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Alright, let's get into the episode. My voice is absolutely trash today. It's extra cookie monster. Been sick all week. In and out of this fucking shitty cold. How do you get a cold in June? You know, what the fuck is that, man?

I love those conspiracy theorists. You know, oh, the, the chemtrails, man, the government's dropping shit on us. Chemtrails, I love that. You don't know what chemtrails is. It's just YouTube and laughter head off.

Whatever, I mean, if you believe in that, it's cool. Whatever. I'm just, it's just hilarious that people got timed. Worry about shit like that, man. Like what's that in the sky? It's a chemtrail. They're dropping some, dropping some swine flu on us. Man, my voice is shut. Yeah. Wow. Couldn't sleep last night. Incredible night. I did one of the most prestigious comedy shows in America.

Melta. If you remember, I had Joan Array on the show who is the creator of Melta and an great friend and a music lover. He has his own label. Now he puts out records. He has the fantastic podcast, Joan Arradio.

And the guy is just fucking great, man. And he had me on this show. That was nervous. I'm going to admit it. Done over 2600 shows, but there's ones that get your blood going, you know?

All eyes are on you when you're on that stage. So, man, what a great night. The crowd was amazing. Jonah gave me this great funny intro.

And other comedians on the show, Barron Vaughan, Sarah Silverman was on. It was just awesome, man.

God, I just can't imagine if I wasn't doing comedy, you know? Just the joy I got from that last night was unbelievable.

Better than any cocaine I've ever done. Man, that's always the cliche, right? Like, oh, this is better than drugs. It is. I've done a lot of drugs. It didn't touch last night.

So thank you, Joan Arrad. Thank you, Emily and meltdown and the nerd melt showroom for having me. Incredible.

Oh, let's see. I'm going to make the intro short because my voice is fried. My guest today, you want to talk bad ass. This woman is a crushing shredder guitar player. Need a strouse.

Currently playing with Alice Cooper. She also was in a band called the Iron Maidens. That's when I first found out about her.

Check her on YouTube. Unbelievable. You want to talk about something, some battles. Imagine trying to play, you know, heavy metal in a man's world. That shit is not easy.

That's why I always say would, you know, whatever you want. Go for it. That's what this woman did. She's a LA native grew up on the Shrapnel world, which I had on Mark Varnie. Remember him. He's got all the best guitar players in the world on his label, Shrapnel.

She grew up in that world listening to those records like Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, racer X. But most important, she found a record fan in blue, which was the only all girl female band, all girl female, all girl band on Shrapnel.

Which had was led by Michelle Meldrum, who passed away a good friend of mine and dearly missed. And she was an absolute guitar goddess, just like my guest here.

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