Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call. Normally,
Speaker 1: the only time we'd talk to musical artists on our
Speaker 1: show is after they become famous and we need to
Speaker 1: like promote a concert or a new record that's coming out.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's rare. But today we're talking to a
Speaker 1: musician who's pre famous. Oh, not famous yet, okay, but
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be soon. His name's Nico. Welcome to the show, Nico, Hello,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. Guys. Yeah, and would you
Speaker 1: say you're the next Calvin Harris or the next Nickelback.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a sense of just who you
Speaker 1: are and what your styling is. Hopefully not the next Nickelback. No,
Speaker 1: we're more like a psych rock, acid punk type of fusion.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, I'm trying to think of another band yet
Speaker 1: make good money? Yeah, our band names Exploding Kittens. Basically
Speaker 1: if you do drugs. His music sounds good, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, So tell us about the situation that you're
Speaker 1: dealing with today. Why did you email the show for help? Well,
Speaker 1: our band used to be called CV nineteen. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: like COVID nineteen. Like CV nineteen. Yeah, but that was
Speaker 1: like way before that happened. It was two years ago
Speaker 1: when we started the band. CV is my initials, and
Speaker 1: nineteen was the age that I was when we started
Speaker 1: the band. What it's like the people who name their
Speaker 1: daughters isis it's like a pretty name intel. It gets
Speaker 1: the associations now pandemic. Yeah, it's cool. Well that's terrible luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one wanted to book CV nineteen. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: No surprise. You're not calling us today to help you
Speaker 1: think of a new band name. No, no, we had
Speaker 1: to change it. It's now jos tongue. My mom came
Speaker 1: up with it. So tongue dos tongue, Yeah, das tongue
Speaker 1: like Germans. Yeah, and your mom came up with that one.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know how, why exactly do you
Speaker 1: need our help? So we've really just been trying to
Speaker 1: get better as a band. Mostly been playing local gigs
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but we wanted to do more
Speaker 1: professional stuff like weddings and you know, bigger venues, and
Speaker 1: we really haven't done much stuff like that, so not
Speaker 1: a lot of acid punk. It's yeah, we can play
Speaker 1: covers and stuff, but here's the issue. Our drummer. His
Speaker 1: name Sean. He's basically been missing practices NonStop for months now,
Speaker 1: and he calls me like an hour before practice, and
Speaker 1: most of the time honestly just sends me a text
Speaker 1: and just says, I can't make it. Can we reschedule?
Speaker 1: You know, I have to cancel the entire practice, And
Speaker 1: basically we haven't practiced in months because of this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: have you have you talk to him about it? We've
Speaker 1: talked about it quite a bit, and I've tried to
Speaker 1: get him to at least tell me what's going on,
Speaker 1: like is it a girlfriend or something like that, but
Speaker 1: he always cuts me off because he gives it doesn't
Speaker 1: have enough time. And I feel like the other guys
Speaker 1: are getting way less interested in the band because I'm
Speaker 1: having to cancel on him all the time, and we
Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of gigs lately. It's a bizarre situation.
Speaker 1: One cancer in the group, Man, it'll spread in the
Speaker 1: band next thing, you know, the whole band's gonna be
Speaker 1: bro Yeah, so what you want one of us to
Speaker 1: play drums for you? I think Brooks got I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good on the pins. She's got some aggression to take out.
Speaker 1: You hear that. Hear that in the background. That's a pin.
Speaker 1: I'm a coffee cup. Okay, I take it back. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That was a terrible What is it exactly that you
Speaker 1: want us to do for you? Well, I kind of
Speaker 1: need help trying to tell him we don't want him
Speaker 1: in the band. Oh yeah, you're kicking out the drummer, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to do at this point,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? We have a lot of
Speaker 1: good memories together. Like it was the first time I
Speaker 1: had like a group type of hookup situation was because
Speaker 1: him after a show. That is sweet. What is this
Speaker 1: guy's name again? I'm sorry? His name is Sean? Sean? Okay,
Speaker 1: and Sean is he one of those really calm drummers
Speaker 1: or I've never been. I don't know if that exists.
Speaker 1: They tend to be pretty high energy. Yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: pretty high energy. He's a bit of a ladies man.
Speaker 1: But uh, look, he's a really cool guy and I
Speaker 1: got a lot of love for him. But I can't
Speaker 1: have somebody trying to tear down the band from the inside,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, So are you what
Speaker 1: are you most worried about in this conversation one. I
Speaker 1: don't want to come off like the bad guy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I just want to come off
Speaker 1: like a professional musician. I don't want to come off
Speaker 1: like a jerk friend basically because we are friends. I've
Speaker 1: known him a long time. More like, this is a
Speaker 1: business decision, nothing like personal. Yeah, okay, right, so we
Speaker 1: need to think of ways to help you deliver that
Speaker 1: message to him. All right, So we're going to play
Speaker 1: a song, we'll come back, we'll give you some advice,
Speaker 1: and then let you make your aw We're Tuesday phone call. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, cool, all right, we'll come back in a
Speaker 1: one and a two. And if you're just tuning in
Speaker 1: for the awkward Tuesday phone call, we've got Nico on
Speaker 1: the phone. He's the lead singer of the soon to
Speaker 1: be world famous band Das Tongue. This music that we're
Speaker 1: playing right now isn't his. It's music that we just
Speaker 1: pulled from our system. But I guarantee you Nico's acid
Speaker 1: punk band rocks a lot harder than this music right here,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure Dus Tongue is amazing. Now he needs
Speaker 1: our help today, letting his drummer Sean know you haven't
Speaker 1: been showing up to practice lately, so you're out of
Speaker 1: the band. Yeah, and he wants some advice on how
Speaker 1: to do it. Jose, what do you think? Well, look,
Speaker 1: I'm also an entertainer. I'm a comedian, but I'm trying
Speaker 1: to imagine myself getting a phone call saying you can't
Speaker 1: do what you've dreamed of doing. So all I can
Speaker 1: say is, even though he's been a little disrespectful to you,
Speaker 1: try to be as respectful as you can and give
Speaker 1: it to him as easy as possible. You're kind of
Speaker 1: crushing I've said that before, you know, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I think that's good advice. I do want to be nice,
Speaker 1: but I also want to be honest with him. I
Speaker 1: don't want I don't want to waste his time, and
Speaker 1: I don't want my time to be wasted too. I
Speaker 1: think it's as simple as that. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: two visions for the band. It sounds like he treats
Speaker 1: it as a hobby, which is fine. That's fine. He's
Speaker 1: not going to work for your vision, which is a
Speaker 1: more professional vision. Yeah, you're worried about awkwardness. I would
Speaker 1: consider maybe hiding the drum set and you just act
Speaker 1: like you don't know where it went. I guess we
Speaker 1: can't practice today, Sorry, Sean, So easy to lose this thing.
Speaker 1: Don't look in the closet. By the way, all fifty
Speaker 1: pieces of that's a backup plan. We'll call that. Okay,
Speaker 1: you go, okay, all right, But I think that's all
Speaker 1: the advice we have. Unless alexis you got anything, I'd
Speaker 1: probably lie a butter him up, tell me he's better
Speaker 1: off on his own because he's too good for me.
Speaker 1: She's broken and she wants to put actual butter on
Speaker 1: this man. That's what she's talking about. So just ignore that. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just let's just give Sean a con and we'll
Speaker 1: let you make your awkward Tuesday phone call. You ready, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I am. Okay, here we go, good luck? Man. Hello, Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: what's up? Can you go? Yeah? It's me, buddy. How
Speaker 1: you doing? Man? Oh? Not bad? Man? I didn't recognize
Speaker 1: you on this number. What's up? Um? Caking it? Brom
Speaker 1: just writing some tunes right now? Man? Um? What are
Speaker 1: you up to? Um? Actually getting ready to ahead to
Speaker 1: the store. If that's who, I can call you back later,
Speaker 1: like tomorrow or whatever. Oh no, I kind of really
Speaker 1: wanted to talk to you. Do you like not gonna
Speaker 1: take long? All right? I mean, okay, Oh well, what's
Speaker 1: going on with you lately? Man? Like I feel like
Speaker 1: you're always canceling on practices, not showing up, and your
Speaker 1: excuses are kind of weak, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like your heart isn't in it anymore? What it feels like,
Speaker 1: I mean, my schedule has been tacked lately. I'm over here,
Speaker 1: I'm running around like a madman. I'm like Martha Stewart
Speaker 1: right now to bakesale, bro, Like everybody wants a piece
Speaker 1: right now. What you know that chick that's on TV
Speaker 1: that does all the home stuff and cooking, And that's
Speaker 1: me right now, dude, I know who she is. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying. What I'm trying to say is like I'm
Speaker 1: committed to making our band great, you know, and it
Speaker 1: feels like you are not trying to make our band
Speaker 1: great in any way. We need to be on the
Speaker 1: same page, like keeping it real. No, I get it, man,
Speaker 1: I get it. But like I said, like things have
Speaker 1: just been off. Man, I don't know. I gotta go
Speaker 1: to the store, though, Bro, Can I call you back?
Speaker 1: I do gotta get going. Look, Sean, this is don't
Speaker 1: talking about, bro, Like this is how you've been acting
Speaker 1: every time I bring something up, Like I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're doing with your time, but if you got
Speaker 1: something better to do, like I don't know, Man, I'm sorry, dude,
Speaker 1: but like maybe I gotta let you go, like to
Speaker 1: the store. No, bro, like from the band, I gotta
Speaker 1: let you go, Like I can't keep doing this with
Speaker 1: you like dos tongue. Wait, you're gonna kick me out
Speaker 1: of the band? Yeah, man, I'm sorry, you know, like
Speaker 1: no hard feelings, but I mean I want to focus
Speaker 1: on making good music and making progress and like I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think you're there with me. Wow, damn man,
Speaker 1: I mean this actually makes things a little easier for me.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I don't get it? No, like
Speaker 1: this could be like a good thing because it's like
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure how to tell you, but I'm kind
Speaker 1: of starting a new band myself, Like I got this
Speaker 1: whole plan for a new band that I'm working on.
Speaker 1: What dude, Yeah, so like dude, like like Rooster Paul
Speaker 1: aj Man, they're coming with me, bro, Like I have
Speaker 1: this vision for a new band man, and like they're
Speaker 1: all in so wait, what are you will? Hold on, bro,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? What are you what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? What are you talking about? What do
Speaker 1: you mean? What am I talking about? The guys dude,
Speaker 1: we kind of are just gonna do our own thing. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Like, like you said, we're not you're stealing
Speaker 1: my entire band from me. Oh god, Hello, what the
Speaker 1: hell is going on here? What is that? What was
Speaker 1: that sound? Hey, Sean, this is Brooke and Jeffrey in
Speaker 1: the Morning. You're on the radio with us right now. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not on the radio. I'm on the phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're on the phone, which goes to our phone, which
Speaker 1: we put onto the radio. Yeah, we're doing a segment
Speaker 1: called an Awkward Tuesday phone call because basically, Nico needed
Speaker 1: help delivering the news to you that he wanted to
Speaker 1: kick you out of the band. But apparently I guess
Speaker 1: Nico's the one he kicked out of the band. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what the band? What the hell's going on? Dude? Nico? Careful?
Speaker 1: What's your language? I can't remember on the radio here, Bro,
Speaker 1: you need to start talking, dude, Like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? Seriously? Much better way. Yeah, why why
Speaker 1: are you guys kicking me out? I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: we just got different visions, bro. Like, I think everybody,
Speaker 1: especially Rooster, thought the band could be like a lot
Speaker 1: bigger than just playing these retirement homes and these half
Speaker 1: both weddings or whatever. The man like language, the language, guys, Well,
Speaker 1: we're talking to an acid punk band, you know if
Speaker 1: their buddy is playing the retirement home right now? Sean,
Speaker 1: I want that too, Bro, Okay, I want to be
Speaker 1: selling out stadiums like we could still do that together.
Speaker 1: I thought you guys were not trying to be doing music,
Speaker 1: man like. I just need you guys to show up.
Speaker 1: Tell you the truth, bro, Like, I thought this was
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot easier to tell you since you
Speaker 1: were coming at me. But like my cousin, think he
Speaker 1: had like an awesome voice and he could shred bro.
Speaker 1: Like you remember Frank, who isn't he like sixteen? He's
Speaker 1: turning seventeen next week? Oh seventeen next week? Okay, you
Speaker 1: can't replace me with speak. He can't even vote, bro.
Speaker 1: First of all, you don't need to vote to rock out,
Speaker 1: and he knows all the TikTok did he had a
Speaker 1: whole fair campaign. That was the opposite. Bro, you didn't
Speaker 1: want to ride his TikTok. Bro, alright, not the right show.
Speaker 1: Remember we're like the retirement. Yeah, it's kind of cold though.
Speaker 1: Sean to kick the lead singer out just because did
Speaker 1: screw him. Man, he wanted to kick me out first.
Speaker 1: He's just mad because I've already got plans in the
Speaker 1: works over here. That was the thing. He actually said
Speaker 1: really nice things about you. He was just frustrated he
Speaker 1: weren't showing up. He's frustrated I'm not showing up, and
Speaker 1: me and the guys man were frustrated that we're playing
Speaker 1: in these gigs. We're ready to take it to a
Speaker 1: different level. Man. I mean, I love the guy, he's
Speaker 1: my bro, right, but it's a business decision. I have
Speaker 1: to ask, when did you guys form this other band? Yeah? Bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've been playing for a little bit and we sound good. Bro. Nico,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man, this is not going the way that
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to go. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't believe this is happening right now, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, But you just gotta remember, like every true
Speaker 1: rock star has some big setback. Else they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: like a cool documentary to make about them later. Yeah. Thanks,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I get but like, look, bro, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you right now, Man, you can't have my
Speaker 1: band name. All right, dust Tongue is mine, dude, that's fine.
Speaker 1: You could keep dust Tongue. Man, we're calling ourselves the Chillbillies.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I kind of love them, right, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's pretty rad. Hey man, I just want
Speaker 1: to tell you, I want to hate that name, but
Speaker 1: it's pretty sweet. Not gonna lie, bro, Listen, you and
Speaker 1: I we've been friends for a long time. We played
Speaker 1: together for a long time. If I ever need a
Speaker 1: fill in, you're one of my go to guys. Like
Speaker 1: we're still bfl right, Bland for life, for life. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're radio people. We don't get that that's too complicated
Speaker 1: for us. Okay. Well, I don't know. This call didn't
Speaker 1: go the way that we thought it was gonna go.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like you guys have reached a resolution.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you guys cool? I mean I'm cool.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like you're cool, bro, But I
Speaker 1: mean I don't really have a choice. It kind of sucks,
Speaker 1: But I mean, maybe you guys can play one of
Speaker 1: my songs on your station, Like I could send you
Speaker 1: a demo, just one song so people can kind of
Speaker 1: hear what's going on at the phone right now. Yeah,
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