Do Go On - 296 - The Exploding Hearts, The Band That Could Have Been (with Josh Earl)

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

This week we are joined by our friend Josh Earl to tell us all about The Exploding Hearts, the band that could have been. In 2003, the group released their debut album Guitar Romantic and were one of the most hyped bands in America... So what happened?Get a ticket to our 300th episode live stream, Saturday July 10: https://sospresents.com/programs/dogoon-300thFor tickets to Matt's shows in Sydney and Melbourne: https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/Get tickets to Josh Earl's stand up recording of 'Talks': joshearl.com.au Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodBuy tickets for our screening of The Mummy on September 10: https://www.lidocinemas.com.au/mummyBuy tickets to our streamed shows (there are 12 available to watch now! All with exclusive extra sections): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoon Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Check out Matt’s Beer show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4TUguJL58 Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-Topic Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by

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link in the description of this episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Evwan Ki and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave. Hey Dave. Hey Jess. Hello Matt. And we are joined this week by a special guest, Al Goodpale, to give us another cracking report I'm sure it's Jojo. Hello Dave. Hello Matt. Hello Jess. Hello Joosh. You've obviously been listening to the podcast. I have. I've looked, you know, I'm very excited. The exciting intro that we've paid into the other time. Not all guests go to the effort to learn our names.

I do appreciate that. Very sweet. Yeah. The Josh Auchen made the right eye contact with the right member. Yes. Well done. Thank you Jess. Oh, like me.

One doesn't have a beard. One kind of has a beard. One does have a beard. Yes. That's how we got here. Yeah, I'm the beard, one kind of has a beard, one does have a beard. That's how we got here. I'm the beardless one and it is my beardless one. Oh, you're the beardless one. She's Dave put pressure on you really, I don't know if you noticed that. Another great report coming up. Oh yeah, I know, because I did the mallets at the palace last time, the basketball one. Oh Oh, fantastic. The NBA, the old fight.

I really hope this has a rhyming title again, because I think that was the secret. It doesn't. It's a secret. I'm sorry. Jessus actually is one of her hidden talents, very good at rhyming. So should we add a come up with an alternative rhym title?

Oh, really? She's memorised rhymzone.com. Oh, you've got to commit it. Apparently if you're a hip hop artist and you mention that you use rhymeszone, it's not good. Really? That's a real shun.

Yeah, a real smackdown moment. Are you supposed to just think of rhymes yourself? Well, I used to think as someone who does write songs, I used to think that's a bit cheating if you use a rhyming dictionary. And then I was speaking, not to drop a name here, but to Darren Hanlon. And he said, why would you make writing songs any harder than it

is just use every trick in the book and I was like oh thanks thanks Dazza has it Thanks to that that's from Ramzan yeah that's from Ramzan yeah that's pretty good he's really works he's happiness is just a chemical. Yeah, that's him. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Did a song with Sarah Blasco, which I used to also call Sazza Blasza. So it was Dazza Hazza and Sazza Blasza. Perfect. Perfect.

See, you're not going to need my help. You're not. Someone's also been on Rhymes. It's my homepage. Well, before we get into the report, Josh, which I'm assuring you, it's going to be great. Thank you. Don't worry about that.

You've got a live stand-up show coming up. I do. And I think it's going to be in the very room we're recording right now. Yes, it is. So if you're in Melbourne, I did a show in 2019 in the Comedy Festival called Josh El Talks. And I love that show. And I want to film it. I've never had anything on film before.

And so the good people here at Super Doll Studios are going to film it for me and I have 12 tickets remaining to sell. So if you've never seen the show, trust me, it's really good. I have seen the show, it was great. It's probably the best thing I've ever done. It's a really good one. And I would like 12 of your listeners who have not seen it to go on to Josh Hill to film with you and buy tickets. I'm just online here. 11 tickets.

11 tickets, yes. Can't wait. I'm missing because we clashed that year. We did. I'll get to see it here. What a convenient venue too. I know. I spend some time here. I just wandered in stairs at the appropriate time.

Well, that's what I always like when you do a show anywhere, like interstate, and you're staying above where you're performing Nothing better than going. I'll watch times at show start right. I'll have a nap up until five minutes for them on and then I'll go down And then as soon as it's finished I'll go back upstairs and just go back to the area There is the danger of entering the stage in your pajamas though there brushing your teeth. Oh, no I'll skip the step having one of those those really long floppy hands I see you sleep in' one of those. And a little light suit with a little flap at the back.

Yeah, perfect. Little poop shoes. Yeah. That's a lot. That gives you an extra laugh, anytime. You sort of put your finger in your mountain ranch, or your butt, flap down. Uh-oh.

What a sea. I'm the cutie pie of comedy. Yeah. I never want to see that. You never want to see that? No. Come on. I don't want to see a butt. And a sea.

That's gross. Well, the same people that are filming your show, Josh, also filmed four of our live shows that we filmed back at the European beer cafe in March and April. Time means nothing. What does it mean, man, that's right. And you can watch all four of those shows at sospresents.com. And we had to edit out a lot of what we said on the show because it didn't make sense without the video. Some people may have heard the podcast, but if you want to watch about 10 or 15 minutes extra,

talk into the crowd and hang shit on each other's appearances. You can do so. As well as we filmed some bonus extra bits at the end, where we did a bit of a debrief after each episode. On my episode I edited out a riff I was going back to where I named different words for sperm. So that stays in on the video version. Yeah.

That's just a great example. I'm like, listening back, I'm like, oh, it's hard to listen to yourself bombing. I will be trimming these bits out, but it was too hard to do on the video. So how many drunkenly named? I think I got to five. I will be trimming these bits out, but it was too hard to do on the video. How many juck in the name? I think I got to 5.

Were you on spermzone.com? Yeah, spermzone.com. That's a filthy website. 1200 worms. What worms? What worms? That's what I got. Oh, what?

Hey, don't take me. You think there could be people at spermzone. You left me hanging on the knot, but you had a I got all the, oh what? Hey, that's, don't take me, think there could be people that spurms on me. You left me hanging on the night, but you had good ones where it'd go, it's a shame. So yeah, that's about, people can, I think it's one ticket gets all four streams. And yeah, please purchase it so that we can pay

stupid off the studios for their time. That's right, they said no money down. What a split the cost with you. So please buy this ticket. It's right now it's a good deal for us but not for them. We love every run, stupid old. All right, Josh. Except for one.

And I shall not make it. Oh, back. I love back. I love back. I know you. All right, Josh. Well, before we get into the report, we'll explain to St. K's people haven't heard the show before.

What we do here is we often take it in turns. To report on a topic, I'll go away to a bit of research, bring it back to the class. And Josh, we don't know what you're going to talk about, which is very exciting. No, I don't know. You know, Dave asked me. He said, can I know? Just in case we've done it before, and I said, no, no, no, you don't get what you're gonna talk about which is very exciting. No, I don't know you other to know Dave asked me so he said can I know just in case we've done it before and I said no no no no you don't get to know

Wow love that so there's a chance that we've done it before yeah sure me don't Oh Jason Josh you sure me don't worry you haven't done it before and I thought I can trust Josh yeah Josh there's been other guests where we're like do you reckon we can trust it? Did you all Google? What about the OJ Slay? Okay? Okay perfect. Great that's the rhyming version.

Can you add a bit of that Josh? Alright so do you go on as? Yes. Who is the band that could have been? Who? Who? Who? Who? That is the question. I don't expect you to answer it. Oh, crazy. Is he answer wings?

Yeah. Oh, wings are a good band. That's Ellen Patrick. Famously said, one of his early TV shows, he's on a radio station, wings finishes, wings there, the band, the Beatles could have been. One of the great songs. That's so good. The band, the Beatles could have been. One of the great songs.

That's so good. And it could have been. That's hard. So it's a band that was at concept stage. Maybe. Would we have heard of them? I don't think you will. I hope you make it better. Flatta Puss.

Flatta Puss Poon. Oh better, yeah. Flaterpuss. Poo. Flaterpuss, poo. Oh, mate, no. You went for a litteration there. No, I didn't. You know when they say things and the words coming out and you're realizing what it is? Yeah. Like regretting it. You could have stopped at poo. Oh, that's what I did.

What did you hear? Is it platerpuss, poo? Slash, poo. No. Poo. Poo. Poo. Is it platypus poo, slash poo? No, what about platypus poo? Poo poo poo. Is there a chance that it's my high school band, Weed Hornet? Weed Hornet. Cut down in our prime, Josh.

Oh, no. We could have been. We could have been. It is not. It's none of those bands. Okay. Okay, so here we go into the report. So in the late 90s, early 2000s rock music was in a weird place.

The garage boom was over, Brit Pop was bloated, and as brilliant as Radiohead R, they're album the bands inspired thousands upon thousands of boring acoustic strombed copycats. I don't know if you've been to parties where some guy gets out, plays fake plastic trees on the acoustic guitar. Time to go home everyone. Time to go home. Now it's not to say they were- Only Chris Martin from Coldplay. Yeah. It's not to say they weren't great bands during this time.

It's just the music that was seemed to get all the radio play and the headlines at the turn of the millennium was angry white man yelling that it was all about the nookie. Were you into those bands, Dave? I reckon you would be out of all the people in this room. I reckon you're the only one who would have rocked like a wallet chain. Let me see. Matt is feeling sick as well.

Spiky hair. Matt gave me a look that said, don't dobb on me. Late 90s, I'm 9, 10 years old. I'm a little bit too young, but a few years later See I'm so out of it that I rocked the wallet chain 2003 2004. Yeah, no, I had a wallet chain. You had one of those. Yeah, I mean did you wallet ever get stolen never I also system works got told to where you wallet in your backpads in the back pocket not the front pocket Had a girlfriend make fun of me going what are you wearing your front pocket? What were your backpacks? Everyone has it. I'm like, oh, I didn't know How did girlfriend make fun of me going what are you wearing your fronpa? What were your back parts? Where were I?

I'm like, oh, I didn't know. I'm a bit of a change. I never told you. Well, in this case, they did. I got told as well. I remember being told. You were you were you wearing a wallet chain in 99? I had I remember on a hardware store.

I didn't understand that you they came pre made. I just bought some chain. It was a non functioningfunctioning wallet chain. Just a chain of cash. Homemade actually is pretty bad, bad bod-ass. It's actually a homemade wallet. What a bad bod-ass. What a bad boy. So I also had whatever significant other that song that Almanuki was on. Oh! That CD. Yeah. Yeah, so apologies. Well then, in the year 2001, out of New York came five friends with cool haircuts, vintage

suits and an amazing first album. That band is called The Strokes, and this episode is not about them. Because at the same time, the strokes were making kids all over the world lie and say they were always into bands like television and velvet underground Yeah, I've always loved them. I always loved them a bunch of friends on the other side of the country of America It was also paying homage to bands the past because in Portland, Oregon Four guys by the names of Adam Cox Matt Fitzgerald Terry six and Jeremy Gage formed a band called the exploding Hearts and this is the story of the band that could have been

Anyone heard of the exploding hearts. I don't think so. No, okay Now Portland has a pretty good history when it comes to indie rock music Johnny bands that came from Portland. If I say these bands, tell me if you know them like Slater Kinney. Yes Just got a new album, right? Yes, they do, yes. Elliot Smith? Yes. The Desembrists, the Danny Warholz, modest mouse.

What, yeah. The shins? Oh, okay. Originally from Albuquerque, but moved to Portland when they formed the band. So they're kind of a Portland band. Anyway, I could go on and on and on. Yeah, well. So I could hit right.

Yeah, yeah. I was going to say I didn't know any but yeah that's heaps. That's a lot. It feels like yeah it's interesting that always that it's well known for that. It is a hipstery kind of place. It is a hipstery place but at the turn of the millennium not so much. And I'm not sure what is about places that have a higher proportion of rain to other places but they just make good bands.

So Melbourne, better bands and Sydney. You got to stay inside. You're in the garage more often. Yeah. I think so. So London, better bands in Ibiza. I don't know too many Ibiza bands that I know of. Portland, Seattle, New York, outshine Hawaii when it comes to music.

Yeah. Jack Johnson. And the other guy who plays the ukulele, the big guy, that one. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only other Hawaiian. Yeah. The big two. They do a lot of the big guy. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only other toy. Those two. The big two. They do a lot of heavy lifting.

Now, just like the strokes who met at a Swiss boarding school, or they were attending boarding school there, the exploding hearts also met at high school. But they didn't come from such opulence as the strokes did. In an interview, the band did with punk magazine called Maximum Rock and Roll, which I'll talk about a lot, because they are one of the few people that interview them. They described the school they went to as being

for rejects and pregnant girls, which I think is then putting a bit of gravy on it, because I looked it up. It's called C. E. Mason Heights in Beaverton, in Oregon, and it's an arts academy as well. So you've got the high school, but then you've also got people going there because they're good at the arts.

Now, as these guys described it, they did everything together the high school but then you've also got people going there because they're good at the arts Now as these guys described it they did everything together in high school They said they it was like they shared one brain and besides loving music. They also love skateboarding Smoking pot and vandalizing their small town of beaverton It's a great town. I know what could you Vandalize the sign. It's already got beaver in the sign like what do you do yeah just rub out the ton Beaver ton beaver puned what about that? Get rhyme so not. Jesus I was close wasn't I? Plotables puned. I think of the platepuses as Australia's beaver. He's always said that. I can back you up on that and he's always said that.

So while in high school Adam Cox the singer, who's older than the other members by two years, was already fronting a local band called the iguanas, which just happened to be the same name as one of E. Pop's first bands, which is where Iggy comes from. So he's real name's not Iggy. He's real name is James Osterberg, but he took the moniker Iggy from fronting the iguana. So it was Iggy in the iguana. I know, that's a great fact. Yeah, do you know what?

You're a big fact man. No, no, I didn't know it. And do you know why he chose pop? No, I know, a favorite drink. No, because Igi snapped an Igi crackle in sound as good. That's a joke. That's a joke. That's a joke.

I don't know, I disagree with him though. Igi snapped. He snapped. He snapped and crackled. Oh I disagree with it though. Biggie Snapple. Snapp and Crackle. Oh my god, Snapple. Too fruity. Okay, so the aguinas were a popular school band and people would make their own aguinas t-shirts and wear them around the school.

And the school still has the seven inch of the aguinas that they made on the wall as a bit of a hall of fame. These are past students who did great things. Guaranteed 70 something. I cannot believe that warranted at high school has not done the same thing. For wheat on it. That's insane. Where's ARIP?

Very disappointing. Is that high school band? High school band. What was the best band in your high school? Was it wheat on it? Yeah, I reckon. Okay. Honestly, there weren't that many.

Yeah. I think the band I was in was the only band in my high school. Was it weed hornet? Yeah, I reckon. Honestly, it wasn't that many. Yeah. I think the band I was in was the only band in my high school. So yeah, best by default. Yeah, honestly, I feel the same way. I was in a band that we never actually did any like gigs or even any practice. We called ourselves community scooter. Oh, that's fun.

Yeah, because we stayed at some caravan park, me and some friends, and there was this one scooter that we'd saw that all the kids We just right around and my friend down said that that must be the community scooter Well, that's a good band name. That's from a band called community scooter It's always great when you start with the name first. Yeah, yeah, I've formed a band that never played anything called a Kerrio brine on the contentious issues But our our most famous bands were I don't think I ever saw them at school, but jet was just a couple years above me. Oh, okay. And British India was

a couple years below me, I think. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I was in a real cultural wasteland in between them. Well, some of the other bands that the guys in and the exciting hearts were also in, were bands called The Silver Kings, F U. Oh, that's good. The Spider Babies, the Bed Pans, and the last one was called Coco Cobra and the Killers. Oh, that's my favorite. But the exciting hearts, they're different entirely. Well, all the other bands were,

they had more of a garage rock kind of feel to it. This new band was all power pop and punk. Heavily influenced by bands like the Buzzcocks, the undertones, the only ones, Nick Lowe, and pretty much anything from the UK Stiff Records label. So we're going back to the punk era from the 70s there. So the first formation of the band was just Terry and Adam,

and they called themselves the teenage faces. Because they've got the faces. Yes. And then they lost a member and they called themselves the small faces. Because they've got the faces. And then they lost a member and they called themselves the small faces. And these guys are teenagers, so they called themselves the teenage faces. But they quickly just bannered when Adam left Portland

after he graduated. And he moved to California. But while he was there, he'd call up Terry Six, and the two of them would work on songs over the phone together. So the idea of forming this new band, he moved back to Portland once the others had graduated high school and they rebranded the teenage faces to the exploding hearts. I like exploding hearts, and it's a good band name. It's really good. Yeah. Yeah. They got their instruments by either borrowing it from other guys around town or

and forgetting to give it back that is. Or Matt Fitzgerald, the bass player, rumored he sold pot and exchanged it for cool records. So if you wanted pot, you'd go with some cool records he might not know and so he'd give you some. And he exchanged his bass guitar that way. I mean cool is quite subjective isn't it? I could go over there with Dolly Parton and be like this is pretty rad and he'd be like get out of here. I was like well I actually think that's very cool. I actually think this is half a kilo's worth.

Thank you very much. I actually think that's just a half a kilo, it's worth. Thank you very much. If I could be honest. He's got a ratio on the wall. How cool. He's got a cool armata. Yeah, cool armata. Like a first edition, he's like, well, that's worth it. That's pretty cool.

So Adam and Terry, they live together in a place they called the Pink Palace, because the building had a pink tire swing hanging in the front yard. And each room was tagged with names such as Led Zepp, Dead Moon and Metallica. They were the three bedrooms. This was the result of a spray paint war between six and Cox. The kitchen was a salmon pink and on the wall they had spray paint of the words guitar romantic. That was on the wall with their kitchen just about their fridge.

They sound like a landlord's nightmare. Yeah, but very cool, but oh god. Guitar Romantic. Guitar Romantic. And style was very important to the band. And it mainly came from the direction of Adam Cox, who designed the hearts look. So the white stripes, they had the red and white and sometimes black. The hives had their white suits, the exploding hearts, their signature colors were black, white, pink and neon yellow. And the

guys took a do it yourself approach to their clothing and one of Terry Six's favorite outfits was a pair of black leather pants, a ratty tank top and a leopard print women's jacket he got from the op shop that he dyed pink in the bath. So it was a pink leather like fur coat kind of thing. No, it was ruined the bath as well. Yeah. Has he ruined it or has he made it way cooler? And the band they all cut their own hand. Their style was a bit like what Matt's rocking. It was a bit like a shagged out mullet.

That's what they were rocking. And this is. I said awesome. This is 2001, 2002. People weren't having mullets back then. I was, yeah, well, I was, but no others were. Man, they're exploding hearts. As Terry Six says, he goes, I don't recall any other band looking like us.

We were pretty noticeable. Everything we had was shredded, safety pinned, or bleached the hell out of. We want to talk really menacing, but also eye catching. Menacing and eye catching. The colors sound like licorice all sorts. Yes, why pink and yellow right? That's good I like a liquorice also. I like separating them all You like if we be teeth. That's a yeah, you know, I don't want to go get some right now Can we have a quick break to it after and we're back

And they were I catching the band were very I catching people knew about them in Portland before that even played shows They these four were a gang and then they started playing knew about them in Portland before they even played shows. These four were a gang. Then they started playing shows and people in Portland hated them. They were considered a joke and they'd attract us with our all style over substance. This was 2002. This was before the Portlandia kind of hipster boom and everyone was moving there to try and be artistic. This was when it was cool. It wasn't cool to dress up on stage at all.

If you actually thought about what you were wearing on stage, that was like you were selling out. You just get up there and what you were wearing that day, that's what you do. This was when pretty much the fashion important at the time was blue jeans and flannel. That's what everyone was wearing. These guys were all flamboyant and colorful and very in your face. But a few people were intrigued by the band, even though they didn't quite like the band, they were intrigued by them.

And their shows were becoming legendary for the wrong reasons. Quite often the band would just fight each other on stage, that'd get into arguments with the audience, and one time Adam Cox, the lead singer, had a few too many drinks before and during the show, vomited on stage, and then rubbed the vomit in his hair and continued with the rest of the set. Oh, Matt were you doing that as well with your mullet? No.

Up until rubbed in his hair I was like this is my dream. I've just get wasted and throw up. Did you ever see the band Matt the fuck fucks? Fuck fucks, yeah what are I saying I'm in a festival somewhere. Yeah I saw when I was a little festival somewhere. Yeah, I saw when I was a little probably 18 come over from Tasmania to see the big day out and they were on one of the smaller stages and I said, well, just go and see what's on here. And the lead singer Fred Nego, who's also a cartoonist, was the singer. He was wearing a little negligee that only went to his hips and then he was banging his penis on the tender end. That was too much for my little, 80 year old boy into a comprehend.

I can't handle it. Sure, he was getting a great rhythm in the loop. When you said it only went to his hips, I didn't know if you meant up, up to his hips or down to his hips. Well, I was hoping for up to his hips. Okay, but industry people were beginning to notice the band two. And they picked up a manager at the time called Rachel Ramos. And promoters were coming to check them out to see if they'll put them on

on their places. Label people and even the drummer from Slater Kinney, Janet VICE, would come and check out the early shows. It was a bit of a, like, let's go to E-Beaker what these young guys are doing. It was a bit of intrigue. Yeah, but one guy who was super intrigued was a guy called King Louis Bankston. Bankston. Bankston.

Bankston. Yeah, that's fun. What do I keep? Yeah, King Louis. More interested in the bank. Now, King Louis was something of a Portland legend having moved there from Louisiana. Now, he is a musician and he has made over 53 albums. Well, an important, the exploding heart's voice, new hymn, as the guy who worked at the Ferris wheel,

and once let left Terry Six, hanging off the top of it for 45 minutes, and before he let him down. That's who they're like. Oh, you're the guy that fucked me up with the Ferris wheel. Yeah. That probably would have loved it for the sounds these guys. Yeah, well they used to go there and drink and then ride all the rides. And then there was only one time they said they wouldn't let them on because they were too drunk. So what time, this is early 2000s, man. Yeah. So a lot of those bands you mentioned before had already started or about to.

Slater Kinney was kind of I think 93, 94, I think they were first doing stuff. So they were already starting. So Elliot Smith had already been like around. He was still living at this time, at this stage. Right, when did he die? 2004 I think they were first doing stuff so they were already starting so Elliot Smith had already been like around He was still living at this time at this stage. Right. When did he do? 2004 I think right and the December is would kind of starting up. Yeah, but they were all would have been around Yeah playing in fans. Yeah, and you're watching the fuck fucks and I'm watching about this fuck. Yeah. Yeah So one day anyway one day Adam is at the skate park, and Louis, who they know,

because Louis was also busking around town as a one man band. He would be the one man band. So the drum on the back, symbol of the 20s, knees, guitar, harmonica, all that kind of stuff. Louis was driving, saw Adam at the skate park, went to window down and said to Adam, who he recognized from playing in the spider babies to get in the car. So Adam did, okay, yep, you would get in the car with the one man band.

You still wearing the car? He's playing the tambourine with his penis. And King Louis drove him around and asked Adam if he could join his new band as the keyboard player and he had a song he'd written for them. Adam asked if he could hear it, think he may have a demo in the car but instead of putting a tape on, King Louis just took his hands off the steering wheel, so drumming on the steering wheel and did the guitar line with his mouth, and he stopped the guitar to start singing. So he said, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,

I'm a pretender at the game of love, need somebody help me shout out my heart and amazingly Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun So King Louis, he left the band after a year. He was only in the band for a year. Moved to New Orleans. We had been living on and off a years. He was also living there in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina happened. And this is a story of how he survived Hurricane Katrina. So he was living with his girlfriend at the time. And when the hurricane hit, they were inside and the floodwaters were rapidly rising.

So they thought they were safe inside until they realized the water was now quite high and they need to retire ground. So armed with a chainsaw, Louis cut a hole in his ceiling and that was the only way they could, they escaped onto the roof because he covered chainsaw. He took his dog and his girlfriend and they got whatever they could up on the roof. The water was still rising so they had to get even higher and so they climbed onto the neighbor's roof which was higher and the water was still rising and they thought that we're in trouble here. And then on the distance they saw her brother come in a kayak.

He had a canoe. So he was canoeing but the canoe could only take one person. So King Louis being quite chivalrous. He said, right, women and children first. So his girlfriend went with her brother. They floated down and then he was waiting there for the brother to come back while he was waiting there

because all the rivers were flooding and in New Orleans snakes live in the rivers and there's this type of snake called the moccasins. And so the moccasins were all coming and now kind of just swimming through the roofs and he was getting bitten by moccasins like snakes because I will try and bite his dog. So he had to, like Kimmy, we had one,

he's dog under one arm. He had an all-out in the other hand, and he was bashing off snakes until the brother finally came and then he got rescued. And he survived. Like he survived Hurricane Katrina. And the dog? I don't know if the dog's alive, it was 2005.

They're on bad names. They're on bad names. It survived the night, yes. And that dog're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past. They're all back to the past.

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Yeah. All right. Sharp. Don't tell mom. Get in to get in. Yeah, it has that kind of vibe while he's doing something very heroic. So, now, just like the strokes, they have their older, more experienced producer Gordon Raphael, who recalled their first two albums and helped them find their sound.

Do you know why they stopped using him, by the way? I'm a big strokes fan but apparently, they were on the Spider-Man soundtrack and their song was just before the Hive song, I hate to say I told you so. And when they heard their song and then heard the Hive song, they're like, our song sounds like really tinny and weak compared to the Hive. So we need to up our production values. And they've never had an album as good as the first two. Right, because isn't that the whole point? And they like run vocal sewer guitar amp

and then record the amp, all that sort of stuff to try and sound. Yeah. Like Tinney and shit like the drums are like recorded by like a microphone, like seven meters away. And stuff like that. And then they hear a probably produced record. Which is telling the opposite. Man, did you mean that they had no idea why that was successful? And then they hear a probably produced record. Which is telling the opposite. The opposite, man.

Did you mean that they had no idea why they were successful? No, I think they just were like, if we're going to be on other compilation albums, our songs aren't going to sound as big as the other bands. Right. I don't know. I guess it's always I think when you start playing bigger venues, like Kings of Lander are a good one for this,

after like three albums. I mean, we need to sound like you too now instead of like Garage Band. Anyway, the strokes had Gordon Raphael, the Exploent Hearts have part-time Ferris wheel operator King Louis to help them find their sound. But not all the band were on the board straight away. I mean, the band were doing fine without King Louis. It'd be like if Dave, you to do go on, and you're like, hey, I've got a new member of the band, he's a ferris wheel operator, he's gonna, I bet him in the car, he did a podcast at me.

He's gonna change our sound. Yeah. In a big way. He's huge. So first full band practice with Louis, Louis, who walked in, eating a dag would dog, and had, cause he just finished work. Straight from the show.

Yeah. Incredible. And he had three beers under his arm. who walked in eating a dag would dog and had, because he just finished work. Straight from the chair. Incredible. And he had three beers under his arm. The other man was like, okay, I've heard you got a song for us. And this time with an actual instrument, he played the song, I'm a bartender, and the band will like, yep, you're in. Wow. So this was a song that Louis had been had, yet for a while.

And he actually tried to sell it to another band, who said, now we're more into the more garage rock kind of sound but he'd been recorded now I don't know if you know the band Big Star. The leads are a Big Star Alex Chilton recorded some of King Louis previous work and he played him this song and Alex Chilton said that that's a hit that you've written a hit record there King Louis but he did what it recorded himself. Okay, but one of the things that Louis brought to the band was he was adamant that the band's lyrics had to be honest and heartfelt, which juxtaposed the spikiness of the music. And once they figured out this, they

bunker down the right song for the first album, which they called guitar romantic. Ah, callback to the kitchen, Dave. The kitchen, you thought was called in the kitchen. Yes, sorry, I was thinking they're going to call it Pete Palace for sure. Guitar romantic, okay. I was thinking they'd go greatest hits. Oh, that's always bold for the first album, isn't it?

Got to sit volume one. I like when a band is like four albums in and then they just have a self-titled album. Yeah, nice. Yep. Some Metallica did. I think ballpark. Five albums in? Yeah. You or my did like six albums in? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look 182. It's like a reset or we can't think of an album title. Yeah. The Beatles did it a fair way. The bandwings could have been. So funny. The band, the Beatles could have been. So in 2002, the hearts, we entered the studio

to record their first full length album. The group recorded all the tracks within a two-week period with local producer Pat Kernes in a small set up known as Studio 13. And the band said, we didn't spend too much time on it. That's what we liked about it. We't have to try we already had the songs just go in there record them get out so discussing all their influence before recording they include the obvious ones that I've already mentioned like Buzz Cox undertones all that kind of stuff but they also mentioned which Pat

Kerns Fanny Trieging the Supremes yeah so Pat and the band made a conscious effort to balance the buzz saw grit of early punk music with Phil Sip Spectre's wall of sound production to give it a more polished sound. So Phil Kern says punk music was just so hard on its edges and didn't have the tenderness. And he'd often encourage cocks to sing like Diana Ross. And as he was singing, he'd yell out from the control room, less punk, more Diana. Can you hear that in the background of the record? Now after finishing the recording and having written background of the record. No. Now, after finishing the recording,

and having written seven of the songs, and helping them find their sound, King Louis leaves the band, and moves back down to New Orleans, although the door is still open. Or you can come and join the band whenever you want, play keyboards, whatever you want to do. They even joke, we don't have to turn the keyboards on. You can just come and play. Wow, they like him.

Yeah, they love him. So released on April 1, April 4th, 2003, on screaming Apple Records, punk fans around the country immediately took notice. Ten songs, Ten songs only, it's finished in 28 and a half minutes. And the opening track, Modern Kicks, is a classic. And King Louis, Pantumra, Pretender, comes straight after that. And it sounds so much better than it did in the car on the... It's a bad one. So the white stripes released elephant, yeah, he has released people to tell. The black keys released thick frickness,

and the kills released keep on your mean side. So it's huge, like all those bands are still doing stuff today. So it's a huge... Okay. So the entire 1,000 copies of guitar romantic sell out in two days. Like, you know, the white stripes released elephant. Yeah, he has released people to tell. The black keys released thick frickness, and the kills released keep on your mean side.

So it's huge, like all those bands are still doing stuff today. So it's huge. Okay. So the entire 1,000 copies of Guitar Romantic sell out in two days. They get rid of all, but in Portland, not as popular. At the album release show, the band didn't sell a single record. And as the band said, Portland didn't give a shit. Nobody respected us or cared about us. And in the interview of your 2013,

for every diehard, there were like 10 people who fucking hated us. Okay, so. That's quite the right ratio, is it? No, you don't want to get the other way around. I think it's, yeah, someone about their people in the town knowing them. Yeah, it's just going.

The rest of the country's like, we like the music and we don't know their fuck heads But the group's national buzz is reaching a high point when pitchfork the online Music site praise guitar romantic and critic matlamay gave it 8.8 out of 10 and added it to the sites best new mic new music page And calling it simply a fucking awesome power pop record and remarking that the exploiting hearts are the best punk band to come along in a long time, maybe since the original wave. And he ends the review by saying the exploiting hearts have released an album that is at its core, Ageless. Wow.

Yeah. It's big, big, no, I have, I don't know if you read, Pitchfriva, weird love hate affair. I like Pitchfork because they've introduced me a lot of bands. I don't like Pitchfork because I feel they have one of the best reviews ever. And I know these are your old school buddies, but Jet Second album. Do you know what they did for how they reviewed it? I just never met them. I know them.

You're a good pal. They reviewed Jet Second album by just putting a video of a monkey pissing in its own mouth. That was the whole review. That's incredible. Yeah, it was a dog shit album. Was it really? That's probably the second best review I ever read was in NME when they reviewed George Michaels, listen without prejudice, and they just reviewed it, listen without speakers.

That's a very good review. Dave's a big George fan. They like George Michaels. Well, they are too, as they come out and say it's a great album. Well, there you go. I was just going to say pitchfork're often quite revisionist too aren't they? They bagged the shit out of something. The 20th later be like one of the best 50 albums of all time. That's funny. That's music criticism like down or T. They do it all the time. I think they're often

the critics or a generation out. So then the people who come up with the music, they ended up reviewing it and they revised it. Now that was sick. Yeah, well, they wasn't for those old reviewers. This took my life. Yeah, exactly. What else we've seen? Yeah.

Well, I don't like about those sites, like NME, pitchfork and all that. Well, they build the band up and then they're like, now we're going to cut them down. And it's that thing of like, hang on, you guys were the ones that said that this sounds great. And then they recorded it and they're like, no, we you guys were the ones that said that this sounds great and then recorded in the like, no, we're over there.

Yeah, they've done something similar. Yeah. And yeah, I'm not a fan of that sort of stuff, but I also do, it is a way to find music for sure. Yeah, I'm also very interested in 8.8 out of 10. I'd love to know his scoring system. 8.8. I find all the numbered scoring,

star rating is so weird, so. Really hard. This is good, or this is not good. I find all the numbered scoring, star rating is so weird. So this is good or this is not good. That's all you need to know. Yeah. I like this you like this. Yeah, according to me, this is what other things I like. If you like these things, you might also like this. It's yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, so now with the question. Unless I get a high school. Yeah, in which case they are a very good reviewer. Yeah, I get a lot of respect. I haven't had to worry about that so far. Now, the good press, the bad, I headed on an American summer, I head out on a road in 2003, they have some very cool opportunities. So they're asked to support UK punk legends, the Buzzcocks,

when they come to Portland, plus they're asked to perform at the Harvard Lampoon at their graduation party, which sounds like a weird gig, but is quite a prestigious gig in 2002. The act two plays the Harvard Lampoon graduation was Conan O'Brien. Oh, sure. And the year before that, the strokes. Wow. So was it this gig that they managed at a Rachel Remos? Talk about how she knew that she had a band that was pretty special. The entire crowd at the Harvard Lampoon on the other side of the country knew every word to every single song and these weren't punks. These were college kids and now a Harvard college kids of that. And the band knew they were onto something and they had mass cross over appeal.

That would be timeless. As they looked around the walls of the Lampoon, they had portraits of all the past performers there. So they had Bill Murray, John Balushi, Conan, the Strokes, and then they had a portrait of their album, Guitar Romantic, on the wall as well. And they thought, that's it. We're gonna audition for Saturday night.

This is it, yeah. I'm gonna make it. I'm gonna be a comic genius. They'll probably do a weekend update, I think. So at the tail end of this trip to Boston, the band had some shows booked in San Francisco, and that was something I'd read at a venue called the bottom of the hill, which they tried to play before the album came out and they booked them and then had to cancel them because no one

had bought tickets. This time they put two shows on and they'd sold out instantly. So the band was now hyped and with these two legendary shows that bottom of the hill, they were riding high. And after playing the second show, they did an impromptu show, and another bar called the Parkside, and during the show, the band went past the bar's curfew, and so they pulled the PA, and the band were under turret and just kept on playing their instruments. So we could hear the drums, and the crowds sang along with every word. So like, we know, and so to get them, like, it was kind of back in the days

when King Louis was doing accapella on them. But to get them out of the venue, the bar manager gave them all their money so that he's a cash and a couple of bottles of booze and the band went, all right, we're off. OK. Starmer sound like this band was. You said they never was. Well, wait for it.

There's a twist. OK, the next day, it was a dream. It was a dream. It was a dream. It wait for it, there's a twist. OK, the next day, it was all green. It was green. LAUGHTER And then they woke up. The next day, before that, they have a meeting with a label called Lookout Records.

Now, who had seen, they'd been to the bottom of the hill shows, and they were very impressed with what they had seen. Now, this was the label, most famous release in the first albums from the band's Green Day and Rancid. And Lookout seemed very interested, and they were the band's Green Day and Rancid. And look out, seemed very interested. And they were the band's dream label. That's what they wanted to be on. Like they were on the Scream Apple, they were with dirt nap records for a bit. They wanted to be on Lookout Records.

And because the other dream was they wanted to play with the donors. They're a big fan of the band The Donners. I need Donner. Oh, I get it. Yeah, for sure. And... Skin type, maybe alright. And so look out, had Arnie The Donners. I need Donner. Oh, I get it. So, it's Kim Tart, baby, all right. Yeah, and so, look out Hadani Donner. Not any Donner.

Look at the Donners. Look at the wish they had, Aani Donner. The Donners had just left for a big label, I think, was Innescope, but they still had good terms of look out. And so, look out, we're saying, they're about to go on a national tour, exploring hearts. You can be the support. So, they're super, super successful. Other bands on the label at the time were

Tedley on the pharmacist, Tedley on the pharmacist. Pretty girls make graves, pretty girls make graves. And the patent, these are three very little bands. You should look them up, they're very good. They're very good after the Smiths lyric. Pretty girls make graves, yes. Yes they were, yeah. So on the evening of July 19th, the band

headed back home to Portland, a 10-hour trip, 960 kilometers, winding through mountains. After driving hours and hours, they reached the outskirts of Oregon where they stopped in a bar that was frequented by country people and bikers who did not appreciate the look of the boys in their pink and yellow and fur coats.

Now I'm not sure what happened in the bar, but the band got kicked out and decided to trash the front fence of the bar as I left to try and find somewhere to park the van and sleep. So after a couple of hours sleeping, Matt Fitzgerald decides it's time to keep moving, starts the car up and starts driving home. Now just north of Eugene, about 100 minutes away from Portland, Fitzgerald veered onto the gravel on the left side of the road and lost control of the van.

Authorities reported that Fitzgerald most likely overcorrected when he attempted to steer the van back towards the highway, causing it to roll multiple times. Terry Six says of the accident, it felt like it was a joke. And his first thoughts as they were rolling was, God damn it, now I have to walk all the way home. Oh my God. When it came to a stop though, the damage was a lot more significant. Along with all the instruments and equipment, Cox, so Adam Cox, Jeremy Gage and Matt Fitzgerald

had all been thrown from the car. And Terry says, I saw our life and our friends and just everything destroyed on the side of the road. So Adam Cox, 23 and Jeremy Gage, 21, died at the scene. Matt Fitzgerald, who was only 20, he died in hospital shortly after. Oh my god. So six Terry six and Rachel Rammass, the manager with the only two wearing seat belts. They were treated for minor injuries and released from hospital that day. It rolled multiple times.

My pool time. And they were treated for minor injuries. Minor injuries. Jesus, that's a good ad for seat belts. Totally. How lucky were those? You know, like you can draw a line and being punk and being two punk.

Like, seat belt is okay. You know, I was going to judge in your. Yeah, it's all right. I mean, I think May have been, I know, Matt was driving, but the others were sleeping, I think. Yeah, I'm back. I'm not sure. Oh, no.

So July 20 was when families and close friends were alerted about what had happened. So that year, Pitchfork names the guitar romantic, the 14th best album of the year, which if you look at the albums in 2003, it's very impressive. So like outcast, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, the strokes, all those bands, all those bands.

All those bands. Okay. And September 2009, Pitchfork ranked the album number 60 on the list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. And at the same time, Bobby Martinez, who interviewed the hearts for the maximum rock and roll, he was working in a record shop called 1234Go Records in Oakland when Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong came in and asked if they had guitar romantic. And a few months later, at a concert, Green Day played a cover of the song, Modern Kicks,

at a secret club show. Also, that song has been voted ranked 291 on pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s. I know, Modern Kicks. So, do I know, because of you? What do I know? Maybe, yeah, I like it. You used to make me mix tapes when you were courting me. Yes.

Let's try the search. Oh, to be so lucky. Let's try to switch. Oh, to be so lucky. So Terry Six, the only surviving member, is quite understanding we traumatized from the experience, and very rarely does interviews. Like, he's done like three or four in the past, and that's about it, about where he talks about the band. Yeah.

Just everything, like, yeah, not just your friends have died, but his whole life, like, it sounds like they were just on a true Actually, go on sky was yeah, felt unstoppable probably so I mean obviously your friends dying is the worst part But every your whole life's gone. Oh, man. That would be tough to recover from He's been a few bands. So he was in a bank with the nice boys and then in 2018 He teamed up with his old Ferrisville operator, friend himself King Louis and they released an album called Terry and Louis and when they play live they actually play exploding heart songs. Oh nice.

Yeah. There is a documentary in the works. It was supposed to be finished in 2019 but as of yet no release date has been confirmed but the trailer for it is up on YouTube if you want to go and look at the trailer. Also in 2006 a compilation album of early demos, because they're not only the one album, but they were working on the second album, and so there's a couple of finished songs and a couple of early demos from the first album, and the new songs are brilliant. Like they clearly are going to go, yeah, this is not just one hit wonder, these guys know how to write a song.

And albums could shatter, it's not on Spotify, but it is on YouTube if you want to listen to that guitar romantic is on Spotify. I'd listen to that one first Yeah, for sure. I came to check it out now Yeah, so I was alerted this band by my friend Brenda Maloney who people in Melbourne might know he used to run crab lab And he said listen to the album, but don't Google them What if you do do not Google this band before you've listened to the music and I thought? They're horrible like they've murdered people, some of my friends. Yeah, it's like Charles Manson kind of stuff. And then it was like, oh, now I'm just sad.

So you, but did you follow his advice and listen to the music for this? Yeah, I did, yeah. Because I'd hear that and be like, I've got a Google list. Yeah, I've got a little bit of it. The interesting, yeah. And then so you listened, you loved it.

I loved it. And then I was sad. So that is the tale of the Exploding Hearts. Four friends who found each other, when everyone else thought they were weird, who made songs that their peers didn't get and who, through tragedy, didn't get to see the rest of the world catch up. The band that could have been and the young men that never got a chance to. Wow.

Right, sorry, but. And. Jeez, that is a sad story. Yeah. And it's actually, I don't know if it's better or worse to hear that the music they were working on for a second album was great. I think it's worse. Is it worse? Because they were great rather than the one hit one.

Yeah. They could have still be going, you know, and still be a really big band now. Yeah, it sounds like they probably would have been. Yeah. I mean, I think so. Like that first album, it's one of those things, though, when you're a band like that, you go, is the story what makes people love the album more now or is it the music? But I listened to the music first. I thought, no, this is really, really good. That's a good, you know, good sign. Yeah. Yeah. But I, yeah, I don't know. I, I, I hope they would be, but it's that thing like how many albums does a band like that having it? Yeah, it's like three, four and then it's like going okay now you've got to do something new.

Yeah, that's fair to you. Wow, what a story. What do you think Portland now claim them as yeah? Yeah, no they do. So there was a local radio station who would play them and have them do live to airs, but not everyone was fans, but then this is on YouTube as well, they do a memorial show the Friday after they died and people are calling in with their memories and it goes from hour and they play like some early demos and they have people, Rachel the manager rings in, that's where I got a lot of the information from. I was trying to find the story in there. And yeah, but there's very little on online.

I was reading people who went to their high school's blogs about it. Yeah, it was, yeah. It's interesting, maybe the new Dockle change or that. Hopefully. Yeah. Why did the town dislike them so much? It was just they didn't get it. I think, yeah, at that time, it It's like I guess if you're kind of

Where kind of garage rock and these guys are all about power pop kind of like no we like poppy stuff We're singing about girls and heartbreak and stuff like that. They're like, oh, what is this a joke? And then also dressing like they're out of like a Casting agents what an idea of punk. You know, stranger thing season two, and it's like, oh, the punks, that's what they'll kind of dress like, but would pink, pink and neon yellow. Yeah, that's funny.

It's funny when, like, a music, you think of music as being a place for rebelliousness, but it really isn't so often. Yeah, but I also think it must be tedious when those punks are like, yeah, because you look at all the punks now from the 70s, so John Liden, who's like, now just a conservative idiot.

These guys were like, I just like to be contrary. So when the 70s been contrary, was like kicking against authority. And now when they reached the contrary, and they're like, no, the youth, the hopeless, they're dumb. It's like, shut up, you old idiot. Just like the youth kind of like do what they want to do

in terms of like, do what exactly what you did. Like yeah. That's a G rated way to tell someone off, but it also hits so hard, you know. Shut up, you old idiot. You can use that on that. Thank you. I did find that, yeah, I find nostalgia so funny like that when I didn't find that.

Yeah, I find nostalgia so funny like that when people don't realize that they're doing the exact thing they hated as kids. Just every generation does it so silly. You old idiots. Shut up, you old idiots. Wow, what a story. Josh, thank you so much. That was a great report.

Honestly, yeah, I've got to say I said it would be great and it was Honestly, that was a really good story. Obviously tragic at the end. Yes, but I didn't know any of that No, and I didn't know anything about the palace in the palace last time So I've thought about it a lot since so So all I want is listeners to go and listen to the band listen to the album go to Spotify listen to it But don't don't Google them Just typing the name of this report into yeah Spotify first And let us know what you think yeah tag Joshi in on Twitter. Yeah, just the good ones. Yeah

Just take me in the good ones. If you've got some fucked opinions Maybe leave Joshi out of it. And if it's stuff you are aware of this band this stuff. I got wrong I tried very hard, but there's very there's very few Very little information. Alex is pretty good with not I'm actually else. Okay. Yeah. I think you're safe So again, we can see your life stand-up show talks. Yes August 4 and then it's going to be filmed, and then if you're in other parts of the world, you can see it somewhere else.

I don't know what when though. And also, my podcast, don't you know who I am is out every single Thursday? You got a U3, have all been on it. Yeah, that's one of the greats we love. We all love being on it. We all love listening to it, so. I have to make little notes in my phone quite frequently,

like when I think of stories, because I know whenever I get that message from Josh, I'm delighted and then I'm like, fuck, now I'm going to think of stories. I'm a boring person. So, basically, you get four funny people from all walks of life, mostly comedians, but also you've added a music episode as well, which I've had a couple of musicians, like Tim Rogers from UMI, Andy Falcus from McCloskey, Bob Evans from Jeopardyre. Lots of people. And then you quizzed them about their own lives and it's basically how you described

it for us and excuse for people to tell their best stories. That's it. And Damien Kale from Tism. I did. Yep. He was on with Hannah Gadsby, Sean McCarleth and David Quirks. Wow. Now what an absolute screen team.

You've had so many cracking episodes. And then you had us three on one time, so that's pretty good, too, isn't it? That's what the hearts of those podcasts are. So yeah, check out.com.com. Josh L. Thank you so much. Thank you. Hey, team, just stay for your letting

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I just pretended some of my didn't. I didn't want to seem like a nerd. No. I just pretended some of them I didn't. I didn't want to seem like a nerd. No. Yeah, big fan of the iguanas. Yeah, I knew, I knew that. I knew that. Yeah, I knew that.

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I read them out for the first time on the pod, so bear with me. The first one comes from Daniel Hedley, who's given himself the title of resident dickhead of the pod. Okay. So I wanted to do it. I've just been bumped out of my posse. I'm sure we've read that before because we've both made that exact joke before as well. Daniel Headley has kept his title the same to keep us arguing about it. his title the same to keep us arguing about it.

And I respect that. That does make him a dickhead. There's a real conversation. It's not that. It's also possible I'm just reading out last week's again. We'll find out in a second again. No, no, I'm talking months ago. Okay, correct. It's happened a couple of times.

All right, Daniel has given us a fact. It's one of the three options. Yes. A lot of fact. And we also get's one of the three options. Yes. Quests are perfect. And we also get to a sign whether it's fun. Yes. Grim. Or, what are my dull?

I think I'm dull fact. Just one of the three. Right, the three. What am I dull? That's what a dull person would ask. Yes, yes, I would. Yes, I would. That's aware. So, Daniel writes, this is fact,

Pad Kid Poured, Cured Pould Cod was dubbed the most difficult tough twist by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm guessing it's supposed to be tongue-twister, but you also just nailed it. Say it again. Said, try saying that quickly 10 times. All right.

Pad Kid Poured Cured Pould Cod. Pad Kid Poured Cured Pould Cod. Pad Kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. No, that is too tough. What's a pad kid? Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd.

I don't think any, well, that's, I think the rest of it doesn't make a lot of sense either. Right. Pad kid. I still, I did enjoy using that. I guess it's like a kid matter pillows. Or exercise books. Thank you so much, Daniel.

Headly. You really set you up like a dickhead there. Maybe you look like quite the dickhead. What a dickhead. Yeah, try to catch me out. Few people do the tongue twisters. And I think I nearly never fuck them up even though I would expect it's probably because I don't know they're coming Yeah, if it was like hey try on this tongue

But if you're just reading the words that are there you just read the words that are there exactly Yeah I can't say segment of section, but I can say unique New York I can't say segment or section, but I can say unique New York. The next one comes from Matthew Bohr, who's given himself the title of former director of Crafts Service and current campaign manager to change the Apple Podcasts Blob to a fact-based comedy podcast where once a week a table may or may not be seduced. Well, thankfully that's what we have in one episode out of nearly 300. Yeah, it's much more likely to may not.

So this is what Matthew writes, it's a quote, Hi gang, hey we're a gang. Figured I would round out my fact quote or question tripped itch with a quote this week. Great. Apologies if it doesn't read well over Pod, but it is my favorite movie line. Quote. Jolani. Sorry I'm late Mr. President.

That's my favorite movie quote. I assume that's everybody's. What's that from? Independence Day. That will Smith. It's not Will Smith saying it. It's Randy Quaid. Randy Quaid?

And he flies his flight. He's a crop duster. It comes and saves the day. Sorry, I'm late, Mr. President. What? Wow. The fact that you remember that makes me think you've seen that more recently than when it was at the cinemas.

Yes, yeah, yeah. And just was what, six years old. Great movie for us. Sorry I interrupted, but it's a great movie quote that was worth saying loud. Lava, lava, lava. All right, what's the favorite quote? Gelato isn't vegan, vegan police.

It's milk and eggs, bitch. That's Scott Pilgrim versus the word. Ah, okay, yeah, great. Gelato isn't vegan, it's milk and eggs bitch. Is there a vegan police in that? I've seen that film, that brings about. That's a good film, haven't seen it for a long time. I've never seen it so.

It's great, you like it. Thank you. Yeah, some reason I thought Jolato was vegan. You think you're like a more of a sorbet? Maybe I'm thinking of a sorbet. Yeah. Which I always knew was a different thing. It's a gelato.

The next one comes from, thank you very much Matthew. The next one comes from Maine Gallagher. And Maine has offered a fact. And this is the fact. Never pet parrots on their head, or they'll want to fuck you. What? What? Why don't they go? So you're saying parrots on their head, or they'll want to fuck you. What? Why? Why don't they go?

So you're just... Parrots? Parrots. Birds can't groom their own heads. They groom each other's heads in mating season as part of the mating ritual. If you pet their head, their hormones will get very confused and often they will be aggressive and or possessive later because they are sexually frustrated the more you know. Wow, you only make that mistake once.

When your parrot tries to hump you. Wow. That's a fact. Don't you? All right, parrot. A parrot. Grim, final doll. I feel like it's not doll, but Dave, what do you think?

That's not doll. Well, is it one that's just good advice? Yeah. Yeah, that's just good advice. Useful, a useful fact. Yeah, I think I'll be using that day to day for now. I mean, there's only grim of the parrot hums you today. Yeah, it's what I was thinking.

It makes them so aggressive that it kills you. That's pretty grim. That's grim. Or, you know, fucks itself to death. Yeah. As parrots have been known known to do how can we make this fun it can't be well maybe you and the parrot yeah that's right what do you fall in love yeah yeah that's fine it's more of a beautiful that's a beautiful fact all right so trying to do beautiful facts all right can I do dull and beautiful let's get. Oh God, alright, can I do darling beautiful?

Let's get Josh back in here. They contradict tree. How can you do both of those? Can you be an expert by... I'll do darling useful, because useful can also be dull. Yeah, it's pretty dull. It's gonna be dull, love it. I've been in a few weddings.

It's lovely, but... Dull. Gosh, this is dull. It's a bit of a mess. But I love vanilla, actually. So, yeah, we get it, you love each other. Yeah, okay. I look and I love lava, I should say that. I's a bit about that. But I love vanilla actually. So yeah, we get it. You love each other. Yeah, okay.

I look and I love love. I should say that. I'm want to make that very clear. We get it. This stays all about ew. How late will the tab go? Where is the cake? And the final one comes from Zach Dobran, who's...

Oh, I forgot to say Maine's title. Maine's title is Chiefsang, oh, at all pet picks officer. No, I like that. You're gonna want to head over to mine, it's a quick answer. It's around our comp slash Chiosper. And finally, Zach Dobran's title is executive reminder of the day one quote. Day one.

Day one. Day one. Day one. Day one. Did I understand? The thing is Matt does it on the set. That's the best he did. It's like, this is a message, and he said it totally made sense. They knew what I was talking about. They're off the wall. They can't remember sending that email.

What was, I can't even remember what that episode was. For you listeners at one point I had a brainfade I said they won it with no context. One. And then it wasn't too much later in the episode I came clean that I Didn't know what I don't know what I did I was embarrassed the times I moved on and then Dave and just like I think God

I just woke up and I was in here. And we thank Zach for reminding us of this story. Zach asks us a question. The question is, what is a must-have song on your wedding playlist? Speaking of bloody weddings, I'm getting married on June the 12th, last week. Happy honeymoon.

Yeah, congratulations. And our must-have is it's been a long, long time by Harry James. Cheers. I don't know if I know that song. I don't know how to do either. My go to and this is a song that I'm not getting married but if I was to ever get married I would walk down the aisle to Super Tramp, give a little bit. I'm obviously just going to be its reigning man. I want to change my answer. First, split second, I thought you said, mine's gonna be Israeli men.

Is Riley men? Hey, I've got a talk with you today. It's really men. It's a pretty good with her. That's a gift for you. Is Riley men? Hey, men. That's funny.

A great, a lovely song. I've been nailed with it's raining men. Okay, I've the song. I've nailed it with the training man. That's how the groomsman enter the reception. I love song. Yeah, I don't know. Is this for the party after or when is this for? It's just for a party. You just need floor fillers.

You need Scooter. You need Bora Bora Bora. That's what you need. You need Earth Wind and Fire. Kwon Doe Kwon Doe Kwon Doe. Anything need Bora Bora Bora. That's what you need. You need earthwind and fire. Kwon Doe Kwon Doe Kwon Doe. Anything from ankle-burnt hump a dance. Yeah, obviously. Yes. Give me give me give me a man after midnight. That's a great one. Anything I buy. Anything with three words for paid ones.

Oh, a lot of men songs for you too, Dave. Yeah. Man, it's raining man. Give me you're mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at mad at knows. Great track. Oh yeah that's on a time favorite change. Beautiful. What about modern kicks by the exploding heart? Okay. Yes. I've heard of that band I know them. Yes. Well, very well. Just don't Google them. Just don't look into what happened. The Honeymoon is over. The Cruel Sea. That would probably not be quite appropriate. I don't even know who's over. It hasn't even begun. What about live it up by mental as anything? How you there with the sad face?

Come up to my place and live it up. No, I'm not good at this. What about? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, give it up, give it up, baby give it up. What about that? That's a good one. That's a great try. That's a floor filler. That's a floor filler.

What about toxic by Britain Spear? You laugh, but I nailed it. Can someone get the video clip and when it gets that bit cut out and cut to church? Because that that funny. I thought I did a pretty good job there. Wee! What about Love Stone by Juzzy T? That's it. Is that a Love Song?

Matt, please. You've got good love song. Can you just look at my recent playlist? Can you do the toxic squeal, please? Wee! Hey, now they've got all three. That wasn't my serious attempt though. Go on then.

Woo! That's great. Just carry the last note a little bit longer if you're right. If someone's editing whiz. All right, well that takes us up to... It's a a quick answer. Where we thank a few other of our great supporters from the Patreon from dogonpod.com.

Just on like, has a little game based on the topic? I thought we could name their bands. Oh, no, they're band fantastic. Which I know seems like a bit, is that a bit too obvious? Is that Dulled-Ove? No, I like it. I think that's fun because he's explaining hearts is a fucking great band name.

I like that a lot. And we heard so many in today's report. So I reckon a band name. But I just want to make it very clear that none of the members of any of these bands kill tragically in a car accident. Oh, it's right there. It's right there.

How are they killed tragically, then? Playing accidents. That was an other way you could go. So I'm glad you didn't go there. Damn it, Pa. Okay, well if I can kick it off, plain excellence. That was another way you could go. So I'm glad you didn't go there. Turn that part. Okay, well if I can kick it off, I'd love to thank From Tukoma in Washington in the United States. Sarah Castaneda. Castaneda. And her band is the Seven Castanhas. Oh that's great. Is it a family band? is the Seven Castanhas. Oh, that's great.

Is it a family band? Yes. Seven or seven? Seven. Seven. Is it a seven piece band? Wow, love that. Family band.

What's Sarah or Sarah playing? Lead vocals. And tambourine. Played with. Oh, hands. Hands, okay, just checking. Occasionally, hit against a hip. Oh, that's a good move.

But no general's involved. It's a family-friendly band. Yeah. It's all like a Jackson 5 type. Yeah, no penis. Sarah without an atro, Sarah, or is it still Sarah? Sometimes it's Sarah, sometimes it's Sarah. So it could be either there.

Sarah Castanita, Sarah Castanada. I went to school, two girls had that spelling and one was Sarah and one was Sarah. That's tricky. Absolutely not me. It was. And I was like, you guys need to sort your shit out. Sort your shit out, gosh. I will not. Play school with people for six years. Having to remember how to pronounce your names correctly as you want them. So that's not up to me. So you want to cheat it out. Come on, all right. Everyone's name is Emily. I'm calling everyone Emily.

I'm still Jess. I'm still Jess. I'm different. I'm special. Everybody else, Emily. Well, I am Emily. Well, no, you're Sarah. God, this is confusing.

I was a real nightmare. Thank you very much, Sarah. Osara, probably not and, and I would also have to thank from prospect in South Australia, Brent Hills Hayes. Hills Hayes. That's an incredible hyphenated name. Hills Hayes. Hills Hayes. If my surname was Hills, or Hills, my partner was Hayes, I'd be like, let's have some kids.

We've nailed this. What about Hills Hayes and the Kill's Craze? Oh, rhyme.com. Oh, yeah, you've still got to come up with a rhyming title for this episode. No, I don't. The band that never was. The bl- the bl- the bl- the bliv- bl- the bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl bl weeks. Get on rhymes in.com that'll sort us out. That's really good, Dave. Finally for me. Yeah, that's great. Finally for me. You wouldn't build it. You would read about this. I'd love to thank from the Woodlands in Texas in the United States. Sarah or Sarah Soma. What are the

odds of that? So, S-A-R-A again. What about... Something that the stranded something? The stranded voice. That sounds like an operatic metal sort of band. My voice is stranded. That sounds like an album title almost. Maybe it should be something else. I had the idea. You added voice and that wasn't good.

Yeah, and that's what I'm giving it up. I'm saying. Oh, voice. Don't you? I keep going to say stranded eight. Stranded rats is good. I like it. Stranded rats.

That's better. My reasoning behind that is there is a band called Sumna and their song is stranded and it's really fucking good. It's great reasoning. It's beautiful. Thank you. I love to see the working out. Thank you. Also Stings Real Last Name. Sumna.

Really? It's no stranded rats. His name is Stings Strand. Yeah, wow. What's Stings Real Name? He's a Paul Gordon. Oh, that's boring. Yeah, and sometimes you understand.

I've ordered it to be Paul, which I thought was more interesting. Somewhere there's a bit of pizzazz, like Paul. You know, can I thank some people as well? I would be so fantastic. I would love to thank from Brooklyn Park in South Australia. Gotcha, you thought America. Brooklyn Park, I'd love to thank Joe Walker.

Joe Walker. The Fantabulous Contractions. Hello. Whoa. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's a Simpson's reference there. Almost. Fantabulous contraptions. I like that a lot. What kind of band are they? A... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a... a with a band called Dr. Colossus. Oh, are they a Simpsons themed band? Yeah. And their new album is called,

well, it doesn't even fit on this Spotify page I've got it. I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt, and it goes on. My butt smells like kiss my hand, but. Yeah. That's funny. That is great.

So it's the fantabulous contraptions. Yeah, that's great. Great name. Love it. Well done, Joe. And also, I would love to thank from Selena in Ohio, Jenna Schaffer. Vending Machine Blues. Oh!

Yeah, that tells a story, doesn't it? Yeah, oh, you got up there. You wanted a Mars bar. They've only got Snickers. Oh, yeah. That's the story. I love it. I was picturing that it did, you know, when it, this, this spar or doesn't quite make it. And it's trapping like, you know, you're like, all right, another $2, I can, I'll get two. Yeah.

Traps it again. No. No, no, good. That's very good. And you want to show some working out there? The call field local football team is called the Bears. Brilliant. And they're not very good. They're a bit fearful? Yeah, no, I think they're probably fine.

I don't know where fearful came from. I just went the opposite of what a bear told me. And if they ever get huge, like massive and then there's a cover band, like you call yourselves the bear full fears. Yes. Fans are be like, oh, I guess. The spinner is in top work.

That's good. So you want to have options for a cover band that hopefully will pay you royalties. Sure. Deceain. You got to think of everything when you're starting a business. I mean, a band. Obviously, we were thinking that he'd warn it

would be the weed on a cover band. Of course, obviously. Everyone gets, starts a band thing into the cash. Yeah. Right? Why else do you do it? Why else do you do it? It's just good business sense. All right, I would like to thank now from Alexandria in Virginia over the United States.

Samuel Hanura. Leaving home. Oh, that's the band's called Hanura. Samuel Hanura. Leaving home. That's the band's got leaving home, huh? I love that. I like that they're foaky. Yeah, perfect. They're pretty good. They've got a banjo, not on all tracks,

but it does make an appearance. And at any point in the song, you can go, oh, and it works. That's folk, baby. That's folk. That's nice. That's nice. And is this symbol like a little house? Yes. Yeah. I love it. With a chimney. I'd have that album for sure. I mean, let's cool stuff.

Let's see. I would like to thank now from mobile or mobile, they might say. In Alaska, Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Diggin' trouble. Oh, that's a good country band. Diggin' trouble.

Mate, you're so good at this. Yeah, wow. I love it. Diggin' trouble. Just like two gibberish words together. Oh my God. You've found your calling. I love it. Digging troubles. Just like two gibberish words together. Oh my god. You've found your calling.

I mean, have you seen most band names? They're terrible. Digging trouble. Well, hold there. Where are digging troubles? We're going to play some turns. There are like three. So that working out there was at the SciencePakal doogle Howard doogle Doug. Yeah, diggin. Diggin trouble.

Yeah, that's great. Where is that last on, uh, Samuel's from Alexandria, Lenekona's song, Alexander Dra, or leaving home, leaving home to Jeb at our song? Doesn't matter. Sometimes it's fun to hear the words out sometimes it's a duller of that. Yeah, you have to throw it officially dull over there. But it's also useful for us.

And finally I would like to thank from Sunshine North in Victoria here, Emma Northup. Quick, but think, don't think, say. Stalls! Oh, I love it. All right, named after the useful item, household item, or shit. Which one? Which one?

One of those names you don't know. Yeah. If you're seeing there's a restaurant up the road from here called the Blue Stool. You should get a check. You should get a check. It's a, what a funny name for a place you go to eat. You do not want blue cells.

But the fun part about the bandstools is that they're a bit in on the joke and they every time people say where's the name come from, they tell a different story. So the true origin is never known. So what is the true origin? What is the true origin? No, it's not known. Oh, they don't ever know. The true origin is an Australian woman on a podcast, yellow.

Because that was what was in front of her. No, it's not known. Oh, they don't ever know. The trodden isn't Australian woman on a podcast, yellow there. Because that was what was in front of her. Emma, they're working out with me with the, it's right there. The recording device is sitting on a stool, so. It's actually looking at that one though. Oh, that's, but there are three different stool tools in front of them.

That's the one going in the rock and roll hole, the same one. No, that one. Oh, that's not a, that's a little table. I could be at stool. OK. No, you've really opened my mind. This will be a stool right here. What? Oh, my God. Everything's a stool. So is it Emma North or and the stools or just the stools? Oh, that's better. I think it's your stool. Okay. Yeah, that's the sounds good. I like it. Guys, we're stools. Stools. I like it when there's no the zed though. It's with the zed. Oh, okay.

Easy to get the the website. It's a metal band. Stools stock. Well, thank you very much to Emma Caleb, Samuel Ben, Jenna Joe, Sarah Osara, Brent and Sarah Osara. And the only thing we've got left to do this week before we build this baby home is letting a few people into the not letting them in, well, can mean them in to the trip ditch club. That's a club in our minds. It's in our hearts, but it's also in not a warning. We have great price. A real off- real off- real off- a calm west, baby.

no, I don't know where NutterWatting is really. East South East. yeah, it's got to be East. it's a grub. what a beautiful name for a suburb. and can you on the neighbors tour? oh, is that where neighbors is set?

is it? the house is in there. is there something it's in vermon actually? oh, sorry. Sorry everyone. Vermon, no way near as fun of a suburb. Not a wadding, not a wadding. That's to me. That's very much. So what we do here is people who have been supporting us for three years straight on the

shout out level or above. And we just shout out some people. So those people, if they hang around, will be in the tripage club down the track But these other people we shout out a while ago and now we're bringing him in to the trip ditch club The way this works is I've got I'm sending the door. I've got the velvet rope I've got the clipboard. I've got the guest list. I'm gonna welcome you in one by one Dave will then I'm going to welcome you in one by one Dave will then Hop you up because you want to feel good coming into the club. Yeah, of course This is like a whole of fame induction almost

But it takes a lot of effort for Dave to put himself out there to hop them up So Jess is their lifting Dave up with little hop of her own um and Jess normally behind the bar has a cocktail whipped up. What have you got this week? Yeah all our food and drink specials this week Actually in do involve some pyrotechnics because they will all explode. As a tribute to exploding hearts, you order our exploding hearts signature cocktail

and it explodes. Wow. But then instead of drinking it, you throw it in the air and it explodes, a bit like a grenade, but you know, a small, and then it like bathes you in that drink. And then you sort of absorb the liquor. Yeah, it's more of an experience.

Through the pores. Yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Seeps in. Put me down for one. That sounds delicious. We'll do. And Dave, you normally book a band. You're not going to believe.

What? You're not going to believe who I was able to get. King? The King? No, yeah, the King. Iggy pop in the iguana. Iggy in the Iggy's. Iggy in the Iggy's. Iggy in the Iggy's.

And there may be a few drop in appearances from the Exploding Hearts. Whoa. Backed by King Louis with an unplugged in cable. And also a steering wheel, just bashing out the trunks. And the fuck fucks? Fucks? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, the leak out from the fuck fucks.

We'll be on, we'll be on tambourine. A bit overwhelming for young Josh. That's so funny. Very fun. We totally get it. At 17, 18, I would be like, I'm feel confronted. And so funny to think, I was possibly just standing right next to him at the top.

Isn't that funny? But Josh is like grunting and maths going, yeah. Chop, flop that, chop that. Chop that, chop that, chop that. Try to get a chance going. All right, so we've got a few here today. We've got eight inductees in the club. So let's go through them.

First up from Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. It's Katarina Gittierrez. Ooh, Adirina! Yes! Like Adir... Oh, good on you. Adigo. Yeah. Adirina, yes. Adirina. Gitt on you. Addergoo. Yeah.

Adderina. Yes. Adderina. Adderina Gutierrez. Hopefully I'm getting that right. Next up, welcome in. Katarina. We've got from Espo.

In Finland. It's Henri or Henri Strandman. Oh, the Strandman of the hour. Yes. Well, we'll not leave you stranded. Welcome in from New Haven. I'm not my head for a speak-on. I'll never I'll never die. I come from New Haven in Esasics in Great Britain. It's Peter Daniel. Good-en-ya! Good-en-ya! It's like good on you. It's like good on you.

You got to get going. I'm dubbing great, Fritten, it's Andy, Conjuit, Turner. Oh, the Conjuit, Turner of a good time. Yeah, he turns up. Good time, Abel. From Malam Bimbi, New South Wales Australia, it's Abby Garland. Ooh. Garland. Ooh!

Garland, land. Sometimes. Like the Garland is the thing you could... Oh yeah, um... Like Toss of Garland. Oh yeah, Toss of Garland, Toss of Abbey Garland! Yeah! Still not really get it, but sure.

Okay, so you're daily at... From Bristol in Virginia in the United States. It's Stephen Jones. Ooh, it's Jones in for a bit of Stephen. Yes. From Eastern Hearts in Queensland, Australia, it's Kate Mallory. Ooh Mallory. Come on in.

Why don't you come on in Mallory. Kate Mallory, they do. Kate Mallory. And finally, from the home of the big marino Golba new cellar Australia's bron lives He all I woke up this morning feeling a little bit dead, but now I'm feeling alive Brom Lives he lives he loves he do go welcome in brawn

Kate Stephen Abbey anti-Peter Henry Henry, Henry, and Caterina. Welcome in one at all. We can't wait to party with you and really rock out to the tunes of Iggy. Oh yeah, can't wait. Thank you so much, everyone there. And that really brings them to the episode. Thanks so much for tuning in once again, Dave. You want to book this home? Yeah, sure thing. So, only thing left to say is once again thanks to Josh check out his podcast we do love it don't you know who I am you can get in contact with us at do go on pod.com there's links to Instagram Facebook Twitter Patreon merchandise also our email do go on pod at gmail.com but until next time we'll say thank you so much for listening and goodbye! Bye!

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