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Johnny Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls In Studio · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One or six point seven am, Cubby and Christine in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and look who it is, Christine.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a little bit of time. But it's been
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  Speaker 2: a while. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Resident is back.
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  Speaker 2: Look at me applauding for myself. No, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: see you. It's great to see you, guys, great to see.
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  Speaker 1: When we see you, we think of the good times,
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  Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, and you're still going strong.
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  Speaker 1: Has it really been forty years since the google all started?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's been forty years since Robbie and I got
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  Speaker 3: together and said right and go sure.
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  Speaker 1: So if you got together in eighty six, and if
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  Speaker 1: I recall name I started playing in ninety five, it
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  Speaker 1: goes to show how long you guys were grinding and
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  Speaker 1: doing those probably club gigs at one in the morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: until you really kind of broke.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we were. We were out in the van for
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  Speaker 2: about eight years, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, playing every club play in front of twenty people,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, asking people, you know, hey, we'll give
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  Speaker 3: you a couple of T shirts if you let us
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  Speaker 3: sleep on your floor tonight. Wow, you know, And it
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  Speaker 3: was and it was it was interesting because that was
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  Speaker 3: all pre internet, so like you would mail out you know,
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  Speaker 3: stuff to like promoters with a CD in it, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, see if you can get yourself booked.
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  Speaker 4: I know you guys are starting out again this summer.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And do you love life on the road? Are you
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  Speaker 4: okay with this?
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  Speaker 2: I love it?
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  Speaker 3: I love I love the performing, I love I love.
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  Speaker 2: Being able to connect with a room full of people.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was easier before I had a kid,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And you know, and you know when you're
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  Speaker 3: when you call home every day.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, what's up, what's up? How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? And and then she's like, I miss you.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to come home.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're like, I'm the worst dad ever, I'm
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  Speaker 3: the worst.
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  Speaker 2: Choking back the tears.
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  Speaker 3: You know, She's like, I just want to hang out,
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  Speaker 3: I want to play, and I'm like, yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: So but when I'm home, I'm home, right. You know
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  Speaker 2: which home, by the way is New Jersey? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And how old is your kid?
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  Speaker 2: She's nine? She's nine. What's her name? Her name is Lily? Lily?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: And do you want to do a long distance dedication
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  Speaker 1: for play those songs?
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  Speaker 2: Stop picking your nose. This is your father.
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  Speaker 4: So, yeah, we were talking about Jersey. Of course, Kevey
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  Speaker 4: and I are. We both live in Jersey too, and
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  Speaker 4: I know that you're nearby, and just what are your
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  Speaker 4: favorite Jersey spots, Like do you have a favorite restaurant, pizza.
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  Speaker 3: Place, bigel place, well, Bagel place where I live, there's
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  Speaker 3: a place called Bagel Chateau, very very good.
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  Speaker 2: Love that. You gotta have a good bagel. That was
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  Speaker 2: I was happy about that.
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  Speaker 4: That's important.
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  Speaker 1: You just got free bagels for a life from that place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's It's it's on It's on South alf
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  Speaker 3: okay in Westfield, right in Westfield.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Really cool steakhouse called Sweetwaters that that I meet a
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  Speaker 3: couple of my neighbors at, you know, like like uh
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  Speaker 3: like a six eight weeks, you know, and uh and
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  Speaker 3: we have lunch. I call them the wise Men of
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  Speaker 3: Westfield because they they know everything.
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  Speaker 2: They know everything.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously. I want to talk about Iris and what a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful song that is and how iconic and how it's
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  Speaker 4: it's had a resurgence, if you will, because of mom Dad.
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  Speaker 4: What were you like in the nineties.
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  Speaker 3: Right y, Yeah, that's really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Right, how are you feeling about it, Like when you
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  Speaker 4: see all those memes and.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see them. I mean, once in a while
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  Speaker 3: someone will be like who I'm like, okay, cool, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to see it. It makes me uncomfortable. But but
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting to see. The audience is our older audience,
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  Speaker 3: and then there's a whole younger audience as well. So
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  Speaker 3: it's been it's been pretty amazing. It's been pretty amazing
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  Speaker 3: and and I feel I feel really proud that. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I broke that wall with one song. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I had nothing to do with it coming back,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of other people did.
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  Speaker 4: You don't see are you not on social do you
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  Speaker 4: avoid social media?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I have social media accounts, I just don't
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  Speaker 3: don't go near them. I had a problem back when
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  Speaker 3: Twitter was Twitter and it's still Twitter, I guess, but whatever,
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  Speaker 3: because somebody said you go to go on social media
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  Speaker 3: and this is when it first came out, and somebody
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  Speaker 3: said something nasty about my girlfriend and at the time,
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  Speaker 3: and I was I was.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you got that. Now I get a phone call,
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  Speaker 2: you can't engage.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want me to do I don't understand this,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so so I stay away.
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  Speaker 1: If you could go back to nineteen eighty six. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just starting off. Yeah, what would you tell Johnny Resnik?
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  Speaker 1: What advice would you give yourself now that you know everything?
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  Speaker 3: I would say, I would tell me not the second,
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  Speaker 3: guess myself so much, and don't listen to anyone who
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  Speaker 3: hasn't done more than you.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to be playing See Here Now festival in Asbury.
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  Speaker 2: Really excited about the super cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been I've been trying to get on that
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  Speaker 3: gig for a long time and uh, it finally happened,
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  Speaker 3: and uh it's such an iconic festival.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you'll be doing our Heart Radio Music Festival in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas as well.
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  Speaker 3: Unbelievable And that was another big get which I was
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  Speaker 3: and thank you very much for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was another one. I'm yelling at my manager
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  Speaker 2: like I'm working on it. I'm working on and you
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  Speaker 2: had a residency in Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: We just had a residency and we just signed for
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  Speaker 3: another one.
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  Speaker 2: Your wife is going to be missing you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: missing you more. Yeah, sure she can. She can bring
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  Speaker 2: the kids.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be there a little while.
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  Speaker 3: I can fly back and forth for that. But but
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  Speaker 3: I mean because I stayed there the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you fly instead of there? You go?
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  Speaker 3: See, that's that's called a licensing opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have to pay for that, right, No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You got to pay these other guys. Okay, Johnny, we
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  Speaker 2: can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: And you have an Action Pack twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really grateful.
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  Speaker 3: You guys got to talk with me and I got
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  Speaker 3: to talk with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Great's a good Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a good summer. All right, Let's do a shot,
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  Speaker 2: all right, all right,