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Beer Booze and BS is a bold new podcast filmed inside Frontier Liquor in Zimmerman Minnesota where craft spirits cocktail culture and unfiltered fun collide. Hosted by Chrissy Bohnhoff this show delivers liquor tastings off the cuff conversations giveaways and a real behind the register experience. We spotlight local legends badass women small town rebels and anyone who loves a strong drink with a side of real talk. Whether you are into whiskey vodka tequila or craft cocktails you will feel right at home. New episodes drop weekly featuring liquor reviews cocktail tutorials biker vibes exclusive merch drops and raw stories you will not hear anywhere else. Support local drink local and do not take life too seriously. Subscribe and sip with us. BeerBoozeBS LiquorPodcast DrinkLocalMN CocktailCulture MinnesotaPodcast WhiskeyTasting
Hey, everybody. Welcome to Beer, Booze and BS. We are obviously in a new location today. This is not Frontier Liquor.
Paul:What?
Chrissy:What? How can you tell? Are, believe it or not, I'm in Minneapolis, which I swear I never will go to again. But we are here for a good reason. We are shooting for our podcast today with a resident of Minneapolis, long time resident of Minneapolis.
Chrissy:Joining me is Paulie, obviously. He's always And our guest today is my my buddy Chad. Smash.
Chad:Hi. Thank you for having me and actually asking me to be on your
Chrissy:I know. I've been wanting to ask you for quite a while. I've been thinking about it and just finally did.
Chad:Well, thank you for the hat.
Chrissy:Absolutely. By
Chad:the way, this is really awesome. I love your swag. And I got you something as well too.
Chrissy:Oh my gosh.
Chad:Actually opened it up Oh. Beforehand.
Paul:Oh, Oh,
Chad:boy. Save some editing time.
Chrissy:Okay. Yes.
Chad:It's a toy.
Chrissy:Oh, I seen these on your well, I when I Googled your name Oh my god. This is so cool. Thank you. It's Where did Pop Rocks come from? Because I've seen you sell these at you have at other ones.
Chad:Funko pops. Funko is a company, I believe, in
Chrissy:by the way.
Chad:Yeah. It's Prince Pop. Those are actually really popular right now. There's four of them. There's two Purple Rain ones with a glitter variant.
Chrissy:So cool. Oh my you gosh. Well, well, we're gonna get into Prince.
Chad:Segue.
Chrissy:Yeah. We're gonna get into Prince a little bit. Tell us, were you a friend of Prince's, or were you an employee of Prince's, both?
Chad:Yes. Both.
Paul:Both. Oh, yeah.
Chad:Okay. He he did a he he had a really cool song called Hello that he wrote for his bodyguards. He goes, I called them bodyguards. People call them bodyguards, but I called them my friends. K.
Chad:I guess I'm used to having him around.
Chrissy:So Chad was a bodyguard for Prince Mhmm. For how many years?
Chad:Full time, three, Part time, until he passed.
Chrissy:Really?
Chad:Okay. There was a show
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:That was about after party and so forth. And like we were talking, I'm actually the second generation security. My aunt was Sheila E's bodyguard that played drums for Prince back in the eighties
Chrissy:Sheila E. Yep.
Chad:During the Love Sexy tour in '88. So
Chrissy:I That's so cool.
Chad:That's fucking cool. Generation. Yeah.
Chrissy:And we're gonna have a actually, a couple segments where we talk about prints, but I wanna open up with just kinda talking about you and introducing. So Chad and I met when I worked out at a gym down the street here in Minneapolis, South Minneapolis called Los Campiones. And he was not my trainer, but a good friend of the guy that was training me. So that's how we met. Yeah.
Chrissy:That was in 2013.
Chad:Okay.
Chrissy:And we won't forget that I was so intimidated to walk into that gym.
Chad:You fit very well in there. Your your energy and personality is larger than life and everybody loved you there.
Chrissy:Oh, I loved everybody there. They were all everybody was so nice and so welcoming and so cool. And obviously, I became the closest with you and Taylor.
Chad:Mhmm.
Chrissy:Mhmm. But, yeah. Hi Taylor. But yeah, so I want How does the How did we get the Chad smash? Where did smash come from?
Chrissy:Because I know that's not your real last name.
Chad:No. So I used to play poker around town, I ran a poker league in different bars and restaurants.
Chrissy:You have so many hats. You wear?
Chad:I have. Yeah. Right?
Chrissy:I get
Chad:I get bored very, very
Paul:easily, and I learn everything.
Chrissy:I I
Chad:engulf myself in something, learn everything about it, and walk Yeah. I was just doing a bunch of poker games around Saint Paul Minneapolis, and I one day had a large straight that I knew I was gonna win. Holy shit. Straight flush. Excuse me.
Chrissy:What?
Chad:And I was betting. I just went all in, and I got I was beat by a gentleman who had a larger flush.
Chrissy:Oh. You serious?
Chad:Yeah. And so I just kinda sat there, and apparently I
Chrissy:just That just doesn't fucking happen.
Chad:No. I was and not to be like a a not to have poker etiquette or anything, but guy had no business even being in the hands. So being you know,
Chrissy:was just like, what
Chad:is this? And so I guess I just I put my head down and I just sat there and I'm like, buddy CJ He just looked at the anger in my face and he goes, Chad smash. And I just and it just kinda stopped.
Chrissy:Really? That's how that name came?
Chad:That was about 2005. Okay.
Chrissy:So Okay. That's awesome. That's a good story.
Chad:Vince used to call me
Chrissy:So was this Obviously, was what poker like, obviously, you were playing poker for money. Mhmm. So it was like high stakes.
Chad:Some of it was. Some of the stuff in the bars were just for But buying games and so I I did I did play some pro. So
Chrissy:Yeah. Just out of curiosity, how did you get the job with Prince? Like
Chad:Oh, that's a good question. So my my training partner was Prince's personal bodyguard that I had known since I was nine. Oh. And I'll never forget it. We were actually working out one day, and we were doing tricep pull downs.
Chad:And he goes he goes, hey. You know, you're not one of these guys that is really you know, loves the limelight, and, you know, oh my god, a celebrity? And I was like, no. And he goes, you want a job working for Prince? And I was like, okay.
Chad:Sure. What the fuck? So Just nonchalantly. So yeah. So I just got kinda then Prince found out that I was
Chrissy:73 you?
Chad:I was 33. Okay. Two, three at that time.
Chrissy:Good age. Good age. Yep.
Chad:And the so, like, this yeah.
Chrissy:So you did not know Prince prior to that? No. Or you ever met him? Or had I mean,
Chad:I saw him around town like everybody else did. Yeah. You know what I mean? But Yeah. No.
Chad:I didn't know him at all. So but, yeah, that was the the second night that I was there, Prince was just kinda feeling me out about, you know, what what kind of person I was and so forth. And my boss, Charles, filled him in. That was my training partner.
Chrissy:Yep.
Chad:And so he got a little more comfortable, and all of a sudden, one day like, that same no. It was that same night. The second night, he comes over and he looks at my suit and, don't ever wear that again.
Chrissy:Shut up.
Chad:And I was I I walked over to our boss, who was Takumi. And Takumi later on worked for ACDC and a bunch of others. He was a monster. Shout out to Takumi.
Chrissy:Shout out
Paul:to Takumi.
Chad:I walked up to him and I go, hey. Prince just told me not to ever wear this suit. Better never wear that suit again. I was like, okay. Well, alright.
Chad:That next week, I turn on the I'm
Chrissy:gonna start doing to
Chad:Yeah. I I first at first, I thought I was like, is is there something wrong with the material? I mean, he's sports. Right? Right?
Chad:So then following week, I'm watching TV, and he's on Ellen DeGeneres wearing my suit. No. It was a chocolate it was a chocolate brown pinstripe suit with a dull gold pinstripe is beautiful. It was a
Chrissy:pretty beautiful gonna be the same size.
Chad:So I never wore it again. And I saw that, I was like, alright.
Chrissy:So that was why. It wasn't that it was a cheap suit as he had one like it.
Paul:He would
Chad:do that. He would do that. The first time I ever DJed for him because I DJed too, and the DJ didn't show up for an after party. And so I'm thrown under the bus. My boss, Charles, goes, Chad's a DJ.
Chad:And I'm like, yeah? And he goes, do you know any of my music? Do you have it on vinyl? And that's where I took the opportunity. I go, I have all of your music on vinyl.
Chrissy:Who didn't?
Chad:So I called my girlfriend up at the time, and then she was she dropped me off at Chanhassen because we only have one car. And I called her, I go, go home, grab all my record crates, and bring them up off. I'll help you now. She's like, on it. Came up there, and I made the mistake.
Chrissy:Now where were where was this at?
Chad:This is at Pason's Afterparty. And I made the mistake of trying not just to try to blend and then get something going with Prince music. And I did a couple of, like, Ray Charles and whatever, and then I mixed in great tune, Give It To Me Baby by Rick James. Give It
Chrissy:To Me Baby. Fuck yeah.
Chad:And all of a sudden, my boss comes around and he goes, you need to spin out of this record right now. Uh-oh. And I was like, why? Why? And he goes, because Prince hates Rick James.
Chad:They were on tour together. And I guess Rick James was really evil too. It was called the punk and funk tour where Prince was the punk and James was the funk. Oh. And he was really, really mean to him because Warner
Chrissy:This must have been early in his
Chad:career, obviously. Trust him to have his own tour yet, so they were putting him on other
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:Tours. Like
Chrissy:Oh, that would make sense.
Chad:Weirdly enough, he opened up for the Rolling Stones.
Chrissy:Really?
Chad:Yeah. And he got booed off stage for that. So that's an interesting story. Yeah. So gosh.
Chad:I quickly I was like, okay. So I literally hit stop. I turned the record player completely off. So it slowly started to wind down, grabbed a really deep cut of his of the family, actually
Chrissy:k.
Chad:And ran the record needle. I crossed it and then quickly played that. And all of a sudden, looked at just off the corner of my eye and I see Prince going I went, oh god. I still have a job.
Chrissy:I can like, when you were doing his mannerisms and stuff, I can literally picture him doing So these you you were doing them well.
Chad:We would make when I was when I was working with him, there was a time where we would tell tons of mom jokes and then his mom passed away. Oh. So we couldn't tell any mom jokes.
Paul:Oh, sure.
Chad:And he was I always tell everybody, you know, he discovered Dave Chappelle. A lot of people don't know that.
Paul:Oh, really?
Chad:Yeah. Started working with him in, like, '93, '94. He would have been a great comedian, though. His comedic timing
Chrissy:So he was funny.
Chad:Oh, he was he he would he would come up to me and he'd go, you know, I'll cut your mama's legs off and we can't kick it anymore. What the fuck? And I was just like, I'm like
Paul:Just random. Allowed to
Chad:come back at it?
Chrissy:Yeah. Right. What do mean you say?
Chad:Like, the first 10 times. Was just like, oh, it's a good one, for instance. And then I was, like, just thinking about some good ones. Because I come from South Minneapolis. We all told mama jokes here.
Chad:Right?
Chrissy:Yeah.
Chad:So I was trying to think of the best one. And he did that one day, and he said something about, your mom's so old, her birthday expired. And I just kind of looked at him, and I go, oh, you have your mother's eyes. And he went, oh.
Chrissy:Oh. Oh, he ran away?
Chad:And he was like, you got me. That was good. And it's after that, it was yeah.
Paul:Oh, that's go on ease.
Chad:No holds barred.
Chrissy:Did you
Paul:guys call it doing the dozens?
Chad:What? Say it again?
Paul:Was it called the dozens when you guys were doing that? When you're doing mama jokes?
Chad:No. We were
Paul:in the military, we did it with the the guys, and then they called it doing the dozens.
Chrissy:We called it Really?
Chad:Yep. I've heard that. We called it bagging on moms. Okay. Oh.
Chad:So it's bagging on bagging or whatever it is. So you remember that one too? Bagging on moms? No?
Paul:I was in in the military obviously with a bunch of black guys and they they called it doing the dozens.
Chad:Oh, okay.
Paul:And it was Oh, on moms nonstop.
Chad:You wanna get to know somebody and desensitize them and, you know, you're if you're a friend, you should be able to say anything you want
Paul:to your friend.
Chad:And, you know, my crew here, when we do our webcast, we warm up, and there are no holes barred. And we would go to jail in Minneapolis if if some of the things that came out of each
Paul:other's me
Chad:being Jewish and Brandon being Asian and Mark being your typical white guy, you know, it's like, you just you've got all of the fodder right there.
Paul:That's fucking hilarious.
Chrissy:Getting back to you. So you're a personal trainer, self proclaimed gym rat. I've seen you on that on your podcast. You're a collector of many things, most notably toys, but you say you collect cards. What other things do you collect?
Chad:Obviously, vinyl.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. Records.
Chad:Yep. I collect CDs. I I know this is weird, but I collect a lot of dead technology. That's what they call it or physical media these days. Oh.
Chad:I have a huge DVD collection. Okay. Huge CD collection that I've never listened to, but I'm waiting for them to get to be like weird is that? Cassettes are big. Right, Mike?
Chad:What what the fuck? Like, this is the worst thing ever. I had to grow up on those things and made millions of mix tapes, which I still have.
Paul:Yep. Right?
Chad:And but I don't want to, by choice, ever listen to a cassette again. Yeah. It's just, like, trendy for these young kids, these damn young kids.
Chrissy:Damn young kids.
Chad:But DVDs, I I really have a passion for because there's something that was lost when we started downloading and streaming. Yeah. And that is the commentaries.
Chrissy:Yeah.
Chad:You know, the deleted scenes. Oh, I love watching that.
Chrissy:Oh, sure.
Chad:Yeah. Like, we were just I just did a short we uploaded for a little shop of horrors, and it's a really good DVD. And Frank Oz does all the commentary on that, which is crazy. Right? But people are like, who's Frank Oz?
Chad:Muppets. Anyways.
Chrissy:That was that's he was the creator of the Muppets?
Chad:He was one of the voices of I think he was Ernie. No. He was Bert.
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:Bert and Ernie. So
Chrissy:Also also, you said you're a collector of records, but that's did that start with when you became a DJ, or is that why you became a DJ? And what kind of DJ were you? Like
Chad:Well, so I was brought up in the in the late seventies where scratching
Chrissy:Yep.
Chad:Started happening. So I was that when I heard rapper's delight and everything. And I'm sure everybody remembers Rocket, Herbie Hancock's Rocket, which was all scratching.
Chrissy:Paul, I was probably too young,
Paul:but Breakdance into
Chad:that song. Breakdance exactly. My brain that they Electrofunk music.
Chrissy:You guys are exactly the same age.
Chad:Are we? Yep. Yeah. That was I got into that, so I was taking quarters and taping them to the top of my mom's record player and ruining the needles and doing all that. And I just started because I lived in I grew up literally a couple blocks away.
Chad:I literally grew up right behind Los Campions, which was crazy. And I just started going to Electric Fetus all the time and Positively Fourth Street, No Name Record, all these record stores that are local, and just started buying them up. I knew how to flip and clean and turn a record by the time I was seven. Wow. Nice.
Chad:Yeah. And I still have. I have all of my my mom's old collection now. So I have probably five, ten thousand records. I have a lot.
Paul:I was just gonna say,
Chad:I mean, I have a
Paul:lot of records. Good.
Chad:So yeah. In all different genres and everything. I collect I collect everything.
Chrissy:Oh, and you've produced a record too, showed me, or a a few, anyways.
Chad:I I produced a native American spoken word album with a guy by the name of Cochise Anderson, who was a triple threat. He was an actor, native dancer, singer, double barreled flutes, which were really, really cool. He won the Bush Fellowship grant
Chrissy:Oh.
Chad:And came to me and said, hey. He worked for Prince. Do you wanna make make a an album? But I had a lot like, I was I was buying a lot of Prince's equipment when I was there. So Sure.
Chad:They would they would have a new channel mixer. So, like, I have a 24 bus channel mixer that just this monster of a thing that I bought from him. It was just sitting in the hallway. And he I was like, oh, how much for that? And he goes, how much money do you got on here?
Chad:And I was like, I got, like, $600 because you always carried money Oh. When you worked for Prince because he didn't have any pockets.
Chrissy:Right. Right. Right.
Chad:And I was like, I got 600. He goes, you're gonna have to go get more. And I got, like, a $3,000 mixer for, like, $2. Wow. I still got it.
Chrissy:Nice.
Chad:That's where I started making stuff.
Chrissy:Sure.
Chad:Yeah. I just kept
Chrissy:So now did you actually play in clubs? Or
Chad:I DJed in a lot of I used to yeah. First off, I DJed there. The Chatterbox, I used to DJ every Sunday night. I don't know if you guys remember Methods of Mayhem. It was Tommy Lee's
Chrissy:Yeah. Absolutely.
Chad:And Absolutely. Yeah. I opened up for those guys at
Chrissy:ground zero.
Chad:Yeah. Ground zero. This is twenty Badass. Yeah.
Chrissy:Ground 0. Boy, that's a blast from
Chad:So, the yeah, that's where I
Chrissy:got to I
Chad:was a big scratch DJ.
Chrissy:Were you over there, Mike? Ground 0? Yep.
Paul:What was the Bondage Room?
Chrissy:Yeah. The Bondage Room. There was a bar in Minneapolis called Ground Zero where it was like a basement type thing, and it was they had a bondage room. Really?
Chad:In a place that you'd literally Yeah. I don't know what rated this is, but I know Chrissy, so I know she don't care about it.
Paul:Oh, no. No.
Chad:They literally strap you up and pour wax on you.
Paul:Oh, yeah. It was kinda creepy.
Chad:Was it was very creepy.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. Hard pass.
Chad:It was it was
Paul:that well, not. To be there was there.
Chrissy:Yeah. Emo Really?
Chad:Goth. Yeah. Emo goth era for for sure. Yeah.
Chrissy:Well, all of these hats that you wear, what do you feel like you most identify with, like, in your opinion?
Chad:Oh, what do I identify as?
Chrissy:Not not as. Not know what you identify as.
Chad:I identify as always being right. What do I you know, I consider my what I do that's a really good question, girl. I consider myself a trainer first and foremost because I've been doing it so long. But somebody once told me this is exactly what you're supposed to be doing with And your it took me a long time to realize that, but I I absolutely agree with that now. So training first and foremost.
Chrissy:Okay. That's Secondly. That's what I would have thought you would say.
Chad:That's where I combined all
Paul:of these. Fucking nerds. Exactly.
Chrissy:So we're gonna have our first drink.
Chad:Sweet. Yeah. Remember when that was not cool in the nineties and eighties to be a nerd? Remember that? That that
Chrissy:pissed me movies called that.
Paul:Yeah. Right. The nerds. The nerds.
Chrissy:What are we drinking, Shannon? MXG. This is MXD. It's a flavored malt beverage. Holy crap.
Chrissy:It's 12%.
Chad:Yeah. 12% of what?
Chrissy:It's available in four packs. It there's what this is blue Hawaiian? Yep. We have blue Hawaiian, Long Island tea, and margarita flavors.
Chad:Oh, it smells delicious. It does smell good.
Chrissy:So they must not be a mixed pack then. Right? It's just each No.
Paul:Just each
Chrissy:Each flavor.
Paul:Has its own.
Chrissy:It's a 12% content of alcohol, carbonated cocktail, manufactured by the Mark Anthony Group. They feature well, it has margarita blue wine and Long Island tea. They are crafted to removing no gluten. So it's gluten free.
Chad:What you wish for.
Paul:Uh-huh. So It almost smells like liquid ice. Okay.
Chrissy:And that's margarita.
Chad:Assuming to me like Baja Blast.
Paul:That's what I thought.
Chad:Did you like the old Mountain Dew? Yeah.
Chrissy:Yeah. Don't they make that?
Chad:I've never ate it. Oh, they've had that before.
Chrissy:So this is Blue Hawaiian.
Chad:Did you ever do did you ever do you remember what the nineties when they did vodka and Mountain Dew? Oh, yep. Voodoo's?
Paul:Yep. Yeah.
Chrissy:I hate Mountain Dew, so
Paul:this morning. What? Actually, of them.
Chad:When I'm hungover,
Paul:I love them.
Chrissy:Mountain Dew? Oh, fuck.
Paul:If I'm real
Chad:hungover, I'll
Chrissy:fucking drink fucking syrup.
Chad:Orange orange pop from McDonald's. Alright. Best hangover.
Chrissy:Orange from McDonald's? Fuck. Really?
Chad:Yes. Oh, yeah. Love that.
Paul:Not in a
Chad:big mac. What do want to do first?
Chrissy:Okay. Let's start with our blue one. Blue Hawaiian. Cheers. Cheers.
Chrissy:Cheers. Cheers.
Paul:What?
Chrissy:You gotta say your thing.
Paul:Which one? Get it in. Get it out. Don't mess my hair up.
Chrissy:Yep. Here we go.
Chad:Do we oh, you we're shooting these. Uh-oh. Okay.
Chrissy:It's strong.
Chad:Yeah. You can taste
Chrissy:the alcohol. Taste the alcohol.
Chad:That's a it's actually It's really good.
Paul:Good. Yeah. For some reason, I thought this wasn't gonna be good.
Chrissy:You didn't?
Chad:Uh-uh. This sort of reminds me I shots that everybody doing now? Pink something or other?
Chrissy:Pink pink Whitney's?
Chad:Thank you. What is it?
Chrissy:Pink Whitney.
Paul:The fuck is that?
Chad:We have the best engineer production back here. It's like
Paul:Did you guys wanna send?
Chrissy:Yeah. Do you guys wanna try some? I'm
Paul:okay for now.
Chrissy:You sure? Yeah. Yeah. Plenty.
Chad:Brandon, you don't you don't wanna see him drink. He's
Chrissy:Now we do. We're gonna make this a fun day.
Paul:That. That's exactly who he wants to try. Would not understand.
Chrissy:Yeah. Don't tempt us with a good time.
Chad:Brandon's retired, but Brandon is also an official liar head. So
Chrissy:So I don't know. That one was alright. Yeah. Now we're gonna rate these when we're done from one to 10. So one being obviously worse, 10 being best.
Chrissy:So
Chad:Alright. Next to the Long Island.
Chrissy:Let's do the Long Island.
Chad:Long Island last. Sure. Okay.
Chrissy:Wanna do margarita?
Chad:Yeah.
Chrissy:You and don't feel like you have to drink it all.
Chad:No. I okay. Thank you for telling me.
Chrissy:Yeah. You don't have to drink
Paul:it all. Saturday.
Chrissy:Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers.
Chrissy:Oh, I like this one better. But I'm a margarita person.
Chad:It smells almost like Diet Coke, and then when you taste it, it smells Right. Tastes citrusy. Yeah.
Chrissy:This is a margarita flavor.
Chad:Any sense to anybody. I've
Chrissy:got kind of a cold, so I can't smell.
Paul:Yeah. That'll give you a heartburn for sure.
Chad:This one's is this a little bit stronger than the first one?
Paul:I don't think so. Me? They're probably the same thing.
Chrissy:First one was stronger tasting, but I am a margarita snob, so I love my Marks.
Chad:Oh, it's okay.
Chrissy:That one was alright.
Paul:Fucking
Chrissy:Yeah. Don't feel like you
Paul:have to drink it all. Last night.
Chrissy:Alright. Long Island tea.
Chad:Long Island. That smells like a Long Island to me. Reminds me
Chrissy:of But they all have the same alcohol content. So
Chad:I'm missing out on this one.
Paul:Oh, I don't know. This tastes
Chrissy:Oh, this one's really good.
Paul:I like this one the best.
Chrissy:I do too.
Chad:I do too. I like this one.
Paul:Like, you get a little hint of lemon right at the end.
Chrissy:Oh, this one's really this one's a lot smoother than the first two.
Chad:I was full of anxiety on this one just because of the name.
Paul:Yep. Yep. But they all have
Chrissy:the same alcohol content.
Chad:Are afraid of Long Island
Paul:iced tea. Braces back all the memories.
Chad:I am that person. Oh, fuck yeah.
Chrissy:All you can drink Long Island teas at streamers.
Chad:Oh, I remember the $1 Long Island iced teas.
Paul:$1? Bunkers.
Chrissy:Oh, what? Bunkers?
Chad:Probably the worst liquor you could ever drink.
Chrissy:Oh, the bar rail shit.
Chad:Yeah. A bar rail. And then, of course, you know, nothing was ever cleaned properly. I'm not saying that about bunkers.
Chrissy:I love bunkers. Is that even still open? Yeah. Is it?
Chad:Yep.
Chrissy:I had a buddy.
Chad:That was good. Oh, yeah. Can I rank mine? Yep. So that's number one.
Chad:Yep. Then then the Baja Blast one is you got the same thing. You guys agree?
Chrissy:Same. Yep. All kind of have
Chad:the same really good palates.
Chrissy:We do have good palates. I would definitely say the same. And I I don't know if I would give it a 10. I would probably give it an Eight. An eight.
Chrissy:And then maybe a seven six.
Paul:Yeah. I'd give the other two
Chrissy:We've had some amazing tens.
Chad:Yeah. Yeah.
Paul:That's see, that's what's hard. It's like you gotta drink everything during the day Yeah. Throughout the whole thing and then right at the end
Chrissy:of it. Because then you're like, oh, shit. This is way better than the last one.
Paul:Like, remember we had that fucking that margarita, dude. I don't We have another one in the makings. Oh, I don't know how you can top that fucking
Chrissy:margarita. Amazing. Really? Even when Colton made me another batch of that, it still wasn't the same as that first batch. Really?
Chrissy:But he didn't have the exact same lemon or what was the
Chad:That that
Chrissy:Whatever shit you guys got from, like spicy lemonade. Yeah.
Paul:Who the hell you that shit's, like, impossible to find. Oh, it's discontinued. You can't find it.
Chrissy:That's why it was at that place.
Paul:You motherfucker just wrecked wrecked it forever. And now I have to get yelled at my husband. Like, the best margarita I've ever had in my life, and now you can't have it again. Yeah. Cool story, bro.
Paul:Cool
Chrissy:story, bro. Alright. Well, that was drink one. Well, survived. You did survive.
Chad:Those are good.
Chrissy:Let's see. Where are we at?
Paul:Minneapolis.
Chrissy:We are in Minneapolis.
Chad:South Minneapolis of all places too.
Paul:The dirty, dirty South. Riverside.
Chrissy:Okay. So we already asked I already talked about how you got on Prince's security team. So were you head of security? Were you bodyguard? Were you just security?
Chrissy:Like, what was your job title?
Chad:I was I was bodyguard.
Chrissy:Bodyguard. And how many bodyguards were there, like, on a typical regular basis?
Chad:So there was three of us that were bodyguards. K. And that would be one or two traveling, and then I I hated traveling.
Chrissy:K. That wasn't one of my questions. Yeah.
Chad:I hated traveling. And then you would have we would hire just four or five people for after hour security that was just security that we would ten ninety nine them
Chrissy:and Okay. So were you just at events or were you like personal security bodyguard? Like, were you at, like, with him just on a regular basis? How did that work?
Chad:You would get a phone call and
Chrissy:Like, was were you on call? Yeah. Like, kind of like a doctor? Like, when he wants you there, you better get there? Yeah.
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:Yeah. It was you get a phone call, and it would be all zeros so you knew it was him. And
Chrissy:What does that mean? Like, how
Chad:would you else zeroes. Number. Oh. Yeah. Weird.
Chad:Right? And I go, hey. What's up?
Paul:People know.
Chad:Yeah. It was just, like, all private it was just a private number, it was just all zeros.
Chrissy:Like, back then, it was just pagers, I'm assuming.
Chad:This was so we're talking 2003.
Chrissy:Oh, 2003. Okay. God. I forgot what year it is.
Chad:There's no cameras on the phones.
Chrissy:No cameras, but we did have cell phones. Right.
Chad:Okay. And then about 2004 or '5, we yeah. So you would get a if there was an after party, you know, you'd get up there and you would be doing security walking him around.
Chrissy:So you say after party after party after what?
Chad:Would just have these after bar parties. Oh, after bar parties.
Chrissy:So it wasn't after, like, a event or, like, a concert.
Chad:Sure. Like, he would do like, when Madonna came into town.
Chrissy:Okay. And Oh, sure.
Chad:He had an event because I used to date. And they had an event up there, and he sang her happy birthday. So yeah. So, I mean, is that That's very nice Isn't that crazy?
Chrissy:You meet her?
Chad:I did.
Chrissy:You did? I did. And?
Chad:Madge is an amazing person.
Chrissy:She's so sweet. She was?
Chad:Very, very
Chrissy:sweet. Like such a
Chad:psycho. People. Oh, she's very nice to me.
Chrissy:Well, that's good. That's well, that's the only that's the only thing you can go off of, obviously.
Chad:Yeah. She was very, very sweet, very nice. Yeah. There was
Chrissy:Was that before Sean Penn?
Chad:That that I met her? Yeah. No. This was just recently, like, in the last ten years when she was here in town.
Chrissy:Oh.
Chad:Yeah. He had a little after party for her. I wanna say it was like god. He died in 2016, so that was probably
Chrissy:I know. Know. Years ago.
Chad:As well. Wow. God. So
Chrissy:That does not seem like it's been ten years at all.
Chad:No. Not at all.
Chrissy:It's crazy. Did you have to sign, like, any confidential or any agreements? NDA? Well, you said I don't have an NDA. I never did.
Chrissy:I
Chad:never signed it. I was handed them, but we were were so micromanaged because, you know, he you have to keep in mind that I was at a time at Paisley Park with working with Prince is that he couldn't even sell out a stadium. He was not doing anything very very big. He had released an album called the Rainbow Children.
Chrissy:Never heard
Chad:Nope. Of that You didn't in it. Not a lot of people did because it was a Jehovah Witness album.
Chrissy:What? What? He was a Jehovah Witness. Yeah. Yep.
Chrissy:So where are the Jacksons? The Jacksons.
Chad:So he so when I was up there, it was kinda dark. He was just kinda holding on to his fan base. Everything was going through npg.com, You know, just trying to trying to keep his head above water because it was very expensive to run Paisley's.
Chrissy:Right.
Chad:Couple 100,000 square feet. You know? So
Chrissy:Is it that big? It's huge. Couple 100,000?
Chad:I think it's, Brandon, you should look that up.
Chrissy:I think been there.
Chad:50,000 square feet. Yeah. It's huge. It's huge. But, yeah, I mean, you would also get a phone call.
Chad:Hey. I'm gonna go out to dinner to he loved Filios.
Chrissy:So What's that? A restaurant?
Chad:Filios, an Italian restaurant that used to be in in yeah. So we would go to Filios and, you know, I'd just sit in the sidelines, let him make sure nobody bothered him. A lot of times, we would, oh, go to Cheapo across the street Cheapo records, was open all night. Remember that?
Chrissy:Oh, really?
Chad:Yeah. It was open twenty four hours. Oh, that's insane. Prince would do this. He would just start going through all of his stuff.
Chad:Just fucking And handed me all this stuff. And and he go, come on. And I go, come up. And he just throw it on, take my stuff. He goes, you can't sell these.
Chad:These are bootlegs. These are bootleg. And all of sudden, this this guy behind the counter is like, wow. Prince is yelling at me about
Chrissy:This is And were they? I'm assuming he knew.
Chad:His shit. He is next to the Grateful Dead. He was the most bootlegged artist. Yeah.
Chrissy:Really? Yeah. I think So what does that even mean? Bootlegs?
Paul:How does that get into, like,
Chad:that record store then? No. Just German bootleg basically means it's something that he didn't want out there. So for example, when the blackout Prince's black album came out, it it got leaked, and people just kept pressing it and pressing it and pressing it and making mood works. He was so popular that he couldn't keep up with the amount of music that people wanted.
Paul:Right.
Chad:So there was, you know, that aspect. But he he was kind of his own yeah. He was kind of his own worst enemy with that because he would give these promos and demos to people and go, you should all do this, and then all of sudden they get leaked out.
Chrissy:Oh. So he trusted people, and he couldn't, obviously. Well, in that industry, it sucks. What was your so when you take us to the back to, like, the day that you met Prince. Tell us about that encounter.
Chrissy:Like, you got was it did he interview you yourself?
Chad:No. No. I just got it was basically whatever my my training partner, Charles, whatever he said went. Charles, I actually interviewed him, and I never released it. I'll have to show that to you.
Chad:It's amazing.
Chrissy:Oh my god. Yeah.
Chad:I never interviewed him. I never released it because it was like, we talked about some pretty deep stuff that that that I was just like, I'm gonna hold off on.
Chrissy:You interviewed Charles? Your Charles buddy that got helped you get the job. Okay.
Chad:But Charles, my old boss, was the longest running security. He was there for eleven years. He was
Chrissy:For Prince? For Prince. Okay.
Chad:When Prince owned Glanslam, Charles was the door guy there. So he would recruit security from his nightmares. So yeah.
Chrissy:And you met Charles where? At the gym?
Chad:I had known Charles since I was, like
Chrissy:Oh, that's right. You said you
Chad:were 12.
Chrissy:Yeah. You're a young kid.
Chad:I was just that that gym rat that would go in there. The the original creator and owner of Los Campions, Jim McCormick Yep. Hi, Jim.
Chrissy:Hi, Jim.
Chad:Is my mentor, still a really good friend of mine to this day, and lived with us because I would do my paper route in the neighborhood. And when I get down with my paper route, I would go to the gym on Saturdays and Sunday mornings. And so my mom and my aunt, who was Sheila E's bodyguard, lived with us in the basement because she was traveling all the time. So she just stayed with us, stayed, left her junk there. And one day, my mom and I went to knock on the door at, like, 06:59, and it was locked.
Chad:And all of a sudden, you could see there used to be an office that you could, you know, see, and you could see Jim with had beautiful hair like Mike Adonis looking hair.
Paul:Long, lusciously enough.
Chad:And and we could see him on a sleeping bag on the floor. And he gets up and he unlocks, oh, sorry, you know. And my mom goes, little Jewish five foot nothing mom goes, what are you doing? Oh, I spent all my money on this place, so, you know, I'm sleeping in here. And she goes, no.
Chad:You're not. You're coming home with us. So Jim lived with us for two years. So Jim was in his twenties, and, you know, I I would get home from my paper route, and he'd literally be sleeping on the couch and he'd go, here. Open up the gym.
Chad:Okay. So I would go in there at, you know, 11 years old and open up the gym on the weekends. And it wasn't you would sign in, and it was just literally a Rolodex, which
Chrissy:I do.
Chad:Many of us remember what a Rolodex is. Mike Mike's like, mhmm.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah.
Chad:And you would see My mom still got one in her office. Those things are really collectible now. Think they're making them again. Really? They're bad.
Chad:Pointless like a Palm Pilot, but they
Paul:have fun.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah.
Chad:Yeah. Just
Paul:to flip through them. Yep.
Chad:And it must be cool if you get the, you know, slide show. Anyways, that's how it works. Spinner.
Chrissy:Fidget spinner. Remember those?
Chad:Yeah. Right? God. Fidget spinner. You so we would do on a Rolodex who was late on memberships and so forth.
Chad:And Jim was just the nicest guy ever, and I was just this little 11 year old kid. And you had no heart to go tell somebody that they owed money, so you go, here, go tell this guy he owes three months. Okay. Big massive dude, you know, doing shrugs or whatever whatever, and I go, hey, you're due.
Chrissy:Hey, kid.
Chad:Alright. And then you go, well then I was just like, this is fun. I'll go do this. You know, I get to go tell these guys
Chrissy:They gotta pay some
Chad:money. So, yeah.
Paul:These big dudes, you're just like this little guy running around. Pay me money, motherfucker.
Chad:I was also the one where like, I just threw up in that garbage bag. Go throw it out. Okay. Yeah. I did every job in the in the gym, which really taught me how to how a gym runs and
Chrissy:absolutely. So getting back to what your inner your first meeting with Prince. So you got hired basically not even by him, but basically by Charles.
Chad:Mhmm.
Chrissy:And so what when your well, explain or tell us about your first experience actually meeting Prince for the first time. Because now you're going to be protecting this this man, you know. So he's obviously Yeah. You know, wants to know that you can be trusted. Now, obviously, he trusted your friend Charles.
Chad:Right. Yeah. There was no Charles had full say in in in that
Chrissy:In everything.
Chad:In everything. And so, you know, one of the things that I noticed that Prince did the first couple of times that I was there is he kept his distance from you just watching.
Chrissy:Did. Okay.
Chad:And the I don't know if you guys ever been to any of those afterparties, but when you walk into the after party room, there's an engineer board right there. K. And so we would have to make sure that nobody will come back. There's some posted up watching, and then Charles, my boss, posts up, and we're watching everything. And all of a sudden, Prince has just kinda given me the side eye and sits next to Charles on the other side and starts talking to him.
Chrissy:So at this point, you still hadn't had any words with him? Mm-mm. K. Mm-mm.
Chad:No. And, actually, I do remember the first words I had with him. Takumi so Takumi found out, like, the second or third day that I was there that I did audio video stuff. And I'm not supposed to say this, but the cameras at Prince's house were out. They weren't working at all.
Chad:And I was like, oh, that's probably a pretty easy fix. I go, you guys got well, this Wi Fi wasn't really there. Like, I'm like, put a wireless access point and do this. And he's like, yes. Yeah.
Chad:Hey, Prince. This is Chad. That's where
Chrissy:That's that was your first exchange.
Chad:Was drinking the largest glass of red wine I had ever seen.
Chrissy:Prince was? Yeah. Okay.
Chad:He liked red wine.
Chrissy:Fine.
Chad:And I can't remember if it was Amstel Light or the other one that looks like it. New Newcastle. Newcastle Light. One of those two. He those were there was always Red Bulls, Newcastle.
Chrissy:Red Bulls. Really?
Chad:Always Red Bulls. He was really there was always Red Bulls because he really took care of his fans. So on these after parties when people would be drinking at the bars and so forth and they would be a little fucked up, you wouldn't throw them out. You weren't allowed to throw them out.
Chrissy:You would see Start giving them energy drinks and water.
Chad:Water, give them a Red Bull, and then give your friends give their friends Red Bulls and saying, you know, that's you. Yeah.
Chrissy:Well, that
Chad:was nice. We had a it was interesting because you know how 911 calls work. You don't want them at your facility.
Chrissy:Correct.
Chad:So we had a deal with the Carver County Sheriff's Department where we called them. We never called 911 when we had a problem. So the the sheriffs would come out and take care of anything.
Chrissy:Like, if there was a fight or anybody out, there was one guy.
Chad:There's one guy that was on, like, acid or something. I I don't even know. His eyes were just blown, and then he grabbed that was the craziest thing. He we took him outside. All of sudden, he turned around, and he grabbed Charles, my boss.
Chad:Now Charles was a six foot six black man. Huge bodybuilder.
Chrissy:K.
Chad:And wearing a thousand dollar suit, and Charles goes, oh, fucking
Paul:an airborne. He picked
Chad:this guy up and hoist hoisted him.
Chrissy:Can we say Charles' last name?
Chad:I wouldn't.
Chrissy:Oh, okay.
Chad:Yeah. Alright. I wouldn't.
Chrissy:He's still alive. Yeah.
Chad:He's super, super private.
Chrissy:The same reason that I fine.
Chad:That I didn't release that that interview. Oh. But, yeah, that's like, he went flying, and that dude didn't move. And all of sudden all of a sudden, I look up, and there's Prince looking down in the window above, and we're and he's just like
Chrissy:Just shaking his head.
Chad:He knew it had to be done. So yeah.
Chrissy:How big was Prince? I've seen his outfits at rock but I mean
Chad:With a throw?
Chrissy:I feel like he's tinier than me.
Chad:He was about five two Yeah. Five one with heels.
Chrissy:Well, he always was wearing heels. Yeah.
Chad:Always. And he he like I said, he none of his pants were always custom, so he never had pockets or anything. But he would make these clothes for the whoever would make them. Like, if this was his pant leg and the heels, he would have that pant leg go right down to
Chrissy:To the very bottom.
Chad:See that heel, but it wasn't hitting the ground.
Chrissy:Right. Right.
Chad:And I'm just like, that's really impressive. So yeah.
Chrissy:So he or obviously, everything was custom tailored or whatever.
Chad:All this would yeah. I mean But
Chrissy:I mean, a 110, hundred and twenty. Because I have seen his outfits at, like, a Hard Rock. They're like, I don't think I could fit in them.
Chad:I I think he was probably yeah. About a hundred and ten, hundred
Chrissy:and twenty pounds. He was like yeah. He We've seen his or something at the Hard Rock in Florida. And I was like, there's no fucking way I would even fit in that fucking thing. I'm like, shit.
Chrissy:Very tiny tiny man.
Chad:A very small man.
Chrissy:Yes. Uh-huh.
Chad:Big head, though.
Chrissy:Go ahead.
Chad:Do do you remember, Mike probably does. There was a couple of seasons of The Flintstones back in the day where they had the
Chrissy:graffiti shoe. Yes. Remember
Chad:the great pursuit of little alien with the big
Paul:head? Oh, yeah.
Chad:Some of us might have called him that. Behind his back.
Chrissy:Kazoo. My gosh.
Chad:We call him the great kazoo. So He called himself the purple Yoda.
Chrissy:So The purple Yoda?
Chad:Yeah. Yeah. That's funny.
Chrissy:So with your first impression with Prince, was he was he warm to you, guarded, shy? I mean, we all know that he's very shy. But
Chad:He so the yeah. He was very guarded. He he purposely rightfully so. Yeah. You know?
Chad:And that's, you know, you're in his house for one.
Chrissy:Right.
Chad:And so he just kinda wanted to see how what kind of manners you had, you know, how you were gonna handle yourself because you literally had to stay as professional. You're wearing a suit. You're representing this person.
Chrissy:Right. Right?
Chad:So he would just kinda see if you're, you know
Chrissy:Was your suit good the first night?
Chad:I don't know. I hope so. Didn't say the last one.
Chrissy:So say anything. But he
Paul:kept his
Chad:he kept his distance, but that was kinda his MO is that he would slowly let you in. And I always said this because people would start working there, I go, just be a mirror. Okay? Yeah. Sometimes when he walks in and he doesn't you don't know what he did the night before, how much sleep he got or anything.
Chad:And you have to keep in mind that this man has been everywhere three times. So Right. You really, you know, don't get comfortable because here was his his MO was was pretty interesting. Somebody would, like, be a manager or assistant to him. Right?
Chad:Mhmm. And then they get more and more work thrown at them, and then they start to complain. And Prince would go, oh, is that too much? Do you need an assistant? Yes.
Chad:That would be great. Yes. I need an assistant. So he would go, alright. Go hire yourself an assistant.
Chad:Make sure that they're good, they're quality, and they can handle everything. They go out and do that, and then Prince will go, okay. Oh, you got everything? You're fired. Yeah.
Chad:Yeah. Get something down in six, eight weeks. You have just I and I saw that happen a bunch of times, and
Paul:I was trained
Chad:in here. Don't get too comfortable. Yeah. And that's where I would just be a mirror. You know?
Chad:If he wanted to talk, I would talk with him. If he wanted to be quiet, I have no problem with silence.
Chrissy:Right. So Right. That makes sense. And what surprised you the most about Prince? Because we all obviously grew up listening to him and we all knew, like, you probably even more so than me seeing him around town and stuff in Minneapolis.
Chrissy:But what things we all have that, I guess, idea of who he is and what he's about, but what anything that surprised you the most that you were shocked about?
Chad:He would always try and teach you things. Oh. He was very if he liked you, he would try and teach you stuff, which was kinda cool.
Chrissy:That is cool.
Chad:He he was very I always try to explain this best.
Chrissy:Like, would he give you tests something?
Paul:No. He
Chad:just see like, he would he would see something and go, you see why that is the way it is there?
Chrissy:Oh, he did. Okay. Yeah.
Chad:And, like, we've been in a big crowd, and he go, you see this? Why this is I'd be like, oh, okay. This is cool.
Chrissy:That makes sense.
Chad:Yeah. Always because he'd been like I said, he'd been everywhere.
Chrissy:Right.
Chad:But, also, the other thing, he was so much just a Minnesotan from North Side Of Minneapolis. He liked his
Chrissy:Well, he didn't have to stay in Minnesota. We know that.
Chad:He did not. But he just he loved his simple, excuse me, macaroni and cheese and Haagen Dazs and
Chrissy:Hot dishes.
Chad:Yeah. He would he, you know, he would love Minnesota. He really, really loved Minneapolis and Minnesota.
Chrissy:Yeah.
Chad:He but, yeah, he was very much a down home Minnesota boy that just made money and hates money, but he knows that he gets to do his art. Right?
Chrissy:God. He was so artistic. It's just ridiculous.
Chad:He was it was funny because we when you hear these stories about him making you dinner and food or yeah. He'd cook for it.
Chrissy:Was he a good cook? No. Oh, I I
Chad:remember one of the one of I ran into one of his Yeah.
Chrissy:What did he cook? Eggs. Eggs?
Chad:Macaroni and cheese. But
Chrissy:Like, in the box, macaroni and cheese?
Chad:So he would be he was vegan.
Chrissy:And Oh, he was? Okay.
Chad:And so I I would open up the freezer, and I go, Prince, why do you have this Haagen Dazs in here? You know, there's shut up.
Chrissy:You're not supposed to see that.
Chad:No. Heaven see, I started with that, because heaven forbid you say something about macaroni and cheese, because he loved that stuff. So yeah.
Chrissy:Like the Kraft in the blue box. That's 39¢ a box.
Paul:It's like a dollar 39.
Chrissy:No. Yeah. 99¢.
Chad:Creamy mac or cheesy mac.
Chrissy:I love mac and cheese too.
Paul:I never used to. I think because we my parents sent it to us all the time. They chop up fucking hotdogs.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah.
Chad:No. I was just thinking that too.
Paul:Then Boy, I
Chad:can't eat Cheetos anymore.
Paul:Now as being older, I love it.
Chrissy:I love that.
Paul:Especially the spirals. I don't know why I'm
Chrissy:I don't like the box crap, but like it's
Paul:I love the box crap.
Chrissy:Good stuff like a
Chad:Lobster.
Chrissy:Knees.
Paul:Oh, yeah.
Chrissy:There's a barbecue restaurant in our town that
Paul:That shit claps
Chrissy:So so good. Claps cheeks. So when you got the job, like, working for Prince, did you even understand, like, what the opportunity was, like, when you got the job, or was it just kinda nonchalant? Did you just think, whatever?
Chad:Well, I I mean, I had already had a had a job. So
Chrissy:And how did you like, okay. So you got a job with doing security for Prince, but so had you done security prior to that? Yeah. I'm assuming.
Chad:Yes.
Chrissy:Yeah. Okay.
Chad:I had worked at the Tonic Downtown. I worked at Drink, Whiskey Junction.
Chrissy:I had Oh, you worked at Whiskey?
Chad:I did. I did. I worked at Whiskey Park and Whiskey Junction.
Chrissy:That's
Chad:crazy. And then I knew you from, you know, Hammer and Sickle.
Chrissy:And Yep.
Chad:I had been in the bar industry doing security and and managing floors and stuff since I was, like, 23.
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:24. So I how ironic
Chrissy:So you had training then as far as
Chad:And how ironic that I got refused to, I put in, like, 10 applications. I wanted to work at I wanted to work at GlamSlam, right, when it was really
Chrissy:Sure.
Chad:Cool, and nobody ever called me back.
Chrissy:Oh, really?
Chad:No. They
Chrissy:And that prince owned that?
Chad:Prince owned that.
Chrissy:Okay. Whatever happened to that?
Chad:I'll tell you off camera.
Chrissy:Oh, okay. Alright. So alright. Well, so he didn't interview you, and you said he doesn't trust people at all. Right?
Chad:He tries to. Yeah. I mean, he has tried. You know, he he would give people tons of opportunities over and over again that it would just be
Chrissy:That you would say
Chad:people get fired that were in his realm quite a bit and then get hired back because it was just easier. So one of that one of them being his sister, Tyca. Oh. Tyca was they set up Paisley was a huge place and lots of offices, and so they set her up with an office with a computer, and she was playing word share web sheriff for him, taking down bootlegs and videos that I didn't approve of. So
Chrissy:yeah. Okay.
Chad:Yeah. It was crazy because I noticed that one day I was walking through through Paisley, it was, like, four in the morning, and I had to wait there for a delivery. And I was just walking through all of these different offices, and I realized that each office was sort of a time capsule. And he would have, like remember those, oh, those the iMacs, the green ones, the blue ones? Remember they were one complete unit, the Mac iMac or whatever?
Chad:They were
Paul:Oh, the computers? The computers? Yeah.
Chad:Yeah. The iMacs.
Paul:School, and they were all different colors.
Chad:Yeah. Different colors and stuff.
Paul:Blue, green.
Chad:Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And you would just open up a door, and you would just find an era that somebody was working there, and then they would just abandon the computer. Everything gone.
Chad:And you could, like, oh, look at this CD that he was listening to at that time. And then it was just easier to pick up and get a new computer and move it somewhere else. So there was just
Chrissy:Jesus. And stuff. Yeah. Okay. So I'm just gonna what's so I would in my mind, I'm imagining being a bodyguard for Prince.
Chrissy:That's gonna be a pretty glamorous freaking opportunity where you're gonna see all these crazy ass shit. The women we're gonna get to that. The women trying to meet Prince and trying to get close to Prince.
Paul:What do they do?
Chrissy:How what were they doing for the bodyguards? What were they offering up?
Chad:Zero. Zero? And sincerely mean that.
Chrissy:Really? Yeah.
Chad:Disappointed. Well, number one, I was dating somebody at the time.
Chrissy:But I'm not saying that you did anything. Right. I'm saying what were you like, what were you privy to see or what did you I can't imagine. I have no girls that go try to get backstage at concerts and shit. And they're blowing security and everybody else.
Chrissy:So I can't imagine girls wanting to meet Prince, they gotta go through you to get to what they're offering up.
Chad:Oh, that's you're good. You're good. And I'll
Chrissy:Oh, we're not gonna say names, obviously. But No.
Chad:Let's see. How do I
Paul:yep.
Chad:Here is how Prince would get women. And it usually never, not usually, never would happen between me or Charles. And then behind us were people that were just part time, we wouldn't trust them.
Chrissy:Sure.
Chad:I'm not even kidding you. This is how he would meet women. He was literally on a plane one day flipping through a Vogue magazine.
Chrissy:Yep. A model.
Chad:Takumi, will you get the hold of this person, please? I want
Chrissy:Shut up.
Chad:He would meet them through modeling agencies. Damn.
Chrissy:These not you're avoiding my question.
Chad:I didn't know I never saw anything like that.
Chrissy:Nobody ever said, oh, I'll do this for you or I'll do that. Yeah. That's what I'm getting at. Yeah.
Chad:Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm 11 in my brain.
Paul:Okay. So,
Chrissy:I mean, there's no way that you are the next guy that she's gotta get through to Prince. So you know that these girls are offering
Chad:up everything. A lot of times, it wasn't that hard to say no because they weren't they
Chrissy:weren't They weren't special.
Chad:No. No. A lot of these people that would come to these after parties
Chrissy:And how did they get invited to these after parties?
Chad:On his I guess this means online. He would he would get on his npg.com, and he'd go, boom. After party.
Chrissy:Really? And he would always be there, or he wouldn't?
Chad:So that's interesting. The first night that I ever worked there yeah. The first night that I ever worked there, he no. Was it? Yeah.
Chad:He decided that he had decided that he didn't wanna play anymore, and there was a line out the just waiting. And it was July, and it was hot, and there was mosquitoes. And we were handing out water because I feel bad for these people. Sure. And all of sudden, he
Chrissy:Most of them probably drunk already from the bar.
Chad:Well, this was a earlier one because it was still light Okay. Still drunk. Because it was like 09:00 was still
Chrissy:kinda From the day before. Yeah.
Chad:And to it was literally this. Prince was sitting at the table and he goes, come in. Just I don't want this. I'll just talk away. And then it was Charles, go tell him that we're not gonna you know, just go Chad.
Chad:So then I'd have to go out there and go, I'm sorry, you guys. He decided that he's not gonna have anybody in, and they were so sweet about it and so nice about it.
Chrissy:Really? He decided then I I don't want
Chad:this something that was cool about Prince. No. He just was like, I don't feel it.
Paul:I'm not feeling it today.
Chad:You know, it's Prince. You can do that.
Chrissy:Fuck you, money. Right?
Paul:Oh, shit.
Chad:But then he would he he was one cool thing that he was so sweet to these people is that he even came to Charles and everybody else and said, look. You know, these people are already waiting out there. If they need to use the bathroom, just let them come in real quick. And they were really courteous. They they wouldn't go running around anywhere.
Chad:They would literally go in and
Chrissy:use bathroom to get
Chad:right back in line. And, yeah, they were his fans were really, really good
Paul:for them.
Chrissy:Good. So say again, like, how do how are you He was just putting it out there on the web? Like
Chad:Yeah. He had MTG Music Club.
Chrissy:Oh. So
Chad:it was a music club that you would pay $21 a year. Oh. And you would get music that you could download, and then he would do exclusive parties and say, you know, you're invited.
Chrissy:Were only in this club.
Chad:Only. That's what you could find out, but he wouldn't refuse anybody. So you'd bring your friends.
Chrissy:And that
Chad:was his word-of-mouth for him to
Chrissy:And how many people would fit in there?
Chad:Oh, what was the capacity? Three, four hundred?
Chrissy:Okay. You know? It's pretty big.
Chad:Something like the size of 7th Street entry.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chad:If anybody remembers that.
Chrissy:Oh, yeah. We've been there quite a few times. I like that bar.
Chad:I miss the entry. I haven't been there forever. I miss new band night. There is no more new band nights anymore. Thanks, Clear Channel.
Chrissy:Shannon, we're gonna do our second cocktail. What are we doing? Who's Who's Yeah.
Paul:So you guys are doing the Mike's seasonal.
Chrissy:Oh, Mike's Hard Lemonade?
Paul:Yeah. Only two of them. So you're doing the king lemonade and the hard apple tacos.
Chrissy:So this is Mike's Hard Lemonade seasonal. So this is just for what? Spring, summer?
Paul:It's a seasonal pack they bring out every year, and every year it's different.
Chrissy:But right. But is this like a summer pack though that we're getting now? Last year, you
Paul:guys did the celebration. Yep. Hard apple tackle. Yeah. Like a tackle box.
Chrissy:So this is pink lemonade. Oh, you'll like this one.
Chad:I know. I've smelt a lot of nasty tackle boxes in my town.
Chrissy:Right. This is 5%.
Chad:This isn't one of them.
Chrissy:5% alcohol.
Paul:It smells delicious.
Chrissy:Comes in a 12 pack Shit. And a variety pack. And the flavors are pink lemonade, hard apple tackle, pineapple rush, and hard berry blitz. And we are trying two of the four.
Paul:Apple lemonade. I bet this is gonna be bomb as fuck.
Chad:I love the colors in there.
Chrissy:It's apple lemonade?
Paul:I bet these
Chad:both are gonna be
Chrissy:Interesting. That's a new flavor. Okay. So which one is which?
Chad:That's This
Paul:is pink.
Chad:That's the pink one.
Chrissy:Pink lemonade?
Paul:The first one's the pink lemonade. The second's
Chrissy:the hard
Paul:apple taco.
Chrissy:5% alcohol. Think I said that. And 12 packs are $19.49. At Liquor.
Chad:At Frontier Liquor.
Chrissy:At Frontier Liquor. Alright. Here we go.
Chad:Nice going, you guys.
Chrissy:Plank and drink. Oh, numb.
Paul:Yep.
Chrissy:Num, num, num.
Chad:There's no bruise in this.
Chrissy:I know. Right? Literally tastes just like pink lemonade. That
Chad:is good. Yeah.
Chrissy:That is very good.
Chad:Yep. That's the best one so far.
Chrissy:Yeah. I think. Yeah. I do too. A 100%.
Paul:I think the Long Island's still better.
Chrissy:You do?
Chad:That's just the Long Island talking.
Chrissy:That'll be fucked up way quicker.
Paul:I know.
Chrissy:Alright. Now this is gonna be the hard
Paul:Oh, this smells like
Chrissy:Hard apple taco. Yeah. What? Does it?
Paul:Like a salad bun. Oh.
Chrissy:Jolly Rancher.
Paul:This is gonna be
Chad:Oh. Spot.
Chrissy:Cheers, guys. Alright. Oh,
Chad:this smells good.
Chrissy:Oh. I
Chad:don't like
Paul:it. Fuck.
Chrissy:You don't?
Paul:It's got a weird flavor to it.
Chrissy:You think so?
Paul:I think so.
Chrissy:Oh, I think it's good.
Chad:I like this,
Paul:but not like I was thinking in my head.
Chad:I think it's a little too carbonated. Like, the carbonation over
Chrissy:the He doesn't like carbonation at all, but
Chad:There you go. Wow. We've got great palates here, people. What
Paul:is that?
Chrissy:I feel like it tastes like that one we had with the just last well, not last week, but the week before with
Chad:the Brandon, you
Chrissy:wanna try that? Zach.
Paul:Oh, Mike's I do that. It's better
Chrissy:than one. The Jolly Rancher.
Paul:Yeah. The more you drink it, the better it is, actually. I don't know why I had a weird Jolly Rancher one. Weird flavor to begin with, but, no, this is good.
Chrissy:What's this one? That one. That's really good. I like that. I didn't think I would like it either.
Chad:Be that sake flavor for you.
Paul:I don't taste any of the lemonade in it, though.
Chrissy:I don't really taste the lemonade either.
Chad:Mm-mm. No. I I taste
Chrissy:More apple. Like Jolly Rancher.
Chad:Like a yes. Like I'll drink. Like a sweet tart apple.
Paul:Yeah. They don't drink anymore.
Chrissy:I like that one. I actually liked it better than the I don't think I would. What would he give it?
Paul:Three to five here. And, well, congrats. Eight.
Chrissy:I do too. I agree. Eights. Not quite tens, but they're good.
Paul:I bet that
Chrissy:I would definitely buy them.
Chad:For sure. I would like it.
Paul:You put some vodka in that, it would be bomb as fuck, and I bet it would melt that carbonation.
Chrissy:There you go. Yeah. But we're always trying to make our shit stronger.
Chad:I used to love the Smirnoff watermelon vodka with a Red Bull, and it tastes like a Jolly Rancher. Oh, yeah.
Chrissy:What? I bet you that would.
Paul:Just fucking delicious. Yeah.
Chrissy:I like the watermelon vodka.
Paul:Captain Red Bulls.
Chrissy:Oh, Captain and Red Bull.
Chad:Oh, If you wanna get crazy, Doctor Pepper and what was it that he had?
Paul:Doctor Morgan. Yes. Yep. Fuck yes. Pepper?
Chad:Best friends.
Paul:Fuck yes. Wanna do karate in the garage? I do
Chrissy:karate in the garage.
Chad:Over there.
Chrissy:Garage is right here.
Paul:You imagine if we had these when we were kids? Even better. We got them when
Chad:we were 40. Just don't mess with my drum kit.
Chrissy:Oh my god.
Paul:Drum sack. What is drum sack? Why did I go in my room?
Chrissy:Step brothers.
Chad:What? No. I was just sitting here watching shark week. We got
Paul:That's bullshit because I know cops doesn't start till four. Why are you
Chrissy:all God, you can recite the whole fucking thing. Brush. Jesus.
Paul:I've watched it once or twice.
Chrissy:You think?
Chad:I was I was like that with Napoleon Dynamite and 40 year old Virgin.
Chrissy:Oh my god. Napoleon Dynamite.
Paul:From the one
Chrissy:hour's my day.
Chad:Watch this. I was so wound up, and I just watch them both.
Chrissy:Gosh. These oh my gosh. These questions you've already answered. So you already said he liked red wine and Prince, he liked red wine and
Chad:Red wine and either Anstel Light or Newcastle.
Chrissy:So he didn't drink hard alcohol?
Chad:I never saw him drink hard alcohol.
Chrissy:Okay.
Chad:No.
Chrissy:You ever see him fucked up?
Paul:There's an
Chrissy:NDA or there's no NDA.
Chad:Yes. I had
Chrissy:Yeah.
Chad:Not bad.
Chrissy:Was he funny though? Like, or
Chad:Oh, he was hilarious.
Chrissy:Because he said he was funny anyways. He didn't turn into a mean Mm-mm. Drunk, or anything like
Chad:He would he would be fine, and then he would just get up and leave. He wouldn't he wouldn't say goodbye to anybody. Just Irish goodbye. Irish goodbye is what they called a yeah. Yeah.
Chad:He was yeah. He was kinda
Chrissy:what Mike does when he's drunk. Just poof. Up he's gone. Where'd
Chad:he go?
Chrissy:He's gone.
Chad:See, and that's smart because Yeah. All you gotta do is hear drunk people go, no.
Chrissy:No. Can't go to bed.
Chad:Or you're like, okay, I'll stay. I'm still leaving. You know?