Uncle John's All Knowing Bathroom Reader Number 39 With Brian Boone

0:00It really is like going to Hulu or Netflix and you're trying to pick out which podcast you want to listen to. Well, what's the subject? Is it all level sports? Is it play by play action? Is it something our parents would say the daily mess beyond the calling foodie paradise? There's so much to choose from on arrow.net and you're invited to explore ARROE.net Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, ladies and gentlemen, Brian, how are you, man? Ooh, I'm great. How are you doing? Well, I'm fantastic and I got to tell you something. This new book, you're going to have to go ahead and we're all going to have to buy three and four copies because this right here looks really darn cool on my desk. And without even opening it, it looks like a really cool, fancy box. And it's like, I don't want to open this. It's too cool. Don't want to break that spine. Just keep it pristine and perfect. Tell me it doesn't look cool to you, dude, because I mean, come on. I mean, look at this thing. I mean, it looks like something that like a child's toy, but every adult loves a squeaky little yellow duck.

1:02I absolutely. It looks like you can just grab them right off of there and give them a squeeze. Yeah, it's a very vibrant one. You've got so much new information inside this book. And that's what I always love about sharing a conversation with you and diving into this because I mean, I mean, here's one that I swear I've never seen before. The hair metals greatest hits. I mean, we all know hair metal. A lot of bands today don't want hair metal, but they would like to play and have success like hair metal. And here you are with it right here in your book. Absolutely. I mean, everybody who says they didn't like hair metal like your lines. These songs were extremely catchy. We all loved them. And shut up. We loved it. You know, Nelson was a good band. I like Nelson. I very cool musical pace, but that I like Nelson. I like to learn. I like to poison. So yeah, no, just we like to look through the stories behind songs. And you know, we've got this one on the behind the hair metal. A cherry pile by warrant, you know, which you know, you've ride it as a very tacky song, but like they didn't really like it either. When they were making their their second album, their producer said they needed a, you know, they needed the

2:06single. And so they took inspiration from style like songs like Erasmus, Love and An Elevator, Death Leopard, Corse and Sugar on the and a leasinger J. Lane took 15 minutes to write cherry pie. And he wrote the first and only drafted the lyrics. A piece of box. The rest of the band hated the song, but they had no choice. It's a recorded. They could title track of their album. And it's old two billion copies and it was a number seven hit. Well, see, and the thing about it is though is that, you know, maybe it's because I'm just a radio guy, but I don't have any real memories of the song. I just know I just have what the video. I always go to the video. Whereas my mom and dad always talked about, well, that song brings up such and such memories. Blah blah blah blah blah. Man, that's the weirdest thing about what MTV did to the generation. Yeah, I mean, there's so many songs like that from like, you know, 80s into the 90s where you're you think of the song and you think of the video, you know, I think of blind melons that you think of the the vegan dancing or runaway runaway train by

3:08solace file. You can't you can't not think about that harrowing video with the with the flashing of the runaway kids up or virtual insanity with the with the floors moving and things like that or where all those great cards videos in the 80s that they are so linked to the videos and hair metal especially. What I love about your book is it should be required reading by every employee in America because everybody and every company is trying to get their employees to create engagement with anybody who is a guest and or possible client. And this book right here is a conversation starter. You do realize that right. I'd be absolutely hopeful like there's something primal and wonderful about Tridia. It's a great it's a great ice breaker. It's a great way to connect with other people just telling them like, you know, a fun factor and interesting story, you know, about this this shared world that we have together. It's a it's it's it's very nice to hear a fact from someone or tell a fact to someone. Well, here's one of the cool things about

4:08what you do. You are very much up to date. Now, give you a good example. I recently checked out Coyote versus Acme. This wasn't the only time that a movie didn't make it to a movie screen. You really do cover that in this book. We do. Yes. You know, the movies that never got made. You know, Batman versus Godzilla, you know, in the 60s with 60s, Adam West Batman. They were going to make this movie where Commissioner Gordon gets stuck in in a nearly killed in the title wave and leached by Godzilla. So they dispatch, you know, can't be Batman and Robin to go to defeat Godzilla. Yeah, do you have fun doing all this research because I mean, even when I do my rock star interviews and movie star interviews, I have a blast by digging in and locating. I don't want to call it dirt. It's content, but what do you what do you go through personally? It's got to be fun. Oh, it's it's an actual blood. It's the best job in the world. That's the thrill of discovery for me. That like I'm still finding stuff that I've never heard of. You know, we've got a big piece on

5:10the the ship that was the co-host of the today show in the 50s. Like I never knew that and I was giddy when I was reading the when I came across this story. I was giddy over like this is so absurd. This is so silly. This is going to make this is like a great article for the bathroom reader or David Lee Roth. You know, David Van Halen said David Lee Roth was going to make a movie in 1985 based on his own spirit. And it's when I when I discovered this like reading his is, you know, insane memoir that called crazy from the heat. But he's going to make this movie like just I get so you know, overwhelmed with Lee when I get to share this stuff. Wow. Please don't move. There's more with Brian Uncle John Boone coming up next. Then, David the book Uncle John's all-knowing bathroom reader, the 39th edition. We are back with Brian Uncle John Boone. One of the things that you cover is the fact that even though pickleball is really super important and we love it, love it, love it. The thing is though is that we still love our baseball as well. And you really do dive into baseball because there's a lot of armchair quarterback baseball fans out here. But you've

6:15got some really weird facts. And I bet you I'm going to start hearing a lot of them on these baseball games local as well as national. All right. Let's hope so. Yeah. I love baseball more for the trivia than I think I do actual baseball because there's so much lore. There's so much history. There's still many games that just weird stuff that's more like this happened. Like just the weird stuff like Hall of Fame or Craig Meezy over Houston Astras. Do you know what his record is? Hitting the wall. Close. He's the most being the player in baseball history. Oh my god. He tended to he tended to crowd the batter's box. Yep. So he's the single season leader five times and he got hit a career 285 times. Wow. Wow. So does that bring up the value of my Jose Conceco baseball card then? Absolutely does. You still got what I think I've got one. Oh yeah. Oh, he was like he was like my super god is what he was. And then as I continue to grow and loving

7:16baseball, I went into Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire. Look at all these fake people that did things to get headlines. Look at that. Look at that. I never liked Mark McGuire and Jose Conceco because into 80,000 Mariners fans and they always destroyed the mayor's every time I found play. So didn't care for them much. And once again with how up to date your book is in the 1940s, the big craze was steal homes. Guess what? Up the street in this forest, Jason the neighbor put in a steel roof while I was reading this book. Yes, sir. Wow. So I mean, I just think it's so fascinating that you talk about the 40s and it's going on right now in this generation. Wow. Yeah. I guess it's making to come back. Yes. It is. The restaurant homes, right? Yeah. They were everything was made of metal. You know, it costed that half as much as the wooden house because of this special porcelain coated steel that they made, based on tank parts. I know they had to shift gears after World War II for making tank parts.

8:19But they only ever built 2500, 1500 of them are still standing because they were just too extensive to build and they thought millions of people were going to be living in these but it didn't work out. Well, did they calm down on the building of the houses like during World War II because I know that they had to stop doing nylons and everything like that because all of a sudden the bullet factories and the bomb factories needed all that material. Yeah, but the thing with that is that once they were done making work goods, they had to retrofit the factories and that took millions of dollars and years of time. So like 10 million returning soldiers from World War II needed houses and they thought that they were going to live in these like they had a government contract to make like a million of them, but they couldn't find enough crews. They had a big backlog. It took two expensive, housing codes didn't permit steel. So they only ever got to run to building 2500 when they intended to build millions. What is it about the chimpanzee that it even made an appearance inside your book? I mean, it just seems like everybody loves a chimpanzee. I think they're very

9:24expressive. They're they're childlike. They're mischievous. We like them. I mean, one host of the today's show for five years and the 50s. That's still just bizarre to me. Andy only got thrown after he bit actress Martha Ray during an interview. But the today's show for five years was just and the sketch comedy show featuring a monkey. Like he'd parade around in this cute house that he'd he'd bang on a piano or they'd bring on another monkey. He'd be in a sketch like it's just absurd to me. Well, I just think it's really weird that I grew up during that generation when the monkey was on TV a lot. And so these days, I'll walk up to somebody and say, you're just being a monkey. They go, do you do you called me what? You called me what, dude? Yeah. And I mean, so it's like, well, no, no generational thing, generational thing. I swear to God, monkeys were cool at one time. It's what we call each other. Oh my God. Oh gosh. Dude, 10 minutes with you is never enough time. Where can people go to find out more about you? Uh, bathroom reader dot com. You can you can get everything you need there. We run new new content,

10:29exclusive content all the time. You can buy our old books. You can buy our new book, which is, which, you know, a street date of mid September. And then you can buy that book anywhere you buy your book. And then people have got to understand that these are not just normal books. I mean, like I was saying in the very beginning, this is a work of art. And I know that you had the box said here a couple of years ago, that was a work of art. You guys really do really put a lot of time and energy into it to make it a collector's edition. And it's very, very beautiful to put on display inside either your studio and or just a room in the house. I agree. It's a it's a lovely little thing. And you can split that up into any page at random. You'll find something to entertain yourself. Absolutely. You know, you can come back to this show anytime in the future, right, Brian? All bless you. It's always a pleasure to be here. Well, my God, you have yourself a brilliant day today. Okay. And you too, sir. Thank you.