My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 398.5 - STATE CHAMPS STRIKE BACK

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Derek, Ryan, Evan, and Tyler from State Champs return to the Basement to discuss their latest tour and self-titled record with Robbie! They discuss the bizarre shirts that made them go viral this year, the most starstruck they've ever been, their top artists of the year, and more! **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement with Robbie Fox. I am back here with State Champs over two years since our last interview. How about that? I look back at June of 2022. The big return, the redemption interview, some are calling it. I know you had like half a redemption by doing Barstool backstage at the Chicago office, but this is the My Mom's Basement rematch. I feel good.

I feel happy to be here. Listen, sorry about what perspired, transpired last time. Show the clip. Show that you perspired last time. I was perspiring for sure. Ryan, you were heavily involved in that, right? Yes. I have to apologize because I feel like absolute shit right now.

I went out last night. You were with Tommy Falcone, right? He'll get you hungover. He fucked me up. Dude. Can we get some of those in here? This is...oh, oh, Ryan. Holy shit! That's tough.

Uh, no, it was, you know, come on, we're back. The thing is, we were also out late last night, so anything could happen. Later interview today though, I remember last time it was like a 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. or something early like that. Thanks for the afternoon slot this time. Of course, yeah.

I was like kind of going down memory lane this morning because I was like, yeah, we had to do my mom's basement and I died obviously But I needed to be better by the Rolling Stone performance I was like okay my mom's basement bar stool like I can be a jackass, but like if I'm not back to To 100% yeah, it's welcome here rolling stone might look at like what the fuck is this guy doing well and these guys, too Yeah, true. You weren't mad at me about that. got it rolling stone would have been also weren't even on tour Weren't we just out here and yeah, no we was out here to do like record promo stuff

Yeah, and you just got like hammered with a friend. Yeah, Tom Falcone, which was coming tonight. So oh shit Night of the tour and the interviews not tomorrow morning I got a flight too late to last night a tour tonight. Do you guys do any of those last night tour hijinks? I've heard like legends about pranks and stuff like that. Sometimes but this tour was a little shorter. It was only four weeks. We're used to like the month and a half, six, seven week long tours.

So this one kind of flew by and we've been having such a good time that we haven't even had time to think about pranks. So usually we do tour awards in the past. Oh, that's fun. Where we give out awards, but they're awards that are roasts, that are like roasts. But yeah, we just haven't had enough time.

We might still get into it tonight, but that's kind of in a state champ's tradition. Instead of the prank, it's the elective. You get a funny little attribute about yourself. That is the prank. The prank is actually, fuck you. There you go. Yeah, it's like most likely to get divorced or whatever

Questioning if we like you or not Mean when you have a shorter tour like this are you more like reluctant to go home at the end of it or you guys already? I think since it's the holidays I think like everyone's like I want to go home sit my ass on my beanbag chair and watch Christmas movies Yeah, that's all I'm looking forward to looking forward to my couch. I don't have a beanbag chair. my ass on my beanbag chair and watch Christmas movies. Yeah, that's all I'm looking forward to I'm looking forward to my couch. I don't have a beanbag chair. I got a new beanbag chair. It's tight. Oh nice Yeah, and when it's December, we're all ready to go home. But normally we'd like to stay out for sure Yeah, yeah, not to sound weak, but four weeks is still pretty long. It is

Yeah, a lot of shows in there. I'm tired man. I want to go home You guys also went viral during this tour. Thanks to the state champs of eating ass couple Yeah, yeah, that was crazy who took that picture one of you guys It was actually John the drummer of knuckle puck was at their merch table and sent it to me and just was like I'm in disbelief Right now what I'm seeing and it went super viral. Yeah, I went really fast and Yeah, so thanks to that couple who made their own shirts. Did you guys meet that couple ever or no? I have met that guy before two years ago at sad summer. I was walking through the crowd and he was wearing a different state champs of eating as shirt. I saw the shirt and I

went over to him and I was like, dude, I gotta take a picture of your shirt, blah, blah, it's ridiculous. So when I posted this photo this time, obviously it was a different shirt, cause he's got the couples edition now. Yeah. He's cuffed up. He commented on it and was like, dude that's me, and I look at his profile picture

and it's a picture of me and him from that sad summer day with him wearing that shirt. Did you, no one has the photo of what was on the back of the shirts though, right? It was the date of the concert and it said our first date. That was Yeah, our first date. He's eating ass on the first day that day. She's allowing the the eating So how does that first date? How does that they must know each other going in? How do you give that shirt to your date and say hey, we're going to the concert also wear this

Hey, so nice to meet you. I got you this shirt also here's a state put it on I think she's just down like and I was I have to respect it I want everyone to know that I did that to you absolutely it took me a while to notice that I'm actually in the background of that photo oh you are like the guy in the background of that photo. Oh you are In the background of Abbey Road, you know, there's a guy standing on the sidewalk We are also here to talk about state champs by state champs, yes, sir record is out now I have been listening to it on repeat since it dropped awesome fucking awesome. Thank you. Like it I love the whole album.

Every day a different song is stuck in my head. That's a good thing. That's not a bad album to have. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It's funny because it's our fifth album and it's the first time we've done a self-titled obviously. But more than ever on this album post-release, we've been getting the texts, the messages

and stuff from our close friends and our inner circle and family and stuff that are like, yo, this record, something about it. And it's like, okay, we know we got something on this one because you guys weren't messaging us from the old albums. So nobody was commenting, like no one gave us a shout out about an album until this one, like as much as our inner circle has. So it feels good.

That's awesome. Yeah, when your actual homies are like being like, yo, I actually like this. I'm not just saying that because you're my friend. That's when I'm like, okay, something's different. Yeah, like I like a month before the release of the album I sent Robbie clueless. Oh, I love this just cuz I was like Robbie's gonna like this And now like I was I was listening to clueless on repeat before the album even dropped Yeah about clueless says right. I don't know Robbie

I don't think it's justs Robbie. I don't know. I think it's just like such fun pop junk. Jumpy, pop rock, pop punk. And I feel like that's your vibe. And it's so like, it's like lighthearted in a way. Like that song is so summery and so fun. That one's like our, almost like Stacey's mom, like Fountains of Wind type of bowling pursuit.

Like Power Pop a little more. Yeah, a little bit. It brought out a different side of us, but ultimately the chorus hits and you're like, oh it's state champs by far, you know? And I saw an interview with you guys where you said it was gonna be an EP at first, and then Martin from Boys Like Girls

convinced you to get back in the studio. And we were just like, okay. Making out. When did you know in the process that this was gonna be self-titled? Because that always feels like a statement, when a band does that. We didn't decide that until after it was done.

And you know, we kind of weighed out some options, thought about some other concepts, but then ultimately we were like, yo, what about self-titled and we brand it this way and we like show people this is how we want to be perceived as state champs our fifth album and we feel like it's our best one yet and it just felt like the right time. Yeah we were kind of just like dissecting the songs honestly and it felt like every chapter of state champs was like kind of sprinkled throughout the record. So to call it State Champs just made sense.

It was the only time I think it's ever made sense in our career. This is our fifth record, so our sound has evolved gradually, slowly, I think, and this record is just all of those moments from those records, but the best possible version of them. So yeah we didn't we didn't decide until well we kept trying things. Yeah we kept trying things everything felt like it was either cheapening it or

like like pigeonholing it too much and nothing really was sticking in a way that we felt like really exemplified what we made. So yeah when it came up we were just like what if we self-titled it and it all kind of like clicked you know. Do you remember the other titles? Well, the stuff that was close maybe? Not really. It was just random lyric excerpts and just trying to find maybe an overall theme. But because it is almost like all of our arrows mashed into one,

in a sense, it didn't really do it justice to name it something. There was one that Derek was kind of shooting for. Yeah, I had an idea of calling it embedded, or forever embedded. It was finally time to engrave ourselves and plant ourselves in stone, and something that lasts forever. That's cool.

And it kind of shows with the branding of the album, because we finally used a trophy, which seemed like a low-hanging fruit, too easy, too obvious for the band name State Champs for so long. But since it's self-titled, it was time to do that. But on the album cover, you see that it's like it's a trophy that's been printed out on paper, ripped apart, and then put back together. So that's kind of the image, the ethos of this album and in general for where we're at now. It's like we've been through it. We've been doing this for 14 years now, our fifth album.

We've been on a roller coaster ride behind the scenes, in front of cameras, on stage forever, and we've been close as ever, and we've been separated as ever. We've fought and then we've found each other again, and we've always been able to put back those pieces. So that's kind of why it looks the way it does, and it's branded the way it is.

I love the cover because it's also the self-titled white album in my mind. The cover of it is. I love the cover because it's also the self-titled white album in my mind. The cover of it is kind of your white album. That's right. The last time you were here, we talked about living proof, going into that, wanting to make a very mature record, and then Kings of the New Age being like,

all right, let's not take ourselves so seriously and let's go back to our roots. How did you feel like you went into this one mentality-wise? I don't think there was, it was more like a stress-free environment with this one. We didn't know how, there was no set thing like, we're gonna be more mature or try this other sound. We wrote so many different songs that sound

like different things. So we just wanted to kind of experiment and kind of find the best songs that make sense for the record. We took a trip out to the desert, rented a house in Joshua Tree and demoed a bunch of ideas. But there was no, let's do this type of thing. Let's just hang out, have fun, and see what makes sense for us right here, right now.

I think that really helps, too. To set the intention just to be open, instead of setting it to be like, we have to be youthful again. We have to be mature now. We've got to write another finer thing song. We've got to write this. Yeah, it was just, let's not think about it.

Let's just kind of have fun. And we'd spend a lot of time away from each other, so we miss each other. It was nice to get back in the room and be creative again. We were just like, let's just jam. Oh, here's a cool drum beat. Let's write a song about that. Let's write a song around that.

I've got this one lyric. Let's write a song today around that one lyric. And just experimented in all different ways. Yeah. I feel like when you set an intention to have it be a specific thing, like serious or not, I feel like you put yourself in a box a little bit. Yeah.

And it was nice to just go to the desert, have zero distractions, be around each other all the time and just write music. So going into the desert, it was like, the first thing we listened to was like Evan's weird ass drum beat that starts the record, starts the song, The Constant. Yeah, The Constant.

And then Ryan's goes and we start there's the lead and it's like literally that was day one of the first writing day that was day zero we we drove in from lax we got there at night and wrote that at when we arrived at the airbnb after we set up because our attention was to write the next day and just set up and then we're just we just got right in yeah there's fired up to do it honestly it was just about writing the best songs that we could you know and like you know Derek said We've been doing it for so long

We've seen so much shit and I think there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes that we went through as a band and like we haven't really talked about publicly and You know it was really just about like Reconnecting because I felt like you know there's there's times when you when you where you feel like, man, is this shit falling apart? Like, is this like, does it still feel the way that you want it to feel, you know, when you started? And if it doesn't, like, how can we get back to that point? How can we, like, fall in love with it again? And for me, I think that was the point of going out to Joshua Tree and kind of reconnecting with these guys,

just being like, dude, let's have fun together again. Besides all the bullshit, let's just fucking write some good songs and have a good time and be brothers again. And honestly, what came out was really special. I think it really exemplifies what this record is. It's hard to get to five albums and still be making better albums than the last. Yeah.

And we never put too much pressure on ourselves like trying to outdo the last one. Just keep having fun and make sure that we're not trying to be hard. You speak for yourself, brother. You guys put pressure on yourselves? I have a lot of pressure. Feel pressure to deliver.

Yeah. Yeah. Who do you feel the pressure to? Like to yourself, to the fans? Like to the other people in to yourself to the fans like to the other people in the band? I guess like your security of having a job still. I mean now it's like we all have pretty much like families some of us are married have kids so it's like there's a pressure yeah I mean this is the career we chose so there's a pressure of now this is you know now we're in our 30s

we have to deliver so we can continue this incredible career. So it's such a rewarding feeling though, once we finish and immediately, release day for the album was day one of this tour in Austin, Texas. So we're like, are they going to know the songs yet? We're playing so many of these new ones. Are they not ready for it? We looked out in the line of the people outside and the kids outside all had their headphones

in AirPods and jamming, looking at the lyrics. Like they were studying and then they got in and right away everyone, why do I do this? Everyone knew it. You know? It's self-imposed pressure in my case. I feel like it's, you know,

you take yourself so seriously as an artist and as a songwriter and like, you know, I might not take myself very serious as a person, but as like an artist artist I really do. You don't want to put something out that you're not proud of ultimately. I'm so fucking proud of this and it's cool to see people receiving it the way that you really hoped that they would. Derek, favorite lyric on the album?

Favorite lyric? There's a pretty deep one on the last song on Golden golden years in the bridge of that song where me and Ryan go Back and forth. It's a lot that bar. Yeah great part. I texted you guys about that part It's so good, and it's most things we left unsaid forever lost in a memory facing. What's up ahead? I hope I never forget me. I think that's one of the more stronger like like tattoo Finger-pointy lyrics of the album was there more of a conscious effort to have songs where you take like a lead part like that because on the last album obviously there's two songs

that have features that you were doing live and I feel like the fans loved when you would do the features live. I don't know that it was necessarily conscious. I think it just made sense. I think we've been talking about trying to do kind of the back and forth, you know, taking back Sunday.

Talking about it for like two albums. Yeah, yeah. Those moments are great. Talking about it for like two albums. Yeah. Those moments are great. Totally. Like they really hit. He's a great singer. They just have to make sense. And he can belt a main vocal part.

So it's like, why not use that to our advantage and something like that. Yeah, it's sick. Especially when we can go back and forth and feed off of each other in a call and response way like that. Because he does a lot of the harmonies and stuff that are on the record too that people don't necessarily hear that it is him. So it's nice to give like, you know, the right times for us both to sing to each other, which is nice.

Yeah, it was just finding the spot for it. That worked out great to end the album too. It was a nice closing track. Evan, favorite drum fill on the record? So I think, I don't think a lot of people would think that Light Blue is a drum heavy song, but I think the last fill out of, oh man where is it? In the last chorus? In the last chorus, going into the last chorus. In the outro of the song.

Yeah. It's really tricky. Get up there brother. Yeah, show us. It's really tricky and it kind of trips me up every night. It's funny, a lot of these fills were where I was focused more on grooves on this record than fills But I feel like there's a lot of tricky parts and light blue has some sneaky I think people would think that the constant would be the hard drum song

But that one actually safe a story to say face story. Yeah, the bridge of too late to say is also pretty tough Yeah, you really? Like you didn't make it easy on yourself. Drums are crazy on this record like crazy. Drums are nuts. Crazy. And I'm not happy about it now that we're playing live. I'm like yeah I could just do it in one, you know. Like every song like you don't have a break. No and especially on this tour I'm pretty much playing from start to finish so. Yeah yeah nothing stops there's no like silence to talk like if one song ends Evan is then keeping time and playing a beat in between

All of those songs, so he never really gets to take a handbrake I did it to myself. I wanted that. Yeah, but yeah light blue that Phil is going into the last chorus is It's pretty tricky. So that one I think would be not necessarily my favorite but probably the The trickiest one favorite bass groove on the album? So many. There are a lot. As a bass player, I'm listening to them like, ah, fuck you. Evan and I, we went silly on this together. We went silly.

I have to say, listening through the record, I would text Ryan all the time being like, you went insanely hard. Fucking Geddy Lee over here. It's crazy. Alright, enough, enough guys. I'm serious, I gas you have all the time about it I think the base on this record is unreal It's really fun to write bass and it took me a long

I mean I played bass in this band for ten years But like it's taking me a really long time to feel like as comfortable as I do now and like fall in love with playing bass So this record I feel like I kind of wanted to make it a point to be like all right I'm a bass player like yeah, here's some here's some fun shit My favorite bass groove. I don't know dude I mean I like the bridge of I still want to because I kind of get me and Evan kind of have like a little Yeah, drum and bass moments there. I'm thinking of like a constant. I'm thinking of like tight grip chorus

I'm thinking of like tight grip chorus. It's like, Yes. That one is fun and it's fun to play live. It sounds exactly like that by the way. I'm like riffing and singing, which I don't do a lot. Yeah, tight grip. That one's fun. There's like a little moment in Safe Face story in the second verse that I really like.

I know that moment I'm talking about. the second verse that I really like. I know that moment. Yeah. It's crazy. That might be my favorite song in the album. Oh, okay. I love the feature on it. We knew that that was going to be the push single. So we put that out on the release day or the day before. You want to do the feature tonight?

You want to do it? I don't think I could do the feature tonight. I would love to do it. It's a lot of words. I don't even know the words. It's so weird. Who's been doing it? Our merch guy, Cody.

Yeah, he comes out all tough and knows all the words and gets the crowd going, it's sick. Hood up usually says some sort of profanity on his way up to do it. Hell yeah. It's pretty hard. That's the vibe you need. Yeah, last night he came out he was like,

New York, fuck it up, get the fuck out. It was good. And then your favorite guitar riff on the album. Favorite guitar riff? I've always wanted to play a solo like the Clueless solo. How it just feels very like power pop and silly. Tyler's got some solos. He's got some solos.

Yeah, a lot of solos. Solos on this. I love the songs that will like, It's terrifying, man. Begin with like a lead part of the melody and stuff like that. Like Safe Face Story. Yes.

Exactly. Love it, yeah, I love those riffs. It's a little bit of a tease. That one feels good to you. Stuff like that is cool because they haven't heard that melody yet until the first chorus. Exactly. So if you hear it, it's a tease, it's foreshadowing. Hearing something and then you're like, oh, I've heard this before in a different way.

So that makes it even more stuck in your head. Yeah. Would you say Hell of It is the spiritual sequel to Act Like That in the State Champs Country verse. You know what? That's a great thing to say. I've never thought about it like that, but it kind of is. I was going to say, I feel like I saw someone say something similar on Twitter about that.

Really? They're cousins. Dude, similar concepts. Similar concepts, because if it's like, want to be crazy, we can act like that. But why don't we just try for the hell of it? You know, it's funny because we wrote the song with the same dude Courtney Ballard. That's right Same producer or any of these songs from the Kings of the New Age era Like did any of them start with ideas from back then? No, I don't think drum beats. Yeah the constant

Oh the concept is something that I wrote During that era, but we didn't use it because it was similar to Yeah, it was yeah to something else. To like Frozen? Yeah it was, yeah. Even though it's not a Puzzles but it's not a Puzzles. It's a Just Sound actually. Yeah it was like that type of, yeah similar but I think that is the only thing. Yeah he's got drum beats and stuff that have lasted for a long time but there was no like

songs with melodies and lyrics that transformed him. Well there's one that just we keep trying to put on a record that'll just never it'll never be finished We have such a sick instrumental demo that we've never used for an album. I'll send it to you Yeah, okay Yo, this is sick, but it's so hard to write vocals to we can never figure out what to do with it to pop punk Why it will write? Yeah We've recorded it. I'm sure Rowan can figure some shit. Yes. He'll rap over it We've recorded it for every record since around the world back every single record

We've tracked it and it just hasn't worked This is actually this is the first time that we put lyrics to it calling all ghost writers. We need someone We tried two different lyric and melody sets like we actually tried to make it work and that's that's funny Yeah, and maybe we'll do an exclusive will will post the instrumental on on bar stool like for you Yeah, and then you'd be like anyone that wants to sing over this. I would love that That'd be sick and then we'll take credit Alright so I didn't know light blue is a perfume until I was doing research for this interview I thought you were just talking about the color makes you feel that way so I compiled the list of light blue things for you

Guys to rank okay, and I felt so this is now it doesn't matter. I love ranking So we're gonna rank six light blue things okay, okay the avatar franchise, okay? Cookie Monster flat brim hats yes. Yes. Yes blue raspberry ice's okay let's go North Carolina Torheel jerseys okay one of the best yes had one of those Heisenberg's meth from Breaking Bad and Zoe Deschanel's eyes oh man dude these are all good but I think we have to put the Cookie Monster hat down at the bottom. Cookie Monster flat rim. Bottom, bottom. That's one for me. That is number one for me. I had Elmo, my boy had Cookie Monster, we thought we were cool together, you know.

Yeah, you were absolutely. Let's show the photo. Oh, I can see it. I wish I still had you. I'm seeing it. I have confidence of wearing that, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

The Slurpee's gotta be up there for me. Number one. The Slurpee'd be one for me. One for me, yeah. Slurpee's one, the meth is two, OK. The meth is a three. The meth is a three.

Slurpee, meth. Maybe the eyes. You gotta be honest, to wear got to be eyes where the Cookie Monster flat you do have to are kind of connected then the then the eyes then the Jersey eyes Jersey then the What am I missing the you've got the Cookie Monster flat brim and the avatar franchise Couldn't care less about the avatar franchise. I don't give a shit I like that I like the Avatar franchise. I like the first one. I thought the second one was okay It's like three fucking hours long Okay, can we replace it with the ride in Disney World because the ride. I've heard the ride is good They put smells and stuff right yeah And splash water

I couldn't do that because funny enough I did the Guardians of the Galaxy ride I was throwing up the whole day Guardians of the Galaxy was my favorite Disneyland ride in LA. We've been there. It was really bad for me. It didn't go well. I was holding onto my glasses because I thought they were going to fall off. There's nothing more embarrassing than being on a roller coaster and being like, oh!

100%. So good. The Nova Corps thanks you for your service. We lost Bob. That was a lot. I lost my hat. I All right, and then some non album related questions I have for you Who is everybody's most listened to artists on Spotify Apple music? Whatever you use most you get to rap to artists I'm of your keeping in mind only listen to 8,000 minutes of music. My top artist was end of year but in mind I only listen to 8,000 minutes of music my top artist was Knox this year oh I love Knox crazy he was a crazy frog was my earlier this year that he was a song one was I'm a banana but artist list was

different okay this is all kids he was like crazy frog was number five on my most played songs my number one this year was Post Malone. I love his album. Nice, the country album. Yeah, his country era and everything about it. Yeah. Who was it for you? Was this Brian Carpenter? Okay, so technically number one would be State Champs because I practiced to State Champs on Spotify.

But the first non-champs related artist would also be Knox. Oh really? Nice. Nice, that's crazy. I guess we're big fans over here. Yeah, Knox is great. Yeah, they're writers, bro. Knox's debut album coming soon. Yeah, Knox's You guys are writers, bro Knox's great Debut album coming soon Yeah, man

Ryan, who was yours? Mine was a band called the Lemon Twigs Of course, that checks out That's a very Ryan Scott graham Well, it's a very Ryan answer Okay, it was the Lemon Twigs, State Champs, Speak Low, Pile of Love, Drug Church All of his bands Those are my top five

He really likes his own stuff All of his listening to my own music and Drug Church Yeah, but the Lemon Twigs, they don't sound anything like us, but they're fucking awesome. Hell yeah. Check them out. Who have you guys been the most starstruck to meet in your career? Hillary Duff. You met Hillary Duff?

In eighth grade. Oh shit. Like Mean Greet? Yes, actually. Yeah? Skip school. Why not? I got a Duff tattoo.

Let's go. Not really for Hillary Duff. I was like, yo, we're actually boys. So Starstruck, I think, it wouldn't be someone in music, I feel like, but you know, I'm such a sports guy, I'm a hockey guy. Dallas Stars are my team. When we played Dallas one time, the captain of the team, Jamie Ben came to the Dallas show. It was up in our green room. It was when we were with Simple Plan. And Chuck from Simple Plan was like, like yo Jamie's upstairs in the room I was like I have to go punish him right now. I like ran up there. I put my Dallas stars shirt on

I was total fanboy. Yeah, and I had to get pictures with him and his brother. That was my stars Yours like a motocross. Yeah, I was gonna say musicians. I haven't the only musician I think I would be starstruck over would be Travis Barker haven't met him yet We've been around, like we could have. I could have, okay, this is actually a funny story. We went to a Halloween party, Ryan and I were dressed as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Nice, classic.

So, Travis was there. Yeah, were you jelly? Or peanut butter. I was jelly, yeah. Yeah, I forgot. And so I was just this giant square, Ryan left me instantly. So nobody knew, I was just jelly toast.

There's free drinks flowing, so I'm a little gone. And I see Travis there and in my drunken state, I was like, I know I can't punish him dressed as a jelly sandwich. He's stone sober and I just can't do that. So the timing was off. So I remember I was like so I do Travis is right there It's like this is not the moment. This is not like this not like

Rom-com or would it would it have made it him remember you would have ever You're the jelly John. No because the office when I when I get drunk. I also like I'm very happy I tell people I love him too much and that guy the reason I play drums that I couldn't punish him like that It's so funny that you say punish because that's the exactly we say like even nice people they could be punishers Yeah, the nice people actually just are the punishers. Yeah, they don't realize that there's levels to they care too much They love you punish Ken Roxton One of the biggest moto guys and I was so to me that guy got fucked up on her bus Well, he's I remember he came in and

Distinction he cleaned up his own spill Red Bull can he didn't have to do that he could been like nah fuck that Honestly, I would have cleaned it up. I mean Ken you're fine. You were you got this, but he grabbed the general towels John Cena came in years ago Oh, it was in a bad mood, and I've heard great things about John Cena But he was like clearly everyone was like he's in a bit of a bad mood He didn't want to be here, so I said I'm gonna decide this is not my day to meet John Cena We found out the next day. It was the day broke up with like Nikki Bella

To be out doing press like I know He would turn it on as soon as the cameras turned on but when they were off he was just well he's a pro even like being a dick he was just sad yeah now he's married and he's all happy now we're happy for America's here yeah I'll meet him one day yeah um what is everyone in the band's favorite movie I don't watch movies so someone else baby shark baby no I mean I watch, good one. I don't watch movies. So, someone else answered. Baby sharks and baby sharks. No, I mean, I watch kids movies,

but like, I don't watch adult movies. I never have. All right, well, you've never watched movies? We watched Pulp Fiction the other night. I saw the back half of it, and I was like, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. And I was like, why is everyone like this?

And it had to be explaining to me that it's like six different stories. They all connect. Such a good movie, though. Too smart for me. I thought you were into it. I thought you were more into Wallace. I was curious.

Yeah. Does he look like a bitch? I thought it was interesting. My favorite movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. OK. All right. Honestly, back to the future. Oh, great pick.

I would say the first one. The first one. I mean, I love the whole trilogy. I go to myself, but respect. I do love 2. 2 is close. 2 doesn't have the mom incest stuff. Yeah. Which I love the whole trilogy. I go to myself, but respect. I do love 2. 2 is close. 2 doesn't have the mom incest stuff, which we love. That's fair.

But yeah, the whole trilogy, incredible. Mine is a tie between The Departed and Mighty Ducks 2. Great pick. Yeah. They're very similar movies. Very similar, too. That's why I can't decide. I love when they kill people in Mighty Ducks.

It's my favorite part. And then finally, what does 2025 hold for state champs? Yeah, that's why I can't decide. I love when they kill people in Mighty Ducks. Favorite part. And then finally, what does 2025 hold for state champs? We get a documentary, a live album. We've talked about the live album before, maybe something like that. We know we're gonna do a ton of touring, especially overseas.

Nice. We're going to Europe, the UK, we're going to Australia, some Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan. We wanna play more festivals. You guys opening up for Oasis next year or no? Would be sick. It would be great. Are we cooling off?

No. No. We finally wanna go to South America. We've never been to South America still. Oh sick. So we need to go to South America. Yeah, we don't have any plans but we are trying to make it happen. Oh, we want to.

To come to Brazil people. Yes, we will finally come to Brazil. We want to go to there. So that's on come to Brazil. We want to go to them. So that's on the list. And we want to climb our way up the ad mats of festivals, big festivals that we've played in the past, and make our way up to the headlining slots of those. We're playing a cruise for the first time.

The Emo's Not Dead Cruise with The Used and Boys Like Girls, Chiodo, a bunch of cool bands. It's going to be great. We're trying to do a late night show, man. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We got no plans for it, like I said, but that's like, that's one thing we haven't done. That's like a bucket list, and I think that's what can happen

on this record cycle specifically. Yeah, it can happen, it's fun. You guys could do a late night show, for sure. Yeah, Evan's done. Okay, all right, here we go. Evan's got a new bit on the tour. Evan played a late night show with an artist on, The Colbert Show. Stephen Colbert,

the other, like, a month ago i called still the artist now evan's late night evan oh sick yeah it was very dope late night now it's been my thing like you'll get there yeah yeah this is high horse bro we were walking through rock center yesterday and evan's like do you guys want me to show you around like dude we gotta give him one and he killed it he killed it. He killed it. You know you only got two seconds of screen time. And then when you guys eventually get it, he'll tell you guys there's nothing like playing. Yeah.

There's nothing like playing the second time. Yeah, exactly. He's like, once you get two on your belt. I'm the first time I was here. I'm like, you guys want me to help you? So yeah, it would be sick to do a Kimmel or a Fallon. Any one of them, yeah. Seth Meyers.

Insufferable. That's a call out. Somebody one of them, yeah. Seth Meyers. 2025 insufferables. That's a call out. Somebody make the call. 2025 insufferables. Alright, thanks guys. Thank you. We love you, Robbie. Let's go.

Love you.