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HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW
with Rob Freeman, Spencer Peterson, Mike Saffert & Chris Amato

Stephanie: Okay, state your name and what you do in the band.
Rob: Bob Rob Freeman, and I play guitar.
Spencer: I'm Spencer and I play drums.

Josie: Who are you going to vote for this November?
Rob: Oh god... Um... God....
Josie: God? Guarenteed Overnight Delivery.
Rob: I'm going to vote for...I don't know. To be honest, I haven't really studied the candidates yet.
Spencer: I don't pay attention to that stuff really.
Rob: I know we probably should pay attention more, but we really never get to watch tv. And with the radio, we drive so much, we don't even know what the stations are. I mean, I'll go home from tour and be like "Yeah, I wonder what's on Friends... Friends is cancelled?!?" You know... I mean, Zach Morris is grown up already. Zach Morris is on NYPD Blue!
Spencer: And he's making out with some chick.

**Mike & Chris come and Join the Interview**

Stephanie: Who's producing your new album?
Rob: He goes by the name of Jim Wirt. He's awesome. He's a really cool guy, he's really laid back. He did Incubus, Hoobastank, Cold, Live, Trapt... he did a lot of cool rock stuff.
Spencer: It's gonna sound really good.
Rob: We're doing it in California too.
Spencer: Yeah, we're moving to Santa Monica.

Stephanie: If you were a piñata, what shape would you be and what would you be filled with?
Mike: I would be a YettiMander, which is half yetti half salamander, and I would be filled with chocolate chip cookies and blowpops. And you wouldn't be allowed to hit me with a bat, because that would hurt. I wouldn't like that.
Rob: I'd be a big happy clown that says "Open Me Up" and all the kids will get all excited, and then just put sand in it. They'll be like "Uhh! It's sand!" And they'll be like "Oh wait, It's chocolate flavored sand..."
Chris: I'd be a piece of fried chicken and I'd be filled with hot sauce.
Rob: I'd be a 7 layer burrito.
All: 7 Layers! 8 layers!
Rob: There was this one time we were in Arizona and they used to have an eight layer burrito at Del Taco. And I went up to one and I was like "Oh, do you guys have the eight layer burrito?" and the girl got so mad at me. If you could have saw her face... I guess she was having a bad day. I was like "Could I have the eight layer burrito?" and she's like "EIGHT LAYERS?!? *stares*" She was so mean. EIGHT LAYERS! She thought eight layers was way too much.
Spencer: I'd be corn on the cob. Filled with butter. Hot steaming butter. Money. But a worthless currency that's been outdated so you can't do anything with it.
Stephanie: Wheat pennies.
Chris: Mexican pesos.
Rob: Or babies. A piñata full of babies.
Mike: That would be so fun to hit with a bat.
Spencer: Wait, do I get to hit the piñata...
Stephanie: No, no, if you WERE the piñata...
Spencer: OH, if I WAS the piñata... I'd be a fuckin... hugeass, monster cockasaurus rex. And uh, I like Bob's idea about the sand. But it'd be gravel or something.. or nails... broken glass. Or you know what, actually, to reverse the question, if I could hit a piñata, I'd hit the motherfucker that broke into our van yesterday.

Stephanie: Okay, favorite Family Guy quote.
Mike: TOM BOSLEY!!!
Rob: Damn you, damn the broccoli, and damn the Wright Brothers!
Mike: What do you want Stewie? A DEAD LOIS!
Rob: I like that one when they're in Amsterdam and they're getting stoned in the coffee shop. And they're all "Dude dude dude you're great!" "Do you think I'll ever find somebody?" "Dude dude dude! You're great..."
Mike: Or when Chris catches a hotdog, and he says "I'm gonna turn you into poo!"
Spencer: Get your truck off the diving board...
Chris: Aw, that's not a truck! That's my son!
Spencer: Family Guy rules.

Stephanie: When drinking orange juice, do you prefer pulp or no pulp?
Rob: What is pulp anyways?
Mike: It's the orange afterbirth.
Chris: Orange discharge.
Rob: I think there's a direct relation between people who like pulp in their orange juice and people who like chunky peanutbutter. So do you guys like chunky or smooth?
Chris: Chunky.
Stephanie: Either or.
Spencer: I like both.
Mike: Depends on what kind of mood I'm in and who I just killed...

Stephanie: Who are your musical influences?
Rob: My influence is Spencer.
Spencer: I influence myself.
Stephanie: Is it easy?
Spencer: Fuck no. It's an around the clock job. I'm always thinking up ways to make myself cooler.
Mike: We're always like "Come on, man. Smoke. Drink."
Spencer: You know what, there's a lot of peer pressure in this band. You know what, I'm upset about that. I'm gonna vent right now. I get pressured to smoke cigarettes every day. They're like "If you don't smoke at least 4 cigarettes, you're getting kicked out of the band." So I do it anyways just after the show. And they feed me beer. Every time we stop they're
like "Drink this 40," so I drink it. They put coke in my sub... heroin... I like heroin... but... oh yeah yeah, crack rules.
(**NOTE** PLEASE REALIZE THAT THIS PORTION WAS A JOKE. DO NOT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY**)
Josie: There's free beer down the street. The parking garage right there, they have a section for the bar, and if you get some bolt cutters, you can get some cases of beer.
Rob: Really? If you bring boltcutters?
Josie: Yeah! If you bring boltcutters... you can probably get a couple cases of beer.
Rob: Oh oh oh. You have to STEAL the beer!
Josie: Yes.
Rob: Oh, I thought they were giving it away. You know, show em your boltcutters.
Spencer: Show em your boltcutters! That's what I thought it meant too...

Chris: The most asked question in any interview is "Are you in Finch?" and I always say no.
Stephanie: Are you in Finch?
Chris: No.
Stephanie: Alright.
Chris: I'm just gonna lay it on the table right now, I'm not fucking R2k ever again.
Mike: Because the last time he did it, he HATED it!
Chris: What??
Mike: You said "I'm not fucking R2k ever again"

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