one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer – josh freese
Part 1
So I was really looking forward to sitting down with my old friend Josh Freese for this One Bourbon interview. Josh who is pretty much the best goddamn drummer on the planet (aside from Loomis Fall of course) has played in the Vandals, Devo, Sting, A Perfect Circle, and many more bands I can’t think of at the moment. He is such a sweet funny dude and I was really excited about this interview, but a couple of things were working against me this day namely booze and Rick Kosick. I forgot to goddamn eat before the interview and we all know how that makes me. On top of that Kosick was riding the cotton pony (and i may have not been the easiest to get along with, hiccup) and he and I pretty much argue the whole time. At one point he tells me I suck at interviews, much to my and Josh’s delight. He even posted it to his Facebook page in the middle of the f-ing interview.
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Here it is, the final installment of Johnny Knoxville's One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer interview with Mike Judge. Everything's hitting home now—home meaning the blood stream, brain, and liver—and the wheel-less bus
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The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and—whoops, there goes the right front one.
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Okay, slowly but surely the wheels are starting to loosen on this six-part bus. Toward the end of Part 4 here, Knoxville started to not only address me personally but talk veered off and into the subject of Jeff Tremaine.
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When people come into this world they typically receive a good right brain or a good left brain—the former specializing in creativity, the latter in the analytical.
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one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer – mike judge, part 2
Up until now I don’t think I’d ever really gone on any of the shoots for Johnny Knoxville’s One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer programs. It’s not that I was disinterested, it’s always a hoot watching Knoxville get sloppy drunk, but I’d always have something else to do. When I first heard that Mike Judge was going to be his next guest, though, I made damn sure my schedule was clear and sent Knoxville a short, sweet, and shamelessly pleading email to let me tag along on the day of the interview. Not only is it a rare opportunity to personally hear the back story to Mike Judge’s rise from the depths of obscurity in Texas to fame and acclaim in Hollywood, but it’s just a damn treat to be within proximity of someone with such a keen, razor-sharp wit when it comes to observing the more American facets of the human condition. I only wish he was contagious in that sense. Anyway, the Interweb certainly has leveled the playing field when it comes to getting your work out there or just plain finding a phone number or lead, so you really have to appreciate Mike’s story here as he and Johnny plow through a few more bottles in Part 2.
When I first sat down to think about all the people I wanted to interview for One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer, one of the very first people I thought of was Mike Judge.
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Mark Zupan is an extraordinary motherfucker, meaning he is both extraordinary and most definitely a motherfucker.
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Damn you, Andy Bell! Why did you have to taunt me so with your whiskey-soaked words of competitive drinking?!
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This One Bourbon, One scotch, and One Beer with my old friend Hisao Shinagawa has been a long time in the making.
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