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Repeat Offenders With SAMMY CIARAMITARO From DRAIN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up y'all.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Sam and I sing in a band
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  Speaker 2: called Dream from San Cruz, California, and uh, we're making our.
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  Speaker 1: Way down down Under or a New Bloom festival.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna do some shows and the signal around it
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  Speaker 2: and we're still to.
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  Speaker 3: Be back beautiful Sammy, thanks for joining us today, brother,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you? Man?
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  Speaker 4: Was it also as you say, drain head to Australia
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  Speaker 4: in March?
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  Speaker 3: It's part of New Bloom Festivals starting in Bricebane on
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  Speaker 3: MARCHA and hitting Sydney and Melbourne of a consecutive days.
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  Speaker 4: Like, are you packed it ready to go yet?
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  Speaker 1: Dude? I'm getting there, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited, raining pretty hard over here, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to get out getting some good tail issue with
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  Speaker 2: the tail end of your summer, right Ai?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah man, But she's been a hate wave at
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  Speaker 4: the moment. It's ridiculously hot.
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  Speaker 1: Oh see, that's what I'm talking about. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait, and you get I'm getting too white man,
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  Speaker 2: and you get a turn.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be your first visiting since twenty twenty three?
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  Speaker 1: Bro?
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  Speaker 4: So what's changed with the bandsince? Then?
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  Speaker 1: Dude? I mean you know what, We pretty much we
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  Speaker 1: got a new record that we're working on.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna actually go record it when once we get
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  Speaker 2: home from this Australian tour. We will put it straight
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  Speaker 2: to the studio and start taking care of that. So
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  Speaker 2: we've been working hard, playing a lot. We played a
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  Speaker 2: lot since we were there in December last year, yeah
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  Speaker 2: or yeah, tail end of the year, and just been
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  Speaker 2: charging it, absolutely charging it. So done quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: of touring since, played a lot of shows, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we're nice and revamped and nice and tight and.
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  Speaker 1: Render rock nice.
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  Speaker 3: So for those who might have missed you on your
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  Speaker 3: last two chores in Australia, what can we expect from
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  Speaker 3: Drian live?
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  Speaker 1: Dude?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you've never seen this before, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hope that you're just gonna have a good time.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna expect a lot of high energy, if not
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  Speaker 2: from the whole crowd, hoping the whole crowd, but if not,
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  Speaker 2: at least for me and my dude's on stage with
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  Speaker 2: me and just trying to just.
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  Speaker 1: Just get your heart kind of pumping a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: That's the goal for the thirty minutes we get and
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  Speaker 2: just have a little fun.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and just make just get out one stoked.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, now hard core music and and sorry, hardcore
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  Speaker 3: music is going to be aggressive and sort of pretty
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  Speaker 3: full on out and in the mush fit might but
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  Speaker 3: you guys had an overwhelming sense of fun of the equation.
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  Speaker 3: But things are like inflatables and that like hardcore and
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  Speaker 3: fun out two things in the Mexico together like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, but it can and that's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it totally can. I mean, and that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, at a certain point, things that
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  Speaker 2: we were just doing for fun, it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: right that it's kind of getting a look at a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a joke, right, and it's like I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do that, you know, It's like, why would
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  Speaker 2: we do some of this stuff if we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: fun with it.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta have fun, you know, we're gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: good time. It takes games a lot of work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you work hard.
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  Speaker 2: We spend a lot of time working with these songs,
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  Speaker 2: playing and trying to get better and tighter. And it's
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  Speaker 2: like because we love it. It's fun. It's fun to do that.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun to go play. So we just that with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing. It's some people like Doud I'll
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  Speaker 1: be honest, never listen to you guys. Never heard of you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys don't even really like you know, like rock music
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  Speaker 2: like that. But that was awesome, and I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 2: a win to me. That's a win to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm no, I said, do you remember like when you.
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  Speaker 3: First started using like the infldibles and stuff like, was
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  Speaker 3: it sat there looking at the crowd and gone, now
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  Speaker 3: this is getting too full on, man, Like we need
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  Speaker 3: to we need to break it up a little bit, like.
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  Speaker 2: You know, effort like not. It wasn't at first. It
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  Speaker 2: was just it was just for fun. We just lived
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  Speaker 2: by the peach. I was like, oh, I bring some
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  Speaker 2: bookybar on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Be kind of sick.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It was funny. And then you know, eventually at a certain.
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  Speaker 2: Point it was like we stopped, but other people would
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  Speaker 2: bring him in and it was like it's it's still
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  Speaker 2: fun and it's still it's a certain point like like
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  Speaker 2: the pool Doodles, people like actually like hit the guitar
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  Speaker 2: strings and we like can't play, so like I still
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  Speaker 2: have fun with it. I'm just like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 2: really crazy. So now we just we just kind of
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  Speaker 2: come with, well, we're just gonna bring the energy you bring, gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Bring what we bring, you bring what you bring, and
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna collectively rock it out. Whatever that looks like.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a little different every day. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: it was just you know, just to have a good time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just have a little good time. And it
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  Speaker 1: just we just kept did it for the fun.
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  Speaker 2: And I think now what we like more than anything,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like stage guys and like sing when people
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  Speaker 2: sing along, you know, that's my favorite part of anything.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like I'm always striving for that. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just just have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: What's what's the weirdest inflightable? Anyone who's ever brought through
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  Speaker 3: a shy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Man, God, I don't even know. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't weird. We had a we brought uh one of
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  Speaker 1: the best weep were playing. They bought a huge, a
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  Speaker 1: six foot by six foot ball. It wasn't weird. It
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  Speaker 1: was just awesome, but it was it was like a
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  Speaker 1: ball of destruction and like it would knock you over
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is like so the
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  Speaker 1: whole song we played. It was pretty much just like
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  Speaker 1: this thing was like it was like just avoid this thing,
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  Speaker 1: were keeping up. You know, it's crazy. Yeah, that wasn't weird.
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  Speaker 1: That was just fun. Nothn't weird. You'se just the same stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Just people they're just roll they hit it. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh this is crazy, but yeah it's it's a good time.
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  Speaker 1: But that's I think when it gets too focused on that,
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  Speaker 1: like all right, we all we are also playing, you
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  Speaker 1: know what. We were like, oh, they just like this
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  Speaker 1: with the toys we break like all right, well we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna bring the toys anymore. We're gonna just focus
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  Speaker 1: on music.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's speaking of music made. You've also just have
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  Speaker 4: some side shows.
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  Speaker 3: We want to stay Plaser on the Sunshine Coast, Hobot,
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  Speaker 3: Wellington and Auckland. Like it actually looks like a better
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  Speaker 3: torn out bro. It's a long way to come just
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  Speaker 3: to play three shows at New Bloom.
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  Speaker 1: Totally, dude, we were down.
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  Speaker 2: We were totally down, just because we're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: last week we come to Australia every year, We've gone
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  Speaker 2: every year and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Been great since we are a third time and we
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  Speaker 1: were kind of saying.
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  Speaker 2: To the last time, like when we come back, let's
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  Speaker 2: maybe do it where we can open up for somebody
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  Speaker 2: bigger than us in like a maybe even a slightly
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  Speaker 2: different genre or like slightly different crowd, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is a perfect situation where like, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then when they give us the okay to do
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  Speaker 2: some extra shows, it's like, oh, hell yeah, We've toured.
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  Speaker 2: We did one tour one se closer in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: one in America, and we've played a million shows and
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  Speaker 2: festivals with them, So I'm still to get to see
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  Speaker 2: them and get.
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  Speaker 1: To hang you know, and walk some sides shows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you actually fell in love with this strike
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  Speaker 3: after support and come back to get in January twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: Mates, So what was it about the country that first
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  Speaker 4: made you like it?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what a I feel like just
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  Speaker 2: that we get to leave our winter and go into
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  Speaker 2: your summer, you know, and it just escaped the rain
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  Speaker 2: and escape the the coll the workout for us, it
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  Speaker 2: was not even that bad compared to other places other
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  Speaker 2: parts of America, but it's just nice you get you
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  Speaker 2: leave and I think we were literally driving the airport
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  Speaker 2: and it was like boring rain and then we'd land
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  Speaker 2: on Australia and Brisbane and it's just beautiful and sunny
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  Speaker 2: and we got like coffee and hung out.
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  Speaker 1: We're all so jetou. It was kind of crazy, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, just get to hang out and be by water,
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  Speaker 1: be by nature.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, and everyone's just everyone is so nice
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  Speaker 2: there that it's like it's just really enjoyable, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just very It was so similar but different.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the language barrier wasn't there. It was just
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  Speaker 1: really cool.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not throwing anyone under the bus, by
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  Speaker 3: said because the city press release, but kerrang hold your
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  Speaker 3: forsona as a non threatening look in told and retriever
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  Speaker 3: energy like I've had I've had that digested.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm still not sure if it's a compliment or
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  Speaker 4: an insult.
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  Speaker 2: I'm honest, I want somebody said that, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna go I like dogs, so I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: say as a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm like so like like talking about you, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so a baby, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the thing is they're not necessarily wrong, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm totally down. You know it feels pretty accurate.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's like dud talking about one of these other
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  Speaker 2: interviews I was just doing. It's like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I just keep it real. There's a lot of posting,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that want to be the scary dog,
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  Speaker 2: but they're not really, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's like, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just not gonna pretend like I am. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just me and I'm having a good time,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, And it's I think it's cool people
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  Speaker 2: notice that and it's like, oh, these guys are just themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They don't They're not trying to be anybody else, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a great description on the first picture
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  Speaker 3: I got was a view on all fours run across
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  Speaker 3: stage with your tongue flap and left and right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that far off, dude, I have to do
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  Speaker 1: that now.
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  Speaker 4: Try and started instead of cruise back in twenty four
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  Speaker 4: to ame Bro.
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  Speaker 3: So what's the musical climate like back then they gave
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  Speaker 3: birth to the band and where did you fit in initially?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, dude, it's probably you know, we it's
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  Speaker 2: the same name and it's me and me and the
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  Speaker 2: drummer are the same.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like it didn't start out like this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just we all were at call and it was.
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of like the difference of like, hey, like
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  Speaker 2: you have a shirt and that band has a distorted guitar,
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  Speaker 2: so that's to like we should just jam.
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  Speaker 1: You play guitar, you play drums, guitar, but you'll play bass.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, you know, even though it's like it's just
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  Speaker 2: like maybe have like the same music interest, it was
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  Speaker 2: just enough to get people together. So it took a
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  Speaker 2: sec did the band started twenty fourteen, But once we
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  Speaker 2: got me and my drummer and then our guitar player
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  Speaker 2: and that.
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  Speaker 1: Was a twenty seventeen. That's almost the strange way where
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  Speaker 1: it's like the name that people know in the band
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  Speaker 1: that people know. That's kind of when that really started,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, we just want to play and
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  Speaker 1: just like just just get together and play shows and
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  Speaker 1: have fun. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's simple. It really is as simple. It was never
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  Speaker 2: like we want to be the biggest band in the world,
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  Speaker 2: we want to be a touring full time.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like we just play shows. I never
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  Speaker 1: even know was like if we play out of the state.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be crazy, you know, and like if we ever
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  Speaker 1: went on it tourally crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Like and so we've been able to do all those
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  Speaker 2: things and we have to make a new goal and
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  Speaker 2: we checked that goal off the list, and we checked the.
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  Speaker 1: Next one off, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, just like have a good time and have
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  Speaker 2: fun and just get to play with each other, you know,
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  Speaker 2: play and meet people. And we've been able to do
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  Speaker 2: that and then just do it on a bigger level.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: That's cool. Like, you know, it's all the same, very
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  Speaker 4: humble and very down to earth. Is is that down
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  Speaker 4: to the defect of where you come from?
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I think so, man, I really thank you,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's also just like I think when you're
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  Speaker 2: two ways. When we were not in a cool band
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  Speaker 2: when we started. I still don't, you know, I'm still
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  Speaker 2: not cool. You know, we're just we're just ourselves and
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  Speaker 2: it's like we're not a cool man. We start, So
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  Speaker 2: it's like this weird thing where it's like on the bottom,
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  Speaker 2: and then you kind of start to get higher up.
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  Speaker 2: People then are like no athletes, those are really cool dudes,
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  Speaker 2: and then people it's on that it's like some people
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  Speaker 2: are like, maybe we'll switch their abitude, like yeah, the Ship.
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  Speaker 2: We're just like I don't know, I'm just gonna just
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  Speaker 2: keep being us, you know. It's like I think when
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  Speaker 2: some bands movie come out to receive it such praise,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, then maybe have a different perspective where
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  Speaker 2: I was like, dude, the fact that anybody I'm on
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  Speaker 2: FaceTime right now with a person, you know, mws we
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  Speaker 2: make that's the coolest thing ever, Like I never thought
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  Speaker 2: we'd get I still like, don't it like blows me away?
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  Speaker 1: Like wait, like these guys are asking us to come play,
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  Speaker 1: and that's crazy, you know, And so I try. I
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  Speaker 1: really hope everyone lose that. And I think it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just gonna yeah where you live. You think, also just
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  Speaker 1: like having interest outside of just this genre of music,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think if you're just into this, it's
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  Speaker 1: like really easy to be like, yeah, I'm the Ship all.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, dude, we all like things that are
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  Speaker 1: completely not really.
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  Speaker 2: Into just music, and I think that helps to get
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  Speaker 2: you to see a big picture of the world
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  Speaker 1: You know, and it's it's really cool, you know.