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Revved Up To Hit The Road With THE DATSUNS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Christian from the Datsents. We are about to
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  Speaker 1: bark on a New Zealand and Australian tour, heading Australia
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  Speaker 1: for the first time in eleven years. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: long overdue tour from us and we're pretty pumped about
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  Speaker 1: it and I'm very much looking forward.
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  Speaker 2: To it many. Hey, thanks for joining us tonight, My pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: As you say. Brother Datson has hit Australia for four
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  Speaker 2: shows in March, starting in Adelaide on the twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 2: before hitting Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne over consecutive nights. So
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  Speaker 2: not long now, Bro, you've packed it ready to give?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, almost almost. We've got to go to New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: first and do some shows there, and so by the
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  Speaker 1: time we hit Australia we should be pretty much heading
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  Speaker 1: our stride. I think.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of delights have you got in store for
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  Speaker 2: fans on the Joe Bro.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think you know, we've been running for a
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  Speaker 1: long time now. We've got quite a few albums, so
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  Speaker 1: we're going to try and to kind of cover everything
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  Speaker 1: as a we're nice for retrospective and also throw on
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  Speaker 1: a few new songs from a record that we're hoping
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  Speaker 1: to release kind of middle of this year.
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  Speaker 2: You guys have always had a reputation for your energetic
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  Speaker 2: and fun life performances, mate, So what is it do
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  Speaker 2: you think about a Datson's live show that makes them
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  Speaker 2: stand out?
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  Speaker 1: I think, first and foremost that comes from the fact
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  Speaker 1: that we genuinely enjoy playing live. We like playing our songs,
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  Speaker 1: we like playing for an audience. So anything that comes
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  Speaker 1: from that just comes from a genuine enthusiastic joy of
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  Speaker 1: what we do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys don't hold anything back up there, mate,
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  Speaker 2: Like obviously you guys quite a few times live, But
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  Speaker 2: how's the body holding up made? Like I know, I
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  Speaker 2: have trouble walking a letter box these days, and you
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  Speaker 2: guys go to stick up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, well, let's put it this way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we don't leap off speaker stacks to the same degree
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  Speaker 1: we used to in the old days. And it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not unusual for us to have to like physically
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  Speaker 1: warm up for a show, which we never had to
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  Speaker 1: do in the old days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was actually going to ask about that too.
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  Speaker 2: Like you guys always you hit the stage running and
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  Speaker 2: know there's no warm up time for you guys, you're
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  Speaker 2: just on from the start, Like, does that come naturally
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  Speaker 2: or do you have to sort of psyche yourselves up
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  Speaker 2: backstage before you hit there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I think it comes naturally because you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: genuinely excited to be playing, so that kind of enthusiasm
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  Speaker 1: bobbles over from the second you start playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Looking through the press release made like it
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  Speaker 2: describes the band as all thrills and no thrills. Like,
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty cool statement. It's not a bad way
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  Speaker 2: to sum you up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't the first either. I'm like, and they
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  Speaker 2: take them the piss here and it's like no, if
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  Speaker 2: you actually look at it, it is a compliment. I
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  Speaker 2: ate it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it sounds good. I'll take it. And
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  Speaker 1: it rhymes and there's nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 2: So I have rhymes. It's got to be good. Guys
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  Speaker 2: have recently released this single, Ugly Leather Mate. So how's
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  Speaker 2: the reception been for that one?
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  Speaker 1: That's great. We actually released that. Oh it's like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. We Yeah, we haven't been touring
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  Speaker 1: an Australian new Zoom for quite some time, but we
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  Speaker 1: have been touring Europe for the regularly the last few years,
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  Speaker 1: and we put that out as a tour single over there.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the first time was released in Australia
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand, but it came out for Europe a while
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  Speaker 1: ago and Recepsion was really good. We made a video
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  Speaker 1: for it and it's kind of for our first new
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  Speaker 1: song out for a while. I think it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: very much a classic old school sounding Datson's track, So
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  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of like what we've done over
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  Speaker 1: the years. I think you'll enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned I you Albumblie before, mate, So have you
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  Speaker 2: have you released any singers off that yet or is
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  Speaker 2: it still in the future.
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  Speaker 1: We were hoping to get one out in time for
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  Speaker 1: this tour, but I'm not sure if that's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen because we're terrible at sticking to deadlines. But we're
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  Speaker 1: hoping to have We're kind of mixing the record right now,
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  Speaker 1: so we're hoping to have it out kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the year if possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And is it typical dats and stuff that people
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  Speaker 2: expect from me or are you guys matured and stuff
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  Speaker 2: as you get older.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a natural progression from the last record.
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  Speaker 1: If you familiar with or like Eye to Eye, I
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  Speaker 1: think this is kind of follows on from that, and
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of in a similar sort of style and
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  Speaker 1: genre to the songs and the feel of that record.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be your eighth album mate, like
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  Speaker 2: a right, And did you think it becomes easier or
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  Speaker 2: harder to come up with fresh interesting material or the
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  Speaker 2: more you write?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, as in anything in life, the more
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  Speaker 1: you do something, the more you kind of come to
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  Speaker 1: a situation where you have to avoid repeating yourself. So
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  Speaker 1: in some senses, it gets easier to write songs because
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  Speaker 1: you get more experienced and skilled at it. But on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, there's only twelve notes, so you kind
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  Speaker 1: of like have to keep trying to find fresh ideas
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  Speaker 1: within the kind of genre of stuff that you like
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  Speaker 1: doing so, which is kind of harder to do as
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  Speaker 1: you get older. So there's kind of like pros and
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  Speaker 1: cons to time passing on that respect.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, right now. The Dassin's deservedly had great early success
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  Speaker 2: after pretty much the whole world fell in love with
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  Speaker 2: your music after you two thousand and two self titled
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  Speaker 2: debut album, mat did that come as a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a shock to the band or or you're always confident
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  Speaker 2: in the quality of that first album.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I would say it was very much a shock.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're just four guys from Cambridge, New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: who played music purely for the joy of it, and
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  Speaker 1: the concept of somebody from small town New Zealand kind
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  Speaker 1: of getting that much exposure success on a larger, you know,
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  Speaker 1: world stage was just never in out expectations or thoughts
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  Speaker 1: at all. So it was kind of a mind blowing
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  Speaker 1: experience to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Early success led the chores with Metallica. You played festivals
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  Speaker 2: on big day out yet the main stage and I
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  Speaker 2: was fast mailer. Did you actually get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: take it all in and enjoy the ride or was
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  Speaker 2: it just a blurback then?
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  Speaker 1: I'd say more of a blur. I mean, we toured
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  Speaker 1: the first record NonStop for literally two years, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: criss crossing the world playing all this different. I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty much jet lagged the entire time. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to kind of step back and have any perspective
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  Speaker 1: on something like that when you're doing it and kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we enjoyed ourselves quite a lot that some
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  Speaker 1: of it is literally a blur now and the memory.
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  Speaker 2: Did you remember the point where I actually sat back
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  Speaker 2: and you went like, fuck, man, this is pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing all right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I mean yeah, you know, as I said, we
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  Speaker 1: never expected that to happen, and we did enjoy it
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  Speaker 1: in the moment. I mean, we all just liked it
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  Speaker 1: because we gave us a chance to keep being a
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  Speaker 1: band and playing music and getting to do what we
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  Speaker 1: love to do, and we got to do it professionally.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's our job. So that was like a
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  Speaker 1: really awesome thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's pretty much epitomized rock and roll
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  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, mate, So you're more than
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  Speaker 2: qualify to answer this final question. But what would you
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  Speaker 2: list is the top five commandments of rock?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? I don't know if I could come up with five,
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  Speaker 1: but I think.
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  Speaker 2: Give us three, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Well number one, Number one, be true to yourself and
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the music, so be true to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And then number two, enjoy what you do, because the
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  Speaker 1: only reason to do music these days is because you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy what you do. Like, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: making money or anything like that, it's a hard road
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  Speaker 1: to take. So I'd say, enjoy what you do and three.
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  Speaker 1: What's the third one? This is probably one from perspective
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  Speaker 1: of age a little bit here, but learn how to
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  Speaker 1: pace yourself.
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  Speaker 2: When you're younger, you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know how to do that, but if you're in
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  Speaker 1: it for the long haul, you need to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to pace yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I said, brother. Well, thanks for your time, mate. Dats
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  Speaker 2: will be in Australia from March or twenty fifth, So
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  Speaker 2: where can people get tickets? 'll find out more information
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  Speaker 1: If they go to the Datsons dot com they can
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  Speaker 1: find out all they need to know about tickets and
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  Speaker 1: information there