Lock the gates!

Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck brothers and sisters?

How's it going?

I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast. I'm not winded, maybe I am. Maybe I'm a little winded.

Serge Tankian is on the show today, he is the lead singer of system of a down, he also works with Tom

Morello from Rage Against a Machine, as well as on his own solo stuff, he's an outspoken activist on human rights issues,

and there's a new documentary about him called Truth to Power. Now I came, like, as many of you know me,

which of many of you do, I'm not a metal guy, I appreciate the metal, some of it, the metal, I beat it,

look, I like all kinds of music, but I hypnotized a mesmerizer, those are two records, I remember listening to,

I don't remember which one came out first, but I listened to the shit out of it, I don't remember who

turned me on to it or what year that was, it seemed like a while back, but I was definitely aware of

system of a down, I knew they were intense, I knew they meant fucking business, and I also knew as time

went on that they were Armenian, I knew about Serge a bit, but when I got the opportunity to watch his

documentary, it was like, holy shit, this guy's got big balls, man, he walks the walk this guy on an

activist's web, I also realized, and as many of us do, about things, about stuff, about places other

than our own place, I don't know much about it, I don't know anything about Armenia, really, and I

live amongst the Armenians now, and I was curious, I mean, I could have read a book, I looked at a

wiki page, but you know, somebody like Serge who has been doing activism around a while back

changing the political system of Armenia to a more democratic situation, and then to get the

recognition, to elevate the recognition of the Armenian genocide globally, especially the United

States, but Serge had a profound impact on the politics of modern day Armenia, and he's a

metal dude, but he means business, also this is solo work, but I wanted to be schooled, I wanted to learn,

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