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Tyson Ritter (The All American Rejects) · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: I had won with Mario Lopez, Tebyro Moro Lopez joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now, lead singer of All American Rejects, Tyson Ritter,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, man, good.
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  Speaker 2: Man here on this crazy house Party tour. Just strangers
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  Speaker 2: back here now?
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  Speaker 1: Nice? Nice, Well, congrats you guys are releasing your first
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  Speaker 1: full length album. It's been a minute. It's called Sandbox.
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  Speaker 1: What inspired this one?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think this is a record that we've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting to find for the last ten plus years.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, what this record follows is a
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  Speaker 2: is an US at our sort of evolution after our
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  Speaker 2: last four records that were on a major label. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is a This is a really cool offering
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  Speaker 2: for us as a band because it just feels really
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  Speaker 2: a cumulative of the last decade of the experience.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned before that there was a point that
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  Speaker 1: you didn't really care about the band anymore. What that's
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  Speaker 1: a bold statement? Was it that turned it around for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, you know, Mario, you you go to
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  Speaker 2: this same studio every day. I bet there's some days
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  Speaker 2: where you probably wake up and go I know, I
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  Speaker 2: get to talk to great people, I know, I know
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  Speaker 2: I get to do great things today, but sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: just don't want to put on the put on the guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I get it, and I think, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think after you know, doing it for fifteen years, we
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  Speaker 2: we were the We played two hundred plus shows a
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  Speaker 2: year for over a decade, and that burnout was real.
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  Speaker 2: So I think finding the love for this band a
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  Speaker 2: new was was found in this new music and in
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  Speaker 2: the experience of of what we're doing out here on
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  Speaker 2: these house party tours, getting back at an eye level
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  Speaker 2: with our audience and not subjecting them to sort of
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  Speaker 2: like you know, the the division of this high pot
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  Speaker 2: of constre experience really like lifted a veil for us
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  Speaker 2: and made us love it again.
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  Speaker 1: The house parties look awesome, the videos look so cool
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  Speaker 1: and such a fun time. How do you go about
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  Speaker 1: selecting the city in the house?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, we have people go to our houseparty
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  Speaker 2: tour dot com and submit their their backyards, their venues.
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  Speaker 2: Today we're playing a drive in movie theater.
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  Speaker 1: Fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. We're in the middle of it, Coldwater,
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  Speaker 2: Michigan and we're playing a drive in movie theater. There's
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be four thousand people, seven hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty cars, here. I think this time around picking picking
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  Speaker 2: places where you know, we played at church the other day,
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  Speaker 2: We're playing drive ins, we're playing roller rinks, like we're
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  Speaker 2: kind of we're kind of just trying to play places
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  Speaker 2: that are super unconventional.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool, very clever, and a lot of fun too.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Savannah Banana's baseball team joined you guys
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  Speaker 1: at a show. Those guys are awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jesse's a champion man. Yeah, you know, we're both
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  Speaker 2: two organizations that put fans first. And when we played
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  Speaker 2: Finway with him last year, Jesse and I really kind
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  Speaker 2: of struck got on and we were like at Finwa,
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  Speaker 2: We're like, man, I'd love to do a pop up together.
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  Speaker 2: And we found this high school in uh somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: West Texas outside of Houston, and it was it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cool to give the community, small communities
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  Speaker 2: this experience because you know, the way gas prices are
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  Speaker 2: and just the fact that funflation is over for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Americans. It's really great to be able to
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  Speaker 2: to be generous in this time where people kind of
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  Speaker 2: need any sort of any sort of loving hand.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I agree, and there's nothing for me at
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  Speaker 1: least two. Nothing better than live music in such a
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  Speaker 1: good time and they're with your friends. It's it creates
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  Speaker 1: quite quite the moment. You guys are also playing a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of festivals in Europe summer, right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, heading over across the pond. Yeah, it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 2: We're playing download, We're playing somewhere in Frog. We're wiping
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  Speaker 2: the European continent with rejects, so it could be fun. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, rock music seems to be making a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a comeback. It became a little less mainstream for
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  Speaker 1: like a hot minute, but now it's like come back
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  Speaker 1: in a strong way, I feel. Do you do you
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  Speaker 1: feel the same way?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I think the way you know. We're
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  Speaker 2: in the roaring twenties and it's history repeating itself. Man,
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  Speaker 2: we need we want to see creatives and artists in
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  Speaker 2: a unified front. I think people are starting to kind
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  Speaker 2: of wake up to the force fed through social media
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  Speaker 2: experience when it comes to music. So people are seeking again.
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  Speaker 2: People are are are going out and finding something that
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  Speaker 2: they can bring close to their chests and marks their
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  Speaker 2: own and bands have always been that hallmark. So it's
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  Speaker 2: really cool to see rock music to kind of have
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  Speaker 2: another circle back.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, Roaring twenties, I like that. And real quick,
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  Speaker 1: last question, I know you've done a bunch of acting
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  Speaker 1: as well. Any chance we may see you in a
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  Speaker 1: show or a movie again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're putting out. We're going to be the first
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  Speaker 2: band in the micro drama space. We shot a vertical
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  Speaker 2: We shot a vertical film like last month, and I
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  Speaker 2: got to say, I've seen some of the rough cuts
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  Speaker 2: and it's ridiculous. I'm really excited to show that. And
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  Speaker 2: then yeah, I'm in a Katherine Harwig film called Street
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  Speaker 2: Smarts that's coming out. I love acting. Yeah, it's a beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful extension of the old creative muscle.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you man, mixing it up well, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you taking the time and listen. Everyone go check out
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  Speaker 1: the All American Rejects band in their brand new album Sandbox,
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  Speaker 1: which is out now on iHeartRadio or wherever of course
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  Speaker 1: you stream music. Tyson, thanks checking.
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  Speaker 2: In, hey Man, good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Mario. Take care, Boddy, Take care with Mario Lopez