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TromBonus - 1 - The Offspring
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It's Checkered Past's first ever mini episode that they are dubbing: TromBonus! (pronounced like Trombone... get it?) Celine and Rob discuss recent Ska news, music they are listening to and RuPaul's Drag Race before going through every Ska track that the Offspring has put out! At the end they debut their new segment, the Ska-rrections Department, where listeners and artists fact check Rob on his research abilities! It's loose. It's silly. It's Checkered Past: The Ska'd Cast!
Hosts: Celine and Rob Engineer: Joey Producer: Joey Theme Song: OaO by Mad Bomber Society
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Introduction and Episode Theme
00:00:02
Speaker
It's our first ever trombonus episode. It's just Rob, Celine, and a pocket full of dreams as we spend some time talking about the ska of The Offspring on Checkered Past, the Skaadcast.
00:00:40
Speaker
What up, Checkerheads? Welcome to Checker'd Past the Skycast with Celine and Rob, the show where a Spartskukus and a Lelitska explore the- I like Lelitska. The history. That's you. I don't know what they have to do with each other. They're both Kubrick movies. Oh, I didn't pick up on that. Pick it up. We explore the history and impact of a different band each episode and hope to bring in new fans along the way. I'm Rob, and this is my sister and co-host, Celine.
00:01:09
Speaker
Hi.
Drag Race and Reality TV Discussions
00:01:11
Speaker
Well, this is going to be our first mini-ep. We're doing weekly episodes, Celine. Just a little baby-ep. These are going to be... A little wine for babies. We got to do the baby. We're going to do the baby episode. And we still got to pick it up where we left off.
00:01:31
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I mean, not a lot new to say. We literally just recorded an episode just before this. But I mean, we can talk about normal bullshit to watch RuPaul.
00:01:40
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I did. Yeah. Do you watch All-Stars finale? Yeah. How'd you feel? Hey, power up band. If you're listening, we got to talk drag race again. Also spoiler alert. Oh yeah. Hard spoiler alert. We're going to talk about the drag race. All-Stars finale. If you haven't seen it yet, but the first woman to win the drag race. The drag race. Yeah, that's true. I do love Sonique. I don't think like, and I think she's deserved as the winner, but I was kind of hoping for Raja.
00:02:05
Speaker
Yeah. I'm not a minge. I'm not a fan of the minge. No. No, I'm not a ginger minge person. She's funny is what she is. Yes, she's funny. I like the funny queen. I like when the funny queens win. I like the funny queens too. This breaks a couple of seals. So number one, yes, a woman. Yeah. And number two, somebody from an early season because they're doomed usually. Yeah. When they bring them in on the all-stars, they usually get wiped out like so fast because they didn't adapt to the new style. Yeah. But she's like,
00:02:33
Speaker
She's good. Yeah, she's amazing. Yeah. Stunning. Yeah. How did you feel about the season overall? Pretty lackluster. I almost checked out. I'm like semi-checked out of the last few drag race things. Rapauls checked out. The last good drag race season was the last UK one.
00:02:50
Speaker
Yeah, the UK one's still good. I'm more excited for the new season of Dragula coming out. It's a lot more inclusive and they always kind of say like artist's objective before they judge them. Yeah, they're a lot more like kind and careful and inclusive to the performers and the artists. And I like the Blue Ape Brothers. Do you ever watch that Vogue competition?
00:03:11
Speaker
Um, yes. The, oh my God. Legendary. Yes. Legendary. Yeah. How was that? I think it was good. But Jameela Jamil is just like randomly there, but Megan Thee Stallion is incredible and does deserve to be there. You're just fucking random that Jameela Jamil is there. It also is random that Megan Thee Stallion is there. Why is she there? But she's like at least a big part of like black queer culture, which is the origins of voguing.
00:03:38
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Yeah, I mean, I just I always just a little I'm a little wary of just like grabbing whoever has like a big single or who is really popular and just like scooping them out and just tossing them in reality. They should have put well, they should have put more representation from the queer scene. Yes. Yeah. And Jamila Jamila came out as by.
00:03:58
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than right before, which was like, people were actually really hard on her, but people actually are like- You're usually really hard on her. I know. Because she's annoying. She's just a little annoying.
00:04:11
Speaker
Yeah, she's like says the right things, but she's like fucking annoying about it. I don't like her on the good place. But yeah, I don't know. This is great. I've been watching Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is coming out right away. Both have like both have women that are like currently on trial for heavily illegal shit. So I'm super stoked.
00:04:32
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rewatching Sailor Moon it holds up except it's on pause right now because I'm at a really stressful part and even though I know what happens I have to like wait till I'm like emotionally in a good place to to watch it
00:04:45
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It's the Sailor Saturn storyline, so if you know, you know. Those who know know. Also, Sailor Uranus is daddy. Sailor Uranus is like a hard 10. Where is she on the daddy scale? OK. Like 12? This daddy scale. Yeah, I didn't know. Even Joey was like, there was a scene where like.
00:05:05
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Yeah, Sailor Uranus was talking to Sailor Jupiter like out of Guardian uniform and Sailor Uranus like popped a wheelie on a sweet motorcycle and drove away. Was it a motorcycle or a moped? Motorcycle. No, that's cool. And then Joey was like, I get it. Can't blame her. Everyone loves Sailor Uranus. Sailor Uranus is fucking badass.
Anime and Video Game Deep Dive
00:05:23
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Speaking of scooters or motorcycles, you ever watch FLCL?
00:05:28
Speaker
that's an anime that's that's probably my favorite mech anime but the heroine I guess you could say heroine she has a rag scooters and she also her weapon is a bass guitar huh yeah it's rad as shit okay so good there's only six that I've never watched a mech anime they're usually not my thing I'm usually not into mech animes because it's like
00:05:54
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A, it's so, like we talked about scale of issues like, like mech anime has the most scale of problems to deal with. It's always something that's going to destroy the world. Always. Stakes are too high. Stakes are too high in mech. Yeah. I don't like NGE. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Anime fans. What's NGE? Neon Genesis Evangelion. Oh yeah. Evangelion everyone loves. Don't love it. It's aesthetically really pretty. I do like, like the way robots in this guy.
00:06:24
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Oh yeah? That sounds like a porn parody of Transformers. Robots in this guy. Engineer Joey loves transforming. He loves the Transformers. Yeah, but Transformers is different than Mech. Is it? A little bit. Not much. I don't think... No, because Mech is piloted by a human being. What would Power Rangers be? There's a name for that. There's an app for that. No, because Power Rangers have been around for a million years, like so long. And there's a million seasons, like in Japan.
00:06:52
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Right. There's actually a whole genre that's right. Joey with the engineer. Joey came in with it. Yeah. But there's a genre of like program that is like that. It's not just power rangers. It's a bunch of different stuff. Right. Like is common rider part of that? Not the band. This is a Scott podcast, but common rider, that common rider, not column and CEO, M M O N, but commons K a M E N common rider.
00:07:20
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I think it's super Sentai as well. I think Sentai has to be a team and they have to be colored. Sentai is a team and it has to be colored. Yeah, maybe Common Rider doesn't count because it's just one rider. Anyways, weigh in on the Twitter or the Instagram. We have anime friends. Speaking of which, I'm playing on recommendation from how did this get played. I'm playing the Yakuza game, Yakuza 0.
00:07:45
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it is so good yeah yakuza is anything to do with the yakuza is like badass i'm sure they have like a dark history and have done bad things but like it's a badass idea and this this video game is badass aesthetic yeah these video games are just so crazy with their like
00:08:01
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I don't know. You could spend hours just fucking playing darts. It's like Grand Theft Auto. If you had like the thing with the Grand Theft Auto games is whenever they give you like a weird task to do, there's no reason to do it. You don't get rewarded for doing it. Right. Whereas there's like a reward scheme for actually going in and winning pool. Well, that's like Red Dead. Joey always played poker for hours. Yeah, but like so hard. Yes, Joey got pretty good at it.
00:08:29
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Did you or did you just play it a lot? It's just because he's good at poker. We plan on getting Joey on mic. Yeah, we're talking a lot right now. Yeah. So he's going to be talking. He's going to be a part of the trombonious trombonious episode.
Ska Music Highlights and Tributes
00:08:44
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So let's talk about these many episodes that we're doing. So they're going to be half length episodes. This is our first one.
00:08:50
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It's just me and Selene. And we're going to start the way we usually do. It's going to be very loose. We're going to have a topic or a band that's not really a ska band or is adjacent or has a limited discography or whatever, whatever floats our boat. But we're also going to record and release these closer to when they're actually coming out. So within a few days. So we're also going to talk about some recent news, topical, like a topical cream, like polysporin.
00:09:19
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And we're going to have a scar-rections department so that anytime you want to, it does sound really gross. Why is there a department of it? Yeah. Scar-rections. Scar-rections. A whole department. I got scar-rec-tion. Oh, is that turbo? Yeah.
00:09:38
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That's what the song's about. So anyway, it's loose and dumb and fun, and it's a nice little palate cleanser before we get into the real episodes where we interview people and talk about musicians being cooler than us. Like a sorbet. Like a sorbet. Probably strawberry. So, let's get out of the old and into the new and noteworthy in the world of Ska. It's the skanking news.
00:10:05
Speaker
So we can talk about, I mean, the most noteworthy thing that's not new music was that Lee Scratch Perry passed away. Boo. In a week or two. Yeah, that's a sad.
00:10:17
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Yeah, I mean, let's talk. Do you listen to a lot of Scratch, Upsetters? Not a ton. No. I'm familiar. It's more like you would just know he was involved. Yeah. But I mean, he's been around for decades. And I'm not saying like it was his time or anything, but it's just
00:10:40
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He was prolific into his 60s, 70s. One can only hope to be as dedicated to your craft going that far into your life. His voice will be missed. He put in his time. He contributed a lot. His legend will live on. There's no doubt. So it's a good time to go back and listen to some scratch. I will say this about him. The dude had style.
00:11:06
Speaker
the dude had style a style i would never wear but he did in a like shade i'm just kidding no i'm just i'm too norm core yeah you're a norm core bitch yeah i i was just joking before i got on that i put on this like jacket well it's not a video medium but i still put on my ska jacket because it puts me in the ska mood but it's not for anybody except for me and this is as close to me wearing
00:11:32
Speaker
clothes like an actual fashionable thing. And it's not even that fashionable. It's just pins on a jacket. He's looking pretty fashionable.
00:11:40
Speaker
Um, I don't know. That's about it for like new Scott news. Um, there were a lot of rad podcasts that came out recently that people should probably listen to. Um, Angela Moore on in defense of Scott and then cat bite was on Scott punk international and they did a track by track breakdown. I will say that the new cat bite album is probably right now my album of the year. It is so good.
00:12:07
Speaker
How much Cat Bite have you been listening to, Celine? Here and there. It's good. I like it. I really like the little lead singer. She's super cutie. I actually have their song queued up a little bit here. Let's see if it's going to play. Oh, yeah, it is. Hey, this is nice. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, this is sweet. This song is called Creeping. It's off the new Cat Bite record. Highly encourage everybody to go out and listen to it. Go listen to that.
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah, I really like her vocals. Isn't it good? Yep, super good. Creeping. It's just fantastic. Yeah, that's really good. I love cat bite. Big fans. But I don't like real cat bites. They can get infected really easily.
00:13:08
Speaker
My cats eat the shit out of me. I have two cats and they both have their ways of glomming on and chewing on me. I don't know how to put it. They grab me with their two front paws and then kick me with their back paws. Why do they hate you? I don't know. They just do it to me.
00:13:31
Speaker
Maybe I'm asking for it. Yeah, that's what you're wearing. That's what I'm wearing. Yeah. Your legs look like scratching posts.
00:13:38
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The other song I'm listening to, and I cued this up, this is not a new song. This is from 2018. There's a band from Spain called La Scabrass that are Scopee adjacent, I would say. Scopee being maybe my favorite band of all time. And this tune is Killer. This is like the last minute of the song, so I'm just gonna start playing it off of YouTube. I know it's not the best, but I couldn't find the action music.
00:14:18
Speaker
Listen to that keychain. Yeah, it's very good. Five down. Pasturero del pero. Yeah, posturing terror.
00:14:39
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Yeah. Obviously, this is part of the Euro Ska scene where it's heavily leftist politics, which is great. Yeah, they put everybody to shame in in North America. Yeah, they just they crush it. I shouldn't say North America because there's some pretty politically charged Mexicans. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. And but this has been in their DNA in Europe since the late 80s, early 90s and.
00:15:06
Speaker
If you ever get a chance to listen to Ska P, Talco, I mean, those bands are absolutely my favorite. And this band, La Ska Brass, never heard of them before, like two weeks ago. Love it. So good. La Ska Brass. La Ska Brass. And they're very, they're usually very strange, but this one is just straight up punk song. New music that's come out in the last couple of weeks. The new Eichler's song we were just listening to, Oh My God.
00:15:36
Speaker
Yeah, not to tease too much, but we just recorded an episode with him that'll come out in a couple of months. Which is exciting. Yeah. And I mentioned on that episode, but I'll mention it again, because this will come out sooner. Comfort to me just came out by Emil and the Sniffers, and it's amazing. And they just came out with the Hurts video in single. And yeah, it's just so good. It's my favorite.
00:15:57
Speaker
New, like, ish band in, like, a decade. Like, I love them more than anything. I love them so much. I just love them. I love them so much. It hurts. It hurts me. H-E-R-T-Z. Hurts. What kind of music is it for people? Seventy-seven punk, Australian, garage-y, seventy-seven punk. That's badass. And Amal's incredible. She's like a little weirdo and she has a sweet mullet and she crashes around like a psycho and it's amazing.
00:16:24
Speaker
I love it. I love, I love it on the sniffers too. They're so good. I love it. And then mannequin. Oh yeah. The pride of Italy. The pride of Italy. Which you've said a couple of times.
00:16:37
Speaker
Yeah. They are. They won Eurovision. What's your favorite Eurovision band? We discussed it. It's Lordi. Lordi. Do you love a monster man? What do you feel about that kind of... So I love Scandinavian metal. Like that's the thing about me. I was talking to somebody on Twitter the other day about like Sonata Arctica and those types of groups. Disney metal.
00:17:00
Speaker
Yeah, Disney Metal. You know, the band, there's, what's the fucking band called? Twilight Force from Italy. They're from Italy. Not the pride. And they're not the pride of Italy. But Twilight Force, no, maybe they're from Sweden. Sorry, they're from Sweden. My bad. How dare you? My bad. But they're Disney Metal. And they're so good. The Swedish chef is pissed at you right now.
00:17:20
Speaker
The Niro pride of it. He's the pride of Italy. Some other stuff that's come out. Abriska Dabra from Brazil just signed to Bad Time Records. They have a couple singles out right now that are rad. I would recommend people. Abriska Dabra. I know. That's a good name. Abriska Dabra.
00:17:43
Speaker
And, uh, the inevitable is have a new single. So people are into the inevitability. Um, definitely want to check that out. I mean, it was inevitable that they'd have another single. And, uh, yeah, shout out also to, uh, Matt from title holder. There are new singles out. That album is going to be rad when it comes out too. So.
00:18:01
Speaker
There's so much good new ska. It's happening. Yeah. Riding the fourth wave. Riding the fourth wave. And this is just in the last two, three weeks, I think. Yeah, that's bananas. Yeah. So it's super cool. There's lots of good stuff coming out.
00:18:16
Speaker
So, we're gonna talk about the offspring this episode. I was gonna say, I was like, so a deer, a female deer, but where did, I can't remember the part where it's about so. A needle and thread. Wait, do, a deer, a female deer, ray, a drop of hole inside. Me. Me, a name, a call on myself. Fa. Fa, a long long way to run. So, a needle hole and thread. Oh, there you go, yeah. La, a knock to follow, so.
00:18:43
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right tea a drink with jam and bread and that will bring us back to i don't know i don't think we're not we're not musicians but we're not fucking musicians god help us if we're musicians so before we get into this bonus ska not ska band we're going to take a little break and when we get back it's time for the offspring
Exploring Ska in The Offspring's Music
00:19:23
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And we're back so we're gonna enter the time scotching I don't have Like a story necessarily to tell I think the songs are gonna tell the story for us You didn't make me let me make a sound. Oh, sorry. What's the time scotching now sound? Gonna get a job get a God job. Yeah scob
00:19:48
Speaker
So the way I'm gonna do this is I'm just gonna play these songs. The Offspring, since the album Smash, their third album, have released one ska song on every single album since then, with varying degrees of quality. And so this is gonna be a chronological trip through the albums of the Offspring, starting with Smash. So obviously they had two records before that, the self-titled Offspring, Ignition, and then Smash, one of, if not still, the biggest independent selling record
00:20:18
Speaker
At least at the time it was, it was on Epitaph. Do you listen to a lot of offspring? Like a little bit. I've never gotten into like a ton of their old shit, but yeah, I've always like adjacently listened to it. You like that game Crazy Taxi?
00:20:33
Speaker
Is it on? Is it off? They're like the entire soundtrack. Okay, that's sweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Eric McKnight and I, our karaoke song is Give It To Me Baby. And we fucking crush it. So do you think that's a ska song? Yeah, absolutely. Give It To Me Baby's not even the name of the song. Pretty fly for a white guy.
00:20:53
Speaker
Big fan, hey? He asked for a 13. I'm a big fan. I like the songs I hear. I'm just like, I don't know. I'm not just going to be like, I'm going to listen to all of the offspring one by one. That sounds like not a fun time for me. That's good homework for this episode. We only listen to eight songs. So we're going to start with the smash song called What in the World Happened to You?
00:21:21
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I did a bad job clicking. What in the world happened to you? What in the world happened to you? It's good. Yeah, this is good. I like the little paste. Yeah. All of it adds to the consistency. Smasher? Great. Ignition in Smasher, Primic Perfect, and Ixnae. He had three really good records.
00:21:49
Speaker
This is a jam. It's so good. Yeah, this is a straight jam. This is usually what people think of. I have been exposed to this song many times. Oh yeah, because Smash is like freaking ubiquitous. It's like everywhere. Obiquitous? Yeah, it's a word. Obiquitous. It means it's everywhere. It means you can't get away from it. So then. Ubiquitous? We keep, yeah.
00:22:13
Speaker
Is that what I said? Obiquitous. Obiquitous? Obiquitous? Now you're making me second guess myself. No, I-biquitous. We-biquitous. So on the next record, After Smash was a record called Ixne on the Ombre. And the song on there is a song about dog poop. And also I think about heroin is a weird song. The song's called Don't Pick It Up. The song's also a weird song. Don't put it in your mouth.
00:22:41
Speaker
Just wait for it. Good shit's coming. I wanted to not pre-listen this. No, to do anything. This one's good too. I've also been toast to this. I like classic Dexter vocals.
00:23:11
Speaker
where he sounds like he's singing from another room. Like he's just like shouting at you to pick up your laundry from another room. I love that song though. Doesn't blow my mind. That's good. My mind is not blown.
00:23:26
Speaker
I wasn't asking for money. Jeez. It's like you don't understand the exercise. So Americana comes next. The album that was famously taken away from me by my mother. Famously, historically. Everybody knows about this. It's a famous story. Historically. I was not allowed to listen to it because there's curse words. But you got it back. I got it back. I slav it. Have I listened to it? Nah, not really. The song Americana is a great song. It's not the best.
00:23:54
Speaker
What are you gonna play from this? A ska song, Cole. Why don't you get a job? Oh, is it a ska song? Oh, I actually... Why do I love this album? I love this and this is nostalgic. This song was so popular in St. Paul. Can you turn that up? Not really. Oh, there we go.
00:24:19
Speaker
There we go. This is really good. You think so? Yeah, I like this album. Well, yeah, it's got pre-fly for a white guy on it. I really like pretty, I genuinely like it. It's like 2000s and it smells bad. It's 97. Whatever. Same thing. See? Little Scott there.
00:24:47
Speaker
Yeah, it was Biggest St. Paul's. That and Purple Pills. Oh my god. It was huge. It was. Yeah. Probably. Oh well. That and then, what was the Eminem song? The one where he's a superhero in the video. Without me. Is that the one? Now this looks like a job for me. Yes. Gigantic in St. Paul's. Yeah, it's good. More than any Eminem or like those two songs. Purple, everyone was driving around town listening to Purple Pills. I don't get it. Yeah.
00:25:15
Speaker
It's because he's a white guy and it's filled with white people in St. Paul, I guess. But what do I know? Yeah. I don't have an opinion. And they liked surfer dudes, I guess, because why don't you get a job was so popular. And then the next album after Americana is Conspiracy of One in 2000. And it had a song that was kind of popular that is adjacent to a song.
00:25:43
Speaker
but is not really anyway it's this one god jesus also he's really good and the way it opens up until the break up dawn i like new offspring i'm a little bit this isn't even new offspring this is like middle era offspring new offspring sound way different
00:26:03
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This is good. It's kind of soft. The bass and guitar thing is kind of a solid bass. Shut up. Shut up. That's fun. Make sure you enjoy which rapper guests on this, do you remember? I'd probably look it up on there. Original. Yeah, he's sad.
00:26:33
Speaker
original yeah red man so i just got that thing he came in for that red man that makes me like it more yeah red man goes that's a 2000 trip yeah original yeah um worth a million dollars i guess i like middle era offspring you know what late 90s early 2000s bitch i mean this is when they wanted to be
00:27:00
Speaker
a big band, clearly. Very funny. But I feel like it was tongue in cheek. They're like, we're doing a song that's radio playable. I think they thought they were funny. They absolutely thought they were funny. For sure. Pretty fly for a white guy. They said that that song was a joke song. Absolutely. And it was huge for them. And I mean, I don't know. Is that song bigger than what was the song from Smash?
00:27:30
Speaker
What was the big song from Smash? How come I can't think of it? No, the other one. I do like self-esteem. That's an offspring song I listen to often. I feel so bad. Come out and play. Oh, I like Come Out and Play. Come Out and Play is a good song. Come Out and Play. Yeah, that's a good song. Oh, yeah. I forgot that part too. That's good. Yeah. OK, I do like some offspring.
00:27:57
Speaker
good we're talking about him and then splinter the next one after conspiracy of one that came out in 2003 had a song called worst hangover ever it's 420 right now everyone
00:28:15
Speaker
This is like... I don't know, I'm frowning. You don't like the horn? I liked the intro. What about the scratching? Oh no! I don't like scratching and spa. That's bad. I hate that. Scratching's only good in like actual legit hip hop where it like originated. Otherwise it's stupid. Are we gonna listen to some Smash Mouth at some point? Okay, well it also sounds really good in Smash Mouth.
00:28:41
Speaker
You know, we're talking about the salad. The salads have scratching. I don't like this. Get that scratching out of here. That's stupid. What a horrible combo. But this is your favorite middle era. I thought I did, but I like self-esteem a lot. Self-esteem is much older. That's Smash. Do I like that? That's early offspring, I'd say. I'm just a cherry-picking mommy with the offspring.
00:29:11
Speaker
Anyway, then Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace was like a pseudo, like it was like a rise against type record that they put out in 2008, which would have been big in Sonic here. Yeah, I was gonna say it like that's I remember it being Sonic playable. Yeah, it doesn't have a lot of joke songs and the Scottish song is called Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom. Which is again more Scott adjacent than full on Scott like this.
00:29:44
Speaker
but doesn't this sound like this is this is later um this is late offspring i don't like this like this is definitely of the time yeah when like rise against was on the radio and even against me had some radio songs kind of like the rise against songs that were popular this is not as good
00:30:08
Speaker
I don't like this. Everyone needs to see Celine's face. She was like on board with the songs. I like the roller coaster you've been on. I don't like this. It's getting worse. You liked the first song, you're like, oh, this is Ska? Oh, yeah. And then you got to like the radio songs, you're like, yeah, this is the best. And then it like took a real peek. And then there's some real valleys.
00:30:29
Speaker
Just You Wait. In 2012, they released an album called Days Go By, and the song from that is called O.C. Guns. Remember Dirty Vegas? Their attempt at a sublime song.
00:30:57
Speaker
I guess I like the Spanish. Oh, so much scratching. I was getting ready for it because there's more scratching. And there's the most scar reggae. I don't... I didn't hate it. Except for the scratching. Why? Was this a thing that must have been a thing at the time, right?
00:31:36
Speaker
They just released an album this year called let the bad times roll which I'm
00:31:42
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Gonna say I really didn't, I listened to it and I hated it. I really did not like it. Let the bad times roll. Very, we were talking about how like the black keys might be like the radio sound. It's got a very like that sound to it. And anyway, the ska-ish song is called, We Never Have Sex Anymore. Is that awful? And it's not even that ska, this song blows.
00:32:10
Speaker
When was this out, sorry? This year. This year! This song that we're listening to right now came out this year. Told we never have sex anymore. Told us it was boys. This is so weird. This is the offspring. This is the offspring now. Almost 10 years after the last album they released.
00:32:38
Speaker
the guitar sounds almost country oh yeah a little bit but it's clear they're going for like a country vibe like a pop country maybe a little bit i know they're almost trying to go for like swingish in the horns
00:32:56
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This hook is awful. I'm sorry. Yeah, this is bad. This is legitimately not my thing. I'm sorry, if you're a big fan of the offsprings and we're just picking it apart right now. Yeah, we're sorry. We're sorry, but... And so that brings us to the... I don't mind that horn line. The horns are cool. They had the same horn players in like every song since the beginning of their ska time. I'm looking up pictures of them because I forget what they look like.
00:33:25
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Dexter. No, I don't know. I guess. Yeah. You know what? One of the guys is hot. Is it noodles? Well, maybe I don't know. How many? Yeah, I feel like there's two dudes that are hotter than the lead guy. Dexter Dexter Holland. The lead guy. Yeah, I know. Nitro records. Look. It's a Dexter guy. Do I have that right? Is it Dexter that owns Nitro? Okay. Fieri.
00:33:52
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Do you ever listen to... This is total Guy Fieri. Yeah, I mean, they're from Southern California. They probably hang out with Guy Fieri. I actually love Guy Fieri. Yeah. I'm just gonna really quickly... We should big five the offspring really quickly. Okay. What do you think their top five songs are? Pretty Fly. Yep. Number four. It's gotta be number one. Number four. What was the song I liked?
00:34:21
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The conspiracy of ones. Let's do self-esteem on there. Self-esteem is three. Okay. Self-esteem is a really good song. I don't know why I like that song so much. Smash is great. I like that he's, I don't know, with a shitty abusive girlfriend that he keeps going back to. I guess you don't hear it often from the male perspective like that. So it was like different for the time. The lyrical content stood out. They're good. They're good at telling a story. My friend Curtis said that the offspring got him into politics.
00:34:50
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That's interesting. They were political at one point. Yeah, at one point. What else? What else do you think is on there? Get a job. Yep. Number five.
00:34:59
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Uh, the next two are tricky. The top two, I don't know if you're going to know me. No, no, me. No, no. Kids aren't all right. Oh, yeah. Which was kind of a popular song is number one. That's crazy. Yeah. And then from that, you know, Sonic album, the rise and fall, whatever it's called, you're going to go far kid, which was on Sonic. Okay. Yeah. It's like a. Yeah. No, no, no. Religion. I was going to say it sounds like bad religion almost. It was bad religion adjacent for sure. So now the next section,
Corrections and Reflections
00:35:29
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is called the Skarrections department. And Celine already has decided she doesn't like it. I don't like that there's a whole department to the Skarrection. We have a few people that have reached out to us to correct my terrible research abilities. Don't be so hard on yourself, Rob. But some of them are from the musicians themselves. I don't do anything. And I would need to
00:35:57
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reach out and make some corrections on behalf of the people that corrected me and I apologize for making mistakes. So Sunny from Five Iron Frenzy has corrected me to say, my favorite thing that he corrected me on was that I mentioned on the Five Iron episode that they won a Dove Award and he told me that they never won the award and that makes them happy.
00:36:25
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which I thought was funny. And he also added a nice little tidbit that Kingdom of the Dinosaurs, the Five Iron Frenzy song was a ride at Knott's Berry Farm, which is a theme park in California. And they made up the song while standing in line, made up in line at a show Five Iron was playing at. So they were just standing in line and they came up with the song there. So that's, that's funny. That's very nice to reach out to us as well.
00:36:52
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Yeah, I mean, that's that's cool. Everybody's been super nice about most things. The JF, the JF JED, Dan from Reddit, Dan from fucking Reddit. We just released our JFK episode and JFK did reach out to to our guest, which police to make a correction. Let's see, what did he say? The big correction he said is that the band that they started the operatives
00:37:18
Speaker
Uh, was not started by JFK. It was a band he had joined and then later left to go form his own thing. Uh, there was a bigger correction, which was all about his, that I, uh, rated him a seven. He said, uh, he's a five or six. So I guess it's kind of now you knocked yourself down, JFK. I wanted you at a seven, but we'll take your word for it. And don't take my word for it.
00:37:47
Speaker
Don't take my word for it. And the last thing is from Keelan. Let's hear Keelan, who is a friend. He had corrected us on the Skank and Pickle episode. So bear with me while I find it. And Keelan is a superstar podcast questionnaire. He's been on How Did This Get Made many times to ask like on even corrections or several other things.
00:38:17
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He, and so his corrections are valid about my fuckups. For example, he said that, or he corrected me to notice that I said that Ice Cube wrote and directed Friday. He only wrote Friday, F. Gary Gray directed it. And we also couldn't think of the landlord from Threese Company, and he corrected us to let us know that it's Dawn Knotts. Dawn Knotts, yeah. Which I think I figured out after.
00:38:43
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Thank you, Keaton. So, yeah, thanks. You can correct things like that. Like when we go, um, uh, I don't know, um, uh, I don't know. You know when we're like, duh. That's when you can correct. You can just take that snippet of what Slim said and say, hey, if you want to know what checkered past the SCODcast sounds like, duh. It's a couple of dum-dums talking about SCA music for 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
00:39:11
Speaker
Well, not all about do it. Do you have anything last minute you want to talk about? We're going to probably start doing some games as well. My lovely wife and producer Arianne wants to. I want to shame Rob. So if you want to tweet at us or DMS on Instagram about how I can make a fool out of my brother Rob as opposed to the other way around. Yeah, that would be great. Any way to troll. How do I troll Rob?
00:39:36
Speaker
You know what, if you want to send us game ideas, that'd be awesome. I would love to play some games, trivia or otherwise. Only if they troll her off. Only if they troll me, that's fine. Engineer Joey's going to come on mic and help facilitate the games going forward. So I think that'll be rad. Yeah, it's going to be fun.
00:39:52
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00:40:17
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Checkered Pass is engineered by Joey and produced by Joey. Our theme song is OAO by Edmonton's own Mad Bomber Society. Next week, we will have the third rates on and they'll be talking about real big fish. So until next time, I'm Rob. And this is Sea Lion. And in the immortal words of the offspring, give it to me, baby.