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Speaker 3: with your host Jordan.
Speaker 4: Paper The Daily Truck Good Bluff has so much to
Speaker 4: talk about Tonight, the d O.
Speaker 5: D only wants heterobomber jets. Jackie Robinson gets benched, and
Speaker 5: Republicans started GoFundMe for the richest man on Earth.
Speaker 3: So let's get right into it.
Speaker 5: I'm going to common Donald Trump made lots of promises
Speaker 5: during the presidential campaign, and he emphasized one thing in particular.
Speaker 2: Starting on day one, we will bring competence and common
Speaker 2: sense back to the Oval Office. Restore competence and effectiveness
Speaker 2: to our federal government.
Speaker 6: Kamala says, vote for her, and you're voting for joy.
Speaker 3: What's the one more en counterpart?
Speaker 6: Competence competence, but real competence, real real competence, not just
Speaker 6: he's he's sort of a competent, but no real competence.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, the more you say that something is real, the
Speaker 5: more people believe you. My real, real girlfriend lives in
Speaker 5: real Canada. She's just not just sort of my girlfriend,
Speaker 5: She's my real girlfriend. She's real and I touched her
Speaker 5: real movies. By the way, what room is that? I
Speaker 5: feel like the beast must have bell trapped in the
Speaker 5: room next door. Right, But yes, Trump promised his presidency
Speaker 5: would be marked by competence, and now that we're two
Speaker 5: months in, let's see how that's going.
Speaker 7: Some serious secure already concerns over the newly released JFK
Speaker 7: files and real anger after social security numbers and other
Speaker 7: private information of more than two hundred people were made
Speaker 7: public on Tuesday. The Washington Post reports that among them
Speaker 7: are former congressional staffers and one of Donald Trump's most
Speaker 7: vocal defenders, his former campaign lawyer, Joseph Degeneva. He is furious,
Speaker 7: telling the Post it's absolutely outrageous, adding it's like a
Speaker 7: first grade, elementary level rule of security to redact things.
Speaker 5: Like that whoa man looks like three h four five
Speaker 5: five sixty six two two is really upset about that,
Speaker 5: league man SOSA security numbers addresses full names. The only
Speaker 5: thing that wasn't in the JFK papers was who killed JFK.
Speaker 5: And Trump's poor, poor lawyer. He's probably like, oh, man,
Speaker 5: I never would have represented you in your twenty twenty
Speaker 5: election fraud case. If I knew you'd be untrustworthy.
Speaker 3: Boy, can't be surprised.
Speaker 5: Everything Trump has done so far has been sloppy, whether
Speaker 5: it's doge not knowing who they're firing, Ice not knowing
Speaker 5: who they're deporting. Turns out they can't even do a
Speaker 5: classic DEI purge rite.
Speaker 8: Tonight, the Pentagon sparking outrage after removing from its website
Speaker 8: a story celebrating the Army record of American icon Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 8: A senior military official tells US tonight that the Pentagon
Speaker 8: relies on computer software to scrub DEI content from its websites,
Speaker 8: and that ultimately those stories about Jackie Robinson were removed
Speaker 8: by mistake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, don't blame us, blame our racist software.
Speaker 3: We should have never used chat KKK plastic mistake.
Speaker 5: Plastic mistake, be careful where it does not shoot. So
Speaker 5: Jackie Robinson mistake wasn't even the most embarrassing anti DEI flub.
Speaker 1: In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal
Speaker 1: simply because their file included the word gay, including service
Speaker 1: members with that last name, and an image of the
Speaker 1: B twenty nine aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first
Speaker 1: atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Speaker 5: That's how lazy they were with this. They just control
Speaker 5: f't for gay sounding keywords and deleted anything that showed up.
Speaker 5: Now kids won't know about the Onola Gay, they won't
Speaker 5: know about transport planes, and they'll never hear about the
Speaker 5: heroic service of Captain Grinder mcsisary.
Speaker 3: Tragic.
Speaker 5: What's extra tragic is this could have all been avoided
Speaker 5: if they had just named the plane Aola gay no homo.
Speaker 5: You know, but maybe getting things right is it this
Speaker 5: administration's top priority. They have a crisis on their hands.
Speaker 5: Tesla Stock is in the toilets, and they can't let
Speaker 5: that happen. Clicis they can't let that happen because Elon
Speaker 5: Musk is a key member of the Trump administration and
Speaker 5: more importantly, Republican Party sugar Daddy. So last night they
Speaker 5: sent Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Fox News to make
Speaker 5: a pitch.
Speaker 9: I think, if you want to learn something on this
Speaker 9: show tonight by Tesla. It's unbelievable that this guy Stock
Speaker 9: is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again when
Speaker 9: people understand the things he's building, the robots he's building
Speaker 9: the technology he's building, people are going to be dreaming
Speaker 9: of today and Jesse Waters and thinking, gosh, I sure
Speaker 9: bought Elon Musk's stock. I mean, who wouldn't invest in
Speaker 9: Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: You gotta be kidnaping whoa. It's a gross, a big gross.
Speaker 5: Cabinet members should not be shilling for companies, and that
Speaker 5: includes those Henry Kissinger hymns dot com ads. But to
Speaker 5: be fair, it wasn't just out there shilling Tesla stuff.
Speaker 5: The Commerce Secretary was pushing Elon products that hadn't hit
Speaker 5: the market yet.
Speaker 9: Go online and look up Optimus. It is the coolest
Speaker 9: thing you've ever seen. We're all gonna be buying robots.
Speaker 9: They're gonna cost about.
Speaker 3: Thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 9: You're gonna be buying a Tesla robot, and anybody doesn't
Speaker 9: buy a Tesla robot is going to be silly.
Speaker 3: Yeah you hear that.
Speaker 5: People who don't buy a thirty thousand dollars robot that
Speaker 5: isn't on the market yet and will probably strangle you in.
Speaker 3: Your sleep, you're gonna look silly.
Speaker 5: These poor everyday Fox viewers must be so confused. They
Speaker 5: came here for the xenophobia and pretty ladies, and now
Speaker 5: they have to mortgage.
Speaker 3: Their house to buy a robot with a thigh gap.
Speaker 5: It's so embarrassing that this guy is using his position
Speaker 5: on TV to sell shit to the American people. Why
Speaker 5: are you so hungry for must approval when you should
Speaker 5: be hungry for a tackle bell, build your own craving box,
Speaker 5: a shelupa Sapreme burrito aside, and a drink for under
Speaker 5: seven bucks. It's called integrity, and it's how you live
Speaker 5: Moss integrity. You know, it's not just the Trump administration.
Speaker 5: The whole team over at Fox News is doing their part.
Speaker 3: I own a Tesla. It's amazing. I ordered my Tesla today.
Speaker 3: I told my wife, Hey, I think we should buy
Speaker 3: a Tesla. So you're going on to buy one, Go
Speaker 3: get a Tesla. I'm going to buy a Tesla today.
Speaker 9: By the way, nice nice, nice, nice nice.
Speaker 3: Oh Man.
Speaker 5: Pretty soon even Fox is going to stop saying Merry
Speaker 5: Christmas and replace it with happy Tesla December to remember
Speaker 5: sales events. For more of the Trump administration's priorities, we
Speaker 5: go to the White House with Troy Iwada. Roy Joy's
Speaker 5: the what's the mood over there?
Speaker 3: Bad, Jordan, real bad.
Speaker 10: But we're hanging on to hope that we can get
Speaker 10: Elon Musk through this hard time.
Speaker 3: And luckily you can help.
Speaker 10: For the simple price of thirty thousand dollars. That's just
Speaker 10: seventy thousand cups of coffee a day. You can make
Speaker 10: sure the richest man in America stays the richest man
Speaker 10: in America.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, well, Troy, Troy, are you are you running
Speaker 5: a charity for Elon Musk?
Speaker 10: I was trying to before you rudely interrupted me. This
Speaker 10: man is barely worth three hundred billion dollars at this point,
Speaker 10: but we can change that. For the simple price of
Speaker 10: fifty thousand dollars, you can help a fifty three year
Speaker 10: old boy afford all the things he was already able
Speaker 10: to afford.
Speaker 5: Okay, wait, no, no, stop stouth, the music, stop the music.
Speaker 3: Please. Look, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I just don't understand why it's our responsibility to help
Speaker 5: a man who's destroying his own brand with deeply unpopular policies.
Speaker 10: Wow, Jordan, Okay, I thought liberals were supposed to care
Speaker 10: about immigrants and African Americans, of which Elon is both,
Speaker 10: and you know he's not as rich as he used
Speaker 10: to be. He lost forty billion dollars. That's forty billion
Speaker 10: Arizona iced teas. But we can fix that. For the
Speaker 10: simple price of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. You
Speaker 10: can support an African man in need and his beautiful
Speaker 10: growing ketamine addiction.
Speaker 5: No, Troy, sorry, no, no, this is insane. Also, why
Speaker 5: is the number getting higher? I just don't get why
Speaker 5: Elon musch choices should be America's problem.
Speaker 10: Okay, you know what the real problem is.
Speaker 3: You keep being interrupting. All right, I'm all right.
Speaker 5: I think it's on Elon to fix his own mess.
Speaker 5: Ye know, I'm sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 10: I forgive you because you can help for the even
Speaker 10: simpler price of two and a half million dollars. You
Speaker 10: will get a thank you letter from one of his
Speaker 10: thirty seven children asking how they can get in touch
Speaker 10: with their father.
Speaker 3: No, Troy, come on, come on.
Speaker 10: Jordan, I am trying to help someone.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: It's bad enough that the executive branch of the US
Speaker 5: government is devoted to hyping Elon's businesses.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't we help the less fortunate?
Speaker 10: You mean, like Jeff Bezos for the simple price of
Speaker 10: one non union factory.
Speaker 3: All right, you know, I never joy you what everybody?
Speaker 5: When we come back, we'll find out how to survive
Speaker 5: the end of the world.
Speaker 3: Don't go well, Welcome back to the Daily Show. Everyone
Speaker 3: is worried about the world right now.
Speaker 5: But even with the Trump administration, there's only a forty
Speaker 5: percent chance of an apocalypse at most.
Speaker 3: But are you ready for that chance? Michael Costa spoke
Speaker 3: to some people.
Speaker 11: Who are America seems pretty idyllic, but at any moment
Speaker 11: we could be faced with a pandemic, a climate disaster,
Speaker 11: or even a civil war that would lead to total
Speaker 11: societal collapse.
Speaker 3: But for some Americans this is a great business opportunity.
Speaker 2: The hottest trend in the booming prepper market post apocalyptic
Speaker 2: real estate market. Leader Fortitude Ranch sells shares in remote
Speaker 2: survival communities in eight US locations with around eight hundred
Speaker 2: paying members. I met CEO Drew Miller inside his giant
Speaker 2: Jenka Tower in West Texas.
Speaker 12: It's like joining a country club.
Speaker 13: So in good times you could come out here and vacation, recreate,
Speaker 13: go to fund sites in the area. But when the
Speaker 13: shit hits the fan, we turn into a survival community.
Speaker 2: The country club that I belong to doesn't have a
Speaker 2: fifty caliber assault rifle hanging in the corner. So you
Speaker 2: have people now who have bought into Fortitude Ranch.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, we've been around for over a decade.
Speaker 2: Okay, but these are just like right wing nut jobs,
Speaker 2: no for normal people.
Speaker 12: Most of them are professionals.
Speaker 13: The estimate now is that one third of Americans are
Speaker 13: doing prepping for a collapse.
Speaker 2: According to Drew, the stereotype of preppers as paranoid, gun humping,
Speaker 2: roadkill eating outcasts is becoming outdated as societal collapse is
Speaker 2: getting less outlandish all the time.
Speaker 3: So what are you preparing for?
Speaker 12: Exactly? Well?
Speaker 13: Number one, the economy's not functioning, okay. Number two, there's
Speaker 13: widespread loss of law and order. So and the grid
Speaker 13: goes down. Up to ninety percent of the US population
Speaker 13: will die.
Speaker 12: It's h five and one pandemic. It's a North Korean
Speaker 12: attack on the electric grid.
Speaker 13: Yellowstone blows up, causes a winter that destroys crops worldwide.
Speaker 3: Together, Swift retires.
Speaker 12: She doesn't quite makefield severity.
Speaker 3: Great disagree in a way.
Speaker 2: Are you kind of hoping there's a total collapse?
Speaker 12: Just to prove that you're right.
Speaker 13: No, I'm resigned to it, but there would be a
Speaker 13: quick like I told you, mother, now get to your stations.
Speaker 11: But just everybody saying Drew's the smartest.
Speaker 12: Millions of preppers have been saying this.
Speaker 2: So so who are the new normy preppers? I sat
Speaker 2: down with RANCH member Ryan, who seems more Bushwick Barista
Speaker 2: than rugged survivalist. You don't give me right wing prepper vibe.
Speaker 14: No, I'm not. I'm not a right when you're at all.
Speaker 14: I have no idea how to you know if you
Speaker 14: if you drop me off in a mountain somewhere, like
Speaker 14: I'd survive for a few days.
Speaker 2: What do you think is causing not just you, but
Speaker 2: millions of Americans to feel that maybe doomsday is coming?
Speaker 14: Political realism right, Like, there's there's some shitty things that
Speaker 14: are happening right now. I mean, just for the the
Speaker 14: ability to not look at news anymore and just know
Speaker 14: that if something happens, you're covering.
Speaker 3: This is definitely cheaper than therapy. Both my parents are psychologists.
Speaker 12: That's why we're so up.
Speaker 11: How much money would you say you give fortune Ranch?
Speaker 14: It's about three thousand dollars and then you know, if
Speaker 14: you you know, it's quarterly payments.
Speaker 3: It's not cheap Fortitude ranch.
Speaker 14: No, it's not cheap.
Speaker 2: So what is Ryan get for his three thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: I suited up to take the tour. First up the
Speaker 2: entry level spartan room, which would make most New Yorkers say,
Speaker 2: I guess I don't have it that bad.
Speaker 12: So the bunk beds here, there's probably about fourteen.
Speaker 15: Kind of fun, kind of like camp, you know, all
Speaker 15: the little games you could play with each other. My
Speaker 15: buddy might keller her I fell asleep with the sleepover
Speaker 15: and he put my hand in warm water, right, and
Speaker 15: I shit myself.
Speaker 12: I'm not going to do that too.
Speaker 2: But of course there are several upscale tiers from a
Speaker 2: private room with a very personal toilet.
Speaker 15: Having the toilet next to the bed, it almost gives
Speaker 15: it that prison field.
Speaker 12: Well it's a couple, so we shouldn't mind.
Speaker 11: I mean some people get off on watching people use
Speaker 11: the bathroom.
Speaker 12: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: To surviving in luxury in a penthouse suite with a
Speaker 2: walk in kitchen, so.
Speaker 11: This would be considered a high end suite, correct.
Speaker 15: You know, if I wanted to knock out this area
Speaker 15: and put a breakfast nook here if you have a
Speaker 15: contractor for that.
Speaker 2: In its own dual purpose wall, bed wallup urphy bed
Speaker 2: cream exers.
Speaker 13: It's a full queen size.
Speaker 12: Yeah, this is pretty good.
Speaker 3: This feels perfect for the collapse.
Speaker 2: Fortitude Ranch doesn't just offer a place to rest your head,
Speaker 2: but also the hardware necessary to blow off anyone else's.
Speaker 13: The major weapons we recommend for our members is either
Speaker 13: a twelve gage pump shotgun or an AR fifteen like
Speaker 13: the ones behind you there.
Speaker 12: You know what I like here?
Speaker 16: The knife?
Speaker 12: Cool? If I just use that, I feel.
Speaker 11: Like people use guns are afraid of intimacy.
Speaker 1: Not me.
Speaker 2: How Fortunately, all ranch members are trained to engage in
Speaker 2: combat operations.
Speaker 3: We see you, We're gonna shoot you. Back up, bitch.
Speaker 3: Drew's got a gun.
Speaker 13: So if there was a marauder out there, the guard
Speaker 13: would shoot immediately.
Speaker 3: You don't even you don't say a backup, bitch?
Speaker 12: No, we don't.
Speaker 3: Well, don't you come to me when you wipe out?
Speaker 3: Entire troop of girl Scouts on cookies and.
Speaker 2: Most amazingly, this ranch is all inclusive. The food supply
Speaker 2: for each member is guaranteed for a full year.
Speaker 16: Those.
Speaker 2: Some ranch inhabitants might not be as happy with the arrangement.
Speaker 13: If it gets really, really, really bad, you'd potentially be
Speaker 13: dining on Lama.
Speaker 15: Let's be honest, if the collapse lasts long enough, anybody
Speaker 15: could be food.
Speaker 12: Not our members.
Speaker 13: But if you're a marauder and you attack us, we're
Speaker 13: not going to eat you directly. We'll bury marauder bodies
Speaker 13: where our chickens can feed on the worms they produce.
Speaker 13: We want every calorie we can get a survival situation.
Speaker 12: Cool, thanks, good talking to youre.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: Drew's chicken a la Marauder would certainly be a must try,
Speaker 2: but it did also raise some lingering questions about this
Speaker 2: post apocalyptic paradise. I mean, if society collapses out there,
Speaker 2: there's the same likelihood that society would collapse in here.
Speaker 14: It's a good point, right, Yeah, taking a chance.
Speaker 3: Have you thought about that day?
Speaker 14: But you know it is at a certain point. It's
Speaker 14: just like, you know, you got to prepare for this,
Speaker 14: You got to prepare for this.
Speaker 3: You go so you're not worried about Drew or.
Speaker 11: His staff killing us, eating our food or worse.
Speaker 14: I haven't putting much thought into it, and I just
Speaker 14: you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: It is better not to dwell on the worst case
Speaker 2: scenario when you're prepping for the apocalypse. After all, being
Speaker 2: in the surviving ten percent of humanity would also offer
Speaker 2: some exciting opportunities. I've decided that I'm willing to be
Speaker 2: a member here at Fortitude Ranch.
Speaker 13: We will be willing to lease to you the luxury
Speaker 13: suite during a clipse, but.
Speaker 2: I would like to be in charge of the repopulation program.
Speaker 13: I don't think Fortune Ranch is going to organize anything
Speaker 13: like that, but what you do on your personal time
Speaker 13: is your personal friend.
Speaker 15: I love these libertarians.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Michael. We'll come back.
Speaker 5: Peter Woolf, who'll be enjoining me on the show, don't
Speaker 5: go well. Welcome Mathewdls, my guest tonight is a legendary
Speaker 5: musician an artist who was the frontman of the Jay
Speaker 5: Giles Band. His new memoir is called Waiting on the Moon.
Speaker 5: Please welcome Peter Wolf.
Speaker 12: Not you, Peter Wolf?
Speaker 5: Can I say not only legendary frontman of the Jay
Speaker 5: Giles Band on tour, but also now New York Times
Speaker 5: best selling author Peter Wolf is that right legend, thank you.
Speaker 3: How did that feel? Well? If well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 16: I was coming down from Boston and all of a
Speaker 16: sudden my phone started lighting up like Times square, and
Speaker 16: all of a sudden I found the news. So it's
Speaker 16: too sent for me to even feel anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let it in, Peter, let it in.
Speaker 16: Let But you know, I'm the kind of guy that
Speaker 16: you know, Uh, comedy depresses me. So you know, if
Speaker 16: it's half emptier, well not you, thank you very much Jesus.
Speaker 16: But if it's half empty or half full, I go
Speaker 16: to the half empty side, so it still hasn't kind
Speaker 16: of sunk yet.
Speaker 5: The best best thing about half empty is it's closer
Speaker 5: to a refill.
Speaker 3: There you go. That's pretty good.
Speaker 16: Right, well, Okay, this was unplanned. Jordan does not know
Speaker 16: about this, but I did some research on him and
Speaker 16: he comes from Kalamazoo. So I got you some special yes,
Speaker 16: some special bourbon from calam Oh, dear lord, can we
Speaker 16: get something from Kentucky in here? Please?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? We can't. We can We'll go blind, Peter.
Speaker 16: Well, maybe we'll maybe we'll talk for a little bit
Speaker 16: and then we'll have a little shower.
Speaker 3: Or should we just Let's celebrate, celebrate, celebrate, cheer.
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that that tastes like Southwest.
Speaker 3: Michigan baby, yes?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 16: Or but about flint waters a little healthier than flint water. Yes.
Speaker 5: I have to say, as we're getting personal, that this
Speaker 5: is a special moment to me in that the sounds
Speaker 5: in my household growing up were the sounds of the
Speaker 5: Jay Giles band, oftentimes Full House, oftentimes the Bloodshot album,
Speaker 5: and my father would come out singing bright and early
Speaker 5: on Saturday morning, and more often than not, he would
Speaker 5: sing you, saying the phrase take out your false teeth, Mama,
Speaker 5: I want to suck on your gums. And I have
Speaker 5: you to thank for both that comment and the little
Speaker 5: scar that I left on my heart.
Speaker 16: And now I find out I don't know if I
Speaker 16: should be saying this, but I got to meet your
Speaker 16: dad in the dressing you did?
Speaker 3: He came in? Where is he? Where is he? Mark
Speaker 3: Clepper's over there in the corner. Yes, yes, all the way.
Speaker 3: We gotta get him out. We got Can we get
Speaker 3: him out for one clack chase? You want to get
Speaker 3: him out?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 5: One, Mark Clipper, come on out and it's my dad.
Speaker 3: Come on, come on you want to come on.
Speaker 16: I was telling your dad that Full House was my
Speaker 16: favorite Jay Giles record. Yeah, and uh, you know you
Speaker 16: like all of them, but that one happens to be
Speaker 16: my favorite because it just was like a snapshot of
Speaker 16: what we did, like the decisive moment, and we just
Speaker 16: started at you know, ninety nine miles an hour and
Speaker 16: just kept going. Yeah, and your dad was there. It
Speaker 16: was in a place called the Cinderella Ballroom, and the
Speaker 16: place was so funky that about six months after we
Speaker 16: played it, they just tore it down and it's still.
Speaker 3: An empty lot. You literally brought down the hill. You
Speaker 3: brought down there, He brought down the house. I mean, it's.
Speaker 5: This, this book is it's it's it's great. You're sort
Speaker 5: of I read this, you're sort of the forest Gump
Speaker 5: of music and culture of the last fifty years. Like
Speaker 5: you have chapters in here, the little vignettes with Eleanor Roosevelt,
Speaker 5: Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Norman Rockwell, David Lynch, like these
Speaker 5: little these little moments that you find yourself in.
Speaker 3: Why why frame your experience through that lens?
Speaker 16: Well, you know, during the pandemic, everybody was friends of
Speaker 16: mine were writing rock opera's symphonies, doing this and doing that.
Speaker 16: I just sat and I watched old movies and read.
Speaker 16: And then a lot of musicians started putting out memoirs,
Speaker 16: and a lot of them were just, you know, a
Speaker 16: cookie cutter kind of thing, unless you were really into
Speaker 16: the musician. They were kind of boring, and and not
Speaker 16: all of them, but many of them. And so I
Speaker 16: decided I was thinking for ten years of writing a book.
Speaker 16: And there was a friend of mine, a steam writer,
Speaker 16: Peter Gerlnik, that wrote some great books on music, the
Speaker 16: best books and Elvis that ever been written. And he
Speaker 16: said to me, Peter, if you're going to write the book,
Speaker 16: you better start now because the people you're gonna want
Speaker 16: read are going to be dead. And so there are
Speaker 16: a lot of notable names in this book, but it's
Speaker 16: really I didn't want it to be about me. I
Speaker 16: wanted it to be about the people that I idolized,
Speaker 16: and people like Aretha Franklin, who I got to work with,
Speaker 16: and people like you know, Muddy Waters and Johnley Hooker
Speaker 16: and and a lot of the book. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 16: We've got a Johnley Hooker, fanog and Van Morrison and
Speaker 16: all these people that I was honored, you know, to
Speaker 16: get to meet and so when I wrote some when
Speaker 16: I read some of these other books, they would describe, oh,
Speaker 16: we ran into so and so, but they didn't really
Speaker 16: you who what so and so was about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I.
Speaker 16: Tried to, you know, bring out the experiences that I
Speaker 16: had with these artists, and not all artists and people
Speaker 16: are not well known, but people that I thought were
Speaker 16: just great characters and who really influenced my life.
Speaker 5: I loved a chapter that I loved is you you
Speaker 5: talk about being in the Greenwich Village in the sixties,
Speaker 5: sort of as Dylan is coming up and you're a
Speaker 5: little bit younger than Dylan and sort of coming up
Speaker 5: and watching, watching what was happening and being a part
Speaker 5: of that scene. Like what did that scene feel like?
Speaker 5: I think right now there's sort of this new focus
Speaker 5: on that era in music with the movie that came out,
Speaker 5: but it seems so so dynamic and yet so intimate
Speaker 5: at the same time.
Speaker 16: It was. I mean, Greened's village was like a small
Speaker 16: left bank. There was no Neon signs. You had all
Speaker 16: filled with painters, lots of bohemian people, and of course
Speaker 16: there was the folk music and a lot of great jazz.
Speaker 16: There was great jazz clubs in so you had people
Speaker 16: like Charlie Mingus and you know, Macelonious Monk playing and
Speaker 16: little clubs and you can see him almost every night.
Speaker 16: And then there were the folk singers. I was sixteen
Speaker 16: years old and I was in this store going through
Speaker 16: some records and was a very famous store called the
Speaker 16: Folklore Center where all the folk musicians hung out. And
Speaker 16: I'm hearing behind the curtain this voice, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Peo hell little peegy who all.
Speaker 16: Rdy the Franklin.
Speaker 3: We need some more?
Speaker 16: And so I got mesmerized by this voice. I couldn't
Speaker 16: see who it was was behind the curtain, didn't know
Speaker 16: if it was you know, And all of a sudden,
Speaker 16: this fella comes out with these two other people walking
Speaker 16: out with guitars, and I go up to the owner
Speaker 16: of the you know, the shop, and I said, who
Speaker 16: was that guy? And from that point on I became
Speaker 16: mesmerized with the person who became Bob Dylan, and I
Speaker 16: tried to find out everywhere he played. I was sixteen
Speaker 16: years old and Bob had just come into New York City.
Speaker 16: I think it was the second week in New York
Speaker 16: City and so I got to really see him as he,
Speaker 16: you know, first became Bob Dylan, and he used to
Speaker 16: go and hang out at this place called Gerdies Folk City,
Speaker 16: and every Monday they would have a hooting nanny and
Speaker 16: you paid a dollar to get in, and you had
Speaker 16: to be eighteen the drinking ages eighteen. I was sixteen.
Speaker 16: So I would always go with someone as tall and
Speaker 16: handsome as yourself.
Speaker 3: Smart move, very smart, very smart move.
Speaker 16: And so we'd get in and I'd always rush to
Speaker 16: the bar where Bob would be every Monday, and he'd
Speaker 16: be sitting at the bar, and I remember, you know,
Speaker 16: he'd be sitting at the bar. I'd be over here
Speaker 16: and he'd be talking to some guy. You know, I
Speaker 16: just heard this guy, Robert Johnson.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 16: I could tell you, man, this guy was something else.
Speaker 16: He has cheasing Robie Johnson, and I could tell truthing people.
Speaker 16: And he's talking and he had a glass of you know,
Speaker 16: wine next to him, and so I'd be sitting next
Speaker 16: to him and Bob would be talking and he'd turn
Speaker 16: around and go, oh hey, Joe, another little glass here.
Speaker 16: Guy would tell her about it. Bob would take a
Speaker 16: little sip, he put it down. I'd go whoo. I
Speaker 16: was sixteen. I couldn't get anything, so he keep going.
Speaker 16: I would drink all Bob Billins you know wine, you would.
Speaker 3: Take it, yeah, at Bob Villin's juice.
Speaker 16: So I stayed a fan all the way through the years.
Speaker 16: And I'm still a fan. And because he's still going,
Speaker 16: he's still doing it and it's unique and just getting
Speaker 16: to know him. And there's a story in that book
Speaker 16: where I was drinking to get really loaded. Back then,
Speaker 16: I would drink these things called rum fifty one McCarty one,
Speaker 16: one hundred and fifty one percent alcohol. Okay, so the
Speaker 16: whole idea is don't eat. Drink two of those down
Speaker 16: really quick, Yeah, and you get smashed.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I think that would burn your insides.
Speaker 16: And so I'm staggering down six or seventh Avenue. There's
Speaker 16: Oh Henry Steakhouse, and there I see my idol, Bob Billan,
Speaker 16: sitting there all alone, reading the New York Times, and
Speaker 16: he sees me coming and he pulls the Times over
Speaker 16: his face. It's too late. And I walk over to
Speaker 16: the table and I sit down and I say to him,
Speaker 16: which everyone says to a celebrity, excuse me, sir, I
Speaker 16: don't mean to bother you, but then they proceed to
Speaker 16: do everything they said they're not gonna do it well.
Speaker 16: In the book, it's one of my favorite chapters is uh,
Speaker 16: my interaction with Bob and I'll just let it leave
Speaker 16: it at that.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to buy it, everybody say, or go
Speaker 5: to the library.
Speaker 3: You go to the library to get it.
Speaker 5: What I love about some of these stories is it
Speaker 5: does feel like like you have these wonderful stories with
Speaker 5: Muddy Waters and Johnny Lee Hooker, John Lee Hooker and
Speaker 5: that that essentially are you working your way into carrying
Speaker 5: musical equipment to get close to folks. Like it feels
Speaker 5: as if music and also like tradition was being passed
Speaker 5: shoulder to shoulder literally or perhaps murlow to murlou whoever
Speaker 5: you're stealing. Yeah, Like, in some ways your book is
Speaker 5: like a testament to the art of hanging out.
Speaker 16: Well, you know, I I saw Muddy Waters first on
Speaker 16: an album cover, and I was intrigued by this album
Speaker 16: cover vest of Muddy Waters, and I would just play
Speaker 16: it over and over, and then I finally realized he
Speaker 16: was playing at the small club Club forty seven, where
Speaker 16: Bob Dylan joem Baez got her start, and so I
Speaker 16: would hang out he was playing one afternoon. I got
Speaker 16: there at like two o'clock in the alfternoon and just waited
Speaker 16: and waited, and finally these two black cadillacs came coming
Speaker 16: up to the club and there he was, my idol, beautiful, handsome,
Speaker 16: noble regal outstep Muddy Waters. And I ran up to
Speaker 16: him and said, mister Waters, welcome to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Is
Speaker 16: there anything I can do for you? Yeah, you can
Speaker 16: carry that equipment? And he thought I worked in the club.
Speaker 16: And so I was in the club and it was
Speaker 16: a coffee shop, and in the I was in the
Speaker 16: bathroom and in the loo and two of Muddy's band members,
Speaker 16: the Great James Cotton Notice band, they were in the
Speaker 16: they saying this is a coffee shop. And one of
Speaker 16: them said, the other one.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so what he said?
Speaker 16: They didn't serve coffee because they don't serve booze.
Speaker 3: No, man, it's just coffee. What kind of club is this?
Speaker 16: So I'd come out of the stool and said I'll
Speaker 16: get you some booze, and I did, and that started
Speaker 16: the friendship. And I had an apartment two blocks away.
Speaker 16: And so what eventually happened was there was the dressing room.
Speaker 3: Was the size of this cup.
Speaker 16: And so Muddy and the entire band ended up with
Speaker 16: my apartment for over two weeks and I got to
Speaker 16: like sit there and there was Muddy Waters lying down
Speaker 16: the fruton. You know, has you know, a T shirt
Speaker 16: on what's the word that you call it?
Speaker 3: Tank top?
Speaker 16: Tank to tank top land in bed and he were
Speaker 16: telling me stories of how he first saw heard Robert Johnson.
Speaker 16: Everyone was all talking about different things. James Cotton was
Speaker 16: cooking up all this down home, and I just drove
Speaker 16: it all in and I tried to describe how great
Speaker 16: these men were and also how their lives were where
Speaker 16: they just went from city to city. They didn't have
Speaker 16: really much money. They just they just lived from dollar
Speaker 16: to dollar, and you know, they were legend and they
Speaker 16: supplied our you know, musicians like me with so much.
Speaker 16: So I tried to repay it by recapturing them in
Speaker 16: the story. And there's the guy you looked. Yeah, if
Speaker 16: I might tell one tale that the Johnley Hooker who
Speaker 16: became a favorite of min. So they're all our favorites,
Speaker 16: but John Lee particular because John Lee traveled alone. He
Speaker 16: didn't have a band, and he had these wrap around sunglasses.
Speaker 16: He was not too tall. He had a terrible stutter
Speaker 16: when he was off stage, but he was on stage.
Speaker 16: He never studied. And I got to meet with him
Speaker 16: and then went to his first appearance, and like Moudey,
Speaker 16: very few people came at that time, and so I
Speaker 16: convinced him to let my band, which was called this
Speaker 16: was the sixties, the Hallucinations. Sure, and so we were
Speaker 16: all art students and all hallucinator. So I convinced John
Speaker 16: Lee Hooker to let us open up for them. And
Speaker 16: then I asked, you know, mister hook would you mind
Speaker 16: if I can buy the hotel?
Speaker 3: And hung out with him.
Speaker 16: Now this the guy had wrap around sunglasses, you know
Speaker 16: the cap He sang songs like well, you know these
Speaker 16: great blue songs, and he said, yeah, come by Lenox Hotel,
Speaker 16: four o'clock, Room three h two. Oh man, it was
Speaker 16: like Christmas time. I was standing by that door at
Speaker 16: three o'clock. At four o'clock, I knocked on the door.
Speaker 16: I heard a voice come on in and I walked in.
Speaker 3: His door was open.
Speaker 16: I opened up the door and it was really dark
Speaker 16: except for a TV screen, and there on the bed
Speaker 16: was the great John Lee Hooker with these argyle socks you.
Speaker 3: Know, all the way you know, all the way up there, and.
Speaker 16: He had on you know, tank top dou rag on
Speaker 16: his head, wrap around sunglasses. On the night table was
Speaker 16: a bottle of Valentine's Scotch. There was cool cigarettes all
Speaker 16: up in the astray and there was you know this,
Speaker 16: you know cools. And then on the other bed, she
Speaker 16: was just beautiful curves, I mean beautifully laid out on
Speaker 16: the bed. All across the bed was this three thirty
Speaker 16: five guitar, and there was the Blue Man and he said,
Speaker 16: come on in. Room was dark, TV was on. I
Speaker 16: pulled up a chair. He say, on down, and I'm
Speaker 16: sitting down and you know, waiting for a conversation. I'm
Speaker 16: realizing that John is right riveted in the TV screen.
Speaker 16: So I look over at the TV screen and this
Speaker 16: is the man that sang, I'm mad.
Speaker 3: I'm bad.
Speaker 16: I can cut you, I can beat you, I could
Speaker 16: stab you, I could kill you. I'm mad, I'm bad
Speaker 16: like Jesse James. This man with the rap brown sunglasses
Speaker 16: watching TV. And I realized John Lee Hooker is watching Lassie.
Speaker 3: When he realizes I realize.
Speaker 16: The in ways that Peter, let me tell you man,
Speaker 16: and then that last he's one mother.
Speaker 3: Nothing about wonderful stories in this Waiting on the Moon is.
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