(Karsyn to Chris): Pass me a cigarette.

Paul: I’ll give you a buck, Chris.

Chris: They’re so expensive if you guys want to pitch in.

Karsyn: I’ll pitch, hold on here. Check check check 50 cents.

Paul: That’s like two bucks.

Chris: Two bucks? Two bucks I can give you a cigarette.

 

That’s a good question, what ciggies are you guys smoking here in New York City?

Chris: A big mix. A big mix of everything.

Paul: American Spirits.

Chris: I’ve been smoking Parliaments. I did buy a pack of Camel Blues last night. I paid $12 for Parliaments in Brooklyn and then here I go… and they’re 20 fucking dollars.

Steph: Dave Grohl smokes Parliaments ‘cause I guess they were designed for the army?

Chris: Yeah and apparently you bite down on them while you’re shooting. That’s what someone told me in Brooklyn.

Paul: Chris you fucked me! You didn’t even give me a cigarette. You just took my 2 dollars.

Karsyn: Mind if I hit your lighter? That lighter is epic. My dad’s friend had a drawer full of lighters with naked women on it and naked women like playing cards. When I was younger, I was like, this is crazy. And I’m like, what fucking like 40 year old guy has this like stowed away in his kitchen drawer like that? What kind of person do you have to be?

Steph: I got it at a vintage shop called Search and Destroy 15 minutes from here.

Chris: Let me guess it’s all super expensive.

Karsyn: I didn’t know they had that here, I thought that was just a Montreal thing. Vintage. Not leather jackets. They have leather jackets here, I’ve seen them.

 

So, do you guys want to introduce yourselves?

Paul: Thomas, hit the ground running.

Thomas: Okay, yo. I’m Thomas Hart. I’m the drummer of Truck Violence.

Chris: And the CEO of Heartwear Clothing. CEO of Heartwear Clothing/crypto day trader by day.

Paul: What by night? You’re also a crypto day trader all day and night. No, I don’t do that. I’m eating a bodega muffin. Hell yeah. Chocolate chip, but it has, like, bread crumbs on it. I don’t know but they sprinkled something on it.

Karsyn: I’m Karson Henderson. For the record…what’s your name by the way?

Steph: Stephanie.

Karsyn: Stephanie just gave me a PCP-dipped cigarette.

Steph: So it should be a good interview.

Karsyn: I’m a nepo baby from Alberta. My dad owns all the oil fields. Oh, and my mother is…fuck, Phoebe Bridgers. I’m the vocalist.

Paul: I’m Paul from Truck Violence. My dad’s a woodsman. He’s known as the Moose in Ontario.

Karsyn: Yeah, literally. Self-professed.

Paul: Yeah. I play guitar.

Chris: I’m Chris Clegg from Truck Violence. Also the founder of CleggCoin, the cryptocurrency, and Tofer Nickel, the meme coin.

Paul: They’re both way up. The pump and dump. Don’t buy Tofer Nickel.

Chris: No, buy Tofer Nickel. That one’s been up, the other one’s down.

Karsyn: If you could rate who had the wittiest joke here at the end, that would be great. The wittiest entry. We’re all really funny.

 

So where are you guys all from?

Steph to Chris: We actually know each other from way back. You’re from Montreal.

Chris: Yes, from the cancer hole. The Dawson cancer hole smoke spot.

Steph to Karsyn: So you’re from Alberta?

Karsyn: Yup.

Thomas: I’m from Nova Scotia.

 

Do you have any, like, hometown bands that you love that you’d like to plug? 

Karsyn: Oh, shout out Empty Visionaries. Shout out, uh, Misery Tomb.

Paul: Rising Sun.

Chris: Shout out Le Torrent, ex bassist of Conflit Majeur who fucked off from the punk stuff and decided to do folk. And shout out the disbanded Piss For Pumpkin because they were sick.

Paul: Yeah, they were super sick.

Chris: That was definitely my favorite Montreal band and I’m sad they’re gone.

Thomas: I have one to shout out. It’s a band called Rumé Kover. It’s R-U-M-E-space-K-O-V-E-R. (pronounced Room Makeover).

 

How are you guys liking New York? 

Thomas: It’s crazy that they call them bodegas and we call them dépanneurs. And some places they call them corner stores. So that’s the big difference. That’s pretty much it. That’s a little thing I noticed. I don’t know if anybody else has pointed that out.

Chris: The New York bagel is way better than the Montreal bagel.

Paul: And everyone in Montreal is mad when I say that

Thomas: And also Brooklyn Bagel Company shits on St. Viateur.

Chris: Yeah, big time. They take a fat steaming dump.

Paul: The rats here are way more chill too. The rats here are always in the corners.

Thomas: We’re bringing some home with us. We’re going to bring New York rats back to Montreal and kind of mix the population and make the rats in Montreal more chill.

Paul: Yeah, in Alberta they ban all the rats and Karsyn and I are trying to bring some New York rats back there.

Thomas: Did you say they banned rats in Alberta? How do you ban them?

Paul: It’s actually true. There’s no rats in Alberta.

Steph: In Chicago they introduced feral cats to control the rat population. But now there’s going to be a cat problem.

Paul: Did they introduce cat babies too just to make it fun?

 

You guys are going to South By right after this, right? Do you have any bands that you were hyped to see here at New Colossus or that you’re excited to see in Austin?

Chris: I’m excited to see Buice. Yeah, B-U-I-C-E. They’re a band that I listened to a shitload in the summer and they hit us up on an email like a month ago and asked us to play show and I was like – oh fuck that’s cool like I actually listen to this band and they listen to us, so I’m definitely super stoked about that show. I think they deserve a shout out their album is sick very cool very cool.

Karsyn: I like YHWH Nailgun. They’re from here and they’re playing South By with us.

 

I know some people are getting crazy show offers in Austin at restaurants and stuff. Are you guys playing any weird spots? 

Paul: We’re playing out of a food truck.

Thomas: Out of the back of a food truck in the kitchen. It’s gonna be hot. We’re gonna be wearing wife beaters stained with grease.

Chris: I don’t know, is Hotel Vegas a hotel?

Karsyn: I think it is.

Paul: I guess we’re playing there on Monday, 12 at night.

Chris: I feel like it’s not a hotel. It’s kind of like the Blue Dog Motel in Montreal. People walk in and they’re like “Oh, I want a room for the night” and then they’re like “Oh, it’s a bar”.

 

Do you guys have a favorite venue that you’ve played in any city? 

Chris: Oh, definitely the underpass. Montreal underpass. It’s the best place to play. 100%. Crazy shows. DIY shows are the best.

Steph to Chris: Yo, when did you join Truck Violence?

Chris: In September. September of last year.

 

Do you guys have any road stories of being on tour? 

Thomas: We scrolled reels with the curtains closed in a New York hotel today in the pitch black for like an hour. That was pretty cool.

Karsyn: Three separate phones, full blast.

Thomas: And Carson is a big fan of Chopped Chin, we’ve realized. He’s a new meme. In case you didn’t know.

Chris: I think on the road, turning on and off the heat. Driving back from the photoshoot we did whenever Carson was driving slow in a snowstorm trying to focus on the road, King Poobah (Paul) was constantly turning up the heat to the max and fucking with our shit.

Paul: And another trick you can do on tour is you can open the window just a tad and it’ll whistle. And that’s a good hack because then you just annoy everyone and you don’t know where the whistle is coming from.

Karsyn: Touring, man. I mean, a lot of people forget to turn on their car before they drive. That’s my favorite part… is remembering to turn on the car. We haven’t toured so…

Paul: Oh, actually no, a good one – one of the best ones was one time we played a show in Rouyn and I connected my phone and I downloaded a DJ app and I ripped that for about an hour and a half. That was fun. Yeah, that was sick.

 

Okay, now I have some fun questions…. If you had to choose a weapon during a zombie apocalypse, what would you choose and why?

Paul: Nuclear bomb. Eradicate them. Either that or a cyber truck.

Karsyn: I would probably make a TikTok account to spread Russian disinformation to the zombies.

Thomas: I thought of one. If I could spawn any item, I’d spawn a UFO and then just travel the galaxy. That’s the most mature response.

Paul: Would you bring one? In a cage?

Thomas: Maybe I could bring one in a cage. No, I’d probably bring my mom. Probably.

Paul: Go to far galaxy to torture the zombie.

Thomas: No, I’d bring like a chill zombie and like try to figure it out. Nah, I’d bring my mom, maybe a friend, like whoever is my favorite person at the time. Maybe I’d bring Clegg,  Christopher Clegg. Founder of Tofor Nickel. Yeah, because I do own a hundred mil Tofor Nickel.  So it would be in my best interest to keep Clegg alive. So that’s like a big deal for me.

Chris: Yeah, I don’t have a funny answer, so.

Paul: Say a real one.

Thomas: What’s like the sickest gun that you know?

Paul: Desert Eagle for sure. You with a Desert Eagle?

Chris: Nah I’d get a butterfly knife so I could do tricks and stuff.

 

What’s the craziest thing you did as a kid?

Karsyn: I got all of my friends in our small town into My Little Pony. I was in middle school and we all had like Brony shirts for like a year. That’s probably the craziest thing I did.

Thomas: I had a girlfriend in Club Penguin. When I was like seven.

Paul: I used to take fireworks and wrap them in duct tape and then put them in cans. And then the more tape and the more cans you would put, the bigger the explosion would be. So I would just do that.

Thomas: Oh can I change mine? We would find old spray paint canisters and just throw drop rocks on them.

Chris: I would climb down into the support beams of the train bridge near my house with like zero fear whatsoever even though I was barely capable of getting there in the first place and  yeah, it was probably not smart but I had no concept of fear.

Thomas: Do you value your life more now? That might be it. I think I relate to that. I’m not less reckless than I used to be. It’s too much live leak or whatever. I know I could die doing anything. Kind of fucked me up.

 

One piece of non-music media that you have been into, that you recommend.

Karsyn: Books. Anything. I like a lot of transgressive 20th, 19th, and 18th century writers. Shout out Alberto Moravia, André Gide, and Goethe. Those are some hard hitters.

Thomas: I like something called On Cinema at the Cinema. It’s just a show. I couldn’t explain it, but it’s awesome.

Chris: I’ll probably have to give a show as well. Probably Nathan for You. Nathan for You is a great show. He graduated from Canada’s top business school.

Paul: With high grades. Uhhhhh I don’t know. Reddit? 9gag’s cool too, but I kind of grew out of that one. iFunny was never cool.

 

Last question, I’m like a photographer so can I take your guys’ picture somewhere?

Karsyn: Yeah, absolutely. Hold on, before you end it I will say fuck Pierre Poilievre, horribly uncharismatic, career politician who will do nothing for the average Canadian. Mark Carney for Prime Minister. Shout out Mark Carney, love you. He’s gonna embarrass the Conservatives and they dropped a 30 point lead.

Chris: I’ll second that.

Paul: I’ll third that, and I’ll plug Reddit again.

Chris: Shoutout chopped cheese.

Thomas: Yeah shoutout General Ock.