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Speaker 1: Life Audio, Jared and Jay, thanks for joining me having

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Speaker 1: us say we are talking to Jared and Jade Lagore

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Speaker 1: of the band Jared one of my favorite bands. If

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Speaker 1: you like female rock and you want a Christian vibe,

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Speaker 1: this is your band, known for such hits as Dan

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Speaker 1: Strong and Warcry.

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Speaker 2: Have any song called poetic? I really enjoyed that one.

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Speaker 1: Jared and Jade, your story as sisters who make music

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Speaker 1: together is pretty unique. When did you first sense that

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Speaker 1: God was calling you to form this band?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So it actually started without Jade at first, and I

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Speaker 4: had been called into Christian music, particularly when I was

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Speaker 4: I think eighteen nineteen years old in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 4: and at the time, my team that I was working

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Speaker 4: with was like, you need a band.

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Speaker 5: What if it was all girls?

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Speaker 6: And I was like, that would be amazing if you

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Speaker 6: find them, because it's really hard to find girls that

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Speaker 6: really love the Lord and are really good at their

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Speaker 6: instruments and want to travel all the time.

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Speaker 4: And so they ended up finding two other girls and

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Speaker 4: I had a rehearsal with them.

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Speaker 3: It went so amazing, but I was like.

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Speaker 4: We need one more person, and that's when I asked

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Speaker 4: Jade to be in the bank.

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Speaker 2: Awesome and Jade, what was your response? Maybe no, yes?

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Speaker 3: Omaginally I said no, and that was because.

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Speaker 7: I was on my own special path that I thought

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Speaker 7: was my own to become a solo classical violinist. And

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Speaker 7: so I practiced like four hours every single day. I

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Speaker 7: committed at the age of twelve.

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Speaker 5: I was like, we're doing this. And so when she

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Speaker 5: first asked me, I was like, I don't got time

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Speaker 3: I'm practicing my violin.

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Speaker 5: I gotta continue my career.

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Speaker 7: But funny how the Lord has different plans usually than

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Speaker 7: the ones that you make for your own, especially that

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Speaker 7: are better for you.

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Speaker 3: And so then I actually took it to the Lord.

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Speaker 7: I really prayed about it, went to the Word and

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Speaker 7: found the truth about the situation.

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Speaker 5: And I really just felt him spoke to me or

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Speaker 5: speak to me.

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Speaker 7: That I should be a part of the band and

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Speaker 7: I could do it for the next six.

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Speaker 5: Months and just see what the Lord has in store.

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Speaker 7: And ever since then, I've just been a part of

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Speaker 7: the band and we've been traveling and we have seen

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Speaker 7: so much fruit and it's been amazing.

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Speaker 1: So I'd assume that you guys just grew up doing

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Speaker 1: this together, did you grow up.

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Speaker 2: Singing and playing the instruments and all that stuff together.

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Speaker 2: I mean, tell me about that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we did grow up play it together, especially on

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Speaker 7: the streets. That's where we go, and we would set

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Speaker 7: out our little cases so we can make some money

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Speaker 7: as little kids. But that was the history of our playing,

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Speaker 7: was just on the streets together and sometimes at church.

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Speaker 7: But we never really thought that our paths would be together,

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Speaker 7: like for the long term. And we were very much

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Speaker 7: like separate and like little divas back then. And I

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Speaker 7: was like, I'm going to be a classical violinist, gonna

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Speaker 7: be a little pop star.

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Speaker 5: That's not for me.

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Speaker 7: And but the Lord again, just had different plans and

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Speaker 7: we're thankful for it.

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Speaker 2: Did you So you guys grew up liking different styles

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I mean we wanted to pursue different styles of music.

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Speaker 4: We both kind of liked the same music, listen to

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Speaker 4: the same stuff. But she was very focused on her

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Speaker 4: violin and I was very focused on songwriting. I moved

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Speaker 4: secular career. I thought that's what the Lord had for me,

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Speaker 4: but I never asked him the details, and so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's when he called me.

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Speaker 4: After doing that for a little bit, he called me

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Speaker 4: specifically into Christian music, and then he did the same

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Speaker 2: Describe your sound.

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Speaker 1: Was it naturally Was the band jaren naturally going to

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Speaker 1: be have a rock, high energy vibe.

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Speaker 7: We started off, we did like an initial showcase, and

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Speaker 7: because I played the violin and that's like my main instrument,

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Speaker 7: we very much wanted to incorporate that into the band

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Speaker 7: and so so we both started on acoustic instruments.

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Speaker 5: And so when we.

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Speaker 7: Did this showcase, I was on my acoustic violin, Journals

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Speaker 7: on acoustic guitar, and then we were told that we

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Speaker 7: looked a little too country, especially for Nashville, because you

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Speaker 7: see the violin and you think fiddle, and so we're like,

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Speaker 7: we can easily switch this to electric, and so we

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Speaker 7: did so, and honestly, I added a lot more fun,

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Speaker 7: of fun getting to play the electric violin and just

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Speaker 7: the different elements that come with that, And I feel

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Speaker 7: like you can better showcase the violin and like a

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Speaker 5: So I've had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: What about you, Jared, you have any thoughts on that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So in the very beginning, I always loved rock music.

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Speaker 4: Like I grew I grew up playing in like rock bands.

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Speaker 4: Like I was in a high school rock band when

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Speaker 4: I was eight years old, which doesn't make sense, but

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Speaker 4: it was more like a school a rock thing, and

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Speaker 4: I would just like watch and like gow at these

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Speaker 4: high schools high schoolers as they like shredded on the

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Speaker 4: like just immersed in the rock culture.

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Speaker 3: But I also loved pop music.

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Speaker 4: And so it's definitely just like this combination that came

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Speaker 4: like sometimes we would sound more pop and chill, sometimes

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Speaker 4: we would sound really heavy.

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Speaker 3: And so as time has.

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Speaker 4: Gone on, we kind of just honed it and narrowed

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Speaker 4: it down to what it is today.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about your influences, you guys.

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Speaker 1: I know on social media, you guys kind of I

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Speaker 1: just kind of pull people into your realm by talking

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Speaker 1: about bands of the past, because there are quite a

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Speaker 1: few female Christian bands from the past Zoe Girl is

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Speaker 1: showing my age here, Zoe Girl, Barlow Girl, Super.

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Speaker 2: Chick, Jeremy Camps. Jeremy Camp's wife Adrian had had a

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Speaker 2: led a band called Benjamin Gate that was great. She

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Speaker 1: You guys, don't take it out on Spotify type in

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Speaker 1: benjamingate you would enjoy it. So, yeah, what are what

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Speaker 1: are the influences that you guys kind of that kind

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Speaker 4: Me, okay, yeah, definitely, we love Barlow Girl and Super Chick.

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Speaker 4: It actually they were a bands that we didn't even

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Speaker 4: was like, oh my gosh, you remind us of these bands.

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Speaker 3: You gotta listen.

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Speaker 4: And then once we saw them and I had I've

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Speaker 4: like studied Barlow Girl and their performances and their songwriting

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, wow, like this is so amazing that

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Speaker 4: they did that, and it definitely inspired me a ton.

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Speaker 4: But also, like we love for King and Country because

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Speaker 4: their brother duo, we're a sister duo and the younger

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Speaker 4: a little bit more on the rock side of what

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Speaker 4: when it comes to like the secular realm, we kind

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Speaker 4: of like pull some influence from like Olivia Rodrigo and

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Speaker 4: to listen to them and their messages, but we do

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Speaker 4: think that God has given them gifts that they're just

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Speaker 4: using in a way that maybe doesn't glorify God as much.

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Speaker 4: And He has given us gifts that we know that

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Speaker 4: And so we definitely draw influences from the world, but

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Speaker 1: Talk about the songs you guys write, how do you

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Speaker 1: balance honesty and hope in your songs? Because it seems

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Speaker 1: like your songs do you have both of those? Honesty

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Speaker 4: Yeah, both are very important in my opinion, and I

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Speaker 4: feel very strongly that, especially in Christian music and worship music,

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Speaker 4: And although we go through just trials and tribulations, like

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Speaker 4: that it will only bring us closer to Christ if

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Speaker 3: And so even though there's.

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Speaker 4: These difficult times and we're very honest and vulnerable about that,

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Speaker 4: because that's what everybody goes through, and that's what we want,

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Speaker 4: how we want to relate to people, we also want

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Speaker 3: But also here in the land of the living, we

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Speaker 4: And so that's something that's very important to us to

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Speaker 4: incorporate both the honesty and also.

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Speaker 3: The truth of hope.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your goals for your music in terms

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Speaker 1: of inspiring and bringing hope to young audiences. Jay, do

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Speaker 1: you have any thoughts on that, because it seems like

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Speaker 1: you guys have a sound that's very unique in this realm.

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Speaker 1: You know, I turned on Christian music and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: sound like this. I think it should sound like this.

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Speaker 1: I think I should at least have some of this.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it seems like you guys are giving a

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Speaker 1: you guys have a sound that you audiences need and

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Speaker 1: you might hear on secular radio, you don't have what

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Speaker 2: So maybe Jade, give me some thoughts.

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Speaker 1: On what your what are your what are your hopes

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we really were very intentional about that in making

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Speaker 7: a lot of our friends don't listen.

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Speaker 5: To it because we're a younger audience.

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Speaker 7: We're on Spotify usually, we're not listening as much to

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Speaker 7: the radio sometimes depending on who you are, And so

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Speaker 7: we really wanted to just be able to create music

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Speaker 7: that inspired again that hope, but that kids are our age.

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Speaker 7: So that was the goal, and just providing them with

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Speaker 7: truth because I feel like right now, in this season

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Speaker 7: that we're in with social media and just everything running

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Speaker 7: rampant right now, it seems like especially our generation is

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Speaker 7: clinging to whatever they can to just find some sort

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Speaker 7: of truth of their own. And now there's like the

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Speaker 7: idea of subjective truth, and so we're just trying to really,

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Speaker 5: So that we can hopefully be a begon.

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Speaker 7: Of light and just be able to serve as like

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Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about briefly start the sit and sober

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Speaker 1: when I read that. By the way, tell me about

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Speaker 1: that song and maybe you're the message in that song.

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Speaker 7: This song for me was the first one that I

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Speaker 5: But we wrote it with Mitch Wog and Austin Davis.

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Speaker 7: And this song again has that like honest capacity to it,

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Speaker 7: I were gen Z, and so like, along with anybody

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Speaker 7: And so I feel like recognizing that, but then being like,

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Speaker 7: But God luckily has a plan, and he's poetic in

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Speaker 7: our messes into miracles.

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Speaker 5: Just says for.

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Speaker 2: Lyrics state when weren't you more? When's you more?

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Speaker 1: All questions for you, guys, It seems like we are

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Speaker 1: These Unite US events on these college campuses are building

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Speaker 3: Among gen Z.

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Speaker 2: What do you guys think of that. I mean, do

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Speaker 7: Jared?

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Speaker 2: Can you take that one?

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Speaker 4: Is such a great question, And we're so excited about

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Speaker 4: know of.

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Speaker 3: The people that lead that and have been leading it, and.

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Speaker 4: So it's just so cool to just see hundreds of

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Speaker 4: I think, like Jade was saying, that gen Z is

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Speaker 4: And also just this hunger for like truth and what

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Speaker 3: And who is Jesus? And why should I believe in him?

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Speaker 4: And all these questions started arising, and I think as

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Speaker 3: I think people like, especially with technology, they just have

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Speaker 4: And I think with like these big leaders like coming

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Speaker 4: It just feels like something is shifting, and I truly

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Speaker 3: And also just like this generation.

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Speaker 4: It's just hungry.

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Speaker 2: Let's again wrapping this up. I wanted just one or

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Speaker 2: two more small questions.

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Speaker 1: For you, Jade and Jaren, What is the message you

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Speaker 1: want to bring to the next generation of Christians. What

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Speaker 1: is what is the message of the band?

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Speaker 3: Jaren Jake, Oh, Jade, go ahead.

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Speaker 7: I would say, well, our personal life motto is just

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Speaker 7: to love God, love others, and spread the Gospel. And

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Speaker 7: I believe that if you do those three any things

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Speaker 7: you can walk in that joy that the Lord has

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Speaker 7: for you. Because definitely so many people are down by, like.

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Speaker 5: They're hurting inside.

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Speaker 3: They need hope, and Jesus is that hope.

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Speaker 7: And we want to be able to continue to spread

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Speaker 7: exactly what we're doing, but just in their own skill

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Speaker 7: sets that the Lord has given them, because you can

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Speaker 7: God has given you. And so we hope to just

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Speaker 7: and just continue to preach.

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Speaker 5: Love and preach the Gospel.

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Speaker 2: And then Jared, how about you, Yeah, just to.

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Speaker 4: Go along with what Jade was saying, I think that

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Speaker 4: our hearts really burned for those who are lukewarm or

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Speaker 4: those who don't know the.

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Speaker 4: And I feel like from the beginning he's made it

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Speaker 4: very clear that what we're doing is trying to reach

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Speaker 4: they don't know Jesus, or if they just need encouragement

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Speaker 4: in their daily walk with Christ. And so our main

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Speaker 4: goal on our mission is to see every single soul

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Speaker 4: just driven to tell people about Jesus and driven to

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Speaker 3: And yeah, that pretty much sends up what we're trying

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Speaker 3: to do with our music.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking to Jade and Jaron Legore of the Banjerin.

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Speaker 1: The Banjerin dot Com is the website. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I am the DJ for my kids Christian school basketball team.

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Speaker 1: We played in music all the time and it helps

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Speaker 1: hype up the crowd. So if anybody's listening to this

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Speaker 1: and they do something.

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Speaker 2: Like that at their school, check out the band.

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Speaker 1: Jaren able to spotify their stuff is worthy of listening to.

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Speaker 2: Guys, Thanks so.

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