Yo-yo tricks, swearing debate, and Nick's mom calls in

Hello everyone, this is Des here and I have Mitch and Nick and Mr. Mark McBride over here in studio. So what's up guys? Hello. Oh, there I am. We're still learning how to use the mics. Yeah. Am I okay? Apparently you can just speak right into them. Fucking technology. Hello. Oh, okay. Yes. See? You like that? We're allowed to use bad language, right? Yes. You can cuss as much as you fucking want. It's beautiful. Internet. Internet radio. It's the first thing everyone asks, I think. Well, you got to make sure, you know, like I've had friends- When do we start? Which part do I talk into and can I curse? Well, because you got to watch out for these things. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like I- I had a friend, she- Well, apparently your mom and your mother-in-law are both going to be listening. So I guess the question is, can we curse? You know- Fuck yeah, we can. This is blast off with Des Cadet, goddammit. No. Blast off, man. No offense to the moms. Mine's probably listening in as well. Oh, no, no. I'm like- My mom has been scarred plenty with plenty of stories. Am I the only one here that doesn't like to swear around his parents? Yeah. Am I old fashioned like that? Yep. I try not to, but I think that- I feel that I've earned the right to swear. I've earned the right as an old man. Oh. When did you start swearing? Like when was the- Because I remember when I sweared- Or when I sweared. When I did the sweared. Tell us about your first swear, Nick. No, no, no. I'm asking- I want to hear his- How did you get into that, right? With your parents? You know what? I don't- I honestly couldn't even tell you right now. Because I remember as a kid being the- Like we're talking middle school. Like, you know, middle school. Being the little square kid. And my friends being like, man, you don't swear. You got to swear. Otherwise, like, you're just going to like grow up and just like, it's just going to like, you're going to go crazy. They firmly believed that I would just completely go to hell. Not go to hell as far as like, oh, you're going to hell. No, as far as like, I was just going to become the biggest sailor mouth. I was just going to like come out all at one time or something. Like the pressure would build up. Yeah. But I've done pretty well, but I- No, that's a lie. I believe I- Wait, wait. I've done well as far as not completely- It's not you doing well. Not completely exploding. But I do have friends who would argue that I swear like a sailor. Did you grow up religious at all? Or what was the dynamic behind that? No, it's pretty straightforward. I mean, like we were, you know, we were, you know, standard moral middle American. Oh, completely fucking Norman Rockwell family. But, you know. Norman fucking Rockwell. Norman fucking Rockwell. I did remember one time as a 16 year old, like learning to drive kind of like, oh gosh, I'm okay. Like stuck behind the wheel, you know, kind of thing. You said gosh in your head? Well, because my mom's in the car at this point, you know. So no, I must've been like 15, had with the driver's permit type thing. And I remember being there like, and driving and at some point like getting cut off in my initial just like, fuck it, hey. Like, you know, with my mom in the car, there's just this moment where- Traffic just brings it out in all of us, I guess. There's something really- There's just this pause. And I kind of look over at my mom and just, you know, like, okay, I guess the situation warranted it. And we just kind of let it go. Yeah. So I think, but beyond that, as far as like when I was genuinely a grown up- I think that was the first time I ever swore in front of my parents. It was a holy fuck. But it was, I was like, look at that truck. You rhymed out of it? We almost got hit by a truck. I was, I wish I had the delicacy to rhyme out of it. But in my head, I sort of justified it. I was like, well, maybe he just thought I said like truck or like, whoa, what a truck. So I think we both, maybe we both kind of pretended that because it was, we didn't really speak that. Wait, I don't understand. What about, what about you? Was your upbringing, if you did swear, it would, would you be like, Mitchell? Yeah. You would just say your name, right? I mean, I don't know. I didn't really test it that much. I had friends who would like, they would get their mouths washed out with soap, but I don't think my parents were that hardcore. Really? Really? I would get in trouble. Like I would be reprimanded probably. Now that's fucking weird. They would actually do the soap thing. I've heard about that. Yeah. I remember my dad used to, like at one point my parents were talking and it was, it was one of those like, you know, laughing about you as you're, when you're, when you were young and stupid and like, you know, my sister being like more difficult to handle or whatever type thing. And I was like, oh, because I was obviously like the good kid. I was awesome. And mom was like, man, you had a mouth on you, you know? And I remember thinking like, what does that mean? And then I remember, and then my dad always would say that something which I'm, I'm sure that I've used on people is like, he says, you say, man, you were half as smart as you think you are. You'd know what, shut up. I was like, which at the time, that's one of those classic moves where you're just like, yeah, you're just like, oh, screw you old man. But now as an old man, I'm thinking to myself, God damn, he was right. Like I've used that on so many people. I was like, man, if you were half as smart as you think you are, you'd know when to shut up. That's brutal. I want to use that. Dads can, I feel like for my upbringing, like my mom, I could do whatever the fuck I wanted. And my mom, you know, I could always talk my way out of it or joke, you know, and my mom, you know, I do something bad. My, my mom would try and reprimand me and I would make some stupid fucking joke and she would, she would, she would laugh it off. She'd go, oh, you. But when my dad got mad at me, that was like, I fucked up. Right. That's for real. Like if, if my old man got mad at me, which happened like maybe once or twice a year, that meant that I literally, like I knew that I fucked up and the shit that can come out of, like my dad, when he gets, he's like, you know, he's, he's very Norwegian. Right. And so his eyes get steely blue. Like, it's like he had too much of the spice. Right. His eyes get fucking blue and I swear to fucking Christ, his pupils like get smaller. Right. So it's like these little pinholes and he just, and he shakes, he shakes a little bit. Like he does this micro shake, like a kind of Nordic rage. He goes into Nordic rage, man. His eyes get like fucking blue. Like you can see a landscape in them, like, like fjords and shit. Was it, there's, there's some Viking term for, there's, there's some Viking term for like going into the rage. Like, you know, like, like when you're on your way to like, like Valhalla or Ragnarok or something like that, there's some, there is some Nordic, like, like, like I reached the rage. Is there a term for it? Or is it, I swear if anybody's listening, text me if you know this. I don't know how the fuck he got from cussing Vikings. Yeah, call in. It's 1-800-893-9562. We are accepting calls. Not that we're desperate. We're totally desperate. Let's say that again slowly. What was that number again? Yeah, what is that? 1-800-893-9562. Oh, you want to do it? 8, 9, yeah, of course I want it. Well, then do it. It's my turn. 8, 9, 3, 9, 5, 6, 2. And this is Blast Off with Des Cadet. Well, here's the, I, I call this as a, like, that is a serious thing for me because I, I, uh, your voice is so smooth. I recently, I've been practicing. I recently decided, like, I recently started looking into getting a car. I, I'm a non-car owner. The only one. I recently got a car. We've had a lot of car drama. I'm a non-car owner. I hate it. I hate to drive. Yeah. Fuck you, LAPD. We represent a pretty wide spectrum here. Okay. So I, I, so I said, okay, I'm a, I'm a, I'm gonna start doing the, I'm a start, I'm gonna start feeling this out. And my, the company that like my insurance company, they've got like some, like, cause I got a motorcycle, so I got insurance. And they've got some like deal, like help, we'll help you get a car. I feel like when you're the motorcycle guy, like, I go back to a car guy from there. Like you've gone past the car thing. Does anyone else feel that way? Well, there's the whole impending death thing with a motorcycle. Right. You know? True. And the, and you can't, you can't carry a surfboard on a motorcycle. Wow. Ooh. That's, that's it. That's, that's a cooler way of saying that you can't get a lot of groceries. Damn. Yeah. Your groceries, you get three days at a time. But back to the surfing. But back, no, just kidding. Oh, that's an embarrassing, like, but no, I, I, so I said, so I, I, you know, filled out online, they had a little buying service and I was like, I know that I'm going to get, I know that I'm going to get spammed. Like you give your, you give your, you put your phone number and your email into anything that like, that is going out to salesmen. You're going to get attacked. But, so I limited it down to six sales. Like I was like, there are only six like dealers that can have my number. Yeah. And these guys are calling me back and I'm like, okay, cool. I saw this coming. But for somebody who's a professional trying to get loads of my money, like the machine, the message like, yeah, so this is where, this is my, I'm from like Glendale Toyota. Can I get your number? Yeah. You can call me back at one hundred five, two, six, seven, nine, nine. Like, dude, like I would love to write down your number. I would, I would consider giving you large sums of money. For a good chunk of your life. For, you know, it's a commitment getting a car. It is, but you think that you think that he would bond, you make with your dealer. They have to really like razzle dazzle you. Yeah. I want to be fucking razzle dazzle, you know? Yeah. And he's making it difficult for me. He is making it difficult for me. Like if I was trying to get some tail at a club, right. Or it's a bar at the end of the night. He's just not treating you right. He's not treating you like that. I'm like, babe, come back to my place. And I go, and she says, what's your address? And I go, what do you do? If I don't do this, it's oral street. I'm like, you're not getting asked. Did you say oral street? Exactly. Like, you know, see, you didn't hear what I said. I'm not getting any. So you got like, come on. These are, I thought these guys are professionals. Do you think, do you think it has to do with like people just essentially being lazier in general? Yeah. There should be an art to selling and there is an art to selling. This is my theory. Business relationships with customers. And that's how you sell shit, you know, repeatedly. Right. No, I agree. I agree. There's definitely like, there are good salesmen, bad salesmen, but my, my, this is what happens. People forget that I don't know their phone number. They know their phone number so fucking well. And they've said it so many times that they just, they just say it like, like they've got it down to, they're like, eight, eight, nine, seven, five. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. And you're like, no, I, I literally don't have any idea what the fuck you're talking about. I do not know your phone number. Cause I don't know you. Yeah. But they forget this. And you, so you think that they're projecting onto you that you should know what their phone number is. Yeah. I think, I think that they've like, you know, they kind of just clip it, like just slide into that. Like, like, Oh, there's something that I've done a hundred times. It's kind of like, you know, the horse knows the way home in the, in the, in the, in the song. They, they, they're with their brain knows the way home and they just rattle off the, the letter. There's nothing more frustrating than somebody who assumes that like people who mumble. And I, I've been busted, uh, mumbling a couple of times. And, uh, strike me as a mumbler. I, I agree. You've got a, you've got a radio clear voice, man. You were, you were obviously the pro in the room. It's fucking mesmerizing. I want you to tell me what the top 40 hits are. It's not 40 hits. Well, I'm going to start. I have a John Cougar melon game. Whoever lists all top 40. What? I actually goes through all top 40. That's on top 40 these days. I mean, there's so many different, why is, why is it 40? Is it 40 still? That just seemed like a good round number. Billboards. I've never understood that. Probably how many, how many they could squeeze in and the block allotted, you know, like they had to fill four hours on a Sunday morning, 40. If they had three hours, it'd be the top 30. That's some logistical, interesting. Back in there. Wait, uh, I, I, I get paid large amounts of money for the logistical thinking. I want to ask you a question. Cause you're, cause you're a professional. You're a world champ, right? Yo-yo. I was a former professional. Okay. Was never world champ, but at the world, I want yo-yo contest at the world yo-yo contest. There is a division of the world yo-yo contest. Okay. That is based on trick tricks. I'm credited with. So did you develop new tricks? Yes, you did. You're a pioneer. What did, now, okay. What, cause obviously Kent gives a radio show, but like, what did you, what were the tricks? What were they called? What did you call the tricks? These tricks, uh, if I'm not mistaken, was the triple A, right? It's true. It's true. Like, I wonder like, okay, we've, I don't know. We've obviously, in bad, in bad movie, in bad, uh, in bad radio. Have we, have we given a good introduction of why I, I don't even know who else, who else, the regulars, why am I here? Why? Like, have we, have we given, what exactly is going on here? We're completely off the cuff. We jumped right into, uh, we just talk a lot. We talk shit. And then we talk a lot about a lot of other shit. I think he's making a good point. Maybe we should introduce everyone, kind of give the first act hook, you know, figure out what's going on here. Okay. Is that a bad idea? You guys are all looking at me now. Is that a bad idea? Well, you're the hook. Your name's in the title. I think that you should be the one to start. I feel like you, you guys are so, give us some context here. Like a dysfunctional family. Actually, the whole time, I brought Nick over here tonight. I just kind of talked him into this. The whole time he was, he was trying to like, kind of pump me for information. He's like, so, uh, this is a radio show, huh? And I would just be like, well, yeah. And I didn't really give him much to go off of, but he just, he kept following along. Like, well, because, well, cause we're actually in a studio, right? This is nice. I was literally thinking that it was going to be like one person with like a manila folder kind of like room and like a laptop. No, but I came loaded with the bottle of Jameson again. Don't worry, mom. I won't drunk down. I'm going to tell you this time. Um, we're going to drink down someone else's mom tonight. I don't know if she can guarantee that. I can't. There's still half a bottle of Jameson. You know, I'm, I'm working on it. She's, she's half. It's halfway. I'm sure that was the takeaway of it. Yeah. All right. So the context of the evening, the context of the evening, context of the evening, I invited Mark down here because when I started thinking about doing this show, I just wanted to bring on interesting people from not only music side of life in Los Angeles, but you know, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, from, I'm interesting now? No, no, no. Last off is like, you know, it's an open forum for kind of whatever the fuck we want to talk about with a couple songs in between and lots of drinking and just hanging out. You know, I think that makes good radio to hear people and their conversations and stuff. So, boom, Mark. I've known Mark for a long time. It's true. My favorite memory with Mark was when we went to, what was it, Hootenanny? Yeah. Oh, God. Well, I know that we went to Hootenanny. I don't know if that's your favorite memory, but. Well. So I should say yes. I'd be like, yes, we did go to Hootenanny. Yeah, no, aside from that, we went to Hootenanny and. I'm sorry, what is Hootenanny? Hootenanny is like the rockabilly fucking. I think that's the question that's on everyone's minds. Equivalent to. Every July 4th, every July 4th, Orange County, they put on a big rockabilly show. Oh, okay. You know, they've had, they've actually like, they usually have some pretty good bands, like pretty good headliners, pretty fun ones. Last year, the year before, they had Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, except for Jerry Lee Lewis was too old, but yet Chuck Berry, they fucking showed, delivered, was awesome, had all the girls up on the stage at the end of the show. Wow. And then other, but usually like the mainstays are like the Reverend, Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, and whatever, Mike Ness spinoff. I think he alternates between like himself with and without the band. Oh man, that sounds great. I've never heard of it. So we went there and it was during, I think either, was it Dropkick or was it I want to say Dropkick Murphys were there, but I can't recall exactly, but Murder City Devils definitely played. They were there. And it was a beautiful fucking awesome show and I'm running through the pit trying to get to the front and I see Mark with his shirt off just hopping wildly. If you're going to do it, do it right. And it was just, it was such a beautiful sight. I think I even took a picture of it, but it was so awesome. Did like time slow down for you? No, it was just cool that like, because did things get slower? Like molasses? No, I just never seen someone just so naturally just like in it, you know, not giving a fuck about what everyone else is doing and just kind of like. Did you already know him at this point? Oh yeah, yeah. We went there. It makes it sort of sound. No. It's a very stalky story. Kind of an awesome, I kind of like it better if you did. That would have been fun. Like the birds came out, the soft focus. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. I walked across to her and said, you're going to be best buddy. Like dripping in sweat. Hey babe. You know, like that's a much better story. No, well, I didn't meet Mark like that. I met him at a party at my friend Joe and Christy's house and time slowed down for you. The infamous house on. And then I ripped my shirt off all of a sudden and started sweating. The sweet sounds of your nanny were in the air. And yeah, no, I just met Mark at a bunch of parties and we all went to the same shows and you know. I'm trying to add some drama to this story. is there, is there, is there like, yeah, there's got to be a word. By the way, you're just slowing everything down. Okay, so there's got to be a word in some language somewhere. Some language somewhere in the world has to have a word for like party friends. You know, like the, it's probably something German. Yeah. Like Wieterharschen. Yeah. Like as in those people that you just know because you hang out at the same parties and you're just, you never really met them. You just kind of knew them starting at some point. It's Bierenfreunden. Bierenfreunden. That sounds a little bit more like German. Bierenfreunden. Bierenfreunden. Bierenfreunden. Bierenfreunden. Bierenfreunden. I like that. We're coining that. Literally beer friends. Beer friends. Exactly. Bierenfreunden. So, yeah, so that's how, so doesn't, oh, we're Bierenfreunden? Yeah. It's my pronunciation. Nobody really knows how to pronounce German. Hold on, we're going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, text your mom? Yes, I should text my mom. Do it, do it, because that'd be awesome. No, but I do know somebody who would be able to pronounce this. I did just make it up, so I, I hope. Hey, I am German. Wait, wait, wait. I speak a little bit of German. I'm getting, apparently the word is Steinhauser, according to my wife. Steinhauser. That's bullshit. That's her maiden name. No, I'm, okay, let's do this. Let's take a moment to plug the number again so that I can text it to a friend. It is. 1-800- 893-9562. Eight, ooh. Eight, nine, three. There's any German phrase too. And it's right up there, Mark. If there are any German phrases, just, burning a hole in your brain. Call in. Six, two. So, you know, how about right now we go to a song. That sounds like a good idea. And I want to play you some good songs. And, yeah. Don't smoke before you have to do a radio show, everybody. Oh, yeah. Cheers. And here we go. Let's listen to some Turbo Negro. Turbo Negro. Turbo Negro. your friends be be be be All my friends are dead Gas cakes in the head All my friends are dead All my friends are dead All my friends are dead Gas packs in the head All my friends are dead I always knew that they would end up like today They bought a bullet and they paid me hand for name Hey! Hey! Hey! All my dreams were lies All my dreams were lies Market's in the skies All my dreams were lies All my friends are dead All my friends are dead Gas tanks out of bed Market turning to dead Gas می می Gas می می I always knew that they would lay the light today They bought the... The music's off. Oh, Dez. Dez is messing up the music, everybody. I got shadow of a ghost I felt I got shadow of a ghost I felt Electroshock and all Disciplinary, no rational surgery Oh, Dez. We're out. We're out. We're not down, we're not down, we're not down, we're not down today. First night fell down and I got shot. I'm thinking first night fell down and I got shot. I'm thinking first night fell down and I got shot. I'm thinking we just love it here. Cause it's our night out today. So that was part of a Turbo Negro song. Due to technical difficulties, we moved on to Fear, Camarillo. And now we're back. I love the euphemism technical difficulties. They were fucking technical, man. It wasn't my fault. It was difficult. We've learned that it is difficult for us. I wish I could use that for my life, you know? I could just be like, due to some technical difficulties, I'm not going to be able to pass this test tonight. That seems like there should be an app for that. I mean, like not to be like as cliche as to use that joke. Right, right. You should. You should. You should be able to just be like, you know, just hold up technical difficulties. Technical difficulties. There should be one that generates like a wide range of excuses. I agree. Sorry, solar flares or something. All right. So we were going to talk about context. It's why, like, why I'm here, why Nick is here. This is what we were discussing. While the music was playing. Who the fuck are we? I think we might've gotten a little too deep on the context. Okay. But let's pick up. We're actually, we invited Mark mainly because he's the yo-yo man. And that's really what we wanted to talk about. Not only that, because he's a general badass too. And, you know, I thought if someone's going to bring something to the table, God damn, Mark's the first on my list. That's why I showed up. Because I was going to be yo-yos. I didn't expect you to have such a, I mean, your mohawk is like three feet high. It's true. I didn't expect to see that. See, you laugh, but I actually had a mohawk when I was first learning how to yo-yo in. No, not only did I, I had a mohawk when I was learning how to yo-yo. Is that a big yo-yo thing? Like the mohawk? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The mohawk, the yo-yo. There are, there are. The yo-hawks. The yo-hawks, I'm sure, out there. And then I had purple hair when I was, when I was actually a professional. I actually worked for a toy company and I would report to, I would report to the vice president. Like I lived in Los Angeles. He dressed as a clown. No. But I did like, but I, and I did have purple hair and I remember thinking to myself like, you know, dude, the kids dig it. And my, my, my job is to hang out with like, my job is to hang out with eight year old, like eighth grade boys and like convince them to buy stuff. Yeah. And they think purple hair is cool. They're like, really? The, yeah, the, the vice president of the country, the vice president of the company was very worried about this. And he was, and he says, okay, so I'm, I'm doing this trade show. It's like, man, it's just going to be you and the, it's going to be you and the big boss. I say, okay. He's like, so he doesn't know you have purple hair. So you got to worry about this. And I go, and vice presidents are like, oh, I'm cool. I'm cool. Like it turns out vice president, not cool. So, so the entire time I kept my hat on only to find out that halfway through the president was smart enough to be like, dude, purple hair is cool. You know? And again, I'm selling to, I'm selling to like eighth grade boys. That's my gig. So you just got to know who you're like, who your audience is. That's such a weird thing to me. Like, uh, so you were kind of like a renegade in the sense that like, you know, this guy's, I don't know if we should hire him, but his hair is purple. He's got purple hair, but he's amazing at yo-yo. Yeah. And sell some fucking yo-yos. Okay. You know what? Here's the, was that a yo-yo selling job? Here's the whole, the whole story was that, um, okay, here's your yo-yo history, boys and girls. So Duncan yo-yos was the big yo-yo company. I fucking remember Duncan. Yeah. I am currently sponsored by Duncan yo-yos. Is that right? No shit. How come we don't have a flat of yo-yos here for us? Because I came here on a motorcycle. That's what we covered beforehand. If I had a car, I could have, I could have hooked you guys up. Yo-yos. No. No motorcycle. No pallets. Yo-yos. We're going to have to have him back. I'll come pick you up, man. And then I will bring you guys yo-yos. He just wants the yo-yos. And so, well, what happened was they were, they, so yo-yos starts like 19, you know, like early half of the 1900s up through, up through the seventies. It's like dominated by, by Duncan yo-yos. Yeah. And they basically would promote it by having the yo-yo guy go out. He would just show at the local, here's a little time capsule, like show you how the things are dated. Yeah. This, uh, middle-aged man would go out. And perform shows on the schoolyard and everybody was fine with this and it didn't seem weird. And then when the teachers would, you know, shake their fist at him, he would jump in his car and drive off. And this was not illegal or weird in any way. He's just showing off his yo-yo. Just run out and show off his yo-yos. Come on. It's so, it's harmless. Exactly. So, so then, uh, you know, television hits, Duncan, uh, folds. There's a lot of history in here, which I'll, I'll glaze over. Um, but, uh, Duncan stops doing, stops doing the, uh, the yo-yo man program type promotions in the seventies. Did Duncan invent the yo-yo? Duncan found the guy who brought the yo-yo to the States. Nobody knows where exactly it like was invented, but they do know that it was a toy in the Philippines up until I believe 1917. The Philippines? Somebody should correct me. Like I have many friends that, uh, could correct me on the exact date. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. We could get the exact date and, um. We should have brought a dedicated yo-yo historian. Who the fuck is this guy then? I mean, I figured it would be tough to be. I mean, we do have one. I mean, don't you, do you, do you travel with a historian generally? Oh, motorcycle. Yeah. Again, motorcycle. If I had the car, I could have brought my historian with me. He knows more about yo-yos than anybody here, right? I'm sure he does. And so. You should just bullshit us. Just tell us it was invented here. I could. I could. and you would never know the difference. I know. That's, I want to be sold the tail. But I am, I am trying. Yo-yos were invented by wizards. Yeah, that's right. At Candy Mountain. Like, why do you think Now I'm listening. They actually come back up the string because they are in fact eating the string trying to get to your hand. There's zombie yo-yos and you just don't know it. And when you throw the yo-yo, you're actually ripping the intestines from the yo-yo and then it consumes its intestines climbing back up the string like a sea cucumber. And if you eat a yo-yo, you become a yo-yo. Is that true? Yes. But anyway, so what happened is by the 70s, they quit doing this, right? Then at the end of the 90s, They stopped doing the jump out of the, Duncan stopped. Everybody, well, Duncan was the company. So when they stopped, everybody, there was nobody else. The schoolyard yo-yoings. So when they, so when they kick, you know, like when they, when things kick back in at the end of the 90s, when this, like they make better yo-yos, again, this is like 20 plus years later, they're making better yo-yos. This Japanese company says, dude, we can sell a million of these. So they start doing the big promotions. By that point, again, the youngest guy in 1970 would have been, you know, that's 30 years ago. He's like, he's even older and creepier now. But nobody, nobody played yo-yos. So any, so the handful of us that just happened for no particular reason, learned yo-yo tricks in college, job. Wow. They just said, they were like, dude, do we know anybody out there? And it was just like, I- So did word spread like wildfire among the yo-yo community? All 12 of us. Exactly. What about, what about this? Cause I remember this as a kid when the butterfly came out. You're right. The butterfly came out and- And I was like, and they were like, this thing will do shit that you won't believe. And it was just a yo-yo, except it was, it had more room for the string to build up. Right? I mean, that was the thing. Exactly. It was just easier to do the tricks. I remember I bought one cause I thought I could just do the fucking tricks cause it, you know. It looked that easy. It looked that easy. I was like, well, the problem with the previous, one is it's like a fucking, you know, it's like a fat Oreo and the string gets all fucked up on the inside and it's not my fault. So I got one of those things. Not any better. You know, when, like at the end of the nineties when this was a, when this was a thing, Yeah. they had like all of the standard, like mass market, the toys, the yo-yos that everybody got. Again, they're like, they're $20 yo-yos. Okay. Good yo-yo, $20 yo-yo. But there was one yo-yo called the Silver Bullet 2 made by, Tom Kuhn Yo-Yo is this like, like the, the company that was the bad-ass yo-yo company that like only like the hardcore guys knew about through the eighties and stuff when nobody knew of anything. Like it was, it was, it was that yo-yo company. That's what they, Tom Kuhn? No, this is the guy who, he got into this thing because NASA decided to do, like one of their, like for their publicity, like, hey, we maybe can learn something projects. They did a toys in space. So they go, okay, we're going to send a yo-yo to space. But the problem is a regular yo-yo works on gravity. There's no fucking, there's no fucking gravity in space. So they call this guy because he's making the most bad-ass yo-yos. Tommy Smothers is his boy. Oh, wow. And he, I don't know who Tommy, I don't know that guy. So Tommy Smothers, what they say, the yo-yo guy, the yo-yo man? Tommy Smothers. God, Tommy. Exactly. Well, like a generation above us, everybody, everybody always says, do you know Tommy Smothers? Like, no, but I know a guy who does because the guy that I know, it was the bad-ass. I can't believe that I'm in studio with a guy. I know a guy who knows a guy. I know the guy who knows a guy who knows Tommy Smothers. I don't know him. I mean, are you kidding me? Me, Tommy Smothers? Are you fucking joking? But I know a guy. No, but the guy that I know, like I'll go up and, you know, get to hang out with him in San Francisco and stuff. And he will literally like, he will literally get phone call, like he will get emails and stuff from astronauts. Searching for Tommy Smothers. Motherfucking astronauts will just be like, like, cause they're still buddies from back in the day when he figured out this amazing yo-yo that works in space. So he's the man who sent the yo-yo to space. It's true. So he starts making the yo-yo on earth. It's a hundred dollar yo-yo, right? Now, back in the day, that was like, what the hell, man? Like that's, that's the yo-yo. Do you have one of these space yo-yos? I do, not with me, but. Of course, yo-yos are connected to space. Mark McBride, you come on blast off, blast off. Our fucking logo is a spaceship and you don't bring the goddamn space yo-yo? I've got a yo-yo. You don't bring the goddamn space yo-yo? Let's see what you've got. Hold on, let's see what I got. He probably just brought one of those fucking yo-yos. Mark's breaking out the yo-yos. Don't show me one of those Duncans. I'm sick of them. I want to see a space yo-yo. Now that we know. Nothing will please us now. Now that we know there's a difference. You know, let's go to a quick commercial break and we'll be right back. When we come right back, Mark's going to do some yo-yo stuff, which none of you will see, but that's fine. We will. We'll describe all of it word for word. Come on, it's serious, man. So, so we're going to commercial and we'll be right back. It's in like a, oh. It's in like a tube. Hey everybody, this is Drew. So is the bad advice here on Skin Rose Studios. Listen to us every Saturday two to three Pacific time. If you want to call the show, call us at 800-893-9562. Sad news, Nora Ephron died this week. It was the first thing she's done in a while that wasn't funny. And Katie Holmes is finally finishing her five year search for a good divorce lawyer. She and I can finally go out in public. It was like he studied for the part of your, your, you're a heterosexual in love and then, and then, and then went out and completely played it wrong. That's interesting because I was going to say that that marriage was less believable than Katie Holmes and Batman. But that's the weekly wrap up every Sunday, seven o'clock Eastern, four o'clock Pacific time at skidrowstudios.com. We're back. And if you do want to watch us, we'll be at ustream.tv slash skidrowstudios.com. We'll be at skidrowstudios.com. And you can see all of Mark's wonderful yo-yo stuff. Wait, wait, you told me this was on the radio. Yeah, but we can, we can also webcast. The crazy thing about the internet is we can do things. Well, it stops being radio at that point, doesn't it? Yeah, well, yeah. Are we on now? So it's right, the camera's right over here. Okay. If you want to do your. Okay, so I should be over there. Yeah, right over here. Over there? No, you should be over there. No, there's the one over there. Okay, so. Mindy, where are those two cameras? How are you tonight? Where's the action supposed to be? That's the main one. This one is like a close-up, like spying on the host. Spying on the host one. I'd have to look and see. So, does yo-yo action look best over here, you think, then? Yeah, I'd do it right about over here. Okay. I like to think that there's somebody in Uganda that is just riveted by the show right now. Someone's like, holy fuck, he's gonna do some fucking yo-yo thing. Here's the thing, like, I am awesome until you bother to look up other people playing yo-yos. And then it's like taking the Wright Brothers to an airport. That's the show. Well, you know, where you're just like, here's this important guy and I walk out with my little balswood and like paper airplane and it's like, and then the F-16 screams over and you're like, what the fuck was that? And you're like, well, I was impressive 80 years ago. I call this one Falcon Glide. It's a one-cylinder prop plane. It goes four miles an hour. Don't steal your own thunder, man. Let's just see some tricks. Yeah, I want to see some yo-yo tricks. Okay, okay, okay. So, we will start with, we will start with some basic yo-yo tricks for people. There's gotta be nothing more, depressing than somebody who's good at yo-yo who's really sad about being good at yo-yo. I always wanted a yo-yo for Christmas and instead I got fucking Barbie dolls. Let me tell you, the girl who never played with Barbies only got Barbies for Christmas. Oh, Jesus. It's terrible. Okay, here we go. Yo-yos. We'll do, we'll do, you stream.com slash Skid Row Studios. Oh, wow. And Mark is doing some trolly shit with his hand for none of you who can see this because you're not on YouTube. Holy shit. But it's like, the only way I can describe it. He just went behind his back under the leg. It's like a spider was on acid. He's standing on his head right now. I don't even know how that's possible. What if I could do a yo-yo trick while I'm standing in my hand? That would be amazing. Maybe you should try. Might this be a world first? Oh, you don't do that? I don't know. It's like the whole gravity. If you had your space yo-yo, I'm sure you could do it. Yeah, my space yo-yo. This is Mark's fault for not bringing the space yo-yo. Now you can't. I gotta leave something for the sequel otherwise you'd never have me back. Oh, we're gonna have you back. I bet you could do something standing on your head. I really feel like you could. Mark, I wanna see one of your patented tricks. I mean, not like I'm gonna know the other ones. Yes, so that, the difference, so that was, that was pretty good by the way. I mean, we were kind of talking over it. Oh, he's got two now, people. He's got two now. It was quick and mind-blowing. Somebody here should describe what's going on. I am trying. It's too fucking fast. It's like what happens in... It's kind of mystical. How do you describe this? It's true. Yeah, how do you describe a chemical reaction? That's what makes it good radio. This thing is, it's getting melty. I'm gonna try to describe this. Bear with me, people. All right, he's got the yo-yo strings tight on his fingers. He's got two yo-yos in his hand. One is green. He's lowered one. He's sleeping. Oh my God. He's sleeping the second one. He's going into some kind of a double... You guys are gonna give me a stroke? He's like juggling with the fucking yo-yos, man. Holy shit. It's like a machinery like a postmodern apocalypse. Holy shit. And I pulled up one and he's pulling up the other. And that is the yo-yo. And that is the shit. Woo! And you can see that at ustream.tv.skidrowstudios. That's amazing. I don't think that's a... And if you call in, we'll even talk to you. And what's that number again? It is 1-800-893-9562. That's right. So right now, we're gonna go to some more music with no technical difficulties this time. And this next song is No Bunny, Low Dumb. No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb. No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb by No Bunny, Low Dumb And we're back. With only minor technical difficulties. Minor technical difficulties. Blah, blah, blah. Practically none at all. Practically none. You know what sucks though is everybody missed out on your amazing tricks that you were doing. But we just found out that people might have been spying on us. Spying on us on Ustream the whole time. They were looking. Yeah. We feel naked now. That one guy in Uganda who is just riveted. The last time I was on the radio, there was much nudity in the studio. And it's just not going to happen this time. Is that right? That's actually not. That's actually completely true. Really? That's not bullshit. Really, it says true thing. Yeah. What station was this? It was another internet show. I might be on the wrong show. Dude, not remember last week. Don't look at me like that. Let's not talk about last week. I think we all had fun. I don't think we're going to talk about last week. I never want to see you do that again. But. Wait. No. Wait. So tell us that the yo-yo that you're using right now. And now he's swinging it around. He's got this wooden one, right? I've got, this is old school wood. Old school wood. Yeah. So this is like, again, back in the day, they were, the yo-yo was all wood. And it would, all the yo-yo tricks were based on like a wood axle sliding inside of a cotton string. And then later what they started to do was put a bearing in the middle of the yo-yo. Okay. So that you could throw it. Throw it really hard. Like harder than. Yeah. Like if I threw this yo-yo really hard, there'd be enough friction. It would just burn through cotton string. But you put a bearing in there. That would be awesome. It would be pretty awesome. But something would. That could be used as a method of attack. Like pepper spray. Is that. Yo-yo in your face. Is that when it evolved from, you know, taking, you know, kind of like barely walking the dog to like walking the dog. Oh, that's definitely where we stepped up. I think the better question is, have you ever attacked someone with a yo-yo? No. Um. Yeah. I'm sure that he has to think about it. I think so. Do they have like a tactical yo-yo? He's thinking about the legal ramifications. Okay. Here's the thing is, it's, that is always a, uh, that's like a myth. It's a legend. I don't, I don't know if it's true or not. That yo-yos were weapons before they were toys. I can tell you that I've been to the Philippines where we know that the yo-yo came to America from. I've talked to the head of the indigenous games and sports, like the Bureau of Indigenous Games. And I've talked to the head of the Bureau of Indigenous Games. And I've talked to the head of the Bureau of Indigenous Games. And he's like, uh, we don't actually have any proof that they were weapons. You know, and I was like, son of a bitch. Wait, like he was holding back? Like he said, I don't want to confirm nor deny. He did. Because he was all like, well, you know, they were, uh, they were, uh, they were weapons long ago, but we used them as toys. And I was like, I was like, okay, I've heard that story a lot. I'm totally going to carry around a fucking yo-yo with me now. And the only, the only. Galvanized steel. I'm wondering what a battle yo-yo looks like. Well, think about it this way. Anything that you send out with a yo-yo is coming back at you. You know, it just, it just. What are you doing? It's, it's action like. Well, it's the same with the boomerang, but that's an effective weapon. I think Xena, the warrior princess patented the yo-yo back in whatever the fucking time she lived in. Wait, no, she had, she had a, she had like a small hula hoop, right? She had that thing. She'd go, la, la, la, la, la. And she would throw it. Oh, we have a caller coming in. Is it your mother? Oh, this might be my mom. I think it's your mother. 608. Okay, let's answer. That's my mom. I'm going to Casey Kasemmer. Caller, are you there? Yes. Hi. Is this Mr. Nick's mom? I am Mr. Nick's mom. How are you doing, ma? What are you doing, Nick? You know what, ma? I don't know. I just found myself on this side of the bed and here I am. We're calling your mother. Yeah. Now, Nick's mom, you can, you can like out him. Did he really listen to that much Casey Kasem when he was a kid? Oh, all the fucking time. Your mother's cursing. I love her already. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, ma. Yeah, you know, I wasn't a Casey Kasem listener. I hated that shit. I'm just, I'm just, I'm infatuated with the way he sounds. What are you doing, ma? Why? I'm so surprised that you, you got my text. You called in. Oh, why? What do you think I was doing? I don't, I don't know. You're retired now. Well, are you on the East Coast or West Coast? Um, I'm, you know, I'm on the East Coast. I'm on the East Coast. I'm on the East Coast. I'm on the East Coast. I'm on the East Coast. Um, I'm in the middle of America. Where, where? What state? So. I know nobody knows where it is. Unfortunately, it's Wisconsin. No, fortunately, it's Wisconsin. Wisconsin. You know, I have to say good things about Wisconsin. I tried cheese curds when I was in Wisconsin and they were fried cheese curds, which is like. We have an official, like. You mean cheese curds? Yes, that one. Okay. Okay. Wait, what'd you call them? I don't know. Cheese turds. Cheese turds, whatever. No, Wisconsin's a beautiful state. Midwest is beautiful. Actually, I think people from the West and the East need to come and explore the middle. Midwest. I was just in Colorado myself. No, I gotta admit. I was just in Colorado myself and it was snowing and it was fucking beautiful. Being born and raised in California. I'm sorry. I don't mean to cuss in front of you. It's just, you know, how it comes out. I was born and raised. I see what you're saying, Mitchell. I see what you're saying. Now I feel bad cussing in front of someone else's mother. Oh, man. Shit. My mom is. I'm sorry. My mom is a sailor. Mom, I think. Your mom is a sailor? No, no, no. Excuse me? We had a brief discussion in the beginning about swearing. And I think we should bring it up real quick. When did, and swearing in front of parents, when do you remember that I started swearing? When did that become okay? Because I feel like I've always kind of been, you guys have always been really lax with me swearing. You've never really punished me for swearing. You just go, Nicholas. And then that was it. Well, I think we probably are faulty parents for that. It just seems like there are different battles to fight, you know? Because this guy cusses a lot. A lot. I mean, the whole first 20 minutes of our show was him cussing. But he's not a chronic abuser of cocaine and heroin. Cocaine, heroin, and prostitutes? I think so. She won on that one. You know, as parents, when you're raising your kids, you have to kind of pick your fights. And after a while, you know, he wasn't, he didn't drink. Uh, until he was second semester senior year of high school. Nick, is that true? Yeah, it's true. Okay. I mean, it's amazing because he, we had told him that if he went through high school without drinking or smoking, then he would get a trip anywhere in the world. Where did you go? I love it. Wait, you just asked me where did I go? Yes. Nowhere. What? Because, you know what? I didn't panic. He drank or he smoked? I drank. You waited until the second half? He had a party in our house. When we were gone. Oh, Nicholas. His second, his, the second semester of his senior year and he lost his trip. Was it worth it? So close. It was, you know. Second semester. You know what second semester means? It means you have four months to go until July or June or whatever the fuck they let out. You know? It was, you know, it was a bad idea. And more importantly, that means that he didn't, he missed out on, actually I couldn't even say missed out because I, like, I was a little straight edge kid back in high school and, you know, I don't regret it at all. Well, his sister got... He got a trip to Norway. Yeah. Oh, Nick, you fucked up. Oh, that, yeah, you, you fucked that up. Damn. You fucked, you turned on the Tokyo. No! No! You turned on the Tokyo! Stop it! As somebody who has traveled wildly, wildly. No, no, no. We're gonna guilt you for this for the rest of your life. I hope it was a really good party, man. You know, it was a really good party, but it, you know, it's... Did you think you were gonna get away with it? Travel was great. No, well... Where would you have gone if you didn't break that rule? Yeah, where would you have gone, Nick? I have, I have no idea. Well, I've been kind of fond of Scotland, right? I think that's kind of interesting. Yeah. I can see where it's going. I wanted to get some of that whiskey. Wait, what did you say? I wanted to get some of that whiskey? Scottish whiskey. Scottish whiskey. Yeah. We have Irish. It's Irish and Scottish, the same shit. But, but, you know, a lot of people kind of criticized us for bribing our children like that. But what happened is that it helped him get to second semester of senior high school before he started drinking. You know what's... It was a little disappointing though, Ma, and you gotta admit, it didn't help me out on my grades at all. So, do you think if I would have drank more and smoked, my grades might have been maybe even better? You know what, Nick? Your grades were fabulous in the areas that you liked. Aww. Yeah. And... Which were what? Pretty mediocre in the middle ones and in the ones that you didn't like. Was he good in math? The subjects you didn't like, you didn't do very well. So that's... No. That's fine. I did not do well in math. Yeah, but the, you know, parents' job is to try to keep their kids' brains as free as whatever can screw them up until they get more mature. So that was, you know... And then you can screw yourself up all you want. Yeah, apparently. When you were about 24, 25 years old, you became a wonderful human being. As long as you're off her record. Oh, wait. When I was 24. But up until that point, how would you label me? Maybe 22, 23. 20, oh, you lowered the age down. No, no, listen. No, listen, bitch. You said 24. Oh. And now, and now you're just amazing. And now I'm incredible. You are. A shit diamond. Now he's on the fucking radio, mom. And now I'm on the radio, mom. The internet radio. This is the man that you got on there that loves this. That's right. In a respectable way. He's not showing his body. He's not selling drugs with his body. Any wonderful people out there who want to date my boy. Oh, shit. Apparently he's single. Your mom is whipping you out. Your mom. Call in 1-800- She's whipping you. I love it. 893-9562. If you want to date this wonderful mother's boy. It is now Nick date. 800-893-9562. We will put you right through to him. I just did it today. Jesus. She just did. You know, that's forever, ma. I love it. That's forever. I think that should be an entire show. It's on the internet now, so it exists everywhere. It says, you should do an entire show on- We should have called you earlier. On set Nick up. On pimping Nick. Pimping Nick. I'll have to bring another bottle of Jameson for all of us. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that. We will have his mom at every station break to do another wonderful sales pitch. You just have to give him a motivational talk in between and I think we'll be all right. I can. I love it. Tune in every Wednesday. Your shameless promotion of me is endearing and horrifying, mother. I'm sorry. I'm- For anyone who likes mustaches and goatees, he has a fabulous mustache. I'm just such a- You're a fan. You're a fan. Well, because you kind of have to be. You bought into the club. Well, let's describe Nick with the minute that we have left. Let's describe Nick for the internet world. The fuck is going on here? Hey, your mama did this. Don't worry about it. All right. If mom did it, then it's fine. All right. How would you describe Mitch? What? Nick is a warm, loving, funny, gorgeous- Ma, she said Mitch, not you. She's doing a better job and I could not disagree with you. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. You're a fan. She's doing a better job and I could not disagree with you. You know what? Here. She's biased. To all the girls, he's wearing a plaid shirt with a white under- I'm buttoned down to cleavage. He's not that- He's showing his cleavage. His yo-yo tricks are not that great, though. Which probably means he's easy. You've never seen me yo-yo, Mitch. Maybe he's a little weak. He drinks Tecate. But Nick has red hair and- He's a ginger. If that doesn't get him- He's a down ginger. Hey, Ma. You say he's a down ginger. Well, Ma, we're going to count down right now. It's the end of our show. We loved having you on. Oh, yeah. So, everyone, count down starting from- I'm turning into a two. Five, four, three, two, one. Blast off. Thanks. Blast off. Thanks.