Randy Blythe
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593 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Apr
Randy Blythe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I check my email and I get an email forwarded to me from our old publicist from a dude who's like, hey, man, because of your song, I signed up for Be The Match. And I matched with a patient. It's the late 60s person. And I'm going to donate. And I immediately emailed this young man. His name is Todd Seaman from Arkansas. We're great friends to this day.
And eventually when the time came for him to donate his bone marrow, I went up to D.C. where he did it and documented it, a photographer as well, and hung out. And it was two days before Christmas and it was just wonderful. It was like the best Christmas ever. gift ever.
You know, I felt like this song and my friendship with this guy who had died and a fan where we're doing something. He donated and because of HIPAA laws, you can't know what happened to your donor. Oh, that would drive me nuts. So after a year, you can write a letter. After a year, the recipient will make the decision whether or not they want to contact you.
Me and my buddy Todd, who donated through the whole year, were like, I hope this person, because we were told he survived after a couple months, but we didn't know how long, whatever. So we were talking about it and we'd joke too. We're like, what if he's like the grand wizard of the KKK or something? Like it's just a total jerk. What if we did the wrong thing? We'd joke about it.
But after a year goes by, shortly after a year, my buddy Todd hits me. He's like, dude, I heard from him. He's 69. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He's a photographer. Not in a clan. He's a photographer. He's an old rock and roll musician. He's awesome. And so he went and surprised this man whose name is Michael in Denver on his 70th birthday.
And a few months later... I came to Denver on tour and I met this man who lives to this day and spent the afternoon walking around Denver taking photos with him because of this song.
They don't have to do that anymore. No, they use what is called an apheresis machine. It's very interesting. You sit there and you have to take this medicine a week before. And what it does is it basically makes your bones leaky. They leak white platelets.
No, it doesn't hurt. There's white platelets that come from your bones. And then they put it into this machine, which is like a centrifuge. They draw the blood from you. It spins it around. And then the healthy bone marrow cells and plasma is separated by the centrifuge. And then they put the blood back into you from the machine. So you're just sitting there hooked up to an IV.
You're basically fancy giving blood, playing on your iPhone for two hours. Yeah, and it used to be the drill, the painful thing. And in rare cases, it still is. And my buddy, though, who did it, he's like, they drill me. I don't care. Because once you know, dude, if I do this, this person might have a chance.
You meet this guy, Michael, and talk to him, who's alive because of this stuff. It's like, he gets more time with his grandkids. You can't put a price on that.
I got to do that, bud. Yeah. You now have Jewish blood in you. In a sense, he would be Jewish now. That's right. Because your DNA, he takes on, in a sense, he is you.
So, like, people who do this, theoretically, one of them could commit a murder. and DNA found on the scene of the crime, it would match precisely.
I don't want to get caught for murder. But they match. The person who receives this will inherit any allergies you have.
Yeah.
Neither do I. Alcohol, I break out in handcuffs. But he, at 70 years old, had the immune system of a 35-year-old man because his DNA changes. Sometimes it replaces. Sometimes it's an additional set. But it would be really neat if you could turn the Grand Wizard into one of the chosen people. Yeah, boom. Shalom, buddy.
You can't eat shrimp anymore, bro.
Yes. In the punk rock scene, at least in the scene as I came up, I'm not talking about just pop punk stuff you might hear on the radio singing about boys and girls. There is a strong anti-materialistic, anti-authoritarian, anti, I don't know, pursuit of riches vibe.
That can be, if you take it the wrong way, but it's more this sort of consciousness. Sure. Being like some sort of rich, famous person. Why would you aspire to that? And the thing with the punk rock scene is when you come up in that and the bands you love, most of which, amazingly enough, I'm friends with now, the bands that I listened to in high school, all of them, I know them all, basically.
They're alive, yeah. So... When you come up in that scene, there's a very anti-rock star mentality. You are a regular person. So when you come to see, like the first show I ever saw was ZZ Top, right? I saw ZZ Top when I was 12, I think, at the Hampton Coliseum in Virginia. And there are these gods on stage and they have lasers and all that's cool and stuff.
But after their show's gone, poof, they're gone. They're disappeared. They're these magical creatures, these exalted creative types. rather otherworldly. In the punk rock scene, you go see the bands that you like, and then you want a T-shirt, and you go to the merch table, and the bass player's selling the T-shirt to you. Right, right, sure, yeah. The drummer's loading the equipment.
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