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

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

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

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenjai Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Hi everyone. Before we start episode 296, I've got to let you know that our 300th episode is coming up really, really soon.

And we've decided to celebrate it by doing another live streamed episode. We are doing it on Saturday the 10th of July at 8.30 p.m. Melbourne time. And you can watch anywhere in the world. All you have to do is get a ticket from sOSpresents.com. There is a link in the description of this episode. And like our live streams from last year, you can watch along live, comment along with other people as we go out for the first ever time. Or you can watch it on catch up, watch it at your own leisure, as many times as you like. Because it will be very early morning for the USA and about 11.30 in the morning for London, Dublin and Sealand.

So yeah, if you don't feel like getting up early, you can just watch it at your own leisure. There'll also be a little quiz or party game show of some description at the end of the podcast that we won't release. anywhere else. So yeah, we'll give you a bit of bang for your buck. That is our 300th episode. Go on out live, buy a ticket for 8.30 Saturday the 10th of July at SOSPresents.com. Link in the description of this episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of Do Go On. My name is Dave and as always I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave. Hey, Dave. Hey Jess. Hello Matt. And we are joined this week by a special guest, our good pal to give us another cracking report. I'm sure it's Josh Earl.

Hello Dave, hello Matt, hello Jess. Hello Josh. You've obviously been listening to the podcast. I have. I've learnt your names. I'm very excited. The exciting intro that we've patented over time. Not all guests go to the effort to learn our names.

I do appreciate that. Very sweet. Should be known that Josh also made the right eye contact with the right member. Yes. Well done. You went like, thank you, Jess. I was like, me. One doesn't have a beard.

One kind of has a beard. One does have a beard. Yes. That's how we go. Yeah, I'm the beardless one. Oh, you're the beardless. Shame. Geez, Dave put pressure on you earlier.

I don't know if you noticed that. Another great report coming up. Oh, yeah, I know. Because I did the malice at the palace last time. The basketball one. Oh, fantastic. I love it. The NBA big old fight.

I really hope this has a rhyming title again because I think that was the secret. It doesn't. I'm so sorry. Jess is actually one of her hidden talents. Very good at rhyming. Okay. So should we out to come up with an alternative rhyme title?

She's memorized rhymesone.com. Oh. Got it committed. Apparently if you're a hip-hop artist and you mention that you use rhyme zone, it's not good. Really? Yeah, that's a real... You get shunned.

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

Dazah Hazer. Thanks for that. Dazza Hazer. Is that from RhymeZone? That's from RhymeZone. You type in Dazer. Have you considered Hazer? Ah, there you go. This thing really works. His happiness is just a chemical.

Yeah, that's him. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Did a song with Sarah Blasco, which I used to also call Sazerblazer Blaser. So it was Dazza Hazer and Sazer Blazer Blaser. Perfect. See, you're not going to need my help. Someone's also been on Rhym Zahzer. It's my homepage.

Well, before we get into the report, Josh, which I'm assuring you, it's going to be great. Thank you. Don't worry about that. You've got a live stand-up show coming up. I do. And I think it's going to be in the very room we're recording right now. Yes, it is. So if you're in Melbourne, I did a show in 2019 in the Comedy Festival called Joshua Talks, and I love that show.

And I want to film it. I've never had anything on film before. And so the good people here at Superdoll Studios are going to film it for me, and I have 12 tickets remaining to sell. So if you've never seen the show, trust me, it's really good. I have seen the show. It was great. It's probably the best thing I've ever done. It was a really good one.

And I would like 12 of your listeners who have not seen it to go on to joshel.com. Sorry, Josh. I'm just online here. 11 tickets. 11 tickets, yes. Can't wait. I missed it because we clashed that year. We did.

I'll get to see it here. What a convenient venue too. I know. I spend some time here. I'll just wandered downstairs at the appropriate time. Well, that's what I always like when you do a show anywhere, like interstate, and you're staying above where you're performing. Nothing better than going, oh, what times the show start?

I'll have a nap up until five minutes from on, and then I'll go down. And then as soon as it's finished, I'll go back upstairs and just go back to my nap. There is the danger of entering the stage in your pajamas, though, is there? Brushing your teeth. Oh, no. I'll skip a step. Having one of those really long floppy hats. I assume you sleep in one of those.

And a little light suit with a little flap at the back. Yeah, perfect. A little poop suit. Yeah. That's all. That gives you an extra laugh any time. Yeah. You sort of put your finger in your mouth, turn around, show your butt, flap down.

Uh-oh. Whoopsy. I'm the cutie pie of comedy. I never want to see that. You never want to see that? No. Oh, come on. I don't want to see that.

your butt. That's gross. Well, the same people that are filming your show, Josh, also filmed four of our live shows that we filmed back at the European Beer Cafe in March and April. Time means nothing. What does it mean these days? And you can watch all four of those shows at sOS presents.com.

And we had to edit out a lot of what we said on the show because it didn't make sense without the video. So some people have made. I may have heard the podcast, but if you want to watch about 10 or 15 minutes extra, talking to the crowd and hanging shit on each other's appearances, you can do so. As well as we filmed some bonus extra bits at the end, where we did a bit of a debrief after each episode.

On my episode, I edited out a riff I was going back to where I'd name different words for sperm. So that stays in on the video version. Yeah. That's just a great example. I'm like, listening back, I'm like, It's hard to listen to yourself bombing. I will be trimming these bits out, but it was too hard to do on the video.

How many do you named? I think I got to five. Were you on spermzone.com? Yeah. Spurmzone.com. Should to work out the alternative. That's a filthy website. 1,200 worms.

Worms. White worms, that's what I call them. White worms. Hey, don't think me. Think the good people at sperm zone. You left me hanging on the night, but you had good ones ready to go. That's a shame. So, yeah, that's available.

People can, I think it's one ticket, gets all for streams. And, yeah, please purchase it so that we can pay Stubildo Studios for their time. That's right. They said, no money down. What does that? We'll just split the costs with you. So please buy those tickets. Because right now it's a good deal for us, but not for them.

And we love everyone at Stupidol's. All right, Josh. Except for one. And I shall not name them. Oh, Beck. I love Beck. We know you. All right, Josh.

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

Wow. Love that. So there's a chance that we've done it before. He assured me, don't worry. OJ. Simpson. Oh, no. Josh, you assured me, don't worry, you haven't done it before. And I thought, I can trust Josh.

Yeah. Josh, there's been other guests where we're like, do you reckon we can trust them? To do a Google? Good, do I reckon? What about the OJ sleigh? Okay. Okay, perfect. Great.

That's a rhyming version. Can you ready to do it? that bit out, Josh. All right, so, do you go on us? Yes. Who is the band that could have been? That is the question. I don't expect you to answer correctly.

Is he answer, Wings? Wings are a good band. There's Alan Partridge famously said in one of his early TV shows. He's on a radio station. Wings finishes. Wings there, the band The Beatles could have been. One of the great lines. That's so good.

So, And it could have been. That's hard. So it's a band that was at concept stage. Maybe. Would we, would we have heard of them? I don't think you will.

Okay. All right. I'll have a guess. It makes it better if you have. Platapus, poo. Platapus poon. Oh, mate, no. You went for alliteration there.

I know, you know when you say things and the words coming out and you're realizing what it is? Yeah. Like, regretting it? You could have stopped at poo. Oh, that's. That's what I did.

What did you hear? Is it platterpuss poo slash poon? No. What about platterpus pool? Poole. Is there a chance that it's my high school band, Weed Hornet? We'd hornet. Cut down in our prime, Josh.

Oh, no. We could have been. We could have been. It is not. It's none of those bands. Okay. Okay. So here we go.

Into the report. So in the late 90s, early 2000s, rock music was in a weird place. The grunge boom was, Brit Pop was bloated and as brilliant as Radiohead are their album The Bands inspired thousands upon thousands of boring acoustic strummed copycats.

I don't know if you've been to parties where some guy gets out, plays fake plastic trees on the acoustic guitar. Time to go home, everyone. Time to go home. It's only Chris Martin from Coldplay. It's not to say they weren't great bands during this time.

It's just the music that seemed to get all the radio play and the headlines at the turn of the millennium was angry white man yelling that it was all about the nookie. Were you into those bands, Dave? I reckon you would be. Out of all the people in this room,

I reckon you were the only one who would have rocked like a wallet chain. Matt is feeling sick as well. Spiky hair? Matt just gave me a look that said, don't dob on me. Late 90s, I'm 9, 10 years old. I'm a little bit too young,

but a few years later, See, I'm so out of it that I rocked the wallet chain 2003, 2004. Yeah. No, I had a wallet chain. You had one of those? Yeah. I mean, did your wallet ever get stolen?

Never. I also... System works. Got told to wear your wallet in your back pants, in the back pocket, not the front pocket. Had a girlfriend make fun of me going, what are you wearing your front pocket? What were in your back pocket?

That's where everyone had it. I'm like, oh, I didn't know. I better change it. No, I never tells you. Well, in this case, they did. I got told as well. Yeah. I remember being told.

You were you wearing a wallet chain in 99? I had, I remember me on a hardware store. I didn't understand that they came pre-made. I just bought some chain. It was a non-functioning wallet chain. Homemade actually is pretty bad ass. It's actually a homemade wallet chain. It's pretty bad ass.

What a bad boy. So I also had whatever significant other that song, that album Nookie was on that CD. Yeah. Yeah, so apologies. Well, then, in the year 2001, out of New York, came five friends with cool haircuts,

vintage suits, and an amazing first album. That band is called The Strokes, and this episode is not about them. Because at the same time, the strokes were making kids all over the world lie and say they were always into bands like television and Velvet Underground. Yeah, I've always loved them.

I've always loved them. A bunch of friends on the other side of the country of America was also paying homage to bands of the past. Because in Portland, Oregon, four guys by the names of Adam Cox, Matt Fitzgerald, Terry Six, and Jeremy Gage formed a band called The Exploding Hearts, and this is the story of the band that could have been. Anyone heard of the exploding hearts? No. I don't think so. I don't think so. No. Okay. Now, Portland has a pretty good history when it comes to indie rock music. Do you know any bands that came from Portland? If I say these

bands, tell me if you know them. Like Slater Kinney. Yes. Just got a new album out, right? Yes, they do. Yes. Elliot Smith. Yes. The Decemberists. The Danny Warholz. Yes. Modest mouse. Oh, shit. The shins. Oh, okay. Originally from Albuquerque, but moved to Portland when they formed the band. So they're kind of a Portland band. Anyway, I could go on and on and on.

Yeah, wow. So a good hit rate. I was going to say I didn't know any, but yeah, that's heaps. It feels like, yeah, it's interesting. Oh, is that it's well known for that. It is a hipstery kind of place. It is a hipstery place, but at the turn of the millennium, not so much. And I'm not sure what it is about places that have a higher proportion of rain to other places, but they just make good bands. So Melbourne, better bands than Sydney. You've got to stay inside, you're in the garage more often.

Yeah, I think so. So London, better bands than Abitha. No too many Abitha bands that I know of. Portland, Seattle, New York, outshine Hawaii when it comes to music. Yeah. Jack Johnson. and the other guy who plays the ukulei, the big guy. Yeah. That's the only of the Hawaiian.

The big two. They did a lot of the heavy lifting. Now, just like the strokes who met at a Swiss boarding school, while they were attending boarding school there, the Exploding Harts also met at high school, but they didn't come from such opulence as the strokes did. In an interview, the band did with Punk Magazine called Maximum Rock and Roll, which I'll talk about a lot because they're one of the few people that interviewed them,

they described the school they went to as being from, for rejects and pregnant girls, which I think is then putting a bit of gravy on it because I looked it up. It's called C.E. Mason High. It's in Beaverton in Oregon, and it's an arts academy as well. So you've got the high school,

but then you've also got people going there because they're good at the arts. Now, as these guys described it, they did everything together in high school. They said it was like they shared one brain. And besides loving music, they also love skateboarding, smoking pot and vandalizing their small town of Beaverton.

watch out beaverton it's a great town name it is good I know what could you vandalise the sign it's already got beaver in the sign like what are you going to what could you do

yeah just rub out the ton beaver ton beaver poon what about that get rhyme zone on geez that was close wasn't I platypus poon

I think of the platypus is Australia's beaver he's always said that yeah I can back him up on that he's always said that so while in high school Adam Cox

the lead singer who's older than the other members by two years, was already fronting a local band called the iguanas, which just happened to be the same name as one of Iggy Pop's first bands, which is where Iggy comes from. So his real name is not Iggy. His real name is James Osterberg, but he took the moniker Iggy from fronting the iguanas. So it was Iggy in the iguanas.

I didn't know that, Dave? You're a big fact man. No, no, I didn't know that. And you know why he chose Pop? Why not a favorite drink. No, because Iggy Snap and Iggy Crackled didn't sound as good. That's a joke.

I don't know. I disagree with them though. I think he's snapple. Snap and crackle. Oh my God. Not snapple. Too fruity. Okay.

So the iguanas were a popular school band and people would make their own iguanas t-shirts and wear them around the school and the school still has the seven inch of the iguanas that they made on the wall as a bit of a hall of fame.

These are past students who did great things. Guineas 70-something. I cannot believe that Warrondard High School has not done the same thing for Wheat Hornet. Yeah, that's insane. That is very disappointing. It was a high school band?

High school band. What was the best band in your high school? Was it Wheat Hornet? Yeah, I reckon. Honestly, there weren't that many. Yeah. I think the band I was in was the only band in my high school. So, yeah, best by default.

Yeah, honestly, I feel the same way. I was in a band that we never actually did any, like, gigs or even any practice we called ourselves community scooter oh that's fun yeah because we stayed at some caravan park me and some friends and there was this one scooter that we saw that all the kids were just right around and my friend deion said that that must be the community scooter well that's a good band name let's form a band called community scooter it's always great when you start with the name first yeah yeah i've formed a band that never played anything called uh kerry o'brien on the contentious issues oh that's a good one but our most famous

bands were, I don't think I ever saw them at school, but Jet was just a couple years above me. Oh, okay. And British India was a couple years below me, I think. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I was in a real cultural wasteland in between them. Well, some of the other bands that the guys in Explanning Hearts were also in were bands called The Silver Kings, FU, the Spider Babies, the Bedpans, and the Last One, and the Last One, was called Coco Cobra and the Killers.

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

and they called themselves the teenage faces. Because they've got the faces. and then they lost a member and they called themselves the small faces. And these guys are teenagers, so they call themselves the teenage faces. But they quickly disbanded when Adam left Portland after he graduated. And he moved to California. But while he was there, he'd call up Terry Six, and the two of them would work on songs over the phone together.

So with the idea of forming this new band, he moved back to Portland once the others had graduated high school, and they rebranded the teenage faces to the Exploding Hearts. I like Exploding Hearts today. It's good band name, isn't it? It's really good, yeah. They got their instruments. by either borrowing it from other guys around town

or, and forgetting to give it back, that is. Or Matt Fitzgerald, the bass player, rumoured he sold pot and exchanged it for cool records. So if you wanted pot, you'd go over with some cool records, he might not know, and so he'd give you some. And he exchanged his bass guitar that way. I mean, cool is quite subjective, isn't it? I could go over there with Dolly Parton and be like,

this is pretty rad, and he'd be like, get out of here. I was like, well, I actually think that's very cool. I just half a kilo's worth. much. I thought I could be honest. He's got a ratio on the wall. How cool. He's got a cool omitre.

Like a first edition. He's like, well, that's worth it. That's pretty cool. So Adam and Terry, they live together in a place they called the Pink Palace. Because the building had a pink tire swing hanging in the front yard. And each room was tagged with names such as Led Zepp, Dead Moon and Metallica. They were the three bedrooms. And this was the result of a spray paint war between six and cock.

And the kitchen was salmon pink And on the wall, they had spray painted the words Guitar Romantic. That was on the wall of their kitchen They sound like a landlord's nightmare. Yeah, no. But very cool, but oh, God. Guitar romantic.

Guitar romantic. Yeah. And style was very important to the band. And it mainly came from the direction of Adam Cox, who designed the heart's look. So the white stripes, they had the red and white and sometimes black. The hives had their white suits. the exploding hearts, their signature colours

were black, white, pink and neon yellow. And the guys took a do-it-yourself approach to their clothing and one of Terry Six's favourite outfits was a pair of black leather pants, a ratty tank top and a leopard print women's jacket he got from the op shop that he dyed pink in the bath. So it was a pink leather, like, fur coat kind of thing. And that was ruined the bath as well.

Yeah. Has he ruined it or has he made it way cooler? And the band they all cut their own hand. Their style was a bit like what Matt's rocking. It was a bit like a shagged out mullet. That's what they were rocking. They sound awesome. This is 2001, 2002.

People weren't having mullets back then. Well, I was, but I know others weren't. Me and the exploding hearts. As Terry Six says, he goes, I don't recall any other band looking like us. We were pretty noticeable. Everything we had was shredded, safety pinned, or bleached the hell out of. We want to look really menacing, but also eye-catching.

menacing and eye-catching. The colours sound like licorice all sorts. Yes. Black, white, pink and yellow, right? That's good. I like a licorice, all. I like separating them all. I like eat with your teeth.

That's how you eat them. I don't want to go get some right now. Can we have a quick break? We'll do it after. And we're back. And they were eye-catching. The band were very eye-catching. People knew about them in Portland before they'd even played shows. These four were a gang.

And then they started playing shows. And people in Portland hated them. They were considered a joke and the detractors thought they were all style over substance. Now this was 2002. This was before the Portlandia kind of hipster boom and everyone was moving there to try and be artistic. This was when it was cool,

it wasn't cool to dress up on stage at all. Like if you actually thought about what you were wearing on stage, that was like you were selling out. Now you just get up there and what you were wearing that day. That's what you do. And this is when pretty much the fashion in Portland at the time was blue jeans and flannel. That's what everyone was wearing.

And these guys were all flamboyant and colorful and very in your face. But a few people were intrigued by the band, even though they didn't quite like the band, they were intrigued by them. And their shows were becoming legendary for the wrong reasons. Quite often the band would just fight each other on stage.

They'd get into arguments with the audience, and one time, Adam Cox, the lead singer, had a few too many drinks before and during the show, vomited on stage, and then rub the vomit in his hair and continued with the rest of the set. Matt, were you doing that as well with your mullet? No.

Up until rub it in his hair, I was like, this is my dream live show. Just get wasted and throw up. Did you ever see the band Matt the fuckfucks? Fuckfucks. Yeah, I saw him at a festival somewhere. Yeah. I saw when I was a little, probably 18,

come over from Tasmania to see the big day out. And they were on one of the smaller stages. And my friend went, oh, we'll just go and see what's on here. And the lead singer, Fred Negr, who's also a cartoonist, was the singer. He was wearing a little neglige that only went. went to his hips, and then he was banging his penis on the tangerine.

That was too much for my little 18-year-old bind to comprehend. I can't handle me. I'm sure he was getting a great rhythm out of it, too. When you said I only went to his hips, I didn't know if you meant up. Up to his hips or down to his hips. Well, I was hoping for up to his hips. Hips down. Okay, but the industry people were beginning to notice the band too.

And they picked up a manager at the time called Rachel Ramos. and promoters will come to check them out to see if they'll put them on their places. Label people and even the drummer from Slater Kinney, Janet Weiss, would come and check out the early shows. It was a bit of like, let's go sticky beak of what these young guys are doing. It's a bit of intrigue. Yeah, but one guy who was super intrigued

was a guy called King Louis Bankston. Bankston. Bankston. Bankston. Yeah. That's fun. What about King? Yeah.

King Louis. More interested in the bang. Now, King Louis was something of a Portland legend, having moved there from Louisiana. Now, he is a musician, and he has made over 53 albums. Whoa. And in Portland, the Exploding Hearts Boys knew him as the guy who worked at the Ferris wheel and once left Terry Six hanging off the top of it for 45 minutes, and before he let him down.

That's who they know. Oh, you're the guy that fucked me off on the Ferris wheel. They probably would have loved it, Father Sandus, these guys. Yeah, well, they used to go there and drink and then write all the rides and then there was only one time they said they wouldn't let him on because they were too drunk what time this is early 2000s now yeah so a lot of those bands you mentioned before had already started or about to slated kinney were kind of i think 93 94 i think they were first doing stuff so they were already starting uh so elliot smith had already been like around he was still living at this time

this stage right when did he die 2004 i think right and the decemberus would kind of starting up yeah but they all all would have been around yeah playing in fans yeah and you're what watching the fuckfucks and i'm watching the fuckfuss yeah yeah uh so one day anyway one day adam is at the skate park and louis who has who they know because louis was also uh busking around town as a one man band he would be the one man band so the drum on the back symbols between his names guitar harmonica all that kind of stuff louis was driving saw adam at the skate park wandy window down and said to adam who he recognized from playing in the spider babies to get in the car Okay.

Yep. You wouldn't get in the car with a one-man band? Is he still wearing the car? You're not going. Slashing away. He's playing the tambourine with his penis. And King Louis drove him around

and asked Adam if he could join his new band as the keyboard player and he had a song he had written for them. Adam asked if he could hear it thinking he may have a demo in the car but instead of putting a tape on King Louis just took his hands off the steering wheel started drumming on the steering wheel

and did the guitar line with his mouth I just stopped the guitar to start singing. So it's like, do-do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- I'm a pretender at the game of love. Need somebody help me shout at my heart. And amazingly, Adam loved it and invited the guy to join the band as their keyboard player. Whoa! Now, King Louis is one of life's tru-centric, and you could fill a whole episode just with King Louis stories. But I'll just tell you one more.

So King Louis, he left the band after a year. He was only in the band for a year. Moved to New Orleans. We had been living on and off a year. He was also living there in. 2005 when Hurricane Katrina happened and this is the story of how he survived Hurricane Katrina. So he was living with his girlfriend at the time and when the hurricane hit they were inside and the flood waters were rapidly rising.

So they thought they were safe inside until they realized the water was now quite high and they needed to reach higher ground. So armed with a chainsaw, Louis cut a hole in his ceiling and that was the only way they escaped onto the roof because he cut it chainsaw. He took his dog and his girlfriend and they got whatever they could. could up on the roof. The water was still rising, so they had to get even higher, and so they climbed over to the neighbour's roof, which was higher,

and the water was still rising. And they thought, we're in trouble here. And then, on the distance, they saw her brother come in a kayak. He had a canoe. So he was canoeing, but the canoe could only take one person. So King Louis being quite chivalrous. He said,

right, women and children first. So his girlfriend went with her brother. They floated down, and then he was waiting there for the brother to come back. while he was waiting there because all the rivers were flooding and in New Orleans snakes live in the rivers and there's a type of snake called the moccasin and so the moccasins were all coming

and they were kind of just swimming through the roofs and he was getting bitten by moccasins like snakes because they were trying to bite his dog so he had to like king louis had one uh his dog under one arm he had an oar in the other hand and he was bashing off snakes until the brother finally came and then he got rescued And he's still alive. Like he survived Hurricane Katrina.

And the dog? I don't know if the dog's still alive. It was 2005. I'm going to say yes. It survived the night, yes. And that dog is now the world's oldest. Whoa. That's an amazing story.

Wow. King Louis. King Louis Bankston. Shane soaring through your own roof. I know. Yeah. I kind of, I had a moment there where I was like, if I'm stuck in floodwaters, it wouldn't be a shock to me for my brother to arrive on a kayak, to be honest.

He's just got that kind of energy. And he'd just be so casual about it. He'd be like, get in. Yeah, all right, shut up. Don't tell mum. Get in, dick it. Yeah, it has that kind of vibe while he's doing something very heroic. So, now, just like the Strokes, they have their older, more experienced producer, Gordon Raphael,

who record their first two albums and helped them find their sound. Do you know why they stopped using him, by the way? I'm a big strokes fan. But apparently, they were on the Spider-Man soundtrack. And their song was just before the Hive song, Hates to say, I told you so. and when they heard their song and then heard the Hive song they're like oh our song sounds like really tinny

and weak compared to the hive so we need to up our production values and they've never had an album as good as the first two since isn't that the whole point didn't they like run vocals to a guitar amp and then record the all that sort of stuff to try and sound like tinny and shit like the drums are like

recorded by like a microphone like seven meters away and stuff like and then they hear a properly produced record we should sound like that that's the opposite sense Did you mean that they had no idea why they were successful? No, I think they just would like, if we're going to be on other, like, compilation albums, our songs aren't going to sound as big as the other bands.

Right. I don't know. I guess it's always that thing when you start playing bigger venues. Like, Kings of Leon are a good one for this. After, like, three albums, I went, oh, we need to sound like you two now instead of the garage band. Anyway. The Strokes had Gordon Raphael, the Explant Hearts, have part-time Ferris will operate of King Louis to help them find their. sound.

But not all the band were on board straight away. I mean, the band were doing fine without King Louis. Be like if Dave, you come to do go on and you're like, hey, I've got a new member of the band. He's a Ferriswell operator. I met him in the car. He did a podcast at me. He's going to change our sound.

In a big way. He's huge. So the first full band practice with Louis, Louis, who walked in eating a dagwood dog and had, because he'd just finished work. Straight from the show. incredible and he had three beers under his arm the other man was like okay I've heard you got a song for us and this time with an actual instrument he played the song

I'm a pretender and the band were like yep you're in wow yeah so this was a song had Louis had been had for a while and he actually tried to sell it to another band who said no we're more into the more garage rock kind of sound but he'd been recorded now I don't know if you know the band big star no no the leads to her big star Alex Chilton recorded some of King Louis's previous work and he played him this song and Alex Chilton said that's a hit.

You've written a hit record there, King Louis, but he didn't want to record himself. Wow. Okay, but one of the things that Louis brought to the band was he was adamant that the band's lyrics had to be honest and heartfelt, which juxtaposed the spikiness of the music. And once they figured out this, they bunkered down the right songs for the first album,

which they called Guitar Romantic. Oh, call back to the kitchen, Dave. The kitchen. Yes, of course. Yes, sorry. I was thinking they're going to call it Pink Palace for sure. Guitar Romantic, okay. I was thinking they'd go, Greatest Hits.

Oh, that's good. That's always bold for the first album, isn't it? Greatest hits, Volume 1. I like when a band is like four albums in and then they just have a self-titled album. Yeah. Nice. Yep. So Metallica did?

I think Ballpuff? Five albums in? Yeah. You or I did like six albums in. Did they? Yeah. Love that. Bling 182.

It's like a reset or we can't think of an album time. Yeah. The Beatles did it a fair way in? The band Wings could have been. That's so funny. The band The Beatles could have been. So in 2002, the hearts went into the studio to record their first full-length album. The group recorded all the tracks within a two-week period with local producer Pat Kearns

in a small setup known as Studio 13. And the band said, we didn't spend too much time on it. That's what we liked about it. We didn't have to try. We already have the songs just go in there, record them, get out. So discussing all their influence before recording, they include the obvious ones that I've already mentioned, like Buzzcox, undertones, all that kind of stuff.

But they also mentioned, which Pat Kearns found intriguing, the Supremes. Oh. Yeah. So Pat and the band made a conscious effort to balance the buzz saw grit of early punk music with Phil Set Specter's Wall of Sound production to give it a more polished sound. So Phil Kern says punk music was just so hard on its edges

and didn't have the tenderness. And he'd often encourage Cox to sing like Diana Ross. And as he was singing, he'd yell out from the control room, less punk, more Diana. Can you hear that in the background of the record? Yeah, no. Now, after finishing the recording and having written seven of the songs and helping them find their sound, King Louis leaves the band and moves back down to New Orleans, although the door is still open.

Or you can come and join the band whenever you want, play keyboards, whatever you want to do. They even joke, we don't even have to turn the keyboards on. You can just come and play. Wow, they like him. Yeah, they love him. So released on April 1, April 4th Day, 2003, on Screaming Apple Records, punk fans around the country immediately took notice.

Ten songs, ten songs only. It's finished in 28 and a half minutes. And the opening track, Modern Kicks, is a classic. And King Louis penned Ommer Pretender comes straight after that. And it sounds so much better than it did in the car. And this is a sign-not. So in April, in 2003, these are some of the other bands

that released albums in that time. So the White Stripes released Elephant. Yeah, Ears released People to Tell. The Black Keys released Thick Freakness and the Kills released Keep on Your Mean Side. So it's huge. All those bands are still doing stuff today. So it's huge.

So the entire 1,000 copies of Guitar Romantic sell out in two days. They get rid of all. But in Portland, not as popular. At the album release show, the band didn't sell a single record. And as the band said, Portland didn't give a shit.

nobody respected us or cared about us. And in an interview in 2013, Terry Six said, for every diehard, there were like 10 people who fucking hated us. It's not quite the right ratio, is it? No, you don't want one and ten. Yeah, you want the other way around, hey. Yeah, someone about their people in the town knowing them. Yeah, yeah, he's just going.

The rest of the country's like, we like the music and we don't know their fuckheads. But the group's national buzz is reaching a high point. when Pitchfork, the online music site, praised guitar romantic and critic Matt LeMay gave it 8.8 out of 10 and added it to the site's best new music page and calling it simply a fucking awesome power pop record and remarking that The Exploding Hearts are the best punk band to come along in a long time, maybe since the original wave.

And he ends the review by saying The Exploiting Hearts have released an album that is, at its core, ageless. Wow! Yeah, it's big, big, good. Now, I don't know if you read Pitchfoy. I have a weird love-hate affair. I like Pitchfork because they've introduced me in a lot of bands. I don't like Pitchfork because I feel they're...

They have one of the best reviews ever, and I know these are your old school buddies, but Jets' second album, do you know what they did for how they reviewed it? I just never met them. I know them. You're good pals. They reviewed Jets' second album by just putting a video of a monkey pissing in its own mouth. That was the whole review.

That's incredible. Yeah. It was a dog shit album. Was it really? That's probably the second best. The best review I ever read was in NME when they reviewed George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice, and they just reviewed it, Listen Without Speakers. Wow.

It's a very good review. Dave's a big George fan. Do you like George Michael? Well, they are too, as now. They've come out and said it's a great album. Well, there you go. I also just going to say pitchfork are often, they're quite revisionist too, aren't they? They bag the shit out of something.

The 20 years later, it'd be like, one of the best 50 albums of all time. Yeah. That's funny. That's music criticism, like, down to a tea. They do it all the time. They don't get, like, because I think they're a general, often the critics are a generation out. So then the people who come up with the music, they ended up reviewing it and they revise it. Like, now that was sick.

Yeah, well, that was the best. It wasn't for those old reviewers. This changed my life. Yeah, exactly. When I was 15. Yeah. What I don't like about those sites, like, enemy pitchwalk and all that, well, they build the band up and then they're like, now we're going to cut them down. And it's that thing of like, hang on, you guys were the ones that said that this sounds great.

And then they're recorded it. And you're like, no, we're over the day. Yeah, they've done something similar. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that sort of stuff, but I also do, it is a way to find music for sure. Yeah. I'm also very interested in 8.8 out of 10.

I'd love to know his scoring system. 8.8. I find all the numbered scoring. Star rating is so weird. Really hard. This is good or this is not good. That's all you need to know. Yeah.

I like it. I like this. Yeah. According to me, this is what are the things I like. If you like these things, you might also like this. It's, yeah, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, so now with the good press... Unless I get a high school.

Yeah. In which case, they are a very good reviewer. Yeah. They get it. A lot of respect. I haven't had to worry about that so far, but... Now, the Good Press, the band are headed on an American summer. Head out on the road in 2003, they have some very cool opportunities. So they're asked to support UK punk legends, the Buzzcocks, when they come to Portland.

Plus, they're asked to perform at the Harvard Lampoon at their graduation party, which sounds like a weird gig, but it is quite a prestigious gig. In 2002, the act who plays the Harvard Lampoon graduation was Conan O'Brien. And the year before that, the strokes. Wow. So it was this gig that their manager, Rachel Ramos, talks about how she knew that she had a band that was pretty special. The entire crowd at the Harvard Lampoon on the other side of the country knew every word to every single song, and these weren't punks. These were college kids, and they were Harvard college kids of that.

And the band knew they were onto something, and they had. mass crossover appeal that would be timeless as they looked around the walls of the lampoon they had portraits of all the past performers there so they had bill murray john balushi conan the strokes and then they had a portrait of their album guitar romantic on the wall as well they thought that's it we're going to audition for saturday night long this is it yeah i'm going to be a comic genius they'll probably do weekend update i think so at the tail end of this trip uh to boston the band had some shows booked in san francisco and they'll south of the country at a venue called the bottom of the hill,

which they had tried to play before. The album came out, and they booked them and then had to cancel them because no one had bought tickets. This time, they'd put two shows on and they'd sold out instantly. So the band was now hyped.

And with these two legendary shows at the bottom of the hill, they were riding high. And after playing the second show, they did an impromptu show and another bar called The Parkside. And during the show, the band went past the bar's curfew,

and so they pulled the PA and the band were under-terred. They just kept on playing. their instruments. So we could hear it was the drums really because they can't use the ones off. And the crowd sang along with every word. Wow.

They were like, we know. And so to get them like, it was kind of back in the days when King Louis was doing a cappella on them. But to get them out of the venue, the bar manager gave them all their money. So here's your cash and a couple of bottles of booze. And the band went, all right, we're off.

Okay. Starting to sound like this band was. Yeah. You said they never was. Well, wait for it. There's a twist. Okay. The next day,

it was very. And then they woke up. The next day, before they left, they have a meeting with a label called Lookout Records. Now, who had seen, they'd been to the bottom of the hill shows, and they're very impressed with what they had seen. Now, this was the label most famous released in the first albums from the band's Green Day and Rancid.

And Lookout seemed very interested. And they were the band's dream label. That's what they wanted to be on. They were on the Screamy Apple. They were with Dirt Nap Records for a bit. They wanted to be on Lookout Records. And because the other dream was they wanted to play with the Donners. They're a big fan of the band The Donors.

Arnie Donner. Oh, yeah, sorry. Skin-type baby, all right. Yeah, and so look out, had Arnie Donner. Not Arnie Donnie, look out, had the Donors. Look out, I wish they had Arne Donner. The Donners had just left for a big label, I think it was Interscope, but they're still in good terms of Lookout.

And so Lookout were saying, they're about to go on national tour, Exploding Hearts. You can be the support. So they're super, super, super. Awesome. Other bands on the label at the time were Ted Leo and the pharmacist. Do you know Ted Leo and the pharmacist? Pretty Girls Make Graves. Do you know Pretty Girls Make Graves?

And the Patton. These are three very good bands. You should look them up. They're very good bands. They're named after the Smith's lyric. Pretty Girls Make Graves, yes. They were. So on the evening of July 19, the band headed back home to Portland.

A 10-hour trip, 960 kilometers, winding through mountains. After driving hours and hours, they reached the outskirts of Oregon where they stopped in a bar that was frequented by country people and bikers who did not appreciate the look of the boys in their pink and yellow and fur coats. Now, I'm not sure what happened in the bar, but the ban got kicked out and decided to trash the front fence of the bar as they left to try and find somewhere to park the van and sleep. So after a couple of hours sleeping, Matt Fitzgerald decides it's time to keep moving, starts the car up and starts driving home.

Now, just north of Eugene, about 100 minutes away from Portland, Fitzgerald veered onto the gravel on the left side of the road and lost control the van. authorities reported that Fitzgerald most likely over-corrected when he attempted to steer the van back toward the highway causing it to roll multiple times. Terry Six says of the accident, it felt like it was a joke. And his first thoughts as they were rolling was, God damn it, now I have to walk all the way home.

When it came to a stop, though, the damage was a lot more significant. Along with all the instruments and the equipment, Cox, so Adam Cox, Jeremy Gage and Matt Fitzgerald had all been thrown from the car. And Terry says, I saw our life and our friends and just everything destroyed on the side of the road. So Adam Cox, 23 and Jeremy Gage, 21, died at the scene. Fuck.

Matt Fitzgerald, who was only 20, he died in hospital shortly after. Oh, my God. So, Terry Six and Rachel Ramos, the manager, were the only two wearing seatbelts. They were treated for minor injuries and released from hospital that day. It rolled multiple times, and they were treated for minor injuries. Jesus, that's a good ad for seatbelts. Totally.

How lucky were that. You know, like, you can draw a line and being punk and being too punk. Like, seatbelt is okay, guys. We're not judging you. Yeah, it's all right. I mean, I think, mate, may have been, I know Matt was driving, but the others were sleeping, I think. Right on the back. I'm not sure.

Oh, no. So July 20 was when families and close friends were alerted about what had happened. So that year, pitchfork names the guitar romantic, the 14th best album of the year, which if you look at the albums in 2003, is very impressive. So a lot like Outcast, Beyonce, Justin Tim Blake, The Strokes, all the bands, all release bands. Big games. In September 2009, Pitchfork ranked the album number 60 on the list of top 200 albums of the 2000s. And around the same time, Bobby Martinez, who interviewed the hearts for the Xen maximum rock and roll. He was working at a record shop called 1, 2, 3, 4 Go Records in Oakland when Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong came in and asked if they had guitar romantic.

And a few months later, at a concert, Green Day played a... a cover of the song Modern Kicks at a Secret Club show. Also, that song has been voted, ranked 290 on Pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s. I know modern kicks. Do I know because of you? Maybe, yeah, I like it. You used to make me mixtapes when you were courting me.

I was trying to snooch. Oh, to be so lucky. So Terry Six, the only surviving member, is quite understandably traumatized from the experience and very rarely does interviews. Like he's done like three or four in the past, and that's about it. And where he talks about the band, yep.

Just everything like, yeah, not just your friends have died, but his whole life, like they were, it sounds like they were just on a trajectory going sky. Yeah, felt unstoppable probably. So, I mean, obviously your friend's dying is the worst part, but your whole life's gone. Oh man, that would be tough to recover from. So he's been a few bands,

so he was in a band called The Nice Boys. and then in 2018 he teamed up with his old Ferris wheel operator friend himself, King Louis, and they released an album called Terry and Louis. And when they play live, they actually play Exploding Heart songs. Oh, nice. Yeah. There is a documentary in The Works. It was supposed to be finished in 2019, but as of yet no release date has been confirmed.

But the trailer for it is up on YouTube if you want to go and look at the trailer. Also in 2006, a compilation album of early demos, because they only released the one album, but they were working on the second album. and so there's a couple of finished songs and a couple of early demos from the first album and new songs are brilliant. They clearly are all going to go, yeah, this is not just one hit one,

do these guys know how to write a song? And album's called Shattered. It's not on Spotify, but it is on YouTube if you want to listen to that. Guitar Romantic is on Spotify. I listen to that one first. Yeah, for sure. I'm keen to check it out now.

Yeah. So I was alert to this band by my friend Brendan Maloney who people in Melbourne might know he used to run CrabLab. And he said, listen to the album, but don't Google them. Whatever you do, do not Google this band before you've listened to the music. And I thought, oh, they're horrible, like they've murdered people or something like.

It's like Charles Manson kind of stuff. And then it was like, oh, now I'm just sad. But did you follow his advice and listen to the music first? Yeah, I did, yeah. Because I'd hear that and be like, I've got to Google this guy. The intrigue. And then so you listened, you loved it. I loved it.

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

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

They could have been, they could still be going, you know? and still be a really big band now. Yeah, it sounds like they probably would have been, right? I think so. Like, that first album, it's one of those things, though, when you're a band like that, you go, is the story what makes people love the album more now, or is it the music? But I listen to the music first. I was like, no, this is really, really good.

That's a good, you know, good sign. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. I hope they would be. But it's that thing, like, how many albums does a band like that have in it? Yeah. It's like three, four, and then it's like, going, okay, now you've got to do something new.

Yeah, that's fair too. Wow, what a story. What do you think Portland now claim them as? Yeah, yeah. No, they do. So there was a local radio station who would play them and have them do live to airs, but not everyone was fans. But then this is on YouTube as well.

They do a memorial show the Friday after they died, and people are calling in with their memories. And it goes for an hour, and they play like some early demos. And they have people, Rachel, the manager rings, That's where I got a lot of the information from her sign of the story in there. And yeah, but there's very little lot on online. I was reading, like, people who went to their high school's blogs about it. Yeah, it was, yeah.

It's interesting. Maybe the new docker will change all that. Hopefully, yeah. Why did the town dislike them so much? It was just they didn't get it. I think, yeah, it was at that time, it's like, I guess if you kind of wear kind of garage rock and these guys are all about power pop kind of like. like no we like poppy stuff when we're singing about girls and heartbreak and stuff like that they're like

oh what is is this a joke about and then also dressing like they're out of like a casting agents what an idea of punkies you know stranger things season two and it's like oh the punks it's like that's what they're kind of dressed like but with pink and neon yellow that's yeah that's it's funny it's funny when um like a music it's such it's you think of music as being a place for rebelliousness, but it really isn't so often. Yeah, but I also think it must be tedious, like, when those punks are like, yeah, because you look at all the punks now from the 70s, so John Lydden, who's like, now just a conservative idiot.

Like, he just, these guys who are like, I just like to be contrary. So in the 70s, being contrary, it was like kicking against authority. Yeah. And now when they're rich, they're contrary, and they're like, no, the youth, the hopeless, they're dumb. It's like, oh, it's like, shut up, you old idiot. Just like the youth kind of like do what they want to do in terms of like, do it exactly what you did. Like, yeah.

That's a G-rated way to tell someone off, but also it hits so hard, you know. Shut up, you old idiot. I can use that on that. Thank you. I do find that, yeah, I find nostalgia so funny like that when people don't realize that they're doing the exact thing they hated as kids. Yeah. Just every generation does it. It's so silly.

Yeah. You old idiots. Shut up, you old idiots. Wow, what a story. Josh, thank you so much. That was a great report. Honestly, yeah, I've got to say, I said it would be great.

And it was. Yay. Honestly, that was a really good story. Obviously, tragic at the end. Yes. But I didn't know any of that. No. And I didn't know anything about the malice in the palace last time.

There you go. I've thought about it a lot since. So all I want is listen is to go and listen to the band. Listen to that album. Go to Spotify. Listen to it. But don't Google them. Don't look it up.

We should put a note at the start saying, hey, just type in the name of this report into Spotify first. Yeah, let us know what you think. Yeah. Tag Josh in on Twitter. Yeah, just the good ones. Yeah. Just take me in the good ones.

If you've got some fucked opinions, maybe leave Josh out of it. And if you're stuck, if you are aware of this band, there's stuff I've got wrong, I tried very hard, but there's very few, very little information. Alice is pretty good with not I'm actuallying us. Okay, good. Yeah, I think you're safe. So again, we can see your live stand-up show talks.

Yes, August 4, and then it's going to be filmed. And then if you're in other parts of the world, you can see it somewhere else. I don't know when, though? And also my podcast, don't you know who I am? It's out every single Thursday. You three have all been on it. Yes, it's one of the greats. We love it.

We all love being on it. We all love listening to it. I have to make little notes in my phone quite frequently, like when I think of stories, because I know whenever I get that message from Josh, I'm delighted. And then I'm like, fuck, now I've got to think a story. I haven't talked about it before. And I'm a boring person.

So basically you get four funny people from all walks of life. Most of the comedians, but you've also added a music episode as well, which has a great one. I have a couple of musicians like Tim Rogers from UMI, Andy Falcons from McCluskey, Bob Evans from Jebediah, lots of people. And then you quiz them about their own lives. And it's basically I've heard you describe it for us

an excuse for people to tell their best stories. That's it. And Damien Cow from Tizam. I did. Yep. He was on with Hannah Gadsby, Shaw McCarlyff and David Quirk. Wild. Wild line up.

What an absolute dream team. Yeah, you've had so many, yeah, cracking episodes. And then you had us three on one time. So that's pretty good too, isn't it? The highs and those of podcasting. So yeah, check out, don't you know who I am. Josh Earl, thank you so much. Thank you.

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still ironing out some kinks. There's something in there, though. There's something in there. I mean, you don't maybe have the title down, but the way of the show runs. Very fun. Very, I've got to say. Good fun time.

So, this first one we're going to do today, though, is the fact quote or question section, which you might know from the jingle you heard moments ago. And in this, if you support us on the Sydney-S-S-Mberg, Deluxe Memorial, rest and peace, level. You get to give us a factor, quote, or question. You also get to give us, or give yourself a title, and we read out four of these each week. I read them out for the first time on the pod, so bear with me. The first one comes from Daniel Headley, who's given himself the title

of Resident Dickhead of the Pod. Okay. Someone had to do it. I've just been bumped out of my posy. I'm sure we've read that before, because we've both made that exact joke before as well. So Daniel Headley has kept his title the same to keep us arguing about it and I respect that that does make him a dickhead It's a real conversation start off. It's also possible I'm just reading out last week's again

We'll find out in a second I guess No no I'm talking months ago Okay great It's happened a couple of times All right Daniel has given us a fact It's one of the three options facts

I love a fact And we also get to assign whether it's fun Yes. Grim. Or what am I dull? I think I'm dull facts. That's my own. Great.

The three... What am I dull? That's what a dull person would ask. Yeah. Yes, I would. Yes, I would. That aware. So Daniel writes, this is fact.

Pad Kid poured, curd, pulled, cod was dubbed the most difficult tough twister by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm guessing that's supposed to be tongue twister, but you also just nailed it. Say it again?

Said, try saying that quickly 10 times. All right. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. Nah, that is too tired. What's a pad kid?

Pad kid poured, curd pulled cod. Pad kid poured, curd. I don't think any... I think the rest of it doesn't make a lot of sense either. Right. Pad kid. I still, I did enjoy you saying that. it's like a kid made of pillows or exercise books.

Thank you so much, Daniel Headley. You really set you up like a dickhead there. You look like quite the dickhead. What a dickhead. Yeah, try to catch me out. A few people do the tongue twisters and I think I nearly never fuck them up. Even though I would expect it, it's probably because I don't know they're coming. If it was like, hey, try on this tongue twist.

Oh, okay. But if you're just reading the words that are there. You just read the words that are there. Exactly, yeah. I can't say segment or section, but I can say unique New York. The next one comes from Matthew Bohr, who's given himself the title of Former Director of Crafts Service and current campaign manager to change the Apple podcast blurb to

a fact-based comedy podcast where once a week a table may or may not be seduced. Well, thankfully that's only happening in one episode. I had of nearly 300. Yeah, it's much more likely to May Not. So this is what Matthew writes. It's a quote. Hi, gang. Hey, we're a gang.

Figured I would round out my fact quote or question Triptitch with a quote this week. Great. Apologies if it doesn't read well over Pod, but it is my favorite movie line. Quote, July. Sorry, I'm late, Mr. President. That's my favorite movie quote.

I assume that's everybody's. What's that from? Independence. day. Is that Will Smith? It's not Will Smith saying it. It's Randy. Randy Quaid.

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

Yeah, yeah. When Jess was, what, six years old? Great movie for a story. Sorry, I interrupted, but it's a great movie quote that was worth. Saying loudly. Love it. Love it. All right.

What's the favorite quote? Gelato isn't vegan? Vegan police. It's milk and eggs, bitch. That's Scott Pilgrim versus the world. Ah, okay, yeah, great. Gelado isn't vegan? It's milk and eggs, bitch.

They're vegan police in that. I've seen that film. It's a good film. Haven't seen it for a long time. I've never seen it. Oh, it's great. You like it. Thank you.

Or not. Yeah, some reason I thought gelato was very. vegan. You think you're like more of a sorbet? Maybe I'm thinking of a sorbet. Yeah. Which I always knew was a different thing to gelato. The next one comes from, thank you very much Matthew.

The next one comes from Maine Gallagher. And Maine has offered a fact. And this is the fact. Never pet parrots on their head or they'll want to fuck you. What? What? What? That's okay.

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

Wow, you only make that mistake once. When your parrot tries to hump you. Wow. That's a fact. So don't pat a parrot. Grim, final dull. I feel like it's not dull But Dave, what do you think?

No, that's not dull. Is there one that's just good advice? Yeah. Yeah, that's just good advice. Useful, a useful fact. Yeah, I think I'll be using that day to day from now on. I mean, it's only grim if the parrot humps you to death. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

It makes them so aggressive that it kills you. That's pretty grim. That's grim. Or, you know, fucks itself to death. Yeah. As parrots have been known to do. How can we make this fun? It can't be.

Well, maybe you and the parrot. Yeah, that's right. I've fallen in love. Yeah, that's fine. It's more of a beautiful fact. That's a beautiful fact. All right, so which one of us is doing beautiful facts? Oh, God.

All right, can I do dull and beautiful? Let's get Josh back in here. They're contradictory. How can you do both of those? How can you be an expert in both? I'll do dull and useful because useful can also be dull. Yeah, it's pretty dull. Dull?

It can be dull and love. I've been in a few weddings. It's lovely, but... Dull. Gosh, this is dull. It's a bit about them. But I love vanilla, actually. Yeah, we get it.

You love each other. Yeah, okay. Look, and I love love, I should say that. I want to make that very clear. We get it. This day's all about you. How late will the tab go? Where is the cake?

And the final one comes from Zach Dobran, who's... Oh, I forgot to say Maine's title. Maine's title is Chief saying, at all pet picks officer. I like that. You're going to want to head over to my Instagram. Yeah, that's right. Instagram.com slash chessbook.

And finally, Zach Dobren's title is executive reminder of the day one quote. Day one. Day one. Still don't understand. The thing is Matt doesn't understand. That's the best bit.

He's like, I don't know. He was a listener who messaged in who said it totally made sense. They knew what I was talking about. They're off the world. wall. I don't remember sending that email. What was that? I can't even remember what that episode was.

For new listeners, at one point, I had a brain fade where I said, day one with no context. Dave, one. And then it wasn't until much later in the episode, I came clean that I didn't know what I, I don't know what I did. I was embarrassed at the times I moved on. And then Dave and Jess were like, oh, thank God. Because we had no idea what you meant. He were like, I just woke up and I was in here.

And we thank Zach for reminding us of this story. Zach asks us a question. The question is, what is a must-have song on your wedding playlist? Speaking of bloody weddings, I'm getting married on June the 12th. Oh, last week, happy honeymoon. Yeah, congratulations.

And our must-have is, it's been a long, long time by Harry James. Cheers. I don't know if I know that song. No, I don't think I do either. My go-to And this is a song that I'm not getting married

But if I was to ever get married I would walk down the aisle To Super Tramp, Give a little bit Give a little bit Give a little bit Give a little bit Love to me

Who Right Obviously's got to be It's raining man I want to change my answer For a split second I thought you said Mine's going to be

Is Ray? men. Israeli men. Hey, I've got a type. Weird Al's in the house. It's pretty good weird Al. That's a gift for you. Israeli men.

Hey, men. That's funny. A great, a lovely song. Dave, you've nailed it with its raining men. Okay, I've got that. That's how the groomsmen enter the reception.

Great love song. And I, yeah, I don't know. Is this for the party after or when's this for? If it's just for a party, you just need floor fillers. You need scooter. You need borer, borer, borer, borer. That's what you need. You need earthwind and fire.

Quanto, quondo. Anything from ankle, burr, humpabend. Yeah, obviously, yes. Gimmy, gimme, a man after midnight. Oh, that's a great one. Anything abber, yeah. Anything with three words. Except the sad ones.

Don't do the saddlers. A lot of men songs for you too, Dave. Yeah. Man, it's raining man Gimmy Gimmy man For midnight Martro, matro, man Yeah

Israeli men of course Your cover of it I can't I'm blanking That's alright We've nailed it What about Petrop or Peach Boys rather

God only knows Great track Oh yeah That's one of a old-time favourite tunes Beautiful song Beautiful What about modern kicks

By the Exploding Hearts Okay Yes I've heard of that band I know them Yes Well? Very well.

Just don't Google them. Just don't look into what happened. The honeymoon is over. The cruel sea. Might probably not be quite appropriate. The honeymoon is over. It hasn't even begun. What about live it up by mental as anything?

Hey, you there with the sad face. Come up to my place and live it up. Nah. I'm not good at this. All right. What about? No, na, na, na, na, na. Baby give it up

Give it up Baby give it up What about that? That's a good one That's a great track That's a floor filler What about toxic by Britney Spears

You laugh But I nailed it Can someone get the video clip And when it gets that bit Cut out And cut to chest Because that's funny I thought I did a pretty good job there

What about Lovestone by Juzzy T That's it Is that a love song? Matt, please. Have you just Googled love? You've Googled love song. Can you just have a go of the toxic.

Quill? Can you do the toxic squeal please? Wee-oo. There you go, now they've got all three. That wasn't my serious attempt, though. Go on then. Woo-do-d-do-d-lid-lid. It's bad.

Just carry the last note a little bit longer. You'd be right. If someone could do that. If someone's an editing whiz. All right, well, that takes us up to... Is a question for answered? Where we think. thank a few other of our great supporters from the Patreon, from the dugormod.com.

Jess Sommer has a little game based on the topic. I thought we could name their bands. Oh, name their band, fantastic. Which I know seems like a bit. Is that a bit too obvious? Is that Daldave? No, I like it. I think it's fun because Exploding Hearts is a fucking great band name.

I like that a lot. And we heard so many in today's report. So I reckon a band name. But I just want to make it very clear that none of the members of any of these bands killed tragically in a car accident. Okay. To make that nice and clear. How are they killed tragically then?

Plane accidents. That was another way you could go. So I'm glad you didn't go there down that path. Okay. Well, if I can kick it off, I'd love to thank from Tacoma in Washington in the United States. Sarah Castanita. Castanita. And her band is the Seven Castanias.

Oh, that's great. Is it a family band? Yes. Seven or seven? Seven. Seven. It's a seven piece band. Wow, I love that.

Family band. And what's Sarah Osara playing? Lead vocals. And tambourine. Played with... Oh, hands. Hands. Okay, just checking.

Occasionally hit against a hip. Oh, that's a good move. But no genitals involved. It's a family-friendly band. Yeah, of course. It's like a Jackson Fire. type. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No penises. Sarah without an hatred, Sarah? Or is it still Sarah? Sometimes it's Sarah, sometimes it's Sarah. So it could be either there. Sarah Castanita, Sarah Castanata. I went to school. Two girls had that spelling and one was Sarah and one was Sarah.

That's tricky. Absolutely not there. It was. And I was like, you guys need to sort your shit out. Sort your shit out, guys. Okay, I will not go to school with people for six years, having to remember how to pronounce your names correctly as you want them. That's not up to me.

Saw your shit out. Come on, all right. Everyone's name is Emily, okay? I'm calling everyone Emily. I'm still Jess. I'm different. I'm special. Everybody else, Emily.

Well, I am Emily. Well, no, you're Sarah. God, this is confusing. I was a real nightmare. Thank you very much, Sarah and or Sarah. Probably not and. And I would also have to thank from Prospect in South Australia, Brent Hills Hayes.

Hills Hayes. That's great. That's an incredible hyphenated name. Hills Hayes. Hills Hayes. If my surname was Hill or Hills, my partner was Hayes, I'd be like, let's have some kids. We've nailed this. What about Hills Hayes and the Kills Craze?

Rhymes.com. Oh, yeah, you've still got to come up with a rhyming title for this episode. No, I don't. The band that never was. the blad the bled that blever blurs I don't think you quite understood the task what do you mean

did that rhyme so I will expect a written apology from you in the coming weeks go on rhymesone.com that'll sort us out that's really good Dave that kills craze

yeah that's great finally from me you wouldn't you wouldn't read about this I'd love to thank from the woodlands in Texas in the United States Sarah or Sarah Sumner what are the odds of that so S A-R-A again what about something that the stranded something the stranded voice the stranded voice that sounds like an operatic metal sort of band yeah or that my voice is

stranded my voice is stranded yes that sounds like an album title almost right maybe should be something else okay well I I had the idea. You added voice and that wasn't good. Yeah. That's what I'm giving it up. I'm saying, Oh,

stranded rats. I keep going to say stranded eight. Stranded rats is good. I like it. Stranded rats. That's better. My reasoning behind that is there is a band called Sumner and their song is stranded and it's really fucking good.

It's great reasoning. It's beautiful. I love to see the working out. Thank you. Also Sting's real last name. Sumner. There's no stranded rats. His name is Sting Stranded rats.

What Sting's real name? Is it Paul? Gordon. That's boring. Sometimes you understand. I've wanted it to be Paul, which I thought was more interesting. Some with a bit of pizzazz. Like, Paul.

You know. Can I thank some people as well? That would be so fantastic. I would love to thank from Brooklyn Park in South Australia. Gotcha. You thought America. Brooklyn Park, I'd love to thank Joe Walker. Joe Walker.

The Fantabulous Contraptions. Whoa. Oh, that's good. Almost a Simpsons reference there. Almost. Fantabious contraptions. I like that a lot. What kind of band are they?

Ecclectic. Eclectic. Okay. Oh, that means shit. I almost especially the other day, Dave. Are you familiar with a band called Dr. Colossus? Oh, are they a Simpsons-themed band? Yeah.

And their new album is called, it doesn't even fit on this Spotify page I've got it. I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt. And it goes on. My butt smells and I like to kiss my own butt. That's funny. That is great. So it's the fantabulous contraptions.

Yeah, that's great. Great name. Love it. Well done, Joe. And also, I would love to thank from Selena in Ohio, Jenna Schaefer. Vending Machine Blues. Oh. Oh, yeah.

That tells a story, doesn't it? Yeah. Oh, you got up there. You wanted a Mars bar? They've only got Snickers. Oh, yeah. That's the story. I love it.

I was picturing that it, you know, when the spiral doesn't quite make it. And it ends up trapping like, you know, like, all right, another $2, I'll get two. Yeah. Traps it again. No. No. Please. Double and nothing.

Absolutely a nightmare. Finally for me, I'd love to thank from Corfield North in Victoria, Ben Cardwell. The fearful bears. That's good, actually. That's very good. And you want to show some working out there? The Corfield local football team is called the Bears. And they're not very good.

They're a bit fearful? Yeah. No, they're probably fine. I don't know where fearful came from. I just went the opposite of what a bearer. band movies. And if they ever get huge, like massive and then there's a cover band, they could call themselves the bearful fears.

Yes. And fans would be like, oh, I get it. The spoonerism type of work. That's good. So you want to have options for a cover band that hopefully will pay you royalties. Sure. The same. You got to think of everything when you're starting a business.

I mean, band. Obviously, we were thinking that he'd warn it would be the weed on a cover band. Of course, obviously. Everyone starts a band thinking of the cash. Yeah. Right? You're smart to do it. Why else do you do it?

It's just good business sense. All right, I would like to thank now from Alexandria in Virginia over the United States, Samuel Hanura. Samuel Hanura. Leaving home. Oh, that's the band's called Leaving Home. I love that. They're foky. Yeah, they've got a banjo.

They've got a banjo. Not on all tracks, but it does make an appearance. And at any point in the song, you can go, oh! And it works. That's folk, baby. Yeah. That's folk. That's nice.

And is there symbol like a little house? Yes. Yeah. I love it. With a chimney. I'd have that album for sure. Samuel, that's cool stuff. That's sick.

I would like to thank now from Mobile or Mobile, they might say. In Alaska, Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Caleb Howard. Dig in trouble. Oh, that's a good country band. Dig in trouble. Mate, you're so good at this.

Yeah, wow. I love it. Dig in trouble. Just like two gibberish words together. Oh my God. You've found your calling. Have you seen most band names? They're terrible.

That's true. Dig in trouble. Well, hold there. We're digging trouble. We've got to play some tunes. They're all like three. So working out there was the same spot called Doogel How, Dougal, Doug, digging.

Digging. Digging trouble. Yeah, that's great. Brilliant. Whereas the last one, Samuel is from Alexandria. Leonard Cohen has the song, Alexandra. Leaving. Leaving home is a Jebedo song.

It doesn't matter. Sometimes it's fun to hear the work is out. Sometimes it's a dull fact. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Officially dull over there. But it's also useful for us. And finally, I would like to thank from Sunshine North in Victoria here, Emma Northup. Quick, pop, think, don't think, say.

Stools! Oh, I love it. Love it. Great, named after the useful item, household item, or shit. Which one? One of those names you don't know. Yeah. If you've seen there's a restaurant up the road from here called the Blue Stool.

You should get that checked. That's what a funny name for a place you go to eat. You do not want blue soles. But the fun part about the band stools is that they're a bit in on the joke, and every time people say, where's the name come from, they tell a different story. So the true origin is never known. But what is the true origin? What is the true origin?

No, it's not known. Oh, they don't even know. The true origin is an Australian woman on a podcast, yelled at it out. Because that was what was in front of her. It's right there. The recording device is sitting on a stool. I was actually looking at the. That one, though.

Oh, that's... But there are three different stools in front us. You're telling me that's the one going in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame one day? No, that one! Oh, that's not a... That's a little table. That could be a stool. Okay.

Ah, you've really opened my mind. This could be a stool right here. What? I'm like it. Everything's a stool. So is it Emma Northrop and the stools or just the stools? Oh, that's better. I think it's just sounds good?

I like... Hey, guys, we're stools. Stools. I like it when there's no... It's with a Z, though. It's with a Z. Oh, okay. Easy to get the website.

It's a metal band. Stools talk. Well, thank you very much to Emma, Caleb, Samuel, Ben, Jenna, Joe, Sarah Osara, Brent, and Sarah Osara. And the only thing we've got left to do this week before we boot this baby home is letting a few people into the... Not letting them in, welcoming them in. To the Triptich Club. That's a club in our minds. It's in our hearts.

Also in Nutter Wadding. We have just opened a lease up on a factory alert in the outer south. Got a great prize. A real up and south. No, I don't know where Nutter Wadding is, really. East, southeast. Yeah, it's got to be east, isn't it? It's a grub, but what a beautiful name for a suburb.

Can you go on the Neighbors tour while you're there? Oh, is that where neighbours are set? Is it? The house is there, isn't it? I think it's in Vermont, sorry, sorry, everyone. Vermont, nowhere near is fun of a suburb. None of Wadding.

Not a Wadding. That's comedic. Love that very much. So what we do here is people who have been supporting us for three years straight on the shout-out level or above, and we just shouted out some people. So those people, if they hang around, we'll be in the Triptitch Club down the track.

But these other people we shouted out a while ago, and now we're bringing them in to the Triptit. club the way this works is I've got I'm sitting at the door I've got the velvet rope I've got the clipboard I've got the guest list I'm gonna welcome you in one by one Dave will then hype you up because you want to feel good coming into the club of course this is like a Hall of Fame induction almost but it takes a lot of effort for Dave to put himself out there to hype them up so Jess is there lifting Dave up with little hype of her own and Jess normally

behind the bar has a cocktail whipped up what have you got this week. Yeah, all our food and drink specials this week actually do involve some pyrotechnics because they will all explode. As a tribute to exploding hearts, you order our exploding hearts signature cocktail and it explodes. Wow. But then instead of drinking it, you throw it in the air, it explodes, a bit like a grenade,

but, you know, small, and then it like bathes you in that drink. And then you sort of absorb the liquor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's more of an experience. Through the pores. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep. Yep. Seeps in. Put me down for one. That sounds delicious.

We'll do. And Dave, you normally book a band. You're not going to believe. What? You're not going to believe who I was able to get. Hey. King? The King?

No, yeah, the King. Iggy Pop and the Aquinas. Whoa. Iggy and the Iggy and the Iggy's. I'm maybe a few drop in appearances from the Exploding Hearts. Whoa. backed by King Louis with an unplugged in keyboard. And also a steering wheel.

Just bashing out the trucks. And the fuckfucks? Supporting? Yeah, absolutely. Dick out. Yeah, the lead guy from the fuck fucks. We'll be on tambourine. A bit overwhelming for young Josh.

That's so funny. I totally get it. You know, 17, 18, I would be like, I feel confronted. It's so funny to think I was possibly just standing right next to them at the time. Isn't that funny? Josh is like cringing and Matt's going, yeah. Chop, flop that, flop that chop, flop that chop.

Trying to get a chant going. All right, so we've got a few here today. We've got eight inductees in the club. So let's go through them. First up from Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. It's Catarina Gittierrez. Ooh, Adderina. Yes.

Like Adda. Good, Anya. Atta girl. Adderina, yes. Adderina. Katarina Gutierrez. Hopefully I'm getting that right. Next up, welcome in.

Katarina. We've got from Espooh in Finland. It's Henri or Henry Strandman. Oh, the Strandman of the hour. Yes. We'll not leave you stranded. Welcome in. From New Haven.

I've lost my headphones, keep going. I'll never die. From New Haven in East Sussex in Great Britain, it's Peter Danya. Good enya. Yeah, good enya. Good enya. You know, that's not saying, everyone says, good enya. It's like good on you, but good endu.

From Derby in Great Britain, it's Andy Conduette Turner. Oh, the Contuette Turner of a good time. He turns up. Good time happening. From Mullambimby in New South Wales, Australia, it's Abbey Garland. Oh, Garland, land. It's like a garland is a thing you could. Oh, yeah.

Like toss a garland. Oh, yeah. Well, toss a garland. Toss an Abby garland. Still don't really get it, but sure. That's okay. Don't worry about it. You're daily.

From Bristol in Virginia in the United States, it's Stephen Jones. Robin Jones in for a bit of Stephen. Yes. From Eastern Heights in Queensland, Australia, it's Kate Mallory. Oh, Mallory. Come on in. Why don't you come on in Mallory. Kate Mallory, that is.

And finally, from the home of the Big Marino, Goldburn, New South Wales, Australia. It's Bronn Livesy. Well, I woke up this morning feeling a little bit dead, but now I'm feeling a Livesey. Bronn. Hivesy, livesy, lovesy. Do go Bron. Welcome in Braun, Kate, Stephen, Abbey, Andy, Peter, Henry, Honry and Katarina. Welcome in one and all.

We can't wait to party with you and really rock out to the tunes of Iggy. Oh yeah, can't wait. Thank you so much to everyone there. And that really brings to the end of the episode. Thanks so much for tuning in once again. Dave, you want to beat this home? Yeah, sure thing. So only thing left to say is once again, thanks to Josh.

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