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Bringing The Revolution To Australia With RYAN McCOMBS From DROWNING POOL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Ryan McCombs with the band Drowning Pool. Be out on
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  Speaker 1: the road with this guy over here, Chris, be out
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  Speaker 1: with this guy in Australia coming up real soon, So
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  Speaker 1: get your ticket spot, get out there, spend some minute
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  Speaker 1: time with us, make some memories, have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful man, thanks for joining us to that.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan, Oh, thank you. Appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 3: As you say, Drowning Pool will be in Australia's singing
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  Speaker 3: for running shows with Alien and Fom and Frankenbach starting
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  Speaker 3: in Brisbane on February eleven.
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  Speaker 2: So how you feeling mine?
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  Speaker 1: I feeling okay man. I started some DIY project here
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  Speaker 1: at the house about two weeks ago. I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: second week of it right now. I should took about
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  Speaker 1: four days, but my amazing, loving, incredible, just to beyond
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  Speaker 1: all good positive things you can say about human being,
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  Speaker 1: my wife has decided to wait until the project is
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  Speaker 1: close to being done on a couple of different occasions,
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  Speaker 1: decided that she wants to completely different. So the four
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  Speaker 1: day project is turned into about two weeks. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrapping it up right now, just in time to
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  Speaker 1: hit the tarmac and to fly out for the States.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday where we go into the studio for a
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  Speaker 1: few days before we hit the back into the airplane
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  Speaker 1: again for Australia. So h right now, I'm enjoying the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I'm talking to you because that means I'm
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  Speaker 1: not I'm not taking a risk of cutting any more
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  Speaker 1: fingers off on any sauce or anything as I work
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  Speaker 1: around the house.
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  Speaker 2: So lessons I've even packed yet for the toe bato.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't even had a chance for that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I have no idea. I probably just end up.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, as long as I'm in Australia, dude,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be hot. As long as I got As
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  Speaker 1: long as I got some underwear and uh and a
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  Speaker 1: shoe to do a drink out of, I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon, I.
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  Speaker 2: Bring you a heavy shed along side you got I got.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get pack and I gotta get back. And
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure, pretty pool.
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  Speaker 3: We were lost to join the show off to see
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  Speaker 3: Ky pull it out, mate, So is that pretty extra
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  Speaker 3: pressure on you come into it Orney lest you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think anything of it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think No, I haven't. I haven't given that any thought
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  Speaker 1: on we just do what we do. That doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: who's who's you know, it doesn't matter the spot we're
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  Speaker 1: in or who we're with. We're going to be drowning Pool.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, it's a luxury. It's it's a
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  Speaker 1: luxury that you have when you're when people have kept
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  Speaker 1: you around as long as they have drowning Pool, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need to worry about twisting or bending
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  Speaker 1: your set vibe to match the match of the package
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  Speaker 1: that you're out with. You just when when when you've
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  Speaker 1: had the opportunity and you've been you've you've been given
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to to be to be out there doing
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  Speaker 1: this as long as we have people, people tend this
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  Speaker 1: to want to hear what you doing. So we just
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  Speaker 1: go out there and be ourselves regardless of what the
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  Speaker 1: package is.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, the band hasn't been here out of you
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  Speaker 3: since twenty sixteen. Like I was gonna say, what's changed
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  Speaker 3: with the band? But the mist o't be the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's looking at me right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we got back together about two years ago
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  Speaker 1: and been busy as well. I mean, been very busy
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  Speaker 1: since it's awesome the demand for the band has been
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  Speaker 1: as incredible as it is. But that's also why we
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  Speaker 1: decided in early twenty twenty four, looking at our schedule
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  Speaker 1: and realizing just how much twenty twenty four was going
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  Speaker 1: to replicate twenty twenty three as far as just being
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  Speaker 1: very US heavy as far as shows go, festivals and
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  Speaker 1: everything we knew to twenty twenty five, we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on overseas, meaning outside of the US, and one
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  Speaker 1: of our top locations that we wanted to do we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get back to was was Australia, and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't I have this one. You know, this wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: our radar at all. Myself, hating the sun and hating
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  Speaker 1: everything that has to do with hot weather, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want anything to do with Australia during Australia summer, so
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  Speaker 1: I was I was looking more towards Australian winter. But
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  Speaker 1: when this came about, it was kind of a no brainer,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got I got the email sometime in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of my night here in England, and uh
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  Speaker 1: it was it was a no brainer. Did they you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they wanted us to come on take as you said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: take the spot of of h C K Y and
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  Speaker 1: UH turn it into a co headline tour. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was a no brainer to do it. You never
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  Speaker 1: know when you when you have that list of places
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  Speaker 1: you want to go to, you're hoping they pan out.
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  Speaker 1: But there's so many, so much politics involved and everything
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  Speaker 1: that when something like this did come about, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to turn it down. And then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden be looking, you know, be having twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: in our rear view mirror and not haven't gotten over
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  Speaker 1: to Australia. So it was it was something that we
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  Speaker 1: definitely wanted to jump on and make happen. So it's
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  Speaker 1: taken a lot of work, in particularly from CJ. It's
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  Speaker 1: taken a lot of work on his part to UH
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  Speaker 1: to get all the t's crossed and the ice dotted
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  Speaker 1: so that the band, the entity of Drowning Pool was
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  Speaker 1: able to jump on this and get everything ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not gonna want to hate this private We're
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of a hate wave at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Say you might any needy ones and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Chris, that's complete bullshit and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear it at.
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  Speaker 4: All, all Right, She said, if you guys played Busulianna
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  Speaker 4: have fun before, mate, they look like a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we' both been around for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days and uh so we've had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: share the stage off and on through the years. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: just most recently we did a we had a show
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  Speaker 1: in Tennessee this past year, twenty twenty four, and they
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  Speaker 1: happened to be in the area, so their people call
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  Speaker 1: our people was like, hey, how about you know, can
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  Speaker 1: Alien jump on in a support slot? And we're like absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: So we actually are. Paths just crossed as recently as
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  Speaker 1: this past year, but we've I did a full tour
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  Speaker 1: with him several years ago with a band with the
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  Speaker 1: band Soil. We did a European and UK run with him.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we've all we've all shared time with each
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  Speaker 1: other at some point.
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  Speaker 2: I want the chances if you got it jumping up
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  Speaker 2: and doing smooth Criminal.
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  Speaker 1: With them, none, he said, there was a good chance
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  Speaker 1: for him. Now. Yeah, if you're talking, if you're talking
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  Speaker 1: drowning pools in somebody from Drowning Pool. CJ is all
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  Speaker 1: about that ship. CJ is all about good times. I
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  Speaker 1: hate good times. I hate happiness. I hate small children's laughter, sunshine,
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  Speaker 1: puppy dogs, I hate all that ship. So no, I
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  Speaker 1: will not be getting up and having a good time
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  Speaker 1: with alien that farm. That's all CJ's world right there.
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  Speaker 1: I let that kild have the laughs and the smiles
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  Speaker 1: and all that happiness. Shit, I am not doing that.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably the best answer to a question I've got
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  Speaker 3: in twenty years doing this job.
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  Speaker 2: Mane that's fucking awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Just coming from the heart, buddy, that's all I know.
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  Speaker 3: So there's gonna be a lot of people coming along,
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  Speaker 3: but money from Drowning Pool, which is bodies. But you
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  Speaker 3: guys are so much more than that to say, give us,
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  Speaker 3: give us, say five other songs they can listen to
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  Speaker 3: from Drowning Pool.
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  Speaker 2: You get to know the band.
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  Speaker 1: That's really that's real easy coming from me to that's
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  Speaker 1: real easy. People don't know this. But as far as
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  Speaker 1: rock radio metal rate, you know, as far as radio
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  Speaker 1: charts in the US, it was it was my time
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  Speaker 1: with Drowning Pool that we wrote the three highest charting
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  Speaker 1: songs radio wise in Drowning Pool's history. That's including I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the history, so I'm talking about out charted Bodies,
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  Speaker 1: which was thirty seven stitches turned so cold and feel
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  Speaker 1: like I do. The will always be the Body's band,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm very appreciative, Thank God for Bodies always. You
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  Speaker 1: know the people out there like Obandian Draft pol Uh
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  Speaker 1: let the Body hit the floor. Oh that's my favorite song.
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  Speaker 1: It's your favorite song. You don't know who played that?
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  Speaker 1: What the hell? But but the Uh always be the
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  Speaker 1: Body song. And I'm thankful for that because any any
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  Speaker 1: opportunity we have to that I have personally, to to
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  Speaker 1: be a to be a part of a song, to
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  Speaker 1: play a song that that Dave Williams was a part
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  Speaker 1: of is a is a gift and as a gift
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  Speaker 1: that I love to give back as well because as
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  Speaker 1: long as that that man's work is still in people's
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  Speaker 1: ear holes and the world is a good as a
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  Speaker 1: better place.
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  Speaker 2: But but.
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  Speaker 1: My era of the band, like I said, those three
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  Speaker 1: songs with the highest charting songs in the band's history, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the song Revolution just came out. You've also got to
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  Speaker 1: step up from the Jason Jones era of that. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's the cool thing about this band is it's very
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  Speaker 1: easy to separate the band into four different eras when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about you can you can easily do that
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Williams, Uh, Jason Jones, myself and Jason Mareno.
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  Speaker 1: It's very easy to separate that and and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: the live wise, you'll see every flavor of the band
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  Speaker 1: through those years. Because I think it's very important to
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  Speaker 1: always keep in mind as a member of Drowning Pool
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  Speaker 1: that not only are we blessed and or are we
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  Speaker 1: lucky that people have kept us around this long, but
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  Speaker 1: you have to have the realization and and and tap
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  Speaker 1: into reality of the fact that some people out there
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  Speaker 1: got You know, some people are old school man. They
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  Speaker 1: they were into the band from Jason, from from Dave
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  Speaker 1: Williams on. Some of some people their favorite Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: didn't get introduced to Drowning Pool until desensitized and and
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  Speaker 1: step up and some of those tracks hate and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some of those songs are their favorite tracks. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: my era with a feel like I Do or Enemy
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  Speaker 1: or or one of those songs, maybe that's their era.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe some of the stuff with Jason Moreno finger
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  Speaker 1: and a fist and red light and stuff, maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: their flavor. So as as a member of the band,
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  Speaker 1: you got to keep in mind that there's people out
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  Speaker 1: there in the crowd who may be a fan. You know,
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  Speaker 1: any one of those eras may be their favorite. So
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  Speaker 1: you want to you want to incorporate pieces and parts
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  Speaker 1: of all those times into the live show that everybody
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  Speaker 1: walks away going, you know, they heard their track, they
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  Speaker 1: heard a track from their album, you know. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not only awesome to be to be kept
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  Speaker 1: around this long, but it's awesome to have a discography
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  Speaker 1: like like Johnny Pool has that you're able to pull
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  Speaker 1: from such a vast variety of music to make a
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  Speaker 1: killer set or what you hope is a killer set.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you mentioned a single Revolution, which is the latest
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  Speaker 3: one you guys have released, Like it was your first with.
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  Speaker 2: The band in thirteen years. So were you're nervous at all?
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. It was you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: got together, it was it was Stevie and I going
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  Speaker 1: back and forth on messages, just small talk. And that
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  Speaker 1: was weird to me because Stevie is Stevie's. Stevie's a
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  Speaker 1: Texas as Texas can be. He is. He's not all
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  Speaker 1: about your small talk. He's a man a few words.
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  Speaker 1: But what he has to say is usually worth listening to.
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  Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, we're bouncing back and forth
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  Speaker 1: on text messages one night, and about an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half into I'm just like, this isn't this is
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  Speaker 1: not like Stevie, Well, what's up? So I was like, Man,
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  Speaker 1: are you sure everything's all right? He's like, everything's great.
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  Speaker 1: He was actually I was wondering. We were wondering if
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  Speaker 1: you'd be into doing some reunion shows, and I was like, hell,
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  Speaker 1: Without missing a beat, I was like, yeah, absolutely, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: Then like three days later, two days later, I got
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  Speaker 1: a phone call from their manager at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like reunion shows. It was you're back in
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  Speaker 1: the band. We got some shows coming up soon. We
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  Speaker 1: got to show Panthera to get ready for.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And by soon, I mean in two weeks. So it
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  Speaker 1: was it was we're gonna get you book a flight,
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  Speaker 1: book gets you in a couple of days before the show.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have like a day or two to rehearsal with
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  Speaker 1: the guys, first time in thirteen years. And then you
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  Speaker 1: got shows. So walking into that, you know, flying into Dallas, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: CJ picked me up. We uh, we walked into the studio.
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  Speaker 1: We walked into the rehearsal spot first time being around
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  Speaker 1: these guys in a jam and atmosphere in thirteen years,
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  Speaker 1: and it was like it was just like putting on
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  Speaker 1: a pair of comfy shoes, you know. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was like we hadn't missed a beat. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: way the live shows were, and just everything was just
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  Speaker 1: just the only difference in in the rehearsals was that
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  Speaker 1: between songs, when people pick up their phones to like
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  Speaker 1: check messages or whatever, they had to hold the phones
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  Speaker 1: a little bit farther away from their faces in order
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  Speaker 1: to read the small fucking print on them. That was
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  Speaker 1: the only the only difference was just the the age
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  Speaker 1: factor that had nailed us over the thirteen years. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, man, it was it was like a
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  Speaker 1: bolt hat. It was cool.
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  Speaker 3: You said before that you got on to the studio
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  Speaker 3: for a few days before you hit us try it
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  Speaker 3: so that main revelation is not just a standalone single.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, oh not at all. No, it never intended
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  Speaker 1: to be. It just happened to be the first song
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  Speaker 1: we had done. The demand for the band has been great,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, and but the downside of that is
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  Speaker 1: that since getting back together, the creative juices have been flowing.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that sounds kind of like you never
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  Speaker 1: want to hear juice has been flowing because it makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you may have just walked into a
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  Speaker 1: weird porn scene or something, but it's the new material
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  Speaker 1: has been just been cranking it out. Wow, dude, we
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  Speaker 1: went from juices flowing to porn scene to cranking it
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  Speaker 1: out right there, all within like a that was all
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  Speaker 1: within a sixty second line. Holy shit. Now with Chris Peters,
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  Speaker 1: we have X rated material coming out to your airways
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  Speaker 1: on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy every way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I took us down this road, dude, this
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  Speaker 1: is fucked up. Revolution just happened to be the first song.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, we need a song yesterday, and we're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's here's a song we have done. But it's awesome
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  Speaker 1: because we have such no diss on Revolution. But like,
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  Speaker 1: if you like Revolution, you're gonna love the material we
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  Speaker 1: got coming because we got we got I think I
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  Speaker 1: think Revolution is uh, I like it, but compared to
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  Speaker 1: the stuff we got coming, it's uh yeah. I think
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  Speaker 1: everyone would be happy