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Speaker 1: This is small Sy's All Stars Summer Breakfast. Hey, thanks

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Speaker 1: for downloading the podcast. It's Smallsey here. I'm filling in

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Speaker 1: for Fitzie and Whipper with the All Star Summer Breakfast

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Speaker 1: show coming up. On this episode, I'm catching up with

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Speaker 1: the Killers, the boys currently touring the country and I

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Speaker 1: got to catch up with them.

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Speaker 2: Please welcome the Killers, the Killers, the Chillers.

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Speaker 3: What somebody? Old man?

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Speaker 1: Frame boys? How are you? How did I get that name?

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Speaker 1: Or did you just just enjoying my name?

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Speaker 2: How'd you get it?

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Speaker 1: Well, my last name is small and then long story,

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Speaker 1: I can give you the boring version. I was at

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Speaker 1: a radio station and the other guy had a similar

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Speaker 1: name for names of my first name, and then I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you Smilesy. It was an American and

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Speaker 1: then it's been stuck with me ever since. It's a

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Speaker 1: really boring story, to be honest with you, it sounds

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Speaker 1: way better up here. Hey, lads, welcome back to Australia.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Where are you right now? What's been happening? It's been

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Speaker 1: a bloody long time.

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Speaker 2: It's been four years.

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Speaker 3: We're in Britain, we are in Brisbane, we're officially arrived,

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Speaker 3: we've got we did a few gigs in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: And yeah we're looking we're about to go on in Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice. Has have you had much downtime? Have you

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Speaker 1: had a chance to be tourists since you've been here?

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Speaker 1: Has Australia changed at all?

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Speaker 3: Yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Okay, absolutely not. It's it's all business. It's all business.

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Speaker 3: We're cutting, we're carving some time out. We have a

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Speaker 3: couple of days off after for three days and we

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Speaker 3: are we're looking to to get adventurous.

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Speaker 2: Maybe, so we're going to find something to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah nice. I love the way that you are about

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Speaker 1: to go on stage and you're just knocking out some promo.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you making the time. Oh problem, it's actually

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Speaker 1: all lies everything that anyone would say about rock stars,

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Speaker 1: like like trashing dressing rooms beforehand. No, it's just zoom

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Speaker 1: interviews and doing promo to sell some tickets to the shows.

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, we're still going to trash this.

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Speaker 3: We're going to trash the hell out of this room

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Speaker 3: after this interview.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, is it yours? Don't throw If it's yours,

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Speaker 1: don't break, Yours don't break. If it's someone else's go

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Speaker 1: for gold. Do you I mean, I want to say

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Speaker 1: a random question, but I've grown up listening to The

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Speaker 1: Killers as you boys have grown up being in The Killers.

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Speaker 1: Does the body still react to the same way? Is

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Speaker 1: it easier to do shows harder to do shows after

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Speaker 1: so many years now? Do the knees hurt a little

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Speaker 1: bit more after show days? Uh?

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Speaker 2: We're getting I don't know, you know, we're getting seasoned.

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Speaker 2: We're still there's a.

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Speaker 3: Almost ruthlessness that you have in the beginning, and you're fearless,

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Speaker 3: and that's exciting and you're kind of cutting your teeth,

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Speaker 3: but you you develop this wisdom and you learn what

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Speaker 3: works and what doesn't work. And we've got twenty years

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Speaker 3: on our belt now and so we're I think we're

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Speaker 3: still we're still learning, but we're feeling good about our spot.

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Speaker 1: Ken I'm going to say, obviously, hosting a radio show

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Speaker 1: and playing your records and you would see this too,

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Speaker 1: is surprising the people who didn't know about The Killers

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Speaker 1: who are discovering your music, if be it through TikTok

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Speaker 1: or whatever it might be, for the first time. Do

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Speaker 1: you play shows now and see people who weren't there

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Speaker 1: the first time? Somebody told me came out on Mister

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Speaker 1: Brightside and they have rediscovered it from social media.

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Speaker 3: We're not sure where they may have gotten a hold

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Speaker 3: of it, but yeah, we're definitely seeing a sort of

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Speaker 3: a plethora of ages in the audiences. It's exciting to

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Speaker 3: see people that are our age with bringing their children.

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Speaker 3: It's exciting to see, you know, a younger demographic that's coming.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's and maybe that does have something to

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Speaker 3: do with with with the stuff you're talking about, but

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Speaker 3: it's pretty it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: In fact, there could be kids in the crowd on

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Speaker 1: these Aussie shows that were maybe conceived after the first

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Speaker 1: Australian tour. That's that is wild. No, I was gonna say,

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Speaker 1: because I see in like Spotify, like somebody told me,

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Speaker 1: is top forty here in Australia like that that those

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Speaker 1: you must be so stoked with like those songs and

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Speaker 1: having the longevity that they do. Oh you didn't know, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't, for the life of me. It's I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's in a playlist. I genuinely think people like

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Speaker 1: the Spotify generation are like discovering it for the first

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Speaker 1: time and they're like this slaps and then getting around

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Speaker 1: it so that that that is that is gonna that

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Speaker 1: is gonna go off, if not for the OG fans,

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Speaker 1: but also for the new ones that weren't there the

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Speaker 1: first time. I know I was gonna say, I know

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Speaker 1: you're about to go on stage, but what happens before you,

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Speaker 1: guys get on? Do you do a little a circle,

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Speaker 1: a huddle? Is there a kumbaya? Will you have something

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Speaker 1: from catering beforehand? What happens before you're about to step

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Speaker 1: on stack?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we get a little hurt all the time up

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Speaker 3: the show. You know, everybody does their own you know,

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Speaker 3: individual seances before the huddle?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Do you is it bad? Sorry? Some

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Speaker 1: people say it's bad to eat before the show or

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Speaker 1: do you like fuel your sustenance? You don't drink too

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Speaker 1: much though, because you don't want to need to be

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Speaker 1: able to go to the bathroom halfway through? Right?

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Speaker 2: Oh I can't. I can't drink and play drugs. It's

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Speaker 2: even worse than what it is.

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Speaker 1: Already Before I let you go, the Internet, rumors are

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Speaker 1: abound of a new album about next year. What can

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Speaker 1: you tell me? What have you been working on?

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Speaker 2: Chape it up to be more of an EP. The release,

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Speaker 2: and you know we don't.

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Speaker 3: We're polishing it, you know, we're kind of polishing it

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Speaker 3: up now and making some of the finishing touches.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it'll come out next year for sure.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so basically finished, ready to press release on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever get into your own head about music

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Speaker 1: before you release it or do you try not to

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Speaker 1: overthink it much as much these days? If at all?

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Speaker 2: No, people. I think people tend to tweak too much.

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Speaker 2: We have.

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Speaker 3: There's so much at our disposal, disposals, too many knobs

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Speaker 3: at our disposal that weren't there in the early days,

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Speaker 3: and we try not to become victims of that.

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Speaker 2: But you hear it, and we're just going to watch ourselves.

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Speaker 1: When you say knobs, do you mean people or actual

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Speaker 1: knobs on the console? Both? Oh, I guess I could

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Speaker 1: only have boys. I appreciate you giving me the time

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Speaker 1: before the show tonight. There's a whole bunch of shows

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Speaker 1: that are still left that everybody needs to get around.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I've got my tickets. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see you when you touch down in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Coming. It's coming, coming for you, gents.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the time, enjoy show tonight in Brisbane and we'll

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Speaker 1: see around the rest of the country.

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thanks for having us.

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