I'm Oliver Trivino here on the Young Hollywood sofa with the legend himself, Travis Barker. How are you, sir?

Great, man. How you doing?

Good. You and Georgia are clearly hitting it off.

Ah, she's awesome. She's just like, look, look. There's a there's a moment going on right here. Every talk show should have a dog. So, look at that. High five. High five going on. Yeah. Wooh wooh.

You have four French bulldogs and we've had we've had two litters of Frenchies. So, yeah. My daughter is obsessed. Obsessed. What are their names?

Um, we have Blue. We have Paris. We have Fudge and Biggie.

Blue, Paris, Fudge and Biggie. Sounds like a good party.

Yeah. And one of our litters just had a baby. Um, I basically when I get a litter instead of selling them, I just give them to people I know. So, it was like last year around the time we did the BET Awards. So, I gave one to Chris Brown. So, her name is Nike. And Nike just had a litter too. I just got photos this morning. I'm all in. It's pretty awesome.

I'm all in for one. I'm up for one. The next one.

I got you.

I'm in. Georgia needs a Frenchie. She's getting old. She's getting a bit emotional. She needs a Frenchie. Starting to feel lonely. Um, more importantly, we're not more importantly, I guess I guess everything's important, especially when we're talking about dogs, but yeah, can I say your memoir?

Yeah. It's uh it's it's all out there.

Yes sir, it is. The rollercoaster that that it's been. It's now all on paper.

Yep.

Must be pretty crazy.

Yeah. It actually feels really good. It does. I don't know besides like when you sit down to write a book if anyone ever sits down and talks about their life or documents their life like that. Right, right. So, it's a cool it's a cool procedure and process that's therapeutic and and uh all sorts of good things. Right, right, right. You know, especially for me. I felt like it could help a lot of people. You know. And I've and I've learned, you know, like after going to book signings, you know, there's kids that are like, yo, I was I was suicidal at one point and reading your book, you know, you know, really makes me, you know, think positive or I was addicted to drugs or Right. You know, I I fought in the Iraq War and I have post-traumatic and I'm still dealing with it. You know. I right, right, right. It was really something that, you know, after all the hardships and uh and all the traumatic stuff I had been through. I honestly came out on a, you know, the other side and it's been, you know, brighter and and positive. So, it's cool. It's a cool story to share.

It is an amazing. I mean, an amazing story and the title, I mean, Living Large, Cheating Death and Drums, Drums, Drums kind of Yeah. Kind of sums up, you know, a big part of that.

Yeah. There I mean, there's Can I say comes from a band I grew up on, a hardcore band from DC called Dag Nasty. Um, they had an album and a song called Can I say. And their their their music changed my life. I'm in communication with the singer Sean and I'm it's just it's it's really cool. He actually made up the term Can I say.

Wow.

Um, and I had a tattoo on me for years and people were like, what is that? Like, that mean what can I say? Like, what does that mean? You know? So, it's like it's kind of cool that the book ended up, you know, becoming called that. And then, you know, my publisher wanted a subtitle and and kind of after reading the book and and all the content in there, you know, The Living Large, Cheating Death and of course, drums, drums, drums pretty much summed it up.

Right. Um, and the process itself, you teamed up with Gavin Edwards, who's obviously an amazing writer.

Yeah, he's great.

Seven seven times best-seller. So, that's a It must be nice to go into a project like this knowing that you're in good hands as well.

Yeah. And it was cool cuz he knows me. I was already really comfortable with him. Um, for those who, you know, who don't know, like he had done, I think like two pieces on Blink for Rolling Stone. He had done a piece on my solo project, uh, Can a drummer get some? He had went to Iraq with Blink when we were in Iraq. So, he knew so much about me and he was already kind of familiar with some of my good friends. It was it was just really cool. If anything, it was really scary cuz our comfort level was so high. Right, right. You know, we talked about everything. You know. Right. I'd bring him out to tour when I had long bus drives, we'd do it. There would be times where, you know, we're cracking up and laughing and, you know, whether it be we're laughing at what I just shared with them or an interview he did with one of my friends, cuz I didn't do any interviews. Everything was solely him. Right. Or, you know, or I was balling my eyes out and he's like, okay, man. Let's just let's regroup tomorrow. Right, right. You know.

Yeah. I was going to say, I mean, you mentioned it's therapeutic, but it must be somewhat tough as well when you're going through all those memories. You know, you're you're reliving every moment. Um, the good, the bad, you know, the tough.

Yeah. I mean, for me especially, you know, like my mom passed when I was really young. Um, I didn't I don't know what you do now, like when you're 11 and your mom passes away if your dad sticks you in like some therapy or I I have no idea. But I didn't have any of that at my disposal, you know. So, Right, right. It was I just kind of like held it all in and was kind of tough, you know. Right. My dad was real tough. He's like a Vietnam vet and rode a Harley for 50 years. So, it's not like, you know, I don't know. I just held a lot in for a lot of years and even, you know, even with the plane crash, you know, it's not like after it happened, it wasn't anything I ever like talking about. Right, right. You know, I kind of just you know, would shy away from it or just walk out of interviews if someone mentioned it. So, for me it was it was being able to tell my story under my own circumstances and be able to take breaks when I'm balling my eyes out cuz it wasn't, you know, it was like, you know, obviously I was in a plane crash, but I, you know, buried two of my best friends. The two pilots didn't make it. And that was that was equally as hard even though I didn't know them, but it was it was still hard to walk away from something like that. And then and then for Adam to pass away a year later. Those were just all, I mean, those weren't things I could touch on with, you know, alternative press when they want to, you know, doing a band interview and they want to throw that at me. Right, right, right. It's like, yo, you can't just bring that up mid-conversation and expect me to be cool with it, you know? Right. So, the book was very helpful of stuff like that.

And what an amazing book. I mean, you know, it's uh if if if no one wants to read a book like that now, I mean, it's just you get the biographies of people and, you know, a lot of it's the the pizzazz and the Hollywood and all that. I think this is so refreshing to have a book that's just out there. You know, it's just everything that you've been through. It's amazing.

Yeah. I mean, it's raw. It's, you know, everything from like interviews with friends and stuff. Sometimes it's like, you know, I didn't change anything. I didn't leave anything out cuz I mean, in order for it to really do something or to tell my story, I think if if I would have like started watering it down, I think months after the book was out, I'd be like, man, I wish I would have just been 100 and told everything, you know. But but I uh definitely didn't didn't hold back whatsoever.

The honest book. Yeah. The honest books. That's what I want, you know, for me personally. Right. And for now, read this man's book. I mean, what else would you read? That's it. Travis Barker. Thanks, man.

Yeah, man. Thank you.