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SPI Fest 2024 - Back Alley Interviews
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It's the third part of a three part series detailing Checkered Past's trip to SPI Fest 2024! On the third episode, it's a return of the fan favorite back alley interviews from SPI Fest 2023. This year the featured interviews include The Marijuana Brass, Bad Mary, The Ska Mailman, PWRUP and The Best of the Worst plus some very special drop in guests. PLUS, Rob is solo in studio to do bumpers and is subjected to rapid fire questions from the discord in a reversal of fate.
Hosts: Rob
Engineer: Joey, Arianne and Rob
Editor: Joey and Cutman
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
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Transcript
Introduction to the Episode
00:00:00
Speaker
On this episode, we're flying back one more time to SPI Fest 2024 in Connecticut. It's part three of our three-part series, The Return of the Back Alley Interviews, on Checkered Past, the SCODcast.
00:00:34
Speaker
What up Checkerheads, welcome to Checkered Past, this podcast with Selene and Rob. The show where a flora scus stacked like panther and an Edmund Tone Royal Euler explore the history and impact of a different band each episode, hope to bring in new fans along the way. I'm Rob and this is my sister and co... uh, I mean my co-host with the most... Wait, I don't have a co-host today. That's right. It's just me, Rob in the studio, brand new studio in my home. And today's a pretty special episode. So I thought maybe we could just do a little bit of a bumper action in between some of the interviews that we have coming up here. This is part three of our three-part series on SPI Fest 2024 in Connecticut back in May.
00:01:15
Speaker
If you haven't listened to our first two episodes, those included our two live episodes from Friday and Saturday. And engineer Joey and I did some studio work as well, sharing stories, talking about the bands that we're playing. ah It's from pretty fun stuff. Today's going to be a little bit different. I have queued up about 12 different sets of questions that we asked our five interviewees about.
Back Alley Interviews at SPI Fest
00:01:42
Speaker
And we'll just kind of roll through these questions and I'll stop in between, kind of comment on them. And then at the very end, I'll answer some questions. So if you listened to last year, or and for at SPI Fest, or some of the other special episodes we did at the Fest,
00:01:57
Speaker
and at Supernova. ah You kind of get the idea of how these back alleys work. ah Rapid fire questions done to some unsuspecting ah bands that appeared at the festival. um We call them back alley interviews because at SPI Fest 1 we did them in the back alley behind the bar. This time around we did them at a back alley behind the bar. So it's ah sound quality wise. You can imagine we used a little zoom microphone ah to do it back and forth. So there's a lot of background noise. We clean it up as much as we can. But it's been to give you kind of a man on the street vibe ah and more of a sort of an honest and unfiltered ah take on some of these sillier questions, I'd say, that we're asking people. So ah right now, let's let's kick it off. And here's our intros of all the people we interviewed. State your name for the Skall record. Javi El Homi. Of?
00:02:52
Speaker
the marijuana brass he said it hi my name is mike from bad mary and i'm amanda mack also from bed mary adam the sky mail man walle i'm aaron hibbardt from power up ah my name is joe and you're from ah new jersey andder you from the wrong answer fire you fuck this up already david all right the best of the worst So there you have it we interviewed Javi from the marijuana brass was also on our third year anniversary episode first timers bad Mary Scott mailman who did a little walk-on bit on our day to live episode ah Aaron from power up has been on the podcast before and and first timer Joe from Best of the Worst who we had to corral ah from while he was coming out of taking a nap in the van to come do an interview with us so that was super fun. um Those were spread out on our Saturday day and Javier and
00:03:49
Speaker
ah Bad Mary were done kind of earlier and we were upstairs in the venue. Ska Mailman, you'll hear us talk about it. We interviewed him while we were in line for Hot Dogs. And um you'll hear Kurt from the Grooves pop in from time to time. And while Aaron Hibbert was also being interviewed, which was much, much later, I also would have heard Chris Ruckus pop in from time to time. ah So one of the fun things about doing these back alleys is because we're in pretty public areas ah Some of the other bands and artists were kind of popping in and out that kind of creates a good vibe I think that's one of the things I like about doing it is it just people are around you while you're doing these interviews and i and You know, it's not as intimate, but I think when you're asking questions as dumb as these I said some people are like hey, what are you
Ska Music Origins and Influences
00:04:35
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talking about over there? I got something to say about that and then they'll just kind of pop in ah so I start off with a pretty straightforward question and this is how they all answered
00:04:44
Speaker
When did you first hear of Ska? I first heard of Ska. Honestly, um in terms of my involvement in Ska, that didn't happen until 2021, honestly. But in Los Angeles, it's always like around. like I used to work in a fucking music store. And I'd be like, oh yeah, I play trombone. And a question that you'll get is, like oh, do you play Ska? Or do you play salsa or a shit like that? Or are you in a banda? More often than not, it's like Bandha. But you get off ass like, oh, you use this in a band or you do play Ska. Are you a rocker? You know, that kind of thing. But I didn't really like get into it until after Covid during Newtown. And what was the first band I like hooked you? The first band that hooked me in terms of, well, damn, my for the first band. That's a fucking that's a good question.
00:05:36
Speaker
You heard it here. Joey's here. I made it. Joey is the is on the for the record. Joey is the man who named the marijuana brass. Is that earthly actually I don't know if I knew that. What's that? What's that story? I'm on Twitter. what if I'm way less than Joey is. So what's going on? So Joey... I just i think I just made a comment about like... i told okay Okay, this is good. Let's go. So by this point in the marijuana brass, I had just quit my last band. the root well um I won't say the name. I don't want to give them the attention. Less than Jake.
00:06:14
Speaker
I quit my last band of a Big Larry and the skankers because of a toxic work environment That's a fake band. Yeah. Yeah, I believe believe that's Kaylee's one of one of their fake bands. Yeah, I ah Never mind for good the question. So I put on I got a bunch of horn players and I was like damn I don't have a rhythm section so I just put out a tweet I was like I got a horn line but I don't got a fucking single rhythm section player because I was making a band and Joey was like Javi Alpert and the marijuana brass on July 12th or July 13th I think and I'm like that's not a bad that's uh but the marijuana brass it it was something like that but yeah it was Joey Joey is ripping on the Tijuana brass I see what you're doing
00:07:03
Speaker
love Herb Alpert. Big up Steve's in the name. That's incredible. shout Shout out the homeboy Herb Alpert. um Shout out the homeboy. The homeboy. You can just hanging out with Herb? Actually there was a show that we played at the Watts cave and Herb Alpert was playing at the university I went to that same night. And so he was like 30 miles away playing at this at this venue that I've played at before. The Soraya out in CSUN. I'm like, hey, Herb Alpert, how reliably or how fast can you get to the South Central, you know, like, but. ah That show is all right. What a review. OK, so I first heard about Ska probably when I was in like middle school in like probably like 1997 or 1998 that was kind of when like Skaab was kind of going through its third wave and that was when I was introduced to it because I was brought into it through the punk rock side of things because I grew up listening to 90s punk rock so yeah probably then
00:08:11
Speaker
How about yourself? I'm going to go along with probably around the same the same time, because that's when I really started getting into music and anything I could get my hands on. So that was definitely in that soup. And I've been riding that wave ever since.
Music Listening Preferences Debate
00:08:24
Speaker
And so who are your bands? Which ones are the ones that you listen to? um Scott, well, now um I love the Interrupters. um I'm like all about them. And bands here, like Mega Infinity, are in my constant rotation. um And they have been for about a decade now. And my ska bands, ska bands for sure. So, you know, um growing up in the in the late 90s, you know, stuff like that, I know it's kind of, it's a little early, the Operation Ivy, probably one of the most important records I've ever bought, and obviously Rancid's in Outcome the Wolves, which is borderline ska, and Life Won't Wait, fantastic ran Rancid record. Probably one, probably low key my favorite Rancid record. um Yeah, more recently or as we go through time obviously bands like Catch-22 and Streetline Manifesto I really really love and I kind of i'm I'm in love with like all of the Scott Punk international artists um over the last like couple of years listening to all these artists have been really good like ah Amanda said we've been really close friends of Megan Infinity for about a decade now and we were lucky enough to play with Hans Gruber and the Diehards last year um on Long Island, which is our home, so um those bands are just I love them so good i was like I think I was like six years old when I got Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for Christmas. I know that's kind of a common answer, but it was one of those deals where it's like, oh, ah this meet like when I was in high school, it was like, you like this music. I'm like, what is this? They're like, this is Ska. And I was like, oh, I've listened to Ska my whole life. I had no idea. But it's like my favorite. What was like the first band that like really gripped you? Aside from the Tony Hawk bands, I guess. Oh, it was Real Big Fish. um Mainly because of that Weird Al song, that's your horoscope for today. Because I i was a huge Weird Al fan. And then someone told me that the horn players from Real Big Fish were in that. And then I was like, oh, what's this band? And then I heard Monkey Man.
00:10:09
Speaker
And I realized that Monkey Man was on the wild thorn berries. And so when like when I was a kid, I would run the house like singing that song. And my dad would like sing along. And so that was like my favorite song. So later in life, I was like, oh, shit, this is like Rubik Fish. and And then I saw them do a free show and boise at Boise State University for Spring Fling. And they opened for, or Everclear opened for them. And then I saw Rubik Fish and was instantly hooked. And I was like, OK, I'm going to dive head first into this ska thing. I was 12, so, uh, 2002. What was your band? What was the band I heard? So I was downloading songs off Kazaa. Fuck yeah. I was a Kazaa guy too. Yeah, or Kazaa, I don't, add two A's, whatever, Kazaa.
00:10:51
Speaker
Caze maybe yeah, um so I was ah yeah, it was mustard plugs cover of the freshman verb pipe still banger still so good You know what that's like when I think about like classic line work has the songs It's like that is like number one because it wasn't even an an album song No, yeah. And Grand Rapids, I think they're all like Michigan, Vervepipe. And then my band, Heatron, I was in high school, I was in Catch-22 and Streetlight, so then I was like, I want to say that again, wait a second. Go back a second. He gaslit us into Loving Scott, now we're trapped here forever, basically. I can't escape. It saved me. Kayla was on a show recently and said, didn't realize that she was taught keyboards by a toaster's keyboard.
00:11:38
Speaker
and everyone's just hanging around and we're all you know no none of us make enough money to you know we're just still here teaching give lessons so it's cool yeah ah The classic, what is your checkered past question that has been on this podcast since the very beginning? ah Still great to hear a lot of people answer the same way. A lot of I heard it in the 90s on the radio. I played a lot of Tony Hawk Pro Skater. um But really interesting to hear from Javi's perspective, ah you know, he calls himself ah the student of new tone or the scholar of new tone because that's
Playful Music Genre Choices
00:12:11
Speaker
where he came into Ska.
00:12:13
Speaker
ah Really interesting always hear people's perspective who are newer listeners and then had to sort of wind back to understand the genre but by that standard or by that lens. um I think there's a great perspective in terms of you know not having to gone through the boom-bust cycle or the fallow periods. um you know We talk about this online all the time about You know how the the magic of of touring bands in the early aughts like Big D and Streetlight Manifesto, they don't have as much clout or as much sort of nuance to newer listeners as they may have to people who were first experiencing Scott that time.
00:12:51
Speaker
Um, you know, I heard Joe talk about the freshmen from mustard plug, uh, being like a big lime wire head myself, you know, that was like such a big song, uh, for people who are like in the Myspace generation. Uh, as y'all know, my checkered past, I got into Scott through the Tony opera skater one soundtrack. So me and the mailman are on the same page that way. Uh, so that was the first, you know, pretty standard question and it starts to kind of spiral from here. So here's the next set of questions I add. Um, are you a cherry picking daddy or a full album mommy?
00:13:24
Speaker
That's an interesting question. um It depends. It depends. It generally depends on the genre. I feel like ska, all the odds are against you when you're making a full album. That's why good ska albums are so hard to come by. Because it's a fucking dance music. In in Latin America or Mexico, you see cumbia salsa and you listen to their albums and like you're like, I don't want to listen to this whole thing. But yeah generally it's just best of compilation. so like It really depends on on the context. Some people do these beautiful bodies of work like Kendrick Lamar, fucking Good Kid, Mad City, To Pimp a Butterfly, Damn, Mr. Morale. These are all bodies of work that youre that are meant to be enjoyed from top to bottom. Ska is so hard to do that because you have you're limited to like
00:14:09
Speaker
the specific type of music and if you're not keeping it interesting or you're just not talented enough to really fucking lock in and stay in that specific pocket then you probably lost whoever you're gonna listen and then you watch that band live and they sound fucking phenomenal but it's hard to capture that on a record let alone a whole ass album I'm a full album mommy i'm I'm kind of a cherry picking daddy yeah I also eat Jeff Peanut Butter, so I'm a choosy album mommy.
00:14:43
Speaker
I'll admit I'm a cherry-picking daddy. like I don't know. I love full albums, but I do often find myself just picking the few songs that I like the best and like going through my Spotify just liked songs. Full album mommy a hundred percent. I love it. What's that like? Oh, what's your desert island? What's uh, what's the one that you'll listen to front to back? Oh jeez, uh front to back full album. Um, you know, I fucking know this too You know, I could pass. I don't know trick question. It's double smoker cherry picking daddy Really? Yeah. You listen to an album and you're like, I got to pick out the songs I really like? Unless the album is a front to back banger. If there's a dot, I won't make it past track five, unfortunately. Oh, what's a full album that you like? Aaron from Power-Up's mad about that. I'm sorry, Aaron. The last thing I really listened to in full was the latest, not the latest, Billy Woods album. But I forget what it's called. David Kenny's single. It's like a rap New York guy, but very good front to back. You might like it. We could talk about this after.
00:15:39
Speaker
If you want to talk about hip-hop, I'm like, ah I'm an East Coast guy. so Okay. Yeah. check ah Billy Woods is like, uh, kind of tangential to Earl Sweatshirt. and He's in with like Alchemist and like, uh, Alchemist is like one of my top five producers, like by by a margin. It's not DJ Premier or static selector. It's probably Alchemist. Yeah. Hell yeah. Uh, maybe. Hell yeah. So I thought this was a super fun question to ask people. I don't remember where the whole cherry picking daddy ah full album mommy thing came from. That's an evolution over the course of the of the podcast. um You know, we have whatever running bits and running things that happen and I can never tell you where things kind of stem from. But it's a good question to start asking people because, you know, as a full album mommy myself, who is sometimes a cherry picking daddy, I am always interested to hear that.
00:16:28
Speaker
People will listen to an album, pick out their favorite songs and make playlists. And then there's people who are like, no, it's front to back. I got to listen to the whole thing or listen to it in two separate chunks, because that's the listening experience that you have. And, um you know, people talk about the modern lens of ah using Spotify and how that changes the landscape of how music is produced. But I think there's always going to be space for both camps, um people who want to have a full listening experience. ah which I think there's a lot more creativity that you can give to that nowadays, whether it's through EPs, concept albums, things don't have to be traditional album length, you can go as long or short as you want, or you can just be like, here's a bunch of my songs, pick up the bangers, have fun, and there's a space for that as well. So, all right, let's head on over to the next set of questions.
00:17:14
Speaker
mary fuck kill scottunk international oh Uh, kill Chris, marry Chris, fuck Chris. That's an interesting interpretation of that question. What is that? Marry, fuck, kill, ska, punk, or international. Oh. That's what you mean. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. you No, I'm not... like i am i Yeah, I'm absolutely not letting you change your answer. Marry, fucking, kill? Marry, fuck, kill, ska, punk, or international. Uh, I think you... Oh, I think you married the ska.
00:17:48
Speaker
No. I'm going to say marry punk fuck Scott in the good way and then um I don't want to kill international. Nobody wants to kill international.
00:18:01
Speaker
I'm just trying to trap people. That's what I'm trying to do here. I'll marry Scott. Well that sounds racist if I say fuck international. I don't know if I say kill international. I don't know. Can I just fuck marry and kill all of them and just be like a life cycle for all three? oh ah ah ah Fuck punk marry international kill Scott. Oh you like found the trick because nobody wants to kill international We gotta fuck punk i guess
00:18:32
Speaker
no i can't say kill international i think that's that's problematic i think so let's marry international ah mary fuck kill all right i fucked this up already we're going to marry punk we're gonna fuck sky then no i can't kill a yeah you got you gotta kill and you got to killka it's a trick question to make you killka yeah The immortal question, Mary fuck kill blank blank and blank. normally a problematic question, but can be taken to some pretty hilarious degrees when you're trying to trick and or trap your interviewees like I was trying to do. I actually think Joey came up with that one in the car riding because I was pulling the van or the car that we were driving in and said, you know, what kind of questions do you want? And I think Joey said, oh, Mary, fuck kill. Cool, Chris, cool, Chris, cool, Chris.
00:19:19
Speaker
I actually jumped on that concept pretty quick. Those two have a hive mind that I don't know if they're ah quite aware of. ah But yeah, the whole concept of this was just that it's kind of stupid. And I don't know if I really had that much of an angle other than I thought it was going to be funny people dodging so that they don't have to say fuck international or kill international. international And that's kind of where it ended up.
Apps, TV Shows, and Gaming Discussion
00:19:42
Speaker
um Somebody online ah did say kill international because borders suck. And I was like, you know what, you can really take that into a new direction, especially with, you know, shit that's going on nowadays. So it's just a throwaway stupid question. ah But I think watching people score him was half the fun. So here's the next set of questions with the last app you deleted because it was draining your life force.
00:20:05
Speaker
Oh shit, i before this fest I deleted a ton of shit so that I had a bunch of gigabytes of storage and I think I deleted... Shit. I think I deleted X because I just don't fuck with it that much. Oh, that's like my wow whatever. I'm on it. I guess not really. Oh my goodness. Um, I should just throw my phone out the window, honestly, app. I deleted. Yeah, just so we all get rid of them all. Um, I don't know. I think I hang on to all of them because I'm a hoarder when it comes to anything on my phone. So I don't think I've ever deleted anything I've installed.
00:20:38
Speaker
Final Fantasy 7 ever crisis because I don't like buying i don't like paying for in-app stuff for video games and I started to do that and I thought better of it because there's too many costumes and I just wanted them all so I stopped. I did that with Brave XBS which is also a Final Fantasy. yeah um um There was this game where I had to create like this army but also I was like moving screws from one hole to another to like ah to like release these bars from. Fairly certain I've seen ads for these. Yes, you have seen ads for them and it's not a fucking real game but it is a real game and it ate up an entire 24 hours of my life and then I deleted it.
00:21:15
Speaker
um I get sucked into um like all those Facebook app games that you like see where it's like a guy can't play it I'm like this guy's fucking stupid I can play it I download them until I get an ad and then I delete them or I get an ad for a better game I download that yeah you're talking like toon blast or like fucking home scapes yes yeah yeah so So this is actually a carryover question from last year at SPI Fest 2023. What's the last app you deleted ah because of sucking out your life force actually had it still saved in my phone. Cause I thought it was a fun question. I wanted to ask it again. I think, you know, these kinds of questions ah about people's phone usage.
00:21:53
Speaker
ah like I think ah there was another question I asked at one point which was, what's an app you definitely pay microtransactions on? um you know It's like these guilty pleasures. you know People always talk about being on their phones all the time and and everyone has an app that they've downloaded because they were tricked into doing it or they secretly love ah the little um monetization features of things. like from bad mary was talking about that final fantasy game that he had that you know there's a bunch of gacha me mechanics in it or something that you had to like buy costumes and i definitely sank some time into games like that uh just because i like the franchise or whatever or like the actual gameplay looks halfway decent
00:22:35
Speaker
You know people are all about the Genshin impacts of the world and that is loaded with all kinds of freemium software and stuff and you know no no shame on it. ah But you know you get inundated with all those ads for fake games and that's a serious problem where they're like oh yeah you can definitely have this gameplay in it and you find out that that's nothing like the game at all. ah It's kind of a racket for mobile gaming um but it is really fun to see what people's habits are. I just want, you know, fun, silly little question. We'll get into serious questions later on. I think I have one serious question and it's definitely not this next one. What's the what's the last reality TV show you watched? I don't fucking know, actually. We've raised the question. If you had the money, what would you spend and you could make any reality TV show you could. What would you make? I would make.
00:23:30
Speaker
I would probably do something on LA, Los Angeles Star or DIY. Kind of like Band or Pump where it's like following us following the Moran kind of a thing? Sure, maybe, I don't know. We kind of do that for the marijuana brass and I feel like that's why people know about us. I just be taking pictures of my bandmates sometimes and it comes out funny. so the circle i am all about the circle i am big so bear i am not up to speed with the newest season but i've binged the first like two or three i love that show the last reality show i watched i don't know the nfl season maybe ml
00:24:07
Speaker
It's got the drama. there Yeah. ah Does Drag Race count as reality? Of course. It's competition reality. But yeah, it counts. Then yes. I have not. OK, so I bowed out of the last season. I burnt out. But I i don't have time. It was so good. I get a little like. We were like, I think there's too much. And then we were just like, we didn't, I was gonna do mainline. and That's what I really want to watch, the mainline show. Okay, so the mainline show, that the the most recent season, season 16. I found a queen that I loved like so much that I haven't loved a queen this much since Jinx and De La, and it is Morpheme Love Deon.
00:24:45
Speaker
Dion Dion Dion Dion. It's Morphe love Dion. So good. I bought her t-shirt. I pre-ordered it. Holy shit So I'm also gonna say the first time that me and Aaron here connected on Twitter X or whatever the fuck you call it was Drag race at like one o'clock in the morning. No, nobody calls it X fuck ah I guess I was hanging out with my mom. She had 40-day fiancรฉ on. so And were you into it? No. It's not good. hey It's not good. I don't have a good time. that's stuff just but i Watching other people live their lives, I'm like, what am I doing with my life? I'm watching other people. Because that's what the internet and social media is, too, though. I don't know.
00:25:23
Speaker
So actually, ah only Javi got the full question here because people actually you know really dove into the whole reality TV concept. But I always had that second piece ah in my back pocket that was something along the lines of, if you had the money to make a reality TV show and it could be anything you want, what would that be? And I thought that was an interesting question. I might still save that for a future back alley. Because I think a hobby's question was great like that I would follow around the LA Scott scene and see what it was like but you know, i'd I'd secretly wanted to hear what people's like competition shows would be like or ah if they would do real-world type stuff or um You know those types of shows as well. um I know there was some talk about drag race That's like the one that comes up nearly every year that we ask about reality TV
00:26:11
Speaker
Really sad that I'm not kept up this year. I will again, I promise. I promise, Aaron, I'll get back on Drag Race and we can chat about it all into the long hours of the night. All right, here's the next question. Do you fuck with pinball? Pinball? I'm not a big fucking arcade game thing. There was a period of time where our wifi was down for a few months when I was a kid. I don't know why, maybe we couldn't afford it. So I would just play like the fucking Windows pinball, the think the fucking Astro pinball for hours. Hours, I was on that shit. Do you ever play chips challenge? No. That's a Windows game for my childhood. um I've never played paintball. You never played pinball?
00:26:59
Speaker
Pinball. Pinball? Yeah. I fucking love pinball. I'm actually a member of ah Long Island Retro Gaming. I'm actually on the management team there. And we run ah we run a, I thought you said paintball. I was like, no, I don't want to get shot. Pinball. I like pinball. I love pinball. Actually, my my one of my friends, I'm going to shout him out, my friend Brendan Bailey, has like 30 machines in his basement at his house. It's awesome. um So yeah, I love pinball. I didn't realize I wrote all these questions specifically for you both to answer them. We've actually been in the musical Tommy together a couple times. Mike was the pinball wizard in that. He did play Tommy. I love pinball. I love pinball so much. What's your table? Oh my god. um rock oh Rock and roller games. Roller games.
00:27:43
Speaker
I mean, Adam's family, come on. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's good. The 90s, right? like yeah yeah maybe If you don't have the dot matrix, you're not even playing pinball, right? What's your arcade game? Arcade game? All right, so um if I'm going straight up arcade game, not console game, is there a better arcade game from the 90s than Super Street Fighter II Turbo? What's your guy? Guile. OK, that's a good choice. How about you? I like the game Centipede. Oh, you do like Centipede? Yeah, so that's... That's real old school. Yeah, well, at the Retro Game Convention, I played that for, like, probably an hour straight. And I got all the top 10 scorers, and I'm probably off the board now, because people are better than me, but it's so much fun. We actually have a hold on buying a centipede machine for ourselves. If I want to go classic arcade, though, original Mario Brothers. Oh, yeah. The 1v1 one. The Super One. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love pinball. Hell, yeah, what's your game? ah Rush, the new Rush one. Oh, yeah? Yeah. ah the The world record for Foo Fighters was broken in Edmonton. Really? yeah That's a good cabinet. I love that one. um i there's The Rush one got me because I'm a huge Rush fan and then I come to find out that you Canadians aren't a huge Rush fan here. But that that machine is great because you can like, well same as the Foo Fighters one, you can pick what song like what you're playing with. I just have a blast playing that one.
00:28:54
Speaker
Give like a a pinball like a league or like a place in where you're from. There's one that's like five minutes from my house and I was actually just like before coming here I was going into the Facebook like Idaho pinball group to find try to find out when like the next tournament is but I haven't done it yet. The only thing is and the place that's right by my house reeks. It's like it's just a ton of like smokers and they don't really like outsiders and so I want to join in but I feel like I got to get jumped to join. We're also now joined by Kurt from Hans Gruber. Do you fuck a pinball? I want a hot dog. Okay. Pinball? Yeah. Oh yeah, ah yeah what's your what's your table? I don't even know what that means.
00:29:33
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yeah ah So you fuck with pinball, but you're not like, you don't got a table. You're just like, fuck, I see pinball? I do pinball. Like, I'll play a pinball if I see pinball. It's because I put the quarter in, play pinball for a little while, and I usually lose immediately. Do you do any, like, old-timey retro arcade games? Uh, was it Pac-Man? I love Pac-Man. You know what? Respect. Pac-Man's still legit. Dig Dug. Hell yeah, Dig Dug. Hell yeah, what a choice. Dig Dug's my shit. That's fucking, that's rad. That's like somebody saying bubble bobble. Like, Dig Dug is a great choice.
00:30:04
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i'm sorry Okay, Chris ruckus is here. were We were talking about bubble bubble. Okay. Can I can I say okay wait? I don't want to disrupt this interview I apologize do it you know okay i'm gonna clean finish clean up the shit but then ah i need to let you know the reason why I asked the pinball question i love it is because you talked about pinball on the last episode you were on yeah and um It made me want to research pinball and now I love pinball. It's the best right? I thought I'm incredible. I thought you're talking about bubble bubble. I was talking about bit bubble bubble bubble bubble Okay, do you like bust a move? It's okay. It's see apples and oranges. Okay. yeah let's but have your Have you ever played Bubble Bubble 2? Yeah, of course. ah There's
Musical Preferences and Rivalries
00:30:38
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an arcade cabinet in my grocery store. No, the but the Bubble Bubble 2 on the NES with the really big sprites? Oh, I mean, there was a Bubble Bubble 2 at the grocery store in my hometown. Hell yeah. All right. Well, if you can find them, I don't know if it's the same game or not, but Bubble Bubble 2 on the and NES, the Taito game, I think it was Japanese only, the sprites are this fucking big on the screen and they're so cute.
00:30:57
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Holy shit, Chris Ruckus coming in with the retro arcade talk. How do you feel about any of those things he just said? He said bubble bubble so many times. I think there's a tongue twister in there somewhere, but I'm not sure. Pinball? Yeah. Yeah. What's your table? Table? like Yeah. like what when you get When you see pinball lying around, what do you what do what do you gravitate to? Is this a Canada thing, like pinball the arcade game? Yeah, yeah, there's just like a bunch of different kinds of tables. Some of them have like, some of them have music, some of them have like, they're like old-timey. Alright, so there was a Super Mario pinball game, and it was like smaller, smaller scale, and the flippers and just the action on the flippers. yeah I was thinking about it recently, and I want to, I'd like to play that again, yeah. Do you do any retro gaming?
00:31:37
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Yeah we got some yestercades as like a chain in jersey so we can hit you yeah that's like 10 bucks an hour or something and you can like play all these old games. I have to like go out of town to a different town if I want to play old pinball and old arcade games so I'm like jealous of the culture in the US like you guys really got it down. Ah yes video game questions they always go off like a shot. Scott fans uh big video game fans. ah This pinball one, I know I brought it up a bunch on the podcast recently. ah Chris Ruckus was on the show recently with Mutiny and he was talking about Elvira in pinball and he was a big pinball fan. And it got me kind of interested in, okay, I need to know more about pinball. And as I went along, realized that, okay, pinball actually is sick.
00:32:22
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And one of the things right now that I'm watching is a four part pseudo documentary about pinball that's on YouTube. That is absolutely phenomenal. I should find out what this guy's name is. It's low budge as hell. It has real checkered past energy. um And each episode is 30 minutes long. So yeah he actually goes right into this like it's it's basically checkered past pinball Braille X is the name of the guy do so shout out Braille X for making possibly the greatest pinball documentary that I've ever seen maybe one of the best full-on documentaries that have ever been produced but This back alleys had some of my favorite moments and on the least of which was Mike was like no I've never done paintball and Oh, pinball? Oh, actually, I'm a part of a retro gaming league and I'm the one of the and'm on the management board of it. it's like oh and That's a full swing from one direction to the other. So ah that was that was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that one. ah So right now we're going to take a break and on any the other side of this, some more questions.
00:33:29
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Hey, Drake or Kendrick? Kendrick, are you kidding me? I'm from fucking Compton. I live i live fucking down the street from the Bompton Pirus, are you kidding me? Fucking, ever since this Drake and Kendrick beef, you know, I was also like a big Kendrick fan in 2016, 2017, because if you were like into jazz, all the jazz beatniks were like, oh, ah you're the new Kendrick album? It's actually really ah really interesting, and Thundercats on it, and Kamazi Washington's on it, and they're all also local LA jazz cats. so
00:34:00
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um I've been paying attention to his stuff for a long time and then 2020 once I started getting into like Scott I kind of fell off but like this this beef fucking it activated me for like a sleeper cell agent because if you've been paying attention Sorry, I have a lot of you know, this is this is important question. So If you've been paying attention, these motherfuckers have been beefing for like 10 fucking years. And you're just like waiting. And now it's like everyone wants in on it. And Kendrick bodied that fucking Canadian dude. Sorry. Sorry, Canada. Oh, no, I'm i'm not sad about it. Compton. We from Compton. Oh, Kendrick. Uh, Parker Biggie.
00:34:42
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Biggie. M&M are triumph the insult comic dog. Oh my god, I'm triumph the insult comic dog, but I love M&M, but fucking triumph. I know, right? This has been the universal answer so far for all three of those questions. What's going on with Brian? Kendrick. Parker Biggie. Oh shit. Well, fuck Biggie. Good choice. M&M are triumph the insult comic dog. Triumph the insult comic dog. kendrick hunter parkcker big ah pac and i'm I'm upset. M&M are trying to insult comic dog. Ooh. Ooh. M&M's problematic but he's better. That, you know what, triumph the insult comic dog is problematic. problematic Like, that voice is ah not great. Yeah, no, thats that's fair. Since they're both problematic, I'll go with them. Ah, Kendrick, come on. Parker Biggie. BBL's Jersey? ah oh Oh, I mean, there's that. I fell in the hole so bad in the past two weeks with that.
00:35:41
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So my wife, my my wife is sitting over there and she had to show me all that stuff because like I was like, it's a given. Kendrick is like way better. He taught me what the yams are. I didn't know before. And then he taught me what they are. And I was like, he's ah Drake never taught me what the yams are. No, Drake's like a pop guy. Still fun, goofy, but you know. He's from where we're from. We're from him Canada, but we still have absolutely no allegiance to Drake or like fuck off Drake. You own Raptors, get out of here. Good, good. Yeah, Team Hendrick. Parker Biggie. Uh, Biggie. But, I mean, in older age, probably Pac, but... So, Biggie was... I'm New Jersey, East Coast. Biggie had beats, though. Pac didn't have beats. Yeah. That's a big issue. Like, Pac had the pop songs, but Biggie had the beats. Yeah, I would agree with that, yeah. Um, Eminem or Triumph the Insult Comic Dog? Oh, fuck. Damn. Really threw me off with that one? Dude, I love Triumph so much. He's so good. Eminem was, uh, good, and his newer stuff is good to poop on.
Culinary Preferences and Hypothetical Last Meals
00:36:37
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So this was a huge question. ah The Drake Kendrick thing was ah what the whole concept of the Scuba Duke being on the pod on day one was all about and about what's called mailman whose walk on was on day two was all about. It was about beefs. We had this little sort of overarching theme about beefs. uh and so then we went to all the uh the interview people that we had and we asked the same question uh draker kendrick i everyone knows where i stand uh palker biggie and i'm a east coast rap guy so it's biggie all the way and uh m and m are triumph the insult comic dog because i don't know people know but they had a big beef at one point
00:37:18
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I hope there might be some Gen Z-ers out there that are not familiar with Triumph the Insult comic dog. That was a ah character that was on Conan who actually had like a spin-off show and would show up on like red carpets and stuff. ah Very late 90s early aughts. Go ahead, check it out on YouTube. See if it holds up. I bet you it doesn't all that much. ah But fun question. Went in all kinds of directions. ah Universal love for Kendrick. Universal hate for Drake. Makes my Canadian heart happy. Alright, here's the next set of questions. What's your bean intake like? Next question. What? You want me to answer? Yeah, that's fine. Like, I mean, I think the the type of bean is much different than I think the beans we're were usually talking about. Alright, well, my relationship to fucking beans is I'm Mexican and I eat them pretty often when I can. ah
00:38:11
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Greens for breakfast, not like the British, you know, we we play those. Who are those? I don't want to talk about it, frankly, but I'll just let's just say if me and a certain individual that lacks common sense were ever seen in a room, it would end very poorly. I'll let you know that much. Beans? Oh, I eat eate a lot of fucking beans. I'm not fucking kidding. I am not joking at all. Now, do I eat the... the I don't always eat the Heinz blue can. That's David. Our good guitar player, David, grew up in England. So he fucking loves himself a can of blue Heinz beans. But me, I do black beans. I have a great recipe.
00:38:49
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you You stir them together with some olive oil, garlic pepper garlic powder, salt, pepper, cumin, a little oregano, and you stir the shit out of them until they get really, really thick. Amazing. Beans. thats That's the most excited answer that we've had so far. I'm sure we can attest. Honestly, I can. Mike makes incredible beans and I try to eat them as often as possible. They are a food group in our house. Wow, okay. necessary protein Oh, my bean intake. It's increased a lot when I became an adult. When I was a kid, I was very picky. And now I do love beans. um I haven't had any while I'm here because watching Craig drink two cans of it kind of turned me off a little bit. But I'm no stranger to beans. I love beans. They're a magical fruit. Zero. Okay. Aren't you vegan? Wait a second, I'm just like like, whoa, whoa. Mostly, yeah, mostly vegan, not not even coffee beans. Like, no, just gross. yeah Gross. So what's your protein intake? Now I'm like, floored. ah Fake meats, unhealthy shit. I'm not a healthy vegan at all. I love it. You know what? That's the most honest fucking take I've i've heard yet. Garbanzo oh fuck. it I was just talking about chickpeas man. That's incredible. What's your what's your chickpea like? What's what's the dish that you make a nice hummus? You know like who doesn't love a hummus. Do you fuck with with the eggplant one? um bobba bobba gaousuche Yeah, absolutely yeah any nice saucy smooth thing I can yeah slurp down absolutely. What do you dip it in? a nice trip you know a nice crispy chip i'm loving you
00:40:23
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like i feel like we could be best friends So Beans played heavily into SPI Fest 2024. If you're not following Common Sense Kid online right now, um I don't know where it came from, but somebody trolled him about Beans one time and it just turned into this whole thing where everyone was sending him Bean memes. ah And he really dove into it if you've listened to last few episodes ah that he was on or even Andy B where we had to double check if his bean intake was correct or not ah and ah He has followed that through all the way to some merch which I own ah which is of the Heinz blue can ah which is his preferred bean ah and so we had to quiz everybody and throughout SPI fest 2024 beans played heavily someone brought a
00:41:12
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huge flat of beans and uh craig ate two of those beans on stage two of those cans of beans on stage uh so it's a it's a bit that doesn't seem to want to quit honestly and i'm here for it uh fun fact that bad mary uh bit we had up for the patrons and one of our patrons reached out to bad mary to get their bean recipe because they loved it so much so ah Just so you know, Bad Mary is very open with their bean recipe if you want to to get ah ah get a piece of that.
Worst Music Advice Shared
00:41:44
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Alright, on to the next batch. What will your last meal be? App, entree, dessert and drink. App um I'm a fan of a a good shrimp cocktail. I love my shrimps app dessert I'm going I'm skipping the entree going right to dessert. I need some like maybe blueberry pie our mode there I love some pie, but it's got to have the ice cream on the side entree
00:42:12
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I like soup, something soup-based, probably some sort of ramen. um And then drink, I'm gonna say either a Coke Zero or a Shirley Temple, because goddamn, they're both delicious. Okay, so you're gonna hear some Long Island, because that's where we're from. App. You know, I would love to do like a mozzarella garlic bread. That's probably, if it's my last meal and I know I'm going out. I'll probably go with that or maybe even just say screw it and get fried mozzarella. Maybe an antipasto, maybe that. And then for my meal, you know, I would normally say, like, pizza or something, but I honestly think, like, a really, like, hearty, Sunday gravy, Sunday sauce, meatball, sausage, and, you know, a couple of brussels in there, some rigatoni, a little grated cheese. And then for dessert, I don't know. Hmm, for dessert, as many cookies as I possibly could fit in my mouth. So, let's see, app, mozzarella sticks. Like, but legitimately because I love them. Jesus Christ. I love them legitimately though. Like, I was on board with that before that shit he mean. Scott Mailman's the only one who gets away with this shit, I swear to God. Yeah, for real. I mean, I make the mozzarella jokes all the time to where even Jer is like, you get a pass, Jer. You can't be from fucking Boise and not like get a pass. Like, I mean, he can be the whitest person ever and he's like from Boise and everyone's like, ah, it's fine.
00:43:37
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He's from Boise, he can't help it. like it's but The boy has a problem. What's the other ones? Entre? Entre, dessert, drink. Entre, I'm gonna go like carne asada burrito, but with ah like potatoes, like Mexican table cream, i like the good shit. ah Dessert? ah I just go like straight up vanilla ice cream like I know it sounds like really plain i fuck But like legitimately I remember my grandma took me to he's from Boise, Idaho Yeah, this boys are noisy. My grandma took me to Ben and Jerry's when I was a kid She's like don't get vanilla and I was like, that's my favorite though What was the other one a drink drink? Yeah, fuck. She's dead um
00:44:21
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um ah drink drink Shit dog. um I'm gonna go like a sailor Jerry and coke. All right. All right. That's like a pretty decent answer what i joined into this I Apologize I'm a fishy part of the checkered cast. So I don't know if they know I introduced myself once on it So I'm part of the podcast. Yeah, that that's very true. Last wait the chose Like you're like you're about to be executed tomorrow firing squad. I don't know if If I'm going to be executed tomorrow, I'm going to get the vegan Philly cheesesteak from um ah Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You know what? I'm really respecting the fact that you're going to hold vegan even at your last meal. That's impressive. That means you're really committed. It tastes better than the real thing, that's why.
00:45:06
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You know, sometimes that's the case. We have Padmanati and Kaylee of Game Boy Fame ran across a bridge to eat Padmanati and Edmonton when they played and said it was one of the best vegan meals they've ever had. And so it's true. There's no reason why vegan food cannot be the best thing. It usually does taste better. It's usually marginally healthier. I don't go for healthier. I usually go for the least healthy thing I can possibly find. but Oh, 100%. I've eaten some truly heinously unhealthy vegan food, and it's delicious. It's it's amazing. Uh, last meal was chicken in the van? Um... No, I mean like... I'm sorry. Sorry, I mean like you're about to be executed. What's your last meal? Uh, chicken from the van.
00:45:50
Speaker
So the last meal question, can't remember how we came up with that, but that is 100% ripped off from the Doughboys. Shout out to the Doughboys again and forever because I i would say that is a our number one, if not number two influence on this podcast. ah Sometimes we have cribbed full ideas from them. And we usually try to give credit to them where where it's due, ah but the last meal is a segment that they've done multiple times so ah where the bid is that the ah guest has to come up with a ah entree, appetizer, dessert, and drink for their last meal before their execution.
00:46:27
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I realize that that question can be confusing if I say, what what ah what is your last meal versus what was your last meal? So some people were like like, what did I eat just now?
Creative Haiku Summaries
00:46:37
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A chicken in the van, which is what Joe from Best of the Worst said, which is pretty funny. My last meal would probably be The caprese salad for an appetizer, ah probably like schnitzel or some kind of breaded cutlet for the entree, dessert, a tiramisu, and like a really good, delicious, let's say a wolf from sea change, some kind of beer situation that's just like a nice good drinking beer. So no no surprises with me. Probably the most boring ah white bread choice I could make, but you know what? I'm going out and I'm going to go out the way I want to go out.
00:47:14
Speaker
Alright, so this is the next set of questions. what's the worst piece of music advice you've ever been given damn that's a fucking phenomenal question these are some goodass questions rob this is coming from somebody who's been on in deensive sky do you heard it here first aaron car this is a scott offender fact Checker Pass the Scottcast is the best Scott podcast out right now. Hell yeah. there's the sound bite Fuck you, Adam Davis. Fuck you, Aaron Carnes.
00:47:45
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there's the other satellite This is on the record. Hell yeah. This is on the record and this is on the upbeat. So what is the worst piece of music advice you've been given? The worst piece of music advice I was ever given. Fuck. ah There's a lot, that's the thing. But like, what's a good fucking example? I have a lot of good music advice I've been given, but like something that I've just been like... Someone who just tells you, like gives you some advice and you're like, what's bullshit? Uh, I generally take everyone's advice like, huh, well I never thought of it that way. But if it's like, oh you're full of shit, usually it's like um...
00:48:28
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Like, I had a band leader, my last band, them who who i will I won't name. They're not going to listen to this. But um they it was a lot of like, oh, I'm going to add these these horns, you know, because yada, yada, yada. And he was like, he was more, one time he got drunk and he told our guitar player for the marijuana brass, because he was an ex-member, too. The marijuana brass is a lot of ex-members of this old band. He told, because my this guy, he's a jazz guitarist, ah my my my guitar player, at Uli. he's a Jazz guitarist never went to school, didn't really learn, but just picked it up for the fucking joy of it, which is fucking hard to do. like Those shapes and like the theory that goes behind it, horrible to fucking learn, especially on guitar, because all music theory is based on piano. You move it to guitar where everything's super different, and it's like,
00:49:19
Speaker
Well, this is super hard to transfer with the music knowledge you have. So to be able to go in like, I want to learn this theory because I love jazz. That's fucking you know, I admire uli my guitar player for that. But Tony, Tony, that's his name. That is his name. Tony is like this guy playing in the L.A. Scott scene for like 12 years. He was in a band with Esteban way back when. Like that's his history.
00:49:49
Speaker
Just like, there's a lot of little clues. Yeah, I'm good. He sabotaged one of my shows once. It was a matamotash. Anyways, I'm getting off track. So the worst piece of music advice is just like, if, you know, there's a lot of people around you where they're like, you can't do this because this isn't feasible. Or like, this isn't like the vibe. you know When you're trying to like expand on your shit artistically, like if something's calling you, you fucking go for it. But there's a lot of people that are like, i'm gonna I need you to do this. I'm going to put you in this box. And if you have a suggestion, I'll listen to it, but I'm not going to do it. And if that fucks with you enough, like don't stay with that. you know But a lot of people will stick in it just because it's like, oh, what if it blows up?
00:50:46
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you know I think a lot of people on the outside too, they're like, you have to stay in this even though it's making you miserable or like, you know, it's a toxic environment because what if this? But sometimes you get to a point where like, is this really worth it? Am I really going to sacrifice these ideas or this vision that I have? to stick in here when you as a leader or you as the band leader the ringleader the ghost tones says uh don't do that you know like fuck you uh stay in line and sometimes you know are you is it worth listening to i don't know i'm kind of rambling here but it's like if you if something's calling you go for it if some if you have an inkling that i need to leave this band
00:51:37
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then leave. If the music is really calling to you, you'll fucking find it eventually. And if not, you'll just make your own band. Stop playing. So I did the American Idol experience at Disney World once and they told me not to sing a song that I should have and I was going to and then I didn't sing it and didn't win and I'm glad I didn't win because I never want to be on American Idol for that experience but it's shaped every other decision I've made musically in my life
Rob's Rapid-Fire Personal Insights
00:52:03
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where someone said don't sing that song and I'm like I really want to do that one though and I think back to that and I just go you should have done that instead so it was a formative music thing. Yeah I don't know.
00:52:13
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Oh, I mean when I first started playing music I played bass guitar and I played it in like the middle school jazz band and some shithead like eighth grade bully kid was like you should quit ah You suck at bass and I was like oh and I thought about and my parents were like don't quit So I guess just the worst advice was just quit that's really shit but it's ah Wait your turn wait your turn that sounds like a story No, just ah just people, gatekeepers telling you no you know it's you, just wait your turn. you know the the the best The best experience I've had was when I just like fucking put myself out there and just said, you know what? It's time. It's me. you know Let's fucking do it. And is that how Just Devils came about?
00:52:54
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Kinda, yeah. like i Well, over the course of many, many years, just being like, I want to do this. I want to join this band. I want to join this band. Hey, I want to meet this person. I want to be this person. And that just led to, you know, doing fucking cool shit now. Fuck.
00:53:12
Speaker
don't uh try man a lot of a lot of worst advice people have been giving us when we ask this question is like don't like well it's because a lot of people don't get it what this is and uh when i was younger i got advice from older people like yeah i've seen so many talented people in the bars and the guitar solo it's really hard to make it but it's like You know, that's not what um we're doing here. This is something completely different. So just do what you want is what I say. Fuck. Yeah, that's good advice. So that's my other favorite question that we asked. Maybe a slightly more serious question, but it was really interesting to hear five musicians and what's the worst piece of music advice. And overall, it was overwhelmingly like quit is the worst piece of music advice. Like if you want to do it, do it. Don't let other people tell you that you can't do it.
00:54:00
Speaker
Um, like I think it's always an interesting dynamic, uh, because you just assume like when there's musicians that that they're doing it because they have the drive, but you know, the haters are are loud and sometimes it's from places of authority, people you respect teachers or whatever that are telling you that. And fighting through that is what gives you the drive to do the stuff that you really want to do. um So that that was easily one of the the best questions that got asked ah And so then what I did was ah follow that up with a really stupid question. I love it What's your closing remarks, but it has to be in a haiku? closing remarks in a haiku 5 7 5 Have a Have a fantastic no
00:54:51
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shit You want to take it off? Five, seven, five, okay. I do love the Ska. Skankin' all around, oh yes. Have a cool-ass day. Fuck yeah. Ska to panko gaskides. um Panko to ska. Punk, Tosca, Wah, Subarashi.
00:55:26
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ah that's why i was but Yeah, I know. I know, I know, I know. Let's go rock and roll. Yeah, Bad Mary, thank you very much. Go enjoy some beans. Shit, what's the haiku, what's the rhyme? 575. 575, okay. ah Scottpunk international rules this festival is the greatest I Can't wait to do it again. is that a high good I'll count later. All right. know Thanks mailman. Thank you 575 You're a musician Checkered past is cool Arianne is my best friend and is my best friend yeah Okay, have a lovely day have a lovely You did it
00:56:12
Speaker
Air for power-up stage manager of SBI fest 2 just a general lovely human being thank you for being on the show. Thank you. Love you He is handsome do what you really know fuck no do delay you but then it's a run on sense, but I'm not good. Hey, let's get this. Let's get this over with do what you want and you a five, seven, five motherfucker. Let's get this over with do what you want and who really know who really cares.
00:56:45
Speaker
Okay, no, I blew it dude. That's okay. You got so close. You got so close positive no but It's still positive. You did a great job. but Thank you. Best of the worst. This is the first time you've been on the pod, which is ridiculous So, thank you so much Ah yes, make them do a haiku. Couldn't let them get away with it. It was either that or a limerick. I'm actually impressed that a few of them ah really and got the assignment and really were like, oh haiku, I got it. Okay. To remind me what the syllables are and I will craft a good one for you. So maybe I could have challenged them with a limerick.
00:57:16
Speaker
Um, so that's, uh, that's the back alley interview. So, you know, a big shout out to everybody that we interviewed. Javi from the marijuana brass, Mike and Amanda from bad Mary, the Scott mailman, Adam Wallace in line at the hot dog stand. ah We had Eren from Power Up and Joe from Best of the Worst. Thanks for everybody for being game for all of our shenanigans. ah On our Patreon there are additional little questions that we did not bring into this episode. ah hope We had some extra questions for Eren that didn't quite make it.
00:57:50
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I asked a question, what are you listening to when not skanking to ska or punking to punk. I did ask a couple of them what their Dungeons and Dragons class would be. And I did attempt to do a bit where I said, what is your Mount Rushmore of cake? Thinking everybody would fall for that. And almost everybody saw through my ruse. So if you want to see me fall flat on my face trying to fool some ah very smart musicians. ah You can also get that on the uncuts on Patreon. So ah we have one more thing I'm gonna do on this episode. So I am not free from ah being embarrassed by some rapid fire questions. So I asked the Discord to send me a bunch of silly questions and I did not screen these. So I refuse to look at them and I'm gonna look at them right now and we'll see. And so on the Discord, here we go.
00:58:43
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ah When does the narwhal bacon if you read that one on the podcast? I'm retracting my Wait a second Okay, so I won't answer it but she's like I have to read through it like I can't like see your threat after your question ah Fuck Mary Kill, oh man, if I get a bunch of these, it's gonna be random. Okay, Bleach, one piece Naruto. Okay, so if you don't know, I'm a big Shonen Jump fan, so that's the big three of Shonen Jump. um Fuck Bleach, it gets ah real stupid. No, wait, I'm supposed to say fuck like I would have sex with it.
00:59:21
Speaker
Alright, so I'd fuck Naruto because ah there's some characters I really jam with. Marry one piece because I've been with it forever and I'd kill Bleach because, you know, after they start flying, ah Bleach gets real stupid. It's the Dragon Ball effect. You can't make your characters fly all the time. Alright, fuck Marry, kill Chip and Dale. Oh no, there's gonna be a bunch of these. I've already seen this, this is already- I should've screened this. I should've screened this. Uh, Chip and Dale. Uh, I'd kill and I'd uh, fuck Dale and I'd marry Chip. I don't know. Um, fuck Mary- Jesus Christ.
01:00:00
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checkered past and scodcast i got a couple thumbs up all right people were into that one oh man i can't believe they're making me do this um i'd kill scodcast because that was the biggest seo mistake i've ever made um i'd uh i'd uh fucked the past because i was sexier in the past and i would marry checkered because i've been with checkered for a long time All right, but let's keep going. God, i'm I'm really, I'm really unfortunate about what's going on here. What's the most American thing you saw on the drive to the fest? All the American flags, man. Like so many. Y'all love flags. Like that's a thing that I kind of knew, but I'm never really prepared for. ah Like not like we don't have Canadian flags up here. Like we do have flags, but man, oh man, there's a lot of patriotism.
01:00:53
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um And I mean, I almost like, you know, buying a sandwich at a deli in a gas station is a wild concept to me. ah yeah That felt pretty definitively Northeast American. ah Same person said, fuck, Mary, kill, Scott Rick, steady, you know, kill, Scott. I mean, at the end of the day, like, let's let's kill it. Let's bring on something new. I'd fuck Rocksteady. That's the that's the fucking two music. Right. And I'd marry reggae. Right. I think so. um Let's see haiku about Godzilla minus one. Oh, no, I have to do a haiku. Okay. I really backed myself into this. Uh, never did see that. Gonna see it soon enough. God Zill go Jira.
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cool man yeah that's that's good uh what are your top two funniest sweetest pet moments most recent hey my kid is pretty cool dad moment uh is there an emo band you like okay so let's see uh top two funniest sweetest pet moments ah Ariana would hate me ah but us picking up our dog from the pound when she got lost is a sweet moment as much as that's a horrifying moment seeing her sweet little face when we go to pick her up um most of the funniest moments like I do remember our old our cat Astrid jumping on our old house roof and ah needing to call my father-in-law because he had a bigger ladder than I did and trying desperately for both of us to scurry the cat off the roof was one heck of a challenge
01:02:31
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um Most recent, hey my kid my kid is pretty cool dad moment. ah Those are kind of constant nowadays. Like he's eight, he just turned eight. And so he just says cool shit all the time. ah Especially when he's like kind of like ah trying to show all the stuff he knows. and he knows a lot like I don't know not all the kids seem to be as up on it I feel like as he is maybe that's my dad is just like I'm like he's the smartest kid ever but you know like all those kid moments are great seeing him like actually become super smart ah is it's kind of it's kind of cool and he's like really got a lot of good friends I didn't have a lot of friends growing up and it was pretty hard in a small town
01:03:14
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So I'm glad I have a I'm at a big town. He's at a multicultural, multilingual school. So he's got a big set of different friends of all kinds of stripes. He is a trans friend. He's got a bunch of female friends, a lot of ah ah friends of color, and they all act like him and they all make fart jokes. And I think there's something really cool about that. ah Is there an emo band you like? ah Probably because I shit on emo a lot um and I don't mean to. um I feel like they're the ones that kind of flirt with it a little bit like protest to hear on a Willem scream because they're not really emo but they kind of enter that place. I did dig the first couple of my Chemical Romance albums before they got a little too big and then it kind of fell off for me. I did love Artist in the Ambulance and
01:04:03
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Gotta throw it out for that second Alexa on fire record. um I actually think that the multiple vocalist bit is great. Oh, ah set set your goals. Set your goals is the best easy core band bar none. And I actually could really like mess with mutiny on the reg. So that's probably my favorite emo record, I'd say. um It said I should intro a back alley interview as Kevin the Minion. ah wow That's gonna get me in trouble. ah What is the perfect Taco Bell order? Listen, I don't mess around. i get the I get the Doritos Locos Tacos and I get that with Fry Supreme and a Pepsi. ah Just pretty norm core when it comes to my Taco Bell order, but it makes a good day.
01:04:43
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uh what makes for a good back alley ample dumpster action like i like to walk through a back alley and have a not a locked dumpster like that kind of pisses me off because i need to like um uh i need to do the magic johnson hook shot into a dumpster so i need one that's like kind of open plus listen um you know not so much now in my 30s but in my 20s if i had to pee i needed a dumpster that was readily available so You know, I need a back alley that's lit and has ready dumpster access. ah Perfect SPI Fest 4 person forper blunt rotation. Damn, you had the wrong person on if Joey was here. ah You know what? It's ah the four CPSC people. Let's go with that. ah Can you recall a time where the sweat was entirely too much? Oh, fuck yeah. On stage at SPI Fest. Oh, you know, also just um i i where I go for work. I'm doing this so fast. I'm trying to like
01:05:40
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Really get these out, I guess, because this just keeps going. I'm just excited for more fuck Mary kill questions. I'm sure they're coming. um So I recently bought a new bike and my work is actually close enough that I can bike door to door within 15 minutes. biggest problem is that I wear a suit to work so I can't wear a full suit um but I can wear like a dress shirt and I have sort of a bonus suit jacket at work that I throw on but I sweat way too much on that because I carry a backpack that has like my work laptop and stuff on
01:06:16
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Uh, and so I just have to try to hide the sweat as soon as I get in. And I've had to do it so much, so frequently, so recently that I just keep questioning my life choices. Um, and I'm like, is there a way to sweat less? Cause that's the real solution to this problem. Uh, have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like, Oh man. Why'd you do that? ah Why do they call it oven when you oven the cold food out of heat the food? Okay, okay. Okay, people. Now you're just like making me read this. Where's Waldo? um and There's that Simpsons bit where he's just like waving and it's like, man, he's not even trying anymore. That's what I think of when I think of Where's Waldo. Now what you don't realize, okay, this is just me because I have an eight year old and I've read a Where's Waldo book recently.
01:07:11
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uh there's like a ton of like a bonus content and dlc to where's waldo like it's a full video game like you're not just looking for waldo you're looking for the wizard you need to find a dog everybody has their own little accoutrement that you need to find like a set of binoculars and a bone and shit then you flip to the back of the where's waldo book and there's like riddles you have to solve that are puns ah because where's Waldo is like English because it's called where's Wally and that's the original name of it ah and so it's kind of real like like Monty Python type sense of humor so you know what if if you're like messing around with where's Waldo you're having a good time way better than those I spy books
01:07:51
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ah Why are each of you Mr. Sparkle? um That's, I'm guessing, a Simpsons reference. That's the fish bulb, Mr. Sparkle. And we're each Mr. Sparkle? Like we're a combination of ah of a fish and a light bulb? Like, I'm into that. Was the Matta black eye the worst pit injury? My pit injury. That's the worst pit injury I've had. I've lost shoes in pits multiple times, but that's the worst injury I've had. But I've told the story I think on the pod before when we saw the satanic surfers and my girlfriend at the time when I was in college, I could not make it even a quarter of the way through the pit and she got a full on broken nose and we had to take her to the hospital to get it reset. That's the worst pit injury I've seen.
01:08:35
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Uh, but I've seen like full on fist fights where I've lost track of and it was two strangers. Uh, and I'm sure that ended in in bigger injuries. Fuck Mary. Here we go. Fuck Mary kill Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers. Ooh. Uh, don't know. What would we do with that? Uh, kill Freddy Krueger. Don't trust him. Uh, no, you know what? Fuck Freddy Krueger. I feel like that'd be wild. Like, cause he can go into the dream world and shit. Kill Mike Myers. Marry Jason Voorhees cause of the mom energy, I guess. Um, uh, that would work. Maybe that's giving it away too much. Uh, what are the have and are not have been?
01:09:14
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Alright, some people are asking questions as fast as they can, I think, so I'm not even sure how to answer that one either, but that got to the end. Man, that was a lot of fuck Mary kills. That was a lot of questions. I didn't think people would- I put this up like an hour ago. And people really came to bat and really made me answer some stupid questions. So you know what? Check your heads, you're the realist. Alright, that's Checkered Past. thanks Thanks for listening. Hit us up on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok at checkeredpastpod or send us an email at checkeredpastpod at gmail dot.com. Support the pod, get bonus content, including a full length and unedited video of this episode. Sign up for the Checkered Head Patreon at patreon dot.com slash checkeredpast.
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