Interview with mc chris - Podcast 86

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you you sort of internet log and as it is um but thanks anyway nonetheless we're happy to have on this very special halloween edition of sound scene revolution um i'm not sure if there's really anything halloween about it um i'm eating a lot of candy i got really drunk last weekend i guess if you were to tie it in with candy our guest this week is mc chris who did i want candy as mcp pants on aqua teen hunger force similar to what sound guy nairman just did um yeah so that kind of that that was a little that was a little anticlimactic but uh yeah so our guest this week is mc chris you may know him as hesh from c lab 2021 uh mcp pants from aqua teen hunger force he has like five albums out he was nominated for spins artist of the year like nine or 2007 so he's done a hell of a lot he also got invited to the playboy mansion for the 2007 halloween party in which he dressed up as boba fett which is pretty fucking awesome um so it's kind of an interesting interview chris uh pretty much takes control i guess that's what he's good at and so he's way funnier than i am so i let him run with it uh enjoy it listen we got some music we got some uh uh some uh oh we have a contest at the end we're gonna be giving away a copy of mc chris's latest album mc chris is dead um i was hoping to have it on vinyl um because i know he's planning on releasing it they didn't have any at the show i think that's not supposed to come out until around thanksgiving on vinyl but we have it on cd form so if you listen to the end we'll tell you how to enter to win um other than that we got some music we have the interview uh we're going to start with the title track off of mc chris's album mc chris is dead uh just kind of give you an idea what he sounds like if you're interested um and even if you don't like the music you may or may not stay tuned for the interview because i think it's uh it's pretty entertaining so uh enjoy

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so uh what's going on this is uh i'm gonna do a little intro sound scene revolution we're uh out back of the catalyst with mc chris if you'd like to say hello hello everybody in america and countries abroad that's true cause this is the internet so right anybody could be listening except in alaska where they don't get much internet they don't get internet in alaska it's a series of tubes and it doesn't reach out to fucking alaska i'm sure the internet is more complex than a series of tubes where did you hear this it's the alaskan senator said it the alaskan senator said it yeah not palin one of the actual senators not the governor but uh it was a lot why you're so why you're so invested in foreign countries government alaska's not even a part of this country everybody up there is it's like some combination of chinese person american indian they're not even real people let's just cut it off it's like a scab i'm all right with that thought process i'm okay with that idea actually you know what i'm gonna flip the coin and i'm actually would like to now protest the treatment of indigenous people so you're okay with getting rid of can't or alaska but you're you want to protest now we need to stop all the uh all of our american involvement in alaska leave those alaskan people alone dr fleshman's gotta make out with janine turner before sweeps that's the northern exposure reference ladies and gentlemen northern it was actually back in the day yo it was actually filmed in uh washington though not in alaska you're depressing i'm sorry go ahead next question i'm sorry next question was there a question there there there hasn't been yet there's gonna be uh so i want to ask first get it out of the way what's what are you probably asked about most more than anything else in any other interview what does everyone bring up so i can avoid that what does everyone want to know they want to know who i really am they want to know what makes me tick they want to know what kind of foods i eat they want to know what kind of clothes i wear they want to know what kind of product i use in my hairstyle they want to know how i get my breasts smelling like strawberries and pimentos they want to know why my shoes shine they want to know why my dance moves are better than their dance moves you want to know the answer to these questions i ain't gonna tell you i'm a magician i ain't gonna reveal my tricks back off get asked a lot of questions though i do that strawberry and pimentos one yeah i'd like to know that if i could but i understand we haven't talked about that so much if i talk about strawberry and pimentos one more time i swear to god i'm gonna go crazy i don't even want to talk about it can we just stop talking about strawberry and pimentos for three seconds i feel like that's all i have to talk about people don't want to know about me they want to know about why am i combining strawberries and pimentos wasn't it obvious i'm pregnant that's that's huge for you two-headed flipper baby that's gonna be pretty awesome for you well it is exciting i have female reproductive organs though so it's not really a big feat i've just confused everybody with my physical appearance and lots of you know testosterone treatments the beard would have thrown me when you had the beard going that would have thrown me out that was the testosterone treatments there you go well i'm sure you'll be a very these things are gonna kick in eventually you'll be a very proud mother of a two-headed flipper baby one day don't you make fun of my son slash cousin we don't all right um i feel like i should ask real questions now um all right i guess the first real question will be uh was it earlier in september you did a piece for 60 minutes is that right mm-hmm how did how did that come about did they just call you one day well basically what they did is they called me up the clock did and it said tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick and i was like yo i'm a big fan sign my thing and he's like tick tick tick tick tick i'm like you don't say and then i was like so we how who are you gonna vote for he's like tick tick tick tick tick i'm like yo i disagree with your political opinions why don't you back off he's like tick tick tick tick tick tick i'm like yo don't you be saying that about my mama and then i roll up my sleeves and i punched him right in his clock face so and he was like tick tick tick tick i'm like god damn japanese twice now i've insulted the asian peoples uh the clock is made in japan i'm assuming yes isn't that ironic given that it's an american video program one of the most famous american video programs yeah andy rooney's really a testament to time i tell you what every time he shows up i'm like holy shit i was actually i was really hoping the piece you were doing was just commentary on andy rooney's pieces like you would just show up in andy rooney's it's commentary on andy rooney's penis really and wait and it's a it's a really long monologue i go on i can go on i can go on for a long time i talk about like it's like woebegone i just i can make a weekly radio show called andy rooney's penis let's still take a trip down memory lane where the apples are crisp and the sun is always setting at andy rooney's penis that is that's the most beautiful description of an old dude's penis that i've ever heard thank you i'm a little touched by that it's harvest time i get emotional all right um i feel like i should ask a real question that well i'll try i don't know if i'll get a real answer we'll see what we can do so uh your last time i'm feeling flippant as you can see we'll see how we see i'm not gonna complain i'm having a good time me too it's the only interview i've enjoyed so far seriously yes that means a lot because i read your blog stop touching my leg i'm sorry it's so manly stop reading my blog okay first question all right first real question so uh your last album mc chris is dead uh supposed to be broke records supposed to be out broke windows supposed to be out on vinyl it is coming out on vinyl for the first time ever mc chris records on vinyl so how did that come about and uh when do you vinyl called me up and he was like tick tick tick why'd you kill my brother talks very similar to the clock for 60 minutes yeah they're related it was a record and well obviously they have a similar facial features the round the round you know round face circular very circulate is that what you said they circled what kind of journalist are you i'm a very bad journalist ridiculous you've got a typewriter strapped onto your back i just take i'm this isn't even you're outdated wearing ice skates and a later hosen and some gloves look like you're in rollerball i don't really feel you need to get personal on this the later hosen was i'm sorry i didn't realize you were an italian american another ethnic dis i am italian hold up i didn't even see that i'm actually that was a guess it's the grease it's glistening in this light don't be a racist sir not on tonight of all nights

where we outlawed harvesting people ok go ahead i'm having 1953 1953 fair enough do you know i've heard there's been delays in the release of the vinyl is there a date set delays where are you hearing these scandalous rumors you're reading the wrong trades and periodicals i don't know where you're getting your information sir but my vinyl is right on time you on the other hand are a joke not a very good one give me back my mug of cocoa and the whipped cream buddy i saw you put it in your pocket that's the only thing i'm going to get out of this you're going to ruin your pockets just firing whipped cream into them you know i don't know how you expect get people to take you seriously you got whipped cream in your pockets um i'm not very good at this i apologize you should apologize i'm glad you're at a lower altitude than i am you taking advantage of it i feel like i'm judging you you know what the judgement is guilty of not doing a good journalistic article on me but you gotta do research son i've done some research a little bit what is the fashion that i'm wearing the fashion that you're wearing it is late deco

late deco yeah i'm sorry don't you forget about it early 16th century you should wear some early 16th century i think that'd look good okay i'm just gonna throw that out there alright i'll take tips from you when the cows come home and they ain't expected back for weeks we're we're in uh santa cruz not a lot of cows around here so yeah well you ain't you ain't seen my fans whoa aww we yeah we've seen a couple of your fans there's a dude in a viking helmet out there i know had two high school kids in the back making out fucking furiously so that's what i'm talking about let me in on that action three-way kiss that gets me pumped before a show that's all you need yeah it was a little awkward standing back there i'm gonna be honest but don't don't feel awkward and people start making out in this world you know what you do you do two things you take pictures or you dance so i should've just pulled up next to him and started dancing or you could've mixed the two up you could've taken some pictures and danced dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun click oh click i don't know how good the photos would've come out but i think the experience would've been you know what your problem is you're negative you're a negative ned and you need to be a positive Paul i'll work on that please do alright so uh this is an arbitrary part of the interview where we're stopping it wasn't really figured out or phased out ahead of time uh cause Chris pretty much uh if you've been paying attention ran the interview and i just kinda i tried not to fuck up too much um i i hope i didn't he seemed to enjoy himself uh i don't know if i mentioned it i'm gonna throw it in here cause it's the middle section and no one listens to this part that uh i was totally on edge because he wrote a blog literally that day talking about how much he hated interviews because he had these interviews like two days before that were all focused on him and if he was cool with nerdcore or if he wasn't cool with nerdcore and like that's all the interviews focused on and so he was like totally bitter and over interviews and i don't blame him i mean no one asked me the same question cause no one asked me questions but um he apparently gets asked it all the time so i tried really hard not to ask those questions and so when i came in i was totally on edge.

bitter and over interviews and i don't blame him no one asked me the same question because no one asked me questions but uh he apparently gets asked it all the time so i tried really hard not to ask those questions and so when i came in i was totally on edge like he was just gonna like flip out and like fucking you know throw the fucking microphone to the ground and be like this interview is done and walk off so but he was really cool about it so i just let him run with it as long as he wanted uh anyhow like i said keep listening at the end we have a chance to win mc chris is dead on cd uh more interview more songs this is from his album eating's not cheating it's uh the track is called stop time he i don't think he plays it live um but it's for some reason it's one of my favorite songs it's a really different beat than a lot of what mc chris usually does so uh it reminds me kind of of like a roots style beat you know the band not like roots music but uh so it's really pretty good i enjoy it but uh it's off eating's not cheating and uh we'll be back with more in

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myspace which is a cover of an adam and his package song which i believe is for a tribute for adam and his package correct it is all right how did that come about how did you uh adam and his package called me up and he was like tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick why'd you kill my brother and my other brother daryl i felt i felt like i should have known that but i haven't had a drink in three years people i'm telling you i feel like i should have seen i'm i walked into that you're setting all this up i really should go golfing i'm a i'm a terrible golfer well i'm saying you could tee up for me every time be your caddy yeah well i just actually thought about you putting in the you know the golf what are they called a little golf the tea yeah the golf tees yeah you'd put put the golf tee in the grass put the ball on it and then take a seat and then i'd let the caddy hand me the club frankly i wouldn't trust you with my clubs next question i can respect that so can i ask why you picked punk rock academy um because i'm going to make a cartoon called battle high and it opens up at a place called the punk rock academy for real it's a clue about my next cartoon or a cartoon i want to make that's awesome i got all serious let me get back into character pineapples raining down from the heavens you know copulating with your mama no i have that's why that that's why only an army of pineapples could take out could satisfy a hungarian goulash like your but but trot it would be your but trot unless you marry your mom which is disgusting to italian americans when you're not busy eating dog carcasses did my wife just crashing cars into each other for no apparent reason that's what we do you're making love to your own goddamn mothers and you know what that results in no retarded flipper babies with both reproductive organs i'm aphrodite retarded flipper babies that's right it happened that's this should be the title of this interview that's don't mess that up i'll i'll remember that i was just going to tell you adam and his package are going to be playing at the fest this year in florida i'm a really big fan i've never seen him live i would really like to see him live but yeah it was fun to do that song it's always good training to imitate your masters you always end up creating something really great if you don't believe me go check out gus van sant's psycho thank you uh i don't know if that's a good example i'll let that go you should let it go and by that i mean the death of your sister i hope she didn't i hope you didn't really have a sister no i did not i have never see you got you dodged the bullet you gotta let go you know in a drama so uh you've been noted as being a big fan of like 80s cartoon shows let it go she died she's dead she was killed by that serial killer that's they killed that clock they killed the brother of the brother and that 60 minute clock guys killing everybody in this interview there's a serial killer in this interview we gotta hire an old-timey detective that they have abundance of those in santa cruz so you're lucky these cobblestones that's what i would say if i was an old-timey detective because he has to do a lot of walking on cobblestone that's right okay all right next question um so you've been noted saira is not amused saira is one of my opening acts on this tour we just saw her she was good she's very very good yeah i was impressed but uh okay can i ask a question yes you can stop being so pushy was i don't want to i'll take off my panties at the speed up at i of my choosing fair enough uh which is slow so you've been noted as being a big fan of uh like 80s cartoon shows ninja trolls gi joe things like that how do you feel about like a lot of the new movies and stuff that have been coming out especially they got the new gi joe one slated for release i love them yeah nothing else that's almost worse than when you don't and when you don't address the question just you sir are ridiculous what in the front who raised you were you raised by people or by wolf people were you raised by wolf men i kind of wish that'd be kind of cool i do too that'd be pretty sweet that's right some fan fiction i'd ride i'd be able to sell my life story to disney you already can they'd put anything out you seen game plan they bought uh there was a kid at uh san joseph state college i went to they bought his story i don't know if they're gonna put it out but yeah he was he was a one-legged football player enough out of the broad who brought the lady you know how i feel about women folk i i don't actually another ethnic slur you're an ethnicity now honey i'm just kidding please speak your mind but she doesn't have a mic so no one can hear her so oh i'm just saying no one can hear you how offensive especially in this age of palin slash clinton my wife my wife just hit me your wife just hit you i had it coming though spousal abuse can i be the cop okay you know your mom will hit your dad being the old-timey detective all right you know the old-timey detective and the cop from cops need to do a time-traveling mystery adventure together uh call it the redneck prohibitionist all right uh oh the redneck prohibition okay go ahead sorry all right no problem you have a a lot of fans who are uh in the based in the punk rock community how do you think it's kind of been that that i mean your music isn't rooted in punk rock but those are the kids who seem to come out for you um actually it is rooted in punk rock mc chris came from doing and punk rock shows in jersey and uh all my friends were punk rock bands and i'm friends with bands like the ergs uh in jersey and the steinways and queens and um you know i've always been a punk rock fan so and rap and punk rock are they're kissing cousins i saw them doing it and it was gross punk rock was fingering rap and i was like what are you doing we are all related and they looked at me and they're like you want in on this and i was like no i'm eating obviously in this big watermelon like a crazy alien what i do is i make a little hole and then i sleep slink into it like i slither into it i basically break i just saw this x-files episode where the guy like breaks his arms and then he walks he slips through a vent and like basically like dislocates his shoulder so it can slide through vents so that's what i do i slide into the watermelon then eat it from the out feed it from the inside and then i come out the hole or i'd let it explode and i'd just be like yeah watermelon is inside of me now not vice versa i feel that's how you should open your show if at all one minute one minute we gotta go we gotta do our show oh dude so i gotta ask an actual really good question here all right all right i'm gonna ask one that there's one that someone asked that they were really into but i'm gonna ask one that i actually want to know the answer to last year you were invited to the playboy mansion for the halloween party uh like as someone who you know says that they weren't invited to a lot of slumber parties and stuff as a kid was that like the ultimate come up for you was that like now you're invited to the ultimate like it was awesome and i'll tell you well it wasn't totally awesome because i'm very claustrophobic so the costume was very stifling but i did get to have sex with a girl dressed up like slave leia but the problem with that was i had to have sex with her uphill and i was downhill and she was uphill so i had to fuck up and i'm shorter than she was so it was difficult it was basically it was just i felt like i was jumping up into her repeatedly so and she was holding a tree and security was looking for us but we were so fast why were we fast because i have ejaculation problems hugh hefner came up to us right as i was uh finally ejaculated and he applauded and then his brain exploded it was an amazing evening i'll never forget it well that's that's what the ufner you see in appearances is just like nick fury there's like 12 of them and they're all bionic you heard it here first this is mc chris i gotta go do my show peace out thank you for interviewing me sorry lady i hope you have nice babies paint your house a funny color good night thank you that's it that's the whole interview that's uh it wasn't very long because he was like seriously like about to step on stage as we wrapped it up but he was super gracious and i appreciate mc chris taking the time and his manager god i want to say his name is alex i'm totally forgetting it right now but he set it up and uh his road manager and he was a super cool guy i'll try and give him a plug on the side or something he was he was super helpful in the whole thing so that's the end of the interview like i said um we have a chance for you to win a cd copy of mc chris is dead and uh how you do that is maybe you're aware this is voting week a big national election here in the united states of america where it's barack obama and joe biden for the democratic party and john mccain and sarah palin for the republican party and ralph nader and someone else who's not going to win running independently don't make the mistake ralph nader's not running green party this year he hasn't run green party since 2000 so don't vote for ralph nader because he's not supporting a third party if ralph nader gets five percent vote guess who gets public funding at next year's election nobody because ralph nader isn't running with a fucking party you don't know what i'm saying anyhow if you want to if you want to win that cd send us an email sound scene revolution at gmail.com put mc chris contact contest in the subject line and just answer who do you vote for if you can vote vote for that person if you can't vote just maybe you're a felon maybe you're 12 maybe you're not a u.s citizen maybe you're in jail i don't know but tell us who you would vote for and uh tell us why um i i don't want to tell you who i'm going to vote for because i might get death threats why are you asking them to tell us because i'm gonna go with the consensus i'm gonna see how many people we get who uh say how they're gonna vote and then i'll go with that because i like to vote for the winner it's like our our sound scene revolution uh political poll and we'll post the results never yeah and if uh and if you're real lucky i'll give sound guy nerman my political poll oh but uh anyhow i'm not going to tell you i'm going to vote for but you have a choice between a you know law school educated uh community activist and a longtime senator versus a frankenstein monster and a chick who's popped out four retarded babies i don't know maybe that's that's qualified retarded babies so maybe that's qualifications to be the highest ranking office in american government i don't know i'm just saying man that's if that's all it takes i want a president who can give me a high five that's all i want if i can't get that i mean say what you will you know about howard dean and his little political folly in 2004 i know if i needed it dean would give me the up top so uh that's where we're going this year in 2008 uh enjoy it we'll see you guys next week um and uh yeah end of the contest we'll uh be back i'm going to fest this weekend so i plan to get really fucking drunk uh just thought i'd share that with you haha bye-bye

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vagina disease they weren't crazy on each other beat each other up ate each other's bodies faces it was craziness in space basically i'm talking about this stuff because i want to play this new video game called dead space just came out i went into the mall today and i went into game spot and i was like my name is mcp pants and i need to play i need to play dead space and they're like we can't open the kiosk to put new games into the x into the xbox 360 player and i was like i'm mcp pants come on i won't can you know the words let's do it yeah i want to play dead space the guy's like we can't do it and then i looked at the fable 2 uh cheat code book and it was like as big as a bible okay you can begin the interview i don't do you just want you seem to be doing pretty well by yourself no i'm okay sorry no no no worries testing the sound equipment is good it sounds great and we're actually recording this time so i'm stoked uh no idea