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Hitman talks to Bobby Amaru of SALIVA · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: C-101 Rocks, what's going on? It is Hitman with you,
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  Speaker 1: and I got on the phone with me right now
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  Speaker 1: from Saliva, lead vocalist of Saliva, Bobby Amaru. Dude, how
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  Speaker 1: are you, dude?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, man. I am currently packing my stuff so
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  Speaker 2: I can fly to Corpus Christi tonight. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a big show that's coming up
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  Speaker 1: at the House of Rock with Drowning Pool. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are celebrating the anniversaries of some great albums, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 25 years, man. If you think about it, it's
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  Speaker 2: like time flies. I was a senior in high school
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  Speaker 2: when those records were out. I remember seeing Drowning Pool
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  Speaker 2: at Ausfest and Linkin Park and a bunch of bands.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a great time for music then. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like the early 2000s was amazing and you know, with,
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  Speaker 2: with these records, you know, celebrating 25 years, you, it
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  Speaker 2: really shows you and tells that, you know, the, the songs, man, they,
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  Speaker 2: they live on and, and it's all about the fans
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  Speaker 2: that have supported them, you know, for so long in
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  Speaker 2: these records and, and continue to do so with, you know, nostalgic,
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  Speaker 2: like resurgence and stuff too, as well. And, it's just been,
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  Speaker 2: it's been great to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know, also you guys have a brand
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  Speaker 1: new album out, a brand new single, the new single
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  Speaker 1: edge of a knife. How's that going so far?
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  Speaker 2: Dude, it's been great, great response. Actually, you know, the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of a different world now, right?
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  Speaker 2: With DSPs and, you know, Spotify and Apple music and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. It's like, so when you have any
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  Speaker 2: sort of traction on your songs, doing decent or people
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  Speaker 2: are streaming or talking about them, it's all, it's, it's
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  Speaker 2: why you create music. You know, you, you, you want
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  Speaker 2: people to love what you're doing and they're not always
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  Speaker 2: going to, you know, you're going to have people that
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  Speaker 2: disagree with certain things or, you know, they might like
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  Speaker 2: the song more than that one. And that, that's just,
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  Speaker 2: that's part of it, you know? And I think, uh,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been, it's been great, man. I'm, I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, that this record was kind of one
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  Speaker 2: of those records, the way that we made it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I really wanted to think, think about it and, as
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  Speaker 2: I'm making the record and writing songs for it. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then people like, you know, Brad Arnold passes
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  Speaker 2: away and my buddy Sam from Limp Bizkit passes away
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  Speaker 2: and they're losing Wayne as well. And Ozzy. And it's like, man, dude,
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  Speaker 2: it just keeps, you know, the hits keep coming. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a song called last goodbye on that
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  Speaker 2: record that it's kind of about that and about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, musicians, you know, losing their lives, you know, So.
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  Speaker 1: Besides celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saliva's album, are you
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  Speaker 1: going to be performing also some of the new music
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  Speaker 1: from this album?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. We're playing some new tracks, too. And we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of doing a little thing where we're doing... through
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff from that first record for sure. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: we're playing songs that like the band's never played before,
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  Speaker 2: like in a long time, you know? So we're doing
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  Speaker 2: some things that are going to be really cool for
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  Speaker 2: the fans for sure from that record. But yeah, Also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got to throw in a mix of
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  Speaker 2: some other stuff, you know, with having a new record
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  Speaker 2: out as well. And Thriving Pool's doing a similar thing
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  Speaker 2: also where they're playing some other songs, you know, from
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  Speaker 2: some of those other records. You know, they have some
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  Speaker 2: records with Ryan as well, you know, and so they'll
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  Speaker 2: play some songs from that. And so we're just kind
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  Speaker 2: of mixing it up, you know. Each band's going to
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  Speaker 2: play 75 minutes. It's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a great show. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: completely sold out. I know that it probably will be
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  Speaker 1: sold out the day of the show. But it's like
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's a handful of tickets that are left. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: been talking about this for the past month that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been coming in. And, you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of research online looking at some of
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  Speaker 1: your social media, of course. You do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other great stuff. You're on TikTok with your daughter, which
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  Speaker 1: I love. I think that's really, really cool. I saw
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  Speaker 1: a video of you guys recently were in Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: and there was a rain delay, but everybody stood out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stayed around and saw you guys perform. And
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  Speaker 1: then what's this about that somebody's trying to get you
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  Speaker 1: guys to make a new theme song for the San
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  Speaker 1: Francisco 49ers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was like a joke, man. You know, that
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  Speaker 2: dude was scamming all those people and And, um, there
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  Speaker 2: was like, uh, someone had sent that to me. It
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  Speaker 2: was like a meme or whatever, like some fake text or,
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  Speaker 2: or I think it was like a DM or something.
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  Speaker 2: And it was the guy saying he was trying to
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  Speaker 2: get saliva to like make a theme song for the 49ers,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't have the money. He'd pay us later.
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  Speaker 2: And it was just all part of that whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: So I've just posted it thinking it was funny, you know,
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  Speaker 2: had a little laugh. Sometimes, you know, you got to
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  Speaker 2: jump on some trends these days, you know, with the
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  Speaker 2: social media is so fast, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I get it. I get it. It's, it's, it's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what though? I, I think you can,
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  Speaker 1: you guys could do it. I mean, well, I know
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys need one bad. I know that much.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we, we all love football, man. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I live in Jacksonville, so the Jags are looking good
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  Speaker 2: and doing, doing really well. And, and, You know, Trevor's
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  Speaker 2: looking good. So we're, yeah, I'm excited, man. This is
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  Speaker 2: a great season to be excited about. The Raiders are
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  Speaker 2: doing good too. I know Wayne would be stoked about that. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: His team, he and I were always like, just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: talking about how bad our teams were, you know, year
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  Speaker 2: in and year out and stuff. I know he'd be
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  Speaker 2: stoked that the Raiders are having a good year, a
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  Speaker 2: good start.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dude, that would be so cool to see you
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  Speaker 1: guys on the 50 mile, a 50 yard line that
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  Speaker 1: doing like a halftime show at a pro bowl game
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  Speaker 1: or a pro football game. Wouldn't you love that?
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  Speaker 2: I would not. I will play at the 50 yard
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  Speaker 2: line of a high school football game. We have a, Hey, man.
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  Speaker 2: Especially in Texas, dude. Texas, they love their high school football. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We're talking with Bobby Amaru from the lead
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  Speaker 1: singer of Saliva, who's going to be with Drowning Pool
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  Speaker 1: happening over at the House of Rock. You can still
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  Speaker 1: get tickets right now at texashouseofrock.com. The show is almost
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  Speaker 1: sold out, so you need to get your tickets as
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  Speaker 1: fast as possible. You know, it's great to see that
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  Speaker 1: saliva is still alive and kicking and going at it,
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  Speaker 1: especially with Drowning Pool out there. It looks like you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been touring for quite some time in other
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  Speaker 1: cities and stuff like that. What's the craziest thing that's
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  Speaker 1: happened so far since you've been on tour?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this year we've only done a lot of, like,
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  Speaker 2: some weekend stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Because we made the record, and also we haven't toured
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  Speaker 2: a whole ton this year. Our August was pretty full, but, like,
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  Speaker 2: this tour, I mean, this will be, like, the first
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  Speaker 2: tour we've done in a while and we're only doing
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  Speaker 2: select dates. So like, that's the thing when we tossed
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  Speaker 2: around the idea of doing this, you know, that's a
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  Speaker 2: 20 celebrating 25 year thing. My thing was not to
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  Speaker 2: go and beat it to death and go like play
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  Speaker 2: like a hundred shows, you know? Right. Why don't we
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  Speaker 2: just do something like, you know, in select spots and
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  Speaker 2: just see what happens and see how it goes. And, Man,
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  Speaker 2: it's been overwhelmingly great in all the response and looking
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  Speaker 2: at the tickets are doing really well and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these rooms and some of them are sold out already.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it just goes back to the fans
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  Speaker 2: are the reason why, man. And the music, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these records are important to the fans as well and
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  Speaker 2: to rock, you know. And I think, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: getting to relive the youth a little bit too. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, 25 years is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's, that's, that's quite, you know, that's a,
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  Speaker 2: that's not five years, you know, so it's, it only
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  Speaker 2: happens once. No, I really, so you, you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: You blink and it's like 25 years later. That's, that's,
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  Speaker 1: what's crazy. That's just like how, you know, like you said, you, you,
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  Speaker 1: you sit there and do some great stuff with your
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  Speaker 1: daughter and it's like my daughter, you know, you, you,
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  Speaker 1: she was born and now I blink and she's driving.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's like, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So is mine. She's 15 now, you know. She was
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  Speaker 2: 11 when we were kind of doing that stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so now it's like she's too cool for that.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the video of how she got on stage
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  Speaker 1: to sing with Three Days Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like done, she's done
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  Speaker 2: some cool, she's done way cooler things than I ever
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  Speaker 2: got to do at that age. Yeah. you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: which I get it. Like she's, she's super talented though, man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm, I gotta say like, just for real,
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  Speaker 2: like she's working with her as any dad, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's an, it's the thing you want the best for
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  Speaker 2: your kids and you want them to find themselves as
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  Speaker 2: well and be able to, you don't want to force it,
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  Speaker 2: you know? And I never wanted to do that. And
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  Speaker 2: So I think being able to have something in common
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  Speaker 2: with your kids is, like, that's every parent's dream, you know?
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  Speaker 2: And so being able to sing with my daughter, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's priceless. And I think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's what's been great about, like, the TikTok and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ads. I'll get messages from, like, dads, single
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  Speaker 2: dads or whatever. Yeah. And they just... it's like envious
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  Speaker 2: in a way of like, man, that just really made
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  Speaker 2: my day. And I want to do this with my
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  Speaker 2: daughter and stuff. It's just, but it's cool, man. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's what it, what it is. And then they,
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  Speaker 2: then they turn 15 and they hate the world.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing you, uh, when you guys come
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  Speaker 1: over at the house of rock again, tickets are on
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  Speaker 1: sale right now, Texas house of rock.com. Make sure you
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  Speaker 1: get it. Also make sure you check out their brand
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  Speaker 1: new CD. Uh, it's, it's called breaking through.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And the new single is called edge of a knife, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Edge of a knife, man. It's been, it's been great.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to play that one. We're going to play
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  Speaker 2: a couple from that record too. So, uh, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to revisit some of the 25 year stuff and
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  Speaker 2: play some tracks that we've never played. So that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be fun as well. Hmm.