Who's Your Band? - Episode 168 - Novelty Hits with Actor, Comedian, and Writer Dave Juskow!
Who's Your Band? Episode 168 with hosts Jeffrey Paul and Sean Morton with special guest, comedian, actor, and writer Dave Juskow!
Get ready for a wild ride down memory lane as we dive into the world of novelty hits that you might not even remember! Today, we dig into those cringe-worthy songs that somehow made it to the airwaves, like Rick D's infamous "Disco Duck" and its lesser-known sequel, "Disco Rilla." Comedian Dave Juskow returns to the show, as we explore the bizarre and often hilarious side of music history. Trust me, you won't want to miss our takes on these forgotten gems that’ll have you laughing and cringing in equal measure. So grab your headphones, sit back, and let's reminisce about the ridiculousness of novelty songs that could only exist in the wacky world of the 70s and 80s!
Transcript
Sam.
Speaker A:Welcome, everybody, to Hoosier Band.
Speaker A:I am Jeffrey Paul.
Speaker A:I'm joined by Sean Morton.
Speaker A:How are you, Sean?
Speaker B:Fantabulous.
Speaker B:How are you, Jeffrey?
Speaker A:I'm good.
Speaker A:On this rainy Monday, championship Monday basketball game going on a little bit later tonight.
Speaker A:But before we do that, before we talk about anything, let's bring our guest in.
Speaker A:He's been on the show before.
Speaker A:He's a comedian, he's an actor.
Speaker A:He is easily one of my favorite guests on this show.
Speaker A:Otherwise, we wouldn't keep having him on.
Speaker A:Mr.
Speaker A:Dave Juskow.
Speaker A:How are you, Dave?
Speaker C:Hello, everybody.
Speaker C:Nice to be here.
Speaker C:Thank you for having me.
Speaker A:It's always a pleasure, man.
Speaker A:I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker A:So we always talk about, you know, like, clips and bad 70s and 80s, you know, music and nostalgia.
Speaker A:But there is a genre that is just so cringe.
Speaker A:I mean, last time we were on, we were talking dance crazes, okay?
Speaker A:So this time what we're going to do is we're going to start talking novelty hits.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:But like, not the ones that you would think that jump out at you.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Some of the ones that kind of flew underneath the radar that, that, that are just like, oh, my God.
Speaker A:All right, so I'll give you an example.
Speaker A:The first one we're going to do.
Speaker A:Adam, before you roll it, do you guys remember the.
Speaker A:The Rick D's hit, Disco Duck?
Speaker B:Yes, of course.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Did you know that there was a sequel to that song?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:I do not know, but I do know there was a sequel.
Speaker A:Dave, do you know that there was a sequel?
Speaker C:I think I only know, and I think it has something to do with dinosaurs and I.
Speaker C:Does it?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Oh.
Speaker C:I only know about the sequel because it's in that Bee Gees documentary.
Speaker A:Well, he had a song.
Speaker C:It's credited with ruining disco, from what I'm told.
Speaker A:Well, this.
Speaker A:This will ruin music.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:And this one was called Disco Rilla.
Speaker C:Oh, Disco Rilla.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I was close with the dinosaur, I guess.
Speaker C:Gorilla, right?
Speaker A:So we're gonna watch a clip of it.
Speaker A:You may know the people who are introducing the song.
Speaker A:Adam, can you play it, please, and just be ready.
Speaker A:Was.
Speaker A:Hey, how about you guys helping me introduce Rick D's?
Speaker C:Okay, hold it up.
Speaker A:Right away.
Speaker C:Mr.
Speaker C:Disco himself.
Speaker A:The guy who thought gorillas.
Speaker A:John, do you know who these people are?
Speaker B:Let me tell you something.
Speaker B:Not only do I know who those people are, not only did I watch this show all the time, I went to Chiller Theater about five or six years ago, which is the big horror convention.
Speaker B:And One of the big things for the autograph section was it was the first reunion of the three that were still living, which I guess was Raj, D, and Dwayne.
Speaker B:And people were literally running, surrounding them, screaming, no Roger, no rerun, no rent.
Speaker B:No Roger, no rerun, no rent for an hour.
Speaker B:An hour.
Speaker C:They were.
Speaker B:These people were like, losing their.
Speaker C:Such a great show.
Speaker A:Dave, do you know what Dee is doing now?
Speaker C:She's a veterinarian.
Speaker A:She is a veterinarian, but she was sassy.
Speaker C:Sassy.
Speaker C:And she grew up kind of sexy, actually.
Speaker C:And I only know this because I met Raj back in the 80s, and he told me when they were doing what's Happening now that he was actually a little attracted to her, which was awkward.
Speaker A:You know, I, I ran into her, and it may have been her going Chilla Theater.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:Yeah, because my wife's a veterinarian, and.
Speaker A:Yeah, so she'll go, like, to, like, these conferences as well.
Speaker A:And she may have been a speaker something there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But she, you know, it's amazing.
Speaker A:She grew up really pretty.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:She, when they did what's Happening now, she would be on a few episodes because she wanted to study and keep her studies going, which was so smart.
Speaker C:She.
Speaker C:So get this.
Speaker C:You know, I teach at a university in Jersey at Montclair State, and I've been teaching this class called the End of Network Television.
Speaker C:So I made the kids watch the Doobie Brothers episode with this because I was trying to explain, you know, these kind of shows, and they thought Dee was the greatest actress they've ever seen.
Speaker A:In their life, because not when she makes this introduction, she's not.
Speaker C:Well, it's just that there's.
Speaker C:There's nothing.
Speaker C:Maybe not here, but you and I and Sean, we all know you can't teach what she was doing on that show.
Speaker C:You know, it's just.
Speaker C:Give me a quarter.
Speaker B:She was a, she was a true character.
Speaker C:Like, Like, Yeah, like JJ on, On Good Times, you know, like, you can't teach that kind of acting.
Speaker C:It's just you, you are that person.
Speaker C:That's why they never worked again.
Speaker C:You know, you either like them or you don't like what they're doing.
Speaker C:That's true.
Speaker A:Filmed in front of a live audience, or was that a laugh track?
Speaker C:You know, I, I, I don't know.
Speaker C:I know that the Doobie Brothers one was definitely not in front of a live audience because it was just weird.
Speaker C:But, I mean, it was.
Speaker A:Do you remember the big joke line.
Speaker C:Out of that, out of that episode?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker C:Well, I remember the last Line, which is, I'm going to jail for a long time, and all I got to show for it is a fat kid eating popcorn.
Speaker A:But Rerun, you know, they introduce themselves, and Rerun goes, which doobie you be?
Speaker C:Yeah, actually, I think Roger.
Speaker C:Only because I watched this recently.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I always thought it was Rerun, too, but I think it's Raj on the phone with their management.
Speaker A:No, no, they were.
Speaker A:They were in.
Speaker A:They were in the coffee shop because they must have only had, like, two sets.
Speaker A:There was Mama's house and there was the coffee shop where Shirley Hemple worked.
Speaker A:And the brothers just happened to go to that coffee shop?
Speaker C:Well, no, they went to the.
Speaker C:They were playing at their school.
Speaker C:Apparently they all attended that high school and they were playing the school.
Speaker C:So they first saw them there at the school, and then they went to the coffee shop to take down Al Dunbar.
Speaker A:Was that the concert promoter?
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:Well, the fake.
Speaker C:The fake one.
Speaker C:The fake one who was stealing their stuff.
Speaker C:It was bootlegging.
Speaker A:That's right.
Speaker A:Which was a big thing.
Speaker A:All right, Adam, can we.
Speaker A:Can we show this?
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:Play it.
Speaker C:There it is.
Speaker A:It ain't even safe to go dancing anymore.
Speaker C:It is with this guy around.
Speaker A:Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
Speaker A:Disco Rick D.
Speaker A:Does this sound familiar to you guys?
Speaker A:Does this song sound familiar to you guys?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Let.
Speaker A:Let the chorus play then.
Speaker A:Stop it real quick.
Speaker A:Adam, let's.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's exactly Disco Duck.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:So here's what I would.
Speaker B:I like to do, Jeffrey.
Speaker B:I am going to take a chance on this.
Speaker B:I am going to make a phone call tomorrow and withdraw every dollar out of my 401k.
Speaker B:And what I like to do is take every single dollar that I have, and I want you to reenact Disco Rilla.
Speaker B:We're going to reshoot it.
Speaker B: It's: Speaker B:They need a new version.
Speaker B:I want the exact audio, I want the exact music, I want the exact outfits, I want a mustache.
Speaker B:I want everything.
Speaker B:I want you to be the star of it.
Speaker B:This is the kind of faith that I have in you.
Speaker A:Just go agrees to direct it.
Speaker C:I'll do it.
Speaker C:I'm in.
Speaker B:That was horrible.
Speaker C:Holy.
Speaker C:I'm pretty sure this is the one.
Speaker C:They.
Speaker C:Between Disco Duck and this and they the.
Speaker C:On the.
Speaker C:That incredible Bee Gees documentary that came out about two years ago.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:This gay DJ was talking about how disco started in the gay clubs and all that stuff and how the music was good and fun.
Speaker C:And then these.
Speaker C:This Rick D's technically responsible for ruining Disco Let alone what they did in Chicago at that Wrigley Field thing.
Speaker C:But yeah, he.
Speaker C:These kind of songs, he, The DJ is saying, ruined the fun and the magic of what was disco, especially for the gay community.
Speaker A:Do you remember, like, Disco Duck, it was in the movie Saturday Night Fever.
Speaker A:Did it make the soundtrack?
Speaker C:No, no, definitely not on the soundtrack.
Speaker C:Because that soundtrack is awesome, and I've listened to it a hundred times.
Speaker C:One of the few soundtracks I'll listen to the full album still to this day.
Speaker C:But is it in the movie?
Speaker C:Because I know it's in one of the other ones, but if it's in.
Speaker A:That movie, it's not in Staying Alive, Dave.
Speaker C:No, no, no, I know that, but I.
Speaker A:Have you ever seen Staying Alive?
Speaker C:It feels like it is in.
Speaker C:But how could that be?
Speaker C:Because the disco sensation.
Speaker C:But I mean, was it happening at 76 when they were filming the movie or.
Speaker A:This is the question.
Speaker A:And I wonder if you talk about this in your class, does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
Speaker C:Well, I think it's.
Speaker C:I think it's both, you know, and I think what happened was that Saturday Night Fever was a call to what's happening in these clubs.
Speaker C:I don't think they called it disco.
Speaker C:It's based on that New York magazine article on what happened in those clubs back in the 70s.
Speaker A:Adam, can you put that back up?
Speaker C:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:That guy that was up to 70%.
Speaker C:That guy that was teaching disco to the older people.
Speaker C:Okay, that.
Speaker C:That makes sense.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker C:Deleted scene added to the PG rated version.
Speaker C:That's so funny because, yeah, it was rated R.
Speaker C:And then it became so popular, they cut out all the rape scenes.
Speaker C:They made a PG version.
Speaker A:That scene when he goes in, he goes, how you doing?
Speaker A:He goes, well, I'm at 70% of it.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:That was an added scene.
Speaker C:I guess so.
Speaker C:I mean, I don't know.
Speaker C:Well, probably they took out that part, but I think that's what they.
Speaker C:They were dancing to.
Speaker C:Because you wouldn't see John Travolta dancing to that song.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker C:He's surprising that it came out so quickly because like I said, they were just getting Saturday Night favorite, got the disco, you know, trend to its fullest potential.
Speaker C:So for that song to be already out and popular in 77, that's incredible.
Speaker B:Actually telling us that Disco Duck made an appearance in the film Saturday Night Fever in a dance club scene in which a group of students were learning to dance.
Speaker B:It was also featured in a deleted scene.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C:Wait, did he not.
Speaker C:We just.
Speaker C:We just said that, though.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:I'm reading.
Speaker B:I'm reading.
Speaker C:I just read it.
Speaker C:It's on the private chat.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's go back.
Speaker A:Let's go watch Disco Thriller again.
Speaker B:But what.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker B:What were you doing that, like, what kind of wormhole were you going down that led you to this song?
Speaker A:Well, I knew I wanted to do novelty songs, and I was.
Speaker A:I was like, well, the Owls Yankovic stuff is going to be way too obvious.
Speaker A:So it was like, so what else, you know, would be a novelty song?
Speaker A:And the Disco Duck.
Speaker A:I didn't even know that there was anything called Disco Rilla.
Speaker A:So when you look at Disco Duck and Rick Daves, you start finding other stuff.
Speaker A:And when I saw Disco R, I was like, I've never seen this before.
Speaker C:It's not even funny.
Speaker C:It's just so sad and disappointing.
Speaker C:Everything about that Brady Bunch variety hour is not as fun as you'd like it to be.
Speaker C:It's really a bummer because you and I obviously both love this kind of stuff, but this is depressing.
Speaker C:This isn't even fun to make fun of.
Speaker C:Am I wrong?
Speaker A:No, no, it is fun to make.
Speaker C:Fun of, but it's good enough.
Speaker C:It's like not.
Speaker C:It's like.
Speaker C:It's just sad.
Speaker C:It's not trying so hard to make a, you know, another.
Speaker C:To make a splash.
Speaker C:And, you know, you get lucky with this Disco Duck and then trying and somehow getting it on tv.
Speaker C:A dj.
Speaker C:I could say something.
Speaker C:I mean, that guy was really popular.
Speaker A:No, he was.
Speaker A:He was Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, he was Ryan Seacrest of his day.
Speaker C:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's just how something like this can get greenlit or just like.
Speaker C:But no, but it makes sense it would get greenlit because it's a sequel to Disco Duck.
Speaker C:So, of course you're always going to get that second chance.
Speaker C:And that's why he was probably never heard of again.
Speaker C:Except, you know, he was smart like Ryan Seacrest and had other idea, just, you know, spinning other people's records instead of doing his own, I guess.
Speaker C:But, you know, if this had been a hit, it would have been interesting if.
Speaker C:To see what the rest of his career would have been.
Speaker C:He obviously doesn't sing.
Speaker A:Well, speaking of careers, okay, this guy, this next one, had an interesting career arc.
Speaker A:I know you would know who this is.
Speaker A:I'm not 100.
Speaker A:Sean does.
Speaker A:Sean, have you ever heard of Dickie Goodman?
Speaker B:I've heard the name that.
Speaker B:I don't know what.
Speaker B:Who it is.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So Dickie Goodman had this hilarious way of, of, of putting out a song.
Speaker A:He came up with the idea of like you, you would cut songs, like you would ask questions, you have like a scenario and then you would put songs of the modern day to answer the questions.
Speaker A:So his big hit was Mr.
Speaker A:Jaws.
Speaker A:Do you remember that?
Speaker C:Well, his first hit was Energy Crisis 74.
Speaker A:Well, that's what we're going to look.
Speaker C:At because I, when we saw each other last week, I was actually doing it for you.
Speaker C:I remember it so well.
Speaker A:You did, you did.
Speaker A:And then I went back and watched it.
Speaker A:I was like, we are here at.
Speaker C:The White House for a special report on the energy crisis.
Speaker C:I mean, I remember so much of it.
Speaker C:And so the Mr.
Speaker C:Jaws was the follow up.
Speaker C:And then just like Rick D's, if Mr.
Speaker C:Jaws was Rick D's follow up, you know, it would have been the second one was better.
Speaker C:But yeah, he had.
Speaker C:And then he had the third one and we had a couple after that.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker A:You can recite Energy Crisis.
Speaker C:I listened to it over and over again.
Speaker C:I had it on a 45 and it was the funniest record I had ever heard in my life.
Speaker C:I didn't even know any of the songs on it.
Speaker C:And they're iconic songs, you know, that's how I learned half of that music.
Speaker A:First of all, you couldn't even put out a record like this today because you couldn't get, you couldn't get the copy.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You'd be slammed by the rights.
Speaker C:You'd be turned out.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:You wouldn't be able to profit from it because he's just using too many songs.
Speaker A:And this was, I remember this was on the radio.
Speaker A:I remember being over like people's houses and pool parties and people loving this.
Speaker A:And I must have been like 11 years old.
Speaker A:And like, I don't get it.
Speaker A:I don't, I didn't get like, why did, why do people find this funny?
Speaker A:Let's play a little bit of it.
Speaker A:This is energy crisis 74.
Speaker A:74, yeah.
Speaker C:See here at the White House for a special report on the energy crisis.
Speaker C:Mr.
Speaker C:President, have you any statement?
Speaker C:Mr.
Speaker C:President, what really caused the energy crisis?
Speaker C:During the crisis, how much gas will motorists be allowed?
Speaker C:Just enough.
Speaker A:Who do you believe the gas shortage, how much allowed?
Speaker A:Just enough for the city.
Speaker A:They couldn't pick something else.
Speaker C:I've heard this worked for me.
Speaker A:Do you like it?
Speaker C:But like you said, as an 11 year old, I thought it was the funniest thing I ever heard or whatever age we were.
Speaker B:My Mother.
Speaker B:My mother had.
Speaker B:My mother had this.
Speaker B:I remember this.
Speaker A:Had this record.
Speaker B:Yeah, I remember this.
Speaker B:As soon as, as soon as it dropped, I was like, oh, people love this.
Speaker C:Of course.
Speaker C:Remember the ending?
Speaker C:I did the ending for you.
Speaker C:He runs out of energy.
Speaker A:Go up, go up to like the last minute of the song if you can.
Speaker A:Adam is good, isn't he?
Speaker A:All right, here we go.
Speaker C:President, have you any added comment?
Speaker C:Mr.
Speaker C:President, the American people are waiting.
Speaker C:Have you a statement.
Speaker A:Down on creation?
Speaker C:We'd like to continue, continue this record on the energy crisis, but we have.
Speaker A:Just run out of energy.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker A:Well, that is incredible.
Speaker C:I listened to it over and over and over again.
Speaker A:Do you know what happened to Dickie Goodman?
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:You might have told me the other day.
Speaker C:I think he committed suicide.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:Is that what it was?
Speaker C:Yeah, but then you reminded me.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, I, I can, I can't believe that.
Speaker A:That people found.
Speaker A:But this was so beyond popular.
Speaker C:Well, here's what's weird is that.
Speaker C:So he did the 74.
Speaker C:75 was Mr.
Speaker C:Jaws.
Speaker C:And then he.
Speaker C:I think he had another one maybe.
Speaker C:But he made a comeback in 82 with an ET one that people seem to like.
Speaker C:And then it was definitely over.
Speaker C:Then he had an album.
Speaker A:He kept trying to put these out, but I mean, how much of this can you listen to?
Speaker C:Well, Again, if you're 10, you can listen to it non stop and all.
Speaker C:I mean if this was the first one that came out.
Speaker C:So If I was 10 at the time, when he put out an album, I would have probably listened to all of them for, for a year.
Speaker C:Because it's perfect for a 10 year old.
Speaker A:And the thing is like, nobody had done anything like this before.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker A:This was groundbreaking.
Speaker C:Again, that's how I knew all these songs.
Speaker C:Like when I would hear them, I'm like, oh my God, that's from Mr.
Speaker C:Jaws.
Speaker C:Big boys don't cry big.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker C:You know all those ones, they, you know just enough.
Speaker C:I never, I didn't know what that song was.
Speaker C:And then when I, I went, you know, I heard Stevie Wonder later or whatever and I went to his concert and I'm like, hey, that's from Energy Crisis 74.
Speaker A:It's like that's how he wants those songs remembered.
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:I know it's funny now that thinking about.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All those rights and everything, you could never do it.
Speaker C:Yeah, you're so.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker C:They used to play it on the radio like you said.
Speaker C:They would play it on the radio like on PLJ where.
Speaker C:I mean, in New York.
Speaker A:It wasn't even like FM radio because FM radio in the 70s was considered like, the cool music.
Speaker A:This was AM radio.
Speaker C:Like ABC, you mean?
Speaker C:Or something like that.
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker A:WABC.
Speaker A:Good Guys.
Speaker C:No, that was W Good Guys or WMCA.
Speaker A:Wait, no.
Speaker A:WMCA was talk.
Speaker A:Larry King was on WMCA.
Speaker C:I thought those were the good guys.
Speaker C:But Harry Harrison, WABC.
Speaker A:WABC was a big music station.
Speaker A:66.
Speaker A:A big music station.
Speaker A:50.
Speaker A:This is all New York stuff.
Speaker A:So anyone who's listening out of town.
Speaker A:Yeah, these were.
Speaker A:This was like, on your AM dial.
Speaker A:This is when AM actually, like, was good.
Speaker A:Like back in the day.
Speaker A:Listen to music.
Speaker A:And FM was like plj.
Speaker A:And I, I, I don't know W.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker A:Wnw.
Speaker A:And they played like, hard rock with the hooky dooky.
Speaker C:Scott Muny.
Speaker C:That was his name.
Speaker C:I hated that guy.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's.
Speaker A:He.
Speaker A:At the time, he was like, in his 70s and he referred to himself as the kid.
Speaker C:Yeah, I know.
Speaker A:I hated.
Speaker A:I was not a big Scott Muni fan either.
Speaker C:Me neither.
Speaker C:Isn't that funny?
Speaker C:And what about that guy that was also on that, I think tried to.
Speaker C:Got caught trying to molest some girls.
Speaker A:There was a guy like that.
Speaker C:I think his daughter went to our college.
Speaker C:Dave Good.
Speaker C:It was a Jewish name, I think.
Speaker A:It wasn't Alan Kerr, was it?
Speaker C:No, Jim Kerr.
Speaker C:But he's still around.
Speaker C:He's amazingly still on Q104.3 as the morning man.
Speaker C:He went on Howard sterling celebrating his 50th anniversary in the business or more.
Speaker C:And boy, does he have an interesting backstory.
Speaker C:We started when he was only 18, or he started when he was 15.
Speaker C:So when he was on, like, PLJ, he was like 18 or 19.
Speaker C:That's why he's still around.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker C:He's only like 70 something.
Speaker A:Do you know who's still on the air on wabc?
Speaker A:Like on the weekends.
Speaker C:Wabc.
Speaker A:Wabc.
Speaker A:On the weekends they play music.
Speaker A:Cousin Brucie.
Speaker C:No, wait.
Speaker C:On the weekends they play music on 77.
Speaker C:WABC.
Speaker A:Because when I'm usually going out to gigs, I'll throw on wabc.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:I just want to hear Cousin Brucie.
Speaker C:Because he died.
Speaker A:No, he still does the exact same shit.
Speaker A:Hello, Cousin G.
Speaker A:Cousin G.
Speaker C:Like, Howard Stern always talks about these people all the time, and he hasn't mentioned him.
Speaker C:And I don't understand how he's not on that every day.
Speaker C:Because he loves making fun of him.
Speaker A:Howard Stern isn't doing the same shit and talking about his mother, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's the same show.
Speaker C:He loved talking about Cousin Brucie.
Speaker C:He loves talking about.
Speaker C:That's why when he had Jim Kerr on, this was only last year, he had him on while he was doing his morning show.
Speaker C:And they combined and it was really nice.
Speaker C:And he apologized for the way he treated him over the years.
Speaker A:I wish I could remember, but you're right.
Speaker A:There was a guy, I'm gonna say, about four years ago, a big scandal came on.
Speaker A:Like he was.
Speaker A:I think he was a better.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:How did you pull that one out?
Speaker C:Because I think his daughter went to our college.
Speaker C:So, yeah, just recently, I think he was caught, like, trying to.
Speaker C:What do you call it?
Speaker C:Expedite a girl from, like, met her at the airport to try and have sex with a younger age girl or something.
Speaker A:Do these names sound familiar to you?
Speaker B:Well, I know cousin Rusy again, because I used to listen to him, you know, growing up.
Speaker B:My mom was a big oldies fan, so.
Speaker B:I know, right, because he.
Speaker C:He was on that WCBS FM for a long time.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Long, long, long time.
Speaker C:You go around this town, around New York, Sean?
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm still.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm in Jersey.
Speaker B:I've been in Jersey my whole life.
Speaker B:So I got all the local references.
Speaker B:But, yeah, he is 89 years old, cousin Brucie.
Speaker C:Oh, I thought.
Speaker C:I don't know what I thought.
Speaker B:I can't believe that.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I remember at the Rock and Roll hall of Fame, though, they also have a little radio station set up in there.
Speaker B:I think that was kind of like a replica or if it was the original.
Speaker A:It's downstairs.
Speaker B:Yeah, Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker B:That was pretty cool.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Yeah, Cousin Bruce is still doing radio.
Speaker A:All right, so this next one.
Speaker A:Hey, Sean, are you familiar with the band kiss?
Speaker B:Gee, I think I've heard of them, Jeff.
Speaker A:Okay, well, KISS used to have a guitar player in the band called Ace Freely.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And Ace Freely produced, wrote, and performed on this pile of shit that we're about to watch.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:He doesn't play guitar on it, but he plays drums and bass.
Speaker A:And in the video, it is his band at the time performing at the club.
Speaker A:Dave, do you remember a song called Eugene?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker A:Sean, do you remember Eugene?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:All right, so this was a.
Speaker A:I don't know what they were going for.
Speaker A:Maybe it.
Speaker A:They were trying to capitalize on taxi and accents.
Speaker A:But it was a guy that would, like, be singing and he'd interrupt and go, my name is Eugene.
Speaker C:Maybe they were trying to capitalize on Cheech and Chong or something that's what it sounds like.
Speaker A:You tell me you would understand this better than I would.
Speaker A:I don't know what they were going for, but somehow this did make it like this.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This charted.
Speaker A:This actually, this went up to like it.
Speaker A:It was definitely top 40.
Speaker C:Well, does it say something about Ace Freely on.
Speaker C:And I mean, he was, you know, one of the most popular people at that time, if it's 76 or so.
Speaker A:No, no, there's no mention of him in the video.
Speaker A:He's not in the video.
Speaker A:You wouldn't have known unless you looked it up.
Speaker A:But yeah, Ace Philly produces it.
Speaker A:Like, if you would have listened to Casey Kasem, I guess this is 70s, early 80s.
Speaker A:But if you would have listened, this would have this song charted.
Speaker A:This would have been in America's top 40.
Speaker A:I think this one went as high as 33.
Speaker A:And Eugene, I remember it for a split second.
Speaker A:Adam, can you play this video and.
Speaker B:Who was it released under?
Speaker A:Bill Barker.
Speaker A:Ace Freely's archives.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I don't know who.
Speaker A:What label would put this out?
Speaker C:This had to be.
Speaker B:I mean, like, how is it released as Ace Freely or as.
Speaker A:No, no, it's released as Crazy Joe and the Vandals.
Speaker A:I think the group was called.
Speaker A:Guy was definitely Crazy Joe.
Speaker A:All right, let's play this.
Speaker C:My name is Eugene.
Speaker A:That's the joke.
Speaker C:I'm a cool dude in a loose mood.
Speaker A:Oh, perfect.
Speaker A:This girl here, she may have been who Ace Freely was dating at the time.
Speaker A:And I'm almost positive she was like in the backup band of his.
Speaker A:She was considered really hot for the time.
Speaker C:Well, I think she's hot now.
Speaker A:She's.
Speaker A:She's good looking now, but like in the 70s was 80s.
Speaker A:Like, she, like this was like the behind the scenes chick.
Speaker A:All right, good.
Speaker A:Adam.
Speaker C:Hey, what's happening?
Speaker C:Hey.
Speaker C:Two Ginger Bell for my girl.
Speaker B:Who is this guy?
Speaker C:Eugene?
Speaker C:What's it there for a second?
Speaker A:What do you guys think of the hook?
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I like it, actually.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I was intrigued.
Speaker C:It's much better than the guns Godzilla, the gorilla one.
Speaker C:I, I wanted to see more of it.
Speaker C:I, I'm.
Speaker A:No, but I.
Speaker A:I think it's like when he is not interjecting.
Speaker A:I think the song.
Speaker A:I think the background's vocals are great.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, they are good.
Speaker C:I was very surprised.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And now I'm trying now I think it's coming back to me.
Speaker A:Why I think they were going for.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:Do you remember Saturday Night Live did like two wild and crazy guys, right?
Speaker A:I think this is Kind of like a.
Speaker A:Like a takeoff on that.
Speaker B:Trying to turn it into a character.
Speaker A:Yeah, Kind of like, you know, a little broken English, you know.
Speaker C:Hey, I was thinking.
Speaker C:I was thinking like Yakov Smirnoff or something like that.
Speaker C:Right, right.
Speaker B:Or like Balky from Perfect Strangers or it's like a little.
Speaker B:Just a little off.
Speaker A:All right, Adam, play a little bit more of this.
Speaker A:Dave is enjoying it.
Speaker A:That.
Speaker A:That guy's an H3 Lou fan.
Speaker C:Oh, he's a Kiss machine.
Speaker C:It's worth a lot of money.
Speaker A:Oh, you see the Kiss machine.
Speaker C:Hey, I don't know if you care, but the doctor said, you know, I ain't gonna make it much longer.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker A:Hey, what did you say your name?
Speaker C:Eugene.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:That's not Age Freely on base, but she does play it on the record.
Speaker A:But this is his band.
Speaker C:You.
Speaker A:You like it?
Speaker A:Now, you see, that's funny.
Speaker B:I'm reading an article on it that is saying that Ace Freely co wrote Eugene and it is hinted that the Eugene character is based on Gene Simmons.
Speaker C:That's awesome.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:That is according to the article on the stranger.com.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:That is the same.
Speaker A:What year it came out?
Speaker B:1980.
Speaker C: Oh,: Speaker A:So at this point, Gene and.
Speaker A:And Ace and Peter already kind of having bad feelings.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Because I was made for love and you came out and I don't.
Speaker A:Did Peter Chris actually play on that album?
Speaker C:Are they all.
Speaker C:I think they all were together, you know, then they did the solo albums.
Speaker C:Which Aces was the best?
Speaker C:Of course.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Back in the New York groove.
Speaker C:And then I.
Speaker C:I think they were together up in maybe maybe 19, 8 when they started taking off their makeup.
Speaker C:I think he had left the band already, but there was already Lick it up, which would be.
Speaker B:I was like 84.
Speaker C:84?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Or could.
Speaker C:Could it have 84?
Speaker B:Well, he wasn't.
Speaker B:He wasn't in.
Speaker B:In.
Speaker B:In Kiss at that point.
Speaker B:He was probably gone by 81.
Speaker B:I would say 82.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Because they had.
Speaker C:I think they had the Kiss Unmasked album.
Speaker C:Might have been the last.
Speaker C:That was maybe 80, maybe 80.
Speaker C:So maybe at this time he had left the band.
Speaker C:That adds up.
Speaker A:But even.
Speaker A:But they kept him in the band, especially Peter, just so they can, you know, keep the original four.
Speaker A:And it would sell okay.
Speaker C:Really smart.
Speaker C:He never let that.
Speaker C:You know, he knows how to make money and he knew that the band.
Speaker C:You know, he wasn't an idiot.
Speaker C:I mean, he is an idiot, but he's not a financial idiot, you know, and he Knew that keeping the band together was a cash cow.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker C:Genius about those guys is that, you know, they were bigger than anybody could be, let alone.
Speaker C:They really had good songs.
Speaker C:But then they unmasked and they were equally as big.
Speaker C:You know, they had three or four albums unmasked and.
Speaker C:And then they were able to mask again.
Speaker C:And then, you know, go to the car, hey, we're going to put on the makeup again and go out and do tours.
Speaker C:Making a fortune each time.
Speaker B: In: Speaker A:So the bad Feelings must have been going on for a while.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it was on the Creatures of a Night tour.
Speaker B:That's when Vinnie.
Speaker B:Vinnie Vincent took over.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker A:But what they used to do is they would either they would have Peter go in and then just over.
Speaker A:They would just re.
Speaker A:Record his parts.
Speaker A:And I think the drummer was Anton Fig, who played in Letterman's house band, who was a great session musician at the.
Speaker A:You know, still.
Speaker A:I don't know if it's alive, but I remember he.
Speaker A:At that time, he played on everyone's record.
Speaker A:But I think there was all these bad feelings, which.
Speaker A:It would make sense that Ace would throw some shade at Gene Simmons.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, they.
Speaker C:There was a lot of bad feelings there.
Speaker C:I mean, there's bad feelings between Gene and Paul.
Speaker C:And yet they stayed together until just recently, you know, but they.
Speaker C:But they.
Speaker C:Every band has that, right.
Speaker C:I mean, Bon Jovi and I mean, I'm just as an example, they tried to stay together as long as they could because they knew that, you know, they could make a lot more money that way.
Speaker C:But, yeah, they all fall apart eventually.
Speaker C:It's very rare.
Speaker C:Holland Oats hate each other now.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:They'll never get back together now.
Speaker B:If you think about it.
Speaker B:Go back to the video with Eugene.
Speaker B: bout what Gene looked like in: Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Pretty spot on if you think about it.
Speaker C:Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker C:As soon as you said it, it made sense.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:I like the music in the song.
Speaker B:I really do.
Speaker B:It's different.
Speaker B:It's kind of like you can almost hear in the background of like a really bad video game too.
Speaker C:It's a good hook.
Speaker C:Like you said, I got better things to do.
Speaker A:The sing is all good.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You know, those were the actual singers, but whoever they were, they were good.
Speaker A:I believe they are.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's just like the jokes of the song, like hey, why don't we go out, you know, do something fun like go out for pizza.
Speaker C:Pizza.
Speaker C:It's weird.
Speaker A:Where's the joke?
Speaker C:Yeah, well, I.
Speaker C:They weren't known for being hilarious.
Speaker A:All right, last one.
Speaker A:I don't know if you guys ever saw this.
Speaker A:Are you guys familiar with the band Player?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Player had a huge hit, monster hit called Baby Come Back.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Not the.
Speaker C:Not the Baby Come Back.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker C:And you just.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Okay, so that's that.
Speaker A:Love that song.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Now, this is a novelty here, but did.
Speaker A:Did you ever see their appearance on General Hospital, Dave?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:And I was watching it back then.
Speaker C: If you're Talking about the: Speaker A:I don't know if this is 80s, this may be a little bit later than that.
Speaker A:But they were on General Hospital and some.
Speaker A:Like Bobby is still in it.
Speaker A:And Scott.
Speaker A:Remember Scotty?
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:They're.
Speaker A:They're in it as well.
Speaker C:Last year.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:She was beautiful, wasn't she?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Jackie Zman.
Speaker A:Jackie Z.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Very good, Jackie Z.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:And I think there may be some spin off of a Cassidy in.
Speaker A:In this one.
Speaker A:If you know General.
Speaker A:You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker B:You guys want to, like, make a cup of tea or something?
Speaker B:Bunch of hens.
Speaker B:What the Is this?
Speaker A:Jesus.
Speaker B:General hospital in the 80s.
Speaker C:He's too young.
Speaker C:I'm.
Speaker B:No, I watched it as a kid with my grandmother, but gee, I.
Speaker B:I just admitted it, I guess.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're so much cooler than usual, aren't you?
Speaker A:You know exactly.
Speaker A:You get in every reference.
Speaker A:Stop it.
Speaker B:Yeah, fortunately, I did.
Speaker B:I tried to.
Speaker B:I blew my own cover.
Speaker C:Continue.
Speaker A:So I want you guys to see this is a little bit of a build up, but it is totally worth it.
Speaker A:Also, just look at how horrendous the acting is and the reactions to this get.
Speaker A:And you got to like, ask yourself, Player had to be at their lowest to do.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker A:Adam, play Player on General Hospital.
Speaker C:Oh, I wonder.
Speaker C:Wait, you can wait.
Speaker C:Stop this for a second.
Speaker C:Is this the 50th anniversary where they also had Jack Wagner come back and sing?
Speaker A:Is this.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:Why did he come back on the show?
Speaker C:Yeah, well, just for the 50th anniversary.
Speaker C:Like, which was only about seven years ago.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker C:This.
Speaker A:You've seen this one?
Speaker C:Yeah, because I think it's the.
Speaker C:I think that's why everybody's in it.
Speaker C:They're all sitting at the table.
Speaker C:It was like a big Anniversary show.
Speaker C:And they bought everybody back.
Speaker C:And I think Jack Wagner's saying, well.
Speaker A:There'S a storyline going on because you're going to notice, like, the very obvious looks that.
Speaker A:That are being tossed around the room.
Speaker C:But I want to say it's much later, like, you know, recent.
Speaker C:More recent than I'm gonna say.
Speaker A:This is easily 10, 15 years ago.
Speaker A:Easily.
Speaker C:We have to figure out when the 50th anniversary was, and then we would know because that's what I think.
Speaker B:12Th.
Speaker B:2014.
Speaker C:2014.
Speaker C:So 10, 10 years ago.
Speaker C:11.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:We were right.
Speaker C:But it's that 50th anniversary.
Speaker B:They made a surprise and a surprise appearance on General Hospital as a guest for the annual Nurses Ball segment.
Speaker A:Oh, this is it then.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:Then this is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Jack Wagner.
Speaker A:Who else was in that.
Speaker A:That same time period?
Speaker A:Rick Springfield.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Jack Wagner and Rick Springfield on the same time.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:And Demi Moore was on the show, too.
Speaker C:I just wanted to make sure because I think I like I've seen this, and I probably didn't know it was player.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker A:Okay, play it.
Speaker A:Play a little bit.
Speaker A:Adam.
Speaker B:Pause it a second.
Speaker B:I'm really glad now that this is all out in the open, that Dave admitted that he watches because he watches General Hospital.
Speaker B:And I'm glad that he didn't.
Speaker B:That he didn't catch us and go.
Speaker B:I remember seeing this.
Speaker B:Yeah, that pink dress.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:This part is a little disturbing, but I assume it's going somewhere.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker A:What's the reactions, Adam, keep playing this play.
Speaker C:They're horrible actors.
Speaker C:What's going on?
Speaker A:Emma and Cameron, I'm sorry to interrupt your dance.
Speaker A:You two were fantastic, but is that Mario Bosco?
Speaker A:This song is for you.
Speaker A:Ladies and gentlemen, Push.
Speaker B:Say Mario Bosco.
Speaker C:Hey, let me tell you something.
Speaker C:I'm not General Hospital.
Speaker C:Where's Artie?
Speaker A:Showing your best lives as we've been doing this.
Speaker A:Adam.
Speaker A:Who?
Speaker A:Adam.
Speaker A:Dave.
Speaker A:Who is that main guy?
Speaker A:That guy with the gray hair they keep showing?
Speaker C:Ian.
Speaker C:I can't think of his name.
Speaker C:He actually.
Speaker C:I think he played the original Hannibal Lecter and Manhunter.
Speaker C:No, that guy.
Speaker C:I think so.
Speaker C:Maybe not.
Speaker A:He was big on General Hospital.
Speaker C:Yeah, he was big.
Speaker C:He's in a couple other things.
Speaker C:He was an alias and stuff.
Speaker C:His name's Ian something or other.
Speaker C:I can't think of his last name.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker C:I thought I picture him as the original Hannibal Lecter, but maybe you're right.
Speaker B:What do you teach?
Speaker B:What subjects?
Speaker C:Well, I used to teach film, but this semester I'm doing the End of network television.
Speaker C:So I'm teaching all about.
Speaker B:This is all making sense.
Speaker A:Okay, I can continue this.
Speaker A:We haven't even gotten to player yet.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker A:Hold on, hold on.
Speaker A:We missed the line.
Speaker A:And he goes, you are both bold and beautiful.
Speaker A:And when he says that, that is also kind of like a nod.
Speaker A:You see the guy over in the white shirt playing the bass by the keyboards?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:That guy is also a soap opera actor besides being player.
Speaker A:And he was in the Bold and the Beautiful.
Speaker A:That's where that line is.
Speaker B:We didn't watch that trash.
Speaker B:But continue.
Speaker A:And wait, hold on a second.
Speaker A:And the other guy, the lead singer, that's Peter Becker.
Speaker A:And he wrote this song.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Because like, this one came, I think came out in the late 70s.
Speaker A:And this was like.
Speaker A:Huh.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So when he wrote this song, it was.
Speaker A:This was actually a true story where he.
Speaker A:He was a musician.
Speaker A:He's on the road and he comes home, his girl is gone.
Speaker A:But don't they also.
Speaker A:I think the drummer.
Speaker A:You see a closeup of them.
Speaker A:I believe he.
Speaker A:To this day, because I've seen him.
Speaker A:He is the drummer in REO's Speedwagon.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Who nobody knows.
Speaker A:And the.
Speaker A:And the other guitar player looks like, you know, this guy should be like in, I don't know, Duran Duran or maybe Bon Jovi.
Speaker A:Like, he should not be in this band.
Speaker B:This is a clear situation that the lead single singer is the original member of the band and the keyboard player has been on since the third record.
Speaker B:And then that's about it.
Speaker A:Well, the.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Peter Becker and the guy from.
Speaker A:From Bold and Beautiful are both original members of the band.
Speaker A:All right, Adam, a little bit.
Speaker A:Baby, come back.
Speaker B:How did you help him?
Speaker C:You messed up of our tango.
Speaker A:I regret that.
Speaker A:But I had to do something bold and beautiful to try to make up with you.
Speaker A:You did this all for me.
Speaker A:Yes, I did.
Speaker A:Come on, Emma, let's go.
Speaker A:I want to hear the rest of the song.
Speaker C:Spending all my nights all my money Going out on the town Doing anything just to get you off of my mind and when the morning comes I'm right back where it started again Trying to forget you Is just a waste of time Baby, come back.
Speaker A:Any kind.
Speaker C:Of fool could see there was something.
Speaker C:Lucy.
Speaker C:Co.
Speaker C:There's Scotty.
Speaker A:Look how old Scotty got.
Speaker C:That's Lucy.
Speaker A:Dave in kennel Hospital.
Speaker A:Luke's last name was.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker C:Say again?
Speaker C:I could.
Speaker A:With us playing in General Hospital.
Speaker A:What was Luke's last name?
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker A:Anyway, Jackie Zman was supposed to be his sister.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And Scotty was the.
Speaker A:Like when he came onto the show, he was a young, good looking guy.
Speaker A:And he was the bad boy, though.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Wait.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, he became the bad boy when he got, you know, jilted by Laura after Luke raped Laura.
Speaker A:This was daytime television.
Speaker B:I know, right?
Speaker C:Of that song.
Speaker C:That's why I think about it.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker C:Think of Laura?
Speaker C:No, no, that came in later.
Speaker C:Oh, God.
Speaker C:When it plays, I'm like, oh, my God.
Speaker C:The songs to be raped to.
Speaker A:There's a rape song.
Speaker C:That's the way I think of it now, because when he raped her, you know, which you could, you know, that's the part everybody forgets.
Speaker C:That's how they met.
Speaker C:He actually raped her at his club.
Speaker A:That's how I met my wife.
Speaker C:I just can't remember the name of the song.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, in the.
Speaker A:In the 80s and 90s, a lot, a lot was let go.
Speaker A:A lot was swept underneath the.
Speaker C:That's why if you think about when I tell my students about Saturday Night Fever, when they've seen it, they're like, what the fuck?
Speaker C:Because they're like, you know, there's a big rape scene.
Speaker C:And the way they treat women obviously is pretty bad.
Speaker C:And the fact that that movie was so popular with kids is hilarious now.
Speaker A:And the thing is, Tony and his friends were considered like heroes.
Speaker A:Like people wanted to be them.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker A:And scour in the back of the car, you know.
Speaker C:And David Bowie, I heard he's half a fag.
Speaker C:No, he likes men and boys.
Speaker A:Play a little bit more play and then we'll go wrap this up.
Speaker C:I think I found the song Luke and Laura song.
Speaker C:Herb Albert.
Speaker C:Herb Albert Rise.
Speaker C:Yeah, a little bit over that.
Speaker A:Let me see if I see if I can get that.
Speaker A:And if that's a song, go reach.
Speaker B:Download this music to Rape two, Volume four.
Speaker C:Yeah, now I totally remember it.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:Wait, they play in Herb Albert's Rise while he.
Speaker C:Yeah, huh.
Speaker C:And that's when he raped her.
Speaker C:And then they fell in love.
Speaker C:She fell under his spell after you raped her.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:I remember that being a big part of the show, but I just don't remember it.
Speaker C:Nobody remembers the rape.
Speaker C:It's hilarious.
Speaker C:We've just put it, put it away.
Speaker C:Because we loved them so much, we forgot how they met.
Speaker C:Isn't that funny?
Speaker A:Do you remember, like the big.
Speaker A:It's very funny.
Speaker A:Do you remember the big thing was like they got married.
Speaker B:Their wedding was probably the biggest thing on tv.
Speaker C:That was the greatest thing in daytime television.
Speaker C:That's why we, you and I, are here talking about it today.
Speaker C:That wedding was everything that was.
Speaker C:Guys like us started watching.
Speaker A:Is this show still on tv?
Speaker C:It is the only soap opera left, like on regular daytime television.
Speaker C:Everything else went to streaming.
Speaker C:It's the only one Left, I think 2:00 clock on every day on Channel 7 or ABC.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What time is it?
Speaker B:I take my mom to go see like all the, the social events for the General Hospital that they do.
Speaker B:Like this.
Speaker C:Yeah, I took my sister to see one at Governor's.
Speaker B: bs do them on like, you know,: Speaker B:We're like, you gotta see it.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker C:So, Sean, you know what?
Speaker C:That crowd is rapid.
Speaker B:It's, it's, it's, it's worse than Chippendales.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's like these, they're all 70 year old women who are ready to rip out their dentures and just go to town.
Speaker C:So who's the James that Governor's told me that a lot of the women come in early to eat because they don't want the stars to see them eating.
Speaker C:Like it's like that serious.
Speaker C:So when we, when I bought my sister, this is only a couple years ago.
Speaker C:A couple years ago I went to Governor's to take her to see these two, whoever the fuck they are in the show.
Speaker C:And we walk in and I'm like.
Speaker C:And we were a little late.
Speaker C:And I go, what, is there a comic on beforehand?
Speaker C:Because I just heard the biggest laughs I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker C:And I'm walking in and it's just these two idiots talking.
Speaker C:I don't know what they're saying, but the crowd's going crazy and John has seen it, so he understands.
Speaker C:But Jeff, I'm trying to explain to you.
Speaker C:And then all of a sudden my sister still watches, so she's laughing and I'm like, what are you laughing at?
Speaker C:It sounded like they could have been talking another language, but that crowd was nuts.
Speaker C:Like, he's saying it's worse than Chippendales and it was the most fucked up thing I've ever seen.
Speaker C:And that guy probably thinks he's the greatest stand up comic ever.
Speaker C:He's like, man, we came to the Lincoln Tunnel and you don't know which way you're going and the people are dying.
Speaker C:So I bet you he would say, I should go to the Comedy Cellar and then he'll find out really hard, you know, But I mean, you couldn't not, you couldn't blame him for trying if he did, because there's no way.
Speaker C:You don't think you're the greatest storyteller or comedian ever after you've seen what we saw?
Speaker A:If this guy had a little bit of a following, a little bit of a heat, right?
Speaker A:You know, he's a soap opera guy, and he goes up to the Cellar.
Speaker A:Does the seller crowd give him anything?
Speaker A:They give him at least the first four minutes.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:No, He's a nobody.
Speaker C:Yeah, he's a nobody.
Speaker C:I mean, you know, unless somebody like my sister or whoever was at these things happens to be in the audience that day.
Speaker C:But like Sean was saying, you have to be at least 60.
Speaker C:At least 60 to, you know.
Speaker C:Who watches soap operas anymore?
Speaker C:Nobody.
Speaker C:They're.
Speaker C:They write a new one on one of the networks.
Speaker C:They're trying to bring it back, and I don't.
Speaker C:We'll see.
Speaker A:Have you ever seen anyone, a celebrity, go up at the Cellar and just, like, think they were comic, but just, like, eat it?
Speaker C:Well, no, it depends on who it is.
Speaker C:Like, somebody like John Mayer goes up and they love it because he can't bomb.
Speaker C:They just love seeing him live, even though.
Speaker C:And then it's funny because all the comics think it's awesome that he's there.
Speaker C:And of course, he's really cool.
Speaker C:And he plays this before he's with the dead and everything.
Speaker C:And I remember talking to Attell, and I go, well, how is he?
Speaker C:He goes, he's funny.
Speaker C:And I'm like, yeah, you wouldn't be saying that if it wasn't, like.
Speaker C:If he wasn't the coolest guy, you know?
Speaker C:Like, I mean, he's badass cool, Even though he makes those kind of gayest songs, he's cool.
Speaker C:And of course, we also all knew the girls he slept with, so that made him even cooler.
Speaker C:So they're just saying, yeah, he's funny.
Speaker C:But there's people like that go up all the time, and they'll always get.
Speaker C:They will get the benefit of the doubt because people kind of get it, I guess.
Speaker C:You know, it's just if you keep bringing it back.
Speaker C:I remember Chappelle bought his son on stage once and.
Speaker C:And tell said it was.
Speaker C:It was horrible.
Speaker C:And it's like, why?
Speaker C:He goes.
Speaker C:He's like, yeah, we just.
Speaker C:We just came off my.
Speaker C:My helicopter and I told that pilot, you better be waiting for us.
Speaker C:It was something like, not a relatable story like that no normal person could do.
Speaker C:It was really funny.
Speaker A:I would love to see Will Smith's kids try stand up.
Speaker C:I would not.
Speaker C:I don't want to see him or his whole family.
Speaker C:Godfather too.
Speaker C:Him.
Speaker A:All right, let's.
Speaker A:Let's wrap up a little bit.
Speaker A:Let's watch a little bit more play.
Speaker A:Just.
Speaker A:Just watch.
Speaker A:When they cut to the soap opera, just the acting.
Speaker C:That's my favorite part.
Speaker C:That's all I'm in for.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker C:That's what I'm saying.
Speaker C:I remember her.
Speaker C:She was so cute and pretty and now she's an old hag.
Speaker C:Yeah, but.
Speaker C:And the girl from Staying Alive is in there too.
Speaker C:Did you see her?
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:Only you.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:She has too much gum.
Speaker A:Sean is a guy who likes this bird and, and Megadeth.
Speaker A:Yeah, he'll listen to this.
Speaker B:I love that.
Speaker C:Yeah, it sounds good though.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Stuff.
Speaker C:You know that Doobie Brothers episode?
Speaker C:Only because I've watched it recently.
Speaker C:They sing four songs and the kids were like, I like that they sang four songs.
Speaker C:I mean, they were surprised, but they seemed to like it.
Speaker C:It was the weirdest thing.
Speaker A:What songs did they do?
Speaker C:They did you don't know me, but I'm your brother taking it to the streets.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:I don't remember the other ones.
Speaker A:Did they do Long train Running?
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I just.
Speaker C:I don't remember.
Speaker A:They had to do Black Water, I would imagine.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker C:I don't think they did.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:Those aren't that biggest hits.
Speaker C:They did four.
Speaker C:They had one like.
Speaker C:Then the one was like going with the Chinese gong and stuff like that.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And they're on.
Speaker C:They're all sitting there going like this.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:We're really into it.
Speaker C:It was really, really weird.
Speaker C:I don't remember what they're playing when they first walk in, but I remember Michael McDonald singing the the for the.
Speaker C:It's not what a fool believes.
Speaker C:That's their later.
Speaker C:That's the album after.
Speaker C:So I can't remember trying to google.
Speaker B:The songs real quick, but it's not giving me any help here.
Speaker C:But he was, he was, you know, Michael McDonald was already part of the band.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It makes him better too.
Speaker A:I think somebody big left.
Speaker A:I thought maybe Tom McDonald may have.
Speaker A:May have left.
Speaker C:And then somebody got sick like with like a cancer and he had to come in and single handedly save the band from.
Speaker C:But nobody would have remembered them.
Speaker C:You know, it's amazing, right?
Speaker C:Who?
Speaker A:Tom Johnson.
Speaker A:I'm thinking Tom Johnson.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:They did Black Water and taken it to the streets as well as Take me in your arms and the instrumental outro of I cheat the Hangman.
Speaker C:Oh, that.
Speaker C:The instrumental one.
Speaker C:That's where everybody's going like this.
Speaker C:Like they're really into it.
Speaker C:Like these 13 year olds are really into it or whatever.
Speaker A:Like, dude, big, big hit for them.
Speaker C:Yeah, I guess it was Black Water.
Speaker C:I guess that's why I forgot about it because I hate that song.
Speaker C:I like Justin Michael McDonald stuff.
Speaker A:The Mac McDonald stuff is great.
Speaker A:Anyway, man, this hour flew, flew by.
Speaker A:Dave, man, thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker A:Tell us what's going on with you and where people can find you.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:I'm on Instagram.
Speaker C:I have a show on Tuesday nights through the Comedy Cellar at 6 called the Comedy Seller Tuesdays with Dave Jesko.
Speaker C:Otherwise my podcast is called Just out in the City.
Speaker A:Are you still doing Billy Joel podcast or is that over?
Speaker C:Well, it was called Billy Joel A to Z and we got to Zanzibar and then it was over.
Speaker A:Okay, we'll go back and check out some back catalog stuff on that.
Speaker A:That's pretty good.
Speaker A:Go through every Billy Joel song.
Speaker A:I didn't.
Speaker A:Sean Morton is going to be headlining with the Brokerage coming up.
Speaker B:Yeah, Governor's on.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Thursday.
Speaker B:But you know, by the time this comes out, I'll be back at Governor's.
Speaker B:Headline.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:But yeah, so we gotta.
Speaker B:I'll tell you what, we're.
Speaker B:We're about six in the can.
Speaker B:I got some headline dates in July coming up.
Speaker B:How about that?
Speaker B:Catch a Rising Star.
Speaker B:We should have this out by then.
Speaker A:When are you in?
Speaker A:Cat, I'm.
Speaker A:Catch a ride.
Speaker A:Start the in May.
Speaker C:Are you there in July?
Speaker B:12Th and 13th, I think.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker A:All right, guys, thank you so much for listening to Hooja Band.
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Speaker A:Will be taken.
Speaker A:Once again, Dave, thanks so much for coming on.
Speaker A:This was.
Speaker A:It's always a pleasure, man.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right guys, we will catch you next time.
Speaker C:Okay, bye.
Speaker C:Adam by.
Speaker A:Sam.
