LadyGang - LG QUICKIE: Warped Tour with Jac

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

Back by popular demand whether she likes it or not...it's a Jac-centric Quickie! What was it like to be Jac Vanek during the heyday of Warped Tour? And who were the coolest bands she got to hang out with? Thanks to this episodes sponsors! Me Undies – Get 15% off your first pair plus free shipping at meundies.com/lady.   Stamps.com – Go to stamps.com, click th e microphone at the to of the page, and enter code LADYGANG to start your 4 week trial with free postage PLUS a free digital scale.  Thinx – Visit periodbetter.com and use promo c ode LADYGANG to get $10 off your first pair.  Hulu – Start your free trial now at hulu.com.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Lady Gang Quickie with Becca, Jack, and Kelty. Holla! I'm chewing something called sparkling mimosa gum. It's not good. No, people are mad at you. Why? We just got another comment in the Facebook group, I hate it when you eat. Well, I'm sorry, I hate it when you complain. Okay? I'm not eating. First of all, it's gum.

Also! And I was just about to say I was going to spit it out for you guys that complain. But since you're complaining, I'm going to keep it in my mouth. I need to spit it out because it tastes like shit. I think so, too. It's really good at first, and then it just tastes like... Then it gets nasty. I feel like this will be the kind of gum...

Have you ever had gum where once you chew it for a while, then it turns to liquid? Oh, have you ever had the one that gets really hard, and then it's just like plastic, and you're like, am I chewing a silly putty right now? What am I doing with my life? What are we doing today, Kelsey? No, I'm very excited. So, recently, we got some really nice feedback about the quickies on the Facebook group. OMG.

Wow. And it was a lot about Becca. I'm not going to lie. It always is. Wow. Our fans, the lady gang, was like, we were having the conversation, do you remember a couple weeks ago, about not having kids and how the focus groups were like, you guys are dicks?

Yeah. And then it was so cool because the moms were like, I have children and I like you guys as my escape and then some of the moms were like I also don't want to see my friends with kids and I have kids like it was like everyone was kind of like agree this kind of like even the people that politely disagreed right we're like I totally see this and there was a lot of thank you for coming out and being like I hate this like part of getting treated like I'm less of a woman or less of like a human being because I don't have a kid yet yeah I don't know what's going on so anyway so that it inspired me like any feedback of course well before we move on because i don't know what

you have in store but i have noticed that i'm getting to the point in my life where it's very hard to be in social situations where people are not talking about their kids like it's become very crazy you guys are kind of my only friends who don't have kids so you i don't have any friends with kids well that's because you're low life all my friends are losers losers no I like I really don't have a single for a single close friend that has a kid all of my like a lot of my friends from high school have kids and like further acquaintances but for about and then you guys don't have kids and I don't hang out with anybody else well and I've also been trying to connect with women that I have as acquaintances and get to like more of a friendship level because I'm

finding that as I get older I do prefer to have fewer people in my circle but I also find that like ever since moving to New York I've never cultivated that girlfriend group um and so I've tried really hard to like turn acquaintances into friendships but every time I've done it lately it's been groups of girls where everyone's talking about their kids so I think I have to put that plan on hold until I have kids yeah otherwise it's just gonna be a really weird alienating experience well that's a hard thing to connect with a new friend of like with two yeah because your lives are so completely different where it's like okay well how did your day look it looks completely different than somebody with kids and if you don't have that connection already that's

hard to yeah to make an actual friendship on but then we're gonna just have to make friends with our kids parents that's what people do that seems like a bummer i know hopefully they're not lame well i've architectured my life perfectly so that i have of course my no friends at all no i have my friends that have kids and i love them so much and then i have like some friends that are completely childless and that will be remaining childless and they're like the super fun ones that you're like hey let's go to italy right except you don't yeah you work too much but my new life like 2020 is right around the corner which all your time off is dedicated to a book tour yeah what are you doing with your new life you can't go to italy we

have to go to milwaukee no because i get that tour time and i get my vacation oh where are you going on vacation well we're going to seychelles that's with your husband and then with my husband and then i'm thinking about going back to golden door that's by yourself that sounds awful i know that's not a vacation go to like mexico and chug tequila for like once in your life you don't have kids That's what people without kids should do. That's what I'm doing. I don't take it. We're going on a boat.

By yourself. And you're probably going to read a book. No, there's three other cabins and two of them are filled. I'm going to meet acquaintances and friends. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. I'm proud of you. Okay.

Hopefully they're cool. We're shaming Kelty right now. We're doing that thing. You're doing that thing you guys do on the Lady Gang. No friends loser. I have so many friends. and also actually thank you for bringing this up because I did get a text message I think I was with you at the time I got a test message from my friend John who listens to the podcast who

was living with me and you guys were like we've never heard of this John you're making him up and he said tell those bitches I'm real and I've known you for 20 years so well then you need to do a better job of introducing your I'm having a Christmas party you oh yes oh my gosh it's so exciting i know because the renovation will be done and i'm gonna invite everyone over to see all of my beautiful work and drink all the wine because i have so much wine at the house and i'm gonna have it like catered and we can go in the hot tub and we can smoke joints oh my gosh like everyone's coming can i see the guest list before i come in i don't think she even has a date yet i don't have any of the plans done but i know i'm going to i'm down because i christmas

is a big deal like i love christmas and last christmas i got shut out because we had the Lady Gang TV set in my living room and I couldn't put Christmas up. This year, she's back in a big... What's that movie that the guy puts too many lights on the outside of his house? I don't know. Yeah, the Christmas movie. Oh, The Griswolds. The Griswolds. I'm a f***ing Nightwalds.

Okay? I can't wait for this. You don't even know. What's the entire gonna be? I know. I'm like, what do I need to wear? I don't know yet. Because you can't wear shoes in your house, so that makes it hard. Maybe it'll be a Christmas pajama party. Yeah. That's cute. And everyone... Fancy pajamas. Can I get glam for it though yeah you can get glam you could wear those pajamas with like the feather

around the cool oh the ones that you'd like kill your rich husband in yes if i wear a slipper in quotes with a heel and a fuzzy front as long as they don't touch the outside yes can i wear them in your house you're more than welcome at my house to bring an indoor shoe okay that's what we did as when we were kids in canada you had your outdoor shoes like at school you walked in summer winter fall whatever you walked in you put your outdoor shoes on the bench and then you changed you took your indoor shoes and put your indoor shoes in actually i noticed this when i was shooting in canada they had an entire mud room of all these different sets of shoes and that's what it was yeah do they have something that you can put on a heel to make it an indoor shoe or a shoe like a

bottom yeah you can put sole onto the bottom of a shoe so when you walk in like you just carry like your indoor sole around you just stick it on the bottom i have that but it looks so janky you can bring a booty yeah wear a flip-flop over there pop your shoe on when you hold on what if for this christmas party i supply the slippers it is chic to do that but i also don't like the idea of like being in a slipper and having a sweaty foot what do you mean okay like you bring your own b-y-o-s b-y-o-s bring your own slipper all right when we come back by popular demand what i'm scared it's a jack centric quickie oh jesus the lady gang okay we're back jack i asked the ladies at the lady gang what do you want to hear more about what do you want to know what do you want to

know what do you want to know about by far and away after everyone wanted to know about the inner workings of my boo joe everyone um people really wanted you to talk about being on warp tour oh geez okay but i i want to say from the outside looking in over the past four years here's the stories i already know that i don't want to hear about okay i don't want to hear about lugging your stuff and trying to sell your clothes okay we already know you do that like you can talk about that part but i want to hear about like how you got from city to city how the buses like how how who got herpes from who who was hooking up who did you hook up with how did you like did you feel cool did you and audrey ever have like a fist fight how did you get onto the

stage like i want to hear all of that audrey was this girl what was your how did you first hear about the warp tour how did i first do you want to know who audrey is first yeah yeah so when i was dating ryan ross her mutual ex-boyfriend this girl audrey she was also like a scene queen girl she had long pink hair pink hair with raccoon extensions in it and she was dating the singer of panic at the disco and i was dating ryan and we're this like foursome power emo couple duo So, but she was never on Warped Tour. How did I hear about Warped Tour? Well, can someone explain to me what Warped Tour is?

Yeah, this is what we're talking about. Warped Tour is a traveling punk rock music festival that was around for like 25 years. It went all over America and Canada. And it was just like 500 people traveling around like a circus. And I hooked up with the most people. So it's 500 people like with the band, like the actual. There's bands, sponsors, crew members. Got it.

So not with the audience included. it? No. I mean, there's probably like 20,000 people that go every day and it's in parking lots all over their country. And so when you're on it, are you on all the dates? Yes. So it's like if a sponsor comes on, like the hot guy that works for monster energy drink is with you the whole summer. Hot guy that works for monster energy drink is there. Yeah. You're there for two months straight. Okay. If you're on the whole tour, but some people would jump on and off and some people pretend that they're on and follow it around. Okay. And so my question is like, you weren't on it first with your brand you were just on it trying to have sex with musicians or

not have sex with musicians actually i was trying to make out with musicians and who was your like number one goal and did you achieve that goal um number one goal was andrew mcmahon from something corporate he is with his long-term high school girlfriend so i never achieved that goal it's sad who was the hottest at the first like who was the headliner at the first ever work tour that i went to i mean it was probably like fall away all american rejects my chemical romance newfound glory yellow card be used okay all those bands and so then when like you went on the bus or you were in vans or everyone was on a bus so the first year that i did it i was 18 i graduated high school i skipped like my graduation i got on a plane to kansas city the next day my dad came

with me of course he did to drop me off oh my god did he bring the handy cam is there video of it Did he give you condoms? I'm sure there's video of it. No, it's still a virgin. And he drops me off in this parking lot, Kansas. There's the bus that was, I was on an RV. I wasn't even on a bus. Who else was in this RV?

My friend Courtney, we got hired to work for a non-profit organization for a hurricane relief thing where we're selling CDs. A likely story. We were selling CDs for like $3 where we'd have to go up and down the line just trying to make money. It was a total f***ing scam. Who got the money? well it would go back to the company that we're working for and then they would donate it but i don't think that yeah right the whole thing was such a sketchy thing they weren't actually on the tour so we never had laminates we're kind of on the outside of the tour pretending that we were

on the inside oh sounds chic um i had a lot like being in the lady gang yep i had to sleep on a chair basically in the rv for two months are you kidding almost died we were navigating ourselves with actual maps that's how long it was driving oh my god it was so long ago you had actual map i remember opening up opening up a gigantic map and trying to figure out where the we were um oh my god it was like the olden days yeah it was like the organ trail basically but then i stds instead of the plague yeah you didn't get cholera you got cholera i never knew how to say it cholera cholera or syphilis are you reading the word cholera a lot only during oregon trail honestly i haven't known since fifth grade and then you added an

extra i didn't know what it was cholera cholera that's incredible okay great so then when did you get on with your proper laminate wait but i got kicked off of that tour oh wow i got kicked off of the first tour because the business was failing so the guy blamed it on me and the other girl that were on the bus who is this guy i think that was the problem but okay it's his name kelty knight yeah my business would never fail it would never fail uh he got to get you those laminates that's right bitch okay no he kicked us off and then um i ended up complaining kevin lyman's the guy that started the whole entire warp tour he's so freaking cool cares about every single little person on the tour so we ended up going up to him and complaining about it and then he ended up

kicking the whole company off the tour because they shouldn't have been on there you're a real tattle that was the karma i'm like if i can't experience this shit neither can you then then how did you graduate to the jack vanek we know and love like side stage for every cool band um when did you get your style when did i become cool i use style ironically oh my god my style back then um do you want to know when i like actually got on the tour yeah Did you have to have sex with someone to get on? I didn't. Everybody thought I did.

So I applied for a sponsor. I applied for Truth, you know, the anti-tobacco thing. Yeah. They are on the tour and they are loud and obnoxious and yell at people. For smoking? For smoking. It seems like the wrong place to be. Yeah.

It's kind of weird. So I applied for Truth. I got the job. And then a day later. Did you have to prove that you didn't smoke? No. Because half the people that work for Truth smoke. Whoa.

Yeah. Whoa. um i get the job and then like a day later the girl that ended up like hiring me calls me and is like oh by the way we have to retract our offer for the job there's been rumors circulating that you've been sleeping with all the band members and the only reason on the tour is because you want to hook up with guys and you're like exactly i was like slightly but also good sleuthing but all it was i was still a virgin at the time so not true you could still be slutty and be a virgin bitch i was that was me well there you go okay so then you decide to start your brand then i started

my brand during that next year and by the next time the summer came around i applied to work on war tour for my brand as a merch vendor because you'd set up a tent like all the bands and um they accepted me the lady was still such a bitch but then i ended up outselling like everybody on the tour so when did the self-portraits come into play because that's probably when i first discovered jack vanek so where were you taking these portraits when i was in high it happened in high school i was like a brooding emo kid with a bunch of free time on my hands at my parents house i still can't understand what made you so emotional i don't know like your parents are so nice jack i was his most supportive loving people i wasn't emo towards my parents and i wasn't

really that emo i just liked the music so then i the portraits reflected that i wasn't like a got it like a you weren't like you weren't like chemical romance you were more like the sky is beautiful that's all you just felt a lot i was like yeah i had a lot of feelings and it was very like the the pop punky side yeah not not the sad side yeah i got that i'd like to follow up on becca's question where did the fashion come from you know what who was setting those yeah but it was jack i think it was me i wasn't looking at anything it was you were looking at other girls on the tour no it was me and audrey started it and then everyone else was like you know what i need a pink tutu and a knee sock and like stars drawn on my face with eyeliner and a cupcake

necklace and a cupcake like it was in the hannah beth yeah it was me audrey and hannah and we would just wear the most ridiculous shit and it would but where did you buy it it was not available in stores i mean not the stores you were shopping hot topic was popping back in the day yeah it was so some corporate man somewhere was like you know what the girls need is these skull necklaces like someone was feeding you that like in the devil wears prada when she's like you think this is blue you think this is blue this is azure that i put on the cut you know like someone was anna Were you looking for the word azule? What'd you say?

Azure. It was wrong. It's because I'm dying because Becca's painting her nails in our tiny fucking studio. It's because I'm trying out the new color for the next lady box. Okay. What do you think so far? It's gorge. It's pretty gorge.

It's a really good neutral color. Okay. I'm down. Back to Jack. And it's called Orly. Okay. And so how did you meet Ryan Ross to become the famous girlfriend? um ryan ross used to stalk me on the internet live journal right right but did you guys ever

go to warp tour together no no we only dated for three months okay and then and it was the trolls that are coming out after this episode we didn't we didn't make it to the summer and then and then you dated another guy from warp tour i did who oh the guy that i we never really dated i was just in love with another guy on warp tour that i lost my virginity to And then I dated another musician that was outside of the Warped Tour world. Now, take me to this moment. You're at Warped Tour, and you're, like, there. Like, the girls are, like, got there at 7 a.m.

so they could push against the barricade to be, like, right in the front. Early. And there's Jack on the side stage, like, every show. You never watched a show from the front, from the audience, where the regular people were. Right. You were always on the side stage. Did you know that everyone was watching you?

Like, did you know you were an idol at that point? were you feeling like i'm the fucking shit you all want to be me like did you feel that um like i do now in this room all of the uh crickets no i mean i did because when i was on the tour i had my tent and it would be overflowing with kids it was the i mean i was way more popular back in the day than we are now rude people that there'd be more people in my tent than would be it you know the fallout boy tent so it was crazy and it was all these really young girls um so yeah i had a i had a little inkling you knew you were cool a little bit do you still have an og ruthless bracelet i do my parents keep everything you know that's true yeah they do yeah i i keep like one of

everything from my from back in the day in hopes of that you know maybe it'll come back around i can make some money oh my god you're insane okay i'm waiting for the bracelet come back there's so much more to go into but we're out of time so we'll have to revisit this next time on warp tour with jack vanik or maybe not i'm very excited for you jack no people want to hear about jack is the number one requested thing so we weren't becca's nails are now painted i feel like i'm gonna pass out from the fumes and we weren't here for a long time we were here for a good time thanks for listening and make sure to rate and review this podcast wherever you get your podcast we have new episodes of lady gang every tuesday and thursday follow us on social media at the lady gang

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