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Top 5 2023 Furnace Fest Moments · The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine

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Ya, Hey, guys, how's it going. My name is Mason Menaga.
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I'm a controversial spiritual podcaster, and today you are listening to the black
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Sheet Podcast with me, my buddy Colin, and our best friend Austin Visser
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from The Undertaking. How are you doing today, guys? We're doing great,
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doing great. You know, it's great to not be a megachurch pastor
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anymore. Uh, and just you know, trying to make it as a
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band. You know, the uh, you know, the very lucrative life
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decision of going from megachurch pastoring to being in a small hardcore band so much
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fun. It was a really great decision that my wife really loves. I
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love this bit. We gotta keep it going. It's just it's a slippery
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slope. It's gonna turn into a roast. Am I am? I free
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from getting roasted right now? I think you are careful. I'm not controversial
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enough, and I'm okay with that. You're just a little small town school
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teacher, That's right, Austin. You're basically at this point, like you
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you really truly are like the host like of the Black Sheet podcast, Like
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at this point, like Cullen shouldn't even be the host, like it really
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just as you. Yeah. So there's three things going through my head.
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One it's the scene from like Captain Phillips with Tom Cruise where the guys like,
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look at me time they Captain. Now, like that's me or one.
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The other the good and the bad is one. I'm like such an
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easy get and so desperate to just be on a podcast that you guys could
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call me anytime and I'm like, I'll make you're You're our black sheep booty
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call. Yeah, or we are just good enough friends at this point that
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this is a genuine like let's hang out and recap a rad weekend. So
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instead of it you just being a good friend, I want to think of
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you as just a black sheep booty call. Can I think of you more
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more of that than being just a good friend? Yeah? Undertaking girls are
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easy as long as their name is awesome Visser. Fun fact, there are
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no female fans of the Undertake. Actually that's not true. That's a disrespectful
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thing to say about the women that do listen to us. I wasn't talking
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about the women that listened to you. I was talking about you. Okay,
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all right, later, guys, since Austin is learning how to be
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a black sheep post. I probably should introduce the episode of what We're to
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do today? Right? Oh yeah, So Austin just played his fucking life
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out at furnace Fest and that happened to be the festival we were just at.
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Two. So we got to hang out with Austin over this last weekend
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and it was a such a good time, such a good time seeing Austin
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for the first time in person, and you know, being able to just
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hang out with lots of friends. It was a good time. And so
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the other day I was like, you know what, Austin was at furnace
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FESTIV whole weekend. Colin was at furnace FESTIV whole weekend, and I was
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at furnace Festival whole weekend. We should just do a little recap with all
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all of us and chat about all the fun things that we saw at furnace
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Fest, all the fun things that we did at furnace Fest. And so
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that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna do our top five top five things,
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not necessarily moments, top five things at furnace Fest twenty twenty three,
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furnace Fest and so we'll just kind of go in order, and I'm sure
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we're gonna have some crossover some things that we all like and that we have
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in common. But yeah, I'm just fun to It's gonna be a fun
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time to just reminisce on what a great weekend it was, right, That's
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right. Yeah, I'm gonna cheat. So I'm gonna have like twenty five
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things. That's like twenty more than we said. You're just gonna have a
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long honorable mentions list. Yes, first and foremost, Hey, it was
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great meeting you guys in person. One of the more one of the more
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fascinating things about being a band these days is all these interviews, and like
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we don't tour a ton, so there's just so many pockets of the country
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that we haven't actually met people other than online. And I think I'm like
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at this at this point, I'm like obsessed with just meeting these people that
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I've talked to. And for you guys, like when we met each other
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face to face, it was like, man, I feel like we've done
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this before, but we we have it, and I don't know, it's
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really special to me. So anyways, you're definitely shorter in person. Than
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I thought you were. Are you lying? I said the opposite. Yeah,
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I thought that you were gonna You know, I thought the camera put
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on ten pounds. It's not true, Thank you, thank not true.
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Wow, Colin is just so flattering to you, Austin. That's right.
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I'm I'm six foot three, two hundred and twenty pounds. Guys, I'm
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I'm a large human being. You're a tank. You're a middle linebacker.
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I was. I wish I could have been a tight end. I was
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a I was a guard, lefty shooting guard and left handed pitcher back in
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high school and never played football. But you're putting tall guard. Yeah.
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I was like the James. I'm like the white James Harden because I can
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get to the hoop. I got a long arms. Did you have the
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Did you have that beard back then? Too? No? No? No.
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Also, that has been drift that you're drinking right now. Yeah,
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I love that ship. That stuff is so good. Yeah, it's delicious.
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It's too early to drink. Usually we're drinking on this podcast, but
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I have to pick up my kids from school after this. I've got some
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gin and soda going on right now. All right, Well, is that
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your number one. Is that your or at least the first one you're gonna
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mention, it's just me. Yeah, I'll claim that as my number one.
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For us as a small little band in San Diego, for so many
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people to be able to come up to the booth and for us to be
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able to meet them in person and be able to hang out like it is
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so exhausting because we're just on all weekend and from the start, from when
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we show up to Ghost Train to kind of just see what was going on
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and there was a band playing already, just starting to see people that we
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knew and people coming up that we're like, we're at your Philly show a
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couple months ago, and you just have to like pull in this mental role
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in decks of being like, oh yeah, I totally remember you, thanks
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for saying hi. And then now I'm actually kicking myself because there's a lot
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of people that I know online that we're there, but you guys didn't say
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hi. And so my challenge now, next time, I need to be
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like very specific, like if we know each other on Facebook or Twitter or
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Instagram, like, please come up to me and say hi, Like I
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genuinely want to meet people and you might also be like, hey, my
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screen name is this, because that's why it might be like the thing that
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clicks anyway, So that's a huge highlight for us. It was so cool.
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So and we were able to have that merch booth all weekend, so
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we got to have like a home base where people could come by and hang
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out. So that was cool. Yeah. I also loved that. First
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of all, your show was amazing. I'm glad that we got to see
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that and it kicked out everything off for us. That was awesome. The
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other thing I liked is that it seemed like, I mean, you never
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would have guessed that you were a band that got voted in and kind of
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sort of last minute, right. You were not like perceived that way.
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Like everyone that I talked to was like, yeah, the Undertaking was really
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damn good, Like they were really really excited about it, and other other
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bands I talked to were like, dude, awesome, this was like the
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coolest guy. He's a nice guy. Uh, the Undertaking, How how
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can they be so nice? I was like, I don't know, they're
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kind of dicksed us, but it is what it is. Uh. You
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know. It's interesting about that is we actually had a conversation, and this
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is a little bit of like an inside baseball kind of thing with the band.
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As soon as we won that contest, we were just one of the
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ninety bands at Furnace Best. Like we were on that flyer, we were
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on that roster. We were no less than anybody else. And at like
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even on my I don't I don't talk a lot on stage because you guys
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aren't there to hear me crack jokes. You're here to watch my band play
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and go crazy on stage. And even at some point, like I was
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going to dedicate yes to like, hey, this song goes out to the
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people that voted for us, But then let's just say, like, you
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know, four hundred people voted for us, and of all the people at
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the festival, there's like five thousand people there, Like that's a fraction of
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the people. And so as soon as I say, hey, thanks for
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voting for us, then like a lot of people in the audience kind of
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like tilt their head and he's like, what are you talking about? And
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then for them they might be like, oh they were they were just voted
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in, or oh they're like there's a lot of different actions to that so
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a little bit of inside baseball is as soon as we're voted in to this
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festival, which we did, and again thank you everybody for doing that,
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like we're just one of the ninety bands. And we went into that thinking
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that kind of mindset of like we deserve to be here. We are like
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ironically and it's not true, but at some point we are no different than
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Reliant K. We're no different than MxPx, who are playing on this exact
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same stage just a little bit after us and today. Yeah, thanks for
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saying that, but that's just like kind of there's a balance between like trying
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to if we went into that thinking like, oh, we're just like we're
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nobody, we shouldn't be here. That's that what you McCall. It's a
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imposter and that that cripples people. And for us just to take a deep
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breath and say like all right, here we go. Yeah, a supermanu
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way through it. The only thing it would have made it better is this,
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you should have done an altar call. Man. I mean, oh
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god, I've never know. I will not do that. You know what,
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I wish we'll over we overthink everything I wish from the get go.
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I would have had the confidence to get people up on stage, and so
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I don't know if you noticed on Friday there was a barricade, but then
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it was gone on Saturday and Sunday, which is a bummer because I think
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we maybe would have gotten more engagement, or like Johnny could have come up
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and like maybe gone into the crowd or some of that stuff. I wish
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I would have pulled a Pennywise or a bane and just told security like hey,
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like you know, like, let's just imagine this scenario. The second
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song we're about to start, no friends, and I look around and I'm
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like, Yo, this is like too empty of a stage, Like,
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hey, everybody in like the first like couple rows, like come back here
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in stage, Like that would have been really cool. And I like start
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thinking about that from a standpoint of like, Yo, did you see that
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the band that played at two o'clock had like fifty people up on stage?
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You know? Anyways, that would have been great next time. I know.
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Well, I think that leads into I don't know if it was my
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number one thing about the twenty twenty three Furnace Fest, but it certainly is
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in the top five. But no barricades, and I just saw so much
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of to the organizers this year about the fact that there were no barricades.
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Obviously, there was that one barricade there on that stage on Friday, but
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the rest of the weekend no barricades, And I just think it, like,
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honestly, I think it made the festival safer, and to a certain
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degree, I think it made it safer, and I think just overall made
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it a more enjoyable experience of like what that community expects from the show in
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a number of different shows. So I just thought the fact that there were
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no barricades was just overall a better experience. And I don't know how much
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like insurance piece like played a part into that, and I just I don't
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know like all the behind the scenes around the decision around that, but I
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think overall it made the festival so much better and it just made it a
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lot more fun. I really love the fact that there were like essentially no
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barricades the whole weekend. I'm not a festivalgoer per se, so I don't,
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like, I've never been to like Louder than Life for Aftershock or something,
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so I don't really know how it is, but it felt like like
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I'll expand that no barricades thing even further to like, just like the merch
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and stuff, they feel like a lot of bands were just out there,
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and it feels like those barricades kind of eliminated that separation between artists and fans
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or artists and attendees, to where even I saw like photos later of Carson
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from the Dowboys was just in the crowd, Jordan Buckley was from Better Lovers,
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was just like in the crowd, and that's like really cool. I
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actually got a couple of comments like from people afterwards saying like, oh,
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it was cool seeing you guys kind of watching all the bands and stuff throughout
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the weekend. But I think for everybody it's like we're here as fans,
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like this is the coolest weekend ever, so let's just enjoy it. And
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I think having no barricades was kind of a furnacess putting their foot down of
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like no, there's like no separation between us, like we're all in this
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together. Yeah, there's to uphold in that in that world, I think,
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and I think the barricades down helps the ethos right absolutely, and in
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fact along the lines of the fact that artists are in the crowd being fans
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as well. Colin, I didn't you mentioned that Turnstyle was at like in
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the pit at like Living Sacrifice or something. I don't remember the drummer's name,
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but he was over at He was over at Living Sacrifice briefly for a
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little bit, like just hanging out at the edge of the pit. He
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was like pushing people and then left, so I don't know where he went
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after that, but it's pretty cool. And yeah, that's part of the
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reason why I love this festival. I've I've actually thought about that too,
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Austin, about the fact that not only were there no physical barricades, but
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also the fact that it does feel like this festival. And again, I
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don't know what other festivals are like when it comes to this, but it
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seems like this festival allows bands and the artists to also be fans, and
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I think for other fans of these artists to like see that that you know,
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the you know that the drummer of Turnstyle is also just a music fan
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and is just like us. And the fact that like he wants to rock
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out, he wants to get into the mosh pit, he wants the stage.
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I think that's so important for US fans to like see like these are
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people too and they love music, and I don't know, there's just something
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really important about that. Colin Austin and I mentioned our first two. What's
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what's yours that you want to Yeah, I'll start off with a light one.
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I loved the food options this year so much more than years past that
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that that's not usually where I would go with this, but I thought the
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food was absolutely incredible and I had a blast, just like trying other stuff
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you eat. My favorite thing was from Nine Rabbits. It was a pork
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sausage bowl and it was that was amazing, amazing. I loved it.
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I gotta, I gotta all right, Well, actually I'll expand that to
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like drinks and stuff. So with the artists pass, we got some drinks.
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Like I'm like still like recovering from this weird balance of making sure weird
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because we're just sleep deprived and we're on the road, like traveling and stuff.
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So it was like coffee water, alcohol, alcohol, water, alcohol,
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coffee, food and then it would be like you're like doing all right,
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and then all of a sudden you eat and your body was like freaking
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out, like you haven't Why haven't we eaten already? So at some point
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I went over to Bad Luck Burger and got one, ate it and just
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went right back in line and got those were so good. Uh. And
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then the Fun Place, I got those fries and that was, oh yeah,
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I saw those two. They're so good. Yeah. I did get
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one of the veggie burgers from Bad Luck Burger, and like, like,
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I've had some pretty good veggie burgers and I'm not vegetarian, but I love
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to like just see like what vegetarian burgers are like. Uh, and I
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was just really curious what there's yeah, sort yeah, sort of in a
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way. But I had their veggie burger and it felt the most fast food
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like veggie burger I've ever had, which I really appreciated. Like you don't
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really a lot of like veggie burgers feel like a little high dining of burgers,
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but this felt like very fast foody and that's why I really loved about
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their veggie burger. Or it tastes like a like a bean burgger that only
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ends up tasting like beans, which is not really that appealing either. So
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uh, yeah, I think the food options this year were great. I
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probably am gonna list it at some point too in my list of things.
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But yeah, I loved the food options and there felt like there were way
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more Austin, I know you haven't been to the last two Furnace fest but
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the lines used to be just excruciating, like excruciating long, and so the
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fact at all, yeah, like there were really any lines, Like the
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most I ever waited was like maybe five or ten minutes. It used to
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like take maybe an hour before. But there just seems like there were more
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food options and they were better. It was just a better experience for food
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overall. I think, Yeah, I agree. Holy So back to you,
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Austin, what's another thing you want to mention? I'm trying to split
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between. I think there's like a fascinating part because one on Mike just a
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super fan of Furnace Vest and the bands and steps, there's art of me
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that wants to just answer as a band but also or as a fan but
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then also being able to play that I kind of excuse my idea of the
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festival a little bit. But my second one would be the staff was amazing,
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and again I'm not familiar with like other festivals and like how they're run
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but from the moment I was going to say from the moment we got there,
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but now I'm thinking back, like from the moment we got like our
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first email, even like starting with Elena from the Furnace Fest Facebook community group
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and then she works with them as well. But then just the emails that
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we got, like leading up to it, from Zeemer, from Ryan Luther,
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from all the different staff members, like they were always so kind and
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we would ask questions and kind of not necessarily pushed back, but we're kind
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of always just like, hey, like what do you want from us?
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You need anything else? And everybody was always felt like we were included.
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But then as soon as we got there too, just the merch coordinator's staff,
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her name was Angelica. She helped us out. A Ton Lacy was
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another person that we were worked with, but then Tate was our stage manager
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on the Big Brothers stage, and then all of his staff everybody was just
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so kind to us. And then kind of going back to the no Barricades,
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you can't not shout out Johnny Grimes, Ryan Luther, Chad Mike just
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for being like the Ratus dudes. And we saw at the pre show,
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the Meadows pre show with Symphony and Peril. That's where we actually met Chad
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for the first time, and he gave us like I tried to shake his
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hand and you know, you tried just going into like a new interaction,
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but he gave us like the biggest hug, and it was like, I'm
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so happy that you guys are here. And just from a founder, from
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like an owner of a festival standpoint, you maybe think that they'd be behind
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the curtain a little bit more or more reserved, but every one of those
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guys was just so cool to us, and that like we walk away from
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that like on Cloud nine because it was like, hey, that was really
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fun. Like the people that we got to work with multiple times were really
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really cool and take care. And that's again the barriers thing. I saw
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Johnny Grimes stage dive, I saw Mike Seamer watching almost every band at the
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Shed, and throughout the weekend. Ryan Luther was always walking around watching people,
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and Chad like was always on stage for his bands and like I was
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subsided standing next to him during a s Citi's burns And it's just cool because
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these guys are fans of the industry and these bands, and you can feel
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that in the in the festival at large. Yeah, they're definitely not in
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this for like just making a dollar or two, right, Like, they
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truly are in this because they love these bands, they love this music,
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they love this scene. Yeah, and I would take it a step further
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to say, like it doesn't it's not even just like the people who organize
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it, but the people who you know, were working the festival as well.
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I mean, the security was great. I've never felt so like safe
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going to a place that's got that many people. You know, they were
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prepared, uh you know, they weren't letting in people who we're dangerous or
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we're potentially dangerous, I mean, or if they were, if they brought
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on like weapons or anything like that, like that was all confiscated. Like
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I appreciate that. Yeah, I appreciate that a lot. And I also
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liked that, you know, the security guard at one of the security members,
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sorry the guard, this was anyways, one of the security members actually
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got into the pit was like mashing around for I saw that. It was
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like or something. It was great. It was great. Yeah, And
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like the child the crowd was like let him mosht. It was great.
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That's great. Yeah, And I think that, like again really kind of
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is a telltale sign of like how much this scene just like loves to embrace
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like different people. I mean even security people that probably have no idea about
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any of these bands, any of this music, and even like the moment
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they are like this, this seems really fun. People like are They're just
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brought along and into the journey. And I just love that about this kind
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of crowd of folks is for the most part, most of them are like
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not trying to be gate keepy about any of this. They're just like,
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you know what, you've never heard this band before, but you know what,
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you're gonna get into the mash bit and enjoy your time too, And
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uh and I would, And I'm hoping that like even for folks who are
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watching your Guys a show Austin, Like there might have been some people who
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have probably never heard you Guys before, but they were just like curious.
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And my hope is that like nobody was like trying to be gate keepy about
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it. They were just like, you know what this is undertaking and you're
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gonna have just a hell of a time. I'd say, scour it sounds
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a little bit more intense but I'm like keeping my eyes open for somebody to
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be like that band sucked, but nobody. Nobody said Mason said, So
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it's my turn. God, There's just so many other kind of ways that
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I could go on this. I'm trying to think of some of the other
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ones. I'll just steal this one from Colin because I'm sure Colin will say
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this one, but a Plea for Purging. This is a band that both
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Colin and I have loved for for years and years and years, and to
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see them play again. We saw them at one of their last shows when
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they did their Felt Farewell tour in twenty twelve, I think, and and
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to see them again over ten years later and just absolutely kill it. At
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one point, I was actually, I don't know if I texted you guys
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this yesterday, but there was a video that was posted during Malevolence and somebody
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had a stage dive counter and there were all over one hundred stage dives alone
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for Manevolence, which is just fascinating, Like there were some people are thinking
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like maybe five hundred stage dives in total at the Plea for Purging show,
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because I mean Malevolence already had five hundred so you just need four hundred more
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across probably what eat other songs. So as long as like fifty people were
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stage diving in their other songs, you probably had four hundred or yeah,
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another four hundred stage dives. So yeah, it just that show alone was
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unbelievable, absolutely incredible. It was a really good time. So anyway,
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plea for purging and also them throwing out there. Just let me get in
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the middle of the side. I'll get to them all everyone there. Yeah,
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okay, well so Mason, Mason's getting ahead of the card here,
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So I'll say that a play for Perjing was probably my all time favorite part
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of the entire weekend. The only thing I was super disappointed about was that
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I wanted to see the two other bands that were playing at that exact same
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time, and that was the biggest one. Yes, I wanted to see
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Better Lovers so bad because I knew or I heard that they did a cover
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of Rusty Cage from Sound Garden, and I'm like the biggest sound Garden fan,
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and I would love to hear Greg Pucciato saying Chris Cornell like, and
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I didn't get to hear it, and I'm bummed about that, but Plae
23:40
for Purjing was incredible. Flinging burgers for to the song fat Pride. I
23:45
mean, come on, that is the coolest and most badass thing someone could
23:49
do. I felt I felt seen in that moment, you know, I
23:56
felt seen in that moment. Although I've lost weight, I still I still
23:59
rip present myself as a man. So, yeah, you were You were
24:03
the guy that would eat like every one of those burgers that were thrown at
24:07
you. Yeah. I do think I might have been the only one that
24:10
was actually eating my burger while I was literally like going, it's so funny.
24:15
I had a friend of mine come up later and went some raving about
24:18
that moment. You can't believe what happened. It was genius. I mean,
24:25
how many of those did you? Like? There had been at least
24:26
fifty that were thrown out right, at least I think there was probably like
24:30
seventy five. That was a good number of them. That they definitely made
24:34
quite a few burgers, I mean, and they were selling those for what
24:37
like twelve bucks a pop that was just threw out into the crowd. I
24:41
bought twenty four dollars worth of hamburgers. I got home and I told my
24:48
wife, and she was like, I noticed that there was a double charge
24:49
on the card. I didn't know if that was a mistake. No,
24:53
not a mistake, note a mistake at all. All. Right, back
24:56
to you, Austin. I'll get this one out of the way because it's
25:00
very selfish. But being being able to perform, well, I guess it's
25:06
just a bucket like like this this weekend was just like the ultimate bucket list.
25:11
It was. It was one of those things for my four dudes,
25:15
three dudes and myself included Johnny, Brent, Keith and myself. That's the
25:18
undertaking. We got four of them. I was just a bucket this weekend.
25:22
And so even if we were to have just attended Furnace Best, that
25:26
would have been amazing. But being able to play was so sick and and
25:30
And as a band in twenty twenty three were essentially a content machine. So
25:34
the fact that we're getting all these videos. The guy that did the mash
25:38
or the stage, I've counter his name is Diego. He put up three
25:41
songs from our set as well. So he came up later and we took
25:45
a picture with him and and he anyways, it's rad to talk to that
25:49
guy, but then for him to put up that music, the music videos
25:52
or whatever you want to call him on YouTube, Like that's so cool because
25:55
you see all these things when you type in furnace best, you see all
25:57
these sets that get up loaded. And for us then to like get some
26:00
of those, that's really cool to be able to get footage of like a
26:04
stage dive of mine into the crowd and be able to get some pictures of
26:11
like a decent sized crowd with us on a big stage. Like that's one
26:15
of those things where you can kind of point to some people and if you're
26:19
listening to this for the first time and you're hearing me talk about stuff,
26:22
I hope you understand that I like, I'm not a privateful person and I
26:26
don't have like a huge ego, but for like with that split second,
26:30
it gives you just that like rush of like I did something really cool and
26:36
no one can ever take that away from us. And that's like so sick
26:40
for us as a band of four dudes who started a band in their mid
26:42
thirties to say, hey, let's have some fun and do something something something
26:45
really cool, Like this is a weekend where we did something really cool.
26:52
You. You immediately became one of those people on Twinder. On Tinder are
26:57
big thing up front, you know, they're like, I've never played on
27:02
Changer, but yeah, yeah, I corrected myself. I'm sorry, but
27:07
yeah, we that's like our big fish of having like a shot with a
27:11
cool crowd and videos of us on a big stage and then to be able
27:14
to perform with Meadows the night before. I sang on one of their songs
27:18
and that was fun and just it. You know, you never know what's
27:22
gonna come from this, but hopefully, like this undertaking stock is rising and
27:29
hopefully we can keep doing cool stuff. So anyways, yeah, that's just
27:30
very like selfish one. Obviously, that's like my number one favorite thing of
27:36
Furnace Fest is that we got to play and do that. But anyway,
27:38
it was it was really cool. A part of that. How did how
27:41
did you go about getting David Bunton on to sing with you as well as
27:45
well as Christian Nielsen from Meadows. I told Christian specifically that he could not
27:51
sing on that, and he somehow managed to get on stage. Okay,
28:00
I'll start with Christian. Christian I love him. He's like at this point
28:03
where like big brother, little brother type of thing. I texted him like,
28:10
Hey, I'll be at your pre show like I'm singing on the call
28:12
because I had talked to Stone to make sure that that was on like the
28:15
set list, and I was like, Hey, I'm gonna do that,
28:18
and I was like, hey, are you if you want? Like obviously
28:19
the final chorus of knuckle Sandwich. Have everything worked out? Just why we
28:22
call it knuckle Sandwich, that's your chorus because anytime we've toured with them,
28:26
he always comes up and sings on that. And then like four days go
28:30
by without him texting me back, and I guess he was on vacation and
28:33
I was like, dang, like he doesn't want to do it so fun,
28:37
And then finally he texted me back and I was like all right,
28:40
So that was kind of a given. We met David at a show in
28:44
Knoxville, Tennessee, this past April, and ended up talking to him and
28:48
Sarah, his wife, for a long long time after that show and just
28:55
since then, since six months ago. Kind of crazy that that's how quickly
28:59
it goes. Just became good friends with him. So at some point I
29:03
got I got him a pass for Friday so then at some point I was
29:06
like, hey, would you want to sing, and gave him a couple
29:08
options and we came up with that whole part. But yeah, that was
29:11
like that alone is so sick. I don't know, It's like, yeah,
29:15
it was so his voice is so amazing, and just to have for
29:18
him to come in at those parts where it's like, oh dang, like
29:22
his lows were so low it hit like a freight trind in the crowd,
29:26
it was like whoa, Yeah, it felt that same way on stage,
29:30
like we all felt something. Yeah, I bet, I bet. I
29:34
will also say that David has easily been one of my favorite guests we've ever
29:40
had on I mean, you just laughed the entire time because it was it
29:44
was a riot. Also, we found out that he might be the like,
29:47
you know how you're an easy get for podcasts. Sure, David is
29:51
an easy get for guest vocals. Oh yeah, he's always It doesn't any
29:55
time anytime, I hate. I hate doing guest spots on like actually recordings
30:00
of songs. It's just not something I love. And he's always like,
30:03
dude, anytime you want to you want to have me on a song,
30:06
like let me know, let me. Know, he's always talking about it,
30:07
but I adore that guy. Man, he's he was a huge influence
30:11
of ours back in the day, and then also again inside baseball. It's
30:15
like a little bit of a subtle flex like to for a lot of people
30:18
to be like, how did you get the showdown to sing? Yeah,
30:22
and it's like he's our friend, you know, Like I don't know.
30:25
It's just one of those things that's kind of funny when you start to piece
30:27
it together. But I was mulling over trying to ask a couple other people
30:30
to do guest spots too. But I don't want it to be like overwhelming.
30:34
Yeah you didn't You didn't ask me. You could have hopped over the
30:37
barricade and grabbed a microphone. It's been a dream of mind since day one,
30:42
not only to to be on stage and sing with one of my favorite
30:48
bands or my favorite bands, but how did we not make that happen?
30:52
I'm sorry? Like see, that's the thing now is I'm playing all over
30:55
these things in my head and I would SHO would have done stuff differently like
30:56
that would have been So you fucked it all up? Austin got Fris That's
31:02
all right, next time, we'll do it. No, please, please,
31:03
please, please, you guys, get hit the Midwest again. Tier
31:07
two. Probably not. We're trying. We're trying our routes, keep taking
31:14
us other directions. That's all right, Well you'll get here eventually, I
31:18
know at some point, Austin. One of the cool things about seeing you
31:22
guys on stage and seeing other bands on stage is to be able to like
31:26
say like that's my friend, Like, that's my friend doing what he loves.
31:30
And that's always really exciting for me. Is like, as somebody who
31:33
has no musical talent whatsoever, to like at least be able to say like,
31:37
that's my friend doing that like that that like not only do you get
31:40
a sense of pride about being a part of like something that's really cool being
31:44
on stage, but also like for me as a friend, I'm like I
31:47
feel so prideful about like my friends just like doing what they love and it's
31:52
really cool to see them doing that on the stage. And so anyway,
31:55
like when I see you guys and a bunch of other friends that were on
31:57
stage this weekend, uh this last week, and it's it's just so much
32:00
like I have a sense of cent of pride as a friend speaking, do
32:06
you want to do you want to fess up a little bit here about that
32:09
you missed half our set? So my my chacos broke. My tacos broke
32:19
the day before we were Did you miss half our set? We miss?
32:22
I missed half your set, But I got there at the end. I
32:25
got there and shown when I saw it, looked down and he wasn't standing
32:30
next to you. At some point I was like, man, that guy
32:34
better get the nicest vans in the world. Well, the funny thing is
32:39
they weren't vans. Uh, so they were So here's the thing. If
32:44
I would have gone to the actual van store, I would have for sure
32:46
miss all of your set. So I went to Target instead, and they
32:52
didn't have any like shoes that I wanted from the men's section. So I
32:54
literally went to the women's section and they had like what looked like Van shoe
33:00
and I was like, well, they have these women's shoes that are in
33:02
my size and they look passable. So I got these women shoes from Target,
33:07
and I was able to get back and see at least half the second
33:10
half of the set. So I wasn't gonna ask because then There's also a
33:14
couple of people that came up to us and were like, man, you
33:15
guys were cool, and that was like one hundred bucks. You weren't even
33:19
there. I'm not going to tell you. I won't tell you who.
33:23
There's a couple of people that I was like, you didn't watch us.
33:27
You was just saying, when there's five people in the crowd, it's like
33:31
pretty easy to figure out what the non five people in the crowd who who
33:36
they were. There's a lot more than five people in the crowd, I
33:38
know. I was telling people we probably had around five hundred people watching us.
33:43
Like it wasn't like the shed caps out at like two thousand or something.
33:45
We probably had like five hundred. That's really cool as most we ever
33:47
played, too. That was our first fest. That's our biggest crowd we've
33:51
ever played. That's the biggest stage. Like, let's go. That's the
33:53
best. I love it? All right? My turn? Yeah, hold
33:57
on? Which one are we on? We? Three? Three? Yeah?
33:59
All right? So mine number a little three one is a really funny
34:05
moment. It was a very specific moment that was really funny though. So
34:07
I got to hang out with one of my friends who are a couple of
34:12
my friends who are the guitars for Reliant K, and so I've gotten to
34:15
know them over the last couple of years they played in Reliant K. It
34:17
was really good time. And what was funny is they like I was in
34:22
like I was just being able to hang out with them in person in their
34:24
trailer, like they had like their own like kind of trailer or whatever in
34:28
the backstage area. So I'm hanging out just chatting with them, and at
34:31
one point, Matt Teason, the front man for Reliant K, comes out
34:36
and like, I shake his hand. Is the first time I ever met
34:37
him in person, so he says high And at one point, like the
34:44
other two guys that I'm hanging out with from Reliant K, like they're talking
34:46
to two other people, and Matt like, now it kind of feels obligated,
34:50
like, well, I just got to talk to this guy who's here
34:52
now. So Matt like starts talking to me, and I like kind of
34:55
mentioned a little bit about like, hey, like I'm good friends with like
34:59
this person that I know you're good friends with, YadA YadA, Like I'm
35:00
trying to make some sort of connection, right uh, And and he looks
35:04
at me, like he stops me for a second. He's like, are
35:07
you that guy from the internet that always tweets about us? And I thought
35:13
that was such a silly, funny moment. And anyway I had, I
35:16
like told the whole world about it. But here's my second telling to the
35:20
world about what was your most recent tweet about reliant Kay? Because I laughed
35:24
about it, but I can't remember it. Oh the one where I was
35:29
like, that wasted ten seconds of your life. Yeah, so I had
35:34
like a tweet that was like reliant Kay and then Christian men on their wedding
35:37
night and then like the shaking hands emoji and it said I just wasted ten
35:40
seconds of your life. I don't I don't get it. That's one of
35:49
those songs. No, I know, just all right. So anyway that
35:52
that moment, Oh, I figured that you understood the other part. So
35:55
oh yeah, yeah, you got the Christian man part it all right,
36:02
Colin. Let's hear it my next one. I'll say this. I have
36:07
health issues, right, I'm on blood thinners, I've got kidney disease.
36:13
You've got no knees. I've got no knees like I've had six knee surgeries.
36:16
I've got a I've got a knee replacement. Now I guess too.
36:21
Yeah, why did you encourage me to jump on you when we hugged that
36:23
one time? I shouldn't done well because you're you're you're still a light a
36:29
lightweight. You know, It's not like it's Andy Atkins jumping on me,
36:31
so I would have been right. I was a little bit terrified that I
36:36
was going to take a shot to the head and then like I would have
36:37
a you know, an internal brain bleed, and then I would you know,
36:42
be sent to the hospital and just inevitably die. But I didn't care
36:46
really all that much. And I was just like, I'm gonna get in
36:50
here a few times, and I'm gonna jump off these stages and I'm gonna
36:52
do all the fun stuff because I never got to do this when I was
36:57
young, Like the stuff didn't exist where we lived. Anywhere it did exist
37:01
was way too far away for Mason or I to get to. And so
37:08
just being able to let loose a little bit and uh, you know,
37:12
get get in the crowd and and push people around and get pushed around,
37:15
and it was it's a it's a thing that unless you do it. You
37:22
don't understand it, right, It's it's a feeling that you just don't understand
37:27
until you do. It's and it's a great when you don't even care if
37:30
you're gonna live anymore. So maybe, yeah, talk to your therapist about
37:34
that, you know. It's it's not like a depressed thing. It's like
37:38
a I've accepted the fate that i've that I have. Well, that's the
37:44
first part of the grieving process. I guess. I guess it's funny.
37:49
Yeah, good for you man. That that pumps me up. Yeah,
37:52
it was a blast number four for you, Austin. I mean, like
37:57
I said, this is the point in time where I could probably just like
38:00
rattle off an hour's worth of stories. But like the bands, Norma Jean
38:07
was amazing. MX p X was a dream and so fun. We're just
38:14
screaming at each other responsibility. What's that like? Just so cool? I
38:20
should pull up a list. But Better Lovers was amazing zo watching them.
38:25
They were so I'm not the only one that pronounces it that way. High
38:29
five Drain. I caught a couple of their songs. Bain was amazing.
38:37
The Clothes out the Night turnstyle was rad like, I'm not the biggest Turnstyle
38:40
fan, but just watching like the spectacle of everything was amazing. I think
38:45
you just committed a cardinal sin. I don't know. It's not allowed to
38:49
say anything slightly negative about Turnstyle. Don't you know the rules? Now I
38:54
do? Now? I love Turnstyle so much. They're my favorite band.
39:00
Better Lovers, Acidities Burned like was just an amazing moment. It's just like
39:07
so many little micro moments with this song, Oh, Haste the Day,
39:12
like some of these bands that want I never thought I was gonna see ever
39:15
or again. And so that's when like you just have story after story after
39:22
story after story about like a song or a chorus or a line or a
39:27
band in general. And for me, it's like stuff like come Now Sleep
39:30
is the album that I learned how to yell with. And so to hear
39:34
them sing some of those songs, and just from a spiritual standpoint, like
39:37
what Cody wrote on that in Hell or High Water like so profound. So
39:42
to hear him sing some of those songs amazing. Hate the Day. I
39:45
was probably like eighteen seven, no, like sixteen seventeen years old, and
39:50
it was Haste the Day Dead, poetic under Oath, Norma Jeane, some
39:52
sort of Solid State tour that was coming through Haste. The day opened and
39:57
they played Blue forty two's first song we had ever heard from and when they
40:00
just crush and all of a sudden, you're just like, well, I'm
40:01
a lifelong fan and so just like little moments like that that tap you back
40:06
into your childhood. It's just so cool and like and that was that was
40:08
like happening like over and over and over. And then Johnny would you know,
40:13
Johnny would talk about May and Armor for Sleep and some of the bands
40:15
that he got to see. I know some people have like big moments during
40:19
further seams forever, and it's just so cool that there are so many opportunities
40:23
for just moments of like, wow, this is happening and this is really
40:28
cool, dude. That's it is really like Christmas. Yeah, it's Christmas
40:36
has like this like nostalgia to it, and you're also like, you know,
40:39
just getting cool things in the process. That's that's what Furnace Fest feels
40:44
like to me. It's like Christmas. We called it a buffet, so
40:49
we kept treating we kept treating it like a buffet. We keep like I'm
40:52
I'm gonna take a little bit of this. I'm like, go get a
40:54
little bit of that. Yeah, here's an underrated aspect of Furnace fest.
41:00
And again, I don't really know what a lot of other festivals are like
41:04
when it comes to this, especially like kind of heavier music type of festivals.
41:07
But I would say my number four is the kids at the festival.
41:12
Uh. And not only are there like children children literally like dancing and washing
41:17
on stage. Like there was that one kid that was just like seemingly at
41:20
every show. He's got a huge Twitter following our instagrams. I guess that
41:24
was I guess that's the whole thing. Yeah, his name is Luke.
41:28
His his dad's been a big fan of ours for like a long time.
41:30
So that was cool to be able. That might be the biggest flex that
41:34
anyone could have. Rights. That's that's that's the biggest flex. I'm saying.
41:43
I don't know. The kids stuff got a little bit of controversy a
41:46
little bit. Well yeah, and like I get that, but also it's
41:50
like he's like what a four year old kid? Like it is what it
41:53
is, And I get like that. There's probably some sort of content creation
41:57
around it, but like also the kids, seems like he really enjoys it.
41:59
Yeah, I don't think that one was what people were really pointing at.
42:01
I think it was like some of the other ones were like kids are
42:06
on like literally in the mosh pit, and parents are like forcing them out
42:10
there to a certain extent. I think that is where people got a little
42:15
nervous about things. But the one, Mason, I don't mean to cut
42:21
you off. I just saw so many stories as well about people being like
42:23
when I was a kid, I went to Furnace Fest in two thousand and
42:27
one, and now I'm able to bring my son to this festival now and
42:30
be able to share this moment, and that's like where Furnace Fest becomes something
42:34
bigger than just totally right totally And that's where I'm like, especially like that
42:39
Turnstile Show. Like the thing that took my breath away around the Turnstile Show
42:44
was to see like what for sure were like high school age kids like or
42:49
maybe even younger, like middle school, And I remember being that age getting
42:52
into this music for the first time and like wanting to be that kid that
42:57
was like in the mosh pit at like under Oath when I was likeeen or
43:00
fourteen or fifteen or you know whatever it was right, and like you know,
43:04
Culin and I were like what I think it was like sixteen or seventeen
43:07
when we saw like a plea for purgeing and you know, seeing the chariot
43:09
when I was like sixteen years old and something like we were young kids.
43:12
We were the like whatever those kids ages were at Turnstile, Like that's how
43:16
young we were. And to like see the next generation of those kids like
43:21
find these bands and want to be a part of this scene, like that's
43:23
what like touched me the most. Was like like this is not going away.
43:27
This music is not going away, Like there are kids that are going
43:30
to continue this music. Those kids are going to go on to create like
43:34
great bands too, and and that, like to me is like the cool
43:37
thing to just see this like turnover of just like generation after generation of like
43:43
you see sixty year olds in like The Living Sacrifice Show, nothing going hard,
43:47
even sometimes stage diving, and then to see like fourteen year old kids
43:52
at Turnstile and you just see this great range of ages like carrying about this
43:57
music, and that to me is like what's really cool about this? So
44:00
to see like kids at these shows, not just young kids, and you
44:04
know their parents bringing them in along, and you see their big like headphones
44:07
over their ears, and like, you know, them going off and just
44:09
like having a hell of a time. Like that's really cute and wonderful.
44:13
But to like see kids that are like fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years old
44:16
having meaningful experiences being a part of this, like that, to me is
44:20
really touching. Knowing that those kids are going to go on and create really
44:22
cool bands and and we're gonna be sixty years old listening to their bands.
44:27
Yeah, there was this kid that I made friends with I but he was
44:30
probably fifteen or sixteen years old during the Turnstile show, and it was like
44:32
it was like a battle. It was like a war zone in there,
44:35
and him and I were like working together, and then at one point I
44:37
was like, do you want to go up? And he's like he's like,
44:40
I don't know, I'm kind of kind of scared. I was like,
44:44
it's now or never, let's do it. I was like I'll throw
44:46
you up there. He's like, all right, let's do it. So
44:50
I threw him up there and he jumped off, and I swear to God,
44:52
he jumped twenty feet. I've never seen someone jump so far like Mason.
44:58
Doesn't even come close. Since jump from last year doesn't even come close,
45:00
Austin, You're jump from this year doesn't even come close. That kid
45:05
jumped an astronomical amounts of distance. It was awesome. You can't get that
45:12
kid on the lunch team. Yeah, I recruit him. Did you Did
45:15
he call you mister Mac? No, you just said bro. He's like,
45:19
well, Bro, come on, bro, help me up. All
45:21
right? Here you go? All right. Number four is the friendships.
45:27
Man, Oh my gosh. I love Furnace Fast. The bands are great.
45:30
Meeting meeting people that we haven't met before h is great, But the
45:36
best part is the friendships that that continue to grow when we're there. And
45:42
I love that aspect more than anything. That That is my all time favorite
45:46
aspect of a furnace Fast. It's really touching. Like I almost want to
45:52
like tear up a little bit right now, So I'm gonna stop, but
45:57
I'm gonna leave it at that. Friends. How about you, Austin.
46:00
Number five? Yeah, well, again, I could go on and on.
46:05
I think I'll just sum it up, like the best thing about furnace
46:07
best for us the top five things that we're talking about that is it was
46:10
just unarguably one of the best weekends of my life, like inside out,
46:19
core, memory island type of stuff of just like that was cool. And
46:23
for us to be able to share that with our band, where if you
46:31
can't pick up on it, Keith, Johnny Brett and I are like best
46:35
friends and we hang out all the time. We love each other dearly.
46:42
And for us to be able to like pop on a plane at five in
46:46
the morning from San Diego headed out to Birmingham and then on the way back,
46:51
hop on a plane at six am back to San Diego, and every
46:53
single moment in between there we're just like, hey, we're doing something really
46:57
cool. This is an adventure. Let's go have some fun. For us
47:00
to be able to like accomplish that and be able to share that with each
47:02
other, it's so so sick. Like our text chat is just like ablaze,
47:07
just with memories and little things of like, dude, remember when this
47:12
happened. But then you start to you know, expand that to where I
47:15
get to meet people like you, and then there's other people like I met
47:19
a guy named Danny who we just had some like really cool conversations. I
47:23
met a couple of other people who had listened to this podcast and heard of
47:28
us through there, and so that's just cool to where you start to kind
47:30
of see the network of how people kind of come back and different relationships all
47:36
consuming podcasts. Got to give them a shout because that discord a lot of
47:39
people from the discord that we're in, they were there, and so just
47:43
to run into them all weekend long at different places, different shows. You
47:47
kind of would see somebody at one of the sets and kind of give them
47:51
the like yell, it's up, like so sick, you know, like
47:54
you share that little moment of like this is something cool. There was a
47:58
guy, oh shoot, I can't remember Loafi the Loafi on Instagram and he
48:04
came by on how to sign his records. He was standing next to you
48:07
when I staged ough and he like I landed on him, and throughout the
48:13
weekend just be like hey you okay, Like I didn't like hurt you,
48:16
did I. But then there's guys like Zach our buddy Zach. He was
48:21
really tall wearing an undertaking shirt at some point. And then Big Jeremy,
48:25
the dude from Seattle, who knows every single one of our words. It
48:29
was just if you see our pictures of the crowd, he's the dude that's
48:30
just kind of like it's just like I don't know, man, Like I
48:35
could go through every single day and like all the different stages of the weekend
48:38
and just couldn't point like, man, that was cool, that was cool,
48:42
that was cool. And then you circle everything back and again I could
48:45
get emotional starting to think about like we got this because people voted us in.
48:49
And at some point I talked to the merch coordinator, Angelica, and
48:52
I said, do you know how we got this? By the chance,
48:53
by any chance, like did you hear? And she was like no,
48:57
So I told her the story and her eyes like went up and was like
48:59
that is so cool that that's how you guys got on this, And uh,
49:04
I don't know. It's just really special to us. And again we
49:06
take this as an opportunity to just kind of keep going. We got some
49:08
like amazing demos, we got shows lined up, we got a booking agent
49:13
involved with stuff. Now, like let's tell like unstopped level. Well,
49:19
I just remember every time we would run into each other, you just always
49:22
had the biggest smile because it it really did feel like you could just feel
49:25
the energy coming from you that like, this is like the greatest weekend right
49:29
now. And so yeah, every time I saw you, you were always
49:31
smiling because you're just soaking in the moment and I love that. It was
49:36
fun. Yeah, it was a good time. All right, Can I
49:38
tell about the bad things now? You guys gotta go, So I will
49:45
say my my fifth one is right along with Colin, just friends, like
49:50
you know, obviously, like hanging out with you Austin, meeting new friends,
49:52
like people that we haven't met before and just like you know, becoming
49:55
friends with them. I had lots of friends, Like we stayed in Airbnb
50:00
with like seven or eight of us and to like introduce people that like have
50:02
never met each other before, and like all of a sudden, now they're
50:06
going to be staying in the airbnb together and see those people just like become
50:08
really good friends over the weekend. Like that's really cool to watch, like
50:13
my friends like meet each other and become friends themselves. Just like all of
50:16
that was just so much fun. Obviously, meeting people at the festival,
50:21
seeing people that we have gotten to know over like the internet over doing these
50:24
interviews and just being able to see them in person for the first time,
50:28
like all of that, I mean, just all of those friendships. And
50:30
I've always described Furnace Best as like a family reunion, and it just felt
50:36
like that again this year, even more so. So. Uh yeah,
50:38
the friendships are just always really touching and probably the thing that I always come
50:43
back to agree uh last one for me this So this is kind of weird.
50:47
I'm not someone who's got, you know, tens of thousands of followers
50:52
on Twitter, and I don't have a super cool band or anything like that.
50:57
I'm just I'm just a guy, just a dude, you know,
51:00
and I talk way too much on here. But within the first thirty minutes
51:07
of being at Furnace Fest, I was recognized by two guys from the Netherlands,
51:14
of all things, and they were they were having an absolute blast and
51:17
they were like talking to me about things that I don't even remember myself saying,
51:21
and I was like, this is so cool. Also, I'm scared
51:23
about what I maybe have said in the past, but regardless, getting no
51:30
regrets. That's right. Getting recognized as kind of a strange thing, and
51:34
that's not like trying to like be like self important or anything like that.
51:36
But like that was weird because that happened a whole bunch of times. But
51:40
it makes me feel good that like this podcast is doing something and that you
51:45
know, people are are listening and kind of a part of the little community
51:49
here as well, and that that just feels really really good because like,
51:54
I'm not an authority in this scene or I'm not an authority and podcasting.
51:59
I'm not an authority in a band or on Twitter or anything like that.
52:01
I'm just not even authority in your own classroom. That's exactly right. I'm
52:06
just a dude. I was going to say in your own house. But
52:08
it might be I might be an authority there and I don't know, but
52:10
regardless, I it's it's just it's a great feeling, like knowing that like
52:17
we're just part of a much bigger community, bigger scene, and and we're
52:23
just trying to do our part. I love it. It's fun. Colin.
52:28
Just wait until you meet your trolls and oh I know, oh yeah,
52:30
Mason Mess some of his trolls. It's pretty fun. There's so much
52:34
nicer in person. Though. Yeah, I wonder why I'm sure I have
52:40
some haters out there. Yeah, we call him punisher. I got people
52:46
who just punish you. There's one of my Okay, so we do have
52:50
like this one review on iTunes. By the way, you should go and
52:52
like and subscribe us and also rate us on iTunes or whatever. But there's
52:57
there's one. There's one review on it. It's like Mason should shut up
53:02
because he's a heretic. And also Culin is way funnier than Mason because Mason
53:07
is not a comedians like this is hilarious. Like I am nowhere near as
53:13
funny as Mason, and I just think that's funny. I wouldn't go that
53:15
far. I would go that far. I'm just I'm just louder, that's
53:20
all I am. But debatable, it's funny. I'm thinking I'm louder.
53:23
But it was a good weekend. It was good weekend, Austin. I
53:28
can't wait to see you again. I hope at some point you come to
53:31
the Midwest and we can jam out again, or maybe, you know,
53:36
maybe for some reason, I'm out in the West coast when you guys are
53:38
playing. That would be really fun too. But yeah, we just need
53:40
to see you again. I'm still trying to get you guys to do like
53:44
the almost famous thing where you come out and hang with us for a couple
53:45
of days on the road. Oh I'm down, I'll be silver Stone.
53:52
I can do that, you guys. You guys always had like other trips
53:55
planned and stuff we don't go on as is always pretty free in summer,
54:00
So just like do a little summer thing and you could just tell me where
54:02
to go. I'm free whenever. All right, we can make it happen.
54:07
We got some cool stuff coming up, so we're excited. I love
54:10
it. I love it well obviously. Whenever that happens, we'll get you
54:14
on the podcast again and we'll chat about it. But in the meantime,
54:16
Furnace Fust twenty twenty three is in the books, but it will live on
54:22
forever in our hearts. So thank you so much for Furnace Fast, all
54:24
the people that were a part of Furnace Fast putting on making lots of memories
54:29
for lots of people, including us three. So thank you so much.
54:31
And uh yeah, I'm excited to see you again in twenty twenty four. Ye