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Now, I know I always come with a snappy name for the show.
You got your Shocktobers, you got your American Podcasts and 100 Million Tons of Steel.
You know, all these shows with clever names.
The reason I don't have a name for this one is not because I don't feel that it's important, because it's extremely important to me, but it is because it is about a genre of music called butt rock.
And you guys know how I feel about Butts and farts and stuff like that.
And so what I've done is I've gotten a co-host for this one that is very qualified to talk about music.
Now, I don't, we're going to talk here now.
This is just the introductory show.
Maybe we'll even try to come up with a title here.
I have Alexander from Minion Death Cult, a show that we've toured with, that I enjoy, that I've been on.
What's up Alexander?
Hey, uh, yeah, very happy to be here.
I like the idea of coming up with the title of the show, you know, maybe perhaps spontaneously.
Uh, I, I thought of the title, uh, butt fest, butt fest 2000, um, 2000, 2000 in 2020.
Yeah.
I think that would help with the SEO of the show.
I think it would.
Everybody searching for this podcast would be able to find it with those keywords.
ButtFest 2000.
They'd be, you know, just throwing it out there.
We don't have to decide.
I'm taking it.
I'm actually taking it.
The idea of making the title to have 2000 at the end of it when we're not just going to talk about the 2000s.
We're going to talk next week.
We're going to talk about the 80s.
We're going to talk about the 90s.
Right.
That's the good thing about the, the number 2000 is that it was like an important year, but it also just sounds like a model number.
It also sounds like a good, like iteration of a product or idea or philosophy.
You know, it's like, it's like, it's like a philosophy in and of itself, 2000.
And like 80% of stuff before the year 2000 was called 2000.
Like just stuff.
Like if I had made a podcast before the year 2000 it probably would have been called Street Fight 2000.
I mean, heavy metal 2000 did not come out in the year 2000.
No, no.
It started way back in probably 1980.
Really?
I am.
I am covering, which might be butt rock.
We don't know yet.
There's a lot of Competing, uh, definitions and, and me and Alex are going to find this, right?
Like we're, we're going to figure this out, but I'm doing crazy town right now on the POD cast.
And they have a song called B-Boy 2000.
Well, integrity had a whole album called integrity 2000.
I mean, even, even Metalcore was, was jumping on the 2000 bandwagon.
Every band, every, every band was like, oh man, you know, 2000 is going to be the year that rock, they probably thought rock and roll was going to die in the year 2000.
Like it was going to go turn into techno.
That could be the case.
I think a lot of people thought like everybody was going to die because 2000 was the original like, you know, 2012 Mayan, end of the Mayan calendar type thing.
So it was just like an epic year to like base your, uh, especially if you're a, you're a hard rock band or if you're a metal band, it's like a cool year.
Cause like maybe everybody's going to die.
Makes me think about robots though.
2000 like immediately makes me think of like dated looking robots like now we would be like oh that's very dated looking but back then we'd be like yeah that's a robot right there Back in the year 1999, the cartoon Bender Bending Rodriguez was the height of technology.
It was.
It really was.
That was the most futuristic thing we could imagine.
True.
So the reason I, well, first of all, the reason I did this is because I have seen the two words, butt rock, Probably since 2000 since the early since the 2000s.
I'd never heard of it.
Never knew what it was.
It just is one of those things.
It doesn't come up in.
Like real mainstream magazines, right?
Like it wouldn't come up in Rolling Stone.
It would come up and spin.
It would come up on Pitchfork.
It would come up on a place where it's middle brow, but they're trying to be hip.
Like they would call music butt rock and like I always kind of I'll tell this quick little thing back when I read a lot of music magazines growing up I was like the and I and this is why I picked you too is because I know you We're a music guy too.
I would call myself a dork when it came to music.
Like I only read about it.
I only cared about it.
I, uh, you know, dating my wife because we listened to the same kind of music at first, like the same kind of movies.
So you were like a snob.
You were like a music snob.
What was that music that you and your wife listened to together?
Well, I mean, some of it might've even been considered butt rock.
It was new man.
It was, and we're going to talk about that.
I have your priorities.
Yeah.
When we get to the two thousands, I think we're going to try to see if new metal is butt rock.
You know, like I know it's, it might be at this point now, I think it might even be partly that, that, okay.
This is just for you, Brian.
Don't tell the listener, because I want to keep it a surprise.
This show is, in my mind at least, I don't think this show is going to be about hot takes, but I do have a couple hot takes in the pipeline for the 90s and the 2000s.
And what you just said about Nu Metal is Nu Metal butt rock.
I want to give you, just you, Brian, A little teaser of one of those hot takes by way of the shirt that I'm wearing right now.
I got it.
Okay.
Okay.
I think it's a Metallica shirt.
Okay, well, you spoiled it for the listener.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Okay.
I think there's something there in the history.
I agree.
I don't know why I said it.
I'm just really dumb.
It's good content.
Yeah.
It's good content.
But, you know, I, I, uh, uh, Would have never been able to figure this kind of thing out, you know, like, like, uh, I just am.
So I was, there's a difference between us and that, like I was immersed in music, but like I was immersed in bad music.
You know and and I toured I toured with you and you know you listen to my bad music right like the whole time we're on the road and like you I feel were immersed you and Tony both uh were immersed in good music You're a uniquely qualified person to help me figure this out.
You're the yin to my yang.
Wow.
Well, thank you.
Praise from Caesar.
It's, it's funny that you would say that because like I, I listen to a ton of bad music.
I mean, there's going to be bands that we talk about on this show that I genuinely like, but I still think that it think our butt rock, you know, but I, I grew up, you know, I didn't have an older brother.
I didn't have any older friend, like older friends who did drugs to like, show me good music or whatever.
Uh, so I just, I found out about good music from basically the internet, like, like lurking hardcore and like local punk blogs, you know, when I was like 15 and 16.
So, I had my Nu Metal era, my Radio Rock era, my Ska era, my Pop Punk era.
I definitely listened to Korn and Limp Bizkit and still kind of vibe with some of that shit.
But some of the bad bands I found later in life that I really like.
I mean I don't want to get off on too much of a tangent here but like Pantera is a band that I kind of like turned my nose up at through high school when I was listening to hardcore and I like smoked weed for the first time when I was 18 and listened to Far Beyond Driven and lost my mind.
It's like, yeah, this is amazing.
You know, it's it, but, um, I like, I, you know, I was, I was, I, I came up in a world where you were allowed to like Pantera.
I think it is also like you growing up in California and me growing up in Columbus, Ohio.
I know you grew up in a very Ohio part of California, but it's still California.
And people still are like, we're from California.
If that makes sense.
Yeah, I had Orange County and LA to go to, you know, I was only an hour outside of those places.
So I could see like dudes in white studded belts who were also cage fighters, like perform music, you know?
So it was a, it was a weird time to be growing up and like, you know, not in the center of it, but able to access the center of it.
Um, so, but yeah, like, like the Pantera, what, what, like, Was representative of Pantera to me was like the dude who like drove a lifted truck, like the 17 year old who drove a lifted truck and had a huge Pantera, uh, you know, vinyl sticker on his back window like that.
And he also like, I dunno, maybe listen to like job for a cowboy or something.
And I was like, well, that band's poser.
So Pantera is also poser.
Um, But I think it's so when you're talking about like the term butt rock and how you wouldn't really see it in print unless you know somebody is like trying to sound cool or trying to make fun of it I think that's like unfortunate I wish like bands that are undeniably butt rock, which I think, you know, we're going to explore some of these are like, I think universally accepted as butt rock.
Some of these bands.
Like, can I, I'll just say like three days grace.
Oh wait, I have a better one.
I actually have a better one.
Three mores down.
Yes.
And we can, let's just talk about this now.
I'm just going to throw this band name out there.
I've been thinking about it all week.
When it, when it came to us doing this show and I've been, I don't want to wait till the 90s week to unleash, it's not unleashing a hot take, but a lit.
