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42. Two Year Anniversary Special - LIVE FROM SPI FEST 2023
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You've been waiting for it! Checkered Past proudly presents, in honor of their 2nd year anniversary, the entire set Live From SPI Fest 2023! In addition, Rob, Celine and Joey tell about 90 minutes of stories from the trip and play supercuts of the fabled Back Alley Interviews. This is a monster episode, so buckle in! Please forgive some of the live audio... DIY amiright?
Artists Featured: Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Lo(u)ser, Take Today, SkaxDad, Plastic Presidents and Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International.
Hosts: Celine, Rob and Joey
Engineer: Joey
Editor: Rob
Skassociate Producer: Chris Reeves of Ska Punk International
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The entire uncut experience both on stage, backstage and in studio is available at www.patreon.com/checkeredpast
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Transcript
Celebrating Two Years of Podcasting
00:00:00
Speaker
On this very special episode, it's our cotton year. Hope you brought some Q-tips and dress shirts for gifts as we celebrate a fifth of a decade in podcasting. It's the checkered past two-year anniversary special live from SPI Fest 2023.
00:00:36
Speaker
What up, Checkerheads?
Introduction to Ska Music History
00:00:37
Speaker
Welcome to Checker Past the Skycast with Celine and Rob. The show where a couple Scott Fishin' Autos 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-host, Celine. Is that the old intro? Yes. That's the old intro. I brought it back, baby. I was like, oh yeah, I'm not a Scott Fishin' Auto. Which is what you said on the first episode.
00:01:01
Speaker
Hey, I know what I'm not. Or like the second, I don't know. It was early on when I, I don't remember at what point I stopped saying that and I started doing the dumb.
00:01:09
Speaker
And they get to the point where I say stupid shit like the demon skanker of Orange Street. It went from Scott Fissionado to that. Somewhere along the way, I lost my way. This is a good episode for engineer Joey to be on the mic. Say hi to the folks, engineer Joey. Hi. You might say that every day you stray further from Scott, as Salin said earlier.
00:01:33
Speaker
on a different episode. That's going to be merch. It's going to be merch. Going to be merch. I'm telling you. Hi. I'm very excited. This is going to be fun. This is a crazy episode. Wow. Yeah, for those watching, the people to my left and right here have buck merch on. We're bucking. We're bucking. We're fully bucking. And I hope you like bucking too.
00:01:54
Speaker
just recycling bits just as if you have a funky friend literally just said the same thing I said in the very first episode and called it content yeah repetition is the soul of wit that's the hook but also repetition is the soul of wit
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Speaker
So there's gonna be a break from format in March. Just some backstory.
Reflections on SPI Fest Experience
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Speaker
We had the privilege to open up for our Scott Associate Producer Chris Reeves inaugural SPI Fest for Scott Punk International in Austin, Texas.
00:02:29
Speaker
The whole crew, editor Arianne, engineer Joey, Selene and myself, we hopped on a couple of planes, flew all the way down to the US of A to do our very first ever live show. And after we finished our 35 minute set, we hung out the show, watched the whole Kit and Kaboodle, all 20 plus acts, acted like tourists in some days, but also brought along a portable recorder.
00:02:56
Speaker
and did some back alley interviews while we were there with five people. So for today's episode, it's all about that. It's our second anniversary, so we thought this was the perfect opportunity for the crew to sit around, chit chat about the SPI Fest journey, and we'll play the whole live set, and we'll play the five interviews that we did in the back alleys, all kind of cut and pasted, and we'll just chat and listen and have a good time remembering, even though it was only like
00:03:25
Speaker
You know, as of recording the reunion episode. This is the reunion episode. This is the reunion. I feel fucking ripped off. No, Andy. We should have called them up. Yeah. If he was on if he was on the traders reunion, he would maybe have time. You know what it is? We haven't been picked up by Bravo yet. That's true. Really? Do you haven't gotten to the reunion? I'm 10 minutes into the final finale. So we'll spoil anything that he just is a host. But they like him and Alan coming to a bit where he like does his own
00:03:54
Speaker
Andy Cohen voice and then he like and Alan Cummings kind of like not impressed and then he's like the traitors like murder. He does like vocal coaching. He's like, you have to go traitors murder. I can't do the Scottish accent. It's like so I don't think he can. To be honest, I don't know what that accent is, but not Scottish accent. Alan Cumming is Scottish. I know. But whatever he's talking in is not a Scottish accent.
00:04:22
Speaker
It's very theatrical, very theatrical. It's wild. He's from the theater. The theater. So why don't we talk, why don't we share some stories? So we'll do this in like semi chronological order. How did this all come about? Do you remember?
00:04:37
Speaker
I think Chris announced it and we were like, fly us out. And then we were like, haha. But actually, if you flew out, you could just come and do things. I think he was even ahead of that. I think he was just like, hey, SBI Fest is happening. And I thought that you should come. Like, I thought he was a little bit more proactive about it. Maybe it was. Yes. I know we've joked multiple times on Twitter about doing live stuff at like Supernova. Oh, yeah. Like, I think we've bugged Supernova like a million times.
00:05:06
Speaker
about us going and performing. It never happened. We've always wanted to do the podcast live, like from the jump. I think we had maybe I'm speaking for myself. Yeah, I was open. It was like bucket list. Like I think live podcasts are awesome. I think they're very cool. I've gone to a lot. I've gone to the most live podcast out of everyone here. Yeah. Yeah. You went to me. It's just not a surprise. Correct. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
00:05:33
Speaker
And that, and how many, so we also traveled to see comedy bang bang me and you. That's true. Unfortunately, Rob was not there in Vancouver and we also saw spontaneous nation, which is fantastic weekend. What was it like seeing a bunch of live podcasts over the course of two days? Well, I recorded my first podcast.
00:05:52
Speaker
That's true. You had your guest appearance on Doughboys. Doughboys. Yeah, it was like kind of contentious because I was like drunk on Miller Lake confidence. Oh, and I high-fived. Ben Schwartz. Ben Schwartz. And then I walked by Reggie Watts. Oh, you got the in. Lauren Lacus said that girl.
00:06:13
Speaker
Yeah, how come none of these people have been on the show? Because I
Travel Adventures and Live Show Highlights
00:06:16
Speaker
made such strong, good, long-lasting friendships. That's right. I'm just wondering, how do you activate on those friendships? I don't know. I don't know. They're not busy. Nick was definitely a little annoyed at my question, but it was good.
00:06:28
Speaker
Nick seems like he'd be a little annoyed at any question. Yeah. That's the energy. He has hard, Rob energy. Yeah. I don't know. It wasn't like, I just always thought we would do it. I guess I wasn't like, Oh yeah. One day I was just like, Oh, we'll make it happen. It was like, when you start a band, it's like, I guess you assume you're going to play a show at some point, you know, to me, it's like the illogical step.
00:06:51
Speaker
Yeah, even though maybe it's not I know other people who do podcasts are like, that's crazy. But I just listen. I also am a podcast fan. And I also listen to a shit ton of live podcasts. I guess I'm not unfamiliar with how it could work and how the flow could.
00:07:05
Speaker
I had it in my head though, once it started to happen that Edmonton was not going to be where our fans were, the idea of doing live shows became a further goal at some point, where I was like, everybody who listens to us is in New York, Texas, and California. That's where all of our listeners are.
00:07:26
Speaker
And the Canadian ones that listened to us were from Montreal because the planet smashers were on and we did, we covered them like three times. And so we had a lot of listeners there, but I was like, it's never happening. And so it was like, it was great. And so once they told us to do it, I don't think we missed a beat. I think we said yes pretty much immediately. Yeah. Yeah. We were kind of like, yeah, we'll do, we'll figure it out. And then I think we worked backwards from yes.
00:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, pretty much like pretty much didn't have a plan at all. However, we I think we were pretty confident in the format of the show transferring to a live show pretty easily. Oh, 100 percent. And also the other thing that was really helpful was the fact that
00:08:13
Speaker
the we knew right away that we had like so many awesome picks for guests to come on. But not only that, we also knew the groups are going to be there. And they were kind of our first one of our first a lot of our pod friends. A lot of our pod friends are there. But we just like the group that was the main episode went over so well that they were a shoe in to be guests. And they're so fun.
00:08:40
Speaker
Well, and Kurt messaged DM me on Twitter and was like, I'd be personally offended if you didn't include me in your live show. Yeah, that too. And we were like, well, you're going to be the guest. And he's like, yeah, done. Like, no question. And we barely spoke to the groups about it up to the day. And I think we confirmed them the day we got there or maybe the day before, like still doing the live show, right? And they're like, yeah, of course we are. Like, yeah, definitely.
00:09:03
Speaker
because their other band was playing on the same, on the first night. We opened for them. Yeah. It's weird to say that. That's a weird thing to say. We just made so many good friends. It was incredible. Meeting so many people. Let's not get too far ahead. We're still in the prep stage. We're still getting there. But to your point,
00:09:29
Speaker
Because we had listened to so many live podcasts, it was so easy to figure out what we would do live. It's like, we're going to do a host intro, we're going to do an interview with the band, we're going to play games, we're going to do questions live with the audience. No question. If we did a full hour and a half, we could do a time scotching, but that we knew was going to be a tough ask.
00:09:51
Speaker
Play the hits. Play the hits. That's right. We knew we had a half hour. I think Joey squirreled us into getting 45 minutes with Cool Chris, which wasn't hard because we were the very first band up. But half an hour wouldn't have. Half hour would have been tough. Yeah. Band, yeah. Act. Act. Act. We were an act for sure. And so we ended up, but like we made the time. I think the hardest thing was getting like
00:10:15
Speaker
getting the Airbnb was not hard. Like Arianne figured it out in like a couple of weeks basically. So, cause my wife Arianne who edits the podcast during our main episodes, she was coming with us. She was going to do merch and pick up shirts for us. So she did arrange the Airbnb, which is easy.
00:10:31
Speaker
Flights were a pain in the fucking ass those holy shit So stupid the first option was to we were gonna drive to Calgary. Yeah, which is three hours three hours park the car fly to Austin and it would be like The time would have been ridiculous. Like we'd have to leave the house at like four in the morning or something And it's not it's a boring drive You fly over the border you got to be at the airport a couple hours two or three hours before so we'd have to be at the airport and
00:11:00
Speaker
So we would have had to have like leave the house six hours before we were even supposed to fly. It would have been a nightmare. And so we decided because direct flights to Austin don't exist in Edmonton yet. They start to exist May of 2023 when this episode is out. So we were we missed the cutoff. There's a lot of shit with our we only have like two airlines in Canada and then a bunch of like little smaller like puddle jumper ones.
00:11:27
Speaker
Puddle jumper. Yeah, puddle jumper, small plane. That's fun. I hate that. Yeah, and so what we ended up doing was layover in Calgary, then fly to Houston, rent a car, and then drive there, which is, again, a three-hour drive.
00:11:44
Speaker
But it was in a different place. But it was at least in a different country. So we thought, yes, this will be more fun. And also that got us a rental car while we were there. Yeah. And we would not have survived without a rental car at the time. Oh, no. Austin and Edmonton are very similar in the sense that they're not walkable cities. Like you need vehicle transportation to get around. Parts of it are.
00:12:07
Speaker
They're not where we were. Not where we were trying to get to. From the south side of Austin to downtown is not a walkable. We're not in the heart of it, right? But we all took time off work. I got a babysitter for my lovely mother.
00:12:22
Speaker
I watched my kid for the few days that we took the time off to do that. There wasn't much for us to do. We just had to bring a couple of recorders, my laptop, and our lives, I guess. That was basically it. And then when we got there, we actually got somebody local to make the tour shirts for us. Which school sport local? And so we went out and grabbed them the day of, or was it the day before? Can't remember. Yeah, day before, I think.
00:12:50
Speaker
Um, and then so we, we traveled light. We didn't have instruments or anything. So it was actually the day of, cause it was the morning.
00:12:57
Speaker
We arrived at night. Right, it was in the morning. Right. The day of the show. Yeah. Yeah. So, so fast forward and, you know, we're doing all the prep and stuff. We, we get like the professional, uh, picture done and whatever. Perfect. It was Chris overlaying on stuff. And then, um, we get there and, or sorry, we leave that morning. Actually everything was pretty good, right? Like I think both travels aside from being long,
00:13:23
Speaker
We didn't miss any flights, nothing was delayed incredibly, like an hour in places where it was actually kind of helpful to be delayed. We had some suitcase drama. Yeah, tell me about the hand. I have to hear about suitcase. So I borrowed. I don't.
00:13:39
Speaker
Really have like a more modern Like carry-on size suitcase so I borrowed one from Slinn Rob's mother as she has just a quick aside We all carried on no check baggage. It's great. It was brilliant. It was brilliant. Yeah, so I borrowed this
00:13:57
Speaker
rolly suitcase thing loaded it up was great and then we got to the airport and I had the handle extended and we were using it and the handle was a little bit janky going back in earlier and then it was not going back in at all
00:14:13
Speaker
And it was just kind of stuck open and joey definitely took out all of his trip stress. Yeah. Yeah, I was stressing about it. Joey is not about the handle. As you know, Joey does not get stressed. But this stressed him the shit out. And like it was because it wouldn't fit into the into the I had to tell him to stop overhead. I was like, Joey, I don't know how much you have to try the exact same thing over and over. There's only one thing you
00:14:39
Speaker
All you could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so all I could do was push the button and jiggle it, so
00:15:00
Speaker
And then it went into the overhead compartment with the handle extended. That's true. That they were nice enough to let it. And then she called me on it. Yeah. And I was like, I'm sorry. She's like, it's totally fine. And I was like, I didn't think it was. She made a joke about it and you got very scared. You got busted twice because I can't remember. Was it on the way back? I forgot my tablet in the front of my thing. And she was like.
00:15:26
Speaker
making fun of me. She said, yeah, the TSA lady was like, can you come back tomorrow? It's like, no. She's like, messing with you. Didn't like it. It wasn't a fan. So what else happened on the way down? I feel like it was fairly uneventful. And then we bucked on the way there.
00:15:49
Speaker
When we landed, we picked up the rental car, which is on the live episode. If you want to hear the story about our awesome rental car guy, it's coming up when the live portion plays. Then we got lost leaving the airport because when you rent your rental car, you are in the bottom of a giant concrete bunker where your phone has no
00:16:11
Speaker
No reception, especially when you just came from Canada and it's trying to figure out the warming and all that kind of stuff. And so we had our phone connected to the CarPlay thing in the car. I say, like, let's keep it to interesting parts. Oh, no, no, this is a good story. I like it. So we had it connected, but it hadn't kicked into the data yet. So I had a 50 50 choice of going left or right. Oh, the Google and I chose to go right.
00:16:38
Speaker
And it was incorrect. Yeah. And we ended up driving around. You drove back into the airport. I had. Yeah, I had to drive back into the airport and we probably wasted 30 to 45 minutes. We all kept a good attitude. Almost standstill traffic in the Houston airport. It was not that fun. But then once we got on the road and it was it was good. Yeah. And we started we were listening to the SBI playlist, SBI Fest playlist. We were heading towards Bucky's.
00:17:09
Speaker
Life was good. And so we stopped out of Bucky's about halfway through. And Selena and Joey, as you can see, bought the place out. I've gone buck, you guys. So I joined our Patreon to see me. I don't have as much, like I enjoyed Bucky's, but Joey had a life affirming experience there. Snack heaven.
00:17:32
Speaker
Snack heaven. I just I wish I could have had so much weed. Let's explain Bucky's to the uninitiated. Not everybody's from Texas. What is a Bucky's? Well, I I'm not from Texas. Super infused gas station. Yeah, it's it's like a gas station convenience store. But like goods and apparel and merch if it was Costco on brand of things and it has like a meat brisket on the board brisket on the board. Yeah, they make like sandwiches and brisket and they have nuts, beaver nuggets.
00:18:02
Speaker
Oh, they have so many different kinds of roasted ones. Their own branded snacks and like fudge. They have about 8,000 different kinds of sodas. Slushies. Pops. Sodas. Which I thought was hilarious. I walked in there, I was like, well,
00:18:14
Speaker
I think I want a medium so I was going to go to grab a medium and I was like, what are the prices on these things? And the medium was 79 cents and the super ginormous jumbo was like 89 cents. And I was like, well, super ginormous jumbo it is. So like the thing I guess is like that we didn't anticipate as much was that
00:18:35
Speaker
the stuff in Texas is pretty cheap. Even though the exchange rate kind of hit us a little bit hard, the stuff there, it was pretty cheap. We're 75 cents on the dollar at this point. That's bad. But even then, considering exchange rates, everything up here is a lot more expensive. The cost of living in Canada is a lot more expensive than in the US. For sure. I mean, everything's taxed more. You guys know.
00:19:03
Speaker
Uh, we spent a lot of money. I can't remember what I got. I got some nuts. Um, I got a, I did get a Sammy. Yeah. I got a pulled pork sandwich. It was great. Yeah. I had a melt of some kind. It was good. Cause we weren't going to get dinner. Cause it was like eight or something. It was later than that. I think it was maybe nine or 10. Cause I don't think we hit the Airbnb until like 10.
00:19:22
Speaker
Yeah, it was pretty late. And so we're in South Austin when we rolled in. It was kind of cool. Like the Airbnb we had was just like a bungalow, like straight up. Very chill. Super chill. Nothing to it. A little backyard. We just couldn't be like make noise after 11 outside or something. I don't know, whatever. Whatever. We were barely there. We were only there. Yeah, we weren't there. We were only there to like sleep. Otherwise we were like spending our days partying. It worked for what we needed it to be. Oh, 100%. I wouldn't necessarily go to that exact.
00:19:48
Speaker
Airbnb again. They had a little driveway for us to park our rental. We got no issues. The hosts were nice enough. Everything was good. It was solid. Then the next day was the first day of the fest. It was Friday. We got up and we went to, well, no, that would have been Magnolia Cafe. Oh, Magnolia Cafe. Right. Which is like, was like, it was rated. I think it's like a little hipster joint. I mean, people from Austin will probably tell me like,
00:20:13
Speaker
That's just like an overrated place or whatever. I thought it was great. It was cute. It had a huge line. It was one of those places where you had to get checked in and then texted. It had a big line, but it was like maybe 15 minute wait before we got in there. That was the cute bird. That's when we got the shirts. There were some fun birds. That's when you guys went to go get the shirts. Me and Rob were a cafe in. Yeah. Then we went in there and we had
00:20:36
Speaker
Queso, probably. I had Queso almost every day. My tummy was sketch the first day. Mine was full time. Mine was early on. The first couple of days, my tummy was just like, I just didn't really have an appetite. I'm nervous and just couldn't really eat. I'm going to set the table for something very important. Joey has an absolutely awesome story towards the end of the episode. It's worth hanging in. It's worth staying for this two hour plus episode you're going to be listening to.
00:21:02
Speaker
um but uh joey's like i have to tell the story i guess it's like uh yeah you do um yeah of course you do yeah um but it was good listen we had three taco type dishes the whole time we're there they're all good i did not have tummy troubles i have accorded you did not i had no i have severe guts
00:21:26
Speaker
And I never do, I have had multiple trips recently where I've eaten stuff and had a bad time. If I go to Mexico, usually I have one day where I am just wiped out for a day.
00:21:36
Speaker
I ended up finding my groove, but I just can't have, unfortunately, Mexican food. Once I went full meat Texas and junk food Texas, then I was laughing. Because you have a corn intolerant. That's the thing I guess, right? Yeah, it's not that I wish I would rather be a cooler person and eat legit Mexican food. I successfully avoided, but it was smart. I successfully avoided, that's what you got to do because I avoided shellfish. You have to know your, you just got to know your belly.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yeah. And what you can handle and what you can handle. And I just need to stick to it. I think we're all pretty like. I had those flautas at the end and that was legit. Oh, yeah. You stuck one in your pocket. Yeah, I had a pocket flauta. We had a I think we're all pretty nervous because like we were going to be opening the show. I don't know. Meeting all our friends for the first time. Joey is the only person who's had like a ton of like stage experience. Yeah. Hey, I was a dancer. And you've and you've carried out quite a lot. And I've carried out quite a lot.
00:22:34
Speaker
That's fair. It does help. I've gone up into front of a room and made an asshole of myself more times than I can get. I do a lot of publics. And with a microphone. In my job, I do a lot of public speaking. I don't know why, but this time I was... And public speaking doesn't faze me usually. This time I was a little bit more nervous, I'd say. Because it was my friends, actually. That made me more nervous, actually. If it was a bunch of strangers, I think I'd be less nervous because I'm like, whatever. There's a bunch of nobodies that I don't know. But in this case, it was like, oh my God, it's a bunch of people I know and respect and like.
00:23:00
Speaker
I don't want them to respect it like me. Yeah, and they paid money to see me and that's very strange. Oh, that's like an easy thing to just defer though. They paid money to go see all the other bands. They didn't pay to see us. They were just there for us. It's true. It's true. Of their $30, $40 tickets, a dollar was for Checkered Pass. That's on the high side.
00:23:20
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. So I guess that gets us down to the show. And this is where I'll throw it to Joey for this part. Because getting there, oh, maybe we should tell the story about getting there. Yeah, like when we saw. We took an Uber. We took an Uber. Yeah.
00:23:36
Speaker
Took a long time to get downtown because we were there the week right before South by Southwest and everything starts ramping up. South by Southwest was happening, but it was the industry night. It was not music. Swarm. Swarm. Swarm. Big promo for the swarm. And little things where you can just be an Amazon selfie person. Yeah. Anyways, so it was very busy downtown. We took an Uber downtown. Remember that guy painted blue that just looked at us. Oh, we'll get there. One second. We got to talk about the trip.
00:24:04
Speaker
So we're in the Uber, uh, roll into the show and we're just crossing the bridge into downtown. So we're maybe four or five blocks away from the venue, but it's more and more, uh, packed and busy as we're going. And we pull up next to a vehicle that's, uh, an SUV and it's got a Hans Gruber in the diehard sticker on it.
00:24:22
Speaker
It says, it says Jake Peralta loves him. And we were like, Oh, that's funny. That person is, uh, maybe they're going to the show or whatever. And then I believe Arianne was like, I bet it's them. And we rolled a little bit further ahead and there's Kurt's hair just blowing in the wind and the vehicle. So they were right there. Uh, and then we got two blocks closer, maybe or so.
00:24:46
Speaker
Traffic got really, really tight and we just had this box with merch in it. We were like, you know what? We can walk a block way easier than waiting to get there. So we hopped out of the car, told the guy, thank you. We get to like the corner of the street where we hopped out on and all of a sudden the SBI crew is there.
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, it was Christine, the SPI intern. Cool Chris. Cool Chris and... I forgot that about them. ...and Michi. Yeah, Michi. Yeah. Yeah. And Diglow was there. Was Diglow there too? Okay. I remember, yeah. Yeah, because they were all traveling together. Because they all were traveling together, yeah. Yeah, so we all hugged on the corner. Yeah. And that was super fun. Then we all went to the venue.
00:25:26
Speaker
Friendship. Long lasting friendship was made. And at the venue we were told to drink Lone Star, which is their version of PBR in Texas. I didn't do that once. I did it multiple times. I had a couple of them. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah. I had a couple of them, yeah.
00:25:51
Speaker
The Flamingo Cantina, which was a reggae bar kind of in like central Austin. Yeah, it looks like a lot of big venue, like a lot of big acts come through that venue. It's on a strip in Austin that was just all basically like venue bars. Right next to the Casino Camino, El Casino Camino with the lip punk rock bar with the best bergs. Oh yeah, well was that the second night? Was the bergs? Yeah, I think that was second day. People were bergs too. Yeah.
00:26:18
Speaker
and uh so then what then then let's hear about the audio uh drama so you're going on to know this uh going into the live audio you are gonna want to be prepared uh so when we got there the uh before all of this went down we had sent like a stage plot and everything uh to cool chris because he
00:26:42
Speaker
you know, was kind of organizing it, but he's not the sound guy and he doesn't work for the venue, right? So he just sort of passed the information to where it needed to go. We got there kind of expecting for them to know a little bit of what was up, having sent this information, but we got there and the sound guy who was there was A, not their regular sound guy. And B, I don't know if he was a sound guy and C,
00:27:07
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he didn't know what he was doing. So he showed up and he was sweating bullets and he couldn't get their subwoofers to work and obsessed with getting the subwoofers. I mean it's a reggae club so I guess that makes sense but like he like wouldn't even consider getting us figured out to start the show. We didn't need subwoofers.
00:27:27
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You don't need subwoofers for a bunch of people talking. I heard a busy voice though. Yeah, it's true. So he did that for a while. Finally, he set up some mics for us and I explained to him what we needed to record the podcast because we had been told that that would not be a problem at this venue and yada, yada, yada. So he gave us a cord out of the wall and I plugged it into
00:27:52
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the, our recording stuff. Uh, and we checked the mic and everything seemed okay. We had already checked all of the mics to make sure they sounded okay on stage and everything sounded okay. And I told them just whatever you're sending to the speakers in the room, send that to the recorder thing. We'll be good to go.
00:28:11
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So after we got home and we put the thing onto our computer and started listening to it, that is not what he did. Either that or he did not do any kind of mixing on stage because the Rob's mic is the only mic that is picking up properly. Oh, sorry. And Mike.
00:28:30
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Yeah, another only two of the six mics two of the six mics on stage were picking up properly. And one of them was from a person who spoke for like 25 seconds of the bonus group. Yeah, the bonus group. But on the stage. Yeah. So I had to go in and.
00:28:47
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Slice up this one piece of audio for anyone who's ever done audio editing And change all of the volumes of everyone's because everyone was so quiet and low so I had to bring them up so there's a lot of background noise and When I had to bring that volume up, so it's a little bit wild to listen to audio wise But you get the idea
00:29:08
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So I think that's a good segue. So get ready. We're gonna play the 35-minute set we did at SPI Fest. Again, the audio is wacky as hell. The best you can do, first live show. Again, the audio in was a great learning experience. We will do it a little bit different. The next time we do live one, it'll be a lot better.
00:29:27
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But you can listen to it, maybe turn your audio down a little bit lower than you usually do it because the audio spikes when it's not Rob speaking, basically. But you can understand what's happening, especially when there's runs of people talking. It's better than when there's crosstalk. So enjoy.
00:29:45
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I hope you like the show. Do your best to enjoy. And we'll see you on the other side of this one. When Joey was editing it, I was like, I hate what's happening. I was like, are you okay? I was like, several times I thought you were crying out for help. But it was just me listening to the same two second clip of myself going for something over and over.
00:30:08
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Like me just like laughing one time for like Anyway enjoy On this episode we flew from Edmonton to Austin boy are our arms tired
00:30:30
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What a good joke. We drive everywhere with a vengeance as we say no, no to the Brontos and yes, yes to the Gruberites. All this on Checkered Past the SCODcast, live from SPI Fest.
00:31:03
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That's the best part of the show. What up, Checkerheads? Welcome to Checker Past the Skycast with Celine and Rob. The show where an everything's rooter in Texas and a ska-punk international or criminal. There we go. Good joke, Rob. Explore the history and influence 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-host, the mouth from the north, Celine.
00:31:50
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What up? He's sitting over there, but why not he get him on stage? The DA of Ska, Joey. Hey, it's me, Joey. Hi, hi, everyone. Hi, we're all here. We drove, we didn't drive, we drove, sort of.
00:32:17
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We came in from Edmonton, Alberta. Hey, has anybody listened to the show before? Do we have, like, people? Okay. Hey, thank you so much. So sorry for your loss. What a waste of time, honestly. Yeah, it's two hours. Jesus Christ. But thank you. But thank you. So let's talk about the journey we had. Oh. From our, what do we, five... It's a small town before. Wait, that's not journey.
00:32:41
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Yeah that's Journey. Now we get corrected in real time. So we were commenting how this is exactly like Alberta. Like exactly. Almost down to the details. The only difference is that there are unbroken cities between your cities. Like you just don't have places with no building.
00:33:05
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Do you know what I mean? That's very strange. You don't have land. Yeah, I thought this was like big open, but it's just like a building, another building, and then more buildings. Also, we drove past an area that had some trees last night. Yeah, we were shot. Yeah. There was trees here. Crazy. Yeah, right? What's a tree? Yeah, what's a tree? Lots of buccies. We went to a book. Bucky, Bucky, let's get a big one off of Bucky. Joey, talk about buccies. Goddamn. Okay, so that place has every snack, and I was just...
00:33:35
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like amazed by it but also sad that I was just sad that I didn't have any weed to be honest because I would have eaten all the stuff there but their merch is unbelievably cheap and you can look unbelievably cool wearing a beaver on yourself
00:33:52
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But that's very Canadian. That's very Canadian. Yeah. So you're like Canadians. Like basically you got a beaver on your gas stations. We're good. Same thing. Practically Timmy's Timmy's is bad. Tommy to hurt for Timmy's Timmy's is like the Dunkin Donuts to you. There was a moment where like Dunkin Donuts was like, you're like, yeah, this is so good and so nice. My leather breakfast sandwiches.
00:34:17
Speaker
And then late stage capitalism took over and things got bad. Right? McDonald's makes better coffee than Tim Hortons. Period. It's true. I'm sorry. What do you give a shit? That is a very strange hill to die on. What else happened, Ashley? No, what about the car rental guy? Let's talk about car rental guy. Car rental guy?
00:34:45
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So this is a very, like, lovely city. Like, everybody's super nice, but we are also, we touched down in Houston, because coming from Edmonton to Austin is impossible. We found out in May, there'll be direct flights, but, you know, that's two months from now's problem. And, uh, but when we rented our car in Austin, there was the most tragic but kind human being I've ever met in my life. Yeah. He, he multiple times told us he has a DNR. I didn't know that that was an important detail to let us know.
00:35:15
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He told us he told his family to not resuscitate him and to respect his DNR He also he also looked down the barrel of like 20 people in line to get a rental car and said No, I'm leaving cuz my shift is over and he just stood up after us and fucked off
00:35:40
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A hero. A hero. You have a hero in your midst. Should we introduce our guest? Yeah, we got guests. Where'd Joey go? Oh, he's got to put a song on. He's got to engineer shit.
00:36:06
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We are delighted to introduce our guests. They were the number one episode of 2022 for Checkered Past the Scodcast, voted on by listeners, so we kind of know what that is. They're playing live tomorrow. Hey, I'm reading a thing. And are playing live tomorrow as part of the festival. Chris, Kurt and Rosie are here. Hans Gruber and the Diehards.
00:36:43
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We only got three mike we had an extra bonus member bonus member bonus member This is wonderful I love your back to the audience mood
00:37:01
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When two groups become one. I knew that was coming. It's perfect timing, too. All right. I never need a rosy ball. I love you all, but this is a theater thing. You can't tell. I know. Yeah, it's fake. You got a fake audience. Also, this is an Instagram thing. Make sure your good side is out there. I don't have a good side.
00:37:33
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I'm just very confused seeing Kurt on stage with clothes on. I'm confused to see Joey on stage with clothes on.
00:37:47
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Everyone's confused to see me on stage. Nobody's seen it. Hey, you're the most comfortable one. We figured Kurt would be comfortable because he would just be like in boxer briefs, but he's wearing clothes. He's got to be like 80% comfortable. I'm not performing right now. I have performance clothes and I have
00:38:13
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My day-to-day clothes
00:38:15
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What is this? Not a performance? No. No, this is an interview. Oh, shit. We do interviews? I know this is a Gruber interview because everyone's got beer. So that definitely was exactly what happened last time. What the fuck, Chris? No. The last time we did the interview, we were 10th. Yeah. You guys were there for like 15 minutes. There was no time to think. There was no time to think, and it was the Gruber's. I've since gone silver, so this is going to be weird about this. No, congratulations.
00:38:53
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We're usually not that drunk when we do the podcast we say dumb things all the time so I Don't want to make your interview for you. Yeah, you're called a checkered past. Yeah, we should talk about
00:39:06
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Chris's ska band when he was a kid. It was Obie Ska Kenobi. Excuse, excuse you? That's a checkered cast. Yeah, let's, let's, that's a Taj Motel trio song, so it's the wrong thing, so. Deep cut, Rob. Okay, go ahead. Let's play an Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ska Kenobi. Obi, Obi Ska Kenobi. There were so many ways to do the pun, and you'd pick the right one.
00:39:38
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So many people came to their defense. He does not like hugs from Grogu. They are like, oh, I'm working. I'm too busy. I'm being a droid mechanic.
00:39:53
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She has not watched the episode. I actually haven't watched it. I just really like Badger Frickin'. He's really cute. Let's hear it. This is your moment. What's the question? You just said a... Oh yeah, Kurt, you're the answer to the question. I have no fucking question. You heard a band called... No, we haven't. What's he playing? What did you do? I played rhythm guitar. What do you do now? A drum. Oh, maybe a drum. Ben, do you guys sell me a drum? You made me a drum.
00:40:19
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Oh no, drums. Hey, you guys, this is our interview. Yeah, that's fine. You're sure? Yeah, you're facing the wrong way. What song called Mad Cow Disease in England? Mad Cow Disease in England? Yeah. Now what does that have to do with Star Wars?
00:40:34
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Also, why just specifically England? That's where it started. Wait, wait. That's a good segue. Because what I want to talk about are the songs that you wrote. Yeah, that actually went into. So if anybody heard our episode, you got to hear what No No Brother was all about. You got to hear what No Outside Tanks is all about. So what about some of your other songs? Let's hear some behind the scenes stories about songs that were written.
00:41:03
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all about you can pick and i also told you that's what we're going to talk about so you should be prepared okay you got you have booed just for the record that's a first for the pod that's not a first for the pod okay i need to be in the same room
00:41:29
Speaker
Let's hear about it. It is. Explain. Explain your theory. Is it on top of four elephants on top of a turtle? North up. Yeah. If the earth is flat, no magnetic field, right?
00:41:49
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Correct. Science is hard. I just write the songs. How do you play a theremin if there's no magnetic field? Because doesn't the theremin require a magnetic field? You just disproved flat earth theory. Straight up. Science, baby. Flat Earthers got mad about that song occasionally. One dude in Fort Collins was in Fort Collins? No, he was in Flat Earther. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Sorry. Flat Earther was in Green Bay.
00:42:22
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All right, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. That sounds good. Well, if you guys don't get it, we're goofy. How do you not get that song? This guy was like so incensed by it. He was like, I want to watch the stage after beginning to get in to fight in the band. And then decided to shrug it off and run out the band. And here's why he wanted to fight us. Yeah. It was not because he thought we were making fun of people who thought the earth was flat.
00:42:43
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No, no, no, no. The guy that rushed to stage him on the punch up corner was like this.
00:42:49
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is because he thought we were saying, beard and slat. And he was so mad at us, he was ready to beat the shit out of our whole- And then he realized it was fucking cheek? Which also, to be fair, a lot of people wanted to beat the shit out of our whole singer. But that's a different story. And guess who's behind the stage? We brought out a-
00:43:14
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And also, if you guys don't know, in Den, Texas, there's the flat earth house. We went to this house. If you guys let it rich... Yeah, we left Mercer. It's great. Is it a flat house? What is it? I forgot that we love Mercer, but I did tell a lot of people who were playing Den last night, like, are you going to the flat earth house? This is really weird. Everybody's like, the what?
00:44:06
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Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard.
00:44:08
Speaker
Hold on a second. I've been in Texas for like a fucking day and I see a lot of old chair sitting in gardens How is that different from all of the other old chairs sitting in the garden? This one has like a lot of
00:44:21
Speaker
Oh! This is not like flowers and shit. This is just chairs. Sweet.
00:44:36
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Which reminds me, when you're talking about bullshit on tour, now we see a lot of cool things when we're on the road. One of the coolest things is in Asheville, North Carolina. There is these people who repair wicker chairs. Yes, I'm aware. Incredible. This is no joke and this is going to sound like I'm being facetious and I'm not.
00:45:09
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I have a very important question. What would it cost to get my wicker chair repaired?
00:45:26
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I gotta have no idea. Probably more than a wicker chair. We didn't ask them though. Solar River Chairs is the name, and I know we... Good plug. ...in the month, when we were booking our next tour, like, yo, where should we play Nashville? We got the hookup, and they were very helpful, and they're coming to the show! We got a cooler! Yeah! Wicker chairs. I love those wicker thrones. They're called something. You know the wicker throne with a little seat and it's very 70s? You know what I'm talking about.
00:45:54
Speaker
There's a name for it. I don't know the name. Whicker Throne. Whicker Throne. Whicker Throne. I heard someone say the word. Rattan. Rattan. Rattan. Rattan. I believe that's the like weaving technique. You've played enough Animal Crossing with each other. I know, Rattan. The furniture was my jam in Animal Crossing during the pandemic. 350 hours is in. It was really dark. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know. You don't know.
00:46:21
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Good take away Rosie
00:46:36
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So, you know, I wrote a credit card or a product for Satan. Yeah, you can buy a chair with a credit card. When I pull out all the credit cards, they have to repair my chair. Yeah. I mean, it's right. It's a lie. I did not. You know, we could probably go through the whole set list or the whole like album titles and just be like, this song is about a chair because of this. This song is about a...
00:47:04
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this song is about this time i beat this guy to death with a chair and there was blood all over the walls because i beat his ass to death with a chair this is a song about my car's chair and driving everywhere what song is it about chairs that's that's a better question it's a terrible question
00:47:28
Speaker
We don't even have that story. Yeah, be there. Praise to the algorithms. No, I'm not sure. Good segue. So we were driving on the road, and someone had made a comment about
00:47:46
Speaker
give them praise to the algorithm so that we can get through the problem. Pay attention to our motherfucking shit. I think it was Rosie. On the road, you're trying to post shit. You're trying to be like, who do I know in this video? I want to invite all the people in and listen to our families. Never be from college, please.
00:48:07
Speaker
We're just like trying anyone and everything to just try to get people to our shows, right? And I just remember like this moment where it was like, it doesn't matter what we do. It feels like sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And I don't understand it. And I made a joke about, I think, praying to the algorithm. I don't want you to pray when you pray to the algorithm. Do you know what? You just need to like pray to Al Gore's rhythm. So that's what we've been at. You got what is Al Gore's?
00:48:35
Speaker
The progression of this went to death. Of course. And I feel like I'm more like he's done. It's my alignment crisis. And if you listen really close you can hear Al Gore.
00:48:50
Speaker
Yes, that was on purpose. That's beautiful. That's a good friend of ours in Vegas started a new band called Alabor's Real. It was just, yeah, it was just hanging up. Did they play Scott? No. Disappointing. No, I'm not interested. Appointing. Do we want to play a game? Rock? Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, boy. Everyone's thirsty to get in. Everyone's thirsty for the time, Scoshine, but it's not happening.
00:49:20
Speaker
favorite kind of games this is a game called wait I didn't give it a name I should have though
00:49:28
Speaker
I think I called it all my ex-drummers live in Texas. But the way this game works, everyone on stage will be given a clue about a punk or metal band from Texas, and they will try to ascertain who it is. There are three clues per round that get progressively easier. Most point wins. Bonus for the live shows. You can ask the audience one time. Each. Wow, it's just like who wants to be a millionaire. I'll just come.
00:49:58
Speaker
buzz in and say, buzz in and say, ask the audience to pull the crowd for an answer if you want, otherwise just say buzz or Scott or your name or whatever. You can only do it one time, yes. You can't do that thing that you normally do where you're like, ah, it's this thing, oh, no, wait, hold on, I got a chat. Hey, hey, hey, we got a game to play.
00:50:24
Speaker
Are we all ready? Clear on the rules, yeah. Kurt is making direct eye contact with me like he needs to see the words come out of my mouth. He's gotta play the game, Rosie and Kurt gotta play the game. Alright, let's do this. I am the game and you know how I play it? This band aren't quite scoundrels, but they are filthy and moldy. The sword is scoundrels? Scoundrels? Fuck. I can't speak. The sword is scoundrels. You said scoundrels. Fuck. I don't know what you're saying.
00:50:54
Speaker
There's incorrect whatever it is you said. I said this band aren't quite- Well, Texas. Yeah. National level. I don't know your local bands. I see. Internet band stuff. Something I could Google. Okay, this band aren't quite scoundrels, but they are filthy and moldy. So when? Yes. Filthy militia? Nope.
00:51:22
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That's from England. I don't know, it's the only band in England. Dirty Rod and emphasis? Dirty Rod? Are you going to buzz in? Buzz? Yeah. D.R.F. Correct. D.R.F. That's a team point. That's a team point. Are you guys going to go as a team? That's a way to do it. I think that's what you did last time, actually. We're team. Oh, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. This is really fun. It's groups, four-headed Hydra versus a two-headed one.
00:51:56
Speaker
The other thing I said with this was if all your friends use the word thrash describe punk metal hybrids They have this band to thank and then I said cross over and thrash hard you imbecile. All right Next one number two gets it gets harder. It gets harder as you go Sabbath bands come for this doom band for their riffs and sci-fi wizardry. Oh, I know this one Joey's buzz Yeah, that's the fucking soul. That's the fucking sword. Yeah
00:52:21
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Hell yeah, Austin representing. I wrote, they are named after the thing that goes in your sheath. Is that what you call it? This metal outfit, at this point, is more shirt than band. More shirt than band? More shirt than band, Celine. Yes. Wait, I have no idea. You just did that thing! It's any band, not Scott. Punkin' Metal, Punkin' Metal. I just said Cradle of Film, I don't know. They're from England. You're over my fucking Austin. Go to Texas.
00:52:51
Speaker
But they're also not... Yeah, that is correct! So in common sense, kid is not up here. Yeah. We're not doing stuff about England. Oh, the accent came out. We're canceled. All right. Their singer Phil gave a Nazi salute enchanted white power like a real cowboy from hell. Yeah.
00:53:24
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This one might be for usulin early 2000s new metal band whose career was derailed early by the death of their singer from heart disease Is it snot no he got hit by a car accident It's true
00:53:45
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I said, early Otz new metal band whose career was derailed early by the death of their single, singer from heart disease, yeah. At the time, at the time. Okay. Next, next, next clue. Their hit single was used to torture victims in Guantanamo. Probably not the legacy they wanted to go for. Didn't say it was fun.
00:54:34
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number five extraordinarily harmless pop punk band that is prolific as they are ever present
00:54:40
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Is it a bowling for soup? It is bowling for soup, that is correct. I did write, Jarrett Reddick is currently Chuck E. Cheese. That's a real hanger where we don't deserve.
00:54:55
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I liked it. I liked it. I was okay. All right. I got that reference. I get that reference, yes. I get that reference. That's what people, when they're listening to this podcast, are probably doing. I get that reference. I'm trying to go. Being angry about our stupid brackets? Number six. Drive-thru mainstay that got in early on hybrid of emo and skate punk. Buzz. Yeah. I just drive it. Incorrect. I don't know. What do I mean?
00:55:25
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Had to change their name due to the death of a celebrity they named after them. It's PhoenixDX. It is PhoenixDX. And also I fucking love that band. I put these gangster bitches on heroin broke up in 2002.
00:55:38
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These gangster bitches on heroin was the name of a Phoenix TX album, just for the record, yeah. We got two more. Number seven.
00:55:57
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Hey, we got there. There's somebody who's got like a bingo sheet and they're like X-ing stuff off. They're like, fuck yeah. Not a team play? Cake played. Insanely influential post-hardcore band that by this point would likely guess it. At the drive-in. Yeah, that's at the drive-in. It's fine. You got it. You got it. You got it. I said probably know them quite well from their other bands, Mars Volta, Sparta, and Pedro O'Rourke's presidential campaign.
00:56:27
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That was pandering, wasn't it? All right. Number eight, last one. You guys are one, by the way. It better be the impossible. Your dad will probably tell you this band was the original punk rock of Texas. Buzz Joey's ZZ fucking Tom. ZZ Tom. So fucking stupid. Whatever, the big boys. Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:53
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Big boys, that's what your dad told you
00:57:00
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Okay. Hands Gruber won! Is that what your dad told you? Ouch! It's true. It's true. Honestly, Mr. Van Van... What's his first name? Yeah, it's... Towns Van Van. I get that reference.
00:57:33
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And we have time to do a thing I was really excited to do because I may have I may have had to cut this but Question the answers. Yeah. Do you want to do it live? Okay, yeah, we got 10 minutes I got a thumbs up from somebody who's that guy? No, don't listen to that guy who's a
00:57:54
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Who has a question for the grooves? Anybody feeling up to coming up? Remember, we take stupid questions. Only dumb questions. Oh, we got somebody. Where is he? Where's the bassist? What a great question. That's awesome. Clap and a part of me wants to boo.
00:58:22
Speaker
Also, I feel a little seen. Anybody else have another question? What is your favorite cheese? I know you guys are big into- Nominal question. You love dairy. Great question, sir. Yep. Good call. I'm a big fan of Havarti.
00:58:58
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Do you need a stool to sit down for your treatise on cheese?
00:59:05
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Scrooper, we like our dairy. There's a lot of anchovies. Yeah, it shows. And so, while it may sound cliche, a nice, really sharp cheddar is up to us. Fuck yes. And the situation where sometimes I like a nice gorgonzola with the situation and having a good salad, or depending on what I'm making, I don't know what that is. We can't forget that we're sponsored by The Rod.
00:59:32
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Barata? Yeah, a hundred percent. Gotta make that cheddar from the burrata, you know? I feel like mozzarella is the right answer because I've seen you in the videos with the mozzarella. That's a Di Stefano cheese out of California.
00:59:59
Speaker
So anyways, all I'm trying to say is a card question and answer. And lots of sticks is the correct answer. What about cheese curds? Have you had cheese curds? Oh yeah.
01:00:17
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01:00:56
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And that was one of the top moments in our life. Especially from ATV, it's like delicious. It's very simple, but it's kind of salty. And if you just like fry it, it's so good. Like it just like caramelizes it and brings up the flavor. If you just fry it, it's so good. We're touring if you want to, you know, feed us or treat us. Fry us cheese. We'll play a show for cheese. You're here to hear first.
01:01:07
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Oh those Mexican Mennonites.
01:01:26
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How about another one? Yeah, let's hear it. Really good question. What a great question. Is Bigfoot real? Oh. Excellent, excellent question. Yeah. There are squatters. I don't know if anybody's still here is what you're talking about. The complications of Bigfoot. Give us the Squatch truth. I think you need a meat. Squatch watch. On the, you know. We're Squatch for? Yeah, Squatch for. We are Squatch for. The answer is yes.
01:02:06
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Well, Sasquatch is from British Columbia. It's a fact, yeah.
01:02:12
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I grew up near the Navajo reservation and all the Navajo's are just like, oh yeah. It's a few indigenous, yeah, they have their own bird for like, whatever. And each different tribe has like their own word for it as well. Yeah. And if you're ever in Santa Cruz, there is the Bigfoot Discovery Museum of the five. Yeah. It's one of those, this is gonna sound, I'm really serious here. Good. Thank you.
01:02:39
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that's why we're here the amount of times I've actually heard stories from people telling their Sasquatch stories because
01:02:51
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I fucking hear a lot of them because I talk to a lot of weird ass people. You get out of here. You get to the point where it goes from this could never exist to
01:03:10
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The stories are too numerable, incredible, based on who they're telling. And that's when you go to the point, you're saying, you know what? Sasquatch exists. I'm not going to say it's a flesh and blood creature. I'm not going to say it's fucking an interdimensional, whatever fucking shit. If a narwhal exists, how crazy and poor is it to be a Sasquatch? Yeah! And so that's the whole thing. And that's why, of the opinion, the Sasquatch does exist.
01:03:41
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But we can't explain it. They're slinky. They're slinky. They're either slinky or they're fucking in another fucking dimension. We don't understand. Another dimension? I got a follow up question. I got a follow up question for that. What size shoes does he wear?
01:03:57
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She think well, there's a lot of different watches so it's very offensive Oh Multiple two sizes. Yeah. Well, there's juvenile there's juvenile The Sasquatch community is not a monolith Sorry, you assume that there is
01:04:16
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One. Yeah, cruisin' around. Cruisin' around. Oh, Kurt's incensed. Incensed. And also, the Yeti is that not but a winter Sasquatch. The mountain Sasquatch. Yeah, we got it. That's what we got. You were saying there's one foot size to go down all the Sasquatches. How offensive. I've seen them, but no, they're there. I'm sorry. The foot size is big. I'm a fucking idiot.
01:04:55
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One more let's do one more question and then yeah, we'll see what goes on are we all gonna die?
01:05:02
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like in this venue, like that's very local. Yes. Yeah. At least it wasn't like this time. So anyways, the answer is yes, but face just like Mike's just hard hit my face. We're all gonna die. Last tour, we got three black eyes. Three black eyes on one tour.
01:05:29
Speaker
I mean, it depends how you look at it. You know. This is true. You know. You know. You already know. You already know. Awesome. Thanks so much to the Groobers, yeah?
01:05:45
Speaker
Plus, Corrado's are out tonight. Hans Grimm and the Diehards tomorrow. Check your pass.ca for this podcast if you want to listen to us. We have a shirt that we made just for this tour. Yeah, we're going to sell them out here and then whatever. We don't do live shows. This is our very first one, so we really appreciate everybody coming down. Thank you so much. You're watching history.
01:06:10
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Shop today and get the best deal ever get it for your scurvy juice Lisa fucking Frank Welcome back to checkered past the skydcast Slinn Joey and Rob are all here and we're reminiscing on SPI fest 2023 You just heard us do our live episode. We didn't listen to it Just because we're recording this on a different but you listen
01:09:15
Speaker
So I want to talk about the bands that came right after us. So I don't know if you remember the bands that all played, but after us was supposed to be Madeline. They couldn't make it. The Skodjaks were up next. That was one of Skodad's bands. Yeah. Yeah. They were fun. Yeah. That I can't think of the title of that. Their song that they put out right along right around the SBI Fest time. But dang, it went off like
01:09:42
Speaker
Was so awesome live. Yeah, they were they put on great show tight so tight and then take today was after so Yeah, today was fun. There were homies there. Their merch booth was right next to ours. Yeah, they were super nice One of the the merch drama we had was so okay We we kind of fucked up but also I didn't know if we could have figured out how this was gonna work, right? But um
01:10:05
Speaker
Basically, we didn't bring a point of sale device or a way for people to give us money. We didn't know. Usually, so in Canada, everything's contactless. We use our contact free debit cards and visas or whatever because our debits are all owned by the same company, Interac. So usually when we go to the US, everything's cash because there's no way to take our money. And before the pandemic, the US was very cash-based.
01:10:35
Speaker
And then post pandemic, it seems like everybody turned over and everything's contactless, which is awesome. But if we're not Americans, we can't use things like Cash App Venmo Venmo. Yeah. So it wasn't until later that we realized people could we have a PayPal and people could manually input their cards into our PayPal. But we had a lot of people that we unfortunately wanted to buy shirts and we had to get them to go get cash for us. There was no functioning ATM at the venue. So
01:11:04
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Kind of sucked. But we wouldn't have known. Yeah, we figured out PayPal earlier. That would have been the way to do it. That's the way to do it. But again, we didn't know what we were learning. Yeah, it's all good. We're just always learning.
Notable Performances at the Festival
01:11:18
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Yeah. But yeah, take today's fun. They're not really a ska band, but they played a couple ska covers or ska versions of their own songs. Ska diving. Ska diving. They ska dove. They ska dove.
01:11:29
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Lost Corrado's was after fucking Lost Corrado's. That was a big highlight. So Kurt and Rosie from Hans Gruber were our members of that band. And fucking they ripped. It was unreal. Yeah. Yeah. Like Rosie even talked to us after and she is like Hans Gruber is too weird, I think, for mainstream audiences. But Lost Corrado's could be like a bigger band. I believe that.
01:11:55
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Yeah, they're fucking awesome. That was put on a great set. Yeah. And then they're like legit as hell. Oh, yeah. Like the people in the band, like obviously Kurt and Rosie, but like bad ass and then dorm masks, bad ass. Yeah. Simple mind and symphony. That was a highlight. One of my folks and we knew going in, people were like raving about their live set. Holy shit. Their horn section.
01:12:17
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Bananas. And their bass player. They're very fun looking too. Six minute songs, but just insanely talented people. Yes. Super upbeat. But people were talking about it on the second day still. I think Simple Minded Symphony was still the best band. Very posy. Yeah. So posy. And then our homies in Flying Raccoon Suit were up next. Yeah, so fun. We opened for Flying Raccoon Suit, guys. We opened for them.
01:12:43
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So they've been on our show twice. Definitely should go back and listen to MU330 part one and part two with our friends there. That was great. I took some pictures with Jess in the back where we made ourselves look really unflattering and it was fun. Joystick.
01:12:58
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Arianne loved Joystick. She liked a lot of the bands. She was having a great time, but Joystick was one of her highlights. She loved Joystick. The venue from behind the stage had a balcony that you could smoke on or whatever, but you could still see the stage from behind and above. I watched Joystick from up there most of the time, and it was a very sweet vantage point. It was a sick show.
01:13:28
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Now this next band was the toasters. I was sleepy and I've learned as an adult to like not push through because then I resent everyone and it's no one else's fault but my own. And that no one else has to leave with me. It doesn't have to be anyone else's problem but when I'm done I'm done and I gotta go. So I've learned on trips to just go when you gotta go. So I went, I went. She went. I did not see the toasters.
01:13:53
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And so, day two, we do it all over again. The show starts at three, so we don't have a whole lot of time to do anything else, so we get up and we go to, this is when we go to Torcheys. We did quite a bit, I feel like. I went to the haberdashery, because I had a sad tummy and I had to go. So Lynn found a place to, went to a hat store that also sold coffee. Keep it weird, Austin. I wanted a really good, I just wanted like an oat milk latte. Again, my tummy.
01:14:23
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And my tummy's also bougie, but it does process higher quality things easier, unfortunately. It's bougie. I know. But yeah, I went to this, like, haberdashery that was, like, definitely for, like, kind of... I could see how you could really easily get into a place of Austin by the time you leave Austin, like, as a white woman. Like, you definitely could, like, leave with, like, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat and, like,
Austin Adventures and Tex-Mex Delights
01:14:49
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But this way it was impressive. It was very good quality. Like you could like embroider things. There was like a feather and like silk section. And then there was like all the wool hats on the wall. And it was a wild looking store. It was a habit of Ashery. Joey found weed. Some of their weird fake weed. Yeah. Yeah. But that's like the CB2, not CB2. No, I'm not even going to. It'll be a long story for the plot. But basically they got weird fake weed there that's regular weed, but they add like weird. It was strong. The edibles were strong.
01:15:15
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But they're allowed to have super strong edibles. So they had strong edibles. So that made my life better in general. We were happier one day with you. Especially because my tummy, mainly because it helped my tummy out a lot, which I was not having a great time with. And we're going to keep teasing the tummy story. But we had Torcheez, which is like a chain Tex-Mex restaurant. We'll hear Scott dad explain his theory about Torcheez. I loved it. It was delicious.
01:15:44
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Just like the day before, I had delicious Tex-Mex. Yeah, and queso. And queso. I had queso again for the second day in a row, and it only made me stronger. That's what queso does to me. True that. And we walked up and down the strip a little bit, and then I think we walked all the way to the venue. We did. That is when we saw the blue guy.
01:16:06
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I honestly don't remember what happened when the whole trip like I will Tell everyone about the blue. I don't even know what to say. He was just like I don't know what he was promoting He was painted blue. No clue. I think he was promoting something but he had a sign. What did the sign say?
01:16:23
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Like a stick with a sign on the end of it, and it was a like a QR code with a blue cowboy in the middle of it And he was painted blue like Tobias Funke like he blew himself never nude shorts on to know he just had jeans he had jeans on yeah, and he had a
01:16:41
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These like aviator glasses and a fake handlebar mustache And so you didn't want to like him, but then as soon as he knew you were annoyed He would like double down and look at you and be like You have to picture dear listener as
01:17:02
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As he's saying yeah like Randy Savage he's Pressing down the fake handlebar mustache onto his face so that it doesn't fall off while he's saying yeah But then he adds that into his character, so it just becomes him going oh
01:17:21
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For like for so long we watched him for a good five minutes. I was like doubled over laughing It was the story and also was having a next-level experience. She enjoyed the shit out of that guy I didn't want to like him, but by the end And so we hit the venue
01:17:42
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We watched sweat first. Sweat first. Sweat first. I will say I was so sweaty. I wore the bathroom and like changed. I drank a lot of water. Thank God I brought a backpack and I had, I will say I kept stress trimming my bangs before the trip and they did get too short than what I wanted and then added with the humidity that night. Second night I was like micro bangs and I just really didn't want that short of bangs. So like it's not important but it was,
01:18:06
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was a negative. It was one of the biggest negatives of the trip for me was how much my bang shrunk the second night. That's fair. That's okay. So we saw Flip. That was the first band that went on. That was good. You got a nice butt.
01:18:21
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Flip was great. Flip would like run up to the, like there's a little balcony and he had his like trombone and he would just like play the trombone in the balcony and then he would like run back down. He was the best dressed trombone player there the entire weekend because he was wearing a checkered past tour t-shirt. He was. He was an early adopter. On stage. Wouldn't you want one too? Wouldn't you want one too?
01:18:44
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We'll get to that, too. How can we get you one? We're all just stroked fake viewers. You can be a part of these memories, too. You can be a part of these memories, too. Holy Shnikes was next? Holy Shnikes. Holy Shnikes. They were fun, right? Yeah. Lots of covers. So many covers. Joker's Republic blew the horse down. They blew that horse down. They blew that horse right over. That's stupid horse. They can use that as a quote. They blew stupid horse down.
01:19:12
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They also did that street light cover that people were not expecting. Mines were blown that big. People were pumped after that set. I also watched them from that balcony and it was also a very good vantage. It was good. Lost Occupados played. They were a lot of fun. Really, I love Lost Occupados. Their stuff sounds really good. I'm excited for some material from them. I think they have a full length coming up pretty soon. Stay tuned. They sound fucking awesome. I think they're going to rip.
01:19:42
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Earl from Plastic Presidents subbed in on guitar. And it was not his smoothest show, but he was a fucking trooper. A very insanely short notice. Yeah, he was like insanely short notice. He did amazing with what he was given. Fantastic. And that was the first time he had ever filled in.
01:20:01
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Oh, really? I didn't catch that part. Wow. That's what Cool Chris said. He had never filled in on his show before. Yeah, so big ups to Earl if you're listening. Speaking of which, Plastic Prez came on next. Holy shit. So you're like, oh, poor Earl. He's messing up a couple times. And then you watch Plastic Prez and he's like, fuck. So he definitely improved to everyone that he's very good at music. They crushed. Holy moly. They ripped so fucking hard.
01:20:24
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And as a recording, that album literally just came out this week. It's so good. Yeah. So listen to that as well. Classic residents. And we'll get into them, but we did do a back alley with them. Yeah. Mega friends came next. Yeah. Mega infinity.
01:20:40
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01:21:11
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We've talked to him for a lot and he's like, he comes from metal backgrounds, right? So you listen to Mega Wave Infinity. You're like, this is cool. Mega Infinity. You listen to Mega and the Infinity and you're like, this is like cool genre-less stuff. And then you watch D'Glo on stage and he's just shredding the whole time. And you're like, right, this is a shredders band.
01:21:30
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And Emily from Take Today was playing bass and her boy Flip was playing drums, I believe. Oh, yeah. What a fucking all-star. All-star version. Sad Snack. Missed a lot of Sad Snack, unfortunately, but I did catch the last half because we were doing it. You know what I caught? What?
01:21:47
Speaker
Scooby snacks yeah, I got snacks I got snacks they threw snacks in the end by then we had weed, so we wanted we were really happy yeah, former guests had snack they were in the zone post mega infinity set that's when I well this is a beachy started Russian drinks Yeah, then it's a party I think we we started getting silly get
01:22:13
Speaker
power up really, he was chilling with us for quite a bit. We love Aaron. But when them shark bites came out, Aaron started partying. Yeah. No, what changed is when Arianne went with Aaron to the vegan food truck. Oh, that's what it was. It got powered up by vegan food. That's when... With H-town, yeah. That's when the friendship really broke down. The three of them had vegan food and just like, like, bro down. That's when things really changed. And then I was just getting drunk.
01:22:39
Speaker
I was just floating around. I don't know. I was just around. I was floating too. I was just talking to people. I was grabbing randos and talking to them. It was great. Once in a while, I had to sit down because my legs were so fucking tired. But it was great. And I danced. Also, in between all of these bands, we were doing the interviews. Oh, holy shnikeys is when I had a burger. That's what it was. That's what it was. That's when we went to El Casino. So El Casino, that burger joint, tell the situation.
01:23:07
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as fuck bar, I think I've ever been to it. And I've been to some pretty punk as fuck bars, like around Canada and elsewhere.
Exploring Ska and Music Memories
01:23:16
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And yeah. We do a B plus job in Canada is what I learned at making punk as fuck bars. No, Montreal doesn't need plus, plus, plus job. I've been to punk as fuck, but I've been to DV8.
01:23:27
Speaker
original location. That's a skinhead bar. That's a pretty crusty. It was pretty skate punk when I was there. Yeah. Yeah. Every time I saw you don't be in skank there. So we got Scott sometimes. Um, anyways, I digress. So I had one of the best burgers of my life.
01:23:47
Speaker
Yeah, those burgers are amazing and like it said sorry we're stoned and oh I also had a Bloody Mary and Like 16 dwarfs and you do from spice level one to ten Oh, yeah, and I said is six because I wanted to be cool, and it was too spicy
01:24:03
Speaker
And then the next one, I still wanted to be cool and did a five, and I absolutely am a four. Did you come back with me? Is that what happened? And then you left. Oh yeah, I got more Bloody Marys with you. I did come back with you. Because then you had to wait in the fucking huge line. You get up to the front. They barely make eye contact with you to get your order. They will call your name, which sounds like the most fucked up thing. There was a smashed burger on the floor that just had napkins on top of it. People kept adding more napkins on it. They were just throwing it on the floor.
01:24:33
Speaker
Several staff members look at it, walk by it, and do nothing about it. They were busy. I don't blame them. Listen, it was awesome. Great experience. Top level experience. They were like, that's an end of the night problem. Anything that spilled is there until the end of the night or tomorrow.
01:24:48
Speaker
Loser played after sad snacks. That was fun. What a great show. That was really fun. It's just Chris on stage playing guitar. He's got a backing thing on his Apple Pie or whatever the fuck the OS is. And then he had a multimedia experience where it had videos playing. It got really trippy and crazy. Yeah, he did a fucking awesome job. It was great. What a fun set.
01:25:14
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Crushing whole rush you are anywhere near young Costello see them live Holy fucking shit when one win like the fucking heavy part of what I hope it came on Yeah, the h-town and I almost broke our own necks in the it was wild
01:25:34
Speaker
That's the third Scott Dad band that played. These Wicked Bears. Wicked Bears were next. They were fun too. So good, I love Wicked Bears. Yeah, a little out of, but like the banter on stage was really good. Yeah, I had a fun convo with the bass player whose name is escaping me right now in the back about their song about him getting hit by a truck and winning a bunch of insurance money. Oh yeah.
01:26:02
Speaker
Everything he writes about on that record is real. Let me put it that way. So give it a very honest, very straightforward music. Yeah. Um, Hans Gruber. Hell yeah. Brought the fucking house down. Another highlight. Yeah. Holy shit. And I've always wanted to see them live. So that was a huge highlight. I love Rosie and Kurt so much. It was. Everyone in there is good, but like. Fantastic. There are buds. So it was nice to see them and, um, Chris, right?
01:26:28
Speaker
Yes. Chris is the best. Yeah. Tsunami bomb, life changing, amazing, great. Selene fangirled. Yeah. I made eye contact. I was pretty drunk at that point, so I'm sure they were just like... I definitely was mixing up songs and singing different songs at different times and then being like... It didn't matter. It wasn't about it. When Agent M walked past you, we were standing together and you looked at her and then you looked at me and you were like,
01:26:54
Speaker
That's H&M. And I was like, uh, you're like, I'm kind of having a fangirl moment. I am. It was pretty cool. I never thought I would see them IRL. Like, I know they got like some new material here and there, but you know, when fucking... Some lady punk legend shit. Oh, honestly. And then like they played like the invasion within and people like lost their mind when the keyboard intro. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. I was like the biggest, I was the most excited out of everyone there to see them.
01:27:20
Speaker
I fucking lost like crazy. I had a great time. I probably went as hard when I saw them at SBI Fest as I did when I saw them at Warp Tour 20 years earlier.
01:27:32
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It was great. They did great. And they were like game to be there. Yeah, they seemed happy to be there. Oh, yeah. 100%. Stoked. And Littlest Man Band closed the whole thing off, which like mild skepticism from us going in. I planned on leaving. So Littlest Man Band was the night to have taken off early. Yeah.
01:27:52
Speaker
But Scott obviously is like a crazy showman. Showman. Showman. Like Vince Walker from Southern Legends was there. Apparently, Chris said that when he walked in, because everyone was on such a fucking like 12 that night, that when he walked in, he was like, whoa, like what am I getting? He was like kind of scared. He was scared of what was happening at SBI Fest. He was like, OK. But then he had a good time. But he was like, OK, what the fuck am I doing? Like, what's going on here? Because I think
01:28:21
Speaker
Littlest man band book it bears and loser were touring together and they like hooked up with SPI fest as part of like their tour So he would have been like I'm just part of this other festival thing that I'm doing but like salt by adjacent It's crazy anyway
01:28:36
Speaker
And I said, I'm having the time of my life. So many times. So many times. Yeah. Straight to cool Chris's face. And it's been thrown in my face. I am having the time of my life. And this? Several times. Happened like, um.
01:28:57
Speaker
like on time, like versus like the day before. It was like 1.30. And also mumbled, I would never sit down and listen to this. She did say that. When I say mumble, I mean drunkenly yelled. I would never sit down and listen to this. But I'm having the time of my life. I owe it all to you. I want a little piano.
01:29:28
Speaker
And then we got home on the most expensive Uber ride we've ever had in our lives. It was like $50. I don't remember a thing. It was stupid. It was so ridiculous. The guy played some Slim Thug, though. Oh, yeah, you had a good bonding moment with the truck. It was a real drift car. You had the same taste and rap as him, and you knew about his car. He was a cool, like for what it's worth, for the crazy amount of money we spent to Uber out of that place.
01:29:50
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He did play a little piano. He did.
01:29:57
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He was a good... He told us to eat gas station barbecue though. Yeah, we asked for recommendations. He told us to eat gas station barbecue, which is probably not wrong. Yeah, probably not wrong. But I don't have the time to find your gas station barbecue. You're Terry Black's people.
01:30:13
Speaker
That's where we went. Here we go. So here's who we interviewed. Who are you and why are you talking to me? Uh, cool Chris and I don't know. Hi, I am Chris Grau aka Loser. Joseph, from Take Today. My name is Chancellor from Plastic Presidents. What? My name is Earl from Plastic Presidents. I'm Alex from Plastic Presidents. Scott Ed. And what band would we know you from?
01:30:37
Speaker
Young Costello, The Ska Jax, Holy Shnikes. That's it for these two days. What is your goal for the amount of bands you'd like to be a part of? Maybe like between six and nine. You've got a ways to go. Six and nine. I got it. First Ska record.
01:31:02
Speaker
Oh shit. Oh, toasters, this gun for hire. Do you still listen to it? Yeah, I heard it last night. And? I heard the Eastside Beat from that record. And? You didn't play the Eastside Beat last night, they played Weekend in LA.
01:31:22
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no with the first one I ever heard no
01:31:36
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Okay, so like I think the first one that I actually like picked out for myself would have been Turn the radio off real big fish But like what would have been the first one I heard I don't know but
01:31:51
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Certainly, but yeah, I think it probably would have been turned the radio off. Would have been the first time I was like, ska, for me, thank you. And do you still listen to it? Of course! Yum, yum, more ska. Yum, yum, more ska.
01:32:07
Speaker
I want to take the cop out and say, turn a radio off, real big fish. That's a big one. But so I say that only because I think, I can't remember if I had the urge, receiving the gift of flavor before that, but something's sick. It's not ska. No, it's ska. Okay. I love the urge. I'm a big fan. Urge greater than sign 311. Do you still listen to the urge and or real big fish? The urge, yes. Real big fish, not so much.
01:32:35
Speaker
Oh, shit. Fuck! What is the first Scott record I ever owned? Strictly Rude Big D in the kids' table. Nice. Good choice. Good choice. I'm actually seeing your vocals in a super positive way. I leaned over, and I was like, it's like fucking early Big D, because that was one of my first shows, was Big D at Warpedore. I have responses. Oh, no, you're giving a heart. Early Big D. You got to listen to these guys. Right? Yeah. That's me. Shit. Like the life of the checklist. Oh, fuck.
01:33:05
Speaker
God damn it. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, look at me. What was the first comment or flavor? Yeah, dude, you've known me for, like, 15 years. Okay, but our comments and our names are like Tony Hawk, Pro Skater. Okay, okay. Oh, actually, destruction by definition. Suicide machines. That was the first one. You had time.
01:33:26
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uh one of the toaster's greatest hits i got that on fiddle and you'll all listen to these records still yeah absolutely absolutely speaking of my wife just ordered uh she was just like hey um i just ordered these records i hope that's okay and i was just like it's botar call to arms fucking 99 songs for revolution streetlights everything goes numb you're like i've never been happier than you're my wife
01:33:51
Speaker
My wife my wife. Thank you. You've been trying to sneak that one on I believe it was the suicide machines I Can't think of it what it's called right now, but not the popular one the next one battle him
01:34:09
Speaker
No. Suicide. Imagine some gasoline. Imagine some gasoline. Fucking rules. Did you still listen to it? Yes. That's my suicide machine. So good. First ska show. Mephistopheles and Bucko 9. Was it any good? Yeah, it was amazing. Yeah, of course it was. Best ska show. This one. Yeah. This is the one.
01:34:34
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Oh, that's easy. It was, uh, Suburban Legends, their first headlining show at Chain Reaction in Orange County, uh, in 2001. Oh, shit. Why did Ed and Scott quit? Um, because they were fighting, and also... No. Uh, drugs, probably? No, I don't know. She's just causing problems. For the record, that's Suburban Rhythm, not Suburban Legends, but... It's trying to be funny.
01:35:00
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you're trying so hard so when you saw them they did the dances yeah yeah we brought gummy bears and we threw them at them and the venue hated us i stayed after to help clean up the gummy bears because i actually got in free uh so i felt bad about the gummy bear situation uh but it was it was like
01:35:17
Speaker
I think it was like 20 years within like two weeks that I played my first show as loser at that same place with Vince. He came on stage with me. So it was like, it was like a full circle. I'm making hand motions, but this is a podcast. So that's a dumb instinct. They can feel it. They can feel it. Yeah. This is like an ASMR type of thing. We actually hire someone in a morph suit to like,
01:35:44
Speaker
mimic what the person likes. There's already a guy. I saw him. He's here. Yeah. What was the best ska show you ever went to? Ooh. Um, so one of my favorites of all time was, uh, in Torrance, uh, there was, uh, uh, it was supposed to be a backyard show and there was a noisy, there was a stupid neighbor. And so we moved it into the garage and had to close the garage door. And I was giving myself all that time to like get the band name to come into my head.
01:36:13
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But I didn't but they're the one The final final paradise Chris is looking at me like I will know this What's that fucking band they're from the East Coast and they're really good and Yeah, they're really good
01:36:39
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Damn it. Now we're all looking at Arianne like she should know. Skaboom. Skaboom. Oh, the fad. That was the fad. Thank you. Got it. The fad and it was in a garage with the candlestick and no. Sorry. But no, yeah. I remember like the only swinging light bulb interrogation style. Somebody kicked crowd surfing and then it exploded and it was yeah, it was great. It was a local Jersey show and back. I would say probably about
01:37:07
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two ninety seven and we had a lot of mixed bills back then so there's local bands like a band called Speed Bump. Face First who became Houston Calls when they dropped the ska cause you know that's that's how it goes when you're that old. Yeah that's the top of my brain. Was that any good? I'm still doing this. What was the best ska show you ever went to?
01:37:35
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See, I want to be biased and say link 80 when they came through with Animal Chin in 98, summer of 98 to Jersey.
01:37:41
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because Lake and Katie's my favorite van. But a lot of the stuff recently is top level, whereas a lot of the cap-bite stuff, Amigone can't go wrong with Amigone's show. Where we're at right now without being biased is probably one of my favorite ska shows because we're all family. Yeah. I agree. I'm having the time of my life here. Yeah, the bad time rec stuff. Ska Punk International. We're all doing it.
01:38:08
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New tone. Do you subscribe to new tone or fourth wave? New tone. Now I like it better too. Do you like fig new tones? Yes. Good answer. My first gosh show was actually this dude's band and when I was in middle school I saw his high school band a dummy head torpedo.
01:38:28
Speaker
Oh shit. Oh yeah, that was like 2005. Shit. First Scott show? Oh, that's a hard question. So long ago... They were meant to be fun questions. I never thought about these questions. I'm having a blast. Let's say...
01:38:51
Speaker
I saw Big D in like 2000 something, so I'm gonna say Big D. I saw Big D 2000 in five? Yeah, in Warped Tour. I had never been to a scout show until I joined his band.
01:39:07
Speaker
You joined a ska band. You're like, oh, this is a ska band. Yeah, sure. I don't want it to be my band. It's Earl's band? Yeah. Well, I wanted to play bass. And then they're like, no, you play trombone now. It's like, oh, fuck. You know how hard it is to find a trombone player? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Especially in the middle of this. We're fucking zen, yeah. Oh, we got a lot to talk about. Oh, I think it was less than Jake at the Warped Tour. How was it? It was good. I wasn't too familiar at that time, I think.
01:39:35
Speaker
Which warp tour would that have been? What year about? Oh man, maybe like 2006 or 7 or somewhere around there. We would have been to that warp tour as well. The Calgary Speedway. I put a lot of money on it. What was the best ska show you've ever seen?
01:39:56
Speaker
Um, oh that's tough. I've really enjoyed, uh, I really enjoy the slackers. Cat Bite puts on a really great show. I'm gonna say Cat Bite. We get to see them in October. In Canada. We're very excited to finally see Cat Bite. Yeah, some with a street light. Oh shit.
01:40:13
Speaker
Yeah, well, rub it in. Who are you most stoked for at SPI Fest? Uh, Symbol Minded Symphony, but they already played, so Wicked Bears. Joey, Wicked Bears. Um, myself? No, I'm just kidding. Look, there's a certain amount of self-deprecation and a certain amount of narcissism. You gotta balance the two. That's how you get on stage. Yes, exactly.
01:40:36
Speaker
No, I don't want to hear me. I already heard Flip in the combined effect. That was somebody I was trying to make sure I was here in time for. I'm excited to see Tsunami Bomb 2, so I'm basically bookending with my two claims. I guess Littlest Man Band's last, but I've been hanging out with them all week, so my excitement to see them is still there, but I've been scratching that itch all week, baby, it's raw. On the record, Littlest Man Band, Old News. Old News.
01:41:04
Speaker
Scott, I love you. You're my favorite person. I'm going to cuddle you in the van all the way to Phoenix. He is not listening, but seeing that, I want to answer that like past tense and present tense. You can go past tense.
01:41:19
Speaker
Joystick because like we've built a relationship with them as friends that like to see like a face that we've been able to play with and get to know over such a short amount of time being together with each other is just kind of like families here like a little more than the vibe that we have now where we're all family it's just they're a little more family to me I guess sorry favoritism
01:41:44
Speaker
Who are you's most stoked for at the show and or what is the best band you've seen so far? I got to go first baby. Hell yeah! Okay, so yesterday I was... Simple Mind and Symphony blew me away. I listened to a couple of their songs on the way here and then they started playing and I almost quit the band because I was existential crisis immediately. It's not a bit. We almost did. No, literally, Simple Mind and Symphony was hands down one of the best bands I've ever seen in my life.
01:42:14
Speaker
That bass player is... They also seem so happy. I was telling, I was just like, if our drummer and that bass player were in a band together, that would be the most infectious band, because they're so happy. Like, so talented and so happy. And you just wanted to be a part of something that they were a part of just for one moment. And they're adorable. Each of them are a little baby doll. Like, what is that? They're so cute. You want to pinch all of their cheeks? Put them in my pocket.
01:42:39
Speaker
Just a little tiny kiss on each of their foreheads and just tell them how good they're doing. Yes. 100%. They all deserve foreheads. Like the minions and Gru. Yeah. Let's see. Today I'm pretty stoked to see Loser. I'm keeping you from him. No, no. It's all good. It's all good. It's all good. In other words, Jacob said, fuck you, Rob. No, no, no. Yeah.
01:43:08
Speaker
A tsunami bomb also, like, I've been a big tsunami bomb fan for a long time. I fan-girled when I saw her walk by and there was a, and I was like, it hasn't been, it's been a while since I was like, that's the lead singer of tsunami bomb, that's the lead singer of tsunami bomb. How is Chris? Great. No really, how is he? Not stressed anymore. Back hurts a little. How is cool Chris? Um, a little warm. Oh yeah. Yeah. But no really, how is he? I mean,
01:43:39
Speaker
That was my answer. I'm trying to do some gotcha stuff here. Yeah, I'm really trying hard with people I just meet. Also the most stressed question was... What was it for Scott? I was still thinking about the bridge bats and like, which my brain is elsewhere, but I'm on the roll now. We're good to go. To ask me more Scott questions.
01:44:06
Speaker
Guess what this one's not a Scott question. How was cool Chris the coolest But no really how is he? He's the coolest Chris leveled up this weekend if you really think about it a props to him like we wouldn't be here without him I mean not in like that. We weren't gonna be born without cool Chris, but you're here. I'm here
01:44:26
Speaker
Yeah, we probably wouldn't be here without cool Chris. Second best podcast that's Scott. I'll take it. I'm being biased just because I'm being held at gunpoint. Yep. It's true.
01:44:40
Speaker
What is your back alley being cornered against a trash dumpster? Yeah, so I'd see some pretty good things about Checkered Pass, the Skodka. Yeah, we're doing quite well. Greatest Skod Pass. Maybe they're the best people you've ever met, I don't know. Or maybe the environment says a lot more than anything we could say. He's cool.
01:45:00
Speaker
But no, really, how is he? He's a dick. You win. That was the best one. Your go-to fast food order. Oh, always want Coke Zero. That's a must. So if they don't have Coke Zero, I don't go there. Probably. Though sometimes, like a McDonald's, I might get a Diet Dr. Pepper. It's all about soda for me in truth. Because usually it's like, oh, I need a soda. Yeah, pop. Thank you. So then I guess like Taco Bell, right? So.
01:45:30
Speaker
Cheesy Gordita crunches, like three of them. But if I'm in a bad mood, three soft tacos, because I'm eating my feelings and I don't deserve cheesy Gordita. No texture for Chris. No texture when you're sad. Oh, um, that would be, okay, wait, I'm, you know how people talk about like Starbucks people and like they've got their like so stupid along Starbucks order and they make fun of that? I'm that guy in and out. And I'm so embarrassed of it that if I go with somebody else, actually, if I go by myself, usually I don't do the whole thing because it's embarrassing a number of changes.
01:45:58
Speaker
But if I go with someone else, I'll actually get them to do half my order for me to make me seem less needy. And what it is, in and out, I get like the hamburger combo, right? It's number three. No thousand-ion ketchup and mustard instead. Yes, onions. Add chopped chilies. That's where I stop because I feel like a problem.
01:46:20
Speaker
But if I don't feel like a problem, we also get the fries well done. And if you're not getting your in and out fries well done, you're making a mistake. It's all right here, to get it animal style. Who likes a soggy fry? Is there someone out there that's like I prefer them soggy? Well, and that's the thing is that they're not like soggy when you get them, but you want to guarantee crispy and they're better longer.
01:46:40
Speaker
I love it. This is the best answer we got on this. We've only done this twice. I don't do fast food. Actually, the only fast food I do is Taco Bell, so it's usually two or three chalupas, beef supreme. There we go. That's the second Taco Bell we got. Oh, what a burger. If I'm just like, all right, I need to get something super quick, it's just an avocado bacon burger lately. It always changes. Could be a patty mountain meal.
01:47:03
Speaker
But yeah, right now it's avocado bacon burger. So what a burger is a place we should eat? Absolutely. We haven't gone there yet. We've done Bucky's and Torchey's.
01:47:13
Speaker
Yeah, you know George's is cool, but it's like a like a white person Mexican food place. Yeah, you need to get like some Tex-Mex. You need to find like a Mexican restaurant that looks like super shady and that probably be the best Mexican food. That's always how it is with any food I feel like the more like hole-in-the-wall it is typically the better food it is. Don't fucking spend the money on decor, spend the money on ingredients.
01:47:42
Speaker
It's really tough like in our in Edmonton as well like finding legit anything food is like super Montreal is very much like that like the holier the wall the better the food Ever been to Canada. Yes. Why I went on a Alaskan cruise with like my entire mom's side of my family like 18 of us in 2003 and we ended in Toronto Yeah, and
01:48:12
Speaker
And then we left. We would say it's the night and we drove around and I don't remember it at all. There was a lot of tall buildings. There was a lot of tall buildings. It's a big city. So that's Canada for me. It looks like this. Where we are right now. Ever been to Canada? No. We'd love to. Hi Canada. Hello. Hi. Are you guys from Canada? We're in Canada. Edmonton. Oh sick. We may have had the longest drive.
01:48:41
Speaker
Yeah, well, flight. Let's be honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like, but we like made a circle. So like we may have beat you. Long run. I see. Like distance. This is like settlers of Catan. You're doing in this circle. You're going for speed. Yeah. Okay. She's all alone. You need to see question 15 here. All right. Read it out for me, please. Is cakes gone? Okay. There we go. I look,
01:49:09
Speaker
I don't think that needs to actually be dignified with an answer, but the fact that that came up naturally at that is incredible. That means the universe is smiling on us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're right where we need to be. Yes. Montreal. And? Yeah. Montreal's sweet. Montreal, I went up on a kind of like last minute vacation, but it was happening at the same time as Pousa. So we snuck into Pousa, and Montreal's my favorite city. It's a dangerous city. I like attempted to move there, but it's beautiful.
01:49:39
Speaker
Yeah, old Montreal, like where I was able to travel with my then girlfriend, like every bit of it was just like, it was, it's one of those things being from South Jersey outside of Philly, everybody was so nice to us to a point where we thought like something was up. Cause we're like, I am. Do we have to fight somebody? Like why is everybody being so genuinely nice to us? Did you go to, like, was Catacombs still around with you there? Yes. Catacombs was fucking sick. Yes, I fucking love Canada. Toronto is one of my all-time favorite places.
01:50:04
Speaker
I haven't been I was at Niagara Falls and I thought about just jumping the border said have my passport yet But I was on tour. I didn't want to go to jail. That's basically going to Canada I've been to Canada as a kid before like you needed a passport to hop over Niagara Falls So I would just be like I'm in America. I'm in Canada. I'm in America. I'm in Canada We also we also went to Niagara Falls when we were on tour like forever ago. Yeah. Yeah, you're like pretty close to Canada like
01:50:30
Speaker
Closer than here. I've been to Montana and Idaho, so fuck you. What did you just call me? I said fuck you. Oh, you're Doho, not I'm Doho. Everyone's done that one. Hey, we're low hanging fruit. I'm not reaching. We love hoes. Yeah, I'm a fruit. You know what? We do love hoes. I have not. Do you want to?
01:50:55
Speaker
Cool. Thank you. Yeah, I want to go because I like Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. Wrestling. Wrestling.
Unexpected Tour Stories and Misadventures
01:51:07
Speaker
Wrestling and Ska. It's a thing. Top tour story post-pandemic. Well,
01:51:15
Speaker
I went foraging with the Gruber's, Hans Gruber the Diehards in Seattle. Yeah, I flew up there to see them and I stayed with them for like three days. Mushrooms, like walnuts, chestnuts. Like we walked around this like forest and like found stuff like that. Cause that's the cheapest and most efficient way to eat on tour. Like you get a little like, like true healthy snacks. So, uh, that was kind of fun. That was kind of cool. Famously follow r slash foraging and, and,
01:51:44
Speaker
Lots of tips. Honestly, very scary to eat a mushroom that you can idea. And even if you can idea, you got to be careful of the death caps. The death caps look like a lot of edible mushrooms. Very scary. Lots of bugs hidden in those little ridges too. Yeah. There was a lot of ones that we were like looking up on our foraging. Can we eat this? Can we not? That was cool. R slash mycology. Always plugging. Always plugging. Top tour story post pandemic. Um, gosh, I did, uh,
01:52:14
Speaker
I did a run with no effects in Europe last year that was awesome because I got to check off like all of Western Europe. Oh, but this is the best part. So I was in Finland.
01:52:26
Speaker
Finland? Yes, Finland. And the show let out and like the sun is still up. It's like 11 p.m. or whatever and it's still sunny out but all the ice cream shops are closed and like everything and you're like what is going on? Like nothing makes sense anymore. Everyone's starving and it's like that place is closed, that place is closed, that place is closed. So we walked like
01:52:48
Speaker
two miles or whatever. I don't know. They're measuring kilometers over there. It screwed me up. But like back into town and right next to my hotel, there was a little like pizza place was the only thing open. I'm like, I guess I'm having finished pizza. And I'm sitting there. It's totally packed. Everybody from the show is there. And I'm sitting with some people. I like just made some friends because there's no table space.
01:53:07
Speaker
And Fat Mike comes in and gets really immediately dismayed at the long line. He walks in, he's like, pizza! And in his baseball, he's like, fuck, you see my gallon mags in the line so long? And then he turns around and makes eye contact with me, and he's all, Chris. And so he comes and sits with me. He's like, all right, Chris is going to take care of me. And he sits down. And I had pizza, and I was like, oh, he's going to come see my pizza. All right, that's fine. But no, he stole everyone else at my table's pizza.
01:53:36
Speaker
and like a lot of it and i'm like oh gosh they're like these but they were like stoked and it was like there's like that combination of like this stranger is taking my pizza but also i just paid to watch his festival so so like but it was funny so everyone's enjoying it but like like you know they like they like they like kept their cool and everything like that but then at the end of this mic like wanders off into the night and is talking to some other people and uh and everything like it stays normal i'm talking with these people and then they find out that Kent was there
01:54:01
Speaker
and they lost their minds. They're like, Kent, the manager? He's back. I thought he was out. And it's like, no, he's back. It's like, he was running sound today. Oh my gosh, where's Kent? And they're like, Kent is incredible. We all know Kent is incredible. Kent is my favorite.
01:54:16
Speaker
more excited to see Kent. We've seen Fat Mike. He's been here. We know he's like Kent is an angel and he's doing his best. He is. He is and Kent, I love Kent and I love Mike but it was just so funny to be like like you sat with the lead singer of the band and you want to see the front of house sound guy. Yeah that was my favorite.
01:54:37
Speaker
Ooh, this, right now, this moment, this very moment, talking to you at this exact time that nobody knows this exact time, because we're going to listen to this later. This SBI Fest and the surrounding dates that Tick today are doing has been a top moment for us. Amazing. Oh, post-pandemic? I don't think I've gone on tour post-pandemic. So pre-pandemic.
01:54:59
Speaker
pre-pandemic. I went on tour with a band called The Lost Project. There's a lot of stories. The first one that comes to mind is our singer got kidnapped. What? Holy shit. Jesus. You know, that's like a longer time, but yeah, it was in Lincoln, Nebraska, and they were trying to do some drugs, and the girl got kind of sketchy. I wasn't there. My wife actually met me up there, so we were hanging out, but yeah.
01:55:27
Speaker
He got kidnapped. She thought that he stole some of her drugs and he didn't. They were in the car with her and she drove off.
01:55:37
Speaker
What's the ending? So there's more to this story. I mean I'm trying to like make it super quick, so It doesn't have to be super quick. This is staying in the episode for sure. Okay, so if I'm not mistaken is I know it's Lincoln, Nebraska We're like hanging out. My wife comes our drummer's girlfriend at the time drove up so Jason who's a singer and our
01:56:03
Speaker
I guess like merch dude, Jimmy, they were going out on the town, met some girl, she had drugs, they were supposed to do drugs. They went back to the hotel for some reason and then they were driving away and then she got weird saying that Jay stole her weed or whatever.
01:56:23
Speaker
And I think they're supposed to do acid, but she accused them of stealing her weed. Classic paranoia. Classic. Yeah, classic. Seen it happen. Seen a similar situation happen. Didn't get kidnapped. Seen it happen. Yeah. A lot of figure pointing when you're doing drugs and who's taking your drugs. Right? Yeah. Absolutely. Super sketch. But I remember at one point they finally got her to stop and Jason got out of the car and then realized his wallet fell out of his pocket in the car. So then they had to get back in the car.
01:56:51
Speaker
and somehow convinced her to take him to the hotel. And they got to the hotel, they used the card reader to open the door, and they made it like, they basically ran inside and locked her out, so that's how he made it. Jesus fucking Christ. There's probably like way more details about it, but like, long, longer story. We're not afraid to get you to sing. Yeah, it was, yeah, my singer Jason got kidnapped on tour. Jesus fucking Christ.
01:57:17
Speaker
That's my review as well. Yeah.
Diverse Music Tastes and Streaming Trends
01:57:20
Speaker
What do you listen to other than Ska? Oh, I listen to a lot of soft rock. Yes. I listen to a lot of it. Honestly, like a little river band reminiscing. Yeah. I don't fucking love that song. It's one of my favorite songs. Are you like a David Wilcox kind of guy?
01:57:37
Speaker
I don't know who that is. That's Canadian. Cancon. What is life for me as a riverboat fantasy? I do. OK, check them out. Sounds like, just the name alone, sounds like I'm going to like it. Honestly, like driving down here, they were irritated because I had Michin Diglow and Aaron from Power Up in my car and, oh, and Christine. And I only wanted to listen to that stuff because it de-stresses me. They were like, can we listen to something else?
01:58:05
Speaker
Oh, you know, whatever. But I listen to lots of other stuff, you know, like hip-hop, dance stuff. You have good taste in hip-hop. Do I? In my opinion. Okay. So you have similar taste to Rob, is what he's saying. That's what the dog whistled for, yes. Leading up to this, I listen to a lot of De La Soul since that all just came out, and I only actually own like two of those albums, so I've been doing a lot of that lately.
01:58:29
Speaker
I listen to I mean like this boring answers like a little bit of everything but I find myself listen to a lot of like you know punk bands and stuff of course like I like pop a lot my friends Canada yeah there you go I like my friends the bomb pops I've been listening to Megarand lately
01:58:51
Speaker
Nerdcore hip-hop, very good. Yeah, I like nerd stuff. I mean, you know, throw it at me. Like physically throw music at me. If it doesn't hurt, I mean, if you're throwing it at me, okay.
01:59:10
Speaker
i love polka dot stingray jpop band they're fucking amazing i've been listening to a lot of funk so you know it's just a lot of funk a lot of hip-hop what's your funk era oh shit uh i'm gonna go with uh probably
01:59:26
Speaker
G-Funk? G-Funk? Isn't that hip-hop more than it is funk? Yeah but it's both so it's like you know the 90s era well late 80s early 90s era of like Snoop Dogg Dr. Dre but if we're going like funk funk I'm gonna go with like 70s you know Atomic Dogg and fucking yeah stuff like that
01:59:47
Speaker
Yeah, I'm a big parliament fan so this is like yeah, and I'm a big chic fan I know it's not cool for punks to like disco, but she fucking rules Kisses fucking disco album. I don't care what anybody says It is clash also did disco let's not forget
02:00:10
Speaker
Clash is probably one of, like, I hate to say it because I know, like, people think the opposite, but I think they're one of the most underrated fucking bands of all time. What a poser, dude! Um, weirdly, uncoincid- or coincidentally, I've been into a lot of, like, masked, quote-unquote, metal bands, so Sleep Token, Slipknot, Ghost, Mudband, Mudband! No shit, really! I think so. Did we figure that out? I think they're from Vancouver.
02:00:34
Speaker
I thought, what? What's that? Are we thinking of a different band? I don't know if Ghost or something. It's like Swedish and then they just poaches people. Could be wrong. This is on the record. We've been wrong a lot. Get in the comments. Get in the comments. We're at an Lee Mulligan reference. Holy shit. I love you more and more each stage. Are you watching? Don't quit the band just because Simple Mind and Symphony is so good. But y'all are good too. After that reception we got, I feel like I'm... So much y'alls.
02:01:01
Speaker
That's just how No, no, I'm selling from Canada. This is not how we talk you guys because it's not Yeah, I say you know, I say folks a lot. Yeah, I get a lot. I try to I'm trying to like I say friends
02:01:20
Speaker
Yeah, friends, when we played on Thursday, we made our own name tags that said our name, the band, and what your pronouns are, so that way people can feel more comfortable utilizing pronouns. What you present as, like whatever somebody else's think, doesn't mean that that's what your pronouns are, despite if you're super masked or super femme. Your pronouns can be however. The band on stage right now goes by they them, for the record.
02:01:43
Speaker
I've been listening to a lot of new metal stuff. I like spirit box a lot. I always just go back and listen to a bunch of old shit that I used to listen to Limp Biscuit here and there.
02:01:57
Speaker
You're in good company. Yeah. I love any new metal stuff. I grew up with it. This is an unpopular one. I feel like it's old. I love disturbed. I don't dislike disturbed. But nobody passionately. Yeah, I don't passionately like them. I'm not going to purposely play disturbed, but if it comes out on a playlist, I won't skip it. What if something happened where it was like, another dream that will never come true, just a moment of sorrow.
02:02:27
Speaker
All right, yeah. So it is my new metal band. I've seen them multiple times. That's, okay, so I'm gonna tell y'all right now, I hate this line in Young Castello's Yvonte De, because if you listen to System of a Down, and I think it's like TV, video, whatever, listen to that solo, and then listen to Yvonte De from Young Castello in the second half of the verse, and it's gonna blow your mind, and then we're gonna get sued.
02:02:56
Speaker
They call it an interpolation. That's how you get around that, yeah. Yeah, our horn players say they quoted it, you know? It's going to be the VH1 episode. When he was on stage, he's blowing this axophone. He's like, quote. No, no, no. Under pressure, it was like, we didn't take it. And you'll be like, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun
02:03:15
Speaker
Quiz, what is the most streamed song on Spotify? Oh, shit. I don't... Probably something Beatles. I don't know. Not by a long shot. You think, hey? You think. Not by a long shot. What is it? Blinding Lights by the Weekend. Oh, so the bit y'all did, that's really truly the most streamed song. Holy shit. Wow.
02:03:36
Speaker
That's crazy. Is that wild? When I was hearing that, I was thinking like, oh, there's got to be more. No. No, that's just a fact. It's in the billions of streams.
02:03:47
Speaker
The Beatles have not cracked a billion. Oh. But that's also like, I do think Spotify has a certain demographic, you know what I'm saying? So if we're going to look at it like that, also, there's just more humans now. It's true. There's a lot of humans. Youngins are going to listen to stuff, and there's more of them than there are of us. Did you know that? Plus, also, the Beatles suck, so. Mm. Joey's right. Thanks, Joey. Get off the mic.
02:04:14
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Uh, I, you know what, I'm going to go with, um, the man who sings about cities and towns, Gardena. Um, you want me to correct it? It's the blind. I got so nervous. It is scary when you're pointing it at me. Uh, it's the weekend blinding lights. In the billions of streams. No, it's not even close. Well, I just think that everybody should listen to on Spotify, the man who sings songs about cities and towns and find your town.
02:04:44
Speaker
and hear this guy sing a unique song. Is this the same guy who made a bunch of songs about butts because he knew kids would yell at their Spotify screen, what, a Google Home thing? Definitely the same energy, don't know if it's the same guy. But find your town, he essentially sings like the Wikipedia article about your town. But what's crazy about it to me is that it's not just like the same song, they're all different.
02:05:11
Speaker
And they're bad. But they're all different. This, I think, is the same guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm excited. I hope he sings a song about Michael. Probably. You found him, though, right? Oh, yeah, he's right there. That's the same guy. Unbelievable. Same guy. Confirmed. Confirmed. Same guy. He's not number one. Can't believe it's not Gardena. Just a bit. I wonder if he likes Ska. From me or anybody? Anybody. Oh, no.
02:05:39
Speaker
What do you think it would be? Harold Ramis. It is blinding lights by the weekend. Really? Yeah. By a wide margin. I thought it was going to be bad bunny. I was convinced it was going to be bad bunny. How many laptops does he own that he's just streaming his stuff on repeat to bump the numbers up? Yeah, it's the same one that he used to mine Bitcoin with.
02:06:09
Speaker
That is the greatest selling Christmas song but there is a song with more streams What's a popular Beatles song
02:06:20
Speaker
People are going to the Beatles a lot. They get creamed on Spotify. Creamed. And what is the answer, Celine? The answer is blinding lights by the weekend. By a margin. In the billions of streams. I don't know if I know that song. Isn't that funny? You're not one of the billions. Oh, yeah.
02:06:41
Speaker
When I hear blinded by the light I think of Bruce Springsteen because I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. I actually have a Bruce Springsteen tattoo. I'm more of a Max Weinberg fan. I'm more of a J Weinberg fan.
02:07:01
Speaker
I like Slipknot. I'm sorry. Joey got it. Joey, what did you think of that joke? I liked it and I like Slipknot. It's good. Oh, maybe something like from, like SZA or Doja Cat or some hairstyles. You are so on the right track. You're the closest anybody has been. We've been getting a lot of Beatles lately and I have to blow people's mind that the Beatles are getting fucked on Spotify. What is the answer, Slint?
TV Shows and Entertainment Preferences
02:07:40
Speaker
Billions of Spotify him in beeps. They basically run Spotify. Are you watching RuPaul's drag race? I'm not what are you watching if you're not watching that? I was just watching perfect match Yeah, yeah, it's like Netflix is like trying to do like the challenge like MTV has yeah where they bring in like people from like love is blind and the circle and all this like Yeah
02:07:53
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blinding lights for the weekend.
02:08:06
Speaker
It makes you it's like completely melt your brain But I watched the entire season like staying up late the last couple nights leading into this like doing like graphics and shit Like Joey from the circle, isn't it? Spoilers
02:08:26
Speaker
Ladies, if you watch Circle, you'll know like four or five people on it, yeah. Like the Spice Girls? No, they were not. But Chloe from that season was on it. We love Chloe. Just before I left, I started watching Clarkson's farm. What the heck is that? Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gun is trying to run a farm. You can't be serious.
02:08:50
Speaker
Yeah, this is the most made up thing I've ever seen. Yeah, that's British. That's British. It's British. He bought the biggest tractor that he could find. I don't know. It's fun. And in the van, I've been catching up on the Adventure Time HBO ones that I missed. Nice. Yeah.
02:09:08
Speaker
Cartoons, we're in. Oh, what am I watching now? Perry Mason, second season. Is it good? I didn't start it, but that's like the top of my list. I'm in that like, kind of review it, like what did I see last season? And then let that inform like, cause if you go too long without watching a show, it's just, you're like, oh, that makes sense. Oh, and Last of Us. Yes, very much so. Films in Edmonton, films in our hometown. Cause the finale's this weekend and I'm not allowed to watch it till I get home. Me too.
02:09:38
Speaker
And my wife is with me, but I still can't watch it until like... I have never watched it. Well, actually that's a lie. I watched one episode. My wife is obsessed with it. And I... I haven't because I... I... It's like the whole like scripted thing kind of weirds me out. So it's... I just kind of watch like not scripted TV. I'm not...
02:10:02
Speaker
Sounds like you watch a lot of documentaries. You'll watch a lot of news reports. I watch, like, a lot of food channels. Oh, yes. Worst Cooks in America? Worst Cooks in America. So funny show. So my wife was talking about getting me on there because of how shitty of a cook I am. But I'm actually getting better now. You have to be able to make it in a Tupperware. That was the key to that show. I can make soup.
02:10:31
Speaker
Uh, RuPaul's Dragon Deez Nuts. What? No! I'm sorry, that was uncalled for. I do not watch the show, no. No, that was great. Do you watch RuPaul's Drag Race? I do. Okay, let's talk about it.
02:10:43
Speaker
You're the first person to say that you do. Everybody's been saying no, so we're excited. Miss Vanjie. Miss Vanjie. Are you watching the current season? I'm not because I don't have that streaming service. Everything's so much money. Who's your queen of choice? I'm a Trixie stan. Have you seen Trixie? I have. I've seen Trixie a couple of times, I think.
02:11:07
Speaker
Trixie cover that I've done that I haven't released yeah Yeah, I have one. It's like it's more pop punk than Scott, but I have it sounds This is incredible. This is the best thing I've heard I'm an Alaska Thunder fuck guy and I saw her at Edmonton who's the worst drag show I've ever seen it was awful
02:11:26
Speaker
I still, yeah, I still love her to death, but that was the worst drag show I've ever seen. I've not seen fucking Evo. I've not seen a good drag show and I've seen several drag shows there. Disappointing drag club. What's the last video game you played?
Gaming and Reading Interests
02:11:39
Speaker
Metroid Prime Remastered. And? And, uh, well, I just played Game Boy, but it was the like, you know, chiptune-y thing because Christine is like programming stuff on that. Does that count? Yes. Great. Then I played that. Sick.
02:11:55
Speaker
I mean I was playing Pokemon Go out front like five minutes ago. He's like I was doing it at the venue like I've been playing video games.
02:12:10
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry, is the SCA meeting at the SCA festival too loud for your SCA podcast? No, there's a car coming. Oh. We're getting microtransactions. It's better than having to just delete. Hi, Jeepers. Hello. Hello. Come on, go. Because you can't handle not spending too much money on microtransactions, which was my case. I wanted to buy Dem-lures. Cool. And then I looked at how much I was spending a month on Pokemon Go, and I had to delete the app. Just win some gyms. I can't. Just win some gyms, man. Just pinsey. Don't. They have too much time.
02:12:40
Speaker
It's fair. I do not. Then this question sucks. Unless you count minesweeper on the iPhone. Absolutely. Good answer. I went back and I'm like, I'll do minesweeper again and I can't beat expert yet. Without a continue. What was the last game you played?
02:12:58
Speaker
Last game I played. Well, I've been playing a mobile game called Bang Dream. It's like a rhythm game. I'm gonna play it on my phone on the way here. But also, I fucking am. Animal Crossing. Hey, 350 hours. The pandemic got dark. Yes. The last game I played was Watch Dogs. Two. Number two. I'm in IT, so like the idea of IT and video games, I'm a nerd.
02:13:24
Speaker
Clone Hero and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I'm the worst DK player you'll ever meet. It's a fact that you can play it at all. Smash is hard. Smash is hard with actual Donkey Kong. DK. Donkey Kong is here. He's the leader of the bunch. You know him well. He's finally back to kick some tail. His coconut gun can fire in spurts. He shoots ya. It's gonna probably kill you.
02:13:53
Speaker
That was a good time for everybody. I do. What are you playing these days? So I play Fortnite a lot. I play with Chris. I just started Call of Duty Warzone, the second Warzone. Those are really all I play now because I'm pretty competitive. I would play Gears of War more if more people played it. What are you reading?
02:14:15
Speaker
I'm reading How to Ruin a Record Label. It sounds like work. What's his name? Larry from Lookout Records. Oh yeah, that would be a fun record. It's wild. It's really crazy. Everything I've read about Larry Livermore is that he's a wild character. I can only imagine a book he'd write. It's completely all over the place and he does not hold back. He says all the real shit, even how bad he is on different things. It's crazy.
02:14:43
Speaker
I'm illiterate and it's actually a sore subject. So, no, I'm actually, I am reading Will Wheaton's book. What's it called? Just a Geek? Still Just a Geek? It's like, it's like, it's so, it's a very meta. It's some blog posts from back in the day that several years ago he like annotated and he's now annotated the annotations.
02:15:09
Speaker
So it's really like, it's just layers and layers and layers of Wheaton growing up. Yeah, I'll take it. I can read, but I don't read. Actually, the last book I read, funny enough, but this little... Read it right now. Read three words. Doobie, trip, trip. Nobody's gonna understand that. Doobie doo trip. Doobie doo, so I'm confirmed whether or not you can read.
02:15:37
Speaker
Here's a fun ironic that this wasn't even planned. The last book that I read was by Harold Ramis' daughter. Very nice. What did she have to say about him? It's about her life growing up with her dad as a ghost buster, going to movie sets and everything like that. And she actually told me, as we spoke in person, that I would make a great filmmaker because of the stories that I have. And I'm like, wait, but I'm a musician.
02:16:00
Speaker
I don't know how that works. Gotta have stories to tell, and a way to tell them. Correct. He said weeb. I read a manga I read. Oh, let's talk about it. Chainsaw Man. What are you at now? Been reading that. I only have the third, so I just read the third one. I'm on six? Of course. Oh, me and my wife?
02:16:21
Speaker
Makima stand, you know, I'm back about for life Controversial people like but she's a piece of shit. I'm like I'm allowed to love a villain. Yeah, I'm a piece of shit Haruka I mean she's technically a villain
02:16:36
Speaker
First love of my life. Plays bass, too. Yeah, now I got a tattoo. Hey! Listen to that. Listen to that. You're the bass. You put the microphone up to the tattoo. I've done that a bit three times, and it's still funny. Just a month ago, I finished the infamous Mob Deep, which was really good. And then I started. OK, Joseph. Former guest. Former guest. They're booing us. Last guest. And right now, I'm reading Ready Player One.
02:17:06
Speaker
oh okay yeah there we go uh the holy fucking bible nice which part uh it's a good value because it's a lot of books song of Solomon over and over that's my premium cap material
02:17:37
Speaker
That's the that's the main star of American Beauty
02:17:46
Speaker
Okay. Plastic bag, plastic bag, plastic bag. That is our plastic president, actually. What? No, there's a flying thing. Like, it's like... Are you talking about the drone? Yeah, oh, it's a drone. There's a drone up there. Oh, police drones. Boo. You know, they replace all the police drones. Somebody's head outside. Oh, yeah.
Ska Projects and Community Engagement
02:18:02
Speaker
Birds are real. Birds are real. Yeah. Thank you. You're 1312 and that includes drones, am I right? I'd love to encourage the real truthers. Yes. That's Google would be so proud.
02:18:10
Speaker
What is your newest release and what do you want to tell the listeners about it? Well, I guess the newest one is the Buena Suerte EP because that's in like three days. And they're from Costa Rica. They're fucking awesome. I feel like they should be a lot bigger than they are. They draw really well in Costa Rica, but nobody pays attention here. So they ripped. Check it out. That's going to change.
02:18:33
Speaker
What would you like to plug? I would like to plug my laptop in before we get on stage to make sure it has battery power in case my Raspberry Pi dies on stage again so that I can continue to do the show. I like it. Well, thank you for joining us and we'll let you go plug your laptop in. Thank you.
02:18:53
Speaker
We just put out a two-song single with SBI Scott Monk International last month the early February It's called so impossible. That's the main single and the other song is burying me. It's not Scott unfortunately but We have a lot of stuff in the studio that's not been finished and we're like slowly putting it out so that
02:19:16
Speaker
Once it's out of the way, then we can start writing maybe some more ska songs, because I know a lot of people do know our ska material, which is a cover of ourselves and a cover of Link 80. I mostly don't listen to ska, so that's a fobu, a fobu, if you will. I'm not telling anyone. Oh, give me a sec. Why is this the hardest question? We'll have an album coming out in April, May. Fuck yeah. Maple Story. Well, I mean, while we're here, I definitely want to give a shout out to Chris and SPI for having us out here.
02:19:45
Speaker
I was gonna say, you motherfucker. Let me think.
02:19:51
Speaker
What do I want to plug right now? I also love my wife. Did you have socials? Oh, yeah, we got socials. We got Classic President on Spotify. We're on Instagram, Classic Presidents 402. We're on Facebook, Classic Presidents. Check us out. We're going to be playing May in Omaha, Nebraska. Somewhere. We got to figure it out. It's going to be May. Is that going to be with Hans Gruber? Well, yeah, that's the plan.
02:20:19
Speaker
Everybody's playing with Hans Gruber. I saw that frickin... As they should. They're so good. That tour list is insane. I want to plug Hans Gruber. That's it. That's great. Well, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them. Honestly, yeah. They basically told... Tell the story from the beginning. I don't know. Tell the story from the beginning. Tell the story from the beginning. You can tell it. Okay, so they were supposed to... Oh, shit. They were supposed to play a show in Lincoln, which is like 45 minutes away from where we live in Omaha, and...
02:20:48
Speaker
one of the bands that was supposed to basically book the show, there was three bands, us, them, and Hans Gruber. Well, the band ended up, somebody got sick, so they were gonna cancel the show. And I was like, you know what? No, I'm gonna do what I can to keep this going. So I was back and forth with the promoter.
02:21:04
Speaker
non-stop for like two solid days, just like, hey, I want to keep this going. The promoter wouldn't respond. I was calling the venue. I was calling this dude. I don't even know him. Still don't. And they were like, I'm pretty sure I pissed him off enough that they were like, fine, keep the fucking show. Like, just, it's going to be you two. And I was like, cool. They were like, yeah, we're not really going to pay you guys, but I guess you guys can play. Yeah. So we made sure that we had some people come out and they got paid and we formed a bond ever since. A beautiful friendship.
02:21:33
Speaker
and they were on our show yesterday yeah so it all comes around full circle um yeah you can follow me at ska dad uh follow the starlighters in my venue in san antonio listen to the lost project the ska jacks holy shnikes young costello uh follow my wife and her earring company at pop-up palms um
02:21:57
Speaker
Yeah, earrings are cool. We gave some to Britt from Cat Bite. Support all the Ska labels, podcasts. We just listened to all of the... Oh my god. Liza Manelli lies. Yeah. Those were all of our backstage interviews. All of them. All of them. We all listened to them and we had thoughts about every single one of them. It's just me being like, yep, that's my drunk yelp. And it's just me being like,
02:22:26
Speaker
Can you believe we did the DK rap? Can you believe we did the DK rap? That is crazy. You know what? We have to extract that. It is extracted when this episode drops.
02:22:39
Speaker
I will make it available on the internet, not even just the patrons, but just to everybody. You get it in some sort of like, you know, how Ariane does like a little video thing. She's going to do that. She's going to do that. I have it as an MP3 now. Social media. But we will make it available. You will be able to you can make it your ringtone. Your ringtone could be CPSC, plastic presidents, DK Rap. And on trend for this year with the Mario movie. Hell yeah.
02:23:08
Speaker
where it's like featured for the plastic presidents album and the plastic presidents and CPSC live at SPI Fest 2023. It all happened in the same year. You guys. That's this the Triforce. It'll happen in power, wisdom, courage. Also New Zelda power, wisdom, courage, charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent. Oh, oh, I just got shoot. My own brother's shoot. It didn't fit. It didn't fit. It was just an acronym.
02:23:39
Speaker
But it's a square though, and he was talking about a triangle. I know what a triforce is. Because it's four things. I know what a triforce is. You don't have to tell me what a triforce is. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Why does RuPaul have some kind of geometric shape for the charisma unions? Like a gang sign? Yeah. Like a gang sign? Robert is throwing gang signs right now. So just make it so rectangle.
02:24:01
Speaker
Selena is blood. Oh, I can't do that. I could do that, but I'm fucking too hard. Blued. I just used to always do that as a kid and go blued. Blued. Blued. Blued. Blued. So SPI Fest winds down. The next day we have a free day. What do we do? We go for breakfast with a bunch of SPI fans. Fans. Yeah. Friends. Friends. Friends. So we go out for a huge breakfast with Chris.
02:24:30
Speaker
And Aaron from Power Up, H-town and his lovely wife, the Take Today folks, the Mega Friends. Mega Friends, yep. I feel like I'm missing, well, Christine obviously would have been there. Yeah, Christine was there. And then who else? Aaron? Yeah, we said Aaron from Power Up was there.
02:24:52
Speaker
Yeah, that was just that was in the group. Yeah, that was in the group. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So and then we went to some like, Kurt, Kurt had a recommendation for a place in place. And so we went there. So we had like our mix of like hipster chain and legit Mexican food or taco, taco joints.
Austin's Culinary Experiences
02:25:15
Speaker
And I had a breakfast burrito. Delicious. One of the best breakfast burritos I've ever had. Yummy, yummy in my tummy.
02:25:22
Speaker
I kept it pretty not hungover the whole time. I also was pretty impressed. That's where Salim put a flauta in her pocket. Yeah, that was pocket flauta. I was at a place of pocket flauta. Salim was hungover. Came in later issue. And I ordered a thing and then did not receive it. And I was like, you know what? My stomach's fucked anyways, so I'm glad.
02:25:49
Speaker
And we followed that up with a trip to a coffee shop with some of the other folks as well. Oh, yeah. And Celine decided to make her way there in the trunk of our rental car. And decide I sacrificed. No, you made a conscious decision. My sacrifice.
02:26:05
Speaker
And as H-town pointed out, H-town of our Discord and who was there. That was the funniest. That was the funniest Celine has ever been. I think it is the funniest I've ever been. Yeah. H-town got a mini, like a private mini episode on the car ride. 100%. Patreon exclusive. Yeah.
02:26:29
Speaker
So then we'll go in a chunk of a car and ride around 20 minutes. And do bits. Doing bits. Doing bits. So many bits. And then Coffee Place was fun. And we hung out there for a long time. We were there for a few hours. It was great. It was really nice. And just hanging out with people. We got to chat. And bond. A lot of chit. Chilling and bonding. Yeah, it was great. Mega friend.
02:26:49
Speaker
And then Arianne hooked us up with her friend. We went to like a bakery and then we went to like a bar. Like a stoner rock bar. Yeah, like just had like bongzilla posters on the wall. Selene went to nap. I noped again. Yeah, she noped again. I have to prioritize myself in my whole being. She got out the day before and she noped the second day. She needed a nap so she went to nap the day. And then when she was done she ushed.
02:27:14
Speaker
Yeah, I asked and then I asked again. I went to the backyard and I napped in the sun and I consoled a friend about her pet fat passing. And then I watched some Vanderpump Rules. And you have to remember this is pre-sun in Edmonton. Yeah. And there was no green. So I actually just took a blanket like laid on the grass and just like, yeah, that does sound good. I want to do that when I get home. It was really nice.
02:27:38
Speaker
And yeah, and then after our bar adventure and we hooked up with Celine again, and then we went to the Bat Bridge. Bat Bridge. We saw some bats. It wasn't peak season. Yeah, it wasn't. But we saw some bats. We saw some bats. And it was a pretty area. I threw my sunglasses off the Bat Bridge. It was a nice area anyways. One of my darkest points was getting that parking app to work. That was like my personal dark point. But then.
02:28:04
Speaker
but then my personal highlight where I felt the best I ever had the entire trip. Like I had, well, I felt amazing during the festival with like dopamine and serotonin, but like physically in my body, the meat, I needed the barbecue joint. Life changing meat. So of course, Austin, so here's the thing. Here's, I think we need to take a step back and understand.
02:28:26
Speaker
beef culture in Alberta versus beef culture in Texas. We have the beef up here. I'm not going to lie. We're like our beefs. We're just like our beefs. We got the beefs, but we're a steak situation. Amazing steaks. We make great steaks. If you go to Calgary, Alberta, Steak City, best steaks you'll ever have, hands down.
02:28:46
Speaker
But we do not have the culture for a year round barbecue in. We don't have the culture for smoke. Yeah, we don't have those outdoor smokers. We just can't do it. We have a couple of places that do a pretty good imitation meat. Yeah. Shout out to me. Pretty good, though. It's pretty good. Pretty good. Up until I went to Texas, it was the best barbecue I'd ever had.
02:29:06
Speaker
But then you go to and you know, Texas has barbecue culture. And so as meat eaters, we decided this is exactly what we wanted to do at least once. And we had those options to do gas station barbecue. But with that, we said, you know what, we're only going to be here this one time, probably treat ourselves. Let's do the real thing. We do one of the big, the big touristy places. We go to Terry Blacks.
02:29:29
Speaker
The lineup is 45 minutes, no joke, and after two days of like stent, after two days of being on my feet the whole time dancing. That was a little rough. That was a little rough. But I had the energy for it.
02:29:42
Speaker
I was ready. I was the motive. I had the meat. And the closer you get, the more excited you get. And you get in. And the first thing that you're greeted with is a bar where you can buy a beer. In line. In line. It's great. Nice. The next thing you do is you're greeted with the merch and you buy the merch.
02:29:59
Speaker
I bought a sticker. The third thing that you're greeted with is the sides. And you get them size. We got some mac and cheese and some beans. And some bread. So white up pieces. That wonder bread that you got, you are obsessed with. It wasn't wonder. And it was delicious. But then you get to the counter. This is a great experience. You're an hour in line, but you're being experienced.
02:30:25
Speaker
And you get the big, you got the six or seven types of meat. And we had an incredible employee. I think we also lucked out having like team because there was a butcher guy and then also the cashier and they were like, first time here. Yes. All right. This is how it works. Told us how it works. Pick out your meats. Uh, first thing we were like, we're like, yeah, we understand brisket.
02:30:45
Speaker
brisket all day, pulls the brisket out, shoves it on the table, just like slabs it down. Jiggled, jiggled, jiggled. It jiggled like. Jiggled, jiggled, jiggled. And my wife, Ariane, who has made a brisket before, loses her shit, points at it and said, look at it, fucking jiggle. So excited. She had never been more excited about meat ever in her life. And we got that, we got pork ribs and we got. Sausage. Oh, the jalapeno sausage. And beans. And beans and mac and cheese.
02:31:15
Speaker
And so we grab our shit, we go out, we sit on the table, and we have life-changing barbecue. And barbecue joint does not sit around for an hour. Barbecue joint is eat your shit and get the fuck out of there because they got other people who need to take that seat. And we ate.
02:31:31
Speaker
I mean, I know I definitely- I put it away. Me and you probably put it away the most. My stomach was fucked the entire trip and that was the one meal that I fully ate every bite of. I just shoved it in my mouth. That changed everything for me. Oh my God, it was incredible. It gave me superpowers. Couldn't believe how good that barbecue was. I felt so happy and content. And then we come up here and then we had that realization where barbecue is just different.
02:31:58
Speaker
the states like that's the one thing that I'll say the barbecue in the states is just like changed my opinion about barbecue. And I think I understand now when I watch like cooking shows and they're like, Oh, the barbecue here is different from the barbecue here is different from the barbecue here. As a Canadian, I was like,
02:32:16
Speaker
OK, one place uses dry rubs, one place uses sauce. Sure. Whatever. But now having experienced high quality barbecue like that, the nuances between the different barbecues are probably like bananas. Like if I were to do that kind of tour, I would probably know the difference. Like, wow. It was unreal. Yeah. Then we go to the next day, which is our day that we drive back. And this is our last story that we're going to probably tell.
02:32:44
Speaker
The best one. And it's an important one. This is the one you've been waiting for. We've teased it that there's a very great story. Joey, please tell us about the drive from Austin to Houston. So as I mentioned, my stomach was not great the entire time, but we were on the way home and I was just going to tough it out and it would have been fine.
02:33:08
Speaker
So we were on the highway and we had one more Texas stop that we had to do. We had to. Yeah.
02:33:18
Speaker
What a burger. So this time, rather than just stopping in the middle of the drive between Houston and Austin at the, at a buckies, we kind of hit, we, we did drove like about a third of the way we ate at this what a burger. We drove a bit longer and we stopped in the, it was a buckies again. Yeah. Cause the second buckies had a statue and the first one did not. Um, and then we drove the rest away. But anyways,
02:33:44
Speaker
We went to Whataburger and my stomach was kind of fucked up and I ate like a quarter of my burger and a few fries and everyone else was enjoying themselves for the most part.
02:33:56
Speaker
Iron Stomach also marches way through. Iron Stomach Rob is patty melt. I had a great time. Crush the patty melt. I had a really incredible fried chicken sandwich that I really enjoyed. It tasted great. I really enjoyed the bites that I took. I actually liked the fries and the spicy ketchup. Spicy ketchup was great. I liked the way it tasted, but- I'm so hungry.
02:34:15
Speaker
It immediately hit my stomach and I was not feeling great. You didn't even have very much of it. I'm not trying to say anything about you. I'm just saying that's crazy how little of a burger. I'm sure that it's a reaction to something. It wasn't much. Your guess was like the oils they used or something like that. Joey looked into it. We're thinking palm oil intolerance. Anyways.
02:34:42
Speaker
Uh, I immediately started not feeling great. And I don't know if we mentioned this, but I was the driver the entire time. Like I was the, like Rob rented the vehicle. So he was like the name on it, but I was like the main driver of the vehicle. I drove the entire trip. So I was driving and we get back in the car and I wasn't feeling great, but I was like, ah, maybe if you just get some water, we'll get on the highway. We'll cruise. It'll be fine.
02:35:06
Speaker
got going and it was not fine. We had to stop at a gas station where I had some not fun times. Uh, and I picked up some, uh, like those Pepto tabs and some gravel, just anything I could. It was too late. It was too late though. Too late. It's too late. So we hopped, I hopped back into the vehicle and we drove for a while longer till we hit that Bucky's that was
02:35:33
Speaker
Because Joey wanted to get the, he had not purchased the buck. I had not purchased this and decided that he had to, which we were fine with because we gave ourselves plenty of time. We had given ourselves plenty of time. So we went in, grabbed, but we needed to, got out of there as a pretty quick Bucky's visit. So Lynn grabbed her merch there at that point, I believe as well. Uh,
02:35:58
Speaker
got back on the road and this final leg of the trip into Houston was a roller coaster. So as the traffic got more and more busy and everyone is still driving 80 or 90 miles an hour, I knew we had to get where we were going, but I also knew that I had to puke.
02:36:23
Speaker
A lot. A lot. And Arianne, but I didn't, I had been, I had been puking. I had nothing in there. There was nothing to puke. I hadn't even been drinking water since the last time we stopped. So like, there was nothing but Arianne being a seasoned mom, had plastic bags ready to go. And we started, I just kind of held one.
02:36:48
Speaker
And oh, I'm also, I was also wearing a checkered outfit, which I was trying not to get. I also was helping out. You were helping out. You were passing bags. Selim was passing bags. I was involved.
02:37:00
Speaker
It was quite the situation and cruising down the highway. Very bold. Just started barfing. Driving in the bag. While driving. One hand puking another. And I suppose we should have got Robert to take over, but... I tried. I said, do we need to pull over so I can grab the wheel? And Joey's like, I can do this. I've done this before. I've done this before is what Joey says. No, this isn't on you.
02:37:24
Speaker
No, no. It's not on Joey either. No. To be fair, this is a circumstance. Also, I don't know where we would have pulled over. I don't. We're on a freeway. We actually didn't have time anymore. We didn't have time. Because we had too many stops. I just had power on time. So I stopped puking in one bag and I pass it off. And we're getting closer. And I'm like, okay, I need another bag. So a second bag gets to me.
02:37:54
Speaker
And I go to heave into this bag and I make the most ridiculous gorgling sound.
02:38:03
Speaker
And the entire vehicle erupts into laughter. At this point. And then that's what we loved. But it was also like dry, like that, but dry. So we were cry laughing. We were holding it together for so long. For so long. We needed a release. We needed a release.
02:38:25
Speaker
It was not a situation. Yeah. What else do you do? There's no, there is no emotion in my emotion wheel that prepares me for what that was. Do you know what I mean? So it just like picked a random emotion. Like, and so it's like laugh. Like what else am I going to do? I think me and Arianne started. Oh, Arianne burst out into laughter so fast. Immediately. As soon as the sound came out. Crying, crying, laughing in the backseat.
02:38:52
Speaker
Uh, but she allowed me to laugh. I had a good laugh and I had a very, very uncomfortable ditching of a rental car in a rental car parking spot. Uh, we went into the airport and I was able to go to the washroom. And at that point we were.
02:39:11
Speaker
I was okay. We were almost at a point of suppository. That's a real thing. That was a conversation that we had. If you were at that point, that's the real thing. There's nothing wrong with suppository, but if you are too nauseous and you can't stop puking, you got to put a- Just about put a grab all up my butt. And it would help. Yeah, but I didn't quite get there and we made it back.
02:39:33
Speaker
And that basically- Oh, and I saved those super, super strong edibles. We had one left. Oh, yeah. And I was saving half of it for Joey. We were going to split it, but my stomach was fucked. And I obviously couldn't fly, so I ate it all and then got too high. She was so high. And I was so jealous because by the time- Of course you were jealous. By the time she was super high, I was feeling way better. I was so high that when we stopped at Calgary on the way home, I was still very high and drunk and loopy.
02:40:00
Speaker
Yeah, and then we ate at Last Best and had a delicious beer. And I think Esteban said, homegirls fucked up to a video that Arian posted on me. Yeah, that sounds about right. Or something like that. That was like, yeah, it was. Homegirls fucked up. Yeah, it was something along those lines. Beautiful. Damn, Esteban. Just put a cap on it.
02:40:25
Speaker
That's SPI Fest. That's our two year anniversary. We did it. We did it. How do you feel? Do we miss any stories? I think we got it all, right? Yeah. If there's more, we'll love to figure it out. We told an hour and a half worth of stories. It's enough stories. Let's do it. Let's close it up. Thanks for listening to Checker Pass. Hit us up on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok at checkerpasspod or send us an email at checkerpasspod at gmail.com.
02:40:53
Speaker
To support the podcast, you can sign up for the Checkerhead Patreon to get the episodes uncut in both audio or video format. You get all of our live shows and our interviews in the alley if you're on the Patreon. And we just put out an episode with a puppet and I'm dressed up. We're dressed up. Sometimes the videos are pretty fun. There's visuals that are not too abysmal. Speaking of visuals, we made this ass t-shirt. This ass t-shirt. This ass t-shirt. It's not an ass on it.
02:41:23
Speaker
Uh, it has our from David Buist, uh, and, uh, it's for the fest. We have some leftover. So as of the release of this episode, uh, we're going to put those shirts up for sale on our website, checkerpass.ca slash merch.
02:41:39
Speaker
You can get up your own. Super limited edition. Never making them again. They're sweet. I highly recommend getting one. It's us as on horses. Be a part of history. Us on horses. With a ham. We're cartoon people. Ham bonkin. Ham and bonkin and horses.
02:41:55
Speaker
This episode was engineered both live and in studio by Joey. I'm sorry. He did the best damn job he could. I saw the fucking dog shit stems that he had to deal with. It was dog shit. It was wild. Joey, thank you so much. Thank you. Arianne prepared our shirts, sold merch, helped with the audio, was basically like our rock the whole festival.
02:42:22
Speaker
She was a reasonable person because we get high in the sky about our thoughts about stuff and she works in radio so she can tell us when we're being stupid. Yes, it was very nice. So that was very important. A grounding force. Lucky to have her. The editing around this time was done by Cutman. Whoa. That's wrong. Our theme is OAO by Edmonton's own Mad Bomber Society. Thanks to Celine.
02:42:44
Speaker
What did I do? Well, you were on the show. Oh, and being awesome and being funny. That's fun. You're the funny one. I show up and you'd be funny. We want to give some special shout outs as well. Hans Gruber and the diehards for being our guests. We love them. Take today, Ska Dad, loser, plastic presidents for taking time to talk to us. Everyone was great. All the checker heads we met when we were there, H-town, Kyle, Aaron, Flip, the mega friends, Bex.
02:43:15
Speaker
probably missing a bunch of people. Obviously all the bands we've had on the show before were there, like Joker's Republic and Sad Snack. I say Kyle. So, but thanks to the entire lineup of bands that were in air, they were playing 30 minute sets and it was super breakneck. And they broke down with us like we were other, we were another band. That was very cool. Yeah. They would treat us with so much respect. They didn't have to.
02:43:44
Speaker
Yeah, it was so good. We felt really accepted. What was the alternative to be like, oh, those are the podcasts? Yeah. You guys can go to the green room. Right. Well, I knew that wasn't going to happen because all of the people going were super cool, but it was still very nice that it went down that way. Thanks to the Flamingo Cantina and Austin for putting us up on the stage without a fuss, except for audio problems. Oh, and for pointing out Earl Sweatshirt.
02:44:11
Speaker
Yes. Thank you. That was important when he was there, uh, huge shout out to Chris Reeves, the Scott punk international for putting on the whole thing, taking a chance on us and letting us have 30 minutes of stage time at his festival. Super, uh, grateful for everything Chris has done for us in the pod. So supportive, incredible by Scott punk international stuff, support their artists, support all the bands. So important.
02:44:35
Speaker
Uh, this was truly a once in a lifetime experience. Um, but, uh, we're back to our normal nonsense next week until we do it next year. Next week is, uh, Celine's debut spinoff. Oh, is that next week? Well, after this episode drops, yes. Yes. Uh, Weechie with me. Weechie with me. Weechie with me. It's a Celine spinoff podcast on our trombonist. So that'll be fun. Yeah.
02:45:24
Speaker
Until next time, I'm Rob.