August 30, 2023 • 59 mins
- Season 2 : Episode I Streamed Live on Monday, January 30th, 2017
- Featured Guest - Jon Meyer https://www.vanjamproductions.com Surprise Guest - David Farrell and sitting in with the PRP, Guitarist Lindt Chocolate! The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Host Jeff Dodge will bring some of the world’s greatest musical talent, local writers & artists, producers & programmers and just plain old regular folk to our planet Earth’s attention. Also with topical sketches, stand-up comedy and live music.
- 00:00-- Intro 01:46 --"Sputnik" written by Jeff S. Dodge & Steven Cebula © 1998 now available at: https://music.apple.com/us/album/sputnik-feat-lint-chocolate-leedouglas/1190972777?i=1190972907
- 05:08-- Jon Meyer Intro
- 14:51 --Fire Hawk
- 15:39 --Jon Meyer Interview
- 39:28 --"Share the Land" written by Burton Cummings © 1970
- 44:32 --David Farrell Interview
- 50:26 Portland Orbit Report
- 52:56 -- "My Oh My" written by Noddy Holder & Jim Lea © 1983
- Recordings available at: https://music.apple.com/us/album/beneath-the-planet-of-the-human-beings/1637210750 https://open.spotify.com/album/7k4yz0Igf5riwpzLcV0nil?si=bzOcjy3sT92aYHD0ST90zw https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mKhFrXj163vMfinyRpbEGyAe7E42n2C18&feature=share https://tidal.com/browse/album/238870866 https://www.shazam.com/track/624486282/doctor-sayess-wont-you-set-us-free https://www.trenchdigger.us/music.html
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We are 27 years away from the planet blowing us away
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If you really don't want to stay, then let me float off in the Milky Way
As we pass an aboriginal land where we try to really understand
And the truth of our mission is to peel off the division
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Join our passive revolution band
Well, the status quo just can't stay
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It's gotta go the hell away
Well, I tried to get me some peace today
But the future seems so far away
As we pass an aboriginal land where we try to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to peel off the division
Join our passive revolution band
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You break me down, you push me up
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I told you the world ain't that corrupt
You're a full throttle baby
Nagasaki ain't got nothing, nothing on you
Why don't you call me and tell me what's up
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Don't ignore me, cause your phone's been tasked
You choose, you lose, or as high as Sputnik
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I know you trust you give me shit
Getting into one another's pits
You're a full throttle baby
You don't even really know, know your name
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Why don't you call me and tell me what's up
Don't ignore me, cause your phone's been tasked
You choose, you lose, or as high as Sputnik
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You're as high as Sputnik
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You're high as Sputnik
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Let me just move this guy over your way
and get myself a little bit together there
Yes, we are back
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You probably won't notice that I've lost my breath because I will cut to a commercial or something here maybe
Oh, we're live, aren't we?
Are we live? I'm just checking in
Okay, yes, welcome, this is the peasant revolution band variety hour
(06:01):
I'm your host, Jeff Dodge, we're here for season two
Thank you so much for being here
As I said, John Meyer of Band Jam Productions is here
He's right there, actually, yes
And we're going to talk to him in just a second
I just wanted to go, well, actually, since you are here, John, I'll bring you in on the discussion
(06:25):
Usually we have Lint Chocolate sitting in on guitar
Mr. Steven Sibilo on the bass, as always
That's a nice shirt you're wearing, Steve
And of course, the rockin' Mr. Rich Reese on the skins, our musical director
(06:49):
Oh, thanks, yes, it's pretty convenient
Yeah, well, trying something new, it was just recently your birthday, too
That's right, yeah
We'll have to do a birthday sing-along
So John Meyer is here, and usually we would ask you about who you are and what you're doing
But I think we're going to try something a little different tonight
(07:11):
We're going to just go into our political number
We'll kind of build off of that
Because I do have a lot of sponsorships
And yeah, actually, as you can see, they moved us to Monday nights
There's a bunch of Chachi reruns, I guess
Joni loves Chachi reruns
And so there's a lot of pressure on us
(07:35):
We had to give up the Tuesday night thing
So we are now on Mondays, the last Monday of every month
We're happy to be here
And then if you catch TDP TV on Tuesdays, we'll get a seat
Joni still loves Chachi
Do you know David as the original player?
(07:56):
Aaron Moran, I don't know
Scott and Aaron back together again
It'll be huge, as they say
Anyway, so we got that coming up
TDP TV, Tuesday nights
And yeah, so anyway, usually we do this political bit to open things up
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And so I'm just going to go ahead and look at some ideas I had here
Because, you know, well, okay, let's just get down to it
It's January, it's the last Monday of January
And I voted for Jill Stein
I did not vote for Donald Trump
(08:43):
But he's now our president
And I have to say, Rich
I think I'm getting into this idea of this carnage thing
It's like, it's kind of punk rock, isn't it?
Well, in the, you know, all of his talk about the inner cities and everything
It would be more appropriate for a discussion in the 80s
(09:04):
I guess it could be like punk rock in that regard
Yeah, exactly
I mean, he campaigned on carnage
He's bringing us carnage
It's what the people want
It's carnage
I guess so
Give them carnage
If the people want carnage, give them carnage
I think they're figuring on they get to see Jesus more quickly this way
So, but, you know, there's, I, you know, I'm not that I would be saying this
(09:31):
But well, maybe I am saying this
There are some out there that don't believe in Jesus
Or they believe in another God or they believe in Cthulhu
I'm pretty sure everybody who voted for him believes in Jesus
Or they, like, they miss their grandparents
They want to, like, see their grandparents in heaven or something
But yeah, I just
What happens, though, my point is what happens if it's just carnage?
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That's all there is
Oh, but like no death?
Well, I guess it's kind of like this series that Jamila and I started called Vikings
Oh
I kind of feel it's like set in 791
You guys created that one? That's you guys?
Well, we did, we, we watched it
Oh, you started watching it?
Oh, oh, okay
That makes a little more sense
It's awesome
It's awesome
It's awesome
(10:16):
Yeah, and it's, and I think it's, it's like the past becomes present, you know?
It's one of those things
You know, I'm mostly Norwegian in background
Oh, so the Iceland visit is a little bit of a
No, we just thought that would be a good place to go
It's nice and quiet and pretty, but, you know, Norwegians were kind of like
You know how Mormons all claim Joseph Smith as an ancestor?
(10:37):
Well, we claim Leif Erikson in the same way
Like ask any Norwegian where it is
Is this true I'm Norwegian?
And a descendant of Leif Erikson, right?
Did your grandparents say that?
I don't know if it's true or not, but I don't want to say it
John, what were you brought up with Leif?
What were you told about the legends of Leif Erikson?
That he beat Columbus and everyone else
(10:59):
Right
Like in a
More or less
Place to discover or was there a
You know what I mean? I guess he was
You know, he's like a brutal Viking or something
I don't know what I'm talking about
I heard he beat him
This is just fragments from childhood
I have no idea
It's just, yeah, yeah
The Norwegian, Leif Erikson, Viking
From America first and that legend has it
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See, I'm skyrish and so my legend comes through
Jeff, I understand there was a lot of musical abuse in your family
Terrible music abuse
Yeah, but that's another episode
That's actually a series we might be developing in a while
I heard it's actually going to be on OPB
Yes, the musical abuse of the Dodge family
(11:43):
It goes back three generations
Rent from the Schnitzer family
So, well, not from them
From my inheritance
So I just wanted to say there's
This intellectual side to some of the slogans that Trump's been throwing out there
I don't know if you noticed that
There is an intellectualism going on
(12:05):
Take, for instance, the slogan, Make America Great Again
Right? Right?
Make America Great Again
And you'll dig this, it's like the Leif thing
I was a history major
And, you know, when was America ever really great?
I mean, definitely before the Europeans got here, maybe
But, I mean, it hasn't been there
(12:26):
Well, the old days they like to think of
You know, they're harkening back to the 50s just like Reagan did
But you know, the tax brackets were like back then
Your top federal tax income tax bracket was 90%
Union membership was stronger than ever
Yes, and you are proving my point, Rich
But I think they just, they want the sexism and racism from that era
No, it's more than that
(12:48):
Really?
I think what he's saying intellectually is to make America
Well, I was going through history
There is one period we were great
The Great Depression, right?
Right
So he's trying to make America Great Depression Again
We led the world in that
Great Depression Again
Well, it's more than that
(13:09):
I mean, it's really pretty brilliant
Because our country's never been tested any harder than surviving the Great Depression
You know, and it made our moral fabric and our culture great
You know, like Tony the Tiger might say
That's right
And it sure bore itself out in our upbringing
Well, in that generation, they had to go through it
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Right
Well, they didn't have to
Oh
They didn't have to
You're right
Because the Baby Boomer generation didn't go through the Great Depression
I looked up Wikipedia and it wasn't actually them
Right
It was their parents' generation
It wasn't
See, I was always told, you know, it's uphill each way
Oh, no
Hard work
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No
But that wasn't them
They went through the, like you were talking about, the Eisenhower period
Oh, sure
Ask your dad what kind of car he had in high school
But it was a damn sight nicer than any of us even had
Well, you know, he helped me get a Datsun 710
He had a 710? That's super nice
That's like an old Maxima
It was great
That's great
(14:12):
So, you know, I just wanted to point out a few of those things
And that, well, we've got some music sort of planned
To help America get through this transitional period we are
As we try and make America Great Depression again
So, with that, let's see
I already did the Joni Loves Chachi, you know, Tuesday night
(14:34):
Where Mondays? Last Mondays? Last Tuesdays?
Joni and Chachi again
Oh, and David, I don't know if you heard about this
I guess TDPTV wants us to, you know, Marvel and DC are getting into the superhero thing
It's just taking everything
So we're, I guess we're trying to develop our own superheroes
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We've got one we're working on called Firehawk
Our associate Scotty P has forwarded some ideas
So let's take a look at Scotty's ideas about the superhero Firehawk
Only on TDPTV
Music
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Ladies and gentlemen, from Fan Jam Productions, the one, the only, Jon Meyer!
Yay!
So, Jon, thank you for being here
Thank you for sitting through the intro
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I'm so excited to be here
Yeah, so how did you get here?
How did I get here? Through David Craig
Did you guys bike together?
No, no, we used to gather at an event once a month called Attack of the Flicks
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Oh, I've been to this thing
Yes, yes
It's kind of legendary, everybody that would go to it definitely remembers it fondly
It'd be a curious comedy
And people who went frequently would basically inspire others to, and inspire everyone to make at least one film a month
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Because you don't want to show up at Attack of the Flicks with nothing
You don't want to show up as just an observer
And so it was a period of lots of no budget films being made
Humor and drama and music videos, everything, editing
It ran in a gamut from what I remember
There was nothing that was dominated, it just never knew what you were going to see
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Now, were you one of the founders of this or just a participant?
No, I was just a mega fan
I was at the very first one when it was actually called Suck My Flick
Okay, right
Yep, exactly, and that's why they had to change it
Because they could have put Add Space or something like that in a certain paper or whatever
It's 2017, very of a scale
Especially for things like the Mercury
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It started really renegade though
I saw it from a poster
I don't know how you heard about it, what your first one was
But I saw it from a poster packed to a whole very old school style
And I went, oh, that, a film-maker showdown, right on
I mean, it was marked as this big showdown event and it was in a packed thing, it was huge, humongous
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So at that point, had you been doing film before that?
I started doing it by a web series called The Free Box
That I wrote and directed in Portland for two and a half years
And the episodes were ten minutes long
They're all on YouTube, you can check it out
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Cool, cool
There's 27 of them, so I'll do quite a ways with it
And they just kind of got a little bit better each one
You could see that, I mean, learning filmmaking
None of them were even in HD until the very end
This is early on
It's all sounding very familiar
98 to 2002 type of thing
Then I was shooting a lot of music videos for my friends' bands around that time
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Just handing out stuff, live shows, cutting it together, learning all that stuff
That was my education
And then I started doing professionally at the end of that whole run
I see, I see
Actually, we have one of your music videos queued up here
Do you want to take a look at it?
Do you want me to tell you what you're going to see for a second?
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Yes, why don't you give us a setup?
So my wife Rachel and I make up Van Jam Productions
Van Jam Productions
Yeah, that's our company
And we lived a year in Puerto Rico after we got married
And it was a little town, little surfing town called Green Cone
And they had one dominant, they had a few bands in the town
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But there was one dominant indie rockish band that we got to be good friends with
And we made them a music video
And so here, these are our good friends, you know
The dysfunction from Puerto Rico when we lived in the town
We didn't just go there and shoot it
We lived it and so all the locations around was something that we were familiar with
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Just because we lived in the town
So you went back to shoot this
No, no, we didn't
You shot it while you were living
Yeah, just on whatever equipment I had with me
Which wasn't much, you know
It was just very minimal
I'm very proud of it
I think it's one of the best videos I've ever made
Maybe not the best, but it's in my top three
And it was really low budget
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And it's just one of those magic ones that just worked out
I thought it was
I just took a quick look to see if it was working
But it looked great
The color was beautiful
I see in the beginning
Yeah, so let's take a look
The dysfunction
The name of the song is
Johnny
Johnny
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Johnny was looking for a love in the end of the tunnel
His addiction's got the best on his face
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't fall for love
It takes a long time to find your place
So you know, but you know you're a firelock in the fall
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You know, but you know you don't have to go so far
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
Take the gun out of your face
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't drown in sorrow
Now find us a way
So you know, but you know you're a firelock in the fall
(22:54):
You know, but you know you don't have to go so far
Johnny was looking for a love in the end of the tunnel
His addiction's got the best on his face
(23:18):
Johnny don't, Johnny don't find us tomorrow
I heard you have a taste of
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
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Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
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To the world, to the world
(25:19):
To the world, to the world
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Alright, and we're back, we're back
Oh, the darn interns leaving the audio monitors on again
But wow, that was a great video
Thank you
Thank you for bringing that
And what an amazing story
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And the distraction comes to the United States
To the East Coast?
The dysfunction
The dysfunction
I'm the distraction, they're the dysfunction
Yeah, they play around New York and New Jersey and all that
I see on their Facebook, I keep up with it
Excellent, excellent
They're also posting videos and stuff and stuff
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Well, and on that note, I was told you
I used to have a roommate named Jeff Dodge
Yeah, I did
You know, there's a few of us out there
Yeah, there are, yeah
I'm the Jeff S. Dodge
I don't know what he's doing, I can't remember
Sometimes you put Jeff Stodge and it'll be like these bands and things will come up with the Google pics
(26:58):
And these other pics that are not me, they're not me
What happened when Richard Darge called you?
Oh, Richard Darge, that was a good one
Richard Darge actually is a filmmaker in LA
We used to work with this guy that Linton knows, Mr. Sargent
We used to have an operation called Darge Production
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So we took Dodge and Sargent and sat together
Thought it was better than S.A.G.E.
S.A.G.E. was before Oaks
Yes, yeah
We didn't have a lot of takers on that
Masturbatory films were not really popular then, it was before Snapchat
But anyway, the point is, there's a lot of Jeff Dodges out there
(27:43):
And I'm one of them
And what was your Jeff Dodge? Are you sure it wasn't me?
We never lived together, right? You aren't an Oregon guy
Yeah, no, I'm quite positive
Wait, no, no, no, definitely not
Because I barely remember who I'm living with right now
(28:05):
Oh, hi honey
We're good
Did I say that right?
The point is, well, what happened to him?
Was he a filmmaker friend of yours?
No, no, no
This was back in the day when I was shooting The Free Box
(28:26):
He was just a roommate of mine
And he just put up with my filmmaking sharing and he just went so deep
What do you do with filmmaking and roommates?
Well, actually I learned some tough lessons during that time
And Jeff's a kind enough dude that we never got into it
But yeah, I learned how to manage that
(28:49):
And I learned that you just have to ensure that the roommates are not around
See, I lived with roommates and we were doing this Darge thing
And they held a trial and they ousted me
Yeah, that's what happens
Because you're bothering them and you need them to be perfectly quiet for your thing to work
(29:12):
Yes, exactly
The audio is not doing so hot
We just got a comment from Mr. Harding and I checked it myself on my phone
You can barely hear that
Oh, well, we'll take care of it in the post
Tell him to turn it up
Turn it up, alright
Yes, Robert, just turn it up out there
(29:34):
Juice it
Everyone's a critic these days
Were you just talking about poor audio and then that happened?
Well, I've got this sound guy thing that always kicks in
And that was a roommate?
It was like a roommate
And then of course let's get to the Czechoslovakian hit
(29:59):
The Bikini Beans
Yeah, Hot Bikini Beans
Hot Bikini Beans has a new popularity these days for a fairly different reason
But the original one, a lot of the new fans actually don't know this
The original Hot Bikini Beans made about 5 years ago? 6, 7 years ago?
Yours or someone else's?
No, mine
(30:20):
Yours, so your first one is 6 years old?
Yeah, yeah, exactly
Now how did you come up with the idea for that?
Well, we saw the Hot Bikini Brew on Hawthorne
And then we connected some dots and we noticed they were the Bikini Beans
They're everywhere and as a thing
Well, see, I didn't even know there was one on Hawthorne
(30:43):
I've usually seen them in the rural communities
Well, there's one on Hawthorne, it has been for about 5, 6 years now
They're still in operation
They're nice people, I have nothing ill against them
I just thought it was, I mean I think it's kind of ridiculous
Yes, yes, yes
Well, and we have an episode that we're going to look at
Which, if I think, it's the one I'm thinking of, the meth one, right?
(31:08):
Sure, yeah, so a little preface for the episode
Is that because it is an episodic thing now
The episode before this
Let me just cut in right here
They are great, I would highly recommend everyone watch
Everyone, they're hilarious
And season 2 is coming, so just a quick plug
Yes, they're all on YouTube, Hot Bikini Beans
It's easy to find
(31:30):
So, in the episode prior to this
A large bag of meth got mistakenly mixed in with the sugar
Yes
And so that will help out people who understand what's happening
Right, so here we go
We're going to take a look at Hot Bikini Beans
Eternal Life
(31:59):
Come on, I'm late for work
I need more lattes
I need 6 more lattes with extra sugar
Hey Claire, more dough, red is hot and sour
What's your chill at? We must have broken 500 already
I don't have time to check
Can we get some more sugar? We're running low
With extra sugar, I want it to taste like melted ice cream, alright?
One trick nip, dip or draw, not a monkey body
(32:20):
But lean in back in our crap and all night long
Coming together
Just give me one of whatever the thing was you made me yesterday, okay?
What in the hoonig glass pack is going on?
Hi, yeah, can I just get some cream and sugar in this cup real fast
I don't have time to wait in line, I've got places to go, people to listen to
Hey Claire, you better straighten this thing out, do you hear me?
Clyde! I just put a check in the mail, $30 plus 5 an interest
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What the hell are you talking about?
Look, if you just give me the sugar, I can do it myself with 5
You're pushing in the wrong neighborhood here, hey Clyde
This is Clyde's Dale country, all the way down the river, you got that?
Clyde's days, down by the river, okay
We got it!
Alright, whose birthday is it?
(33:05):
Mine, thanks
Three for you, one for me
We want the sugar!
Attention! Attention please!
We want the sugar!
We want the sugar!
(33:33):
Sugar myth? Sugar myth? Sugar myth is the sugar
I've had the sugar myth, that's what I'm talking about right now
Someone's gotta do something about this!
Attention everyone! Shut up!
I'm sorry to say, but we've ran out of sugar
(33:55):
I've been shot! Call the police!
Wait, no, don't call the police, we're serving meth
Meg, what are you talking about?
It's in the sugar, I don't know how I got there
You knew?
Yeah, I figured it out a while ago and I just said fuck it
Girls, I'm bleeding out, okay? We gotta go
We need a distraction!
(34:17):
Hey Clyde, since you're the oldest and you're single and you have a wound in your chest
I think it makes the most sense for you to be the murderer
What?
Nobody is sacrificing themselves
We're gonna make it out of here together
Now since I'm the only one who isn't high, I suggest you follow my lead
And how do we do that, huh?
What do meth heads want the most, Murmub?
We don't have Murmub!
They don't know that!
Murmub! Murmub!
(35:07):
Ooh, you like your coffee hot You like it so hot in the morning
(35:33):
Ooh, you like your coffee hot You like it so hot in the morning
Wow, yes, wow, what a great episode
Let's talk about that ending
(35:55):
To me, it reminded me of Platoon
That is precisely the reference we were going for
Not everyone gets it, but we're always pleased when people do
And it was Beringer and the foe
And the whole kind of Christ-like Christianity of Oliver Stone
(36:16):
Sort of melting out of his body
Vietnam seemed to kill him
Okay, okay
That's one way I'd say
That's one way, yeah
That was my film professor's thought to do, was just sort of speculate madly
That's why I'm here at TDP-TV
Yeah, all right
(36:37):
Well, John, I want to thank you again so much
Will you come back again when you have something new?
Perhaps you can bring your wife and we could have more of a band jam
Yeah, she's out of town right now
On another movie set
Yes, yes
When it's better, at a time where your both schedules line up
(36:58):
I'll be doing some singing with you later too
Well, and that's the main thing
I want to make sure that you can come back and join us for the final sing-along song
Because we've got a special one for the time
In the meantime, we're going to take a little quick look at what I did
That Portland kind of went nuts in the Snowpocalypse thing
I made a little short film, here it is
(37:24):
This is day 34 of Snowpocalypse
The snow has been here for 34 days
And there has been no information from the mayor
Or if we have a mayor
Or a city council right now
(37:45):
I don't think there's a government in operation, it's really weird
I'm going to see if we can find some answers out here
It's like a war zone out here
Except there's nothing wrong about it
No one's really shooting guns or anything
(38:06):
But it's like that scene in Red Dawn almost
Wow, look at it, they got everything
This is creepy
Or maybe the ending where they end up fighting in the snow
This is insane, they got rid of the sidewalks here somehow
(38:28):
I'm in the middle of the street
So crazy
Look at my sidewalk, what they've done to it
It's far out
It appears the spring thaw has begun
Let's take a look at it
(38:54):
Well it's not really spring
We are finally seeing rain
Rain has hit the Portland metro area
The sand pools are melting, yeah, let's take a look at that
(39:28):
Camera
One, two, three, four
Have you been around?
Have you done your share of coming down?
(39:49):
On different things that people do?
Have you been aware?
We got brothers and sisters who care
About what's gonna happen to you in a year from now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
(40:11):
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
(40:41):
Did you read the news?
This morning when the paper landed on your yard
Do you know that name?
Can you play that game?
So loud there's a track and you're coming down a bit too hard
(41:02):
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
(41:23):
Talking about together now
Together now
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Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Shake your hand
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Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Keep going and keep going and keep going
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Keep going and keep going and keep going
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Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
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I guess that's the question.
Well, I'll tell you, um, I'm doing pretty good.
Would you ask me?
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Monday from Band Jam Productions, John Mayer makes a special live appearance and Lynn
Chocolate sits in with the band.
You understand what I'm saying?
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Like, uh, kids to play with guns, that kind of a thing.
Oh, we don't want the kids them play with no guns, so they should lock the gun and give
the kids things to do.
I'm John Mayer, and I'm the president of the Peasant Revolution Band.
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You know, I could just go with that the whole time.
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All right, wow, how about the Peasant Revolution Band with Lynn Chocolate?
Cool.
Well, uh, we have the one, the only, the illustrious rooster himself, Mr. David Ferrell has joined
us surprisingly here at the uh, well, I said his name we used to call you when you weren't
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around, a bunch of year of the dogs ganging up on a year of the rooster.
We're prone to do.
Good to see you again.
How are you?
Good to see you too.
All right, so I wanted to talk basketball.
Okay.
This one game.
No, no, actually, I wanted to talk about what you've been up to.
All right.
Uh, not playing any basketball actually.
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Really?
Yeah, I know.
Who are you rooting for these days?
Oh, like the Milwaukee Bucks with great people.
Milwaukee Bucks.
Uh, well, there's some buck legends.
There's like great ones from the uh, back in the day.
Yeah.
Marcus Johnson.
Marcus Johnson.
Cindy Moncrie.
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Cindy Moncrie?
Yeah, yeah.
What, and how is their record this year?
They are just a little bit better than our home town Blazers.
Okay.
But they get the great treat.
Okay.
And they are fast and furious.
They're tall and lean and they're an exciting team.
I really enjoy it.
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Almost as much as our University of Oregon Ducks.
Y'all do.
The most exciting team in the league, for sure.
Really?
I heard they're doing pretty good this year.
Is that right?
Win over Colorado on Saturday really would have propelled them to the sixth seed.
Hmm.
But, well, they had a lot of issues with their coach.
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I thought they made some scandal.
We're talking about basketball.
I'm, so, and I just, just to let you know, TDP TV has actually threatened to increase
our budget if I get kind of the sports talk thing going and I've been, I've been studying
this guy John Conzano and that's what he does.
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He kind of like, you know, puts a little thing in there, a little spice, a little salsa.
The wighead of truth.
Yeah.
Well, I.
I'm sorry, man.
Something like that.
Your hair looks great by the way.
Thanks.
I appreciate that.
And on that note.
What are we here for?
Well, I heard you've been out there producing.
Not directing this one, but you're producing.
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You got a new film out.
I do, I do, I do.
It's going to be out soon.
It's called Cinco Pesos because I thought it would be, you know, pretentious to use
another language.
Can I do that?
Five pennies.
Yeah, five pennies.
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It's a suicide comedy.
You know, I think it's going to go over really well.
You've kind of been specializing in suicide comedy for a while, haven't you?
I've been working on it for years.
Did the movie Heathers ever have an influence on what you did there?
Negative, no.
Not whatsoever.
I thought that was a great movie.
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I'm sure it was.
I'm confident it was.
Well, so you did not direct this one, but you produced it.
Now, was there a jostling?
Was it kind of like a...
Yes, there was definitely jostling.
Not like Heaven's Gate jostling.
Well, I would say it was produced very well.
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The direction, the director, dropped the ball at the last minute.
So there was some tension, but I think we're happy with the product.
Are you and the director still on speaking terms?
I would suggest that, yeah, we have to be in that schizophrenic way.
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Because, you know, that's...
Bob Evans, I guess, had a guy tailing Coppola around for The Godfather.
When he dropped the ball, they're going to have this guy direct it.
Yeah, it wasn't that kind of a situation.
No, it was more like an alter ego type thing.
Like a fight club type thing, almost.
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A fight club.
Okay, you know, when a film and the filmmakers get into this kind of fight club mentality,
nothing can win but the film.
It makes for great, great action, drama, boring.
Whatever you're trying to get after, fighting is good for film.
I find.
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John, you're still around here, aren't you?
Do you find that fighting is a good or bad process of filmmaking?
I love fighting.
You don't love it, but it just seems that sometimes the only way to get to the result
is through fighting, it seems, in hindsight, I would say.
You don't plan on fighting, do you?
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No.
Well, no one told me that part.
I kind of always put.
Well, geez, you know, speaking of which, we got our good friend David is back in the studio
producing, and we're going to take a look at something he did here called Art Racks.
Another Portland Orbit report.
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These days, wherever a bike needs to be locked up, you'll find an art rack.
People have determined that regular racks are boring, so most bike racks seem to be jazzed up,
colorful or whimsical in some way, which sometimes leads me to wonder if some of them are bike racks at all.
The need to impress bike riders with unique designs seems to be on the rise.
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Some racks are too abstract to be functional, while others closely resemble the product the accompanying business is selling.
Then there are bike racks that look like bikes.
It's hard to tell if it's a visual cliché, an ironic statement or camouflage,
but bikes and bike parts do make cool bike racks.
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Fabulous art racks make the chore of locking a bike up entertaining.
I only wish I had more bikes so I could have even more encounters with art racks.
Oh, and we are back. We are back.
And man, what a great show.
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It was a wonderful opportunity to host a surprise guest, a real guest.
I mean, everyone's a real guest.
I just meant it was really exciting to have such a legitimate filmmaker in our presence.
We're just kind of illegitimate filmmakers.
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No one's going to turn it up.
We're bastards.
The point is, as I'm always saying, we're going to say good night.
There's a new mayor in town, so I've been told to kind of let off.
But you know, honey, I've got to tell you, did you see my snow pop?
Come here. Jamila has joined us.
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My lovely, beautiful wife. Jamila is in the audience.
Why don't you step through?
Wait, hello.
We've started a second season, and so Mayor Ted Wheeler didn't do crap about the snow.
I just thought that was a point to make.
Hey, let's say good night, Jeff.
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Good night, Jeff.
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I just want to say good night.
I saw a lot of women out there.
Yeah.
Good day.
Good day.
You got me thinking.
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I believe in women, my own mind.
I believe in loving, my own mind.
Don't let a woman be a man.
Try and catch one if you can.
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I believe in women, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
You're sure that you cry on, only you'll be said goodbye.
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We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
I believe in loving, my own mind.
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Good day.
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Good day.
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Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
We are 27 years away from the planet blowing us away
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If you really don't want to stay, then let me float off in the Milky Way
As we pass an aboriginal land where we try to really understand
And the truth of our mission is to peel off the division
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Join our passive revolution band
Well, the status quo just can't stay
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It's gotta go the hell away
Well, I tried to get me some peace today
But the future seems so far away
As we pass an aboriginal land where we try to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to peel off the division
Join our passive revolution band
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You break me down, you push me up
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I told you the world ain't that corrupt
You're a full throttle baby
Nagasaki ain't got nothing, nothing on you
Why don't you call me and tell me what's up
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Don't ignore me, cause your phone's been tasked
You choose, you lose, or as high as Sputnik
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I know you trust you give me shit
Getting into one another's pits
You're a full throttle baby
You don't even really know, know your name
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Why don't you call me and tell me what's up
Don't ignore me, cause your phone's been tasked
You choose, you lose, or as high as Sputnik
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You're as high as Sputnik
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You're high as Sputnik
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Let me just move this guy over your way
and get myself a little bit together there
Yes, we are back
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You probably won't notice that I've lost my breath because I will cut to a commercial or something here maybe
Oh, we're live, aren't we?
Are we live? I'm just checking in
Okay, yes, welcome, this is the peasant revolution band variety hour
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I'm your host, Jeff Dodge, we're here for season two
Thank you so much for being here
As I said, John Meyer of Band Jam Productions is here
He's right there, actually, yes
And we're going to talk to him in just a second
I just wanted to go, well, actually, since you are here, John, I'll bring you in on the discussion
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Usually we have Lint Chocolate sitting in on guitar
Mr. Steven Sibilo on the bass, as always
That's a nice shirt you're wearing, Steve
And of course, the rockin' Mr. Rich Reese on the skins, our musical director
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Oh, thanks, yes, it's pretty convenient
Yeah, well, trying something new, it was just recently your birthday, too
That's right, yeah
We'll have to do a birthday sing-along
So John Meyer is here, and usually we would ask you about who you are and what you're doing
But I think we're going to try something a little different tonight
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We're going to just go into our political number
We'll kind of build off of that
Because I do have a lot of sponsorships
And yeah, actually, as you can see, they moved us to Monday nights
There's a bunch of Chachi reruns, I guess
Joni loves Chachi reruns
And so there's a lot of pressure on us
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We had to give up the Tuesday night thing
So we are now on Mondays, the last Monday of every month
We're happy to be here
And then if you catch TDP TV on Tuesdays, we'll get a seat
Joni still loves Chachi
Do you know David as the original player?
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Aaron Moran, I don't know
Scott and Aaron back together again
It'll be huge, as they say
Anyway, so we got that coming up
TDP TV, Tuesday nights
And yeah, so anyway, usually we do this political bit to open things up
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And so I'm just going to go ahead and look at some ideas I had here
Because, you know, well, okay, let's just get down to it
It's January, it's the last Monday of January
And I voted for Jill Stein
I did not vote for Donald Trump
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But he's now our president
And I have to say, Rich
I think I'm getting into this idea of this carnage thing
It's like, it's kind of punk rock, isn't it?
Well, in the, you know, all of his talk about the inner cities and everything
It would be more appropriate for a discussion in the 80s
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I guess it could be like punk rock in that regard
Yeah, exactly
I mean, he campaigned on carnage
He's bringing us carnage
It's what the people want
It's carnage
I guess so
Give them carnage
If the people want carnage, give them carnage
I think they're figuring on they get to see Jesus more quickly this way
So, but, you know, there's, I, you know, I'm not that I would be saying this
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But well, maybe I am saying this
There are some out there that don't believe in Jesus
Or they believe in another God or they believe in Cthulhu
I'm pretty sure everybody who voted for him believes in Jesus
Or they, like, they miss their grandparents
They want to, like, see their grandparents in heaven or something
But yeah, I just
What happens, though, my point is what happens if it's just carnage?
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That's all there is
Oh, but like no death?
Well, I guess it's kind of like this series that Jamila and I started called Vikings
Oh
I kind of feel it's like set in 791
You guys created that one? That's you guys?
Well, we did, we, we watched it
Oh, you started watching it?
Oh, oh, okay
That makes a little more sense
It's awesome
It's awesome
It's awesome
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Yeah, and it's, and I think it's, it's like the past becomes present, you know?
It's one of those things
You know, I'm mostly Norwegian in background
Oh, so the Iceland visit is a little bit of a
No, we just thought that would be a good place to go
It's nice and quiet and pretty, but, you know, Norwegians were kind of like
You know how Mormons all claim Joseph Smith as an ancestor?
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Well, we claim Leif Erikson in the same way
Like ask any Norwegian where it is
Is this true I'm Norwegian?
And a descendant of Leif Erikson, right?
Did your grandparents say that?
I don't know if it's true or not, but I don't want to say it
John, what were you brought up with Leif?
What were you told about the legends of Leif Erikson?
That he beat Columbus and everyone else
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Right
Like in a
More or less
Place to discover or was there a
You know what I mean? I guess he was
You know, he's like a brutal Viking or something
I don't know what I'm talking about
I heard he beat him
This is just fragments from childhood
I have no idea
It's just, yeah, yeah
The Norwegian, Leif Erikson, Viking
From America first and that legend has it
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See, I'm skyrish and so my legend comes through
Jeff, I understand there was a lot of musical abuse in your family
Terrible music abuse
Yeah, but that's another episode
That's actually a series we might be developing in a while
I heard it's actually going to be on OPB
Yes, the musical abuse of the Dodge family
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It goes back three generations
Rent from the Schnitzer family
So, well, not from them
From my inheritance
So I just wanted to say there's
This intellectual side to some of the slogans that Trump's been throwing out there
I don't know if you noticed that
There is an intellectualism going on
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Take, for instance, the slogan, Make America Great Again
Right? Right?
Make America Great Again
And you'll dig this, it's like the Leif thing
I was a history major
And, you know, when was America ever really great?
I mean, definitely before the Europeans got here, maybe
But, I mean, it hasn't been there
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Well, the old days they like to think of
You know, they're harkening back to the 50s just like Reagan did
But you know, the tax brackets were like back then
Your top federal tax income tax bracket was 90%
Union membership was stronger than ever
Yes, and you are proving my point, Rich
But I think they just, they want the sexism and racism from that era
No, it's more than that
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Really?
I think what he's saying intellectually is to make America
Well, I was going through history
There is one period we were great
The Great Depression, right?
Right
So he's trying to make America Great Depression Again
We led the world in that
Great Depression Again
Well, it's more than that
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I mean, it's really pretty brilliant
Because our country's never been tested any harder than surviving the Great Depression
You know, and it made our moral fabric and our culture great
You know, like Tony the Tiger might say
That's right
And it sure bore itself out in our upbringing
Well, in that generation, they had to go through it
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Right
Well, they didn't have to
Oh
They didn't have to
You're right
Because the Baby Boomer generation didn't go through the Great Depression
I looked up Wikipedia and it wasn't actually them
Right
It was their parents' generation
It wasn't
See, I was always told, you know, it's uphill each way
Oh, no
Hard work
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No
But that wasn't them
They went through the, like you were talking about, the Eisenhower period
Oh, sure
Ask your dad what kind of car he had in high school
But it was a damn sight nicer than any of us even had
Well, you know, he helped me get a Datsun 710
He had a 710? That's super nice
That's like an old Maxima
It was great
That's great
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So, you know, I just wanted to point out a few of those things
And that, well, we've got some music sort of planned
To help America get through this transitional period we are
As we try and make America Great Depression again
So, with that, let's see
I already did the Joni Loves Chachi, you know, Tuesday night
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Where Mondays? Last Mondays? Last Tuesdays?
Joni and Chachi again
Oh, and David, I don't know if you heard about this
I guess TDPTV wants us to, you know, Marvel and DC are getting into the superhero thing
It's just taking everything
So we're, I guess we're trying to develop our own superheroes
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We've got one we're working on called Firehawk
Our associate Scotty P has forwarded some ideas
So let's take a look at Scotty's ideas about the superhero Firehawk
Only on TDPTV
Music
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Ladies and gentlemen, from Fan Jam Productions, the one, the only, Jon Meyer!
Yay!
So, Jon, thank you for being here
Thank you for sitting through the intro
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I'm so excited to be here
Yeah, so how did you get here?
How did I get here? Through David Craig
Did you guys bike together?
No, no, we used to gather at an event once a month called Attack of the Flicks
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Oh, I've been to this thing
Yes, yes
It's kind of legendary, everybody that would go to it definitely remembers it fondly
It'd be a curious comedy
And people who went frequently would basically inspire others to, and inspire everyone to make at least one film a month
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Because you don't want to show up at Attack of the Flicks with nothing
You don't want to show up as just an observer
And so it was a period of lots of no budget films being made
Humor and drama and music videos, everything, editing
It ran in a gamut from what I remember
There was nothing that was dominated, it just never knew what you were going to see
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Now, were you one of the founders of this or just a participant?
No, I was just a mega fan
I was at the very first one when it was actually called Suck My Flick
Okay, right
Yep, exactly, and that's why they had to change it
Because they could have put Add Space or something like that in a certain paper or whatever
It's 2017, very of a scale
Especially for things like the Mercury
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It started really renegade though
I saw it from a poster
I don't know how you heard about it, what your first one was
But I saw it from a poster packed to a whole very old school style
And I went, oh, that, a film-maker showdown, right on
I mean, it was marked as this big showdown event and it was in a packed thing, it was huge, humongous
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So at that point, had you been doing film before that?
I started doing it by a web series called The Free Box
That I wrote and directed in Portland for two and a half years
And the episodes were ten minutes long
They're all on YouTube, you can check it out
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Cool, cool
There's 27 of them, so I'll do quite a ways with it
And they just kind of got a little bit better each one
You could see that, I mean, learning filmmaking
None of them were even in HD until the very end
This is early on
It's all sounding very familiar
98 to 2002 type of thing
Then I was shooting a lot of music videos for my friends' bands around that time
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Just handing out stuff, live shows, cutting it together, learning all that stuff
That was my education
And then I started doing professionally at the end of that whole run
I see, I see
Actually, we have one of your music videos queued up here
Do you want to take a look at it?
Do you want me to tell you what you're going to see for a second?
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Yes, why don't you give us a setup?
So my wife Rachel and I make up Van Jam Productions
Van Jam Productions
Yeah, that's our company
And we lived a year in Puerto Rico after we got married
And it was a little town, little surfing town called Green Cone
And they had one dominant, they had a few bands in the town
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But there was one dominant indie rockish band that we got to be good friends with
And we made them a music video
And so here, these are our good friends, you know
The dysfunction from Puerto Rico when we lived in the town
We didn't just go there and shoot it
We lived it and so all the locations around was something that we were familiar with
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Just because we lived in the town
So you went back to shoot this
No, no, we didn't
You shot it while you were living
Yeah, just on whatever equipment I had with me
Which wasn't much, you know
It was just very minimal
I'm very proud of it
I think it's one of the best videos I've ever made
Maybe not the best, but it's in my top three
And it was really low budget
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And it's just one of those magic ones that just worked out
I thought it was
I just took a quick look to see if it was working
But it looked great
The color was beautiful
I see in the beginning
Yeah, so let's take a look
The dysfunction
The name of the song is
Johnny
Johnny
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Johnny was looking for a love in the end of the tunnel
His addiction's got the best on his face
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't fall for love
It takes a long time to find your place
So you know, but you know you're a firelock in the fall
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You know, but you know you don't have to go so far
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
Take the gun out of your face
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't drown in sorrow
Now find us a way
So you know, but you know you're a firelock in the fall
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You know, but you know you don't have to go so far
Johnny was looking for a love in the end of the tunnel
His addiction's got the best on his face
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't find us tomorrow
I heard you have a taste of
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
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Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
Johnny don't, Johnny don't leave us tomorrow
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Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
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To the world, to the world
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To the world, to the world
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Alright, and we're back, we're back
Oh, the darn interns leaving the audio monitors on again
But wow, that was a great video
Thank you
Thank you for bringing that
And what an amazing story
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And the distraction comes to the United States
To the East Coast?
The dysfunction
The dysfunction
I'm the distraction, they're the dysfunction
Yeah, they play around New York and New Jersey and all that
I see on their Facebook, I keep up with it
Excellent, excellent
They're also posting videos and stuff and stuff
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Well, and on that note, I was told you
I used to have a roommate named Jeff Dodge
Yeah, I did
You know, there's a few of us out there
Yeah, there are, yeah
I'm the Jeff S. Dodge
I don't know what he's doing, I can't remember
Sometimes you put Jeff Stodge and it'll be like these bands and things will come up with the Google pics
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And these other pics that are not me, they're not me
What happened when Richard Darge called you?
Oh, Richard Darge, that was a good one
Richard Darge actually is a filmmaker in LA
We used to work with this guy that Linton knows, Mr. Sargent
We used to have an operation called Darge Production
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So we took Dodge and Sargent and sat together
Thought it was better than S.A.G.E.
S.A.G.E. was before Oaks
Yes, yeah
We didn't have a lot of takers on that
Masturbatory films were not really popular then, it was before Snapchat
But anyway, the point is, there's a lot of Jeff Dodges out there
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And I'm one of them
And what was your Jeff Dodge? Are you sure it wasn't me?
We never lived together, right? You aren't an Oregon guy
Yeah, no, I'm quite positive
Wait, no, no, no, definitely not
Because I barely remember who I'm living with right now
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Oh, hi honey
We're good
Did I say that right?
The point is, well, what happened to him?
Was he a filmmaker friend of yours?
No, no, no
This was back in the day when I was shooting The Free Box
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He was just a roommate of mine
And he just put up with my filmmaking sharing and he just went so deep
What do you do with filmmaking and roommates?
Well, actually I learned some tough lessons during that time
And Jeff's a kind enough dude that we never got into it
But yeah, I learned how to manage that
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And I learned that you just have to ensure that the roommates are not around
See, I lived with roommates and we were doing this Darge thing
And they held a trial and they ousted me
Yeah, that's what happens
Because you're bothering them and you need them to be perfectly quiet for your thing to work
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Yes, exactly
The audio is not doing so hot
We just got a comment from Mr. Harding and I checked it myself on my phone
You can barely hear that
Oh, well, we'll take care of it in the post
Tell him to turn it up
Turn it up, alright
Yes, Robert, just turn it up out there
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Juice it
Everyone's a critic these days
Were you just talking about poor audio and then that happened?
Well, I've got this sound guy thing that always kicks in
And that was a roommate?
It was like a roommate
And then of course let's get to the Czechoslovakian hit
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The Bikini Beans
Yeah, Hot Bikini Beans
Hot Bikini Beans has a new popularity these days for a fairly different reason
But the original one, a lot of the new fans actually don't know this
The original Hot Bikini Beans made about 5 years ago? 6, 7 years ago?
Yours or someone else's?
No, mine
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Yours, so your first one is 6 years old?
Yeah, yeah, exactly
Now how did you come up with the idea for that?
Well, we saw the Hot Bikini Brew on Hawthorne
And then we connected some dots and we noticed they were the Bikini Beans
They're everywhere and as a thing
Well, see, I didn't even know there was one on Hawthorne
(30:43):
I've usually seen them in the rural communities
Well, there's one on Hawthorne, it has been for about 5, 6 years now
They're still in operation
They're nice people, I have nothing ill against them
I just thought it was, I mean I think it's kind of ridiculous
Yes, yes, yes
Well, and we have an episode that we're going to look at
Which, if I think, it's the one I'm thinking of, the meth one, right?
(31:08):
Sure, yeah, so a little preface for the episode
Is that because it is an episodic thing now
The episode before this
Let me just cut in right here
They are great, I would highly recommend everyone watch
Everyone, they're hilarious
And season 2 is coming, so just a quick plug
Yes, they're all on YouTube, Hot Bikini Beans
It's easy to find
(31:30):
So, in the episode prior to this
A large bag of meth got mistakenly mixed in with the sugar
Yes
And so that will help out people who understand what's happening
Right, so here we go
We're going to take a look at Hot Bikini Beans
Eternal Life
(31:59):
Come on, I'm late for work
I need more lattes
I need 6 more lattes with extra sugar
Hey Claire, more dough, red is hot and sour
What's your chill at? We must have broken 500 already
I don't have time to check
Can we get some more sugar? We're running low
With extra sugar, I want it to taste like melted ice cream, alright?
One trick nip, dip or draw, not a monkey body
(32:20):
But lean in back in our crap and all night long
Coming together
Just give me one of whatever the thing was you made me yesterday, okay?
What in the hoonig glass pack is going on?
Hi, yeah, can I just get some cream and sugar in this cup real fast
I don't have time to wait in line, I've got places to go, people to listen to
Hey Claire, you better straighten this thing out, do you hear me?
Clyde! I just put a check in the mail, $30 plus 5 an interest
(32:43):
What the hell are you talking about?
Look, if you just give me the sugar, I can do it myself with 5
You're pushing in the wrong neighborhood here, hey Clyde
This is Clyde's Dale country, all the way down the river, you got that?
Clyde's days, down by the river, okay
We got it!
Alright, whose birthday is it?
(33:05):
Mine, thanks
Three for you, one for me
We want the sugar!
Attention! Attention please!
We want the sugar!
We want the sugar!
(33:33):
Sugar myth? Sugar myth? Sugar myth is the sugar
I've had the sugar myth, that's what I'm talking about right now
Someone's gotta do something about this!
Attention everyone! Shut up!
I'm sorry to say, but we've ran out of sugar
(33:55):
I've been shot! Call the police!
Wait, no, don't call the police, we're serving meth
Meg, what are you talking about?
It's in the sugar, I don't know how I got there
You knew?
Yeah, I figured it out a while ago and I just said fuck it
Girls, I'm bleeding out, okay? We gotta go
We need a distraction!
(34:17):
Hey Clyde, since you're the oldest and you're single and you have a wound in your chest
I think it makes the most sense for you to be the murderer
What?
Nobody is sacrificing themselves
We're gonna make it out of here together
Now since I'm the only one who isn't high, I suggest you follow my lead
And how do we do that, huh?
What do meth heads want the most, Murmub?
We don't have Murmub!
They don't know that!
Murmub! Murmub!
(35:07):
Ooh, you like your coffee hot You like it so hot in the morning
(35:33):
Ooh, you like your coffee hot You like it so hot in the morning
Wow, yes, wow, what a great episode
Let's talk about that ending
(35:55):
To me, it reminded me of Platoon
That is precisely the reference we were going for
Not everyone gets it, but we're always pleased when people do
And it was Beringer and the foe
And the whole kind of Christ-like Christianity of Oliver Stone
(36:16):
Sort of melting out of his body
Vietnam seemed to kill him
Okay, okay
That's one way I'd say
That's one way, yeah
That was my film professor's thought to do, was just sort of speculate madly
That's why I'm here at TDP-TV
Yeah, all right
(36:37):
Well, John, I want to thank you again so much
Will you come back again when you have something new?
Perhaps you can bring your wife and we could have more of a band jam
Yeah, she's out of town right now
On another movie set
Yes, yes
When it's better, at a time where your both schedules line up
(36:58):
I'll be doing some singing with you later too
Well, and that's the main thing
I want to make sure that you can come back and join us for the final sing-along song
Because we've got a special one for the time
In the meantime, we're going to take a little quick look at what I did
That Portland kind of went nuts in the Snowpocalypse thing
I made a little short film, here it is
(37:24):
This is day 34 of Snowpocalypse
The snow has been here for 34 days
And there has been no information from the mayor
Or if we have a mayor
Or a city council right now
(37:45):
I don't think there's a government in operation, it's really weird
I'm going to see if we can find some answers out here
It's like a war zone out here
Except there's nothing wrong about it
No one's really shooting guns or anything
(38:06):
But it's like that scene in Red Dawn almost
Wow, look at it, they got everything
This is creepy
Or maybe the ending where they end up fighting in the snow
This is insane, they got rid of the sidewalks here somehow
(38:28):
I'm in the middle of the street
So crazy
Look at my sidewalk, what they've done to it
It's far out
It appears the spring thaw has begun
Let's take a look at it
(38:54):
Well it's not really spring
We are finally seeing rain
Rain has hit the Portland metro area
The sand pools are melting, yeah, let's take a look at that
(39:28):
Camera
One, two, three, four
Have you been around?
Have you done your share of coming down?
(39:49):
On different things that people do?
Have you been aware?
We got brothers and sisters who care
About what's gonna happen to you in a year from now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
(40:11):
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
(40:41):
Did you read the news?
This morning when the paper landed on your yard
Do you know that name?
Can you play that game?
So loud there's a track and you're coming down a bit too hard
(41:02):
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
(41:23):
Talking about together now
Together now
(41:48):
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Maybe you'll be there to shake your hand
And I'll be giving away
We all live together
Talking about together now
Shake your hand
(42:09):
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Keep going and keep going and keep going
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Keep going and keep going and keep going
(42:34):
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
Shake your hand
(43:13):
I guess that's the question.
Well, I'll tell you, um, I'm doing pretty good.
Would you ask me?
(43:34):
Monday from Band Jam Productions, John Mayer makes a special live appearance and Lynn
Chocolate sits in with the band.
You understand what I'm saying?
(43:58):
Like, uh, kids to play with guns, that kind of a thing.
Oh, we don't want the kids them play with no guns, so they should lock the gun and give
the kids things to do.
I'm John Mayer, and I'm the president of the Peasant Revolution Band.
(44:40):
You know, I could just go with that the whole time.
(45:08):
All right, wow, how about the Peasant Revolution Band with Lynn Chocolate?
Cool.
Well, uh, we have the one, the only, the illustrious rooster himself, Mr. David Ferrell has joined
us surprisingly here at the uh, well, I said his name we used to call you when you weren't
(45:33):
around, a bunch of year of the dogs ganging up on a year of the rooster.
We're prone to do.
Good to see you again.
How are you?
Good to see you too.
All right, so I wanted to talk basketball.
Okay.
This one game.
No, no, actually, I wanted to talk about what you've been up to.
All right.
Uh, not playing any basketball actually.
(45:55):
Really?
Yeah, I know.
Who are you rooting for these days?
Oh, like the Milwaukee Bucks with great people.
Milwaukee Bucks.
Uh, well, there's some buck legends.
There's like great ones from the uh, back in the day.
Yeah.
Marcus Johnson.
Marcus Johnson.
Cindy Moncrie.
(46:16):
Cindy Moncrie?
Yeah, yeah.
What, and how is their record this year?
They are just a little bit better than our home town Blazers.
Okay.
But they get the great treat.
Okay.
And they are fast and furious.
They're tall and lean and they're an exciting team.
I really enjoy it.
(46:37):
Almost as much as our University of Oregon Ducks.
Y'all do.
The most exciting team in the league, for sure.
Really?
I heard they're doing pretty good this year.
Is that right?
Win over Colorado on Saturday really would have propelled them to the sixth seed.
Hmm.
But, well, they had a lot of issues with their coach.
(46:57):
I thought they made some scandal.
We're talking about basketball.
I'm, so, and I just, just to let you know, TDP TV has actually threatened to increase
our budget if I get kind of the sports talk thing going and I've been, I've been studying
this guy John Conzano and that's what he does.
(47:18):
He kind of like, you know, puts a little thing in there, a little spice, a little salsa.
The wighead of truth.
Yeah.
Well, I.
I'm sorry, man.
Something like that.
Your hair looks great by the way.
Thanks.
I appreciate that.
And on that note.
What are we here for?
Well, I heard you've been out there producing.
Not directing this one, but you're producing.
(47:38):
You got a new film out.
I do, I do, I do.
It's going to be out soon.
It's called Cinco Pesos because I thought it would be, you know, pretentious to use
another language.
Can I do that?
Five pennies.
Yeah, five pennies.
(47:59):
It's a suicide comedy.
You know, I think it's going to go over really well.
You've kind of been specializing in suicide comedy for a while, haven't you?
I've been working on it for years.
Did the movie Heathers ever have an influence on what you did there?
Negative, no.
Not whatsoever.
I thought that was a great movie.
(48:20):
I'm sure it was.
I'm confident it was.
Well, so you did not direct this one, but you produced it.
Now, was there a jostling?
Was it kind of like a...
Yes, there was definitely jostling.
Not like Heaven's Gate jostling.
Well, I would say it was produced very well.
(48:41):
The direction, the director, dropped the ball at the last minute.
So there was some tension, but I think we're happy with the product.
Are you and the director still on speaking terms?
I would suggest that, yeah, we have to be in that schizophrenic way.
(49:07):
Because, you know, that's...
Bob Evans, I guess, had a guy tailing Coppola around for The Godfather.
When he dropped the ball, they're going to have this guy direct it.
Yeah, it wasn't that kind of a situation.
No, it was more like an alter ego type thing.
Like a fight club type thing, almost.
(49:30):
A fight club.
Okay, you know, when a film and the filmmakers get into this kind of fight club mentality,
nothing can win but the film.
It makes for great, great action, drama, boring.
Whatever you're trying to get after, fighting is good for film.
I find.
(49:51):
John, you're still around here, aren't you?
Do you find that fighting is a good or bad process of filmmaking?
I love fighting.
You don't love it, but it just seems that sometimes the only way to get to the result
is through fighting, it seems, in hindsight, I would say.
You don't plan on fighting, do you?
(50:13):
No.
Well, no one told me that part.
I kind of always put.
Well, geez, you know, speaking of which, we got our good friend David is back in the studio
producing, and we're going to take a look at something he did here called Art Racks.
Another Portland Orbit report.
(50:41):
These days, wherever a bike needs to be locked up, you'll find an art rack.
People have determined that regular racks are boring, so most bike racks seem to be jazzed up,
colorful or whimsical in some way, which sometimes leads me to wonder if some of them are bike racks at all.
The need to impress bike riders with unique designs seems to be on the rise.
(51:03):
Some racks are too abstract to be functional, while others closely resemble the product the accompanying business is selling.
Then there are bike racks that look like bikes.
It's hard to tell if it's a visual cliché, an ironic statement or camouflage,
but bikes and bike parts do make cool bike racks.
(51:24):
Fabulous art racks make the chore of locking a bike up entertaining.
I only wish I had more bikes so I could have even more encounters with art racks.
Oh, and we are back. We are back.
And man, what a great show.
(51:47):
It was a wonderful opportunity to host a surprise guest, a real guest.
I mean, everyone's a real guest.
I just meant it was really exciting to have such a legitimate filmmaker in our presence.
We're just kind of illegitimate filmmakers.
(52:09):
No one's going to turn it up.
We're bastards.
The point is, as I'm always saying, we're going to say good night.
There's a new mayor in town, so I've been told to kind of let off.
But you know, honey, I've got to tell you, did you see my snow pop?
Come here. Jamila has joined us.
(52:32):
My lovely, beautiful wife. Jamila is in the audience.
Why don't you step through?
Wait, hello.
We've started a second season, and so Mayor Ted Wheeler didn't do crap about the snow.
I just thought that was a point to make.
Hey, let's say good night, Jeff.
(52:55):
Good night, Jeff.
(53:25):
I just want to say good night.
I saw a lot of women out there.
Yeah.
Good day.
Good day.
You got me thinking.
(53:48):
I believe in women, my own mind.
I believe in loving, my own mind.
Don't let a woman be a man.
Try and catch one if you can.
(54:09):
I believe in women, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
You're sure that you cry on, only you'll be said goodbye.
(54:36):
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
We all need someone to talk to, my own mind.
I believe in loving, my own mind.
(55:11):
Good day.
(55:36):
Good day.
(56:03):
Good day.
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Good day.
Good day.
(56:58):
Good day.
Good day.
(57:28):
Good day.
Good day.
(57:58):
Good day.
Good day.
(58:28):
Good day.
Good day.
(58:55):
Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
Good day.
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