Here we are everybody it is another episode of Let There Be Talk brought to you by me Dean Adele Ray.

How are you guys? It's Monday April 13th and we got a fresh new extension on the lockdown till May 15th.

So here we are inside for the ride. Healthy? Thank God and trying to stay sane, trying to keep my brain from going to dark places and hope you guys are too.

You got to exercise. This is vital. You got to be doing some indoor exercising or slip out into the neighborhood with a mask on and gloves or whatever and get some walking on.

Get that heart rate up. That's what I'm trying to do. It rained here for like three days straight. So I was kind of locked into the house and it started closing in on me.

So Saturday it was beautiful out and I got out and I walked five miles and it really helped. It really helped. It's funny.

I always hear that one of the number one things to combat depression is exercise and I know in the last four years of me going to the gym non-stop and a lot of walking.

It does make me feel better. How are you guys doing? Did you have a good Easter if that's what you do? You do the Easter thing right on. Good for you. You found that chocolate eggs.

I told this story. I think I told it on the Garrow episode. My old Harley boss. I did tell it. If you never heard that, go back and listen to it. I sat down with my boss at Harley Davidson before I did comedy. I was selling motorcycles.

And while I started comedy, I was still doing it. But there was an Easter that the owner bought everybody a white chocolate bunny and there were one pound, a one pound white chocolate bunny.

And no one ate them. And each day, this is, you wonder where my diabetes came from. Each day around, I don't know, two in the afternoon, I would just bust one open, a one pound white chocolate bunny.

And I would fucking eat it. There was like ten of them, like ten days straight, like ten pounds of white chocolate. What a fucking lunatic.

I wonder how I got diabetes. I love white chocolate. So it's, I think it's the white trash of candy. I didn't know this, but when I was young, I would just, you know, eat white chocolate. I love it. And then people later look at you like you're weird. Like, you're in the white chocolate. You weirdo.

I love it. Not anymore, of course. May versus going to be four years of no sugar. It's coming up on four years. Wow.

This is episode number 525. It was recorded late January when I was in Las Vegas doing a residency of stand up comedy at the comedy seller at the Rio Hotel, one of my favorite comedy clubs in America.

And I was there and that was when I was doing Thrash January. Well, I thought it'd be cool to sit down and talk to Brian Slagel, who I've had on. I think this guy, you know, he's a three timer, which is very rare. Usually I don't have anybody more than once.

But I love this man and his stories. And I thought it'd be perfect to have him on and talk about those old days of Thrash Metal and him putting out the first compilation with the first recorded Metallica song.

And I didn't put it out right away because I decided to save it. I felt like we did four Thrash January's in a row, four Mondays in a row. And I didn't want people to be like, all right, enough with a Thrash Metal.

If they weren't into Thrash Metal, and I didn't want people to just skip over episodes. And then once I interviewed Adam Dubin, the director of Murder in the Front Row, which came out last week, I realized this is a perfect timing to put Brian's out because it's a great two weeks in a row of promoting Murder in the Front Row coming out on DVD April 24th.

And I want to give that film as much glory as I can because it's absolutely fantastic. It's a huge part of music history. And even if you don't like Thrash Metal, you will love this film. You will be like, what the hell? How did this happen?

And Slagel is an absolute metal genius. He loves metal. He's loved it since he was a kid like myself. He opened on label, metal blade records. He's still here with over 1500 releases.

And going stronger than ever, he had great stories. And not only did we talk Thrash Metal, I can talk all kinds of stuff with this guy real estate. He moved out to Vegas recently.

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