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 we were talking about the Metallica show that just happened in Las Vegas.

They just picked up the next leg of the tour.

This is on the other night, November 26th.

And yeah, I'm on the phone right now via Skype.

And I think you're in Texas with Nick Garzolini.

How you doing, Nick?

I am awesome.

How are you doing?

I'm doing great, man. I'm trying to keep warm here in Nashville. It's in the 30s currently, so it's a little chilly.

Oh, wow. Where are you at in Texas?

I'm in Southwest, Fort Worth. Oh, okay, cool. Very cool. Man, I have been through the Dallas Fort Worth area dozens and dozens of times on tour.

And I used to not love it.

I'll be honest.

But Dallas and Fort Worth have changed so much.

And I ended up really falling in love with that city.

Yes, it has.

I went to college here about 15 years ago. And then about six months ago, my wife and I left Phoenix, Arizona, and back to you Hall, and moved out here.

Oh, that's awesome, man. So Phoenix, okay. Yeah, you were in some serious heat out there.

Yes, we were. Yeah, I mean, Texas gets hot hot obviously but phoenix is another beast that's this

it's i spent a lot of time in phoenix as a kid growing up got a lot of extended family there um

and it was uh yeah we'd always drive out there from california and it's it's a different kind of

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