Speaker 1: Hello, This is Christian Bush and welcome to episode three
Speaker 1: of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a
Speaker 1: new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is
Speaker 1: that they're totally geeking out on it and they want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. From Kung Fu movies to Japanese whiskey,
Speaker 1: from old Atari video games to roasting pecans, from rebuilding
Speaker 1: old cars to collecting baseball caps. Tell me what you love,
Speaker 1: why you love it, how you got into it, and
Speaker 1: what makes it awesome. Every episode is presented in three chapters.
Speaker 1: Chapter one, my guest and I talk about what they're
Speaker 1: obsessed with. Chapter two is a game I call Trade Joe,
Speaker 1: where my guest and I turn each other on to
Speaker 1: one thing that we've discovered. And chapter three closes the
Speaker 1: show with me talking about music that I'm currently geeking
Speaker 1: out on and why I believe that curiosity is can
Speaker 1: tageous and the life is better with a soundtrack. So
Speaker 1: let's go Chapter one. Today's guest is the Amazing Hunter.
Speaker 1: Kelly Hunter is a country music journalist working for Rare Country.
Speaker 1: Hunter first interviewed me when sugar Land first released our
Speaker 1: song baby Girl way back in the day. I have
Speaker 1: never met anyone like this man. He is unforgettable and
Speaker 1: funny enough. He was the person who actually inspired the
Speaker 1: idea for this podcast. I caught up with him in Nashville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: one sunny afternoon over the summer. Why am I feeling
Speaker 1: so wrong? My head's in the game, but my haunts
Speaker 1: in this song she makes me feel so hm. Let's
Speaker 1: get your head in the game from high school music,
Speaker 1: Hunter Kelly, Welcome to my podcast. Welcome Christian. It's so
Speaker 1: good to be here being interviewed by you. It's usually
Speaker 1: the other way around. I know it's a turning of
Speaker 1: the tables, but I like it. I love the way
Speaker 1: that life work. Yes, tell me, tell me what you do,
Speaker 1: who you are, Where are you from? Really quickly? Okay?
Speaker 1: I am Hunter Kelly. I am a country music journalist,
Speaker 1: reporter gad fly if you will, just about town in Nashville.
Speaker 1: I work with Rare Country and their senior correspondent. So
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing people like you who make the country and
Speaker 1: western music all the time and eight love the country
Speaker 1: music and grip in Birmingham, Alabama. Have lived in Nashville
Speaker 1: for eighteen years. So as a as a you're a
Speaker 1: journalist by trade, yes, And how long have you been
Speaker 1: their journals? Twelve years? Twelve years? What did you do
Speaker 1: before that college? I mean Starbucks, sen A Starbucks. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I really found my niche with writing at when I
Speaker 1: was at Belmont. Started writing for the paper about music,
Speaker 1: music that I loved, and then worked into syndicated radio,
Speaker 1: worked with Clear Channel and then ABC News, ABC Radio
Speaker 1: for a decade. Yeah, I interviewed, Yeah, so that was
Speaker 1: that was a hoot, you know, just covering country music
Speaker 1: for ABC News, so really being a point person for
Speaker 1: them on all things country. Got the job one four
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, kind of felt, yeah, I grew up there.
Speaker 1: Now here we are. What are you into? I'm into
Speaker 1: hotels across America that have dramatic architecture or that have
Speaker 1: historical significance. So it's really every trip I go on,
Speaker 1: I tried to stay at a hotel that includes that
Speaker 1: falls into that or go visit them. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's really like I'm a hotel tourist. I guess
Speaker 1: how long has this been going on? Well? Picture it
Speaker 1: not teen ninety, not nine. Atlanta, Georgia, where you're from. UM.
Speaker 1: We stayed at the Hightt Regency in at downtown Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and UM it was a memorable trip because I loved
Speaker 1: just staying at I had expensive taste as a child
Speaker 1: growing up growing up in Alabama. Favorite TV show was
Speaker 1: Dallas loved like Robin Leach, lifestyle is rich and famous.
Speaker 1: So the High Regency in Atlanta is a very dramatic
Speaker 1: hotel and it was very high end. Um it's still
Speaker 1: a very nice hotel, but in my mind it was
Speaker 1: like the Palace. So the atriums, Yeah, the atrium is
Speaker 1: twenty two stories, goes straight up. It was the first
Speaker 1: one um that John Portman, who's very important architect, designed.
Speaker 1: It goes all the way up, so it's just a
Speaker 1: very dramatic lobby, very tall, and then at the top
Speaker 1: it has a rotating bar and restaurant, which is the
Speaker 1: hallmark of these Higher Regencies. This was the first one.
Speaker 1: So you go up into on the roof and have
Speaker 1: a three sixty degree with you with the city. So
Speaker 1: this was the first one that John Portman did. And
Speaker 1: now there are these old high some of them have
Speaker 1: been changed with the Higher Regency. That was a real
Speaker 1: calling card for them to have a dramatic atrium restaurant.
Speaker 1: It does. Yeah, the Marriott, the Marriott, graand Marquis and
Speaker 1: Downtindantly and across the street really looks like you're inside
Speaker 1: a spaceship. It's kind of the same idea, except it
Speaker 1: goes up forty stories, but it really looks like some
Speaker 1: kind of alien ship that you're on, so much so
Speaker 1: that it was I think it was used in the
Speaker 1: Hunger Games. Yeah, everything in Atlanta. But this is really
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just really dramatic. So how many of
Speaker 1: these have you seen? I mean, do you make it
Speaker 1: a point to it? I do, make it a pen
Speaker 1: and how do you do you document it somehow? Well,
Speaker 1: there's actually a list on Wikipedia, which is my you know,
Speaker 1: as a newsman, it's my official news source. I always
Speaker 1: say so trustworthy. Um, but they actually have a list
Speaker 1: of I mean the rotating the rotating restaurants and bars
Speaker 1: is really what we've started going across the country collecting.
Speaker 1: So there's actually one in um Florence, Alabama, UM at
Speaker 1: the Marriott property there. Yeah, and there's one in downtown Nashville.
Speaker 1: They basically built the Sheraton used to open as a
Speaker 1: higher regency in downtown Nashville, and so it's got that
Speaker 1: really dramatic open atreya and that goes all the way up,
Speaker 1: so it's really stunning when you look up. But the
Speaker 1: there's a rotating restaurant at the top right here in
Speaker 1: our hometown, but it's been shut down because of health
Speaker 1: code reasons. I've looked into it several times and was
Speaker 1: actually friends with the manager over there, who's moved to
Speaker 1: another hotel since here in Nashville, but he said that's why.
Speaker 1: But UM give her sneak up the no and always
Speaker 1: meant to. It's one of those things I've called about it.
Speaker 1: I've posted about it on YouTube, but I've never snuck
Speaker 1: up there. But I do understand that you can rent
Speaker 1: it out for private party. So everybody I know with money,
Speaker 1: I'm like, why don't you you have an anniversary coming up?
Speaker 1: Why don't you write that out so I can go
Speaker 1: up and see this rotating um rotating restaurant. Motael dallas Um.
Speaker 1: That was a two for really the High Regency. They
Speaker 1: see Him awards were in dallas Um a few years ago.
Speaker 1: So went out there and the High Regency downtown is
Speaker 1: featured dramatically in the opening of my favorite television show Dallas,
Speaker 1: so I had to stay there. And there is a
Speaker 1: Wolfgang Puck restaurant that rotates. Um, there's the Reunion Tower
Speaker 1: ball next to the High Regency in downtown Dallas, and
Speaker 1: that rotates a lovely experience. It's a Wolfgang Puck property.
Speaker 1: And UM. I was just watching a TV show UM
Speaker 1: this past weekend about the Erie Canal and they showed Rochester,
Speaker 1: New York, and I spotted what looked like a rotating
Speaker 1: restaurants and like, well, I gotta go to Rochester flying
Speaker 1: in and out of go to Tampa, Florida. Fly to Tampa,
Speaker 1: Florida every year for vacation, and the hotel at um
Speaker 1: the Tampa airport, well, it's shut down. I wonder why
Speaker 1: they shut down. I don't know. We don't want to
Speaker 1: go rot It's one of those wonderful things. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: used to get dressed up to go. Yeah. Well that's
Speaker 1: that's the that's that's part of why I love these
Speaker 1: hotels like the Hyatt's that just seems so and that
Speaker 1: are that are maintained, but that it's like a portal
Speaker 1: into a past era. It's like you're on like a
Speaker 1: PanAm flight with like these fabulous outfits in a full
Speaker 1: meal and just we're like in a you know, a
Speaker 1: fabulous Cadillac from the sixties or seventies. It's just really
Speaker 1: the higher regencies, what they were doing with those was
Speaker 1: really taking travel like up a notch from the Howard
Speaker 1: Johnson too luxury hotels in a new way beyond like
Speaker 1: the old school hotels like the Drake and UM, the
Speaker 1: Fairmont in San Francisco, the Drake and Chicago, which I
Speaker 1: got to stay at UM both of those last year
Speaker 1: as well. So it was like, well the hotel the
Speaker 1: Fairmont in Hotel was actually used in the TV show
Speaker 1: Hotel Connie selicon James Brolin. It's an Aaron Spelling show
Speaker 1: on ABC. So every time I go into a night
Speaker 1: really nice hotel at home, or sing the theme song
Speaker 1: to hotel, so actually sing the theme song to hotel
Speaker 1: in Dona Na No, no, no, very dramatic. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah in the hot Springs. No, let's talk about a gem. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and that that's like the Drake as well. It's really
Speaker 1: really well maintained, but the walls were so paper thin.
Speaker 1: We were in a room and we were just quietly
Speaker 1: about eleven thirty four of us listening to a living
Speaker 1: Newton John like you do at eleven thirty at the
Speaker 1: Drake and the the hotel security was called upon us
Speaker 1: because they said we were too loud. But it was quiet.
Speaker 1: I mean, calm down. I think it might have been
Speaker 1: magic from the Zanna Do soundtrack. It wasn't crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah. So those walls are paper thin. And
Speaker 1: you know, when you get those hotels like that Regency
Speaker 1: that were built in the sixties and seventies, I mean
Speaker 1: they're a pretty good insulation. That hotel, the High Regency.
Speaker 1: The first time we stayed at it in eight nine, though,
Speaker 1: we were there for Atlanta Braves game, and so my
Speaker 1: dad freaked out because they were playing the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were staying there. So we met Commula Sorda, Um,
Speaker 1: Darryl Strawberry. I was probably seven or eight at the
Speaker 1: time and did not care at all, but Dad used
Speaker 1: me to go meet these people. So I was this guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So I mean my first time going in there, um,
Speaker 1: I just remember, you know that was a UNIX seen
Speaker 1: celebrities seeing famous people in this dramatic hotel. I mean
Speaker 1: it made a really dramatic impression, and um, yeah, just
Speaker 1: fascinated ever since. I went to Kansas City a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago and stated at what was the Higher Regency there?
Speaker 1: It's now a Sheraton, but then they had a I
Speaker 1: believe it was a Western attached to it. So it's
Speaker 1: all this big complex and um, there was an indoor
Speaker 1: garden at the west end that it was like the sixties.
Speaker 1: I mean it had to be seventy two, I think
Speaker 1: early seventies, and it was just untouched. I mean you
Speaker 1: feel like you're on the set of Three Company or something.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just great. You know. So have you
Speaker 1: traveled be on the cities? Have you going to like
Speaker 1: the Berkshire's or any of these places where you know
Speaker 1: there's going to be some preserved places like I know
Speaker 1: there's some places in Michigan, you know, and like a
Speaker 1: dirty dancing resort kind of like have you ever have
Speaker 1: you ever put your foot into that world? No? I haven't.
Speaker 1: And usually it's because when we go to a city,
Speaker 1: there's a reason, like an artist we want to see
Speaker 1: playing there, um, or a place that my boyfriend wants
Speaker 1: to go, right. Yeah, So I'm piggybacking like, oh, what
Speaker 1: hotels can I see there? Um? Do you have any
Speaker 1: that are on your list right now that you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it? You're pretty excited? Well really Miami, I mean Miami. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the Fountain Blue just because, um, it's one
Speaker 1: of those places I've I keep looking at and I
Speaker 1: mean to go, but there hasn't been. Let's go to Miami,
Speaker 1: you know kind of thing. But you know the the
Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean in dream Girls they made their
Speaker 1: debut at the Fountain Blue. Was it the Fountain Blue?
Speaker 1: We'll say it was for these purposes, but also in
Speaker 1: The Bodyguard, you know, Rachel Mayor and the Big Rachel
Speaker 1: when it explodes some you know, the Fountain bl I
Speaker 1: love that. It's somewhere there's the ven diagram of movies
Speaker 1: that you love and hotels that yeah, they overlap. That's
Speaker 1: a really that's a really big big part of it.
Speaker 1: You had to if you had to, if they were
Speaker 1: going to film a movie of your life and there
Speaker 1: was gonna be an hotel in it, what were they, Oh, well,
Speaker 1: that would probably be the wind Free Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama,
Speaker 1: which is now a higher Regency incidentally, Uh, it's attached
Speaker 1: to the mall, the River Chase Galleria. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: just had a lot of memorable stuff go down in
Speaker 1: the wind Free Hotel. Um, it was really you know,
Speaker 1: going to the mall, it was a big deal. But
Speaker 1: also this hotel was really nice and so uh several
Speaker 1: things are remember about the Winfrey Hotel growing up. When
Speaker 1: I was the Fox six Star Student of the Week
Speaker 1: for Gardener High School and the local Fox affiliate, they
Speaker 1: had the gala there at the Winfrey Hotel. This is
Speaker 1: my senior year of high school. And there was a
Speaker 1: news anchor I always wanted to meet named Janet Hall
Speaker 1: still on Fox six, the affiliate, and so I finally
Speaker 1: got to meet her and that meant a lot to
Speaker 1: me for reasons that I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: because we'll never stop talking. Also, my meme all was
Speaker 1: in the Miss Alabama Nursing Home pageant representing Handsful Nursing
Speaker 1: Home about two thousand and so she was, I mean
Speaker 1: it's theme. It was at the Winfrey Hotel in the
Speaker 1: ballroom and that so um. Also the first time I
Speaker 1: really connected with Nammi Judge from the Judds was in
Speaker 1: the lobby of the Free Hotel from the Nami Judd
Speaker 1: of the Judd Spain was in the lobby. She was
Speaker 1: speaking there at the at the hotel, and I met
Speaker 1: her in the lobby and have my first meaningful exchange
Speaker 1: with That was my first meaningful ex change with the
Speaker 1: jud What what would you mind? What was it? The
Speaker 1: exchange that was some meaningful? Well, it was just really
Speaker 1: about connecting with her um a little bit and telling
Speaker 1: her about my love for the Juds and how much
Speaker 1: the I mean, the Juds are really foundational for me musically.
Speaker 1: So I had her signed the box set, sign a
Speaker 1: tour program and also signed a photograph I got in
Speaker 1: the year before at their fan club party here in Nashville.
Speaker 1: So I still you weren't talking at all in the lobby,
Speaker 1: almost girming from dear life. And this was before I mean,
Speaker 1: did she did she make sure to sign your name
Speaker 1: love to hunt Her so that you can't sell it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to know. I'm just saying, yeah, love
Speaker 1: to hunt her. Love to hunt her is how it went.
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. So the Winfrey Hotel and it's
Speaker 1: still there. I actually went there two weeks ago for
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. And the thing
Speaker 1: about hotels when I'm going and exploring that can really
Speaker 1: rob them joys. Happened twice to me this year is
Speaker 1: when there are weird ass comic book conventions going on. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Oh my gosh, well I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this. Um, I know that the all of the
Speaker 1: Atlanta hotels that you talk about, um, mostly I see
Speaker 1: them now when I go to weird ass comic So
Speaker 1: when I was there just completely full. They're they're full,
Speaker 1: and so I'm trying to enjoy the architecture and or
Speaker 1: the nostalgia and just live in this time period of
Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies. And then there are all these weirds.
Speaker 1: What's not storm it's also furries, which has a whole
Speaker 1: sexual component that's weird. And yeah, you really do so
Speaker 1: I just really should start calling ahead and being like, Hi,
Speaker 1: I would like to create a fantasy for myself. Are
Speaker 1: there any weird ass furry conventions this weekend? So maybe
Speaker 1: that's a thing. Is it a thing? Do you? Because
Speaker 1: I do this sometimes, but I wonder if you do
Speaker 1: it when you walk around these hotels and there's a
Speaker 1: convention and all that you're trying to guess what the
Speaker 1: convention is because usually it's not on the badge, you know,
Speaker 1: it's usually not broadcast because they're usually servicing two or
Speaker 1: three at a times. Yeah yeah, yeah radio like yeah,
Speaker 1: well you have phone with those. Um you know the
Speaker 1: a brilliant hotel which is massive here in Nashville. They
Speaker 1: have conventions all the time. And in college we used
Speaker 1: to would would go crash like the parties, Like we
Speaker 1: crashed the radio check party, UM corporate party at the
Speaker 1: Opperland Hotel. And my friend Kelly, who I grew up with,
Speaker 1: who's just insane. She led them all inline dancing and
Speaker 1: it was just really fun. But I don't know why,
Speaker 1: just usually don't. I'm not I'm not as interested in
Speaker 1: what conventions are there. I want to go back in time.
Speaker 1: So do you ever find yourself do you ever find
Speaker 1: yourself dressing of the period or or taking a suitcase
Speaker 1: from that period? Like like is that where it's coming from? No, No,
Speaker 1: you just want to stand in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: I just want to stay in there. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they're well documented on the Instagram. And then I
Speaker 1: got this NASS Canon camera. We were this year that
Speaker 1: um I did we stayed at the Peabody earlier this year.
Speaker 1: It took a lot of great photos of the Peabody
Speaker 1: in Memphis with the ducks. Ducks, they come out and
Speaker 1: they come out. Yeah, which you know, the Peabody is
Speaker 1: a grand, grand hotel. So are you a fan of
Speaker 1: the of the bellman and the concierge and all the
Speaker 1: people who work in these hotels? Yeah? I mean that's
Speaker 1: one of the things I've been meaning to get a recently,
Speaker 1: and I want to get a book on hotel management,
Speaker 1: and I think that's so alluring. But then I realized, oh,
Speaker 1: but that would involve working with people, which takes all
Speaker 1: the sexy out of it, And so I don't want
Speaker 1: to get too far down that rabbit hole of actually
Speaker 1: working in a hotel, you know, but I do love
Speaker 1: vaguely the concept. So if you were someone's listening to
Speaker 1: this and then really never thought they were staying at
Speaker 1: and they wanted to dive into our Kelly land of
Speaker 1: classic hotels, what would you start them on? I want,
Speaker 1: I guess just I think the higher regency chain and
Speaker 1: like looking at the hotels, um, if you go to
Speaker 1: a city and you notice a hotel, tall hotel with
Speaker 1: an atrium and a spaceship on the top. That was
Speaker 1: a Higher Regency. M I've seen them in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: They're out in California. They really took that design and
Speaker 1: ran with it. So I think, you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things. Just keep an eyeut when you're in
Speaker 1: a city. There's one in Louisville. Like we pulled into
Speaker 1: Louisville a few years ago for a show and was
Speaker 1: on a tour bus and I called. I saw it
Speaker 1: and called, so find out the hotel. Call see if
Speaker 1: it's open. You know, go. It's just a fun thing
Speaker 1: and you'll you'll see them out there. It's still still
Speaker 1: do you do leave anything behind or take anything from
Speaker 1: each point? Like how do you have any picture? Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things with the higher regencies, it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: A friend of mine just bought me. This will time
Speaker 1: to you being from the Knoxville area for the high
Speaker 1: it's now I think it's a Marriott, but it's the
Speaker 1: one downtown in Knoxville that was a Higher Regency and
Speaker 1: all of the highatt Regency hotels back when they actually
Speaker 1: had a key have the key ring and its um
Speaker 1: bronze and it has then imprint of the hotel structure
Speaker 1: on it, so I think high it's bringing it back.
Speaker 1: The Higher Regency in Atlanta just had a remodel and
Speaker 1: the chicken desk the back of the back wall behind
Speaker 1: the check in desk is these keys just replicas of
Speaker 1: these keys, so they're those exist. So I think, really
Speaker 1: it would be that, But that's more of an eBay thing.
Speaker 1: I think with it with from these hotels, I just
Speaker 1: take my photos and my memories like National Park. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: thank you for beating here. Thanks, it's been weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the whole idea. Chapter two. In every episode
Speaker 1: of Geeking Out, I see if I can trade one
Speaker 1: thing I've discovered with one thing that my guest has discovered,
Speaker 1: a friendly exchange. I call it trade you. I trade
Speaker 1: you one thing that I've discovered or I'm just into
Speaker 1: like a song or a Netflix show or something, and
Speaker 1: you you trade me back something small. Because you were
Speaker 1: just talking about hotel I'll go first, because you're just
Speaker 1: talking about hotel rooms. Um, there's a thing that the
Speaker 1: band Queens and stone Age started that you might enjoy
Speaker 1: here in this and what it is is they are
Speaker 1: secret hotel wall art. So what they started doing because
Speaker 1: they travel around so much. My brother turned me on
Speaker 1: to this is they started taking tools with them and
Speaker 1: the tools were like a screwdriver and a bunch of
Speaker 1: paint pens and they will take down the art in
Speaker 1: a hotel room from the wall and draw new art
Speaker 1: behind it and then put it back up. They started
Speaker 1: it an arts festival in Joshua Tree and they would
Speaker 1: do people's rooms. I'm showing. So they take off the
Speaker 1: painting off the wall and then they paint something behind it,
Speaker 1: and then they put the painting back on. So it says,
Speaker 1: if you're you're leaving a little secret for the next
Speaker 1: person that stays in the room. And the reason that
Speaker 1: I think that this would be important to you is
Speaker 1: because I've always had this weird superstition that and I
Speaker 1: think it's just from too many Tom Waite's songs that, Um,
Speaker 1: when you sleep in a hotel room, you take on
Speaker 1: the dreams of the person before you, right, And that's
Speaker 1: a weird superstition. I've had my whole life as a songwriter. Um,
Speaker 1: but this when my brother turned me onto it. We
Speaker 1: were we were leaving messages for each other because he
Speaker 1: was in the band Train and sugar Land was on
Speaker 1: tour and we were both doing amphitheaters, so backstage we
Speaker 1: were only two or three days away from each other.
Speaker 1: So we would leave things for each other behind the
Speaker 1: like the mirrors or under the desk and the production
Speaker 1: office or whatever, and Briannon would get him a couple
Speaker 1: of days later and he would do the same for me. Well,
Speaker 1: pretty soon after that he called me and he said, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta get you some paint pens. And I said why,
Speaker 1: he goes, because I want you to look for my robot.
Speaker 1: And he started making this one particular robot that he
Speaker 1: would draw and put behind the the the pictures in
Speaker 1: the hotel room where train was vandalized. Hotel rooms, Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you're never gonna be able to figure
Speaker 1: it out which ones, But Slash I gotta do is
Speaker 1: pa go over it. But if you just go online
Speaker 1: and you and you it's hidden hotel wall art is
Speaker 1: what you go. Look. Have you ever found one of
Speaker 1: his world pots? I have, but he told me we're
Speaker 1: one okay, in the same hotel room. Uh yeah. I
Speaker 1: asked for a particular room and went to it because
Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was like for real and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think it's even cooler that in some
Speaker 1: of this research was you know, the lead singer from
Speaker 1: Quenton stone Age that started this. I love that. So
Speaker 1: there you go. That's your treat. I love it. What
Speaker 1: I have for you is the classic TV series Roseanne. Okay,
Speaker 1: I am growing up identified with Roseanne a lot. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Alabama, but they were aggressively lower middle class,
Speaker 1: and so I love the humor of the show, but
Speaker 1: it was something like I just wanted to escape that.
Speaker 1: Hence I'm going to these nice hotels that I always
Speaker 1: loved to go to. I wanted the opulent lie. So
Speaker 1: now I think that we are living in Trump's America.
Speaker 1: In um, ABC is actually bringing Roseanne back for ten
Speaker 1: episodes with the original cast, both Becky's I think. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna weigh it towards Lessie Garranson, Garrison Garranson.
Speaker 1: I don't know anyway, So but going back and watching it,
Speaker 1: and especially I have the box set um a few
Speaker 1: years ago at a Walmart, I found for thirty dollars
Speaker 1: the entire series of Roseanne eight or nine. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of DVDs have not really spent a kids
Speaker 1: time with it. The kids grow up. But what's really
Speaker 1: illuminating is watching the episodes where Roseanne is sitting there
Speaker 1: explaining why certain storylines happened. So the one season is, um,
Speaker 1: they lose Dan, her husband loses his bike shop, and
Speaker 1: they're both out of a job, and so they were
Speaker 1: really tackling the recession that was happening in any one
Speaker 1: during the Bush years head on um and then talking
Speaker 1: about like the college fund going away, she was like,
Speaker 1: I really that was happening. I wanted to address that.
Speaker 1: Also as a homosexual in Alabama, I um was like,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of gay people in Landford, Illinois.
Speaker 1: On Roseanne, you know, because you had Martin Mule's character
Speaker 1: who ran the ran the rod Bell's lunch counter, which
Speaker 1: I love a lunch counter. And uh, then Nancy played
Speaker 1: by Sandrew Bernhardt turned out to be a lesbian with
Speaker 1: Morgan Fairchild. And the reason that she had too she
Speaker 1: wanted two gay characters on the show because both her
Speaker 1: brother and sister were gay. Roseanne's brother and sister are gay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's just all this stuff that she was seeing
Speaker 1: from her life that she poured directly into the show.
Speaker 1: Like her daughter, Um was a vegetarian and they had
Speaker 1: these big drag outs about eating meat, and so she
Speaker 1: just made Darling a vegetarian and that played out over
Speaker 1: the course of the show. Roseanne bar write all those
Speaker 1: songs really really involved in how they went down, and
Speaker 1: so it's just really, Um, I had no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a really solid show and I'm in binging
Speaker 1: it and how does it hold up? Three in a row,
Speaker 1: four and rows? It feels timely and if it feels timely,
Speaker 1: but also just really really funny and I feel like
Speaker 1: I know these people, you know in a way. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so the TV show rose Ane. Okay, start quoting Roseanne
Speaker 1: in my two weeks. It's totally your fault. All right,
Speaker 1: We'll get you some paint pens for Christmas. Thank you, alright,
Speaker 1: thank you for being here. Chapter three me geeking out
Speaker 1: on music this week, Big Boy and bass drops. What
Speaker 1: is a bass drop? And why is it awesome? Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard the moment it where the band suddenly
Speaker 1: stops during the recording of your favorite song and when
Speaker 1: they break back in, the hair in your arm stands
Speaker 1: up and suddenly you feel like jumping up and down
Speaker 1: back in the day, we called it a breakdown now
Speaker 1: and as a new dame the drop in e d
Speaker 1: M electronic dance music. One of the coolest conventions that
Speaker 1: the artists used to make people cry with the motion
Speaker 1: has been this majestic layering and adding of sounds and
Speaker 1: rhythms to build tension and then releasing the tension. The
Speaker 1: song and sounds build and build, going higher and higher
Speaker 1: until you can't help but feel the anticipation of the
Speaker 1: release when rhythm the vase finally come back in. So
Speaker 1: I am obsessed with Big boys new album, Boom Reverse,
Speaker 1: and I've been wearing it out lately. Big Boys one
Speaker 1: half of the Atlanta hip hop band Outcast, and this
Speaker 1: is his second solo album. I love him solo, and
Speaker 1: I love his band because they've always seemed fearless to me.
Speaker 1: I love how they absorbed the influences from anywhere and
Speaker 1: everywhere around him. So one track in particular on Boomer Verse,
Speaker 1: called Chocolate, seems that it has absorbed some of this
Speaker 1: a d M convention. Turns out, Big Boy had d
Speaker 1: JAY residency at the Wind Hotel in Vegas in sixteen,
Speaker 1: and so you can hear how he has built the
Speaker 1: drop into the perfect place in chocolate. I felt go
Speaker 1: pick up boomer Verse, downloaded by it, stream it turned
Speaker 1: someone else onto it, and next time you hear a
Speaker 1: dance song, listen for the job. I hope you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: and assembling the pieces, Tom Tapley for audio wizardry, and
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