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The Life Of The Party With JARET REDDICK From BOWLING FOR SOUP · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up you guys. It's me Jared from your favorite band,
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  Speaker 1: Bowling for Soup and we're gonna be coming to Australia
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  Speaker 1: with our good friend Frank Turner and also Australia's own
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  Speaker 1: Talk Heavy for the Bowl My Bones Tour Australia that's
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  Speaker 1: coming up soon. And how's it going, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thanks joving yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, doing really great man.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: So as you say, falling for sweep hit Australia for
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  Speaker 3: running shows very soon. Kicking off on the Sunshine Coast
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  Speaker 3: on made the first and hitting Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne,
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  Speaker 3: Frankston and Adelaid before finishing.
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  Speaker 2: In Freemantle on May the eleven. But it's not far
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  Speaker 2: at all, bro, your begs packed? Are you ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: Always ready man, always ready, always ready to go, Like
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  Speaker 1: Frank Turner says, you know he's got his bag packed
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  Speaker 1: and get up, shower in half an hour, begone. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be there soon. So uh yeah, you know we're we're
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  Speaker 1: you know, after we were back for good things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, why are we not coming here more?
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  Speaker 1: And and so we were talking to destroy all lines
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  Speaker 1: and trying to think of a good band that we
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  Speaker 1: could tour with, and we had just watched Frank and
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  Speaker 1: the Sleeping Souls, and I was just like, why don't
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  Speaker 1: we just come over here with Frank Turner And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things have to align for that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, bands are always talking to each other like hey,
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  Speaker 1: we should tour together, we should do this, and you
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  Speaker 1: got to have agents and managers and schedules and so
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  Speaker 1: many things come together for it to actually happen. And
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  Speaker 1: so we were really really lucky that it that it
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  Speaker 1: went down this way, and then we were able to
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  Speaker 1: extend it to the UK as well. So it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a really fun early summer for us.
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  Speaker 3: I sauld like you say, mate, you were here last
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  Speaker 3: as quite a Group Things festival in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: So what's changed with bowling for suits since your last Audia?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess really the only thing that is
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  Speaker 1: that is different is we're used to not having Chris,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, Chris retired officially a year a
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  Speaker 1: year and a half ago, and so you know, we
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  Speaker 1: did come over there as a three piece, but it
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  Speaker 1: was still sort of in that area of not really
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  Speaker 1: knowing what the future was going to be like, whether
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be able to come back and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we're really comfortable with it, and the
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  Speaker 1: crowd is comfortable with it, and everybody's happy and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, still still lucky to be out there. They're
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  Speaker 1: playing shows. But as far as anything else, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, the only we've recorded a new album
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  Speaker 1: and uh, but we'll be playing be playing the hits
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  Speaker 1: when we come to Australia. I don't think the new
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  Speaker 1: album is going to be out probably until next year,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody will have to wait on that, which is
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  Speaker 1: good for concert goers. I know you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: the hits anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Nice now, as you say, I was called the All
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  Speaker 3: My Bones Tour, and I was got to try to
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  Speaker 3: amalgamate both band names together to see where it comes from.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't figure it out, like you come from.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's because, uh, Frank has an album called England
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  Speaker 1: Keep my Bones, and uh so I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we call it the Bowl of My Bone
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  Speaker 1: instead of Keep my Bones Bowl of my Bones and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and he liked it. I had a few other tour
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  Speaker 1: names and stuff that were just kind of silly, and
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  Speaker 1: I think both my bones is fairly silly, but but
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  Speaker 1: it's it. There's there's a bit of poeticness to it,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, And so yeah, I U and
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  Speaker 1: I love alliteration. So i'm i'm, i'm. I was glad
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  Speaker 1: that he agreed to that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it is being built as a co headlining
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  Speaker 3: show with yourself and Frank China.
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  Speaker 2: So does that mean you're gonna be alternating closing every night?
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  Speaker 2: Does it just means both to going headline link sets?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely headline link sets. I'm not really sure how it's
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  Speaker 1: worked out yet. Honestly, it's so funny because we get
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  Speaker 1: asked this every interview and neither Frank or I know,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know I know this, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I've seen his band and he's seen mine, and and
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  Speaker 1: so we both know that the other's band is is
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  Speaker 1: pretty good, and so there is a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: of a of a pressure for both of us to
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  Speaker 1: get out there and put on the best show we
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  Speaker 1: can and so everybody's gonna benefit from that. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: a huge Frank fan. Uh, So whether he plays before
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  Speaker 1: or after us, I'll be side stage watching every night.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and I'm sure he'll be doing the same.
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  Speaker 2: Thing I said.
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  Speaker 3: The press release says that fall In for Soup makes
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  Speaker 3: it feel like a party everywhere they go. Now for
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  Speaker 3: the benefit of people who might not have seen you before.
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  Speaker 3: How do you make a live show just like a party?
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  Speaker 1: You know? It's really just like hanging out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I it's it's you know, I always say it's like
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with your friends. But we just have really
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  Speaker 1: loud guitars, you know. But every night's different. We walk
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  Speaker 1: on stage with really only a couple of things planned.
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  Speaker 1: It's the what's going to be first and what's going
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  Speaker 1: to be last, and we feel it. Our set list
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  Speaker 1: isn't really a list, it's it's uh as far as
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  Speaker 1: it being in order, it's it says songs Bowling for
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  Speaker 1: Soup might play tonight, and it's just a list of songs.
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  Speaker 1: So we're we're changing the show as it goes, and
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  Speaker 1: we're having more fun than the audiences. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that adds to that whole party atmosphere as well. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I've always said, I if you're having
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  Speaker 1: if you're having a good time, the audience can tell,
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  Speaker 1: and they can I think the audience can tell when
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  Speaker 1: it when you're not. You know, whether or not you're
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  Speaker 1: putting on a face of being happy up there, you
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  Speaker 1: know they can feel it. And so I am very
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  Speaker 1: very blessed to be up on stage with the dudes
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  Speaker 1: that that I would want to be around even if
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  Speaker 1: we weren't playing in a rock and roll band. And
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  Speaker 1: so we're up there having the time of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's contagious.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'll just say hypothetically that someone's going along to
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  Speaker 3: see Frank Channa, but they're not that familiar with Bowling
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  Speaker 3: to Soup. What three songs he or should they listen
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  Speaker 3: to before the show in order to get to know
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  Speaker 3: the band of it better?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think the thing is, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not into Bowling for Soup, you would listen to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five Girl, the Bad Guys Want Almost High School
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  Speaker 1: Never Ends, Ohio, you'd listen. You're gonna know those songs,
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  Speaker 1: whether you know that you know them or not. Like
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  Speaker 1: you put it on and you'll go oh them, and
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  Speaker 1: then Phineas and Ferb and so quite Frankly, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: know half our set, whether you like our band or not.
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  Speaker 1: And so I would just say, honestly, not really what
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  Speaker 1: you should listen to, but coming with an open mind
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  Speaker 1: and you know, be ready to have a good time
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  Speaker 1: and not take it too serious, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Frank isn't necessarily the jokester that we are. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we take a long time in between songs sometimes, and
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  Speaker 1: there's there's we include the audience in the show sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's just different than than really from what
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of bands do. And and so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would just say, you know, come in and be
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  Speaker 1: ready to just let loose and have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh now, got back in time a bit broy like
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  Speaker 3: following the Suit formed in Texas back in nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 3: So what was the musical climate like that gave Bertha
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  Speaker 3: the bandon? Where did you guys fit in back in
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  Speaker 3: the start?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's a very good question, Thank you, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll tell you we didn't fit in quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: no one in Texas. We're from Texas. Nobody sounded like us,
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't really even know what it was we
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  Speaker 1: were doing. We just knew that we liked the Descendants
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  Speaker 1: and we liked you know, Green day, and we liked
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  Speaker 1: those those kinds of bands, and you know, and and
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  Speaker 1: then a lot of other bands that you'd never heard of,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the same thing that Blink on a two
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  Speaker 1: and some forty one and Newfound Glory and oh, we're
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  Speaker 1: all doing in their own respective parts of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And so little did we know that we had a
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  Speaker 1: whole group of bands out there that would become our
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  Speaker 1: peers and would become what we what we know now
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  Speaker 1: is pop punk. But back then we were sort of
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  Speaker 1: on an island and there just wasn't anyone that sounded
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  Speaker 1: like us, and so quite frankly, it was hard for
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  Speaker 1: us to get shows at first. And what happened. Rap
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  Speaker 1: rock bands, bands that sounded a lot like Limp Biscuit
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  Speaker 1: and things like that were really popular and they thought
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  Speaker 1: we were funny, and so we got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: shows just by the comedy aspect of our band and
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  Speaker 1: stuff and so, and we were winning over crowds all
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  Speaker 1: the time. But as far as the climate itself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we we left our hometown of wichtaf Falls
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  Speaker 1: because it just there was nobody that really wanted to
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  Speaker 1: hear what it was we were doing. And we found
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  Speaker 1: our audience and and you know, and then started to
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  Speaker 1: spread our wings a little bit and eventually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: started to find those bands that sounded like us, and
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  Speaker 1: find our peers and find our group and our niche
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  Speaker 1: and and all of that. And you know, and musically,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to start the punk rock beatles. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: a band where everybody sang. And so the first two
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  Speaker 1: albums we didn't really have a lead singer. Eric sang
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  Speaker 1: some and I sang some, and then all four guys
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  Speaker 1: in the band sang, and you know, as we started
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  Speaker 1: to move along, it became the songs that I was
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  Speaker 1: writing was the were the ones that we were sort
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  Speaker 1: of leaning onto, and it it just gradually shifted into
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  Speaker 1: it being more of of me being the lead singer
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, putting me in the middle and
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  Speaker 1: and and all of that stuff. But you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a four or five year evolution. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, that's just all just pounding it away
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  Speaker 1: at the clubs and and just playing anywhere people would
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  Speaker 1: listen to us.
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  Speaker 3: So and do you remember the first time you heard
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  Speaker 3: one of these songs on radio?
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  Speaker 2: And then where were you at the time?
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  Speaker 1: I do, yeah, I actually I owned a toy store
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and uh, I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was actually uh the trash. Uh do you call it
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  Speaker 1: a dumpster where you take all the trash and I
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  Speaker 1: put it in. Yeah, okay, So the dumpster was around
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  Speaker 1: the building. I drove a pickup truck. I'm from Texas, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so I backed my truck up to the back
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  Speaker 1: door and I've loaded it all up with the trash
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  Speaker 1: and I was gonna drive it around. And I turned
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  Speaker 1: on my truck and and there it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: our song was on the radio, and uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: remember I I sort of screamed, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is way before the iPhone and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I just sat there and and basted it, sort
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  Speaker 1: of laughed a little bit and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll tell you, you know, video of me even
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  Speaker 1: recently where I'm in the I'm in the car and
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  Speaker 1: and one of our songs comes on and it it
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  Speaker 1: never gets old, it really doesn't. It is one of
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  Speaker 1: those things where you just, uh, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 1: really get used to it, you know. You it's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's every time you feel like you want
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  Speaker 1: you want to prize or something you know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we did it.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that long ago.
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  Speaker 3: Ball at the Suit celebrated thirty years as a band mate.
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  Speaker 3: So how would you say the band's Brian or changed
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  Speaker 3: musically over the course of three decades.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean the biggest thing is we've just gotten
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  Speaker 1: better at everything. You know. We're obviously better at our
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  Speaker 1: instruments just from from the sheer, you know, just from
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  Speaker 1: playing as much as we have, and we're better singers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fortunate in that my range just gets better and
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  Speaker 1: better with time. And it's I can't explain it, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I think we're better songwriters, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're a better unit and are we're happier, and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's our Our band and crew are a big family.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the guys have been with us for you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty years, and so you know, I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: been sort of this evolution of of you know, having
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  Speaker 1: to you know, getting better at what we're doing, but
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  Speaker 1: also experiencing life and and you know, the curve balls
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  Speaker 1: that life throws at you and navigating all that you
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  Speaker 1: know together and being in a more comfortable spot you know, mentally,
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. So quite a bit I mean,
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  Speaker 1: a lot happens in thirty years, you know, and you
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  Speaker 1: know we've we've lost we've lost friends along the way,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I've of course, I'm divorced and remarried
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and my kids are grown and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just it's it's weird, but you know, I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: We're still chugging away.
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  Speaker 3: And No, that album just spoke about before, mate, Is
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  Speaker 3: that the live acoustic album that you used to putting together?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we have it.
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  Speaker 1: No, we actually have a new album that we just
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  Speaker 1: we just went and recorded it and it's uh, it
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  Speaker 1: probably won't be out until next year, but it's new music.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, honestly, I I know every band says this,
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  Speaker 1: but I I'm on record as saying that I would
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  Speaker 1: never say that because I know that drunken out to
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  Speaker 1: dance and hangover you don't deserve mean a lot to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. So I'm not gonna insult anyone
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  Speaker 1: by saying saying it's the best thing we've ever done.
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  Speaker 1: But I really do think that it is the best
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  Speaker 1: collection of songs we've ever put together.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you don't look like you tell a lot of me, brothers,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take you away for that one. So
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  Speaker 3: before you go, mate, we've got a new segment. We've
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  Speaker 3: started toward photo bombs. So basically, I'll troll three social media.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come up with a few photos on ospit a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more about Okay, one is this one?
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  Speaker 2: What were you drinking here?
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  Speaker 1: Bro? Because shit, yeah, so that's my that's bullet, that's
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  Speaker 1: my whiskey face. And I can't help that. I actually
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  Speaker 1: am not a big whiskey drinker. I'm not. I pretty
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  Speaker 1: much just drink Miller. Like so if y'all have ever
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  Speaker 1: been to the States, this would taste like water to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, but it's very light and uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I drink. So when I do drink whiskey,
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  Speaker 1: that's the face that I make. And I can also
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  Speaker 1: tell you that that photo was taken in November because
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  Speaker 1: of the ribbon on my on my shirt. See the
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  Speaker 1: the ribbon on my shirt the little pin here, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's for breast cancer awareness and uh so that would
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  Speaker 1: have been in November.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there you get it.
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  Speaker 3: And the second fighter we found is one of you
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  Speaker 3: and a mutual friend of Heavy's, Thomas from American Pie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure. That's when he surprised me in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and came in and then we let him come
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  Speaker 1: on stage as Henry Rowan Garner and uh and sing
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  Speaker 1: a song with us and Thomas and I really hit
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  Speaker 1: it off and we are we're we we tend to
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  Speaker 1: to drink a lot when we're together. So my wife
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  Speaker 1: calls us oil and oil because we mixed together way
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  Speaker 1: too perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: He's actually a pretty damn five musician for an accuratey.
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  Speaker 1: Great musician, got such a cool voice. Uh. The main
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  Speaker 1: thing is this passion, you know, you know, I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: people ask a lot, you know what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: get there and and to to be a musician and
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  Speaker 1: to actually get up there and conquer it. And it
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  Speaker 1: is way more than talent. It's it's it's way more
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  Speaker 1: than drive. It's you know there, You've got to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of luck, You've got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: talk to people. But man, passion and perseverance have always
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  Speaker 1: been to me the most important two things, and he
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  Speaker 1: certainly has both of those things.
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  Speaker 3: Damn soedera general, Thanks very much for your time, brother,
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  Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure speaking with you. The tour with
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  Speaker 3: Brent Toner kicks off on May the first. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: at the Brisbane show brother, so un till then, take
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  Speaker 3: care of.
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  Speaker 1: That's good man. I'll see you in Brisbane a right brother.
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  Speaker 1: Take care, take care man,