Interview with The Swellers - Podcast 102

Hey, we're the Swellers, and this is the Sound Scene Revolution. Yeah, buddy. Yeah, buddy.

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We have a very special interview this week with the fine folks of the Swellers, who recently put out, or not put out, but announced that they are going to be putting out their next album as a joint effort between Fueled by Ramen and Paper and Plastic. So, that's pretty exciting. I'm pretty stoked for that. And the dudes were really, really nice and really, really funny, and I'm just pretty excited that we got to work with them and we got to talk to them and all that good stuff. So, in conjunction with that, I know, it sounds kind of fruity. I'm like, they're so special. I know, you're like, I'm glad we got to work with them. We don't fucking do shit with them. We talked to them. I'm glad they took the time to fucking chat with us in the van.

Whatever. They're like 12, too. They could totally get into Michael Jackson's arcade. Bam! Reference to last week, because we record these a week apart, if you noticed. Anyhow, so we got the interview and we're going to play three tracks during the course and the first track is going to be off of their most recent full-length, My Everest. The second track that we'll be playing is going to be off of their EP, their first EP, which was called Beginning of the End Again. I think that's right. It could be wrong. I haven't listened to it for a little while, so if it's wrong, sorry. Sorry, swellers. I fucked your album up. And then the third track we're going to play is going to be off of a project that they did that was, I believe it was just Jonathan and Nick.

I think those are the two dudes in the band who are brothers. I'm totally blanking on their names now. I'm batting 1,000 today. But where they had their fans write in and suggest ideas for songs off of what's going on with their life. And they recorded like 15 or 16 acoustic songs for it. And they posted them online and they put them up for free download. And I downloaded them because if it's free music, I am on that shit, even if it's terrible. And these weren't. So we're going to play something from that. And that's not even up for download anymore.

No, those are the Jonas Brothers you just looked up, Sound Guy and Airman. Which is weird because that shit was bookmarked on his computer. Jonas Brothers Wikipedia, true story. But now he's looking. We know it's not the Jonas Brothers. Why are you reading through it? Anyhow.

So anyhow, it's a really cool concept. And we're going to play a track off of that. I don't know what tracks we're going to play yet. But when we sort through and hammer that out, we'll get them all together. And they'll be good tracks. So, here we go. First track is going to be off of My Everest. And then we're going to jump into the interview. And hopefully you guys will like it. Bye-bye.

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bottom of the hill with the guys from The Swellers. If you guys want to go around and introduce yourself. My name is Nick. I play guitar and I sing. I'm Jonathan, or Jono, and I play drums. Nicknames now, huh? I'm Ryan. I play guitar. And I'm on to when I play bass. All right. Fantastic. I guess the easiest place to start on all this is, how did you guys get started with the band? It's kind of the typical first question. Yeah, well, Jonathan's my brother. And we got started playing music together when we were like 9 and 10 years old. And when we were like 14 to 15, we decided to start The Swellers. We were just like, cool, there's a place to play music around here. That was the Flint Local 432 up in Flint, Michigan.

And we decided to kind of just, we had this idea, man, we can just put all of our equipment in a van, drive to wherever we want, and play a show, and it'd be awesome. We didn't really get the concept of touring or playing shows, but we thought it was such a great idea, and we did it several times. How come no one's ever done this shit before? Exactly. I mean, well, at first, we couldn't drive. You know, we were too young. We didn't have driver's licenses. But as the years went on through high school and everything, we decided to become a full-time touring band. And then we've been doing that for like the past three years, and we have these new guys, Anto and Ryan, because they wanted to tour as much as we tour.

You know, the other guys were just kind of old band members, were just friends of ours who weren't really down with the clown. You know what I'm saying? Did you just say down with the clown? Juggalo Pratt. ICP, man. It's all about the hatchet. It's all about clown love. Michigan, Faygo. So it's been about three years, yeah, and these guys joined within the last year. Anto joined, what, two weeks ago? You better believe it, man. You better believe it. You better believe it. Two weeks, wow. How's it been? Good two weeks? It's been the best two weeks of my life. Wow. Except for when his phone card didn't work. Anto's from Canada, so he can't use his phone here in the States. But luckily, I watched a lot of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and I was a wicked gumshoe, and I got to the bottom of the phone card problem.

He did. It's this guy named Bryant in North Platte, Nebraska. He sold him the card and didn't activate it. It cost him 20 bucks. How does that work? How can you even sell that? I thought you had to activate him. I was pretty bummed out, and then I thought to myself, while listening to the swellers in the van, I was thinking, dude, we keep track of all the gas stations we've been to for tax purposes, I think. I don't know why, but we do. It's something we do in the States. Don't trust anybody. It's a Michigan thing. It's stone cold rules. And then I was thinking, oh, I didn't keep my receipt for my phone card, but I can for sure just go back and track which gas station we hit up. So I talked to the operator for about 15 minutes, and luckily, Brian Collins was nice enough to let me use his phone.

And yeah, we got to the bottom. I read her receipt after receipt, and then finally we got to the time saver in Nebraska. North Platte, Nebraska. Don't ever buy a call. So you bought a calling card from a gas station, and they were just like, they never activated it? They were just like, yeah, it's cool. You just called the number, and it goes. It's all set. John was my witness. It was Bryant. Bryant sold it to us. It was the name on the receipt. Wow, dude. This one goes out to you, Bryant. That's amazing. If you're named Bryant, and you're not him, I'm sorry. You have a real name. If you live in North Platte, and you didn't sell the calling card, you're not such a dick. Yeah, exactly. That's our big party story of the tour so far.

That's been, that's pretty insane. No, we got more. Yeah. So, you guys have been what? You've lived on the road pretty much, I mean, on and off for the last three years or so. Yeah. Pretty constantly. Sounds about right. We haven't been home for more than two months, I'd say, in three years. Oh, my God. Oh, I guess I think home has been like two months, I think. Two and a half? Yeah, two or two and a half months at the tops. Yeah. We shouldn't even be on tour right now. It's like we're at the end of our album cycle, but four years strong and set your goals. We're like, do this tour, man. And we're like, okay, dude. And then, yeah, we decided Living With Lions wanted to do something out west. So, that's why we're here with them.

We've been fans of them for a while, too. So, that's awesome how that worked out. So, we're like, let's just do the whole U.S. one last time before the new record comes out. You get to see real live Canadians and play with them every night in our own country. It's just crazy. It's like being on the Discovery Channel. You're observing them. Yeah. It's like you, Anto. Absolutely. I'm Canadian. He really is, though. That's a fact. Not making that one up. We can totally sit here and just be like, yo, man, life on the road, man. You're in the van, man. Totally. It's such a drag. But, dude, this is just what we do. And I don't even think about it anymore. We just play our songs and hang out with dudes. The only time we actually think about stuff is when we have to back up the van, and then Nick yells at everyone.

Usually, I just get in the driver's seat and back up, and Dave will be like, our merch guy, Dave, tour manager, he'll be like, oh, there's a good parking spot, and it's like big enough for a Mini Cooper, and we have a van and a trailer. We're like, no, man. Or he's like, that's a great spot, and it says, like, no parking punishable by death or something. I get a lot of those in San Francisco. I know. Actually, around here is pretty good. Like, this, right around bottom of the hill is good for parking. Everywhere else in San Francisco blows. This venue, bottom of the hill, is, like, one of the coolest places I've ever played. Oh, yeah. It just sounds so good. Everyone's so nice. They made us spaghettis with tomato sauce.

Wow. Yeah. Or pasta, as someone would call it. Treat you guys right. Do you guys know who's doing soundboard tonight? Skylar. Skylar's here? Skylar, what a guy. That's fantastic. I know who Skylar is. Really? Yeah, Skylar, he works for Asian, man. No way. Yeah. We actually played Plea for Peace Center, and Mike Park owns it. Yeah. So, there you go. It's 60 degrees. That's awesome. We have so many Asian men in your life. We have so many Asian men in your life. Related. Did I say related? It's like rancid mixed with related. But you're technically related now. That's awesome. To Asian men. I'm going to give him a shout-out during a set between every song. This goes out to Asian men. Skylar, what's up? I want to ride bikes with Mike Park.

I told the guy from the show yesterday that. And he was like... Living with Lions hit his car yesterday. They hit Mike Park's car? No, no, no. The guy who owned the venue. Oh, okay. Sorry, man. I think he saw it. I hope he didn't rat them out. But it was funny as hell. No, he was watching while it happened. He was smiling still. He was just like, eh. Yeah. What you going to do? Well, that's... Here comes Matt from Living with Lions. He looks confused. He's not sure why everyone's in the van hanging out. He can't take it. That's a song about him. Is it? I'm not familiar with him. I'm not going to lie. I think you're going to like him. Yeah? It's like... Imagine... Do you know Belvedere? Yeah. Imagine... Mr. Belvedere, right?

The 80s sitcom? Wait, they don't sound like Belvedere at all. No, no. Imagine... No, the vocals of Belvedere, if they were like really tough and sweet with more of like a punk... not like a fast skate punk thing, but sometimes it is. Basically, Living with the Lions is a great punk rock band for Vancouver, Canada. You should all check them out. Long and short of it. There we go. Right there. So, you guys mentioned you're at the end of the album cycle for your last album, My Averse. That was your last album, right? Yeah. Okay, good. We put it out on vinyl so we could be punk again. I know. You guys did that with Team Science, right? Yeah, Team Science. It only took Aaron Danger eight years to put that whole thing together.

I think it took a year and a half. Yeah. The best... Was it Fest 7? Or no, Fest 6. That's where we were talking about it. Oh, yeah. And we didn't release it until after the next one. We had the record out for what, three months? We were like, let's put it on vinyl. It didn't come out until after Fest 7. Yeah. He gave me a test pressing at Fest 7. Awesome. He's like, yeah, I'm totally named drop it, by the way. I got a test pressing at Fest 7. By the way, dude, we got them too. It's crazy. But yeah, he gave me one and I was like, awesome! So I was totally expecting it in the next, like, two months. Nine or ten months later it finally came out. There you go. Yeah, good job, Ryan. Is that Fest 7? Oh, Fest 7? Yep. Yeah, we like the Fest.

After I bought a Fest shirt and then Tony gave them to us after the Fest. I was supposed to email Tony tomorrow to figure out if we can play the Fest or not. I don't even know if we know if we can. Yeah, we're... Just say you can. Yeah.

We decided that we want to surf today in the bay. Not, no. Yeah, we heard it's a horrible idea. No, no. At night, of all things. On top of being cold, the bay itself inside what San Francisco mostly borders is terribly polluted. We had a giant oil spill here like not that long ago. Like a big octopus? Yeah. Well, we're a bunch of punks. We should be doing something about this. Oh. Let's go clean up the ozone layer. Don't save the whales, save the ocean, man. The punks in San Francisco just ride bikes and vandalize cars. That's what we do. Dude, that sounds good. When you get angry about the government, just break something. Just fuck stuff up. Just vote. Everybody out there, everybody have to vote.

You guys... It doesn't change anything. It's ridiculous. Anyhow. Album cycle. Album cycle. Thanks. Men's cycle. Look at that. You're more on this than I am, but you should be conducting this interview. I have glasses. Yeah, I know. I know how to lead things. I have glasses, too, but mine are in my car. You're in your eyes. I'm new-sided. Is this going to be on a website? The internet, yeah. Sound Scene Revolution. Yeah, Sound Scene Revolution. That's awesome. What if punknews.org knows that you don't have a beard? Then what happens? No, it's funny. Punknews.org hates me. Well, not everyone. I don't know. I think everyone likes you a lot. Some people. I like your comments. I've been a fan of your comments for a long time. Yeah, seriously.

I actually thought your legal name was Dante 3000 for a long time. I've thought about changing it, but... Oh, we met a girl named Erica, and she changed her middle name to Danger, and her last name to S, so Dangerous. Erica Dangerous? Yep. She took our pictures, our new promo pictures. That's pretty fantastic. So thank you, Erica. Erica Dangerous? Yep. Yeah, it's awesome. That's a fantastic name. She had lots of tattoos. She has way more tattoos than I do. Yeah, she has way more. But album cycle. Album cycle. Look at the guy with the glasses all on this. Being a king. Okay, scientist guy. Impressive. So you're at the end of the album cycle. You guys, you've been recording your new album, I believe. Yeah, we finished recording it like a long time ago.

It's all done. And actually, tomorrow we announce that we're signing the Fueled by Ramen records. No shit. You can say that because there's no way this is making it by tomorrow. I wasn't even going to ask for permission from the scientist guy over here. Yeah, we're signing the Fueled by Ramen and then Paper and Plastic is doing all our vinyl. Oh, that's a very good idea. How weird is that? So you're kind of bringing them back together. So Vinny and John Janik are getting back together again for a hootenanny. Wow.

I'm going to be honest, being with the vinyl on Paper and Plastic almost makes up for being on Fueled by Ramen. I lost a little respect for you guys when you said that. Not a lot. I didn't have a lot to begin with, so I don't know. We're about here on the respect scale. I'm about a three-inch boner.

But you've got to work with what you've got. Well, the thing is, we wanted to be on a record label that would actually give us the attention we wanted. And out of all the people we talked to, we're going to be the only band signing this year. We're going to be treated with enough Do you know what you're saying right now? No, what's the word I'm looking for? We're not going to be lost in a big mix of bands. And it's going to put you within arm's length of the singer of Paramore. Which is good for you guys. For me, it would be creepy. She's wonderful, man. She's actually one of the reasons that things are going so well. We've been talking to Fueled by Ramen for months, and they've been behind us. They're actually a bunch of punk rock kids who work there.

A lot of their favorite bands are like the Descendants, Get Up Kids, Hot Water Music and stuff. So we're just like, oh, sweet. So they're really excited to be doing this. I think we're the first band that those people wouldn't normally listen to. They were saying, we haven't signed a punk band like this in like eight years. Because you look at their old roster, it was like the Stereo, the Hippos, Impossible, Jimmy World EP. I'm stoked on that. They put out the recent Lifetime thing. I thought, was that? No, I guess it was. That was like Slash Decadence. But the thing is, Decadence is completely different now than Fueled by Ramen. So everyone always thinks like, oh yeah, those bands, but not the same band. No, different labels.

But yeah, to make a long story short, Fueled by Ramen, a bunch of punk kids wanted to put out a record as is. We say a couple bad words and they were totally cool with it. They were like, that's awesome, man. So we said, cool. And then we said, hey Vinny, we like you a lot. We like less than Jake. Can we like maybe like have you do the vinyl, dude? And he's like, yeah. And that's when we were like, wait, what? Are you serious? Because he was like, I don't care what label you're on. And he was like, I'll do anything for you guys because you know, he's like, we've been talking to Vinny for a long time. And what's kind of funny is Roger saw us at the, or Nick toured in Wilhelm Scream, played bass. But you didn't sing the songs. You didn't sing the songs we found out.

I didn't sing on the race. But Roger really liked us from that tour because he got one of our CDs. And then Vinny found out about us and missed us at the fest that year. So he started talking to us since then.

He's always had our back. He helped us with like, you know, looking for labels, all that kind of stuff. And just Fueled By Ramen just seemed like the best choice overall because we're doing both worlds, you know? Yeah. We're doing, like we could do the mainstream stuff, but they're not going to change us, you know? Like they even told us, they're like, the bands that signed to us, they choose to do what they do. You know what I mean? They choose to have the terrible haircuts. They choose to have the terrible V-necks and wear the stupid Nikes. Like it's just, we choose to be a bunch of dudes who just hang out, you know? And we just make records and we get in our van and we tour. And that's the bottom line. They know that. Our parents all lost their jobs in Michigan.

You know, it's like, things aren't happy right now. We're not going to sing about sunshine and happiness. You know, our record has, the new record that's coming out has some of the most, you know, pissed off, like, you know, fast, aggressive songs that we've ever written on it. It also has some of the biggest radio pop jams that we've ever written. And, you know, I got to admit that I'm a huge fan of bands like Weezer and Jimmy World and the Get Up Kids. So, things like that, you know, creep into our influences a ton. They always have been. And, you know, of course, all the punk rock that we've been listening to all of our lives, you know, since we were nine and ten years old. Crazy, though, Gianni, Fueled by Ramen, the A&R guy, he kind of like, you know, heard our demos first.

My cousin, I was like childhood friends with him and my cousin showed him all these punk rock and ska bands back in the day and then my cousin showed me all these bands too. So, the same guy who showed us all this music, you know, we're linked that way. So, it's almost like it was meant to be. This is a signing like decades in the making. Seriously. Your cousin was working this out like 1985 or however old he is. He actually set our parents up. It's crazy just to make us. This is all, it's amazing. I've known my parents for 22 years now. I've literally known them my whole life. There you go. All right. Middle section here of the interview, which was, I'm just, I'm letting everybody know. Fucker. I'm just telling the audience, the listening public, we're in the middle of it.

So, Sound Guy Nairman just correcting me there. But we're just at the middle section because it's a really long interview. It's like 30 minutes because the guys really just kept going and going and I think there's probably like four times I try and stop it but they're good guys. So, it's all pretty good stuff. You should listen. Gonna bust out a track off of their first EP right now which was called The Beginning of the End Again. So, enjoy that and get excited for their new album coming out, I want to say in the fall on Fueled by Ramen which makes them label mates not only with Panic at the Disco I think Panic at the Disco but also Paramore and who doesn't love Paramore? Pedophiles love Paramore. Alright, here's the track. Enjoy it and catch the rest of the interview.

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record coming out in the fall. Lots of tours. We're hoping to do some, you know, tour with some great punk rock bands and then, you know, also tour with some other kinds of bands so we don't want to get pigeonholed that's never fun I don't want to be known as like the skate punk band I don't skateboard wish I could really wish I could I skateboarded for two days and I broke my finger That's not really how do you break your finger? Well, I was like I was moving about like I was going really slowly like I moved about like a foot in like 10 seconds then I hit a crack and it flew out from under me and I fell and hit my hand and fractured my finger and I was actually wearing my brand new DC shoes with my matching DC jersey and they were both bright yellow CCS for the win Hell yeah and yeah I pretty much spent you were like fuck this that was all my Christmas stuff and then I decided not to ever do that again being 14 a lot of learning experiences oh and another thing we were thinking about posting this with the announcement but I found my 6th grade binder and on the back it said you can't be punk one second on MTV the next and it had a Mill and Callen New Found Glory Bad Religion and No Effects logo nice and then I wrote all the punk bands I knew on the other side I just looked at a Punk-A-Rama and just wrote every single band and the kids were like who is that I'm like you don't even know dude you're a sell out in 8th grade I had my three punk rock shirts that I alternated and I had my mom wash them so I could just wear like 1, 2, 3 1, 2, 3 I had my No Effects Decline shirt my Pennywise like this green Pennywise shirt and the Misfits Fiend Club shirt yeah like Interpunk and even Hot Topic back in the day was actually decent you know like that was when you could go into like well it wasn't like Sam Goody and stuff you could find like Lagwagon shirts like I remember looking around FYE like when FYE came out they had all the old No Effects and Lagwagon shirts that was insane I still had like XL shirts from when I was a fat kid yeah I find that hard to believe oh Nick and I were huge I got stretch marks all over also if you go to if you go to Nick that's more than I needed to know about you go to nick90x.tumblr.com you can see my day 90 P90X result pictures thank you very much he did P90X for 90 days even on tour how'd it go it actually worked incredibly it's supposed to be a hard program do you have any cheese that you need grated I don't carry it with me I can do it with my abs I can cut the cheese that's about all I can do spreadable head cheese speaking of great records Papagandi supporting cast great record the end well what if that was the end bye I just called the shots that's it we're done supporting cast all done buy it so I want to ask though you guys did the acoustic songs where you had Franz write in this is a little old but I haven't talked to you guys since then or ever so that's as good as you can that's good enough for me but yeah so is there you guys ever plan to do anything to release that because I know people have asked I know you put them up for download for free right yeah people have actually asked if you're going to put it out as a real product no yeah pretty much when Max Bemis did the whole like pay me money and I'll make you a song thing I was in a weird mood and I just got on the computer without telling anyone and I posted a bulletin I said I'll write you guys a song just write me a message with your deepest darkest secrets and fears and I'll write you an acoustic song and we'll put it online for free and then yeah we're like yeah for free like you don't want to pay us for this shit pretty much it was saying why would you charge people for a personal song you know what I mean and it's not like that's cool honestly if one of my idols was doing it I'd pay him 150 bucks yeah like we don't have anything against that Max Bemis guy or whatever but we're bored all the time we don't do anything except I heard he's a smoker and that's disgusting absolutely gross a singer smokes so yeah we got you know I did that as a joke and I thought like three friends were gonna email me but you know Punk News Absolute Punk and all those punk and drublic websites they all started typing they're posting stuff like hey the Swellers are doing this so we got a bunch of Say Anything fans a bunch of people who've never heard us before a bunch of our fans a bunch of like you know industry people journalists like hitting us up just being like you should do this you should write me this song and some people were telling us their deepest like most terrible stories like you know about that's gonna be kind of awkward it was terrible like well I mean it was a really it was a big eye opener you know just to know that some people have it so rough like stories stories about marriages dissolving stories about disease and the family and then there was just some funny ones too you know and yeah basically we just knocked out what 15 or 16 songs yeah like we split songwriting I don't even really play guitar but I did my part yeah so then we recorded them and we posted them online and you know the feedback was actually great like kids were like yo man this is really cool you did this these songs actually turned out pretty cool you know we didn't take too much time recording them we you know we actually spent quite a while writing all these songs took like I don't know what a week I guess it's not that long but pretty much something you're doing for free for fun yeah we got all these requests and then it started getting like crazy you know like people were talking about suicide all this stuff and it's like you know it's cool we kind of tried to pick the people that were going to write songs for the Max Bemis thing and those are the people that were like I really can't

yeah some kid last night too actually we wrote a song about what was the baseball one something about something a kid that actually worked for Absolute Punk and we didn't know that at the time and then he was like yeah you guys wrote that song for me that was awesome we were like wow it was like one of those personal cool ones too cool way to make friends for life man hey remember when you wrote that song about me I'm like oh yeah that was pretty cool so yeah basically we had those up for a while and then I was like wait this isn't like this isn't the swellers this is just a fun project that Jonathan and I did so we took him down and it was almost like a move to be like you know a couple years down the road it'll be known as that weird bunch of songs like a rare obscure thing we did and you know I get emails all the time saying like hey do you have those and I honestly don't I don't know but don't ask me I think Jonathan has them on his computer but basically someone's stealing that computer if anybody wants them find someone who has them they might be on a torrent or something but that's dead and gone to us it's gone they're not even like sweller songs they're just songs for the sake of being songs we're gonna do that with our next record too

that's awkward we'll never forget I feel well you guys are from that area hell yeah that's pretty that's gotta be exciting for you right not really no no not at all no bago pot bago yeah bago's actually great that's the thing like you can make fun of it all you want and be like oh I see but dude we all drink it I've never had it so I don't and this blue raspberry kind it's pretty much just like normal regular soda but cheaper greater

that's true if you want to classify them as superstars flash funk no flash funk just danced I think Scorpio k quick oh I just John Cena but no no he was a wrestler then a rapper yeah he was fake oh yeah now he's an action star Randy Savage same thing and Hulk Hogan oh macho man's rapping album so good yeah Mr. Perfect song is very very heartbreaking it deserves an Oscar do they give Oscars you were my perfect Grammy baby there we go fantastic album anyhow so I think what are we what are we even talking about I don't know I can't see what the time is who are you where are we how did you get here I'm so drunk we are at I don't know I think it's party time excellent we're about 23 minutes so let's do two more minutes two more minutes this has to be the same length as like a full house episode yeah pretty much we got two minutes left with commercials because we have child labor laws because you guys are like 14 hey I turned 21 you turned 21 I could get into venues now wow I'm 22 don't know what I'm supposed to do oh that's a melancholic lyric I know Ryan is 26 Anto he's like 30 Anto Anto's 26 no I'm not he's 20 it's metric years that's the cool thing though people came up to me today like you and they were like what are you like 26 and I was like no yeah kids thought we were the oldest ones in the band and I was laughing it's cause we're tall it's cause you look haggard take that look at the scientist guy with glasses on it's cause we look the youngest we are the oldest Jonathan and I look the oldest because you guys are the oldest it's all that clean living yeah it's the straight edge blood doesn't boil these guys they live on the they live on the danger end man you guys got a bottle of NyQuil I know what's going on here we go robo copping robo copping robo copping yeah robitussin we pretend we're cops and we run through the mall and pass out I'm gonna arrest you with cough syrup I'd buy that for a dollar that's a quote from robo cop oh wow I shouldn't know that but robo cop is free on cable yeah robo cop is also from Detroit and he's baby formula that's the best cop ever that's another fun fun fact if robo cop was real there would be no insane clown posse that's a fact no it there would be no there'd be no posses there'd be no clowns and there'd be no insane people so all three robo kills everyone that's insane I like that robo cop would kill clowns probably I saw it I know what you're doing if you were half machine and you looked out your window and saw clown what would you do if I looked out my window and saw clown I'd probably freak out too plus robo cop also killed red from that 70s show that's true that 70s show took place before robo cop then red turned into a bad guy and then robo cop was just like no that was the best impression that is the best robo cop ever do your miss piggy impression okay hold on this is the whole thing it's miss piggy and kermit right I don't know if I can do it that good hold on oh kermie I love you I don't know if I love you miss piggy hi that's pretty good the first time he did it he just did the hi yeah nothing else winnie the poo winnie the poo hey how you doing my name is winnie I like to eat honey I got some furry friends in a jungle this is what we do alright it's winnie the poo from a jungle bears and pigs jersey winnie the poo in the jungle I don't even know if that was a jersey accent I'm terrible with accents I think it was South Carolina if you're from jersey you pretty much have to pretend that you don't have an accent hey forget about it you're way better than everybody I'm from jersey what's your problem here's our Michigan accent hey we're from Michigan it's like ever hear a lifetime ever hear a bouncing souls we're from New Brunswick we play in basements we're punker than you and I say okay and then I go eat at grease trucks and then we play a basement show in New Brunswick 2 the end bye but yeah any more brain busters any more brain busters I think that's as good as we're gonna do risotto more like Borafel did you just quote Billy Madison all night long you blew it there's another one I don't have your fucking ball it's basketball good luck next year I like that you're just quoting any movie that pops in your head right now they're all good movies they're all good not a finger that's a Christmas story ask us one last question like I did that wrong wrong I don't know I left my notes in the car legitimately so I'm out of questions ask us how many months before you sell out well I mean you're announcing the signing tomorrow so we know that guess how much money we got for the signing I'll tell you we're each walking away with $130 nice I made that number up that might $130 more than you had before that might be more than actually we're getting we have to pay off our van yeah we don't pay for the recordings we have to pay for a recording oh Mark Mahalik hold on a minute did I hear $130 fuck that noise you guys can just drop me off at a bus but we did the record with Mark Mahalik and he did an awesome job so we're gonna give him money we gotta give him money that's some bullshit dude sell out man you don't gotta pay anybody's shit you're like hey we have champagne that's the ethics so basically for any for any kids any kids out there any kids out there in cyberspace land if you don't like the fact that we're signed to Fueled by Rahman I got two words for you suck it and also and also also dude we're signed we're signed to a label that's owned by a major and we're sitting here in a van outside in San Francisco talking into microphones that aren't even plugged into speakers what are we even doing they're not even real microphones what if they weren't I just do this to hang out with bands it's fodder for my comments this is cooler than dealing with those idiots who like us yeah it's stupid yeah what's their problem like why can't they just listen to music in their own time like in their own house might have to go somewhere to have us play for them that's waste of time waste of gas kids are sellouts every day you know yeah you're all sellouts not me just like that bigwig song that Anto showed me the other day dude this one punk band wrote a song about people selling out dude with me tonight I've never heard about anything like that record company is going to give me lots of money and everything is going to be hey that one kid was wearing a real big fish shirt inside really yeah he's from I didn't know they still had shirts that's excellent for real big fish I'm excited we're actually doing a two year tour with them in South America that's huge for you Matt Wong's not playing bass though I quit I quit Mr.

White I quit Mr. Dante 3000 alright so yeah anything else you guys want to plug before we wrap up it doesn't have a name we're doing a 7 inch in late July I think and it's going to be up for digital downloads you can preorder it and stuff hear that kids 7 inch it's going to be called Welcome Back Riders which is based off of Cedar Point Amusement Park in Michigan it's not in Michigan at all it's about 3 hours away from Michigan and the other song is called Montreal Screwjob which is about Bret Hart you just talked during what I was saying but it was about Bret Hart getting screwed over by Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels I'm so glad people know about this Google Montreal Screwjob I just went to a double tape in a raw last night I'll brag about it later I'm glad that you're into this man I'm glad that you're into sports entertainment it's the greatest event on earth Sport of Kings it's the best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be I want to thank you guys for taking the time and all the best with the touring and the band and rocking all that yeah rocking out thanks a lot keeping it real thanks for doing this with us thanks for doing this to us thanks for putting us up to this thanks for making this happen hey if I can't embarrass people and waste their time really what's my day worth it's fun $130 about $130 that's about right with that $130 you know who I'm going to buy one two four chin-up bars and what cost $10 you're going to do a lot of chin-ups hey ultimate frisbee cost $10 cost where did that come from alright we gotta go okay bye alright bye take care so that's it that's the whole album deal or the whole album the whole interview deal with the swellers so yeah they're on Fueled by Ramen now got an album coming out in the fall gonna be label mates with Paramore not Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy is not on the label anymore but Paramore Panic at the Disco Cobra Starship Sound Guy and Aaron big fan of the new Cobra Starship song BTW in case you were curious and fucking the Academy is who we mentioned played every single Warped Tour but we've never listened to them so maybe they're really good but I'm gonna doubt it but good for them we're excited we're gonna leave you with a track off of their kind of acoustic side project thing that they did where they had their fans write in and give song suggestions and they recorded songs about it we may be putting that up for download I'm gonna touch base with the guys but if we do link in the interview on the website that you should be looking at so you should be able to figure it out and if it's not there email us and say it's not there and I really want that album and we'll say oh it's here you can download it here or that would be my email response oh here it is I'm not good with the computer or we'll say they said or the swellers preferred we didn't put it up for download go to BitTorrent or Pirates Bay is Pirates Bay still around since they got arrested oh wow so don't go to Pirates Bay go to BitTorrent google it I'm sure you can find it anyhow but hopefully we'll put it up and everything will be good so we leave you the song off of that and be sure to stay tuned for lots more from the swellers and from us and we'll be back next week bye now

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