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Leanor Ortega Till: Five Iron Frenzy | Furnace Fest 2024 Series · The BlackSheep Podcast: Presented by HM Magazine

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They're at the festus at the corner your brand new gospel. Then I have
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any corner you want a blockage, you'll tell your sauce gotta say your sovereignty
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from saying the Kitten Club something right, check say this. Today we got
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Leonor from five Iron Frenzy, the second time you've been on this podcast.
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At this point, you're just a good friend. Uh you know we were
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on the podcast last year. Uh maybe you're somewhere around this time last year.
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And then you were like, hey, guys, I'm gonna be at
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Furnace Fest and you're just gonna like and I still remember. I don't think
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it was in the recording. I think it was after we got done recording
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you you said, Colin and Mason, you're gonna be at Furnace Fest.
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I'm gonna be at furnace Fest. You guys owe me an ice cream date.
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And so you texted me while we were at furness Fest. We went
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out and got some ice cream at the festival and it was a grand old
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time. We met some of your friends, you met some of our friends.
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It was so much fun. We may have had a little alcohol at
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some point, and it was a delightful time, and so you know,
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we just became really good friends at that point. And here you are now
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not just being a guest at Furnace Fest, but this year you're going to
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be playing at Furness Fest. So obviously we're going to get into all those
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kind of details and everything. Yeah, but before we get into all of
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that, how are you doing today? I'm awesome, I'm doing really good.
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I'm working on all the details. This weekend, on Saturday, we
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are playing a Denver SKA festival with headliners Goldfinger, then Less Than Jake,
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than Us heh yeah goodness, and then also other bands are going to be
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there too. It's an all day festival. It's going to be really fun.
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Planet Smashers from Canada are going to be there, so it's a lot
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of sky, it's a lot of quick turnaround, like not playing a long
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set, but it's going to be very, very fun. And we're working
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on old school songs, so much skinking, I know, or they you
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know, scake mashing, I guess. And then people our age head bobbing,
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you know. Okay, right, yeah, yeah, but but it's
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your job to make sure they're not just head bobbing. I'm ready. I
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am so ready. I I guys, I bought a new shaper today.
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What does that mean? What is a You're not a woman, are you?
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So it just holds everything titally in you've heard of these things. Well,
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you don't need that. I don't need it. But on stage it's
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good because if you put your hands in the ear, you don't want your
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T shirt it is Oh, I get I get it. That's part of
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it. That's part of the you want to be like all you're all about
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You're all about modesty. You just like ruin like the fantasy of like every
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forty year old Scott fan right there, because that was like, that's the
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opposite of what they want to see when you lift your arms up. No,
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it's all modesty and it's all about you know, in my age,
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it's also about like, you know, you want to look slim and good
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and happy, and you are. But it just adds that extra layer of
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confidence. I guess okay, it's the it's the female confidence. Sure,
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what do you guys have? What's the equivalent of that? Colin used to
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wear those uh what are called wife beaters? What's kind of wearing that?
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He's wearing a Nike y on coaching all day and I literally just got back
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and so I am, I am. It's one hundred degrees here today and
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I'm toasty and I'm still warm. You look warm. And I think that
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the new mason, the new terminology is a spouse provoker. Please, I
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think it's just called a tank top person. You can cancel me, that's
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fine. I would never you. You could cancel me. Well, I
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wish I was in Denver this week, and that'd be so much fun.
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It's going to be very, very fun and very brad. And I just
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think it's crazy that, honestly, like, think about this, playing with
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Goldfinger, playing with less than Jake us, we have more band members now,
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we are heading closer to fifties with both those other bands and us,
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Like, it's insane the age now of people that are playing scam music.
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So so you know how how like a lot of like tradesmen and stuff like
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that will say we've got more than one hundred and fifty years of experience on
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our staff. What is the years of experience on five iron friends? I
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bet you I could ask a fan on Saturday and they'll figure it out.
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He'll know it in binary because they will have been homeschooled and happy nerds.
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Wait, I'm happy to keep doing this, like it's super fun. It's
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still exciting. We have a lot more shows coming up, which I'll tell
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you about later. But yeah, it just feels good to still have I
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guess the word is chops. You know, you still have your child.
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Yeah. So last year we around this time, we interviewed Bruce from Living
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Sacrifice, and I bet Bruce is at this point in his mid fifties.
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I'm guessing. I mean they've been around the block since the mid to late
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eighties, right, so they've been around for a while. And I was
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thinking to myself, there's a good chance, not to say that it like,
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I don't know Bruce Wall enough, but there's a good chance he could
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be potentially a grandfather at this point. And like, you guys are not
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that Like, given another like ten to fifteen years, you might be starting
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to at least even if you're not grandparents, you could at least be in
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that age range where you could have grandchildren. Like, it's not that far
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off. Well, the first phase though, of all this is empty nesters.
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So our trombone player Dennis and his wife sent a son to college,
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and in fact, we're about to play in Nashville where his son goes to
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Baylor University and he's studying music production. And so yeah, we have a
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there's a football week we literally Baylor Bayer. Very cool. What are the
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chances that's where my brother goes to school? Oh, good school. Maybe
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they can become friends. Maybe he's amazing on the guitar. And so also,
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my son just graduated this year. I have an eighteen year old's how
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crazy good grief? Isn't it weird to think that, Like you've been a
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band and you continue to do this and you've you've birthday child and now sent
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that child off to college. That is that is how long you've been a
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band. I know it's true, and it's really fun. It's really cool.
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Like now it's easy because I said to the festival, I said,
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can our kids be backstage? And I was like, they're teenagers and they've
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grown up in this world and they need all access, you know, like
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they're not babies. And it's like yeah, so it's pretty much like a
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bunch of teenagers eating our food that's supposed to be on our rider for us.
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So we have to add. It's like coke. We would never get
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Coca cola. It's like fine, add you know how much hummus do we
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need? How many chips? Why do I have to feed all these kids
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backstage? That's how you know, That's how you know you're a Colorado based
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band when hummus is the main organic apples, local beer, which what could
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it be here? Alabama? You guys, let me tell you something.
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Do you ever enjoy the non alcoholic beers just for fun? They go duels?
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Yeah, but now they have so I we're taking a little break here
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and there badly, but it happens here and there, just a reset.
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Non alcoholic corona is delish. Really, you you have to be high maintenance
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like me. You cannot just drink it out of the thing. You have
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to line it with salt and a little tahen and then a fresh line.
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But the beer itself with all that. Yeah, you know, nas are
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really taking off right now. Like almost every single brewery has a has at
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least one NA on on tap that's their own, you know. And you're
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even seeing really good any like liquors to like mix you know, but I've
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tried two wines and they were undrinkable. The two wines I've tried were like
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fermented grape juice. It was, well, that would be wine, that
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would be wine. So it's just it's literally just grape juice. Yeah,
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it's you're going to a Methodist church. They probably get it from uh,
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they probably get it from a Catholic priest somewhere. I know, because that
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wine is terrible, but it's a waste of your money. Don't unless I've
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I had about fifty people suggest on my Facebook. I asked, you know,
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what are the non alcoholic wines I should try? And so many people
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said them, and I got two of the higher end. I shouldn't waste
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my money that way. Like, if you're getting wine, real wine,
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fifteen bucks is my It's not like twelve to fifteen bucks. And we're not
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talking twisted off. I don't do that crap. But I think that spending
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more than that is just a waste. And if it's not alcohol, I'm
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really sad. Now, Yeah, yeah, that's true. Mason's concerned about
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me. Mason concerned about only drink wine. So my I do love box
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wine, but my like my sort of any version. If I want to
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like you know, have like a nice drink at night, but not do
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an alcohol version is so in in Minnesota, edibles now are like THC edibles
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are are are available. But I found these little tablets, these dissolvable tablets
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that you can put in any you know, like a selter water whatever you
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want to do. Uh, and they're they're tasteless and they're odorless, so
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you can just you know, throw them in and they're like really really like
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those are called rufies and you are not supposed to be these are these are
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these are legal ones. These are ones you can just buy at the store
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down the block and uh. Anyway, you just like throw them in and
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then you just get this nice little like TG buzz and it's so nice and
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enjoyable. And that's like that's my go to right now for if I want
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to like do something an a but I still want to like have a little
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bit of the edge taken off. It's great. My concern is it someday
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though. So I don't partake in the THHC because I am a I work
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for the Department of Corrections, and I don't know should they ever test me,
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it could suck. So I just don't know, I get that,
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I get that good point. Yeah, And also it's kind of fun to
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like it sucks, but sometimes I have to have this like air of you
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don't want to lie to your kids, but you also want to uphold this
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standard. So it's like if I'm gonna be like, yeah, I play
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around with this stuff, it's like, then you too. Because as soon
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as I get all these tattoos, my kids are like when am I getting
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them? And I'm like, I talk about doing weed. Then they're like,
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when are we gonna get high together? Mom? I know, but
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you will get to a point where you're you're going to be like heye,
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child, when do we when can we get high together? Like my like,
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my dad has not asked me that specific question, but my dad is
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at that point now where it's like, let's let's break out the whiskey.
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And it's like I think back to when I was sixteen, and I couldn't
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imagine my dad and Colin knew my dad when I was sixteen, There's no
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way I could have ever imagine my dad being like the guy that's like,
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let's break out the whiskey. Yeah, And now he's that guy. I
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mean, I made it like we went to a football game with him,
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and he's snuck in alcohol to this football game. I know, And I'm
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like, who is this? I don't even know this human anymore? And
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this Christian conservative dad just took up took up smoking tobacco. Yeah, he's
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just he's smoking. Would be like Gandalf though in a pipe to be like
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Colin made him a pipe. I made him a pipe and he's smoking out
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of it. So give it. Give it like ten more years or even
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maybe less than that, and your kids are going to be like, you
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know, my mom's a cool mom. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
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You better no matter what I do. I'm fairly convinced that I don't
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know what they think is cool my mom. My mom is a lifelong hr
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person. My mom has never been in a Scabian like. There's no way
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if I even think my mom is cool, there's absolutely no way your one
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of your children won't think you're cool, at least in like ten years old.
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Well it depends because like so Brad's kids, Brad is our trumpet player.
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His kids actually like where are merch? They make cute clamation videos for
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us, like they think it's cool. Our kids tolerated. My kids tolerated,
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but they don't brag about it. I would. I don't know if
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I would. It's hard to know. Like with your with your parents,
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if do you think it's cool? Because it's when you think when I think
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of my dad. When I think of my dad, he's just silly and
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dorky and weird, and I can't imagine him being cool. I don't know,
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you know what I mean? Cool? Wow? You're that guys picture
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cheech? Have you heard cheech? Oh? Yeah, that's how my dad
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talks. Are you serious? Yeah? He's Mexican American and he I have
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a video of him. He had big mustache and glasses. The first date
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I went on, I was fifteen and my mom was at a church retreat,
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and so my dad had the neighbors come over to help send me off.
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When the parents came with their other their fifteen year old son to take
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me on a date. And as the car's driving away, you don't see
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my dad, but you hear on the video recording, I need a beer.
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That's my dad, dude. First time you met my husband, well,
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who would become my husband? He handed him at to Molly in a
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shop. That's awesome. Yeah, how old were you and your husband?
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You guys met when we met? Well scandalous. He was nineteen and I
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was twenty four when we met, but when we got married, I was
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twenty seven and he was twenty three. W I was like my parents basically,
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my mom is older than my dad. Yeah, he asked me out
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when he was twenty and I said, yes, when he turned twenty one,
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have you told your kids this? So I remember when I was like
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maybe eight or nine, and I like learned something about that women on like
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the life expectancy of us women was like five years older than men. And
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so I asked my dad about that some No, no, actually, let
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me back up. I noticed, like at least growing up in church that
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like most of the married couples, I knew the man was older than the
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woman. Oh yeah, sure, like usually within a few years, but
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like usually was like older than the woman, right, And so I asked
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my dad that of like why why are typically men older than women when they're
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married, but you guys are like mom is older by six years? Yeah,
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And so I asked that question that was you know, eight or nine,
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and my dad like explains, you know, it's just like we you
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know, we fell in love, blah blah blah blah. But then he
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was like, but here's the here's the plus side of it, Mason.
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So I don't know if you've seen meson, but women typically live five years
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longer than men, and so that means that because your mom is five to
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six years older than me, that means that when I die, your mom
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is probably going to die right then too. And so not only did I
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have to like contemplate the fact at eight years old that my parents were going
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to die, but that they were going to die at the same time basically
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on average. That is why tell him? Why tell them? So now
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you can tell Now you can tell your kids that, like, hey,
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by the way, dad and mom are going to die at the same time.
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Well, the awkward thing about me was I was friends with him for
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a long time. So I was dating another guy, and then I was
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single for a year, and then I started dating Steven, and so in
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that time I was friends with him and I even got to know his dad,
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and his dad would use me as an example. His dad would say,
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see your friend, she's in college and a band because my husband was
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always touring and trying out bands and never really wanted like he only did one
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semester maybe yeah, he didn't finish the first year of school. And his
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dad would always like shake his head and be like, wow, help him.
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And I'm like you were seen as like the really mature one, well
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physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. I just damn dude, I just
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and still and still are are the more mature one. Have to know what
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maturity is. I don't know. I'm good with money. I'm really good
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with money. Well that's good. Yeah. Mmm, I'm a planner,
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I'm a thinker, I'm a researcher. I don't know what mature is because
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I don't have the ability. I don't know if I don't feel like you
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guys are the same. I don't have the ability to get embarrassed. You
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know that about me? I don't really have. I mean I really don't,
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like, I don't have this shame or this weird feeling of like what
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would I say? It could be awkward? And the new joke these days
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is it's really cute. Like all the movies these days about romance are Oh,
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I'm so awkward, I'm so awkward. I don't know what that feels
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like, and so I think in order to I think we equate maturity with
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confidence, and that necessarily true. So no more shaper for you, then,
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that is what you're saying. Yeah, you have nothing to be embarrassed
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about. Raise your saxophone enough, back off, you don't need it.
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I've been known to flash leaders. I've clashed an entire youth group leader convention.
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Wait what because I didn't know so I was wearing actually a start and
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I didn't know the stage would be so high. I know, I know
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it can happen. It happens, I suppose every once in a while,
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hopefully hopefully not hopefully not too often. Well that's when you learn these kind
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of things. Yeah, that's a good point, But not because you're embarrassed.
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It's just because like somebody is like, hey, by the way,
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like let's not do that again. Yeah, which someone was like the color
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was white, and I'm like great, oh oh man, subject change.
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Yeah, you were just trying to put the saxon in saxophone. No,
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I'm not speaking of saxophone. Yeah me ask you this. Looking at the
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Furnace Fest lineup, are we really the only ska band. I think we're
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definitely the only ska band, right, Yeah, what about the only band
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with horns? There's another band that I think has horns, right, or
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a couple of them. I have to look at the lineup again. I
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mean, certainly there are bands that may have like a song or two that
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have a horn in it. But a band that would have a touring person
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that plays horns, I don't. I don't think so. If it was
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last year, you would not have been the only one. You might be
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the horniest band last year. We might be this year. Last year was
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fun because I got to be on stage for Insiders and they are my friends.
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Yeah. And then what is that other band? Okay, don't don't
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say the name. It's the band that does second Seasons. I love the
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Goady hook. Yeah yeah, the Dead Player was it? Or was it
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Value? Yeah? Yeah? And I got to say I had all those
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guys and it was funny because I did that thing I do that once a
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while where you stare at them and you go, oh it is you,
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Like you have to like look past the age and the wrinkles and then events
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past years. Yeah, like it's I don't mean to right, away,
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but I have to look at certain people and be like, oh, yeah,
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how have you been? And suddenly in the from the Ether Steely danced.
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But the guy in Gody Hook, he's very tall, and I think
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he's blonde. Okay, you know that guy? What does he play?
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I remember I don't either, but I looked at him for a minute.
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I was like, oh my gosh, you probably have like five kids,
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and I think I was right, wow, five lot like that one of
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those guys. Leone a question that I've wondered, partly because like every now
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and then I'll like bring up like, hey, like I know leonor from
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from five Iron, and you know, for some reason that impresses people,
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I guess, and and so anyway, whenever that comes up. One of
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the like thoughts that I have around like you being in a band for all
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these years now is especially because you've been in a band as like the only
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woman in the band, right uh. And I'm really curious, Like when
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I first met you, I realize like immediately like oh, this is like
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I don't know if you're like in the Niagram world, but like you clearly
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to me, like are like Enniagram eight kind of energy, kind of person
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like very strong, like strong personality, like yeah, don't take shit for
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anything, kind of like you know, you don't take shit from anyone kind
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of thing. And so like one of the things that like has become clear
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to me is like you could easily go like be in a band of like
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a bunch of like men and clearly like still like kind of have your way
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in it. And also I'm like curious about like how you have felt like
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the rest of five Iron over all these years has sort of been in this
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like I would imagine there's been moments where it sort of feels like we sort
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of need to like protect her from like all the nonsense of like masculinity and
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bullshit that men bring in to that scene. But no, but also knowing
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like they've had to have to they have to probably balance that knowing that like
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you are going to be, like you're gonna be like the dog right at
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the beginning of the fight, ready to like you know, beat Someboddy up.
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So I'm like curious about just like how you've navigated that dynamic knowing your
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own personality and also knowing like that there might be some level of like impulse
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from from the guys in five Iron to maybe want to try to protect or
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like make sure that you're okay or whatever. Right, So I'm curious,
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like what that dynamic has been, you know, over the course of these
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five Iron years. Well, in the beginning it there weren't as many conversations
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about I mean, I was a tomboy. I was a little tomboy,
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and I wasn't very girly. I guess I had like you know, I
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never wore makeup, and I had extra large T shirts everybody did, like
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Vision street wear shirts. And I had a couple of nose rings, and
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I looked pretty punk rock and kind of intense anyway, so I think they
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saw me as one of the guys. But there definitely was this big brother
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kind of vibe and Andy our drummer, he's and I don't always go for
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stereotypes, but I will say he would throw down if anyone looks at me
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wrong, like I've had. I've had people at merch tables be mean to
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me and he he goes, he looks at me, and he goes get
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on the bus and he tells me to go on the bus, and then
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he screams in the person's face like like or if another band member in a
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band is like giving me too much attention like that, he'll be like right
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there and I won't even notice. I'll be like kind of flirting too,
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and I be like, Andy's there, like you should leave now. Like
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he's very protective of me, like a big brother, which is rad.
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Definitely, I can hold my own. But I've learned in the band Aneagraham
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speaking, they don't want me to be an eight. They want me to
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be a seven. It took years and my husband helped me figure that out.
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He's like, you always take on things. You're always booking or you're
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booking the openers, or you're doing this, or you're doing that, and
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you keep getting told by the band not to do it, don't do too
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much, don't overthink it. And because it's almost motherly, right, like
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an eight woman in a group becomes the mother, the mother hen And I'm
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really struggling right now to not text them and be like, okay, guys,
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for Saturday, it's going to be really warm, so wear's something like
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shorts and t shirts with them, pack something cool for the stage. I
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want to tell them that because I think it's true we should look cool on
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stage and I don't think they're going to be wanting to wear they're sweaty,
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hot jeans the whole time. But then there's that don't be an eight,
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be a seven. Just be cool, be fun, be happy, you
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know, just just go with the fan girl. Just be like the one
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that the fans talk to and don't try to plan everything. And it's been
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hard for me to find that role because I'm really freaking good at the other
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role. I would love for them to boss me around. So lately this
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whole year, I get to pick the openers. They're letting me do.
22:47
They're letting me do it. I get to do my gift right now,
22:48
I'm making a videos, I'm in charge of the posters, I'm doing all
22:52
this stuff and I'm burning out. But I'm also really happy that they're trusting
22:56
me to do it. That's fun. That's is that has that been a
23:02
fun creative outlet for you too? It is the only hard part I think
23:06
is also taking on like who's going to book the flights, who's going to
23:08
book the hotel. See, we don't have a manager because we have eight
23:11
band members. H you can't really afford to pay another person. Plus every
23:17
time we hire someone, we're like, no offense, but we know how
23:19
to do it more than you do. Reusally twice as old as you,
23:22
and so yeah, we're really we become like kind of control freaks and not
23:27
good at being managed. We had one manager, which was Mike omquest.
23:33
Do you guys know him? Yeah? We know Mike. Yeah, And
23:36
we felt bad letting him go because we're like, we're failing you as a
23:38
person. We will not be managed, and so we had to fire him
23:41
out of our love for him. Serious, we loved him. See was
23:47
that before he was that with me without you? Or is that the same
23:49
time? Same time? Like the reason? So when Engines came out,
23:52
we hired him. He helped us with all that artwork, gotcha, he
23:56
helped us with that big release, and we knew, we knew as a
24:00
fan he'd get us. But then after a while we're like, you can't.
24:03
You can't handle us, and we can't handle being handled. Did you
24:07
hear about the mission he's going on? No, is not not like a
24:11
mission trip. He's like he's working with NASA and he's going to the sun.
24:15
No, you can't, he well, obviously you can't, Like that's
24:18
the idea like they're they're sending people to this like to see how close we
24:23
can get to the sun. The problem is, I know I'm global.
24:30
I think you're b asking me to the max. You can either listen back
24:34
to the episode and what you made me do so I will not what look
24:42
at my dogs back there? I was about to say, is this is
24:47
this what a five iron frenzy rehearsal looks like? You know what? It
24:52
sounds like. It sounds bad because we use in ears, so all you
24:56
would hear is like the horns, and you would hear just like clinking,
25:02
and you'd hear the drums, but you wouldn't wear any guitars are based.
25:07
That's fun. Uh Well, speaking of that, actually, when when you
25:11
have so many uh, when you have so many instruments up on stage,
25:15
do any of your monitors do they get kind of k sounding? Well,
25:18
well, they're amazing. There's a thing and you'll love the name master Fader.
25:22
You have to download master Fader. Nice and you definitely a Colorado based
25:26
Company's gonna that's gonna flag my accountability partner on coven and Ice. Well,
25:33
good luck with that. You have to download it and it allows you to
25:37
turn up and down each individual mic, so I can decide how much kick,
25:41
how much there, how much Sometimes we ask for room mic. So
25:44
it's like kind of a little echoey. Yeah, so I can put the
25:47
horns excuse you, ye, quiet, thank you? You see them there?
25:55
I don't know anyway, so you can put as much of everything.
25:57
So it's funny because like Scott kerr our bass player will be like, and
26:02
he has to say it. What does he say? He goes, no,
26:03
offense, I don't have any horns in my mix. Why do you
26:06
say it? Why do you have to tell me? You don't have to
26:07
There's no reason. Ever, I've never needed to know that. Well.
26:12
Well, so that's something that's interesting to me. Like you know, in
26:17
a typical band, usually the bassist wants to have, you know, good
26:21
connection with the drummers so that they can get he does. That makes sense,
26:26
But when it comes to horns, what do you listen for? Are
26:30
you listening for that same groove? Or I need the base from there?
26:33
I just gave all the drums. What do you pull Reese all the way
26:37
down? No? And here's why. When he gets off and he doesn't
26:42
have a great sense of rhythm, and he gets off a lot. So
26:45
we all need to we all need to what we're going to do fast under
26:51
the bush, and we have we have click in our ear so shooting songs
26:56
and you've heard our songs like they're fast face and he needs to stay on
27:00
it fast. And sometimes he gets off, or sometimes he's being funny,
27:03
or sometimes he runs out of breath, takes a drink of water. There
27:07
did I make up for it? So when he does these things, we
27:11
have to be flexible. Yeah, yeah, So what happens? What happens
27:15
if you get off the click doesn't click? Colin. We're professional musicians,
27:22
I understand, but there's all get off for one beat, but then there's
27:26
another beat. You better get back on, right, you figure it out.
27:29
We don't just get off. It's like driving if you okay, it's
27:33
like the sound when you hit on the road and it goes then you yeah,
27:37
direct to get right back. It's not like, oh, I'm just
27:40
off roading. Is there to remind you to get back? That's road for
27:45
a second though, right, No, I've hung around blues bands too much,
27:51
you know, I mean, they're they're never around a click, and
27:53
so it's just well, and what's weird is like I my hyperness and my
27:57
intensity. I'm always like a little front of in front of the click right,
28:03
and we know this is a band being a band for a thousand years,
28:04
and Brad's chill. Yeah, he's behind it a little bit. He's
28:07
behind the beat. And so my favorite part, if you ever listen to
28:11
Evil Plan to Save the World, my solo is stupid. I can't solo.
28:15
I can't solo, so it's crap. But when you hear Brad sola,
28:18
that's awesome because he's just behind the beat. But it sounds really cool,
28:22
like it sounds very intentional. It's just awesome. Yeah, yeah,
28:26
yeah, he just want his best, right you are? Yeah? Of
28:30
course? Yeah? Ice cream? Yeah, ice cream for sure, But
28:34
I also want to hang out. That's yeah, for sure. We're gonna
28:37
be Are you going to be there for all three days? Yeah? I'm
28:41
totally yeah. And guess what the first day is my birthday? Oh okay,
28:47
well we definitely owe you ice cream. Now it's my forty eighth birthday.
28:52
Forty eight. El what it's happening, guys? That's wow, that's
28:59
fun. Yeah, what a what a perfect place to celebrate that too.
29:03
Yeah, I hope you guys don't buy me a cake, because they did
29:04
one time and gave it to me on stage, and of course some dude
29:07
in the front just smashed it in his face. That was so rude.
29:12
Are you so? Are you playing the first day? You know? I
29:17
don't remember it's on. The days have been announced. The schedule hasn't,
29:22
but the days have been announced. I'd have to look. So if you
29:25
are, you know that Happy Birthday is coming then right? Oh? Not
29:29
while I'm on stage, I hope. So oh it should all right,
29:32
culin if that's going to be the case. We're definitely starting. We're starting
29:37
happy. I will I will go backstage and I will come on stage and
29:41
not give a ship and I'll be like, no, we're singing Happy Birthday,
29:44
right, you know what you want to do? Since it's my birthday,
29:47
you should get stretched armstrong to sing me Happy Birthday during their set.
29:51
Now that would be memorable. No, that would be fun. Okay,
29:56
Now we're definitely you can't. You can't opened that Pandora's box. And I
30:00
think that we're gonna go ask them though, I'll be like, who oh,
30:04
yeah, uh I remember, Yeah, that's the weird chick that every
30:08
Cornerstone and every Warped tour because we were on workt with them. She has
30:11
to be on stage, yes I do. Are you going to bring a
30:19
stretched armstrong action figure as well? No? But I have one of the
30:23
T shirts. I cut it out because our last tour of five Arms,
30:26
last tour ever, our last show ever before we got back together The Onion.
30:30
You know the Onion, right, the magazine of course, So it
30:33
said you could buy T shirts from the Onion and they said I'm in a
30:37
promising local band. Yeah, And so we all wore them for our last
30:41
show because we played, you know, to four thousand people, sold out
30:44
Filmore show. But on the back I had sewed it with of course,
30:48
you guys plan on Saturday, by the way, play on the Saturday.
30:52
Okay, thank you Saturday. We plan on Saturday everyone. So what I
30:56
did is I wore a stretch armstrong shirt because you know that quote. You
30:57
probably know it better than me. You were more than just a tour day,
31:03
you were more than just a fan. Remember that song? Yeah,
31:07
yeah, yeah, So it was the quote of that. So that was
31:08
on the back because I was like, oh, this is you know love
31:11
it. That's such a cool Uh, such a cool little homage to them.
31:18
Oh yeah, they don't know, like they know. I think they're
31:21
cool, But I think they're cool. They're songs. They're beautiful songs.
31:25
Yeah, they have a color than the other band you have toured with.
31:29
There's so many bands I've toured with. I don't know who you want to
31:30
talk trash about. You were talking trash about them before we started recording.
31:36
But I had a great time with them, and I always have a great
31:40
time. Of course it should, we should. We give the listeners a
31:44
hint of as to who Leonora was trashing. You think five and Frenzy are
31:48
good, very very good, but but the feelings aren't mutual. Oh yeah,
31:56
they're great guys. Sweethe great, They're great guys. But are they
32:01
great as a bank? They have a song that I love called After,
32:08
They have a song that I love called Softer, And they have a song
32:13
that I love called Be My Escape. Okay, how's that? Oh that
32:16
just gives away great, Yeah you probably gave it away. But yeah,
32:20
it doesn't matter. I do love those songs a lot. They're great songs.
32:23
What about snapcase? They're gonna be playing they are gonna be playing.
32:28
Is that so? While I was about to get into this, like like,
32:30
Okay, you're gonna be there the whole weekend. What are some of
32:34
the bands that you're wanting to see n I V Oh? Yes, okay,
32:39
I have a memory with n I V I. That's my favorite Bible
32:44
mine too, actually, mine, absolutely too. I'm the onliest by by
32:50
the way, saying after this, after this podcast, like wal when it's
32:53
at the end, you're gonna ask me my favorite five favorite Bible translations.
32:57
Weren't you gonna ask me that? Yeah? Yeah, and I V number
33:00
one for sure? Anyway, Wine blind Side? You're a blind Side fan?
33:08
Okay? Yeah? The bands I know? Right, I don't know.
33:12
I know Cohed and Cambria a little bit. Is H two oh playing?
33:17
Yeah they are? They're playing on on song. Dude. They have
33:20
some songs. They have one of the most romantic hardcore songs I've ever heard
33:23
in my life. You want to know a fun fact? Sure, uh
33:29
h two O is actually the band Aqua. I don't understand. Is that
33:35
also a band? But they have the same name. You heard the song
33:37
girl, Oh shut up? The same people. I swear to goin yeah,
33:42
okay, yeah, yeah, check it. They just they just like
33:49
reinvented their sound. Yeah, okay, look it's definitely okay. So so
33:55
H T or H two O and IVY stretch on one side under oath,
34:00
that'd be under oath. You gotta you gotta come do blindside with us then,
34:05
okay, I don't know what do means. I'm not gonna be in
34:07
a mosh pit. No health insurance, okay, just like up front,
34:13
the D O D doesn't have that good at health shirt. Actually I kind
34:17
of have good health insurance. I just don't want to get you're gonna you're
34:22
gonna turn forty eight. You don't have to. That doesn't have to be
34:24
excuse Leonora. There's health insurance that I want. It's not really health insurance
34:29
because it's hippies, but it's like three hundred bucks a month. But that
34:30
for that money they tell you like holistically, what's up with you? And
34:34
what teas and herbs and you know all these but three hundred bucks a month,
34:38
I almost feel it's worth of the DO O D in the In the
34:42
I didn't realize the D O D was in the pockets with a bunch of
34:45
like I think it's Mason. Oh yeah, it's right. You're with the
34:51
Correuction. Is not that? Not the Department of Defense? And not only
34:53
that, Mason, I don't get paid. I raise support, so I
34:59
don't it's not a real job. But that everyone will tell you it is
35:05
a real job, but it isn't you know what I mean? Sure,
35:07
So it sounds like there's enough bands where we can go hang out with you
35:12
and enjoy that band together. And also there's enough bands where but there aren't
35:15
too many bands where you have to like every single moment moment of every single
35:20
day at furnace fast, which means which means I see, which means we
35:24
can get some ice cream and maybe have a little drink. Yeah. And
35:28
what about so Reggie and the Full Effect. They were one of those bands
35:31
that for a long time, we're always on the mixtapes, the actual cassettes
35:36
I would get it would always have like one or two Reggie in the Full
35:37
Effect songs. I don't know why it's a mixtape band man mixtapes. I
35:44
wish that I have an old army trunk full of them. Do you do
35:49
you have a do you have one that like? Did you name them all?
35:52
To or did someone when they give them to you? And manic and
35:58
sad or happy hardcore sad hardcore or if the girl won't like because they're all
36:04
about her? You look, you give love a bad name by bon Jovi
36:10
first Great, I won't tell you who give me that one? It's wonderful.
36:16
I love it. Save them h is the next song? Back in
36:21
the Saddle again. I think there was some rolling stones, though, of
36:27
course there are. What song for the rolling Stones? What do you think
36:32
it would have been? I don't remember, see, I don't like it.
36:35
I probably skipped it. How dare you should be Mia Moore mixtapes?
36:43
You don't want to hear something funny? You know how my name is Leonora
36:45
and nobody has that name. Yeah, hardly nobody. So I thought that
36:51
the Stevie Wonder song my Chia Moore was saying, I said, Leonorre was
37:00
like five. I thought that song said my name, and you thought Stevie
37:04
was talking to you. I just thought it was a common name enough to
37:07
have a name in it, you know, a song with a name like
37:08
a normal person. Mason. When I grew up, Mason was not a
37:13
common name now like and then my parents must have been like the hipsters of
37:16
parenthood, uh in the nineties, because then all of a sudden, like
37:20
ten years later, everybody was naming their kid Mason. And so I remember
37:24
when I was like in high school and like all these like sixth grade you
37:29
know, I was like umping umping games, and I was a coach for
37:31
basketball, you know, I was like I was working for the parks and
37:34
rec and so all these kids that were like six and seven years old,
37:37
they were all Mason. I'm like, well, in the world, like
37:38
ten years later, like I was ahead of the curb. I'm my name
37:42
is a hipster name. I'm like, just way ahead of the curb.
37:45
Does it does a Mason? Is it really just the person who makes jars?
37:49
Yeahs in jars? Yeah, I think that. I think the name
37:52
comes from like a free Mason, like a or that or like a like
37:55
a a person that makes something with like bricks, right, yeah, the
38:00
Mason. Yeah, So like I think. So I remember, like when
38:04
I would look up my name, it would be like, you know,
38:06
the etymology of the definition or whatever, it was like hard worker, and
38:09
I'm like, that's right out, hard worker. And here's the next question,
38:14
Colin, tell me about your name? Where does that even? I
38:16
know? So there's a movie called Twilight, and I've never seen it,
38:22
but I love one of the songs on the sound it's it's Gaelic and it's
38:25
uh Gaelic for cuddly. No really, I did not know this. Yeahl
38:37
Colin and I used to cuddle, especially in high school. We cuddled a
38:40
lot. We cuddled a lot a lot. I used to spoon all the
38:45
time. Yeah, So Leonore, you want to hear a funny story.
38:49
So Culin, Colin and I we you go. We'd go on like mut
38:52
like mission trips or like uh like a youth group trip or whatever, and
38:57
we would like always stay in the same bed, right Like that was like
38:59
we best friends. That's what we would do. Or like when Colin went
39:02
to college and I was still in high school, we would you know,
39:05
like hang out and I go to his dorm or whatever. So we always
39:07
ended up like for whatever reason, we always ended up in the same bed.
39:12
And I hated sleeping with Colin because Colin just like he's big and he
39:15
like spreads eagle. I mean, he just like takes up the entire bed.
39:19
He's the worst person ever to sleep with. But so Culin, after
39:23
my freshman year of college, got married. So I was like nineteen.
39:28
He was like, what you were twenty one, twenty two or something,
39:30
And so Colin got married. So on his first anniversary, I texted Culin
39:35
and I was like, congratulations. By the way, your wife now has
39:38
probably slept in the same bed more than I have with you, and so
39:44
it probably took it probably took an entire year for him and his wife to
39:47
sleep in the same bed before she overtook him in terms of people that slept
39:52
in the same bed with Culin. Wow, Wow, it's true. It's
39:57
true. Yeah, now, let's let's be honest, Bace. You definitely
40:00
did go to sleep. Well, yeah, because you were cuddled. I
40:06
mean I would. I would eventually go to sleep, but you were like,
40:07
it would take me a hot second to like, all right, you're
40:10
I mean like you're pushing me off the wall or pushing me off the bed
40:15
into the wall or whatever. It was, the whole thing. But then
40:17
I would eventually fall asleep. So we lived in a school bus and we
40:21
paid like thirty five thousand for it, and so we empty. He didn't
40:24
have it out. We wrote, we drew on what we wanted. So
40:28
there were bunks, eight bunks, but basically what the bunks were was on
40:30
the top a long sheet metal and then on the bottom a long sheet metal
40:35
with individual mattresses and curtains going you know this way. So Mike is next
40:38
to me because he's my cousin. That's good, and I'm against the wall,
40:43
that's good. But underneath me is Reeese. It sucks because Reese would
40:47
bring and I'm not kidding and I'm not exaggerating, a long board, a
40:52
full sized cello, a full size mask of Darth Maul, and a full
40:57
sized fan, and his own physical body all smashed in his bunk all the
41:02
time, constant, NonStop things and moving and noise. And then there's the
41:09
story of the time singer Move and Andy kept rolling and rolling and rolling onto
41:16
Reese till finally reached just like started like hitting him hard. Heard a scream
41:22
and it was Andy's wife, Mindy, who was on tour with us.
41:24
Oh no, and decking her. You are You're throwing Reese under the bus
41:30
so many times this is just tour. No, he's a wonderful guy.
41:32
This isn't He's fun. He beats women, he's a wonderful guy. All
41:37
right. First, one time Sonny had a crazy dream and thought he was
41:45
in a zamboni or a pyramid or something, so he was crawling. Are
41:51
unrelated? I know, I can't remember which He's had both those dreams,
41:55
rolling around on top of us in our bumps, going through each asleep.
42:00
That's terrifying, weird. What kind of drugs was Five Iron into? I
42:07
think Anna freeze was leaking, or maybe it was like diesel. I don't
42:10
know. You've down the road a lot and Andy would always pick up hitchhikers
42:15
and I'd get out of my bunk and they'd be like crazy, crusty punks
42:20
and they'd be looking at me like rolling joints, and I'm like, ah,
42:22
I'm going back to my bed. This is not happening right now.
42:27
You're being nice, Andy, but this is too nice. Oh man.
42:35
I feel like these are things that nobody's ever known about Five Iron, and
42:38
now all of a sudden, this is going to be sighted on Wikipedia.
42:40
Like that's my hope. Mason's obsessed with getting incited. I just I just
42:45
want to be on Wikipedia so bad. We have been sited on Wikipedia on
42:50
Relying K the Band That Shall name, it not be named. But that's
42:53
the only time we've ever been sighted on Wikipedia. I had my own page
42:58
and then it disappeared you had. Most of it. Wasn't right anyway,
43:00
though it was wrong a lot. It was wrong what I don't know how
43:05
to do. I don't know how to do computers, so I just had
43:07
to leave it. I read that that I read about you on Wikipedia one
43:12
so you had punched a shark. See. I don't even know what it
43:15
means. Did they say that I ate a spider? That's true. Well,
43:19
we all eat spiders every year seven years. Oh oh, I could
43:25
see it. Yeah. Was it like like one of those deadly ones?
43:30
I don't know. I didn't think anyone could see me. I was in
43:31
the corner at the band practice and one was like dangling. It was right
43:35
here, and I don't know why, but I ate it and then everyone
43:37
just stopped playing and I was like, see, you should have done the
43:42
Ozzy Osbourne way of doing it and just do it as a while doing a
43:46
record deal. Yeah, speaking of Ozzy Osbourne and what you're talking about.
43:52
When I was in a band called Arsen The Arsen at eighteen years old,
43:54
I did bite the heads off of peeps and throw them into the crash.
44:04
I bet the bat tasted better. We had a toll of six shows Arson
44:08
the Arson, We played a sobriety house, We played the VFW, we
44:15
played a Battle of the bands. Oh I guess four shows, and then
44:17
we also played our guitar players Dad's divorce party. This is the best.
44:23
This is the best band history ever. This needs a Wikipedia page, now,
44:28
oh it does? It does? It can also include how we had
44:32
a cover of Knocking on Heaven's Door and we opened with that song for the
44:36
divorce party, and we ended with that song. So you basically just made
44:42
it one big medley. Yeah, pretty much. And then I had a
44:45
song about Kurt Cobain and a song called Malkaban. It was a role playing
44:49
vampire game. This is this is my new favorite band, like right now,
44:52
like this. I never loved a band more than this right now.
44:57
This is amazing. That is awesome. I love a band with a great
45:02
lore, and this is a band with the best lore. So if I
45:06
bring you peeps, will you bite the heads off and throw them into the
45:10
crowd? Yeah? Sure, yes, okay, all right, Well that's
45:15
better than pizzas at mxpx's it's better than it's better than pinatas and half with
45:21
cream corn. During Cornerstone, Yeah, is filled with cream corn. We
45:28
never know. We weren't like, we weren't rich enough to go to corner
45:31
Stone. Oh it's a big Mexican thing like in Denver. You can buy
45:38
I don't think that was in tune. It's a baby Taylor, so you
45:43
can buy like child size pinatas in Denver. So we had a friend who
45:47
was gonna come and drive and we're like, buy like five hundred dollars worth
45:52
of these things because they're like one hundred dollars each, like they're huge.
45:54
And we filled half with cream corn and baked beans and then half with candy,
45:59
and the crowd before we didn't announce what witch or witch, and then
46:00
we didn't tell the crowd that some of them didn't have candy. So we
46:02
just start throwing them and people are just getting like cream corn and baked beans,
46:07
just gone the lud and then something see me for mainstage. It was
46:14
great. Okay, you guys are about to play a show in Denver.
46:16
You have to do this because people are older now and they'll get very annoyed.
46:22
Oh but you can do it at furnace Fest. People already know you.
46:25
Guys are the only people that don't know people. People won't trust Pinanta
46:29
from our show. Someone else should do it, some other band. It's
46:34
been done. They won't trust it. Yeah, but they want it back,
46:37
you know, if it's at furnace Fest. I mean, people are
46:40
willing to read people people memories. I think it would work with any other
46:46
band. But if if I've run throughout pinnandas, they would know immediately.
46:51
So we're gonna throw out Pinnanas during under Oath, right, Yeah, I'll
46:57
spim the Bob and Dora ripped Dora's face off, Scout Helper rights. Maybe
47:14
maybe should do a Piana, Yeah because Saturday. Maybe that would be kind
47:20
of fun. That would be fun. It would be fun. Be all
47:22
into that. Yeah, that coun that could be fun. I'm all into
47:28
it, all right. That's this is so my like my two my two
47:31
goals, my two goals for Furniture, my two goals on this podcast,
47:36
one of which is to get on Wikipedia. The other one is to influence
47:40
a band to like manipulate their whether it's like a song they play or to
47:45
do something on their set by our suggestion. And so just Mason, you
47:50
already did that with the unmentioned band, right, but yeah, but that
47:53
wasn't on the That wasn't on the podcast. That was something I tweeted at
47:58
them. That's true. Well, hopefully NIV will get somebody hadas who knows
48:02
somebody somebody? Do it? Please? All right, ask me the question.
48:07
I know I'm ready alright, yes, top five guilty Pleasure Artists artists,
48:15
Yes, all right, I don't I think the first one I came
48:17
up with it, but I will say this one goes for all of five
48:20
Iron. This is our band, guilty Pleasure Artist and we will pump it
48:23
so loud and we will dance so the bus will be a shaken. I
48:29
mean, we'll rock it. Huey Lewis in the news. Yeah, especially
48:37
dun like oh Man, it just gets it rock. And we once covered
48:42
and it took months to learn it. We did uh the Power of Love
48:46
and we played a show and it bombed. Really yeah, We're like we
48:52
were so into were rock and we had the background vocals like it was so
48:54
rad and the whole crowd didn't care. Was it because was it because one
49:00
of you re enacted the Patrick Bateman, Huey Lewis in the news scene.
49:05
No, I don't know why. I just nobody was into it. That
49:07
sucks. We tried, but anyway, So hue Lewis in the news,
49:09
that's number one for sure. My dad, my dad would be rocking in
49:15
the bus with you. That was my first cassette tape I ever bought with
49:19
my own money, fifth grade. Happy to be Stuck with You And yeah,
49:22
that's a good one. Can you think of four more? Yeah?
49:28
But well I don't know, Like so they have to be crappy that you
49:32
would be embarrassed of or that, or people would try to make you embarrassed
49:37
of. I'm not going to be embarrassed. But let's see, I am
49:40
a big let's see Brittany, Oh, I'm a big Okay? So that
49:45
the ABBA soundtrack for the movie. Yeah, so rocking the movie version is
49:52
what you're saying. The movie version is definitely I love it. I can
49:58
listen son up all the time. Yeah, the movie version takes fun of
50:02
me for that, especially because I honestly will have like a real tear when
50:07
it's like the The Winner takes it all and Meryl Streep's like singing it's like
50:12
talk and her voice kind of shakes. It's like so real. Oh man,
50:19
that's that's a guilty pleasure for Collins. You both you both share that
50:22
in common. Here's the next one people might make fun of me for,
50:27
and it's it's a Pandora station gospel blue group, gospel bluegrass, gospel blue
50:36
I'll say, you know, Alexa play gospel blue grass because it's spiritual and
50:40
it gets me hyped, and it's my cleaning music. So what are some
50:44
big gospel blue grass A single name? I just when I could think of
50:49
it as like nickel creek guys, Alexa's talking in the other room and heard
50:52
me. Alexa can Alexa hear us? Okay, but I will tell you
50:59
one thing, you know that's I've been down. I've been down. This
51:00
is how you remind me I've been down, I've been down. This is
51:02
how you remind me of who I really am. That's up. Stop.
51:07
Yeah. So we had a creepy sound guy and every night he would play
51:12
and eat stare meani though, no o, the creepiest part about that is
51:22
the nickelback. That's the creepiest part about that, dude. It was so
51:27
uncomfortable every single night, just staring at me with that song playing through the
51:31
mains, testing every night. Maybe he just thinks that constipation sounds good.
51:39
I love Here's here's actually, what's less cringey or less like guilty pleasure about
51:45
you listening to like blues gospel is that you said that you uh, that
51:51
you listen to it on Pandora. Oh the Pandora's imprisoning. Yes, this
51:57
is like, I love that you listen the bandora this, this makes me
52:00
so happy. And also like that's the cringiest thing about it. All right,
52:06
all right, let's see cringey music that I listened to that I wouldn't
52:10
want anyone to know my favorite boy band and it's it's because I grew up
52:16
differently than a lot of people listening to like, you know, New Kids
52:19
on the Block or anything, but my favorite boy band that is kind of
52:21
cringy, and I know every single word is new addition, Oh, that's
52:25
that's definitely guilty place Ronnie Bobby Ricky and Mike Who And now my secret,
52:30
My secret is one of the most few romantic songs ever. I love it.
52:35
I love that band. That's good, all good? Yeah, cringey
52:40
for sure. For sure. Fine, that's a good one. Yeah,
52:44
especially when Brown went solo and I knew every single word, and I know
52:46
how to do all those I know how to do like the Flavor flav,
52:50
I know how to do the ed Lover. I know how to do all
52:51
the g O, MTV raps, all the dances I know. I think
52:58
you got one more, right, I like one more? It's so hard,
53:00
I'm okay. This is who I'm gonna say. Freddy Fender and Flaco
53:05
Jimenez. You guys probably don't know that Texas tornadoes all this Spanish music,
53:08
but if you were a cool Tanjano, you would be rolling your eyes.
53:10
Wasted days and wasted nights. Look up that song by Freddy Fender. What
53:15
the the Hano is a Texan? Yeah? Yeah, so so Freddy Fender
53:24
and Flaco Jimenez. They're like really famous Mexican music that you only listened to,
53:31
like at three am, when everybody's drunk and sent home. We're done
53:37
playing cards and everyone's really depressed and almost getting hungover, but you still want
53:43
to sing out loud. Sure, so is the difference between a Tehano and
53:47
a Chicano. Is the difference between where you immigrated to No, it's where
53:52
you're born. The Hanas born in can be a Chicano, but not all
53:57
Chicanos are the Hanas. Gotcha mean this is what my parents taught me.
54:01
When they told me and I grew up, they go, you're a politicized
54:05
Mexican American. You know your rights. You were born here, you were
54:12
born here. You know you're right. Tell tell the government funk off.
54:22
Yeah, be the government, become the government. You are your own government.
54:28
You could become the president someday. I'm not very good at political things.
54:35
You don't have to be at least I know. I mean, you're
54:38
going with money that's gonna at least come. I know it goes m I
54:43
team smart. Okay, let's move on. So I gave you my top
54:47
five. Yes, that's a great top five. By the way, our
54:52
shows I need to plug our shows. Yes, please do plug people five
54:57
friends. You have some shows coming. We're going to be in the end
54:59
of June, the twenty eighth, we're going to be in Nashville at the
55:02
Loft. Then the twenty ninth we will be in Atlanta. No, that's
55:06
not at the Loft, that's at the Basement East and then Atlanta is the
55:08
Loft, and then August ninth we're going to be in Orange County and then
55:13
the tenth will be at the House of Losing, San Diego, and then
55:15
you guys should come for that San Diego. That'd be a little bit of
55:20
a trek, but all right, fine, life. You got to live
55:22
once and then super Nova Scafest and Hampden, Virginia coming up and then Furnistfest
55:28
nice for my birthday. Yeah, yep, that's love. So yeah,
55:35
dude, it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun ye. So
55:37
that's all that's right now. Yeah, we have we expect maybe anything else
55:40
that you want, you know, maybe Wikipedia wants to pull, you know,
55:44
from there's there's gonna be more. At least there's at least one more
55:47
weekend this year. Okay, all right, that's good to know. Good
55:52
to know in the fall, I think in November. In November, all
55:57
right, sweet because and that we usually always take to sumber Off. I
56:01
mean we have families, you know, and Andy works for the geek Squad
56:05
with Best Buy and so he can't take off. Oh yeah, that makes
56:08
sense. I bet you they're busy around that time. You know, I
56:10
can't imagine that's the only scot person that works for geek Squad. Well,
56:15
Brad used to too. But that's pretty funny. That's that's clever. You
56:22
know what else is funny is that kind of looks like you just got off
56:25
work at geek Squad right now. I know. I literally it looks so
56:30
geeky right now. I love it. That's what I get to do now,
56:31
and why I have to go early? Why what do you have to
56:35
do? We're get to hang out with my friends and a girlfriend of mine
56:37
is coming over. She's bringing wine, and we have a hot tub and
56:38
we're gonna go just sit outside, look at my flowers and chill. Nice.
56:43
Nice. Why didn't we get invited? I just said anytime you want
56:46
to come up here, and then I said san Diego, that would be
56:50
cool. We'll come and hang out. Are you bringing your hot tub from
56:52
Colorado to San Diego? No, but I'm stoked to have one. It
56:55
was my father in law's retirement gift to himself because he retired and was going
57:00
to travel and then COVID happened. But now we can travel and we have
57:05
a hot time. Nice. It sounds weird to say, but so yeah,
57:08
so it's the thank God for COVID, right. It sounds weird if
57:13
it doesn't make sense. But my mother and father in law also, we
57:15
all share a house together. They live here too. Cool. Yeah,
57:20
I like it. And the chickens. And the chickens they're great. They're
57:24
laying one egg day. It's time to go. Let them out, let
57:27
them chill so I can watch them and relax. All right, guys,
57:31
to be continued. You guys are awesome. We will see you later a
57:36
couple of months. We'll see you on your birthday. Thank you so much