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A Tour Built For A King With LANDON TEWERS From THE PLOT IN YOU · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm landing from the plot and new We've got
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  Speaker 1: a tour coming up next year. I believe it's in
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  Speaker 1: January next year, and yeah, playing some pretty cool, big venues.
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  Speaker 1: It should be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic landing Nation, join us today.
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  Speaker 3: Pray absolutely no problem.
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  Speaker 2: As you say.
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  Speaker 4: The plot in you return to Australia in January twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty six for a run of shows starting January the
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  Speaker 4: twenty first in Freemantle, then you move through Adelaide, Chelsea Heights,
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  Speaker 4: Melbourne and Sydney and finishing Brisbane on Teddy in January.
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  Speaker 4: Like normally this stage I'd be asking bands if start
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  Speaker 4: packed and ready to go, but I guess in guessing
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  Speaker 4: you probably wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 1: Nope, no, not yet, just just mentally packing up for it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Gods, I must have a pretty busy schedule mate,
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  Speaker 4: if you han't to have to announce shows that.
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  Speaker 2: Far in advance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, are Honestly, we're pretty booked into twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: at this point, which is honestly kind of nice because usually,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in the past years we've kind of just
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  Speaker 1: like found out about tours like a couple months beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: so it's kind of nice to know your exact schedule
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  Speaker 1: for like almost two years in advance, you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of like plan your actual life around that.
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  Speaker 3: So I definitely prefer it that way for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Your last headline too here in twenty twenty three was
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  Speaker 4: completely sorted out, right, It's got to be a love
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  Speaker 4: for you guys over yet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, I think it's I think it's collectively all
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite market to play.
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  Speaker 3: It's even from back when we were like way.
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  Speaker 1: A way smaller, coming over it was always just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like an amazing experience.
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  Speaker 3: People seem to like really appreciate heavy music in a
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  Speaker 3: different way over there, So yeah, it's always a privilege,
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  Speaker 3: always an absolute blast coming over there. So we're very excited.
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  Speaker 4: Nice and as you say, you're out in your last
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three, So what's changed with the band?
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  Speaker 2: You know, those a couple of years since you hear last.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Man so much?
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, the EPs that we put
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  Speaker 1: out have seen to you know, really transcend and really
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  Speaker 1: connect with a lot of people, which is cool. So
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  Speaker 1: it'll be fun to come over there and play a
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  Speaker 1: lot a lot more new stuff. But yeah, in that time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like we've just we've toured so much,
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  Speaker 1: and we've we've gone to so many new places too,
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  Speaker 1: Like we did Japan for the first time, we did
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  Speaker 1: South America for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Really just cool seeing how things are translating kind of
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. You know, that's a pretty unique
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  Speaker 1: and bizarre.
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  Speaker 3: Thing to experience. So yeah, we're just really grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk me here, Bright.
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  Speaker 4: What one media outlet praise the shows is the best
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  Speaker 4: metal course show of the year, and that was a
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  Speaker 4: pretty common conception by a lot of people raved about
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  Speaker 4: your show. So what is it about that makes the
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  Speaker 4: pot in you life so special?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a good question. We've we've honestly,
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  Speaker 1: we've just been a band for so long and we've
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  Speaker 1: like grown to like grown to know how to play
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  Speaker 1: off of each other well, I think, and we put
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  Speaker 1: a lot of we put a lot of work into
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  Speaker 1: making sure or like our lights and the actual you know,
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  Speaker 1: like production and everything is something that reflects with what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing musically.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I feel like we've just we've been doing
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  Speaker 3: it so.
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  Speaker 1: Long that it's kind of become just like second nature,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like We're on tour almost
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  Speaker 1: half the year, so we have a lot of time
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  Speaker 1: to just kind of practice and get tighter.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we're learn to work together.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it all well to hate in different countries.
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  Speaker 4: So do you chile Us set lists to certain countries,
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  Speaker 4: like research what songs are more popular there and salo
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  Speaker 4: to that, or do you have a sort of more
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  Speaker 4: generic one that guys around.
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  Speaker 1: We we've kind of, Yeah, for a couple of different
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  Speaker 1: places that we've played, we've been like, Okay, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like this country really appreciates the song, so we'll try
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit mindful of that. But for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, we're trying to for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: play most of the new songs because they're new and
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  Speaker 1: we want to, you know, be able to showcase those.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we try to sprinkle some stuff in from
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  Speaker 1: every era of the band to make sure it's like
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  Speaker 1: a collective showcase of everything that we've done and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the band that we've been for seventeen years or sixteen
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years, you know. So yeah, just trying to make
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  Speaker 1: it a fun experience for everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Bringing it out fit for a King and boundaries with.
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  Speaker 2: You Mike so watch your Host Bands is touring Pondens.
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  Speaker 1: We've toured with those bands. Fit for a King, We've
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  Speaker 1: been touring with for like twelve thirteen years on and off,
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  Speaker 1: so we've we've just been really close with them for
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  Speaker 1: a really long time. And Boundaries as a band, we
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  Speaker 1: just toured with for the first time just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of just a month ago, and we just clicked with
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  Speaker 1: them really fast, and they're just such a fun, cool
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  Speaker 1: band to be around, and honestly, their music is just
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  Speaker 1: so fresh and like innovative. We wanted to bring them
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  Speaker 1: out because we just we know we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a good time with them. It's more than anything, it's
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  Speaker 1: we just want to hang out with our friends.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you go.
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  Speaker 4: Like Bankstock, how are you joining the tool watching Gidios.
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  Speaker 4: Credit to you guys for giving an ALTI bandaged chance
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  Speaker 4: as well?
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  Speaker 2: Is good to say.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, I love Bank's Arcade. They're so cool. We
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  Speaker 1: got to bring them out on a US tour like
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  Speaker 1: two or three years ago and they just, honestly, they
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  Speaker 1: blew me away. I thought that their music was just
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  Speaker 1: so powerful and unique. Yeah, so I've been a fan
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  Speaker 1: ever since. I want to bring them on every tour
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  Speaker 1: I possibly can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're so sick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll let us say that.
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  Speaker 4: In Brisbane shows are all ages made like there's not
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  Speaker 4: enough of them in the modern age.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be quite a few of them, but
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  Speaker 2: these days are getting less than life. Good on you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't even know that was a thing. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's really interesting. Yeah, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely I prefer all ages.
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  Speaker 1: I want everyone of any age to be able to
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  Speaker 1: come and have a good time, you know, So anytime
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  Speaker 1: we're able to do that, I feel like it's a
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  Speaker 1: cool opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Because I remember I was you know, I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Being a teenager and wanting to go to shows. I'd
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  Speaker 1: be so bummed if i couldn't go to a show
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  Speaker 1: just because I'm not old enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good thing now about with you with your
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  Speaker 4: set list in your stage, So like, when you know
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  Speaker 4: that there's going to be kids in the crowd, do
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  Speaker 4: you tone it down at all? Are you conscious of
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  Speaker 4: that or is it just sort of still just get
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  Speaker 4: out there and.
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  Speaker 1: Do what you do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: We don't tone anything down for anybody. If they're there,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming they've probably already already heard our.
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  Speaker 3: Music and they know what they're getting into.
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  Speaker 1: The same for their parents too, If their parents are
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  Speaker 1: going to let them come, that's on them.
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  Speaker 2: Good answer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Musically that the plot of you incorporates elements of a
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  Speaker 4: wide variety of genres charity, have you got electronica in there?
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  Speaker 4: There's pop, R and B metotal, There's there's so much
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  Speaker 4: in there made it obviously works.
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  Speaker 2: For you in the studio, but how to translate live?
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  Speaker 4: Like is it difficult to get the fla ride in
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  Speaker 4: a live setting with so many different genres?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's just it's a lot of trial
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  Speaker 3: and error.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Again, we've been doing this such.
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  Speaker 1: A long time though that like we we figured out
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  Speaker 1: how to do everything that we do in a way
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  Speaker 1: that like makes sense live, you know. As far as
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  Speaker 1: like especially vocally, you know, I've had to just touring
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  Speaker 1: so long and like learning how my voice works and
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  Speaker 1: how to like how to breathe correctly to like get
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  Speaker 1: certain things out, and how to I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to prepare my my voice for like if I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of screams and then I got to go
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  Speaker 1: into it like soft singing part, Like it just takes.
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  Speaker 1: It just takes a lot of effort to practice that
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  Speaker 1: and like get it down to where it's like effortless.
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  Speaker 1: But it always takes time. Learning a new song every
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  Speaker 1: time is like a new experience. But yeah, I like
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  Speaker 1: to think we've been doing it long enough to where
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  Speaker 1: we figured it out. I think, at least to a
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  Speaker 1: certain degree, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty twenty four was pretty busy for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: As you said before, you releases three EPs of Volume
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  Speaker 2: one two. So what is twenty twenty five hard to music?
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  Speaker 1: You got some more stuff coming, Yeah, we got one
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  Speaker 1: more EP coming and then, uh, we'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. I kind of I
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  Speaker 1: probably need a break after that, but maybe maybe if
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  Speaker 1: I sometime mid twenty twenty six, maybe we'll have something
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  Speaker 1: out again. But it's been awesome just doing the EPs,
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  Speaker 1: because it's honestly allowed us to just consistently release music
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  Speaker 1: for a really long period of time, which kind of
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  Speaker 1: just keeps hype, you know, and it keeps people engaged,
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  Speaker 1: like they know that they have something to look forward
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  Speaker 1: to every like few months rather than a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years apart, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you actually raise a good way there, bright and
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  Speaker 4: I like in the in the modern mind, like people
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  Speaker 4: want music all the time and they want content all
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  Speaker 4: the time because their attention to spands this, but the
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  Speaker 4: right too, you know, they people expect so much from
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  Speaker 4: that to be sure, and you've got to be releasing
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  Speaker 4: to me, you get a break.
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  Speaker 3: You need it exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's definitely a hard thing, which
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  Speaker 1: I've been advocating for doing EPs, like for many years
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  Speaker 1: before we the label finally let me do it. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, trust me, I'll take whenever I get
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  Speaker 1: breaks off tour.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to focus on a small body.
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  Speaker 1: Of work rather than trying to culminate like a big
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  Speaker 1: long record. You know. Over the course of just a
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  Speaker 1: couple months, I was like, if you let me space
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  Speaker 1: it out, I promise I can deliver a better product.
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  Speaker 1: And they finally trusted me and let me do it.
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  Speaker 1: So now we're kind of reaping the benefits of that.
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  Speaker 1: But because you know what you're doing, Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, Yeah, for me personally, I'm the main
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  Speaker 1: writer of the band, and so that's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of weight on me sometimes, So them allowing me
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  Speaker 1: to do things like this is just it's made the
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  Speaker 1: process a lot more enjoyable, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, very grateful to them for that.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, before I let you go, we've start a
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  Speaker 2: new submit fio bomb.
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  Speaker 4: So basically, before I speak to you, watrol for your
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  Speaker 4: social media and I'll find if you fight a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more about So I've dug up this. I like you,
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  Speaker 4: like you rocked the shit out of this mite.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't really look cold enough to be wearing it.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was an insanely hot show. Actually it was
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of winter, but there was like absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no air control in the venue and it was sold out,
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  Speaker 1: so it was unbearably hot.
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  Speaker 3: Like the whole floor of.
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  Speaker 1: That show was just drenched in sweat by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the show. It was a very stupid costume idea.
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  Speaker 1: I think I woren't for three songs and then I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I can't, I'm gonna die.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun throw out the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Did you throw it out the craft for somebody cable?
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  Speaker 1: No, with my friend's girlfriends, so I sadly had to
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  Speaker 1: give it back to her. But yeah, she was gracious
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  Speaker 1: enough to let me borrow.
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  Speaker 5: It, like I'm it's just a beautiful moment now, and
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  Speaker 5: but from stage, man, does it break your heart sometimes
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  Speaker 5: watching people try so hard to get so close to
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  Speaker 5: it and then security just grabs them and bang to
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  Speaker 5: the side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think what's even more of a bummer. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: security doesn't make any effort to grab them at all
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  Speaker 1: and they just fall flat on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: I think that bunds me out more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's happened quite a few times. But I do
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  Speaker 1: feel like they've since there's been some lawsuits, they've been
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  Speaker 1: a little bit better about catching people, so it's been
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  Speaker 1: at least a little bit less of an issue.
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  Speaker 4: So you'd see all their faces and you see these
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  Speaker 4: people coming open swarms, Like, is it the same people
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  Speaker 4: go out and they line up and they push their
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  Speaker 4: way back to the front and come up again, or
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  Speaker 4: is it a completely different way for people coming are.
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  Speaker 3: I don't honestly don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, whenever I'm performing, I have my eyes shut
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  Speaker 1: probably like sixty to seventy percent of the time, and
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  Speaker 1: I've got like blinding lights that coming in my face also,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't really I don't get.
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  Speaker 3: To observe as much as i'd like to.
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  Speaker 5: So, so next time you got to fist pump someone
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  Speaker 5: you get their fist on their face.
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  Speaker 1: Then yeah, exactly, that's that's bound to happen at some
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  Speaker 1: point for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully not.
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  Speaker 2: Landed well, thanks very much for your time.
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  Speaker 4: Writes the plot and you are in astray it from
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  Speaker 4: next tenure with fifteen boundaries and bench don know to
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  Speaker 4: my offs, I has to sell it out every show since
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  Speaker 4: he lost, and it'll probably have the end so they
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  Speaker 4: got your tickets early.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, it should be a good time. Definitely come out.