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Five Finger Death Punch Set to Rerecord Hits, Road Trip Songs, and Country Music News
The battle for creative ownership takes center stage in this revealing episode as we unpack Five Finger Death Punch's decision to re-record their entire catalog after their record label sold their music without consultation. This Taylor Swift-esque move highlights the ongoing tension between artists and the business machinery that often controls their art.
We dive into the fascinating world of band name ownership disputes where founding members like Steven Piercy of Ratt and Jeff Tate of Queensryche have been legally barred from using the very band names they created. The stories reveal just how precarious artistic identity can be in the music industry's legal landscape, where blood, sweat, and tears building a brand can be lost through contractual fine print.
The show takes a lighter turn when we crowd-source the ultimate road trip playlist, with listeners suggesting everything from AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" to Toto's "Africa" – complete with the heartbreaking backstory that the songwriter never got to visit the continent before his death. These musical discussions highlight how deeply songs become interwoven with our travel experiences and memories.
We also touch on Alan Jackson's final tour performance at age 66, where health issues have forced him to retire from the road despite sounding great vocally – a poignant reminder of the physical toll touring takes, even on country legends. Between Foreigner continuing without a single original member and Bruce Springsteen releasing decades-old unreleased tracks, the episode examines how artists and their music evolve, persist, or transform over time.
What song would you add to your road trip playlist first? Join the conversation and share your own music industry stories with us!
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Welcome to The Jay Franze Show, a behind-the-curtain look at the entertainment industry, with insights you can't pay for and stories you've never heard. Now here's your host, Jay Franze.
Jay Franze:And we are coming at you live. I am Jay Francie and joining me tonight, the daisy to my Donald, my beautiful co-host.
Tiffany Mason:Miss Tiffany Mason.
Jay Franze:Hey, jay, I'm just joining you just tonight. Oh dear God, I can never do anything. I'm married. I'm just telling you that I'm married and I'm used to this. I know how it works. I know what it means.
Jay Franze:If you are new to the show, I'm sorry, but this is your source for the latest news, reviews and interviews. So if you'd like to join in, comment or fire off any questions, please head over to jayfranze. com. And if you'd like to join us here, live on the show right next to us and take some of this abuse off of my shoulders. You can go over to jayfranze. com/ live. All right, my friend, before we get started, let me tell you about. The question of the day is the first, and I said the first. It could be any, but what is the first song that you would like to add to your playlist for a road trip? So if you were going on a road trip say you were going to vegas what would be the first song that you would add to that playlist? Don't tell me now the first song that you would add to that playlist. Don't tell me now that.
Tiffany Mason:That, that Nope.
Jay Franze:That All right. So if you would like to join in on our shenanigans, please make your comments over in the comments section and we will read them off a little later in the show.
Tony Scott:All right.
Jay Franze:Well, you know, I'm a big fan of the band Five Finger Death Punch. You are.
Jay Franze:It's a band that I learned about and I follow a little bit. Yeah, so I like the band. But a while back we had Bruce Ryder on the show. It was from episode 67. Before I forget to tell people, People seem to get mad at me when I do things like that. But back on episode 67, Bruce Ryder he's the live sound engineer for the band Five Finger Death Punch. He was on the show, told me a bunch of interesting stories. But today Five Finger Death Punch is re-recording their classic hits because they just got in a little scuffle with their record label. So they are pulling a Taylor Swift.
Tiffany Mason:You just took the words right out of my mouth.
Jay Franze:We've talked about that right. So what happened is their record label decided to sell their catalog. They have the right to do that. They can sell their catalog but they decided to go ahead and sell the catalog and they didn't offer it to Five Finger Death Punch, they just sold it and then told them what they did. So Five Finger Death Punch would have purchased their catalog.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:But because they didn't offer it to them, they sold it off to somebody else. And now Five Finger Death Punch says well, that's fine, Well, we'll go back in the studio and we will rerecord all those songs now. So there's going to be a Death Punch version.
Tiffany Mason:So wait a minute, okay, so. So let's just say Sony, okay, you sign up with to be with Sony, and then you create 10 albums with them. Those 10 albums, that's your quote. Unquote catalog.
Jay Franze:That would be your catalog. Yes, okay, in this case let's say Sony, cause they're a record label and a publisher. Okay, so the publishing company would own the rights to the music and the band would be on the label whether they own the rights to the music or not. So the label signs the band and they put together, typically like a three album deal or something like that.
Tiffany Mason:Okay.
Jay Franze:And the band would go ahead and record those three albums and then they promote them and if at the end of the three years they think it's a good relationship and things are going well, everybody's making money and everybody's happy, they will re-sign that deal for maybe another three records.
Tiffany Mason:How often do people re-sign?
Jay Franze:Not very often. We've established that with Miranda Lambert, had a hard time resigning her contract and she's a great artist, great singer and great music and still has a hard time resigning. You know, I was listening to TL's Roadhouse today with Tim McGraw and they were talking about how the bands from the 90s were probably the best era country music and both of them being from the 90s as well best era country music and both of them being from the 90s as well. But how very few of those bands from the 90s or artists from the 90s even have record deals any longer. So it's just crazy how the the industry works I'm still perplexed about this catalog.
Tiffany Mason:We gotta, we still need to go back, go back, okay. So it just seems common courtesy. Why wouldn't they have reached out to Five Finger Death Punch and say, hey, do you want to buy this catalog?
Jay Franze:Well, the labels usually make deals all the time. Publishing companies make deals all the time. It's just like you know, I have a mortgage for my house and the company that I got the mortgage with sold it to somebody else. So it's a gamble. It's a business deal like any other.
Tiffany Mason:Wow, scandalous. Who knew? I did not realize all that's going on behind the scenes. It's like one song, but man, everybody's got their hands in it.
Jay Franze:Yeah, so I mean it's a big deal.
Tiffany Mason:Wow Okay, somebody gave me a hard time.
Jay Franze:Once Everybody says don't give up your publishing. And I had a song, do very well at one point and somebody said, well, you gave up 50% of your publishing. I said, no, I did not give up 50% of my publishing. I made a deal with the publisher, which is a very common deal. They take half for their efforts because they have the contacts and the network to sell the song or put it in TV shows or movies or whatever that person does. And I sit back and collect half of the money. Seems fair to me.
Jay Franze:I can have half of a deal, or I could have a hundred percent of nothing. So like when I had the song put in Saturday Night Live, that was a big deal. And the publishing company got half the money and then myself and the other person I wrote the song with, split the other half.
Tiffany Mason:Everybody was happy and it all went to your wife and your girls.
Jay Franze:Well, it does now. That was a long time ago.
Tiffany Mason:Oh Well, then it went to buy in Von.
Jay Franze:Ray a beer. Then it went to hookers and blow. Oh my gosh, those were my dogs Hookers and Blow.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, yeah, on that note of Blow and Hookers, we're talking about Foreigner.
Jay Franze:I was a huge fan of Foreigner growing up. Me too, you're not going to offend me by talking about Foreigner growing up Me too.
Tiffany Mason:You're not going to offend me by talking about Foreigner. Well, Kelly Hansen, who revitalized Foreigner as the lead vocalist since 2005, announced his departure during the performance on the Voice on May 20th. Guitarist Louis. Am I saying it right, Louis, or is it Louis this time?
Jay Franze:It's a name I always sayis, but okay, I don't know, louis louis maldonado whatever it's an italian name. Good for him maldonado.
Tiffany Mason:He's going to step in as the new front man. The band is preparing for the 50th anniversary in 2026 with plans of a celebratory tour and documentary.
Jay Franze:I would like to watch the documentary my concern with it is there is not an original member in the band Foreigner At this point. That is a tribute band.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:Seriously not an original member in that band, which goes to show you it's what I say. Especially we mentioned Kiss in the past.
Tiffany Mason:with makeup, it's real easy for them to have that band continue yeah but this goes to prove that the bands will continue on well, and um us just talking about, you know everybody having their hand in the pot. I mean, the publishing can change hands, the recordings can change hands and the band title can change hands. Yeah.
Jay Franze:And that's a big deal. Yeah, bands fight over the name of the band, a lot Like the band Rat. It's one of my favorite bands from the eighties. The singer is not allowed to use the name Rat and it was his band, he came up with it and he's not allowed to use it, so he has to go out as Steven Piercy from Rat. So it's just crazy to me.
Tiffany Mason:I can't imagine coming up with the name myself, and then all the blood, sweat and tears to build up the band and it becomes famous and then one of your bandmates screws you over and now you can't use the name that you came up with Such garbage. I will tell you what me it screws you over and now you can't use the name that you came up with?
Jay Franze:yeah, such garbage I will tell you what. You ever bust my cookies over the show and take the name away from me, it's going to be the tiffany mason show and I'll continue on. I'll continue on saying I'm tiffany mason for the rest of my life, but no, I mean that's. That's the thing. That's the deal. Bands do it. All the time Queensryche, queensryche fought over the name in Jeff Tate, who goes by Operation Mindcrime Jeff Tate's Operation Mindcrime which was one of their big hit albums, and then the rest of the band went back on and got a new singer and they continued to call themselves Queensryche. So it's like which one do you go with the singer or the band?
Tiffany Mason:I just can't imagine being I don't know. I just don't think I'm like that where I feel good about taking what you built. I don't think I could do it. But I know that the music industry is very cutthroat and people get greedy and you know, I'm sure, but it just seems wild to me. Yeah well, mr bruce springsteen's been here for a few weeks take two mr bruce springsteen unveils tracks to the lost albums.
Tiffany Mason:Bring uh, springsteen. Clearly I'm having a problem with it. Springsteen has released a collection of the 82 previously unreleased songs recorded between 83 and 2018, you know, from back in the 1900s, 1983 to 2018, the nine LP box set offers insight to his expansive career.
Jay Franze:Let me ask you if they're unreleased songs, if they didn't release them back in 1982, do you think they're?
Tiffany Mason:good songs. Well, we've talked about it before. You know, maybe the audience wasn't ready for them yet, Jay.
Jay Franze:Okay, good point.
Tiffany Mason:Maybe we're all ready now. Maybe those songs from the 1900s are going to be relevant in this century.
Jay Franze:There you go. Hey, you know his style of music. That could actually work right, because it's not going to sound any different. It's him and a guitar, an acoustic guitar. It's going to sound the same then as it does now. The difference is the topics that he sings about.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, Well, I don't know if he's singing about sex, drug and rock and roll back in 83. I don't know if it's relevant now, but I don't know, maybe. We'll see. I guess time will tell right. My dad always says live long enough, you'll find out. So if we live long enough, we'll find out.
Jay Franze:Well, I guess now we have to.
Tiffany Mason:Now we have to live All right. Hinder is set to release their seventh album Back to Life on May 23rd. This marks their first album in over seven years and features singles like Bring Me Back to Life and Everything Is a Cult. The band will embark on the Back to Life Tour 2025 with support from Saliva. Sylvia Saliva, sylvia no Saliva, definitely Saliva Kingdom Collapse and Kelsey Hickman.
Jay Franze:What you didn't like Saliva.
Tiffany Mason:I've never heard of them. Yes, you have've never heard of them.
Jay Franze:Yes, you have You've heard their music. Click, click, boom.
Tiffany Mason:Oh.
Jay Franze:You know that song right.
Tiffany Mason:Mm-hmm, I believe I do.
Jay Franze:That was the song that I liked from them.
Tiffany Mason:So we should talk about where bands came up with the name of their band.
Jay Franze:You know what would be a good way to do that? Tell me now. Get them on the show and tell us.
Tiffany Mason:Well, Saliva, you're the first one we want on.
Jay Franze:Let's see if we can make that happen, not just Saliva coming on the show. Well, let's see if we can figure out where the names of bands come from.
Tiffany Mason:Jim Morrison. It says his statue was discovered.
Jay Franze:Who is he? Oh, you seriously don't know who he is.
Tiffany Mason:I know who he is, but I don't know what he sings. I know who he is, for sure who.
Jay Franze:I don't want you to tell me.
Tiffany Mason:No, I know.
Jay Franze:Read the rest of your headline. I'm sure you can probably figure it out.
Tiffany Mason:Well, no, no, okay, don't say where from?
Tony Scott:Well, no, no.
Tiffany Mason:Okay, don't say where from. Anyways, it says his statue. It wasn't his statue, it was his bust, which is like your head up right. So his bust was discovered 37 years after being stolen from the singer oh, from the doors.
Jay Franze:Singer's grave, okay it wasn't that mine.
Tiffany Mason:Light dawns over marble head oh so the late american singer and poet. It went missing from his grave site in paris almost 40 years ago, 37 to be exact, and it has now been found, according to the french police. So if you're gonna be over there, I looked at it, though it's got all kinds of graffiti all over it, like who the F are these people? Leave stuff alone, and why does he have a bus in front of his gravesite? Anyway, well, he's Jim Morrison.
Jay Franze:He was. He was the Jim Morrison, you know, the one you don't know.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, jim Morrison, it's that guy the very famous singer.
Jay Franze:Tiffany doesn't know.
Tiffany Mason:You know there's been movies that have been made about him and everything, whatever, whatever.
Jay Franze:Question of the day.
Tiffany Mason:Like I was in a car getting ready for a road trip.
Jay Franze:Clever. What is the first song or songs, or whatever you would put into a playlist for a road trip? What is the first song that you would add to a playlist for a road trip? Tonight we're going to Vegas.
Tiffany Mason:We're going on a road trip. We're making an X tape and what are you putting on it? We're making a playlist trip. We're making an x tape and what are you putting on it? We're making a playlist we're making a playlist.
Jay Franze:Oh, if we want to be themed and be cutesy, I would say fast.
Tiffany Mason:Car by tracy chapman oh see what I did well to me, a road trip means I'm gonna sing my brains out to something and like the whole car is gonna join in and we're being loud and like in your face. That's what it means to me. So I chose blister in the sun. I have another really lame one too that I picked, but I know you always say one. What is the? The one song?
Jay Franze:So I only gave you one. It could be more songs, but let's give everybody a chance.
Tiffany Mason:That's what I think Give everyone a chance, everyone deserves a chance.
Jay Franze:except for George, George did not show up for work tonight.
Tiffany Mason:Whoa.
Jay Franze:Where's George? You know what that means. Right, George, you're fired.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, wow, sorry, George.
Jay Franze:That's what happens when you don't show up to work.
Tiffany Mason:Don't feel bad, George. I show up to work and I get fired.
Jay Franze:And you get fired there you go hey. All right, Moving on Alex. Alex says life is a highway.
Tiffany Mason:Life is a highway. Apparently, alex likes the cutesy thing too. Yeah yeah, Very clever Alex.
Jay Franze:Very clever, thank you. Thank you for playing along.
Tony Scott:Oh, I didn't mention.
Jay Franze:Life is a Highway by Tom Cochran, not Rascal Flatts. Tina On the Road Again by Willie Nelson, are these really the songs you people are picking. I don't know if they are, but they're clever and I like it. There was a comedian singer, comedian singer John John Valby, who played piano and sing songs, and he had one that was a playoff of Willie Nelson's on the road again oh funny talked about his wife being on the rag and he was like when you're on the rag, I'm on the road again.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, god, I haven't had, I haven't heard. It called that for a long time welcome to the Jay Franzy show.
Jay Franze:We are educational, let's see. Oh, here you go, carlos. You joined us once before, but this time you're not going to get any props from me. He says you were talking about Bruce Springsteen. You were talking about Bruce Springsteen it's a tongue twister.
Tiffany Mason:Take two.
Jay Franze:Carlos says you were talking about Bruce Springsteen. How about Born to Run?
Tiffany Mason:Oh Okay.
Jay Franze:People are very clever. I like this. Heather says how about Running Down a Dream? Tom Petty, jared, jared, jared says Radar Love by Golden Earring.
Tiffany Mason:Ooh, I like that one. I don't know who sings it, but yeah, golden Earring, I just told you. I have a Golden Earring in today.
Jay Franze:Do you Nice Clever? You knew that was going to happen. We planned it, samantha says I like Tiffany because she likes fleetwood mac, so therefore go your own way you can go your own way. Yes, yes, samantha, I'm glad you're here, I'm glad you care, but, samantha, I just ordered I just ordered a fleetwood Mac shirt T-shirt.
Tiffany Mason:Can't wait to get it. Okay, and my daughter chose a Metallica shirt and I was very excited about it.
Jay Franze:No, as long as she's not excited about it. Right, those are the days I'm afraid of.
Tiffany Mason:Hope that apple doesn't fall from this tree, nice, I think. Afraid of Hope that apple doesn't fall from this tree, nice, I think she did.
Jay Franze:Logan buddy love you. He says. Highway to hell, acdc.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, that's a good one.
Jay Franze:Mm-hmm. Yeah, acdc is touring again. They're on the road right now.
Tiffany Mason:Oh.
Jay Franze:And I saw a video from their tour and they sound the same as always. I mean, they're doing a great job for being 152. All right, Danielle, I like having you here, but I don't think you're at the right show tonight. She says Rihanna. She says shut up and drive. It's clever. It's clever, you can stay, Danielle, because it was clever. I'm not sure about Rihanna.
Tiffany Mason:I don't know. She's got a lot of sass and I like it. I'm here for it, especially in the car. Now, jay, are you a car dancer?
Jay Franze:I would say no, Dancer no. Yeah, the two of us were on a road trip, I'd be messing around and probably would have no problem dancing in the car. But no, not on a normal bus.
Tiffany Mason:Not by yourself.
Jay Franze:I mean I could, I mean I'm nothing against it, it's just nothing's moved me.
Tiffany Mason:I get in the zone.
Jay Franze:I might sing a song or play Staring World drum set or something, yeah.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, yeah, I'm doing all of that, and sometimes I'm like so in the zone when I'm playing singing along with my little songs.
Jay Franze:Get in the zone AutoZone. Not a sponsor, but could be.
Tiffany Mason:Let us know AutoZone Reach out. We all drive. Yes, apparently, we go on road trips. And we stop at AutoZone to get anything that we need for the car. Yes, and snacks there you go, Sometimes the hardware warehouse places, Home Depot, local tool places, whatever we have the best snacks.
Jay Franze:Yeah, Nails screws.
Tiffany Mason:And screws Snacks and screws. I was going was gonna say nuts, but I didn't want well, it's interesting that you were gonna say nuts, because I was gonna say what they always have are nut goodies. Have you ever had a nut goody?
Tiffany Mason:not by choice well, I've had them many times by choice. I've paid for them. They are like nugget and, I think, a little bit of toffee and some nut, and then they're covered. Okay, so what other song would we put on a playlist? Okay, so what other song would we put on a playlist? Because that is a slippery slope that just keeps getting slipperier. I go stop.
Jay Franze:Liam says hi, Liam, I assume L-I-A-M Liam. Yes, Is there another way of spelling Liam?
Tiffany Mason:No.
Jay Franze:Okay, Sorry.
Tiffany Mason:Liam, no, okay, sorry.
Jay Franze:Liam, no, liam says I'm going to be, and then, in parentheses, 500 miles.
Tiffany Mason:That's the other one on my list 500 miles. I would walk 500 miles. Right, I'm going to be the man that's coming home to you.
Jay Franze:Anyways, do you know who sings it?
Tiffany Mason:Proclaimers Okay, good for you.
Jay Franze:Kendra says I agree with Jay fast car. Tracy Chapman, not that country version yeah it's.
Tiffany Mason:I'm gonna be sorry, liam, but yes, we can go on a road trip together.
Jay Franze:Josh says Sweet Home Alabama. Leonard Skinner.
Tiffany Mason:Ooh, yes, definitely.
Jay Franze:Nate says Jack and Diane John Mellencamp.
Tiffany Mason:Oh yeah.
Jay Franze:Now to be fair. Wasn't it John Cougar at that time?
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:Another record label issue. His name's John Mellencamp, but the record label made himself made him change his name to john mellencamp. But the record label made himself made him change his name to john cougar I like all three john, cougar, mellencamp oh, here's one. Tyler says you mentioned incubus last week. How about drive? Oh that is their best song by far. Nice Harper says Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf.
Tiffany Mason:I think we should add Sweet Caroline as well. That feels like a pretty good one, easy on the memory.
Jay Franze:Good with the Boston-related songs so I'm good with that. Erica says the Go-Go's Vacation, Ooh yeah. The Go-Go's was one of the first recordings I ever purchased Like physically purchased on my own.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, in the 1900s.
Jay Franze:In the 1900s. It was the original Go-Go's album.
Tiffany Mason:Wow, that song always makes me think of National Lampoon's Toto.
Jay Franze:Africa National Lampoons Toto Africa Trevor says Africa by Toto.
Tiffany Mason:Yes, do you know that that song? He's talking about the rains down in Africa. He always wanted to go to Africa, but he died before he got to go.
Jay Franze:Oh, don't depress me. I did not know that You're like my wife. You sound excited to share sad news with me.
Tiffany Mason:No, I'm excited that I know something you don't know.
Jay Franze:I didn't know that. You're very good. I like that. Rachel says how about Cruise by Florida Georgia Line?
Tiffany Mason:Yes, yes.
Jay Franze:Jonah says Every Day is a Winding Road. By Sheryl Crow.
Tiffany Mason:Nice Ooh, I think if you're going to do that you got to do, is it called Picture? I put your picture away. Nice yeah, do that one too.
Jay Franze:Nice Michelle.
Tiffany Mason:Michelle, I would say Michelle.
Jay Franze:This is probably not the best song for a road trip, unless we're expecting to get a DUI. She says Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton.
Tiffany Mason:No, it's still good.
Jay Franze:Yeah, it's a good song.
Tiffany Mason:You're not going to get drunk listening to the song.
Jay Franze:Gavin. Gavin says Old Town Road by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus.
Tiffany Mason:I don't know what about the Tipsy song. Then we got to put Shaboozy in there.
Jay Franze:Shaboozy would be a good one.
Tiffany Mason:We got to get some Taylor's version songs in there.
Jay Franze:I don't know. I don't see that anywhere on here. Reed, I do appreciate you being here. He says don't stop believing my journey. Ooh, yeah, I'm looking. I don't see any Taylor stuff. Where's our Swifties this week? Ooh. Beth this is a good one. She says before he cheats, carry on to it that song always makes me pumped up when that comes on.
Tiffany Mason:I'm over it.
Jay Franze:Wade says give me all your lovin's EZ Top. That's a car song. That band is nothing but car songs. Oh, here's Taylor Swift, but not the way we think it. Melanie says Highway, don't Care.
Tony Scott:Tim McGraw featuring.
Jay Franze:Taylor Swift and Keith Urban. I didn't know he was featured?
Tiffany Mason:Taylor Swift. No, I don't want to be listening to that one. Sorry, not going on a car trip with you.
Jay Franze:I am censoring.
Tiffany Mason:Andrea says man, I feel like a woman. Shania Twain I'll take any Shania. Let's take a little selena on too, because that was my car, that was my car driving song, that whole album, one of celine's whole albums. So I gotta throw celine in there, because that's what I used to always do devin says uptown funk, uptown Funk.
Jay Franze:Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars.
Tiffany Mason:I like that song. You know what? That song was a soundtrack to one of the conferences that my husband and I attended. You know, my husband is very quiet and he's very reserved and he's very you know all the introvert things and there was like a little camera crew out there and they would make these videos throughout the day and then they would play them on the tv in our hotel rooms. That song was playing and I pushed sean into the pool and so that was one of the scenes that made the reel or whatever that day. And so we go up to the hotel room and that song is playing and it just you know, they're not very long, I don't know two minutes or something, and then it would just play again. And it would play again. I'm like, oh watch, here we go, here we go, I'm gonna push you in and was he happy with you at that moment?
Tiffany Mason:he was because he had quite a few margaritas and so he didn't mind it at all you had drowned him. I got it no I see where you're going with that it was was only three feet deep, he's fine, oh, that's even better.
Jay Franze:Crack his skull open. I got it. Oh my gosh, you're good at this stuff. Work with my wife. She watches all those TV shows that teach you how to kill somebody. What do they call them True crime? Yeah, that's it.
Tiffany Mason:I don't like true crime. They scare me.
Jay Franze:Yeah me crime. Yeah, that's it. I don't like Joe crime. They scare me. Yeah me too. It scares me that my wife watches so much of it. Derek says, well, if it's gonna be Tiffany going on a road trip, wouldn't it be enter Sandman by Metallica.
Tiffany Mason:I mean, I'd still listen to it, I'd still get fired up, just a different way, nice.
Jay Franze:Let's see if there's any others worth mentioning.
Tiffany Mason:According to Jay. According to Jay Francia, from the 1900s. I don't know why I'm fixated on that today.
Jay Franze:Savannah says Edge of 17 Stevie Nicks. I only mentioned that for you? Yes, I'm such a dumbass sometimes.
Tiffany Mason:Jay, talk nice to yourself.
Jay Franze:I was going through to see if there was any worth mentioning. I'm like I don't recognize any of these names. It's the names of the people who wrote them, not the name of the artist. I'm like huh of the people who wrote them, not the name of the artist. I'm like huh. There's a few others, but let's end with these last couple here. A very, very good song. I mean very good song. Andrew Metallica actually covered the song.
Tiffany Mason:But Colin says Turn the Page by Bob Seger. Oh, so that's a good one.
Jay Franze:And let's end on our favorite previous guest, rocky Rose, out with Cyndi Lauper. Tasha says I drive all night by Cyndi Lauper Ah.
Tiffany Mason:Um, but Jay, oh no. I Drive All Night by Cyndi Lauper. Ah, but Jay, oh no. I don't know if you said what you would put on a playlist.
Jay Franze:I did.
Tiffany Mason:Didn't we start that way?
Jay Franze:I feel like I started. I said Tracy Chapman.
Tiffany Mason:Drive. Oh, you were serious, no.
Jay Franze:That's the first one that came to mind. I said if we were being cutesy.
Tiffany Mason:Yes, okay, yes, okay, okay. Fair enough, it's the memory thing.
Jay Franze:I have a bad memory and you're the one forgetting things.
Tiffany Mason:In the world of country music we have Miss Dolly Parton. So the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville has unveiled a new exhibit titled Dolly Parton Journey of a Seeker Nice problem I thought you were going to say she's doing a collab with Journey.
Jay Franze:I was going to get all excited.
Tiffany Mason:No no. Opened through September 2026,. It showcases her rise from Smoky Mountains to global stardom, featuring personal artifacts like handwritten lyrics on iconic and iconic outfits. It'd be cool if the lyrics were written on her outfits. Parton now 79, attended the opening and announced plans for her own museum in downtown nashville she is one of the nicest people in the world, for sure.
Jay Franze:Nothing but good things to say about Dolly. Everybody I know that has actually spent quality time with her says she's awesome and she's great to the community. Everything in Nashville, or even in East Tennessee, is Dolly this and Dolly that, and I like the fact that she's willing to experiment.
Tiffany Mason:Experiment in what way.
Jay Franze:Musically.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, I didn't know if you meant like with the parks and that kind of stuff.
Tony Scott:I didn't know if you meant with your husband or you know I wasn't trying to left lane.
Tiffany Mason:No, no, well, not anymore, for sure. But Too soon, too soon, too soon it's never been harder.
Jay Franze:We took a hard left. Let's bring it back.
Tiffany Mason:We didn't just take a left, we just we took a left, we went off the road in a storm I have recently in my life met three people that felt too good to be true, but that's just who they are. They're just really that amazing and that good.
Jay Franze:So it's me and who else?
Tiffany Mason:Well, it was a short list. Your name didn't quite make it, but Whoa.
Tony Scott:Damn, tiffany're fired.
Tiffany Mason:Trump.
Tony Scott:No.
Tiffany Mason:Oh, I see how it is your name doesn't get on the list and you fire me.
Tony Scott:Yeah.
Tiffany Mason:Cool. Nothing better to do. All right, mr Alan Jackson, the country legend. All right.
Jay Franze:Mr Alan Jackson, the country legend.
Tiffany Mason:he performed his final tour show in Milwaukee, citing health issues related to whoa, let's just say chronic health issues we don't have to be specific, some kind of tooth disease At 66, jackson plans farewell concert in Nashville and hinted at future music music product. Wow, future music projects, despite retiring from the road. The sad part is you guys, we read through these before I read through all of these before the show.
Jay Franze:I don't read at all.
Tiffany Mason:Oh well, I read through them so that I don't make these kind of mistakes. But you know.
Jay Franze:I didn't realize he was only 66.
Tiffany Mason:I didn't either. I would have guessed him older.
Jay Franze:Yeah, I would have guessed him older. I don't know if you saw any of the video from it, but I was able to see the video of the last song and have him get up and walk off stage. It was pretty sad. I didn't realize he was having a hard time, but he got up there, he performed. He sounded great. But then he.
Jay Franze:There was what appeared to be like a bodyguard standing next to him and he was there for support, like alan had to hold his arm to walk off stage and stuff. Kind of reminded me of toby keith, kind of reminded me of to Keith Kind of reminded me of Toby Keith when he walked off stage. It was just rough seeing somebody you know that you've listened to forever and seeing him struggle.
Tiffany Mason:Well, I feel like it's kind of like when people say that they see their dad decline in health, you know, and it's like these great celebrities and then we're reminded that they're mortal, just like us. Yeah.
Jay Franze:It used to be, people would stop before they got to that point.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:These days, they just keep going.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, I have this. I have the song just like on repeat in my head and it's Rascal flats, uh, Mayberry, but it's the the line. Sunday was a day of rest. Now it's one more day for progress and it's kind of like that, Like I mean, we're all just like you know, you just have to keep pursuing the almighty dollar because life is just expensive. And so I think that you a certain lifestyle that they're used to, and then to maintain it, to keep it, you got to keep performing, and also it's their passion, their love, their identity, and so yeah, I have nothing against them doing it, it's just sad when you see it happen, yeah, yeah.
Jay Franze:Tim McGrath thinks he's going to be ending soon because he says his quote was and I thought it was as solid of him to mention as anybody. He said people don't come to hear me sing, they come to see me perform. He said if I get to a point where I can't perform, there's no point of me just standing in one spot to sing.
Tiffany Mason:So he's self-aware enough to realize that, which I thought was great yeah, so yeah sad yeah, we just see these big personalities and then they become more normal yeah well, somebody who is not becoming more normal is kelsey ballerini, but she is taking a break from well, not taking a break. She's just done, I guess, with the Voice.
Jay Franze:It was a short, short stint.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, real short stint, Didn't she just come on with her boots? Yeah, Anyway, she's not going to return as a coach for season 28. Despite leading her contestant to the second place, finish Ballerini steps away amid mixed reactions. The upcoming season's coaching panel will include Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg, Nail Horan I don't know who that is and Reba McIntyre.
Jay Franze:All right, let's talk about a couple of these. We know Reba and everything. That's great. She's awesome. But, Michael Bublé ooh, he is awesome. I mean, he might not be our typical rock or country music, but he is awesome, super talented.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, I got Save the Last Dance that one would have to go on the road trip playlist. Big fan of the Buble.
Jay Franze:That segment's over. It's too late. Sorry, Michael.
Tiffany Mason:Well, no late submissions.
Jay Franze:And then Snoop Dogg. I get it, he's talented in that world. But can you truly coach somebody outside of that world If you come from that world, you might have the ability to sing and do that stuff, but I don't know, does Snoop have that ability?
Tiffany Mason:Well, I wonder, does he have the technical ability?
Jay Franze:Yeah, that's the part I'm wondering. I mean, yeah, technically he's got the charisma, by all means right, he can coach somebody. He's got the stature or whatever.
Tiffany Mason:But can he say, like you know, hit the falsetto harder.
Jay Franze:Like I don't know that's the part I'm wondering technically. Technically, could he coach somebody? I mean, it is a vocal show. Right Called the Voice, we will hold off opinion until we see how good you do. You seem to do good at every other thing in the world.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:Not judging you yet, buddy.
Tiffany Mason:So my dad's name is Dennis. It's like Dennis says live long enough and you'll find out. There you go.
Jay Franze:Now another reason we have to live longer. Live long enough and you'll find out.
Tiffany Mason:There you go Now another reason we have to live longer. Well, speaking of the singing shows, a while back we talked about the Road, which is starring or featuring Keith Urban and Blake Shelton, and the first episode is going to come out September 1st on CBS, and that was the show where they're basically going to get to, you know, survive on the road. So these people go on the road, they perform. If they do well enough, they advance and they go to the next town, and so we're going to see what it's like to see life on the road. So that's going to kick off September 1st on CBS. Nice, yeah, I'm kind of excited for that one.
Jay Franze:Keith Urban huh.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, keith Urban, blake Shelton.
Jay Franze:All right, fair enough.
Tiffany Mason:I want to meet Blake Shelton in person, just because everyone says he's so tall.
Jay Franze:He's tall. Yeah, he was one of the first people I met when I moved to Nashville.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:When he had his mullets and all that stuff. When he had his mullets and all that stuff. He's a tall man, Taller than I. Okay, you know I come in at 7'2", so he's got to be at least 13'5" or something. Yeah.
Tiffany Mason:A giant among men, yeah right.
Jay Franze:Oh, all right, let's move on to recommendations, but before we do, let me clear something up from last week.
Jay Franze:We were so excited to jump in and talk about the song that I did not mention the artist or the song. We just went ahead and talked as if everybody knew, and we talked about it the week before, but the song was Closer to More, by Maddie McCree. So if you want to go check it out, please go ahead and do that, and then you can go ahead and listen to our episode and hear our thoughts. But this week I'll go ahead and let you introduce your song, but this week we'll go ahead and mention the artist and the song. So please, miss Tiffany, tell us the song that you chose for me to listen to.
Tiffany Mason:Well, I had been at a wedding and heard a song Shazammed. It fell in love with it and it was by the Miss Lauren Daigle and it is called Love Like this, and I know that she is talking about a love with God, but I did love it in the thought, in the realm, of being related to two people that have just formed a union and they're starting their life together and being deserving of a love like that.
Jay Franze:That's nice. See, now I thought you were trying to throw me a monkey wrench by making me listen to Christian music. No, I thought you did that on purpose.
Tiffany Mason:No no.
Tony Scott:No Good to know.
Jay Franze:But either way, it's funny, there's a lot of Christian music made in Nashville. That's one of the big genres of music that's done in Nashville. So I've worked on a lot of it. I mean I've literally recorded and mixed a lot of Christian music. We typically talk country and rock and all of a sudden you mentioned Christian. I'm like huh, that's, that's cool. But no, it was very cool. I liked the song. It was very, um, it's very soft and I mean it did build up throughout the song, but it was very soft. I mean, in the beginning it had that soft piano feel to it as well and but a very breathy, breathy vocal.
Tiffany Mason:Yes, the context was it was their first dance together. So, like, just think of, like this tender moment these people are dancing. You know, they've just gotten married and then they're just like god and mary.
Jay Franze:Oh, no way, you're talking about the wedding you were at yes what were their?
Tiffany Mason:names lindsey and michael, and they just tied the knot and it was just like such a intimate you know thing where they're just like so in love with each other and, like you know, you just said your vows. You're just like in that ooey gooey.
Jay Franze:The song was about unconditional love. Yeah, I mean it was with God, but yeah, it was unconditional love nonetheless, yeah.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, I thought it was nice and I love her voice. If you listen to other stuff by her, she can get very soft or very vulnerable with her voice, but I love that. It's like I feel like my voice is doing it right now, where it's like like that, I don't know Like you're singing, you know, but it sounds good, I don't know. I just I really love Lauren Daigle's voice. It's very growly.
Jay Franze:A lot of grit. It had a very Adele feel to it.
Tiffany Mason:Yes, yes, yep, hit the nail on the head for sure, hit the nail on the head, jay you just don't hit the nail on the head. Oh, so wrong. You're pretty talented without hammer.
Jay Franze:This is a religious song about God.
Tiffany Mason:Yes.
Jay Franze:Just throwing that out there. This is not one to knock boots to my friend the lightning come down and boom. Not one to knock boots to my friend the lightning come down and boom Anyway it was recorded in Nashville. It was recorded right down the road from Bob's house.
Tiffany Mason:Oh funny.
Jay Franze:Yeah, it's in Franklin, tennessee. I probably shouldn't be telling where Bob lives, on 38 Walnut Street. I probably shouldn't mention that it's right around the corner from the Stop and Shave. Stop and Shave, stop and Save. Stop and Shave, stop and Shave.
Tiffany Mason:Stop and Save, stop and Shave. That's what my wife.
Jay Franze:She gets some growth on her way home. I make her stop and shave before she gets to the house.
Tiffany Mason:That's where the lot lizards go they stop and shave quick.
Jay Franze:But yeah, I mean it's kind of cool that it was recorded out in nashville and I mean part of it recorded at starstruck. We mentioned reaver earlier yeah, very cool it was good overall. Good had two producers.
Jay Franze:I know how we like that oh I mean, the song itself is rather broken down, but it had a little bit of a buildup and then all of a sudden it broke down again and then the second half of the bridge when it kicked back in, or was probably back into the chorus. It kicked in full-blown instrumentation further than it was even the first couple times. So they put a lot of thought into the production.
Tiffany Mason:I think this is one of the very few songs that I just like it because I like it like I know that we are picking songs on you know some some form of criteria, but this is one of the very few songs that like it was just a feeling and um, no criteria.
Jay Franze:pick a song, any song that you would just recommend that somebody me and everybody else me and the crew a song that you think we should know about or listen to. Those are the ones we want to know, things that we wouldn't normally find on our own is really what it's all about. It's not about anything else. I mean whatever you think is good.
Tiffany Mason:Just two of us sitting around by the water cooler?
Jay Franze:Hey, did you happen to hear that song, the one we were making love to, and got struck by?
Tiffany Mason:lightning Stop. What one would you recommend, Jay?
Jay Franze:What I would like you to listen to is probably something you're not familiar with. Art is called Royale Lynn, royale Lynn, royale Lynn, and the song is called Six Feet Deep. I'm anxious for you to hear it because I think it sums up this show. She's a new artist. I found her on Instagram and it appeared as if she's doing everything herself for a team of people like local which is unsigned or whatever, but I think that's probably a little exaggerated.
Jay Franze:I think she does have a record label or people behind her. She's touring with big people and she's doing big things, so she either blew up real quick and got lucky.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:Or she's had a team of people, you know, working it behind the scenes. But either way, I really liked the song.
Tiffany Mason:Okay, cool.
Jay Franze:She markets herself as a country artist, but this is a metal song.
Tiffany Mason:Interesting.
Jay Franze:Okay, punk country or whatever she calls it, but you can check it out the the crew. You guys can check it out. Please chime in, let us know what you think this crew will bring our reviews next week.
Tiffany Mason:All right, well, this is not very entertaining. It's very sad, but this man was very entertaining. George went the star passes away at 76. You may have seen it on social media or on the news. It was the beloved actor known for his role as Norm Peterson on Cheers. He died peacefully in his sleep on May 20th and appeared in every episode from the sitcom 82 to 93. Dang for 11 years and was nominated for six Emmys. He also had roles in Saturday Night Live, the Simpsons and various stage productions Liked me some, norm.
Jay Franze:Great guy, I mean every time I see Cheers, the only quote I ever think of is Norm.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:And living in Boston, I've driven by. Cheers the original Cheers and they created a couple little satellite restaurants. Like in Faneuil Hall is a big marketplace. They created a restaurant there and stuff. It's pretty cool. But in the picture at the front was Norm. It wasn't the rest of them. It was Norm, because everybody's expecting to see norm when they come in yeah so yeah, yeah, it's sad sarah silverman post-mortem on netflix.
Tiffany Mason:So that's her latest netflix special. It is emotionally renaissance, am I saying that right?
Jay Franze:Resonant.
Tiffany Mason:Resonant Thank you, I knew I was wrong. Resonant and darkly humorous performance honoring the memory of her late parents. Filmed at New York's Beacon Theater, this special blends poignant reflections with satire on mortality, family and personal growth. Ms Sarah Silverman's back.
Jay Franze:I'm going to save my judgment. I will watch it, I will check it out. I enjoyed her earlier in her career and then she kind of went off the rails to me. So, let's see if she's back on track yet, I don't know, maybe she is Okay. Again, that's just my opinion, and what does that matter?
Tiffany Mason:It matters because you have a crush on her. No, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, isn't that what you said? She?
Jay Franze:doesn't know what she's talking about. I did think she was cute Back in the day.
Tiffany Mason:I thought she was cute, I mean crush, and now you think she's a smug show.
Jay Franze:She was not my exact type, you know, but I thought she was cute.
Tiffany Mason:She's aight, she's aight.
Jay Franze:There's people I think are like. I would have a crush on that. I think are like physically.
Tiffany Mason:Like Tina Fey.
Jay Franze:You know she's cute too. I can recognize just general cuteness and stuff. They're cute. They're both cute. Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that, but Miss Piggy on the other hand Not that I don't know, I was trying to think of a girl that wasn't real, so I didn't offend, but bestiality may have crossed the line, I don't know.
Tiffany Mason:Another hard left well, I'm gonna bring you back in oh, please, and we're gonna talk about mr nate bergazzi bergazzi I like him he is topping tops comedy comedy tour rating, so he okay. So he has become the top grossing comic in a report earning over $48 million. Doesn't matter. In a report On some spreadsheet somewhere. It doesn't matter Details, they're foggy but actual reporting here.
Jay Franze:You know, we've already established that we come.
Tiffany Mason:People come here for facts, okay, so let's give the people what they want. So 48 million dollars that he's earned. His success places him alongside major musical artists, highlighting the growing popularity of stand-up comedy. And could it be because everybody is so stressed out, depressed, anxious, because life is so fast. Life is a highway man and so comedy helps us to. You know, comic relief Like it helps you to release the happy hormones.
Jay Franze:I think comedy has always been there for people. I think the difference is the internet and social media are here now and social media is what's bringing comedy to the forefront. You know all the scrolling and comedians have really jumped on understanding that.
Tony Scott:Matt.
Jay Franze:Rife being one of the ones that quickly jumped on that and realized the power of the short-form video. I mean, that's how he blew up. He blew up because all of his stuff is really crowd work and people find that funny.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, yeah.
Jay Franze:Those little quick comebacks and stuff.
Tiffany Mason:Well, because I feel like it doesn't, it's maybe, no, it's not, it feels like and it's not rehearsed. Or you know, like you got to be actually talented to, you know, be witty like that and have those quick comebacks, so that's what makes it funnier. And then you know, sometimes they say say, you know, life is funnier. What do they say? Like you can't make up real life, you know, like like it's funnier, the real stuff is funnier than what you could write, you know. So sure that makes perfect sense.
Jay Franze:No, edit point number 32.
Tiffany Mason:It is true, though, like sometimes just like the crap that your kids come up with, like no Edit point number 32. It is true, though, Like sometimes it's just like the crap that your kids come up with.
Jay Franze:You can't make up this.
Tiffany Mason:No, no, no. I was going to say, like some Lucy stuff, oh my God, I can't wait to meet that kid. So anyway, speaking of Matt Rife, he actually is launching the Stay Golden Tour, so we'll have to see if that pops up, he's already at the golden age of his career.
Jay Franze:Just started and now it's over.
Tiffany Mason:That's how it is, though. Right, it's a flash in the pan man. He's good.
Jay Franze:I saw him perform live. When he came to town I was able to go check him out oh, really yeah I mean I thought it was good. I don't think he's trying too hard.
Tiffany Mason:Me personally. I don't think he's got enough experience under his belt yet. That's just. He just seems very wet behind the ears still to me.
Jay Franze:Well, I think what you said earlier about his comebacks he's very clever and he's got the ability to be quick with the comeback.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:Now I think what he needs is a little bit of life experience, to have something that's not a dick joke for the comeback.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, yeah.
Jay Franze:But you know hey.
Tiffany Mason:I would agree with that. He's on his way.
Jay Franze:He's very good.
Tiffany Mason:I mean he's already reached the golden section. He's trying to stay golden, yeah, unless it's a shower, maybe like the golden boy, I don't know.
Jay Franze:Apparently, we're still stuck on dick jokes too, so we can't say much.
Tiffany Mason:Because they're funny.
Jay Franze:True, fair enough. No, I really like him. I do.
Jay Franze:I think the specials that he has out are really good, you know the ones where he's got planned jokes you know written jokes I think are good and then if you end the special and do some crowd work, I like it when you show. You know it's typically an hour long show when you go see a comedian and yep, I think if you do like half hour, 45 minutes of planned show and then maybe 15 minutes of crowd work, I think that's a good balance. I like to see your creativity with your jokes and then follow it up with crowd work because you know that's really good. That's probably one of my favorite things. But I don't think the crowd work shines if it's nothing but crowd work.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah, yeah, it's the whole thing, but I'm about to eat my words here, so life's a bitch. Well, also, I think with crowd work sometimes you get those uncomfortable pauses. You know I don't like that very much, so I wouldn't want an hour of that.
Jay Franze:Well, let's go ahead and move on, and I will tell you why I'm about to eat my words.
Tiffany Mason:I went to see.
Jay Franze:Big Jay Oakerson. Whoop, whoop. Vip treatment, vip tickets, tick it one. But I'm not going to argue, eh, I'll take what I can get. Yeah, but I went. It was funny. You know they seat people. It's just like the VIP section is assigned, the general admission was not assigned, so it's a three level venue. It was nice.
Jay Franze:It's a place called the Liberty Funny Bone just outside of Cincinnati, and the seating area they seat in groups of four or groups of two. I was group of one so I'm sitting with somebody. So anyways, they put me dead center, like right at the stage. I mean I was Perfect. There was two people in front of me but I sat at the table. It was a table of four and there was one people in front of me. But I said at the table was a table of four and there was one couple at it. They were at the, the first half, closest to the stage. So I said at the back half and I was getting ready to order some food and stuff, and security comes up to me, says sir, can you move up please? I'm like, okay, that means they're gonna sit a group of four behind me or something. So I said okay and I move up and I turned to the people.
Jay Franze:I said you know, hi, I'm gonna sit with you guys tonight and they were nice they laughed and we joked and we ordered food together and made it, made a joke out of it, and then nobody ever came and sat at the table for the whole night oh my god, it's like thanks thanks a lot, but anyways, it put me even one seat closer to the front. But the show was amazing, but the reason why I said I'm about to eat my words is his entire show is crowd work.
Jay Franze:Oh, I mean nothing but and he's good at it yeah he's very good at it and there is a lot of you know, whether it be dick jokes or boob jokes or whatever and some guy wore short a shirt. He said to my right and he was there with his wife. But his shirt said I love boobs. I mean big giant letters. So he got picked on immediately yeah, he was asking for it but he says my wife made me wear it. And he turns to the wife and she says, yep, I'm like okay did she have big boobs?
Tiffany Mason:she did have big boobs they know what they like.
Jay Franze:But I didn't get picked on. But there was. There was a girl to my left and she was sitting there with two guys and she was with one guy which was supposedly her best, her best friend or whatever, and the other guy was just sat at their table, so they didn't know each other third wheel, like jay yeah, like me, he called on her all night long because she was hot. She was hot and she was wearing very little yeah, and.
Jay Franze:And he thought you know those two were married. When he found out they weren't married, the entire night was well, he wants to sleep with you. You don't know it, but he wants to, and he was like trying to convince them to sleep with each other all night long.
Tiffany Mason:It's like first date.
Jay Franze:They were friends. He said they've known each other forever. But he, out of the gate, got her talking about the raunchiest stuff he said something about are you wearing a butt plug, or something like that oh my gosh she turned to her friend and I thought it was going to be in disgust. But she turned to her friend and laughed like, because he suggested she wear one.
Jay Franze:Yeah, yeah, I'm like, well, okay, this just got interesting, but it was a fun show overall. He was very, very good, very good. I mean I've seen his videos forever, but it was good to get to see him in person and get to see his show.
Tony Scott:But the openers were really good too.
Jay Franze:I mean, I don't remember the opener's name, but he was still learning. He's a local but, he was very good for still learning.
Tiffany Mason:Was he as good as you, Jay?
Jay Franze:Well, come on, let's be real now that's a very, very hard, hard level to reach. You've got to lay on the floor to reach that level. He was very good. He was definitely better than I am sure yeah. And then there was the girl who hosted the night.
Tiffany Mason:I sorry if she's listening, but did not find her to be funny.
Jay Franze:She was. She wasn't trying to have fun she was trying to be funny. Yeah, the others were just having fun. They would say right, the, even the the opener. The local guy was telling jokes but he was laughing at himself. He's laughing at things. She seemed like she was angry, angry stuff you know, okay, angry joke Not very funny. And you're the one supposed to be hyping up the crowd.
Tiffany Mason:She was defeating her purpose.
Jay Franze:Overall, I thought the entire show was good Good overall Very fun. First one that I left thinking, man, I want to go back. The first one I would go back If they were back in town again. Man, I want to go back, Uh-huh. First one I would go back. If they were back in town again tomorrow night, I would go.
Tiffany Mason:Well, I had a very similar experience. So Thursday I got a text message from my girlfriend and she was like hey, I have an extra ticket to Forest Frank, Would you want to come? And I was like yeah, yeah, I would like to come. It's another Christian artist, so if you don't know the name, that's why. But he does have two songs on secular radio, I think, so you may have heard those. But anyway, I was very excited.
Jay Franze:Just like the fact that you say secular radio, like any of the crew members know what that means.
Tiffany Mason:Secular radio is anything but a Christian station.
Jay Franze:It just sounds very sophisticated the way you just throw it out there like that.
Tiffany Mason:Oh well, I am very sophisticated. I don't know if you've spent very much time with me, but I am a very sophisticated kind of lady.
Tony Scott:Tiffany, you're fired.
Tiffany Mason:Goodbye. Trump knows me by name.
Jay Franze:AI Trump, ai Trump, ai Trump.
Tiffany Mason:No lawsuits here so, um, we went to the concert that day. I had listened to some of the songs and it was funny because one of the songs that I absolutely love now I did not like just listening to it, like on apple music, whatever. Went to the show recommendation in the wild.
Jay Franze:What's the name of it?
Tiffany Mason:no l's, we ain't taking. No l's, no, no, no, that one's not, that one's not um, but this is like a rap song, so it's like a christian rap.
Tiffany Mason:I don't know crap, it's rap, no he's not christian rap no, it's not crap, no, it's not um, but he's very clever with his words, very, very clever. So you know, that's a, that's a home run for me right there felt the same way that, like I was like oh man, if he was performing again tomorrow night, I think I'd buy tickets. So he's actually going to be performing at the I State Fair and yours truly is from Iowa and I would maybe go with my daughter and my mom and go see it.
Jay Franze:Don't worry, I don't want to go. Okay, this is the second time you've excluded me tonight.
Tiffany Mason:It's a girl's trip, Jay. You want to hang out with my mom?
Jay Franze:at a Forrest Frank concert. I might how old is she Just throw that out there, you know.
Tiffany Mason:She's in her 60s, it's not that bad. She just had a knee replacement so she got a new knee. She's mobile.
Jay Franze:Joints are lubed.
Tiffany Mason:Oh gosh, oh gosh.
Jay Franze:Not that kind of lube, the gliding.
Tiffany Mason:Oh gosh, Not that kind of look.
Jay Franze:And off to the left the gliding, yeah.
Tiffany Mason:So we've been listening to the music now Like I just I can't get out of my head, and every time it was the coolest. Oh, and did you see my reel? I feel like you did see my reel because you see all my stuff, but did you see that he pulled up Logic Pro and he was showing how he creates a song?
Tiffany Mason:I did yes, and I was nerding out because I was so excited. I was like that's what I use, but this is the funniest part. Okay, this is so funny. Okay, I've been using logic pro for probably two years, right, and that's how I you brag about this.
Tiffany Mason:That's disappointing I know, I know I'm okay with it, though I feel good about my choices. So, um, I'm watching. Okay, now when you're in logic pro and you have like a track, you have different controls on the track and you can make it play by itself or you can silence it or whatever. You can choose whatever tracks you want to play and whatever tracks you want muted. So I knew that the M was for mute and that works and I don't really need a workaround. So I've never really explored what the S is for until Forrest Frank is sitting there explaining. He goes okay, let's solo out just this track, and he clicks on the s and I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. So not only did I get a concert, I learned how to use logic pro while I was there. Wow, I know, I thought it was so funny that I had used it for two years.
Tiffany Mason:I know. I know I knew you'd be pretty pumped. For me it's odd, but you know, if you haven't needed it then you don't look for a solution. So it's been fine. But I did use it already this week. I was pretty pumped about it and I was like, let me just hit the S.
Jay Franze:Let me just solo this up here real quick.
Tiffany Mason:But it was also interesting because he was talking about multiple piano parts, I believe, and so he was like let me take a couple of those out. And it made sense to me because when we were talking you had talked to. I said what makes a cleaner track sound, or whatever, and you had said you know, if there's 12 guitars playing, I take a couple of them out. And so it was interesting that he had a couple of piano pieces and he took a couple out. I thought that was interesting. Oh, drums, that's what it was. It was drums.
Jay Franze:Yeah, there is definitely times when mixing music that sometimes it's better to take things out, remove things from the party.
Tiffany Mason:Well times, it's better to take things out, Remove things from the party. Well, all I could think of is I was like God. I wish Jay was here. I wish Jay was here. I just want to like.
Jay Franze:Whoa, whoa. You've excluded me twice. Now all of a sudden, you need me there when it comes to work. I got it.
Tiffany Mason:No, I just want to pick your brain and be like okay now, why is it like that? Oh, that's what that's called. Oh, wait a minute, Like I don't know. I don't know, it was just so interesting. But I feel like every time I have a question, you always have an answer. So I know that if I would have had a question, just ask Jay. That's the new segment. Just ask Jay. There you go. Speaking of that we get feedback from time to time.
Jay Franze:We should probably read some of it on the air. Yeah, crew members, if you would like us to do that, let us know, put it in the chat or send us a message on the socials and we will consider doing that.
Tiffany Mason:Only if you tell us you want it.
Jay Franze:I always send the feedback to Tiffany, but I never read any of it. Maybe we should.
Tony Scott:Yeah.
Tiffany Mason:People do that right. People still do that.
Jay Franze:They don't want to hear people do that they want to hear their name on the air and that's why every time we do the question of the day and we forget somebody or skip over somebody, I can get or jay censors them.
Tiffany Mason:I'm an engineer out of nashville. I censor the messages oh I'm north nashville I'm in kentucky now, yeah. Well, what do you have going on this weekend, jay? What are you doing for memorial day?
Jay Franze:you know, I didn't even realize it was memorial day, but I'm gonna take it. I'll take a extra, an extra weekend day, why not? Yeah, right I don't know what the wife has planned. You know that's a always a wife question to me. There are a few shows here in town. I will probably consider going to. Maybe stop by laurie's roadhouse not a sponsor, but could be. I really like laurie's roadhouse.
Tiffany Mason:It's a great venue here in town now um, I need to ask is it really laurie's roadhouse? I feel like maybe I've asked you this, or is there a weird spelling that you always say laurie's, or is it your bostonian accent that makes you say it like that?
Jay Franze:um l-o-r-i that's laurie so am I saying it wrong? Laurie that's what I said it's okay.
Tiffany Mason:People always make fun of me for how I say roof like the roof of a house. I don't know if I say roof or roof right now, but I think I would say roof I would say roof yeah, red roof in a lot of people say rough the roof, the rough of the house, the roof of the house, I don't know. So you always say Laurie, and I'm always like I wonder if there's like a weird spelling or if that's just our little J in his Bostonian accent.
Jay Franze:I just can't speak apparently, laurie, laurie.
Tiffany Mason:Laurie.
Jay Franze:Laurie.
Tiffany Mason:Laurie't speak apparently Lori, lori, lori.
Jay Franze:Lori Lori's Roadhouse.
Tiffany Mason:Lori's Roadhouse.
Jay Franze:Lori Lori, lori Lori's Roadhouse.
Tiffany Mason:I have a friend from Michigan and her brother-in-law's name is Alan and she always says A-lan, and so I was like same thing. I'm like so is his name spelled differently, or do you just say Alan weird? And she's like, oh no, I say Alan weird, I was like okay, so every time she talks about him his name is Aylan.
Jay Franze:It's a very large venue, but it's in a strip mall. Oh weird, it used to be a Kroger. Ah, well, well but I mean it's a large venue, I mean the inside is massive oh gosh.
Tiffany Mason:I mean, it's truly a large, massive, I mean they're standing in the produce section a couple cucumbers and I know I just have cucumbers on my brain, because that's what Hannah and I.
Tiffany Mason:Pick up a couple cucumbers and hit the road. Whoa, whoa, I know I just have cucumbers on my brain because that's what Hannah and I had to pick her up a cucumber tonight. We've been on a kick. Now, when Mr Mason, he's out of the house, so when Mr Mason leaves, I cook for Hannah, and so it's a lot of naan bread, hummus, cucumbers, tomatoes, feta cheese, greek dressing, balsamic dressing, something to that extent. And then there's this shredded chicken I like. So whatever I make her, I just throw the shredded chicken on and she's happy because she doesn't eat a lot of meat, and so we're both happy and that's what we eat. So we were out of cucumbers, so I had to pick her up a cucumber tonight. So she had a cucumber when she got home and she can have a cucumber at her lunch tomorrow.
Jay Franze:I told you I was sick this weekend, like violently sick that's because I ate before I went to see Jay do his show. I stopped at a, not a sponsor. I stopped at Popeye's.
Tiffany Mason:Okay, okay, fair enough, fair enough.
Jay Franze:But I ate what appeared to be a raw piece of chicken Like. I was eating chicken nuggets or chicken boneless chicken wings or whatever you want to call them. I call them boneless chicken wings, but I got yelled at the other day and said they're just chicken nuggets. At that point they're not wings.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:So, anyways, I got a large order of chicken nuggets or boneless chicken wings. Chunks of chicken and I was eating them and I was eating them. And then I ate one. I could feel. As soon as I bit into it I could feel that it was raw. And right after that show I was not feeling good. The next day I couldn't get out of bed for two days three days, I mean. I was out.
Tiffany Mason:Even on Monday I get up. I started my day on Monday and had to turn around and go right back. Oh no, wow, you must up your gut by him so, anyways, that's the deal with that.
Tony Scott:The other thing you it made me laugh.
Jay Franze:I may have told you this, I may have told everybody this, but please bear with me if I, if I did. You said earlier, you turned and you punched your kid, or whatever you're for chomping on chips. Yeah well, we were at the dinner table the other night and my daughter Bella has got a disorder. She was just diagnosed with FND, which is functional neurologic disorder, and sometimes you develop tics and they come and go.
Jay Franze:It's kind of like a Tourette's tic, but they go away, so they don't typically stay. But we're at the dinner table and she just turned to the right and just punched my my 10 year old right in the face. And the 10 year old I I'm sure I told you, but my 10 year old just turned back to her and just looked at her and says tell me, that's not going to be a new tick. She just was as calm as can be about it. I mean as calm as can be. I would have lost my mind, I wouldn't have thought it was a tick, but it was a tick. She I mean she sometimes will just turn and, like, hit your arm or something.
Jay Franze:She's very sweet yeah she's the sweetest daughter I have. Out of the three daughters I have, that one's the sweet one and it was just like bam.
Tiffany Mason:Oh my gosh, there you go. Fair enough, so you're telling me. I just have to tell my family I have F and D when they're eating chips.
Jay Franze:I have ticks, yeah, and there goes the bag, oh my.
Tiffany Mason:God, have you ever watched? Hannah and I used to watch Cooking with Baylen, but now it's.
Jay Franze:Oh yeah, yeah, we're not allowed to watch it anymore, because if my daughter sees somebody have a tick, she will develop it.
Tiffany Mason:Well, there's this one where there's an old YouTube video, like when she was probably being discovered or whatever, and it's called Cooking with tourettes. You should look it up. It is hysterical. She has these eggs and she's she's trying to not crack them, she's trying to like avoid her tick, but she like wants to smack it on her mom's face. And then she's like, oh my gosh, let me put this egg down because she knows, you know, she know, she's aware of it, she's trying to stop it, but you know they're very impulsive, like they can't, they don't have very much control over it. So, yes, that was Hannah and I's thing for a while. Oh my gosh, we would watch that and watch it, and watch it.
Jay Franze:We watched it before my daughter was affected by any of this stuff.
Tiffany Mason:Yeah.
Jay Franze:And the theory behind it is this stuff is manageable and you can treat it but they come and go. Yeah, but I picked her up from school the other day and we're driving down the road and she just out of the blue. I was on the phone and she yelled something. I was like what the hell she was? Yeah, that one scared me too.
Jay Franze:I'm like I'm glad she can laugh about it yes, agreed it's her new party trick the only reason I'm even telling you, or anybody else, is because she set up a tiktok account where she actually talks about it yeah she's trying to bring light to the, to the condition. She's actually met a girl that's from her school that has the same condition and they hung out for the first time. They didn't. They didn't know each other uh-huh, I mean the condition is fairly rare, right? So the fact that she's met somebody else that has and stuff, she was excited to get to talk to somebody going through the same thing right.
Tiffany Mason:Well, I wouldn't say misery loves, but it's kind of that scenario where it's just nice to know you're not alone.
Jay Franze:Yep.
Tiffany Mason:Mm-hmm. Yep. Well, speaking of being alone, I'm alone and I cannot wait until Mr Mason comes home. He comes home on Friday. He's been up in Charlotte, north Carolina, and he's going to be coming back down and then we are going to take the boat out and I'm excited we're part of this new boat club and they have I can't do it, you're doing it again.
Jay Franze:We're going to take the boat out. We're part of the boat club. Is this the yacht? Oh no, this is the one that fell three feet short of a yacht. I got it. No, we're good. No, we're good, no.
Tiffany Mason:It's not a yacht Jay.
Jay Franze:It only fits 50 people. No, I got it. I remember the conversation, though.
Tiffany Mason:Well, this one I'm very excited about because the other boat club didn't have it and this one has it, and it's a double decker pontoon and it has a slide.
Jay Franze:Oh, I forgot, You're from Florida, I'm from Florida. Those are big deals in Florida, the pontoons yeah because you guys like to float and drink.
Tiffany Mason:But I'm very excited Preston is going to bring up his girlfriend and my girlfriend's going to come, and so it's going to be fun.
Jay Franze:Your husband's out of town, so you can bring your girlfriend.
Tiffany Mason:No, my husband will be back in town. I know I have to call him captain mason then nice.
Jay Franze:I told my wife. I said look, if I go get my doctor, you're gonna call me dr j. She goes, I will never call you doctor.
Tiffany Mason:I'm like thanks, thanks, babe that could be something for a nora jones night.
Jay Franze:That's what I thought. Let's make something out of it. She's like no.
Tiffany Mason:Right, wow, are these archivists? That's what I'm saying. We bring balance to our spouses, jay, so you just got to force it.
Jay Franze:She's an archivist. I mean, what the hell? Yes, the crowd that she hangs with is not the same. I'm out with big j and listening to dick jokes and five finger death punch she's out at a conference talking about how they preserve paper or something I don't know, not my thing nothing.
Tiffany Mason:It makes me happier than when I say just something so vulgar to Sean and he just cannot reply to it. It is my absolute favorite. There was a lady on social media and she was like lap dancing. Her husband, she's like God. I'm so happy that he puts up with me and it's very similar in our world. He just got a wild one, but he deals with it and he, he balances me out and I think that I probably bounce him out a little bit, too a little bit of fun it's like I have two wives.
Tiffany Mason:You both abuse me that's why you like it, that's why you come back every wednesday yeah, yeah, that's why you like it, why you come back every Wednesday.
Jay Franze:Yeah, well, we've done it. What time is it now? Okay, we've almost reached the top of the hour for a second time. I guess that means we've reached the end of the show twice, kind of seems what we tend to do we do that, we do that a lot yeah yeah, so we've reached the top of the hour twice, We've ended the show twice. So if you've enjoyed the show twice, please tell a friend If you haven't well, tell two, tell more.
Jay Franze:Tell two of them what the hell. And, as always, you can keep the conversation going over at jayfranze. com. We would talk to you anywhere. Join us.
Tony Scott:Join us live. Jfrenzycom slash live.
Jay Franze:Press the button. Come on in. It's only happened once. No, it's happened twice now, hasn't it?
Tiffany Mason:Twice. Yeah, one time we weren't recording Only two people are willing to join us here folks.
Jay Franze:So if you want to join us, if you want to make a comment, we love it. I appreciate you typing them in the comments. But if you ever do want to pop up on screen and I'm going to give you a fair warning if you click the button you will go straight to the screen.
Tiffany Mason:So if you ever feel like you want to do that, you know but sometimes I feel like people want to really debate their song choices with us, and so they are welcome welcome to do so that's what it's about.
Jay Franze:I thought about giving a phone line so people can call in and do that but, no, come on the screen so we can see you yeah, and you guys, we don't air the video no, it's only it's only live while we're live, that's not after that's audio only so yes, but come on, talk to us. jayfranze. com/ live, all right. And also, please stop by the social. Say hi to us there too, all right, well.
Tiffany Mason:Miss.
Jay Franze:Tiffany, final words, my friend.
Tiffany Mason:Support the musicians, explore new genres and always keep the volume up.
Jay Franze:All right, folks On that note have a good night.
Tony Scott:Thanks for listening to The Jay Franzy show. Make sure you visit us at jayfranze. com. Follow, connect and say hello.
