Okay, welcome back to the podcast everybody. This is episode 198. Um, and we got a special guest today. We got my good buddy Max. Max Kerman from

Arkels. Hello, thank you for having me. This is an honor. Oh, okay. And this is a, and this is a corner. Um, I hope you're, how's a, how you doing? Have you used that one before? I actually haven't. That's a first one. That's the first time I dropped that one. That's quick. That's your comedian. I've never made a pun intentionally like in my life. Any time I've made a pun, it's always been by accident and then someone goes, I see what you did there. Oh, I don't see what I did.

Can you explain to me? Well, you ride, you know, an honor and a corner. Yeah, that's, well, that's honestly, it's better if you do it by accident. Cause then like that's, you're not even trying and you do it. Like that's, that's pretty sick. Cause I really have to try, you know, those are just your comedic instincts wrapping instincts. Yeah, yeah, freestyle instincts. Yeah, I could have been, uh, I could have been a freestyle rapper, but I went the other room, you know.

I'm sure same as you as well. Sometimes those guys on the corner, you know, who are just like making free styles about people walking by them, you know, those guys. Yeah, yeah. I see those on TikTok all the time. That's crazy. I'm pretty impressed by them actually. Like, yeah, you pressed or you're not impressed. Me? I'm, I'm pretty impressed because I feel like a part, it's so impressive that a part of my brain is like, there's no way that this isn't like already like scripted or something because it's like, it's incredible. Like that, well, I forget that one dude.

He's like, you wear a bluish shirt and I'm and, uh, and I, you know, fuck, well, he doesn't do that. But that'd be, that'd be better though. A guy who goes out to freestyle, but he's like so bad, but he still does it. He's out there on the grind man. He's trying to get better. And he never does.

I started here back in 2013. It's like now checking me out. It's like, it's not improved. Yeah, it's like, okay, maybe, maybe this isn't for you, man.

So, uh, so what's up, man? How's, uh, how you been?

I'm pretty good. We, uh, when does this come out? How soon is the turnaround?

Uh, this will come out in two days. Okay, good.

Quick turn. Yeah, we, uh, we're getting ready to go on tour. So we, we fly to Berlin, our band, our Kels on Friday. We play there on Sunday with lights. We have a tour like three dates in Germany.

The bunch of shows in the UK after that. So damn, like tour prep mode.

Damn. Well, thanks. Well, thanks for putting aside some time for me. I appreciate it. Um, that's, uh, have you ever been, have you ever done shows?

Yeah, we, yeah, we've been over there a handful of times now. And it's, it's fun. You know, it's like just walking around.

Like the shows are great, but also just being, being in those city centers. Have you ever been to Berlin or Hamburg or anything like that?

No, I've had a, I've had a hamburger, but I've never been to Hamburg.

Have you ever been a Berlin or had a hamburger?

Yeah, so the shows are good. And, but like the sightseeing is also wicked.

And lights, do you know lights? Are you familiar with lights?

Yeah, I, um, yeah, I listened to her music like all the fucking times. I think she, we followed each other on Instagram like a couple months ago, but I'm never actually better in person.

But she's a huge fan. Yeah, our manager Ashley manages, uh, manages lights and our cows. And so this is a dream tour for us.

Because we've been pals for like 10 years. More part. Right. And so now we're probably getting, we have a, we just put it a song together in the summer.

So we fun just to. And it's a, and it's a great song. Everybody go listen to it.

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