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Thank you Bo. Thank you Hardlore. RIP · The Downbeat

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  What's up guys? I just wanted to hop on here to
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  say there's no podcast episode this week there.
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  I record them really far in advance and the vibe does not
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  fit the collective grief of the music community this week.
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  Struggled with actually even just making a video on this or
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  doing anything. But I I have, I have to.
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  So if you don't like this, I don't care, I don't want any
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  sympathy. I don't want people knew this
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  person more than me. But I just want to take a minute
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  to honour Bo Looters from the Hard Door podcast From Harm's
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  Way, he who unfortunately passed away this week.
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  Hard Law and the Downbeat go way back.
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  We did a live podcast in 2024 in Buffalo that was just so much
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  fun. But before that we were
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  separately growing the ideas of what we wanted music journalism
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  to be into our respective podcasts.
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  In the current state of social media, there's not really any
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  real ones. There's not many real ones.
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  At least there's TMZ style headline reporting.
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  There's people saying stuff for clicks, there's people doing
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  podcasts asking the questions that they know is going to get
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  them the most views on TikTok. It's a thin line to tread, being
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  entertaining while at the same time getting the facts out there
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  about the whole reason we're watching in the 1st place, which
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  is the music. And Bo and Colin and Hardlaw are
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  experts at that. If you don't know, they make
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  documentary style podcasts with the heavy music people, I assume
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  know who they are. But they they do it so good and
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  they do it so well because they love music.
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  I'm I, I would always say to Bahrain Collin how jealous I am.
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  Just like I'm half 1% joking that I was just jealous of their
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  dynamic. Having a Co host, having one of
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  your besties, just you got that second person to bounce ideas
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  off. You got a cool dynamic.
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  If if you don't get a guest that week, you guys and those guys
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  would just talk and it was just so funny and just awesome.
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  And I was jealous. I was jealous.
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  I would tell it's not like a secret jealousy.
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  I would tell him I was jealous. And this week I'm not jealous
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  and I wish I was with my relationship with Bo and Colin.
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  We've had a little group chat where we would just talk sharp
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  about podcasting and there's no rivalry short of friendly
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  rivalry. I've really appreciated having
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  another set of ears to to bounce ideas off.
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  If you've got a sponsorship, like I'm going to puke even
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  talking about this, but like if you've got a sponsorship and you
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  see that they've already had them, like how much money did
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  you get? Like real transparent stuff.
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  No gatekeeping. It was, it's just like the just
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  honest, great guys. We're just both in two separate
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  lanes with the same goal, which is trying to make this kind of
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  multimedia for music the better. And really, really appreciated
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  the insight and the laughs that we've had in that group chat
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  more than work stuff, though, I like, I'd often talk about about
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  obviously about Metallica, about stupid niche fragrances.
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  And if I was making a, if I, if I, if I posted on my story an
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  incredibly niche Greek mythology metal core joke or a World War
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  One joke about a band that was incredibly cryptic, there'd be
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  one person that got it and it would be bowed every single
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  time. He was so clever.
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  I recently heard that clever is not not a word Americans use in
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  that sense. So he was smart.
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  He was smart, so clever, so friendly, so funny, just so
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  knowledgeable. And we had, we shared so many
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  interests. And over the last few weeks I
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  talked about a lot more and I was really looking forward to
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  being even better friends with him.
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  I went to Chicago this week to honour him.
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  I've said honour a million times and the man deserves honour.
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  I went to Chicago this week to remember Bobe.
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  And just in a room with people who loved him, there was so many
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  old friends that we, we both, we didn't expect both of us to be
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  there. There was new friends that upon
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  meeting them was like immediately oh, OK, you're going
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  to be my friend for life. It just if you are the company
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  you keep. Beau kept the best company and
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  just just amazing people because he was an amazing person.
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  I knew Beau and but you know, there was people that knew him
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  more than me. There was, I can't imagine what
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  his friends, family, his partner Taylor Colin is like, just his
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  bandmates. Like, I can't imagine what
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  they're going through. Yeah.
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  And it hits really close to home because because of the podcast,
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  which is fucking stupid. But there's not many people
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  doing what we do. And there's about three people
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  doing it that I respect. And now one of them is not
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  there. I don't want to.
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  I don't want to go on a big talk to your friends thing, speak to
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  someone type thing, even though you know that's, that is good.
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  That's good advice. In many countries, suicide is
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  the leading cause of death for men.
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  I believe under 50. And as someone who has struggled
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  with it in the part and how deep you go on my stuff, but we all
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  know I've struggled with it pretty badly in the past.
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  It just hits really hard. It makes me angry, it makes me
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  sad, it makes me confused. I don't have any answers so I
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  don't have anything, but I do know we need to start changing
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  how we interact with each other, how we react to each other, just
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  being fucking nicer to each other.
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  So you should check on your friends and you should talk to
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  people, but you should also be nicer to each other.
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  So there's no episode this week. You should watch the Hard Law,
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  Bow and Colin interviewing each other.
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  It's a rough watch, but it's truly beautiful.
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  Really shows the kind of guy he was.
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  It's funny, obviously, but for Beau, for Hard Law, no episode
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  this week. I'll be back next week, but I
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  just wanted to say to both of them, thank you for doing what
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  you do because without your podcast, this one saying podcast
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  in such a fucking serious thing is mental.
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  This would kill a Victorian child.
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  I do want to say thank you because this what I do would not
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  be what it what it is without them.
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  Colin has to continue I'm afraid.
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  Non negotiable and I know that's good.
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  I can't imagine how hard that is.
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  Obviously not non negotiable. Fucking just realise how hard it
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  is. I would love Colin to continue
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  and hard love to continue. The king is dead, Long live the
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  king. Thank you guys.
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  Hug your friends, tell them you love them, stick up for them,
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  take some bloody photos. I'll see you next week.