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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, metal's my religion, and yeah, it's my dope. Standing in the thunder on stage in the pouring metal rain. What a feeling, baby, the lights are exploding.

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And I don't need my gun. Metal's my religion. Yeah, it's my toy. The safety problem of politics, baby. Metal's my religion.

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Hey everybody, this is George. And this is Buke. And we are on the road. We're currently on 495 South. We are heading for Richmond. We are going down to attend the Dave Brocky Odorous Yerungus Memorial on the day before Guar-B-Q. And we're on the road. We're on the road so far. We're avoiding all the traffic and everything, which is crazy for the D.C. metro area here. I don't know how we haven't hit any yet. But feeling pretty good, you know. Baby kept me up all night.

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any sleep personally. Yeah, it's a good thing he's the one driving and he's got no sleep. But yeah, we're happy. We're excited. It's almost like a guy's couple days here. That's right. It's going to be the party weekend. Bring on the brews. All right, we'll check in a little bit later. Yep, we'll check in later and let you know how everything's going. If we do hit any traffic or anything and just kind of get ready for like a hodgepodge little on-the-go kind of podcast here for our Gwarbecue 2014.

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Yep, we brought all our gear along, so hopefully we're going to do an actual podcast of some kind later tonight at the hotel after the memorial. So we'll talk to you then. Later. Here's another update from the road. We are now on 95 southbound, traveling at about 10 miles an hour. The traffic has arrived. Yes, it's in full swing right now. It's for those of you in other countries or other regions.

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regions or other parts, even here in the U.S., when you hear that or you say your traffic's bad and you guys move along at 35, 45 miles an hour, the D.C. metro area traffic that crawls along when there shouldn't be traffic. It's just ridiculous. I mean, L.A. is pretty bad, I hear, but I think we give them a run for their money. We're in the middle of nowhere on 95. I mean, you know, we've left the D.C. area. We're in the middle of nowhere.

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And for no apparent reason, I mean, it's Friday. Everybody may be heading out of town for the weekend or whatever, but it really doesn't matter when you do it. If you're on 95, you're pretty well fucked. Yeah, there's no accidents that we could see. There's no, yeah, there's construction on the shoulder, but there's no active construction that we're passing. There's nothing at all. It's just a major highway that's three lanes that you have to crawl along. So we, uh, crawl, we shall. It's, uh, 1115 now.

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We're still crawling along so we'll update you again to see if we make it through this traffic. Yeah luckily when you live in the area you learn the alternate routes so if this continues too much longer we're going to hop off the highway and take one of the two lane roads that parallels the highway and see how that works out. And you also learn the ability to sit in traffic like this and at least for me not having

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It sets you over the edge. You just kind of take it with it is what it is. Yeah, luckily, you know, we got good conversation. We're playing some cool music. We're checking out the promo for the new Opeth album right now. So, you know, it's all good. Yep, it's all good. All right, we'll check in later. Here we are again. We've been on the road for just about three hours now. It's 12.08. We are just passing the Quantico Marine Base, which means

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We are nowhere near Richmond yet. And we just finished listening to the new Opeth album. And I'm sorry to say, I think I have crushed Bukes' dreams. Okay, as a fan, Opeth's biggest fan. Everything in my life, I try and surround with Opeth. I have numerous posters in my living room. I don't even have pieces of art decorating my walls. Opeth posters. I live by Opeth.

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to finish highly, highly disappointed. You know, I had heard, you know, that they were changing and this was even going to be more of a departure for them. Well, from Heritage till this now, this is so 70s proggy rock that I can't even begin to describe the disappointment that I feel right now. All excitement that I had for this album is crushed. Honestly, it's

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Right now.

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If I buy this album, which I am, I already have it pre-ordered on vinyl.

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Me too.

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If I buy this album, I will obviously give it another listen.

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But I really have no eagerness to have to go back and listen to this album again.

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Oh, I feel so bad.

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It was going to happen eventually, though.

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He warned me.

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He warned me.

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He said, Buke, I heard it.

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You're not going to like it.

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Actually, I said I thought you'd like it, but only because you like Opeth no matter what. But apparently the threshold has been reached and breached. Oh, dear. Aside from the single that's out now, Cusp of Eternity, there was not one moment in there that stood back when I was like, man, that's really good. Nothing stands out that was really capturing me. So it'll be interesting to see the reception from everybody else. I've already seen it a couple places.

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in media that this may be album of the year already. Not. Yeah, if anybody's writing that, you're wrong. This is coming from, again, the diehard Opef fan. That is wrong. That is crazy talk. I'm just in shock right now from what I just heard. So, you know, the general mood of the road trip has now taken a turn for the worse. And as we've left 95 and now we're on Route 1 and we're still sitting in traffic.

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So, at this rate, we'll be lucky if we get to the memorial before it starts. You know, the way I want to describe the Opeth record is the traffic that we've been sitting in for the past two or three hours was for the violent car crash that we were stuck behind. That was the Opeth album. Yeah, the wreckage of Opeth. Yeah, the wreckage of Opeth is what held us up for the past two or three hours. So, not to try and make Buke happy again. I'm going to indulge him, and we're

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We're gonna listen to the Woven War album. Even though it's not my thing, he keeps saying how great it is. So we're gonna keep on driving and check out the Woven War album next. So we'll give you another update shortly and let you know where we're at and how everything's going. Yep. See you then. So we're about 38 miles outside of Richmond now. We're back on I-95 again and traffic's sporadically moving. We're getting up to some speed.

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But we're getting there. We're getting there. I'm starting to get excited. Really kind of guess what's going to be happening today. I know what is going to happen. Orys is going to go up in flames and they're going to send the character of him off. Viking funeral style. Viking funeral style. Do you have any thoughts on how it's going to be later? Well, I saw something about there being like

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a primal scream thing too, where basically, and maybe that's going to happen when they send it off, but I think a whole bunch of people screaming at the top of their lungs. Let down your war scream, huh? I think that'll be a fitting send-off for one of our favorite aliens, so we'll see. I don't know. I was worried we weren't going to make it there before the memorial started, but it's about 1.20 right now, and we're in theory within 40 minutes of Richmond, so hopefully we'll get there with enough lead time.

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that we can get parked and find our way to wherever it is we need to be. It's kind of, it just struck me, kind of a little odd that here we are going to watch the burning of a suit. Of a costume? Of a costume, you know? Yeah, well maybe they'll put it on a mannequin or something to fill it out a little bit or something. Here's a question that just came also. Is it going to be GWAR style? Is this going to go up in fire but then the corpse blows up and spews, spews,

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And guts everywhere. Who knows? Yeah, who knows with Guar, right? Will the cuttlefish be being consigned to flames as well? I didn't even think about that. You gotta save something. Yeah, I don't know. Is this the suit? Do you think if there was a metal, you know, like there's the rock and roll, the hard rock cafe, if there was a heavy metal cafe,

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Hello, Gwar Bar. Yeah, that's right. Wouldn't the suit be there, though? Yeah, well, I mean, maybe there'll be other... There must be other memorabilia that they'll have on display there, but... This is it? I guess so, yeah. Wow. Okay, so we'll update you as we're in the car driving there, probably as we're getting into Richmond, so... Yeah, we'll probably do another update once we get parked, because I would assume that they probably don't want us recording anything once we're in the memorial itself, but if we can, we will. Yep, everything's

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All right. See ya. Bye. Richmond, we are inside you. We have arrived. Finally. We are at the Hampton Inn near the airport. We're checked in. We are now prepping and getting ready to head over to the memorial and see what's going on. Yes, we have been already within minutes of pulling into the hotel. We've already seen easily 10, 15 GWAR fans already dressed all in their GWAR stuff.

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Yep, a lot of Guar people. We just talked to some people that came down from

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North of New York City. Left at 5 in the morning today.

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Yeah, they also got stuck in the 95 traffic, but we are here now, so we're going to go ahead over to the

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memorial and see what's going on. We'll check in after that. Yep, we'll be talking to you then.

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So we've arrived at the water park where the memorial's being held. I'm not entirely sure what's going on. There's a girl at the gate who didn't seem like she could be bothered to tell us what was going on.

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It seemed like she really knows what's going on either. She said that the memorial's at four, which we're like, yes, we're aware. We're kind of hoping to get parked and situated. And, you know, if there's a line or anything to get in, to get going with that. But we've pulled up. There's been no signage. There's just about six or seven cars just sitting around. Nobody has a damn clue what the hell's happening. There's some GWAR fans sitting around outside.

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into the gate and pulled off to the side. There's some other cars parked here. People keep pulling up at a rapid pace. Yeah, I don't know. And like a couple cars just kept on going. And so I don't know whether we should drive in further or what's going on. So I guess we're going to wait and see what happens. That's it. So we are now sitting here at the water park and we have the body, if you will, of Odor Sjöngis within our sights. He is floating upon his Viking raft.

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that will later be set aflame. And everybody's taking pictures of it. I heard one person say how incredibly emotional it was. What are you thinking? Well, I tell you, first off, I'm just amazed right now at the turnout of people. You know, it's not even four o'clock right now. And easily five, six hundred people here right now. Sixty percent of them wearing, you know, the Brocky Memorial shirts. And just the image of the odorous suit out there floating on the Viking raft is, obviously, that's not him, of course.

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But it's powerful. Yeah, and you know, I think if Dave's looking down, he's probably going, what's with all the flowers? That is way too pretty for me. You know, something as obscene as Odorous Hurongas surrounded with such flowers. It's both beautiful and slightly amusing. So what do you think of the site so far? It's interesting. It's not as big as I thought. It looks like a little family park. Well, yeah, I mean, that's what it is when it's not hosting an event like this. But yeah, we're

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sitting at a picnic bench under an umbrella next to the water by where the little raft is with Odorous. This is where we'll be hanging out tomorrow. There's already a stage with drum sets set up and everything. I don't know. Maybe Guar is actually going to play a little bit today as part of the memorial. Seems odd you would have things set up if you're not going to play. Yeah. And of course there's going to be Guar beer available so we can all get rowdy while we pay tribute. Yeah. A lot of people are starting to get here too. I'm just pulling away by that. Oh yeah. Look at that line now. Glad we got here when we did.

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What's striking me out right now, too, is it's an older crowd that we're seeing. I think it's a mix. I like the pink flamingos over there. Nice touch. And by that, I mean that was sarcasm. So there's, you know, the guar beer is going to be maybe a highlight. Yeah. But, yeah, we're new to this, you know, live stuff. If anybody here is checking us out on Mixler or you're listening to the podcast later. Yeah, we're recording both on Mixler and onto the phone for later mixdown. So that... Yeah, cut us a break, too. This is all new.

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We don't know if we're even allowed to be doing this. Yeah. Yeah. We're used to studio recording so this is a little bit of a learning curve so we'll see how it turns out. And as you know people walk by with various radios or badges or you know laminates. We go on the down low. We're like nope nope not recording anything here. Nothing just nothing's going on over here. Nobody here but us chickens. So far we're just waiting to see how everything plays out. Looks. Weather's nice.

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It's probably pushing upper 80s and the sky's blue. There's a few clouds, a few more than there were this morning. It was pretty cloudless this morning. How long would it say it ended up taking us to get here when all of a sudden we left it? Like 9.30. It had to be at least five hours. Yeah. Yep. It's ridiculous. It didn't used to take this long to get down here. I mean, usually from where we are in Maryland, you get to Fredericksburg, Virginia in an hour and a half and it took us a good three hours or more to get to Fredericksburg. So traffic's definitely degenerating in this Washington, D.C. area.

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But you're not here to hear about that, so. Yeah, you're not here to hear about traffic. It's sounding like we're 70, 80-year-old grannies. It's only been the major defining factor of the day so far, but hopefully that's going to change here very shortly. Things seem reasonably priced right, too. You see that water, three bucks, beer, five? Yeah, five bucks for a can of beer. That's not bad. That's not bad. It's only a can, but, you know, still. It could be eight. Yeah, could be worse. So that's where we're at. We don't know how everything is going to play out here. We posted a picture of the lineup tomorrow.

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Since Revocation earlier in the week had to announce that they had to pull out of some events over the next couple weeks, looks like Goathore was moved up to their final slot on the main stage before GWAR at 5 o'clock or 5.30. So other than that, we really don't have anything else right now. Yeah, I think maybe we'll sign off for now, maybe walk around a little more, see what's going on. It's nearing 4 o'clock, so it may be that it's time to, you know, get ready. I mean, granted there isn't an actual body here, but I would think there's going to be some sort of like, you know, please turn off phone.

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and cameras and such for you know but we'll see what happens and uh again if you're listening to us on mixler since this is all new to us this live aspect here you know send us a tweet send us a facebook message let us know if the quality is good if you're hearing us fine and uh follow us on mixler so you can uh hear from us as ultimately comes down to tomorrow battery battery permitting yeah we our phones aren't exactly fully charged so we can only go as far as the juice and i i heard though coming in here that it doesn't sound like they're going to be too strict

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with security though. So maybe if we do have to bow out to the car to do a quick charge, might not be out of the realm of possibility. It's not like there's tickets, so, you know. Yeah. All right, well. Yep, that's it for you. I have the great pleasure to introduce a gentleman who was cited as a great influence on Dave, a co-conspirator of GWAR. You will all know him. His name is Jello Biafra.

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Thanks everybody and thanks for coming out for this.

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We are gathered here today, oh forget that.

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When Dave died, and I'm not gonna say passed away, it was the third close friend I lost in a period of a few weeks, and the most shocking, and the most unexpected. And like my old friend, Wesley Willis. Yeah, let's hear it for Wesley Willis.

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Say "Ooga Booga!" and headbutt somebody. Last of the times he stayed at my house, I had one too, 'cause he headbutted me so much. But like Wes, I had to stop and make a vow to myself not to let a terrible loss like this take away all the joy I've gotten from all things guar.

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And all the wild personal memories and adventures from allowing myself to get mixed up with Dave Broggy and the entire Slave Pit family. Dave with that wide-eyed Cheshire Cat grin of his showing me the early Slave Pit upstairs from the

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the first time like a kid at a candy store. Like this mischievous demented child who'd just run off with the keys to Frankenstein's lab. I know full well Gwar isn't just Dave and never was, but one of the things I've always really admired about Gwar is not just how all these warped geniuses like Dave and Don and Hunter, Chuck, Mike,

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Mike Bishop, Brad, Danielle, Scott Crawl, so many more on down the line until today, Casey, Pete, Lee somehow found each other in Richmond, Virginia of all places. But that that many people were able to come together and work with each other to unleash these

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insane ideas! Believe me, I know how hard it is to keep a band of four or five people together, but 10, 12, 15? That's amazing! We all know people who just bubble over with awesome, incredible ideas, but it's hard enough to make them work in a comic book, let alone execute these ideas.

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in front of a mosh pit full of lunatics. And then pack it all up and do it again. The concept, the characters, the plot, the latex, the hornets, those hideous costumes. Coming up with a way to shower people en masse with all that jism and fake blood from hoses.

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A band! Brilliant! When students meet at an art school and go out and start a band, this is not what is supposed to happen! Especially when Gwar was still an unknown band playing in very small clubs for very little money, trying to somehow keep everybody they took on the road in that beat up school bus fed. And yet, the scary

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The scariest of all the ever-ready bunnies just keeps going and going and going. The ideas keep flowing and flowing for what? Almost 30 years? Still finding ways to assault innocent young minds with some of the most degenerate, indefensible art the world has ever seen.

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And get away with it! And have people wearing Viking helmets or before she became Slymenstra a snake with costumes to the show. What kind of ringmaster, organizer, ball of energy can motivate that many other creative balls of energy to put in all the hard work for something like GWAR year after year.

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The constant in GWAR all this time was Dave. And like Robin Williams, Dave Brockie can never be replaced. I will always miss him. I will always love him. I was first subjected to GWAR when I went to record something up in New York with Kramer, and the first thing he

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What he did when I got into his loft was, "You know, there's something I think you need to see." My life was never the same again. That early video became my favorite show and tell toy for unsuspecting guests like Al Jorgensen for the next two or three years. It was so much fun to just pop it in just so I could stand back and watch people watch Gwar.

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Having no idea what was about to happen to them.

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So I made a detour down to Richmond to see an early Guar show, their Christmas show, when they were opening for the Butthole Surfers.

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And Hunter Jackson came out as Jesus Christ and was promptly crucified on a Christmas tree, tied up with Christmas tree lights.

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And he called this inky, diluted milk from their Chism puppets through the whole show,

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until he had to go off and change into Techno Destructo, not knowing his parents were in the crowd that night. And apparently he was kicked out of his own family for a long time after that. By the time they hit the West Coast, I found myself cast in the show. Or was I abducted? The Metro in Oakland, I came out in one of these satin baseball jackets worn by idiot music executives to this day

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I assigned Guar to a contract made out of toilet paper. Next thing I knew, I got smacked in the head with a goblet and a blood bag, and then the blood's running down my forehead, behind my contact lenses, and it stung like hell. So yes, the screams were real. I introduced Dave to my close friend and master collage artist who's done so many of my album covers, Winston Smith. And they became...

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And they became who liked to be here today and sends his love to everyone in the slave pit and everybody here. He liked jazz music, my music, and Gwar. His reward for becoming fast friends was they threw him in the meat grinder. Then they threw me in the meat grinder. My favorite meat grinder memory is when Gwar first broke big and were playing the war

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"Theirfield Theater

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"Not real music! Santana! You! You out there! You owe all your money to me! You owe your scene to me! You ain't nothin'! I own you!" And then, imagine how wild the audience went when Bill Graham himself, the meanest rock biz person in California, thrown into the meat grinder. Just erupting while I was slowly inching my way down the inside of yet another homemade guar device.

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So I would try not to land on the whirring fan blade as a guar slave was feeding hot dogs into it to spray the audience with Bill Graham's entrails or Graham Burgers or whatever. Man, what else is there? I mean, I was never on his Twitter feed because I don't do that, but I hear it was a real tweet. Even now, finding out that Dave was an adopted child and just visualizing his adoptive parents

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Finally with a bouncing ball of joy all their own and he grows up to become Odorous Orundus. And many of you I think have seen when Joan Rivers had Odorous and Beefcake on their truck. There she is trying to keep a straight face while somebody in the most hideous mask ever made.

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So griefily into the jaws of death. Everywhere you look nowadays, you look on TV, you see people being run over by tanks, beaten by the police, people starving, and new sexual diseases. Obviously the human race is in love with self-destruction. We are only satisfying a consumer need. Then it was the time I finally got to meet and spend some time with HR Giger in New York.

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who did the infamous poster inside my album and Carcass and Emerson Lake and Palmer and the needles and whatever. You know, H.R. Giger, the guy who did Alien. And he had a lot of those Giger paintings we know up in the gallery and the gallery owner was just this miserable wretch who had to have money. And then even the one that was in my Frankenchrist album that put me on trial of Xenity in LA, it was there. And the gallery owner was shutting them off so important people wouldn't see the skin.

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and then he finally hid behind the doors, important people showed up with a metal mask on, going rawr at everybody. And then carcass fans began showing up, the gallery guy wants to start charging 20 bucks even to come up the elevator to admission, Giger's getting madder and madder, then who walks into the gallery in full costume but Gwar?

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Giger, however, was so happy to see Gwar, it made his night. Pulling a fish out of Lacey Peterson, remember that one? With a lit cigarette in its mouth was bad enough, then out comes this indescribably hideous green baby that had me falling on the floor. I was laughing so hard.

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So sick, so wrong, and so guar. A developmentally disabled Toltec fetish gone horribly wrong that turned out to be a simple piece of green foam that Dave said he'd carved one day in about 15 minutes when he was born. I'm honored to this day that guar invited me to play Boss Glom in the Skullhead Face movie. And after shooting a bunch of stuff where I go back for the season,

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The last take was when I would tear off the latex mask that took eight hours to apply as I kind of blew up and turned into the skull head face robot. And they had a hose under me and as I was tearing it off, French dressing and rotten cottage cheese was coming in with such force I never knew my sinuses could get that big. Then there was more, then there was more, and I thought my head really was going to explode. Again, the screams were real.

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Wait, what? By then, Guar and the Slave Pit were family to me. I had come to know there was much more to Dave than the life of the party who just had to make fun of everything and everyone. That beneath it all was a kind and caring human being. Like when he went out of his way to look after and take care of my good friend Donovan when she was badly injured in a car crash.

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We hung out with Dave and the gang plotting all sorts of twisted, indefensible art crime. Dave once told me, or more than once, he really wanted me and him to go up to the ranch land Winston has way back in the woods in Mendocino County, just let it all go, kick back, and pick each other's brains. It meant the world to me that Dave and Don and Mike Bishop, among others, came to my new band, Guantanamo School of Medicine, show in Richmond a while back.

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And told me how much they liked it and how much my work then till now had inspired and influenced their own. I still have a message in my phone from Dave, as far from odorous or rungus as you can get, telling me how much he loved me in almost hippy-dippy fashion and how much I meant to him as an inspiration and as a friend. That's pretty cool.

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Likewise, back at you, buddy. Message is still in my phone, because I still haven't gotten around to calling him back. So, does this now bring us closure? I hope not. I hope not, because I don't think closure really exists, does it? Especially when something like this happens. As far as I'm concerned,

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"plosure" is more of a recent cliché pop culture term used to sell everything from psych meds to religion to the death penalty. When my little sister Julie and her Scottish husband Clive died in a mountain climbing accident in 1996, well-meaning people tried to console me telling me, "Don't worry, you'll get over it." I told them, "Yo!"

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I don't want to get over it. How could I get over Julie and Clive? She was my sister and Clive was a cool dude. I was just beginning to know him. I want them inside me always. Two or three times a year, something like this, it all comes back and I have to let it rocket through me, break down, lose it, cry all over again. Then I get up and I keep walking. Straight on.

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And for those of you who, like me, are not just fighting lingering grief, but also a little piecey inside that's feeling kind of angry with Dave and the senseless way we all lost him, that's okay. Losing Dave was preventable. Shouldn't have happened. And dude, you knew better.

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You knew better! That said, I feel that one of the best ways to pay our respects and tribute to somebody we really love and admire is also to learn from their mistakes. When another good friend of mine, Kenny Jensen, drummer for DOA, was killed in a fire, Rob Wright from No Means No said, "You know how I'm gonna remember Ken?

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and they grew up together. I'm buying smoke detectors. Yeah. I mean, when my dad died last September, you know what I did for him? I went out and got me a colonoscopy. He refused to have one and he might still be here today if they caught the cancer in time, although there were other stuff going on. But point is, okay, dad, I'm going to do it. So, for Dave, I hope you're out there.

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throwing Abe Lincoln and Jimi Hendrix into that great meat grinder in the sky. Brainstorming and exploding brainstorming with Robin Williams at last. Robin needs you right now. And boy are you two gonna have a lot of fun.

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and my brothers and sisters in the slave pit family and everybody here, I love you all. Please, please, take care of yourselves. It's important. Thank you.

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I'm going to Adam Blythe from Richmond's own Lamb of God.

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You're on my friend.

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You know, my name is Randy, but I'm not Adam Maureen. Adam Maureen is up next, and I was worried about fucking his name up, and Jell-O already did it for me, so it's good. This is not the first time I have delivered a eulogy for Dave Rocky. I did it at the private service, and now, just as important, we need to do it for all you people.

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Dave is the only motherfucker I know who has to get put away twice. You know what I mean? He's too fucking big for one funeral. So, um... You know, um, most of you probably know my band if you're from around here or whatever. But I moved to Richmond in 1989. I was 18 years old. And I moved here under, like, deep cover as a college student because I didn't do fuck all with college. You know what I mean?

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What I came here was for the music scene. I was from the Tidewater area. There were some clubs but Richmond always had a lot more than we wanted. I did really good at going to shows just about every night of the week and going to parties. I didn't do so well at college. One night I was going to the 7-Eleven over on Main Street by VCU and I saw all these people walking in just

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They were covered in all this fucking shit, man. They had been hosed down or whatever. And I looked at them and I'm like, "What happened to you guys?" And they said, "We just came from GWAR." And I said, "What is a GWAR?" So, you know, I guess two months later they played downstairs at Rockets. I don't know if you guys remember that place.

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For the show, just in case the band sucked, I took three hits of high-quality blotter acid. This ensured that not only would I not have a boring time at the show, but that I would be in no way, shape, or like prepared for what was about to happen. So my first gore experience is I'm sitting there

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Peeking my fucking balls off, you know, trying to understand the secrets of the universe. And then these these fucking freaks come in and start killing everything. Oh, my God. Holy fuck. This is fucking awesome. Yeah. So, you know, after that, it was I knew Guar was from from Richmond and I decided I had to meet these guys.

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But I had no fucking clue of who they were. They were like a mystery to me. And it was really cool because it wasn't like trying to meet Iron Maiden or someone completely unattainable. It was like these guys were from right here in Richmond. And eventually I started meeting them. And I don't remember particularly the first time I met Dave.

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that he knew who I was. We started our band. We were called Burn the Priest at that time. And I remember, you know, one night we played and they were like, yo, yo, yo, Dave Brock, he's here. You know, I was like, wow. You know, that's cool. After the show, we played first on like a four band build. Nobody gave a fuck. You know, we were only, we'd only been a band, you know, six months or whatever. Totally terrible show. I'm pushing the stuff out of the back.

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of twisters. I don't know if you guys have ever been there. It's called like

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Nancy Raygun now. I'm pushing this shit out of the back and I see Brockie, you know, reigning at the bar. There's people around him. He's got his beer and I'm pushing our gear out. And he looks over at me and goes, hey, Randy. And I'm like, oh shit, he knows my name. He's like, it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll, baby.

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And basically, he was just like, get back to work, son. And then ordered himself another beer. But I started seeing him around. And we did some tours, you know, and eventually we changed our name to Lamb of God. And the first tour we ever did as Lamb of God, the first real tour we ever did, Guar took us out. You know? They gave us a chance. Nobody knew who the fuck we were. They basically taught us how to tour. I didn't know what a tour manager was. I didn't know what a lighting

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I didn't know what production meant, any of that music business stuff. We learned all that from them on that tour. They taught us how to be a band, how to do what we do for a living today. For that, we're eternally grateful to these guys. In a strange way, they're kind of like parents to us, which is kind of disturbing. But during that tour, on the fourth date, because I was,

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So excited, you know, we were out playing all these people, GWAR fans. On the fourth day, I decided it would be a good idea to go to a party after the show in Columbus, Ohio, and get completely fucked up and walk off the roof of the house party we were at. And I fell, you know, two and a half stories, knocked myself out, broke my arm, and missed the next show the next day in West Virginia and then rejoined the tour.

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and it hurt like a motherfucker, right? Because I got these, for this broken arm with pins sticking out of it. And every time I sing, it's like all the blood in my body is just rushing to this arm. It's excruciating. But I look over and I see Dave and he's watching us play that night and he's just like, you know? And it fucking helped me, you know? And as our career went,

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on, you know, every time we put out a new record, every time we got a tour, Dave would tell me, he's like, dude, I'm fucking proud of you, you know? That meant more to me than any record review, any Grammy nomination, any sort of tour we ever did. It meant more to me that my friend that I respected so much would take time out of his day and say, dude, I'm fucking proud of you, you know? Because this is a guy,

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I respected a lot. Dave was a fucking artist. He never

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stopped working. He never stopped working.

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So as time went on, our friendship kind of deepened.

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And every now and then, Dave would summon me to the slave pit.

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You know? And it was different than

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me going to the slave pit. Because I would just pop by sometimes

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and say hello to these dudes. But when Dave called, I knew

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that meant he had some sort of fucked up idea he wanted me to be involved in. So one day I get this call and he's like Randy I want you to come to the Slave Pit I have this idea. I'm like great wonderful here we go. We go down there. Excuse me I had to put that down. I go down there and there's Dave in his office and Dave was always in the office at the Slave Pit. He's always like doing press. He's always designing the next war story. He's always fixing odorous. Do whatever the fuck he's doing. But he's like

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"Dude, I have an idea." I'm like, "Okay." He shuts the door in the office and he's like, "There is this thing and it is called "Troid." And I'm like, "Okay." And he's like, "It's a giant gelatinous mass. We're gonna build it. It's like this ooze of ectoplasm and we're gonna have the audience seated all the way around it and they're gonna come in and we're gonna get Devin Townsend to do the music. It's gonna be very, very disturbing.

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It's just gonna be horrific noise and it's gonna start quiet and this ooze is gonna start spinning, right? And there's gonna be lights going on in the middle and stuff is gonna start flying off the side and it's gonna be smacking the audience members in the face and the music is gonna get louder and louder and more and more intense and in the middle, the lights are going on, there's going to be this pathetic, mewling figure and all you can see is his outline and he's gonna be like...

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and he's gonna be like this and at the top of this vein spinning faster and faster faster he's gonna give out a giant scream and then it's going to explode and the audience is gonna be coated in mucus and bile and that thing in the middle of this mountain is you Randy you are throid

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I looked at him and I said, "I'll do it." Fuck yeah, I'll do it. I have no idea of what the fuck you're talking about right now, Dave, but I will fucking do it because I knew he could make it work. Think about the concept of GWAR. Just consider GWAR for a second. Should it work? No! Fuck no, it shouldn't work!

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for decades. Look at these dudes. They're still up here.

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You know?

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So.

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You know, I knew that if Dave had this idea for this thing called Freud, and that I was going to be Freud, then fuck yeah, I'm going to be the best Freud that I can be.

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Because Dave believed in me.

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And that's a whole thing.

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Guar has taken so many bands out that have given them their chance. My band was one of them. They've supported the arts, particularly in Richmond, in all sorts of ways. It's just fucking amazing. That's right, Richmond. Let me hear it for Richmond. Woo! One thing we also learned by band, and the way we do things this day,

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is that we don't fuck around on stage. Because we were first on the bill. And if you fuck around in front of Gwar, you're going to get Gwar'd off the fucking stage. So we would come on, start playing four songs in a minute. Okay, thanks for allowing my God. Four more songs. If you give them a chance, all you're going to hear is... Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! G

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But one of my fondest memories of Dave, and I'm going to close with this, is the first night of that tour, you know, that we did with them on our first tour of Slam God. We played at a club called Birch Hill up in New Jersey. And it was before the club. I don't know if any of you guys have ever been there. There was a loading dock on the side. It's the first gig of the tour, and I'm really fucking nervous. Because there was a line of people just like you all the way around the block, you know. It's the biggest crowd we've ever played.

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And it's about 30 minutes before showtime and I go to our van and get my clothes or whatever and come out. And I see Dave standing on the loading dock. He wasn't in his odorous costume yet. And he's standing there and he's looking at this line of all these people. All of you people. People just like you. And he's got his arms crossed. And he's got his redskins jersey. And he's got his fucking fanny pack on. Because he didn't give a fuck.

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And he's standing there, Dave Brock, you're the only guy I know who could rock a fanny pack. He's standing there with his arms, his cross, and he has this immense, immense look of satisfaction and pride on his face. And I go up and I'm like, what's up, Dave? And he's, we have the weirdest fans in the world.

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He said it with such love. Dave loved you people. He fucking loved you. And he was proud that he could be a giant space monster for you. I told my wife that story about 8 million times before Dave ever passed. And she said, the first time when Dave died, I told her that story. I'm like, have I ever told you the story about it? And she goes, yes, honey. And just let me ramble instead of like,

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And she goes, honey, he gave them a home. And that's what Dave did for me. He gave me a home. And he gave us all a home together. You know, we're all here right now. This is evidence of it. And Dave would be very fucking proud of all you people. So, you know, I can't say it's my pleasure to get up here and give a eulogy for Dave.

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But I will say it is my honor. He is my friend and you know a big brother figure to me. Taught me a lot and I know he would be so proud that all you people are here to honor him today. Thank you very much. Fuck. And now Dave was on a Randy Green. Yes.

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Dave was on a TV show called Holliston

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and the dude who writes and directs and acts in that is a guy named Adam Green he's here he's going to speak if you've never seen the show Dave was

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uh Otis was Adam's imaginary friend you know and uh it was that important so ladies and gentlemen Mr. Adam Green from Holliston

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Thank you.

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I do this, you know, public speaking thing all the time and normally, you know, there's like a script and not a speech.

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I'm going to colleges to inspire people that they should try to chase their dreams or whatever.

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But I've never done this before.

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And this is going to be really hard.

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So bear with me.

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My name is Adam Green.

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And I'm the guy on the bill tonight who's not a rock star. I was not in Deb Kennedy's. I'm not in Lamb of God. In fact, I think that Guar only asked me to speak today because Pete Steele is dead and Axl Rose is always late. But I'm a filmmaker. I made the Hatchet movies and

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No shit, I seriously thought like three people here would even know what the fuck I was. So thank you guys. But I'm the creator and the star of Holliston. Dave played my imaginary friend, Odor Sirongus. He lived in my closet and he would give me

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He gave me horrible advice and touched me inappropriately. Much like he did in real life. And Dave was also one of my closest friends and we got to work very closely together on Holliston. I was honored to be asked to speak here tonight and I'm especially honored to be sharing the stage with all these guys who have treated me like family since day one.

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I love all of you, thank you. Like I said, I'm not a rock star, I don't really even consider myself famous, but even though I work in Hollywood as a writer, and a director, and an actor, I promise you I'm not here to try to tell you how to vote, or that eating vegan will make you shit, glitter, and democracy. I'm here to support my friends in GWAR, and most of all,

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My fellow bohaves of which I have been a member for 25 years now. And most of all, to say farewell to my friend Dave. When I was 14 years old, I got my first job bagging groceries at a supermarket on Cape Cod. And the one weird cashier with the piercings and shit turns around to me one day and he says,

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"It'll change your life." And that tape was "Hello." And it did change my life. By the time I got through the first chorus of "I'm in love with a dead dog," I was a fan for life. And not because I've personally been in love with a dead dog per se. At least not that I'm gonna admit here today,

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I know this is probably being filmed for YouTube. Maybe there was one time, but it was only half dead. But you know what, when I heard that tape, I became a fan because I got it. And outsiders, they don't understand Guar, and they don't understand us as fans.

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to go see a band dressed up as rubber monsters and get tons of like bodily fluids thrown on them. Well, they slip and fall and get the shit kicked out of them in a mosh pit. But if you're here tonight and if you're watching this later at home, then I don't need to tell you why. You just get it. For those of you that out there that don't understand GWAR, fuck you.

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We love Guar because of the awesome music, their sense of humor, their artistic creativity, the social commentary and the fact that they take these fucking assholes that we put up on a pedestal, these celebrities and politicians, and then they slaughter them in front of us for our enjoyment. There's no other band like Guar and they're never willing to do it.

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And as we all know, Dave Brockie's sense of humor, his wit, and his twisted soul were some of the main potent ingredients that made this band. What it was and what it will continue to be. All of you know Dave's work, whether it was Death Piggy, GWAR, Ex-Cops, the Dave Brockie experience.

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You know Dave's writing, his art, his poetry, his fucking incoherent novel. Dude, I'm sorry, but no matter how many times you tried to explain Wargold to me, a six-year-old could write a more comprehensible novel than that. We knew his sports commentating, his love for the Redskins, the fact that he was a walking encyclopedia of useless Russian history.

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His hilarious public appearances and interviews. But hopefully by now, and it sounds like a lot of you have seen his work on Holliston, or that you'll seek it out, but some of the best and the funniest shit he's ever done. And I'm honored that Dave trusted me so fully with The Odorous Character and let me write his character, because I know there's not a lot of humans that ever had that opportunity.

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Maybe you guys waited outside of a concert to meet him. Maybe you've come to one of the live performances of Hollison that we've done and had a chance to meet him. But over the last five years, I'm one of the lucky few who got to know the real Dave. And I got to work with him, create with him, tour with him, perform with him, and truly become incredibly close friends with him. And I regret that all of you who live with him,

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who loved him so much didn't get the opportunity that I had. But behind the decadent, odorous persona, deep within the guy who could absurdly say shocking things and get away with it, because, I mean, think about the genius of that character. He could say anything, and you can't argue because you're arguing with a rubber alien. Like, so who's the asshole? I also was someone who had the unfortunate,

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I had my luck of having to have my dressing room right next to his and I can tell you firsthand that costume smelled like a rotting bag of dicks that was left in a trash bag filled with curdled milk in the middle of summer. It was fucking horrible. But behind all of that was an incredibly sensitive guy and a guy whose mind works so fast and so uniquely that he operated on his own planet.

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He's also a guy who appreciated you, his fans, more than you'll ever, ever, ever know. What Dave, the tattooed heavy metal badass probably wouldn't want everybody to know though is that he was such a sweet guy that he never missed an opportunity to tell you that he loved you.

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out of everything I can take out of my time with Dave, it's to do that. As a somewhat grown man, I don't do that. I don't say I love you to the people that probably need to hear it. And it's probably because I'm afraid to say it because I don't want to get my heart broken. I don't know why I do that. Maybe it's just as a man you don't want to say that to another dude. I love you.

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All I know is that even dying far too young and far too fast, Dave never missed that opportunity. Now, just about 14 days before he passed away, he had called and left me a message just to say, I love you. And sometimes, you know, I keep this on my phone so that I can hear it when I need it or when I can play it for other people that should hear.

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I don't know if it's gonna work, but I'm gonna try so let's see.

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Now, I didn't call Dave back right away. I didn't text, 'cause I assumed I'd see him again very soon and get to say it. But I can't now. So, in the presence of my metal family, I love you too, Dave.

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I'm sorry I didn't say it enough and I promise that I won't make that mistake again with anybody else. On behalf of the fans in the Holliston Nation, of which I know there's many out here today, and on behalf of the main cast, Joe Lynch, Laura T.

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We miss you, we love you, and we will do you proud when the show continues with season three. In closing, I want to say, I mean, first of all, I think it's testament to how amazing Dave was that he could die suddenly, but still drag it out over five fucking months.

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But, you know, I've used the word family a bunch tonight. You've heard that word. You've used a bunch. And there's a, you know, I've had a fucking hell of a year, personally, between death, divorce, and all this shit that we all have to deal with in one way or another. And there's one message, if I could use this opportunity to spread to you guys, and that's that, like, life is going to, life is going to kick you in the balls repeatedly.

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You're gonna get fired from jobs. You're gonna have

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Husbands and wives tell you they don't love you anymore and leave you you're gonna have friends let you down

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But the look to the person to your left and the person to your right actually don't fucking take each other's hands

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That's

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That's your metal family

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And when life throws shit at you and you don't think you can take it anymore, all you have to do is go to a concert and celebrate one of the bands you love and your family will always be here.

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We will never let each other down and we will always be there to help each other off of the mosh pit that is life. So tomorrow, when you're celebrating the life of Dave and you're watching these bands, make sure that you take a moment to look around and appreciate this time that we get together. Because you don't know what tomorrow's gonna bring. And let the bands on stage feel that, especially Gwar who needs you now

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moving forward more than ever before.

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Guar's never let us down, so let's not let them down now.

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And if you guys

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will sing along with me now.

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How the wheels keep rolling

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And another mile post gone

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All along the road behind

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Oh, can't you hear me calling

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Sadwell, baby

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Steve, I hope you're seeing this

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I hope you're seeing this family that you created

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We're still here, we're still standing together, and we're still with you. I love you, I love you, let's have a great fucking weekend guys. And now it is my distinct pleasure to introduce...

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I'm not going to talk much because I'm the guy who usually gets the band to talk to other people so nobody really wants to hear what I have to say but I gotta say this six years I've been working with these guys and every single one of them is like a fucking family member to me every one of them Dave just like them as well I mean a lot of times we would do press trips Dave would come to my house Dave would stay at my house

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And we'd be hanging out. Here's a great story. I go downstairs one night. Lights are off. It's dark. This is in my kitchen. That's Dave just staring up. My roommate comes down. Hey, you alright? He looks at her. I'm fine. Do you want to snuggle? That's Dave. There's Dave. I love them. I love him. I love these guys. And honestly, working with Dave, I wasn't sure working with Guar what we were going to do.

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Like when I was 16 years old, standing at the front of the stage getting shot with fake jizz, I didn't think I would be writing press releases saying like, Gwari to take over Japan. Gwari, the biggest thing to hit Japan since the Atomic Bomb. That press release was edited. We were not allowed to run with that press release, but it was good. And speaking of being edited, my favorite press release story, and this goes, and there's people here that know it and will appreciate it, Mike Faley, Jack Flanagan,

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Basically we wrote a story in our press release and the quote was something to the effect of Lindsay Lohan's disease twat. You know, look, maybe in communication school I didn't learn the right way to format writing the word twat in a press release, but it read okay to me and it read okay to Dave and we sent it through everybody to the record company and all the management to approve the press release. Everything was good, but one person didn't like the word twat, okay?

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Because that person didn't like the word, we went back and forth 25 times at least on these fucking emails to finally, Manager Jack comes in, the last email and says, "Alright everyone, dear all, twat change to puss has been approved. Sincerely, Jack. That's the kind of shit that I work on with these guys. That's the kind of stuff I went to college for. And that's why I love all of you with all my heart, and I love Dave so much.

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Hell Fuckin' Gwar, Hell Fuckin' Odorous, and Hell Dave Brockie. And right now, I think we're gonna bring up that guy formerly known as Beefcake, currently known as the one and only Mr. Dr. Mike Bishop.

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- That's that guy.

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Alright, yeah. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Ever.

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Alright, you know what? Yeah, I don't have too much to say. I've said a lot. And, you know, I didn't expect to be as moved by this today as I am. I love you, Dave!

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I know for a fact that Dave would have been he wouldn't he wouldn't have expected this somehow because it wasn't in him to expect this but he would appreciate it a lot. So yes we are but you know we did something at another

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Ceremony for Dave, where it didn't really seem right to end in a kind of sadness. And a good friend of ours, Chris Bobst, who was in GWAR when I saw GWAR at Schaefer Court back in the late 80s or mid-80s. And, you know, what he...

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Chris suggested that maybe when you're thinking about Dave the best thing to do is for everybody to have a primal scream in his honor. So what I want to do right now is I'm going to count to three and when I get to three I just want you to scream at the top of your lungs so that Dave can hear you.

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You'll be amazed at how good this feels. And it's something that he did all the fucking time. So... Let's give it a shot. One. Two. Three.

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It feels good. Doesn't that feel good? Alright. So happy to have the people on this stage here today. Love. So happy to have the people in the audience here today.

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And yeah, there is a lot of love. Right now, we are going to perform a ceremony that is untested. But we have faith that the slaves of war will execute this in style, if not

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Completely. Completely. So. We are going to give Dave Brockie a fitting and odorous yurongous actually. That's who we're sending off right now. A Viking funeral. Hello and good morning. It is the morning after the Dave Brockie Memorial. It was a long night. We were out in front drinking beers.

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Talking to people from around the country. We talked to some people from Arizona. He took a Greyhound bus. Took a Greyhound bus from Arizona. 54 hours. And of course one of the guys, his luggage got lost. And we talked to a dude from Wisconsin. Some dude from Las Vegas. The guy we just saw downstairs again. Where was he from? Oh, it was Pittsburgh. Yes.

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At the memorial yesterday, we talked to some people from New York and from Philly. And the guy behind me in line was from Australia. Yeah, Australia. That definitely takes the cake for farthest away. Yeah, still blown away by the whole guys from Arizona on the Greyhound. That is just... Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, we talked to them for a while. The one dude went to bed. He looked like dead on his feet.

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The other guy, he and I were talking black metal and sludge and doom stuff. And he just hung out and it was a good time. It was a good time. I'm feeling a little rough this morning. But, you know, too much beer, too little sleep. But we're getting ready to do it all over again. Yeah, we've got the lineup today. It starts at 10 o'clock.

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at 10.30 band. Eat the Turnbuckle at 10.35. Then the Glorious Gone, Fuckface Unstoppable. When's the first band we want to see? The Misfits, maybe. Times that. 150. So we got some time to hang out by the pool and relax. Relax. Recuperate. Yep. Right on. Go get some drinks and hang out. Hopefully George comes around. I'm feeling a little rough.

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off the drinks for a little while. We'll see how the day goes, if I can hydrate enough to the point where I feel human again. We'll see. We're trying to do a better job. Yeah, we sort of stopped recording these after the memorial speeches and when we got into the Viking funeral part of the memorial. Again, it really wasn't, it was kind of the Viking thing happened and we probably should have done one as we're sitting in the car maybe. Yeah.

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You know, we just didn't really cover anything after that. I did some filming of the Viking funeral, so that's why I wasn't doing any audio. And after that, we got some food, came back, and recorded podcasts, so that'll fill in some of the gaps of what happened between then and now. And now we're just chilling out, waiting to head over to the show. So that's the update for right now. Yep, we'll get back to you later. See ya.

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to the show. There's a little bit of traffic trying to get into the lot. It's about 940 here on Saturday morning. Yeah, it starts at 10. So we got here a little later than we did yesterday. Well, you know, God, I can't even think of the word. But, you know, relatively speaking, we were here a little later than last time. So it's to be expected there's going to be more traffic. So we're just waiting to figure out where we got to park.

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and then we will head in and get started. It's weird, you know, George and I were loading up the car. It's weird, you know, since this is taking place at a lake. It's weird that George and I was thinking, yeah, yeah, we're finding a nice spot under the umbrella. We sound like we're old men. I am. Find a nice spot under the umbrella and just kick back and relax. Yeah. Well, if the first band that we really care about isn't until almost 2 o'clock, why spend all your energy early for bands that don't matter? Might as well get comfy.

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I'm seeing where people are from. West Virginia, Connecticut, Florida. All around this great country and a few other countries as well. New York. I don't like those truck balls. Yeah, I always get a kick out of those. There's more people vaping over here. Yeah, man. That is the thing to fucking do, apparently. When I think of vaping, I think about what I do when I'm like a zombie.

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with my mouth open. That's vaping to me. But, yeah. These people have these vaping packs that look like they're hoeing up a car battery. It looks to me like they're smoking one of those hookah things. Yes. You know, in the hookah bars. Has our line moved? Yeah, we may be in a shitty line. There it goes. There it goes. Just as soon as we say that, of course, that's always the way it works out. Yeah. So it looks like people are starting to park all the way by the entrance.

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Of course, you're not here seeing this, but the entrance is maybe half a mile to the lake itself. So we could be in for a little walk if that's what it came down to. Yeah. I know this is thrilling podcasting right here, but we're trying to, you know. Give you the experience. Give you the full experience, you know. Yeah. Unfortunately, it's not in Smell-O-Vision. We are, you know. I'm really excited for today.

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You take in everything.

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It looks like maybe if we park.

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I see a bunch of open space up there.

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I don't think it's parked all the way up here yet.

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I don't understand what the slowdown is, though.

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Maybe you've got to show your tickets here or something.

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Maybe I should get the tickets up.

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All right.

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Well, we'll get back to you in a little while.

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Here we are now.

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It's a little bit after 12, and the barbecue is in full swing.

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Full swing, yes.

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Just after noon.

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You can probably hear the music in the background.

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Yesterday it was busy here. Today it is a fucking madhouse. This place is packed. Yeah, the line to get in is still easily a thousand people deep. You know, we got here at 9:30 or so started waiting in line probably for about an hour. These people have probably been waiting two or three hours just to get in. We're sitting in front of a pool right now. There's a giant rope swing going on where there's like a splash competition. They call it the

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Olympic Olympics people walk

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It was really cool. He's in a couple of bands actually. We gave him a card so hopefully he'll send us in some music and we'll get him on the podcast. I've walked around and purchased some vinyl. I found a couple of Hatebreed vinyls. I bought the latest Gorguts colored orange vinyl that I've been tracking, trying to buy on eBay for a while. George browsed them. Nothing that really captured him.

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Nothing that was so out of the ordinary that I wanted to bother with having to deal with it now. You know, they had Testament, the Legacy. Oh, I got Dark Roots also. Yeah, I got that one at the show, remember? Yeah. And, yeah, there were a couple okay ones that I would pick up normally, but not, I didn't feel like taking them back to the car or anything. And as I was flipping through them, they were really warm. Yeah, I put them in my trunk, I laid them flat, my luck, I'll get back and there'll be a twisted pretzel of a record.

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Yeah.

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Can you fix that once they bend?

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I've heard that if you warm them up and then stick them between two heavy things,

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that it might at least get it back in shape, but it's still probably going to sound funny.

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Is it bad to have them in the trunk?

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Technically, yes, but it's not that hot today. It'll probably be fine.

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I almost wish I brought my bathing suit. It's a little hot right now, but we're in the shade.

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Yeah, I mean, you know, we're wearing shorts and t-shirts. You could probably still get in.

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But the water looks like one of the scum dogs threw up in it. So... Yeah, it's not exactly cleanly looking. It's a nice shade of green. Yeah. But it's a fun day so far. Yeah, this is quite an experience, you know. I was... You were heading to the bathroom or the bar or something when I was talking to the drummer guy. And actually it was his girlfriend about how, you know, we missed Valken. But this is sort of a cool second place. It certainly is.

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In terms of just a whole shit ton of metal people in one place having a good time. The cool thing about here, when you go to like a Mayhem or an Ozfest or whatever years ago, you knew, hey, one stage is happening, you go watch that stage. And then you just stand around at that stage. Here, there's so much other stuff going on that the music can just be a background to you just, you know, doing your own different thing because there's 500 things going on. There's a skate park. You know, you can watch guys skateboarding. If you have a skateboard, you can join in.

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All kinds of cool vendors. Like, you know, there was the vinyl. Different food and beer. You know, a lot of different merch. I picked up a three-pack of the Siguars. Yeah, this is a blast. This is much more diverse and fun than, say, a Mayhem or an Ozfest or something. Yes. Do you have any problems with anything so far? Anything standing out that could have been done better? If it was 10 degrees cooler, if they could have made that happen, I'd have been happy. But otherwise, no, it's a pretty perfect day.

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is that the cool thing about this is it's almost kind of like if you've ever been to a Comic-Con. Yeah. It's not like it's any, you don't see professional security and stuff like that. No, I haven't really noticed any. You see what I'm saying? It's like a bunch of friends. Like they got like a bunch of volunteers to. Yeah. And you know, there's all kinds of fans dressed up in Goar type paraphernalia. Something that's striking me too, you're actually seeing families too. Yeah, yeah. I'm seeing families with little kids here.

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Around the pool and stuff, you know? Family that moshes together stays together. That's going to be my family. So that's where we're at so far, right? Yeah, we'll check back a little later and talk to you then. See ya. Later.

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the festival. Yep. Home. Traveling down 95. We were hoping that it would be a clear shot so we could maybe get home before midnight. But it's 95. So it hasn't been as bad as on the way down. But it's definitely congested. And we even came to a full stop a minute ago. So what was your initial thoughts on, you know, let's just talk about the day. What was your initial thoughts on us getting there and how everything started to play out? Well, I mean,

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We talked about the morning already, but we got there a little later, so we parked a little further away, which was good ultimately because we got out easier. We made some friends in line again like we also mentioned earlier. Yeah, but we didn't, you know, when did we stop? We didn't record when we pulled in. We weren't taping in, right? Yeah, we did, and then we taped after we got in. Oh, we did. Okay, yeah, we talked about how many people were already in line and stuff like that, a couple hundred probably. Yeah, and I waited in the

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a long-ass line to get my free barbecue t-shirt, which was just, it's like a white t-shirt, so it's like, oh, right away, I'm never gonna fucking wear it, but it says I survived barbecue 2014. So, uh, we got there, you know, we just walked around for a bit. The first moment for me, of course, was, uh, like our first, like, whoa, excitement, like, man, am I hearing this? This is cool. I'm not a punk rock fan at all. Um, I am. But as I'm walking to get a string

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I'm walking past the main stage while Meat Men, yeah, the Meat Men are playing, and they are doing a cover of In League with Satan. I didn't notice that. Yes. And I actually got a video of it, and it stopped me in my tracks. Was that when I was in line? No, you were sitting down, I believe. Oh, down by the water? Yeah, down by the water, yep. It stopped me in my tracks, and I was like, man, this is catchy.

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people like this type of music.

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Hey.

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That style wasn't bad at all.

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Right on.

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So that was the first kind of moment of the day for me that I wanted to get out that, you know, was like, man, whoa, what is this?

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Then after that, you know, George and I sat down and continued to just take in people that floated by.

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Yeah.

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As I think I mentioned earlier, we sat under this gazebo that had some picnic tables on it, under it. And it was shaded. It was by the water. We could watch people swinging on the rope swing and flying into the water. And, you know, we'd sort of, to save the spot, we'd sort of tag in and out to go over, see bands, use the bathroom, get beer, whatever. So while sitting there, we met people all over.

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Yeah, we've met so many people today. I mean, the past two days, we've met like dozens of people that we've had really great conversations with. As I mentioned before, the guys, not the guys, but the guy and the girl from New York, the guy and the girl from Philly, the two guys from Arizona with their 54-hour Greyhound trip, a guy from Wisconsin. We met another guy from Wisconsin today. Yeah.

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came by and talked to us for a while. And a guy named Jeff that came and sat down and talked to us for a while. Some girls. Three girls from Pennsylvania came by. A lot of people were like, hey, can you watch my stuff? So I'm like, sure, okay. You know, each person, this event, unlike any other, we've been to a bunch of music festivals and stuff before.

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I guess speaking for myself here, unlike any other old OzFest days or MayhemFest or any other festival event I've been to, or even any concert, for some reason I've never had so many just friendly people and great conversation with just so many different fans from all over the country.

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Yeah, it was a common theme. Other people were mentioning that too. They were like, man, everybody here is so nice. People will just come by and talk and chat. It's true. I mean, I'm not exactly a social butterfly outside of my element, but you saw me. I was talking up a storm with all kinds of people. Yeah. I don't know what to attribute that to. Maybe because it is kind of a gathering in a space.

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Yeah, another theme of the weekend was that it's, you know, one big metal slash punk family. It's like a giant family reunion or something. And it really was. I mean, and you know, the whole water park atmosphere gave it this... Like a family cookout type of vibe, right? Yeah, completely different atmosphere than a typical festival where it's, there's a stage, a second stage, a bunch of vendors, and some porta-potties. Yeah. You know?

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There were so many places to go sit and relax and get out of the sun. So probably less cranky people, probably less heat stroke people. There were so many options that if you had got invited and you bought a ticket that wasn't super expensive, you know, $35 or something like that. If you came with a boyfriend or your girlfriend or friends and you wanted to help,

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Go on the rope swing into the pool. If you bought a skateboard here and you wanted to skateboard, in the skate park you could do it with your friends. Did I see Putt-Putt over there? There was. It was roped off because that's where the bands were walking past. Oh, that's right. If you wanted to rent a rowboat, it was free. You could take a rowboat out. Yeah. It was just a vibe of just, like I said, just a gathering, just a large middle family.

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Yeah. It was really cool. And I'd like to see more of these. And I certainly would like to come back to Gwarb. This sold me. Yeah. Today on coming back. So after we sat around for a little bit, next thing that really stood out, which you want to agree, maybe the Misfits. Yeah. It came on around 150. Yeah. And I was, I've been skeptical of the Misfits for a number of years now. I'm a big Glenn Danzig version of the Misfits.

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I like the Michael Graves albums as well. When Jerry only took over on vocals, I was like, you know, I think he's like the only member left, really. I started to get a little skeptical, but when I heard him playing, you know, some of the old classics, you know, the Glenn era tunes, he was doing a pretty fine job of kind of sounding like Glenn or, you know,

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at least playing it in a very recognizable style. So props to Jerry. I thought that went really well. Yeah. I could see why they have decades of success. They sounded good. Yeah. I didn't know any of those songs, but they sounded great. Who else did we like? Next band for me, Hatebreed.

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Yeah, yeah. Took the stage at 3 o'clock. Hatebreed, for me, has been a big band for me that I've always kind of latched onto. So I, you know, George has nothing against him, but he's not the type of fan I was. So I said, I go, George, you want to come? You want to hold a spot? George held the spot. I went up and... And the nice thing was you could hear it just fine. Yeah, you could hear it just fine.

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You can't find anywhere you were at in the park. Yeah. Uh, but I went up there because I wanted to see it and be close. You know. Yeah. Breathe in the dirt. Yeah. Uh, so I go up there. You know, Hatebreed puts on their usual brutal sets that they do. Uh, the pit was going crazy around me. Uh, when they played the fetus, uh,

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Jamie brought up Randy Blythe from Lamb of God. So that was really cool to see. You know what you're getting with Randy. So it was cool to hear his vocals put into a Haypreet song. They finished their set. They had 45 minutes from 3 till 3.45. Were they actually on schedule? I wasn't really paying attention to them. Pretty much. Yeah, for the most part.

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at 10. They didn't even let us in until after 10.30, so I thought the schedule was fucked from the beginning. They were pretty much right there around that point. That's cool. Hatebreed ended, and... Your favorite band came on. Oh, wait, no, Iron Regan. Iron Regan came on. We had... You want to say this? We had been seeing... Yeah, we'd been seeing this guy around the park, and in fact, we saw him yesterday at the memorial, too, and...

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I'm looking at him and I'm going, man, that looks like Tony from Iron Reagan and Municipal Waste, the singer. Tony Forresta, I believe his last name is. You know, because he has this sort of signature look. He's got the, was that the septum ring? And like this like headband type thing. And I was like, man, that really looks like him. I wonder if it's him. And the way people were coming up to him, we kind of got the impression that it was, but we weren't sure. And when George said we'd been seeing him, we probably saw him randomly 15 times.

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Yeah. And sure enough, when Iron Raiden came on, there he was. There he was. Yep, it was him. Like, damn it. Yes, the opportunity missed. Because there was times that he was by himself. Opportunity missed to try and get him on the podcast there. Yeah. For a minute or two. So that's our fault. But they sounded good. I didn't go up to really watch them, but you could hear them fine. They sounded great. Yeah. Next was... Next was Body Count.

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Next was Body Count. I'll talk about that one because Buk doesn't like them. Yeah, I don't like them, but George can talk about them. It's not that I like them. It was interesting. You know, I just mostly I'm like, hey, I want to see Ice-T, you know. It's like if Eminem was there. I'm not an Eminem fan, but if Eminem was there, I'd at least be like, hey, yeah, I saw him. So it was interesting, and I was curious to see how people

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People reacted to it. They got the crowd going. I admit that. Yeah. At times it seemed like nobody was really giving a shit. And then other times they were really getting into it. So it was, you know, I can say I've seen body count now. So that's something. At this point we did vacate our spot. Yeah. Yeah. We'd finally given up our bench to pretty much stay by the stage. And the first kind of hiccup and glitch.

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And total bummer. And the total bummer of the day occurred right around the 4.30, 5 o'clock mark. A little before that. About 4 maybe. Well, I'm not sure which thing you're talking about, but the first problem was that Goat Whore didn't show up. Oh, yeah, that's what it was. I was going to mention it. Yep, that's true. Goat Whore was supposed to close the second stage. And they just didn't show up. Yeah, they didn't show up. I haven't checked their

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Twitter or Facebook to see if anything happened. I hope not. I hope they didn't just... I don't see them ditching and not telling anybody. Maybe they broke down or somebody got hurt or who knows. We'll figure it out. Yeah, but they didn't show. I didn't see who filled in for them. Yeah, it didn't look familiar. Didn't sound familiar. Yeah, it didn't sound familiar. Somebody filled in. And then the second and even bigger tragedy of the day.

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Yeah, this sort of setting people off, understandably, is they ran out of beer. They ran out of beer. The odd thing about the beer, did we mention it? I don't think we did. Maybe we did. Well, we're mentioning it again. The way the beer system works for this event is you walked up and, like, buying tickets for a ride at a theme park. Or a raffle ticket.

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Yeah, or a raffle ticket. Yes, that's exactly it. It's like a raffle ticket. Who knows how many beers you're going to drink? You have to buy these tickets that when you want a beer, you just... Go and redeem the ticket. Yeah, go and redeem the ticket. Since the lines were extremely long, of course, George said we weren't going to drink five, six, seven beers or whatever. We each got like 20, 25 bucks worth, like five tickets. So we could get the free beer cozy. Yeah. I don't know where mine is.

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But we go to get more beer, our final beer for the day, and they're out. We still have tickets. But yeah, but we still have tickets. And there are people who bought a lot more tickets than us, and they're out of beer. We'll talk about that later, what we were able to do, but I'll just say it now. They were cool, and they, if Geek went and asked, and they refunded our tickets. Yeah, they refunded, they gave us some money. I know that there's going to be some people who had drank a lot, or,

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done whatever today who... Somebody drank all the beer. Yeah, would not have, you know, the mind to think about asking for a refund. So some people are going to be out some money for beer that they didn't get. Yep. Why you would make more tickets than you have beers, I don't know. It's a pretty simple process. Count how many beers you have available, make that many tickets. And you know, a lot... A thing I think that hurt them too is there was another beer truck with, you know, draft beers of some sort of...

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But I didn't see many people with those. No. The majority of the beer was the Gwar Pilsner. Kilsner. Kilsner, I'm sorry. In cans. Yeah. So that, when that ran out, that ran out. So, yeah, go ahead. So anyway, while we were not watching Goathore, because Goathore wasn't there, we were sitting over by this fence.

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And I could tell he was trying to walk away.

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I didn't want, you know, when one person sees him, it easily could have been 20. Didn't want to spook him. Yes. So, you know, I, as we're talking to him for a minute or two, I, you know, signaled George on over. So, uh, we both got to shake his hand and say hello. And we took, we took pictures with him that we'll try and post at some point. Yep. So that was, uh, easily, I still probably, you know, Guar was cool, but I still think meeting Randy was probably,

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the highlight of my day.

01:41:54.820 --> 01:41:55.400
I would agree.

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But then after Randy left, we went back and we just stood around.

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Talked to the guys in the band Baby Grinder.

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They were really cool guys.

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They said that they were...

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Weren't they from Wisconsin?

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Yes, they were.

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Grindcore...

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He said Napalm Death meets Primus.

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They were nice.

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They said they're going to send us some stuff.

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You may hear them on the podcast. Yeah. And after this point, Gwar took the stage. And you know, obviously with Dave being gone, it begs the question, well, what are they going to do? How are they going to sound? Is this going to be any good anymore? Well, I think we can safely say, Gwar lives. Mm-hmm. Oh, yes. Yeah, I had a blast watching them. They introduced a new character, a new old character, the former beefcake Mike Bishop.

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has returned as the new numero uno scum dog named Blothar. Fucking name is great. And his costume was fucking brilliant as far as I'm concerned. It was like this Nordic fat Odin. He had this big wooden shield and a helmet and like... Like his shoulder pads looked like trees and stuff. It was cool. It was very cool. And he sang brilliantly.

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He did. And another thing that I really liked about it was that they sort of worked in the death of Odorous. You know, they were like, there goes an organ donor. Man, you were going to fucking kill yourself. And your passenger. Yeah. Jesus Christ, don't ride motorcycles fast, people. Not at night. In traffic, you dumbasses. Anyway, Blothar. Yes.

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Oh, anyway, no, the theme with Odorous, you know, they were like, where's our brother Odorous? And, you know, he's dead. Well, who will sing now? And, like, all these, you know, Blothar came in and he's like, I will sing. And, you know, Sexecutioner came in and said, no, I should sing. And all these different characters were like, no. They killed him, they killed him. Yeah, and they were, you know, it was like a alpha male battle.

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to see who would lead.

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That was kind of a neat way to work it into the whole mythology of GWAR.

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I tell you, I have, for years, seen GWAR being on tour.

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I always put it off, like I mentioned earlier.

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Put it off, put it off, I'll see him next time, I'll see him next time, I'll see him next time.

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One song in to GWAR, their stage show alone.

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Their talent.

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You know.

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As musicians.

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Left me kicking myself in the ass.

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Because I was loving it.

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Yeah.

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There's just.

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Loving it.

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There's.

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You know.

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There's stage shows.

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And then there's guar.

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Yeah.

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And you know.

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There's just nothing I can compare to guar.

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On.

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For complete and total showmanship.

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And.

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Art.

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You know.

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They don't just get up there and play songs.

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It's a.

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It's a fucking event. Yeah. It's an event, yeah. It's like going to see a theater. Yeah. Performing a musical. Kind of like a metal theater. Yeah, metal theater. It was really... It blew me away. Yep. It was... I never really found myself at a show before laughing. I was having a good chuckle. These guys are good. This is fun. Yep. Unfortunately, we were...

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A little too far back. We didn't get sprayed with any of the blood. Yeah, it was a little, we were a little further up to begin with, but dynamic vagina that I am, I couldn't see. It's like, George, at one point, George goes, he taps me and goes, I can't see. So I almost tried to take my arm and like, okay, well here, freaking see. Yeah, but you were just pushing me even closer to the people that were too tall. I'm like, why is it always the tallest motherfuckers there are standing in front of me, no matter where I'm at.

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I am. Yeah. And so I was like, it's kind of like being too close to the screen at the movie theater. I was like, I need to move back a little. And, you know, we moved a little further back and it was not quite so compressed with people. Could breathe a little easier and could see a little better. Yeah. But unfortunately, not sprayed with blood. I don't know what they put in that stuff, but man, doesn't it look like that blood? Talk about leaving a stain, huh? Yeah. Boy, when it says it's stained,

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There were people, it may be a guar thing, maybe you have like your, putting on your guar outfit today. Well yeah, I mean that's what they're saying, that's why they make the shirt that I got today, it's why they make them white, is so that you can stain them with the blood. Yeah. And then that's like a badge of honor or something. Alas, I was wearing my metal disciple shirt and thought better of staining it since it's one of a kind and I don't really feel like paying the exorbitant price to buy another

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I could have put on the white shirt over top of it I suppose but then I would have sweat my ass off so no blood for me yeah no blood for any of us and I was carrying the backpack well we took turns with it but I didn't really want to like the microphone that we're using right now was in the backpack so if we got too close into the pit trying to get sprayed with blood probably would have busted up the microphone man what a freaking what a show huh yeah what a day what a couple of days good times

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My Good Friend. That's been my highlight. Two days here with my best friend. That was usually my favorite. But any moment other today really stand out again. We mentioned Randy. Gosh. I mean there was just so much conversation. The conversation. More so. Yeah. Just the socializing with other like-minded individuals. Yeah. Yeah. There was music. Call us maybe whatever you want. Oh you're wasted.

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your money or your pussy or blah blah blah. Whatever. If you make your own opinions up. Well, like the first bunch of bands I never even heard of, so I didn't care. But talking to all these people, I didn't have an urge to really get up and even go check them out. Yeah. I'm kind of bummed we forgot about the haunted house until kind of late in the day. And then same thing. Apparently you go through the haunted house and you get squirted so you're stained up. And at that point I was like, I'm tired.

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And fuck it. You know. But whatever. It was a great day. It was a wonderful day. So then you know. We left. Got out of there. We left like a song or two early just because. There's so many people. The parking here is not made. For this many people. Yeah. This not being a concert venue. This place is made for like.

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Field Trips and Weddings and stuff like that, you know? It's not made for this. We packed up and... The place was just so damn packed. Yeah. And, you know, they put the porta-potties near the stage, so the long-ass line of people was running into the people watching in front of the stage. Maybe move those somewhere a little further away from the stage next time. Yeah. But, you know, on the whole, brilliant weekend. Brilliant weekend. Amazing. Yeah. I'd like to...

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I'd like to say one final farewell to Dave Brockie, Odorous Yurongus. Oh, speaking about that, you got a little piece. Oh, that's right, I forgot. Yeah. So, you know, the boat, the funeral barge that they put Odorous on and fire the arrow and set it on fire, you know, we're sitting there at the picnic table that we were at today, and we kept smelling burnt plastic.

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I was like, what the hell is that? We turn around and on the, you know, we're looking at the pool, but on the other side of us is the pond or lake or, it has a pond. And there was the burnt funeral barge, like beached, you know, it was just nothing but gutted. Burped that hole, yeah. And I was like, oh man, I gotta go over and take a picture of that, which if you follow me on Twitter at all, you'll know I posted that.

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there waiting for people to get out of the way and framing my shot. I'm about to take the picture and a guy walks behind me and he's like, why don't you just take a piece? And I was like, looked around and I'm like, duh. So I scooped up a like two and a half, three inch piece of charred wood from the funeral barge. I'm like, what the hell am I going to do with this?

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And my backpack.

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So I could put that in there to help preserve it and not get fucking ash and shit all over everything in my bag.

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So I'm going to take that home and mount that fucker.

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It's going to be a prize display, I think.

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At the time, it didn't hit me.

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At the time, when he brought it back, I was like,

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I was like, how are you not excited by this?

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He's just like, yeah, that's nice.

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But now, think of it as George's Italian, I'm an idiot. You are an idiot. I'm like, dude, I don't understand why you're not excited about, this is a piece of history right here. This is like, you know, okay, I'm not going to use that because that's a little too, I was going to say it's like a piece of the cross. That's a little too far, you know. I'm not going to compare it to Jesus. But same idea, it's a relic of

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It's like a piece of the Berlin Wall. That's a much better way to describe it. So like probably some of the odorous is melted into it. Yep. That was what was stinky probably was all that burnt latex. So you have brought him home with you. Yep. What if like... What if he regenerated like

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I am Odorous. Yeah, what if he comes back and starts haunting your house? I'd be like, I have a pet Odorous. Sweet! This is so epic. Oh man, my voice is still pretty wrecked. Anyway, so like I was saying, I wanted to say a final farewell to Odorous, Yurongus, and Dave Brockie. I want to thank Gwar for renewing

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my faith in the band and what they do, I think... Don't have any doubt. If they can pull off other shows like they did today, they'll be just fine. Yeah, I think they will be as strong as ever. Mike Bishop is definitely back in the fold and... The fans seem to accept it fine. Yeah, I mean... There was no, you know, not one boo, not one comment. Nobody was, no asshole was saying, oh, you're not Dave.

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You know what I'm saying? None of that. Yep. I think they're on the right path. So congratulations to GWAR. I look forward to many more years. A thousand more years. Yeah. I'm not missing them again. Of the reign of GWAR. Yep. I will not miss them. All right. Anything else you want to add before we sign off? I just want to say thanks to you for a wonderful couple of days. Likewise, my brother. It was awesome.

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Thanks to everybody we met. If you met us and you're listening to this now, thank you. Thank you for all the conversation. Thank you for all the conversations. Camaraderie. Thanks for all the stickers we received, all the music, everything. It was really, really cool. Sorry if we forced all these ridiculous business cards on you with our website address. But you know, we were given drinks.

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It was such a nice experience. Yep. More so than anything else. Just meeting people and talking. Yep. So that was awesome. Yep. Alright. Well, I think we're going to wrap it up now. And please, if you were there and you're listening to this, you have any other stories you want to share with us, send us in a message. Send us in an email. Tweet at us. Yep. And all of you that said you were going to get a hold of us,

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your music please do and uh we'll talk to you later yep we're in traffic now yep all right we're out of here we're out see ya