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00:00:00.000You know that age when you really get into something?
00:00:41.000But, uh, he's a black dude who wears like a furry orange hat.
00:00:45.000And he, at the beginning of the show, he comes out with a ghetto blaster and he opens it up and there's all the little guys like Fufa and Muno and Broby and Plex.
00:00:58.000Sorry if I'm forgetting anyone in Yo Gabba Gabba.
00:01:02.000So he would, my boy Duncan would, my middle child, would come out when he was three with the Ghetto Blaster.
00:01:10.000We got him like a toy version that has the characters in it.
00:01:13.000And he would do the intro to the show.
00:02:01.000There's a thing online and they take trailers and they redo them verbatim, frame by frame, but with cardboard or whatever they have around the house.
00:02:10.000They obviously can't do a 7 million dollar trailer, so they do a trailer for like 400 bucks.
00:02:17.000So he's obsessed with that and he did that for a while and he's making stuff.
00:03:58.000I got a Ghetto Blaster on eBay, because when my son goes up to bat, his middle name is White Thunder, and it's an Indian thing, and I like to go, Thunder!
00:05:33.000Peter and the Test Tube Babies were part of that thing and you would just, you'd get on stage, you had political lyrics, you were serious, so it was sort of like crass politically, but you'd have funny costumes on and you'd throw, like we had this song called Use Your Brains Now and we'd throw cow brains out into the audience and
00:05:54.000And I think Tom Green kind of copied us, too.
00:05:57.000He had a band called Organized Rhyme, and they would come out with, like, ski boots on their heads and stuff and throw stuff out in the crowd.
00:06:04.000Tom, you ripped me off with that, but I'll see it as an homage.
00:06:59.000And it's funny, because as a circumcised guy, you're always wondering if you wish, I mean an uncircumcised guy, you always wondered if you wished you were circumcised.
00:07:07.000You say you don't, but no one's going to criticize their own penis.
00:08:04.000That's probably why my speech was so shitty.
00:08:06.000We were backstage in the boiling hot sun with barely a chair for eight hours.
00:08:12.000I was cooked, and there's riots and fights going on outside.
00:08:16.000Anyway, I'm talking to this soccer hooligan, pro wrestler, and he tells me he was circumcised for the exact same reason, by the way, at 28.
00:08:28.000He said that they had to make a Weetabix box to go around it and it was covered and Can you imagine like you know how much it hurts when you cut your hands because there's so many nerve endings on your hands Or when you burn your hand it hurts way more than anywhere else on your like on your arm Or even you get a tattoo you get a tattoo on your on this on your shoulder feels like nothing But you get a tattoo somewhere sensitive like your ribs and it kills
00:09:11.000Having an operation on your fucking penis must be... And every time, like, I had to take a knee when he told me this story.
00:09:19.000And I'd go, Is that, uh, you deserve, you should be, you should join World War II vets on Memorial Day and stand next to them with, like, a trophy that's decorated like a foreskin on your jacket.
00:09:32.000And he goes, My, it was the fucking worst.
00:12:27.000So they start out doing good little punky riffs and then they learn to play their instruments and they start doing like 5-4 time and that's usually the end of the band.
00:12:37.000Some people can handle it like Black Flag
00:12:53.000You have to do like Cro-Mags, no offense, John Joseph, and Agnostic Front and stuff.
00:13:00.000But Husker Du, they got really good at their instruments and then they just became a really good pop band.
00:13:06.000But we start, you can hear in that... The first riff was stolen from the Sex Pistols, but then the second riff was getting a little too jazzy.
00:13:14.000And that's usually when it's time for the band to break up.
00:13:17.000I won't bore you with too much of this, but let me hear another song.
00:16:29.000I haven't heard that tape in about 20 years, but I do remember cringing at one part where I go, this next song is about how society tries to control you.
00:17:29.000Or they have another song called Red High Heels, and it's a woman being submissive, and it's a feminist anthem about how cruel we are to women and how gross it is that we make them wear red high heels.
00:17:42.000And she's singing this high-pitched voice.
00:17:44.000She's like, I'll be your bonza, your beautiful bonza, your black-eyed bonza, your erotically rotting.
00:17:49.000And I'm listening to it as an adult going, awesome!
00:21:06.000Actually, it was an exaggeration of that.
00:21:08.000It looked like a Hollywood set of hipsters at a vice party in 2004.
00:21:15.000It was, uh, uh, I just got distracted because I remembered I want to go find a leatherized buttfuck, uh, cassette.
00:21:24.000Um, it was, uh, yeah, this, as I walk in I just see all these twenty-something and I just go, nope.
00:21:31.000I thought I was in the suburbs, by the way.
00:21:33.000So then I go back upstairs and as I'm coming upstairs there's a guy with a leather motorcycle jacket, a white t-shirt, a top bun, and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
00:25:31.000So I remember I was coming home with my mom, and I'm telling you this because I hope that you had a similar story when you had your sort of awakening.
00:26:05.000I'm not looking forward to that stage.
00:26:07.000But uh, that happened with my mom and I. But anyway, we were best pals when we were- when I was a kid.
00:26:12.000So we went shopping, as we're wont to do.
00:26:14.000And we're coming back in the car and Billy Idol's White Wedding comes on.
00:26:25.000Brilliant song, and it's brilliant for a million reasons.
00:26:29.000I did a whole episode I think on Generation X, but Billy Idol was a punk rock star.
00:26:36.000And even the way he did that was awesome, where everyone was political and serious and about the revolution, and Generation X just wanted to be pop stars.
00:28:37.000You know, you didn't have the internet back then.
00:28:39.000So you would just need to buy a Billy Idol, like, coffee table book, or you'd buy Billy Idol records, and you'd buy Billy Idol pins and stuff.
00:28:47.000And then one guy in class who was way cooler than me goes, so you must love Generation X. And I go, uh, yes.
00:29:22.000I discovered Generation X, and then I discovered this thing called punk, and then I was like, that's it, I'm a punk, I don't fucking care how shitty this music is, I'm becoming a punk.
00:29:48.000And each half hour or so, we'll have a new band going on until 11.30 at night, so hopefully people who have to take buses can get home relatively early.
00:29:56.000It's only going to be $5 at the door, or $4 if you have a Friends of CKCU or CUID card, so it's definitely a bargain.
00:30:06.000As well, there will be tables set up from local environmental and other sorts of positive type of left-wing groups, or whatever you want to call them.
00:30:32.000So while he was doing the announcement announcing our show, Blake and I took our pants off and we were pushing our butt cheeks against the plexiglass.
00:30:41.000Which, by the way, is called pressing a ham.
00:30:43.000Remember in eighth grade, we were on a school trip and we pushed our butt cheeks against the back of the school bus?
00:30:54.000And we were- I was in a special class for mostly stupid kids, but there was also children that were dying of cancer and stuff, and I was there because I was badly behaved.
00:31:03.000So it was just like the Island of Misfit Toys.
00:31:05.000That's- that's how shitty teachers are.
00:31:07.000They don't- everyone- like, there was a girl in our class, in Mr. Gunn's class, this is a Diabri Moody, who, uh, there's nothing wrong with her.
00:33:22.000Someone would, you'd be in trouble, and then someone would say something out of the blue and you would all die because it would just shatter the tension?
00:33:29.000I remember Mr. Shepard, ironically, was at Bell's Corners Public School and he was yelling at us, and someone was doing something and everyone was mimicking, and he made us all leave the class and line up outside the classroom.
00:35:34.000It was just a bunch of gay dudes in leather, like, putting stuff up their butts and beating the shit out of each other, but... I don't know.
00:35:40.000In New York, that's just... That's the New York Post.
00:35:44.000Alright, so I'm gonna play this and see if I can find that on the cassette.
00:37:23.000And then there's this thing with punk where you're a poser, unless you get all the right gear, and go to an X amount of shows, and you have to sort of earn your stripes.
00:37:34.000And it's funny... I had to run downstairs.
00:37:37.000It's funny seeing all these trans people just put a fucking wig on, and they're a woman.
00:37:44.000Which should be harder to acquire than punk.
00:37:49.000It should be kind of a big deal to become a gender.
00:37:53.000I mean, look at the movie Splash, how hard that mermaid had to work to become a human being.
00:37:59.000She had to get rid of her tail, she had to watch like a thousand hours of TV, she had to learn to speak and stuff.
00:38:05.000Or those robots, like Data, who can do everything, but they are having trouble with love and humor.
00:38:11.000I don't seem to be able to understand humor.
00:38:14.000But you can just be a broad if you put a mop on your head?
00:38:18.000And then I remember getting to the stage where I was, we were all in a punk house, which is a thing, that was a thing with punk where you would, someone would put on a suit and look nice and rent a house and then you'd all crash in there and there'd be like 15 people living in a house and it would just get destroyed.
00:38:35.000Fred Armisen does a great Portlandia sketch about punk houses.
00:40:56.000I'm doing that stupid thing that men do where they just keep pushing the same button a hundred times, hoping that it's a time travel button.
00:41:08.000And you know what's even stupider is, I'm going to pry this open with a knife, get it open, and then I'm just going to push it back and press play again, and the exact same thing will happen.