Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - Andy Frasco's Band: String Cheese Crew Drama, $250 F-Bomb Fines & Tour Chaos

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

Andy Frasco and his band spill tour secrets: String Cheese crew fights, swearing fines, and epic chaos! Andy Frasco and his band deliver the wildest tour stories yet in this no-holds-barred episode. From crew conflicts at major festivals to getting fined hundreds for swearing at family shows, the boys share the real deal about life on the road. Topics Discussed: The String Cheese Incident crew showdown at The Caverns Getting fined $250 per F-bomb at family-friendly shows Band dynamics and relationships on tour Epic tour stories from Steamboat to private shows Behind-the-scenes crew interviews and tour life reality Motivational advice from each band member The challenges and rewards of touring as a family   We're psyched to partner up with Volume.com! Check out their roster of upcoming live events and on-demand shows to enrich that sweet life of yours. Call, leave a message: [phone]  Check out our new album Growing Pains on all platforms 5/23/25!! Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For all things Frasco, go to: AndyFrasco.com

They were gonna bill us every F-bomb, like 250 bucks. Good thing you told the whole band. We were in Virginia, I'm watching the opening band, and Andy's having this nice band meeting without me, which is fine, because I don't need to hear all the s*** he's talking about. Except for this certain day, because we weren't supposed to cuss,

and I didn't know, so we come to my part at the end of Graves, and I go, Motherf***er. Yeah, he's screaming. And he looks at me, and he's like, What the f***? And I'm like, what? And I get off the stage and he's like,

you just cost me a thousand dollars, mother fucker, I fucking told you. You're like, dude, wasn't that a great show? And I was like, that was, he was so mad. I was like, I was fuming. All right, and we're live, Andy Frasca's World Saving Podcast. I'm with my band today. How are we doing, boys?

Move that mic closer, Cooney. We got Andrew Cooney here. We got Andy Avila. We got Sam Kelly. We got Richie and we got our driver Gonzo in the building. Watch the fuck out. There's a lot of Jack Offing going on in this jackoffing jackoffing How we doing boys? How's the how's the the summer tour going?

Great Having a blast on God you guys sound so fucking pretty damn chill for me These guys are so lackadaisal today. Hello. What's up? We just ate food. So we're a little tired lack of days old today hello what's up we just ate food so we're a little tired now the tour is going great dude like what do you think is going what show is the shittiest one you think shittiest one that I've been on did a private show I won't say where we did a few of them this one we had to get really fucking drunk to do I remember I think that's the drunkest we've ever been. Oh god Yes, that was the drunkest we've ever we had like 14

Jameson shots in the first 20 minutes. So do you remember when we used to do that? Beats remember we used to do that like full-time like just get wasted like that. I I see pictures. I don't really remember We got down there like yeah, we used to do that, but like for like two more hours, like four hours every single night. I was like, oh my God. It's crazy to then like look at Steamboat, like what, fuck, 5,000 people kids rocking.

That was insane. That was a big one. So you're in the band now, Cooney, how do you feel about it? I feel pretty damn good. It's really cool to be able to like, you know, take the things that we've done in the studio and like, you know, put them out on stage and like be a part of have a part of it in that way as well as

Just like, you know writing and whatnot. Do you think we should keep Cooney beats? Yes I I won't room with him in a hotel room ever again, but we can keep him on the stage. Wow, what's going on? He snores so fucking loud. That snore is so loud. I do, I really do.

I snore too. Hey, I have an appointment with the doctor on July 3rd. What type of snoring is it? He's afraid to sleep in there. I don't want to sleep in the same room with him. Because I snore, and it gives me anxiety that I'm keeping somebody else awake. What type of snoring is it?

It's just loud. It's just loud. I snore too, but I know it's louder than mine like as loud as Darth Vader over here or what? He's got some fucking Darth Vader vibe everybody he's got the CPAP. Yeah, I snore like breathing out. It's like Laughing I'm holding back a laugh the whole time Sam what about you? You about you? I have recordings of West be snoring West be is The worst snore on the fuck. I have recordings from the from the cruise. Like would you have it? Yeah, send it. Let me hear it

Yeah Andy West be is one of my closest friends from Chicago. You know him calm suregasm But he is pretty bad and now we we have like, do I snore? I've heard you snore, but it's not bad. Yes, you do. Really? Well, when you're sleeping on your back, you snore. And if I'm doing drugs.

Well, if you're doing drugs, you're not sleeping. That's the truth. When are we in... Dad's here, guys. Everyone chill, chill, chill. Bo's here. Ladies and gentlemen, Bo Balinski. Come on, Bo.

Get in here. How we doing? How's the tour been, Bo? Great. Oh, you know tour shows? I love it, man. So nice. I always see, you know, you tell Bo's having a good time when his shirt's off and his hair chest is just fucking just,

it looks like just flowing in the wind, dude. He's just running around. Yeah, it's nice. Any, have we pissed off anyone yet? Not that I can think of, no. Look like in the wind blowing in the wind dude. He's just running around. Yeah, it's nice any pissed off anyone yet not that I can take off now since because Nashville what happened national or the that's it at the caverns Oh the cab stage the stage crew throwdown. Oh, oh dude. We should talk about that

We can't so yeah string cheese incident try to get in a fight with us. Well, not the whole thing. Well, what happened? It wasn't string cheese itself. So it was, we had, because we cut our set time short, there was like extra time in between sets. And so our stage manager tells us, OK, no, you guys are good to play until,

what was it like? The stage manager of the venue. Of the venue. Said we're fine. Said you're good to play until X time. Then next thing you know, we're going over, going over our time, and string cheese's, I think, stage manager came running up

and starts yelling at Sean. That's the last person you want to yell at Fucking ape shit, so then It is but I wasn't even there when that happened So I didn't see it I come back up on stage and they're like you got to go talk to this guy like Come Sean down. I go talk to stage manager. I'm String Cheese's guy. We talked it out, it was cool, we talked with venue stage manager and we're like, okay, cool, we're good, problem solved. Then 10 minutes later, again, I think String Cheese's tour manager is like side stage and

wants to talk to me and I'm like, okay, what's up? And that's when he just starts going off. And he's like, how dare you guys fucking talk to my guys like that fucking going off about Sean and I was just like whoa, man What are you talking? Like I thought it was a big Communication and then and then he starts being like if you guys want to brawl we can brawl and I was like what? Yeah, what's your like 60 year old man? Yeah, we're gonna try to talk shit the Buffalo 60 year old men. 60 year old men were gonna try to talk shit to Buffalo New York over here? Like what the fuck is happening?

I was just so like couldn't even comprehend what was happening. It was a miscommunication and they're probably, you know, they deal with, they think everyone's just like trying to shave more time off the fest. But like we're co-headlining this motherfucker with these guys. By the way, we love string cheese. Yeah we do. It you're a communication. So damn, you guys almost fought the string cheese crew. I didn't almost fight. They wanted to fight us.

What the fuck? Why is that? Why is there so much? No, and it's also, you know, Zankste was hot. Yeah, it was a war. Yeah, I don't doubt that. I don't I don't blame them for trying to go. They got that. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we had a good set. Did, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, is it? Strings, cheese, and sink crew. But if you ever talk to my fucking crew like that again, I'll fucking kill you, okay? Don't you fucking do that, no. But everything else has been good. Yeah, haven't pissed anyone else off yet. Well, let's clap for that. Haven't gotten any complaints from

the more-in from Utah. Yeah, what about the people, like, what about the family friendly shows where they told me a thousand times I shouldn't cuss? Yeah, Steamboat was, they wanted to come back next year. So yeah't cut steamboat was you know that you back next year Flowers recent string cheese crew flowers Like it was a miss. I mean shot. I know Sean I know that fool probably got hot head apparently Sean like grabbed his mic grabbed his like radio too in the leg

Was sticking up for his people, you know Both sides yeah, everyone was sticking up. I think everyone was just high tension We didn't know if anyone was gonna play that day. Yeah, they're fucking dealing with it. We're dealing with it so this is a public service announcement saying we are apologizing to the older string cheese crew for that. There's no ill intentions. But also, we're not trying to fight you. Why are you trying to fight at the fucking,

at a fucking jam band festival? They're like, what's going on? For real. Get the nausea, chill out. Chill, chill, chill, chill, chill. So we have four more days left, Bo. I love this tour because everyone's calm. It's outside, everyone's chilling.

Yeah, it's been nice. So how do you think we should, how should we finish this tour off with, I know there's gonna be a couple of dud meets in this tour. I don't know, I think Boise will go off with a bang. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I think it'll be a good way to end it.

All right, cool. Yeah. How you doing? You buff? You buffing out? Chilling. Having a good time. How's your love life? Love life's great. Happy? Yeah, she's doing good. You doing good?

Yeah, we're all doing good. Are you doing good? Look at me in the eye. I'm doing great. Kiss him on the mouth, Sam. Make sure he's doing good. There we go. That man's doing well. He's doing good. All right, folks, we're out here.

We're gonna go fuck some shit up. I can't believe the strength she's got trying to look down like that. They're just stressed. Everyone was stressed. Because he came up on stage and like, Oh, these guys are supposed to be off like 10 minutes ago and we weren't. And yeah, I mean, it was just big miscommunication. We're sorry. We didn't, we're not trying to fight anyone, but also chill out.

Everyone is just, we make music for a living. But also I would have saw that. I would have, I would've, I would've said something. Mid-show, yeah. Mid-show on stage. Yeah, full adrenaline. Oh yeah.

Full adrenaline, dude, fucking. I'm surprised Sean didn't like, throw his guitar. Really like fight him. Sean's fucking crazy. I feel bad for Bo because like everything was going great. Like it was like our set was going so smooth and like They're loving it the whole oh, yeah, and Bo is like hey you guys want once once more beers

I'm like oh man Bo. I would love when he's like cool I'm gonna go grab some beers with the boys and he comes back up on stage to just a shit show He's like man this is going so well, oh man, it's my guys Jesus Christ well, let's talk about something nice I Oh man. I'm gonna get some beers from my guys. Jesus Christ. Well, let's talk about something nice. Um, I can't believe, I said Frick. I was saying Frick.

I was doing really good at Steve's. That was funny, dude. Oh, it was great. I was, I forgot, I thought Beats was a spray. I forgot, yeah. What about the moment with the kid coming in and I made him chug a water? Tell him that whole story, Beats.

Tell him, tell him what happened. Well, this kid, first off, this kid, he was at our show in Copper Mountain, and Frasco gives him his beanie, and he's just bawling, this little kid's like, like, God, which is great, you know, the kids, they love Andy. It was tear-jerking.

So he's at the same show, and Frasco sees him, he's got his beanie on, he's on his dad's shoulders, and he's like, come sing the song, man. And there's this part in the song where, you know, he's talking about, you know, trying sing the song, man. And there's this part in the song where, you know, he's talking about, you know, trying to like, you know, not to die. And so he picks up the Jameson bottle usually,

and he chugs it. Well, he picks up a Jameson bottle and he throws a water bottle to the kid, that's the closest thing he had. And they're both chugging and he's chugging water. I saw his brain turning when he was like. He was like. What can I give this kid that's not alcohol? Yeah, my brain was turning. I'm like, this can I give this kid that's not alcohol? Yeah. My brain was turning.

I'm like, this would be the ultimate moment. He's chugging water and I'm chugging Jameson. You think it was immature of me to do that or no? No. I think that was a good way to get it, you know? Well, they're like, you better get the, there's kids, there's kids, there's kids. I'm like, how am I going to get, how, the main reason to get the kids involved is just bring them up on fucking stage and know that the kids love our fucking music.

Well, shout out to that kid. Let's go. He saved me. He saved me. 250 bucks in F-bomb. Was that the one where they were gonna bill us if every F-bomb, like 250 bucks? They were gonna charge me 250 bucks for every fuck,

150 bucks for every cunt and- Good thing you told the whole band this time. Jameson and Mushuzstrips. Oh yeah, remember? Tell them that story, dude. When I fucking screamed at you. Apparently, I don't know where, I was watching, we were in Virginia, I'm watching the opening band.

And Andy's having this nice band meeting without me, which is fine because I don't need to hear all the shit he's talking about. Except for this certain day because we weren't supposed to cuss and I didn't know. So we come to my part at the end of Graves and I go, mother fucker. And he looks at me and he's like, what the fuck?

And I'm like, what? I'm looking at Sean like, what are what? I'm singing the part that I sing every single night. The world is dying laughing. And then they're laughing. And I get off stage stage, she's like, you just cost me a thousand dollars. Motherfucker, I fucking told you.

And I looked at him, I was all, you didn't tell me shit, dog. Oh my God. You're like, dude, wasn't that a great show? And I was fucking fuming. He was so mad. I was like, I was fuming. Luckily the promoters and the people that put on the show were laughing and it was totally fine.

Well, the problem is my fucking managers and my agents Bo come back here come back here for a second Fucking have the fear and God in me that I'm gonna like, oh, yeah, what do they do? What do they say? I mean they tell me five times or 20 times like oh they remind me five times in emails Like hey make sure everyone knows family friendly, family friendly. And I think that makes you guys want to do it more. Fucking 37.

You're 37 years old with your number one TikTok videos, you having nitrous in the studio. You ain't got a point. Oh, fuck. Okay, but how about your save in Steamboat though? What was the save? The save. You're wearing the enchilada shirt from Sundog. And he's like, instead of saying motherfucking, he's like,

Those enchiladas, yeah. Oh, beast. How the f... So enchilada, yeah. It worked. Also shout out Sundog. Yeah, shout out to Sundog. Thanks for giving us clothes. So we're not pissing anyone off, but no, really.

So far so good. All right, get out of here. Thanks so much, bro. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have another guest before we bring Rich here. Actually Richie, get in here, get in here. Ladies and gentlemen, our bass player Richie Dersire. Throwing in to Floyd's dumbass.

I miss Richie Floyd. Floyd went to flight school. Floyd went to airplane school. Richie, how you doing? Day one. I'm glad to be back on the road with all you guys. So what happened with Wild Adriatic? Oh, you know.

We spent a lot of time on the road, spent a lot of time together. And, spent a lot of time together. Obviously COVID happened and then we took us off the road and we just never quite found our footing when we came back. We finally put our album back out, which we were looking forward to doing. Hey, slow down. Take a breath. This is a podcast.

Oh man. You could top forever. A bunch of white dudes telling about the problems. Don't even worry about it. No, we, yeah, we worked on an album during COVID and we finally decided to put it out. And it seemed like things were kind of coming back. We did the Rockboat earlier this year before I did Jam Cruise with you guys, which was fun and yeah.

And but yeah, we just, we can't seem to stay healthy and keep everyone healthy and we keep canceling shows so we're trying to not do that because it's not fair to everyone that loves the band it's not it's not fair to us when you know some of us are trying to be healthy and stuff and you know so we're just trying to do what's fair to everyone and we're gonna we're gonna do some fun shows. Poor Richie, he was so excited for the reunion show. The last time we saw him, we were chugging, we were shotgunning beers outside of his house

while he's crying. I was so sad. We were dropping you off to the fucking college or something. Honestly, that was awesome. That was the best end of the tour, possibly. Hey, Bo, grab Sean. I want to hear more about his side of this string cheese Honestly, that was awesome. That was the best end of the tour, possibly. Yeah. Hey, Bo, grab Sean. I want to hear more about his side of this string cheese

existence story. That's great. So the road's hard. Yeah, the road's hard. Bands are hard. But it's one of those things where even when they get hard, you always have that family. You always have those.

Because those relationships, they're something that takes so long to build. And when you're riding with each other and you're, you know, in a van three feet away from each other for days on end, you know, you can't just do that with anybody. And even when you clash a little bit or even, you know, you get sick or you get bored or, you know, whatever, you know, ultimately when you're out on stage and everything is kind of firing on all cylinders, that's when it all comes back and that's why we do it, I think.

Wow, that was actually a pretty good thought, actually. Thank you. So, do you think we're psychopaths? No, you guys, no, not at all. I think it's the most fun show I've ever seen. Did we scare you at all? No, never, never. That was the most, thank God. Absolutely fucking not. There's John. most fun show I've ever seen. Did we scare you at all? No, never, never.

That was the most, thank God. Absolutely fucking, oh there's Sean. Oh here he is, big cock, hold on, stay there for a second. Sit there for, get in the waiting room, Sean. Get in the waiting room, you're on deck. Well we're happier with us, and I'm sorry to hear about all the health stuff with Wild A, we're thinking about them, but you always got a gig with us.

So... Love you guys. Thank you. He even trimmed his hair and his beard looks good. Damn. You know. Let's get this man some pussy on this road. Come on, come on, guys. Come on, anyone like an afro in this band?

This is a fantasy they did. Um, well, I'm gonna bring you back in there, but we need to talk to the... We need to talk to Sean Echols about the about the almost the brawl of string cheese incident. Sean Echols. Welcome to the show, Sean. How are you doing? I haven't talked to you in a couple of days. Good, man. I stomped down so hard on my foot at Steamboat, trying to get to the stage that I injured myself.

My heel is pretty fucked up. You know what, it's just another day. Another day. Hey, same as fucking, I thought Floyd was gonna break my fucking piano. Possibly. Yeah, yeah, it gets wild up there. He looked at me and he goes, I'm about to lose it. No, he legit lost it.

And I grabbed his plane and I fucking threw it at him. Oh yeah, I saw it. And then I stomped it. Oh yeah, I saw it. I was pissed, dude. Thank you Floyd Kellogg for gluing my guitar back together with the airplane glues, thank you. And then I stomped it. I was pissed, dude. Thank you, Floyd Kellogg for gluing my guitar back together with the airplane glues. Yeah, shut up.

I think I'm an airplane. I was pissed. So, tell me, we know one side of the story with Bo, with them, the string cheese crude. I know how you get sometimes on stage. Defensive of us, yes, I do. Yeah, but on stage too. Because you're so filled with emotion that if someone's

trying to put Baby in the corner, we're going to find out about it. So what happened? What did he do? What's that? We didn't get reined out, right? And we were like, fuck yeah. Both of, you know, well, Michael Blinsky,

little blue eyes, he's like, we're playing our full set. We got to push 15 minutes. It's like, fuck yeah playing our full set. We got, you know, we get pushed 15 minutes. It's like, fuck yeah. I came from believe his name is Kenny or something. The stage manager, the stage manager of Caverns. So we're under the understanding. We get our theme music. We go blah, blah, blah. About I don't know. We're making some kids smile.

We're getting picks out. We're fucking rocking kids out. And everyone's happy and crying. Fucking we say, here's my cocaine. I my cocaine I was like fucking people crying and laughing and this guy's over here on a radio comes close to my side What's up, bro? I was like, hey, I was like breaking breaking one night pulls this radio back You know, he says like I am NOT part of your bit and I was like, oh Then he says they think it's a bit he knows I'm not part of your bit. You guys are done in a minute. And I was like, oh, bro, you need to, I mean, I was in the middle of the fucking set,

and here's where you know me. I was like, oh, you are not supposed to be talking to me, motherfucker. So I was like, you need to go find Bo Michael Blinsky. He's over there. And of course, I fucking, apparently play the guitar and I'm fucking eyeballing. I'm like, what's your fucking name, bro?

What's your fucking name? Why are you up here? Oh, I'm like, give me your number. Give me your number. This is a crockhead. Bash number, bash number. And he gets over by Bo, and I'm like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, that's him. What are you up here? He gets over by bow and I'm like yeah, I'm like yeah, that's him So bow after this set, you know, he's coming I was like, where's that motherfucker? He's like, you look calm down I was like, all right, man willing to let it go tap tap tap. It's him And he's like, yeah, I just want to apologize and we're like fucking it's like apologize. Oh listen

He was like he's definitely got his glasses on because he's all fucking They apologize. No, no, no, no, no, it was he was grabbing my hand like I'm sorry It was like, you know, like I was like, all right, but I hope we all learn something today here I mean, that's okay my aggression here and there and, but his aggression coming to me, boy, here we go. It's a volcano. I mean, it's not smart. It wasn't his place to tell the musician he should have told our tour manager.

Think about Bo going to Bill Nershy and saying, you're 10 minutes late. Yeah. You think Bill would think about doing that? Who's the crazy bass player in Street Cheese? Keith. That guy's scary as fuck. And Bo would have to keep, he was like, hey, you're playing a minute over your time. That craze who's the crazy bass player in not in cheese We're playing a minute over you that would not go well for bow either

Kind of crazy beat the shadow bowed it all instead. You know we were like, you know, I'm glad we learned so well You know what the other guy we've got a key to Welcome to the music. Oh, no, man. You don't talk with me. We're probably never going to be able to open for street cheese ever again. But it's not them. It's not the band. Sometimes the crew people need to chill out a little bit.

Maybe go to sleep before the third night of the festival instead of staying up all night doing whatever you do. Ooh, hot tea. All right. So what did you eat today? I had a chicken sandwich. How's the tour been? Good? Feeling good? It was good. The shows are awesome.

Yeah, I've been doing a lot less, you know, Devil's Dandruff and... I didn't tell. Everyone's kind of sleeping. Yeah, yeah, I'm asleep. Sleeping so good. Hot tubs are sick. So, that's been good. I missed out on the thing yesterday, but I didn't want to hobble around and shit, but here we go.

Can we hard launch something? You're in love. I'm in love, why not? Yeah. How many? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go.

Send out the message. Send out the love message. I ain't sending, y'all are fucking Instagramming like it's like, I love it. You know, fuck them. Yeah. One more time. Stop, stop. I'm good, I'm happy. Fuck it. You know, fuck them. Yeah. One more time.

Fuck them. That's good, I'm happy. Fuck it. Well, that's the thing. We gotta stop thinking about others sometimes, think about ourselves. Yeah, I gotta take care of me before I can take care of anybody else, I figured that out too.

Love yourself. Yep. I'm glad you are. Yeah. Nice workshop. Love you guys. Love you too. We got Richie back, we're excited.

We got Richie back, we're excited. My vote's in too, let's get this motherfucker lit. Let's go. We got Richie back. We got Richie back. We're excited. My vote's in too. Let's get this motherfucker lit. Let's go. Yeah. Get in line. He's single. We got three more shows.

One of them's kind of a Mormon town. I think you're in. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. There it is, dude. Oh. We're doing good this time of year.

So good. Oh, wow. But we're excited, Sean. I'm glad you're feeling good. Feeling good in spirits. The band's feeling good. Y' bands feeling good y'all feeling good Very good. Now, let's talk to the beat-off king of the century Gonzo I have a lot of questions. Thank you, Sean. Appreciate the update

Gonzo our tour, Gonzo. Gonzo, our tour driver. Because of my hands... Hold on, get the mic real close. Because of my hands, Cliffs have insurance. What do you mean? They have insurance because they've got to deal with my hands. You have to speak English. What the fuck does that even mean? What does that mean?

Gonzo? I heard what he said. Where's his interpreter, Trevor? There's hell to go down on my hands. Gonda tell me something. How many times you beat off while driving? Never have. Are you lying?

All right while driving. Oh gross. Have you ever beat off like, you're like in the parking lot or something? No. No. My day's gotta be done with, since it's a full immersion for me.

You talked about not beating off during prison. How'd that feel for three years, 30 months? Well, I'll tell you what. We're going straight you cannot show weakness in prison yeah so I want to show no side of me at all just a mean side of me the whole time so I'd never never even did that at all in prison god this is a boring conversation I ever thought thought of you. I thought you were going to tell us a nerd about this shit. And, um, um, in prison, man, I almost got my ass kicked once by a 400 pound dude.

Wow. He'd say, you're going to stab me with a fork. Yeah. And, um, I was in the back of the kitchen and I was in charge of cleaning. He walked back there like he owned it. And, um, I told him, what the hell you doing back here? Motherfucker. And I got, again, not showing weakness. He turned around eating it. Bull, hard boiled egg.

Shut the fuck up. I'm gonna stick the fork in your neck asshole. Hold on. And eating a hard boiled egg while he's trying to kill you. Yeah. I'm picturing Don Vito right now. I'm just picturing Don Vito right now. I'll pucker it up a little bit and I walked away and I let him do what he had to do, but they caught him. Was he scary? He was 400 pounds, six, seven. No, I wouldn't think it was a black dude.

I wouldn't understand. Oh, never mind. Two weeks later, they found him running in the woods trying to meet a hooker with some love girl. Some love girl and he went to the hole and never saw him again. So you work at the night. You're our night guy. You drive us around the night. Have you ever seen any lot lizards? Yes. What? Yes.

Give us details. What do they look like? Tell them what a lot lizard is. They look like fucking lizards for sure for real Fuck Why are they hookers or what are they straight up nastiest hookers you ever seen in your life? Like what time are they out? Fucking they're crawling. She's dead. They're like cockroaches when you turn the lights They're crawling and she's dead. They're like cockroaches when you turn the lights they go

Fuck yeah, I'm crying out trucks when you guys are asleep. Yeah, I'm getting gas I'll come around a parking lot and they're they're crawling out and other trucks I mean, they're just going from truck to truck truck to truck man I mean without watching on the door you never said like thought about it Truck to truck man. I mean without watching. No one's knocked on the door? You never like thought about it? Hell no. I don't believe it. No no no no no. Raise your hand if you believe him.

No. Wow! Thank you! Nobody believes your ass. Thank you. Wow. You must have got one hand job from a lot lizard. No. No. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet, no, not yet. Yeah, not yet. I say not yet. Yeah. I'll never say never.

No, that's fucking gross. You guys you guys take hand jobs from way back in the day. Well, I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you. So that's it. So that's it. We are growing. But, you know, know Is it lonely dude? Do you do are you bum that you don't use do the night shift? Do you still love doing it? I love doing it But the only thing I miss is I'm back in a day or what was always could hear a conversation. What's going on?

I don't but but Why don't you we just put a microphone in a baby monitor? Yeah, let's get a baby monitor I've got a camera on me. You guys can watch one. No, no Yeah, until he forgets it's on yeah Do you hold on stop the lotion would that make you feel like you're more you're more here? Yeah, probably let's get him a baby monitor. Baby monitor. Amazon.

Wah, wah. So you could at least hear us talk. Oh, yeah. You want that? Yeah, that'd be cool. Because we're up till 5. Yeah, that'd be cool. Well, bye right now.

It would have been crazy to listen to Sean and Logan till 6 o'clock in the morning last year. There's different times. I mean, I try not to stay up till 5. Who's staying up till five these days? No one. Sean and Cooney. Cooney?

Me and Beats have stayed up till four. What are you guys talk about? You're new. I'm just waiting for everybody to go to bed so I don't have to sleep in that tiny bunk. Yeah, yeah. Is that bunk too small for you? And I have a thing where I'm not good at going to bed first.

I know. FOMO. I just got to, well, well that I just like make sure you want to be party I know your ass dude. I clean up your house every time when people I know but you get high saying like I could execute after fucking Staying up on no, but the next day. Yes, you do. Coney Cooney. You fight for that shit. No, I just know I can Just wondering if you guys feel Some of the vicious bumps I hit sometimes. Yes I was standing up right before you texted elk the other day I was moving around the cabin and I flew into the refrigerator almost hit the bus

elk What happened? Um, I had a Elk. What happened? I had a mule deer once. I had years ago, remember I took the head off a mule deer in Montana. Yeah. Taking to the airport. Yeah. And this happens. I mean, I like I told Bo earlier, tonight going to go up north to Montana. Right. We got a strap down because there's moose from here to there. We got a button strapped down because there's moose from here to there. So, oh yeah. How long's the drive? Five hours.

Tonight he's legit getting scared. I don't like that shit, dude. He's looking at the boat like, really? What, he's saying true? Wait, and guys. Leg shaking is shit. I have, dude. I don't like that shit. There's times I wish you guys are up front with me because some of the views I get to see like sunrises and some of these vistas like today coming around from the past.

It's amazing. Amazing. Some of these views and these peaks and these lot lizards, they're all part of the same experience. Dude, and not just lot lizards, man. You can see people trying to rob each other. Really? On the lost too, people scoping things out, guys. But do you have like, do you, when you're like,

do you feel like you're like a bus driver now or like a truck, a diesel driver? Do you guys like all like, kind of like bow your head, like, hey guys guys how you doing they date the truck drivers know that I had not a truck driver really hey they treat me like shit really that guy doesn't have a CDL fuck him really oh yeah listen this one's gonna my baby monitor like a fucking child You can still cuss me out one hit the bumps. I ain't gonna get mad, you know

Well, I try to text as fast I can't realize no service. What's all fuck through New York? Holy shit Well, we're happy bogos. What it feels like it's full circle, you know Cuz you started with us right before you went to prison and then now you're back as our driver Yeah, it's uh. It's all important stuff. So I'm glad I got to hear this side of it, not have you on the podcast when my parents are on so you could talk about these lot lizards. And you can talk about all the other stuff. Are you proud of us?

You've seen us for 15 years. I've seen you guys grow. I heard your music mature throughout the years. And guess what? You guys have an act or a knack to how to get good people around you most of the times and that's a hard thing to do but you guys do it consistently so you're telling us you beat off to us I'm just kidding. Maybe some of the exes. Oh, chill, chill, chill.

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Jesus fucking Christ. This episode's going to get us canceled now. Trevor, get over here. We have our merch guy back too. What's up, Trev? Trev, what's up, bud? How's it going? How's it going, man?

How's it being back in the saddle? What's the West Coast Frasco band fans like? Incredible, as always. I mean, this is my first time out here, so obviously I'm just like. Oh yeah, you're fucking Florida boy. You've never been out here. I've never been anything over a 10 foot high above sea level.

So what's your take on the Cougars out here? I'm just planting seeds at this point. Hopefully next time I come around I can harvest. Jesus. Chill, chill, chill. What the fuck is going on? Our crew members are just so horny. Everyone's fucking horny right now. Chill out, please.

The fucking chill out. So you got a girlfriend? Not yet. But you know, you're a Southern boy. You are a polite man. What's it like? What fan bases are cheaper? The West Coast fans or the Northeast, Southeast fans? Southeast for sure. Yeah, they don't want to part with a dollar down there. They want to haggle on every different t-shirt cost.

Out here they don't haggle. Out here they don't haggle. They'll throw me massive tips. They're like, $40 for a shirt cool Give me three of them. I Had a family come through by ten hats. I can't get your number. Yeah, no questions asked ten hats They're like, yeah, we got a baseball team of kids. Yeah, we got to hook them up So I was like, all right take my hand hats ten hats in one go Wow. Yeah, frasco bands for the kids We're gonna have you more now next month too too we have you, right? Yeah. Well not July, August. I think July is a lot of fly outs and stuff.

You still love us. I know you're managing reggae bands. I know you're a big deal in that scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying, trying. Who are you managing? Serenation. You like them? I love those guys. I've been doing merch with them for about two years Yeah, they're going through a little restructure right now. I started managing them. They still got that like bro-y dude No, bro-y dude is gone. He had some personal stuff a band wasn't just was just something he couldn't focus on

I feel that but the original guitar player stepped up. He's the vocalist and as soon as I heard his voice I was like, bro. What's the difference between the jam scene and the reggae scene? That's tough. A lot of the fans are very similar. I see a lot of wooks at the reggae shows. I mean free drugs in both scenes consistently. Yeah there denominator. The common denominator, using Prince Grubb. Yeah, there's a big overlap between the jam and the reggae scene. The musicians, I'd say, and the jam scene are a lot nicer. Is your kid pissed that you're on tour with us? No, he's 15, so he doesn't want to hang out with me anyway.

He's fucking stoked that his dad's gone. Yeah, he's like, my fucking dad's gone. I can be on my phone all night. I can do whatever I want. He can jerk an off. fucking dad's gone. I can be on my phone on I can do whatever I want But he's he's hilarious he's at that age right now he He wanted me to buy him the Sabrina Carpenter not that the Sydney Sweeney bath water. So yeah, oh, I'm like, oh you're that age now

He's beating off Sure, he's beating off the bath soap boys. I remember when I was 15 I was oh my god it was see we didn't have stuff like that we had a 15 dude we had to find rough cloudy pictures on the internet. I know. We couldn't buy ten dollar bath soap. Squ squiggle porn Sam have you ever beaten off in your life? Bitter as fuck for like three weeks straight. I gotta hold it into like graduate Berkeley school It makes you play faster That grid oh shit you went to Berkeley to didn't you know, where makes you play faster. It's that grit. Oh, shit. You went to Berkeley too, didn't you?

No, where'd you go? I went to community college. Hell yeah. Someone tried to convince me you went to Berkeley. It's the haircut. Well, Trev, go sell some merch. Go make some money for us. Trevor is killing it.

Thanks for being back. I promise, a couple more tours, and I'll have Serenation open the tour. Keep working hard, keep working hard. So that quota, so that quota will get them in. Alright guys, that was fun. How we feeling? Feeling good for Jackson Hole? We're doing good. Yeah, Jackson Hole's gonna be sick. Got some friends coming out tonight, you know? Yeah. It's always cool when you get to introduce this band to some people I know, you know?

Right. Sam has friends in every city. It's so crazy. Every city. Little me. You have a hog? Who'da thought? You have a hog, Sam?

It's massive, dude. Andy Frasco Nation, let me tell ya. I like to clap it up too, cause both Andy Avila and Sam Kelly have their own apartment now. How does it feel boys to have your own apartment? It's nice. Oh man, talk about beating off.

Tell you what. Jesus fucking Christ. Gonzo. That's my boy Blue. You guys are like, God, fucking being abandoned. Jesus fucking Christ. Gonzo? That's my boy, Blue! Ha ha ha! You guys are like, God, fucking being in a band is fucking horrible. Yeah.

People ask why we like going on tour. They didn't know Bussy, we just beat off and talk about it. Wow, what a day. Well, I'm proud of this. I'm proud of us. We're doing great. New record's kicking ass. Thanks for kicking ass.

We're going to Nashville. We're going to write some music in New record's kicking ass, thanks for kicking ass. We're going to Nashville, we're gonna write some music in Nashville. We're just gonna keep kicking ass. And then, my favorite thing is, we're going to Nantucket. Yeah! I can't wait to go to Nantucket for a week. Hang out with some rich people, it's gonna be great. Cooney can't go, because why don't you tell people

why you've decided not to be in this band for a couple weeks? Well, because after all the times that I wasn't sure if I was going on the weekend shows, I decided to start playing with another band. Oh, right, right. Okay. I respect that. I respect that.

And I'll actually be in Nantucket the week before, it's a few days before y'all, with Jammie Buffet. What is Jammie Buffet? It's Colorado's premier Jimmy Buffett tribute and psychedelia act. So it's a Jimmy Buffett jam band. Yeah, it's like Roots Jam. It's not like Fish Jam. It's like we're playing rock and roll,

and we're jamming and extending solo sections on Jimmy Buffett's songs. His thing was like song after song after song. You play 35 songs a night. We're playing half that, and we're exploring the the space and we're going in and out of tunes and Throwing covers in and tell the story about Dave Portnoy loving your band Dave Portnoy is our number one fan Nice he flew from them from Nantucket to Nashville for our show at Chiefs to do like a meet-and-greet at his Barstool bar The fuck really? And we were just like VIP with Portnoy Turns out him and Tyler's dad are like best friends now Wow most unlikely pair really yeah

they talk all the time well cuz they just like they hit it off that night cuz His building that he like that he owns that bar stools in out there Was like Tyler's grandpa's original building that he worked in back in like you know the early That's crazy So but the big thing people know it's not just some bullshit cover bait You have one of the biggest agents the guy who books who yeah It's Joe attain me and who does he's books Noah Khan and Sturgell. Holy shit And yeah, I mean, you know, he's obviously not our day-to-day guy

But like he's the one who he's a huge Barrett head and he's the one who kind of made it happen But you got Paige she's my one of my pages are like our direct that's Richard Sloan's ex-girlfriend Remember Richard Sloan's ex-girlfriend? Yeah, she's crushing it. You know we're doing a really nice run in the East Coast and Antioch it and all over you know Maine and New Hampshire and Massachusetts and good money. Oh. Yeah. Fuck. Fuck.

Fuck, he says. I'm not gonna do that. Fuck, we're about to lose him to Jimmy Buffet. That's right, I'll keep writing. Thank you, keep writing. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Keep writing the songs. All right, guys, let's go.

That was fun. Thank you so much for everything you guys do in this band. We're having fun, feel like comradies good. There's little fights every now and then, but not fucking end of the world fights. They're just, cause we're tired. Just tired. What about you, Sam? You don't talk much.

Every once in a while, the boys get on. You good? You about to like, kill yourself on the tour? I think it's a good man. He's the happiest dude. You know, cause we had that little break between the first weekend and the second weekend. When we were back in Denver, it was was like we turned up on that like Tuesday night

And I was like hanging out with some friends and was like didn't go a lot of sleep that night You know so I've been like catching up every every day since then what were you doing Sam? No, nothing just hanging out with my friends until starting business very late at the night. Starting businesses at 7 a.m. Yeah Talk to shop, baby Talking shop well keep talking shop Any so I like to close this I want everyone to give a little bit of motivation for why people should keep going With their week or if they're having a hard time everyone gets a moment of it Richie. What do you got? I think you know it's it's always say this, it's the little things.

It's that snack that you get when you have home or your dog or your cat that's waiting for you. It's your significant other. It's your friend that you see when you're pulling into your driveway that you wave to. It's like all those little things that keep things going and make the hard moments not so hard anymore. Jesus fucking Christ, That was amazing. What about you, Cooney, what do you got?

You know, when I was a kid, my mom used to always say to me, only you make it a good day. So I kind of like take it on myself to like, you know, assess why am I upset and what can I do for myself to make it better. And I always say, just we're riding the wave, you know, nothing's forever.

You're at the top of the wave, you're at the bottom of the wave, the next one's gonna come, and you just kind of ride it. Yeah, I could tell from all the talk about how much money you make from Jimmy Buffet. Jesus fucking Christ! This might be over soon with me and Cooney. I'm not going in. What? Or Andy's gonna be like,

Hey, you guys need a manager? I can put you in. What about you, B, what do you got for the people? I don't know, man. I feel like anytime I'm like really having a hard time getting through the week, I just like I think about the end of the day because in the beginning of the day everything's like stressful. You're like, fuck, it's going to be like the worst day ever. You're like, I have all this shit going on. But then you got to remember at the end of the day, that's when you chill. You're like, oh, it's like stressful. You're like fuck. It's gonna be like the worst day ever. You're like, I have all this shit going on

But then you gotta remember at the end of the day, that's when you chill. You're like, it's all done. It's over. It's over It's always gonna be well, there's always gonna be another thing to do but the end will become god. That's beautiful You know what I mean? That's fucking beautiful Remember that you're the one that put that shit in your fucking body. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hey, Cal will be over there!

I don't know, pussy's on tour, all right? Fuck the party after! If you fuck about taking drugs, you're fucking gonna have to own it too. If you're gonna be a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning. That's right. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Cry a little bit. Cry a little bit. Yeah, that's actually really good advice there. What about you, Sam? What do you got? Yeah, I mean, I think it's, you never know what is going to be the thing that turns your day or week around. And so it's like going into day, even if you feel like crap going into like a day, like

having that optimism that like, you know, don't just like make, don't force that day into being bad because like, you know, even if you have an expectation, it's gonna be hard or if it's gonna be a difficult day, you know, there's so many things that can just turn around and make it particularly badass. What about you, Mr. Lot Lizard? Quote Rick Rubin today. He says, don't say I can't do it. Say, haven't done it yet.

I heard you. I heard it. I heard it. I like that, thank you. So that means tomorrow he's gonna be getting a hand job from a lot of lizards. Just haven't done it yet. Haven't done it yet. All right guys, there you have it.

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Green juice tequila. Green juice whiskey. We had a late night and drank all that shit. Green juice like it's healthy? Yeah, it's healthy alcohol. Hey, alright. Who brought it over? Who? Who? Somebody bring it over? I don't remember it

I can't check it out. Yeah, it works really well apparently When we're on tour we everyone in the morning or the first week We all go into Walmart and everyone's buying their immunity shots, right and all this green stuff So it's actually perfect. Yes, because we do like to drink Would you get these glasses a bottom out of gas station today? Yeah, because we do like to drink. Would you get these glasses? Just a little bit. I bought them at a gas station today.

Yeah, you're like Mexican Anderson Paco. The Huckleberry, I have to buy your lunches. Emporium. Well, we love you. Stay happy. Like the boys said, happiness is a marathon, not a race.

So keep fighting for it. Keep walking towards happiness. Even if you're not happy today, you never know if you're gonna be happy tomorrow. Like this band, we used to fucking hate each other, and now we love each other again, and it's this epic flow of just communication. So we just gotta communicate, love each other,

and not hold anything in, and just try to be the best people we can together. Right? Cool. We have a minute, I got a couple, no I'm just kidding. All right guys, I love you, we'll see you next week with the Cordovas. The Cordovas are on tour with us.

We're gonna get them on the podcast this week and we'll get them poppin'. All right, love ya, bye bye. Bye. Bye.