Real Life Saxsquatch Reveals Everything: Baby Squatch, Thick Foot & Festival Life
00:00You ever just like freaks someone out in a 10 or like a spun out fucking wook just like...Dude, a million times.I'm serious.Dude, it happens every day.And I love it.It feels so good, you know?Sometimes it feels good to scare people.You know what I mean?
00:16You're a big person.It's just like, oh, you know?Like, and they're like, holy crap.Well, when I started out, you know, I didn't have the glasses.That's just why I wear the glasses by bandana.Yeah.Because I was much scarier back then.And I would make, I mean, literally make babies cry.
00:32I'd be going through these towns and, you know, the old ladies would look at me like, I'm like the devil, you know, like, oh, you know what I mean?And it's like, that didn't feel very good.So you've always felt you're misunderstood?Yeah, for a long time.You've been friendly your whole life.You've never killed someone by accident?That's right.That's right.
00:48Really?Never by accident.All right, and we're live, Andy Frasca's World's World Trade Podcast.I'm Andy Francisco. Sorry, I'm doing this opening solo rogue here.How are we doing, everyone?How's your minds? How's your heads? Are you staying out of trouble?Are you not letting the demons that is called anxiety just try to fuck you?Because sometimes it's going to fuck you.
01:16And if it fakes you, we got to take a deep breath and say, not today, devil.I'm out here trying to live my best life.I'm in King of Prussia, Philadelphia.I didn't even know this in town existed.But I guess it's close to Philly,so you can say I'm in Philadelphia right now,and it's been a wild tour.Pretty fucking crazy events have happened last week.
01:38Sean blew out his ACL, or blew out his knee.Sean had to fly home.He's getting surgery, so Andrew Cooney.Shout out to Andrew Cooney for fucking, my man,filling in.Filling in!And so it's been fun.I have, like, a complete new band
01:54because then Floyd had to take his kidto middle.school so we had to fly out so i have like a completely brand new band and it's kind of i'm kind ofenjoying it's kind of it's fucking fun to like kind of get my hands went into a new gig um so shoutout to ritchie for showing up shout out to andy ova fucking holding it down and um yeah shout out to samfor just uh killing it but um yeah it's been tough uh but we're pulling through we got 12 more showsin 13 days we're at the final stretch of this growing pains tour then um i'm gonna go fuckinghide somewhere i might go to like oh i am i'm going to charleston i'm going to go for five
02:37day i can't really hide in charleston but i'm going to go see my boys little stranger we justannounced holy smokes music festival y'all that's gonna be fucking fun holy smokes uh me and littlestranger are going to be throwing a festival at nelson's ledges our first festivalSeptember 26th, 27th, 28th, I think, that weekend,whenever that weekend is.But we got on the lineup, Big Something,we got cashed out.I haven't heard those guys.
03:04I heard they're cool.And then we got a bunch of rappersand John Shields from the little strangers,old band Long Miles is coming playing.We got Jarre.We got Skippy.We got the whole gang.So come on out to Holy Smoke.
03:17It's our first ever festival.It's going to be a lot of fun.We're playing two nights.Strangers playing two nights.Then we've got some headliners.We're keeping it.And then we're going to play some dodgeball.We're going to do some interviews.
03:29It's going to be totally a very stranger Frasco Festival.So if you have nothing to do, come on out to that.Yes, it's happening.It's been, is it happening?Is it not happening?Yes, and we are promoting a music festival a month and a half before it comes out.But hey, fuck it.Let's yolo, baby.
03:48Let's get it going.I believe in our fans, and I believe in Little Strangest fans,and I think we're going to sell this.baby out um but the tour's been going good um every show's been sold out mostly and i just you guys arecoming out and you're supporting and you're buying merch and you're just telling us your stories of howthis new record means so much to you guys and i can't thank you enough from the bottom of my heartthank you thank you thank you because like i said we're in this together and you know how hardthis band's working and you guys being there and being there early and showing us your love it's
04:23It's going to make me cry.So I love you guys so much.And thank you so much for just doing it and believing in us.But yeah, and then, but this episode is really a fun one.I have a Sacksquatch on the show.Yes, a real-life Sasquatch is on the show.I guarantee you guys, really, for real, you have to, you should watch this one on YouTube or on volume.com because it's a real fucking saskwatch.and he's just he tells us his story i mean
04:54he's not bullshit about this shit he was addicted to the drugsyou know that's not made that's not made up and uh you know umwe kept his voice uh in uh lowered so you don't know who it isbecause it is saskwatch and he deserves of his privacy too but he was gettingdeep about his drug addiction he's got a new girlfriend he'sI have a Sasquatch has a kid now.Baby Squatch.Like, God damn, this man's living the dream.
05:23Just traveling in his minivan, just all around gig to gig.I wonder how air conditioning must work really well.Because if you're, if you're, if you're, you're, you're, you're, you're sassas, all thathair and shit, got to be fucking just sweaty all the time.Got to, he's probably just, got, you can't keep the hygiene that good, just doing that,but, you know, good on them.But you're going to love this, man.He plays saxophone.
05:48He's a great producer.He's blowing up in the scene.I mean, he went solo, and it's working.So I think we're going to really love this interview.But like I said, enjoy that.But like I said before, we're going to have anxiety.We're going to have some days we're just depressed.Some days we're beat up.
06:11You've got to keep your head up and say tomorrow's going to be a better day.And if we keep on saying tomorrow's going to be a better day,then it forces us to have a better day.If we say tomorrow's going to be shitty, oh, look at me, pity me.Why has everything happened to me?Oh, this bad shit.You're going to keep on having bad luck.But if you say not today, devil, we're going to get through this.
06:31And tomorrow's, even if today fucking sucked.Even if today sucked, tomorrow's going to be better.That's all we could do is try to be better every single day.And if we could do that, then we could get through any depression, any anxiety.You know, even if tomorrow does suck.and it might.That's okay.At least you try to give it a good day.
06:50And that's all we could dear for.And that's what me and Sasquatch talks about.Trying each day to take away the chaos and add harmony.All right.Enjoy the Sasquatch interview.And I'll see you next week.What's going on next week?Yes, I think I'm with Nick.
07:08I fly home.No, I don't.I have one more week of tour.Fuck.We'll do an archive episode.I'll put out an old episode.that you guys, that you guys liked.And we could do the World Saving Archives for next week.
07:22But instead of taking a week off,or maybe I'll just put out an interview that I just interviewed somebodyand I didn't really, wasn't really a popular person,but I thought it was a good interview.And maybe I'll put that one out.All right, guys, enjoy Sack Squatch.Enjoy your day.Enjoy your week.
07:39And thanks for, thanks for always believing in usbecause we believe in you.All right, love you, bye.Wow.On location, a secret location, because they don't want to know where he is right now.This man has been in, what, the woods?Yeah, the woods, you know.But the weather's been crazy, so, you know, I'm in and out of everywhere.
08:08I'm everywhere.I know.It's crazy.You have a crazy life.I'd love to tell our fans and listeners about it.plays down we have sax squatch on the show today how we doingi'm doing freaking amazingyo i mean it feels like your career is really starting to take off his last uh year
08:26what are you been doing thanks uh you know we've just been making music i guess umi think that's the thing that's the most important is the music yeah yeah totallyyeah it's it's crazy even seeing you in person i know you guys you're opening for usthis next couple of days so I was like I had to get him on the podcast we still don't knowwhere he came from give us a little bit your origin story like how why did you decide tofinally come out and like I don't know hang out with humans yeah well you know I come froma musical family my grandfather Gigfoot and my sister Big Flute but um yeah you know there was actuallya lot of hesitation for me going out to do shows literally everyone was like you know you're
09:13fucking idiot you know and like nobody's gonna believe in you you're a joke and my whole life you knowno one's ever really believed in me and finally just had enough you know and i think that's i had enoughand i'm just like i got to do this you know if i end up in the corner of a bar somewhere at theend of my life i'll be happy with that they say a lot of uh you know family trauma fuels um work ethic andstuff so maybe well that's deep yeah well i'm just like it's i'm very curious about the wholethe whole thing like why did you side to play the saxophone why did you side to like because it's veryyou're you're putting yourself in a dangerous spot people have been trying to find you for a longtime that's a great question um the saxophone is when i heard it for the first time it's like
10:08such a primal instrument you know it's like it's like a wild animalyeah and um when it's played right i heard it played by a junior walker um and i was like holy craplike this is what i got to do i got a saxophone and just became obsessed with it you know likeyou ever just become totally obsessed and just make something your whole personality yeah yeahdrinking yeah yeah well you got a good personality oh thanks buddythanks yeah it's uh i don't know sometimes we cope things you know it's like the samething with your parents not accepting you right yeah so we cope it and say like i could prove themwrong right yeah proving people wrong yeah who would have known that would be such a good
10:57fuel or in your case you've been proving people right that you exist yeah or some peopleright some people because there are people who believe and that's what i found out actuallyis that there are people who believe okay you know like who they're everywhere you know i've beenplaying these bigfoot festivals all over the country and i found out that in the unitedstates about 20 to 30 people 30 percent of people believe in bigfoot that's fucking crazythat's a giant no that's that's tens of millions of people yeah um and that feels really goodI had no idea that even that market was there.And it's a very interesting market, you know?
11:36Yeah.Bigfoot was like, the culture in the U.S. was really big in the 70s.And so a lot of the women that are still alive from the 70s are the ones like DMing me, like all this stuff.Oh, so you got like a big like menopausal fan base?At first, yes, at first.That was like the first fan base, you know?Yeah.Yeah, because in the 70s it was like, oh, Bigfoot had my band.
12:00baby like check out my baby's covered in hair you know how old are you saxquash a 31 just had mybirthday oh happy birthday buddy yeah thanks so much what i'm i'm just very curious like tell me aboutyou have a tour manager like how do you travel i mean you're kind of a big thing what do youtravel in Chevy express you travel in a Chevy express you travel in a Chevy baby yes yes do peoplejust see you on the road and be like what the fuck he who is it I have a license plate that's asax squads actually really it's kind of vain whatever i like it yeah and it's not like a it's not likea glorious van it's not like i'm flexing too hard or anything have you had any past gigs before you wentsolo um you know not really um the saxquatch name kind of just came about due to a nickname because i'm a
12:52Sasquatch who became obsessed with thesaxophone. And so it was kind of likeshut up Saxquatch, you know.Have you ever like taking any like psychedelics?Yeah, I had a phase for sure.I had a phase for sure. Like what? What were youtaking?Anything that anything you got, bro.
13:11Really? Yeah, anything you got.I would be freaked out if I saw afucking Sasquatch on cocaine.Yeah. Did you just take cocaine?Yeah. Yeah, but um.What were you like? Were people scared of you?I'm already like, you're sober now and I'm scared of you.Yeah, I don't anymore, but I have to say it was like, I didn't do it.
13:32I think like other people did it.You know, it was more, it was kind of sad.Why?How are you doing it?It was just kind of sad, you know, the party's over and I'm somewhere else, you know, it's 5, 6 a.m., you know what I'm saying?And it's, you know, we're in the back of a U-Haul, you know what I mean?Just howling at the moon.Yeah, outside the gas station.
13:50Yeah, exactly.Really?you were that into Coke?I mean, I mean,can we talk about that?What do you think triggered you having such a bad drug addiction?Well, you never know.Addiction's a complex topic, you know?
14:05Yeah.I've been sober for about 13 years.Oh, wow.Yeah.So it's been an amazing journey.I think honestly, like, I think I was just seeking something kind of spiritual.You know what I'm saying?Yeah.
14:20And so I try to make the music kind of a spiritual experience, in the shows.So you're, what got you into drugs?Like, what was, why did you start doing a bunch of blown?I don't know.I was just different than other Sasquatchez.I fucking bet.You know, you never know why.It's just one day you go, wow, I'm going to do that.
14:46Some people, like, do you get talkative on Blow?Do you get sad?like what's your like what's your blow take um i get uh quiet and i look for stuff that i can sellshut the fuck up what was the craziest thing you sold on cocaine oh one of my saxophones manno way yeah why'd you do that you wanted more coke or like yeah it got that bad yeah i meanIt's real, man, yeah.I mean, I wouldn't have gotten, I wouldn't have gotten clean if it wasn't, if it wasn't a problem, I guess.So what, hold on, so you sold your, when you, okay, so what time did you sell your sex?
15:31Like, give me the whole story of that.That probably, like, that was probably the last day you got sober then, right?No.No, but it definitely hurt, you know, I was just, it's definitely a moment when you're like, of clarity, when you're like, oh, I'm not in control here, you know, I'm saying.Oh, man.Yeah.In the back of a U-Haul, you just be rip and blow.Yeah.
15:54Holy shit, man.I'm sorry, man.Bro, life is good today, don't know.I know, but, like, maybe that's what the music kind of saved your life.Again, it's hard to say because when, I mean, we're talking about getting clean, you know what I'm saying?And that's a really complex topic, but I felt like I had to actually put my music to side to the side for a second.and find out who I was.Yeah.
16:22A huge identity crisis, you know, because it was so wrapped up into the music at the time.Yeah.This was 15 years ago, you know what I'm saying?Yeah.To have to relearn music almost just because I didn't know how to be inspired.You know what I mean?Right.Like authentically, because my whole life was wrapped around kind of chasing dopamine
16:42and like, that's almost how I created music at the time 15 years ago, 15 years ago.I was like, oh, what's the do?dopamine release here what's it going to be like for the person listening you know right and um and nowit's much more about like a connection on a on a on a on a human level right you know what i mean umyou know life's not all dopamine you know what i mean that's what that's why i had to like slow downtaking drugs like i didn't i didn't like having to like shovel back the dopamine from the morningbecause I fucking wasted it all.Like, I've been taking less and less cocaine lately.
17:23And I feel my dopamine slowly coming back.I see a lot of people that I hang out with that just do blow all the time.And they're like, the mornings, they don't have any dopamine.So, like, they're happy when they got that fix.And then in the mornings, they can't fucking pull themselves out of bed.And they think the world's against them.I think the dopamine thing isn't.important you can't just process dopamine your whole life you need to find a way to have it come
17:52back naturally if it's music if it's falling in love if it's i don't know having a hobby somethingfind something that keeps the dopamine so you're not relying on this powder or this fuckingecstasy or this weed to um kind of keep you in the strain narrow right a million percentand i started going to therapy and um you want the therapy yeah i still goto therapy. Okay, hold on, dude. How do you, how does Sasquatch go to therapy? Like, what doesyou guys? Sasquatches and humans have a lot in common. I know that you know. And so,came from y'all. Yeah. And one of the things he suggests is because I've been alone for a long time.Yeah. And so he was like, we got to learn how to be alone without being lonely. Oh, that's so good
18:37point. And then, and then we got to talk in and that was one of our goals. And then he was like,you know, let's talk about finding you some hobbies, one of some things that you like, you know?And I was like, well, I used to love playing chess when I was younger, you know?Yeah.So I got back into playing chess.I started playing Yu-Gi-o with my dad, you know?Oh, fun.And these little things that I can do throughout the day to, like, get connection with something else.
19:02It is a spiritual feeling, and I love that stuff.And it honestly, it makes creating so much more relevant.Because to me, art is all about context.It's like, would you rather, would your message rather be chaos?harmony you know when i was exactly when i was when i was like using drugs and everything at the end ofthe day the truth was that my life is a giant unmanageable chaotic mess oh yeah i realized that the minutei started taking control of uh making my show harmony instead of chaos is the minute we startedgetting more successful too yeah and and harmony i think it's about um like kind of almost peace
19:40you know um and letting life happen and not trying to control everything and that's really hard formusicians yeah it's dude i'm telling you i mean you're living out of a fucking minivan dudeyeah i'm living out of a bus i mean not even a bus a bandwagon that's a basically apop-up trailer that just bounces around i mean we are the one percent and it's hard torelate with anyone because we are the one percent that people try to like understand ourlife like i'm glad you found you have a lover what's her name thick foot thick foot she travelswith you right yeah yeah she understands you yeah have you had a kid before yeah i um we have aalmost four year old almost four year old yeah how is that how is how is how is how is it how is it hard as
20:25raising a kid in this it's a it's such a it's such a big balance having a kid and and having totour you know yeah how do you do it basically i'm touring on the weekends um and um it takes a villageyou know my folks help out at home and everything what are your parents areagain um they're they're just fellow saskwatches i just call mom and dad we havesaskatch language okay cool oh cool um yeah and he's so great um little squash little squatchthat's what he that's what he goes guy so cute yeah he likes my music too so he'll make themusic with me sometimes he actually wants to be on a track how old is he four yeah almost fourhe's starting to realize what missing someone is um yes but you know
21:14know not in the same way that maybe we understand it yeah they're still young right and i alwayscome back pretty the tours i do are never that long actually right if i do like a full tourit's usually i i only do about two weeks at a time so it's nothing great it's not likeat a time are you only one support in your family um yeah yeah hard um you know growing upis hard yeah growing pains yeah thanks brotherThanks.Thanks.I'm finding that thing.
21:48Damn, Sasquatch understands.He knows me.Yep, yep.That's crazy, man.So I would like to know the moment.What was the moment when you turned chaos into harmony?Do you remember that moment, like, where you had to stop torturing yourself and try to live in peace with yourself?I think there's many moments.
22:10But, you know, kind of having spiritual experiences.I feel like I've had so manyjust by seeking themyou know, and looking for them.Yeah.Like what?What do you seek?What are you seeking?
22:26I guess I'm seeking to just get out of my own way.Yeah.You know what I mean?How hard is that?It's difficult.You mean for a sack squat?Yeah, because, you know, we kind of got the bug.Do you have the bug?
22:41Yeah, of course.I live on the road.Yeah.I got the bug.We want to do itIt's kind of our dreamWe live for likeTo interact with the crowd
22:50And to have an amazing timeAnd to just know that we're doing thatI feel more comfortable on the roadThan I do justChilling in my houseI feel more comfortable in a hotelMan can I tell you somethingOne time I got done with the tour
23:03And for the first time everI had made a little bit of moneyAnd I was like goshThis tour was so toughI'm gonna take a breakYeahI don't know if you've ever done thatNo, I've never done that.
23:15I just make money and then it's keep it in my bank account.Yeah, but don't take a break because...When you take a break, what happens?Depression.I fucking know it, dude.I fucking know it.That's why I don't want to stop, kind of.Even if I'm, like, a little tired, I'd rather be a little tired and be completely happy
23:34than, like, being tired and depressed because I'm not doing what I should be doing every day in my life.I mean, that's living the dream, right?Yeah.You know, I remember that time that I decided I was going to, like, put music aside and just focus on making sure I'm alive.Yeah.And I remember, you know, walking down the road and being like, man, if I saw a musician playing on the side of the road and I knew that I wasn't doing that, I would feel so bad.Right.You know what I mean?
24:04Same.And I just, so I just have to do it, you know?I just have to do it.Yeah.It's who we are.It's what we've tried so hard to do for so long.down right um now you're getting some success yeah yeah it feels good you know no you don'treally feel it until someone says it you know right or just like in it you don't feel it until like
24:24you take your head you pop your head up from fucking boots in the ground and realize oh shit i've beeni've been trying to do that lately it's like kind of appreciate what i've been doing you knowlike i'll just like i've just been working so fucking much and i see i know i'm getting moresuccessful but i don't want to put my eye off the prize but sometimes i i have i have a couple people inmy life who are remind me hey look up look what you're doing there's thousands of people here you'reyou're you're reaching milestones you know it's like sometimes we have to be reminded thatall this hard work is actually paying off you're so right and it's the little things too um like likeyou run into one person and they say they say something like um like thickfoot's
25:10the other day ran into someone and they were talking she came to me and was like hey like thisguy was like on the verge of like ending himself and then saw your YouTube video and decided totake his grandfather's old sacks out of the closet and play it and now he's like now his life isdoing so well and like you're his inspiration and I'm just thinking in my head I'm like that isso like that's what it's all about is helping people right right and if you were asking ofwhy we do it, I think it has to beabout helping other people at the end of the day.100%. Because if it's about us,
25:47you know, that's justnot the point. Right. It's not aboutus. We're not doing this for our health,Sasquatch. We're doing thisto fucking heal some people.And probably heal us too. I mean, lookat your story. Got out of cocaine. You've beenripping, I can't believe we were ripping cocaine in a
26:02U-Haul. That's fucking crazy.That's crazy.Yeah, yeah.Was that before, like, you're in bands?after you're in bands,like when you're...No, it was during, you know?Like, who knows?
26:16I was just one of those peoplethat's drawn to it.Yeah.Me too.I love cocaine so much.Yeah.I got to stay away from itbecause I like it too much.
26:25Yeah.You know what I'm saying?Just crying inside.I fucking love Coke so much.I like it too much.I got to...I'm like, but it teaches you willpower, you know?I've like, this has been a whole kind of clean year.
26:43I've been kind of like, I'll do Coke every now and then, but I've been, I stopped smokingweed, really.I stop taking mushrooms, kind of.I eat a little bit.I eat like a microdose, I microdose a little bit during the show, but I don't eat themall day like I used to.I feel like I'm finally like, I have control of my depression now.And sometimes when you don't have control your depression, that's when you start, I think
27:09that's when you start taking drugs and shit.Yeah, just like losing it, like fucking snapping.Yeah, because it's fun at first, but then you're filling a void.And then when you fill a void, that means that's when it starts to get in trouble.Yeah, you've got to feel good in your life.I mean, you can't just be miserable all the time and expect to not take drugs, you know?You got a point, brother.You got a point.
27:34So you've got to feel good.You got to feel good.And that's important.How hard is it to feel good?How hard is it to feel good?It's hard.It's hard to allow yourself to feel good, am I right?That's the question.
27:46You got to allow yourself to feel good.We're too afraid to enjoy things because we're afraid what other people are going to think of them, right?Yeah.What's your take on humans?Like what?Do you think we suck?Um, no, no.I think we're equal, you know?
28:01I think we're the same.Some greedy saskwages out there?You said greedy?Other greedy saskwatches?That's what I'm saying.I think it's just kind of a human experience.It depends on what road you go down, you know?Like, before I traveled that much, I thought that maybe other people were completely different.
28:21Other Sasquatches were completely different in other places.Yeah.And then I don't know if you've come to find this, but just traveling, it's like, oh, humans are humans, no matter where you go.And Sasquatches are Sasquatches are just kind of the same.Right.Depends on the circumstances and the context of things.I hear you.You know, hopefully we can add a lot of.
28:40a lot of inspiration to people and i just want to help people feel good yeah how do you think howhow do you think you know what type of advice would you give people to make them feel good um it's toughum you know i started doing some meditation yeah and like guided meditation is a great way to startum you know like i said i do the whole therapy thing it helps right you know you got to try you got to tryevery day try try try try you can't take a day off right um and some days feel like ls we're justgonna take the l and move on yeah yeah yeah you know so yeah so um when was the biggest l you'veever taken the biggest oh that's a really good question um biggest oh man just humiliating myselfhow about that yeah like why tell me you ever you ever just uh you ever just you know double down
29:36on a bet and just and then just lose it all and then it's just like i'm doing it right now brotherno i've uh yeah for sure i mean double down and losing it's humiliating but at least youtried yeah and the hope is that we learn from our mistakes what'd you do tell me i don't want toknow what i'm trying to think of some of the just the biggest else uh like sitting in with people andnot having the microphone work and just having the laptop shut down in the middle of the set.You know what I'm saying?Just complete L's.Have you ever had a spinal tap moment where you just can't find the stage and you're just sweating?
30:17I mean, you're a big person.I've had some very close calls where I almost just completely ate shit.No.Dropped over a monitor.I mean, you can't see anything.You're wearing glasses and you have a saxophone.Yeah, like...Pit Vipers, you know, I've got these big-ass feet, so...
30:33I got this big...how do you have sexum the same way i have sacksis it like dog a lot of doggy stylei mean you're a blowinglike i was i was always curious thatyou could probably have a hog on youyeah yeah well that's what they say but uh you know big feet
30:58big sacks yeah what about um your your your girlfriendshe's uh she in pain when it hasLike, what is it like?Thickfoot, um, you know, she can throw it back, dog.She can throw it back.Yeah.Fuck, yeah.That's my girl.
31:13Yeah, that's pretty wild, man.I'm curious about how you're selling out shows.You said there's a philosophy to selling out shows.And you've been selling out shows the last year.What have you and your girlfriend been doing to, uh, trying to get people, you know,get people to recognize who saxquatches?Yeah, well, the first and most important thing is to just make the show so,fucking good you know i got my laser license from the government you got a
31:38laser machine i got i got four um four class a laser shut the fuck up saskwatchare you serious yeah so so i'm running um i'm running my ableton setup you know i got the stemsi got stuff but then when you trigger certain scenes i've i've built in it's um it's midi toDMX toIlda to the laserSo I've done some pre-programmed patchesIn thereBut that I've designed these layers
32:06So the laser shows are also shooting laser beamsOver people's headsThat's fucking rightSo whatWhat'sTo get a certificate to do lasersLike what's like what's it take?It's a really
32:18Rigorous processButYou get blind a motherfuckerYesYesIt's seriousIt's really seriousFucking scary
32:27we did yeah so we got insurance like you have to get like band insurance um no the variancekind of includes its own kind of you're going to be responsible if something bad happensoh my god so if you blind someone it's your responsibility yeah that's that's basically whatit is you know um have you ever had like a look like you do a lot of festivals and uh you knowyou're just you know vibing at night has you ever just like freak someone out in a 10 or likea spun-out fucking wook just like dude a million times over man and you know what what'swhat which one was the bit the best like oh my god just freaked out dude it happened everyit happens every day and i love it i love it feels so good you know sometimes it feels good to scare
33:16people i know i get it i get you're a big person you know like and they're like holy crap umwell when i started out um you know i didn't have the glasses this is why i wear theyglasses than bandana because i was much scarier back then and i would make i mean literally makebabies cry um i'd be going through these towns and you know the old ladies would look at me like i'mlike the devil you know like oh you know what i mean it's like yeah that didn't feel very good um butyou've ever been so you've always felt you're misunderstood yeah for a long time you've beenfriendly your whole life you never killed someone by accident that's right that's right reallynever by accident
33:57Has anyoneTry to kill you?People tell me this all the timeThey're like, oh, what about hunters?What about getting hunted by big...You know, I am the danger, as Breaking Bad says.You know what I'm saying?So I'm the hunter, you know what I mean?
34:15Ask about the hunter.That's what I'm saying.Yeah, be careful in these, like, you know,these racist towns, too.Yeah, but again, I feel like I'm good.I feel I've got a lot of, like, body on me.You know, if I get shot, I'm like, I'm not even...I'm not even...
34:32I'm not even afraid of, like, death anymore.Why aren't you afraid of death?Um, just because...If that's how I go, that's how I go, you know?That's actually fucking poetic, dude.Holy shit, Sasquots, full of knowledge.Um, go back to, uh, promoting shows.How, how did you do it?
34:56How are you doing it?I heard a girlfriend was saying like you would call like the fire departments and shit.Oh yeah.Well, you know, I love sales and stuff and I love trying to think outside the box.Yeah.We're trying to like we're trying to scale it up because I think that we have something that's really good, you know?And we're getting, we're helping so many people we're doing fundraisers for like charities and stuff.We're amazing.
35:21You know, we're getting, we're building a team and a crew.We're employing like a visual artist and, um,and you know other people and the artists of all types on the teamand so now it's time to scale it up you know what I meanscale it up and and to me the show is a lot about the audienceyou know when the audience is screaming so loud that you feel it in your bonesdoesn't that feel so good oh it's the best aren't you just like wow I feel so goodand it feels good for the crowd too because they're like when I if you go to a show
35:50you don't want the crowd to be dead no no no if you were at a showwatching someone on stage you would wantthe crowd to be going wild yeah yeah yeah because it's awesome to be a part of that um so uh yeahi'm been on a big oasis kick right now i'm like really deep it's like my favorite thing i'm goingto see oasis in september congrats thanks dude i can't wait i'm going to new york um if anyone's in townseptember 1st um i'll be in new york for a week uh let's hang out um but he he galliger had thissaying there's like this moment where you're completely stilland there's chaos all around you and that's the moment he feels more the most alive because you know
36:34we're fucking we're energy builders and for us to like take a step back completely so completely stilland see what what ripples you've made and I think that that gives me a heart on pretty crazy rightI love that I love that because somebody's got to be the not the chaos but somebody's got to be the volumein a situation you know and so it's likewhere's it you knowwhere's it coming from? Energy yeah where's it I meanit has come from something and it's us rightyeah yeah so you
37:05tell me so what was the mostrandom like company you calledto come to this show and they actually showed upyeah the fire departmentin New York City oh your girlfriendcalled the fire department in New York Cityyeah emailed emailed and I think40 or 50 of them
37:20showed updude your girlfriend is a badYou got lucky, yeah.I mean, there's there a lot of Sasquatches out there, like, to pick from, or did you just, like, got lucky? You found one.I got so lucky, man.How'd you meet?We met, actually, I was at a rave.True story. I was at a rave. I was checking out a possible opener for my tour, and there was a chess board at the rave.
37:50It was this awesome spot called The Fruit in Durham, and I went up.someone i was like hey do you want to play chess i'm waiting for the show to start and they were likewell i don't play chess but let me come out go ask my friend group uh i got in touch with the friend groupthey were huge fans it turns out so i was like oh this is so sick and then um a couple weeks laterone of them texted me and was like hey i think i got a girl that would be perfect for you your name's thickfoot and i was like let's go you know and you know we hit it off ever since you know do you have like ahygiene do you shower yeah yeah i uh make sure how do you get into a shower i mean you're fuckingi know man it don't even don't even it's it's a lot to what's how's how's porn do you watch
38:33um you know i've been in i don't know if you've like beat off to like uh just human porn orlike what do you do like how do you get how do you get your rocks off on my road i just like touse my imagination man that's sick that's the way to do it you know i got to start doing thatI remember the old days just close your eyes and just fucking jerk one out just imagine whatever yeah just imagine whatever oh man what a fucking life um so what are what's what's next like what do you like when you're picturing your vision board for the next year five years what what's on it oh that's a great question wow um uh well you know i've never played jam crews that would be sick oh let's i'll get you on that um umYeah, and what else?Annabelle, you listen to this podcast.Get Sackwatch on the fucking Jam Cruise.Come on.
39:25Yeah.Yeah.No, I love Annabelle.Yeah.Yeah.So I'd love to do that.Red Rocks.I really want to play Red.
39:33We sold out Cervantes' Ballroom.Really?Yeah.That was in Cap.Isn't Scott great?Yeah.Yeah.It was so awesome.
39:42So I'm hoping that somebody will be like,you'll come open for us at Red Rocks.That would be sick.The gorge.These are all squatchy places.You know,Yeah, what's your dream venue for this show to happen at?I mean, I've never been to the gorge in my life, so I don't know.
39:56Dude, that's like you.That is, you ridden all over it.It's so big, though.Wow.Maybe Dave will, Dave Matthews will put you up on a gorse show.Yeah, well, I'm like in the electronics scene.Would you join a band?What if Dave Matthews said, Sasquatch, I really like what you're putting down here.
40:14Would you like to join Dave Matthews band?Would you do it?Probably not.Why not?But, well, Jeff Coffin, first of all,saxophone player is incredible.I saw a saxophone.Eh, fuck that guy.
40:27I saw, no.Jeff Coffin, if you're listening,I saw your saxophone in the,in the rock and roll history museum the other day in Cleveland.Really?Did you go?Yeah, yeah, I was sick.Did they, like, they parade you around?
40:39Yeah, they got us in and everything.It was awesome.But I love doing my own thing, man.I love making my own music.I know, I hear you.You know?And then to.to be in the pet of your whole fucking life why would you join something well yeah well i would i would
40:55love to be a part of anything but i won't be i wouldn't be able to dedicate my whole uh creative energytowards something else right well just because i think that i would do a better job of my goalof helping people to do it right myself you know because i've kind of had this vision or whateverfor a while wow you know i wouldn't want to give up on it but you know what i'm sayingman i hear you man what's your dream like what's the ultimate dream like what is your ultimate dreamdo you want a grammy do you want just peace and harmony in the valley or what's your ultimatedreams sask box you ready i'm ready i'm fucking living it dog me too brother me fucking too big daddyyeah you are what more could you want like just riding in a minivan with your girlfriend
41:45just fucking show to show yeah yeah yeahEven if we had all the money, fame, whatever in the world, how much different would you honestly want things to be?That's true.It's a bigger house, like, oh, now you have to walk more.Yeah.You know, more money, now you've got to account for more.You know, you've got to be more taxing.You know, it's just like more money, no problem kind of thing.
42:10You know, and you know that song on TikTok that's like, I think I like this little life.Yeah, I love that.Oh, it's so cute.I think about that, too, I'm like, how, what is, what is the deal with me?You know, like, I have this big house and, you know, I'm not trying to brag.I, but I only, I sleep in the living room on the couch still.I don't go upstairs to my beautiful bedroom, you know, I do not do that.Every time I'm home, I'm more comfortable on the couch.
42:43I should just get a fucking one bedroom and fucking call it a day, you know?not this fucking exotic man cave i have right now it's like what what is that we don't need thatmuch things it's i think uh how much you have in your backpack is how um how free you'regoing to be if you don't have a lot in your backpack you're not going to be free or if you don'thave a lot in the backpack you are going to be free if you have all these things holding you downum i think you're going to be more inclined to just stay in one place and i don't know about you butI've never wanted to just stay in one place.I want to keep evolving.
43:21Yeah, that's so true.And imagine this.I think this is also the dream.Equal rights, national forces, everywhere.I know.What the fuck.Parks.How are you feeling about Trump
43:34or just fucking trying to kill all these saskwatches?Man, you know, I never get political,but you can tell what political side I'm on, can't you?Yeah, I hear your brother.Yeah.Yeah, just by saying that.Yeah, you can tell me, because I think the dream is for people that just come together, you know?But you know what I will say is that I have a lot of friends who are on the other opposite political spectrum, and I asked them, I was like, you know, what is it?
44:03Like, why, you know?And they just get different information, you know?They're still, they're still good people.They're just getting fed completely different information.I know.Are you a, are you, Sasquatch family, read the news and watch the news and stuff?Yeah, as much as, as much as you have to, you know, um, because it's all, it's all a game.Yeah, it's all about money.
44:26We were talking about this.I know.Everything is about money at the end of the day when you're getting to the business side of anything.Bullshit.It's all about money.It's bullshit.And, and, and you start to see right through it.You're like, oh, they're just making money on this.
44:38Right.Or like, like, you know, on any side, it's like.just a money game i know it's bullshit yeah what are we gonna do oh we're gonna make musicbro we're gonna fucking keep slaying i know it's crazy i mean i i think about this all the timedo you have to play soon you we're almost what time is it it's uh six 45 yeah it dependsthere's like a thunderstorm right yeah we're good we're good i think they're delaying the showyeah we got like five more minutes all right cool um this has been a pleasure in uh getting to knowyou i mean we're i would love to tour with you more if you're down yeah man i think it's a good
45:11combo i think it's a great combo i was that's what i was like i've been wanting thanks are reaching outyou've reached out to me say hey man you want to do these shows i'm like fuck yeah and that but that was along time ago and then i came back and hit you up about these shows yeah and i'm glad we reconnectedit's been nice me too thanks for a good man thanks for believing in me i really like your girlfriendi think you two are i really like her a lot that picture of her um with her ass out and and the bigfeet is so fucking amazing and it's so she's funny dude she's hilarious she's hilariousshe's gonna love this um a couple things um yeah when you have sex back to sex because i'm veryi'm very curious i have no libido these days so i'm just envious of people just having like
45:57animal sex right now yeah when you moan do you moan like a human or like a oh what do you dohow does it how does it come out it just needs to be enthusiastic i thinkhave you ever just howled at the moondo you howl i mean is that part of your instinct to howlcan i tell you one time yeah we were you know banging and stuffbut it was in olympic national park oh my god it was um you know true story and there wasthis uh like i don't know some kind of class of scientists in the park yeah and maybe 20 30 peopleAnd it was night time.
46:40We were in the woods.And as soon as we got done, they all started clapping.No way.That's a true story, true story.Oh, my God.I had that same situation.I was in Boca Raton, Florida.And it was like 5 a.m.
47:00And we were kind of fucked up.And we're like, let's go to the beach.We had my dumb ass didn't, where we got.You know, like there's all these entrances to beach.I just like what because we were kind of drunk and we just walked we just did the entranceand then we didn't like go to the left or go to the right so we were on the beaten path to thebeach and we were just having sex I'm just like kind of missionary and my asses out and allsudden like it was kind of dark but the sun was starting to come out and all of sudden the sun
47:29starts coming out I realize there's people everywhere with their dogs dancing I'm like they'reprobably like get the fuck away what is going on in my Boker in townbillion dollar fucking communityand I'm howling and stuffit wasit felt free though I neverI've always been afraid to have sexin public I'm not like a public
47:47sexer yeah you knowit kind of fell free tojust like have sex in the fuckingon a beach or just not carehow hard is itfor you to not careum it's it'sit's tough but it depends on like how good it is
48:04you knowor just in general oh it's sexyeahLet's goI mean he said it allI mean I feel likeWe learned a little bit aboutThe life that is Sasquot's before
48:19I mean didn't know you had a drug addictionIt's pretty crazyAnd I'm glad you got through thatAnd I know that's seriousI know that's realI can hear it in your voiceAnd now you took that chaosYou turn into harmony
48:31Now you're selling out shows all around the countryMy last question to you isWhen it's all said and doneWhat do you want to be remembered by?That's a good questionI want to be remembered byBringing people togetherYeah
48:45I love thatThat's the thing isYeahGetting people to feel goodYeahI love itYeahWell ladies gentlemen
48:53That was SasquatchThanks for being on the show buddyLet's goLet's go kick ass in PhiladelphiaWe're in the suburbsBut we'll still call PhiladelphiaYeahFuck yeah
49:03Thanks budThanks
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