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What's up. I'm John, I'm
Marley, and I'm Mikayla, and you're
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listening to on the Playlist and I
Heart Radio New Music podcast. All right,
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well, welcome to a special edition
of the On the Playlist podcast.
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We're getting to know some new friends
today. We've got a band in the
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studio with us, one we're pretty
excited about. They are a newer band
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but over social media have been making
a huge impact and they make some pretty
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fun music. Marley and Mikayla here. We're at one of their shows the
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other day and could not stop raving
about the energy in the room during their
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live shows. And they have just
been singing their lyrics NonStop around the office
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all day, which you're gonna hear
about in just a minute here. But
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they have a really fun story and
they're overall just a great hang. I
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really think you're gonna like them.
So we might find some new fans today,
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kickback and meet some of our new
friends. Zach, Bill, Julian
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and Tristan better known as the band
People are Ugly. I could easily fit
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this in my mouth if I wanted. We're kind of nervous because I think
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Mikayla's met you before. Yes,
yes, I hadn't yet. So we
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were trying to set up these seats
because we have a side studio right now
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and there's not not a lot of
mics in here. So when we were
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trying to set these up, I
was trying to sit in all the chairs.
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But I'm like kind of a skinnier
dude, and I didn't know like
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how big you guys were going to
be. You guys are We're very large.
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Yeah, we're large. We're large
people. I think so, at
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least to me, I feel so
dainty. Okay, think I appreciate it.
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Yeah, he's the small and dainty
one. I am the small Yeah,
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that's okay though. Well, it's
nice to meet you guys. Thanks
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for coming in. People are ugly, of course, thank you. People
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are ugly. We've been We've been
pretty punk to have you guys in here,
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actually because they went to your show
at the Mint, and no joke,
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dude, like since that show,
they have been coming in screaming your
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lyrics through the halls of wastfielding ever
since. Like they introduced me to you
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guys. They just walked in.
They were like, I apologize fund out,
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oh god, singing that song that
it's like, I'm not kidding you.
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I step out of bed and I'm
like, I recently found out Will
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Smith was a rapper, and I'm
like, wait, I didn't because I
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didn't. I did know he was
around. You did know? Am I
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the only one? Yeah? The
time, the entire time, it's just
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lyrics to a song. Yeah,
well, well well no, actually two
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of those are true. I didn't
know that the Lego movie was great.
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He hasn't seen it. And that's
a phenomenal movie. I've heard, like
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people say I've heard Lego movie.
I hear that I've seen it. I
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fell asleep watch them. It's one
of my favorite movies. And I was
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like, when we were writing the
song, right before we read the lyric,
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I was like, the Lego movie
is amazing, and sex pistles the
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thing for penis. Of course.
Yeah, I didn't realize that either.
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That's like one of those like,
oh why didn't I think of that?
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People Like people go on and on
about how good that Lego movie is,
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Like there's a Lego Batman. People
say it's better than Christian Bale, Like
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the Lego movie is great too,
really yeah, yeah, and Lego Movie
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wanted everything's awesome, Like everything's not
awesome. Damn deep, I've never seen
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it. So that's what's went over
this last week. Though I don't watch
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a lot of movies. Yeah,
yeah, she's not a big movie girl.
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Did you see him? Pharrell has
like a biopic coming out. Oh
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my god, Yeah, that looks
awesome. It looks it looks awesome.
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I know. I was pumped about
that. I was like, I don't
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know how that's gonna work though,
But like a whole lego movie based on
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Pharrell's like story. I guess,
yes, pray the genius for him to
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do that, or I think genius. I guess we'll find out if it's
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good or not. Speaking of story
though, so like walk me through yours
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real quick, because they were telling
me a little bit about it. Was
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it like kind of a bit how
this band got together? Like what is
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the story behind that? Yeah?
Yeah, so he tells the story.
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So I'm just going, do you
want a real story? Do you want
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a real story? Go for it. The real story is I got a
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gig at the whiskey of Go Go. Without knowing any of them, I
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would write venues all around la and
line and say I had a band,
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because all I want to do was
perform. And then they responded being like,
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hey, we have an opening in
seven days, and I just like,
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yes, I'm in. I'm a
drummer and I can't sing and I
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don't have anything, So how does
this like, how does that conversation go?
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When you hit up a venue?
I was just like, Hey,
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can I open for this show in
a month? I mean I did it
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with almost every venue in LA went
college. I just I wanted to perform.
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I grew CRuMs Chapman. Oh cool, so you're look yeah, oh
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see, yeah, but I'm from
I'm from Philadelphia, so I grew up
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playing in the School of Rock and
all that, then gave it off to
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go to college and was a baseball
player. Oh and then and then yeah,
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I mean I wanted to perform again, wrote all the venues just being
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like, Hi, can I play. I don't know what would have happened
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if they said yes. Anyway,
the whiskey said yes my dream venue,
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and I found these guys on Instagram
that that week. Okay, what I
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tell you, guys were friends before
I was still they all know each other.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, so
this was what twenty twenty one.
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Yeah, one, like right right
as shows were coming back from COVID,
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which is I think part of the
reason why they said yes to some random
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kid. But uh wait, what
did that do? Yeah? What did?
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What did he say? I don't
know, dude. I was like,
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Hey, I have a show at
the Whiskey a go go on Friday?
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Would you like to play with me? What? I forgot the action
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when he sent you guys that Instagram
to you more, you guys like what,
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I was like, yeah, fuck
it. I kind of thought it
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was a scam too, but then
I didn't really know what he was going
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to gain from scamming us there.
So yeah, like I have really not
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a lot of money, I kind
of had to go with it. Yeah,
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so how did you find them?
So? I saw I think Zach
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singing like on an Instagram story,
Oh wow, And I was like,
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yeah, like that kid can sing. They had the three of them actually
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had a song come out like that
month together. So you guys know each
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other. Yeah, yeah, we
knew each other made music all that.
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Yeah, we just kind of did
our own thing. But then yeah,
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like we got that damn from him
or like whatever. I honestly forgot what
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it was. We actually didn't find
that, but yeah, I could probably
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scroll back. But anyways, like
I don't know, like I feel like
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we were all just like why not, Like why would we not play show?
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I'd never played live before, I'd
never sang in front of a crowd,
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I'd never done anything. That was
the first time performing for yeah,
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first time. Every yeah mentioned like
all of my favorite bands started out at
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the Whiskey Go Go. Of all
the venues I was emailing, they were
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my number one choice, So like, who are some of those bands that
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opened for I mean Van Halen started
there. I mean every eighties rock band
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has played out the Whiskey Wow and
for such a small venue. I mean
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I went there the first time.
I was like, this is it Becau.
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It's kind of tiny sea It's like
five hundred people, but like the
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doors were the house bands there growing
up. Motley Cruz started was had to
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played their first concert there. So
like all those eighties hair metal bands,
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which the two of us like,
hell yeah, so what did you guys
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perform? Just like a bunch of
well, like we all made music before
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that, so like we we had
songs just like a random like collections of
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songs to choose from Yeah, right, so like we had that. We
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also came together and wrote a couple
originals too for that show, like in
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the like week leading up to there. But yeah, yeah, we just
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yeah, we just ripped and sent
it. And that's a brag. But
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of all of those songs we played
in our first show, I had one
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that I wrote as a joke,
and that is the only song from that
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show that I think we still perform. Yeah, they we still play that
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regrets And that's actually my voice singing
on the song. He loves to brag
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about that. The drummer sings a
song ringo Star. So that show went
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so good that you decided to be
a real band? Yeah, sorry,
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am I gonna let me really quick? You get to talk now. Yeah,
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I think it actually went really No, it was like it was a
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lot of fun. Like I flew
in to play that show. Some from
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Canada's like I flew in to play
the concert with them, and I was
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like, Okay, I guess at
this point, I'll join a band one
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more time kind of see what happens. But yeah, we just kept kept
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going. So have you guys ever
like joined bands with other guys And I
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didn't work out like they weren't chill
or whatever. This is my first band.
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He's the season vet. That was
like kind of sour to it.
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Yeah. I was in like five
failed ones, like growing up from high
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school through college in Canada. And
then when Zach hit me up being like,
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hey, this guy DMed us to
like, you know, work on
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some music and like play a show. Would you be down? I was
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like, I don't know, dude, I can't do this again. And
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that's the show. I'm like,
I'll fly in for one show. I'm
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like, I haven't played a show
in la. I'm like crossing off my
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list. I'll do it. And
then it was like one of the nuts
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shows I've ever played personal, you
know. I was like, Okay,
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I'll stick around. So we think
this one's going places. Then I don't
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know yet. I'm still waiting for
it. We're like two three years and
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now like I'm still waiting for the
red flags start popping up. Where's my
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goddamn check goddamn jet? So like, what is the reason that the other
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bands, like, what's the main
reason other bands would fall apart? To
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be perfectly honest, what I found
was two things. So it's usually lack
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of communication amongst the four of you
guys at the end of the day,
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as much of our friends like and
business partners. Yea, it is kind
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of like a weird relationship in a
way. So it's like we're basically out
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dating each other at this point.
We want to check in make sure,
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like you know, no one's egos
getting fueled too much, no one's feeling
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like they're not being hurt. So
that usually falls apart. Lead singers tend
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to be a problem sometimes Damn,
I don't'm joking. I'm joking. Doesn't
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look like is not. Yeah,
No, it's usually just like lack of
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care amongst each other, and like
you know, you have four bashing heads
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out at all times, right,
so as long as everyone's on the same
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page, usually goes smoothly. But
like any relationship, yeah exactly, yeah,
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exactly. Wait, we're dating one, we're dating? Can we kiss?
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Okay, dude, I've like always
been a big proponent that, like
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you can kiss the homies. Oh
yeah, we do, like on stage,
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like every show, every show on
the lips. Yeah weird. Yeah,
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No, it's I've been telling people
for the long time. So I
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work on a radio morning show and
I'm the youngest one on there, and
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they like have a hard time processing
that. They're like, like, what
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do you mean you kiss the homies? Like, it's not weird unless you
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make it weird. Yeah, just
give your b Yeah. Does I mean
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a little kiss good night too?
Yeah? A little kiss a night also
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lives in the house. I have
five guy roommates, so it's like,
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yeah, So, what's been like
the biggest challenge of staying in the band
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so far? Like, has it
been pretty smooth sailing since twenty twenty one?
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I mean biggest challenge, I would
say, like, for so we
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started doing really well on social media
recently, but for for two years,
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what people don't know is we were
getting two hundred to three hundred views on
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everything, every every single social clip
and trying to figure out these algorithms that
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now run almost every industry. Yeah, and uh like putting so much work
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and effort into these videos that would
be seen by maybe two to three hundred
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people. I feel like that's been
the biggest struggle, including for me,
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because like even in radio, like
now you can be a radio personality,
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that's one thing, but like influencers
just run it, like you also have
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to have the social numbers. So
I feel like you get through that stage
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of just putting out shit that doesn't
go anywhere, and you're like, damn
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is everyone seeing this fail? Like
it's crazy that you did that for two
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years? Yeah, Like what do
you tell yourself when you don't see traction
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for months? Well, I mean
like we told ourself that, like we
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were shadow band. We're like,
oh, like we got to be shadow
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band. We suck? These videos
are great? Was nobodys saying them?
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It's like no, like the videos
just were kind of mid like we weren't
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really pushing them right, Like we're
just like like thinking that we like deserve
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to go viral when like we weren't
actually making the good content. And then
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I don't like when did it like
flip do you remember? I think it
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was Branda? Yeah, it was
branded, yeah, brand people off.
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People loved it. So I've seen
in the comments that it pisses people off.
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With shocks me like, why what
is it? Why do people get
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pissed over that? I mean,
first of all, I don't smoke weed.
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I don't As I said, I
don't smoke weed at all, and
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we we when we enjoy writing retretes
and Joshua Trees. So Bill got me
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higher than I've ever been in my
life watching these clips and those lyrics.
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I don't even know where they came
from. And I remember like reading them
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off the paper to them and we
all looked at you, shir like yeah,
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that's it, like crazy, and
yeah, I think the lyrics are
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so simple. They're memorable, and
they're I don't think they're controversial, but
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like they're opinionated and pissed people off
for some reason, yeah, really badly.
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I don't know why people get so
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whenever you have an opinion, people
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uh, I don't know, it's
just it was just stating facts though it
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is actually wait, it's non opinion
at all. It's actually all true,
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Drake was on Nickelodeon. It's just
a bunch of realizations that people are mad
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that we figured out too late.
Yeah, So what it is when we
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were like, oh my god,
this video is four hundred views, it's
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going viral, and then the next
day it had a million. And then
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what we did is we responded to
every comment in like a nice, thankful
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way, and then people were like
wait, I actually like it, and
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then those people would start arguing,
so it was like this song sucks,
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don't be a musician anymore. And
then people were like, no, I
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love it. Then they would start
fighting, and then the comments section exploded.
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And once you light the fire in
the comments, and do you think
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that's why it's blowing up right now? I see it everywhere, like Braindad
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is everywhere right now. I just
hit over a million streams right on that.
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Yeah, that's huge. So what's
I feel like when you see that?
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So cool? Until we had a
million, we're a real band now,
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manager Wow, But yeah, it
feels really good to millions, like
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a big, a big stepping stone
that a lot of bands I feel like
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aren't fortunate to hit. I also
feel like there's something to like feeling old,
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this is my first time starting to
feel old, which is kind of crazy.
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I feel like once I start to
see the younger thing, like I've
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never felt like an older person before
in my life until right now. Like
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being hung over two beers, I'm
like, what the oh my guy?
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Oh no, come on, I'm
twenty nine, So like I feel you
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so like he's gonna do it happens
like this, man, it's crazy,
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how are your knees that you're so
bad? And I literally stand up and
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it's like I have a bag of
rocks in my knees. It's like there's
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a couple of mornings where'll wake up
and it's just like I really feel the
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pulses go. I'm like, oh
my god, guys, it's for the
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rest of you. It's coming,
like and it's gonna close. He's closer
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overnight. I'm only twenty three,
yeah, babies, Yeah, I'm twenty
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four for twenty seven and I turned
twenty nine like a few weeks. Yeah,
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that's like the age of everyone in
my house. So like that,
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I think we are you, yeah, with less success, though, I
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think the song definitely makes some people
feel old, just like hearing those things.
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Yeah, but yeah, I mean
like I just also think a lot
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of people don't don't realize that like
we are being like ironic of course.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's one of
those songs before. Yeah, like that's
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a funny open and I had yeah
nowadays a social idiot. The first three
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seconds are everything else. Yeah,
we didn't make the song necessarily for so.
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I mean, we didn't even know
if we were going to release it.
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We plaid it for her. There's
a video of it that we released,
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like showing our manager our new song
as a joke and then like,
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okay, wait what was the reaction
there? I don't know what was the
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reaction? Was it absolutely not over
you? Like green Light? Yeah?
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What'd you think? Honestly, it
was pretty shocking. Ever, so I
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was like, what, like,
you guys are messing with me, Like
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this isn't a real song. Yeah. Then it went viral and like our
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labels calling us being like this comes
out next week, Like like yeah,
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see, And I appreciate that too, because like, what pisses me off
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the most on TikTok right now is
when you tease the song for six months.
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Oh yeah, dude, just dropped
the song already, Like I want
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to listen to it. Yeah,
So I respect that. You know.
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What was the video that Sizza commented
on? Oh yeah, that was a
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video of Tristan drumming on top of
this like spinning contraption to that. My
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sister us for AGT. She was
just in the finale of the Fantasy League
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AGT. But she like like uses
like spinny wheel that she like jumped from
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with her hands. I don't know, you have to actually watched the video
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that with her hands. Yeah.
Yeah, she does like contortion and like
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hand balancing and it's crazy. But
we just like have that in our warehouse
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that like she has. But Tristan
put his drums on there and then was
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like spinning, and then we did
like a little funny parody where like Sophie
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like was like, oh, like
this guy asked me on a day,
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YadA, YadA YadA, and then
flip the case like this guy asked me
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on a date, had something cool
to show me, and it's like me
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on this massive contraption playing drums and
spinning. So what's your reaction when you
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look at the notifications and sciss with
the little blue I sent it to all
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of them and they were like,
We're all that's fucking awesome. Was so
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cool? Has she reached out since
or nothing? I love you? Yeah.
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Social media is hard that way,
because like when she has that many
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followers, like, yeah, she's
probably getting millions of dames, but she
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saw your feet were on her feed. Hell yeah, dude, that is
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that's so awesome. What is your
favorite song so far to perform live?
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What if our favorite song isn't released? Really it's not. I don't know
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if it one day will come out. It's this yeah, wait, what
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it's about? Julian Okay, but
like you guys just get to sit there
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and watch. Why don't you tell
them about it? I can't talk about
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this. This is like a radio
podcast. We're talking about it. I
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think we've already seen it. You
guys have seen million unfortunately this song.
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Yeah, unfortunately, we wanted to
come out. Wait, wait, how
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explicit is this? Like feel Free
is about? Yeah? Okay, circumcision,
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circumcisions Okay, So, like I
mean, so we we wrote the
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song twenty three when I told him
about how I got circumcises adult at twenty
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three, and it was like a
joke thing forever. Our label hated us
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YEA for doing it, and we
were going to sign. The week we
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signed with them, they're like,
you got to take this song down off
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of YouTube. Yeah, they made
us take it down because we like just
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put it out as like a joke
with like a music for that we we
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made in like two hours, right, So like we like made and like
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released a song in like two hours
and then we put on YouTube. We
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signed. They're like, nope,
take this down. We're like, god,
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damn a fuck. I thought it
was funny. Yeah. So then
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so then that song just like sat
in the graveyard for so long for over
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a year, and then we randomly
well you know, we've not read.
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We took a meeting at Atlantic and
Zach filmed the video because the guy's like,
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oh, I see some of your
music. It's like, we have
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a lot of joke songs as well, So we just like showed him that
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and Zach caught it on camera and
that just skyrocketed everything and now and then
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we were at a writing retreat in
uh, I don't know, somewhere in
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the middle of nowhere, which we
do occasionally, and we went to this
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bar where there were like five people
that like live in the mountains, like
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mountain man and is that a correct
and we were like, Julian grabbed this
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guitar and placed our twenty three and
he did. I filmed it from the
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corner and like got their reactions.
The big guys in like camouflage half probably
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loved it watching it, and I
think they did, I don't know,
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And that video overnight got ten million
views and now it's out over twenty million,
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twenty million views, so total serve
twenty three. This unreleased song is
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at like forty five to fifty million
views across the films right now, which
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is a lot of people. Yeah, sorry about four skin too, is
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I can say because it's not released. Copying a plain white tea song,
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ye yeah, yeah yeah one and
the plain why ts dms me no,
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saying I had never thought that one, two, three, four whatever have
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these lyrics. I love it,
yes, like we got his like stamp
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of approval. However, as much
as I think we all love it,
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I don't think we're ever going to
put it out. Yeah, I just
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don't know if that will sit right
being our number one song Spotify. You
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know, Yeah, everyone will listen
to and it's like we have other music
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tune. It's like I don't want
that one song just be sitting on the
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top of It's for the live shows, it's for the fans. It's actually
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out on YouTube. You can you
can listen to it with the little like
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music video on you have been before
the two live shows? Yes, how
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many views that? Like we went
we were playing so Wet Festival last week
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and we're two songs in Like these
guys are like Cert twenty three play the
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Circumcision song Like I was literally asking, tell me about your skin. So
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they knew of the song, they
wanted to hear it. So what was
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like, was there any like weird
reactions in the audience like about it?
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Yeah, there's like definitely always weird
weird reactions from people who whether to go
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to Land. We know what our
own shows like that mint like it's gonna
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Land. That was my first time
hearing the song. I had no idea
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about it. We don't say what
it was like, how do you feel
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like when like the entire crowd was
like, where's my foreskin? We looked
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at each other. I was like, we were like, what's going on?
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I first I thought it was like
a plain white song because yeah,
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like what I mean, the crowd's
very like Maryland. We just played a
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festival Maryland. I mean we were
on tour and played it in Nashville.
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Everyone was with a straight face.
Yeah it just didn't work. But so
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yeah, but then that's so what
in Texas, like the entire crowd is
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like fun and skin. You never
know, choreographed dancing. We need like
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a viral TikTok dance to it.
We also we also we can move on
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because it's a lot of eventually,
but we found we located the doctor that
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did the surgery. Stop yeah video
and we have a video of this on
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our Instagram by the way, So
like we like found the actual doctor who
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circumcised him Eddie's twenty three, doctor
Michael Cogan, doctor doctor Michael Coganes,
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And we did like a whole little
like documentary where he talked to him for
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the first time and like it's funny
because he ends up also being I haven't
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seen this guy since probably like sounds
I was twenty three, So like I
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emailed him just out of the blue
being like, hey man, I don't
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know if you're gonna remember me at
all, but like this we made yeah
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yeah, But we started chatting and
I told him the whole story of like
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how the song is bloyingc He's like, I love this. Like I'm also
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a musician too, so she's like, if you ever play it live somewhere
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it is like, can I please
come perform it with you? Last night
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festival in Pittsburgh coming up, And
the chance he comes and plays it,
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oh, my God, whichhall be
the most viral video probably ever on Yeah
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Circles, there's no pun intend to
Yeah wow, I would have known like
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that by you doing this it would
go viral and like yeah, it's just
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like the life of this song.
Yeah crazy, Yeah, I think that's
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what's so interesting is like you really
can't predict this shit, you know what
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I mean, Like these songs that
went viral, Like it's it seems like
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you're genuinely just having fun making this
music and like some of the jokes of
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course go off, but like you're
definitely not a joke band, you know
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what I mean, But you can
still have fun. Like how do you
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find the line between like having a
good time but also taking yourself seriously as
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a band. It was definitely hard
when all of ours every day or like
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when is this released the force,
Like yeah, we have real music and
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like we are musician. Yeah,
we're definitely still like teetering the line.
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It's like we're definitely like not in
the clear of the joke band allegations,
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but uh yeah, you know,
we're we're a trying but I mean,
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just like in general, like when
we make music, we're just we're just
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trying to have fun whenever we do, and like occasionally we'll just get high
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and write some stupid lyrics and just
isn't that like the point of being a
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musician? Yeah, Joshua treeen Ride
album, Like, yeah, have you
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guys always been that way? I
just kind of go with the flow with
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life and just seeing what happens.
I mean, sure, I guess so
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yeah, yeah, yeah, So
you were always trying to form a band,
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right, and I guess you were
as well. I was retired at
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that point production and session musician stuff, like I won't do a band,
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So what was like plan a before
the band happened for the rest of you
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producing? So like I like produce
in music, yeah, and like I
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was doing like my only uh my
own soulo music too, so there was
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that he was also doing his like
own solo ship. Yeah. For like
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three or four years, Zach and
I were just like producer artists to him,
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and like I was helping him write
his stuff and he was helping me
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produce my stuff. And then Tristan
came around. I was just studying animation
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really and play. Yeah, I
was studying math A Chapman. I actually
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went to Chapin at the same time
with him, did you really Yeah,
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but you guys didn't know each other. You still met because I was a
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little math nerd Yeah, I mean, and then I was working at a
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video editing job. We're both video
editors. Yeah, oh wow. Luckily
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that's why we have pretty good content. Yeah. So right now, are
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you doing most of your own stuff? Like all the way through, all
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of it, all of it good
for you guys? Production writing, Yeah,
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dude, it is a lot of
work. Like I think people,
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yeah, don't like. People underestimate
how much work really goes into like promoting
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the band and making the videos and
then like writing songs, practicing songs,
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working on the tour. Like Dan
to mention, our studios in Orange County
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and we live in l A right
here my house Cypress, No hell yeah,
408
00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.440
my mom lives in Cerritos. Oh
yeah, and around the corner.
409
00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:41.960
So I'm all the way down there. That's sick. Nice you drive up
410
00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.559
here every dude. I want to
kill myself. Morning show too. So
411
00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:49.680
he's up at like three. I
text him at six thirty he's already three.
412
00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:53.200
I'm kind of guy. Yeah,
man, wow. After seven I
413
00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.400
was invited to the show at the
Mint, but like I didn't know you
414
00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:02.000
then, and I was like yeah, and the opener goes on, I'm
415
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.480
in bed already, So it's just
like the latest that you like stay up
416
00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.119
at night, Like don't you like
miss out on things? Don't you treat
417
00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.599
yourself like a night like on Friday
Friday And even then it's like I'm drinking
418
00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.920
a bunch of bangs and like I'm
just trying to stay away because once nine
419
00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.839
pm hits on Friday, I'm like, my body's not used to it and
420
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.880
I'm just out. But sometimes we
yell at him because we have so many
421
00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:23.000
concerts, Like I mean, I
work on a morning show too, but
422
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:25.920
I mean I live ten minutes away, so I don't have to get up
423
00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.279
as early. But we'll say,
like John, like we have this we
424
00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:33.799
have like I don't even know show
tomorrow come and he's like, it's tomorrow,
425
00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.920
it's Thursday. Yeah, no,
it's not SLD and a Grandpa.
426
00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.839
Yeah, it's it's embarrassing. What
what's what's your bedtime? You do?
427
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:44.799
You guys live like the late late
night musician life. Yeah, yeah,
428
00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.400
like three am am. He's going
to bed when you're waking up sleep when
429
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.200
you wake up. I'm okay,
No, Sometimes I will be good and
430
00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:55.440
I'll go to sleep like twelve thirty. That's like, that's like me taking
431
00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.799
care of myself, doing like some
self care and like going to bed at
432
00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.200
like a reasonable hours, like twelve
thirty. Damn, we're honest. Six
433
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.319
hour difference. I went to bed
at four forty five last night. Oh
434
00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.119
yeah, he's a vampire. He's
a vampire. I'm trying, dude,
435
00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.119
I'm gonna really wave to you from
outside my car and like he's out there
436
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.319
something. I'm a nerve on.
So if you see it, oh you're
437
00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.039
a ner yeah. Oh hell yeah, dude, I love that. This
438
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.799
is like low key and O Sea
band. And then we're in We're in
439
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.400
conver City. Oh hell yes,
you guys are no Ce band. I'll
440
00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:25.880
go to the next show. I
don't know what it is. All right,
441
00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:27.440
we're gonna hold you see that because
yeah, yeah I say that now,
442
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.599
but like yeah, no, I
will. I will. So we
443
00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.400
had some questions that they wanted to
ask too. When was about church on
444
00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.240
TV? Yeah, they want to
know about this. The screams at the
445
00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.119
end, who's doing that? Yeah, they're like this, like I was
446
00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.160
listening. I was listening to it
in my car the other day and I
447
00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.079
don't think I really realized it.
And I was like, oh, there's
448
00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.920
like there's like someone screaming and yeah. So we actually wrote that song behind
449
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.559
you Lanes back about relationship. Yeah, this song has a lot of lore.
450
00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.480
We wrote it in one night and
that was our engineer. Actually.
451
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.440
I was like, can anyone scream
the songs there's a scream and he was
452
00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.680
like, I can scream. He's
like a high guy that just sits on
453
00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:11.000
his I've got a whole less video
of it and everything it is. It
454
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.039
is. It is fucking hilarious.
Watched this man do it and we're like,
455
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:15.920
oh my god. Yeah, and
we kept it on. So I
456
00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.279
don't know if you've ever like seen
death metal screams like in person, but
457
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.200
it's it's it's like surreal. It's
like wow, like that's just coming out
458
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.079
of you, really imagine, and
it like kind of looks effortless when they
459
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:27.079
do it up there, but like
when I scream up a weak voice like
460
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:32.079
I lose it quick one night out, it's really difficult. Yeah, it's
461
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.039
like a technique to it. Yeah, there's a reform to it. Yeah,
462
00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.799
one of them. I want to. I was like sixteen, I've
463
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.519
always wanted to learn. So I'm
trying to figure that out without killing myself.
464
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.519
So how do you guys who writes
the songs? Do you guys all
465
00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:45.640
do that together? Yeah? All
of us, it's like a collective.
466
00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.079
Yeah. So I wanted to know
it was church on TV from experience.
467
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:55.240
Just okay, why did you ask? Chill? Okay, So I'll try
468
00:26:55.279 --> 00:27:00.240
and make this extremely short. So
I dated a girl a year ago who
469
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.079
was a Christian, very Christian,
dad was a pastor everything. Around Easter
470
00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.440
time, she made me watch church
on TV because we didn't go. I
471
00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.519
didn't go to church with her family
at that time. I remember the following
472
00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.519
day, I was telling these guys
like what I did, and like,
473
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.759
how can you watch church on TV? Like that's even the thing? I
474
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.559
didn't even know a thing like that. They didn't feel funny. I'm just
475
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.400
like what They didn't stayed at home
and I stayed live stream right literally,
476
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:23.759
like a live stream like Hillsong Church
thing on YouTube like you can just watch,
477
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.039
and we just watched the sermon and
then they just never let me live
478
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.559
it down. And they wrote the
song completely behind my back. Yeah,
479
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.720
I mean so we also work with
one writer named Nick Furlung, and we
480
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.359
told him and he was like,
that's such a memorable sentence. She makes
481
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.279
him watch church on TV. Yeah, and that's the chorus of the song.
482
00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:44.319
Is my girlfriend make is making me
watch church on TV? When you
483
00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:48.559
hear that? Okay? Oh god
dude, Okay. For like a couple
484
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.119
of months, I was not happy. I didn't want to speak to them
485
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.559
like at all. So around the
next band that's out the window. Literally
486
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.000
that was literally like a deciding factor
from him, like I can't tough this
487
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.640
one out, like well cause so
the first time they showed me, we
488
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.279
played Emo night at the Avalon on
Hollywood there. Yeah. So then they
489
00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.200
were like, there's one song that
we're gonna make you stand in the crowd
490
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:10.079
for that we want to get your
live reaction. But my parents were in
491
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.519
town as well, and my parents
knew her family, like they were like
492
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.039
family friends. So I remember just
like being in the crowd and they're playing
493
00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:17.079
the song and I'm literally watching.
I was kind of buzzed, like I
494
00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:18.119
was having a good time. But
I remember like looking at my mom and
495
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.359
dad and there's mortified and I'm sitting
there and the next morning I was talking
496
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.920
my parents are like they can't ever
do anything with that song, like that's
497
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:29.079
gonna be so bad. And then
I just ended up just taking one for
498
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:37.000
the team and doing it. That's
impressive. I'm sorry, Off. Do
499
00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.279
you know if she's heard it?
Oh yeah, that's a whole other that's
500
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.440
a whole other thing. We hope, so my life for I swear to
501
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:47.640
God, like seven months of ruined
my life. Wow, And I'm like
502
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.680
these are supposed to my best friends, but like, is that why you
503
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.440
broke up? It was very toxic. It was, it was It wasn't
504
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.480
the best. Yeah, it was
just when we started promoting it. Yeah,
505
00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:00.480
we wouldn't have released it online.
We were on twur and we played
506
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.319
it and after every single show everyone
came up to us and was like,
507
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.039
what is that church on TV song? Yeah? And like that was after
508
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:10.240
we were the openers. Then the
headliner came on and they still remembered the
509
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.400
title and the song a little bit
more. And You're like, damn,
510
00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.400
I have such a duality with the
whole thing being like I'm like, I'm
511
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:18.319
not going to tell the guys not
to release the song. But at the
512
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.359
same time, I'm like everyone else
is having fun with it around me except
513
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:23.799
for me at that moment. So
I'm just kind of like, like I
514
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.759
said, I'll just like bite my
tongue. I'll just deal with it and
515
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.400
whatever drama comes afterwards, I'll just
deal with it. But now it's it's
516
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.119
been fine, I want to see
it through. I want to see it
517
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:38.640
through. A lot of our songs
are well, specifically two, but those
518
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.640
two are very important in our catalog. So yeah, so, like,
519
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.039
how many songs do you have just
geared up to come out? Still?
520
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.119
Like, how many songs have you
written that are coming out this year?
521
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.880
That's a great question. I don't
know if I can put a number on
522
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.680
that, but I mean, I
mean, I mean we're like constantly like
523
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.160
writing. I mean like right now, like we're like really like writing mode,
524
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.720
Like right after this interview, really, I'm going back in them and
525
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.519
like and like we're just like like
cooking. But yeah, yeah, I
526
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.319
mean like, yeah, we'll get
you before the traffics all the way down.
527
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.519
Yeah yeah. But also, you
guys just released Just Friends, Yes,
528
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.599
and that song is so fun.
We love it. But I have
529
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:18.079
to mention like the promotion for it
of the farm animals, because I think
530
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.119
I've watched that twenty times because it
was hysterical. This idea was that I
531
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.160
think, yeah, I forgot,
don't know. I was like we were
532
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.359
all just like joking about it.
I think it's like we're like, oh,
533
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:29.519
oh, like testing our products and
animals. They were like, wait,
534
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.599
what if we actually test our products
and animals? Yeah, most of
535
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.319
our ideas are us just like shooting
the ship and then like something will just
536
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:37.880
like we'll just like say something be
like oh, that's that's funny. What's
537
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:42.240
like the attention grabber? What's the
hook? And like yeah, and apology
538
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.880
videos do really really well in our
attention grabbing, not to mention responding to
539
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.079
a comment being like you test your
product on animals and not saying we're never
540
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:55.920
going to stop. But then but
then it's like it's like shoot and innocent
541
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.240
because it's like we're just playing music
and we went to the pettings by the
542
00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:02.480
way in there it's so cool.
It's I think it's love sanctuaries and like
543
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.039
yeah in the valley and they were
like so cool about it. They loved
544
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.240
it. They loved it. Is
there like a breed of animal that fox
545
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:15.079
with your music the most pig.
Yeah, he was super into it.
546
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.119
It was fun. We're definitely gonna
volunteer there because they were all the animals
547
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.200
are so sick. Wow. So
was it a real comment or you guys
548
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.119
made up? We made okay,
because I was gonna say that would have
549
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.079
been funny. If someone did comments
Peters out there, I'm telling you they'll
550
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:33.119
sniff it out. Wow. So
do you guys have a tour coming up?
551
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:34.720
Like are you coming to play again? Or hopefully? I mean that's
552
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.480
the goal. We're We're reaching out
to a lot of artists, so hopefully
553
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.400
do a support towe this fall?
Like if you're in dream mode right now,
554
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:44.359
like what is what's the end game
for you guys? Like what could
555
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.640
happen for you to feel like all
right, we made it and we all
556
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.279
have probably different answers for that.
My goal, the reason I got into
557
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.359
this was I want to play like
Arenas. I want to be behind a
558
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.519
drum set playing the biggest shows possible. Yeah, fucking awesome. I mean,
559
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.960
I mean I was just like a
song that's successful enough to land on
560
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.720
the charts, like people know I
guess you know yeah, that's definitely like
561
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.920
one goal. I mean definitely playing
arenas. Of course, who wouldn't want
562
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.119
to do that. What's the biggest
stage you've played on Shingle Ball. Yeah,
563
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.440
well the pre show, but it
was still like like, how we're
564
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.359
playing the pre show. We didn't
know, like what, we didn't have
565
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.799
any information on the size of it, and we go through soundcheck and we
566
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.160
were like, this is way too
big to be a pre show. And
567
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.160
then we walk out on stage and
there's thousands of people there. So that
568
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.880
was we were going from like playing
the Whiskey five hundred cap rooms and even
569
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:32.599
the Toy we were almost like five
hundred cap rooms to what was that four
570
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.359
or five thousand people out of a
few thousand. And that's when I first
571
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.720
saw you guys. My roommate heard
of your band and when she was like,
572
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.759
oh this is people are ugly and
I thought she I didn't know that
573
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:43.160
you guys at the time, and
I was like, what do you mean
574
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.559
people are ugly? And she said, no, that's the band's name.
575
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:46.160
So she was like, I want
to go see them. So we went
576
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.200
to see you guys. I'm glad
we did because you gained a fan that
577
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.240
night, but also how did the
name come up? The question? I
578
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.400
mean the name, Like the story
is like we met and had the show
579
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.440
and we were just like but we're
just like every time we said the name
580
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.799
people already it turns people's heads,
like, what's like a name We're probably
581
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:06.359
not going to sit where there's a
one time shore. Let's just think of
582
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:08.400
a random name that is like memorable. I guess the first name since the
583
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.079
beginning this was beginning yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah. I feel like
584
00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.599
it's just like a reminder, just
like not take yourselves too seriously at the
585
00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:15.480
end of the day. I feel
like that is the vibe I get from
586
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.000
you guys, like don't take yourself
too seriously, and I feel like we
587
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.599
need that. It can be too
Like that's why I need to rely the
588
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:27.079
dad of the group. I have
to be twenty nine yeah, yeah,
589
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:32.200
yeah, rough, I had a
rough age twenty three yeahs our little brother,
590
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.839
yeah, anything before we wrap up
with some lightning questions too. I'm
591
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:39.720
just excited for more music and that
show is so fun and can't wait for
592
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:45.759
another Mint. Yeah. When I
see the videos, like, I think
593
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.559
that's why I really like shows at
places like the Mint because it's a very
594
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.480
small venue, but like that's where
you see like what bands are there to
595
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:53.640
bring it. And like when I
was seeing the videos from you guys playing
596
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:57.920
there, like people were jumping up
and down like it was one thousand person
597
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.119
venue, and I feel like that's
that's what it feels like when I feel
598
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.039
like I see a band that's like
really into it. Like I saw the
599
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.960
band Camino there a long time ago. I was like, dude, this
600
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.599
band like is going to be sick, Like they're all over the stage.
601
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:12.760
The energy is there, and that's
what I hear from what it was like
602
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.400
with you guys. Man. So
you guys all think a lot of tall
603
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.480
fans. Yeah, I always stand
on the front always if we were in
604
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.639
the back, and I don't know
if you saw my videos, I was
605
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:27.920
over here on time in the side. I was like hello or something.
606
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.559
Yeah. Yeah, I will say
it feels like a lot of people because
607
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:38.000
we do add and post the little
shakes on each basis. Yeah, just
608
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:43.119
puts it in there and for anyone
listening, you could take that idea,
609
00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.800
but just nowhere it came from,
all right, So we want to get
610
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:47.800
to know you guys a little bit. So we have a couple of rapid
611
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fire questions we're going to close with. So first thing that comes to mind.
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First, we can agree on this. One song of the summer so
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far had some help Morgan Wall I
don't I don't do country. I'm not.
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That's what I say. I can't
choose my answer now. Can I
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just say espresso? Yeah? Better
than please? Please? Please? Yes?
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Yeah, I'm with you on that. Okay, fast food, what's
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the stop? Don't it? In
and out, in and out, in
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and Outan's McDonald I I'm big McDonald's. I quit fast food. So Taco
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Bell, Okay, thank you having
Taco Bell. Girly give me a drop
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at two am. I love it. Did you ever tell you, Tristan
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you look like John Krasinski? Never? Really? Yeah, that's what I've
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never gotten. I was like trying
to place it this whole interview. Wow,
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it's like John did. They're never
going to hear that. It's like
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the high tone of them was jealous
people taller than me and hip? All
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right. Crushed ice cube, dice
cube, cube, cubed cube, crush
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ice cube, sonic crush ice makes
it okay, Yeah, that's about makes
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strengths better OK, yeah, fill
in the blank. Taylor Swift is blank,
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tall, tall, successful. Yeah
all again a musician, it's just
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like five eight, but that's like
six four, six three or four for
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a woman. Yeah. Sunrise or
Sunset Sunset, Sunset Sunset, Life of
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my Own Party or brain Dead Life
on my Own Party. I wish that
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song would go viral. Yeah,
that's the song that she found us and
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called us that night. I was
like, I'm going to be your manager.
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Really shout out to the manager.
Well, I do appreciate you guys
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coming in. Man, it was
like really great to meet you guys.
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Thanks, thanks for having us.
Now that I know you're in o C.
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Dude, like we're gonna hang out
sometimes between the hours of like three
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AM and right before you go to
Sneaky Link in and out. People are
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ugly. Thanks for coming
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What's up. I'm John, I'm
Marley, and I'm Mikayla, and you're
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listening to on the Playlist and I
Heart Radio New Music podcast. All right,
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well, welcome to a special edition
of the On the Playlist podcast.
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We're getting to know some new friends
today. We've got a band in the
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studio with us, one we're pretty
excited about. They are a newer band
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but over social media have been making
a huge impact and they make some pretty
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fun music. Marley and Mikayla here. We're at one of their shows the
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other day and could not stop raving
about the energy in the room during their
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live shows. And they have just
been singing their lyrics NonStop around the office
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all day, which you're gonna hear
about in just a minute here. But
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they have a really fun story and
they're overall just a great hang. I
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really think you're gonna like them.
So we might find some new fans today,
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kickback and meet some of our new
friends. Zach, Bill, Julian
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and Tristan better known as the band
People are Ugly. I could easily fit
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this in my mouth if I wanted. We're kind of nervous because I think
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Mikayla's met you before. Yes,
yes, I hadn't yet. So we
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were trying to set up these seats
because we have a side studio right now
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and there's not not a lot of
mics in here. So when we were
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trying to set these up, I
was trying to sit in all the chairs.
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But I'm like kind of a skinnier
dude, and I didn't know like
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how big you guys were going to
be. You guys are We're very large.
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Yeah, we're large. We're large
people. I think so, at
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least to me, I feel so
dainty. Okay, think I appreciate it.
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Yeah, he's the small and dainty
one. I am the small Yeah,
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that's okay though. Well, it's
nice to meet you guys. Thanks
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for coming in. People are ugly, of course, thank you. People
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are ugly. We've been We've been
pretty punk to have you guys in here,
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actually because they went to your show
at the Mint, and no joke,
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dude, like since that show,
they have been coming in screaming your
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lyrics through the halls of wastfielding ever
since. Like they introduced me to you
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guys. They just walked in.
They were like, I apologize fund out,
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oh god, singing that song that
it's like, I'm not kidding you.
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I step out of bed and I'm
like, I recently found out Will
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Smith was a rapper, and I'm
like, wait, I didn't because I
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didn't. I did know he was
around. You did know? Am I
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the only one? Yeah? The
time, the entire time, it's just
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lyrics to a song. Yeah,
well, well well no, actually two
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of those are true. I didn't
know that the Lego movie was great.
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He hasn't seen it. And that's
a phenomenal movie. I've heard, like
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people say I've heard Lego movie.
I hear that I've seen it. I
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fell asleep watch them. It's one
of my favorite movies. And I was
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like, when we were writing the
song, right before we read the lyric,
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I was like, the Lego movie
is amazing, and sex pistles the
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thing for penis. Of course.
Yeah, I didn't realize that either.
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That's like one of those like,
oh why didn't I think of that?
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People Like people go on and on
about how good that Lego movie is,
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Like there's a Lego Batman. People
say it's better than Christian Bale, Like
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the Lego movie is great too,
really yeah, yeah, and Lego Movie
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wanted everything's awesome, Like everything's not
awesome. Damn deep, I've never seen
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it. So that's what's went over
this last week. Though I don't watch
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a lot of movies. Yeah,
yeah, she's not a big movie girl.
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Did you see him? Pharrell has
like a biopic coming out. Oh
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my god, Yeah, that looks
awesome. It looks it looks awesome.
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I know. I was pumped about
that. I was like, I don't
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know how that's gonna work though,
But like a whole lego movie based on
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Pharrell's like story. I guess,
yes, pray the genius for him to
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do that, or I think genius. I guess we'll find out if it's
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good or not. Speaking of story
though, so like walk me through yours
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real quick, because they were telling
me a little bit about it. Was
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it like kind of a bit how
this band got together? Like what is
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the story behind that? Yeah?
Yeah, so he tells the story.
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So I'm just going, do you
want a real story? Do you want
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a real story? Go for it. The real story is I got a
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gig at the whiskey of Go Go. Without knowing any of them, I
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would write venues all around la and
line and say I had a band,
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because all I want to do was
perform. And then they responded being like,
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hey, we have an opening in
seven days, and I just like,
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yes, I'm in. I'm a
drummer and I can't sing and I
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don't have anything, So how does
this like, how does that conversation go?
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When you hit up a venue?
I was just like, Hey,
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can I open for this show in
a month? I mean I did it
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with almost every venue in LA went
college. I just I wanted to perform.
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I grew CRuMs Chapman. Oh cool, so you're look yeah, oh
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see, yeah, but I'm from
I'm from Philadelphia, so I grew up
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playing in the School of Rock and
all that, then gave it off to
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go to college and was a baseball
player. Oh and then and then yeah,
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I mean I wanted to perform again, wrote all the venues just being
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like, Hi, can I play. I don't know what would have happened
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if they said yes. Anyway,
the whiskey said yes my dream venue,
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and I found these guys on Instagram
that that week. Okay, what I
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tell you, guys were friends before
I was still they all know each other.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, so
this was what twenty twenty one.
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as shows were coming back from COVID,
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which is I think part of the
reason why they said yes to some random
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kid. But uh wait, what
did that do? Yeah? What did?
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What did he say? I don't
know, dude. I was like,
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Hey, I have a show at
the Whiskey a go go on Friday?
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Would you like to play with me? What? I forgot the action
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when he sent you guys that Instagram
to you more, you guys like what,
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I was like, yeah, fuck
it. I kind of thought it
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was a scam too, but then
I didn't really know what he was going
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to gain from scamming us there.
So yeah, like I have really not
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a lot of money, I kind
of had to go with it. Yeah,
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so how did you find them?
So? I saw I think Zach
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singing like on an Instagram story,
Oh wow, And I was like,
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yeah, like that kid can sing. They had the three of them actually
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had a song come out like that
month together. So you guys know each
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other. Yeah, yeah, we
knew each other made music all that.
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Yeah, we just kind of did
our own thing. But then yeah,
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like we got that damn from him
or like whatever. I honestly forgot what
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it was. We actually didn't find
that, but yeah, I could probably
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scroll back. But anyways, like
I don't know, like I feel like
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we were all just like why not, Like why would we not play show?
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I'd never played live before, I'd
never sang in front of a crowd,
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I'd never done anything. That was
the first time performing for yeah,
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first time. Every yeah mentioned like
all of my favorite bands started out at
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the Whiskey Go Go. Of all
the venues I was emailing, they were
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my number one choice, So like, who are some of those bands that
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opened for I mean Van Halen started
there. I mean every eighties rock band
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has played out the Whiskey Wow and
for such a small venue. I mean
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I went there the first time.
I was like, this is it Becau.
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It's kind of tiny sea It's like
five hundred people, but like the
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doors were the house bands there growing
up. Motley Cruz started was had to
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played their first concert there. So
like all those eighties hair metal bands,
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which the two of us like,
hell yeah, so what did you guys
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perform? Just like a bunch of
well, like we all made music before
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that, so like we we had
songs just like a random like collections of
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songs to choose from Yeah, right, so like we had that. We
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also came together and wrote a couple
originals too for that show, like in
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the like week leading up to there. But yeah, yeah, we just
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yeah, we just ripped and sent
it. And that's a brag. But
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of all of those songs we played
in our first show, I had one
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that I wrote as a joke,
and that is the only song from that
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show that I think we still perform. Yeah, they we still play that
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regrets And that's actually my voice singing
on the song. He loves to brag
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about that. The drummer sings a
song ringo Star. So that show went
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so good that you decided to be
a real band? Yeah, sorry,
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am I gonna let me really quick? You get to talk now. Yeah,
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I think it actually went really No, it was like it was a
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lot of fun. Like I flew
in to play that show. Some from
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Canada's like I flew in to play
the concert with them, and I was
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like, Okay, I guess at
this point, I'll join a band one
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more time kind of see what happens. But yeah, we just kept kept
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going. So have you guys ever
like joined bands with other guys And I
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didn't work out like they weren't chill
or whatever. This is my first band.
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He's the season vet. That was
like kind of sour to it.
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Yeah. I was in like five
failed ones, like growing up from high
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school through college in Canada. And
then when Zach hit me up being like,
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hey, this guy DMed us to
like, you know, work on
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some music and like play a show. Would you be down? I was
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like, I don't know, dude, I can't do this again. And
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that's the show. I'm like,
I'll fly in for one show. I'm
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like, I haven't played a show
in la. I'm like crossing off my
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list. I'll do it. And
then it was like one of the nuts
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shows I've ever played personal, you
know. I was like, Okay,
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I'll stick around. So we think
this one's going places. Then I don't
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know yet. I'm still waiting for
it. We're like two three years and
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now like I'm still waiting for the
red flags start popping up. Where's my
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goddamn check goddamn jet? So like, what is the reason that the other
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bands, like, what's the main
reason other bands would fall apart? To
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be perfectly honest, what I found
was two things. So it's usually lack
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of communication amongst the four of you
guys at the end of the day,
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as much of our friends like and
business partners. Yea, it is kind
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of like a weird relationship in a
way. So it's like we're basically out
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dating each other at this point.
We want to check in make sure,
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like you know, no one's egos
getting fueled too much, no one's feeling
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like they're not being hurt. So
that usually falls apart. Lead singers tend
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to be a problem sometimes Damn,
I don't'm joking. I'm joking. Doesn't
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look like is not. Yeah,
No, it's usually just like lack of
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care amongst each other, and like
you know, you have four bashing heads
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out at all times, right,
so as long as everyone's on the same
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page, usually goes smoothly. But
like any relationship, yeah exactly, yeah,
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exactly. Wait, we're dating one, we're dating? Can we kiss?
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Okay, dude, I've like always
been a big proponent that, like
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you can kiss the homies. Oh
yeah, we do, like on stage,
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like every show, every show on
the lips. Yeah weird. Yeah,
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No, it's I've been telling people
for the long time. So I
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work on a radio morning show and
I'm the youngest one on there, and
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they like have a hard time processing
that. They're like, like, what
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do you mean you kiss the homies? Like, it's not weird unless you
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make it weird. Yeah, just
give your b Yeah. Does I mean
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a little kiss good night too?
Yeah? A little kiss a night also
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lives in the house. I have
five guy roommates, so it's like,
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yeah, So, what's been like
the biggest challenge of staying in the band
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so far? Like, has it
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started doing really well on social media
recently, but for for two years,
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what people don't know is we were
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everything, every every single social clip
and trying to figure out these algorithms that
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now run almost every industry. Yeah, and uh like putting so much work
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and effort into these videos that would
be seen by maybe two to three hundred
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people. I feel like that's been
the biggest struggle, including for me,
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that's one thing, but like influencers
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to have the social numbers. So
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of just putting out shit that doesn't
go anywhere, and you're like, damn
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is everyone seeing this fail? Like
it's crazy that you did that for two
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years? Yeah, Like what do
you tell yourself when you don't see traction
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for months? Well, I mean
like we told ourself that, like we
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were shadow band. We're like,
oh, like we got to be shadow
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band. We suck? These videos
are great? Was nobodys saying them?
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It's like no, like the videos
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really pushing them right, Like we're
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to go viral when like we weren't
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I don't like when did it like
flip do you remember? I think it
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was Branda? Yeah, it was
branded, yeah, brand people off.
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People loved it. So I've seen
in the comments that it pisses people off.
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With shocks me like, why what
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pissed over that? I mean,
first of all, I don't smoke weed.
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we we when we enjoy writing retretes
and Joshua Trees. So Bill got me
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higher than I've ever been in my
life watching these clips and those lyrics.
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I don't even know where they came
from. And I remember like reading them
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off the paper to them and we
all looked at you, shir like yeah,
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that's it, like crazy, and
yeah, I think the lyrics are
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so simple. They're memorable, and
they're I don't think they're controversial, but
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like they're opinionated and pissed people off
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I don't know why people get so
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whenever you have an opinion, people
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uh, I don't know, it's
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is actually wait, it's non opinion
at all. It's actually all true,
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Drake was on Nickelodeon. It's just
a bunch of realizations that people are mad
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that we figured out too late.
Yeah, So what it is when we
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were like, oh my god,
this video is four hundred views, it's
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going viral, and then the next
day it had a million. And then
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what we did is we responded to
every comment in like a nice, thankful
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way, and then people were like
wait, I actually like it, and
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then those people would start arguing,
so it was like this song sucks,
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don't be a musician anymore. And
then people were like, no, I
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love it. Then they would start
fighting, and then the comments section exploded.
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And once you light the fire in
the comments, and do you think
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that's why it's blowing up right now? I see it everywhere, like Braindad
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is everywhere right now. I just
hit over a million streams right on that.
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Yeah, that's huge. So what's
I feel like when you see that?
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So cool? Until we had a
million, we're a real band now,
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manager Wow, But yeah, it
feels really good to millions, like
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a big, a big stepping stone
that a lot of bands I feel like
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aren't fortunate to hit. I also
feel like there's something to like feeling old,
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this is my first time starting to
feel old, which is kind of crazy.
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I feel like once I start to
see the younger thing, like I've
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never felt like an older person before
in my life until right now. Like
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being hung over two beers, I'm
like, what the oh my guy?
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Oh no, come on, I'm
twenty nine, So like I feel you
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so like he's gonna do it happens
like this, man, it's crazy,
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how are your knees that you're so
bad? And I literally stand up and
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it's like I have a bag of
rocks in my knees. It's like there's
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a couple of mornings where'll wake up
and it's just like I really feel the
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pulses go. I'm like, oh
my god, guys, it's for the
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rest of you. It's coming,
like and it's gonna close. He's closer
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overnight. I'm only twenty three,
yeah, babies, Yeah, I'm twenty
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four for twenty seven and I turned
twenty nine like a few weeks. Yeah,
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that's like the age of everyone in
my house. So like that,
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I think we are you, yeah, with less success, though, I
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think the song definitely makes some people
feel old, just like hearing those things.
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Yeah, but yeah, I mean
like I just also think a lot
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of people don't don't realize that like
we are being like ironic of course.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's one of
those songs before. Yeah, like that's
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a funny open and I had yeah
nowadays a social idiot. The first three
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seconds are everything else. Yeah,
we didn't make the song necessarily for so.
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I mean, we didn't even know
if we were going to release it.
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We plaid it for her. There's
a video of it that we released,
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like showing our manager our new song
as a joke and then like,
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okay, wait what was the reaction
there? I don't know what was the
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reaction? Was it absolutely not over
you? Like green Light? Yeah?
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What'd you think? Honestly, it
was pretty shocking. Ever, so I
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was like, what, like,
you guys are messing with me, Like
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this isn't a real song. Yeah. Then it went viral and like our
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labels calling us being like this comes
out next week, Like like yeah,
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see, And I appreciate that too, because like, what pisses me off
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the most on TikTok right now is
when you tease the song for six months.
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Oh yeah, dude, just dropped
the song already, Like I want
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to listen to it. Yeah,
So I respect that. You know.
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What was the video that Sizza commented
on? Oh yeah, that was a
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video of Tristan drumming on top of
this like spinning contraption to that. My
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sister us for AGT. She was
just in the finale of the Fantasy League
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AGT. But she like like uses
like spinny wheel that she like jumped from
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with her hands. I don't know, you have to actually watched the video
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that with her hands. Yeah.
Yeah, she does like contortion and like
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hand balancing and it's crazy. But
we just like have that in our warehouse
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that like she has. But Tristan
put his drums on there and then was
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like spinning, and then we did
like a little funny parody where like Sophie
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like was like, oh, like
this guy asked me on a day,
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YadA, YadA YadA, and then
flip the case like this guy asked me
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on a date, had something cool
to show me, and it's like me
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on this massive contraption playing drums and
spinning. So what's your reaction when you
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look at the notifications and sciss with
the little blue I sent it to all
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of them and they were like,
We're all that's fucking awesome. Was so
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cool? Has she reached out since
or nothing? I love you? Yeah.
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Social media is hard that way,
because like when she has that many
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followers, like, yeah, she's
probably getting millions of dames, but she
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saw your feet were on her feed. Hell yeah, dude, that is
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that's so awesome. What is your
favorite song so far to perform live?
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What if our favorite song isn't released? Really it's not. I don't know
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if it one day will come out. It's this yeah, wait, what
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it's about? Julian Okay, but
like you guys just get to sit there
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and watch. Why don't you tell
them about it? I can't talk about
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this. This is like a radio
podcast. We're talking about it. I
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think we've already seen it. You
guys have seen million unfortunately this song.
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Yeah, unfortunately, we wanted to
come out. Wait, wait, how
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explicit is this? Like feel Free
is about? Yeah? Okay, circumcision,
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circumcisions Okay, So, like I
mean, so we we wrote the
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song twenty three when I told him
about how I got circumcises adult at twenty
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three, and it was like a
joke thing forever. Our label hated us
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YEA for doing it, and we
were going to sign. The week we
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signed with them, they're like,
you got to take this song down off
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of YouTube. Yeah, they made
us take it down because we like just
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put it out as like a joke
with like a music for that we we
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made in like two hours, right, So like we like made and like
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released a song in like two hours
and then we put on YouTube. We
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signed. They're like, nope,
take this down. We're like, god,
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damn a fuck. I thought it
was funny. Yeah. So then
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so then that song just like sat
in the graveyard for so long for over
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a year, and then we randomly
well you know, we've not read.
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We took a meeting at Atlantic and
Zach filmed the video because the guy's like,
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oh, I see some of your
music. It's like, we have
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a lot of joke songs as well, So we just like showed him that
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and Zach caught it on camera and
that just skyrocketed everything and now and then
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we were at a writing retreat in
uh, I don't know, somewhere in
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the middle of nowhere, which we
do occasionally, and we went to this
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bar where there were like five people
that like live in the mountains, like
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mountain man and is that a correct
and we were like, Julian grabbed this
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guitar and placed our twenty three and
he did. I filmed it from the
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corner and like got their reactions.
The big guys in like camouflage half probably
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loved it watching it, and I
think they did, I don't know,
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And that video overnight got ten million
views and now it's out over twenty million,
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twenty million views, so total serve
twenty three. This unreleased song is
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at like forty five to fifty million
views across the films right now, which
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is a lot of people. Yeah, sorry about four skin too, is
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I can say because it's not released. Copying a plain white tea song,
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ye yeah, yeah yeah one and
the plain why ts dms me no,
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saying I had never thought that one, two, three, four whatever have
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these lyrics. I love it,
yes, like we got his like stamp
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of approval. However, as much
as I think we all love it,
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I don't think we're ever going to
put it out. Yeah, I just
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don't know if that will sit right
being our number one song Spotify. You
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know, Yeah, everyone will listen
to and it's like we have other music
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tune. It's like I don't want
that one song just be sitting on the
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top of It's for the live shows, it's for the fans. It's actually
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out on YouTube. You can you
can listen to it with the little like
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music video on you have been before
the two live shows? Yes, how
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many views that? Like we went
we were playing so Wet Festival last week
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and we're two songs in Like these
guys are like Cert twenty three play the
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Circumcision song Like I was literally asking, tell me about your skin. So
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they knew of the song, they
wanted to hear it. So what was
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like, was there any like weird
reactions in the audience like about it?
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Yeah, there's like definitely always weird
weird reactions from people who whether to go
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to Land. We know what our
own shows like that mint like it's gonna
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Land. That was my first time
hearing the song. I had no idea
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about it. We don't say what
it was like, how do you feel
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like when like the entire crowd was
like, where's my foreskin? We looked
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at each other. I was like, we were like, what's going on?
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I first I thought it was like
a plain white song because yeah,
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like what I mean, the crowd's
very like Maryland. We just played a
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festival Maryland. I mean we were
on tour and played it in Nashville.
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Everyone was with a straight face.
Yeah it just didn't work. But so
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yeah, but then that's so what
in Texas, like the entire crowd is
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like fun and skin. You never
know, choreographed dancing. We need like
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a viral TikTok dance to it.
We also we also we can move on
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because it's a lot of eventually,
but we found we located the doctor that
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did the surgery. Stop yeah video
and we have a video of this on
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our Instagram by the way, So
like we like found the actual doctor who
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circumcised him Eddie's twenty three, doctor
Michael Cogan, doctor doctor Michael Coganes,
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And we did like a whole little
like documentary where he talked to him for
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the first time and like it's funny
because he ends up also being I haven't
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seen this guy since probably like sounds
I was twenty three, So like I
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emailed him just out of the blue
being like, hey man, I don't
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know if you're gonna remember me at
all, but like this we made yeah
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yeah, But we started chatting and
I told him the whole story of like
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how the song is bloyingc He's like, I love this. Like I'm also
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a musician too, so she's like, if you ever play it live somewhere
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it is like, can I please
come perform it with you? Last night
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festival in Pittsburgh coming up, And
the chance he comes and plays it,
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oh, my God, whichhall be
the most viral video probably ever on Yeah
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Circles, there's no pun intend to
Yeah wow, I would have known like
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that by you doing this it would
go viral and like yeah, it's just
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like the life of this song.
Yeah crazy, Yeah, I think that's
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what's so interesting is like you really
can't predict this shit, you know what
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I mean, Like these songs that
went viral, Like it's it seems like
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you're genuinely just having fun making this
music and like some of the jokes of
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course go off, but like you're
definitely not a joke band, you know
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what I mean, But you can
still have fun. Like how do you
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find the line between like having a
good time but also taking yourself seriously as
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a band. It was definitely hard
when all of ours every day or like
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when is this released the force,
Like yeah, we have real music and
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like we are musician. Yeah,
we're definitely still like teetering the line.
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It's like we're definitely like not in
the clear of the joke band allegations,
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but uh yeah, you know,
we're we're a trying but I mean,
379
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just like in general, like when
we make music, we're just we're just
380
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trying to have fun whenever we do, and like occasionally we'll just get high
381
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and write some stupid lyrics and just
isn't that like the point of being a
382
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musician? Yeah, Joshua treeen Ride
album, Like, yeah, have you
383
00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.200
guys always been that way? I
just kind of go with the flow with
384
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life and just seeing what happens.
I mean, sure, I guess so
385
00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:12.079
yeah, yeah, yeah, So
you were always trying to form a band,
386
00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.000
right, and I guess you were
as well. I was retired at
387
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that point production and session musician stuff, like I won't do a band,
388
00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:22.640
So what was like plan a before
the band happened for the rest of you
389
00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:29.000
producing? So like I like produce
in music, yeah, and like I
390
00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:32.720
was doing like my only uh my
own soulo music too, so there was
391
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that he was also doing his like
own solo ship. Yeah. For like
392
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three or four years, Zach and
I were just like producer artists to him,
393
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and like I was helping him write
his stuff and he was helping me
394
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produce my stuff. And then Tristan
came around. I was just studying animation
395
00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:53.119
really and play. Yeah, I
was studying math A Chapman. I actually
396
00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:56.160
went to Chapin at the same time
with him, did you really Yeah,
397
00:22:56.240 --> 00:22:57.839
but you guys didn't know each other. You still met because I was a
398
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little math nerd Yeah, I mean, and then I was working at a
399
00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.200
video editing job. We're both video
editors. Yeah, oh wow. Luckily
400
00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.079
that's why we have pretty good content. Yeah. So right now, are
401
00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:11.200
you doing most of your own stuff? Like all the way through, all
402
00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:15.359
of it, all of it good
for you guys? Production writing, Yeah,
403
00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.160
dude, it is a lot of
work. Like I think people,
404
00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:22.480
yeah, don't like. People underestimate
how much work really goes into like promoting
405
00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:26.799
the band and making the videos and
then like writing songs, practicing songs,
406
00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.200
working on the tour. Like Dan
to mention, our studios in Orange County
407
00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.599
and we live in l A right
here my house Cypress, No hell yeah,
408
00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.440
my mom lives in Cerritos. Oh
yeah, and around the corner.
409
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So I'm all the way down there. That's sick. Nice you drive up
410
00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.559
here every dude. I want to
kill myself. Morning show too. So
411
00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:49.680
he's up at like three. I
text him at six thirty he's already three.
412
00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:53.200
I'm kind of guy. Yeah,
man, wow. After seven I
413
00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:56.400
was invited to the show at the
Mint, but like I didn't know you
414
00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:02.000
then, and I was like yeah, and the opener goes on, I'm
415
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.480
in bed already, So it's just
like the latest that you like stay up
416
00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.119
at night, Like don't you like
miss out on things? Don't you treat
417
00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.599
yourself like a night like on Friday
Friday And even then it's like I'm drinking
418
00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.920
a bunch of bangs and like I'm
just trying to stay away because once nine
419
00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.839
pm hits on Friday, I'm like, my body's not used to it and
420
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:21.880
I'm just out. But sometimes we
yell at him because we have so many
421
00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:23.000
concerts, Like I mean, I
work on a morning show too, but
422
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:25.920
I mean I live ten minutes away, so I don't have to get up
423
00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:27.279
as early. But we'll say,
like John, like we have this we
424
00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:33.799
have like I don't even know show
tomorrow come and he's like, it's tomorrow,
425
00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.920
it's Thursday. Yeah, no,
it's not SLD and a Grandpa.
426
00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.839
Yeah, it's it's embarrassing. What
what's what's your bedtime? You do?
427
00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:44.799
You guys live like the late late
night musician life. Yeah, yeah,
428
00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.400
like three am am. He's going
to bed when you're waking up sleep when
429
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.200
you wake up. I'm okay,
No, Sometimes I will be good and
430
00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:55.440
I'll go to sleep like twelve thirty. That's like, that's like me taking
431
00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.799
care of myself, doing like some
self care and like going to bed at
432
00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.200
like a reasonable hours, like twelve
thirty. Damn, we're honest. Six
433
00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.319
hour difference. I went to bed
at four forty five last night. Oh
434
00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:07.119
yeah, he's a vampire. He's
a vampire. I'm trying, dude,
435
00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.119
I'm gonna really wave to you from
outside my car and like he's out there
436
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.319
something. I'm a nerve on.
So if you see it, oh you're
437
00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.039
a ner yeah. Oh hell yeah, dude, I love that. This
438
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.799
is like low key and O Sea
band. And then we're in We're in
439
00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.400
conver City. Oh hell yes,
you guys are no Ce band. I'll
440
00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:25.880
go to the next show. I
don't know what it is. All right,
441
00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:27.440
we're gonna hold you see that because
yeah, yeah I say that now,
442
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:30.599
but like yeah, no, I
will. I will. So we
443
00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.400
had some questions that they wanted to
ask too. When was about church on
444
00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.240
TV? Yeah, they want to
know about this. The screams at the
445
00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.119
end, who's doing that? Yeah, they're like this, like I was
446
00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:45.160
listening. I was listening to it
in my car the other day and I
447
00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.079
don't think I really realized it.
And I was like, oh, there's
448
00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.920
like there's like someone screaming and yeah. So we actually wrote that song behind
449
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.559
you Lanes back about relationship. Yeah, this song has a lot of lore.
450
00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.480
We wrote it in one night and
that was our engineer. Actually.
451
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.440
I was like, can anyone scream
the songs there's a scream and he was
452
00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.680
like, I can scream. He's
like a high guy that just sits on
453
00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:11.000
his I've got a whole less video
of it and everything it is. It
454
00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.039
is. It is fucking hilarious.
Watched this man do it and we're like,
455
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:15.920
oh my god. Yeah, and
we kept it on. So I
456
00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.279
don't know if you've ever like seen
death metal screams like in person, but
457
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:22.200
it's it's it's like surreal. It's
like wow, like that's just coming out
458
00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.079
of you, really imagine, and
it like kind of looks effortless when they
459
00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:27.079
do it up there, but like
when I scream up a weak voice like
460
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:32.079
I lose it quick one night out, it's really difficult. Yeah, it's
461
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:34.039
like a technique to it. Yeah, there's a reform to it. Yeah,
462
00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.799
one of them. I want to. I was like sixteen, I've
463
00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.519
always wanted to learn. So I'm
trying to figure that out without killing myself.
464
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.519
So how do you guys who writes
the songs? Do you guys all
465
00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:45.640
do that together? Yeah? All
of us, it's like a collective.
466
00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:48.079
Yeah. So I wanted to know
it was church on TV from experience.
467
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:55.240
Just okay, why did you ask? Chill? Okay, So I'll try
468
00:26:55.279 --> 00:27:00.240
and make this extremely short. So
I dated a girl a year ago who
469
00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.079
was a Christian, very Christian,
dad was a pastor everything. Around Easter
470
00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.440
time, she made me watch church
on TV because we didn't go. I
471
00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.519
didn't go to church with her family
at that time. I remember the following
472
00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.519
day, I was telling these guys
like what I did, and like,
473
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.759
how can you watch church on TV? Like that's even the thing? I
474
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.559
didn't even know a thing like that. They didn't feel funny. I'm just
475
00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.400
like what They didn't stayed at home
and I stayed live stream right literally,
476
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:23.759
like a live stream like Hillsong Church
thing on YouTube like you can just watch,
477
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.039
and we just watched the sermon and
then they just never let me live
478
00:27:26.039 --> 00:27:30.559
it down. And they wrote the
song completely behind my back. Yeah,
479
00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.720
I mean so we also work with
one writer named Nick Furlung, and we
480
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.359
told him and he was like,
that's such a memorable sentence. She makes
481
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.279
him watch church on TV. Yeah, and that's the chorus of the song.
482
00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:44.319
Is my girlfriend make is making me
watch church on TV? When you
483
00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:48.559
hear that? Okay? Oh god
dude, Okay. For like a couple
484
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.119
of months, I was not happy. I didn't want to speak to them
485
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.559
like at all. So around the
next band that's out the window. Literally
486
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.000
that was literally like a deciding factor
from him, like I can't tough this
487
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.640
one out, like well cause so
the first time they showed me, we
488
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.279
played Emo night at the Avalon on
Hollywood there. Yeah. So then they
489
00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.200
were like, there's one song that
we're gonna make you stand in the crowd
490
00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:10.079
for that we want to get your
live reaction. But my parents were in
491
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.519
town as well, and my parents
knew her family, like they were like
492
00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.039
family friends. So I remember just
like being in the crowd and they're playing
493
00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:17.079
the song and I'm literally watching.
I was kind of buzzed, like I
494
00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:18.119
was having a good time. But
I remember like looking at my mom and
495
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.359
dad and there's mortified and I'm sitting
there and the next morning I was talking
496
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.920
my parents are like they can't ever
do anything with that song, like that's
497
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:29.079
gonna be so bad. And then
I just ended up just taking one for
498
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:37.000
the team and doing it. That's
impressive. I'm sorry, Off. Do
499
00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:41.279
you know if she's heard it?
Oh yeah, that's a whole other that's
500
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.440
a whole other thing. We hope, so my life for I swear to
501
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:47.640
God, like seven months of ruined
my life. Wow, And I'm like
502
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:48.680
these are supposed to my best friends, but like, is that why you
503
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.440
broke up? It was very toxic. It was, it was It wasn't
504
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:57.480
the best. Yeah, it was
just when we started promoting it. Yeah,
505
00:28:57.480 --> 00:29:00.480
we wouldn't have released it online.
We were on twur and we played
506
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.319
it and after every single show everyone
came up to us and was like,
507
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:07.039
what is that church on TV song? Yeah? And like that was after
508
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:10.240
we were the openers. Then the
headliner came on and they still remembered the
509
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.400
title and the song a little bit
more. And You're like, damn,
510
00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.400
I have such a duality with the
whole thing being like I'm like, I'm
511
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:18.319
not going to tell the guys not
to release the song. But at the
512
00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.359
same time, I'm like everyone else
is having fun with it around me except
513
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:23.799
for me at that moment. So
I'm just kind of like, like I
514
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.759
said, I'll just like bite my
tongue. I'll just deal with it and
515
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.400
whatever drama comes afterwards, I'll just
deal with it. But now it's it's
516
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.119
been fine, I want to see
it through. I want to see it
517
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:38.640
through. A lot of our songs
are well, specifically two, but those
518
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.640
two are very important in our catalog. So yeah, so, like,
519
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.039
how many songs do you have just
geared up to come out? Still?
520
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.119
Like, how many songs have you
written that are coming out this year?
521
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.880
That's a great question. I don't
know if I can put a number on
522
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.680
that, but I mean, I
mean, I mean we're like constantly like
523
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.160
writing. I mean like right now, like we're like really like writing mode,
524
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.720
Like right after this interview, really, I'm going back in them and
525
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.519
like and like we're just like like
cooking. But yeah, yeah, I
526
00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:04.319
mean like, yeah, we'll get
you before the traffics all the way down.
527
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:10.519
Yeah yeah. But also, you
guys just released Just Friends, Yes,
528
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.599
and that song is so fun.
We love it. But I have
529
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:18.079
to mention like the promotion for it
of the farm animals, because I think
530
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.119
I've watched that twenty times because it
was hysterical. This idea was that I
531
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.160
think, yeah, I forgot,
don't know. I was like we were
532
00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.359
all just like joking about it.
I think it's like we're like, oh,
533
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:29.519
oh, like testing our products and
animals. They were like, wait,
534
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.599
what if we actually test our products
and animals? Yeah, most of
535
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.319
our ideas are us just like shooting
the ship and then like something will just
536
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:37.880
like we'll just like say something be
like oh, that's that's funny. What's
537
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:42.240
like the attention grabber? What's the
hook? And like yeah, and apology
538
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.880
videos do really really well in our
attention grabbing, not to mention responding to
539
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:49.079
a comment being like you test your
product on animals and not saying we're never
540
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:55.920
going to stop. But then but
then it's like it's like shoot and innocent
541
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.240
because it's like we're just playing music
and we went to the pettings by the
542
00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:02.480
way in there it's so cool.
It's I think it's love sanctuaries and like
543
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.039
yeah in the valley and they were
like so cool about it. They loved
544
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.240
it. They loved it. Is
there like a breed of animal that fox
545
00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:15.079
with your music the most pig.
Yeah, he was super into it.
546
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.119
It was fun. We're definitely gonna
volunteer there because they were all the animals
547
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.200
are so sick. Wow. So
was it a real comment or you guys
548
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:25.119
made up? We made okay,
because I was gonna say that would have
549
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.079
been funny. If someone did comments
Peters out there, I'm telling you they'll
550
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:33.119
sniff it out. Wow. So
do you guys have a tour coming up?
551
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:34.720
Like are you coming to play again? Or hopefully? I mean that's
552
00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:37.480
the goal. We're We're reaching out
to a lot of artists, so hopefully
553
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.400
do a support towe this fall?
Like if you're in dream mode right now,
554
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:44.359
like what is what's the end game
for you guys? Like what could
555
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.640
happen for you to feel like all
right, we made it and we all
556
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.279
have probably different answers for that.
My goal, the reason I got into
557
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.359
this was I want to play like
Arenas. I want to be behind a
558
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.519
drum set playing the biggest shows possible. Yeah, fucking awesome. I mean,
559
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.960
I mean I was just like a
song that's successful enough to land on
560
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:02.720
the charts, like people know I
guess you know yeah, that's definitely like
561
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.920
one goal. I mean definitely playing
arenas. Of course, who wouldn't want
562
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.119
to do that. What's the biggest
stage you've played on Shingle Ball. Yeah,
563
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.440
well the pre show, but it
was still like like, how we're
564
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.359
playing the pre show. We didn't
know, like what, we didn't have
565
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.799
any information on the size of it, and we go through soundcheck and we
566
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.160
were like, this is way too
big to be a pre show. And
567
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.160
then we walk out on stage and
there's thousands of people there. So that
568
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.880
was we were going from like playing
the Whiskey five hundred cap rooms and even
569
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:32.599
the Toy we were almost like five
hundred cap rooms to what was that four
570
00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:36.359
or five thousand people out of a
few thousand. And that's when I first
571
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.720
saw you guys. My roommate heard
of your band and when she was like,
572
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.759
oh this is people are ugly and
I thought she I didn't know that
573
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:43.160
you guys at the time, and
I was like, what do you mean
574
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:45.559
people are ugly? And she said, no, that's the band's name.
575
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:46.160
So she was like, I want
to go see them. So we went
576
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.200
to see you guys. I'm glad
we did because you gained a fan that
577
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.240
night, but also how did the
name come up? The question? I
578
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.400
mean the name, Like the story
is like we met and had the show
579
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.440
and we were just like but we're
just like every time we said the name
580
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:02.799
people already it turns people's heads,
like, what's like a name We're probably
581
00:33:02.839 --> 00:33:06.359
not going to sit where there's a
one time shore. Let's just think of
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a random name that is like memorable. I guess the first name since the
583
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:12.079
beginning this was beginning yeah, yeah, wow, Yeah. I feel like
584
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it's just like a reminder, just
like not take yourselves too seriously at the
585
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end of the day. I feel
like that is the vibe I get from
586
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you guys, like don't take yourself
too seriously, and I feel like we
587
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.599
need that. It can be too
Like that's why I need to rely the
588
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dad of the group. I have
to be twenty nine yeah, yeah,
589
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:32.200
yeah, rough, I had a
rough age twenty three yeahs our little brother,
590
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.839
yeah, anything before we wrap up
with some lightning questions too. I'm
591
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:39.720
just excited for more music and that
show is so fun and can't wait for
592
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another Mint. Yeah. When I
see the videos, like, I think
593
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that's why I really like shows at
places like the Mint because it's a very
594
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small venue, but like that's where
you see like what bands are there to
595
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:53.640
bring it. And like when I
was seeing the videos from you guys playing
596
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there, like people were jumping up
and down like it was one thousand person
597
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venue, and I feel like that's
that's what it feels like when I feel
598
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like I see a band that's like
really into it. Like I saw the
599
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.960
band Camino there a long time ago. I was like, dude, this
600
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.599
band like is going to be sick, Like they're all over the stage.
601
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The energy is there, and that's
what I hear from what it was like
602
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with you guys. Man. So
you guys all think a lot of tall
603
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:20.480
fans. Yeah, I always stand
on the front always if we were in
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the back, and I don't know
if you saw my videos, I was
605
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over here on time in the side. I was like hello or something.
606
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.559
Yeah. Yeah, I will say
it feels like a lot of people because
607
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we do add and post the little
shakes on each basis. Yeah, just
608
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:43.119
puts it in there and for anyone
listening, you could take that idea,
609
00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.800
but just nowhere it came from,
all right, So we want to get
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to know you guys a little bit. So we have a couple of rapid
611
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:51.920
fire questions we're going to close with. So first thing that comes to mind.
612
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.239
First, we can agree on this. One song of the summer so
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far had some help Morgan Wall I
don't I don't do country. I'm not.
614
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.559
That's what I say. I can't
choose my answer now. Can I
615
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:12.559
just say espresso? Yeah? Better
than please? Please? Please? Yes?
616
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:17.719
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Okay, fast food, what's
617
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the stop? Don't it? In
and out, in and out, in
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and Outan's McDonald I I'm big McDonald's. I quit fast food. So Taco
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Bell, Okay, thank you having
Taco Bell. Girly give me a drop
620
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at two am. I love it. Did you ever tell you, Tristan
621
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you look like John Krasinski? Never? Really? Yeah, that's what I've
622
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.480
never gotten. I was like trying
to place it this whole interview. Wow,
623
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:50.800
it's like John did. They're never
going to hear that. It's like
624
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:52.920
the high tone of them was jealous
people taller than me and hip? All
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right. Crushed ice cube, dice
cube, cube, cubed cube, crush
626
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ice cube, sonic crush ice makes
it okay, Yeah, that's about makes
627
00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.320
strengths better OK, yeah, fill
in the blank. Taylor Swift is blank,
628
00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:21.239
tall, tall, successful. Yeah
all again a musician, it's just
629
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:25.760
like five eight, but that's like
six four, six three or four for
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00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:31.880
a woman. Yeah. Sunrise or
Sunset Sunset, Sunset Sunset, Life of
631
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:38.199
my Own Party or brain Dead Life
on my Own Party. I wish that
632
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:43.880
song would go viral. Yeah,
that's the song that she found us and
633
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.800
called us that night. I was
like, I'm going to be your manager.
634
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:52.800
Really shout out to the manager.
Well, I do appreciate you guys
635
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.840
coming in. Man, it was
like really great to meet you guys.
636
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.679
Thanks, thanks for having us.
Now that I know you're in o C.
637
00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:01.719
Dude, like we're gonna hang out
sometimes between the hours of like three
638
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:08.400
AM and right before you go to
Sneaky Link in and out. People are
639
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ugly. Thanks for coming
