MattFromZP

The guys from Green Day have supported the site from really early on. Ian Mackaye told us Hard Times is a real pain in his ass. He forwarded me an email chain of euro hc kids asking him if a Hard Times story about him was true and if Fugazi was really back together. Does that count? Here was the story: https://thehardtimes.net/news/martin-shkreli-buys-fugazi-jacks-ticket-price-up-to-9/

We signed a contract with a major publishing house who scheduled this AMA for us.

"We're answering it from the hotel they paid for!" - Krissy

Bill hates everything, don't listen to him.

LOL. Longest tour I've done is 35 days.

One of the places we stayed at this guy had let 15 or so stray dogs come into his house. I go "hey man, what's with all the dogs?" he says "There's a heatwave and there's strays with no where to go." Fine, but there was no AC in the house. So it's just 100 degrees with 15 wild animals in your living room now. I was super tired so I said fuck it and put down my sleeping bag and tried to go to sleep. A blind dog immediately hopped on me and started humping my leg, then ANOTHER DOG got on top of that one and started fucking it. So I'm in a blind stray dog threesome now. I push the dogs off me, shake it off, then lay back done again. Blind dog jumps right back on me. At that point I gave up and tried to sleep in the van. It was prob 125 in the van. I put a bag of ice on my chest and one of my head and fell asleep. I woke up gasping for air. Felt like I was in a oven. I think I almost died.

This book tour has been much nicer than that so far.

I think it's insane and that the Babylon Bee was right/smart to make a fuss about it. We've also been "fact checked" several times for clearly satirical takes and downranked in algorithms for being "fake news."

One of the weirdest times where we SHOULD have been downranked but weren't was when lemmy died. That day if you typed "lemmy dead" into google this article was the first result: https://thehardtimes.net/news/lemmy-waiting-end-tour-announce-hes-dead/