Attack of the Killer Soundtrack: Me and KG

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Live transmission has begun, and we're into the final. Hour of hell. What's up? Welcome to Movie Meltdown's Attack of the Killers soundtrack. I'm Brian, and I'm coming to you live via digital recording from the outskirts of Lebowski Fest.

In fact, you may be able to hear some of the music going on at the festival right now. So anyway, as some of you may already know, if you've been listening for a while, we've already done an episode from Lebowski Fest in the previous year, so I felt like we'd already kind of covered a regular, basic version. And as it was coming around again, I didn't want to do anything too similar. But now that we also have this new spin-off, music-themed show, well, it gives us a whole new way to address the festivities, and especially if we can work in a guest. But we'll get to him in a minute.

But first up, Now, if you listen to that episode from a few years back, it's one of those I don't normally like to hit the nail squarely on the head. I like to do things a little different, as we did last time at Lebowski Fest, talking about something entirely different. So normally I wouldn't come to something like Lebowski Fest and then play a song from The Big Lebowski. But in this circumstance, I'm going to make an exception because, number one, I do have to admit, The Big Lebowski has an awesome soundtrack. And number two, I love this song.

Is there any other option? I mean, there's many great songs on there, but it's all about just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. You're doing all right. This song is definitely the first time I came in contact with it, and really the first time I was exposed to the first edition of Obviously knew of Kenny Rogers in the past, but didn't even know he'd previously been in a band. It's one of those things, even when I was a kid, I was never really into country music.

I mean, since then, I've come to respect some of the really older stuff. But just, you know, modern country now, definitely not. And even country when I was a kid just wasn't really what I was into. But it was funny. Over at my grandmother's house, there was this big double album.

Yes, vinyl. and it was like a greatest hits of Kenny Rogers kind of thing, and I remember always going over there and going through their record albums, and I would always be fascinated with that one, and just this guy with the big beard and the white suit, and I don't know, there was something about him that seemed kind of cool, and I do remember listening to it. I remember playing those records a good amount, probably more than some of the other, God knows what else they had over there, but I specifically remember that one. And it was one of those, like, I think I pieced together why that was so different than, you know, stuff that would have been lumped in with that style of music at the time.

I think, as my dad would later refer to it, I liked story songs. And maybe it's just being a kid, you know, you like when people tell you stories, or you like reading storybooks and things like that. So it's like, maybe that's what appealed to me so much as a kid, because I think back and like the ones that I remember so well were stuff like Coward of the County or Long Arm of the Law. And they were like very specific stories that he's telling. And, you know, he works in a musical theme and, you know, it's got, you know, a chorus along the way.

But for the most part, he's telling a story more than anything else with a lot of those songs of that era. So I really do think that's kind of what I was into at that point. You know, that's what drew me to him. Well, that and the beard and the awesome suit. So it's one of those things, even though I wasn't into that type of music, he was an interesting character and still continues to be.

I've certainly come to disagree with some of his surgical decisions in more recent years, but aside from that, musically, he's still pretty entertaining. So with that, I say we just go ahead and get into the song. Once again, hopefully you're familiar with it. If not, welcome to it. Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in by the first edition.

Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in. I woke up this morning with the sun down, shining in. I found my mind in a brown paper bag. But then. I tripped on a cloud and fell.

Eight miles high. I tore my mind on a jagged sky. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition was in. I pushed my soul in a deep, dark hole and then I followed it in.

I watched myself crawling out as I was crawling in. I got up so tight I couldn't unwind. I saw so much I broke my mind. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Yeah, yeah, oh.

Yeah, what condition my condition was in. Someone painted April Fools in pink black letters on a dead end sign. I had my. Foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind. Eight miles out of Memphis and I got nowhere.

Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Yeah! Yeah!

Oh yeah! Oddly enough that song was originally recorded in 1967 by jerry lee lewis who is another now that one is one i am into like you know old school rock and roll i got into and and specifically jerry lee Again, another movie tie-in, Great Balls of Fire. But after that, I really sort of got into his whole catalog and was going back, you know, listening to a lot of his old stuff. It's funny, I don't remember running across that one until recently. And it was actually geared specifically for him originally.

And he did record a version of it, but he rejected it. And it somehow got kicked over to the first edition. And it actually ended up being a big hit for them in 1968. And it's still probably the main thing they're known for. There are very weird lyrics in there, I'm sure you noticed, and it's funny to find out that it was meant to reflect the LSD experience and was intended to be a warning against the dangers of using LSD.

So keep that in mind, kids. Don't let that happen to you. Certainly it's used very appropriately in The Big Lebowski, in that very special dream sequence that Jeff Bridges has. Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming. And throwing little pickles at you?

No. Why am I the only person that has that dream? Alright, so moving on to the big event for me. the guest of the episode, and the reason I really wanted to put this together, once they started putting the line up, I saw that they were bringing in the Kyle Gass band, KGB, and he's, I mean, Kyle, you gotta love Kyle, right? I mean, even if you don't know that much about him, and the one I thought about, I was like, well, that would be somebody I would like to sit down and talk to, because I know he's He's been acting for years in smaller roles and like find out how that started. Plus all, you know, the music career in several bands now and obviously the big Jack Black tie in.

So, yeah, I was definitely like that's somebody I'd like to sit down and talk to. And then I was like, well, with him having such a heavy music influence, it would be really interesting to have him sit in and give us his killer five. So we're going to head in now and talk to Kyle, and we're going to get a little backstory on him as to how he got into music and movies, and then we will invite him to give us his killer five. Oh, yeah. I like it better.

Much better. Oh, yeah. I can get more sweaty balls going. Mm-hmm. All right.

Are we rolling? Are we ready? We are functional. Wow. So this interview's actually started.

It's ready to go if you are. And I didn't even realize it. That's fantastic, Bri. We are here with KG himself. What?

That's one of the first ones I wanted to ask. How long have you been KG? I mean, not that it doesn't, you know, apply, but like, It's weird when you get those kind of nicknames. I've been B in certain circles my whole damn life. Since I was a little kid.

B. But only certain people call me that. So I was like, how long and in what circumstances have you been KG? I think it's a tenacious D thing. I think Jack started calling me that early.

But it becomes so familiar that if someone calls me KG, then I realize that they're actually not that close. It's like when someone says your name. That's right, Brian. That has a weird air of formality to it. So when someone says KG, I'm like, oh, that's probably a fan or something.

You don't know me. Leave me alone. Yeah. Kind of. Well, I guess to get into the music end of it, how early on did you get into the guitar scene?

Well, there was a guitar laying around the house that I think everyone sort of took a crack at. And I started playing flute early and then picked up the guitar around 11 or 12 and enjoyed. Was it something that was still just for fun? Or was it serious enough that you thought, I'm going to turn this into a career? Well, yeah.

You know, that definitely, I mean, definitely for fun when you're 12 years old. It's just like you want to figure out. And then I actually got into kind of classical guitar and then started getting into jazz. And, yeah, just playing for fun. But then at some point I had kind of a career strategy where I really, I just, I never wanted to work in an office or kind of have a straight job.

And it just almost terrified me to the point it was a good kind of motivator. So I thought, well, I knew I wanted to be an actor. And then the music was kind of my plan B. Like, well, if I get good enough, I could play like bar bands or something and just eke out a living. But anything would be better.

It's kind of like Kinko's. Working at Kinko's is kind of the nightmare scenario. Anything I could do to avoid that. But eventually they'll make you a manager. You get keys and everything.

Keys. But I don't know. It's one of those, you can never tell when, you know, some people use that as their plan for life. You mentioned acting. I mean, what led you to acting, and then how did you end up?

I know exactly what happened to acting was first grade, we did a play called Stuck in the Chimney, and I played the lead role of Santa. Santa gets stuck in the chimney because he had too many cookies. Lead role already. Yeah, no, I know. And I remember getting the part and being excited.

And then, of course, performing. I got some laughs. And then I was really hooked. I thought, I think this is my destiny. I have to.

And then I thought, yeah, this is going to work. And then all through school, I would just do the acting. And then, yeah, it was a music and acting kind of. emphasis and also my i have two older brothers and they were more kind of math science guys yeah and so i think it was also a way to kind of break away from that and i didn't have any aptitude anyway so i was like i was always i always thought it's it was easier for me because there really isn't a backup plan after the arts it's just like it's always a good fall i have to do it and a great quote that always kind of motivated me was um george burns the uh the iconic comedian said I would rather fail at show business than any other business. I thought, yeah, I'll fail at this.

It's a great way to go out. If you're going to fail, show business, that's the way. And then, of course, as things work out, too, it was like acting, you know, sporadic, but definitely hard to make a living. And then, of course, once the music started hitting a little bit, then the acting got better. It's like, wait, but why are you hiring me now because I'm doing music?

It didn't make any sense to me, but now it kind of does. It all kind of hits that groove and then everything starts working. Yeah. Well, I was going to do early, like as far as acting, what did you fall in with that group of actors? I've seen it kind of listed and one of which being Tim Robbins.

Is that something that actually happened? Well, yeah, we went to, um, uh, we all went to UCLA in the early eighties. Oh my God, I'm old. And, um, 90s, 2000s. Yeah.

We'll, we'll go 90s. Yeah. 90s. There you go. Uh, But yeah, I went to school at the same time in the theater department and it was very much, well, we're going to be theater artists and change the world with our political theater, I guess.

So we started a group called the Actors Gang and worked in that for like 10 years after college. And yeah, it was great. And then met Jack through the Actors Gang. There was kind of a UCLA pipeline to the Actors Gang and so Jack came in kind of second generation and then we met up. And you're like oh this guy.

Uh yeah he was you know everyone kind of could tell like oh that that kid's really he's crazy and talented you know and it wasn't and he had a great voice and I was like and I had sort of thought about um I'd played in two-man groups I kind of like the Everly Brothers Simon and Garfunkel uh model and so I was kind of looking and I didn't I knew I wasn't like a singer-songwriter um guy and i was also kind of more of a comedic actor and so i knew there was an angle there and and also the movie spinal tap it was very inspirational where it was like oh i get it that's you know you take the genre and and so yeah it all kind of mixed in a stew and then uh yeah the d came out. Was jack just like that, that early?

Because even his early performances, you can kind of see he's already found that groove. I mean, as early as when you met him, was he already sort of in that mode? Yeah, he's a force of nature. He's just a highly creative and very funny. I mean, obviously, you know, I say Jack's very funny, but I mean, just hanging with Jack, he just has a great sense of humor and, you know, we go on tour and he's just, A magnetic, expansive, highly creative, comedic genius, really.

I mean, I'm still laughing at him, you know, like 30 years later. It's amazing. Do you balance him out? Are you the ying to the yang? Well, you know, I think there is a tendency to kind of analyze it when something's working like that.

I guess there is something to it. It seems weird to me that I would be the straight man. But, I mean, the emphasis was just I want the act to work. I want it to work. So it's like, okay, Jack does that.

You play to your strengths. Like, okay, I'm good at guitar and kind of maybe underplaying things. And Jack is a very, you know, huge, huge personality. And so he's, he's kind of the front guy. And, and so it just sort of evolves.

I mean, you don't really like, okay, I'm going to be the strength man. Map it out. Map it out. It's very kind of, you know, we're, I think even more organic than most, we kind of just use what, what's happening and, and kind of bring it on stage and kind of find the truth and, And then, yeah, go from there. I did want to hit a couple of the early, like, movies.

I mean, I guess knowing Tim, is that what led to Jacob's Ladder? That seemed like an odd choice to get thrown into in the middle of, you know, just getting into acting. Yeah, that was, we were actually, we were actually doing a play with the actress gang at the Public Theater in New York, and that's where they were shooting. And Tim got us all auditions, and I just kind of snagged a little part. In Jacob's Ladder.

It's the Adrian line, too. What was he, as far as that set? Oh, Adrian. Well, he was very much against any sort of... acting. I remember I think he gave me some notes like, stop acting.

What are you doing? And I was like, oh, my God, I'm sorry. Don't do anything. But he did Flashdance, I think, didn't he? Yeah.

Everything kind of looked like a commercial thing. Yeah. Back then. Fatal attraction. Every scene had like a lot of fog in it.

Yeah. It had that kind of like Top Gun look to it. He's very visual. Sometimes it's a little overdone, but I. Yeah, it definitely...

Now it looks kind of dated, I think. You can go, oh. Probably that. But I still feel like that movie was very like. It was sort of groundbreaking at the time.

A lot of the weird visual tricks that he was doing like during those weird kind of... trippy sequences as we find out as the movie goes along like i think they started copying them in so many horror movies it wasn't even like straight horror but like it seems like all of the bad horror movies that came out in the next you know 15 years after that were kind of stealing shots from him from. Yeah no doubt yeah he was quite a stylist for sure. Definitely uh and then brain dead what. Brain dead was actually i believe my first movie yeah i think that was the first time it was uh It was a Roger Corman, and once again, a writer, I forget his name now. Oh, God, what is his name now?

That's so funny. But he wrote Carnage, which was the play that we did at the Public Theater, and he did Braindead, and, you know, he used us all. And, yeah, it was kind of a great way to break in. You know, it's sort of a famous, you know, the Roger Corman B-movie thing was very kind of time-honored in Hollywood, and I think a lot of people started out there. Roger's a genius.

We've had him on the show. He's amazing. And he's so calm about everything. He cracked his own code. He's like, I'll just make these movies for as little as I can.

That's the thing. If you can make a movie for cheap enough, it will make money. Yeah. I mean, he was always a good businessman, but he still had some pretty good visual style in the stuff that he directed. By the time he became a producer, he was just business.

But his 60s stuff were visually pretty interesting. What do you recommend? What's his best movie? He did a lot of those Poe ones with, like, Vincent Price. He did some of those.

Oh, did he? Those were, yeah. And he would get into, like, working in, especially once he hit and crossed over into the color, he started doing the crazy, like, color schemes. But, like, even his, like, older, like, early 60s stuff. There's like The Wasp Woman, which sounds really schlocky.

Actually, if you get into it, she's like a really smart businesswoman to be that early to have a female lead and have her be kind of empowered. It's pretty progressive for him. He had some good stuff. He's an interesting director. It's time for the Kill of Five.

Well, to cross over into the music, this is one of the big music episodes here. And we do our segment, so I just have people pick five songs that have been featured in movies or really kind of heavily influenced the movie that they're in. So I guess just wanted to have you pick some of your favorites or stuff that you thought was sort of influential or however you want to go about it. I loved, I think there was definitely just a great period in motion pictures, the early 70s, I think was really a great time. And I was thinking of Harold and Maude when Cat Stevens did the whole soundtrack.

And it's so effective when they did that, you know, just to have, it was kind of a, I don't know, it just became like a character in the movie. Well, if you want to sing out, sing out. And if you want to be free, be free. There's a million things to be. You know that there are.

And if you want to live high, live high. And if you want to live low, live low. There's a million ways to go. You know that there are. You can do what you want.

The opportunity's on And if you find a new way. You can do it today. You can make it all true And you can make it undue You see Ah, it's easy Ah, you only need to know Well if you want to say yes, say yes And if you want to say no, say no Cause there's a million ways to go You know that there are And if you want to be me, be me And if you want to be you, be. You Cause there's a million things to do You know that there are You can do what you want The opportunity's on And if you find a new way You can do it today You can make it all true. And you can make it undue You see.

Ah, it's easy Ah, you own me me to know well if you want to sing out sing out and if you want to be free be free cause there's a million things to be you know that there are you know that there are you know that there are you know that there are you know that there are. I loved all those songs, and I loved The Graduate, Simon and Garfunkel. Once again, they pretty much did the soundtrack for the movie and Mrs. Robinson, and they just worked together just famously. ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ And it's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you.

More than you. Will know Whoa. Whoa, whoa. God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson.

Heaven holds a place for. Those who pray. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. We'd like to know a little bit about you for our lives.

We'd like to help you learn to help yourself. Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home. And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

Jesus loves you more than you will know. Whoa, whoa, whoa. God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson Heaven holds a place for those who pray Hey. Hey, hey Hey, hey, hey.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one. Ever goes Put it. In your pantry with your cupcakes. It's a little secret, just the Robinson's. Are there Most of.

All, you've got to hide it from the kids Cuckoo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves. You more than you will know Whoa, whoa, whoa God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson Cap'n holds the place for those who pray. Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey. Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon. Going to a candidate's debate. Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose. Every way you look at the shoes.

Where have you gone? Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?

Joe DiMaggio has nothing on the way. Hey, hey, hey Plastics. It's interesting when artists do that. You only see that every once in a while when the director will pair themselves with a musical artist and have them do the entire soundtrack. Sometimes they'll compose the score or sometimes they'll just do singer-songwriter stuff.

I was thinking more of the singer-songwriter and that brought to mind Eddie Vedder's Into the Wild, which I thought once again was really effective. Just to have one visionary guy I'm into the songs. A fan of him on both ends in his band and in that solo. He's very different in his solos. Yeah, yeah.

I actually prefer, I think, the solo stuff. The ukulele stuff? Yeah, I like it. I like when he goes small. I like when he goes small.

That's cool. Really, really great guy, too. I've had a chance to hang with Eddie a few times, and he's quite a magnanimous individual. Yeah. When I walk beside her I am the better man.

When I look to leave her I always stagger back again. Once I built an ivory tower So I could worship from. Above When I climbed down to be set free She took me in again. There's a beat A big hot sun beating. On the big people in a big hot world.

When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet. When I see her pin her charm, she just throws it back at me. Once I dug in her grave to find a better land. She just smiled and laughed at me and took her bruise back again. There's a big, a big hard sun beating on the big people in the big hard world.

Oh, there's a big, When. I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side. When I try to. Understand, she just opens up her hands. . . Once I stood to lose.

Her When I saw what I had. Done Bound down and flew away The hours of her garden and her sun So I tried to warn her I turned to see her weep Forty days and forty nights And it's still coming down, babe There's a big, a big hard sun Beating on the big people In the. Big hard world Hard as a pig A big. Hard son Beating on the big people. I need a bit more.

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It's nap time. I made it for $ 30, 000 in two days and a night. This is Roger Corman, and you're listening to Movie Meltdown. It's part of your problem, you know. You haven't seen enough movies.

All of life's riddles are. Answered in the movies. Now, on with the show. Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten You see most most blokes gonna be playing at ten you're on ten here all the way up all the way up You know the way up you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Well, I don't know where exactly what we. Do is if we need that extra Push over the cliff.

You know what we do? Put it up to 11. Exactly. One louder. Why don't you just make 10 louder and make 10 be the top number and make that a little louder?

These go to 11. I don't know what counts, but the spinal tap for me was huge. Any specific? Well, Hell Hole was a big one. I ain't got no future I ain't got no past And I don't think I ever.

Can The floor. Is filthy The walls are thin The wind is howling in my face The lights are beating I'm. Losing ground Can't see the jargon. Yeah! I roll the jet stream I hit the top.

I hear it's taking lots of tails. The sun is dropping The food's too hot The kitchen's stinking full of snails The tax is gone The butler quit The. Same way to be a man. I'm going back Yeah. Yeah.

So that, I guess, is about four. Oh, that's about four. Do we got one more to round this out? Well, I just want to send, I guess, tonight I'm going to rock you. Girl, it's a great big world, but there's only one of me.

You can't touch me cause I cost too much. Tonight I'm gonna rock you. Tonight I'm gonna rock you. Tonight I'm gonna rock you. Tonight I'm gonna rock you.

Tonight. You're sweet, but you're. Just four feet and you still got your baby teeth. We'll be right back. Take off, we've got another drop of seed in the.

House Next day we'll be on our way But tonight we're gonna rock it. Tonight we're gonna rock it Tonight we're gonna rock it Tonight we're gonna rock it. Tonight It was just hugely influential for me. I mean, I can remember wanting to see it, going to the theater and just sort of like, oh my God, these guys have done what you wished you could do. It's like, wow.

I mean, that's, it almost kind of ruined me in a way because like, oh my God, how you can't do it any better. Well, and I mean, as far as again, back to groundbreaking, like, I mean, that was mockumentary when nobody knew what that was. Like, so many decades before people started doing that regularly. Yeah, 84, I believe. Yeah, I mean, Rob Reiner, now, nobody really pays much attention to him, but at the time, I mean, that was amazing.

And I think probably on both ends, you know, he... probably made a lot of people want to join bands, and at the same time made people kind of want to be filmmakers. I never thought of that. Was that the first sort of mockumentary? Yeah. I mean, it kind of.

I mean, there was probably something. We're so used to the form now. Yeah. Now I think about it. But yeah, it definitely just hit.

It was just perfect. It was just perfect. And it's, once again, time is the true test, and it really is timeless. I mean, you watch it today, and it holds up perfectly. Definitely.

Well. The only other just while we're on the music one thing I had to ask because I have I've seen you guys before and it was it was one of those actually a whole group of us got together and we went and we got our tickets we had to buy them for the real band you guys were opening for unfortunately so people are always questioned when I tell them I've been to a Kid Rock show yeah what was it like touring with Kid Rock well I. Mean this was before I knew he was a grody republican yeah I. Don't think he told anybody at that point. No.

He was busy being a fake redneck. Oh, yeah. Is he a fake redneck? I think he came from money, and it's funny. All of his songs are straight out the trailer park.

He's a trustafarian as well. But you know what? Bobby is his real name, and couldn't have been a nicer dude. Yeah. Couldn't have been a nicer dude.

Yeah. I mean, you don't really... And I don't think anyone stands up and talks about they're a big fan of Kid Rock, but... But yeah, he was a great guy. It was an interesting dynamic, too, because he, I mean, he was, that was kind of the height of his, you know, he was probably hitting downhill after that album.

So he was, that was sort of the height of his career. Yeah, he was huge. He was, yeah. And, like, seeing him, he had a massive set. It was, again, a trailer park he built on stage.

Yeah. And it was just, like, huge and had the pyrotechnics and had, like, all kinds of stuff going on. And, like, a Bud Light sign, too. Oh, yeah, of course. Got to work that in there.

Well, it's not really of course. You have to take the money and basically sell beer. I'm sure he would have gladly taken a Bud Light. Early enough, he probably would have taken one as a trade, you know. That's my payment.

I get this neon sign that says Bud on it. Yeah. And then to juxtapose that with you guys, as you walk out, it was just you and the guitar and Jack and a mic. You had no set with you. You brought no other.

Well, when you're opening, you don't really bring a set with you. I've still seen people that do a little something extra or even bring other members into the band. It was just you guys, and you walked out. Well, it's definitely been part of our... Sort of our.

Our shtick, what have you. It's just two guys, two acoustics, and then, you know, we bring in. I'd say so, because that's the thing. We went to see you guys, and that's where the money was spent, as far as I'm concerned. We sort of hung around and watched Kid Rock, but it was paled in comparison.

It was kind of sad. Well, thank you, Brian. That's awfully nice of you to say. Oh, man. Do you have any new projects you want to tell people about, as far as on any front, I guess?

You've got a lot of different stuff. Well, the KGB, of course, is what we're doing right now. We just came out with our debut album, Go to Kyle Gass Band. uh.com somewhere or facebook or something and look us up and also the big thing we got in the d world is we're doing a comedy festival at the santa monica pier october 19th and uh we've been trying to get this together for a couple years now and it's finally it's finally happening and uh We're just super excited about it. We have an amazing lineup. It's us and Mr.

Show and Tim and Eric. And we've got the Mighty Boosh. Oh, man. Yeah. And Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, just to name a few.

And it's just kind of an epic, epic lineup. And I think it's really, really going to be a special day. That's an impressive lineup. And when is that? October 19th.

Santa Monica Pier. Cool. Festival Supreme. Is there anywhere online to tell people to go? Go to festivalsupreme.com.

And your website? You want to plug that too? Kyle Gas Band. All right. Everything's available on Googles.

Barney Googles. Finds everything. Yes, it does. What did we do before that? I don't know.

I kind of think sometimes. I'm like, I don't think we could run the world without the internet now. But we could. Well, we couldn't now. Not anymore, yeah.

No, not anymore. People would freak out. Like, what? It's funny. Somebody posted recently, they were talking about writers, and they were like, oh, writers probably got so much more work done before there was an internet to also be connected to when you're supposed.

To be writing. I think writers always wait until the last minute. Yeah. Probably all artists. How's this going?

Pretty good. We've, we've had an amazing lineup of guests over the years and we've, we've, yeah, we've, we're, we're still, it's so hard finding the audience for that same reason though. It's like, we've got, you know, the hardcore people that have always been there, but like finding new people is like, it's just, there's so much out there now. Right. You're fighting to get, which, you know, it's true in every part of the arts.

Yeah. Every band. There's a million other bands. Every movie. There's 40 other people making a movie kind of like yours.

There's just too many people. And it's time to really thin the herd. We need a war. Isn't that what they say? You need a good war to thin out the herd.

Maybe a plague. Oh, zombies. There you go. Zombie plague. Well, dude, thanks so much for having me.

Thank you for sitting in with us. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. Yeah, man. Alright, we are back. And once again, I would like to say thank you to Kyle for sitting in as our special guest this week.

Really interesting picks, too, as far as songs. I mean, you kind of saw those last ones coming, but the earlier ones, yeah, I didn't really know where he would go. So that's kind of why I like doing these things that are a little off. You know, just having movie discussions with people or having them pick songs. You sort of get a little insight that maybe you wouldn't get just your standard interview.

I think you get something extra in something like that where you actually just have a normal conversation and talk about what movies you like or what music you listen to. So that was definitely true with Kyle and I wanted to thank him once again for sitting in. The stuff he's got in the works, go to festivalsupreme.com and check that out in October. And just in general, go to thekylegasband.com to see what he's got in the works as far as where he'll be playing next. And once again, we would like to say thanks to Lebowski Fest for letting me hang around and talk to Kyle and just loiter around here on the outskirts of the festival.

So they are at lebowskifest.com, and definitely you don't have to be here to experience it. They have branched out. It is amazing what this thing has grown into. You could never imagine just pitching the idea of what this festival is and then watching how it's grown over the years. I did a basic count, and they have gone to 22 different cities.

To do this festival that that I mean it's it's amazing how much it has grown and how many different people they've involved over the years and just it's it's an impressive feat to have put this together from nothing from just an idea that they had and decided to throw together with their friends and now so many years later it's just gotten bigger and bigger and the following continues to grow so if you're one of those people or interested in becoming one of those people it is LebowskiFest.com and go see what they've got in the works. Are you done? All right, so I think that will wrap up this episode. But we will go out once again. I mean, we have to pay tribute to the man who sat in with us this episode.

And of course, with a song from their movie. I mean, when you're a band and they give you your own movie, you got to make that happen. So yeah, we are going to play one from Pick of Destiny. And we'll just go out with the title track. I think that seems to represent it just fine.

So thanks once again to Kyle. And with that, I will remind you once again, get a life. We'll provide the soundtrack. Because it's a play. A distance.

In Venice Beach, there was a man named Cage. When he was busking, he was. Out of the rage. He met the tables and it taught him well. All the techniques that were developed in hell.

Cocked push-ups and the power slide. Stick simulation, now there's nowhere to hide. They formed a band, they named Tenacious Tenacious. And then they got to pick a destiny. Cause it's the best.

A destiny child. You know it will be rocking. Cause it's fucking insane. Cause it's the best. A destiny child.

Artistic grooves are better than a chicken chow mein. Cause he who is sleazy is easy to please. And she who is juicy must be loosey goosey. And he who is groovy The wizard and the demon had a battle royale. The demon almost killed him with an evil kapow.

But then he broke. His tooth and thus the demon set out. It's a play. A destiny child. You know it will be right.

You know our movie's better than a citizen came. Cause he who's a geezer must live. In my freezer. And she who is stocky is full of malarkey. And he who is.

Goofy must be in my movie. So count on me. Your hygiene's fairly good, right? I try to control. Myself a little bit.

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