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archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Saturday, November eighteen,

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twenty twenty three. Got to get
used to saying that Saturday, and

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I am not alone Jo best friend
Jenny is here, darling. Good morning.

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It is a fine morning. Yes, yes, so if you are

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just joining us, because I know
previously we had the best of Matt Connorton

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Unleashed in this time slot, but
now we are every Saturday morning from nine

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am to noon live here from the
studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM

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and for our first Saturday show.
We've got We've got a stacked show for

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you today. We've got members of
Sepsis who are gonna be joining us in

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just a moment. And coming up
in the second hour, we have Kevin

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Horn, a great singer songwriter who's
been on the show. He's gonna bring

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his guitar and he's gonna come in
and play for us. And on the

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third hour, we've got Aaron Billodo
who will be joined by Huey the Gecko

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live in studio and they're gonna play
some tunes. We also opened the show

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today with a brand new track from
Boston band Bees Deluxe, who could not

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be with us here today because they're
on tour, but they sent us a

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couple of new tunes that they wanted
to give us the world radio premiere for

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those. Such a great band.
So we've had Conrad War on the show

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before and we will have We will
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And of course, excuse me,
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used to doing this, and you
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don't know about that. But and
we also have, of course Eric Pilcher's

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a classic film review and we're gonna
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eleven am today and this week the
subject is Ferris Bueller's day Off from nineteen

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eighty six. So we've got uh, we've got a great show for you

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today. And the studio line is
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can email me Matt at Matt connorton
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interact end opine in the Facebook live
chat. Very busy chat room this morning.

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So happy to see that. But
uh, without further ado, let

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me bring these mics up and uh, we've got Stepsis in the house.

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Everything sounds so good. I don't
I don't know if are you using the

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headphone as sure I am? Are
you using the headphones? Yeah? What's

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up guys? Hi? Well,
if you don't use the headphones and somebody

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calls in, y'all, oh,
that's okay. He will have to try

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to suck it out of the microphone
into your brain and I have to use

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my new England telepathy. Yes,
I didn't know that was the thing.

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That's where it Yeah yeah, fled
by. So so so everyone, I'll

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let I'll let you introduce ourselves.
And because you're you're not only not only

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do you have the band, but
you've got some of us, You've got

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the podcast and you always have a
lot going on. Yeah, so this

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is this is some of the band. This is getting confusing. This is

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getting confusing because, uh, stage
left is Lexi Swarm, Who's who's actually

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our merch girl. So it's getting
confusing because our merch girl also performs in

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the band with us. I love
that. I watched your videos for months.

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Oh yeah, she's got music coming
out with the band. Wasn't really

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now that that I didn't realize.
Very cool. Her and Melissa have a

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song coming out called Bathwater sounds exciting. It's coming up. It's in the

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future. But but people have been
watching her develop her scream for for a

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couple of years now. She's been
developing. She has her own like scream

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thing going on. She can tell
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merch girl and she does some screaming
and percussion of sorts. She does she's

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been doing all kinds of tell about
that. And then there's then there's Zachie

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B, who plays bass. I'd
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lineup, but nobody's new anymore.
There's no more new and the newness is

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gone. But uh, I tell
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and different roles here. Do you
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yourself. I've already introduced Lexi so
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Zackie B. I played bass.
I've been with Stepsis now for god like

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I know what seven months. Yeah, yeah, we can't let him go.

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Nope, you guys, that's not
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a pun. Zach's another babe.
Zachly has been like fifteen other bands everybody.

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Everywhere I go will be somewhere in
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think they noticed him because of Sepsis, you know, yeah, yeah,

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well, bass players are in high
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got into playing bass was because everybody
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into Sepsis. Yeah, yep,
that's by playing the bass well, very

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good. I worked out well as
opposed to the viola. Yeah, although,

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but but that, I mean,
that's kind of what the conversation is.

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But he does so much more and
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These guys do all kinds of other
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him. Yeah. Absolutely, I've
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with you guys, and the images
and the pictures. Guys, you look,

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you look so awesome. You want
to know why you really come together

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in this like really cool package.
You see what she's doing. What's she

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doing smiling? Yeah, we're happy. We're happy. We're a happy band

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again, and we're happy human beings. That's why. That's why she's She's

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also wearing a great shirt. By
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show where she got that. Not
unable to visualize us on contest or Facebook

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or wherever. She's wearing a very
sexy Macconaton unleashed. Nobody ever visualized is

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the people of ever we don't ever
get visualized. But by the way,

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we could do that now. Ronda
Faverro from California's in the chat room.

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She says, I, so dig
this spand right before you introduced him,

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Isaac was in there going is that
steps no way? Yeah, some of

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us and but this is the this
is so this. I brought the podcasters

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with me because nobody else in the
band wakes up until at least ten I'm

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not even sure how many band members
do you think are awake right now?

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None tell you. Our our drummer, our drummer salvator, Robert Pan is

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awake right now. Yes, and
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Lexi's got a broken toe, Robert's
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playing on the drums for the last
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Really yes, So if any of
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seen, any of the live stuff
that we would do it. We just

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played swarming fast everything we're doing.
He's been playing with his hand wrapped up,

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busted up, broken up, and
we're talking about different different departments and

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like all the different stuff we do
here, and that's why it gets confusing

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at times. So this is the
podcast, asked and Roberts the drummer,

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and he probably is up because he's
going he's on his way to Brooklyn because

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he plays in the punk band Rags
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But he's off to New York right
now with his broken arm to go

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play more rock and roll. Does
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don't know, does I mean does
he does he kind of do a Rick

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Allen thing where he doesn't really use
that arm he uses he's been using the

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broken arm. I assume as doctor
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in the company. We get there, we have we have meetings, you

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know, and we talk about his
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It's kind of like what we do
at band practice now, we just talk

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about body parts. So you can't
play any music without dependencies. Need to

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put up a fundraiser for to buy
a bubble wrap. This fundraiser would be

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a good gimmick. Rap absolutely tile
and all we have an em I could

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have been your own empty well.
I'll tell you there is a just an

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open position in steps right now for
security drivers in pain Reducer. You know,

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it's funny too, like we need
a chiropractor too. And this is

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why our budget, this is why
it's hard for us to play out because

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all the chiropractors and bubble wrap.
Well, you know you mentioned to your

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drummer on his way to play in
another band. That's been a big subject

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on the show recently. It seems
like every band we have on their their

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drummer is in like multiple bands because
there's just not enough drummers. Drummers aren't

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even higher demand than bass players.
Well that's why most bands have laptop on

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drums. You see a lot of
that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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they go, hey, this is
Zach you be on bass, this is

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Lexi on tambourine, and this is
mac book on the drum return copy paste.

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No, I don't see that that
often though. Well, that's the

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thing, you don't see it right, right, No, people, normally

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you see somebody doing this, right, there's nobody doing it. My theory

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about and Jenny's heard me say this
a lot, My theory about that with

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the drummers is that you know,
when you're growing up and you first get

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interested in playing a musical instrument,
and you go to your parents and you

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have to have the conversation, well, I want to play drums, and

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that's the one thing that and maybe
the tuba are the two things that they're

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going to try to talk you out
of like, do you want to make

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noise? No? Yeah, they're
gonna try to talk you out of that

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one. So no, no,
we can't go further into this conversation without

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going Yeah, Sepsis Metal Band of
the Year. Oh yes, yes,

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I saw the most amazing images.
I saw you guys holding the award and

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all the Oh. I was so
happy for you guys. I was jumping

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through the screen. That was congratulations, hard one, hard work. I

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tried to I tried to capture the
moment on my phone. Uh, but

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I was so wound up. You
know, you couldn't. You know,

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these phones now have image stability and
artificial intelligence and all that. I mean

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with all the lenses. I got
like five lenses on this thing, and

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I'm trying to capture the moment,
you know, and I just noticed I'm

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useless. I was. You know, they're did doing the names and everything,

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and you know, everybody deserved to
be there, you know, everybody

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works so hard to be there.
Congratulations to all the nominees that we're there.

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But you know, anytime we've never
we've never won anything other than being

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Sepsis. You know, right,
this is like you know for some people,

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like some people have bands and it
like their hob their hobbyists. Yeah,

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yeah, level, this is our
life. This is our life though

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for us you know what I mean, some people to it's a weekend thing,

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the thing they do with your riends
or whatever. This is This is

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me and Melissa's life. Oh yeah, right right, absolutely all day,

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every day, inside and out.
I know because I am a swarmy absolutely

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share everything. I love following you
guys. I love watching what you're doing.

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One of the things I love that
you bring to the table is you

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talk about the industry in ways that
other people don't hold hold that thought because

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I do. I do want to
get into that. But we have a

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call. We have our first ever
Saturday morning call, and I think I

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know who this is. ECG.
Is that you? Yeah, it's me.

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Welcome back out, Welcome back everybody, Thank you, it's gocution.

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You talk about a road trip to
drummer there. It's funny if you guys

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ever made a road trip to play
in Canada. That's that's Ezg's standard question.

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Yes, so I have yeah,
wow, Hey here you go easy.

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Yeah. I have a meeting this
Monday about about a Canada trip two

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shows excellent, excellent. Wow,
that's great the rest of the show,

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and you guys have I appreciate you
man, thank you all right, EZG

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thank you. Yes, Yes,
love to get to Canada because that's where

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my family's from. Oh, Canada. Yeah, we're very Canadian. I

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would like to go to Canada because
we have a lot of fans there and

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I think if we went there and
it was well planned, we would probably

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have a good turnout if everyone prepared. Yeah, I feel absolutely, yeah,

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absolutely, no, absolutely. If
you have a question for the band

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six oh three or about the podcast
six o three two five oh six oh

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seven six oh three two five oh
six o seven. But yeah, Jenny

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mentioned you know you talk about the
music industry and and and the uh it's

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uh what is the name of the
podcast? So confusion is expanding because I

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feel like it changed at one point, right, okay, so it didn't.

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I love it. I feel like
the name changed. No, okay,

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so we have so we have so
Lexi has, uh bear with me.

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Lexi has a podcast called the Metal
Honeys Podcast. Okay, okay,

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and that and that's that's the one
you do with Melissa, right, No,

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no, no, so so so
so we have a whole network.

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So we write there's a whole,
So there's a whole, there's a high,

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there is there is and and if
I had to explain all the lore

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someday they'd be like a big family
tree. But the the Metal Honey Pop

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The Metal Honeys podcast is Lexi in
her world of Honeys, and they talk

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about the music industry on your own
and it's and and that is like her

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generation and and like a view from
like I say, just because I'm feeling

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old, but but it's it's it's
young people's perspective on rock and roll today,

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modern technology and entertainment uh industry as
a whole. And then you have

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Swarm TV. And Swarm TV is
not a podcast, it's a live stream.

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So Melissa is a streamer and streamers
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Podcasting is more like what we're doing
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Live streaming is when you talk to
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little bit of a hybrid thing because
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as well as broadcasting. I can't
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have the faculties it's tricky. It's
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and she does twitch in live streaming, and she the raids and the

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multi stream. I can't like it. She does the multi so she can

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put her brain in several pieces of
the room and spread. It's a talent

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that women tend to have. I'm
serious. And she wears many hats during

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this thing, and she can kind
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Is on the podcast. And that's
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The Honeycomb Hideout. Oh okay,
right, right, is every midweek.

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It's hump Day Wednesday. Let me
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at seven pm and it's seven and
nine and it's live. But it's not

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so much of a podcast as it
is a show about a podcast. So

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it's really a live stream of us
podcasting. Right, it's not really a

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podcast. It's not the podcast where
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or something. I kind of see
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person as the visitor coming in to
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table when I'm in your stream,
and I can say something or whatever if

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I'm on your YouTube or if I'm
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I can say something, they pop
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respond to it, and I love
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conversation that you are getting to participate
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take on the Honeycomb. Yes,
that's very good. It's it's it's it's

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live, it's interactive, educational.
Somebody could slip on a banana peel,

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somebody could say I mean, I
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watch a twenty second reel of it
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our educators or but it is it
is perspective. It I think a lot

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of people might imagine us as coming
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more experience. It's education through the
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the conversational piece of the participants and
the people on the table. Meaning I

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might say some thing, we might
have a conversation about backtracks or something,

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and there could be several different frequencies
and opinions about that. Where it's so

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there's not a band narrative. There's
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band or the podcast. Everybody kind
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to taste, you know, and
you know, and and everybody kind of

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just respects the space. But you
know, it's it's it's not fact nor

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fiction. It's it's human beings with
a human take on it. And and

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every band is different, in every
entertainment department is different. We we we

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realize that for us, we're an
independent band and we talk about a lot

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of topics from the perspective of independence. So if you're somebody that's in and

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we're saying it all the time,
if you're somebody that's in pursuit of a

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music industry, then then we can
be easily misunderstood in twenty seconds of film,

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right twenty seconds of real because where
it's not fact based, this it

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really is the experience of the band
that we're narrating. So if you're if

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you're a band and you're coming on
and you're looking for solutions, the honeycomb

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IIDO might not be the greatest conduit
to the industry because independent musicians looking to

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keep their independence shouldn't go through the
music industry. Expand on that if you

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will. That's there are no the
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the tools that you need to hone
and the acquisitional responsibilities and relationships that you

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would need as an independent are useless
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Like you wouldn't you wouldn't take on
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in the nucleus of the industry in
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stuff that we're doing. You wouldn't
want to pursue. We've been on the

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charts before. You wouldn't want to
pursue charts because you're you're the time that

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you're doing to pursue a professional music
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and features of a music industry.
You wouldn't be independent with the goal of

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getting into the music industry to then
unlock your independence. Right if if you're

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planning on being independent, and you'll
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just say what are you doing?
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They say, well why are you
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are the goals behind being independent?
Also, I can get into the music

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industry. Then then what are you
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I'm going to be independent. So
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all of these you know, rely, you're gonna because you're gonna have to

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rely on these relationships and tools.
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tools. You're gonna acquire independent relationships, You're gonna build your resume in independence,

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You're gonna be able to show your
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gonna you guys gotta understand that the
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for artists to need them. Oh
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need that. So the issue is
if there's nothing that they can take away

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from you, if there's nothing that
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left out a lot of times of
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because they can't take them away.
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not invited. We have seen examples
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when you when you mentioned unlocking your
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obviously you know who's more in the
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but now she's trying to like like
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about her catalog being bought out from
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of it, but yeah, so
she she went and re recorded everything and

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is and is re releasing it separate
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because she's trying to reclaim her independence. Or I'm reminded of what Prince did

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you know? This goes back to
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system anymore, or he he called
it a matrix and he he said,

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you know, I don't want to
be with Warner Brothers anymore. Yes,

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we've done this all before. Yeah, just forgotten. Yeah, yeah,

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so you do see you see examples
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are who are? So it seems
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in the in the music perfect for
example. Yeah, we go on on

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the part of the podcast, is
you know, us making fun of ourselves?

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Matt. A lot of times that
people go, yeah, you know,

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how did you know? How are
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What qualifies you guys to talk about
how silly it is to get a record

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deal. Well, it's because we
had a record deal. Well, how

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can we talk about pay to play? It's because we've done it. Yeah,

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how can we tell about How can
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mean, it's one thing to be
an alcoholic and go to school for it.

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You don't mean to talk about alcoholism
and read it out of a book,

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you know. But it's another thing
to or read about homelessness or go

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to school for homelessness. But it's
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and experience, what we talk about on

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the podcast isn't just some like uh
like narrow like one sided yeah, or

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one dimensional experience. A lot of
what we talk about on a podcast is

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because, you know, like like
alcoholism, not only have we read books

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on it and studied it and lived
through it and we have family members and

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people that have been affected by it. Yeah, but we've also tasted alcohol,

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you know, not not just that
we we've we've we're reporting on pay

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to play, We're reporting on Spotify
or reporting on onfairness like Taylor Swift,

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your taste buds changed, you get
hit. I mean, people recruit people

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to fight wars before their brains developed. And the same thing with the music

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industry. They recruit, They recruit
before your brains developed, before you know

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how to use the tools, before
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responsibilities. The most responsible people in
the room, Matt get to make the

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rules, okay, and before they
before you learn, before you learn what

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the responsibilities are. They want to
make sure that you've paid your dues,

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you know, and and then nobody
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so you know, you pay your
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if you talk about it, because
in the industry it's not popular to talk

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about unfairness. So Taylor's Taylor's grown
up. Taylor Swift has grown up,

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and Soili Sepsis, you know,
you get in you start this stuff,

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you get into music. And for
a lot of us, we all got

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into music and a time where we
were shaping our identities okay, when we

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were kids. So for a lot
of us, we got into this in

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a time when we were trying to
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right, and that changes as your
brain develops, of course, yeah,

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I mean the human brain really until
you're you're twenty five, it hasn't

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really fully developed that sometimes into sometimes
into for late bloomers, into your thirties.

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Sure so, clinically speaking, biologically
speaking, like human beings, we

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stay kids longer than other creatures.
You know, kittens and grasshoppers don't stay.

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They don't they don't remain in near
youth, you know, as long

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as human beings do. Yeah,
So we're infactuated with our youth. Our

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creature is we're infatuated with, you
know, immortality, living forever, and

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we're infactuated with with all, you
know, having all and subscribing to all,

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and living forever in the fountain of
youth. So believe me, the

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record companies believe me, the generals
and the presidents, and the believe me.

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That's that's who the pushers find,
right, you know, that's who

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the chicken hawks go after, is
the young and impressionable kids that want to

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be rock stars. And by the
time you're old enough to learn the game,

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they don't change the technology on you. It's the full mats different.

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As soon as you learn radio,
they changed it to cassettes. Then you

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learn cassettes, then they tended to
CD, and then the CD then you

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rip it all off the web.
But when you were a kid, all

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you wanted to do is be on
MTV. Is no MTV anymore? Yeah,

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there hasn't been a TV for a
long time. There hasn't been anything.

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No, but there hasn't been anything. There hasn't been anything for a

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long time. Not even dinosaurs.
They never came back. That's true.

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Things come and they go. And
that same thing with NP three, same

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thing with Blue Blue Tooth, Blu
ray laser discs. Everything will come and

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everything will go. Can you actually
let me give the studio line? Uh?

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And then I have a question six
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anyone wants to chime in six O
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way, our second hour guest can't
make it, he's gonna have to reschedule.

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So I don't know. Can you
all say longer than what we had

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planned? Or I don't know if
you're on a time not on the time

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that we'll stay a little bit.
I don't see why? Not cool?

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Cool? Thank you? Can you
talk about some of the things, I

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mean, William you mentioned like some
of the things you've been through, like

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pay to play and a bad record
deal and all that. I mean can

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you expand on some of that?
You know? And I'm a music industry

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nerd, so this is I mean, particularly in band past the time you're

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scheduled here, But these guys might
want to expand a little bit. I'll

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never stop expanding. That's kind of
my bad, as was right on that

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same alliance. What's the most frequent
thing that you see with younger bands getting

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pulled into or is it the pay
to play? What is the one you

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see the most frequently that you think
being being told they have to sell tickets

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to be on the bill, Like
you have to sell the minimum fifty tickets,

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and each ticket is like twenty five
bucks, and if you don't sell

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all of them, we kick you
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and the band takes nothing, nothing, they're not even allowed to perform.

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Yeah. Many times, many times
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just for the like opening slot on
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A lot of times we find this
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A lot of times we find that
we're the only band it's getting paid.

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Yeah, did you experience it that
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did you end up doing this.
You know, I'll tell you the ticket

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sales. I sure did. I
played. Oh yeah, And we did

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a lot of our our me and
Melissa did in the beginning. We did

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a lot of paying our dues.
But I need to make it clear that,

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oh man, I'm foot in mouth
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really we've been really lucky people.
We've been really taking care of We've been

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we're a really privileged, like privileged
band. A lot of people come,

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a lot of people go with us, but like me and Melissa, we've

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been doing this since twenty ten.
We've been really we've been really lucky and

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really blessed to have had people on
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the way. And you know,
we've we've made a whole lot of mistakes,

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but you know that's part, that's
part of the ride. But yeah,

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yeah, but I just want to
say, like, yes, we've

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paid our dues, but we haven't
been held hostage to it because we're not

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stupid and we know what what unfair
looks like. And me and Melissa,

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a big feature of this band being
in it was standing up for ourselves,

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you know, so we also come
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mean. We're not a little privileged
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garage it's all decked out with Mommy
bought you and amplify you. We didn't,

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you know what I'm saying. Meaningless
don't come from that. Yeah.

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Uh, Stepsis doesn't come from that. Oh I respect, you know what

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I mean. So like, so
for us, you know, we're not

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We're not making music for riches or
fame. And a lot of these kids

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they're in it for the wrong reasons. So that's why they're easy to take.

405
00:31:22,279 --> 00:31:26,480
So that's why the Chicken Hawks,
it's easy to drop drop a line

406
00:31:26,519 --> 00:31:30,319
in the pond. So but for
us, you know, we come from

407
00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:33,839
court backgrounds, law backgrounds, you
know, the street, prison, jail.

408
00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:38,519
I was in boys homes and juvenile
halls growing up, you know,

409
00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:45,240
I was. I'm I'm also adopted. I didn't. I didn't grow up

410
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,359
with any family. Uh So I
grew up in the family court system.

411
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,839
So I had lawyers my whole life. I was also a childhood rapper,

412
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,720
a DJ. All this is so
I had managers growing up. I was.

413
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,960
I had I had pressed background,
interest, some broadcasting background. I

414
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:04,680
yeah, I got some of my
first I have my broadcasting background at WHGB.

415
00:32:05,119 --> 00:32:08,119
I lived in Portsmouth, me being
a Portsmouth resident, street performer,

416
00:32:08,319 --> 00:32:13,359
dancer, the theaters, repertory theaters. So I grew up in the environment.

417
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:15,519
So I was like, you grew
up in the environment, you know,

418
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:20,559
you know, you know about manages. You know, especially during the

419
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:22,119
eighties and nineties, it was real
sleazy. You know what I'm saying.

420
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,200
Everybody had the kids on the take, and that's that's who the talent scouts

421
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,720
were after, was the kids.
So I was, I was posed.

422
00:32:28,759 --> 00:32:30,880
I was in modeling agencies. As
a kid. I did a lot of

423
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,039
performing. I used to perform for
pro Portsmouth. I was in the newspaper

424
00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:38,119
all the time, Market Square Day. So we were hip to you know

425
00:32:38,839 --> 00:32:43,200
it really by the way, Legion
of Solace is in the chat and says

426
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,359
we are we are proud to call
ourselves partner and affiliate with the Sepsist family

427
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,799
for the last two or three years
now, very nice. How many years

428
00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:55,400
we've been around. I love when
our partners can't tell how many years they've

429
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,920
been around, because it feels like
they're just part of it. Right prepare

430
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,359
you know what you're saying? I
don't know like in the record industry,

431
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:09,160
they have these little box that says
perpetual. Yeah right they you know they

432
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:15,440
got you something. Oh yeah,
yeah, you have a gift, a

433
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:25,559
gift, wonderful gift. Exactly know
about this. Very nice. Actually,

434
00:33:25,559 --> 00:33:29,759
actually, will you move this way
a little bit so the camera can see

435
00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:32,200
and just just back a little bit? No, no, no, no,

436
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,720
right there for for those watching online. Very nice support local metal.

437
00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:44,359
Yes, I love it. There
you go, there you go. Oh

438
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:52,640
wow, my name, that's that's
awesome. That is so wow, that

439
00:33:52,279 --> 00:33:58,880
is that is wonderful. Thank you. Make you feel bad? Frame it?

440
00:33:59,519 --> 00:34:04,519
Everybody? Wow, I mean you'll
feel bad, but only temporarily.

441
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,360
So everybody, you know. Swarmy
Fest was an absolute success. No,

442
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,440
I know, I know, and
I'm not gonna twist a knife, I

443
00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:15,280
really not. But everybody, I'll
have you know, everybody looked for you,

444
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,360
guys, really they did. Yeah, but that should make you feel

445
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,159
good though, Well there's nothing you
could have done. We'll be at the

446
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,320
next one period. I assume it's
going to be annual. Oh yeah,

447
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:30,599
no, so Swarms three it's November. Excellent, you've already got that locked

448
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,599
down at jewel Yeah, it's that
Jeweled November second next year. If you're

449
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:37,360
a man, you want to play, excellent, excellent, come now email

450
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:46,719
Richie downs little little little New Hampshire
there email n H Booking if you like

451
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:52,480
to play Swormy Fest excellent, want
to? I know it is two stages,

452
00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:57,199
it's great. Yeah, tell us
about it? What was it like

453
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,679
me? How did it go?
Okay? Well? I I was nervous

454
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,960
the whole time, total honesty.
Yeah, yeah, because I never did

455
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:08,119
We never did two stages at Jewel. I've played Jewel a bunch of times

456
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:14,639
and and what I was nervous is
about is the sound is so good on

457
00:35:14,679 --> 00:35:19,039
this on the front stage. I
didn't want anybody to have less. I

458
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:23,840
was really especially we had some really
good bands in the other room, you

459
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:34,400
know, and there wasn't anybody up
there that wasn't absolutely qualified to play the

460
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,840
main stage, you know what I
mean, Like all those other bands were

461
00:35:37,039 --> 00:35:40,920
perfect for the main stage. I
don't like to even use that English,

462
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,840
you know, because that everybody everybody
was dressed great. The added to I

463
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:54,440
love. I love when a show
comes together and everyone's participating. The I

464
00:35:54,519 --> 00:35:59,519
mean when you talk about how do
we how what's the blueprint? Or the

465
00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:05,000
template for independence coming together and having
a great show. This is it.

466
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:12,599
Swarmy Fest is it. And the
purpose of swarming Fest is to prove unequivocally

467
00:36:12,679 --> 00:36:19,679
that local talent can get together at
high quality. There's no buyons, there's

468
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,679
no pay to play, there's opportunity
forever. People that stay to the end

469
00:36:25,119 --> 00:36:34,119
can get some gas money. People
that you're everyone's encouraged to participate. Of

470
00:36:34,119 --> 00:36:37,920
course, Matt Connerton is involved opening
the doors, letting all the bands come

471
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,559
down here to get some press and
some airtime. I love getting the vands

472
00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:51,079
in like that, a lineup like
Solace coming and being a part of that.

473
00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:53,679
They made a huge weekend coming down
supporting bands all the way up the

474
00:36:53,719 --> 00:37:00,039
coast, culminating in Swarmy Fest,
visiting with their partners, and it wound

475
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:08,320
up being this huge frequency of people
from all over the area. They're coming

476
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:15,119
and sell, you know, to
celebrate traditional neighborhood, you know, homegrown

477
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:20,039
music. And there's no there's no
crazy egos, fist fights flying around.

478
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,159
Nobody owes anybody money. There's no
celebrities, there's no rock stars, there's

479
00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:30,639
no nobody's a headliner or a co
headliner. Nobody went over set times.

480
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:37,480
Nobody backed for encores. No,
nothing came up missing. This is what

481
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:43,880
I love about FEST. The quality
network is right an community bringing it all

482
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:49,679
together. It was really strong.
It was and the purpose to show that

483
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:59,960
neighborhood bands are top quality and they
fucking draw. I forgot about that.

484
00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:04,079
Sorry, I'm always saying the F
word on the podcast. Try about that

485
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,800
and they draw? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they draw and that and

486
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,519
that's that's the big purpose. We
want to try to teach everybody as much

487
00:38:10,519 --> 00:38:14,480
as we possibly can. The bands
that we're working with, we want to

488
00:38:14,519 --> 00:38:19,519
try to teach and encourage them to
draw. We have a call. We'll

489
00:38:19,519 --> 00:38:22,119
see who's on the line here.
Hi, welcome to Matt Connordton unleased.

490
00:38:22,119 --> 00:38:27,719
Who's this? This is Malcolm from
Leads in the Solid Hey, welcome,

491
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:31,519
Welcome, how you doing, Welcome
to the show. Thank you for having

492
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:37,239
me. I just wanted to call
in and say I had an amazing time

493
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,320
from my first trip from Lynchburg,
Virginia, all the way up there steps

494
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:45,440
and stood on the swarming. FEST
was the ship. A few language was

495
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:50,559
the means uh. And I want
to say, Matt, it would have

496
00:38:50,639 --> 00:38:53,639
been an honor to guy to meet
you guys. But yeah, yeah,

497
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,280
I just wanted to call in and
say thank you for doing what you're doing.

498
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,280
Also because it's amazing. I run
a radio show. I know what

499
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,840
you're doing and it's amazing. Oh, thank you, lov I love everything

500
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,440
and all you guys are doing.
I'm glad to know every last one of

501
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:12,440
you. Thank you, mal Thank
you so much, Malcolm, thank you

502
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:15,119
very much. I love you very
much. No problem, guys, and

503
00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:16,800
you all keep it up, man, and I can't wait to see you

504
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:22,760
next year. Swarm me beast because
I already ridden on my calendar. Yes,

505
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:29,559
yes, that's so exciting. That's
awesome. I'm gonna get back to

506
00:39:29,559 --> 00:39:30,960
watching you guys. I just wanted
to call in real quick. I really

507
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:36,079
appreciate it. Thank you for waking
up in the morning, all right,

508
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:37,880
Malco, thank you so much for
the call. Thank you to anybody that

509
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:44,599
woke up this morning. Bye bye. It's a question for everybody's favorite March

510
00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:46,320
girl. Did you sell out of
the Swarmy Fest T shirts? I was

511
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:51,920
so close? You still have some? I still have a couple. Oh

512
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,320
we need to talk. Yeah,
we can hook you up for sure.

513
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,000
I don't I can't believe I missed
that, but Malcolm said something that was

514
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:07,800
so important. It's like we were
talking about like it's not about like what

515
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,360
you earlier, like what you're doing, Like okay, the what is like

516
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:15,800
you're having the show and what the
bands are moving the gear back and forth

517
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:21,960
and they're tuning the guitar strings,
but like why and it like Malcolm really

518
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:29,119
just pointed it out and your ability
to you know, slash in zap swear

519
00:40:29,199 --> 00:40:32,639
words. I don't know if anybody
got this, but the friendship, man,

520
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:42,239
the friendship, the humanity, you
know, just no hocus pocus.

521
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,400
This was a magical moment of communities
and people from all over the region,

522
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,400
all over the country coming together.
I mean we got people who bust in

523
00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:54,559
and people that flew in, wives, girlfriends, I mean families. This

524
00:40:54,639 --> 00:40:59,920
is a family affair. It's a
family event and it and it does no

525
00:41:00,079 --> 00:41:06,719
big math, there's no arithmetic.
It's people that that love home grown rock

526
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:12,920
and roll. It proves that people
love drums and guitars and screaming and dancing.

527
00:41:13,679 --> 00:41:16,800
And uh, it's that simple,
you know, it's that simple.

528
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:22,719
There's no rule in the world,
there's no It's something that we've always loved

529
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,920
to do you know we're proven that
people still love to do it. Who

530
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,599
was the furthest away band who came
and played? Who do you do you

531
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:31,079
know? Off? And who?
Like, I'm curious, who was our

532
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:39,360
guitar player so hot sauce our guitar
player? She she drives, she's up

533
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:45,159
there, She's way up there.
But I think she's up there with Dark

534
00:41:45,280 --> 00:42:00,280
Rain. Dark Rain is up there? What does she say? I didn't

535
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:05,440
know there was I didn't either.
Road is not a band. That's a

536
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:12,719
band to trot? Which tro?
Which trot? We have them on the

537
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:19,440
show. I told you I know
all the bands. No, we played,

538
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,599
we've seen them play. I think
at the Hill which trot Charlie Hill?

539
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,239
That's right? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, they're

540
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,320
really good. Salvatore is in the
chat room, by the way, he

541
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,559
says, I am there in spirit. No, he's right now. He's

542
00:42:34,599 --> 00:42:37,840
loading in his drum kit in Brooklyn. That's what he's doing with his broken

543
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:45,199
arm. Meet this guy, yeah, really, you've never met sal I

544
00:42:45,199 --> 00:42:49,000
don't think i've ever met in person. I don't think we have. Okay,

545
00:42:49,159 --> 00:42:54,000
so me and are both libras.
But he's definitely more balanced. This

546
00:42:54,079 --> 00:42:59,360
guy is that is the most balanced
guy in the band. He's got to

547
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,760
be drummer. He's so chill.
Him and Melissa I think it the most

548
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:07,119
chilli really because we need them the
most. Of course, Malcolm Wood and

549
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:12,760
the Chats has almost had our car
towed away for this. I forgot about

550
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:19,639
that. I don't know about that. It is quite that. It was

551
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,840
quite the theater. You know,
of course, everybody's pulling in and and

552
00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:28,559
there was no places to park.
And if these guys are partners though,

553
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,880
and we always park in the same
place, and we get out there and

554
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:38,559
there's just I mean, there's a
circle, there's a kerfuffle. There was

555
00:43:38,599 --> 00:43:43,719
a kerfuffle, and and and not. You know, it's Manchester, so

556
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,159
I'm used to kerfuffles, but I'm
not. I was very disappointed to see

557
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:53,480
that. It was the it was
the solace. It was everybody for and

558
00:43:53,519 --> 00:43:59,840
me just auto pilot. You know, there's no way to park. People

559
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:05,199
say, why do you park in
Manchester nowhere? Right? Well, it's

560
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,639
weird. Usually like there's a lot
of lots nearby, but the lot directly

561
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:15,360
next door to jewel is like super
uptight, so like they have like I

562
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,679
think, just lurking around. I
think their money is they sit near Jewel,

563
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,360
Oh yeah, and it's such a
fine line between where the Jewel parking

564
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:30,599
lot is and where the neighbors parking
lot is. So they parked in that

565
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:36,440
one spot that happened to be on
the other person's and to these two tow

566
00:44:36,519 --> 00:44:38,639
truck drivers get out, I think
they had a total of three teeth.

567
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:44,559
They get out, and they had
this They had this car on. I

568
00:44:44,559 --> 00:44:47,239
mean they had it loaded up faster
than you could say black light invasion.

569
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,280
I mean, this thing was it
was. Yeah, it was a standoff

570
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:57,679
out there. It was the Legion
versus the tow truck people. Really,

571
00:44:58,079 --> 00:45:00,000
and then I already told you the
tow truck people only have three more teeth.

572
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:05,199
They had no more teeth to lose. And if they were outnumbered,

573
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:10,039
and the guy is crazy, it
might have been ninety pounds and he's screaming

574
00:45:10,079 --> 00:45:14,039
and yelling, banging on his chest, and I was like, can we

575
00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:17,920
please de escalate? Oh wow,
can we please de escalate? Because usually

576
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,760
once once they've got your car hooked
up, that's it. Like you got

577
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,519
to pay yeah, oh no,
they charged a fee to drop it.

578
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:32,480
I think it was like two money. Yeah, maybe next to your like

579
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,679
one of those police tape things,
not police tape, but you know tape.

580
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,679
Don't pock past here. Well we
thought, yeah, we had tases

581
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,960
and peppers, right, we thought, but that they already had. But

582
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:45,599
they already had the once they got
it done. Yeah, Malcolm says in

583
00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:49,159
the chat, we paid one hundred
and seventy five. Mind. Yeah,

584
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,519
and this guy's this guy's like yelling
and Malcolm is this huge guy, and

585
00:45:55,559 --> 00:45:59,840
this tiny little guy's yelling at Malcolm. I'm going this is not good for

586
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:04,800
the little guy. Malcolm is this
big guy, you know, and there's

587
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,400
this little guy with the tow truck. But the problem is the little guy

588
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:12,519
has all He's got the car,
he's got the car hooked up, he's

589
00:46:12,519 --> 00:46:15,320
got the power, right yep.
But at one point this must be like

590
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,800
a trained operation, because if they
had it up as quickly as he said,

591
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:27,320
this is a trained operation. These
guys with secret cameras, what yeah,

592
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,199
I think that. Yeah, I
think they had drones out there waiting

593
00:46:30,199 --> 00:46:35,239
for us to park, cameras watching
watching people pack. No packing sign right

594
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,480
there, no packing and the tow
truck drivers. Okay, so we were

595
00:46:39,519 --> 00:46:43,960
talking out before you know, it. We were talking earlier about the music

596
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:50,039
industry and about the podcast and how
we're always reporting about gatekeepers, and it's

597
00:46:50,039 --> 00:46:53,960
the same thing with whiffle ball bats
and shoehorns and parking. It's every industry

598
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,440
that you can find. People think
we're always talking about the music industry.

599
00:46:58,519 --> 00:46:59,760
No, no, no, no, no, no, We're talking about

600
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,719
life. Yeah, when the stuff
we're we're reporting on isn't really about paying

601
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:07,480
your dues in the music industry.
When we talk about scams and schemes in

602
00:47:07,519 --> 00:47:10,119
the music industry, anybody that watches
our podcast to start thinking about the industry

603
00:47:10,119 --> 00:47:15,840
that they're currently working in. Sure, Sure the landscaping industry. So you

604
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:20,519
don't have to be a fan of
rock and roll to like the hard rock

605
00:47:20,559 --> 00:47:23,760
and heavy metal reset. You don't
have to be into sepsis to love the

606
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,440
Honeycomb hide out or to learn something
about your own industry, because what we're

607
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:35,360
reporting about is happening in every industry
everywhere. Glowball, Yeah, he says

608
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,079
in the chat, we had enough
time to carry the T shirts inside,

609
00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:40,000
to set up our merch table and
run back out to stop our car from

610
00:47:40,039 --> 00:47:45,320
being stolen. Uh they didn't know. Uh, they didn't know that they

611
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:51,039
was about to get a Lynchburg,
Virginia butt kicking. Yeah. Like these

612
00:47:51,039 --> 00:47:53,719
guys Virginia, they don't care those
new tow trucks will they just back up

613
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:59,719
to you. It's it was,
it was, it just they don't have

614
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,840
to do nothing. They I was
speaking with the guys, you know,

615
00:48:02,519 --> 00:48:08,559
after we had had a version of
de escalation, which is like not screaming,

616
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,159
you know, I was pointing out, these guys are loading in for

617
00:48:13,199 --> 00:48:17,039
a job, Like it's not that
they were parked. Yeah, we were

618
00:48:17,039 --> 00:48:22,360
getting the equipment out of the car. It wasn't like we were settled in

619
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,000
and that. I mean, these
guys drove up across country and pulled the

620
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:31,000
t shirts out of the car,
turned around and then had this surprise.

621
00:48:31,519 --> 00:48:35,760
I love them guys, man.
They did such a great job though they

622
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,280
did, like we had so much
fun that we can like I want to

623
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:45,199
say, they really made it comfortable
and fun to have, you know,

624
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:52,760
out of state sponsors come. We
don't usually have sponsors from out of state

625
00:48:53,079 --> 00:48:57,400
come. We usually just have people
coming as like guests at that rate,

626
00:48:59,639 --> 00:49:02,679
but rousing everybody really like insisted and
we had I mean, we had these

627
00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:07,920
guys were so great. They had
a formal pre production meeting with us about

628
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:13,559
coming down. I mean, if
if I, if I could say anything,

629
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:22,440
making friends and solidifying those relationships with
those people was some of the most

630
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:27,960
memorable moments of the weekend. It
was awesome, no hocus pocus, It

631
00:49:28,039 --> 00:49:34,840
really was. It was magical despite
it made all the things we can't control

632
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,920
and made it really valuable because like
when you have a big production like that

633
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,039
and there's two stages and people coming
in and you had friends and family and

634
00:49:45,079 --> 00:49:49,239
guests, and you're hoping everybody doesn't
get sick or call out or cancel.

635
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,199
The only thing you could really do
when it's go time. You know,

636
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:57,360
you drove out there a thousand miles
and you got all your gear out there,

637
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,880
and you're in a different state.
The only the only thing you tr

638
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,599
have control over at any time is
your attitude towards any circumstance. Right you

639
00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:08,760
know, the show's gone, the
show must go on, just like you

640
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,880
know, with the events and circumstances
to happen with you guys, you know,

641
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,880
and you know, if you'd have
had a terrible attitude about it,

642
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,760
that had been the only thing you
could control m you know, because things

643
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,679
are gonna happen in your life.
There's gonna be things that pop up and

644
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:28,719
events and circumstances that there's nothing you
could physically put your hands on. And

645
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:32,320
the only thing you're gonna be able
to grasp or grip is your sense of

646
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:37,440
your sense of self control and that
and that's through the attitude that you're gonna

647
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:42,039
have a great attitude, a positive
attitude about something, or you're gonna you

648
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,960
know, you're gonna have a bad
attitude. You know, everyone's gonna get

649
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:49,559
a painful tooth, you're gonna I'm
gonna bump your toe, or you're gonna

650
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,480
get a flat tire. But and
you can't control all of that. You

651
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:57,239
can't control when it's gonna rain.
You really can't control your you know,

652
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:04,239
every record sale and everybody's where about
every every insight and metric and every follow

653
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:08,480
and everywhere in that time in life
where everyone's cutting every nucleus and examining it

654
00:51:08,599 --> 00:51:14,360
and measuring it and cutting that and
then giving a name to it and a

655
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:19,480
sub label and a category. And
we're this is time when we're kind of

656
00:51:19,519 --> 00:51:25,719
like hyper focused on these micro transactions
and everything, and it's just cool to

657
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,039
zoom out every now and then and
be like, you know what, I

658
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:32,639
don't really control any of this stuff, but I'm just gonna have a good

659
00:51:32,639 --> 00:51:37,280
attitude about it. Yeah. By
the way, Hans is in the cha

660
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:42,639
room, Hans Smith And hello,
And I don't know. I don't know

661
00:51:42,679 --> 00:51:45,719
this person, but I love the
name Gideon Eckhart. I love the name

662
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:53,159
Gideon says love to you all,
Hello, much love and what so what

663
00:51:53,159 --> 00:51:55,960
what is next for sepsis? What
are you? What do you have coming

664
00:51:57,039 --> 00:52:00,800
up? You're going to give me
an anxiety attack? Oh no, I'm

665
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:06,320
just kidding, d kidd So no, I only say that rhetorically because I

666
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,719
know everybody has anxiety and does all
that we all do. But I say

667
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,800
that like people say, oh c
D. People just use and they throw

668
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,360
around these words, you know,
like we like we're all doctors or something

669
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:22,199
like we went to school. You're
gonna give me heartburn saying I'm gonna start

670
00:52:22,199 --> 00:52:28,920
web MD and my blood pressure because
we all have the ability to look up

671
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,079
all these fancy words. We all
forget that, like people go to school

672
00:52:31,119 --> 00:52:35,519
for this stuff, Like you can't
just be a brain surgeon because you read

673
00:52:35,519 --> 00:52:37,480
a website to be fair, I'm
on medication for a lot of the stuff,

674
00:52:37,679 --> 00:52:40,199
Like, like, that's a broadcaster. If you can't wake up and

675
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:45,199
have a Facebook page and say I'm
a broadcaster and actually be a broadcaster,

676
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:52,599
that's true. I'm tired of it. I was so the medical what's next?

677
00:52:52,679 --> 00:52:57,320
For what's next for us? Lex
just so much and and and really,

678
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:01,960
like I say, anxiety, but
it is a good anxiety. Like

679
00:53:02,039 --> 00:53:08,480
we started a conversation off with me
saying how like how happy we are to

680
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:17,320
be a band and a company and
be working with people that are excited and

681
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:22,400
it's great for me and wlissim' speaking
for myself now, it's good for us

682
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:31,119
to be working with people that are
grateful and that are behaving consistently and sharing

683
00:53:31,159 --> 00:53:37,599
an energy with us to focus and
prioritize our fans and our goals. Yeah,

684
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,880
okay, Like we need to be
like we need to be comprehensive in

685
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:45,559
tandem speaking the same language. And
it's good to be working with an entire

686
00:53:45,599 --> 00:53:46,960
room of people that can kind of
speak the same language and we can all

687
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,800
go this is the band we're in. We're all going in this direction.

688
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,039
We all want to record, we
all want to go to Detroit or whatever

689
00:53:53,079 --> 00:53:57,679
we're going to do. We can
talk about that. Now we can share

690
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,519
those ideas openly. You can all
write them down, and everyone kind of

691
00:54:01,519 --> 00:54:07,960
respects each other's space, and we're
all, you know, grateful and participating

692
00:54:07,079 --> 00:54:13,039
mutually for the investment of the goals
of the band. That's comprehensive, You

693
00:54:13,039 --> 00:54:16,400
know that, it seems that's really
what a band is at first, is

694
00:54:16,519 --> 00:54:24,239
like the actual physical and intellectual reality
that there actually is a band. So

695
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,480
everyone around has got to like be
in the band and agree that they're actually

696
00:54:28,519 --> 00:54:32,440
in it to have it. Like
that's the cool part about having a band

697
00:54:32,599 --> 00:54:38,400
is actually having it, and we
have it. But that's also one of

698
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,599
the hardest parts, right, I
mean, I just the hardest part of

699
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,960
having a band is getting in getting
in the same room every week, right

700
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:47,719
because because if you can't get in
the same room every week, then you

701
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,920
can't learn the tunes. If you
can't learn the tunes and you don't learn

702
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,679
them well enough, nobody can really
see the true value of the tunes.

703
00:54:54,199 --> 00:54:59,000
No one can get the tunes good
enough where they go, oh wow,

704
00:54:59,039 --> 00:55:01,760
this might actually work, and then
no one can audition these tunes in front

705
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:06,719
of people, and then no one
can audition them to the point where they

706
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,239
adjust them and get them good in
front of people, where everybody can get

707
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,639
back in the room and agree that
that that's what success is called, right,

708
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:22,000
you know what I mean? So
what we're really happy about is we've

709
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:25,920
checked off all the boxes for twenty
twenty three. We don't know how other

710
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,440
bands do it, but just how
we do it. We set goals for

711
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,639
each year. We all sit down
as individuals. We all write down on

712
00:55:31,679 --> 00:55:35,280
pieces of paper. He writes down
five things, she writes down five.

713
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,760
Even our staff members do it everybody. It's a rule. We all sit

714
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,800
there. We have rules in the
band, and one of the rules is

715
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,559
we got to know what you want. How do you want to participate?

716
00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:46,239
We don't write nobody. You're not
allowed to be in the club unless you

717
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,960
unless you tell us what you want, because there's no reason of being here

718
00:55:50,159 --> 00:55:52,960
unless we can help you get what
you want. Because we know people won't

719
00:55:52,960 --> 00:56:00,079
do something for long unless they get
what they want so long, you know

720
00:56:00,079 --> 00:56:02,400
what I mean? And this is
like I said, this isn't something we

721
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,840
don't just tune the guitars. We
read about this stuff. We're in an

722
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,960
evolving industry. That that that in
modern day era, with the with the

723
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,159
internet and information traveling at light speed, so does the music industry, so

724
00:56:15,199 --> 00:56:21,800
that the industry is evolving over weeks
and days. Whereas the years ago you

725
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,719
might need you might have the time
with a particular technology like CDs or something

726
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:30,599
or radio. We had radio around
for fifty years, we had, but

727
00:56:30,679 --> 00:56:37,159
now we have something for weeks and
until it becomes something else or evolved with

728
00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:40,119
something else. So like for us, when you think about who we are,

729
00:56:42,039 --> 00:56:45,400
we are a modern rock We're not. We're not rock from nineteen seventies,

730
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:51,119
So we're not we're not We're not
hunting radio, we're not hunting outdated

731
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:54,519
ideas. We're not hunting outdated technology. We're not hunting a rock and roll

732
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:59,800
that our grandfathers were in. As
much as unless we borrow from that,

733
00:57:00,159 --> 00:57:02,800
lets we learned from that, and
we've inherited skills from that. We can

734
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:08,360
and we can sample and and and
marinate in those conversations and and and dip

735
00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:15,360
into that toolbox as special features as
for conversational pieces. Whatever. Uh,

736
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:19,920
But we're a modern band, and
we are and and and and for us,

737
00:57:21,199 --> 00:57:29,719
it's our goal we are constantly hunting
what others are not doing, what

738
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:38,159
other whatever. We know She's right. What's what we do is we're always

739
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:43,760
hunting for that one to five percent
of what other bands and our competitors aren't

740
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,920
doing. That's the research if so. And the cool part is if you're

741
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:52,880
a band in New Hampshire or in
the world, we're following you. M

742
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:57,119
don't ever think that we're because you
know, either think that it's Ozzy Osbourne

743
00:57:57,199 --> 00:58:00,400
follow me or does this band like
I mean, follows you. Yeah,

744
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:04,840
we follow everybody. Even if we
don't follow you and hit the button,

745
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,880
we're following you. We're watching all
of you and we're listening to your music.

746
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:12,719
We'll listen to your music too,
whether you're doing karaoke, whether you're

747
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,599
doing beatboxing or rapping, we're watching
you, all right. I was gonna

748
00:58:16,599 --> 00:58:20,920
say, Robert pan Is in the
Chatterman says hey, Matt, Robert pan

749
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:27,039
from Second Street Sonoco, my son, my son is the drummer for Sepsis

750
00:58:28,719 --> 00:58:32,960
is my favorite. Well, apparently
I'll have to stop it at the Second

751
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:38,760
Street Snoko sometime to meet him.
Bob has been in our lives, so

752
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:46,320
people don't notice about about so Salvator
Pan is a returning member and in an

753
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:52,039
original drummer. Very cool. Good
so yeah, so so he left temporarily

754
00:58:52,039 --> 00:58:57,239
and started Rags to Stitches. Okay, and now he's back. Wow,

755
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,159
excellent, excellent, is't that cool? Cool? Great Joseph is in the

756
00:59:00,239 --> 00:59:04,199
chat. He's from Clemento is one
of our great sponsors here at w M

757
00:59:04,239 --> 00:59:07,280
and H. And he says they
are marvelous. Thank you guys. Oh

758
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,320
we love Clemento's, very nice,
great pizza. Yeah yeah, Greg,

759
00:59:10,599 --> 00:59:15,320
Greg, Joseph is the owner.
So they have like a stage in this

760
00:59:15,119 --> 00:59:22,039
who's complimenting you? Yeah? I
just got some beautiful faces. I don't

761
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:28,000
think I have, I know,
I know. So I've been in Clemento's

762
00:59:28,039 --> 00:59:34,360
because one of my one of my
very close childhood friends, Ricky, he

763
00:59:34,519 --> 00:59:40,679
was having a an anniversary with his
wife and he's like, isn't from Manchester.

764
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,400
I'm like yeah, He's like,
you gotta you gotta pop down to

765
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,920
Clementos. They got guitars down here, I said again the guitars at the

766
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,920
pizza said yeah, he got guitars
and drums and ship that is Are you

767
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:55,239
serious? Did I get one?
Yeah? I got it. I need

768
00:59:55,280 --> 01:00:02,639
one of those see language. We're
on a second delay, so everybody else

769
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:13,039
identification for everybody out there, I've
only it'll be to curse words the entire

770
01:00:13,159 --> 01:00:16,360
time. This is great. This
is why the podcast That is why I

771
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:22,639
got to keep my podcasting. Melissa
is the one that zaps us. She's

772
01:00:22,679 --> 01:00:25,360
behind the camera. She's she could
zap us, but we don't get sapped.

773
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:34,480
Oh but anyways, that's vision of
that table. We're about to change

774
01:00:34,519 --> 01:00:37,280
the look over there. We got
Yeah, we're about to. Yeah.

775
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:43,519
We wanted to be more like pee
Wee's playhouse, like into a hideout.

776
01:00:43,599 --> 01:00:47,239
Yeah. We want like trapdoors to
come out explosions. What about the fe

777
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:52,039
and the playground? Ye, we
want like plants that are in the bag.

778
01:00:52,159 --> 01:00:57,880
We want we want this to be
you know, like maybe like a

779
01:00:58,039 --> 01:01:02,960
like a jombi or something not gen
baking. She wants to play her drum.

780
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,360
That's what I thought, too,
because I've heard that word pronounced a

781
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:08,480
thousand different ways. I thought that's
what you were saying. You know,

782
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:13,960
you remember you remember mecha laka high
makaheiny ho. That's not a bad word.

783
01:01:14,079 --> 01:01:25,280
No, that's not a bad word. Everybody's like manappen anyway, shout

784
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:32,280
out to Clementos. They got great
pizza and Nicole, I'm not gonna say

785
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:37,119
this correctly, I'm sure Budage Sandborn
Yeah says they are an amazing music.

786
01:01:37,599 --> 01:01:42,960
Oh, they are an amazing band
musically and personally, each and every member

787
01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:46,800
very nice. Man. We need
as much people to say that as possible.

788
01:01:47,639 --> 01:01:53,440
So again, Nicole said that we're
personally charming and we are personally satisfying

789
01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:00,360
for the records. Amazing. She
didn't say charming or satisfying, but she

790
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,639
did say but she did say amazing. Yes, but she used the word

791
01:02:05,719 --> 01:02:10,039
personal. See that, Zach,
personal as opposed to personable. Yes.

792
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:16,440
Yeah, Well, me and Zach
have this ongoing joke of people that watch

793
01:02:16,519 --> 01:02:22,880
us on the internet and review our
personalities. I said, come on,

794
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:25,119
you only see the twenty second clip
of me. You don't know what happened

795
01:02:25,119 --> 01:02:30,320
before the clip or after. What
do you think you're reviewing? Our personality

796
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:35,559
is in review right now? Right
has ever occurred that this might be my

797
01:02:35,719 --> 01:02:42,519
public personality and that could you know? Oh, we had a question to

798
01:02:43,159 --> 01:02:45,800
j Fed. One of our friends
from Vermont had a question for Zach about

799
01:02:46,159 --> 01:02:53,320
let's ask Zach questions about the length
of your beard. Yeah, I didn't

800
01:02:53,320 --> 01:03:00,559
know where that was going. Yes, it moved quickly. This isn't a

801
01:03:00,599 --> 01:03:02,360
problem yet obviously, but if you
if you were to grow it out.

802
01:03:02,639 --> 01:03:06,119
He was asking about growing it out, and would you be concerned about it

803
01:03:06,199 --> 01:03:10,320
getting caught in your bass strings?
You know, it's funny. I actually

804
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,880
just shaved recently. It was a
lot longer. Okay, too long?

805
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:16,519
Is that why you shaved it?
Because it was gonna get in the way

806
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:22,639
I played bass and didn't get stuck
in the string. That's true, that's

807
01:03:22,679 --> 01:03:27,440
true. Well, you know he's
very into beards and ice baths. Yes,

808
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,480
if you go to Vermont, he
will invite you into a real ice

809
01:03:30,599 --> 01:03:35,000
bath, a real like he breaks
the ice and gets in it. The

810
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:40,199
older it is, the happier he
is. That's incredible. There are those

811
01:03:40,239 --> 01:03:45,360
of us who think, no,
no, not so much hypothermia fan.

812
01:03:45,159 --> 01:03:49,599
He does have a fan base.
Yeah, it's really actually, you know,

813
01:03:49,639 --> 01:03:52,480
in the summer, that actually sounds
amazing because I'm a very sweaty person.

814
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:59,119
This is not about summer. Oh
no, no, no, like

815
01:03:59,239 --> 01:04:04,239
tread out there in the snow,
take a sledgehammer to the ice. It

816
01:04:05,199 --> 01:04:10,639
for as long as you whatever can
stay. I think it's insane. I

817
01:04:10,679 --> 01:04:14,480
personally don't have any desire to do
so. Is it like the longer you

818
01:04:14,519 --> 01:04:16,199
stay in you get a prize or
something like if you can break the rest?

819
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,039
I try that. I think it's
only in his mind the price he

820
01:04:21,079 --> 01:04:25,360
gets. Yeah, it's supposed to
do something healthy for you, but I

821
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,920
don't know. Yeah, I don't
know why. I won't knock it till

822
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:31,159
I try. Yeah, yeah,
I'm not. I would. I could

823
01:04:31,199 --> 01:04:34,800
see this, Yes, right,
we should, we should. Uh So,

824
01:04:35,119 --> 01:04:39,360
you've all been very generous with your
time and we appreciate it. We'll

825
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:42,039
we'll let you, We'll let you
bounce in a minute. But I do

826
01:04:42,079 --> 01:04:45,000
want to make sure everybody knows where
to find you online, the band,

827
01:04:45,159 --> 01:04:49,719
the podcasts, everything. What what
should our listeners know in terms of well,

828
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:54,519
you should know that if you don't
follow us, it'll be impossible to

829
01:04:54,599 --> 01:05:02,719
ignore us because has talent of being
everywhere online. I was just gonna say

830
01:05:02,719 --> 01:05:10,599
that they're like me, they're everywhere. We have this twenty twenty four will

831
01:05:10,639 --> 01:05:17,679
be the most productive year we've ever
had. I'm and and that's a terrifying

832
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:25,880
prospect because that means I have a
lot of work to do. No,

833
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,159
but we I mean, I don't
quote me on this and nail me to

834
01:05:30,199 --> 01:05:39,239
the cross. But Virginia, we'll
be back in Pennsylvania this year. It

835
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:45,119
looks like North Carolina. We'll be
returning to the Chicago area. I got

836
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:51,239
some huge news coming up for fans
in the Midwest. I can't even get

837
01:05:51,280 --> 01:06:01,519
on that right now. Upstate New
York, Ohio Swarmy Fest uh and so

838
01:06:01,719 --> 01:06:05,639
much more. We got the We
got new music coming out, maybe some

839
01:06:05,719 --> 01:06:13,599
acoustic songs. Of course, we
got Take the World by Swarm, our

840
01:06:13,639 --> 01:06:23,960
second album, I Love Take the
World by Swarm. The Amazing our engineer

841
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:29,480
and producer, the the amazing Glenn
Robinson. As you know his work has

842
01:06:29,519 --> 01:06:35,800
been nominated for Grammys before. Our
producer Glenn Robinson from of Course Jason Newstead

843
01:06:36,039 --> 01:06:41,079
gwore Queen's right. If you don't
know about our producer, go check them

844
01:06:41,079 --> 01:06:51,039
out. He's worked on everything from
guitar hero uh to even remastering work with

845
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:57,960
YouTube on HBO. So go if
you didn't know the I would say Glenn

846
01:06:58,039 --> 01:07:03,199
Robinson is definitely the seven member of
Sepsis. So he'll be back with us

847
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:09,840
on the second record. Of course, our friends and partners and stations do

848
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:15,000
have Romance and Reality. Romance and
Reality is not released for streaming yet,

849
01:07:15,159 --> 01:07:18,320
but all of our friends have it, so I believe you can pre order

850
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:24,239
it on Distro Kid and it's going
to be released December twenty first. Yeah,

851
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,400
excellent. But we're also going to
hear it. At the end of

852
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,920
the segment, I was going to
say, you might be able to hear

853
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:30,960
it. If you guys tune in, you get to hear And I think

854
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,639
that's the That's the thing that a
cool thing to me and Melissa have been

855
01:07:33,639 --> 01:07:43,519
doing is letting our fans and partners
in radio stations get our music first before

856
01:07:43,559 --> 01:07:45,480
the industry gets it. Yeah.
A lot of artists will go out and

857
01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:48,840
they give all their music to the
industry. We're doing something different. We're

858
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:54,559
giving it to our friends and to
our curators and to our partners first and

859
01:07:54,559 --> 01:07:58,800
then the industry gets it later.
Yeah. And then also we're playing in

860
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:06,880
Connecticut on January. How could I
forget? Yeah. So we love Blizzard

861
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:13,320
Bird, We love Dead by Wednesday, and I used to book them here

862
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,720
in Manchester. I booked a shows
for them when they would come up years

863
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:25,039
ago, years ago. I mean
there'll be a lot of people who probably

864
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:30,159
will be funky about my next statement. But I think I think Dead by

865
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:43,800
Wednesday is the perfect example of a
poster band of success for New England bands.

866
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,880
I think, when you when,
when, when you want to if

867
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:56,279
you want to go, what what
is the definition of making it? Because

868
01:08:56,279 --> 01:08:58,319
I you know, once you you
know, if you truly make it,

869
01:08:58,359 --> 01:09:00,720
then maybe you'd be done. And
I guess, but this is like if

870
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:05,039
you want if what what is the
definition of moving forward towards the direction of

871
01:09:05,119 --> 01:09:10,920
making it? Yeah? I feel
like Dead by Wednesday is one of those

872
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:17,920
bands, And there are others,
but I will say stiff competition. I

873
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:27,039
would say Dead by Wednesday is by
far the perfect example of New England bands

874
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:31,760
making it and being successful. They
are the entire package of what it would

875
01:09:32,239 --> 01:09:41,600
I think definably clearly represents successful bands
in New England. Legion of Solace in

876
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:45,479
the chat says also the birthday bash
in January will be a reunion for the

877
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:50,359
original sixth lineup for Dead by Wednesday. No, I didn't need that's why.

878
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:59,880
Oh wow, that's wow, that's
incredible. I'm blown away. Wow,

879
01:10:00,239 --> 01:10:03,239
I'm not whoa, I'm blown away
I'm now I want it to be

880
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:09,199
the Blizzard Bash. Can it be
tomorrow? Oh? We have to get

881
01:10:09,239 --> 01:10:13,199
this into Anna Randall in the chat
room says, I personally think that Sepsis

882
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,640
is amazing on many levels. I'm
not being biased, just stating the truth.

883
01:10:17,039 --> 01:10:24,159
Very nice, she's famous, very
cool, very cool. What's it

884
01:10:24,319 --> 01:10:27,479
now? What's the uh? So
where should people go? Should people go

885
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:30,640
to your main website for everything?
Can they find everything there? All the

886
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:35,079
all the shows and yes, podcasts, one stop shop, steps dot com.

887
01:10:35,159 --> 01:10:39,239
Yeah, we're doing every like if
anything I can. And this is

888
01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:44,079
a great advice for artists too.
I know we've done a lot to rely

889
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:49,159
and to count and its great tools
social media and all these third party apps

890
01:10:49,199 --> 01:10:55,840
and the subscription lifestyle as I'd like
to call it. But uh, this

891
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:00,479
year me and Lexi have gone over
so many bands that just don't have sites.

892
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:02,600
Yeah, oh my gosh. You
know in an address. You know,

893
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:06,520
if you're filling out a job application
for Wendy's, you'd have an address,

894
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,520
right, If you'd have a phone, you have a phone number,

895
01:11:09,680 --> 01:11:13,880
right and an address? Bands?
Yeah, please please it please? You

896
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:16,640
want to be taken seriously? Yeah, you need a dog something else that

897
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:23,039
we kind of re recognized too,
because we've actually given some folks some highlights

898
01:11:23,039 --> 01:11:26,039
on some of the websites we have. For sure, you guys love what

899
01:11:26,119 --> 01:11:30,439
you guys guys. Yeah, it's
it's hard for some to get that first

900
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:35,000
website up. Fill out your bio, have a phone that somebody can reach

901
01:11:35,079 --> 01:11:43,640
you at, a professional email,
and a website. Please have a home

902
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:46,960
for your band. There was a
weird period. This goes way, This

903
01:11:47,039 --> 01:11:50,640
goes back almost twenty years. But
I remember when my Space got really big,

904
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,880
there was this because I've been at
there. Yeah, didn't we learn

905
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,680
then not to put that We should
have learned that then. But the thing

906
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,479
is, so I've also been a
web designer for a long time, and

907
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,319
I remember I would run into this
a lot where bands would tell me,

908
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:06,960
now, we don't we don't need
a website. We have we have MySpace.

909
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:14,439
We're on my Space and that became
a thing. And that's the thing

910
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:19,560
now with with artists. Find us
on Instagram or check out my Spotify.

911
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:27,199
This is the one website band Doozle
and bands in Town and Bandemonium. What's

912
01:12:27,239 --> 01:12:33,439
the other one? Band band camp
and band Town, band Bandtacker. They

913
01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:38,560
got to pack it up and start
the buses we need. We can't find

914
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:43,359
anybody websites an app forevery I mean? And how many subscriptions are you going

915
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,640
to have? Twitter is up for
sended to doing subscriptions that Twitter everywhere everyone's

916
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:54,000
going. So you have a subscription
to be yourself, to be described,

917
01:12:54,159 --> 01:13:00,560
subscribing to your last name if it's
not nailed down, security department. Right,

918
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:04,399
I'm start a subscription. Let me
get out of here. I don't

919
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:10,560
love you, No, you're you're
right though. Yeah, So, so

920
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:15,760
Sepsis is a SS. We're doing
everything from sepsist dot com and we should.

921
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:16,960
For people who don't know, it's
S E P. S I S.

922
01:13:17,279 --> 01:13:20,399
You can find us on all the
snapper Google poppers. We're all on

923
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:26,960
all the stuff. You're very google
bable, yes, but it's important on

924
01:13:27,079 --> 01:13:30,479
many of these thirds, right,
we're on all of that stuff. Yeah,

925
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:32,239
but we do we do at our
home. And you know what,

926
01:13:32,279 --> 01:13:35,399
here's the other thing bands are always
talking about. You know, you can

927
01:13:35,439 --> 01:13:40,159
do all this virtual stuff and spend
all kinds of money to support Stepsist.

928
01:13:40,159 --> 01:13:42,479
You don't have to like spend any
money all the time. You know,

929
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:45,359
it could just be something simple as
like leaving us a Google review or signing

930
01:13:45,399 --> 01:13:48,359
our guestbook on our dot com.
Those are things that you can do to

931
01:13:48,399 --> 01:13:51,039
help out really any band. It
don't cost a lot of money. And

932
01:13:51,239 --> 01:13:55,520
you know what, get off the
internet, go see a show. If

933
01:13:55,560 --> 01:14:00,279
not it's not our show, a
show a show. If you don't come

934
01:14:00,319 --> 01:14:04,239
and see Sepsis, go see the
band in your neighborhood. People are always

935
01:14:04,239 --> 01:14:10,039
asking me. You see these things
online, who's the most underrated band?

936
01:14:10,359 --> 01:14:15,560
And then you'll see people say their
favorite celebrity bands, the most underrated,

937
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:21,640
underdeveloped, underappreciated, underpaid band that
is super talented is your neighbor Yeah,

938
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:27,720
seriously, that's it. Hell yeah, not even kidding. If there's anything

939
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:30,760
I've learned this year from the process
that we've done and how we've been changing

940
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,479
the format all year, more and
more I get into music. It's like

941
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:39,640
I always tell them, it's unbelievable
how much talent we have in just in

942
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,199
New England, just in our town, just in our city. I just

943
01:14:43,279 --> 01:14:47,600
I'm always floored by how many new
and amazing artists come up I get to

944
01:14:47,640 --> 01:14:53,159
see. I mean, it really
does surprise me. You think that it's

945
01:14:53,239 --> 01:14:56,880
the only there's there's a whole lot
of diamonds out there. Oh definitely,

946
01:14:57,119 --> 01:15:00,800
yeah, yeah, absolutely, well, so we'll y'all go. Thank you

947
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:05,079
again, by the way for the
wonderful shirts. Thank thank you three Bruce

948
01:15:05,159 --> 01:15:09,560
and Malcolm and everybody in the solid
definitely going to be having you guys back

949
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:12,479
in, and I know, I
definitely want to have you guys come back

950
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:15,159
in and talk about some of the
stuff that's going on in the industry about

951
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:19,800
we can bring back more people.
So like we could completely switch everybody out.

952
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:25,520
It could be like strangers. Next
time. Nice would just send you

953
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:29,479
know, Salvatore and hot sauce and
it would be like having complete strangers.

954
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:31,239
You'll walk in and you guys be
like, who are you? I will

955
01:15:31,319 --> 01:15:35,520
recognize them right, thank you.
If you're a swarmy, thank you?

956
01:15:36,319 --> 01:15:41,000
How dare you? So? If
you if you didn't know? So there

957
01:15:41,039 --> 01:15:44,199
are there are levels to this now. So there's like they're like, you

958
01:15:44,199 --> 01:15:46,560
know, there's like fans and and
and and of course people like what is

959
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:50,800
the swarmy. Swarmies are the closest
thing that you can be to being in

960
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:56,079
the band. Oh okay, people
don't know that. So so there's like

961
01:15:56,319 --> 01:15:59,359
fans and there's like super fans,
and then there's like swarmies, and swarmies

962
01:15:59,399 --> 01:16:04,640
are almost like staff members, but
the elite green beret of the swarmy it's

963
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:09,680
called the yellow jackets. Oh so
if you're a yellow jacket. So,

964
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:15,640
a swarmy is like a prestigious fan. A swarmy is an ultimate stepsist fan,

965
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:16,960
but is a public fan because like
some fans would be your fan,

966
01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:25,920
but they're not publicly, like I'm
your fans conveniently when you're doing stuff that

967
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:30,520
I like, right right, I
didn't like that, I'm not sharing it.

968
01:16:30,039 --> 01:16:34,079
I agree with you, then I'm
your fan. Okay, But if

969
01:16:34,119 --> 01:16:41,119
it's two percent off, nope,
right, celebrating differences, nope, so

970
01:16:41,159 --> 01:16:45,840
but that so, but yellow jackets
are the fans that celebrate us publicly,

971
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,720
regardless of our differences, regardless of
our humanity, regardless of what makes us

972
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:57,119
special and unique. Yellow Jackets are
the the the I would say, the

973
01:16:57,199 --> 01:17:02,680
elite swarmy. Oh yeah, excellent, thank you, thank you so much.

974
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:08,880
And as promised, uh, we're
going to play romance and reality.

975
01:17:08,920 --> 01:17:12,399
This is not yet available on the
streaming services, but we've got it here

976
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,680
for you to close uh close out
this segment, and we have plenty more.

977
01:17:15,840 --> 01:18:12,359
Matt Connorton unleashed to come, don't
go away, socation, but so

978
01:18:14,640 --> 01:19:00,720
amazing story said, like the ray
from the place me about I can't like

979
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:30,680
la. Well, you know a
very aga your mists, trapper Jack.

980
01:19:31,079 --> 01:20:33,079
The chapter bicks the magic, the
very that W. M n H gripped

981
01:20:33,159 --> 01:20:46,000
the novels in the sky. Farris
got scores, Tom, what's the matter?

982
01:20:46,239 --> 01:20:49,119
What's Ferris? What's wrong? What's
wrong? For Christ's sake? Look

983
01:20:49,119 --> 01:20:58,199
at him, honey, Farris.
It doesn't have a favor, but he

984
01:20:58,239 --> 01:21:03,199
says his stomach hurts, and he
seems what's the matter? Farrius, Papa

985
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:14,399
honey peeling his hands. They're cold
and clammy. I'm fine, I get

986
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,199
it. No, no, no, I have a test to it.

987
01:21:16,359 --> 01:21:23,119
No, I have to take it. I want to go to a good

988
01:21:23,159 --> 01:21:26,279
college so I can have a fruitful
life. Annie, you're not going to

989
01:21:26,319 --> 01:21:29,800
school like this now? Oh fine? What's this? What's his problem?

990
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:34,000
He doesn't feel well? You're right, dry that one out. You can

991
01:21:34,079 --> 01:21:41,880
fertilize the lawn, Geenie, is
that you, Geenie? I can't see

992
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:50,239
that far Geenie, Jeanie, I
bite the big ones junior. Thank you,

993
01:21:50,319 --> 01:21:54,880
Jeanie, you get to school.
Wait, you're letting him stay home.

994
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:57,800
I can't believe this. If I
was bleeding out my eyes, you

995
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:00,720
guys would make me go to school. This is so unfair. Geenie,

996
01:22:00,039 --> 01:22:03,600
Please don't be upset with me.
You have your health. Be thankful.

997
01:22:06,239 --> 01:22:15,600
Oh that's it. I went out
of this family. I'm okay, I'll

998
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:23,079
just sleep. Maybe I have an
aspen around noon. I'm showing some houses

999
01:22:23,159 --> 01:22:26,079
to that family from Vermont today,
so I'll be in the area now.

1000
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:29,319
My office will know just where I
am if you need me. Okay,

1001
01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,960
okay, I'll check on your two
bells. It's nice to know that I

1002
01:22:34,039 --> 01:22:45,680
have such love and caring parents.
You're both very special people. You get

1003
01:22:45,760 --> 01:22:53,439
bitter Bumpkin. I'll be home at
six sharp if you need anything. I

1004
01:22:53,560 --> 01:23:03,439
mean, I love your sweet and
me. What all if he needs?

1005
01:23:13,840 --> 01:23:18,720
They bought it? Skip day playing
hooky, no matter what you call it

1006
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:25,000
is one of the greatest joys anyone
can have. To have a free day

1007
01:23:25,279 --> 01:23:30,359
to do whatever you want is something
as adults we strive for, in as

1008
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:36,880
kids we yearned for. There are
many films that depict this, but one

1009
01:23:38,199 --> 01:23:44,079
shows a young man that truly takes
advantage of his day off, all in

1010
01:23:44,239 --> 01:23:50,000
one of the greatest metropolitan areas in
the United States. Directed by teen pilm

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Maestro John Hewes, Ferris Buehler's Day
Off was released in nineteen eighty six and

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stars Matthew Broderick as the titular character, Ferris Bueller, a crafty high school

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senior that wants a day off to
enjoy with his girlfriend Sloan played by Mia

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Sarah and neurotic friend Cameron Frye Alan
Ruck before graduation. While enjoying everything downtown

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Chicago has to offer, such as
the Chicago Institute of Art, a Cubs

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game at Wrigley Field. In even
a parade, the threesome must stay ahead

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of Ferris's parents and their high school
principal, the Swarmy at Rooney. The

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introductory clip sets the stage for this
film. What makes the character Ferris so

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endearing is his breaking the fourth wall, that is, him looking at the

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camera and talking to us the audience. This tactic has been used in teen

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movies and television shows since, most
notably Saved by the Bell. Our next

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clip is an example of this.
Ferris explains his rules for faking sick in

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how to get your parents to fall
for it. This scene also shows us

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Ferris's unique worldview and his art of
getting out of school incredible. One of

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the worst performances of my career,
and they never doubted it for a second.

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How could I possibly be expected to
handle school in a day like this?

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This is my ninth sick day semester. It's getting paid tough, coming

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up with new illnesses. If I
go for ten, I'm probably gonna have

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to barth up a lung. So
I better make this one count. The

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key to faking out the parents is
the clammy hands. It's a good nonspecific

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symptom. I'm a big believer in
it. A lot of people will tell

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you that a good phony fever is
a deadlock. But you get a nervous

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mother, you could wind up in
a doctor's office. That's worse than school.

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You fake a stomach cramp, and
when you're bent over, moaning and

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wailing, you lick your proms.
It's a little childish and stupid, but

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then so is high school. Life
moves pretty fast. If you don't stop

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and look around once in a while, you could miss it. I do

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have a test today that wasn't full. It's on European socialism. I mean,

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really, what's the point. I'm
not European. I don't plan on

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being European. So who gives a
crap of their socialists? They can be

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fascist anarchists. It still wouldn't change
the fact that I don't own a car.

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I recall Central park Yawyer. What
a mess I canna fess it's not

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that I can don't fascism or any
reason for that matter. Isms, in

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my opinion, are not good.
The person should not believe in it is

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he should believe in himself. I
quote John Lennon, I don't believe in

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Beatles. I just believe in me. A good point there, After all,

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he was the Walris. I could
be the Walris. I'd still have

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to boom Ryan's up from people.
So many times on this program I have

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said a film needs a good villain, and comedies are no different. This

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film's villain is Edward Rooney, the
dean of students that makes it his mission

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to make an example out of the
lovable slacker that is Ferres. In our

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next clip, we hear Rooney describe
what Ferris could do to the student body

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to his dim witted secretary played by
Edie mcclurk. She tells him exactly what

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he is up against, and it's
easy to see that even she loves Ferris

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in a way. I don't trust
this kid any further than I can throw

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him. Well, with your bad
need, you shouldn't throw anybody, That's

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true. What is so dangerous about
a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives

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good kids bad ideas. Uh huh. Last thing I need at this point

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in my career is fifteen hundred Ferris
Bueller disciples running around these halls. He

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jeopardizes my ability to effectively govern this
student body. Well, makes you look

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like an ass is what he does. Ed Thank you, Grace. I

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think you're wrong. Oh well,
he's very popular at the esportos and motor

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hits, sluts, bloods, wasteoids. Do we be? They all adored.

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They think he's a righteous dude.
That is why I have got to

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catch him this time, to show
these kids that the example he sets is

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a first class ticket to nowhere.
Oh Dad, you sounded like dirty Harry

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just then? Really, Uh huh. I mentioned in the opening of this

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review that Ferris has a neurotic friend
Cameron Fry to me. Cameron is one

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of the most memorable characters in any
teen movie. In this film, it

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becomes obvious that Ferris does really care
for him and wants to see him break

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the chains of his neurosis in negative
worldview. Our final two clips of this

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review show their relationship. First,
Ferris calls Cameron, who is legitimately sick,

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to come and enjoy the day with
him, and then Ferris calls him

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again. In the middle of the
second call, Ferris is checked on by

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his father on the other line.
We then hear Ferris's shrewdness in keeping up

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the guise of his being sick.
Hello, carababe, what's happening? Very

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little? How do you feel shredded? Is your mother in the room?

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She's indicator? Unfortunately she's not staying. Where are you? I'm taking a

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day off and I get dressed and
come on over. You can't sc that's

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all in your head. Come on
over. I feel like complete Harris.

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I can't go anywhere. Ready to
hear that? Now, come on over

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here and pick me up. You're
not dying. You just can't think of

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anything good to do. If anybody
needs a day off, it's Cameron.

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He has a lot of things to
sort out before he graduates. Can't be

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wound up this titan go to college
his room, it'll kill him. When

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Cameron was in Egypt's land, let
my Cameron go. Pardon my French.

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But Cameron is so tight that if
you stuck a lump of coal up his

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in two weeks you have a diamond. And now Farris's second call. I'm

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serious, man, this is ridiculous
making me wait around the house for you.

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Why can't you let me rot in
peace? Cameron? This is my

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ninth sick day. If I get
caught, I won't graduate. I'm not

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doing this for me, I'm doing
it for you. Do you know what

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my diostolic is? Be a man, take some pepto bisms, get dressed,

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and come on over here. I'm
tired of this stuff. Shut up,

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hold your water for a second.
I got another call. Hello Barrett.

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Hi, you sound terrible, really
darn I thought it was improving.

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Were you sleeping? Dad? Can
you hang on for a second? Sure?

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Repeal? Hang on, Cameron,
it's my dad. Oh great,

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keep me out of it. If
you're not over here in fifteen minutes,

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you can find a new best friend. You've been saying that since the fifth

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grade. Dad. Now, all
this talking has made me kind of light

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headed. I think I had to
lie down, take a hot bath,

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and then wrap a hot towel around
your head, wrap a hot towel around

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my head, and then make you
sell some soup, get a nap.

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Okay, okay, hey firs,
Yeah, I love you, pal,

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I love you too. I'm so
disappointed in Cameron twenty Bucks says he's sitting

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in his car debating about whether or
not he should go out. You'll keep

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calling me. You'll keep calling me
until I come on. You'll make me

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feel guilty. This is this is
ridiculous. Okay, I'll go, I'll

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go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go with I'll go. God,

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damn it, forget it. That's
it. M This film is one

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of the most highly regarded teen comedies
of all time. Roger Ebert gave it

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three out of four stars. It
is Richard Roper's favorite film, so much

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so the license played on his car
is sv F E R I S or

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say ferris, a homage to what
was on the water tower in the film.

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The reason is because this film isn't
raunchy means spirited or insulting. It

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is a good, clean, heartwarming
comedy. Filmgoers agreed with critics. It

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was the tenth highest grossing film of
nineteen eighty six, generating over seventy million

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dollars in ticket sales. It spawned
on a short lived, way less heralded

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NBCTV series that featured Jennifer Aniston.
It was canceled after thirteen episodes among very

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low ratings. Despite this, the
film is one of the most beloved comedies

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in cinema history. Everything I just
listed about the good natured humor of this

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film, coupled with excellent performances,
great direction by John Hughes, immemorable cameos

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from Ben Stein and Charlie Sheen make
this a true comedy classic and one that

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is a must see. No matter
who you are, no matter where you're

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at, I guarantee you you will
find a smile on your face after viewing

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this film. I hope you join
me next week when, in honor of

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Veteran's Day, we look at Oliver
Stone biopic of Vietnam War Veteran turned back

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to this ron Kovic in the film
form on the fourth of July or W

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M. And h and Matt Connor
Connumination and this has been a classic film.

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Come on down to the