You might have heard that the Talica boys were going to play some heavy shit tonight. Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast, I'm Ethan Luck, and this is another edition of Metal

Tales from the Road, and on the phone via Skype from Houston, Texas.

We have our good friend and listener of the show and Patreon, Mr. Mike Fale.

Hey, Ethan.

Glad to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Hey, we're glad to have you, man.

And I have to apologize before we started recording, you told me the correct pronunciation of your last name, which I thought was fell, but it is fail, as in the God that failed.

I will take that.

I've never used that one to describe it, but that may be the go-to from now on.

I have you not done that. Oh, my gosh.

That's the new go-to.

Yes, that has to be the new go-to. That, yes, that has to be the new go-to. Like if someone's like, hey, how do you pronounce the last name, dude?

You're like, it's fail as in the guy that failed.

That has to be how you use that every time now.

Done.

I got it.

There it is.

All right.

It's official here on Melop your podcast. So we're talking to Mike because

on the Middle Tales from the Road series, we're talking to Metallica fans, Melopier podcast fans who

are patrons who have gone to recent shows, whether it's on the worldwide tour or in this case,

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