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Hitman Talks to Jesse Hasek of 10 Years · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It is Hitman with you and
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  Speaker 1: I've got on the phone right now Jesse from ten years. Hey, dude,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Just getting into town and hanging out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Yeah, it's gonna be a great show
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  Speaker 1: happening at Bruces Street tomorrow night. We found out just
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  Speaker 1: recently that Kingdom Collapse will be opening up for you guys, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Originally we had Conquered Divide. They've been out with us
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  Speaker 2: for quite some time, but they had some stuff they're
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  Speaker 2: going through where they had to bail out of the
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  Speaker 2: last three shows. Right, But we've done stuff with Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: before and they're good. We're glad they could jump on
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  Speaker 2: such short notice.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's cool. I mean, dude, I gotta let you
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  Speaker 1: new guys know. You guys are the hardest working band
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. I swear to you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's like I've seen you guys now dozens of times
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  Speaker 1: in different cities, and you guys are the hardest working
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  Speaker 1: band on tour. What's it been like so far?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's like feaster or famine. When
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  Speaker 2: it's go time, it's gohost. So that's when we buckle
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  Speaker 2: up and do all the work. Like we started this
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  Speaker 2: tour at the end of August and we won't get
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  Speaker 2: home till like November fourth, So it's about a little
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  Speaker 2: nine week, ten week tour. So it's it's work. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, when that stuff is available and you're able
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  Speaker 2: to do a nationwide tour, it's it's got to still
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  Speaker 2: take it as a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're talking with Jesse from ten years. Of
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  Speaker 1: course tomorrow night over at Brewster Street Ice House. It
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  Speaker 1: should be great.
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  Speaker 2: Show.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are still on sale right now Brewsterstreet dot net.
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  Speaker 1: You guys even have gone into and actually I got
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  Speaker 1: some and it's actually really really good. You guys got
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  Speaker 1: into the coffee business.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that is funny. It was a joke.
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  Speaker 2: It started off with a just like many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: because we just over the years of touring and getting older,
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  Speaker 2: we switched from less alcohol and more coffee, and you're like, man,
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  Speaker 2: we need coffee. And then we noticed our bass player
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  Speaker 2: actually has a mobile coffee company back in our home
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  Speaker 2: hometown Knoxville, Tennessee, and we made the joke. Dude, we
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  Speaker 2: got to come up with something to do that. And
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  Speaker 2: then it just so happened that when we released that
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  Speaker 2: song Rise, We're like, well that's a no brainer name
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  Speaker 2: for coffee, So we reached out to him and it
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  Speaker 2: actually is really good quality coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually also talked to Brian
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  Speaker 1: from the band and he was telling me that when
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  Speaker 1: you guys were first testing out coffee, you actually had
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  Speaker 1: to test out like different types of coffee beans, and
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  Speaker 1: that there was a couple that were terrible, but then
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  Speaker 1: this one just came around and it was perfect for
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  Speaker 1: you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, we didn't realize again with our bass player,
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  Speaker 2: like this was like going to a high end like
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  Speaker 2: roaster tasting and you you could say, mix this bean
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  Speaker 2: with this bean, and my education level of it all
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  Speaker 2: was swim to none. So we kind of let him
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  Speaker 2: take the lead. But it resulted in a really good product.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Now, tell us about was it. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the single The Optimists. We're playing it now on
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  Speaker 1: C one on one. Tell me a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the single. How'd that come around?
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  Speaker 2: Well, originally it's it's a very beginning stages. Was just
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  Speaker 2: musically it was a jam that we were you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're out touring and stuff, sometimes a riff will
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  Speaker 2: pop up and that jam will just kind of stick,
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  Speaker 2: and then it ended up being something that turned into
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  Speaker 2: a little musical piece, and then we buckled down and
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  Speaker 2: did We've been doing a lot of writing on and
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  Speaker 2: off since COVID has been kind of just all over
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  Speaker 2: the place and kind of get our thoughts together and
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  Speaker 2: see what we had. But The Optimist is pretty much
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  Speaker 2: from a vocal standpoint and lyrically, it's just the observation
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  Speaker 2: of the world and society and where you fit and
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  Speaker 2: how you can just absolutely get just beat down by
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  Speaker 2: all the opinions and it's just like wanting to hit
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  Speaker 2: pause or like they're you know, just want to stop
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  Speaker 2: the world and kill the conversation to find a little
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  Speaker 2: peace of mind. It's kind of like that where you
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  Speaker 2: got to find your own happiness. You can't be swallowed
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  Speaker 2: up by everybody else's comments.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that is crazy. I mean, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are the hardest working band I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: in my life and looking forward to seeing you guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening tomorrow night over Bruce Street Ice House with
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  Speaker 1: opening act Kingdom Collapse. It should be a great show.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are still available Brewsterstreet dot Net. Of course I
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  Speaker 1: asked this to anybody whenever I get to interview them,
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  Speaker 1: especially a lot of bands. Do you have any advice
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  Speaker 1: for up and coming bands on how they can go
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  Speaker 1: to the next level? You know, I know there's there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of local bands that are here that are
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  Speaker 1: trying so hard to get to that next level? What
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  Speaker 1: what advice can you give them to?
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  Speaker 2: You know, to I mean, yeah, yeah, it really it
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  Speaker 2: comes down to it sounds just typical and cliche to say,
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  Speaker 2: but it is the hard work. But you also have
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  Speaker 2: to kind of be self aware and be ready to
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  Speaker 2: take constructive criticism because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you have to create something that people want to listen
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  Speaker 2: to and consume and dig into. So as you're writing,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get with the right group of people
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  Speaker 2: where you're all on the same page. We all have
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  Speaker 2: the same work ethic, but like you ultimately have to
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  Speaker 2: come up with a product that that people want. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to really put stuff under a microscope and
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  Speaker 2: get to that point. But if you just keep working,
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  Speaker 2: like in the very beginning stages of our career, when
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  Speaker 2: we weren't even signed, we were going some of us
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  Speaker 2: were going to college and like literally practicing five days
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  Speaker 2: a week and like having day jobs like it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was full on. But then when the band stuff
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  Speaker 2: felt like it was starting to work, like I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even took a hiatus from college and then realized, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to just go all in on this band thing,
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  Speaker 2: and it happened to work out. But you've never arrived.
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  Speaker 2: You're always working, even when you have success. That's when,
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  Speaker 2: like some people think, when you sign a record deal,
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  Speaker 2: you've made it now, that's when it's the work begins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I completely agree with you. Well, looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to seeing you tomorrow night over at Bruce Street Iceuse.
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  Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, wan, don't you introduce
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  Speaker 1: your song right now?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, this is Jesse from ten years and you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to The Optimist