Five Iron Frenzy

Sure.

And we listened to the Five Iron Frenzy song Spartan in the car afterwards because we were fucking little nerd boys.

Yeah, sure, whatever.

But it was, I mean, yeah, V for Vendetta was not in my, in my, um...

yeah i like it

this is our our breather between seasons when we're uh digging out uh some of our favorite episodes from the archives this was from season two and our previous one uh touched on ska that we we dug out and so this one we go full on to the ska world with leonor ortega till from five iron frenzy the greatest christian ska band to ever walk the earth right we can say that i think

I think it must be, it must be incontrovertible.

I can't imagine anyone would argue with us.

Certainly not anyone who listens to this podcast.

This was a really fun interview because when I was starting to write, God gave rock and roll to you, of course, from in my corner of the world, the, And understanding the Christian punk ska metal tooth and nail-ish five minute walk type world, that was a huge weak spot for me.

And so when I would go online and see people posting about those artists, I would always see this funny, it was a frequent refrain that Five Iron Frenzy was the cause of so-and-so's radicalization.

Yeah.

The Mighty Crabjoys.

B, Five Iron Frenzy.

C, Breaking Rust.

D, Nemesis Knight.

It's Breaking Rust.

You got it.

Yeah, Five Iron Frenzy is a real band.

And it came up in one of our episodes.

I listen to those episodes.

In the first hundred episodes, your ska pick was Five Iron Frenzy.

Yeah, there's all their new stuff.

I even emailed Adam from the episode now at this point two weeks ago from the stuff that he had said on the episode about getting a sticker.

So in first region, region one, we're going to have gold finger, gold finger versus blink one 82 Cheshire cat.

Uh, We're also going to have Five Iron Frenzy, Upbeats and Beatdowns go against OC Supertones, the adventure of the OC Supertones.

In Region 2, we're going to have a Tribe Called Quest, People's Instinctive Travels, the Passive Rhythm versus De La Soul, Three Feet High and Rising.

Then we're going to have Cypress Hill debut, Cypress Hill versus House of Pain, House of Pain.

on.

All right.

Next round, we have Five Iron Frenzy Upbeats and Beatdowns, which came out in 1996 versus the O.C. Supertones, which is the adventure of the O.C. Supertones, which also came out in 1996.

Okay.

Jesus was the biggest Christian Scott band.

um there was one called five iron frenzy that was probably my first like that that was maybe the band that i first really fell in love with i can't this is very naked and vulnerable of me to share with you sean my love my pre-teen and teen love of Christian ska but yeah Five Iron Frenzy was a huge one they just like had like a horn section and a trombone player and a trumpet player and a saxophone player and they just fucking said Christ it's saving you and what a wonderful guy he was all to a lot of like upstrokes and horn breakdowns um It was some wild shit.

There was one other one called...

Sorry, I'm

Then somehow that just kind of, ended up somewhere else as those shows do Peter Tork was Topanga's dad in I don't remember in early season she had multiple fathers on the show but Peter Tork was one of them there you go classic Pete classic Pete

I see the five iron frenzy shirt

yes sir we we enjoy them around here

talk about a great drummer oh yes i haven't heard them in many many years but i remember seeing them play and he was always so dead on such a anchor and one time we were in denver and uh he put us up one night because you know we're We're a couch band.