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Hitman Talks to Bryan Scott of The Union Underground · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It is hit Man with you.
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  Speaker 2: I got on the phone with me right now from
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  Speaker 2: the Union Underground Brian Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Man? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good man, I'm doing I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Doing real good too. Now you guys are celebrating. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get this straight.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the twenty fifth anniversary of an Education in Rebellion?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Can you believe that hit? Five years?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: How a San Antonio new metal band has launched into
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  Speaker 2: the stratosphere And this was a great album in fact,
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  Speaker 2: I know here at Sea one on one we played
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  Speaker 2: CeAl TeX's Death Ride and turned me on mister dead Man.
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  Speaker 2: And looking forward to seeing you guys with Edema and
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  Speaker 2: Spine Shank and a lot of other great bands that
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  Speaker 2: are going to be here also on over at the
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  Speaker 2: House of Rock on July thirteenth.
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  Speaker 1: What can people expect?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, We're really excited to be back
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  Speaker 4: in Corpus. I think it's been you know, we were
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  Speaker 4: going to hit Corpus last year and it just didn't
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  Speaker 4: work out in the routing, so we were kind of
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  Speaker 4: bummed about that, and I know people were really wanting
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  Speaker 4: us to get down there. So I'm excited about that. Man.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's been twenty years since we've played Corpus.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be nice. So, you know, twenty five
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  Speaker 4: years and we're doing obviously the record in full, plus
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  Speaker 4: several other songs across the nation of course which was
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  Speaker 4: not on the record, and probably three I haven't decided
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  Speaker 4: if we're going to do a full three or not.
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  Speaker 4: Two or three songs from the new record will be playing.
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  Speaker 3: Live as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about it.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be a cool treat.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. Tell us a little bit about the new album.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on with that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, we've been chattering about it for a
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  Speaker 4: long time, and true to form, I'm kind of taking
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  Speaker 4: much longer than it should.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I just.
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  Speaker 4: I want it to be I want it to be right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to rush it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just and you know you Underground is my own,
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  Speaker 4: my own project, so you know, I work on other
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  Speaker 4: things as well, but the last couple of years have
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  Speaker 4: been really focused on Union and I want to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that that record represents what the first.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to have the energy.
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  Speaker 4: And attitude that the first one had and not be
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  Speaker 4: too much of a departure, you know. In other words,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want the News record to be like some
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  Speaker 4: completely modern version of Union Underground doesn't have the character
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  Speaker 4: of the first record, you know, right, So I'm being
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  Speaker 4: very careful about that because I want, I really want
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  Speaker 4: it to be an extension of rebellion, you know, not
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  Speaker 4: just some completely new sound.
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  Speaker 2: See yeh, I said, we're talking with Brian Scott. Of
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  Speaker 2: course he's he's coming with the Union Underground, lead singer
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  Speaker 2: of the Union under Ground. Happening Sunday, July thirteenth. Door's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be opening about six o'clock. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: great show. Tickets are on sale right now online at
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  Speaker 2: Texas House off Rock dot com. Speaking of across the
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  Speaker 2: nation that when it got added on with the WWE,
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  Speaker 2: how did that react with you about how it just
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  Speaker 2: completely blew up out of nowhere?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, the way that came about was interesting
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  Speaker 4: because we did it was a compilation record that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of bands that we were at Osfest with we're
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  Speaker 4: on and so everyone kind of got this gig and
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  Speaker 4: we're all, you know, kind of bouncing things off of
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  Speaker 4: each other, like howe we're going to approach this because
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  Speaker 4: it was you know, initially they wanted us to do
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  Speaker 4: like cover versions of specific wrestlers theme songs, which was
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  Speaker 4: almost impossible in some you know, the thing they sent
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  Speaker 4: me was I thought, man, I, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: see how I can make a song out of this,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't want to just do a cover you know.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, you know the wrestling theme songs. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they're kind of silly, the lyrics are kind of silly
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  Speaker 4: and stuff. So it's like, wow, man, I was kind
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  Speaker 4: of on the fence about doing it at all, and
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  Speaker 4: I said, look, let me, can we just take the
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  Speaker 4: bassline from this thing and just write a whole different
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  Speaker 4: song around it, right, And they said, hey, go for it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And so you know, and they accepted it,
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  Speaker 4: which was cool because I really wasn't down to just
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  Speaker 4: cover theme song, you know, right right, So it was
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  Speaker 4: nice that it worked out like that. So it's really
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  Speaker 4: just a Union underground song, you know, on that record,
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  Speaker 4: and it's nice that it's nice that it was really
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  Speaker 4: the only song off that entire record that went to radio.
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  Speaker 2: Well there, I've seen all over read it that they
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  Speaker 2: say that that song is literally the number one best
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  Speaker 2: theme song for the WWE of all time and they're
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  Speaker 2: saying it's your song.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty amazing even to this day if you get
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  Speaker 4: on some of those chat rooms you know with fanatical
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  Speaker 4: wrestling fans, I mean they just chat about it constantly
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  Speaker 4: still and on it. It's also on the new Netflix
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  Speaker 4: WWE like they're launching the launch show right was playing
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  Speaker 4: was opened up with Across the.
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  Speaker 3: Nation, which is killer Wow Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be recurring in the new show too,
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  Speaker 4: which is nice.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking with Brian Scott of of course The
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  Speaker 2: Union Underground. So from an education in rebellion, do you
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  Speaker 2: have a favorite track that you love to play? It
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  Speaker 2: like it never grows old on you and you love
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  Speaker 2: playing that song all the time.
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  Speaker 4: The two that I enjoyed the most playing live is
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  Speaker 4: are definitely South Texas and Killing the Fly Wow. Probably
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  Speaker 4: South Texas is the funnest one to play for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know this song, that song South Texas death
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  Speaker 2: Ride is still a great song to play, and I
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  Speaker 2: know that I think you're gonna get a you'll probably
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  Speaker 2: get a huge reaction from the crowd every time you
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  Speaker 2: guys play that.
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  Speaker 3: Song, right, Oh yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always been a crowd favorite, you know it.
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  Speaker 4: You know that song was never a single, but it's
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  Speaker 4: always a crowd favorite live for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Wow Wow, Yeah, we've we've got it here in our
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  Speaker 2: in our on our playlist here at C one oh one,
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  Speaker 2: So it's a C one on one staple. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of great, guess, so looking forward to seeing live. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's you guys with Spine Shank also Adema
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  Speaker 2: sixth since it's gonna be a great tour, you guys,
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  Speaker 2: besides coming here, it's it's literally a major tour.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are going all across the United States, right.
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  Speaker 4: We are, and like Leg one goes through kind of
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  Speaker 4: the South here and then up the Midwest, and then
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  Speaker 4: leg to East Coast, mostly Northeast, and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: we hope to spread out to the West Coast as
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  Speaker 4: well towards the end of the year.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we're gonna take it all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Our friends in Spine Shank are also celebrating
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  Speaker 4: twenty five years of their record, so it's a great
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  Speaker 4: time for us to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it seems like a lot of the new Batal
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  Speaker 2: bands are coming back out of nowhere and and it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of a trend right now to go see some
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  Speaker 2: of these great bands, you know, besides you guys. And
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  Speaker 2: and you know when like Creed and Three Doors Down
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  Speaker 2: and they came back out of nowhere and Cross Fade
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  Speaker 2: they showed up out of nowhere too, and and and
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  Speaker 2: Breaking Benjamin that that they had that one single that
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  Speaker 2: was great, and and so I think right now it's
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  Speaker 2: a trend of looking looking forward to seeing It's like
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  Speaker 2: going back in time and hearing some of these great
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  Speaker 2: songs from some of the great bands. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: and I'm so happy to see that you guys are
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Corpus Wow, so the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: you said, like almost twenty five years since you've been
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  Speaker 2: over to Corpus Christy.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Is there one thing that is there one thing.
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  Speaker 2: That that that maybe you might be looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: here in Corpus Christy you're looking forward to seeing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I hadn't. I actually just went down there with some
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  Speaker 4: family last summer and it was nice, just I hadn't
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  Speaker 4: been down that far in probably ten years, so it
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  Speaker 4: was just nice kind of hanging out on the ghost
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  Speaker 4: there you know what, I don't think I know that
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  Speaker 4: I think about it. I don't think we've played We've
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  Speaker 4: never played House of Rock. The only times we've been
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  Speaker 4: the last times we played in Corpus were always at
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  Speaker 4: Concrete Street. Yeah, so this will this will be just
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  Speaker 4: a new experience overall.
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  Speaker 3: And I know it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's a smaller venue and it'll you know,
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  Speaker 4: it'll probably sell out most likely. So oh yeah, everyone,
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  Speaker 4: everyone get your tickets quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say the House of Rock. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's more personable that place. It's it's it's you
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  Speaker 2: get you really get up close with your fans at
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  Speaker 2: that venue. It's and they're actually they're celebrating their anniversary also,
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  Speaker 2: and you guys were actually the first bands that they
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  Speaker 2: that they announced celebrating their anniversary also, So yeah, looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing you guys there. Also at the end
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  Speaker 2: they did some remodeling and it looks great. So you
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  Speaker 2: guys will actually be one of some of the first
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  Speaker 2: bands that are playing on on some of the like
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  Speaker 2: some of the new things, the new updates they've had
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  Speaker 2: there at the House of Rock.
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  Speaker 1: So looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: One last question I wanted to ask you, And I
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  Speaker 2: asked this to every single band member, every single person
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  Speaker 2: I talked to, if you could give some advice to
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  Speaker 2: you know, Corpus Christy. You gotta admit, is a rock
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  Speaker 2: down and there's a lot of local rock bands that
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  Speaker 2: are here. Is there any advice to give to the
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  Speaker 2: local rock bands here in Corpus Christy for them to
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  Speaker 2: take it to the next level? What would you what
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  Speaker 2: advice would you give to them?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question that you know, that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: there could be a two hour conversation, but I think
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  Speaker 4: just and generally, without digging too deep, just to just
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  Speaker 4: stay true to what your music is and don't try
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  Speaker 4: to chase trends too much.
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  Speaker 3: They change constantly.
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  Speaker 4: Stay true to yourself, keep your head down and just
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  Speaker 4: work hard and things will come to you. Like I think,
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  Speaker 4: I think, And now these days there's so many ways
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  Speaker 4: to get music out and there's so many platforms and
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  Speaker 4: so many different ways to expose people to your music.
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  Speaker 4: Then you just have to work constantly, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's really all, and just stay true your sounds, you know,
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  Speaker 4: don't chase trends.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you taking the time to talk to
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  Speaker 2: us today. And like I said, looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: you guys July thirteenth over at the venue of House
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  Speaker 2: of Rock. Tickets are on sale right now, Texas House
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  Speaker 2: off rock dot com. Any last words you want to
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  Speaker 2: say to your fans.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, just so you know the continued support, it's amazing
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  Speaker 4: and you know we can't wait to light it up
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  Speaker 4: this year, twenty five years. Thanks so much guys and
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  Speaker 4: Corpus Christy, We're going to light that place up for sure.