Unsigned518 - Episode 228 - Girth Control

[00:00:01] Speaker A: He was born on a Saturday in 73 he loves punk rock music fighting the 13 cabin in the dazzle Jazz rock now on the beat guitar with a short with radio bass his motherfucking envy scrolling look at motherfucker cuz here he comes Andy Sculling wearing his orange [00:00:26] Speaker B: hats welcome to unsigned 5 and 8. Girth control is back in the dazzle den. What's up, guys? [00:00:35] Speaker C: We're dazzled. It's gotten even more dazzling in here than last time. Honestly. [00:00:39] Speaker B: It's. It's. Yeah, it does change a lot. There's usually more lights. There's. There's more lights on the ceiling. These ceiling lights weren't there before. Yeah, and there is. I mean, girth control is heavily represented in this room. Again, there's some girth control there. I've got the Dorito covered World poster signed, obviously. [00:00:57] Speaker C: Of course. Yes. [00:00:58] Speaker B: And then there's other too somewhere. You're. You're all over here. [00:01:01] Speaker C: Well, you know, we. We appreciate you appealing to our vanity and going around and hanging up all our. Right before we got here, I did [00:01:11] Speaker D: rip them all down. And we leave. [00:01:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I will. I'm gonna. I'm gonna cover them up with Good Charlotte posters. [00:01:17] Speaker C: Bastions of independent media. [00:01:19] Speaker B: Good Charlotte, those guys, like. And the thing about that is I always hated Good Charlotte and I'm like on record with that. Like, even when everybody was like, they're harmless. They'. I was like, these dudes. [00:01:33] Speaker C: You know, I used to. I feel like I was harsher on them when I was a kid and I had something to prove. And then I realized as I got older that they got some jams. But maybe as businessmen, listen, we're not gonna burn any bridges because if Good Charlotte wants to take Earth Control on tour, I think it's pretty safe to [00:01:49] Speaker E: say it's over now. It's over. [00:01:52] Speaker C: Well, okay. [00:01:52] Speaker D: Bob's. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Their time is done. Bob's cut. [00:01:55] Speaker C: Bob's cut Bob's part out of this or he's not. [00:01:58] Speaker D: He's not on the microphone. Bob doesn't have a microphone. [00:02:02] Speaker C: Bob's too punked. The microphone. [00:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah, it's actually, I'm down a microphone because one of the inputs on my thing, I had a quarter inch cable break off in the thing and I can't get it out. [00:02:16] Speaker C: Did Calvin knock it over? [00:02:18] Speaker B: Calvin did not. It was all me. Calvin wasn't even in the room. [00:02:20] Speaker C: Don't blame me. [00:02:21] Speaker B: Yeah, he's innocent. Yeah. So anyway, we want to talk about a bunch of stuff. Like there's a big show Coming up on Friday. [00:02:30] Speaker D: And. [00:02:30] Speaker B: And there's the 10 inch. There's record that is. But of course I meant submarine sandwich, obviously, you perverts. But yeah. So where. Where do you want to start, Mark? You want to. You want to start? [00:02:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I think the most exciting thing that we have going on in the near future is our show at no Fun this Friday, August 14th. It's the first of four shows that we're doing on something that's been dubbed the New York State of ska. We have Ben Bazile. [00:03:10] Speaker D: I think it's Basili. Ben Basili. [00:03:12] Speaker C: I thought you said it was okay. [00:03:13] Speaker D: Yeah, we've been saying it wrong. [00:03:14] Speaker C: We've been saying it wrong. [00:03:15] Speaker B: Saying that wrong. [00:03:16] Speaker D: He started putting the pronunciation in his emails, which is very smart. [00:03:19] Speaker C: That is helpful. [00:03:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:03:20] Speaker C: I wish I read the email before we came on this fucking podcast and I made an ass out of myself. So Ben Basili, he's. He's great. We have the Doom Stompers and we have the Abrupters. They're from Buffalo. Doomstoppers are from Brooklyn or they're from Queens. But our show there's Brooklyn, but they're from the city and Ben's from the Hudson Valley. Right? [00:03:42] Speaker D: Yep. [00:03:42] Speaker C: Yeah. So, so we're doing. We're trying to. To showcase how awesome New York State is, how many cool bands there are. And we're very grateful to be the first of the four shows at no Fun. So we can show these bands how we do things in the capital region, how much fun we have and how great our shows are. [00:04:03] Speaker B: And for the tour, is it same bands, all four stops? [00:04:08] Speaker D: Yep. [00:04:08] Speaker B: So, yeah, kind of like everybody gets a hometown show sort of thing. [00:04:12] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. So everybody is gonna like, headline in their hometown and we're bringing the whole four band thing around to four cities. So should be super fun. [00:04:19] Speaker C: So you got. We have to make sure that the other bands go. How do we live up? How do we live up to the. To the show at no Fun? How did Girth Control made us. They made us feel so good, but now we feel so bad. You know, they set the bar so high. Girth Control set the bar so high with their no Fun Show. Friday, August 14th. [00:04:40] Speaker B: I believe it. So what is. You know, it's the 14th. What time does it start? Like, it's obviously an evening show. [00:04:50] Speaker D: Yep, yep. So evening show. Doors at 7, show at 8. The Doom Stompers, I believe, are up first at this one. And if. If you haven't heard of them yet, you will hear about them soon. They've been like, really blowing up. They're. They're doing some really cool big things. So it's wild that they're playing first because they're going to be huge. They'll be on Hellcat like this time next year. Oh, no way. I'm calling my shot right now. But yeah, they're very sick and they're up first. And then I can't remember how the rest of the lineup goes, but the Abrupters are awesome. Ben Vasily has a kind of instrumental ska jazz band. So really awesome players. Almost the opposite music as Girth Control. There's still some ska. Yeah. If it's all the class you ever wanted at a Girth Control show. [00:05:38] Speaker E: Yeah, I think you're going to get every flavor of ska on this tour. So obviously, you know, we got the more punk side of it, but, you know, the Doom Stoppers and Ben are. Are more the classic traditional stuff. Abrupters are. Have a little bit of a punk tinge to them. So, yeah, it's going to be awesome. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Well, I mean, then it makes sense that you guys would go last because it's like the classy stuff is like the dinner. [00:06:02] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:06:04] Speaker B: Everybody has too many martinis and then [00:06:06] Speaker C: it's where the shots at the end of the dinner after, like, you know, after you're full of like cake and ravioli and then you're like, let's put some shots. [00:06:13] Speaker B: You're like, you're. It's more like the cocaine in the kitchen with the chef. [00:06:20] Speaker C: It's more like the joint in the dazzle den with the podcaster. You know what I mean? [00:06:25] Speaker D: That's. [00:06:25] Speaker B: That would be crazy if that happened. [00:06:27] Speaker C: But yeah, I do think. I think we'll probably end up. Doors are at seven. I think we will really start at eight. [00:06:32] Speaker D: Yeah, we're gonna run this on time. [00:06:34] Speaker C: We're trying. We have to get up 6am the next day because we're gonna go to the Bill preseason game on Saturday before our show in Buffal. So, you know, don't keep us up too late. Everybody don't, you know, come out, party. We'll try and get the show running on time. We'll all get out. It'll be great. 15 bucks in advance, 20 bucks at the door. And if you buy an advanced ticket, we're gonna enter everybody who buys an advanced ticket into a raffle to win a test Press for our 10 inch version of what got you stoked in the first place. [00:07:05] Speaker B: Is that what I had? Is that what you brought me? [00:07:07] Speaker C: Yes, yes, yes. You have the you have the great beer bong green 10 in hell yeah. [00:07:11] Speaker B: And I'll. I'll do something on socials with this and show. Show all the cool that I got. And I love that I got the koozie. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Yeah, of course we still have plenty of koozies. You know, keep your beers cold at no fun, cuz it's going to be a scorcher. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Well, I. I'd be scorching. It probably will be, dude. [00:07:30] Speaker D: Ah, yeah, yeah, it will be hot as. [00:07:32] Speaker B: So when are the. When are the other shows? [00:07:35] Speaker C: We have a show the next day in. On. On August 15th in Buffalo. Yeah, that's at Amy's place. [00:07:44] Speaker D: Yep. Area 54, I think is what they call that room now. But yeah, Amy's place, like the diner next door. [00:07:49] Speaker B: So you're going literally right from. [00:07:51] Speaker D: Yep. [00:07:52] Speaker B: This to another show then. When's the next stop on the. The tour thing? Or is that. [00:07:56] Speaker D: Yes. [00:07:56] Speaker C: We had to put. We had. We had to put a month in between because last time. Last time we tried to play four shows in a row. [00:08:03] Speaker E: I lost my voice. [00:08:05] Speaker C: Bob almost died. [00:08:06] Speaker E: Yeah, I almost. I lost my voice on the tour we did last fall and we got made fun of real bad by the venue owner, Scottish Dave, down in Clinton, Connecticut. He wrote a song about how we couldn't handle four in a row. So. [00:08:22] Speaker D: Punked out by Scottish Daves. You gotta. You gotta back it up a little bit. [00:08:26] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:08:27] Speaker C: So the next two shows are September 25th and 26th, right, Jay? [00:08:31] Speaker D: That's right. [00:08:31] Speaker C: 25th in Brooklyn. And the 26th is a free outdoor show in Poughkeepsie. Yeah, during the, during the day. Should be something. Nice day trip. We got to try not to like swear too much. And it's going to be. [00:08:44] Speaker B: Why? [00:08:45] Speaker C: There might be like some kids there. [00:08:48] Speaker A: Kids. [00:08:52] Speaker C: No, we promised we wouldn't overswear. So if you want to hear a unique Earth Control set featuring. All right, mom, you freaking poser. And you know we're Kool Aid bonging, not beer bonging. [00:09:04] Speaker B: And gosh darn you, Mass Pike. [00:09:07] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, exactly. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Sick. So let's. As I'm like trying to open this fucking. [00:09:14] Speaker D: Oh yeah, we gave you the one with the shrink wraps. [00:09:17] Speaker B: Let's talk about it so I can put the microphone down. What am I holding in my hand for the people at home? [00:09:24] Speaker D: Yeah. So we. For the 10 year anniversary of our first album, what Got yout Stoked in the First Place, we decided to record a studio version of the album, which was originally recorded live at the Shred Shack. Our Old basement in Albany. So for years the only way you could hear these songs was in between lots of silly banter and our friends yelling at us, which was a wonderful portrait of time, but you might, it might not work on your playlist, you know. So we went back, we were, we re recorded the songs, we put them out for the 10 year anniversary last fall. And then our, our now good friends at Philharmonic Records offered to press it up on a beautiful 10 inch record for us. So. [00:10:06] Speaker B: Bongzilla. [00:10:07] Speaker D: Bongzilla Green vinyl. [00:10:09] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:10] Speaker C: We have not, we have not sold out. You know, we have stayed true to our Bong Zilla roots. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:17] Speaker C: And we said we're not. You're not pressing this thing unless we get it on bongs. A little green. We put our foot down. [00:10:21] Speaker B: I mean it's pretty. [00:10:22] Speaker C: We stood up for. [00:10:23] Speaker B: It's pretty accurate that color. [00:10:24] Speaker C: It. [00:10:25] Speaker D: They developed a whole new shade just. [00:10:29] Speaker C: We had to send him in a sample of our beer bong and we said, you better get it just right. Get it just ripe. And so. And they did and they nailed it. So, you know, we don't, you know, [00:10:38] Speaker D: so thankfully, yeah, Pirates Press is still in business. [00:10:40] Speaker C: Yeah, you didn't have to. [00:10:41] Speaker D: Yeah, we didn't have to. We didn't have to take them out. [00:10:44] Speaker B: And you know, the connect. Another connection too is the Dazzle Den and the Shred Shack. Weren't they named by the same person? [00:10:51] Speaker D: That is a connection, right? [00:10:52] Speaker C: Yeah, Brendan. Brendan named him. Brendan's very creative. We've been leeching off of Brendan for many years selling merchandise with stuff that he's drawn on. And our Too Many dude shirt will probably always be on the merch table because it's. We've decided it's our like our Misfits Crimson Ghost or our, our Black Flag, you know, and we do think that we're on the level of those kinds of bands with this piece of merch. Anyway. [00:11:21] Speaker D: At least our merch is. [00:11:22] Speaker C: At least our merch is. At least Brendan nailed the Too Many dude shirt so much that, you know, I, I think we'll see a Too Many Dudes back tattoo soon. Soon. [00:11:32] Speaker B: Yeah. But I remember when he named the Dazzle then it was like I was trying to come up with a name. It was when male patterns were on and they walk in and you know, I was like talking. It was before we got going. I'm okay. You know, I'm trying to come up with a name, you know, and, and literally without even skipping like a millisecond, Brendan just goes the Dazzle then. And I was like, huh? Yep, there it is, like right there. Like. [00:11:57] Speaker C: Well, it's hard to deny all this dazzle. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And that was like pre a lot of this dazzle. That was like. [00:12:02] Speaker C: So he's the he interior designed. [00:12:04] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. [00:12:05] Speaker B: Cuz that was a lot less dazzly than now, you know, but still. [00:12:09] Speaker C: Well, you've really grown into it. [00:12:10] Speaker B: I have. [00:12:10] Speaker C: You know, it's nice. It's nice to see you mature, grow [00:12:14] Speaker B: or, you know, we all regress. You know, I get older, become more of a teenager. [00:12:19] Speaker C: You have gotten more video games since last time? [00:12:21] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. I mean, Bob said. Bob has to share his space with a stack of Nintendo cartridges. I love it. [00:12:30] Speaker E: You got that the Looney Tunes game. I haven't played that in a very long time. That's a classic. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it was hard. Yeah. And those games, there are most of those Super Nintendo ones. I bought some of them, but most of them are my wife's original ones from like when she was a kid. She's a dozen years younger than me, so. When she was a kid. [00:12:54] Speaker C: So she's. So she's like 20 then, right? Because you're in your early 30s. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:13:00] Speaker C: We got breaking news here, Andy. [00:13:02] Speaker B: What was that? [00:13:02] Speaker C: Because you were talking about how you wanted to get a newer old tv. [00:13:07] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:13:07] Speaker C: And I texted my mom and I said, hey, is that big TV still in the basement? I couldn't remember. I know. It was heavy as hell, so. Because she got a. She got a dumpster a year or two ago and she was like, come clean up all your. In my house. And I was like, okay. And I went and threw out tons of. Took whatever I wanted. But this giant TV, it's not that big, but it's. You know how TVs were in whatever, the early 2000s. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:32] Speaker C: So it's pretty heavy. But I used to. It was my video game tv. It's out in Duanesburg. She said, yes, it is. Why do you want it? So I'm just gonna say there's a tv. If we. Bob can't live with his lower back right now, but. But maybe we can. Maybe we can go out and get it. Hit me up. Yeah, There's a TV in my mom's basement with your name on it. And a little entertainment center. [00:13:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Because I want to make. I want to. You know, as I was saying, I want to make a little retro gaming station. Like everything from Atari up to like Xbox in here. [00:14:03] Speaker C: Yeah, you deserve it. Fun. [00:14:04] Speaker B: You know what I Mean. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I'm like looking around thinking of other nerdy that I, I'm like, yeah. Then I could put a shelf here with like some more action figures like most 53 year old men once we [00:14:21] Speaker C: get those girth funko pops, you know what I mean? That double is bold. [00:14:25] Speaker B: You should get like they, there's those ones where you can do like the 3D model of your entire body and, and then send away and get like a little minifigure that's like super, super realistic. [00:14:35] Speaker C: Not my entire body. [00:14:37] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. [00:14:39] Speaker D: Dude. [00:14:44] Speaker B: All right. I knew we were going to get off topic here, but yeah, so this is the re recorded. Everything is re recorded without the, the party atmosphere with it, which still, there's [00:14:56] Speaker C: still quite the party atmosphere. But no, you know, we, when we, when we recorded it back in the basement in what year to record? 2014. [00:15:04] Speaker D: 25th. 2015. Yes, 2015. [00:15:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. So we, we didn't, we didn't know that we would still be doing this, you know, all this time later. And really we just wanted to capture the moment that we were experiencing where we had kind of started a band just to goof around, throw some keggers and have a party. And we said, well, if we're gonna try and capture this moment, then we gotta just record a party and then at least we have it. We can listen back and think, oh man, we really knew how to party. But we didn't know we would still be partying so hard all this time later. But, but we figured since it's been so good to us, all these songs have, you know, taken us to some really great places and can, you know, people still like them. We connect with new people all the time playing our silly ass songs that we didn't think would make it out of the basement, that it would be fun to have versions that have, you know, that live up to the recordings that we've done since then where you know, we started taking it a little more seriously and Jay's got a sweet setup in his basement now and, and we can, you know, you can have a version of Too Many Dudes that you can put on a playlist or you know, whatever other song because I'm pretty sure every single song in the original one has me talking right before and after it. So if you really hate me, which, you know, I get it, you can just, just cut me out, it's fine. But no, it's, we're, we're really, really proud of it and we're, and we're really happy with it. We couldn't be happier that it's. That it's on a 10 inch. [00:16:51] Speaker D: And it turned out really good, too. The. The record is like the best sounding record I've ever made. I don't. I think it's the 10 inch format or just like the length of the songs on each side, but it sounds really, really good. [00:17:02] Speaker C: Got them deep grooves. [00:17:03] Speaker D: Yeah, those deep, deep control grooves. The girthiest grooves. [00:17:09] Speaker B: So girthy. So you guys recorded it yourself then? [00:17:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:17:13] Speaker D: Yeah, we. We did this one and it was. It was pretty easy, too, because we've just been playing those songs at every show for 10 years, so I think at least one or two are first takes. And then we just redid, you know, did the vocals over them, which. [00:17:25] Speaker C: So we had Benji and Joel Madden come in and do the vocals on them. [00:17:29] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, it's their journalistic integrity that really, like, you know, seals. They should be invited just to every independent recording. [00:17:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:39] Speaker B: Put their stamp on it. [00:17:43] Speaker C: No, Simple Plan would never. You know what I mean? [00:17:45] Speaker B: Right? [00:17:45] Speaker C: Simple plan would never. [00:17:47] Speaker B: No way. [00:17:48] Speaker C: They would do anything just to hold you in arms, Whatever. I just watched them on the Warp Tour live stream last week. It was pretty good. [00:17:55] Speaker B: Dude. [00:17:55] Speaker D: They're pretty good. [00:17:56] Speaker B: We just did a whole fucking emo show. [00:17:58] Speaker C: Do you like Simple Plan? [00:17:59] Speaker B: I don't really know. Like, I'm like. I was a little old for that. [00:18:03] Speaker C: Oh, of course. Yeah, me too. Me too. I was. [00:18:06] Speaker B: That genre or not that era of music. Not genre. That era of music. I. I know, like, a couple of their songs, but I did just learn. We. I think we learned, like, 26, like, fucking emo songs that we had never learned before, and my God, those. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Are you wondering why you were tired? Why you felt like a tired person? [00:18:26] Speaker B: And it was funny because, like, as we were, like, leading up to the show, like, I was like, man, people are gonna think, like, my taking some time off of just like, like, sneaky promotion for the emo show. Like, they're like, all right, we get it. You're sad, dude. What the. You know, like. No, no. Yeah, those songs were. Were hard. The bridges and all those songs. I can never remember which one's which. Like, they're like, oh, now we go to the bridge. And I'm like, I don't. [00:18:53] Speaker D: Yeah, they all got bridges. [00:18:55] Speaker B: They all have. They all have bridges and they all have whiny white guys. Yeah. [00:19:01] Speaker C: Love them. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah, I love. [00:19:02] Speaker C: I love that. I love whiny white guys, dude. I love them my whole Life. So it's like. But I will say that I would. I would put simple plan above Good Charlotte. I think we can. [00:19:14] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, I would put. I would put like, I don't know, whoever. I'd put everybody above Good Charlotte. How's that? [00:19:24] Speaker C: That's fair. [00:19:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:25] Speaker C: Tough but fair. [00:19:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:27] Speaker C: If they are listening, we will still. [00:19:30] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:31] Speaker C: Open for. For them. [00:19:33] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Yes. And I will tell you to go yourself to your. [00:19:36] Speaker C: And then we'll get. We will get banned. [00:19:37] Speaker D: And that's right. [00:19:38] Speaker B: Yep. [00:19:38] Speaker D: That's when we finally get banned. [00:19:40] Speaker B: Nothing to do with the opinion of Grizz Control. [00:19:43] Speaker C: There's a security guard at the. At the Dazzle Den, right? Oh, Bob, you're cool Bob. You can go in. [00:19:50] Speaker B: Sorry, guys. [00:19:51] Speaker A: You know what? [00:19:52] Speaker E: All right, I'm gonna tell this story because. So I. I lived in the East Village in New York City for a couple years when I went to college down there. And I was walking home to my apartment to get grow, you know, just from the grocery store and I walked past. Is it Benji who dated Paris Hilton? I don't know. What? One of those guys? [00:20:15] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah. [00:20:15] Speaker C: One of them was married to Nicole Richie. [00:20:17] Speaker E: Okay, so whoever was dating Paris Hilton at the time, I walked by them on the street with my roommates and my roommates were these chicks who wanted to stop and talk to them. So we stopped and talked. We got a picture. It's like a really shitty 2009 cell phone picture. And I remember it distinctly because Rancid was doing a week long residency at Irving Plaza in the city. And whatever Madden brother it was, I was like, hey, dude, you in town to see Rancid? And he was like, no, just like straight up, like that's a ridiculous question. I was like, oh, this guy's a poser, right? And that's, that's my story of meeting Paris Hilton. And I think Benji. So ever since that day, yeah, I was like, these guys, he's a fucking poser. Ranson's here all week and you're not going to go to one show. [00:21:08] Speaker C: They're friends. They're like best friends. Yeah, they're in a fallback down video. [00:21:11] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's full of shit. [00:21:13] Speaker B: Yeah, they're. They're fake ass friends. Fuck the Madden brothers. [00:21:18] Speaker E: If you're listening, we're never gonna play the show with you. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Bob says, yeah, the only cool Madden was John Madden. Everybody knows that, right? [00:21:27] Speaker B: Was he cool? [00:21:28] Speaker D: I don't know. [00:21:29] Speaker C: I actually have no idea if John Madden did anything horrible. I'm sorry, I have no idea. [00:21:35] Speaker E: He made a Turducken, I guess. [00:21:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:38] Speaker C: I'm a vegetarian. I should be against the Turducken, I [00:21:40] Speaker D: guess, but did John Madden invent the Turducken? Is that what you're saying? [00:21:45] Speaker A: Did he. [00:21:46] Speaker D: Wow. [00:21:46] Speaker E: He gets credit for. [00:21:47] Speaker B: We need to verify that. [00:21:49] Speaker C: He gets cred. Did he gets credit for a video game? [00:21:52] Speaker D: He never even. [00:21:53] Speaker B: He didn't do anything. He just put his name. Yeah, whatever. [00:21:57] Speaker C: Dream. He lived the dream. [00:21:59] Speaker D: Putting birds inside other birds. [00:22:00] Speaker C: We got to come up with like a. Like a. Put a buzzball inside of a bush. Inside of a 40. Like a girth ducking. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Dude. [00:22:09] Speaker D: Wow, you're on to something. [00:22:12] Speaker B: Oh, all right. So John Madden didn't invent the turducken. John Madden made the Turducken, a national Thanksgiving football tradition, popular when somebody. Yeah, he popularized it. [00:22:24] Speaker C: I wish there was a Turducken mini game in the. In that end, dude. [00:22:28] Speaker E: It would bring the. The franchise back. [00:22:30] Speaker B: Right. [00:22:31] Speaker C: We need to reinvigorate it. We need a turducken. We need a virtual Turducken. [00:22:34] Speaker B: You have to kill all the birds first. [00:22:37] Speaker C: John Madden's virtual Turducken 27. You have to kill the birds and stuff inside. This podcast usually go off the rails like this? [00:22:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, all the time. It's like my favorite part about it. That's why I always tell people it's not an interview. I'm like, it's an interview. There's expectations and there's guardrails. [00:23:01] Speaker C: I don't. [00:23:01] Speaker B: I don't believe in those things. Calvin, what are you doing, you fucking weirdo? See? Look at him being a weirdo. [00:23:08] Speaker C: No, man, he's just curious about. He's curious about the great Girth Control merchandise that's in front of him. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I guess so. [00:23:14] Speaker C: He's like, I wish I could use a koozie. I wish I could put a cool girth control sticker on my bowl. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Yeah, I do, actually. That's another piece of girth control on my. I have this enormous ass. Old glass medicine jar from, like, the 1920s, and it's like my weed jar. [00:23:33] Speaker C: I was gonna say. There's no way you're not putting your weed in there. [00:23:36] Speaker B: It's my weed jar. But I have one of the Beavis and Butthead girth control stickers as the only sticker on my weed jar. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Wow. [00:23:44] Speaker D: So we're gonna need to see that. That's. [00:23:46] Speaker B: No, I'll show you. [00:23:48] Speaker C: Can we get a picture with the. [00:23:49] Speaker B: Wow. [00:23:50] Speaker D: I feel like that's the next Album cover. That's incredible. [00:23:52] Speaker B: It's. It's empty at the moment, but I think I do have a picture of it when it was full. [00:23:57] Speaker A: Wow. [00:23:57] Speaker C: What happened to all the weed, man? [00:23:58] Speaker B: I smoke it. [00:24:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:01] Speaker B: But anyway, we're. We should play a song before you guys go. We're gonna play something off of the. Off the new one. So, Bob, what are we gonna play? [00:24:11] Speaker E: Yeah, I think we should play what got you stoked in the first place. Probably one of our. Our best songs. And the. The album's named after it, so. Makes sense. [00:24:22] Speaker B: All right. Anybody want to add anything or. [00:24:24] Speaker C: I would just say that it's kind of. I feel like without this song, I don't know if we would have really understood what the point of the band was. It was. It kind of just started as the mantra of the band and the whole idea. And I think as people go through life, they should always stay in touch with the stuff that gets them stoked. Make sure you don't. Make sure you're not just drifting along, you know, make sure you pick it up. [00:24:55] Speaker D: Nice. [00:24:55] Speaker B: All right, well, cool. Let's check out what got you stoked in the first place. The. The. I don't want to say improved. The. The new 10 inch version. [00:25:06] Speaker C: Slightly improved. No, it's definitely improved. [00:25:09] Speaker D: All right. [00:25:10] Speaker B: You know, well, yeah, let's check it out. [00:25:11] Speaker C: And then if you're into recording quality. [00:25:13] Speaker B: Yeah, sure. We'll be right back to wrap it up. [00:25:25] Speaker A: Once we had skits on our hand A group full of friends singing along to our favorite bands Music was all we needed to get by no, I'm trying to scare not for this well, sing a Rex in circle he is he bent me up all night man, we had so much fun Lately it's been such a dread yeah, we've grown up and we've been had it's great to see you but why do you look so sad? What are you running from? What got you stuck? What got you stuck? What got you stuck? What got you stuck in the first place? Remember what you always just do have a smile on your face Are you feeling old? Are you feeling old? Are you feeling old and out of place? Forget who you are at the back of the bar don't let it all go to waste get some. Once we had nothing but F in the world we decide Pizza and brought DIY paradise It wasn't much but it meant a lot to me and we did it all before we all got L We lost track up each other we lost track of time yes, it had not happened Eventually. But we're still having fun. Are you still having fun? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked in the first place? What got you stoked in the first place? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked in the first place? What got you stoked in the first place? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked? What got you stoked in the first place? Remember when you always just do have a smile on your face. Are you feeling old? Are you feeling old? Are you feeling old and out of place together? You are at the back of the bar. Don't let it all go to waste. Let's go. Get stuck. [00:27:53] Speaker B: All right. That was what got you stoked in the first place. Growth, control. And, boys, thank you so much for coming up and doing this. I was looking forward to it all week. Stoked to get to. To talk to you and hang out with you in real life ahead of your show. And before we go, like I do all the time, we're gonna let everybody say their gratitudes. So I guess, Mark, since you're holding the microphone, we'll start with you. [00:28:19] Speaker C: I'm super grateful for these guys. I'm super grateful for the chance to keep playing music and trying to connect with people in a positive way. So I. Yeah, thank you, guys. Thanks for doing this with me. This is great. [00:28:40] Speaker A: You, [00:28:43] Speaker E: Jay, I don't know if you. [00:28:44] Speaker D: I'll go for it, Bob. Thanks, Mark. That was nice. [00:28:46] Speaker E: Yeah, that was. [00:28:46] Speaker C: That was very nice. [00:28:47] Speaker B: Ha. [00:28:48] Speaker C: Live up to that. [00:28:51] Speaker E: Yeah. Just thankful for, I think, everyone who's given us a shot in these recent years, it seems like, you know, every time we go out in, you know, the Capital district and, you know, out to Springfield or down to Philly, it seems like we, you know, more and more people are giving us a listen and giving us a shot to, you know, show them what we got. So it's been really cool to see the same faces come out and see some people, you know, singing along and everything. And we're, I mean, always going to be grateful for that. So it's been a blast, and we hope you keep coming to the shows. [00:29:30] Speaker D: I'm grateful for you, Andy. Thank you for having us up here now multiple times, being a friend, doing all the things that you do for local music, music, while also being in your own awesome local band. So thank you, Andy. And kind of jumping off from Andy, all the people who are doing things like you in whatever scene it is. We, we're grateful to know so many awesome people who are just like, for no reason other than they love it. Just hustling, putting on great shows, being in sick bands, welcoming people in bands like us to their towns or to their shows and, and just like making tons of people happy, spreading positivity and joy and kind of the word of what music can do for you as an individual human being. So thank you, Andy. Thank you all. Andy's all over the world. [00:30:20] Speaker C: And yeah, so we got this show coming up this Friday, August 14th, at no Fun, New York State of Ska. Buy a ticket in advance for 15 bucks and you get entered to win a test press. So we hope to see you there. [00:30:35] Speaker B: Sweet. All right, so they are Girth Control. I am Andy scullin. This is unsigned 518. I'll see you on the road. Unsigned 518 is produced and hosted by me, Andy Scullin. New episodes are available every week wherever you stream podcasts. If you'd like to help support the show, please like and subscribe wherever you are listening. Or you could buy me a [email protected] unsigned 518 if you would like to advertise on the show, send me an email at unsigned518mail.com and to be a guest on the show, reach out to me through Instagram518. Take care of one another and I'll see you next week. [00:31:25] Speaker A: And Scullin.