Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of Chewing It. This is Kevin Heffernan. On behalf of Steve Lemmy, thanks for joining us.

Got a great episode this week. We got a chance to sit down with a friend John Popper. You know him as the frontman for Blues Traveler, a singer, songwriter, harmonica virtuoso, all-around great guy.

He was doing a show here in L.A. at the El Ray Theater, and he invited us to come over there and check it out.

And we did and had a great time.

And then afterwards, we went over to the Roosevelt Hotel and had a late-night chat poolside.

And, yes, we had several drinks during this chat. had a late night chat poolside.

And yes, we had several drinks during this chat, and maybe that's evident in the conversation.

But we had a great time over there.

So excuse all the noise.

There were some other folks in the area.

And some interruptions. We ended up shutting the noise. There were some other folks in the area and some interruptions. We ended up shutting the place down, actually. I think you'll hear us getting kicked out of there.

And then we moved to the parking lot. Had some more conversation out there. So we just had a

great, great time with Popper. He's a great guy, just a smart guy, insightful, thoughtful, talented, funny guy.

And it all comes across in the conversation.

So enjoy that.

Enjoy the conversation, everybody.

Before we get going, some bidsness, we got a couple of live shows coming up.

This weekend, we'll be in St. Louis.

We'll be at the Westport Funny Bone.

There was some confusion.

At one point, we were listed at the Valley Park Funny Bone,

but we're going to be at the Westport Funny Bone.

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