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Backstage Chats With YOURS TRULY At GOOD THINGS 2025 · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: So we're a good thing today, sitting down here with
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  Speaker 1: Teddy from yours truly. Hello, Hello, how's everything going today?
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: You must be stoked it's not forty degrees and then Sidney.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, very happy. It's not quite as hot as yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I do prefer the Queensland heat over the heat anywhere
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  Speaker 3: else in the world. It's nice and sweaty, so you
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  Speaker 3: get a cool breeze on you and you're cool again. Also,
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  Speaker 3: I just I love Queensland. That's where I'm born, so
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: there's no reason I could ever hate it.
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  Speaker 1: Queensland, Queenslander, Queenslander. Now I've got to ask the question
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  Speaker 1: in the answer of the government.
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  Speaker 2: Are you a theater or no?
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, are you a Teddy?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: Do how are you?
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  Speaker 3: What? Are you.
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  Speaker 2: The baty? Whether to tell you no, I keep your secret.
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  Speaker 2: I am I'm an Edward.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well so here my family and friends from when
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: I was younger, they still call me Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone else calls me that, now you're dead to me.
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  Speaker 2: I taken.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it kind of started when I was like
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  Speaker 3: like thirteen or something. I think someone just called me
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  Speaker 3: that and then it's stuck and I just preferred it,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, and yeah, now it's taken it and run
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  Speaker 3: with it. So if you met me pre that, it's
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  Speaker 3: absolutely fine. But anything after that, it's like, that is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting there this morning and I'm like, surely
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  Speaker 1: he's not a Theatore.
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  Speaker 2: No, well, I'm glad at us.
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  Speaker 1: But we won't mention your real name.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. No, I don't have a lame, boring name.
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  Speaker 2: I am named after a key.
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  Speaker 1: You could still be king if you wanted to be,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know. Okay, So last time we spoke
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  Speaker 1: was right before you released Toxic. Yeah, so you haven't
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  Speaker 1: slowed down since then. You've been on the go and
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  Speaker 1: pretty much gone four pout. Do you get time to
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  Speaker 1: spend with the family of Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a little bit of time.
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  Speaker 3: We're back down Melbourne supporting Thornhill at their Christmas show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I am so excited for I love those guys.
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  Speaker 3: They're the best to hang with and it's just aways
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  Speaker 3: some to play with them any time as we get.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I got some.
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  Speaker 3: Time at Christmas, which is gonna be nice. Ye, spend
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  Speaker 3: some time with the family and my partner and the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the dog I've missed you too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've missed them so much.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen him for like five days.
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  Speaker 1: Killer and they look at you when you leave and you're, oh, no, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's honestly probably the hardest thing in the world. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can go. I'm sorry. I feel you.
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  Speaker 4: I have kids as well, so they're kind of like pets.
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  Speaker 2: So I love the comparison the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Your lyrics often explore vulnerability and personal growth.
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  Speaker 2: Has performing those songs live.
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  Speaker 3: Especially at festivals, change your relationship to them.
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  Speaker 4: Over time, Yes, and no, some songs more than others,
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  Speaker 4: like especially as you, because like I know, we kind
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  Speaker 4: of use the studio to really get out a lot
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  Speaker 4: of our.
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  Speaker 2: Feelings and emotions. That almost almost like a therapy session
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  Speaker 2: in some ways.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's kind of nice to, like, especially after
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  Speaker 3: turing a song for a year that it's like was
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  Speaker 3: talking about, like a really hectic time in your life,
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  Speaker 3: and then seeing how much you've grown and moved on
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  Speaker 3: from there and.
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  Speaker 2: Like still singing those same words.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely it's cool to look back at and
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  Speaker 3: cool to see your own personal growth in that way,
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  Speaker 3: which is Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's always nice, but then there are.
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  Speaker 3: Some songs that are hard to sing the further away
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  Speaker 3: you get from them, because it's like it can be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a reminder of some hectic stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, at the same time, it is very cathartic
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  Speaker 3: to let that out on stage and just like it
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  Speaker 3: almost gives you a little bit of a boost sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And just like seeing the way that people relate
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  Speaker 3: to it is like it's sad, but it's nice because
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  Speaker 3: it's like you obviously you don't want people to go
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  Speaker 3: through similar things, but it's just nice to know that
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  Speaker 3: there are people out.
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  Speaker 2: There that understand and like we're able.
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  Speaker 3: To give them some kind of recrief for whatever emotional
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  Speaker 3: termol I've been going through. Yeah, definitely, you've really reached
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  Speaker 3: them and it's like you know, we've been there and
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  Speaker 3: you're there with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And like that's the thing, Like I grew
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  Speaker 2: up like that.
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  Speaker 3: I was a kid that was crying to the songs,
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  Speaker 3: the sad songs, going to the shows, bowling my eyes
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  Speaker 3: out when they're singing it as like we've all been there,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just nice to know that, like we're able
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  Speaker 3: to do that for other people, like, it's honestly the
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  Speaker 3: coolest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 4: That's lovely, And is there any bands on the lineup
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  Speaker 4: that you're really vibing with that you have just discovered.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't really just discovered South Arkay, but they are
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  Speaker 3: the Goats.
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  Speaker 2: I love that band so much. We toured with them.
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  Speaker 3: We took them out on a tour in the UK
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  Speaker 3: twenty when he's three.
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  Speaker 2: That could be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really bad with dates and names, but yeah, they're awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I love them in every sense of the way, Like
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  Speaker 3: they're the coolest people ever, and they've really blown up
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  Speaker 3: and they're still super down to still the same people
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  Speaker 3: that we met with, like when we just met a couple.
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  Speaker 2: Of years ago, which is just so cool. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: really keen to see gooblack on and Weezer.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, they're the two main bands that I need
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  Speaker 3: to go see. So I've never seen both of those bands.
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  Speaker 3: Every time Google I have been in town, I've been
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  Speaker 3: doing something which has been really hard and just never
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  Speaker 3: had a chance to see Wheezer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kobla is like current's favorite band, just quietly nice gos.
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  Speaker 1: So your sound has changed and morphed over the years
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  Speaker 1: as you guys have grown together. Is it exciting in
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  Speaker 1: the writing phase when you kind of come out with
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  Speaker 1: the new sound or trying something out and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you reckon? Is that one of your favorite parts?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, one hundred percent, especially like with guitar stuff,
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Of a nerd with it.
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  Speaker 3: I am like a tech full time outside of the band,
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  Speaker 3: So very nerdy with that stuff. So any time I
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  Speaker 3: find a new piece of gear or just like even
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  Speaker 3: with what I've got, just tweaking and like changing around
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  Speaker 3: the signal chain of stuff to make cooler sounds and
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  Speaker 3: just like showing it's like, hey what about this?
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  Speaker 2: And then like the panda whoa, how do do it?
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  Speaker 2: I love?
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  Speaker 3: I love that kind of stuff, and it's like and
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  Speaker 3: it's sometimes it's just something you don't really notice, but
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  Speaker 3: it's just like those little things that kind of add
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  Speaker 3: together and fill all those gaps in the big master
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  Speaker 3: puzzle of the whole album.
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  Speaker 2: I guess absolutely. Are you a pedal board guy? Do
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  Speaker 2: you geek out over that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I haven't run a pedal board for a little while,
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  Speaker 3: but like if I have the chance, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: like I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: I still have one at home that I use, still
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  Speaker 2: a pedal nerd.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm on the cord cortext moment, which ILD
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  Speaker 3: love still. I've captured all my pedals onto it, and
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  Speaker 3: I still like I'm able to play with that. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like digital pedal board, which is awesome. Now running
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  Speaker 3: that through cabs on stage, I'll get that big wall
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  Speaker 3: of sound running through me. I just love being able
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  Speaker 3: to feel like I just love being on stage, being
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  Speaker 3: able to feel under your feet and I feel like
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  Speaker 3: you're listening to the music through your whole entire body,
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  Speaker 3: just not through your headphones. Like that's that's the thing
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  Speaker 3: for me. I was like, I want to hear it
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  Speaker 3: with every every fiber of my body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, real music. Is that what made you want
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  Speaker 1: to bust out the macarena on stage today? Or what's
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  Speaker 1: going on there?
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  Speaker 2: Just taking the piss?
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  Speaker 3: I did it at practice one time because I made
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  Speaker 3: that intro and then we'll just playing it a practice.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just like, you know what, because I
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  Speaker 3: have been known to bust out the macarena because you
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  Speaker 3: didn't do it to any song, and I've even tried
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  Speaker 3: it with doing in songs in different times signatures, because
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  Speaker 3: you can still make it work, and you just got
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  Speaker 3: to wait for the right if you know polarrhythms and
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  Speaker 3: how like all of that stuff works, and you can
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  Speaker 3: you can figure out if made it wait, make work
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  Speaker 3: around so you can do the macarena to any song
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  Speaker 3: you like. So I just started doing it to that
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, fuck it, I'm gonna do this
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  Speaker 3: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's cringe, but you know, I like it.
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  Speaker 1: That's all can hold down a beat ken fucking macarna too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, it was just great to side.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like why not.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are celebrating ten years coming up? What
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  Speaker 1: you must be really soon?
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  Speaker 3: Actually yeah, it's a it's kind of a gray area
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  Speaker 3: of where we really started.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna say.
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  Speaker 3: It's second half of this year, first half and next
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  Speaker 3: year is really like the whole ten years.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's at some point between here and then, so
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  Speaker 2: they will.
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  Speaker 3: I've been talking to the guys about doing something special
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  Speaker 3: for it, so definitely started planning something to do something
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  Speaker 3: special for.
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  Speaker 2: Ten years of being a band together.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing that we've already started looking and planning
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  Speaker 3: is ten years after Glowy Be, because that's the one
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  Speaker 3: that really changed everything from us.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Years, but we definitely want to get ahead of that
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  Speaker 3: and make sure that we've got to spend a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time and energy to make out something really special
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  Speaker 3: because like that was really where this all started for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean ten years is huge, and especially in
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  Speaker 1: this climate, let's be able to sustain it for that long.
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  Speaker 1: It's just massive. So yeah, absolutely, what would you say
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: the key to a healthy working relationship is like what
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  Speaker 1: advice would you give a band starting out and navigating that.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same as any relationship that you have.
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  Speaker 3: Compromise is always a big thing, as well as just
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  Speaker 3: being there for each other. Like it's really hard being
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  Speaker 3: on the road sometimes and understanding other people emotions and
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  Speaker 3: like knowing when people are tired and hungry and it's
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  Speaker 3: like they don't necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: Like things will happen and it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like comes across the wrong way, and just understanding what
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  Speaker 3: the people around you I really like and it's like
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  Speaker 3: it's never anything personal. It's just at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day, I'm tired and grumpy. Sorry, I like I
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  Speaker 3: yelled about the food. Yeah, but and we know each
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  Speaker 3: other and they know they know, like and just tired
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  Speaker 3: and grumpy and that's all it is. And just having
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent support for the people that you're with.
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  Speaker 3: I think the moment that you lose, even lose one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent of that support for each other, that's when
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: things can go pair shaped.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just really.
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  Speaker 3: Having each other's backs and like, yeah, just having each
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  Speaker 3: other's back is the number one thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Ye, it is a relationship that need'st been nurtured in.
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  Speaker 3: The long run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred percent. Like you've got to really take
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  Speaker 2: care of it, and you've got to put in the effort.
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  Speaker 2: Like it doesn't how easy. You have to really try.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But nothing good that's the same. Yeah, nothing good ever
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  Speaker 2: comes easy. Yeah, I'm glad you had that. What's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing you've unlearned or outgrown? Creativity?
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  Speaker 3: Creatively?
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  Speaker 2: Not the memory of being ship? I don't know, No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I unlearned how to be shipped.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still still really bad at guitars. No, uh though
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  Speaker 3: the one is like kind of like when you're making
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  Speaker 3: a mistake on stage and you gotta just say it happens,
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  Speaker 3: you're a human, but when you make a deal about it,
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  Speaker 3: everyone knows.
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  Speaker 2: But if you learn.
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  Speaker 3: How to just move on from it and just keep
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  Speaker 3: going like nothing happens, ninety percent of the time, no
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  Speaker 3: one notices.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'll say it to someone.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, man, I like it a note
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  Speaker 3: in this solo somewhere. It was like, dude, I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: tell because he was just like locked in.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I asked artists all the time if they
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  Speaker 1: stuff up and they're like yeah, and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: never have a clue.
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  Speaker 2: You just hired it, so well.
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  Speaker 3: That's one thing I encourage is like, especially for like
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  Speaker 3: younger bands starting out or any band starting out or
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  Speaker 3: any level, is make mistakes and learn from them. That's
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  Speaker 3: That's like, that is the number one way to grow
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  Speaker 3: in in any field really, but especially being in a
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  Speaker 3: mand is like, it's okay to make a mistake, but
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  Speaker 3: it's how you move on from that and how you
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  Speaker 3: that's it. How you deal with those mistakes that really
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  Speaker 3: defines who you ucas Like God, we have made a
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: lot of bad decisions and a lot of mistakes, but
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  Speaker 3: we know how to make up for them and republic
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  Speaker 3: from them, and yeah that's yeah, that's you said exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we better wrap this up. Thank you so much, Teddy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to celebrating your ten years together. It's
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  Speaker 1: a huge fee and you know, boys have a soft
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  Speaker 1: spot for you guys. In my first ever interview as well,
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  Speaker 1: so I realized, Yeah, Michayla, she was very kind to me,
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  Speaker 1: so I always TopWare.
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  Speaker 2: She's yeah, she's absolutely gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, thank you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure than today.