Speaker 1: What a great way to start at the show, since
Speaker 1: it's Kurt Cobain's birthday or would have been his birthday.
Speaker 1: More on that momentarily. Ben and Skin Show ninety one
Speaker 1: point one the Eagle. Usually Ben talks first, but he's
Speaker 1: talking out of his butt on a.
Speaker 2: Toilet right now.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I think he might be better. He might be We
Speaker 2: were in a tech chain with him earlier.
Speaker 1: And so Christina got the norovirus, KT got the neuro virus,
Speaker 1: and we assume Ben got it yesterday. But you're both
Speaker 1: the yall's versions were identical, right.
Speaker 4: Pretty close.
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't you throw up fifty pounds worth of vomit?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, I lost Kat. I don't know about you,
Speaker 4: but I lost ten pounds in three days.
Speaker 2: I think I lost like six to eight pounds. That
Speaker 2: is bonker. It's bad.
Speaker 4: But you're evacuating everything in your body and you can't keep.
Speaker 1: Anything down eating five days. Yeah, I had like an apple, KT.
Speaker 1: You told me you lost eight pounds of peen weight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like damn son, that's your winter and shrinking. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it is so cold out sold the God. Have you
Speaker 1: guys seen the weather lately? No, don't, don't I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: it was a terrible question. So Ben, maybe we'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're doing our show from the Hurtado Barbecue
Speaker 1: at the Dallas Farmers Market, and this is a big
Speaker 1: show because we love her Toto Barbecue.
Speaker 2: Have we confirmed that you'll be there? Christina? You have?
Speaker 2: Have you decided to go? O KTI?
Speaker 1: Of course I'll be there, okay, for the second time.
Speaker 1: So hopefully there's a humble brag. So hopefully Ben will
Speaker 1: be there, but if not, the three of us will
Speaker 1: be there. And we have Dallas Mavericks tickets to give
Speaker 1: away four tomorrow night's game. All right, so we have
Speaker 1: four tickets. I think we should give away two pair
Speaker 1: of two. I don't think we should give four to
Speaker 1: one person. Do you guys care?
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't know the rules. I feel
Speaker 2: like it, Okay, sure, yes, it sounds great. Scin y'all
Speaker 2: aren't invested in that delay as much as I. You know,
Speaker 2: there's rules to everything. I can bend him. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We also have disturbed tickets were given away too. What's
Speaker 1: that four or two?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: Is a four packer? We give like two pairs? I
Speaker 2: haven't decided. Maybe a solo and three what are you.
Speaker 5: Boy?
Speaker 6: Solo?
Speaker 2: A disturbed ticket? What a terrible provision?
Speaker 4: No, concerts by yourself are kind of awesome, there are.
Speaker 1: That's because you go in the guitar tech takes you backstage.
Speaker 2: You're not the normal person, Christina, He's playing Metallica's guitar. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I talked to our old buddy Sam that we
Speaker 1: used to work with, and he told me him, his
Speaker 1: wife and both of his sons had this and it.
Speaker 2: Sounded exactly like what you two had.
Speaker 1: But Ben has not thrown up out of his front butt. Y,
Speaker 1: He hasn't had an oral experience, right, But you guys
Speaker 1: all had a terrible oral experience with storal experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ever coming to blame in the show will rank the
Speaker 1: worst oral I was.
Speaker 2: Thinking about last night. I wish I was wearing like
Speaker 2: a helmet all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but during really that oral experience, did your.
Speaker 2: Head just keep banging off? No bobblehead just shaking. That's terrible. God,
Speaker 2: it sounds like a bad experience.
Speaker 1: Helmet wearing, bibblehead KT projectile vomiting.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That makes me want to play the
Speaker 2: intro screaming way.
Speaker 4: Make its.
Speaker 2: Inhumane. I hope you don't get it.
Speaker 3: Time movies right now, you're ready, ready, ready, ready.
Speaker 6: Wit Evan Win, I'll show you goal Rubinhead, Simlar Sweet
Speaker 6: pursuing it. Donld Out Shaw Shank through the sewer, Kid
Speaker 6: now with chilling at the Eagle. Yeah, we're doing it.
Speaker 6: Three o'clock on the Doc. Got a habit for my house,
Speaker 6: a goat status Howard starting to Kit Crattit shows that
Speaker 6: enough multiplied like a rabbit.
Speaker 2: Two end zone out, crank it up, Pete the habit.
Speaker 3: Imona hang out with a friend, rocking it on the radio.
Speaker 5: My moist.
Speaker 2: Talking on the radio. It's time to to this walk is.
Speaker 3: All baby katistin enough.
Speaker 5: All up on the radio.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: As we mentioned right after you heard in bloom here
Speaker 1: on the Eagle, it is would have been the fifty
Speaker 1: eighth birthday of one Kurt Cobain. And as we're getting
Speaker 1: ready for the show earlier today, Christina is like, I
Speaker 1: know a guy who knows a lot about Kurt Cobain,
Speaker 1: and so we thought, man, that would be badass if
Speaker 1: we had him on the show. So joining us now
Speaker 1: on the Bend and Skin Hotline, the lead singer of
Speaker 1: the Nirvana cover band Oatmeal Pizza, which features our own
Speaker 1: Christina Ray the Wonderful Josh. Hello, Josh, how are we
Speaker 1: doing today?
Speaker 2: Hello radio friend.
Speaker 5: I'm doing excellent. How are you guys? Man?
Speaker 2: We're doing great.
Speaker 1: How are you celebrating what would have been Kurt Cobain's
Speaker 1: fifty eighth birthday?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not doing what I guess. You know, all
Speaker 5: the puking talk really coincides really well with this topic,
Speaker 5: So I'm not bringing in his birthday by puking all
Speaker 5: over the place. Ben's doing him a lot better justice
Speaker 5: than I am. I've just been playing guitar like a loser.
Speaker 2: But that's probably what Kurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure, Josh, Christina here, Yes, So you know
Speaker 4: a ton about Kurt? Is there any like fun fact
Speaker 4: maybe that a lot of people don't know about him?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what's the most fun thing the guy
Speaker 1: who committed suicide?
Speaker 4: Something cool that people don't know?
Speaker 5: You know, he started by playing drums. He was a
Speaker 5: drummer originally, and that's what he was trained on in
Speaker 5: in junior high, in elementary school. Uh before he you know,
Speaker 5: really got going and playing guitar and other things. Uh
Speaker 5: so that was an interesting fact. I think a lot
Speaker 5: of us who play instruments always started on drums just
Speaker 5: because that seemed like the easiest thing to do for
Speaker 5: us lazy folks. And uh then that got that got
Speaker 5: us a bug by by starting behind the drum set,
Speaker 5: and then we wanted to do everything. So that was
Speaker 5: that's I don't know, it's a I think that's a
Speaker 5: cool thing from a musician standpoint, because I think a
Speaker 5: lot of musicians, especially rock people, that end up playing
Speaker 5: guitar and bass and other things, we all started out
Speaker 5: as drummers.
Speaker 2: Josh, this is Kevin.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, Kt, you introduced yourself to a guy that
Speaker 1: knows you by your nickname.
Speaker 2: So I was wondering yesterday's Skin on the show two
Speaker 2: days ago.
Speaker 3: On the show, Skin said something like, all those Nirvana
Speaker 3: songs are very much Kurt Cobaine songs though, right They
Speaker 3: just they.
Speaker 2: Feel like Kurt.
Speaker 3: I want to know this is that I've never really
Speaker 3: thought about too much. What do you know about his
Speaker 3: childhood growing up? What took him down such an angsty path?
Speaker 3: Or was it that different than I guess what we
Speaker 3: were all going through in our teenage years.
Speaker 2: You know, his is probably.
Speaker 5: A tale as old as time. His parents got divorced
Speaker 5: he was ten, and he talks about that in a
Speaker 5: couple of the different books that have been written. The
Speaker 5: Azara book Come as You Are like the best one
Speaker 5: because he spent like the actual most time with Kurt
Speaker 5: and developing the book, and Kurt was really involved with
Speaker 5: that whole process and like proofreading every part of it,
Speaker 5: and they agreed, you know that that would be the truth,
Speaker 5: the actual true story and if he got to tell it.
Speaker 5: But he talks about how that divorce when he was ten,
Speaker 5: like that's what turned him into sort of a melancholy
Speaker 5: kid going forward, because it wasn't just a divorce, especially
Speaker 5: when you learn a little bit more about it. It
Speaker 5: was a pretty volatile childhood situation to the point where
Speaker 5: he was being passed around by his family to other
Speaker 5: family members to try to take care of him in
Speaker 5: the short term because like he didn't have a stable
Speaker 5: living situation with either his mother or his father for
Speaker 5: a good period of time, and sort of that not
Speaker 5: having a place and sort of vagabond nature as such
Speaker 5: a young kid really shaped a lot of his personality
Speaker 5: and especially just having this very vibrant inner life that
Speaker 5: he had all the time. He was a very introspective person,
Speaker 5: especially for someone at such a young age, like he
Speaker 5: knew a lot about himself and he had a very good,
Speaker 5: good grasp on the world, I think, And as much
Speaker 5: as people would like to say that he's like a
Speaker 5: voice of the gen X generation, I think that he
Speaker 5: would bristle at that a little bit. I think that
Speaker 5: he would say that he was the counterpoint to that generation.
Speaker 5: He was the one who was calling it out. He
Speaker 5: grew up in it in that sort of junior high
Speaker 5: and high school atmosphere of a bunch of misogyny, jock
Speaker 5: macho attitude. That's what all the music was at the time,
Speaker 5: you know, And so he took the brunt of a
Speaker 5: lot of that bullying and a lot of that homophobia
Speaker 5: and misogyny and things were directed towards him. And I
Speaker 5: think he was way ahead of his time by the time,
Speaker 5: like the late eighties roll around. He's writing songs. He's
Speaker 5: writing songs that like would are are relevant still today
Speaker 5: because he was calling out that subject matter and trying
Speaker 5: to make a more inclusive environment for everybody. So I
Speaker 5: would say he's more of like a prophet of millennials
Speaker 5: and gen Z rather than the voice of Generation X.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was the conduit for what a lot of
Speaker 1: people were feeling. He wasn't trying to be that, he
Speaker 1: was just being being honest with what he was articulating everybody. Yeah, Josh,
Speaker 1: I would love to know when, because I'm not just
Speaker 1: blowing smoke. You guys are great live. In fact, I
Speaker 1: feel like I don't see you enough because every time
Speaker 1: I go, I enjoy it. You guys give me a
Speaker 1: couple opportunities for our listeners to see Oatmeal Pizza, the
Speaker 1: best Nirvana cover band in all the land, featuring our
Speaker 1: own Christina Ray Along. You're on lead vocals. Christina plays
Speaker 1: guitar along with you. When can we see you guys again?
Speaker 5: We are doing a big farewell show to Andy's and Denton.
Speaker 5: The staple club there on Denton Square is closing down.
Speaker 5: This weekend will be their last weekend of operations, so
Speaker 5: we're doing the last Sunday show at Andy's on this Sunday,
Speaker 5: February twenty third. It's an early show. It starts at
Speaker 5: seven or seven thirty and then everything finishes up before
Speaker 5: ten TMS, so no worries about a school night or
Speaker 5: missing work the next morning or anything like that. But
Speaker 5: come out to that one. That'd be a nice one
Speaker 5: to have a toast and bid farewell to the greatness
Speaker 5: of Andy's. And then after that, the next time we
Speaker 5: play is March twenty second. I think that's at dan
Speaker 5: Silverleaf and that'll be a matt and a show. So
Speaker 5: do you want to come hang out and do some
Speaker 5: day drinking on a Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 6: Come to that one.
Speaker 2: It sounds wonderful.
Speaker 1: Last time I saw you, guys, was actually at Andy,
Speaker 1: So that'll be a great show Sunday.
Speaker 2: Josh, thank you for the insight. We appreciate you. We'll
Speaker 2: see you later. Man, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 5: Love you guys, We love him.
Speaker 2: That is Josh of Oatmeal Pizza. You You just went
Speaker 2: to Kentucky with him, didn't you?
Speaker 4: Sure did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Man and his lovely wife.
Speaker 4: It was really fun.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for booking Josh. It is you know,
Speaker 2: it is funny.
Speaker 1: Some of the things he was saying there made me
Speaker 1: have a lot of thoughts on the Kurt Cobain experience.
Speaker 1: It's different for you guys, because you guys were like
Speaker 1: little kids when he took his life.
Speaker 4: I yeah, I never really appreciated Nirvana or Kurt as
Speaker 4: a lyricist in all of that until I joined Oatmeal Pizza.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll find some time later in the show to
Speaker 1: pontificate on all that, because all of our Eagle listeners
Speaker 1: love Nirvana all right. Coming up next, Kevin has a
Speaker 1: special surprise that'll pit me against Christina once again. We're enemies,
Speaker 1: and we'll show it to you next right here on
Speaker 1: ninety seven point one, The Eagle