- 4/22/2025
Chris Jericho has some great travel tips, reveals his favorite horror movie, and wants to come back to the MacGruber-verse.
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00:00New album from Fozzy is called Boombox. May 6th is when it is out. Lead singer of the band, Mr. Chris Jericho is here with us this morning.
00:10Can I just interject how much I'm terrified of sinkholes?
00:16What are we dealing with? You're just driving down the road and a hole just opens up in the road and boom, see you later.
00:22Where that sinkhole is, it's such a huge problem. There's been roads closed for years.
00:26Terrible. And I live in the area. I had to get sinkhole insurance.
00:30Yeah. It sucks. I had one in my yard one time for years. It sucked. And we kept filling the thing back up.
00:36And every now and then. That's where you know you have no chance. You're just walking on the street and a hole opens and you're gone.
00:41That's it. You're done. Your ticket has been punched.
00:44Did I think it was China or was people walking on a residential? You're right.
00:48I know. Life. Hey, we're walking along. Gone. Your number's up.
00:52Yeah. The earth literally swallowed you. Swallows you whole. That's why it's always good to have a new record coming up.
00:57You can feel better in case any sinkholes come up.
01:00May I say, you look very fit and trim, sir.
01:03Why, thank you, sir.
01:04Getting ready for this tour, did you get yourself in a physical position?
01:08I kind of wanted to lose a couple pounds. And it's one of those things where you lose a few and somebody says, hey, you're looking pretty good.
01:15And you're like, oh, maybe I'll continue to do that.
01:17And now, I think for the first time ever on stage, I don't have a shirt.
01:22I'm like Anthony Kiedis.
01:27Nice. Well, speaking of shirts, I noticed you're wearing a Stevie Nicks shirt this morning.
01:32She's awesome.
01:33Yeah, I'm a big Stevie Nicks fan.
01:36Still one of the greatest singers of all time.
01:38And as you get older and stay in the music biz longer and longer, you realize certain singers are unique and will never, ever be replicated.
01:47And Stevie's one of them.
01:48Chris, I'm going through the same thing.
01:49And I'm in a big Stevie Nicks mode now.
01:51Because also, writer, songwriter.
01:54I mean, the whole story, there's a story.
01:58I think it's the Dave Grohl, the recording studio documentary.
02:02Sun Studios, yeah.
02:02Right, right.
02:03And they talk about when Fleetwood Mac was forming, the current or the most current iteration.
02:10And Lindsey Buckingham, well, okay, I'll join, but you got to take my girlfriend.
02:13And he sort of begrudgingly said, whatever.
02:16Whatever.
02:16And then she became the hit machine for the band.
02:19And now she's at the point where she takes a stand where I'm not doing the band without Lindsey.
02:23And so now Lindsey's out of Fleetwood Mac.
02:25She got her revenge 50 years later.
02:28Steve and I love listening to the live record that they had out a few years ago called The Dance.
02:31And I was listening to it yesterday.
02:33And Stevie's voice is just unbelievable.
02:35But then you hear, like, Chrissy McPhee has a really pretty, nice voice.
02:39But sitting next to Stevie, it's unfair.
02:42No chance.
02:42It's like George Harrison in The Beatles.
02:44You're a great songwriter.
02:45You're a great singer.
02:46You're just in a band with the two best songwriters of all time.
02:49You don't have a chance.
02:50You said the same thing.
02:51The thing we love many things about, your commitment to, you know, to rock, to classics, not, you know, classic sounding rock band with the sort of anthemic thrust that you guys have.
03:04But it's, you know, remembering all the different career options that have been available to you.
03:09You've been in movies.
03:10You've written books.
03:11You've obviously your wrestling career.
03:13But does it still, at this point in your life, because I think music probably is your main passion.
03:19I'm going to have to guess that's your main passion.
03:21That this is still something that you're able to do and deliver at and be creative at at this point in your life.
03:26Well, I mean, both passions is equals wrestling and music.
03:31And it's always been that way since I was a kid.
03:33Has it?
03:33You know, and we've discussed this before when people say, so when did you decide you wanted to be in a band?
03:37And it's like the same time I decided I wanted to be a wrestler.
03:39When I was about 13 years old, my high school band was called Scimitar.
03:44And the T in Scimitar was a curved sword, like Sinbad the Sailor.
03:48That's what a Scimitar is.
03:49Mine was called Tyrant when I was in junior high.
03:51Really?
03:52There was like 50 tyrants.
03:54There was a tyrant in Winnipeg.
03:55There were tyrants everywhere.
03:57But so I've always had that goal and that dream.
04:01And even the song I Still Burn that you guys just played, it does relate back to those types of feelings of having this goal and having these dreams that you wanted to accomplish, these passions and getting knocked down and still getting back up again and making them happen.
04:17And that's kind of what we've all done in this room.
04:19Anybody can relate to that that's ever had a goal and a dream of something they wanted to accomplish.
04:23There's such a synergy between rock and wrestling.
04:25There really is.
04:26And so, I mean, one of the great things we talk about all the time when you, you know, I don't care who, how reticent someone is to go see a wrestling, like a WWE, like, and your stuff.
04:37AEW.
04:37AEW, too.
04:38Yeah.
04:38Any other stuff is just, you're going to be, you're going to be pulled in.
04:43And a lot of it is the sound and the rock and everything, the presentation there.
04:47There is that same energy.
04:48Well, it's all connecting with the audience.
04:50Yeah.
04:50That's, that's the secret of being a live performer and whether you're doing it in wrestling, like I do, or music, like I do, if you're a standup comedian, if you're a Shakespearean actor, whatever it may be, if you can connect with the audience and engage them with what you're doing, you'll always have fans.
05:06You'll always have them wanting to buy a ticket to come see you.
05:09And that's the true secret.
05:10When I started wrestling, I wanted to be the ultimate rock and roll front man in a wrestling ring.
05:15Like the Paul Stanley of wrestling or the Mick Jagger, the Dave Lee Roth.
05:18And then when wrestling, when the Chris Jericho character became more prominent using all of those techniques, I put them back into Fozzie.
05:26So it's all rock and roll based about being a great front man and making sure that people have a great time no matter what the situation is.
05:33You mentioned a few names there.
05:35And we had this music battle thing a little while, a few weeks ago here on MMR.
05:41And we were recruiting bands.
05:42And I had said that I wanted, I said the greatest front man of all time.
05:47And so we chose Queen and Freddie Mercury.
05:49And then our midday jock, Pierre's like, well, I beg to differ.
05:53Beg to differ?
05:54Would you choose Nick?
05:54And so he went with Mick Jagger, who he's considered the great.
05:59And I started to analyze a little bit of that.
06:01I'm like, well, why do I like Freddie Mercury a little bit more than I do Mick?
06:04Because Mick is probably one of the great, well, he is without question one of the greatest front men of all time.
06:08But he does the dance list party, let's have a good time.
06:11But Freddie was just basking in his glory.
06:14But let me weigh in on this, though.
06:15Two different styles.
06:16Let me weigh in on this, Preston.
06:17Here's the reason why Mick is the greatest front man of all time.
06:20And there is no other answer.
06:22But listen to my point, though.
06:25Because Mick, I just saw Mick in November in Atlanta.
06:27He's just as good now.
06:29And I'm not saying that, oh, he's good for 78.
06:31No.
06:32He is good for any era to this day.
06:35You are talking about their next tour.
06:37Think about this.
06:38Rolling Stones, 60.
06:41Yeah.
06:41You know what the 60 means?
06:42That's how long they've been a band.
06:44Yeah.
06:44I don't think anybody can ever beat that just because, I mean, Freddie was the greatest.
06:49But Freddie also passed away.
06:51He's let himself go.
06:52He's nothing but skin and bones.
06:54Too soon?
06:54Too soon?
06:55So I think I agree with what you're saying.
06:57But to me, Mick, the fact he's still doing it at the highest of levels, the longevity that the Stones have.
07:02And Mick also basks in his own glory as well.
07:04Trust me.
07:05The jackets he puts on constantly throughout the show is amazing.
07:08So I think just because of that longevity that he has, you can't really beat that.
07:13So what do you like to bring to the stage as far as a front man goes?
07:15I mean, like I said, it's just a real vibe of making sure that people have a great time.
07:20We have a lot of, anybody that's seen Fozzy knows.
07:23I mean, every time we play WMMR.
07:26The MMR.
07:26I mean, the secret is you want people engaged, chanting Fozzy, clapping, singing, jumping up and down.
07:33Whatever the tricks are, we use all of them.
07:36Because when people come to our gig, they know that they're going to be run through the ringer of entertainment and crowd involvement.
07:43And all that stuff is very important.
07:44People just want to be involved.
07:46They want to sing along.
07:47We were just having a discussion earlier about, there was a study that was done about why some people have an emotional connection at a concert and why they might have emotional outbursts, like crying and things like that.
07:57So I'm sure you have diehard fans and you'll see that in the crowd.
08:02What are you thinking?
08:03I mean, you may have seen it enough now where you're a little jaded to it.
08:06But when you see somebody who's having an emotional, you know, reaction to what you're doing on stage.
08:11I never get jaded to that.
08:12I meet people all the time and they burst out crying.
08:16And I think it's because, like, I know, like, I met, I met Hetfield for the first time, gosh, it was probably 15 years ago now.
08:25I had tears.
08:26And I'm a grown man.
08:28You can't believe it.
08:28You can't believe that you're actually seeing this guy up close and personal.
08:31Because music goes beyond just turning it on and, you know, banging your head or, you know, you put the top down, you drive.
08:38There's emotional connection.
08:39It helps you through.
08:41It's like, it's therapy.
08:42It helps you through terrible times.
08:44You know, there's songs that I listen to when my parents got separated and divorced when I was 16, 17, that I still hear it.
08:50It makes you feel good.
08:51And I think when you meet somebody like that in person or even, you know, for me, from the wrestling standpoint, when you've been in somebody's lives for a long time,
08:58you indirectly help people through the battles of their life.
09:03And I think you have to understand that when people see that, sometimes it is very emotional.
09:07People sometimes don't know what to say.
09:10And you might think, oh, that guy's being rude.
09:12That guy sure is quiet.
09:13They're nervous.
09:14They don't know what to do.
09:15They don't know how to react.
09:16And you just learn that after a while.
09:18And you just have to give people some slack and know it's okay if you don't know what to say.
09:22Because I don't know what to say if I ever meet, you know, Paul McCartney as well or whatever.
09:25Well, speaking of that, tie that into the fact now that people are loving to get back to concerts.
09:30And we were talking, you know, before you came on, and you're saying, like, you're getting, like, crazy levels of walk-ups now.
09:34Walk-ups, yeah.
09:34Which is, like, 35%.
09:36I mean, last night it was 35% walk-up, which anybody in the business knows is absolutely ridiculously crazy.
09:41Yeah.
09:41That's wild.
09:42It just means people are like, okay, can I go?
09:44Let's go.
09:44They're waiting.
09:45Yeah.
09:45They're waiting to see if there's any new, you know, if there's any murder hornets showing up.
09:49Those poor murder hornets really never got there, too.
09:52They never did.
09:53I feel bad for you.
09:54But, yeah, so the last week and the last couple days and the day of is just going through the roof, which has been great to see.
10:00Yeah, that's awesome.
10:01What happens on the day or the night when you show up at the show and you just, like, what do you do when you just don't feel it?
10:06And you need to get motivated, like, knowing that you need to put on a show because you had a rough night the night before or your voice isn't quite there yet.
10:12Like, how do you motivate yourself to get up every night and perform every night?
10:16Something that Dee Snider said years ago always resonates with me.
10:20It's like you might feel like crap and you might not feel it or you might not be happy or you might not have a good mood, but you have to equate.
10:26The people that show up to that gig, they've been waiting a month, two months, a year, five years.
10:32Who knows how long it's been since they've been waiting to see Chris Jericho, waiting to see Fozzie, and they are excited, and they've had the babysitter, and they've got the parking, and they've got the ticket, and they've bought the shirt.
10:44Leave all that pretentious crap behind you and get out there and rock and make sure that people have a great time.
10:49I'm sorry if you had a bad day, Chris.
10:51I'm sorry if you stayed up until 6 in the morning drinking Grey Goose and listening to Iron Maiden.
10:55Suck it up, bitch.
10:56And put on a show.
10:58That's your job.
10:59No, great.
11:00I had a question.
11:01You guys played, you were in Delaware on Saturday.
11:04You played Poughkeepsie last night.
11:05You're playing, what, Virginia tonight?
11:07Leesburg, Virginia.
11:08Leesburg, Virginia tonight.
11:09So here's my question for you.
11:11That takes a special kind of person, and there are people who are good musicians and maybe want to do this for a living, but maybe can't handle that type of a schedule.
11:23Have you seen people that have gone in it with the best of intentions?
11:26I love music.
11:27I'm a good musician, but I can't do this, man.
11:30This is too much, you know?
11:31Yeah, being on the road isn't for everybody, you know?
11:34And for me, I've been on the road for 30 years, so it's just a way of life for me.
11:38That's what you do.
11:39Both your main occupations involve road travel.
11:41It's what you do.
11:42It's the way it is, so I don't see it the same as other people do.
11:45Like if you said, hey, Chris, they want you to come play in London tomorrow.
11:49You've got to leave tonight.
11:51You land at 7 a.m.
11:52You go through customs.
11:53You get to the gig.
11:54You sleep on the floor of the venue or the couch.
11:57Play the show and leave right after because you've got to be back in Philly the night after that.
12:01I say, sure, let's do it.
12:02Let's make it happen.
12:03So you think differently.
12:05It isn't easy.
12:06Being on the road isn't easy.
12:08And no matter what level it is, you know, we travel pretty nicely for our band.
12:14If you're in the Stones, you travel even more nice.
12:16It doesn't matter.
12:17It's still planes, trains, and automobiles.
12:19You know, it's still not your bed.
12:20So it does take a special type of person.
12:23That's why having longevity in show business is a rare thing because it is not for everybody.
12:27Do you ever get to stay in a hotel or is it just in the bus all the time?
12:29Yeah, we stay in the hotel quite often.
12:31How good are you with check-in, check-out, and being efficient and packing and all that stuff?
12:35I'm good with that.
12:36But the one thing that I have to do, I always text myself the room number.
12:40Yes.
12:41Yes, dude.
12:42The reason for that is because a lot of times if you check in from one hotel to the next,
12:47you don't know what room you're in.
12:49And you find yourself just on an elevator randomly.
12:53Or three.
12:54Yes.
12:54Here's the best.
12:56You go to the front desk.
12:57Excuse me, sir.
12:58Can you tell me what room I'm in?
12:59And they look at you like you're crazy.
13:00It's like, I have no idea what room I'm in.
13:02It's like the people that hired are going, did you know that Chris Jericho is the elevator operator here?
13:07He doesn't even know what room he's in.
13:09He's wasted.
13:10No, I'm not wasted.
13:10I just don't know what room I'm in.
13:12What are the best amenities to get in a hotel?
13:14You get in a room, you go, oh, they got robes, you know.
13:17I've never been a robe guy.
13:19Not a robe guy, yeah.
13:19It's always good to have the little liquid soap.
13:23It's nice.
13:23The body wash.
13:25Yeah.
13:25Because I throw that into my little toilet.
13:27Sometimes I have little dispensers in the shower.
13:30They do.
13:30I find that's a little bit ghetto.
13:32Okay.
13:32Because you never know.
13:33That soap could have been there for five years.
13:34Right.
13:36For me, though, the biggest one now is the coffee.
13:41I like the nice little coffee machines that come with either the little Keurig, little capsules,
13:46or the little bag, like the little bag of coffee.
13:50And you put it in there.
13:51Yeah.
13:51And I'm always like, you got to put the water in the back, but you got to put the right amount.
13:55If not, it just comes out, it fills the cup, and just keeps going.
13:58Yeah, yeah.
13:58And it makes a mess.
13:59So it becomes kind of a little bit of a challenge.
14:01Can I make a good cup of coffee in this hotel tonight?
14:05All right.
14:05Do you take advantage of the continental breakfast?
14:07I do not.
14:08Oh, you're okay.
14:09Yeah.
14:09I don't worry about the coffee.
14:10All I want is a coffee machine and an ice machine close to me where I can get some ice and have
14:16a drink after the show.
14:17And as long as I get that, I am fine.
14:19Awesome.
14:20That's all I need.
14:20If you're just tuning in, it's Chris Jericho from, of course, the band Fozzy.
14:24The new record is called Boombox, coming out on May 6th.
14:28What number album is this for you guys now?
14:30Like 15, something like that?
14:31It's actually number eight.
14:32Okay.
14:32I know you've been around for at least 15 years, right?
14:35We have been, yeah.
14:36And actually, this record, Judas, came out in 2017.
14:40So now we're going on five years between records.
14:42And that wasn't supposed to be the case.
14:44We were actually calling this album Chinese Fozocracy for a while.
14:48Do you want me to hit the 14-year mark?
14:50It took so long.
14:51Yeah.
14:51We started recording this in May of 2019.
14:55And then, of course, the pandemic came.
14:57And then we actually have had it finished, mixed, and mastered, and done for a year.
15:01But I didn't want to release a record.
15:03None of us did during kind of the last bits of lockdown.
15:06Can we do touring?
15:08Can we go to radio stations and be in studio?
15:12So now the timing is right.
15:13And May 6th is perfect.
15:14A number of musicians that sort of just sat on stuff.
15:17They had ready to go right at the beginning.
15:19I don't want to have this just be inert and not be able to support it and play it for people.
15:25I mean, ACDC's power-up record they put out last year is one of my favorite ACDC records ever.
15:30I think it's great.
15:31They still haven't toured on it.
15:33Listen, that's ACDC.
15:34They can do that.
15:35We didn't want to do that because we really love this record, Boombox.
15:38We believe in it.
15:39There's already two top ten singles from it with I Still Burn is out already as well.
15:43It's a different business model than the way it used to be before you'd put the record out
15:47and the single comes out the same day and then you've got six months to promote it.
15:51You can promote a record for five years now and just keep putting out content and singles as you go.
15:55And that's the smart way of doing it.
15:57Are you a band that composes on tour or do you have to come off tour and...
16:01Yeah, we've never been that way.
16:03Touring is touring.
16:04And I think, you know, Rich Ward writes a lot of riffs and kind of puts them in the riff bank.
16:08But as far as writing songs, we kind of tour and then write.
16:12But there is still a little bit of that, but usually when you're off in between legs of the tour, shall we say.
16:18In a nod to the title of the album, any chance that you, since it's Boombox,
16:22you guys are going to release this on cassette for old schools?
16:25That'd be a great idea.
16:25Right?
16:26Check this out.
16:26I just got this in the mail the other day.
16:28I get packages sometimes from different places and it was a package from Aerosmith.
16:32And I was like, oh, that's interesting.
16:33And they've just put out some kind of a record from 1971, like their original tracks or something.
16:40I can't remember what it was called, right from the start or something.
16:42And the package had the LP, a t-shirt, a cassette, and a cassette player.
16:48Oh!
16:49One of those old school cassette players that's, you know, about a foot long.
16:52And I was like, that's really smart.
16:54Yeah.
16:54So maybe we should do the same and put it on a cassette for people who have players.
16:57Were you a Max L or a TDK guy when you were...
16:59I liked the Max L because he could do a 90 minute.
17:02Yes.
17:02And I would make a 90 minute mixtape, 45 minutes a side.
17:06You could really stock it full of all your favorites.
17:09It's hilarious that that became sort of the retro.
17:12Cassettes have had their thing.
17:13Now 8-tracks become retro again.
17:15Well, check this out.
17:16So we were in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania the other day.
17:19And there was a record store there that was selling a bunch of cassettes.
17:23And in that basket or box of cassettes, there was random mixtapes that people had made.
17:30Oh, wow!
17:30And I told the guys, like, dude, I've got like 20 mixtapes.
17:34I'm going to send them all to you.
17:35Make Chris Jericho's mixtape.
17:37I think people would dig that.
17:40All right.
17:40I have to ask them.
17:41Okay.
17:41Mixtapes.
17:42Did you generate more mixtapes to get a girl or just to have your own specific...
17:47Well, because I would travel, like we mentioned, I've been traveling on the road since 91.
17:53So back in those days, you didn't have every single song ever written on your phone.
17:59Right.
17:59You would have to pick and choose.
18:01So I would make these long mixtapes to throw into my little box of, you could take 30 with
18:05you in a little suitcase.
18:07But if I made the mixtapes, I would put a lot of variety to it.
18:09So I would make them for myself.
18:10Okay.
18:11And the big one that I made was Ballad Salad.
18:13Yeah.
18:14Ballad Salad volumes one through five.
18:16And these were songs that like, they weren't ballads per se.
18:20They were songs that made me feel a certain way.
18:21Like if a chick dumped me or something.
18:23I remember Cold Shot by Stevie Ray Vaughan was on Ballad Salad.
18:26You listen to it, it makes you feel good.
18:29You're like, F this chick.
18:30It's her fault, not mine.
18:32She can't take it.
18:34Ballad Salad.
18:35I love that.
18:36Speaking of songs that you like, Marissa.
18:39There you go, by the way.
18:39Oh, yes.
18:40Cold Shot.
18:40There you go.
18:40Great song.
18:41What a riff, right?
18:42Oh, my God.
18:43Yeah.
18:43Just slow and dirty.
18:45Yeah.
18:45Love it.
18:46Stevie Ray was the man.
18:48He could be the greatest guitarist ever.
18:51He's up there.
18:51Once again, if he was still with us and was still able to create music, right?
18:55You know what?
18:56Marissa, speaking of songs that you like while you were in the hallway, she said that your
18:59ringtone or an alert went off on your phone and it was a Scorpions song.
19:03The Zoo.
19:04It was the Zoo.
19:05The Zoo.
19:05Excellent.
19:06My favorite Scorpions.
19:07The Scorpions could be, I look back at me as junior high, the Scorpions, and even though
19:13Eddie was the guitar god, I think the band that I air-guitared most to was the Scorpions.
19:19Scorpions, yeah.
19:20Like, the solo and Still Loving You and obviously Rocky Like a Hurricane and this one, I would
19:26just stand in front of a mirror and just rock out to it, man.
19:31This is a great riff, too.
19:34Super heavy.
19:35All chunky.
19:36You know, that's another thing.
19:38Like, we use, you mentioned the tricks that we use.
19:41There's a lot of Scorpions tricks that Fozzy uses on stage.
19:44Scorpions are still always really into the choreography and all four guys coming together
19:49and people love that stuff.
19:50Oh, doing the other?
19:52Yeah, yeah.
19:53That sort of stuff.
19:54But even just coming together at certain parts of the band.
19:57I love that.
19:57People love it.
19:58Yeah.
19:58And not a lot of bands do that.
20:00And that's one thing.
20:01What's old is new.
20:02Anything you can pull from a band like the Scorps, for example, it always works because
20:07we have a whole new generation of fans coming to see Fozzy that maybe don't even know who
20:11the Scorpions are or haven't seen the Scorpions or forget.
20:14And when you do those little things, it always stands out and people remember it.
20:18And if it's a subtle thing, it's like, that was cool when they did that thing when they
20:21all came together.
20:21Like, I used to love that with the Scorps.
20:23People can tell it's either you're bringing back nostalgic memories or it's the first
20:27time they've ever seen it.
20:27Yeah, it's just something that's cool.
20:29You got to be a fan of Steel Panther, right?
20:31Yeah, we've toured with Steel Panther quite a bit.
20:33Yeah, they're always, they're great guys too because they, Steel Panther was the end
20:38of the road for them.
20:39Yeah.
20:39They'd been around for years and they were like, listen, let's just do a fun project
20:43and kind of make fun of the 80s and here they are playing arenas.
20:46So they're not dicks in any way, shape, or form.
20:48No, they're great.
20:49Because they realize how lucky they are.
20:51And also they're a great rock and roll band.
20:52And they play great hooks.
20:54They're great guys.
20:55So it's always cool to hang with them and play with them.
20:57Will you guys, when you find something, and listen, you've, you know, the band's been
21:01together for a long time and you have your style and those moves that you know work.
21:05But will you, will you have like a little post show from time to time and go, man, that
21:09really, that's what we did really worked.
21:11Yeah.
21:11And sometimes you stumble on things.
21:13We used to have this big, long intro tape.
21:16It was like kind of a War Pigs Cross from 300, like an orchestral thing.
21:21It was about a minute and a half, two minutes long.
21:23And I remember just this last tour, we were playing a festival and you get, you know,
21:2740 minutes and you don't want to waste, you know, three minutes of it as, of an intro.
21:32So we just said, let's just walk on stage.
21:33It's like something Van Halen in 81.
21:35We'll come on stage and just, just like, oh, they're on, oh, they're on stage.
21:38Yeah.
21:39And it worked so well that we just do that now.
21:42We play Don't Stop Believin' as the intro.
21:44And as soon as Don't Stop Believin' is fading out, we just walk on stage.
21:47And it's one of those things that no one expects because there's always some kind of an intro.
21:51Yeah.
21:51And that's something like we, like you said, we just stumbled on it.
21:53It really worked.
21:54And we said, let's just keep that as part of our show.
21:56Once again, it's a super unique intro that no one uses.
21:59Just wander on stage.
22:00Here we are, guys.
22:01Nice.
22:01Are you ready?
22:02And boom, kick, kick into it.
22:03I love that stuff.
22:05Recently also, and Peter Gabriel did it a couple of years ago, and leaving the arena lights up.
22:11Right.
22:12So you're seeing everything.
22:13And it's kind of all those things when you're taking the time to change it up.
22:17Let's try this.
22:18The audience appreciates it.
22:20I think for the most part, they're like, hey, man, this is something different.
22:23And so when you go, as you said, you got the babysitter, you spent your money, you're going to do the deal.
22:27You're going to have a good time.
22:28There's so many bands, especially now everyone's out on the road touring again.
22:32Anything you can do that stands out and is unique is worth doing.
22:36Yeah.
22:36That's some advice.
22:37By the way, a number of people have texted in and would like to purchase Ballad Salad when that is available.
22:43I got something here.
22:45You never know, man.
22:46You never know with me.
22:47I think you do.
22:47I will market it.
22:48I love that idea.
22:49If there's a way to market it, I will market the damn thing.
22:51By the way, a text from somebody else who says, please tell Chris his what's your favorite horror movie interview with Dead Meat was awesome.
22:59What was that all about?
23:01Sleepaway Camp 2.
23:02Sleepaway Camp 2 with Bruce Springsteen's sister.
23:04You know it.
23:05Yeah.
23:05Pamela Springsteen.
23:06I love both of those.
23:08They're so one and two.
23:10Yeah.
23:10Yeah.
23:10But I don't want to give it away, the reveal, when you see it, and as the legend and lore goes.
23:16But she's wonderfully psychotic.
23:18Yeah.
23:18The second one, Pamela Springsteen, also starring Amelia Estevez's sister, Renee Estevez.
23:25There was another Estevez?
23:27Yeah.
23:27Oh, yeah.
23:27There's a third one.
23:28Absolutely.
23:29There's Charlie and Amelia.
23:30Charlie Sheen, Amelia, and a Renee Estevez.
23:32All right.
23:32Away from Sleepaway Camp 2.
23:34What's your second favorite?
23:36I think the greatest horror movie of all time is the original Halloween.
23:39It still gets me to this day.
23:41The suspense in that, the way it's written, the music, obviously, I don't think it gets much
23:46better than that.
23:46Although, if I had to face Halloween, it would be another John Carpenter, The Thing.
23:52The Thing is, again, so staggering.
23:55I love watching Guillermo del Toro talk about the first time he saw the thing in Mexico City,
24:01that they could not believe, as we all could.
24:03We could not believe what we were seeing.
24:04It's just amazing.
24:06I wanted to ask you as well, so, you know, we're huge MacGruber fans, Casey and I.
24:11Nice.
24:14Obviously, you blew up in a van in the first one, but have they contacted you?
24:19They contacted me to use some footage from the original, and I was like, just put, like,
24:24make Frank Korver's twin brother Hank Korver.
24:27Why not?
24:28Put me on the show.
24:29Come on, Forte.
24:30Come on, Yorma.
24:31That is a movie that is a cult favorite, shall we say.
24:36Oh, my God.
24:37I went to Saturday Night Live and saw the show, and they have an after party, and it was Halloween,
24:42and John Mayer came up to me dressed as a stormtrooper and started talking to me in some, like,
24:48really strange lines, and I realized he was quoting my part in MacGruver verbatim.
24:54It's his favorite movie of all time.
24:56That's how John Mayer and I became friends because of my five-minute part in MacGruver.
25:01It's hilarious, yeah.
25:02And it's funny how those things transcend.
25:04It's something that, and, you know, everyone involved in that, I'm sure it's just,
25:09it's an amazing sort of feather in your cap to have MacGruver.
25:12Yeah, it is.
25:13It's actually pretty funny to think about it because they said from the start,
25:17this movie's probably going to bomb in the theater, but in the long run, it'll be a cult classic,
25:22and that's what it is.
25:23Just renewed it, so they had one season on Peacock.
25:25Right.
25:25They're doing a second season.
25:26I'm still around.
25:27Come on.
25:28By the way, Hank Korver.
25:29With streaming services and the way, you know, people consume shows now, like Living on the Road,
25:36you guys can watch anything, anytime if you want to.
25:40Are there any band shows?
25:41Do you guys have any shows that you watch and talk about, or is everybody doing their own thing?
25:45We got into the movie, speaking of horror movies, the movie X that just came out by Ty West.
25:49Is it good?
25:50It's really creepy.
25:51Yeah, I want to check it out.
25:53Yeah, it's like a horror movie porno almost, but it just came out, I think, this week on demand.
25:58It's really good.
25:58They're making like a no-budget porn movie, and they...
26:02And there's a creepy husband and wife old people that live next door.
26:08This guy's on it, man.
26:08Your producer's already showing X here.
26:10Yeah, we got clips of it.
26:11Yeah, exactly.
26:12So, yeah, it's really cool.
26:14And so stuff like that.
26:15We don't really watch stuff as a band.
26:18We listen to a lot of music as a band.
26:20Okay.
26:21We really enjoy doing that.
26:21And you agree for the most part?
26:22We do, but there's a lot of different...
26:24Like, Rich loves 70s funk and 70s yacht rock.
26:29Our bass player, PJ, used to be in Trickster back in the day.
26:33Oh, no way, really?
26:33We listen to a lot of that late at night just to check it out.
26:36You know, we listen to a lot of new stuff, whatever's coming out.
26:39We've been really into the new Chili Peppers album.
26:41So, yeah, we just kind of put on music before the show, after the show, and hang out.
26:45And that's good fellowship time.
26:47Yeah, totally.
26:48I can imagine.
26:49Well, listen, you guys are on the road.
26:50You're headed out, but the album is coming out on May 6th.
26:53We want to make sure that everybody knows you can pre-order Boombox.
26:56Very cool.
26:56You can do that at fozzyrock.com, and I'm sure you can get it on other platforms, too.
27:00Yeah, we appreciate your support of I Still Burn, too.
27:03It was the number one most added song on rock radio in the States.
27:07And I always say this.
27:08I never realized how important rock radio still is until we started getting played on rock radio.
27:13It's the number one most important thing that drives our band.
27:16And it helped Judas go gold, and WMMR has always been a huge supporter of ours, and we thank you guys.
27:22Seriously, that's not just lip service.
27:24It's the truth.
27:24No, we appreciate it.
27:25And we know you're legit about that.
27:27We've had enough encounters.
27:28Gosh, I've been in here long.
27:29I've been in so many times.
27:31It's been good.
27:31It's the best.
27:32It is the best.
27:33It's been great.
27:33All right, well, listen, man.
27:34Good luck with everything.
27:36And we're so happy you're still killing it.
27:37Yes, we're excited when you invite us back to WMMR Fest.
27:40Yes.
27:41Absolutely.
27:41Barbecue, yeah.
27:42Barbecue.
27:42Last time we played with the struts, and it was awesome.
27:45So we're waiting.
27:46Give us a call.
27:47We will.
27:47We will.
27:48Fozzie, ladies and gentlemen.
27:49Chris Jericho.
27:50New album is Boombox.
27:52Get it today.
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