KKRD Boys: Brno is literally further than Prague. Traveling by subway is a symbol of failure
The KKRD Boys in Brno are among the mainstays of the Czech Internet. However, the space in which they recently changed, Facebook canceled its page last summer due to the reported content. Now the history of the Brno bastards, but also the shiny current events, appear exclusively on Instagram. They also communicate with the fans through books, the fifth of which was recently published under the name Kula & Brus.
The interviews you have given so far have taken place exclusively through Messenger or e-mail, or on television in masks, and you have also always maintained your pose. You started to touch me immediately in the e-mail, so I will continue in this spirit. Why he decided to meet with me in person and in civilian clothes?
It’s better than doing email interviews, we’ve done that ten times before, and you probably wouldn’t go on a date with the same guy ten times. But it’s still true that even though I’m sitting here, I don’t want a picture or name anywhere. The reasons are simple, we don’t have nice faces or names. Having a beautiful name, like something like Jaroslav Hovězák, might be different.
Do I give you anonymous writing some creative freedom?
He gives. Writing under the name of what I have as a citizen would of course look different. With a mask on, one can simply afford much more. When you go to pick up a gas station, you also get a balaclava.
So popularity doesn’t appeal to you at all.
We are attracted by the popularity among koc (Brno designation for a woman, editor’s note), but it attracts all bald fighters in the middle age crisis. We are certainly not attracted by Facebook quasi popularity counted on likes.
Facebook canceled your account in July and now only works on Instagram. Is the community there different?
Although we had 70 or 75 thousand people on Facebook, there are 10 or 15 thousand heartthrobs. This healthy core has passed to Instagram, so we will not start Facebook anymore, Instagram is enough, and we will publish a book once in a while. It will probably stay a little underground. We enjoy the fact that even without Facebook, it somehow lives its own life, people forward old print screens by e-mail and via WhatsApp.
So the KKRD Boys are already in folklore?
In Brno, or at least in some parts of it, probably. At least a few buzzwords have become popular, and that’s nice when someone knows what she wants, when you even say “You’re going to cry, aren’t you?” and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. By the way, no one noticed much, but speaking our language is a significant time saver. It’s such a nice one-syllable barking right to the point.
I’m terrified that you write that
In some of the older interviews, I read that there are quite a few people in Brno who make up the content.
It’s no secret, we just don’t have it on the doorbell. There is a small group of about two hundred people in whom this is generally known. Maybe my mother figured it out herself. He says, “I’ve read some terribly vulgar, disgusting things on Facebook, and I’m horrified that you’re writing it.” And she was right.
How do you work on the lyrics? Do you all create together or independently when something comes to mind?
In the morning, on the way to work, we call the news, who got involved, and so on, one writes it down and then, as we say, they get it together in Google documents. Just a similar model as the Two Typists, where one throws something and the other moves it and develops it completely elsewhere, because it is again a little differently crazy. But sometimes you write the whole story on the phone, for example in a car or on the toilet. Writing rightly rhymes with ** him: sometimes it flies out by itself and sometimes you sweat before something falls out of you.
You write hantecem. Did you know him from an early age, or did you have to tutor something when you started doing KKRD Boys?
I grew up in an environment where old school hantec was commonly used, and I understand ninety percent of those cult texts such as Mlata na Bílendě sixteen kilos and two fives (František Kocourek’s text on Bílá hora, editor’s note). A lot of garbled expressions were used at home, but few people in Brno probably did that we would sit at a turntable and play Frant Kocourek. This may be such an illusion in Prague that the people of Brno are proud of the Hantec and somehow keep it artificially, but it is not so. In any case, we certainly don’t write or talk about that purebred hantiac. In the 90’s, when we were growing up, a lot of English expressions and various neoplasms were added to the hantant. In the group, we have three important characters who have always had a talent for using new words. They either brought them from another party or community, or they just made them up. Kato, Bobanie and Feclej Pat are something like Cyril and Methodius of the KKRD world, without them there would be nothing.
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- KKRD Boys is an anonymous Brno satirical project.
- It originally operated on Facebook, after its cancellation due to the reported content in the summer of 2021, it moved to Instagram.
- In 2017, the group won the Blog of the Year award in the Magnesia Litera competition.
- Two years later, based on their second book, Rules of the Binary, a play of the same name directed by Anna Davidová was created. The reruns are still presented by the Goose on a String Theater.
- KKRD Boys publish a book once a year, the last fifth is called Kula & Brus.
- Harry recently founded the IPL DROKK beer for the Harry brewery in Brno.
Dialects generally tend to disappear. Do you have ambitions to maintain hantec 2.0?
Of course, the original oldschool hantec is disappearing and it’s a shame. But we don’t want the ambition to save something, to choose Mirek Donutil to record another new class tape. We are glad that people read more thanks to us. At Christmas, the books often order girls asking if we can write a dedication to our husband, because so far only Ronald’s biography has been scanned. For a while we learned to just write as long as we could to teach the Brno monkeys to read. There is also a mix of people in our area, from university students to bouncers, who, apart from the school performance, have never been to the theater. They went to our game and enjoyed it. For example, they will sometimes go to Maryša.
Do you think that someone who doesn’t read at all and your book is the one you take in hand will understand your literary exaggeration first?
Probably not, you need to have a key or someone has to explain it to you. Today’s generation of people who grew up without Česká soda has a problem understanding the basic irony. Of course, someone is immediately offended by vulgarity, for example, when he comes across the word buzerant on the second line. But we are convinced that we are not self-serving.
TMBK would have nothing to eat in Scandinavia
Now your fifth book has been published. Do you ever feel a creative crisis or ideas come up all the time?
Typically, our stories are about cohabitation, sex, drugs or Slovaks, which are basically contemporary classic tragic themes that can be drawn indefinitely. When we wrote the first 20 histories, ten of them about ex-girlfriends, five about Prague and five about where someone spilled, we felt that nothing else could be invented. But then when you realize it’s infinite and it’s time to come. For example, I can take the whole Djokovic case investigatively: Did he go to Australia to play tennis at all? Aren’t they just in a hotel on a battlement and not halving the natives? Is he really waiting for a court decision, or just to get his caban tired?
However, current cases have only recently appeared on your profile. It occurs to me that by this I mean to my anonymity you are revealing your own views a bit.
Commentary on current events came with Zeman, Babiš and similar figures, these are very grateful characters for satire. Just look at TMBK. If he lived in a developed country, such as Scandinavia, he would have nothing to eat. In addition, when you process the current case, it naturally interests a lot more people, it has more likes and it spreads better outside the fan base. As a result, you probably subconsciously realize that it works, and then you do it over and over again. It’s like learning that if you want to stab in the evening, you don’t have to tell a pretty girl at a bar that she’s pretty, but that she’s smart, and also ugly with glasses, that she’s pretty.
Did the current gloss offend anyone? For example, when you dressed as presidential candidate Karel Janeček.
When we wrote the text of the Bakala Zoo (derogatory story about Ostrava, editor’s note), which ends with Baroš being locked in a cage on the burned Bazaly as an attraction for the Japanese, we received several messages on Facebook from comrades from Ostrava that we so they exaggerated and that will be beating. The mayor of Řeporyjí, Pavel Novotný, also told us that there was no Paklíč from Boyard Fortress.
Several similarly satirical projects are being created in Brno, such as Prigl or Thousands. Do you think it has something to do with the city as such?
Of course, Brno is much further than Prague. The two demonstrably greatest Czech writers, Hrabal and Kundera, are from Brno. Prague has given the nation other literary aces, such as Master Viewegh or Radka Třeštíková. But in order not to sound too negative, I like Prague, unlike Brno, it is a real city with everything. It is just sad that its inhabitants have been illustrating the dominance over Brno for fifty years with the Prague metro. while traveling by metro is a symbol of failure for Brňák. As one local, intellectually based lawyer says: “We do not have a metro because we live in Masaryk, which is a prestigious Brno district, and there the metro would have to go through a tunnel up to a terrible hill. . “
There was no need to invent anything in the 1990s
In one interview, you said that the stories you describe are often real.
The first ones were definitely real. Who grew up in the 1990s knows that there was no need to invent anything and that things were happening that today’s generation – perhaps fortunately – will no longer experience. But most of our stories are basically urban legends. You collect, for example, two or three stories that you heard in a pub, you repay them together, you add something there and you have a beautiful story. And when you have one hundred and twenty, you will make a book out of them.
You mentioned that some people went to the theater for the first time except for the play The Rules of Binary, which was based on the motives of your second book. Do you plan to stage more?
No, we didn’t stage anything. The play was put together by Anna Davidová, Eva Petláková and others. Theater is a much more complicated format than writing a joke, we certainly wouldn’t be able to. But the new play doesn’t make much sense to us, it would be nice to take the Rules of the Binary Theater from the Goose Theater on a string and do a one-off event for 800 people at the Mahen Theater as a benefit for some good cause, ideally for chabrus pasro we work together. Anyway, another theater would be a recurring joke.
You say you don’t like repeating formats, but books keep repeating themselves and they’re similar.
It’s normal for books to write a sequel. The theater does not normally have a sequel to a successful play, it is not a television series. Theater is not Rambo. In addition, books are the only way to get our wisdom among people when we don’t have Facebook. On the other hand, five is a nice number, so maybe it’s time for a change of genre and we write a novel. I offer to elaborate the circumstances of the successful text Drama in Chepos or Who Splashed Last? In it we would like to analyze the atmosphere of a typical Czech esero. The working title is Novel o morily. And we are also considering a children’s book under the tree, something like an introduction to Hantec for the little ones. We have to raise our youth so that we won’t be like a Comet in a few years.
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