JOANNA: State your names and what you do in Turbonegro.

PAL PAT POMPORIUS: I'm Pal Pat Pomparius. I�m a keyboard player slash guitarist.

HANK: I'm Hank. I'm the singer, dancer.

JOANNA: You dance?

HANK: I try to. Mainly I jog.

CHRIS: I'm Chris. I play the drums.

TOM: I'm Tom. I play bass.

RUNE: Rune. I play the guitar.

KNUT: Knut. Guitar player and prince of the rodeo.

JOANNA: How long have you guys been a band for?

HANK: As a band, about seven years. It�s usually been part time, but now we�re full time.

JOANNA: When did it become full time?

HANK: It all happened so sudden. So it�s hard to say when we stopped being something else and became full time.

JOANNA: Where are you guys from?

HANK: Oslo, Norway.

JOANNA: I interviewed another band from Norway called JR Ewing, and they told me that the girls are better looking in Norway than they are in the United States?

HANK: Yeah. They're even better looking in Sweden actually. There are some good looking girls in America, but they usually turn out to have spent hours under a surgeon�s knife.

JOANNA: When you�re touring America, do you ever go to strip clubs or anything?

CHRIS: All the time.

JOANNA: Do you like them better here?

HANK: Well we go to see some gentlemen�s shows sometimes. But we have very exclusive�

PAL: If we see a sign that says �Gentlemen�s Club� we go inside.

HANK: We�re bowing polite, and the trick is, I think, to give them all our money. And we do that. And the girls, then they flirt with us.

JOANNA: Do you think the girls are different in America?

HANK: At the strip clubs?

JOANNA: Yeah.

HANK: We don't go much to strip clubs in Norway. They�re not that good there.

JOANNA: Do you watch porno?

HANK: We act out porno.

JOANNA: With each other?

HANK: We watch Playboy channel. We don't want any penises in motion. We want to stand still erected.

JOANNA: So I'm assuming English isn't your first language.

HANK: English is our second language.

JOANNA: So what made you want to have a band where you sing in English?

HANK: Because Norwegian is not a very good language to sing in. Especially not rock, you know?

JOANNA: Do you ever have trouble writing lyrics or expressing yourself?

HANK: We get help from our English teacher. He has lots of porno magazines.

JOANNA: For everyone who hasn't heard you, what do you sing about?

TOM: We sing a lot about ass.

HANK: Skin. Lots about denim.

PAL: And magic.

HANK: Black magic.

RUNE: And dancing.

JOANNA: That sounds like a lot of fun.

PAL: Let the good times roll!

HANK: We also sing lots about keg parties. Having keg parties. Skinny dipping with or without clothes on. We can actually skinny dip with our denim on. Denim is like a second skin to us, so when I wear my denim, I'm nude. Other rock bands are always talking about dressing up in leather thinking that�s like a sexual garment, but we don't agree. We think denim is the most sexy garment.

JOANNA: For guys and girls?

HANK: Yeah. And even dogs and aliens.

JOANNA: Have you ever seen an alien?

HANK: Not without denim. It's a universal garment.

JOANNA: Do you really like the word 'motherfucker'� Because you say it a lot in your songs.

HANK: It's just, they told us not to say four letter words, and that word has more than four letters in it.

JOANNA: When I interviewed JR Ewing, they said that when they started there was all this really bad music in Norway, and they wanted to go against that. Did you fit into that category? They pretty much just said that everyone wore Nike wrist bands and big clothes, and it was really embarrassing.

CHRIS: Really? We never did that.

HANK: I don't know anything about that. We had like, clothes with the word like big, that had room in it, and we were sweating a lot, so like we went to this Nike store and bought a bunch of wrist bands. And that is what we wore for awhile, but not any more. Now we just wear denim.

JOANNA: So you guys are on Burning Heart Records now. Do you like it?

KNUT: They're ok.

HANK: I don't know them personally.

JOANNA: Do you feel like your band is getting what it deserves?

HANK: We always get what we deserve. For better or worse.

JOANNA: Ok, you don't have to name names, but has there ever been a time on tour when you met girls in like, some random place, and a funny sex story came out of it?

HANK: Well, we make the girls do the thing with the penguin.

JOANNA: What is that?

HANK: It's like, you get a blow job, and just when you're about to cum they stop and leave you, and you walk after them like a penguin, saying 'wait! make me cum!' We do that a lot. Walk the penguin walk. I read about it in Hustler.

JOANNA: (laughs) OK, well that�s about it. Does anybody want to say anything else?

PAL: Go porn in the USA!

HANK: [Bruce Springsteen style] Pooorn� in the USA!

JOANNA: Thanks guys!