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Total Annihilation With GRAVEMIND · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: My name is Bailey. I'm the vocalist for Gravemind. We're
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  Speaker 1: playing at the upcoming Necrosonic Festival on the twenty sixth
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  Speaker 1: of August and we're very very keen.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic mate, thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: No worries, thanks having me, no, so.
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  Speaker 2: You stay make Gravemind.
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  Speaker 4: I headed to Brisbane suretly to play at Necrosonic Festival
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  Speaker 4: at the Mentor of Tubment on August to twenty second.
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  Speaker 2: Not far away now, bro, Like, how part do I am?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, We're getting pretty pumped.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been booking in heaps of practices now and
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  Speaker 1: getting our sets sorted out so that we're as ready
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  Speaker 1: as we can be for the show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Nice, And it's gonna be a first time playing
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  Speaker 4: in bris Vegas since September last year.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, So what's changed with the bands then?
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  Speaker 1: Look, not too much as has changed in regards to
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  Speaker 1: like what we're doing and our members and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But we're very excited to get back up to Brisbane.
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  Speaker 1: Brisbane's one of my favorite states to play in, so
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  Speaker 1: I myself, I know I am very keen to get
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  Speaker 1: back up there and get get.
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  Speaker 3: Out of this cold Melbourne weather. Ah bet it's been terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been nice up here, made nice and nice
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  Speaker 2: and sunny and bright.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so jealous.
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  Speaker 2: Scotty is going to be massive.
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  Speaker 4: Bro, You've got bands like Rivers and Ryles Thai Chropnic
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  Speaker 4: they're both co headlining.
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  Speaker 2: Then that is deserveless aggression. How I'm Dreampillow's fights ups
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  Speaker 2: and so lift goes on made. But where do you
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  Speaker 2: think Graveminds slot in with the whole lineup?
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  Speaker 1: I think, look, with our most recent stuff, I think
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  Speaker 1: we go maybe a bit a bit more modern than
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the bands that to be on the
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  Speaker 1: line up, but we to combat that, we've kind of
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  Speaker 1: curated a bit of an older set list with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our older songs that are more technical and
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  Speaker 1: like death Cory in a sense. So we kind of
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  Speaker 1: want to try and fit in as much as we can,
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  Speaker 1: especially so that we can satisfy the crowd that's there
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, who you're most looking forward to seeing is
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  Speaker 4: any out on your bucket list playing?
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm keen to see Rivers of nil. I've known
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  Speaker 1: about them for a long time and listened to them
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  Speaker 1: here and there, and I know how big they are,
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  Speaker 1: and just I mean just in general, the whole lineup
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  Speaker 1: is so stacked with just like generations of talent. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just going to be like an incredible day
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  Speaker 1: just to be there and just to witness all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever played it or been you Necrosonic?
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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't been to all played a necrosnic, but
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  Speaker 1: I have played at the Mansfield Tavern quite some time ago.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was for a.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween hysteria or something like that, but I remember the
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  Speaker 1: venue being really cool.
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  Speaker 2: And what are you expecting from it then, bro, for
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  Speaker 2: your first time?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's there's so many bands and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them, like I said, are so talented, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just expecting to see lots of lots of happy faces
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  Speaker 1: and lots of energy and hopefully just everyone just having
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  Speaker 1: a good time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's quite a few festivals gone round at the
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  Speaker 4: way we've made I think Necrosoon is probably one of
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  Speaker 4: the only ones that is truly a heavy festival, Like
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  Speaker 4: there's no sort of light and shade is just heavy
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  Speaker 4: all the way through. Like how important is it for
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  Speaker 4: the Australian music scene or the heavy music scene in particular,
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  Speaker 4: to have a festival like that where it is just
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  Speaker 4: dedicated to that music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it's super important because you know,
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  Speaker 1: with music like this, the heavier you get, the more
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  Speaker 1: niche it gets, and the less attention that you get.
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  Speaker 1: So having something like this with a showcase of new
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  Speaker 1: bands and old bands that are doing you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of similar things, I think it's just important to show
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  Speaker 1: that contrast, and also for like these bands to be
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  Speaker 1: able to share stages with bands that have done it
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  Speaker 1: for and just to like witness that experience. I think
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  Speaker 1: like just events like this in general are super important
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  Speaker 1: to keep going, just to get the community involved and
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  Speaker 1: get as many bands names out there as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think about festival bros, like there are
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  Speaker 4: usually a lot of people there, but the crowd is
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  Speaker 4: usually so unpredictable because they're covering such a cross section.
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  Speaker 4: Like what's your battle plan to sort of make sure
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  Speaker 4: you're graving from the start and keep them interested.
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  Speaker 1: I think just coming out the gate with as much
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  Speaker 1: energy as possible. We're starting off the set with an
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  Speaker 1: old one that is very high energy, which should should
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  Speaker 1: get the people go.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just say someone's coming along and they've never heard
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  Speaker 4: of Grave Mind before. What three songs are yours would.
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  Speaker 2: You recommend they listened to in order to get to
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  Speaker 2: know the band a bit better.
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  Speaker 1: I think the best songs to listen to to get
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  Speaker 1: to know us a probably Vulgan, I would say Death
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  Speaker 1: Touch as another and a third one far I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: say reading Steiner, which is off the Conduit album. I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching Stein's Gate, which is the anime that that song's
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  Speaker 1: based off of, and I'm like super into it right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that kind of shows like an array
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  Speaker 1: of what we can do, Vulgan being just like pedal
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  Speaker 1: to the metal, death Touch having kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: melodic metalcore kind of feel, and Steiner being like a
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  Speaker 1: lot softer in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Nice, And your last album Interest Fhere came out in.
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  Speaker 4: August twenty twenty four, so surely you've been working on
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  Speaker 4: some new material for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we should have a song out by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, accompanying a video also, but where
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  Speaker 1: we're also in the process of just writing as much
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  Speaker 1: as we can.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have a like a locked in plan or anything.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of want to steer towards the older gravemind
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  Speaker 1: sound if we can, and kind of go with like
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  Speaker 1: a conceptual storytelling kind of thing. So we've been been
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  Speaker 1: digging into that and trying to trying to like create
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  Speaker 1: do world building in a sense, and just make it
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  Speaker 1: as cool and epic as we think it can be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually raise a good point.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Like every band, not just yourselves, but you've got
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  Speaker 4: your fans that like the early material, like to say,
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  Speaker 4: trying to write in that direction, but you're also picking.
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  Speaker 2: Up new fans along the way with what you are doing.
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  Speaker 2: So when you write a new album, like how do you.
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  Speaker 4: Find that balance between not pissing off the old school
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  Speaker 4: and not alienating the new ones.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Look, I think a lot of it is
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  Speaker 1: like almost not thinking about it because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, like you are just making music yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and I know I want to be making music that
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  Speaker 1: I would like want to put on and listen to.
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  Speaker 1: So I think with the direction that we want to go,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a lot more suited to what our
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  Speaker 1: preferences are in our listening habits and things that we
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  Speaker 1: think are cool.
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  Speaker 3: So and we just kind of hope that everyone digs
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  Speaker 3: it as well.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose you put too much pressure on yourself if
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  Speaker 4: you do try and think it through too much NYA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you know, if you get caught up
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  Speaker 1: in that battle of like, oh what if people aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to like this, it's just going to push you
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  Speaker 1: down and make you think negatively about your own music
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  Speaker 1: that you're making. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't be about that. It should be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: making the music that you're proud to put out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well share brother, no next year, the Grave, Mind
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  Speaker 2: the Plane.
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  Speaker 4: I bought Healthfest too, with Parkway Drive, Amity Fiction, Buy
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  Speaker 4: Out His Murder, Red Oral, Oash, and Grave, and a
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  Speaker 4: stack of others. Right, I think that's on the open
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  Speaker 4: seas with a stack of metal bands made.
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  Speaker 2: What could go wrong?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the ocean is my biggest fear of all times.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like partially petrified as well as extremely excited,
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  Speaker 1: just like what it was such a crazy opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: that to be presented to us, and we just immediately
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  Speaker 1: said yes and yeah, we're We were just only upset
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  Speaker 1: that it was so far away.