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"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Episode 14 - Matt Skiba

"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett

Performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Matt Skiba is the singer and guitarist of the band Alkaline Trio

Transcript

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I'm walking the floor over you.

0:05.0

Walking the floor.

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I'm walking the floor. I'm walking the floor.

0:10.0

Walking the floor over you.

0:15.0

Oh, la, señors and señeritas, and welcome to walk in the floor.

0:21.0

With me, your host as always, Christian.

0:27.0

Walk in the floor.

0:29.0

That's right, we got a good one today, but I gotta to tell you I'm having kind of a rough morning

0:34.4

because first off I played a gig last night dead peasants did out in

0:40.0

thousand oaks at the fair which was. I'm walking a little slow this morning and I woke up to find that my dog had chewed up my boots.

0:51.0

My beautiful black Lucchese boots that I'd, you know, worked very hard in the last few years

0:58.0

to break in just right and they were nice and comfortable and lived in and perfect and now they're just my

1:04.7

my little doggy's latest chew toy it's not the first time either he got him once

1:09.3

before but he got him really good this time so they're pretty much ruined so that's what I woke

1:14.8

up to but I guess it could have been worse I guess he could have gotten my telecaster Mr.

1:23.0

A few months ago, a singer,

1:25.0

a few months ago I sat in my garage with

1:30.0

a few months ago I sat down in my garage with Mr. Matt Skiba, singer-guitar player for the punk rock and roll band Alkaline Trio.

1:37.0

Matt's one of my favorite people in the music world and truly one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, which is somewhat in contrast to his on-stage persona and lyrical content.

1:47.0

And although I don't see him often, I do follow his always entertaining Instagram feed, so I kind of feel like I keep up on his comings and goings.

1:55.0

Here's what he had to say about growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and discovering a life in punk rock.

2:09.0

All right here we go. So where, uh, where'd you grow?

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