Bremerton Icon: Owen Straw

The first episode in our “Icon” series. We sat down with our old pal Owen straw to talk about his experiences as a youth in Bremerton and beyond. Jack Trippers. Jackson Hell. The Trots. Wrestling. Stand up comedy. Owen has done it all. Sit back and relax. This is a banger. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:19

Welcome back, friends, to another episode of B Town Stories with Schnazzle and Jerry. I'm Schnazzle.

SPEAKER_05 0:26

Hey, I'm Jerry.

SPEAKER_04 0:28

Also uh known as Lil Jerry. Also known as Jerry Lagarde, the Canadian flautist.

SPEAKER_05 0:33

Actually, um, I'm just gonna kind of stick with Lil Jerry now.

SPEAKER_04 0:38

Oh, okay. Like Lil Wayne?

SPEAKER_05 0:40

Yeah, like a gang kind of thing, you know? Got it. Uh just been following this guy online, Lil T Lil Jimmy, and he has this really cool platinum grill, really cool jewelry.

SPEAKER_04 0:55

Wait, I think I've seen that guy, but it does he just talk like the biggest Chad ever?

SPEAKER_05 0:58

Yeah, yeah. Well, he doesn't talk like a Chad, he talks like he thinks he's a gang member.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

Got it.

SPEAKER_05 1:05

Um, and he just like every single person that comments on his fucking shit is talking shit to him, and then then he'll do a screenshot of some particular comment. Usually they're calling him Tinkerbell or fucking Timu Jimmy or something like that, and then he'll like take a screenshot of the fucking the comment, put it up in his little video, and then he'll go, nah, twin. You don't get it, brah. I'm the real motherfucking deal, yo. So he's basically like the island boys, but like that dude, so they all people always call him the island the the third island boy. Oh, okay, yeah, and then like he gets so fucking mad, and then he like acts like he's fucking gonna beat him up, and he starts swinging and he like doesn't know how to punch or anything at all, and just he's just flailing in the window.

SPEAKER_04 1:54

It's so fucking satisfying to beat up the island boys, yeah. Just like it would be the best.

SPEAKER_05 1:59

Uh also to beat up Lil Jim. Actually, his name it doesn't say L I L Jimmy, it says L-U-H Jimmy.

SPEAKER_04 2:08

Fucking awesome, real smart guy.

SPEAKER_05 2:10

Lil' Jimmy, Lil' Jimmy.

SPEAKER_04 2:12

Uh Josh, I should say happy birthday, man. Oh, hey, thanks.

SPEAKER_05 2:16

Uh yeah, my birthday was yesterday. Um, it feels really great to be 51.

SPEAKER_04 2:22

I see you got a guitar.

SPEAKER_05 2:24

I got a new axe. It's a guitar center brand.

SPEAKER_04 2:29

Amazing.

SPEAKER_05 2:30

It's uh better than first act, which is the Walmart brand. I love it. But uh, I just wanted something cheap that I could noodle around on at home and write some country songs.

SPEAKER_04 2:41

I love it. Country. Well, dude, we're we have a banger of a B-town story today. Uh, we've got a real special guest from the old school who's kind of a Bremerton legend. And uh I wanted to uh bring him in right now. Oh, the guy from Jackson Hell, the fucking creator of Jackson Hell. Nice, the one and only 017 Owen Straw. Welcome to B Town Stories.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Oh, thank you. Thank you. I I when I was asked to be on the show, I I'd had to assume you guys had had eyeball on 13 times.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

No, unfortunately, we I would love to have eyeball on though. Any better? Is that we're still around?

SPEAKER_05 3:22

I haven't seen that guy in years, so I'm not really sure.

SPEAKER_04 3:25

He was like OG uh Bremerton Dirtballs. Yeah, he would buy us beer.

SPEAKER_05 3:31

That's funny. Like, I was recently in a band with Lumpy. Do you know Lumpy?

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Yeah, well, that was the other one. I remembered there was a stinky, and then yeah, Lumpy was stinky lumpy eyeball.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

Yeah, so Lumpy's real name is just fucking Jason, but he was in Bad Juju and a couple other bands back in the day. But uh, I was recently in a band with him, and I thought for the longest time that eyeball was Lumpy, and I told him that, and he was so offended.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

Dude, the Bremerton dirt balls are like the seven dwarves of Bremerton, they're like lumpy, stinky. Eyeball, uh meth guy. No, I don't know. Yes, but uh Owen, I gotta see, I gotta test your memory for this. Okay, see if you can finish this next lyric. Okay. All right. I said, Owen, where are you going with that new TV?

SPEAKER_01 4:27

I said I got it in the back of a car. The best things in life are free. Fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

Dude, uh Owen is in one of my favorite bands of all time, the Jack Trippers. And I, dude, I just found you guys the second album on a tape and digitized it the other day, and it's fucking holds up. It's still so hard, dude. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

That was a pretty fun one to record.

SPEAKER_04 4:52

Where did you guys record that one?

SPEAKER_01 4:54

It was Tony at Tony's studio, I do believe.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Music abuse on in Minette.

SPEAKER_05 5:00

Yeah, yeah. Music abuse.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Yeah, that was it took us like two hours, I think.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

Nice so rad. Uh we tried to get Darren on, but we had some trouble with his uh with his equipment. But dude, I was wondering if like I heard an amazing B Town story about the Jack Trippers, and maybe you know this since you were in the band. So the rumor has it that the Jack Trippers were gonna get signed, right? And like uh they were going to the ferry, but somebody like left their pipe at the house and they had to double back and they missed the ferry and they missed a record deal. Can you lend any credence to that?

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Or I don't know when that would have happened. It was either before or after my time. I think it was before basically my senior year of high school.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

Yeah, I I think that was when uh Ryan was still up in the bass. Yeah. Yeah. But to be honest, um when Ryan left, I was like, oh no, there goes the Jack Trippers, and then Owen was in the band. I actually like that second recording more than the first one.

SPEAKER_04 6:08

Yeah, it's pretty rad. I also like Owen your your backup vocals when you're just screaming like the ooze and the ahs, but like at like a amazing like pitch. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yeah, yeah. That was that was yeah, that was those that that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

Maybe after after the episode's over, I'll take a couple of those tracks and slap them on the end for the audience.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

But um, but dude, I oh also maybe not appropriate in 2026.

SPEAKER_05 6:36

We don't care about that here at fucking B Town Stories.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Well, wait a minute, it's Bremerton. I'm sure it's he was involved.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

So also, so Owen, we were in Mrs. Lee's art class at Oli, right? I think I remember hanging out with you in that class.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Maybe mostly I remember like for some reason I borrowed your jacket, and then I had your jacket for a long time and I liked it. And then one day we were like in the Denny's parking lot or something, because that's where you would that was your Facebook back then, was Denny's. Totally. Totally, good call. And but you were like, that's my jacket, uh, I need it back. I was like, but it's cold, and you just did your sweater. You traded me your sweater for the jacket, which was nice of you.

SPEAKER_04 7:22

Dude, that jacket though was fucking great. Was that the one with the little graffiti patch on it?

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Oh, yeah, it was totally like the snowboard jacket.

SPEAKER_04 7:29

Yeah, I got that from Vic Merritt originally, and it had that awesome pocket on the side that I would like steal cigarette cartons in.

SPEAKER_05 7:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Oh, yeah. For some reason, growing up in Bremerton, I always get good stealing pockets in any jacket, or I call them beer pockets.

SPEAKER_05 7:45

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

You gotta sneak beers in wherever you go. That's funny. I really impressed my buddy when we were at a wrestling show, and like I was like, Oh, could you use a beer? And they were like, Budweisers are nine dollars. I was like, No, no way, the Dwani Reed across the streets got a six-pack for nine. So I went over and during intermission and I grabbed a six-pack. I had to chug one because I could only fit five in my pockets. And like he was like, I quit drinking, but man, I wish I did it. It's so cool. You stuck all the beers in.

SPEAKER_05 8:22

I was just telling a story at work yesterday about this time that me and Steph and Dave and Nate and Jake and that whole crew went to the dark side of the moon at the you know, the laser show. Yeah, yeah. Pink Floyd laser show. And they were all doing acid, and I was scared to do acid, so I snuck six beers in my fucking beer pockets in my jacket, and I was pretty impressed with myself and got a little buzz.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

I love it.

SPEAKER_04 8:49

Just like did the laser pocket.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Did we just call them beer pockets? Because we all that's pretty much the nomencular the word we all use.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

Yeah, I think that's that's pretty Bremerton term. A standard Bremerton term.

SPEAKER_04 9:03

Yes, any type of pocket inside your jacket or pants is a beer pocket.

SPEAKER_05 9:08

Unless it has a zipper on it, it's a weed pocket.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Weed it if it can be a weed, obviously, if it's got a zipper, then you can put your finger down it.

SPEAKER_05 9:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:18

Weed.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:19

Yeah. So uh so Owen, man, tell us a little bit about your journey after Bremerton and maybe sneak in a B Town story. Any cool Bremerton stories you would love to share with us today? We'd love to hear them.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Oh my god. You guys were talking about the the Kids app big shows with the Lollapalooza, and I remember I went to Lollapalooza and then I went to NFES, and then we went back to high school, and everyone's like, Yeah, we just snuck it. I was like, what the fuck? Bullshit. I spent forty dollars. I see Jesus Mary Chain at three in the afternoon.

SPEAKER_05 9:54

Oh, was that what yeah, the first Lollapalooza there?

SPEAKER_01 9:58

That was pretty uh yeah, now Jesus Mary Chain place down the street, it's way more than forty dollars. So you're out in New York, right? Yeah, I'm in Ridgewood, Queens, which is uh popular, which means that I will not be able to afford it if I have to move.

SPEAKER_04 10:17

Yeah, right. Good thing you guys got rent control, huh?

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Not really. I don't. I just got an old Polish lady who owns four apartment buildings.

SPEAKER_04 10:27

Amazing.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

She runs and sweeps it and takes out the trash on Thursdays.

SPEAKER_04 10:32

Amazing. Well, that's better than my landlord in LA that I had last time. He sued me and I had to go to court with him, and I beat him in court, and it was amazing. Oh felt like a fucking Lincoln lawyer.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Your Honor, I object. You just you took a landlord and then you get your how hard was it to get the money?

SPEAKER_04 10:50

Well, he sued me for $7,500 on like this uh old like fee that he said said I owed him from like five years ago. And I'm like, well, if if you know, if you were wanted that money five years ago, you should have told me instead of let it wait five years, so I'm not paying you. And he's like, I'm gonna sue you, and I'm like, bring it. And then so uh I cross-examined him and he looked like he had a little accident in his pants, and then the judge rude judge ruled in our favor, so it was cool.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Damn. Yeah, so so I like I found out everyone snuck in. And so when the Beastie Boys came the next summer, I was like, I'm jumping that fence. And I did jump the fence, and I swear there was a guy on a horse trying to catch me on the fence, but I got away, and then I ran downhill, and the security guy was like, hey, hey, hey, and I was like, just lower your shoulder, and he was like, I'm only making eight dollars an hour.

SPEAKER_05 11:51

That was pretty good for 92.

SPEAKER_04 11:53

Yeah, eight bucks an hour? Yeah, but I don't know. He was selling weed too, that's why. The best was selling those fake bags of weed, dude. I sold like five of them. You just chew up the yellow pages and they look like weed.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

I bought a couple of those when I was in college.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

Maybe I sold you one. That's awesome. So, so oh, like you have such an interesting backstory, man. You've been like a comedian and you've been a wrestler. Like, talk about some of the cool shit you did and when you took Bremerton on the road after you left town.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Oh my god. Well, I went to the University of Washington and then I found uh uh, you know, uh first my first roommate was the guy who's in another state of mind who's like the cramps come to town, who can go see them? And uh that was my first roommate when I was 18. That's cool. And uh he was he didn't do math anymore, but he was still like pretty cantankerous. But uh then I pissed him off, and so I had to find some slummy uh basement room next to a guy who would uh talk to aliens at night, and that was pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_04 13:08

Damn, dude.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

And uh yeah, man, he looked like Leonard Nimoy.

SPEAKER_05 13:15

Maybe he was an alien.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

He would hunch down and smoke cigarettes outside near rock certain rocks, and he would talk to the rocks.

SPEAKER_05 13:24

Hey man, I've talked to fucking flowers before.

SPEAKER_04 13:27

So on a s maybe we should just rate your roommates on a scale of one to ten as and craziness. So, like it sounds like you've got two straight tens in a row.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

Oh no, that's not even reaching. Well, then I moved in with uh Josh from the Mocha Teo Fairies and uh Oh, that's cool. The rubber guy, this guy, Matt, who lived upstairs and would like try to peek in on certain people on the shower. Oh boy. He's a peepin tum! He likes yeah, he would peep in on certain uh men, young men. Not me. Not me. He never did it to me because I was fat.

SPEAKER_05 14:07

So he was a Peter Gazer.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Not uh, so it was just a particularly Twinkie kind of physique, I think. Oh, got it's what he would want to see.

SPEAKER_04 14:17

That's kind of what Josh is into.

SPEAKER_05 14:19

Uh depends on what month.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

I I know Josh is into Twinkies.

SPEAKER_05 14:26

I haven't had one in a really long time, but they they were great back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

That does sound amazing. I think when I was a comedian, I'd drive around and I remember when I would find chocolateals in the wild, which is a chocolate covered Twinkie.

SPEAKER_05 14:39

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

I would eat three of them before I got on the on-ramp. Nice. I was a fast eater. I also won pizza eating contests on the room. Accomplished man.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

Wow. Like a professional one?

SPEAKER_01 14:55

It was at the Punk Rock Pizza Fest at the funhouse. I've never claimed I cheated.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

How many pizzas did you do you think did you put down?

SPEAKER_01 15:05

It was one pizza first to the finish.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

Oh, okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

The first year it was kind of cold, which is a little harder to just like plow down.

SPEAKER_05 15:15

Yeah, if it's if it's warm, it's like more gooey and it slides down your throat a little better.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

You want to slide down your throat.

SPEAKER_05 15:25

It's gooey, it slides down your throat.

SPEAKER_04 15:28

Oh, and from your stand-up days, do you have any good jokes you can remember? What's your favorite stand-up joke?

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Uh I don't think uh I think I'm I look at it as uh gosh, I was a really troubled man. Now I'm more aware of my troubles. Got it. I still have them. But then I was like, I don't know, I'm like great. Like is comedy, is like you're going on stage and going, everybody has to look at me and shut up for the whole time I'm up here. And if you say anything, you're a bad person. Unless it's good, and then I get the credit.

SPEAKER_04 16:07

There you go. Totally. No, dude, like one of the things I when I first went to LA, I wanted to do comedy, but then I maybe I don't know if this ever happened to you or not, but like you kind of get inside the comedy scene and you you really get to see what it takes to become a and it takes like 10 years of every night going up.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Like if you don't have that type of commitment, it's like you it's gonna be a hobby instead of a and one thing in I realized in New York was a lot of these hustlers uh had billionaire parents. Uh that helps or have a rich parent to fund your uh hustle.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

It totally dude.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Because you don't have to get up until two to go write.

SPEAKER_04 16:51

Yeah. Well, also that's you know, that's also that's a great point, Owen, because you know, a lot of the times in any type of entertainment, there's a lot of kind of dry periods between work. There's you know, the ability to absorb that financial shock always favors people that come from money, you know?

SPEAKER_01 17:10

And also, like ultimately in stand-up and and a lot of entertainment, ultimately the the goal ends up being making rich people propaganda for a corporation.

SPEAKER_04 17:23

Never more so than uh just what's happened recently with Paramount, you know, CBO.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

I mean, all of it is like all the great HBO shows are like some guy with a lot of money who gets to do what he wants, or some the like people doing lavish things and uh because they write a column. Okay, sure.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

Oh, and you get you you should I I was very fed up with that, like the rich, beautiful people getting all the stories. And I wrote a killer book you should check out. It's called Wedding Scam. It's a Bremerton punk rock comedy with crass crust punks as the main characters. Uh books.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Well, what kind of cross punks, though? Let's be clear.

SPEAKER_04 18:02

Um, well, there's this guy, Billy, and he's just like in a Bremerton punk band. They're not really cross punks. They're punk.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

Well, how many butt flaps do they have?

SPEAKER_04 18:12

That's a good question. Maybe in the sequel I'll uh write to that. How many butt flaps? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

In the mid-90s, when I thought cross punk, I thought uh the the butt flaps and both sides said and then like all and they smell bad. That's the I guess that's the main reason you get called crusty is because you smell bad. I think that's a good point.

SPEAKER_05 18:37

It started that way, I think, and then like there's different like characteristics that became part of the the uh the appearance of a crusty punk, like patches sewed on with dental floss. That was a big oh, I would do that.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

That stuff's strong. Yeah, it makes your closed mouth slightly better if you're yeah, a little bit better. Yeah, yeah. You get the cinnamon if you want red. Yeah, yeah. You can get mint if you want the green. Exactly. You gotta match the trim of your butt flap.

SPEAKER_04 19:06

And if you really want to get wild, you can like sew on those uh like tree car fresheners as patches. Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Black ice.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

Yeah, black ice. Uh some white dental.

SPEAKER_04 19:19

It's hard to say that when you enter a room, I smell black ice. That's funny. Well, yeah, you know, uh Owen, I think we should bring in uh our fearless producer, Kevin. I know you guys have a great relationship from the past, and uh, and I bet Kevin's got some great stuff to ask you. Kevin Jones, everybody.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

Hey guys. So, first off, I just want to start by saying that I don't think I would be who I am today without Owen. Owen was truly the big brother I always needed. And this also came, my introduction to Owen was bullying him at Jackson Hall under the you know, under the direction of Mike Modiak, you know, let's go get beat up that kid, you know. But then we were in Boy Scouts together, and like the you know, total Jesus figure that Owen is, he looked past that, saw a kid that like wanted to get into punk rock and totally took him under his wing and exposed me to such great music with like the rickets, the mock Teo Fairy stuff I still like just love today. He would drive me around in his little yellow pickup truck, that that Toyota pickup truck. Um, he's the guy he taught me the first punk beat I ever played. And also when I had to move away, he not only took me to like one of the best shows I ever went to, even though I I walked away deformed. Uh he pushed me he pushed me in front of the background mics during the Jack Trippers because I knew all the songs. I was just singing all the songs, and at one point a mosher came in and knocked a mic into my head and totally deformed my head. But uh, and like I got to go to the Tri-Cities with this big bulbous thing. But at that time, too, he made me two compilation tapes that totally like opened a whole new world of music to me, you know. So, I mean, there's so many times like every day I think about like how shitty I was to you, Owen, and you still kind of looked past that and were so awesome to me, you know, especially college too. So he was talking about that house in Ravenna. I know the guy that he's talking about that would get picked peeked at. Funny enough, he actually went into a porno after that, but on the business side.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Oh wow. Kevin, you have an interesting relationship with this guy, I see.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Oh yeah, oh yeah, we could get into it.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

Uh but I couldn't imagine Kevin and and Modiac like bullying Owen. I feel like Owen would fucking pancake both you guys.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

I don't know. I don't remember anyone, like maybe they tried to uh knock me over, but they I like I don't remember Kevin doing anything because. It was very tiny then. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

I was. I really was.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

If I thought people were moshing wrong, I would like stand aggressively in the front corner and not let people uh move me. Yeah. That was a good one. Uh and so I I got a little so I think that kind of annoyed some twerps.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

Yes. I think that was Malt Modiak's thing, was that you would stand in the middle, you know, and fucking just take it, you know, during magnified plaid or fight for change or do you guys remember when the Jack Treppers played some show in Silverdale and Darren was like uh I think it was with PUD or something.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

I don't know. I don't quite remember, but I don't know if it was. But I remember Darren was like, everybody from Bremerton, punch someone from Silverdale.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Oh hell broke. I remember that what uh you guys had to change your name to the Yak Trappers on a couple shows because you got banned from a couple shows. So it was the Jack Trippers and you were the Yak Trappers.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Like if like how many parents are that stupid? What do you remember Yak Trappers?

SPEAKER_03 23:24

Oh, the Yak Trappers, they're from Canada.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

They couldn't be not Jack Trippers, just the Yak Trappers. They're from the north.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Well, do you remember opening for Ben Gibbard's bands and stuff when you're in the Jack Trippers? Because he was on uh that uh chemistry class with him. Oh, funny. What do you remember about him?

SPEAKER_01 23:45

He he like had a little like thing thing like a goat a little. Oh, oh make fun of him.

SPEAKER_04 23:58

Dude, oh, and what was it like? Yeah, I found an old video of theirs, some old footage in John Harnett's uh footage of like a fight for change concert. I think it was like Joe McEwan. Or no, actually that was Slaughterhouse's uh John Harnett shooting that video.

SPEAKER_05 24:15

No, he didn't shoot it. Who who shot that video?

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Um it wasn't Peck.

SPEAKER_05 24:21

Joe's in it.

SPEAKER_04 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:23

But John didn't shoot it.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

But I found that tape and I cut a video of Oddfellows Local playing God Save the Queen. And when Ben was dating Zoe Dechanel at the time, and they shared that video. She was like, Oh my god! Because Ben was because Ben Gibbard was wearing like a body glove hat and like a body glove was popping back then. But you can still find it, it's online. You just type in Oddfellows Local and it'll come straight to that video.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Did you get it? Is it monetized?

SPEAKER_04 24:52

No, I I didn't monetize any of the videos on that channel. I should.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Yeah, and then you get a copyright strike.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

Yeah. But I just wanted to share it, but dude, what was it like making how many episodes of Jackson Hell did you make? Because I've been making a zine.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I think I did like eight, seven or eight, and I would just that was was great. And like I would just go to Kinko's and print make like lay them out and print them up, and then I would go to the punk house and trade them for beers. And then you could like just steal the zines from Kinko's because it was no no one was gonna chase you.

SPEAKER_04 25:31

Yeah, you would just go in and be like, I need two copies and make like 50.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Well they give you a key and you just we had this scam was where you would break the key or you'd steal one and have your own, and then you'd say, I made three copies. Oh, in four hours? Like they were lying. But it was over 24 hours, too. I don't know. The 90s were crazy. Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_05 26:02

Printing my my reviews of j just uh uh to clarify, Jackson Hell was a zine that Owen did. Oh magazine. I still have I still have a bunch of them actually. That's right. My storage.

SPEAKER_04 26:23

Yeah, I'd like to check those out, dude. I'm gonna fucking maybe put them up. I feel like there's like a is there any online place where you can go to like upload zines? Like a zine archive page or something.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

I guess you would uh do I look like Google?

SPEAKER_06 26:42

Do you want to Google that?

SPEAKER_03 26:45

I know Hessian Obsession was scanned and Quiddy put that up, but like on a Dropbox or something. So you have to get up on Quiddie. By the way, Hessian Obsession, another fantastic zine from those days, gotta come back to. Hey Owen, I do have an idea for a B Town story that I know you can tell. Do you want to tell the story of the fight with Corvus Korax?

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Well, that was an Olympia.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Okay, but it sounds it's it is very B Towny in my mind. Oh, yeah. You were representing B Town in the fight. Oh, yeah. And B Town values on behalf of some BI friends, Bainbridge Island friends, such as Larry.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Well, there was there's this like, I guess it's you know, we were at some crusty show in Olympia, right? Were you there, Kevin?

SPEAKER_03 27:37

No, no, I was still in the Tri-City.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Oh, okay. You were a child. Adults were fighting in Olympia. At the Krusty Show, which I vaguely remember. But like there was Larry who was there with us, and Larry had lived in Oakland, and some like crusty people who they were on Larry's porch and they said something racist, or like one of the Ricketts members when Larry was down there and the Corps Korrax guy said something racist or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 28:17

I think he yelled at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Well, that's clearly something racist. I don't have my workplace, everyone it's basically just an article of speech. Yeah. Because I work with black people.

SPEAKER_06 28:36

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

And they anyway, uh, so like someone made some flyer that said that these guys said something racist and don't support them, and then they moved to Port Townsend or something. And then they showed they they showed up at the Krusty Show and uh they were mad at Larry about the flyers, and so I at some point they came up from behind and started to attack him. And uh I I think I just pulled people people off the pile. That was like my big move was like, get off get out of here. Because they were all scrawny little crusty occultists. I think they were kind of c occultists. Um and as you know from Dragonlance, that leaves your body very weak.

SPEAKER_05 29:28

I I actually recently read about this band, like not too long ago. I don't know how it came up, but I was just when you said Port Townsend and that they were like occultist crusty punks. I know I read something about them being racists or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Or I think they were black metal, actually.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Yeah, they're I think they were black metal.

SPEAKER_01 29:47

Yeah. They were like, well, yeah. And then like, so me and Larry's band and Trotts, we had a song called Six on One, which was about the guy from the Fugitive masturbating. No, it was about It was about uh that that fight and how Larry fought six uh occultists.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Yes, but what was the quote? One of the guys, what did he say? What was the funny?

SPEAKER_01 30:14

Oh, it was some they someone of them was saying to us, I with mine own two hands will reach down your throat. And I was like, you better ask your Donovan master if you make the saving throw. Beat it, nerd. And then some other guy like heard what I said and was like, roll the six-sided dies. Now it's before that everyone uh remember like it was a mystery if I said it or if someone else said it, and boy, basically I made a smart remark, and then someone else yelled it, yelled it and got the credit for it, which is a bunch of my schooling days. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Comedy, man. Seriously, you gotta protect that shit. Trademark it as soon as you can. I don't mind now, as long as it goes viral. Totally, totally. Okay, so you have written one of the most genius songs about work of all time, paid to poo. Truly with the greatest lyrics of all time. What was the inspiration for paid to poo?

SPEAKER_01 31:20

We would we would laugh because we got paid to poo. And like I pretty self-explanatory. And I lived in a house where like toilet paper would get stolen, and so it was difficult on a meager budget to have enough toilet paper, so if at work, you also get the benefit of they have to pay for the toilet paper. Yes, added perk.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

Was this at the telefunder place?

SPEAKER_01 31:51

It must have been, or let like we just joked, like it's great. I mean, it's a pretty universal concept where I'm gonna be pooping on the clock.

SPEAKER_04 32:03

There's also many other ways, like on film sets, I think it's Steven Soderbergh. If there's like if there's a part, there's like a a big spat or like a problem on set and people are losing their mind, he just goes and takes like a 20-minute shit, and every single it comes back and it's all figured itself out.

unknown 32:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:21

That's actually an actual thing.

SPEAKER_03 32:22

I want to note about this telefunder place, because it was a cool place where if you were a young punk, you could go and you would work for four hours and make a decent wage, and you'd be raising money for things like uh I remember uh raising money for what's now the pop museum, uh, but was uh what was it, the Experience Experience Music Project. Exactly. Or we would raise money for libraries and stuff, but it was all about getting those commissions, right? They're all about getting those trades. And I remember the big one was that a uh a homeless dude had taken a shit in the stairwell in the back, and the prize was like the next person to get somebody's sign off or a donation gets to look at the major hobo turd in the back stairwell. And I remember working, you need this, you've got to own this library.

SPEAKER_05 33:12

I believe uh we refer to them as unhoused now.

SPEAKER_03 33:16

Oh now, yeah, but yeah, back in the day, hobo poop.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Oh yeah, like even in the 90s, they would call us house punks. Oh, yeah, yeah. Uh an apartment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:29

Oh, you have a place to live.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

And they'd be like, what are you gonna go do now, house punks? I was like, go listen to house music. Yeah, my house.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

Well, uh, Burger King and poop. Uh well, oh, and you you have any plans to come back this way for a visit anytime, man?

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Yeah, you know, we're middle-aged, so most times you visit the home it's because one of your elderly parents are or something like that. So usually I when I do visit, it's just to uh see my mom look at Facebook.

SPEAKER_04 34:05

That's cool. Well, dude, you gotta uh we'll go out and get a pizza or something, buddy. Next time you go out here, man. I'd love to see you in person.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

What's the Greek pizza place again?

SPEAKER_04 34:17

Spiro's is my favorite. Spiro's, yeah. And that's where all the cool kids used to work too.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

So I'm gonna this is a little gripe of mine still, because I was visiting from New York and my parents were like, What would you like to eat? I was like, Oh, I haven't had a Spiro's pizza in a long time, and they're like, All right, and then I got there and it was Papa Murphy's.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Oh, lame, yeah. Also, dude, like being from New York, like you just get a fine tuning fork, like passion for great pizza, really. So it's like if you go from that back here, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Yeah, it's just like I don't need pizza out here. What is gonna be let's get I like Hawaiian food. We don't have Hawaiian food in New York.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

Well kind of. Now I do.

SPEAKER_04 35:00

I can get my soupy.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

So well Loco Moco.

SPEAKER_04 35:04

Well, dude, man, it's been awesome to catch up, Owen. Um, it's so great to see you. I think at the end of this episode, I'm gonna put on some uh Jack Trippers from your album as an homage.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Oh, where's the remote? If it was up your ass, you'd know. You'd know. Yeah, yeah, dude. Epic the joke is like, where's this? If it was up your ass, you'd know.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

I had a band, one of the first bands I was in uh uh after I moved to the Tri-Cities, and we totally stole the riff from friends. I literally saw you guys practice it one, didn't have the demo, and we just stole it because it was so good, you know, with that bass line coming between the ri uh the verses. Oh, god damn. Yeah, and life on twelve. Oh, no, no, not life on twelve. Nothing to do. That will oh man. Still nothing to do with that room, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

That was the I wrote that room.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Oh, that's so good. Oh, so good.

SPEAKER_05 35:56

I really liked uh Dumb John. That was a great song. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

Maybe we'll play the whole fucking album.

SPEAKER_04 36:02

It's only like 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Speaking of offensiveness, what we found in his wallet, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

In the dumb John?

SPEAKER_01 36:13

Yeah, he had like a N-word hunting license.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesus Christ. I bet Darren loved him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Well again. I remember him saying something about like, well, like, you know, musicians there's different musicians are different, like Jimi Hendrix and you.

SPEAKER_05 36:37

Yeah, yeah. You're cool, but not the rest of these. I know.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Can you imagine Darren? He's like, well, he did just compare me to Jimi Hendrix. I would compare Darren to Jimi Hendrix. Equally legendary. Yes, yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 36:51

So, anyways, guys, I think that's a good time to wrap it up. Thanks for joining us again for another wonderful episode of B Town Stories with B Town Legend Owen Straw. I'm Schnazzle.

SPEAKER_05 37:00

I'm Jerry. Little Jerry.

SPEAKER_04 37:02

And until next time. Little Jerry. Little until next time, little Jerry. Take her easy. Yeah, take her easy, fellas.

unknown 37:11

Are you ready for it?

SPEAKER_05 39:19

Beatown Stories is a red cobra production, created, produced, and written by Schnazzle Simpkins and Jerry Lagar. Also produced by Kevin L. Jones, with theme songs by the supple dongs and logo design from Darren Chalman.