Hero of the day might be one of the most underrated songs of the load era.

It was a number one rock hit. It was being played all over MTV. And now it's a song that Metallica never plays live anymore. On this episode, I talk about Metallica and their unfortunate history with not playing the Super Bowl. Give you my fantasy set list for when they hopefully do play the Super Bowl. Talk about why S&M1 has more staying power than S&M2, and of course,

take a deep dive on all things hero of the day. Let's get into it.

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You are listening to Metal Up Your Hot Popper. With your host, Clint Well, All Things in Top. You reach the end of the line.

All right, episode 446. We're doing Hero of the Day. This one was requested by someone who wrote in, I believe it was a patron who said that this was their wife's favorite song from Lode. So it's one of mine, too, and I'm excited to talk about it. I'm going to have my guitar strapped on. We're going to do everything that we normally do in these episodes, talk through everything that's in the load deluxe box set, from the riff tapes to the demos and the dungeon, to teaching the band the songs on the floor and rehearsals, to actually getting the basic tracks all the way through the vocal overdubs and all that stuff. So it's going to be exciting. First of all, I want to say thank you to new patrons. Getting a ton of new patrons, and I think it's because there's a lot of cool shit going on at Patreon. I'm putting a bunch of videos up. I've put two videos up of my breakdowns of my covers of Metallica songs where I go through my entire logic session. I did it for Fixer and I did it for Hero of the Day,

which as of the airing of this episode,

my cover should be up on YouTube somewhere.

A lot of fun stuff happening on YouTube also.

Thanks for everyone for checking all that out

and giving me the positive feedback.

You may have noticed that the Studio Eve looks even better

than it did last week.

Every week, we're leveling up, as they say. Um, but there's a lot of people hop in on the Patreon train. So I want to say thank you to them before we dive into all this stuff. So, uh, here's a list of names. Thank you to all of you. Once again, it's p, A, T-R-E-O-N dot com slash metal of your podcast if you're interested

andrew linberg james d jason brown andrew bootsellis colton brazier tim rasmusin house of pain

nineteen eighty four stephen mccullough mu t sun m u iI-T-S-U-N, Billy Paul, it says Paul, Nathaniel Huffman, Chris K-W, and

simply Colton. So I just want to thank all of you guys for hopping on the ride.

This applause is for you. This is for you.

It really does mean a lot to me, and it helps out a lot and all that stuff.

There's a bunch of cool stuff just this week.

I dropped the AMA with my wife.

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