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Waging War Down Under With CODY And BRITON From WAGE WAR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: What's up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Britain from wage War.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Cody from wage War and yeah we're we're coming
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  Speaker 3: to Australia.
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  Speaker 4: Fantastic guys, thanks for joining us, Thanks for us No
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  Speaker 4: all right, So as you say, guys, wage War returned
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  Speaker 4: to Australia very soon for a run of dates, starting
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  Speaker 4: in Perth on July the thirtieth, then hitting Adelaide, Melbourne
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  Speaker 4: and Brisbane for finishing in Sydney on August the seventh.
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  Speaker 4: Not long now he's packed and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't blacked my bags yet, but that's close.
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  Speaker 3: We still got about two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys right out of here. Not only but
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  Speaker 4: he's around here last week, not fest in twenty twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 4: So what's changed with the bands since then?
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  Speaker 3: Wept and a record. Yeah, we only had like one
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  Speaker 3: song out from the last record last time we were
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  Speaker 3: in Australia, so we've got about it'll be about fifteen
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  Speaker 3: sixteen new songs that we've never played over there.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we got a lot of got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of round the makeup.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah nice and the trolls selling really well guys. With
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  Speaker 4: the Melbourne venue having to be upgraded to the floor
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  Speaker 4: and duty demand. So what do you think it is
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  Speaker 4: about the connection between wage war and Australian metal heads
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  Speaker 4: that keeps the bond just growing and growing. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's maybe it's the Florida in US where we
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  Speaker 2: got alligators and snakes and stuff. I mean, maybe that's
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  Speaker 2: the connection.
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  Speaker 4: I've noticed too that the Adelaide and Sydney shows were
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  Speaker 4: all ages guys, which was indorp them, Like, you don't
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  Speaker 4: see enough of them these days, do you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, is that not a thing over there? Not?
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  Speaker 4: It used to be huge over here, but recently, like
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  Speaker 4: the last probably ten years, has been stuff all of them,
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  Speaker 4: which sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really Yeah, I mean we're trying to do all
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  Speaker 3: ages as much as possible. M Yeah, that would be uh,
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  Speaker 3: that would be important to us for sure. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we definitely wage wars for the whole family. Nice your
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  Speaker 3: own at your own risk.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, do you have to change change your
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  Speaker 4: chine or you set list at all well the all
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  Speaker 4: ages or they just get what what the adults get? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty straightforward?
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  Speaker 4: So nice? And are you going to be bringing your
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  Speaker 4: full North American stage production over for the dates? So
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna have to bring a scale down version. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not gonna be able to bring the bait
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  Speaker 3: Shack over the season. Fortunately. I don't even think it
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  Speaker 3: would fit in a lot of these venues, but we'll
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  Speaker 3: have something, for sure. We're making the best do with
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  Speaker 3: what we got. But yeah, well we're bringing the best
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  Speaker 3: show we can. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Nice, nice, And you're also bringing Orthodox in Heaven's Gate
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  Speaker 4: on this run. Mate. So for the heavy readers who
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  Speaker 4: were hitting the floor early, like, what do you think
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  Speaker 4: these two bands bring to the table to set the change.
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  Speaker 3: For the night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're definitely gonna wake people up and put
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  Speaker 2: some energy in the building for sure. Both those bands
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  Speaker 2: are very high energy and heavy, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be very fun playing with those two bands.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys released to a light of DP it
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  Speaker 4: called Me by Name only a couple of months ago,
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  Speaker 4: so that was the early reception for that.
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  Speaker 3: It's been great. Yeah, it's been what maybe one maybe
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  Speaker 3: one of our most positive releases in years. Honestly, it's
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  Speaker 3: nice to see everyone kind of aligned on on the
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  Speaker 3: music and loving the songs and streaming it. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it feels good.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sweet, and you gonna have to help me out
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  Speaker 4: of videogo as because what the press release called the
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  Speaker 4: EP a collection of song shape by Florida, the Swamp
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  Speaker 4: and the Relentless Aggression of Nature. But that sounds beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: What the fuck does it mean?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think for us, like you know, when
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  Speaker 3: it came time to do you know, new music, like
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  Speaker 3: it didn't start out as an album. It just kind
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  Speaker 3: of started out as working on songs and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we just kind of wanted to get something out sooner
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  Speaker 3: than later. And if you know, those five songs that
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  Speaker 3: we picked all just kind of raised their hand, is
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  Speaker 3: feeling true to like where we're at in the current
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  Speaker 3: state of wage war. Like Sonically, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: good mix of heavy, melodic and you know kind of
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  Speaker 3: all the things that we do.
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  Speaker 1: And then when we were looking around at how we wanted,
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  Speaker 1: what we wanted to call it, how we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: brand it, like all of those things, we just decided
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  Speaker 1: to I know this sounds lame, but like kind of
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  Speaker 1: look within ourselves and just be who we are, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't want to do anything insincere. We're not a
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  Speaker 3: gimmick band, you know what I mean, Like we just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to do our thing, and you know our thing
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  Speaker 3: is we're a metal band from Florida. So we said,
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  Speaker 3: all right, cool, let's make it the most metal and
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  Speaker 3: the most band from Florida we possibly can. And that's
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  Speaker 3: how we got the ephes.
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  Speaker 4: But there are any songs about because you would have
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  Speaker 4: been playing them live? Hy noways are any songs that
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  Speaker 4: went down better than you thought they would live or
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  Speaker 4: any that sort of maybe didn't go down as well
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  Speaker 4: as you thought they would.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I'll do pretty great.
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  Speaker 1: Karma does really good live.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, but yeah, I mean really they
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  Speaker 3: I'll do great.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And so bringing your vocals and stay consistently punishment
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  Speaker 4: over the years, Cody your clatan's chorus to give the
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  Speaker 4: songs matthive breathing room. So when you're writing, like how
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  Speaker 4: do you decide where the brutality ends and the melody
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  Speaker 4: takes over?
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  Speaker 2: I think, go ahead, Cody, Yeah, go ahead, Bret Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we just try to like feel like what
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  Speaker 2: the mood of the song and like what the song
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  Speaker 2: structure kind of brings to the table. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be screaming over like a more
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  Speaker 2: chorus for progression things like that. So you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of like bring what the song absolutely needs into certain parts.
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  Speaker 2: And Cody's very good at like figuring that out.
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  Speaker 4: Is it easy to do because like someone from outside
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  Speaker 4: of a musical background, you listen to about and it
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  Speaker 4: sounds like it's got to be so prethised.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think you know the songs can
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of tell where songs are.
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  Speaker 3: Going off, you know, first inklings. You know, sometimes it's like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to try to force myself into a song.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's an ass beater. And you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: also not going to try to force a breakdown into
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  Speaker 3: a song that just doesn't need it, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean. And not that I haven't made those mistakes
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  Speaker 3: before in the past of forcing things in a song,
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  Speaker 3: but I think I'm more I think I'm more aware
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  Speaker 3: than ever of just letting the song lead, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. And I think that's how you get
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  Speaker 3: the most natural you know, whether it's a Britain part
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  Speaker 3: or a Me part. You know, did those things just
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  Speaker 3: kind of fall together?
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  Speaker 4: And now die is remember the first time you heard
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  Speaker 4: about of the songs played on the radio, what song
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  Speaker 4: was it? And way way.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the first time I heard Circle of the Drain.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, I heard I heard Prison on odd serious
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  Speaker 3: XM Octane was the first time I remember hearing our
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  Speaker 3: band on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: And that was I I.
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  Speaker 3: Remember pulling up to my drive in my driveway here
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  Speaker 3: in Tennessee and like sitting in my car and just
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  Speaker 3: freaking out and videoing it. And then for like f
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  Speaker 3: M radio. Yeah, Circle with Dream of Him first, and
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  Speaker 3: I think I heard that. I don't remember hearing that
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  Speaker 3: on the radio. I think Magnetic was the first one
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  Speaker 3: I ever heard on the radio. Right cool.
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  Speaker 4: You guys, got any messages for Australian fans before you
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  Speaker 4: come out? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, tickets are getting low. If you're thinking about
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  Speaker 2: coming out, you should. We're going to be playing a
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  Speaker 2: longer set list and probably everything off the EP, so
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  Speaker 2: get your tickets.
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  Speaker 4: Get there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have fun, I mean orthodox and having having skates
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  Speaker 2: playing with us, so it's gonna be a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Manchas it. Guys, all right, we'll take care cho and
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  Speaker 4: I made it. Enjoy yourself with your Ebria.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much.