Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Dave Mustaine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think he brought his girlfriend and my three sisters and my sponsor and the guy who was going to be the best man at my wedding, a bank robber who had murdered two people. I thought that was a pretty street cred kind of guy to be your best man. Just kidding. Pam's in the hotel, and I knock on the door because we just got to Hawaii, and she was there ahead of me.
And I said, hey, what are you doing on Tuesday? And she got mad because she didn't know what I was doing. I said, do you want to get married? And she flipped out. So we now are on the hunt for a wedding dress for my skinny, rail-thin wife in Hawaii. And we're trying to find a nice suit for me. So Pam got lucky and found some eight-year-old wedding dress from some playhouse or something.
And I had a suit that looks like it was made out of Wrigley chewing gum wrappers. Actually, I look like the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz, but it had a little bit of some fashion to it. It's this bright, shiny, aluminum-looking suit. And it's all I could get. It's all I could find. And I remember we were standing at the base of Punchbowl in Waikiki, Diamond Head, the volcano.
And that's where we got married, right under the volcano. Wow. Yeah, it was really neat. Wow. How long have you been married? 34 years, almost.
You have to say this. Honey, I've been thinking. and you're probably right, and I'm going to try harder next time. And mean it, you know, if you really mean it. Because if you tell them, you know, I've been thinking that, first off, that confuses them because they don't think we know how to think.
And then when you say, you're probably right, inside they have pinatas being burst and all kinds of sky streamers and stuff. And then when you say you're going to try harder, they go, it's good. Game over. So I'm just playing, but you need to have to look at things as two different, completely different organisms that are trying to coexist in the same body.
And you have to make sacrifices and you have to make I don't want to say consolation because that's not the right word I want to say, but you do have to make some... And sacrifice is the wrong word because it's too much, but you do have to make some adjustments. And I think the better that...
opposite spouses of being aware of the other spouse's needs and wants, the better the relationship's going to be. Because sometimes you just got to walk away. When Pam fights with me, I just walk away. You know, she'll throw shit, she'll scream, she'll call me names, but you know what? At least my side stopped. And sometimes cooler heads prevail.
Sometimes I walk away, and then she'll say something, and I got to do a U-turn and go back and jump right in the fight. But most oftentimes, you know, we try and be really respectful of one another, and I really try and help Pam with support from the kids too. Because they're adults now, and they don't want to be looked at like kids. They want to be looked at as adults.
He was born in wedlock. We'd been married 11 months, I think. We got pregnant about second or third month, I think. Wow, you guys aren't messing around. No. No, I think it was just meant to be, you know, because we weren't really getting a lot of time to spend together. I was touring a lot. So it was meant to be. I love my son.
The women walked, they didn't throw themselves. It was a joke. I know. How was it? Well, you know, it's... I guess it's like anything, if you know what your priorities are. You know, some people can walk into a candy store and want one of everything, you know? And then you end up sick at the end, you know?
I got to a point in my life where I knew I was ready to find the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and... You know, I came really close. I was engaged to somebody for six years one time. And she was the muse for a lot of the early songs because our relationship was so toxic.
But if I would have stayed engaged to her just a few more months, it would have been a common law marriage in California because at seven years, you're married. I don't know if I took that into consideration or it just happened that way, but it happened that way.
Me and Pam?
Well, I mean, it never got bad. I had money. You mean how much did I do? Yeah. I used a lot, but I had a high tolerance. And, you know, as far as doing my job, when it was time to go out on the road and it was time to get on stage, we got on stage. And then when everybody got off stage, that was when the party started up again. You know, it was just a way of life at the time in Los Angeles.
That's the only thing I haven't done that you said. Which one? The two-fifths of vodka.
No, it was whatever anybody had that was partyables. You go to a party and, hey, I got some Ambien. You want some? Sure, what does it do? What's going to make you fall asleep in your food? Well, that sounds like a really fun drug. Consequently, I don't really like Ambien. The other stuff you said, Valium. Valium, I need to go get x-rays, CAT scans. I can't do it.
When I have larynx scopology, now that I've had ear, nose, throat cancer, head and neck cancer, they have to look down my nose with that camera. I can't do that. I have to take a Valium for that. But am I addicted to it? No.
I was in Texas, and I'd hurt my arm really bad. And I was talking to this pastor, and he goes, man, you need the Lord, Dave. And I went, no, I don't. I've had enough God. So he goes, why don't you go up onto the hill? Up on the hill was a fire ring, and there was two people. sections of building that went together like this and had a cross hanging down in the middle of it.
Of course, I was brought up a Jehovah's Witness. The cross was a torture device, and Jesus wasn't hung on a cross. He was hung on a tree, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff that they believed that I don't. So I'm looking at the cross, and I'm just thinking to myself, man, what have I got to lose?
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