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Double Trouble Down Under With CHRIS KAEL From FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well thanks for joining us today at heavy.
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  Speaker 2: We're coming at you from the Paddochavin in Brisbane, one
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  Speaker 2: of the best places to go and drink it from myself,
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  Speaker 2: and we are here with Chris Kale from five Figure
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  Speaker 2: Death Punch and the guy who stands up to the comedy.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, sir, good to see you. Certain things for
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  Speaker 1: coming out and helping us out promoting these shows and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you absolutely pleasure. And speaking of the shows, mate,
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  Speaker 2: you have two thirds of the way through the Joy.
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  Speaker 2: You've done a couple of shows in Melbourne. Yes, have
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  Speaker 2: they be going.
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  Speaker 1: It's been incredible, Like we had very a very short
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  Speaker 1: time to be able to promote these shows. So the
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  Speaker 1: amount of support that we've had and the number of
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  Speaker 1: people that we got in there, I'm basically a week
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  Speaker 1: of promoting the show was awesome. Did a stand up
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  Speaker 1: comedy show in Melbourne at the Comics Lounge on Friday
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  Speaker 1: night and then we went to go see Metallica on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: That's basically all we're doing. Shit funding on vacation, that's
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  Speaker 1: all it is. You know. I have found ways to
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  Speaker 1: make money to be able to travel while off the
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  Speaker 1: road with Death Punch and I saw the Male was
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  Speaker 1: playing over here, so's I mean you know I am
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  Speaker 1: a marketing aficionado for sure. Yeah, so yeah, what better
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  Speaker 1: way to be able to go out and see my
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  Speaker 1: old friends and Metallica because we toured with them the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years, going all around the world. But
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  Speaker 1: we're working on a new record right now, so this
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  Speaker 1: gave me the opportunity to come over see Metallica, get
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  Speaker 1: the comedy show going. So we have those shows in
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne and then tomorrow I'm not sure when this airs.
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  Speaker 1: November eleventh. Here in Brisbane, we're playing over at the
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  Speaker 1: Good Chat Comedy Club. We're doing a show at seven
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  Speaker 1: o'clock and at eight thirty. So yeah, me and Craig.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Gas is a stand up comedian, an actual stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedian, not a bass player, who's brand new basically
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  Speaker 1: telling stories about life on the road. He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: it for about twenty five years. He's been on King
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  Speaker 1: of Queens, the Howard Sterns Show. Funny story about Craig, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's funny or not, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's his story. When he was growing up, he was
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  Speaker 1: the only person and his family who could hear his
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  Speaker 1: entire family is death except for him. Oh yeah, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: yeah that later in life he was telling me. He' said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my therapist said that I've got communication issues. Duh, your
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  Speaker 1: family's deaf, Craig, duh, yeah, he goes, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I got to use that. So I'm helping him with
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  Speaker 1: his act too these days. But yeah, we're both going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing some stand up comedy here in Brisbane
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  Speaker 1: at Good Chat seven o'clock eight thirty on November eleventh,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, just having a really good time with it.
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  Speaker 1: This has been nice for me. The whole thing started
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  Speaker 1: when Craig gave me the opportunity to do some stand
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  Speaker 1: up shows with him. I was originally going to write
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  Speaker 1: stories like I wanted to be either a musician or
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  Speaker 1: an author when I was growing up musician part I
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  Speaker 1: get paid to play bass. I guess that makes me
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  Speaker 1: a musician. But that's that's already happened. So I was
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  Speaker 1: going to write a book about growing up in Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: being able to come up from Lexing, Kentucky to these
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  Speaker 1: worldwide stages. I mean, I'm right next to where Metallica
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  Speaker 1: is playing, and we have toured the world with Metallica,
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  Speaker 1: with Death Punch, all my favorite mens Judas Priests been
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  Speaker 1: out with those guys. So just coming from a small
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  Speaker 1: town in Kentucky, all the stuff that had to happen
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  Speaker 1: to get me to where I'm at to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do all this stuff, and then all the craziness
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  Speaker 1: that's behind the scenes being in a hard rock, heavy
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  Speaker 1: metal band. I was going to tell those stories in
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  Speaker 1: a book, but now I'm just kind of doing it
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  Speaker 1: on stage because I like being able to have that
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  Speaker 1: automatic response. I'm an entertainer, like you know, musician, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but entertainer. That's that's where I really thrive.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't have to spell when you're choking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an incredible speller, even growing up in Kentucky. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: number forty eighth in the United States out of fifty
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  Speaker 1: at education, and I somehow was in the advanced classes.
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  Speaker 1: Granted it was the advanced classes in Kentucky, but it was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Craig does all these voices for all these TV
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  Speaker 3: comedy shows, Like I know, like when I'm in trouble
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  Speaker 3: for my parents, they called me by my full name,
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  Speaker 3: but just say you mess up.
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  Speaker 2: On stage. What voice does he use to chastise you?
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  Speaker 1: He knows better, he knows better. We'll just leave it
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  Speaker 1: at that. Yeah, like I said, I just look like
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy fig was doing there. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: a baseball bat. I got two shins, two shins, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years of more Thai zip It Craig.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you were not argument.
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  Speaker 1: Actually no, he's kind of he's kind of like my
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  Speaker 1: comedy manager because he's been doing it forever. So he
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  Speaker 1: books these shows, he's great at promoting, does all the radio,
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  Speaker 1: the TV, and then I take care of like the
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  Speaker 1: heavy metal side of publications and whatnot and spreading the
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  Speaker 1: word over here. So it's been a really cool, uh
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  Speaker 1: team effort with the beard O and Weirdo podcast that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing too. It highlights like the friendship that him
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  Speaker 1: and I have because every musician wants to be a comedian,
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  Speaker 1: every comedian wants to be exactly a musician. So it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been fun sharing his life, sharing my life,
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  Speaker 1: because every time we would get together, we would just
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  Speaker 1: tell stories for you know, the two hours or whatever
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  Speaker 1: we were hanging out, and at one point, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we like film these because it's so entertaining,
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  Speaker 1: but just to talk between us and as the things
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  Speaker 1: have progressed, like when we first started the podcast, both
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  Speaker 1: of us had a girlfriend. Neither one of us had
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  Speaker 1: a girlfriends Now, yeah, my girlfriend broke up with me.
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  Speaker 1: His girlfriend broke up with him. Then he realized he
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  Speaker 1: actually broke up with his girlfriend without knowing that it
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  Speaker 1: was him that broke up with her. That's a long story.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the episodes, you can check that out. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just been a lot of fun. And then we
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of self help talk, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: sobriety talk. Both of us are sober as well, so
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  Speaker 1: some of the struggles, some of the obstacles there, we
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  Speaker 1: talk about that stuff. And it's been awesome because it's
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  Speaker 1: a comedy based podcast, but there's also a lot of
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  Speaker 1: elements of real life in there because I know with
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  Speaker 1: five figure Death Punch, we got a lot of dudes
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  Speaker 1: that looked like me, the strong, tough dudes who don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily want to talk about things. So I like to
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  Speaker 1: be the example of how things work when you're able
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  Speaker 1: to talk about your stuff. So that's kind of been
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  Speaker 1: the impetus behind this whole thing. And we're getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of feedback. I think eleven million hits on the
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  Speaker 1: social media platforms for the clips that we've got out.
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  Speaker 1: And we've had everybody from Rudy Sarzo to Lizzie Hale
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  Speaker 1: to Carry King from Slayer like Carry King is a
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  Speaker 1: big surily guy like me and yeah, and to be
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  Speaker 1: able to have like just a friendly conversation, it's we
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  Speaker 1: give a platform for some of those that might not
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  Speaker 1: might not enjoy doing a lot of press. I guess,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't speak for Carrie, but might
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  Speaker 1: not enjoy doing a lot of press. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: a fun conversation over a table like this filmed in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and things have been going good with Beard
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  Speaker 1: and Widow. You can get that everywhere Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: On thether subject, Like you say, you started off like
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  Speaker 2: this just having a chat with you might yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then but did the dynamics change it all when you
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  Speaker 2: were doing it in front of people for other people.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you how the dynamic changed. Now. Craig will
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  Speaker 1: come to me with a story and be like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: should I save this for the podcast? So yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: some of the stories instead of sharing it right here
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  Speaker 1: are now saved for the podcast because he likes to
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  Speaker 1: get my reaction. Yeah, like I said, I look like
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy, but I get pissed real quick. So
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  Speaker 1: we even have a segment called Chris is Pissed, which yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah. Actually, Andy James from five Death Punch, our guitarist,
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  Speaker 1: I told him I sang out what I wanted for him.
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  Speaker 1: He recorded that I went over to this house put
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  Speaker 1: the vocals over it. So the intro music four beard
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  Speaker 1: on weardough and the intro music for the Chriss piss segment.
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  Speaker 1: Andy James, you haves a little fine thing the Death
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  Speaker 1: Punch tie in there too, So thank you Andy. Andy,
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  Speaker 1: I would say the checks in the mail that is
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  Speaker 1: not welcome to the band.
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  Speaker 2: How are your fun austraying crabs made like our sense
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  Speaker 2: of humor is vastly different to that in the States,
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  Speaker 2: Like are they relating?
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  Speaker 1: Geez for sure? Because like I said, doing this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: I know that five Finger Death Punch has such a
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  Speaker 1: big following, such a big draw. I'm basically telling stories
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  Speaker 1: about being on the road. So people who are coming
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  Speaker 1: out no Five Finger Death Punch know me want to
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  Speaker 1: hear stories about that. So I'm not like you're traditional
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  Speaker 1: you know, punchline. I'm sorry, set up punchline. Guys. See
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  Speaker 1: I can't even get that right. Shows why I play bass. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, so it's that's been translating really well because
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  Speaker 1: they know me from following me on Instagram, they know
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  Speaker 1: the band, and you know, just telling these stories in person.
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  Speaker 1: It's so fun because going to these shows to see
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  Speaker 1: me doing stand up comedy, it is the closest you're
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  Speaker 1: getting to me. Ever, because death punch complaining is huge places,
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  Speaker 1: there's very little chance of you actually meeting me unless
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  Speaker 1: you get one of like the meet and repackages, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's twenty five bucks to come see
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  Speaker 1: the show tomorrow and we will say hi to every
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  Speaker 1: single person after the show. So not only do you
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  Speaker 1: get the stand up comedy show, you get to hang
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  Speaker 1: out and chat with your boy here, mister Chris Kle Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: comedian that day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted a bit of role reversal here with
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  Speaker 2: our playes on. But like you'll tell.
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  Speaker 1: Me, that's different here in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: But like you're telling stories about your make and far
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  Speaker 2: think of death. Fine, just say the roles were reversed
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  Speaker 2: and one of them was telling the story about you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you reckon? They'd say, Oh, man, what's the
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  Speaker 2: funny story that they tell us that you probably.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't they would tell you about. So we'll talking Andy
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  Speaker 1: and Charlie very like they're new in the band. Then
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  Speaker 1: you got me Ivan and Zultan. We've been in the
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  Speaker 1: band for a little bit. Those two kind of started
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  Speaker 1: off the band, and then I joined, and now Charlie
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  Speaker 1: and Andy are in the band. So Charlie is a
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  Speaker 1: very like incredible drummer, doesn't necessarily stand out in a crowd.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely stand out in a crowd. So they would
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  Speaker 1: tell you about the time that they went to this
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  Speaker 1: amusement park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, came back in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just done pressed. I was coming off the bus
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  Speaker 1: and they was like yeah. I was like, Hey, where'd
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  Speaker 1: you guys go. It's like, oh, we've been over at
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  Speaker 1: the amusement park. You're gonna go. And this amusement park
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  Speaker 1: was right next to where we were playing. So the
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  Speaker 1: stage is here, the amusement park is here, tone the
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  Speaker 1: Death Punch fans over there. They asked me, Hey, we
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  Speaker 1: just got back from the amusement park. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: over there? No, I'm not going over there. I love
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  Speaker 1: hanging out and meeting people, but I am very full frontal.
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  Speaker 1: I would not have been able to ride any of
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  Speaker 1: their rides. I would have been kissing hands and shaking
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  Speaker 1: babies all day long. Yeah. So, yeah, that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: they would say. And I remember one time Zultan actually
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  Speaker 1: said he told the tour manager he's like, I believe
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  Speaker 1: Chris kle was a good acquisition. He makes the rest
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  Speaker 1: of us looked not so much like dicks. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: like the public relations guy. I've always been mister mister friendly.
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  Speaker 1: I like to use the word charming, very charming, very approachable,
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  Speaker 1: and am very aware. I am the best to be.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody better at being humbled than me. I am
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  Speaker 1: the king of humility. Look around, nobody's doing humility like me.
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  Speaker 1: I am the most humble person in the world. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm confident. I wouldn't say I wouldn't say cocky, but
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  Speaker 1: confident for sure. There's a fine line between cocky and arrogant.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, say confidence and ego. Ego has to
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  Speaker 1: take away from people confidence. That's just like I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good at what I do. I know I'm friendly
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot, and I am definitely very much a guy
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  Speaker 1: who rising tide lifts all ships kind of guys. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I love. If I'm doing good, I want those around
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  Speaker 1: me to do good as well. So nothing wrong with that, brother, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to take away from other people.
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  Speaker 2: Now. What there is something wrong with it is you
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  Speaker 2: might we spit?
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  Speaker 1: Where do we start?
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  Speaker 2: You made me spit my cocoa pops all over my bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: Just wanted what happened?
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  Speaker 2: You made me spit my cocoa pops all over my
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  Speaker 2: bedroom because I was reading Facebook and there was a
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  Speaker 2: little ad came up from you about your show in
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  Speaker 2: Brisbane and you had three letters in there that made
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  Speaker 2: me spin my cocoa pops at DCP. Yes, now I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna let you explain that.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. We're coming to Brisbane. Two comics to DCP
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  Speaker 1: the shit out of Brisbane. That's double comic penetration. Two
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  Speaker 1: comics penetrating the vibe here in Brisbane doing some comedy
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  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, so I knew dirty people like this dude,
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  Speaker 1: he would know what I was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I had to look it up.
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  Speaker 1: My children indeed the TikTok crowd.
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  Speaker 2: Knows now, but what do I really want to know
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  Speaker 2: with that? And I've already had this mental picture. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be getting anyone up from the crowd just to
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  Speaker 2: show them what DVP is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want my D to get anywhere near his
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  Speaker 1: d So no, no, we will be penetrating the building
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, but that will be the only
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  Speaker 1: orifice is that front door walking through at the same time. Yeah. Now,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: we actually we had a fan up on stage at
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  Speaker 1: the podcast recording that we did in Melbourne. We recorded
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  Speaker 1: a live studio audience of the Beard on Wido podcast
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  Speaker 1: in Melbourne, and the night before when I was at Metallica,
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  Speaker 1: I met this young lady bumped into her an accident
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, hey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the snake pit so it was packed
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  Speaker 1: bumped into her and I was like, oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: She turned around, She's like, wait do you This is
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  Speaker 1: funny because she didn't ask me, are you Chris Kle
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  Speaker 1: From Five Feet Death Points, she goes, wait do you knit?
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  Speaker 1: From the Jacqueline Hyde video. When I'm in the babysit, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I go yeah, that's me. And she immediately started crying,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, my god. I was like, oh, calm down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be as incognito as I can be
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  Speaker 1: right here in front of the stage so I can
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  Speaker 1: see Withsalika in the middle with everybody. She was bald,
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  Speaker 1: you're done, and she had lyrics from death Punts Jacqueline
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  Speaker 1: Hide tattooed on her side. Yeah, she showed me that.
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  Speaker 1: Craig said that she was like starting to do this.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, oh, yeah, here, we got it.
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  Speaker 1: Now we got a rush show man. Just positively affecting lives. Man,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I do. So I invited her to the
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  Speaker 1: comedy show. Her husband, incredible human being, was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you go to the comedy show. I'll watch the kids.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked how old are the kids, because I
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  Speaker 1: knew we had fifteen and up that could go see
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  Speaker 1: the taping of the show. He had a thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: a fifteen year old, and I said, well, let me
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  Speaker 1: check with the comedy club, and they ended up allowing
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  Speaker 1: the thirteen year old to come as well, as long
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  Speaker 1: as he was with his mom the whole time. So
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  Speaker 1: I invited her to the show. The two kids and
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  Speaker 1: the husband. They all came out and we had her
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  Speaker 1: come up on stage and tell her side of running
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  Speaker 1: into me at the Metalican. She now, she didn't show
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  Speaker 1: it up. No, No, that's a probably. Ye. She was
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  Speaker 1: a married woman. So you know, I'm very respectful as well,
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  Speaker 1: humble and respectful.
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  Speaker 2: What's to Troy effected, It's going to be one more.
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  Speaker 1: Funny as fuck do that and you can find that
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  Speaker 1: out tomorrow. That the comedy club. That's right, good Chat
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  Speaker 1: comedy club right here in Brisbane, seven o'clock, eight thirty
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  Speaker 1: Dopple penetration. Yeah, yep, indeed I have. I have been
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  Speaker 1: building up a lot of testageuone, building up a lot
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  Speaker 1: of energy. And my god, is everybody pretty out here
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  Speaker 1: in Australia. The majority of them I went down too.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to say yes to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the majority of my I mean, what was the
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  Speaker 1: name of the place I went to? A beer place
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  Speaker 1: last night? That's not damn felons with the felons last night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm glad that I can't allow distractions
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  Speaker 1: in my life right now because there were so many distractions.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even like blonde girls, and my god, Craig
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  Speaker 1: says Craig says that whenever I'm talking about a new
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  Speaker 1: girl that I'm dating, he already knows the color of
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  Speaker 1: that crayon. I have a type. I have a type. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and blonde is not it usually, But god, you're willing
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  Speaker 1: to make exceptions. No, it's as an as a recovering addict.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I haven't had drug alcohol in UH in just over
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: four years now, and UH celebrated that back a couple
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: of months ago. But man, I do still love the ladies.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: So the addict in me is fending ladies, fiending. I'm trying.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do the right thing. I'm staying focused.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, when I'm this built up, some songs are coming.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not coming. The songs are definitely coming.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that mental picture out of my head
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: right now. I'm either too tiny different base might.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: But now let's talk about these girls again.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go back to one.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Gosh, probably my ex wife. Actually that's been I want
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: to say, we've been divorced for eight years.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, both of them calls equal amount of problems. Yeah,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I've got next and just as expensive too, I promise you,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: like it's stay together. Kids, go to school, stay together,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and if you're Asian, please come to the show. Please
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: come to the show, because that's what I'm looking for.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And nah, No, I liked a long I always used
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: to think it was like just the long, dark hair
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: that I liked until I dated like three Asian girls
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: in a row and my friends like.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Dude, you got an Asian thing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I guess that's interest.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I guess I do.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: You're in the wrong country for that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I must have radar. Much like when I was back
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: in the day when I would party, I could walk
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: into a room and see exactly who I needed to
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: talk to continue that party. I see that other stuff
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: out here. Yeah, I'm very driven, very focused, very motivated,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: but at this time, no distractions, fully focused on comedy,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: fully focused on heavy metal.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: But Diane on the inside, But you performed on sites
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: to ship lights of people, mostly with five finger back
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a comedy. But what do you get.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Out of do you guys know that dig? Do you
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: guys hear that dig? Right there? It was like that.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But what sort of different things can you get out of?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Biketh Like you in front of crabs by the times,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: But you have to get some different animals.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: The big difference is when I am on stage with
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: five figure Death Punch, I got four of my best
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: friends up there with me that I can lean on.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So if I'm having a bad day, those four dudes,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: if I need carried, they can carry me. I can
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: carry those guys that they're having an off day. When
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it's comedy, it's just me on stage, and I love
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: putting myself into uncomfortable situations and figuring out a way
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to find comfort in those things and overcome those obstacles.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: So Death Plunch it's like the back of my hand,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: reading the back of my hand. Comedy, it's definitely in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the front of the hand. It smacks me in the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: face every single time. I am nervous every time I
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: get up there, and I am never nervous about nothing.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I got They asked, you know, do you
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: get nervous before you go on stage with five figure
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Death Punch. No, that's more of like an anxious like
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to go comedy. There's definitely like that anxious
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: let's go that kind of thing. But there's still a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: bit of like, ooh, this is on me.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: What if that like me?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Impossible? They might not like my jokes, so they'll like me.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I do tend to go uh, I like pushing buttons.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So there's there's a couple of things on stage that
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: there will be no cameras in the crowd, that's for sure. Yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take pictures after if I catch your recording.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Much like Craig Shen's The Chins, Baby, that's a call
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: back learning the business.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I suddenly feel violated.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: My hands have been up here the whole time, right there,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: right there.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, figure that's punch for it now. Then
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: might like you just released based off the volume two
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks you got how's for a sponge spin
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to byth albums?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Dude, it's been incredible. We did a song with Baby
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Medal on this thing and it went to number one
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: in Japan, gone gold already, Zoltan and I Even't just
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: went to La to present that gold plaque to the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: girls from Baby Medal, and yeah, just incredible reactions. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: am hoping that, uh, it's been a long time since
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: we've been over this way, and I'm hoping that with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: success of that record, it gets us into Japan, gets
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: us back over to Australia, New Zealand. I really want
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to get back. It's been a long time since we've
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: been back here and chomping at the bit. Yeah yeah,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: but again I'll play bass. I'll probably find out that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: we are playing over here the same way you do
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: once those days are released online in a heavy Bag. Yes,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in heavy Mag. I will go to Heavy Bag, just
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: like are there yet? Yeah? Must like being back in
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the car when you're a little kid, Dad, are we
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the area? I go to heavy Mag wondering if we're
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: back in Australia by then, what do you go see?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Charming people?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: One the reasons why you did the albums, and I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: don't want to focus on the negative button, so let's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: go on the positive that it's twentieth or very three
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: foot qua beat a dead punch. Now, you could have
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: easily just plighted those songs and put them out there
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and people would have loved it. But you chries to
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: re record them. Oh yeah as well, Like that's a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: lot of extra Why why do that when you could
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: have got to why you were doing it the other way?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Well? The extra work was when they say when you
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: do what you love, it's not work at all. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: it was a nice chance to get back with you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: all the new tools that are available and recording. You know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I think it was Exodus Forever Ago re recorded a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bunch of their older stuff and just the guitar tones
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: on that thing, it's like, my God made it sound incredible.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So to be able to go back and revisit these
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: with the new technologies, and it's not like we're writing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the songs. The song's already done, so you just go
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in and perform. So to be able to go in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and play those songs and get the whole band back
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: together and hanging out and really much like for the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: fan when they're listening to these songs, just taking them
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: back in life, like, oh, I remember where I was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: when I heard that song. This is going on? This
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: kind of gave us a chance to reflect as the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: very first record was recorded in Zoltan's apartment in Los Angeles,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in his living room. The new record that we're working on,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: we're going back to those roots, recording in Zultan's living room.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It's a lot bigger, a lot bigger than what it was,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but the vibe is still the same. You know, five
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: friends in one room writing, putting things together and going
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: back and doing those old songs. It gave us a
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: chance to reflect where it came from and then all
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: those little steps in between. So it was a retrospective
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: for us. And man, just incredibly grateful that we have
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: such support that so many people love Death Punch, go
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to the shows, buy the records, allow us to do
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: all the things that we do. If it were if
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for five figure Death Punch, I would not
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: be over here doing stand up comedy. So all of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that stuff goes through all of our lives and allows
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: us to do all the wonderful things that we love
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to do. And it's all because of you guys connecting
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to the stuff that we do. And man, it's it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a it's a knucklehead army out there. And man, just
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: very very fortunate and just want to think each and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: every single one of you, because yeah, this life would
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: not be the life that it is without each and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: every one of you.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: So twenty twenty eight, twenty years, that's crazy, somebody, it's crazy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I would say it's more than half my life.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, die twenty eight.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if I'm not a day over twenty eight. There's
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: been some rough rough years.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: But you can find out all about that at the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: sight or not.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Indeed, indeed, I do reveal my age on stage. You see,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't write that down. That's when a long somewhere
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I just can't help but be creatives.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: You know, now, I spite this all chain about this
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: not long ago. It's you better tell me the truth
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: because if the answer is conflicting on it another, why
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: don't use this full of shit?
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: A couple of the songs were completely uninformed.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You didn't get that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the last time that we did an interview the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: email whoever wrote this too said sorry, it's Chris because
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: somebody else had to cancel. So whoever wrote that email,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: We're having a chat when I get back. I'm going
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to I'm going a good chat tomorrow. I'm having a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: not very good chat with you, whoever wrote that email
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: when I get back to Vegas. Sins the chins, Baby,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: they're just threatening label. I think I'm.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: La.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know who, I don't know
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: who wrote the things. I'm not threatening anybody. I'm threatening everybody.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: You get the right way.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm a comedian, guys, these are jokes. These are jokes. Allegedly,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I'm threatening.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Everybody allegedly makes a big difference when you re recorded
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the album. There's a few songs from there that are
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: slightly different to the originals, and they're all they're all
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: improvements as far as I'm just saying. But when you
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: went into it, did you did you plan out what
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you're going to do? You different like, did you've written
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that or did it come into the studio and you
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: made those changes.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I wasn't really part of that part of the thing
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: once once those decisions had been made. I was part
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: after that. But those those decision makings, that's that's out
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: of my pay grade.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: That's not what said. You said every funk up was
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: down to you and you're not gonna argue with him.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: That's why.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: That's why I do stand up common.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: And that's why I'm sitting down. If you mentioned new
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: new music from fucking Death fun, I'm sorry. What can
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you tell us about the next album?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Working on it right now? Luckily I have all the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: time in the world to be able to put this
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: thing together. Got some stuff coming up next year, big
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: window in between, and really just I mean, like with
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Andy and the band, Charlie and the band, New Dynamics
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and whatnot in there. So yeah, it's a it's it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: been awesome, like the technical prowess between those two my god.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's gonna be what made me.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Expect, makes me realize I got practice, Carl Camton, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'm wasting and doing comedy. Yeah, you see where my
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: priorities are. Yeah, no, but yeah, it's everything's firing on
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: all cylinders. With us only having done like six shows
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: this year, maybe I think it was it really gave
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: each of us uh some time to do our own things.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And yeah, we are all chomping at the bit ready
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: to get back out there. And uh, I know, Parkway
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Drive big big here in uh in Australia and around
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the world really, but they bring a lot of fire
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and we got a lot of fire burning inside. See
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that's my connection with Australia right there. They're pyro with
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: our pyro inside. But yeah, we got a lot of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: stuff coming and super excited to get back out there
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and blow the world up.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Very This is more of a personal question for me,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: but you guys have done quite a few competes. Maybe
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the album you do a different sort of cover on
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the band. What's your favorite one to download personally, I
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: love the Bad Company cover you've done.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one was huge because that one opened up
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of doors four five figure death points. So
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that's probably been the most influential on our career. Was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that one, oh Man favorite one that we've done. I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: don't know, there's been there's been a couple. I probably
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Mama said knock you out. Yeah, yeah, because we have
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Tech nine on that one as well. Yeah, so uh yeah,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and they played that one at our GM a lot,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So that's that's the one that's most in my head. Yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: that was fun And we got to do that song
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: live with Tech nine in Los Angeles years ago. You
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: know that was fun.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Did you just going into the album, like, do you
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: just have a meeting and decide this is a couple
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: we're gonna do this album or does it just come
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: when you're there and someone Guy's.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Should be cool? Yeah. Genuinely speaking, you'll have like a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: few songs that you kind of want to work on
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: and we all kind of like think about it. But
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: genuinely speaking, it's like it's what can we what cover
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: song can we add death punch elements to? We don't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: want to get in there and just do exactly the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: same way that the original was. We want to add
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: death Punch kind of flare onto it. And also, it's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: got to be something that I haven't connected with as well,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: because you're gonna hear that in his vocals. You would
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: really want to hear him feel the song that we're doing.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: So a combination of those two things, what I have
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: been feeling and what can death Punch add to it
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to make its death Punch.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Ask you've got any idea at all, what's gonna be
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: on the next one, I couldn't tell you.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Now. We're focused on the We're focused on the original
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: stuff right now. So yeah, that's the that's that's the priority,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: number one, getting those originals. And uh, anytime you get
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to do a cover again, talking about retrospectives and whatnot,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it gives us a chance to feel like, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: every kid growing up, we learned cover songs when we're
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: learning music, So it gives us a chance to feel
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: like those the high school bands that we were in,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you know, just doing covers and whatnot. So that's a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. So heah, that's another part of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: process is being back and revisiting songs that we love.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: No, I said, well, I'm gonna let you guy, brother,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: because oh no, I'm fucking hungry, and I'm sure you
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: must be too. Yes, but November the eleventh, the gig
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: is that there's something comedy cubs.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Good chat, good check, comedy clubs us like this. We've
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: had a good chat.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: But it's gonna be better.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's gonna be better. Comedy club. All right, brother,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: thanks very much for jim appreciation, my friend, Thank you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: so much. Thank you. Check out Beardo and Weirdo see
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow and Brisbane. It's gonna be a good time.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: M hm.