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When The Weed Meets The Speed With WEEDEATER · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Who has sludge doom outfit Weed Eater, Well sure Australia
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  Speaker 1: this November as part of the When the Weed Meets
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  Speaker 1: a speech or with Australia's King Parrot starting at most
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  Speaker 1: As a clubhouse on November the sixth. It'll be Weed
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  Speaker 1: Eat his first visit from Australia since twenty sixteen. And
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  Speaker 1: when we caught up with the band, the first thing
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  Speaker 1: we asked was why have they neglected us for so long?
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  Speaker 2: We're not attiviting neglect you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you're aware, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: far away from where we live and we love Australia.
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  Speaker 3: We've always had a good time there, but it's just
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  Speaker 3: not easy to get there, and it costs a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money to do so, and it's a big pain
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  Speaker 3: in the ass. But when we get there, we have
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  Speaker 3: a damn good time. And I would like to ask
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  Speaker 3: you a question. Why have you know I come to
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  Speaker 3: women to North Carolina and visited me?
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  Speaker 4: Alrighty go, you got me there? Made fair call.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a massive run of shows for you, bro,
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  Speaker 1: with eleven dates over twelve days.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a bad effort.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we wanted to play more shows than
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  Speaker 3: we did back in twenty sixteen when Conan was direct support.
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  Speaker 3: We had a great time, but we really only hit
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  Speaker 3: the East Coast and Perth and none in the middle of.
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  Speaker 2: The country or continent as it is.
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  Speaker 3: But with King Parrot, you know, Maddie and those boys
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  Speaker 3: have fixed this to where we're going to get to
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  Speaker 3: play some more places we never would have gotten to
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  Speaker 3: play without them, and we're fucking we're stoked to do it.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, you'll be coming over to joint King
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  Speaker 1: Parrot on the tool, which is called when the weed
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  Speaker 1: meets a speed tour pretty much says it all.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I guess they're speaking about the fact that
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  Speaker 3: we are weed eater and they are faster than we
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  Speaker 3: are in some of their tempos. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: that was a question, but we're very excited to play
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  Speaker 3: with our mates. We love them to death and would
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  Speaker 3: play with them anywhere on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: There are our bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Sured extensively through North America and Europe with King Parrot.
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  Speaker 1: But have you ever actually played with them on their
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  Speaker 1: own home sol before.
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  Speaker 3: No, we have never played Australia with King Parrot. I
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  Speaker 3: believe they were busy when we were there the first
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  Speaker 3: time and the only time that we played Australia New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand was with Conan his direct support, and that they were.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome and actually a couple of them, the
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  Speaker 3: King Para Boys, did come out the shows.
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  Speaker 2: But no, this will be our first time playing Australia
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  Speaker 2: with King Parrot.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us you a best story about life on
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  Speaker 1: the road with King Parrot than you can without getting
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  Speaker 1: anyone in the shit.
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  Speaker 2: Ah shit.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know when we first met them. The very
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  Speaker 3: first night we met them, we were I believe in Belgium,
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  Speaker 3: ship maybe we were somewhere in Europe and they were
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  Speaker 3: direct support for us all through Europe and they were
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  Speaker 3: awesome dudes. We thought they were fucking hilarious. And somebody
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  Speaker 3: bore all them a box of hand biscuits. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, they call them biscuits where I come from,
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  Speaker 3: biscuits or big ass biscuits, but I guess in Europe
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  Speaker 3: biscuits or crackers.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever, But they brought them hand biscuits. I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was hilarious. And then and.
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  Speaker 3: Later, after a full US tour, they ended up at
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  Speaker 3: my house and me and Slats and Youngie and I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember who I was there, but we had a
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  Speaker 3: crazy dance party for seven hours, just dancing, Michael Jackson
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  Speaker 3: and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well Slatch has been known to pop out a
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  Speaker 1: boogie or two in his time. Now, you're also going
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  Speaker 1: to have Ouzsie bands, Astro Death and joining the Choe Mate,
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  Speaker 1: So do you know much about them?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about either one of those bands,
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  Speaker 3: except for the fact that I know that King Parrot
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  Speaker 3: Boys champion both of them, and I trust their judgment
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  Speaker 3: on this one too. If I have seen Matt Young
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  Speaker 3: you wearing the shirt many times, and it's good enough
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  Speaker 3: with them, it's good enough for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for the benefit of those who might not have
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  Speaker 1: seen weedy it before or who've forgotten about it because
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  Speaker 1: it's been a wat since you Beiniy run us through
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  Speaker 1: a typical We need a live show, and what do
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  Speaker 1: you expect.
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  Speaker 2: We have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: We want the crowd to have a good time with us,
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  Speaker 3: and we want to have a good time together. And
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing this for a very long time and
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  Speaker 3: we know the difference between the good and a bad time.
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  Speaker 2: So have a fucking good time. Dammit, that's in order.
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  Speaker 4: Day, And I have to tell me that true brother
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  Speaker 4: not indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Now the press release schools the band sludge toned tar heels, Now,
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck does that even mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I understand that you probably don't realize, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on the other.
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  Speaker 2: Side of the world down under as you are.
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  Speaker 3: But where we live in North Carolina, it's a slang
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  Speaker 3: term for any North Carolinian is a tar hill. It
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  Speaker 3: has to do with many different things. It has to
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  Speaker 3: do with this type of soil that we have here.
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  Speaker 3: It also has to do with the type of work
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  Speaker 3: that was done here back in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 3: So look it up that we are known as tar heels.
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  Speaker 3: North Carolinians are known as tar hills, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: I kind of know why, but you just can't.
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  Speaker 2: They have to read about.
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  Speaker 4: It, weed reader.
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  Speaker 1: I've also got your own brand of hot sauce made,
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to be bringing any of that over
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  Speaker 1: to burn the fuck out of us?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's actually very delicious, it's not super hot, but
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  Speaker 3: we probably will not bring any of it unless we
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  Speaker 3: can have it shipped there because we don't carry anything
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  Speaker 3: but ourselves and guitars basically when we fly to different countries.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's a good point. I will I will
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  Speaker 2: look into it see if we can have some shipped over.
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  Speaker 3: But you can always go to outerlimits dot com and
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  Speaker 3: order some and they'll bring it to your house. That's correct,
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  Speaker 3: Outer Limits Hotsauce dot com. Hit up Ed he's a
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  Speaker 3: good motherfucker and he will send you some hot sauce
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  Speaker 3: of many different flavors too, not just weed.
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  Speaker 1: Eater, plus King part of their own brand of whiskey,
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  Speaker 1: three Groglords as well, So you might be able to
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  Speaker 1: bring some and do a bit of a trade of sorts.
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  Speaker 2: I love and I'll trade them anything for their whiskey.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, I'll suck them off hand
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  Speaker 3: jobs whatever they may need.
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  Speaker 2: I do. I do clearly ill like my whiskey. We
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  Speaker 2: all do.
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  Speaker 1: And what's not to love about a good whiskey anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys released your most recent album of Goliathan
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: Mates, So have you done any work on the follow
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  Speaker 4: up yet?
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  Speaker 3: There has been much talk of a new record, especially
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  Speaker 3: from the record label. But yeah, we were already prepared
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  Speaker 3: to record a record in December.
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  Speaker 2: Which is coming right up.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy that's done our last three Records and
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  Speaker 3: Steve Albini passed away, and so now we don't know
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  Speaker 3: what we're gonna do right now. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 3: figure that out, so we won't be recording in December.
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  Speaker 2: We will try and figure out how the hell to
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  Speaker 2: do this and get a record to you. Soo's pustle, right.
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  Speaker 1: I just say there's someone out there that doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: know much about weed Eater and they're thinking about coming
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  Speaker 1: to show. Give us three songs of yours for them
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  Speaker 1: to listen to to get better acquainted with the band.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my answer to that would be listen to stuff
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  Speaker 3: that they don't hear a lot, like Bull or Buds
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  Speaker 3: or Dummy or Homecoming.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's more than three, but that's an answer.
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  Speaker 1: So what does the rest of twenty twenty falling into
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five having store for weed Eater Once you
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  Speaker 1: finish with Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to have Christmas, Yeah, I guess. I
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  Speaker 3: mean they say that you have to every year, even
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  Speaker 3: though I'm pretty sure Jesus was born in July. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to try and figure out how we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do this new record, and we're going to take some
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  Speaker 3: time off until March or April when there's big news
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  Speaker 3: to be announced. Then they can't. It can't be doubleged
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  Speaker 3: at this exact moment.
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  Speaker 4: All right, mate, Well thanks for joining us today we
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  Speaker 4: need it.
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  Speaker 1: Will be in Australia with King Parrot, Astrodeth and Chuk
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  Speaker 1: for when the Weed Meets a speed tour kicking off
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  Speaker 1: at most As A clubhouse on November the sixth before
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  Speaker 1: traveling through Queensland, New South Wales, Act, Victoria, South Australia
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  Speaker 1: and Western Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Tickets available from www.
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  Speaker 1: Dot Kingparrot, dot Aostis dot com dot au