The Doug Stanhope Podcast - Episode #46: Fredrik Boltes, singer of Swedish Reggae band Partiet

Episode Date: October 25, 2014

Doug and friends talk with Fredrik Boltes, singer of the Swedish Reggae band Partiet, about his impressions of America and how he ended up in Vegas.This podcast sponsored by Saxx Underpants - http://www.saxxunderwear.com/Fredrik's band is Partiet - http://partietreggae.se/Bingo is now on twitter - @bingobingamanRecorded Sept. 29, 2014 at The Plaza in Las Vegas, Nevada with Doug Stanhope (@DougStanhope), Fredrik Boltes (@fredrikboltes), Mat Becker (@houdini357), Brian Hennigan (@MrHennigan), Glenn Wool (@GlennWool) and Ggreg Chaille (@gregchaille). Produced and Edited by Ggreg Chaille. Intro music "Don't Cut Yr Hair" by Mishka Shubaly. Closing song “Bra Vibe" by Partiet. Both available on iTunes.Check Doug's tour dates at dougstanhope.com. Take a moment to register for 2014 Stanhope Tour news in your area, including the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and more. Additional dates added all the time.Thanks for listening.Support the show: http://www.Patreon.com/stanhopepodcast

You are listening to the Doug Stanhope Podcast. The potato peelings in the sink Did not turn into vodka as I had hoped I only start to need a drink After the liquor stores have closed I heard you change your name again But don't you change your hair It was the only thing I liked about you In the end

La la la I liked about you in the end. La, la, la. All right, we're coining this phrase. This is the half cast. The half cast is where you go, I want to talk to this guy, but we ain't stretching this shit to an hour because we just did three podcasts in a row.

We're hammered, meaning me. Oh, no, no. This is like a bonus cast. Yeah. But at the Vegas show, we had a contest for who we actually mentioned this earlier. Yes. Who was going to come the furthest by Greyhound? Because the Plaza Hotel is connected to the Las Vegas Greyhound Station.

Five-star on Yelp. Remind me to do that. Five-star Yelp review the Greyhound bus station in Vegas. And just make up a lot of lies of all the luxuries you get there. Write that down. The cuisine is impeccable. Implicable. Implicable. Implicable.

I couldn't believe the free shower. Yeah, spell it like that. I couldn't believe the free shower kit. But the people who flew the furthest were Fred and Raven. They came from Sweden. I'm assuming Stockholm because it's the only one I can remember

other than Malmo. Yeah, yeah. Yes, we flew from Stockholm. I'm assuming Stockholm because it's the only one I can remember other than Malmo. Yeah, yes. We flew from Stockholm. But where do you live? Three hours south from there. Between Malmo and Stockholm, right in the middle. Somewhere Pablo Francisco is very big. That's right.

Yeah, that's right. You're absolutely right, Doug. He is. Did I tell you the Pablo Francisco story? I'll set it up with that. When we were playing in... Gothenburg. Oh, it's Gothenburg.

We didn't play Malmo. No, we didn't play Malmo yet. It's Gothenburg. Either way, we still haven't gotten paid. Find that fucking cunt. What's his name? Do you remember his name? We'll find it for another podcast.

That's a good one, yeah. Yeah, we should have that guy tracked down and killed. I'd help you out with that. Uh-huh. Like the tracking down part, at least. Yeah. That's some tough talk out of you. I think I know where he lives.

It's Sweden. It's not huge. Pablo Francisco, who is a friend of mine, I'm not shitting on him, but he's huge in the Scandinavian countries. And so the whole time we're there, he's either before us or after us. He did 40 cities in Sweden. And right now, I could name two.

I forgot the one I played, Gothenburg. How do you play 40 cities? And everywhere we go in Scandinavia is Pablo Francisco. We get to Helsinki. And like, at this point, I've already written like Pablo Francisco jokes, like busting his balls, like one man, one joke.

The whole movie theater guy thing he does. And we get to, at the end, we get to Helsinki. And we're downtown Helsinki. And I look across the street and there's this building like a fucking armory, like the Pentagon, like Fort Knox, and the

entire top of it. Pablo! Like, 20 rooms long and five floors high. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? Pablo Francisco, he's not a bad comic, but really?

I was just, I was jaw dropped until I realized it's the fucking museum of art. It's a Pablo Picasso. Oh, okay. Alright. That makes sense. But the next week is Pablo Francisco.

What can you do? No free coupons for Pablo Francisco. Special event, no coupons. If you buy the Francisco, we'll let you in the Picasso, but it's not the other way around. But so I go to this mall kind of food court, and I'm eating some horrible sushi place in a little tiny mall area.

So lesson learned for Aberdeen. I look over. I see fucking... Is that Flip Schultz? Pablo Francisco's opener, who I know is another good friend. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?

How do you run into a friend in a food court in Helsinki? I think it was in the Cold War days. Tom Rhodes was behind the counter. I just like to do this. This is insane. Oh, that's going to hurt that Tom Rhodes is the only one working. So our friends that traveled the farthest,

Raven and Fred came from Sweden, some town where Pablo Francisco is well known. Just between Malmo and Stockholm. It's between Malmo and Stockholm. For you listeners in Stockholm, just say the name of the town. Jönköping. Oh, I fucking hate that place. Jönköping.

He went to Everest with, what's his name? Oh, Jönköp, you know him? Who can forget his classic about the Hürgerberdins? Oh, first of all. You'd love that guy. He took his bicycle from Jönköping to Mount Everest, climbed Mount Everest, and then bicycled home.

And then, two years later, he died doing something completely random, like climbing a climbing wall or something, falling down from five feet. So he's like the Andean Drist of Sweden. He was at his neighbor's house when he died. I'm not shitting you, but this is the strangest thing. My uncle was born there in a concentration camp.

Because that's where he kept all the Estonians. And he was actually born in that very city. Are you bringing up reparations this early? Yeah. So you're paying for the drinks, asshole. Are you sure it was Jenschipping and not Linkschipping or Norschipping or Nischipping? It's one of the chippings. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so that kind of... Classic Sweden cover. Yeah. Got out of that one. We didn't go for that over here. That's like someone going, oh, England, it ends with vil or ton? Yeah, exactly, precisely.

It's the exact same thing. I'm letting him off the hook. All right. Yeah, he furrowed his brow like he was just about to deny all accountability. So you flew over. You're enjoying downtown Vegas. I'm glad I drew you to the hot spot where all the nightlife happens.

I subscribed to your newsletter, and I read the come to Las Vegas and dress up like a jerk-off, blah, blah, blah thing. And I was like, this is my excuse to finally go to Vegas. I haven't never been before. And you did dress up like a jerk-off. You have to get a picture for this podcast to make it mostly him. You look like World Wrestling Federation. Yes. Let's hope he feels that way about this particular outfit.

He could have been like, and on Saturday, oh, I was like, oh. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Well, in this room, in this hotel, in this part of Vegas, you never have to be afraid of being the underdressed one. So, you know, it's not a huge problem. One question. How is Burning Man this year? Can you rate it?

Fred. Yes. Let me explain for the listeners. Fred has cornered the market, I guess, I'm assuming, in Swedish reggae. That's right. Fred's about 280 in a wife beater that's hanging down and Swedish dreadlocks. And he's white. Yeah, of course he's white.

He's from Sweden. No. It's a different country. But you know the most popular boy's name in Oslo now is Mohammed. There you go. Why do you have to bring ISIS into everything? And why do you have to bring Norway into Sweden? Yeah.

And why does he look like... I love that one other guy on our team knows a map. It looks like there was a white Bob Marley on Game of Thrones. Hey, there's our fucking lady. Tim Adana in the house. Come on. All right, yes. So you do Swedish reggae.

You're a road-traveling musician. Yes, that's right. I'm in a Swedish reggae band, and I do that for a living professionally. Just to clarify, a Swedish reggae band or the Swedish reggae band? No, I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you down on this one because there are actually a bunch of Swedish reggae bands at the moment.

So it's getting like a big subculture there. In a pitch battle between Swedish reggae bands and Norwegian death metal, who wins? Well, the death metal scene I presume is biggest in Finland. Norwegian has no music. They don't need it. How long have there been Swedish reggae bands? Well, there's a guy called Pep's Passion.

Pep's Passion was a big, let's say, it was a big reggae artist in Sweden. Singing Swedish in reggae, like reggae in Swedish. He was like the police. And he got a lot of followers after that. And this was maybe 30 of followers after that. And this was maybe 30 or 20 years ago. And it's still a sub-genre.

And I am in the band. It's eight musicians in the band. And we tour and we play all of the Swedish reggae festivals. Oh, that's such shit. Just a cut of the money. When you have eight band members and you have to... I know. Do you ever look at a couple of weeklings and go, yeah, we don't need the xylophone that much or whatever?

This week the cowbell can take a rest. Or you only got half a bag of weed and you're like... Let's get rid of percussions. Well, I have a loop station, like a loop pedal. So if there's a low-budget gig, I'd play all the instruments myself have a loop station, like a loop pedal. So if there's a low-budget gig, I play all the instruments myself on the loop station. And I record it in front of the audience and play it up. So you do a solo act.

You're like a Reggie Watts. I guess. Did you say yes or I guess? I guess. Reggie Watts is an American comedian slash musician. Oh, yeah. Loops music. Actually, he does a whole ensemble with a Line 6 reverb unit.

Got it. Ah, see? Fucking musicians. It's like you're talking in Swedish. Yeah. You're fucking talking music talk. Yeah. Glad you're here.

I thought I would lay that out there. It's good to be on a radio show like yours. It's an honor for me to be here, of course. We're live, by the way. This is live radio. Nice.

No, so anyways, because I got fired from hosting my show in Sweden. You got fired? Yes. Fuck those guys. He was hosting a radio show.

Fuck those guys. Let him embellish, please. All right. So I'll tell you what happened. Is it over not being able to tell a was hosting a radio show. Fuck those guys. Let him embellish, please. All right, so I'll tell you what happened. Is it over not being able to tell a podcast from a radio show? All right, so. Go ahead. No worries. So I am a songwriter, right?

So I write political stuff with my reggae band. That's a serious act. Now, my colleagues down at the radio said, why don't you come on the morning show and you can help one politician from each political party to write a song with their politics in it, like a goof, like a joke. And in America, I guess you have two parties

in the government building. They call them two, but it's one. All right. And in Sweden, we have eight. There'd be eight songs for me to write. I'd come in at 7 a.m. in the morning, meet the politician, have a talk, rehearse, write, and then

at a quarter to nine, we'd sing the song together live in front of an audience twice as big as yours. Fourteen people? Drop the mic, walk out Drop the mic. Walk out of the room. Yes, but we've still got a job.

Bam! I think Brian just shaved his head. That's why he's my manager. That's the guy. That's who you want. All right. So we come to the racist party. There's eight parties.

And there used to be seven. Do they call it the racist party? Yes. So there used to be seven parties. But now the racist, oh, everything is the immigrants' fault party came into government, right? Not in the government building, right? So they're not people controlling the country, but they're in the parliament, right? Well, in the government building, right? So they're not people controlling the country, but they're in the parliament, right?

So I had to be there. My audience doesn't want an education. So I'm in the show, and I'm supposed to help this racist person, if you ask me, write a song about her politics. And I'm not racist, as you ask me, write a song about her politics. And I'm not racist, as you can tell. Really? Not a

reggae racist? No, not a single one. No, not even an inch of me. And I have a big problem with her... Look at his girlfriend. She's not even completely blonde. So, we would do remakes of existing songs, right? so we would do remakes of existing songs

right so we'd take a known big hit song and we'd rewrite the lyrics so parody

did you do Sweet Home Alabama for the racist guy better even better listen to this wait this is the important part

Josh so I took the the the Better. Even better. Listen to this. Wait, wait. This is the important part. Josh. So I took the disgusting Nazi marching song from 1973. 1973? 1937. All right. And you put it to, I saw the sign. Look, I know a lot of those songs. I don't know any disgusting ones.

Marching Nazi propaganda songs. You'd see like, Hitler is the best, whatever, you know. So I take the lyrics. I threw them into Google Translate, right, from German to Swedish. And I replaced Hitler with the guy's name who runs the party, who is Jimmy Occhison, and I took swastika and replaced that with a flower they have as a symbol. Wait, first of all, what was the guy's name?

Jimmy Occhison. Jimmy Occhison. Wow, what rhymes with that? I thought orange was tough. Okay. So, and I presented the lyric to the politician who was in the radio studio. And I say, hey, do you think this text here would symbolize your politics in a good way? Do you think this is a good thing to sing?

And she was like, oh, yeah, sure, this is us. That's very clever. You showed the lyric. Yeah, of course. And so she'd get the lyric, and we'd rehearse a little bit, and then in front of 70,000 or 80,000 listeners, she would sing on live radio. This is Swedish public service, by the way.

She would sing a Nazi propaganda song from 1937, translated into Swedish, with Hitler replaced with her guy, like her political leader. And then they fired my ass after that. That she agreed to. In advance. And that's why they're going to be in Paris soon. And that song is now

number one on the Swedish charts. And it is called I Saw the Sign. Where do you go now for your next employment? I do Swedish reggae, like I said. So my band is doing well. It's on the road, man. Yeah, so my band is...

They're putting the band back together, man. No, but so I did radio and music for a while. And now I only do music. And it's doing okay. And so then for entertainment, like after the big summer tour, which was June, July, and August, we figured we'd do something like just for me and my girlfriend Raven.

And we found the fucking Las Vegas trip. So now we're here, you know? You can't swear on this. We're going to have to shut this down. Can we fire him? Stan, we've got to wait for the- Not again! Not again!

Hey, is Raven on Twitter yet? No not yet Yeah yeah exactly So a question like Hey shut up in the background Was there a big scandal When you were fired Or did you work silently

I made headline news In all the newspapers of Sweden TV, radio, everything. It was a big thing. Did it help your news turnout? Yes. The cost of fish oil got bumped to page six. So many calls and stuff.

If you put your cards right, we could get you on the front page of the Bisbee Herald. Well, police beat. Anyway, so keep going. Steve Poggi reference. Go ahead. No, so keep going. Steve Poggi reference. Go ahead. No, so I mean, I guess that's the end of it. That's how I got fired from my radio job.

How much time do you spend on the road? A lot more now. In the first 365 days as a band, we met. We got to know each other. And we did record one album. And we did 110 gigs in 10 countries. Nice. So that's the first year and now we're in like a third

year. So now we're doing bigger venues and bigger audiences but not as many as we used to do. And is Raven in the band? Raven is our official bus driver. You let a chick drive? What a progressive stupid country. How long do you think before they vote?

That's where Cliff Burton died. Oh, that is true. There's actually a huge shot. Metallica reference from Glenn Wool, which we had the bonding over the Iron Maiden earlier. That's right. I'm with you, brother. Pogge almost fell off his chair.

He was so excited. Iron Maiden earlier. I'm with you, brother. Pogge almost fell off his chair. He was so excited. There's actually a big feminist party in Sweden that almost made it into office, into the parliament now. What did you make them sing?

They're not in the parliament yet, so there's no song for them. They wouldn't sing. That's not funny. Yeah. So they get 2.5 They sang Clambake They got 2.5% of the votes nationally and they got voted in into I think

10 or 11 city halls So they're trying to make to change the world so that it's not run by you know mid-age white drunk guys By the way

let's just give a little shout out kudos to Fred for he's fucking holding his own in a second language. Quite possibly a third. Thank you. Most of my listeners can't speak

English as well as you. Thank you. So is Hannigan, by the way. Yeah, yeah, that's true. No, no. Glenn Will,igan, by the way. Yeah, yeah, that's true. No, no. Glenn Will, you're a close second. He's very English. The vote did not go his way. Oh, that's true.

Oh, you think you're so funny. Could you get him to sing Rule Britannia? I could teach him some English, maybe. That's because we have a school system in Sweden that works, and people go to school there, and we learn languages there. So English is one of the five I speak. What other ones did you learn? French, German.

Oh, yeah, you'd get Swedish and English, and then you'd choose between French, Spanish, and German, I guess. Spanish. Now, Brian told me this, and my brain has raped it into non-fact, but Norway and Sweden, this goes back to my old bit about the one thing I would change if I was the king of the world was teach everyone the same fucking language because that's the biggest barrier keeping people apart. But Sweden and Norway

did you not when they split up they had the same language but just to be dicks they had to make it different like Microsoft I think that might be Norwegian and Danish or I can't remember well Finnish Finnish is really different

sorry it's those Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. But basically, the difference between the language between two of the three, I forget which it is. He read this in smart. Anyway, the point is, Fred, you have the answer. Yes, I do. But you can go ahead and drunk guess all you want,

or I can just answer your question. You realize if we don't do that, we have no podcast. I understand, yes. If you come up with the answer, write off. Everything is based on drunk guessing. Yeah. No, drunk accusations. Go, go, please, Fred.

Sweden is the biggest country. It's the biggest language and Norway and Denmark would watch Swedish TV and stuff, so they understand Swedish perfectly. The language differences between Sweden and Norway are not that big. And it used to be one country like three or four hundred years ago. I don't know. Maybe two.

I don't know. So I don't know. We weren't alive. No. So the Finnish speak something completely different, like you said. Exactly. But the other three, it's very, very similar. I will say that.

Yeah, okay. We all think of Estonian. But they changed it on purpose just to be dicks. Fuck you, we're a different country now. I'm going to say it like this. By the way, Sweden's not the biggest country anymore. Norway has the oil, and they're slaves.

Yes. Swedish people go to Norway to wait tables and do their shit job. That's so weird. Cleaning up the fish and stuff. There's a whole ladder. Norway's so weird cleaning up the fish and stuff so there's a whole there's a whole like ladder so Norway's on the

top of the ladder right they get the Swedish people to wait their tables and to build their buildings and stuff like that now Swedish do they build their furniture oh I wish I hadn't said that

we'd get the we'd get the Polish people coming up over the sea you know to wait our immigrant workers immigrant workers yeah yeah yeah

so there's a whole like like a ladder. And Norway's at the very top. And they're all being dicks about it. Would you say that you are the Mexican or the Negro of Norway? Mexican. Yes. Definitely.

Swedish people are the Mexican people to Norway as Mexicans are to the U.S. You breed the same rate? The what? Breed the same rate? Breed at the same rate. Reproduce. Reproduce at the same rate as Mexicans. He's relying on a story. Now I get it.

This is why you aren't on radio anymore. At least not in English. It's another part of the world. I've got to think in Europe. Yes, no. Sweden has a problem with people not fucking so much. Enough, enough. So we need to bring more people in, which is awesome.

Culture grows. You're not with child, are you, Raven? No. The night is young. Cocktails. Stay away from Andy Andrus. Don't go to 2447 whenever you do that.

I might try to sell you a child. Raven and Bingo. No matter what the urban myth, you can still get pregnant on top. I don't want to imagine you underneath that guy. Raven and Bingo are getting good friends. I would say a bit too good of friends.

Bingo and Raven. That's not where babies come from. But it is where when you get home your girlfriends are going to say, I want my labia lips done. Inside joke. Don't worry about it. Mega callback. Actually an outside joke.

It was more of a circus joke because it brings back Dumbo. How old are you? I'm turning 30 this year. You look a lot younger. Thank you. Like you are really a war-torn, weather-beaten younger, but you look younger.

And three years you've been on the road? Yep, at least in the summer times. Do you drag the bag? Do you bring your girlfriend with you? Drags the bag? She drives the bus. Really? No talking off mic back there,

cackling party. The inside story is that both Doug Stanhope and Greg Shaley dragged the bag during his tour. But they whore the merch. Come on, do you pack the sack or not? Me and Raven take turns driving the bus. Oh, you said she drives the bus. Yeah, so she's on the tour.

So you do driving the bus. Oh, you said she drives the bus. Yeah, so she's on the tour. So you do pump the lump. Dude. Doesn't even make sense, but it's funny. Fucking Robbie Burns in the corner. He can go all night. Well, I'm fueled by bitterness. Keep going. All right, so have you been with Raven your entire tour?

I'm going all Howard Stern. I'm going to road pussy stories just because it seems like the base level to go because I have no other questions. Yeah, but you did that with the true TV jokers. It didn't turn out well. Remember? It was so terrible.

So we took the flight from Stockholm, which sucked, into Newark Airport, and then we had to stand in line for the stupid security, which sucks even more. Oh, I can't imagine a guy like you having any problems going through. With my blonde red locks. Did you have most of a shirt on there? It looks like you were in a bombing accident,

and that's what's left of a shirt. He got to the booth, and they'd already called up stills from the film Predator. So go ahead, tell us. So I come up to the guy that's supposed to interrogate you. Is that a word?

Yeah, sure. Interview. Welcome you to America. Yes. So usually they'd say, what's your name? Where do you live? What do you do for a living?

I host a radio show. What's the name of the show? Who are you hosting that with? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then the next time I would come and ask the same questions. And then the next time I would come and ask the same questions again. And eventually, from every now and then, I'd get the glove. I don't know if you get the glove in the airport, but I do sometimes.

Anyways, that's not the point. Not actual cavity search. Let's back up. Everyone settle down. Not an actual inside your asshole. Inside my clothes, but not inside my asshole. No. But still,

first time it was in Israel, and I had no shoes. Did you say Jews? Shoes. That's on your feet. We'll get back to the English lesson with you later. Don't bring sand to the beach. Don't bring cocaine to Columbia.

No, so I get a lot of crap like that, you know, like they'd ask me a bunch of questions. And then when you've done that 10-hour flight, you know, and you've been standing in this stupid line for two hours, and you come up to the guy, and you know it's going to be a long talk, you know. So I prepare myself for this. I step up to the guy,

and he's, you know, shaking my passport out. And he looks at that, and he looks at me. And I say, so what do you do for a living, sir? And I say, I am the singer of a Swedish reggae band, sir. And this is true. This is not a joke. I'm not

exaggerating. He looks at the passport again. He looks at me. He looks really tired, too. And he says, okay, now I've seen everything. Welcome to America. And he lets me get in. So that's nice. I have to ask. Go for it.

You attempted to get on a plane with no shoes? Yes. I did. In Israel too. With a lot of stamps in my passport from full on Islamic countries that I've been visiting. Like backpacking, right? What were you doing there? Malaysia.

Oh, yeah, that's what they asked me. Training. They should ask you that. Yeah, so I've been to Malaysia and countries around there a lot, and they stamp your passport with that stuff. But everyone else has shoes. Yeah, so did I because I was attending a wedding the night before

and my shoes broke. My shoes broke and I was like, I'm not going to carry broken shoes from this... I'm not going to bring the shoes in the fucking... Bring them back to Sweden and throw them away there.

I'm going to chuck them right here. So I step up to the, I was wearing a sarong only, by the way. No pants. It's a sarong. No shoes. First of all, everyone listening, you're flying into a country. Out of Israel. With no pants, in a sarong, at nearly 300 pounds of white sweaty dreadlocks

and no shoes, I'm guessing you probably had a middle seat and you elbowed into each person. Fuck customs. The people on the plane should have killed you. Stewardess, I want to buy someone some shoes, please. And some underpants. Would you like some underpants? Hey, we're sponsored by Saks Underpants.

There you go. I got a sponsorship in. That was a horrible experience for everyone on the plane, I'd guess then. Not only me. But it's not as bad as a baby. So thank you for not procreating. Thanks. Because, again,

if you don't have enough people in Sweden, you're the Mexicans of Sweden, you can make... Who's going to be your bitch? Finland? No. Poland, I guess. Poland. Poland is, for sure. Okay. Now this starts

to sound like the Nazi song. Don't worry. That's another thing. I knew the Nazi song. Don't worry. That's another thing. I knew the Nazi song and she didn't. What does that say about me? Yes, you knew it by heart. Yeah. Or the Bee Gees.

So what's next? It's the same one staying alive. So how have you liked America? It's my second time here. And I've been, before I've been to New York City, to Manhattan, which was awful, by the way.

You know, this country sucks in so many ways. Can I tell you? Yeah, too many kikes. So I've been traveling around. I've been traveling around the world. Not if he has his way. I've been traveling around. As soon as Joe Jackson.

Go ahead. I've been traveling the world. I've been to Australia seven times. I've been to Southeast Asia, to all the major cities there. And Europe, needless to say, as a backpacker with no shoes on, but also as a musician and actually a magician. How about a guy that just can't afford shoes? Yes.

That's how it is. It's part of the illusion. Go ahead. Overpay for your ticket? But, and then I went to New York City for the first time in my life. And, you know, the subway there is just shitty, you know? And there's a lot of homeless people there. Are you related

to Joan Walker? No, she fucking stepped on it. Oh yeah, the subway, you're next to a queer with AIDS and some homeless

mother of four and some... I took that as Tommy Walker. I was like, what did Tommy Walker say about this? Sorry.

The thing you do in New York City too, as a full-on tourist, right? You go to the freedom thing. sorry the thing you do in New York City too as a full on tourist right you go to the what is it the freedom thing

the freedom I don't even know what it's called we don't care the Statue of Liberty and you take a picture of that

and then you go to the Empire State Building and take a picture of that or you go to the fucking to the Seinfeld restaurant

thing and take a picture of that and Or you go to the fucking Seinfeld restaurant thing. Take a picture of that. And I realize now. Depending on when you were there. I realize now, everything that tourists do there, they built that like 20 or 30 years ago. It's all big things from the fucking 90s or 80s, you know? If you would go on the subway in Singapore or Hong Kong

or anywhere in that part of the world, it would be clean, man, and it would be working. And the train systems would be awesome. And it's a whole, like, the feeling of New York City to me is like, this used to be the capital of the world 20 years ago, and now it's fucking not. Oh, it's always been shit.

Well, the weird part is, it's bedbugs and ice storms, but they can't get an ice storm enough to kill the bedbugs. Timing. Timing. Did you explain this theory to any New Yorkers? I tried not to.

Sweden is a very socialistic country. It's another world, you know? American politics and America's foreign policy, but also politics when it comes to, I don't know, healthcare, healthcare school and everything. To me, it's so dumb. It's compared to what

I'm used to. It's so dumb in so many ways. At the same time, it's awesome to be seeing, walking down the streets. It's awesome to breathe freedom. No, but being in Vegas, being in LA, like we were before we flew

in here, and you're seeing everything in New York, of course it's cool because you're seeing it on TV. But as a country, with the politics you guys use, compared to what we do, it's complete crap. Yeah, we don't pay attention. Yeah.

That's why you have the country you have. One thing that we have in spades, except for no black people here, is apathy. You can be very apathetic here. The other thing we have, which you really sunk in on, and I think it's good,

is we only speak one language. That way we don't have to hear what other countries are like. Should we close on that? And I'm fucking it all up by speaking pretty good English. Sorry.

I should have done that whole rant in Swedish. It would be more entertaining for you guys when you're drinking. Here's the thing. I think he really likes America. So we're

relaunching your career. Hang on. Here comes Monday Night Hannigan. We're relaunching your career. So what are the reference points to find you on the web if somebody wants to... Plugs. So you see the tattoo I've got here? It says Partiet. Oh yeah, that's what we do on the radio.

The listeners can't. It's P-A-R-T-I-E-T. Partiet. Now, it translates into the party, not as a party like you guys are having here, but like a political party, right? So Partiet it is. If you Google search for that, you'll find all the random crazy shit. But if you Google search for Partiet and reggae, you'll find my shit.

Partiet and reggae. Partiet, reggae. We're not still close with the Matoid, are we? Google it, bitch. Is it online? Yes, you can find it anywhere. We're going to close.

We've fucked the Matoid out of a couple. The Matoid is a friend of ours from Finland. He usually closes our podcast, his song, Party Time. But Party It Time. You should close on me singing some Swedish reggae and you guys fading it out. Just be clear. Easy, Spielberg.

We got this. Also, hey, it's my fucking podcast. I don't give a fuck anymore. I'd love to hear it Hey it's my fucking podcast I don't give a fuck anymore I'd love to get a complaint For too loud Swedish reggae If you could really pump it out Yeah Would you prefer

To close it out live Acapella Or would you rather us Chaley will edit A song that you have online As the closer Your call Well no You should try it live And then if not We can always put the song Live Chaley will edit a song that you have online as the closer. Your call.

Well, no, you should try it live. And then if not, we can always put the song live. Yeah, we can always go to the song. Can Raven drive the bus in the background? What, are you saying Raven has to get to the back of the bus because she's not completely blonde? I'm starting to think Freddie might just be nicknamed the bus. And a one, and a two, and a three. Det var en jäkla massa tjafs här om rot och rute.

En A-kassadebatt som aldrig vill ta slut och bortom länder och gränser där vi kan rädda livet. Men vi räddar hellre livet på vår bilindustri. Jag spottar på idén om man kan kalla det därför Babylon eller ett unket system. Känner mig liten och sliten som gubben med i pren. Vill sätta mig och skjuta som ett 90-talsmodell. Vad blir headline och vad blir notis?

Det värsta var det skrivs om en påhittad kris. Politikerna svarade på olika visar. Men vem fick ställa frågan och till vilket pris? Jag vet de ljuger om flisen. Men i magen har vi isen. Jag fattar väl de som tappar djupt allt och slåss mot polisen. Men systemet är krisen. Vi har alla bevisen. Babylon kommer

att falla. Men vad ska det bli sen? Yes! Where is the party at? How's that? Yeah, thanks. You just made that up, didn't you? Where's the Partiette? Wow.

Partiette. He's looking at us. We're all more glassy-eyed than we were a minute ago. That's 2443. That is a podcast. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Amazing. Safe travels. Cheers, buddy. Maybe we'll see you very much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Amazing. Safe travels. Cheers, buddy. Yeah, I'll meet you in Sweden next time. It's a good thing we saved Freddy for the end. All right! För jag är ingen gubernör och ingen kapten Ingen general som står och hojtar på scen Men jag är partiledare

Se till Voltaise, partiledare All right! 1998 såg jag Petter på tv Jag var 14 och köpte hans cd Och rappen blev en grej i mitt musikaliska cv Och rapparen Båtes han fick vara med i Frankipetri Musik direkt och nyfiken fredag Tjock och glad men ibland deprimerad

Och reste som famen alltid känner baserad Aldrig nöjd och ville alltid ha mera Sparat artiklarna från Jönköpings tidningen Både på en TK för att få spridningar Jag gick och kom fram och sa vi måste starta band Och vi höll på i några år innan han lika snabbt försvann Nu är det kört, nu är jag död, nu är jag klar Jag får väl bli någon slags konsult med skillsen som jag har

Skaffa kåk och tjej och skaffa barn För det finns väl ingen där ute som känner som jag Men nu sa deta kåk och tjej och skaffa barn För vi finns väl ingen där Där som känner som jag Men nu sa det klicka Till slut sa det pang Allt som innan var viktigt försvann Du kan kalla oss partiet Fast egentligen är ett band

Och se oss på turné Till riken på land Ge mig tjacka på gitarrer Ge mig one-grab på baskaggen Ge mig gunget Ge mig viben All right baskaggen. Ge mig gunget. Ge mig viben. All right. Så ge mig bubblor ifrån Norden.

Ge mig mikrofonen och orden. Ifrån norra delen av jorden. All right. I take a big vibe. Tack så mycket. En platta kostar 50 spänn Ta mitt kort och ring hit oss igen Och vi kan spela på din klubb Eller i ditt hem All right Men

Trottoaren är min bästa scen Ingen fylla och gratis entré Det är mitt nya jobb och vi har satt det i systemet Så släng ett mynt i caset för vi lever på det Riga köper namnet Berlin, Amsterdam Vi singar gränser där partiet undrar fram Det var du säger

Vi gör en reggae drive by partiet style Så ge mig chaka på gitarren Ge mig one drop på baskaggen Ge mig gunghet och ge mig viben All right Och ge mig bubblor ifrån Norden Ge mig mikrofonen och orden Härifrån norra delen av jorden

All right Det ger mig en rörel Så, partiet Och det vi älskar So, partying!