Okay, we're going to start with a very simple question.

Okay, we're going to start with a very simple question.

I'd love you to just both introduce yourselves and where you're from and what you do.

My name is Stinn.

I am from Oklahoma City and I play bass in Chatpile.

My name is Raygonne Bush and I sing in Chatpile.

I'm also from Oklahoma City. Full disclosure, I love

chat pile, which is why I'm very excited that you're here. I've seen you a couple of times.

One of the first things, see, absorb the music, loved what I heard. And I was like, what the

fuck is a chat pile? What is chat pile? Google it, found out it's a local thing to Oklahoma. Could you just explain what

a chat pile is and sort of like what it represents to you? Yeah. So in the town of Pitcher, Oklahoma,

there are these like giant mountains of toxic waste called chat piles. And I think that's like a local term.

I don't believe this is like a wider thing or like it started locally and then it

moved on to, you know, to the greater culture or whatever.

But the story behind it is in World War I, it was a lead mining town.

And they were mining lead for the ammunition in World War I and then the

byproduct of this like mining operation is this like toxic waste that I guess is in

granular rock form that they can pile up and then you know they discovered years

later that it was poisoning everybody in the town and it sort of became a ghost town over time.

But I think the final straw was a tornado hit it, like maybe 10 years ago, and scattered all the chap pile debris everywhere.

Oh, God.

Shrapnel flying everywhere.

...