[00:00:00] Huh. I guess I'm just going to let them deal with this. I don't really know how to respond to this...
[00:00:04] ...'cause I'm their publicist.
[00:00:05] I'll tell you how to respond! You give me the thousand fucking dollars!
[00:00:09] I want a G...in quarters.
[00:00:11] 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 48, 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 48...
[00:00:22] Hoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo!
[00:00:26] Brow!
[00:00:27] Woo-hoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo!
[00:00:43] All right, well, it's 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking.
[00:00:45] My name is Jason.
[00:00:46] This is Brian.
[00:00:47] Hey.
[00:00:47] We got some very special guests in the cut tonight.
[00:00:49] I want to take a minute to introduce them.
[00:00:51] First up, experimental musician, filmmaker, producer, artist,
[00:00:54] not to mention former member of the Icarus Line.
[00:00:57] Please welcome Joe Cardamone.
[00:01:00] And alongside Joe is artist, photographer, filmmaker, music journalist,
[00:01:03] all vinyl DJ, co-founder of Buddyhead Records.
[00:01:07] Please welcome Travis Keller.
[00:01:09] Thanks.
[00:01:09] Thanks for having us.
[00:01:10] Where are you guys located?
[00:01:12] Oh, we're here in St. Louis, Missouri,
[00:01:14] the beautiful Midwestern freezing our asses off type of place.
[00:01:17] Nice.
[00:01:18] I understand you two are in Los Angeles, California.
[00:01:21] We're here and it's chilly enough to wear a jacket.
[00:01:25] I'll take that.
[00:01:26] Yeah.
[00:01:27] This is like the three weeks of the year where it's like jacket weather.
[00:01:30] Yeah.
[00:01:31] I'll take it.
[00:01:32] It's scarf, beanie, gloves, heavy coat weather right now.
[00:01:36] Whoa.
[00:01:37] If you're cheap, it's good weather to keep your meat outside so you don't.
[00:01:41] You don't have to pay for the freezer.
[00:01:43] I always keep my meat outside.
[00:01:46] So for those of you in the audience not familiar with these two, as I mentioned before, Travis,
[00:01:51] co-founder of Buddyhead Records and one of the bands that was on Buddyhead, of course,
[00:01:56] was the Icarus Line.
[00:01:57] Joe here, a former member of them.
[00:01:59] Now, Joe, you went solo, right?
[00:02:00] I mean, I do collaborate with people on the reg, but most of my recorded output over the
[00:02:09] last couple of years has been without a band, Sam's band.
[00:02:12] That's probably the way to go these days.
[00:02:14] I got to be honest.
[00:02:15] Kind of.
[00:02:16] Well, I think the reason a lot of people are doing that kind of stuff or just pared down
[00:02:21] bands is primarily for probably economic reasons.
[00:02:25] Mine was just because it was like playing to stuff I recorded.
[00:02:30] It was like playing to people who were doing exactly what I wanted them to do.
[00:02:35] Makes sense to me.
[00:02:36] Yeah.
[00:02:36] I remember talking to Harbar Superstar one time and he was talking about how back in the
[00:02:41] day he used to tour with an iPod for like that exact reason.
[00:02:44] He did.
[00:02:45] He did.
[00:02:46] But I saw him with bands, too.
[00:02:48] He had kind of a slamming band for a while.
[00:02:50] He did.
[00:02:51] Yeah.
[00:02:51] I was lucky to see him a couple of times, you know, 10, 12 years ago.
[00:02:55] Just what a voice.
[00:02:56] What an incredible voice for an unfortunate looking guy.
[00:03:01] The Ron Jeremy of indie rock or whatever.
[00:03:04] Yeah.
[00:03:04] I was thinking about that and I was also thinking about he's the Stavros Halkus of indie rock
[00:03:09] as well.
[00:03:11] Put them together and you got Harbar.
[00:03:12] Yeah.
[00:03:13] He's now a mailman.
[00:03:16] Yeah.
[00:03:16] That's what I heard.
[00:03:17] He's going to get that government pension.
[00:03:21] Very sweet.
[00:03:21] So much you get it.
[00:03:25] What's happening this week?
[00:03:26] The number one story.
[00:03:28] A United Healthcare CEO gunned down in New York City.
[00:03:32] Can I get an F in the chat?
[00:03:35] Yeah.
[00:03:36] Probably the coolest thing that happened all year.
[00:03:39] Just the beginning.
[00:03:41] Right.
[00:03:41] Let's hope this is a trend.
[00:03:43] Apparently all of the other major insurance companies have taken down like their pages
[00:03:48] for like their board members and stuff on their websites.
[00:03:51] We might.
[00:03:53] We screenshot them.
[00:03:54] We screenshot them.
[00:03:56] Oh yeah.
[00:03:56] They're up there.
[00:03:58] Even the folks at Blue Sky whom I love very much did take down the initial round of CCTV footage of the killing.
[00:04:06] but someone by the name of To Your Left has a copy of the video set to, of all things,
[00:04:13] the solo from Freebird.
[00:04:15] It's all 30 seconds of it.
[00:04:17] It's so good.
[00:04:19] It is the hardest three notes I've ever been playing on guitar.
[00:04:24] Guy's an operator.
[00:04:25] We were cheering in our living rooms, you know what I mean?
[00:04:28] Oh, yeah.
[00:04:28] I had a spring in my step.
[00:04:31] I mean, Travis, you even posted here, the internet is so sick today,
[00:04:34] but imagine if a CEO got blasted every day.
[00:04:39] Yeah, it'd be dope.
[00:04:42] It feels like ad busters in real life.
[00:04:48] For sure.
[00:04:49] They wish.
[00:04:50] So is Ebola a pre-existing position?
[00:04:53] I know everyone's making that joke, but I've had United before.
[00:04:57] It was the worst healthcare ever had in any job.
[00:05:00] I have it currently, and yeah, it's not great.
[00:05:02] I had it for a second.
[00:05:03] I think we all have had it at some point, you know what I mean?
[00:05:07] Yeah.
[00:05:07] I think just seeing the internet's response, too,
[00:05:10] gave me a little faith in humanity again.
[00:05:13] It was pretty much unanimously.
[00:05:15] No one cared.
[00:05:17] Right.
[00:05:18] Yeah, everyone celebrated it.
[00:05:21] I don't think since Shinzo Abe,
[00:05:23] have people felt so good about an assassination?
[00:05:28] Shinzo Abe, that guy got got with the doohickey.
[00:05:33] The fucking fallout gun.
[00:05:35] Yeah, just...
[00:05:37] You know, the guy was buying fireworks and hollowing out the gun power,
[00:05:41] so he had something that combusted.
[00:05:44] You know, just like all this...
[00:05:45] User mag, Taylor Lorenz's newsletter did a great bit on it with the header image that I just love.
[00:05:52] It's the happy star that says, CEO down!
[00:05:55] And all the balloons.
[00:05:56] Title is,
[00:05:57] Why We, in quotes,
[00:05:58] Want Insurance Executives Dead.
[00:06:00] The subhead,
[00:06:01] No, that does not mean people should murder them.
[00:06:03] But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial,
[00:06:07] it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.
[00:06:10] For sure.
[00:06:11] I mean, and it goes through a lot of the exact same jokes that we all just made.
[00:06:16] You know, hope the hospital they took him to was in network.
[00:06:20] Preauthorization for our condolences.
[00:06:23] At It's Big Honkin' on Twitter has this,
[00:06:26] You're laughing?
[00:06:27] A wealthy CEO who profited off the health concerns
[00:06:30] and often worse moments of millions of people's lives got shot point blank in broad daylight
[00:06:34] and they can't find the suspect because too many people wanted him dead to narrow it down
[00:06:37] and you're laughing?
[00:06:40] Yes.
[00:06:41] Yes, I am.
[00:06:42] We're crying tears of joy.
[00:06:44] You think it's going to happen again?
[00:06:45] You think we'll see another one?
[00:06:46] Considering that Blue Cross Blue Shield immediately reversed a particularly onus decision that very same day,
[00:06:52] I'm starting to think they're getting a little freaked out by it at very least.
[00:06:55] I hope someone goes again.
[00:06:57] It would be cool if psychos did this instead of shooting up schools.
[00:07:01] Like if we could redirect them towards American oligarch psychos.
[00:07:08] Man.
[00:07:09] If we just get Andrew Tate to say that the most manly thing you can do is Merc an oligarch
[00:07:15] as he's wallowing away from his Escalade.
[00:07:19] Oh boy.
[00:07:20] Those guys get no love from me.
[00:07:22] But a couple of guys did get some love, at least recently.
[00:07:25] That's right.
[00:07:26] Destiny and Nick Fuentes apparently had an intimate moment taped and leaked.
[00:07:32] You saw this here.
[00:07:33] This was the Express Tribune breaking this story.
[00:07:37] Alleged leaked sex tape of streamer Destiny and Nick Fuentes surfaces online.
[00:07:44] And boy, they look like two guys that worked at GameStop 20 years ago.
[00:07:48] So Destiny is an ostensibly, I don't know, he's more of a centrist.
[00:07:53] He's just kind of a debate YouTuber guy.
[00:07:56] He goes on and he's like, well, you see, capitalism actually rocks.
[00:08:01] And is there also some weird thing of where he might want to have sex with a horse?
[00:08:08] I don't know anything about that.
[00:08:11] Yeah, there's something there.
[00:08:13] That's like all I know about him.
[00:08:16] Oh, okay.
[00:08:17] He's a bait nerd.
[00:08:19] Apparently he's horny for Clydesdales or something.
[00:08:23] Whoa.
[00:08:23] Horse cock.
[00:08:25] Yeah.
[00:08:25] Yeah.
[00:08:26] And then Nick Fuentes is a, well, he's an internet Nazi.
[00:08:31] I think that's the easiest way to go about it.
[00:08:33] He was Kanye's buddy for a minute.
[00:08:35] That's right.
[00:08:36] Oh, yeah.
[00:08:37] Yeah.
[00:08:37] Yeah.
[00:08:37] He was trying to see if they'd let him in the Nazi party.
[00:08:40] They were like, sorry, bud.
[00:08:41] Yeah.
[00:08:44] We liked Jesus, but not enough to let you in.
[00:08:47] Sorry, pal.
[00:08:48] Yeah, pretty much.
[00:08:49] Yeah.
[00:08:50] Just like using a rich guy for a ride across the country on a private jet.
[00:08:55] Just like, yeah, man, I don't know.
[00:08:56] But hey, I gotta go.
[00:08:58] Fucking hell.
[00:09:00] So yeah, apparently the two of them were caught in flagrante in a leaked video.
[00:09:05] Now we'd have no confirmation.
[00:09:06] They got like a gay sex tape?
[00:09:08] Is that what we're saying?
[00:09:09] Yeah, essentially.
[00:09:10] It's a.
[00:09:11] Oh, nice.
[00:09:12] It's a destiny blowing Fuentes.
[00:09:15] But again, we don't know for sure that it's Fuentes, but the guy for sure does look like
[00:09:19] destiny.
[00:09:20] And yeah, it got weird.
[00:09:22] Were they out of the closet before the tape?
[00:09:25] I would imagine not considering Fuentes, you know, is only 26.
[00:09:28] His whole deal is like women are the evil of the world and Jews are awful.
[00:09:33] So probably not.
[00:09:34] So this is how he wanted to do it.
[00:09:38] I guess that could be what he meant by your body, my choice.
[00:09:41] But, you know, totally.
[00:09:42] He did respond to this on Twitter.
[00:09:44] My haters spent their entire Thanksgiving watching gay porn to verify a rumor published
[00:09:51] by a Pakistani newspaper just to hurt my reputation.
[00:09:55] Nick Fuentes derangement syndrome.
[00:09:58] Nice try, bud.
[00:10:03] I did see some comments that whoever the individual that we are saying might be destiny.
[00:10:10] Not a great head game.
[00:10:11] No.
[00:10:12] Which just adds insult to injury.
[00:10:16] And then on Lucky Llama Music got in on this.
[00:10:20] They kept some video of destiny responding to this.
[00:10:25] All right.
[00:10:26] He's saying a friend of his account that he used to talk to three or four years ago got
[00:10:30] hacked.
[00:10:31] Maybe some video released.
[00:10:33] Interesting.
[00:10:34] Hmm.
[00:10:34] How to keep your account safe.
[00:10:36] Multi-factor, man.
[00:10:37] Yeah.
[00:10:37] His OPSEC.
[00:10:38] Very bad.
[00:10:39] OPSEC and the head game.
[00:10:40] Not so great.
[00:10:42] Well, when it's both, that's when you know it's really trouble.
[00:10:46] If you don't have good OPSEC, at least, at least be, you know, gawk gawking.
[00:10:51] Come on.
[00:10:51] Go.
[00:10:52] Be good giving head.
[00:10:53] I mean, you should be good giving head anyways in life, but.
[00:10:57] This is a general rule.
[00:10:59] Yeah.
[00:10:59] Yeah.
[00:11:00] It's that California internet keeps dropping you.
[00:11:02] Hey, the tsunami got us.
[00:11:08] I thought for a split second, maybe, but then I was like, no, wait a minute.
[00:11:11] That's way up north.
[00:11:12] What am I talking about?
[00:11:13] I even asked you that question, too, when we got on, didn't I?
[00:11:16] Like, hey, you guys being affected by that at all?
[00:11:18] My not geography knowing ass.
[00:11:20] Maybe it's another brush fire.
[00:11:22] I don't know.
[00:11:22] I don't know what happens.
[00:11:23] I've not been to California in over 10 years, so I don't know what's going on out there.
[00:11:27] Can you hear us?
[00:11:28] Hey.
[00:11:29] We can now.
[00:11:30] We're actually in Abu Dhabi.
[00:11:31] We lied.
[00:11:35] That would explain a lot.
[00:11:36] Yeah.
[00:11:36] We had to get out of town pretty quick after that footage of the silencer.
[00:11:40] You know what I'm saying?
[00:11:43] Well, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Kiwi Farms.
[00:11:47] You know what that?
[00:11:48] All right.
[00:11:48] So it's a whole website devoted to, like, dunking on people online and all this stuff.
[00:11:52] And they were one of the people to host this Destiny Nick Fuentes blowjob video.
[00:11:57] And I said the surge of traffic to the Kiwi Farms related to Destiny's blowjob video caused a fatal database error.
[00:12:06] And that they needed to roll back to a recent backup.
[00:12:10] So not great.
[00:12:12] Look, if you're...
[00:12:13] The epicenter of hate on the internet was so lathered up and feverish about this that the website crashed.
[00:12:23] Yeah.
[00:12:23] They broke the internet.
[00:12:25] Yeah.
[00:12:25] Literally.
[00:12:26] They pulled a Kim Kardashian.
[00:12:28] They broke that shit.
[00:12:30] Well, speaking of broke that shit, I know you guys were around when this happened the first time.
[00:12:35] But Enron's back.
[00:12:37] Really?
[00:12:37] So a new website appeared, Enron.com.
[00:12:41] Buried in this site is a disclaimer that it is, quote, a parody.
[00:12:45] But it does look very legit.
[00:12:48] Yeah.
[00:12:48] It's very slick.
[00:12:49] It looks like there's a countdown to something.
[00:12:52] There's four days.
[00:12:53] A brownout?
[00:12:54] A countdown to a brownout.
[00:12:55] Yeah.
[00:12:57] And they're doing all these slick videos, you know?
[00:13:00] But one of my favorites is they're spelling out their name in an acrostic, right?
[00:13:03] And it's like energy, nature.
[00:13:05] And then the R is repentant.
[00:13:08] This feels like an old internet parody that we haven't seen in a minute.
[00:13:12] This type of parody?
[00:13:14] Yeah.
[00:13:14] Where it's not too obvious.
[00:13:17] Like, it gives you...
[00:13:18] It takes you a second to realize, like, wait a second.
[00:13:20] Is this for real?
[00:13:22] Is this like bonsai kittens or something?
[00:13:26] Yeah.
[00:13:27] But the repentant is...
[00:13:28] It's almost...
[00:13:29] It's like Enron's gone woke, everyone.
[00:13:31] Yeah.
[00:13:32] And then the last is...
[00:13:34] The N is for nice.
[00:13:38] That's cute.
[00:13:39] And so a lot of people have been talking about this naturally.
[00:13:42] They're thinking about, you know, what the hell is this for?
[00:13:44] Or it's counting down to something.
[00:13:46] And, yeah, Ethan Frame on Twitter pointing out that in the terms and conditions, it says
[00:13:52] the information on the website is First Amendment protected parody.
[00:13:56] Represents performance art.
[00:13:57] So that's always nice to know.
[00:13:59] Also buried on the website is a header for decentralization.
[00:14:03] That's right.
[00:14:04] Matt, you know the one, at undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online.
[00:14:08] Can anyone have Enron returning from the dead to spin up a crypto scam on their bingo card?
[00:14:15] Because that does...
[00:14:16] It feels like a crypto scam in the making.
[00:14:18] Oh, God.
[00:14:19] What do you guys know about crypto?
[00:14:21] Too much.
[00:14:22] Way more than we should.
[00:14:23] Yeah.
[00:14:25] Enough to not mess with it.
[00:14:26] That's my number one.
[00:14:28] I know nothing about it.
[00:14:30] Like, virtually nothing.
[00:14:32] It's fake internet money that could, for a while there, was really only used to buy drugs and
[00:14:39] child porn.
[00:14:40] And now you can...
[00:14:41] Last time I was in Las Vegas, I saw slot machines where you could...
[00:14:45] Oh, no.
[00:14:47] You could buy creds for a slot machine with Bitcoin, which felt like a really exhausting
[00:14:53] task because one of the things about Bitcoin that is not great is its speed of transaction
[00:14:58] is it gets slower and slower as there's more and more data on the blockchain.
[00:15:05] Oh, wow.
[00:15:06] So imagine, like, you really just need to spin your kid's college fund and now you gotta
[00:15:10] wait like 10 minutes for the next hash rate to go through.
[00:15:13] That kills the vibe that Gambler is looking for.
[00:15:16] I just don't see it working in that avenue.
[00:15:18] Oh, especially if the machine's hot.
[00:15:20] You gotta get in there.
[00:15:21] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:15:22] Yeah.
[00:15:22] All the world.
[00:15:23] So you guys aren't into crypto at all?
[00:15:25] Fuck no.
[00:15:26] No.
[00:15:26] I say with a smile on my face.
[00:15:28] Obviously, I would hope that you'd be smart enough to not be.
[00:15:31] But yeah.
[00:15:32] We're just too poor to be into it.
[00:15:33] Well, there's that too.
[00:15:34] You guys just need to start leaking Courtney Love's phone number again until she buys you
[00:15:39] some Ethereum to stop.
[00:15:42] Yeah.
[00:15:43] I mean, I think Travis had some crypto for a minute or something.
[00:15:47] And I think I had it for like two days.
[00:15:49] And I was just like, wait a minute.
[00:15:51] Did I just throw money down a toilet?
[00:15:53] And the answer is yes.
[00:15:55] Yeah, probably.
[00:15:56] Yeah.
[00:15:56] Nine times out of 10.
[00:15:57] It's a bad idea.
[00:15:59] I hate to say it, but yeah.
[00:16:00] I knew a couple people that as a joke had like an old computer and like mind Doge when
[00:16:06] it was worth literally nothing.
[00:16:08] They just kind of like, I got this old computer.
[00:16:10] It's a joke.
[00:16:11] It's a, you know, whatever.
[00:16:12] And then, you know, Doge exploded three or four years ago.
[00:16:16] And a couple of those people are like, where's that hard drive?
[00:16:19] Oh God.
[00:16:20] Where's that hard drive?
[00:16:21] Oh wow.
[00:16:22] That's like, it's probably like 12 grand of Doge.
[00:16:25] That's like sitting on a hard drive somewhere in like my mom's closet back home and.
[00:16:29] Buy that shit.
[00:16:30] Absolutely.
[00:16:30] Well, there's also, there's a guy that's.
[00:16:32] Vegas.
[00:16:33] Yeah, I know.
[00:16:33] Take it to Vegas.
[00:16:34] There's a guy that's like sifting through a landfill.
[00:16:37] Oh God.
[00:16:38] Because there, he believes there's a hard drive of his that he accidentally threw away that
[00:16:42] has Bitcoin on it that is now worth $800 million.
[00:16:47] Tight.
[00:16:48] That is a, that's gotta give you a certain kind of madness.
[00:16:51] The, the sift through a landfill hoping you can find a hard drive that still works.
[00:16:56] That doesn't have a broken platter.
[00:16:58] Right.
[00:16:58] You know, I don't know.
[00:16:59] I don't know if y'all ever seen a landfill, but there's a lot of shit in there.
[00:17:01] He should, he should just move to the dump.
[00:17:03] It's like, just move there, bro.
[00:17:05] Just live there.
[00:17:05] You can be like the fucking dad from a trailer park boys living in the dump with the seagulls.
[00:17:10] Yeah, man.
[00:17:12] Oscar the Grouch.
[00:17:14] So my favorite detail, the last thing I'll talk about the Enron thing.
[00:17:17] My favorite detail is at the bottom of the page.
[00:17:19] If you go and you subscribe to their newsletter for whatever godly reason, you'd want to do
[00:17:23] that at the bottom of that email that you first get the address.
[00:17:27] Yeah, that's right.
[00:17:28] 1100 Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida.
[00:17:31] Mar-a-Lago, everybody.
[00:17:33] Nice.
[00:17:35] The summer White House.
[00:17:37] Yes.
[00:17:38] Tight.
[00:17:38] Well, speaking of crypto, though, it is time for our Crypto Scam of the Week.
[00:17:44] You're listening to 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, the podcast.
[00:17:48] And now it's time for the Crypto Scam of the Week.
[00:17:52] I know.
[00:17:54] That's right.
[00:17:54] Drum roll that shit.
[00:17:55] Exactly.
[00:17:56] We got something special this week.
[00:17:57] So I suppose, because the two of you are on the internet, you're familiar with Hayley
[00:18:02] Welch, also known as the Hawk Tua Girl.
[00:18:05] Heard everyone lost their money.
[00:18:09] They did indeed.
[00:18:13] So this here from the Cointelegraph.
[00:18:16] Hawk Tua meme coin dumps 90% amid a backlash over the controversial launch.
[00:18:23] The launch of Hayley Welch's Hawk Tua meme coin sparked outrage because the token pumped
[00:18:28] and then dumped right away.
[00:18:30] She has denied any insider sales or activity.
[00:18:34] Yeah, I know.
[00:18:34] It was launched 10 p.m. UTC yesterday, rose to a peak market cap of $490 million.
[00:18:44] It then dropped to a valuation of $41.7 million, 90% in three hours, according to this screen
[00:18:52] grab here from Deck Screener.
[00:18:54] Hoo boy.
[00:18:56] Yeah, don't spit on that thing.
[00:18:58] Yeah.
[00:18:59] If I'm going to do a Morning Zoo DJ riff on that.
[00:19:02] What's next?
[00:19:03] Crazy frog coin?
[00:19:04] I mean, it's just...
[00:19:05] It's probably already out there, yeah.
[00:19:06] I'm sure someone's done it, but just...
[00:19:09] We want to talk about getting riv whatever goodwill you have.
[00:19:13] Launching a crypto coin seems to be a really good way of making sure whatever minutes of
[00:19:18] fame you have that are left are completely spent.
[00:19:22] She's just cashing out.
[00:19:23] I mean, look, who can blame her?
[00:19:25] Because clearly the Talk Tua podcast isn't going that hot.
[00:19:28] It's already over.
[00:19:29] I probably would have done the same thing, to be honest.
[00:19:31] Someone's like, look, this is almost over.
[00:19:33] Let's burn this place down.
[00:19:35] I'd be like, all right, fuck it.
[00:19:38] The Hawken...
[00:19:39] Oh, Jesus Christ.
[00:19:41] There's an image that Hayley Welch herself on Twitter posted.
[00:19:45] Hawkenomics.
[00:19:46] Sick.
[00:19:46] And it's breaking down all the different details about the coin, but the post that accompanies
[00:19:52] it is very funny.
[00:19:53] Team hasn't sold one token, and not one KOL was given one free token.
[00:19:58] We tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fees in the start of launch.
[00:20:04] Fees have now been dropped.
[00:20:05] So she's going back to that well.
[00:20:07] Yeah, one wallet managed to snipe all the tokens, purchasing 17.5% of the supply, and then dump
[00:20:15] it for $1.3 million worth of profit.
[00:20:18] And good work if you can find it.
[00:20:20] You know what they say.
[00:20:21] Stick with what doesn't work.
[00:20:25] When it comes to crypto or practically anything else, yes, I would be inclined to agree.
[00:20:29] What happened to just having your own hot sauce?
[00:20:32] Right.
[00:20:32] The hot sauce that spits on the thing that you want to be hot.
[00:20:36] Tua and hot sauce.
[00:20:38] Sauce Tua?
[00:20:40] Hot on that thing?
[00:20:41] Yeah.
[00:20:44] Do I have to come up with every idea for her?
[00:20:46] Do you have to do everything for them?
[00:20:48] Yeah, I'd buy that hot sauce.
[00:20:50] I would too, for the novelty of having the bottle, but still.
[00:20:53] It can't be any worse than Steve-O's hot sauce.
[00:20:56] Have you guys had the Steve-O hot sauce?
[00:20:58] Unfortunately, I have not really had the pleasure yet, you know?
[00:21:01] How about you?
[00:21:01] I haven't.
[00:21:03] I've heard it's okay.
[00:21:04] You'd think from Steve-O it'd be a little bit more gnarly?
[00:21:07] Yeah.
[00:21:08] You know, it makes you want to do an acid drop off the back of a semi or something, but like...
[00:21:12] You expect it to taste worse coming from Steve-O?
[00:21:15] I don't know.
[00:21:17] You guys are supposed to put it in your eyes.
[00:21:21] Oh, that's okay.
[00:21:23] Start it.
[00:21:24] Fucking it up, man.
[00:21:25] Well, my brother, he lived in Santa Fe for a couple years,
[00:21:28] and he told me that there were so many burnt-out hippie types in that town
[00:21:33] that you'd just be driving through and see some guy on his front porch putting habanero oil in his eye
[00:21:39] because I was like, he was so burnt out, that was the only way he could get high.
[00:21:44] It's the only way you can feel.
[00:21:46] That's where I'm at.
[00:21:47] Yeah, yeah.
[00:21:48] We're getting close to that juncture in our lives, to be honest.
[00:21:51] Yeah, where are you guys at right now as far as...
[00:21:54] I want a new drug.
[00:21:56] Yeah, yeah.
[00:21:57] We're still at the pouring lemon juice and cuts stage,
[00:22:01] but we'll get to the hot sauce in the eye.
[00:22:03] Have you guys thought about adding salt to the lemon juice?
[00:22:07] Down.
[00:22:08] I'm down for whatever can make the pain fade.
[00:22:16] Well, speaking of making the pain fade, I don't know.
[00:22:19] That's the best transition I got right now.
[00:22:20] We're here to talk about, of course, both the return of Buddyhead
[00:22:25] and this Indiegogo for On The Lash, the Buddyhead movie.
[00:22:30] We got about 40 days left as of this recording.
[00:22:33] It'll be about 30 or so days once this comes out.
[00:22:36] We're at about 10 grand.
[00:22:37] How are we feeling?
[00:22:38] I'm feeling like some people haven't put in enough money,
[00:22:42] but also grateful that it seems pretty good for how far we're in.
[00:22:48] I need some of my big spenders to step up to the plate.
[00:22:50] That's for sure.
[00:22:51] I appreciate the fans and audience that has been supportive so far,
[00:22:57] and then there's a couple sugar daddies out there
[00:23:00] that know that they could fucking drive this train.
[00:23:03] So it's like, let's go champions.
[00:23:05] You fucking call up Axel.
[00:23:07] Right?
[00:23:09] Courtney Love.
[00:23:10] I mean, you know.
[00:23:12] We're trying to get the word out now.
[00:23:14] All right, so tell me about the movie.
[00:23:15] On The Lash, I've seen both of the trailers
[00:23:17] that you put up here on the Kickstarter,
[00:23:18] and they look fucking amazing.
[00:23:20] 250 DV tapes?
[00:23:22] Yeah.
[00:23:23] I don't know.
[00:23:23] I came from skateboarding,
[00:23:25] and that was like, you know,
[00:23:27] you had to kind of film everything
[00:23:29] to prove that you pulled certain tricks and stuff.
[00:23:33] So I kind of grew up, like, documenting my friends
[00:23:35] and skateboarding and made skateboard videos.
[00:23:38] And then when I moved to L.A.,
[00:23:40] I kind of landed in the middle of the punk scene
[00:23:42] with the Icker sign,
[00:23:43] and I just kind of kept filming.
[00:23:45] And my friends were in bands
[00:23:48] and putting on shows
[00:23:49] and, you know, going on tour and stuff.
[00:23:52] So, yeah, it's just something
[00:23:54] I've always kind of done is document my life.
[00:23:57] And when I landed in L.A.,
[00:23:58] I just knew I was in the middle of something special.
[00:24:00] So I started hauling tapes and batteries
[00:24:03] and video cameras around, you know.
[00:24:06] That's a lot of tapes.
[00:24:06] Where were you, like, storing these?
[00:24:08] Was this just kind of like,
[00:24:09] I found it in a storage locker?
[00:24:11] That's kind of like a whole other story, really,
[00:24:14] just how the tapes have survived.
[00:24:16] But, I mean, yeah.
[00:24:18] They were like in a shoebox.
[00:24:19] Yeah, they were like in a shoebox,
[00:24:20] and it's traveled around.
[00:24:22] It's kind of amazing
[00:24:23] that they actually did survive.
[00:24:25] It's changed hands and ownership
[00:24:28] and been stolen and retrieved.
[00:24:30] And, yeah, there's a whole saga
[00:24:32] to the tapes unto themselves,
[00:24:34] but they finally made their way back home,
[00:24:36] which is nuts.
[00:24:37] It does sound like a bit of a journey there.
[00:24:39] What was the imperative
[00:24:41] to start putting this project together?
[00:24:44] It's something that we've wanted to do
[00:24:46] since I shot the tapes.
[00:24:47] Like, even on the tapes,
[00:24:49] we're telling people that we're making a movie.
[00:24:51] So it's like,
[00:24:51] it was always the intent to do this.
[00:24:54] Like, since like we shot it,
[00:24:56] I guess we thought we were important.
[00:24:58] It's just kind of taken this long
[00:25:00] for us to kind of have,
[00:25:01] I think, the mental space
[00:25:02] or to like be able to like step back
[00:25:04] and look at it.
[00:25:05] Like, I guess the time.
[00:25:06] Yeah, just like an emotional distance from it
[00:25:08] so that we don't have to,
[00:25:10] you know, get wrapped up
[00:25:12] in our own egos too much.
[00:25:13] Yeah, yeah.
[00:25:14] It's, you know,
[00:25:15] because like a lot of the people
[00:25:16] that are on the tapes,
[00:25:17] like either we're not friends with
[00:25:19] or some of them aren't even alive.
[00:25:21] And, you know, it's our lives.
[00:25:23] So even putting the tapes in
[00:25:24] in like 2020
[00:25:25] was like kind of a heavy experience for me,
[00:25:27] you know,
[00:25:27] because there's like just a lot of people
[00:25:28] that we don't see anymore.
[00:25:30] And then as like,
[00:25:31] we've kind of like worked with it
[00:25:32] and watched the tapes
[00:25:34] and logged them
[00:25:34] and put them all on the computer,
[00:25:35] it's kind of become more of like,
[00:25:38] they're all kind of characters
[00:25:39] and now I'm kind of like excited
[00:25:40] to make this movie.
[00:25:42] I guess that's a long way of saying
[00:25:43] like we're finally at the place now
[00:25:45] where we kind of have like
[00:25:46] enough distance from all of it
[00:25:47] to like,
[00:25:48] I think kind of make the movie
[00:25:49] that we've always wanted to make
[00:25:50] and that like the fans
[00:25:53] also want to see.
[00:25:54] I'm really stoked about the project.
[00:25:56] To give a little bit of history
[00:25:57] about myself in high school,
[00:25:58] I have a friend
[00:26:01] who turned me on the buddy head.
[00:26:03] He was always like,
[00:26:04] oh, dude,
[00:26:05] you got to check out Icarus Line.
[00:26:06] You got to check out Hot Snakes,
[00:26:07] all this stuff,
[00:26:08] you know,
[00:26:08] Trail of Dead
[00:26:09] because I didn't have internet
[00:26:10] at home at the time,
[00:26:12] but he did
[00:26:12] because his dad was a weirdo.
[00:26:14] But that was always like,
[00:26:16] man, you got to do this.
[00:26:16] And like the gossip page
[00:26:18] ended up being like
[00:26:19] one of our favorite things.
[00:26:21] Like, you know,
[00:26:21] I'd come to school
[00:26:22] and he'd be like,
[00:26:22] hey, man,
[00:26:23] they updated the gossip page.
[00:26:25] You got to check this out.
[00:26:26] And for me
[00:26:27] as a weirdo kid
[00:26:29] in the Midwest,
[00:26:30] like seeing that
[00:26:31] there was something going on
[00:26:32] and that there was,
[00:26:33] you know,
[00:26:34] really creative writing
[00:26:35] and documentation.
[00:26:37] It was funny.
[00:26:38] It wasn't,
[00:26:38] it wasn't boring.
[00:26:39] I mean,
[00:26:40] like I love Grail Marcus.
[00:26:41] I think he's a great music journalist,
[00:26:42] but I don't want to read everything
[00:26:44] that feels very academic like that.
[00:26:47] I want something to feel
[00:26:48] a little weird
[00:26:50] and a little edgy
[00:26:51] and a little,
[00:26:53] not afraid to speak truth to power.
[00:26:56] It's like hanging out
[00:26:57] with your friends
[00:26:57] instead of like some square
[00:27:00] that's trying to like
[00:27:01] write something
[00:27:01] that your parents
[00:27:02] could also read,
[00:27:03] you know?
[00:27:04] I came into it
[00:27:05] as someone who read
[00:27:06] Spin Magazine
[00:27:08] religiously
[00:27:08] and I was like,
[00:27:09] well, you know,
[00:27:09] let's see what this whole
[00:27:10] internet thing is about.
[00:27:11] And then I stumbled upon
[00:27:13] the gossip page.
[00:27:14] I was like,
[00:27:14] okay,
[00:27:15] you're not going to see
[00:27:15] Chuck Klosterman
[00:27:16] writing this shit.
[00:27:18] There was really nothing else
[00:27:19] like it
[00:27:20] and not much
[00:27:21] like it since.
[00:27:22] When it came to the things
[00:27:24] like the gossip page,
[00:27:26] was that just kind of like
[00:27:27] taking a shot
[00:27:28] at the establishment
[00:27:29] or was it just like
[00:27:30] we're in these weird circles
[00:27:32] and we're running around
[00:27:33] all these people.
[00:27:34] And I remember,
[00:27:35] Travis,
[00:27:36] there's a photo of you
[00:27:37] or that you took
[00:27:38] of Jack Osborne
[00:27:40] like smoking a foily
[00:27:42] or something
[00:27:42] in the back of someone's car.
[00:27:43] Like that seems like
[00:27:45] to me still like
[00:27:46] how'd you end up
[00:27:47] in that situation?
[00:27:49] It was Kelly Osborne.
[00:27:50] Oh, Kelly.
[00:27:50] Okay.
[00:27:51] Sorry.
[00:27:52] Yeah.
[00:27:53] I have a shot
[00:27:54] with Jack Osborne
[00:27:55] where we're doing
[00:27:56] a shot of tequila though.
[00:27:57] Oh, hell yeah.
[00:27:58] And I think
[00:27:58] he's like a teenager.
[00:28:02] Entertainment community
[00:28:03] was not so segregated
[00:28:04] back then.
[00:28:05] Before cell phones.
[00:28:07] Yeah.
[00:28:07] So you would just
[00:28:08] kind of run into people
[00:28:09] at things.
[00:28:09] I think people
[00:28:11] weren't worried
[00:28:11] about getting
[00:28:12] their photo taken
[00:28:13] or anything like that
[00:28:15] back then.
[00:28:15] So I think
[00:28:15] it was a lot easier
[00:28:16] to kind of just
[00:28:18] hang out with someone
[00:28:19] and snap a photo
[00:28:20] and no one's even
[00:28:21] thinking about it
[00:28:22] because where's
[00:28:22] that going to end up?
[00:28:23] Well, yeah,
[00:28:24] because the one
[00:28:24] that I keep thinking of
[00:28:25] is Trent Reznor
[00:28:26] holding the black dildo,
[00:28:29] which you have
[00:28:30] for sale.
[00:28:31] I'm not allowed
[00:28:31] to sell it
[00:28:32] as a t-shirt anymore.
[00:28:33] Oh, no.
[00:28:35] Oh, man.
[00:28:37] How did that happen?
[00:28:39] I don't know.
[00:28:39] Someone told on me
[00:28:40] and my store
[00:28:42] got a letter
[00:28:43] and then I got
[00:28:44] shut down for selling.
[00:28:45] You can't sell
[00:28:45] merch, I guess,
[00:28:46] but I can sell prints
[00:28:48] and I have prints
[00:28:48] for sale.
[00:28:49] Honestly,
[00:28:49] it was his idea
[00:28:51] to take the photo.
[00:28:54] Having seen
[00:28:55] the two cassette
[00:28:57] thing closure
[00:28:58] where it's a lot
[00:28:58] of backstage footage,
[00:29:00] it makes sense.
[00:29:01] My friend had
[00:29:02] a bootleg of that.
[00:29:03] Yeah, it was pretty gnarly.
[00:29:04] Yeah, that era
[00:29:05] of touring,
[00:29:05] Trent was really
[00:29:06] just being a real weirdo,
[00:29:07] so it makes sense.
[00:29:09] And, you know,
[00:29:09] he used to hang out
[00:29:10] with Pig Face and stuff,
[00:29:11] so that kind of fits.
[00:29:13] Yeah, he was sober
[00:29:14] when I knew him,
[00:29:15] or at least,
[00:29:15] I mean, I think,
[00:29:16] you know.
[00:29:17] It was a
[00:29:18] with teeth era.
[00:29:20] Oh, okay.
[00:29:20] I saw Nine Inch Nails
[00:29:22] on that tour,
[00:29:23] and that's probably
[00:29:24] the best I've ever
[00:29:25] seen them.
[00:29:25] I've seen them
[00:29:26] a few times.
[00:29:27] Watching Aaron
[00:29:29] fucking thrash
[00:29:30] around his hagstrom,
[00:29:31] this whole entire set,
[00:29:33] and Josh Homey
[00:29:34] from Queens of the Stone Age
[00:29:36] making fun of the crowd.
[00:29:37] The crowd did not
[00:29:38] have any movement
[00:29:39] except for
[00:29:39] No One Knows,
[00:29:40] and when it came
[00:29:41] to that big breakdown,
[00:29:42] they just didn't play it.
[00:29:44] And he's like,
[00:29:44] yeah, try and mosh
[00:29:45] to that,
[00:29:45] you dumbasses.
[00:29:46] I'm like,
[00:29:47] amazing.
[00:29:48] So the documentary
[00:29:49] is called
[00:29:49] On the Lash,
[00:29:50] though,
[00:29:50] if I remember
[00:29:51] my Icarus line correctly,
[00:29:52] that is an Icarus line song,
[00:29:54] yes?
[00:29:54] Correct.
[00:29:55] It was a single.
[00:29:56] It was on the
[00:29:56] Underworld soundtrack.
[00:29:57] One of our many hit songs.
[00:30:00] I was going to say,
[00:30:01] I knew it from somewhere,
[00:30:02] right?
[00:30:02] Yeah,
[00:30:02] it's the Underworld soundtrack.
[00:30:03] Sure, yeah.
[00:30:04] It's also Australian slang
[00:30:06] for being fucked up
[00:30:08] or being on a run.
[00:30:10] Yeah,
[00:30:10] a wasteoid.
[00:30:11] Being a wasteoid,
[00:30:12] being fucked up,
[00:30:13] yeah.
[00:30:13] It's slang for that.
[00:30:15] They had a tour
[00:30:16] called the On Lash tour
[00:30:17] that was through Australia
[00:30:18] as well.
[00:30:18] It's not an original idea.
[00:30:21] I love Australian slang.
[00:30:23] One of my favorite ones
[00:30:23] is when you take a smoke break
[00:30:25] and you're on smoko.
[00:30:26] I just love that.
[00:30:28] I'm on smoko.
[00:30:31] Yeah,
[00:30:32] it's better with the accent
[00:30:33] for sure.
[00:30:33] It sounds real
[00:30:34] once you use the accent.
[00:30:36] Yeah,
[00:30:36] exactly.
[00:30:37] Yeah,
[00:30:37] me saying it
[00:30:38] in my natural,
[00:30:39] no,
[00:30:39] it doesn't.
[00:30:39] I didn't believe you
[00:30:40] until you did the accent.
[00:30:41] I was like,
[00:30:41] I don't know.
[00:30:42] There's a band
[00:30:43] called The Chats.
[00:30:44] They even wrote a whole song.
[00:30:45] I'm on smoko,
[00:30:46] so leave me alone.
[00:30:47] That's right.
[00:30:48] I've heard of The Chats.
[00:30:49] They're like a punk band,
[00:30:51] right?
[00:30:51] Kind of like an angular
[00:30:53] punk band.
[00:30:54] Yeah,
[00:30:55] like an Australian thermals.
[00:30:57] Yeah,
[00:30:57] yeah,
[00:30:58] yeah.
[00:30:58] One of my young friends
[00:31:00] turned me on to them.
[00:31:01] I have one thing
[00:31:03] that bugs me.
[00:31:04] So multiple times
[00:31:05] it says in the trailer
[00:31:06] you turn down
[00:31:07] big money
[00:31:08] for someone else
[00:31:09] to buy the website.
[00:31:10] Yeah,
[00:31:11] yeah,
[00:31:11] we did this
[00:31:11] a bunch of times.
[00:31:13] Like,
[00:31:13] den.net
[00:31:14] offered us money,
[00:31:15] different labels
[00:31:16] offered us money.
[00:31:17] Labels wanted to buy
[00:31:18] Buddyhead?
[00:31:19] Yeah,
[00:31:19] I think like
[00:31:19] it was either Interscope
[00:31:21] or someone like that.
[00:31:22] Oh my God.
[00:31:23] Is it because you guys
[00:31:23] stole Fred Durst's hat?
[00:31:26] We gotta shut these guys down.
[00:31:27] I mean,
[00:31:28] honestly,
[00:31:28] it was just like
[00:31:29] the dot-com boom.
[00:31:30] It was because like,
[00:31:31] you know,
[00:31:31] we had an audience.
[00:31:32] We had 9.5 million people
[00:31:34] looking at the site
[00:31:35] and yeah,
[00:31:36] I guess,
[00:31:37] you know,
[00:31:37] I don't know,
[00:31:38] Joe?
[00:31:38] What about it?
[00:31:39] I don't know.
[00:31:41] What about it?
[00:31:42] You know what?
[00:31:42] Best answer.
[00:31:43] That's good.
[00:31:44] What are you asking again?
[00:31:45] Yeah,
[00:31:45] we fucking,
[00:31:46] we turned down,
[00:31:47] we blew all kinds
[00:31:48] of big opportunities.
[00:31:49] Like,
[00:31:49] we came from like punk rock
[00:31:51] and just thought like,
[00:31:52] you know,
[00:31:52] selling out was like
[00:31:53] the worst thing you could do.
[00:31:54] Yeah,
[00:31:55] yeah,
[00:31:55] we came of age
[00:31:56] in the 90s.
[00:31:57] So it was like
[00:31:57] an embarrassment
[00:31:58] to align with products
[00:31:59] that you didn't,
[00:32:01] develop yourself.
[00:32:02] So like any like product
[00:32:04] that isn't,
[00:32:06] you know,
[00:32:07] from your circle
[00:32:08] seemed very suspect to us
[00:32:11] and like relinquishing control,
[00:32:14] creative control
[00:32:14] of your voice
[00:32:15] or your art
[00:32:16] also just did not sit well
[00:32:18] with us at all,
[00:32:19] you know?
[00:32:20] So we really had a hard time
[00:32:22] kind of selling out,
[00:32:23] which is maybe unfortunate
[00:32:25] in the long run,
[00:32:26] but that's where we were at.
[00:32:28] Yeah,
[00:32:29] we just didn't have anyone
[00:32:29] telling us that like,
[00:32:31] you know,
[00:32:31] that that was a good idea
[00:32:32] or not.
[00:32:33] We were like in control
[00:32:34] and also I was like,
[00:32:35] not like I was rich,
[00:32:36] but I was like making enough money
[00:32:38] to like survive
[00:32:38] and like catch up
[00:32:40] with the Icarus Line on tour
[00:32:41] and like do whatever I wanted.
[00:32:42] So to relinquish like
[00:32:45] the vision
[00:32:45] and the name
[00:32:46] and all of that
[00:32:47] to like something
[00:32:48] that would probably
[00:32:49] ultimately just be whack.
[00:32:51] Destroy it.
[00:32:52] You know,
[00:32:52] it just seemed like,
[00:32:54] yeah,
[00:32:55] it just never seemed
[00:32:55] like an option
[00:32:56] because I just assumed
[00:32:57] if it was worth 9 million now,
[00:32:58] it's going to be worth
[00:32:59] like 20 million
[00:33:00] in a few years.
[00:33:00] So we'll just fucking hang out.
[00:33:02] Yeah.
[00:33:02] And we both have a like
[00:33:05] sort of innate distrust
[00:33:06] for authority too,
[00:33:08] just like naturally.
[00:33:09] So that just doesn't help
[00:33:11] with any of that kind of shit.
[00:33:12] In the intervening years,
[00:33:13] you did build American Primitive,
[00:33:15] which is pretty damn amazing.
[00:33:17] And Los Angeles.
[00:33:19] Yeah,
[00:33:19] that's our new baby.
[00:33:20] Pretty damn impressive.
[00:33:21] I'm psyched to see
[00:33:23] both the doc
[00:33:24] and whatever else comes out
[00:33:26] from this.
[00:33:26] I know that you guys
[00:33:27] have already done
[00:33:28] 40 music videos.
[00:33:29] A bunch.
[00:33:30] Yeah,
[00:33:30] a bunch.
[00:33:31] That's got to be pretty dope
[00:33:32] having that just like
[00:33:33] we can do what we want.
[00:33:34] Yeah,
[00:33:35] it's great to be able
[00:33:36] to have creative control.
[00:33:37] There's always a,
[00:33:38] you know,
[00:33:39] trade off for that.
[00:33:40] It's great for us
[00:33:40] to be able to kind of
[00:33:41] run the ship ourselves.
[00:33:43] With that comes like
[00:33:45] responsibility and woes,
[00:33:46] but it also comes freedom.
[00:33:47] You know,
[00:33:48] it's the old like
[00:33:49] going into business
[00:33:50] for yourself thing.
[00:33:51] And it feels like
[00:33:52] LA is probably
[00:33:54] one of the few cities
[00:33:55] where you can like
[00:33:56] try this still.
[00:33:57] I tried to make it
[00:33:59] as a music photographer
[00:34:00] here in St. Louis
[00:34:01] 10 or so years ago
[00:34:02] and crashed and burned
[00:34:04] rather famously
[00:34:06] or infamously
[00:34:06] depending on who
[00:34:07] you talk to.
[00:34:08] I always think like,
[00:34:09] well,
[00:34:09] maybe if I moved
[00:34:10] to like Chicago
[00:34:11] or Atlanta
[00:34:12] or maybe gone out
[00:34:13] to LA
[00:34:14] and maybe I could
[00:34:15] get a couple more
[00:34:15] years out of that
[00:34:17] situation.
[00:34:17] But it seems like
[00:34:19] LA that's still
[00:34:20] one of like
[00:34:21] three or four cities
[00:34:22] where if you want
[00:34:22] to do like
[00:34:23] what you guys
[00:34:23] are doing,
[00:34:24] there's some
[00:34:25] viability left to it.
[00:34:27] Like if you have
[00:34:27] the drive and...
[00:34:28] Yeah,
[00:34:29] it's just a numbers
[00:34:29] thing too
[00:34:30] because there's
[00:34:30] so many people here,
[00:34:32] you know?
[00:34:32] So it's just,
[00:34:34] you know,
[00:34:34] the population
[00:34:35] can support more,
[00:34:38] you know,
[00:34:39] creative endeavors,
[00:34:40] I think.
[00:34:40] Just more people,
[00:34:41] you know?
[00:34:43] In smaller markets,
[00:34:45] yeah,
[00:34:45] it must be like hard
[00:34:46] to be an artist
[00:34:48] in some ways,
[00:34:49] you know?
[00:34:49] Maybe in some ways
[00:34:50] it's cool
[00:34:51] because it's cheaper
[00:34:52] to live.
[00:34:52] So if you're doing
[00:34:53] something that's like
[00:34:54] self-sufficient like
[00:34:55] painting or whatever,
[00:34:57] you can make a go of that.
[00:34:59] But for stuff like
[00:35:01] documenting other art,
[00:35:03] you know,
[00:35:03] there's just going to be
[00:35:04] more opportunities
[00:35:04] because there's more
[00:35:05] people doing shit.
[00:35:06] I got kind of lucky
[00:35:07] when I was making
[00:35:10] a go at it
[00:35:11] because St. Louis
[00:35:12] was kind of having
[00:35:13] a renaissance
[00:35:14] as far as like
[00:35:14] its music scene,
[00:35:15] its art scene,
[00:35:16] its food scene.
[00:35:17] Like it was like
[00:35:17] St. Louis was a
[00:35:18] bummer place to grow up.
[00:35:20] Yeah.
[00:35:20] It was a bummer place
[00:35:21] to live probably
[00:35:22] until about 2009,
[00:35:24] 2010.
[00:35:25] There wasn't a lot
[00:35:25] going on.
[00:35:26] We had this venue
[00:35:27] here in St. Louis
[00:35:27] called the Creepy Crawl.
[00:35:29] I was going to say,
[00:35:30] Joe,
[00:35:31] did you play there?
[00:35:32] For sure.
[00:35:33] Yeah,
[00:35:33] it sucked.
[00:35:34] It was a terrible place
[00:35:35] and it kind of
[00:35:36] gave St. Louis
[00:35:38] a bummer reputation
[00:35:39] among touring bands.
[00:35:41] I remember
[00:35:42] being at shows
[00:35:43] and,
[00:35:44] you know,
[00:35:45] having,
[00:35:45] listening to someone
[00:35:46] from Tilling the Wall
[00:35:47] tell someone that like
[00:35:48] we just told our management
[00:35:49] never to send anyone
[00:35:50] through St. Louis again
[00:35:51] and no one from that management
[00:35:53] came through
[00:35:53] for a number of years
[00:35:54] and,
[00:35:55] but all that
[00:35:56] changed.
[00:35:56] There was a couple venues,
[00:35:58] a couple people
[00:35:58] that like
[00:35:59] had heart
[00:36:00] and had no problem
[00:36:01] wasting a shit ton
[00:36:02] of money
[00:36:03] to like
[00:36:03] book
[00:36:04] Hard Mark Superstar,
[00:36:05] our book
[00:36:06] weird hip hop shows,
[00:36:07] like do stuff
[00:36:08] that wasn't just like
[00:36:10] bad ska music
[00:36:11] or like butt rock.
[00:36:13] Like stuff happened,
[00:36:14] was happening for a couple years
[00:36:15] and it was pretty tight
[00:36:16] and then that kind of all
[00:36:19] fell apart
[00:36:20] five or six years ago
[00:36:21] and now it's kind of
[00:36:22] rebuilding again.
[00:36:23] Yeah,
[00:36:23] like when there's a lot
[00:36:24] going on
[00:36:25] and you have a camera
[00:36:27] it almost feels like
[00:36:28] there's too many things
[00:36:29] to point your camera
[00:36:30] at
[00:36:31] and then there's times
[00:36:33] where it feels like
[00:36:33] you're struggling.
[00:36:34] Sure.
[00:36:35] Joe,
[00:36:35] I gotta ask,
[00:36:36] I still have not seen it,
[00:36:38] I'm gonna grab it
[00:36:40] off of streaming service
[00:36:41] to rent
[00:36:42] but the Icarus line
[00:36:43] must die.
[00:36:45] It's the,
[00:36:45] you co-wrote it,
[00:36:46] you starred in it
[00:36:47] for a feature,
[00:36:49] what was that,
[00:36:50] was that your first feature
[00:36:51] or did you,
[00:36:51] had you done any
[00:36:52] like movie work before?
[00:36:53] I mean,
[00:36:54] yeah,
[00:36:54] that was it,
[00:36:55] man,
[00:36:55] that was the first feature
[00:36:56] for me,
[00:36:57] you know,
[00:36:57] I didn't even really,
[00:36:59] I wasn't even sure
[00:37:00] what we were doing
[00:37:01] when we started it,
[00:37:02] you know,
[00:37:02] it was like,
[00:37:03] what is this thing?
[00:37:04] I thought it was
[00:37:05] gonna be terrible
[00:37:06] when he told me about it.
[00:37:07] Yeah,
[00:37:07] you know,
[00:37:08] it was a shot in the dark.
[00:37:10] Fortunately,
[00:37:10] we had Michael Grodner
[00:37:12] who was like
[00:37:13] kind of holding it
[00:37:14] all together,
[00:37:15] he's the director
[00:37:16] and he definitely
[00:37:18] like believed
[00:37:19] more than I did
[00:37:20] but pretty,
[00:37:22] like pretty quickly
[00:37:23] into the making
[00:37:24] of it,
[00:37:25] it became really
[00:37:26] like a really
[00:37:27] interesting exercise
[00:37:28] to me
[00:37:29] because I had never
[00:37:29] really acted before,
[00:37:31] I'd never written
[00:37:32] on the fly like that
[00:37:33] before and I just
[00:37:34] fucking loved it,
[00:37:36] you know,
[00:37:36] as soon as we did it,
[00:37:37] I was like,
[00:37:37] oh,
[00:37:37] this is cool,
[00:37:38] this is,
[00:37:39] this is how movies
[00:37:40] get made,
[00:37:40] you know,
[00:37:41] or like movies
[00:37:41] that I like
[00:37:42] get made
[00:37:43] and yeah,
[00:37:44] it really actually
[00:37:45] inspired like
[00:37:46] the next sort of
[00:37:46] chapter in my life.
[00:37:48] yeah,
[00:37:49] I think we saw
[00:37:50] that movie
[00:37:50] and especially
[00:37:51] for me,
[00:37:52] like,
[00:37:52] you know,
[00:37:52] I thought it was
[00:37:53] like going to be
[00:37:54] terrible when Joe
[00:37:54] told me about the idea.
[00:37:55] I was like,
[00:37:56] oh,
[00:37:56] someone's going to
[00:37:56] make a movie
[00:37:57] about the Icker
[00:37:57] sign,
[00:37:58] right?
[00:37:59] And then it
[00:37:59] actually became
[00:38:00] like,
[00:38:01] I think it's a
[00:38:01] pretty amazing film
[00:38:02] that like you can
[00:38:03] not even know
[00:38:04] who the Icker
[00:38:04] sign are
[00:38:05] and just,
[00:38:06] it's more about
[00:38:07] just like being
[00:38:07] an artist
[00:38:08] and,
[00:38:08] you know,
[00:38:09] with that type
[00:38:10] of struggle,
[00:38:10] I think anyone
[00:38:11] that's been an
[00:38:11] artist can relate
[00:38:12] to it.
[00:38:13] But at least
[00:38:14] for me,
[00:38:14] like seeing that
[00:38:15] movie made
[00:38:17] movies and
[00:38:18] music videos
[00:38:19] just seemed so
[00:38:20] tangible,
[00:38:20] like,
[00:38:21] oh,
[00:38:21] we can
[00:38:22] definitely,
[00:38:23] definitely do
[00:38:23] this,
[00:38:24] you know?
[00:38:24] Like the whole
[00:38:25] experience made
[00:38:25] it more accessible
[00:38:26] because it was,
[00:38:27] you know,
[00:38:28] it was not so much
[00:38:29] different than like
[00:38:30] throwing a band
[00:38:31] together,
[00:38:32] writing some songs
[00:38:32] and making a record,
[00:38:34] you know,
[00:38:34] it's the same,
[00:38:35] same kind of
[00:38:36] spirit behind it.
[00:38:38] Right,
[00:38:38] because you had a lot
[00:38:39] of musicians kind of
[00:38:39] playing themselves
[00:38:40] in the movie too.
[00:38:41] You had Keith Morris,
[00:38:43] I mean,
[00:38:44] again,
[00:38:44] the members of
[00:38:44] Icarus Line yourself,
[00:38:46] you had Annie Hardy.
[00:38:47] Yeah,
[00:38:48] all kinds of pals.
[00:38:49] Ariel Pink was in the movie,
[00:38:50] that's right,
[00:38:50] that's what I was trying
[00:38:51] to remember.
[00:38:52] Oh yeah.
[00:38:52] So did you know
[00:38:53] Ariel Pink through
[00:38:54] just kind of being
[00:38:56] mutuals via being
[00:38:57] on the road
[00:38:57] or was that something
[00:38:58] more like,
[00:38:58] hey,
[00:38:59] do you want to be
[00:38:59] in the movie?
[00:39:00] I've known Ariel
[00:39:01] since before he was
[00:39:02] like even Ariel Pink
[00:39:03] really,
[00:39:04] you know what I mean?
[00:39:05] Like,
[00:39:05] I just kind of,
[00:39:07] I've known
[00:39:09] about Ariel
[00:39:10] and known him
[00:39:11] since he was like
[00:39:12] touring around
[00:39:13] in a hatchback Honda
[00:39:14] like hawking tapes,
[00:39:16] you know,
[00:39:16] before people
[00:39:18] kind of like
[00:39:18] knew what was going
[00:39:19] on with him.
[00:39:20] So yeah,
[00:39:21] I've just,
[00:39:22] you know,
[00:39:22] he's been in the music
[00:39:23] scene in LA forever,
[00:39:25] you know?
[00:39:26] He seemed perfect
[00:39:27] for the role.
[00:39:28] That was like
[00:39:28] the main thing.
[00:39:29] It was like,
[00:39:29] who are we going
[00:39:30] to get to play
[00:39:30] like a dejected
[00:39:32] band member
[00:39:34] who's psychotic
[00:39:35] and on drugs?
[00:39:36] It's like,
[00:39:37] dude,
[00:39:37] Ariel can murder this.
[00:39:39] I don't know.
[00:39:39] I'm like still,
[00:39:40] part of me here
[00:39:40] is just kind of like
[00:39:41] sitting here thinking
[00:39:42] like if I told
[00:39:43] 15 year old me
[00:39:44] that one day
[00:39:44] I would have
[00:39:45] Travis Keller
[00:39:45] and Joe from
[00:39:47] Icarus Line
[00:39:47] on my podcast,
[00:39:49] I'd be like,
[00:39:49] huh?
[00:39:50] What's a podcast?
[00:39:51] What's a podcast?
[00:39:52] Second of all,
[00:39:52] that sounds kind of tight.
[00:39:53] What do you guys feel
[00:39:55] is kind of
[00:39:56] the lasting legacy
[00:39:57] of Buddyhead?
[00:39:59] I know it's kind of
[00:39:59] still a thing
[00:40:01] in a way today,
[00:40:02] but it's heyday
[00:40:04] was, you know,
[00:40:06] a minute ago.
[00:40:07] But why do you think
[00:40:08] people still care
[00:40:09] about Buddyhead?
[00:40:10] Why do people
[00:40:10] still talk about it?
[00:40:11] Why do people
[00:40:12] like me and Jason
[00:40:13] want to do
[00:40:14] a whole entire episode
[00:40:15] about the best
[00:40:16] and worst lists
[00:40:17] that you guys
[00:40:17] used to do every year?
[00:40:19] What do you think
[00:40:20] that is?
[00:40:20] I think it's all
[00:40:21] kind of like leading
[00:40:22] up to this movie
[00:40:23] to be honest.
[00:40:24] Like, I think
[00:40:24] everything else
[00:40:26] is kind of like
[00:40:27] practice for this,
[00:40:28] if that makes sense.
[00:40:29] Like, I think
[00:40:29] the real money shot
[00:40:30] is going to be
[00:40:31] the story
[00:40:31] that we're about
[00:40:32] to tell with this movie.
[00:40:33] What a lot of people
[00:40:34] remember
[00:40:35] is the gossip page
[00:40:37] and anything
[00:40:38] that's like
[00:40:38] kind of like sensational,
[00:40:40] like putting phone numbers
[00:40:41] up and stuff like that,
[00:40:43] which, you know,
[00:40:44] was definitely
[00:40:45] a part of it.
[00:40:45] But there was also
[00:40:47] like a lot of other stuff
[00:40:48] like interviews
[00:40:48] and where we actually
[00:40:50] like took it serious,
[00:40:52] you know?
[00:40:53] I remember
[00:40:54] liking the music reviews
[00:40:55] quite a bit.
[00:40:57] Even, I mean,
[00:40:58] those could be very funny
[00:40:59] and very sharp.
[00:41:00] But I was like,
[00:41:01] even if it was a band
[00:41:03] that I had liked
[00:41:03] at the time,
[00:41:04] like the International
[00:41:05] Noise Conspiracy,
[00:41:07] I was like,
[00:41:08] you guys would kind of
[00:41:08] give them some shit.
[00:41:09] And I'm like,
[00:41:10] yeah, if you're going
[00:41:11] to give that band
[00:41:11] some shit,
[00:41:12] like you might as well
[00:41:13] say like,
[00:41:13] I don't believe you guys
[00:41:14] are really communist
[00:41:15] if you don't let me
[00:41:15] leave the show
[00:41:16] with a table
[00:41:17] or whatever it was.
[00:41:18] And do you remember
[00:41:20] like some of the
[00:41:21] more serious stuff?
[00:41:21] I remember you doing,
[00:41:22] I believe it was Travis
[00:41:24] that did an interview
[00:41:25] with King Kong
[00:41:27] at a festival
[00:41:28] that I always remember
[00:41:29] like,
[00:41:29] oh, that was really fun.
[00:41:30] That wasn't me.
[00:41:31] That was a...
[00:41:32] Is that Meathead?
[00:41:33] No,
[00:41:33] it was just some contributor.
[00:41:34] I actually forget
[00:41:35] who did that.
[00:41:36] Okay.
[00:41:37] But yeah,
[00:41:38] that wasn't me though.
[00:41:39] Okay.
[00:41:39] But that was a good interview.
[00:41:40] It was a good interview
[00:41:40] and like that stuff
[00:41:41] was neat.
[00:41:42] And like for me,
[00:41:44] like someone who was
[00:41:45] really inspired,
[00:41:46] like I did music writing.
[00:41:48] I did music.
[00:41:49] I still do a little bit
[00:41:49] of music photography.
[00:41:51] Like that was like
[00:41:52] a thing that maybe like,
[00:41:53] oh, there's like stuff
[00:41:54] you can do
[00:41:54] and you don't have
[00:41:55] to be stuffy
[00:41:57] and you don't have
[00:41:58] to kiss ass
[00:42:00] all the time.
[00:42:01] Like you can just go out
[00:42:02] and you can write stuff
[00:42:03] and you can do stuff
[00:42:03] and you can be weird
[00:42:04] and interesting
[00:42:05] and you can be
[00:42:06] a little cynical
[00:42:07] because if you're coming
[00:42:08] from like a place
[00:42:09] of like of genuine
[00:42:11] like affection,
[00:42:12] for something
[00:42:13] because and you're
[00:42:14] only being like
[00:42:14] maybe a little negative
[00:42:15] or cynical
[00:42:15] because like you want
[00:42:16] there to be better stuff
[00:42:17] or you want someone
[00:42:18] to like,
[00:42:18] hey, I don't think
[00:42:19] you're really putting
[00:42:19] your whole ass
[00:42:20] into this music.
[00:42:21] It'd be really cool
[00:42:21] if you gave a shit
[00:42:23] or you weren't
[00:42:24] trying to like chase a trend
[00:42:25] like do what you
[00:42:26] really want to do
[00:42:27] because I think
[00:42:27] that would be interesting.
[00:42:28] You trying to sound like,
[00:42:30] I don't know,
[00:42:31] Burning Brides
[00:42:32] or I don't know,
[00:42:34] some band
[00:42:34] that's from 20 years ago.
[00:42:36] Like that stuff
[00:42:37] I always thought
[00:42:38] was really interesting.
[00:42:39] I think it gave
[00:42:40] an alternative
[00:42:42] to what was out there
[00:42:43] and you guys
[00:42:45] were also kind of
[00:42:46] into like the second
[00:42:47] to last like big hurrah
[00:42:49] of the music industry.
[00:42:52] I felt like
[00:42:53] the mid aughts
[00:42:54] was kind of like
[00:42:55] the last time
[00:42:55] there was like a,
[00:42:56] it felt like there was
[00:42:57] like a party for music.
[00:42:58] Like there was shit
[00:42:59] in motion
[00:43:00] and then the last,
[00:43:02] the last time was,
[00:43:03] you know,
[00:43:04] 10 or so years ago.
[00:43:05] Like the last time
[00:43:05] it felt like there was
[00:43:06] a little bit of money
[00:43:06] that people were willing
[00:43:07] to take chances
[00:43:08] to put money behind
[00:43:10] the weird band
[00:43:11] or a weird idea
[00:43:12] or an interesting tour
[00:43:13] and now like
[00:43:15] it's,
[00:43:15] it's a fucking struggle.
[00:43:17] There's just not
[00:43:18] this sort of like,
[00:43:20] uh,
[00:43:20] there's not a sort of
[00:43:21] economy in that industry
[00:43:23] to like really support
[00:43:25] that these days.
[00:43:27] Not in the same way anyways.
[00:43:28] You know,
[00:43:29] it's,
[00:43:29] it's everything
[00:43:30] kind of,
[00:43:31] uh,
[00:43:32] you know,
[00:43:32] the whole thing
[00:43:33] got gutted
[00:43:34] by streaming
[00:43:34] whether people want to,
[00:43:36] you know,
[00:43:36] I think people are like
[00:43:37] finally coming around
[00:43:38] to the,
[00:43:39] to acknowledge
[00:43:40] that that's what happened,
[00:43:41] you know,
[00:43:42] but,
[00:43:42] uh,
[00:43:43] you know,
[00:43:44] when,
[00:43:44] when you're in a,
[00:43:46] in a business
[00:43:47] and like the product
[00:43:48] disappears
[00:43:49] and you're supposed to,
[00:43:52] you know,
[00:43:52] become the product
[00:43:53] by touring
[00:43:54] or anything
[00:43:55] but the product
[00:43:56] is supposed to be
[00:43:57] the product.
[00:43:58] You're like,
[00:43:58] oh,
[00:43:59] check out our
[00:44:00] fucking
[00:44:00] band branded
[00:44:02] candle holder.
[00:44:04] Did the,
[00:44:05] uh,
[00:44:05] did the,
[00:44:05] a mannequin pussy
[00:44:06] weed grinder?
[00:44:08] You know what I mean?
[00:44:09] You're like this
[00:44:09] piece,
[00:44:10] good salesman
[00:44:11] asshole
[00:44:12] all of a sudden,
[00:44:13] you know what I mean?
[00:44:13] Which is like
[00:44:14] for a lot of people
[00:44:15] that's not really
[00:44:16] why we got into it
[00:44:17] and honestly
[00:44:18] it attracts
[00:44:19] a certain type
[00:44:20] of person
[00:44:21] at that point,
[00:44:22] right?
[00:44:22] Because
[00:44:23] maybe their goal
[00:44:24] is to kind of,
[00:44:25] you know,
[00:44:27] use music
[00:44:28] as a sort of
[00:44:29] like shoehorn
[00:44:30] for success
[00:44:32] in other areas,
[00:44:33] you know what I mean?
[00:44:34] But,
[00:44:34] uh,
[00:44:35] for those of us
[00:44:36] that it kind of
[00:44:37] was like a calling
[00:44:38] to save our,
[00:44:38] our life
[00:44:40] or something
[00:44:40] that like kind of
[00:44:41] maybe connected us
[00:44:43] to humanity
[00:44:44] at large
[00:44:44] when we maybe
[00:44:45] had problems
[00:44:46] doing that
[00:44:46] in the first place.
[00:44:48] Uh,
[00:44:48] I think it became
[00:44:49] hard for a lot
[00:44:50] of those type
[00:44:50] of artists
[00:44:51] and,
[00:44:52] uh,
[00:44:53] yeah,
[00:44:53] that's probably
[00:44:53] why you don't
[00:44:54] see as much
[00:44:55] of that happening
[00:44:56] at least
[00:44:57] on a like
[00:44:58] above subterranean
[00:44:59] level.
[00:45:00] The musician
[00:45:02] hawking their own
[00:45:03] wares is,
[00:45:04] it's fucking tragic.
[00:45:06] I gotta be honest,
[00:45:06] unless it's a t-shirt,
[00:45:08] you know what I mean?
[00:45:09] Yeah.
[00:45:10] Even then,
[00:45:11] like,
[00:45:11] man,
[00:45:12] like,
[00:45:12] a little bit of mystique
[00:45:13] goes a long way
[00:45:15] with,
[00:45:15] uh,
[00:45:16] with an artist
[00:45:17] for me as a fan,
[00:45:18] you know what I mean?
[00:45:19] Like,
[00:45:19] I don't know shit
[00:45:20] about what Scott Walker
[00:45:22] was doing on the weekend
[00:45:23] and I don't want to
[00:45:24] fucking know,
[00:45:25] dude.
[00:45:25] He's just some dude
[00:45:27] under a baseball hat
[00:45:28] that like sings,
[00:45:30] like has crazy ideas
[00:45:31] and that's,
[00:45:32] that's enough.
[00:45:33] I think it should be
[00:45:34] enough for anybody
[00:45:34] but sadly,
[00:45:35] that's just not
[00:45:36] the business anymore.
[00:45:38] Yeah,
[00:45:38] yeah,
[00:45:38] yeah,
[00:45:38] there's like a
[00:45:39] certain competition
[00:45:40] for,
[00:45:41] uh,
[00:45:42] you know,
[00:45:43] views or like
[00:45:44] for people's like,
[00:45:45] you know,
[00:45:46] uh,
[00:45:47] space,
[00:45:47] you know,
[00:45:48] you're trying to get
[00:45:49] attention so that
[00:45:50] you can like,
[00:45:51] you know,
[00:45:52] grift some cash.
[00:45:53] I think,
[00:45:54] uh,
[00:45:54] Jory Greep,
[00:45:55] uh,
[00:45:56] formerly of Black Midi,
[00:45:58] I saw an interview
[00:45:59] with him where,
[00:46:00] or read an interview
[00:46:01] where he said
[00:46:02] something along the lines
[00:46:02] of like,
[00:46:03] part of like his
[00:46:04] sense of alienation
[00:46:05] with being a,
[00:46:06] a working musician
[00:46:07] is that everything
[00:46:09] you do,
[00:46:09] you feel like you're
[00:46:10] a tiny little corporation,
[00:46:11] everything has to be
[00:46:12] so filtered
[00:46:13] and it has to be
[00:46:15] not really about the art,
[00:46:17] it's about
[00:46:17] making money.
[00:46:19] For sure.
[00:46:20] And making money
[00:46:20] used to be that thing
[00:46:21] that you did
[00:46:22] so you could keep
[00:46:23] doing the art
[00:46:24] but now,
[00:46:25] no,
[00:46:25] it's just,
[00:46:25] it's just making money now.
[00:46:27] When you,
[00:46:27] when you have to be
[00:46:28] a little corporation
[00:46:29] like that,
[00:46:30] then you're sort of
[00:46:31] like,
[00:46:31] uh,
[00:46:32] curtailing
[00:46:33] what you do
[00:46:34] to make sure
[00:46:35] that like the community
[00:46:37] doesn't cut you off,
[00:46:39] you know,
[00:46:39] because you're dependent
[00:46:40] on it for survival.
[00:46:41] It's,
[00:46:42] yeah,
[00:46:42] it's definitely not
[00:46:43] in my,
[00:46:44] from my perspective,
[00:46:45] an ideal way
[00:46:46] or an ideal atmosphere
[00:46:48] for art to,
[00:46:49] uh,
[00:46:50] be made,
[00:46:51] you know,
[00:46:51] cause it's like,
[00:46:52] yeah,
[00:46:52] we're not gonna have,
[00:46:53] uh,
[00:46:53] Sid Barrett today,
[00:46:54] you know what I mean?
[00:46:55] Yeah.
[00:46:56] And he's on TikTok
[00:46:57] getting 120 views.
[00:46:59] Right.
[00:47:00] Yeah.
[00:47:01] Pretty much,
[00:47:02] dude.
[00:47:02] I'm sure he's on there.
[00:47:03] Yeah,
[00:47:03] exactly.
[00:47:04] You know,
[00:47:05] it's a weird one.
[00:47:06] Well,
[00:47:07] today's Sid Barrett's
[00:47:07] probably like an influencer
[00:47:08] now doing street pranks
[00:47:11] or something.
[00:47:12] Hey guys!
[00:47:13] Let's hope.
[00:47:16] Yeah,
[00:47:16] it's,
[00:47:17] it feels a little dire
[00:47:18] and like,
[00:47:18] something,
[00:47:19] something will fucking
[00:47:20] click or change
[00:47:21] at some point,
[00:47:22] but like,
[00:47:23] uh,
[00:47:23] you know,
[00:47:24] it has to affect
[00:47:24] the consumer,
[00:47:26] you know,
[00:47:26] for anything to really happen.
[00:47:29] So,
[00:47:29] uh,
[00:47:30] tickets are fucking expensive,
[00:47:31] but yeah.
[00:47:32] Yeah.
[00:47:33] We're waiting on that.
[00:47:34] You know,
[00:47:34] it's like,
[00:47:34] yeah,
[00:47:35] you want to go pay a thousand bucks
[00:47:36] to go to a fucking concert?
[00:47:37] You know,
[00:47:38] like,
[00:47:38] I don't know.
[00:47:39] It's just,
[00:47:39] yeah,
[00:47:40] it's a weird,
[00:47:40] it's a weird time for,
[00:47:42] for all of it.
[00:47:43] And like,
[00:47:43] I think I,
[00:47:44] for the last 15 years,
[00:47:45] I keep hearing industry people
[00:47:48] or people saying that they like
[00:47:49] have the new business model
[00:47:51] and like,
[00:47:51] none of them are fucking stuck,
[00:47:53] man.
[00:47:54] There's no fucking business model.
[00:47:56] It's a fucking,
[00:47:57] you know,
[00:47:57] it's just some fucking Mad Max
[00:47:59] out there at this point,
[00:48:00] you know?
[00:48:01] And it really kind of like
[00:48:02] the corporate artists
[00:48:03] are taking the market share
[00:48:05] more and more.
[00:48:06] And then there's like,
[00:48:07] uh,
[00:48:08] you know,
[00:48:08] everybody else
[00:48:09] and some faring a little
[00:48:11] better than others,
[00:48:12] but mostly not doing that great
[00:48:14] from,
[00:48:15] from like my vantage point,
[00:48:17] I'm not seeing a ton of people
[00:48:19] doing great,
[00:48:19] even like artists that like
[00:48:20] fucking tour all the time.
[00:48:22] It's like,
[00:48:23] yeah,
[00:48:23] it doesn't look good,
[00:48:25] man.
[00:48:25] So at some point,
[00:48:27] hopefully it hits the consumer
[00:48:29] in a way that they,
[00:48:31] you know,
[00:48:32] cause that's,
[00:48:32] it's,
[00:48:32] it's never going to come
[00:48:34] from big artists.
[00:48:35] You know what I mean?
[00:48:36] They're,
[00:48:36] they're totally profiting off of,
[00:48:38] uh,
[00:48:39] the,
[00:48:40] you know,
[00:48:40] the market just shrinking
[00:48:41] into their favor.
[00:48:43] So like,
[00:48:43] it's never going to come from them
[00:48:45] just like,
[00:48:45] it's a microcosm of everything.
[00:48:47] You know what I mean?
[00:48:47] That's like how the world works.
[00:48:49] So it's like until the consumer
[00:48:50] demands change for some
[00:48:52] fucking reason,
[00:48:53] why would they,
[00:48:54] they get the fucking milk for free,
[00:48:56] but like until they fucking demand it
[00:48:58] until it affects them,
[00:49:00] uh,
[00:49:00] it's just going to be like this
[00:49:02] dystopian soup of like
[00:49:05] 3000,
[00:49:06] uh,
[00:49:07] uploads a second of like,
[00:49:09] whatever the fuck.
[00:49:10] Yeah.
[00:49:11] AI music.
[00:49:11] Like how's that for Christmas cheer boys?
[00:49:14] I know.
[00:49:15] I mean,
[00:49:16] you're not wrong.
[00:49:17] Like I'm,
[00:49:18] I'm involved with a couple venues
[00:49:19] here in St.
[00:49:20] Louis and I have conversations
[00:49:22] with the promoter there
[00:49:23] who is a very,
[00:49:25] like,
[00:49:25] I like to think of pretty fair hearted person
[00:49:27] and we'll eat shit on,
[00:49:30] on,
[00:49:31] on a band that he thinks deserves
[00:49:33] to have an opportunity in St.
[00:49:35] Louis.
[00:49:35] And he'll even say like,
[00:49:37] yeah,
[00:49:37] we didn't make as much.
[00:49:38] We didn't make the margin we want
[00:49:39] on that show.
[00:49:40] The bar ring was okay.
[00:49:42] But he's like,
[00:49:43] I don't even know,
[00:49:44] like even then,
[00:49:45] if what we paid the band,
[00:49:48] which was a good amount of money
[00:49:50] was sustainable for them.
[00:49:53] Yeah.
[00:49:53] And that sucks when you're paying
[00:49:54] someone five figures
[00:49:56] that would have been like
[00:49:57] four or five years ago,
[00:49:59] a fucking sweet amount of money
[00:50:00] for that band.
[00:50:01] And now you're like,
[00:50:03] well,
[00:50:03] we paid them good money,
[00:50:04] but we don't know what their margins are.
[00:50:06] And that sucks.
[00:50:07] And you,
[00:50:07] you kind of see that part of the ecosystem
[00:50:10] now starting to collapse.
[00:50:12] Like there's really,
[00:50:13] it feels like there's only space
[00:50:14] for bands that
[00:50:17] can play
[00:50:18] like 500 cap rooms
[00:50:20] and bands that can do stadiums.
[00:50:22] And there's a little bit of space in between.
[00:50:25] The space in between
[00:50:26] is for people with trust funds.
[00:50:28] It's like,
[00:50:29] yeah,
[00:50:29] art is becoming a daycare
[00:50:31] for the rich children.
[00:50:32] You know what I mean?
[00:50:33] And then like,
[00:50:34] it's like a fucking struggle
[00:50:36] for the rest.
[00:50:37] When I was doing music photography,
[00:50:39] I was like working at minimum wage job.
[00:50:41] I was working at Whole Foods,
[00:50:42] like washing fucking dishes.
[00:50:44] And how many people
[00:50:45] that just assumed
[00:50:47] because I was doing
[00:50:47] what I was doing
[00:50:48] or I was trying to make
[00:50:49] something out of that,
[00:50:51] like thought I was like a rich kid.
[00:50:53] And it's like,
[00:50:53] yo,
[00:50:53] I grew up like right outside Ferguson.
[00:50:55] Like the house next to where my dad lived
[00:50:58] in Ferguson,
[00:50:58] like is burned out.
[00:51:00] There's a burned out house
[00:51:01] on like my grandparents street
[00:51:03] in Spanish Lake,
[00:51:04] which is a famous white flight community
[00:51:06] here in St. Louis.
[00:51:07] Like,
[00:51:08] yo,
[00:51:08] I'm not a rich kid.
[00:51:09] And then like,
[00:51:09] you find out like the person
[00:51:10] that's looking down at you,
[00:51:11] like,
[00:51:11] you know,
[00:51:12] they went to a private school
[00:51:13] and like had trust fund.
[00:51:15] And it's like,
[00:51:15] you assholes.
[00:51:16] It's a wild world out there,
[00:51:17] dude.
[00:51:17] I can only imagine
[00:51:18] how it is out there in LA.
[00:51:20] I mean,
[00:51:20] the last time I was out there,
[00:51:22] I was covering
[00:51:24] Burgerama
[00:51:26] for the now
[00:51:27] widely and rightfully disliked
[00:51:29] label,
[00:51:30] Burger Records.
[00:51:32] And the thing that I always liked
[00:51:34] being in music
[00:51:35] and messing around
[00:51:37] with touring musicians,
[00:51:37] I always found that people from LA
[00:51:39] were very sweet.
[00:51:40] And I found people from New York,
[00:51:41] bands from New York
[00:51:42] were always very pretentious.
[00:51:44] And it was always like,
[00:51:45] people from LA would like,
[00:51:46] listen to you.
[00:51:47] Like,
[00:51:47] Hey,
[00:51:48] yeah,
[00:51:48] you don't want to go to the city museum
[00:51:49] after the show
[00:51:50] because someone's going to steal your shit.
[00:51:52] And like,
[00:51:52] Oh,
[00:51:52] okay,
[00:51:53] thank you.
[00:51:53] But a New York band
[00:51:54] would be like,
[00:51:55] Oh no,
[00:51:55] like we're from New York.
[00:51:56] Like you guys are hillbillies.
[00:51:58] We'll do whatever.
[00:51:58] And then two days later,
[00:52:00] they're on,
[00:52:00] uh,
[00:52:01] you know,
[00:52:01] doing a GoFundMe
[00:52:02] because their van got broken into
[00:52:03] all their shit was stolen
[00:52:04] because they went to the city museum.
[00:52:05] We told you,
[00:52:06] we told you,
[00:52:08] we told you so many times,
[00:52:10] but like going out in LA
[00:52:11] and like talking to people
[00:52:13] and like hanging out,
[00:52:14] like,
[00:52:14] I think we went to hang out
[00:52:15] with some people
[00:52:15] like lollipop records
[00:52:16] and all that.
[00:52:17] And like,
[00:52:18] you know,
[00:52:18] like around the Echo Park
[00:52:19] and like how many people
[00:52:21] like they found out
[00:52:22] we were from the Midwest.
[00:52:23] We're just like,
[00:52:23] Oh,
[00:52:23] that's so cool.
[00:52:25] That's so neat.
[00:52:26] Where are you,
[00:52:26] what are you guys here for?
[00:52:27] And I'm like,
[00:52:28] Oh,
[00:52:28] everyone out here is so nice.
[00:52:29] I wonder if it's because they think
[00:52:30] like that we're either going to sell them drugs
[00:52:32] or buy drugs off of them.
[00:52:33] And that is true.
[00:52:34] We did buy drugs off of them.
[00:52:36] You know,
[00:52:37] I guess there's a reputation
[00:52:38] of people from LA being
[00:52:40] a little bit,
[00:52:41] uh,
[00:52:42] mercenary,
[00:52:42] but I have found that my,
[00:52:43] my week or so out there was like,
[00:52:45] well,
[00:52:45] a bunch of nice people.
[00:52:47] Yeah.
[00:52:48] We're not nice.
[00:52:49] You know,
[00:52:49] you know why?
[00:52:50] Why is that?
[00:52:51] Cause they're Midwest too,
[00:52:52] bro.
[00:52:53] Oh,
[00:52:53] I figured,
[00:52:53] I figured,
[00:52:54] I mean,
[00:52:54] yeah,
[00:52:55] probably transplants.
[00:52:55] That makes sense.
[00:52:56] Yeah.
[00:52:59] Cause I know a lot of folks from,
[00:53:00] from my high school did,
[00:53:01] did wind up on the coast.
[00:53:03] So it kind of makes sense.
[00:53:04] Yeah.
[00:53:05] Yeah.
[00:53:05] Nobody hears from here anyways,
[00:53:08] but like,
[00:53:09] I think,
[00:53:10] uh,
[00:53:10] I think,
[00:53:12] parkers,
[00:53:12] maybe like,
[00:53:13] uh,
[00:53:14] they like to wear it as a badge of honor a little bit more.
[00:53:17] There's like LA is like a little,
[00:53:19] maybe a little quieter about,
[00:53:21] you know,
[00:53:21] where everyone's stoned here too.
[00:53:23] Yeah.
[00:53:23] Yeah.
[00:53:24] That helps.
[00:53:24] And the weather helps.
[00:53:26] You don't get that cranky when it's warm all the time.
[00:53:28] Oh,
[00:53:28] the weather is beautiful.
[00:53:29] Smell a little too much like pee,
[00:53:30] but St.
[00:53:30] Louis also sometimes smells a little too much like pee,
[00:53:33] but for sure.
[00:53:34] I was going to say,
[00:53:34] have you been downtown?
[00:53:38] Yeah.
[00:53:39] I was like,
[00:53:39] I was like,
[00:53:40] Hmm.
[00:53:40] Hmm.
[00:53:40] The heat's bringing that out of the concrete today.
[00:53:43] Yeah.
[00:53:43] Okay.
[00:53:44] Well,
[00:53:44] Oh,
[00:53:44] whatever.
[00:53:45] Like I just,
[00:53:45] I just went to Okie Dog and whatever.
[00:53:48] I'm fucking chill.
[00:53:49] Went to fucking Amoeba,
[00:53:51] you know,
[00:53:51] did all the touristy cool kid shit.
[00:53:54] Yeah.
[00:53:54] It's just a,
[00:53:55] it's a weird place where music is at.
[00:53:58] And that ecosystem I write for,
[00:54:01] and do some photography for local website here called the arts STL.
[00:54:06] It's all people that if there was still an ecosystem would probably be doing paid work,
[00:54:10] but we just do it because we love it.
[00:54:12] And like,
[00:54:12] no one makes any money.
[00:54:13] Like the guy who runs it is a guy who's been doing indie media in St.
[00:54:17] Louis for like 20 years.
[00:54:18] And like,
[00:54:18] it's just a passion project for everyone.
[00:54:20] And I kind of miss when I could at least get some beer money out of it.
[00:54:24] Oh yeah.
[00:54:24] Yeah.
[00:54:25] Speaking of buddy head is back websites online.
[00:54:28] I know you got a zine.
[00:54:30] I know you got a Patreon.
[00:54:31] Yeah.
[00:54:32] I'm going to start putting content up like this,
[00:54:33] probably this weekend on buddy head.
[00:54:35] It's been like a,
[00:54:36] I had some people in my discord kind of build the site from scratch.
[00:54:39] So it's been like a,
[00:54:41] a work in progress.
[00:54:42] That's sick.
[00:54:43] You know,
[00:54:43] finding out different things aren't working yet and just kind of having to fine tune
[00:54:47] things.
[00:54:47] So they all work how we want it to work,
[00:54:49] but it's kind of at the point now where I'm able to put up some content.
[00:54:53] I put up some news.
[00:54:54] It's just like kind of what's happening at Los Angeles,
[00:54:56] our venue at this point.
[00:54:58] But there will be a letter from the editor.
[00:55:01] That's me this weekend,
[00:55:03] probably just kind of like giving everyone kind of an update on all the shit we
[00:55:08] got going on.
[00:55:09] Cause,
[00:55:09] cause it is a lot,
[00:55:10] you know,
[00:55:10] it's like,
[00:55:10] we got a venue,
[00:55:11] American primitive,
[00:55:12] the movie stuff on the site and kind of just call for people if they want to,
[00:55:17] you know,
[00:55:18] volunteer their writing,
[00:55:20] if they think they got what it takes to,
[00:55:22] to,
[00:55:23] to write for buddy head or be a designer or anything that,
[00:55:26] uh,
[00:55:27] uh,
[00:55:27] we're not paying anyone,
[00:55:28] but they can get hired.
[00:55:30] So,
[00:55:30] uh,
[00:55:31] we're not paying anyone,
[00:55:32] but we are paying in cloud.
[00:55:34] Yeah.
[00:55:34] Yeah.
[00:55:34] You can earn cloud.
[00:55:35] I love cloud.
[00:55:37] We have so much credit and it doesn't buy anything.
[00:55:40] So we're going to start dishing it out.
[00:55:41] Yeah.
[00:55:42] They can go.
[00:55:43] They can go spend it at high school or whatever.
[00:55:47] I will warp tours coming back.
[00:55:49] Maybe they can use it.
[00:55:50] Yeah.
[00:55:51] You'll be able to cash it in a warp tour.
[00:55:54] All our cred.
[00:55:55] Cool.
[00:55:55] I can,
[00:55:56] uh,
[00:55:56] for all this credit,
[00:55:57] I can get one,
[00:55:58] uh,
[00:55:58] to write love on her arm,
[00:55:59] uh,
[00:56:00] wristband sick.
[00:56:01] There you go.
[00:56:01] Yeah.
[00:56:02] I think,
[00:56:02] I think,
[00:56:02] I think it's time now.
[00:56:04] A few years ago,
[00:56:04] people asked me about doing buddy head and I didn't,
[00:56:07] I didn't really think people were like wanting to go to websites,
[00:56:10] you know,
[00:56:11] except to like buy shit basically.
[00:56:12] But I do feel like people are tired of the corporate apps and I feel like
[00:56:17] there's a lack of independent voices in pretty much everything I'm interested
[00:56:22] in,
[00:56:22] which is like music,
[00:56:23] art,
[00:56:24] film,
[00:56:25] politics,
[00:56:26] you know,
[00:56:26] it's like,
[00:56:26] there's just a lack of independent voices.
[00:56:29] And even in independent voices,
[00:56:31] there's not a lot of them saying what I want to hear.
[00:56:33] I mean,
[00:56:34] the goal is to once again,
[00:56:36] kind of create like a hub that's like,
[00:56:38] kind of,
[00:56:38] you know,
[00:56:39] shines light on things that we think deserve more attention and kind of is like a
[00:56:43] hub for,
[00:56:44] uh,
[00:56:45] various different voices.
[00:56:46] And,
[00:56:47] you know,
[00:56:48] kind of what it's always been is it's like us and our,
[00:56:50] and our homies.
[00:56:50] No,
[00:56:51] I'd love to see it.
[00:56:52] I'd love to see websites kind of reclaiming the mantle of places to go for
[00:56:57] stuff.
[00:56:57] Cause like you mentioned,
[00:56:59] people just want to go to Twitter or people want to go to whatever siloed social
[00:57:03] media site for websites.
[00:57:05] Yeah.
[00:57:07] And going to a specific site for a specific thing in particular,
[00:57:10] like here,
[00:57:11] like buddy head,
[00:57:12] you know,
[00:57:12] you want to go,
[00:57:13] you want to see what Travis says or what,
[00:57:15] you know,
[00:57:15] anybody else who's going to come in and write says,
[00:57:18] because the voices are,
[00:57:20] are the whole point.
[00:57:21] And that's the thing I've always appreciated about the site and about even going as far
[00:57:28] back as like when the site started,
[00:57:29] there was definitely a sense of there's a voice,
[00:57:32] you know,
[00:57:32] obviously it's not just one person,
[00:57:34] but there's kind of a,
[00:57:35] a house style,
[00:57:36] if you will.
[00:57:37] Yeah.
[00:57:37] Yeah.
[00:57:38] It was definitely like a collective voice,
[00:57:39] you know,
[00:57:40] and it's like drawn from like a lot of people,
[00:57:42] like one of the influences is our friend,
[00:57:44] Sean McCabe,
[00:57:45] who passed away,
[00:57:45] like right when buddy had started and he was like the singer of ink and dagger.
[00:57:49] And just his like presence in the way that he handled himself.
[00:57:53] We kind of like absorb that,
[00:57:55] you know,
[00:57:55] and it's like,
[00:57:55] it's a lot of things too.
[00:57:56] It's like the vibe of like sub pop records in the nineties,
[00:57:59] the world domination shit and touch and go.
[00:58:02] And,
[00:58:02] uh,
[00:58:03] you know,
[00:58:04] big brother magazine and Thrasher and,
[00:58:06] uh,
[00:58:06] you know,
[00:58:07] um,
[00:58:09] different zines that we grew up on.
[00:58:11] It's an,
[00:58:11] it's an amalgamation of just like everything that we kind of thought was cool growing up,
[00:58:16] you know?
[00:58:16] I clocked the Thrasher stuff too,
[00:58:18] it was like,
[00:58:19] okay,
[00:58:19] these guys are clearly coming from a skating background.
[00:58:22] These guys are clearly like they own all the bones brigade tapes.
[00:58:27] Yeah.
[00:58:28] Skating morning is like the thing that kind of connected me to everything.
[00:58:31] Like I grew up in like a culturally like devoid area of the United States called the Pacific Northwest.
[00:58:37] I grew up in Idaho,
[00:58:39] Washington state in the nineties.
[00:58:41] You'd have to drive like,
[00:58:42] you know,
[00:58:42] two,
[00:58:42] three hours to even hit like a record store or like,
[00:58:45] you know,
[00:58:45] do mail order,
[00:58:47] you know,
[00:58:47] just to get any kind of like culture.
[00:58:49] It was like,
[00:58:50] you know,
[00:58:50] a trek,
[00:58:51] you know?
[00:58:51] Uh,
[00:58:52] so skateboarding to me,
[00:58:53] it was like,
[00:58:53] it kind of connected me to like,
[00:58:55] uh,
[00:58:55] you know,
[00:58:56] filming and,
[00:58:57] uh,
[00:58:58] photography and music.
[00:58:59] Cause it was like every skateboard video had every genre imaginable on it would be like rap music into like Led Zeppelin into like punk rock into like jazz.
[00:59:07] So it was like,
[00:59:08] you know,
[00:59:08] this is before the internet.
[00:59:09] So to be able to hear like different genres was kind of a big thing for a kid at my age,
[00:59:14] you know,
[00:59:15] it exposed me to a lot and,
[00:59:16] uh,
[00:59:17] just kind of connected me to everything that like I ended up being into later in life.
[00:59:21] I mean,
[00:59:22] I can certainly say the same again,
[00:59:23] St.
[00:59:24] Louis,
[00:59:24] uh,
[00:59:24] not that different.
[00:59:25] I will say that.
[00:59:27] Oh yeah.
[00:59:28] Jeez.
[00:59:28] It was a final refused record.
[00:59:30] It felt like you got lucky and you had to get that at full price at hot topic too.
[00:59:35] So that was a whole mess.
[00:59:36] Yeah.
[00:59:36] Do you guys know this,
[00:59:37] uh,
[00:59:38] St.
[00:59:38] Louis bands,
[00:59:39] uh,
[00:59:39] the hibernauts,
[00:59:41] the Bobby dazzlers.
[00:59:43] Yeah.
[00:59:44] That's like my friend Jackie's bands.
[00:59:46] He was in those bands and,
[00:59:47] uh,
[00:59:48] he passed away.
[00:59:49] Like he,
[00:59:49] he died in a motorcycle accident,
[00:59:51] but he moved to LA like a couple of years ago and started this surf band.
[00:59:54] Called the cauterizers.
[00:59:56] And I put out like three EPs,
[00:59:58] I think,
[00:59:58] but I'm,
[00:59:59] we were just getting like this next week,
[01:00:01] we're getting their debut on a vinyl.
[01:00:03] I'm putting it out on buddy head.
[01:00:05] Yeah.
[01:00:05] I remember hearing about that.
[01:00:06] He's a,
[01:00:06] he's a St.
[01:00:07] Louis,
[01:00:08] uh,
[01:00:09] alumni.
[01:00:09] Yeah.
[01:00:09] He was always a sweetheart.
[01:00:11] I only met him a few times.
[01:00:12] I photographed the hibernauts,
[01:00:14] uh,
[01:00:14] a handful of times and they were super good.
[01:00:16] Always great guys to hang out with.
[01:00:19] Um,
[01:00:19] and when I heard that he passed,
[01:00:21] it took a second for like all the kind of resonate.
[01:00:23] I'm like,
[01:00:23] fuck,
[01:00:24] that's I didn't,
[01:00:25] I guess I had like lost touch with him for a minute.
[01:00:27] Yeah.
[01:00:28] Cause we weren't like super close.
[01:00:29] It's just like,
[01:00:29] Oh,
[01:00:29] I'd see him and be like,
[01:00:30] Hey,
[01:00:30] what's up?
[01:00:31] I photograph your band.
[01:00:32] Like,
[01:00:32] okay,
[01:00:32] cool.
[01:00:32] And talk a little,
[01:00:33] but always had good vibes.
[01:00:35] People were definitely distraught when they heard of his passing around here.
[01:00:39] Like,
[01:00:40] like I said,
[01:00:40] it took me a second for it to really hit.
[01:00:42] And I'm like,
[01:00:43] fuck man,
[01:00:43] that guy was tight.
[01:00:44] And he went out to LA.
[01:00:45] Yeah.
[01:00:45] He was doing cool shit.
[01:00:46] Like,
[01:00:47] man.
[01:00:47] All right.
[01:00:48] That's a bummer.
[01:00:49] What was an awful way for someone who had such good energy to leave this world?
[01:00:55] Yeah.
[01:00:55] Yeah.
[01:00:55] He was,
[01:00:56] he was one of the coolest.
[01:00:57] It's,
[01:00:57] it's a,
[01:00:57] it's a drag.
[01:00:58] Like,
[01:00:58] it feels cool though.
[01:01:00] Cause I promised him they finished recording their record like through three weeks before
[01:01:03] he passed.
[01:01:04] And we'd already started talking about it,
[01:01:06] picked the record cover.
[01:01:07] And you know,
[01:01:09] I told him we were going to put it out and it's,
[01:01:11] it's cool.
[01:01:11] Like a year and some change later to have it finally coming out.
[01:01:15] Hell yeah.
[01:01:16] Feels like we did something,
[01:01:17] you know?
[01:01:17] And it's a fucking great record too.
[01:01:19] You should check it out.
[01:01:19] It's called a bender ender by the cauterizers.
[01:01:22] It's on streaming and we'll have it for sale on the site by the end of the year.
[01:01:27] And also at our night market on December 21st.
[01:01:30] Boom.
[01:01:31] So the night market December 21st,
[01:01:33] where is that?
[01:01:33] That's at our space,
[01:01:34] Los Angeles.
[01:01:35] We do some different events every month.
[01:01:38] I do a night market,
[01:01:39] different DJs come.
[01:01:41] We have some like vinyl vendors,
[01:01:43] vintage clothing,
[01:01:44] a couple of tattoo artists,
[01:01:46] beer.
[01:01:47] And then we just like DJ records.
[01:01:49] It's kind of like a record store with beer.
[01:01:50] Sick.
[01:01:51] Yeah.
[01:01:51] It's pretty,
[01:01:51] it's pretty fun.
[01:01:52] And then we have like projections and stuff.
[01:01:54] And Joe does a once a month,
[01:01:56] midnight mass,
[01:01:58] which is a,
[01:01:59] I don't know.
[01:01:59] How would you,
[01:01:59] how do you describe it?
[01:02:00] It's like,
[01:02:02] it's a meeting of like me and four musicians,
[01:02:05] three or four musicians that have never played together.
[01:02:08] And we kind of do like a,
[01:02:10] an all improvised soundtrack over the evening,
[01:02:13] you know,
[01:02:14] with very little communication ahead of time and just kind of,
[01:02:17] everyone sets up shop in their respected corners.
[01:02:22] And we get,
[01:02:23] give people,
[01:02:23] you know,
[01:02:24] like an hour and a half of music without any percussion or map,
[01:02:30] you know?
[01:02:30] So we just go nuts.
[01:02:31] Damn.
[01:02:32] Yeah.
[01:02:32] Yeah.
[01:02:32] It's,
[01:02:33] it's been fun.
[01:02:33] It's been good.
[01:02:34] It's not for everyone,
[01:02:35] but for the people that it is for,
[01:02:38] you know,
[01:02:38] I think it's been a good experience,
[01:02:40] you know,
[01:02:40] it's like not unlike a meditation,
[01:02:42] but like a meditation that like pulverizes your cerebral cortex.
[01:02:47] You know,
[01:02:48] it's kind of like really heavy jazz.
[01:02:50] It's like,
[01:02:51] it's a,
[01:02:51] it's a deep meditation and he's got different musicians coming every month.
[01:02:56] Like snakes of Russia was on there.
[01:02:59] David Scott stone.
[01:03:00] He played with the locust Melvin's and LCD sound system.
[01:03:04] Who else did we have?
[01:03:05] It's coming up.
[01:03:06] Album leaf is coming up.
[01:03:08] Yeah.
[01:03:08] But yeah,
[01:03:09] just different people every month.
[01:03:10] So like had a couple of sacks players last time and it's,
[01:03:13] it's pretty fucking cool though.
[01:03:14] It's out there,
[01:03:15] but it's cool.
[01:03:16] Sounds like my exact jam.
[01:03:18] I'm going to be in Mexico,
[01:03:19] but yeah,
[01:03:20] damn.
[01:03:20] No,
[01:03:20] we should go out to LA and check that out.
[01:03:22] Every month.
[01:03:22] We do it every month.
[01:03:24] And now the moment you've all been waiting for shock.jpg.
[01:03:31] All right.
[01:03:32] So,
[01:03:32] um,
[01:03:33] you fellas want to see something gross?
[01:03:35] Maybe.
[01:03:36] Oh,
[01:03:36] okay.
[01:03:36] Here we go.
[01:03:37] Uh,
[01:03:37] go to an incognito window though.
[01:03:39] Cause you know,
[01:03:40] you never know.
[01:03:41] Whoa.
[01:03:45] That's right.
[01:03:45] Uh,
[01:03:45] I,
[01:03:46] I've,
[01:03:46] uh,
[01:03:46] started calling it.
[01:03:47] Is that a ear?
[01:03:48] I started calling this Goatsy 2.
[01:03:51] Uh,
[01:03:51] it is actually,
[01:03:52] what is that?
[01:03:53] That,
[01:03:53] that is the same performer from Goatsy,
[01:03:56] Kirk Johnson,
[01:03:56] but it is another gaping asshole picture.
[01:03:59] It's got no wall.
[01:04:02] It originally lived at stretch dot raging fist.
[01:04:07] Oh,
[01:04:08] he is the giver.
[01:04:09] Uh,
[01:04:10] God,
[01:04:11] that just looks like the worst pie you've ever seen.
[01:04:14] I hate deep dish pizza.
[01:04:18] Gross.
[01:04:19] You guys are gross.
[01:04:20] This interview is over.
[01:04:22] Right.
[01:04:22] Yeah.
[01:04:22] This interview is over,
[01:04:23] dude.
[01:04:24] You guys are gross.
[01:04:25] Uh,
[01:04:26] sorry.
[01:04:27] That's a,
[01:04:27] that's a part of the show we call shock dot JPEG.
[01:04:29] It's,
[01:04:30] it's just a,
[01:04:30] it's a bit of fun that we like to have.
[01:04:32] Rotten dot com,
[01:04:33] dude.
[01:04:34] Well,
[01:04:34] yeah,
[01:04:34] we did a whole episode of rotten.
[01:04:36] Yeah.
[01:04:36] We,
[01:04:36] we,
[01:04:36] we really,
[01:04:37] uh,
[01:04:38] we appreciate the finer things in life,
[01:04:39] I guess is what we're saying.
[01:04:41] Yeah,
[01:04:42] man.
[01:04:42] It's like,
[01:04:42] it's like going to the dentist.
[01:04:44] Yeah.
[01:04:45] Yeah.
[01:04:47] Yeah.
[01:04:47] So that one is actually the same performer from Goatsy.
[01:04:50] You know,
[01:04:50] the guy stretched,
[01:04:51] stretching his anus with the ring on and all that.
[01:04:53] That's the same performer.
[01:04:54] That's Kirk Johnson.
[01:04:56] And that was another from the same,
[01:04:57] uh,
[01:04:58] series.
[01:04:58] And my favorite part of course is the URL.
[01:05:01] It was stretch dot raging fist dot net.
[01:05:04] Fucking gross,
[01:05:06] dude.
[01:05:06] So what is your guys' experience with like shock sites?
[01:05:09] Did you guys ever get like tricked into opening tub girl or any of that shit?
[01:05:11] Every once in a while,
[01:05:13] uh,
[01:05:13] you'll get the fucking buff dude sitting on the edge of the bed with the big dick.
[01:05:18] There's that one.
[01:05:19] That people lemon party,
[01:05:21] lemon party.
[01:05:22] Oh,
[01:05:22] classic.
[01:05:22] Lemon party was a classic meat spin.
[01:05:25] Yeah,
[01:05:25] of course.
[01:05:25] I don't know.
[01:05:26] I never really got too deep into that stuff.
[01:05:28] I remember watching faces of death as a kid,
[01:05:30] but I didn't like it.
[01:05:31] Yeah.
[01:05:31] Faces of death was upsetting.
[01:05:34] Yeah.
[01:05:34] Everyone like five years older than me.
[01:05:36] That was like their shit,
[01:05:37] dude.
[01:05:37] And tricking people into seeing it.
[01:05:39] That was,
[01:05:40] I think the thing that a lot of people,
[01:05:41] people that were older than me at the time were like,
[01:05:44] Hey,
[01:05:44] Hey,
[01:05:45] check this out.
[01:05:45] And they'd put that on the,
[01:05:46] God damn it.
[01:05:47] Why are you doing this?
[01:05:48] Yeah.
[01:05:49] I hated it.
[01:05:49] Like the guy bungee jumping that doesn't take into account the 14th floor.
[01:05:52] And he just like hits the ground.
[01:05:55] Didn't count the floors.
[01:05:56] Right.
[01:05:56] With that Senator in Pennsylvania that blows his head off.
[01:05:59] Oh yeah.
[01:06:00] Press conference.
[01:06:00] Bud Dwyer.
[01:06:01] Yeah.
[01:06:01] Step back.
[01:06:02] This could hurt someone.
[01:06:03] There was a family video down the street from where I grew up.
[01:06:08] That was one of the last rental places that still had VHS.
[01:06:12] And they went probably like,
[01:06:14] I want to say 2007,
[01:06:15] 2008.
[01:06:16] Wow.
[01:06:16] Still had VHS.
[01:06:17] So me and my friend being weirdos would rent stuff from there.
[01:06:20] And we'd find like all the weird schlocky movies,
[01:06:22] like American,
[01:06:23] American Ninja two,
[01:06:24] the stuff,
[01:06:25] all of the classics,
[01:06:27] the classic bad movies from the eighties and nineties.
[01:06:29] But they had a couple of shock tapes and faces of death with one of them.
[01:06:34] And there was one called taboo Asia.
[01:06:37] Hmm.
[01:06:38] It had a segment on like,
[01:06:40] uh,
[01:06:41] this,
[01:06:41] this interesting sect of Christianity in like Malaysia or something where people
[01:06:47] like crucify themselves and like drag the,
[01:06:51] yeah.
[01:06:51] Like the Philippines.
[01:06:53] Yeah.
[01:06:53] It was pretty intense.
[01:06:54] Um,
[01:06:55] there was also like graph a graphic footage of someone having a,
[01:06:58] uh,
[01:06:59] sex change operations.
[01:07:00] Ooh.
[01:07:01] Yeah.
[01:07:02] Uh,
[01:07:02] it was,
[01:07:03] it was a great thing to be like watching like at 17.
[01:07:07] I kind of regret that,
[01:07:11] but we were,
[01:07:12] but we were like two dudes in the Midwest that were bored that listened to
[01:07:16] weird music and skateboard at all time and got harassed by weird dudes and
[01:07:20] pick up trucks for skateboarding.
[01:07:22] So being like transgressive and edgy just kind of felt like it came with the
[01:07:26] territory.
[01:07:28] It does.
[01:07:29] Well,
[01:07:29] yeah.
[01:07:29] Cause like Thrasher had the whole hall of meat section.
[01:07:32] Oh yeah.
[01:07:35] And all that bloody road rash stuff.
[01:07:37] I feel like skateboarding was a gateway to some of these shock sites and
[01:07:40] stuff like,
[01:07:41] Oh yeah,
[01:07:41] here's a guy getting hit by a train.
[01:07:43] Cool.
[01:07:44] Thanks.
[01:07:45] Extreme culture in general,
[01:07:46] when you're like a young and dejected,
[01:07:50] it's time for your mom's favorite part of the show.
[01:07:53] It's time for the breath mint.
[01:07:57] This is the part of the show that we call the breath mint.
[01:08:00] After we see something gross,
[01:08:01] we like to talk about something nice,
[01:08:03] something that we'd like,
[01:08:04] something that we've enjoyed.
[01:08:06] So since the both of you are our guests,
[01:08:09] why don't you guys start us off?
[01:08:11] Let's start with Joe.
[01:08:12] Joe was something caught your ear or your eyes this week.
[01:08:15] Yeah.
[01:08:16] Let's see this week.
[01:08:17] What's been holding me up.
[01:08:19] I mean,
[01:08:20] the same as everybody else on the planet,
[01:08:22] the new Kendrick records,
[01:08:23] fucking great.
[01:08:24] Especially if you're from Los Angeles,
[01:08:26] you know,
[01:08:27] it's like,
[01:08:27] as far as mainstream music goes,
[01:08:30] it doesn't get much better than that.
[01:08:32] You know,
[01:08:32] how many times a week do you find yourself yelling mustard at somebody?
[01:08:37] Yeah,
[01:08:37] I will say,
[01:08:38] check this out.
[01:08:39] So like,
[01:08:39] I don't have Spotify.
[01:08:41] I use Apple music,
[01:08:43] not for any real reasons,
[01:08:44] except for Spotify looks ugly to me.
[01:08:47] But it's the green color.
[01:08:48] Yeah.
[01:08:49] It's just ugly.
[01:08:49] It's like,
[01:08:50] this is gross.
[01:08:51] My like Apple,
[01:08:53] your wrap up or whatever the fuck they do the same stupid thing.
[01:08:57] Right.
[01:08:57] My most listened record this year is already.
[01:09:02] No way.
[01:09:03] Yeah.
[01:09:03] Over the whole year.
[01:09:05] Wow.
[01:09:05] Yeah.
[01:09:06] Yeah.
[01:09:06] Cause you just had it on random.
[01:09:08] Yeah.
[01:09:08] Yeah.
[01:09:09] And then there's that one spiritualized song.
[01:09:12] It's my most listened.
[01:09:14] Cause it was just the first song that comes on in my car.
[01:09:17] Cause alphabetically,
[01:09:17] it's like the first song.
[01:09:19] I fucking hate that song.
[01:09:20] Oh no.
[01:09:21] What song is it?
[01:09:22] The a song.
[01:09:24] It's called the,
[01:09:25] it's on one of their new records.
[01:09:27] And it's just the,
[01:09:28] you know,
[01:09:28] it's the first thing that pops on in the car for some fucked up reason.
[01:09:32] It's like some groundhog's day.
[01:09:35] Like.
[01:09:36] Yeah.
[01:09:38] Like,
[01:09:38] yeah.
[01:09:38] The a song it's called.
[01:09:40] It actually is called that.
[01:09:41] I deleted it off my phone,
[01:09:43] dude.
[01:09:43] I was like,
[01:09:44] this can't happen.
[01:09:44] It would just play every time we turn the car on.
[01:09:46] It was just like,
[01:09:46] Oh God.
[01:09:47] It's not even like a good spiritualized song either.
[01:09:50] It's truly seven minutes long.
[01:09:53] Yeah.
[01:09:53] Now it's a man by suicide.
[01:09:56] I'll take it.
[01:09:57] I'll take it.
[01:09:57] Yeah,
[01:09:58] absolutely.
[01:09:58] Travis,
[01:09:59] how about yourself?
[01:09:59] I also have been listening to the Kendrick record.
[01:10:02] I like the new Jamie X,
[01:10:04] X record a lot.
[01:10:05] Oh yeah.
[01:10:06] I think,
[01:10:06] I think it's great.
[01:10:07] I have tickets to go see him in January.
[01:10:09] I'm excited for that.
[01:10:10] And then I've been backtracking a little bit and I like the last playboy
[01:10:14] Cardi record a lot.
[01:10:15] Okay.
[01:10:15] And then speaking of spiritualized,
[01:10:17] I like the new thing that J Spaceman did.
[01:10:18] It's like a called music for William Eggleston stranded.
[01:10:23] Yeah.
[01:10:24] Okay.
[01:10:24] Okay.
[01:10:24] It's just kind of like,
[01:10:25] it's him and two other dudes just kind of like jamming and they're not
[01:10:29] really songs.
[01:10:29] It's kind of just like jams.
[01:10:31] They're like,
[01:10:32] it's pretty cool.
[01:10:33] Like Eggleston,
[01:10:34] you know,
[01:10:34] you know,
[01:10:34] you're a photographer,
[01:10:35] you know that.
[01:10:36] Yeah.
[01:10:36] Yeah.
[01:10:36] It's like some feels like one of the OG,
[01:10:38] like street photographers.
[01:10:40] So it's like some field recordings he did of some of the people he was
[01:10:43] hanging with.
[01:10:43] And,
[01:10:44] uh,
[01:10:44] they're like playing,
[01:10:45] they're like soundtracking it kind of in a loose way.
[01:10:47] It's cool though.
[01:10:48] It's a good,
[01:10:49] like put on and like work on shit type music.
[01:10:52] I'm going to check that out.
[01:10:53] That sounds like my jam.
[01:10:54] Yeah,
[01:10:55] you'll dig it.
[01:10:55] Yeah.
[01:10:56] That one's pretty cool.
[01:10:57] Awesome.
[01:10:58] And then I also like this artist,
[01:10:59] these artists from Detroit called high tech.
[01:11:01] It's another house music.
[01:11:03] Jamie XX,
[01:11:04] I think it's house music.
[01:11:05] And this is a,
[01:11:06] they call it ghetto house music.
[01:11:08] It's kind of like rap music,
[01:11:09] but really fast.
[01:11:10] And they're called high tech.
[01:11:11] Okay.
[01:11:12] Okay.
[01:11:12] Fuck.
[01:11:12] Yeah.
[01:11:13] All right.
[01:11:13] I'm going to give that a shot.
[01:11:14] Jason,
[01:11:15] what you got?
[01:11:15] Oh,
[01:11:16] well,
[01:11:16] you and I went to see census fail and saves the day.
[01:11:24] Oh boy.
[01:11:25] That was an experience.
[01:11:26] It was indeed here at the pageant in St.
[01:11:29] Louis,
[01:11:29] a nice,
[01:11:30] a decent room.
[01:11:31] What's the cap on that one?
[01:11:32] Like,
[01:11:32] it's like 2300 depending on,
[01:11:34] uh,
[01:11:34] depending on how young the crowd is a younger crowd.
[01:11:36] You can put more people in.
[01:11:38] If you,
[01:11:39] uh,
[01:11:39] if you got an older crowd,
[01:11:40] you get,
[01:11:41] it's a few less.
[01:11:42] Yeah.
[01:11:42] So it was a saves the day doing their 25th anniversary of the 1999 album through being cool,
[01:11:49] which was a formative record from my youth.
[01:11:51] So I was like,
[01:11:52] okay,
[01:11:52] I got to go see this.
[01:11:53] And what really shocked me was that the lead singer is the only guy left from the band.
[01:11:59] Like everyone else was like a ringer.
[01:12:02] Like from Chile.
[01:12:05] They sound great.
[01:12:07] If I were a fan of that band,
[01:12:09] I would have felt like I got my money's worth out of that performance.
[01:12:12] Oh,
[01:12:12] for sure.
[01:12:13] The,
[01:12:13] the thing that I found myself chuckling about was as I'm getting ready to photograph them,
[01:12:17] I'm like,
[01:12:18] wait,
[01:12:19] didn't buddy head write something about how the dude from saves a day has a huge mouth.
[01:12:22] And I'm like the whole entire time I'm like,
[01:12:24] is his mouth that big?
[01:12:25] His mouth is a little bit.
[01:12:27] Is that ring a bell?
[01:12:29] I don't remember that,
[01:12:30] but that doesn't mean anything.
[01:12:32] A dude has a huge mouth.
[01:12:33] A lot of times I'll look back at stuff and not even remember writing it.
[01:12:36] Honestly,
[01:12:37] we wrote a lot of stuff in a short amount of period of time.
[01:12:40] Yeah.
[01:12:40] But that again,
[01:12:41] a thing that stuck with me was the buddy head riff,
[01:12:44] or at least what I remember the buddy head riff being,
[01:12:46] I'm like,
[01:12:46] his mouth is,
[01:12:46] it's not too bad.
[01:12:48] I don't think he could put his own fist in his mouth.
[01:12:50] I don't know.
[01:12:51] We shall see.
[01:12:52] They sound good.
[01:12:54] It was census fail when we decided to leave,
[01:12:57] I think.
[01:12:57] Yeah,
[01:12:58] that was,
[01:12:58] that was rough.
[01:12:59] I've been photographing live music for 14,
[01:13:01] 15 years now.
[01:13:02] I've seen some people have some rough nights on stage.
[01:13:05] Uh,
[01:13:05] that was one of the more uncomfortable.
[01:13:07] Yeah.
[01:13:08] I've seen them in particularly.
[01:13:10] Yeah.
[01:13:10] Yeah.
[01:13:11] What the fuck even is that?
[01:13:12] Yeah.
[01:13:13] I don't even know.
[01:13:13] They're like hard,
[01:13:14] hardcore,
[01:13:14] hardcore man.
[01:13:16] No,
[01:13:16] I think you're,
[01:13:16] I think you're thinking of shadows fall.
[01:13:19] I'm not,
[01:13:19] I'm not thinking of anything really.
[01:13:20] I'm just shooting in the dark.
[01:13:22] Yeah.
[01:13:22] I'm just going by the way the name sounds.
[01:13:24] Uh,
[01:13:24] so New Jersey emo punk thing.
[01:13:26] Uh,
[01:13:27] like,
[01:13:27] uh,
[01:13:27] if alkaline trio was a little bit harder,
[01:13:29] maybe like Bayside.
[01:13:31] Okay.
[01:13:31] I got it.
[01:13:32] Uh,
[01:13:32] but yeah,
[01:13:32] there sounds tough.
[01:13:34] Their album.
[01:13:34] Let it unfold.
[01:13:35] You was a classic at that time,
[01:13:37] like 2001 or so.
[01:13:38] Okay.
[01:13:39] Again,
[01:13:40] among the mall goth people that I was friends with.
[01:13:42] So,
[01:13:43] you know,
[01:13:43] you gotta take that with a grain of salt in certain circles.
[01:13:46] Yeah,
[01:13:46] exactly.
[01:13:47] Well,
[01:13:47] buddy,
[01:13:48] the lead singer,
[01:13:49] uh,
[01:13:49] was having a rough night though.
[01:13:51] Yeah.
[01:13:51] He was going on weird tangents about,
[01:13:54] cause it was Wednesday.
[01:13:55] It was blackout Wednesday,
[01:13:57] the day before Thanksgiving.
[01:13:58] We're all going to have to go talk with our family.
[01:14:00] No one wants to talk about politics.
[01:14:02] No one cares about that shit.
[01:14:03] It was like MAGA.
[01:14:04] No,
[01:14:05] I expected it.
[01:14:06] I thought it was going to happen.
[01:14:08] I was like really weird.
[01:14:09] Like,
[01:14:09] it's like,
[01:14:10] listen,
[01:14:10] like,
[01:14:10] I think you're expressing something that some of us,
[01:14:13] most of us can relate to on some level,
[01:14:14] but we're all a little scared of where this is going.
[01:14:19] I thought for sure it was going to happen.
[01:14:21] But in any minute,
[01:14:22] but he like brought Dan,
[01:14:23] the vocalist from a story of the year,
[01:14:26] which is another band that has a hit song with a riff that sounded too much like that refused riff.
[01:14:31] Hey,
[01:14:31] yo,
[01:14:32] that was like the era.
[01:14:33] Uh,
[01:14:33] I didn't realize until I was like looking back to like in the early two thousands,
[01:14:37] you're,
[01:14:37] if there was a band that had a hit song,
[01:14:39] they usually had a riff that was like,
[01:14:40] this is just a refuse riff,
[01:14:42] but with less,
[01:14:43] uh,
[01:14:44] distortion,
[01:14:45] more palm muting,
[01:14:46] a different key.
[01:14:47] And you're like,
[01:14:47] oh man,
[01:14:48] that really did just get face fucked to death.
[01:14:50] But anyways,
[01:14:51] it was either that refused riff or it was an at the drive-in riff.
[01:14:54] Two bands that spawned a wave of diarrhea.
[01:14:58] It's crazy.
[01:14:59] Yeah.
[01:14:59] There's just so many shit bands that say like,
[01:15:02] oh,
[01:15:02] we love refuse.
[01:15:03] And it's like,
[01:15:03] could you not though?
[01:15:04] It's weird.
[01:15:05] It's,
[01:15:06] isn't it crazy how that happens?
[01:15:07] It's like,
[01:15:08] uh,
[01:15:08] you know,
[01:15:09] uh,
[01:15:09] rage against the machine is probably another one.
[01:15:11] Like,
[01:15:11] you know,
[01:15:12] they have a couple of classic records,
[01:15:13] rage against the machine,
[01:15:14] but like every band that was highly influenced by them is probably the worst band in the world.
[01:15:19] Yeah.
[01:15:20] Or like hum,
[01:15:21] deftones,
[01:15:22] like you could,
[01:15:23] you could count them on your hands.
[01:15:24] Yeah,
[01:15:24] for sure.
[01:15:24] We're talking about being influenced by rage against the machine.
[01:15:27] I'm just saying like,
[01:15:28] I'm saying like,
[01:15:28] uh,
[01:15:29] the band hum from Chicago influenced the deftones and like million other bands were influenced
[01:15:34] then by the deftones.
[01:15:35] And it's like,
[01:15:36] there's not a lot of good bands that say they like the deftones,
[01:15:39] right?
[01:15:40] It just gets worse.
[01:15:41] Yeah.
[01:15:41] It just gets worse.
[01:15:41] It's like that meme where there's just shitting each other's mouth.
[01:15:44] And at the end,
[01:15:45] it's just like extra shitty.
[01:15:48] It's like the band chat pile from Oklahoma city.
[01:15:50] They kind of like buck that trend because like the bass player,
[01:15:53] I believe is like a huge corn fan.
[01:15:56] And he's like,
[01:15:57] uh,
[01:15:58] uh,
[01:15:58] yeah,
[01:15:58] that's just kind of like a,
[01:15:59] a part of our sound is,
[01:16:00] is really influenced by corn and none of the,
[01:16:02] no one else in the band wants to acknowledge it.
[01:16:04] But yes,
[01:16:05] they like listen to their latest record.
[01:16:07] We've all been there.
[01:16:08] We all know that.
[01:16:09] We've all been there,
[01:16:09] but actually it's like,
[01:16:10] actually,
[01:16:11] this is like the cool shit for like the first corn record.
[01:16:14] Like,
[01:16:15] Oh,
[01:16:15] and this was kind of interesting and new.
[01:16:17] And I'm like,
[01:16:18] okay,
[01:16:18] I kind of see it.
[01:16:18] But also that new chat pile record is,
[01:16:20] is like a scary,
[01:16:23] insane,
[01:16:23] heavy music.
[01:16:24] Sick.
[01:16:24] It's fucking love it.
[01:16:25] But,
[01:16:25] um,
[01:16:26] the two from census fails is having a hard time.
[01:16:29] And he started,
[01:16:30] he brought Dan out from story to year.
[01:16:32] And Dan like kind of had this look on his face that he didn't know what was going to happen.
[01:16:35] Don't do this to me,
[01:16:36] dude.
[01:16:36] Don't do this to me in front of all these nice people.
[01:16:38] I have family in the crowd.
[01:16:40] And then about 20 minutes later,
[01:16:42] we're like,
[01:16:42] okay,
[01:16:43] we can't do this anymore.
[01:16:44] Yeah.
[01:16:44] We,
[01:16:44] we sat through about four more songs and we're like,
[01:16:46] I,
[01:16:47] this is the second half of the record.
[01:16:49] The part that I don't care about.
[01:16:51] And also like,
[01:16:52] this has just become really uncomfortable.
[01:16:54] Uncomfortable.
[01:16:55] He started,
[01:16:55] he did start writing about the creepy crawl,
[01:16:57] which was kind of funny,
[01:16:58] but he was talking about playing the creepy crawl with my chemical romance.
[01:17:01] And people do talk about my chemical romance playing the creepy crawl,
[01:17:05] but they do not talk about census fail being on that bill,
[01:17:07] which was kind of the funny part.
[01:17:09] Like,
[01:17:09] Oh yeah,
[01:17:09] you were,
[01:17:10] you did play that show.
[01:17:11] It was like,
[01:17:12] uh,
[01:17:12] I felt like that guy needed just to like,
[01:17:14] uh,
[01:17:14] need a friend.
[01:17:15] You're like,
[01:17:16] this guy needs a friend.
[01:17:17] We're going to leave.
[01:17:18] This guy needs a friend.
[01:17:19] Then it's not me or him.
[01:17:20] We all know him.
[01:17:21] Yeah.
[01:17:22] To push him off a bridge.
[01:17:24] This guy's going through it.
[01:17:25] Let's get out of here.
[01:17:26] Well,
[01:17:27] I look,
[01:17:27] I,
[01:17:28] I did not want it to be like 11 PM and he's,
[01:17:32] where'd you guys go?
[01:17:33] Oh,
[01:17:33] I went home.
[01:17:33] I went home.
[01:17:34] Yeah.
[01:17:35] Cause I'm lame and old.
[01:17:37] Yeah.
[01:17:37] I'm old and boring.
[01:17:38] Well,
[01:17:38] like I texted someone,
[01:17:39] I was at that show.
[01:17:40] I'm like,
[01:17:40] did it get any weirder?
[01:17:41] And they just responded with,
[01:17:42] I hope he gets the help he needs.
[01:17:44] Oh man.
[01:17:45] Well,
[01:17:46] I'm here.
[01:17:46] If he needs help,
[01:17:47] he can reach out.
[01:17:49] We should send them the fucking India go-go page,
[01:17:52] dude.
[01:17:54] Hey,
[01:17:54] do you guys need a clear conscience?
[01:17:55] Maybe he wants to be a movie producer.
[01:17:57] Yeah.
[01:17:57] Yeah.
[01:17:58] Yeah.
[01:17:58] It's like time for a career.
[01:17:59] Yeah.
[01:18:00] Come on,
[01:18:01] buddy.
[01:18:02] Uh,
[01:18:03] well,
[01:18:03] Brian,
[01:18:03] how about you?
[01:18:04] Anything else aside from that,
[01:18:06] that,
[01:18:06] uh,
[01:18:06] rang your bell this week?
[01:18:07] Oh,
[01:18:07] just not,
[01:18:08] not too much.
[01:18:09] What else did you shoot?
[01:18:10] You photographed Suki Waterhouse at the factory,
[01:18:13] uh,
[01:18:14] Tuesday night.
[01:18:15] That show didn't sell well.
[01:18:16] Oh no.
[01:18:17] A lot of people in St.
[01:18:18] Louis wanted to see Mrs.
[01:18:19] Robert Patterson.
[01:18:20] Um,
[01:18:21] I think that new,
[01:18:21] I think that I had to explain to a coworker what Suki Waterhouse's music was like.
[01:18:26] That's so sick.
[01:18:27] And,
[01:18:27] uh,
[01:18:27] I was like,
[01:18:28] you know who Angel Olsen is?
[01:18:30] And they're like,
[01:18:30] no,
[01:18:30] I'm like,
[01:18:31] imagine every slow Angel Olsen song,
[01:18:33] but like chopped and screwed.
[01:18:34] And they're like,
[01:18:35] what?
[01:18:35] So just like really slow.
[01:18:36] I'm like,
[01:18:37] yes,
[01:18:37] like they're really interesting songs,
[01:18:39] but they're like all 70 BPM.
[01:18:42] Wild.
[01:18:43] The record,
[01:18:43] actually the records got a couple of bangers on it.
[01:18:45] There's a reason why you should probably at least like,
[01:18:48] listen to like,
[01:18:48] go on her Spotify.
[01:18:49] Like there's a couple of songs there.
[01:18:51] I'm not going to listen to them at the gym,
[01:18:53] but like I might put them on while I'm like doing dishes or something.
[01:18:56] But,
[01:18:56] uh,
[01:18:57] she has a good voice.
[01:18:58] She dresses really nice.
[01:19:00] She has,
[01:19:00] you know,
[01:19:01] she's got a vibe.
[01:19:02] Okay.
[01:19:02] She's got a good band.
[01:19:04] Um,
[01:19:04] bully was the opener though,
[01:19:06] which I think is the thing that I was most excited about.
[01:19:08] Um,
[01:19:08] I haven't seen them in a couple of years and let's see them on a tour like that.
[01:19:13] Um,
[01:19:13] it was pretty neat.
[01:19:14] Cause the first time I photographed them,
[01:19:15] they were playing a coffee house here in St.
[01:19:17] Louis to,
[01:19:17] uh,
[01:19:18] not even 40 people.
[01:19:19] And here they're opening up for,
[01:19:21] you know,
[01:19:22] Suki war house.
[01:19:23] Who's playing 3000,
[01:19:24] 4000 cap rooms.
[01:19:25] Um,
[01:19:26] unfortunately St.
[01:19:27] Louis just did not have the,
[01:19:28] the riz for Suki war house,
[01:19:30] but it was a good performance.
[01:19:31] Uh,
[01:19:31] she sounded great.
[01:19:33] I got some really great photos,
[01:19:34] but it was also just this weird thing of like,
[01:19:37] uh,
[01:19:38] Oh,
[01:19:38] this could have been like a thousand cap room.
[01:19:40] And it would have been fine.
[01:19:42] Would have sold it out.
[01:19:43] Yeah.
[01:19:43] You could have put it in the pageant was sold out.
[01:19:45] You could have put it in Delmar hall.
[01:19:46] It would have been comfy.
[01:19:47] Wouldn't have been able to take that big check.
[01:19:49] I know.
[01:19:50] Yeah.
[01:19:50] That's the trick.
[01:19:51] And if I had my druthers,
[01:19:53] I would much rather sell out a small room than have an empty big room.
[01:19:57] Oh,
[01:19:58] it's not about what you want.
[01:19:59] It's about what the,
[01:20:00] I know.
[01:20:00] I know.
[01:20:01] Oh yeah.
[01:20:03] Yeah.
[01:20:04] Ain't that always the way I've had a few promoters.
[01:20:06] Tell me stories about like,
[01:20:08] yeah,
[01:20:08] you guys can play my,
[01:20:10] the bigger room that I have access to,
[01:20:12] but no one's going to show up.
[01:20:13] Or you can play the smaller room and have a fucking barn burner for sure.
[01:20:16] And make the same amount of money.
[01:20:18] No,
[01:20:18] I want my band to be miserable.
[01:20:20] Okay.
[01:20:21] It really does feel like that.
[01:20:23] That's the choice.
[01:20:24] But yeah.
[01:20:25] Suki water house.
[01:20:26] Good tour.
[01:20:27] Uh,
[01:20:27] great live performance.
[01:20:29] Uh,
[01:20:29] I hope she decides to come back to St.
[01:20:31] Louis sometime.
[01:20:31] The last time I was there for,
[01:20:33] uh,
[01:20:33] at the factory was for,
[01:20:34] uh,
[01:20:35] King Gizzard and the lizard wizard.
[01:20:36] And that was like sold out and like fucking insane.
[01:20:38] People were losing their fucking minds over a bunch of Australian dudes playing microtonal songs.
[01:20:43] Like the fuck.
[01:20:45] Suki's just paying her dues guys.
[01:20:48] She's just paying her dues.
[01:20:49] She's,
[01:20:49] she's,
[01:20:50] she's paying her dues in the,
[01:20:51] in the,
[01:20:51] in the,
[01:20:51] the 3,200 cap rooms in the Midwest.
[01:20:54] Yeah.
[01:20:57] This is her sleeping on Florida.
[01:21:03] God damn.
[01:21:06] We still got it.
[01:21:09] You got to start somewhere,
[01:21:10] right?
[01:21:11] Fellas.
[01:21:11] Yeah.
[01:21:12] Jesus.
[01:21:13] Just cause you're bored on Thursdays.
[01:21:16] Doesn't mean to ride the home.
[01:21:17] These days you have to start at the top,
[01:21:19] bro.
[01:21:20] Fucking sick,
[01:21:21] sad world.
[01:21:21] Isn't it?
[01:21:22] Fuck.
[01:21:23] God damn.
[01:21:24] That was an uplifting talk.
[01:21:26] Boys.
[01:21:29] That sound tells me that it's time to end the,
[01:21:31] everything's fuck until next time.
[01:21:34] We'll see you guys.
[01:21:36] Yeah.
[01:21:36] So this is part of the show where we would tell people where to find us online.
[01:21:40] Let's go ahead and start with Joe.
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[01:21:41] work when they find you on the old internet.
[01:21:43] I don't have a website,
[01:21:44] but American primitive does American primitive.org backslash.
[01:21:50] Fuck you.
[01:21:50] Hell yeah.
[01:21:51] Travis,
[01:21:52] how about you?
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[01:22:15] And we,
[01:22:15] and if you join the Patreon,
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[01:22:25] So yeah,
[01:22:26] that's my,
[01:22:26] that's my pitch.
[01:22:27] Brian,
[01:22:28] how about you?
[01:22:28] Hell yeah.
[01:22:29] Hell yeah.
[01:22:29] Um,
[01:22:30] yeah,
[01:22:30] you can find me on Twitter at,
[01:22:33] uh,
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[01:22:39] I keep it simple.
[01:22:40] Uh,
[01:22:41] I have a website that's never going to be working again.
[01:22:43] It's a music photographer.com.
[01:22:45] But if you want to check out my portfolio,
[01:22:47] which is always going to be up,
[01:22:49] um,
[01:22:49] it's,
[01:22:49] uh,
[01:22:50] asshole music photographer.com.
[01:22:51] If you want to check out the last and only good music,
[01:22:53] me,
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[01:22:57] Um,
[01:22:57] I'm a mannequin pussy photos just went up the other day.
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[01:23:02] Uh,
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[01:23:04] Please check that out.
[01:23:04] There's a lot of other good stuff.
[01:23:05] I think they're on 150 days straight of new content.
[01:23:08] People are putting in the work,
[01:23:09] uh,
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[01:23:10] uh,
[01:23:10] reward them with your eyeball minutes.
[01:23:12] Uh,
[01:23:13] Jason.
[01:23:13] Oh yeah.
[01:23:14] Uh,
[01:23:14] you can find me online,
[01:23:15] any place there's a video crime.
[01:23:16] Chances are that's going to be me.
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[01:23:51] I hate it.
[01:23:51] It's the post show hangout where we,
[01:23:53] uh,
[01:23:54] hang out and do whatever.
[01:23:55] Usually complain about stuff.
[01:23:57] Yeah.
[01:23:57] Mostly it's mostly complaining,
[01:23:58] but,
[01:23:59] uh,
[01:23:59] if you sign up for the end of the year,
[01:24:01] which is fast approaching,
[01:24:02] you get yourself a 90 minute commentary track on a Japanese puke fetish video.
[01:24:07] Garo monster home delivery.
[01:24:10] I'm not looking forward to it,
[01:24:11] but we said we were going to do it and God damn it.
[01:24:13] We're going to,
[01:24:13] we're going to make it happen.
[01:24:14] So Merry Christmas,
[01:24:15] everyone.
[01:24:16] We put ourselves through some extreme discomfort.
[01:24:21] We're just going to puke on each other.
[01:24:24] Yeah,
[01:24:25] exactly.
[01:24:26] Good answer.
[01:24:27] Yeah.
[01:24:27] there's really no other way to say it.
[01:24:29] We're going to call up Jeff Wood of chat and see if he can,
[01:24:32] I can get you an interview.
[01:24:33] Let me know.
[01:24:34] Okay.
[01:24:35] You know what?
[01:24:36] You know,
[01:24:36] we'll talk after the show.
[01:24:37] Absolutely.
[01:24:41] Oh man.
[01:24:41] Well,
[01:24:42] as we always say at this time,
[01:24:43] namaste,
[01:24:44] good luck.
[01:24:44] Give mommy a good gut fucking 25th amendment.
[01:24:46] Now who ate all the pussy?
[01:24:48] I got nothing.
[01:24:49] Goodbye.
[01:24:49] Good night.
[01:24:50] We love you.
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