Jordan Klepper

And they're like, no, you're leaving.

No, yeah.

Now you actually have to say something.

Do you think you might break into song at any point?

Who will stand with us?

That's a banger.

Yeah, it's a banger.

That's a banger, right?

There are people... It's curious...

Seeing that that video is politically charged, the music is politically charged, but there's still people who are surprised sometimes to hear that.

Is that embedded in what punk music is in general?

I thought so, apparently, until we started, you know, getting a lot of hate mail that said, just play, don't talk politics.

And I just scratched my head because the bands that inspired me and that I thought, you know, during my growing up listening to punk and bands singing about whether it be Reagan or, you know,

The Queen or Thatcher, you know, around the world, standing up to speaking about governments and then even in the Bush era.

And then now, in a time that, in my opinion, is worse than all those situations, a lot of bands have gone quiet because they don't really want the...

the negative attention.

They don't want the backlash.

They don't want the attacks.

They don't want the cancel culture.

But, yeah, this, to me, is like what, if you're a punk band, this should be your moment.