As promised, we present the second half of Mike’s interview with Susan Masino !
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Beginning on a positive note, Susan describes the larger-than-life presence that was Bon Scott of AC/DC. Although he never gave any indication of it, Susan learned through her research that he was struggling quite a bit throughout his rockstar-idol years. She tells us how, although Bon is no longer in this world with us, he’s still around the band and the AC/DC world and makes himself known through the dreams and feelings of the living. Susan tells how Bon continues to be a ray of light, in spite of his absence in the physical arena of our living world.
Next, the discussion turns to the topic of synchronicity. Also commonly referred to as white light, good energy, intuition or gut feeling, Susan explains how a person’s inner self often guides (or tries to guide) but is easy to ignore. She reminds us that the “universe has a great sense of humor” and we should pay attention when signs appear that we should pay attention to. Listen for the best example of Susan’s experience with clairaudience , which occurred while she was in living in New York Sublets , it may just make you take notice next time the “voice in your head” tells you something!
The experience led to her job at a recording studio that worked on projects with Steve Winwood, Diana Ross, John Denver, Joe Cocker, the soundtrack for the movie “Beat Streat” and music for the 1984 Olympics. In the basement of Studio 54, did Susan see any disco-dancing ghosts? She didn’t see apparitions, but Susan did have vivid dreams while living in NYC during the “wild west days” of New York.
Finally, Susan shares the biggest dream(s) she has had that came true.
Welcome to see you on the other Mike, where the world
Speaker:of the mysterious collides with the world of entertainment.
Speaker:A discussion of art, music, movies, spirituality, the
Speaker:weird, and self discovery. And now,
Speaker:your hosts, musicians and entertainers who have their
Speaker:own weakness for the weird, Mike and Wendy from the
Speaker:band Sunspot. Hey, it's Wendy. You're
Speaker:probably anxious to hear the second half of Mike's interview with Susan Messino, so I'll
Speaker:try to keep this quick. I just wanted to mention first and foremost
Speaker:that if you haven't already listened to part 1 of this
Speaker:interview, you can find it at episode 4 of CU on the Other
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Speaker:Susan with some more cool stories about rockers and ghosts
Speaker:and, well, I won't ruin it all. Just enjoy.
Speaker:Well, who would you say, I mean, that you've,
Speaker:like, had a supernatural, up positive
Speaker:that they came in, they lifted the room, they, you
Speaker:know, who had that a presence that you you think might be even
Speaker:unearthly that kinda sticks with you? Oh god. That would be
Speaker:Bob Scott. He he was he was an angel that was only
Speaker:here for a certain time and and now he's gone
Speaker:and talked about every day. I mean, he was he
Speaker:was always even though he drank, he
Speaker:I I never saw him, you know, and and I didn't spend, you
Speaker:know, I didn't spend days on end with him, but I never saw him
Speaker:so drunk that he couldn't talk or, you know, he's staggering around or
Speaker:anything like that. He just you know, he was he was a drinker, but he
Speaker:was always funny. He was always, like, when he walked into the
Speaker:room, you knew he was there. And he would always
Speaker:eat like, the band played off of him. You know? They they definitely
Speaker:followed his in his footsteps of how to be. You know?
Speaker:He was, friendly to everybody. You know? He hung out with the
Speaker:roadies. He'd party with the fans after the show. He and
Speaker:and if he wasn't making you laugh, he wasn't happy. Okay. And he
Speaker:was just he was a ray of light. He really was. And, you
Speaker:know, now that I've researched him and written about him, I didn't
Speaker:realize that he was having problems toward the end that I wish I
Speaker:would have known. He was lonely. He was having trouble. He was on the road
Speaker:for so many years. I mean, by the time he died, including the bands
Speaker:before ACDC, he'd been on the road for 13
Speaker:years. Wow. So he was he was worn
Speaker:out. He was tired. And and I didn't
Speaker:realize that because he didn't show that when he was around. When he walked in
Speaker:the room, oh my god. You know? I mean, big smile,
Speaker:you know, making a joke, trying to make you laugh, you know,
Speaker:tripping over something, spilling something, you know, whatever it took to make people
Speaker:laugh. Well, it sounds like he was really a larger
Speaker:than life I mean, he he was a I mean, larger than life. He wasn't
Speaker:that big of a guy. Right? But Yeah. Like, his character
Speaker:was just, and his soul was, you know, bigger than
Speaker:the room. Oh, god. Yeah. And then, you know, even to this
Speaker:day, I just said this, the other night.
Speaker:Wendy see ACDC, I just saw them 4 times on the black ice
Speaker:tour, but, you know, now it's been 4 years. But, I hadn't
Speaker:seen them in 7 years since the stiff upper lip tour. Mhmm.
Speaker:And that's one of the first things we talk about
Speaker:is bun. When I hang out with Angus and Malcolm, that's what we talk about
Speaker:is bun because everybody still misses him, and he's still a big part
Speaker:of the show. I mean, half of the songs they play, he wrote the lyrics
Speaker:to. And it's, you know, it's amazing and
Speaker:and what's so sweet. I mean, Brian is probably one of the
Speaker:Brian Johnson's probably one of the biggest Scott fans on the planet,
Speaker:and he loves singing his songs. And and at the end of the the show
Speaker:Wendy they do their encore, one of it is one of the songs is Highway
Speaker:to Hell, and they show a picture behind the band of the band
Speaker:with Bon. And he just he's always there.
Speaker:You know, he's been gone for so many years, but he's always there, and and
Speaker:everybody always talks about him.
Speaker:And, have you know, when you guys
Speaker:did the, when you did Let There Be Rock,
Speaker:you know, and you did and, yeah, I'm sure you you draw on you drew
Speaker:on your own experiences, and you, you know, you must've interviewed a 1,000
Speaker:people coming up the story of ACDC.
Speaker:Did you ever get any, you know, stories that people had
Speaker:about Bon after he was gone? Any, you
Speaker:know, any feelings or I mean, obviously, he is
Speaker:well remembered by not only the band, but by everybody
Speaker:loves Bon Scott songs. They you know? I don't know anybody that's Mike, hey.
Speaker:See. Forget it. But did you ever hear
Speaker:anything where they were like, while we were recording this, like, we
Speaker:felt Bond in the room or, you know, or any any any
Speaker:paranormal stuff related to him? Well, definitely. I mean,
Speaker:only do I you know, I I have dreams about Bon,
Speaker:and people talk about him all the time. They, you know, they do feel
Speaker:him when they record and when they're on tour.
Speaker:And, Brian Johnson, who hasn't really talked about it till
Speaker:recently, he used to allude to it, but now he, you know, he
Speaker:actually said that when they went down to the Bahamas to record
Speaker:Back in Black, and he had to write, you know, the lyrics. And the songs
Speaker:were set. The titles were set. The music was ready. He
Speaker:had to come up with the lyrics, and he was terrified. And there was a
Speaker:lot of storms, you know, there's a lot of thunderstorms down there.
Speaker:And he said one night, he just sat up out of a dead
Speaker:sleep, just sat sat up and grabbed a bunch of paper and a
Speaker:pen and just wrote lyrics until they stopped coming.
Speaker:And and he said that it was it was definitely Bond
Speaker:was there, making sure that things were taken care
Speaker:of. Oh, wow. Yeah. And and, you
Speaker:know, even before I got, before I met the
Speaker:publishers that hired me to do the book. And I I see Bon, you
Speaker:know, not often, but here and there, he comes into my dreams.
Speaker:And, this was so vivid. 1 night, I dreamed he
Speaker:was here. He came to my house, and we sat, and we talked for
Speaker:hours, and we laughed, and we joked. And, you know, it's just a
Speaker:really great dream. And when I woke up the next day, I I felt really
Speaker:sad because I'm like, god, you know, that seems so real. And
Speaker:why, you know, why now? And and why did it have to feel that real?
Speaker:Because it was it was painful to realize it wasn't wasn't real. It was just
Speaker:a dream. Right. And the next day,
Speaker:John, you know, my my ex, called me from work. And,
Speaker:you know, I usually would stay up late and work. And this is,
Speaker:you know, before I had the book deal, I didn't even know about the book
Speaker:deal yet. And I couldn't remember what Von told would talk
Speaker:to me about, but now I'm pretty sure that's why he came to me to
Speaker:to tell me to get ready for it. But, John called me the next day,
Speaker:and he said, why did you leave that lamp on last night?
Speaker:And I said, what lamp? And he no. This is big lamp that's over by
Speaker:the couch that's by my desk, but I never use it because it's really bright,
Speaker:and I don't use those lights at night. Sure. And I said, what do you
Speaker:mean? And he said, well, when I got up today to go to work, that
Speaker:lamp was on. And and I've had that lamp for over 20
Speaker:years and it's never turned on by itself. So it was kind of
Speaker:it it I I laughed because it was Bond's way of saying,
Speaker:yeah. I was there. I was doubting it. And, it was kinda
Speaker:like, yeah, I was there. And then when I look back now, it's like
Speaker:he and he did come to me during the writing of the book too because
Speaker:I was super overwhelmed by it. Sure. I
Speaker:covered 32 years at the time. I covered 32 years of history,
Speaker:and I literally broke it down to a week at a time to make sure
Speaker:that I didn't miss anything. And, one night, I
Speaker:totally had, like, a panic attack. I mean, we're
Speaker:a full blown, like, 3 o'clock in the morning. I can't do this.
Speaker:Well, that's 1500 weeks. You know, that's that's a that's a good deal of
Speaker:history. That's a lot of history. And I just I I
Speaker:I had a total breakdown that night, and I went to bed, and I prayed
Speaker:to Von. I said, you have got to help me. I need help. I need
Speaker:something. I need somebody to help me get through this.
Speaker:And, he came to me in in the dream that night, and he
Speaker:was, we were in a kitchen in this house somewhere.
Speaker:And, he was dancing around, and he was making fun of me. And he was
Speaker:saying, oh, Susie. He said, it's gonna be just fine. He said, don't worry about
Speaker:it, you know. And and I said, I felt so bad that he had he
Speaker:had died, you know, at 33, and he laughed. And he goes, oh,
Speaker:so that's my that was my time to go. He said it's fine.
Speaker:Everybody's fine. Everybody's fine. Look at me. He said I look good, don't I?
Speaker:Ah. And he just he just made me laugh. And then the next day when
Speaker:I woke up, I I, you know, honestly haven't had a a panic
Speaker:attack like that since. I mean, it he just really he was
Speaker:there for me. And, and he does. He comes in and out.
Speaker:And, those are those are probably the most innocent,
Speaker:nocturnal visits from Bon Scott ever. Oh, yeah. I have
Speaker:no he he and I are like brother and sister. He he offered a few
Speaker:times, and I I knew better to say no.
Speaker:I wanted to keep it at a professional level, you know. Oh, that's
Speaker:great. And I could I could talk about ACDC and I
Speaker:I have a 1,000 questions for you about Hank Williams and and
Speaker:and, you know, and with because with the South and country
Speaker:music, there's always superstitions and curses and
Speaker:things like that. But, I do wanna talk about
Speaker:your book a little bit, for the last stuff on the
Speaker:secrets of the universe. I wanna ask you about synchronicity
Speaker:and if you had any tips
Speaker:for, you know, what's how how do you
Speaker:get yourself in the right place at the right time? Any tips or ideas or
Speaker:or things that you found in your Mike, that can
Speaker:you found really useful for for, finding that
Speaker:synchronicity? Well, you know, for one thing, you know,
Speaker:I do talk about in, the second chapter I think
Speaker:it's the second chapter. I don't even know,
Speaker:about your chakras and your energy, you know, your god
Speaker:energy that comes down through you and which is a white
Speaker:light. And I think that you need to keep that open
Speaker:and keep that around you at all times because we are
Speaker:electrical. You know, we are, we are energy. You You know?
Speaker:We are energy in a physical body. And the more you get in
Speaker:touch with that energy, I think it opens you up more to
Speaker:things. And and Mike I said, I'm really good at, like,
Speaker:knowing when to do things, like like, maybe
Speaker:a phone call or a letter. I'll know what day to do it on.
Speaker:It'll be like, you know, oop, not today. That's not a good day. And then,
Speaker:yep, today today is the day to write that letter. Today is the day to
Speaker:pitch that book or or whatever. And, I've just I've
Speaker:always had that, and it's it's your gut instinct
Speaker:that's Mike, you know, it comes from within.
Speaker:And, you know, when people ask me, like, how do you make decisions
Speaker:on things? This is another way to to use this kind of energy
Speaker:is when you have a choice of, like, a and b. You think about
Speaker:a and what does your stomach feel Mike. And then you think about
Speaker:b, what does your stomach feel Mike? And the one
Speaker:that feels lighter and feels less stressful or less
Speaker:scary, you go with that one because your your your inner
Speaker:self always guides you in the right direction,
Speaker:but you have to to learn to listen to it. So a lot of people,
Speaker:you know, they get that stuff. They get those little things. Mhmm.
Speaker:And they just blow it off. You know, they're like, whatever. You
Speaker:know? Nah. You know? That's that's silly. And, I've had
Speaker:you know, I've just I've literally had great you know,
Speaker:amazing things happen to me because I've had that heard that
Speaker:voice say, you know, yeah, go make that call now
Speaker:or, yeah, apply for that job. Go ahead. Apply for that job.
Speaker:You'll get that job if you apply for it. You know, things like that. And
Speaker:and, I just I love synchronicity. I love numbers.
Speaker:Numbers come up on license plates. They, you know, come up,
Speaker:all over the place. I mean, it's almost comical. It's, like,
Speaker:almost, in Bruce Almighty with Jim
Speaker:Carey Right. You know, where he's begging for a sign and he has a truck
Speaker:in front of him filled with signs, you know, road signs, and he
Speaker:doesn't notice it. He doesn't see it. It there
Speaker:are signs all over, but people don't notice them.
Speaker:You know? Like like, I'll be thinking of, you know, let's say, I'll be thinking
Speaker:of some you know, my friend who lives in England, And,
Speaker:I'm out on the road driving somewhere, and I'm thinking about my Wendy, and I'm
Speaker:missing my friend. And pretty soon, a big, you know, semi truck will go
Speaker:by with the with the word England on the side of it. And
Speaker:it's just kind of fun because the universe has a great sense of
Speaker:humor, And it shows you or, like, when,
Speaker:you know, you feel like you're late or you're not doing the right thing at
Speaker:the right time, but then everything falls into place.
Speaker:You have to remember, like, you you pull up to that stop sign
Speaker:and your birthday is on a license plate right in front of you.
Speaker:And that's the universe saying you are right where you
Speaker:are at the right time. You're it it's okay.
Speaker:So so what what do you think is, what do you think is a
Speaker:maybe a decision you've made or a moment you've had or
Speaker:something that that you've done where, you know, you were given that you were talking
Speaker:about that choice you make where your stomach feels one way
Speaker:versus your stomach feeling another, where you followed your gut. Like, what do you think
Speaker:is the biggest example of that? And and you don't have to say it if
Speaker:it's in the book. Some people can go to the book. But what do you
Speaker:what do you think in your own life has been where
Speaker:you followed your gut or are you in the right place at the right Mike?
Speaker:And if you weren't there at that specific moment, everything would have
Speaker:been different. I think one of the and this this sounds
Speaker:kinda crazy, and I don't talk about it a lot. That's alright. I love crazy.
Speaker:Yeah. It it it it involves a voice, actually. When,
Speaker:John and I moved to New York City with a roommate in 1983,
Speaker:We were staying with friends until we could find an apartment.
Speaker:Now we were looking for an apartment in Manhattan, and we had
Speaker:no idea what was a good part of town and what was a bad part
Speaker:of town. So I literally, you know, got up early in
Speaker:the morning on Wednesdays, The Village Voice would come out, and that was the day
Speaker:that they would list all the apartments, and the good stuff would be gone
Speaker:within the day. Okay? So I got
Speaker:up. I circled what I just read, you know, went up and
Speaker:down, up and down, and circled what I looked good, what looked good. And
Speaker:we had about maybe 6 places to see that day. And,
Speaker:we were in a rental truck, and we were in Manhattan traffic.
Speaker:And there was this apartment on the Upper West Side that was, you know, up
Speaker:toward Harlem, and and that, you know, that's scary. That's 19 eighties and
Speaker:Right. Like I said, we had we had no idea what was a good place
Speaker:or what was a bad place. And we had an appointment for an
Speaker:apartment up there, and then we also had one down by Times
Speaker:Square. Now at this time of the, you know, New
Speaker:York City's history, Times Square was not the place you wanted to live in
Speaker:in the 19 eighties. But the upper west side,
Speaker:it was right on the edge of Spanish Harlem, and that also
Speaker:was, you know, intimidating. And we were going through an
Speaker:intersection, and, we were gonna blow off the
Speaker:appointment to the apartment on the upper west side.
Speaker:And I literally this is the first time that I ever heard the,
Speaker:I think it's called clairaudience where where you actually hear
Speaker:somebody. And this guy in my
Speaker:head in my right side of my head screamed at
Speaker:me, no. No. Come up and see this
Speaker:apartment. No. Turn right. Turn right. And John was
Speaker:literally turning left in the middle of a ton of traffic. And
Speaker:I I just said, no. No. Turn right. Turn right. He said, I thought you
Speaker:said turn left. I said, no. Turn right. We gotta go see this other apartment.
Speaker:He's Mike and, you know, and he's like, well, I thought you said that was
Speaker:too far north. And I said, just just just do it. Just do it. We
Speaker:gotta do it. We gotta do it. And we went up there, and we met
Speaker:the most amazing people. We got an apartment on the upper west side
Speaker:with a doorman and laundry, and,
Speaker:the the people that own the apartment lived, 10
Speaker:floors above us. It was a furnished apartment, and it would have been gone
Speaker:that day. I mean, it would have been snapped up immediately, and they
Speaker:took a chance on some kids from Wisconsin that didn't know where they
Speaker:were going. Right. And we we,
Speaker:got a great apartment. And then it,
Speaker:even happened when we stopped, we were moving
Speaker:our stuff. You know? And we stopped in at a
Speaker:friend who used to live in Madison. His name's Mark Kaufman, and he's
Speaker:in, in the scandal video Goodbye to You. He's the drummer.
Speaker:Awesome. Yeah. He lived he lived there, and he
Speaker:was at SoundWorks, recording studio, which was a digital
Speaker:one of the only 2 digital studios in New York City at the
Speaker:time built in the basement of, Studio 54 on West
Speaker:54 Street. Okay. And we got to stop and say hello
Speaker:to him one day, and he said, come on down and check it out. You
Speaker:gotta see this place. And we were I was messy. I mean, we were moving,
Speaker:and I wasn't you know, I didn't think I should go in. And he and,
Speaker:he's like, no. You know? I mean, when are you gonna get a chance to
Speaker:come in here? You better come in and check it out. At the time, it
Speaker:was a $35100 a day studio. Wow. People
Speaker:like Diana Ross and, you know, Joe Cocker and, you know,
Speaker:people like that. I mean, Harry Belafonte, those were the people
Speaker:that that came in and recorded and mixed there. And,
Speaker:I walked down the stairs, and the guy was on the phone. And I looked
Speaker:around the studio, and I said to myself, now this is the kind of job
Speaker:you want. You know? This is what you really want. You know? This is a
Speaker:place that you need to work at. And as I'm thinking
Speaker:this, the guy on the on the phone who is, an engineer who
Speaker:is filling in at the desk says, no. No. The the position
Speaker:hasn't been not filled yet. I'm sure she's interested. She'll call you back. And he
Speaker:hung up, and I turned around, and I said, do you have a job opening
Speaker:here? And he's like, well, yeah. We're looking for a receptionist that can, you
Speaker:know, do billing and do phones and stuff. Why? You interested?
Speaker:And I said, oh, yeah. I'm interested. It took me
Speaker:2 weeks when I got the job. Oh,
Speaker:wow. If I wouldn't have gone in the studio because I felt all
Speaker:grubby and messy that day, that would have been a big life
Speaker:changer. But I did, and I went with
Speaker:my instinct. And, I ended up getting the job of the
Speaker:apartment and the job. And that was all on
Speaker:gut instinct completely because I really had no idea where
Speaker:I was going. I was terrified of New York. I I got used to it
Speaker:quickly, but it was very scary when we first moved there.
Speaker:Well, how I mean, so how old were you guys when you when you went
Speaker:to New York City? I was 27. Okay. So, I
Speaker:mean, a little bit of life experience, but still, I mean, most of
Speaker:it, obviously, if you grew up in the Sauk City area,
Speaker:was around I mean, the Madison area, and Madison's great, but it's not that big.
Speaker:Oh, yeah. No. I spent my whole life in Wisconsin, you know, moving
Speaker:around Wisconsin and had never lived in a big city like New York. I
Speaker:never had visited before or anything. Had no idea what I was getting
Speaker:into. And And loved it. So
Speaker:what so when you worked at the studio, did,
Speaker:like, did you ever get to see anybody famous or any cool songs that were
Speaker:recorded there or anything like that? Oh, yeah. They mixed,
Speaker:Steve Winwood's, Roll With roll with it or roll with
Speaker:me. They Mike that there. Diane Ross did
Speaker:missing you there, her big hit. John
Speaker:Denver came in a couple times. He he was a really good friend of the
Speaker:owner. Joe Cocker, I can't remember.
Speaker:Oh my god. I wanna say civilized man was mixed there. They did a
Speaker:lot more mixing than they did recording. Sure. Well, digital, you
Speaker:know. Yeah. It was digital. Yeah. But, they did, like, the
Speaker:movie I think it's called Beat Street. Harry Belli
Speaker:Belafonte, produced that. That was all,
Speaker:recorded and mixed there. They even did the, 1984
Speaker:Olympics. They they mixed all the music for that. Oh.
Speaker:It was I mean, we had everybody in there. It was I that was one
Speaker:job that I could not literally, could not wait for the alarm to go off
Speaker:in the morning. Well, that that's awesome. Did you now
Speaker:that you said in the basement of Studio 54. Right? Yes. Yep.
Speaker:So, I mean, by 1983, that was that
Speaker:was that place still hopping, or was it kind of at the end because the
Speaker:disco era was kinda faded out? Yeah. Actually, when
Speaker:when I worked there, it was closed down, but then they did open it later
Speaker:on and then it closed again. So but when we when I worked
Speaker:there, they it was closed. And, they
Speaker:they built this beautiful studio, in the basement.
Speaker:And, when I've read stories about what used to happen in the basement of
Speaker:Studio 54 Right. I'm surprised I didn't see
Speaker:any ghost out there. That's what I was gonna say. I mean, being in
Speaker:a that, obviously, there was a lot of,
Speaker:energy and, you know, mental energy and all these kind of things based around that
Speaker:hub of the disco era. So I just if there are any
Speaker:feelings or you picked up anything or, you know, saw that goes to somebody snorting
Speaker:coke in the bathroom. You know, saw the ghost of somebody
Speaker:snorting coke in the bathroom. I didn't see that, but, I
Speaker:mean, we we just it was just an incredible place to be. You know, like
Speaker:I said, I, Diana Ross worked there for 2 weeks, so
Speaker:I got to know her. And, you know, Joe Cocker came in, and I
Speaker:got to know John Denver. And Does Joe Cocker does Joe Cocker talk like
Speaker:that? Like, real in real life? Actually, yes. He,
Speaker:he was drinking at the Mike, and, he came down the stairs
Speaker:one day with a Heineken. He had to have Heineken, you know, always stocked up
Speaker:when he came in. He had a Heineken in each hand,
Speaker:and we kinda met on the stairway. So he did a jig around
Speaker:me and sang me a little song using my name, Susie. So he was Mike,
Speaker:Susie, Susie, Susie, and he did a little dance around me. So it was it
Speaker:was very cute. Oh, that's great. Not everybody gets a personal
Speaker:Joe Cocker performance. No. Not everybody, but but I
Speaker:did. And and how long were you guys in New York City?
Speaker:Almost 3 years. Yeah. Almost 3 years. And then I I
Speaker:actually had a dental thing that, went wrong with the
Speaker:root canal that caused nerve damage, and that's why I moved home.
Speaker:Otherwise, I I was determined to never leave New York, and now I go back
Speaker:for the book expos and, at the end of May for my
Speaker:books and stuff. And, I love New York City. I mean, it's just
Speaker:to me, when I go there, I don't sleep because, that's waste
Speaker:in time. Right. There's so I mean, there's so much to do, and there's so
Speaker:many people. And, did you ever have any paranormal
Speaker:experiences while you guys were out there? Not that
Speaker:you know, I had prophetic dreams again. I had very vivid dreams
Speaker:when I was in New York. And I think it was because of the energy,
Speaker:but, mostly, you know, real life scary stuff, not
Speaker:paranormal. Fair enough. Fair enough. You know,
Speaker:people being shot in the subway and, you know, people being
Speaker:mugged right in front of you. And, it was, the 19
Speaker:eighties. I call I call that the Wild West days of New York. It's
Speaker:true. It certainly was a different time. I mean, it really was when you go
Speaker:visit I remember visiting when I was a kid a few times. And
Speaker:going now as compared to going 30 years ago, it's
Speaker:it's a completely different experience. And Mike you said,
Speaker:Times Square. I mean, Times Square used to be porno theaters. It wasn't
Speaker:this family friendly and somebody's dressed like Mickey Mouse and things. I mean,
Speaker:it is different. Oh, yeah. No. It's totally a different city. I
Speaker:mean, believe Mike, it's just yeah. It's and, you know, sadly, and
Speaker:on the anniversary of 911 Oh, yes. The city is
Speaker:completely different after that happened. I mean, I
Speaker:when I went back in 2003, I was stunned by,
Speaker:you know, people. I I was just out there last year. And I mean, people
Speaker:in the subway, they're talking, they're partying with each other.
Speaker:There was a girl sleeping with jewelry and a purse in her
Speaker:lap. And in 1980, you know, she not only would have woke up without
Speaker:all her stuff, but she might not have woken up. And, people
Speaker:are it's so different. It's just a it's a different city. It it
Speaker:911, how horrifying that day was
Speaker:completely changed the city of New York. I I, I
Speaker:agree with you a lot there. Now now now one
Speaker:last question. I know I've kept you over time, so thank you for
Speaker:hanging, Susan. Oh, no. Anytime. Anytime, Mike. But one last
Speaker:question. So what what's the biggest
Speaker:thing that you've dreamed of that's come true?
Speaker:Like, so in in your dreams, what kind of what
Speaker:clairvoyant or precognitive dream have you had that,
Speaker:you're Mike that the biggest thing you think that you're that you to yourself are
Speaker:like, yeah, that came I dreamed that and that came true. I can't I
Speaker:can't deny that. I can't even doubt it. Okay. That I I have a
Speaker:perfect story for that. Right. When I see ACDC in
Speaker:my dreams, it whether it's one member or all of
Speaker:them, I write it down and it always manifests.
Speaker:It sometimes is years out, but they always
Speaker:manifest. And I wrote in my dream
Speaker:journal back in, I believe, 2005,
Speaker:sorry, that I was, at an outdoor stadium.
Speaker:I was talking to some of the band, and we were laughing at the tour
Speaker:manager because he was arguing with a roadie in Italian,
Speaker:so I was in Italy. And I always
Speaker:wanted to see them play in Europe. I mean, I used to be so
Speaker:jealous when I saw, like, the big stage setup with the big horns
Speaker:and, you know, and and how many people Wendy thought, oh, you know, I'd
Speaker:never been to Europe before, and I just I I always thought that was, like,
Speaker:at the top 10 of my list of what I wanted to do. Well,
Speaker:in 2010, I got an
Speaker:email early in the year, an email from, a
Speaker:fan in Italy that says, to Mike,
Speaker:ACDC is playing in Mike, you know, hometown of Udine,
Speaker:which is in Northern Italy, on May 19th
Speaker:2010, would you come here for a book signing? And I said,
Speaker:well, yeah. I'd love to come there for a book signing, but I don't I
Speaker:don't make that kind of money. Right. And, he said, well, let
Speaker:me you know, I don't either, he said, but let me do let me see
Speaker:what I can do. And shout out to Mario Romati who is
Speaker:still a wonderful friend of mine. He went to the bookstore. He
Speaker:cleared the book signing. They loved it. They thought it would be a great idea.
Speaker:And he went to the promoters. They loved it. They thought it would be a
Speaker:great idea, but they, again, did not have the funds to do this.
Speaker:Well, one of the kids, we call him Saint Lou, he was in his twenties
Speaker:at the time, he went to the Northern,
Speaker:Tourism Bureau of Italy and talk to the
Speaker:lieutenant governor about bringing over this author
Speaker:to do a signing the day before ACDC played and make a big deal
Speaker:out of it. And, you know, because ACDC on their black ice
Speaker:tour only played one city in Italy. And I
Speaker:found out later Italy has a lot of, like, sound restrictions
Speaker:and just lots of things. And and they were flying in and out of
Speaker:Wendy that summer, that toward the end of the black ice tour, so
Speaker:they picked Udine to play in. It was the only city in
Speaker:Italy. So so they were really, you know, like, bragging it up. Like, you know,
Speaker:we're so cool that, you know, ACDC is playing here. Well, sure
Speaker:enough, they paid for me the tour
Speaker:the the bureau of tourism of Northern Italy paid
Speaker:my airfare, my hotel, all my food, and I had an
Speaker:entire week in Italy, saw the band play live,
Speaker:did radio, TV or not TV, but
Speaker:newspaper articles. And just I had a blast,
Speaker:and I saw them on a bright sunny day in Italy
Speaker:exactly like what my dream showed me 5 years earlier.
Speaker:That's an awesome story. That I wanna have dreams like that, Susan.
Speaker:Well well, like I said, every time I see ACDC in my dreams,
Speaker:I write it down because it it will manifest.
Speaker:And that's why I think, you know, I I do have a past life with
Speaker:Angus and Malcolm. I I honestly believe that we were related
Speaker:in another life because they they've always treated me like family from the
Speaker:the first day I met them, and they still do. Well, and your and your
Speaker:career has been very much connected to them. Yes. Oh, god. That they made
Speaker:my career. They made my career. I mean, I wouldn't have a career without
Speaker:ACDC. I honestly don't think I would. So I I give
Speaker:them all the credit. They they are the talented ones.
Speaker:Well I was lucky enough to be there. Well, you're certainly talented too. You
Speaker:got 5 books out, and the latest book is The Secrets of Universe,
Speaker:Universal Laws, Past Lives, Ghost Adventures, and Mike.
Speaker:And people can get that at susamasino.com. Where else can they
Speaker:get it at? And they can get it at Amazon on Amazon.
Speaker:It's in paperback and on Kindle. Okay. So you can get it. You don't
Speaker:have to go to the bookstore, and you don't have to wait for it. You
Speaker:can get it from your Kindle next time you next time you go to
Speaker:it. Right away. And, if you go to my website, all
Speaker:5 books are on there, and my 6th books will be out next spring,
Speaker:the ACDC FAQ book, everything you wanted to know about the
Speaker:world's true rock and roll band. Awesome. Well, I'll look forward to
Speaker:reading it when it comes out. And thank you so much for your time, Susan.
Speaker:It's been a lot of fun. There's probably about a 100 more things
Speaker:we could talk about. And so I'm gonna save that, and we'll have to do
Speaker:another episode soon. I would love to. Thank you so much,
Speaker:Mike. And anytime. Call me anytime as Bond would say.
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Speaker:Mike. See you on the other side.