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Taking Down The Titans With TANNER WAYNE From IN FLAMES · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Yeah. Fuck yeah. My name is Tanner Wayne. I played drums for
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  in Flames. We just released four Gone last February, I believe, and
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  uh we're at home now. We're about to do an Asia Australia tour coming
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  up. Really stoked, yatiful my thanks for joining us today. Fuck yeah,
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  thank you for having me, mom by pleasure, both sides you say.
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  In Flames return to Australia in one month's time for the Clash of the
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  Titans tour with Creator starting in Adelaide on February third, eighth, then going
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  through Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney and finishing in Brisbane or February the eight ays.
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  So is this gonna be your first round shows for twenty twenty four,
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  Yes, sir, yeah, and what a what a crazy one? I
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  mean before we get to Australia, we do Indonesia, Japan, China,
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  Singapore, Bang Talk India. Maybe I'm missing one. So it's gonna be
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  where am I it's gonna I looked at some weathers and it's like all over
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  the place, So it's gonna be a journey for sure. So I did
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  some pretty big run of shows a lot night A long way from hind side.
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  How do you prepare yourself mentally physically. I guess for a big stretch
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  of shows A Wife from Behind low that it depends on uh, you know,
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  at the end of the day, I'm trying to mentally strengthen myself at
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  all times, but it really depends. It sucks that the older I get,
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  the more I crave comfort, because me and my touring friends joke all
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  the time about how comfortably we were when we first started, and how we
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  had ninety bucks in our bank accounts and we're sitting there fucking eating microwaved hot
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  dogs and just listening to our Walkman's just so fucking going for it. And
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  now I'm seventeen years in and I kind of crave comfort, but tour is
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  not very comfortable most of the time. So it's interesting, man. Yeah,
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  I mean, I you know, I meditate every day, I read,
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  I I do all the mental health things to make sure that I'm present
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  and appreciative when I get to these moments. But it depends per country,
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  you know, And it depends are we flying every day, what's going on?
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  And Asia? Asia's rad, the fans are so rad, the fans
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  are so respectful. I'm such a huge Asian food fan. That's good that
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  that's gonna be incredible. So I'm really looking forward to this trip, right,
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  So I love those lines, right, like you know, strangers to
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  traveling nicurse. So, what are two non essential items you've always take with
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  you on the ride? Essential items? The non essential? Non essential?
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  Oh fuck, I don't know. Everything I bring is not essential. I
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  uh. I try not to get to neurotic with like bringing shit, but
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  I definitely have like a little pack on me, and most of it's kind
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  of like comfort shit. I have like this Thai herbal inhaler that I actually
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  use on stage every night too. It's just filled with herbs and it's like
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  it blasts your nose when you sniff it, and it it helps with stomach
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  aches and vertigo and pretty much everything you deal with with flying. So that's
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  really cool. Really love that. And then fuck, I don't know,
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  man, if you were to look at my bag, most people just like
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  what the fuck? So many so many vitamins and protein powders and just fucking
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  stupid shit. Because again with my mental health shit, like I want to
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  feel like I have all the things on me, you know, and like
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  when I'm in fucking Shanghai, China. Sometimes I might not have this medicine
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  that gets me from being sick or like whatever. So I try to balance,
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  you know, bringing enough stuff on me that I'm handled for whatever goes
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  on, but also not too much to where I'm kind of just being a
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  neurotic idiot. So all that is side bro. What can fans expect from
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  in Flames on this tour. We have discussed playing a different set list than
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  we have been so some songs. We're gonna pull some songs out from you
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  know, the first records as well as the newer ones, and we're just
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  gonna fucking go out out there and have a blast as we always do.
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  And we're excited to see the fans, especially I've never done, never done
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  a club tour with them in uh, Australia and some of the parts of
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  Asia. So I'm looking forward to seeing a literal represent a representation of like
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  the work we did at the festivals, right, like see who from the
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  festivals as well as who already knew the band, like who we're going to
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  bring out to these shows, and a charistraya with the mighty creative like it's
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  a it's a match fight in heaven. But by from your point of view
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  watching his I stychays, I'm gonna be very honest with you. Step one,
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  I didn't choose them. Step two, I don't really know Creator that
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  well, man like I, which is rad because like I get to see
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  them, I get to see them play. That's gonna be my first like
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  real moment of like liststening to them and like absorbing it. Right, And
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  the purest form is a live show. It's just like when we did My
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  Suga. We just did our second tour with My Sugar. I don't really
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  listen to My Sugar before seeing them, so to see them live is like
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  a crazy way to fucking absorb that for the first time. So I'm really
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  looking to I'm really looking to hanging and meeting and watching Creator play. I'm
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  also looking forward to not having to do the whole headliner set and get a
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  little relaxation time in there. Yeah, so on that notemat like it is
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  a co headline and tour. So does that mean that you guys are going
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  to be playing alternating headline sets across the tour or does it mean you just
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  be playing the same mantalm every night. I'm I haven't heard. I know
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  nothing yet. I know for a fact, Oh hey, I know for
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  a fact that we are going to be playing the same amount, but I'm
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  not sure if we're gonna switch back and forth. But like I said in
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  regards to Craving Comfort, if we can play first every night, I'm down
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  because then I get to go try to catch up on some rest that I'll
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  be lacking on this trip. I said, we suck bad this before.
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  But you're released in Mice recent album Full of Odd last February Mite, So
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  how are the fans reacted to that. It's interesting because we haven't done a
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  lot of club stuff since releasing it, and the ones that we have,
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  because that's the biggest representation of how the album's doing is how many people are
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  coming to our shows, and we did a couple on this last one and
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  it was insane. And then seeing the end of the year lists that we
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  made in regards to people thinking it was their favorite album of the year,
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  it's been awesome, man, it's been incredible, and it's been a pleasure
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  to be a part of that of a record that that that is for me
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  from an outsider's perspective. I know that, like a lot of the fans,
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  Battles isn't their favorite record, and maybe I the Mask isn't their favorite
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  record. But for me to be able to be fully a part of an
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  album for my first time and have it be for Gone is an honor because
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  I know that it holds its own way. I know that it's unique.
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  I'm I'm honored that they let me do kind of whatever the fuck I want
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  on it, and and I'm stoked that people seem to be receiving it really
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  well rather than some sort of what the fuck is this backlash in regards to
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  how it compares to the earlier records. So I'm really thankful that it's that
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  it's it's gone so well. Yeah, and how much is that? Are
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  you going to be playing live thing shows? We've been playing I guess at
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  least like four songs a night from the record. It's tough because we don't
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  really get a chance to rehearse that much, so like pulling out one that
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  we've never done is kind of rare. We did and the transmission a handful
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  of times last summer, and it was kind of unrehearsed, So it's kind
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  of a dangerous game we play, but definitely the classics, you know,
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  the big ones on the record, and yeah, we try to mix it
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  up, so I'm hoping we do a lot. The bands always expect certain
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  things from bands when they got to say them live, but as a band,
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  what do you guys expect from your fans when they come to a show.
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  We struggle with this because every night we get right in the room and
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  like right when we're like after the show, right when we're in the green
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  room, we kind of like, Okay, how was the hell was it?
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  How was it? Well? How was your what did you think it
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  was? What do you think it was like? And we're very honest with
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  each other, and a lot of the time, each of us has a
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  very different show. I could have had a shit show, my singer at
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  a great show. So it's it's interesting thing where at the end of the
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  day, we really want everyone to fucking mosh and jump and beat the shit
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  out of each other and CrowdSurf, but we joke that we would never do
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  that, So who the fuck are we to expect that? Right like or
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  our frustratingly expect that. So when we go back backstage and we're like,
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  oh, the crowd wasn't that great? We really honestly figure out was it
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  great? Or are we selfish and pricks because at the end of the day,
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  we'd be in the back of the room with a beer, not fucking
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  moving at all, maybe not even clapping because we got a beer in our
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  hands. So try to keep it real and it helps us because the last
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  thing you want to do is get off stage and be hyper critical of how
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  the fans were when in all reality, a lot of the shows we have,
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  especially supporting the show, because sometimes the crowd would just stare at us,
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  and even though that's not like the best physical representation of how we did,
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  we know that they're absorbing us and that means they can come out again,
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  you know what I mean. So at the end of the day,
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  yeah, we want you to beat the shit out of each other, and
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  we want you to go psycho like we're ten different slip knots on stage,
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  but we understand that we fucking wouldn't do that, and who are we to
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  pressure you, but please come and just have a fucking blast. We just
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  want to see smiles and please clap after songs and at the end of the
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  day. We're having such a blast with each other on stage that that's kind
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  of what we focus on anyways. Okay, so in times, they're considered
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  by many to be massively influential in the heavy metal scene in general. So
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  what do you personally see as the band's major achievements to metal. Well,
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  I've only been in the band six years and I've been lucky enough to do
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  some psycho shit with them. In terms of achievements, I mean, I
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  think a the biggest achievement is for them to be on their fourteenth album,
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  right, And I say them because I wasn't in a lot of those records
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  or the majority of those records, So the fact that they're still doing what
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  they do is absolutely insane, especially at the level that we're doing it.
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  But since I've been in the band, we got the headline Vakin, which
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  was such a blast. That same weekend or maybe the following weekend, we
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  played for over five hundred thousand people in Poland, which was absolutely incredible.
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  There's a ton of stuff, man like even just the making all the all
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  the end of the year lists last year and for Gone doing so well,
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  that was incredible. So I can only speak from the achievements that we've done
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  since I've been in the band. But just the fact that we're still able
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  to do this and getting the tours that we're getting is you know, every
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  year is a new celebration of the band's history. Cool. Sorry, what's
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  thanks for? Inflames Off? You've finished the East Ride and shild Right,
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  Uh, I get caught up and saying ship that I shouldn't, So I'm
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  not gonna do that. I'm gonna catch myself. So yeah, I mean
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  we go we do this tour. We're off for a couple of months.
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  I know some festivals have been announced in May, so we're gonna do some
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  American festivals in May, which is always a blast. And then we're off
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  for the summer. And uh, that other tour was announced too, so
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  I won't fuck that up. We're going on tour with We're going on tour
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  in the fall, and it's really not make me fuck this up? Yeah,
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  with Durch Enemy and soil work right, good, right, right,
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  good? All right? Might? Well, thanks you time time to being
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  a pleasure to speak with you. Might. I'll give you five minutes to
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  go and gather your thoughts before the next interview. You're the fucking man.
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  Tell your daughters to give their papa a hug and make sure they're appreciating you.
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  All right now, rights all brid You enjoy yourself, I'll see you
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  the Brisbane shiat. Fuck yeah, man, I can't wait to see you
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  enjoy your day, brother,