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Bleeding For Your Art With LIL LOTUS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  What's up a little Lotus. I'm really excited to be going out on tour
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  in Australia that May and April. Which one comes first, April, May,
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  April May. I've never been so shout out Ocean Sleeper and Deficit for
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  having us out there yet. For brother, thanks for joining us today.
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  Man, hell yeah, thanks for having me pleasure. So little load of
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  sits Australia for the first time ever. Is main support Ocean Sleeper on their
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  Lonely Love Australiae l which kicks off on April twenty fourth in Perth for hit
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  NTEAIE in Melbourne, Woollongong, the Sydney Gold Coast and finishing in Brisbane on
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  May the fifth. It's not long long ago made you let yourself get excited
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  in or you're trying to keep in check till you get on the plane.
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  I think it'll hit me when I'm like on that twenty hour plane, right,
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  I think it will hit me, but I'm not. I'm like,
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  I've always wanted to go to Australia. I've like, we've always talked about
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  it. But it's really weird because Australia was always like up there on my
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  top, like listens like top like you know, places that people listen,
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  and I was like, oh, one day i'll go, one day i'll
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  go, and it just the opportunity came up and I was like, fuck,
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  yeah, let's do it. So I'm super stoked. Yeah. I
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  think I tend to get really really excited, like right before things. And
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  you've done well. Man. Look it's a pretty comprehensive first tour here as
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  well. While you're covered everywhere pretty much the whole of Australia, so it's
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  not as if you're just coming and doing one part. You gett to say
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  everything. Hell yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I'm stoked on that.
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  I'm terrified. I hear y'all got spiders and snakes out there, like a
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  lot of them. I thought, as many as they make you believe,
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  it's not that bad. Really, they give Australia your bed rap man.
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  They make everyone shit listen to Ivory ear and it's not that bad. So
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  you haven't been out here before, man, So what are you expecting from
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  the Astralian crowds. I don't know, honestly, But I honestly don't know
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  to spec but I hope everybody's gonna go crazy and have some fun. I
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  know, y'all party a lot out there, so I assume that the shows
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  would probably be kind of crazy. So I'm getting some of blake that are
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  you gonna do a bit of research on what to expect before you come over
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  here? Or are you just gonna come in briand and just take it as
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  it comes. I mean, I don't really know too too much. I
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  know about the it's a dirigim dude. Wow, I've been saying it wrong
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  this entire time. Did you do the koala stuff, the fucking sting ray?
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  Uh? Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know
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  too much. The spiders and snakes. I hear someone once then, and
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  he asked me if he could boy spider repellent over here, And I'm like,
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  what is that? You know? I think that's seriously a thing like
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  that. There's nice such things I was. I was like, if there's
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  actually a spider rebellion, I'll take. So. I remember one speck when
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  I was younger, my mom got bitten by red back spider and it died.
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  That's that's how much alcohol she had in a blood system. It bitter
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  and I reckon based on Scotch walked away and died. That's sick. I've
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  definitely been been there before, that's it. So the flip side of that
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  equation too, bros like you haven't been here before. But that means Australian
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  fans don't know what to expect to be a man, So run Us through
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  a run Us, through a typical little Lotus live show man, what do
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  we can expect? So I've actually been like moving around the settle lot lately.
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  I feel like Lotus has gone through like so many different like different eras
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  of Lotus, and this time around there's a lot more band heavy, you
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  know, more rock more. There's still some of the old like Lotus songs
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  that everybody likes and stuff like that, but it's definitely more band forward,
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  band heavy. It's a lot of craziness on the stage. Did you have
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  a pre existing relations ship with Ocean Sleeper to be invited imine or did it
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  just happen That happened pretty fast. I think it was somebody reached out to
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  our my manager, and we started looking at we looked into it, and
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  then then we loved it and we're like fuck yeah, there's we stick to
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  toward them. And it's it's funny too because it just so happens like some
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  other people that are involved in like the Lotus project hurt like they're like,
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  oh, like I know that band. I know that band. So it
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  was like word was getting around about about them and stuff, and it was
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  my first time hearing it. So of stoke does like let's hop on why
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  not? Now? You released your latest album, knows Plea to last December
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  bro, So has it been received? I had a people paper digging it.
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  Yeah. I I feel like there's like this big transition of like how
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  I was saying, like the more rock heavy stuff, the more not as
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  much pop punk, but more you know, more in that like heavier sense
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  where people are like, oh okay, now the real Lotus is like coming
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  out and like I see it feels like everybody's really liking that. So I'm
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  stoked on that and it feels like the most me stuff, So I feel
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  comfortable there. But yeah, the response has been awesome. We're about to
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  release a deluxe for the album that has a bunch of acoustic uh covers of
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  the songs or not covers, but acoustic versions of songs on the album,
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  and then an acoustic cover. So you know, for how like much heavier
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  this album is compared to the other stuff we decided to throw in those like
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  little the other side of the coin acoustic songs. Now I've got to ask
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  my does it is it total nose blade and reference to someone being punched in
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  the vice or is it something else? No, it's more like just like
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  uh, just like the fucking like being thrown in the shit and like just
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  complete just gerrained of everything leaking out your nose, like hemorrhage, just hemorrhaging,
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  like you've got nothing left, dude, fucking not necessarily physically like beat
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  to a pole, but like if you got something going on in your head
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  and your body's failing and you feel completely just done, that's what. Yeah,
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  it's more of that. But so I guess you could have got hit
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  in the face at some point. Sounds to me more like spider that's that's
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  the perfect spidery from something. Yeah. Yeah, you've had a varied and
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  exciting career. I'd starting in medical bands in Texas before going to acoustic solo
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  in twenty sixteen. I don't think you can get much more polar opposite than
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  that man gone from medical to by an acoustics, Like what what brought that
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  on? I think I think my heart has always been in like the sappy
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  stuff, and I feel like that still shows even through my like heavy stuff.
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  I'm still like the lyrics, lyrics and stuff like that is still somewhere
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  in that like you know, broken part of things, and like those make
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  for good acoustic songs. But it started. I started off like always playing
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  acoustic and you know, songs like that. But when I started doing like
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  doing bands and stuff, that was where I was like performing, and then
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  I went back to just doing that performing acoustic stuff and performing my solo stuff
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  with like you know production over it. And uh, I feel like it's
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  just like it's it's the whole yinging, ying and yang thing. Like it's
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  like it's pretty balanced. Like there's like you get both sides of it,
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  Like you get the craziness and then you get the like calm down. There's
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  some like I don't know. I think it's just it's just how I like
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  things, Like I kind of just like thrive there and going back and forth.
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  Yeah. Nice. Nice, And you've since been in post hardcore outfit
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  If I Die First and alternai Hip on back boyfriends, bro. So you're
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  like you're definitely covering as many genres as you can. Man, like you're
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  not You're not sitting back in white for die and you get down there and
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  doing the man good on you. I just like making music, and I
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  guess like sometimes that calls for bigger bodies of work, which usually lead to
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  a project like you know, and other people being involved. And you know,
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  I I was like raised were in the household or like my father like
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  made me listen to like everything, Like I was listening to all kinds of
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  different artists and it was always all over the place, but there was always
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  that same feeling like they're always singing about technically the same stuff. There was
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  always like love or heartbreak or like story of like a hard life, and
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  like songs are always telling the story. And I guess I like saw more
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  like that's what music is, is telling this story more so than like telling
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  the story in the specific genre. And that's what I do. It's just
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  like, well, if you love music, like just make whatever you know,
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  but like you know, tell your story. That's your song, and
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  you know, whatever other sounds and whatever you put in there when you're in
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  that moment, whatever's influencing you at the time you are maybe working on that,
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  You're like, this is a sound like I haven't heard before, and
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  I want to, like really just make something for me and do do that
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  and maybe put it out, like maybe do a few songs like that.
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  I feel like that's kind of where I've kind of thrived and like doing stuff
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  you don't started. If you got fucking a titoo on your on your actual
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  palm, yeah, I've got to that's way. I've never ever seen anyone's
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  actual palm Saturday before. Right, that's sucking sick. I've got crazy things
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  that dude, I'm not going to ask to stop feeling your puzzle. So
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  don't know, as long as what we just talking about, Bright, would
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  you say that at the moment, like you're experimenting with music or are you
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  still trying to find your own musical identity In a way, I feel like
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  you should always be experimenting with music. I feel like I think every artist
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  should always be experimenting with music. If you I feel like, if you've
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  got it all fitigured out and everything, then like that's cool. And like,
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  you know, there's some people that they make the same thing, because
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  like that's their thing, and it's there's a huge market for them specifically,
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  and like you know, they just stay that same artist or whatever. And
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  I'm sure they experiment on their own and do whatever, but what their fan
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  base wants is just that. But I feel like for Lotus, like it's
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  definitely become more and more just like what I want out of it, Like
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  not to say like I don't care what my fan base wants, but like
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  I don't care what anybody else wants. I want to make what I want
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  to give people what I am, you know, like by making you know,
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  my what I think is like me and which circles back to like the
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  story, like you know, you're making music and this is your story and
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  this is you know, you're using whatever sounds. So I think, like
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  I think, I'm like, yes, experimenting and playing with stuff, but
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  at the same time, I'm just really getting closer and closer to what I
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  already feel like I am and kind of bringing that all together in song form
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  as we like keep releasing stuff, and who knows where how close will be
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  or how past will be what Lotus is. Maybe he'll do some other crazy
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  shit, but I don't know. I think I'm just having fun. Yeah,
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  just having fun really, just making stuff I feel as most me.
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  Yeah. Man, all right, Brian, Well thanks for you, Tom
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  T. I'm ending press again today. Yeah. You will be out here
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  with Ocean Sleeper and Deficit from April twenty four. Brother, So I'll come
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  along with the Brisbane Shower. We'll catch up a few beans. I'll bring
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  some spider repellent. Hell yeah, alright man, oh brother, you take
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  it out of me