Both of our gigs last week were rained out, and Friday night we took advantage of the downtime to record an episode of SlapperCast with Heide. We talk about obscenely high ticket prices, Heide's recent gig with Marie Osmond, Shane MacGowan, the Pogues, Steel Panther, Thin Lizzy, Blaze Bayley, Dolly Parton, and a bunch of other stuff.

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Another epic night at O'Bannon's Taphouse in College Station.

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This week on SlapperCast: we kill some songs (some of them being Christmas song), resurrect a few in return, and decide which of the killed songs we’d prefer to cover if we had to. Discussed: Rory Gallagher, Adrian Belew, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Elvis Presley, and Mariah Carey.

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This week we talk with the man who is putting our 2023 Ireland Tour together: Dennis O'Carroll of Doc's Irish Tours and Doc's Golf Tours.

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SlapperCast 194 was pieced together from two segments filmed in the van following our two shows this past weekend, along with some footage shot Saturday night in College Station with a very rowdy crowd at our obeloved O'Bannon's. This includes footage from Chad's camera set up stage right, a brief clip captured by Kevin from behind the drum kit between songs, and a clip filmed from the audience by our friend Ellen Reeves.

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This week we talk about an upcoming new version of our song "Everyday is Christmas (Since You're Gone)", the difficult listening of Bruce Springsteen's early material, and Patrick's memories of seeing Blaze Bayley perform with Iron Maiden in the '90s contrasted with seeing YES perform this past week.

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This week, we talk about the brilliant comedian Doug Stanhope and the thrill of hearing him talk about us on his podcast, upcoming tour plans for January, and next year's IRELAND tour. We then do the usual round of song kills & revivals before Patrick leads us through a series of "lightning round" questions. Special guest star this week: Heide's golden retriever Ben, here to talk about his upcoming DVD release.

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SlapperCast Episode 191 was recorded in a leisurely manner this past Sunday night in Patrick's living room, which we haven't done in awhile. After Patrick tells us how his laptop got destroyed by a falling mirror, we touch on our latest bit of big news: we're FINALLY going back to Ireland next Fall, and we hope you'll join us. It's going to be a blast.

Also for the first time in a long while, we have a couple shows coming up at two Molly's Pub locations (Molly Maguire's and Molly's Conroe). This prompts Patrick and Chad to talk about the great Eamonn Finnerty, co-owner of Molly's Pubs, who was instrumental in helping Blaggards get off the ground in Houston, starting with Patrick's earlier band On the Dole.

Chad announces his new podcast Prodigious Saps, a nerdy Superman-inspired show he launched this week with his old friend Brendan Jones, former lead singer of local Houston band Zsu-Zsu's Petals and co-founder of the Tesla City Stories. The first episode is out now as an audio-only podcast and a full video on YouTube.

Also discussed: the documentary "Under the Volcano" about George Martin's legendary AIR Studio in Montserrat, the Police, Motörhead, Paul Simon and Orville Peck.

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Episode 190 was recorded on the way home from Home Sweet Farm Biergarten in Brenham, TX, a fantastic music venue that we will be returning to as often as possible.

Many thanks to Susan Smith Cates for providing the video footage from the show!

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SlapperCast Episode 189 was recorded right after we picked up Heide at Dallas Love Field on the way to our gig at Lewisville Western Days, and again afterwards as we drove her back to the airport before driving home to Houston. Yes... she literally flew in and flew out the very same day just to play this one gig with us. Jet-setting is becoming one of Heide's superpowers.

Special guest this week for the very first time: Patrick's daughter Tara Devlin, who joins us to kill/shine a light on some music, and also contributed video footage of our show in Lewisvile. Thanks Tara!

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