Of What Remains With Jeremy Vickers

THIS SATURDAY MORNING:

 OF WHAT REMAINS — with Jeremy Vickers on 92.7FM WOBM

A brand-new show built from a familiar voice.

Of What Remains returns — reformatted, reimagined, and finally set free to go wherever the conversation leads.

Hosted by Jeremy Vickers, this new version of Of What Remains is a wide-ranging, unscripted journey through the things that made us… and the things that changed us. From growing up in the 1980s to surviving the chaos of the modern world, from pop culture to personal stories, forgotten history to everyday absurdity — nothing is off the table.

Some days it’s reflective.

Some days it’s funny.

Some days it’s raw, weird, nostalgic, or unexpectedly deep.

But it’s always real.

This isn’t a nostalgia show.

This isn’t a news show.

This is a conversation about what’s left after time moves on.

Memories. Culture. Stories. Laughter. Regret. Curiosity.

The strange, messy, beautiful pile of things that remain.

Of What Remains with Jeremy Vickers —

Because the past never really goes away…

and the present keeps giving us new stories to tell.

Transcript

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Hey everybody, how are you doing? It's your pal Jeremy. And of course, this is Of What Remains, uh a weekly talk show about nothing really. Uh about growing up, about the things that happened to us in life. Um it's uh it's a show about stories and um relatable ones, I would think. But I I I you know crazy things always happen to me all through my life. Um, I've been telling a lot of stories lately about when I was in elementary school. Um this one's gonna be about when uh I was I so I was with Maggie at this time. We weren't maybe it was maybe it was like early days in our marriage. Um yeah, early days in our marriage. Um so that's over you know 15 years ago. Um and at the time, one of the one of the kids that I grew up with, he was my best buddy uh all through the years. Um and he was the guy who supposedly really was the Tin Woodsman in our third grade play. So So the Mandela effect says. Um, but Rob and I developed a wine together. Now, when I say when I say develop, um, at first it was just a blue bottle. I think Rob found a blue bottle, and we um we created an alien label, like it with an alien on it, and it was supposed to be abduction wine, you know, because you know, we there wasn't a wine-themed, uh, sorry, uh an alien themed wine yet. And uh, and we wanted to be the first. And uh the the interesting thing is, is like this is this is what taught me marketing to begin with, and I'm you know, I'm a marketing director. And uh like because I didn't I didn't go to school for it, I just ended up having the knack for it, and uh yeah, so I would, you know, trying to promote a wine that didn't exist yet, uh it was tough. It's a it's tough to sell an idea to someone else and have them, you know, uh continually working hard on your idea as much as you are working hard on it. You can't, it's it's it's it's really bad. When I I've no I learned from all those lessons that if you have something going, but you need somebody else to do it with and to be able to get done or do it at all, it's probably not gonna work out, and you should probably just move on. But um, but yeah, we we had this empty bottle of this blue empty bottle. We printed the uh the label out, it was just a photograph of the label we we just slapped together really quick, probably took us like 10 minutes to make, and uh we hot glue gunned it to uh the blue bottle. And then we spent like an entire year going to every convention we possibly could, and uh to get to get the bottle in as many celebrity hands as we could, and get a picture taken of them holding the bottle, supporting abduction wine, and um hoping that somebody will pick it up, and you know, then we're gonna be movie stars. Uh well, wine. Uh what do they what would you call a wine? You wouldn't call them a wine, would you? No, um, like a wine aficionado, maybe. Well, anyway, we weren't, and uh so here we are schlepping this thing around uh to everywhere and everyone we possibly could. And you would meet people at these conventions, these people who would because you you were always kind of looking for anybody that you could uh stick your foot in the door with and get your more you know, more people recognizing your product, seeing your product, your product being a very real thing out there in the world when it really wasn't a thing at all. It was actually all pretend for the most part until it wasn't, and it was uh it was a wine, yeah. We sold it. Uh, we made no money off of it at all. Um, but uh but it did exist. We can say that we created a wine that didn't exist, and it didn't exist so much we didn't get paid for it, so or we got paid very little, or uh I didn't see any money, let's just say that. Um so uh yeah, we went to we met all these funny people. Um, we we would go to all kinds of different conventions, um, you know, like Comic-Con. We would get a table, you know, people would come by and they'd see our bottles and brands and stuff, and we we wanted people to take pictures holding our stuff and our our inflatable alien mascots. Um and then we went to adult conventions as well. Um and we went we would get a table there, and we would meet we would meet all the adult movie performers and get friendly with them. And it's crazy, like what you have to do is like bring a power uh you know, a power strip and Skittles, and the girls will just hang out with you all day. Um but we got we got uh you know friendly with a bunch of them. Um it's Evan Stone. He's like a legendary in that field. Um we saw Ron Jeremy once, but he was kind of a douche. Uh and I honestly, if I if I were to really concentrate on looking at his face, I would I would see that yeah, yeah, he's he would be a douche. And that's true. But um on this one convention day, uh about two tables down, there was this guy, and he was full of lightning, like lightning in a jar, this guy. And he was talking about hedonism, and uh, you know, I think nudity was involved in hedonism. Um I've never even really looked it up to see what the hell it is. Let's look it up. Actually, I'll ask AI. What is hedonism?

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Let's see what AI says.

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Uh philosophical meaning, pleasure in the highest good. Okay, so yeah, it was uh it was probably more creepy than I had intended, certainly more creepy than Rob had intended, but we had to go. This guy was like, Yeah, no, no, no, no. Come to my house and and we'll we'll have a talk and we'll get business going and see like you know how we can get your your product out there, and we were like, Oh, this is it, oh hedonism, whatever that means. And um, so we went to this guy's house, and it was a beautiful house. Um, really big, it was like up on a little hill and uh and fancy inside. It was really clean and like antiseptic clean, you know. So we're talking with this guy. He he he walks us into this uh I wouldn't say a living room, I would say more of a like a studio area, you know, it was a little bit more wide open. There's couches. We were sitting down on his couches. He had a this weird chair he brought over, and um he's like just sitting there watching us and talking with us as we do, you know, you're talking, you're doing business. Um Rob says he'd like to use the bathroom, so he gets up and he goes and he uses the bathroom. And when he comes back out of the bathroom, his eyes are bulging out of his skull looking at me, like signaling to me that he just saw something freaking crazy. And uh he he comes over, he sits down next to me, he's like, Go look in the bathroom. And I was like, What? He's like, go look. So I get up and I go and look in this guy's bathroom. Ah, yeah, I gotta go pee too now, you know. Um you know, I'm his pea buddy. Uh and uh and we went to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom and I I look and it's like it's like pristine in here too. There's the toilet, and then there's a side table. Like there's a side table next, like an end table, like next to the toilet, and on it, like covered with black cloth napkins, partially covering these items, uh, these spherical, not spherical, tube-like items. Um they were all black, and uh it looked like it, you know what it looked like? It looked like uh a dentist, you know, when a dentist brings over his uh tools and stuff on a tray. That's what it looked like. It was all neatly done, so all the tools could be selected if that's what you wanted. These were um I'm trying to make it radio. Uh I think you're allowed to say dildo on the radio. Uh hey Paul. Uh and my buddy Paul's at uh you know WOBM right now. He's gonna uh he's putting this up on the radio tomorrow morning from uh six to seven. And uh he's gonna probably have to bleep out dildo. Is dildo allowed, Paul? Tell me if dildo's allowed, and tell me if any of this is usable or if it's just gonna be a dildo silence. Okay, well, okay, so there was these dildos laid out right next to the the toilet, and they were laid out in such a fashion as though, like, you know how like you go into a uh a bathroom at a casino, and there's a dude in there, and he's offering you a like a hot towel for your face, and and all that. So that's what these things were like. They were like, here, while you're using my bathroom, here, here are some things that you might also want to use. And they were just big black dildos lined up in various sizes and shapes, and I was like, This is this isn't this is weird, this is like really insane. So I walk out of the bathroom slowly, um, my eyes bulged out too, because Rob's like waiting for me, and and I give him the the same look, and we go and sit down, and like I'm not even concentrating on the meeting at this point. Um, like we had asked him if we could, you know, if is there a bathroom anywhere we can use, and he directed us to that one, and now we had to uh be cool with it and continue this meeting with this guy, and uh you know, we we had had a couple other whiffs as far as interest goes for our wine, but this was like one of the first times that somebody really took an interest, and uh and we liked that, and we were hoping he would be normal. So we're all sitting there, and he's just chatting with uh with us, and this I swear to god, guys, this is a true story. Um, you know, like Rob and I are we're just young men, we'd graduated high school together, and uh you know, we're trying to strike out with our own ideas because you know, we thought we uh we we thought we had great ideas, and that you know, people should uh take advantage of our ideas, you know. We were idea men, you know. I'm still an idea man. I I come up with all kinds of stuff. You should see my iPad, it's like filled with ideas for book stories, uh for jokes. Um well, you name it. I wrote a whole comedy routine that I'll never do because it's so dark and grim. Uh, but but I wrote it. I write a lot a lot of nut stuff down, and um but this this was uh this was this was nuts. So we're we're we're there was a third business partner of ours, uh I forget his name. And um he's sitting there kind of taking charge of the conversation and talking with this guy, and the guy's just like you know, like very laxy daisy, uh, very calm and just chill and uh you know, so it it didn't at first um strike us, you know, it at once when we when we saw movement with his hands, he was talking with his hands, he was talking with his hands, and then um he was doing something else with his hands, but we thought he was just talking with his hands because we're looking at his face, we're not looking anywhere else, okay. Until we do, we can look down and there he was just tugging at it. And uh you might be asking, tugging it what, Jeremy? Um he was tugging one off, and uh right in the middle of the business meeting, he's just working away at it, like building it up maybe later in the afternoon. Who knows? Who knows what the hedonism guy was gonna do? Like, were we going to like be invited to uh a big circle jerk at the end of it? Who knows? I don't know. We got the hell out of there really quickly. We were we made some like crazy excuse about uh oh, I don't know, and we just got the hell out of there. Like, like, like who thinks that you're gonna see those things next to a toilet, and then the guy's just gonna masturbate right in front of you. Yeah, that was that was just frighteningly weird. Um, I don't tell these stories very much because a lot of them are just very shocking, and uh I can you imagine? Anyway, I mean, long story short, we you know, we were always going to uh conventions trying to sell them. We eventually did, we sold it to somebody, um, and they decided what wine was going to be put in. So they gave us the choice of a red and a white, I think it was like cosmic red and galactic white or something, some we th we could have thought of better names, but um yeah, so we did we got it in stores, and then you know, we're we're promoting this, and um, one of our DJ buddies from that we grew up with, he threw like a whole DJ party at some uh hotel and uh round by the pool, and he brought us in, and we were you know, we were like kind of the um the hosts for this party that he just puts together. He was so famous as a DJ. Um, another Robert. Uh I'll just use the word Robert for him. Um he's very he was very famous. I'm sure he still is very famous uh as a DJ. And uh he threw this great party, you know, somebody's distant cousin who was um somebody in Jersey shore was there. Uh that and we were so lackluster about it. Um we got to see some some friends from high school, like uh Cherie, and it was nice seeing Cherie. We had a good laugh. Uh, she does this great impression of Elaine Bennis from Seinfeld dancing. Uh you really have to see it. She she's just hysterical. Um, yeah, so that was our little jaunt. And the wine sold. Uh, we didn't get any money, but it was in stores. We had websites, we had uh, you know, um, we got a little touch of fame there. And then when we didn't make money on the the wine, we created an energy shot because that that's when energy shots were blowing up. So we got our energy shot into stores. Uh uh well, we kind of did. I think it was just like we were letting them have them and hoping they would sell them so they would order more. But again, when you have nothing but an idea, you still have nothing, you know. You you're you're going to people wanting their money for something that you don't even have. It's just uh like a metaphysical wine, you know, it's it's just not gonna work out. Um, but we can get there, we got there close. Our social media was really high, and at one point we were higher than uh Bacardi was. Uh, we were the first, well, one of the first to use the internet as a you know, social media, I should say, as a marketing uh solution. And um, and that was me, that's what I did. I kind of thought up ways of giving us free advertising and getting our names everywhere, and and little did I know it was going to be something that I would use later in life, like with my with my career now. Um, as uh Dr. Jasper's uh director of marketing, and I have other clients and uh um like I said, I had a knack, but I wouldn't have had all that if I didn't if I didn't get through hedonism first, you know. So there's a I guess there's a there's a reason for everything, but um yeah, so let me look at my notes here. I don't have many notes. Uh it was my birthday yesterday. Uh Friday the 13th is my birthday. I am 52 years old now. And uh yeah, I'm okay with that. I'm not I'm not getting like grim because I'm older, you know. I play it up for my wife. My wife she hates when I do when I do that too. Like, oh, I'm so old. And uh she's like, you're only 51 or 52 now. And uh I'm like, yeah, but oh I'm so old. She gets really pissed off at me when I when I keep it up. But um I love my wife. Uh, she gave me a very happy day. Um I she was very busy the whole day. I know that. Uh she was baking. She had like a massive order uh from Taylor Sam's in Brick, right across from the Home Depot and the hospital on 88, Route 88. And she does she does she bakes all the the baking stuff, you know, like uh beautiful scones, beautiful uh beautiful everything, you know, chocolate Dubai bars, blah blah blah blah. Well, this is kind of her first um St. Patty's Day sort of thing. So they wanted uh to get some spring sort of you know stuff in, and um she made lemon bars, which were she'd never made before, and she was very happy about it. Oh, let me before I forget, I mean my god, he was just here, my friend Dr. Gabriel Jasper. We I just got done uh recording tomorrow's show with him. Now that show, Painless with Dr. Gabriel Jasper, is right after this show on the radio on Sundays. So where I'm uh from six to seven, he is from seven to eight. And uh you'll see him and me on that show. I'm his co-host. And uh Dr. Dr. Gabriel Jasper is the master of pain in this whole area. If you're complacent with your plane, uh your plane, your pain, you need not be. I mean, he he has like dozens of procedures, any number of them can take your pain away. You know, you don't need pills, you just need patience and a doctor who knows what he's doing. Um, and that's my buddy, uh Dr. Gabriel Jasper at the Jasper Spine Institute. I'm gonna uh his if you want to make a call, uh he took away my pain. I've I live a normal life that I wouldn't have lived if I hadn't visited him and uh and met him and and all that. And uh actually while I was a patient with him, I was I would tell him all my stories about running schlepping around trying to sell my wine and and all of that. So he always he always would look in on my my my personal uh YouTube channel too because I would do funny things on there. And um, but yeah, he said uh he'd like to you know give me a try and see what I can do for him. And now I've been there way over 10 years now, and um and I'm happy he he changed my life, you can change yours too. So uh for more information about Dr. Gabriel Jasper, it's jaspermd.com. So all right, so let's uh let's see what I have here. Oh yeah, I wanted to talk about music. Um music has died out, hasn't it? Has anybody else noticed? Um or are you two swept up and what whatever they have and you're you're you're just accepting it and oh well, you know, um like hip hop, hip-hop is the worst thing, or at least today's version of hip-hop. I won't say all of hip-hop, you know, there was a time where hip-hop was just it was just still good music, but um, and then there's now where you've got a say the P word. I can't say the P word, can I, Paul? No, I won't say P. No, I won't say it. Um, but they put that word in constantly, and and uh I mean you can only bleep it out, but you know what's being said. Uh and then the kids get the uh unedited version online, and um you know, I remember when they they kicked up a storm about I kissed a girl and I liked it, you know, and they were like, Oh, oh my god, the children are gonna hear this. And uh I actually have friends who who wouldn't let their children listen to Katy Perry at all because of the content inside, but um, yeah, you know, so like we had FM radio in the 70s, 80s. Uh CDs started appearing. MTV. Come on, let's talk about MTV for a second because it doesn't exist anymore. They they've just decided to pull all of their MP MTV channels, and I think they're just having uh the ones that don't show music. So there used to be like MTV 60s or MTV 80s, and you could go and listen, you know. Uh, but now there's no MTV, and uh which is crazy because their original sales pitch was I gotta have my MTV. You know, I want my, I want my, I want my MTV, yeah, and uh record stores, now they're dwindling. Maybe you maybe you got one in town, maybe. And uh, so the best she had was like mixtapes you could make, which we did. A mixtape was like a very personal gift to give someone. I mean, today it's all digital, so like it's it's hardly nobody gives a shit anymore, you know. Um but mixtapes were badass. I would actually, I would actually love to collect mixtapes from day from way back. Like, I don't know if I don't know if they sell these at a yard sale or something, but I would love like personalized mixtapes that were meant for other people, and I want to listen to them and try to figure out what they were trying to say to the uh to the person they gifted it to. Sometimes it's a beautiful lady uh or a girl, you know, when you're younger, and you want to impress her with what's going on in your heart. This is a great way, this was a great way to express how you felt about her without saying a single word, but the knowledge that it took time to create this mixtape, to get those songs together, and then to write it out on the label on the uh in the case, uh, so they could read off every song that was there, and uh maybe little uh notes to let them know why that you know you chose that song. And uh see that those were the great years, man. And you could put any song on there. Yeah, I mean they might have used the F-word in like a song back then. And if they did, then I think you know that's when I think in the late 80s, early 90s, they started coming out with the uh those little labels they had to have on for parental advisory needed. Um, but then that became a you know, like a staple, uh, you know, like a badge of honor for the bands that would get one of those. Um and then kids would want to get those bands and listen to them more often because of it, because they were bad, you know, they were they're being shut down, sort of, you know, uh, or warning labels are being put up to warn people off of their music. But if you got a if you got a mixtape, uh it that was a cool thing to get from somebody. And I've made my share. I made uh I made a ton of mixtapes for people. Um, I used to have like uh like most of my friends were girls, you know. Like I just I just got along better with uh girls, to be honest with you. And uh, you know, I would make mixtapes for them. Um and I would get mixtapes back from them. And it was fun, it was fun. Just expressing how you are, who you are, through the music you listen to. It told a lot, it spoke a lot about people today, not someone. We don't have anything like that. Songwriting and structure. Now, I listen to a lot of people um doing musical reactions on uh on YouTube. I don't know if you've discovered this yet yourselves, you should, okay, because you're seeing brand new generations of people whose only knowledge of music is the current hip-hop that's playing now. So on their reaction channels, they react to things that like to our music, you know, like the music from back in the day, we can safely say. Okay, so back in the day, they would listen to um you know these songs, and uh you know, like um, you know, songs from the 80s, uh, from the 70s. And the great thing about watching a uh a music reactor is that you see them light up. It's almost like a like um you know, a man who's who'd been dropped by a helicopter in a desert, and he's been walking days and nights, and his mouth is all dry and crusty, and he finally sees what he thinks is another oasis, and but no, it's land and it's and they have fresh water there, and uh, you know, that's how it feels like when you listen to music that you never knew existed, and you're scratching your head wondering why they're not still making this kind of music. That's what they say. Because there's nothing like that today, they'll say. And it's they're and and they would they would die for old bands to create new albums, um before they're before they're gone. I mean, how many how many geniuses in the in the music industry did we lose? Tom Petty, uh Roy Orbison, um, well shit, you name it, we lost. Like lead singers from the bands would die. You know, um one of the Allman brothers died. The you know, I guess he was the important almond almond. Um you know that at work, you know, buddy Holly the day the music died with the Big Balper and um the guy who sang La Bamba. I mean, that was a big tragedy back then. The La Bamba guy. I mean, what what name me one other song he did? You don't know, I don't know, but blah blah blah bomba, you know. Um but then we get into the 80s and the 90s, and then there's grunge. Um before that, there was rap. Uh there was but rap was just it was just fun more than anything else. They didn't take themselves seriously in rap songs. I listened to the Beastie Boys, they didn't take shit seriously, and they were fantastic. Okay, even if you didn't like them, they were still fantastic. You just needed to get to the age where you could understand them. Um, they were just three kids from Manhattan, and uh, and they were making music the hard way, they were like taking samples and they would be tape actual tape, they would have to tape the tape to the tape, if that makes any sense, and create these uh incredible uh rap songs from it. I mean, these were artists, these were artists, and then they got like a lot of crap that they oh, you don't play your own instruments, so they did, and they started playing their own instruments, and you know what? They were great. The Beastie Boys is uh a group that I didn't get into back then. I got into the Beastie Boys in my 50s when I should have gotten you into them much earlier in my life, but watching these reactors on YouTube reacting to old music and such, um it it makes you rediscover or discover for the first time groups that you you just weren't there in your life to to discover them. Uh you have to be like for some things, you have to be in the right place at the right time, and sometimes, yeah, that even includes music. And um, I didn't I didn't gain a love for music in my life until I was uh much older, much older, like early 30s, late 20s, early 30s, let's say that. And very slow, it was like a slow burn. Um but then when I got into it, holy cow, man. I I I don't I can't live without music today. And to to think that I went my entire life um not even thinking about it, not even caring. You know, like I you know, John Lennon died while I was on the dodgeball court, and I couldn't tell you why that was significant then. I just didn't know. I had no frame of reference, no knowledge about any of this stuff. Assassinations, anyway, happened to other, you know, uh uh greater people. I and uh my life was so small and humdrum, I didn't think it it I needed to even look up to take notice. But um Jack White. This is what's getting me in my head talking about music today. Uh Jack White of the White Stripes you might know him uh for from he just he earlier this year, was it late last year, he made it into the rock and roll hall of fame, which is crazy uh for such a young well, he's not he's not actually that young. I think he's almost my age. But he's he's he revolutionized music. Like that's that's one of those guys that really did make a contribution um to creating different sounds that rock that are fantastic. Uh do a deep dive on Jack White. Trust me, you'll absolutely love it. Earlier this year, he did a uh this great song called um Archbishop Harold something, and uh type in Jack White and Archbishop, and you'll get to see the video. Um that one of the guys from uh Step Brothers is does this uh is acts out the uh video and uh the one that's not Will Farrell. And um, he's fantastic too, by the way. Uh that guy now I gotta check to see what uh what his name is because I really do like him.

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Um stepbrothers.

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Yeah. John C. Rayleigh, Riley. John C. Rayleigh, Riley, Riley, John C. Riley. Uh this guy is brilliant, by the way. I don't know if you I don't know if you've seen um the movie where he plays Oliver Hardy. Um he's not even known for that movie, and he should be. Uh absolutely brilliant. He embodied uh babe Hardy uh better than anyone else uh they could have picked. Yeah, Archibald Harold, or sorry, Archbishop Harold Holmes. That's the name of Jack what Jack White's song. And uh John C. Riley plays this like preacher, preaching, preaching the word from about from this letter that was sent. And he's telling his uh parishioners and stuff. Such a good song. Such a good song. I love I love finding a band uh that I never knew before, although heard of. And I find like I'm very persnickety. I like if I've like even with TV shows, and everybody's oh, you gotta watch uh Breaking Bad or you gotta watch this and that. Nah, I I'll watch it when I decide I'm gonna watch it, and I'm such a douche that way. I don't know why I'm like that. Um, some of them get through though, some of them get through, and I actually get into them like uh like Beastie Boys my whole life. I was like, Yeah, yeah, whatever. Um I've I've read the Beastie Boys book, it in you know, entitled The Beastie Boys the Book. Um, you know, you got uh Michael Diamond, Mike D for short. Uh you got um uh you got ad rock and you got uh MCA. Uh MCA passed away, and what uh loss that is for us. Hey, he they'd still be making music right now if he was alive, but because he passed, they they decided uh they would not make any more music without him. I mean that's friendship, right? I mean you hear about bands and you hear about the inner turmoils and stuff, not with the Beastie Boys. Yeah, the King Ad Rock. Um all right, let's go back to my barely anything notes. I just you know, I just get like what what what band did you first hear that really got you into music? Like I I there were there were a couple bands that for me, um my father had like uh a small collection of of albums from when he was a kid, you know, he had some Rolling Stones and he had this and that. Uh he had some Elton John and uh and he had ABBA. They loved ABBA. Uh but who doesn't, you know. I mean, like Abba's just fantastic. Uh and then they had um ELO. He had. And I got so into ELO, electric light orchestra. Um Jeff Lynn can do no wrong. I mean, just grab an album and and pop it in and listen to it. It's it's so great. He tends to write a lot about Twilight and um you know, uh certain shades of blue. But um they're fantastic. You know, uh, who I mean, who among you hasn't heard uh Mr. Blue Skies? Come on. That's like that's like uh must-listen sort of stuff, you know, like uh if you were in school, that would be in the curriculum. You have to you have to listen to that song at least. Or like like Bohemian Rhapsody, you have to listen to this song, or you didn't live, you didn't live a life. But then you know, going into the nine, you know, 80, late 80s into the 90s, things started to get more vulgar, and it was all about drugs you're singing about, and and sex and being rich and uh and partying. There's nothing wrong with partying. I mean, the Beastie Boys wrote the anthem for partying. Uh you gotta fight for your right to party, apparently. And they're they're not wrong, you got to. You gotta you gotta be a kid. You're fighting for those hours to stay out longer, um, as a kid, so you can, you know, maybe hit the clubs with your friends or or whatever. You have to fight for your right to party when you get to a certain age, and uh, you know, the b boys, they knew they knew how to do it, you know. I mean, everybody gives uh run DMC a a lot of credit, and they and they should, they should, but you also have to know that it was the Beastie Boys that were coming up at the same time, and the Beastie Boys like uh discovered guys like LL Cool Jay, um, all these other musicians. They did they discovered them and they made sure they put them in the spotlight so they could get their chunk. Like these were this is when artists weren't building crazy sex dungeons underneath their homes, and they were just sharing um the fame that they had earned, you know, because maybe somebody helped them. Um, we got a little while up 15 minutes. Um so well, I just want I just want music to get unstuck to start evolving again, like it once used to, you know. I mean you had like you had your um older stuff, like you know, old Miss, you know, Mary had a little no, that's like nursery rhyme. What's some older older older like songs you would find in the 50s, like Davy, Davy Crockett, you know, like songs like that, and then you had uh doo-op. You know, you know, like and you and then you had rock and roll, and then you had uh rap, and then there was various varying degrees of rap, and then hip-hop, varying degrees of rip hip-hop, and now we are at this end stage of hip-hop, but everything's stalled out. Nobody knows where to take it from here. They thought they could, they they could just add sexual body parts to the songs, like pop her pa uh or lick. I I don't know. I don't listen to that kind of music. Um, I'm like I am an oldies guy. I I like the older music or my music. Um, even not my music, older than me. I like that music too. Um, but we got to evolve this mess we've got. Because you've got like the hip-hop, like the the vulgar hip-hop, and then you've got like Swifties, which is like another animal altogether. I don't really count them as being uh or count her as being. I mean, she's her own thing. Let's say that, and let's give her credit for that, you know. Um, I don't like her politics much, but uh she did she did create her own thing, and she's like the queen of it. Um it's just everything else. Everything else that plays now. It's just it's just awful. I almost, and I I want you all to know I'm I'm kidding. Um I almost want to try listening to country music. I know there's special channels for that for you for you people out there who who like uh country music, and I'm sure some people have to. But um, yeah. If you if you live anywhere near a farm, you're you're you're listening to uh some country music. I have friends, man. When when we go over to their house and they're they're you know they they got their pool ready, we're probably gonna have a barbecue, and they got the stereo in the window, and the stereo's pumping out like like country music, and most of it's singing about consuming alcohol, and uh and it's just like oh and then over the last couple of years we've been getting these like um these guys that are coming out of the woodwork who are singing like a like a patriotic song or some a patriotic song, and it shows you how how desperate we are for that kind of patriotism to be expressed out in the public, you know. Um and their their songs kill. They're they do. Even the country ones. Now, I don't like the country ones, but you know, you know if you're if you're one of them, you know, you you're into the country music, and you probably get and you probably just lit that up in your backyard. Whatever. What was that? The uh there was one about like living. I don't know. I don't know. I don't even I don't pay attention to it enough to even remember it. Okay, so uh yeah, then we had oh and the one era that we cannot forget. Okay disco. Disco is not dead, my friends. I know, I know. I've heard the rumors too. But disco is not dead, okay it never will die. Disco is always with us. I wish current bands would just like discover the you know this kind of music and just start making songs like that. I guarantee you they will they're they're they still sell CDs, but they'll their songs will sell, they'll they'll be played hugely. I remember when um like Weezer did a whole cover album about you know uh about covered songs like Africa, um Aha's uh Take On Me. Uh, they did Mr. Blue Sky from ELO. But uh but they were great. They were singing these songs, and I was thinking to my I have the album actually for that. I have that Miser album. Uh it's on top of my uh record player on my bedside table. But um it's it they they made these incredible songs, these these uh cover songs, and they breathe new life into them without changing them really. And I feel like I feel like other bands could do similar stuff, not like not like you know getting overloaded by cover songs, but you can you can listen to this stuff and and and you know utilize it for inspiration. But that's but nobody's doing that anymore. Used to be oh yeah, we could see today's bands and and how they're being influenced by the Beatles or something like that. But who like like who's influencing them now? You know who's influencing them? The other ones that were just before them, which is still the same crappy music that we're comp that I'm complaining about today. So they're getting influenced by music that already sucks. You guys need to look further back, look further back, and you you uh you at home go to go on YouTube and and type in like music reactions, or if you have a favorite band, type in that band and then the word reaction, and you'll see all these people discovering your favorite band for the first time. You can listen to them, and like almost by um osmosis, you can rediscover old lovers, like you know, because that's that's what music is to your ears, right? It's all the sweet love that you like to listen to again and again. Um you can rediscover them for the first time, like Yogi Barra said, uh, it's deja vu all over again, you know. And that would be that it is it is remarkable. I listen to people react. Like if I'm if I feel like listening to a song, I'll put my headbuds in, my earbuds in, and um, and I'll go on YouTube and I'll just pick the song out with a reactor and I'll listen to it with them. And uh and now they have all of these uh these great one in uh particular. Uh her pages uh on YouTube is uh the charismatic voice, and she's a legit opera singer. Um and she's just a lovely woman, but she'll uh she listens to like the heavy metal and she listens to everything, really. Uh she she was very um like she had her horse blinders on as far as music went. She was all into operatic uh music, and uh that was it. So all this other music just blew past her. So now, as a like master of the sounds we make that come out of our voice, our mouths, and stuff that we use to create music, she will break down the songs and teach you more about them. So the charismatic voice, check her out on uh YouTube. Uh she's one I always go to. Uh, if I want to deep dive into a song uh more than I already have. Uh these other these other people, like maybe it's like maybe it's uh an ethnicity, okay? And in your in your life, in the life that you grew up in, um, my music simply was not your music. So you never knew. You didn't have a frame of reference, you didn't even hear it in passing, but you were living a different life. Then you hear about this stuff. You maybe hear one song and it just blows your mind. Why isn't this why isn't this playing alongside today's hits? Because it could. Oh man. My wife's asking me to look at the comments. For some reason they don't come up on my on my screen here, and I'm always uh I'm always upset about that.

SPEAKER_00 56:50

Why it doesn't stuck at Dr. Jasper's stuff.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

Oh well, we can't have uh silence on the air, can we? Yeah, I'm just doing the same thing over and over again. Uh yeah, okay. So uh I'm gonna be so upset that I can't find this. How do you not be able to find your own Facebook page? Oh well. Uh I'll regret that, I'm sure. Um actually let me try my own. I'm sorry, you guys. It's a live show. You know what live shows are about. Um my wife, my my birthday was yesterday, so um my wife got me new AirPods, uh, noise canceling ones. Oh my god, they're so fantastic. They're so fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 58:16

Oh, just Maggie trying. This is this is the thing with your your your if you're married. Um, if your wife has something to say, it doesn't matter if you're if you're doing a a live show or anything that out like that. Um if she's texts something, she will text you again to tell you on a different platform to tell you to look at what she's texted right in the middle of a live show. And uh and all she's asking is if you're not sure if it's allowed, why do you why do you say it 97 times? Uh oh yeah, my wife loves um loves new kids on the blog. New Clinton, they were not on my uh they were not on my uh radar at all. Uh one afternoon I sat down with my wife and I said to her, uh, you know, like let's let's listen to your music. I want to watch the videos with you. And like I don't think she'd ever been so excited. Uh she's in love with uh Donnie Wahlberg. Um yeah, she even got to like rub her hands up his eye. Uh she felt his body sweat, and um it just does it for her. Okay, she's she doesn't have screen, you know, screensaver pictures of me at work, they're just of him, and uh you either have to get used to that or you don't, and you just like lose your shit one day and uh you know put a bullet through her phone. Like, yeah, listen to Donnie now. Listen to them now. Well, you know, they're number one with a bullet. Um well, all right. Yeah, that's an hour. Okay. I'm sorry for the uh for the downtime there. Blame my wife. Um, it's usually her fault. Okay. So um for more information about Dr. Gabriel Jasper, uh, please go to Jasper Spine Institute uh or jaspermd.com. Uh it's right there up on the screen. And uh you can call him at 732-262-0700. Uh for I hope that uh Paul fixed all that silent spot there because yeah, that wasn't good. Uh anyway, I love you guys uh forever. I love you guys for listening to me, for uh humbling me on the radio, as it were. So I will see you again next week, I think. Um yeah, next week I'll see you. And until then, take care, everybody. Uh, this has been of what remains of me. So I'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:26

Uh how do you end this now? Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:32

Like an old man who just got his first Apple phone. Uh