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Ready To Rock With JACOBY SHADDIX From PAPA ROACH · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Shout out to y'all. What's up.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Jacoby, I think for the band Papa Roach
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  Speaker 2: and I'm in the house with Heavy Let's get it.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic brother. Thanks for joining us today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, man, thank you for taking the time.
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  Speaker 3: My pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: So Papa Roach will be in Australia very soon for
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  Speaker 4: the Big Rock tour with the Data remember a Landmarks,
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  Speaker 4: kicking off in Perth on April fourth, before hitting to Adelaide,
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  Speaker 4: Brisbane and Sydney and Melbourne and finishing in autumn in
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  Speaker 4: April fifteenth.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, So you're packed and ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's going to be a banger of a tour. Man,
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  Speaker 2: super excited. I've been anticipating this one for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So it's great to be you know, great to be
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  Speaker 2: here in Australia and great to be on the Big
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  Speaker 2: Rock I love that name too, just a big let's go.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's your first time, basis she child with the
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  Speaker 4: US in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: So what changed with the band in that time?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man?
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of new music. We've been writing new music.
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  Speaker 2: We've got something that we're really excited about. We've been
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  Speaker 2: releasing new music and we've had some great successes recently
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  Speaker 2: worldwide and specifically in America. With some of the successes
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  Speaker 2: that are just blowing my mind. And you know, we
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  Speaker 2: got this song right now, wake Up Calling. That's it's
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  Speaker 2: i think the third week at number one on the
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  Speaker 2: rock charts in America, which is blown. That's just awesome.
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  Speaker 2: And to be stepping into this twenty twenty six and
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  Speaker 2: kicking it off here in Australia, it's going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a big year played ahead of us and
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  Speaker 2: so a lot of good things going on in the
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  Speaker 2: pre pre roach world and stoke to be sharing them
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  Speaker 2: with the world.
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  Speaker 4: It's a pretty cool light of tree bray with yourselves
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  Speaker 4: a data remember in land box life, do you actually
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  Speaker 4: get much of a say with things?
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  Speaker 3: Are?
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  Speaker 4: This sort is a provided to just say this is
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  Speaker 4: what you're coming with and then you've got to deal
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, we were talking with a data remember about
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  Speaker 2: Openers and there was a few few names floating around,
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  Speaker 2: Landmarks being one of them.
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  Speaker 1: And we really like the band. I think they're great.
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  Speaker 2: I did a bunch of I was listening to the
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  Speaker 2: band and obviously and became a fan of the band.
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  Speaker 2: But then I went on on YouTube and watched a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of their live footage and I was just like, Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 2: these guys are the real deal. They can put on
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  Speaker 2: a great show and they feel like there it's more
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  Speaker 2: than just music, and that's that's exciting for us. And
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, man, it's a we're definitely involved in that process. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So for those who somehow mixed seeing Papa Rich live
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  Speaker 4: in the past right right through a typical live show,
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  Speaker 4: but then you speak, ye.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and none typical about a p road show. Man,
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  Speaker 2: these are bangers did. It's high energy, it's big rock,
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  Speaker 2: it's in your face, and it's a journey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we take you through I mean, nearly thirty years
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  Speaker 2: of music in a seventy five minute show and so
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  Speaker 2: it's a music of eras and I'm really proud of
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  Speaker 2: what we're what we're bringing to Australia. Also the production
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  Speaker 2: that we're bringing. You know, we got a really cool,
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  Speaker 2: a really bitch and show put together. We got some
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  Speaker 2: fire this time around, which can be fun to lighten
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  Speaker 2: things on fire, and you know, I just I love that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're able to take our show to that
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  Speaker 2: level now and that's exciting for us, and I think
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  Speaker 2: the fans are definitely going to get what they paid for.
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  Speaker 4: Just say, there's a couple of people out there who
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  Speaker 4: haven't really heard much about Papa roachs and they're going
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  Speaker 4: to see data, remember, or they're going to see landmarks.
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  Speaker 3: But what three songs of yours would they listen to
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  Speaker 3: in order to get to know the band? Beat up
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  Speaker 3: for the show?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I mean obviously the banger Last Resort. That's a
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  Speaker 2: killer one of our new singles, even if it kills me.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that one is.
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  Speaker 1: Just a really really really really cool song. It just
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  Speaker 1: hits in a new modern way.
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  Speaker 2: And then I would say maybe a classic like Getting
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  Speaker 2: Away with Murder.
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  Speaker 1: I think those are like.
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  Speaker 2: Staples of the eras of POPA roach that helped tell
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  Speaker 2: our story.
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  Speaker 3: Damn straight.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Papa Roach formed in California back in ninety ninety three, bros.
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  Speaker 4: So what was the musical climate like back then they
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  Speaker 4: gave birth to the band And where did you fit in?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: We didn't fit in anywhere, And I think that's what
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  Speaker 2: made it special. To be honest, you know, we weren't
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  Speaker 2: punk enough to be called punk. We weren't metal enough
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  Speaker 2: to be in the metal scene. We weren't rock enough
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  Speaker 2: to be in the rock scene, we weren't alternative enough
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  Speaker 2: to be We just wore our own unique sound and
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  Speaker 2: I think that that was like help build us into
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  Speaker 2: who we are. We had a very early on, a
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  Speaker 2: very diverse love for a lot of different music, and
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  Speaker 2: it affected the way that we created music, and so
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  Speaker 2: we created our own scene, and eventually that became the
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  Speaker 2: new metal, the new metal scene, and that's when you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got a big record deal and we traveled the
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  Speaker 2: world and had one of our hugest successes of our
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  Speaker 2: career with our song Last Resort and our album Infest,
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  Speaker 2: And what a what a way to kind of break
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  Speaker 2: break into the music scene. And it's been a journey
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  Speaker 2: ever since.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, talking about Infest my life. That kind added too.
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  Speaker 4: And then it's fanta say that it changed the landscape
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  Speaker 4: of rock and metal foreverybody. But when you were doing
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  Speaker 4: that album, when you finished it, like, did you have
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  Speaker 4: any idea that it could be something special or did
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  Speaker 4: it did catch you by the surprises?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you it was special to us. I really
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  Speaker 2: feel that we we thought we had something special. It
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  Speaker 2: just we didn't know if the world was going to
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  Speaker 2: connect with it on in such a way that they did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we we thought we were going to put
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  Speaker 2: out an album, tour in a van and maybe sell
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two hundred thousand records.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not what happened.
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  Speaker 2: We put on an album and it was like a
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  Speaker 2: rocket ship ride to the top. And I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: how to handle fame. I didn't know how to handle success,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just a very wild time for us.
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  Speaker 2: And we had I'll tell you this though. We had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great times in that era and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of big wins and a lot of big moments.
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  Speaker 1: And I looked back upon that time in my life
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: There were great moments that I was prideful of, but
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  Speaker 2: then there were moments that I was like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: regret that, you know. So it's a there's no handbook
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  Speaker 2: to becoming famous, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I there were.
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  Speaker 2: Moments that I handled it gracefully and moments that I
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  Speaker 2: just went at it like an idiot.
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  Speaker 4: One thing that I've always loved and respect it about
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  Speaker 4: Papa Ruchbaine is that you've never tried to fit in
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  Speaker 4: or adapt to the change in face of metal life.
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  Speaker 4: You've always done what you want despite the trends, and
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  Speaker 4: you've always been at kick House broad Band because of that,
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  Speaker 4: Like you guys have always had a lot of self belief.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, man, I'm glad you see that in us.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that comes from kind of not fitting
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  Speaker 2: in early on in our career and just going We
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  Speaker 2: got to forge a path of our own.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes a lot of really successful bands. That's
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  Speaker 2: part of the stew of what makes a band successful,
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  Speaker 2: I think is that you're not paying attention to just
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  Speaker 2: the latest trend and trying to create something new and
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  Speaker 2: original and push things forward creatively and take risks. And
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  Speaker 2: the moments in our career that we've taken those big
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  Speaker 2: risks have been some of the moments that have been
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  Speaker 2: the most successful for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, after we had our big hit Last Resort
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  Speaker 2: and that album infest It, you know, there was a
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  Speaker 2: moment where our popularity had kind of dwindled and we
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  Speaker 2: were reinventing the sound of the band again, and we
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  Speaker 2: released an album called Getting Away with Murder, and we
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  Speaker 2: particularly we released a song called Scars, and this song
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  Speaker 2: was so different for us, but it catapulted us into
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  Speaker 2: this new level of success again and broke us back into.
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  Speaker 1: A big in a big way.
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  Speaker 2: We went and sold a million and a half records
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  Speaker 2: on that album, and people thought our band was dead,
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  Speaker 2: and it was because we evolved the band and tried,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we it.
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  Speaker 1: Was a reflection, a new reflection of who we were.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, that was the first time I tried
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  Speaker 2: to get sober in my life and change some things up.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that like brought a breath of
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  Speaker 2: fresh air into who we were. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: that those authentic evolutions that we take risks continue to
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  Speaker 2: open up new doors for us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, cool man cover right, You've always championed the course
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  Speaker 4: of mental health too, like, not just for your music
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  Speaker 4: but in everyday life, Like you've been doing it for
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  Speaker 4: a while now, Like, have you noticed a changing attitude and.
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  Speaker 3: Knowledge surrounding mental health?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think because of bands like yourself and others
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  Speaker 4: in music that have been in mind?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, It's always been a fabric of who we
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  Speaker 2: are and what we sing about, what we what we
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  Speaker 2: talk about in our music, taking the darkness and turning
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  Speaker 2: it into light, you know, taking lemons and making lemonade,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just a goofy. Saying like that really means
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  Speaker 2: something deep. Change transformation has been a huge part of
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  Speaker 2: my life creatively, personally, spiritually, and the mental health conversation
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  Speaker 2: has come to the forefront in the recent years, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important that we address it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important that.
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  Speaker 2: We find ways to heal and grow and then take
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  Speaker 2: what we've learned individually and pass it on to somebody
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  Speaker 2: that is in need of healing and growing. I think
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  Speaker 2: in order to keep that healing and that evolution, you
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  Speaker 2: have to share it. You've got to help somebody that's
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  Speaker 2: in need. And I think that that is the magic.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about just healing and growing. It's about healing
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  Speaker 2: and growing and helping and serving. That's that's where the
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  Speaker 2: magic is. Because if you just keep it for yourself,
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  Speaker 2: it's that's not how you change the world, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's an inside job in the beginning
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  Speaker 2: to heal and grow. But then, like I said a
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  Speaker 2: million times over, if you if you share that and
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  Speaker 2: you can help somebody else, it helps put things in perspective.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, and you know, I think that
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been an evolution for me in this career, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we're entering into this era of there's some wisdom
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  Speaker 2: that I've gained and I want to share it.
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  Speaker 3: That's fantastic. Right before I let you go, I've got
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  Speaker 3: a new segment. I've started court Fighter Ball.
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  Speaker 4: So basically I've drawn through social media and I'm bound
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  Speaker 4: if you fight is that I want to know a.
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  Speaker 3: Little bit more about Okay, cool, it will stut but fun.
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  Speaker 4: You've got a head like Babrian like looks for the
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  Speaker 4: sort of why that the compin is always want.
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  Speaker 3: To a judge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: we take you into this world of this institution. This
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  Speaker 2: fella has been institutionalized and uh man, sometimes we feel
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  Speaker 2: like we're just imprisoned by our own darkness in this
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  Speaker 2: video right here, like I'm just in the work. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in a bad spot, you know, And it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a reflection of some of the turmoil I experienced in
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  Speaker 2: my life. And yeah, I can be my own worst
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  Speaker 2: enemy and and the cops right there just represent like
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  Speaker 2: this self imposed darkness in my life. And yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: depression can feel like a trap, right, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Just gonna message it. We go to wind up because
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  Speaker 3: you've got other commitments.
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  Speaker 4: So thanks very much for your sim It's been a
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  Speaker 4: pleasure chatting with your Papaachia here for the Big Rock Tour.
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  Speaker 4: Studying on April fourth, so I'll hopefully be in the
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  Speaker 4: Brisbane show.
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  Speaker 3: Brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Take the shout out to the heavy and it was
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  Speaker 1: great wrapping with you.