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Speaker 1: Wmnh rip the novels.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to mcconnorton unleash m H ninety five point three.

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Speaker 3: And now the world radio premiere of the new single

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from Lydia. Ready look at me now.

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Speaker 4: I guess the suntimes, it is hard to know who's

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being angry and who's putting on a show. Cause no days,

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spo poor will put you down't just for fun.

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Speaker 1: And me you wire the scaring, you'll have a mazing you.

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Speaker 5: So num So we all hide.

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Speaker 1: Our soway, try to fit in with the.

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Speaker 4: Crowd and hurt God with not the ones the monsters

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single out.

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Speaker 1: The said I had to take if the coming of doubt,

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the fuming with doubt, if coming with doubt. They said,

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I want to.

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Speaker 4: Bake if I look him be now look coming now

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look him me, Now you buse me me song and

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it don't may be tough, spouse.

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Speaker 1: I's to longer, but you won't give up to be there.

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You help me, baby, Adam, can you turn me down?

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Speaker 3: But out of me?

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Speaker 1: This dow will let you all me any more, have

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so much longer than I've ever been. Therefore I can't.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's hard.

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Speaker 6: To tell where the people our.

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Speaker 4: Intention, belief couldn't go through hell. You wanna hide away,

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but you stand taranci.

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Speaker 1: Is the day.

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Speaker 4: Don't hurt them in your way, strong and have your safe.

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Speaker 1: They said, I have to failure cause you thure out.

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Speaker 3: If we were down, think the more down.

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Speaker 4: He said, I want to marry a come, look coming now.

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Speaker 1: Who're coming?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 1: Look coming now? Have no shoe and shine shiny in

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case one away an over a pass by. Don't you

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want I'm for the little covers you cant to night shine?

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Speaker 3: So right is a shot?

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Speaker 1: Say you're bad? They set that a to fay.

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Speaker 4: You get the food move of doubt, the food moved.

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Speaker 1: Out, the food move down. They said, I want to

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marry a.

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Speaker 4: Well, look coming now, look coming now, look coming now.

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Speaker 1: I had any.

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Speaker 4: You brust me and your song here it chucks me

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and me talk spouse, I sur long, but you'll give

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up you a thing.

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Speaker 6: That you have me.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you did to tag me down bird. I'll tell

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you this, I won't bet you ill me no more.

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Speaker 7: I'm so much more.

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Speaker 1: Than I've ever been before. I'm so much more than

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I've ever gonna be afore. I'm so much more than

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I've ever.

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Speaker 2: Been for.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Connordson unleast to you an h five

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point three and now another exclusive new single from the

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Far North. This is the Sailor and the Sea.

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Speaker 7: Is there anything left to say? And his fade away

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to a dream, move around the room, stark and daft

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noon and I'm over here.

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Speaker 1: And then it all falls down. Yeah, it all falls

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down and it gets.

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Speaker 6: Fast as spinning me around. The sires starts to come,

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making off of me like a sail to the sea,

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like a sailor to the sea, and the night. I

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hay there, I'm lost, so aware of this part.

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Speaker 1: My heart. It starts to break. I'm the loveiest to make.

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How could it lasts?

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Speaker 7: And then it all falls down?

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Speaker 1: Get it off, falls down and it gets faster.

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Speaker 6: I spend it mere round. Then the side starts to gone.

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It's taking over me like l to scene.

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Speaker 1: I say loud to the scene. I A had to

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make a serial. What about you?

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Speaker 4: Please come out to me, er.

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Speaker 1: To me, deer without you, please come home, mad have

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the heart to make do without you last, Please come

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home to me, Like sail to the sea.

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Speaker 3: We're back from the brind.

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Speaker 8: You want to say, non les, he isn't wrong for sure,

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walking up the spattle states.

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Speaker 1: Knocking on your bedroom door. This is such a lovely room.

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I'm waiting every other nucleus of me.

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Speaker 5: So this strategy in the center holo girl, in the

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strategy every hand.

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Speaker 9: Need a fall I see you know it needs to

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be in the center of exic girl.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the way that by Now I'm really

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neat if we gotta take it back, I can't more

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people tell me because that just kind of posh. I

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let go ins from my baby now, I'm really need you.

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Speaker 4: Know if we're gonna take it.

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Speaker 1: B I can with people tell me because that just

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gotta parish got a stable girl.

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Speaker 5: My name is coming dead man.

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Speaker 1: So sire I said, not a living room for listening

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forever nucleus telling me.

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Speaker 5: So tell this magee in a sense of hologram, Oh,

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I have a strategy heavy hair uniform.

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Speaker 1: That scene and there's a video in the sento of Mexico. Yeah,

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let the women baby now really there to.

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Speaker 3: Know if I gotta take it there.

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Speaker 5: Camera with people tell me, because I'm just gonna push.

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Speaker 1: I let the ass women baby now they're really there

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to know.

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Speaker 9: If we're gonna take it there a camera people tell

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me because.

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Speaker 1: I'll just gotta parsh You know, there's been round for

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you of us.

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Speaker 5: Right because it's lonely and the spire.

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Speaker 3: All right, that is push the band is Sepsis. Welcome everybody.

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We have entered our number three New Marow trace of

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Matt Connorton, unleashed and we are live from the studios

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of WM and H ninety five point three FM and

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Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. If you are listening live. Today

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is Saturday, November fifteen, twenty twenty five, and it's the

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big day. Swarmy Fest is here, the day we wait

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for all year and we are very pleased to have.

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So we have Sepsis in the studio with us. Hello everybody.

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Oh yeah, Zachi be over there. Who's leaving the band?

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We had to mention that, So are you having auditions already,

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William or.

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Speaker 10: What's well, that's one way you could translate it.

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Speaker 3: I guess you call that.

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Speaker 2: So there really is a process. In the first process,

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because we're a social media band, yeah, is to like

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the band, learn a song and upload it to the internet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We've had a lot of people that have shown interest,

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but nobody who's really gotten past step one. Okay, okay, yeah,

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Zach B Jacky B is like step twelve right right, yea,

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so he really set the standard.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so we kind of now we kind of know

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more close to what we're looking for long term.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's always always a process. We're

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not in a rush though, right, okay, good good, Yeah,

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that's not something you want to rush into, certainly. Uh

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Melissa is here of course as well. Hell well, welcome

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back and uh over there is a Lexi who is this?

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Is it right? This is the big debut?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the big debut on stage out with

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the band to day. Very good, actually, it's pretty good.

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She's being demoted.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's not a step down from well, the band member,

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I could.

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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's spiraling up. It's just

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a different department. But like in the business in our company,

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the treasury, but the merch girl actually has a higher

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administrative oh rank.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, so so you've lost your power. It sounds

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like Lexi, yeah, the one player. There you go, there

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Speaker 2: I'm a creative role yeah yeah, no, outstanding. So now

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we need a merch girl. So now you need a

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bass player.

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Speaker 3: And a merch girl.

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Speaker 2: Yeah wow, okay, all right, so who else is in

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is in the room with us? We have various everyone

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hears auditioning for merch and base.

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Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent. So this is the crazy thing.

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Speaker 2: But a lot of us are Halo players, okay, And

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for ten years, Melissa has a gaming community called Inclusive

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Community Gaming don't screw it up. Yeah, and you meet

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all kinds of crazy people online anyway. But we play

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Xbox and is for those of you that are familiar

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with Halo. It's a multiplayer respawn shooter. It's an older game,

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but there are newer versions of it and you can

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play multiplayer with people all over the world.

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Speaker 10: So we have a game in community. And we're not

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just a band. We're also a gaming community.

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Speaker 2: And in all of our communities, you know, people have

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things in common if they find common ground a lot

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of times. And like video games in general are like

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one of the last untapped markets for advertising, Like it's

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one of it's one of the few places where you

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can go online where there isn't a pop up Okay, right,

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advertisements for Nike, And yeah, I never thought.

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Speaker 3: I never thought. I never thought about it before.

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Speaker 2: But there must be some games that have some sort

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of mobile games. Yeah, mobile games are big on advertising. Okay, okay,

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but all of this is changing too.

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Speaker 9: In app purchases.

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Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense, yes, yes, But so we've had

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the gaming community and originally the the first time we

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ever did like a band created festival, like something that

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Speaker 10: Uh, most is gaming community came down and sponsored it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that's kind of where we started to get

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the idea for this originally because a lot of are

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the people that we play games with and we play Halo.

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They're from all over the country. Okay, so some of

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the people in this room are people that we play

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Halo with real Yeah, and they may and they may

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they may not be directly related to our game and community.

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But like our friend Lindorris is here. That's his gamer

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tag guy and right he's he's from New Orleans and

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he came up wow for the show. So he brought

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himself in some of his friends. And Eric is a

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good friend of ours from PA we played. We get

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around when we can and and he is a returning

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swarm me fact I don't know if you remember before,

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but he's returned.

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Speaker 10: This is your third time I think coming. So oh

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second second, So he's returning.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And Bernie and Ed in the corner there are

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like they are like they're almost like band members. Okay,

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they're like the closest thing that you could be as

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like staff or band members. Okay, the ogg okay, alright.

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And then in the doorway, the young fellow with the

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dreads is my son.

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Speaker 10: Oh he works for me for free today.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: And behind him is staff member Rinse. Okay, he's a

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steps a staff member.

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Speaker 3: Oh, very good, very good.

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Speaker 2: And he has a girlfriend Maggie with him. Okay, all right,

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that's a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, very nice. Excellent, excellent.

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So let's talk about tonight swarmy Fest.

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Speaker 10: One thing about swarm Fest. We always bring new bands.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I can't ask these guys to keep coming back

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and show them the same bands, right, unfair. So one

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thing I have to promise is that swarmy Fest remains

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something that's grassroots, you know, Yeah, something where we want

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to grow it and we hope that it continues to

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get bigger. Yeah, And we continue to do it because

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people request us every year to do it. Yeah, So

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as long as people are having fun and they request

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us doing it, and they request cool features, Me and

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Melissa and Lexi, everybody in the band are going to

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try to make that happen. And the goal is to

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grow it, but not grow it to the point where

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we can't have a conversation on the phone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or we can't have a solution.

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Speaker 2: Because one of the big things that we see with

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festivals or big shows is they get so big or

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so corporate. Oh yeah, that people can't supervise or manage

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it right barely.

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Speaker 3: It becomes this monster. It's hard to even come right.

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Speaker 2: You got to have then you have to start making

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friends with lawyers, and you got to you have to

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know how to speak in court.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that the kind of relationships that we want

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to make.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not for us, right, We don't want to

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be so professional or so industry that we need to

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hire people to live out this dream for us.

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Speaker 3: We should talk about the lineup. So, of course, obviously

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sepsis Silent Season, under the Horizon, Pulsifier, Temptress and the

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Cherry Fog. It's quite a show.

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Speaker 10: I'm blown away, Yeah, I believe it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and these are all we were talking earlier

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Jenny and I too, about how these are all bands

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that have been on the show except for the Cherry Fog,

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but I did, but I was checking.

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Speaker 10: Them out and I love them and I have been

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like corresponding with them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So I think they were hoping that they could come

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on some time in the near future.

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Speaker 3: Oh, definitely. Yeah, we got to get them.

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Speaker 10: Mind, I'll try to make that. I'll try to keep

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that conversation.

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Speaker 3: Going really good, really good. And then, uh, and who

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are a Little Kat and the Blood Witch again? Yeah?

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Speaker 10: So they are horror alternative.

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Speaker 2: Dancers models, and I think I think Lilith Cat does

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some like like like restraint or like I don't know

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what you would call.

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Speaker 10: It, like dangling.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, is that what it's called? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when I'm just forgive me, I don't

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have the education of the English for it, but you

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know when they either do like hooks or ropes girl,

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they okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, oh interesting, interesting, okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they they have they have a stage dancing

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performance right before the steps set.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, excellent, good time, excellent, excellent. So we should

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talk about the sponsors, So of course, you know, we're

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very honored and privileged. Matt Connorton unleash to be involved

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as always, and we have Legion of Solas on with

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us in the last hour let's see. So also speed

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given promotions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, shout out to Josh and them. Yeah, okay,

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and what do they what do they do exactly? I

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think I think Josh was supposed to be on the

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show with us at one point and the reschedule. But

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I love Josh and I'm trying to I'm always trying

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to get him on this show.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he has just such.

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Speaker 10: A wealth of information.

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Speaker 3: He's a vet. Yeah, he's a straight shooter, yep.

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Speaker 2: And he as well as everybody that's sponsoring this show,

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we keep a close circle.

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Speaker 10: And the reason why we do that is so we

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can all communicate.

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Speaker 2: And what we're communicating is the same type of goals

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of like community enrichment, independent business to business relationships, long

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term growth, you know, not screw no, who's a little

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guy creating opportunities where you know, there's not a lot

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of money in rock and roll, in local music, but

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we want to try to create event where they're incentivized

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they're fair.

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Speaker 10: If people do get paid, they're getting paid fairly, right.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So is that kind of what Josh is doing.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and that that that's his theme. And we both

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we both resonate and share that same goal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we we we tend to have the same

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sponsors come back, I think because I think I spoke

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on this before. You all do such a great job,

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and we don't want to take up a lot of

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flyer space, right with people clout chasing or yah. You know,

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and if you and if you have a flyer and

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you put one hundred sponsors on it, and people tend

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to overlook it, right, Yeah, So we really want to

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have a little more quality over quantity, especially this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to do ten bands in two rooms. Oh yeah,

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and then some bands get missed, some people don't get

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to see.

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Speaker 3: Did you do that two years ago? Obviously you didn't

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do that at U Tafa, but two years ago Julia

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did that, right.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, And I don't think I do it again.

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Speaker 2: And and it's because we still want to be the

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type of the type of people that can hang out

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with everybody a little bit. Yeah, and we want to

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be able to we want swormy Fest to continue to

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be a social event as I was being able to

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like support the bands and check out a few vendors.

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It's also a place where people can talk about culture

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and art and share their ideas. Swormy Fest is a

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safe space, so people can speak there and beat themselves

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and support the bands at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's see also Viole its rain for all

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the sponsors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Gypsy is a good friend of mine. She

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she brings in like healing oils candles, Okay, yeah, okay,

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pretty much. Yeah, this this year, we wanted to go

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with with a magical theme. Okay, you know, you know,

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healing aroma therapy.

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Speaker 3: She does.

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Speaker 10: I think she's making a black light invasion steps as candle.

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Speaker 3: Oh okidding, Oh that's cool. That's a cool idea.

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Speaker 9: You's got a bunch of stones and things too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Dnay Lyns Creations is similar where it's like everything from

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like patches and trinkets and you know, self help, motivation.

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Speaker 10: And LGBTQ inclusive themes.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, knitting, crochet.

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Speaker 3: Chakra stones yea.

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Speaker 10: And of course you know, and you got all the

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bands there with this stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and then what about BPS records. Are they

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still going to be there? I know, and they were,

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they were supposed to be on the show with us,

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and I know there was some sort of an emergency,

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so I don't know if there is, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I hope they can make it to the actual limit. Yeah, yeah,

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I've yet to get a full update.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, I hope everything's okay with them. I know,

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I know something went wrong, but hopefully nothing too serious.

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Speaker 2: When you have a show like this, this is the

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weirdest thing, and not just depart I don't like when

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you have a show like this because it's getting a

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little bit bigger.

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Speaker 10: You know, you start with thirty people, then you have

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forty people.

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Speaker 2: But as the show gets bigger, the more people, you know,

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you make relationships with and you're trying to hold it together.

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If you have the larger your audience, something's going to

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go wrong, Oh of course, with somebody. You know, if

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you have an audience at ten people, the likelihood of

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somebody twisting their ankles a little low. But once you

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have an audience of seventy five people, somebody's mother passes away,

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somebody gets sick that week, So you know, when you

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have a show at this size and you're one of

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the organizers, you kind of have to prepare for some

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a little bit disappointment.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you have to.

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Speaker 10: It's not really prepared.

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Speaker 2: My job isn't prepared for things to go well, right,

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it's kind of and my job is to is to

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prepare for how am I going to behave and how

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am I not? How am I going to bond and

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not react when they don't go my way?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? Exactly? Have you had this is the fourth uh

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fourth Swarmy Fests? Have you had a lot of surprises

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over the years doing this or My impression is that

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that things have gone smoothly overall, right, But I mean

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I'm sure, I'm sure things go wrong.

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Speaker 2: That is a that is a fair impression. We have

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a lot of people working on this, yeah. Yeah, so

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it's it's not like you've got a good team. I do,

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and then and and many of them are in this room.

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Yeah so, and we're working on it all year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I want to give a special shout out to my

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partner for Swarmy Fest, Larry Loud from Loud Entertainment.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's great. Yeah, we had him and uh, I'm

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never sure to bab Yep. We had them on the

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on the show not too long ago. Hopefully Baboo's okay.

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I know he has some health. He's doing good.

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Speaker 2: He's at that he's at their new club tonight, the

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Canary they got they got, they got that big club

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now up in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so he's doing that. But Larry will be there tonight.

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Speaker 3: Oh excellent, excellent. Yeah, yeah, he's an eye ye yeah.

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And how did that come about working with Loud Entertainment

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because you didn't have them on board? Want me to

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tell you the truth.

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Speaker 2: So the truth is we were doing an event and

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I won't say where, but we were doing an event

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and Larry wanted to book us for a show.

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Speaker 3: Why won't Why won't you say where? I'm curious? Can

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you say why? You won't say where?

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Speaker 2: Just because because people become emotional and and and there

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are there are levels of emotional where people tend to

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throw out rational thought.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and that's just something I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Going to engage with people online because then it becomes

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negative and if it's negative, it's a failure. Okay, So

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you know I don't kiss and tell, ok fair enough,

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But Larry was asking you know, promoters want to know

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who can you get in the door? Can you get

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five people? Can you get ten people? It's not ugly,

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but it is a question that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a valid, valid concern.

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Speaker 2: So you know, if you got a room capacity at

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two fifty, promoters interested in you, they're gonna they might

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ask a band, or they might ask the talent, Hey,

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how many people do you think? How many tickets? How

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many pre sale tickets do you think you can sell?

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And I had, you know, I have an open door.

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I have a pretty open policy. You know, we sepstants.

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We show our mistakes. Yeah, So he said, what'd you

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get at your last show? And I said, oh, you know,

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go ask the promoters themselves. I said, don't take my

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word for it. Get in touch with the venue, and

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I want you to double check to so you could

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see what our attendance was. So he had been in

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contact with the venue and they said, oh, well, Sepsist,

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they only brought sixty people to the show, so I

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wouldn't recommend them. They said that we that Sepsist only

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brought sixty people to the show, and that we're not

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a big enough band, which I accepted, and then I

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reminded them all that not many bands in New England

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get twenty five people in the door. It's tough, yeah,

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And I'm not trying to be mean. I'm trying to

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tell the truth right exactly. You can think whatever thought

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and focus on that, but ignoring your thoughts and focusing

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on the truth.

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Speaker 3: The truth is.

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Speaker 2: The biggest local bands in New England don't draw twenty

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five people every show. Sure it's hard, yeah, or consistently,

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it's very difficult. And if they did, we would be

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the first band that sent them an email to try

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to book with them, right of course, because it's a win.

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Well to me is to lose if you're the only

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person in the band and Zachi b has to get

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all the audience members, or Melissa has to write all

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the songs, or the headliner and the co headliner are

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responsible for the for the majority of the draw. We

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have a we and I think that creates an inside

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circle from an outside circle, and it leaves independent artists subservient,

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submissive and relying on national acts and talent buyer talking power.

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And we don't want nobody to be able to repurpose, misuse,

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or set our value for us. So it's a good

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way of putting it our our our pathway, and there

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is no wrong way for anybody.

475
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 3: This is just for us.

476
00:29:39,559 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: We're not telling people what to do, to continue doing

477
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:48,359
whatever works for you, yep. But we believe that no band,

478
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,960
and that's what Swormifest is about, that no band should

479
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,160
have to get one hundred people in the door. Not

480
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,519
not because we're moral or there's good guys and bad

481
00:29:56,599 --> 00:30:00,480
guys or evil or good. Is because we just don't

482
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,680
have to. Logistically, Yeah, local bands don't have to get

483
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,920
one hundred people in how about just ten?

484
00:30:06,279 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 3: Right?

485
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:08,759
Speaker 10: But if you've got five bands.

486
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,799
Speaker 2: And this, you know, five people in the bands, twenty

487
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,480
five people there, and every band member brings two or

488
00:30:13,519 --> 00:30:17,880
three people, then it's not You're not leaving it to

489
00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:21,720
one band member, right or or a headliner, and then

490
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:28,079
then you don't have all of the lobbying in playing

491
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,880
with the paperwork when it comes to local when it

492
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:32,480
comes to national acts coming.

493
00:30:32,319 --> 00:30:35,279
Speaker 9: Into town, right right, it takes team work.

494
00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, one hundred Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely. This

495
00:30:42,559 --> 00:30:43,920
is a little bit of a side street, but I

496
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,680
know Jenny had told you that. So this show we

497
00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:50,519
usually stream it on Facebook and we're not doing that

498
00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:54,519
for right now, and she said you kind of chuckled

499
00:30:54,599 --> 00:30:57,880
that about that and the reason we're not and we're

500
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,759
still going to YouTube. And actually, don't believe it or not,

501
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,359
but Facebook has banned me from live streaming until December.

502
00:31:05,759 --> 00:31:07,559
And I have and I have no idea why, because

503
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:09,359
they don't like to tell you. You know, these social

504
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,000
media platforms, they don't like to tell you what you

505
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:13,119
did wrong. They just like to tell you did something wrong.

506
00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:15,160
I can do everything else on Facebook. I just can't

507
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:16,000
live stream the show.

508
00:31:16,839 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: That's the I mean, that's the way it is for

509
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,519
That's the way it is now for all of the apps. Yeah,

510
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,200
you know they have that for sure. I mean that's

511
00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:28,319
kind of a hack, isn't it. You know, you create

512
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,960
a special program. There's no human beings that you can talk.

513
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 3: To rights, does it Twitch? Does it?

514
00:31:34,839 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 10: All the apps on your phone do that? Yeah, there's

515
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,640
no customer service.

516
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,519
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. It's funny too because people, you know, we

517
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,759
talk a lot about AI, but AI is all supposed

518
00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:48,200
to make the world easier for us, right in theory,

519
00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:51,000
We're supposed to save money and be happier, but it's

520
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:53,160
been with us. It's also been with us for longer

521
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,359
than people realize, because if you're talking to a chat bot,

522
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,240
I mean, you're literally talking to a chat bot, you know.

523
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,319
And and I know that I know that the person

524
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:06,920
who told me via Facebook Support that I'm banned from

525
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,480
live streaming until December, who couldn't tell me the reason why.

526
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,599
I know that that wasn't a real person, right, I

527
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,160
know that was a chat I was talking to AI,

528
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,960
and you know, and I don't know if they even

529
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,759
fully understood what I was describing as the problem, right,

530
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:20,480
you know what I mean?

531
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: But most people, most people, if you sit most people

532
00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:25,960
down and you remove them from a group of other

533
00:32:26,039 --> 00:32:28,480
people from the construct, and you sit them down and

534
00:32:28,599 --> 00:32:31,599
you ask them what the purpose of artificial intelligence is,

535
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:32,440
they're not going.

536
00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 3: To be able to tell you.

537
00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I mean, isn't it supposed to be intelligent?

538
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:39,839
Speaker 3: Yes?

539
00:32:40,039 --> 00:32:45,359
Speaker 10: Well what made the intelligent thing a human being?

540
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 2: So so, if you're a gamer, you know, I gotta

541
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,279
tell like me and my gamer friends, like AI is

542
00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:55,799
not new to us, like if like the idea of

543
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,920
AI or just all of these gadgets and gizmos. If

544
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,240
you're a gamer, if you've been playing Xbox, your whole life.

545
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,680
It's not really a new concept for us, right right, Yeah.

546
00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:09,519
Speaker 3: That makes sense, that makes sense. Are you concerned about

547
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,319
and curious any any of you? Are you concerned about

548
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:16,519
AI and its effect on on music? Did you see

549
00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:16,799
the news?

550
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,359
Speaker 2: Did you see the new Bathwater video where where the

551
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,559
hornets were flying out of Lexi's Yeah, that's.

552
00:33:25,839 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 3: Oh so those weren't actual hornets. I was concerned when

553
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,119
I watched it. I was like, poor Alexi.

554
00:33:37,839 --> 00:33:43,359
Speaker 2: Unfortunately our lead singer Melissa sets herself on fire and

555
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,079
her body skeleton burn up into flames.

556
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,119
Speaker 3: But that didn't actually happen, right, That was a because

557
00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:52,319
I was also concerned about that. I was like, poor Melissa,

558
00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:53,200
that looks very painful.

559
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 10: Back then we used to have to really throw bugs

560
00:33:59,240 --> 00:33:59,839
at them, and that.

561
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: Is that why you're leaving the band? It sounds very

562
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,519
remember we signed that paper, sounds very dangerous.

563
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,079
Speaker 10: Whatever happens in days?

564
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 3: And yes, yes, yeah we should? Uh you want to

565
00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:23,079
play another what should we? Let's play something? We can

566
00:34:23,119 --> 00:34:25,639
play a Sepsis track unless you want to play something

567
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,800
from one another bands tonight? Or what do you play

568
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,760
a Silent Season song? Want to play silent which one?

569
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:32,559
Speaker 1: Hopeless?

570
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,079
Speaker 3: My favorite song. Yeah, we played this one in the

571
00:34:36,119 --> 00:34:38,480
first hour, but I'm happy to play it again. That's okay,

572
00:34:38,519 --> 00:34:40,639
we can play it again. Different it was a different hour,

573
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,360
it was a whole different hour. No, this is my

574
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,960
favorite Silent Season song. This is a great choice. All right,

575
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:47,360
let's give this a spend silent season. Of course, one

576
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,840
of the bands playing tonight at Swarmyfest, and we're going

577
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,840
to talk more about that on the other side of this.

578
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:53,760
But this is a great track. This is called hopeless

579
00:34:56,559 --> 00:35:00,480
and I don't hear anything and I think I know why.

580
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,760
I'm gonna try that again. I might have to edit

581
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,639
that on the podcast. This is called hopeless Silent Season.

582
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 6: A feel of pressure falling, tell my, I'm so feel

583
00:35:38,679 --> 00:35:41,239
safe behind.

584
00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: Every single day it's all the same sons and him.

585
00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 2: No is gonna make me fall.

586
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 3: From God?

587
00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: And chancing suits say well alas and well will go sinks,

588
00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:22,639
don listen.

589
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 3: Pass I'm buried and I'm no raise.

590
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:33,079
Speaker 1: I how it so so sad, And.

591
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,199
Speaker 3: I'd say that I can't everything.

592
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:44,559
Speaker 1: I charge change she be so that starts so row.

593
00:36:46,199 --> 00:36:50,039
Nora's kind of stable.

594
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 5: With that.

595
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:02,079
Speaker 1: No, and Chacy soon sang show.

596
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:04,199
Speaker 6: I'll say.

597
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:12,519
Speaker 1: Us not well know no son, thank god, it's a

598
00:37:12,639 --> 00:37:13,960
big sidney with.

599
00:37:17,199 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 3: I'm not a such with my inshide.

600
00:37:23,039 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: Don't know which.

601
00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:26,559
Speaker 3: Way is still for.

602
00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 2: My ears my shot make you work God, you'll feel alone,

603
00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:38,000
my god.

604
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: Watch it actual wat very fo.

605
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 3: Picnic shows here.

606
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: Chatty sang s.

607
00:37:55,679 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 3: I'll say.

608
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: As no, no.

609
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,599
Speaker 3: There it is. The track is hopeless. The band is

610
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,079
a Silent Season and they will be playing tonight at Swarmyfest.

611
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,440
If you are listening live on Saturday, it is November fifteen,

612
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,440
twenty twenty five. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed And of

613
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,800
course we're talking today. It's all about Swarmyfest tonight at

614
00:38:50,039 --> 00:38:53,239
Jewel right across the street really on Canal Street here

615
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,280
in Manchester and really looking forward to tonight. And of course,

616
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,400
uh we have William and Zachie b and Melissa and

617
00:39:01,599 --> 00:39:04,280
Lexi I hear from the band and uh and you

618
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,000
brought you brought some other folks with you and who now,

619
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:09,920
Who's who's going on last night?

620
00:39:10,039 --> 00:39:10,159
Speaker 5: Is it?

621
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 3: Is it Sepsis? Yeah, yeah, we we like to do that.

622
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,880
Yeah because of the clock, you know.

623
00:39:17,159 --> 00:39:19,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if we're running a little late, we could

624
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,159
either add or take away music.

625
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gives you a little a little bit of

626
00:39:24,679 --> 00:39:27,840
flexibility there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. Who's

627
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,320
opening the show? Do you know?

628
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,559
Speaker 10: At this spoint? I think I think Temptris is opening

629
00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:32,920
the show.

630
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,599
Speaker 3: Temprist is opening. Yeah, yeah, we have them on. We

631
00:39:35,639 --> 00:39:37,400
played I don't know if you've listened to that song

632
00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:39,639
Carly that they have, but Jenny and I are like

633
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:40,800
addicted to that song.

634
00:39:41,119 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 2: We make we make sure this is this probably sounds crazy,

635
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,840
but we listen to the bands that we book. Yeah, well, yeah,

636
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,039
I know it seems like that would be like a

637
00:39:53,119 --> 00:39:55,679
generic thing, but a lot of times people don't do that,

638
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:55,960
you know.

639
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, true.

640
00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: You know, if if a band said to a promoter, hey,

641
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,239
I pretty pretty pinky swear promise, right then I'm gonna

642
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,880
that I'm really good and I'm gonna bring fifty people,

643
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:09,000
sometimes people believe that, right.

644
00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 3: Right, that is true.

645
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,599
Speaker 2: I've never met a band that says my band is

646
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:18,480
terrible and we're bringing no one, right Yeah, yeah, of course,

647
00:40:18,639 --> 00:40:19,039
of course.

648
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 3: So now what is now after? Obviously, you know, today

649
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,760
is a very big deal, but yes, after you get

650
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,480
through today, what's what's kind of the what else does

651
00:40:27,519 --> 00:40:29,599
the band have? In the works other than you know,

652
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,679
you got to find a new bass player or replace

653
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,800
them with AI or whatever. But I can talk about

654
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,159
the a I think forever. I think.

655
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 2: I Well, the Swarmy Fest really starts on the Friday,

656
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,760
which is last night, so we all, yeah, we all

657
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,800
hang out and we do like staff and the VIPs

658
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,840
and people that helped getting the show together, we all

659
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,480
hang out together, and folks that may have came used

660
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,519
years before and new people get to all meet each other. Yeah,

661
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,079
and it's nice because that way you can go to

662
00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,360
the venue some of the people that are traveling are

663
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,239
familiar with people there, instead of telling everybody, hey, just

664
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:03,639
just meet.

665
00:41:03,559 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 10: At the venue and we're the only people they know. Yeah,

666
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,119
it's just nice to have a few other people that

667
00:41:09,199 --> 00:41:10,599
you're familiar with of course.

668
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

669
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:18,159
Speaker 10: Yeah, But the real cherry on top is the Swarmy

670
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:19,239
Fest after party.

671
00:41:19,599 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, with our best Pajama contest.

672
00:41:23,159 --> 00:41:26,039
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, this we do a theme, so there's

673
00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:29,119
a you know, just like with every show, Stepsis does

674
00:41:29,159 --> 00:41:33,760
a wardrobe theme for anybody that's keeping score, and we

675
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,880
also do an after party theme and this year is

676
00:41:38,119 --> 00:41:43,440
the after party Pajama Jamie jam Okay, and if you

677
00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:46,840
bring if you don't have to, but there's a limited

678
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,719
amount of people. Yeah, you know, we don't want to

679
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:49,239
get arrested.

680
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.

681
00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:55,679
Speaker 2: Folks can if they if they buy tickets early, they

682
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,440
can send us screenshots and it automatically gets them into

683
00:41:58,440 --> 00:41:59,039
the after party.

684
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 10: Oh okay, and then if they bring pajamas, they can

685
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:04,760
win a gift card.

686
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 3: Oh that's a cool concept. Yeah.

687
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,079
Speaker 10: Yeah, who's got the coolest pajamas on?

688
00:42:08,639 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 3: We have.

689
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 2: Or cosplay and we have you know, female judges that

690
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,400
are gonna judge. Everybody'll be fun.

691
00:42:15,679 --> 00:42:18,679
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, cool, So that's tonight.

692
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 10: So if you're the only person out there and you

693
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,880
brought your pajamas, you won.

694
00:42:23,559 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 3: Wow. Wow. So you can win by forfeit basically.

695
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 2: A lot of people, Yeah, a lot of people. Look, man,

696
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,199
I don't want to wear any pajamas. But that's good

697
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:35,000
because that that just narrows down the competition. So when

698
00:42:35,079 --> 00:42:38,320
no matter what, when no matter what, and I guess

699
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,760
if nobody wears their pajamas, we'll spend a gift card.

700
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,519
Speaker 3: And then so what happens after all this, So after

701
00:42:45,559 --> 00:42:47,719
you get past Swarmy Fest, so like do you know,

702
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,519
like are you are you recording new music?

703
00:42:49,639 --> 00:42:51,079
Speaker 10: Oh that's what you meant.

704
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, yes, we would, we would record more music,

705
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,639
but it's expensive to record our music. Yeah, it really is,

706
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,519
and because we really want the best quality we could

707
00:43:05,519 --> 00:43:06,480
get for us.

708
00:43:06,679 --> 00:43:10,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Where do you record normally?

709
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,199
Speaker 10: I mean, so there's two processes we record. We track

710
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,639
out a lot of it at our house.

711
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,039
Speaker 3: Yeah.

712
00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: And then the second half is working with Glenn Robinson. Okay,

713
00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:22,360
we either meet with him video or he mixing masters

714
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,679
on his own. Okay, is he in the area or

715
00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:28,239
he's some Canada. Oh he's Oh he is, Okay, but

716
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:29,519
he's got studios.

717
00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:30,079
Speaker 10: In New York, Vermont.

718
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,079
Speaker 3: Okay, because I was gonna say, I know the name.

719
00:43:32,199 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 10: Glenn Robinson is is world renowned you know?

720
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:35,519
Speaker 3: Yeah?

721
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,039
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know Gore Jason Newstead. Yeah.

722
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 2: Is that what makes it so expensive? Because you talked

723
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,320
about well, no, but we are we are in an

724
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:50,480
industry of showing people that we know, important people, that

725
00:43:50,599 --> 00:43:53,519
we've worked with, important people. Oh yeah, that's the whole

726
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,559
purpose of Swarmy Fest is for all of us to

727
00:43:56,639 --> 00:43:59,599
create a long lasting resume.

728
00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:03,599
Speaker 3: H mm hmm. How do you when you're when you're

729
00:44:03,599 --> 00:44:05,679
putting together Swarmy Fest in terms of the bands that

730
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,119
you have booked, and you know, you talk about how

731
00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:08,440
you don't want to have the same bands every year

732
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,760
obviously because I get stale. But but what what is

733
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,000
kind of the criteria that you look for with with

734
00:44:13,119 --> 00:44:15,719
the band. It's because it's a really good mix.

735
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 2: It's it's disappointing, and it's depressing because I have to

736
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,320
do it, and because you have to tell people, you

737
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,079
have to, you have to, you have to tell people no.

738
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,199
Speaker 10: That's something I want to do. I don't want to

739
00:44:26,199 --> 00:44:27,039
make people unhappy.

740
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to tell people or or I

741
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,960
don't I don't want to tell them no, and then

742
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:35,480
they feel that I don't like their band or that

743
00:44:35,519 --> 00:44:36,920
I don't like their because I like everything.

744
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:37,159
Speaker 9: Man.

745
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like I like, I loved I love death metal.

746
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 2: But over the we used to book with a lot

747
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,159
of death metal bands in our shows, and and like

748
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,199
we had a lot of people say, you know, can

749
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,880
we just do one or two? Like a lot of

750
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,239
our fans, they want to more of a mix. So

751
00:44:54,599 --> 00:44:56,840
we've been trying to do more of a blend. Yeah,

752
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,079
you know, or you'll get people to say, you know,

753
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:02,360
we book a lot of rappers and stuff, and people

754
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,599
wanted more of a blend. So just with with with

755
00:45:06,599 --> 00:45:10,519
Because we book around Sepsis, we try to now book

756
00:45:10,599 --> 00:45:15,159
the bands that really like us and fit in with us.

757
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,880
We used to book bands that didn't even like us. Really, Yeah,

758
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,800
why do you got to like our music? All you

759
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,280
got to do is be professional and get people in

760
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:22,599
the door.

761
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:23,199
Speaker 3: That's true.

762
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 10: You don't got to like me, right, that's true. All

763
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,840
you got to do, all you got to do is

764
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:29,599
what you agreed to do.

765
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:30,599
Speaker 3: You don't.

766
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:33,639
Speaker 2: You don't have to do what you're not committed to do.

767
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,360
And you don't have to do what you agreed to do.

768
00:45:36,559 --> 00:45:38,960
You don't have to do which you didn't agree to do.

769
00:45:39,159 --> 00:45:43,199
Speaker 3: Right, So, if they didn't agree to like Sepsis, we don't.

770
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,480
We don't. We don't don't.

771
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,199
Speaker 2: We don't force people to like us, and we don't.

772
00:45:47,199 --> 00:45:49,639
We don't make music, and some bands do do that.

773
00:45:49,679 --> 00:45:52,760
I'm not being sarcastic, of course, some artists make music

774
00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:56,880
for people to like it. Yeah, we just make music

775
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,920
and if you like it, you like it. If you don't,

776
00:46:01,079 --> 00:46:01,559
then you don't.

777
00:46:01,599 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 10: We don't care.

778
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,199
Speaker 2: That's not it's not a goal of ours to create

779
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,559
music that Spotify likes, right, because then we have to go, well,

780
00:46:08,639 --> 00:46:11,320
let's find out what Spotify likes. What's the method of

781
00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:15,360
Spotify likes to two minutes and eighty seconds? Spotify likes

782
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,800
it when you don't use swears Spotif so, then who's

783
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,079
right in the art now our fans. So if we

784
00:46:21,199 --> 00:46:23,760
let our fans hold us hostage, if we let the

785
00:46:24,159 --> 00:46:26,599
apps and the gadgets hold us hostage, me and Melissa

786
00:46:26,639 --> 00:46:30,840
can't write, right, yeah, yeah, then we can't be authentic. Yeah,

787
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,719
so that's there's already a lot of bands that are

788
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,760
writing for the industry. Oh sure, there are a lot

789
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,320
of Always, there are plenty of bands that write for

790
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,280
their fans. Yeah, there are plenty of bands that write

791
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:43,320
to be monetized.

792
00:46:43,599 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 3: Yeah.

793
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,199
Speaker 2: We write to be honest, We write to be authentic. Yeah,

794
00:46:49,559 --> 00:46:51,199
we write to just be ourselves. We just write to

795
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:51,679
to do it.

796
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: Yeah. Are the two of you, You're the principal songwriters,

797
00:46:55,519 --> 00:46:57,239
you and Melissa, the two of you write everything.

798
00:46:57,559 --> 00:47:01,199
Speaker 2: These days it's it's whoever's doing it, Okay, Okay, these

799
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,000
days it's like, what if we're in the creative process,

800
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,679
you know, we were in the we were in the

801
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,719
studio last year, and and Zach sat sat down for

802
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,559
a few minutes, and we just didn't have a baseline,

803
00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:17,599
you know. Yeah, And it's just sitting here listening to

804
00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:20,719
the music, I think, trusting our ears and playing with

805
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,760
each other. We've all been working with each other for

806
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,880
so long. Yeah, there's a little bit of our personality

807
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,880
of the music. So we we've all gotten accustomed to

808
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:33,280
what each other like. Yeah, so sometimes you know, Lexi

809
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,000
will write up a drum pattern that she knows I'll

810
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,280
be impressed with, or you know, or I'll throw I'll

811
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,000
throw a riff at Melissa and I'll know because you know,

812
00:47:41,119 --> 00:47:44,440
she'll be sitting there like, okay, yeah, that's that's stock.

813
00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:47,679
Speaker 10: I'm not ready yet. It's got to be bigger than that.

814
00:47:48,159 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 2: And when it gets big, you know, and then Melissa

815
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:55,280
doesn't doesn't say much, but but but she's got you know,

816
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,800
she got the communication when she likes something, you know,

817
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,840
that big old smile. I'll come up sure, and really,

818
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:05,639
I want to write music that my band members want

819
00:48:05,679 --> 00:48:05,920
to play.

820
00:48:07,559 --> 00:48:09,679
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm not just quiet here, I'm quiet

821
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:10,360
in reality.

822
00:48:12,199 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 2: So like I, I go around and we have like

823
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,840
a peer reviewing process and some of our most passionate

824
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:20,840
friends and fans and people that have been working with

825
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,280
us are in our staff chats and stuff. So like

826
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,880
we'll come up with with riffs, our creative ideas, and

827
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,800
we'll just ask people do you like it, and like

828
00:48:29,199 --> 00:48:32,280
if they like it or if they have extra feedback.

829
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,199
Speaker 10: We usually go as a team together what we all

830
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,519
feel is best for the music.

831
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,679
Speaker 3: Right right, excellent? So what so tonight are you playing? Uh,

832
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,880
let's see, so are you playing the new song Bathwater?

833
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:48,800
Are you playing that tonight?

834
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:50,079
Speaker 10: Or we're playing Bathwaters?

835
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,679
Speaker 3: Excellent? Excellent? What about Force to Lay Down? You're playing

836
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:58,400
that one? Yes? Okay, good because I we played that

837
00:48:58,480 --> 00:48:59,800
in the first hour today of the show and I

838
00:49:00,039 --> 00:49:02,800
and I hope they play that tonight. Yeah. Yeah, so.

839
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:05,280
Speaker 10: Tonight's set list.

840
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're answering these questions because I don't know

841
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,559
if you remember this, but last year I asked you

842
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,039
and you you didn't want to reveal anything on the

843
00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:14,920
arab get mad.

844
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:19,159
Speaker 9: At me, people get mad if we give everything away.

845
00:49:21,039 --> 00:49:23,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go, Hey, tune into Matt Connorton and then

846
00:49:23,559 --> 00:49:30,920
we'll tell them the set list. Yeah, that has happened. Yeah,

847
00:49:31,079 --> 00:49:35,119
And people don't get like raging man. Of course they're

848
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:36,199
like busting with.

849
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 3: Us, you know, yeah, yeah, okay, but you are playing

850
00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:40,960
those two Yeah, so you've committed, you've committed to that.

851
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 10: You I'll give you a cheat.

852
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 3: Okay.

853
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,679
Speaker 2: We have a new band member joining the band, so

854
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,360
naturally we're going to play a lot of songs that

855
00:49:50,519 --> 00:49:53,360
incorporate the new band member, whether it be whether it

856
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,519
be keyboards are screaming, You're going to see a lot

857
00:49:56,559 --> 00:49:59,079
of the new band member. Yeah, all right, all right,

858
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:02,360
that is the because that is the new edition. Okay,

859
00:50:03,519 --> 00:50:05,800
so that people haven't heard. People haven't heard us with

860
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,880
keyboards in a while. We've had DJ's keyboards. We have

861
00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:10,840
all kinds of different versions of this band.

862
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,519
Speaker 3: That's true. Yeah, the band has gone through a lot

863
00:50:12,559 --> 00:50:13,000
of iteration.

864
00:50:13,159 --> 00:50:17,079
Speaker 2: I shown somebody a picture of ten years ago with

865
00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:20,760
Melissa before the braids, and they were like, what, Yeah,

866
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:21,400
they didn't even.

867
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 10: Know who they were looking at such a baby face.

868
00:50:23,039 --> 00:50:25,199
Yeah they don't know. Yeah, yeah, they thought we were

869
00:50:25,199 --> 00:50:26,039
showing them another band.

870
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's gonna be a geared more toward newer

871
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:30,480
material then, right, I hope.

872
00:50:30,519 --> 00:50:33,639
Speaker 2: So if it, if it's I always want to because

873
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:39,199
a because you know, we're responsible for still pushing our

874
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,199
very first song. Yeah, Like, artists make that mistake of

875
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,400
believing that everybody heard their first favorite.

876
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 9: Song and then they stopped pushing it and they stopped

877
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:46,800
pushing it.

878
00:50:47,119 --> 00:50:49,519
Speaker 2: That's why we don't have a huge library or catalog,

879
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:51,599
because we don't want to be one of those artists

880
00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:54,440
with like twenty albums of music that nobody listens to.

881
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good point.

882
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,679
Speaker 10: Yeah, really good music that nobody listens to.

883
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 2: Right, because I had right, because if you so much

884
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:04,400
music gets missed, even with the even with national artists,

885
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,880
to the big artist. Sure, even traditionally they only push

886
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,280
a couple of singles, right, even ten years ago, thirty

887
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,159
years ago, even when the albums had seventeen tracks on it,

888
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,719
they only picked one or two of songs. And that's

889
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:21,400
what the Yeah that that hasn't changed. Well, yeah, everybody

890
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,599
pushed the singles. No, they push singles back then too.

891
00:51:24,199 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah, like when I work with clients,

892
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,000
when I work with radio clients doing college radio promotion,

893
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:31,920
you know, we pick a we pick a single, and

894
00:51:32,039 --> 00:51:34,960
we send that out and you know, if if a

895
00:51:35,079 --> 00:51:37,559
station isn't biting on that single. You know, maybe you'll

896
00:51:37,639 --> 00:51:39,559
try to well, you know, here's the whole album, maybe

897
00:51:39,559 --> 00:51:41,159
there's something here, you like, try to get them to

898
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:41,920
play something.

899
00:51:42,039 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 10: But but it's Push was that song?

900
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 3: Yeah? Push was the Push?

901
00:51:46,119 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 5: Was that?

902
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: So when our album came out and our record label like,

903
00:51:51,599 --> 00:51:53,199
you know, we wanted we want a black Light to

904
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,320
be to be fun, you know, oh yeah, but in

905
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,960
the middle of black Light it says let's go f

906
00:51:59,079 --> 00:51:59,880
it right right.

907
00:52:00,679 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 10: We didn't know that getting into this.

908
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:02,639
Speaker 1: Oh.

909
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,519
Speaker 2: As a result, you haven't seen you haven't seen a

910
00:52:05,559 --> 00:52:07,519
Septis song since with a bad word in it.

911
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 9: Yeah, everything on our first well again.

912
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 3: There is one.

913
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 10: Uh fair to say it's on our first album.

914
00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, Well never like anything anything that was

915
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,360
written after that, we will never yeah yeah'll never do

916
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:22,880
it ever again.

917
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:27,599
Speaker 3: We never swear yeah yeah yeah. I don't know if

918
00:52:27,599 --> 00:52:30,639
you even realize this. I played black Light Invasion I

919
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,639
made I made a radio edit of it. I played

920
00:52:33,679 --> 00:52:36,519
it years ago. It was before we ever even met,

921
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,920
because I do that other show, Local Outbreak, and I

922
00:52:40,039 --> 00:52:43,440
played it on that show just because I just found

923
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,079
you guys online and I was like, oh, I like

924
00:52:45,159 --> 00:52:47,159
this song, and I just I made a radio edit

925
00:52:47,199 --> 00:52:48,599
of it. So when it gets to that part instead

926
00:52:48,599 --> 00:52:50,920
of you know what, it says yeah yeah.

927
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, thank you yeah yeah, to send that to it, yeah,

928
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:56,239
I don't.

929
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:57,679
Speaker 3: I don't think I still have it, but that that

930
00:52:57,679 --> 00:52:59,760
would have been geez, that would have been at least well,

931
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,519
what when did that song come out? It's over ten.

932
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 2: Years, right, so I think I think I think the

933
00:53:05,519 --> 00:53:07,119
first time we ever gave that to you it was

934
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,599
like a demo version, I believe.

935
00:53:09,679 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 3: Well, no, when I when I played it originally, I

936
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:13,519
just found, like I said, we hadn't even met. I

937
00:53:13,559 --> 00:53:15,960
found it online. I found you guys online on band camp.

938
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:16,559
I think is right.

939
00:53:16,639 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 2: So that song, the song that the version that everybody

940
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:25,519
hears now wasn't really was not recorded until twenty nineteen.

941
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 3: Oh, so the one I played was what was it

942
00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:30,159
a demo? Yes? That was online?

943
00:53:30,199 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, strange steps is fact. We we we

944
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,440
didn't we we've been a band for fourteen years, yeah,

945
00:53:36,559 --> 00:53:39,199
but we didn't. We didn't release music until five years ago.

946
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 9: Oh, because we've gone through so many different lineups.

947
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and the music changes, you know.

948
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh wow, Okay, that's Sue at.

949
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 10: A couple a couple of steps of facts.

950
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Speaker 2: Yeah, most most people that play in Stepsis don't play over,

951
00:53:59,519 --> 00:54:03,119
don't play over eighteen to thirty months, okay, And and

952
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,119
most members that play in Steps play under thirty shows.

953
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,599
Speaker 3: Okay, that's just it's just what it is. Yeah, yeah,

954
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:12,880
that's just what it is, all right, So don't feel bad, Zach.

955
00:54:13,679 --> 00:54:16,159
Speaker 2: There they hold on, hold on, hold on, never there

956
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,039
are there are no band members except for Robert Pan

957
00:54:21,039 --> 00:54:24,920
and Lexi, who have lasted in the band more than

958
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:26,280
two and a half three years.

959
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 3: Wow, no kidding, that's just that's just what it is.

960
00:54:29,639 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lexi's been in the band for seven years

961
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,159
and Robert's been in the band on and off for

962
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:35,679
ten years.

963
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 3: Well but she's only been in the band band today, right,

964
00:54:39,639 --> 00:54:42,880
So that that resets the clock, doesn't that reset the

965
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:47,599
clock in a new department? Yeah, so you're starting all over, yes, yeah,

966
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:53,199
complete newbie. So now you can't leave at least for

967
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,760
another two and a half years. Why I could break

968
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,119
that's true, that's true. Well we are oh wow, we

969
00:55:01,199 --> 00:55:02,880
are rapidly approaching the top of the hour. It all

970
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,039
goes so fast. So one last push for tonight, So

971
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:09,239
swarmy fest tonight doors open at seven or is the

972
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show start at.

973
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 10: Seven, doors at six music six thirty.

974
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 3: Oh, music starts at six thirty.

975
00:55:16,079 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 9: Yes, okay, gotcha's changed since the flyer?

976
00:55:18,679 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 10: Oh okay, okay, no, that's what the original flyer did

977
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,199
say that though, And that's good.

978
00:55:24,119 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 3: To tell our live listeners that though. So yeah, so

979
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:30,320
so Tonight, Loud Entertainment presents US Swarmy Fest Sepsis Silent

980
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Season under the Horizon Pulsifier, The Cherry Fog Temptress, also

981
00:55:34,639 --> 00:55:37,360
featuring Lilith Kat and the Blood Witch, and of course

982
00:55:37,599 --> 00:55:39,880
Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are very proud and honored to

983
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:45,719
again be participating along with Legion of Solace, Speed Demon Promotions, Violets,

984
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:51,039
Rain BPS Records, Denny Lynz Creations. Did I miss anybody

985
00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:56,199
that was really good? Thank you? I try. Well, we're

986
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,519
Jenny and I are really excited about tonight. So we're

987
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,119
we're very very happy and always wonderful to have you

988
00:56:02,199 --> 00:56:04,559
on and wonderful to have all of you here. Thank

989
00:56:04,599 --> 00:56:07,840
you for coming in, Thanks for having us absolutely absolutely

990
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,559
so yeah. So if you're listening live on Saturday, make

991
00:56:10,599 --> 00:56:14,079
sure you come to Jewel tonight for swarmy Fest, and

992
00:56:14,599 --> 00:56:16,440
yeah we are. I don't even have time to play

993
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,960
another song. We are out of time, but that's okay.

994
00:56:19,039 --> 00:56:20,719
We had a lot to talk about. That's a good problem.

995
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,119
So if you missed any part of today's show, it'll

996
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:25,079
be up in just a little bit at wmhradio dot

997
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,039
orgon on my website Matt connorton dot com. And that's

998
00:56:28,079 --> 00:56:29,800
it for us for now. We'll see it swarmy Fest.

999
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,239
Bye everybody, Bye

1000
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Speaker 2: All ten