Ever wondered how the 4th of July transformed into America's ultimate summer spectacle? Join us as we unpack the layers of history, tradition, and quirky celebrations that define Independence Day. From the jaw-dropping consumption of 150 million hot dogs to the billion-dollar firework displays, we explore the fun and fascinating facts that make this holiday so uniquely American. We’ll also delve into the historical milestones, like the timeline of the Declaration of Independence and the remarkable coincidences surrounding the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Get ready for a whirlwind tour of some of the most unique 4th of July traditions across the United States. Ever heard of Maine’s lobster races or San Diego’s marshmallow fights? We cover it all, including Alameda, California’s longest parade and why hosting a barbecue in Massachusetts might just break the bank. Food lovers, you won't want to miss our discussion on the rarity and expense of authentic Kobe beef. Plus, we sprinkle in some fun historical trivia about Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, and even share our own plans for the holiday.
But that's not all—we also tackle the controversial topic of tipping in America. Discover its unsettling roots in indentured servitude and slavery, and ponder the ethical implications it holds today. We dive into global perspectives on tipping and highlight a politician who ran on an anti-tipping platform. As we wrap things up, we share updates on our latest projects and collaborations, including mastering "Beyond the Static" and the works of Eli One. Tune in for a fun, informative, and heartfelt episode, and remember to celebrate safely!
Ever wondered how the 4th of July transformed into America's ultimate summer spectacle? Join us as we unpack the layers of history, tradition, and quirky celebrations that define Independence Day. From the jaw-dropping consumption of 150 million hot dogs to the billion-dollar firework displays, we explore the fun and fascinating facts that make this holiday so uniquely American. We’ll also delve into the historical milestones, like the timeline of the Declaration of Independence and the remarkable coincidences surrounding the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Get ready for a whirlwind tour of some of the most unique 4th of July traditions across the United States. Ever heard of Maine’s lobster races or San Diego’s marshmallow fights? We cover it all, including Alameda, California’s longest parade and why hosting a barbecue in Massachusetts might just break the bank. Food lovers, you won't want to miss our discussion on the rarity and expense of authentic Kobe beef. Plus, we sprinkle in some fun historical trivia about Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, and even share our own plans for the holiday.
But that's not all—we also tackle the controversial topic of tipping in America. Discover its unsettling roots in indentured servitude and slavery, and ponder the ethical implications it holds today. We dive into global perspectives on tipping and highlight a politician who ran on an anti-tipping platform. As we wrap things up, we share updates on our latest projects and collaborations, including mastering "Beyond the Static" and the works of Eli One. Tune in for a fun, informative, and heartfelt episode, and remember to celebrate safely!
Oh, hey, bro, I got some hot dogs, Some processed some hot dogs from Albertsons or wherever area you are, winco, safeway, stuff like that. But I got hot dogs for the 4th of July, bro, and I feel like we get those and barbecue sauce together and that's all America needs, my friend, that's it.
Speaker 1:
Are you in? Well, and then the billion dollars that will be spent on fireworks over one billion, Holy shit, I mean that's strictly on fireworks. Speaking of hot dogs, on the 4th of July Americans will consume roughly 150 million hot dogs Nice, which contributes to the roughly 7 billion consumed in the summer months in America. Go America.
Speaker 2:
America. Yeah, these are all fun facts, guys, about America, because 4th of July, me and Owen sit on either side of the fence, so let's not worry about our opinions. Really, I guess, I don't know. I think that America's still a pretty cool place to live and 4th of July is just something to talk about, right?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and I feel that most are aware to some degree that it is not. It was not signed on July 4th, but July 2nd, and then the Declaration was published on July 4th.
Speaker 2:
Right, that's the celebration of Thus yeah, also fun fact. Well, I don't know Depends on your definition of fun, owen McMichael, but on July 4th 1826, former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who were once fellow patriots and then adversaries, die on the same day, within five hours of each other.
Speaker 1:
I did see that the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, thanks for getting deep, bro. I think we're in sync. We took a hiatus, but you know what does RZA do? That, bobby Digital. Yeah.
Speaker 1:
We've been lots of stuff going on, a lot of business, and it's been rather time-consuming. So thanks for bearing with us Podcast Land. We'll be back at it in full force.
Speaker 2:
Right, I popped in Billings. That was, I don't know, yeah Weird. It was weird. I was up there on the north side. I rolled past the Shanty Flex going down to Cold Smoke. Speaking of Cold Smoke, it's the shit guys, it's on the north side, kind of right. What's the address? Again, if you're in Billings, 1802 First Avenue.
Speaker 2:
North. Yeah, you can come see Boogie. He's a celebrity. That's the dog, the Pete Bull Lynch or Boogie Bear, whichever you call him, whatever you want, colonel. It's cool Colonel because he's patriotic-ish, like he is blue, there's no red and white around, but nonetheless he is a colonel and he celebrates, you know, the 4th with hot dog eating, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:
But we will not dress him with the flag. As we touched on in our Flag Day episode that it is considered desecration to wear part of the flag on any item of clothing, which makes those at rodeos throughout the oh my God, I know right and quite perplexed. I bet they're trying to support the team. Yeah, actually being disrespectful.
Speaker 2:
That's pretty fucked up man. So Walmart Well, china, you're breaking lots of rules with Walmart there. Okay, guys, there's always lots of American flag stuff around this time, dang, that is one of the weirdest. I guess, probably in other countries where, uh, you know, their regime is pretty strict and they're worried about, worried about people like impersonating maybe an official or something I guess would be possible. Why that would be a law, but they should probably tighten up their definition, right, I would, yeah, yeah, I mean, it's just something I'm thinking Just off the top of my head. That's how I feel right now, guys, I don't know you already took one of mine, so I'm just not even going to fucking entertain the fact, but I thought that was interesting how it was signed on the second, and then I guess you could think about it as it was delivered to the people on the fourth right, sort of?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it was published, so the declaration was Right. And then did you see that Charles Thompson and John Hancock were the only two that signed on July 4th? The remaining 54 delegates would sign the next month.
Speaker 2:
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I did see that, but I did not read it. The first Fourth of July event at the White House took place in 1801. Thomas Jefferson was president and, according to the White House Association, the day was filled with music, food and even horse racing. Okay, so they didn't explain much and I didn't look further. But 1801, oops, shit, hit my microphone. Guys, it's not a firework, everything's cool.
Speaker 1:
And then it was not deemed a national holiday until 1870, so nearly a full century after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2:
Oh, wow, yeah, that's a pretty interesting thing. I guess we weren't as together as a nation as people would like to think. You know, which I feel like is kind of Remember, we were having a conversation sometimes about Italy and shit and how they have, like man, the best resources, tourists, all these things. You know what I mean, but they can't quite get their shit together, get their economy right. We, all these things, you know what I mean, but they can't quite get their shit together, get their economy right.
Speaker 2:
We're looking at you, italy, and not you, the people you're, you're great, it's your government, that's what we're talking about here. But, um, you know, think about it as, like you know, they're a bunch of city states that you know, because italy is actually relatively new country. You know I'm saying so. We were colonies. You know, like in the Liberty Bell they still, descendants of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, still ring the Liberty Bell 13 times representing the 13 colonies. You know they're still really proud of that shit over there. Yeah, you know so it's very separatist in a way. It's like you know, original American identity was your state Kinda. You know what I'm saying. It wasn't so much America was a thing, but it was very localized and we were isolationists as a country for quite a while, I feel until World War II or I, I don't know, don't quote me on that shit. I'm kind of high guys. Thank you somewhere, pdx, if you want some good weed.
Speaker 1:
I did see the fireworks go back to the first anniversary of the 4th of July. John Adams, who assumed that it would be held on the 2nd, wrote a letter to his wife, abigail, stating he wanted Independence Day to be celebrated with pomp, parade shows and illuminations.
Speaker 2:
Hmm.
Speaker 1:
That's fantastic, and I can't say that I've ever intended to celebrate with pomp. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
It's a cool word Pomp's fun. You sound a bit pompous, yeah. So the population of the US was about 2.5 million in 1776.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's pretty good A little bigger now?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, just a bit, just a bit A tad. Yeah, a little bigger now. Yeah, just a bit Just a tad. Yeah, a tad A hair. Did you cut anything else? A smidgen?
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, and of the $1 billion spent on fireworks, only 10% is spent on professional demonstrations. Oh wow, and thus they stated that most of these were males. And thus they stated that most of these were males. Nearly 13,000 people a year visit the ER due to fireworks-related accidents.
Speaker 2:
Man, I am surprised, Growing up by reservations, that I never blew up my hands or anything like that. Very fortunate I had some close calls trying to blow up like toy cars and shit and do weird shit like that. I remember one time I found a pill bottle, like outside somewhere, and I fucking put a firecracker in it when I was at no grade school. A stupid fucking idea, mind you, because that shit shot everywhere it it. That was probably the closest call I ever had to get injured. Um, we did. Oh my, we used to have bottle rocket wars and um, or Roman candle wars you know the ones you hold and it shoots like a ball of flame.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I've heard of people doing that. That's insanity, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Rob, friend of the show, thumped him right in the chest as one. It was pretty rugged. I didn't mean to, kinda, didn't mean to. I mean you try to hit each other but you're not trying to like maim each other but you're not trying to like maim each other. I guess that doesn't make much sense considering what we were doing. Yeah, um, hey, check this out. You know that was back when we were young and, uh, back when the Declaration of Independence was signed, the youngest signee or signer, I'm unsure just was 26 years old, owen Did you know that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, there were two of them, weren't there. One was somebody Lynch.
Speaker 2:
Jr. Hmm, I see one. It was Edward Rutledge or something like that. Rutledge, south Carolina, yeah, who was a founding father and former governor of South Carolina.
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I don't see another fellow, hmm, hmm. Yeah, I don't know Sketchy records Google fellow.
Speaker 1:
Hmm, yeah, I don't know. Sketchy records, google, and we're all aware of the hot dog eating competition at Coney Island, of course, oh, wow, okay, let's go. But less famous are lobster races in Bar Harbor, maine, and they don't go very quickly, people. So be patient. And and one hitting close to home. They grew up about 90 miles away, not quite, but a little over an hour's drive. It's not terrible traffic and it's 10 hours. In Ocean Beach, a particularly mellow neighborhood of the laid-back city of San Diego, there's a tradition of a marshmallow fight. Huh, all right, and I guess it began when two local families jokingly tossed marshmallows at one another in the 1980s following a neighborhood barbecue. And it grew and grew in popularity to the point where it was like such a mess that they've had to kind of, as somebody puts, mallow it out. Oh my God, that's so bad, but it sounds like I mean I would again. It's kind of like the wheel of cheese thing, like I would not want a wheel of cheese race down the hill.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I would be a spectator, not a participant. I don't want to be in the hot summer sun coated in like collagen sugar fluff, but it'd be funny to watch people do it Right for sure?
Speaker 2:
Hey, you know, in California they also have the longest 4th of July parade in Alameda. Really, according to the town's website, the route spans 3.3 miles. It takes folks about two hours to complete, so I don't think it's probably not cruising through the ghetto or nothing. They probably got a lot of trees. Nice little route.
Speaker 1:
You know, just saying. It doesn't go through East Oakland.
Speaker 2:
Blood? No, it does not. Massachusetts is the most expensive state for barbecue Weird To get ingredients to host 10 people it's around $127. According to the most expensive state for barbecue Weird To get ingredients to host 10 people it's around $127, according to the most recently available data. Fuck you, massachusetts. What's going on there?
Speaker 1:
Honestly, that seems cheap because I'd be doing like bison, tenderloin and yeah, but they're just eating hot dogs. Yeah, that's an expensive hot dog.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, bro, that is. That's like a Wagyu beef hot dog, right? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1:
Maybe it probably is. Somebody's definitely going to tell you that that's a thing. It's been popular to call things Kobe burgers, which no chef in their right mind. Well, I mean, anyway, you're not getting a Kobe burger people. Anyone that's telling you that they're full of shit. There are nine places in the United States that actually serve Kobe beef and none of it is ground up and put between slices of bread.
Speaker 2:
No, this is not. These people like right, they like massage the cattle.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's like a fraction of a percent of cattle in the world that are like the A5 Japanese Wagyu. That's crazy. I'm such a food dork. I haven't even tried this, partially because the one place I saw it for sale, three ounces was $250.
Speaker 2:
Oh my heavens to Betsy.
Speaker 1:
So I mean we're talking like well over a G for me to get full with my high ass.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's for real, bro. Check it though. Betsy Ross and Paul Revere shared a birthday. Okay, Just saying Ross, who is credited with sewing the first American flag, and Revere, who worn. Samuel Adams, the beer maker, apparently, and John Hancock, the British were coming. We were both born on New Year's Day.
Speaker 1:
Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's pretty cool man. Way to go, guys. Way to be born. Thank you, nice work, yeah, well played. Yeah, that's how that goes. Um, I don't know, bro, you know what? What are you going to? What's your plans for the 4th of July? Just out of curiosity.
Speaker 1:
I think it's like a Thursday, so I'll just be at the shop but I'll probably probably cook up some less traditional fare than hot dogs, yeah, and then I think we may do a little event. I've got to talk to our good friend, friend of the show, jason Biso. He plans music. Yeah, live music. He's doing a little cookout, yeah, just celebrating the fact that this is a wonderful country. It has lots of problems, as most of them do, but, as a moral technique would say, I love the place I live. I hate the people in charge, but I like to focus more on the love than the hate. And that's not a political statement. I'm not on either party. I just don't like all the rich people running the show for us peasants.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that is not cool bros, yeah.
Speaker 1:
No Faulty, faulty government. Yeah, what's up with that, guys? Come on, we need to support the Constitution.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yep, constitution.
Speaker 1:
What a douche way to say that. Have you seen that video? It's like JT and Chad. Oh, you told me about it.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's what he refers to as the Constitution. Will you explain it for Podcastlandia real quick?
Speaker 1:
It's these guys that go around and it's I mean, it's hilarious. The best one I saw was they're at the University of Delaware, and it was when COVID was really hitting and they were restricting parties, and so Chad and JT were lobbying at a city council meeting to have the party ban lifted, and yeah, he says not to get all lawyer-y on you, but the Constitution is definitely something to that effect and it's hilarious.
Speaker 2:
They're like bros in Hawaiian shit yeah total bros.
Speaker 1:
He says we come from a land called SoCal.
Speaker 2:
Oh nice.
Speaker 1:
Okay, see, that puts it in perspective, and yeah it's Delaware and he says like welcome, I was not aware Delaware had become the 51st state and somebody on the panel's like first state dude, oh no, yeah, it's funny because, yeah, they were Upset. Yeah definitely check it out. I don't know what to even look up, but it is Chad and JT. They do a bunch of them. Some of them weren't so amusing I didn't think.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I've seen a couple that weren't.
Speaker 1:
But that one was pure priceless yeah that was the first one I saw, which is some of it, but it really is. Yeah, it's something. So sorry for the tangent, but anything to mention the Constitution.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, no, that was a valid point though, man, because we do forget a lot of things, like you know. If we were in fucking Russia right now, they would like the government would probably try to like kill us for even talking about their constitutional agreement, of sorts, whatever they got going on over there, you know. So that's kind of cool, I mean, that's a start.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, no, I'm definitely grateful for it. And again, again, I cannot emphasize enough that every man and woman that served this country I have the utmost respect for, and they're they're who are worth celebrating more than anything. I feel like long before we were around it was a little long after we're gone, it it was a little Right Long after we're gone.
Speaker 2:
It's much respect. Oh yeah, there we are. I like that statement. Another thing I'd like to point out is they're not having any pride parades in China, guys, all right. Anyway, the Pennsylvania Evening Post was the first newspaper to print a declaration. It came out in the newspaper.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it came out in the newspaper on July 6, 1776, for everyone to see. So you know, that's pretty quick, I guess, thinking about the times, although a fax machine did exist, right, owen? Yeah, isn't that weird, what the fuck? So a local printer named John Dunlap produced copies of the Declaration's manuscript, man speaking of which, on the 4th of July, bro, I'm going to fucking. I think I'm going to probably do some steaks, maybe shish kebabs or something like that, I was just thinking and I'm also going to be sipping on some delicious hop water.
Speaker 1:
Nice.
Speaker 2:
You know it's a great like. I don't know. Right now I'm drinking a blood orange one. These things are fucking good man.
Speaker 1:
I actually had a black cherry one earlier. Really, I just put it up the shop, oh dang Now available at Cold Smoke. Incidentally, yeah, it's a man, it's not a shameless plug. Cold actually does like them. Oh, I love them, got me hip to them.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, for sure, I'm all about pushing the non-alcoholic drinks and this is by far my favorite so far. Like I wish this shit would have been around back in the day when I got out of prison and I was going through all the probation stuff, because, holy shit, did that suck. You can't like do anything. And then later on you know, and now I don't drink and all that stuff, I and all that stuff. I smoke weed but I don't drink, you know, and just it is kind of cool to be in a social situation. You're drinking a hop water and you do it. Your mood's like elevated and I get kind of giggly guys. Fuck, I don't even know, just saying, but yeah, these are freaking good, I love them.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, they are tasty and it's not intoxicating whatsoever, but it is just kind of like a good feeling.
Speaker 2:
Right, you could drink like three of these and drive. You can drive while you're drinking one of these. You know what I'm saying. Wow, that's something to be said. America, you know what guys. You're all right. Okay, let's just settle down. Let's enjoy this barbecue season and summer and thank God we're not stuck inside from the whole COVID thing. Pretty grateful for that. What else are we grateful for, owen? Anything else? I think we need that shit. What are you grateful for? Let me know, all in America stuff I don't know.
Speaker 1:
All my people you very much included my brother and my dog, food, sunlight, the river. I could go on and on, lots of stuff.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
It's getting more important and easier to be grateful for things in my old age.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it is when you're not all like fucking wound up and stressed out trying to keep up with the Joneses. You know? Hey, you want to know a fun fact about America that I learned recently and I know that you know about this slightly America is one of the only countries in the world that tips Right.
Speaker 1:
Ah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, okay, so like you told me about this from your travels abroad, like in Italy and such, you know and all these things, how people get kind of almost like offended and shit.
Speaker 1:
Isn't that true? I didn't, the only one I asked about at the airport in Rome. I asked him. She said no. In Italy she said I really appreciate it, but here it's weird, we don't. She spoke perfect English. I felt like a numbskull. You know, everybody speaks English now being able to say prosciutto di Parma, and that's about it.
Speaker 1:
But then, yeah, speaking of Lombretta and Caterina who live over there, they live in the north, but we were going to Sicily and they said that it's sort of like it is kind of an insult, it's you know, I make enough money, the owners don't? They want to pay as little as they possibly can, right, and then inflate prices like, oh, we have to pay them this much now, and so here it is kind of like a for many decades, as I understand it waiting staff, like they relied on tips. Yeah, they were not going to make rent. If and I've heard people go I can't afford to, da, da, da, and it's like, then you can't afford to go out and eat, and it is. This whole like titflation thing is utterly ridiculous yeah I don't um at all.
Speaker 1:
I mean, at a restaurant I'm, if they do a good job, like 20, which is kind of high, I guess, but now it seems as though people are expecting like 50. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm just not going to do that, right, just not going to do it, yeah, and most of them don't even fucking look at you or do anything.
Speaker 2:
Anyway, you know I'm not going to get into that. That's a whole different deal. So here's the deal, guys. Like, tipping in America is actually a holdover from slavery. That's why it exists.
Speaker 2:
Basically, what it was is tipping came about from indentured servitude and stuff back in England and all these things. But these people still needed cash to get by, right, even though they had kind of sold themselves into labor for a purpose or whatever, they still had to like make a little bit of money. So Parliament drafted a law that said that, hey, you guys got to like chuck in some change sometimes to keep them floating. So basically, when these people were slaves in England white people, mind you they would fucking throw them bucks. But anyway, the idea came over from said area, because you know that practice was still common for quite a while and it did happen over here too. It was just a fucking thing, guys. Then, when slavery came to an end, right, the only jobs that people would allow black people to have basically were service jobs, and there was no minimum wage type deal. And so then basically, how they would even get their jobs is they would almost 100% work for tips.
Speaker 2:
And that's where wow, yeah, and that's where tipping became commonplace, right? So the other end of that stick is, if you were white, it was a disrespectful thing to receive a tip for doing your job. Because not only was it a disrespect to you, because you were like, hey, what do you think? I don't make enough fucking money, dude, what the fuck is you know charity? I'm not a hobo, right, then two, also, as an employer, if you can't pay your uh people, your employees, enough to make a decent wage, you were. It was frowned upon like what kind of business? You were, like a slum business guy. You know what I'm saying? Um, right, right, so, um, but yeah, that's what it was. And then so it became a thing that that allowed black people to work without getting paid very much for a long period of time, and so it is a slavery holdover, holdover. That's exactly what it is. There's a lot more to it.
Speaker 2:
But there was actually a politician, uh, who ran. It was running for office somewhere. Fuck, I wish I would have paid more attention. Can't remember the name or the state, guys, sorry, but if you look this up I'm sure it'll come up. But his whole platform was I don't tip, like his thing, and he like that's how he ran for office was like a non-tipping platform to make it illegal to tip, basically because he thought it's like insulting and then people were allowed to get away with shady business dealings.
Speaker 2:
So if you don't tip, guys, sorry for the people in the industry, but if we were all just like, you know what, I don't feel like fucking tipping, unless you do something like goddamn amazing, right. Or if, like, you go to a place where they're performing like or something like a mariachi band, you know I kind of get that and uh, but other than that, even I don't know Like. But if we were all to just say fuck that, then the culture would have to change to how the rest of the world operates. You know, I don't know. I guess if you go to third world countries, though, they'll fucking take anything you give them.
Speaker 1:
So Shit, oh shit. I mean I'm doing okay, but someone tips me a dollar, I'm grateful and take it. I'm not insulted. Yeah, but I've also worked in the service industry.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, I mean you know, and I do get it, but, like, my point of the matter is that America, we're like one of the only countries that tips. I don't know about Canada, I guess, but they probably do because they're our hat. I don't know. Canada surprises me. There's a lot of things that they do as a government actually that I don't mind so often, and then there's a lot of fucking really nasty shit, obviously with the indigenous.
Speaker 1:
They're weird. They're forever stained with the fact that Drake is Canadian, so we'll leave that alone.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, that's it, man. No shit. Oh my God, like if I don't even I know this is like everybody's already talking about this shit, but Kendrick Lamar just murdered Drake Like that was pretty fun. I'm not even like into all that shit that much. I hate Drake's music.
Speaker 1:
He is garbage guys. I don't know. I have not heard more than like shit on a Sprite commercial. And that was enough for me yeah that was like 15 years ago or something, but Right yeah.
Speaker 2:
No.
Speaker 1:
No, no, not my cup of tea. No, I did hear. Rakim has an album, I think, with oh, that's coming, isn't it?
Speaker 2:
That's a killer and I don't know, but I seen something on it. You're correct. Rakim's coming back with something. He was just here in Portland not too long ago.
Speaker 1:
Damn Rakim's coming back with something. He was just here in Portland not too long ago. Damn, I did hear a little bit of he did one of those tiny desk music shows on NPR. I don't know if you've heard those. They're fucking amazing, they are.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, they're great. You need to get Pitt on one of those. Pitt and Brother Lynch need to do that. Yeah, there we go. Nonetheless, hey, speaking of music stuff coming out with a couple singles this month so I don't have the specific dates or anything, because I just kind of you know, I'm just crazy like that just do shit on the on the fly, you never know when coming left right, whatever. You know, it's probably why sometimes I'm not as successful as I could be, but nonetheless, two singles, uh, we've released in a doomsday productions track that we did a while ago, me and Pitney clips that's pretty cool, called suicide. You know it's pretty, you know it's, it's your typical. Uh, you know, doomsday production style music is all I'm going to say. And then the other one, um, that I'm coming out with is going to be called let's ride and it's being Spice One. So those are both coming this month.
Speaker 1:
Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and then there's some yeah, so blah. You know what I'm saying? I can't sorry Spice, I'm not doing a Spice One impression. I did a Corrupt, but man, I can't Spice One. Oh, that's who.
Speaker 1:
Corrupt yeah, it was Rakim Corrupt and Master Killer. Oh my god, I was like whoa, what a yeah. That's what I yeah. Alright, my mind. Just Koo-ee told me about it, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Koo-ee man. Oh my goodness. Um, I had some. It's called like fuck hella jelly, that's what it's called from somewhere.
Speaker 1:
Pretty fire guys. Speaking of the man, yeah, that's what I wanted to say. Well, now that we've Completely gone on a tangent From 4th of July To God knows what as we often do, we are it's Merga. I'm also grateful For all of you listening. And, yeah, me too, man, hell yeah To be back at it, cause yeah, I've. It's not as though I haven't wanted to Record or cold have, and it's just yeah, life gets in the way of podcast world sometimes.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I also mastered another man with no name. He's coming out with an album called Beyond the Static and I did do that too. I'm on there with I do a track with him and Eli One, which is, I believe he's on J-O-B Music, c-o-s's record label, which is also another Brother Lynch Hong affiliate and pretty badass in their own right. But, yeah, everybody should check out Eli 1 as well. So that's the thing More shit coming. What else we got? We got anything? We're just rambling. I don't even give a fuck 30 minutes. I don't think we're going to cut anything. So we're at 30 minutes. I suppose everybody out there don't blow your fucking fingers off. Right, right, guys, absolutely All right. Hey, yeah, much love everybody. Yes, try to be grateful.