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Fat Chance Is Better Than No Chance With CLINTON JACOB & DANNY SEIN From MR. PHYLZZZ · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah, my name is Puts Jacob and I am one half of Mister Clide.
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  My name is Danny Sign and on the other half of mister Clyde and
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  our new record is called Fat Chance, which is available streaming everywhere, and
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  it's also on Vinyl y Reptile Records, but we sold out of that,
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  so gotta dig for that shit on eBay. Yes, how are you Chris?
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  Very good? Thanks many sous, thanks for joining us. Yeah,
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  absolutely happy to be here. But Leslie, guys, so I'm I'm glad
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  I got used to introduce yourself so I knew how to pronounce the band name.
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  That was the main reason I did that, because I had no fucking
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  idea. That's that's the first time someone's been that's a smart khaking. I
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  like that. Good job. So as you so Supplies released your latest album,
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  Fact Change, only a couple of days ago, man, So I
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  know it hasn't been long, but what's the only reception been, Like,
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  Oh, it's been really good. You've heard nothing but positive things so far.
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  The only thing people have been bitching about is the vinyl right now,
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  But I think that's a good thing. So yeah, but you know,
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  reception for all the songs been great, Like, um, everyone seems to
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  have like a different favorite track that sticks out to them. So yeah,
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  it's been awesome. So what sort of a running VITYL did you do just
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  that so quick? Did you only do five or did you do it?
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  Do a decent amount? He did a decent amount. I think the numbers
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  were because it's always limited. I think it was like more one hundred and
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  something. So for am REP, that's pretty standard. Um, Melvin's,
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  I mean Melvin's naturally do a little bit more, but yeah, he usually
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  does about four hundred um because he does all the art pressing himself. It
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  carves it all by hands. So it's basically like you're getting a really really
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  special piece of art along with the vinyl. And I'm all about the limited
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  shit. So it's like grabbit white you can because I'm not about I don't
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  recrest, that's it. Get you don't get it? Yeah, when they're
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  gone, they're gone. So it tell us a bit more about Fat Chance
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  from a musical point of view, guys, and what are you gone forward
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  it she's a little bit all art the show. Yeah, it's a it's
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  a lot heavier um than what has gone in the past. It's a lot
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  more of a straightforward rectord. Uh. We put that together at Electrical Audio
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  in Chicago, Illinois. Um, it's like right down the road from a
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  practice space. But yeah, we've been putting these songs together for We've been
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  playing him live for like a year. Uh, coming off of the last
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  release, Cancel Culture Club, and you know, that's enough time for me.
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  I worked really quick, and Dan worked really quick, and he felt
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  good about the songs. I'm not about fillers. I'm all about killers.
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  So it's a short record for a reason. And I don't put killers out.
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  I just put what I believe in. You've also been quite a decided
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  that it is definitely a bit different to the previous albums, especially China Lys.
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  Could you elaborate on that first? Yeah, Well, the last record,
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  Culture of Clinton Brittles himself and produced to himself in his apartment, so
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  like that had you know a much more like, uh kind of noisy,
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  chaotic like feel to it. I would say, um, and like you
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  know, he left things in, like you know, his his cat duty
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  would be me owing in the room, and he would like leave that in
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  the songs, you know, So it's got it's got like a different like
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  kind of atmosphere to it for sure. Um. And then you know with
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  Fat Chance, it's a lot more like straightforward, Like we said, it's
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  kind of reads like when you listen to it, it's kind of like how
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  we play the songs live. Like normally when we play there aren't really any
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  like like chances to breathe in a sense because it's just like bam bam bam,
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  like in your face. So you know, it's short and sweet and
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  it's got a big, huge drum sound. Um, it's a lot more
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  like uh, I guess i'd say, um, I don't know threat where
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  it's like PIPI um, but you know we're using that beautiful studio space so
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  um, you know there's fancy lights, fancy equipment and all that. Whereas
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  Cancer Culture Club was kind of the endtip to that, right, So one
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  of those lines like leaves me into the next question. You're normally very experimental
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  in the study, guy, but this tom around you work to more conventional
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  mains ius, So what was the reason behind that ever changing? That's really
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  the thing. I don't ever like to stay stagnant with anything, so uh,
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  like Dan said, the last record was a lot more, you know,
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  home based, experimental, kind of throwing everything at the wall. Uh.
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  And this one it's like, well, let's just do the complete opposite.
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  Let's go to the nicest studio and use the best equipment and just complete
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  opposite ends of the spectrum. So that's the one beautiful thing that I like
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  about Flies is it's always it's always gonna be changing. It's never gonna be
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  stagnant or stay the same with do the opposite. So next time I think
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  he might just report on an Edison role. We'll see if we can do
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  that. So you've had five of those stalls the home studio and do it
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  in the studio. Say well, when it comes to the final product,
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  how much of an influence do you think where you report it has? Um?
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  I don't know. I mean like I like both. I like both
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  spectrums. I like Prmadio and I also like uh the high Pie. I
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  can go either way. UM. I think it really depends on the atmosphere
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  that's built with the song. I feel like the songs that were written for
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  Cancel Culture Club, they came from being in quarantine from the pandemic. So
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  it was just very like I wanted it to feel very like chaotic but also
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  very like homegrown, kind of like a panic attack on a recording um versus
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  fat chance. That comes from more of you got the tour and you're out.
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  We're you know, back on the road doing what we love to do.
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  And this one just felt like, okay, well, like let's go
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  all balls out, Like let's just let's go to the nicest place, let's
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  let's change it up, let's try something new. So to me, it
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  doesn't affect it at all. I mean, there's still flies songs regardless,
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  regardless if they're recorded on the iPhone or they're recorded on a twenty thousand dollars
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  mic. Yeah, so I notice that chance, which is pretty strange.
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  Normally the album's named after one of the songs on it. So I'm guessing
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  to spake to you guys for five minutes, I'm guessing is a pretty good
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  story behind that will the album. The album game came after the songs the
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  albums sings UM. I was on my way back home after our last in
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  the studio. We had just finished mixing album, and I saw I might
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  drive home a license play on a car on the side of the road that
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  said at the chance, and um, that just kind of struck me.
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  I just like building the blanks and uh text of its clinton to see what
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  he thought, and he was down with it, and I felt like you
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  could pull like multiple meanings out of it, you know. So it seemed
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  to fit for for the sound of the record, and they kind of feel
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  I guess right, I think, yeah, I don't know about over there,
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  but just dry like fat chances to side. Like basically, if you're
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  telling someone they got night chance of anything ever happened on deside or not,
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  that's fat chance that happening. It is totally and that that kind of like
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  played to the realm of the record, because I mean, the entire the
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  entire career of the band has been people telling me that's not gonna happen.
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  You're not gonna get signed to get on a rep. That's not gonna happen,
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  You're not going to tour towards the US lights that you're never gonna work
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  with the Melvin's recording with Buzz going on tour with him. It's just consistently
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  going over people saying this isn't gonna work. So fat chance is a great
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  way to just spit it back at him and be like, well, here's
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  the third record you've done. You can only spell that yeah on a ratio
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  title, No, I might be able to get. I think in the
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  back covery we got to going up. I really do like on the back
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  cover, I think it's two middle fingers. That's the fat miss on the
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  back of two middle fingers. Awesome. So here's been a division question for
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  you guys. This is only seven songs on the album, So these studies
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  man like how many songs constitutes a EP and how many constitutes an album?
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  Lige never does anything the right way, So I think that I think a
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  full length album to me, at least from my perspective with the band is
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  sets are normally twenty five minutes to thirty minutes, so I want to what
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  we're currently doing and reflecting of that time period applies to reflect on the album.
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  So I mean, if you do by chance, I mean, who
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  knows I'm stream is song? So to me, I like, an LP
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  for that's a long play is twenty five So that's about That's a lot.
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  Why that's a lot of intensity coming at you. So for us, yeah,
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  I feel like the LP word for the LP for me is just that's
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  the chapter that we're currently in in the band, and this is what we
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  have to offer currently. I also feel like, um, that kind of
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  dialogue also, um, and it's coming about from like physicals too, and
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  like now with like streaming in everything, Like I feel like a dialogue around
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  like what constitutes an EP, what constitutes like an album has just kind of
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  gone out the window and away, you know what I mean? Yeah,
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  Yeah, there's that's That's what I said. It's such a busy question because
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  there's you get all these people on their high horses say it's gotta have eight
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  songs for me an album. It's like follow whatever the fuck I want you
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  to say. I've won someone there and it's an album. Fuck you.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's whatever I say for anyone out there listen to this.
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  It may be unfamiliar with mister Flies, guys like tell us a bit
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  more about the band if you sell them. Pitch introduces to the band.
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  Uh, it's Hugliant, Uh bringing the rack of beautiful Ways You'll ever here.
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  It's like parents out. That's crazy. It is. It's a it's
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  an ever changing monster. It's what I've been saying recently. It's it's genre
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  less in the sense because we kind of dabble in everything. I've always just
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  been I love everything musically and I don't ever want to pigeon rolled anything.
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  So you know, the next record could be a blue grass album for all
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  I know. It's always gonna be every changing. Because I'm gonna say this
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  is my first introduction to you guys, and rating through the press release,
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  it classifies he was a noise rocks your but the listener the album, there's
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  so much more gone on than that. It's it's it's a lot of intricate,
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  interesting shit in there. Yeah. I mean, like like Clinton said,
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  like we kind of just put all of our influences and the things that
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  we like into like a blender in a way, like we don't do it
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  consciously. It's just like whatever we think it's cool. You know. So
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  falls for drink bright No, No, Yeah, I love it. Get
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  that ship on. It's a lemon A in there. So you guys are
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  up on the road suite with the Melvine's and Boris. So sounds like that's
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  gonna be a fun show that could get messy. Yeah, absolutely, I
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  mean, uh buzz in the Melbourne Gang have been nothing but kind to us.
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  Uh, they've helped us with shows. They've they've thrown us on shows
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  which our shows have gotten fucked up or canceled. So we're definitely really excited
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  to do this tour with them because, hands down Melvine's is one of my
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  favorite bands. They're incredibly nice people. I'm very excited to meet. Boris
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  wants really indto playing Zelda right now, so I'm very hyped to place with
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  Zelda with Wata, So I'm in it. I's next for mister Flies.
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  After that, you guys go, Thanks the World Domination. You come in
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  to visit usibe here eventually. Hell yeah, I'd love to come up in
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  what part of Australia. I mean not Brisbane. It's like Queensland Brisbane.
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  Okay. I got a friend lives in Adelight. I wouldn't be walking there
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  anytime soon. It's a fairy I mean, I loved, I loved to
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  come up in there. I think that would be I was just and he
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  sent me a video of this this uh kangaroo you guys got over there called
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  Roger the Kangaroo. Yeah, I haven't heard of him, but I'll say
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  yes. Apparently he's like two hundred pounds of muscle. I could beat the
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  shit out of him, That's all. I was thinking about stepping the ring
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  a few times for some track practice sessions because I was fuck as a nasty
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  kick back on. Now. They get back from their tail and they just
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  run their clothes in that fucking shop, the scratchy guts out right like that,
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  like they they look cool, but they're vicious as fuck. They looked
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  terrifying and I really want to see one in person. But from behind the
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  change link, Finn, you can go out there and mix with them,
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  just don't buy them on the sile or anything. Yeah. One one very
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  good guys was being a plush again, you knowicebut chance he's out now,
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  and it was, yeah, bring me away, you guys. There's a
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  really really quality album. So hopeful you hear more from me in the future.
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  Yeah, we'll be popping over. We'll share, we'll McDonald's. If
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  we come over, you bring I'll bring the rubbish. Actually, i'll bring
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  the ship. You bring them back and Mack from the sip alright, boys,
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  we'll chat with this letter. Thank you, Chris. Take care