This is in our headphones. My name's Evie Stokes.

And today I'm so happy to welcome my friend Dr. West into the studio with me to talk about punk music.

Yeah, thank you for having me. It's great to be here.

Good to see you. So you're one of the hosts of Sonic Reducer, which is our punk show here on K-EXP.

Tell us about Sonic Reducer. When can folks hear you?

Saturday night, 9 to midnight.

It's DJ's Jen, Brian, and myself.

We alternate.

Brian generally does a lot more shows than you. I have kids, so like every once in a while I like to take some time off.

But we all have a really unique take on punk.

But like we all have things that, there's a ven diagram between us but like

each show is really different i tend to i i always used to say like i used to um do like the the like

the poppiest things on the show and then like some of the darkest stuff but now jen's on she likes

a lot of like really grimy but also very weird things. She did the laser

show and her set list was amazing and strange. It must have been like my set list was too intense.

Like I went and sat down and like looked at the lasers from there and I was like this is too much

for me. I need to go to the back. But yeah, we've been doing almost 22 years now.

And, yeah, just having a great time, have a good crew.

22 years.

Wow.

I know.

I bet your life has changed in great ways in that time.

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