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A SKYLIT DRIVE Returns: MICHAEL JAGMIN Talks Australia, Underrated Songs, And DIY Life · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I'm doing pretty well. Thanks for asking.
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  Speaker 2: Good no worries. Are you in Texas at the moment?
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  Speaker 1: I am yes?
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  Speaker 2: Is it has it started to get like really hot?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's like consistently up in like the
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  Speaker 3: nineties already, so it's already uncomfortable nasty.
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  Speaker 2: See, it's like all frosty here, so it's frazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard it a few times that we're coming
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  Speaker 3: at like the perfect time to come there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I'm jagged from a skylet drive.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 4: You're finally headed back to Australia this November. What are
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  Speaker 4: you most looking forward to about playing here again?
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  Speaker 3: I mean everything from the shows, the cities is just
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  Speaker 3: a different vibe of everywhere. You just have such a
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  Speaker 3: different experience with every city, whether it's the show, the food,
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  Speaker 3: the people, you know, the sight seeing, all the touristy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean there's just so many reasons to
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  Speaker 3: be excited to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And do you have any memories in particular that stand
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  Speaker 4: out from the last time.
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  Speaker 2: You would heat.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean it was over, it was over a
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  Speaker 3: decade ago. I mean I remember just having so much
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  Speaker 3: fun at the shows. I mean, like doing all of
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  Speaker 3: the international runs is always like so grueling. So I
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  Speaker 3: mean like they're always like a tiring run, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the end, just like you know, so rewarding and
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  Speaker 3: so well worth it for all of the experiences. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I love meeting you know, you know, new people who
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  Speaker 3: you know whose everyday lives are just so much different
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  Speaker 3: than mine, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm of course.
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  Speaker 3: I've only been to Australia once before, where it was
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  Speaker 3: so long ago, and I'm in such a different position
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  Speaker 3: in my life now where it's it's almost going to
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  Speaker 3: feel like going back for the first time again. So
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just the overall experience, I'm just excited to
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, you know, take it all in
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  Speaker 3: as like a brand new experience. But as for like
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  Speaker 3: one specific memory, I can't say that I can pinpoint anything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of.
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  Speaker 3: Course everybody does the koalas and they see the kangaroo
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  Speaker 3: and all that, but just the overall experience was just
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  Speaker 3: like it was just so much fun. Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a part of the of the grueling touring nature
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  Speaker 3: that I actually kind of like look back.
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  Speaker 1: On fondly, you know, that was so much fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you really don't.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think I might have lost you. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure if it's.
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  Speaker 2: An yep, I think it's all right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're playing normally.
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  Speaker 3: Now, okay, Yeah, so sorry, Yeah, I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 3: that was only with my internet or.
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  Speaker 2: What probably mine? Alright? Cool? Uh? Is there any chance
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  Speaker 2: we'll see some sort of on.
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  Speaker 4: Stage collaboration between you guys and Scary Kids doing the tour.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say that we've worked out anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but anybody who's you know, who maybe went
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  Speaker 3: to one of our shows last time we were there,
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  Speaker 3: seen live videos. I mean, like we you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: doing our best, and we definitely have a plan to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that whether you know, you know, old fans,
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  Speaker 3: new fans, like, everybody's gonna hear something that they enjoy
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  Speaker 3: from the from the.
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  Speaker 1: Catalog of the of the band.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, we're definitely gonna keep it energetic and
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  Speaker 3: fun and keep everybody on their toes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, beautiful. And how about your relationship with Scared Kids.
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  Speaker 4: Scaring Kids, do you guys go way back?
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  Speaker 2: Cool?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I haven't seen those guys in in
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  Speaker 3: you know, since even longer than when I was in
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  Speaker 3: Australia last So, like, that's gonna be cool to you know,
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  Speaker 3: see some of those guys. I know, it's not you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not all familiar faces, you know, but some of
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  Speaker 3: those guys have definitely been there ever since you know,
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  Speaker 3: I last saw them. So that's gonna be cool to
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  Speaker 3: you know, get to see everybody, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make some new friends and uh and you know, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, much different from last time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, last time we were over there. The band
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  Speaker 1: that took us.
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  Speaker 3: Over we're natives from over there, so it'll it'll be
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  Speaker 3: cool to kind of experience all of this like with
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  Speaker 3: another band.
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  Speaker 1: Who's you know, in our shoes, you know, you know.
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  Speaker 3: We're all in a foreign place, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure place and I'm not sure went over there,
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  Speaker 3: but again, it's been so long since I've been over
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  Speaker 3: there that it's gonna feel like the first time for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that's one song in your catalog that you think
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  Speaker 4: has been the most underrated.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, the most underrated? That's tough.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I always I guess one that I always
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  Speaker 3: come back to that I thought was going to be
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  Speaker 3: more of a popular song was off of Identity on Fire.
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  Speaker 1: It's the song X Marks the Spot.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that one was probably gonna be like up
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  Speaker 3: closer to the up closer to the top. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't surprised that Too Little Too Late and the
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  Speaker 3: Cali Buds.
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  Speaker 1: Were up there.
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  Speaker 3: But when we were when we were initially writing, actually
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  Speaker 3: because too Little Too Late was one of the last
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  Speaker 3: songs that we wrote on the album, that one was
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  Speaker 3: actually like we were already like in the studio when
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  Speaker 3: we wrote that one. So like, throughout the whole process
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  Speaker 3: of actually writing the album, X Marks the Spot personally
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  Speaker 3: was always kind of like at the top of that list.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then Too Little Too Late came in
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  Speaker 3: and happened, and that one kind of like swiftly took
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  Speaker 3: that top spot of I was like, Okay, I think
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  Speaker 3: this is this will be like, you know, like the song,
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  Speaker 3: whereas like Calie Buds was a little more of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: people who were like familiar with Skylet are really gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Like Callie Buds.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas like I kind of felt that way about X
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  Speaker 3: Marks the Spot too, where that one, that one I
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  Speaker 3: felt like kind of like sat between those two personally.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And so does it blow your mind when
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  Speaker 4: like there's certain songs that you guys make and you
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  Speaker 4: don't really expect much of it and then they do,
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  Speaker 4: as you said, like they get really big.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I've definitely seen it before.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, you know, like when we did just
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  Speaker 3: Stay on Rise, you know, that was of course like
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  Speaker 3: a very very you know, like a very person song
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  Speaker 3: to me, and we had never really done like a
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  Speaker 3: ballad type thing before, so that was really fun to try.
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  Speaker 3: I've always been like a sucker for like the monster
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  Speaker 3: ballads and stuff, so that was like fun to just
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  Speaker 3: you know, try something completely out of our comfort level,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and even kind of like looking through it
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  Speaker 3: like you know, you know, like top streaming songs. I'm
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  Speaker 3: pretty sure just Stay is like the number two song
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  Speaker 3: off that album.
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  Speaker 1: Yea.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I kind of figured that Rise would be
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  Speaker 3: like the like flagship song, but then just Stay was
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  Speaker 3: like right behind it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: And are there any Australian bands or artists you've connected
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  Speaker 4: with or drawn inspiration from over the ease?
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  Speaker 1: I can't say specifically.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if maybe any of the bands, if
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  Speaker 3: anybody's you know, you know, from Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also kind of like a grump when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to music.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, I'm in like the latter part
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  Speaker 3: of my years and everything, and I've always kind of
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  Speaker 3: like stuck to you know, like everybody kind of goes
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  Speaker 3: through those formulative years of the music that like kind
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  Speaker 3: of like grew up with you, and I kind of
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  Speaker 3: always use that music as like my basis of like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like what music I ended up getting into.
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  Speaker 3: So so it's kind of harder for me to get
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  Speaker 3: into newer bands. Yeah, so I can't say specifically if
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  Speaker 3: any of them, you know, are Australian based. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I should probably do more homework on it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I you know, get caught up with so many other things.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's totally understandable.
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  Speaker 4: What was What were some of the bands that originally
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  Speaker 4: inspired you guys?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody you know really took inspiration from different places.
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  Speaker 3: You know, me personally, I didn't take a lot of
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  Speaker 3: inspiration musically from a lot of bands. I always wanted
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  Speaker 3: to kind of organically let things happen versus having something
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  Speaker 3: sound familiar to something that somebody else was doing.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, if I took it, you know, like inspiration.
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  Speaker 3: It was generally from like music that was like nowhere
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  Speaker 3: near like what we were doing, you know, more of
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  Speaker 3: like the classic rock artists. Like again, I was really
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  Speaker 3: in all the big Monster ballads, so you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was a big Kiss fan as a kid, and they
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  Speaker 3: always just wrote you know, you know, bop after bop
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  Speaker 3: and even you know, you know, like all of the
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  Speaker 3: Guns N' Roses and Quiet Riot and you know, all
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  Speaker 3: these big anthem bands.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, Journey, I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: like a huge fan of.
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  Speaker 3: But like you know, esthetically and stuff like, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I took more from movies, you know, like I
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  Speaker 3: really like, you know, like soundtracks from movies and just
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  Speaker 3: like the you know, esthetic and the vibes from movies,
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  Speaker 3: you know. Always I always kind of gravitated towards you know,
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  Speaker 3: like a little more, and even video games, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like some of the you know, some of like the
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  Speaker 3: like textures and so on from like movies and video games.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of feel like I pulled more from than
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  Speaker 3: other music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting, I find with you guys and a lot
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  Speaker 4: of other bands in the sort of emo sub genre,
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  Speaker 4: it's like you can take a look at all these
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  Speaker 4: bands and think, oh, well they must have been inspired
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  Speaker 4: by them and them, but no, a lot of them
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  Speaker 4: were inspired by movies and like things totally with nothing
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  Speaker 4: to do with the genre at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're like a lot of it, you know, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I've even taken inspirations from like from like
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  Speaker 3: commercial jingles before, which I mean like, I mean like
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  Speaker 3: they're clearly doing something right. You end up walking around
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  Speaker 3: and you're like, why am I singing that jingle from
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  Speaker 3: this commercial I saw like.
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  Speaker 1: A month ago?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, you know, even if it's just like
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the smallest little inkling of inspiration that
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  Speaker 3: you take from it and then you just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like march on with it with your own idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: And speaking about music as well, what bands are you
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  Speaker 4: listening to at the Is there any new bands that
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  Speaker 4: you're really into at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the one current band that I've been like
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  Speaker 3: mostly listening to that I've just been like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: very impressed with is the band day Seeker. Just you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, again using word you know, esthetic and vibe
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  Speaker 3: of things. I just really like the you know, the
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  Speaker 3: angle that they're taking things from and I'm big on singers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I kind of I kind of have
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  Speaker 3: to be you know, I'm always, like you like, pushing myself,
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  Speaker 3: not just range wise, but you know, like different things
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  Speaker 3: that I can do, and I can always you know,
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  Speaker 3: admire and uh and you know, and you know, give
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  Speaker 3: ones roses when I feel like they're due and uh.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a band that I feel like really just
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  Speaker 3: hits the nail on the head for all the things
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  Speaker 3: that they're going for esthetically, musically, vocally, lyrically. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they are a current band who I think, are you
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  Speaker 3: know doing awesome things? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: And has much changed for you personally when you warmed
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  Speaker 4: up in the early days compared to now before going
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  Speaker 4: on stage or is it kind of similar?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I've gone through so many different like phases
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  Speaker 3: where like, of course, back when it started, I was
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  Speaker 3: like warm ups, what's that? And you know, I'd sit
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  Speaker 3: there and I talk constantly after shows and then lose
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  Speaker 3: my voice and I'm like, why is is happening? And
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I've gone to like a few different
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  Speaker 3: vocal coaches who have helped me out, given me different pointers,
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  Speaker 3: like at one point, I I went and saw Melissa Cross.
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  Speaker 1: She does the whole zen of screaming.
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  Speaker 3: And I've seen like a few different others, like no
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  Speaker 3: one consistently where I regimentally saw them like once a week.
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  Speaker 3: It was generally I saw them once and then I
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  Speaker 3: just you know, took something helpful away from like what
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  Speaker 3: they were showing me, like whether it was like breathing techniques,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, just like thinking of the proper
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  Speaker 3: muscles and everything. It's the same with like exercising, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not as simple as just moving the weight. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same with singing. You know, like you got
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  Speaker 3: to be you know, you know, like kind of that
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  Speaker 3: muscle mind connection of using the right things at the
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  Speaker 3: right time. But I've definitely changed like how I prepare
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  Speaker 3: for shows.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: There's also so many different like tools now that you
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  Speaker 3: can use. You know, like back in the day, the
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  Speaker 3: only thing that you had to like breathe steam is
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  Speaker 3: these clunky personal steamers. You put water in it, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just a nightmare if you tried to use
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  Speaker 3: it in a vehicle because it literally has boiling water
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  Speaker 3: in it. So it was like kind of terrifying where
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  Speaker 3: now they have like vocal nebulizers they've got you know,
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  Speaker 3: like the doctor Vox thing, which is I don't know
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  Speaker 3: like if you've seen those, but you know essentially it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, warming up through through like a straw and
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  Speaker 3: water so that you get kind of the back pressure
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  Speaker 3: to kind of like work your vocal cords.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's so many different things that are fun
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  Speaker 1: to try.
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  Speaker 3: But I try to not warm up too much, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just enough to where I'm like, okay, I feel good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But when I'm out there, I try to be mindful
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  Speaker 3: of how much I'm talking, you know, how I'm talking,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm you know, not over talking or you know,
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  Speaker 3: not putting myself in environments where I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: need to overspeak. Yeah, So you know, because of course
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  Speaker 3: i'm out there, the top priority is that you know,
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  Speaker 3: hour or forty minutes or fifty minutes that I'm on stage,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like that's why I'm there, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: everybody's showing up as they want to, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: want to see these these songs performed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to hear that you do protect your voice
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  Speaker 4: and you really think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm always probably overly mindful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're not making music, what's something completely unexpected
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  Speaker 4: you love doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm big on like DIY projects.
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  Speaker 3: I was I you know, I'd say ten years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have a handy bone in my body, and
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  Speaker 3: in the last ten years or so, I've you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've gotten way more handy and just you know, like
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  Speaker 3: just things around the house and projects and stuff. I like,
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: you like woodworking type stuff and different projects. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we see things or like one of our girls is like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: like that'd be cool to have a wall like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I can find out how to do that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And uh and I've done it enough times where it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I actually know how to do these things now. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably me is you know, if I'm not working
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  Speaker 3: on music, I'm working on some kind of project or
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  Speaker 3: you know, building something for our house or you know,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, trying to improve you know, our home somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's awesome. What a hand you'd like hobby to have?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's wicked.
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  Speaker 4: And what's one piece of advice you'd give your younger
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  Speaker 4: self back when the band was just starting out?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I guess, don't make rash decisions, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just because it's the first option doesn't mean it's the
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  Speaker 3: right option, you know, And just just because somebody is
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  Speaker 3: giving you an option doesn't mean that you have to
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  Speaker 3: take it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Just be smart, you know, seek advice more often than
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  Speaker 3: you than you think you should. And yeah, just be
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  Speaker 3: just be better about your decision making.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good advice.
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  Speaker 4: And is there anything that you can remember that was
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  Speaker 4: the weirdest thing or the coolest thing that you've been
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  Speaker 4: given to by a fan?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, there was one time, I think it was
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  Speaker 3: the first we were on Warp Tour. Someone made us
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  Speaker 3: these like individual dolls, so they made one for each
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  Speaker 3: of us and it was like so intricate and so cool.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I have it anymore. I think it
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  Speaker 3: ended up getting broken, unfortunately in one of my moves,
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: along with many other things that get broken in moves.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: But it was so cool, like all the thought that
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: they put into everything. Like at the time, I had,
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: you know, like my lip piercings and everything, and someone had.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Facial hairs a little more or.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Like you know, almost like someone would like build you know,
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: like an emoji for themselves now and they're like, oh, well,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: like I wear these types of clothes or these types
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: of accessories.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Someone include this into my into my emoji.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, like that was probably that was probably
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: like the most like thoughtful gift that I that I
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: recall seeing and then like I've gotten the other stuff,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: you know, like really well done, like you know, like
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: drawings or paintings that I actually still have. They're in storage,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: but I can think of certain ones that that I
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: still have to this day.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Oh that's lovely. So you definitely don't throw any.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Of the mouth No, no, no, no no.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: If I if I can keep it, I take it
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the only times where I wouldn't be able to and
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: maybe somebody else has it. Is like if I had
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: to fly, like if you know, at the end of
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: a run, if it's like too big and I'm like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: well I can't physically take.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It with me, so somebody else has to take it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, And touring can get pretty wild. Is
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: there a strange or funny moment that you recall that
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: you'd like to share with us?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: All?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: There's one actually kind of recently, is is kind of funny.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: We were we were staying the night in El Paso, Texas,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: and we were on our way to start one of
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: the one of the runs over the last couple of years,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and I go in to check us into a hotel
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and there's already like a couple in there waiting and
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: they seem really really annoyed, and the phone at the
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: front desk is just ringing off the hook and it's playing.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: This eerie pop music that's very.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Quiet, like in the lobby, and but it was just
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: eerily quiet, and just it just felt strange. And I
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: was standing there just waiting for someone to come out,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: and I turn I look at them and I was like,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: are you you guys waiting to check it? And like,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, we've already been here for thirty minutes. And
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I was like, you guys, and you guys have just
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: been standing here like you guys. And they're like, well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the whole reason that the phone's ringing. They showed me
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: their phone. They're like, that's us trying to call thinking
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: that somebody will come out because they hear the phone ringing.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: And so I just start kind of walking around the
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: whole first level of the hotel trying to find anybody
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: that works there because it is a little bit later,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you know, in you know, like the evening to check in,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and I just can't find anybody. And I kind of
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: at that point, I was like, well, I'm just going
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to go behind the desk because I was like, now I.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Feel like something's wrong.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Like I was like somebody elderly and like they're hurt
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: and like and they can't get to us. So I
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: kind of go back into the back area and uh,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I get back back like past the first door, and
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: it is pitch black in this place, but it and
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: I could see down this long hallway and there's almost
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: no lights on, and I was like, I'm going to
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: get at least one of my guys to have my
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: back before I go down this hallway. So I go,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: and I get one of my guys and I'm like,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: you stand guard at this entrance, and I'm going to
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: go down and check these doors. And it's while I'm
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: going down that hall the guy just comes out of nowhere,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: like around like some other corner, and I hear him
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: talking to the couple, and then me and my guy
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: pop out the door behind him, like you where you
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: thought he would have come from? And he give he
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: gives us. This really startled confused. Look, and we're like, where.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Have you been. He's like, oh, I was.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I was helping an elderly guest who fell where It's
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: like that was like an hour ago. And this guy,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you know, he came across like he was up to
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: something else. You know. I'll leave it at that, but
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, I don't think you were helping. You
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: were helping someone, but not what you're saying. Yeah, It's
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: like I believe you were with someone else, but I
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: don't think it was what you're saying.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm glad nobody was hurt, but it was. Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a very weird situation.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Range and you always wonder what were they doing exactly?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure I don't want to know.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: You don't know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And is new music on the way for you guys?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Or is this too about celebrating the legacy of what
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: a Skylight Skylit Drive has built.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I mean it's really a little bit of everything, you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: you know, like we built the set around you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: not just the old fans, not just the fans from
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: you know, middle of the pack or the newer fans. Yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: like there's a little bit for everybody, and and that
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: is really a big focus right now this year as
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: we are working on new music and you know, just
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: you know, trying to get as much you know, under
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: our belts as possible so that we can you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: really put a new face to the name.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, awesome.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: And last question, who was your first GIEG that you
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: ever went to?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: My first was Kiss. Yeah, I was eleven.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: It was their Reuni tour, so like they all got
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: back together, they put their makeup back on and uh yeah,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I like made my own shirt and did the Gene
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Simmons makeup and everything.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So it just that completely changed everything.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: So yeah, see the first show I went to was
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: really like just life changing for me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: That sounds it. That's amazing. How cool?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was pretty great.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Oh wicked.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Oh Michael, it's been so lovely speaking with you. We
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: can't wait to see you guys soon. Thank you so much.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Angela, the same to you.