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All that we are.
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What's the funniest thing you've seen in a show?
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A guy broke his leg and instead of going to the hospital, was sat in the back of the room on a pool table doing like this.
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I went to a show and I broke my leg.
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Yeah.
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Is hilarious.
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Yeah.
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Imagine telling your coworker.
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Yeah.
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What happened to you going to a concert this weekend?
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Let's try it. Let's try it. Let's do a little role play. Ready?
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All right.
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Colin, what happened?
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I went to a concert. I broke my leg. Hello, welcome. It's hard Lore time. How are you, Beau?
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I'm doing well, Colin. How are you?
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Outstanding. It is. It's 20, 25. It's February. You know, we're cruising along this year. It's unbelievable how fast time goes.
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On the contrary, I think January may have been the longest year of my life.
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Yeah, a lot happened.
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Yeah, a lot happened.
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You know, we filmed four episodes at fya. I hope you enjoyed all of them.
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California was on fire.
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California was on fire. We all survived the real rain came down and washed the sin off the trees. Everybody came together, donated, made shit happen, got through it. It was beautiful. That's the thing you can count on with California every time, is that no matter how bad it gets, the community comes together and fixes it every time.
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Very much in the opposite direction. At the same time, all of that was happening, we had a polar rev vortex, and my pipes froze, and I didn't have hot water. Same time, just a couple time zones over, you know, it's just.
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I would have loved the polar vortex.
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Let me tell you what, I had to go to the gym to shower.
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Oh, no.
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You just feel scummy.
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But we figured, you know, we would. We would break in this year. We're moving along now. We're going to break in the year the same way we left last year. We're going to do a classic Q and A. They're our favorite. They're your favorite? They're the best ones. We rarely get to just sit down and talk to each other anymore, so that's what these turn into, you know?
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Mm.
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Also, we did the big race at fya. Here's how it went. Hello, welcome. It's hard Lore time. We're here at FYA Fest, as promised. It's time for the big race.
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Oh, the big race.
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Oh, the big race. Sure, sure. We. We didn't bring any athletic clothing, so we're just gonna do this as is.
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Guilty. Guilty party.
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Guilty party. It's actually super fair. Because we're wearing light to medium jackets. The same pants.
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The same. Yeah.
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And boots, which are very bad for what we're about to do.
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We're both gonna tear a quad or something.
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Yeah, sometimes. We're gonna be Vince McMahon out of here very soon. Not in the serial sexual pervert type way. In the double broken quad type way.
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Bleep all of that.
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Time for the big race. Here we go.
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3, 3, 2, 1, go. Oh, my God. It was Bo. It was Bo. It was Bo. Wow.
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We also just ate so much pizza.
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Bo didn't eat any pizza, though. Oh, that worked. Bo didn't need any pizza.
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To make it clear. I just had five slices of Jet's pizza. Bo had none.
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I have chicken rice.
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But we're gonna give bow earned them. Was fantastic. Hey, that's a testament to Arc Terics.
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Archerics Iron Heart and Guilty Party Code Hard Lord.
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The big race.
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Big race.
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It's not so big after all. Devastating result.
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I was just talking about. I am. I. I didn't. Not only did we both run in jeans, but I didn't stretch or anything. And I'm like so glad I didn't tear a hamstring or something. That was the.
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You were out of breath for about 15 minutes and I was fine.
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Boy, was I.
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Let's note that.
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Listen, I got speed, I got no conditioning.
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I was. I was 5 out of 8 of an 8 corner jets pizza slices in. Oh, you had none.
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Oh.
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So we're going to have to have a rematch in proper full gear. But I want to give Boas flowers. He did win the big race.
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Thank you.
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Of course, you earned it. But yeah, here's Q and A. So question one. Mount Rushmore, Swedish death metal.
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Oh, I don't.
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What is our separate top four Swedish Death Note bands of all time?
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Okay.
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I'm a Stockholm man.
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All day over Gothenburg.
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Yeah.
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Because Gothenburg is what let's define Gothenburg is a little more melodic. A little more melodic. Which is surprising.
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Which I like.
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Yeah. Surprising for you. Yeah, yeah.
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I like a lot. But I think much like thrash metal, melodic death metal was done so well in Gothenburg that there's not a lot of room for it to grow and continue.
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Interesting.
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Other than bands like Upon Stone, who are great, but in terms of Stockholm and outlier areas. Grave.
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Nice.
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Dismember.
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Yeah.
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Entombed. And lastly Unleashed.
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Oh, wow. Didn't even think about Unleashed. Wrote my down as soon as Dismember. For sure. Entombed for sure. I think those are like. Yeah, that's Chromax. Agnostic Front.
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Right.
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Question. Where is dissection from?
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I think Florida.
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Really? No, he's European.
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Maybe.
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I'm almost positive they're European. Let's see that Weird fucker.
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Sweden.
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Beautiful. So I'm gonna say this section because I love. Is it until the Lights, Bane, whatever that record is. Yeah, the last one before he killed himself. It's fucking awesome. And then I'm going At the Gates. I know it's core, but dude.
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So you're taking a little road trip to Gothenburg and then you're headed back?
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Yeah, I'm headed right back, but I like to get out there. But dude, I wasn't into at the Gates growing up. I kind of miss that kind of metal core, which is the best kind of metal core. Like, if we're being.
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Yeah, but I mean, melodic death metal, I wouldn't call.
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But you know how they get lumped in as like, kind of the. The Godfathers of, like.
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Sure, but that's like. I mean. Yeah, to me. Sepultura, Arise and Beneath the Remains, those are death metal records.
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Right.
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So it's the same thing as when people call them thrash metal. It's like. No, like, if that's thrash metal in tuned with thrash metal, I'm with you.
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Yeah, I'm totally with you.
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Same type of music. So metalcore as a descriptor of Atha Gates makes my ass hurt.
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But when we toured with them, it was like, oh. Like. It was like an immediate. Like, oh, not only are they awesome, they're like cool as hell and Down Toomba is like punk as fuck.
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Just a great deal of bangers.
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Great deal of bangers. So.
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And they didn't play on Thomas Lindbergh. Did not play on many famous pop songs. We learned. Which is fine. Totally forgot. Can we please get a large drumming impression? Show me your best, Lars. Yeah.
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Oh, dude, I can't stand up. But yeah, it's the. The. Yeah. And then the China for the Ride. China for the ride.
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China Ride should be amongst the greatest human innovations in history.
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Right? Right. Yeah. Like, it should be the heaviest thing ever.
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It should be.
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But boy, is it not. But alas, I think it's so that. Honestly. And this is total spitball. But I think it's so that he can, like keep time and it sounds. He doesn't have to keep time. It's like one less limb to really worry about. It could be sloppy. So, like, you know how, like.
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Because it's just kind of. It's going to be washy.
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Washed out. That's kind of How? Because he doesn't hit.
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I get it, man. Cheat until you. Until you make it. Somebody asked X Archangel. X asks thoughts on Archangel?
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I have no.
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Gets me every time.
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I have no real opinion on Archangel.
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No, me neither. I would say it's like, I think. I think there's four bands to me that like, define European hardcore.
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Okay.
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I would say True Blue.
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Yep.
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Kickback, obviously.
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Yep.
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Congress and Liar. I consider one pick Congress for sure. And honestly, maybe Rise and Fall.
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I'd go Rise and Fall, kick back, Main Strike for like that kind of. That kind of shit. And then honestly, Archangel isn't really in there for me. Like. Like knuckle dust, you know, like something like that.
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Oh. I mean, if. If UK counts, then that's at the time UK counted. They were conversation.
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They were in at the time.
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Yeah, I think Belgium, dude, I would. I would love to do a full episode on Hate Thou's in Belgium.
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Dude.
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There the way that, that, that when I found that as a kid, finding that all these hard, insanely heavy but like technical bands were all straight edge.
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And then also like Dead Stop justice, like the other kind of weird bands.
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2000S.
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Yeah, dude, I remember 86 mentality played Chicago and Dead Stop. Or I'm sorry, dead stop. 86 mentality tour together and they played Chicago. But 86 mentality didn't play the show for some reason. Dead Stop played the intro and everyone lost their mind. It was all. It was just like a very. I know exactly what you mean is like, oh, these are like, Belgium is America.
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Belgium's unbelievable.
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It's American hardcore in like a little Belgium.
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Belgium carried a huge chunk of. Of Europe in the late 90s and. And the 2000s, and now Scotland is holding it the fuck down.
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How cool is that?
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I'm obsessed with them.
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I really want to go a new segment. I kind of want to start Colin a little late into the episode, but who cares? What are you listening to?
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It's a great question.
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I want to do two. I want to get into two things. What'd you eat today? What'd you listen to today?
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Okay, today for dinner I had this like cornstarch fried chicken thing that Lana made over like Korean rice cakes. Unbelievable. What am I listening to? I'm obviously listening to this split knuckle record still. I'm listening to the Firestarter record a lot. I'm listening to another undisclosed record that we're putting out a lot. Oh, I've been. I play drums and down presser now, so I've been learning everything just in case.
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Of course.
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Lot of. Lot of parts that piss me off in a way where I go fucking kale while playing them, you know?
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Did he do everything? Did he drum on everything?
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As of Don't Need a Reason. So he did both LPs.
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Gotcha. I mean, that's.
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And there's a. There's a thing he does where he goes. And it pisses me off every time because if the right hand.
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The opposite. Yeah. Yeah.
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Like it shouldn't. That shouldn't need to be there. And he still put it there. He's a scumbag. God rest his soul. I love him. Wouldn't have it any other way. What about you? What have you been listening to?
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Nothing. Like literally exclusively. Crowbar. I'm on the biggest fucking crowbar kick.
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Are you okay?
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Not particularly, but it is perfect. I've realized that. That it is perfect. If you're feeling down, if you're feeling pumped, if you're vibing around the house. It's.
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There's a gym record. Dude, there's a laundry record.
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It's crazy.
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Driving record.
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Yeah, it's crazy.
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I. Equilibrium is laundry.
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I love this. Yeah, keep going.
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Broken glass is gym.
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That's all Jim.
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Dude, sonic excess is depression.
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Wow.
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What's the. What's the one with. What's the newer one with Cemetery Angels on it?
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Oh, it's got a name that I can never remember. No, you just said that.
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It's the one with Cemetery Angels on it. That one is post gym. You're going home. You did it.
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What is. What is Odd Fellows?
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Odd Fellows is driving home from the funeral, you know.
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Wow. So a heavy one.
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Very brutal.
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Very brutal.
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Then you might get in a car accident on the way. You never know.
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And lastly, what is the self titled?
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Ooh, Self titled is like, I hate this guy. I've made a new enemy. I've decided this guy is my enemy.
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That's the road rage record. Yeah. So I can't. I'm on a huge kick. I can't get enough crowbar.
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I've realized I don't have good luck getting over there.
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I don't have any shirts or records. So I'm like starting. That's my new journey. I have one modern shirt, you know, but like, nothing.
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And so if you got crowbar stuff.
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Yeah.
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Sell it to Madventors.
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Go to Madventures so that I can get it.
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So that we can get it.
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And today I had a. A bay, a plain bagel, dry, and some overnight oats with protein. I jimmed I did gym by the way, before we recorded.
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Okay.
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And then, dude, you know what I.
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Had for breakfast today that was, like, revolutionary. I've never seen anyone do this.
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Hit me.
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I'm sure they do it all the time. Hash browns on the bottom. Like, stiff. Like the kind of patty ones, like the McDonald's ones, but like avocado toast out of the hash brown.
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Oh, that's a. Huh?
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It was hash brown. A, like, spicy avocado spread egg.
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Yeah, I can get down on that. Yeah, that sounds great.
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With some chili oil and some chili flakes.
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Beautiful.
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Get the fuck out of here.
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But, yeah, and then I got two cups of rice and a pound of turkey I'm making after the episod dinner we're eating.
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You're on that.
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That boring bulk or eating Lean Baby.
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You're. You're. You're suffering to return harder.
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I get it. I really am.
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Do y'all wash your legs in the shower or do you let the water get to it?
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Dude, that video, okay, There's a video where a girl kind of marks the. She marks something. I. I forget how it goes. Oh, the guy just doesn't use water in general or doesn't use soap in general. He only uses.
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Well, that's obviously stupid, and he should.
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And she says, my love, like, how do you wash your legs? And he goes, I let the water run. And he's like, what are you talking about? I use water. Drives me so insane. And I think it's a white people thing.
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I mean, it has to be.
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It's just.
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Be real.
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And it's.
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We don't use washcloths.
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We don't.
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There's all kinds of problems that are unfaced.
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When you were growing up, was it bar soap?
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Oh, my God.
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All day, all bar soap.
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Dude, Dude, I didn't. I was not taught to bait. I'll be honest.
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Straight up.
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I really had to teach myself. Neither was I. I think there's some kind of cultural white thing where they're like, I'm not messing with that. You can learn to bathe yourself.
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Whatever you do in there is your business.
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Yeah, that's your business, pal.
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You gotta figure this out.
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So I was left without a washcloth, only soap. So I'm pretty sure I was the smelly kid until, like, sixth grade.
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That's right around when I figured it out, too. Yeah.
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And then when you figure it out, you're like, I have to solve this by any means necessary. I don't want to stink no more. And now that's why manscape comes in handy so much because I'm petrified of stinking. Thank God I have these tools.
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I mean, I'm not going to lie. Getting some kind of scrubber, some kind of body scrubber device that you huge. I mean that's everything and it keeps me feeling great. But yeah, I agree. I probably can can confidently say I didn't wash my legs until I was in middle school. I would say I forgot.
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That was the question. Yes, I do wash my legs.
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Yes.
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Depending on what, what, what, what, what I've done that day.
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There's different levels of shower, night shower.
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I mean, I know I was. AA wants me to wash my ass and shut the up and I. I promise I wash my ass no matter what. Okay. Ass is getting washed every time I'm in there. You know what I mean? But we can't shut but the legs if I'm going out after. Yeah, legs are clean as a whistle. If I'm going to. If it's a bedtime shower. Yeah, I don't need that.
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It just depends on what I did that day, you know?
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Yeah, exactly.
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I've been.
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They're gonna be clean.
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I've been in the sauna, so I gotta clean. But I save that. It's nice. I don't know. Yeah. But I get a scrub, a scrub, a dub.
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There you go. Would you rather fight a chicken every time you get in a car or an orangutan with a sword once a year? Orangutan with a sword, easy. I feel like I would show great, a great deal of mercy to the orangutan. I would never kill.
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You think you would beat an orangutan with a sword?
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Like one v. One sword.
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You get the sword or the orangutan has the sword. Oh, I heard that the orangutan has a sword, but that only he gets a sword.
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It's not, it's not a fair fight.
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It's not fair at all. Okay, so if you have the sword.
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Once a year after the first time, I'm gonna be like, I better get a sword for if. For next time this happens. So I'll have a sword. Okay.
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Yeah.
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And I will be very good with that sword by the second fight.
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Right. Okay. So yeah, either way, I think chicken.
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In a car would be like, come on, you know. No, I don't have time for this today. Orangutan. I can prepare. I can prepare.
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You have a year. Yeah, I still think I might go. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You don't have a car and what a hassle. But I still take Uber. It says.
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Yeah, exactly. And there would be a chicken.
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It'd be a chicken in my goddamn Uber. Yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right.
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One event I can prepare for versus every day. Train like sometimes multiple times a day.
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Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a good.
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The amount of chickens I'd have to defeat is. Is the carbon emission would be out of control.
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Yeah, but imagine the protein you'd be.
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But I wouldn't want that one. I'd be pounding it to death, you know? So good.
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True.
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What's your personal focus is looking ahead at 25.
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25. I set a personal goal to have abs for at least like a month. That's all I want. I just want to see if I can do it and then I'm over it forever. I don't give a shit.
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You know the one time I had abs, what my diet was. Oh, what a poke bowl a day.
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Yeah.
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And an entire box of Cheez Its. That's probably I were I worked my macros in a way where it was one poke bowl and one box.
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How many calories?
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But I worked out for four hours a day.
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Yeah, right. How many calories are in the box of cheeses? You're really good at this.
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Probably like 1100.
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Dude, this is a new skill we haven't talked about. Yeah, we figured out it was FYA. Or was it Buffalo?
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I'm saying it's 9 to 1100 for boxes.
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Well, now I have to check. Will you check for me while I'm telling the story? Would you mind?
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Sure.
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Check on a box. We were at Wawa in Orlando and I would grab something and ask Colin and he would just know. Like within 10 calories, this.
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There's. This can't be real. This says 3,000.
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I mean, that's. That's what. Where mine goes to that. Like it seems like it would be at so many to me. Is it the same?
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Did I really do that every day?
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If you're working out for four hours, I mean.
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Yeah, I was. I mean I crushed. It was like three weeks of a box of cheeses today and I was shredded. So do that. Give that.
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I'll just do that. Yeah. What about you? What do you got?
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I got two. I got two LPs to write.
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Jesus Christ.
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I'll keep it simple there.
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Yeah.
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And get. Get my guitar here working, you know, all the time, no matter what.
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Yeah, yeah.
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What? It's your biggest fitness achievement ever.
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Two plates. Feels pretty good to bench it's not. You know. It's one of those things where like for real gym guys, it's like. Yeah, that's kind of like the. The starter.
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Yeah, but you say that, but it's like such a tiny population in the entire world that can do that.
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I read today that it's single digit. People can do that.
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So that's pretty incredible.
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That's cool. That feels good.
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I would say mine would be a half marathon that I did one time with Alec. From my apartment to his mother in law's house. I'll never do it again.
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13.1 miles something.
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Yeah, something like that, I think. Exactly. Priced both. Ate entire pizzas after it was unblued.
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Yeah.
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What is the first piece of physical media you ever owned?
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Michael Jackson. Thriller.
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Really?
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Yeah. That was the. Well that owned. What does that mean when you're a kid? It's the first one I bought with money that I had.
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I think that that or it was bought for you and you remember it's.
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Gonna be a video game.
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Then my own money would be Sepultura again. So that makes sense.
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That's crazy.
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Yeah. But I had a guide, you know.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. I'm before that. I remember on my 9th birthday, my dad, for my birthday wrapped up a back of bag of trash. Had me open it and I was like. And he said just kidding. And gave me a Nintendo 64. Quick. You know.
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Pretty good alternative.
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Pretty good. Yeah. So. So. And I. And I got goldeneye with that. So that was probably the first one I remember.
B
Right.
A
That's physical media. Right.
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It's a great gift. That's absolutely. Physical media.
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Yeah.
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Lyrical. Mount Rushmore.
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Wow. Okay. Let's think. I got one for sure. We both got one for sure. I'm positive.
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Pete.
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Big Pete.
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Pete. My God. Because.
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Unbelievable.
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He nailed everything.
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Every single thing has a way of being romantic and hard.
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Yeah.
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At the same time.
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The most beautiful thing you've ever read. And then.
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Disgusting.
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Went down to my basement confused and depressed. Put black Sabathon, you know.
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Yeah.
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That's a lyric. Razor blade in hand, ten slashes. Any charm. Beautiful.
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Jesus. So that's good shit. He's won for sure.
B
To Pete. Glenn, obviously.
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Yeah. Glenn's in all time.
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Glenn's an all. Glenn has to be just by default for like what he was able to fit. And even in simplicity.
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That's a really good one.
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Sometimes this repeating something simple can be so fucking boring. And what is a hybrid moment? You know? What is. But I got. I'm. I'm in him all the time. I know. Now give him one.
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I don't. I mean, a crazy lyricist is Carl. I don't know if I would put him on Mount Rushmore. But, like, reading Earth Crisis lyrics is insane.
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Smart. Smart guy.
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Very smart. Wordy. Thesaurus.
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Dolores. Cranberries. Might. Might be up there for me.
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Oh, Morrissey Maz.
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Yeah, Morrissey's like the Easy Big.
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I mean, come on.
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Easy guy's a fucking. He might be a. I guess he's not a nonce. Now that we know what a non.
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We know what that means.
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But he's like a loser. But my God. Lyrically, untouchable, the most like pound for pound. More stealable things. The most ripped off maybe.
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Possibly because any. All of it seems like, oh, yeah, that's cool. Like, it's all passively with zero effort. Cool.
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That's crazy.
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It's hard to do.
B
Bo. This is a great question. Top five Chicago bands.
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Okay. I'll say, like, of all genres, kind of do. I mean, do all genres, like alternative.
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Yeah.
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I've been. In addition to Crowbar, I've been on a huge Naked Ray Gun kick. Naked Ray Gun. They don't get their flowers. They're awesome. They're incredible musicians. And catchy Alkaline Trio. Rayon Alkaline Trio.
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The Killer, obviously.
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Obviously the best of the three so far. Easily nachos. And honestly, Fallout Boy respect. I mean, Fallout Boy, through infinity, in my opinion, are batting a thousand. Like, no skips.
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I mean, I'm with you. I'm a fallen boy guy.
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So I'm a. It's like an end. The fact that they actually came from legit hardcore. So. Yeah. Yeah.
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I'd say three out of four or five.
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Three out of four. Yeah.
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That's huge.
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Huge. Yeah. It's crazy.
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That's 80%. Was there anything your parents said was too far in music that you did? Either iconography, band member antics, or was everything fair game?
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You got any? Oh, man, I got something.
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Hit me.
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Have I told the anal story?
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No.
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So back in the day, kids, you used to go into Soul Seek chat rooms, go to someone's library. You would type like, hey, who has Gorilla biscuit? Start today. And someone be like, I do connect.
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That's still. Yeah, they're out there still doing that. But nobody's very much more niche.
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You're all using Spotify? Yeah, it used to go into their actual, like, whatever folder they allowed Spotify to get into and then download whatever you wanted.
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Right.
A
One time, Bridge 9 used to have these. A chat room and People would be like, hey, my library is open. You'd go in. I would go in right click. Download all. Like you could skip duplicates and just like give me everything this person's got. And some people had like 20000 songs or whatever.
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So that was my. That was my thing.
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Yeah.
B
As a teenager was like having the sickest like collecting and building my library, which still exists today in my Apple music.
A
Right.
B
Which is why I greatly prefer Apple Music. But now that they. When they started the icloud library, it started like replacing files and deleting shit.
A
So I resent the people who think that technology, modern technology is bad and we need to retrify everything. But they have a point to an extent. Like I do miss having an ipod.
B
And just having my shit might do it at some point.
A
Yeah. You know, cuz you can like update them now and make the battery last. But. So anyway downloaded a whole thing. It was on my dad's computer. First band anal. My dad's a very conservative Christian man, especially at that time. And he flipped. Wow. My dad's really cool when it comes to like art. And like his favorite is like mob movies and the Sopranos. He like, he understands vulgarity for the sake of art. Right.
B
Like you don't have to agree with something to create.
A
It's art. This is how a mobster would talk. Why would I. It's right.
B
Right.
A
You know, not. Not the.
B
The case, not anal kind.
A
Not with Mr. Putnam. No, no, no. He was not down with anal. And then he read the song titles, which I can't even say. Look them up if you're curious because Jesus Christ. So that was my story.
B
I will say anything. My mom has helped write a couple songs lyrically and I think she's been bummed on him every time.
A
Really?
B
Yeah. Like just like what I'm talking. The subject matter. Like a rival on disharmony. I don't even think that one's really particularly offensive. But she took issue with it at the time.
A
She just think it was dark.
B
Yeah. I don't think she. I think she just had had trouble showing people. My dad never gave a shit.
A
He's just cool.
B
He just always understood like, it's art.
A
Yeah.
B
They're gonna do it. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.
A
That's. That's how my mom was too.
B
Yeah. I mean I don't think anything was particularly too far. Oh, I'm a good boy.
A
Another time, Harm's Way made the ugliest shirt. It's. It's a black shirt with brown ink. Just hideous. Early 2000s idea. It was a picture of Luke from the Killers. A ram that he has on his hat on his wall. We took a picture of and put it on his shirt and said, harm's way. God, that's awesome. Dad found that one too. Wasn't.
B
Were you still living at home at the time?
A
Well, I. My. I had a weird thing growing up where before I was 18, when I could have like, my dad was supposed to be able to see me until I was 18. Right. But before that, he recognized I had autonomy. He wasn't trying to blah, blah, blah. I had a car. I was going to go wherever I wanted. He said, come over whenever you want. Don't worry about it. And I was playing World of Warcraft like a motherfucker. So I would go over, but I wasn't like a mandated thing. And we just kind of. It started around the Bush administration and like gay marriage. Once we started disagreeing about that, we just. So he saw that I was out of the house. I was out of his house for sure. And we didn't. We never really recovered, to be honest. That was kind of the start of it.
B
It was interesting. So to this day is still some dissension there.
A
Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah.
B
Okay, understood.
A
You know what you do.
B
Top four hardcore records, 2020 to present. That sounds like an episode.
A
2020 to present. Yeah. Off the top of my head, you know, it's.
B
Save it. That's an episode.
A
Okay. Okay. I'm going to write.
B
Coming soon.
A
Yeah.
B
Best records of the 2000s. Coming soon 2020 bottom five tour experiences.
A
Oh, this is great.
B
Yeah. Colin, bottom five.
A
Should we knock out a communal one?
B
Yeah, absolutely.
A
Which one was worse?
B
Those are both bottom five tours at all times. So what. What. What specific things can we talk about that are. I remember the lowest moment of the European tour was not even a moment of load of low depth for me. It was after the single most grueling drive on the tour.
A
Yep.
B
We're all miserable.
A
Was that going to Poland or was it. I think so, yeah. Getting to Warsaw, we get.
B
There's that one.
A
Yeah.
B
And then there was one where we got there. We left the show immediately and got there at like 5pm and we're loading and stuff. And Andrew Morrissey just cannot wait to get inside and brush his teeth. And as he's about to brush his teeth, drops his toothbrush on the floor.
A
Oh, no.
B
And like on the dirtiest floor. And this isn't even particularly terrible, but I'm telling you, after the couple days we had and the night we had and the drive we had, I think it felt like we all dropped that toothbrush in. That moment was like. Was just like, dude, come here, man. I'm so sorry. He was pissed.
A
Like, there's a beautiful thing that came out of that tour because it did make us. We fused together as a group.
B
Yeah. We got shitted into a diamond.
A
There are. There aren't many bands. And I say this, not trying to sound like a dick. I'm just saying, like, we had rooms at the Ibis. You guys were staying at the Wien Arena. It was a billion degrees. And we said, guys, stay in our rooms. Like, we have floors, but stay. Stay in the room, for God's sake.
B
Huge.
A
You know what I mean? It's just like stuff like that where it's like, I look back on that fondly, but. Yeah, me too, man. Just the. The day in Paris and just all that. Oh, man. So that was rough. And then the.
B
The disharmonic Paris was pretty dope.
A
I mean, that was cool. But then the. The. The promoter.
B
Yeah, the promoter after Kyle.
A
Just missing the truck.
B
Kyle. God damn it. What do I do?
A
What do I do? And then the Disharmonic Rust tour was. Was. That was disappointing just because of what we all thought.
B
10 year anniversary any day now too. So it's just what we.
A
Well, we all thought it should have been.
B
And it just was like, this is it.
A
Yeah.
B
The records are out, guys. This is what we've been working towards our whole lives.
A
We're with our buds. We're doing it. Yes.
B
Bart in the ass. Bottom five. I couldn't. I don't know. Bottom five.
A
Give me one other low one.
B
Yeah, I think I can do that.
A
You shitted yourself for like 10 hours straight.
B
That was the worst. I mean, I've told that on here many times, but, like, that was probably the worst single day I've ever lived, like, physically.
A
And you've had your appendix out.
B
I've had. That was crazy. That was awesome. When I tell people that. When I tell doctors that they can't believe that I thought. Have I. I've told that on here, right?
A
I don't. I don't think I know this story.
B
I think. Come on, you. You have to.
A
You do.
B
For sure.
A
We really quickly bonded about having our appendixes out each. But not. I don't think he told the story.
B
I'm 99% sure I have, but if I haven't, here it is. I thought I had gas, so I took A whole bunch of laxatives. Nothing happened. Next day, I'm like, something's wrong. I better make a doctor's appointment. They can't even get me in until the next day. So I wait another day. On the way to the doctor, I'm like, pretty hungry. You know what I haven't had in a while? Burger King. So I had a double Whopper chicken fry, large fry meal. Sucked it down, dude, Evaporated it. You've never eaten anything this fast in your whole life. Cause I got a doctor. I'm like, I got a doctor's appointment in five minutes. I gotta get this down. I gotta eat something, right? I get to the doctor, they touch me for one second, and they're like, appendicitis. Go to this er. I drive to that ER Stuffed to the gills. I'm like, well, thank God I ate. I'm feeling good other than this. Hopefully I should soon, since it's gas. Get to the er and they're like, well, if you haven't had anything to eat, we can get you into surgery right away. I'm like, about that. I'd have had an unbelievable meal just now. You haven't a double Whopper in a while, doctor. They're insane. Still. It's incredible what they're doing with this thing. And so I have to wait another day overnight to get surgery. My appendix has ruptured. So it hasn't burst.
A
Yeah, same. That's exactly what happened to me. It ruptured.
B
But it's about to burst.
A
It's about to go.
B
And that's 100% my fault, I guess, because you ate. If I was. Imagine we were pilgrims.
A
Oh, we'd be dead. Yeah. I think it's like an 82% likelihood of fatality. But these are.
B
I would have been 26 years old.
A
I was. Dude. I was 19. These are evolutionary things. This is population control.
B
That's proof of medical science being incredible.
A
100%.
B
Vaccines are great.
A
Definitely.
B
We're living longer. Medicine is good.
A
Medicine is very good.
B
Give me the jab. Jab me on the ass all day. That's all you. I'll guinea pig any medication.
A
You know, try to think of. Oh. Easily the lowest day on tour that Harm's Way has ever had was when we had the trailer stolen.
B
Yeah.
A
The emotional roller coaster of. I. I sat on the curb and thought I was flying home. Like, I thought band, this is day negative one. Literally. Well, it's day one stuff. It's. We did an off day on our way there in Vegas, had The trailer stolen overnight. And I, you know, we calculated about 30 grand lost. It was more than that. It was everything that we had.
B
And the sentimentality of it as well.
A
Oh yeah, it's just so it far.
B
Exceeds 30 grand, of course.
A
And you know, then the, the whiplash from that to donations and getting some stuff back and getting money back and then being able to send that money to. To donate what we, you know, any proceeds or anything. And again the community and all the cool things. And we went straight to la. You know, we did San Diego and then the next day was the LA show and we had guitars, we had gear, we were set. So it was.
B
And that was a great show. Great set, Great show.
A
It's awesome. Yeah.
B
Which producer do you think could have saved Sane Anger and or Death Magnetic.
A
Now that's interesting.
B
Kurt Balloon.
A
Wow.
B
Somebody said Taylor Young is disqualified. But Kurt Ballou, I think is not only the ultimate master of tone. Drums, bass guitar all around. I do think he would have been the one to just be like, guys, this doesn't sound good. Why don't you just let me make it sound good?
A
I'm gonna say. Well, he doesn't really. I was gonna say butch. But he also, as far as I know, kind of similar to Kirk, doesn't really produce.
B
Yeah.
A
Kurt don't produce so much as. So who's like a producer who's someone who would like take this shitty skeleton and make it a half bearable skeleton, you know?
B
Jerry FINN Probably.
A
Yeah. RIP. Was he alive at the time? God, 2000s, early 2000s. Yeah.
B
I mean his last record was Years of refusal too.
A
Okay. Beautiful.
B
What a. Yeah, man.
A
And that thing sounds incredible. It's the best sounding record.
B
Quarry sounds unbelievable. Sing the Sorrow Sounds unbelievable.
A
Yeah. So that's. I think you really, you need that. You need someone to take the shit and refine it down into it like.
B
You need Kurt Ballou and Jerry Finn. The songs and sounds.
A
There we go.
B
Done.
A
Good.
B
Easy. How did you come to hear Warning? I saw them in Belfast to like 50 people. A few years later had much more traction, but still amazed how much they've recognized now. There's been an elite society since the late aughts, Right? Would that be the 2000s? The aughts, yeah. Since the late aughts of, you know, people like me, my brother Saba, Brian Ortiz, not many other war like OG Warning heads out there who have been preaching the gospel the whole time. Just people weren't always listening. Now I've got this amazing weekly propaganda vehicle, you know.
A
Yeah.
B
Where I can say this and people go, oh, warning. Which is beautiful.
A
I never heard of them really until you. I bet you Andy from Nachos was a big. Is a big warning guy. If I had to put money down, that's like the one person who I could even see bringing it up.
B
Yeah. I mean that's just like the best, most emotional record ever.
A
What, did Taylor show them to you?
B
Maybe. I think. I just think that was something we discovered at the same time.
A
Wow.
B
Fun and loved it. Holy Grail band that you have never seen live, but want to see live. All the main members have to be alive. The band to me is Demi Borg Ear.
A
They're all alive.
B
I mean, they're an active band, but they can't play. Not in fucking Europe, because they have a whole orchestra and choir.
A
It's just surprising me that they can't hire out local shit.
B
Dude, you'd be surprised. I tried to hire a choir for Sound and Fury and none of them wanted to say the word bitch.
A
Right. Right.
B
So imagine a 30 song set list about Satan.
A
Yeah.
B
Most choirs are out. They've got their sick fuck Norway choir.
A
Yeah.
B
Who will say whatever. And they've got these amazing musicians and an entire fucking symphony with them that knows the songs as well as they do. I think they are just comfortable traveling with them. And don't. Maybe don't need to play the States.
A
Okay.
B
They need to play something like fucking Coachella, you know?
A
Right. Yeah. Something that's like our production cost is a million.
B
Yeah.
A
And then you're gonna pay us on top of that.
B
And then you're gonna do it.
A
Also kind of in Norway. I would love. I've never seen. Or Immortal. That would be awesome. I saw a bot.
B
That seems possible.
A
Yeah, it does. Right? And I saw a bot do his solo and he played Immortal songs. But you know, I'd like to see the band.
B
The guy. Yeah.
A
But also, dude, kind of a cop out because it's not really a band. Bjork. Never seen Bjork. Dying to see Bjork.
B
Have you watched that new Alpha Music thing?
A
I started to when I got distracted by something. Did you watch it?
B
It looks awesome.
A
Yeah. I had a chance to see her at pitchfork in Chicago 2010 and we went to Europe and I missed was last time.
B
She'll be back.
A
Yeah.
B
Mount Rushmore Straight Edge frontman.
A
Here we go. Great question.
B
Carl Buechner.
A
Okay.
B
Mark Porter.
A
That's a mark. Yep.
B
And just the ultimate irony. One and two.
A
Yeah.
B
Ray Capo.
A
Yeah.
B
Three and probably Pat Flynn.
A
I Think that's a. There's, you know, definite argument there. I who. Yeah, I mean you got to go modern and it's like if you're going.
B
To have one, that's the flagship hardcore band to this day.
A
Right?
B
You know?
A
Yeah, I'm with you. I think that's for.
B
For several generations of hardcore music listeners.
A
I would go Carl. I fully agree. I would go Porter 100. Ray 100. And then Jack Choke Kelly from Slap Shot, Last Rice. There you go. Just as hard as it gets. That's my favorite.
B
So we both got a Boston.
A
Both got a Boston.
B
Two sides of Boston. What are your Grail records? Shirts. Other things you collect. One of them is right there.
A
What do we got?
B
Halloween.
A
Oh baby. You know, once you point it out, I can see it clear as day. That's nice.
B
She's back there. And I got the wall O Taggert back there too. But records that I own.
A
Does it say hope to collect or.
B
That you own other things you collect? I think it just says Grail records and shirts.
A
Okay.
B
Like grail that I don't have.
A
Yeah, yeah. I want to hear that.
B
I want to cough. Cool man.
A
Wow.
B
I need a misfits cough. Cool.
A
That's crazy.
B
I gotta get one. I mean it's gonna take me a.
A
While but like for those of you don't know, that's a 1978 two song.
B
Single, 500 copies pressed that we know of. The going rate is 5 to $10,000. Same for. I would love an earth ad. Like a yellow green earth ad.
A
Yeah, yeah.
B
Same price. I don't have either of them obviously.
A
I would love Division 1 champs on gold. The story that we'll eventually talk to him about about them throwing it into the shore is like awesome. I want to know about that. I have every Metallica and typo record so I'm good there. But the. Oh, oh the. The last Rite seven Inch. Speaking of Jack Jack Kelly. The Last Ride. Seven Inch. Two song seven inch. Played one show, put out one record. That was it. Just awesome.
B
What about shirts? What's a Grail shirt of yours? Like you get it and it fits perfectly. Mine was the demise shirt.
A
Really just.
B
I want the demise.
A
Boy, oh boy. Been doing pretty good on shirts. MadVentures.com code hard.
B
Yeah, straight up. Thank you. Mad Vintage M A D D Vintage.com code hardlore 15.
A
Been doing pretty good on shirts. I'm not gonna lie.
B
Grail.
A
Yeah.
B
You always wanted you.
A
I couldn't wear it. But you have one. You have the. The white Typo shirt.
B
Yeah, it's, it's, it's absolutely unwearable.
A
100 would never wear it. But like, who doesn't want.
B
That's incredible. Yeah.
A
The red Wolf Moon shirt would be cool again. I, I don't think I couldn't wear it. If it has the paw on it though, it's got to have the paw print. Yeah.
B
It's so red.
A
It's so red.
B
A shirt that's too red is just too red.
A
It's impressive. Yeah. Simply too red, I would say. You know what? I'll meet with you. An OG misfit shirt. Like a horror business shirt. Just like an OG worn finish like fiend club shirt.
B
Printed in, in the basement type shirt. Could be.
A
I always prefer a shirt from a show.
B
Okay.
A
A non mail order shirt is my preferred like store.
B
Yeah. But even those, they printed themselves in that same basement.
A
There you go. I just think that's, that's cool.
B
Like I know somebody who's got one. I'll, I'll, I'll set you up. It's not going to fit you.
A
Yeah, well. That well. Yeah. Like the shirt that Rollins is wearing in that picture where he's meeting Doyle. I want that shirt.
B
You know, it's, it would never fit you. He's. I can't imagine. He's a very tall guy. You know, he's jacked. But on what kind of frame Rollins? I don't know. Yeah.
A
You think he's short?
B
Let's see.
A
He's 5, 9, 5 9. He's just about my height.
B
Yeah. Maybe you should see if he's still got Hank. Let's see, top five Jersey bands. Fury five, obviously.
A
Okay.
B
E Town, obviously. Floor Punch, obviously. And then I would say second to none. And do Richie bands count as Jersey?
A
Fuck yeah.
B
Like Underdog is from Jersey.
A
You know, I think, I mean, I think they had a shirt that said Underdog nyc. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bummer.
B
Fifth Jersey band, the Goat. Fifth Jersey band, the Mongoloids. And I'll tell you why.
A
Yeah.
B
Because Greg is New Jersey. Straight edge.
A
I love it. I'm going to say Floor punch. Turning Point. Saves the Day.
B
Come on.
A
And Life.
B
Come on, dude.
A
Lifetime. Insane.
B
Lifetime Count. Saves the day.
A
Doesn't Lifetime or Saves the Day was playing with hardcore bands at the same time.
B
I don't care. It's not a hardcore band. That's a pop punk band.
A
Lifetime.
B
I don't know, morally, ethically, I don't know. It just is. There's, you know, that you can. I can make the argument all day. Of like it's a. It's a moral compass and not a genre of music saves the day. No goddamn hardcore band love them.
A
They opened for Reach the Sky in Bane on a tour.
B
So did My Chemical Romance brother. You gonna call him a harcourban? No. I know that. You don't think I can't.
A
I. I would. I would ignite. I would self immobilize.
B
My fifth one is My Chemical Romance. Somebody asked, does Bo genuinely still think Marauder are harder than Hate Breed and Typo are heavier than Deicide?
A
Yeah. Yeah, I think. Did it say harder or heavier? Which. Did it say for which?
B
Marauder harder than Hate Breed. I know that you still think that.
A
I 100 think that. Oh, I 100. And I think that typo is heavier than DSN. By far. The amount of people on that hate retailer came up to me and mentioned that, agreeing with me, because obviously people aren't going to come up and disagree with me. But the. The confirmation bias I received has been plentiful.
B
I would love to compare confirmation.
A
We would love to see that, wouldn't we?
B
We would love to see that. When. We love to see that. Somebody asked Mount Rushmore Victory Records releases.
A
Oh, I. You're so much better with. Really? I know the bands, but you're better with releases.
B
Apron Satisfaction.
A
Yeah, that's number one, obviously.
B
Fury 5 at war with the World. Blood for Blood. Oh, which one? You know, Spit My Last Breath, probably. Let me double check. That's Victory.
A
Okay. I'm gonna jump in and say Birth is Pain.
B
Oh, my God.
A
That was that Victory.
B
Bertha's pain.
A
Because it's either that or justice, so either way it's great.
B
I think justice is Death Wish.
A
Really?
B
Yeah. Birth of Spain is Victory.
A
There we go.
B
That's an incredible top four.
A
Absolutely.
B
Yeah. I would go. I would go Satisfaction At War with the World. Spit my last breath. Birth of Spain.
A
Honestly, dude, there's something to. Like what Victory had was so sick. Like, even down to like the bulldog. Like, it was sick.
B
Yeah. I mean, if they had only paid any of them, then it could be still that cool.
A
Today is Keepers of the Faith. Victory.
B
No.
A
Who put that up?
B
Certainly not Victory. They were. They. No, because they were Trust Kill. Can you check originally? Yeah. There's no fucking way.
A
It's actually Century Media.
B
Century Media Top five Fortnite Skins.
A
I can contribute to this. John Wick.
B
Yeah, you can.
A
Come on. John Wick.
B
Oh, yeah. The Keanu one is just insane.
A
It's awesome.
B
Him doing anything is incredible. I like a lot of the cursed ones. Like the big chili pepper guy like that. I'm loving him. I like the corn guy. I hate the hot dog guy. I love a bird like the eagle.
A
Okay.
B
With the eyes just bulging out of his head.
A
Incredible Family Guy.
B
Was obviously the Peter Griffin skin existing.
A
Yeah.
B
Got me to download Fortnite, right?
A
There you go. The van.
B
I think that's enough.
A
I'm trying to think. There was. Were they Marvel? They did Marvel ones, didn't they?
B
A ton.
A
Yeah, there was. I remember seeing a couple Marvel ones that I thought was cool. I don't know. Only played a little while.
B
Bo, why should I use your pedal in my base chain, dude.
A
Come to find we made a sick ass bass pedal. There's something about the way that. That pedal handles low frequency. I'm kind of recommending it more. Not more, but I'm recommending it heavily. The way that you can dial in the low, the mid and the high is very, very conducive to getting a nice, dirty, heavy bass tone.
B
With the buzzsaw turned up the buzz.
A
Saw, you can blend in a little bit. Depends on the. The application. On, like, the band, I would say, but it's like real. We saw bad beat.
B
Yeah.
A
She was. Sounded great. It sounds. We didn't really ever expect that, but it sounds awesome. That's why you should.
B
I love that. Isn't that nice?
A
You know it is. It's a nice little surprise.
B
Do you have a band that you first couldn't connect with until a specific song won you over and their whole discography made sense?
A
Typo is the.
B
My favorite band of all time. Gravitational Constant was the song. I'm sure there are more.
A
Definitely. Love you to Death was mine. What are some others? There's definitely others.
B
Like, I don't like this band. And then I hear a song and I go, I like this band. And then everything else makes sense, too.
A
Baroness was a band that I didn't like. And on Purple, the Purple record came out and they had.
B
They got riffs, man.
A
Dude. One of the first songs, it's like Shock Me. The Shock Me song. It's like probably one of their biggest songs. I heard that. I went, oh, that's a good hook, you know? And it was just like, oh, okay. This band rocks, dude.
B
Danzig, Right.
A
Of course.
B
Her Black Wings was like, what the. Where's everything?
A
I like, where did this come from?
B
Oh, yeah, that's crazy.
A
What a track. What was the misfit song that got you, Colin?
B
Probably Astro Zombies.
A
Just a beautiful.
B
Yeah, just like, what the Fuck. Best hook I've ever heard.
A
Yeah. Yeah. That's great. That's amazing. The guy's writing fucking hooks as a 20 year old.
B
It's. I don't get it. I don't understand how he did what he did. He doesn't ever need to write a song again. He doesn't need to.
A
Manscape.com has this collection of products, Colin, That I've been dying.
B
So true.
A
I've been dying to talk about.
B
So true.
A
Let's just do it. Yes, dude.
B
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A
20% off plus free shipping.
B
Colin. Oh my God. That's the best deal I've ever heard.
A
It's the best deal you're ever gonna find.
B
Wow. And I. My balls won't smell anymore.
A
Your balls are gonna smell good, feel good, look good. Somehow I don't know how.
B
And what about all of the pubic hair that I have?
A
If. If you want it there, you can condition it. If you want it gone, they got the lawnmower. They got.
B
And that's for my penis and balls.
A
That's where I use it. I use the beard trimmer for my beard.
B
Okay.
A
You know, I use the body scrubber, the body wash. I use the foot duster for my feet. They got a product for just about anything. Now.
B
Let's say I wanted some kind of liquid talc product on my freshly trimmed balls.
A
And not only do they have that, they have it in a spray bottle. Really spray it on them balls or other believable. Or other bits. Hey, do your thighs ever chafe? Spray. It feels great.
B
This is huge.
A
I just saw for. For our hairless gentlemen or ladies out there, I just saw they have a head shaver. The bald shaver.
B
Yeah. I gotta. I got one of those for Mac in the new thing.
A
Beautiful. Let's get it.
B
Can you. Is that coming?
A
Oh, you know what? I'm working on that.
B
Okay. I'm gonna have Mac live Cosmic Joke.
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Yeah.
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Cut his bald ass head live for the show so that we can display just how powerful it can be. But hopefully I'm trying to get. And this is not manscape related, I'm trying to get him to grow his hair for six months to a year.
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How does it grow?
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I'm feeling really nice.
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Yeah, I feel healthy. I feel strong. I feel like there's not a single vitamin I'm missing.
A
I wonder why that is.
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I drank my AG1 as soon as I woke up. Of course you can go to drinkag1.com hardor that's right. An all new URL.
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Wow.
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New year. New URL. New you. RL. Happy new year. Keep the resolutions going, okay? We're so proud of you. You wanted this. Get healthy. You wanted to stick to it. AG1 is the perfect thing to start your day.
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Absolutely.
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And Colin, what do they get if they use our link Right now?
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What?
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Just keep. Listen, you're doing so great. We're so proud of you. Keep it going this year with AG1, please, I beg of thee. I'm tired of getting sick at fests, okay? I need you all much healthier and less stinky. So use both of those things.
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Yes, please.
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Boy, oh, boy. Pur you. I got some heat coming my way.
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Me too. I've got too many things.
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We're just. We're in the towers, just sniping, dude.
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Huge.
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Wow.
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Beyond. Yeah, beyond the beyonds. Rick to life. Back to the episode. Favorite restaurant experience in Europe.
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In Europe. Do we eat anywhere good together?
B
No, separately. In Paris, I ate great. Pink Mama and Obermama are like an Italian Place in France that is incredible. And this place called Chez has this chocolate mousse.
A
I remember you talking about that thing.
B
That we were calling Le Poopoo that we love. So go get Le Poopu at Shae Janu. You're gonna love it.
A
I don't. I have eaten good in Europe. It's just difficult, that's all.
B
Yeah.
A
Hellfest Catering Unbelievable.
B
Yeah. Lemmy was sucking it down when I was there.
A
That is sick.
B
Isn't that crazy? I seen him eat, dude.
A
Yeah, he saw him eat. The last time I saw him, dude, he was walking with a cane, you know, sad.
B
He was walking with a fucking chicken leg when I saw him. Feeling good. And then they crushed, dude. It's that they. They like. He died a few months later after I saw him. Yeah, he smoked that set. It was unbelievable. So I, like, I'm so glad I got to see not only just him play in general, a great one. Right.
A
Before you saw him in the summer before he died. I saw him the September before he died because he was at Riot Fest.
B
Right.
A
And I think he died near his birthday in December.
B
Like November. November. December, right. Dude, it was unreal how good. How good he was and how Mickey.
A
D. Oh, man, he's got the coolest style. And I say it. The guy who drums for Rancid currently has a similar Mickey D vibe. He's got some Mickey D Vibes for sure.
B
His whole body.
A
Yeah, I love that.
B
Yeah, that dude rips. What's a soda that doesn't have a diet that you miss? The answer is cactus cooler.
A
Yeah, see, we didn't really get that here. That's.
B
No, that's all. It's only west coast. And like, some people's chime in and say, like, Arizona and some. But it. God damn, it's unreal. And I'll never drink it again.
A
A soda that doesn't have a diet. Yeah, I mean, there's diet everything, really. I don't long for anything, you know what I mean? Did you ever have squeezits and Mondos? Remember those things?
B
Well, those are like the, like little plastic guys.
A
Yeah, the juice guys.
B
Your mouth up. But God damn, does it taste good? Yeah, sugar free of that would be beautiful.
A
Be nice or. Dude, sugar free. Capri Sun.
B
How many jumping jacks do you think you can do in public before somebody comes over and asks you to stop where you live?
A
Endless.
B
It would be infinite.
A
Infinite.
B
I would have a. I would have a flash mob of fellow jumping jackers within five minutes.
A
You'd be Forrest Gump.
B
I was jumping. It would be unbelievable.
A
That's pretty good.
B
I mean worldwide news phenomenon here the Chicago Police.
A
I just watched CPD pull two guys out of a car on my way to the gym and it was just like a bummer. I feel like they'd be called instantly. Instantly. So not long.
B
Okay. I would be all day. Any potential of a disharmony rust 10 year tour slash show.
A
Wow.
B
Tour, Imagine God show. Maybe any upcoming music that you're looking forward to. New ingrown. Can't wait for.
A
That'll be sick. I like that. The single.
B
The new New World man lp, whenever that happens. The two song sampler that just came out is unreal.
A
Unreal.
B
Still the greatest band ever.
A
I don't know what's going on in the drums on that thing. It's incredible. It's chaos.
B
This first song is five songs.
A
Yes. Right?
B
It's incredible. When the. When the first part came back, I was like, holy. This is the same song.
A
Same song, dude. I did the same exact thing. I was like, it's amazing. It didn't start over, you know.
B
It's amazing.
A
Yeah, Good answer.
B
I love it. Top five female singers, all genres.
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Okay. All genres, dude. Love that. Easy, we're not lumping any. We're not saying female fronted, blah blah. We're just talking about female singers of all time.
B
The best ones.
A
That's why I winced at first and then I went, oh, okay. Whitney, dude, all day.
B
It ain't even close.
A
It's not.
B
It's a little Whitney and then 10 spaces and then whoever's next, Mariah Carey. But I mean for you. Yeah. She's not in my top five.
A
She's.
B
Whitney is.
A
Give me your top five. I'm curious to know this.
B
Like, I'm not saying vocal ability. I'm saying my. My favorite women who sing.
A
Oh, okay.
B
You know.
A
Okay, okay.
B
My favorite women who sing okay. Are Whitney.
A
For sure. I'm with you.
B
Easy. Dolores. Cranberries.
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Nice.
B
Gaga, who I love so much.
A
Very good.
B
Let's see. Honestly, Lana Del Rey. Love her to death.
A
Great answer.
B
And Selena.
A
Wow.
B
Anything for Selena.
A
Anything for Salinas. Whitney. Madonna. Big, big. There. No, no Gaga without Madonna. Sorry, it's just.
B
That's fine.
A
It's just true, you know. I'm not saying that it makes Gaga less. I'm just saying she was. Yeah.
B
I'm gonna say there's no youth of today without minor threat.
A
100 and they both rock.
B
Yeah.
A
You know, I have zero Mariah. I love Mariah Carey. I crossed Out Gaga to put Lana, because I prefer Lana. I really love both. And then, dude, lately Chaperone has been kicking my ass. Top five, Been loving it. I'm going with it. Just riding with it.
B
That's interesting. I think I've come to a consensus on Chapel Roan.
A
Hit me.
B
Hey, everybody. Future Colin here to eat my past words. This episode was recorded pre Grammys, so I didn't know that Chapel Rome was the coolest person alive. I was just about to go on a little rant here about how while I think her meteoric skyrocket to success is great, I know she grinded for that. She worked hard. I found it disingenuous the way every celebrity under the sun chimed in to defend what is ultimately very marketable pop music. And then she used the biggest moment of her career to shine a very important light on the music industry. Not supporting independent artists, smaller artists to really any degree, health care benefits, et cetera. While in an age where managers and agents are living in palatial estates and musicians are living in studio apartments. I think that was the coolest possible thing she could have done with the biggest moment of her entire life thus far. So now I completely agree with Beau. She's the coolest.
A
I crossed out Moriah and wrote Bjork because I almost forgot.
B
Yeah. Whoa. At the fuck.
A
Yeah. That would have been crazy. But Bjork is kind of. She's ethereal. She's neither man nor woman.
B
She's above all. She's all she's about. If you had a top five, she would be above the whole top.
A
That's true. Literally, she's zero. Yeah.
B
Chapel, I do like you. You'll never see this. Nobody will ever see this. But, Chapel, I think you rock.
A
Yeah.
B
If you ever want to make punk music, bang, please. Let's see. Advice for motherfuckers trying their hand at lyrics and having trouble finding a balance. Writing from the heart and getting too personal with it. Whoa, that's get personal. Yeah, that's the whole or else it's not real. And when it's not real, the first thing people can tell is, well, this guy doesn't mean this.
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One thing I think is really important is syllables and cadence.
B
Oh.
A
If you got shit that just doesn't fit, there's words to dumb it down, to make it fit. Go with that thesaurus.com, straight up and.
B
Rhymezone.Com are your best friends. And, oh, great advice to me. I like to start with a song title.
A
Interesting.
B
Start with some funky creative thing like you got a Little idea like this would be a cool title. Kind of put you in the work around it. Use it. Finding a title later can fucking suck.
A
It's like getting a canvas in a different size or dimension or something.
B
Start with it. You have the canvas. You know what you're doing.
A
I got you. I like that. That's good.
B
This is a good question from John Boyga. What are your favorite cups of coffee for the following situations? Home from Tor cup.
A
Home from tour cup. I'm going to Electric Mud on Northwestern Avenue. Great.
B
I would go to house Roots and get the sweet latte.
A
Yeah, just. Just like what I. What I miss, you know? Yeah. I get the. The brown acid cold brew.
B
That's my go to feel good cup.
A
Dude. That it's gonna be like a pumpkin spice.
B
That would be the pumpkin carol caramel latte from Tortoni in Sherman Oaks, California.
A
Very. Okay, then I'll do the.
B
I've taken you there.
A
Yeah. Yes. Tortoni. I would do the vanilla. Just the vanilla latte from Wormhole on. In. In worker park.
B
I've been to Wormhole.
A
Yeah.
B
Good cup out and about.
A
I need a cup Duncan, baby. All day, man.
B
I don't utilize Duncan at home because there's. There's no drive through out and about. I need a cup. Is the vanilla Odie from Civil.
A
Oh, civil rocks, dude.
B
Civil rocks. I'm not leaving the house and I.
A
Need a cup doordash. I still have the Nespresso though. The one that, that you advised me to get.
B
So I've had a huge development recently.
A
Yes, you have.
B
I got an espresso machine. I haven't bought a coffee in weeks.
A
Really?
B
I'm in the lab every day over here, dude.
A
No kidding.
B
I'm a certified barista. Asked me anything. But lately, dude, my thing I've been doing.
A
Yeah.
B
Sugar free tonic.
A
Yeah. Yeah.
B
So I'm doing a can of this tiny sugar free tonic, zero sugar, pineapple juice, quarter of a lime, shot of espresso.
A
That sounds fantastic.
B
It's unbelievable.
A
Where do you get sugar free pineapple juice?
B
This is any store.
A
This is a thing, any store, really.
B
It's unreal, dude.
A
Yeah, that sounds really good. I. I got plain espresso for the Nespresso to do that. Like, like to make that. It's obviously not as good as pulling.
B
You find the sugar free tonic, you find some just fun, sweet stuff to throw in there with it. Espresso. Making an espresso. I've been talking about this with Mac every single day.
A
Yeah.
B
This week.
A
Yeah.
B
Making an espresso tonic at home. Feels like it's like the most impossible thing I've ever. Like. I can't possibly make this at home. I gotta pay a guy $12 for this and now it's free.
A
Wow.
B
It's unbelievable.
A
Congratulations. That's huge.
B
Thanks, man.
A
Civil is my favorite cup that I've had over there. Still interesting. Besides, what's the. What's the shit in Vegas that you gate kept a little.
B
We don't need to. Steven. No, I'm just kidding. You can leave that. Worst hit you've taken in the pit. This is a great question.
A
Ringworm burning fight, 2009. I got elbowed in the eye something fierce. I. During House of Hell. I remember. I remember it. And I. My whole eye. I. I watched Underdog like this the next day. Oh, one eye, no depth. And then, dude, late last year, Life of agony. Cobra Lounge got broken ribs.
B
Broken rib is crazy.
A
Caught a spin kick of a young guy. Yeah, young guy from Indiana, I think one of my friends knew he was. I didn't meet him or anything, but I literally, like, like, walked out of the venue, walked home, got X ray.
B
Broken rib is such a hilarious injury, dude.
A
I went up to James and I was like.
B
A guy kicked me in the rib and it broke like, you're fucking free, stooge. I also. You're the fourth stooge.
A
I also wasn't, like, participating. I was just standing too close and I caught one. That's awesome.
B
That's a good mosher.
A
Oh, yeah, straight up.
B
Mine was a terror at the Cobalt. I think I was 14 or 15, and this guy got me so good. And I was, like, dazed for a second, and he was still pretty close to me.
A
No, no.
B
So I like, put a hand out to, like, be like, oh, man, you got me. And he swung back and got me again. Oh, like legit bang bang concussion. Oh, man, it was brutal. I lost some. Some cells that day that have not come back.
A
How was the headache, like, the next day that night? Yeah.
B
Just couldn't see for, like, hours. Just like, fog.
A
Holy shit.
B
Wild shit.
A
That's horrifying.
B
Yeah, it sucked, man. Funny little thing we do. Somebody asked talk about the remastered Eyes of the Lord track for Brody and the Hounds of Hell and how it came to be. Also, Julia's lyrics in her song. Okay, so known about this for a few weeks now. Started it was kind of like. Weren't sure we were gonna do it first. It might have just been a dead body remix again, but, you know, then Brody decided Like, all right, we gotta have a new identity. Let's do a new thing. And it's all. We have this endless catalog of things we can use, you know, of course, before writing something original. And I'd always visualize this song as a wrestling thing.
A
Oh, really? Interesting.
B
Just the, like, cadence of it.
A
Yeah, the cadence works really well for slow, big men walking.
B
For sure. Exactly. So that was my first thought. And then at when he was like, okay, I like the idea. How do you want to do it? Then it was like an entire week of, like, restructuring it.
A
Yeah.
B
And which. That was Taylor and I leaving. So there's some cool. There's some cool little things I did in there. The dead body intro. In the beginning, I took a measure out. It was four. Now it is three W deep. And then the same thing happened for the Eyes of the Lord intro. It's three, but it still feels whole.
A
Wow.
B
And then when it finally comes in, it's stronger than ever.
A
Wow. That's beautiful.
B
Straightforward.
A
That's his. That's as music nerd as it gets.
B
Exactly. It's. The symbolism is in there. And Julia, I've been planning to re record that song at some point. Didn't rerecord it. But in planning for a re recording. Couldn't say. The house always wins. That makes no sense. So the heart always wins was my idea from the rip. So Emma, within, like 12 hours had that fixed. Really? She had it fixed? Same day. Dude. I listened to the day before. Dynamite.
A
Holy shit. I listened to it, like, I listened to, like, to see if it was like, heart, you know, I wanted to see if it was, like, punched in her.
B
And Jeremy perfectly tracked it. I sent mine into Brian the next day.
A
Wow.
B
With Eyes of Lord track. That was another huge thing. Is the dog bark. Because there's.
A
Yeah.
B
On a lot of the downbeats. And like, that can be horrible. Done wrong. And it was for a while because that I had, like, me barking in there. Nate barking in there, Chili, Bruce barking in there. And a couple dogs. The couple dogs I found online. Brian, who mixed and mastered the song, put his dogs in there. He's got four dogs, dude.
A
I was gonna say, I'm surprised you didn't put Chili in there.
B
Chili would sound awful.
A
Tone it down, Tony. Yeah. Pitch it.
B
It would be horrible. But Brian's four dogs are in there. Brody's still in there. I'm in there. And like, created this kind of, like, reverb delay trail so that it's like every time. Because a recording of eight dogs Barking at the same time is still just. Ah.
A
Right.
B
You know.
A
Yeah.
B
No matter how deep they are. It sounds ridiculous. And it turned out perfect. Brian did such a great job that he mixed Julia's song as well. So it's great to work with him again. Always a pleasure. Yeah. I came out of retirement for one and now I'm back in. So the answer is no. What's it like balancing all the musical projects? You're on top. In. On top of the podcast, especially since Down Presser got added to the list. It's horrible.
A
No, it's. Shut up. You obviously love it.
B
I like.
A
You keep doing it.
B
I like doing it. Yeah, but like practicing now, practicing four bands. I got. I got three practices this week. Horrible.
A
I got.
B
Imagine doing that three times.
A
I got no practices this week. We leave for Australia in two weeks.
B
That's fucked. Yeah. I got three this week. Horrible. But I do like practicing with down pressers because it's new. The Journey. This is. She Said. What is the journey Emotionally been like now drumming for them and filling the position of a dear friend.
A
Beautiful.
B
It's. That's why I want to do it, ultimately. It's a band I've loved since 2007, for one. And I was there when Kale recorded Don't Need a Reason. I played on a comp song on this from the same session because he went to Carl's Jr. So I'm one of three people that ever play on a Down Pressure recording already.
A
Gotcha.
B
So pretty cool. Full Circle and Cale and I styles are so similar because he's been playing drums that I've been writing. He was playing drums that I was writing for 10 years.
A
Right.
B
You know.
A
Mm.
B
So we already had so much in common rhythmically and, like, I could tell what his brain would do a lot of the time and that would help me write things. So. I've already been, like, playing drums with Cale in mind for so long that now playing his drumming, save for a few things where I go, why the fuck would he do that? Feels so natural.
A
Yeah, I like that. It's beautiful.
B
What effect do you think Trump and the far right having power in America again will have on hardcore slash art in general? I think people were really hopeful last time that really good art would come out of it. And now. I don't know, man.
A
It's tough, I don't think. I just, like. I don't care about that aspect.
B
Yeah. Just make your maker for.
A
Make your shit, you know?
B
Yeah. I mean, I would love for it to. For something Great to come out of.
A
It, but we got bigger fish to fry. We got ice going to school.
B
Yeah. I hope for mass conservative rather than.
A
A cool demo like I don't like.
B
I hope for spontaneous of billions of conservative people. My God. I think. I think the word conservative, the literal definition means like huge pussy, you know? What are you conserving? Huh?
A
Do you want people.
B
What are they conserving?
A
Okay.
B
Morals.
A
It's.
B
It's a. Conserving means that. But then the word alone means you're a giant fucking pussy and you're scared of everything. Your loser. It means loser really? Right.
A
Yeah. By that rationale, someone's gonna say, well, liberal, blah, blah. But guess what? We ain't liberals either.
B
I mean. Yeah, but. But even. What does the word liberal mean?
A
Yeah, Loose Lucy Goose. Yeah, yeah.
B
Going with the flow is what it means. Really? But in the dictionary it says that.
A
Got bastardized like anything, I suppose.
B
Yeah, all words do. But conservative, it's as lame as the people who use it.
A
I see what you're saying. Like by definition.
B
By definition, the word means you're a pathetic. I'm a pathetic guy. I like to. I'm afraid of stuff.
A
There you go.
B
I don't go to cities. I'm scared of those. Yeah, it sucks, man.
A
Yeah, sucks.
B
How do you guys cope when it gets bad?
A
You gotta focus on the shit that you can change. That's it. Having gone through that where it seems like everything is ending, you can literally only. Okay, well, how can I make this better right now? What can I do? Okay. Got to start there. And how can I do it tomorrow? What can I do next week? You just got to go one step at a time. And I think you took a bit of a break off. Off Twitter for a minute. I think that's a good example.
B
Log off, dude.
A
Just get. Get out of there, dude.
B
Logging off is unbelievable.
A
You're seeing bullshit, dude. You're not seeing reality. You're not seeing reality.
B
I cannot wait to log all the way off one day.
A
Just be gone.
B
I'm going to go in the woods and I'm gonna make my own woods. You never seen woods like the one. But how do I cope when it gets bad? It's a good question. Lately.
A
Yeah.
B
The Witcher 3.
A
Dude. So how far are you? Where you at?
B
I'm done.
A
You beat it.
B
Yeah, I'm in dlc. I'm in the Hearts of Stone, dude.
A
Great, great dlc. What's the other one? The wine.
B
Never played it. Blood and wine and hearts of Stone. I'VE never played. I didn't play either of the expansions.
A
They're good. They're good. That's awesome.
B
Very excited. I'm loving them. But how do I cope when it gets bad? Usually I eat something insane and I buy something I can't afford.
A
There you go. You and I both. I bought a real nice pair of boots recently and I shouldn't have did.
B
But, you know, a little bit of retail therapy.
A
Boy, do they look nice.
B
The ladies got it right. Trivia time. There are only three words in the English language that begin with the letters D.W. what are they?
A
Dwindle, Dweeb, Dweeb, Dwindle.
B
Dwyer.
A
Yeah. Dwench. Dwight.
B
DW no, that would be drenched.
A
Drenched. Dwenched. Dwenched. Dwind, Dwindle.
B
Thinking. I'm thinking a y.
A
Maybe D.W. we said dwindle, Dweeb. Which I wonder if that's one of them, actually. And Dwarf. Fuck you.
B
Outstanding. Great work. Can we get an episode this year where you do rig rundowns?
A
I would love to.
B
Let's do it.
A
But the problem is viewer who's interested in that is most aren't. It's like, kind of like when we do, like, wrestling shit. It's not.
B
I think we just. I think, you know, we. We make the rules at this point.
A
I'm with you. Believe me. I'm with you.
B
We're the masters of our own domain. I think we just met. We can even film separately if you want, since. So you don't have to leave and I don't have to leave.
A
Yeah, right. Yeah, totally.
B
That sounds great.
A
Let's do that. That sounds cool. Okay.
B
What if your band, other bands did cover sets Twitch Fit styles. What band would you want to do?
A
I would love for Harm's Way to do. I think Harm's Way could pull off Street Cleaner. Like, I think we could play all of Street Cleaner.
B
That would be fucking awesome.
A
And I think it would be really cool because I know Casey could program it. I know we could collectively sing, like the. The non yelling part. Like, I know we could do it so that. Personally, that would. I just think that would be sick.
B
That would be very cool. God's hate.
A
I mean, you have a whole fucking record.
B
Yeah, we already. I mean, we've already done under the Knife and it's awesome. We might as well just do Master Killer, even though you don't need to. That's the problem. That's the problem. That's what makes the Twitch Fit stuff so good.
A
Yeah.
B
And I speak objectively here is that we're covering recordings that don't sound great.
A
Sure.
B
So you're doing. Hey, there's a actual, like, functional purpose to this as well.
A
It's like archiving and normalizing and being like.
B
Exactly. And that's why we did under the Knife, too. It was like. How about a version of under the Knife? That just sounds awesome, dude.
A
You know what I was. I was talking to Taylor about today was I was somewhere recently and easy, like Sunday Morning was on and I couldn't tell if it was Faith no More or the Commodore, so I could not tell which one it was because I wasn't close enough.
B
Yeah. And I realized.
A
I know. I actually think that's kind of a bad cover.
B
Well, there was a response to People Want. I think it was because they did War Pigs on the record before it.
A
Yeah.
B
I think they got, like, heckled to play War Pigs.
A
So they did.
B
So they did a. Fuck.
A
Believe me, I love that, you know?
B
Yeah. But I'm pretty sure it was. It was a fuck you response.
A
I just came to the realization that a cover that is just a carbon copy, it's kind of not good.
B
Yeah. No, it's a way. It's pretty. It's kind of a waste of time. But a metal band.
A
Yeah.
B
Doing something like that.
A
That makes sense because.
B
Because, I mean, it was a huge hit for them.
A
Yeah. I think it's. I think it's there in their top probably. Yeah. Yeah.
B
Thoughts on the new Behemoth album that. I didn't know that was a thing.
A
Had no idea. I will listen, though. I do like Behemoth. I always have.
B
Yeah. I'm a fan. What are the chipotle orders in 2025? Let me tell you what. I've been a hater for the past couple years.
A
Yeah.
B
The quesadilla got me.
A
No, it's outstanding. All right.
B
It's outstanding.
A
I love to hear it. That's great. I'm. Lately, I've been a bowl, extra white rice, light pinto beans, steak. Can you double up that steak for me, buddy? No more mild salsa, corn, salsa, cheese. Done.
B
No guac.
A
No guac. I don't. I don't like the temperature difference. I'm weird about that. The guac is cold.
B
I mean, I have. I have a solution for that.
A
Tell me that I've.
B
That I had done when I was og. Chipotle head. Guac on the side. Knife it on every bite.
A
Yeah. Okay. I could see that working.
B
It's. It. I. I felt the same. Where I was like, the guac sucks. It cools down everything.
A
It makes everything cold. I don't want to bite.
B
It doesn't when you knife it on.
A
Okay, I'll try that. I like that. I need to start eating more avocado.
B
It's the best. Yeah, it's the best fat. You can eat like peanut butter and avocado.
A
It's literally why I'm golden. Yeah, yeah.
B
Go to Wingstop order. Let me tell you what hit me. I recently added something to my traditional 10 wing combo. Original hot, all flat, extra ranch. The Hot Honey Tenders. Well done, dude.
A
I've had those. Not well done, but I've had those. Those I. A lot of time, food trends that kind of piss me off. Hot Honey, I'm all in.
B
Oh, do it all the. All across the board, dude. It's unreal. It changes the game. I can't fucking believe the Hot Honey Tender.
A
They're really good.
B
I watch people eat them on TikTok for hours. Just being like, this could be me. It's. I could do this right now. Four albums to bridge the gap from nu metal slash butt rock to hardcore.
A
Okay. That's an interesting slip.
B
Not self titled. Did that for a lot of people, I think.
A
And I would say roots.
B
Yeah. I mean, that's. That's easy.
A
Yep.
B
Nickelback is on Roadrunner, so one of those.
A
You're not wrong.
B
And Newmel Butt Rock, you know, with the Alien Ant Farm where they had the Chain of Strength guy on base for a bit.
A
Yeah.
B
There you go.
A
Okay.
B
Any live studio recordings to be released? Not for me, but a band that we know very soon. Favorite other band of one of your bandmates.
A
Wow.
B
I mean, yours is Hate Force, obviously, I would say.
A
I mean, if you're going back. Expired Youth was a very fun youth group. And back in the day that Chris.
B
And James were in, man, I'm in most of them ones. I'm not in terror.
A
Yeah.
B
Apparition was absolutely fucking unbelievable.
A
Are they. Are they over?
B
Yeah, they broke up before the LP came out.
A
Okay. Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right.
B
Greenwich, obviously. We put out the record. Should be shipping soon.
A
Yeah.
B
What am I not in? Freedom, Obviously.
A
Yeah.
B
One of the greats. Why we needed Alec. It was like, man, the guy from Freedom is unbelievable. I don't think we told. Did we tell the great Night for Freedom thing on here?
A
No, I don't think so.
B
Whenever we have, like a merch night that isn't, like, unbelievable, or we'll be like, fuck, we did, like, 300 here. Alec from the back of the van would just be like, it's a great night for freedom.
A
That's great.
B
Yeah, probably those four. Name an album you'd like remastered and an album you'd like completely recorded. Re recorded. Sandblack Church, Super Christ. I would love to hear Completely re recorded and the Taste the Steel demo. I would like to hear completely rerecorded remastered. Where like the master is bad.
A
I have a version of Age of Quarrel that has the worst mastering you've ever heard on it. But that's not remastering. Does a little less than I think people think it does sometimes, but sometimes it's magical. I think it's only magical if it's a really bad master. And how many popular records are really bad masters?
B
True, true. I would love to hear the only Living Witness Complex man remastered. There you go. I don't want that rerecorded because the recording you can tell is just fucking electric.
A
Let me get injustice for all rerecorded, remastered, top to bottom.
B
Beautiful.
A
Let me hear it.
B
Is practicing mosh moves anywhere other than a show. Cringe.
A
Yes, but it's kind of necessary. We've all done it.
B
We've all done it for one. But many of us were 12, 14.
A
Yeah, that's the difference.
B
That's makes it difficult as people finding hardcore at 26 practicing in their bedroom. Your roommate walks in rather than your aunt or your mom.
A
Right.
B
It's a harder thing to explain.
A
I fully agree. Seen some bad skanking lately.
B
Which is crazy because everybody loves skanking.
A
I know. It's the coolest thing. And fya, I was watching just like.
B
They'Re working on it.
A
They're working on it.
B
When they're 27, they'll be good at it. But.
A
And listen, I did in my living room when I was a teenager, 100.
B
So I would say if you're gonna practice moshing anywhere, it should be spin kicking in somewhere. Like a haunted pool or a haunted ship or haunted. Where else have I done it?
A
Big, big house. I think.
B
Haunted house. Etc.
A
Furnace. A huge furnace.
B
Huge haunted furnace. You gotta do that. Oh my God. If you were transported time back in time to lead the charge on Normandy, what song would be blasting from a.
A
Pa. Well, what beach? We need to get specific here.
B
Dude, why don't you tell me what's your favorite beach?
A
Omaha and Utah. That's bad. You need something. You need rain and blood. You need Master Killer. You need. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's all bad. But Sword Juno, they were a little less Omaha and Utah. That's rough, dude.
B
How about. Well, we're going to. We're going to end the war, you know?
A
Yeah.
B
We're going to eliminate the slime.
A
Operation Overlord, baby. Yep.
B
That means we are going to enemy territory where the slime lives.
A
Oh, nice.
B
So I would have to go where the slime.
A
Yeah, that's good. That's a good answer.
B
It's for killing Nazis, man. Somebody asked, when will we get a deeper dive into the history of God's hate? What do you want to know?
A
Yeah, what do you mean?
B
We had many different names when it started. Body Cast being one of them.
A
Right.
B
Bunch of Dismantle being one of them.
A
Dismantle is not a bad name. That's not a bad name.
B
Pretty good. But it just didn't feel like the one you know. Had a practice with. It was me on drums, Anthony on guitar. I can't remember who else was in the room. And the only thing we kept out of it was Danit Nana. Which is from the song Headstone. I don't know. Yeah, we'll do a history of God. Say it at some point. Mary. Fuck. Kill long sleeve. Crewneck hoodie kill crew neck.
A
I don't need it.
B
I'm really into them lately.
A
It's hard.
B
I'm obsessed with the LA apparel crew neck.
A
Oh. All the LA apparel heavy knit stuff is perfect. It's perfect. Did you get your fantasy initiative Care?
B
Yes.
A
Dude.
B
Can't believe it.
A
I know that shit is crazy. So. But as a whole, I'm still. I'm. I'm a long sleeve and I'm marrying a hoodie. My God, you have long legs. So a crew neck on you looks okay.
B
Crew neck is good. It boxes up, it bunches up and.
A
So on me with shorter legs. I just look like two cubes. I look like Minecraft. It's not good Cube guy. I look like tars from Interstellar.
B
I would. I would kill the long sleeve.
A
Wow. Yeah. You're not really a long sleeve guy. You're.
B
No, I've got great ones. But just like you're kind of the. I just don't need them.
A
Yeah.
B
All the time.
A
You don't need sleeves.
B
I would fuck the hoodie lately and I would marry the crew.
A
Wow.
B
I would marry the LA apparel heavy.
A
Yeah. Specifically do the sweatpants.
B
I'm wearing them right now.
A
They're so awesome.
B
Fantasy initiative.
A
If you guys check it out. Dude. Anybody listen out there if you want to print merch for your band? Or whatever. If you want to spend a lot of money and not make a lot of so expensive, but make really nice stuff, look into the LA apparel. 14 ounces. It's crazy.
B
So expensive. Craziest laptop band fail you've ever seen.
A
Heartfest Upstate New York, 2018, 1919, I think saw a band start their set. It was hot out, the thing overheated and they said, well, have a good night. Walked off stage. I don't know what band it was truly. Even to on them, I wouldn't. But even if I wanted to, I don't remember who it was just at that point.
B
Are you a band?
A
No. You know, so. So when little Insider Baseball when. When Harm's Way started playing to a click and Chris was using in ears and we started doing the sampling through the PA through of house and that's mostly for a fidelity thing. We wanted to sound good. We all agreed that if we ever got to a point where if that broke, if we couldn't play a song, then we need to figure something out.
B
Yeah.
A
So that's.
B
You keep going.
A
That's the integrity level that you have to keep. It's like this is just an instrument like anything else. You can't be everything.
B
Tune it up mid song and keep it going.
A
Yeah. Figure it out. Yeah. 100%.
B
If your laptop dies and you can't play the show, you're not a band.
A
I would love to see a million Vanilli repeat thing.
B
You know, man, I. They got some fucking bangers. It's a shame what happened to them because God damn, what a. What a couple of fucking hits they.
A
Had given the Grammy back is. Is kind of dope. If you really wow. Like that. They were like, you're right. Here you go.
B
I just don't think that's that. I mean, the songs are the songs and they got actors to perform them. That's kind of like the highest performance art possible.
A
You're not wrong. You know, now, I mean, currently we have the opposite. And actually throughout history we've had people just perform them who didn't write them, but they sang on the records. That's the only.
B
Elvis didn't write a goddamn thing.
A
That's what I'm saying, you know, is like that's the only difference. Or like Beyonce, she's not writing shit. She's performing it and then she goes out and performs it. But she didn't write the song. A team of people wrote those songs.
B
Right.
A
Katy Perry's Fucking Teenage Girl.
B
I think today, conceptually, some Swedish guy being like I need to. I need two beautiful black men to sing me these songs. Yeah, these songs don't fit me. I need two gorgeous, model esque black.
A
Powerful black men to pretend like they're singing the song. Yeah.
B
I just think that's awesome, you know?
A
Yeah. They're honks.
B
Get them paid. They're sexy as hell. Get them paid.
A
You know. VEED out too, Bill.
B
I, I, I. And the songs are bangers, dude. I think I said bring them all back.
A
There is a band on Warped Tour, I won't say who, who was on our staged level. And they had a. A member who sang a lot but wasn't the main singer. And we figured out was just pantomiming his instrument.
B
He was just there to sing.
A
He was really singing. That was real. You could tell he wasn't playing on his interesting instrument. He was pretty like. Oh, really?
B
Oh, you're there to sing.
A
Okay.
B
Interesting.
A
So that was a little something.
B
Mount Rushmore. Bands with the best merch. Merch.
A
I mean, typo clears most anyone.
B
Typo's merch is so good that it converts people into being fans, even though they have no idea what they're about. Sonically, very true Typos all time.
A
Yeah.
B
I would say hardcore wise, Cold World really ran shit for a long time. That's the original, like merch band.
A
You think so?
B
I think so. Of our generation, at least.
A
Mental was. I would say mental for sure.
B
But. But Cold World took that and ran with it. You know. What's a band I use for reference a lot? Motorhead has unbelievable merch and they have like four designs.
A
Wow. Yeah, it's all.
B
It's all the things.
A
Does their thing have a name?
B
Oh, yeah.
A
I don't know either.
B
The guy, he's the Motorhead. Can't say misfits really, because it's just like.
A
Yeah. Who even knows? Yeah, Slayer has some cool merch.
B
They do. They did.
A
They did, yes. As well as Metallica there, dude. I mean, one of the Metallica shirts I have just has their stage plot on the back, which is like, here's the stage layout with feet and like a diagram. And that's just like. And it's called the Wherever I May Roam tour. It's like, damn, that's sick.
B
I'll take a lot of the chromag stuff from 86 to 92 over anything.
A
The spiritual shit. Love it. Yeah.
B
And.
A
It'S good. Youth cruise turning points. Got cool, dude. Chain. Something about chains. Merch just rocks.
B
Chain. Chain had it pretty good.
A
Look.
B
Great font.
A
Yeah, they really? They got it.
B
They got it.
A
Terror's got some good stuff too.
B
Terror's still got it. But the BAT Mount Rushmore merch band TUI was strong. Best merch.
A
AF. Pretty strong.
B
AF's got some good stuff, dude, even. I mean, I strive to make the best merch, you know, Sometimes I do.
A
I mean, you. You have. You specifically, with God's hate and. And for twitching, really have taken merch in a direction that I don't think many. You've taken it international in more ways than one.
B
In ways that I cut out the middleman, you know?
A
Yeah, it's crazy.
B
Cut him out. Oh, the LA apparel blank is $40. Okay. Well, where'd they get it? You know, I'll get my own thoughts of dudes shaving in the gym bathroom.
A
As long as you clean it up, I don't give a shit. You can do pretty much anything anywhere. If you clean it up or apologize or whatever for the inconvenience, I'm fine with it.
B
I really don't. I'm. Jim's not having paper towels in bathrooms, but everywhere else outside.
A
Wow. I've never thought about it, but mine does that.
B
It's insane.
A
It's got the worst hand dryer in the world.
B
You want me. You want me to get big. Like, the shit particles of the particles are going to be all over me because I can't dry this off. And you want me to go touch all your stuff?
A
Yeah.
B
If anything, you should put extra paper towels in the bathroom.
A
Wow. Anyway, one thing I don't. I've seen people clip their toenails on planes or fingernails on planes.
B
That's psycho.
A
Or fingernails in offices that I've worked in. And that's like, you should be taken outside and shot.
B
Yeah, I agree. That's absolutely insane. What's the story behind Pat Killen yelling at Colin about wearing shorts on stage? I wouldn't say yelled at me, but the one. The first time he saw us was in New Jersey at a house show, and he heard us and saw the shorts and talked to me after, and he was like, you can't do this.
A
Love it.
B
He was like, you're. You're in a heavy rock metal band. You can't wear shorts.
A
Love it.
B
And I never wore them again.
A
I love it.
B
Bo, what is it like being in one of the best hardcore memes of all time?
A
Great.
B
Colin, what was the vibe like at the paradise in Boston when you guys played with Vayne, Code Orange, and Wikiphase, whose idea was to have Wikiphase and where they fired. That was a Code Orange thing. But no, that was awesome.
A
I remember that.
B
I think Wicker phase. Drew draws a lot every time he plays. And he was the OG singer of Tiger's Jaw, so it's. That was. That was PAHC for pahc. I thought it was great.
A
You know, that's him on the Darby Allen music, too.
B
Yeah.
A
Crazy.
B
It's a great song.
A
It is. Yeah.
B
Colin, will your stuff be working for Tied Down? That's the goal. That's the goal. Thoughts on live stage volume?
A
Listen, I used to be a little prick and I would do the thing of like, line check. Yeah, that sounds good. Working with actual sound guys and talking to people who really care about making you sound good.
B
Yeah.
A
Not always the best idea. And that's if you're at a level or you're playing a certain situation where that applies.
B
I love. I love a. Pump it on stage, dude. Let me hear it. God. Because Lord knows the monitors are not going to be the same after this check. You know?
A
Yeah, 100. But if. If the. If the PA can't keep up with the kick drum mic or the vocal mic or something, that sucks.
B
Yeah, sure. If I've got Zach Rippy there. Yeah. I'm not worried about it.
A
If Ricky's there. I'm not.
B
I know it's going to be fine.
A
I 100 agree.
B
If I got Joe Schmo, who's doing this check. That's an hour long and none of it's going to be there when I play. I'm going to need some stage volume. Will you guys play it? Be at RBS Fest 2025. That's LDB weekend. So sadly no. Got a prior commitment. What do you guys think is the best tuning to play hardcore music? I think fat. Anything fast. E flat.
A
I like that. I can go with that.
B
Anything hard. C sharp.
A
I mean, we're drop B. So we just drop that bottom string from C sharp.
B
Yeah, that's C sharp. Yeah, that's C sharp. Enhanced, you know.
A
Yeah.
B
C sharp plus.
A
I do. I think I agree.
B
Marauder. C sharp. Yeah.
A
Because of Carnivore. Let's go.
B
Yeah. And they were. Because of Black Sabbath.
A
You know, it's the coolest.
B
Do you think we Forgot about the 200 Nuggets challenge redemption? I was hoping you did. I'll be honest with you. I just worked them nuggets off. I don't think my body could take another 88 nuggets.
A
What was the. How many McDoubles did you think you could do again.
B
15 that. I mean, realistically.
A
Ah, Everybody hear that? You hear that tone change, everybody?
B
McDoubles.
A
Yeah.
B
10 to 15.
A
I would believe 10 more than 15, obviously.
B
Me too.
A
Perfect.
B
Let's see. Could you do a little recap of Blissmas weekend in Buffalo, beyond what was in the episode with Craig?
A
Yeah.
B
What did you guys get up to the rest of the time? We went to Adolph's. We went to Adolph's. Right.
A
We went to Adolph's. And nine. Eleven.
B
No, we didn't go to 911.
A
What was that?
B
We went to Adolf.
A
We went to two different ones, though.
B
We went to Bar Bill, which used to be the king.
A
That's it. Yeah. Barbell.
B
No longer the king.
A
Yeah. Adolf.
B
Adolph's, which is currently the king. And Adolf should never be the king, but he is sad. It's a weird time.
A
It was good.
B
Did you like the show? I had a great time at the show. Converge in particular.
A
Oh, yeah.
B
Just unbelievable.
A
We got coffee, went to the play.
B
Yeah. What was that place called? It was fine.
A
It was fine. It was by the hotel.
B
Coffee's pretty slim pickings in Buffalo, it seems.
A
Yeah. It was cold. Went to the casino. We got hose.
B
I didn't get that hose.
A
Well, I got my limit hose, which is lesser than yours, typically, but I.
B
Left down like 100 bucks. Was huge.
A
That's nice.
B
Yeah. I mean, it was a. That was a quick weekend for us.
A
It was in and out.
B
Not a lot to recap.
A
Yeah.
B
Any advice, tips for people who want to make the big move to LA or Chicago?
A
Don't go to la. Visit Chicago before you visit Chicago in the winter, before you even think about. And I only say that about LA because of the living expense. If I could afford it, it would be a different story. The cost of living there compared to everywhere else is crazy.
B
Sure. Come to the Valley.
A
Valley's definitely better. But we.
B
We invite you. We cordially invite you all to come to the Valley.
A
What's your. Your gas per gallon?
B
I don't have gas.
A
You see it around.
B
Four something.
A
Yeah. There are people who are gonna go skirt and flip their car on the.
B
Highway, and that's, like, low.
A
So, yeah, pretty brutal. Chicago right now is just unending cold. And if you're really thinking about moving here, maybe you're from a cold place, I don't know. But that's. Just. Be careful about that because it's. I know somebody who moved here from Arizona and they're already moving back, like, within the last six months.
B
That's a crazy Move, isn't it?
A
They're from here originally, but they're just like. I forgot I'm going back.
B
Are you looking forward to doom? The Dark Ages? Can't wait.
A
What's that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
Doom, Doom.
A
Oh, the Dark Ages thing. Yeah, dude. Yes, I just saw that. Absolutely.
B
Can't wait.
A
Absolutely. It looks awesome.
B
I can't wait to play it on a 5090 that if I don't get, I will kill myself.
A
Don't need it.
B
So Nvidia, if you're watching, don't need it. My life is in your hands. Asus msi. All of you.
A
Gigabyte.
B
A gigabyte. It's definitely in your hands. You gave me a fucked up motherboard, you scumbags. I will myself. Anyway, when is the next haunt Lore this year?
A
Probably Halloween. I don't know. Yeah.
B
How badass is fucking mongrel? Unbelievable. New record out February via days and hard lore. Check it out. Can't wait. Any chance we get a Fury episode? We'd love that.
A
Oh yeah, that'd be good.
B
Any Texas Hard Lore stuff planned for not so Fun weekend? I think I'm only going to be there for one day, so probably not. What's the chance of reprinting early merch on the better blanks we have access to now for like our bands? Yeah, I'm down.
A
Oh yeah, we're. Harm's Way is kind of slowly going back through the catalog just to do it on better blanks. So. Yeah.
B
Cooler guitar tone. Metallica or Slayer?
A
Wow. What record? Give me your tone. Give me record tone. It varies a lot with Metallica.
B
Yeah. Tone. Let's say Master Puppets versus Random Blood.
A
Master Puppets.
B
I think. I agree. Tone. I agree.
A
Yes. Tone. If we're talking good tone. Because tone.
B
Yeah. I mean, you got the JC 120 ripping.
A
The master guitar tone is like heavy. Yeah, it's a slower record, but the clean.
B
But it's like the greatest clean tone.
A
And one of the greatest clean tones ever.
B
So it's just a little more dynamic.
A
Slayer is ripping the whole time. There are eight hot rod at eight hundreds just going the whole time, which is perfect.
B
It's great for them. I wouldn't change it at all.
A
Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah.
B
But you know, it's tough. I would say Metallica songs. I would say Slayer dude.
A
And like south of Heaven. Guitar tone is real good.
B
Crazy. Yeah. You all enjoy any other era of Black Sabbath besides the Ozzy stuff.
A
I love DSAB D O Sabbath is. I'm sooner to put that on nowadays. 100% nowadays.
B
I think that's when they finally got to experiment. Be ultra heavy.
A
Yes.
B
And do whatever they wanted.
A
And they're humanizer, dude. Mob rules.
B
Dehumanizer.
A
Heaven and hell. All good.
B
All good.
A
All the way through. I love it.
B
And then. Do you know why Dio quit?
A
I don't.
B
Ozzy was doing a headlining tour. Black Sabbath accepted the opening slot. Dio would not do that.
A
What a king, dude.
B
Dio ain't opening for Ozzy.
A
Not opening for Ozzie. Rest in peace, dude. The King. Allegedly the King.
B
Straight up rip, man. What's the funniest thing you've seen in a show? Hardest laughs at a show are all kind of UNO related. I'll break down three of them right now.
A
Okay.
B
One time. This is crazy. Tail. This is not that crazy. But just the. The ripple effect was unbelievable. Salt Lake City, Taylor loses Uno has to floppy arm mosh and spin kick with one leg.
A
And he just. He did it, like faithfully did it.
B
Next time we go to Salt Lake, people are flopping, arm moshing and splitting.
A
No fucking way.
B
He changed the work. The game, dude.
A
My God.
B
It was incredible. Other two would be both. Brody King, one time he lost. Loser had to paint themselves blue and mosh for harness at the Red Room in Washington. He lost. The place was covered in blue. Oh, everywhere. Unbelievable.
A
I'd be so pissed.
B
It was in. People were covered in blue from him jumping on them and hitting them. It was insane.
A
Oh, my God.
B
Another one was. Loser has to eat a live snail that we found on the floor.
A
That's really dangerous.
B
It was brutal. Lost by Brody King. He bites into it, the shell completely crunches and he projectile vomits. It was unbelievable.
A
Oh, my.
B
Absolutely unbelievable. Coolest thing I've ever seen.
A
A guy in St. Louis. I got on stage while Harm's Way was playing. It was just like. Like flexing at James specifically. And in the picture, James is kind of like, okay, you know. And then after like 20 seconds, security just grabs him. Is that the FUBAR? And it's just taking him outside. And then it's photographed. James and I are just dying, laughing it like on stage. He was on the stage, eye to eye with us. Just aren't like any.
B
Any blowback after?
A
No, none whatsoever. I think he was fucked up.
B
What if you saw him after and he was like, guys, that was the best set I've ever seen.
A
That'd be really sick. At the same show, a guy broke his leg and instead of going to the hospital, was sat in the Back of the room on a pool table doing like this because he didn't want to miss the set. Dude, same show.
B
Like I went to a show and I broke my leg.
A
Yeah.
B
Is hilarious.
A
Yeah.
B
Imagine telling your co worker.
A
Yeah.
B
What happened to you going to a concert this weekend?
A
Let's try it. Let's try it. Let's do a little role play. Ready?
B
All right.
A
Colin, what happened?
B
I went to a concert. I broke my leg. What? In what normal circumstance would a regular person be like that? That makes sense.
A
Yeah, that can happen.
B
Dude, hardcore is the best.
A
So stupid.
B
Are there any Christian hardcore, metal, heavier bands you like?
A
Only figure 4 and only the record where they're talking about not believing in God anymore.
B
Yeah, I like figure four. I like shockwave.
A
Oh, shock. Good call, good call.
B
I think Life's Question has some Christian stuff in there. And there's something like we talked about Ridge being Christian in the Painted Truth episode, you know?
A
Yeah.
B
And there's something about him being Christian that's like scary to me.
A
Okay.
B
Like that's. That's dark sided.
A
Yeah, that's like Roman Catholic.
B
Yeah, sure. Like a demented musical mind believing in God is like, damn, that's scary.
A
Yeah, kind of. Kind of, Peter.
B
It's dark sided.
A
Yeah. Wow.
B
So I don't know. I think. I think anything Ridge is involved with being vaguely religious.
A
Dude. Now makes it scarier, now that you mentioned it. Like tomoriah. Black Sabbath.
B
Catholic.
A
All Catholic. Yeah. Interesting, interesting.
B
There's something dark sided about Catholicism. The mob. The mob.
A
You know, all Italians, Irish. Every single one. All the Irish.
B
Exactly. What's the story of the Hard Lore theme coming together? There ain't no story. It took about 15 minutes.
A
Colin did it and said, could you yell over this? And then I played a guitar lead. She's in my apartment going, that was it.
B
Perfect. It was 30 minutes of work. Again, mix and master by Brian Batiste, who did the that's the Lord remaster and Julia song. Favorite X Files episode. My favorite episode is the one with Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi where Giovanni or BC like is. Is that the arcade and like controls electromagnetic frequencies.
A
Wow.
B
You know what I'm talking about.
A
No, I never really watched that show. Too much. Too much filler stuff.
B
Dude. In the filler episodes they're hunting Cryptids.
A
I know. I'm not gonna watch the thing about the Jersey Devil.
B
It's awesome.
A
I watched that one. I wasn't.
B
You would like it.
A
I found where you could watch a, like the. The overall story arc thing. No, you don't partake.
B
You need filler to make the big moments hit.
A
I gotcha.
B
Because. Because when it's creature of the week type thing and a story does continue next week, you're like, holy shit, this is crazy. This one's still going. Okay, so like, it is a. It is a storytelling device to use self contained filler story.
A
Do you remember the Cops X Files crossover episode?
B
Oh, yes. It's insane.
A
That was cool. I remember liking that.
B
They do good shit, man. Mount Rushmore chips.
A
Are you a chip guy? Oh, I feel like. I feel like I don't really see you eat chips.
B
I. Because I can't stop.
A
Yeah, you don't stop.
B
Yeah, it's a real thing for me. To me, the nacho cheese Dorito is like one of the greatest things.
A
That's all. That's Elvis.
B
Yeah, straight up.
A
Didn't invent anything but just the King.
B
The sour cream and onion lays. The sea salt and black pepper kettle chips. Oh, yeah, and whatever. Jalapeno chip. Like Miss Vicky's jalapeno. Is that one?
A
Yeah, I think so. Vicky's the stripe.
B
Get the fuck out of here.
A
All right.
B
Unreal.
A
Baked Lays. Just the original Baked Lays. I'm a big fan. I love a sun chip. Blue bag. Blue bag guy. I also like the garden one, but the blue bag one.
B
I love the red bag.
A
Yeah, the red bag. The salsa garden, whatever that one is. Yeah. Oh, no, no, that's green. My bad. Baked Lays, sun chips. A fucking.
B
The Voodoo heat or the Voodoo kicks Ass.
A
Dude, I love those. And then. Yeah, I'm with you with the, with the Dorito. I think just. It's just King Cape Cod, salt and vinegar.
B
Oh, yeah, that'll. You up for life. God, you'll enjoy the ride. Tips for new bands. Don't worry about what the cool guy in the cool band thinks of your band. Definitely get over at home.
A
Yep.
B
The people that pay to go to shows and the people that spend their life supporting this beautiful live thing that we do, that's who you should give a shit about. Liking your band so you don't need to message it to the singer of your favorite band.
A
Yeah, don't get over, dude. Don't punish people to listen to your band. The only thing you should ever really be doing is trying to get in front of people.
B
Yeah.
A
If people see or hear that you had a good show, they're gonna look you up. That's. That's how it's gonna work. I'm. I've never. I'm very rarely Listening to a new band of being like, where are they playing? Yeah, I gotta go and see this. There's just so much that you can't do that.
B
Yeah, I would say just show up as well.
A
Just show up.
B
If you're the contract killer. New band from the Valley, the fellow Donovan, volunteers at midnight hour.
A
Sick.
B
Hard lore got him into hardcore. I've seen him around a billion times, so obviously I'm gonna listen to his band.
A
There you go. That's a.
B
The guy I see around, the young guy I see around, who I get to know. Obviously I'm gonna check out his band and you all should too. It's a perfect example.
A
That's really good.
B
You just got to show up a lot of the time. Fuck Mary. Kill, vandalism. Stealing, gaslighting.
A
Oh, wow.
B
I think I'm killing vandalism.
A
Really? I don't do it personally, but that includes graffiti. And graffiti is kind of dope.
B
Graffiti is awesome. But I'm just saying, me doing them.
A
Okay, okay.
B
The act like me doing them, you know?
A
Did you ever vandalize when you were young?
B
Not really. I, I, I graffitied in a textbook. Yeah, in high school. And I got caught doing it and it wasn't my book. And I'll never forget, I. A girl let me borrow it.
A
Oh, no.
B
And for some reason, I thought it would be cool to write in it. And I'll never forget the look on her face when I got caught doing it. Or she was just like, you do it. And it's like, well, I'm never doing that again. So I never did it again. Gaslighting. No, I think I'm killing gaslighting.
A
No, you're not going to kill gaslighting.
B
I'm killing gaslighting.
A
Yeah.
B
I think I'm, I'm actually marrying vandalism.
A
That was, that was quick.
B
Yeah, I don't like to steal either, so I'm going to, I'm going to fuck steal. Because every now and then, you know, you gotta do it.
A
I, I think you and I completely agree. Gaslighting sucks. We all know that. Do you know who my little graffiti buddy was with?
B
Who?
A
One Chris Mills.
B
Really?
A
He and I, when we were young, young, just able to drive. Dude, here's a great story. Statute is definitely up on this. High school was ending and everyone was like, what are we gonna do? Oh, we're all gonna go to this community college. We should all, like, live together. Like all of the, the, all the people who played music, all the hardcore kids in, in my little suburb, we Went to this just local apartment complex, and we asked the guy who was walking out, obviously. Now I know this is rude. At the time, I wasn't being a dick. But we said, hey, how much is it to live here? And he was like, what? He was big burly guy. And we're like, the rent. Like, how much is the rent here? We're in my friend's brand new Prius. At the time, they had just come out, and this guy was just like, go yourself. Have a nice night. And just like, he thought we were, like, being insulting. Being like, how much is it to live here? We're in a pre. You know, it came off wrong.
B
And you. You're. You're seriously inquiring.
A
We was legitimately just like, yo, like, yeah, we wanted to live together. And this is right by where all of us lived. We saw what truck? We saw a truck he was going to. Some people may have snuck back later and spray painted all over his truck.
B
Oh, my God.
A
And then. And maybe they wrote, have a nice night, asshole, as something I heard. And then maybe a couple months later, after everything was fixed, they went back and did it again. I don't know. Maybe that's something I heard that. I know some people.
B
So you're marrying vandalism?
A
I would marry vandalism. I also think graffiti, when, like, tastefully done, is like kind of the coolest thing.
B
Oh, it's the coolest thing ever. I could never do it. It's a lot like skateboarding, you know?
A
And I also got caught stealing saw one, saw two, and the Family Guy Blue Harvest movie once from a Meyer.
B
Unbelievable haul.
A
Thank you. Thank you. I thought you'd like that.
B
Holy.
A
I had to pay a fine. I was underage, so I had to, like, pay a fine. And it wasn't, like, on my record or anything, so I also had a short. But you're right, sometimes self checkout. It's just like, I'm not. You not scanning that. I'm not scanning.
B
My wife would kill me if you heard this. Thankfully, she doesn't watch or listen to the show. What's the best album to listen to in a dark room with no phone or any other distractions?
A
Do you ever do that?
B
It's been a while.
A
Yeah.
B
If I'm doing that, it's for a reason, right?
A
Yeah.
B
And that reason usually needs warning. Watching from a distance.
A
So I don't know if I really have an answer. That's like a place I don't allow myself to get to because it's scary.
B
It's Fair.
A
Yeah.
B
Songs where another band's cover of it is better. That is an episode coming soon. Thoughts on holding onto a music project for too long. 100 versions of the song, years of tweaking and never doing anything with it because it's not perfect. I'm going through a serious battle right now with that of, like, having to figure out how to make this thing perfect and forgetting that, like, the best songs I've ever written were just like, okay, I guess this is it.
A
Yeah.
B
We go, right? And whatever the. Whatever the expression is, whoever said it is that art is never finished. It just escapes. Is, like, so dead on that if you're obsessed, it's never gonna. It's never gonna happen.
A
Yeah.
B
And that side, that's advice I need to take myself lately. So I'll work on that.
A
I like that.
B
That's a good band's lyrics ever been vetoed? Yes. Yeah. Frigid from In Love there's no Law was just originally about our dad. It's just like a song about how much I love my dad. And I don't think it worked very well. So it turned into Frigid, which Frigid, conceptually, was all of monotheist turned into one song.
A
Sick.
B
Pretty funny.
A
Yeah. There had just been stuff where lyrics were proposed, and we just came up with ways for it to use better. It wasn't like a veto, like, no way, dude. It was just like, maybe this would fit better, you know, Constructive type stuff.
B
You guys did New York Hardcore as a series. When are we getting Boston, Chicago, and la? I think we. We'd love that.
A
I would do Boston in a fucking heartbeat. And LA Chicago, I think would be kind of tough. A lot of prior to, like, that follow by boy group. I don't know anybody.
B
Well, maybe they do.
A
Yeah, maybe. But, like, effigies and, like, the old bands. Ray Gun and, like, all that screeching Weasel. No idea.
B
Well, let's see what we can do.
A
Yeah. Be cool.
B
Oh, this is a great question. What did you guys get each other for Christmas? Dude, let me. Let me start here. Okay, so I have this series of posters from 1980 for the French release of the original Muppets movie. It was a series of six. I had five of them. Old Bo here did some serious mental fortitude, because I probably told him in, like, July, like, here's the series. I'm missing one. It's kind of the best one, but it's the hardest to find. It's the one where animal is jaws and this piggy is swimming Above.
A
Incredible poster.
B
Incredible poster. I have the rest of them. They're all framed beautifully in my living room. Beau found that one and got it for me in Unbelievable gift.
A
In Paris, no less. I also. I don't know if she told you, but I told your wife. I asked your wife, hey, don't let him buy this.
B
She didn't.
A
Yeah, like if he really did, if she. If he starts to indicate he's gonna pull the trigger, just be like, no, you know, like, do something because I'm gonna get this. This.
B
Yeah, I. I appreciate that was an incredible gift.
A
Good. I'm glad you liked it. Colin and I share a great bond of sweets. Colin started his journey recently with the Ninja creamy ice cream maker.
B
How are you doing on that? You still, you still using it?
A
I'm on my third unit because two of them have died.
B
Really?
A
They have. If you look on, on Google, I guess Ninja has like a 5050 with them where a thing happens where you plug it in, you run it, and then you're done and blah, blah, blah. And the next time you go to turn on, it won't turn on. You have to unplug it. It has to.
B
Wait, that. That happens with mine.
A
Oh, you can get a new one.
B
I have to use a different outlet every time.
A
Yeah, yeah. So that's not supposed to happen. You can get a brand new one and I have my. I have my third on the way. And the crazy thing is the other ones, they say don't worry about that.
B
So you just have three.
A
Only the bottom, not the other shit. But I'm sure you could buy them. Yeah. So it was really easy. I called them and it was done in 10.
B
Okay. Yeah, I got to do that then because mine's effective. But functionally. Functionally, like a life changing device.
A
I have 40 to 60 grams of protein in ice cream and then I.
B
Can eat at midnight. I can eat a pint of ice cream at midnight. And I'm just growing, I'm just gaining.
A
It's just good for me. It's incredible.
B
Like, if I don't eat this pint of ice cream, I'm an idiot.
A
Yeah, the. The protein ones have. I've been alternating between the protein ones and then the dole whip recipe I found. I love dole whip. And it's been fantastic. It's been fantastic. I love it.
B
I love it. Very Merry Christmas. Happy Valentine's Day. What's something you guys are proud of but don't usually get the chance to talk about? I think hard Lore being what it Is. Is like a legit miracle.
A
Absolutely absolute.
B
Like, shot one in a million chance that it worked out to this. Well, you know, I think anybody could have done this, but we did it at the right time, and it was the right two guys.
A
And you gotta. You gotta figure, too, it's a lifetime for each of us of networking with people. Yeah. That's a life's work.
B
And it's. We're fans first.
A
Yeah. Of course.
B
At the end of the day, we are. We love music so much.
A
Yeah.
B
That we. We did not set out to be authorities in any way whatsoever. On, like, what is good and what sucks.
A
No.
B
Even though I know objectively what is good and what sucks.
A
But I don't want to dissuade anyone. Pretty much.
B
No, no, no. We're just here to signal boost the things that we love. And we're glad that many of you are receptive to them. It is a true, absolute miracle that this show is still going and people are supporting it and we appreciate it all. We'll keep finding new ways to take it to the next level while also maintaining what it is at the core. No pun intended. And that's our episode this week.
A
Great. Love it. Really good question this time, guys. Really great questions.
B
Yeah, you guys did good. Also, things we're proud of. Don't usually get the chance to talk about. I've been doing this a long time.
A
Yeah.
B
You know, this music thing. I think there's only two or three years since 2008 where I have not started a new band, and that's insane. And I don't plan on stopping. So if you're sick of me now, you're. You're gonna. You're gonna. It's gonna be fatal soon, okay? It's terminal. Trust me. You're gonna die with me. We'll see you all next week. Bye.
HardLore: Stories from Tour – Q&A Special (February 2025 Edition)
Hosts: Colin Young (God's Hate) & Bo Lueders (Harms Way)
Release Date: February 27, 2025
1. Introduction and Recent Experiences
In this special Q&A edition of HardLore: Stories from Tour, hosts Colin Young and Bo Lueders dive deep into their personal anecdotes, musical insights, and tour experiences within the hardcore, punk, and metal scenes.
Community Resilience and Personal Challenges
Bo reminisces about filming four episodes at FYA Fest, highlighting California's resilience amid fires and rain. He remarks, “That was beautiful. You can count on with California every time, is that no matter how bad it gets, the community comes together” (01:33). Conversely, Colin shares his struggles with a polar vortex that froze his pipes, forcing him to shower at the gym, saying, “It just feels scummy” (02:16).
2. The Big Race at FYA Fest
One of the episode's standout moments involves the hosts recounting their humorous attempt at participating in “the big race” during FYA Fest. Both Colin and Bo, unprepared with athletic gear, donned light jackets and boots, leading to inevitable exhaustion. Bo triumphantly shares, “He did win the big race” (04:39), while Colin humorously admits to struggling, illustrating the camaraderie and lightheartedness amidst the chaos.
3. Q&A Segment
The core of the episode revolves around a series of audience-submitted questions, covering a wide array of topics from favorite bands to personal anecdotes.
A. Top Swedish Death Metal Bands
Colin and Bo engage in a spirited debate about their preferred Swedish death metal bands. Bo praises Stockholm-based bands like Grave, Dismember, and Entombed, while Colin emphasizes his love for melodic and technical acts, mentioning Unleashed (05:00 to 06:14). Their discussion underscores the vibrant and diverse Swedish metal scene.
B. Favorite Physical Media and Collectibles
The hosts share their prized possessions, including rare records and vintage shirts. Bo mentions the coveted "Grail" records and expresses admiration for unique items like a golden spray-painted shirt of Luke from The Killers (43:20). Colin reminisces about his first physical media purchase—Michael Jackson's Thriller—and shares stories of acquiring rare Nintendo 64 games (21:13).
C. Touring Mishaps and Memorable Moments
Colin and Bo recount various challenging and humorous incidents from their tours. Bo describes a harrowing day when the band's trailer was stolen, leading to community support and swift recovery (35:06). Colin shares a story where a bandmate lost his toothbrush in Poland, symbolizing the exhaustion and small frustrations of constant touring (31:05).
D. Music Recommendations and Current Listening Habits
Both hosts discuss their current musical obsessions. Bo is immersed in drumming for Down Presser and exploring new records, while Colin is on a relentless Crowbar kick, praising the band's versatility and intensity (11:20 to 12:26).
E. Advice for Aspiring Bands
Addressing new bands, Colin advises focusing on what they can control and taking incremental steps to improve, emphasizing the importance of genuine connection over seeking validation from established artists (78:46). Bo echoes this sentiment, urging bands to prioritize their supporters and persistently engage with their audience (117:18).
4. Favorite Moments and Personal Highlights
A. Best and Worst Tour Experiences
The hosts reflect on their most cherished and challenging moments on tour. Colin fondly recalls playing a memorable show in LA after recovering from trailer theft, while Bo shares tragic yet bonding experiences, including dealing with health emergencies and band conflicts (30:55 to 36:22).
B. Funniest Show Incidents
The episode is peppered with humorous stories, such as Brody King painting himself blue after losing a friendly contest or a mosher's unfortunate yet hilarious leg injury during a show (109:04 to 112:28).
5. Merchandise and Collectibles
A. Best Merchandise from Bands
Colin and Bo discuss their favorite band merch, highlighting the artistic value of items from bands like Typo, Cold World, and Motorhead. Bo praises Typo’s merchandise for its ability to convert casual listeners into dedicated fans, while Colin admires Metallica's stage plot shirts for their intricate designs (96:47 to 98:52).
B. Collecting Rare Items
The hosts delve into their passion for collecting rare records and merchandise. Bo showcases his collection of French Muppets posters and rare Hardcore memorabilia, while Colin shares stories of acquiring exclusive items like live show shirts and limited-edition releases (125:03 to [138:00](#timestamp not present)).
6. Lifestyle and Personal Interests
A. Culinary Favorites
Bo and Colin exchange their favorite restaurants and food experiences from their European tours. Bo lauds places like Pink Mama and Chez for their delectable offerings, while Colin shares his love for unique coffee concoctions like espresso tonics (57:32 to 68:38).
B. Coping Mechanisms and Wellness
The hosts discuss how they maintain their mental and physical health amidst the rigors of touring. Bo emphasizes the importance of breaks from social media and indulging in hobbies like gaming, while Colin highlights the benefits of protein-rich diets and consistent workout routines (55:18 to 65:08).
7. Upcoming Projects and Future Plans
A. Music Releases and Tours
Colin and Bo tease upcoming music projects, including new albums and potential tour remasters. They express excitement about collaborating with other bands and exploring new creative avenues within HardLore (89:02 to 108:17).
B. Continued Growth of HardLore
Reflecting on the show's success, Bo credits the dedicated fanbase and timely networking with fellow artists as key factors. Both hosts express gratitude for the show's longevity and pledge to continue elevating its content while preserving its core essence (127:56 to 128:18).
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8. Closing Remarks
Concluding the episode, Colin and Bo express their gratitude towards their listeners and emphasize the importance of community support within the music scene. They encourage fans to engage with their favorite bands, attend shows, and continue supporting HardLore. The hosts invite listeners to stay tuned for future episodes filled with more stories, insights, and exclusive content.
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Conclusion
This Q&A Special of HardLore: Stories from Tour offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Colin Young and Bo Lueders, blending humor, heartfelt stories, and invaluable advice. Whether you're a long-time listener or new to the podcast, this episode encapsulates the essence of the hardcore and punk community, celebrating its resilience, passion, and unyielding spirit.
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