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ON MAKING "Christmas in Tahoe" : We recorded the whole thing very fast. It was three days. I think you guys recorded it in three days. Well, it was a little bit more like five. We did a few a day, didn't we? Right. And then you had to do overdubs. We did overdubs in like two days, but the whole thing...we were in Seattle.. 5-10 days? And then it probably took four days to sing it. But Goodmanson, this guy, I don't know if you guys - do some research on John. I mean, his records, the Nada Surf stuff, all the Sleater-Kinney, he's the most unlikely guy we could have called to make this record.   Well, Cody Votolato had just made a record with him, with his band - he was like "Hey man," because I was like "I'm trying to find someone to produce the Christmas record," he was like "let me think about that." And I would have not thought Cody was going to think so deep in the indie vibe of Seattle, but man, John was the perfect guy, the vibe was great...thanks everybody for making the record a success. Thank you for the incredible Fillmore sellout. Very touching. We're going to make sure we have some special moments we can all remember. I think the Fillmore show, even if you don't have tickets, it's going to stream on Amazon so people can be a part of it at home. And we'll make a big deal of it. Anyway, thanks for two and a half great years of the Patcast, and listening. - Pat Monahan talking to Jerry Becker on episode 116 of the Patcast Podcast

ON THE ORIGIN OF 311 Before it was cool to, like, mix different genres of music together, to go do a tour, like Wiz Khalifa and Fallout Boy, you did a tour with Snoop, right? Yeah. And you guys played amphitheaters all over the country. Did it work? Absolutely. It worked great. Our crowd loves all kinds of different music. And his people seemed to like us. But in 1995, we went straight from the H.O.R.D.E. tour, which was the hippie tour with Blues Traveler and everybody, to the Cypress Hill Temples of Boom Tour, to the Warped Tour. So it was from hippie jam, to rap, to punk. But it somehow fits...because you guys fit in all of that stuff. I think if you guys listen to radio hits of 311, but you'd be surprised - your music's pretty hard. A lot of it is. Is that your guitar playing? Yeah, I play guitar, and Tim's our lead guitarist. I do a lot of writing, and I guess I'm always wanting to keep it kind of balanced with more chill vibes, but the hard stuff is great live, and that's what our core loves. It's true- you have a lot of guy followers, right? It's like sports, man. It's the way to go. Girls are more into Train. And then they force their boyfriends and shit to come to the shows. But my friends in high school were huge 311 fans. And I think it's because you stuck to the rock. As much as there's reggae and jazz aspects of what you guys do. So 1988 is when you guys started? Technically 1989. A show on June 10th. We opened for Fugazi. Wow. You opened for who? A great launch, to play for a packed... Where was that? LA? Omaha. We're from Omaha. I moved to LA before then, and floundered a bit. I worked at the Guitar Center on Sunset, together with the type of people that were hanging out there, and it just wasn't really happening. I realized that the best people I could form a band with were my high school buddies. Were you the typical Guitar Center Employee? No...I mean, it was still the time of hair metal, but there was this new scene, of Jane's Addiction and Chili Peppers and Fishbone, so that's what I was into. And you were into that new thing that was coming? Yeah. So it didn't really work there for me. So I moved back to Omaha and started 311. - Nick Hexum of 311 talks to Pat Monahan of Train on the Patcast Podcast.

ON SONGWRITING It's such a bizarre thing, being a songwriter. Like, I always feel bad for most of them, because very few can go the distance. But then you don't feel bad for Max Martin, because he's got a whole garage filled with 18-year-old guys that have the greatest hooks in the world. - Pat Monahan of Train talking to Nick Hexum on the Patcast Podcast.

Supermarket sheet cake with frosting flowers versus Ketel One and soda: Sean Nelson and John Goodmanson on this week's episode. 

When John Goodmanson talks about crossing paths with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists on this week's episode. 

- Pat Monahan of Train talks to Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger and Seattle's The Stranger on this week's episode of the Patcast

- Rocky Votolato talks with Pat Monahan on this week's episode 114 of the Patcast Podcast

- Rocky Votolato talks with Pat Monahan on this week's episode 114 of the Patcast Podcast