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Lock Up Your Children, GWAR Are Coming · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I am the Berserker Blows are of the immortal shock
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  Speaker 1: rock Kings of the Universe War and we're coming.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna play the Good Things Spestival. Good Thanks, Good
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  Speaker 2: Things in Australia. I think that's what good things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's good things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good Thief and today thanks for joining us today,
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  Speaker 3: rather pleasure to speak with you. Yeah, man, sometimes you say,
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  Speaker 3: Gar have just been an abscest part of this year's
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  Speaker 3: Good Things Festival, which picks off in the Melbourne of
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  Speaker 3: December the fifth, and it's kidn't he and Brisbane of
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  Speaker 3: the consecutive days? That's pretty close to Christmas? Might he
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  Speaker 3: going to be bringing a stack full of goodies with
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  Speaker 3: you for the kiddings?
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  Speaker 2: Well, uh, you know, mostly when it comes to Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: we don't really hand out gifts as much as we
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  Speaker 2: take them. Gar is a sort of keeping alive that
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  Speaker 2: horrible tradition that the Dutch have black people. Can you
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  Speaker 2: believe that they did that? Who do these people think?
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  Speaker 2: They are? Absolutely racist? I will tell you, but seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what we do. We kidnap children and
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  Speaker 2: we stuffed them into stockings, and we turned them into
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  Speaker 2: coal and all of that stuff. And then we, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, run off with them to Morocco or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. But yeah, War's not big on Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: We are friends with Crampus though he's a bud.
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  Speaker 3: But do me a favorite. If you happen to come
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  Speaker 3: across my kids and your kidnap them, die, worry about returning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm okay, just tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's right. That's what they always say Australian kids.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants them back, No good things.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty diverse line up this CFI with yourselves.
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  Speaker 3: There's tool ways of Garbage, machine Head refused, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different sorts of bands by it. But what's
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  Speaker 3: your opinion on festivals? Should they have a wide range
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  Speaker 3: of music and genres or even more of a traditionalist
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  Speaker 3: than think it should be bruttle start to finish?
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  Speaker 2: Now, I have always liked you know, look, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what happened in the world. It used to be,
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  Speaker 2: especially in punk rock, right, like you go in the
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  Speaker 2: old days, and well by the old days, I mean
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  Speaker 2: you know, the eighties and nineties, Like you'd go to it,
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  Speaker 2: you go see the butthole Surfers, you'd go see Gwar,
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  Speaker 2: you'd go see. I don't know, loving rockets whatever, right
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  Speaker 2: and and nobody thought anything of it. It's not like,
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  Speaker 2: oh everything's so different, it's gotta all be the same.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. I love it when it's just good, underground,
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  Speaker 2: alternative ish, although now it's I don't know, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to even say what the hell it is. But I
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  Speaker 2: mean a bandlike Tools definitely kept it real, you know,
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  Speaker 2: machine Head, Weezer, all these band it's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 2: I love having a wide range of bands. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: keeps me interested anyway.
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  Speaker 3: I don't it's fanta say that I'm the gar are
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  Speaker 3: gonna be the most out there and reckless and cool
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  Speaker 3: looking band at the whole festival my life. Do you
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  Speaker 3: think these trying crams or the people and good things
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  Speaker 3: are ready for what cause can to deliver?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean they loved it last time
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  Speaker 2: that that that the band went down there, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: uh Odorous said we took a swipe at Tony Abbott.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody got all upset boohoo. But you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know what's going on. Uh politically in Australia. Now
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  Speaker 2: we've been very good, We've got our own problems. Here
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  Speaker 2: to worry about, and so you know, we're kind of
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  Speaker 2: not paying attention. But I think that I think Australians
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  Speaker 2: English speaking people they're gonna love War. War is a
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  Speaker 2: band that is funny. That's the difference. And let me
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  Speaker 2: be clear about that. You go see a heavy metal band,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you just you don't go see a
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  Speaker 2: lot of heavy metal bands, and everybody that you look
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  Speaker 2: at is smiling, they're laughing, they're having a good time.
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  Speaker 2: They can't believe what they're seeing. They feel inspired to
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  Speaker 2: go do something creative themselves. That's what warried. That is
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  Speaker 2: what War is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think of the one of the best things
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  Speaker 3: about festivals. But is it people get the chance to
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  Speaker 3: see bands that I might not otherwise go and check out.
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  Speaker 3: So today someone's gotten the good thing from that night
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  Speaker 3: night too much about War? What three songs of your
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  Speaker 3: should they listen to in order to get to know
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  Speaker 3: the band of bit better?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I think I think the newest one, A Lot Lizard,
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  Speaker 2: is a good place to start. Uh A Lot Lizard,
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  Speaker 2: Uh go back and check out uh this toilet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: the song I mean gorgor Great Tune and uh you
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  Speaker 2: know those are two that I would recommend and maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe Solomonizer or maggots are falling like rain something one
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  Speaker 2: of the classics.
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  Speaker 3: The coastumes are awesome, but they also look very hot.
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  Speaker 3: So does anyone warned you that the average December temperature
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  Speaker 3: in Brisbane is thirty degrees firenheyde or sorry, thirty degrees
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  Speaker 3: or eighty six fahrenheit like im, I want to throw
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, man, We've played the surface of the Sun.
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  Speaker 2: We can handle this, trust me. There's no way eighty
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  Speaker 2: six is nothing. We played Phoenix, Arizona in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the summer time one hundred and eighteen degrees on
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  Speaker 2: the Warped tour. Yeah, we can. We can handle it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. Although we do keep getting older, which sucks.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, and I've noticed that, you know, the Warped
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  Speaker 2: tour we did I guess, I don't know, ten years
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  Speaker 2: ago something like that. And now we go out and
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely it helps to have a shorter set, but
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  Speaker 2: we have a shorter.
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  Speaker 3: Now. Core and Nach remember have a backstory that explains
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  Speaker 3: the costume from the concepts in more detail. Again, for
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  Speaker 3: those who might not nineteen about the band but want
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  Speaker 3: to find out before they come to good things. Where's
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  Speaker 3: the best place to go and catch up on the backstory?
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  Speaker 2: Guar dot net. You can find all the law right there,
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  Speaker 2: and I will remind you that Gore was a band
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  Speaker 2: that had law when bands didn't have lore. Now all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, everybody's got law like that. Lore is
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  Speaker 2: actually a thing that people are saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: go screw yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We've got lord.
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  Speaker 2: We've always had law.
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  Speaker 3: The kings of law, and Australians love law.
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  Speaker 2: Look at it. It's a country of nothing but bullshitters.
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  Speaker 2: I know that for a fact. I love it. I
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  Speaker 2: love how Australians managed to. You know, my child speaks
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  Speaker 2: with an Australian accent because of that damn Bluey Show.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to answer for us, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it? Though she really does. She's quite good
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know the Blowye is actually a girl?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she knows about it.
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  Speaker 3: This my daughter pointed out to me the other day, and
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  Speaker 3: under stories aimed there was a boy dog No.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, Yeah, Blue is a girl. Bluis m being though.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I know the whole I know the whole script. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I know them all Mackenzie your name.
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  Speaker 3: See if you get him to make he gets to appearance,
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  Speaker 3: stays with you all your audia.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that bandit is an old rock and
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  Speaker 2: roll singer.
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  Speaker 3: So never I never know kidding me, I.
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  Speaker 2: Might actually be cool to my kid if I never
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  Speaker 2: about that to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, if I hang around, if they think you're cool.
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  Speaker 3: For released the lightest album, the Return of Go Go
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  Speaker 3: Back off July, the twenty fifty nine lock and that's
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  Speaker 3: it been that long, but now it's a response. Been
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great. People love it and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's wild metal punk extravaganza. Man, it's uh fast stuff.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a new guitar player, Grotius. He's a contributing
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  Speaker 2: a lot. And uh, it's a fun song for song
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  Speaker 2: to sing. H. I'm talking about the actual song lot
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  Speaker 2: of Hazard. But uh, then the other two ones are
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  Speaker 2: they're a lot of fun too. We haven't played them
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  Speaker 2: live yet, so I'm not sure how that's gonna go,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure it'll be fun. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's it's it's got a comic with it. It's got
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  Speaker 2: a whole story and war has a rich tradition with
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  Speaker 2: underground comics. We've always been Ah, that's been a big
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  Speaker 2: part of what we do as comics. So having a
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  Speaker 2: comic book and some music that goes with it out,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of the way we want to do things
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  Speaker 2: from now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, run as straight. That concept a be more made
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  Speaker 3: the ideas behind it, because the album was part studio,
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  Speaker 3: part live and conceptually based with the comic as you say,
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  Speaker 3: so on the thought process behind doing.
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  Speaker 2: That, Ah, well, I mean we wanted to you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been out. One thing really is just that the
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  Speaker 2: band has been sounding so good live, uh, really the
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  Speaker 2: best that it sounded in years, and we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: capture that. And we had a set where we did
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  Speaker 2: some cool stuff and Gar there's a lot you know, Gar,
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  Speaker 2: it's not just a metal band, it's not just a
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  Speaker 2: it's a theatrical performance and there's a lot of improv
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  Speaker 2: that goes on, not really stand up comedy, but skit
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  Speaker 2: improv type stuff. We wanted to include some of that,
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  Speaker 2: uh And and the feeling of what a live show
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  Speaker 2: is like now with Guar, and we wanted to the
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  Speaker 2: story uh is really just based on a train wreck
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  Speaker 2: uh uh, which sort of symbolizes gwar too, right, So
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  Speaker 2: circus train that's on the road full of freaks and
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  Speaker 2: and uh they have a seance, some kind of weird
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  Speaker 2: mystical thing, and they summon this big dinosaur that's just
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  Speaker 2: given birth to a little egg, and we hit her,
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  Speaker 2: we kill her, she's dead. We wind up with this
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  Speaker 2: egg that we've got to take care of. H So
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like a crappy version of Dumbo or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Uh, you know, and you remember how
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  Speaker 2: heart wrenching that was. Nobody should have been required to
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  Speaker 2: watch dumber. Let me tell you something, least of all
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  Speaker 2: children eventually, Yeah, horrible, But uh so it's it's sort
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  Speaker 2: of that. And then you know, Gorgor, being a young person,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't know shit because that's what young people know.
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  Speaker 2: Jack shit, nothing, you hear me, And they screw everything up.
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  Speaker 2: And so he takes a potshot at his parents. He
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  Speaker 2: figures he's gonna go out and blow truckers for a
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  Speaker 2: living and be a lot lizard. You know, there's no
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  Speaker 2: manual for parenting. I wish there was, because I would.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to do it right.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you Gorgorp as we go along, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, endlessly, endlessly disappointing. But uh you know, what
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  Speaker 2: do you do? You gotta love them through.
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  Speaker 3: It all sided? How about most I marched the fortieth
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  Speaker 3: anniversary of Gore right like that. It's not a bad
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  Speaker 3: effort for a band dubbed the Scumbage of the Universe.
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  Speaker 3: Well doesn't it just comebacks?
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  Speaker 2: Stop dog dig dog.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like scumbags. I don't like going anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Thumbags is better, thumbbags is better. Yeah, you're right, You're right,
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. It is a long time Lordie Lardie
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  Speaker 2: Lukhu's party. It's ugly old war and uh yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean you know, we're trying to make it a like
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  Speaker 2: to meet somebody at the Christmas party. If you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: We we nuns.
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  Speaker 2: Such a little kiss, a little scene too, something proper.
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  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, brother, I've started a new
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  Speaker 3: segment called photo Bombs, so I basically trolled your social media.
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  Speaker 3: I've come up with a few photos. I want to
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  Speaker 3: ask a bit more about. Like we spoke briefly about
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  Speaker 3: your stage show before. But this is what Australians can expect,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it. Oh yeah, what's the blood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. A lot of sort of indeterminate gender
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  Speaker 2: beings squirming around. Looks like they've all got scabies and
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  Speaker 2: herpes and I don't know. And then us just spraying stuff,
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  Speaker 2: just spray it stuff. Yeah, that's what we do. We
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  Speaker 2: spray it. A bunch of naked, half naked old dudes.
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  Speaker 2: You can expect that too. Sexy man ass right up there,
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  Speaker 2: hunts the meat.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that security God start him from there.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't look like he's offering the best.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, no, they never do. They never do look at him.
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  Speaker 2: It's always it's always difficult for them. What I love
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  Speaker 2: is when they just turn around and watch the show
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  Speaker 2: and just let people like plummet to their deaths in
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  Speaker 2: the in the pit.
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  Speaker 3: Safety first, Uh, now go one more to show you too, bro, Like,
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  Speaker 3: oh no, think it's a cute fighter. But a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people will disagreeing, Like, what's the worst reaction you've
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  Speaker 3: ever got from my kid?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, what's I've never even seen this photo? What's
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  Speaker 2: wrong with that child's face?
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  Speaker 3: It looks like, yeah, well, I'll bet you she's shooting
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  Speaker 3: us olf.
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  Speaker 2: What's the what's the the explorer there? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's Sawboord Destructo probably looks like he's
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, he's usually you can usually find him
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  Speaker 2: at like a likes to hang around at big women's
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  Speaker 2: department stores.
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  Speaker 3: What's the general reaction when kids see you guys, like
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  Speaker 3: do they do? They love you?
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  Speaker 2: They hid? I mean, sometimes they love it and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they they are scared. But uh usually weirdly enough, kids
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  Speaker 2: tend to like war. The kids, uh, little kids, they
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  Speaker 2: realize that it's funny. I mean, you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: some children that they don't like. They don't like the
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  Speaker 2: masks and stuff when they're sitting there, but once we
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  Speaker 2: put them on.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, oh yeah, ok, yeah sure all right, brother, Well,
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  Speaker 3: thanks very much for your time. Could have been a pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: Chattey there Guara in Australia for a good thing kicking
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  Speaker 3: off on December the fifth, and guaranteed they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be one of the acts of the day. You do
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  Speaker 3: not want to miss, brothers, So we'll see you in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of months, all right, take care brother