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Music In Motion With TODD & DAN From F.U.C · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Good a. I'm Toddy oh Dan and we are fuck or forest under construction.
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  F you see however you'd like to say it. Yeah, we're having
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  a bit of a chat. We've got a massive gig coming up for Wallapalooza
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  on November the fourth. It's going to be awesome and we're very excited.
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  Yeah, I forgot thanks for joining us today. Thank you my pleasure as
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  you say. Fuck are the final addition to Wallaplouza twenty twenty three, which
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  will be held at the Wallaby Hotel of November the fourth. It's good to
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  see the organizers finally get a bit of fuck into them for something like this.
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  Yeah, what's it? You know, like everyone loves a bit of
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  fuck, you know, penises, animals. You guys have never done Waller
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  before, have you? We haven't. No, it's to be our first
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  time doing will A Paloser. It's it's obviously I think it's its thirteenth year.
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  Very excited for it. It's it's always been a pretty cool event from
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  the you know, from the outside looking in, so it's really cool to
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  be a part of it. And you're gonna be playing with bands like Cold
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  twenty eight Days and butterfingers. So where are you guys going to fit in?
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  Ill, We'll slip in somewhere, I'm sure. Well, I'm sure
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  to be a hot, sweaty day, so plenty of loop and we'll just
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  slide on in somewhere in between all of them, or you know, prime
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  the audience. I suppose what do you reckon? I don't know, you
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  don't know. Like for those unfamiliar with Borist Under Construction guys, given it
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  was a bit of a history on the band, Oh a bit of history.
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  Well, I've been doing this for what thirty years? Yeah? I
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  think. Well we kicked off and about had our first sort of gems at
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  about two thousand and nine, twenty ten. Our first show was twenty ten
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  at podcast that year. Actually that was our first show. And what we
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  did we put out an EP back then. We put it on an album
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  ten years ago and we just released an EP which we actually recorded during COVID
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  twenty twenty one with the fantastic Ian Redmond, and yeah, we just sort
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  of took our time with it and it was all ready to roll, so
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  we just put it out September one actually because it was band camp Friday out
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  put on bank camp. See if people want to buy it, and they
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  did. Yeah. Put aside from that, I mean, well, we
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  played regular shows over the years, supported heaps of bands, played heaps of
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  heaps of cities. Yeah. Yeah, Before it's it's probably important to point
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  out that these are like a punk metal hybrid two piece MANKINI wearing Slaughterhouse.
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  It's it's actually environmental new thrash, is it okay? Explain? Uh?
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  Well, I don't know, like it's new thrash because we're like a new
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  metal thrash version of new metal. Like yes, so it's a new thrash,
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  not not like, you know, a new wave of thrash. We're
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  not new wave. We're just new thrash. Yeah, we're definitely not new.
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  We're actually old now yeah get thirteen fourteen year old history. But yeah,
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  environmental new thrashes what we call it. Yeah I remember, so I
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  don't suck up again. No, No, it's definitely got as definitely got
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  a thrash and punk element. But we just yeah, you know, I
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  know, we just sort of invented a genre because nothing really fit what we
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  were doing, because we just made it up on the spot, really and
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  yeah, so we just made up a genre to go with it, and
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  I think that that's the most suiting description. Yeah, you know, I
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  know. I guess we'll be reinvented the wheel a little bit, as you
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  do for anyone, you know, anyone else. See these guys live.
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  There's one feature about you that stands out above all others. And it's not
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  Toddy's hair. Where where the hell did the main Enies balls? Oh,
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  that's a funny one. So originally were used to playing clothes, and then
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  we did this photo shoot for when we you know, when we put out
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  our album. Dan just had this idea. It's like, oh, let's
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  get DT's and we'll go to the beach and we'll get all these photo just
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  do this full photo shoot for our album in these dts. So you might
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  have seen some early shots where Dan's in DT's and I'm in a man Keni
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  because I said, Man, I don't really want to buy dts, I'll
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  never use them, but I do have a man keny just lying around that
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  I actually got off Jesse Drachman, who is the singer of Dark Cell among
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  other acts that he's been in over the years. He had the bar at
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  DBD and he just had this bar at Mankeni the original, and so I
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  was like, hell, wear that. And then it just kind of went
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  from there, and then we did a we did a tour of Japan and
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  Taiwan, and that was sort of like, oh, we'll start wearing these
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  on stage, and it just sounded to be kind of good. Like it's
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  a little bit exposing, I suppose, but at the same time, you
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  finish your set, you take the mankini off, and you've got a dry
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  set of clothes. No, we no sweaty clothes. We're fresh, you
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  know. So yeah, there's something satisfying about the yelling. It counts with
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  a mankini on, like you know, yeah, it's kind of I don't
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  know, literally a little bit. Yeah, I guess some people get some
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  people have been a bit uncomfortable, but then they sort of watch it and
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  maybe hear them. It's like, ah, I saw you come out in
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  mankinies, and I went outside for a ciggy, but then I heard the
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  music and I had to come back in. And so well, look,
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  if at least two people don't get offended and leave the room, we're probably
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  not doing a job. Right, That's exactly right. We just spoke about
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  this before, but you've also recently released your EP Everything, So tell us
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  a bit about that from a musical point of view and what you're going for
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  with it Everything. Sorry, that's the one. What were we going for?
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  I don't know. We generally just write a bunch of music and then
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  we sit down and write Dollar's lyrics to go over the top of it,
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  and that's pretty much where where it came from. I guess, like,
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  I don't know. We don't really sit down and go we're going to make
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  a theme or a topic of a release or anything. It's just the collection
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  of songs that represent whatever we thought funny at the time. Yeah, and
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  those songs were sort of written over. They weren't sort of specifically written to
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  release an EP. They were just we just write songs as we go,
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  like we do this band. For us, we're not really like trying to
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  change the world. They're trying to be you know, massive and famous and
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  all that. We're just a couple of mates having a laugh. We write
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  songs that we enjoy and it's great that other people enjoy it. But yeah,
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  realistically, it's just two two powers having a laugh, throwing a MANKINI
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  on every now and then and yeah, just writing music we like and it's
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  pretty nice that other people like it too. So I thought you were going
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  to give me a typics for your vague answer with that, so I'm I'm
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  prepared. So I'm going to run through each song on the EP individually and
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  tell us a bit more about it. So they will start with dick massage.
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  All right, do you want to like it? We'll give you a
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  little explanation all dick. Dick massage isn't It has its sounds. People would
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  think, oh, dick massage, that's like a Robin tug, but actually
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  if you listen to the words closely, it's someone going, oh, I'm
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  a bit tight, I wouldn't mind her massage, maybe with a little Robin
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  tug. And they go into this place and stripped down, get oiled up,
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  and then there's tapping on their back and it's like, what's going on?
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  It feels like a schlump, And actually it's a good guy with a
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  massive cock massaging you with his dick. It's a new style of massage.
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  I'm not sure where it originated, but it's a new style of massage and
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  actually it's actually really good. So through the song. It's like, well,
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  I don't know about this, and it's like, oh, that's actually
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  really good. I'm gonna tell everyone how great it is. And that's basically
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  that's basically it. Yeah, before being massaged with a dink, I can
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  see people lighting up down the streets already. Well. Yeah, Unfortunately I
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  wasn't blessed with a large enough, large enough peace to pursue that career.
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  But hey, if anyone out there is into it, you could potentially your
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  own business. Let's move on to snap off a log, which I believe
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  has a very special guest. Well, yeah, there's we got Squizzy from
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  Parrot on Guests Southmouth Vocals and uh he's the wind section. Yeah, but
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  I guess you know, like that that song is pretty much about sitting on
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  the ship up Like I know, I had the idea here when I was
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  obviously having a ship, you know, and it's like, I don't know,
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  I kind of believe that most people should be able to use, you
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  know, six squares of toilet paper, you know, because deforestation is quite
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  important issue. I kind of I feel and like, you know, you've
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  got the people who scrunch, you got the people who fold. I'm an
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  origami type of fault myself. And you know, like I don't if you're
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  using more than ten sheets or whatever, like there's something wrong, like you're
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  obviously eating the wrong shit, you know, and you're using too much paper,
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  which you're using too much trees, and you're just adding to fucking the
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  problems of deforestation and the rest of the stuff. So that song's pretty much
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  snapping off a log like you're snapping on out your ass, you snap your
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  cutting down a tree. It's all about logging, you know. And if
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  you just have a healthy diet and you stick to your six to ten sheets,
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  well then you're doing your bit for the fucking planet. Yeah, by
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  a recycled toilet paper. Yeah, exactly. That's definitely a nice thing,
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  all right. How about thrash quest, Oh yeah, well what that's a
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  that's just really taking the piss out of the thrash heads, you know how
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  you know, every thrash band has a song about thrash that's ours thrash bands,
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  Like yeah, thrash, let's say I went and that was just basically
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  it's sort of like, look, that's stupid, counting the battle jacket on
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  not even that, Like, yeah, hey man, thrash is fucking cool.
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  It is, Yeah, go on a bit of a quest with a
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  bit of an adventure, a bit of an adventure adventure. That's it,
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  thrash quest right. How about the penis? Ah, that was just a
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  funny one. It was like we were just having a chat one day randomly,
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  and I was telling Dan about how I'd gotten VIP for something like a
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  VIP pass for a gig or a festival or something, and and just blurted
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  out like, yeah, I'm loving my vio penis. Like, hey,
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  that's pretty you call a song that? And then that's that was kind of
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  just like I think it's I don't know about people who think they're you know,
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  bigger or you know, more important than they really are. You know,
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  they're a bit of a vi penis. Yeah, very important, you
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  know, throwing their vio penis around, not massage the day they very well
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  could. Very well cool. That was actually the That was actually the first
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  song that we wrote that ended up on that EP. So yeah, and
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  they've all been sort of staggered. Actually didn't that song like get cut from
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  the album because we didn't quite finish it or something like that. Oh,
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  I don't think it's that old. I don't think it's that old. Maybe
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  it's been a while all right now you can't Ah, that's that's just basically
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  that's ah, that's just kind of like having a laugh at all the things
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  you can't do anymore. But we just made up dumb ship like you know,
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  you know, because you can't have a ship in the public street.
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  You know, you can't have a salad if you only eat meat. I
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  don't know. And then it's you can't do this, you can't say that.
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  It was supposed to be about like the cancel culture and you know,
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  like people you know telling you you know, you can't say that anymore.
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  You can't do this, and you can't do that. You'll make me cross.
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  Yeah. Yeah, we just had to laugh because it was like,
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  you know, because everything was like, don't make me cross. So it's
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  about all the Karens really just you know, but it just turned into something
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  like you know, whatever the fun we wanted to Yeah, yeah, it's
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  it's kind of silly, like all our songs, it's kind of Yeah,
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  it was basically a take on all the things you can't do, even though
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  really everything at least s you probably can. Yeah, you can't finishes off
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  with salad dodger. That's the one. Well that's pretty self explanatory, there's
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  that's the first line is I'll just have the meat. Yeah, I don't
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  eat salad dodging a salad. Those people who think that they're fucking you know,
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  healthy diets about eating meat and you know, and I guess also,
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  like fruit, vegetables have feelings too. You know, you can get us,
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  get your knife. You have to get your knife and fucking cut open
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  a piece of salad the same as a piece of meat. Like it's the
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  same thing. Like, you know, all the vegetarians gone. You can't
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  you know, you shouldn't. Shouldn't eat meat. You're killing the animals,
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  And animals have feelings. Fucking vegetables do too. Fucking fucking stabbed vegetable every
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  time you cook, like for fox sake, Yeah, vegetable killers. So
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  the salad dodger is essentially saving vegetation. I guess over good, Hey,
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  good, all right, So onto your show again at will to please you
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  guys, Like, I'm sure there's going to be a couple of people there
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  who haven't seen you before. So what can fans expect from for as s
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  under construction. Well, I mean, we're going to go out and do
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  what we do. We're going to PLU. Got a pretty nice set list.
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  I won't reveal it, but we've got a pretty nice set list.
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  There a couple o favorites. I think we're playing all of the new song.
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  We're going to play the Hole EP. Yeah, so we're going to
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  play the whole you know, it's fresh, it's new, It's it's been
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  ten years since we release anything. That's got to be that's got to be
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  a year longer than a tool album, right, they do like a nine
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  year cycle. So yeah, maybe in twenty thirty three, after the Olympics,
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  will throw out another EP. Yeah, we're going to yeah, yeah,
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  that'd be yeah. I don't even know if I'll be able to walk
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  on then, but we'll be able to thrash. But yeah, well,
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  a looser playing the new EP, playing some old stuff. We've got a
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  few little treats in store because obviously it's a festival and we want to sort
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  of up the ante a little bit with our with our performance and our show.
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  So there's some surprises, but we just kind of wing it. We
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  when we do it. We have our set list and then we just sort
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  of let it, let it happen. So yeah, I think it's going
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  to be great. And I think if the if the crowd gets into it,
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  and we get into it and everyone's into it, it'll be great.
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  Oh and where can people get themselves a copy of the EP or order it
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  online? Well, if you go to our Facebook page fuck Thrashing, or
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  just just look up dot U dot c dot there's actually a link there to
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  our band camp, so you can buy physical copies through band camp. We'll
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  also have physical copies at wall If a Loser that you can buy. And
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  we might even have some T shirts left. Yeah, we might have a
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  couple of T shirts left. Again, we're we're a DIY, I think,
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  and we just sort of make stuff and print stuff and do it as
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  we go. We're not really we're not glorified T shirt salesmen like most fans,
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  because we really don't give a ship. Yeah yeah, one thing we
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  don't really like doing is standing behind the merching just in case you sell a
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  shirt. So yeah, you bet. You are probably best off ordering our
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  stuff online, I suppose, or at a show like Wallapalooza where there is
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  a dedicated merch celler because we will put our merch up. But aside from
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  that, YEP, and then next I think next week, both everything to
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  the new EP and our album Humans Being they will all be up and available
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  on all the streaming services. So we've taken our time with all that.
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  But here we are so people can stream it, they can stream it on
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  band camp, they can buy it digitally, they can buy it physically,
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  options, options, freendless. Yeah, we're moving up. We're moving up
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  in the world. We're becoming semi professional in that sense, but still maybe
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  you are. Yeah, then we won't do anything for ten more years and
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  shows off the back of this EPH it goes well, Thanks very much for
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  talking. Pleasure speaking with your pros. Under construction of one of the bands
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  to see at Walla Polue in November the fourth Wallaby Hotel. See you there.
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  Yeah we did well. Yeah we lost ye like I just basically said
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  goodbye, Hey, thanks, thanks for having us. We're excited for Walla.
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  We're excited to see everyone. Thanks heavy for the interview, for the
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  support. Uh and yeah, it's gonna be great. We're excited like big
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  keV. Yeah, I'm excited. All right, guys, we'll see you
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  next weekend. Excellent, thank you. Then no ways boys, s job
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