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Omar, Luis, and Sam of Glass Cities · Caught on the Mike...

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SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
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SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is one that I've been really excited to share.
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SPEAKER_00: I took down with A 2081 out of college dedicated themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: We dive into their story, their tonic identity, and what it means to build something real in a world full of noise.
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SPEAKER_00: I'd like to welcome all our movies and fans to the show.
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SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of labs to be had, and I cannot wait to share with you, quite possibly, your new favorite band.
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SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mic.
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SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Caught on the Mic.
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SPEAKER_00: I am super excited for my next guest.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you a little bit of a backstory.
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SPEAKER_00: I am friends with their manager, and he just kind of shared that they had an upcoming release coming out, a song called Issues.
1:34
SPEAKER_00: And so I was like, huh, David's good guy.
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SPEAKER_00: He he represents great artists.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me check these guys out.
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SPEAKER_00: And then I ended up getting lost listening to every single song that these guys have on Spotify.
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SPEAKER_00: And I instantly became a fan.
1:52
SPEAKER_00: And I just sent David a message and I'm like, bro, Glass Cities are legit.
1:57
SPEAKER_00: And he goes, then let's get them on a podcast.
1:59
SPEAKER_00: And I wasn't even angling to get them on the podcast, but here we are.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm so excited to have Luis, Sam, and Omar joining me on Caught in the Mic today.
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SPEAKER_00: How the heck are you guys?
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SPEAKER_01: And thank you so much for uh uh starting to being a fan.
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SPEAKER_01: We we love that feedback, man.
2:25
SPEAKER_00: I tell you what, I am not kidding.
2:27
SPEAKER_00: I uh last night I threw on the beats headphones.
2:30
SPEAKER_00: I like to kind of lay back and just kind of chill out to some music, and I listen to everything all over again.
2:36
SPEAKER_00: Your sound is so unique.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: Let's kind of start where you guys are based out of.
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SPEAKER_00: You're based out of Miami.
2:44
SPEAKER_00: How did the three of you find each other and what inspired the formation of Glass Cities?
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SPEAKER_04: That's actually a beautiful love story because the band started out, so I started out like making songs, right?
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SPEAKER_04: And I was like, you know what, let me just put them out.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh when when I did that, um, just put a couple songs up in Spotify.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh the former drummer, Chiso, he reached out.
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SPEAKER_04: We started we got things going, then he had to go, and then I met Omar uh through some rehearsals, and uh it was actually like love at first sight, like first like time I met him.
3:21
SPEAKER_04: We spent like four hours talking in the parking lot outside just about Paramount and 21 pilots and uh and tacos and then afterwards afterwards uh uh we met Sam like after what like a year after that?
3:37
SPEAKER_04: Maybe yeah, something like that.
3:38
SPEAKER_04: We uh we met Sam because he was doing the the music video for us.
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SPEAKER_04: He is actually the a videographer um videographer, and then we were like uh it was so cool.
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SPEAKER_04: First time I met Sam because first you told the story, like first Omar met Sam, they hang out a couple times, and uh then you saw his live, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I saw the worst uh cities show because they were they were lacking a uh uh a bassist.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh what can I say?
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SPEAKER_01: No, just kidding.
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SPEAKER_01: Um but I I became a fan because Omar introduced the band to me.
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SPEAKER_01: We became friends, and one day planning a video, um Luis and Omar came up to me and basically asked First I met you uh making some arepas or some tackles at like at our place.
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SPEAKER_04: And uh the first time we met, uh I remember we I just we were like telling some jokes and I just cried laughing with Sam.
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SPEAKER_04: Like I remember Yeah, that was a really fun, a really fun party.
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SPEAKER_04: We were like uh you know, just like on a table, uh just just the two of us like talking, and I remember I just like cried my life out and just fell to the floor.
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SPEAKER_04: Like it was also kind of first sight.
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SPEAKER_04: It was all totally, totally.
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SPEAKER_04: And then like uh I remember we're doing the video for clarity, right?
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SPEAKER_04: Uh no, December.
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SPEAKER_01: December.
5:06
SPEAKER_01: December.
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SPEAKER_01: December.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about the video, the December video, and you guys came up with a question before talking about the video, which was really weird because they asked me, they're ready me I play guitar, and Luis asked at a gas station, at a Wawa.
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SPEAKER_01: At a Wawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Wawa.
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SPEAKER_01: Best hoogies ever.
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SPEAKER_01: So Luis comes up and asks, so hey Sam, before we start talking about the video, um, do you play the bass?
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, nope, I've never held a bass in my hands, and they're like, Okay, cool.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: So you wanna be the bassist of the of the band?
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, absolutely, that sounds like a great idea.
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SPEAKER_01: And here we are.
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SPEAKER_01: That day they gave me the their bass, and and yeah, we we started Glass City such as no old.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I I gotta say, it sounds like a lot of the formation of the band is like you guys are some humorous guys.
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SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love that, but I think that's how you connect and how you bond with people when you first meet them, especially if you're gonna create art with them, right?
6:14
SPEAKER_00: Like you tap into your sense of humor, you tap into your humanity, you tap into things that kind of you genuinely care about.
6:23
SPEAKER_00: So so let me ask you, Omar.
6:27
SPEAKER_00: Like the other two guys have said a lot.
6:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
6:31
SPEAKER_00: What's your perspective on how all this came together?
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SPEAKER_02: So listen, Mike, uh, when I get a chance to talk, because these two talk a lot.
6:41
SPEAKER_02: Um, I I know I do uh it was it was it was never weird.
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SPEAKER_02: At the beginning, I was like, well, these guys are from Venezuela, uh, I'm from Mexico, by the way.
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SPEAKER_02: And and it was like maybe we have different backgrounds, different, you know, perspectives, and and I don't know, maybe even like different jokes, right?
6:59
SPEAKER_02: But but it was like it was like uh I I don't know, it was like these guys were in my in my childhood, and and we just bonded like really quick.
7:07
SPEAKER_02: And you know, music, uh the same taste in music, same, same taste in in like a lot of things, you know.
7:14
SPEAKER_02: So it was easy for me to just connect with them, uh, both separate, like I met them separately.
7:20
SPEAKER_02: So and I just I just thought I gotta say, uh Louis was the one that decided that Sam was gonna be the bassist.
7:27
SPEAKER_02: For me, I for me, I was like, he's a he he just makes he makes videos.
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SPEAKER_02: Um like he he likes music, but he makes videos.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't think he wants to play the bass.
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SPEAKER_02: And here we are, you know.
7:38
SPEAKER_02: So um, but no, it was uh for me, it was very natural.
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SPEAKER_02: It was it's the first band that I've been in that it's just it just flowed into into the rhythm, you know.
7:49
SPEAKER_02: It's uh with other bands, it's always like, okay, like I need a drummer, you know, I need I need this, I need that, let's just find whoever.
7:56
SPEAKER_02: With this, it was just we were friends, and then we we became a band, so it's just easy to make music.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I mean, you guys, uh, you know, kind of leaning into that, you know, um, music being the universal language that crosses all borders, all boundaries, and like it's being something it's something universal.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: You guys are all first generation immigrants.
8:21
SPEAKER_00: How has your cultural background influenced your sound, your style, and the storytelling in your music?
8:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh man, that answer is highly beautiful.
8:30
SPEAKER_01: I got I got um one really specific answer on how that form, and it starts with uh Luis.
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SPEAKER_01: And when we when he started in music, that there's one reason he writes and sings and produces in English.
8:48
SPEAKER_01: It's uh you want to say that?
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SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah, uh so uh it's pretty much because I was uh kind of like shy to say stuff in Spanish, and uh because I used to live when when I started like writing, I used to like live with my parents, and I was kind of like shy.
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SPEAKER_04: And uh I didn't want them to like understand what I was saying.
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SPEAKER_04: Like I was like, you know, crying my feelings out, and I didn't want them to like Luis, are you okay?
9:13
SPEAKER_04: And I was like, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm all good, yeah, I'm tough.
9:17
SPEAKER_04: So uh that's why I started like writing in English, and also because yeah, like we've been like listening to pretty much like NTV, like throughout all of our lives.
9:28
SPEAKER_04: So uh, and we just not like I grew up with Rahatua Paper Summitalika, so that's my main influences right now.
9:35
SPEAKER_04: And uh yeah, that's what I think awesome.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, you guys, it it seems like you borrow a little bit from all of your influences and all of your um experiences, life experiences, um, cultural sounds and genres.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: Was the blending of genres intentional from day one or did it evolve naturally over time?
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, 100%, 100% was super intentional.
10:03
SPEAKER_04: Actually, like we have a constant like argument of how much how much of a blend we are actually doing.
10:10
SPEAKER_04: Like, what where's the boundaries?
10:12
SPEAKER_04: Like, where's the limit?
10:13
SPEAKER_04: Because normally I get like, hey guys, what about if we do some dockstep rock right here, and then Omar will be like, dude, okay, well let's let's narrow it down, okay?
10:25
SPEAKER_04: And then like it starts bouncing off like that, right?
10:27
SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: Usually uh we we so we have the same background, and you know, it's uh alternative rock music.
10:35
SPEAKER_02: Uh but you know uh these days music, music industry is it's weird, is it's good, but it's different, very different than when we when we started making music and uh what we grew up grew up on.
10:49
SPEAKER_02: So right now it's just about innovation and and what are you bringing to the table and and what's different about you.
10:55
SPEAKER_02: So so we try to do that.
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SPEAKER_02: We try to stand out from the rest.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh and especially being in Miami, you know, there's not a lot of rock over here, so it's like it's not it's not that um that hard to stand out because everybody's making you know reggaeton or whatever.
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SPEAKER_02: Um and and and so we're trying to just you know try to push the the generous to a different different side, you know, different level.
11:17
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and also yeah uh sorry.
11:19
SPEAKER_04: Uh also no no, yeah.
11:21
SPEAKER_04: I just wanted to add that uh for instance, like Omar is heavy.
11:24
SPEAKER_04: I'm like Omar's favorite band is Paramour Minus 21 Pilots versus Link Biscuit, right?
11:30
SPEAKER_04: Uh probably Link Biscuit.
11:31
SPEAKER_04: Probably Link Biscuit, yeah, we'll say.
11:33
SPEAKER_04: But uh actually if we break it down to genres, like Omar listens a lot to hip hop.
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SPEAKER_04: I think that's his like main thing.
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SPEAKER_04: I'm a huge EDM guy, like I love to go like you will always catch me at the at Ultra, like EDC, like all of those festivals.
11:48
SPEAKER_04: And Sam is more like Russian rap and them both.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: Like I I love like Latin music and also uh rap and hip hop.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm a huge lover uh of that in any language, but yeah, of the Russian rapture uh Miyagi.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you have heard of Miyagi.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: No, I haven't.
12:07
SPEAKER_01: He's incredible.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: He's incredible.
12:10
SPEAKER_01: There's one a song that's called Brooklyn from Miyagi.
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SPEAKER_01: Listen to that one.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna check it out.
12:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna check it out for sure.
12:17
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's crazy because I just recently had our mutual friends, the Reese Brothers, on, and we talked about how um, you know, back in the early days, as little as 10 years ago, music industry types would tell you pick a lane as far as what your music that you're gonna create is.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, you have to pick a lane, decide on that lane, double down on that, and that's the style of music that you create.
12:42
SPEAKER_00: But in the era of streaming that we have now, I think younger generations forget about genre.
12:49
SPEAKER_00: They don't care about genre anymore.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: They look at music as just being music.
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SPEAKER_00: And as musicians, I'm a former musician myself, like we listen to everything, we enjoy everything.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't always create everything that we enjoy, but you know, we lean into those influences.
13:09
SPEAKER_00: Do you feel kind of in a similar extent how streaming has maybe blurred those lines and made it easier for you to diversify what you create?
13:18
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I think uh we are more in control of what we can create, what we will deliver, but it's because we need to listen to the people that we're gonna make that music for.
13:31
SPEAKER_01: And people uh we we cannot generalize in any context, and music is also a place we cannot generalize.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh one day you'll be listening to hip hop, and the next day to pop, and then somebody creates a rock song that you finally like, and there you are.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no genres.
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SPEAKER_04: That's what I've definitely I remember like when we started writing, like I I set like uh like a goal to myself.
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SPEAKER_04: I was like, it wasn't like a promise, actually.
14:00
SPEAKER_04: Like, I will write whatever like comes out of my mind.
14:03
SPEAKER_04: Like if it's salsa, if it's whatever, like it's art at the end of the day, like you're expressing yourself, you know.
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SPEAKER_04: Like, and uh I grew up with American music.
14:10
SPEAKER_04: Then my parents, like, you know, they're into salsa and you know, like folk music in Venezuela.
14:16
SPEAKER_04: Then like we start meeting people at this melting pop that it is like New York and Miami and California, that everybody comes from Asia, Middle East, and freaking like taiko, um favela based, like everything is like I love those differences like and those nuances, and I think that's that's one of the I love that people is because every genre is like actually already there, like there's nothing new, everything exists, but the blending of it is I think the new kind of cool stuff to check out.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
14:52
SPEAKER_00: I agree with that.
14:53
SPEAKER_00: Let's kind of lean into your latest single issues.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: You guys have gained a lot of notice, uh, whether it be on Apple Music or Spotify, and have landed on a lot of playlists with this new song and some of your more recent releases.
15:11
SPEAKER_00: How has that changed your perspective on writing music?
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SPEAKER_02: I think uh it it influences definitely, but it's it's not really uh it doesn't like tell us what's next.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: Right.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: You know, we definitely listen to people, we'll definitely like see what people like, but at the end of the day, uh it's funny because every time, every time we're like, okay guys, let's finish this song, we just start a new one.
15:37
SPEAKER_02: And and we never we never really like focus on finishing songs and and we just keep going, keep going, making more music.
15:42
SPEAKER_02: We have probably like three albums right now just sitting on our laptops right now, and and it's just all everything is different, but it in the same way it's like it has something that uh you know relates everything together.
15:55
SPEAKER_02: So uh I think issues has been one of those songs that uh it has like a lane for us, and we we're comfortable in that lane, and and from that lane we can just like start like going somewhere else.
16:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh we grab from other places and other songs we have, but I think it's very comfortable for us.
16:17
SPEAKER_02: We feel uh I think the guys agree, we feel like this song is uh very you know dancy but also emotional.
16:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's honest, it's very relatable.
16:27
SPEAKER_02: And and actually, while you know, because everything right now is social media, so while we're trying to create content for you know to promote this, we we start having a lot of issues doing it.
16:38
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, we would go outside and try to play, we broke a guitar string, or or we forgot things, or we had a lot of issues like the other day we were shooting a video and Sam forgot to pay the parking ticket.
16:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
16:51
SPEAKER_02: So he got a tick, he got a ticket.
16:53
SPEAKER_02: So so it's actually funny, you know, it's it's something you can relate to, and and I think it's uh it's the start of something really cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: So you brought up a really good point because some a lot of artists are now leaning into this space where they're creating music for sync, they're creating music for TikTok algorithms and all of that along those lines.
17:17
SPEAKER_00: Is Issues a song that's part of a bigger compilation?
17:22
SPEAKER_00: Are you guys working on a full-length album?
17:25
SPEAKER_00: You said you have like three albums worth of music on laptops.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: How do you curate a collection and is there a full-length album on the way?
17:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, um that's something that could be in the works.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh, we if you guys stick around, you'll discover it.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: But there's absolutely a uh different universes that we place our songs in.
17:49
SPEAKER_01: So if we end up uh making and releasing an album, we are we already have these different universes, these different different stories that we that we put all those songs in.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: Like, for example, we have 10 songs that belong to uh a whole story that uh we are kind of designing, we're writing, and they deliver kind of the same message.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: So that's why we have a hard time picking which song is gonna come out next.
18:19
SPEAKER_01: So it's now more of oh, does this feel more like a summer hit?
18:24
SPEAKER_01: Does this feel more like what?
18:26
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's what I would say uh what I would place Holdos.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: Dude, I you almost echoed something Kevin, Jordan Reese, and I were talking about how people also view music more like seasonal and view it more in the terms of moods as opposed to like compilations or collections.
18:50
SPEAKER_00: Because I know me personally as a as a music lover, my tastes change seasonally.
18:55
SPEAKER_00: Like I get into fall and I'm like, okay, well, my my reggae and my summer beach music season is over.
19:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready to listen to like piano jazz or singer-songwriter stuff and stuff along those lines.
19:09
SPEAKER_00: And I think most people are like that.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: I I I think I I'm like that too, because uh week and a half ago, I was listening uh like uh listening a lot to Slightly Stupid.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
19:22
SPEAKER_01: And then right now I just uh put up a playlist on on my Spotify account that is just um uh a Latin artist and also Deftones.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: So do you like that new Deftones track?
19:36
SPEAKER_00: I loved it.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, me too.
19:39
SPEAKER_01: Right?
19:39
SPEAKER_01: Because it it it has a little bit from from like DNA from their um older stuff, yeah.
19:46
SPEAKER_01: And there's like what 10 more tracks in that album that's coming up in like 39 days.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited about that one.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: Love that.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about Glass Cities in the live environment.
19:59
SPEAKER_00: What if somebody has never seen you guys live before?
20:05
SPEAKER_00: Explain to them what their experience would be like seeing you live.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's just basically Louis climbing on top of things.
20:13
SPEAKER_01: Breaking tables.
20:14
SPEAKER_02: That's it.
20:15
SPEAKER_02: That's it.
20:16
SPEAKER_02: Breaking tables, climbing, climbing on top of things.
20:19
SPEAKER_02: It's uh that's the show.
20:20
SPEAKER_02: That's the show.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: You you never know if he's gonna be at the stage, if he's gonna be, you know, behind.
20:25
SPEAKER_02: You never know.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: It's just uh I don't know, it's just a lot of energy.
20:29
SPEAKER_01: When the do you know when this vi this this episode is gonna come out?
20:34
SPEAKER_01: Next week.
20:35
SPEAKER_01: Next week, perfect.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: So for people who are seeing this, including you, uh Mike, uh you're welcome to come to uh we have a show in in St.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: Pete on the August 2nd, right?
20:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
20:48
SPEAKER_01: We have another one after that one on August 30th, uh in Boca, Boca Raton, in Crazy Uncle Mike's.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: And I think the next one to that one is October 4th, also in St.
21:02
SPEAKER_01: Pete.
21:02
SPEAKER_04: And the Finfest on September.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: And Finfest on Sept in September 13th.
21:06
SPEAKER_04: So you can see me breaking stuff.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, just climbing onto stuff, not breaking them.
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's Louis doing uh Sam's favorite Fred Durstum.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: He believe it or not, he comes he comes uh into the conversation quite often.
21:26
SPEAKER_02: We talk about Fred Durst does.
21:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: It's just like what would he do in this situation?
21:32
SPEAKER_02: And and I don't know, it's just a reference we have uh because we know we see our our you know people we look up to and we see how they perform, how they move around.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: It's just uh it's very inspirational, you know.
21:44
SPEAKER_02: And and I I don't know, it's it's just always like what would he what would he do?
21:48
SPEAKER_04: And uh how can we go crazier?
21:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, right.
21:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
21:52
SPEAKER_04: Uh actually, like um, I was gonna say the when we so you have an idea.
22:00
SPEAKER_04: Or thought process when we get to a venue, the instead of like the first thing should be like, yeah, okay, let's plug in cables and let's get everything ready.
22:07
SPEAKER_04: Like, of course, you know.
22:09
SPEAKER_04: But uh my first thought is where's the table I can climb on, or like what what ledge I can step on?
22:18
SPEAKER_04: You know, like it's like kind of like that.
22:20
SPEAKER_04: Actually, when we played at California back in March, um uh I asked the venue, like, hey, uh is this safe if I do this or not?
22:31
SPEAKER_04: Like, will you get mad if I jump on top of a you know drum?
22:35
SPEAKER_04: Like, whatever.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: Like, and they were they were nice.
22:37
SPEAKER_01: They were pretty nice, they were super nice.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: I thought they were gonna say uh as long as you don't break anything, but they actually said uh and correct me if I'm if I if I don't remember correctly, um they just said, yeah, that's that's cool.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: As long as you don't fall down and and and hurt yourself, that's fine.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: Just go up on this one, not on that one, go up on this one.
22:58
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they well, they were so kind, they put like like tape on the ones I could step on.
23:02
SPEAKER_04: Like, actually, and I was like, oh, that's so cute.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: That's nice, that's nice.
23:06
SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, is they're used to that, right?
23:09
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, that's the difference between being banned and being performers.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: Like, people put on a show, performers put on a show, and it sounds like you aim to be a performer.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: And like Fred Durst, you you might make all the Fred Durst references in the world, and people can shit on Fred Durst all they want, but that guy is not only an amazing frontman, but he's a very intelligent businessman.
23:34
SPEAKER_00: He knows what people want to see, he knows how to get people engaged in the real world.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: We talk about social media engagement all the time, but like people that are successful know how to engage a person when they come face to face with it.
23:49
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, I would say he's a natural.
23:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I've seen I've seen Leap uh Olympus ones at West Palm Beach, and that was amazing.
23:57
SPEAKER_04: I will just I will pay just to see him because he's so clever, actually.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, yeah.
24:03
SPEAKER_00: So, what has been your most like awestruck, surprising experience that you guys have had as a band?
24:12
SPEAKER_00: What has shocked you about maybe somebody's response to you guys as a band or your live show or your recordings?
24:20
SPEAKER_00: What has been that big moment for you where you're like, oh man, we're on to something here?
24:25
SPEAKER_01: So I uh this would be more holistic, not something that, oh, this could make us huge or something like that.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: Uh, but we were at this one, this was one of my first shows uh with with the with Glass Cities, and there was this uh old man with a cane.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: And this was a pretty small show.
24:51
SPEAKER_01: Um and and it was just interesting to see uh an old man there at those times uh uh really late at night.
24:59
SPEAKER_01: And after the show, he told us that he was in in what did you call the in English, the places that you people just leave their their I don't know, their their grandpas at this house.
25:11
SPEAKER_00: Like a retirement home?
25:12
SPEAKER_01: Kind of like a retirement home.
25:14
SPEAKER_01: And he said I wasn't I was in that home and I I just didn't want to be there.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: I felt like I'm I'm just why why am I here?
25:23
SPEAKER_01: And and I just searched up on Facebook and I saw you guys were here, I'm like, I'm definitely going.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: And and that really caused uh an impact on me.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if also on you guys, but it was really interesting to see that it's not just playing on like performing on stage, it's why you're doing it.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: And for me, that's that that's one of the reasons.
25:48
SPEAKER_01: You're you never know who's going through a uh tough time, and and and you're just making them a little uh at least a little bit uh happier in that moment.
26:00
SPEAKER_00: If you can create a culture around your art that sometimes that's the greatest gift in the world, totally, totally, you know, for for sure.
26:07
SPEAKER_02: And for me, I would say uh just seeing the people coming back to the show, you know, like it just it means a lot because it's you know, it's one thing to come to a show if you ask somebody, if you ask ask a friend or something.
26:20
SPEAKER_02: But if you see somebody that you know you you don't know, and and then you see them twice in the next show, and then you see them three times, it's like wow, I mean that that's that's support, you know, that's real support, that's somebody that genuinely likes it.
26:34
SPEAKER_02: And and it it happened to us, uh a few people that actually just we saw them in, I don't know, let's say Miami, and then we saw them again in St.
26:43
SPEAKER_02: Pit.
26:43
SPEAKER_02: So it's like it's crazy to us that people will follow us around.
26:48
SPEAKER_02: It's not it's not everybody, of course, but but that to me is the start of something and and it means a lot, you know.
26:53
SPEAKER_04: I got three, actually.
26:55
SPEAKER_00: Lay them on us.
26:57
SPEAKER_04: So sorry about that.
26:59
SPEAKER_04: Um uh the first one is uh your brother, you remember?
27:03
SPEAKER_04: He was at a restaurant in Mexico, in Mexico, and uh we released this song You like two years ago.
27:11
SPEAKER_04: We didn't do much marketing in it, we just put it out.
27:15
SPEAKER_04: Uh I love that song, Sambasum.
27:18
SPEAKER_04: And uh then I not live, but I love it.
27:22
SPEAKER_04: You were the first version, right?
27:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, very fair.
27:25
SPEAKER_04: But then uh then Omar's uh brother, Jamie, uh he like, well, we call him Jimmy, he uh he called us, right?
27:34
SPEAKER_04: He sent the voice.
27:35
SPEAKER_02: No, yeah, I was talking to him.
27:37
SPEAKER_02: I was talking to him, and and he said, listen, I was the other the other night I was out in a in a club with friends, and I started hearing you know the background music, and I'm like, wait, I recognize that, and it was our son just playing in the back of uh uh uh some bar.
27:52
SPEAKER_02: I don't know, we're just playing Oh, that's amazing.
27:54
SPEAKER_02: And so he was like, wait, what?
27:56
SPEAKER_02: We should get paid for that.
27:57
SPEAKER_02: My brother.
28:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we I gotta check, we gotta take BMI, bro.
28:04
SPEAKER_04: Uh but um, but no, yeah, actually that that really struck me.
28:08
SPEAKER_04: I was like, wow, what's it's in Mexico.
28:11
SPEAKER_04: We we don't even like we didn't we don't talk to anybody over there more than like Omar's family.
28:16
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and other than Omar's family.
28:18
SPEAKER_04: And uh the other one was um uh I remember I forgot the third one actually, but Barnes.
28:29
SPEAKER_04: Barnes is I would say is the biggest one to me because uh I mean we we don't have any links, like any connections together.
28:37
SPEAKER_04: We didn't we never hang out together, like we have nothing in common.
28:41
SPEAKER_04: Like there's no reason, remote reason in the world why he should be like in the same circle.
28:49
SPEAKER_04: And he just listened to her music, believed in us, he gave us a call, and he went to check us out live at Wingwood, and uh it was like immediate pure love.
29:02
SPEAKER_04: Like that's why kind of kinda right, the kind of, but yeah, whoever he knows parents, and yet Slur knows parents knows what I'm not what we're talking about.
29:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you really but that means a lot, yeah.
29:14
SPEAKER_02: The the the support uh of of just something that genuinely you know he he genuinely likes, and and it's been uh I mean we're grateful for that.
29:23
SPEAKER_04: No, he believes he knows more than my parents, bro.
29:25
SPEAKER_04: Like I mean, like yeah, like yeah, yeah, but um he uh it's it's it's amazing, it's actually like overwhelming how passionate can be somebody about something.
29:37
SPEAKER_04: I really I really respect that about Bob Horns.
29:40
SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Barnes.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, yeah, he and he's he sent me a couple of quotes.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: It sounds like uh Matt Pinfield has heard you guys, and Nick Hexham from 311 has heard you guys, which we'll talk about that here in just a moment because you guys are playing a show with Nick.
29:59
SPEAKER_00: Um, how does that make you feel to have people of such notoriety become fans of your music?
30:07
SPEAKER_02: Oh, me.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: Of course, give it to the guy that I mean we talk too much, bro.
30:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know we talk too much.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean again, it's just uh I just feel just very grateful, you know.
30:21
SPEAKER_02: Like this is not something I take for granted.
30:23
SPEAKER_02: I've been pursuing music for so long, personally.
30:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's it's been my plan A for so long, and and just seeing how you know how people that we look up to and we've been listening to for you know our whole almost our whole life, uh how they support us.
30:42
SPEAKER_02: Um it just it I'm I'm grateful and it meets a lot, and and we're excited actually.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm very excited for those shows.
30:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh even you know, we just met them, but the Reese, the Reese brothers as well, they've just been so supportive, they're such such cool guys.
30:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Charlie.
30:58
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm excited that we I don't know if this is exclusive, but I think we're gonna play a song with them.
31:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh, and I'm excited about that.
31:06
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know.
31:07
SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I I don't know.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: I I don't know.
31:10
SPEAKER_00: That's all we can say.
31:11
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm out.
31:13
SPEAKER_00: I was actually talking to them and I was talking to Barnes about possibly making the flight out to Florida to come check out that show.
31:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, we awesome to hang to hang with all you guys because as much as we've been laughing, I want to sit and hang with you dudes.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: You're more than welcome.
31:32
SPEAKER_00: Please come.
31:33
SPEAKER_04: If you're if you're a Scotch guy, we're gonna get along.
31:36
SPEAKER_00: I I'm not normally, but I will be for that occasion.
31:40
SPEAKER_00: What are you like?
31:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, honestly, I don't drink anymore.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: I don't.
31:45
SPEAKER_00: I only I only do it on special occasions.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: It's same was one of those things where it kind of became something where I recognized an uptick in anxiety if like a day after I drank, it was more than just a hangover.
31:58
SPEAKER_00: So I was just like, all right, well, I will find other ways to alter instead of alcohol.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I'm exactly the same.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: I I've just in in special occasions and I found like some specific uh spirits that don't get me anxious during or after.
32:17
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, amazing.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: And but yeah, it's it's it's surreal to know that there is uh big people in the industry that are uh at least had their eyes on us for a few seconds.
32:33
SPEAKER_04: Yes, uh it's unreal to me because I remember playing like uh uh guitar hero.
32:38
SPEAKER_04: Okay, and uh yeah, I mean 311, right?
32:41
SPEAKER_04: Right, so so it's like super unreal, but uh I remember the third one, sorry.
32:47
SPEAKER_04: Uh uh so we were at a at a pool party uh at Danny's house, Danielle.
32:53
SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
32:54
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and I remember Omar, uh he was on his way, he didn't he wasn't there, and I was uh it was Omar's wife, me, and some friends.
33:03
SPEAKER_04: I met this Venezuelan guy that I've never met in my life before, super cool guy, and all of a sudden we're like uh we're talking, and Ash plays a life uh from us, and uh I'm like vibing and shit.
33:18
SPEAKER_04: And this guy he stands up and says, like, oh shit.
33:23
SPEAKER_04: Can we can we curse him?
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: Please do, please do.
33:27
SPEAKER_00: I use I use curse words as like punctuation marks.
33:32
SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
33:33
SPEAKER_03: So uh it's a well fucked this guy.
33:36
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, uh, I was like, uh, he's like, dude, wow, you know glass series?
33:41
SPEAKER_03: I love these guys, and we're like, What do you what did you say?
33:48
SPEAKER_03: No, I love yeah, this is a life.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: I love this song.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: You know this song?
33:51
SPEAKER_01: Uh we're like Ash goes ahead and uh uh Omar's right, says, uh yeah, it's it's it it's item.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: It's them, and he Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:59
SPEAKER_01: These guys are are great, but he wasn't like uh right.
34:02
SPEAKER_04: He wasn't like getting it, yeah.
34:04
SPEAKER_04: It wasn't clicking, yeah.
34:05
SPEAKER_04: It wasn't clicking to it.
34:06
SPEAKER_04: I mean, she's just like it's them.
34:09
SPEAKER_04: Uh he's like, yeah, it's totally them, bro.
34:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they're like the shit.
34:13
SPEAKER_03: And she's like, no, no, no, look it up right now.
34:16
SPEAKER_03: It's them.
34:16
SPEAKER_03: And he's like, Oh shit, he hugged me and everything, and we jumped to the pool, and she was like, What the f yeah, we're like, Yeah, dude, what what are you saying, bro?
34:31
SPEAKER_04: We became like back spotties, like that.
34:32
SPEAKER_04: That was unreal to me, for real.
34:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oh my gosh, that's amazing! Yeah, yeah.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: So taking all of this experience and everything that we've just talked about, what's the mission for Glass Cities moving forward over the next year?
34:50
SPEAKER_01: To keep bringing the same message of everything that we have talked about, uh bringing that support of to people of keep uh following your dreams, keep making that effort to maybe get out of that 905, uh taking the leap on whatever you want to achieve, and keep bringing that with our music.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: That's that's what I can say.
35:18
SPEAKER_04: Actually, adding to that, I just quit my job uh like recently two weeks ago.
35:23
SPEAKER_04: Uh and uh it was a very like uh nerve-wracking moment, and I it was like pretty like you know, everything goes through through your mind in in those two seconds after that call.
35:36
SPEAKER_04: And uh uh I couldn't be more happy.
35:38
SPEAKER_04: Like it's like we are actually like following our statement, and uh because we wanna that's the main message.
35:44
SPEAKER_04: We want people to do what they actually like feel like fulfilled about, you know, like that they're happy about.
35:50
SPEAKER_04: And uh to me, my main goal uh it's Lulapalooza.
35:55
SPEAKER_04: Like we wanna we wanna get to Lulapaloosa, it'd be my dream since like since forever.
36:00
SPEAKER_04: And uh I I think the only way, you know, like Omar said, there's no plan B.
36:05
SPEAKER_04: Like the only way to be about in this life that the only reason why you're alive is to do what you want to do.
36:11
SPEAKER_04: Like there's this Abichi song.
36:14
SPEAKER_03: Uh Sunday we'll leave this world behind, so leave a lie, you will remember.
36:20
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
36:21
SPEAKER_04: That's stuck that stuck to me like like I always have that on the loop in my mind, so it's pretty much that message.
36:27
SPEAKER_00: I will tell you, as somebody that has taken in a lot of glass city's music the past couple weeks, Lollapalooza would be lucky to have you, and they'd be stupid not to take you guys on.
36:39
SPEAKER_00: I said it.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: And I don't, and honestly, I'm I'll be the thing the thing about my show is I am honest as shit.
36:48
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so I don't just shine ass.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm not just gonna throw out a compliment if I don't mean it.
36:54
SPEAKER_00: I I fully mean that.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: I have very much enjoyed your music and I very much enjoyed this conversation.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: So, given that optimistic mindset, my closing question on every single episode of the podcast, and I would love for each one of you to give a short answer to this is what is your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today based on the experiences you are having right now?
37:25
SPEAKER_02: Uh to me, honestly, I I think it starts with you.
37:28
SPEAKER_02: You know, uh how do you make a wor the world better?
37:33
SPEAKER_02: You become better, you become a better person, you become the best version of yourself.
37:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, doesn't help to um help, you know, the other one, the the the rest of the people that might need a hand.
37:48
SPEAKER_02: Uh I think if you focus on yourself, if you better yourself first, if you focus on your mental health and on loving yourself, and being good with yourself and and accepting everything that you are, then you can help others.
38:01
SPEAKER_02: Because if you're broken, then how can you help somebody, you know?
38:05
SPEAKER_02: So I would say uh focus on yourself and and and just be better every day, you know?
38:11
SPEAKER_02: Love that.
38:13
SPEAKER_04: Arepas the world needs more rep.
38:18
SPEAKER_04: This guy.
38:19
SPEAKER_04: This guy.
38:20
SPEAKER_04: Actually, in Panadas.
38:22
SPEAKER_04: No, no, uh, no wrong.
38:23
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, right?
38:23
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no wrong.
38:24
SPEAKER_04: Um actually, I'm a huge believer that tacos are better than arepas.
38:29
SPEAKER_04: I just said it.
38:30
SPEAKER_04: I just said it.
38:30
SPEAKER_04: Whoa! Yeah, I just said I I had to say it.
38:32
SPEAKER_04: Um we're not getting into this.
38:34
SPEAKER_04: We're not getting into this right now, right?
38:35
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
38:36
SPEAKER_04: Uh no, um actually just following the the follow the dreams.
38:42
SPEAKER_04: Like if you fulfill if you're happy with what you're doing, like, and not just being like, you know, those gurus or whatever, like influencers that you gotta be no no.
38:51
SPEAKER_04: If you're like really when you do something you love, it doesn't the the hustling, like the grinding doesn't matter.
38:57
SPEAKER_04: Like you just they're in it, you know, it becomes part of it.
39:01
SPEAKER_04: So I think if everybody is happy and doing what they want to do, the world, the world is gonna be a much better place.
39:06
SPEAKER_04: I'm being honest, actually being like talking.
39:09
SPEAKER_04: You know when people ask you like how you doing?
39:12
SPEAKER_04: And everybody says, Okay.
39:13
SPEAKER_04: No, I mean, actually be honest, like say what you gotta say.
39:16
SPEAKER_04: I I think that would be a huge uh yeah, I will be that would be a huge support for the world.
39:22
SPEAKER_04: And I think it's perfect that the last person to speak is Sam because he's really good at this.
39:29
SPEAKER_01: Appreciate it.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Thanks for the pressure.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh just following from what you guys were saying, yes, um do whatever the fuck you want to do, don't care about what anyone will say, and when it whenever you go to a place or have contact with uh uh whether it's a place uh or a or a person, leave it better that you than you found it.
39:52
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
39:53
SPEAKER_01: Whether it's a place, live it cleaner, live it in a verse better state, and same with people.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: Just make that impact.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: I absolutely love that.
40:04
SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, I gotta tell you, I am glad to now know you guys, and I feel good calling you guys friends.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: I am so excited to see what happens with your careers.
40:18
SPEAKER_00: I put up a post on my personal, not the podcast, on my personal Facebook page today, and I put a link to your guys' Spotify, and I told all of my friends, I'm like, check these guys out because we are gonna be talking about these in the national circles in the next couple of years.
40:36
SPEAKER_00: Like, and I I sincerely mean that again.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't just shine ass because I have to make podcast content.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: I sincerely mean it.
40:43
SPEAKER_00: I I love everything that you guys are doing.
40:46
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for doing the show.
40:47
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you guys let everybody know where they can find you online?
40:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh, first, thank you so much for having us here.
40:52
SPEAKER_01: It's a true pleasure.
40:54
SPEAKER_02: Actually, before before we say all those things, um I want to ask Mike.
40:59
SPEAKER_02: Uh what were your what was your background in the music?
41:03
SPEAKER_02: Just just curious about the the band.
41:05
SPEAKER_04: So we're trying to find your band, but we couldn't.
41:07
SPEAKER_00: We couldn't find it.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: It's because it's because it's been scrubbed.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: So I'll tell you, I'll tell you this.
41:14
SPEAKER_00: I'll I'll give you the real condensed version of this.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: I got into the music business in the mid-90s.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: I was living in Southwest Iowa, the perfect midpoint between Omaha, Nebraska, and Des Moines, Iowa.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: I was in a local ska band, nine-piece ska band, and we would open up for Slipknot when they were a local band.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: So that's how I kind of how I got into the business.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: As you know, we got to play shows with Slipknot and all of that.
41:40
SPEAKER_00: But I got to a point where it was like, I was living in a small town and I was like, okay, I could either move to Des Moines or I could move to Omaha.
41:47
SPEAKER_00: I'm a huge 311 fan, and I love diversity in music.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: I love different styles and blending certain styles.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: That's why guys like you really appeal to my music tastes.
41:58
SPEAKER_00: I was like, I could move to Des Moines and join a slipknot clone band, or I can move to Omaha and do whatever the fuck I want.
42:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I did, and I spent 15 years in a variety of different bands.
42:12
SPEAKER_00: I released seven albums.
42:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, I was always this close, but I'll tell you why I was only this close is I was better at the mute, the business side of music than the music side of music.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: And I'm okay with admitting that.
42:25
SPEAKER_00: My very last show was 2011 opening up for Avenge Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, and I was kind of I kind of looked at that moment as being my Super Bowl moment.
42:34
SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay, I'm happy walking away from it here, and now I find all my joy um doing this podcast and having great conversations with guys like yourselves.
42:45
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
42:47
SPEAKER_04: You know what I'm asking?
42:47
SPEAKER_04: Where was that show?
42:49
SPEAKER_00: Uh it was at West Ferry Ample Theater in Council Bluffs, Iowa, like which is right on the outskirts of Omaha.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
42:55
SPEAKER_02: Wow, man.
42:55
SPEAKER_02: Thank you for sharing that.
42:57
SPEAKER_02: It's very inspirational for sure.
42:58
SPEAKER_02: And and I'm happy that that you're happy right now with what you're doing.
43:03
SPEAKER_02: So that's the most important part.
43:05
SPEAKER_00: You know, it kind of goes to what exactly what you said, though.
43:08
SPEAKER_00: Like what your advice for making the world a better place was talking about self-actualization.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: And I think a lot of times that people don't find true happiness in life until they're absolutely honest with themselves.
43:21
SPEAKER_00: And that's what that moment walking away from music was for me.
43:25
SPEAKER_00: As much joy as I had with all of those experiences, I knew I had to move on to the next chapter, and part of that was being honest with myself and speaking that truth out loud occasionally.
43:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
43:38
SPEAKER_02: The the the truth the truth, it's always uh the best, but it's always the hardest to admit, right?
43:45
SPEAKER_04: So I kind of wait to to meet you at the at the show and just you know how have a little chat.
43:52
SPEAKER_00: Well, you guys, you guys, we can talk offline after we're done recording, and you guys can I I mean it.
43:57
SPEAKER_00: You guys can reach out to me any anytime, anytime for sure, for sure.
44:02
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, tell everybody where they can find you.
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SPEAKER_01: So you can find us on any any platform, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, our website as Glass Cities Band.
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SPEAKER_01: And excellent.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh our website, Glass Cities Band.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Everything, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: GlassCitiesband uh.com.
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SPEAKER_01: You can find the dates where and where we're gonna play and the tickets.
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SPEAKER_04: And what are the dates?
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SPEAKER_01: Uh the dates we have August 2nd in St.
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SPEAKER_01: Pete.
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SPEAKER_01: We have uh In Ginas.
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SPEAKER_01: We have uh August 30th in Boca with Experimental, Crazy Octo Mics.
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SPEAKER_01: Crazy Uncle Mics, and then we have October 4th and September, September 13th.
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SPEAKER_01: But you can check out all that info in our website.
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SPEAKER_00: And just so people know, the October 4th show is with the Reese Brothers and Nick Hexham of 311.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's that's gonna be a big show, and I'm excited for you guys to be on that.
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SPEAKER_01: We're excited as well.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, I have had the best time hanging out with you guys this evening.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for doing the show.
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SPEAKER_00: The world's a much better place with you in it.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks, man.
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SPEAKER_01: I appreciate the time here.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: I'd like to thank my new friends Omar Louise and Sam for joining me on the show today.
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SPEAKER_00: Check out Glass City on all streaming platforms.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you to our friend David Barnes for helping set up this awesome episode.
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SPEAKER_00: This has been Caught on the Mike with Michael Clark.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Michael Clark.
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SPEAKER_00: Until next time.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.