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Ep.230 The Mastermind Behind Couch: A Conversation with Gus Odom

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The Mastermind Behind Couch: A Conversation with Gus

Join hosts Brian Michael Day and Thomas Graham in this thrilling episode of "The Day is Grim" as they sit down with Gus, the creative force behind the band Couch.

Gus, originally from Evansville, Indiana, dives into the band’s origins, starting with his own musical journey. He shares how his parents, a guitarist and a drummer, influenced him from a young age, leading him to pick up the guitar in fourth grade and drums in sixth. Learn about the band's early days, including the formation with friends Braden, Josh Raj, and later, Shepherd. Gus reveals the surprisingly simple story behind the band's name—suggested by his brother while sitting on a couch.








Get an inside look at the chaotic and DIY spirit of Couch. Gus explains their unique approach to recording, using his father’s 8-track recorder for all their albums, including the upcoming 2025 release, 

"Sick of the Antics". Discover the legendary story of Thompson, a mannequin brought to life as a band member, who has been destroyed, pieced back together, and filled with dog food. Gus also talks about the band's dream of touring with eccentric bands like 










Ween and the Butthole Surfers and how they hope to one day make enough from shows to not need other jobs.






This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in indie music, DIY recording, and the sheer, beautiful chaos of a band that puts on a truly unforgettable show.

Note: This episode contains mature language and content.

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Thank you.

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to another thrilling episode of the day's grim my name is brian michael day

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my name is thomas graham that beer does

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weird this is like the beer from like the last weekend that you were talking

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about it's weird

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it's weird it tastes like baby soap

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No, that's right. Yeah. No. That's garbage. Okay. Who's joining us this week? Joining us this week, Gus from Couch. What's up, dude?

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Hey.

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I thought you were going to fake us out with your voice. You definitely want to do it, dude. How are you, man? Pretty good. I think the last time I saw you- About a week ago. About a week ago, we both watched a grown man undress and get into a kiddie pool. It's pretty thrilling stuff, dude, honestly. Yeah, real exhilarating. Real

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riveting. I might mention there were children around. Everyone was fairly uncomfortable, or was it just me? No, I think everybody that was there was like high stakes ready to go i'll just wait for him to be like hey you kids want to see a crawdad or you know something like that it'll be like jumping kitties want to see my wiggle worm right dude get the fuck dude this isn't a bottle of tequila

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Get the fuck out, dude.

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You know what? You know they don't even put a worm in the bottle of tequila? It's like something else. It's not actually tequila. Do you know what he's talking about? It's a moth larva. Yeah, moth larva. Dude, he's so fucking...

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I was bragging on you to Tom earlier about how intelligent you are. It's

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actually found in some bottles of this. It's a tequila-like, but it's not. And the only reason they put the worm in there was just for marketing, to be different. Could you imagine, like, yeah, I put a dog turd in your grocery bag at Walmart pick up you know dude just so you know it's from Walmart not Target I'm gonna start my own whiskey brand where I just put toenail clippings in the bottle and that's gold slogger either they were like wait gold sloggers putting gold flakes well we got a lot of around here yeah moth larva throw it in um

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but yeah dude so funny story about the guy well you have a funny story about the guy that

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that got

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kind of we won't say he wasn't nude but it was like uncommon Being

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in underwear when you are in a pool shows a good amount. So that was a bit weird. It was uncomfortable for him. But you had a story about the t-shirt. We were at Space Monkey watching the Chugs. And this guy, he came in pretty wasted. It checks

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out.

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It checks out. He wanted to buy a Shepard's shirt, which was a black one. I didn't see him ever again until the last week. I fractured a rib on that slip and slide. Huh? I fractured a rib on the slip and slide. Really? Yeah. Yeah, he's so soft at that. I know. You, like, made a tissue paper. I know. No, I'm joking. You went down that thing, like, a hundred times, dude. That sucks. I think Gus went down it the second most of, like, people over the age of, like, ten. Yeah. I think. Probably Lexi did more than me. Oh, yeah. Lexi was good at it, too. Yeah. I did it, like, five or six times, and I was like, yeah, this smells like I'm going to blow my knee out. I'm going to let this ride, dude. I've had fun. Y'all just have fun. I'm going to be over here. I got cut up by the grass because I slid off. off the thing just through the yard. Super itchy afterwards. They don't warn you about that with slip and slides. You know what I'm saying? It sounds fun. I

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was mad they wouldn't break out the dish soap.

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No reason to lube it up already more than what it was. It needs more. There were children, Tom. Fuck it. We put it on way worse when I was a kid, dog. Fuck them kids. I had a birthday party where they took like three tarps and like literally just a garden hose and like Dawn soap and it was like middle schoolers out there wrestling and slip and slide. It was a blast. Yeah. Dude, that's what's up. Didn't fracture a rib then.

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Okay, dude. But no,

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like, this is like attempt two because last time we all just like hung out and did whatever wild carded it but like we're here today to learn like who's Gus what's Gus like the mastermind behind couch from you know what we learned last weekend and we thought we'd have to get you in to actually talk about it yeah and we were so I do want to start let's we like to do a time line so let's start you were born in Evansville was yeah I was born a deaconess I think

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hell yeah very specific I like the I like the details brother but so you're You're an Evansvillian naturally, by nature. Well,

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technically, I live in Newburgh. That's gross.

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So anyways, we'll just pretend like you said, Evansville. No, I'm joking. But you're from the area, and you've always been here? You never moved anywhere? Nope. Always stayed here. So you went to Castle? Mm-hmm. What was that like? I

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don't really like school. You just fast-forwarded 16 to 18 years of his life. Oh, yeah, true. Let's go with... Were your parents into music? My dad plays guitar, and he was in a band and stuff, and he did some stuff, made some music, and my mom was playing drums for a while. What? That's why I got into drums, yeah. So at what age do you think you played your first instrument? Not like a kid drum set. And what was the instrument? My first instrument was a guitar. And when was it? Fourth grade. Way ahead of me, dude. Golly, dude, that explains a lot. Jesus. Yeah. And drums was in sixth grade when I started. So I guess the typical question I like to ask drummers is, how much did your parents hate you? You know what I mean? My parents never cared. We have

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a guy next door. He has a drum set in the basement. I don't know who this guy is. Maybe you know him. I don't know. Dude shreds, but it's so loud. You can hear it at the end of the intersection

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over here, dude. It's so loud. You can hear it from down the street. Nobody's ever complained about it. Yeah, but yeah, so your mom was a drummer, so she was already used to it. When you picked up drums in sixth grade, so when I went to middle school, like sixth grade, they make you learn an instrument. Was that the same down here? I chose to be in band because I thought I was going to be playing drum set, but they gave me a xylophone and a snare drum. Kind of a bummer. Yeah, I dropped out. Of school or just band? Band. I quit school. They gave me a xylophone. I said I'd rather live on the streets. Dude, I think I've dabbled with the xylophone. You know what I mean? I like them more now than I used to. Yeah, I eventually wound up on the French horn. It's not a big deal or anything. The xylophone is basically a piano, right? Yeah, but with chunky blocks that you hit. Yeah, it's kind of dope. But if you learn the xylophone, you can basically learn to play piano. Is that what you went to next? You'd have to hit them with sticks. Oh, yeah, because you have multiple sticks in your hands. to press them right but the octave and the layout is the same as uh yeah it's pretty much the same

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yeah yeah and again i dude we're gonna really get into like how you became as intelligent with music as you are because you are rather uh sharp but that being said so like

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how quick do you pick this up as a kid like like the how quick do you just learn music you know what i mean like the structure not like i can play a sick riff or i can play rhythm but like until you're really start understanding the fundamentals of music like are you and is that like high school age later on or did you pick it up way earlier than that i feel like i've always understood like music like i've always really liked certain stuff and hated other stuff like when i was a kid so i feel like i've always been really into it and figuring out how songs work but i didn't really start playing drums or guitar like that crazy until high school

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what was some of the stuff you hated as a kid.

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I didn't really keep track of him because I hated him. I didn't think about it. I got an ADHD thought. Okay. Sorry to interrupt. He's real good at this, by the way. If I don't say it, I'm going to forget it. Okay. Let it rip, daddy. I think Beethoven wasn't deaf. He was just autistic. Hot take. You heard it here on The Day is Grim. You know what I mean? He just was so in the zone on music that he just didn't hear anybody else. There's no way he was deaf. Do you think he was deaf? Well, he bit on a metal rod that attached to his piano so he could feel the vibrations of the notes instead of... Hearing them.

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What the

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fuck? How

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do you know this

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shit? I'm pretty sure. Where do you learn all this off-music knowledge? I don't know. Shepard, I think, might probably know more than me. He knows a bunch of random ass shit. Y'all are just like band or music history buffs. Nerds. And you just send music history facts back and forth. We just say it to each other. We just say it out loud. Playing a riff. you're like you know beethoven bet on a middle rod while he would play piano so he could feel the notes in his jaw right i'm pretty sure like imagine how long you just sit there and just hit like a and feel the vibration of an a before you moved on to like you know like a different note and just like feeling the different vibration like had to be autistic that's how helen keller learned to talk though she didn't learn to do shit well she like put her hand on she's a sock she's just a psyop dog you think so yeah interesting uh story, but she didn't fly a plane. She didn't fly a plane? No way in hell. Dude. Amelia Earnhardt? No, Helen Keller.

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Oh, the Japs?

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No! Alright, bleep that out. Jesus Christ, you're on a hot streak. Real quick, real early, coming out that gate with the aggressive. I'm just getting warmed up. I gotta stretch my legs a little bit. I've been in a car for like six hours. Yeah, homeboy came from Nashville

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today.

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Shout out to Music City, by the way. That actually ties in real nice. Everywhere there plays country music on the radio and I want to blow my brains out when I'm stuck in a long line. God damn. Are you a Nashville fan? Yeah. Have you been? Yeah. It kind of sucks. Do you like all music? I like some old country. I don't really listen to it that much, but I do like it. What about, like, modern country? I hate modern country. Anything after 2001, not for me. Yeah, the bro country, we gotta fucking, we gotta do better, gentlemen. Kentucky Dom's not bad. Yeah, no, he's not really, like, bro country. Right. Yeah. I'm talking about, like, the Lou Bryants and shit. Gotcha. Like, all right, brother. You know what I mean? Like, let's do better. So, sixth grade, off the ADHD thought path back to the North. I was just... Playing drums and guitars. And they had instruments around your house, like your parents? Well, my dad's got a bunch of guitars because he's always played. But your mom didn't have a drum set? She did. Okay. So you already had one at home. It wasn't a great... It was a sound percussion drum set. It wasn't that great, but for a birthday, I got a nicer drum set. What does that mean? You said it's a sound percussion? It's a brand. Oh, okay. It's just like a low-quality brand. Way too stupid to even know. They didn't get you one of those electric drum pads that were in at the time or anything like that? Nice drums with snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, and extra floor tom, which is really low. Oh, yeah. And I would ask for each Christmas, I would plan out how to get as much music gear. Like, I'd ask certain family members for a guitar pedal. And who fits what budget to ask for what part, you know? Like, my family would come together and bring money together to get me, like, a drum set. And that was, like, the main thing I would want. Oh, yeah, dude. So, and then I'd go ask. ask like my aunts and uncles for something that would i would that would work with something else i asked yeah like compliment it yeah yeah hell yeah dude i do did you meet the other band members in this time shepherd i've known since fourth grade actually so right when you started playing guitar he was in my fourth fourth grade class let's pump the brakes there because we were talking a minute ago before we started

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recording you had mentioned there were a couple of folks so it wasn't always shepherd right like there were other dudes in the

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band first it started with brayden and Josh Raj. Josh Raj? Josh Raj. J-A-S-R-A-J. Raj. Like an Indian name. Josh Raj. And, okay, so how long did that, was that during high school time? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Like sophomore, I think. So now we're still on the timeline. Okay, we're good here. Okay. Good pivot. What was that like, like piecing those, that team together? You know what I mean? How did you pick them? Because I was just friends with them. Oh, Oh, really? Yeah, Josh, Roger, and Braden were also in the fourth grade class, the same class. Did they have extensive musical background like you did? No, they like music, but they never really played. I was teaching them both how to play as the band was starting. You're like on the playground slapping the slide rhythms.

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Like, dude, B sharp, B sharp, B. How rough is that? It's

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all right. We would just go get pizza and pretty much not play. And it was still Couch then, right? It was Couch. It's been Couch since then. Don't ever change it, brother. If you change it, I will lose so much respect for you. My brother is actually the reason it's called Couch. I do remember that

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story. We did talk about that. And then for the folks that maybe didn't watch that episode, how

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did your brother come up with the name? Well, I walked out and I was like, Dad, what do you think a good band name would be? I was trying to think of something. My brother was trying to be an asshole. He said Couch. He was sitting on the couch and I said, I told him like, just shut up. And my dad was like, no way. What if you guys like came out of the ceiling on a couch? There's like fog and stuff and you guys get lower down than you get off them. go oh yeah dude like wayne's world yeah he was just adding on to it and then i was like okay dad's just yes anding but like so did you guys record anything in fourth grade we never played in fourth grade those guys never oh gosh this was like by it was sophomore year sophomore year was when i started teaching them and trying to get a band okay so

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did you record anything with raj or the other and like josh

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raj uh gave up he hated it pretty quickly really What did he hate

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about eating pizza

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and hanging with his bros? He liked that part, but the music part quickly faded. He didn't want to be band manager or anything? We put Shepard in the band, and then it started becoming too much of a band. We got a video of him just... Lexi's recording, and me and Shepard are trying to play the song, and he's sitting there with the bass not playing, just going...

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Like an upset kid on the playground. I

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remember when I kicked him out of the band, it was the most mutual thing we were at Target and I had a conversation with Braden and Shepard and I was like do you think we should try to look for somebody else who actually cares and they were like yeah so I called Josh Rush and I said hey you want anything from Target by the way I'm at Target you want me to pick you something up I got some bad news to tell you you need a bowl of ice cream I just said I was like we're gonna probably have to you're done And he said, yeah, that's okay. Are we still hanging out tomorrow? I go, yeah. See you. You bring pizza and you can watch, Doc. Later. And we stayed friends and everything. That's dope. He's still cool? Mm-hmm. Hell yeah, dude. I haven't really seen him in a while. He moved to New York for college. Gross. But he's the guy on the single. Which one? Stanley. That's him. Oh, no way. That's him way after he buzzed the top of his head and then Lexi bleached the sides. Oh, yeah. Dude, he,

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that's...

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And we took a picture and that was just what we thought. That's the picture of a... That's dedication. That's a future doctor. Is he in medical school in New York? No, he's doing... Is

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that

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because

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he's like... Shut up.

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What's he doing in New York? Oh, damn. What is it again? It's the same thing Braden's doing.

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Computer science. Nice. Hell yeah, dude. Nice, dude. Smarter than me. I don't know if he's smarter than Tom. He's

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a pretty smart guy. So you guys

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record basically in high school, like some

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album. The first album came out when I think I was 17. Shepard, I think, was 16. How does that go? Do you guys just have a computer? It was the most pain in the ass process of all time. You did it all in-house? Well, my dad also had an 8-track because he's been collecting music stuff and using it all for years and so i just take all of his shit did he ever like sit down and help you like yeah i've done stuff with him too we've made music we have made music a couple weeks ago oh you and your dad like a few weeks ago from today yeah that's dope we're gonna come back what is the other option a few weeks ago from that day you know what i mean like when they first started recording

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Yeah, I'm dying, bro. I mean, I didn't know. I got you, my guy. I'm with you, okay? I just wanted to understand. Gotcha.

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sorry

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all right uh so anyways uh but yeah that's sick

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dude make music with your dad dude that's fucking that rips we'll get to that but like so he had an a track and like i was well i didn't really know how to learn it that well and i didn't want to just ask my dad the whole time it was like and and like he he showed me the basic stuff but it still takes so much to just know how to set everything up right and how to angle microphones and all that you said you were setting it up like the other guys didn't do research and help well i they i mean they it would help out and like, but I, it was all my dad's stuff. So I kind of didn't really want them. It'd be like Brian. Like it was clumsy. Everything. Yeah. It was clumsy. 16 year old, like shepherd every day at practice, the three light bulbs in my fan are missing. We have one left because for years, shepherd takes his guitar off and goes into the fan. Never learned.

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And literally, but you're, you're describing Tom. Tom does that same

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stupid shit. I swear. It's so funny, though. I get stressed. He stresses me out. Yeah, I'm knocking over mic stands and catching them right before they hit the ground, and Brian's like, what the fuck? So you guys set it up. Do you do all the audio engineering and mixing and mastering? Yeah, I mix it all. What's that like learning that back then? Sucked. That's why the first album sucks, production-wise. It's not that bad, but... You could tell. It took us forever. And we would go and practice or try to record just me and Shepard, get our parts down, and Shepard's guitar string would break, and we'd drive to Guitar Center and get new strings and restring the guitar and it'd break again. Is that the one I'm looking at with the steed on the front? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lexi drew that. Hell yeah, dude. During a practice session, Lexi drew that on a whiteboard. That's hot, dude. That's hot. I like it. But that's the album you said that's a little dirtier? Yeah, it's definitely, you can tell it's teenagers in a bedroom. I want to pump the brakes here, though. I want to talk about dirty music. So,

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dirty music, like that Led Zeppelin staticky vibe, or like ACDC, you hear the amp kick on. It's

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more just like we were kids. It's not that. It's not that kind of dirty. Like, pull one up, you can tell, like, it just sounds... Turn the headphones down. I love this. We all love the sound of it because it sounds exactly like pretty much what it was, like bedroom... Teenager music. Vehicular assault. This is the one that B-Mofo sings on, Braden. So he did vocals on this one. The sample's nice in the beginning, though.

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Yeah, you got headphones, you can get. And there's a set over there, too, Lex, if you want to get on that.

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Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

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That was be mofo type stuff back

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then.

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Get on the road. What do you do playing in the road, idiot? What do you think this is, huh? You stupid mother fucker. Drive it so fast. It's a sick riff. That

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riff actually came from when me and my other friend Quentin were trying to play in middle school. And we came up, he came up with the name Vehicular Assault. And I thought it was so awesome. I had to make

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an actual song. Like, no, not manslaughter. This is like intentional vehicular assault. Like, get the fuck out of the road. I'm coming for you. It's

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that guy that built his own tank and drove it out

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in the streets. Who does the... Be

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mofo.

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You guys are wild, and I want to talk about where that

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comes from. The Riverfront video actually has B-Mofo on it, and we play that song, and he has an inflatable baby suit on. Okay, dude. How do you get here? You know what I mean? Because we're all just, we like stupidity. Is this it? Yeah, I'm just looking for

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the... Where's the inflatable baby

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suit? Is it not, like, segmented and named in the video? An inflatable baby? This lady's delivering a pizza to you guys. That's Donuts. She used to work at Donut Bank. Oh, yeah, dude. Like, dude, the pure chaos... There it is.

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Yeah.

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My brother used to be the cow back then, so that's him in the cow suit. Yeah, this was a pretty disastrous show. This wasn't a hit? Dude, if you take this to fucking... If you do this show... See, your brother's only job was to stand there in a cow suit? Yeah, he got more into it at certain shows, and then when they destroyed Thompson, that kind of broke his spirits, I think, and then he threw up at a show, too, because... Who's Thompson? The dummy. Oh. Who we put in the band. His first show, they took him and ripped him to shreds and stomped his head to pieces. The people in the crowd did? Mm-hmm.

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Savages.

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Yeah, my brother lifted up Thompson to the crowd and they took him and murdered him. Poor Thompson. It's crazy.

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Rest in peace, Thompson. Do you have a burial site for Thompson or anything like that? Well, we

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pieced him back together. Oh,

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that's got to be a fucking nightmare looking kind of apparatus.

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Well, there's another video- Could you imagine just shredding apart a mannequin and then fucking stapling and duct taping it? I think Midwesters did it about a hundred times. We refilled them with dog food and we'd bring them around. I remember we brought them to my Mimi and Papa's house and my Papa goes, get that thing out of here. It smells terrible. What is that? What did you guys put in that thing? We go, chicken, dog food, and a cheeseburger. So do you... He was like my brother's best friend back then, yeah. I brought him to school with me that day. I think that's how serial killers are made, man. I'm gonna be honest with you. Well, I had three friends that were so concerned that I thought he was a real person because that was the shtick. That was like the character. It was like, we believe he's real for the band. Yeah. So I went around acting like that. I brought him to school with me and they said they tracked me down and tried to pull, like, take Tom out of the car and uh every time they said they followed me i brought them inside like they were they were looking through this window of our friend's houses and i was in there with thompson

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you were committed to the bit dude they

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went to school to get him and i brought him into the school like they skipped school to follow me to my other school the tech school to get him out of the car i brought him into school with me oh yeah this song's awesome too we recorded this song in like 10 minutes just to have a weird uh song for the video and this is what track is Wait, no, this is actually going to be the theme song for our sitcom that we never made. This

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is absolute...

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This is Thompson now. He looks way worse now. I threw a beer bottle at his face and broke his nose, and I still haven't pieced it back together. We also put fireworks in his chest and blew holes in his chest.

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Oh my god! He's bleeding out of the nose!

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He's got a piece of dog food in his eye.

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What is happening, dude? Is this the second time he's murdered?

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He's been murdered a few times. I'd say he died the original time when we... Actually, when we first had him, my brother was trying to show my grandma that you can use him as a jujitsu doll and ripped his arm off. And grandma sat there trying to stitch his arm back and then...

SPEAKER_03:

You've got to put that to a fucking

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battery, dude. We took him bowling and Ashton tried to bowl with him and ripped his arm off. arm off again oh

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my god poor guy

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he's been through hell this is a sick video though oh man

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god dude that's beautiful so where if I may ask where the hell did you get him from

SPEAKER_05:

spirit Halloween was he just a mannequin he was like a little dummy that you're supposed to dress up with Halloween like costumes and put them under porch and you were like we don't want a costume can we have the dummy well I saw the box and I was like, we're just gonna, we need this. And we were gonna pay my dad back because he was 80 bucks. Me and Shepard gave my dad 20 bucks and paid him back our amount and Ashton never paid him back. Fucking Ashton, dude.

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Oh, damn. He's seen better days for sure.

SPEAKER_05:

Ashton did a voice for him at the end of that video to promote a show which got cancelled. Is that it? No.

SPEAKER_00:

There's a little bit more.

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That one? Yeah, that show got cancelled.

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You better come see me at your brother's bookstore April 20... 26th.

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Sounds like that pedophile guy from... Herbert?

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Yeah.

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Jesus Christ.

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That's dark, dude. I

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feel like I'm watching multiple serial killers be made in live action and I'm very interested in it. That's crazy, though. So where does the where does so you said you guys just like dumb shit but like

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really though who drives the chaotic who drives the chaos or you guys just like one guy comes up with an idea and they're like we should get a fucking beaver

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we come up with ideas all the time and most of them are not possible like crazy crazy shit that we can't do but we're just kind of like like me and brayden lexi knows knows this well me and brayden just like the be idiots like we used to go to the gas station i'd fill my wallet all to the brim of coins and then every time i'd open it i'd go like that and all of it go all over the floor and then i'd be picking them up and then i would say brayden you want to you want to pay and then he he pulls a he a massive bag a ziploc bag of quarters out of his back pocket and then he rips it and all those go on the floor and we're sitting down there for like 20 million it's just funny

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You don't videotape any of

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it. Nope, we just did it for the hell of it back then. We walked around town and had a bucket of change to pay for our meals. Just a bucket? Yeah, and we'd spill it all the time. We'd go to the movies and Braden ran into me and we spilled it. You're late for the movie. So let's rewind a little bit back to sophomore year. So Raj get mutual decision. He's like, yeah, man, I'm tired of shaving my head and bleaching the tips. No, he did that just for fun, too. The first haircut was worse than that one. But he agreed, though. He was like, all right, yeah, it's cool. He was just like, yeah. And the other guy's name was what? B-Mofo. Technically, Josh Raj's band name is Rossel Jossel. Or Jocelyn Russell. Either or. Yeah. A.K.A. Jocelyn Russell. Yeah. So when did the final... Because there's only three of you, right? So when did the final three get set? After... Josh Rush stopped. We put my other friend Sam in the band and tried to teach him bass, and he didn't really care about it much either. I was also teaching him guitar before, too. And he stayed in the band like a week, a week or two. And then we got Delroy, who was like a master saxophone player. He was in band, and we knew him from biology class in junior year. He was a great sax player. So after Sam told me he was leaving the band right before I was going to tell him i was kicking him out of the band he told me he's he said i just don't want to do this anymore i was like yeah okay that's perfect because uh we were gonna kick you out anyway sick dude that was in geometry class and then i walked over to biology class and sat down next to delroy i go you want to be in the band and he goes yeah sure so can i just say that delroy

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not a fire name dude for a sax player not saxophone i doesn't it doesn't link up to me Delroy's like, I grew up in a trailer. I'll

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play you a fiddle. And he's over here like, I'm actually an expert saxophone player. He's a really, really good sax player. His name was Rel Doy Destroy. Yeah, he's on the first single. That's him up there on the top. Oh, yeah, dude. Oh, he was playing the drums in the park. Oh, yeah, dude. So how long did he make it? He made it a while. He lasted a while, and he never played bass ever. But did he pick it up pretty quick? Pretty quick, yeah. And he actually practiced a lot and liked being in the band. Like bought a bass, or you had to give him one? We just gave him Braden's other bass, and he would practice. It was a terrible bass, but the first time Delroy ever picked up a bass, we recorded it and released it on the first single dude i feel we were like it's a bold strategy hey man

SPEAKER_03:

i know you're learning right now uh we're recording

SPEAKER_05:

uh yeah get it going and uh yeah and the clapping is so out of time that's that's a really funny song the single version has all of us clapping on the wrong beat like intentionally no That was funny.

SPEAKER_03:

I thought it was like satire where

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you're just like, yeah, go, get him. It's on the chorus. It just gets worse in certain parts. Can you fast forward to the middle? This is one of our first songs. This was actually Shepard's song. He was the main singer. Khaki colored dress. Where's the clapping? It's in the chorus.

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Where is the little play bar

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at? What's hilarious is that when we would play live with B-Mofo, he wouldn't know how to clap, so he would look at Lexi and follow what she was doing from the audience because he would forget what the rhythm was and he would go... And then she would have to start clapping for him. Yeah. And then sometimes he would just give up and stand there and go.

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That's the most I am Sam shit I've ever heard in

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my entire life. Did you guys always switch who played where? Yeah, that's been a thing since the beginning because I remember I was like. Explain that. He jumped the gun on that question. But explain a little bit of what a live show that Couch will put on looks like. So you got a show coming up this Wednesday at your brother's bookstore. Shout out to Sam. And. Adam. Adam. Ann. Ann. You know the other guy's name. Hamilton. Hamilton. Shout out to those dudes. They rip. But yeah, what does a normal show look like for you guys? Other than all the chaos, you got a donut or just a little cheeseburger action? That's a quarter pounder. Okay, nice, dude. Right? Yeah, I brought it for a snack. You're good. Never want to go hungry. But what does a normal show look like? I always start on drums. Like

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always. And is there like the same set list or can you guys play all songs in all places?

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We've got certain songs where it's just certain guys need to be on a certain instrument. Okay. To play at like a certain skill level at least. Yeah, well, like... Sometimes it just works, too. Like, Shepard's style of guitar works better than my style of guitar on certain songs. Gotcha. We just play differently. And Ashton's the best bass player. He's a really good bass player. So if we want a song with some awesome bass, Ashton's going to be on that, and I'll be on drums. Okay, so you

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guys aren't entirely interchangeable for every track.

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Eventually we will be, but it's just... We do what we do and we're not going to just change up the song. We just make a song like I'm on drums or I'm on guitar and then everybody else is on something else and that's just how it is forever. Yeah, just

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come back from me singing

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some racial slur.

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Yeah, racial slur,

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insert Tom. Yeah, this time let's cut this stuff out, guys. Yeah.

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Dude, that was so funny. We talked about that on Saturday.

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Because I did cut it out, the first part, like where we actually talked about it. And I remembered to do that. No, no, you didn't. Oh, I didn't? No. Oh, I just left the whole thing out. It gets brought up and then you bring it up again later. But I think that was the hardest I've ever laughed in my life when I watched it. that back. I'm laughing pretty hard right now. Because beforehand I go, what if they just forgot to cut it out, guys? Like that stuff. And they'd go, that would be so couch. That would be so funny. They were both like, that would be perfect for us. See, I don't want to say that you're welcome. I feel like those words are not what I'm looking for, but you know. It worked out. I'm adding to the couch. The couch just dumbness. The lore. The discography or whatever the Wikipedia article will say when Oh, God damn. That was so funny, dude. What were we talking about before? Christ. So I'll start on drums. Yeah, we were talking about cycling. Yeah, so what does an average show look like? You always start on drums, and it's not always the same track, right? We play a few songs where I'm on drums, Ashton's on bass, and Shepard's on guitar. You sing on drums? Yeah. Nice. I'll sing on drums, and I have songs on guitar where I sing, and Shepard will sing, and Ashton will sing. Yeah. And then we will eventually get up and switch. We used to start with Death to the Morons every time because it's got a good intro. It's just drums. It goes... And then that's when the guitar and bass come in. Yeah, classic intro. Yeah, and then it speeds up. But we've got a couple good songs that are good to start with. Like Doom is another... uh good good way to start off a show

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oh yeah but almost always on drums in the beginning every time every time you prefer

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it that way or what it's just how we do it i don't know okay i don't even have answers to some things i've never even thought about it but what if there's like a super sick like blues scale that opens up a song and you guys are like this has to be the song that we open every show with until we die then we would now you're not on drums now you're on guitar all right you ever feel with the audience and play the same song like three times in a row we've joked about we've joked about doing just like because we uh during practice on khaki colored dress we'll play the chorus like 500 times we've joked about doing that for people because they'd be like, what the fuck's going on? What's that one... It's a whole lot of clapping.

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Everybody has to be offbeat. What's one of those...

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What's New Pussycat? Who sings that song? Tom Jones. Tom Jones. That's like one of those songs that's just like,

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how fucking long is this song? I love

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that song.

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I don't give a shit how long it is.

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I love that song.

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I'm not giving it shit. It's a good song. What's New Pussycat? I love that

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song. And then Purple Rain's another one. There's just songs out there that are like, this is going way too long. Have you guys thought about a 20-minute long song? Check out the second album. The whole album is just like, listen to this. Listen to this stupid shit. Actually, don't click on the first thing. Leave the room if we're going to listen to the first thing. She has a fear of vomit. Oh, she has a fear of vomit. Yeah, take them off. Okay, there you go. This is the intro to our album. Beautiful intro.

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I can feel it. Angelic. Are you guys playing these instruments?

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I just made it on a digital. I put the notes in and it had string things play it for me. If I was to do it again, I would set up a MIDI and play it

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on keyboards. If there are any single women listening, my phone number is 812. I ate too many tacos.

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Oh, it's so cute. It's so cute. I was puking in a trash can in my room. We recorded

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it. Is that a real audio recording of you

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puking? I just actually started puking. And I just grabbed the mic and put it near the trash can so we'd have it for the recording. Well, why not? I mean, capitalize on the moment. You're like an audiophile. Do you have, like, different folders on your... It's just, yeah. Do you have a diarrhea folder? Because I feel like you should. It's like that blind guy that's listening to people poop. Oh, dude. Do you know about this guy? Nope. He's dead now. Will you Google him? Google blind guy that likes to listen to people diarrhea. You really don't know about this guy? This sounds like some shit my brother would do. Oh my God. Do you guys need to write a song about him? Well, if I send you a link, will you write a song about him? Maybe. And then you have to do a diarrhea. No, no, no. Find the actual guy, Tom. I searched. Tom... Come on, Tom.

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Anyways, there's this blind dude. For years, he would go to message boards or a website. I don't know where he was. Craigslist? I don't know where he was getting these guys from, but he had a YouTube channel for years. And his whole channel was like... reviewing, yeah,

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this guy. Check this out, man.

SPEAKER_01:

Justin, I really like your videos and I hope you continue to do them. And me being blind, please, I'd appreciate you doing them to where I can hear and, you know, I'd like you to turn the recorder on when you go into the bathroom and let me hear you undo your belt or your pants down, sit down and do a good stream of pee in the water and a good shit And for me, since I can't see, if you could describe what it looks like in the toilet. You

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don't fucking

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know about

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this? I've

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never seen this. I'm

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from

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Southgate, Michigan. I am a blind person.

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He's talking about how he doesn't like when people take laxatives. He wants natural shits. Yeah, he can audibly tell if it's laxative driven or if it's all grotten. You know what I mean? Pretty odd. Yeah, he's dead. So it doesn't matter. You can say whatever you want about him now. But yeah, he's a strange fella, but

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definitely couch song worthy, I feel like, right? Nice

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audio intro.

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Yeah, do like an explosive go back to the taco thing, dude. Load up on some Takis, dude. Maybe extra hot. I'm not

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going to be the one diarrhea and we'll get somebody else

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to do that. And then blow it out. And then that's how you intro the song.

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Yeah.

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And then you'd sing a song about Taco Bell or some blind guy that likes

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diarrhea. Do you record weird samples like that? You're throwing up, I guess. Do you still have just that file? Hell yeah, dude. The next album is going to be full of experimental weirdness. Well, actually, the next album is... I'm going to say most of this is experimental. Oh, yeah. Well, there's another great example is either go to the end of either Falling Out of Love or... Both of them have some stupid shit at the end. Falling out of love and scattered brain. And this one's already a weird sounding song. How do we find the actual player, though? Tom? I don't know. I don't use Spotify. Oh, it's down here underneath your fucking trash ass. This one's pretty experimental. I plugged Shepard's voice into an envelope filter. An envelope filter? Yeah, off my pedal board, and then did another version where he's just singing regularly, I think. Yeah, that's like very... It's just like we were just like, let's just do this. Because it was just like kind of a regular song before, and

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we were like...

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That'll

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work too. Maybe not. Psyche. And that's an envelope filter? What the fuck, dude? That's crazy.

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I mean, this is literally... Are you a Yoko Ono fan by chance? Nope. You're not? No, I hate her. Because she killed one of the Beatles? No, because she's annoying as

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fuck.

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I love it when I run into somebody that doesn't know who Yoko Ono is, and I play them the song Why every time. I don't know it, but everything I've heard...

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It's like they gathered up three blind people to play instruments. That's what she

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liked. In the rock and roll circus footage after the Dirty Mac plays, she comes up and starts yelling like a psycho and then she brings the worst violinist ever. Yeah, just like a blind deaf. Yeah, that was the fight. That's the fight at the end of the recording. We already lost B-Mofo, okay? We don't need to split up like this.

SPEAKER_04:

I'm done. I quit the band too. You can just be a drumming solo thing from now

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on. Fucking John Bonham. is that that filter the pedal yeah that's the pedal yeah i don't know

SPEAKER_05:

we don't even remember when we listened back on that to see if it was good for the recording i don't even remember that part being in it we thought it was too funny to take out

SPEAKER_03:

dude uh y'all are fucking wild bro what i would do to be 20 years old again jesus christ i feel like are you good over there what's

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happening

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you got some

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kind of science experiment going on over here there's like i'm

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doing metal planking um I don't need another. Okay. Roger that. I do. What? Okay. So you guys switch seats. We kind of cover what a show looks like. We talked about a show coming up this week. And then so how has it been? How long has it been since you've locked in your key players in Couch? Has it been two

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years now? Two years? Probably more than two years. Yeah. And you have an album that's going to come out this year, 2025? Yeah. What? Yeah. Over two years because we were seniors. So creeping up on three years. Yeah. God bless you. Thank you. And then you put out the Leather, Blood, and Milk album, which is raw, made on an 8-track, right? They're all made on the same 8-track. I just figured out how to use it. So you have a new album coming out in 2025 before the end of the year? Yeah. And that was made on the same 8-track? Yeah. it's uh i actually figured out a mic stuff you know do you think you'll always go that way or would you ever entertain going like actual like digital like with a interface and i don't i just like the sound of an amp in a room more just that light buzz in the background yeah yeah just like the drums room sound okay i don't know it's just who inspires you from Who do you think of when you think of that noise and that buzz? I think you guys think I think more than I really do. No, but seriously though, some albums that you've listened to where you hear that style of... The hum and then the room drums. Old school, just really old stuff. Like Motown stuff even. They always record in big rooms, which I don't really have access. I mean, I probably do, but whatever. Just do it in my room. But you can hear the amps in the background sometimes ringing. Or like old rock, you definitely can because they've got the gain so high up. And I really like stuff like that. Just sounds like you're with the band. Like you just mentioned Motown, we talked... last weekend that you were big into Motown at the time. Do you find that what you listen to on a regular basis shifts as each album? What I've listened to, it just went from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Frank Zappa. Frank

SPEAKER_03:

Zappa, piano tie guy, right? No. Is Frank Zappa the piano tie guy? I think that is Frank Zappa.

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Frank Zappa. Didn't he come out with the piano tie? Google Frank Zappa piano tie. I think he was the guy that came out with the piano tie. It was like his... His creation, dude. But anyways, yeah. Frank Zappa slaps. All sorts of music.

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Yeah.

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60 plus albums. And the people that listen to your albums and your music and support you and go to your shows, do you think they even know this side of you? Some of them do. Some of them do. Like, you're closer friends that go to the shows and stuff, but, like, people that are there for the raw chaos that is Couch, the pure mayhem of just, like, sacrificial dummies and bloody cows and blown-up baby suits, do you think that they're aware that, like, you even know who Bach is? I don't know. They probably think I'm a dumbass. So, see... That's just... how it is. Do you think, do you do that intentionally? Like, because you aren't stupid. Well, can you imagine if I go up on stage and I look like a really smart guy? Well, no, don't be smart, but like, what if you like play? Are you guys not going to do an episode where you guys all got like pocket protectors and suits? We might, but we're still going to keep punching each other and falling on the floor. Yeah, dude, if somebody doesn't get stabbed with a protractor, I am disappointed. We had an idea. We don't want to get too crazy with the gimmicks Yeah. We had a phase where we'd bring a dildo to the show and just stupid shit.

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I've thought about buying just a massive suction cup dildo and putting it on the table just for each

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show. That's what we've got, and we'd throw it. Are you getting rid of it anytime soon? No, look at this. I bought this dildo in Panama. This thing? Yeah, we talked about this last time. You buy this, throw it out in the crowd, and it just wiggles through the air. It'd be fire. It's like a lawn dart, dude. Somebody might get hurt with that thing. Yeah. Yeah, well, somebody got mad because I think I threw it and hit somebody in the face. That's exactly what I was just explaining. That's a fire hazard, to say the least. Lexi got me this helmet for my birthday, my 18th birthday, with a visor, and she painted cow spots and the couch logo on the side, and I would stick the dildo on top of it and play. Like a unicorn. Yeah. Like a dick. be funny if you put two of them and like made a cow you know oh dude that'd be tits for sure it'd be dicks udders did we show you we are now one last time we're not that i'm aware of no those guys are like two feet taller than me each so i put my arms around their heads and they lift me up and then they can punch while i can kick what

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is happening

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we we are now one where we form into one massive being oh you yeah because they are taller than you and you're you're not like a super I'm like 5'9 or something. Lexi, how tall am I again?

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Yeah, I'm 5'9, dude. Don't be ashamed of

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it.

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Be proud,

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bro. We can do crazy shit like this. We can become a human transformer. I had a funny idea for a shot for a music video where it pans over and I'll stand in the middle and it shows Ashton's face and then it shows the top of my head and then it shows Shepard. So you get to see like this and above of me because those guys are both so tall. dude that's clever man i

SPEAKER_03:

like the uh i mean honestly like you have a raw fucking talent for music uh so even behind all

SPEAKER_05:

the chaos and stuff when i listen to your songs like i hear those riffs and those scales and shit like it's it's nice dude um but yeah dude i don't know do you so what is

SPEAKER_03:

so you're getting away from gimmicks you don't think you're

SPEAKER_05:

playing we still do like stupid stuff but we we don't want to go all out to where it's mainly about the gimmicks except instead of the music right like cause you can't just go out like I don't know you just can't make it all about the dumbness and then like you gotta put on a show but play well and play cool songs you can't just go out there and like just put dildos in your head and you still gotta play a sick riff while putting a dildo on your head I mean you could but I think that would just be like a you'd have to record it and it'd be like a jackass part 2 type of Hello? Damn, why didn't we close that fucking door? I didn't even think about that. It was warm.

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Huh?

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It was warm. Yeah, true. So you guys are staying away from, or still doing some gimmicky stuff. We definitely do. Like, me and Shepard fought at the last show. I remember you talking about that. And tackled onto the floor and everything. Didn't one

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of the guys in the crowd think you were actually fighting? That was

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at Boobies. At Boobies, they broke us up. Because me and Shepard were... Boobies. in Illinois. Yeah. That's the place I don't like. Yeah. Shout out to SIU. Yeah. You fucking turds. Dude, speaking of shows that you've played, though, I actually have two questions. I want to talk about places you've played now that we're talking about boobies. What is boobies? And we talked a little bit about this the other day. It's a bar with sandwiches on stage. Like a basement show? It's just a regular bar. Oh, okay. That's not the basement that smelled like... The basement was... Lost Cross where he got covered in dirt off the floor. And it kind of smelled like raccoon urine. What the fuck? But we were talking about it. I agree with him that those are kind of the best shows to play. I love those. Like the swampy Sum 41 bass guitars lost an ear during the show type of shows. Our last show was at the Bird House in Carbondale which was another basement show and the guy who played the cow was like covered in like brown Like he was on the floor and his whole back was brown.

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That's

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crazy.

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Yeah, he's probably not riding in the van on the way home. Just go ahead and hitch an Uber, brother. Yeah, I

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think he drove separately.

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Rightfully so.

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And then my second question that I had in the moment, we were talking about like the crazy sounds and how I can, I enjoy it. But what band or bands would you even relate to couch? Someone that has never listened to your music That is, I mean, until today. They're watching this episode. We played a couple of samples or whatever, which, by the way, you're going to get an email about that from Spotify. Just tell them we're cool, okay? So they don't take our shit down. But who are some bands or musicians that you guys would... Not even say that you sound like, but just relate to? I guess Ween. If you were going to go on tour? Probably because Ween is... They've got a bunch of different stuff that just sounds different. Song to song, it's different. And we kind of do that just because we all have such different ideas all over the place musically. And we just really like Ween and... I put the weird shit in there too, which is what they do. Yeah. Fuck it, dude. I love wean. Shout out to wean, bruh. Yeah. Band. They were a band since 90. No, 84. I'm sorry. Damn, are they still performing? Yeah, we saw them not too long ago. A couple years ago, actually. Sick live show? Yeah, they're really good live. They do the whole show and everything and perform, perform. Yeah, well, they kind of just hang out and do their weird-ass songs, but it's really cool. Is there anybody else like Wayne that you guys like? Ultimate Tour, Dream World, Wayne's the headliner. Who's under Ween? And then who are you open? You know what I mean? Who do you open for? What does that lineup even look like? I don't know. Yeah, because I don't know either. I'm

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going to be honest with you. I

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see

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Ween, though. I see Ween.

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Okay. Like, if you're just going by, like, weirdness. Yeah. Like... I don't know, butthole surfers are pretty weird. Yeah, butthole surfers are weird. Flaming Lips are pretty weird. 90s band. Still, we just do such different stuff, though. Okay. I'm going to have to listen to some more Ween. It's been a while since I've heard Ween. To really gather the it's different from track to track kind of vibe. Because that's how you guys are. You don't have like a... Like a paint by color You guys don't have like a rhyme or a rhythm Well this next album we're gonna release Which should be pretty soon We talked about it last time But it's been such a pain in the ass to get actually done It's all hardcore punk Really? Yeah So is it still gonna be Like not crazy but like different from track to track Or is it gonna stay true to like It's pretty much all just like punk Like the fast rhythm type stuff Yeah it's got a couple weird things in there but we it's pretty i like the weird stuff i do too well the next album is gonna be weirder than anything we've ever put out so i'm here for it dude we're gonna have the hardcore punk album and then start a song with the sounds of a fucking car crash i'm a big fan of samples too like the weirder the samples you can get the better like frank zappa yeah he gets really weird literally just like talking and then like weird xylophone did you ever listen to a Ah, you have dropped the ball, dude. I disappointed you. Yeah, it's okay. Look up AIDS Wolf. They're a band, extremely experimental. They've been a band since 2003. Real

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weird shit. You know how you hear the sound of TV static? Is this

SPEAKER_05:

a Ronald Reagan face mask? I believe it. No,

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that's a Nixon face mask. Yeah, that's a Nixon. Yeah, you were close though. Yeah, they're strange dudes. Check them out. Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, AIDS, Wolf, really tight shit. You would like them.

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But yeah, I don't know where I was going from that. So your dream lineup would be like you guys opening for butthole surfers and then headliner, the ween, the infamous ween, right?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. What about, speaking of shows. What shows do you guys have coming up?

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You got shows coming up soon, right? Bookstore. That's this week on Wednesday. That will have already happened, by the way. And it's at a space place. It's at the Space Center. Can we find out what the name of that place is? I forgot what it's called. But that one's September what?

UNKNOWN:

What?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know, dude. They're just going to

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tell me to be there and I'm going to... The 13th. 13th. Do we know the name of the joint? Don't worry. The manager's in the room. She's going to take care of us. Yeah, she's the one who...

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They just searched Space Place.

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Space Place, Louisville. Is that a real thing? Kentucky Space Center. Safe play sites. We played at the nursing home again. Louisville Astronomy Society. He said you played at a nursing home? Yeah. What did they think of that? Did they get any Vietnam flashbacks? One guy tried to leave.

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They told him he had to sit down and figure out the parking brake on his wheelchair. His couch is actually calling me right

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now. Couch is calling? Yeah, they called. Oh, shit. Oh, okay. She's calling him. Oh, okay. Sick, dude. Yeah, we actually... How'd the nursing home show go, though? Oh. Camp Spaceman. Camp Spaceman. Well, we might want to cut this part out again. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

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Just leave it alone.

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I'm literally getting lightheaded from laughing. That's going to need to be out of the podcast. Yeah, we had to stop because we were told to stop, so we cut straight to Chips and Salsa and did that one right

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there. And just tied it up. Yeah,

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there's actually, my mom made an awesome reel when we played there. She uploaded it to the Facebook. Oh, God, you're a savage. And the couch is on the Facebook, right? It would be actually under the nursing home's Facebook. Or the Instagram, I mean. Bold strat. Which, uh... Yeah, I'm sure she'd be fine with us putting that on the podcast. Somebody... That was our acoustic show, which was a major disaster. That's Space Monkey. That's our real... That was when we went to the ditch and it was slippery. Dude, there's just like... There's no stopping with you.

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When we went to the ditch,

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it was slippery. Here's Shepard falling in. Sinking in slowly. I wish we got a video where we got him to cross a tree and he fell fully submerged up to his neck in the water. Oh, no. Is that like Pigeon Creek? Uh, it's just behind my house. Oh, God. I hope it's not Pigeon Creek. That's me with Thompson. They found a body in there not too long ago. Oh, it's probably Shepard. Rest in peace to Shepard, dude. Did you hear about that? Did you hear about that? Really? Shout out to Pigeon Creek.

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Uh, dude. But yeah, man, I really feel like, um, I feel like the sky's the limit with you boys, dude. We'll have to do another crazy interview.

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What is this? That's the nipple. The nipple? Yeah, that's what we call them. See the shadow in the background? Oh, it's a gun. Nice.

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And he looks so very upset. Take your fucking rations.

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What's with the glove, dude? That's my Satan glove.

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Oh, is this it? I

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mean,

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dude.

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That's such a 90s, like 90s gym fucking,

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you

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know. Dude, sick.

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I don't know, man. What do you think the future is for Couch? That's my final question. What's your future for couch? Couldn't tell you dream world though. Dream world. The farthest I like care about getting is just to have enough shows to let us live without having a job. That would be the ultimate dream. And it doesn't even need to be great venues. Is that where you're at now? Or you're saying that's where you want to get to? That's where, that's where, that's what would be awesome. Like if we could just get booked constantly, like bars, just enough to like go around and do that are those boys open to changing cities or like I don't think any of us we're pretty much just all gonna be like I think if you guys move to Portland you'd be shocked by how quickly they take you in by a van go down by the river Austin Austin or Portland dude either

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one they would see you and be like man that's fucking weird let's get them in a stadium right now

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we actually knew a guy RCJ's Too Much Did you name the band for him? I feel like that's a name of a song. RCJ's too much. No, that's his idea. He's weirder than probably anybody I've ever met. One of my dad's friends for a long time. So he just fits right into the crew. It's all one word. It's not a big channel. It's... R-C-J's Too Much. Yeah, maybe that's not the name of it. Oh, damn. We dropped the ball here. I'm going to say we, but you dropped the ball, Gus. I got it. Hold up. I got it. But do you think you guys could ever move cities and like... Yeah. At R-C-J's Too Much. Like T-O-O? Actually, just put in capital R-C-J's Too Much. Like J-A-Y-S? Just J, like that, yeah. Yeah. And then space, I got the name off too much. T-O-O? Yeah. Yeah, too much. Or is it? One word. It's two words. Yeah, there you go. You were right, Tom. Go with your gut. Go with your gut. I'm all about some eclectic fucking music. Do we still not find it? Nope. All right. Well, this is going to be the episode where I kill myself on air. Look up. We are fucking dead set. We're going to pump this dude's shit in fucking Texas, bro. I'm fucking here for it.

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Let's go.

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After that, type in rock climbing gym party. What the fuck is happening here, dude? Just trust me. Fucking trust me, dude.

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Dude, even Google AI is like, listen, man, I don't know what's going on. I

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think you're having a stroke. I found it right away on my phone. Oh, yeah, that's fucking... My fucking Mac sucks, I guess. Yeah, there it is. Dude, what the fuck is this? Oh my god. I want to subscribe to this immediately, Tom. I want to subscribe to that immediately.

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Find that. We'll cover it. We'll plug him in the description if we can, but try your best to find that. And then sub to him. Anyway, so the future of Couch. You don't know. Just the game plan

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is... Just keep going for as long as possible. Yeah. And try to book shows enough to where none of you guys have to work. There we go. Yeah, pretty much. Is this it? Did you find it? Nice, dude. Nice. Hell yeah. Dude, look at

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that. Did you sub? I don't know that we can play any sound. I can just mute it, but... This is like one of those shitty fucking karaoke videos people do at home.

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He's got the music video for that. Yeah, there you

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go.

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The old beast and Zulu as Kona was the other band too. And they've got some pretty crazy songs like crazy time signatures that it cuts to just weird shit. It's really awesome. What do you think the craziest band that you've ever or weirdest band is that you've ever listened to? I don't know. One that sticks out. But Whole Surface, for example, is pretty weird. Yeah, Zap is pretty weird. But Whole Surface was like radio music. They had one radio song. What was the name of it again? Pepper. Yeah, Pepper. That made them. They didn't have to work the rest of their lives because of Pepper. I think that's what it's called. Go back to their early stuff, and it's really, really weird. Obscure, very eclectic. Yeah, they've got some stuff that's just so... Yeah, like you could probably

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play it on the podcast and we won't get sued

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for it. But Human Cannonball is an awesome song.

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Okay.

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They've got some like Locust Abortion Technician is an awesome album. Interesting. I love that title. Their second album is called Rembrandt Pussy Horse. We got a lot of albums. Yeah, play Eye of the Chicken.

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I don't think we can play

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it. Yeah, we can't. It'll get pulled down.

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We can play your shit because you won't sue us. And

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for real, though, you will likely get an email or whoever watches your shit. Someone's going to get an email from probably Spotify or YouTube or somebody. But anyways, yeah, dude. I don't know, dude. I'm tied up on questions. I'm just fucking laughing at Rembrandt fucking... Pussy horse. I've just read some of these titles. Yeah, man. I

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don't know. Do you have any questions for us?

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since because you've been on the show once a few months ago do you have any questions about like why why brian why are your shorts so short tom why are you so bad at interviewing people i don't know do you have anything like that why are you being so mean to tom right we're like brothers you know how mean you are to your brother i used to be oh i still am um No, he's mean to me sometimes. Do you guys have an album name that you're going to... Oh, yeah, for the one coming up? Sick of the Antics. Sick of the Antics. Sick of the Antics. Do you have a release date yet? No. Just before the end of the year? Once the final recording gets done, then we're just going to release it whenever. Is

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it not mixed or mastered or anything? It's

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pretty much all done. We just have to record one more thing, like one more small little thing. Okay, so it will be out 2025. Yeah. okay okay nice dude and uh you guys will post about it on ig or something right hell yeah dude you think you'll do like uh our buddy rush slocum just did a album release show do you think you would do something like that probably that'd be sick dude um stage Stage 3-2-1.

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Yeah, Stage 3-2-1 did Rush Slocum's album. What do you even call it? Album release show. Yeah, party show, whatever. Have you guys played there before? 3-2-1? It's a pretty sick spot.

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But, yeah, man, I got nothing else, man. I'm tying up. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, honestly, I'm, like, tired. I need a nap. Yeah. I got a shit nap earlier. You did so much today. I did. You drove so far. I slept not that much and did a lot today, so I was very productive. But, yeah, man, we'll have to do, like, an on-the-street interview with, like, you and all the guys again somewhere where you guys can break something or, like, shove a dildo in somebody's butt cheeks or something. I'd love to see all three of you guys again. Those pictures up there, we got of us, all of our faces. I just want to say that's from Graydon Harrell. He took those pictures. He's an awesome photographer. Who's Graydon Harrell? I don't think I know that name. Is he a young cat? I've known him since I was a kid. Our parents were friends. Is he about your age? Yeah, he's a little bit older than me. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, he commented on there. Oh, shit. Gus got naked and jumped to the dumpster. Can we follow him? You should click that name and follow that fella. I like this shot. This is actually a very unique shot. There's some more pictures on there. Is this the guy? No, that's the wrong guy. That's Street Judas. Don't follow Street, or I guess you can follow him. Or don't follow him. He's the cow a lot. He's been on a couple songs. He was Street Jackson for one show. Who's the guy that commented that we want to follow? Graydon. Graydon, that guy. Follow this dude. Yeah, he takes some awesome pictures. I love, dude, I'm a big fan of art no matter what form or fashion I'm here to support it dude if your art is painting with diarrhea on a canvas fucking I want to talk to you those golf pictures I saw was what made me reach out to him and ask him if he wanted to get some pictures cause that's just awesome stuff hell yeah that's nice

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that's nice

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well Gus thanks for coming in on a Sunday afternoon yeah spending a couple hours with us I appreciate you brother I gotta show you that fucking one song so you're not leaving just yet But short of that, I think it's been a thrilling episode of The Day is Grim, right? Tighten up, brother. Tighten up. Yeah. That's hot.

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My name is Brian Michael Day. My name is Thomas Graham. And this has been Gus from Couch. Thank you so much, brother. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Watch your dogs.