BRUUUUUCE with John Murray
The Boss hath arrived.
Val Verde, strap in. The Boss himself joins Whisp Turlington and Geoff “The Angry Man” Garlock for an episode that blows the doors off the very stinky Rock & Roll RV that Geoff lives in. Legendary improviser John Murray becomes Bruce Springsteen, Zooming in live from his legendary album vault to reveal the kind of stories you’ll never hear anywhere else:
- 75 Albums in the Vault: Bruce casually admits he’s been recording nonstop, stockpiling 75+ unreleased albums — including novelty songs (“Baby Bikini”), stomp experiments, rap-country hybrids, and even an all-gum chewing project.
- NebraskaTown the Movie: Bruce explains how he secretly directed his own life story while wearing masks of Scorsese, Lucas, and John Milius.
- Springsteen Covers the ’90s: Hear Love Shack reimagined as a dirge about Reaganomics, and Lisa Loeb’s Stay belted out Born in the U.S.A. style.
- What’s The Nastiest Thing You’ve Done in a Movie Theater: Listeners call in, but Bruce tops them all.
Sponsored by Farmer Dan Owns Your Favorite Songs, JUGGGGS Mug Emporium and Turn It On Again Again
Guest:
John Murray (UCB, The Bosscast, Old Yorkers) as Bruce Springsteen
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Jason Gore (00:04)
And just what I needed was a good ol' pole of a...
Pinot Grigio, otherwise known as Greasy Penis Wine, right here on 108.9 The Huck, the Geoff and Wisp Show the Cars.
Geoff Garlock (00:13)
you
I gotta tell you, I'm thinking I might need some of that peeny-greasy because just what I didn't need was that nauseating keyboard in that song. Just... just seasick the whole time. My god. Get it together over there. Get off the shanty town and get over here, please. And at the end it's just... ⁓
Jason Gore (00:27)
PENEGUIS!
my god, Christ. Come on, Greg Hux. Let me off the boat. Let me off the boat. wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo, and then, and then Weezer was,
and then Weezer was born. Out of that keyboard sound, a little Rivers Cuomo was just shot into the air. Yep.
Geoff Garlock (00:51)
And then Weezer was born.
My god. He said,
first, I'll do a segue into hair metal, and then I will really be born. And I will write, I will write 1,000 songs that will progressively get worse and worse and worse. And then I will cover Toto. And I will make you hate a song that you love because I have covered it. My god. I have covered Toto.
Jason Gore (01:02)
And then...
And then I will cover TOTO!
⁓ I've got to go. Hey, welcome to
welcome to the Geoff and whiz show live from the Rock and Roll RV. That's right, baby. We are back in the studio. We left the beach house or maybe the beach house ⁓ figuratively left us as it literally
Yeah.
Decrepit shack my it is. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Okay, but but but but but
Geoff Garlock (01:59)
Anyways, you know what I'm gonna say? I think we need to hunt down that realtor. Because that Zillow listing did not literally match up in any of the pictures. It said, it need a little work. It said, it said, ⁓ worker Xanadu. And it said, little pocket of paradise. And then all of the photos had giant clocks. And I didn't see one clock, I just saw no walls falling in on us.
Jason Gore (02:01)
⁓
god.
Said, need a little work.
No.
Geoff Garlock (02:27)
And I'm telling ya, Frank Champs,
Jason Gore (02:28)
my God, are you done? Are you done? The music's done.
Geoff Garlock (02:32)
this is a... Well, could you fire me another? I'm telling ya. Jeez. This is a second I'm telling ya. My gosh. And I'm telling ya, Frank Crankel, who is of course Valverde's realtor extraordinaire, Frank Crankel, we're coming for ya. We not anymore. Get ready for a scathing.
Jason Gore (02:36)
Was this still another I am telling you? Christ on a cracker. God, we better get a sponsor for this. Jesus.
Not anymore. 100 more.
Geoff Garlock (02:57)
Yelp review. Scathing. That's all I gotta say.
Jason Gore (03:01)
That's all you got? Okay good, cause I've got a...
Here it comes, motherfucker. Frank Crankle, I know you're listening. I know you're listening to the number 20 morning radio show. Because here's the message, Frank Crankle. Not only are we coming for you, I am going to burn every property you're trying to sell right now. I'm going to make sure that every property has a member of your family in it as I drone each.
Geoff Garlock (03:06)
wow.
Jason Gore (03:32)
Building at Crankle Realty and it will happen sometime today So go ahead if you can clear out whatever you can out of any of those buildings Scotty over there has all of the coordinates already in and yes Scotty our Producer extraordinaire is back. I gotta say I gotta say that house was crumbling and I'll bumble in all around us But it was you and me
Geoff Garlock (03:49)
He's back.
Jason Gore (03:59)
and Maria Anne Scherzabitch, ⁓ CEO of Shines. And what a beautiful thing. I
Geoff Garlock (04:04)
don't know if we ever got keg stand out of there, I'll tell you that.
Well, okay, okay, never mind. I guess he is fine. Don't worry about it
Jason Gore (04:08)
⁓ thank God. Thank God. So
Jason God bless him, carried all of us out. Me, you, keg stand. Apparently keg stand now. did not know. Must have been just slipped it right in. Maria Anne Scherzabitch saved. Everybody saved. And then a man appears upon the hill.
Geoff Garlock (04:20)
Palely cake stand. Must have been in the crack of his ass. I didn't see him back there.
Jason Gore (04:35)
British man named Scotty leaf. And he comes on in he comes down and he gets the fucking equipment. The most important thing in the 108.9 the hot beach house. Outside of my life, right? You gotta if you if you don't have equipment, you don't have terrestrial radio. Two important things. What's that? Yes.
Geoff Garlock (04:48)
Without equipment, you don't got terrestrial radio.
And no offense, Swiss, because you are super important.
Your life equipment is a real toss-up with Terrestrial Radio.
Jason Gore (05:00)
Uh-huh. It's a real toss up. I would even agree with that. I would agree with
that. luckily Jason got us out. Scotty got the equipment. So Scotty gets the job back.
Geoff Garlock (05:12)
God, you got anything to say about that Scotty?
Jason Gore (05:15)
He just shake it. It said no, it's so good to see.
Geoff Garlock (05:16)
Taking his head, no he learned, he learned. Don't put a drop in there because
you don't, you don't earn it yet.
Jason Gore (05:22)
you can use a drop whenever you feel like you've you've earned it. But not yet. This is an idea. This is the honor system. Yeah. And Jason. Yeah. Back to remote, buddy. That's all I got to say. Yeah. OK. I did save everybody's lives. I just want to. Back to the remote, buddy.
Geoff Garlock (05:26)
But this is on you, this is the honor system of drops.
Thank you!
Back to the remotes.
Jason Gore (05:48)
speaking of, hey, join Jason from one until nine going to be down at the brand new reopening of Wild Things Waterpark. Of course, they closed last week for the old bacteria thing. They reopen this week because of maybe no ye old bacterial thing. So go on. That's strong, maybe on that. I want to put quote marks around it. But Jason's going to be in that water for
Geoff Garlock (06:09)
A strong maybe on that one.
Jason Gore (06:16)
eight hours later today and broadcasting hot casting live here on 108.9 the hot put your goddamn swimsuit on Jason and head on down there now one to nine one to nine working.
Geoff Garlock (06:26)
And what are those hours again? He's gonna be there. One to nine. This is another reminder
too The Hawk is taking our requisite break two o'clock until won't be on the air so Jason will be down there broadcasting live but.
Jason Gore (06:40)
Wait. So I'm gonna
be in the water broadcasting live and nobody's gonna hear it. I mean, the people around you, the slobs peeing in the water as they walk by and get a, which is, that's a real maybe right there. They say, that's gonna cure the bacteria. No, it feeds it. It feeds it, it feeds it, it feeds it. Hey! my God, it a...
Geoff Garlock (06:46)
Well, I mean, the people at Wild Things might hear it.
The slobs peeing in the white witch which is the maybe.
And you can't... Eek... Eek... Eek...
This ain't like a jellyfish sting, alright? No matter how many
times we tell these mouth breathing chuds, you don't solve bacteria by peeing on it, but that lazy river is 90 % urine at this
Jason Gore (07:10)
⁓ my god. You don't.
Hey, we do have to go to one of our sponsors this week, and it's a good segment that I love doing right here. 108.9, the honk, and that is what's playing at the Val Verde Dollar Cinema Drone this week, Geoff
Geoff Garlock (07:31)
my god, and you gotta know we're only playing the hottest movies and that of course includes... Not Included, Hoosiers, and Mr. Mom. It's the triple feature which we're calling the McDonald's VHS set. Which is, this is of course only movies that McDonald's sold. For some reason they picked three movies.
Jason Gore (07:39)
love it. Dada Mechi!
I can smell the burgers. I can smell the burgers.
Geoff Garlock (07:57)
I'm guessing it was overstock that they had in the warehouse. Yep, every time you bought a fish witch, you got a Mr. Mom. Sometimes you got a Hoosiers, and most of the time, batteries aren't included, but we're showing them. And it's gonna be only a dollar. And you get a fish witch with it.
Jason Gore (08:01)
Mr. Ma?
that's a hell of a deal. Going down at the Val Verde Dollar Cinematron. Thank you for sponsoring 108.9 The Hawk. also do want to mention that phone lines are open. Topic all morning long. We've been getting so many calls all morning long. And the topic is what's the nastiest thing you've ever done in a movie theater? ⁓
Geoff Garlock (08:20)
The hell of a deal!
my gorshk.
And we have gotten some good stuff. And here's again a reminder to these mouth breathing chuds. You can't just keep calling in and just saying hand stuff. Hand stuff. It's that we've heard enough of them. been a lot. get it. Y'all like using the old five finger discount. All right. And that's of course what we call hand stuff.
Jason Gore (08:48)
lot of good ones. Lot of good ones. Yeah.
hand stuff.
Yep. A lot of hand stuff. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
That is what we call hand stuff. Also, hey, we have kiosks in every Valmart right now, right by the angry old person who takes your seat from you and refuses to fucking give it back every Valmart. know, those old people at the gates of every Valmart, they have bitten.
So many people, so please be aware of that when you are filling out your form at the kiosk for your chance to win the 108.9 The Hawk Ultimate Rocktober package of a lifetime only applicable in October. What's in it? We do not know yet. No clue. It's wrapped up in the corner. No idea what is in that yet, but well.
Geoff Garlock (09:44)
No idea?
I've been shaking this, I've been trying to figure
out what it could be. I'm not gonna lie, you know what I'm kinda thinking's in there. VHS copy of Batteries Not Included, VHS copy of Hoosiers, and a VHS copy of Mr. Bob.
Jason Gore (09:55)
And a fish which
in a fish wish maybe Donnie Meche too
Geoff Garlock (10:04)
Danamichi
might be in there and you know You're only gonna find out by filling out those forms but again watch out for those old people because they're gonna bite you with their teeth but you gotta watch the other hand because they might be holding them dentures and ⁓ my goodness.
Jason Gore (10:07)
Yeah.
You gotta do it. Yep. They mow that's two teeth. That's
the two action there. And please do not call us saying two mouth action for our topic question. What's the nastiest thing you've done in a movie theater? We've gotten three of those two mouth actions. A couple things. We do have a very special guest that I'm bringing in There are going to zoom in. They're not in the studio.
Geoff Garlock (10:27)
Too many two-mouth action answers already. Jesus.
Jason Gore (10:38)
Mainly because of one thing I want to address with you. GF.
Geoff Garlock (10:43)
Eh-heh.
Jason Gore (10:45)
Are you living in the Rock and Roll RV again?
Geoff Garlock (10:49)
I shall neither confirm nor deny That I am living in the rock and roll RV. But yes, I am and a good reminder that the shower is not working It is certainly not working The toilet ain't working either keg stand I told you to stop using the toilet keg stand it's literally decorative it
Jason Gore (10:57)
Yeah. OK, OK, that it was never working because that was just.
Yeah, it's no it's decorative. This. This
is basically a set in the 108.9, the Huck building that mimics our old rock and roll RV that was yours that you stole from Disney lyricist Tim Rice. And we broadcast from that for the longest time you lived in it. And then, you know, I blew it up and we moved and then I made another one to kind of make you comfortable. But I think I might be making you a little too comfortable.
Geoff Garlock (11:22)
Yeah.
Of course.
LUDOP!
I feel pretty comfortable. Did you see my new needlepoint over the couch? just says, bless this decorative mess. Yeah. I got really into needlepoint after I almost lost my life at the summer house. I figured, hey, I gotta start focusing on me. Yesterday, I got real into it all night.
Jason Gore (11:41)
You do. I that was. That's what they gave it away the first time. I'm like, ⁓ Geoff's living here.
okay. Yesterday, this all happened within 24 hours. You're like,
that's a lot of knitting. That is a lot of needle point that you just did. Okay, ⁓ sorry, I fucked it up. Okay, hey guys, it's 108.9 in the Huck, it's the Geoff and Whish show. And since we're back in the rock and roll RV and we're back.
Geoff Garlock (12:04)
This is not knitting, this is needlepoint of course, but again.
Jason Gore (12:18)
In the 108.9 the hot building with the meatloaf ass and all of the ice cream you can eat out of it not out of it but underneath out in our ice cream store. You could probably do it if you could climb up there. I'm not saying it because I technically don't want the liability of you climbing up there and eating ice cream like a butter pecan. Or a or a Superman. Do you see Superman by the way? Okay.
Geoff Garlock (12:27)
I'm gonna eat out of it.
I saw Superman, my god.
Jason Gore (12:48)
What'd think?
Geoff Garlock (12:48)
Crypto is quite the horn dog. Jeez, just like humping Superman's leg left and right. was like Guy Gardner comes in and he went straight for that bolt cut. And it's like, really, James Gunn? This is what you're doing? I thought you already had issues. All right, my god.
Jason Gore (12:50)
That a horn dog, man.
20?
Man, I...
I. I got a
screening because I'm good best friends with James Gunn, I got a screening at Turlington Manor in our ⁓ movie room and it's basically. I said, just tweet whatever you want, nobody's ever it won't come back and they'll never check and they disappear. I said they vanish and he's like, OK, good. I'm glad he got his job back and all that jazz. So he sends me a screener of this and my God, I sit down.
Geoff Garlock (13:12)
You're the one who told him to tweet all those things, Tweet whatever you want, don't worry about it. No one's ever gonna check.
Jason Gore (13:30)
I got my popcorn. I got I got the room to myself and what? A little bit. I got a I got a nice little jug of keg neck right next to me and I'm looking at the screen and I'm like. Look at my watch and I'm looking at the screen and I'm looking at my watch and I'm like this dog is literally humped Lex Luthor Nicholas Holt. An actor who owes me money. For 40 minutes.
Geoff Garlock (13:35)
big Agne.
Nicholas Ho-
Jason Gore (13:59)
I'm like, get on with the story. What's happening in Metropolis? And it's just like, and it's like, it's very graphic. And they really do like a close up into the dog's face. Like, what are you Hitchcock? Right in there and the dog's just like,
Geoff Garlock (14:14)
Right in his face like
Hitchcock and then a Dutch angle like it's Norris and Wells movie. he was like, all right, you're going for something artistic here. also Nicholas Holt starts speaking with his original accent. He's just like, what the bloody is going on down there? It's like you would think they'd cut around that.
Jason Gore (14:18)
Yeah. And then and then you had a
Yeah, exactly. Okay, don't go over me and you can hear James Gunn just like go with it. Go
with it. Go with it. And then of course they Yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (14:35)
You can hear James Gunn outside.
left that in. Him just going, go with it, go with it.
Jason Gore (14:39)
Go with
it. Go with it. Go with it. And then it cuts to another scene and Mr. Fantastic, all that jazz. Or is it terrific? Am I mixing up the movies that I've watched recently because I watched Fantastic Four as well? Which which I will just say, did I need to see? Did I need to see thing on stage? Just hump and herby. 60 minutes of the movie. Fantastic Four.
Geoff Garlock (14:51)
Fantasie Forward, Mr. Terrific, The Invisible Gal, The Human Lighter, and then The Blob. that's The Thing!
My god. And of
course you're talking Herbie the lovebug, not the robot from the Fantastic Four, which is an odd choice that they made. And he just keeps yelling, the bear, the bear! And you're like, Jesus, all right, stop, this is cross promotion? Cousin! And then Pigpen, the hardcore band that the other guy's in, just playing in the background, and then they play Refuse New Noise, and I'm like, I don't know what's going on in the Fantastic Four. Who am I?
Jason Gore (15:10)
⁓ yeah. Yeah, very, very. Yeah. You know, we are cousin, cousin. lot of that. OK.
I don't
I don't even know who I am anymore. I don't even know.
They say that Marvel has lost it and I'm just like, maybe this is it. Maybe this is what we were coming to. ⁓ but you know what it is all along, ladies and gentlemen? you gotta have something special. If you're back in the Rock and Roll RV and ladies and gentlemen, you might think I'm talking Jim Springsteen. Nope. I'm talking about his older.
Geoff Garlock (15:36)
This is what it was all along!
You got
Jason Gore (15:58)
More talented brother. Bruce Springsteen live from Colts Neck, zooming in. From what room are you in in your house right now, Bruce?
John Murray (16:06)
Hello
Val Verde! Hello, hello. ⁓ I'm always out. I'm out in the studio. I'm out in the garage. As you can tell by the wall of guitars. A house of a thousand guitars behind me right now. man, beautiful. It's so good. Weather's nice here.
Jason Gore (16:09)
Hahaha!
see? ⁓ yeah.
Yep, there you go, there
Geoff Garlock (16:25)
House
Jason Gore (16:25)
you go.
Geoff Garlock (16:25)
of a Thousand Guitars, Rob Zombie based his movie House of a Thousand Corpses off of your studio.
John Murray (16:30)
You're very,
you are right. Close friend of mine, Rob Zombie, just was like, he was like, I'm gonna use it as a song title.
Geoff Garlock (16:34)
Also, I can't imagine
the conversations you two have.
John Murray (16:40)
We're just so you know we get down
Jason Gore (16:40)
Was there ever a
time you were Robert, would you like to join the East Street band?
John Murray (16:46)
He was this close. Razor Thin. Razor Thin. You know, I was just like, the thing that broke it is he wanted it all to have like, monster theme songs all the time. The guy is deep, deep on monster lore. And I just was like, I can't, I can't, I can't. We can cover Monster Mash every once in a but I can't. I mean, I love him. I love him. Gotta be honest, I'm more of an Adam's Family kinda guy.
Geoff Garlock (16:46)
We lost the big man. Maybe we get you in here.
Jason Gore (17:02)
Yeah. But... But you love the oldies! You love the oldies! So what's the deal, Bruce? You're always pulling out an oldie!
John Murray (17:13)
I'm an Adams family kind of guy. I'm holding out. I'm all I'm holding out for Tim. If I could get someone in here, it's got it's got to be Burton. If we're going to go, I'm going to get a gothy guy in the band, you know, part of the part of it's going to be Burton. He's because, know, he's got vision. You know, Rob, like it's a good friend, but it's just it's limited, you know.
Jason Gore (17:15)
Okay, alright, there you go.
Geoff Garlock (17:16)
⁓ I could see it, I could see it.
Jason Gore (17:28)
E-D
Yeah, god.
yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (17:34)
I mean, you take
Barry Levinson as well. You know, whatever works. As long as we got an out of family connection.
John Murray (17:39)
Hey Barry does a good job.
did a great job. Remember that ⁓ Remember Barry ⁓ you know ⁓ he did that what's that
Jason Gore (17:41)
Adams family.
They do what they want
to do do what they want to say say what they want to say say what they want to do when I want to add family. All right, so Bruce in.
John Murray (17:54)
Absolutely, you know always get shorty you name
it. ⁓
Geoff Garlock (17:58)
my god. I'll name it all right.
Jason Gore (17:58)
Sure. Yeah, okay get shorty
Name it name it. Yeah, maybe that's a nice triple feature They can have at the dollar Cinemadrome our sponsor of 108.9 the Hawk
Geoff Garlock (18:09)
Get shorty, be
cool, and House of a Thousand Corpses at the Val Verde Dollar Cinematheater.
Jason Gore (18:13)
How? my God.
You park one of those Rob Zombie cars out in front. Everybody's going to be taking dollars out of their wallets to go in and see that. ⁓ hey, I am that's hard. And that's fine. so Bruce Springsteen live from Colts Neck right now. It does.
Geoff Garlock (18:23)
I'd pay $2 for Dragula alone, so I mean, come on.
John Murray (18:30)
Sounds like a great day for the family right there. It's great day.
Geoff Garlock (18:33)
It does sound like you're great. This
is fantastic.
Jason Gore (18:35)
You are back from your European tour, Bruce. What was the worst thing you saw on your European tour?
John Murray (18:43)
⁓ man, I don't know. I guess, you know, like a hungover Max Weinberg. think that's tough thing. Just a topless groggy. Just the day after, you know, I think that's, yeah, just needing a shower. I think that's the thing that you gotta, no one talks about, it's not the cities, it's not the people, it's the band members in the rough shape that you just, we're all getting old and it gets rougher to look at.
Jason Gore (18:53)
Yeah, yeah wet
Yeah.
it does get rougher to look at.
Geoff Garlock (19:12)
wet
barrel chested Max Weinberg just covered in beer steins. You just can't take it. I get it.
Jason Gore (19:15)
Yep. ⁓ he's got
him hanging from every place he can hang him from. You look down and he's got six of them down there and you're just like, whoa. Game he doesn't know German.
John Murray (19:23)
You take him to a Hofbra house, it's game over, alright? The Mighty Max does not go easy anywhere, alright?
Geoff Garlock (19:28)
my god. Constantly hitting the cymbals,
just going whing with that crazy swing he does.
Jason Gore (19:36)
And he doesn't know German, but if you take him to a Hofbrauhaus and he gets enough Steins in them, he pretends to know German, which is even worse. ⁓ offensive. my God. So the big thing we want to talk about with you and we, you know, we cleared this with your publicist beforehand tracks to baby tracks to finally out. You know, you found the time.
Geoff Garlock (19:42)
⁓ and it is offensive big time.
John Murray (19:42)
Hey!
yeah. yeah.
Jason Gore (20:01)
during COVID to get back in the studio and finish up those albums. What was that like, Bruce?
John Murray (20:09)
I gotta be honest with you, you know, I'll tell you the truth because I love the city of Val Verde, I love this show. I'll tell you right now, I had this done ages, ages ago. All right, like I'm gonna tell you right now, I just, yeah, I make albums for my vault. I purposely make albums that I will never release. Just so whenever there's a, I got a dead spot, I got like 10 albums on the go. All right, that's how I work, all right?
Jason Gore (20:19)
Oh, thank you, thank you.
Really?
albums. Okay. Okay.
John Murray (20:38)
⁓ I just, never, Ted Album, I'm always,
Geoff Garlock (20:40)
10 albums
in the hopper.
John Murray (20:42)
you could say John Landau, my manager could call me up right now and be like, Bruce, we need an album. I'd be like, I got 75 albums. Which one do you Do you want all 75 or you just want one or two?
Jason Gore (20:52)
are we talking about because you do different things on different albums like what are some genres that you're that you're dipping your little Bruce toes into
John Murray (20:59)
We
got classical. Okay. We got, uh, I'm doing, I'm quartet, large orchestra. Uh, you're talking, I'm ducking. I'm doing novelty songs. All right. Like baby bikini and, uh, he's wearing a big old blouse. All right. I'm doing, uh, you know, I'm working on, uh, a rap, a country hybrid. I, you name it. There's, I am mixing genres. This studio, I don't look at it as a studio as much as a laboratory where I am the bad scientist of music.
I just, I never sleep. I just am constantly recording, putting in my vault, just at a moment's notice, ready to put out an album because I just, my time's getting short, I'm getting old.
Geoff Garlock (21:39)
My god, mean, this is why we worry about you though. You're getting old and you're maybe working yourself too hard, Bruce. I mean, you're ticker.
Jason Gore (21:40)
Wow, wow, always thinking about it. Yep.
Are there any
albums in that vault Bruce that when you do, unfortunately, one day die? Hopefully not during this broadcast of the Geoff and with show. What are we putting nine, the seven 18 would be a coup for the Geoff and with show, we're not, hoping it doesn't. We will see. We will see. But the question is when you do actually go to the great beyond. What albums do you not want us to hear?
Geoff Garlock (21:59)
Would be a coup though, but I don't want that to happen.
John Murray (22:15)
⁓ man, I don't know. There are some albums where it's just ⁓ me tapping my shoes on the floor, on metal. I kind of tried to do a stomp album. I got to be honest with you. No orchestration, just all found objects in the house. I was like, I'm down with stomp. I was like, let's do that as an
Jason Gore (22:28)
Or you went and saw Stomp and you're like, I can do Stomp.
Geoff Garlock (22:33)
So
So like the musical stop mixed with Einstein, Neubaut and early industrial. All through Bruce Springsteen, kids!
Jason Gore (22:39)
There we go. Get the kids on TikTok. Get all the references
John Murray (22:40)
You hear me. You hear
me.
Jason Gore (22:43)
for the Einstein's. Geez. Jesus, were you just we?
John Murray (22:45)
spent two years on it. John Lando's like, it down. I was
like, I am onto something here. All right, like, just you hear that there's music. There's something there. There's something there. Yeah, I think
Jason Gore (22:57)
I know, no, I hear
Geoff Garlock (22:58)
There's music all
Jason Gore (22:58)
that,
Geoff Garlock (22:58)
around you!
Jason Gore (22:58)
I hear that, I hear it, I hear it, I hear it.
John Murray (23:01)
You know even when I just
Jason Gore (23:01)
Okay,
now one thing we do want to point out that the so that was an album right there what you just recorded the drinking of the water
John Murray (23:09)
That's pretty much it.
I ended up with a sip of water and even the sound of me swallowing.
Geoff Garlock (23:12)
no, this is your version!
John Murray (23:14)
Right now I'm Hey, you didn't know this but right now I'm recording this good That's why I'm in the studio gonna put it on an album. This will be called Yes, what we're talking about gonna put music to this somehow. Yeah me and Ron and Nilo my producer Nothing. Everything is print. Everything is print like like Nora Efron said Everything is print
Geoff Garlock (23:15)
This is your tribute to Brian Wilson, where you're gonna just...
Jason Gore (23:17)
There we go.
All right. Yo, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (23:37)
Wow.
Jason Gore (23:38)
⁓ my god, I knew that. Right here. I got it on, I got it's my tramp stamp. That's my tramp stamp. I got the tramp. Yep.
Geoff Garlock (23:38)
She does I do have that tattoo on my back. Everything is print nor effort. I cross my ribs in Script. Yeah, and it goes all the way yours of the tramp mines on the ribs in a nice
So cursive you can't even read it and it's beautiful
Jason Gore (23:53)
Bruce, we're gonna come right back to you in a second, but we do have to go to traffic.
Geoff Garlock (24:01)
I'm hoping this is gonna actually be traffic art.
Jason Gore (24:07)
Let me turn the system on and here we go baby, crazy taxi time. And I hit pause, there we go. Jump it over. Hey, if you're watching the Twitch, having a good time today. It's early morning, not much to do here at the Smart Traffic booth at the 108.9 Hawk Studios, except for listening to a little, what is that, Bad Religion again? I just did a crazy through. There we go.
Geoff Garlock (24:14)
And not traffic again is what... We talked about this.
Jason Gore (24:35)
This fare is $400 so far. There's the arrow telling me where to go. You're gonna get it KFC. But I didn't stop at the mark there. I got a backup. If you like watching me play crazy taxi, just click on the subscribe. If you're an Amazon Prime user, you can also click on it and you know, give me your subscribe stuff that you get every month. It helps me out quite a bit. Bye. Whoa. Yeah. What do mean?
Geoff Garlock (24:57)
Art, have to help us out quite a bit. We talked about this at the beach house. I think, I believe
me and Wisp had a little sit-me-down.
Jason Gore (25:05)
Yeah,
we sat you down and we said no more crazy taxi. I want the fucking traffic. Well, somebody.
Geoff Garlock (25:14)
I even made a needle point that said, more
crazy taxi, I want the fucking traffic, and it was a beautiful one, you hung it up next to you and not paying attention. Not paying attention.
Jason Gore (25:22)
Well, I do apologize.
I do apologize. ⁓ get a little wrapped up in, you know, you get a guy with a mohawk that gets in the back of your taxi and he says 30 seconds to get me down to the port. And I'm like. I can do that. You know what? That is the first good question. I'm like, what is he doing at the port? And I got 14 seconds to get him there, so I'm going to scratch up against this building. OK, go ahead and cut it. ⁓
Geoff Garlock (25:35)
the hell is he doing at the port?
⁓ Jesus. Yeah, just go
Jason Gore (25:51)
There's your traffic.
Geoff Garlock (25:51)
cut him off. Jesus.
Jason Gore (25:52)
Shit, I guess I'll do it. Here we go. ⁓ What are we? 49 the Hawk traffic with Artspart. Soundgarden Boulevard, not out, not Artspart, Wisterenton. Soundgarden Boulevard backed up to Lasagna Junction, looking at the traffic cams. If you're going down the 422, you're pretty clear down to Greg Lake. And then if you're going to take Mother Labone Way, don't, because it's closed. There you go.
Geoff Garlock (25:55)
Just look out the window, I can see it backed up.
Jason Gore (26:21)
Great job. That's all it takes. Yeah.
Geoff Garlock (26:21)
And if I'm looking at Twitter right, if I'm looking at X right,
Papa Het currently is saying do not drive down Mount Heffield and it just says no! So he's getting ready for his tour. So it is, the road is closed.
Jason Gore (26:31)
He's getting ready for a tour. He is getting ready to go back. I mean,
kind of feels longer than 72 seasons, if you know what I mean. It's like, Jesus Christ, Metallica. How fucking long are you going to be on tour? I'm starting to think this is still the Black Album Tour. Ugh.
Geoff Garlock (26:40)
feels like we're going into 143 seasons at this point, Metallica.
God, and if they- I tell
ya, as long as they're playing that wonderful jam of Fugazi's waiting room, that Kirk Hammett clearly knows what he's doing, and definitely has heard the song before, then I guess let's make it 200 seasons.
Jason Gore (26:57)
⁓ my, I love you. That's the best part of it.
⁓ I gotta say that is definitely the best part of any Metallica show is when Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo just fucking dick around on a local song or whatever song they're feeling that day. They're just like, you guys like Rainbow Connection? That's my Kirk Hammett impersonation. I'm holding a guitar that has the mummy on it. And I'm like, you guys like my vets? And Robert Trujillo is just like. big Val.
Geoff Garlock (27:11)
Get to jam.
Pretty good.
For some reason, this sound guy, maybe like Big Val, brings out like a
little 10 inch crate for him to play through and it's like he's never played guitar before.
Jason Gore (27:38)
I'm
gonna plug into this 10 inch crate and I'm gonna play Rainbow Connection and Trujillo is just crab walking all around and you just, ⁓
Geoff Garlock (27:44)
Crab walking, hardly hitting his
strings, they somehow get tuned lower every time. Fieldy from corn is like, those strings are tuned too low. What are doing, truly?
Jason Gore (27:48)
You think we're making this up?
Those are low. And if you
know they're low, if Fieldy from Korn is getting hashtag Fieldy on TikTok for all the kids. And you know, you would think we're making all this up, but I got to tell you, it's all sad, but true. This happens at every Metallica concert. My God. Hey, more with our guest, Bruce Springsteen from his studio. Really bad internet connection from his studio in the background. I guess so. But right now.
Geoff Garlock (28:18)
always too busy recording that internet photo.
Jason Gore (28:22)
Talaga on the hawk!
DEXTER FU-
I heard a rumor, Geoff. I heard a vicious, vicious rumor. First off, RIP. Happy sales. ⁓ That was like ⁓ John Mellencamp smoking another cigarette through his little tracheal. That man cannot stop smoking cigarettes. He's just like, pfft. Good Lord.
Geoff Garlock (30:51)
Aha.
Jason Gore (31:13)
but anyway, I heard a dirty rumor and I went this is a dirty rumor time dirty rumor time. Okay, so the dirty rumor of the day, Geoff.
the band that was asked not to do Ozzie's final show.
Geoff Garlock (31:29)
this dirty room around me.
Jason Gore (31:30)
My Lee Crew!
There's a rumor, a dirty rumor that they wanted a third of the profits that went all to charity to show up, play with a backing tape. And Vince Neil just gets up on stage and he's like, ⁓
Dirty rumors not, not, not, not researched in any way whatsoever. That's why they are called dirty rumors.
Geoff Garlock (31:53)
Dirty rumors.
my god.
We do our
own research at 108.9 The Hawk and we did not do any research. When we do our own research, we don't do any research. But speaking of research, our special guest today, my goodness, Bruce the Boss. Coming to us from the Bruce Vault, more locked up than the Disney Vault.
Jason Gore (32:03)
We do our own research. We don't do any. Nine.
Babas on Zoom.
my God. Bruce, you're in your vault right now.
John Murray (32:25)
yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Geoff Garlock (32:30)
Are you working
on a cover album of the Black Cauldron soundtrack? A famous Disney vault movie?
John Murray (32:35)
You know, I don't want to give away any I
don't want to give you any secrets, but you know what I did a soul cover album a Couple albums back. Yeah, it's gonna I'm Disney covers is the way to go because I got a vault Walt's got a vault. It's it's it's sinner It just all comes together. You're reading my mind I'm not gonna speak more on it because I don't want to spoil too much for the fans, but do
Jason Gore (32:43)
Yeah.
Yeah, you did.
I'm going to ask you to speak more on it, because I did hear a dirty rumor that you are working on a covers album of hits from the 90s. And I'm going to ask you right here and now just to give us a little taste. I heard you're doing your own version. Now, these are all going to you said to John Landau, another good best friend of mine for a very, very long time. ⁓
Geoff Garlock (33:04)
boy!
John Murray (33:10)
⁓
Jason Gore (33:24)
You told him that the first single was going to be the B-52's love shack. I would like to hear that. Bruce Stile right here, right now today.
John Murray (33:30)
Yeah. yeah, of course.
Of course I'm to slow it down to start. right. So, know, so chorus wise, let's just jump to the chorus.
Jason Gore (33:39)
No, I know the Elvore, course. Yeah, it's not a party song. Thank- Please walk us through
Geoff Garlock (33:40)
Of course.
Jason Gore (33:44)
this, too. I love this.
Geoff Garlock (33:45)
If
there's one thing I could say about Love Shack, not a party song. That's definitely the way I would describe it, so yes.
John Murray (33:46)
What?
Jason Gore (33:49)
Not a party song.
John Murray (33:49)
Okay.
I mean, you know, I think the thing is it's a song about pain that no one recognizes, right? So I'm gonna jump to the chorus because that's the part we all know, but it's just be bang bang on the door, baby. Kind of like a slow, like, you know, pink Cadillac kind of kind of vibe on that bang bang on the door, baby. And then
Jason Gore (34:00)
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
I love it, I love it.
John Murray (34:19)
Tin roof.
Rusted right there. You see that that's like a commentary Right there Reaganomics right where the country is the tin roof and it's rusted
Jason Gore (34:26)
there. There it is. There it is.
Geoff Garlock (34:26)
That's the poignant moment of the song Wow Cuz aren't most aren't
most workers roofs Tin and rusted. I mean isn't that America right now?
Jason Gore (34:37)
Yep. They are.
John Murray (34:37)
Rusty. Rusty. Yeah.
Jason Gore (34:40)
Ain't that America for you and me? That's not yours. That's not yours. Don't think it is. It's not. That's all. Yeah, Smokey. John Landau told me that the second single is going to be.
John Murray (34:41)
There you go. Not me. Johnny's a friend. He's a friend. Johnny's a friend. He's a friend. God likes to smoke. He does like to smoke.
Geoff Garlock (34:45)
That's, that's Smokey Joe!
John Murray (34:55)
Hmm.
Geoff Garlock (34:55)
This is of course
you have your weekly with with John Landau, Martin Landau's ghost and John Landis and John Landis is the is the cool one.
Jason Gore (34:57)
⁓ Yep. If you've you think
Atlantis is the cool one. He's like, I'm not taking a helicopter here. And I'll tell you.
Geoff Garlock (35:08)
There's one thing
I hate doing, and they were like, I don't want to bring up the helicopter anymore, Lantus. Jesus.
Jason Gore (35:12)
I wasn't gonna say a thing. He's
like, I'm just not, I'm telling you, I'm not bringing it. And I'm like, Jesus Landau, calm down. But I will tell you this, Landis, Landis, calm down, Landis. I will tell you this. You think Slimer eats a lot of shit in Ghostbusters? You've never seen a ghost eat a lot of shit until you have seen the ghost of Martin Landau take down a whole seafood tower.
Geoff Garlock (35:18)
Jesus Christ.
Jason Gore (35:38)
You're like, I was hoping for a little snow crab for myself and he's just like, he can't talk anymore. He's a ghost. They. He is just sucking everything down. OK, the next single that my friend John Landau said that you would have on your 90s cover album. Just a dirty room is it is Stay by Lisa Lowe.
Geoff Garlock (35:44)
No, he's wearing a tuxedo from Crimes and Misdemeanors, but he is sucking out a seafood tower.
This is just a dirty rumor again.
John Murray (35:58)
All right. All
right.
yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a that's a favorite. It's a favorite. That's a you know, once again acoustic song to start with right so I'm gonna go opposite direction with it when I put on when I cut it ⁓ Gonna go more born in the USA kind of chant on it. Wait a sec my my inner get connection might be struggling right now. Let's wait until it reconnects here ⁓ Man working in the vault
Jason Gore (36:08)
How would you approach that one?
Geoff Garlock (36:08)
Now this I can picture with
the Bruce touch.
he's putting his glasses on. He put his cat-eye glasses on.
Jason Gore (36:16)
⁓ there
we go, cat eyeglasses. He got way back in the back, like the video for Stay. He got way back in the back, far back there.
Geoff Garlock (36:21)
I mean,
Jason Gore (36:31)
May vanish completely.
Geoff Garlock (36:33)
He was so scared to do Lisa Lowe.
John Murray (36:36)
Worst internet connection you could possibly have. My internet went out. Because I'm so deep in this vault.
Jason Gore (36:40)
All right, we got we
Geoff Garlock (36:40)
God.
Jason Gore (36:42)
got him back Scotty Scotty we got him back here. Okay now Okay, Lisa Lube stay here we go
Geoff Garlock (36:44)
my god. You gotta protect the albums. All right, so Lisa Loeb, stay.
John Murray (36:45)
Little do know that my vault is reinforced steel on top
of reinforced steel on top of another layer of reinforced steel and I have a problem getting a decent Wi-Fi connection in here.
Jason Gore (36:56)
That's why we tell all guests,
if you're gonna try not to broadcast from the vault. know, 15 years ago Prince would come on, he'd be in his
John Murray (37:02)
Patty! What are you doing?
Geoff Garlock (37:08)
We did send the email, said wear some headphones, you need a good internet connection, and don't be in a vault with steel upon steel.
Jason Gore (37:11)
You're to need headphones. Maybe don't be in your vault. Yeah.
John Murray (37:18)
Ronnie,
Ronnie, no, come on now. No one told me anything. I didn't get the email. just decided, you know, so we're most comfortable. just, it's a mistake. It's things you learn, you know, I'll write a song about it cause don't go from the cement. So anyway, like we were saying about Lisa Lopes. So that's an acoustic song as it is the way it's written. So I'm going to go like born in the USA style. So it can be more of a screamer. Like, you say, you know, it comes like,
Jason Gore (37:29)
Okay, okay, okay. No, no, no, no, no. It works.
Geoff Garlock (37:29)
I get it, I get it, I get it.
No notes, Bruce.
Jason Gore (37:34)
Okay, okay, okay.
Geoff Garlock (37:39)
Yes.
Jason Gore (37:46)
Okay. Okay.
John Murray (37:48)
WHY! ONLY HERE WHERE I WANT! HUH!
Jason Gore (37:58)
No, no, no, that's basically it.
Geoff Garlock (37:59)
No, don't!
I would suggest don't look up the lyrics. I think it sounds great when you give it what the Bruce flavor would be.
Jason Gore (38:07)
Do you think if you played that live, you would go into like...
John Murray (38:07)
See ya later.
STAY!
Jason Gore (38:14)
Do you think you
would slip in if you did this live with the history band? You would go into like a little ⁓ won't you stay just live in the crowd and be like, I can't believe he fucking did that. I can't but can't believe it.
John Murray (38:20)
man!
You know, I do work. It could work. It could work. I don't know.
Jason Gore (38:30)
We're having a good time here on the one.
Geoff Garlock (38:31)
We're having...
Jason Gore (38:34)
good, I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad.
John Murray (38:35)
What was the question? I cut out again
because I'm in the vault. You gotta ask me that again.
Jason Gore (38:40)
You cut out. No, there was no question. That's what's so crazy about it. ⁓ There was no question there whatsoever, but we do have to go. We gotta go to the phone.
John Murray (38:50)
Patty! That guy Patty, she's on the roof trying to...
Geoff Garlock (38:56)
Trying to change the antenna, I get it.
Jason Gore (38:58)
All
right, caller 53. Topic, what's the nastiest thing you've done in a movie theater? Go.
Geoff Garlock (39:05)
HAND STUFF! Alright, Jesus Christ.
Jason Gore (39:07)
Okay, hang it up. Right. Caller
62. What's the nastiest thing you've ever done in a movie theater? Well, ⁓ you know, I like to get a bucket of popcorn and cut a hole in the bottom. Okay, I kind of know where you're going to know. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I like to eat the popcorn through the hole. you don't do anything with like
Geoff Garlock (39:22)
right. Okay, Jesus, yeah, we're going here.
You don't, okay. You
don't do, you don't put anything in. All right, hang up on this mouth breathing chug, Jesus Christ. My God.
Jason Gore (39:34)
And then I have somebody stick it in the hole, if you know what I mean. Okay, hang up there, I'm that guy. is a chud. Thanks a
lot, mouth-breathers. Hey, while we're on the subject, what's the nastiest thing you've ever done in a movie theater? Bruce Springsteen, go!
John Murray (39:49)
⁓ man, I ate gum off the floor one time, it's just, you know...
Geoff Garlock (39:53)
⁓
Bruce, that is hideous.
Jason Gore (39:56)
Gross.
John Murray (39:57)
Just, know,
yeah, was just, know, think times were tough. I was like, I need something to eat and they're like right underneath the seat. And I just ate that gum, lived off of it for about eight months in the surf factory, writing songs, just chewing on that gum. Yeah.
Jason Gore (40:06)
Man.
God... God Almighty.
Geoff Garlock (40:12)
You know, sometimes
people say that Bruce might be co-opting the working class of New Jersey, but I feel like through that story we realize, This guy was eating gum off the movie theater floor.
Jason Gore (40:21)
⁓ nah ⁓
John Murray (40:24)
They
don't make gum like they used to. That was a really great piece of Wrigley's. I miss those kind of days.
Jason Gore (40:30)
would say
I would have preferred you to say hand stuff. I would have because I would have been like, okay, thanks. But now I'm just a little in my tummy and I had some burger tools. I had burger tools breakfast on the way over here, of course. burger tools, the only home improvement burger themed place in Belverde relocation sponsors of 108.9 the Hawk. And also we got another sponsor. ⁓
Geoff Garlock (40:33)
I wouldn't have minded head stuff.
Le- Le- Queasy!
John Murray (40:39)
⁓
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Jason Gore (40:59)
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Geoff Garlock (41:03)
You're gonna love this, Bruce.
John Murray (41:20)
Alright, sounds good,
Geoff Garlock (41:21)
Even better,
John Murray (41:21)
let's hear it.
Geoff Garlock (41:21)
any of these you'd want to write a song about. Then.
Jason Gore (41:24)
Yes, these
could be song titles for you right here!
John Murray (41:25)
Let's go, you know I'm always
looking for songs, I gotta get to work.
Jason Gore (41:29)
Okay, here we go. You don't work hard enough, Bruce. Okay.
Geoff Garlock (41:31)
You don't work hard enough, Bruce. I'll say that.
John Murray (41:33)
Gotta work hard. All right,
like, you know, my dad worked hard. I ⁓ gotta work.
Jason Gore (41:40)
Okay, first mug.
Geoff Garlock (41:40)
I've
heard about this dad of yours in a trailer I saw for a movie, but let's move on. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that race.
Jason Gore (41:45)
We will talk about that. We will talk about that that is on the list that Scotty
gave us both. He gave it to us both.
Geoff Garlock (41:51)
both got it. All right. All right.
Jason Gore (41:52)
You're getting ahead is what I'm saying, Geoff.
Do I have to call it the Wisp and Geoff show?
Geoff Garlock (41:58)
No you don't. Get to the jug mugs.
Jason Gore (42:00)
Okay,
here we go. Number one mug from Jag's Mug Emporium Valorities. Oh yeah, right there. That's the spot, grandma. That is something I'd love to see on a mug. I mean, yeah, like would that be kind of like Atlantic City? Would it be like?
Geoff Garlock (42:09)
Now that is something I want to see on a mug.
Also might be something I want to see in a Bruce song.
John Murray (42:21)
That would be
more like 90s drum loop. like, you know, kind of like, ba-bum-bum, ba-bum-bum. That's a spot, grandma. That's a spot, grandma. That's it.
Jason Gore (42:31)
And Cameron Crowe
is asking you for a song for Jerry Maguire and you're like, why not do a That's a Spot Grandma and Furze and he's like, mm-mm, no. Okay. All right, mug number two, Geoff, mug number two.
John Murray (42:35)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just my grandma. That's just my grandma. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (42:38)
That's the spark, grandma.
of course, this is one of my faves, if this PT Cruiser is a-rackin' ya dad is drunkin' behind the wheel again. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Funny and a cautionary tale.
Jason Gore (42:51)
Ha
Bruce, you love cars. You love cars. Would you, you ever own a PT Cruiser from Chrysler?
John Murray (42:58)
I do, I do.
Geoff Garlock (42:58)
You do love cars.
John Murray (43:01)
Yeah figured
souped up PT Cruiser Yeah, you know I took it to Billy Joel's bike shop had him do it up real nice and I cruise around and that made it a convertible and Big wheels on the back tiny wheels in the front. It just it's an eye-catcher. You know I went across drove across that when Arizona With about six of my friends piled it in there as well. It was good. It sweaty. It was a sweaty ride
Jason Gore (43:19)
Alright.
Yep!
Geoff Garlock (43:27)
Beautiful.
Jason Gore (43:28)
⁓ really? Okay.
Geoff Garlock (43:28)
That's a good reminder. just actually, while we have you here for a second, I wanted to ask, I saw you in that Billy Joel doc and you were killing it, Bruce. But I loved how you said, maybe for the first time, I guess I'm associated with New Jersey, which seemed like a really great insight from you.
John Murray (43:34)
yeah. yeah.
Jason Gore (43:45)
Was
that the first time you had ever thought of that?
Geoff Garlock (43:48)
You never
realized that you were from New Jersey?
John Murray (43:50)
Yeah, I had a friend the other day pointed out to me, like, you know, everyone really thinks you're from, you know, you kind of go with New Jersey. I was like, really? I don't see myself that way. I spent a lot of time in California. You know, I go into the city pretty regularly. So when everyone's like, no, no, no, everyone like thinks you're like the patron saint in New Jersey. was like, oh, I got to look in this, went on the internet. Holy moly. Like, yeah, it's been new. So I've been really trying to.
Geoff Garlock (43:58)
Crazy.
Yeah.
Jason Gore (44:04)
Yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (44:13)
It was like in real
time you also realized that Billy Joel was associated with New York and as you call it, the Tin Pan Alley Broadway style there.
John Murray (44:22)
Yeah, yeah, I think
of Billy a lot. think Billy, think California, I think California songwriter tradition of like, you know, Brown, all the Laurel Canyon. That's where I think but what I hear Billy, but you know, exactly. But now it
Geoff Garlock (44:32)
my god, yeah.
Jason Gore (44:32)
Yeah. Randy Newman.
Geoff Garlock (44:35)
I guess here's my
question, if you're Jersey and he's New York, who's covering the third part of that tri-state area? Who is the Connecticut there?
John Murray (44:39)
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah! We
Jason Gore (44:44)
Who's
John Murray (44:45)
got it!
Jason Gore (44:45)
hanging out in the Delaware River watershed?
Geoff Garlock (44:48)
I mean, come on!
John Murray (44:48)
Yeah,
got me because when I try to think about making it a Holy Trinitgy, the first person that comes up in my mind is Glenn Danzig. That guy's from Jersey as well, so I don't know where to go. You know, it's like Bon Jovi, that guy's from Old Bridge, New Jersey. You know, someone in Connecticut's got to step up to the plate. I don't know.
Geoff Garlock (44:57)
That guy's from Jersey.
Jason Gore (44:57)
Lodi!
Geoff Garlock (45:06)
You know what,
think it's probably Randy Newman, if I have to say one person.
Jason Gore (45:09)
Probably Randy Newman.
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Geoff Garlock (45:31)
that beast.
John Murray (45:41)
yeah. yeah.
Geoff Garlock (45:52)
What'd he do?
Jesus Christ. Gonna be playing
Eddie and the Cruisers next.
Jason Gore (45:58)
Jesus Christ!
John Murray (45:58)
Good song.
John Cafferty, good friend.
Jason Gore (47:58)
You want classic rock? Oh, we got it. You want the goddamn Doobie Brothers? I a t-shirt that just says the goddamn Doobie Brothers. Maybe we sell that at 108.9 The Hawk, you see. We might have to. There you go, the doobs on 108.9 The Hawk from Toulouse Street by request. Geoff and Wisp Show, Val Verde. It is 726. God.
Geoff Garlock (48:09)
Think we might have to.
726
and hot questions on the table. Bruce, would you wear a shirt that said the goddamn Doobie Brothers on
Jason Gore (48:25)
Is this wait.
Hot
John Murray (48:29)
⁓ yeah, yeah, Michael McDowell close personal friend close personal friend love Michael
Jason Gore (48:29)
questions, hot questions. Okay, would hot questions. Would you?
Geoff Garlock (48:33)
How to answer some hot questions. Close personal
friends with Michael McDonald. The rest of the doobies, you don't like them. You and Geoff Skunk Baxter, just battling.
John Murray (48:41)
Not so much.
Jason Gore (48:42)
Not so good. Not
so good. Would you wear a shirt that just says, because I can get a good deal on it, it's 90 % off at Jugs, Mug and Pour. Would you wear Pussy Hunter Hunter?
John Murray (48:53)
Yeah, I've been thinking about a song for that. I was thinking about how to tackle that one. ⁓ Maybe that'd be like a...
Jason Gore (48:56)
huh. How would you do it?
John Murray (49:02)
looking for a pussy hunting, ha ha! Hey! Something like that, a little bit
Jason Gore (49:07)
You know
a little ⁓ Jersey do up type thing going on. Could be on the river. Could be on the promise. Something to do there. Hey.
Geoff Garlock (49:08)
think we got a winner.
my God, Jersey Dewa.
John Murray (49:14)
Something like that, yeah, on the river. I was thinking little bit of working
on
Geoff Garlock (49:19)
You can Frankie
Frankie Valley to guest on that one. I think it'd be fantastic. I'm sure he'd be willing to sing quote unquote. God talk about propping up the old guy.
John Murray (49:22)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, get away.
Jason Gore (49:23)
⁓ yeah, good luck with that. Good luck with that. He's just going to stare at the microphone for two hours. Bring Frankie Valley out for the love of God. That's why we
have not had him on the show, Bruce, for fear of him dying on the air. We have a list of people over here that we just will not have on Hulk Hogan. Mark it off the list.
John Murray (49:40)
EW
Geoff Garlock (49:46)
My God, and we knew, we said, we told you two months ago, we ain't having Hulk on and we ain't telling you why and now you know.
John Murray (49:47)
You'd like...
Jason Gore (49:52)
And now you know,
John Murray (49:53)
Good to know, yeah, you called it. It's ⁓ very precedent on what's gonna happen.
Jason Gore (49:56)
Thank you.
Geoff Garlock (49:59)
And don't worry, you're okay. You weren't on the list, you're just a guest.
Jason Gore (50:03)
Yo, you're not on the
list.
John Murray (50:04)
Alright good. Alright.
Jason Gore (50:04)
Scotty makes sure Scotty is he on the list? OK, Shagan said no, you're good. You're good.
Geoff Garlock (50:09)
Shaking his head no, you're
John Murray (50:09)
Alright.
Jason Gore (50:10)
Now I'd like to talk to you. Movie time. Spill it. You got a movie coming out, Bruce. You got a movie about your life Nebraska Town. All right. Is that the name of the movie?
John Murray (50:18)
I do got a movie, got about my life.
It's pretty much the name of it. Nebraska Town. That's the name. That might not be the name on the poster, but that's the name I wanted. I said Nebraska. Nebraska Town.
Geoff Garlock (50:27)
I think it's called Nebraska Town, right?
Jason Gore (50:29)
It's it's deliver me from nowhere. ⁓
You wanted Nebraska to have.
Geoff Garlock (50:34)
You were gonna have it just be called Nebraska and it was gonna be in black and white and
then David O. Russell came and said, what the hell and he started kicking doors down. Or was it Alexander Payne, one of those temperamental directors?
Jason Gore (50:38)
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
John Murray (50:42)
I was like, come on. That was Alex in pain.
Jason Gore (50:47)
Yeah,
it was Alexander Payne. He's like, I want to shoot this in Hawaii. We're going to call it The Descendants 2.
Geoff Garlock (50:52)
And
John Murray (50:52)
But
Geoff Garlock (50:52)
you were like, why is David O'Russell here? What are we doing? Who is...
John Murray (50:52)
you wanna know what? He showed up anyway, cause he's a very challenging man to work with as well. So, you know, he shows up, just causes trouble.
Jason Gore (51:01)
Now Bruce this
Geoff Garlock (51:01)
He was like, you lily
tommy better not be here.
John Murray (51:04)
She was on set that's why he got angry
Jason Gore (51:06)
She was
Geoff Garlock (51:06)
She was
on his head, his radar went off.
Jason Gore (51:06)
on set, okay.
Well, what's that vibrating down there? it's my Tomlin radar. OK, Bruce, let's get down to it. Let's talk about the shit you haven't told any other radio station in Val Verde. What is this movie like? What was the process like for you? mean, you're seeing yourself, you're seeing your dad's kitchen for the first time in a very long time and you're taking it's taking you back to or it's for the first time.
John Murray (51:10)
Okay.
Yeah.
Alright.
Geoff Garlock (51:33)
Or is it for the first time you're seeing your dad's kitchen?
John Murray (51:36)
It was pretty new to me. mean, to see your life again for the first time, you know, the thing. I was on set every day. I was working constantly on everything to the point that I wore Jeffrey Allen White mask over my regular face so I could play the part of myself throughout that. So I erased what I knew about myself to reinvent myself so that I could play every part in the movie. And then
Jason Gore (51:38)
Okay.
huh.
John Murray (52:04)
wear different masks throughout so I could be different people directing it. is definitely about me, by me, done by me. am interwoven into as an exploding star in a black hole. We are one.
Geoff Garlock (52:17)
This is...
These are good lyrics, you should write these
down by the way. Wait, hold on, beep beep beep, back up, up, excuse me, baking powder. So Bruce Springsteen, I just wanted to verify here. You had masks of different directors directing the film. What directors, yeah, what directors did you make Mission Impossible style masks for?
Jason Gore (52:22)
Yeah, man, there you go.
John Murray (52:28)
But it's... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jason Gore (52:34)
Directing the film. What directors?
John Murray (52:41)
One day Marty Scorsese showed up, alright? One day Francis Ford. They all showed up. You know, anybody...
Geoff Garlock (52:44)
Barty, of course.
Jason Gore (52:47)
the director of this film's like, wait a second, Marty Scorsese's here and Marty's like, hey, let me direct an hour.
Geoff Garlock (52:53)
was this any director who went to UCLA or NYU in the 70s? So John Milius, John Carpenter, Toby.
John Murray (53:00)
I'm going tell you right now the day George Lucas
George Lucas took over it was a hard day it was a hard day when I had to pretend to be George Lucas Direct it just it was a very dull cold hard day on set
Geoff Garlock (53:06)
my god.
Jason Gore (53:12)
He's like,
he's like.
Geoff Garlock (53:12)
He kept trying to
shove Jar Jar into your dad's kitchen.
Jason Gore (53:15)
He's like, Bruce, this is a trade mission. These two people are trade representatives and they're from Columbia Records talking about your numbers.
John Murray (53:26)
was hard. It was hard I really regretted the choice I made that day as a choice of character as a choice of what I did to my whole life story I mean, yeah to have everyone do that also with with Japanese accents like like from the Phantom Menace It just it just added a layer that no one needed that. Yeah, no one it there's a lot of regrets
Geoff Garlock (53:41)
⁓ yes.
Jason Gore (53:42)
⁓ God, it really did. It really did. I...
Geoff Garlock (53:46)
Strange
that the John Milius mask was the least problematic one that day.
Jason Gore (53:50)
Yeah,
John Murray (53:51)
violence that day.
Geoff Garlock (53:52)
A lot of violence and lot of like, kind of just pro-gun speeches for no particular reason. Yeah.
John Murray (53:56)
a very like Nietzschean take on things but you know
what, Survival of the Fittest is the strongest, know? Only Strong Survive. Name of my cover album.
Geoff Garlock (54:03)
Yeah
Jason Gore (54:04)
that is true. Yep.
Only strong survive.
Geoff Garlock (54:06)
That one part where Bruce said to crush my enemies To the lamentations of their women. I was like, whoa, this is a different Bruce that I thought it would be
John Murray (54:14)
Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Jason Gore (54:15)
Now
I did have a friend that worked on the movie, ⁓ Robert Spadoni. And you know, Robert, okay, line 32.
John Murray (54:18)
Yeah.
I know Robby's a good friend. He's good friend.
Jason Gore (54:28)
Hey, what's going on? It's Robert Spottoni. Hey, Robert, we're on with we're on with a ⁓ hey, Bruce. What's going on, man? Haven't seen you since the few times you showed up on the set of Deliver Us From Nowhere.
John Murray (54:32)
Hey, Rob, worry.
Geoff Garlock (54:32)
Hey Robert, you're
talking to Bruce, your good friend Bruce here.
John Murray (54:43)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a good time. were there. You did a great job.
Jason Gore (54:45)
You want to know
Bobby's, but Tony, I want you to tell me exactly what you told me when I told you Bruce was coming on. Yeah, well, so, you know, the night is this a nasty rumor? OK, nasty rumor time. Well, it's not a nasty rumor. It's the truth. ⁓ You know, we knew we knew it was gross. You know.
Geoff Garlock (55:10)
was Bruce the whole time.
Jason Gore (55:12)
We knew we found Jami Allen white, all hog-tied in the back of ⁓ Bruce's convertible on the front on the first day. He didn't even put them in the trunk. And he pulled the sock out. The sock, you know, it one of those knee-high socks and it said Bruce on it. So we knew that it was in his, it was in Jami's mouth. We pulled it out and he's like, he loves a knee-high.
Geoff Garlock (55:23)
Throw him in the back.
Any true Bruce head knows that Bruce Springsteen loves knee-high embroidered socks.
Jason Gore (55:39)
Loves
a good knee-high embroidered under those black jeans. It's just knee-high embroidered socks. So, you know, we knew the game was up. Like we knew that it was Bruce in a Jeremy Allen white mask, playing himself and completely ruined in the movie. Now he didn't stop there. That's the one part I want to say. Okay. What do mean by that? Well, I mean, so, ⁓ he played catering. He played crafty. He'd go out.
Geoff Garlock (56:00)
What do you mean by this?
Good snacks, did
he provide good snacks at Crafty?
Jason Gore (56:09)
⁓
somehow he got kudos back. I haven't seen a kudos bar and I can't tell you how long. And the table was full of kudos, like he's got all the kudos bars back in Colts Neck, like he's...
John Murray (56:22)
yeah, there's a price club out in Hazlitt.
It's got tons of kudos. was quite a find.
Geoff Garlock (56:26)
god. my god.
Another Bakudos and Taylor Ham, I would imagine. And a big Jersey tomato.
Jason Gore (56:32)
And it got to the point where all the We
love them but they're big Jersey tomatoes down here in Jersey But I do tell you it got to the point when all the crews look all the crew quit But it didn't look like it because they was all they was all Bruce He's out there. He's the key grip. He's the best boy
He's back there driving all the other extras back and forth and he's in every fucking scene.
Geoff Garlock (57:05)
Now Bruce, were
John Murray (57:05)
Yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (57:05)
you
running back and forth between crew members, ripping masks off like you're Tom Cruise, and throwing on a new one?
Jason Gore (57:10)
This is quite the allegation,
John Murray (57:12)
I was, yeah,
Jason Gore (57:13)
quite the allegation.
John Murray (57:13)
was hard to be my own intern. know, think that was the, know, I've been just really, you know, there was a lot of, know, Rob was probably one of the only other real people besides myself that was on the set. Honestly, I think it's a two-hander between me and him.
Geoff Garlock (57:17)
⁓ man, I
Jason Gore (57:18)
Yeah, yeah.
I think it is, I discovered that about halfway through and I'm like, wait a second, I think it's just me and Baruth and the whole time that you're up there doing your thing and you're acting and I'm like, Jeremy's doing good, Baruth is doing good, but the whole time you're mumbling to yourself and I can hear it because I was running sound for a little bit when you weren't running sound you were saying to yourself, you were saying, I gotta change it all. If I change it all it'll change it in the future.
John Murray (57:56)
Well, you know, that's how it is, you know, when I record, you know, talk to little Stephen, I'm always dropping songs and stuff like that. So as far as I'm concerned, this film is probably going to go in the vault and I'll probably cut a whole, call a whole nother movie after this.
Jason Gore (58:06)
Well speaking.
Geoff Garlock (58:08)
Are you throwing in the vaults?
Jason Gore (58:10)
Well.
Thank you and speaking of little Steven line 73.
John Murray (58:17)
Hey Steve, hey hey hey!
Geoff Garlock (58:19)
Hey, it's
little Stevie here. Over here. Hey, come on Bruce, what are we doing here? up here in Norway and I'm trying to film a TV show.
John Murray (58:22)
Hey Steve! Hey! Hey! Steve! Good as-
Jason Gore (58:28)
You
Okay.
John Murray (58:34)
⁓
you do it got another season of Lily Hammer.
Jason Gore (58:37)
Lily!
Geoff Garlock (58:38)
I got another,
I was crowdfunding a new seasonal Lilyhammer and then all of sudden I'm looking in the trades and I'm like, what is my old gagoon friend doing down there making that movie? I don't think we're supposed to say this, is this a, my God.
Jason Gore (58:50)
Wait, wait, Scotty, can we say that on the air? Can we say Gagoon on the air? Scotty, we,
can you throw the delay just in case?
Geoff Garlock (58:58)
And the trades
over there were saying that all of a sudden then it was up because your laser printing machine went down.
Jason Gore (59:02)
Hey, no.
John Murray (59:06)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was tough.
Jason Gore (59:06)
I know. Ain't nobody
Geoff Garlock (59:08)
You had this
one assistant, his name was Benji, and Benji was sitting there trying to pit the witness, and all of a sudden the machine went down and then you peeled off the mask, and that wasn't Simon Pegg.
Jason Gore (59:08)
ever hung up on me.
Hey, nobody said, hung up on Bobby Spottoni.
Geoff Garlock (59:21)
⁓
we're talking about me, it's little Stevie. ⁓ forget about it. Can you believe this guy over here?
John Murray (59:23)
Hey Bobby, it's good to have you still on here! Hey! Oh man!
Jason Gore (59:24)
⁓ So good. I can't believe
John Murray (59:31)
It's as,
Jason Gore (59:31)
this,
John Murray (59:32)
dirty as you can get.
Geoff Garlock (59:33)
wanna come up to Norway and join me for Lillie Hammers season four?
Jason Gore (59:33)
get.
⁓ all I dream.
John Murray (59:37)
Hey, I love doing my camera
the last time. I'll be there any time, little Steve. You know I love- Steve, you know-
Geoff Garlock (59:40)
no, I ain't asking you Bruce, you gotta stay in the
Jason Gore (59:41)
Don't is asking
Geoff Garlock (59:43)
vault.
Jason Gore (59:43)
me Bobby's but Tony you're gonna be in the phone Bobby's but Tony ⁓
Geoff Garlock (59:45)
No, Bobby Spittoni over there's gotta be a Lillie Hammer. You gotta be over there, you gotta be doing the soundtrack to Lillie Hammer season four but put it in the vaults.
Jason Gore (59:51)
I'm gonna love it. I'm gonna do it.
Hey, Bruce, I'm gonna do Lily hammer for like you did deliver us from nowhere. I'm gonna play every fucking part.
Geoff Garlock (1:00:02)
⁓ my gosh. Well, this is working out for everybody, geez.
John Murray (1:00:02)
Alright there you go Rob, that's the way to go! That's the way to go!
Jason Gore (1:00:04)
⁓ that's how it's done. Hang up. Hang
John Murray (1:00:07)
You
Jason Gore (1:00:07)
up. And I'm also hanging up on you, little Stephen. Christ on a cracker. Hey, thank you, ⁓ Bruce, for joining us. We got so much information out of you that no one ever gets on any interview. You know, you really just let it all hang out on this on this interview.
Geoff Garlock (1:00:12)
Wow, Christ on a-
So much info.
John Murray (1:00:20)
Pleasure.
You know what? love
Val Verde. We first played it in 78. was broadcast over the station. Got screwed up. They ended up halfway through interrupting our broadcast with an NFL game that actually played through our monitors. But hey, you know, was a good time. It was a good time. I think it was...
Jason Gore (1:00:30)
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
was a good game. It was a really good game.
Geoff Garlock (1:00:40)
I will say though, will
say you did insist that you brought your vault to Val Verde and you were performing in the Steel Upon Steel vault so half of that might be on you. Half of that might be on you Bruce.
Jason Gore (1:00:45)
You did.
John Murray (1:00:47)
I wasn't a- It was an early vault!
Jason Gore (1:00:48)
Yeah. Yeah.
Was was
the original name for steel mills still vault? ⁓ well. You.
John Murray (1:00:56)
Steel Vault, Steel Vault Mill was the name, Steel Vault Mill. And then it was the Bruce Springsteen Vault
Geoff Garlock (1:00:59)
Sylvainville. Sylvainville.
John Murray (1:01:01)
Band. And then
it was the E code to the Vault Band. And then they took out the code and the vault and just made the E Street Band. Yeah, electronic code. Yeah, that's what I'm going for there. And
Geoff Garlock (1:01:02)
my goodness.
Electronic code of course is what that is, yeah.
Jason Gore (1:01:15)
my god.
Geoff Garlock (1:01:15)
Let me guess what the code was. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Jason Gore (1:01:18)
Zero, zero, zero, zero.
John Murray (1:01:18)
It was exactly...
It was one! And then it's... You gotta wait... then two! And then... Three! And then... Four! And then that's how he went. So there's... The way... Very...
Geoff Garlock (1:01:22)
One, two, three, four!
And then
Jason Gore (1:01:31)
Well, if you're anywhere
near Colt's neck right now, you know how to get into the vault, you know how to get Bruce out and get this man some air. Get this man some air.
Geoff Garlock (1:01:37)
Get them albums.
John Murray (1:01:39)
Leave me, you know what, don't come
and get me, because I got two songs I gotta write, ⁓ Humped Out in the Convertible, and Knee Socks on High. All right, that's what I already got ideas for this interview.
Jason Gore (1:01:48)
There it is.
Geoff Garlock (1:01:48)
I mean, this is
what it's all about. Billy Joel ain't writing a goddamn new song to save his life and Bruce Jersey Strong writing songs.
Jason Gore (1:01:54)
There it is. Jersey Strong
and speaking of Jersey, well no this isn't it. Jesus Christ, Scotty, get it? You're back, but you're back, but you're not doing it right. This is not Bruce. It's a, yep. It's a man who just likes to do some mouth stuff. Smellin', I can smell it right now. It's like a little cherry bum. It's Melon Camp on the
Geoff Garlock (1:02:01)
Got it!
Snap Bruce.
John Murray (1:02:08)
John is a good friend. He's a good friend.
Geoff Garlock (1:02:12)
SMELL the smoke in this song!
Jason Gore (1:02:27)
John Marie, how does it feel? First off, welcome to 108.9, the Hawk. Welcome back to 108.9, the Hawk. Second, how does it feel to play two people in the Springsteen family so far?
John Murray (1:02:28)
Hey!
Geoff Garlock (1:02:28)
Hey! ⁓
Welcome back!
John Murray (1:02:35)
Thank you, thank you!
Pretty good, pretty good. can't wait to do
play Evan and Sam, one of his male children, or play Patricia after she wins an S like a horse race or like a squaring an event.
Jason Gore (1:02:47)
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, or you play you play Pamela.
She's like taking my pictures. Pamela's out there taking all the pictures.
Geoff Garlock (1:02:58)
You
John Murray (1:02:59)
there's so much more to mine. No, it's good. It's good. I'm sorry. My internet connection was horrible. It's only gotten better now at the end of this recording. So yeah. Yeah.
Jason Gore (1:03:02)
I was.
Perfect. That's how it works. That's how it needs to work. I
Geoff Garlock (1:03:08)
Now it works perfectly.
Jason Gore (1:03:11)
was initially going to record some versions to play. So it would be like, if you see a painted sign at the side of the road and put like a bunch of reverb on it, 15 miles to love shack. And, but that was like, no, I'm going to pimp him to sing these songs. ⁓ they worked out so much better.
John Murray (1:03:21)
Yeah ⁓
That's right! It was good!
Yeah, I think so.
Jason Gore (1:03:35)
than ⁓
I could have imagined. And I want something like that on tracks three. ⁓ Who knows? Like you might be telling the truth. There's probably way too many albums in the Bruce Vault.
John Murray (1:03:49)
Yeah, I think there's a lot more covers too. I think that's like a rumor that circulates. So yeah, it's like who knows what we'll get one day.
Jason Gore (1:03:53)
yeah, there has to be, has to be.
Geoff Garlock (1:03:53)
My god.
I was just watching like a Apple doc on Brian Eno and he was explaining how he has he had his assistant basically set up his computer so that every idea he's ever had he can just press a button and it will like randomly pick them and only play for like 10 seconds so he could like both like generate ideas off of old ideas but create a new thing and I also picture Bruce could do that he's just like sitting there with just thousands of songs and it's just like
John Murray (1:04:02)
Yeah.
⁓
Jason Gore (1:04:25)
Yeah, but they'd all start off
just one, two, three, four, and he's like.
Geoff Garlock (1:04:28)
Yeah, that's the problem.
He kept being like, we gotta extend it, Like, can't just be five seconds. ⁓
Jason Gore (1:04:32)
Hahaha!
John Murray (1:04:33)
Yeah
Jason Gore (1:04:35)
What did you think of tracks two? It really is, it really is.
John Murray (1:04:38)
⁓ man, it's pretty great. ⁓ Like, it's good.
I think the real... What?
Geoff Garlock (1:04:43)
I just have to say I would be totally
shocked if John Murray, one of my older friends, would have been like, nah, not that great.
Jason Gore (1:04:47)
I know, I know.
Nah, not feeling it. Not feeling it.
John Murray (1:04:50)
Not that great. Yeah, all the money
I spent on that vinyl box set wasn't worth it. ⁓ No, really good. mean, the real jewel of it is the Philadelphia, the streets of Philadelphia sessions. It's amazing. It should have come out. But I mean, that's kind of what you want from an unreleased box set, something that should have been. And that really is it. That album's incredible.
Jason Gore (1:04:55)
Right, right.
Geoff Garlock (1:04:55)
Ha ha ha!
Jason Gore (1:05:01)
Yes. Isn't that fucking shocking that that's the jewel? Like, why didn't that come out? Why didn't that come out? And
Yeah. I love that. love
the Geoff, you would love the LA garage sessions because that's a little more unlike the Nebraska tinge. It's like it's like right in the middle of Nebraska and and born in the USA. And he couldn't have put that record out just because it was too close to Nebraska, I think. Tonally.
John Murray (1:05:20)
They're really great. They're great.
Geoff Garlock (1:05:23)
Okay, now you're talkin'.
John Murray (1:05:24)
Yo, yo.
Born in the USA.
Yeah, there's also like a nice thing
thing about them too is they're kind of like they're real demo-y So like I like it like that part about them, too They just they're so raw a lot of people are like, oh he sounds unenthusiastic on it But I'm like it's part of the charm because it's like I that stuff is like you didn't think he was gonna see the light of
Jason Gore (1:05:42)
Yeah.
Yeah.
John Murray (1:05:54)
know, listening to it, you're like, ⁓ and like the great thing about it, got the vinyl box set, comes in this like beautifully complicated box, I was like, screw the box, I just stuck it into my collection. So now, like whenever I just want to listen to them, can just pull one off the shelf and kind of just play it. it's like a nice, like you play it with like either one of the regular released records, it kind of just makes for like, it feels like more of a whole picture. So.
Jason Gore (1:06:05)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (1:06:19)
I mean, here's a thought I just had that's kind of related. What if when this movie does come out, the three of us reconvene after we've watched it and have a bonus episode where we just talk about what the fuck is going on in this movie? What a fun conversation.
John Murray (1:06:22)
What's up?
Jason Gore (1:06:32)
100%. Yeah. Yeah, I'm
John Murray (1:06:34)
Sure man, sure. I mean.
Geoff Garlock (1:06:38)
As I sit here, listen, as you both know where I'm like, yeah, Bruce Springsteen, sure. always the thing with me.
But there's, but like the merging of the worlds of movies and Bruce and and I already am like How will both of you enjoy this movie when I'll be sitting there going like what the fuck is going on with this thing?
Jason Gore (1:06:45)
Yeah.
John Murray (1:06:51)
Yeah.
Jason Gore (1:06:59)
It's...
I think
I'm still also going to be what the fuck is going on because it's such a weird thing to make a movie about.
Geoff Garlock (1:07:07)
I think you'll be the in-between, which will be fun.
John Murray (1:07:13)
It's a weird time. Everyone's is a lot of people are like, why aren't they doing like Born to Run on the brink of his fame instead of this? I mean, I read Warren Zane's book too, and I don't really know what the crust of it is to make the film. But there is like the thing that's good that I could see about making a film about it, which is good is if they go this route, which it seems like they might.
Jason Gore (1:07:25)
Like what it is. Yeah.
Geoff Garlock (1:07:26)
Why?
John Murray (1:07:36)
If they went like real Terrence Malick and it's just him looking sad sitting by a reservoir coming up with these songs, there's something appealing about that. Cause that's really kind of what the book's about. Like he was very lonely. Uh, and he was by the reservoir and Colt's neck and just kind of sitting there like coming up with this album and stuff like that. Like I think there's something there, but I, it's, it's definitely like, I don't know. It's like, we'll see how it goes.
Jason Gore (1:07:46)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Geoff Garlock (1:07:58)
If the bear
is running his hand over wheat in Nebraska, and it keeps phasing between that and Jersey, man, maybe we're talking Turkey. And then CGI dinosaurs. you're like, wait, what the heck? Terrets?
John Murray (1:08:02)
Yeah
It's gonna be mo-
Jason Gore (1:08:10)
Yeah.
John Murray (1:08:11)
Yeah, exactly. Ending shout
out to the Verosado Bridge. Ending shout out to the Verosado Bridge. We're out.
Jason Gore (1:08:16)
Right,
we say goodbye? Can I play one thing and I want to get your guys thoughts on it because I don't know if you've seen it speaking of rock movies. Here we go.
John Murray (1:08:18)
Yeah.
Jason Gore (1:08:34)
This is the Scorpions movie.
Current.
So this is just all a bunch of different shots of these guys playing the scorpions.
Geoff Garlock (1:09:01)
Dominic, whatever his name is in this.
Jason Gore (1:09:03)
Yeah
We are the new generation of Germans.
Geoff Garlock (1:09:13)
That's,
mean honestly, I'll be there day one, cause you, I love, you know how much I mean truly just love the Scorpions more than any band. And also, truly, big respect that they're sticking with the hard German accents that all of Scorpions have. Where it's like, yeah, like, like they all are just like, like they can't, it's amazing.
Jason Gore (1:09:16)
I'll be there day fucking one. Yes.
John Murray (1:09:16)
of day one for sure. For sure.
Jason Gore (1:09:23)
Yeah.
Yes, we are the same scorpions. are.
You know what?
John Murray (1:09:40)
It
reminded me though of like Rockstar. It reminded me of the Wobberg. It looks like Rockstar.
Geoff Garlock (1:09:44)
It looks like Rockstar. Is it because
Jason Gore (1:09:44)
Yes, yeah, yeah, looks like Rockstar.
Geoff Garlock (1:09:46)
what's his name? Is it Rockstar as well?
John Murray (1:09:48)
When
Jason Gore (1:09:49)
I don't
know.
John Murray (1:09:49)
he's obviously in that movie he's playing Brian May as well by the way, just to tie it back. I saw I Saw it in the theater dude saw it in the theater
Geoff Garlock (1:09:52)
Yes. I mean, I love, I love Rockstar so much. hate...
Jason Gore (1:09:52)
Yes. But I just-
I
saw it in theater too.
Geoff Garlock (1:10:00)
Two Old Queens immediately picked that when I was on Two Old Queens as my... I mean, I can't, I mean, them inventing grunge is the greatest ending ever. ⁓
John Murray (1:10:08)
Dude, it is, that is like a
Jason Gore (1:10:10)
You
John Murray (1:10:10)
Shyamalan twist that no one fucking talks about, dude. Like, I can remember my jaw hitting the floor in the theater with that, I was like, what?
Jason Gore (1:10:19)
John, we love you so much. Thank you for coming back. What's going on? Any plugs or anything or what's
John Murray (1:10:19)
good so good
Geoff Garlock (1:10:20)
Love you, buddy.
John Murray (1:10:23)
Yeah, I got some
plug. Hey, I got some plugs gang. back. I'm back in the game. What's going on? ⁓ Well, I'm teaching at UCB in New York. So if you're like, you know, looking for an improv class, look at my name on the website. I'm to be doing a show regularly every other Friday starting in September at the second city. It's called Old Yorkers. It's going to, it's got a ton of folks that we all know.
Jason Gore (1:10:26)
A D plugs
Geoff Garlock (1:10:26)
You got plugs, Johnny!
Jason Gore (1:10:35)
Hell yeah.
shit. Nice. Yeah,
Geoff Garlock (1:10:49)
Yeah.
Jason Gore (1:10:52)
yeah.
John Murray (1:10:52)
will
be at the black box theater there at the seven p dug mo you know it yeah molly thomas yet i'd possibly ⁓ yeah it's whoever's around who ever around eric to know a todd yeah so sue galloway
Geoff Garlock (1:10:54)
Dougmo. Benrameca. Fisher?
I'm just guessing who it would be, yeah. Eric Tenoy!
Jason Gore (1:11:05)
Charlie Todd?
Yeah. We're just we're just
Geoff Garlock (1:11:09)
Love it. ⁓
Jason Gore (1:11:10)
we're just naming old
Geoff Garlock (1:11:11)
Sue, really? That's great.
Jason Gore (1:11:11)
old Yorkers now we're just naming old Yorkers. Well, that's amazing, man.
John Murray (1:11:13)
Old Yorkers, yeah. So I'll be doing that
every other Friday. So two Fridays a month. That starts in September for So I'm doing shows. I'm out there. Yep. Yo, gonna bring it back. I'm gonna bring it. Yep. Yeah, we're gonna bring it back. know. Nope.
Jason Gore (1:11:21)
You're doing stuff. You're doing stuff.
Geoff Garlock (1:11:22)
And low standards.
We're gonna, you're gonna bring it with you, me and Fisher. But bi-coastal. Okay.
John Murray (1:11:33)
The only thing, and then I'll just plug my vacation. We're bringing it back. Bringing it back. You know, everyone, you gotta reboot everything. I mean, they're bringing everything else back, so it's time for us to bring our web series back and for me to bring back my standup show. Which, my standup show, which I love because everyone we had on that show is like huge. And so I'll always be like, oh yeah, you were on my standup show where you talked about bad movies.
Geoff Garlock (1:11:34)
John and Geoff are still married. We're gonna do our second web series. Bring it back. The Comedy Crib on IFC is back and better than ever.
Jason Gore (1:11:45)
Yeah. See so. ⁓
Yeah.
Yeah, you got Nate Bergazi like, Yep. Yep.
John Murray (1:12:02)
I'm just like, yep. I'm like, Nikki Glaser hosting those Golden Globes. We had her on the show. ⁓
Geoff Garlock (1:12:09)
What movie
did you talk about, do you remember? Buckaroo Banzai!
John Murray (1:12:10)
What did she what did I think she know? I think she pulled an audible and showed a part the beginning of a serious man by the Coen Brothers just because that opening of that is really good with I think was a dybbuk, the kind of like succubus creature in beginning. So the golem, thank you. So anyway, yeah.
Geoff Garlock (1:12:20)
⁓ okay.
Jason Gore (1:12:21)
⁓ okay.
Geoff Garlock (1:12:25)
Yeah. the Golem.
No, not the golem.
Either way, yes.
Jason Gore (1:12:32)
Nice
man. Well, Thank you so much for coming on, man. This has been a blast and we'll have you back as Pamela Springsteen next.
John Murray (1:12:33)
Either right. With some monster like that.
Alright man, let's do it.
was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, let's do it. Yeah.
Jason Gore (1:12:48)
Yeah, she was. Yes, she was.
Geoff Garlock (1:12:49)
That's true.

John Murray
John Murray is a comedian living in NYC. In 2013, he was named "Comedy's Next Almost Star" by Esquire Magazine. He is the co-creator of the IFC Comedy Crib series, “John & Geoff Are Married”. John hosted a podcast dedicated to everything Bruce Springsteen called THE BOSSCAST. He has appeared on such TV shows such as 30 Rock, Broad City, Difficult People and The Daily Show.