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Hooking Up With Fishman

Since we’re on that topic, do you freeball?

Do I what?

Freeball.

Freeball? What’s that? I guess I don’t cause I don’t even know what it is.

Lack of underwear. Do you not where underwear- that’s what freeballing is.

Not wear underwear? No, I always wear underwear. I like underwear. I’ve been forced to not where underwear in the past. I ran out of clean underwear at boys’ camp or something. I don’t enjoy not having underwear. I like underwear. It keeps me from shitting in my pants. [laughter]

If you could watch one person get hit in the nuts with a hockey puck, who would it be?

Can it be a group of people?

Sure.

I would say, if it could be a line of guys standing in a row about to get hit in the balls with a hockey puck, and I could see them get hit, in order, it would be: George W., Cheney, Yasser Arafat, Ariel Sharon, who else? Osama Bin Laden, Jiang Zemin the current President of China, maybe…

[someone shouts from the floor, “What about James Taylor?”]

Nah, he doesn’t belong in that group. I’d maybe see him get hit in the elbow just for writing “Handyman.” No, but really the current world leadership. And Sadam Hussein. Just line them all up and hit them in the nuts with hockey pucks and send them home to think about it. They’re all poor leaders with poor judgment and they’re getting all getting us into fucking trouble and we’re all going to get fucking killed. Idiots, fucking idiots. Bad people with bad intentions. Greedy, stupid. Children at playtime. They need to be spanked.

Top three influences.

Joe Moore (saxophonist for Pork Tornado) and my father.

Favorite cover tune.

Right now? “Zomby Woof” [Frank Zappa]. “Sexy Motherfucker” [Prince].

Foosball: offense or defense?

I am so bad at fuseball that it wouldn’t even be worth having me at either side of the table.

What upper body exercises do you recommend to keep those arms in tip top, sleeveless drumming shape?

These are really stupid questions. Well, I swim, that’s really what I do.