Name: Ep 513 - 311 (feat. Nick Hexum & S.A. Martinez)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 513 - 311 (feat. Nick Hexum & S.A. Martinez)' from Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-09-04. Transcript available.

Ep 513 - 311 (feat. Nick Hexum & S.A. Martinez)

the wild wild west hey welcome to the podcast thank you guys so much nick hexham
here sa martinez
sure oh come on man don't show me that's my name yes i respond to it dude i'm
terrible
with names and it's a bane of my existence um dude i know you guys for real i
don't want to you know
i don't want to be you can say it you guys rule you guys got me through the
sweatiest period of
my life easily i would just me and my friends would just wax up a four by four
like post just
skateboard like oh nice board slide it and shit seventh grade is all head boners
it was weird
but no you guys rule dude thanks for doing this i was like genuinely stoked i
don't get
stoked on a lot of stuff and i saw that come through my email i was like oh yes
please that's
so nice to hear so seventh grade like for context was that late 90s yes yeah
late 90s yeah because
my older brothers they graduated like 96 98 and i was like four years younger
than them but yeah it was
like it was for real like i mean you guys obviously are older than me but you
know you don't really
look it but i'm aging rapidly um but yeah it was like that shit was crazy dude
just be like bopping
around seventh grade doing your thing and all of a sudden someone hits you with
i i had the blue album
the self-titled album first and then i was just like dude this is crazy we were
just that one song
down it was allegedly about making out right well he mentions making out so but
the funniest thing
the war associated with you guys was so funny this is like everyone would be
like yeah dude they
studied music actually at the juilliard and i'd be like yeah obviously i can
tell dude they're
definitely juilliard i was like in seventh grade like yeah obviously but yeah
we'd all think about
making out we'd be like i can't wait to make out dude it's gonna be so sick
well it's so funny
because we just played this spot called interlocking which is like the juilliard
for high school kids
and um the the chick i made out with in a dark hallway i went to interlock in
when we met in
summer camp and she was telling me about this other camp and it sounded really
prestigious and it was
like so we were just there and it was one of those full circle moments yeah it
was yeah did you
not know that this is news that's that's news to you well the summer camp i was
that was my dark
hallway make out but then you went to the other summer camp no she no she went
no yeah we we played
there 311 played this they have an amphitheater and it brought back this story
i know i'm trying to
figure out if you made out to make it full circle yeah where was the makeup
that was in nebraska it was in
nebraska it was in lincoln nebraska dude that's awesome music camp and and she
was a violinist
what those were the days yeah dude that was sick making out before you knew
about anything else
like doesn't get better than this and you know yeah it turns out it absolutely
destabilizes your life
the rest of it that's a good reference point well dude that's awesome man so
you got you guys have been
touring for what like 20 30 how long you guys been touring for since sunday
three what yeah what's
the secret to the staying power dude a lot a lot of uh a lot of like bands just
completely disintegrate
how do you guys do it we just don't say no to anything
the heroin we don't say no yeah we do that we don't say no to gigs and we don't
break up yeah like
what's the secret to keeping a band together don't break up yeah true that's a
good point how do you
balance though what do you think what's the force what's like the the centrifugal
force that just
pulls bands apart would you say uh ego yeah you know people um digging in too
hard on their positions
i mean you know we we we respect democracy and we have five band members so if
if it ever needs to
come down to a vote it's going to be you know two against three if there was
four people and it was
two against two then what do you do yeah so unfortunately we have a neat uh an
odd number
of band members and but most of the time we just talk things out and it doesn't
really even come to a
vote we just somebody gives in and we just keep talking to others a consensus
but if if there ever
needs to be a vote then we respect that and just uh and also keep an attitude
of gratitude knowing that
we're super lucky to get to do this that we've stumbled on a really special
lineup that uh we
we're we're better together than we could do on our own and for sure just take
good care of it damn
that's awesome because i feel like that's pretty rare when i mean you guys must
have seen bands
come and go and kind of implode and all that stuff yeah yeah and so many bands
that we started out with
have like one or two original members and then just side guys yeah that's i
that's what i saw
in your guys's tiny desk concert that's like i mean i don't recommend you guys
going through comments
they're all very nice but it was the big thing was like i can't believe they're
all still together
usually it's one guy and a couple studio musicians and it's you know so sick
man yeah it's awesome so
how do you like when you because you guys have come out with almost like an
album a year with i mean
you know give and take like well here in the beginning in the beginning it was
like that i mean
you know it's a mad terror when you think about it um i and i thought we were
on on a bender when we
did that and then i looked at rem's discography and they did like six albums or
something like that in
their in their launch like per year and but it also made sense because they
reached a status in a in a
level that it's very hard to come by but unless you put in mad work man yeah
you know so we did a lot
of legwork obviously and um and then you know we continued to do it but um it's
important to get
back to the not imploding part to like have some space that you carve out you
know yeah so and now
we all have families at this point in time gotcha when did the families start
and how did how was that
like balancing that whole thing well we thankfully we kind of waited did you
really yeah so you know i
think maybe it's it's possible had we started families early that things might
have gone as you
know awry perhaps because there's tensions you know that can build and if you
don't address them
you know in a familial setting that can spill over into your professional you
know lives oh yeah
i know yeah so i think we're a little wiser by the time we started families and
you know how old are
your kids you don't mind me asking uh we're ours are about the same i have two
guys three mine is
almost uh well 14 and 12. okay sweet i got you so you guys really waited till
the time was right
yes i definitely can not have to wonder if i sowed enough wild oats you know
what i mean like yeah
yeah i was the first one to have a kid and i was 39 and now there's been 10 311
kids
um so it's damn that's pretty cool yeah so you kind of broke the ice and
everyone else was like
yeah i'll do it the floodgates yeah they're tough man i have a two and a four-year-old
nerd it's like
and i i tore with stand up and it's it can be tough like kind of like deciding
how much do you go away
how much do you not and you just feel like consumed with guilt and stuff yeah
that's that's a thing but
fortunately i i kind of did the math once and we're maybe gone like between a
quarter and a
third of the year it's when it's not like we're gone all year so then when we're
home like i'm super
hands-on dad got you got your kids ready for school and driving them to school
and stuff in the morning
so yeah yeah that makes sense and if you really take if you put it up against a
nine to five it's
like you're going eight hours a day almost every single day yeah versus you
know going away here and
there and i also tell myself too if i had to work in an office i probably would
have burned my house
down so there's that what i would probably beat my kid yeah you know what i
mean so it's like being
able to get like a creative outlet helps me not be like a nightmare to my kids
and stuff yeah one of
my kids said dad i'm glad you're not a mister and i was like what are you
talking about she was like
you know like comes home in it with a briefcase and a suit i'm really glad you're
not a mister because
like like take them do those exist anymore i saw that on tv once that must have
been nice to be
like fuck yeah i'm not a mister yeah you you get it i i was very good and then
now when i do something
crazy i'm like would a mister do that they're like no that's you're proving our
point yeah you're not a
mister that's awesome man yeah my my kids have got to come uh when i do stand
up like we've if i have
like an earlier show like sometimes do like a 4 30 matinee show and they've got
to come do like just
hop on stage and like mess with the mics while the staff's setting up and like
they i feel like little
kids love that like if you're telling them like i'm playing music or like they
say i'm a funny man
they're like you're a funny man you have to go be silly i'm like yeah that's
pretty much what i do
that's cool but that is tight man so how so you guys you started in 88 right um
there was a previous
incarnation of 311 called unity that was 88 and 89 gotcha 311 started on june
10th 1990. okay so
and then we were in omaha for two years putting out locally produced albums
that started to do really
well so we used those as demo tapes to get us the record deal and we moved out
to la in 92
put out the record in early 93 and i it would that we definitely didn't like
rocket because like what you
heard about you know the skateboards only like the really cool kids knew about
us we were not obviously
we were not in the mainstream
so that's why we named our second album grassroots because we're like
we're not going to be embraced by the mainstream culture mtv was not touching
us at that time
yeah yeah so we're just going to do it through touring and stick to our guns
and kind of what
essay was mentioned like rem also like you too like they stuck to their own
weird sound and waited for
culture to come to them so that's what we did too like we're just going to keep
doing our our rap rock
with reggae even though that's not at all what's on the radio and then finally
with the with down that
culture came around to us yeah but we just stuck stuck to our lane and it's
cool too because you already
had like dude music might be an all-time album dude like i it's still i'll
listen to it still today and
i'm like god damn dude it's so good all the production on that's insane like eddie
offered was
the one who touched the knobs there and you know he was this eccentric british
guy from prog rock world
dude he worked with like yes oh okay emerson lake and palmer and he'd worked
with john lennon and stuff
so he had a ton of stories yeah that's pretty cool and it was just this very
sweet english gentleman
prototypical right and and and us yeah what were you guys like early on were
you guys like good boys
bad boys what was going on um smoking weed constantly yeah around around the
clock that's what's up
that's what's up dude respectable kids yeah so that was that was your so you
guys are just like smoking weed
i'm guessing that kind of like usually gateway to mushrooms lsd like what was
that was that kind of
it was just a weed um ecstasy there you go don't forget that jack daniels um
nice so you guys kept
it within like a very i always say that is the best like keeping it within the
sphere of like weed
some alcohol you know obviously some ecstasy and maybe some mushrooms and acid
but that's good so you
guys were able to keep that did you guys have like i mean obviously maybe
private issues like any public
like meltdowns with cocaine any stuff like that or did you guys keep it just
kind of tight the whole
time well me personally i've decided that i'm better off sober so there you go
it works for me a little
caffeine is fine but but that's it um but everybody's in general has kind of
matured and and clean