The Vandals (Band) - Botton Jimmy
The SDR Show w/ Ralph Sutton and Aaron Berg
GaS Digital Network
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Vandals band members Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald join Ralph Sutton and James Mattern and they discuss the band's original name and their name in Japan, Joe Escalante's sister's helpful industry connections, their summer tour, Joe Escalante's time as a part-time judge and dealing with sovereign citizens, Joe's influence over Metallica, The Vandals' drunken fight with Good Charlotte, when Warren Fitzgerald first joined The Vandals, blind ranking, Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald's first concert, first drug and first sexual experience and so much more!
(Air Date: July 19th, 2025)
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| 0:00.0 | Fill her up. |
| 0:02.2 | You're listening to the Gas Digital Network. |
| 0:05.9 | What is up, my fellow addicts, Ralph Sutton, the SDR show. |
| 0:08.9 | This week, a legendary punk band, the Vandals, comes into the studio, and they are part of the |
| 0:15.3 | rock and roll zeitgeist, good word, everybody, that you probably should know if you don't |
| 0:19.9 | know. |
| 0:20.2 | Really cool guys come into the |
| 0:21.4 | studio james maddern steps in as the co-host first time in a bit with him but whenever it's a punk |
| 0:26.4 | band who better than james madder to come in and shoot the shit with a band uh we do this every wednesday |
| 0:31.3 | every saturday 8 p.m eastern time you use that code sDR if you're a fan of the vandals you |
| 0:36.6 | could have heard this five days ago commercial free unedited at gasdigital.com use that code SDR. If you're a fan of the Vandals, you could have heard this five days ago, commercial free, unedited at Gassdigital.com. Use that code SDR, get 20% off. But here it is right now, The Vandals episode. Oh, and we also play a game called Mischievous Band Titles Blind Rankings. Here it is right now, Vandals, on the SDR show. This is the intro to the shit show. Sex, drugs, rock, and roll. This is a hit show. Show me a ditch show. Please, someone fuck the hole. It's weed, I beat, it's hookers, and glow. It's art, it's part you need to know. The SDR show. Let's go. All righty. It is the SDR show. I am Ralph Sutton. In with me once again. Usually, when it's a punk band, we go to this guy to James Madder. It makes me feel good inside. Jimmy, Jimmy Madden. Jim? James. I don't mind, because that is. I don't mind Jimmy James. because that what Jimmy Hendricks went by, and it's a great song by the Beasties. I'll check your head. Jimmy James. It's terrific. Does anyone call you Jimmy Madden? No, it's crazy because I grew up with like 100 jimmies, including one of my best friends, the great top Jimmy. Jim Madden just also just sounds weird. Well, Jim, well, yeah, and you're the ones. Why don't you, hey, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it also, it just sounds weird. Well, yeah, and you're the one's... |
| 1:44.2 | Hey, |
| 1:45.1 | it's hanging out right there. |
| 1:47.5 | Why don't you just be bottom, |
| 1:48.4 | Jimmy? Yeah. Oh, bottom Jimmy. Bottom Jimmy. He's known that we in a lot of service. I think his family would get really confused about that. What's this mean, guys? What's funny is just before we introduced to band, |
| 1:42.8 | I did a radio show for a long time. |
| 1:44.2 | I loved the tour bus. |
| 1:45.1 | We were on about 100 stations in the old days. |
| 1:48.2 | And... What's funny is just before we introduced to Ben, I did a radio show for a long time. I had the tour bus. We were on about 100 stations in the old days. And whenever I'd bring in a rock star that was known to be called something a certain way, I would always do it differently. So we bring in Rob Halford from Judas Priest. I'd say it's Robbie Halford from Judas Priest or, you know, any one of the David, David, whatever it was, like David Lee Roth, who's Dave Lee Roth is on. |
| 2:19.9 | I love it. |
| 2:20.6 | Just to confuse them. |
| 2:21.5 | Yeah, Dave Lee Roth is a good one. |
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