvey and I had a blast because he played into it and I played into it, and we just had fun with it the whole day. 318 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:44.000 Nice. Well, so are you leaving? Going out, like, to New Orleans to see. See shows as a. As a high school student or in 319 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.000 high school, we could hit. We. I would hit Lafayette. 320 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.000 Okay. 321 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.000 There was this place, the Grant Street Dance Hall. 322 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.000 Oh, sure. Yeah. Played there many times. 323 00:29:51.000 --> 00:30:04.000 I think I made fake IDs to go and see the blue runners and dash rip rock there. When I was in high school, there was another little place that came along called Jerry's, and they would pull in kind of the punk bands. 324 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:06.000 What year is this? 325 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:13.000 86, 85, 86, 87. Somewhere in there. Didn't start hitting New Orleans, really, until I went to college. 326 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:18.000 Okay, now, were you starting to. You're playing drums already by the time you're going to see these shows? 327 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.000 No, no, no. 328 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.000 Okay. 329 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:30.000 I started playing in college. Really. And that was just very, like. Just with partners. There was no bands. I was not in a. There was nothing organized or anything like that, so. 330 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.000 So you escaped New Iberia by going to lsu? 331 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.000 Yes. 332 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:37.000 And what did you go to school for? 333 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:39.000 I went to school to go to school. 334 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:40.000 Okay, sure, right. 335 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.000 I saw Animal House when I was, like, in fifth grade, and I was like, I want to go to college. 336 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.000 Yeah. 337 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.000 So that's the way I kind of handled it. 338 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.000 All right. 339 00:30:48.000 --> 00:31:00.000 But I did really learn how to work bureaucracy. You know, I could write. They would. You know, they tried to throw me out. And I would write a letter to the. To the board of supervisors, and they would be like, oh, it's cool. You can stay. 340 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:01.000 What school is this? 341 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:02.000 Lsu. 342 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:02.000 Oh, lsu. 343 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.000 Yeah. 344 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.000 Yeah, that's. That seems about right. 345 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:08.000 Yeah, it was. It was pretty cool. But I had. 346 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.000 I. 347 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:19.000 Pretty good writing skills. Like, I tested out a freshman English, so I could. I had. I had a little bit of, you know, they could see that I was like, oh, this kid's not completely, you know, potential. Like, he's got a little potential. 348 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.000 He's not saying welcome in. 349 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.000 No, I did not say welcome in. 350 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:25.000 Saying welcome, yes, you're smart. 351 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:32.000 And I learned. I learned the grammar. I remember thinking that was Important like where to put the commas and the periods and all that. That's like. 352 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.000 Sure. 353 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:35.000 Writing punctuation. Punctuation. 354 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:40.000 Here at the. At the two lane over here. Yeah, right. You know. 355 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:43.000 You know, stay right on the mic, man. 356 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:45.000 Professors and stuff like that, you know? 357 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:46.000 Yeah. 358 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:50.000 My grammar is just awful, you know, So I thank goodness for. For the spell check. 359 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:59.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. The most useful class I ever took was called business writing or business. It was something like that, but it just taught you how to pre. 360 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:00.000 How to. 361 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:07.000 How to write a letter. Like, where your name goes, where the business name goes, where your name goes, how you started, how you ended. 362 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.000 Where is it? The same way on the computer, though. 363 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:16.000 That must be. It's different now because this was all, like, typewriters and hand. You know, your hand sign and all that. 364 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:17.000 Liquid paper. 365 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:24.000 Yeah. I'm part of the old school. It's all obsolete now. So whatever I learned is probably completely useless. 366 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.000 Right. 367 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:37.000 Unless I'm, like, gonna go back to the typewriter, which fonts. And who's gonna open up an envelope? What. What company still accepts, like, paper letters? Like, it's all emails now. Right. You can't really mail a letter to anybody now. 368 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:38.000 I had to head to mail. 369 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000 Unless it has anthrax in it. 370 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.000 Yeah. 371 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.000 To mail a certified letter to a tenant trying to evict the other day. 372 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:48.000 So that's. That's touchy, huh? 373 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Still got to do it. 374 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Yeah. 375 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:58.000 It's the first one I've ever had to do that with. This guy's going bad on me. Good tenants go bad. Well, so. So you graduate from LSU or. 376 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:09.000 Yeah, I think that the unit. The institution and I decided that there was no longer a future. Yeah. Not. Not a. Yeah. I had done everything I had meant to do there. 377 00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:15.000 I understand. Manny and I had similar experience in college. So from there, you don't go back to New Iberia. 378 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:25.000 You go to New Orleans. Bright lights, big city, New Orleans. Right into the Quarter. Got a place in the Quarter. Got a job at the rib room. Oh, and started working. 379 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.000 Just started bitching about tips. 380 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.000 Working as a waiter. Working. 381 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.000 Yeah. Waiter. As a waiter. 382 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000 There's a rib room still here? 383 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.000 Oh, yeah, absolutely. 384 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.000 Where is it? 385 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.000 At the Omni Royal Orleans. It's the restaurant in there. 386 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.000 Oh, right, right, right. 387 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:42.000 And it's impressive, dude. 388 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:43.000 Is it? 389 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:44.000 Yeah. 390 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:53.000 They have prime rib lunches, Dude. They have a whole wall of prime ribs on our rotisserie. Own rotisseries. Just like. And I was like, yeah, this is going to be a good place to work. 391 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.000 So you had an apartment there in the French Quarter? 392 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:57.000 Yes, I have a little apartment in the French Quarter. 393 00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:01.000 That's when. And. And what year was this? It's probably early 90s. 394 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:03.000 Early mid-90s. Yeah. 395 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:07.000 Okay. Crack 394 apartments were still relatively cheap. 396 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:23.000 Yes. I never paid more than $425 a month for an apartment in the French Quarter. And I was in the French quarter. I paid 375 in the French Quarter. And when I got evicted from that one, not that I was a bad tenant, but I was loud, I guess, from my neighbors. 397 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.000 Okay. 398 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:27.000 And then I went to middle Loud in the Quarter. 399 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.000 How did you get evicted for that? 400 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:33.000 I don't know. I don't know how you do that, but I did it. 401 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:36.000