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If you like what you hear, make sure you join us every Tuesday night on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific for a brand new episode of the best show, featuring callers, celebrity guests, live music, and plenty of surprises. Enjoy! All right, all right, let's... no more. Thank you, Rocky Erickson. Good stuff, good stuff. We're actually gonna... We'll be back with more... I think we'll... we're not done with Fen just yet. Fen will be back later. But... Let's go to the phones. Let's do some phone action. Let's go to the phones. We got some hot phones going here tonight. Hot phones, hot phones. Hello, Best Show. Greetings, Tom. This is Squire calling from North Southbridge. How are you? I'm good, I'm good. How are you tonight? Good, loving the program. I'm sorry to hear about your guest constipation, but perhaps something will alleviate that of hope. Yes, well, fingers crossed on that one. Okay, that's fair enough. Hey, have you seen this film 2000 mules? 2000 mules. Yes. Like, I know of it. Yeah, it's very intriguing. You know, I know there was big news today, but I hope that doesn't knock off the front pages. You know, what happened in the 2020 election? Wait, I'm not following the new... You're hoping the news today doesn't knock off that out of the headlines? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we really don't know what happened. And it sounds like I'm not... Go ahead, Squire, I can hear you said it. Well, I was going to say it sounds like maybe you're not into talking about politics, so we can still clear that. Everybody has different views, and I'm not here to win any populist contest, but I am here to judge several of them. Okay, so that's your... Okay, that's a good one, I like... That's my catchphrase, isn't it cool? That you're not here to win any popularity contest, but you're here to judge a few. Several of them, yeah. I like that, that's a... Yeah, I mean, it's a little bulky for a catchphrase, but you know... Well, yeah, I mean, it's not as like streamlined as who's got the beef or half animal part party machine, but it's getting there, I think. Who's got the beef? What is it? Well, it's where's the beef? Who's got the beef? Sounds like you're combining a Wendy's commercial with a Black Flag song. Well, I mean, if you had true, you know, I think that album was originally called Who's Got the Footin' on the Winger, but yeah, that's... I think Anthony was really against that, the drummer at the time, so... And I'm sure he had a fair amount of sway over the proceedings. Big say, big say. Yeah, I'm sure, like, when Black Flag were settling on things, it's like, all right, Greg, again, would be like, all right, everybody. Here are some potential album titles. Raise your hand if you like this one. Ah, it's not unanimous. We can't do it. Anthony doesn't like that one. What do you think? Every day, I look at this at this, uh, this site on Instagram. It's a page called, uh, I think it's called Black Flag Bard or something like that. And yeah, it has to, tour, tour dates, you know, like a little remembrance of every Black Flag show that happened on, on that day. And it's interesting that they, they got so much less popular as time went by. It was like they're playing urban plaza and the next year they're playing like a living room. So that's really the pace that things were at for them. Yeah. Yeah, I, you know, I, I can't... They're making two bucks a day. Two bucks a day. Yeah, they were, when they were playing an early show and a late show at like, not small venues. And then they're just kind of like, here's your two dollars for today. Best of luck finding food. No, yeah, buy a zero ball. Yeah. Yeah, I have enough for only... You want to go and have Z's on this zero bar? No, it's mine. I promise Kira, she could have it at the end, have the nub. Yeah, Kira wants the nub of the zero bar. What about Sal? Well, Sal's new, so he only gets a little crumb of the coating on it. He can lick the wrapper. Hey, speaking of food, have you heard about that new super expensive restaurant in Richbridge? Everyone's talking about it. No, no, I haven't. Well, it's one of those places where you pay a hundred dollars for a piece of meat that's essentially the size of a half dollar. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like I did not... I know about places like that where it's very... Yeah. Like almost snobby, kind of like restaurant thing. Like it's like from like a cliche of a fancy restaurant. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's for fat cats and big wigs. Not high school teachers named Chris from Kalamazoo or, you know, Johnny Punch clocks out there. It's for people that have a lot of Joe and, you know, the name of this restaurant, it's like the rubbing of faces in it. The rubbing of faces, what is the name of it? It's called plate more. Plate more? Yeah, like there's way more plates than actual food. Oh, that's... Yeah, that is... That's not cool. Right? Plate more. Oh, it's just kind of rubbing your face in it. Yeah, I don't like when they do that. No, no. Hey, you know, I checked out the show from, I think a couple weeks ago and I had a very enchanting man call in. His name was Sean of them and you were very short with him and you barely let him get a word in edge wise, but I could very much identify with him and his story. I barely let him get a word in edge wise. That's correct, yes. I might respectfully disagree with that, but I'll go ahead with what you were saying. Okay, fair enough. Well, if you recall, Seanathan was the son of what he described as a hardcore punk bully. And I believe his name was Hammerhead, is that right? Yes, yes. Hammerhead. And I think I heard... I think I heard he broke your arm at a TSOL show because you were a rain parade patch on your tan members only jacket, is that right? He did not like that. He did not like that I made any sort of nod toward anything in the Paisley Underground. Yeah, yeah, he... I heard all kinds of terrible stories about that. Well, well, here's how I could identify with that. My dad was what can only be described as a probably. Your dad was a what? A Prague boy. Oh, I thought you said like a proud boy. I was like, oh, no, but... No, no, a Prague bully. A Prague bully? Wow, okay. Yeah, open your ears, jackass. That's the jerky boys, yes. That's so funny. I do remember they were hilarious and there was no end to the hilarity. Nothing, nothing. And I hated that the one guy wouldn't let the other guy do more. You mean that Johnny B wouldn't let Kamal do more? Yeah, yeah, like the Egyptian magician. I mean, that's a movie. Uh, yeah, it could be a movie. So here's a new podcast that you're going to want to check out. It's called "Stars of David with Elon Gold." 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Well, there's a hundred and sixty-four right, so I'm not going to do it, but I'll do the first couple. I can't recall them up at the top of my head. You have the right to listen to songs that are over 10 minutes long and have no discernible melodies. Two, you have the right to listen to songs about humans time traveling to other dimensions. Where ladies wear skin-tight spandex onesies and fire space lasers at space speed as a massive dragon beast looks on. So, I mean, there were a hundred and sixty-two more of those. Oh, no, that's intense. That's a lot, and you heard all of these all the time? I memorize all of them. Oh, my God. It was sick. Yeah, it was cruel and unusual, much better, but he wouldn't let us listen to what we wanted. He made us listen to Ken Crimson, Genesis, yes, and my name is Squire, and yes, I'm named after their bass is Chris Squire. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, but I'll tell you, I got off easy. My other brothers are Tarkas and Van Der Graaff generator. Oh, wow, that's you did get off easy with Squire as your name. On the worst part? Yeah, right. Yeah, the worst part is the first brother I mentioned. He had it really bad because our last name is Tarkas. So it was Tarkas Farkas. Yeah, but his, you know, his middle name is Hugo, so if you set his middle initial, it was one of those names that sounds like a question. Tarkas, why Farkas? Tarkas, so like a teacher would be reading, doing the whatever, like the attendance at the beginning of class and be like Tarkas, why Farkas? That's because that's my name. And like, so he'd say it like a question too. That's my name, and then it would just go back and forth. So he bought into the, he got drawn along in it. That, but yeah, it was like, it was on first, it was on first, but the prog. But Van Der Graaff generator as a first name. Really tough. That's a hard one. And of course, we'd get, we'd get teased by other kids also because we had the same name of Scott Farkas, the Billy, some Christmas story. And he had green teeth. A lot of, a lot of bully stuff going on in that house there, Tarka, I almost called you Tarkas. I know, I know. Your name is Squire. Tarkas is your brother. It is. Yeah. Yeah. But you're absolutely right. Tons of bullying and dad would make us call him the prog father. The prog father. Yes. Yeah. He, you know, he had major sour prog grapes after he got kicked out of his own band when, uh, when my brothers and I were just, you know, we're just kids. And, um, his band was called Compla Geddon. Compla Geddon. I've never heard of Compla Geddon. Yeah, they didn't really do much. Their, their goal was to have the most complicated songs in the history of music. And, and I think they actually achieved that. But, um, unfortunately my, my dad, who was the driving force in the band, he got fired because the songs that he was writing, they were so complicated that band members were getting physically sick from all the, all the key, the tempo and time signature changes. And sometimes with that stuff, we would occur just in like two measures. And it was so fast and crazy that guys were prog bombing all over the place. Oh, that's, they were what now? I've never heard that expression. Podge bombing, uh, projectile vomiting. Proge bombing. Proge bombing. Okay. I've never heard that as a, as a, as an expression, but, um, yeah, it's sick. That's seen in, in, in take the money and run, yeah, in take the money and run where Virgil's father says I tried to beat God into him. Mm hmm. It was like that, but I dad tried to beat Prague into us. How would he make you love Prague? Like, he'd, he'd line us up and, and he'd do these pop prog quizzes. Okay. What's like a, what's a prog quiz? What would be on a prog quiz? Well, if, if we didn't know that pit pile played drums on gongs, can it be electric or that Martin Russian produced King Clinton's acquiring the taste? It was, you know, it was a hundred flop on the upper haunches with a rolled up copy of Prague monthly. Sick. That's rough stuff. Yeah. And I'll tell you, the worst part of it, the worst part was that he'd hit your haunches so lightly that you actually wanted him to do it hard. Because it, to almost get it over with. Yeah, or just feel something. It was like, it was like, getting like, bleeped on. Mm hmm. No, that's so light. It was, it was disturbing. It's weird. It's, that's very weird. Yeah. It is. And dad kept us from other forms of music, especially punk. He hated that, but like, he even classic rock. So like, like that guy, Seanathan, I, I knew song title system reading magazines, but I had to make up how I thought the songs went. That's pretty interesting. Uh huh. Like, how did you, like, what, what are, are their examples of that? Yeah. Like, um, welcome to the jungle. Um, I, I think it probably goes like, welcome to the jungle. Do whatever all the animals live. You'll meet a leopard, a tiger, and maybe even a snake. It's fun for all. So come on in for heaven's sake. Did you go like that? It doesn't. Oh. All right. Well, um, what about that song by R.E.M.? Um, losing my religion. Sure. How do, how do you imagine that one goes? Well, I'm pretty sure it's like, um, I'm losing my religion. I can't remember where I put it. Is it in my other pants or maybe the south of France? Oh, please. Just tell me. Feel like that? It does. No, that's, that's not. Oh, that's far away from how it goes. Um, well, oh crap. Remember that, that song, I think it was the last song in this, in the sopranos. It's, it's, um, like, journey. It's called Don't Stop Believing. I didn't see the show, but, um, I have a pretty good idea how the song went. Okay. How to, don't stop believing by journey. Yes. Right. Don't stop believing in jolly old St. Nick. He's gonna bring you lots of presents unless you better be a memory. I don't actually say it. You have to say the word DICK, something else. Is that how it goes? It's a Christmas song, right? Early in it, you, at first you were not super far away, but then you got very far away. Oh crap. All right. Well, um, remember, uh, that being Metallica? I think it's still around. Do I remember that being Metallica? Yes, I do. Well, there's a song called, "Enter Sandman." I think it's probably not like this. Enter Sandman and sprinkle your sand on me. I've got school tomorrow and I'm up at three. It's about a teenager who's also on coke, isn't it? It's, it's, uh, no, it's not. I do like that. All right. Hey, I do like it. It sounds like it, it could be something, right? No, there's something there. It's even a cocaine. There's that song by, by, uh, Eric Clapton called cocaine. I've never heard it. Oh, it's a, it's a good one. Um, I think it probably goes, goes like this. It's okay. I need it, cocaine. I want it. I need it so mad. Oh, I need a bad name. I need a keyboard for it. It's like a spoken word thing, right? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's. Yeah, no, it's not. It's not. It's a very, it's a very, it's got a very defined melody to it. Yeah. Oh, no. I was going by how he looks. I could even go like that. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah, right, right. Oh, speaking of like song, of like songs, um, Tom, you know, that, that, that given in the Belmont song, the wanderer? Yes. Yeah. Do you know that one? They made a movie based on that? Based on the song, the wanderer. I did not know that. Yeah, then in a movie on it, it's called portrait of evil, the Ted Bundy story. That's strange that that would be called the why you'd think the movie would be called the wanderer. Well, have you, have you looked closely at those lyrics? Oh my God, it's Oh, well, I'm the type of guy who never settled down for pretty girls are. Well, you know that I'm around. This and then I love them, but to me, they're all the same. I hug them and I squeeze them. They don't even know my name. They call me the wanderer. Yeah, the wanderer. Oh, well, I roam from town to town. I go through life of that. I care. I'm as happy as a clown with my two fists of iron. Now I'm going nowhere. That's spooky stuff, isn't it? It's like almost like the step, the stepfather or something. You'd think that that might as well have been sung from the point of view of the stepfather. Yes. Weird, weird, squire, weird. Yeah. This episode is brought to you by United Airlines. When you want to make the most of your vacation, book with United, they're an airline that cares about your travels as much as you do. 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So he's a red glove at tetherball already? Yeah, he's really squat in that thing. It's great. It's impressive. Hey, there's this section in the Chuck Berry audiobook where Richard Thompson, you know, fair court convention, he's talking about the gig he was at. And we're Chuck mistakes. Richard then writes for, I don't know how to say this, then he thought she was this lady of the evening that Chuck was expecting. It's very tawdry. I know. Very tawdry. So that's so you were listening to the audiobook. And that was one of the stories. Yes. And at that exact moment, my son, Skylar, looks up at me with those very innocent eyes. And he says, you wanted that sweet vanilla pudding, Daddy. Do you believe that? I think I do believe it, actually. On his six. That's. I know. Are you proud of that? Or are you scared of that? I'm scared. I know he's a big best show fan. Did he get that from you? He did not get that. I've never heard that expression before. That is not from this show. Well, I see on my next door app that a lot of parents here in North Southbridge think this, this Gary the squirrel monstrosity is causing their kids to go flagrantly nuts on semi intended. Well, I have no control over that. It's that there's nothing that Gary the squirrel would do that would have anything to do with making a kid say the thing you said that I will not even repeat. The worst part is he he didn't he took that gene right off a pudding. He said, that upsets me to no degree. There is no limit. Very cool. Way too weird and way too comfortable in its weirdness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, what was talking about Chuck Gary? Yeah. There's a section in that biography about Chuck going to a circle jerk show at this club called Mississippi Knights in St. Louis and he jammed with them. He got he got up and jammed with the circle jurors. Yeah. And so, yeah, there's this story of that and the circle jurors have talked about that. But what is it really known is that Chuck recorded a version of rock and roll music with the circle jurors, but it never came out. Really? And what was it? It was called rock and roll music? Yeah. And I've only heard it once. It went like this. Just let me hear some of that hardcore punk music. Any thrash way you choose it. It's got a skank beat. You can bruise it. Gotta be hardcore punk music. If you want to slam with me. Not done. Pretty wild, right? That is pretty wild. That's that's that's a surprise. That's yeah. That's a surprise. Yeah. My other son, Noah. Oh my God. What? Kind of off his rocker, but in a very creative way. Basically, he quit high school to join this as far rock band called legitimately bronchial. Okay. So he quit. Okay. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. Yeah. I'm going to go. I'm going to women say you have no idea what that reference is from. I don't. It's a phrase that said in a very obscure scene in Goodfellas. Okay. I legitimately bronchial. It comes at the very end of the movie when Henry Hill and Karen are talking to FBI agent Ed McDonald about this relocation program. And Henry asked if they can move somewhere warm. And Karen says it's because he has bronchitis. And then agent McDonald says, if he's legitimately bronchial, we'll take that into consideration. It's pretty deep trive, right? That's maybe the deepest trive. It is. So somehow my son found these other three miscreants who were equally as obsessed with Goodfellas as he is. And it's an all good fellas in the band. That is some that's I've never heard of that before. A good fit. And also to call yourself legitimately bronchial. Yeah. Yeah, it's nuts. And but you know, they're getting places. They managed to score this big Hollywood agent. I wrote his name down. It's Jake Fogle-Dort. Are you saying? Fogle-nest. Jake Fogle-nest. Oh, Fogle-nest. Okay. Well, he's been kind of hard to reach lately. I think he's laying low after the birth of his daughter. And I think her full name is the Times Square soundtrack on cassette Bogle-nest. Is that right? I don't think that's the child's name. But I'm not sure either. I might be wrong. Okay. Well, you know, I've actually caught legitimately bronchial a few times at Los Amigos back room. Okay. Pretty wild band. The music is very weird. For legitimately bronchial. Yeah. Yeah. I know you'll think I'm full of beans, but they sound like a cross between the gorys and yes. Well, that is a very unique combo. The gorys and yes. Yeah. So it's like, it's super raw, but it's also super technical, you know, like wild technical, you know, odd-time stuff. And the songs are pretty interesting. They're all, you know, of course, they're all good fellas centric. They got songs like kind of really catchy. I tried to make a bunch of them add. Now, I got to turn my back on you. F-u, pay me. What do you do for a living? I love you, Ma. I want to be with you. This is a song about, about when when Tommy gets whacked, it's called, oh, no. And then there's a song called "Your Murders Come with Smiles" on their faces. There's a real fast song called "Do I Mute You?" They got one called "Oh, Danny, Boy, The Pipes, The Pipes." There's a real slow ballad call. He's gone and there was nothing we could do about it. My lucky hat, bye-bye dickhead. It dropped my wallet. Sorry. Oh, yeah, there it is. But it fell in the sewer, but it didn't. There's a, oh, there's a really loud one. It's really short. It's called Karen. There's a song called "You Baking a Cake." And there's a, there's a real pensive one called "One Dog Goes One Way, The Other Dog Goes The Other," Requiem for Stacks. You have a whore living into awe. Get the papers, get the papers, stop the drugs. They're turning your mind into mush. My favorite song is "You Think Morrie Tums" like everything. Wait, what was that last one? Sorry? What was that last one about Morrie? It's called "You Think Morrie Tums" like everything. Yeah, yeah. It's really funny. It's a funny song. That's why I'm laughing about the literature. No, this is fun. And I'm laughing too because I just, the idea of this band is so impressive. And you were just saying, it sounds like they've got a lot of songs. They do. I didn't even mention "Don't Worry Jerry's Cards" like what it's name. Oh, well, you didn't even, well, now you did. You did mention that. I didn't mention that. Or, and of course they're big closer. It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. Yeah, of course. And I can say that because you're Italian. Well, that's not how that works even a little bit. Well, it should. Oh, that's up for discussion. All right. Well, look, I'm happy he's continuing his grandpa's life work and and playing Prague and keeping that alive and, you know, especially after what happened to my dad. I still can't believe it. Yeah. What was that again? Well, my dad, who went by the name Todd Prague, he died in 2012. Okay. How did he pass away? Well, this is a whole can of worms. There are varying versions of what exactly led up to his demise, but all those present pretty much agree that my dad was flagrantly crushed to death by Marillion's tour bus. Okay. Wow. Marillion's tour bus. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, you know, he was pestering in the final of all this Marillion, ephemera, you know, just stuff like handfuls of stuff he had in the sign. And he did this to literally every major Prague band and it was never clear if he was selling them, but he'd always asked the artist to not make it out to Todd. You know, I don't know if he sold it. He did drive a beamer and had no real job. So you tell me, right? Yeah. No, that's, that's a, that's a rough one, Squire. Yeah. But it was, that sounds like he, you know, he, but it sounds like your dad was a complicated person. Yes. And, you know, he can bring all this stuff to this guy to sign. They're just trying to get on the tour bus. They're sweaty, you know, and they're in their sixties and they're tired and, but, you know, Todd Prague didn't didn't see that as asking too much because he would give these guys these really big, very fragile gifts. In these giant, unwieldy boxes. Just a major pain in the ass for these English guys to travel home with. Really, you know, just wasn't thinking. And so he'd also bring, he also bring the bands, these bowls of this awful goulash that he forced my mother to make. Oh my god, Tom, this was, this stuff was so bad, so bad. Bad goulash. Yeah, it tasted like if you dipped Gene Simmons cod piece into a vat of fetid peach yogurt that's been left out in the hot sun for two weeks. And then you spray it with hot liquid manure that was produced by the world's sickest cow. You know that smell, right? Oh, yeah, I'm right there with you. Right there with you. Oh, yeah. So in addition to that, he'd end up insulting the bands, even if he was trying to compliment them, like, oh man, it was so much more comfortable this time because there was so much, so fewer people than the last time you played here. Or he'd say something like, everyone says, you guys are pasted, but I think you're doing great. It doesn't matter that no one's writing about you anymore. Yeah, that's just a little, it's like, it's crazy, right? Now that's, that's very backhanded at best. Yeah, yeah, almost like underneath it all. My dad was a Dutch or a German music writer, you know? Yeah, they're like, we're just no tacked. Show was nowhere near as good as the last time you played here. And there was also what felt like 200 less people. And I, it seems you're not selling much merchandise. Yeah, this, that's, uh, who needs that? Nobody needs that. Nobody needs that squire. Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. So getting to his demise, there are rumors that all the major prog legends called a special meeting in Roger Dean's house to discuss what they called the Todd situation, you know? So this was, this was legendary guys like John Anderson, Carl Palmer, Ian Anderson, Getty Lee, Steve Howe, John Whitten, Carrie Lipton, from Kansas. And do I have proof of this? No, these guys have all stuck together and denied it. But Tom, I fully believe the prog mafia agreed to a hit on my dear father, Todd Prague. Well, Tom, that's, that's a bold statement. Well, I said it and what marked my words. If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to make sure all those prog holes spend the rest of their lives in the prog head. Mark my words. Okay. Over to your first. Well, look, I'm glad you've got a, you, you're walking the walk is what it sounds like. I am. I'm trying to, I'm trying to campus fugitive, you know, they'll get what it means. Yeah. Well, I thought it meant something different, but I don't know, I don't know, Latin. Oh, no, wait, what, what is it, squire? Oh, no, no, what, what, what, what? Well, I guess what they say about the best show being the favorite podcast of the unhinged Elphin King of Prague is true. Why is that? Man. Tom, John Anderson is standing outside my house. Yeah. Oh, my God. He's wielding two razor sharp pampering, like no chucks. I guess you could call them pambo chucks. Oh, no. Let me get here so fast. These guys, these prog guys are sneaky like that. It's like he disappeared out of thin air. Well, you got to be careful, squire. Be careful. I do, I do hope Tom, John Anderson had picked my head off. This is making a sharp pampering. He keeps saying, but mine, he is a disgrace. Oh, no. Oh, squire. Squire. Oh, no. I think John Anderson might have killed squire. We are, that was, that was horrifying. I did not know about the prog mafia. I didn't know about any of that stuff. 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