JW Ep 23- Adam Ray

Good night, mate. Jump in the morning to ya. Ola, como estas. Welcome, Jeremiah wonders.

What's going on? So many listeners worldwide who are greeting you with this fine day. What's going on with you? How was your week, huh?

Any good things happen to anything positive? Happening? In your life, huh? Anything good?

I hope so. Certainly hope so. Had an interesting week, my friends. The rumors are true.

Your boy broke his arm. Yep. We'll get into that a little bit later. But Adam Ray is the guest today.

Strap in. This episode is beefy. Yeah, that's right. It's beefy episodes.

It's a full episode. One of the longer episodes I recorded. We were just having fun, guys. We were riffin'.

Went off the rails real quick. Got real bizarre, real weird. I could not get bone thugs and harmony off the line. You'll see what I'm talking about later.

But wow. Let's just say one of their, one of their singers. He's a talker. Yeah.

Couldn't get him off the line. But he's enjoyable to talk to. Adam Ray, good buddy. I've known him for a long time.

Hustler in the scene. You'll see what I'm talking about. We had a great talk about his experience at MadTV. Him improvising with Sandra Bullock, Larry David.

He's been on a lot of great sets, a lot of TV shows, a lot of great movies. We touched upon some of those. And there's just some sweet riffin' going on. He's one of those dudes who's a lot of fun to riff with.

I like it when people get weird with me. And to that. I want to do a new segment, guys. I want to start introducing you to different artists in the scene.

Not just within comedy. It can be. If somebody has something important coming out like a comedy album or maybe it's something cool that they're doing within the community, I want to start talking to different people in my community that I'm running across. And I want to start off with my friend Jeff Rode today.

He has got a new song that just dropped on Friday. And I will let you listen to all about that in a new segment that I like to call Jeremiah's Artist Spotlight. Can I say, just the first artist in the spotlight? Here's my buddy Jeff Rode right now.

What's up, man? What's good, Jeremiah? Dude, excited to have you here. This is the first Artist Spotlight series that I'm going to start doing on Jeremiah Wonder.

So I'm glad to have you be the first guy to do this with. Wow, I did not know I was the first, but it was pretty amazing, actually. Yeah, man. I'm trying to incorporate more friends and fellow artists and other comedians and help cross promote everything, get good projects out there so people can listen to them or watch them.

I'm with it, man. That's great. Yeah, dude. Let's give the listeners a little bit of background on you.

First people, as you may know, Jeff Rode, is the person who produced the Jeremiah Wonder's theme, which is part of the Reagan Watkins album of the song. My name is Jeremiah that's coming out. Yes, that's right. Yeah.

So how long have you been producing music in? Well, let's see. I've been doing music my whole life. Started on the piano when I was five.

And then I would say that I started writing lyrics when I was like 16 and I had a horrible voice. And that's when I started, I wanted to be a songwriter around that age. And I was literally recording on like four track tape. So, you know, and then I took me a while to get a computer and go digital and all that.

So I've been out here in LA doing it for about 11 years now. That's awesome. And tell us some of our listeners, some of the people who you've worked with, because you are a Grammy winning artist. Yeah, yeah.

I've gotten a few of those. So I've worked with Flume, the electronic artist from Australia. I've worked with Killani from the Bay Area, Trey Songz, if you're into that baby making music. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. What else we got here? Big fan of his, so that was a good one for me. And recently, just working with a lot of new people that none of us have really heard of yet.

Yeah. But maybe in the theater. Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. So what was it like, because you said you've been like since a kid, you know, playing music and composing and singing and stuff like that, what was it like to, you know, as a kind of becoming a solo artist over the years, like was that happening at the same time while you're producing? Like, it was an effort going at the same time. And then, yeah, I like to think of it as when I started putting lyrics to my compositions, I might have been just, that might have been my journal from back in the day.

And again, like, yeah, we're talking horrible songs, you know, I feel like I've developed a lot since that time period. And I've always kind of been the artist. And then I just realized I needed to step up my game when I was writing for other people because you meet so many amazing, just crazy rappers, singers, songwriters, producers, and it's overwhelming. So I kind of like went back into my shell for the last like five years to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing as an artist.

And here I am again. So yeah. Awesome. Reborn.

Yes. Born again, something. So this song just dropped on Friday. Tell us about what it's about.

All right. It's called Bad Rap Love. And because you and I give love a bad rap. And it's basically inspired off of this date I went on.

This girl was just basically telling me crazy stories about her exes and stuff. Like she was like, yeah, my last boyfriend, I had to get a restraining order against him. And then a week later, he moved in or some shit like that. And as I'm sitting there, I realizing this shit is never going to work out.

I was like, no, I got to keep her talking because this is like a song right here. So literally, that's how I start the song off. I'm like, file a restraining order, then having to spend the night. So it starts off.

So yeah. It's like a listen right now to Bad Rap Love by Jeff Rope. Cool. Filer restraining order, then it will spend the night.

I think we both like that torture because we're closer after we find all place, red and moving on and not be out there chasing data. Neither one of our song could be figured. You can't even give me a shit and I give 100. You think you're out of my beat but now I think you're out of your me just felt like it against you.

Dude, that was dope. Thank you so much for coming on the show where else can people find your music and where can people find you online. I find everything on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud and it's Jeff Rope Cause. So that's what you got to look for if I'm on Instagram and all that stuff.

Look, I'm up guys. I love this dude and you're going to be seeing it here in a lot more room. So look out for the music video which drops in. Yes.

My man, thank you so much. Thanks for coming by. Alright. Hope you enjoyed that new segment.

I really like that song. It's gives me some JT, Justin Timberlake vibes and you know your boy loves JT. Yeah. I want to start doing that more.

A rising tide raises all ships. Is that the expression? Why not, why not to showcase some friends while, uh, while while I've got your ears, while I've got your attention. I want to introduce you to things that you know that I know about that I think that you should know about.

Why not spread the wealth? The wealth that is Jeremiah wonders. But yeah, check out Jeff for stuff. He's got a lot of good stuff guys.

Want to talk about the sponsors this week. Loyal. They sponsor the show every week, Speedweed at Speedweed on Twitter and at Bronx Born Pizza on Twitter and Instagram. Guys, Speedweed and Bronx Born, uh, their affiliate, Gray Block, they donated to my wife's non-profit benefit, uh, which she teaches kids on the autism spectrum improv to help with their social skills.

And her company zips up, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap, and Richmond.org, they had a benefit show slash auction on Sunday night and they, uh, Gray Block Pizza and Speedweed donated stuff, uh, to be auctioned off for the charity benefit. So I really appreciate that. I want to thank Gino over Speedweed. I want to thank Tom Schiffer over at Bronx Born Pizza slash Gray Block Pizza in Santa Monica.

Yeah. And, uh, I did something this week for my kindness challenge that actually has to do with Bronx Born hooking me up with, uh, the video equipment ran into a nice comic. Whenever I was in San Francisco that we were talking about festivals and how hard it is to get taped and stuff and he was like kind of like down about it a little. He's like, yeah, I can never get good tape.

I never have a camcorder whenever I want to film. And I happen to have the camcorder on me. That Bronx Born Pizza bought me to film the podcast with. I've been filming stand upsets with and recording them lately.

And I was like, you know what dude? I will record your set as this comic that I had just met. I said, I'll email it to you afterwards and I happen to get good footage of him and he had a good set. And hopefully that will help him with his festival entries.

But I broke my arm earlier in the week and I was like, man, I don't know if I can fall through on this, but I was like, you know what? I'm going to get through this. I edited the video for him with one hand and emailed off to him and he was super happy and super grateful. So that was my kind of challenge for the week giving and paying forward with somebody who had already given me with the ability to, you know, video record sets and this podcast.

Yeah. So I challenge you to be kind to a stranger or somebody that you know to something, do something, I'll kind of say, hard pay it forward. I promise you will be rewarded in the future. That's just how it works.

Paying a forward. I'm all about that, that positive vibe, sending good things to other people, unbeknownst to them maybe or known to them. Who knows? But guys, I did break my arm this week skateboarding.

That sucked. It's been a little bit of a rough week. Everything has been taking me so long, really put into perspective a lot of things for me. And that I've taken for granted having two working hands and arms.

That sounds very silly, but you really, until something like that is taken away from you. Wow. He takes everything for granted. So I'm very grateful that the cast came off that they originally put on.

The break was clean enough where I didn't have to stand a cast. I'm going to sling for six weeks and I'm going to start physical therapy next week. But yeah, it's a rough situation. I did a skateboarding.

My friend David Derry, he was a saint and he stayed with me. He took me to Kaiser, stayed with me the whole time. Then he fixed me Thai food afterwards and our buddy Joel, Joel Burke and Menacee was there. Pat Reagan was there.

They saw it happen. It was rough. There's a video on my Instagram and YouTube of me breaking my arm if you have not seen it and if you for whatever reason want to see that. So that's happening.

Anyway, guys, email your kindness challenge stories to me at yourboyjeremyawattkins.gmail.com. That's why you are boyjeremyawattkins at gmail.com. I created a new website for Kill Tony, all the episodes you can find in one place at Kill Tony.tv. It took me forever.

It was spread across a few different platforms. You can also find that stuff at deskwell.tv, but I wanted to organize it a little bit more, get a little bit more user-friendly so you can find it in one place. I'm a shoutout to Redband. Whenever I was organizing all that stuff, I realized how much work all that stuff is.

Redband really has a thankless job for what he does over at Kill Tony. He's a shoutout to my boo Redband. Check out jeremyawanders.com, guys. That has videos of the episodes of Jeremiah Wonders.

You have the podcast feeds on different platforms and stuff like that. If you want to make a donation, keep the podcast up and running. You can do that too at jeremyawanders.com. Let's get into this episode.

I'm recording this intro real late at night. This is a little bit longer episode, but guys, strap in. It's a weird fun house of jokes and riffs. And Adam Ray is a pleasure to be around.

I was glad that he was able to carve out the time of his day to do this episode with me. So without further ado, please welcome to the show Adam Ray on Jeremiah Wonders. Oh man, so excited to have Adam Ray on Jeremiah Wonders. Baby.

Broken arm is not going to keep me down from interviewing. What are my favorites? Dude, yeah, I'm glad that it's not. It would be great if you were not great, but just I don't know what the word is, but if there was just some sort of epic epiphany you had when you broke your arm to where as soon as you hit the ground, you were just like, I quit.

And also you post on Facebook, I'm moving to, I don't know, Tibet to try to become a chef. I'm just giving comedy up entirely. It's probably a better scenario I could have improvised. But I think if you were to get what I was trying to say, as you hit the ground, you had this career shift.

But you can still, obviously, you're proving it. Like a broken arm doesn't. It literally will not keep you down. No.

But some people does. Did you have to look for inspiration and like, you see those commercials of like the old men where they're like, oh, you know, beach seven different types of cancer and used to have, you know, but lost both my legs in the war. And then, you know, and then I popped a couple of avill and you see them like running on the freeway with like metal legs. And you're like, that's a little more than that, though.

Yeah, that's a little bit more. But also their determination therapy, but they're pointing their running on the freeway with metal legs. So you're like, I broke my arm. I can't fold my cards yet.

No, I mean, I mean, I did happen on Monday and I did kill Tony later that night and played sax and played Roseanne Barr as my character. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roseanne.

Roseanne. Yeah, kind of annoying. Yeah. Did you make any racist comments?

Everything said probably Byron Bowers is on the panel. So it's like perfect. Wow. Do people know that Byron is black?

I think so. I mean, if not, then his name is kind of black. Yeah. I think you should say that in Roseanne's voice just so people don't go as Jeremiah racist.

Just to be safe. Guys, the line is blurred. We don't know who's Roseanne who's Jeremiah anymore. Yeah.

Yeah. No, it is. I mean, you can, you know, if there was a game show called what color is this name, you know? I mean, look, Ray does not sound like a like you've never.

And it's all, but I guess, you know, you're all, what do you get? People go off their own ideas of what the names they've heard, you know, like Benji Aflalo, like that could go either way. Yeah. But then I don't know any black Benjis.

That's true. So yeah, have you ever met a black Benji before? I mean, that sounds like the beginning of James Taylor song. Have it.

Not a trail. Think about this long and hard because no one's ever tried a James Taylor impression ever. And you started and you started going like it was some 41. No, you said James and I was right away like James Brown.

And I was like, James Taylor? What? That's called a comedy curveball. What's that?

You know what? James Taylor. I wonder if he does ever try to improvise halfway through it. And he was like, no, go back to the classic.

I only have one. Dude, that happened the first time I saw Sugar Ray, which also sounds like a James Taylor song. What's your favorite Sugar Ray song? Well, fly, obviously.

But that's just the first one. I just want to fly. Yeah. And so it was Bummer's Black Eye and that, right?

There is in the band. I'm in the Tindsle Fly. Oh, God. Dude, that's what I was saying.

It's so much. That was a spot on. It was a make-in. A little bit.

It's, I don't know. It could be. So it was Bummer's. It's your arms around me, baby.

Yeah. Yeah. All around the world. I'm just going to move on me.

Wait, see, I'm so bad with lyrics and songs. Is it... What did you think it is? That she's crumbled for me?

Is that what it is? Oh my God. This is a big moment for me. I'm so...

I've been making... I don't have a question. Whatever I hear and I sing along to, I go, that's what it is. Yeah.

I go, I'm always going to sing that. Like bone dogs and harmony crossroads. You know, most of that I feel like I'm not singing accurately. But I don't also care because it's more fun to be like...

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I would like to measure my budget in my opinion. Whoa.

Bone dogs. If you're watching and listening, which we know you are. We know you are. This gets a lot of hits.

I mean, they should've done some sort of competition where it was like, what's your bone dogs, you know or what's your crossroad? Yeah. Well, that's same as their podcast and they just interview people about, like, you know, trials and tribulations. Like what's been the thing that got?

What was your roadblock, you know? In life. Do you think that it's real and analytical? Do you think that bone thugs are hard to understand like over the phone like whenever they make a fast food order or something?

Oh, for sure, yeah. I think you know what? to the show. I think he is actually.

I think he might be. Hey guys. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, you sound way different. You just patch into the show somehow. Yeah.

I wait. Is this? Hello? This is Jerry.

Jerry bone. Wow. You sound like you are on a planet of pure evil right now. Yeah.

Well, it's. Look, look, look, it's. Help, man. Hello.

When improv completely died. Wait, no. What are you looking for? The bone voice.

The bone. The deep one. Oh, the deep one. Yeah.

Damn it. There we go. We're going to find this. Hey, hey guys, it's.

That hit. Hey guys, it's me. Jerry. Oh, Jerry.

Oh, I'm sorry. Dude, it took a minute there. I had an existential crisis because for a moment, we have Adam Ray is the guest on Jeremiah wonders today. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Was he on according to Jim 2007? It was the season premiere. What did Adam do on that episode?

I played the water boy. So Courtney Thorne Smith was trying to fuck. And he was like, chill girl. According to Jim, you're still married.

I think that was the dialogue. If it wasn't, he should have been. He acted at a court. He said according to Jim.

We know how like in movies, they'll say like the title at some point. Yeah, there's like a name for that. Like in saving private Ryan at some point Tom Hanks lived in the camera was like, we don't have time for this. We're saving private Ryan.

And you know what he didn't have time for a second. Second a second. A second drizzle of food coloring on his icy and his snow cone. Yeah, people don't know that Tom Hanks was a lot of snow cones.

A lot of ice on, you know, a lot of polar bear cups. Yeah, Brad Pitt was constantly chewing on like cashews and like pigs in a blanket during oceans 10 and 11. Wait, just no snow. There was oceans 10 was there.

I think so, right? Wait, no, wait, oceans 12, 13. There's an oceans nine coming out with all the gas. Yeah.

Yeah. I just saw that the slogan, the billboard. And it said, there's for every con, there's a pro. And I was like, fuck yeah.

Do you ever think about like movie? Yeah. All the time. I can be in half the way.

It sounds like you're a little bit of a wrap vet. Like you sound a little grizzled. You sound like you've been really long and hard in the game. I've been around the bend.

And I've also had, you know, just like a lot of people that looked out for me. And you know, I mean, a lot of people know this, but most of, you know, I was the first member of bone thugs in harmony. Really? I got kicked out though.

How? What do you mean? How? How did you get kicked out?

What did you do? It's a great question. It's a pretty. It's a pretty.

I'm more of a Jeremiah. Not so much a Jerry, but. Oh yeah, I'm Jerry. That is crazy.

Jerry called Jeremiah's podcast. Yeah. Do you have a limit on how many friends you can have with your same name? I think that's a question I asked everyone on my podcast.

Yeah. I mean, I'm not I'm not friends with any other Jeremiah's. I actually know one. I know one was your bullfrog.

How many people say that to you and how often does that make you angry? You know what? It's not making me angry a while you go because I grew up in Kansas and fuck yeah, but I want to fuck this chicken Topeka. Topeka.

Topeka is the capital. I guess what her name was what? Topeka. You had sex with a girl named Topeka.

I guess what she was black. Wait, she was? Yeah. Topeka.

Well, I wasn't gonna say that, but like I want to assume it. I don't look. I got no problem with white girls. I just, you know, what I grew up around your product of your environment.

Totally. But yes, I got kicked out of bone bugs was this 1995 and it was rough. Dude, I was I was working at bonds, not even as a cashier, you know, I was stocking bread and tampons and shit. And my manager.

And that order is that's a very specific. I got fired. I was people who were digging through looking for like English muffins and next thing, you know, they're coming up on, you know, and I would say that too. And that's why I got fired.

Coming up on. Yeah. And so, you know, my manager's like, Hey, man, you got a look where you're putting shit and I was like, are you yelling me in the middle of a fucking bonds right now about whether or not I put baggads and women's hygiene products to, you know, what did you do? I'm doing fucking with nuts.

I ripped open one of the hokey bags. I'm saying and just stuff. I'm suffocating them to do it. I'm not just start eating it in front of them and say that I pay for the shit because I love hokey rolls.

I definitely thought that you as a rapper would be doing something a little bit more epic than that. But I mean, I guess you got to get your hoke on. I did my shit, man. Like, you gotta get your hoke on.

That's funny dog. I like it when you laugh. That's a good. It's very menacing.

It's also like, okay, you know, I'm scared, but also impressed at the same time. Yeah, like I'd be like one of those fun birthday clowns, but also like, fuck up a dad if you try to step, you know, Billy, we got your birthday clown. Back up, Dan. Oh, wow.

Yeah, you know, because it's like if you're a birthday clown, which I did, you know, for six months after I got kicked out of bone tugs. And it's one of those things where you got to find out balance between letting the kid run his party, but also putting your, you know, your foot down, your giant shoe and being like, you hired me motherfucker. You know, I decided when Kate comes out, you know, I'm trying to finish this face paint. Do you have a soft side?

Because you sound so hard. Oh, no, no, no, I cry. I cry all the time, man. You know those videos.

I'll go down YouTube rabbit holes of like army veterans will come surprise at kids at lunch, you know, dress unless it's like a mascot in a high school basketball game. And the kid who the dad is attached to is the line shooting free throws for like the championship and also the mascot runs on to the court and everyone's freaking out because like he can't be on the court is the championship, you know, and the mascot's like, psych, I'm not a bobcat, you know, I'm Bob the dad, you know, and the kid freaks out and they have to cancel the game and his team's piss because they're like, we just lost the game because your dad showed up, you know, so like those videos really touch the heartstrings, you know, I mean, you know, if you're not. Also anything with Glen Close and you know, 101 Dalmatians even? Oh, yeah, that's dog movies.

Dude, Beethoven's second. I cried harder at Beethoven's second than I did my uncle's funeral. How did he die? Uncle Charles?

Yeah. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. I think we're out of time with you. I appreciate the clear connection.

Like you just patched right into the show. I think that the Wi-Fi had something to do with that, but your Wi-Fi is people understand that like internet is becoming like everyone talks about your Facebook is listening to you, you know, which it is, you know, I'm saying like, I definitely, I want to watch. I definitely, I went to a Celine Dion concert in Vegas, you know, just on a whim. And next thing you know, I'm getting Facebook in my feed, you know, suggestions to go see Celine and like Rome.

And you're like, hold up. That was a secret. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, bitch, I went to one Celine Show and I'm a Dion fan for life.

I would have pictured you more of a Dion Sanders fan than Celine Dion. Or a Dion Warwick fan. Or Dion Warwick. Yeah, that's another great show idea.

What's your Dion? Well, maybe you'll call on later. We can talk more about some different shows. I would love to be.

I love podcast. Again, my podcast, What's your Crossroad. We've done about 15 episodes over the last seven months, looking to release, probably so many things. I mean, I've tried to let you go multiple times and you've really wanted to stand the line.

I got a lot of opinions, man. But I do got to get out of here. Oh, you got to leave now. Okay, I understand.

Well, thanks so much for calling him in. Appreciate you, man. Yeah. Dude, that was crazy.

I was so shocked. Like, I mean, I know there was other bone thugs, you know. Yeah. That's what's great about music.

Like, you know, and just the entertainment bit is like, there's so many. There's so many, you know, things you don't know hidden secrets, you know, Hollywood secrets. A little treasure maps and songs. Yeah.

What does Sugar Ray really mean? Is that she's crumbled for me? Yeah, what do they mean? I mean, that was that story.

So look, I got to see that Bumber Shoot, which is a big comedy music festival in Seattle. Do we agree there in the same year? Did you do that for the Jam that year? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We definitely did a Roland and just hammered.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was great. So great.

That was a lot of strange because it's like the lightest attended. Yeah. Yeah. But we were also going up against Third Eye Blind and different bands like that.

Macamort. Yeah. That festival was kind of strange. It was when I went in middle school and high school.

It was just the biggest thing ever. And it's still pretty popular, but it's gotten commercialized like any festival because of the popularity of it and they jack up prices and security tightens up. So kids can't be as fucked up. I saw some kids walking around that were definitely tweaking, but like the percentages are way lower.

And so go see Sugar Ray and it was one of the first concerts I went to. For the Blind actually was also playing that I think it posted something about a full circle moment when I was performing a Bumber Shoot for the first time because they were blind from the headliners and they were one of the headliners when I went for the first time. And that was the first concert I saw. And I'm on the same bill as I saw.

Oh, that's so cool. I mean, not the same bill, but like on the Bumber Show, the full poster that lists everybody on that, you know, it's not like it was like Third Eye Blind, Macamort, Adam. Hey, we're getting there. And so they're playing all these other songs.

Fly is like the biggest thing in the world. You know what I'm saying? Like that song just hits so hard. And so they're playing every song, but fly and people start booing.

And there's probably, I don't know, a thousand people in this side stage. Did they play that one song? It was like, every morning there's a head in that. I didn't come out.

I didn't even come out. I know it's not my but I'm basically giving it to the full most. I wouldn't understand. I'm getting out.

Once again, it's predicted that my broken heart opened and I ripped it out. Something's got me breathing. It's got me beating. Turn me around again.

I said it. We can do it. You know I want to do it again. Bring me on, bring me on.

Give me sex. Every morning. Shut the door, baby. Don't say, well, Jesus.

That's what that song gets a little. Me, too. There's a lot of me too. If you look back, dude, it's like, I talk about this in my act with that Lionel Richie song.

That was a time period, especially when people didn't question your behavior. If you were fucking cool like Lionel with that Jerry Curle and that thin mustache, again, in the music video for Hello, not to do the bed, but he chases around a blind woman and sings it. Being like, is it me you're looking for? How fucking cool do you think you are to be like to see a blind woman, to see her literally reaching out and I say, I'm just grabbing the ocean.

She paid for Super the Napkin. You think loves it at the top of her list. But it's like, but Billy Ocean, get out of my dreams, get into my car. Very rapey.

Dude. And that is a classic song. Oh, it's one of the best. It's got a lot of sex.

You probably love it for that. I need to learn this song. I need to get into a Billy Ocean tribute band. I need to start one.

Dude, Caribbean, I was supposed to say Caribbean queen. What an asshole, Caribbean queen. So anyway, everyone starts booing at the Sugar Ray Show and he stops mid-song and goes, all right, all right, I get it. He's like, you guys want to hear a fly, huh?

Yeah, you fucking two, three, four. Boom, dillily, dillily, and everybody's just going, yeah. And then he finishes it and everybody leaves. But it was one of those things where I was like, come up with more hits, man.

Also, fly hit was so big that he couldn't, you won't get all of that. No, you can't open with that. That's gotta be at least your closer if you're going to do that. Or just open.

I think he knew that once they played that, you can't follow it. The mass exodus begins. Yeah. But now, you know, now he's doing, well, he did extra.

Mark McGrath. I mean, he's done it all, really. Yeah, dude. I wonder if he ever would call into the podcast.

I don't know. Hello? Is, uh, hello? Is, uh, looks, oh, yeah, I see our caller idea is firing up right now.

Is that Mark McGrath that's on the line right now? Hello? Hello? Hello?

Yeah. I think the connections are a little, the Wi-Fi's a little stranger. Hey, what's going on? Hey, Mark McGrath, wow.

Oh, man. Dude, big fan, first of all, loved you in, in high school and in middle school. I'm just going to have you in high school, man. Wait, what does that mean?

Oh, dude. Thanks for having me. Okay. So, uh, Mark, uh, I'm a little under the weather.

Are you still touring or are you just like the door? No, no, I'm not stopping. I've been sick for about 15 years. 15 years.

Man, I've had rabies. A lot of people don't know that people can get rabies. It's not just a disease from rats. How did you get rabies?

Funny story, Jeremiah. Can I call you Jeremiah? Yeah, that's my name. So, so they, um, so look, rabies, I was hanging out with this guy and he had all these weird pets.

I'm sure. And then, uh, what's a bear sloth? Yeah, very, very rare species of... Yeah, it's a rare bear.

We've heard of care bears. This is a rare bear. That's sloth. That was a show that NBC passed on.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, it was just different.

Well, they didn't give a fuck, you know. Care bears were all about like love and attention and compassion and the, like, sub-muntic. And for what ever reason did he get past the sensors or what it is? No, no, they tried to believe up naked.

Yeah, of course. Well, also, uh, they had little bulges and rare bears too. Like, you could see the outlines. Oh, yeah.

I got a little cock outlines. So, uh, so I was hanging on my buddies everywhere. Yeah. And, uh, I saw what I thought.

It turns out it was a rat and sucked that blood man. And, uh, and it, so I immediately had to think too much of it because I was like, you know, I'd never been bit by a rat before. So, I was like, you should go to the hospital, man. I'm like, fuck you.

You know? And, uh, she was a good friend of mine. He's not rare bear energy, am I? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, man. And so, uh, I did finally go to the hospital because I started breaking down hives and stuff. And they went, you know, you went to a planned parenthood to get treated for rabies?

All their urgent cares were closed, by the way. Oh, well, that makes a lot more. I actually have family in Des Moines, Iowa. Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah, dude. What's wrong? Are you on another names? Yeah, man.

Todd, Theresa. Shout out to Todd. Tiffany. Shout out to the three T's.

Yeah, and it's an uncle's, man. Nice, dude. I got some ancals too. Yeah.

She might answer. She's working on a hot topic, right? She's working on a hot topic. And then, but then she got fired in the garage.

Whatever the billabong, right? If I'm looking at your Wikipedia page on the iPad that's below me. I went all my relatives under my Wikipedia. I'll say someone from Billups.

Oh, it looks like she ended up at journeys after that. She went to journeys and she went to Port of Sucks. Quiz knows middle stuff is subway back to Togo. And then she went to Witch Witch.

And then she went to Mr. Good Sense. Because then the Midwest, Des Moines, you know. And then she went to Fat Bird, Alberta.

Dude, she has had quite the laundry list of jobs. She's worked everywhere, dog. Yeah. But anyway, so I've been dealing with my pants.

But that's like that one side back. And you can live with that. Like, oh, I've been out to nothing. Do you ever give other girls rabies that you hook up with?

No, you can't catch it. It's not that you can only be bit and you can get bit by shit. Wait, well, what kind of super hair did you think that you're going to turn into if you got bit by a rat? Yeah, but what's his superpowers?

Dude, not around. Give me that rabies. That's a super power is just infecting other people rabies. That sounds like a terrible superhero.

No, because then it's like, you know, people are sitting there. But you said it's every five days. You're saying that it's going to affect them like way later after they rob the bank. Imagine.