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Hitman talks to JD and Eric From Gutter Gospels · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: C101 Rocks, what's going on? It is Hitman with you.
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  Speaker 1: I got JD and I got Eric from Gutter Gospels
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  Speaker 1: on the phone right now. Dude, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Not much, man, just enjoying the day. Corpus Christi, what's up?
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are going to be playing with Earshot,
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  Speaker 1: also with HeartSick and Neapolitan at the House of Rock
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  Speaker 1: on September 27th. And it's also for a great cause
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  Speaker 1: because proceeds are going to be also going to buy
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  Speaker 1: school supplies for kids around the Coastal Bend. But if
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  Speaker 1: people have been living under a rock, please tell me,
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  Speaker 1: what is Gutter Gospels?
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  Speaker 2: Um... It's a good culmination of things. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: a good, good time. I mean, we love playing our
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  Speaker 2: music live. It's a mixture of Southern rock mixed with
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of like metal core. So you got
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  Speaker 2: a good mix of like a data member meets kill
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  Speaker 2: switch engage with a little bit of like clutch elements
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  Speaker 2: in there. So there's a lot of good, good little
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  Speaker 2: parts where it's catching a lot of different things all
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  Speaker 2: at once. So it's, It's pretty much just an anything
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  Speaker 2: kind of happens type of band. That's how it kind
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  Speaker 2: of started. We were messing around with another kind of project,
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  Speaker 2: and our guitar player had this song, and I decided
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  Speaker 2: to go for it. I was like, dude, we need
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  Speaker 2: to start doing this. I was like, this just is
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  Speaker 2: something completely different and new that we wanted to kind
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  Speaker 2: of just explore. It was just all pretty much just
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  Speaker 2: out of nowhere. Yeah. Really out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So who came up with the biscuits and gravy
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  Speaker 1: for your ears?
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  Speaker 2: That was me. We're from South Texas, so it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like feel-good metal. I call it like down-home riffs.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably the best way to kind of say it.
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  Speaker 2: Just stuff that kind of makes you kind of feel good.
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  Speaker 2: We like to be called soul metal. Just because some
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  Speaker 2: of the lyrics are a little bit more heartfelt, but
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  Speaker 2: also you're having a good time at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: So that was kind of the idea. It was just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like, like I said, kind of have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more fun with it. We've all been in
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  Speaker 2: projects before. There's a little bit more serious element to it.
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  Speaker 2: This one's kind of just more like, hey, let's go
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  Speaker 2: out there and have some fun. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with a guy.
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  Speaker 2: J.D. got all the good sayings in the band, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the master of the pun.
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  Speaker 1: So we have JD and Eric from Gutter Gus Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be at the House of Rock on
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  Speaker 1: the 27th. From what I could find, from the information
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  Speaker 1: I could find, of course, you got your tracks on Spotify.
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  Speaker 1: You also have stuff on Bandcamp. It says release tracks
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  Speaker 1: include He's Jersey, He Skis in His Jeans, and then
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  Speaker 1: there was also Benny the Jet. Tell me about these songs.
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  Speaker 2: So He's Jersey, He Skis in His Jeans. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big movie quote guy. So... the way like the, the,
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  Speaker 2: the idea was just kind of have like lyrics that
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  Speaker 2: kind of like went out there and they were like,
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  Speaker 2: kind of like meaningful, have like a serious note to it,
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  Speaker 2: but have a little bit more like carefreeness with the name.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like it's a, if you ever seen
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  Speaker 2: that movie, just friends with Ryan Reynolds and Amy smart,
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  Speaker 2: that's where it comes from, where he's, he's on the
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  Speaker 2: stairs and he's kind of down and out about the
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  Speaker 2: whole situation with trying to get with Amy didn't know
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  Speaker 2: what to do. So that his friend was like, comparing
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  Speaker 2: him to that dude. Um, I forgot what his name
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  Speaker 2: is in there. Oh, Chris brand or Chris brand is
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  Speaker 2: the one, but the other guy, he's just like, he's Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: He skis in his jeans and he gets up and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he feels all motivated. So that was behind it.
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  Speaker 1: So, That's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of having those kind of, like, elements in
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  Speaker 2: there where, like, you can use something. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big, we all kind of, like, speak in
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  Speaker 2: movie quotes pretty much for the rest of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: And it's pretty fun, too, because that's not the only one.
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  Speaker 2: We have a few, like, Benny the Jet, of course, Sandlot.
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  Speaker 2: And we have some more releases coming out, too, like
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  Speaker 2: the Mr. Gilmore, I'm Your Caddy. Wow. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of fun, but all in seriousness, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: some rockin' tunes that go back, you know, it could
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  Speaker 2: back up the names of the songs.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are playing, of course, with Earshot on
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  Speaker 1: the 27th. I noticed that the day before, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are playing with Un Loco and Swim the Current?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so we got it. We got asked to
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  Speaker 2: play that as well. And then Joaquin was really good,
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  Speaker 2: reached out to us about that, about your shot. So
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  Speaker 2: we're pretty, pretty blessed so far, as far as getting
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  Speaker 2: some really great shows. We played with the Trey, you
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  Speaker 2: are our first show as, as you know, out there,
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  Speaker 2: our debut show back in April at the house of rock.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that would, that was actually a really good
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  Speaker 1: show too. If there, if there was a, if there
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  Speaker 1: was a band you would love to tour with, who
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  Speaker 1: would you love to tour with?
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  Speaker 2: I know. I knew it. I'm a big A Day
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  Speaker 2: to Remember fan, so everybody jokes with me because I'm
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  Speaker 2: just like, oh, there's this new, there's this new, there's
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  Speaker 2: this new, and I'm just like, yeah, I just listen
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  Speaker 2: to A Day to Remember on repeat. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just like what they do. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And they're huge.
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  Speaker 2: I could dig touring with A Day to Remember 100%. Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they are a great band, too. We're talking with
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  Speaker 1: the guys from Gutter Gospels. They're going to be on
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  Speaker 1: the 26th and the 27th at the House of Rock.
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  Speaker 1: You can get your tickets right now at texashouseofrock.com. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: on the 27th, they're opening up for earshot, and proceeds
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  Speaker 1: will be going to get in school supplies for kids
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  Speaker 1: around the coastal bend. I know, like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: on Bandcamp, it's on Spotify. Are you guys on a label,
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  Speaker 1: on a major label yet? Or not a major label,
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  Speaker 1: but have you signed on to a label?
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  Speaker 2: We have not. Everything has just been pretty much our
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  Speaker 2: own funding, so we've been just doing it our own way.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody just pitches in, and And we've been very good with,
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  Speaker 2: very blessed with people buying merch and stuff, some of
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  Speaker 2: the songs online. So that's been very helpful. And then
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  Speaker 2: we're just, you know, kind of kicking our own stuff
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  Speaker 2: and handling everything ourselves. Hopefully we'll get to that level.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what we're kind of shooting for, where we
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  Speaker 2: can get a little bit bigger festival. Show gigs, stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. I know we just... We're almost going to
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  Speaker 2: be on Aftershock. We're in the running. We're in the
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  Speaker 2: top 32 for their Battle of the Bands. So we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of slowly getting out there. So we kind of
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  Speaker 2: just hit the ground running with this. We released Jersey
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  Speaker 2: in December last year, and it kind of just took
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  Speaker 2: off like a rocket. Right. It was just kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't think anything of it. If I were to
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  Speaker 2: release a video, it would be fine. Everything just kind
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  Speaker 2: of like fell into place. And it's still going, too.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some more stuff we can't just say just yet. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just working with these bigger bands while just
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  Speaker 2: being less than a year as an actual band, it's
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  Speaker 2: really cool, man. That's kind of cool. We've got some
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  Speaker 2: good surprises. We want to get out there a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more. And then we're going to be releasing a
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  Speaker 2: new song here in the next couple weeks called The
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  Speaker 2: Wolf of Water Street. So it's kind of an ode
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  Speaker 2: to being a degenerate downtown in Corpus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, if people want to find you, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are on Facebook, you guys are on Instagram. Is there
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  Speaker 1: any other places that, besides Spotify and Bandcamp, they could
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  Speaker 1: find you?
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  Speaker 2: We're on all streaming platforms. So, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: we got iHeartRadio, Apple, Spotify, obviously, Pandora. So we're on
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  Speaker 2: all major streaming platforms. We got our YouTube channel as well,
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  Speaker 2: just at Gutter Gospels. So we release all of our
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  Speaker 2: music videos through there. And then, of course, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Now, okay, on the 27th
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  Speaker 1: with Earshot, do you know when you guys are going
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  Speaker 1: to be hitting the stage? Because there's two other bands
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  Speaker 1: besides you guys that are going to be performing. So
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  Speaker 1: have they told you when you guys are going to
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  Speaker 1: hit the stage to make sure so people will get there?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't yet. I know we're trying to finalize all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. We're just excited to get on board with it,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, with Joaquin doing some amazing things. So
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  Speaker 2: I think we may be the first guys out. So
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  Speaker 2: got to get there early. Get your tickets.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with the guys from Gutter Gospels. Hey, thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot, guys, for taking the time to talk to
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  Speaker 1: us today. And, of course, looking forward to seeing you
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  Speaker 1: guys on the 27th at House of Rocky. You're also
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  Speaker 1: going to be there on the 26th. So if you
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  Speaker 1: miss them on the 26th, they'll be there on the 27th.
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  Speaker 1: Gutter Gospels, keep an eye out for them. Thanks a
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  Speaker 1: lot for taking the time to talk to us today, brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. C101 Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Yo.