Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 21: Ripe

Episode Date: September 21, 2018

Yeti returns to the podcast after his woodland sabbatical to regale us with how he landed his 1st ever threesome. Damn Yeti! Andy talks akward tittie bar stories and On the interview hour we have our funky buddies Ripe spreading the gospel about Berklee College of Music, the east coast music scene, and how to successfully say a Yom Kippur prayer in Hebrew. This is Episode 21.   To keep up with the podcast, follow us on Instagram @WorldSavingPodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, tour dates, the band and the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com The views discussed on this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the guests. Follow Ripe, at www.ripetheband.com Produced by Andy Frasco Yeti Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Ahri Findling Alex Greer Arno Bakker Shawk Eckels & Andee Avila 

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Good harmonies there. Really focused. Hey, guys. I got cotton mouth. You're listening to Andy Frasca World Saving Podcast with Yeti. Another episode into that anal cavity. Wow. Right in the pooper.

Wonder bag treatment, olive oil, Michael Rapaport style. We're going raw dog without a bag on this episode. We're going raw as fuck. We're talking about titty bar stories. Everyone's got them.

I've got some crazy ones. We're going to outbeat each other's titty bar stories. I can't wait to hear yours because I got some sad ones and I got some crazy ones. Oh, man. I don't even know where to start. I mean, I have one that just stands out, but I have to save that one. Have you ever fucked a stripper before? No, I've never paid for sex.

No, but like just like... Oh, have I fucked a stripper? After like she's like, but you had a conversation with her and then... No, I haven't. I've never been around. That's the only stripper. I've never had a blap dance.

I've never been around a stripper like that. I just don't like the smell of strippers. Like it's that weird... Like fruity Victoria's Sea. Yeah, like that. I just don't like the smell of strippers. Like it's that weird, like fruity Victoria's sea. Yeah, like that weird pool smell. Brass polish is what they call that, son. It's got like, you got like a lemongrass feel.

It's like a coconut oil and yeah, leather oil. Yeah. I've had a couple crazy. Smells like a couch. Smells like a green room couch. Yeah, go. Three that were,

one that's just like I was doing like a bachelor party. My buddy since kindergarten, bachelor party. And we go to the titty bar and they're all

lawyers and shit and like all my friends like from like high school or elementary school. Growing up, yeah, yeah. So my cocky from like high school or elementary school growing up yeah yeah so my cocky ass like yeah i could get these get fucked up you know i could do it so we get like a half ounce of cocaine and um there's only seven of us and i might have done an eight ball in like i don't know like probably hour and a half, two hours. Jesus. On your own? Well, probably sharing with one other person.

But yeah, I definitely... You split an eight ball, but you did the lion's share. You did the lion's share of an eight ball. It's not like if it was pure cocaine, I would have probably died. But, you know, it's all, you know, chopped up and shit. It's Vegas. You don't get good shit out there. So... Where do you get good shit?

L.A.? Not even L.A. Like, Miami. Miami. Miami is so cheap. you're not getting good shit out there so where do you get good shit LA not even LA like Miami Miami oh yeah it's so cheap I'm like this is why people get addicted

this is why you go to Miami I need to go to can we go to Miami sometime yeah I always go I don't like titty bars because I always talk to the strippers

and like start having conversations like we're having while they're trying to like lap dance me so but then you fuck them. I ended up fucking them,

yeah. One of them. Yeah, that's great. A couple of them. I've had sex with a couple of strippers, but like, Like,

like they were working and then they left work and you fucked. Working and they left and worked and they, And then they went back to work? No, it was like five in the morning.

Damn. Oh, okay. End of the night. Gotcha. End of the night. Yeah, okay.

Tired, you know, she's tired. Yeah, because a girl that like, ankles hurt. A girl that goes and fucks you and then goes back to work,

yeah, that's, that's, that's prostitution. Yeah, that's prostitution. If that's your thing's tired. Yeah, because a girl that like, a girl that goes and fucks you and then goes back to work, yeah, that's prostitution. Yeah, that's prostitution. If that's your thing, fine. No, I want to not date with a stripper. I dated a stripper for a little bit. They're fun. They're partiers. I have a friend that's...

Because they're not fucking all of them. No, they're not. No, I have a friend that's a stripper. That's cool. They're cool. They're like down-to-earth musicians. Yeah, that's where I got some of these stories is from her.

So... That one was me, though. Yeah. Dante was me. So, we start talking, like, hey, she's like, you want to do some cocaine in the bathroom? So I'm like, okay, I'll do some cocaine with you. So we do cocaine, blah, blah, on the toilet or whatever.

And then we get back, we start making out, maybe like, you know, touching a vagina a little bit. We come back to the boom, boom area, because we're not supposed to do that. So she's hiding in the bathroom. She can't do that when she's working. We go back. Wait, where was this? Vegas. Okay. All of a sudden,

she turns around, starts doing her little booty shake, and all of a sudden, I start getting the shakes. Like, sweating. Like, I'm about to throw up. I throw up all over her back. Wait, where were you when you did this? Vegas. In what? Spearmint Rhino, like a about to throw up. I throw up all over her back. Where were you when you did this? Vegas. In what?

Spearmint Rhino. Like a boomer room. Like, you pay an extra 15 bucks. You were in a V.O. You were in a single room. The VIP are like extra 45 bucks. Oh, I thought you were like out in a trailer or something. No, no, no.

We're back in the titty bar. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Okay. So, I throw up everywhere. And all of a sudden, this girl's mood changes 180. What the fuck? Give me all your money.

I'm so sorry. She took like $700 of mine. And I threw up all over the limo, inside the fucking beer basket. And these poor guys are giving us a limo for free. And I'm the only guy ass was like, yeah, motherfucking lawyers. I could party. I'm the only one throwing up on strippers and fucking.

That's a party though. You fucking party dude. Are you kidding me? None of those other. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. This is why you win. You don't have to be ashamed of this. This is why you win because those motherfuckers couldn't party because when you party, you just let Because those motherfuckers couldn't party. Because when you party, you just let go.

That's what I'm saying. If you're willing to be like, you know what? Fuck you. I'm going to win. You're so fucking competitive, you will kill yourself with alcohol poisoning. I swear. That's what happened. That's my point. People that live like that are rare. And they

don't live long generally. That was so embarrassing. But you don't need to be fucking embarrassed. That's fucking great. Like those guys got a story about, do you remember when that rock star fucking just lost his shit? I'm like, do you realize how much that rock star

had to drink to get to lose his shit? Like that's what they don't realize. Like when you see something like that, like if I see you wasted throwing up somewhere, I know that you have had a great night because there's no fun there's no i couldn't have even if i can't drink for drink with you like you'll go like seriously three to my one and i just my hat's off to you sir i've started bartending though so now i have a little higher tolerance but would you like uh

throw up on a fucking stripper? Or would you like try to push her off? I don't have, I don't know if I'd throw up. I mean, obviously I'm at that point. Here's the thing is like, I'm a little, I'm less apt to get to that edge because I don't like being there. If I'm going to throw up, I'm going to make myself throw up.

I don't want to, I want to control it. Like I'm going to throw up, I'm going to make myself throw up. I don't want to. I want to control it. I'm going to be home, and I'm just going to let it go. I'm going to stick my finger down my throat, and I'm going to do it. But I don't get to the... What I'm saying is those lawyers were like me, and they were like, I can't go past that. That's not...

I've never been to a bachelor party. I thought this is what you do. Because I was like, because I do this. I don't like go to titty bars. I don't like titty bars. Like, they're depressing as fuck. Like, every time, I have the worst luck at titty bars. Like, every time I'm in Tulsa, these girls are telling me their problems. Like, oh, my baby daddy's not paying me anymore. I'm like, God, I don't even have a boner.

I'm like Dr. Phil in this dick at the titty bar. My band does that doesn't always leave. You're paying her to listen to her problems. I just feel bad for these chicks, man. They're like, they're kind of grinding their way. It's like fucked up. Well, what's stupid is that when you,

if you legalize prostitution, the playing field levels quite quickly. Because if you can fuck anybody, those that have put the work in make the money. I'm just saying, if you're hot

or if you're willing to be a freak, I mean, there's girls that I mean, I worked in the porn industry. Yeah, you know it. And there's girls that, to be if you're 19 and willing to take a huge tenant ten inch cock in your ass you can make a lot of fucking money in porn jesus you might not have god damn it yeti what are you watching on porn that's making you so nonchalantly just fucking talk about a big, veiny dick. Yeti. I'm bi, dude.

I'm into big, veiny dicks. We need to talk about this. Shut up. I know we talked about it, but holy fuck. You were so passionate about the veiny dick. I am dying. But have you ever been to a Chippendales titty bar before? No, I haven't.

I've never been to a male review. No? No. Would you ever be interested in that? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not even coming at that from a sexual angle. I just think it's cool. Like, a spectacle.

What if we make you our magic mic for the podcast? I'm not even coming at that from a sexual angle. I just think it's cool. A spectacle. What if we make you our magic mic for the podcast? For the band? Just like the stripper? The opener? I would do it. I know you would. I would own that shit too.

No, I'm not doing it. You're not hired to be on tour. You can't have that big of a dick on stage. No, get the fuck out of here. You can't have two of those because i mean sean eckles sean no i mean sean i've seen sean's dick it's huge yeah and i'm telling you if you've seen sean's dick you've seen my dick titty bars in just change the subject Germany and China are like crazy nightclubs. Germany was cool because like...

Yeah, so what's up with the Germany ones? Germany is a crazy sex scene. Like they'll have just fuck parties. They'll be like a six-story club that opens at 7 o'clock on Thursday. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. on Thursday and closes on Sunday afternoon. Oh, so it's just for the 72-hour orgy, basically. 72-hour.

Well, like one room is like a DJ with fucking heavy club. Dancing and ecstasy and blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Then there's like fucking LSD bands playing late night. Oh, psychedelics. And then fourth floor is just like an Irish pub. And then deep down in the caves is the fuck clubs. And you see some crazy shit.

I saw the craziest shit I've ever seen in my life. I saw like a fucking... Do you have to walk around naked in that room? No, no, no. You just go in and like. Because people are partying and people are fucking right next to you. Oh, okay. So like people are drinking.

It's just to know everything's permissible area. Yeah. Gotcha. Whatever you want to do. And some people are there to be voyeurs and other people are there to be. You see people doing heroin. Right. You see people doing cocaine.

That's very. That's very, I like that. I like that because it appeals to so many things. There's people that it appeals to them to be watched. They're exhibitionists. And then there's people that it appeals to be able to see that. They're voyeurs. And we're all voyeuristic in some sense. We observe on some level with some level of interest. to see that. They're voyeurs. And we're all voyeuristic in some sense. Like, we observe

on some level with some level of interest different things around us. And so, don't let voyeur be a bad word because we're all voyeurs. Yeah.

In some sense. And just accept the fact that some people are into some weird shit. Yeah, that's the cool thing about Berlin. And not so weird shit. I mean, it's really not that weird. We fucking film

animals fucking. Why can't we watch each other fucking? Like, honestly. So would you... Okay, let's go. You like porn. I like porn, but why don't you tell the people about your fucking threesome you had? Is it time? It's time. We've got enough space. Yeti went on the road and had a fucking threesome. Not is it time it's time we've got enough yeti oh my god on the road and had a

fucking threesome not only what's funny is we recorded we recorded episode we we talked about it in 16 17 and we recorded it on the way down to where it happened like that like we talked about it and i fucking manifested that shit and it went down. Tell me about it. Like straight up. How did you pimp a threesome? I, okay. How did that even, I didn't even know.

I got to tell the story. We're all partying. Here it is. This is, we got to, we got to try and get five minutes on the clock. I'm going to try and do this in less than five minutes. Okay. Yeah. Hurry.

Okay. So, um, what time are we at? We're good. Okay. We're good. Okay. So, uh, but don't, it's better not be boring. I'm going to have to tell you.

No, it's not. No, no, no. It's not, it better not be boring. No, it's not. No, no, no. It's not boring. After your show, hanging out, we're all trying to get into pools around the hotel. Couldn't find them.

And eventually we end up in like a lounge somewhere and me and this girl, I call her This already feels bad already. Her and I are like, we're like going around trying to get weed

and seeing if we can find some cocaine. And so we're in elevators and we're just making out and she's hot. She tiny, definitely like I'm a tree she could climb. Anyways, I get to, I was like, we need to go find a place to smash. And she's like, yep. So we go and she's with a couple and another person, another lady. So there's four of them in a hotel room. The single lady is passed out in the bed, uh, naked. She got like a titty out. I'm like, all right, let's go in the bathroom. So we go in the bed uh naked she got like a titty out we're like all right let's go in the bathroom so we go in the bathroom and then like the married couple shows up like they're like

we're babysitting and we're like fuck you're banging in the bathroom while those people started walking we're we yeah we're about to and then couldn't like well you're just fingering in the bathroom yeah it was weird clothes were coming off it was about to happen but we're like ah shit so we get dressed come out and uh by that, girl that was passed out in the bed, this naked is walking around the room naked. The married couple, the husband is, he doesn't have a shirt on. I think he was about to change or something. So then wifey takes off her swimming suit top. So she's topless and I'm standing there in a shirt. So I take off my shirt and I look at, you know, Mike topless party. Let's go. Well, what's the husband doing?

He's rolling with it. He's just like, yeah, let's do this. Like, so I was like, topless party, let's go. Well, what's the husband doing? He's rolling with it. He's just like, yeah, let's do this. So I was like, fuck, let's see what happens. Let's just, you know, I mean, adults having fun. Let's do it. We're drinking. We got a whole term. We got the music going. They got a balcony.

You know, it's dope. Eventually, me and Sally, you got Sally, wifey, and husband, right? Okay. Me and Sally are out on the, and the wife are out on the, and, and the wife are out on the balcony and the husband goes back in and then the wife ends up just kind of fading away from the conversation and go back in. And Sally says, she's the one that's naked. And she's like,

I kind of feel uncomfortable. And I just take off my pants, take off my shorts. Cause I was just in my swimming trunks. Like, and I just dropped them. I shit you not. Like they were inside. They were behind us. You're outside. You went out on the, yeah, just dropped them. I shit you not. What about the husband and the wife? They were inside. They were behind us. You were outside? You went dick out? Yeah, I just went naked on the patio. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, but we're the hotel.

Like, I know where you were. I was at that party. You guys were dick out in the fucking background? No, on their balcony. I know. I know exactly how we were partying at the balcony. Yeah, yeah. So what happens?

She started like grabbing your dick and shit? I dropped the shorts and she goes, I shit you now. She says, she looks down at my dick and she goes, oh, Yeti.

I can't make this up. I can't make this up because I told her I was going to share the story. So I start making out with her because we had been making out and so we're kind of

picking up where we left off and Sally's standing over by herself and I just pull her over in the balcony area and husband and wife are right next to you. But nobody's there. It's like 1230 at night, like midnight, maybe like nobody was there. Like, and we were being, we were being loud. We were being, you know, we were just being out on the patio. And so, uh, husband and wife are inside, like kind of, they're going to sleep. Curtains are closed and we're basically by ourselves out on it. So make out with Sally, make out.

And then they're both going down on me. And then suddenly the couple's watching through the window. Oh my God. And I'm like, what the fuck? And so we stop. Are they trying to join? We stop. And in the meantime, while they're going through their arguments,

Sally had gone back in and she's arguing. You're having the night of your life. Sally, Sally like left. And then he and I started getting it on. And then the couple was like, after we were done, they were like arguing.

It had gotten to that point where we realized they were arguing. Yeah. I look in and I was like, I think they're leaving. She's like, well, I don't want to go in there. So we waited and like,

they leave and a huff. We go in and she's like, well, are you done? And I was like, I think they're leaving. She's like, well, I don't want to go in there. So we waited and like, they leave and a huff. We go in and she's like, well, are you done? And I was like, fuck no, let's go in and finish this threesome. And we fucking shut the lights off

and had that, the best three hours of sex in my life. Weren't people filming it and shit? Yeah, she, yeah, I got some videos. You will never see them. Come on. Somebody

is going to have to see those. There's some good stuff out there. Maybe. I got to get some permission on that one. This podcast is going to get famous. Yeti's going to sign a bad contract deal and he's going to sell the porn

video for money? Nope. I told... Here's the thing. The film was not taken on my phone. That was kind of the deal. And I said, if you want to share it with me, here's how you get a hold of me. And that was it.

It was not sent over social media or anything like that. Of course. You're smart about it. What if someone hacks your phone nobody's gonna hack my phone fuck that like doesn't happen that's why i deleted all my dick pics yeah well and that's the thing is i don't i don't keep things on my phone i keep them on a hard drive at my house like just straight up yet he had his first threesome everybody everyone clap it up so the thing yeah the thing I want to emphasize is double squirters. Double squirters?

Double squirters. Oh, now you're just being cocky. Cool. It was fucking, we soaked that mattress, dude. It was ridiculous. Oh, how do you sleep on it? Like, that's what I'm thinking about. I didn't sleep on it.

Like, we fucked for three hours and then I left. And then they slept on, they slept on that. That's a nice hotel, too, Yeti. They slept on the pullout. Well, that's a nice hotel too they slept on the pull out that's a nice hotel it wasn't my incidental oh my god

I tell you you're out here doing some fucking dollar matrix it was it was good and I it was and I

were you happy were you smiling everyone oh my god so it was a happy threesome oh it was everybody enjoyed it and everybody

we still talk all three of us and um you guys in a group chat yeah no Oh, everybody enjoyed it. And everybody, we still talk, all three of us. Guys in a group chat? No. There's nothing going on like that. Although, it's probably a good idea. On that note, let's listen to the next interview.

How did we get on this? What would you name it? Stripper stories. Yeah, from stripper stories to Yeti. Stripper stories to fucking threesomes. God, I hope my parents listen to this. Yeah, my parents are definitely listening to this. Sorry, Mom. What am I going to do when I meet your parents?

Oh, my God. They're going to know everything. Well, I think they're going to like you because you're kind of like my therapist. You've helped me a lot. Oh, thanks, man. I try to fucking sleep with me tonight, though, Yeti. I'm not sexually attracted to you.

You keep saying that you're too fucking hairy you're too fucking hairy you're too fucking hairy we'll do the next interview oh shit boston massachusetts is in fucking kansas city boys what's up we're with ripe what's up boys how we doing how's it going man dudes what a nice surprise we are both on tour and we i was like ah yeah put this plan away do you guys want to smoke some weed i got weed um somewhere um yeah you guys are at my house dude how's it going thanks manudes, how's it going? Thanks, man. Appreciate it. How's it going, dudes?

It's going well, man. Home stretch of the tour. This is the get as far east as possible in as few days as possible. Get to our beds and our women's. I'm going home for Yom Kippur, man. I'm not even going home. Oh, yeah, dude. Congrats.

We made it. Oh, the tribe. I forgot the team is Jewish, dude. What's up? A little prayer for DM. Oh, well, fuck yeah. Dudes, you guys have been fucking destroying the game right now. What's going on?

I know what's going on. You guys are fucking talented, but you got... It's the dabs, right? It's the dabs and the mushrooms. No, but you guys worked your ass off. I want to basically talk about berkeley in this interview i want to talk about the cult that is berkeley and all the bands that have gone through berkeley and make it i want to talk about your new record i want to talk about recording

process we got a lot of talking yeah okay the first third of the interview is just topics for the interview and i want to hear crazy road stories i want to hear i mean you guys are you guys are becoming the next big band you know that right no but we're down we're okay with it we're gonna do war room as well in this podcast Robby tell me let's so the people who don't know ripe yet they will soon if they don't how'd the band get started you all are from different areas of the country right we're so we got some Canadians. We got my Israeli homie up in this bitch.

Where are y'all from? Boston? Anyone? California? New York. So none of you are not- Zero real Bostonians in a Boston band. So, okay, Robbie, conduct this.

What happened? How'd this happen? Honestly, it was, you know, I'm sure from some people, when you get to music school, the last thing anybody wants to talk about is music. The first thing everybody wants to do is get drunk and talk about other shit. And so first week of classes,

Sam and Tori had an apartment that wasn't on campus, which meant that you didn't have an RA breathing down your neck if you were trying to have a beer in the room. And so they were throwing parties pretty much out the gate. And some of the first parties, me and Kevin Basco, who wound up playing guitar in the band for the first few years, and people who wound up forming the first version of R.I.P.E.,

were all just partying together. And then as people would get more and more intoxicated, inevitably somebody brings out a guitar. Inevitably, because Tory lives there, Tory brings out a guitar. You're holding a guitar now. Yeah. So how does Berklee work? Do they segregate you into an instrument

you play or do they put everyone in the same housing? Tell me, why are people leaving after a year? I have so many fucking questions about this Berklee. We're taking you to music school today. Okay, cool. Come on. Disclaimer, literally the week after we left, everything seemed like it changed.

Like a brand new building, twice the size went up. They partnered with a conservatory down the street. Like they dropped of music from like the discreet, like I think it's just Berkeley College now. Yeah, like they're going through a whole rebranding that we have like nothing to do with and like can't talk on. But like in terms of the recently obsolete Berkeley, it's kind of all things at once.

You get in on an instrument, but you major on something that's not necessarily tied to your instrument but one of the majors is performance when you're like reverting back to being focused on your instrument okay and so like you're all hanging you're all you're all for the most part you it's pretty difficult to go your entire berkeley career never seeing somebody else that you went to school with how many people go there i think it's like four oh yeah but that number includes the online kids i'm pretty sure i don't know no no it's yeah i'm wrong i mean you you could disappear completely like you could see no one if you really wanted to yeah you could stay in your apartment the whole time no yeah no i feel like i was just like doing oh you were partying so what is it like living in Boston?

How was the Boston music scene? Were there a lot of musicians out of Boston? I don't know much about the Boston scene, but all the great musicians are coming out of there. It's super transitory just because of how many music schools there are there. We basically had to do our best to try to keep fans with us that were leaving in two or three years, oftentimes four at the most. And it just kind of became its own challenge to try to win over new people over and over and over again in the same city.

So how long were you living in Boston? Seven years. No shit! No shit. Also, like, lots of our, in our time at Berkeley, like, a lot of the cats who were there, it was, like, they're working right now. And a lot of them went to L.A. and have gotten really involved in the industry.

So, like, our kind of six degrees of separation, individually, like, all the networking that we did the four years, I was going to say before, like, you don't have to go to lots of class at berkeley to like get lots done and meet lots of people i have a feeling we know where you're coming at we split right down the middle as to who did you graduate yeah all you graduate is that a rare thing yeah you need to go to much class to graduate oh i get what you're saying toi was our model student of the seven of us. Bueller? You're like fucking

Ferris Bueller up in this bitch. They don't ask at Berkeley, man. How much is tuition? Don't ask. They make us sign an NDA as we graduate. I still technically owe them a small amount of money. I think we broke it down. I think it's like 25 bucks a class.

Like every day, daily. You basically pay 25 at the door. That's nuts. What was really cool though was at least me and Samson, I know we got tight with some people this dude Bob Mulvey and Ron Savage and Ken Brass and some people that were able to make really cool things happen. We had started

a Grateful Dead ensemble and then after that a few semesters of that they allowed us to do a Ripe ensemble with, a Ripe ensemble. Oh, so you got the credit for your band? We got credit for band practice. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, and so we were chilling. That's tight.

So we were chilling with Jeff Lockhart, the funk Yoda. Yeah, oh yeah. And he was hanging and we were rehearsing and getting credit, mandatory. That is fucking bananas. So you basically built your fan base in Boston as a college band, right? Yeah. We went down to North Carolina an astounding amount of times. And then occasionally New York.

What's up, Davidson College? If you're out there. They don't remember who we are anymore. They've also now scattered again. So let's talk about that. How difficult is to... I did that. My career was building college towns and realizing after the fourth year

you're fucking starting over. How do you get that? What's the show that makes you start over? You can't just go back to a hard ticket show. You have to do a soft ticket show in the college town, right? Soft tickets definitely are a big thing. We also that like most people were leaving college towns and then like congregating again in new areas like we'd show up in like philadelphia and people will be

coming from like princeton college shows we did and then they're gonna go to some city because they just got a degree from princeton and they want to do whatever they want yeah so like in new york five or ten people will come from that in Philadelphia 15 or 20 and like if those people like the first time they see you in a city then you've got them in this new place they've moved to you're not just a college band yeah the next like chapter of their life band whatever that is for them well professional but those are the fans that stick forever when you have those transitions we're going through transitions through their lives those are the ones who you they felt like they've grown with you as you've grown with them and if you keep on making new like you guys

are doing you guys are gonna you're on to something dudes i really i could feel the friend i could feel the vibes dude it's exciting because like you know it's like it's hard to research yeah give me a hug you sweet guys josh is yeah but like speaking of that let's talk about you're from california who's from california okay so i'm from california too let's talk about the difference between the california west coast music scene and the east coast music scene because you could you could travel and route and do venues two hours away but in the west coast you're driving six hours everywhere right is it is it insane like what yeah what happened what was your route this week i think we set a record

for driving for us in the not counting today in the past four days before this we drove a total of about 2200 miles fuck yeah boys i'm proud of you dude i'm so proud of you with the oh yeah with the game you guys been gigging like what's the the route was um no no you guys are just starting it was good yeah dude i don't know kupperman's gonna work your ass down boys work harder work fucking hard it's working our tour manager will be sitting in the band and be like this is inhumane it's like van and be like this is inhumane like who planned this tour this is inhumane so talk about that let's talk about how hard it is to be a touring musician i mean like you're gigging i mean you guys have some really good playlists and like you're getting

a lot of playlist plays and but like we being not a radio band yeah i mean maybe you're doing some radio and triple a or stuff but like if. Yeah, we're hot on the grocery store scene right now. You know what they say. First grocery stores, then Cougars. Then you become the revivalist and you're in, baby. That's how it goes. I'm telling you, man. I was just hanging with the revivalists and seeing their fan base.

Those guys are fucking badass. You guys opened for the revivalists too. Those guys are nice dudes. Fame did not get to them. And a lot of bands you see as they grow, if you don't tour so much and you just get thrown into, oh, we're fucking popular now, it's harder to do that. With you doing the weight and pushing the weight of traveling 2,200 miles in a week,

it just shows how badly you want it. And how badly do you guys want this thing? We're at your apartment bro no i was gonna say something interesting before though about what's up growing our fan base i think we gotta shout out uh i think we gotta shout out garrett dutton for a second because we really like we did we did a few nationwide's with uh the g love camp and that is how a lot of these people outside the college markets that we didn't hit Really? Yeah because you know

and Robbie brought it up early on when it started to happen we also noticed that it was a fan base that could afford to spend money on merchandise but also you know they were seeing their favorite guy that you know they were seeing when they were in college. How many people was G-Love bringing a night? Yeah I saw you doing a lot of G-Love stuff. He was doing well man and he's

so he crushes it and those people are hungry man G-Love bring in a night. Yeah, I saw you doing a lot of G-Love stuff. He was doing well, man. And he's... Fucking awesome. So he crushes it. And those people are hungry, man. They're hungry for new music. New music. Like, they're also looking for, like, that same thing that y'all were saying before

that I can't remember. We'll get there. What's the dream, though? What's the dream for R.I.P.? I think it's more like we have four or five things about what we do that we're not going to give up. And beyond that, let's take it to the top of the mountain what are those what are those i

mean i think that we came up as a group of friends and at this point i haven't done this for so long it feels like a family and i think that like i don't want to give up the familial aspects of what we do even if that's the only way to get it to the arena like i'm down to leave that on the table then and keep the value friendship is more important yeah and the same with like in terms of what we want to be to the people that listen to us and if any if i'm wrong at any point someone just smack the mic out of my hand but like i would i would rather be like a on somebody's list of like favorite artists that have one song that pops up on everybody's playlists for two weeks and then goes away and then like six months later they hear it at a bar and they're like, oh yeah, those guys.

What? Yeah. I don't really care. The next song is already playing. And like that happens sometimes. And that happens sometimes even to really, really good bands. And so I know that those are two things

right off the bat for me that like even if that's the way to get it bigger for a short period of time, like I'm okay not chasing that for the hell of it. It's about longevity, right? Yeah. I think so. You're in this for the hell of it. It's about longevity, right? Yeah. I think so. You're in this for the long haul.

Yeah. I don't want people to ever have to ask, like, whatever happened to them about us. They should know, because we'll hopefully still be on the road and still be working. So what is your plan for, to keep that attack going?

Writing new music, being with the fans, knowing your fan base? What is it? It's a little bit of everything. I think that we have the firmest grasp on what we do as a live band. We know how to go from first time playing a market to hopefully that leading to a slightly bigger thing next time to, oh, this random opportunity popped up in Wisconsin. This will add to the next time we play here. That thing is kind of becoming clear to us in terms of like wherever we're at we've got our next step uh and i think with everything else with building like what the band is when we're not literally on stage

in your face that's kind of like figuring that piece out is the next step for us when we sat down with our agent jason copperman you know shout out to copperman yeah jason said to us and this is you know just about three years ago now it's, I need you to know why you're playing to eight people in Paducah, Kentucky on a Tuesday night, you know? Why? Because the next time you come back, hopefully it's going to be 40 people. And then the next time you come back, you know, like, just knowing why you're in a place for the first time

and why there's no one there and the hope that, you know, or not even the hope, just the plan that next time we come around because of everything that went down the first time you know now we've officially started something here the last time we were in this city we did literally sell eight tickets yeah yeah we all have yeah yeah and technically overland park so kansas city still has a chance to beat that number yeah so this is our first time in town we're not like jew Jews out there, brother. You're good. You're not playing it over the park anymore, does he?

We're seeing what you're talking about, though. Like, even in, like, Nashville, like, I think the last time we were there, we did, like, 38 tickets, and this time we did, like, 220 a couple months ago. Dude, you guys are killing major markets. But do you think that's a fact of Spotify? Of your numbers on Spotify? I think a little bit.

I think we... The buzz is out now. We're young at this. So we figured out that there was an art, or I'll speak for myself. I figured out that there was an artist side to Spotify like a month ago. So now it's like I discovered this whole new world I had no idea about. Oh, like the analytics and stuff? Yeah, just like being able to actually see

how many people are. Yeah, it's wild. You can literally check out their numbers of your best cities in the world in terms of listeners you can see everything from gender to like demographic ages like it just gives you so much like useful information to be able to maximize you know what capramay is doing with touring and what we're doing with you know like getting the right looks on spotify which still we don't really know how that should happen yeah Yeah. We have like people get us on their Discover weeklies,

but we got no like actual playlisting like Spotify, like clicking and dragging us onto a thing. Yeah, none of that yet. That was all just Discover weekly and you're getting that many numbers? Fuck yes, dude. I'm proud of you. Fuck, dude. That is dope.

Thank you. Dude, seriously though. One thing I can add to that, like when you see, you can see how people are listening to your music if it's on your catalog. And most of the people that listen to our stuff, they save it to their libraries. So you can know that...

Oh, you can see that in the analytics? Yeah, they break it down. So it shows you that the people that listen to Ripe on Spotify, they save the music and they listen to it every day. And that's how you see the loyalty of the fans, which is awesome. On a side note, isn't it crazy how little money we make off that fucking bullshit? So this is a total tangent, but did you see the interview that Jack Stratton gave for CNN? No.

When Spotify went public, they asked him about what he thought about it because of Sleepify. Oh, yeah. Explain what Sleepify is for the people because the analytics on that and how they made money on that is so brilliant jack jack is involved jack is involved this is how you get talked about by time magazine as a band like good job guys yeah respect they basically made a five track or might have been seven track i don't know how many tracks it was ep uh, called Sleepify. Each of the names of the songs was just different amounts of the letter Z. So ZZZ, ZZZZ, and so on and so forth. And they were all basically quiet, silent tracks.

They had enough information on them that they counted as music in terms of how their apparent security algorithm works. And again, this is me reading articles after the fact. Jack knows this better than I do. Jack Stratton, please come on this podcast fuck yeah um but he they basically told their fans which were like present but not as big as they are now to loop this album of silent music as they slept and just rack up money how much money did they end up making i think they made like it was two i think 20 grand i thought i thought it was about 20. oh yeah those guys are jews dude that's what i'm talking about good i was pointing

on the analytics what they did with that 20 grand rather than just pocket it and run is they used all the data they had from listeners to find out where their actual fans are and they threw a tour for free yeah and they basically like rewarded everybody that actually went out and did this thing by popping up in their markets because they knew where they were and playing shows that they then didn't have to pay for because they'd actually gone above and beyond already with the Sleepify thing. It was just – That was going to be my next question. Does Kupperman book your tours through the Spotify analytics? Like, oh, shit.

We got – North Dakota has 5,000 streams. Well, he's got eyes on it, but he's also like, a guy like Jason and great agents, they have a plan from the get-go. It's like, yeah, they're taking a look at how things are playing out

and how things are working on Spotify or just shows, but there's a plan from the get-go of systematically how to fucking take over the country with your band. That's one thing I'm learning about Paradigm. What's the country with your band. Yeah. There is like a blueprint for that. What's the blueprint?

I don't know. They don't tell us. They don't tell us or we book ourselves. The agent's got to want it. I think one of the first things that Jason said to us because he just dug the music and the vibe and saw that there was opportunity for growth was that he wants us to be his biggest band.

I'm sorry if any of his other million acts are listening. we could bleep his name so no one knows who it is yeah no and i i i think i think he believes that too uh so you know just being a supporter of that you know and well you don't look at look at share the dream there's a lot djs and there's a lot i mean now we're back in the era where jam music is kind of getting out of electronic and getting back into this people are singing people are writing songs these like the bands like you the bands like us the band like Lawrence like who kind of like not you're not all jam like you guys write songs you're trying to you're not just that's just one market to to sell there's also the Cougar Market There's also the college kids. I mean, there's

the Trumpers. I mean, you can't, I mean, there's everywhere. There's the cougar market. Yeah. Cougars sell... I'm talking about it all day. I'm telling you, man. Cougars is the lifeline of a band. Sounds like we're getting into war stories. No. Oh, we about to get into war stories, because this is how I met you guys. I'm not

going to shout out, I'm not going to call anyone out, just in case you have a girlfriend. the first time I met you guys was on a rock. Was it Rockboat or Lebowski Coos? We technically met in Brooklyn at the knitting factory a while back Yeah, when Cumberman, that was the night when Cumberman signed you. Yeah, that was the night everything like oh you gotta check out this baby. Yeah, we played with you guys Yeah Superman. Yeah. Yeah. That's well like the first time we really hung like you guys were doing your thing you guys were brains were somewhere else and mine was too you know also donna missile was on that show yeah and now she's blowing up that was that's one of those bills you look back on it's like donna missile ripe at frasco that's gonna be an expensive

ticket later uh yeah that girl blew up dude i'm proud of her That girl blew up, dude. I'm proud of her. It is halftime at the Enni Fresco interview hour. Here's a quick message from the U.N. This is Ari Finling talking writers again. Most artists, I will say, are monsters. They're horrible people.

They don't care about their fans. They don't care about humanity. All they want is a dressing room filled with hot Cheetos or orange Fanta. Or I know Steve Harvey doesn't let people look in his eyes. But there's one guy who has probably the best writer I've ever read. And it's Jack fucking Johnson. This is the guy who sings Banana Pancakes. He's a former surfer. He's just generally the coolest guy on the face of the earth. The number one thing on his writer, it just says, recycling must be thrown away with the trash.

What a good guy. Make this guy president of the country. The other thing that he requests, he says that the venues must install energy efficient light bulbs. What is this guy? Captain Planet? Okay, make this guy the president of the country. The venues must have bike valets and encourage people to use public transportation.

And that 100% of his show profits go to a nonprofit organization. This guy, say what you want about Jack Johnson. He's the goddamn greatest human being who's ever walked the earth. Fuck Grey's Anatomy. Fuck Blue Bloods. Fuck Madonna. And fuck Westworld. Fuck

Westworld. So with cuppermint and stuff, there's a plan. There's a focus. Are you trying to hit the South? Are you trying to hit everywhere? Are you trying to do big festivals and then do headline? What's the plan? I think that it's mostly about finding a balance

between what you've already done and where you'd like to be going. So for us, if an opening slot comes through, the first thing we're checking is like do we think that this band is a good fit for what we're doing and that can mean anything that can be anything from we absolutely love their music to their fans love like music in general and we think that they would be like down to hang with us as well uh in terms of headlining stuff like to your point about the spotify stuff for the longest time we had more like individual listeners in dallas than boston which did not pan out that doesn't make sense you guys sell a house of blues exactly well not yet

hopefully hopefully you're gonna sell it I'm not gonna I'm with it but I'm still gonna knock on your wooden table you're gonna sell that out you're gonna sell out Brooklyn Steel real top real top don't be afraid now you're in you're in the club dude you're in you know that right working on it yeah that's why I like you guys. Heads down, eyes forward. Clear hearts, can't lose. What's that fucking thing? Who is that? We are Marshall.

Friday Night Lights. Friday Night Lights. I don't know football. Okay. Speaking of this, you guys have been on the road. That's where I was going at this. The first time we really hung out was Rock Boat. I didn't really know anything. All know is i walk up i see someone this older woman six flights like you know the bikini thing or what's that thing the the robe thing i'm not gonna say who don't worry this is uh this is we're not calling everyone out thankfully we're all laughing at the same volume he saw me and he they pretended like he would just freeze inside the marination like i wouldn't know that someone is on like beach towels and and i was like i love these guys these guys are rock and roll as i knew that these guys were going to be my friends

tell me any crazy moments road stories you mean you've been in the trenches talk to me Tell me, any crazy moments, road stories? I mean, you've been in the trenches. Talk to me. We got to this one hotel. All right, this is a weird one, but this is not a crazy one. This is a doozy. This was like at the end of a really long day of driving, and a lot of THC was consumed in various forms in the car over many hours.

And we get out at this Best Western outside of Denver, and there's a dinosaur statue kind of in front of the hotel and we go in and just everything, it's just a fucking Best Western, everything in this hotel is covered in dinosaur memorabilia and like fossils

and like it's, it was heaven on earth for me. We have different definitions. I like dinosaurs. It's a very, very nice, very nice story. What else do we got? What else do we got?

So far, this band likes jazz and dinosaurs. Okay, I'm learning a lot about you. I'm learning a lot about you. I guess I'm... We like to party, man. I know you do. That's what I'm saying. Don about you. I guess I'm... We like to party, man. I know you do. That's what I'm saying.

Don't be... Half the people who listen to this are musicians who are relating with us. I've been learning this. On the road, the people who've been listening to this podcast the most

are musicians like Andy from The Revivalist. He's listening to it. And people who relate... I mean, we're all going through the same battle, man. I mean, dude. Yeah, we're going around the table. But we're all going through the same battle, man. I mean, yeah. Yeah, we're going around the table. But we're all going through the same battle, you know,

and people want to know about the battle. Yeah, and I think that for me, in terms of... Even if it's a star, if you're starving abroad, whatever. Yeah, so my war story is the fucked up one. For me, when it's like something that happens with a girl, that just seems like something where ideally, unless she's like not a nice human being, you don't

necessarily want to compromise somebody else's side of the story yeah so this is going to be about getting dosed in atlanta oh my god no but jesus we played the candler park music festival which and we found this out after the fact but i still think this is the funniest image for me to have even though i didn't know what's happening at the time but modest yahoo reportedly was right off stage as we were playing our set and And we've played with him in Virginia Beach. I love his vibe. I think he's a wonderful, wonderful person. He's a nice guy.

Yeah. So he was apparently side stage and was apparently feeling the music enough that it looked like he was going to go on stage during a song that we were playing, apparently at the song Follow Through. We were talks about it. Yeah. And he was vibing it, vibing it, ready to walk on stage, but doesn't. And then ready to walk on stage and doesn't.

And then the song ends and he's like, ah, whatever, I'll get it next time. And didn't wind up joining in with us. Oh, no. We're this close. We'll make it happen, Manasiahu. If you're listening to this, please drop us a line. But right after that show, we get off stage and this guy comes around and he asks if I wanted to have some Grateful Dead family fluff, which is a particular, it's probably not real when it's advertised,

but it's supposedly like the same recipe that like the dead were using their entire lives. Wow. And it's still just around and people know how to make it. And I, you know, I once in a while I'm down to do this kind of stuff. Yeah.

I will say to distance myself from the story I'm about to tell. But I asked for a half tab and the guy rips two tabs off, says, don't be a pussy, and puts them on my tongue before I can say anything. What the fuck? Are you serious?

Yeah, you put something in Robbie's mouth. I sure did, but we'll talk about that later. And to be fair, that was a fantastic Humphreys show later on, man. Oh, my God. Some members of the band were, or maybe on some segments. Yeah, plausible deniability if my parents know it was my fault i drugged you guys and you ran off of off the stage and gave me a kiss on the forehead and ran back but to be fair

to be fair i was i was high as hell i was in a dude i was in a I was in a suggestive state, and these guys talked me into the fact that you'd call me up on stage, and that was why I wound up on stage. Dude, you walked up on stage like a bat out of hell, dude. Like, I'm getting the fuck on this stage. Because I had to fucking psych myself into it because they had told me that I was late. Oh, my God, dude. What is this, some tincture?

I'm scared. That's 1,000 milligrams. Yeah, it's good stuff. Y'all are fucking crazy, dude. What is this? Some tincture? I'm scared. That's a thousand milligrams. Yeah, it's good stuff. Y'all are fucking crazy motherfuckers. I love you guys, dude. So another time we were in Atlanta. Why is Atlanta always so crazy? We're leaving.

I love Atlanta. Take me to Pauly. Yeah, we're going to, we're leaving Sweetwater Festival because we're playing at a different venue. Opening for Leftover Salmon. Yeah, we're doing an after show opening for Leftover Salmon. And we're playing at a different venue in the opening for leftover salad opening yeah yeah we're doing an after show opening for leftover salmon and we're pulling away all right keep going to everybody listening we drive a sketchy ass 15 passenger you know ford

e350 we didn't even have the trailer yeah it wasn't even obviously unmarked and you have oh no you have no trailer and you have seven of you guys? That was the past. This was in the earlier days. We're pulling out of this festival and this drunk girl starts slamming on our door as we're pulling out. We slam on the brakes, open up the door. Granted, there are three of us

per bench. Ass, ass, ass. We're completely full with gear and all this shit. This girl looks in, she's like, are you my Uber? Oh my god. We're like, no. And she's like, we're late for London to go play with Leftover Salmon

at, what was that venue? Variety Playhouse. And she's like, I gotta get to pot, wait, okay, somebody back me up. So she jumps into van, she gets into up. So she jumps in the van. She gets in the van. Who called her in the van? Nobody.

Nobody. I think it was a combination. Was she hot? No. No. No, she wasn't. Well, hey, hey, let's put it like this. Let's put it like this.

She could be beautiful, but she was drunk as fuck. Okay. And nobody's beautiful when they're drunk as fuck. Yeah, that yeah that's true that's true you're such a romantic man i knew i've always had a crush on you every time you post to instagram i'm like i always just do cucumber dicks all over it all right keep going eggplant well she gets in the van and and she's like, tag me to Polly's. Tag me to Polly's. And we're like, we're going to Variety Playhouse. That's where we're going. And she's just like, okay, okay.

And she comes with us. Climbs into the front seat onto John's lap, straddles him, and the entire rest of the ride, she's playing with his hair. He was licking his beard. Yeah, again. And her underwear was just like totally out

what time is this you said loaded what the fuck yeah yeah middle of the afternoon coming from Canada come on like not

like there was nothing covert about any of this I would like to say that John did not return any of the affection

no John was not happy yeah he was really pissed about it she was she just wanted it so bad say that John did not return any of the affection. No, John was not happy. He was really pissed about it. She just wanted it so bad. She wanted it so bad and John was very unwilling. What day was this? I don't know, but

I'm not going to say who because it doesn't matter, but some member of this band ended up calling her an Uber and kissing her on the way out. I'm not going to say who, but someone made out with her in the fucking stairwell and then put her her an Uber and kissing her on the way out. And I'm not going to say who, but someone made out with her in the fucking stairwell and then put her into an Uber at the end of the night. Hey, the Uber was called first. I got a real quick one.

How about that time where another anonymous person in the band that I'm not going to say took some girl home in Boulder and she shows up the next morning with a black eye. Because you're fucking... Hashtag me too. What's going on? I'm going to out myself so I can tell that story, right? Because that happened to me

and you are making me look a lot worse. No, you... Yeah, no. Hi. You wanted war stories. Yeah, I can't believe I forgot about, no, hi. You wanted more stories. Yeah, I can't believe I forgot about this one. We were just in Boulder. Not that this just happened.

Yeah, congratulations on the Fox. Dude, thank you very much. Yeah, that was dope. So we, we finished our first show in Boulder, which is opening for G Love at the Boulder Theater. And like immediately we get the vibe that like Boulder is like a reckless party city, town, whatever. I don't know what they qualify

yeah like this place is wild and we meet up with a friend of ours who was at school in Boulder and a bunch of her friends we went up

at this place called the Downer I think the full name is the Sundowner all I know is it's like a divey divey divey

reckless spot where they leave most of the fluorescent lights on that kind of vibe I meet a girl named S*** I go home with her

can we can we can we actually bleep that name we believe bad names in this thank you thank you thank you yeah of course uh and if not she uh okay yeah this is actually yeah this is we're on Twitch right now anyways uh so I we go back to her place and in the middle of her being on top, she smashes her head into the windowsill that is directly behind my head. What? Yeah, it is pitch black. Windowsill over here. Yeah.

I'm using visual. Yeah. And she checks with me, is everything okay? And I'm like, I didn't just smash my head on the windowsill. Everything is fine. It's still pitch black. We fall asleep. I have to wake up at like something insane,

like 4.45 in the morning to get like 30 minutes away so we can make van call and make whatever crazy gig was next. Because we were totally... But also when you're... Wow. It's true. But like, so I wake up and like the first few rays of light are filtering and it's like a very peaceful thing for me I'm a little hungover but I feel pretty good

and I look down and like the entire right side of her head is swollen oh my god like like a black eye has already developed but also like I like I don't know I don't never been around somebody in the moment where they got a concussion and I like, did I just like say everything was fine when this person had really hurt themselves? Like, I don't. Oh, my God. So I like, I wake her up to say goodbye. And she like grumbles and is like half responsive and like is not like is not conscious yet. But I just need to leave.

Like, I can't take I can't medically check this person. I don't know how to do that. And my Uber's here. And so I had to bounce immediately. Did she call back? Have you talked to her since? I haven't talked to her since. I found out through that same friend that she didn't get a concussion and there's no back blood.

So that's why I'm not speedily I mean, you know. Just a couple of dolts. I would say straight up, our first tour with G-Love, I may have partied the least because I was the most terrified

about just hurting my voice. So I did it a little bit less. And I still partied hard by all accounts, which means that we all must have been going out out of control, man. When we first met each other, I think you're a little drunk, but it rose, it stuck me he's like we're gonna do this we're gonna be serious we're gonna play music we're gonna take this seriously i swear you're in a but you're but

no disrespect i'm like yeah this guy's focused on getting his career to where it needs to be and look at you guys now that was what three years ago look how focused y'all have been rock boats like two two there's three three look what you guys done so i've got one more talk to me war story so that that first g-level twice i'm proud i was i probably partied the least in berkeley like i was gonna i thought you parted the least i probably i probably probably that mustache says otherwise brother I probably probably part of that mustache says otherwise brother But so that first G live to our first national tour I think I got blackout more in the first two weeks than I had my entire life before that But I remember there was one night in Santa Barbara

Where I just like I Know that's what I'm saying. I have no memory of that night I remember we were staying at our friends stepdad's place who we'd never met I was also super nice damn kind man it's awesome I remember puking in his front yard. Puking in his front yard? I was puking in his front yard. But, so I get a text the next morning. Like, I don't even remember the name, so you don't even have to bleep him out. Hey, Josh, I'm Shireen, like Laura's friend

who you met last night. I live in Bozeman, Montana. Can't wait to give you the tour of our place so you guys can all crash here and i i don't remember meeting anybody so i i just like play along oh cool great great to meet you like yeah i can't wait to can't wait to see you guys and we and we puddle thing yeah and we ended up going and it was these two very nice people who had that tiny

little house with nowhere to stay. There were seven of us. They're just like, yeah, we can just set up right here between the two couches on this one rug and we can all just have a nice big nine person cuddle puddle tonight. Oh my god. You're about to see your bro's penis.

That's what that means and uh you're like okay thanks so much we'll be in touch bye i got one all right tell me come on and then we'll you guys gotta get the sound check there was this uh time we were in miami get closer there's there's a time we were in miami uh miami's no good on new year's on new year's eve i won't say uh where but it was a private function a very nice house very very large we're sorry um i'm not oh i'm sorry on behalf of the unnamed members in this josh's story okay josh josh is coming forward okay this is me so so we I would like to formally apologize

this is Josh Bach anyways probably yeah I just want you to know I carry around the shame oh my god open the shit out of me right now. Open bar with some of the nicest booze around at this party. Private party? We played about three hours of music that night. People weren't really paying attention, so we were doing what we do. And Josh ended up very, very intoxicated, as did everybody else. And there was a train of people that left at the end of the night i think uh some other unnamed members of the band you know were found asleep on the

master toilet um together pants down no oh just passed out like mid poo yeah mid poo yeah oh yeah but so anyways you know we get we get back to the hotel. You know, everyone gets back to the hotel their own separate ways. And, you know, I was in the room with my girlfriend at the time and Sam and his girlfriend. And everyone was dispersed. We all get up the next morning. Everyone's super duper hungover. And it was just kind of like we're at breakfast and it's like, where's Josh? And it came to light that josh actually had uh

slept at that house and we we heard that you know he was woken up uh you want to tell this part i want to tell this story all right so at least we could do so i wake up 8 30 in the morning to an abandoned mansion i sleep on this couch the master bedroom was our green room by the way the master bedroom was our green room, by the way. The master bedroom was our green room. It had the most beautiful bathroom I've ever seen in my entire life with a double his and hers island thing. Oh yeah, it was a gorgeous place. That was gorgeous for so long.

So I woke up to an abandoned mansion on this four-poster bed that was basically no, it was a four-poster bed that was their couch in their living room. My shoes are off gently placed to the side of the couch gently

very evenly in a way that I certainly couldn't have done that professional work so I have no idea where anybody is and so I grab a cup of water walk out it's right on the beach in Miami

so I walk along the beach for a minute I have the worst hangover I've ever had come back inside to like actually no I like lie down in the sun in their backyard, just pass out again, wake back up, go into the kitchen,

pour myself some water, and there's a woman there. And I say, hello, friendly. And she's like, you know, I came upstairs to find you asleep in my bedroom last night. It's like, oh, I'm sorry. She's like, there's people cleaning out, there's puke of yours all over my bathroom. And I was like, I'm sorry, I'll go clean it up.

And she's like, we have people to do that. And she just storms out. Oh my God. And so I'm like, we have people to do that. And she just storms out. Oh, my God. And so I'm like, okay, fuck. Regan paid a lot of money for this show? We got paid a very nice sum of money. Didn't she also inform you that the help had to carry you down the stairs? No, no, I had to piece this together.

Oh. We were getting bits of information from different guests about what all the rest of us had done the night before but um no i heard uh like to add insult to injury to them like their daughter who was at the party had like slipped and like gotten a concussion and so she and her husband had to like drive her to the ER And then they come back in the middle of the night and I'm And the rest of the band is nowhere to go because they like bounce because they like bounce everybody was so drunk that it was just the point where like everyone is for themselves

dudes i lost dudes you've said it all what else can you say we've done berkeley we've talked berkeley what you want to keep going we can keep going what do you got yeah your manager and cover him is like do not release this fucking interview please no yeah yeah but dude seriously what do we learn today we learned that hard work pays off we learned that people do graduate from Berkeley no and I just think you guys are doing great things. I'm so proud of you guys. This is just the beginning.

You know that, right? Yes. You guys are going to be... That we do know. Yeah, I'm proud of you guys, and keep it up. Robbie, you're killing it out there with the people. You got a new record. It's already out.

It's out. It's out. April, pushed out. We got like 40 tunes we've written since then. I don't doubt it. You guys are fucking geniuses. But go watch R.I.P. They're fucking badass. They're my homies. We got to do some more shows together.

Congratulations on the House of Blues Boston. Congratulations on the Broken Steel. You guys are doing big things. And I'm just happy to be your friend, man. What about the Smegma brand? Oh, you like that? Yeah, baby. This is the Frotorium. Everything's Jewish and neutral, like Swiss.

Oh, yeah. Happy Rosh Hashanah, everybody. Oh, happy Rosh Hashanah. This will be out in a couple weeks. Shana tova. And, um... Will you give us a prayer? Will you give us a Jewish prayer?

Will you give us a prayer? Will you give us a Jewish prayer? That's just a blessing for Rosh Hashanah. And may our chastity be like the concert in Boise. Because you guys fucking suck. And I wanted to call you because I wanted in a non fan boy way to tell you like, seriously, dude,

keep doing what you're doing. Like, I love it. Everyone loves it. And the thing is, is like your shows. Yeah. You're not selling hit records.

Fine. Fuck that. You know what? Everybody comes to your show, fucking loves it And they leave happy And that's what's the most important thing And that's what you say every single fucking time

So keep doing it, dude I love you Yo, Frasco, what up? This is Jay from the Dunkaroos I see you screaming my phone calls, motherfucker But guess what? You don't want to hear it in person You hear it here

You knew what the fucking deal was the other night You get on stage You play your fucking 30-minute set It was you And then it was us You hear it here. You knew what the fucking deal was the other night. You get on stage. You play your fucking 30-minute set. It was you, and then it was us, and then it was the fucking dope doctors. But what'd you do? You got up on stage, prance around like you're coming out of the fucking closet. And you just keep going, and going, and going.

And then you have a fucking 45-minute encore. You cut our fucking set. I got bills to pay, motherfucker. You know what what i knew you was a fucking clown coming into this now i know you a fucking asshole asshole frasco and the unrespectful motherfuckers yet again another successful show i don't know we still got this tail end. We can still fuck it up. We can fuck it up here. We can fuck it up big time. So were you like licking butt through your

threesome? Like was that part of it? Oh yeah. I was definitely eating ass. I only I love how you're like oh yes yes I was definitely eating ass. Yeah only on one individual though. Why not both? The other one wasn't really involved in that.

What do you mean involved? Do you have feelings for this girl? No, no, no, no, no. I mean, I would identify her as... So that's what I'm trying to get at. I would identify her as she's this. I wouldn't say girlfriend because I hate the term, but for lack of a better description,

yeah, we have a relationship that's open. She knows that I'm bisexual. She knows that that will happen. And so she's cool with that. And basically our agreement, we were pretty honest about about it is that we are attracted to each other. There's a magnetism there. We, we have a chemistry.

And so because of that, we want to continue to remain in connection. Um, and, but we're not going to limit ourselves. You are such a fucking hopeless for me. It's a threesome, homie.

No, no, no. I, we, I can, but I only vibe, I only vibed on that level with one of them. That'sie. No, no, no. But I only vibed on that level with one of them. That's good.

So, I mean, don't get me wrong. You're catching feelings for her. It is catching feelings. But here's the thing. It's not catching feelings. Like, I don't want to, like, provide anything for her other than my dick. Yeti? Yeah. When people have great sexual experiences,

you said you had a great moment. Yeah. So through that, your head goes crazy. It's not about catching feelings. It's about the connection that we had on a sexual level, the sexual chemistry. And it was very intense. Maybe this goes back to our polyamorous talks.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Yeti, we're growing. Yes. Episode last episode. That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Yeti. We're growing. Yes. Episode by episode. High five, brother. Yeah, buddy.

Look at you. It's the world-saving podcast. This is the world-saving soul right now. All of us. We are saving us. I hope you guys are being saved as well. Don't try and save anyone else. Save yourself. Yeah, save yourself.

Save yourself. I think that's the purpose of this podcast. If you can't, I've really had to come to terms with the fact that, I mean, and it's only been the last few days that I've come to terms with my sexuality, with who I identify as, and not. You feel freer? Oh, yeah.

I feel unhindered in the sense that. Wow, Yeti. I mean, for a long time. We're growing up in front of people's eyes. In front of our, in spite of our best efforts, we are maturing. Mature as fuck. Mature as fuck. Isn't that your one of your t-shirts?

Yeah, that's my one of my t-shirts. Marketing 101. Yeah, buddy. No. Thanks, guys, for listening. This section of the podcast brought to you by Andy Frasco and the UN. We got some really exciting news coming up.

Just remember that you're mature as fuck when your name is Susan. Yeah, in the next couple episodes, we're going to be starting to announce new songs off the new record. It's coming out. It's coming out. Not the new record it's coming out and it's coming out not soon but it's coming out sometime i love that i love that we're friends and i've heard this

record in the very various stages yeah and um i'm excited about this i think it's gonna be i think it's gonna help my career a lot i really love this record and i can't wait for it to fuck out i can't wait for it to get out so i can actually use it like with the music feature on Instagram. Yeah. You know, because it's not there. Like, I only have my bootleg copy. Yeah. Subscribe to the podcast.

Andy Frasco's World's Same Podcast with Yeti. We have an Instagram. What's our Instagram, Yeti? Frasco and Yeti. That's Frasco and Yeti. One T. Frasco and threesome monster. It's Frasco Andy ETI., one T. Frasco and threesome monster. It's Frasco Andy ETI.

It's really all it is. I'm the ETI. That might be a disease. I love you guys. Thank you for coming out. Thanks for supporting us. Another episode with our fan base sticking by us even through the weirdest of conversations.

But we're getting more and more people as we connect with the fan bases of the. And we're getting, but we're getting more and more people as we, you know, as we connect with the fan bases of the people that we're interviewing, like, you know, today. And so it's,

it's great. And we're finding, we're finding those things in common. I mean, like we obviously have that in common and I feel like, I mean, we get it all the time. People are saying it like,

Hey, we really like the, you know, this interview or we like that, or they love it when we go after each other on Instagram. Stop boasting about ourselves now. Have a good night. Love you guys.

Be safe. Comb your hair. Wear a condom. Think with your heart. And eat ass. Eat ass. Have a good one. Thank you for listening to episode 21 of Andy Fresco's World Saving Podcast with Yeti.

Produced by Andy Fresco, Yeti and Chris Lawrence. Please subscribe and rate the show on iTunes and Spotify so we can make this a worldwide phenomenon. For info on the show, please head to our Instagram at Fresco and Yeti. For more info on the blog and tour dates, head to andyfresco.com. For more information on our guests, Ripe, please head to

ripetheband.com. This week's special guests are Jack Brown from Sophistafunk, Ernie Chang, Brian Swartz, and Arno Bakker. And should you not be the sexy sax player or the one and only, well, you can always pick up a tuba like me.