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The Dan Patrick Show
"neil giraldo" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"But you don't need it. But you want a beer. What if you don't matter? But are you trying to send a message that I'm here on business? Sure. Okay. You're gonna pay me millions of dollars. The last thing I want is you to think, oh, you're gonna have a beer with me or two, how many are you having when you're not with me? No. And even if Frank Craig, okay, I'll let you behind the scenes of the espys many, many years ago. Bill Murray's hosting, he had a bunch of writers with him. Guys, I think, worked with him at Saturday Night Live. Somebody pulls out a joint and starts to pass it around to everybody there. And all of a sudden, it comes to my boss. And then he passes it to me. He doesn't take a hit of it. Now I'm not sure what to do in this situation. And so I had to pass the duchy to the left hand side here. And then the next time around, I thought, you know what? I have this opportunity in this moment with these guys and Bill Murray and their writing things for the espys. I'm going to have to do this for medicinal purposes. So I'm next to my boss and I turned past it and I thought, all right, let me just take a little hit off of this. And passed it down. But I was there with my boss, a little bit different, but I wanted to make sure if he was going to, then I definitely was going to. But then I thought, John's not taking a hit. Would anybody have a drink if they went out with the possibility of this team drafting you? Pauly, I would. If I saw the other people at the table having a drink and I'm going back to my hotel and I'm not driving, I would have one. You can't. I'm a grown man. I'm not gonna fake it for you. And let the chips fall. You need a beer there. Just because they're having it? Oh, if they jump off a cliff, are you gonna jump off a cliff? See, all of a sudden, I start asking you questions about yourself if you have a beer. Yes. When you're 21, you're still enjoying the novelty of being able to go out and order a beer with the adults. You don't need a beer. You know what I mean? You might want one. I would just be like, no, I'm on a diet. I'm just training. But when you're 21 years old, you're not like, man, long day of work. You know what I mean? This whole draft process is stressful, man. I'd like to have a beard. That is getting a cold one. Can I get a shot of pappy van winkle too? I think I'm going to need that. Take the edge off here. You're still kind of tickled about taking out your ID and being like, that's right, I can. Yes. Okay, part two of the question. You're looking at the menu, it's a steakhouse. The most expensive steak on the menu, let's say it's $65 and it's a marbled T bone blow it up. Would you order the most expensive steak on the menu or would you think it through and be moderate? I would not order the most expensive thing on the menu. What if that's what you really want? If I wanted a beer, would I have a beer? Yeah, but these organizations, NFL, billions of dollars, I can't pick the $58 down to $67 there? You don't think that they're reading into this? I definitely agree that you don't have a drink. And I wouldn't have dessert either always going to get fat. He wants a piece of chocolate. What if you really want to? What if you want dessert? You got to draw the line somewhere. But the difference in price of steaks with the rib eye is 58. This one's 66. No, no, no. That's not the point. You want you want some, they're going to read into what you're ordering. Yes. You know where I'm squeezing them for every dollar. My contract. Not on a steak. Steak, are you, man? I'll get the New York strip for $34. No problem, but then when it comes time to contract, I want the 34 mil, not the 30. All right, what else falling? Last one. What if you ordered a more sophisticated drink like, could I see the wine menu and you ordered a nice glass of wine that was like to go with your steak or I thought that maybe show some background education, diversity? No, you could still be an alcoholic. I get doesn't matter if you're AI order high end wine. I don't have a drinking problem. Yes. Can you get an appetizer? Can you get a side dish or you're taking advantage if you want some mashed potatoes on the side or something? You want a little Caesar salad. Okay, all right, you got slapped down with the steak. A little lobster. Here we go. I'm gonna have the second with third most expensive steak. I'm getting the lobster bisque. And NFL team. They can take care of my appetizer in my steak. You're better than that. Very slightly. Final hour coming up on this meat Friday. We'll get to phone calls. Fritzi, seat and Marv Pauley, yours truly. Leftovers. Or the DMV. Or. House cleaning. Or chamber casino always brings the fun. Play over a hundred different games online for free from anywhere. You could redeem some serious prizes. Live the chamba life. No, we're just necessarily by law. Website for details. Hey everyone, it's Cassidy Hubbard from ESPN. I'm Niko Ramos, a sports broadcaster here in Manila. Together, we have a new podcast we can't wait to share with you. Hoops Paradise, the Philippines love of the game. You know, there's religion. There's politics and there's a basketball. And those are the three things you talk about in the Philippines. Listen to hoops Paradise, the Philippines love of the game on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Monday night on Fox, the 2023 iHeartRadio music awards, live from the shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, celebrate the songs and artists you loved over the past year, hosted by Lenny Kravitz, with innovator award recipient, Taylor Swift, featuring performances by icon award recipient pink. Coldplay. Kelly Clarkson, a special appearance by LL Cool J Keith urban. Pat benatar and Neil giraldo. Lotto, money long. Cody Johnson and more. Don't miss the biggest stars from every genre of music. The 2023 iHeartRadio music awards. Monday, march 27th at 8 7 central. Watch live on Fox.
The Dan Patrick Show
"neil giraldo" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"I could see hesitating, but I would do it. I'd like a beer right now, but I'm about ten minutes away from having a FYI. Oh, actually, maybe 5 minutes. 5 minutes. 5 minutes away. Fire pit beard? Fire pit beard. We have beer on top. We have Miller lite on tap out there. Who has it better than we do? No one to know. No one. No. Absolutely no wonder. There's no other show that has it better than we do. No. Not levit? Nope. Nope. It doesn't have a better. No. Me doesn't PTI, they're not drinking beers. Definitely not. They're not having fun. Pat McAfee? They're having beers before the show. I don't know. McAfee doesn't look like he's a drinker. I bet AJ hawk can get after it a little bit. I feel like pat McAfee has lived a life. Do you? I do. I get the same. I think he's I don't think he needs artificial enhancement. It just feels like McAfee is McAfee. Yeah, point. We ran into pat McAfee the morning after he retired. Remember he retired and came on our show the next day. He was joining barstool and all that stuff. Me and seat and I think maybe mclovin, but the seat and I were there for there. He was outside the media center. He had been retired for about 14 hours. We saw he's all hyped up by a headband on he's punching me and seat in the shoulders. And I go, hey, man, you're fired up. Because I just tried Adderall. It's the best. Adderall is the best. I couldn't take what I was in the pros. I'll see you guys later. I gotta go. And then he just took off. He was a machine. Don't know if he wants it out there that he was taken Adderall. He talked about it. Joey and Boston, hi, Joe. Hey Dan, how's it going? Good, sir. Got a pie in the face of that for you in the crew. Okay. All right. Well, curve ball the Friday. Baker Mayfield in the bucks to win the NFC south. And just anybody want a piece of Joey in Boston that Tampa baker leads them to the NFC so. And well, how many games does baker play? I think we have to have an over under on how many because Tampa Bay could win, but let's say he has to start 12 games, Joey. Okay. All right, does anybody want a piece of that? The Tampa Bay wins the NFC south and Baker Mayfield junior the third has to play at least 12 games. Well, let's see, last year they won it by going 8 and 9. So it's not exactly a high bar. No, it's not. Panthers, they're rebuilding. The saints should be the favorites. Atlanta. Desmond Ritter, you're not going to win right now. If they would get more Jackson that it's kind of a lukewarm response here, Joey. And I think we're kind of in agreement that Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay could win that division. But thank you for the offer there. Adam in California. Hi, Adam, what's on your mind? How are you doing, Dan? Adam, first time, long time. One 85, 5 7 and 9 inch hands. Just from Marvin. All right. Hey, I noticed that buffer sticker and I was talking to Tyler and I said, you've got to put that logo. The DP logo and it's not on there. So that's what I did notice. That was just my only thing on there. But that way, you still push your name on there. All right. Well, thank you, Anna. Sometimes you like it where it's just subtle. It's kind of like if you know you know. Yeah. It's part of the feel of it. Yeah, we don't have to put our logo on everything there. Todd, what did I learn today? Toughest play for Clark Kellogg to defend in the NBA, Bernard king. Get to PXG dot com or call 8 four four play PXG, schedule a fitting, I switched to these clubs, and now I love what the accuracy of the distance swings some PXG's and you'll agree nobody makes golf clubs the way they do period. Have a great weekend everybody. Thanks for joining us. We look forward to talking to you on Monday. Leftovers. Or the DMV. Or house cleaning. Or chamber casino always brings the fun. Play over a hundred different games online for free from anywhere. You could redeem some serious prizes. Live the chumba life. Hey everyone, it's Cassidy Hubbard from ESPN. I'm Nicaragua, a sports broadcaster here in Manila. Together, we have a new podcast we can't wait to share with you. Hoops Paradise, the Philippines love of the game. You know, there's religion, there's politics, and there's basketball. And those are the three things you talk about in the Philippines. Listen to hoops Paradise, the Philippines love of the game, on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Monday night on Fox, the 2023 I heart radio music awards, live from the shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, celebrate the songs and artists you loved over the past year, hosted by Lenny Kravitz, with innovator award recipient, Taylor swift, featuring performances by icon award recipient pink, Coldplay. Kelly Clarkson, a special appearance by LL cool J Keith urban. Pat benatar and Neil giraldo. Lano, money long. Cody Johnson and more. Don't miss the biggest stars from every genre of music. The 2020 three iHeartRadio music awards. Monday, march 27th at 8 7 central. Watch live on Fox.
The Dan Patrick Show
"neil giraldo" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Operation. Cops had spent more than a year following his every move because they believed Derek white was a major figure in an international criminal organization. He was the front man, if you will, for the organized crime slash hells angels. Well, see, that's one thing that did and really do their homework. Now, Derek's fighting his charges in court, his defense relies on his rights as a native person, and the craziest thing he might actually have a case. It's not only my fight, it's the whole nation's fight. From campsite media and Dan Patrick productions, this is running smoke. Binge all episodes now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Monday night on Fox, the 2023 iHeartRadio music awards, live from the shrine auditorium in Los Angeles, celebrate the songs and artists you loved over the past year, hosted by Lenny Kravitz, with innovator award recipient, Taylor Swift, featuring performances by icon award recipient pink, Coldplay. Kelly Clarkson, a special appearance by LL Cool J Keith urban. Pat benatar and Neil giraldo. Lotto, money long. Cody Johnson and more. Don't miss the biggest stars from every genre of music. The 20 23 iHeartRadio music awards. Monday, march 27th at 8 7 central. Watch live on Fox. We'll close up shot. Last call for phone calls. What we learned what's in store for Monday here on the program. This stained sports history, Pauly. Sorry about that, one got a couple of them. 2005, the NHL canceled this draft due to a 6 month player lockout. Mario Lemieux in 92 scored his 100th 1000th career point in his 513th game, second fastest player all time to do that. I'm not gonna give you any clues of who the fastest one. 'cause you'll never get it. 1975, Dan, Muhammad Ali knocked out chuck wepner, the Bayonne bleeder in the 15th round to retain the world heavyweight title. In the crowd that night was actor, Sylvester Stallone. Just alone, and he wrote rocky after that. There it is. I interviewed chuck wepner one time. And you couldn't help but look at all the scar tissue. Around his eyes. And that he was, he was a guy from Bayonne, New Jersey, and when your nicknames the Bayonne bleeder, that's not a good thing. Of all the nicknames when you go, oh, what's your nickname? The Bayou bleeder. Oh. I'm guessing we know how your career ends up. But he was a really nice guy. And then you find out that Sylvester Stallone based rocky off chuck wepner. On this day, in 1980, Louisville wins the first championship in the school's history as Louisville beach UCLA, Daryl Griffith, doctor Duncan Stein. I love that poster. I think we might have that poster in the back. I think it's in the office, yeah. Yeah, back in the office with doctor Dunkin Stein. Christian laettner beat the Yukon overtime buzzer beater in 1990. Florida golf coast beat San Diego state to become the first 15 seed to reach the sweet 16 and on this date in 2019, this baseball player signed a 12 year extension. 2019 signed a 12 year extension. I feel like we're just talking about this. It was for 426 and a half $1 million. Yeah, Pauline. Bryce Harper? Nope. Mike Trout? Bryce Harper's numbers aren't terrible. Wow. Four 26 and a half. That's not good. That's 12 years. Wow, a lot of cases. Yes, it is. For 80 wins. 82 and a half is the over under. And I'm going over. I'm going to 83. 83 wins for the angels. Let's see. Phil and West Virginia. Hi Phil, what's on your mind today? Hey, Dan, hey, boys. Happy Friday. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. Hey, I got a preemptive best and worst of the weekend for you if that's okay. Okay. Worst of the weekend. So tomorrow is the D two men's basketball finals. You've got west liberty West Virginia versus nova southeastern in Florida. The charter buses that we're taking our alumni foundation out there canceled about a half an hour before they were scheduled to pick us up. So it left us with our hands in our pockets on that one. To take us to the game. But a little cool sports factoid for the D two enthusiasts out there. The coach of nova southeastern was the coach at west liberty for years and years before he moved to Florida and the coach of west liberty now Ben howlett played for Jim crutchfield when Jim coached at west liberty. So tomorrow's men's national finals is a little bit of a teacher versus pupil kind of a thing. Awesome. Well, thank you, Phil. Sorry about the travel issues, Mike and main. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today? Hello, gentlemen. How are we doing today? Great, Mike. Great. So, Dan, I was a reminiscing. Your love for Top Gun and I have some relation that is an actual pilot. And he was telling me about how to get their names. And they don't get them, it's not all cool like the movies. The only person who is a group that got a nickname was a guy named new dak, because he went on a training run. He forgot to load the camera, so when he got back, the commanding officer said, boy, you're not Kodak, you're new dad. Okay. Being said, I have nicknames for all you guys based on the traits. All right. Left to right, we got Fritz E call sign molars. And I think we all know why? On the right, yes, we can call sign scarecrow because he likes to wear flannels. And then in the front row, we got Marvin who I call mister cool. He's reminds me of a friend from college who went by the nickname, his initials were AC, so AC, and then to the left, we had the douche canoe. It looked good on the side of a plane. It will. Still be on the side of a plane. I'll take it. That's fine. A douche canoe? Yeah. You could be my wingman any day. That was the original name of maverick's character. People don't know that. Brandon, and by the way, we're coming up with bumper stickers. We're gonna sell bumper stickers on the site, suck it front row and suck it back row. And then we're hoping that we can get those bumper stickers in all 50 states. We'll let you know when we we already have a mock up of them. I always get the biggest kick out of seeing a T-shirt in the wild or when somebody will be on vacation or something like, hey, look, they're wearing this T-shirt from the show or whatever. So I imagine the bumper stickers would be pretty hilarious too. Okay. Brandon, in Ohio, hi Brandon, what's on your mind? Hey, morning guys. I just had a quick mock headline. If I could for the games last night, Fred, this is in honor of you and one of your great stories, but damn three seats. Move on to the elite 8. It's solid. How about that? Sam three seed. I like it. Case state moves on the elite 8. Final results of the poll question today. Dan turns out not many people are getting a beer if you're out to an important dinner. Have you had a beer with one of your bosses before when you've gone out to dinner? And that doesn't include me. Yes, both. Not at the start of the process. Like if I was being interviewed at ESPN and they took us out, I would, I could see hesitating. But I would have though. Didn't you say you would get a beer if you were a quarterback out with a team? No, I'm saying, I could see hesitating, but I would. Like if I was out with my proposed boss at ESPN and they would take them out to dinner. But you've been saying you would have a beer if you're will levis. And I'm saying I'm still doing it. I would still do it. I always do it if I was out with my boss. Oh, yes. Well, you said later in the process. No, I said
Dose of Leadership
"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"Judge, and it's really weird that they base their judgment on some strange thing that maybe they would behave that way in a relationship or not. It's very, very weird to me like this. There's a mystery that soon will be uncovered about the music relationship between Patricia and I and how we started and what this whole thing was really based on, right? Because there's an assumption that people that don't know have and it's just humorous to me, but also hurtful at times because they don't understand. And they'll never understand what it really was and really you will always be, right? So I tried to get people to get off the assortment assessment assuming and judgment. Fundamental there to try to get them to not be so judgmental and to when they assume. Why don't I don't have anybody can be judgmental about you Neil. I mean, because like I said, I think what I looked at you and I'm sorry, I've known who you were for a long time, obviously. Being a fan of your music, but as I've done more homework on you, knowing that we're going to have this conversation that intuitive side of you, the integrity side of you, again, knowing that you're not a perfect human being. I know you're a flawed human being, just like I am. But the fact that you try to mess that you try to intentionally get up every day and you try to do something and the fact that you've added value to the world means a lot to me. And you're a perfect guest for the show. And I think you've made that you've made the campsite better than you found it. And I think that's and you continue well. You're not done, but I think I don't think there's anything else we could ask to me that to me that that's an a plus in my book. Man, thanks. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. How can people learn more about three chords? And as I've said that, you go to you can see how much I drank. There you go. You go to three things you can see how much I drank in this episode. Very good. Everybody. If you want to know about the music ambassadorship program or any of the expressions in all the different taste profiles that I have through three chord bourbon, you go to three chord bourbon dot com. I just got to remember chords spelled like a guitar chord right up there. Yes, sir. See, Jordan. Yeah, guitar chord. And then you can read all about it. And then if there is musicians that want to see if they can join into our music ambas program, they can reach out. I have links to all that in this show notes, everybody. What a fantastic conversation, Neil. I knew this. You know, I've been doing this for almost, I'm in my tenth year, Neil, and this is why I do this show is because I get to talk to people like you. It's so much fun. This is the reason why I get up every day. And so there's such a fun conversation. Thank you. I enjoyed talking with you as well. You're very, very you have a lot of very interesting ways of saying and you're used on your use of the vocabulary. You should think about writing, if you're not writing already, you need to do. Yeah, I've had a lot of mentors saying to me, there's a book inside of me, and it's one of those thorns in my sides, Neil, that's like every day it's like hanging over my head like damn sword is like, why aren't I fucking right in this book? I'll give you let me help you with this. Let me tell you what I think you should try doing. Okay, here's what you got to do. Don't write a memoir. Don't do that. What you should write is a story. I never thought about that. Fiction. But insert your life and what you know in it, you can even be a character, but not necessarily be known to the people that are reading the book that you're a character in that story. But write it like that, so it has nothing to do with a memoir has nothing to do with maybe it has nothing to do with flying. Maybe that's only a secondary subject in the book somehow. And just do that. No one's ever given me that advice. So it's completely different than you're the first person that's given me that. And completely different than, yeah, because you think you're very, you're that clear and you've had a couple of drinks and free.
Dose of Leadership
"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"And they came out at the right time. It's MTB era. Why weren't they bigger hit than they were? I don't understand that. I don't know, I don't know. Scott Kepner is a really close, great friend of mine. I consider him my brother. And I did two records produced two records for the delawares and him and I wrote songs together. And in fact, I got a Christmas record. Hopefully coming out this year, holiday record, where him and I wrote some songs for brand new all original songs. It's about heart, heartbreak, heart, love foul, love, loss, the end of the year, not just Christmas stuff, but what happens to everybody's lives towards the end of the year, right? So if you want to hear brilliant words and greatness, listen to palm of the river by palm of the river, home of the river, yeah. I'm telling you, he's as close to genius as you're going to get as far as a songwriter goes in the lyricist. Sometimes I think maybe maybe they were just, they were too too deep. Maybe. But I don't know. I mean, those are the ones you produce, right? You didn't produce the first album, is that correct? Did you produce the first album or not? Yeah, you're right. No, I did. I think that just like great tooth and they fit into the era that they came out. I mean, there's no, I don't know. I don't know. The del fuegos were good too. They would always get those two bands up. There was a whole kind of sound that was going on with the two guitar players based drums, roots, Americana, I don't know what you would really want to call that. But I still love that. That's my point. I still love that sound. That's where Barron's whitfield comes from in the savages, has that too. And it's easy to listen to it. It's just, it's just fun to me because it's moving its rocket. I love swing jump blues. And I still listen to that all the time. So, you know, I don't, I don't really go deep into the modern world. Did you ever get to did you ever I love big Joe Turner, by the way? And did you ever get a chance to record with him at all? I don't see anything out in your nose. Did you ever meet him and talk with him? No, I didn't. No, I wish I met him too. I never met him. I actually patterned the record true love that I did the screen blues off of big Joe Turner in the room full of blues record they did call nitrate. They called it. Just because they had a certain sound to it. So I took the horn section from room full of blues and her drummer Frank Johnny Rossi, who was a brilliant guy. But he told me stories about big Joe, which were phenomenal. It's great. I mean, you listen to the shake rat and roll versions so much. It's the absolute best version of any shake rattle roll out there. Beats Elvis it beats. His name escaped me. Everybody. It just destroys it. You know? I love big Joe Turner. Well, it's 'cause it's got the risk. Oh yeah, the risque risque opening about the girl is silhouette and their dress and all that other stuff, yeah, that's really good. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. I love it. He's a great one. Man, Neil, it's so fun to talk to you. I'm looking at this. It's been an hour and ten minutes if you can believe it. Maybe it's the three chord strange collaboration that's made it go fast for me. Talk about everything that we wanted. I mean, I could talk to you for hours, but did we get everything that we wanted to talk about for the sake of our listeners that we get everything out? That's right. Yeah, we got the music ambassadorship. We got all that stuff. You got your somewhat weirdo leadership qualities that you think of that. You do have them, brother, you do have to do it. You do have, I mean, just the fact that you have this, you raised a great family, you married, you stayed true to your ideals. And I mean, again, it wasn't perfect. I'm kidding myself. I'm sure within those, I don't even know how many years you've been married, but 30, 40 years, you've been married. It had to be fraught with challenges and raising those kids because this has been with me, you know? And I was even perfect. Of course. The fact that you know, I'll say this one thing though, I'll say I'm going to pass this along because I try to get this out there, everybody I talked to. And I tried to get people to do less of this too. There is an assumption plus judgment equals X, right? So people assume something about someone that he immediately judged them, and for most of the times what percent do you think they're wrong? A 100%, right? Now that's only if you imagine that the judgment is a negative judgment. And for the most times it is negative. You know, I mentioned this a lot too. And this is the thing that's always been, it's been a little bit weird for me, you know? And hurtful at times. Is that people assume something. Say, say you watch a movie or while you watch a certain actor actress. And they play the bad guy or the bad girl, right? You immediately assume, somehow, and some weird sick cat of yours, not you, but in just in general, that that person is probably oh jeez I never want to meet them. It's going to be a complete idiot. When you meet that person, the nicest person you probably have and nicest actor you've ever met. You've seen some of those comedians happy guys, girls, whatever, hey, and you go to meet them and they're like, wow, not happy at all. Yeah, miserable and weird. In my world, people assume something.
Dose of Leadership
"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"Here right now. Yeah, you can make your body do anything, but you got to convince your mind that you can't. So, I mean, it's the truth. There's so many. You know what, the one thing that I got to say that you have to have as much as you have all this self doubt, you have to have the drive to think that she's still can somehow try to. Yeah, you know, the idea that it's like you got to believe it, even though you physically don't feel it. Does that make sense? I know that is for me. Of course. Because sometimes I can feel I can wake up and I could be like, what I doing? Nobody's listening to this. Whatever. And I can talk myself out of it. But we talked about gratitude earlier in the show. If I go back to that, it re centers me and even though I don't feel it, I'll say it, if that makes sense. I'll say what I don't feel. And if I say that correct, at least it gets me through the day sometimes. I hear you. I'll tell you, you know, also I got to hear is dig if you will, the picture, you know, when doves cry by prince and I just, you know, when I find myself in triumphs of trouble, mother Mary Kate just saying, okay, what am I doing? I even be doing this job. Come on, what are you nuts? What the heck am I? I love that. You feel like so is that the priority calling is to help these kind of up and coming musicians? Is that what you see your purposes at the moment? Is that the number one priority? All musicians. Yeah, I've always did all musicians. I just have a play. I consider myself lucky. Yeah. You know, when a luckiest people on the planet, you know, and they give back is not about. No, I don't feel guilty. Coming out of that. You know what I mean? No, no, no. I'm not guilty at all. But if I'm able to do all this and given this, why can't I help somebody if there's something that I can do or say that's going to change people's lives? I mean, why not offer that to them? And I know listen, you know, I keep saying this all the time. There's probably thousands of Hank Williams that are in the basement of their house that can't get out of the basement of a brilliant writers. The next Bob Dylan, Cole Porter. Irving Berlin to all over the place. You don't know where they're at. They're struggling. Who knows? You know? Yeah. I want to expose them. That's always, that's always bothered me. I was talking about the life about that the other day. I was like, it just bothers me that there's so many freaking talented artists out there and you never would know. I mean, I guess it's been the challenge and the problem forever, right? I mean, just because you have a hit single, doesn't mean you're talented, you know, for every one hit wonder, there's a thousand extremely talented musicians that are struggling in the basement like you said to your point. And it's like, yeah, I like to expose them to people and help them, you know, the other thing too is I tell people to in music is that, you know, music is any career is a golf anything. You can think of it as a hand and you have fingers, right? So you're a musician, you want to play in front of a 100,000 people and you play you want to play stadiums. Well, if that doesn't work out, you could be a songwriter. If that doesn't work out, you to be a producer. That doesn't work out. You could be a film composer. That doesn't work out. You can be a manager. That doesn't work out. You can be an agent. You can, you know, this on and on and on and on, you can develop software that helps musicians. I mean, there's all kinds of ways to have a successful life may not be that way. Maybe I think honestly, I think I've come to this late in life, but I do think that I never looked at myself as a creative. I do think I'm more creative than I am. I always saw myself as kind of an operational guy. I think that I'm not. I think I'm more creative than I am operational. And I do think that the answer to a lot of these challenges that we face as a society or what the world, it's all around the arts. It's all around the creatives. I don't know. That's what I'm thinking about. Yeah, I think everybody. Absolutely. Even the way you frame your words and sentences in your thoughts, you're extremely creative. You know, I don't know if you're a writer if you write much, but you should. And I think everybody. I think everybody has been agreed. It gets bogged down with administration and, like you say, and doing things. You know, you know, the endorphins that you get from writing words, writing music, writing books, writing screenplays, that's a lot of endorphins. It's the same thing as hitting the three point shot that's going to win the game. It's all the same. It is weird about music though, how, like I said, remember it's telling you earlier how I all sit there and. I call him goosebump moments like I was telling you about. I'll find songs and I'll just find that goosebump moment. I'll listen it over and over again. I don't lie. And I think that's why in movies and stuff too, the cinematic and how music is just so important. And I don't know. I wish I could. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, music and music and film can wow, I can really bring out the, if you're trying for a heartache, it can really break your rip your heart out if you do the right cue. And all of our stone on my show a couple weeks ago. And we were talking about the movie platoon. You know, I know that song has been using a lot of movies, but I was, as I was doing my homework, I rewatched platoon and I've seen platoon probably 30 times. It was a huge movie for me when I watched it, but strings from adagio. I don't even know the exact name. But there's a string from adagio and where they're burning the village and that song. I'm like, good lord, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's powerful. If you take like another war movie, the deer hunter at the end of the deer hunter when they have that beautiful acoustic guitar and a beautiful somber thing and they're all around and man. Who are the artists that you're who are the artists you're digging right now. I mean, who are you listening to? Well, you know, I drift all over the place. I like this. I go back. Sometimes, you know, you could get bogged down with the complexity of so many things going on in music. Sometimes you just want to hear some sort of raw moment, you know? And you know, people talk about rock being dead, you know, because everything is, you know, you're walking down the street and you got an 18 year old kid in the car and he's reciting words from some rap, you know, from wrapped guys out there that I don't know if he understands what they're talking about, but he's saying it, right? So, you know, I try to be all over the place. You know, I still, I still love opera. I still love a pavarotti. I listen, I listen to him. I listen to this band beren's whitfield in the savages. They're around a couple of years back. Yeah, they're fun. They're real simple, just great players and fun stuff. I did a record. I did two records for a band called the devil. Oh, man. I was like yes, I forgot that I'm glad you brought them up. I can't figure out why they weren't bigger than they were. You listened to a Dell lord's song, I mean, it is so upbeat, it's fun. It reeks of having a good time. And they came out at the right time. It's MTB era. Why weren't they bigger hit than they were? I don't understand that..
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"You know that when you hear that negative self talk, that limiting belief saying, oh, you suck. And I'm sure you've walked in the situations where you're like, what the fuck am I doing in here? If they only knew how unprepared I was, or how, right? How do you how do you deal with those limiting beliefs and self doubt? How do you deal with. I don't know they don't go away, you know? I don't consider myself no, I consider myself an average guitar player. I'm an average thing and a lot of things. I don't consider myself, you know, being in any of those keyboard writing producing nothing. I could always come up with somebody else that does something better. And it is, it's really, really difficult. It's really difficult. And I got to tell you this thing happened, this is where drive comes from, I believe. This is what it really is about to me. And it's tough. It's tough, you may not think that, but it's really tough because I consider so many people so much better than I am. I mean, I can't even watch YouTube some of those guitar players. I mean, I just go, oh my God, this guy's crazy. I shouldn't even play that. I listen to some of these key points. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, all the time. I listen to someone who's great records. I go, jeez, I'll never produce a record like that. You know, all the time. You're only as good as the thing you just, you know, the next thing you're going to do. You forget, I don't have one gold record hanging in my house. And I got a lot of them. I got platinum triple platinum quadruple platinum. I don't have one hanging in the house. It doesn't mean anything to me at all. Zero. Absolute zero. So here's the thing. You never underestimate the chip on the shoulder. You know, and I love, I love the rocky movie, you know? The original rocky, it's basic, really basic, but right to the point. When he tells and I'll tell you the story and then you'll see what I'm saying with this. When he tells, he talks to Adrian and he says, you know, you'll know that stuff they said about me on TV and I said it didn't matter. And then Adrian says, yeah, he goes, it did. Now that is a turning point in that movie because that's when he said it did bother me. You know, pretend it, right? So here's the thing. 1978, I just finished a record with Rick daringer. And it was great. I played more piano than guitar on the record too, which is. Which is cool because I like being a lot, so I did it. I finished it. And there was a manager there. System manager, he wasn't the main guy, but he was an assistant one. What is this going on here? Hold on one second. Okay. So I finished doing my part on the record and they needed two more songs, but they didn't need a man. Need me anymore. So the one guy won't mention his name says, you know what? How would you like a free ticket back to Cleveland? Like being a smart ass. And I said, I said, um, interesting. I go, okay, sure. I'll take a ticket back. So as I'm getting ready to leave, this is all in my book that I'm writing because of the unbelievable universe in the way it works is just I just, I can't understand how it all goes, but it does. On my way leaving to get my free ticket back to Cleveland. I get a call that says there's somebody that signed a record deal. It wants to put a band together and wants to know if I can meet this person. And I says, well, I'm on my way back to Cleveland and the guy tells me he says, listen, if it doesn't work out, I just want you to meet this person. If you guys, if it doesn't work out, I'll get you a ticket the next day. I'll put you in a hotel. He says, but what about if it works out? He goes, are you willing to stay? And I go absolutely. Well, you got to know who that person was. So what happened is I put the band together. We form a partnership a business or a musician partnership. We end up making this great record. The record gets done. And now the manager says, for Rick diner just says, so when you coming back, I says, I'm not coming back, but you're going to see me again. So what I did was on one of the very first second tour that we went out, we were playing arenas. I had one of his band open up for us. So I did it so I can walk the hallways and see him walk the hallways so he could just see me walk in. Just so he has a little idea of next time I wouldn't be offering anybody free tickets to Cleveland would be in a smart ass like that. I don't think that worked out really well for you. And I never went back with them. So I love that story. I love that. Yeah. Well, but that was a chip on my shoulder. I had a chip on my shoulder. That says, okay. All right, is that what you want to do? Okay. Yeah, the power of the chip on the shoulder, it can be a great number. It can be a great motivator. And it is about the tenacity, right? I mean, how many times this has come up in this show, what we've talked to people. And it's less about the talent and it's all about the never quitting. The tenacity of never giving up. Correct. Absolutely. You know what? Vince Lombardi says, he says, we've never lost a game. We just ran out of time. You know, that's what you got. I've talked to I've talked to so many entrepreneurs here, people who have accomplished some very significant things in life. I could tell you how many times people have said it's like, you know, I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. I wasn't the richest. I didn't have the best resources. It's just that I didn't quit and this guy next to me did. That's the only reason.
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"I mean, leadership is influenced, nothing more nothing less, right? That's what leadership is and how do you influence somebody. That's interesting. When you were say you're working for Rick Springfield and making those great albums and coming up with Jesse's girl and everything else, did you know you were doing that? Did you know consciously that you had to say, for example, influence Rick and Mike Baird to come up with these type of things? Or you were just kind of just in the moment, just like, I just want to create a kick ass song. I was just in a moment, but C and B, it's so assertive. What's the right word for it? The confidence. My confidence level was so strong. You know, for instance, when I did Jesse's girl, I had a number one album. I was writing something. So you were confident. You were like, I know what I'm doing. I am like, I am a musician. I know this shit. Nobody knows it better than me. That's what you're walking in there with. That kind of that gravitas you're walking in there with, yeah, okay. Correct. Correct. So no one you're going to be that guy that's going to make that shot to three pointer when there's one second left. You know you're going to make it. You know, you want to be in those positions. That's kind of, that's kind of, I live for that, you know? And it's not until I didn't do it. I don't do it intentional to say, I want this person to please me. That's not in it. Because you want the best, what you're doing, you're trying to get the best record and the best performances from everybody. And I got to tell you, the other thing is, is that if you have to ask yourself when somebody says many times people would say to me, well, what do you think of this song? Do you think it's going to be hit if I would say, yeah, I think it's going to, I think so, yeah. What do you think that's telling you? I'd say it. I don't believe it's going to happen. That's right. When I say this is a hit, I guarantee it, people listen. And I won't, you can't fool yourself. You can't kid yourself. So it's really important. When you're there with that confidence, I guess when you look back at it now with the marination and the wisdom and the experience, were you the shit? I mean, were you where that guy or were you just kind of, do you see what I'm saying? I mean, it's because to me, you look like a guy that how do I say this? To me, why I think you're so great and why you've been so successful, Neil, is that you have a humble teachable spirit, but you have this intensity of will, and that intense that intensity of will with the humble teachable spirit and where that then diagram intersects, that is the sweet spot. And I think that's where you live your life. And I think that's where you were when you were like, you know, when you're producing the albums with you and your wife, when you're producing Jesse's girl with risk Springfield, I think that's where you were at. That's interesting. I don't know, what do you think when you hear me say that? It's interesting because no, you actually hit it right on. I mean, dead on. You see, as much as I was assertive and knowing what I want and still to this day, knowing what I want, all I'm thinking is, damn, why can't I be like prince? Why can't I have one dubs cry? What a brilliant club. You know, why can't why can't I write let it be? What's the matter with me? You know? Why couldn't I write imagine? Why couldn't I produce? All those things. So I'm never, I've never thinking, I'm never thinking I'm that guy, you know? You know, will is really important. Use that word will, because, you know, you never tried to break the will of someone, ever. You know, like resolution to me is a great word. It's an important word. You know, when you talk about leadership too, you know, I like to be loud and purpose, but not in volume. You know, purpose is more important. Yeah, and if you want to truly make things, you want to make something great, you know, you don't want to break the will of somebody. You know, you're looking for a resolution. You're looking for something to get accomplished. You know, when people talk about fair deals, I'd say this a lot 'cause it's really important. It's a real basic thing. You know, when you do a deal with somebody and you both walk away and say it is a fair deal. It's really elementary, right? When you think about it. But in truth, when you have a fair deal, you're given something away. But you're also getting back, how could you, how could you live and how could you make a record? How could you make anything where you don't feel both parties feel they had a fair deal? Yeah. You can't. You can't. You have resentment you can't have that. It's got to be clean. You know? I know exactly what you did. Yeah, that's amazing. This is so fun to talk about this. So let's just go stay on Jesse's girl for a minute because it's such an amazing song. An amazing moment. So when you're in there in the studio with them, are Rick and Mike looking to you for guidance or are they saying, no, I know the way, did you see what I'm saying? I mean, when you're there, are they like, what do you think? I guess Rick was brand new, I guess. He really had to have a hit up until that point. I mean, he had some modicum of success, but is he looking? Yeah, I think it was a collective. I think it was a collective. See, we were all in the room together, Rick had his little vocal booth going, Mike with his drum kit right there and I was guitar. The Trinity of triangle. And again, I think it was everybody, everybody getting on to pick it up everybody else is confidence. You know, pick the right temple, the right feel, you know, when I first heard the song and we were talking, I said, you know, we need a middle agent there, you know, we're going to need to expand that instrumental part, make it mean something. Let's make a solo where it sings. It has melody just as strong as the song, because the part of the guitar part that I would do if there's a solo. I want the solo to be an extension of the vocal so people can actually sing the melody of the guitar solo rather than it just being 16 measures of look how good I can play or whatever. I'm not interested in that. I want it to be a melody. So it's people don't get bored. So all that and they're picking up on a confidence and stuff and Rick. He was playing the song very stiff, like when he started writing it, it was very Stephanie. He says, it reminded him of like an eagle stigma was not that that's wrong. It was just a very tight. And I said, it's got a swing more. So he was playing the same part. But when I started playing, I was like, did it? All of a sudden had the swing. Might be in a great drummer. He just starts laying in it. I'm now following him. Everybody's following each other. It was a collective thing. One person. So Amy, I wish that's just so cool to me. From an outsider looking again, that would have been so amazing. I mean, Mike, good lord, look at his career. We call the guys he's played with. Good God. Oh, he's great. He's great. You know, and you know I did a record in New York with John waite. It was called ignition. He had a great day. We put a great band together for him. Boy, what a bunch of talented guys too. And you know, it's just great. I love produce. You know, I've worked with a ton of people and it's just so great when you can just, I don't know, you don't have to say, I think it's good when you kind of go, yeah, you know what? What about walking? I talk about that on this show a lot. We've talked about this limiting beliefs and self doubt. I mean, we all have them, right? I mean, if we're a 100% honest. I mean, even today, woke up, you're in the shower, you probably said some negative things. That you probably would never say to anybody else. And the moment that I got comfortable with that, that like, okay, it's never going to go away. And honestly, Neil's from doing the show and talking to people like yourself, it's like, we can never goes away. And you just kind of embrace it and get comfortable. And you know that that's not you..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"And it's a thing I'm learning, I'm trying to get better at from the music part I get, I get, but the other part, you know, listen, it's a growth we all have to take. If we want to get better, we have to learn how to do better at it. And it never stops, right? I mean, I mean, your kids are never stopped. I'm curious about how, you know, what was it? How did you change as a father and a husband going through this? I mean, it's amazing. Having a successful family, having all those things, how did you and again, not that it was a balancing act, but I mean, how much of it did it change? I look back. I mean, I've been married. I'll be married 30 years in October, and my kids, they're basically grown. But I just, I wish I would have known what I knew right now, you know, what I had those little ones when they were so different. I look at myself at how immature I was as a leader as a husband and a father. And now, I mean, my kids turned out okay. Well, you know what I mean? I wish I would have had that. I guess everybody kind of wishes they had that wisdom and knowledge at this point, but what were you going to say? Of course. Well, I break it down into this. I used to say that in order to have a successful relationship in most things and in relationships and, you know, family stuff is you needed one person passive one person be assertive. I used to believe that, right? Well, I was wrong. I was wrong in that. You know, in my life, as the musician and in the studio, I was the sort of guy. I was that guy. I wasn't a dictator, but I was sort of guy, said, we're going to do it. We're going to start at 10 o'clock, and we're going to do it. We're going to finish it and this is how we're going to go. And this is what we're going to do to get it there, right? Various sort of. And then when I walked out of that studio, I was mister passive. And I realized that that was wrong. In relationships, both people have to be assertive. And both people have to be passed, you know, have the passive as well. And they have to be able to communicate and properly like that. So I was wrong with that. Like you said, you wish you would have known stuff now that you don't use it later before. I mean, but that goes with everything, right? So again, I wish I would have bought every Les Paul that was made in 1957 to 59. That doesn't happen, right? So, but I did have that philosophy. I don't believe it was real. You know, there's a part of thing I can tell you too about being a producer too, which is an interesting thing. Because as a producer, which I feel as though I am more of a producer than I am, I'm a musician, of course. Right, but you like the producing primary. You like to produce, because it involves everything. I have to be part. Artist, I have to be a part of engineer. I have to be, you know, all those things, philosopher, I have to use philosophy. I have to do all those things. And I have to know what I want to get in the end. But there's a really interesting thing about a producer. And I followed a lot of the great ones like Sam Phillips and Rick hall, certainly George Martin and it goes all the way down the list. So many that were great is that in order to be a great producer, you have to have those musicians and artists whoever you're working with there. Have to want to please you. Now, I mean, it's not narcissistic. No. It's not what I'm talking about. But, you know, when you do something where they really have to work hard with a really pleasing example is this. Richard, you're going into studio. And you're trying to sing a bit. You're not quite getting it. And I says, you know what? You have to find another way to get it. If you don't get it, I'll have to get somebody else. You please, you can do this. You're going to work really hard to get it, and then when I say to you, Richard, that was phenomenal. I've never heard you sound better. And I'm telling the truth, that's truly one of the greatest things you ever say. What did you just did? What did you just do, did? What am I talking about? What did you just do? You wanted to please me. Because in the end it's pleasing you as well. So if you don't have that component and you don't have that respect, you'll never be able to produce a record. That's interesting. I guess I kind of, I guess I kind of, thinking about that, I would know that, but the amount of influence that you have to have as a producer. That is a total leadership. I mean, that's a 100% leadership role. You think about the great producers Clive Davis, all those guys and how they extracted the talent out of these people. Correct. Right. And you have.
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"And that's the reason I have tattoos because as a kid, I just love that he had that anchor at his forearm. And he was such a very colorful guy. I had a lot of stories. He told me once. He said, I don't know. When I was like 14 or something, he goes, he goes, and he goes, I've thought of every way possible to not work for a living and make money. He says, don't be a musician. Thinking that, you know, it's not working, right? It's kind of right about that because work is something that, you know, I don't feel I've worked a day in my life being a musician. But that's not what he meant. That's exactly true what you said about business. Because here how it goes. In order to be a writer, a player, creator, whatever that is, you use a one side of your brain. The other side goes dormant, right? Because if you allow that part of that administration part of your brain to enter in, you're shut down. You've lost it. So through this music ambassadorship program, I have through three chord, is that we teach people how to use the business because unfortunately, when you talk about music, what do you say, the music business? Right. I mean, you don't usually say, are you in the music? No, you're in the music business, right? So, but people failed to recognize that it's a business. So through the music ambassadorship program, we teach them how to how to go into a club and we build a network too, by the way. This is a phenomenal thing. As is grows, all these music ambassadors know each other. They support the brand of three chord bourbon, we support them, we get them three quart stages, they know how to talk to the club owners, they know how to talk to their venues, they know how to talk to the people. So we teach them all those things, and you know what they're telling me now. They're saying, if I wasn't the music ambassador, I wouldn't have been able to get in the 70s venues that I've been always wanting to get into. And besides, I was getting before I was getting $300 a night some places I had to pay them. He says, now we're them now we're getting paid. We're making like 5 times more money now. So that's part of the business part. So we try to teach them that. And then I have an open line for mentoring, if anybody has a question thought problem, I'll be happy to talk to them if they need the help. So the infrastructure of this music business ambassadorship program is great to me. I love it. I love it. That's amazing. It's just a fantastic thing. How does that make you feel when you hear that from somebody that's like, they went from having to pay to get on the stage, now they're getting paid three to four times more than how does that make you feel? I love it. It makes me feel phenomenal. I mean, who wouldn't want to be me? I mean, this is a great feeling that comes back to me. You know, when you write a song, you're not writing the song to piss somebody off to make them hate or whatever, you know, you're writing a song to try to lift people up, give them hope. As a musician, you have to have empathy. If you don't have empathy as a musician, you can't be one. Absolutely. You know, musicians are over sensitive, too. You know, it's just what we are. And we'll be right back after this message. Hey, you're like me, you're wanting to improve your health, but never sure where to start. With thousands of health strategies available, identifying which one works for your body is difficult. I know it has been for me until I found met pro. According to met pro the key to seeing results is mastering your metabolism at met pro your metabolism isn't some mystery..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"With acting. So that's a story, but in the middle is an interview portion. I love that. Are you so right? So everybody has a story and bringing that to. I've always wanted to make documentary films too and me and a local buddy here. We kind of have this kind of quasi dream of putting things to film too. I guess I know there's a lot of people that want to do that, but I'm with you. Like so many, I've always wanted to I've traveled a lot when I was based in LA when I flew with American. I hate to drive back and forth from John Wayne to LA and I took a lot of ubers, and that's about an hour drive or hour ride from John Wayne to LAX or whatever. Man, the stories I would get from these drivers, I bought, if I could have a camera and a microphone, listen to these guys, your stories. And on some of them could come from Iran and they immigrated to Venezuela in the 70s illegally and then they made it to the United States and then oh my God, like you couldn't even make up these stories. Everybody's got a story. And that's what makes America great to all the diversity. I mean, it's fantastic. But the story. I'll tell you a plain thing. I mean, I'm way past the 2 million mile club. You know, I've been all over the place, right? For 45 years, right? So I remember going on a flight, I can't remember was it was a fairly good sized plane. And all of a sudden, the pilot comes out. He says, can I talk to you for a minute? I go, sure. I mean, yeah, I'll talk to you whenever you go, come outside the cockpit. Now, this was about, I don't know, 12 years ago. And you couldn't go in the cockpit. You know, you're not supposed to be going up there. He says, you got to come in here. He had a telecaster. He had a guitar up there. No kidding with him, and he was playing it. So he showed it to me. We were talking guitars and things. So there's a story, you know? And he told me about his, you know, he loved these surf punk bands and I told him, you know, I knew a lot of them in players and stuff. So, I mean, it's just amazing how things just fall where they have to fall. I know. So, okay, so you've sat there. The musician being that has been the driving force and created for us. You've created so many great things. You've moved in this there. Are you still got a lot of life to live? Where do you see this? I mean, what is the dreams to the next ten years? What are you hoping to accomplish? Well, I have a lot of things. I love things. I'm going to put I'm going to talk about three chord bourbon because this is really important. And I'd like to see happen with that. And why you do this, I don't know if you can see it. I can see it. I can see it. Yeah, definitely pork picked that in just a nice nose on that one too. Yeah, it's very good. The penal part comes on beautiful on that. What I like to do with the three chord bourbon company is get it to where. We're everywhere. As a professional spirits company should be. And people are enjoying it. They're respecting the moment. They're engaging in conversation, but I want the company to be known from a philanthropy fundamental. In other words, I would like to have that company do great make lots of money and I want to take it and I want to have a, I want to be the philanthropist behind the three chord bourbon musical give back and do something that I can really help and support musicians all over the world because it's a thing I know there's a lot of heartbreak. There's a heartbreak and everybody's careers, but you know being a musician I've seen it. I've seen people die from overdoses or doses I've seen people's families get destroyed. People not be at home with their families. I mean, it's a horrible thing. That's a really tough business. And it even got tougher with the digital world that's going on now. So I mean, that's what I like to have happening. You know, I like to be able to travel the country through seminars, speak to folks, give them hope, inspire elevate, and be part of that philanthropy program. And this is part of the value that you can add is, again, there are a couple of things there. You're right. It's probably a lot different than it was say in 1981. With the advent of MTV, or it's hard to make money in the music business now, I'd imagine, right? I mean, it's so hard. I was watching this opening act that the RO speedwagon concert last night was levon, great group from Nashville. I don't know if you've, if you've listened to leave on and look at how young they are and they talk, they talked a little bit on stage about how challenging it is, right? And is that part of what we really heard? When you hear, go ahead. Yeah, but go ahead. No, you go ahead and finish it I'll explain why. Well, I was going to say is part of your philanthropy piece. Is it that is that, okay, let me help you navigate. Because if you're going to be a musician, let me tell you the reality here, brother. God bless you. If the muse of the angels of God has put to be a musician, you're calling, live it out. But here's some realities here. And here's how some things you gotta think about. You gotta be a businessman too in addition to being a musician. Is that part of your philanthropy? You hit it right on the head and I got to tell you this, my Uncle Sam, who was one of my favorite uncles who went into the navy when he came out of the navy. He never was on another boat again..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"Wrong place. Maybe I missed my calling. Maybe I should have been a music, but maybe I should have done a pilot. Yeah. But listen to, like, I was listening to your, again, revisiting your stuff. And of course, I've been familiar stuff for the years for years, but revisiting it and kind of dissecting it like that. I think and I was always a Van Halen fan when I was growing up in the 80s, I don't know, 7th grade, and 81, how old I was. 78, Van Halen came out. I was always a Van Halen fan, and I remember I had a buddy who played guitar and. He told me, and I remember listening to Van Halen and he said that what was it, Steve vai, I think, was it Steve fi Steve vice said, you know, I guess he played with David Lee Roth, and he was talking about, yeah, you know, I couldn't play, I could play Eddie's stuff, but my problem was, is that Eddie and Alex were always so tied together and Eddie played to Alex's drums or vice versa. And when I was listening, I think I was listening to, I was listening to your stuff, Jesse's girl, and I was listening to your stuff like that. It's like you play with the drums. If that makes sense, like you play with the drums. And Eddie Van Halen does it, like Adam Jones from tool does it with Danny Carey. I don't know if you ever listen to Adam Jones, but Adam Jones does it with Danny Carey. And I love listening to that. And as I was listening to like all your stuff, but particularly the Jesse's girl, I noticed that it seemed like you were playing with, it's like you're a drummer or something. I don't know, does that make sense? Correct. It makes absolute sense that I can tell you why. You're exactly right. And I do play drums. I base everything around rhythm, right? So even when I was starting off as playing a guitar player, I wanted to be a great rhythm player. So I play guitar like a drummer. It's because I play inside all those beats that are going on. You know, I'm just like another part of that drum kit. And the other thing is, is that when I record tracks, I recorded on a buddy system. Guitar and drums only and vocals. No base and okemo base. I add that later. So it turned drums. What happens is if I mess up, we have to do it again. If the drummer messes up, we do it again. We both have to be in together, or I won't save that track. So it's all about playing inside. That's why all the things I've done. If you listen, you'll notice that real heavy rhythm stuff that's going on. I did a song. I did a session for a friend of my name is Danny font heiser. He was a great drummer. And it was an Asian guy. Actually, a big in Japan. Huge. He's got a huge band. The bees, they're called the bees. And Danny wanted me to play on the record. So I played on and he's listening, I get dumb and he goes, oh, that's great. And then he calls me like two days later and he goes, what were you doing on that thing? I go, what are you talking about? So I hope you like it. He goes, I love it, but you were like, you and the drums are like, it's like having 6 drummers going on there. I said, that's what I'm glad you got it, because that's what I was trying for. That's what I like to do, you know? Well, that makes sense. Well, I was just thinking about that. I think Eddie Van Halen started, I think the story goes, he played drums too. He started out as a drummer. And Alex Annie played the keyboard and you played the keep, right? Same thing. Keyboard drums and then you switch to guitar. That's interesting. Understanding drums can make your really great rhythm and lead guitarist too. That's amazing. Yeah, it's when people ask me, I like to have what is the source of production arranging and all that type of thing. It's really rhythm. That's what I'm trying to create some kind of really moving rhythm. Established in a song. Yeah. Very important. It's amazing stuff. The sound too, again, I wish I was a wish I was a guitar technophile. I'm not. I'm a total amp, I'm just a consumer in envious of watching the sound, but the sound too. I like the, I don't even know about the word going back to Van Halen again, but I think he caught like the brown sound, but you have kind of like a brown or dirty, dirty sound. If that makes sense, I was listening to a lot of the stuff on the pat benatar stuff. I mean, it's really, it's like, I don't know, does that make sense? I mean, is that intentional too? Or is that just kind of happening? It's just happens. It just happens, but I know people use colors sometimes they talk about sounding colors. I don't talk about sound and colors. I do it more as a cinematic approach. In other words, when I listen to a song, I see I see like where the drums are, the reverb is the vocals, the harmonies, the keyboard part, guitar parts, solo. I see things out of cinematic scope rather than a sound thing. I know a lot of people say, you know, could you make it more blue or, you know? I got more red. I've never done that. More cinematic. Things are in their place for a reason. I have them there for purposes. I love that. When you're writing your screenplay and I'm excited to see this. So what pushed that? I mean, what are you hoping to accomplish creating visually a movie? What are you trying to get out there? Well, what I'm trying to get with this particular and I have a lot of, I have regular regular films, ideas, and episodic shows and things of that nature. But this was I never did a documentary before. But what I want to get out of this is I want to elevate those friends and musicians and get their stories because everybody has a story. And there's some, there's some pretty wild stories of somebody's guys that one direction took them to a different place in their life, you know? You know, there's a great story about a guy. He was phenomenal singer and writer and he was driving home a night and he got in a car wreck and he hit a fence and a pole went through his face and came out the other side of his neck and he lived and he's got an amazing story. I mean, I want to bring light to those folks and at the same time what's interesting because it's a hybrid. There's a story component on each side of it. So they're middle is the interviews I do in them and strange locations throughout northern and middle aisle. And on either side of the beginning and end is a.
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"You have to, you have to let it go. It's got to disappear. Yeah. That's really interesting. That does resonate with me as a pilot. I mean, I think when I think about to fly in those most challenging situations, that's exactly what we have to do. If you're thinking about it, it's wrong. You know, if you're thinking about it, you're not doing as good. It's like you've got to feel it. I don't know. That's right. It's weird. Oh, you know, speaking of being a pilot, you know, I've done tours where I had private jets and things, right? And I remember the first time we had a little party in the pilots, the two pilots were there, and they were getting hammered. They're drinking and drinking up to cheese. This is unbelievable. So I went up to them, and I said, I don't mean to be rude. I said, but do you guys always drink like that? He goes, let me just tell you something. If you need a pilot and you don't see him drinking, then you got a promise. That's probably true. And that is a really good analogy. If you don't see him drinking, you got a problem. As long as it's 12 hours bottle to throttle, that's the rules, right? So as long as I'm 12 hours, but yeah, that's right. I certainly did my share of drinking in the Marine Corps when I flew in the Marine Corps I did so much. So much drinking around the globe. It was kind of like living like a rockstar. You got paid per diem, you're an exotic locale. You just, I'm like living like a rockstar. I tried to live like a rockstar anyway. Yeah. So good. Yeah, I don't know. You know, you know, I got home rockstar thing. You know, to me, I would never, I never felt like that. I always felt myself as a musician. We're here to write songs and make records for people and really change their lives. Well, that's the again, it goes back to the integrity piece I was talking about. And again, looking at your life and again, it's not like when I talk about integrity, it's not like you're in the same thing with me. I try to live my life with integrity too. Authenticity might be a companion word with that. Authentic transparent authentic transparent and vulnerable, the kind of the things that I try to intentionally do because there's so much power in that. And I don't know, and it's not that it's not that we try to be deceptive, I think it's like it's getting out of your own way. It's probably like I suppose as you came up as an artist and a musician, you know, you hear about every artist musician, they're trying to find their way. They're kind of copying somebody else. They're mimicking somebody else. They're doing well, this is what I think a rockstar should do or a musician should do. I think a guitar player should do it and then eventually you find your voice as you kind of embrace your authenticity, right? Does that make sense? It kind of does. It kind of does. Let me just give you a little different perspective from my point of view. When I first started becoming a musician, I wanted to be a great player, but I didn't I learned early on I wasn't going to be a virtuoso. So and it didn't make me change my direction. But when I heard heartbreak hotel, Elvis Presley on my parents Wi-Fi, Hi-Fi. High 5. I was called Hi-Fi not wife. The mother and it was my mother playing the record because she loved Elvis. You know, I was walking down lonely street, heartbreak hotel. And I was listening to the production in that record. Without even knowing what I was really doing, thinking, where's that rich base comes from? Why is that reverb sound? So the depth of that. So I started becoming a producer early on. So with as being a musician, I tried to find different ways to get inside a song. In other words, I learned to solve, but I try to come up with different parts inside of it. So it was a little, it has a little different spin from where I was sitting there. That's interesting. Yeah. If that makes sense. It does make sense. It's very interesting. I kind of relate to that because when I listen to music, it drives my wife crazy. And my kids, like sometimes I'll be, I've always played songs, and I'll always sometimes up, listen to this part again, like I'll rewind it, and it drives in crazy. I'm like, listen, okay, this part like right here, listen, I always try to find the goosebump parts, right? And I'm like, and they can't hear what I'm talking about. They can't hear what I'm talking about. I'm like, listen to how that base player does this. So I think I understand what you're saying. I think I kind of dissect what you do. Maybe I dissect songs. No, because what happens is you're in a job that has to do with detail and what's the other word. Detail and make a bad mistake and you got tragedy. So you're constantly your vision is very sharp. You have to be. That's what you are. You know, if you have a dull vision for you, you're not going to be a great pilot. So in order to be a producer and be a successful one or make records where they translate to what your artists and yourself is thinking, you have to pay attention to those details. But at the same time, if you try to get two insight and you try too hard to get that, you won't get it. Just like ready to solve. If you want to try, if you're trying too hard, you're just in the wrong place at that moment. That's not to say you shouldn't do it every day..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"Know that that's a huge part of you. So is that, and for him, it was the blues, and when he watched Ed Sullivan in 64, that was when he said, okay, I got to be in this rock and roll rope. What was it for you? What was The Rock and roll book for you? Okay, there's quite a few things, but let's see. When I was very young, we were good my mother would take my sister and I to woolworths and we can buy anything we wanted for $1. So what they had is for 99 cents, you can get 45s records, 45s, and you would get like about ten, ten or 11, and there and they would sealed and cellophane. What I didn't know now that what I know now, but I didn't know then, is they were cut outs and I had no idea. And for people that don't understand the music business and what a cutout is, it's the free goods. So they would wrap up these free goods. They weren't supposed to sell and they would sell them for a dollar for ten or 11 of these 45s. So inside these 45s were songs by people, I'd never seen them before. I didn't know what they looked like, who they were, but I liked it. I mean, there was a gene pitney in there. There was Chuck Berry and there's John Lee Hooker in there. There was bull moose Jackson in there. So there was a mixture of rhythm and blues swing blues, real blues, pop, rock everything, the brunette trio was in there. I remember on coral records. So there were so many things. I would just put them on. And I would just play to them, you know? Just play guitar to them. I had no idea who they were, right? But before that kind of or around that whole kind of time, my uncle Timmy, who was only 5 years older, four or 5 years older than me, sort of lived with my family because my grandfather passed away, so he came to live with my family. Since he was the older brother, more or less, he brought in the British invasion when they came out. So all of a sudden I was listening to The Yardbirds and then eventually brought by myself. So, you know, he was a huge inspiration and he kind of brought he took the Sicilian songs notched up to a whole different level, right? So he brought me into The Rock and roll world and in fact he was a singer in my very first band. And I was like 12 years old. That's very cool. And then the other person I have to mention is my cousin skeeter because cousin skater was on his way to Nam. And he came to the house and he had this red guitar. And I remember he was going all over all up and down the neck on this thing, and I was watching him. I'm going. Wait a minute. How do you do that? I only play in this one like first position thing. And then my mother saw that. And as soon as she left, she says, you should never play by ear. You got to read the notes. You can't play by ear. Well, I played by ear. Yeah. 'cause it's skater. He taught me. He taught me what I should do with that. So that's how he was another person that was influential. That's kind of what I mean about the intuition piece that kind of tie it into life and leadership and I always like to do that tie these things in. But maybe I overthink these things. But I fly planes, right? And aviation is my thing and flying. And there's the mechanics of learning how to fly a plane, just like there's probably the mechanics of learning how to play the guitar. I mean, notes and chords and all that. But to be a professional aviator, like once you get that down, everybody kind of think that's what the job is. It's this highly technical job. But I argue it's a to be a, at the level that I fly at now, and I still fly commercially for American Airlines 77. So I've been flying for 35 years, but to fly at this level, so much of it is intuitive, and I don't hear a lot of people talking about it. And I think it's probably the same thing when you put in your 10,000 hours of being a musician, at some point, you've got the basics down, but it's really the great musicians are listening to their gut. I mean, it's three things. Probably head heart and gut, but it's that gut thing that I know for me for being a professional aviator, when you're in the zone, so much of it is intuitive because you've got so much stuff coming in a different you know what I mean? So many channels and I just, I wish I could be a musician. I'm so envious of musicians because I just watched just watching that reo speedwagon show last night. And watching their guitarist there, I just like, God, dang, it's just amazing. And watching your stuff. And doing the homework and revisiting your stuff of course, that was part of my childhood or middle school high school, that sound and just revisiting it and watching your stuff and watching that promises of the dark videos watching that couple of days ago and I got a buddy of mine who's good in guitars and just watching you and I'm like, can I just a total 100% rock and roll stuff? You had everything, man. But just that but the way that you played that solo was just, I don't know. It's just phenomenal. And I just wonder how much of it is technician or how much of it is feel and sorry for my kind of naivete about playing the guitar, but it seems to me it's more intuitive than it is technical. I don't know. What do you think when you hear me say that? Yeah, a lot of it is intuitive. So what happens that I believe is that you spend your time, you learn the instrument, you get as far as you can get and continue to go forward and you keep going because you're never a master, you'll always be that person that needs to try to attain to be that. But you'll never get there, but you do. So you have to have that and then you have to forget, like you said, this technical side. You know, what I'm producing records that I'm in the studio. I can tell you immediately when the drummer starts to think. In other words, if you actually thought of being in a play and if you actually thought the reality of what you were really doing up there, you couldn't do the job you were doing. You just couldn't. Because you would just flip yourself completely out. For a musician, you got to be in a moment and then you can't be in there. You have to be in a moment and then you got to let it be automatic. And you know what? Sports and in life sports is a metaphor to life. The game of golf, you know, I don't know if you play golf, I do. I love it because they're very cerebral game. But there's a great quote that golfers use in golfers use this and then I'll explain why that I feel. An amateur golfer worries about hitting a bad shot. A professional golfer worries about hitting a better shot. So if you go and stand over a ball before you hit it and you stand there for ten seconds, stick it of all this stuff and hit the ball, you're not going to hit it. You're going to take a terrible shot. So those people that are professionals do all the time when they get up there. They're not thinking about all these different things. You can't. When I'm writing songs, if I get a break, if anything breaks my, I have to disappear. And if anything breaks my conversation that I'm having with the song, I'm back in on the planet and I can't, I can't write anymore..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"At two words come to mind and it's intuition and it's integrity. And these awards that came up to me and it seems like that is a huge part of who you are. And you seem to be a guy who listens to is intuitive sense. Is that a fair statement? What do you think about when you hear me say those two words and intuition and integrity? Yeah, you know, you pick two words with the first letter that started, that is amazing. You know, I try to live my life with integrity as much as I possibly can. You know, everybody makes mistakes, but that is my goal to have integrity. You know, that's very, very important. And instinctive, you nail that. I am very instinctive. In order to be in order to write or create, you have to basically make yourself like so open a 100% of the time. You know, you can't close off. So everything is an idea somewhere. Everything is a living space of some kind, right? So, you know, it's tough is, you know, sometimes I'll have a conversation with somebody. I'll stop talking because of my mind will go somewhere else, and I'll be writing as I'm listening to them talk. And I just disappear. So it's difficult sometimes to slow your brain down and have those moments where you can just have some peace that way. But yeah, I try to, like I said, I try to live with integrity, you know, I was I was raised by a great parents, you know, my father is a great man. He's a 95 years old. He has dementia right now. In fact, I've seen him the other day. And he helps his eyes, he goes, oh, Neil, how are you doing? I go good, pop, how are you doing? He goes, great. I thought I was dead. That's what he's doing. But he was such a such a great man that he taught me how to have gratitude and be gracious because I saw it in action. He was a Carpenter. When he would come home, he'd come home in a refrigerator. And we didn't have any money growing up. He'd come up with a refrigerator. He'd come home at a go kart wherever he got that from what happens, he would do these jobs with people at their houses, and they'd say, hey, Tony, would you like, would you like to have this? Would you like to have that? So one day it comes home with an upright piano. And I went, wow, that's a game changer. I think it was about 11 years old and he's a son, you want this. I go, yeah, I do, so I started playing piano, but I retired him 40 years ago and not one day would go by when he didn't say, oh, thank you. Son, thank you so much. He said, thank you every single day. Never forgot. Never. Just a phenomenal man. So, you know, I try to be like him. I'll never be exactly like him because he's way too, he's way too above my scale, but just I was blessed to have him as a father. That's so cool. I've asked people always go back and talk about their influences and who made the biggest impact. And certainly, as our parents or people who were parental figures to us, but yeah, you're right, that gratitude piece is so key and watching it and somebody else and I know for me when I get a little anxious or I get a little too off kilter or centered if I get too stressed or full of anxiety going back then gratitude piece always re centers me. You know, I try to wake up in the morning and just being thankful that my feet hit the ground sometimes it clears my mind. I don't know why, but if you always go back to that gratitude piece, I think that is key. So key. Do you have and then when it becomes automatic is when is when it's like integrity is working in action basically, right? It's funny because my father wanted me to play guitar. So I could do duets with my sister who played accordion. Playing for our family and friends after church on Sundays because we were very religious and Catholic and Sicilian family. And but it was my mother who was like the warden. I mean, I loved playing sports. I love playing football, the snow and I'm a sweet play tackle football on the streets, you know, it was fantastic, but then I all of a sudden I hear my mother's voice. Come and sign, you got to practice, oh no. I hate it. I want her to be a football player. I want to be Jimmy Brown. You know, except my genetics would have never got me there. So I just decided I'd better do something else. So, but she was the warden. She was the one that kind of kept me at it, so she added to the mix. When did the, when did The Rock and roll bug hit? My birth, I was telling Tom, your manager this last night when he was talking to him. My biological father was a musician. He was the harmonica player in Jimmy Buffett span. So any harmonica you hear in Jimmy Buffett is my biological father, but he's big into the beginning of the blues, right? I mean, he's a blues guy through and through. I mean, he didn't, the Buffett thing was good. It was a paying gig, but it was blues was his true love..
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"neil giraldo" Discussed on Dose of Leadership
"I love this conversation. One of my favorites of all time. Here on dose of leadership. So let's get on with it. The one and only Neil Geraldo here on the dose. I've never done this before. I've never drank on my show, but I'm gonna get this shameless plug out of the way. I picked this up yesterday. Three chords, strange collaboration. That's correct. That's a good one. Oh, it's aloof, fantastic. It's really good. Yeah, that's one of the, that's one of the expressions from my spirits company, three chord bourbon steel band spirits. As you see behind me, speaking of plugs, this is a reserve 12 year reserve. I'm pointing with my pants on this, you have the strange collaboration. Well, since you held that up, let me give you a little story about it. Please. So basically, the spirits company started may 16th, 2016, and the reason it began was other than being a songwriter, which is most of the time I live, I'm a writer musician, as you know, and producer and all these things. But I also write screenplays. And I was working on a kind of a hybrid documentary. And it had to do with the give back to the local musicians that I grew up with. That were all to me, fabulous players that should really be in the same position. I am, you know? And I wanted to give credit to them, put them on a screen and build like a story around them. And just have a great time doing it. But what a give back. It was a whole the whole part of this thing was to give back, right? So a buddy of mine saw me, I posted something about social media and he got back to me. He said, listen, if you ever need any help with this, let me know. So I called him out, and I said, yeah, I need some help. He goes, why don't we get a spirits company to give us some angel money, some seed investing, and then we can get a trailer made and I says, why don't we start our own company? So that was may 16th, 2016. I never finished a screenplay, but I will get to it. We'll get to it, but I never finished it, but I got a spirits company instead. But now, if we jump to strange collaboration, there was this young man named Johnny strange and Johnny strange was a daredevil, great, great young man. And he dated my youngest daughter. And he did really adventurous stuff. And he was also a flyer. You know, the fire that jumps off big building, big buildings he did buildings too. He wanted to be one of those guys that got lifted off in the space and came down to earth, right? So he had a tragic event and he died. He got a wind sheared at just put him right into the mountain. It was a terrible thing. But he used to date my daughter and he would call me from the summits. He was the youngest man a young man at that time to climb all the summits, right? So he would call from a satellite phone and say, you got to do this one day. You got to climb with me, I said, listen, I've climbed a lot of them up in my life. I do not need the visibility anymore. So anyway, speed ahead, his father, Brian strange. I saw him at a restaurant one day. We gave each other's hugs and tears and we were talking about his son. He has a vineyard. And I have a bourbon company. I said, well, why don't we give me some barrels? I'll put my bourbon in your barrels and we'll call it strange collaboration. And we'll give proceeds back to the Johnny strange foundation. So it's a give back to the Johnny strange foundation in honor of Johnson. That's very cool. It's very good, by the way. This is the first time I bought this yesterday. I literally have to it. One of my clients is a liquor store here in town. And I help them with their culture and leadership and stuff. And I said, hey, do you have three chord? And they go absolutely, and they knew and what's cool about this company here in town, this is in Wichita, Kansas, by the way. What's cool about this, they got their very knowledgeable, and they knew all about this one guy. He's got kind of a phenom there. He knew all about it. He knew all about you. He knew about kind of the story of the company. He's really cool. So that was excited to pick it up. It's very good, so man, it's exciting stuff. You know, I look at your stuff. Thank you. You look at your resume, and obviously starting whisky bourbon company or distillery would be an achievement on its own, but you're constantly working. You're writing a screenplay now, everything else. You know, doing all my homework on you and the guests and of course I've known who you are for a long time, but when I look at you and I look at your resume, there's something that stuck out to me, and of course this show has a leadership umbrella, and I love talking with creatives because I do think creatives have a leadership edge. And this has come from me doing this show for ten years. And when I look at you.
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"Okay? I was street from this fucking me if it goes to straight Yeah. But when I woke up this morning, but it's small. Today. This guy was up before right and everywhere. One for my destruction. You know, I didn't even get Say, said 2000 0 party over out of time, So the body like this 19 I was dreaming around this system. Everybody go too fast, like possessed by and by. Into that. I'm so loving my mind is prepared to fight. Mhm. So if the God damn, Don't listen to my body tonight, 2000 00 body euros out of time. The body like his 19. Nice, nice. If you didn't come to find, but oh, my God. The planet in my pocket baby. He's still had a bomb. Oh, hey today. Oh, Far and love away Whole big thing. Do zero body over out of time. So tonight. I can't find a single body out of time. Stay with your The Magic night that what you want to go. Pat Benatar and her husband, Neil Giraldo, are coming out of their covid temporary retirement and going on tour. Go online. Google it if you want to hook up with Pat and Neil somewhere heartbreaker.
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