In a house on Lincoln Way, beyond the dark, soggy tiled porch that splishes and splashes under foot, the randomly strewn-about guitars, clothes, cracker boxes and drum equipment, live the members of what may be the hippest, most insane and sarcastic band in Ames — DJ Dad/MC Mom.

The fountain in the back yard sucks.

The cracked, worn in-ground pool is even more nauseating in appearance.

But the three men who make up this so-called “hip” band don’t give a crap.

All drummer David Olson, front man Campbell DeSousa and bassist Tim Olson really care about is making smart-alec comments, creating music and the Canadian homeland, with which they are obsessed.

David Olson, freshman in statistics, says there was a lot of tomfoolery on the band’s most recent Canadian tour.

“Recently in Canada, we were pretty crazy ’cause we were with some Polish immigrants,” he says. “We drank a drink called Old Krupnik.

“It’s Polish honey-liquor. It goes down like water. Basically, in short, I ended up drinking about an entire bottle by myself.”

DeSousa says David’s indisposed state that night led to some “equipment mishaps.”

“He ended up naked in the tent,” DeSousa says.

“We also broke a snare drum stand at that show and we left all of our stuff out in the rain, including stuff that didn’t belong to us.”

Despite this expensive mishap, David says the group gets along fine and have put the incident behind it.

“We all love each other very much,” David says.

“We all share a bed, but that’s the thing to do.”

“You do that with your parents when you’re a little kid,” DeSousa says.

“We tell each other bedtime stories and live in a magical land with Adolpho, the greatest wizard of his time.”

Tim Olson, sophomore in economics says the band’s personal pleasure at shows isn’t merely limited to breaking equipment, drinking with immigrants or running around unclothed.

“What Campbell will usually do is take his guitar out in the crowd and start hardcore dancing and swinging his arms around,” Olson says.

“And sometimes, when David has a drum solo, I’ll actually catapult Campbell and he’ll just stick his elbow out and hit some girl in the eye with his elbow.

“Generally, the elbow to the eye … we think it’s something really cool, but I don’t know how practical it is.”

Tim says the main reason the band recently visited Canada was to promote Bureaucrash.com, an activist group that he and brother David are involved in.

“We are the state coordinators and we were asked to play at an event called Liberty Summer Seminar,” Tim says.

“And it’s one of the many liberty-minded events we’re going to be playing at shortly.

“We’re kind of the staple band for them.

“It’s primarily made up of, at least in America, libertarians — people who support social and economic freedom. For instance, we are capitalists, we’re against the drug war … just minimal government.”

In addition to being political activists, DeSousa says he and the Olsons will gladly admit to being semi-creepy.

“We’re all kind of creepy,” DeSousa says.

“Like, I kind of have a hunch, like a hunchback a little bit, because I didn’t have good posture as a kid.”

Tim and David say they agree there have been several situations where DeSousa totally creeped them out, especially on the band’s Canadian escapades.

“He has a strange sexual presence about him,” David says.

“I was in an aisle and I was between Campbell and this girl who was working and he was staring at this girl for, like, 45 seconds,” Tim says.

“It was more like 43 seconds,” DeSousa says. “Look, I like girls. I do — I gotta admit it.”

The camaraderie these three guys share has been present from a young age, and DeSousa says the band just sort of came together naturally as a result of that.

“I still like harmonies. It’s just if you were to read my book full of lyrics for those songs, you’d probably poop your pants,” he says.

“I wrote them while I was taking Adderall so I could stay up till like six in the morning and then go to bed at that following six in the morning.”

DeSousa says although he was on Adderall while writing the lyrics, the songs will be well-received.

“I think a lot of people would like it except for probably Oral Roberts,” he says.

“Yeah, he probably wouldn’t appreciate it,” adds Olson.

David says he agrees and that Mormons probably wouldn’t like DJ Dad/MC Mom’s music either.

“We take a lot of heat from Mormons,” DeSousa says.