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Four Year Anniversary Special - The Finale
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It's the series finale of CP/SC! Rob, Celine and Joey reminisce on 4 years and 200 episodes of the show before bringing the podcast to a close. They discuss their favorite moments, the episodes the didn't make and the dream guests they missed. It's all capped off with the Roast of Checkered Past!
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Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Cutman
Theme Song: OAO by Mad Bomber Society
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
Special Thanks: Keelan, Mega Michi and Adam the Ska Mailman
Extra special thanks to our guests, collaborators, contributors, patrons and most of all, you the Checkerheads!
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Transcript
Farewell Announcement
00:00:00
Speaker
On this episode, we say so long, farewell, s scalvita, say goodbye with our fruit and flower anniversary episode. It's the swan song of the third best ska podcast of all time, checkered past the motherfucking ska-dcast.
Introduction & Podcast History
00:00:35
Speaker
What up, Checkerheads? Welcome to Checkered Past the Ska-Dcast with Selin and Rob. The show where a Ska fan, a sometimes Ska fan, and a lapsed Ska fan used to interview Ska people, talk about bands, and do bits while alienating listeners the whole time.
00:00:48
Speaker
I'm Rob, and this is my sister and co-host, Selin.
00:00:52
Speaker
What's Mad Bomber Society going to do with all of that free publicity they've been getting for the last few years? I'm sure they're raking it in right now. I'm sure they're looking at those 10, 15 new Spotify listeners a month. Hey, that's something. Getting that maybe 10 cents.
Engineer Joey's Farewell
00:01:06
Speaker
And here for the last time is our co-host with the most toast, Engineer Joey. Oh, yeah. Elhoe. I did it. I made it. I made it for the last one, you guys. Yeah, i was that in doubt? You're the only one who's never missed one.
00:01:21
Speaker
One Rob, I guess. ah I wasn't on to some of them.
Reflecting on Podcast During COVID
00:01:25
Speaker
That's true. oh and i was I missed Jordan Morris one. Oh, yeah, because you had COVID. i I had COVID. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And me ah me and Arianne had to kind of engineer it from our from our the the island at our house. That was very weird.
00:01:40
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. And those first couple of years when it was like COVID was something. Right? Navigate around that. Yeah. COVID was something. Yeah.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's a new thought, right? People haven't been saying that. But hey, without it, this wouldn't happened. There'd be no checkered past without COVID. Isn't that weird to think about? very weird i don't want to say that out loud. I don't want to say there's silver linings from COVID.
Ending the Podcast: Emotions & Challenges
00:02:05
Speaker
Actually, arguably, that's just another negative thing that COVID added.
00:02:11
Speaker
It added this stupid podcast. Mark against it. Yeah. If anything, it's in the con category. For sure. Definitely. Oh, it's a sad day, folks. If you're listening, this is the final Checkered Past episode of all time.
00:02:26
Speaker
We're hanging up our headphones for good. How's everyone feeling today? Relieved. That comes as no surprise. um
00:02:36
Speaker
And hungover. unhung over which i think is like i will um a classic celine move yeah yeah but it's been a while i've been hung over for a while it was like i feel like for a while there is sundays we do record sundays and not just hung over all the time yeah that's that's very true and celine works tuesday through saturday most weeks so like sunday is her saturday yeah yeah so it makes sense to be hung over um I feel like for a while there, at least one of us was hung over pretty much every time we recorded.
00:03:09
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Joey doesn't really drink anymore. No, but in the beginning, yeah feel like that was a thing. Yeah, at times. so But Joey, how are you feeling?
Personal & Professional Challenges
00:03:18
Speaker
the The engineer. Also relieved, but are like a little bit. so Like it's a I feel like the same way I felt when my band, my previous band kind of ended because COVID killed that. But it was just sort of like, ah oh, well.
00:03:33
Speaker
I guess it's over now. yeah this This thing I associated myself with for several years is just... gone now so that's kind of like weird but aside from that i'm very glad to have my sundays back joey is so posy all the time like that's just like this is his natural state it's just posy joey trying so why are we stopping why are we stopping that's the question people are gonna ask yeah i guess people will be asking that uh so just a little peek behind the curtain but um and we've kind of been chatting about this a little bit on pod for the last
00:04:07
Speaker
Like, I mean, at least a year, probably. But, um you know, like a lot of our our personal lives have started kind of getting away from us. Like ah ah my my wife and sometimes editor Arianne, she got real busy with her job. And so she couldn't ah participate in the podcast anymore. So a lot of the like production and editing duties kind of fell on me and Joey. And it was kind of taking up a lot more time from that.
00:04:31
Speaker
yeah um I felt like just in general, ah our like work lives yeah starting a bigger business and having staff and yeah i just couldn't do it anymore yeah yeah sad and like just between
Gratitude to the Ska Community
00:04:47
Speaker
bands and working doing more bands yeah doing more band bands i'm post-covid a post-covid world currently in three bands Yeah. so So Joey's in three bands.
00:04:57
Speaker
ah We've been getting help from some other checkerheads who have like pitched in to help with stuff here and there, which has been awesome. ah But honestly, just in general,
COVID's Impact on Podcast Focus
00:05:05
Speaker
it's a time thing. um Yeah. It really just came down to like the...
00:05:09
Speaker
The booking, recording, editing process, like all that put together um was doable, especially in COVID when we first started. ah But by the time, you know, everything opened up and we wanted to do more stuff and our but personal lives started getting away from us, it just being able to do a podcast every solitary week.
00:05:28
Speaker
And I made a point, i know, early on to say, like, I didn't want to ever miss a week. And I felt like if i if we got to a point where we knew we had to miss a week, then the podcast was basically in its last stages. And we were at that stage, I think. Yeah. Like this last month, if you were listening to those, all the May episodes were all sort of compilation episodes.
00:05:48
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not going lie. It was really nice to have a month off. ah Those are pretty easy to put together. um But it's not that we don't want to keep doing stuff. But the other thing, too, is I'm starting to run out of ideas.
00:06:03
Speaker
Yeah. Like the content is drying a little bit. I'm trying to Inspired. Inspired, relevant. You know, it's like four years and 200 plus episodes is a lot of content to get through. Yeah. um I keep saying, like, when when we brought this up, talking about it between us, I've said, like, if there was some magical way that we could just have a day per week to do the podcast, no problems.
Financial & Inspirational Challenges
00:06:29
Speaker
Yeah. You know what I mean? If there was just, like, a work day that we could do podcasts instead of work, would be great. We could do it forever. But... That's not the case. Yeah, no, they're still weak. Like, we don't have four-day work weeks in Canada yet, but, like, yeah hopefully.
00:06:43
Speaker
i don't know. Maybe someday. But, yeah, the other thing, too, is, like, the i don't want to be gauche, but the podcast isn't exactly profitable. Yeah, this has definitely been a labor of love. It is a labor love. Yeah. For the whole time.
00:06:57
Speaker
Huge appreciation for the patrons ah who help support the day-to-day operations of the podcast,
Achievements & Acknowledgments
00:07:03
Speaker
for sure. And got us to SPI Fest. And get us to SPI Fest twice. yeah ah it's That stuff is huge for us.
00:07:10
Speaker
But the um the reality is, like it's not we don't make we don't we don't get enough listens, obviously, to get like regular sponsorships. And ah so we don't make enough money to be able to hire professionals to help us
Future Involvement in Ska Community
00:07:25
Speaker
with stuff.
00:07:25
Speaker
Like hire a producer to like book guests and hire someone to edit, hire somebody to edit all that stuff. Like there's just not enough. ah There's not enough money, I guess, to do that too, um which maybe would have helped a little bit. But even then, again, Flynn's point, like I think the inspo is also just a little on the low side. and Yeah. Yeah. um but I think what we want to do though, and we've been chatting it up with some other people is we want to make ourselves available out there.
00:07:49
Speaker
Like, uh, the other thing too, is like, we want to keep supporting the community. Uh, the, the Scott community has been so wonderful to us, uh, for, for the last, however many years. And, um, we want to keep paying that forward. So,
00:08:02
Speaker
You know, there's a few ideas being floated around where we might do more podcasting stuff. um Obviously, now that we've done this, ah we have the ability to help people if they want to do podcasts. Like, we're here to support them with... Like, I put myself out there to say, if you want production assistance or you want some tips on how to set up a podcast or get going, I'm more than happy to help. Like, I'm he willing to... Hell yeah, hit us up.
00:08:25
Speaker
Yeah, so honestly. Yeah. Just go on Blue Sky or send us an email. I'm not shutting down the email. um And I just want to keep being a supportive part of the community, even if it isn't in this fashion.
00:08:37
Speaker
And who knows? Maybe we'll we'll throw a one-off episode or something that we just do for fun here and there in the future. ah but it just Or something with friends. Or something with friends, potentially. knows? Maybe.
00:08:48
Speaker
We'll see. yeah ah So keep your eyes on the on the socials and on the feeds and stuff.
Social Media Changes & Podcast Promotion
00:08:53
Speaker
And maybe you'll see something fun. Yeah, especially now that like ah the like I think it's pretty safe to say the Scott community with Scott Twitter but with Twitter, the death of Twitter looming imminently Scott Twitter is kind of died and from what it was.
00:09:10
Speaker
To be fair. Yeah. And I mean, there's a community. Which I think it made it harder to like advertise for the podcast. It made more difficult for us for sure. Well, yeah. Especially being in Canada. Yeah. We're far away. Right. And so like there is a community on Blue Sky that's kind of flourishing, but it is smaller and it doesn't have as much reach. Yeah.
Sharing Knowledge & Guesting on Podcasts
00:09:29
Speaker
And I don't really know what that means for kind of the greater online Scott community right now. But that being said, we you know we want to do what we can and be part of it.
00:09:40
Speaker
Wherever it goes from here. Yeah, exactly. You know what i mean? So yeah, hit us up on whatever socials you're on that we're on or whatever. I will be less helpful. Not because I don't want to be helpful, but I don't really know anything. Well, you also don't really know anything.
00:09:54
Speaker
Like, don't know. Show up and vibe. Yeah. If you want to guest. Show and Hey, that's the other thing
Favorite Moments & Creative Contributions
00:10:00
Speaker
too. And the band stuff. Yeah. Femme for you, you know? I will guest on a podcast. Listen, I'll guest on pretty much any podcast. I never guested on a podcast. See, that's that's the thing. Me and Celine have guested on podcasts before. Yeah. ah Like Joey's the one that's ah never done it before. So we got to hit up Joey to go on your podcast.
00:10:19
Speaker
Like at the very least, do that. Hit up Rob to figure out how start a podcast. Yeah. And then and now he do a couple episodes. Then call me up and I'll come on there. You'll be the first one, but you won't be the first released episode.
00:10:32
Speaker
Right. And I'll drink like 16 beers and talk about Operation Ivy. That doesn't sound bad. but You want to know some origins. Shout out to Eric. Shout out to Eric.
00:10:43
Speaker
so um Is there any... ah Should we talk about like favorite moments, least favorite moments? Is that is that a little too broad? No, that's fine. yeah what like What are some like highlight moments for you guys?
00:10:56
Speaker
Joey, I'll start with you. uh the wacky episodes like just being crazy yeah doing the crazy wacky episodes um sbi fest everything sbi fest both sbi fests were like the best things ever uh banana man man banana man was great banana man was great yeah um Watching Selene deal with Reese Roper was pretty amusing. That what that was but definitely definitely in the top 10 for sure.
00:11:30
Speaker
Oh, man. Those are all good. Yeah. Those are off the top of my head. What do you got? ah Me? Okay. Well, it's obviously self-serving, but anything where I wrote a lot of stuff is my favorite stuff.
00:11:43
Speaker
Okay, yeah. So, like, Ike episodes are some of my favorite. Like, the Sugar Ray episode is yeah absolutely one of my probably maybe the best writing I've ever put into the podcast.
00:11:53
Speaker
Yeah. um i really loved that i loved writing the christmas episodes like even the musical was a lot of fun to do even though that was like an absolute nightmare to put together but it was so fun and so stupid like i had a great time writing those oh yeah um like even biffs like the fucking uh um the the rock view files which Such a stupid premise. I still think it's pretty funny. I had a lot of fun doing it.
00:12:21
Speaker
And like I put way too much work into it. You know, like that's the thing. Yeah. um So I definitely have a lot of like fondness. for I think the thing is that when I started doing this, like I knew I was pretty competent at writing stuff like in general.
00:12:35
Speaker
But i I really felt like it was it was nice to know that I was able to have an outlet to write some truly wacky things. Right. And have it go somewhere and it'd be accepted. it was it was just.
00:12:46
Speaker
that was That's a highlight for me, for sure. To have it out in the universe, but actually have somebody partake in it. Yeah, course. Rather than just, like, have it be typed on some forum somewhere. Yeah, exactly. How about you, Selin?
00:13:01
Speaker
I don't know. Like, yeah, the Reese Roper situation I making friends. Yeah. Was a highlight. Making lots of good connections and SBI Fest for sure.
00:13:14
Speaker
he Witchy with Mitchy. Witchy with Mitchy. Yeah. Yeah. Like episodes where we just sort of like bro'd down. Yeah. Like there some guests that we who were there were there were some guests that we had who were guests only in the fact that they were like part of the ska community more or less we just wanted to like hang out with them like every time craig was on yeah you know like used to hang out with people yeah you wouldn't otherwise like necessarily make the time for which is like sad but
00:13:45
Speaker
It was just an excuse to hang with friends. Yeah. And then worse is probably when we've gotten like stood up. So if you're listening to this episode, we were going to talk about our least favorite things, but we saved that for the patrons.
00:13:57
Speaker
So yeah, that's, that's not going to be on the main feed and I'd say sign up for the patron to hear it, but nah, it wasn't for you. It was for them. Yeah.
00:14:08
Speaker
Okay, we do have an episode planned. ah So the way I'm going to structure this episode is we're going to play 25 songs. well It's a bit of a gauntlet. Yeah. But this is all stuff that we failed to do.
00:14:21
Speaker
like so this is going to be a mix of... Like being funny? Yeah. Goodbye. to and and and um So yeah all the unfinished um bands, I'm going to do that a little bit.
00:14:38
Speaker
All the um bands we never even touched one time that we probably should have. okay um Some of the regional, more specific stuff that we didn't really get into enough.
00:14:50
Speaker
And that's kind of the the way this is going to be structured. And then I thought this would be fun, but we'll we'll play the song and we'll talk about like... the band and and why we and and not being able to get to them but i think it'd be fun if we said who the guest we should have gotten on for that oh yeah that's fun that's fun so yeah fun little side game to go with this yeah yeah um so let's start at the top sure so the band that we did not finish uh first of all is less than jake so we uh we did episode one was with um
00:15:21
Speaker
ah Jordan Morris, I believe. the one that I missed, the COVID one. That's the COVID one. And then we had Reese Roper for part two. Okay, yeah. And then we had Bumsy for episode three. Okay, yeah. And so we got up to like their ah last sort of major label stuff before they went indie again.
00:15:39
Speaker
So we would have had probably one, maybe two more episodes that we could have done for less than Jake with their like sort of more modern stuff. um So the song queued up is from GNB FLA. This is does the lion city still roar?
00:15:56
Speaker
hey it's less than Jake. yeah Yeah. Seconds of the song starting Joker's Republic. They would have been a great Joker's Republic would have been a sick less than Jake.
00:16:07
Speaker
The other person I thought was Jake matter. Yeah, actually. Yeah. Cause of Jake. Cause they're both Jake's. Yep. Yeah. yeah um But he's gone on record saying that he loves new less than Jake.
00:16:18
Speaker
Oh, okay. That's the other thing. But Jokers also love new less than Jake. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. i They're very, their whole thing is like, they're not a less than Jake style band, they're very, they take that template. Yeah. You know what i mean For sure.
00:16:36
Speaker
This is mid, mid period. Less than Jake. Late. Late. Like, startterly startling okay early, early, early, late period. Early, late, less than Jake.
00:16:49
Speaker
That's weird to think. This guy's spooky. it's all right. I like this record when it came out. It came out after, like, my least favorite record, which was that, um, ah the pop one. i can't remember what it's called. In the Out Crowd or whatever.
00:17:04
Speaker
ah But this one i thought was really good. I was like, it was like a return to ah to form for them. And they've kind of been kind of coasting on this sort of sound since then. So it's been this sort of like more like settled in less than Jake, I guess is.
00:17:16
Speaker
Yeah. I feel like they kind of did ah kind of what no effects did sort of mid late way through their career where they sort of found their sound and then their last bunch of albums are just that. Yeah.
00:17:28
Speaker
They knew they were never going to be on the radio again. And so they're just like, yeah, this is for the fans. Yeah. Just here for the fans. For sure. Yeah, which i mean, respect. I like I like late period. No, effect so yeah maybe I should give these albums a listen. Maybe I dig them more than some of the earlier stuff, because the earlier stuff is just two third wavy for me. Mostly.
00:17:45
Speaker
It's still pretty third wavy, but like modern third way, a little darker. Well, maybe um maybe just pop punky like it's all okay like they're really leaning on the pop punk right side of it. Yeah, for sure.
00:17:58
Speaker
uh let's talk about big d we never finished we got through one whole part of big d and missed out on like literally the rest of their whole career which is too bad because this is it's a band we talked about so much like we talk about big d constantly yeah never finished because they came here a lot yeah uh so i'm i'm gonna play shining on ah big d in the kids stable from my favorite favorite big d record
00:18:28
Speaker
Um, Strictly Rude.
00:18:31
Speaker
Hmm. Big D Guesting. We had Runway Ricochet do Big D one. Okay. Bless me. Sorry.
00:18:43
Speaker
I woke up with dog. That was like a laser blast. Oh no, a TIE fighter just collapsed in.
00:19:02
Speaker
Yeah, this is fun. I know not everybody likes the talk singing. Yeah, I don't know. but It's kind of like lazy rapping. Yeah. It kind of reminds me of like a Rat Boy or something like that. or yeah like ah That's the whole point. It's sort of like lazy sounding.
00:19:21
Speaker
I don't know who would be good to chat about this. Maybe like Bad Mary or something like that. Yeah, maybe. Maybe a band from Edmonton would be fun. Like if the bomb ever had ah to come back on, they would probably have a lot to say about Big D. Yeah, yeah, that's true. ah Just because they're so big up here or somebody from the Northeast.
00:19:42
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, like Devin or Devin K might have a have opinions on Big D. yeah yeah i feel like power up would have opinions yeah they're from the same uh state right yeah like there's also that aspect of it um yeah that'd be fun right yeah yeah um so next up uh our expand it's we never did get past the ska stuff to the not ska stuff and people are mad about that because they love all that ah now they have they're about to have more stuff yeah they or may not be ska who knows probably not uh but uh i have gone ah people always are like oh rob you love ska r expand it i'm like yeah i like ska r expand it i but my favorite record is the resignation i've said that 500 times but people choose to not this good that's your favorite so i chose new stand rock which has ska in it
00:20:33
Speaker
ah
00:20:37
Speaker
and of course uh our friend chris was on the first r expand it's yes yeah
00:20:47
Speaker
So many people have so many opinions about the RX Bandits. I can't even like... I wanted Runaway Ricochet to talk about them. That was my yeah my suggestion to them when they wanted to come on. Right. Yeah, yeah.
00:21:00
Speaker
Because progressive. Yeah. frog Oh, you know, eric Eric would have been a good one. Yeah. From Hall of Phonics. Yeah, yeah, actually yeah. Yeah. That would have been a real good one. Yeah.
00:21:17
Speaker
Speaking of which, don't know if we ever talked about the fact that they did, of Phonics did a soundtrack for like a Sega Saturn style like racing game.
00:21:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And it fucks. It's like super good. So da I can't remember what the game is, but I'm sure if you just search like Holophonics racing game music, that'll come up. They got the album on their band camp. I'm pretty sure.
00:21:43
Speaker
um I think RxBandits does a good job at like conveying a lot of emotion. Yeah. I feel like that's like big feelings. I think that's why maybe people have opinions about it. Like it's a. You like that record. and I like that record a lot. Sell You Beautiful's on there.
00:21:57
Speaker
Yeah. That's a that's a that's a great album. And it's a lot more like of a. and they They have all big riffs like that. Like a lot of big like butt rock riffs, which is yeah which is fun.
00:22:09
Speaker
In a good way. It is butt rocky, but like kind of in a fun way. Yeah. And yeah, there's like no ska on that record. Like I think there's like two ska riffs in the whole thing, but it's great.
00:22:19
Speaker
It's great fun. um rob Rob likes it. I like it. So there. So yeah. And then after this, they get too proggy for me. Yeah. um Mad Caddy. No.
00:22:34
Speaker
ah Next is ah Bomb the Music Industry. We never got past the first episode with Eric of the Hall Phonics. Oh, yeah. um We could have gone on for a lot of Jeff Rosenstock stuff, actually. Like, even solo Jeff Rosenstock would have been yeah fine.
00:22:47
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, this just, i don't know what it was. i threw bomb the music industry at a lot of guests, and they never took it. Never took me up on it. um Which is really weird Probably just like people that don't feel confident That they know enough about it to talk about it could be Possibly Or like they don't feel like being critical of it Or like who knows Right there's always a reason who know But i I picked the song Shut Up The Punks From Scrambles Scrambles of great record I know it's hypocritical to point fingers And the people to point fingers But when we all march to the beat of the same different drummer Yeah the steps are to come like clockwork
00:23:27
Speaker
One thing that I will say about Check Your Past The Scottcast is i was completely unaware of Jeff Rosenstock's anything before. Oh, yeah? No, I'm big fan.
00:23:39
Speaker
Love Jeff Rosenstock. It's great. Who doesn't? Right. Who doesn't? Yeah.
00:23:46
Speaker
Scott artist for non-Ska fans. Yeah, for sure. And I even really like his non-scot stuff. yeah like um I just really like Jeff Rosenstock's solo work, and this is really good. It's all good.
00:24:06
Speaker
I love songs that give ah fashion puns the gears. yeah Oh yeah, for sure.
00:24:17
Speaker
It's honestly ah difficult for me to enjoy like the casualties right because I know that they're like the kiss of punk. Did
00:24:32
Speaker
you just put the whole song? No. No, the the chorus comes in in like 30 seconds. It's a fast song. A Jeff Rosenstock song? Fast? What? That's crazy.
00:24:48
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So good. Who would we have gotten? Tape Girl was always like a top bomb the music industry guest for me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah But are ah she's ah she's somewhat reclusive though.
00:25:02
Speaker
So. yeah i The. the ah Banana Guy's friend probably would have been pretty good, too, if he wanted to come on. Our friend H-Town. NPR skanking department probably would have been a really good guest, actually, for to have him on for ah Jeff Rosenstock episode.
00:25:17
Speaker
Not as banana man. ah Because he did ah he did the that month of Rosenstock. Remember? He listened to Hell Mode every single day. That's all he listened to for a whole month.
00:25:31
Speaker
So, yeah yeah, that almost drove him crazy. But I feel like he would that way he would have been a fun person to talk about any Jeff Rosenstock project with. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. um Okay, now I was going to say Mad Caddies.
00:25:43
Speaker
ah we We stopped the Mad Caddies before they got past my preferred era of them. um Good for you. look Yeah. didn't get to the Didn't get to their reggae ah side of things. and But I know that this is like one of the songs that they're most famous for and at this point, which is on their covers album doing the Green Day song, She.
00:26:05
Speaker
ah got this LP.
00:26:10
Speaker
ah Ben from Mini Vandal. I would know i would not deign to bring in anybody else yeah to do a Mad Caddies album. Yeah. She screams in silence.
00:26:25
Speaker
Yeah, for Bomb the Music Industry, I feel like I would have had to have into it when I was young. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It just, like, doesn't hit for me. That's fair. It's pretty wacky. It's pretty, like, maximalist, crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:43
Speaker
Mad Caddies is pretty easy to like. They're coming again for the million. Yeah, they're coming again. They're coming here with that red bus that they always come in playing at the starlight that they always play at. Yeah, probably.
00:26:59
Speaker
This is like a cheat. i feel like like to take one of the hugest songs of ninety s punk rock and then just do it summertime reggae is like ah cheat code for streams.
00:27:16
Speaker
What's the, what is the, what is the story is that they wanted to do it, but a fat Mike said, no, and they had to like force him to, to accept that it would be a good idea. think it was something like that. What the album?
00:27:27
Speaker
No, no. That song that song specifically. Oh, i yeah I don't know. There's like, there's some lore behind that whole thing. Cause fat Mike was really in, I think he picked the songs for them for the most part.
00:27:38
Speaker
Oh, and this was like a not fat Mike pick and they had to fight for it. Yeah. Okay. um Yeah. They have such a weird relationship. Yeah. as the Yeah. Because the Mad Caddies are the only ska band on fat, I think, at this point.
00:27:51
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. I'm sure like a lot of the bands will do like random ska songs. like Yeah, but but they're like a ska band. It's like the Voodoo Glow Skulls. They're the only ska band on Epitaph.
00:28:02
Speaker
Right. Right. But yeah. Anyway, Mad Caddies. They also get brought up all the time. Yeah. They're fun. It's fun. But they're also in like a later stage of their career where they just sound one way forever. Yep.
00:28:17
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they know They know how to pack in a show. Yep. Which is show up. Yep. Show up and smoke cigarettes inside the venue in a country you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes inside venues and do it. All right. Catch 22 is next. Our friend Nina.
00:28:32
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Joey's friend Nina. My band. My band. The band leader in one of my bands. She came on in person. Whoa. Yeah. That was one of our rare Inverson apps. To record Catch-22's first ah ah episode. She did it.
00:28:47
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She chose that because she had never listened to it before, which it was, I think, very fun. Hell yeah. um And then we stopped after a Alone in the Crowd never got to their, like, modern iteration. So we had another episode we could have done, a Catch-22 part two.
00:29:00
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um But we never got around to it. But this is from their communist, um what what do you want to call it? A concept album about the forming of the Communist Party in Russia. and And this is the party song.
00:29:15
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Little did she know she was going to be jamming in the same basement. Yeah, it's true. Right back there, patrons.
00:29:25
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Look at that. He's drunk. He's drunk.
00:29:32
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This is kind of fun. It's a
00:29:38
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very teen movie. Yes. Just a sloppy ska rhythm. Yeah. Who would have been a good Catch-22 guest? But like new Catch-22. Yeah. Like a post-Tom...
00:29:50
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would have been a good catch twenty two but like a you catch twenty two yeah like a post tom I don't know. I can't think of people who are always blabbing about Catch-22. I feel like somebody's toured with them. That'd be fun if it was somebody who toured with them. Like, didn't Catbite tour them a little Yeah, maybe Catbite. Oh, maybe. That'd be kind of fun, yeah.
00:30:17
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They'd have a fun opinion about Catch-22. Totes. for like for
00:30:25
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Yeah, I'd say so. Maybe even Kaylee would have had thoughts. but Yeah, I'm sure she does. yeah um Yeah, that's tough. because thiss yeah People who talk about Catch-22 are usually just talking about Keys being alone in the crowd. They're usually not talking about... Yeah, the greater work. like yeah but The general body of work. Because it's very inconsistent. like We would have had to sit through some serious shit.
00:30:46
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but Right. like but I'm sure there's people out there who think Dinosaur Sounds is just a great record. It's not good. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Going back to right at the beginning when we were talking about stuff, I'm not going to miss.
00:31:00
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Just ah homework listening. Homework li yeah list all homework listening is... i barely did it. I hated it. I can't. And you know what? that was that's ah That is something we set up for ourselves that we could not stop. yeah like the The podcast just would not function anymore. If you couldn't talk about... yeah If we couldn't pre-listen to the stuff. like It just wouldn't work anymore. Yeah. it and so we we painted ourselves into such a corner it's just hard i just like was like i don't want to listen to this it's even ah it's only usually was like three albums at a time but i still found myself like cramming them all into like two drives home like yeah like if you ever listen to like how did this get made and they're like yeah i just finished the movie before we came i get it i get it i absolutely get that yeah you're right because you're like ah because this is my job and like and you're like tired you want to watch like your own show and listen to your own music that you feel like listening to yeah or like if you don't work at a place where you can just play your own music like if i worked if i could just play from my phone um onto the stereo work i tried that but then i could only half pay attention exactly right so yeah it's tough
00:32:07
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Yeah. Here's another suggestion if you're going to start a podcast is like, imagine doing the thing that you're doing a hundred more times. but Every single week. Every single week. Especially if it's a band you're like instantly not into.
00:32:21
Speaker
Yeah. Imagine a part of this podcast that you don't want to do. And then this isn't like, this was not as much homework, but to also like give the band enough respect to like check out.
00:32:32
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their music as well yeah that was yeah always do do yeah i always tried to for sure i made a point of that as well like especially if they're camp coming on to promote something yeah yeah like the first time jordan morris came on i listened to his entire bubble podcast before he came on wow like i need to like know what he's doing um because it's really important so yeah totally yeah um okay let's do talk the toasters we didn't do modern toasters we got up to ah dub 56 i think and then stopped um but this is uh don't let the bastards grind you down this is like their most famous song that we never talked about classic yeah as featured in mission hill this is the everybody's god the famous
00:33:18
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I feel like Kaylee had. If Kaylee did the first two episodes, I'd be... I'd feel bad if she didn't come in for the third one. Yeah. That's a Kaylee one. Yeah, for sure. Because she also isn't as fond of the newer toaster stuff, and it would have been fun to move into that direction. Do a flip of the first one. yeah always has an educated opinion that's well thought out.
00:33:37
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Yeah.
00:33:43
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It's, like, pretty undeniable, though. This song? Yeah. Yeah. Every time I listen to it, like as much as like the toasters are are they are what they are, there's some songs that, They and they are tossed in panko and deep fried, in my opinion.
00:34:03
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A little definitely in that zone for me, for sure, but this song rips. I'm just surprised at how little I've retained. Like, I barely remember anything.
00:34:15
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That we've like... i'm I mean, yeah. like I'm like, oh yeah, like I've listened to so much of a certain band and then I'll still be like... Oh, yeah, that's them. I don't know. You know what I mean? I do, because in the last, I'd say, 12 months, I feel like I was pretty encyclopedic about the podcast. But then, like, I play a song and Joey would be like, oh, you played this on the podcast before. I'm like, I did? You know what? Yeah, the last, I would say, six months for sure. ah There were, like, deja vu.
00:34:42
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Yeah. ah Deja vu moments, because once you do 200 episodes of a pod, you're like, wait a second. Yeah. Didn't we do this already? Didn't talk about this already? Like, yeah. It started to really string together. So same felt.
00:34:57
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Yeah. Silken felt, man. um Okay. Next is. So we only did one episode on Fishbone, which was with Poindexter.
00:35:07
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Yes. Yeah. And we had a dream guest. Yeah. For this. For episode two. Yeah. Yeah. We wanted Jare. We never got the courage to ask them. Honestly, that was 90%. We never got the courage to ask. I just, I couldn't do it.
00:35:21
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I have so much respect for Jer and I find them to be such an amazing, uh, respectful people that I'm like, meet your heroes. Maybe. maybe
00:35:32
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Well, maybe, maybe. Yeah. Unless they tour here, but, yeah but we know how that goes. So don't, don't. Don't. Yeah. So in, in, ah in, in risk for to further our, our love for Jared, this is their favorite fishbone song. Unyielding conditioning. Hell yeah.
00:35:49
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It's fucking song rules.
00:35:53
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And I've really evolved in my understanding of fishbone. You know that they are all black people.
00:36:01
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Didn't know. Changes things. Do you remember guess that horn? Yeah. Yeah, I think a about Get Sad Horn probably once a week. It was funny. It was good. Yeah. That was a good bit.
00:36:21
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is real fucking good. Smooth Angelo. Hell yeah. We were talking about on an episode recently where we were like, yeah, Smooth Angelo is a lot of fun. Yeah, wasn't he featured on a song? On a TSPO song. Yeah, yeah.
00:36:33
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See, that's what i'm talking about. That was literally the last episode we did. That was weeks ago, though. Yeah, I guess so.
00:36:51
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Can't deny those vocals. Yeah, I know. Fucking so good.
00:36:59
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I like the random, like, low voice harmonies they do in Fishbone. It's, like, one of my favorite things. It's not quite a harmony. It's, like, a weird low, like, group, like, gang vocal kind of. Like a chant almost.
00:37:13
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Yeah.
00:37:24
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All right, what do we got next? Voodoo Glow Skulls. we um We did them a couple of times. Oh, boy. um And i think we were just on the verge of doing the like ah the last kind of bits of of Voodoo Glow Skulls, and we never even got to the Ephraim years, which is the most recent stuff. yeah that's what I put on. I put Live in the Apocalypse.
00:37:43
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Oh, yeah, this song fucking rules, too. The new Voodoo Glow Skulls album is so good. Yeah. It's very good. So good. I love Ephraim singing in this band.
00:37:55
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Yeah.
00:37:58
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And, uh, I've heard, guess it had to be Joystick, right? Because Joystick did the first two. Yeah. Feels right. Yeah. yeah
00:38:10
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Maybe one of my favorite faces you've ever made is the Scully face from the cover art for this episode. For the ah pirate.
00:38:22
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Oh, yeah. The pirate voodoo glow skulls cover that I did. You made a very funny face, which I made you into a skeleton. And I believe believe Bex was like a pirate lady or something. That was a good one.
00:38:34
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That was a good one. Yeah.
00:38:41
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I just love this guy's voice so much. and what What band doesn't he elevate immediately? ah The last one that we only part one to never did anything more is the Aquabats.
00:38:55
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Oh, okay. We did one episode with our good friend Adam Ska Mailman and never went past that. Never got into their new wave years, which is a bit of a tragedy because, like, actually, I really enjoy the album Charge.
00:39:08
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And so this is the first song from that one, Fashion Zombies.
00:39:17
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RJ Phoenix, maybe? Maybe. Would have been a fun guest for this. RJ not coming back for a second episode is a bit of a tragedy in general. But RJ needs to pick something obscure. That's what made the first one that's really fun. Stretch Armstrong is such a wild choice. yeah it was pretty crazy but it was great yeah and the fact that he had as much information about them as he did was also incredible yeah yeah that's what made that episode so great that's an that's an underrated episode in my opinion you know um episodes where our guest kind of was more educated than us were always pretty interesting oh yeah yeah they bring something yeah because that happened a handful of times yeah i would say yeah
00:40:02
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I mean, even having Adam back on to do this would have fun, too. Yeah, would have been great. Yeah, because he's just so great. Yeah. Real fun bud to talk to. He probably would have done a character.
00:40:13
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Oh yeah, that would have been He wanted to do a character. I don't want to blow up Adam's spot, but I'll say he threw a bunch of ideas at me after the Banana Man episode where he's like, oh shit, I want to do one of these.
00:40:24
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And his idea was the rude, which is the dude from The Big Lebowski, but Scott. Scott, that's very funny. I thought it was great. I was like, yeah that actually would play super, super well.
00:40:38
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I would have dug that a lot. That would have been, that would have been a good time. Yeah. um Yeah. yeah Anyway, Aquabats. More character episodes would have been pretty fun. We would need more people. Like I couldn't just do characters. No, no, no. like But like just in general, like i loved the character episodes that we did.
00:40:56
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Yeah. um whether it be the halloween ones or uh banana man or whatever anytime we someone was improv-ing as a character was even the dnd stuff the dnd stuff was so fun we were talking about like that was a thing that we were suggesting maybe we did another round of that like we were thinking of doing it again um obviously we didn't get to that stage because that was like just shortly before we decided to stop yeah um but those ah But those episodes are a lot of work. Holy moly. yeah The editing was twice as long because I put all those stupid sound effects in there.
00:41:29
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I guess I didn't have to do that. It might help it made a big difference. I loved it. um ah Hey, I stitched all those together into one episode. So go back and take a look at it. yeah Okay, now let's get into the bands that we didn't even touch one time.
00:41:43
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ah so this is... The one and only Bucko9. This is a Summer of Ska band that we didn't do a single solitary episode on. They're band that listen to quite a bit right like as during the Summer of Ska and around that time as well. The songs from the Key of Bree is one of my favorite records. I have it actually on vinyl and it's so much fun.
00:42:04
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ah But of course, 23 Teeth is their big Summer of Ska record. And this was their hit. This is my town. Um, the band would have been, or the the person would have been Adam, Adam Davis.
00:42:18
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Oh yeah. Um, that was actually borderline just pre-set up for us when Aaron was on the podcast that he said, oh, you should have Adam on to talk about the nine. And I was like, oh, that's a great idea. For that, we never did link 80.
00:42:31
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, and I don't have that here too, but like, I would have had some thoughts about Link-Hady. We missed out on like Asian man stuff in lot ways. This song sends me back. Yeah.
00:42:43
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Yeah. This is, this is, yeah. I don't know if this was on a compilation or something that we skateboarded to a lot when i was a kid, but this song like in particular is Hokey Smokes.
00:42:55
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This is teenage Joey for sure. This is about as ska a ska song is going to get. Yeah. Shooting right down the middle on the ska. Yeah.
00:43:05
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Pretty cheesy, but it's pretty good.
00:43:17
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It's a jam. I'm here now. And they're also putting out new stuff right away. Yeah, they've been putting out new stuff. like they yeah There would have been quite a bit of Bucko9 to talk about because they were one of those like Sky is Dead bands that was just like always around. But, you know, they they were never at the high highs of Real Big Fish or Boss Tones or whatever. Right. But they were just just touring and putting out material and it would have been a lot of fun to talk about.
00:43:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, Bucko9 was a miss. Who did you say to do it with? and Adam Davis yeah from IDOS because he was ah he toured with them a ton. So yeah, that would have been a good one.
00:43:53
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yeah um yeah oh well it is what it is uh next up we got uh well yeah we never did mustard plug guys like that's ridiculous that is crazy it also would have been fun because it didn't they tour with mustard yeah or frs because uh yeah like half of them played in mustard plug for a little bit during a couple of tours um they toured together and were like sharing band members That would have been a good one. Yeah.
00:44:18
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Mustard Plug is a band that I like, especially when i was first getting into Scott, I loved Mustard Plug. um Great logo Great logo. Just angry skank and mustard guy.
00:44:29
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Great logo. Creepy fucking album cover for Big Daddy Multitude. yeah The dude covered in mustard. yeah Nobody needed to see that. yeah i't I don't like it. But like great album titles. Like one of them is called the Black and White Album. Like, oh, that's just great.
00:44:45
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Yellow. Very funny. Their fifth album is called Yellow Number Five. Come on. These guys know what they're doing. Like, yeah. And, uh, evil doers beware is the summer of Scott record. Um, but their biggest song is a cover of the verb pipes freshmen, which was a one-off. So let's listen to that.
00:45:00
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That's crazy. I had no idea. It's a smoking hit.
00:45:07
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Listen that base to bass tone. Just rips on through the mix. Good. I love that. I love it. Like that's such a skate punk, early 90s skate punk move. Oh, hell yeah. And it's my favorite.
00:45:25
Speaker
When I was young, I knew everything. She a punk who barely ever took advice. Now I feel stricken sobbing with my hand. I can't believe this is like their highest, biggest streaming song.
00:45:39
Speaker
That's crazy. College radios. Yeah, I guess. They talked about that on IDOS, about how it was like, because of like, colleges really like, helped them out a lot. Right.
00:45:52
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Yeah.
00:46:01
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I really wanted to put beer song. Yeah. Yeah. I was expecting something more along that line. But that this was the one that... Or Skankin' by Numbers. i actually played Skankin' by Numbers on an episode once before.
00:46:13
Speaker
i think it was on the Christmas episode ah where we were trying to convince you that Ska is still good. Oh, yeah. but Because I know you like that song a lot. It's a banger. That whole album is so good. Like ah Brain on Ska and then like ah the one about getting robbed out of 7-Eleven. Those are all great songs.
00:46:30
Speaker
Yeah. Missed opportunity. Yeah. Oh man. mit Mustard plug would have been so much fun. um Okay. Here's another band we didn't talk about. We never talked about the pie tasters. but ah That's kind of wild.
00:46:42
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Yeah, I think that just never came up. um I don't know any bands in DC. Like, who's in that area? you know what I mean? Like, that's... Yeah, I yeah it's that's a I think it's just we don't know enough people who... But I know they tour, and they were playing at, like, ah Supernova and stuff like that. Yeah, and they played... Weren't they, like, pretty regular coming here and for a while? Maybe. i feel like back in the day, they were here kind of... Not all the time, but, like, not...
00:47:09
Speaker
irregularly they're like the the the b-side to the slackers and hepcat i'd say like slackers and hepcat were like the the big trad ska bands but the pie tasters were just a hair under that um although they have a lot of very uh maybe not as good songs about women yeah they have a history of like you know talking about getting drunk and hitting their girlfriend so i don't i'm not as into that not i yeah um but but they did have a banger for the summer of ska that's this one out all night joey
00:47:43
Speaker
goldfinger yeah it's just got the gold the english beat goldfinger river intro i don't i can't get tired of it though that's just then you know it's scar oh yeah but Just trying to give you a heads up.
00:48:00
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Oh, yeah. This is a banger. This is good song. Yeah. Soulful. I recognize this one line. um My favorite Pie Taster song is Drunken Master, though. I think that was on a Give Him the Boot. i think Oh, okay. you're
00:48:17
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Don't know where this was. like what Maybe a video game? Was this on a Tony Hawk? Maybe. I feel like it was. This one might have been on a Tony Hawk. Ooh, that could be. Time to do a patented Rob Google. Yep. Patented.
00:48:32
Speaker
That's right. Every time somebody Googles while on podcast, they have to pay me $2. Oh, you'd be super rich. Yeah. I am. That's why he's quitting the pot. super rich. Independently wealthy.
00:48:53
Speaker
Yeah, have had to be. Tony Hawk 2. Tony Hawk 2. Big-a-bam. Nice.
00:49:01
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I definitely listened to the first two minutes of this song a lot of times. Yeah. Especially if you're playing it on the N64. Yes. they had to compress everything.
00:49:12
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um Yeah, Pite Tasters would have been a blast. Especially if we had somebody like Trattie to talk about, oh, you know what? Stop the Presses would have probably. Yeah, that would have been a real good one. Yeah, that would been good.
00:49:23
Speaker
Because we never had them. We were talking about having them back for a full episode, not just ah Yeah, would been We would set them on a bracket. Yeah. Although that was that before we, yeah, it was before we saw them, right? Yes. God damn. They're good. Yeah. They're very good. Live. Go highlights see, stop the presses. If you are able to see, stop the presses, go buy, got it.
00:49:42
Speaker
Give them money. Yeah. So they can play incredible. Yeah. um Okay, the next one. ah The Hippos. That was a band we could have one-offed. If you don't know who the Hippos are, and the the lead dude whose name escapes me, um he went on to be like a Grammy Award winning producer i and has worked with Paramore and like a bunch of other bands like basically exploded past the hippos um they were a band that came and went in the summer of ska like i think they started in 95 and ended in 2000 or something oh wow like a slow gherkin perfect perfect timing yeah absolutely their first record is basically a complete ska punk's uh album and then they discovered moog synthesizers for their second one
00:50:29
Speaker
The second one is the one that everybody likes, but you don't get to pick the songs. Moog synthesizers suck. oh Please, from the first record, is what I picked because it's funny.
00:50:40
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I'm getting spicy on this one. yeah just going to like I'm going to admit when I think stuff is not fun. so like I don't like Moogs. They sound weird. Y'all are crazy.
00:50:59
Speaker
so much percussion. I mean, if you were on tour in this band, all you'd have to do is eat those little white balls. So, like, it'd be cheap, right? You wouldn't even have to eat at Taco Bell.
00:51:12
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Just eat little plastic white balls the whole time.
00:51:17
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When you're hungry, hungry. Look at it. Thanks, Joey. You're welcome.
00:51:31
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This has like an under the sea level of percussion. Yeah. Their percussion player is aggressive. The singer also gives off like hard Rivers Cuomo vibes in like when you look at them. Oh, okay.
00:51:47
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And the song's about getting pulled over by the cops and like basically being like, please let me go. Please. Yeah.
00:52:06
Speaker
wow that that harmony is like so close to being in real big fish territory but like just barely not i mean this is a socal like straight like ah people love the hippos this is a band that i think would have gone ah over very very well if we did an episode on it who would have done an episode on it feel like a lot of people would be down. California person, maybe.
00:52:32
Speaker
Actually, you know who would have been fun would be Chris. Chris Growl? No. Yeah, actually. I was thinking about our friend Chris Reeves. Oh, Chris Growl's our friend, too. yeah They're all our friends. We're just friends with so many Chris's. The loser cool one? Yeah. the ah One's a loser and one is cool. Yeah. Either one of them would have probably been good. But yeah, that's a good call. I would have i would been into that. Hmm.
00:52:54
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um ah Dance Hall Crashers. Let's talk about them. We never did a Dance Hall Crashers episode. oh I'm a big fan. I love the Dance Hall Crashers. I've gone on record saying I love the Dance Hall Crashers.
00:53:06
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yeah um Karina is now well played ah the last few shows with ah but no effects, which is really cool. And I think she's back on her own and maybe reviving the Dance Hall Crashers. So yeah she's busy. um yeah she's like one of the best ska vocalist female or otherwise in like period like i just think she's wonderful yeah um and uh yeah the first dance hall crash we talked about it where the um we played like that early dance hall crashers on our rancid pre-show uh where it was like the stuff with the like the the horn when they were a horn band but then they went on to become a
00:53:41
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like just a two guitar ska band with no horns. yeah yeah And that's their like key moment. ah One of their songs is in ah Biodome. They're listening to it in the car. Hell yes. Not this one. This is Buried Alive. But this is a little bit more of an example of the two guitar ska stuff. Shout out Kyle.
00:53:58
Speaker
Biodome fan. Big Biodome fan.
00:54:08
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Yeah, her voice is absolutely like... the The additional lady voice of punk rock for me. Yeah. You know what if there's additional lady vocal on a punk song. If there's lady vocal sometimes. if there's lady vocal sometimes on a punk song, I want it to be heard.
00:54:25
Speaker
How about lot of women? about not just one woman? i I know, but like, you know what I mean. like there she's She's on a lot of quality classic songs. She's on no use songs. She's on no effects songs.
00:54:40
Speaker
Probably other bands that start with no, you know?
00:54:48
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I know what you're saying, but do you know what I'm saying? Yes, i and I agree with you.
00:54:57
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I also love, the thing I like about this band is they're like thin Lizzy with their guitars. It's not like it's like one guitar does one thing, one guitar does another thing. Yeah. Very fun.
00:55:14
Speaker
Do you like him dancing at this show? I will never stop. yeah Lockjaw is a perfect record. it is front It's 15 songs. Every song is two minutes. There's nothing to hate about it.
00:55:27
Speaker
It's beautiful, I'd even say. A work of art. Yeah, it's music. It is a work of art. Who would we have gotten for Dancehall Crashers? Oh, man. you want to do something somebody femme? Would that have made that a lot of sense?
00:55:39
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. yeah That could have been a bad Mary or a I'm sure Michi. Yeah. me The Megas. I'm sure D-Glo as well has opinions. Yeah, because they're a guitar band. so yeah, that would have been good.
00:55:52
Speaker
out Yeah. I feel like even Cat Bite would be fun. Yeah, I feel like Brit would have like a really strong opinion about it. Like a half past two. who Never had them on the pod. That's a good one. They're from California. That's the one. Half past two would have been perfect. Didn't we almost?
00:56:13
Speaker
Yeah, we just went back and forth a couple times and it just never worked out. That was one where it was like they wanted to and then they couldn't and then we couldn't. She's super busy too. Yeah. um hub city stompers that was a band we never touched um they're an active band now they're from the if you don't know who they are they splintered off of inspector seven after the summer of ska and are the skinheadiest of the skinhead ska bands that still exist today out in the jersey yeah um and so i picked this song from their ep it's called mass appeal i love this song
00:56:48
Speaker
Shout Robert Bull. Shout Robert Bull, big Hubsidy Stompers fan. I find your skin and bones funky. It's about how, yeah, he likes bigger ladies. That's what I was about. That's always a good idea for a song. Love it.
00:57:00
Speaker
your skin and bones from
00:57:11
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a good ah idea for a assault we love it A lot of Rosie. Great song. Yeah, this would be a pretty fun show too, I think. Oh God. Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:30
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yeah this would be a pretty fun show too i
00:57:39
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And Jenny Whiskey is just like an incredible saxophonist. This would be a great solo Bex episode. oh yeah. Yeah. because She's from this area, too. And she's like, you know, so the She's like an assassin saxophone player as well. Like, so yeah, Bex would have been a ah top shelf choice for this one. yeah Pre-body positivity movement.
00:58:00
Speaker
Yeah. 2003, I guess. Pre-Lizzo.
00:58:08
Speaker
Now what are we going to do? She lost all that weight. but Whatever makes her happy. body It's her choice. Yeah, for sure. Apparently she did it with like calorie deficits. Yeah, that's what everyone's saying and in Hollywood right now. Everyone's on a GLP one.
00:58:23
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Everyone's on a GLP one. Okay, the other band we didn't touch at all, but and even though we did so much two-tone, we never did Bad Manners.
00:58:34
Speaker
Oh, Not even, I think played one song. I think that speaks to our Bad Manners. Yeah, that's exactly. That's because we're rude. yeah too rude to play bad manners we spent way more time talking about fucking judge dread and putting our face on judge drewill on in my face on judge's body smoking the weed but uh failed to talk about bad manners yeah all oh here's here's a thing if you weren't on uh blue sky or twitter ah we released release
00:59:06
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edited albums that go along with the episodes and for the entire two-tone bracket it was all just rob's face on judge dread no it wasn't the two-tone one it was the old school ska one or the old school the trad one yes yeah and we uh yeah had my face on judge dread's body for every single one of them which one was your favorite um i The one where he's like dressed ah in drag is pretty funny.
00:59:34
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okay Or the one where he's naked. They're all pretty stupid. I like the one where he was eating the ice cream cone. Yeah, I don't like that one. I don't really like any of them, to be honest. I'd rather not look at them again. What about the one where he was in the graveyard? The graveyard one's fine. Yeah, that one's okay. It's the least weird.
00:59:54
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It's the least unsettling. Yeah. you ah So anyway, let's this is the song they played on Top of the Pops. ah It's like one of their biggest hits and it's a cover. i remember So just real quick, before i once ah asked Mike Park what his top five two-tone bands were based on the the the big five, he put Bad Manners number five and I was like, why is Bad Manners always five?
01:00:17
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He's like, because half of their catalog are covers. fair He wasn't wrong. He was not wrong. So let's listen to the Can Can.
01:00:26
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Can you? Only if I can, can. I can't.
01:00:35
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I like the THX intro. They're having a time. Yeah. They're having a laugh. Couldn't be me.
01:00:49
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Yeah. Buster Blood Vessel. Being a human being in the world. This is a really funny song to cover. It's really funny. And the commitment.
01:01:01
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yeah Oh, yeah. Listen, the organ player is like, yeah, I'm going to do it. do you do this too So funny. And to get a top 10 hit out of it, too. Like, imagine imagine being English and just, like, turning on the radio. Turning on the radio to go to work? Yeah. And this is playing? And the can-can comes on? With the THX opening? You're setting yourself up for a good day. True that.
01:01:26
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Setting yourself up for a good day.
01:01:34
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Very funny. Never did Bad Manners. Honestly, I don't know if i had a lot to talk about with Bad Manners if we did do it. A lot of covers. He does another cover. yeah This is a silly song. Oh, he stuck his tongue out.
01:01:46
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We made a crazy noise. made a crazy noise. um All right. This next band we've talked about a little bit, but I felt like it was kind of weird. We never actually did full episodes on them, but they stopped playing because they didn't want to give any more oxygen to Russia.
01:02:00
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ah This is Ryskaya, and this is the song Energia.
01:02:07
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They are from Hungary, but not even from Russia. did Did they reform as something else and drop the Russian thing? Oh, did they? That's idea. Yeah, didn't they make a big announcement? I saw them say that they're going to stop because they didn't want to be associated with Russian. Yeah, I don't know if it's all of the members, but i believe i believe they reformed in some way with like a different shtick.
01:02:31
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Oh, yeah, that'd be fun. because They're very shtick heavy. Yeah. This would have been a great band to do, though. It felt in poor taste yeah these days. Yeah. Which is she not only fair, but also like kudos to like read the room and be like, oh, our shtick that was funny and working is not good. You know?
01:02:56
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This song is pretty sick. It's yeah just so good. They're so good. And the fact that they're on a metal label is just incredible. I mean, it goes pretty hard. Yeah, and also infusing that like Eastern European kind of chord structures and stuff in which Ska is like pretty tight.
01:03:15
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I wonder Gogol and them have played a show together. feel like they would have. They could be friends. yeah Yeah, feel like they have the same sense of humor at least. For sure, for sure.
01:03:26
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um let's stay in europe for a little bit so um there's a band that i really wanted to get to like remember when we did our first scopi episode is because chris uh was the um the host and he said what's a band that no one's ever going to want to talk right yeah yeah i was like okay we're gonna do scopi because no one's ever going to want to talk about it yeah that's pretty right because we never did a part two um but we did do that pachanka primer which i was pretty happy about yeah There's a band from Germany called the B-Nuts, which I had a huge obsession with for a little while.
01:03:57
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They are... Most of their songs are some kind of weird, dark joke. Like, they have one that's just about, like... ah playing with guns and murdering your family.
01:04:08
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They do a lot of songs about condoms. Like they, it's just a lot of weird, silly kind of like black comedy. Okay. They sing in something like 10 different languages.
01:04:19
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ah wow. um Yeah. They're, they're very poly European in their approach. Um, They only got kind of big when they had an American singer who kind of spoke a little bit of German.
01:04:30
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ah That was this phase. But I'm putting this in here because we didn't talk about German ska almost at all. We kind of skipped over Germany completely. Sorry, Germany. Yeah. We never talked about like the Busters or Frank and the Skunk All Stars or any of those things. guess hate Germany, apparently.
01:04:46
Speaker
I guess we did. Yeah. Accidentally. No, on purpose. well no I was like, I hate Germany. You went to Germany and you liked it. Yeah, it was very fun. This is, and also I did a whole PowerPod episode about Germany. but yeah um You gave them their flowers. Yeah, they had time. ah So this is I Wish I Was Cool Like Becky Austin by The B-Nuts.
01:05:09
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I went with a not inappropriate song. Like perverted grandpa. It's not that type of podcast.
01:05:20
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There's a song on this EP called violence, which is about how he's the only violent person in the band. They have to hold him back from beating up people. lips That's kind of a funny concept. Yeah. She had a blast.
01:05:37
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Yeah, he's really just switching around in this between stuff I can understand and stuff I can't understand. That's most of their songs.
01:05:48
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Oh, I think he said schnitzel. Oh, God, it hurts. I'll make a shirt that had the words. I wish I was cool like Becky O.
01:06:06
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This one's little more on the Scott Punk side, but most of their stuff is a little more two-tone. Okay. Yeah. A lot of the German Scott dance. don't know these vocals. Yeah, it's a little... Find the note. Oh, no. Find the note. He can't sing. No.
01:06:19
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But that's like the that's part of the the charm of those that he doesn't sing. But like they've had four or five different singers, so you could probably listen to a different... so yeah Your friend at karaoke and you're like, yeah, that was, yeah, a good job. You certainly enjoyed yourself. Yeah.
01:06:34
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You look like you were having fun up there.
01:06:38
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Oh, we didn't talk about Ring Ding. Speaking of Germany. You used the joke. Man, I cannot believe how many put how much time and energy. Not a song to be heard. Nary a single Ring Ding song graced this podcast.
01:06:54
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Didn't talk about his albums. Just used him as the butt of the joke. I'm sorry, Ringding. Yeah. We did you dirty a little bit here. I'm so sorry, Ringding. He's a doctor. Yeah, he is a doctor. Yeah, some respect.
01:07:06
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Much like Grimbley Burrow, MD. this is ah This is me sound, a.k.a. my sound. Me poor. My poor.
01:07:17
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So you determine how good is his patois.
01:07:24
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I don't know if that's my place to judge patois. Just saying, how how much can you definitely identify him as a fat white guy? Well, I mean, so far it's just toasting.
01:07:37
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Wait until after the chorus once we get to the dance hall part. Is he celebrated by the Jamaican community? I could see that. yeah I think it's like one of those things, well, if you're just that good. Yeah.
01:07:55
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Also, this fucks. This song is like clearly just an amalgamation of a bunch of other songs. Well, it has the train to Scoville horn line. And it and it has slang tang as the bass line. So it's it's just kind of all. And then this is like 54, 46. This is just like a compilation of other songs put together, but it's good.
01:08:19
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um And he plays the trombone too. Like if you ever watch him live, he does he does the toasting, he does the singing, and he plays trombone. pretty Pretty good. Pretty stellar musician. Yeah, that's the and solid.
01:08:30
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ah That particular record is also great. So he has the card. Chris Murray has the card. chris mury's got So if anybody doesn't know about the card, every country gets one white guy that can sing in a Jamaican accent.
01:08:42
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yeah In Canada, we have Chris Murray. yeah ah In Germany, they have Dr. Ringding. This guy's much better than Chris Murray. ah Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. so Yeah. Does Judge Dredd get the card?
01:08:53
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Like who else? Who else in England? Jamaica gave him the card. Yeah, that's true. Who are we to say? We can't give him the card. Jamaica gave him the card. Yeah, for sure. Judge Dredd got the card. Whether or not that's a sufficient card, I don't know.
01:09:07
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ah But the jury's still out. do um okay let's get away from germany for a second let's go to argentina we never talked about las fabuloso cadillacs that's kind of crazy uh this is a song by them uh so if you're not we actually did that that's another thing we did dirty is uh latin ska bands period like we were just so uneducated honestly it was like here so here's a thought i had oh i just hit my microphone you're pissed i wanted to do this thing with my with my hand it wasn't chop yeah it wasn't mandatory though yeah um
01:09:40
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I was actually thinking I was going to go to Esteban and ask him for 32 song Latin ska bracket. Oh, wow. I just have it like, what are the 32 essential songs, 32 unique artists that we can put from Mexico south to the bottom of South America?
01:09:57
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Yeah. Like, so they would have this Pantone Rococo and like some of those other group inspector. Yeah. Even some, I'd be, I'd be with like South central skankers or like, you know, some like Latin California Scott bands, East LA bands, right. Oh yeah. Would have been really cool to do that. It just never panned out and it was going to be probably a little bit more work, but I just didn't get there. But anyway, ah last fabulous is Cadillacs. If you don't, if you aren't familiar, they have hundreds of millions of streams per song on Spotify. They're a gigantic band.
01:10:26
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like ah people of Latin descent have come on this pod to say sky's big. And you don't really know that until you see, you know, people engage with this music. So I'm gonna be able to pronounce the song, ah but yeah, let's play this, this next one.
Unique Song Mixing Techniques
01:10:44
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Yeah. They're like, ah like, ah Oh yeah. We play festivals of hundreds of thousands of people all summer type that. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
01:11:01
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Well, like a totally different concept of how to mix a song.
Exploration of Music Styles
01:11:08
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Like the bass sits in such a weird place. The guitar is such like a weird tone. Free Chirits is an acoustic guitar too.
01:11:17
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Yeah. Yeah. But they're still using an ah and an organ. So it's like some electric instruments, some acoustic instruments.
01:11:27
Speaker
Like like a mix-up, right? Do they do like cumbia and stuff as well? Like, are they pretty eclectic or are they pretty ska? Especially the more their albums go. Like, they were very ska at the beginning and then they progressed. It's kind of like um the band from Australia, Cat Empire.
Dynamics of Dual Vocals
01:11:44
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Oh, okay.
01:11:44
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Yeah.
01:11:48
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Slag guitar? Is that what's going on? Yeah. And it it's so different from like the Pachanka style too. Yeah. That uses like Latin stuff too, but is like more based on like folk, like European folk music.
01:12:00
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Right. Like Manu Chow would do something like this, but. But it'd be different. It'd be a little different. Yeah.
01:12:12
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The dual vocals is very fun.
01:12:20
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Big harmonized gang vocal too. Very fun. Yeah, that'd be a sick band to see at a big
Australian Ska Bands
01:12:25
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festival. And that song has, I think, like three, four hundred million streams. Like, that's ah that's a monster hit.
01:12:32
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Alright, speaking of Australia, let's go down under. We did, that Cat Empire thing is the only... Speaking of Australia. Yeah, Australia. Speaking of Australia. You know?
01:12:43
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Plague. Plague. ah Cat Empire, I think, is the only Australian band we talked about. I think so now now. till now Uh, yeah, we, I also had a plan to do a, an Australia primer. I didn't think we could do like full bands, but I really wanted to do one. Cause there, lot of bands. So yeah.
01:13:01
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Uh, like area seven, ah the Melbourne Scott orchestra has a lot of like, they're big on YouTube. Um, But the like the most influential one is this their summer of ska band, which is the Porkers, yeah who all didn't know how to play their own instrument until they decided to start a ska band.
01:13:18
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ah love that. Which is very fun. So if you listen to their debut, Going Off, it certainly sounds that way. But theyre but they have they were going off. But they were going off. But by the time they hit their second album, which was 97's Hot Dog Daiquiri, which is an incredible name for a record. Love This is the third waviest third wave band. And I once said on our discord that they get an absolute third wave pass.
01:13:41
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Like this is just fun listen to. I'll see about that. Front to back. Stupid, stupid music. Let's listen to Enter Porkman about a wrestler. Porkman.
01:13:59
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And yes, I left the intro
Fun Nature of Ska Bands
01:14:00
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in. It's necessary. Didn't we one point also try and work something out with having the Resignators on? Yeah, that's another band. They would been good guest for this because Australia. That's right. But also, Australia has opposite time from us.
01:14:20
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Yeah. Having a guest from England was difficult. yeah Having a guest from Australia was pretty much impossible.
01:14:33
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this is pretty good. Yeah, this
01:14:41
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is pretty good. Scott tempered in the fires of Akataka. Then you feel his future breath closing down.
01:14:55
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I like that it's kind of silly like the Aquabats, but not
Christian Ska Bands & Themes
01:15:00
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like the Aquabats. Yeah. Yeah.
01:15:09
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Yeah, I know. That's good stuff. The vocals are tough, but the music is good. The music is good. Vocals are tough. Everything and every song on that record is about something dumb like that. There's like a one about not being able to find your car in a parking lot. Like it's just, it's great.
01:15:23
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Silly. Again, the record's called Hot Dog Daiquiri. I don't want to order one.
01:15:31
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I don't take a strawberry. No. Yeah. Oh, man. um The other thing we never did is talk about the supertones. The OEC supertones. I like them. We actually talked about them a little bit on our Christian episodes, but we never actually did like an episode about it. I think I really wanted to do a Christian Scott primer at one point. Like that was definitely in the works to get some insiders.
01:15:55
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I think we did do insiders a little bit on the Midwest one. yeah But Squad five o the dingies, like all those you know would have been a perfect guest for that? What? Christ. Yeah.
01:16:06
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Big JC.
01:16:09
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ah There's a seat for him here. like ah Instead of like you know the the two sets of footprints, it's just like one empty chair. Yes. yeah Who sits in that chair? Christ. yeah He's with us always. he's one some yeah He's been a guest on every Yep. Kurt and Rosie would have been a would have been a second...
01:16:29
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Oh, solid second after JC. The fact that we never had the groups back for a second episode outside of the live. That's a travesty. That is insane. and we So we did have more apps we could have done. Oh, yeah. If we had any juice. Like four.
01:16:43
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Yeah. No, there's at least a dozen we've named. Yeah, we could have done a dozen. We have done one good bracket and then like five pretty good episodes. Yeah. ah So this is the super tone strike back from the summer of Scott.
01:17:02
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Just like Star Wars. Just like the Empire.
Ska Music in Video Games
01:17:06
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And Jans Island Bob as well. They did that. They also struck back. Yeah. I think strike back. Yeah.
01:17:12
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Also, this Metallica. Is it? Them and Buddha Glow Skulls really like to do the fake Metallica intro. Super Tone strike back to his father.
01:17:26
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just the whitest rapping um you hit we hit back harder that's not a very christian thing shouldn't they be chur turning turning another cheek
01:17:45
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certainly had the money for a high production budget on yeah i was gonna say it sounds really good yeah
01:18:03
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Not great vocals. I find them... charming.
01:18:09
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I like them. I just think I listen to so much Supertone Strikeback. Yeah, me too. It doesn't even mean anything to me. like I like his white boy rapping. Yeah, it's something. Are there vocalists, No, it's just one. yeah i like the whitepe I like his white boy rapping. I liked the rapping more than the singing. and but yeah um I didn't play anything from the first record from Adventures of ah the OC Supertones because it sounds pretty crummy.
01:18:35
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But I listened to that one a ton too. um It's like the losing streak of but ah of Supertones. okay yeah um Okay. ah Joey's probably eyeballing the next two songs and kind of has an idea of what we're doing. I can figure out what the last one is. I don't know what the second one oh you know what we never did here's just cake twice here's i was going to yeah
Podcast Journey Reflections
01:18:55
Speaker
i had such i had such a thought but i felt like i don't i didn't want to do like a huge bit on the last episode that didn't feel right right right um one of the primers i did have uh planned was horn punk horn rock uh primer where it's horn bands that aren't ska and so that would have been like cake
01:19:14
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ah Snuff would have been a big one And this band My Son the Hurricane Sure yeah Boston yeah Yeah It would have all been there yeah ah But this is ah E old Rocket from the Crypt oh Whom I love When I want to have some big riffs They're the original Get a tattoo of our band Then get in Free Forever band yeah I'm pretty sure
01:19:44
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And that rocket is pretty sick. So like anyone who did it, still got a cool tattoo.
01:19:54
Speaker
I do have a like a soft spot for like this type of garage punk. where it's like And Rocket from the Crypt in general, I feel like... oh Couldn't get away from... Couldn't finish the podcast without talking about MuchMusic one last
Concluding Gratitude
01:20:07
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time. yeah I feel like they were on MuchMusic.
01:20:09
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They were pretty strongly represented on MuchMusic. I don't know why, yeah but I feel like they were. Yeah,
01:20:22
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this song rips.
01:20:27
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I wonder if they're on a roof. Now they're on a rope. They're on a rope. Yeah. Hanging on a roof. Hanging on a roof is pretty funny. like It's like a song about roofers. Hanging on a roof.
01:20:37
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Or just someone with like a like a rooftop patio. On a roof, on a roof, I'm just hanging on the roof. That's what you could sing to yourself on your rooftop patio. Yeah. Having a barbecue.
01:20:48
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That doesn't sound like a bad thing. Having a hot dog margarita. Hot dog daiquiri. Dang it.
01:20:56
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Hot dog margarita is very funny to me, though. I said daiquiri is worse because it's a blended drink. Yeah, that's true. Instead of just like a mixed drink, you know?
01:21:10
Speaker
Oh my god, this is good stuff. Okay, last but not least... Joey kind of talked about it a little bit too. um I really wanted to do a primer on like Ska featured in video games and not like actual bands featured in and video games, but like actual songs like ah that Trombone Champ song. and Yeah. You know, like shit like that. Just like video games that had random Ska songs shoveled into them.
01:21:35
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Right. um Not the least of which was this one that, I mean, if you were in the pandemic, you know all about it.
01:21:44
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Oh yeah. This is kkka K.K. Ska. K.K. Slider's Ska song. The radio version. Right. Not the- not his actual- the album cut. This my favorite Ska song.
01:21:55
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The big reveal after four years. This is number one for solid. Piggy Pop was a fucking banger too. SkaTube Network had to have done this, right? I think so.
01:22:08
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Yeah.
01:22:10
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be a miss if not. K.K. Slider is such a legendary and an icon. He gets the card. K.K. Slider. K.K. Slider is an icon. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
01:22:24
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So cool. Like, he doesn't kind of of give a fuck with those eyebrows. I like that he like this song's like feet ska-pee with the horns, too. Yeah. I played the whole song better, yeah.
01:22:38
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Because it's only like a minute. Yeah. re loop but it But the folk the uncut version, but just the straight acoustic version, is like three. Oh, With just like... the man wing being beganling baby Oh, yeah. Or is his vocals. Yeah. yeah He's got a beautiful voice.
01:22:54
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He's got a beautiful voice. Who's got a better voice? Him or the Pork Roos guy? Oh, definitely KK Slider. 100%. I agree. yeah You know what? It's because he his notes are pitch perfect.
01:23:05
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Yeah. okay nice There's no way they're not. You know i mean? Yeah. That'll do it. That brings us all the to the end. yeah Some other bands we didn't talk about. we didn't ah We didn't touch the Untouchables.
01:23:17
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We were respecting their name. We were respecting their name. ah Ruder Than You. If you're wondering why we never did like a Cat Bite episode about Cat Bite, it's because that's rude. They're our friends.
01:23:28
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like we We specifically avoided brand new bands to cover on this ah podcast. Instead, we would prefer they'd come on as guests. You should start a podcast and do an episode about Catbite.
01:23:41
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. yeah But, I mean, shout out to On The Upbeat, because that's kind of their whole deal. Yeah. Interviewing brand new bands. like Hell yeah. um And theyre they were always trying to find new talent out there. So, um you know, like all the Big Ska podcasts were doing something a little bit different. And, you know, there's still a couple more out there. Yeah.
01:23:59
Speaker
Give them a whirl. Give them a whirl. um And I'm sure your favorite regional ska band never got talked about, and I'm sorry. And I'm sure there's some monster ska band I never talked about ah that you're like, um oh, Rob. Like Gwarv Ska? Hey, there's a free band idea.
01:24:16
Speaker
Monster Monster Ska. That's all. We gave you the name, too. The Toasters made some Monster Ska songs. Frankenstein. Frankenstein. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but that's, uh, that's it.
01:24:30
Speaker
That's it guys. What else do you have? Any like final words? ah thanks to like everybody who put in work on the pod like big thanks to anyone who made time for us and yeah like made time to come yeah or chat cool chris adam michi like everyone everyone who helped the pod in like a like a more professional capacity like to help us do this is huge thanks thanks to me for starting craig's music career yeah but yep yep keelan
01:25:02
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Obviously, big shout out to Keelan. Yep. Super cool and stuff. Oh, hell yeah. yeah Oh, yeah. Who did our logo? Tannis. Tannis, yeah. Mad Bomber Society.
01:25:13
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Yeah, big shout out to Mad Bomber Society for letting us do this. Yeah, and also like don't know how many versions of that song exist now, or the first minute of that And they probably haven't heard single... Not a single one of them. Not a single episode, yeah. guess we could, like, send them all the covers of the songs. Maybe something I'll do is maybe we'll make, like, make it just available. Put it on, like, Spotify or something. Yeah, or make it so you get the Google Drive and download all of the versions or something. I do like the idea of trying to get it out on Spotify, like an album
01:25:46
Speaker
It's like the Mad Bomber Society OAO single. And it's just like all the covers right after. That's very, very funny. should send Jay Bomber. Yeah, we should. Just say, hey, we Here's some stupid shit that we did. Oh, David? David from ah Ontario who did a lot of our um yup artwork stuff, too. Yeah.
01:26:09
Speaker
David. yeah with david um ah Okay, I even have a full list of all the guests that have been on. I'm going to roll through this. hell Yeah, because I think I should thank everybody. never rolled a credit before, we'll do it right now. Yeah, absolutely. Get ready.
01:26:26
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Our mom. Actually, you know, legit, she listens to every episode. Like, shout out to our mom. Yeah, supports us a lot. Shout out to all the patrons. Like, i ah we've had a lot come and lot go.
01:26:37
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You know, like H-Town, um Robert Bull. Ursatz. Ursatz. Johnny. ah Johnny, yeah, for sure. Dev. Oh, yeah. Kaylee. Kaylee.
01:26:48
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ah The, uh, what's that? I can't think of anybody's name at all. You should pull up the thing because Ben. Yeah. yeah Everyone on the paper. Sorry if we missed you, but like yeah we we'd love y'all.
01:27:01
Speaker
Everybody. am so why And of course our Scott correspondents. Right? Oh, hell yeah. brown didn't say Aaron from Power Up. Power Up. Power Up. Well, I have okay yeah i thank him because he's been on the podcast before.
01:27:17
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yeah and And of course Maxie. yeah Oh, ah yeah. Meme Lord Chip. Yeah. Shut up. There would be ah fraction of the ska memes in this world if it weren't for Chips and Zulsa.
01:27:31
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Chip has supported us so Chip and H-Town. Chip, H-Town, and K-Moy. day one. Day one checkered. Oh, yeah. Love you. Love you. i was going to all third three.
01:27:41
Speaker
i Love you all. um Okay, let's go through these these people who've been on the pod. ah Eric McKnight. Number one with a bullet. I'm not liking Eric. Thank you, Eric. Listen, he's not my friend, but thank you. Thank you for coming on. He's their friend. ah Sam from Witch Police Radio.
01:27:57
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hell yeah. love Love Sam. Big fan. ah The third rates. ah Andrew in all of Flying Raccoon's suit. ah Andrew's been on the pod multiple times in multiple capacities.
01:28:09
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Bex, of course. Ike. ah Pat and the rest of the Planet Smashers. Eric Dano. The Abruptors. Kaylee, of course. Ben, of course. Thanks to Jordan Morris for coming on fucking twice.
01:28:22
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Hell yeah. That's very cool. Arguably one of our biggest celebrity guests. So yeah that was pretty huge. Craig. Mida of This Is Scott Radio. Common Sense Kid, by the way. yeah yeah Oh, yeah. No, was going to say Craig. That's all I wanted to say.
01:28:36
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Craig. Craig. Mida of This Is Scott Radio, who also sent a bunch of bands at us. Like, we put us on a mailing list and sent a of people our way. So huge thanks, Mida. ah Mike Park, Reese Roper, The Groobs, Michi and Diglo of omega may or Mega Friends, ah Ruckus of multiple bands, Dissidente and Mutiny, ah most famously.
01:28:59
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Catbite, all members of Catbite have done the show in some um form or another. Oh, yeah. Flip. who's also loyal checkerhead. let ah ah Flip in the combined effort. RJ who's been on the show and we've been friends for for so so so so long.
01:29:14
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Thanks to Devin Kaye. ah Amy Gabba. Esteban for sure. Joker's Republic. Big friends. yeah Bumsy and Moochers for coming on. Brian Fautou of Edmonton fame. yeah Most educated. The most educated guest that we've had I run into constantly in Edmonton now. Maybe rivals Reese Roper with pants and lists.
01:29:33
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possibly but plus yeah yeah so bri and if you follow brian on socials you'll know that he has a absolute trash can palette um i don't know where it goes because he like he must work out so much to get those calories out of his it's insane so congratulations brian on whatever you're doing with your life um Sad Snack, Paint Bomb, Mina, just going through the Edmonton people. Yours Sincerely.
01:29:59
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Yours Sincerely. ah Brandy Posey, who came on, ah Comedian Brandy Posey. Oh, hell yeah. yeah She lot of fun. Stop the Presses. ah You know, the On the be Upbeat crew in general have always been really cool. Yep.
01:30:10
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Jor-El, Puppet Perspective. Oh, yeah, that was so fun. I love that episode. Underrated episode. And he went for it. That was the longest he ever puppeted puppet, he said.
01:30:21
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Yeah. When we got off the thing. He did the whole episode in character on screen as his puppet. It was awesome. Yeah, you know, so ah one of the things, maybe before I keep going on the list, one of the things that would be cool is we talk about getting the videos out there.
01:30:35
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I don't want to put the unedited videos out there because there might be things here and there. It'd be so great if we can get them edited and out there because I would love for Puppet Perspectives episode to get out. Like, it is really fun to watch, like, the video of it because he's in you He easily could have not been in character. Yeah. But he was in character the whole time with the puppet.
01:30:56
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Possibly our first character episode, actually. Actually, now that you it. Yeah. Jigsaw might have predated it a little bit. Oh, okay. Yeah. uh poindexter um elon uh prize fighters uh chris growl loser aaron justin all power up uh skags andy b of andy b in the world uh evie echoes javi of course of the marijuana brass oh yeah uh runaway ricochet duck and joystick uh bad mary who became really good friends with us at the last spi
01:31:30
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yeah Aaron Carnes and Adam Davis of IDOS, who were always very cool and charming with us as well. Sonic Boom 6. That was a really awesome episode. yeah ah Stuck Lucky, another fantastic get. They were so good on the episode. And yeah, Adam, who's on the episode.
01:31:47
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And all the people that we back-alleyed or the Scott correspondents talked on the on the ground about, ah which there was numerous of those. Yeah, that's, I think, the thank yous for all the guests we've had on. Hooray! Hopefully I didn't miss anybody.
01:32:01
Speaker
um And I want to give a big thank you to my lovely wife, Arianne. who was super, super helpful in getting this podcast off the ground. oh yeah ah We needed a lot of her expertise because she works in radio.
01:32:14
Speaker
So there's a lot of, especially when we were trying to figure out how to make us sound good or how to edit things properly. She was our first editor and kind of created the overall structure and feel for our edited episodes.
01:32:25
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Yeah. And then me and Joey kind of took over after. I don't know if i ever said, but if you ever see something that says edited by Cutman, that's me. That just a stupid joke. I made one. I'm sure you figured it out from context at some point. but But yeah, big thank you to Joey, of course, who has engineered every solitary episode except for one.
01:32:44
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ah And started and as of the trombonuses was also our co-host. um So was co-hosted, I would say, a plurality of episodes. Anywhere from 80 to 90% of our episodes. First celebrity on the pod.
01:32:57
Speaker
Everybody loved Joey. Everybody still loves Joey. why I said it in the past tense. You're not going to your hand. But Joey responsible for us sounding as good as we thank you so much.
01:33:08
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And bad. And bad. That's true. Often, for us sounding bad, I am to blame, but that's okay. That's okay, too. We got it out every week. You get both. Yeah, that's right. You get both. You get a little of the good stuff, you get a little of the bad stuff.
01:33:21
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And a big thank you to my lovely sister, Slim, for being on the podcast. This was a labor of love between the two of us, and... i It was, I know, ah something I sort of forced upon you to some degree because I said this idea of her podcast, I want you to be on it. And you jumped in with two feet and went through the whole thing with us. And ah honestly, this podcast doesn't have the time, lot of time a lot of time time for me, but still.
01:33:47
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But it's I will say like this, the the vibes of the show, a lot of it comes from you. Oh, yes. Bring the vibes, bring humor, the color commentary. Otherwise, it would be just spicy opinions. It'd be boring Robot Rob if it wasn't for you. And stupid old Joey. Just the two white guys talking about Skab. People like those. People like those episodes.
01:34:09
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They do, but they also really like the Selin ones. Also, Skabayaga, come on. Lady Vocals Lady Vocals sometimes. The Mouth from the North. yeah You had a lot of nicknames.
01:34:20
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Skabayaga. yeah you got So yeah, I just want to give everyone a big thank you. And thanks to the listeners. Thank you for listening. Thank you. If this is your first time listening, I'm sorry. It's the last one, but thank you for listening to this.
01:34:32
Speaker
You got 200 episodes. You got 200 to go back on. ah Thank you for listening to one episode or hundreds of episodes. All of you are important and we wouldn't do this if nobody listened. um I don't want to do that thing where i say thanks to the haters. Honestly, I don't give fuck about you. Yeah, fuck you, haters.
01:34:48
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yeah but Although, honestly, we kept doing it even after we got like a hate mail. So we were just like, whatever. yeah it's not for you. tron i Yeah, I think it toughened our skins up a little bit. Yeah, totally. If nothing else.
01:35:02
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um But thanks for listening to Checker Past. I will say that we're going to keep our merch up on our website and check the show notes because it's 25% off on the merch. We're going to keep the website up for three more months, I think.
01:35:16
Speaker
Maybe even little bit longer. But yeah, grab some merch. We have tons of stuff on there. We have shirts and whatever. Johnny, go get a thing with your own dang face on it before it's gone forever. Yeah. absolutely Yeah.
01:35:27
Speaker
get Get yourself something. And ah hopefully it's ah just a commemorative memory of um all the time you spent listening to this. And it's definitely something that, you know, we we loved to do while we were doing it.
01:35:39
Speaker
And we appreciate each and every one of you. So thank you. Thank you very much. thank Thank you. um So until next time, I'm Rob. I'm Celine. And I'm Joey. And I'll leave you with one last of one of our patented super cuts.
01:35:52
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The Roast of Checkered Past. So good Lily why don't you tell me what you think of Scott? It's so loud I really don't like loud noise and it's always over and it's always and it's always like in people it's it's very annoying Chips and Zosia to talk to you about those bracket breaking brigands Those crafty criminal Canadians.
01:36:22
Speaker
That's right. The evil from Edmonton. The Saskatchewan adjacent scoundrels. The checkered past crew.
01:36:35
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Today, we're to talk about how much they suck. Rob? Rob? that's a good name for somebody who robs you of a good place on the bracket.
01:36:48
Speaker
Oh, I want something that's nice and sky-like. Hey, is this song too sky? Now we're gonna go on vibes. That's right, I'm just gonna take out good old up-down-top ranking, because I feel like just being a bit silly with it.
01:37:05
Speaker
Is that right, Rob? You betrayed international war criminals, which frankly is the greatest crime you've ever done. And now you ruined another bracket.
01:37:18
Speaker
But we can't blame it all on Rob. It's not him alone. Oh no, we also have Selene. Selene. We believed in you, Selene. You were the chosen one. You understood the truth about Trip-Fed Fred that it should have won the Madness March bracket.
01:37:37
Speaker
And yet, and yet, when it came time to vote for Simmerdown, you let me down. How could you? How could you?
01:37:49
Speaker
And showing up sober. I didn't plan for that. I had studied ways of getting stoned just to do well in his bracket. And there you are, sober as a judge.
01:38:03
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And dashing my hopes of finally winning one of these blasted things. I did right better in the second half, so that's fine. But you know what you did. Evil engineer extraordinaire, Joey Jojo Joeson.
01:38:19
Speaker
So good at engineering episodes, he engineered a way to end all of his. Yeah, when are we getting another episode of Gear in Your Bedroom? At this point, we're more likely to get an episode of the Skullpunk International podcast.
01:38:35
Speaker
In the immortal words of that villain, Robb, Get off the mic, Joey. So I guess congratulations. 200 episodes is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly 200 episodes. I can't count that high or I would have checked, so I'm going to take your word on it. Even though I've kind of explained that you're evil and untrustworthy. But I'm nothing if not inconsistent.
01:39:13
Speaker
With the mind like a diamond. I wanna. Pod. Ruins my bracket. I wanna. Pod. With dates that suck. And uh. Eyes that burn like.
01:39:24
Speaker
On air joints. I wanna. Pod. With the. By photoshop. Who's fast. And thorough. And. H3rdWave. She's playing. In Femme4U. She's putting up. With roasts.
01:39:38
Speaker
She's touring. The states. And picking up. Bitch.
01:39:43
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With a short skirt.
01:39:48
Speaker
Fuck that. You don't deserve a hook. Hey, this is Chris Grau, and in honor of your 200th episode, I'm going to roast you guys so hard. the The Checkered Pass podcast, you guys you guys have good guests on, and and you ah you ask you ask good questions.
01:40:05
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Yeah, you like that? I'm roasting you so good. You guys, you guys you you you don't even have bad episodes. Yeah, take it. Congratulations. Did I do this right? Congratulations.
01:40:21
Speaker
Checkered Past, the Ska-dcast, is a Canadian comedy podcast about Ska history that is about to celebrate its 200th episode.
01:40:34
Speaker
It is my favorite podcast. It is the best podcast. Rob's research is unparalleled and without flaw.
01:40:47
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So Lynn can land a joke like no other, and is right about Fishbone.
01:40:53
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Joey always gets on mic at the perfect time.
01:40:59
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Their bits are accessible to new audiences and always land.
01:41:07
Speaker
Everyone's chomping at the bit for more gear in your bedroom and witchy with Michy.
01:41:16
Speaker
their Their bracket picks... are beyond interrogation.
01:41:23
Speaker
Their guests are really great, but it's the episodes where it's just the hosts, where they really shine.
01:41:32
Speaker
Rob's puns are transcendent. You're not selling it No one can sell this. You're crazy. This is my one chance to get noticed.
01:41:45
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You fucked it up.
01:41:49
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We've been listening to them for hours. Why would you want these people to notice you? You have been listening, but you haven't heard a goddamn thing.
01:42:01
Speaker
It is my favorite podcast. It is the best podcast. If that can't make its way through that thick skull yours... What are you... No.
01:42:12
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No. No. no
01:42:17
Speaker
So, you kids finally made it to 200 episodes. You poutine-eating, Tim Horton-sippin', house-hippo-owning, no-good ska punks think you've really reached a real milestone.
01:42:29
Speaker
You red-green-watching, giants of the prairie-visiting, stampede-attending ska keeners think that you've ascended to the top of the podcast game.
01:42:40
Speaker
Well, you little syrup lickers, you have. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, tears, broken relationships, and a real lack of life to get to 200 episodes. Take it from me. I know from experience.
01:42:52
Speaker
Call me when you get to 500. I want to see if I'm, ah you know, uniquely messed up or not. Thanks for doing what you do. Your pal, RJ Phoenix.
01:43:02
Speaker
Hey, what's up? Thanks for having me on the podcast, Rose. Nice to see the other Scott pods in the crowd. That was cool. I bumped into Scott Aukerman, host of the most unapproachable podcast of all time. Anyway.
01:43:15
Speaker
Checkered past, what a mouthful, what a choice. Joey, how are you almost 40 and still 24? You're like the weird punk rock Benjamin Button. So Lynn, don't you think the femme-fronted ska punk band is a little tired in the Edmonton market?
01:43:30
Speaker
It's like being in an indie rock band in Brooklyn. Rob, where to begin? You continue to make choices, cut before the solo, play the wrong songs off of albums.
01:43:42
Speaker
It really never ends with you. and yet you keep doing it.
01:43:47
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You're almost hard to roast because you just lean into the bit more and more. It's genuinely incredible. Hey, Rob, Celine, Joey, and Ariane. It's Ben. um i just wanted to say congrats, 200 episodes.
01:44:01
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um It's a huge milestone.
01:44:13
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great that you guys are still producing quality CanCon after this amount of time.
01:44:22
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I know that I for one can definitively say that I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
01:44:34
Speaker
Anyway, I just wanted to say, keep doing what you guys are doing. Love what you're putting out. Love you guys. Canada will never be the 51st state. And Joey, wipe your phone if you are ever traveling south.
01:44:48
Speaker
I would normally say goodbye here, but...
01:44:57
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Yo, it's TikTok's TheSkaMailman here. Happy anniversary to Scott's third best podcast, Checkered Past. Granted, there's only like four I can think of. I see we've got cool Chris in the house. That's right, the man behind Scott Punk International.
01:45:10
Speaker
Also known as the only reason Checkered Past is able to book actual guests. Cool Chris once had a podcast himself with the same name, Scott Punk International. He's since decided that losing listeners on a podcast is pretty bad.
01:45:22
Speaker
So instead, he should lose money on a DIY record label and fill his house with unsold records and merchandise instead. Mrs. Cool Chris, we are very, very sorry. We've also got Common Sense Kid here.
01:45:33
Speaker
Craig, I'm sure you like and probably even love beans. But the amount of bean jokes made about you, for you, and sent to you must be exhausting. I feel like it's the same way we all despise the mozzarella stick meme now.
01:45:46
Speaker
You didn't ask for that, and you have my pity. I can't roast you too hard, though, because you challenged me to many rap battles, and I am terrible about following up on them. One of these days, I'm going to stop crying in the shower, and I'm actually going to do something about it. Banana Man, wherever you are, you're perfect. Never change.
01:46:01
Speaker
You and checkered morph suit Devin are Ska's greatest cryptids, and we need you now more than ever. We've also got Diglo and Michi in the house tonight. Names are pretty tough for you guys, huh?
01:46:12
Speaker
Is it Michi? Is it Michi? Is it Diglo? Is it DiGiulio? Is it Delivery? Is it DiGiorno? Same with the band. Megawave. Megawave Infinity. Meg Infinity. The Hella Megator. Megan Thee Stallion.
01:46:24
Speaker
Whatever name you land on in the end, we will always be here to support you and tell your drummer Rich that I said hello. We have cute little crushes on each other. Allow me to roast myself before we begin. It's me, TikTok's the Ska Mailman, also known as the guy who doesn't participate in the Discord servers unless it's to promote his own stuff or talk shit about people.
01:46:43
Speaker
I really need to get better about that. Also a Ska cryptid of sorts. Last spotted hanging out with everyone SPI Fest 2 in Connecticut, only to never be seen or heard from again! I had a rough year, but thanks for letting me back in the fold.
01:46:57
Speaker
I've been the one behind posting the videos for Checkered Pass on all of the social medias lately. You may know my work by it always being a week late and with spelling errors, but at least you get to hear the same joke again weeks later, but with the knowledge from behind the scenes that Celine was on her phone the whole time.
01:47:13
Speaker
Alright, Rob, Céline, Joey, just like the third wave, people really love you and all the ska puns you bring to the table. But also like the third wave, people only remember the goofy bullshit you do and never take you seriously.
01:47:26
Speaker
I've tried starting and hosting podcasts before, and making it to four years is very, very impressive. It's even more impressive for a podcast where the listener base is completely made up of past guests of the show.
01:47:37
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Céline, I imagine that growing up as Rob's little sister was a pretty typical experience. Mom, Rob's not letting me play with him. Mom, Rob's friends keep telling me to leave them alone.
01:47:48
Speaker
Mom, Rob's starting a ska podcast and he won't let me host. For someone who hates 80% of the songs played on the show, you're a great host with an infectious laugh and great commentary.
01:48:00
Speaker
Just thank God for Zencastr's volume limiter because your laugh is best heard through Joey's microphone. Joey, the brother-in-law that has audio equipment, I get it. I don't want people borrowing my stuff and risk breaking it either.
01:48:13
Speaker
So you gotta stick around and do it for them just to protect your stuff. Joey is so lucky that he picked his entire personality to be based around weed, knowing cool music gear, and loving the song Monkey Man because at least no one will think you're a fucking nerd like Rob.
01:48:28
Speaker
Although your evil universal healthcare has paid for your heart problems, it doesn't mean that you should ignore them. I've seen you in the pit. You need to take it easy. And Robert, your puns and games are top-tier entertaining.
01:48:40
Speaker
It's just so tragic that you love music so much and you can't carry a tune at all. Have you tried whistling? Celine might understand more of your jokes at the top of the show if she could hear even a small amount of a melody of the songs that you are quote-unquote parodying.
01:48:55
Speaker
i think I've heard Stephen Wright sing less monotone than you. Old man reference noted. You put so much effort and research into every episode that it's truly remarkable that you would go through so much effort for your duh, duh, dozens of listeners.
01:49:09
Speaker
Nevertheless, you've made an amazing and entertaining podcast highlighting a nearly forgotten genre with so much love and heart that it's impossible to listen to and not have a great time. Okay, give it up for your next roaster.
01:49:24
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Cool Chris. Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here on the roast of CPSC. Now, as a Texan, I am very familiar with the South, especially the South of Canada, a.k.a. Alberta, a.k.a.
01:49:41
Speaker
Edmonton. And my favorite part of Edmonton are the Robnecks. You can't walk a single block without running into one. They're everywhere, I'm telling you.
01:49:53
Speaker
Look right, look left, look front. Everywhere you're seeing robnecks. Wait, y'all don't know about robnecks? Get the heck out of here.
01:50:04
Speaker
All right, well, let me tell you about them then so you can spot them in the wild when you're walking around Edmonton. Now, if your jacket has more than five buttons on it, you might be a robneck.
01:50:17
Speaker
And if you think Mustard Plug and Skank and Pickle are two of the major food groups, you might be a robneck. And if you've ever cut off the song clip right before the best part, you might be a Rob Neck brother.
01:50:32
Speaker
And if you've ever put a hat on a hat on a hat, you might be a Rob Neck. And if you've ever gotten too drunk to fish, I mean skank, you might be a Rob Neck.
01:50:44
Speaker
And if you've ever walked up to the merch table and made change for yourself, you might be a Rob Neck. If someone asked for your ID, And you show them your podcast stats, you might be a Rob Nick.
01:50:58
Speaker
And if your co-host has ever financed a tattoo, you might be a Rob Nick. And if you think a chainsaw is a musical instrument, you might be a Rob Nick.
01:51:12
Speaker
If your wallet, your microphone, and your dog all have chains, you might be a Rob Nick. And finally, If you're moved to tears when you hear those sweet third wave sounds of those damn bandits, you might just be a Robnick.
01:51:30
Speaker
Hey TPSC, it's your boy Cool Chris out on the road. So I just wanted to do real quick, say congrats on all that you've accomplished. I'm gonna miss all of you hearing you every week. One of my favorite things to do is listen to you, do your little joke em ups.
01:51:45
Speaker
Always brightens my day. love you all very, very much. become very close friends and very important people to me and uh i'm just so proud of you and i think you're uh you're gonna do amazing things whatever you do next and um also so sorry about roast don't know if you've heard that yet or not but i definitely wouldn't have done this if i knew it's going to be played on your last episode so sorry about that okay bye love you