Identical twins and performing songwriters The Yale Brothers came of age in Hollywood in the glory days of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This show tells the tales of their experiences, the people they met and the enduring friends they made in that magical time. Now living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, this podcast is not all about looking back. It's about life. And music.
The twins engage in another freestyle conversation, touching on everything from books to documentaries - from Hollywood memories to losing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry and much more (or less), including a gem from the music archive.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 – "I See September" by Chris Yale
4:12 – Greetings / Fake Façade / Relatively happy / No full-on hugs / Two taps / Real hugs / Lingering hugs
6:37 – A sense of possibility versus realty / Narrowing down the options / Thomas Edison / Cat naps / Was Edison on meth? / Megawatt character in Spider-Noir / Nicolas Cage and The Yale Brothers / The Best of Times TV pilot / Crispin Glover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispin_Glover) / Janet Robin / Marc Copage / Julia TV series / International kerfuffle /
10:23 – Pascal was an Armenian French National
11:04 – Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell / Tom Petty / Campbell co-wrote "The Boys of Summer" with Don Henley
11:50 – Dolly Parton (https://www.dollyparton.com/) gone too soon / Tim Curry (https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/) gone too soon / Meeting Dolly at a taping with Cher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher) and Rod Stewart for a Cher TV special in 1978 / Lily Tomlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Tomlin) was not in the show, Rog / Myrtle Beach and Dolly Parton / Dixie Stampede / Chris went to the Pirates Voyage show
13:35 – Chris Jacked up at Medieval Times / Rog lit up on crank at a dinner show with Dad and Uncle Roger / Schwab's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwab%27s_Pharmacy) / Dad liked our enthusiasm, if only he knew.
14:40 – What did Dad get up to / Where's Carl /
15:51 – How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster / Critical thinking
16:50 – Hulk Hogan documentary / Discussing The Hulkster
17:28 – Mike Wallace documentary / Dan rather documentary / Molly Ivins documentary / Morley Safer's piece on 60 Minutes about Noel Coward started Roger's infatuation with "The Master." / A Talent to Amuse / Elaine Stritch / "If Love Were All"
19:47 – Procrastination and perfectionism / Resistance / Steven Pressfield (https://stevenpressfield.com/about/) / "Old Scratch"
20:55 – Gear and tech – what do we really need? / Burgess Meredith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Meredith) "The Twilight Zone" episode / Perspective / Zooming out / The Moon and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham
22:53 – The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Niven)
12 Aug 2026
Episode 94 - "Waving Aside the EULAs"
The twins return with a freestyle conversation about tech issues (thanks a lot Rog), polarized ideologies, spirituality, productivity, algorithms, musical efforts, why we do what we do, drumming and much more - including a gem from the music archive.
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 – "Rise Above It" by Chris Yale
04:42 – Roger can't get his tech stuff together / Windows 11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11) / ZOOM LiveTrak L-8 / Windows 11 S-Mode / Microsoft Store / Microsoft Edge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Edge) / Mozilla Firefox / Permissions
08:50 – Accept – Balls to the Wall / Banality of lyrics / Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls / Sexism / The New Misogyny / Blowback from perceptions of "woke" / Extremes / Movements / Conformity / Soma
14:15 – So many flat earthers across the globe / "Ickiness" / Our lowest selves / Our highest selves / Spiritual things / Louise Hay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hay), Hay House / Wayne Dyer / Intention stuff / Jesus and Science / Science deniers / Dogmatism / Anti-intellectualism / Confirmation bias / Echo chambers / Bubbles
18:52 – Shocking the algorithm / "Shock Me," KISS / Fooling the algorithm / "The curators" / Well-meaning friends / Productivity / Wiring / Routines and flexibility
21:29 - Overloaded with devotionals / The Bible / Meditating on Scripture / Presence / The Voice of the Spirit / "Rise Above It"
22:39 – Original music – reviving the old stuff versus focusing on new songs
23:29 – Mike Campbell memoir - "Heartbreaker"
23:46 – Not seeking cover gigs / Select gigs / Retooling / "Roll us onstage" / Perception of age / Sobriety / The money spent on booze / The time wasted
26:04 – Roger's current feature in Grand Strand Magazine – read it HERE.
26:32 – Lip service versus doing / Future-oriented versus now / Why do we do what we do / The doing versus the idea of doing / What did we want to do and do we like it now / Writing and music / Tap dancing
28:20 – Chris' drumming / Talking about drumemrs / Not Hal Blaine / Hanging out at Hal Blaine's house
30:30 – Parting shots / Tinder Box / George Carlin's St. Peter joke.
25 Nov 2025
Episode 93 - "De Facto Re-Entry"
It's been too long. The twins decided to change that by showing up for episode 93 and diving into a conversation about one long summer on Tigertail Court in Coconut Grove before the third grade when they moved back to Miami from Crestline, California. They discovered boxes of old castoff records in their room and started playing them on the big Zenith console they rememered from the time they were toddlers.
Also - a recent series of gigs at House of Blues Myrtle Beach, chatter about audio interfaces, remote recording, the difference in the vibe when they shut off the video in Zoom and didn't have to stare at each other.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 - Interlude by Chris - sounds like a drug commercial.
1:15 - Greetings - Been a while / Our recent shows at House of Blues Myrtle Beach / Electro-Voice EVOLVE 30M (P.A.)
2:31 - Chris' upcoming trip to Walt Disney World - "I go where I'm told." / Universal Orlando (https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us) / The Wizarding World of Harry Potter / The Tree of Life - Disney World
3:54 - More EVOLVE 30M / Powered monitor vs. power amp for existing passive monitor
5:26 - Discovering cast-off records as children in Miami / Ancient Zenith console / "Higher and Higher," Jackie Wilson / "Wipe Out," Surfaris / "Leader of the Laundromat," The Detergents / "Daydream Believer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daydream_Believer)," Monkees / "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!," Napoleon XIV, "Green Tambourine," Lemon Pipers / "Monster Mash," Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers / "Next Door to an Angel," Neil Sedaka / "Funny Face (https://gaana.com/song/funny-face-13)," Frankie Valli / Beach Boys Concert LP / "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," The Temptations / Florida Room (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunroom) / "For Once in My Life," Stevie Wonder / Longines Symphonette Society / K-Tel / Buddha Records / No rock in there / Them - Van Morrison / "Summer in the City," The Lovin' Spoonful / "Groovin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovin%27)," The Rascals
10:38 - Trying to remember Glendale
12:04 - More about the summer before third grade / Weird organ instrumental song we can't place / More about the Zenith
13:24 - Interfaces: Apogee Duet / PreSonus Quantum ES2 / ZOOM Livetrak L-8 / Behringer U-PHORIA UM2 / Podcast recording setups
15:06 - Roger using the L-8 for newspaper interviews / Microsoft Word transcription function / physical transcription vs. software
16:51 - About recording our sessions from Zoom calls / Jeffrey Toobin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Toobin)
19:07 - Chris' DAW work / Thoughts on DAW
21:05 - "My Life as a Rolling Stone"
21:57 - Chris riffing on his recent medical checkup
23:45 - Parting shots - Big Sur / Recording fears / Organizing audio files
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