Latest / The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine / Andrew Schwab: Project 86
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- 0:09My God, gop roadcast, Oh my God, Rod Stop Flats of God
- 0:27FLA. Today we got Andrew from Project eighty six. Super excited to hang
- 0:33out with you again. Andrew, wasn't that long ago that we interviewed you
- 0:36about Omni Part one, which means that there probably at least would be a
- 0:41part two. And here we are now with Part two out in the world.
- 0:45And I remember when we chatted a number of months ago, you were
- 0:48like, Hey, it's coming out, It's coming out, and then I
- 0:50think I got delayed right away and we can we can talk a little bit
- 0:53about that whole process. But here you are now part two and we get
- 0:56to hang out and chat about the new album again. So super excited to
- 1:00to hang out again. Oh yeah, same man. I you know,
- 1:03we've got a list of podcasts I'm jumping on and when I saw, you
- 1:07know, basically when we set this up, I was really excited and I
- 1:12love hanging out with you guys. And we got to do the episode for
- 1:15the first part of the double album. And then also, you know,
- 1:19we were talking Furnace Fest a little bit before we hit record, and yeah,
- 1:23we got a lot to talk about. So it's really, really fun.
- 1:25Yeah, well, let's jump into furnace Fest right away, because before
- 1:30or the last time we chatted it was right before furnace Fest, and here
- 1:34we are now post furnace Fest. What was the show like for you guys?
- 1:37I mean I could talk, I could talk to you about what I
- 1:38thought it was like, but I'm curious from your own perspective what you thought
- 1:42about the furnace Fest show. Well, first of all, it was our
- 1:46first time at furness Fest and probably our last, because there's only going to
- 1:49be one more, right, And I remember feeling straight up jealous of all
- 1:56my friends bands that I've played in previous years, because you know, I
- 2:00I caught win of, you know, obviously seeing photos and seeing videos and
- 2:05hearing about the vibe the whole event and blah blah blah, like I really
- 2:09love to play that. And then do you think you would have gone this
- 2:13year and maybe even next year had you not played still, Like, do
- 2:15you think you just were to like, you know what I need? I
- 2:17need to just show up some points. Maybe maybe I don't really go to
- 2:23a lot of music festivals because I find them to be overwhelming a little bit,
- 2:28you know. Yeah, maybe it's residual from the years that I've gone
- 2:30to Coachella. But after going to Coachella a couple of times after that,
- 2:38I was like, I'm just not that it's too much. What's what's uh,
- 2:42what's Andrew Schwab's Coachella outfit? Oh, I don't remember. It was
- 2:46many years ago that we went, but it was something that was like not
- 2:50warm because it's like one hundred and fifty degrees, you know what I mean,
- 2:53Like even now it's like so ye, so yeah, I mean it's
- 3:00just so overwhelming. So I don't know. But for an invest was bringing
- 3:05back to your question. For Incest was everything that I thought it would be
- 3:08even better. I Mean, the thing I love about that event that makes
- 3:10it super unique is just the vibe of the people that attend. It's like
- 3:15a family atmosphere. Everybody's got a really good, positive attitude. Everybody treats
- 3:20each other really well. The festival treats the artists well, the festival treats
- 3:23the attendees well. From what I can understand or or observe, everybody is
- 3:29very thankful to be there, thankful to talk to you, thankful to be
- 3:32at the show. Everybody goes to every show, you know, we had
- 3:36a big crowd. Every band had a big crowd. It's just a dream,
- 3:39you know. And it's at the best freaking venue. And I would
- 3:44say the only thing that was challenging for us was we were playing at whatever
- 3:49time in the afternoon. Yeah, no, and that was later than that.
- 3:55It was like four o'clock, five o'clock somewhere. But it was during
- 3:58like the hottest part of the day. It was so good. I didn't
- 4:00even realize I had been there that long. Yeah. Probably so when you're
- 4:05playing an outdoor show in the southeast during the day and it's like sun,
- 4:13you tend to feel like you're moving in concrete. Yeah. I rewatched our
- 4:18performance a few times, and it didn't look like the way it felt like.
- 4:25I felt like I could not move at all, Like I felt like
- 4:29I was completely out of breath. The entire time I was up there.
- 4:31I felt like I was one hundred years old, and I was going,
- 4:34why do we do this to ourselves? Like why? Why? And I
- 4:39know that none of that came through on the show, but that's how I
- 4:44felt being up on stage, is like, oh, please let this end.
- 4:46Well, it's good that it was that way and not the reverse,
- 4:48because it would be really bad if you felt great and then you look and
- 4:54watch the performance and you're like, oh my god, that guy looks like
- 4:57I'm walking through concrete. Oh man, I felt like coming off stage,
- 5:00I was like that was horrible. Like people sure think that I'm like geriatric
- 5:04cold, and like I watched it and I was like, oh no,
- 5:06it's pretty good, you know, And like, to be honest, being
- 5:10in the crowd is such a great crutch when you're feeling that way, yeah,
- 5:15because you don't have to sing every word. You can have help.
- 5:19You put the mic and keep the's faces and they sing the words, and
- 5:23it's just like, oh, thank you, thank you God for all of
- 5:26you people who are giving me a breath right now. Nobody knows that's the
- 5:30cheek. That's what's going through my head when I'm in there. It's like
- 5:34a breath. I gotta do a mic feed here. It's like that.
- 5:38It's like a Gatorade bottle for you, totally, totally you know. Of
- 5:42course I'm having fun, you know what I mean. Of course it's like
- 5:45amazing, but it's still just like, you know, I do remember seeing
- 5:50you right after the show, and Colin and I were back there and we
- 5:55said, you know, great show or whatever, and there was that big
- 5:57tub of different beverages in an ice cold tub, you know, just full
- 6:02of ice, and I thought you were just gonna dip your sweaty ass head
- 6:06in this ice tub because you look I mean, you looked like you were
- 6:10very very warm, like you had just done like wind sprints in the South
- 6:14in the middle of July or whatever, and so I was just thinking,
- 6:16you're just gonna make this like a cold tub for a second. I'm glad
- 6:19that you didn't because it could have really ruined those beverages. But that's what
- 6:24it looked like you were about to do for a second. Man. Yeah,
- 6:27And it was like dizzying for like ten minutes after we got done,
- 6:31yeah, And I was just so thankful we didn't have a longer. Dude,
- 6:36you had been running on the adrenaline. From my from my perspective,
- 6:42it looked like this when he came out on stage, you had the hood
- 6:45up and everything like that, and uh, I was like, dang,
- 6:50is this guy watching Revenge of the Sith And is he gonna like go kill
- 6:54some younglings right now? Because that's what it looks like you look like you
- 6:59were like turning into Darth Vader. I loved it, man, Yeah,
- 7:03that was yeah, it was fun. You know, it's a it's a
- 7:06darker chapter. You know. It's uh when we can talk about that,
- 7:14you know, we're in a new a new incarnation of this thing. So
- 7:18we can use that as a transition into talking Omni Part two and all things
- 7:23there. Young if you were if you were to compare Project eighty six and
- 7:29like the life cycle that Project eighty six has led, what would you call
- 7:32this phase? The comparison that I've been making on our Patreon, I have
- 7:44to plug that. By the way, we have a Patreon community yet patreon
- 7:47dot com slash p A six two five, I call it pale Riders.
- 7:53That's uh. It's a unique community because it's very collaborative between myself and the
- 7:59audience in in terms of everything that we're making musically and everything else. So
- 8:03people get to come and not only you know, get behind the velvet rope
- 8:07content, but really participate in every step of what is being made. So
- 8:13I feel like it's pretty unique in that sense. But what the comparison that
- 8:16I draw, which is super cheesy, but accurate that I've been drawing.
- 8:22Is. I don't know if you guys are old enough to remember the Generation
- 8:26one Transformers cartoon, because remember that, Yeah, for sure, I watched
- 8:30it on Saturday mornings. Okay, so that was my jam number one favorite
- 8:35favorite of all the cartoons. So were you more of Were you more of
- 8:39an autobot or an Acepticon fan? I think my whole life, I have
- 8:45always felt maybe I couldn't articulate it back then, but I've always felt like
- 8:48the bad guys were cooler. Yeah, of course, always, you know,
- 8:52yeah, and most people would agree with that. So I don't know
- 8:54if you ever saw Transformers the movie. Did you see that? The original
- 8:58one? Yeah? Yeah, when I came out in theaters, I went
- 9:01and saw it, and uh, not to spoil, but it's been a
- 9:05long time since it came out, so I don't I don't think anyone will
- 9:07care. Uh Otose Prime dies and Megatron basically dies as well. They kill
- 9:13each other, and Megatron's on his deathbed and he gets resurrected and recreated by
- 9:22this planet devouring menace, planet devouring planet called Unicron, and he basically reanimates
- 9:31Megatron and he's reborn as Galvatron, which is like a more powerful, more
- 9:37evil version of him. So he looks different. He's completely different, but
- 9:41he's still Megatron, but he's totally Galvatron at the same time from something different.
- 9:46So when I talk about what's happened with my own band throughout the process
- 9:50of making Omni, I make that comparison because you ever heard of Galvatron.
- 9:56Yeah, it's so stupid, but dude, it's so nerdy. But it's
- 10:01solely accurate because in hindsight, now you know, I what we set out
- 10:07to do here is Okay, I want to do one more projects. And
- 10:09the reason why I want to do one more is just too basically put an
- 10:16exclamation point on the end of the chapter of my life and career. And
- 10:20there are a couple of reasons why I want to do that. The two
- 10:22main reasons were feeling just feeling like we had accomplished everything that we could accomplish
- 10:28creatively, Like when I thought about making another project record, I was like,
- 10:31what else can we do that we haven't already done, you know,
- 10:35And it's almost daunting, you know, overwhelming, And if I'm being honest,
- 10:39it's like that desire to do something different, you know what I mean.
- 10:41I probably didn't articulate, wouldn't have been able to articulate that to myself
- 10:46a few years ago. But that's the feeling that combined with the the schwab
- 10:52vocal that I've kind of been known for throughout my career, hurts to make
- 10:58that sound like it has injured my voice I got. I developed a vocal
- 11:05cord nodule way back on Truthless Heroes, which was our third record many years
- 11:11ago, and was proceeding throughout my career feeling as if it was getting worse
- 11:18and worse. So the combination of feeling stuck creatively or in a rut creatively
- 11:22or boxed in creatively, and feeling like, man, I just can't sing
- 11:26this way, you know, really made it feel like, OK, it
- 11:30is it. Whatever comes next comes next. I don't know what that's going
- 11:33to be, but I'm going to do one more thing for the fans and
- 11:37call the day for Project eighty six at least, and throughout that process,
- 11:43I basically I try to keep this short. I hurt my voice again.
- 11:48I lost my voice because of getting COVID. I lost it for like six
- 11:52weeks. I had to go to a voice doctor, and I was ready
- 11:56for them to tell me you're done. You know what I mean, you
- 12:00can't sing like that anymore, You're going to lose your voice permanently. And
- 12:03I got the opposite news. They told me, basically, whatever you had
- 12:07is gone. You have perfect vocal cords. Man. That it was a
- 12:09miracle, and I've been putting that off for like twenty years. That combined
- 12:13with I'm sitting in the vocal booth, I'm recording the song METAtropolis with Do
- 12:18you guys know who Bob Burschelle is. He was the vocal producer. He
- 12:22plays guitar in the band Sayasen. Oh, yeah, he was. He
- 12:28was the vocal producer and mixer for Omnipart one, so he's totally familiar with
- 12:33Project eighty six. We came up in the same area, like, he
- 12:35knows the band's history. And so I'm in there and I'm singing for METAtropolis
- 12:39and I'm doing like that heavier kind of you know, more metal, lower
- 12:43growl sound with my voice that I had never really done on record before.
- 12:48Done it live for about a decade, but really hadn't done it on a
- 12:52record before. And he turns around and he says, that's the best you've
- 12:56ever sounded, and it's not even close. And I said, this is
- 13:00the best I've ever felt, and it's not even close. And I'm seeing
- 13:05way heavier of a sound but singing laighter at the same time. That makes
- 13:09sense. So I said, I feel like I finally found my voice.
- 13:16Eleven records in twenty five years into this, and I'm using it for the
- 13:20first time. I didn't lose my voice at all in the studio nice,
- 13:22I mean my whole career. That's what I always struggled with, losing my
- 13:24voice. So found a new voice, found a new sound creatively with Omnie.
- 13:31It's totally different, heavier, it's darker. I'm telling people it's cyberpunk
- 13:35metal set in the Omni verse. Yeah, like that is the new thing,
- 13:41right, And so what, I don't know if this is like an
- 13:43official announcement. This is just where I'm leaning at this moment. I feel
- 13:48like Project eighty six made ten records. The last record, Cheap among Wolves
- 13:52was the final Project daty six record, And even though Omni says Project eaty
- 13:56six on it, what I feel like it is is gall like, Yeah,
- 14:01the band reborn it's a brand new thing. I'm gonna call it P
- 14:05eighty six colon Omni and all of it will be cyberpunk metal set in the
- 14:11omniverse, So it'll all be inside this world building story narrative, all of
- 14:16it darker, heavier, sci fi, futurism, transhumanism, man's relationship with
- 14:24technology. All it's set in that world. So I feel like, inadvertently
- 14:31it's been completely reinvented and reborn. And I'm really excited about it because a
- 14:35large part of the commentary that we're getting from people when they're listening to new
- 14:39music is this can't be the end. This is the best thing you've ever
- 14:41write. Well, that's exactly what I was just gonna say. It's like,
- 14:45this can't be the end. Now you just found your voice, You're
- 14:48you're reborn, You're you're Gallatron. Now like you have to take it to
- 14:50the next step. I don't want people to feel like though I wasn't sincere
- 14:56about saying I'm doing one more, that's it. I was very very serious.
- 15:00In fact, I was so serious I didn't even know if I could
- 15:01do one more because that's the way I was feeling about everything. I was
- 15:05like I gotta do this, but I don't know how I'm gonna find the
- 15:07strength to do it. And throughout the process, I just found this whole
- 15:11new excitement and it really was just what it was for me is just going,
- 15:18here's the vision, Here's what I want to do, Here's what I've
- 15:20always wanted to do. I've never done it for some reason. And this
- 15:24time I'm just gonna be a real nice but I'm gonna be stubborn about what
- 15:30i want this thing to be. Yeah, and I'm just gonna fight for
- 15:33that not and again still be nice with everyone I work with, but but
- 15:39like really sticking to the vision of No, it needs to be this thing.
- 15:43And I realized, and you know, you never stop learning when you're
- 15:46doing this stuff, but I realized, that's the formula. That's the formula.
- 15:50It's like, have a clear vision and just stick to it, you
- 15:54know what I mean, like execute that thing. Of course, I had
- 15:56a huge team of amazingly talented people were involved in this thing, from collaboration
- 16:02to production and online. But I'm really proud of what has been accomplished with
- 16:07Omni and I feel like I feel like it's the best work. And that's
- 16:12the thing that everything says, you know, when they put up the new
- 16:15record. But I think it's objectively, by far, the best thing I've
- 16:19ever done. So I had Omnium my Top five Albums of Omni Part one
- 16:26in my Top Albums of twenty twenty three, and I said the exact same
- 16:30thing. I said, I think this is the best project album there.
- 16:33It is. I can't believe it. I'm in awe, dude, I
- 16:36am in awe. I am just in on. It just makes me.
- 16:41The lesson, the life lesson for me is trust yourself. Trust your gut,
- 16:45you know what I mean, especially when it comes to creative stuff.
- 16:48Trust your gut. You think something can be better, take the time to
- 16:52make it better. You know. If you think you need to take an
- 16:56idea further, take it further. If you think you need you know,
- 16:59more time, take more time. You know, whatever it is, just
- 17:03make sure it's right and you feel good about it before you finish, yeah,
- 17:07and before you put the thing out, and don't let anyone talk you
- 17:11out of it, you know, because everybody's going to have a different perspective
- 17:14on things, and you just gotta you gotta stay stay true to your vision
- 17:18and Yeah, it's just it's overwhelming. How cool it's all been so far,
- 17:25the last couple of years working on this thing. Yeah, well,
- 17:27let's let's talk about part two in more depth, because Part one was an
- 17:33absolute theatrical masterpiece, and I'm gonna I'm not even gonna say it was just
- 17:37a musical like masterpiece as well, because it was that obviously, but it's
- 17:41a theatrical masterpiece as well. Part two is it's it's not letting up.
- 17:48It's like it's to be the opposite pace wise, because I knew, you
- 17:53know, there's always somebody who's not happy, right, So I knew that
- 17:56people say it's or it's too whoa, it's like, you know, the
- 18:02songs are too long or whatever. And I was like, it's supposed to
- 18:06be film score, you know what I mean, it's supposed to be a
- 18:11narrative. Knowing in the back pocket, I'm like, well, the next
- 18:15one's not gonna feel like that at all. It's gonna be. Yeah.
- 18:21The reason I say that it's not letting up is that it in terms of
- 18:25quality, you know, with something this big, a double album, you
- 18:29would think that there'd be a drop in quality somewhere there's not a single drop
- 18:33in quality, no filler at all, whatsoever. It's it's amazing, great
- 18:37Mager no filler. I mean, I just I'm so in love with this
- 18:41man. It just exceeded my expectations, to be honest, like not that
- 18:48the bar was lower or anything, but like when it was all said and
- 18:51done and just looking at the reaction, I don't know if you guys saw.
- 18:53We just released a new music video for the song Kariyah. Yeah.
- 19:00I watched him yesterday. It came out so cool. I'm so happy with
- 19:03it. I just I put it on every day and just smile and I
- 19:06go, dude, how did we do that? You know what I mean?
- 19:11It's like, uh, and I got to give a shout to the
- 19:15team. You know, I'm not doing this stuff alone. Like yeah,
- 19:18I'm I'm definitely leading the charge, but I'm you know, this stuff doesn't
- 19:23get executed without Matt Buttman without oh gosh, so many, so many names,
- 19:29uh, Philip Ferris, Darren King, Oh my gosh, Michael Palm,
- 19:34Quiz, Corey Brandon, Grayson Stewart. I mentioned Bobrachelle earlier, but
- 19:41a huge role in Omni Part one. George Leaver. Great great, uh,
- 19:47great mixing job on Omni Part two and uh yeah, you know,
- 19:52we've had a lot of people touch this thing, so it's it's been a
- 19:57team effort. Well, it's a multimedia experience. I think you got to
- 20:03show us at box set now, all right? Yeah, yeah, I
- 20:06was bragging you guys about this. Okay. So I just received this today
- 20:10and we've got a few of these left for sales. So it's an expensive,
- 20:15expensive price point, but it's worth it because we went out of our
- 20:18way to make this thing, by far the most incredible things done. Okay,
- 20:22So this is the Omni Finyl box set, and we released three individual
- 20:29variants of the album. They're each two LP sets with a gatefold. Each
- 20:33has its own vinyl color. We did one with gold, and I can't
- 20:40oversell the gold. It literally looks like liquid solidified gold. We'll pull it
- 20:44out and show us. I'm going to show you, all right, cool.
- 20:47The second one is cement and the third one is a black with gold
- 20:51flex marble things. So inside this, each vinyl variant has its own two
- 20:59panel post that's a different piece of the Omni universe. Uh. And then
- 21:03inside the box that there are three frameable lithographs that are really cool. Uh.
- 21:08And then we've got an eight page booklet that contains the first chapter of
- 21:12the Omni NOVELA, which is a book that I've written editing right now.
- 21:18It's going to come out in a couple of months. That's basically going to
- 21:21tell the story of Omni part one. It's fiction book, about two hundred
- 21:25pages the first chapter, and it's a draft of the first chapter, So
- 21:29what will end up in the book will be a little bit different, but
- 21:30pretty much the same, uh. The booklet of that. And then we
- 21:36included Hey, and this is my favorite part. I'll show you all this
- 21:40elaminated like a like a tour pass, but it's a v I P Pass
- 21:45to Omnifest, which is the festival that takes place in the story. You
- 21:52know that means you've got to make it real too. You got to you
- 21:55got to bring it to to this reality is Omnifest. Yeah maybe, I
- 21:59mean yeah, in your let's do it in your house. There not enough
- 22:04hours in the day. Oh yeah, it'd be perfect. Hold on,
- 22:08Okay, this is gonna be tricky, all right. These are the lithographs.
- 22:14These are really cool. Donnie Phillips gets the shout out. He was
- 22:17the artist on the Okay, we call these trans transhumanism art. It's all
- 22:25just dude, where are you going to have those framed in your place?
- 22:30That's the big but they're gonna get framed. This one I love. It's
- 22:33a dude swam and merging with the metaverse or the omniverse. That's a sick
- 22:42tattoo right there. Yeah, maybe we did a shirt of this that looks
- 22:48really cool. Okay, so that's the lithograss. Here's the storybook preview the
- 22:53booklet that comes to it, and it's like full size, so it's big
- 22:59wow, And it's all world buildings, so it's got scenes from the the
- 23:04world and it just tells you what it's all about. It kind of gives
- 23:08you the first kind of lays the backbone of the story. I'll read you
- 23:15just time of Bit twenty forty one. Omnia Technological Innovations Company has risen to
- 23:21unite humanity under one government, social media network, and commerce system. Their
- 23:26applications released to the public to combat a series of global crises change human life
- 23:30forever. The Pulse is a microscopic implant algorithm which eliminates depression addiction and most
- 23:37human conflict by regulating emotion. The Optic is a nanobot interface which attaches to
- 23:45the optic nerve, rendering smartphones obsolete, making augmented and virtual reality a part
- 23:51of natural sight. Organic fission is an optimized renewable energy source which eradicates the
- 23:57need for nuclear, solar, high drove and fossil fuels. History culminates as
- 24:03the world gathers virtually and physically at the newly finished Omni City, near the
- 24:07site of ancient Babylon. It is the final wonder of the modern world,
- 24:11a smart city alive as a sentient AI with screens on every surface and the
- 24:17largest building ever constructed hovering at its center. For one week, the world
- 24:22will celebrate at Omnifest, a massive music festival and raid to christen the new
- 24:26city. At the event, kickoff, a mysterious new application drop from Omni
- 24:33called The Augment is set to be revealed. The secrecy surrounding the Augment feels
- 24:37massive global expectation for its drop. At Omnifest, lead influencer for Omnisocial Media,
- 24:45David Markham meets his best friend, producer and bodyguard Adam Nason, just
- 24:52outside Omni City he is commissioned to document the event on a live stream for
- 24:56the entire world. So that's that's the backdrop. Dude. I cannot wait
- 25:03for the book to me too. I have to find the time to get
- 25:06it done. Who's the headliner of who's the headliner of omnifat nickelback or people
- 25:11still throwing stuff out at them? Uh, that's a good question. That's
- 25:15a good listen. Awesome, Let's let's look at the vine. Okay,
- 25:22so bunk cover yeah, cover eightfold lyrics, Oh, okay, and inside
- 25:33you've got your This is such a process. I did this earlier for a
- 25:38video that I made like an unboxing video. It took me like fifteen minutes
- 25:41to do it all taking apart. Okay, here's your poster one. That's
- 25:48a you have Omni City from the ground. Love it. Wow, You've
- 25:55got all your executive producers, which are our Patreon folks, and I are
- 26:00on the other side there. It almost has like a like a nineteen twenties
- 26:06Oh, it's for sure, for sure, for sure art echo meets brutalistic
- 26:11architecture meets seventies sci fi. It's those so brutalistic architecture seventies sci fi and
- 26:18Art deco, so there is definitely an art Deco element here. Okay,
- 26:25so that's your poster, and there's a different poster in each final. You
- 26:29guys getting bored yet, No, I'm loving this. I get like,
- 26:33I like imagery wise, I get like a clockwork Orange mixed with Brave New
- 26:40World kind of Yeah, yeah, totally clockwork Orange made it into ultra violence.
- 26:45That's where. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if you can see
- 26:48this, but it's black with gold like fleck flakes. Yeah, and if
- 26:52it really looks like gold, so like if you hold it to the light,
- 26:56you can see like it looks like you're mining for gold, like you
- 27:02see these like gold. Yeah, I can really tell. If I hold
- 27:07that angle, you can probably see it. Everyone got to be watching this
- 27:10on YouTube, so if you're if you're on podcast only right now, make
- 27:14sure you're up on the YouTube. This is sick. Okay. So that's
- 27:17the one that's the variant three. Are you still with us? S I
- 27:22keep going, yeah, I keep going long winded. I'm sorry. This
- 27:26is here's the other one. Another one okay, same booklet, okay,
- 27:36but the vinyl This one is cement and This is a different it's a different
- 27:44poster. This is uh Omni City from Afar. Wow, Oh my gosh,
- 27:52same internal again. Donnie Phillips is my guy. He's Donnie Phillips Philip.
- 27:59Yeah, what else? What else has Donnie done? He's a big
- 28:02dude. He's done. He's worked for let's see Universal for the last like
- 28:10fifteen plus years. Okay, so he's done huge stuff. If I did,
- 28:15and everybody everyone huge love it. Okay. So here's the cement.
- 28:21And it also has this like quality that's hard to quantify on the video.
- 28:27I'll try to do what I did before. It has this like swirly quality
- 28:32that looks kind of like cement, So like you have to oh yeah,
- 28:37you can tell, yeah, you have to. Yeah, at an angle
- 28:41when you see it in person, it's impressive. But it was a beautiful
- 28:45color though. I love that color. Yeah, this color is rad and
- 28:55is dope. It's pretty dope. So, uh, that's the second variant.
- 29:00And if you're we also are selling these variants individually on our well just
- 29:07go to Project eighty six dot com and we have them for sale individually,
- 29:11and it has the pictures of the individual experience, so you can see what.
- 29:17Okay, So I want to shave you this omnifest pass too. It
- 29:22is show that and I'll show you the last. Okay. So this is
- 29:26the past and it's like a metallic pass. It looks just like your typical
- 29:33Yeah, totally tour land in it until you read the fine print of the
- 29:38user agreement for going to the festival, and that has some definite world building
- 29:41elements and secrets and these dregs in there to read they give you a little
- 29:45bit more. It's pretty cryptic and I don't want to give it away,
- 29:49but in order to read it you have to take a picture of it and
- 29:52zoom it in. It's really hard to read just the small to be like
- 29:56the fine print of like a user agreement. There's some various stuff in this.
- 30:00I put that on the hype and try to get into furnest next year.
- 30:04Yeah that works. I mean this is an I thought this was Omni.
- 30:11Where's nickelback? Which the logo that you had there where Omni goes around
- 30:18like that circle. Are you are you a Star Wars fan? Yeah?
- 30:22Yeah, that does remind you of like the Empire a little bit. Yeah,
- 30:26it's the Empire logo, like not not exactly obviously, but it's got
- 30:30some similarities there. Third poster, this is the Omni Tower, which,
- 30:34oh my gosh, it just it reminds me of of like Metropolis. They
- 30:44you know, I never watched that film, but I've gotten a lot of
- 30:47people mentioning that. Uh and I need to go back and watch it,
- 30:52yeah, to check it out. Man. Yeah. The Okay, so
- 30:55people think this is like a rocket ship, and I get why because this
- 30:57stuff those are just they're called they're called levitating and they're elevator. People take
- 31:07into the tower, so it's like a tractor be So this tower just hovers.
- 31:11It's like suspended in place by this gravitational organic fission powered technology. I
- 31:19feel like Frodo looking at that right now. Yeah, totally. There's a
- 31:22lot of mortar going on. Are a door right there? Yeah for sure.
- 31:26Okay, this is my favorite varying in terms of the color, and
- 31:30I think this will come across on the video of the bat. Uh.
- 31:34This is overwhelmingly accurate. It's gold and it looks like gold. It literally
- 31:47looks like flowing gold. Yeah, it looks like flowing so amazing. So
- 31:51that those aren't actual ridges, that's unbelievable. Yeah, there's no you can't
- 31:55feel it. You just see it, right, but it just it looks
- 31:57but it truly like through video here it looks like it's got actual ridges,
- 32:01which is amazing. So it's pretty wild. So yeah, this is kind
- 32:06of the crown jewel of anything everything that I've ever worked on, and it's
- 32:10like very special. So I'm really excited for people to get their hands on
- 32:15these because if they're as stoked as I am. Now now you can tell
- 32:22people you have a gold record. I have a gold record. I should
- 32:24frame it, right, we have a gold record. So you said you
- 32:30said you got that today, right, I just got it a few hours
- 32:32ago. Yeah. You know that's crazy because there's already a YouTube video up
- 32:36with someone doing it unboxing from yesterday. Uh, well it wouldn't be yesterday
- 32:42because I put that up today, or maybe it was you that did it.
- 32:45Yeah, it was earlier today on our YouTube. Oh it says January
- 32:50fifteenth. Yeah it is January fifteenth. Yeah, it wouldn't have been yesterday
- 32:52unless somebody else did it. But I was gonna say, is how did
- 32:55someone else get it before? No one else has it? So I assume
- 32:58that's the one you're looking at, unless it was like the manufacturer. I
- 33:01just I just saw the thumbnail. I didn't actually get to watch the video,
- 33:04but yeah, it's it was. It was a full day of receiving
- 33:12palettes and unboxing and checking it all out, and uh, it's better than
- 33:17what I thought it was going to be. And I thought it was going
- 33:21to be really cool. Yeah, and it looks really impressive. So I
- 33:23think when people get these are going to be pretty cool. Dude, you
- 33:27got to be pretty happy with that. It's it's it's it's like, it's
- 33:30here's one thing I just can't quite wrap my head around. So I'm a
- 33:35I'm an indecisive person over long periods of time. If it's like a quick
- 33:38impulse thing, I can I can make my decision. I'll be happy with
- 33:42it no matter what. Right, But when it's something that's so big and
- 33:45all encompassing of your life, how do you how do you stay the path?
- 33:52How do you like maintain your your focus on this, on this giant
- 33:59project and all all of the little things that go along with it. People
- 34:01that write books, for instance, like like they they blow my mind when
- 34:06they can like continue like a story that just seems like it will never end.
- 34:12I gotta imagine with something like this that you have a similar feeling,
- 34:15right, I'm just crazy. I mean that is when it comes down.
- 34:20Most people aren't this crazy, you know. I just when I get locked
- 34:24into something that has to happen, it has to happen, and that's just
- 34:30it's done and it has to have and it doesn't matter the amount of work
- 34:34that goes into it. I wake up every day and plug away. I
- 34:37love it. And writing is a labor of love for sure. I Mean
- 34:42I always tell people I'm a writer. First, I'm a vocalist performer,
- 34:47you know, dud in a band. Second. Yeah, I love writing
- 34:52is my zen man. When I when I get lost, and especially fiction
- 34:57writing. I've discovered when I get lost in like telling a story or or
- 35:02developing a character or a world, don't like it. It's just very,
- 35:07very immersive, And I forget the universe when when I'm in it, when
- 35:13it's real to me so and there's just so much more of this world that
- 35:20is going to come out over the weeks and months to come. People are
- 35:23aren't aware of it yet. Most people, the people on our Patreon community
- 35:28are because I'm flushing out all the ideas in the Confession booth that is my
- 35:32podcast, you know what I mean. So that's kind of the purpose of
- 35:36the podcast is flesh out ideas, you know, and as I talked them
- 35:39through, people comment on them and and then then it gets revised and blah
- 35:45blah blah blah. But the general public of people that are just encountering,
- 35:52you know, the Pariah music video, you know, and haven't been following
- 35:54along as to what's going on, or you know, just happened upon part
- 36:00two and haven't listened to the band in twenty years. You know, a
- 36:01lot of people say that I haven't heard you guys since Strong Black Lines.
- 36:05I don't even know this is you know, this is this is awesome.
- 36:07I'm gonna check this out. You know. That's really cool. That's very
- 36:10very exciting. Yeah, and I keep wanting to go not in Like I
- 36:16just keep wanting to tell everybody you buckle up, there's more to come,
- 36:20Like, yeah, I have all this content planned out that I'm going to
- 36:23be releasing and then more that's like in the orbit in the sphere. Yeah.
- 36:29So, like I think when people get the the vinyl box set,
- 36:32you know, Grant, it's only going to be you know, a few
- 36:35hundred people to get these, but you know they're going to read this little
- 36:37snip of the book. The people that already pre ordered the only storybook,
- 36:40you know, will be leaking out more and more pieces of the puzzle in
- 36:45terms of what this story means, what it's about, what is the you
- 36:47know, fans of music usually stop at the music, you know what I
- 36:54mean. Generally you get a small percentage of people that engage you further,
- 37:00Yeah, because they get so moved by the music they want to, right
- 37:04so that they'll investigate the band, or they'll investigate the influences for the band,
- 37:08or you know, read interviews or or maybe you know, check out
- 37:14podcast content or whatever. And so I'm inviting people to come deeper and deeper
- 37:19into this into this world, and the music is just the starting point,
- 37:23right Yeah. And I'm trying to make it rewarding in the sense that I
- 37:28want each individual piece of media to have a standalone value. Right, So
- 37:34anyone can pick up this novette Nobela I hate that word. Uh, this
- 37:37novel I'm writing, and read it without having any prior knowledge of the band
- 37:44or the music or anything and appreciate it for what it is. You know,
- 37:47Well, let's let's let's let let's do a little thought experiment here,
- 37:51because if there's one thing that's super popular, it's to take futuristic kind of
- 37:55stories, especially unique ones like omnias, and they and people want to turn
- 38:01it into movies. Right. Let's say a big time movie exec comes up
- 38:08to you and says, hey, i'd love omni I've read it five times,
- 38:13I've listened, I've watched all the videos. I want to make a
- 38:16movie out of this. But I'm going to let you choose who you want
- 38:20to be your your your lead actors or actresses. Who's your who's your first?
- 38:28Your first? Good question? Okay, So I'm not gonna lie.
- 38:34I'm writing this with that very intention. It might be a completely lofty or
- 38:38unrealistic idea or proposal to think that a major studio or maybe an independent would
- 38:45want to make this into a real standom Actually yeah, but I'm writing it
- 38:50with that intent. I'm trying to craft in undeniable story that's unique and make
- 38:58it as such that when people read this they want to see it visually.
- 39:02Right. Yeah, So I haven't thought about that question, and I probably
- 39:09should have so far and I just haven't. So the fact that you're asking
- 39:14me that right now is putting on the spot. So I have to give
- 39:16an answer because but can I just put this out like as a caveat.
- 39:23Yeah, I'm not going to say this is my final answer, this is
- 39:28my gut. Yeah. So, the lead character is this guy, David
- 39:37Markham, who's a social media influencer for the Omni corporation. He's basically the
- 39:42Britain unknowing propagandist for the company. But he's just he's just a good dude
- 39:51who had a conservative upbringing and who just wants to do something that's meaningful.
- 39:57So he just climbs and climbs and clim because everybody loves him. He's charismatic,
- 40:00he's good looking, he's got all the stuff, and he just climbs
- 40:04the clowns of climbs and eventually becomes basically the most important civilian on the planet.
- 40:09And so that's got to be some sort of good looking dude, you
- 40:15know, who's who's got an innocence and my naivete to him. Uh And
- 40:22and what's an actor that would produce that quote? But a chrism at the
- 40:25same time. So what's an actor that conjure up all of that? You
- 40:30know, it can't be anyone. Charm is how he say his name?
- 40:35Yeah, the good looking, charismatic person. I don't know he's in the
- 40:40ass what in Dune? Oh yeah, I know the name. I just
- 40:45didn't connect. Okay, that's a good one. I think that would not
- 40:51be a bad choice. See, I'm a Jason Momoa fan, but I
- 40:54don't think he's right for this role. I think he's too much of a
- 40:58badass, you know what I mean. Like, that's true. I want
- 41:00someone that's a little bit more like every man, but what's still a star?
- 41:06You know what I mean? Like, because this guy's a star,
- 41:08and that's why the company wanted him to be there go between between the civilian
- 41:14population and the evil empire. Right, how how old is he? Roughly
- 41:20late twenties, twenty eight. I'm trying to think outside the box here,
- 41:25and I'm trying to think of someone that would be contemporary, and I know
- 41:30that it's escaping me right now, But there's somebody that's probably obvious that would
- 41:35make a really good casting trip. I wish, I wish I would have
- 41:38known that I am twenty nine, so maybe like maybe you dude exactly exactly.
- 41:47Oh man, you don't take right ash Okay, Now, I'm just
- 41:53thinking about films and shows that I've watched recently someone that would shit this mold
- 41:59man, and I mean, it'd be cool if it was like, like
- 42:07it's like a Ryan Reynolds type character. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
- 42:10who's who's the guy that plays uh, Captain America? Just watching a movie
- 42:19that he was in and it wasn't Captain America. His name? Can you
- 42:21remember his name right now? But I feel like he maybe would fit that.
- 42:24Yeah, you know, yeah, let me look here, that's the
- 42:30name that we should all have Seth Reynolds or Rollins. That doesn't sound right.
- 42:36There's a new Captain Merril coming out. Chris Evans. Chris Evans,
- 42:39that's it. That's yeah America, Chris Evans. Gosh, this is so
- 42:45boring because we're trying to figure this out. But I know that there's and
- 42:51I don't know the answer yet. This is why you have a casting so
- 42:54yeah, yeah, now I'm gonna be obsessed with this. Thank you answer
- 43:01it right now. Let's just let's just say it's a Ryan Reynolds type sun.
- 43:07Okay, so I want someone a little younger than Ryan Wilds. Yeah,
- 43:13there's got to be that guy out there. Yeah, I feel like
- 43:15a comedian could probably do it. There's got to be like a comedian who's
- 43:20be like on the ride. This is a dramatic Matt Rife. How about
- 43:23Matt perfect for it. He's a good looking dude, and he kind of
- 43:29looks like he's from the future. He looks there, you know, it's
- 43:32funny. Yeah, I'm just thinking about him in this role right now.
- 43:37I didn't really like that Rife at all when I first watched his stuff,
- 43:40and then I watched more and I was like, I kind of like,
- 43:44yeah, I'm the same way. I kind of hated him at first,
- 43:47and I was like, I get that looking. And then he started making
- 43:51fun on the fact that he was too good looking, you know, Okay,
- 43:53at least self aware. Yeah, he's very self aware, which I'm
- 43:57okay with. And he's like it's he's insanely nice. If you watch them
- 44:00in like interviews, Yeah that's cool, it's weird. Yeah. Anyways,
- 44:07I don't mean to deliber that point too long, but I don't know,
- 44:09maybe it's got the wheels. It's great. It's too good of a question
- 44:12you just to ask, and I'm gonna have to get back to you on
- 44:14it. Yeah for sure, all right. Uh. Also it has to
- 44:19be an it has to be an a twenty four film. I will say
- 44:21that has been a right right. Yeah, that's lightly creepy, little,
- 44:27a little off the wall. I love studio. They do such a good
- 44:30start, great stuff, all right, Omni two already out? What could
- 44:38like? It sounds like you're already in this sort of really creative space.
- 44:43Maybe you're already starting to write new music. I don't know. I'm just
- 44:45curious, like what can we what can we maybe expect in the future,
- 44:49Like are there shows that we could maybe expect this year in twenty twenty four?
- 44:52Uh? It sounds like, you know, you're not quite writing,
- 44:55but maybe there's even like a possibility for that. I don't know, I'm
- 44:59just curious, like, what can we expect in the project eighty six life
- 45:01here in twenty twenty four. Yeah, that's a good question. We've got
- 45:05an album release party that is the next big event, right, and we're
- 45:08going to do that as a live stream as well, because it will enable
- 45:13us to incorporate some of the animated and digital content and make it kind of
- 45:19multimedia sensory experience tap into the world building element. So we're going to be
- 45:24doing that March first and second in Nashville, and you can visit. Just
- 45:30go to our website Project e six dot com and then go to our store
- 45:32and you'll see there's bunches of different ticket tiers on there. It's a two
- 45:37night event. We're doing a lot of different pieces of this event. So
- 45:39there'll be like a pre VIP dinner on March first, which is Friday,
- 45:45and then we'll do a VIP stream and we're going to do all classic Project
- 45:50songs, but somewhere between. The way I'm describing this is it'll be kind
- 45:54of like a spoken word type set where it's like not an acoustic like unplugged
- 46:00thing, but not full band either, So it will be in the middle
- 46:05of those two and like we won't be sitting on stools though, so it's
- 46:10like a it's like a middle point there, but it'll be it'll be interesting
- 46:15because we've never done that before. Uh. And then after that, we're
- 46:17having what's called a VIP gala, which is like a private after party which
- 46:22will be really cool. So people can buy tickets to all these things,
- 46:25and we're going to have some Easter eggs and surprises within all that. We're
- 46:30going to really make this an experience and try to draw people in a little
- 46:34bit more into this omni world. Right, So that's the first night Friday,
- 46:40March first, and then March second, we're doing a performance, and
- 46:45we'll be playing mostly Omni material, but some of the classic Project jams as
- 46:50well, the ones that you would want to hear that are the most quintessential
- 46:53Project jams, but a lot of Omni Omni content, and that will be
- 46:59both live stream and a live performance that's going to sell out as hold out
- 47:02yet. I think we have about thirty five tickets stuff for that. Those
- 47:07can be purchased on our web store as well. It's just going to be
- 47:09an experience, man, and we may we built out the ticket so like
- 47:14you get a free CD with a paid admission to the show in person,
- 47:19and then uh, if you get a VIP ticket, you get to come
- 47:22into the The venue is also a restaurant, so you'll get to come into
- 47:25the restaurant three hours before the actual venue doors open. If you buy a
- 47:30regular ticket. If you buy a VIP ticket, you get into the restaurant
- 47:34and you get into the venue as well and basically hang out while we're setting
- 47:37up sound checking. Yeah, the VIP folks get to come in, they
- 47:42get a they get a merch credit, they get a CD, they get
- 47:45to come in and be a part of like the whole setup and sound check
- 47:47and all that, and we'll do a meet and read within all that,
- 47:50and then yeah, the show. We're really talking about some added production elements
- 47:54as well. I haven't finalized all that, but it's going to be great.
- 47:58It's gonna be really weak. So that's the next big event. And
- 48:01then we're in the process of booking some other shows in the States and in
- 48:05Europe later in the year, spring summer. I'm sure we'll get more on
- 48:09the on the docket as well. Not a huge like worldwide tour or anything
- 48:15planned at this point, more select markets, uh. And I'm encouraging people
- 48:24if they want to see us, you know, get a ticket to the
- 48:28to the album release performance, make a weekend out of it, travel to
- 48:34Nashville. If you can't do that, join us on a live stream tickets
- 48:37for that, and it's it's the type of thing where if you can't join
- 48:40us, you know, when the event is live, you'll be able to
- 48:44watch it indefinitely. After We'll just give you the link to the file and
- 48:47you can watch what you want. So it's gonna be it's gonna be really
- 48:52cool. I gotta play. Yeah. I think it's such a great idea.
- 48:54I love that you're making a big, big shindig out out of it,
- 48:58because I think that's that's that's gonna that's going to draw people into it,
- 49:01that that need to be drawn into it. I think. I hope,
- 49:04so, I hope. So so far, the response has been pretty
- 49:07good. I don't see any way the venue doesn't sell out because we're only
- 49:10thirty five tickets up and we're still like, yeah, we got a few
- 49:14months yet. Yeah yeah. So well, hopefully hopefully people listening to us
- 49:20right now, maybe maybe a few of those people buy it right now.
- 49:22That'd be great, that would be amazing. Please make plans to come join
- 49:25us if you can. If you can't join us online you're asking about music.
- 49:30We're in the middle of like the fulfillment storm right now, and we
- 49:34run a lot of this in house. As soon as we get on the
- 49:37other side of this, My plan is to start diving back into creative because
- 49:42we've got some real momentum right now. Because thing there's a lot of genuine
- 49:45excitements surrounding this, and I don't think anyone will bumb or call me a
- 49:49flake if I say, Okay, Armory Part three is coming coming really soon.
- 49:52Yeah, there we go, you know what I mean. So as
- 49:54long as I'm still feeling that in a couple of months when we get on
- 49:58the other side of you this album now, getting everybody their records and CDs
- 50:01and getting this album at least showed done, I don't foresee myself feeling any
- 50:07different. But that's the plan, is like jumping into the next next wave
- 50:12of the awesome sweet Yeah. I think you should mess with people and just
- 50:16do Omni Part four right away and then three. Then we can go back
- 50:22Star Wars style. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, Tarantino style, Yeah,
- 50:27Tarantino style, or or even me Brooks style History of the World Part two.
- 50:34Yeah, we could do that, and I think people will take it
- 50:37seriously to be like must yeah pretty cool. Yeah, brilliant, Andrew,
- 50:45You ready for your top five guilty pleasure Artists? Ready? So, and
- 50:51what I love about this is, uh, again, a lot of artists
- 50:53are like, I don't really believe in guilty pleasures. You were when we
- 50:55told you about this, you were like fully into it. You're like,
- 50:59I have guilty pleasures and I am not ashamed about it. Oh so super
- 51:02stoked about this. Totally embarrassing and awesome. My number one, probably all
- 51:08time guilty pleasure artist, at least as an adult male, is Lona del
- 51:15Rey. Yeah, I mean on the same campus. And like, I've
- 51:22never seen her live and granted her new stuff. I'm nodded into her first
- 51:28two records and part of her third record. Well, now, let's put
- 51:30it this way, her first record, and then the whatever B side record
- 51:36she put out after that. It was an incredible paradise, which I don't
- 51:39understand. Was that a B side record? Was that part two of It's
- 51:45a lot more of the poppy stuff. Yeah, who cares? Yeah that's
- 51:49great. I mean I have vinyls of that. I was listening to those
- 51:51couple of days ago. Uh. And then I feel like Ultra Violence was
- 51:55kind of a miss. But there's a couple of jams that are undeniable,
- 52:00Like it's not as good as Born to Die. But the song Ultra Violence,
- 52:07which should ring a bell, our first single and Omni Part two was
- 52:13Ultra Violent and that was just she got it from a clockwork Orange and yeah,
- 52:16basically we were I was writing about clockwork Orange. But the Lana del
- 52:21Rey dotting of the circle there was, you know, that was that was
- 52:27real. So that song is up there, and then her third record has
- 52:32some pretty good jams as well. After that she started to just go a
- 52:37different route. But I haven't been as into but I continue to go back
- 52:42to that early stuff and I'm just like enamored and like all of it,
- 52:46like her, like her voice, the all of the visuals, like she
- 52:52directed all of her own music videos, she did the film like she's she's
- 52:55a real artist, and I'm just like, like, it's so good.
- 53:02From when I was a kid, I will say this, this is another
- 53:06really really bad, super embarrassing. I love talking about it. When I
- 53:09was a kid, the first band I really actually liked. And my only
- 53:15justification for this was the fact that I was like six years old, and
- 53:20in hindsight, I'm not really a fan. Was the band you ready for?
- 53:24Sticks? Oh? Really? I loved Sticks when I was like six
- 53:30seven years old and I was introduced to Sticks by my stepdad, who was
- 53:36a musician. But looking back, like he really did he have a kind
- 53:40of he kind of thought he knew what was cool, but he kind of
- 53:45but he kind of missed the mark. Yeah, so I'm sorry, I'm
- 53:49throwing him under the buss. I hope he doesn't hear this, but uh
- 53:52yeah, when I was like six or seven years old, I loved Sticks.
- 53:55Now when I got a little older, I started to realize, this
- 54:00is kind of cheeseball. This is like show show tunes or something. I
- 54:04don't know if this is. And then I don't know what it was.
- 54:07Maybe five or six years ago I was I was just jumping around YouTube and
- 54:12I saw a live performance of Sticks as like like in recent history, like
- 54:16in last ten year. If it wasn't the most awesome, bad like extravaganza
- 54:25of bad that I have ever, so bad, it's good, right,
- 54:29is that what you're trying to say? It was so bad? It was
- 54:31good, but it's like all the members had like like really bad plastic surgery
- 54:37to like like they look like they look like women, you know what I
- 54:43mean. And it's like whoa, and like the keyboard player is on one
- 54:47of those what do you call him? The Lazy Susan deals, and he's
- 54:53like and it's not like when you're a keyboard player depends on the band style
- 54:59you kind of rock out back there, Like if you go to like see
- 55:02Nine to Nails play like the keyboard players part of the show, Like he's
- 55:07jamming and they make it look cool. So there's a way to do any
- 55:12instrument and make it look you perform it the right way, right, But
- 55:17this was just like dude's like like just jam and like they're so like they're
- 55:23like too talented, so they like show off, you know what I mean.
- 55:27So the dudes like playing keyboard like behind his back and he's like pointing
- 55:30and like they're like stuff. And I'm just like, oh my gosh,
- 55:34this is real. This is freaking real. I want everybody who's listening to
- 55:37this episode to go like Google, I'm not going YouTube stick slid performance,
- 55:44you know, and watch it. It is so mind boggling. It is
- 55:50just a bra It's like, this is real. This isn't like, this
- 55:55isn't a film, this isn't a mockumentary. This is a real bad,
- 56:00and that these are a lot of people really like, these are real elderly
- 56:04people trying to look cool like it's nineteen eighty one again. Yeah, ah,
- 56:09man, I love that. That. That makes me happy. Actually,
- 56:13that's a great pick, yeah, dude, And it doesn't get worse
- 56:15than that. I don't think it does. Well. I mean, you
- 56:19got three more picks, so it could be. I don't know, dude,
- 56:22this is hard, Like that's the only thing. When you said that,
- 56:23I was like, holy cow, I don't know if I grew up
- 56:28with five. I mean, granted, my record collection is pretty succinct,
- 56:32and people who know me personally are like, dude, you are such a
- 56:36music snob. And I'm like, well, I'm also a coffee snob,
- 56:40in a film snob, in a lyrics snob, and I got I'm like,
- 56:46I'm a snob about everything, I guess, but guilty Pleasures musically,
- 56:52I used to really love Britney Spears. I used to it like during like
- 56:57her first three records, that is that is a perfect guilty Pleasures. I
- 57:01loved her. I loved everything about Britney Speers. I just her. I
- 57:07just found her to be compelling, you know what I mean. She is,
- 57:09and and now probably even more so. She's just shocking now, like
- 57:15yeah, like I feel I've never felt more bad for a person in mind
- 57:19Michael Jackson. I mean, I feel way worse for Britney Speers. That's
- 57:23who I compare her to though it is like Michael Jackson, like yeah,
- 57:28she's I mean, it's it just shows you what the world does to like
- 57:31child stars as they and they grew up into really damaged people. Guys.
- 57:37I have to jump here into the next interview in a second. Sure,
- 57:40yeah, I don't know. I don't know. If I can give you
- 57:43two more and if you can do one more more guilty pleasure, Oh gosh,
- 57:52there's gotta be some. There's very few, you know. You know
- 57:55who's a recent one for me, even though she's supremely foul. I'm a
- 58:00little later party on this, but I discovered her about four or five years
- 58:04ago, actually giving her music a chance. I actually really it was Nicki
- 58:07Minaj. I was gonna say it's probably and and the other one is freaking
- 58:15what's her name? The Stallion? Now? Doja cat? I keep going
- 58:20one of those uh kim oh, Cardi B Cardi B dude, Yeah,
- 58:29Cardi B that's the other one. She's foul too, But like I really
- 58:34like there you go. Give you all right, Uh, let's uh,
- 58:39let's have you plug everything you want to plug and then we'll get you out
- 58:44of here. Man. Uh, this has been it has been really fun.
- 58:45So what would you like to plug? Well, obviously, go stream
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- 1:00:01for having me on and for humoring me. Yeah, thank you, man,
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