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Hitman talks to Oscar and Alyse from LYLVC · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on? It is hip Man with you
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's happening on Tuesday at Bruce Street
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  Speaker 1: Ice Sounds. We got Saliva Earshot the Founder featuring Austin
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  Speaker 1: John Winkler from Hinder and I've got on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with me right now, Oscar and Elise from Lila, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, guys, what's going on now? To be here?
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to some of your songs and this
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  Speaker 1: is this and I always compare. I always compare music
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  Speaker 1: to everybody else. So when I was watching, especially when
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  Speaker 1: I just finished watching Barely Human and I watched the
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  Speaker 1: video with a single, I'm comparing you guys. It's a combination.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mash up to meet and hopefully you take
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  Speaker 1: this as a compliment of Corn with Evanescence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh in my pockets for later. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great compliment. That's super amazing. We're big fans
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  Speaker 3: of Corn and Evanescence. I mean, they're amazing bands.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are from Raleigh, North Carolina, and you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been out on a lot of great tours
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  Speaker 1: and then you recently just did a sold out international
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  Speaker 1: tour with Biohazard and life of Agony across the UK
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  Speaker 1: and Europe. How was that?
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  Speaker 2: That was absolutely incredible one of the most amazing experiences
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  Speaker 2: we've had touring, and you're absolutely right. Sold out crowds
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  Speaker 2: across ten countries over six weeks, fifteen hundred to two
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  Speaker 2: thousand cap rooms playing warehouses. It was absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 3: It was insane, like the we sold out the rich
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  Speaker 3: in London and Brussels was sold out, we As was
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  Speaker 3: sold out, and it could be able to experience the
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  Speaker 3: crowds in Germany and Switzerland and Poland and Netherlands. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's just everywhere, Like was just absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 1: No, I hear crowds overseas are completely insane at shows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, compared to not putting down the United States.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean it's like chaotic from what I've heard
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  Speaker 1: from bands that perform overseas. So tell me how's this
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  Speaker 1: tour going so far with it with Saliva.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the tour with Saliva and Earshot and the
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  Speaker 3: Founder is a six week tour and it's basically, if
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  Speaker 3: you could take us map, it's mainly the external perimeter
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  Speaker 3: of the whole United States, just minus some of the
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  Speaker 3: East Coast. But we had like it's we've basically gone
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  Speaker 3: everywhere already and we only have four more shows left.
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  Speaker 3: We have one in Albuquerque, New Mexico tomorrow, and then
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  Speaker 3: we have three Texas states left and that's it. That
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  Speaker 3: will be the end of this tour. And it's the
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  Speaker 3: whole tour has been absolutely insane. I mean our band
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  Speaker 3: is already very high energy, so like if you think
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  Speaker 3: about it, Oscar and I we're like, we're like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: headbanging and we're climbing on stuff. There was one one
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  Speaker 3: of our shows where we saw these like rafters inside
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  Speaker 3: the crowd and he climbed up the rafter on the
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  Speaker 3: right and I climbed up the rafter on the left
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  Speaker 3: while we were in the middle of our into Nothing song.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean we're very very high energy, just like
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  Speaker 3: throwing down like our entire band. And yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 3: a killer show so far.
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  Speaker 2: The crowds have been absolutely incredible. I mean every single night,
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  Speaker 2: Clouds are come a good time how early to experience
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  Speaker 2: all the bands and just bring in great energy every night.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been an absolute pleasure to play a lot
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  Speaker 2: of new areas for us and played them in Montana's
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  Speaker 2: for the first time the Dakotas, so many new players,
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  Speaker 2: so many new crowds. It's been amazing to see the reception.
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  Speaker 2: It's been incredible, and.
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  Speaker 3: People have actually been coming to us saying that they've
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  Speaker 3: been hearing us. Like we did a show at a
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  Speaker 3: radio station for I think in Wisconsin, and people came
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  Speaker 3: to that show saying, oh my god, we're so I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad to play in Corpus Christy, you know, because we're
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're talking with you and I've I've we've
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  Speaker 3: already played in Corpus Christy back with but that with
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  Speaker 3: a tray you. Yeah, so I'm really excited to come
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  Speaker 3: back and just like you know, you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So Okay, So let's talk about the name Lilac. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it says you called it, you call it pronounced lilac.
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  Speaker 1: But the way it's spelled it almost looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: a Greek fraternity, the way you put it on a
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  Speaker 1: sign or something like that. Where did you guys come
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  Speaker 1: up with this?
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  Speaker 3: This?
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  Speaker 1: How to spell this lilac? The version of lilac.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think a lot of bands are actually jumping
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  Speaker 3: on this train where they're using v's instead of a's.
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  Speaker 3: Now like terraces and v's instead of a's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: landmarks and d's instead of as. So I think we
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  Speaker 3: just hopped on that train around the same time.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, to me, it reminds me of there's another
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  Speaker 1: band that's out right now. When I first saw how
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  Speaker 1: they spelled it, it was b I L L M
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  Speaker 1: U R R I, and I was like, what what
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  Speaker 1: is this? And they said it's Bill Murray.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Murray, but they spelled it differently, spell it differently,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, wow, that's actually kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so Lilac, I think it's it's really really cool.
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  Speaker 1: So you have been to Texas before, so of course
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask the obvious question, especially if you've
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  Speaker 1: been around this area. What's your waterburger order?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I didn't get a big night after
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  Speaker 2: a long day. Whatever they'll put in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: Pickles on everything he told us about a double quarter
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  Speaker 2: pounder was written a quarter pounds.
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  Speaker 3: That's an obnoxious amount of pickles. I'm good. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why, but that's just how I Where.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Where you guys are, pl at Brusters Street, their main
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  Speaker 1: their main thing, that everybody loves there is their chicken
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  Speaker 1: fried steak, so yeah, you might want to look into that.
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  Speaker 3: So okay, good to know. Absolutely. I lived in Dallas
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  Speaker 3: for like a year, and I just I remember the
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  Speaker 3: barbecue was insane, Like I just remember how amazing the
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  Speaker 3: barbecue in Texas is, Like there's a Cadillac barbecue out
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  Speaker 3: there in Dallas. That it was just it blew my mind,
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  Speaker 3: the brisket. But yeah, big big fan of the barbecue
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  Speaker 3: in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about Barely Human. The video. Holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's oh my god, it's out of this world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and it's and and I've seen some of
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  Speaker 1: your other videos too. Whoever does your video production is
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  Speaker 1: a genius.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Yeah, our past music videos like
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  Speaker 3: Perfect Drug and Undertow and Into Nothing were actually done
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  Speaker 3: by Scott Hansen out of Digital Thunderdome. He's out of Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: But this past one, Barely Human, was with Jensen Noan
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  Speaker 3: and Jensen. He's like renowned for his lit effects work
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  Speaker 3: like some of the like his most recent work with
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  Speaker 3: Falling in Reverse and eisnein Kills like has an Architect
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  Speaker 3: even has like these giant tornadoes and huge like the
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  Speaker 3: tsunamis of waves, so taking over ships, like the visual
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  Speaker 3: effects work. He's just really well known for that. He's
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  Speaker 3: just like unparalleled. And we needed to create this new
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  Speaker 3: post apocalyptic world where, like you know, where all of
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  Speaker 3: us are barely human, all of us are half human
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  Speaker 3: half robot, you know, at just fighting and having this
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  Speaker 3: war at the end of the world, and we needed
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  Speaker 3: somebody to be able to really put our brains, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in a video, and Jensen was was just the best.
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  Speaker 2: He was great.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about because I got
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  Speaker 1: told that your side project, I guess or your main
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  Speaker 1: you do this, but you're also a hacker.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's actually my day job. So I'm a
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  Speaker 3: I've been a computer hacker legally for companies since twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Now I actually I run an entire Averasario Red team,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm in charge of all malware and stealth operations,
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  Speaker 3: and then I also run the Deidos attack operations. I'm
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  Speaker 3: in charge of the security Penetration testing team, which is
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  Speaker 3: basically a hacking team, but they don't they do less
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  Speaker 3: stealth like so they're more noisy. I guess they don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be stealthy about it. And then I'm also
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  Speaker 3: in charge of all third party pen tests for a
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  Speaker 3: major financial clearing firm for like the stock stock market,
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  Speaker 3: like stocks options in futures. So yeah, I run all
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  Speaker 3: hacking operations for that company. That's my day job, and
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  Speaker 3: then I sing at nights. I'm a hacker by day
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  Speaker 3: and a singer by night.
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  Speaker 1: And Oscar, I mean, what do you like to do
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  Speaker 1: when you're not performing? What do you love to do?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I am. I have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of watchou in every single thing I can think of.
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  Speaker 2: But my main passion is my social media management. I
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  Speaker 2: handle everything for the band, and I work with other
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  Speaker 2: artists musicians to really just build an entire platform around
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  Speaker 2: their vision. So that's really been my thing, is working
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  Speaker 2: with other artists to help them see their visions through
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  Speaker 2: on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Which reminds me, I saw some of your tiktoks. Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: at least.
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  Speaker 2: You know that his tiktoks are you know good?
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  Speaker 3: You know, because all my formata, he definitely looks up
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  Speaker 3: all the trends. You can't see what did you come across?
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: You guys are Oh, it's like we're in the band
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  Speaker 1: and and she started talking about death and destruction and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, no, no, no, that's not what we talk about.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that video so much.
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  Speaker 2: I love that video.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that you watched that one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been such a creative endeavor finding new ways
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  Speaker 2: to be creative, not just with our music, but getting
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  Speaker 2: to like be part of the social media experience, create
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  Speaker 2: new videos. I come up with new ideas all the time.
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  Speaker 2: So that's been a huge creative outlet for me with
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  Speaker 2: with the band as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just about to ask you, TikTok has
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  Speaker 1: probably been a great marketing tool a lot of bands recently,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely connecting with a whole new audience, collaborating with
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  Speaker 2: other social media you know people. It's been incredible to
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  Speaker 2: just find new avenues that are just like evolving. Right.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a very different digital age that can be
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  Speaker 2: seen that we discussed and fairly human, right. We are
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  Speaker 2: just in a completely new world when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: marketing and outreach and finding your audience, and TikTok has
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  Speaker 2: been absolutely crucial, and that honestly all social media has. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to seeing you guys come
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  Speaker 1: into town on Tuesday. If let's say somebody who's never
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  Speaker 1: heard of you guys before, Let's say somebody is brand
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  Speaker 1: new that's going to the show. What can we expect
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  Speaker 1: when you guys jump on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Absolute madness, absolute craziness. We do come out as the
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  Speaker 2: band opening the show for the night, but one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent we make that stage hours for thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of like AI visuals. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of like really great production that our keyboardist is
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  Speaker 3: actually put together. He's not with us this tour, but
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  Speaker 3: he's he's technology driven like I am. So we've added
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  Speaker 3: a lot of technology visuals like to our set for
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  Speaker 3: every single song. And like our entire band is just
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  Speaker 3: very very high energy. So Oscar and I we have
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  Speaker 3: like this push and pool just like the Katana fight
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  Speaker 3: scene that you see in the Barely Human video. You'll
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  Speaker 3: see him and I like we fight like we fight
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  Speaker 3: on stage, We headbang on stage. We like get really
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  Speaker 3: like really involved and emotional with the crowd. Yeah, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: just very high energy. Sketty is like spinning around like
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  Speaker 3: a crazy person, and yeah, everybody's everybody's gone Ham.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So I got one last question for you, and
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  Speaker 1: I asked this to every single artist I have ever interviewed.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of rock bands are from here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that are trying to make it in this business. My
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  Speaker 1: question is to you, is what advice can you give
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  Speaker 1: to local guys who want to take it to that
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  Speaker 1: next step to become as popular as you guys?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, work your ass off, really own your craft, like,
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  Speaker 3: write a lot of songs, and I think definitely you
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  Speaker 3: network with people, you know, ask questions with the producers
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  Speaker 3: that you're talking to. I think that booking agencies really
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  Speaker 3: make a big difference with helping you get on really
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  Speaker 3: good tours. So ask questions from your booking agents, your
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  Speaker 3: PR representatives, your radio promo people, because all of them
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  Speaker 3: have been in the business longer than you, right, And
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  Speaker 3: so like the biggest thing is knowledge, and I think
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  Speaker 3: just really you know, staying humble and learning from everyone
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  Speaker 3: and networking with everyone, make friends, and just show your
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  Speaker 3: art to as many people as you can.
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  Speaker 2: Really treat it as a business, right. I think that
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  Speaker 2: is the biggest focus for us has been like this
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  Speaker 2: is an organization we're building that we want to grow,
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  Speaker 2: that we each put in hard work during the day,
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  Speaker 2: after hours, weekends, NonStop grind to like legitimately see our
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  Speaker 2: vision through. So create a clear vision for where you
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  Speaker 2: want to go and then treat it as a business
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  Speaker 2: and grind out.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly like that the hell out on stage, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Like performances, Yeah, live important.
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  Speaker 3: Live shows are so important, not only just to connect
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  Speaker 3: to the crowd, but just really like making that live
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  Speaker 3: show something that is unforgettable for everyone. It should play
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  Speaker 3: every show like it's your last, you know, don't don't
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  Speaker 3: just go up there and stand in a corner. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well, Oscar atleast, I really appreciate you guys taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk with me today. Looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing you guys on Tuesday. It's happening at Bruces Street
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  Speaker 1: Ice House. To buy tickets, go to Brewsterstreet dot net
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  Speaker 1: and make sure you go find Lilac all over your
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  Speaker 1: social media outlets, including YouTube TikTok. They're everywhere you really,
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  Speaker 1: I would really highly recommend you go check out their tiktoks.
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  Speaker 1: They're hilarious. Uh, thanks a lot, guys for taking the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to seeing you guys on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, I can't wait to meet you.