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Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban. “We’re at war over there,” Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”

Olivia Munn attempts to report on the plight of Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico.

AVC: At the end of your set, you semi-jokingly told the crowd, “Okay, go back out there and listen to bands making the same old sounds.”

FL: I had to say it. Walking around Austin on the way to the show, listening to all the bands playing, it was kind of frustrating. It’s like, “I know this song. I don’t know this song, but I know this song.”

It just got a little stale. I was a little hesitant to even do South By Southwest. In my little experience there, the people didn’t care about the music, they were just there to say they were there