Episode 69- Yungblud and other musings

In this episode, Michael and Sebastian discuss a variety of topics ranging from the humor in South Park to the potential of Metallica performing at the Sphere in Las Vegas. They delve into the rise of Yungblud in the music scene, exploring his unique style and the impact he has on fans. The conversation also touches on the importance of affordable music festivals and the nostalgia surrounding classic films like Spaceballs. The hosts share their thoughts on the current state of the music industry and the significance of giving back through charity events.

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Transcript

Michael (00:01.784)
Good evening. Welcome back to mandatory music. This is a special episode because I will chuckle when I say it is episode number 69. Cause we are a couple of real mature middle-aged men. yeah. So we're that's pretty much, and they do say Gen Xers have the mind, the mentality of a 20 year old. So yeah. Right. Cause you know, my God.

Sebastian (00:09.957)
Yay!

Sebastian (00:17.151)
And if you can't live like a child, why are you living at all?

Sebastian (00:24.895)
boobies.

Michael (00:28.812)
Yes, because all that stuff is still funny. We're basically 48 years old. So, well, yeah, well, last week's episode was kind of topical. It was a little polarizing and there was a little, little baby pepperoni in it too. And that was, yeah. Yeah. Come on guy. Come on, Satan. I'm not in the mood, Donald. so good. If people haven't watched the new episode of South Park, you got it even just YouTube.

Sebastian (00:32.425)
Maybe we still watch South Park. So what does that tell you?

Polarizing

Sebastian (00:45.705)
orange on a toothpick.

Sebastian (00:51.475)
Ha ha ha!

Michael (00:58.19)
South Park season 27, just the, it'll probably be a couple of minute montage of all the, of all the highlights. It's a, it's a gooder, it's just amazing out season 27. The show has been on forever, like since 1997 or whatever it is. And it's still can rally the troops and people still watch that show. It's forever, man. Like

Sebastian (00:58.269)
That one scene, yeah.

Yeah, this, yeah.

Sebastian (01:11.551)
Sebastian (01:17.085)
Yeah, it's been around forever, man. I remember watching it at the Six and Twisted Festival back in the day, like when we were like 20 or 21. So that was like 20 some odd years ago, 27 years ago. Yeah. I forgot to tell you in our pre discussion, I have Metallica news for you. Yes. For the people that don't know, there's a big rumor that they are going to be playing the Sphere in Las Vegas next year.

Michael (01:22.51)
my- Wow, yeah.

Michael (01:27.362)
Yeah, that was, you know, a couple of weeks ago, right? Man.

Yes. You have Metallica news. might know what it is, but please Sebastian drum roll, please.

Rumor.

Michael (01:46.286)
Okay, that is a big rumor. Now let me ask you this.

Sebastian (01:51.465)
Does it fit a metal show?

Michael (01:51.756)
Would you travel to Las Vegas to go see them at the Sphere?

Sebastian (01:55.633)
If the tickets were affordable, yes, but I can tell you right now the tickets will not be affordable.

Michael (02:00.724)
No, not for normal working class people. will not be. I'm curious, because it's a, I like the idea of a residency, because I think that's kind cool for a band of their vintage now. don't need to tour the world.

Sebastian (02:14.217)
So that's my question. Is it going to be a one-off show or is it gonna be a resident show where they're in there for a few months?

Michael (02:18.894)
I'm thinking it's gonna, I think it'll be, yeah, they'll play a few shows a week for four months, five months, six months, if they'd like it. Cause really, do do three shows in four days or whatever, whatever their itinerary would be. You just go fly home. Go play shows for a week, fly home for two weeks, come back, play four shows, fly home for two weeks. That's a good life. And Vegas is, except for Kirk, know, San Francisco's not that far. Colorado's not that far. LA is.

Sebastian (02:37.8)
Yeah.

Michael (02:47.822)
It's a four hour drive, so could imagine the private jet would be 15 minutes, 20 minutes.

Sebastian (02:52.255)
Well, okay, let's see here. Okay, so resale tickets, keep that in mind for Backstreet Boys, which is on Friday, August 1st. I don't even know if it's actually the Backstreet Boys or if it's like, it probably is there, resale tickets are 650 for back row. But I don't know if the back row is the good seats or not.

Michael (02:58.316)
Yes.

Michael (03:05.07)
Oh, it probably is real deal.

Michael (03:10.797)
Yikes.

Michael (03:14.676)
I don't

Sebastian (03:16.211)
Like how do you decide that? Yeah, those, yeah, so.

Michael (03:21.672)
Because you're basically there for the visuals, you're not there to see the people on the stage, you're there for what's going on behind them, right?

Sebastian (03:23.657)
Five, five, 10.

Sebastian (03:29.435)
Yeah, so like corner seats are are. This is the rare occasion that like standing room general admission is cheaper than like the back area.

Michael (03:41.386)
Interesting.

Sebastian (03:43.775)
But they look to be going between 465 on the lowest end to like 700 on the highest end.

Michael (03:53.366)
And that's the back three boys. So can probably double that for maybe, I guess it depends how many shows they play. they, if they're going to be playing shows for months and months, the tickets is not going to be astronomical, but if they're playing one show, God, forget it. it's forget about it.

Sebastian (03:57.023)
Yeah.

Sebastian (04:10.783)
Yeah, so like the premium resale tickets on Ticketmaster are $1,200, $1,000 to $1,200. Those are resale though, right? US. the corner on the second, the first level in the very corner, so you're off to the side, is about $510 on the first row. I mean, I would like to do it one time in my life, but I'm not sure.

Michael (04:17.87)
Is that US or Canadian? Okay, my god.

Michael (04:37.058)
Yeah. Not sure. I'm not sure they'd be the, I don't know, like the, for me anyway. Yeah. I'm not sure they'd be the band that I'd, I'd rather go see. I don't know what I'd rather go. I've seen them too many times. I think. Could it just be the visuals? Be nothing new. Like it'd be cool. Like I'm sure it would be an amazing set visually and

Sebastian (04:43.656)
Metallica?

Sebastian (04:56.125)
Yeah, that's a good question. It's like what band would you want to see in the sphere?

Sebastian (05:03.751)
Iron Maiden. They would never play it though.

Michael (05:03.758)
That's a question. No, it'd be someone I haven't seen. hasn't been, it'd be a band I haven't seen 10, 10, 12 times. Like I think it would be a band, like a different legacy band, like someone like.

Sebastian (05:16.679)
I think something with the spheres, for example, is probably less about the actual artists and more about the experience of the visuals, because you're not going to be paying attention to the band with like this giant, what is it 24k or 26k screen, you know, the how many gazillion billion LED lights.

Michael (05:23.916)
Yes.

No.

Michael (05:33.102)
Well, let's just say like something like, like the blue man group or something that is right because they are, they are the visual that is their thing is, is the visual show or something to that effect, something cool and kind of off beat. think, yeah, I think blue man would be my first, I was going to say the Rolling Stones, but

Sebastian (05:37.343)
Well, that would be sick. Yeah.

Sebastian (05:43.474)
Yeah.

Sebastian (05:53.679)
I U2 was probably a really good entryway into that, right? Because they're adaptable, they have done these grandiose events before, so they're comfortable in that environment. And if anything technically went wrong, they're experienced enough as a band to be able to like flow through technical difficulties. No, they won't panic, right? They'll be like, they'll just work with it, right?

Michael (05:57.678)
Yeah.

Michael (06:04.46)
Yes. Right.

Michael (06:15.958)
Yeah, they, they won't have to stop. They'll just power through. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Sebastian (06:21.723)
So because there are seasoned professionals and it's the most generally appealing, safe. I mean, the stones would be another good one. Like, honestly, like you to such a broad appeal. Coldplay, as much as we hate them, would probably be.

Michael (06:34.722)
Well, watch out for that camera, man. But that wasn't their fault. So didn't we talk last week if the guy's going to sue them? He's looking into suing them. It's not Co-Play's fault. It's the Jumbotron. It's the camera operator, man. It's not Co-Play's fault. There's just a guy that like...

Sebastian (06:41.043)
Yes, he's doing them.

He's not gonna win.

Sebastian (06:50.803)
Yeah, she should, you know, if she's going to sue anyone, he's going to sue the tick tock her that posted the video. Right, because Coldplay didn't post the video. It's the person that caught the image in the tick tock. Had they not reacted the way they reacted, that would have never been posted.

Michael (06:59.79)
Yeah, right.

No.

Michael (07:12.043)
they could just stood there and smiled and then just...

Sebastian (07:14.011)
Yeah, but because of the reaction they're like, we just caught somebody doing something they weren't supposed to be doing. So.

Michael (07:17.676)
Yep, exactly. Yeah. If he would have played it cool and just, you know, kept his wits about it, anyone in that situation, like I've, I'm not an adulterer of any kind.

Sebastian (07:28.967)
neither am I, but yes, what do you do in that situation? How do you react?

Michael (07:32.002)
You react the way he reacted. run for, you've basically jumped to avoid them, avoid the mortar coming into him, blow you up.

Sebastian (07:38.771)
There's so many TikToks of like, this is how you should have reacted. You can fake the Heimlich or you can fake that you're choking her out as a playful gesture, right? Nothing to do with romance, but the way they reacted definitely means they got caught doing something that weren't supposed to be doing right. So.

Michael (07:46.19)
Yeah. Right.

Yeah, well exactly because she played it more cool than he did. She was just like, god, she's just like, yeah. Yeah, just left.

Sebastian (07:56.435)
She went like down and then he just turned away like left. And then the HR manager is right beside them laughing the whole time. She's just like, she's just like grinning like I don't know what to do. But these are both my bosses and I'm here.

Michael (08:08.19)
I'm so screwed. Yep, it's over. my God, it's so funny. And it's too, it is funny. They got Gwyneth Paltrow. I know we changed subjects, but they got Gwyneth Paltrow being the spokesperson of astronomer now. I don't even know what they, what that company is. whatever. Is it? Okay. I don't, I've never looked it up. I don't want that in my, okay. I'm like, well, then maybe I should because AI is cool. Yeah. I love AI. It's

Sebastian (08:21.361)
No idea. AI, I think it's AI development or something like that. Yeah.

pretty sure it's AI related, but yeah.

You're into that stuff. Okay, so this week we decided to talk about Youngblood. He is someone that you're probably you weren't familiar with until I introduced you to him a couple months ago and then we both saw him do probably one of the best versions of changes we've ever seen at the Ozzy concert.

Michael (08:37.25)
Youngblood.

Michael (08:50.498)
Well, I think it's also one of the best cover songs ever done. Especially in a live setting where they. Well, yeah, everyone. Charles, I'll give it Charles Bradley's version is. He's the goat rest rest in peace. God rest your soul, Mr. Charles. But, young lads just hit hit different because you told me about a month ago and I was just like, okay, whatever. And then when he came on, keep your eye on this guy. Yeah.

Sebastian (08:53.735)
Yeah. Dude, so many people have covered that song. Yeah.

So good.

Sebastian (09:15.623)
I said, keep what did I say? I said, keep your eye on him because he's going to be blowing up and to start him pretty soon.

Michael (09:21.454)
So when he came out and did changes, which I know we're not gonna talk about changes, I just wanted to just, yeah, I was just like, okay, who's this guy? Then I'm like, oh, it's Youngblood, except it'll be Youngblood. I'm like, okay, so I'll reserve judgment until he starts singing. And then I was just like, it was like early in the, was still early in the morning too. I was just like, good God, I'm like, this dude can sing. And I'm like, this is actually really good. And then the song just kept going and then.

Sebastian (09:26.131)
This is our entry way into the.

Sebastian (09:33.075)
Give him a chance. Yep.

Sebastian (09:41.481)
This guy can sing. Yeah.

Michael (09:48.838)
Then I also felt it was a little hokey with the sleep token guy's outfit. was just like, come on, dude, can you just like.

Sebastian (09:54.461)
Yeah, I kind of felt like a different drummer should have been there for that particular song. Well, it's such a sensitive song. And then you got the sleep token guy playing in the background. You're kind of like,

Michael (09:57.624)
Can you tone the mask, tone the stuff down?

Michael (10:06.542)
And he looks like he's like Cleopatra or something, you know, like, no, he looks like Xerxes out of a 300 and you're just like, Oh, come on, dude. Yeah. You're like, yeah, I figured that's the one. Cause it's all the, the jangly stuff coming off his face. What not. But, but man, like, okay. I was like, all right. So then I start deep diving. Who is his young blood guy? Then I'm starting to watch all these interviews with him. He's Dominic. There you go. And he's super down to earth. He's like grateful for all his fans. just, he just, he loves music. just.

Sebastian (10:09.64)
Yeah.

Sebastian (10:13.757)
that's a good reference.

Sebastian (10:18.515)
Yeah.

Sebastian (10:26.995)
His name is Dominic, by the way, his real name. Yeah.

Sebastian (10:36.895)
He's okay. So so he is genuinely an artist that absolutely loves what he's doing. And it's kind of a weird thing to say, because you figure that anyone that's playing music in a band that is successful will really love what they're doing. But some people don't love it as much as other people. You can even look at Metallica. It's like, do you think that Kirk Hammett holds music in the same regard as someone like James Hetfield? They do not. Right. Because he's often on records.

Michael (11:01.742)
Probably not. No.

Sebastian (11:05.543)
saying that he finds his therapy, his music, like what James finds in music therapy, he finds in like surfing or other stuff, right? So he does it because it's a job. mean, sure he loves it, right? But with Youngblood specifically, you can tell that he's so into the music. He's genuine when he wants to connect with his fans. Like you see his fan engagement and how he talks to fans and how he just...

Michael (11:12.172)
Yeah. Yes.

Sebastian (11:32.315)
he has this level of listening to the person because his intention is to connect with them as a human being, not to flex himself as a rock star, right? But he also has these like rock star frontman vibes, lot like Mick Jagger or Ozzy Osbourne. Like he's a very good frontman. The one other thing I want to highlight, Anuno Benton Court was on an interview afterwards when they did the song changes.

Michael (11:41.558)
No, exactly, yeah, you're exactly right.

Michael (11:49.344)
Mm-hmm. yeah.

Sebastian (11:58.429)
And he was like, I kept looking over at this kid, this young blood, and just like his command of the mic is just expert level. Like he at one point I looked over and he had it four feet away from his mouth and he was still belting. And I was just like, how is he producing that much power of his? Yeah. So.

Michael (12:10.584)
That's, that's insane. Yeah. He's, yeah, he's a, he's a neat guy to sort of deep dive. Like I haven't listened to, much. listened to the whole idols record. Yeah. Cause there's it's all of his music's different, right? Like he's got

Sebastian (12:21.095)
We're just beginning our young blood journey.

Sebastian (12:26.717)
Yeah, you can just take any random song and it's a completely different genre from the other song.

Michael (12:31.598)
Yeah, which is interesting, because I'm sure he's going to find his way. He's a rock guy, okay.

Sebastian (12:36.477)
I mean, he's a rock. He's rock. He's hard rock is the best way to explain it. But he definitely decides to like go into many different genres. Like he raps in one of his songs, you know, the one we're doing today. It's a ballad. I think.

Michael (12:51.104)
It's a little cold play.

Sebastian (12:53.745)
It does sound very Coldplay, yeah. But with a way better singer.

Michael (12:55.926)
Right? Like I had that sort of, like, yeah, Chris Martin's voice is...

And acquired taste, Young Bloods is more universally for me anyway. It's like the dude can sing anything. Like actually this reminds me Yellow a little bit.

Sebastian (13:14.557)
He's got a rockstar voice. He doesn't have a pop voice. So he has that gravel in his voice, especially when you hear him like do screamy parts in his songs for lack of better words. Like you can hear that grit and distortion and gravel in his voice, which gives him that rockstar hard rock edge to it. But he's also very, very tender. So, I mean, the song we're doing today is Zombie and it's very, it's slower than a normal rock song.

Michael (13:17.068)
Yes. Yeah.

Michael (13:35.656)
yeah.

Sebastian (13:43.551)
It's tender. It's and it it kind of showcases his vocal range in terms of his ability to go from like quiet and soft to Hard rocky so to speak so But yeah, what are your thoughts of the song?

Michael (14:00.526)
I, well, you suggested something different and I'm like, this song just, don't know. I really liked the song. I, I like, I'm not a big Brit pop guy, except I have professed my love for Coldplay on this show. Um, early, early Coldplay up until two, there are RIP 2005. That's when it did. That's what it ended for me. Um, but he's, he's, he's fascinating to me and I like artists that are fascinating. And I found I'm actually

Sebastian (14:09.917)
Yeah.

Sebastian (14:13.563)
old Coldplay. You gotta get that right.

Michael (14:29.31)
listening to the words of his songs, especially this one. I'm like, and I'm paying attention to lyrics. I'm not a lyric guy. I'm like, I'm the music guy. I'm more of like drums and bass guy, but it's the song's so simple, I guess. I guess.

Sebastian (14:39.539)
Yeah.

Sebastian (14:43.315)
Well, a simple Google search of what the song is about just basically means that like it's about feeling ugly and learning how to battle that. So everyone has these ugly moments in their life, whether it's a physical ailment or a behavioral pattern that you're not comfortable with that you regret or whatever. And it's about navigating through that space. So the whole zombie...

Michael (14:54.382)
Mm-hmm.

Michael (15:05.197)
Mm-hmm.

Sebastian (15:10.151)
Alliteration of the strong words reference. I guess is to seeing someone that you don't recognize anymore Like seeing a zombie. So that's where the what what it what it means, right? But this is one of the first because he released four singles from the idols album I believe and this is one of the four that he released There was hallow heaven Lustig lullaby ghosts and this one I think were the four that were released on March 21st and then I guess the

Michael (15:16.012)
Yeah, absolutely.

Michael (15:30.306)
Okay.

Michael (15:38.242)
Yeah, hell of heaven's good too.

Sebastian (15:39.903)
Yeah. And then. I like the back half of it, I don't like the first part of it. Like when he when he transitions to the back half of the song, like, OK, this is this is good. I don't know if you watch the music video for this, but it has Florence Pugh in it, the actress. So she's. Yeah, so she's the. She's.

Michael (15:41.974)
It's a little long.

Michael (15:46.252)
Yeah, I was kind of in the same boat. I'm like, okay.

Yeah, when it took like six minutes for that to happen, I was like, okay, now, okay, now we're onto something. but yeah, I have not. so maybe I should watch it.

Sebastian (16:09.893)
Oscar nominated, fantastic.

Michael (16:11.008)
I'm a big fan of Florence Pugh. like, I haven't seen Thunderbolts yet, but everything she's, I've watched Twaleling, I've only seen her in Midsummer and she was awesome in Midsummer.

Sebastian (16:19.071)
She's in Dune as well.

Michael (16:21.294)
She in the first one? First tune? Dune Part II, I haven't seen that yet.

Sebastian (16:22.731)
Dune part two plays Princess Uri-Land. She's an Oppenheimer as well. she's Oscar worthy actress. So she's in the video. you know, he's he's he's hitting a pulse in the world now. Like he's he's made it like he's now considered a rock star where people want to work with him or other.

Michael (16:35.468)
Yep. yeah.

And apparently his North American tour sold out the day it happened, the day back in the big, back to the beginning happened. Like.

Sebastian (16:47.441)
I have to imagine that his performance of changes like woke the world up to young blood.

Michael (16:53.442)
Yep, well it's one of those moments you like, you are, watch someone like on an award show, like a Grammys or something, an up and comer that have this moment of like, my God. And then now they're like household name and now he had this aha moment on the tribute thing and now he's everywhere. Like it's just, it's.

Sebastian (16:56.785)
It's a once in a lifetime moment. Yeah.

Sebastian (17:16.231)
Yeah, so I guess we're not really going to talk about the song too much. We're to talk about Youngblood the entity, more or less. This is way it's naturally organically going, which is I'm totally fine with because I find, yeah, you're right. The song isn't complicated. There's nothing really to talk about, but like, let's talk about Youngblood is like, where can he go from here? Like he can just keep getting better and better.

Michael (17:22.412)
Well, I think that's...

Yeah.

Michael (17:35.456)
I think the sky's the limit, man. Like he can, as long as he doesn't stick his head up his own ass, I think he, which I don't think he will. I don't think he's that guy. I'm sure he's got money. I'm sure he's got all that crap already.

Sebastian (17:52.191)
So he kind of reminds me of an amalgamation of Mick Jagger, Ozzy Osbourne, and my God, what's the other, Robbie somebody, what's his name? Robbie Williams, yeah. He's an amalgamation of all three of those together. Because he's got that quirky Robbie Williams vibe where it's like he doesn't take a lot of things too seriously and he's.

Michael (18:06.495)
Robbie Williams. Yes, I got the Robbie Williams. I love Robbie Williams. He's so awesome.

Michael (18:17.164)
Yep. It's, and it's like that confidence like, cause Robbie's got that.

Sebastian (18:21.437)
the confidence, but he also has that like, I mean, not not like Robbie Williams is more subdued, but he kind of has like a squirrely energy about him. Like Young Led, like he's constantly needs to be moving and you never find him like super still. Like he's always like kind of joking around all the time. He's like lighthearted. But when it comes to his music, he he transports himself into them. I guess what I'm trying to say is like.

Michael (18:39.181)
Yep.

Sebastian (18:47.539)
When he decides to do a song and he performs a song, he becomes that song. He gets so into it. He just manifests whatever that song needs in the moment. It's proof of changes. No. He's an incredible, credible front man for sure.

Michael (18:51.724)
He becomes, or he just becomes the, yeah.

Michael (18:58.734)
Not many front men can do that, or not many singers can do that.

I think he could go Taylor Swift level. That's tough. He's got to get the teenage girl, the 13 year old, the 10 year old, the 14 year old teenage girl's on his side for that to happen.

Sebastian (19:10.697)
Yeah, let's.

Just in Britain he will be. Well, he's already...

Sebastian (19:21.693)
You should listen to some of his cover tunes, man, because every time he does a cover, it's like he did. I was made for loving you. So good, so good. The kisses I was made for loving you so good.

Michael (19:29.397)
bet you that's good.

Sebastian (19:37.158)
I highly recommend that.

Michael (19:37.286)
But with Robbie, watched him on, what show was it? Graham Norton, maybe? He was on Graham Norton. Graham Norton's the best. He's such a good talk show host. He was on there. And just recently, it's this year and he's got a new record out. Tony Iommi's on his new single. Yeah, he wrote it and plays it. He's in the video too. Which I think is kind of interesting.

Sebastian (19:45.545)
That's a guy like Graham Norton. He's so funny. He's great. Yeah.

Sebastian (19:57.288)
Really?

Michael (20:05.452)
He's just there with his black stuff and the cross and the guitar with the cross, whatever.

Sebastian (20:09.915)
You probably contributed a single riff that's like super simple, but he's like an iconic Parker.

Michael (20:13.294)
Basically, yeah, it really isn't. It's not earth shattering, let me tell you. The song's okay. It's kind of young bloody-ish. just, but I don't even know I'm going with this, but he played a song that was super famous back in the day, Robbie Williams did. And he's old, he's joking that he's old and he's got gray hair. And I'm trying to find the song. I can't remember, but.

is watching him on stage and that's where I got the reference for Youngblood too. All of sudden he just owned the whole show. The whole show was just him. I guess as the kids say, the Riz, he's got the Riz. He's got the Riz. Disguised like that, you're right, Mick Jagger. Always you do a certain extent, maybe with the gravelly voice.

Sebastian (20:49.373)
Yeah, he's got great command of the stage. like, yeah. The Riz.

Sebastian (21:04.646)
I feel like he has the borderline craziness as Ozzy Osbourne. Like I feel like, cause Ozzy doesn't phase them and they've created, like, I mean, obviously Ozzy's passed at this point, but Ozzy and him met last year and it was like an instant friendship between the two of them. Like they bonded pretty heavily and Ozzy, I remember watching an interview a couple months ago with Sharon talking about Youngblood and how much Ozzy cares for him. he's like immediately feels like he's his son.

Michael (21:21.655)
Yes.

Michael (21:31.758)
That's cool.

Sebastian (21:34.76)
so to speak.

Michael (21:36.12)
Did you see the video of the two of them backstage, back at beginning? Where Youngblood was, it's out there somewhere. saw it. then Ozzy was just telling him to go take the world over and all this stuff. He's like, you're the one. And he's like, was anything you need. He's like, you let us know. And then Youngblood's like, no. He's like, you gave me the music, man. You don't need to give me anything else. And that's it. And the Robbie Williams song, by the way, was rock DJ. And he came on and played that.

Sebastian (21:42.055)
I think... yeah.

Sebastian (21:53.607)
Yeah, see, that's what I'm saying, right? So.

Sebastian (22:02.332)
Yeah.

That's a great song actually. I'm a rock DJ.

Michael (22:06.464)
my God, it's so good. Yeah. But, but yeah, no, young blood is, I think, you know, in another couple of years, it'll be like, he'll be everywhere. It'll be on the Grammys, know, conquered North America.

Sebastian (22:20.031)
Well, I think the one thing that sits really well with me is that he wanted to, he was upset with how much music festivals cost for the average fan to go see. So he created his own to make it affordable for people to go. Right? Like, you know, we're not going to charge you. I don't know how much he charges, but you know, I probably have to do my research actually. What if he charges more? No, but he specifically designed it called Bloodfest, I believe just because he was upset with.

Michael (22:32.334)
I think that's cool.

Michael (22:40.862)
It's probably less than. Yeah. Right.

Sebastian (22:49.289)
how much music festivals charge. It's hundreds of dollars to go see them. And the average kid that's in high school can't afford that. Low income families, can't afford music festival tickets like that. I feel like you're looking up the ticket prices.

Michael (22:52.12)
Yeah.

Michael (22:59.53)
No, unless, yeah.

Michael (23:04.342)
No, like places for like, especially when for places he came from, right? let's see, bloodfests take us 2025. We're capped at 50, 50 pounds.

Sebastian (23:08.093)
Yeah.

Sebastian (23:13.715)
That's pretty good. That's for a festival where you see multiple bands. Yeah.

Michael (23:14.926)
So that's just over $100 in our, I think it's like 120 bucks. Yeah, I think that says, with the event aiming to offer affordable festival experiences, but the event's core principles, they cost down particularly in response to rising cost of festival tickets. Yeah, I think that's, you know.

Sebastian (23:32.999)
Love it, right? I will tell you what though, you're not going to attract a big budget band though.

Michael (23:40.182)
No, no. Merch. Yeah. Or as a gift. Yeah.

Sebastian (23:40.669)
Like unless they're doing it for as a gift, right? If they don't care about getting paid, right? I just want to ask you real quick here. How do you, how would you feel if you're Motley Crue right now?

Michael (23:55.822)
Probably like how they've been feeling for last 25 years, irrelevant and a bunch of... They were, but they wanted to profit from the show.

Sebastian (24:00.293)
or because they were supposed to be at back to the beginning. So was it them or was it the management that screwed it up?

Michael (24:09.166)
Oh, it was probably them. Come on. They would have come out and said if it was the management by now. Right. Like they would have this kind of backlash because so the so the story goes, they wanted to get paid like two million dollars to go or whatever their fee was, whatever their fee is, they wanted to be in every other band that went there to either donated their fee or they just took it, did it for free because all the proceeds from this back to the beginning show.

Sebastian (24:14.013)
I guess, yeah.

Sebastian (24:24.819)
Yeah.

Sebastian (24:33.203)
Well, they raised 190 million pounds for Parkinson's. Yeah.

Michael (24:36.376)
for Parkinson's research and like child, sick children stuff, like the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. So they raised all this money and no other band, like there were artists there that we know aren't doing very well. Jakey Lee is not rich. Like he's, he struggles, right? Guys like that. And I can't imagine, I'm sure there's some other ones out there that, you know, haven't been around. I thought Wilfield Crane from Ugly Kid Joe, like what have you been doing for the last?

Sebastian (24:53.726)
Yeah.

Sebastian (25:03.423)
Yeah

Michael (25:04.142)
30 years, but anyway, I'm sure he's fine. But these guys aren't asking for money.

Sebastian (25:08.839)
He's living on the world. He's of everything I hate about you. That's a great version though. That's such a good version.

Michael (25:12.59)
That and Cats in the Cradle. It is a great song. But yeah, it's that that show is not about getting paid, man. You can go out and do your stupid tour. I think they would have ruined the show anyway, because.

Sebastian (25:26.333)
Depends if Sebastian Bach sang for them or if it's Vince Neil.

Michael (25:28.716)
Well, if you can get an actual singer to sing from it'd be fine, but they don't. have, you know...

Sebastian (25:32.935)
Yeah, but I mean, you do it for the charity, you do it to give back to Ozzy because he helped you out in the infancy of your career back in the day. So you give back and I feel it's incredibly greedy of them to ask for monetary comp. They're the only band out of all of that that did that. Right. Yeah. Knowing full well it was a charity show. Right. Like, come on, man. Come on. And it's not like

Michael (25:43.032)
Sure. Absolutely. Yep.

Michael (25:51.254)
It's just gross. It's just gross. It's not even greedy. It's just gross. You know? Yes. And more or less it was a funeral for Ozzy too. Like the way things transpired. I think, I think they're okay. Yeah, I think they're okay. Like, come on. Like how, how, how greedy do you need to be? Maybe Tommy's mad that Pam's dating Liam Neeson now. That's a rumor. Good for Liam Neeson. He's like 73. It's like good for you, buddy.

Sebastian (26:02.909)
Molly Clue's doing fine financially. They're doing just fine financially. So.

Sebastian (26:11.358)
Yeah.

Sebastian (26:15.081)
That's the rumor, isn't it?

Yeah. Are you going to go see the naked gun? I'll probably wait till it goes to streaming. I won't pay for it. Like I'm not going to pay for it.

Michael (26:24.734)
wait, I could. No, I'm not paying for that. Like I did. I was they showed a clip. It was they're talking to. Yeah, like he. Yeah.

Sebastian (26:31.667)
Dude, I'm actually like into it, though, like the chair clip. Go grab a chair. She the chair, drags it through the whole room. It's like, are you going?

Michael (26:39.948)
Like Frank wanted a water, I want a sparkling water. So they brought him a glass of water with sparklers coming out of it. Like, it's just so dumb. Yeah. And then, and then Pam's drinking the water. He's like, by the way, that's from the estate of Bill Cosby. And she just spits the water back into the glass. And I guess just, it's just going to be like that one after another for the, for the whole movie. can, I can watch that at home. I don't need this.

Sebastian (26:48.179)
That's so naked gun. That is so naked gun.

Sebastian (27:03.923)
See, I would watch, okay, so I'm more excited about watching the Naked Gun than actually going to see like Space Walls 2.

Michael (27:11.094)
Yeah, Spaceballs 2 is scaring me. It scares me. Because I know, but Spaceballs 2, like, so you and I are, we've watched, been watching Spaceballs off and on. Like we watched it as kids. We loved it as kids. Yeah, we wouldn't have been how many times we've seen it even combined because that's just bad. But, so Spaceballs 2 is coming in two years and thank God.

Sebastian (27:13.823)
I don't know. We got into movie talk all of a sudden, but that's fine.

Sebastian (27:24.735)
I have seen it more more times than I care to admit to anyone

You

Michael (27:39.234)
Mel Brooks is not writing it because he cannot have all his faculties together at night at he's turning a hundred. So let's get the scenes filmed real. Yeah. yeah. He's still active, right? Him and Dick Van Dyke, man. They're still active. It's crazy. but Josh Gad is, is in it. He's where he's one of the writers and he's starring in it. But I think, I think my opinion, he's going to be John Candy's son. He's going to be barf. He's going to be a version of barf.

Sebastian (27:42.355)
Dude, I'm surprised he's still alive.

Sebastian (27:47.995)
And he's still doing movies. That's the thing. That's the crazy thing. I don't understand.

That's even more surprising, Duke Van Dyke, but yeah.

Sebastian (28:07.881)
Burf Junior.

Michael (28:09.006)
Yeah. Or I'll call him puke like pizza. hut did. If it's your sidekick puke. Um, yeah, I don't, I don't get me started on quoting that, quoting that movie because I just want to see Rick Moranis. That's that. I just, I just want to see Rick Moranis and that stupid outfit again. Yeah. That's dark helmet. But, but anyway, so that's the, we just rambled for half an hour. That was sort of what we did today. We talked a little young blood. Yeah. A little rambly, but we just, we're talking and actually we're taking.

Sebastian (28:12.383)
Thanks

Sebastian (28:20.275)
We'll be here all night.

Sebastian (28:24.659)
dark helmet. Yeah.

Sebastian (28:31.709)
That's kind of the way we're at these days, but yeah.

Michael (28:38.432)
All of August off because we have conflicting holidays. I'm gone. I'm gone for a section of time and I get back and then Seb is gone.

Sebastian (28:45.597)
You get back a day before I leave. So, and then I'm gone for two and a half weeks, so.

Michael (28:48.066)
Yeah. So, yeah. So we're going to reconvene after Labor Day. When does your soccer season end?

Sebastian (28:54.182)
Yeah, we will not see you.

Sebastian (28:58.609)
I only got two games. So we got next, next Tuesday and the following Wednesday. So it's over on August 13th. And so two days before I leave, which is perfect. And then it's probably reconvening at the end of September for the winter season. So yeah.

Michael (29:00.125)
okay. Okay.

Nice.

Yeah. Yes.

Michael (29:12.942)
Nice, that's awesome. At least you're back in for the winter season. Yeah, that's amazing. I'm so happy. I'm so happy that you found a team, found some bros. You'd be the youngest guy in the team.

Sebastian (29:16.531)
Yeah, I'm loving it. So yeah, so we're all good.

Yeah, good guys.

at 47, well, 48 soon.

Michael (29:27.118)
Well, I that's awesome. I think that's cool. But anyway, yeah, so we're taking all of August off. That's the way it is. We'll see you after Labor Day because well, please don't, but we'll be back. Anyways, bye-bye everyone.

Sebastian (29:35.721)
So we'll see you in a month. Don't forget about us.

Yeah. Bye.