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Humility, Honesty And Heat With BETTER LOVERS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hello, sir, Hello, Hello Jordan, Well, hello man, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good? Yourself?
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  Speaker 3: Very good?
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  Speaker 2: Relaxed? Is it relaxing? Cool's not? Getting ready? Yeah? Getting done?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're in get done mode right now. We just
• 0:19
  Speaker 4: finished never ready, so right now is get done one.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get ready in January?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Is it snowing then? Where do you guys are?
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  Speaker 4: No? Not right now? It did snow, but now it's
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  Speaker 4: just cold.
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  Speaker 3: I live in the desert.
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  Speaker 2: It never snows here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, how about yeah, well yeah it's sunny thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, perfect, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm in Queensland. So you're going to catch
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  Speaker 2: a fresh show. So awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's awesome mhm bring yeah absolutely, man absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: oh man. We are so pumped that it is well
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  Speaker 1: well for us fans, it it feels it's not that
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  Speaker 1: long a time, but it feels like it's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: It's like and a lot of us were like, finally, finally,
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  Speaker 1: better lovers are coming to Australia. So we were elated
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  Speaker 1: by the news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel good.
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  Speaker 3: It's like to be honest, like because we it is
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  Speaker 3: our first time, Like is it gonna be good?
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't know. Is that a weird question to.
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  Speaker 3: Ask better lovers in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: It's the last question to ask, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be an absolute right.
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  Speaker 2: I do the you know we, you know we.
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  Speaker 1: It's no secret the way the live shows go, the energy,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. One thing I want to point out is
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  Speaker 1: this first show that you're playing in Brisbane is at
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  Speaker 1: a venue called Crowbar.
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  Speaker 2: Now it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Called the Zoo and many many moons ago, Jordan, you
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  Speaker 1: guys in your former project played a show there almost
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago. It was it was smoking hot in
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  Speaker 1: that venue. I don't know if you guys oh.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, oh no, are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: Is pumping now? Yeah? Oh will? Will?
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  Speaker 3: I swear to you this show went down as the
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  Speaker 3: hardest show I have ever played in my life. That's
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  Speaker 3: you triggered like a memory and me that I buried.
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  Speaker 3: I want to think about it. Holy sh I'm good, okay,
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  Speaker 3: as long as they've got some air conditioning. It was
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  Speaker 3: like an oven in a closet on the second floor.
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't understand. I was like, I couldn't even
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  Speaker 3: be mad because my brain wasn't working enough to have emotions.
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  Speaker 3: I was just confused why as to why anyone would
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  Speaker 3: let something like this happen.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah cool, wait it was cool.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't cool. Oh I did the Sydney Crowbar. Yeah
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  Speaker 4: that was too hot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, that's a cool venue.
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  Speaker 1: And and shout out shout out to the ironers of
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  Speaker 1: Crowbarn Brisbane because they tried and know the crew there,
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's exactly what it needs to be now
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  Speaker 1: that you know the Crowbarron Brisbane is a great venue.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going icy. That is absolutely You can have
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  Speaker 1: my head if it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 4: Trad is the man I love. Yeah, frea cool heavy
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  Speaker 4: bands over to Australia. He knows how to run a
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  Speaker 4: show and not so that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah yeah so no, it's it's just I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to like picture in my mind better lovers on
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  Speaker 1: stage at Crowbar. The venue stars ac like, there is
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  Speaker 1: no reason why it can't be an all out party.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys run blonde girls, blonde girls and split
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  Speaker 1: chat coming with us as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we do.
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  Speaker 4: It's a cool mixed bill. I always love a good
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  Speaker 4: mixed bill. It reminds me of when I was a
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  Speaker 4: kid and first started to go into shows before. I
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  Speaker 4: feel like a lot of heavy music got compartmentalized over
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  Speaker 4: the years and everything kind of stays in their lane
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  Speaker 4: with touring. And this is like growing up before there
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  Speaker 4: was like an oversaturation of bands, you would just have
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  Speaker 4: these cool mixed bill shows where you'd have you know,
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  Speaker 4: saves a day and convert play together and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I always get excited when we get to take
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  Speaker 4: bands out from like different backgrounds and different corners of
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  Speaker 4: these genres and this is a cool This is a
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  Speaker 4: pretty cool package for that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah hell yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that's you know, I've already suspoused a lot, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: So you know it's gonna be insane. So how do
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  Speaker 1: you guys, highly irresponsible time out last year that a
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  Speaker 1: deluxe edition came out a month ago with a couple
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  Speaker 1: of extra songs on it, which we're insane. How do
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  Speaker 1: you guys feel the receptions been so far two years
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  Speaker 1: on the go?
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  Speaker 2: How's it feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Very very I'm very very grateful. I know I can
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  Speaker 3: actually speak for Will. I'd be surprised if you said
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't. But it really doesn't. It really doesn't get
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  Speaker 3: any better. We're very lucky, very very lucky that people
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  Speaker 3: that there's so many people around the world that fuck
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  Speaker 3: with the kind of stuff that we do. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody brings something different to the table, and the stew
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  Speaker 3: that we've made seems to be enjoyed by a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people, and that is just really really cool. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's we're really lucky to be where we are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, well from from ore and it feels like
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  Speaker 1: the project's just going from strength to strength.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the perfect time to you know, unlessh the
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  Speaker 2: madness down here now, Jordan, how long has it been
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  Speaker 2: since you've been out here? Uh I?
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  Speaker 3: I just came to the realization that maybe a Unified
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  Speaker 3: Fast it was definitely pre pandemic. I think it might
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  Speaker 3: have been that one Unify with taken Back Sunday. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if they still do that festival. I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things kind of went away or were
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  Speaker 3: renamed or reshaped post pandemic. I played two of them,
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  Speaker 3: and oddly enough flew out just for one of like
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  Speaker 3: it was the only I think there's been two times
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  Speaker 3: in my life where I flew played one show and
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  Speaker 3: then flew home. And that was one of them and
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  Speaker 3: it was a long flight, but it was a really
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  Speaker 3: good show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, nice. What about you Will?
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  Speaker 4: I was there in twenty twenty three, I believe it,
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  Speaker 4: and we did a short run there which was the
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  Speaker 4: crazy month where we thought it would be a good
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  Speaker 4: idea to do Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and European festivals
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  Speaker 4: with no breaks. Don't do that take breaks. Yeah that
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  Speaker 4: was crazy. But the Australian shows were awesome, really really,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm looking forward to getting back there big time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm real, unreal and it's just having just fat checked.
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  Speaker 3: It was January twenty nineteen, taken back Sunday, little band
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  Speaker 3: called Turnstile before well yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So holy shit. Yeah so seven years.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, I'm excited.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Time flies, man, time flies. So in between shows because
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: they're all going to be amazing. Is there anything that's
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  Speaker 1: like to do you probably you probably cuddled the Cuddle
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: the koalas seeing the crocodile shows, Yeah, the usual. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything else that comes to mind? It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're coming to Australia, We've got to make sure we
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  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything that you can think of on the
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  Speaker 2: top of your head?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be at the beach.
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  Speaker 2: You can find me.
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  Speaker 4: In some warm, salty water. I'm just floating around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love the beach, is there. Yeah, that would be
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  Speaker 4: my break for sure, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be I'll be putting suntan lotion on will
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  Speaker 3: at the beach. We we I know it's corny and
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  Speaker 3: it might be a little touristy, but we I. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a big fan of all the basic Australian things. The
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  Speaker 3: nice weather, the beach, the animals.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do uh, I'll.
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  Speaker 3: Do the zoo trips, I'll do the the you know whatever, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's I have a lot of great memories from Australia.
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  Speaker 3: I've been there, not on a tour. It's one of
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  Speaker 3: the only places where we had a tour and I
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  Speaker 3: flew out. I don't know what year it was, but
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  Speaker 3: I flew out like a week early just to enjoy Australia.
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  Speaker 3: And that's very that's very rare. But that's how much
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  Speaker 3: I like it. I like your assay bowls.
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  Speaker 2: I like your.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I gotta get reminded of all the local stuff.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool as hell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, back in my meat eating days, I even I'm
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  Speaker 3: ashamed to say I tasted.
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  Speaker 2: Kangaroo Burger before.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I like being a tourist, I really do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's in well I can speak for I'll
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  Speaker 1: speak for Melbourne and Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: There's obviously a massive variety of food, coffee.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like coffee shops are every corner, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: absolutely fine with. But yeah, the food is ridiculous, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all choices as well. I was a vegetarian for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, did that whole thing and still enjoy
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  Speaker 1: that cuisine as well.
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  Speaker 2: So in any give and take of forms. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's plenty of variety out there. It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be at Smith and Daughters at one point. That's
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  Speaker 4: my favorite, one of my favorite vegan restaurants in the world,
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  Speaker 4: which happens so that's kind of like a mandatory trip
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  Speaker 4: for me. But I spent a lot of time in
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  Speaker 4: because I made a couple of records out there and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So I got some spots. So Jordan, I'll take you out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure we won't get any coffee. Yeah, no, we
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  Speaker 2: won't for sure. Yeah, and I.
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  Speaker 4: Got coffee there once at a tire shop. It was
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  Speaker 4: like literally like where you get your tires changed. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we have a we have a coffee bar if you
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  Speaker 4: want something, and it would beat nine out of ten
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  Speaker 4: coffee shops in America. It's kind of fucked up. How
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  Speaker 4: the but where the bar?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. One of my best nights.
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  Speaker 1: He's a coffee guy, coffee rerepped, and he has just
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  Speaker 1: put a first of Shane in his nights.
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  Speaker 2: What you guys do?
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  Speaker 4: You're like, you know what this like two hundred square
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  Speaker 4: foot box needs Yeah, put put it right there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you have coffee. Well, we'll you
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  Speaker 2: fix your ca yeah yeah. Oh man, that heavy crew
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  Speaker 2: are actually gonna be flying down.
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  Speaker 1: To Adelaide, which will have a catch your last of
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  Speaker 1: the two too, So we're gonna go and last very.
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  Speaker 3: I mean no offense. I I remember Adelaide always. This
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  Speaker 3: sounds disrespectful. There's always got to be a worst show.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel bad because Adelaide like always had that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's only because like it's not as big as
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  Speaker 3: the other cities, so like you get that like kind
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  Speaker 3: of like I still get stage. I don't want to
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: say stage fright, but I still get the bigger the crowd,
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  Speaker 3: the more my nerves go up, and so sometimes like
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  Speaker 3: the smallest shows are my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's about what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a very roundabout way of saying that Adelaide
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  Speaker 3: always ends up being one of the smaller ones. But
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  Speaker 3: that's not necessarily a bad thing those because those always
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  Speaker 3: going to be more fun and lead back, relaxed, and
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, I'm looking forward to every single every single
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  Speaker 3: shower absolutely now.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be unreal. Thanks so much, guys. The
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  Speaker 1: tour starts jan twenty third in Brisbane, wraps up on
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  Speaker 1: Jan thirty in Adelaide, and we've got Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's in there as well, and.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a showdown at bell is A Belgrave
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a show down there now. Yeah, South Melbourne. Cool, cool,
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  Speaker 2: cool little pocket down there.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be unreal for it is that could
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  Speaker 1: be a really intimate show, but a lot of dedicated
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  Speaker 1: people is might pick on that one, so very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks so much guys. Enjoy your Christmas
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: holidays all that and stay safe and catches in January