Podcast Appearances
Have you ever been to New Orleans?
It's like the largest hotel in the French Quarter there.
It's like a billion-dollar family.
And he's taking me under his wing to show me New Orleans.
So it was an awakening.
1969.
So this is the age of Aquarius, riots in the streets, hippies.
I never saw a hippie.
There were bell bottoms.
And I'm a 12-year-old kid.
Shortly after that, my dad passed away.
We moved there for him to run a part of the family.
He worked for another part of our family's big corporation, a big department store.
And he died.
So now... How did he die?
He just had a fluke heart thing and, you know, instantly.
Like one day he was with me and next day they wheel him out and it's the last I ever saw of him, you know.
So that's traumatic as a kid, right?
So Frankie turns me on to smoking weed.
And then the next thing I do is take a quarter hit of Orange Sunshine.