Doc & Jacques: Dumpster Puppies – Punk Rock with a Purpose

In this episode of the Doc & Jacques radio variety show, hosts Dr. GiGi Reed and Jacques Kepner speak with Samala Zion and Alias from the punk rock band Dumpster Puppies. The duo shares their personal stories, including Samala’s challenging upbringing in Southern California gangs as well as Alias’s background. They discuss the band’s mission […]

Episode Transcript

(00:09):
Welcome.
You have now entered
again the cosmic radio receptors of
KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
Thank you for tuning in to this week's
fabulous program.
I'm doctor Gigi, and my cohost is, as
always, Jacques Kepner. How are you? I'm doing

(00:29):
fine, doctor. How is everybody? Greetings, everyone, and
welcome to the Doc and Jacques Radio Variety
Show. I wanna mention that you're hearing this
live show on KCOW
in Brookings, Oregon. That said, the same show
will be rebroadcast in exactly one week from
now each and every Wednesday
on KZZH
ninety six point seven FM in Eureka Humboldt
at 8AM. So you gotta get up early,

(00:51):
but you could hear us.
And then a few hours later at 1PM
on my old alma mater, KFUG,
one hundred and one point one FM in
Crescent City, California. So now you know the
doctor and I have got your coasts
covered. And I wanted to say a shout
out to our last week's guest, Thomas Kellum.
There is the pride festivities going on in,

(01:14):
the Crescent City this weekend, especially on Saturday,
all day pretty much.
The parade starts around, I don't know, I
think it's ten or 11:00
from the Crescent City
United Methodist Church, and then parties will be
breaking out all day long. So if you
have a good,
reason to come down to Crescent City or
a visit from Humboldt, Eureka, come on up
for the Pride Festival. It's the second annual.

(01:36):
I think that's it. There's a thing going
on Friday night, right, with the coins, the
coin auction, the quarters auction
at
the at the The rescue. At the Elk
Valley or is it it's oh, it's okay.
It's the Elk Valley. I will. Won't say
anything. Rescue people. Okay. Doctor, we have a
great show. We have a great guest in
the
studio with us today. But first, we need

(01:56):
to talk about
your MD,
GG, and I wanna know, are vegetables healthy?
And, are they packed with essential nutrients like
vitamins, minerals, and fiber while being low in
calories and fat? Tell me, doctor.
Okay. I don't understand why we're writing anything
down if you're not reading it.
I I just I threw those things in

(02:18):
there spontaneously.
We are a live show out there. Okay.
So we were gonna discuss
why are vegetables
healthy. That's what I did then. You say
Well, I don't have notes in front of
me. Don't tell me. You say vegetables are
healthy because they're packed with essential nutrients like
vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Okay. Alright. So say
that.

(02:38):
Uh-huh. And so I'll tell you, we were
gonna discuss
what are,
vitamins. Everybody knows vitamins are good, but nobody
knows what they actually are. Right? Right. We
discussed air, time,
consciousness. We've discussed some heavy hitters. So our
vitamins growing the vitamins. Vitamins. Is less heavy.
But it's more my alley here. Alright. So

(02:59):
there are 13
essential vitamins.
Same age as me?
Yeah. Mentally.
This means
these vitamins
are required
for the body for our body to function
properly.
There are two groups of vitamins, the fat
soluble
and the water soluble vitamins,
and we know most of them. The fat

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soluble are the vitamins a, d, e, and
k, and the water solubles are the c
and b vitamins.
So you still don't know what they are.
Right? So Right. But I'm still gonna tell
you more before I get to that. Was
named after May Kepner.
Yeah. It's really not. I don't know what
it does, but it's really good. So they're
actually named after the way they were found.

(03:41):
So a was the first one that was
found, b was the second one, c was
the third one, etcetera. K. Just k actually
was named k
because
coagulation
is coagulation.
It starts with a c. In German, it's
with a k.
Other German. Okay. So let's go into the
vitamins just briefly what they are. It's actually

(04:02):
I can talk it about tomorrow morning, and
I still haven't actually discussed what the vitamins
all do. Okay. So Let's hear it. We
will just go through a couple for an
explanation. Vitamin a,
we make that, and we can, yeah, we
make that or we can eat it, is
a key component. Get this for vision.
It is the major part of something called

(04:25):
rhodopsin
that when light hits it, it will change
its structure, and then it starts a nerve
impulse.
That's how we see. Woah. Without low dob
robodosin? Or Rhodopsin.
Rhodopsin. Okay. Oh, and and vitamin a is,
it's like Alright. The part of it. Isn't
that amazing? I mean, don't go to the
bathroom. A. Okay. If we wouldn't see, we'd

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be blind. Right. Got it. Now it has
about 50,000 other things too, but the visual
is pretty cool. Pretty cool. Now vitamin c,
we all know because we take vitamin c
to stay healthy. You're already antsy after the
vitamin. Antsy at all. And I actually am
thinking
vitamin c is helps in our in our
smell because it smells like oranges.

(05:06):
Yeah.
Maybe. Okay. So it is important for enzymes,
and enzymes are a little biocatalyst
that make
basically, all of our reactions in our body
are done by enzymes.
So many of these enzymes
need the little vitamin c molecule to stick
in there for the reaction to even happen.

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Those are coenzymes. They're called coenzymes. So that's
one of the coenzymes.
We need the vitamin c to make collagen.
K. Does scurvy
ring a bell? Which fills in all my
wrinkles. Right? I do my my collagen
At some point. Yeah. So does scurvy ring
a bell? Yeah. Scurvy does because that's with
the limies on the
they call them the the The limies. The

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semen that were from England, were always getting
sick, and so they found if they packed
what?
Vitamin c or lemons or limes. Or lime.
Right. Yeah. The name of fentanyl.
They should've they should've called it vitamin l.
They were for Limey? Limeys.
Now maybe
maybe high doses of vitamin c actually can
help fight the cancer.

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K.
Now one more before I call it quits.
Vitamin d For dumpster puppies.
Yeah. Vitamin vitamin d, dumpster puppies. I get
it. That's a goa.
I need the vitamin d. Vitamin
d, besides the dumpster puppies, it's also crucial
in calcium absorption. Without calciums, we don't have
any bones. We don't have any heart function.

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We don't have a lot of nothing. We
don't have any blood clotting. Nothing. Wow. So
these are just tiny bit of a window
into how important the vitamins are and what
they're What's what's one of the major antitoxid
toxins?
Is it vitamin e? Vitamin e is a
major antioxidant. Alright. Yeah. But there are many
of them. So they neutralize free radicals. Free

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radicals are
atoms usually that have a free electron, and
they just wanna make
a connection, a binding, or they wanna break
a bound bond to get their free electron
taken care of. And we know that vitamin
k is Keppner.
Vitamin b has bunch one, two, three, and
all that stuff, but that's Twelve. Yeah. Some
are omitted. Yeah. Wow. Some they have, yeah,

(07:16):
vitamin b one till twelve. Some are not
there because they named them that way, but
then they found out, well, they're really not
any vitamin. So
they dropped them again. But, yeah, there are
many vitamin
b's. They're a lot of stuff except for
Now I know. Now I know. I thought
you were gonna talk about vegetables, so I'm
gonna talk about vegetables a little bit. Please
talk about vegetables. Tell you that the potato
was the first vegetable ever

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that was sent into space and grown. It
went up
went up in the space station in 1996
Dang. And they grew a potato in the
sky. Yeah. And it floated around for a
while. And then, Little monkeys we had. And
then, but not bananas. It was a potato.
Space plenty. Did you know that some vegetables
like cucumbers, eggplant, and peppers are actually not

(07:58):
vegetables. They are fruits. So I think they
differ. Eggplants, peppers,
cucumbers, and, I think tomatoes are actually fruits.
Right? Certain vegetables thought to be highly or
fruits thought to be highly nutritious
may have,
may not offer significant health and benefits are
like iceberg lettuce, cucumbers, celery, zucchini,

(08:19):
tomatoes. They're fairly relatively low in essential nutrients.
Just sad. Did you know that the the
long the largest, largest carrot was over 20
pounds. And it was and there was a
cucumber that was over 50 inches long. These
are world records. Wow. There was a 350
pound watermelon.
Yeah. That's a big watermelon. Awesome. It's almost

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as big as,
you know, our buddy in
the in the booth.
OMG. Okay. Play Simon. And then there's a
3,000
pound
pumpkin.
A 3,000 pound pumpkin. Honest goodness. Yep. That's
pretty cool. Pretty big. The most popular vegetable
in America is Samala. Do you have a

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a guess what the most popular vegetable in
America is?
Kiwi. Kiwi? Wow. Maybe in Australia.
How about you, Annas? Oh, it's darn it.
Why the vegetable?
Oh, vegetable. The vegetable has to be something
you don't eat. Yeah. I don't know. I'm
saying it. I thought that was,
I'm trickling it. The the close. The most
popular vegetable in America is

(09:21):
a potato.
The most popular. Favorite. That's my favorite. I
like yes. Jimmy, it's a lot of potatoes.
And then, Hunter over there, how about saying
that what is America's second most popular vegetable?
What would you think it is? I would
like to assume a carrot. Oh, yes. She's
right. Wow. Oh, goodness. Great. That's That's why
you have such good eyes. You read for
my my cheat sheet over here.

(09:42):
Uh-huh. Very cool. Well, there you go. Alright.
Now we don't have notes over here. Yeah.
We don't have no. We don't maybe talk
about nuts next week.
Alright. Have a good day. Doctor Gigi, thank
you very, very much for that. Welcome. Thank
you. Folks, it's about ten minutes after on
this live show here at KCOW Studio and
then rebroadcast next week on K FUG and
KZZH.

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I want to talk something else about our
guests that are in the, studio today. Real
quickly, Samala Zion is here,
lead singer with the Dumpster Puppies.
And then Alias is here, one of the
guitarist and the of the band, the Dumpster
Puppies. And we have a visitor, Hunter, who
is, happily here just to be helping out

(10:24):
the studio, and we wanna see more of
you. Hi, Hunter. There you go. Alright. From
the depths of Southern California's unforgiving gang banging
streets is there to the redemptive
seemingly tranquil landscapes of Northernmost Coastal California,
Samala Zayyan
has transformed personal darkness into a beacon of
hope.
She shines like the pair of lighthouses that

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line our seashore.
Samala Zayyan is the fierce, fearless voice behind
the dumpster puppies.
She and her bandmates don't just perform infectious
original punk rock ballads,
but collectively,
well, they deliver messages of survival and solidarity
and sanity
to those trapped in cycles of abuse, addiction,

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and despair.
Samala's verb, her look,
her lyrics,
cut through the noise with raw honesty,
born from someone who walks the walk across
the hot coals of emotions,
and who has emerged with both scars and
wisdom.
Today, we sit down with an artist and
her friends who use

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their music not only for an escape, but
perhaps also as a rescue.
Samala
transcends the doom and gloom and pulls others
towards the light.
Ever since doctor Gigi and I first heard
Samala on the stage of life, I'm gonna
say it was over a year ago and
then I've seen her multiple times since then,
I when she's up there writhing and shouting
and act acting out her heartfelt words, we

(11:51):
said,
woah.
Yeah.
This leading lady and bandmates
explode on stage like fourth of July's fireworks
show. So off the
stage, she has an infectious way about her.
The way she carries herself, the way she
percolates something with heart and soul. Well,
that's enough of my verbiage. Let's find out
more about this unique woman that walks amongst

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us in our coastal region
and Alias who is here too. Without further
ado, doctor Gigi and I'd like to introduce
and welcome, Samala Zayon and Alias, a few
of the dumpster puppies
to the Doc and Jacques Show. Welcome. Welcome.
Thank you so much. Nice. What an amazing
introduction. That is just Thank you. Touches my

(12:33):
soul. There we go. Cool. Thank you so
much for having us. I'm very happy to
have you here. The journey. Yeah. Come a
long way. Right? Well, let's start from the
beginning. Samala, where were you born and raised?
Oh, man.
I was born Alias get ready to end
the same four moons away in the galaxy
of no. I was born in Lancaster, California.

(12:54):
Southern Cal? The desert of LA, the Mojave
Desert with the Joshua trees around. Alright. Oh,
the old trees. Yeah. My number one favorite
tree, and then it's the redwoods. That's why
I'm here now. But, yeah, I grew up
out there, and it was crazy.
Wow. Very crazy. Grew up out there in
the Was your childhood
was your childhood upbringing

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more good or more bad?
Well, sadly, it was more bad, but, thankfully,
my sister was part of that. So she
helped,
like, save me from all that and helped
me to see the strength that
does really come from going through something like
that and being stronger today. Yeah. This is
your older sister. Yeah. She she did pass

(13:35):
away twenty one years ago.
But as a kid, she had got me
out of really dark times
as a child. Because she was nine years
older, a little bit more savvy, a little
more street wise. Yep. She was a mother
at 12, and she actually had six kids
before she was 21. Beautiful. Six beautiful girls.
Wow. Angels, queens.
Wow. All of the All my niece is

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dude. Story.
Cool. Alias. Hey, alias. I was born. I
was born in United States Of America. Sorry.
Been rocking the West Coast for a while.
Yeah. Rocking the West Coast. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.
Just grew up in Baja, Oregon. Kinda. Spent
a lot of time there. Baja, Oregon? Yeah.
A little bit.
Yeah. I mean, that's, like, Mexico, Oregon? Yeah.

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Wow.
Or or Northern California, but, like, way past
San Francisco and Northern California. Okay. Cool. Is
that Don Francisco? We're kind of where we
are now. Right? Yeah. Yeah. This part of
our region. Yeah. Alright. Not Oregon,
Yeah. Am I still I didn't make that
up either, I don't know. You want me
to ask for that. Okay. Alright. Alright. What
brought you, what brought you to our beautiful
coastal region here, Elias? What brought you up
here? What

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what My parents, I guess.
So you lived here for a while? Oh,
yeah.
Baja. Been riding a bus. For a while.
We call it Baja. Alright. How about you,
Samala? What brought you up here to the
beautiful coastal Northern California and Southern Oregon? The
grace of God actually brought me up here.
Tell us. And my aunt my aunt Susan

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here in Brookings, Oregon and Uncle Bill. Hey,
aunt. Shout out to aunt Sue and Uncle
Bill. Hey, aunt Sue and Uncle Bill. They
actually helped get me up here at Crescent
City,
and
it's been such a beautiful journey since then.
I felt like I've died and gone to
heaven. Now didn't you come back and forth?
You went to LA Yeah. A couple times.
I've been up here
since about 02/2013.

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My son actually learned how to walk in
the Redwood Forest. Wow. My son, Halo. She
halo. Your son, Halo? What is it? Halo.
Hey, Halo. And,
it's been quite the journey. We've been getting
into music since then. We started with this
guy named Luce Arrow. He does the noise
parade for the KFUG every Friday night at
twelve.

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Him and my little brother, Turtle,
he's my drummer for Dumpster Poipies. Shout out
to Turtle. Turtle Brewster is you're just you're
figuratively
your brother. I remember that. That's my blood
brother. What? Yeah. We got the same mama.
Different daddies, though. But, you know Trip.
How interesting. I didn't know that. Very cool.
Not long ago did you come here.
Like, there's a lot the most recent one.

(16:05):
Right. So that was it's been about going
on seven years this July. Oh, cool. Yeah.
It's finally and I'm, like Yeah. Finally getting
rooted because
I usually would go somewhere and then have
to move and
never really got to stay in one spot
for too long. And you can actually better,
like, right when she got a tattoo, better,
Mhmm. Like, you just got here. Right? Three,
four, five years ago. Yeah. So I was
like, hey. You gotta meet this girl. Like,

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she's cool. She she likes music and stuff.
I was like, hey. What's up? Like, I
didn't really get to know you for a
while, but Yeah. First met you. Cool. We've
known each other that long. He has been
on the way.
And, Hunter, are you a fan of the
dumpster puppies?
I'm in love with dumpsters. Yay.
Alright.
She's in love. They are infectious. Right? They
are a lot of fun. You gotta come

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out on the twenty first to support us.
Right? Yeah. What's going on the twenty first?
The Battle of the Bands. Oh, the Battle
of the Bands right here, buddy. Bands, Dumpster
Puppy. We're all over. We could use some
money. Here we go. Okay.
I'm really excited for the spot on the
Red Eye River Music Festival.
Music. That's one right here in, the Red
Eye Hut. Yep. The Red Eye Hut. Thank
you. Yes. Yeah. There we go. Anyway, that

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starts at 12:00 on Saturday. So On what
day? Oh, Saturday. This Saturday. Oh, this Saturday.
Three more splits. Battle in the bands. Yeah.
They will be down there playing it. It
would come support everyone because they're all like,
people are just Yeah. My heart and soul
to music. Right? Alright. But, so GGS that
next question. It's a great question. Okay. So
if
we just met you for the first time,

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how would you describe yourself?
Man, that's a hard one. I was so
I was
pondering this question,
and I would just say
awesome,
super cool,
and fierce.
Alright.
Fearless. And different,
but a heart of gold. I hope this

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guy Just sure you were the first batter
of Oh, girl. Yeah. It got like pretty
tough.
We gotta be strong. You know? Yeah. The
world's a really tough world, and
to be to fight the good fight, you
have to be strong. So I'm hoping to
be, like
I don't know. That's a hard one. Like,
warrior of of good. Yeah. Is that kinda
what you had mission statement yourself if you

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said, what is a mission statement behind you?
Generally, I mean, it's just to help and
help be helped
or serve others or bring messages to others.
Oh, man. It's just to unite everyone in
the same consciousness
of goodness,
really, because
we're all, like,
battling things in life and trying to do
what's right and trying not to do what's

(18:30):
wrong and but yet we're
stuck in the middle of it. Right. No.
You know you're the band leader. You're the
founder
of the Dunno.
Oh. Well Possibly her husband told her to
go. Name or what? Well, how did you
guys do that? Because, you know slowly look,
though. To to to wanting to do good
and to be good is you guys would

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go a different route than most people would.
So how do you That's contrast to me.
Like, it's just man. And we're still working
on it. It is it is a work
in progress too for sure. We just keep
fighting the good fight. It's not beautiful.
You know, there's times we're just, like, dragging
through the mud.
Like, man, how do we figure this out?
Why? Why?
Try not to lose our our noggin. So

(19:12):
you put it into music. Yeah. Put it
into music. Yeah. And Such a good release.
Try to write good lyrics also, like I
was just
yeah. Just get it all out there. You
know? Also, if you're on the table hardcore,
I'd call it.
Punk. Punk.
Samala has a deep raspy voice that just
takes over.
You have to sometimes scream above the music.

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And, again, it was a music genre genre
that I wasn't used to. I'm too old.
I'm getting up in my late sixties now,
so I didn't know that was that was
my world. It is a shocker when you
don't have it. I still will listen to
it, and and I was able to listen
to your music and especially at the last
one thing I did. The outside outdoor, we
we could hear more We could hear you
from a choir concert. Yeah. Yeah. Because I
had no more. Artur, were you at that

(19:56):
concert? Yeah. There was more space. Weeks ago?
Were you at the one King Entertainment there
that Down at South Beach, Porta Pines?
No. Invited by Chris. Okay. Cool. Alright. Good.
It was one heck of a show and
you guys had everybody up there pumping and
having fun. That's what people danced.
Oh, it was awesome. We had

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a great, great, great time. Alright. And Well,
all the bands pumped it up for us.
That's what it was. They're up. All everyone's
pumped up for the band, and it's like,
this is the last band outside, and then
we just all came together and rocked. Right
on. And then later on,
so that's the mission statement would be just
get your music out there, number one, so
people listen. And doctor and I listen to

(20:37):
your music. It's thriving.
Yeah. I'm sure. See everybody how infectious it
is that everybody's up there dancing to it.
It was like, wow. I had the kids.
Like, we love the kids. You know? That's
why we throw out treats. I love throwing
out treats,
like candy and stuffies. We had somebody actually
They love it too. They love it. That
And I used to make them happy. You
know? There was Kids walk it off for
the show, like, hold their stuffed animal in

(20:59):
their arms. Like Oh, so Yeah. It's like
they're like let's say, first responders come, they
give us stuffed animals someone in a in
a disastrous situation. Well, our music's a little
disastrous, so I thought yeah. Different. Yeah. So
I had It's all it is. Right? We
had a friend dance to your when you're
going up to dance to your music, and
she was all bobbing along. And somebody
nudged her, and he said, no. You're doing

(21:19):
it wrong. You have to be angry doing
it. Oh my goodness. So as long as
you get the anger out Right? Leave it
there. Yeah.
You know? And they're luckily happy. Punch people
or anything. We we do a thing which
is called the okay.
I know we're not there yet, but we'll
talk about Moshi now. Yeah. We'll get to
Moshi. Okay. Just you ask another question about
your genre? Okay. The genre of music is

(21:39):
what? Would you describe it as punk rock?
Dumpster punk.
Dumpster. Press pop. We're still figuring it out.
It's like a new genre. Dumpster pop. We
invented a genre for it. I was just
gonna say you invented the genre? Yeah. Crust
pop.
Cross
pop. Crust
pop. Okay. There you go. Really? So we're
we're in a battle. So I like dumpster
punk. He loves pressed pop. So Hey. We

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we got three other we also have three
other members of the band that couldn't be
here today. Yeah. Yeah. Nigel
and Sherryville. Nigel too. And Sherry who joined
the band two weeks ago for second guitar.
Oh. An excellent songwriter, a good source of,
like, helping us. And tell us what exactly
you play, Elias? You're the lead? I play
a lead guitar. I'm a songwriter. Yeah. There
you go. What a vocalist too. And a
vocalist too. Yeah. We heard you.

(22:23):
This is just amazing stuff. And, again, it's
something that I wouldn't say, wow. That's automatically
my favorite music. But the way you put
it on, the way you put it out,
the way Represented.
We heard it and we saw the reaction
to the crowd,
wow. It's like a collective Yeah. A big
w o w. It's a lot of people.
Do you all do you write your own
music? Everybody's a writer? Or Yeah. Yeah. We

(22:45):
do write our own music. Yeah. And then
we do some covers too, though, like, some
really cool covers. But all yeah. All our
music's
original. Either he writes them, I write them,
or we all write them. We have a
song.
Crazy Mind. Everyone wrote that one wrote, like,
a verse for that one. You know, next
time when you come on, we're gonna have
you and, Ailes. You come in with your
guitar. You come in with your voice. Yeah.
That'd be great. And just play acoustic right

(23:06):
here in the studio so that people get
a a sense of what you so work
on two or three songs. We should work
on some acoustic. And we kind of wanna
do that too. Just go through a two
six set and write how that works out
because it'd be kind of fun as well.
We'll have you back in a few months
and then play play some beautiful music. I'll
try to keep it For us. Who's the
name dumpster puppies? How long has it been
around? That that's her brother. Yeah. That's actually
my little brother. Turtle? Yeah. Turtle Brewster. Good

(23:29):
drummer. Yeah. Since he was a little kid
in, like, elementary, he always wanted a band
called Dumpster Puppies.
And there's nobody else that's taken that name?
I think Oh, I'm sure they have. We
have to probably buy the website now, but,
he's out of the world. Well, no. I
looked it up because it's the publisher. Publisher
said, do you guys are you on YouTube
or something? I looked you guys. Oh, there's
one video we have on YouTube that KFUG
recorded at, oh, I can't think of the

(23:51):
name. There's two of them. Right? The magic
Card Shop in Crescent City. Oh, yeah. Hellball
Slayer. Hellball Slayer. Thank you. Yes. Thank you
so much. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I appreciate that.
That was our that was a recording we
were doing. We did, like, four songs. We
got, like, a little demo.
Cool. But we're working on getting we were
gonna about to record with Redwood Records. Alright.
August.
Great. Martel. August, we're gonna be really working

(24:11):
on we're just super getting stuff down and
then
record with them. Right on. Ray Martel was
just in this studio a few weeks ago.
Because that's how you had him in talking
about Redwood
Redwood Records. You're a beautiful lady, Samala.
And you are you have a very distinct
look, very lovely look. And I gotta say,
I didn't realize till today, I thought those
were permanent,

(24:32):
tattoos that you had, like, tears last time,
but then I see they're not there today.
It up. And I like the million. What
is it? Bing? The little bing on your
The bling. The bling on your forehead. That
looked beautiful. I and I thought it was
all
I thought it was permanent, and then I
see it's different today's. Yeah. You know, I
gotta switch it up. Gotta gotta keep them
guessing. Especially punk rocking. Right? I mean Yeah.
There's so much to do. I love tattoos,

(24:53):
but the face, it's more of, like, I
like to be able to do different stuff
with it. Very impressive.
Now when whoever has seen you
walk anywhere around, you're always dressed differently. I
thought he was walking today. For sure. Yeah.
Yeah. With the In the wind, in this
outfit. Oh, with a big long jacket, a
pretty strong spotted cap jacket. With a hat
a hood on. Yeah. But you had this

(25:15):
beautiful red dress at that, open air Oh.
You call that a dress? I call that
a little little sliver of clothes. Oh, yeah.
Little tiny thing. I I see most of
you I had a wrap around. It was
a wrap, and it came up to the
neck. And your hair had you had a
long extra wig on it? And Yep. I
had my, my Grow a Barbie hair.

(25:37):
Yeah. And then I I wind it up
and get it this short, and then I
wind it out, and it gets longer. Right.
Yeah. No. It looked really cool. New eye
get eye procedure done. And so so how
you'd make some of your clothes and some
of them you
do you do that? So anything that's shredded,
I will I will make,

(25:57):
but I usually will just, like, get stuff
where I can find them online or
at the stores and then just find something
that Yeah. We skipped a little bit. I
know. I know. I I'm seeing that.
I
your clothing, you have a clothing style
that you call shreds? Tear and wear. Tear
and wear. Tear and wear so you can
wear. I tear it so you can wear

(26:19):
it. Yep. Do you have any tear and
wear, Hunter, over there?
Actually You own no? You don't? You okay.
Oh, yes. See this right here in my
chest. I I do a little niggas right
here.
A little tear in here is This is
a little tear in here. Tear in here.
This is Actually, she tore it in you.
Then I weaved it together. Oh, that's cute.
Julyville. That's So you sew and knit and

(26:39):
all that fun stuff? Oh, not Like But
I will I wanna get into Well, dad
does the tear and wear too. Oh. Yeah.
How do you so you have some of
her tear and wear share? I do. Yeah.
And, a lot of the local bands, I
like to kind of do the back. Yeah.
I do the back and, like, her shirt.
Oh, it's so fun. Sick. Wow. Oh, hey.
You've been doing tear and swear for a
long time? No. I don't tear. I mean,

(27:01):
yeah. But then I go with a crochet
and, oh, pin it all up again. Yeah.
She's a total seamstress. I'm like, oh, shoot
either my hand or the same shape.
I just tear tear her sleeves off. You
just tear and swear, but not on the
air. I swear tears. Not on the air.
That's a good one. Tear. He's gonna sing
this song. He's gonna come up. He's already
thinking. Haley's gonna I'm gonna call that tear
and swear, but not on the air. I

(27:21):
love it.
Tear and swear. I wanna write that one
down, Terrence. So you're you wear colorful and
unique clothing. Right? I mean, pretty unique
clothing. Tear, wear, don't swear on the air.
And and you can wear it. You ask
You're right. You're right. One of the songs.
So, yeah, because she's writing the song right
now. Singing the songs. She's writing it down.
She's taking notes. Dakota, what did you sing
that with us? Oh, yeah. Yeah. There, Was

(27:42):
it okay? I sing I sing happy birthday
really well. Yeah.
Wow. Alright. And I I also like to
shred up on, like, mannequins and live on
people. I've done a festival called the Rise
Festival where I got cut up live on
my friend on stage. Oh, wow. And that
was really cool. So I wanna get more
into that. Kind of that's kind of just,
like, on the back burner right now. But

(28:03):
as I'm growing and
shining, hopefully, that's gonna come out. What do
you need? Do you need volunteers, or do
you need fabric, or do you need
I think I just need a mannequin
and,
and some
places to do it at, I guess. Yeah.
I mean, I got it at home, but
just do it. Like, I wanna do it,
like, at festivals and shows and Yeah. Yeah.

(28:25):
During DJ, like, setups and stuff. Yeah. Very
cool. Saturday.
But yeah. But Saturday says she's busy. So,
yeah, we're busy Saturday. Battle of the bands,
baby. Yeah. We need everyone there. Battle of
the street. I've screwed us all on. Not
just dumpster puppies, but every band. We're gonna
get up there. Right? Share on the air.
You'd be the judge. We'll be the judge
this Saturday. Are you, consider yourself a rebel?

(28:48):
You consider yourself a,
a trailblazer?
What are you I'm everything. That's good. All
those. I mean, like, I like that. I'm
like a soul rebel.
A soul rebel. Rebel.
Yeah. Yeah. Alright. I gotta take a break
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bear in the window. Alright. Back to back
to Somalia. Are you so you are you
more of everything? A trailblazer, a rebel, an
influencer?
Yeah. I try to be all that good
stuff that's gonna help. You know, influencer is
not just on
what is it? TikTok or whatever. Right? Influencer,

(30:12):
do you you'd be a good influencer. Yeah.
All about your hardships and how to get
over it. In real life too. You know?
I don't I like social media, but you
can only do so much in social media
because that's something that you're looking at. But
when you're
live in the flesh and you're there,
it's a whole another feeling and a whole
another Yeah. Right. Empowerment.
You have great. Connect to nature. You just

(30:32):
You have a large tattoo on her. You're
torn towards them and or whatever. You're Terrence
for Cher. Yeah. My my my chest tattoo,
it's,
for my sister, Helen. It's got her ashes
in the ink. It's a big,
like a clean off butterfly. I gotta tell
you that. Ow. So you actually had the
ink.
You sprinkled some of her ashes. Yep. So

(30:54):
she Our system has six six six daughters.
Yep. She had the six girls. She passed
away. She passed away at 30. And, Man.
And we still honestly don't know if it
was,
suicide or murder.
Wow. Because a friend of ours was murdered,
a week before my sister died.
Dang. Right and right in our home in
front of a bunch of kids, shot in

(31:14):
his head. Yeah.
I mean So you see I grew up
around the gang life down in Seoul. You
know? Is that the hardest
thing that you have to over do you
have had to overcome where definitely one of
them. Yeah. Another hard thing is just as
a kid, I went through a lot of,
sexual abuse and violence, abuse and stuff,
and then got a little bit older and

(31:35):
then went through all that gang violence and
and lost some good people. Lost my sister.
Lost my friend. He was a good warrior
of light. He was a good guy.
Oh, boy. And but it's empowered me to
be who I am today.
This is not gonna hurt. I fight for
them. Yeah. And what was your sister's name
again? Her name was Helen Marie Carrion. Alright,

(31:57):
Helen. And what was your buddy's name? His
name
well,
his name was Bugsy. Bugsy. Alright. Yeah. Our
our Turo.
Alright. They're here listening. They are. They're here.
They're in our earphones. Right? They are the
reason why I am who I am today.
I feel their love and strength
Right on. So much, and I'm so thankful
for that. You've reached out and helped other

(32:17):
friends. You've told me that you saved a
few friends, that you brought them up here
to this area Mhmm. Because they were so
down in their
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Depths of despair where they
were, and you bring them back, like, to
the light lady that brings people back into
the light. I like that. I I appreciate
that. I try to always just be that
light in the dark because I know what
it's like to be lost in the dark

(32:38):
and
have that little spark, but not how know
how to activate it or
but
when we're all, like, we're all in this
together. Like, I couldn't just do this without
everyone that's around me, my friends, my family,
and my loved ones on the other side,
and mainly God, really.
I love God. You know, I'm not a
big religious person, but

(32:58):
I I just love the energy of mother
and father. Of the universe. Yeah. Of of
the universe. And they use rebel and trailblazer
influencer.
No alias. Is is she the driving force
in everything? Or is No.
Not at all.
It takes us all. I mean, there's not
one person that stands out there. Tell your
side. Your side is that darn right.

(33:20):
The other question was that. That was off
script. Well, the bass player I played music
with that guy for, like, twenty years. I
played Oh, god. Nice. Music with the guitar
player who just showed a band for, like,
twenty years. We all know each other musically.
I played bass in bands with them. We've
been all different bands. You know?
Good to like, we all have influences from,
different styles.
I'm glad to be these guys because they're
all they're the same style of music I

(33:41):
mean, dude. By the way, we all are
a little stories they have kinda reminds me
of our energy together. Yeah? Yeah. It takes
all of us. Okay. So tell us that
don't know anything about the band really other
than their great music. What does it take
to put that stuff out? I mean, are
you meeting, like, once a month, twice a
month, once a week? How often do you
guys get together to practice, and are they
for hours? Like,

(34:02):
to be honest, it's like, oh, I got
let's do it now.
It's hard because everyone works and stuff too.
So it's like Yes. I see. Days are
off and stuff. So I would say we
try to get in at least twice a
month.
I think it's Which isn't that much. But
when we do,
we just,
you know, we just freaking rock it. I
feel better every time we do. Repetition. Repetition.

(34:22):
I love leaving. It's just like this whole,
like, energy all this negative energies raised from
it. Like Mhmm. You know, like So you
guys are Wild. And we're fighting for it.
We're striving so hard. We don't get to
practice like we want to. Right. And you're
musically
developed enough or or inclined or talented to
just go with it. Right? You know Yeah.
Yeah. We've been together pretty much, like, almost
going on two years now. Mhmm. Often. Two

(34:43):
years. And then now we got yeah. So
about two and a half. Yeah. We had
a little break there for a minute, and
then we got a new
bass player.
And so we've been yeah. But gosh. I
can't even believe it's already been a couple
really bad. He, like, I just played two
weeks ago. But guitar player, Jeremy. Like I
said, we already have chemistry because I I've
been playing bass with his band. You know?

(35:03):
Black Rainbow stuff. And They're locals here. You
know? Played down south with him in LA.
You know? Like, went around and played shows
there. You know? I used to live in
LA for a while too. So Alright. And
and Well, we we already know each other
musically. It helps a lot to help create.
It's been a nice addition because he's like
some of the songs has got really good
ideas and, like, this is gonna have, like,
you know, fresh ideas to write on. Yeah.

(35:24):
And I noticed one thing, everybody, you can't
miss it. If you're up near the front,
there's a thing I'm gonna ask Hunter. Hunter,
what is moshing?
Moshing? Yeah. Speak up a little closer. There
there you go.
When you're in a mosh pit, there are
certain rules that you can go about it,
but the grand sense of it is you're
in a circle
rushing around and feeling everybody's energy.

(35:45):
Some people use elbows, some people use fist,
which isn't too great. But And doing some
smashing into each other occasionally? They bump into
each other. They're having fun. Yeah. I've seen
some pretty crazy seen some. It's like, wait.
Are they all angry? I mean, how but
then they are smiling, and then somebody's lying
on the ground. It's like, okay. There's etiquette.
You know, if it still falls down,

(36:07):
usually, people that it applies for Rossi are
pretty cool. They they look out and make
sure Right. Right. That they get picked up
or Yeah. If there's kids, they make sure
kids are safe. Like
you know, I I sent my kids to,
like, a a big punk rock show. Like,
they you know,
people made made it Punk rock. For them
to get through, to sit down somewhere safe.
Right? Yeah. There's there's a lot of respect
there. I've seen it, and it looks chaotic.

(36:28):
I've been up close on a couple of
bands in my life where I was kind
of up close, and I excused myself pretty
quickly. A little bit too old to be
to be amping out of the way and
getting smashed.
But it sure is a lot of interesting,
energy going on. Yeah. It just depends on
what so there's different moshing. Okay? So they
got, like, the hardcore moshing where, like, people
like, there's one group on one side, one
group on the other, and then it's, like,

(36:49):
they just all rush each other and start,
like, fighting all crazy. Now we I see,
I don't do those kind of moshing. I
am too crazy. You have to get a
circle going. It's all that as fast as
possible. Circle skank pit. A skank? Circle skank
pit. I
mean, I wore a shirt That's what everyone
that's what Hunter was describing. You're in a
circle, and you guys are going usually and
it's fun. You're you're just like Anyway. You're
doing the skank move like how they used

(37:10):
to do in reggae days with Bob Marley.
It's
on this woman's step. She's standing she's doing
it. How is she shaking it? Alright.
Yeah. And then you go in a circle,
and you can link up with friends. And
if you fall down, you get picked back
up. It's loving. It's amazing. So fun. Like
a hug is going on. So circle skate
paid is his pet set. It's a good
vibe. Have you have you moshed before? Hunter

(37:31):
will pull up a little closer there. I
have. Yes.
And there was a random gentleman that I
was with, and he actually fell. So I
ended up getting out, but I was there
for a second. He fell asleep in the
mosh pit? No. He got I crashed out
of it completely.
Did people pick him back up? I came
and grabbed him. See, that's what I thought
there got right there. That's what it's all
about. Came and got him. So that's what

(37:51):
I was supposed to do. Came and got
him. So that's what I was supposed to
do. Ghosting. Yeah. So damn so he was
distressed. So it is for energy? It's to
gain to have energy? Good energy and good
vibes, that good and you're feeling you got
the the live band right in front of
you, and everyone's feeling it, and you're just
having fun. It's not out of disrespect or
anything. It's like
we're, like, all our images is going, and
we can feel it. Yeah. Okay. It's a
good healthy way to Speaking of good vibes,

(38:13):
you not only perform you two, but I
see you all the time. We've run into
each other all often,
either the Indoteca or the Porta Pints or
these other establishments where the live venue music
is going on, and we're always dancing. You're
always out there dancing. You're always supporting the
other artists. Other artists. Character. Right on. Because
we're all in this together. I love it.
And the music is just so powerful.

(38:35):
And it was great when we had, Black
GTO, who's been on the show multiple times.
Black GTO. Yeah. I love that. Vince, Della,
you got up there with Ray Martell and
Nick. Oh, that was an honor. So That's
right. I took a video of you. I
said it. I know. So so okay, nerve
wrecks. I know a lot of people gotta
deal with nerves. Like, a lot of things
you won't do because you get so nervous.
Right?
But when you do them, and then afterwards,

(38:57):
you're like, oh my god. Okay. Like, thank
god I did do that. Like like Wait.
You were nervous? I was so nervous. So
just last minute like that and that So
she went on on on the Got up
on the stage. I almost ran away cheeky,
and I was gonna run-in puke. Oh. But
I got up on the stage. But what
do they call that? The endorphin rush or
what? Yeah. Probably. Yeah. That's probably Adrenaline rush.
So wow. So I you did not look

(39:19):
nervous at all. So Wow. I was tempering
in my little boots. I was tempering in
my boots.
Or shaking in my boots. Yeah. Well, you're
also very like, besides being a good dancer,
you're out there,
dressed to dressed to the hilt and then
dancing and supporting everybody. And isn't that fun?

(39:39):
I love it. And It makes sense. A
good way. Yeah. Travel from one venue to
the other. You have been doing a lot
in your lives, both of you.
What kind of advice would you give younger
folks if you could put it in a
little tiny nutshell? What would be the most
important advice? Yes. Don't choose music as a
career.
It's sure it's a hobby. You as a
career. Yeah. That's Don't choose music as a

(40:01):
career. Yeah. That's not a good career path.
Well, like the famous word of Mahatma Gandhi,
I would say, be the change Be the
change. That you wanna see. That's what yeah.
Right on. Yeah. Have you guys crappled much?
Have was that banned yet? Or Oh, well,
we're getting there. We're starting to. So we
got to do Savage Henry in Eureka.
And we just booked a show

(40:22):
at the Peg House in Leggett, California for
July 8. Oh, the Peg House. The Peg
House. Peg House is the one that says
do never Oh, did never Do not stop.
Never do not stop. Yeah. Never do not
stop. Yeah. It never worked. I was just
it's hard to get everyone to have time
off work and then to also have the
money to do it. So,
hopefully, if, you know, we could get out
there, don't stop. Be nice.

(40:45):
So that's coming up. The Leggett Peg House.
That's not that's a good ways down the
coast. So where do you guys work? Where
do the band members work?
She's tearing and shrek Sharon. Tearing and Sharon.
Yeah. Now I'm trying.
Right. Right.
Like, normal day job? Well, I'm a horrible
entrepreneur.
He does. He's a super handyman. He does
all kinds of stuff around here. Ailes has

(41:06):
got this infectious look up. He's a goo
cool guy, man. It's like you hang up
with Ailes. He's your buddy.
Yeah. He's been a Bunch of us to
go support the other local musicians. There you
go. That's where we keep writing songs. There
you go. Songs. We'll get we'll get more
of them. When you guys write song or
when you, Alyssa, when you write a song,
does it just come to you spontaneously?

(41:26):
Are you taking notes? Do you have to
sit down and write music first and then
you write, you write you come up with
a strum and you add words to it?
How what's your process? So it says not
to go to a dark place. It's not
the happiest thing, but hopefully something positive comes
out of it. Oh, I see. So when
you're down and bummed out, those are sometimes
the best the best instrument for music. It's
better sitting Yeah. Out of funk. It's like,

(41:46):
I was so glad to, like, meet these
guys and hang out with them, and they
accept me and to play music with them
because that's really
And that's freeing? Yes. It it it's brought
me out of so many bad mindsets. Hey,
man. We all go through our our days
of despair, but always, there's always a fresh
bloom in the morning and the sun just
music's positive for the soul. And your voice

(42:08):
I'm gonna I'm trying to describe how how
it Somalia is just grasps and kind of
your voice sounds when you Pretty good. You
start yelling and screaming, your your voice lowers
and you got Yeah. I just feel like
I'm a whole another I feel like
like I've, activated, like, super, superhuman
powers.
Does that make sense? And I just have
so much
energy and emotion that

(42:30):
I just
scream from the top of my lungs. But
for, like, two hours,
are you so sore or sore? Well, that's
why I so I work out, and the
gym's been, like, my lifesaver. I get that
cardio and
lift them weights for that cardio. It does
help. And I've lost a lot of weight
too, so
that core is really important. Yeah. So yeah.

(42:51):
Because before I used to puke almost after
every show Oh, shoot. I was not in
shape. And I would still do it, but
it was like
Now when you first started It's a lot
of work played that fast. I mean Yeah.
It's a lot of entertainment. We're like, yeah,
a four digit Love it. Just straight or
Oh, yeah. Hey. You know what? You could
get on Netflix, and you can look up
the dumpster puppies. How do you reach yourself

(43:12):
on Facebook There's one of the So we're
working on that. So there is like that
one. So on YouTube, there's you have to
look up dumpster puppies on KFUG.
K. And then there's Bertie Fence who's been
on the show multiple times. Oh, thanks. Bertie
is, has has got lots of pictures of
you from the last concert you guys had
because He is amazing. He is amazing. Yeah.
Look at Bertie Fence, and then look at

(43:32):
some of the pictures of Samala Zion folks
on Facebook because you you got some she
got some amazing pictures of you where you
kinda you're Oh, yeah. You get your fingers
in front of your eyes. And I was
trying to, yeah, I was trying to get
all
trying to just get super entertaining when I
saw her, like, right up the stage. I
was like, what can I do? I didn't
know what to do. I didn't know I
was like, oh, I'm gonna do that. Right
into it. And then It works. Alias, swinging

(43:53):
his guitar, hitting some moshers. Just sounds good.
Yeah. Oh, I didn't she's She's got some
great pick on her. Sometimes I don't know
what I'm doing on the stage. I'll just
close my eyes or I don't pay attention,
like, to anybody else. I know. So this
is my all I saw is you you
threw your guitar across behind the stage, and
you jumped in the mosh mosh pit head
first. I might have beaten him for a
while. Like, wait. When was the Let's ask
the social board. I don't even know what

(44:14):
I did. I was just like, he just
he was questioning like I did. I know
Kim and Jeremy fell on each other on
stage during the One King Music Festival.
The you know who's an intense cry for
his brother? Two turtle. He's a dude. Talk
about someone that gets it. Yeah. And he's,
like, in three bands out here. Oh, man.
Composition b. Gotta give a shot. Beat of
it all. AFNA. That doesn't wear a shirt

(44:35):
that's got tattoos all over the body. All
over. Yeah.
Okay. So I have a question I wanna
ask. You ask. I'm sorry. It's all good.
Somehow, when you first started singing, was it
the dumpster pop pop?
Or was it I mean, do you sing
other stuff too, like, more mellow? I mean,
I if I were to try to sing,
I wouldn't start the way you sing. Well,

(44:56):
I remember being in my grandpa's motor home
as a kid, and I was, like, singing,
you know, cute little, like, super soft.
And then
just getting older, getting my brother got me
into punk rock, so I was singing more
punky.
And then I do I like doing karaoke,
and I'll sing some some lighter stuff for
that, which I'm trying to get more into
that. And I also do hip hop. There

(45:17):
you go. I do hip hop vocals too.
So Oh, okay. Yeah. It's not all super
crazy. It's just,
that's just what's we're rocking because you got
the whole band behind me, and it's like
Yeah. You know? It's so empowering.
Now when you guys when you guys sing,
do you ever Mhmm. Do you ever work
on
I'm a Harmony fan. Do you ever work
on Harmony? Or I I can't hear if

(45:38):
you sing Harmony or not because I'm in
the back of vocal, so I really call
Harmony. Like I call it more like, you
can hear me talking. Yeah. I I try
to tune in with him. I wanted to
I try to tune in with him. It's
all, oh, we're you know, we work on
it. It's Yeah. A little freestyle harmony. Yeah.
Well But it's not no Beatles stuff. I'll
tell you what. The smooth boy, they do
a Beatles style. I was like, How would

(45:59):
you describe their music, Hunter? Was it just
If I were to explain it, it reminds
me of Nana and Guttermouth had a baby.
Oh, I know. I know. Adorable. Nana and
Guttermouth. I think we both have both we
know both those bands. Oh my god. Yeah.
There you go. They had a baby.
Thank you. And it was a bad one.
And it was a dumpster party. It's a
beautiful angel called Smollett. There you go. There

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you go. See, we got she was here
with you know. She was here with quadruplets.
It was quadruplets. For you to arrive. And
she was waiting to come in and hang
out with you.
Oh. Let me get to let me get
into the final,
a little bit here where we have to
go over our other sponsors of the show,
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we all thank you so much for being
major supporters
of community radio.
So Yes. How do people reach them? Yes.
How do people reach you? How can they
book you? How can you hear how can
they hear from you? So we're really big
on smoke signals.
Here. Right? Out on the beach, Bump. I
know. Yeah. I was like, so you can

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find us on Facebook. Oh. Dumpster puppies.
We're working on getting more of, like, a
something where they can like, our I said,
no. If you know anyone, it is just,
like, super super sweet and out all the
time and really good at it, wants to
help us out. We're looking for something like
that because I I did have a phone,
a dumpster puppy phone, but I had given
it to someone that I haven't gotten back

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yet. So am I I don't think it's
a new one. Owl. Oh, yeah. None. So
But,
shoot, you would just have to, like, find
us on Facebook right now. Yeah. Dumpster puppies.
Or go to Pegling House.
Or no. The Peg House. We're never never
don't stop. We we actually do the old
school advertisement where we put we put our
flyers on a telephone pole. Tell you some

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of our shows coming up if you wanna
see us. Yeah. If you see a flyer
or a telephone pole, you know, we're playing
a show. Yeah. That's what it was. It's
it's old advertisement. This might be, like, pre
Facebook. But we still do it. We're keeping
it alive. Cool. Like, they don't kinda sell
this door instead of texting them. K? Just
see what they're doing. You know? Oh, goodness.
Knock. Knock.
No. Who's there?
Woo. Woo hoo. I'm having fun too. To

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my movies.
Alright. We're all good. Alright. Let me tell
you guys some of our shows just to
get them on a prank quick. Yes. So
let's see. We have our next show is,
Battle of the Bands in Brookings, June 21.
You gotta be there at noon.
We don't know when we're going on stage.
They're just gonna pick out the bands out
of a hat or something. And it's really
good. A battle of if there's gonna be

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you're gonna win some money or Never really
gonna win a thousand dollars and,
for the Red Eye Hut River Music Festival.
How come I didn't know about this? I
mean, I'm not sure. Now now? Yeah. Now
you know better late than never. Rosales knows
about it and all that. Okay. So we're
going to We'll do that, buddy. This We
will. Saturday tour. Yeah. Now July 4, this

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is still we
it's still a question if we're gonna be
playing on Front Street or not. So the
magic is in the air, so hope and
love for us on July 4 on Front
Street. Front Street. Now that's is a great
Crescent City. Yeah. That'll be in Crescent City.
Whereas the Battle of the Bands is down
at the boardwalk here at the harbor in
in in Brookings Harbor. Yeah. Gotcha. So and
July 4. Okay. And then July 12, we're

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gonna be playing at the OG Porta Pines
on Northcrest.
Okay. The Porta Pines, which is
Just one. On Northcrest. The original one. Gonna
be the k nine music festival. We
got some really good rappers there, and we're
gonna have Dumpster Puppies to rock it to.
It's called K9 Music Festival. Because it raises
money for the K9,
dog. Oh, I thought it because she wore

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Dumpster Puppies. Right. I I love that. Well,
it's it's like their rap crew, I believe.
So It's not I know. I love I
love the canine. I thought of the same
thing too. I was like,
it's perfect for dumpster puppies. July 12. Okay.
Yep. Yep. And then we have the Peg
House,
July 18. Leggett, California. Leggett, California. At the
I got lost in Leggett.

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From five to eight,
we'll be playing that. That's a good week.
And we might be playing Eureka the day
before as well. Oh, that's still in the
works now. We're still working on that. 07:17.
Eighteen. Well, if anyone out there list is
listening, we need to show what days is
it we need to show?
07:17 is Eureka.
No. 07:17 or It's Leggett. No. 718 is
Leggett. Oh, they need to show. If anyone

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out there knows where where we could play
in Eureka on the seventeenth, reach out to
the dumpster. Let us know because we do
the show that day. Yeah. There you go.
Seventeenth or the nineteenth will work. Yeah. Seventeenth
or the nineteenth. K. Okay. And then September
19
at Inateka,
Dumpster Puppies will be rocking it. And, also,
October 17 at Inateka.
Okay. I know a way people get a
hold of you. They just look up Samala,

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S A N A L A N. Oh,
yeah. No. Yeah. I find it. Zion, Z
I 0 N.
And that would be the way. Just friend
you. Yeah. Friend me, and I will hook
you up. And she'll show you her her
latest. We got some great pictures of you
in there, and I think Taryn Ware? Taryn
Ware. Taryn
Ware, and she got some pics through of
herself with, by Birdie.
Mhmm. Taken at the One King Entertainment thing

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recently. Okay. So That was a good that
was a good show. Yep. What was the
old show right there? Everyone was happy. It
went Yeah. I think it brought you guys
out in a in a new way that
was, you're because you're very confident in that
show.
Mhmm. We've watched outdoor I watched it develop
from a distance. It was her first or
second
time to see you. That was actually our
first show too with a second guitar player.

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Okay. Gotcha. The that was his first show.
I only had to wear three earplugs, so
that was pretty good.
Did you so did you wear two pairs
of socks or just one?
Why did the golfer,
wear two pants?
Why? Because he might have made a hole
in one.

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Is that I didn't I haven't practiced that
one. I haven't practiced that one. Funny. Okay.
So there, we've been talking with the dumpster
puppies
and particular,
Alias.
I always think I got Alias. The last
day, that's it. You got any shout outs
to make? Yeah. Oh my gosh. So many
shout outs. Story moly. Why didn't I think
about that? Well, shout outs start with the
whole band. I'm giving a shout out to,

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yeah, my whole band here. Let's see. Turtle
and Nigel
and Jeremy Pharrell and Sure.
Alias and
me and then little, little brother Sean from
AFS.
Hey. And we got our kids.
So oh my gosh. So there's a lot
of kids. Cool. I got Desiree, Elvira, Helen,
Halo,

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and then my grandchildren, Elias and Azalea.
Wow. I'll say, what's up, buddies of mine?
They know who they are. Yeah. To everyone.
Yeah. He says, yeah.
All my nieces, my sister's kids. So there
is Kathleen,
Renee, Helena,
Ophelia,
Esperanza,
and Sherry. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. And maybe,

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people could come up this the Battle of
the Bands should see you this Saturday and
do some moshing. Oh, yeah. All and shout
out to all my popinians
out there. Oh, man. We got David and
Heather and
Julian and Violet and And Hunter over here.
Hunter. Yeah. No. Hunter? My gosh, Hunter. Alright.
Hunter's gonna come up too. She's she's shaking
her head with cake. Oh my gosh. I
will save a treat just for you. Dumpster

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puppy of friends. Right on. Dumpster puppy of
friends all. Have had a ball having you
on. We've anticipated this show for a long
time. Very cool. You've been on our radar
for a while. We wanna see you in
a few months, so you two practice it
up. You acoustic guitar. Dallas.
Acoustic guitar. You sing it and just pump
out two or three original songs, and then
we record it here. It have to be
originals unless they're unless they're, copyright free. All

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of our all of our Or both the
originals. Originals. We're OJ. Guys even know what
cover of this just for fun. Or we
wanna cover, like, other bands that, like, you
know, alright, do that are get out there
doing originals too because that's fun. That's it.
Hey, Ben here. And, Hunter, I wanna thank
you for coming in. Thanks for hanging out.
Thank you, guys. Get involved with KCAW. We
have a lot of talk. Well, cheers. It's
a fun Alright. Fun,

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radio station.
Alias, thank you, man, for coming on. Yes.
Good guy. And, Samala Zayad, our headliner here
today. Samala, thank you for telling us about
your your life and getting to know you
better. Yeah. Thank you so much. Community and
you're a beautiful sparkling light in that community.
Yes. Each and every one of us are.
Alright. We just gotta ignite it. Peace and
love to you. Peace and love. Peace and
love. Alright.

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Doctor, what time is it now? It is
fun time corner. This is where we have
our little jokes, so you can please laugh
at my jokes. Okay. Laugh at his jokes,
not at my quotes.
My quotes are serious. Okay. What are you
you start off with some. Food related because
I talked about vegetables. Oh, okay. Tell us
one. Your favorite, let food be thy medicine
and medicine
be thy food. Socrates? Yeah. Hippocrates.

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Hippocrates.
Okay.
Someone,
told me that it is impossible to make
a joke about vegetables.
And I said, that's not funny. And I
said, that's not necessarily
true.
Yes. I'm sorry. I got a room.
You know, I used to play piano by
ear. Now I use my hands.

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Oh my
god.
People who love to eat are always the
best people.
People that like to eat are always the
best people. No love. You have to love
to eat. Love to eat. And we saw
one really,
huge guy in Germany. Germans are very skinny.
So but what was he eating? American French
fries.
That's what the one heavy guy we saw.

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I was once addicted to the hokey pokey.
That's I was once addicted to the hokey
pokey. Yeah. But then I turned myself around.
Wait. That proper laughter.
It's a good one. Pick it slow. Good
food. Good mood.
Good food. Good mood. Yeah. I liked,
Samala saying that they communicate by smoke signals.

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Yeah. Well, do you know how, billboards
communicate? How? They use sign language.
Yeah. I like that one.
Cute. Right? Yeah.
Hey, you know you're getting old when your
birthday,
candles
cost more than your cake.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
I

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I went and I I I sang happy
birthday yesterday to,
one of your colleagues Yeah. At the hospital.
And, it was it was wonderful. It was
we had a lot of fun. I told
all the birthday jokes. Alright. Yeah. Get some
more vegetables. Oh, that's it? That's the whole
story you're telling? I don't. I didn't bring
my cheat sheet. Okay. Food is art and
food is love. There's a lot of food

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and art food. Food is art and art
is food. No. Art is
love. Food is art and food is love.
They're both art and love.
Cool. Hey, everybody. Which month of the year
has twenty eight days?
That's a good one. How many how many
Do you hear me? What which of the
which month of the year has twenty eight
days? You said what? February. No. All of

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them have twenty eight days. Oh my goodness.
All of them do. They do. Stupid. Right?
Give us another one. Food in the end
in our own tradition is something holy. That's
a little too high for you, I think.
Okay. I'll remember that one. Okay. Give us
another couple.
Food is symbolic of love when words are

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inadequate.
Like, when you make make yourself I know.
I got a joke for, Turtle Brewster.
Okay?
What did the drummer name his two daughters?
Oh. Anna one. Anna two.
Oh. Oh, he does have two daughters too.
Did you know the comment? And Olive.
The wind has many secrets and hides multiple

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faces. That's from a couple weeks ago. I
like that quote.
The wind. Oh, yeah? Yeah. That was a
good one. Did I get to say that?
Yeah. You got to say that. Food brings
people together on many different levels.
They're kinda boring, my quotes this time. Right?
Oh, wake me up. Okay. Give another joke.
We, I don't have anymore. I just like
to say that,

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love is like the wind. You can't see
it, but you can feel it.
Aw. Right? Yeah. That's pretty good. And when
the wind of changes blow,
some people build walls, but others build windmills.
Yeah. We said that. We said that. Yeah.
Okay. Guess what? Alright. You have been listening
to the Doc and Chuck radio variety show

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on KCIW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We sure hope you have enjoyed our show
as much as we have with the dumpster
puppies. Oh my gosh. It was very cool.
We also wanna thank Tom Bozak and Ray
Simon
for your sound engineering wizardry and the KCW
Studio Vault, and email us if you know
of any other talented, interesting peoples in our
region. They could be on the show by

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and stay tuned for the Tony D'Urso show
coming right up right now. Thanks a lot,
guys.