The Dark Side of Internet Fame w/ Marcus King

Bert Kreischer (0:05)

His new album, Darling Blue, is incredible from the second you started. This is your third album?

SPEAKER_2 (0:12)

Fourth.

Marcus King (0:13)

No, it's like the seventh.

Bert Kreischer (0:15)

Seventh? It's the third album I've bought.

Marcus King.

Marcus King (0:21)

Good to see you, man.

Bert Kreischer (0:22)

Good to see you, brother. So good to see you. Every time I see you, I smile. But every time I see you, I sometimes wonder if you go, oh, fuck, it's Bert.

Marcus King (0:30)

Never. No.

Bert Kreischer (0:31)

Remember the last time I saw you?

Marcus King (0:33)

Was that at the Floor of Bama?

Bert Kreischer (0:35)

No, no, no. That was, oh.

Marcus King (0:37)

That was fun.

Bert Kreischer (0:38)

That was so fun. And you had to explain to me how singing on stage worked. Yeah.

Tom Segura (0:43)

Do you remember this?

Bert Kreischer (0:46)

No, we ran it. Go ahead. Tell everyone how it works.

Marcus King (0:50)

I mean, it's a lot like this, you know. It's just, you just got to project a little bit more. And what did we do? We didn't love light.

Bert Kreischer (0:58)

Yeah.

Marcus King (0:59)

It was a lot of fun.

Bert Kreischer (1:00)

It was so fun. Floor of Bam is on the, on the border of Florida and Alabama. It's called the Floor of Bam. They're big known for our mullet toss every year.

Marcus King (1:07)

Yep.

Bert Kreischer (1:08)

And we had done, fully loaded that night at the, whatever the stadium was, the amphitheater, the Wharf amphitheater. And then the whole, everyone went down. It was our last night on tour. I ended up naked in the ocean with the Navy Seal. My daughters were there. My daughters were blown away. I mean, my daughters are like, one daughter really likes music. The other one, the other one, I think likes the culture of music.

Marcus King (1:34)

Okay.

Bert Kreischer (1:34)

Does that make sense?

Marcus King (1:35)

That does make sense.

Bert Kreischer (1:35)

Neither of them like, like Southern Rock though.

Marcus King (1:38)

Okay.

Bert Kreischer (1:38)

They're both into like, Georgia is just discovering it.

Marcus King (1:41)

Yeah.

Bert Kreischer (1:42)

Why is Southern Rock the best out of all the rocks?

Marcus King (1:46)

I'm partial to it just cause, you know, I think the best Southern Rock bands are the ones that aren't trying to be Southern Rock. They're just rock and roll bands that happen to be from the South. So it just kind of adds a little extra gravy to it. You know, it's not, it's not overly complicated. You know, it's really just rock and roll. There's nothing really too different about it other than just the region from which it comes from.

Bert Kreischer (2:12)

Because, because it's not country.

Marcus King (2:15)

No, I mean, it's, it's a pretty close relative to country music, you know.

Bert Kreischer (2:20)

It seems like kissing cousins.

Marcus King (2:22)

Absolutely.

Bert Kreischer (2:22)

Or kissing brother and sisters in country. Cause like, Laney Wilson sides on so seamlessly. And then someone like, like Billy Strings, who is traditionally bluegrass, fits on so well. But at the end, is it, is it your voice or is it the chords?

Marcus King (2:41)

Man, you know, like that bluegrass thing is just, it's really interesting how popular that's become. Cause that was such a niche style of music for so long. And now we got, you know, bluegrass artists acting like they're the role on stone. And it pisses me off cause I'm like, you guys were, you guys were real nerds in high school. And now you're like these big rock stars and it's frustrating. But I mean, bluegrass is like rock and roll now. There's stadiums being sold with bluegrass, which is interesting to me.

But yeah, I guess rock and roll is more in your personality, I reckon.

Bert Kreischer (3:22)

Yeah, it's more, it's like, I remember someone told me, no one's gonna understand this. Someone told me, I had a hard time clicking with alt comics, like the alternative scene, the more, I guess now you just say, now it's just conservative and liberal, I guess the two.

Marcus King (3:42)

Well, the alt comics are like no physical comedy, right? They're like really against any kind of tropes.

Bert Kreischer (3:49)

Yeah, they're very against any trope. And they want what they're doing to be different, to be against the grain, which I always enjoyed.

And I always felt like Louis CK was an alternative comic. And I felt like Mitch Hedberg was an alternative comic. Jeanine Garofalo is obviously an alternative comic, but it's, I remember someone saying, I was like, why do they dislike me so much? And they, I mean, they really, it would be aggressive. If I went to a green room, no one would talk to me, people would say weird things to me, and make me feel uncomfortable. And someone said, it's because you're doing what they do, but better, because I am a storyteller. And in essence, I all wanted to be storytellers, and I wasn't doing traditional stand up. I still don't do traditional stand up. I don't know what I do. To be dead honest with you, I have no clue what I do on stage. And I, but I was, and I wanted to say the same about you because you can, you can get in with any band and kill it. But when you do your own thing, it's really hard to put its finger on. It's, you really just start almost destroying all the genres and make your own thing.