Hey there, kids, welcome to the Phile for aThursday. How are you? I will click through maybe 400 links but if something requires me to download a new app... you're dreaming. If you could end COVID-19 by sacrificing a part of the United States, which state would you choose and why Florida? Okay, let's start off today with this pic...
Hahahahahahahaha. When I saw that pic last night on the Internet I thought I had to tell the story about it. A sweet, goofy little good girl named Jubilee finally has a family. The Siberian husky was abandoned by her breeder because the d-bag basically thought, “This one’s weird looking. I can’t sell this living thing for money. To the garbage with it!” Jubilee is crosseyed and, instead of looking majestic and lupine, like most huskies, she just looks sweet and silly. Fortunately, Jubilee wound up at Husky House in New Jersey. The good, Husky loving people there put out the word about Jubilee on Facebook and from there, her story went viral. "My name is Jubilee. I’m a 4-year-old female husky who has been with Husky House for a long time. I came from a 'breeder' who couldn’t sell me because he said I was 'weird' looking. Huskies are majestic looking dogs and I don’t know why I don’t look like them. I wish I was beautiful so someone would want me to be their dog. I like other dogs, but I don’t like cats. I love people, but I’m a little shy because people mostly laugh at the way I look. Doesn’t anyone want a funny looking husky? I wish I had a family of my own who could love me even though I’m not pretty. Apply to adopt Jubilee at huskyhouse.org. Please note... Husky House is located in Matawan, NJ and we DO NOT DO LONG DISTANCE ADOPTIONS." Of course, all it takes is one look at this adorable dog to realize she’s special as can be. So then it’s not surprising that she was adopted soon after the post went viral. But Jubilee didn’t just find a happy home. She also paid Husky House’s kindness forward by helping the sanctuary raise over $2,000 thanks to the post that went viral because, let’s be honest with ourselves, Jubilee is an adorable, emminently shareable dog. And you can still donate to Husky House, by the way. Congrats Jubilee! And thanks for your good work, Husky House.
A Colorado man attempting to prove that he was a real, liberty-loving, free-thinkin’ ‘Merican by not respecting the completely legal rules governing a business’s private property had his plans backfire on him in fairly spectacular fashion. Fortunately for us, it was all captured on video. By him. Hence the backfiring. The aforementioned man who has somehow deluded himself into thinking he’s some sort of 21st Century Boston Tea Partier because he won’t cover his face during a very real pandemic walked into a Costco in Arvada, Colorado without a face mask on. Costco store policy says its members and employees must wear face masks to shop there while the coronavirus is out and about being a real dick to everyone. The man was not down to follow the rules this private business is well within its rights to enact on its own property, though. Again, this guy basically Samuel Adams and Paul Revere and Patrick Henry plus a dash of Patrick Swayze from Road House... minus doing anything of actual importance or a righteous cause... so he wasn’t about to lay down and be oppressed. When a Costco worker named Tison told the man he needed to cover his face or leave, the man whipped out his phone and vowed to broadcast this rape of his God-given rights as an American to his 3,000 Instagram followers. No really, he bragged about having 3,000 Instagram followers. The Coscto employee, however, happily introduced himself to the camera and explained why he was confronting the customer. He then confiscated the man’s shopping cart and kicked him out of the store. So the upset patriot/customer uploaded the video to the Internet, thinking it would vindicate him. It very much did not. Not because people agree with the man who wouldn’t wear a mask, but because people think he’s an idiot and that the Costco employee is awesome. Here are some choice quotes from the man in the video. “I’ll just put you on my 3,000-follower Instagram feed.” “I’m not doing it because I woke up in a free country.” “Cuz he’s a pussy little, bitch.” “Cuz I’m not a fucking sheep.” After going viral the man took to the Internet to explain his actions… and by that I mean take no responsibility for himself and his choices, call everyone else a sheep, and blame liberals for… stuff. That last part being especially ironic since it is conservatives, typically, who tend to be the ones who have more reverence for right businesses have to set reasonable rules in order for customers to patronize their property and services. He was also shirtless and in bed, for some reason. All’s well that ends well and there are few better endings than an attempted Internet shaming backfiring.
An 80-year-old woman from Houston, Texas was fatally stabbed by a man who out on bond at the time of the murder. According to authorities Randy Lewis, 38, waived back on April 30th, 2020, for a charge of assaulting public servant from two years ago. According to charging documents, Lewis is now being accused of killing Rosalie Cook. Authorities stated she was stabbed in the chest outside of her car after shopping inside a Walgreens near the corner of Gessner and S. Braeswood Boulevard. According to Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, after stabbing the 80-year-old woman, the man then went down and started rifling through her stuff and tried to steal her car. A responding officer arrived shortly after and found Lewis by Cook’s car in the parking lot trying to start it. When Lewis refused the commands he lunged at the officer with a knife believed to be six in long, and then two shots were fired. Lewis died at the scene. Through a statement, Acevedo noted, “This is tragic, but the most tragedy here is a woman that has died from a guy who attacked her for no reason other than to steal from her and carjack her.” Court records stated Lewis has a history of mental illness and was found temporarily incompetent after a mental exam which was taken back in October 2019 and was committed to a mental facility. In March his stay was extended by a judge for 60 days after a request from the head of the facility. He was released to Royal Personal Care Home on May 1st. Lewis was released to a man who is listed in court documents as a man who was ordered to take him to a group home. According to Houston Police Union President Joe Grimaldi, Lewis has been arrested a total of 67 times! He was charged several times with assault, trespassing, theft, and possession of marijuana plus burglary of a vehicle. Cook’s family spoke with authorities, saying the “city of Houston let her down,” and hopes for swift changes to be made to the Justice System. The victim’s son noted, “Right now, we’ll celebrate mom’s life but then, it’s certainly my intention to become active in victim’s rights,” said the victim’s son. “I’m not sure what shape that’ll take, but I’ll certainly apply my energy, my voice and my resources to right this wrong. These policies have to change.”
Wade Seago’s pet schnauzer, Cruiser, wouldn’t stop barking recently at his home in rural Alabama. So Seago went to the window to see why. What greeted him on his front lawn was almost too insane to believe. An 820-pound hog... with six-inch tusks... was standing right there on his property. “Cruiser had this huge hog confused with all of the barking and movement,” Seago said. “It was not a good situation.” The Alabama man did not hesitate. He grabbed his .38 caliber handgun and shot the feral hog dead. Despite it taking three shots to kill, Seago does not regret his actions. “I didn’t think twice about taking down this hog,” Seago said. “I’d do it again tomorrow.” Seago is an avid deer hunter and runs a taxidermy business. While he says hogs are prevalent in the area, he had never seen one this size until now. Here's a pic to show you how big this thing is...
That’s not from our current version of Earth. That looks like it walked through a wormhole that opened up ten million years ago and accidentally strutted onto this guy’s front lawn. That shouldn’t be real. Can anything other than a human being kill a hog like that in North America? I guess a whole pack of wolves could, but it feels like one mountain lion by itself would be totally outmatched. I’m betting against a pack of coyotes being able to do anything here either. It’s easy to forget how much of a America is still technically wilderness, because hogs like this (though not quite this big) are everywhere. The amount of space and time it takes to grow this big is just stunning. I’m surprised it only took three bullets to kill this thing, to be honest. Unless you get it right in the head or heart this thing looks like it could take a whole clip and keep chugging for at least a little while.
It's real! After years of hashtags, false reports, real reports, and everything in-between, Zack Snyder has confirmed that the Snyder Cut of Justice League is real and will be streaming on HBO Max. Holy freaking moly. HBO Max has officially dubbed it as Zack Snyder’s Justice League, whilst also using the #releasethesnydercut hashtag to get everyone’s attention, which was, to be honest, really freaking smart. This is going to make a lot of fans very happy... even the toxic ones sadly... since many felt that Snyder’s vision for Justice League was butchered to make it more appealing to the mainstream. While Man of Steel and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice are flawed products, you could at least tell that they were films Zack was interested in making. Joss Whedon’s rushed attempt at “fixing” Justice League under Warner Bros. orders was just uninspired garbage. Just to be clear, it’s not Whedon’s fault that the movie was bad; they could only shoot a couple of new scenes while keeping a bunch of the shots from Snyder’s version of the movie. Maybe it would have been all right if Whedon could completely remake the film from scratch but that did not happen. Point of the matter is, we’re finally going to be able to see the long-fabled Snyder Cut, after all these years. For all the crap 2020 has put on our laps, this is actually one of the better things to come from this year. What a life.
Okay, so I started off this entry talking about Jubilee the cross eyed husky, well I have to show you this other pic of her. It makes me chuckle...
Hahahahahahaha. It's time for graduates to be witty with their year book quotes...
That's funny. Man, those protestors and their signs really bother me...
So annoying. Movie theater marquee signs have been pretty creative though.
So, do bugs bother you? I hope you never have to see a sign like this...
Yeesh. Okay, so one of the best things about the Internet is that you can see porn so easily and for free. If you're quarantined in your house though and you can;t get away from your wife or girlfriend that might not be as easy. So, I have a solution...
You're welcome. Emotions can run high when it comes to wedding planning, and one bride is thinking of snubbing a potential maid of honor due to a childhood argument. The bride emailed the Phile to ask for advice. Her friend is expecting to be named maid of honor at her wedding, but the bride isn't into it anymore. And it's all because of a dispute from when they were seven. The bride says she and her friends assigned each other's maids of honor when they were teens.
"Next year I will be marrying my future husband. I have had the same group of best friends since we were all four-years-old. When we were in our early teens we made a circle system so that we would all each get the opportunity to be maids of honor at one of our weddings. This friend, lets call her Grace was assigned to me." She loves the friend who was assigned to her... but she can't get over something that happened when they were little. "I love Grace to absolute death. She lost her dad as a child and has been through a lot of mental health issues over the last decade, but I cant help but have a massive grudge against her because of something that happened when we were seven. I don't remember all the details but in short she told a teacher I was bullying her, and I got a massive scolding from my dad, I had never seen him more angry. She claims to have absolutely no recollection of this, and says that even if it did happen I should excuse it because a) it was 16 years ago and b) only a month after her dad died and she was going through a lot." She told Grace flat-out why she didn't want to pick her, and Grace was angry. "When I met my current fiancĂ©, the topic of weddings came up in our best friends group chat. I told Grace then that I wouldn't want her to be my maid of honor, because of what happened when we were kids. I think she thought I was joking as when I recently brought it back up, and asked one of our other best friends to be maid of honor instead, she was really upset claiming that if the only trauma I experienced was my dad telling me off I 'got off lightly' and that I need to stop holding such a grudge." Her friends think the bride's in the wrong, but she doesn't think she should have to pick her maid of honor due to peer pressure. "I think she's being really unfair. All of our friends have told me I'm an asshole for not allowing her to be maid of honor but at the end of the day its my wedding and I'm not going to change my mind to appease her. Am I an asshole for not wanting her to be my maid of honor?" Hmmmm. You are within your rights to choose whoever you wants as your maid of honor... but you're making the situation incredible petty. The timeline is the problem here. You should've spoken up years ago because presumably you and your friends came up with this "circle system" wayyy later than the incident that happened when you were SEVEN. If I were Grace I would feel really hurt that all of a sudden it's my turn in the circle system and... wait, I don't get a turn. It doesn't sound like you "love her to absolute death." Seriously you went on being great friends with her this long, and then you bring it up NOW? I wouldn't be surprised if all of the other girls backed out of the wedding to avoid the pettiness you have introduced into your friendship circle. You were both seven when this grudge inducing event happened. You cannot even remember the details. And, it was a month after your best friend's father died. Yet, you waited all these years to punish her? The childhood incident probably wasn't even that bad: If you haven’t had your turn already don’t be shocked when that person decides you don’t have to be their maid of honor because you broke the circle. You can pick whoever you want, but your reasoning is suspect. And maybe Grace is dodging a bullet! If you have a problem that you want me to gibe advice for then email me at thepeverettphile@gmail.com.
Hahahahahaha. If you spot the Mindphuck then let me know. Guess what day it is, kids...
That one is not too bad, right? Okay, let's take a look at Port Jeff...
There's a few people walking around. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, here is...
Top Phive Things Said By Parents This Week In Quarantine
5. My son mowed he lawn so if you need me I'll be outside re-mowing the lawn.
4. I had a small rip in my scrub pants and ended up sewing both legs completely together. I think it's safe to say I'm not qualified to be teaching my kids home economics.
3. You know what's super fun? Your 4-year-old asking you to explain death at bedtime!
2. I've got a 5-year-old dancing around the house chanting, "horn dog" becaise he's rhyming words with his lunch today... "corn dog." He thinks it's a dog playing with a trumpet.
And the number one thing said by a parent this week in quarantine is...
1. My kid told me there's a spider in the living room this morning so I've locked him in there until it's dealt with.
This sarcastic 2018 Tumblr post became the official position of the United States government.
You know I live in Florida, right? Well, theres's stuff that happens in this state that happens no where else...
Tourists at a Florida state park expecting a day filled with natural wonders and sunshine instead got a firsthand look at how powerful and scary nature can be when they witnessed a wild horse curb stomp an alligator. Krystal M. Berry happened to be at the right place at the right time Wednesday to capture the animal confrontation at the Paynes Prairie State Park, which is located just south of Gainesville. Berry said of the encounter that, “I’m still shaking.” The video begins with the horse and the rest of its herd grazing near feet from the gator, which appears to be sunning itself. Apparently not one to take any chances, the horse decides to let the gator know that if it tries any funny business, the only thing that’s going to be on the menu is a hoof to the skull. The horse then, rather spryly, delivers a kick to the head of the gator, which in turn tries to jump spin and bite the horse. The horse then went back for another round, just in case the gator didn’t get the message the first time. The tourists, meanwhile, all looked on, stunned at the display of natural power unfolding before them. Check this out...
What a great reminder that human beings are basically giant infants compared to most of nature. Watching that makes me feel completely helpless. All I can think is, “I wonder which one of those animals could cave in my little grape-like head faster? How did we ever conquer this planet? Are spears, fire, and teamwork really that great? It feels like maybe the rest of the natural world just choked away an easy victory. A great way to determine whether or not someone is a psychopath is to have someone watch this video and see if they’re rooting for the gator or the horse. If they’re rooting for the gator check their basement for bodies.
The 125th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...
Phile Alum John Oates will be back on the Phile tomorrow.
Today's pheatured guest is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for his hit singles "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender." He has sold over 16 million records worldwide and recorded nine U.S. Billboard Top 40 hits. His latest EP "Dreaming Time Again" is now available on iTunes and Spotify and on May 29th his new single "Never Surrender (Angels)" comes out. Please welcome to the Phile... Corey Hart.
Me: Hey, Corey, welcome to the Phile. How are you?
Corey: Thank you, Jason. I'm good.
Me: Congrats on getting inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Corey: Thank you. I was extremely touched that I was recognized that way.
Me: So, you're from Canada but don't live there now, right?
Corey: No, man, I live in Nassau, Bahamas.
Me: So, where did you first get your start musically?
Corey: When I was a young boy I used to fall asleep listening to the Top 40 radio. We were living at the time in Miami, Florida and I used to listen to this station WQAM which was this little AM Top 40 station and I would sing in front of a mirror with a ruler. I would not think I was going to be a singer but I thought this music was my refuge, this music I'm listening to really makes me happy. My sister is a figure skater and she met Tom Jones and they became friends. She told him, "My little kid brother he sings all the time to the radio and he's kinda cute and he's skinny and everything and he really sings well. Would you listen to him?" It was unbeknownst to me they were having this conversation because my sister didn't live at home anymore, she's older so it was Christmas time and she said, "I want you to sing just as you're doing now in the room, I want you to come sing for somebody." And it was Tom Jones.
Me: That's crazy shit!! I want to get Tom Jones on the Phile so bad. Haha. So, what did you sing?
Corey: I sang "Ben" by Michael Jackson.
Me: Awe. I love that song. So, did you know who Tom Jones was?
Corey: I was so scared, and no, I didn't know who he was. But I was still scared because they were all freaking out saying I was singing for this legendary Welsh singer. There was no Google or Internet at that time. But I was so scared my knees were shaking and I knelt down when I sang. I was on my knees literally the whole time.
Me: How did you not know who Tom Jones was? How old were you?
Corey: I was eleven.
Me: Ahhh... okay. So, what did Tom Jones say when he heard you?
Corey: He said, "That's good, but I really can't help your little brother. I think my friend Paul Anka will be the right person to help him and have a listen to what he's doing." Because Tom didn't write his songs. Tom thought this would be a good thing for Paul to listen to so 3 or 4 days later I met Paul.
Me: How did that go?
Corey: I did a few songs with him when I was 11, 12 or 13-years-old. Then I started to want to write my own music but if you listen really closely to some of my early songs, the phrasing, there's a little bit of Anka in my in DNA.
Me: So, who were your musical influences back then?
Corey: We are going through everything. As I said Paul was an early influence and then I started growing up as a teenager and started to listen to other music and started to listen to a lot of Billy Joel, I like Billy Joel a lot, and I listened to the Police. In fact Billy Joel was playing at the Montreal Forum, I was 17-years-old and I thought hmmm, I'd love him to hear what I'm doing. I thought you know what, why don't I record on cassette five or six of my songs and bring it to the Montreal Forum and address it to each of the band members and to Bill himself. What do I have to lose, right? In life you have to try things and if there's a door in front of you toy got to find a window. If the windows closed and the door is closed you got to go through the roof.
Me: That's bloody crazy. So, music was a big thing in your life?
Corey: Music was my oxygen. I would spend all my weekends and all my days writing, writing and writing.
Me: What did your parents think of all this?
Corey: My mum was the one who really believed in me and she encouraged me. She said, "You keep fighting and you keep doing what you're doing because you're good." My parents split up so I didn't have my dad around so my mum was very influential for me.
Me: So, did you give Billy and his band the tapes?
Corey: I addressed it to the five members in the band and to Mr. Joel and I went to the concert, I was up in the rafters and saw and loved the show. I got a call at one o'clock in the morning from someone in the band. He said, "I got your cassette." I said, "Who is this?" And he said he was Richie Cannata, Billy's terrific saxophone player. I was like holy shit, he listened to my cassette. It was just vocal, piano on a little cassette with my name and my number. He said come to the hotel, they were having some drinks so I got on my bike and rode over. The hotel wasn't far from where we lived and I went over there and talked to him. I never said how old I was and when they saw me they said they didn't know if I was allowed in there. They were like, "Do your mum and dad know you're out?" And stuff like that.
Me: Ha! How old were you?
Corey: I was about 17 and about to turn 18.
Me: What year are we talking? I am a huge Billy Joel fan and trying to get him on the Phile.
Corey: It was 1980.
Me: That's crazy, Corey, I had Liberty DeVito on the Phile once. So, did you get to play any music with them?
Corey: Yeah, I went down and spent a summer in Long Island and was playing with his band and recorded with his band. I got to meet Billy Joel at the studios and spent time there. That was the first time I ever got paid because I played in a little piano bar and nobody was listening to me singing. Even when I was playing Billy Joel songs they were listening. If you're on Long Island and playing Billy Joel songs and they're not listening, you're not doing very well.
Me: Were you planning on making being a musician a career?
Corey: I was a songwriter and I realized I was a songwriter when I was 13 or 14-years-old. You're either born a songwriter or you're not. I don't believe someone could be taught to write songs. Obviously I improved, and I should always improve and there's no perfect songwriter. I'm far from being a perfect songwriter. The goal was the craft and to respect my craft and to work on my craft and to be passionate about my craft.
Me: So, what was it like working on that album?
Corey: I spent the spring working in England. I wanted to record in England, I told you I was a Police fan. I just loved all the music coming out of the U.K. at that time so we went over there. I had two incredible producers tear worked with me, Phil Chapman and John Astley. They worked with Clapton and they worked with the Who and taught me so much. They were very patient with me as I was really green, I didn't know what I was doing. I really never spent time in the studio before. We recorded the whole record and I came back to Canada and the record company was pleased with the results and they said they were going to schedule the release of this record "First Offense" and then I wrote "Sunglasses at Night" and I really pleaded with the record company to send me back.
Me: Did you know deep down that was going to be a very successful song?
Corey: I don't think we ever know. I think it's self delusional to think that we know what's going to be a hit or what's not going to be a hit. If everybody knew what's going to be a hit everyone in the music business will have hits. I felt the show had something special to it and pleaded to the label to let me go back and to their credit they sent me back to England to record it.
Me: So, when that song became a big hit how did you feel?
Corey: It changed my life.
Me: When the song became big did it become everyone else's song and not yours? Does that make sense?
Corey: Yeah, there's a truth to that but it might belong to everyone else but I'm still the parent.
Me: Was it ever frustrating to be a famous pop star?
Corey: Listen, I cannot speak for every musician, I can only speak for myself but I will say we're so lucky to do music, to be involved with music, to be around music. Music be my life's work. There are two things I always wanted to do when I was a young person was that music and to have a family and be a dad to my kids. Those were the two foundation pillars of my life. I think there were times in the heyday in the 80s when I felt people were talking a lot about the image and not talking so much about the music. Being young I felt a bit obscured they were just looking at the image, not looking at the music. But it isn't woe is me, play the violins, it's nothing like that.
Me: So, I didn't know this but you had other hit records, I thought you were a one hit wonder. Hahaha. How did you feel about your music career as a whole?
Corey: The older I got and as I developed my songwriting and wanted to keep improving, as I said earlier it's so important to respect the craft, to honour the craft and not be complacent with my work habits and with my pursuit of excellence. There is no excellence in music, there is no ultimate excellence, there's just the pursuit of it. That's what keeps me trying to get there. And will never get there.
Me: I didn't realize "Never Surrender" was your song. I like that song a lot. Another thing I didn't realize is that mid 80s you were one of the most famous people on the planet. What was that like?
Corey: I think there's no school and preparation for it and with the advent of MTV I could literally go from being a completely unknown face to being mobbed at airports to be being mobbed wherever I would go. There as a really frenzy female demographic that they really went to town with it. At some point that's what "Boy in the Box" was about, feeling a little bit trapped and not able to come out. At a certain point I did feel afraid.
Me: Afraid of what? Safety?
Corey: Yeah, afraid for my safety. It just came with the territory, it just came with that type of fame that I had. People would find out where I lived, but I was hardly home anyways. Or at hotels I would always go through the backdoor because I couldn't go through the front door. My life seriously changed in '84, '85 and '86 in a type that One Direction would go through. Yet again it was part of my history and now I look back at it I had nothing to be afraid of. No one would purposely hurt me, it was just the way it was.
Me: So, you eventually walked away from the music business, Did you think quickly you had to stop or was it something you thought of for a while?
Corey: Well, as I mentioned earlier I grew up not knowing my dad and I felt that I could not reconcile the world that I had known as a singer-songwriter, as a recording artist, as someone completely dedicated to his career being able to be present every day with my children. It's not a 9-to-5 job. It's a very egocentric, focused, selfish profession... and that's not a pejorative term about being a musician, but for me I had to be very, very focused. So something had to give and I definitely did not want to be a tourist dad. I wanted to be there every day for my kids. That doesn't make me a super dad, it just means that my kids know that I was there.
Me: Did your kids know how famous you were?
Corey: They never saw me do it, they never saw me perform. When they were little kids they had no idea. When they got older some of their friends would start asking them questions. My three daughters all trained in tennis and we were a tennis family. We would travel around and they would do their tournaments and then they started to get in their teens they were hearing songs and some song would come on the radio and they would say, "Daddy's on the radio" and they would smile and stuff. But it was really like it was something that I did. They knew I was writing songs for other people and I had a record company. And they knew I would try and nurture up and coming artists.
Me: So, why now? Why is it time for new music now?
Corey: You should ask Bob Ezrin that question! I mentioned my first two producers Phil Chapman and John Astley who were remarkable and taught me so much and now I just experienced another master and his craft... Bob Ezrin.
Me: How did you end up working with him, Corey?
Corey: We met in 2017 at a fundraiser and I was performing a couple of songs unplugged with just a piano. I never met him before and he grabbed me by the arms and said, "You're good. What have you been doing? Where have you been?" I pointed to the table because my children were there and my wife and I said, "I've been busy doing that." He said, "I'm going to call you, we're going to talk." He looked over to my kids who said, "Yeah, dad did good." We struck up a friendship and he was very pivotal in convincing me it was time because I respect him a great deal.
Me: Was it hard for him to convince you?
Corey: Look, it was 20 years since I made a record so I guess magically it seemed to be 20 years time frame. Once I decided that I was going to do it the songs just poured out of me.
Me: How did it feel to be back in the studio making music again?
Corey: I loved it. I had so much fun. I fucking loved it.
Me: That's great. I love the song "Dreaming Time Again." So, "Never Surrender (Angels)" sounds just like the original "Never Surrender," right? What's the deal?
Corey: Ha ha, "Never Surrender" is getting a makeover. I've been inspired by people's unwavering strength during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Me: So, it's pretty music the same song with different lyrics?
Corey: I've written and recorded an updated version of the track from my 1985 album "Boy in the Box." It takes a cue from the original, but it incorporates a new melody and lyrics that reflect my perspective as a songwriter today. Since the pandemic began, I've received so many heartfelt messages from people all over the world telling me how much "Never Surrender" has meant to them during the journey of their lives, including into this new crucible we are all facing. It thus spurred me on to release a reworked single and video."
Me: That's cool. I heard "Never Surrender" on a TV show recently but can't remember where.
Corey: Probably "Stranger Things" or "The Goldbergs."
Me: "Stranger Things." That's it. Corey, thanks for being on the Phile. Please come back again one day. Stay well.
Corey: Thanks, Jason. This was great!
That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Corey for a cool interview. I really had no idea of how big he was in the 80s. The Phile will be back tomorrow with Phile Alum John Oates. Spread the word, not the turd... or virus. Don't let snakes or alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.
I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon
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