Dear Paul, you have my sympathies for enduring this.

Paul's continuous straight answers to the ridiculous questions are hilarious

Imagine getting to interview Paul Leary, and these are the questions you ask?

Paul Leary saying "I'm not a drug guy" is like Santa Claus saying "I'm not a Christmas guy"

This interviewer is broken

What a sweet person to sit through this interview, Leary is a class act.

butthole surfers is my favorite band! a while back i gave paul leary a sterling silver pot leaf ring after a show and he said to me, "i'll treasure this." i swear, i melted like a little girl.

What a gentle and kind way to answer such absurd unnecessary questioning.

Just when I thought that Paul Leary couldn't be any more badass he gets older and looks like Hank Hill now lol.. This man is the definition of genius! Such an underrated guitarist 🤘

I love Paul he really was patient with this incredibly unfunny interviewer.

It was good of Mr. Leary to allow this handicapped man to interview him. Actually very interesting and informative!

This guy, trying to outweird Paul Leary. Not gonna happen.

"Once again, I have never eaten feces." -Paul Leary

This video killed this mans youtube career

Paul Leary is a very patient and gracious gentleman.

"You never have cat feces when you need it. It's always there when you don' need it". - Paul Leary, Philosopher and Deranged Poet

This interviewer is totally unprepared. Paul was being extremely nice by not calling him out. A little show prep goes a long way. Wow

The interviewer is massively annoying (intentionally, which makes him even more annoying), but Paul’s deadpan answers add true hilarity.

The longest 20 minutes of my life. The interviewer was grossly disrespectful and if given a clue, wouldn’t know what to do with it.

I love Paul. I watched every minute of this interview, but I'll never watch this interviewer again. Omg.

This is the worst interviewer ever...Paul handled this like a champion.

I started playing guitar because of billy gibbons, then I heard this dude play. Blew me away.

I absolutely love Leary’s guitar playing on the song “Sea-Ferring” by the Butthole Surfers. Put on headphones and turn it up loud and just zone out, it’s amazing. Totally underrated band and guitar player.

Paul was too nice. Had this been 30 years ago? Oof!! This guy brings up eating feces in an interview, twice!

Leary deserves a better interview than this...

Lone Star beer. Yes. What with little strips of paper floating in them.

Paul Leary is a God 😻😻💯💯😻🥰🥰👍👍👍👍☝️🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌nice to see him!!!! Come to Toronto please !!!! Love BH surfers 🏄‍♂️😍😍😍

Buttholes is easily the loudest concert I've ever been to. Normally I'd act tough and tolerate it but it was torture. Hairway To Steven is a masterpiece, especially on acid.

I immediately bought Paul's album born stupid after seeing that. I loved his other album "The history of dogs".

A great American. And what patience. It's eerily reminiscent of Chris Farley interviewing McCartney.

The circle of life. This was amazing.

At 1st this interview annoyed me but it's pretty good. I heard Paul talk more than normal. And I always wished to see the Meat Puppets and Butthole Surfers in the same show but it never happened in my area or time. I love them both. Meat Puppets still tour.

"The History of Dogs" is one of the most underrated records ever.

Thanks for posting, I remember seeing Paul and the BS open for the DK in '84. He was awesome as a tuba player too. Though I think they need to rename this episode of the show, "Behind the Men's Room in the Infantile Fecal Freak Nightclub." Maybe I'm just old and drug-addled, but I know who the BS are. I even know who John Paul Jones is. But I will have to find out who Billy Cardigan is & show him a clip of how we use to roll back then. He might like to reword his questions, because Paul kind of had that serial killer, don't fk with us sort of psychotic look back then. Man, I miss the days when you just didn't care, wtf people thought of us. HAHA !! Thanks again, I hope all involved kind of knew this was a joke of an interview.

holy shit paul has the patience of a saint

Cool rock guy

Human cannonball , best song ever!

this is a great interview

this was such a legitimately great series and i hope we get to see another installment one day, i hope that whatever the members of this group do in the future brings them success, especially billy, he's like the anti-nardwaur.

Great interview!!! ❤

You should've asked if he's ever played a blue guitar into a black amp.

Paul Leary is a national treasure. Mostly for getting through this interview.

Thanks for the insight on Butthole Surfers gear!

Absolutely blown away by this video. I struggled through this. Paul’s patience is amazing.

Paul is great…Hey, have a little respect for this legend.

What a tragically wasted interview with one of the greats. Yeah yeah I get that it’s funny blah blah. Paul Leary is a LEGEND. This is a bummer.

Cool rock.....guy.

I guess this is your shtick. Its super painful to listen to your questions. Paul is an AMAZING guitarist and recording artist, ask him about that, you make me want to put my head through a wall 😂

Leary "I'm not a drug guy." I saw Butthole Surfers in Charlottesville Virginia at a big cowboy bar called Trax, in 1984 or 1985. I went down the sound check and chatted them up. Nice guys and gals. Great show too. After sound check Paul, Gibby and I talked for about a half hour. Gibby just seemed happy to not be in the van, was getting cabin fever from the constant touring. At one point I asked them if they did drugs. Gibby just made grunting noises. Paul Leary told me that in the past 48 hours he had done "pot, hash, heroin, PCP, LSD, mescaline, speed, coke, beer, coffee, and cigarettes." Maybe he was fibbing to try to impress me, but he certainly looked like, at the very least, he hadn't slept much in a very long time. 10,000 yard stare.

We should all hang out and drink Champaign someday yo

Also produced Fun by Daniel Johnston

"YOU KNOW, IN ALL MY YEARS I NEVER ENCOUNTERED THAT..."

Not a lot of drugs. Just alcohol. Sure, Paul.

I love Paul Leary!

Take a drink every time Paul mentions his wife.

This is comedy gold. I haven’t laughed this much in awhile.

When did Paul get all nice and tolerant? He used to scare the crap out of me. It's cool though. I too may have mellowed with age.

you know it's high quality stuff being made when it starts with a clip that's just called "old performance"; lot of effort put into this right here.

MARK FARNER SAVES THE DAY!

I remember reading a great article I believe in Thrasher back in the late 80's. They were tripping on acid and the show was done, yet Paul proceeded to do a long guitar solo for like 20 minutes by himself. Hahaha.

The interviewer should’ve done more research... it’s great to see/hear from Paul today, however, this interview was kind of 🤢

a minute 30 in and my head is killing me. TIS DORK!

Paul is so dam cool. Dam dude

cool to know it was the big boys bassit who named them officially!

Paul Leary wrote some of the best guitar riffs. And if I could make sense of most of it I'd played at least three of their songs a day. It would be totally slamming cool if he actually showed us on KZfaq some of his riffs and how to do them. Like some dispute over t-shirt sales. Yeah that would be cool

Does the interviewer really think he's funny? The fact that he asks about shit eating is of course due to his own experiences, which he really wants to share. Something must have happened during the potty training.

Took me a bit but this cat is hilarious 🤣

Damn, so many good opportunities to ask great questions and are completely wasted.

Paul rules on guitar

Saw them twice in NYC, including one of the Locust Abortion Tech tours.By far the best live show I've seen; at the time, I was thinking about losing the guitar in my own band, but seeing them with Paul, - and maybe a Swans show at CBGB's with Norman Westberg, - convinced me that it wasnt an obsolete instrument. Einsturzende Neubauten was also key in that education, -and Sonic Youth for alt tunings.

Imma' go listen to Paul's new album " Born Stupid " and think about things.

This isn't awkward at all

this is how interviews should be done

anyone else want to smack the dude interviewing Paul Leary?

Yeah I had to stop this video. Thank you Paul but this interview BLOWS.

Mans the definition of underrated

I like the conversation about keto. Makes sense to just write books about it

christmas songs

Respect that man... wtf...

Hey gang, just checking in. It's been a lil bit... hope you're all doing well.

💜

yikes. awkward interview. Hmmm. How did the kid land that one? geez...

Paul is awesome 👍

When my kid was really young, he would go to his moms for the weekend, I loved playing sweetoaf before she picked him up.

God bless Paul Leary for tolerating this interview. Go listen to Born Stupid.

You talk about one funny cool person… Absolutely impressive just like the other three…

You’re trying way too hard dude.

Kudos to Paul for putting up with such a horrible interviewer. Begs to ask why he agreed to talk with such a dim wit.

why cant we just get one good interview with Paul Leary. This guy is from space mountain or something. jeez he’s not asking anything relevant

mark farner's a hero

Paul Leary is the man. The interviewer is trying to be the man. The takeaway is don’t be a tryhard.

Jeez dude..

Paul's shimmy disc videos are getting more views than this video, did he use better pedals on those?

this interview is good

Fuck this is horrible! But love Paul for being the straight guy.

THIS was actually a cool dialogue. Greetings from Tijuana, worlds murder capital !

This..... this is a tremendous level of awkward.

Man you really gotta work on your interviewing skills. Try to be a little more genuine and listen to what people have to say. And these questions are just stupid bro, almost ruining the interview. Other than that, really enjoyed hearing these things from Mr.Leary. Pretty fascinating guy. And classy for not tearing the interviewer apart. Never thought he would have been so professional.

Is the interview’s name Dunning-Kruger?

Fort Blower...he is the man