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Summer Soundtracks: What's In Your Earbuds?
Music weaves through our lives, serving as the soundtrack to our memories, moods, and milestone moments. After a longer-than-expected hiatus, we reunite to explore the question that connects every listener: what's playing through your earbuds right now?
Jim pulls back the curtain on his recent obsession with Swedish sleaze metal, a genre that's been thriving since the early 2000s as a revival of 80s glam rock. From bands like Hardcore Superstar and Crash Diet to the surprising statistic that Sweden boasts 428 metal bands compared to America's 72, we dive into how musical discovery often follows unexpected pathways. His journey from Japanese hair metal to these Nordic headbangers illustrates how one musical passion can lead to another, creating a personalized roadmap of sonic exploration.
Keith takes us on a geographical journey through Chicago's rich musical landscape, sharing stories of intimate Local H shows where he was one of just four audience members, and championing bands like Veruca Salt and Cheap Trick. Meanwhile, Scott reveals how movie soundtracks have become his portal to new artists, with Sean Rowe's gritty vocals from "The Accountant" and SYML's calming compositions providing the perfect counterbalance to workplace stress.
We reflect on how music discovery has transformed – from saving up for physical albums to the unlimited buffet of streaming services – while acknowledging that some things never change: the thrill of finding something new, the comfort of returning to favorites, and the joy of sharing these discoveries with others. Whether you're cruising with the windows down or seeking refuge from the summer heat, we invite you to think about what's filling your earbuds right now, and perhaps consider adding some Swedish sleaze metal to the rotation. Subscribe to join our musical journey and share your own sonic discoveries with us!
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On this episode of the Powerspoint Podcast. Hey, I see you over there smiling with your earbuds in, bobbing your head and lip syncing. I gotta ask one thing what are you listening to? Hey Scott, drop that beat.
Speaker 2:We'll see you next time. Well, hello, hello. Welcome back to the Powers Point Podcast, season 4, or Season 5, episode 21. It's been so long that I don't even know what we're doing. But if you are new to the show, hey, we appreciate you, we hope you stay tuned in and welcome to the family. And if you are tuning in and you're wondering where we've been, I'll explain in a second. And welcome back. I'm Scott Powers and with me, as always, is the one and only Jim Banks. Hello, hello. And Keith Mackey.
Speaker 3:Good to be back.
Speaker 2:Boys life is happening hard on me and kicking my ass from one side of this county to the other side and around the other counties. And I really appreciate you guys being patient with this because, man, I felt like I retired from podcasting. And I really appreciate you guys, uh, being patient with this because, man, I felt like I retired from podcasting and it really bothers me. Oh, you know, you know, when, uh, we got people like mo asking me every uh, sunday night, monday, hey, where's the pod? Where's the pod? Where's the pod? I'm like we'll, we'll get to it, man, we'll get to it. And then he's got to hear his boys. That's what we are to him, his boys. Awesome is why he's out there driving the big rig. We keep them company. So it's been a couple weeks. What do you guys been up to?
Speaker 1:um, I have been trying to get my son to listen to more of a variety of music. What's he listen to, usually Like mainly like those videos on YouTube and stuff, the little video game-y Chinese kind of stuff or what's that. Uh, like this one Japanese looks like schoolgirl, school girls or something, but they're like digital they're not real, okay. No, it's like miku niku or something. I'll tell you. Let us call me no. Yeah, oh, I don't know, it's all. That's all, ai, or something.
Speaker 3:I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:I know I have seen that as like a girl with like long blue, real long strands of hair and stuff.
Speaker 3:I think it might. I think it might be a uh a song. I think it might be mishu niku yeah, meet you niku, or something I believe I have seen that. Yeah, I think my daughter I think he's got the.
Speaker 2:I think he's got the album behind him, probably blue hair uh kid behind him. I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to push it because, like you know, I've done in the past, I try pushing stuff on him as a little kid to enjoy, and then he just repels from it and I'm like, okay, I won't, I won't, you know, push that, but I'm just trying to slowly get him to listen to different kinds.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's going to happen to little Jimmy like it happened to us. You know he'll discover it like 15 years down the road, something that you wanted him to hear, like now, and be like okay, I get it.
Speaker 1:Like my wife says, just play it. Well, she says, just play your stuff like our parents, like our parents did with us, and he's just going to listen to it. So I gotta start. I was always afraid, like the cussing or the stuff on you know certain lyrics and stuff, he'll be like what's that? But I'm just gonna he's old enough now I'm just gonna like play it and just, oh well, if they cuss, they cuss like a classic rock or a 90s grunge or even like classic country, like the real old stuff like his grandpa used to listen to, or like, I don't know, classical music and different, just a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3:Right, that's. The best way to do it too is the captive audience approach, whereas in the air they can't help but take it in.
Speaker 2:Or some Motown or something, just always play that now, like if you guys are in the car ride together, man, is he uh on the tablet or is he actually listening to?
Speaker 1:he, well, he on spotify he'll play like, uh, I'll let him search stuff or I usually let would let him pick the music and stuff. But then he gets all uh, and I'm like no, we're gonna listen to my stuff now. So I'm just like playing my stuff now but at least you tried yeah.
Speaker 2:So uh, you got some killing joke.
Speaker 1:Uh, for little jim oh my gosh, I should this is a whole lot of whole lot of love but but yeah, I'll play like japanese uh, hair, metal and stuff from the 80s and he'll be like, oh, that's Japanese. And I'll be like, yeah, because you'll hear the lyrics and that. So that makes him because he's always interested in different languages and stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know that's some fun stuff too. You know what I mean. You don't necessarily want to film with the depressing, you know 90s type shit if that's what he's into, you know. Oh yeah, them kids tend to be, like you know, a little more bummed out. You thought of you know, think about it the, the cats who were into the hair metal.
Speaker 1:They enjoyed life I'll just tell him, like, listen to the, listen to the guitar here, listen to the drums here. Let's like certain parts of famous songs. I'll be able listen to this part right here what's it say?
Speaker 3:he likes it, he thinks it's real cool the different, different uh instruments and stuff yeah it's just how it's sure you know, chances are that shit's due for a comeback anyway, because that you know how everything is cyclical. There's a good chance that that type of stuff does come back. You know, because I'm uh, obviously hip-hop isn't going in a good direction right now. No, you know.
Speaker 1:So something's gonna have to come back to make the people party and usually, uh, if you ask any music artists throughout the decades, they were influenced by someone before them. Or, yeah, different type of music. So if he listens to a certain band or artist, he'll they'll say, well, he'll find out what that person's interests were and he'll listen to, or a different type of music.
Speaker 3:So if he listens to a certain band or artist, they'll say, well, he'll find out what that person's interests were, and he'll listen to that, right, or it'll, you know, lead to something that'll lead to something that'll lead to something down the line that he'll be into the most. But it's like you got to kind of start somewhere, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like Scott said, with Spotify, apple Music and all this other stuff, is this music really just? A membership gets you access to everything and we didn't want to pay for the albums back in our day or the cassettes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now we can. Just that's why we're just getting flooded now with all this music for our generation.
Speaker 3:Right. The thing is, yeah, they're never going to have to save their milk money to buy the Peter Criss solo album at Abbey Road.
Speaker 2:You know, know, it's it. There's so many music now, man, oh, like the artist here, artist there, fake artist here, fake artist there, like you'll never, ever learn like all these people, man, you know like it's hard to keep up with. Uh, people are like, oh, I like luke combs, all right, who's that? You know? Like, oh, I like, uh, sir chloe, oh yeah, how's he sound? But he's not a he, he's a she, sir chloe.
Speaker 2:You know, like, sometimes, sometimes, man, in the summertime, I, I really look forward to watching la la palooza on tv, and and the reason why I watch it, man, is because I want to see, like, what music's out there now, man, and I would hear bands that I've never heard before, and then I write them down and I'm like I really love this band. That's how I found that Sir Chloe band. You know a group, and like I just keep writing it down. Man, and, and, uh, the backseat lover, uh, yeah, the backseat lovers, man, I, they, uh, I liked the way they play the guitar, man, they, this dude's got like eight guitars. Man, like classic guitars, electric guitars, and he makes them speak. Man, not like Peter Fran, who didn't speak, and but you know, you feel the vibe off the guitar and and yeah, and. So I started downloading all their music legally, you know, on amazon, not, uh, napster, uh, is that even a theory anymore? I don't even know.
Speaker 2:Man or limewire, I think so I don't think so I mean because mostly you can go to any app and download the album anyway, you know, for free legally and like you said that you don't know these artists, and like you said before, we recorded like, oh, that band has like five albums or something.
Speaker 1:It's like, oh, I've never heard of them and there's so many people that it could be common knowledge, but it's not for everybody don't know it. Right, it could be common knowledge but it's not for everybody, don't know it Right.
Speaker 2:You know. So that will lead us to our topic that you talked about before, the music. What are you listening to?
Speaker 3:But before we get that. Keith, what have you been up to Other than getting over being sick the last couple of days? It's normal same old, doing the house stuff, but yeah, I went on an epic food binge, and should I relay the list here of what I ate? That actually got me sick. Yes, I don't know. If they want to hear.
Speaker 2:Well, let's start it off with the whole part where the one day you're like, I want to get this, but I don't want to hit the highway, you know to go, go get it, and I was like, um well, it sounds good though.
Speaker 3:So there on the next day you said, hey, I went and did it. Yeah, I'd been craving Arby's. I've been craving Arby's for days and no one else in the house besides I don't know, I think maybe my dad likes them. Uh, no one else in the house besides, I don't know, I think maybe my dad likes them, but no one's like all that big on rb sandwiches except for me, and uh, so I went and got myself a few and then I only ate one the first night, me and the dog, uh, polished off one. And then the next day, um, I ended up making cheeseburgers for me and Heather and I made four burgers and I ate three of them. And then at some point within there too, we had.
Speaker 3:Actually, before I went and got the Arby's, we had chili dogs that night. So I had two chili dogs that night and, I'm assuming, two more chili dogs, two more Paco dogs the next day to get rid of the extra chili sauce. So at the end it was three Arby's sandwiches, three cheeseburgers, four Tony Paco's dogs, and my dad said, you know, you had some pizza in there too, right? And like, wow, okay, within the course of 24 hours. And man, I paid for that bad, very badly, yesterday, dang man, yeah, and even today. Better now than I did eight hours ago, but it was.
Speaker 2:It was a rough go, man and then I was like man, I'm kind of like pissed at keith because he mentioned arby's and I love arby's, but man, the prices have like gone way up the roof. Man, I got two sandwiches and jalapeno poppers and it was like 24 dollars. You know, I was like christ man. Of course I get the half pound uh sandwiches and uh, because I eat like one when I get to work and then like four or five hours later I'll eat the other one, you know, and and uh, I just sit and curse. I'm like man, I shouldn't be eating this crap, dude. You know, it's so damn good though. You know, when you got the Arby's sauce all over the damn thing, it's amazing. But you said you're feeling better now.
Speaker 3:I feel way better and even like since we started I kind of like broke a sweat since I got like we had a fan on. I turned the fan on but I broke a sweat and like my head kind of popped. So I feel even better since then and I know the amount I ate doesn't necessarily sound like all that much to what a regular person of you know what I mean around our size would be. But if you've heard me say on the show before I had a hard time finishing a stack of pancakes that we got that Scott had bought me at the wheel, I ate on that same stack pancakes for three days, you know what I mean. And try and shove all this into me within the matter of 24 hours, that was just uh. So it was a heroic proportions.
Speaker 1:oh my god hey yeah, you know, but it was a heroic uh shit too.
Speaker 3:When you got done my good that was it was one after the other, like two basketballs coming out of you, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Our last episode that the three of us were on, we talked about summer. Well, summer officially starts this weekend, and what a way out to go, man. It's in the high 90s all three days Friday, saturday, sunday. We got the smoke of Canada from the fires in the woods, kind of like blocking out the sun a little bit and heat index tomorrow in the middle of a baseball field is going to be 105.
Speaker 2:Dude, and I'll have my dad on top of that, who hasn't been outside in the heat in like for a long period of time like tomorrow's going to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just cut the grass today and I was so happy that I got it done today, cause I know the next four days are going to be like in the nineties.
Speaker 2:You know I have last couple of years, man, I've really been enjoying cutting the grass, cause I, I too cut mine this morning and uh, it takes me like an hour to cut the front. But when I get my music on and sorry if I accidentally hit my mic, but uh, uh, just tune out everything, man, just listen to music. Next thing you know you're done.
Speaker 1:You don't forget to bring stuff for your dad, like an umbrella and it's crazy as it sounds for the heat or something or uh, like water or ice or something yeah yeah, he wants to go to walgreens and buy so much stuff, man, like all the suntan lotion and and I'm like, yeah, okay, buddy.
Speaker 2:And then, uh, my little brother, he started a job. Uh, last week he started his first job. All right now, I've been, I've been. He works for a place called, uh, caribbean pools. Uh, I've heard of the owners are real cool with my family, you know, and he hits. I've worked at my job 20 years and that little dude makes more than I do. What's wrong with that picture, man? Wow.
Speaker 2:Not surprised surprised and he just turned 16. You know, of course he's out there working in the sun, yeah, digging holes and everything else, but still man well, he's gotta get it while you can, yeah yeah, do you know a lot of places.
Speaker 3:Don't even make you wait on your paycheck anymore really oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, amazon does that. You can cash out on your paycheck that night after you punch out yeah that's weird yep, isn't that crazy, that's like a hurry. How are you, yeah, how are you gonna save? Yeah, you just blew up.
Speaker 1:Come to if you unknowingly blow all the money and then you got bills and stuff. They're like oh I spent it all, I didn't even know. A little at a time, you know the employer.
Speaker 3:That's not on them right.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:Nope, you had a strategy as far as we knew. It's not up to us to parent you and tell you what to do with your money, you know.
Speaker 2:You know, along with summer comes all the construction on the highways and it is so ridiculous that they are shutting down like all the ramps, basically at once. Instead of doing one at a time, they can knock it out and do the next one. But now indiana announced yesterday and this isn't politics or religion yesterday they announced that they okayed, uh, putting toll booths on all interstates in indiana all of them my god, I'm gonna be paying to go to work and paying to come home.
Speaker 1:Uh, bust the high gas prices, man yeah, we want to be the example state for every other state to just start doing it we can't get legal weed, but uh, let's put toll booths on everything that's crazy, because that's exactly what I was thinking if they all did the legal weed he's just gonna make everybody take all the other roads
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly, and that's gonna mess them up, you know, like all the big trucks gonna be going down dirty you, you know, or just destroying things, man. But hey, we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we want to know what are you listening to other than the Powers Point podcast or Majors Massaw? What are you listening to music-wise? So stay tuned, we'll be back.
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Speaker 2:The edible kind and I'm going to have to cut that out and I'm going to have to cut that out. But before the commercial, we talked about music that you are listening to. It's summertime, you got the music vibe going. What's in your earbuds? I'm going to start with Jim.
Speaker 1:What's in your earbuds, man? Lately I've been listening to. I can't remember how I got on it, but it's a Swedish sleaze metal.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It got on the radar already. I know I was like sleaze metal. I'm going to listen to this and it's Swedish. Yeah, it's all Swedish bands. It started in the early 2000s their attempt to revive the hair glam metal scene of the 80s because it died out. And I just started listening to just the bands and most of them are in English and stuff, and they just sound like different bands, like a band called Hardcore Superstar. They sound like Guns N' Roses, van Halen and ACDC like a mix. Wow.
Speaker 1:There's bands like Crash Diet, crazy Licks with two X's, let's see Backyard Babies, gem, ni 5,. Let's see Backyard Babies, Gem in I5. Eclipse, and then there's Heat Confess. There's just a whole bunch of different sleaze metal bands and it's just all like. I'm like I'll listen to it and I'll say, yeah, I don't like that one. It's on this big playlist of spotify someone made and then I'll, I'll like the ones I want and then I'll just make it into a play mix of the ones I like now, when you say it's sleaze metal, is that, for the people out there listening in myself, sleaze metal?
Speaker 2:is that, uh, like heavy yeah?
Speaker 1:it's like hard rock. It's a combination of hard rock and slash, like 80s metal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like 80s hairband.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it's a hairband kind of thing that most of them sound like that 80s glam rock.
Speaker 3:Right yeah, glam.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's just some people are. People are saying, oh, they're just cosplaying and stuff. I'm like man, they're just making music. Who cares, you know?
Speaker 3:just listen to it aren't they all doing that though?
Speaker 1:and if that's the, the genre you like, which I like, and you find it like you, like we were saying earlier, you discovered it and you didn't know this was going on for like 20 plus years. I'm like, oh, I got all this to listen to now and it's all new to me, and I'm still listening to a japanese hair metal, but, but, the swedish sleaze metal is the newest one.
Speaker 3:I've been, uh, going crazy on and that's cool, because the japanese metal is kind of like what led you there. Yeah, it's like a never-ending you know, it's like a road, you know, weird like, uh, not like a roadmap, but almost like them trees when they do the oh, yeah, like the family. You know what I mean. It's like each thing leads to a different thing and it's you know, and that's awesome, especially since you know no two people, unless you live together 24 7 365. But no two people are going to have the same kind of map, you know. So, even if you have a wide, uh, knowledge of music, if you meet another person with an equally wide knowledge of music, the chance of what you're into and what they're into overlapping isn't all that strong.
Speaker 1:So there's a good chance you're going to be able to turn each other on to some good stuff if you're open-minded enough to accept it from another person yeah, and there was this uh uh, in the 2000s there was a documentary on metal, like the history of metal and it, like you said, it did the different like tree branch and it would go to different types of metal like uh, like heavy metal, rock metal, glam, uh, doom metal, death metal, and it was all just spread out all over the and it just you saw the different band names, all part of those genres and stuff. It was pretty wild, yeah now they're.
Speaker 2:They're going to be. Uh, looking at the geography of the, the where the music's played, they're going to be. Yeah, hobert indiana, what's up with that?
Speaker 1:yeah and it said that that, uh, in 2016 that metal bands they said there was set. In 2016 there were 72 u metal bands, but in Sweden there's 428 metal bands. I was like wow.
Speaker 3:It's like how do they look? You know, yeah, do they got it? Are they all on a registry or what's? How do they know this?
Speaker 1:I don't know but Swedish and Norway and that all up there is like, yeah, they're huge in the metal.
Speaker 2:There's a Swedish rock band. One of my friends from Sweden is in it. It's called Adamant. Not Adamant, but A-D-A-M-A-N-T. I think you would dig that that sound man. It's got that heavier vibe to it.
Speaker 1:It sounds good.
Speaker 2:I don't know what they're saying, but oh and one final good, no, I'm just saying it's like a movie or tv. Good music's good music and when that vibe hits you, you know that's what hooks you. You know like a lot of people are like, oh it's just music. When you could feel the emotion or the vibe that the music and the artist is putting out there, that's incredible. When you can actually feel it, and I forgot to closing on the Swedish metal.
Speaker 1:We wanted to say hey to Emma in Sweden.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hello Emma. Uh, we wanted to, I wanted, we wanted to say hey to emma in sweden yeah, hello, emma, she's in.
Speaker 3:She's in nebraska right now on vacation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we, we tried raising the king because of you bud and if she's listening, hey, uh, she was on our december 17th episode or something last year yeah, like 12, 15th, I think she was on with us.
Speaker 2:But yeah, but yeah, she's, uh, she's back in the states for a couple weeks and uh, them, them guys, they don't uh come here for no week, man, they stay here for like weeks, but it's cool and uh, I'll get her back on. I keep up with her, keith. What's in your earbuds, man?
Speaker 3:Well, what you said at the beginning of the show where he says you see you smiling, kind of reminded me of the lyric you caught me smiling again by Sly and the Family Stone and I obviously recently cast away. So yes, I'm a huge, huge Sly and the Family Stone fan. That's definitely good Summertime music, Hot Fun in the Summertime and some of the other ones. They have just a whole long list of great music. So that would be one. And then I kind of, when I knew he was coming on, I figured I don't know something inspired me to kind of start listening to some of the chicago bands, you know. I mean, since you guys are sort of close to chicago. So I started hitting some of the staples like a little bit of cheap trick, you know, I don't know about, you know, uh, he's a whore, you know that.
Speaker 3:One stiff competition yeah those are my favorites, uh. And then there's, uh, veruca salt, another one of my favorite chicago bands. That uh see, spider-man's one of my favorites, uh. Straights, another one of my favorite Chicago bands. That see, spider-man is one of my favorites. Straights, another one of my favorites, off the album Eight Arms to Hold you, which was actually supposed to be the title of a Beatles album. I think it was Hard Day's Night was actually supposed to be called that.
Speaker 3:And then my favorite probably Chicago band would be a band called Local H, which I actually saw several times in person and you know I had drinks with the singer and their various drummers because they've had like kind of like spinal tap. They've had the rotating drum spot, but um, that's uh, they're normally a two-piece. Uh, guys got like, uh, scott lucas, the main guy, has like um, bass pickups and his guitar, you know whatever. So he has like guitar and bass pickups hook up to his guitar, so it's, it's somehow it plays them both, but it's, you never noticed it. The with the CM live, the sounds always really full and they're fucking rocking. There's some good ones, yeah.
Speaker 2:They do a lot of dive bars, uh shows in the area here and it's yeah, you like a five to $10 cover charge which makes it even more worth going to see. I mean, they're always awesome if you ever get a chance. Yes, you know, like I sent some listeners, uh, I paid for their tickets.
Speaker 3:I'm five dollars, big deal, you know, uh to go see local h yeah wow, I actually have a great story about going to see local h. I used to have um a job working at one of the beer dispensaries here in the next town over and I knew they were coming and I took my buddy to work and I says, you know what? I think I'm going to the show because I don't want to miss it. Who knows if I'm ever going to see him again. He's like, well, we got to at least go to work, work. So I took my buddy to work and we both worked at the dispensary. I slid out underneath the laser and I went and saw the concert, got drunk with the singer, had a great time and I was one of like three people in the audience, so they basically played to me. And then I went back to work, hammered, slid under the laser again and finished out tonight at work and drove my buddy home afterwards.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like that's a wrap. It was personal.
Speaker 2:It was personal man, you know, like you know only four people there, man, that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 3:That was a great night, though, man.
Speaker 2:Now, how do you think the band feels when they've done big tours and then they come to other places and they get?
Speaker 3:like four people, I don't know. I wondered that myself.
Speaker 2:You kind of feel bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, a little bit, but you know, take the good with the bad, I guess, because obviously they've, you know, in Chicago.
Speaker 1:I imagine that they they play some pretty packed audiences, but to hear that music, so like, with not a lot of people and so close to you, you feel every note and every beat, my god, absolutely epic.
Speaker 3:And the drummer they had then was this guy named joe daniels who looks similar, I don't know, kind of like to booker t, like he got the dreads and the muscles and all that. And he was one dude when you had to like adjust your breathing who was drumming, because when he'd hit the bass drum like it would take your breath away.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. Wow, that sounds like me when I went to go see Jack on concert at a little dive bar in North Carolina. You know they're saying lumberjack with the theater. You know, and like you, there's only a couple people in the thing and the chainsaw's out of shit in the damn little bar and you know it's like dude. We know what it sounds like man. You know what you know and it's crazy man. But anybody else, you guys listening to.
Speaker 1:You know I could go all night. Yeah, I change it up, but that one was just a big category.
Speaker 2:When I watch movies I'll hear like a song and I'm like man, who is that? Who is that? You know? Recently I got hooked on the movie the Accountant with Ben Affleck and John Berthel who plays the Punisher, and at the very end of the first movie there was a song played as Ben Affleck was driving away. And I'm like man, it sounds like some rustic backwoods, not like country, just like Canadian. Uh, the guy's gritty, like I don't even know how to explain this guy's voice and uh, I felt the music man and I'm like who's that, you know? But the guy's name is Sean roll roll and that song is called nothing left behind.
Speaker 2:And, uh, tell people to go tune that in. Or there's a real chill music man, s-y-m-l or s-m-y-l, I forget what the letters are. I always mix them up. It's like, uh, kind of like not sleep music, but it's like the next notch up, you know, just something that takes the edge off. And uh, uh, it's really that. I like shit that relaxes me, man, because work's already high, strong enough. Uh, of course heavy metal is good to just like get it out of your system, you know. But right, uh, just that's tragically hip. I always got them on like all the time, canadian band for people that don't know. I discovered them too late, like when they died, died, or one man died, yeah, but other than that man, that's basically, that's basically, and, and 80s, 80 ballad, 80s ballads, man, you know, foreigner, uh, poison, uh, I say poison, but they got like couple, couple good songs, man.
Speaker 3:You dig them, you know If you like street songs better than something that like is supposed to have all this artistic credibility. You know what I mean. I won't name anybody, you know, especially anybody who just had movies made about them, but you know.
Speaker 2:Well, okay, bret Michaels. He's coming to Crown Point, which is like literally down the street from me, and he's playing in the middle of the square in a little amphitheater man that seats probably about 200 people, if that, and they try to shove as many as they can in there. It's called Bulldog Park, in case you're trying to figure that one out, jim yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:I didn't know if it was where that wrestling.
Speaker 2:Uh, black label pro wrestling no, it's like, uh, it's like where the old high school used to be okay, I think it's elementary school.
Speaker 2:And then there's the track, and on the other side of the track is this amphitheater, man, okay, but a lot of people are playing there, like Elle King, you know. She popped in there last year, man, and you'd think like people were trying to escape Crown Point. Because, all you see, I'm trying to go to work but I'm just waiting for, like, all these people just to get out of my way so I can go to work. But I'm just waiting for, like, all these people just get out of my way so I can go to work. You know, the one time they had the the blues brothers, like, uh, impersonators there, and that caused a big scene and uh. But sometimes I wish the sign was a little bit or the light was a little bit longer, man, because sometimes you got the window open, man, and you hear the music and you're like man, I should be there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But if anybody out there is listening, you know, and you listening, I know you're out there listening to stuff other than us, uh, let let me know what's in your earbuds. And uh, if you're in another country, please let us know, because, like jim was talking about swish music in japanese, I mean, everybody deserves to be heard if you take the time to make your craft. And we may not even have heard of them unless people do word of mouth. And uh, because I don't even think they make like rock magazines, no more, like circus and all that do they?
Speaker 3:they might, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 2:I would never go anywhere that sells them anymore I mean, you got like back in the day, horror magazine. If you wanted a horror, to know about a horror movie, read Fangora magazine. If you wanted to know about rock and roll, you'd learn about Circus magazine.
Speaker 3:Or Wrestling Stone. Even they're like all gone man.
Speaker 1:Especially with AI coming up. With AI coming up, all that stuff's going to be like in the past. It's going to be going so fast. Now with all the advanced stuff coming out, you gotta grab onto something and just listen.
Speaker 2:Dude, right stuff there's some stuff coming out, man, that's gonna blow your guys's mind. It's called a hollow box and I really, really want this freaking box dude. Uh, so hopefully I'll have it within the next year, but it's like, uh, holograms, man, you could put like the actual person, like, say like, if I type drew barrymore in and I could put her in and she'll actually respond back to me oh her voice but it's a holo oh no, oh, no, okay, yes, yes, I have seen that.
Speaker 1:And it's amazing Scott's going to have his hologram club doll.
Speaker 2:But you could put a band right on your desk man and watch them perform and talk. Yeah, you know, and in that's pretty amazing and look full of beetles up.
Speaker 1:Have them do something well, the first thing I would do is I would make uh princess leia, like you know, like when they showed uh that when r2 show you too, yeah, he showed her like bending over and like putting the plans into him and stuff. That'd be the first thing I'd copy. I'd be like absolutely, and I would have her going, general Kenobi and talking to Ben Kenobi but they're not blue like.
Speaker 2:Princess Leia is like the bluish gray color. This is like, looks like a real photo of them, man, and they're like oh, you could make you could change it
Speaker 2:and yeah, you could tell it's whatever you wanted, yeah, but oh my god it's. And then, like I see actors doing it, uh, they got like the large hollow, like the life-size hollow boxes and where actors like, uh, do the video, they do the 3d scanner or whatever, and then they're somewhere else and people are like, oh, that looks real. And then the actor and some other, the person starts reacting or the the, the character that's in the box that they're looking at, starts talking to them like holy cow, look at the three of you, you don't need the pocket side one right.
Speaker 2:That's all I need, man. Let's start off low here, man.
Speaker 1:Simple pleasure, tell me again, marilyn Monroe, tell me again I think it was $3.99. That's it.
Speaker 2:I think it started at $3.99, which is a good deal. But that's a small one man, but it's kind of like the size of a character man but it's inside a damn box.
Speaker 1:Is it Macho man or is it Moss man?
Speaker 2:Mossel. Man, that's cool. Man, that's cool. I should keep this before I. Uh, before we started, I went out and bought this last week, freaking publisher dude. Yeah, I went to Crown Point Toys and found them. Get them, or I'm getting them. I can't go there Get them or I'm getting them.
Speaker 1:If I go there, I'm going to be spending. I can't.
Speaker 2:I took Keith, east of me and west of me about 10 minutes each side. Man, you got Crown Point Toys on one side and on the other side you got Closet Collectibles, collectibles, which, oh that blows away crown point toys, man really it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I've never been to the closet one.
Speaker 2:Yeah oh, dude, if you go there, you gotta go to my favorite barbecue place for next door. What's that? Just don't let people see you coming out of the closet, you know? Oh well, no, it's called Smokey Joe's Barbecue.
Speaker 3:I'm going to have to look for that closet.
Speaker 2:All right, guys, it's been great. Every time I say 30 minutes, it's never 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:I know it's been great. That's what the wife says.
Speaker 2:Being back with you. It's been great, my wife. What the wife says, being back with it's been great, my wife. She just gave up on me, but it's been great hanging out with you guys again for a short period of time, man.
Speaker 3:Absolutely, absolutely. Actually, I got one more. Stop, uh-oh, what the man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got one more, I figured I talked about like, pretty much established groups and I figure, if I'm gonna uh recommend one, you know, for mo and for everybody else, I got a nice, uh, breezy, you know, nice feeling, one bit of an ethereal feel. It's a girl named hazel english, and the song that I like the most is called never going home and, uh, like I said, it's real, pretty, uh, real, you know, ethereal, atmospheric, I think you'll, you'll be into it, scott, you know I mean, but, uh, I definitely would recommend check that one out. It's a nice summertime song and, uh, you know, easy on the ears, unless they were trying to melt the case off like the rock and roll does next time we get together.
Speaker 2:I'm even going to predict this what our next subject is, just so everybody knows before. What are you watching?
Speaker 1:okay, so let me just sum up. We could have these uh regularly, you know like I think, so I gotta catch up, like in about two months. What are we listening to into the or watching, yeah, yeah, what are you listening to now? Just like what's happening? Right, they came back. What's?
Speaker 3:happening now we're. I'm still going Listening to or watching yeah, what are you listening to now? Just like what's happening? Right, they came back.
Speaker 2:What's happening now I'm going to be doing the three on three. I got all the teams. Now I think we got like 16 teams and people are like come on, get with it. You know, yeah, dude.
Speaker 3:I was only like four. We should have been to do that. I won with us.
Speaker 1:I still feel bad for taking Keith's guy.
Speaker 3:I feel bad yeah, somebody was going to pick him. I should have let you have it. Oh, I like my team, I like my team.
Speaker 2:Gavin's team. Is you ready for this one? It's uh. It's uh Gavin's team. Is you ready for this one? It's R Kelly. Oh my God, you can see it right here Keith R Kelly, p Diddy, bill Cowby and Colonel Sanders. Wait, why did he throw?
Speaker 1:Colonelel sanders do. Yeah, don't throw colonel sanders with them colonel sanders.
Speaker 2:He, uh, he, he was uh when he first started the chicken business. He was a bad dude man, uh. But yeah, we got, we got all kinds of people. Man, somebody actually picked the damn uh, the golden girls here, man oh my gosh, uh, it's, yeah, it's, we got, we got all kinds of powers.
Speaker 2:Point three I'm just ready to go. Okay, yeah, I don't even know what it is, man. So we even got a team of uh, I don't know if you guys seen it, it's Elvis, jimi Hendrix, charles Bronson and Butterbean. Yep, oh, also also real fast Big.
Speaker 1:Diesel Diesel.
Speaker 2:He picked a team. He won gold medal. Awesome, no, no, from wrestling. He was in the special olympic tryouts. Okay, he, he dude, he meddled like kurt angle man, like all these medals on him last sunday or last saturday and in terror holt, that's the nationals. So now he actually gets to go to the Special Olympics in 2026 in Minnesota. So congratulations, big Ds.
Speaker 3:Wow, Congratulations, man. You're proud of you man, Congratulations man. Love that kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, he's a power lifter dude. But Jim, before we leave, man, people are just dying for some knowledge, for a quote okay just a saying what do you got?
Speaker 1:all right today. This episode's quote is you could have anything you want once you give up the belief that you can't have it yeah, it's kind of deep. It is what's stopping you, you know, instead of like you give up that belief.
Speaker 2:You yourself cause you to get or not get things, sometimes because you're like I can't do that, I can't do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, why?
Speaker 2:You know I'll never earn that much money. You know somebody else did, why can't you?
Speaker 1:Just because you were hardwired as a kid to believe and not believe stuff. You can make anything happen as long as you believe it.
Speaker 2:And if you believe in, like the lining of the moons and the stars and all that man, put it out there. Yeah, you know, a lot of people tell us to put it on a board and put it out in the universe.
Speaker 1:Just think of this, to put it on a board and put it out in the universe. So, just think of this believing in yourself.
Speaker 3:Believing in yourself is the reason that there is this podcast because Scott believed in himself to start it.
Speaker 2:That's right, and now I kind of fail it, but it'll be all good pretty soon, hopefully. So again, it'll be all good pretty soon, hopefully, uh. So again, if you guys want to talk about, or us to talk about, a subject other than political or religious, you can uh go to powerspointpodcast at yahoocom and the subject just put show idea, we'll get to it, you know, sooner than later. Uh, if you listen to some new music recommendations, again, put it in the in the subject line music, we'll see it. So, uh, you find us all, you find one of us, you'll find all of us, right, except for keith. He's like hiding, uh, he's off all the socials, he's off all the sit to the show now so, and we appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Everybody, have a good week and hopefully we will be back next week with uh where are you watching? So, from Keith and Jim and myself, y'all have a good one. Bye.
Speaker 3:Bye, bye, let the summer begin. Woo-hoo, woo-hoo.
Speaker 6:I carved my name in a borrowed sky With a hand too bruised to hold Made promises I couldn't keep In the bitter winds and cold. I left my mark on motel walls In a whiskey smoking time. If I had more to give, I'd give it all, but not what wasn't mine. There's a graveyard of good intentions at the bottom of this road where the lies, I told for comfort, sleeping coats I never wore. If I walk away with nothing but a scar and crooked spine, lord, let me leave a whisper of a better man behind. I've been a thief of quiet hearts and a friend when it was thin I wore regret like Sunday shoes, but I never let it in. I saw the truth in a mirror glass but turned the damn thing round. Some truths are best in silence. Some names don't want the sound.
Speaker 6:There's a graveyard of good intentions At the bottom of this road when the ghosts of who I wanted Hold the hands of who I told. If I walk away with nothing but a rusted piece of mine, lord, let me leave a whisper of a better man behind. Guitar solo. There's no gold in my confession, no redemption in the rhyme, but the dirt beneath my fingernails Is honest. Every time. There's a graveyard of good intentions, but I dug it with my hands. No choir sang, no roses bloomed, just the echo of a man. If I vanish with the sunrise and no stone marks where I lie, let me leave a whisper of a better man behind.
