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Star Wars, Retro Gaming, and Boy Bands with FoundiT · Rock For Initiative

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What's up? Welcome to another episode of
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Rock for Initiative. My name is Phil and I am your
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host. I am super excited to have found
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it with me today. They are an amazing man from
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North Carolina, a local band for me that I am proud to introduce.
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Hopefully a lot of you too. Make sure you check them out.
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You can stream their new album on Spotify.
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It's called A goodbye letter to you, came out in September.
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It's fantastic, such a great like if you if you like pop punk
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alternative music, it is a great listen, super catchy, very
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poppy. Definitely something to go check
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out. Jordan and Turner are the two
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that join me and we talk about Star Wars, we talk about retro
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gaming. Jeez.
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I mean, we get into a lot of stuff.
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We talk a lot about like Guitar Hero.
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We talk about boy bands for a little while if you're a boy
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band fan. So yeah, great interview.
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I also want to make sure I shout out Gabs from Claw Machine who
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Listen to the interview and. I am here with Found it, Turner
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and Jordan, how are you guys doing tonight?
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Doing good. How are you doing?
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Like. Great, just got.
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Done with work so. Yeah.
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Yeah, me too. I was, I was telling Turner
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before you joined the call, Jordan, that I, like fell asleep
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after work. And so I'm also like only half
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here, but that's all right. I'm excited.
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Nothing like talking about like nerdy stuff to get me super
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pumped and super energetic. That's what got me through the
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day. I work at home, so like, I'm
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fighting sleep every day. Yeah, this got me.
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I, I feel that. Well, let's talk.
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I'm going to, I'm going to just hit the list.
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You guys gave me a like very eclectic list of stuff to talk
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about. So I'm gonna I'm gonna start
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with Star Wars because it was at the top of your list.
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Tell me about your your Star Wars origin story.
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Like what, how, how did you get into Star Wars?
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What kind of like, what kind of Star Wars fan are you like an
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everything Star Wars fan? That see that that's kind of
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hard. I feel like I watched the
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trilogy after Disney took over, but like any of the shows I'm
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good on. But I will say I watched a
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little bit of the clone wars. The clone wars is all right, Bad
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batch is all right. Also watch the old clone wars
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like the Star Wars video games is where it's at.
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And I don't know if you played any but Knights of the old
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Republic, Knights of the old Republic 2 phenomenal games.
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I just finished the there's one that like takes place
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technically after six. That's that's the thing about
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Star Wars. It's all like extended universe
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and it's not like in the movies or talked about in the movie.
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There's technically not Canon, but Star Wars has an insane like
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extended universe. I mean, there's games, there's
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novels, there's comics or there's all sorts of things, but
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I for some reason, like the video game lore is just like my
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favorite. But Jedi Knight Jedi Academy,
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which I just finished playing, takes place like I think like 10
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years or something after episode 6, but it's really cool.
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But. Played.
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I've played Knights of the Old Republic too.
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It's been a long time. I would say like for me, if like
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my, I started like I watched the original Star Wars trilogy a
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long time ago, I got super into like Star Wars trading cards.
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Like that's the kind of geek I was in, in like 6th grade.
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I would bring my Star Wars cards to school.
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Like they didn't even make them anymore.
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And so they're worth nothing. But like everyone else was into
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Pokémon cards. Well, not everyone.
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All the other losers were into Pokémon cards.
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I was one of those losers. Yeah, and I was just tracking
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tracking along my my Star Wars cards.
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So like extra extra nerdy but like I want to get.
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This cards which I'll know about.
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Chaotic. Chaotic.
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Yeah. Do you remember the Chaotic
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cards? It was a show on Cartoon Network
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too. I barely remember anything about
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it, but there were like 3 different cards.
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Yeah, there were three different cards that kids that like my
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elementary school did, and it was Pokémon, Yu-gi-oh and
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Chaotic. Do you all remiss with Beyblade?
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I don't even know what this is. This this chaotic card is like
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$400.00 on eBay those. Real a real deal there's.
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Something to it I guess. You say Beyblade Turner.
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Beyblade. I was definitely not a Beyblade
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kid, but I could see the appeal of Beyblade.
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Where you at? I was, I was not.
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All my friends had them and we couldn't afford them.
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I think my parents got me. Well, my brother and I won for
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Christmas and like within a year we tore it up and they're like,
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hey, we're not doing that again. Do you know how much that was?
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I don't even how expensive are now I'm like, how expensive are
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Beyblades? It'll get to Google's thing
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episode. Hi.
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I'm Jordan. Welcome to.
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Google's there's a whole website that's just called Buy
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beyblades.com. I don't know if this is real.
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Seems legit, yeah. Seems legit.
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Seems legit, yeah. It's on the Internet, it's got
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to be true. It's in the name.
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Buy beyblades.com or or that would.
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Probably went from Star Wars to to me Googling Beyblades, but
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they don't look that expense, although everything's expensive
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now. So you know Star Wars video
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games thanks to the old Republic.
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I don't know a lot what I was what I think I was trying to get
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at earlier is like I know a pretty good amount about Star
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Wars. Like I read all the Star Wars
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books that are no longer Canon after Disney bought Star Wars.
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So like I'm, I feel like I'm a pretty like good Star Wars
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aficionado, but I don't know anything about the video games
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really. Did you ever have like the big
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like Star Wars encyclopedia? Do I still hold up?
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Oh, I I have one. Give me one second.
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Ignore the room if. You can see I love a good show
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and tell. From the from the depths of my
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library, my Star Wars. Library which you were able to,
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you were able to find immediately, Yes.
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Oh wow. My library is not very.
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Bad. That looks that looks mighty
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fancy. But it's got like everything in
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here, like everything reference just.
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I see that. I see the IG88 there.
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Yeah, let. Me.
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See what? Look open it right up to R2.
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Thank you for what would what would you say?
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That's fantastic. I you pretend like you didn't
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remember, but I I have a hunch that you read it every night.
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No, not at all. So other than Kotar, like what
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would you say? Like how do you rank like your
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favorite Star Wars games from a gameplay perspective and a like
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story perspective? The.
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Fucking Star Wars pod racer is obviously #1.
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Oh yeah, like old school. Like Nintendo 64.
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Nintendo or pod racer? Yeah, hold on, let me do my show
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and tell for a second. You guys know Men Quad?
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Yes. Are you familiar with Ben Quad?
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Oh. Yeah, yeah, the emo band Ben
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Quad, but also Ben Quadinars. This is their Wisher EP the the
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Star Wars version that they that they sold on on May 4th.
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It's like one of my favorite things here.
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Yes, I, I said that like 5050 is a joke, but it's definitely, I
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would say top three. Number one number one is Knights
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of the Old Republic two. Number two is Force Unleashed.
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OK. And #3 I'll, I'll give to Pod
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Racer, but I will say have. You played, have you played like
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the newer? What is the the newer?
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Jedi. Game Jedi Survivor I have not.
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My brothers told me about that though.
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He's played it a a bunch and he's he's been telling me I need
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to, I need to get on it, but I'm not.
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Yeah, I would not played it. I would say that one's I've I've
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played the first one. I have not played the second
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one, but it's it's it's pretty good if you like Star Wars
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games, if you like Knights of the Old Republic, especially
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like this one's very story driven, but the game plays also
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very good. Everybody's persuading me I'm
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going. To have to do it.
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I'm not an easy person to change, but I'll I'll make an
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exception. And you can get it, especially
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like the first one. I feel like you can get pretty
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cheap. Like nowadays, I don't know, I
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don't know. I, I feel like I've, I got that
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one on sale for not too much money.
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Anyways, what other kind of video games do you do you play?
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Do you play like are you a gamer Turner?
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Or I'll play like the wrestling games, couple racing games.
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Big fan of the Need for Speed franchise.
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Been trying to get into Need for Speed heat.
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I kind of suck at it. The games have evolved since I
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started playing, and it's very hard to, you know, beat people.
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Turner's also not mentioning absolute beast at Tony Hawk Pro
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Skater. Stop.
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The first time I saw this man play, he just may not.
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I didn't know you could get a score that high, truthfully.
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I didn't either, you know? That's not true, I say.
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That's not. True.
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Yeah, Tony Hawk is a game I could play for hours just
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sitting on the couch and. What's your what's your favorite
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Tony Hawk entry? Are you playing like the like
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the newer like remix? The newest remix one, yeah.
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If I went back, I'd probably say 3. 3 yeah, 3 is good.
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I really like and I I really hope that it gets a remake.
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I really like Tony Hawk Underground.
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Yeah, they they did one and two and three and four.
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And I'm hoping they do the Underground series.
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Underground was so much, I just remember like connecting, I
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think my like PlayStation 2 or whatever it was out on at the
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time to the Internet for like the first time and being unlike
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skating around with other people skating.
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What is happening? Have you have you played skate
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at all? I've tried it's it's very hard.
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It's more more of like a simulation.
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I like how real it is, but I hate how real it is.
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I just want to do like a kick flip dude.
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And I'm barely owning. It's like real life.
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I suck at skating in real life. Yeah, if you can't skate in real
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in real life, it's a lot more fun on Tony Hawk.
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Where you. Yeah.
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That's exactly what Tony Hawk person.
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Is skate on grass. And what a great soundtrack to
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like an amazing soundtrack in in like every one of the games.
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Is there a are there any songs that you that you have like
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taken out of? And I'll like expand that too,
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to like Need for Speed. But like, they're like songs
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that you've heard in video games that have become like songs that
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you've listened to on the regular.
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Body jar not the same and need for speed.
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It was a bullet for my Valentine hand of blood.
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Eventually into metal core. And then sevenfold.
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And Tony Ark Pro Skater 3 had a AFI on it.
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Wasn't Jimmy? I'm pretty sure Jimmy World.
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I think they they were in a they're in midnight club.
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Jimmy World and Pain is a great song too.
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Takes my pain away. Futures is, well, I don't know.
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I have a lot of, I have a lot of love for Jimmy World, but
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Futures is maybe my favorite album by them.
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It's very good. Yeah, it's in my opinion, it's
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like, I'm not going to say Pete because I think they've always
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had like a great sound, but just with that album, they hit their
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sweet spot. Yeah, yeah, definitely like a
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more mature than Bleed American, but like, yeah, yeah, for me, I
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think like I, I, I look back to like Tony Hawk, the original
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Tony Hawk and like the ska songs on that were like definitive for
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me, like like Less Than Jake and Goldfinger.
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Have you heard any of the Have you heard any of the soundtrack
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for the new ones? For the new.
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For the new Tony or the the remix Tony Hawk games, because
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they've got a gosh, it's I want to say they're called junk.
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Bunny. I don't.
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I don't know this. Yeah, Junk Bunny, but it's
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called Sedona. It's a really good freaking
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song. That's my list.
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I've. I don't know that I've ever
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heard that. Yeah, I, I'd never heard it
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until I started playing the game and I was like, hey, this, this
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is really nice to just, you know, play this game to you.
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Yeah. A nice nice to jump through a
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window and try and get the secret videotape too, yeah.
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A great soundtrack to get a top of Turner's score.
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What wrestling games are you playing?
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I that's when I talked to Mike back on Episode 1.
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Like that was my only time that I've ever really gotten into it
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to wrestling was like my my buddy had like AI think it was
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Nintendo 64 is how old this this, this story is.
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He had a a wrestling game that we would play and just hit each
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other with chairs and it was my I like, I loved it.
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This my show until now. WrestleMania 2000.
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It might have been that game. Yeah, and WCWNWO Revenge, also a
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good one. I'd show you No Mercy WWF, but
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it's in somewhere and I just, I just moved here so I don't know
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where all my stuff is. I love that, that I'm like,
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yeah, we, we played Nintendo 64. It's so old and you just pull
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the cartridges out like it's nothing.
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But yeah, prize possessions. So you're like like more like a
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retro gamer then or or at? Least do some.
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Retro gaming. I do a little bit.
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I got my PlayStation two right here, I got APS 4 like right in
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front of me, Xbox One in the living room and my Nintendo 60
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fours in the box somewhere. But I try and keep it retro and
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nude. Love it.
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And. I'm in the box.
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Oh yeah. I was here real quick, my little
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collection. I was going to say the the
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Nintendo 64 is in the box, but the wrestling cartridges are
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right by the computer. Yeah, you never know when you're
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going to need a. Whole library of PS2 games.
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We love to see it. It's a beautiful thing to see
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every time I go over there. Get the little CRTTV up.
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Yeah, I feel like my kids will just never know that joy as as
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as well as I do. They're definitely not as
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impressed by like the polygons in Nintendo 64 games, but that's
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when like, gaming was peak back then.
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I feel I'm I feel like a super old grandpa talking about it
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like that, but like that's when they make games good.
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Now it's kind of like just re re for rehashed stuff most of the
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time or a lot of the time at least, but.
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Yeah, I feel like back then to, you know, the the graphics
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weren't the greatest, so you still had to use your
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imagination to a certain extent. Yeah.
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You know, that's what made it so wondrous was just you.
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You had to use your imagination. It's like especially with like
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the movie based games or something like that, you were
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like, does that look like them? Yeah, and I'm sure there's a ton
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of like rose colored nostalgia for me as well there, but but
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it's good stuff. Did you play the the remastered
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version of Double O 7 Golden Eye?
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I have nots. It's a whole lot easier to play
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now. Yeah, Well, yeah, they have it
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on. They have it on Game Pass.
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It was going back and playing Goldeneye on the 64 just with
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one joystick is just torture once you played with two.
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It's crazy to think that that's how we lived back then.
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I, I was reminded of that when they when they just had the,
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the, the Ocarina Time remix or RE remake Nintendo announcement
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and they were talking about how you can move the camera now.
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Because in the original version you just had one joystick so you
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couldn't move the camera. It was just whatever way Link
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was facing. That's what you saw.
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Yep. Cool.
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Any other like retro games that you guys are into or?
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I mean, most of my stuff is like PlayStation two games.
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I could I could go on and on about my library.
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Yeah, I. Do what?
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What do you got in there? Shoot.
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Well, I actually, I just went Raleigh has something called
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like the Vintage Bazaar. So most of the time it's just a
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bunch of like vintage clothes and stuff like that.
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However, they also have like vintage and retro games and so I
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don't know if you're you were ever into Jimmy Neutron.
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I was, but I found this gym. It's the Jimmy Neutron jet
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fusion game unless yeah, that one.
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Actually, I think I got it for a pretty good deal because most of
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the time I see it online, it's it's pretty pricey.
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And then got the good old rabbits.
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Iconic. Can't beat the rabbits.
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Yep, and. My girlfriend has never played
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any of the guitar heroes or rock bands, so while I was there
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grabbed some Guitar Hero 2 and Guitar Hero 3.
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She doesn't know the pain of trying to play through the fire
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and the flames. Oh no, I so this is going to
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date me and I'm I'm pretty sure I'm a good at least 10 years
23:16
older than you guys, if not older based off of this
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conversation. But I was working at game.
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Do you remember game crazy? It was like inside of Hollywood
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Video. I do not.
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No, yeah. So it was like it was a game
23:32
store, but it was inside of the video rental store.
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So you had to go inside the video rental store and then back
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in a cage. They kept a bunch of video games
23:40
and a sweaty teenager to sell them.
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And now I was that sweaty teenager.
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And it was like in the time of like Nintendo DS was like brand
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new while I was working there. Then the original Nintendo Wii
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was brand new so it was like PS2 time.
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And I remember when we got Guitar Hero in the I I don't
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think I did any work for like 3 months.
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Well I just played Guitar Hero on the like display stand in the
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in the game. Crazy.
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That's so understandable. That's so understandable.
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How? How good did you get it's?
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Still not good, No. Yeah, I definitely the the
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amount of time I put into it was not commiserate with the skill
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level, which is very low. Definitely.
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I think I definitely wasn't the hard level.
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Yeah, I can play hard level. I could play expert on some
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songs. I don't know that I could even
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play hard level on on Through the Fire.
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I I. Can I mean the easy goes on easy
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that that? Yeah, that goes on easy for me.
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I, I love those games though. One of the first things that I
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bought, that my wife and I bought when we got married was
25:02
Rock Band on like the PlayStation 4 I think.
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And we would play like we bought all the Fall Out Boy expansion
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songs, all the killers. Yeah, Green Day, I think also
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had like a whole, a whole thing on, on, on that game.
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I I think it was Rock Band 4 maybe, or Rock Band 3.
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I don't know. I don't even.
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Remember, there was that Guitar Hero.
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That was Guitar Hero. I Yeah.
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I remember 'cause I I had it, the first Guitar Hero game I got
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for the PS2, my parents got it for me for Christmas and it was
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the like the the 80s one. And I'm pretty sure I got that.
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I got that one Aerosmith one. Yeah, it had.
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I swear it had Oingo Boingo up there too.
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Let's see, I let me pull up the list that I know from my heart
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and didn't just Google. I'll see Oingo Boingo.
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Maybe it was Rock Band. That's some great songs though.
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I mean like classic rock. Like, yeah, they had Franz
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Ferdinand Take Me Out. That was one of my favourites to
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play for sure. Which one was that?
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On more than a feeling, that's like Guitar Hero 1.
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Oh yeah, I never had. You So you had Guitar Hero 2?
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No, I had the it's like the 80s one.
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It's called rocks, the 80s. The 80s.
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Rocks the 80s. I see.
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Never mind I'm I'm looking at the wrong thing.
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I. Just remember Only a Lad.
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Yeah, by Oingo Boingo, you're right.
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Did you have like a go to song when you played Guitar Hero?
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Any of them. Me or or Jordan?
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Either one of y'all. I'll let you go, Phil.
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I I mean, and I'm looking at like the original list, I would
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say Take Me Out was probably that for me or let's see,
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there's Take Me Out and then more than a feeling, you know,
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nothing like a little Boston. I heard that.
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I heard that song today in the wild.
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I love Boston. Yep.
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Oh and fat lip by Sum 41. I forgot that was on there.
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That was a good one. That's.
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Which one is that on? That's on the original, but
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yeah, the original PlayStation 2, Yep.
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Did y'all ever had a? Hero. 2.
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I did a fucking hand. This this week he doesn't have a
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list song list you say? Buckethead.
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Yeah, the song was called Jordan, ironically.
28:19
Hey, there you go. Oh, yeah, that I they had this
28:25
was a great. They had Killing in the name of
28:31
Message in the Bottle by the Police, which is a great song.
28:35
I love that song. Woman by Wolfmother.
28:39
That's a good song. I feel like my most of my
28:41
classical, my classic rock knowledge comes from Guitar
28:47
Hero. I would probably say I at least
28:53
my at least my love for for a lot of it.
28:56
Yeah, my dad like, loves like 80s hair metal.
29:00
So I got a lot of that. I got a lot of that from him.
29:05
But I'm I'm looking at the Rock Band like the song list for the
29:11
original 1 and I'm remembering so many songs that I forgot was
29:16
up there. I don't even remember Dead on
29:19
Arrival by Fall Out Boy being up.
29:20
There creep when we were young by the killers.
29:25
Don't fear the Reaper. Oh yeah, Danny, California.
29:29
I remember hearing that song for the first time.
29:32
Epic by Faith No More. That makes me want to get a
29:35
guitar controller and play Rock Band.
29:38
Flirting with Disaster by Molly Hatchet.
29:40
What a song. Is this is this the first rock
29:43
band? This is welcome.
29:45
Homeless on there by cooking and Cambria.
29:48
I don't remember that but. So I think that may have been
29:51
one of the bonus ones. Maybe yeah, my favorite Weezer
29:59
song. Say it ain't so.
30:02
I remember that's how I found Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters.
30:07
Yeah, I remember cuz like in the bridge whenever like he takes
30:11
his voice lower than the rest of the song.
30:13
I was like 8 years old or something.
30:15
I could not hit that. I was so mad.
30:20
I always failed that song. Had to wait a few more years.
30:27
Oh, what else? So.
30:27
I'm gonna, I'm gonna take, I'm gonna take this opportunity to
30:31
like cut over to another thing that you listed.
30:35
And we could spend as little or as much time on this as you
30:37
want, but you had boy bands listed as, as one of your
30:41
things. I'd love to hear your.
30:45
I'd love to hear your boy bands take on things.
30:53
The world would be a lot better place if there were still boy
30:55
bands is my opinion. Good ones.
31:01
Good ones? What are who?
31:02
Who would you consider good boy bands?
31:06
I know they're always pitted against each other, but *NSYNC
31:09
and Backstreet Boys, Boys to men.
31:11
I know that was probably going to be 1 of Turner's answers, 98°
31:20
and so for real, I guess you could they'd be considered 1.
31:24
I don't know if they'd be more of a vocal group.
31:27
Yeah, yeah, that's a boy band. Turner knows a lot more than me,
31:30
too. I'm going to pass it on to
31:31
Turner. I've named my 6.
31:32
OK, so yeah, Backstreet Boys In Sync, 98° for sure.
31:41
Big Time Rush. They they were later later on.
31:44
How could I forget? How could I forget?
31:52
But yeah, that boy bands were like huge when I was growing up.
31:58
And yeah, the world would be a better place if we had more
32:02
songs like that. It seems like we've we've gotten
32:09
out of that phase of music. We've evolved.
32:12
I guess we need to go back to what were we?
32:15
Saying I was. I was going to say, do you
32:18
remember the band together? They were like a joke boy band,
32:22
but also like really good. No that I need to they have like
32:28
a. Whole movie yeah, it's like
32:30
together they had a song called You plus me equals us.
32:34
There's like one random old guy in the band.
32:37
It's yeah, it's it's it's pretty funny yeah.
32:41
I I I I, I would definitely say I was like a secret boy band
32:49
enjoyer like 2. It wasn't.
32:51
Cool to light. It wasn't cool to light boy
32:53
bands growing up. I.
32:56
Look back in there like man, this music is actually really
32:58
good. Yeah, he's like.
32:59
Songwriters. I had absolutely no social cues
33:03
about it. So like my mom had to like
33:06
explain to me that, like sometimes people found that kind
33:09
of like corny, like I'd go to school singing *NSYNC.
33:15
I remember my mom. I don't remember if it was the
33:18
greatest hits, but it was like a White Album and it had each of
33:21
their faces like in like singular slots on the front, I
33:26
don't remember which. I think that was the first
33:28
album. Was that the first album?
33:30
That's the first one had that album and it lived in her CD
33:34
player. Who's who?
33:36
Who did I swear Turner? Was it all for one?
33:40
That's all for one that I forgot should have listed them.
33:47
What was the There was that band that that started as a as like a
33:53
reality TV show? What was that band called?
34:00
Reality TV show. Yeah, there was a reality TV
34:05
show and I'm I'm going to remember this later and I'm
34:09
going to feel really dumb. No, this was like back in the
34:13
day. They had like one song that was
34:19
that was really good. It's not One Direction, is it?
34:24
No, this is a similar idea but it was they all like lived in
34:29
the same house and. Wait, are you talking about the
34:36
Naked Brothers Band? No, no, no, no, no.
34:42
Sorry, I was you said reality show and that was kind of framed
34:48
like when it. Was it was like a reality TV
34:50
show and now I feel now I feel really dumb.
34:52
What was what in the heck? I'm over here Googling which is.
34:56
O Town. O Town.
34:59
It was O town. Is that because I want it all?
35:06
They're not in at all. Yeah, I think so.
35:09
There's no in it that's a good song.
35:13
Yeah, they had like that, that. Band spawned from like ATV show
35:17
called Making the Band. I did not know that.
35:22
Oh, there you go, I some of my old man knowledge passed on to
35:25
you about boy bands. I don't know if y'all remember,
35:28
do y'all remember when Sumerian Records did like their own kind
35:31
of like version of like making artists better?
35:35
It was almost like an America's Got Talent type of thing, but
35:40
it's like artists or bands would come up and they'd perform and
35:44
then they would get reviewed by like, I remember Tosun Abbasi
35:48
was up there fucking Gavin Rossdale from Bush, who I think
35:53
is a fucking pretentious Dick, but he's a good songwriter.
35:58
What was it?
36:12
I think it's called No Cover. Yeah.
36:18
That wasn't even that long ago. Nah it was.
36:21
It was pretty like post 2020 post shift in the universe.
36:31
Post post corvid corvid COVID. I have the corvid.
36:38
That's cool. I'm not add this to my list.
36:41
Yeah, post, post corvid Post corvid.
36:44
My my kids make fun of me because I can't pronounce
36:50
anything. My kids make fun of me for a lot
36:52
of reasons. I have it.
36:55
Terrible. I believe you're talking.
36:58
Words are not my friend. It's hard.
37:02
So let's, let's let's talk wrestling for a minute.
37:04
Turner I I don't know very much. As I've mentioned, I've gotten a
37:10
little more into it since I talked to Mike.
37:13
What is what is your like entry point to wrestling?
37:16
Like were like, were you like wrestling with your your
37:19
siblings as a kid or your friends as a kid?
37:21
Like what? What was?
37:21
Your my cousin. My cousin had a bunch of like
37:25
wrestling video games. I'd go over to his house and
37:28
play it. He had this one right here,
37:32
played that, and then on the weekends when this came out, we
37:35
would go rent this every single weekend and play it.
37:38
And then I'm like, oh, this is so cool.
37:40
He's like, well, you know, we can watch it.
37:42
And so I got introduced to wrestling from the video games.
37:46
I'm like, that's Stone Cold. Oh my, that's The Rock.
37:50
That he's a real person. That's so cool.
37:52
Remember, you had to use your imagination though.
37:55
That's what made it so much more magical.
37:58
And they were all polygons. And like, he's like shaped like
38:01
a real person in real life. Who's your who'd he say is your
38:06
like, favorite wrestler? Tag team, Tag team, that would
38:10
be the Hardy Boys because they're North Carolina and all
38:15
of all time, I guess would be Stone Cold Steve Austin.
38:18
They don't take no shit. That's a good pick.
38:23
That's a good pick. Mine is Edge.
38:26
And it was. It was funny.
38:28
Yeah, Edge. When I was a kid, so when Stone
38:35
Cold would come out, you hear the the glass break and he'd
38:38
like come come out to the ring. The Offspring had like a radio
38:43
edit version of why don't you get a job?
38:47
And they say my friend has a girlfriend and he hates that.
38:52
And they would use glass breaking to bleep out the curse
38:54
word. I would play that song like in
38:57
my room and when the glass broke out, I'll walk into my room like
38:59
stone cold. To the offspring.
39:03
Fantastic. I love That was your That's Your
39:06
walk on song, huh? That's that's the one.
39:10
Love it. And now I have a job and I hate
39:14
it. Yeah, that I have a job.
39:17
Yes, me too. I, I think my, so I'm going to,
39:25
I'm like, one of the things that I remember a lot from those
39:30
games is playing as like mankind and like his finisher is just
39:35
pulling out. Mr. Sacco.
39:37
And. What is this?
39:39
But I love it, you know? I still don't understand the
39:42
wrestling physics of how that move is supposed to like knock
39:45
you out, but I guess it works. Yeah.
39:49
So. You know the sock.
39:53
When I was a kid I thought it was like the sock smelled so bad
39:57
that like it just you're just like.
40:01
I mean, you're probably right. I mean, you know where he pulled
40:05
it out of his pants. So like, who knows where that
40:07
sock's been? Who knows, it could have been.
40:10
He could have been in there for a long time.
40:12
Big footy guy. Mid match, lots of sweat.
40:17
Yeah, that's awful. That's why he did it at the end.
40:21
Was a who's a wrestler Santino The wasn't even the.
40:27
Santino Marella Yeah, yeah. Santino Marella.
40:34
He's he's funny. I am not familiar with him, but
40:40
interesting. He's got a similar, kind of
40:44
similar concept like a Yeah, he doesn't sticking like in your
40:48
mouth, but he sticks it on and wrestling's weird.
40:58
It is weird. Are you, so I know you mentioned
41:01
you're not like, are you a current wrestling fan?
41:04
Like do you keep up with any of the?
41:07
I dip in and out. I'm kind of keeping up with
41:10
everything on Instagram. I see like all the stuff going
41:13
on solo. Sokola, he's doing his best work
41:17
right now. He was originally just like a
41:19
silent badass, and now he's kind of more of a comedic Comic
41:25
Relief character. He's really getting over with
41:28
the crowd. I love to see it because like,
41:31
it's just his characters night and day from where he started.
41:35
Yeah. He was like an enforcer for
41:37
Roman Reigns and now he's like get just making the crowd laugh
41:42
and it's it's good to see. Do you watch any AEW?
41:47
Yeah, a little bit. Not right now.
41:51
I started, I watched it when it like first started.
41:55
Young Bucks are a great tag team.
42:00
Chris Cherico's still out there. Really.
42:04
Yeah. Chris Cherico.
42:09
Hangman, Adam. Page, Simmons, Forbes,
42:11
Strickland had this brutal death match.
42:15
A lot of thumbtacks, a lot of blood, if you're into that kind
42:21
of thing. Do you feel like watching
42:24
wrestling makes you a better musician?
42:29
That's a good question. It kind of makes me put into
42:34
perspective like what would what would they be fighting over like
42:38
music wise right now? Like how can I put, how can I
42:42
put this match into music? So you you think about like the
42:48
song that we playing in the background.
42:50
Yeah, if it was a movie like what song would what found it
42:54
song would be playing in the background And why is it front
42:57
row seats? Any any high adrenaline event
43:03
it's automatically front row seats.
43:10
So F1's another one that you guys have here.
43:12
And another thing that I honestly know absolutely nothing
43:15
about is that, is that a shared interest as well?
43:20
That's a me interest. I'm a relatively new F1 fan.
43:25
So quick story, I used to watch NASCAR when I was younger.
43:30
Maybe about 1015 years ago, I worked at a radio station that
43:34
would play the radio broadcast. And over the years, I've just
43:39
stopped listening and watching NASCAR.
43:42
And Kyle Busch passed away this past May.
43:46
I believe it was the weekend of the Coke 600.
43:50
So I decided to, like, get back and, like, see all the tributes
43:54
and stuff to him and start watching the race.
43:57
I'm like, oh, yeah, I used to watch this.
44:01
Yeah, this is kind of awesome. And then it just gravitated.
44:06
It grew from there. I'm like, oh, we'll see what
44:08
this F1 thing is all about. Oh, IndyCar is cool too and just
44:13
kind of got into all stuff racing.
44:16
So give me a little bit more about that.
44:21
Like especially especially like comparing them as someone who
44:25
knows nothing. Like I've I've seen NASCAR on TV
44:29
but never actually watched it. Like what's the difference from?
44:34
I mean, I know obviously the the types of cars are different, but
44:37
what what's the difference between watching it a NASCAR
44:40
race and watching an F1 race? Well, NASCAR, they're most of
44:46
the time just driving in a circle and F1, I guess the cars
44:52
are a whole lot faster and they drive mostly on my Rd. courses
44:56
where they kind of different kinds of turns and stuff.
45:01
Same thing with IndyCar, but they do race on Oval ovals and
45:05
IndyCar. But NASCAR, I guess I, I grew up
45:09
watching it, so I'm more gravitating towards it.
45:12
But I do have like a love for F1.
45:16
Yeah. What it what is it about NASCAR
45:20
that you that like is is compelling?
45:23
Like how do you is it the I know again, like I know very little
45:28
about it. So help me understand, like why
45:31
would someone want to get into NASCAR?
45:33
Like, what is it about it that draws you in?
45:37
If you like watching people drive fast, I guess the strategy
45:42
of like, OK, I need to get 2 tires at this pit stop.
45:46
I need to get a quarter tank of fuel.
45:50
Just the strategy that goes into it and staying on the lead lap
45:54
and who is at the end of it over like 500 miles after three,
46:00
three hours of like driving just a lot of washing cars, driving
46:09
circles out on that. And it's easy to follow.
46:12
When you enjoy looked at it, but yeah.
46:16
There beer makes everything better, I guess.
46:22
The last thing on the list here is nostalgia and it says old
46:26
commercials and viral videos. So.
46:29
What's Jordan? Yeah, give me give me some, some
46:33
examples of of. What that means, I feel like
46:36
that's Turner too. But I like, you know, like I
46:40
don't know if you remember like llamas with hats or the little
46:43
like marshmallow people with like triangle lady.
46:48
I don't know if you remember that I.
46:50
Don't know what you're talking about, but.
46:52
It's like, it's like old YouTube, Yeah.
46:56
OK, I do. I do.
46:58
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
47:00
I I I vaguely remember watching llamas with Hats.
47:05
One that. No idea what that is.
47:07
One that is like around the same time that by the same creator it
47:14
looks like is Charlie the Unicorn.
47:18
Oh yeah, I love Charlie the Unicorn.
47:22
Turner, you don't remember llamas with hats.
47:27
It doesn't ring a bell. Why would you do that?
47:32
This poor human? You don't remember that?
47:38
Well, this is this is very exciting.
47:43
I forgot that llamas with hats existed, my kids, our big
47:48
Charlie the Unicorn fans, and now I have a whole new series of
47:53
things to show them. So thank you whole new.
47:55
Series. But do you know what is the
47:58
marshmallow? Marshmallow people.
48:03
Yeah. I think it's just called
48:07
marshmallow people. Oh, it is, yeah.
48:09
So. I don't know why, but like when
48:11
it first came out, I used to love annoying Orange.
48:14
Like that was that was right up my I was right up my alley.
48:18
That and Weird Al. I had a crazy Weird Al phase
48:21
when I was like 10. Like feel like that's a phase
48:23
that you should never grow out of.
48:25
It's, you know. Well, yeah, I mean, you still
48:29
listen. But like I was, I knew every
48:35
song that like he had at the time, word for word, like white
48:41
and nerdy. I lived by that.
48:45
Eat it. I also lived by that.
48:49
Sure. Have you seen the the biopic
48:55
with yeah, Daniel Radcliffe? Yeah, we watched.
48:59
Hilarious. Yeah.
49:01
It was great. It's so good the.
49:03
Madonna. What are some other?
49:06
What are some other like old school YouTube things that you
49:11
were into? Oh.
49:13
Man just thinking about old youtubers or is this dude his
49:18
username just used to be Damian but then he went by like make me
49:23
bad 35 this. He just used to be very, like,
49:28
screaming at you, almost like through the camera.
49:32
And it was, you know, I was already bouncing off the walls
49:36
as a kid, and that type of energy was bouncing off the
49:39
walls. So it was, it just seemed to
49:42
work. It seemed to be right up my
49:44
alley. That, and he also played guitar.
49:46
And I was like, ah, this guy's this guy.
49:48
Like, he's funny and he can play a mean riff.
49:52
Heck yeah. But very, very old, like YouTube
49:58
stuff and like old YouTube humor, like back in the day.
50:03
But whenever I think I'm old YouTube, that's who I that's
50:07
who, you know, really comes to mind that like fucking Jenna
50:11
Marbles. I used to watch Jenna Marbles
50:14
all the time. Yeah.
50:16
Remember when. Oh my God, she is.
50:25
She is something else. It's not YouTube per SE because
50:32
it started as like a flash website.
50:33
Do you ever watch any like home star runner?
50:37
I don't think so, no. No, you guys are too young.
50:42
What was a little it's just a little too it's it's pre YouTube
50:45
I think by a couple years. Have you ever seen like Teen
50:49
Girl Squad? I don't think I have.
50:56
That's another good one. If you if you like, like Charlie
50:59
the Unicorn and that that the marshmallow people that kind of
51:02
stuff like teen girl squads. Also very good.
51:05
I have. To check that out, that that's
51:08
so right up my alley. Yeah, yeah.
51:12
I'll send it. I'll send you.
51:13
I'll send you those recommendations.
51:19
Yeah, I I was very much into the, like, home star runner of
51:25
it all. It was, it was a website
51:27
calledhomestarrunner.com. It was like a Flash website.
51:30
And so they were just Flash cartoons and they were these
51:33
weird characters. There was a character named
51:36
Strongbat who would answer emails every week.
51:38
And he was like a wrestler. Like he had like a luchador mask
51:42
on and boxing gloves and he would just sit at his computer
51:47
in his boxing gloves and type responses to emails.
51:51
That's where like Trogdor the burn inator comes from.
51:53
I don't know if are you familiar with that at all.
51:57
I'm saying. Stuff out and you guys are like,
51:58
I have no idea what that is. What's that?
52:03
It's good. I'll give you a list of of
52:05
things to check out. We'll have to post ball.
52:11
Fingers you ever. You ever?
52:13
Oh my God, yeah, I I love salad things.
52:18
Yeah, I like it when the red water, it still freaks me.
52:20
Out to this day the. The the lore and everything
52:25
behind it is crazy. I used to that and like Jeff the
52:29
killer had me in like a not a trance, but I was just so
52:34
fascinated, was so creepy and so interesting at the same time.
52:39
Yeah, yeah, I, I also did a whole episode not on, not on
52:45
creepypasta so much. We did talk about creepypasta a
52:48
little bit, but we it was more like SCP focused with Brandon
52:52
from Aren't We Amphibians? That's another thing that I
52:58
don't know that much about, but like, I think there's this like,
53:04
weird internal fascination in every human being that's like,
53:08
that kind of scares me. And now I need to read about it
53:11
on the Internet. That's a cool thing, and it's.
53:15
Like we have murdered documents. Too 'cause they make games about
53:18
the creepypasta. Yeah, the murder documentaries.
53:21
Yeah, yeah. Or like, like the back rooms,
53:26
right? Yeah.
53:28
The slendering. Games liminal space thing.
53:31
Well, we are. We're getting close to time
53:34
here. Let's talk about Found it for a
53:36
few minutes. So you guys just put out a new
53:40
album? I was at your release show which
53:42
was so much fun. Thank you.
53:46
Thank you. Thank you like the and for for
53:51
people listening to weren't there, which is probably most of
53:53
the people. It was at this place in Raleigh
53:57
called Neptunes. And at 10:00, it stops being a
54:01
venue and they start doing like emo karaoke night.
54:07
And so the show went kind of long and you guys like started
54:09
playing at 10:00. And so the room was just full,
54:13
like packed with founded fans, but also with all these like,
54:18
emo karaoke people who were showing up for emo karaoke.
54:21
And hopefully new founded fans. New founded fans.
54:25
That's that's right. That's what we call it.
54:27
You, you can recognize people who come out to like your shows
54:32
in the area often, especially like when you're like us and
54:34
you're still playing locally. I, I saw people who I've never
54:38
seen before, like with their phones out recording us.
54:41
I was like, hey, you know, how are you?
54:45
I hope we sound all right out there.
54:46
I can't tell but. You sounded great.
54:51
It was my first time at a founded show, which I think is
54:53
funny because it was also like my 8th time at a Blank State
54:57
show this year and somehow I haven't been to a found it show.
55:00
But I, I was, I was very excited.
55:05
I, I definitely, I love the new album.
55:08
I don't know a whole lot of your older music to be fair, but the
55:12
new album is very good. What is the name of the new
55:14
album again? A goodbye letter to you and.
55:19
That came out last week. Yes, it.
55:23
She's in about. Two hours and 55 minutes.
55:27
It'll have been out in the OR 4 weeks all.
55:32
Right. And for people listening to this
55:33
like 3 or 4 weeks from now that that was the September 4th.
55:40
September 4th, 2025. Very, very catchy.
55:48
Thank you, I I am terrible at names and that has nothing to do
55:53
with how much I actually like the song so I'm looking it up.
55:56
I found it sucks to be friends with the guys and found it is so
56:01
catchy. I wake up with that song stuck
56:03
in my head sometimes. It's good, It's good.
56:08
That's good. Well, that, that means a lot to
56:11
hear 'cause like, you know, we, we make the music for ourselves.
56:15
But I, I had this conversation with my partner.
56:18
It's, it's nice for us to write things and either people be
56:22
like, oh, hey, that sounds good, or like it, it resonate with
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somebody in some kind of way. It, it, it's very fulfilling.
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Like it's very fulfilling. So it's, it's, it's nice to see
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that and to hear about it. And and thank you for listening.
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Well I'm definitely a big fan. So you found at least one new
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fan with with a goodbye letter to you.
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I'm sure you will find a a lot more.
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Hopefully you know some like people.
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Go check it out. Go check out a goodbye letter to
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you. I know you guys have a few shows
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coming up as well. Yeah, we've, let's see on
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September 26th, I believe it is, that's a Saturday we're playing,
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we're playing a BMX event, which is pretty sick.
57:08
They're having a competition and they're just people riding
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around. They call it a jam, but it's
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pretty cool. Me and Turner have played at one
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before, but yeah, this time we're we're playing as us and
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it's going to happen after the event.
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And then you guys are playing in Tennessee at like a like a punk
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rock prom or something like your emo prom or something like that.
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So we we've played in Johnson City before at Capone's and it
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was a great. It's actually a pretty cool
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setup. They have a little club in the
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back. So like while we're playing and
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like we have a crowd, there's people going into the club and
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then people either going into the club or out of the club
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would sometimes just come over and just watch the set.
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So it's a pretty cool setup because both places jump pretty
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good. But yeah, we're we're doing an
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emo prom out there, which it's our first time doing something
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like that. So you know, we're we're going
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to bring some covers. Got a bust out the old Fall Out
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Boy. Love it.
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When is that? That is October I believe.
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I don't want to give you the wrong date, October 24th.
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All right, well, thank you guys for coming on and and talking to
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me for a little while. If you haven't had go check out
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found it wherever you stream music and if you're in the area,
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make sure you go down to a found it jokes.
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They're you guys have a ton of energy.
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It's a lot of fun. Really enjoy it.
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Thank you. We try.
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We. Really appreciate it man.