King Otter: O.K., let's do names first.

Darren: My name's Darren D, and I rock the mic like MC Ren.

Roger: Hi I'm Roger and I play baritone sax.

King Otter: No you don't.

Jessica: I'm Jessica and I play guitar.

King Otter: No you don't.

Jessica: You're right.

Vinnie: I'm Vinnie and I play drums.

King Otter: Wait a minute. (already confused) O.K., uh, what's your favorite type of macaroni and cheese? (Everyone began yelling stuff like Kraft, white ched dar, Animaniacs, generic, Velveeta, etc. [A riot en sued]) Oh, that's confusing. So, why did you guys sign to Capitol?

All: WHOOOOOAH.

Jessica: Because they liked mac and cheese.

Vinnie: They're cheesy.

King Otter: So was it a cool A&R guy?

Darren: Cool is not the word!

Vinnie: Mac and cheese?

Jessica: Good distribution, that's the answer.

King Otter: So you guys can still do indie stuff, right? Because that's what I heard.

Darren: Absolutely.

Roger: We deliberated over it for like 8 months, they came to us, and we were able to get a lot of crap.

Darren: This guy bothered us for like the whole first tour and whined a lot. Then we went out there and found we could do a lot more than we thought we could.

Roger: I mean we're still doing indie 7 inches. The fi nal version of the Capitol LP is coming out on an indie la bel. I don't know, it was small things. We can talk about it for an hour if you want. That would not be fun.

Darren: Depends how in

depth you want it.

King Otter: O.K., so what's your favorite popcorn flavor?

Jessica: Caramel.

Roger: Movie popcorn is always the best.

Jessica: Yeah like when you put a hole in the bottom of the bucket? and?

Roger: Did you ever do that to one of your girlfriends?

King Otter: Um, no.

Roger: See what you do is, when you're hanging in the movie theater...

King Otter: OOOOH, shit I get it!

Roger: You ever try it?

King Otter: Um, no.

Roger: Darren told me it works.

King Otter: So you've done that thing?

Darren: Fuck yeah, I have.

King Otter: You know just thousands of people are going to read this.

Darren: It's true I can't deny it.

Jessica: We're just trying to spread the word.

Roger: And he orders extra butter too.

Vinnie: Is this going to be about Darren's genitals? Another one of those interviews?

Darren: O.K. next question.

King Otter: Why do you guys do so many cover songs all the time?

Jessica: They're fun.

Darren: They're fun, they're easy, we're bored. We re ally like those songs--most of the stuff. Somebody has a song and they're just like, "Man I've always wanted to cover that!"

King Otter: So what's the next one?

Jessica: We do cover songs? I thought we wrote them?

Vinnie: The Muppets 7 inch; it's already been re corded.

Darren: And after that, we're doing the whole Led Zeppelin IV album!

King Otter: That's a mistake!

Roger: That's not true, that's a lie. And he also puts his dick in the popcorn box!

But we are going to be doing the Grease cover LP?

King Otter: So what are your day jobs? Do you still have them?

Darren: Mail, I do mail.

Roger: Mail, we pretty much do band mail.

Jessica: Silk screen T-shirts, help with mail, I used to teach high school.

King Otter: Really? What subject?

Jessica: English.

King Otter: You're an English teacher? O.K., favorite book?
Jessica: Are you crazy? I have to choose one!

Vinnie: I just read Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut.

King Otter: You didn't pick it up because of the band's name, did you?

Vinnie: No, I picked it 'cause it was Vonnegut!

King Otter: Movies? (People start to yell stuff, such as "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Evil Dead trilogy, Chris only likes pornos"......) So have you guys ever mooned anyone?

Darren: A couple of times daily.

Jessica: We're talking streaking!

Roger: Yeah, people get naked around here. No one wants to see me naked.

King Otter: Why? Do you dye your pubes?

Roger: No.

Jessica: But he shaves them though, intricate little designs.

King Otter: So what's the story about the RuPaul guy on the back of your album? (See the back cover of "Los ers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand.")

Jessica: We were playing in Miami, and this guy was just walking down the sidewalk...

Darren: Yeah, this big 6'4" transvestite with a big blonde wig.

Roger: Anyway, the point is he just came up on stage in a dress, full makeup, fully in drag! Just came off the street and fucking started going at it.

King Otter: And freaked your singer?

Roger: It was great. He took his wig off; it was so hi larious! He started swinging it. We're freak magnets. This is the most non-music interview we've ever done.

King Otter: Oh, sorry. Musical influences?

D: Slash

(And then they started to interview me for a while)