Louisville.com: As someone who is not in a band, going on tour sounds intimadating. Like, sleeping. Where do you sleep?
Sam: We’ve slept in our car a few times, but it’s all worth it.
Tony: We usually stay in like a Super 8 motel. Sometimes at a friend’s house.
Louisville.com: Nobody has contracted any motel diseases?
Ryan: Not from the motel.
Together: [snickering]
Sam: They’re actually pretty clean. One time, I stepped out of the window of a motel to hang out with them because they were outside and I stepped on a tree trunk that was really—like there was a lot of ants in there.
Nick: He tried to release thousands of tiny ants.
Tony: He brought ants into the hotel room.
Sam: There were a lot of ants and it was f*cked up.
Louisville.com: Do you have preferred sleeping buddies on tour?
Ryan: Usually the twins sleep together and then [Tony and Ryan] do. Two and two.
Tony: We mixed it up a little bit on the last tour.
Nick: It’s only been one or two times we’ve been like, “Whoa, what’s going on?”
Sam: One time I slept with Tony. I’ll never forget that night.
Tony: Best night you ever had.
Louisville.com: What is it like being on tour with your brother?
Nick: It’s basically the same. We still live with our parents.
Sam: I’m not afraid to admit this anymore, but we had bunk beds until a week ago, before I moved into the basement.
Ryan: You’re in the basement now?
Sam: I moved in the basement.
Ryan: I’m so proud of you, dude.
Sam: Thank You.
Ryan: I want to come hang in your basement.
Louisville.com: How does it feel to play your first festival in your hometown?
Tony: We’re excited.
Sam: I went to Forecastle last year and I didn’t think we would be playing this year at all.
Ryan: I went to Forecastle last year and pretty much knew we would be playing the next year.
Sam: Oh, okay, well he knew. I would never have expected that we would play f*cking Forecastle.
Louisville.com: Who did you see last year at Forecastle?
Sam: The Replacements [4] were probably my favorite, but I saw Beck and Outkast.
Ryan: JaLin Roze [5].
Sam: Yeah, JaLin Roze. He’s an amazing man.
Louisville.com: Who are you excited to see this year at Forecastle?
Tony: Diarrhea Planet [8], Jeff the Brotherhood [9]are all friends of ours. King Tuff [10]and Twin Limb [11].
Sam: Is Broncho [12]playing? That’d be fun to see.
Louisville.com: What is White Reaper’s plans after Forecastle?
Sam: The only thing we are too concerned with is just doing a better job when we tour and recording the next album-that’s going to be better than the last.
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