Dan & Stephanie

saraphina and I were in a entrepreneurial book club where Stephanie never read the right book and Stephanie was terrible at this book I really Su up Club I did not fabulous I'm what I just had a visual just had a visual proud of it on we are breaking up the whole intro is just it's not even anybody saying full sentences exactly it's just onam on AAS just like like Bo Bobby mcf up Boom Clap the sound in my heart goes on and that's how we start the day around here good morning everybody oh you better believe I'm gonna send this over and share all right perfect uh welcome to the show it is uh much needed because I fell off the wagon last week and there's something I just all all the H I ran into a wall I had way too much prco partying on Wednesday oh prco okay falling off the wagon was drinking for me it's you know never mind it's too early anywh who I then had like massive migraines I like very much paid the price for it my body was like oh Ma'am you don't do that anymore we can't handle these things oh no Heavens no uhh no so I I we missed the show on Thursday I tried to muster on Friday poor Marty brell I was supposed to have him on from the chamber didn't happen I was like sorry buddy we gotta go bu this week is cancelled I just wasn't able to get it done but I was like oh I'm really excited to have Dan Lion on with me this morning uh Dan and Stephanie yeah I know if you're like looking at that going what huh it's it's Dan and AJ so we've got a little bit of comedy and a little bit of horror as we're getting into this scary months um It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year well you know what I am a fanish of horror when I say this it's I will enjoy it a little bit and then I'm like no gives me bad dreams um no but I do like a good mystery yes um definitely uh got a lot of Thriller aspects to the book um speak of the microphone I know I well poor if you want to take the pink thing off you can if that's going to make you feel a little bit more comfortable we'll loosen the pink them off Jesus we could take that off I'll clean it up later I like how these look like little Poof Balls from The Lorax and just PL so Dan is here with us he's you're cap Cotter yes I am yep grew up in the Mills oh I love it a good mbil story this is fabulous went to fores a little bit but ultimately you were like I'm going to be a writer I'm going to do this your your mom was actually a horror writer is that what you got you into the genre it was definitely I mean um I grew up around a lot of it and uh she was writing books all throughout my childhood and so um it was really just a matter of time before I got into it myself um and the reason the first book I did was a slasher is because that was like um my mom recently passed and that was one of the one of our past times together was watching old slasher movies a lot of 80s a lot of 70s I know this is a sad moment for you but also I love that this is the moment with your mom when I think of my mom I think of slasher film yeah because she was brutally horribly murdered just blood splatter and just like I just felt like texure s took a dark CH and these books just helped me find the kill I should never have given you two espresso this morning you gave me two shots yeah I thought about done is done it was really good coffee you made us so thank you by the way you're welcome not only do I double as Barista but I am also the the number one DJ on Cape C thank you very much for the best ofs oh yeah congratul congratulations for winning that it was like best person ever or something like that person of the year yeah person of the year that's awesome you definitely deserve it minus the tweets but other than that really really great stuff it says free Andrew Tate I'm like who's that what's up Ricky B hello Lauren Cindy Josh hi welcome good morning I've got Dan I've got AJ and uh we are definitely over caffeinated and ready to talk about all things horror slasher hi Ricky B uh Dan so you just like got some accolades for this book it's not like you're just here magically like you're you're an award winner also this is an awardwinning table everyone waiting for you yeah Family Guy never W an at me either but the Simpsons did over here that's amazing yeah I um it's already gotten like a lot of positive review um anytime you put something out there that you create you know there's a lot of nervousness L you want to you know you want people to like it and so you know it's obviously been very gratifying to you know already get such positive feedback from it and number one in horror on uh bar Barnes & Noble right now that's amazing and you can purchase it right now we drop the link no we'll definitely get some copies of that so talk to me about writing this book How long did it take you was it like did you have a Clear Vision or you're like kind of went along so when I started with was I was actually a server when I got the idea for the book I was working at a restaurant in Yarmouth and yeah it was name names it was a tourist season and you know crappy tips left and right and it was just one of those days what color were the people just go were they my color mostly French Canadian oh that makes sense always go back frogs oh my God you're getting cancelled BL day but yeah no I was I was driving home that day with my wife and I was like you know what if there is a slasher movie about somebody picking off Cape Cod tourist and awesome and then um I was like no we don't hate this we don't hate this they're gone now we can talk about them yeah wonder how they're gone they're gone how they're gone we don't know sa space this is the safe space here this is the uncancelled Z and that even goes for crimes that's amazing yeah and that was the General premise and then uh I took a couple years just developing that and uh so yeah it was about two to three years I was working on it seriously that long huh yeah well was my first book too so it's a lot of learning how to make a book in the first place because you have to break it down into little goals because if you look at as one big Mammoth project it's just going to be too overwhelming and so it's just kind of like building a house brick Bri brick you're just good that's a good explanation I always ask authors because I'm just absolutely fascinated I have addd and I will never finish anything so I'm always so fascinated by people sound like one of my lovers never finish my work here is never done I don't know what I'm doing uh good morning Tibby and Erin thanks for joining us we are talking to Dan lion who just put out the Crimson Cape so are some of your characters in your book real people so definitely uh amalgamations of people I've met throughout my life and friends and family and stuff like that yeah um so not one specific person but kind of a bunch of people glom together I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate on it the first guy that gets merge he sounds a lot like me in it said all skin long hair and a bandana he's funny how did you two connect uh first grade I think yeah I've known him practically since I was a fetus I mean it's a womb story miserable I mean look at Josh Adams that's what Lauren said right Josh yeah AJ actually came out with the bandana on I believe that oh my gosh so D talk to us a little bit of more about like your your inso for this book besides hating tourists and getting bad tips dude that's amazing that is an amazing inspiration to a book the best revenge is literary now I'm mad that they all got sold out at your first book no we could have a sticker for the next round sticker for the next round of books that come out yes please I had to like put one aside for Maxi cuz they were like selling so fast I was just like a hid under the table that's exciting no I mean not everybody has that kind of support when they put out their first book they really have to like work for it oh yeah I've been very lucky you know just like I said the reaction like already so far has been great well let's be honest everybody loves a good mystery uh everyone loves the that horror genre right now especially for podcasts for for media people just love feeling like they're part of the story yeah horror is definitely having a moment right now we're in a really good age um you know literary movies TV there's just so much good stuff happening right now sidebar my daughter was at scream con over the weekend nice and crowd Surfin too such a proud mother moment when you see her you know crowd surfing to Ink I'm like oh oh well then that looks fun super safe right no and then she's like she called my husband she knows she'd not to call me on these things because I will freak out so she's like little bit of a snafu when I landed and my shoe broke off so the security guard duct taped my shoe together so I had one I was like what what kind what kind of shoe was it a Yeezy Park and basement Yeezy prices everybody B what's up Jimmy hi Lori Lori like I I just like I had to unfollow con recent recently I just like I love his political views but his music not for me either one of them are terrible I'm still there for the moment just a popcorn moment what's happening what's G to what's going to go off next what's going to set him off sometimes I hear things I'm like is he okay like somebody needs to check on this guy and they do the problem is people keep checking on him and now that that's what he uses to propel him to the next crazy you can't make someone take their insulin just is that what it is chronically low sugar it's not my fault it's not my fault too funny today is National working Parents Day shout out to all of our working parents I know I sent mine with chees and crackers to school and said get a ride home good luck don't worry when Trump becomes president next year he's gonna turn this holiday into beat your kids day honestly maybe that's why I took the day off I just couldn't between that that whole debacle that was on television I was did we all watch the same thing I was like what is what is happening yeah I mean um uh Nester was supposed to um uh go go on with him but he got sick from a dog he ate that's so me that's so mean shout out to Nester matud the internet has been Ablaze with cooking animals not a great thing like think about it if we go back and like forward in time and they look back and they're like what happened why did this happen dude this is why I like Donald Trump he has the exact same am amount of evidence as I do when I make ridiculous claims well why like the internet just sweeps it all up it's like it's I don't termites I guess until the tree is gone and then the tree is gone and they move on to the next thing that they have to terise Hey Hey listen I got a brain warm too just like RFK Jun eating our dogs at least it's not the Jim your crap because I just can't because another friend of M comedian Drew dud he's just I just watch an RFK junor speech I just want him to like just do one of those I want to see what happens and yet the Kennedy signs continue to pop up everywhere yeah yeah that that that they do even though he suspended his campaign and he's back in Donald Trump right now I've got my mail in ballot I think I'm gonna just use that this year after the troubles that I had at the voting poll last time that's my plan honestly it's going to be utter Madness like I just don't want to deal with yeah I'm really all set with pickets and riots and and people having rallies and all the groupings of people for one certain human I find it very weird does anybody else when you're trying to cross the bridge and you've got all these people in the rotary and you're like please I'm having a hard time navigating the rotary to begin with I I love how some are on the wrong side protesting that they realize two minutes into it like oh wait is this the uh is this the Cala Waltz one oh no no that's the other side brother oh my bad like they're so peaceful with each other but then when they're on the when they're up close but when they're on the other side they're like kill kill kill I don't like it at all I love it I love it it is great see see see late night host they had to turn away from making fun of celebrities because they're they're they're humanized now so they have to go after politicians well I mean it won't it we have November is very close so yeah it's G we're gonna feel every ounce of the time don't get me wrong from now until then and a lot of there's plenty of time much more crazy please have a second debate dude like you you could have whoever you want you could have Hannity you could you could you could dig up Tucker like whoever you want and K blah just get there and do it he's like he's going around saying that he actually won and it's like somebody getting their ass kicked and you can just see the damage on their face it's just like when when you and I met in first grade you kicked my ass but I still told everybody that I won like AJ your arm's broken yeah but you should see the other guy yeah like he looks fine right he doesn't have a bandana he doesn't have this bandana D is eating an ice cream he looks fine oh my God I'm glad we've got Joe Trant now we've got a wrestler on our side dude Varsity Joe baby Joe Varsity I absolutely I love watching his mattres he's so good is he dude like his comedic timing in the ring is fantastic but Joe I haven't seen you and I want it's been a long time since I've seen you in there there's there uh he's he's working with uh knockabout to have a wrestling show there yes yes we've been I've been hearing I told him i' do color commentary for for him that is something you definitely need to do I think most people would pay for that oh yeah yeah definitely speaking of knockabout you've got a show coming up that that I do we have Joe Fenty Tik Tock famous Joe Fenty before he was Tik Tok famous was actually a hilarious comedian so he'll be he'll be there Wednesday at 800m along with the legend the Cape Cod Legend Jim Roberti who's been performing on cap cot for 30 years and uh he even did uh he even did plays with my late Uncle which are some of my favorite plays ever and J Jim Roberty The Legend and we might have a couple uh couple dropin too I love that you're doing shows this time of year it's like we finally everybody comes out of hibernation we can finally take left turns I was at uh all the French Canadians are gone they're gone we don't know how but they're gone ask Dan the Crimson cake people are disappearing oh super weird hello Emily from The Big E you enjoy your day today a big long Fair fried dough it's my favorite thing fair food oh my oh my goodness yeah corn dogs and fried fried dough just I don't wear a belt when I go anything fried in on a stick is good by me pretty much yes yes we are we are truly Fair people enjoy that enjoy it keep the baby clean though please and the cats and dogs are gonna be served next year under coma Blas rule let's remember that it's near Springfield it's just a different one and don't worry the boy's bathrooms we'll have tampons thanks to tampon Tim we are so lucky to have Dan and AJ here today no seriously I needed this for a Monday to get going I just had one of those days I was like I don't want to go I can't I suffered the um thing that you guys will never relate to is wearing shoes that are brand new and having no skin on my feet um I was scheduled to do a walk with on on Saturday I I had to bow out of that cuz I couldn't walk so your Yeezys didn't work out no I apparently my daughter and I both had feet issues this the Yeezys were the Hamas Edition not P not pro Palestine Pro Hamas lit just skipping over a level no skin on the feet can't walk sorry and I tried everything bandages Band-Aids double sockings bigger shoes I just double sockings nice right no it's just not cute this is the time of year well did you have some of your new uh tequila Seltzer Viva congratulations on your new brand thank you very much they knew a winner so they sent me those although the boxers she's a winner great guy the boxes were pretty banged up so it looks like they were in the back of the the warehouse they're like just send her them just send her the broken boxed ones we can't do anything with those anyway and uh Happy Birthday to Nester matuch can't forget him happy birthday Nester I ran into another one of your Comedians and I had the most awkward interaction it was hoton wasn't it yeah actually it was it was it was no it was like Sunday and I was in a rush to like grab a bunch of stuff and it was like before pickle paloa don't ask is is that pickle ball or actual pickles no Pi pickle we had a big Pickle Fest H at the farmers market I had a picklefest too in P toown but go on that is a different kind of picklefest thank you very much good morning miss her known picklefest oh Tina said it's the fried Whoopi pie a fried Whoopi pie I don't know you need that um it's not about need it's about want and yes it does sound magical Dan fabulous so I was in a rush I was picking up a couple of things for pickle paloa and I'm and then all of a sudden I look behind me and it's hot and then he's like it was just awkward it was so awkward and I didn't know what to do because he was like trying to talk to me but not trying to talk to me and then trying to like oh what what do you looks like you're having a fun party like when trying not to notice what's in somebody's shopping cart but like he clearly was Dad shopping he was like very much uh this is for my wife this is for the baby getting these Comfort this is my rifle this is my gun this is for this is for fun it was so awkward I feel bad sorry hon it was just weird well like he's he's still he's still in dad mode uh right now and as much as we like to rip on him to his face um like uh it's I think I would do the same did anybody else ever have an awkward interaction with somebody that you know from your life but you're at the grocery store and you're like mind is somewhere else like clearly our brains were on other things that we were doing but we like acknowledged that we knew each other but it was still so weird yeah that's every interaction that I have with anybody I just I just I just make it awkward just like what are you just like American no I mean what are you that's what you do any anyway good morning Liz tell George happy birthday I'm sorry that we missed it yesterday I just could not muster absolutely anything after having no skin on my feet and then having to do the farmers market yesterday which by the way the Mills River rescue was there and they brought the baby pony he was so cute I got to hang out with little Louie I really enjoyed the day speaking of ponies oh boy here we go uh Paul Kilmer magician comic sh shout out to Paul Kilmer uh he's he's just walking around listening to people's conversations and uh he he heard um so somebody say yeah when I was uh when I was uh eight years old uh they put me on a pony and I was too so big that the pony died no that's not real and then yeah and then he used that on stage later on you never know when one of your regular life weird awkward interactions will make it into one of AJ's sets everybody so watch out it it was it was Paul Kilmer's set by the way I would never never I would never make fun of another human being no no never we are in a post joke World well maybe you could talk a little bit about that how you still continue to make people laugh in awkward situations I mean a people want to go when they're going to you they're going to laugh yeah and when you don't make them laugh it's gonna be weird I think it was uh Mike Kaplan uh comedian Mike Cap when that said um you're you're a comedian until you're unfunny on stage like you do this for a living you never know what audience because they see you once and just like oh he must be bad forever there there's no way he's had another good set I was recently at a show not one of yours and it was awkward the audience did not like the vibe of what the comedian was putting down and no matter what that comedian did there was couldn't get out of it uh who I I can't yes you can I won't like four people are watching us it's fine we have other audiences it wasn't hoton was it it was not hon it was not hen left the CH I'll come back no it was an awkward moment and I really really felt for this comedian they were just the audience was not and he started going political and they were the opposite and it was so they were got to test the water heckling him and then it got so awkward then two people got up and left and I was like oh God this is so awkward it was awkward are you sure it wasn't me no because sometimes I go on a a ranch no everybody never lost everybody's heard your jokes and they keep coming back for you so you've got a lot of support out there yeah well well I told them to not just come back for me but for the U amazing shows they were on that's that's that's why my family keeps keeps coming to the shows for 10 years you keep it light you keep it moving you keep the sets a little bit short and you add more comedians so I think it's really good you get a little taste of everybody and you get a good mix you a nice little sampler yeah yeah it's the sampler Board of Comedy you get you get at my shows look at you being current without being current it's fabulous what is up with the chutery board by the way everybody I love the meats and cheeses but ever since you had to give it a fancy name which it always had but no one knew now it's a thing D you give anything a fancy name it was just like Rob Schneider was saying he's like I have maze no that's corn just say it's corn the people want to call it the maze though they do it makes it difference it makes it fancier it makes it $8 instead of $2 exactly grilled maze even out corn I can get for 25 cents an e at stop a shop but Ma $8 $8 one grilled Maz oh how how do you SE we put B that's it what's up Dan it's good to see you here checking in I'm glad you're feeling a little bit better I know for a second I was like oh hey different Dan this Dan right here just finished writing a book and pretty much sold out of them when he had his first book signing at Barnes & Noble uh talk about that moment a little bit where you're like sitting here and you're like I'm actually running out of product and I did not think anybody would like this I know it's funny too because like the first book I signed I told totally blinked I'm like I've never had to sign a just like Stan Lysol yeah the guy was like he was like oh I was like what do you want me to write he was like oh just you know talk from the heart I'm like dark from the heart doctor says I have murmurs love me did you feel I'm dying inside right that's actually I would have payed that's good I'm not okay thanks for yeah how many slasher puns can you think of on the Spot while you're citing books here hard to think of any on theot right or then when was the last time you signed your name and like other than writing a check and who the hell writes checks anymore and the restrain I was out of practice did I always make my L's this way why does this look so weird am I writing this is weird see these are limited edition autographs until you find the one yep all them are different every single one they even joked on family guy that says yeah Seth McFarland's book is actually worth less money if he actually signed it ruined it you defaced it this is worthless now hi Tom thanks for joining us on the show I've got Dan lion the author of The Crimson Capon with us Tom first book yeah I uh it was something I wanted to do ever since I was you know a kid ever since I can remember and like finally H holding a book with you know with my name on it and something that I made it's a pretty surreal moment yeah was your wife supportive of all of this oh she was great honestly there were times that I wanted to give up and if she hadn't like kept pushing me like this book may have never come out I shout out to Shannon liing on on that but when they make a TV movie about you they're gonna have it so Shannon's not supportive in even though she was the most supportive person in your life for this book you're never gonna make it Dy so she said Play by like Amber her she's here she said so proud I love that well I mean it takes a lot when you're trying to support somebody through anything I'm the world's worst wife when it comes to that I'm like are you done yet we have a deadline this is like where are you time money what are you doing right now yeah I am not that one my husband's a supportive terrible but I think that me because he's a Virgo also so I think that he needs that that's his support system as me going is it over is it done hurry up let's go add Focus Virgo all of a sudden we are star racist now that was CU oh I'll never date a Virgo listen plan for it because we've got some full moon action happening this week and we're going to have a lot of crazy I always every bisexual woman is excited that the Moon is can we can we tie that into something AJ or just what your rocks tell you to say no no no like but bisexual men are just lazy gays like that's just like I don't want to do anything but the one thing I'm trying to still keep this PG here he's allowed I I am I'm still trying to respect your show I appreciate that very much good morning Carrie thank you for joining us how's back to school going for us working parents is it going well have we had to go to school 14 times because we've forgotten things how many excuses have you already gotten from kids with headaches and fake ailments and ailments and other issues I got second Co like what are the excuses the kids are human and as a parent are you a helicopter parent like that one episode of The Simpsons where he where he wants Bar's Graves to be better so he follows him around helicopter parent away that show is still fabulous dude like I I I sometimes I won't watch it for three years but then I'll watch a new one I'm like wow this is still great so good I don't know what is it in like the 40th season hour um oh close close to it I think it's uh 36 something like that dear God yeah well if it's good don't break it dude Harry uh Shyer is that his name that voices Mr Burns he's literally the same age as Mr Burns right now 81 my god really yes this is amazing Mr Burns hasn't aged at all in the 40 Years of I see you wearing running shoes that's good release the house Smithers so you've got a great group of comedians AJ that you always work with have you ever come across one of them that like did you dirty a little bit oh yeah like uh earlier this week really like someone like went across the bar and he and he's running his mouth about the show really he's like oh I was only paid this much and blah blah blah and uh he's like oh I was only paid $12 like that was tips right like why are you telling people this and also it's comedy what did you think you were going to get we're not getting in this to get rich and famous we're just getting in this to say the things that we want to and then maybe you know not get booed maybe claps and like I I think he tried to express that too but like when you tell people the outside that like it's it's it it sounds awful which why like dude the running of the mouth thing is is no and then uh and then afterwards he's arguing with the manager like oh I was owed more time they just like no you weren't well look at Chris Rock who just got what $40 million for the SL that was more money than he ever made in his comedic career for actual standup work like we we all got a pair of dudes and like that was one person this week and then like a second person like Z go across the show it trashing me because I did crowd work like uh before him and he's just like oh I can't follow that all this other stuff and he's trashing me to free people that just so happened to be friends of mine that were that were at the show and told me so I so I had to I had to confront them and ju I'm just like oh well well I I told your friends not to not to tell you I just like well they're my friends in my defense they weren't supposed to tell you dude I officiated dude I officiated that guy's wedding you bummed a cigarette off of him we are not the same we're not the same exactly that's the ultimate best though when somebody says something to somebody like do you not know we're friends hello awkward weird love it Taylor Swift endorses kamla and then lost half a million followers or whatever yeah but she still has like 40 million followers that's what makes me laugh like Taylor she lost she lost 200,000 followers I don't think she's having sleepless nights over oh my God she lost 0.05% of her following because of that how will she recover I don't think she cares but it just made me laugh it was like oh you picked a side and so now you lost some people and it really wasn't that many people to Taylor well for her for me it would be devastating but like for for her it doesn't matter anyway she can just buy new ones and it's like she's fine if like their political views are enough to make you like be like I'm done with this person like how attached were you really in the first place but do you really want to I'm only mad when a celebrity not not when they do political views but I'm only mad when a celebrity has political views that don't align with mine it's really that's all it is I don't want have views but not different from mine that's all I'm saying I don't want to surround myself with a yes group of people I just don't I don't think that that's fun I would rather argue with people I've been arguing with my husband for 22 years Mr Burns little here I just like yeah sounds good yeah exactly who wants to be around people like that I love I love a collective perspective and you need to bring people that don't agree with you for reasons so that we can all grow from this why does no one understand this in 2024 why it's really upsetting to me and then he and then he tweeted I hate Taylor Swift all Cap all caps the next cation point at the end this was yesterday oh I was busy yesterday I really missed that or did I he his brain is melting in real time like poor God poor god well RT what what I mean he wasn't he wasn't the greatest president he was just my favorite President H okay God what's up Dorian how are you he says hello everyone hey hey Dorian how you doing um so dorian's banned for life by I'm kidding I'm kidding dorian's great are you a potster Dorian oh yeah he dorian's a total [ __ ] stir I love that though there needs to be some of that Dorian dorian's awesome he's been a big help to the show he come he comes help helps helps out and then every now and then we we we throw him five minutes at not as much as we should but like uh but but he's he's a he's a big help whenever he's around who was the headliner of the last show that I went to the little small guy the little small guy America's got a talent guy oh Justin Hoff yeah yeah I was not expecting him to be that small dude says so so so do you want handsome and small or tall and ugly you have to you you you you you have you have to choose well you did this whole set about loving big women and I just really me it made me laugh it was really good it's a great bit it was very well yeah like Hof and Hof and I have been been uh we've been friends for like 10 years that's awesome and fun and then like uh there was one night like I think it was like eight eight nine years ago that like uh we had a little too much uh Libations and then we just had a pillow fight and then he hit me with the side of a pillow like the hard side and my nose started to bleed shut up do you remember that how hard was that pillow it was a zipper side I love that we're talking to a grown man that admitted to having another grown man in a pillow fight that was actually a pillow fight it's perfect uh it was the couch cushion fight but close enough now that's different that is bloody nose happening demonstrably different all of it's the hard side yeah Justin Hoff did uh awesome for us earlier this week at proof 22 and it was on it was on Monday like they wanted it on a Monday I don't even know how you keep anything straight the amount of places that you go the the the states the traveling the people the moving Parts Google Calendar yeah it it it helps it helps every single time I look at my Google Calendar at least like a dozen times a day just just where am I where where do I go now what's next what day is it oh exactly this is like you look at this this is this is my calendar for September yeah you're busy yeah and then that's that's that's October this was this was my August it was just it was just absolutely well it's a departure from your July so we'll just all be positive about having a full calendar yeah Dan what do you do to keep busy in the offseason are you always writing do you have a notebook how do you like how are you ready because you said I've already got another release 2025 like it's coming out yeah so uh yeah writing does take up most of my free time um I also I have an Instagram Channel called uh sptv slasher Punk TV and I make horror content on there yeah I just love talking about horror movies and Horror in general so and also I talk about punk rock a little bit on there so it's well that sounds fun and scary and extra all at once right yep I have a video coming out in a couple days on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974 I love it and I love the fact that you're like behind all of the microphones so he's got this like sort of microphone mask going on right now I I can't I can't wait to I can't wait pay no attention to the man behind the microphone the great lion spoken poor TS over there behind everything like like we all are whenever we're in that chair we all are I know we need to we need to talk to I feel like this is a Twisted Sister music video stand up straight tie those shoes a twisted sister pin on your uniform oh my gosh who are you where did you come from are you listening to me welcome good morning if you're just waking up to this on a mod day hi Lynn I saw you in passing on Friday and and I didn't get a chance to connect with you we were at a celebration of life for our friend Joe Durham and um we just didn't have there was just so many people there which was really nice to see so many people there supporting the family and uh I just didn't get a chance to connect with you Lynn so s sorry sorry Lynn I know there were so many great people there and uh Ryan tivy who was just on here from funus just shared love tivy a gig it looked like from absolute hell we've all had them whether it's you know a bad night and you're like oh my God is this the bridal party and now I've got to wait on them this is awful or you know you whatever the world's worst audience but he had a gig that was like on a second floor and it looked like the staircase that he had to climb up with all the equipment and everything that was going on was like one of those emergency staircases they weren't actual ones it was like the metal ones that you're like is this safe um somebody had an incident a medical incident in there and the fire department had to take them down this like side thing he had an issue with one of his amps making noises and squeaking in the back ground he's like all in all it was an absolute horror show but we got it done we got it done 2025 book Dan what are we looking at is it a continuation of the cape uh so uh Crimson Cape yeah so it's gonna have the same characters um the premise of the book is that Sean sish the police officer who's the main character of crimson Cape uh gets called out to North Adams to work on a serial killer case uh it's a serial killer killing art teachers and wrapping them in papier-mâché o this is so Dexter but better do do they wrap them in like the little egg cartons too he's a now and just like and all these were from the kids in the assignment that they asked him to bring an egg carton over where does your um creativity and killing come from definitely not from personal experience or anything um I'm fine fine you just winked bro it's like Shannon lock the doors hide the basement stuff let's get weird I think um I I've just watched and read so much Horror in my life I think uh I don't know it's all floating around in there well is it a quest to do it better or is it like this has never been seen before it's like do you feel like you're already like you got to one up it all the time is you definitely like you know want to keep it fresh and you want to try things that you know haven't really been done before um that was kind of the idea of paper doll murders it was just a random idea I had and I was like well I haven't seen that before so let me like go down that road and see where it leads hi Don checking in from um California where um every time I see a photo of something's on fire in the background it absolutely looks horrifying Californians you people in your fires you need to just turn and T it down well and also for those keeping score at home Southern California has broken their previous record of the most 4.0 earthquakes are higher in a single year so I don't know whether you're falling off officially now like it's just California it's going in the ocean or it's it's it's that renewable energy it's causing those earthquakes it's like day after tomorrow it really is it looks ter everybody's John cusac there she said it was absolutely terrifying I can only imagine what's up Thanos I will see everybody over at Sandwich Taverna Wednesday is our trivia night and if you've not been we've been averaging 22 teams it is absolutely uh colossal trivia night how many of them are cheating and looking on their phones the whole time you know what I I give incentives to tell on people so I do I absolutely do because I'm like I like to keep a clean game and I like for people to be able to use their brain a little bit so I say snitches get scratch tickets if you catch somebody cheating on somebody I will reward you and they absolutely do they AB on your enemy absolutely do so keep a clean game I don't have to go over and take everyone's phone away and put them in a little cage cuz I think that's dumb we're grownups be a grownup and be careful because everyone's watching you My Trivia is like big brother somebody is going to rat on you so don't do it don't it's like the raid too where they're like watching them go up the levels oh absolutely there was one team that was cheat that was cheating and like they were so their team name I forget the har they were from harwitch no typical Harwich but they did they they were shamed so much so that they ended up getting up and leaving the second round I was like go ahead have your prize since you officially won but that makes you feel good they literally were shamed they were called the Dave girls they just like we love to cheat by the time they can can we please talk about this situation right now yeah cuz you're a bigger food Fighters fan than than than I was in I've never been a food Fighters fan I was always a Nirvana fan I've never been a Foo Fighters fan I do think Dave girl I thought Dave girl was a nice super cool human being as a person until this came out and now it's ruined the last 20 years of what I thought of Dave gr a little bit personally I love his cheating but I heard his music so I just kind that was the number one meme like like over o over trumps I hate Taylor Swift no my favorite thing that has come out of the Dave girl cheating thing is the Courtney Love memes that are now back they're like Dave gr knows that I know what I know what I know he knows and that he knows what I know and it like literally was me I was like oh wow and some of them was like they can't make me hate her shout out Rec Court New love right honestly I absolutely adored it but she was like Dave girl is out there buying Maseratis on a Nirvana Inc credit card when he didn't have any of the rights to writing anything it's all Curts I was like I was like you only married him you were in the band with him listen I was a hole fan didn't weird I I think hle is great doll Parts great song it really is a good song that was a good album by the way it really was I don't know what happened after that she like didn't Courtney like hook up with Billy Corgan while she was dating Kurt I heard that that that was it was before they were on a break we were all yeah to him we piot now like um uh the Billy Corgan she was dating him uh before that and then she started hooking up with him towards the end and then she told him this was her quote and just like oh I'm I'm leaving I'm leaving you for I'm leaving you for Kurt he treats me better and he's better in bed that that was her exact uh quote I might be paraphrasing a little bit but she'll tell you the same thing yeah right just ask Courtney she a AJ CA um your wife says Shannon it's always him or our cat or his laptop writing away it's good though like you need to have you get ideas and then do you find yourself in a rabbit hole when you get an idea and you're kind of like closed off from the world oh yeah like I can't not Chase it like it's like okay this I guess is what I'm doing like babe I love you but I have things I'm writing right now I have to write for qan on right so I don't kill you I have to write it on here jun's coming back I'm Q I have to put out this content babe like Dan why are you wearing antlers and face paints it was me all along that's what I'm wondering like how do you continue to outdo yourself when you're writing these things like how does it get better or weirder or and then does your wife like sleep with one eye open like gripping your pillow tight or or is she like very much into this genre or is she opposite of you yeah no she's great to bounce ideas off of because like you know she loves all of it the same as I do we we're always watching you know slasher horror and stuff like that so it's definitely like oh my God this harsh I love it well I've got to connect you with my friend Dan chase you probably already know him but or maybe no he does a horror pod also and he loves slasher stuff now located in the midwest but he used to be on the cape he did the real he wrote for the real Cape uh a little bit a I loved the real Cape we missed that page I know rest in peace rest in peace we loved you Pat ah all right so we always saw Pat at the uh bars County Fair papani I love him I'm not saying your name right you need to come and do a show on Lemon Ado every single time I see Pat he's like I'm coming back I'm coming back I'm coming on the show I'm doing it I'm gonna my daughter both of our daughters went to college this year and if you've seen my video my daughter's really enjoying College a little bit too much for me uh Pat I hope that your daughter at URI is having a great year and I know you have time to come on lemonade and make some new content we've got a brand new podcast lineup we've got three new pods in development one that was just released last Friday Friday the 13th what you oh I thought you were doing a field of dreams for a minute and he will come and we lost Darth Vader like we've had a lot of like geek subculture death's weirdness and other stuff going on lately and uh we're here absorbing it yeah I I listened to if if J if Star Wars didn't have James daral Jones it would be awful I heard the original voice of Darth Vader oh it's so bad and and he sound and he sounded like Rick morenus and balls I can't breathe in this thing for good or for bad we have a Chris speed we have we have ai now so oh man Rick Moranis why is he not doing stuff he's just like literally retired he's he's a treasure yeah and he's like I'm not doing this anymore bye because like oh you you you want $2 million to do the new Star new Ghostbusters nah oh what was the Canadian movie we watched back in the day Strange Brew Strange Brew oh my goodness like Rick BR was was so good in that second City TV however I think that it was because he's like married and quiet and like lives a quiet life like I've made enough M passed yeah yeah his his wife passed so he so after Honey I Shrunk the Kids three he decided uh my kid my kids are growing up I just want them to have a good childhood I want them to wake up and have good smells of breakfast so I'm I'm just going to be a dad full-time he did a yeah he did he did a little bit of a country album in 2006 which which wasn't bad it was H I have to go listen to this now it was but but now I just hear Louis I'm the key master right is that what it sounds like no I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm just being rude not as rude as the guy that punched him in the face in New York like uh to two two weeks ago I was just going around like punching people yeah that person is still on the Loose by the way good morning what's up John great job Gavin new even though it's not your state I'm still gonna blame you though you brought the culture City culture there stop trying to make politics happen here it's not happening I will make it don't like it vote red all the way down don't look them up don't look them up at all don't Google I just Google's the enemy Google fake news Google's our enemy as as the vice president of the uh of the chapter on Cape Cod um just vote red all the way down don't Google them well maybe that's why people are leaving the planet in droves apparently there uh three new people arrived at the International Space Station there's a record breaking 19 people in orbit around Earth wow look how the hell do we leave here that's incredible sounds like an M Night shotan movie how are we where are we leaving where are we going is there anything anybody the Earth is covered in goo help get us out of here I mean our bones are turning to Mush but it's worth it this place is not what it once was where can we go and and and sure I have to drink filtered pee but at least I don't have to hear another speech I couldn't think of anything worse honestly those four people that are trapped there first off it's like water world but in the they're like oh you don't who stole my lime tree you don't have a car that can leave too bad for you we're going like bye thank you byebye they say byebye oh no I should have known he does it too well it's a not but at the same time Josh is here visiting us Josh you're Josh oh my Josh y you're Josh what about what about my Josh he's here oh he's just here oh he's just W oh yeah Josh Josh commented earlier he's like you've never made me coffee you never asked dude if anybody needs a cup of coffee just look at him it's Josh Adams the the only time I've seen him smile was adop places when Lauren let him hold the snake why was there a snake I shouldn't even ask Lauren always has something it he was so happy he Josh was letting the snake hiss in his mouth it was kind of cute though what it was it looked like the snake from uh from the Disney's Robin Hood I just snakes freaked me out and you were letting it hiss in your mouth I can't I'll never look at you the same Josh it's over he's a Slytherin I knew that about you sther just for their politics and alone this is Hufflepuff house I don't know I can't help you sorry we'll let these hufflepuffs over our wall Dan once again give a plug for your book as we've been here an hour and we were supposed to here I am thinking I'm gonna talk to a serious book author we're gonna talk about horror and slasher things and then I realized wait a minute AJ is accompanying him that is Not Gon to happen I ruin everything as as my dad would say in every dad in the 90s like you'd mess up a free meal oh my God the book is the Crimson Cape available in paperback and ebook on Barnes & noble.com and then give a plug to your your punk chv show oh yeah uh slasher Punk TV is on Instagram uh slasher punk. TV I love it I'm gonna have to go check out some episodes because I didn't get a chance to even jump into that this morning at all uh if you're following us we appreciate you we've got events on Cape and boy do we have tons of them for you uh tonight I'll be out for trivia night Dino is 6 until 8 and Shipwrecked is coming back Bailey's is coming back if you're looking for a little bit of music Bingo C pod beer knockout we've got our final kids day coming up for our Farmers Market also a car seat check in the car seat mom is going to be there so moms and dads if you want to go and make sure that your car seat is properly installed because 90% of them are not she will definitely make sure that that is all set for you and also if your car seat's expired she'll send you right on over to the police station right they do my my my dad used like the one from the 70s for all four of them what was it a rope here you go just tie her around there and you should be fine nope you're not supposed to put it around your neck you know what that's fine yeah right you'll be fine events on cave.com is where you can find us Marsha Melissa thank you so much for joining us you've had Dan Lion on and uh I'm really looking forward to reading Crimson cape and definitely having you back on when you've got something amazing to share with us once again oh yeah absolutely I love AJ comedy we got good nights coming out yes so Wednesday knockabout place to be uh we got we got Joe Fenty Tik Tok famous guy uh you you Pro you probably seen him just opening your phone but now you get to see him in real life he's absolutely hilarious we got the uh you just said it out loud Joe Fenty Joe Fenty Joe Fenty so now it's gonna be I only said it twice I only said it twice I didn't say thir one that he appears ex ex exactly he's not Joe Hendry he's not gonna pop up after after after just one hi it's me it's a me and that's wed Wednesday and we got the cape cot Legend Jim Roberti and then Thursday we're at New World Tavern and that's uh put put together by Nester matute and then you can wish him a happy birthday and then uh I'll be I'll be going second to last and and speaking of Cape cut we'll actually be in hyas for an open mic so if you ever want to try comedy or want to see how the comedy is made come to House of hatchets on Friday we got an open Open Mic at eight o'clock you can watch you could sign up you could you can uh you can you can do whatever I love that house of hatchets is going to be one of our new spots we're doing some uh karaoke Curtis is hosting karaoke at House of hatchets he's just got a great room in there yes he yes he does karaoke Curtis yeah right exactly we'll get it done little bit of Comedy karaoke he likes the literation cliff gave me a foot massage the other day I was uh I was minute I was resist to it but it was actually pretty good that was his whole set like he signed up five minutes just gave me a foot massage on stage it was right on we got a talk off the air it's just like Pulp Fiction wiggle your big toe all right we gotta go for for Dan ajm Stephanie thank you so much for joining us on the show hope to have you back tomorrow Hank will be back and uh he's got a lot to talk about he's he um I was gonna say suffered but he celebrated his 35th Anniversary so suffered he's got story he's not suffering Mari please don't I heard suffer did you hear suffer Dan no I did ad me thank you very much D I appreciate that Shannon thank you very much for D you will not get the scratch chicken for not ratting but AJ will we'll talk to you soon everybody have a great day bye bye my you'll not get this scratch for I do it seems to be very effective at trivia I'm telling you I didn't realize she was recording one time and I said from The River To The Sea we will be Josh fre