Arcade Sarcasm | Idaho based INDIE Rock Band

Arcade Sarcasm is a rising indie rock band from Boise, Idaho, bringing together infectious melodies, emotionally honest songwriting, and an energetic modern rock sound that blends indie, alternative, and pop-rock influences. Known for their dynamic live performances and tight musicianship, the four-piece crafts songs that explore the highs and lows of relationships, self-discovery, and growing up in today's world. Their music balances driving guitar hooks with memorable choruses and introspective lyrics, creating a sound that's both deeply personal and instantly relatable. As one of Idaho's emerging acts, Arcade Sarcasm continues to build a loyal following through powerful live shows, authentic storytelling, and a refreshing approach that proves great rock music is alive and thriving in the Pacific Northwest. Their passion, chemistry, and unmistakable stage presence make them a band to watch as they continue carving out their place in the independent music scene.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 0:14

I'm always been hazy lately Been cutting pathways of my own Always question if I'm lazy to keep on each mug lady better life this way it was not my mistake Thank you awesome awesome awesome hey welcome music lovers to musical miles podcast I'm here with arcade sarcasm yes introduce yourselves my name is Marvin Schuck I'm the singer for the band uh Kyle Rooks I play guitar Brian Fish drums Christian Penet play bass awesome well thanks for joining me guys we're here in Boise Idaho at the Treefort Music Fest and these guys are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory You're opening for Dangerous Summer and Hello Goodbye Alright Cool I as I was telling you before we got started uh uh Dangerous Summer is one of our son's our middle son's favorite bands when they found out we were coming over there I go dad you gotta go check that one out problem is is there's 500 plus bands playing in Boise this weekend it's been absolutely crazy for us to to try and catch up with the ones we wanted to and some extras right and so in fact when when we first reached out to you guys so the the venue this is very organized yeah right Street Fort is the most organized thing I've ever seen um they send out to you guys to the artists a list of potential interviews whether it's a radio station a podcast whatever yep so our name was provided to you I think you reached out to me first yep and then we we started the communication and then you got back to me and said yeah I think we're probably outside your realm of things and and you're not I mean we love live music so that's what our podcast is about is about live music. Now that being said we have featured a lot more countries music than others but we've we've actually interviewed a heavy metal band in Texas called Waves in April. Cool and uh their dad is Cody Canada and Cody was in uh uh Cross Canadian ragweed you know that was a huge band in the red dirt era uh 30 years ago they they were a band for like 15 years and then broke up then they were out of the industry for 15 years or so and they just did a reunion uh called the Boys of Oklahoma Jason Bolan and a bunch of them all uh T-Boon stick in Pickens Stadium in Oklahoma and they sold it out three nights like 45,000 seats three nights in a row that's awesome so that tells you the kind of impact so anyway Cody's kids and we've interviewed Cody on our podcast and his and his kids and then they opened for him at Green Hall. Are you guys familiar with Green Hall in Texas?

SPEAKER_04 4:05

Yeah they're in New Hall it's the oldest in New Bronx New Bronx yes it's the oldest hunky tonk in Texas a hundred and like 150 years old to dance hall 800 people but we were there to see them open for Cody and people are walking into Green Hall going what in the hell has happened to Green Hall because this is a heavy metal screamo band sure and so anyway but you guys are local band you're voicey based and uh uh indie rock band is what you're considered right so talk to me a little bit about your uh uh about the the history of the band how y'all got together or how long you've been together kind of give me a little bit of the slowdown it's been about three years now this summer will be three years uh I've known these guys through different sectors of my life but for about a decade of my life since I was a teenager okay um got to tease this guy telling him I learned knew how to play electric guitar when I was 14 but I only knew how to play acoustic but he was super excited. He was super excited. But then he put an electric in my hand for this for this band and changed that for me which has been nice. They say it's a lot easier to play an electric than an acoustic well save your fingers that's nobody tells you I don't play very good but I play every day.

SPEAKER_06 5:16

I've never played an electric guitar.

SPEAKER_04 5:18

So one of these days I'm gonna no don't do it you think I'll quit playing the acoustic you'll quit playing the acoustic and you'll go ten thousand dollars in debt.

SPEAKER_06 5:25

Oh yeah I love I love guitars I got to hang out at 12th Fred oh great guys yeah and and uh we got to interview the owner yep yes he's awesome and uh Corey grubbs one of the guys that works in it y'all know Cory yeah I know Corey so Corey's been on our podcast as well so anyway but so your local band here in Boise so so you're the guitar player you you tricked him into playing the electric yeah so I was singing and then when we first got together the first practice I had an old Martin in my hand and these guys wanted to be rock stars.

SPEAKER_04 5:57

I didn't know I didn't know what we I wanted to be I just had the Martin and then they're like no you gotta get you know we gotta put a fender in your hands there you go the rest is history from there so you play a strat now I play a strat now so actually I got my uh my hookup with na uh 12th fret yeah they have Nash guitars in there okay based out of Olympia okay custom builder over there and he kind of relics all these f Fender style guitars and so I'm I play a strat he's using my Nash telly and so we're full fender kind of lovers.

SPEAKER_02 6:25

But this guy so once he grabs onto something so when we started our band he didn't play electric and we kind of we we slogg through that while he learned electricity now he's now he's a killer so he picks up super fast.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

But he picked it up so fast that he's got a nice little side hustle helping other local bands uh set up their guitars doing something so I got marv's guitars on the side oh cool so I'll do setups and uh sminer repairs things like that so Marv's guitars if you're looking for a guitar there you go if you're looking for a luthier right here in the Boise Idaho that's right yeah yeah yeah cool cool so so how'd you how'd y'all you said you've known these guys over the course of so were you three together before nope nope so we started I uh we met I met him in church okay so I met him in church at Meridian growing up and then um started playing music just through the church scene and learned picked up drums different instruments things like that and then years and years after that I was like man I really want to start playing my own music and just didn't really know where to start but might as well start with the three best musicians I know.

SPEAKER_04 7:23

You bet. So I stuck him into a room Ryan has a little studio in his house and I said let's see what happens if we uh try to make a song so we came in with a couple covers um ready and then those kind of were like meh and then we were like well let's just jam on something and after we got the chance to jam on it we uh we're doing really good so and then wrote some songs from there.

SPEAKER_06 7:41

So so are everything you're performing now all original stuff? 100% cool that's cool. Well I love the songwriting process. Yeah he started as a drummer really was first a drummer uh that was my first instrument I picked up but I'm from a same with you and your family just a musical family my dad always had an acoustic and my mom sang in a woman's singing group in Great Falls Montana and she's a Filipino lady so all I sang was karaoke for the majority of my life so it made it really easy to transition to singing live you know yeah yeah yeah but I well actually believe it or not there's no musical talent on my side of the family none whatsoever I like to play our kids we've got a couple of kids that have some talent but Miss Shanna's mother was a songwriter in Arizona and she but and she had a could play the anything by ear on the piano that didn't translate to her so it's kind of skips the generation and and nobody as far back as I can find I knew my grandpa could play the harmonica a little bit that was it you know but I we just had a real love of live music we we had a live band at our at our uh wedding reception 44 years ago in fact that guy was or excuse me the son and grandson of the guys that played at our wedding was our very first uh interview on the podcast kid named heath heath uh heath Clark from Twin Falls I don't know if you guys ever ran it heath he's now in Nashville but anyway so but so you you I I rudely interrupted you I apologize I was just saying as a drummer uh it's it's it's great playing for a singer that's also a drummer right yeah we just get each other that you know talk about the songwriting process that really is like a big part of it is the rhythm right and and just making it easy for him to catch the I'll come in with a song and he pretty much instantly knows what to lay down you know so it's sure the really cool part of the writing process writing for the instrument a lot of times well and I and and that that always that's a always a uh an interesting question for me because the songwriting process um is is cool because we've interviewed a lot of songwriters uh probably 50 plus that have had multiple number ones on country radio yeah um and so we we really love that aspect and we do a lot of songwriter festivals we actually started our first songwriter rounds in Idaho Falls a month ago but nobody to my knowledge had ever done it there so we're trying to you guys have such a uh a vibrant music scene in boys yeah yeah it's this is so cool it's so cool you know I don't know how many of the 500 bands that are playing here at Tree Fork are from Idaho but a whole bunch of a lot oh yeah a lot yeah you can throw a stone at any one of the stages and hit somebody that we're talking to or seeing at a show every weekend I wouldn't be surprised if it's half yeah yeah I wouldn't be surprised either just because of what we've we've run into. Now we just interviewed a band um they are from part of them are from California and part of them are from Oregon from Portland and from Santa Cruz so they're really but they stay together on the road but but they when they're home they're seven miles apart miles apart right so um uh are you guys doing uh is arcade sarcasm playing full-time music for a living or do you have to have real jobs no it's uh it's actually that's a great question because it's that's the whole theme of our band is we work corporate nine to fives we've been musicians our whole entire lives but the whole every single one of our songs kind of is a nod to the dichotomy of being a rock star on a Saturday and then being in the office on the eighth floor on a Monday.

SPEAKER_04 11:14

And so it's a really big part of our lives is just showing you know we we like to show and tell people that it's possible. Sure. It's possible to do when you're in a full-time job but he's uh interim going to be CEO at a company soon he works at a prison out in Oregon he works for a marketing company and I work for a tech startup and it's just like you know our dream obviously as as is probably everyone's here is to do this thing full time one day. But in the interim we just want to show people it's possible to do it.

SPEAKER_06 11:42

Well but the reality of it is I don't know I honest to goodness don't know a lot of musicians that have been able to just step into this role and I mean unless you're Nickelback right you know and and and uh uh Eric Clapton or whoever you know to to become a rock star Billy Joel those guys you know yeah they've done it and they've done it big on a big stage right but the average person that's in the music business that I've met that I get to interview on this podcast they're struggling musicians right they they either have a real job where they're a waiter or a waitress or they're driving Uber they're driving Lyft they're doing whatever it takes to pay the bills to make rent you know even the ones in Nashville you know and and and we we've had some incredibly successful songwriters on this podcast who are now actually back out on the road touring because that's what it takes to make a living absolutely the mechanicals aren't there anymore they don't they don't they don't print CDs they don't make print albums in the vinyl like they used to it's coming back yeah a little bit yeah it's coming back but that being said streaming has done wonderful things for the industry and yet it's killed it. Right you know financially it's just not been good right so but uh have you guys have you guys uh recorded any full albums no full albums yeah we did yeah that's the next big thing right after Tree forward will disappear for a little bit and go into the studio we've done five uh singles that we've released um last year and those are available on streaming Spotify Apple Music cool and we did that out of necessity more than design so this is our first time getting to sit down and out of you know the abundance of what we've been able to play and sharpen in the last three years to be able to put that out on on the is this your first year to play TreeForks it's our second year play which is cool because you've only been a band for three years and you get to play this twice already um there are bands that well uh one that we interviewed yesterday uh the Dirty Turkeys we met them no we haven't met them they were cool they were a great interview like this four guys yeah normally our interviews are one or two people sometimes and we've interviewed several full bands but it's always a challenge right yeah to get four people recorded on devices that we are not really set up for four people but that being said if if uh we get the opportunity we love to hear the stories and how that came about what I really want to know from each of you is what really influenced your music was it your do you have parents that were musical um and then what what really what was the music that you listened to that really inspired you said I want to do that and I want to be a rock star yeah I think for me yeah so picked up guitar when I was 16 and just wanted to play it I don't I don't know no parents yeah I didn't have any family that wasn't musical I just figured it out on my own and just kind of self-taught through it.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

Sure. But the the musical influences have have shifted uh very varying different like um which it will throughout your life right yeah so like kill early 2000s was a huge influence like you look at the killers and you look at Deathcab for cutie or you look at um uh dashboard confessional but recently I I gotta say I'm in tying back to country a little bit I went to a Shane's Shane Smith and the Saints concert and somehow how do you have you ever m seen a more energetic no and so I was like okay that I mean that guitar player is unbelievable because he's been definitely rock fitting a rock guitar into a very prolific country band.

SPEAKER_04 15:15

They they opened with uh the last of the Mohicans oh yeah no no they opened with they opened every show I've seen them live at least 10 times maybe more from Key West Florida I was at that show in Sunround okay yeah so that was amazing so after that I was like this guitar player has freaking inspired me just as just amazing so um so yeah all that that that's kind of it just it just shit shifts and varies I I like to obviously what we're putting down as a band I want to adapt my guitar playing to that but it definitely leans on early 2000s rock um okay influences for sure cool yeah how about you yeah so for me I just grew up in a very just musical home music always playing but a lot more pop forward just always the hits grew up listening to a lot of Michael Jackson okay um and just really getting you know getting to see these guys like in action watching them live and being like oh these guys are like commanding a room I was never really an athletic kid my sister my brother they were both very athletic okay and so I had to find my lane somehow sure um and so I I picked up a guitar at a really young age learned a couple chords went to the piano learned a couple chords learned went to the drums figured that out and was like okay if I can get this all underneath me maybe one day I'll be a good songwriter. Yeah and um and it's just been it's been in so many different seasons of my life I've been inspired by so many different things on the producer side of the things guys like John Bellion who's more of a pop guy who really worked in the background of a lot of the top pop hits in the 2010s and uh early 2020s finally started coming out with his own music and just kind of painted this picture of just a musical landscape um and then now getting into guitar you know pulling there's a lot of country roots in me my dad was I was born in Great Falls Montana my dad is from Spokane and lived in Alaska and he's a as white country boy as it gets he was Air Force for 20 years and so uh a lot of uh Garth Brooks in my house growing up um and then now you know when I'm outside of here listening to a lot of Billy strings it'll just show me how much of a not good guitarist what a guitar player. He's amazing and um so yeah there's a ton of different um motivations on the side of things. I think for me and Christian you know when we think about how this band really started the first rude idea we went to a concert here in Boise at the Neuralux and um you know there was it was just this killer indie rock band that was headlining and the openers just you know they didn't just they didn't capture that moment. You know they just tee up our our goal always as openers is to tee up the headliner to just be able to swing the club and launch that ball a mile and a half away and so I told Christian I was like man you know we could we could rip a stage like this and uh so that was like the first token for us to be like and then that was I was seeing a band called Gable Price and Friends which is still a huge influence to me and Christian um kind of in line with Switchfoot and uh bands like Colony House which are other just big pop rock big drums big electrical guitars like Stadium Rock feel cool yeah cool yeah and my big influence is my dad so he um plays guitar and sings and when he was younger he would he traveled with uh a tajano band okay called Tex-Mex you bet and so that's what I grew up playing I played like Cumbia and sure Tejano and uh always always on bass you know behind us Los Lobos and uh uh right um the Mavericks you remember the Mavericks yeah yeah yeah some great yeah a little Tex Mex Tex Mex yeah yeah exactly so that's what I I grew up playing but um I think just hearing rock and just hearing hearing the bass on that just power chords power chords just I don't know it caught my ear and that's that's all I wanted to do is just just be a rock star.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

And so when we had an opportunity you know to play the music that I felt called to play um yeah it was just just a big blessing yeah and um another great influence is switchfoot and their uh their sound has also like inspired the bands we listen to now so it's sure it just just keeps passing on and just well it's interesting because two of you at least came back to that country thing right you know the the the influences that that countries had a huge and and a lot of that goes back to guys like Johnny Cash Merle Haggard and Buck Owens you know that that uh that that uh bakersfield sound you know that that has some some uh real impact on on on the music scene so how about you so it's similar to Christian my dad is a uh pianist he sings and he played in bands when he was younger and uh he would sit me down as a little kid like an infant and put me on the piano stool and he played the piano like Stevie Wonder and stuff and he said I would just bob right on the beat.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

And he's like oh you're gonna be a drummer and he just always told me that so became a drummer and uh um it the moment for me was uh my elementary school I was in fourth or fifth grade and then a talent show oh yeah so my dad got a bunch of his buddies together we put a band together and he he he you know entered us to play in it and we played uh that band Yes Owner of a Lonely Heart oh yeah and uh I was terrified I could just play it just a beat that's all I could do and the whole band just played around me and uh that was the moment I'm like yep this is what I want to do everybody just like nuts.

SPEAKER_06 20:43

That's crazy. And you were how old? Uh like what 10? 10 yeah yeah well that's cool that you knew that then that you really wanted that's something you really wanted to do. Right. So well I uh I I think that's great and it's really cool to to figure out how you guys finally found your sound and what you were looking for and that you got together and were able to create something together that's really made sense to you. Yep. So um what what was there was there any defining moment that you really knew that this was gonna work?

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Yeah there's two that come to mind for me. The first is the first time we got together we kind of came into mind like let's send over a kind of little playlist of songs that influence us let's learn those songs and see if we can kind of jive to those. Sure. And then it kind of came and it went and then then we just started you know as Kyle was helping me pick up an electric guitar he was showing me different tunings and we started playing on this weird tuning and I just started playing this kind of single chord and just walking up the the the the the key and then um it was kind of fast for us to pick up this song and we wrote our first song the first time that we we sat down together and after that was defining for us to be like okay I think we actually can do something. We can do something to the lines of we can write our own originals. We don't have to play a bunch of covers That was the first moment, and then we write these songs, and then it's the you know, you write these songs, you get it on paper, and then you're like, oh yeah, we have to like we have to play it live. Now you gotta get somebody to listen to us, right? And and become fans. Yeah. Yeah. And so that was the second defining moment. We opened up for a band called um Vision Video at the time. Um it was in June of 2024, and we didn't know much. We've been to a couple concerts down here, and we knew there was a thriving music scene. We got the opportunity open for this band, and it was this goth crowd, like like the cure, like you know, and uh um they're just this room's packed full of these kids, teenagers, a little older. And we just get up on that stage the moment we play the first chord, the crowd just roars. We finished the first song, and that was my moment. And it was the moment defining moment. Oh, it was the moment that we realized oh, we have me. We have and and what we thought we had, these people also agree we have. So it was awesome.

SPEAKER_06 23:03

Well, we we say there's there's four components to the perfect musical equation, in my opinion. Yep. The song, sure, the artist, the venue, yeah, and the fan.

SPEAKER_03 23:14

Yep, yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_06 23:15

That's awesome. I like that. Without one of those, you don't have the whole, you don't have the whole equation, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:21

So well, and it's fun too. So again, we play for yeah, like kind of a a crowd outside of our genre a little bit on that person, but that crowd loved it. It's like so. Since then we're like, yeah, we haven't fit with every single group genre-wise, but we always try to bring I mean it's all so universal, right? Everyone wants exactly what you're saying, everyone wants to experience it.

SPEAKER_06 23:39

Well, and I, you know, we have, and we we say this, we mention this on almost every episode of our podcast. We have a very eclectic taste in music ourselves. So we love everything from Metallica to John Prime, to uh, you know, Towns Van Zan and to to Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, you know, and and Andrea Bocelli. I mean you know, and so we we we have really real really eclectic taste in music, but our real true love is live music. Yep, yes. You know, just and and we so good. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

What's your feeling in the age we're in right now, you know, with AI and all this stuff?

SPEAKER_06 24:18

It's an interesting question. You know, we uh I I did an interview with a guy by the name of Bryce Long. He's uh uh he's been on our podcast twice. That question got asked at a live we hosted a deal called Coffee and Conversation during the uh Whitefish Songwriter Festival at uh Slowburn Records in Whitefish. And one of the crowd members asked that question, and Bryce's response was Um, it's already here. It's it's impacted the music business in in some real negative ways. That being said, he said his personal opinion is number one, and I agree with him wholeheartedly on this AI will never be able to do what you just did. No.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

That's right. Live, live, that's right. I think live is gonna become more important to humanity.

SPEAKER_06 25:04

Oh, it's it's it's it it's it's an experience that uh yeah, yeah, you can't describe it.

SPEAKER_05 25:12

You can't get it on a screen, you can't, yeah. No replacement. No, there's no replacement.

SPEAKER_06 25:16

So and he said, and Bryce's second part of that question was this look, and I'm the same way. I was I was born and raised on a farm in Southeast Idaho. A farm boy always wanted to be a cowboy, right? But I I my dad taught me to do a uh a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, right? So I don't want to get paid for something I'm not doing. Sure. You know, uh uh this believe it or not, doing a podcast is not easy work, right? There's a lot, there's a lot of moving parts and pieces, and and you're looking at the whole crew, right? We do the we do the the the recording, the the setup, the interviews, we we do the editing, we do the the the promotion, the the whole deal. And and it's a thankless job yesterday, just like being a musician is sure, but we do it for the music.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Yeah, I love that. So we got an opportunity. This is a really cool so obviously in the age of digital and people recording in their you know bedrooms and printing albums, and there's a place for that. I'm not not knocking that and sure but we got an opportunity on our recordings that are out there right now to record on an original NiV board. Um analog board analog soundboard.

SPEAKER_03 26:21

In fact, funny story, it's the same board that Montley Recrue recorded girls, girls, girls on. Oh, you're kidding.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

Yeah, and so it's it's fully out. Then it was it was kind of a it was a friend's kind of private collection of this board and the amps, and um, and then they had old 1960s amps that are hand wired from 1930 fender ampender amp that just had the one. And so it was just kind of a cool experience to do strip back the digital and go straight into straight.

SPEAKER_06 26:52

You know, funny you say that. So we just did interviews in uh Logan, Utah at the Cash Valley Cowboy Rendezvous, right? And we interviewed a guy who actually puts that deal on, and he said cool, sorry, you're good. He wrote a song, he said this these kids gave their dad a digital camera for Christmas, and he was pissed because he was like, I can't figure this shit out, right? Yeah, yeah. He goes, This is a guy that's got uh balin wire, balin twine hanging from his mirror. But anyway, the title of the song is uh He's a Cowboy, he's an analog cowboy in a digital world. Oh yeah, and I and I just thought how crazy.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

Oh yeah, yeah, it's so special. Yeah, it is uh it's so special. And we we mean me and Ryan were just talking about it as we're getting ready to go up tonight. It's just like you know, you don't realize just going back to live music in general and doing analog things. Oh yeah. You know, that's why I started my whole guitar business was I realized like as much as you can know the instrument, there's something different about putting your hands on the thing that you're gonna play, right? Making it play the way that you want it, and then even more so, making it play the way that the somebody else wants it to play that they can't do themselves.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Right.

SPEAKER_04 28:02

Like we have gotten into a world now that I think it's super important for us to elevate the things that you can start and you can complete and you get something out of it.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Right, right. Right?

SPEAKER_04 28:11

Like you said, you work with your hands, you put your full day's work, and then at the end of it, you get a product.

SPEAKER_06 28:15

You get a product, or you get it, or you or you get you get the satisfaction of knowing that you started and finished something. Exactly. You know, I spent years uh I learned I I picked up a guitar and a rope at the same time, right? At 15 years old, and I laid the guitar down. I I regret that in some ways, sure ways, but but I love to play the guitar now. But but I I I got into the horses and the rope and then the rodeo deal, and that was a lot of fun and had some success at it. And and I enjoyed doing that. Um and and and and uh I would have never met my wife without it. So that's the that's the coolest thing. That's the way that's the way. Uh anyway, it's just there's no replacing this music deal.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

No, no, not at all.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

And I think we're we're headed into an age where human connection is going to be more important than ever.

SPEAKER_06 29:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

And so music's gonna be a live music's gonna be a really important part of that, I think.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

Oh, without a doubt, because it's the it's the connector. Yep. Right. So I tell everybody, and and we haven't had a chance to really get to visit to talk, but give me five minutes and we will connect the dots some way. Absolutely. Outside of music, more likely than not. Sure, sure. More more likely, it's probably gonna be music because you know some of the artists that I've we've already interviewed and we talked about some of that. But but we it's funny because this whole podcast deal for us has happened really organically, you know, just like, oh, you need to you need to interview this guy, you know. This friend of ours is uh is an artist, or my dad's a producer. You know, we got to interview Buddy Cannon, who's one of the biggest uh producers in Nashville because of his daughter, yeah. Because we interviewed her, and because of her, I got to interview Sammy Kershaw, I got to interview Dean Dillon, yeah, I got to interview Pam Tillis because of that connection. And it's all happened real quick. Organic, yeah. So anyway, guys, this has been fun. I know you guys have got to get set up. Yeah, yeah. Where can they find your music?

SPEAKER_04 30:07

Uh, any any streaming services, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Arcade Sarcasm? You can follow us at on Instagram at arcade.sarcasm for any of our most up-to-date updates and releases from there.

SPEAKER_06 30:18

Okay, I'm gonna put you on the spot too. Another quick two questions I like to ask, two-part question. Number one, who uh each one of you will be thinking about this, must start with you. Who, if you could reach out to the past, no longer living, who would you love to work with?

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Huh. What a good question.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Uh no longer living. Um, if someone else could think of this, I got it.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

I would I would for sure in this season of life. And in the band that I'm in right now, I think it would be crazy to sit down with Kurt Gobain.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Oh, that's a good answer. Yeah, but that's the one I want. Yeah, yeah. That's always what they're gonna say.

SPEAKER_05 31:01

To go back and like anywhere in time.

SPEAKER_06 31:05

Someone who's no longer living, because I'm gonna ask you the living. So be thinking.

SPEAKER_05 31:13

Just go and do something with Elvis?

SPEAKER_06 31:17

Oh, how cool would that be. No one's never ever brought Elvis. And you know what? That's my you know when you go into the coffee shop and they go, what's a good name for this order, right? They don't ever ask you what's your name. What's a good name? You know what I tell them? Elvis. Every time. Every time. Today at lunch. Your Elvis. Tacos. Elvis, your tacos already.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

That's great.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

What do you got? I think it'd be great to take lessons from Buddy Rich. Oh man. Yeah, that would be insane.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Yeah. Okay. That would be amazing.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Um I still haven't thought of a good answer. I'm trying to think of a good one, but um. I don't know. I I guess like there's gotta be someone from the Beatles that Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:57

Oh yeah, George Harrison. There we go. Yeah, George Harrison.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

The way they they they recorded, and I think uh similar what we uh we always talk about. Like they're like, they get into a room and try to create the magic in the room. They don't come up with preconceived right ideas, they they write together.

SPEAKER_06 32:12

They they sat in the room to yeah, yeah. Interesting because we had this conversation. I love that topic, and I love the Beatles, Harrison and and uh John Lennon, Ringo Star, Paul McCartney, all of those guys, but the impact that they had on the music industry in such a short amount of time, and how much music they actually made. Oh, it's how many songs they wrote.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Like seven years.

SPEAKER_06 32:35

Uh unheard of, right? So that's a good one. So I'm gonna I'm gonna that's a good one. All right, living. Living.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

Um man, yeah. I'll go, I'll go John Belly. He's just I mean, he's a producer at Hard. And him or John Mayer? I think now the new John Mayer, right now, the season of his life where he's just the producer, right, helping write some of the best songs in the world.

SPEAKER_06 32:56

And you know they just bought that old studio in California. Yeah, that the Oliver Hardy studio.

SPEAKER_04 33:02

Yeah, yeah, what a cool deal. Yeah, I was like, this guy, imagine getting to send that room.

SPEAKER_06 33:06

And he and he's almost our neighbor because he lives in Montana. Yeah, exactly. That's right. Yeah. All right, who you got living? John Foreman from Switchfoot, yeah. Switchfoot. Okay, cool. All right, Ryan. He's over there looking at his. He's on my playlist.

SPEAKER_03 33:22

Yeah. Well, no, I I I would like to work with Elbow.

SPEAKER_04 33:25

Yeah, that'd be a great band.

SPEAKER_03 33:26

Like Guy, and I'm just trying to remember the keyboard player's name. But uh, I would love for him to produce us.

SPEAKER_04 33:32

Yeah, he's they're a great band if you if you haven't gotten the chance to sit with them. I think you said that was Nirvana's original influence was Elbow. No, Radiohead was asked.

SPEAKER_03 33:40

What does it feel like to be the greatest band or you said, I don't know, ask Elbow. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:44

Great. They're out of uh the UK. Yeah, and they're just killer, man. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 33:50

Huh. Alright, so last man's standing. Sab it off here.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Um yeah, I think uh, I mean, you kind of mentioned it, but Elbow beats him, obviously. This is an example, but Radiohead. Yeah, Radiohead, yeah, cool.

SPEAKER_06 34:01

Yeah, yeah, so oh yeah, where did where did the name come from?

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Oh yeah, it was an easy question. I was texting somebody and I meant to put in sarcasm and it autocorrected to arcade, and so I sent it, and then underneath I put sarcasm, and then I was like, oh, that would be a great name. So if you look at this the name, the ARCA Arca, and then the and the through halfway through sarcasm, you take the S away, it's Arc Arca as well. Okay, so it's uh yeah, you can thank the digital age, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:31

Major faux pas that turned into a name of a band. Which is cool, which is there's usually is a good story behind that. So anyway. Well, guys, thank you so much for it. Thank you, Byron. It was a project. Keep doing this.

SPEAKER_04 34:42

I mean, it's awesome. This is a great opportunity. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 34:45

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