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MATTY MULLINS From MEMPHIS MAY FIRE Talks About Next Aussie Invasion · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is Maddie from the band Memphis May Fire and
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  Speaker 2: you are watching Heavy mag We're coming to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Come hang out with us. We cannot wait. What's up?
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  Speaker 1: Can you see me? Hear me? All right?
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  Speaker 3: Any I can see you now. I'm just like, where
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  Speaker 3: have you gone?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me?
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  Speaker 3: That's good, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: How are you very good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, after your little mishap with your truck the other
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  Speaker 3: day and it was a bit hectic.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it has been hectic, indeed, yeah, but we're here absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I was just saying to Jelemy for I'm so glad
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  Speaker 4: that we don't have ice oaving here up because it's terrifying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And the drives have not gotten any better.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's been night after night. We have long, snowy,
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  Speaker 2: icy drives on this tour and it's just been. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's been hectic, but yeah, thankful to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And uh we've got a dance in Salt Lake City,
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  Speaker 1: Utah today, so that's where we're at.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Nice, nice, And it's Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Over there yet I don't know, actually, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 2: I never ever know what day it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's Friday, Yes, it is Thursday. Yes, Oh that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, so you guys are coming out to us
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  Speaker 4: very soon, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, stoked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're coming out for April shows.
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  Speaker 2: With the then yeah, yeah, coming out two times pretty
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  Speaker 2: close together, and yeah, that's just something that we felt
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  Speaker 2: like we owed our Australian fans. It had been so
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  Speaker 2: long since we had been there and so we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get back as quickly as possible and just excited, excited.
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  Speaker 1: To see everything and see everyone again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. So two times is that week Memphis
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  Speaker 4: all week Mblin as well?
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  Speaker 1: For me, it'll be three times. Oh wow, yeah yeah, Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: Was just there and then uh yeahs goes back and
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  Speaker 2: Amberlin goes as well, so it'll be I think it's
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  Speaker 2: like three times.
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  Speaker 4: And before you know it, yeah for real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's it. Super exciting.
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  Speaker 4: So here forout summer months, which is always nice to
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  Speaker 4: get away from the cold and over in the States
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  Speaker 4: we don't have much snow here even in the winter time.
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  Speaker 1: That is something to look forward to for sure. We're excited.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, excellently, And so I think Guy's got.
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  Speaker 4: A new track on your album that you've dropped or
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  Speaker 4: just doing your old catalog.
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  Speaker 1: That when you come out, we'll be on the same
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  Speaker 1: album cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Our newest album is called shape Shifter, that's right, and
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  Speaker 2: but we will be bringing a completely different set list,
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  Speaker 2: so it will be significantly different than the one you
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  Speaker 2: saw previously. If you are coming out again, yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to bring even bigger production and stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be it. It's gonna be a cool night.
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  Speaker 3: Exciting summer. You expected fireworks, so.
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  Speaker 1: Technology indoor fireworks.
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  Speaker 4: I don't understand how people think that that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: That oh my gosh, yeah, no, no fireworks for us
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  Speaker 1: on this one.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we bring in bigger production than the last time,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to be going to be a solid show,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be you know, we've had the
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  Speaker 2: conversation about wanting to switch up to set list as
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  Speaker 2: much as possible so that people can get a totally
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  Speaker 2: different show. And yeah, obviously bringing our friends and bless
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  Speaker 2: the Fall and stuff, so it'd be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen that.
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  Speaker 4: So you guys, have you got some mates that you
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  Speaker 4: bring her over to, which is always good? Yeah, small,
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  Speaker 4: good friends. And I was doing a bit of research
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  Speaker 4: to do before.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen that.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have toured with hands like houses before I'm
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  Speaker 4: awesome Aussie band.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a few times. Yeah, we've they've been on like
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  Speaker 2: work tour with us. We've toured them handful of times.
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  Speaker 2: Those are awesome guys.
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  Speaker 4: That's sensational and he looks soone assuming you're just like,
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  Speaker 4: you don't look like a lead seeing room bad like that,
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  Speaker 4: it just brings it to the stage.
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  Speaker 1: It's so great. Yeah, they're great dudes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very very much looking forward to that and dream
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  Speaker 2: On Dreamers another band that we've toured with from from
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  Speaker 2: that area and just love those guys to death.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, no, we we love our us counterparts.
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  Speaker 4: We like to adopt TOSL say it's fine, we let
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  Speaker 4: anyone in so so yeah. So, any any other plans
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  Speaker 4: or sneak breathe for the fans on your tour that
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  Speaker 4: you are got up your sleeve, or just to straight
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  Speaker 4: change up set list and just have an absolute ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of all of the above for sure,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing that I can necessarily give away, but exclusive
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  Speaker 2: it'll be exciting, honestly. Yeah, anything anybody that came to
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  Speaker 2: the show the last time. You definitely got something to
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  Speaker 2: look forward to.
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  Speaker 4: So oh that's that's that's what the fans are going
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  Speaker 4: to absolutely love that because you've got quite a bit
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  Speaker 4: busy following, don't you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, especially with how long in between visits
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  Speaker 2: it's been. You know, we're very, very fortunate to have
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  Speaker 2: the following that we have in Australia for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We don't like to show our favorites. We keep them
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  Speaker 4: on our hiatus and when they come back.
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  Speaker 3: We just lose our minds.
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  Speaker 1: It's very cool, that's very cool. We do. We feel
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  Speaker 1: really lucky that that is the case, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, loyalty for sure. Yeah. So you guys have been
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  Speaker 3: together for a little while too.
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  Speaker 4: It's two thousand and six or two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 4: right about there, you guys been yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a long time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been like twenty years. It's been up on twenty years,
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  Speaker 2: which is really insane to think about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you go old.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, what do you mean it's a thirtieth anniversary tool,
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  Speaker 4: which mind you, everyone's doing at the moment and middle
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  Speaker 4: aged May is loving it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very cool to see resurgences happening and bands that.
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  Speaker 2: People didn't even think we're going to ever play again
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  Speaker 2: getting back together because you know the support is there.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, absolutely. Like earlier in the year, I
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  Speaker 3: got to see Dead Kennedy's which is.
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  Speaker 4: Like bucket with stuff I thought I'd never get to do,
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  Speaker 4: which is incredible, love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a very a very cool show
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  Speaker 1: to see anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Skip is just insane.
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  Speaker 4: He's got some mad energy and doesn't still at his age,
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  Speaker 4: does some world antiques.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's awesome saying his young day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, no doubt, Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So so what does twenty twenty twenty six look.
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  Speaker 2: Like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Guys?
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  Speaker 3: Have got anything in the pipeline plan coming up? New
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  Speaker 3: new songs, more tours.
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  Speaker 2: What's next twenty twenty six for for Memphis is a
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  Speaker 2: ton of international.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing Europe more than once.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Japan and Southeast Asia and Australia and South America.
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  Speaker 2: Just a ton of stuff coming up, so for us
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  Speaker 2: like that will be the primary focus. We are doing
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  Speaker 2: some American touring as well. Amberly is doing Australia obviously
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  Speaker 2: and some American touring.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna it's gonna be very Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So topics as have you guys do that before we have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a while since we've been back, so
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  Speaker 1: I love it so awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such a cool market. It's such a cool
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  Speaker 2: place for music in general. So yeah, definitely looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to going back. It's been too long. Another another market
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  Speaker 2: that we don't go too nearly enough.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, and you're publously it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got your where where the home of metal kind
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  Speaker 4: of exists, doesn't it in the the core of it?
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  Speaker 3: It's yeah, yeah, it's it must be the Viking nature.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, part of it for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm from Viking Stock. It's so good and so
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  Speaker 4: embrace my own Viking urity.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's put it more to us. So you're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna be harmful while people family that.
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  Speaker 2: Horm well you're Yeah, my wife comes on tour with
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  Speaker 2: me a lot now because I'm in both bands. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we you know, we are rarely ever a part. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we have a couple of dogs at home that she
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  Speaker 2: definitely loves to spend time with. And so yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: two you know, between the two bands, she's out with
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  Speaker 2: both bands.
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  Speaker 1: I would say at least half of each tour that
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  Speaker 1: we do.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's really good. That's awesome. So you got fair babies,
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  Speaker 3: not actual babies for babies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, for babies for life. We're big dog people.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome. Yeah, no they are.
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  Speaker 4: They're funny up and they when you get home and
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  Speaker 4: that you haven't been around the missue, it's just like
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  Speaker 4: where'd you go?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is so incredibly hard to leave them there
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  Speaker 2: in the light of my life.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so we're abouts in us? Are you located yourself?
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  Speaker 1: We all all four band members live in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: Oh awesome. So a little bit of country roots there
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  Speaker 4: you are?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just any of that influenced snakes into your music sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Or no, none of us are actually from there. We
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  Speaker 2: all just live there and we don't necessarily even live
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  Speaker 2: there for the music.
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  Speaker 1: Aspect of things.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a really beautiful place to live and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good people. So yeah, and good food, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I don't. I can't. I can't say that
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  Speaker 1: any any country influences that have made its way into
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  Speaker 1: our music.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've reckon you put probably a bunch of fans
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  Speaker 4: doing thank for that mind you. I love the mix
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  Speaker 4: up of the genre like that are two completely polar opposits.
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  Speaker 4: When they combined, you can get some pretty wi good
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  Speaker 4: you know, outcomes from that.
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  Speaker 3: So you never say never.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, no, nothing against it by any means. And
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  Speaker 2: there are musics that I really know that I really
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  Speaker 2: do enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just it just hasn't happened at this point.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, well you never know, fans money flowed something
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  Speaker 4: yet as a legacy to your hometown where you're currently
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  Speaker 4: well at, that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be some fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we shall see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So so tours coming up, some past tours before.
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  Speaker 4: What's one of your most memorable or unhunge moments on
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  Speaker 4: sour that you can safely say on camera and I
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  Speaker 4: loosely say.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we were on tour in South Africa and
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  Speaker 2: our like host brought us to like a wildlife preserve
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  Speaker 2: where you could you know, like drive through and see
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  Speaker 2: like a Safari type of thing, and there was a
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  Speaker 2: cage that you could go into with a with a
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  Speaker 2: baby leopard and and just kind of like be be
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  Speaker 2: around it. And our bass player Corey had kind of
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  Speaker 2: knelt down onto the ground to be close to it.
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  Speaker 2: And it really quickly kind of scaled up his arm,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, the person that was like working inside of
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  Speaker 2: the cage was just like be still, don't move, and
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  Speaker 2: then it immediately just reached up, latched onto his ear
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  Speaker 2: bit all the way through his ear and then just
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  Speaker 2: started hanging from it. And so it was this like
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  Speaker 2: straight panic moment and they were able to kind of
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  Speaker 2: like get his teeth out of his ear, but then
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  Speaker 2: they pulled.
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  Speaker 1: Him off and it was just pouring blood everywhere and.
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  Speaker 2: They had like a spy a spray bottle of some
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  Speaker 2: disinfectant handy paper towels, and so they just started spraying
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  Speaker 2: his ear and put some paper towels over it and
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  Speaker 2: sent us on our way. It was the craziest thing
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  Speaker 2: of all time. Yeah, but he still he still has
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  Speaker 2: those scars. We were just talking about that the other
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  Speaker 2: day and so that's that's that's what comes to mind first.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, tons of crazy stuff all over the world.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's like, you know, that's definitely up
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  Speaker 4: there with that, like diving with sharks in the cage
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  Speaker 4: that they can get through.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I's got to be so much of that
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  Speaker 2: where you guys are out there, it's just yeah, unreal.
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  Speaker 3: Soby plans to making extremely you're out and the down
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  Speaker 3: on the lead.
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  Speaker 2: Extreme probably Yeah, not much of adrenaline chaser myself, I
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  Speaker 2: would say. More so the relaxing and beautiful parts of
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  Speaker 2: Australia is what I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, but I already say that I live in the
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  Speaker 4: best part of the world, so I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't I don't know too far.
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  Speaker 4: I'm on the East Coast, on southern Goal Coast, northern Rivers,
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  Speaker 4: near Barron Bay.
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  Speaker 3: Or on the beach.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing places. We got to go to Byron Bay
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  Speaker 2: with Parkway Drive.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. We played two Knights in a row
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  Speaker 1: the high school that they went to.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, I remember them doing like one of
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  Speaker 4: their show one of their very first shows was like
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  Speaker 4: the community Hall and then an all the Edges show
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  Speaker 4: at the high school Byron.
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  Speaker 3: I yeah, epic moments when I think about it, but
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  Speaker 3: thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, super cool, super cool experience in such a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful place. So yeah, I agree, you guys are in
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  Speaker 2: one of the most incredible places in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very lucky and getting to work from home and
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  Speaker 4: like you know, the Brisbane city is so close. It's
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  Speaker 4: like less than an hour away, so the best of both.
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  Speaker 4: As I sit here in my partner's beachfront unit currently.
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  Speaker 1: It is awesome, also spoiled. I love it. That is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so that's what I was saying to somebody near.
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  Speaker 4: They you know, artists come over and they get to
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  Speaker 4: spend a bit of time, you know here, and we
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  Speaker 4: often like to like celebrity spots, so we see like
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  Speaker 4: a Shiftlet're surfing in Barron Bay, Jack Black just casually
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  Speaker 4: having a burger down it and he's it's just like awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can only imagine it's a destination for our
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  Speaker 2: celebrities at some point. Anybody that's not afraid of the
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  Speaker 2: flight would just love to see it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a little bit of a whole though it's
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  Speaker 4: not it from states over here. How long is it
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  Speaker 4: like eighty hours? Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Depending on where you're coming from Dallas, Texas to city.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the longest flight in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh okay, really.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty something hours. Yeah yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Hoping the UK like twenty six hours and that's a
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  Speaker 4: long crazy So yeah, so if you're coming from your
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  Speaker 4: east coast to OZ rather than your west coast. West
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  Speaker 4: coast is a bit quicker, but east west is definitely
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  Speaker 4: east would be a fairhall.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't done it myself. It's not definitely on
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  Speaker 3: my bucket list. It's I don't know the states that
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  Speaker 3: have let me.
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  Speaker 1: In though, But like dude crazy, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know there's some stories.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard a few people traveling that just have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: issues getting into sparing that the way things have been.
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  Speaker 3: But until the intertalk from over here, we'll ring over here.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for joining us today this morning. Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's I don't know what time it is over where
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  Speaker 4: you are. It's just after It's just about nine o'clock
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  Speaker 4: in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hour, so oh nice. We're at three pm in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: So that's o'clock man.
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  Speaker 4: OK.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Yeah, thanks for having me.