Brothers Comatose - Injuries, throwing up in bars and surviving tour
Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast
Andy Frasco
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Brothers Comatose join Andy for one of the wildest hangs yet, from sleeping in the woods after a tree branch punctured an eyeball, to puking mid-set at punk bars in San Francisco, to surviving the Bandwagon death trap on tour. The crew talks bluegrass revival, viral success with "Harvest Moon," touring with kids, Appalachia ghost stories, Mexico surf life, social media strategy, and how they somehow still like each other after years of living in vans together.
Plus: ninja-star karate instructors, BYOB Pennsylvania strip clubs, Sawtooth Festival chaos, and why hiring a Gen Z mandolin player might've saved the band online.
This one feels like sitting backstage at 2AM with a cooler full of PBR. 🍻
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I saw your van |
| 0:00.7 | and says martial arts |
| 0:01.5 | in the back. |
| 0:01.9 | We took martial arts |
| 0:02.8 | together. |
| 0:03.3 | That's really cool. |
| 0:04.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.9 | We did judo and karate. |
| 0:06.5 | We had this guy |
| 0:07.0 | Sensei, |
| 0:07.5 | Gus Johnson who, you know, like this dojo in his backyard. Dude, he was so, it was so sketchy now that I think back to it. Like, he had this, like, van that was painted yellow with ninjas |
| 0:18.9 | like painted like his kid did it |
| 0:20.8 | or something like that super sketchy |
| 0:23.1 | that's so fucking I heard |
| 0:25.0 | I heard van that was painted yellow with ninjas like painted like it like his kid did it or something like |
| 0:21.3 | that super sketchy that's so fucking i heard i heard he got busted for like selling alcohol to minors |
| 0:27.1 | like years ago you don't say sense i get sunset he always told us he had gus johnson yeah |
| 0:32.7 | his name's gus johnson yeah he was like a middle-aged black dude and he he was like, he taught us, he had like nunchucks and like throwing stuff, like ninja stars and stuff, which is totally illegal in California. |
| 0:44.3 | And I'm like, this is the coolest shit ever. |
| 0:46.3 | We were 12, I guess. |
| 0:47.5 | I don't know. |
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