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From Chaos Comes Catharsis With ANDREW GLASS From WE CAME AS ROMANS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Uh so, my name is Andy and I played bass
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  Speaker 1: in the band. We came as Romans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah the ful any thanks for trunning us today, mind.
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  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: My pleasure so one time as Rymans will be in
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  Speaker 2: Australia very soon. Made for your headlining be called Its
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  Speaker 2: Way Doomed Astray each Oil, which starts in Brisbane on
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  Speaker 2: February sixth.
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  Speaker 3: Mite.
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  Speaker 1: But she's not following.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're packed and ready to go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for the most part, all the gears you know
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  Speaker 4: at the space chilling, got everything rehearsed with it all.
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  Speaker 4: It feels great. I haven't really packed too much of
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  Speaker 4: the close stuff yet. Also, I'm glad. Literally the other
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  Speaker 4: day I asked. He was like, how is it in
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  Speaker 4: Australia and I was just like this, I'm like, oh
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  Speaker 4: my god. So yeah, swim chunks for sure, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just excited, excited to get over there, excited to play.
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  Speaker 4: All the shows have been selling like crazy or sold out,
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  Speaker 4: so we're we're beyond excited for this.
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  Speaker 2: Next question, Mike, can you give me the cliche I
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  Speaker 2: had expected answer? You can give me an honest one.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have been on the road for a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a long john, now right, how do you keep
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  Speaker 2: things fresh and not get a little bit jaded? Like
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  Speaker 2: playing live shows is awesome, but so sleeping in your
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  Speaker 2: own bed.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I'll be one hundred percent honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: It a lot of it. A lot of it.
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  Speaker 4: Comes from switching things up, and a lot of it
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  Speaker 4: comes from making I would say a good fifty percent
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  Speaker 4: of enjoying being on the road and not being jaded
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  Speaker 4: is the company you keep in the attitude that you have.
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  Speaker 4: Because if you are surrounded by people are like, oh great,
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  Speaker 4: this again or this you know, da da da, who
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  Speaker 4: aren't excited about life or aren't doing you know, fun
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  Speaker 4: things or switching it up or changing out the monotony,
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  Speaker 4: you'll always fall into that. And I've definitely fallen into
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  Speaker 4: the jadedness before and sometimes still do. And I think
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  Speaker 4: getting myself out of a funk is I always like
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  Speaker 4: go for a walk. I practice gratitude every day of
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  Speaker 4: my morning meditations. And then it sounds so dumb, but
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  Speaker 4: you've got to make up some dumb games with your band,
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  Speaker 4: like we have like so many stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Games that we play, or like.
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  Speaker 4: Little traditions like whiskey times, or like little fun things
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  Speaker 4: like the last headliner, we kept going to those medieval
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  Speaker 4: things where they like joust and like have like live
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  Speaker 4: action sword fight. Like every off day we were going
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  Speaker 4: to medieval times and just like buying these big gallons
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  Speaker 4: of meat and drinking them so like, and it just
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  Speaker 4: made it so much fun because every off there we're
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  Speaker 4: like this or like you know, a whiskey time tradition
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  Speaker 4: or something fun to do before we play to get
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  Speaker 4: everyone excited. Like it's like a relationship, like you have
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  Speaker 4: to keep that flame alive. And that's not it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: on all levels, it's emotional. It's like it's like everything
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  Speaker 4: you know, so you have to always like be like
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  Speaker 4: you know, do something fun or like you know, and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it's even like chilling out on certain things. Like
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  Speaker 4: sometimes we're you have too much fun at whiskey Time
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, yeah, i gotta take a couple of
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  Speaker 4: days off.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go hit the gym, you know, do this
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  Speaker 1: reset or read a book.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's always switching it up, and it's
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  Speaker 4: always keeping the company the good spirits and good morale.
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  Speaker 4: And then like you're focusing on the good things, like
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  Speaker 4: because you never know when the it can things could
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  Speaker 4: just be gone, and so you always just like be
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  Speaker 4: thankful and you know, and just have fun with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's always about having fun.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I got into playing music, was because I
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  Speaker 4: was hanging out with my friends and having fun.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's gone, then it's just it's just a job.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't join this band because it was a job.
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  Speaker 4: I joined it because it was the exact opposite of it.
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  Speaker 4: It still feels sometimes a good job, like it's work,
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  Speaker 4: but it's the work I want to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's the work I want to do. So big difference,
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  Speaker 1: right answer, right answer.
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  Speaker 2: You hear providing last year's album All is Beautiful Because
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  Speaker 2: We're doing which came out in August last year. I
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  Speaker 2: like now people have got a bit more chime to
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  Speaker 2: actually fully digestic. Do you think about the response to
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  Speaker 2: your ipenfo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of wild because it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: a it's a it's a pretty big concept to like
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  Speaker 4: kind of all over and there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of mystery behind it. Some of it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty pretty pretty blatant, you know, kind of just like
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  Speaker 4: you know, hey, like life is short, like enjoy every
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  Speaker 4: moment because you never know it could be your last
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing. But also there's a lot of like
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  Speaker 4: little hints of mystery in there, and a lot of
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  Speaker 4: cool things that we like kept unsaid, which was kind
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  Speaker 4: of nice because a lot of times we're just very
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  Speaker 4: open and vulnerable about what kind of songs do what,
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  Speaker 4: which is great. But I do love the fact that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I I don't have to tell everyone exactly
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  Speaker 4: what this song is about or what these lyrics are about.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that there's a lot of like there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of like really cool things that like are
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  Speaker 4: there just for you know, the band, and I enjoy that,
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  Speaker 4: and it.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves it up to mystery. And and there's like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of magic.
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  Speaker 4: There's that the phrase magic is magic, so you know
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  Speaker 4: it's a trick, you know what I mean, And it's like.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: You want to leave some of that behind the curtain,
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  Speaker 4: like just because it is what it is, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And I very much enjoy that.
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  Speaker 4: And there are a lot of things on that you know,
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  Speaker 4: the record is obviously about, you know from the title,
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  Speaker 4: you know everything in life, it's the all is concept
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  Speaker 4: is originally came from all is One, which is from
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  Speaker 4: this book called Anatomy of the Spirit, and it's allays
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  Speaker 4: one is the same thing as the Golden rule.
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  Speaker 1: Do unch others, they will do unto you.
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  Speaker 4: So everything and everyone in life that you interact with,
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  Speaker 4: how you treat it, will treat you back in some
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  Speaker 4: sort of way. So I love that title, but I
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  Speaker 4: was like, it's too broad, and then started reading a
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  Speaker 4: lot of Homer, who wrote like the Iliad and the Odyssey,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a quote there where he's like, hey, like,
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  Speaker 4: let me teach you something they don't teach in your temple.
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  Speaker 1: He's like the.
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  Speaker 4: Gods the mvs. The envious because our moments, any moment,
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  Speaker 4: could be our last. He's like, everything in life becomes
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  Speaker 4: so much more and beautiful because you're doomed. And so
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, what if it was all is beautiful?
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  Speaker 4: So everything and every one that you interact with, and
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  Speaker 4: every part of the earth and this life that you
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  Speaker 4: interact with is beautiful. So like the good times the
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  Speaker 4: bad times, or this person or this thing or this
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  Speaker 4: object can be beautiful no matter which way it's treated you,
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  Speaker 4: because at the end, it'll also it's life is finite,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's you could end at any time, So
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  Speaker 4: your experience will lead you to one place, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whether good nor bad, ultimately will leave you, hopefully in
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  Speaker 4: a place of peace. But those things just kind of
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  Speaker 4: happen in life. And so each song is about an
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  Speaker 4: experience the band has had collectively together, not just one person.
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  Speaker 4: But we made sure there's something we've all experienced together,
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  Speaker 4: and all those songs are in the ecosystem of the
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  Speaker 4: life of what became as romans Is and the good
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  Speaker 4: and the bad experience that has led up to an identity.
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  Speaker 3: Thus Farol, you've already hit a few countries around the
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  Speaker 3: world on these albums, so I will say, do you
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  Speaker 3: find that songs off the album like different countries and
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  Speaker 3: different areas Brevage like your songs more than others in
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  Speaker 3: other countries.
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  Speaker 2: I sort of dichect it as much.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we.
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  Speaker 4: Have Like in Europe they love like the heavier ass
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  Speaker 4: beater songs, so we're like sweet Europe gets.
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  Speaker 1: The heavy ones that Australia is.
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  Speaker 4: Australia is like I think more like you know, sixty
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  Speaker 4: to seventy percent heavier and then the other thirty to.
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  Speaker 1: Forty is more like.
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  Speaker 4: The heavy octane kind of kind of jams, So it's
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  Speaker 4: cool because that gives the best kind of room. The
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  Speaker 4: States is like very fifty to fifty. I think the
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  Speaker 4: States is a little bit oversaturated with you know, like
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  Speaker 4: heavy heavy touring and stuff. So it's not oversaturated, but
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  Speaker 4: it's overstaturated with bands in general.
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  Speaker 1: So like if you're going to go see like a
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  Speaker 1: heavy show, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Just easier to almost go see a heavy show than
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  Speaker 4: to see a band you like just play heavy songs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if that makes any kind of sense. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, like we have some breakdowns that kind of
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  Speaker 4: almost have like a Kubacan vibe, but like you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna Cuba cont bands.
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  Speaker 1: Canna go see Coopa count which is totally cool, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I love.
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  Speaker 4: Kubacan, you know, but it definitely as cool because it's
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  Speaker 4: very balanced in the States like right down the middle.
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  Speaker 4: Then Australia leans a little bit more heavy, which is
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  Speaker 4: just kind of nice, and then Europe is definitely like
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  Speaker 4: they love heavy.
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  Speaker 1: If you're like a death metal.
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  Speaker 4: Band, a hardcore band, or you know, a heavy E
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  Speaker 4: d M band, like you do very well over their
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  Speaker 4: metal core. I feel like it's finally kind of really
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  Speaker 4: coming through, especially thanks to bands like Barry Tomorrow and
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Like I feel like it's really starting
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  Speaker 4: to make make headway over there.
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  Speaker 1: Which is great.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, over in Australia, we're like cool man, we
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  Speaker 4: just get to play a couple more heavier tunes than
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  Speaker 4: the classic ones and a couple it would be exciting
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  Speaker 4: because on this tour were playing some songs that we've
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  Speaker 4: never played before.
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  Speaker 1: So very excited on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, part of that tool you had a homecoming shot
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  Speaker 2: at the fillmore into try right back in August nightlight.
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  Speaker 2: You would have heart that up a load in your head.
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  Speaker 2: But when you got there, like, was it as good
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  Speaker 2: as what you thought it was going to be?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was. It's insane.
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  Speaker 4: The entire band, the entire band, you know, was crying
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  Speaker 4: at one point, you know what I mean, just and
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  Speaker 4: happiness of just playing.
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  Speaker 1: That's just such a nostalgic venue and we've all seen.
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  Speaker 4: Bands, you know, play there, and I want to say
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  Speaker 4: that the last time we did play there was the
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  Speaker 4: memorial show for when we lost our one of our seniors,
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Paphone, and uh, it was like really hard to
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  Speaker 4: play but it was it was an amazing, heartfelt show
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  Speaker 4: when we did play it, so it was really something
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  Speaker 4: else to go back play again on a headliner on
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  Speaker 4: this cycle and you know, not only pay tribute and
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  Speaker 4: feel the love you know, from above from.
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  Speaker 1: From Kyle, but also play for us too, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And uh so it's a really beautiful moment.
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  Speaker 4: And it was great because we had all our family,
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  Speaker 4: friends significant others there and it was also like the
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  Speaker 4: same day that I think like the Tigers and some
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  Speaker 4: other sports team played and then some other event was
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  Speaker 4: going on downtown.
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  Speaker 1: So we were like, yeah, well like show up at
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  Speaker 1: this time, you know, and it'll be good.
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  Speaker 4: And it was like traffic for days, so like our
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  Speaker 4: girlfriend and I had to like ditch the car, find
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  Speaker 4: a random parking spot in Detroit and run a scooter
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  Speaker 4: and scoot down to make sure we got to the
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  Speaker 4: meet and greet. Like you know, it's just it was wild,
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  Speaker 4: but it was one of those such a fun good
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  Speaker 4: times that you just you know, it's a hometown show.
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  Speaker 1: Where you grew up playing and you know, I Dave,
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  Speaker 1: our vocalist.
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  Speaker 4: Was like I watched the US play here, like and
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  Speaker 4: I got the shit kicked out of me when I
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  Speaker 4: was like fourteen and I just maybe want to start
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  Speaker 4: a band, and now I'm up here doing it, so
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  Speaker 4: you can do it too.
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  Speaker 1: So you get to, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, kind of let other people know it is possible,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just like a good feeling because you know,
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  Speaker 4: we all we all been there at one point.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always good to people know anything is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, bro, Yeah, I know if you got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of all it shows in there, team mate, which is
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  Speaker 2: very commendable because I've sort of helped a few bands lately.
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  Speaker 2: We looked into all age shows and despite what people think,
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  Speaker 2: they're not that easy to put on, like venues are
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  Speaker 2: very reluctant to do it. But good on you guys
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  Speaker 2: for doing the man, I think it's two out of
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  Speaker 2: the five there for all ages to say you bring
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  Speaker 2: in the next generation.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, I appreciate it. Yeah, none of them.
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  Speaker 2: To get pretty well the way, like some of them
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  Speaker 2: sixteen year olds in the washfeeder are way worse than
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  Speaker 2: us old fellaws eleven.
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  Speaker 4: B dude, It's it's insane, man. So yeah, I'm scared
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  Speaker 4: to go on the last bit. Then I'm like I'm like, no, dude,
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  Speaker 4: we actually funny.
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  Speaker 1: I prevail.
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  Speaker 4: We play with them at a venue around here. It
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  Speaker 4: was like a downplay with us, and I prevailed for
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  Speaker 4: their CD release show. But it was like very intimate,
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  Speaker 4: very just like fun show, and they got to hear
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  Speaker 4: the record before it came out. So I was standing
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  Speaker 4: in the crowd like just because I wanted to hear
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  Speaker 4: the record over the PA and I had pre ordered
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  Speaker 4: the record. They're friends of mine, you know, and I
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  Speaker 4: had already heard it, but I was like, I support
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  Speaker 4: my boys, you know. So I'm like listen to the record.
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  Speaker 4: All of a sudden, the band's not even playing. They're
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  Speaker 4: just on stage and they're jamming the record and everyone's
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  Speaker 4: getting it's like a meet and greet listening party. This
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  Speaker 4: kid just starts like fucking mashing, you know what. I'm
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  Speaker 4: just standing there like kind of jamming. He just goes
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  Speaker 4: damn and like decks be the side of the head.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, God, okay, am all right. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like fine.
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  Speaker 4: And then I just kind of like back up and
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  Speaker 4: I stand next to our video guy who was also
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  Speaker 4: working video for them, and he's like okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, dude, I just getting too old for this.
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  Speaker 1: I like, I gotta stand and stand somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so I'm too old to go in the
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  Speaker 4: mos fits now. But yeah, some sixteen hundred olds out there,
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  Speaker 4: just brutal. Man, They're swinging, They're out there.
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  Speaker 2: Rather nice shining on the background.
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  Speaker 1: I had to wake That's what I'm saying, right, you
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  Speaker 1: gos running out.
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  Speaker 2: He lost in like twenty twenty four with Lice Kibbles
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  Speaker 2: in the Emity Affliction. So bands again, it definitely want
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  Speaker 2: a couple only game, but there will be people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they got throw a months to guys, how's this show
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  Speaker 2: going to be different to the Ice Watchers and're watching
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  Speaker 2: people coming home?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so funny because that tour was not only
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  Speaker 4: amazing and I feel like we gained a lot of
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  Speaker 4: fans on that, and also it was just like such
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  Speaker 4: a great opportunity and such amazing people like I love
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  Speaker 4: the Amity Camp, the Ice nine Camp and the Heaven's
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  Speaker 4: Gate boys are just it was amazing overall. And we
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  Speaker 4: even had a day where we all went out. Amity
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  Speaker 4: rented this huge boat and we all went like swimming
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  Speaker 4: out in Sydney Harbor, which is crazy because I also
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  Speaker 4: didn't know how many sharks were actually around the harbor
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  Speaker 4: at one point, and there's like thirteen hundred circlaning at
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  Speaker 4: all times, and I'm like, sweet, I was just sitting
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  Speaker 4: there for like twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I had a blast on that tour and
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  Speaker 1: it was great. But you know, it's it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like you kind of have to pick a
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  Speaker 4: strategy move when you are supporting, so you're kind of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you're you're at the mercy of these other
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  Speaker 4: fans who are coming out to see the headliner, So
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  Speaker 4: you will have some of your fans obviously want to
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  Speaker 4: hear the songs, but you're also trying to cater to
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  Speaker 4: a new audience, so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Important to almost strategically play.
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  Speaker 4: So if like sometimes you're stacked up with all these
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  Speaker 4: other really light bands, sometimes it's like, okay, like maybe
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  Speaker 4: we play a couple of our light songs and we
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  Speaker 4: hit them with just heavy, you know, heavy heavy songs,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll be the heavy band on this tour, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Or other times it's like, hey, let's play our cards
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  Speaker 4: and do like this way, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Be like this kind of band.
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  Speaker 4: So it's almost you have to be wise about what
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  Speaker 4: kind of you know suit you want to wear to
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  Speaker 4: the party, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And so in that same sense for.
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  Speaker 4: The Amit tour, we're like, hey, we'll lean into like
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  Speaker 4: like some of our classic songs, but them for the
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  Speaker 4: most part, we want it to be heavy ass kicking
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  Speaker 4: and like, if we only have like thirty or forty
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  Speaker 4: five minutes that we had, we're like, it's just song
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: for song for song for song, Let's make sure they
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: just don't stop and just be an absolute force, you know,
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: no breaks, just like quick. And so we were just
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: using strike while the iron hot kind of mentality for
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: that run. So now going to headline, it's almost different
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: kind of thing where we want to tell a story
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: about the record that's now out and we want to
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: you know, say, like we have things we want to
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: say in between songs. We want to play songs that
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: we've never played before live. Because with Australia being one
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: of our biggest growing markets, we were like, hey, we
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: need to bring some surprises, some fun things over here
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: because it is like a growing market. So how do
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: we water that and what are some really cool things
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: that we can do to make sure that people know that, Like,
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: oh shit, sometimes when some of the first things ever
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: happened happen out here, you know, in Australia. It makes
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: people want to come out more and we want to
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: make it something special because you know, we've only been
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: I think to Australia maybe like six times in our career,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: and you know, I think we've been to Europe like
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: eighteen now or sixteen or something crazy like that, and
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: the US probably a million, I don't know, but it's
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: it's like a thing where like we want to make
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: it a special thing every time we every time we
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: come over there. So how do we start doing that?
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: And so you can hear songs you've never heard before,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: more of a story, more of an intimate kind of thing,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: and get like a full movie instead of getting you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: a thirty a thirty minute short story or like.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: A preview for something.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: You know, I think that's what's going to be what
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: sets it apart differently, And it's it's fun because you know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: you're in production and playing with like you know, playing
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: like to a certain like carved out, tailored set is
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: so much more different than just like playing just for
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: the smash hits. So it'll be nice, it'll it'll have
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: a very ebb and flow kind of feel to it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: And you know, we've got some cool surprises. I can't
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: give them all with but you know there are a
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: few there and if you want to find out, grab
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: your ticket and they're going quick.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: You saw me, Bri because the first I'm seeing I
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: want you to Brisbane. Leg if I'm at that show.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: That was my first I'm seeing you. Oh sick pretty
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: much hicks off on that show might so I'm really.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing dude. Hell yeah, are you You're
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be at the Brisbane as well? Dude? We Hell yeah,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: we'll have to hang out.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, we went to the what's that
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: island that's off of you?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They have those little I think so I have a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: little quakers like.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: The little Yeah, how cool is I?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Dude? We That was one of my favorite times touring,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Like we just got on this ferry. It was like
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: an hour or some change or maybe two hours and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: got to that the island and got to ride bikes
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: and just go like hang out with the animals and
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: just like snorkeling was because we played the show and
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: then we had a day off and we woke up
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: early and we just went to this beach and like, dude,
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I lost my wallet and everything and I still had
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: the best time. I did not care, could care. I
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: was just like I don't care. And then like the
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: authorities on the wall and they were messaging me, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm already already halfway across back to America,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Like don't worry about it. Just you know, throw it out,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: like I cancel all the cards whatever. But like, dude,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I had so much fun over in Brisbane and it
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: was yeah, it was just it was It's in burning
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: my memory, like one of.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: The best times I've had on an off day after
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: a tour ever. So, yeah, you've.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Got one more show after your headlining run too, Brotherly
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: like playing at the Lights of Beach Festival, Polaris fly
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Out his Murder, Ocean Sleeper and more in Secilda on
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Balanchine's Day, I've touched but something like that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: No, I mean, we're stoked to play.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: My girlfriend hates it, She's like, what the fuck, why
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: are you I'm like, like, listen, I gotta I gotta
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: make money somehow, come on, you know, But yeah, it's
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: uh no, we're super excited. Obviously, the Polaris guys. We
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: been friends with those boys for a really long time.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Got to like split a bus with Europe in Europe
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: with them in like twenty seventeen. First time we got
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to hang out with them and tour with them. So
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: it's way different than just touring with someone. You split
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: a bus with someone, you really get to know them.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: So it was splitting a bus with them and the
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: you in this other band called Alaska, So really great people,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: really great time. So anytime we cross paths with them,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: it's always a pleasure to see them. So excited to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: share the stage with those boys and yeah, and also
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: play in the water.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And I don't think we've really played.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: A lot of festival shows out in Australia, so I'm
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: very excited. Like we've done the No Sleep Till which
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: was like a first festival that was kind of like
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: a sound wave that was happening in the twenty ten
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: eleven era. So we did that tour, which is like
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: really cool, which kind of a festival kind of did
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: like the Warp tour, which is also festival ish, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: like that last Amiti run felt like the size of
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: the you know, crowds stuff felt like a festival, but
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: This will be I think maybe one of the first
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: real like solo standing festivals I think we've played.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: We do a lot of festival circuits in the US.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: And in Europe, but this is gonna be really not
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: only fun and interesting to be playing one in Australia
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: and on the water. So a couple of my favorite
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: things and so and to and the tour and have
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: a couple of drinks before that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Long ass play sounds great, so it should be. It
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: should be a blast.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Thank Jasey Robell, thanks for your time that I make
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: pleasure speaking with either. Tour does kick off in Brisbane
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: of februy six. I know people say this all the time,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: but there are fuck all tickets left, So if you
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: want to go to any of the shows any quick,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: otherwise you mind miss out, Yes, sir